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The East Point is the point where the Eastern Horizon intersects the Prime Vertical (a Great Circle passing through the Zenith and the Nadir of the Place) and the Celestial Equator (a Great Circle corresponding to the Earth's Equator projected onto the Celestial sphere.) The East Point plays a prominent role in how a person projects themselves to others.
The Ecliptic is the Sun's apparent path around the earth forming a Great Circle on the Celestial Sphere. This circle is divided into 12 signs (30 degrees per sign) starting at 0 degrees Aries in the Tropical Zodiac which is defined by the position of the Sun at the Vernal Equinox which occurs around 21 March each year.
A branch of astrology concerned with ascertaining the most auspicious time to begin something, such as starting a business, getting married, travelling, signing contracts, etc.
A planet is said to be elevated when it is high in the chart, above the horizon. The most elevated planets are those which are closest to the Midheaven. Elevated planets are considered to be strong.
The Equatorial Ascendant is the point where the Polar Axis (great circle) intersects the Ecliptic in the east. The Polar Axis passes through the North and South Celestial Poles.
The Equinoxes are the two instances in the year when day and night are of equal length. They occur when the Sun crosses the equator during its apparent path along the Ecliptic, moving North to South and South to North. The moment the Sun crosses the equator from South to North is the start of the astrological year, with the entry of the Sun in the Tropical sign of Aries.
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|Aries||21 March||Spring Equinox||Autumn Equinox|
|Libra||22 September||Autumn Equinox||Spring Equinox|
A scoring method for determining the strength and quality of a planet through its position in the zodiac. There are five levels of Essential Dignity. In order of importance they are: Rulership (5 points), Exaltation (4 points), Triplicity (3 points), Term (2 points) & Face/Decan (1 point). A planet with Essential Dignity, by virtue of its zodiacal position, is able to function at its best. The more dignity it has the more effective it is.
One of the five levels of Essential Dignity. A planet in a sign where it holds exaltation is said to have substantial power. In its sign of exaltation, a planet is likened to an honoured guest. It has temporary but powerful influence in the sign. The power of an exalted planet is about 75% of the planet's strength. The signs which have exalted planets are: | <urn:uuid:60c63f11-7a5d-4e12-b6e9-d97dd2569297> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://astrology-house.com/glossary.cfm?section=e | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00269.warc.gz | en | 0.923624 | 653 | 2.953125 | 3 |
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Students explore ecology and biodiversty. They use the wet-mount procedure to make several slides to view using the microscope and draw what they see.
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The answer: None of these. Cats, of course, prefer cat music.
But what exactly is cat music?
Check out this short clip from Spook’s Ditty, a rollicking tune for fun-loving felines, by composer David Teie.
Teie explains that Spook’s Ditty is “a lively song that includes musical representations of environmental sounds that are designed to arouse a cat’s interest and curiosity.”
Then again, if Fluffy is looking for something a little more restful after dinner, she might prefer this from Rusty’s Ballad:
Teie says of this composition that it’s “based on the purr cycle and suckling.”
“Just as human music often includes human heartbeat and respiration timing (common time), the sound of suckling is associated with reward and comfort for the developing kitty brain.”
In a study published in the journal Applied Animal Behavioral Science, animal psychologists Charles Snowdon and Megan Savage found that domestic cats did not respond when played human music, but when they listened to music that had been specially produced for them, they sat right up, walked over to the speakers and began rubbing their necks on them.
“We looked at the natural vocalizations of cats and matched our music to the same frequency range, which is about an octave or more higher than human voices.
“We incorporated tempos that we thought cats would find interesting – the tempo of purring in one piece and the tempo of suckling in another – and since cats use lots of sliding frequencies in their calls, the cat music had many more sliding notes than the human music.”
By comparison, when the researchers played Bach’s Air on a G String and Fauré’s Elegie, the cats basically ignored it. Their idea of a hit is something more like Cozmo’s Air:
This one, Teie says is “based on the 29 beats per respiratory cycle of the purr.”
“Just as the human moan expresses pleasure and pain and is the basis of much human music melody, the purr expresses pleasure and pain for our feline friends.”
In some earlier work with Teie to produce music that would appeal to Tamarin monkeys, Snowdon explained:
Humans like music that falls within our acoustic and vocal range, uses tones we understand, and progresses at a tempo similar to that of our heartbeats. A tune pitched too high or low sounds grating or ungraspable, and music too fast or slow is unrecognizable as such.
To animals, human music falls into that grating, unrecognizable category. With vocal ranges and heart rates very different from ours, they simply aren’t wired to enjoy songs that are tailored for our ears. Studies show that animals generally respond to human music with a total lack of interest.
Snowdon hopes the team’s cat music will be helpful to cats who suffer from separation anxiety or are feeling stressed at shelters.
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In scaling up sub-Saharan power, a new deal for utilities is essential
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There is consensus on the need to scale up renewables, off-grid, combined-cycle gas and other generation schemes if sub-Saharan Africa is to overcome its gaping electricity supply and access deficits (see Power). Huge investment is required to create transmission backbones and commercially sustainable distribution networks. To achieve these ambitious aims, ever more institutions and initiatives are looking to marry public funds with private investment. But there is another category of stakeholder, which has an essential role to play as offtaker and focal point of the electricity supply industry but whose performance often falls short: national utilities.
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A review of thermal spray process is presented. A substantial cross section, if not all, of the world industries have coating applications for a wide range of needs including restoration and repair, corrosion protection, wear protection of many types, such as abrasion, adhesive, fretting and erosion; thermal barriers or conductors; electrical circuits or insulators; near-net-shape manufacturing; seals; engineered emissivity, abradable coatings and decorative purposes. The article details the various methods of thermal spray such as Low velocity flame, High velocity oxy-fuel etc; materials used in thermal spray processes such as Single phase materials, Functional gradient materials etc; equipments used for spraying like plasmatrons, industrial applications of thermal spray, current researches in thermal spray in some countries, market potentials for the spray technology, its standardizations and the future of thermal spray technology. Thermal spray technology is easy to use, cost little to operate, and have attributes that are beneficial to applications in almost all industries.
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Unique Chicago Cultural Experiences Available and Special Exhibition Preview
Archie Rand, Cain and Abel (Genesis 4:10), The 19 Diaspora Paintings, 2002
The Loyola University Museum of Art (LUMA) will host “Behind-the-Scenes with Chicago Art Treasures,” a unique silent auction featuring opportunities to bid on exclusive Chicago cultural experiences, including a private Joffrey Ballet rehearsal viewing, a tour of the Chicago History Museum costume archives, a behind-the-scenes look at the Lester Lampert jewelry workshop, an intimate evening at LUMA with a curator-led candlelight tour of the Martin D’Arcy, S.J., Collection, and much more.
The evening also includes cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, live music, and a special Archie Rand: Making Belief—True Adventures with Word and Image exhibition preview (exhibition opens to the public on March 2). All proceeds will benefit LUMA’s conservation fund to help care for the museum’s various collections.
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Opened in 2005, the Loyola University Museum of Art is dedicated to exploring, promoting, and understanding art and artistic expression that illuminates the enduring spiritual questions of all cultures and societies. As a museum with an interest in education and educational programming, LUMA reflects the University’s Jesuit mission and is dedicated to helping people of all creeds explore the roots of their faith and spiritual quests. Located at Loyola University Chicago’s Water Tower Campus, the museum occupies the first three floors of the University’s historic Lewis Towers on Chicago’s famous Michigan Avenue. For more information, visit the museum’s website at LUC.edu/luma.
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New label is considered for PTSD
Calling it injury instead of disorder could nix stigma
It has been called shell shock, battle fatigue, soldier’s heart and, most recently, post traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD. Now, military officers and psychiatrists are embroiled in a heated debate over whether to change the name of a condition as old as combat. The potential new moniker: post traumatic stress injury. Military officers and some psychiatrists say dropping the word “disorder’’ in favor of “injury’’ will reduce the stigma that stops troops from seeking treatment. | <urn:uuid:15d2d20e-23fa-40c0-8942-4719802ba713> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://archive.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2012/05/13/new_label_is_considered_for_ptsd/?camp=pm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280410.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00448-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942747 | 121 | 2.1875 | 2 |
I wanted to note down all the stuff we're doing at home in the hope that I can then see the wood through the trees and see what the next small steps can be, bearing in mind that we don't own the freehold and also, annoyingly, don't have the roof bit, so we're completely stymied from a solar/wind perspective.
(Note: this list is getting vaguely updated. I keep remembering things we do / have set up. W're on 29 now [woohoo!]).
There might be some things here that (particularly British) folk might not be aware of, so take a look:
1. Lambeth don't do wholesale recycling, they only take specific items like bottles etc. They do take all paper and cardboard, and the usual glass stuff - everything except pyrex & wine glasses.
2. The council takes away large items of junk if you email them - so non-mendable washing machines, etc
3.. So Sains has been participating in some sort of govt scheme (that's unusual for Sainsburys, eh? Not) to judge the viability of recycling all the other plastic recyclables - all the pots and lids and so on. Excellent! So when we go to pick James up/pack him off to nursery, bop, in go all the tubs.
4. Secondly, they also recycle plastic bags but wait! They will also take I'd say approx 85% of all the plastic bag packaging from products like frozen peas, cat food tin six-pack wrappers, cucumber wrapping (!)- tons, and tons of plastic packaging can now be sorted out. So, take it down to Sainsburys, perhaps even in a carrier back you don't need, and plonk the whole lot in the plastic bag recycling of normal sized (not 'Local' ones) Sainsburys - yippee! This stuff when added to every day recycling has reduced our bin-filling to an astonishing extent.
(In case this activates the 'comment' function in correspondents suggesting "What? You're buying vegetables with packaging from supermarkets! Argh!" yup. You bet. There's a persuasive argument in fact to suggest that the packaging when used effectively, that surrounds supermarket vegetables increases the shelf life and reduces food waste to a crazy extent, compared to traditional greengrocers (which, let's face it, in Streatham are lovely, miles away and also promote their packaging free vegetables on to a pavement blue with High Road fuel fumes. Hmmm)
5. Composter in the garden for all raw vegetable peelings etc. Now my Uncle Toddy puts all his veggies, cooked and raw on his compost heap, and has been doing so for 40 years +. Anyone got a view on why cooked vegetable leavings shouldn't go on? I'm assuming nutrient deficits?
6. Growing our own herbs. I would grow other stuff but unfortunately we don't have an earth based garden! Do grow Rosemary. Incredibly hardy and can go in everything. And smells delicious.
7. Switching off.
We switch off as many things at the mains as possible to avoid power down cycles sapping a leetle bit of energy out. I recognise that we forget sometimes, but the TV/Video/DVD player always goes off, the monitor and computer where necessary. Sometimes the piano gets forgotten because you can't see if it's on or not. We've got to get better than that.
The New Scientist recently suggested in terms of newer eco-bulb type bulbs - they wear out the more you switch them on and off. So, as a rule of thumb, if you are not planning to come back in to a room for *15 minutes* or more, then switch it off. We've been doing that a lot more recently, and it's a good change.
We have a battery recharging "station" ie: it's become routine for us to recharge batteries. Feels utterly bizarre to us that places still sell normal batteries. Shouldn't they sell off rechargers super cheap to just kill the disposable battery market? Obviously we've got a whole bunch of batteries that were already in products when we bought them that are hanging around in a drawer, waiting for the opportunity to recycle them. The EU directives of the last few years suggest that the manufacturers of batteries should be helping to provide facilities to recycle the buggers, but they don't. I personally think we should stick them in an envelope and send them back to their manufacturers.
9. Sewing things up / making stuff
We mend our clothes! I know, it's shocking. What a disgrace. I should be out, spending my money supporting the beleaguered economy instead of sewing up holes in socks! Well, I do. It saves me money.
Barely needs mentioning really, obviously
11. Buy second hand
Cheaper, and less resources used up. Can't say fairer than that. Books, clothes, toys. videos. Stuff. EBay & Freecycle is your friend! And the Heart Foundation book/Music/video shop. Videos are awesome - you can get hold of a player for tuppence, then the actual videos themselves cost 50p a pop in the charity shop. Hoorah for obsolete technology! We have a pile of Bob the Builder videos which basically cost us nothing.
12. Silver behind the radiators. I tell you what, if you haven't tried this do. It really warms cold rooms up.
13. We use the 'not quite as squeaky clean or clear cut as they'd like you to think' Good Energy for our electricity provision. 100% renewables. Apparently.
14. Obviously I'm always at pains to point out where we can turn off taps or use less water
15. And I will happily say that we follow the Ken Livingstone example, which is that we don't flush after every wee unless there are visitors. Which over the course of a day for a family of 4 at weekends... that's saving a lot of flushes!
Note to all: it doesn't make your house smell horrible. It takes about a week to get used to the idea. After that, it becomes obvious when you should flush and when you needn't bother.
16. We have 'hippos' in our toilets. Aka water saving devices. you can probably get them from your water company, or just google for them. Insanely easy to install.
17. Buy in bulk / large sizes. We get huuuuuuge paper sack bags of Ecover washing powder that seem to last about a million years, and we also get those big bucket sized 5 litre carriers for washing up liquid and clothes conditioning. I've got this small washing up liquid bottle by the sink that we refill, and we keep an old plastic carton open with washing powder in next to the washing machine (then replenish it obviously from the big sack, that's in the airing cupboard downstairs.
18. Microfibre cloths: Holy crap, have you ever used these things? I know they're not cotton and in theat respect they're problematically unbiodegradable, but we've ot a microfibre floor washing system for the tiles, and just you knowe, a few cloths. Seriously. The floor mopping one I find works better with a little spray of some sort of cleaning fluid on it after making it 'a little bit damp' but it can be used without, with very little elbow grease. The cleaning cloths get grease off around the kitchen that has been building up for months. They're astounding. So, instead of this being an advert for microfibre cloths, I'll restate why they're in this list: almost no water use, almost no detergent use. Got to be good, right?
19. This is veggie stuff really but I only use glycerine / vegetable oil based soap and 'Green People' Rosemary shampoo, which is about as non-chemical as you can get. the kids use 'Allergenics' shampoo and body wash in the bath primarily because of James' skin but it's also all vegetable, no preservatives and so forth.
20. I cycle to work 3 days a week (will be upped to 5 when James goes to the local school nursery)
21. We don't own a car
22. We hire by the hour and are members of Streetcar or ..er... whichever one it is that parks on our street ;)
23. Buy British produced vegetables/fruit wherever possible, and if not then Holland, France and we try not to buy Spanish too much. Yes we do very occasionally buy south american blueberries or whatever, but seriously, so rarely it's not worth mentioning.
(Hey, English strawberries now in the shops, by the way! that'll be that vast new under-canopy place in the west country kicking in).
24. Only organic/freerange British meat produce/eggs etc. We're a bit dodgy with organic because the vegetables cost so much more, but anything from animals, the husbandry issue is way too important. therefore, it's organic milk, butter and eggs, and all the meat produce bought from Chadwicks, the organic butchers in Balham.
25. Sustainable fish. Mostly.
26. Trump card, I'm a vegetarian! Er... cough... a, er... ok. Fish eating vegetarian, so um... officially not actually a vegetarian, ok? OK? Happy now???
27. Own tea mug and tea bags at work - I bring the teabags home to compost them (sounds a bit weirdly over-zealous doesn't it, but given that I just have to plonk them in to my sandwich box, it's not big deal)
28. Make my own sandwiches . Mostly. well, you know. Sometimes I'm too knackered. But I do try!
29. If you use a laptop workstation, or indeed, a laptop, as well as turning off your monitor, make sure you turn off your workstation at the plug in the evening. If you don't, the transformer thing on your lead will continue to suck out energy. In fact, lobby at work for a campaign about it. Everyone's laptops will be costing the company money given that they're probably all plugged in on some form overnight, sucking out vast amounts of energy by the end of the year.
Simple things we haven't done but should do
For most things it's a question of habituating the action:
1. Use run-off water. Showers etc or running a sink, as the water is heating up, if you know you'll have more than you want of cold water then run it into a watering can / bucket. this is particularly true of showers.
2. Get a water butt. I am a nitwit for not having sorted that out yet, what a waste.
3. Use the water that comes out of the dehumidifier
4. Use bathwater to water plants (that one is a high summer job really isn't it - a little bit too hassly for every-day sorting)
Not so simple things we must do:
1. Sort out replacing the rotten old frames front bay window with double glazed version (wood natch, not PVC) and any other non-double glazed windows in the flat
2. Sort out proper blinds for the windows in the front room to retain some heat
3. Work out efficacy of a solar panel on the roof of the extension. Is it worth it? Is it too far away from the bathroom to be any use as a water heater?
I think that's enough to be getting on with...
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Liberté, égalité, fraternité, or doing away with privilege of the ancien regime, was the most important slogan for the French revolutionists of the late-18th century. Now once again there is a growing sense of a ‘Revolution in Europe’ as voters, especially the younger ones, are leaning hard against the status quo in most countries. All eyes are on the German election on September 26th, where a Black-Green alliance is the most likely outcome, but where there is also an outside chance of the Greens taking the most votes and getting the keys to the Chancellery!
This would be a revolution. The Green Party is very pro-EU, anti-Russia and China, against the Nordstream2 project and, not least, very much in favour of removing the German Schuldenbremsen, or “debt brake”, that drives the policy of reflexive German fiscal austerity. This could mean that we wake up to a new Germany and Europe on September 27th, the day after the German Election.
The German election will most likely also show how the young generation’s politicians need to be different. Ms Merkel, a child of East Germany and a Russian speaker, has been frugal and patient, and often used a scientific modus operandi of letting facts and time dictate the pace rather than allowing the social media rollercoaster to drive the political agenda.
Ms Merkel was personally a big part of the German export miracle but she failed to invest in German infrastructure. This has resulted in Germany having one of the slowest internet speeds, lowest adoption of digital technology, and a policy that is usually about correcting previous years’ mistakes rather than creating vision and hope. She was the ultimate compromiser. But the young people of Europe want the opposite: a vision for a Europe, one that is greener and with the hope of a good job and access to the real estate ladder, not one that is about old politicians looking at yesterday’s priorities and defaulting always to a policy of not rocking the boat.
Actually, one important revolution in the EU has already taken place and it adds to the stakes of this German election. Last year the EU Commission secured the mandate to issue mutual EU bonds. The saying goes that one should never waste a crisis and the EU acted, even if the size of the programme relative to total EU fiscal outlays is modest at best. But the significance can’t be over-emphasised, and now that we have the “instrument” of EU bonds in place, it will be up to the German election to begin growing the political will for a full commitment to the EU project– a project built on a shaky foundation of fiscal sovereignty for individual EU members who have no control of the currency or monetary policy.
With a black-green German coalition this is going to change – perhaps slowly at first, but far more quickly if the Greens are in control. We see a future in which the EU is going to mutualise an ever-larger portion of member countries’ debt. And the justification for this fiscal mutualisation drive is there for the taking–primarily the climate agenda, but also issues of inequality, weak infrastructure and foreign policy threats in a less secure alliance with the US. The EU has said that the EU bonds are a temporary measure, but the same was said in the 1960s when Denmark introduced a comprehensive VAT of 9%; it now stands at 25%.
When you give politicians and an overall political system a carte blanche to both raise and spend money, they will. Just look at the 2021 EU Budget. The EU is issuing up to 100 billion euros in their SURE programme to support jobs and keep people in work. Their NextGenerationEU plan, sized at 800 billion euro, aims to repair economic and social damage from Covid-19 and make Europe greener, more digital and more resilient. The limit so far is 5% of the EU budget–want to make a bet where it is in 2050?
The revolution in Europe is officially about a move to the political left, with an acceptance of more mutualisation, the use of Modern Monetary Theory and a very explicit green agenda in this new era of fiscal dominance. It comes with the very best intentions, but will inevitably prove to have a very dark side as well, and that is the shrinking role of the private sector that has driven economic dynamism in every era. The new priorities and agenda will increasingly see the “invisible hand” of Adam Smith yielding to a an all-too-large EU public sector that evolves to look more and more like the creaky, late-stage planned Soviet Union economy than a Europe heading to a brighter future. Vive la revolution.
This outlook has our team fully engaged on the impact of a potential Green win in Germany, the impact from too many EU bonds, the changing demographics and the new non-European UK.
Quarterly Outlook Q3 2022: The Runaway Train
- Central banks' attempts to kill inflation is a paradigm shift, which could end in a deep recession.
Tangible assets and profitable growth are the winnersWith US equities officially in a bear market, the big question is where and when is the bottom in the current drawdown?
Understanding the lack of investment appetite among oil majorsThe everything rally seen in recent quarters has become more uneven, as its strength is driven by commodities in short supply.
The pressure is on as the wind leaves the sailsWith cryptocurrencies in sharp decline, are we entering a crypto winter or is the bear market a healthy clean-up of the crypto space?
Why the Fed can never catch up and what turns the US dollar lower?Many other central banks are set to eventually outpace the Fed in hiking rates, taking their real interest rates to levels higher than the Fed will achieve.
Bank of Japan: Swimming against the tideThe Japanese economy has gone from the age of deflation to rapidly rising prices in no time, leaving the Bank of Japan in a pickle.
Green transformation detour and bear market hibernationWith the impending risk of global econonomic derailment, we share the five things investors need to consider in this new half year.
Crisis redux for the eurozone?Whether there's going to be a recession in Europe or not, the path towards a stable economy will be agonizing.
Technical Outlook: Gold, Oil and a remarkable multi-decade perspective on EquitiesThe Nasdaq bubble pattern, USDJPY resistance, crude oil uptrend losing steam and the technical outlook for USD.
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Environmental News from Europe:
- WMO issues warning on air quality in towns and cities
- UK declares first red heat warning for Monday, Tuesday
- Wildfires ablaze in France, Spain and Portugal
Hundreds more people were evacuated from their homes as wildfires blistered land in France, Spain and Portugal on Friday, while officials in Europe issued health warnings for the heatwave in the coming days.
More than 1,000 firefighters, supported by water-bomber aircraft, have battled since Tuesday to control two blazes in southwestern France that have been fanned by scorching heat, tinder-box conditions and strong winds.
While temperatures dipped a little in Portugal, they were still expected to top 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) in some places, with five districts on red alert and more than 1,000 firefighters tackling 17 wildfires, authorities said.
In Spain, a new wildfire broke out in the south of the country after blazes in the west in the past week.
More than 400 people were evacuated from the hills of Mijas, a town popular with northern European tourists in the province of Malaga. Some 20 km away, Beachgoers in Torremolinos could see plumes of smoke rising above the hotels lining the coast.
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Botanical name: Aeschynanthus superbus Family: Gesneriaceae (Gloxinia family)
Synonyms: Trichosporum superbum
Superb Blushwort is probably the most spectacular of all the blushworts. Flowers are orange-red to dark red with darker stripes, 5.5-8.5 cm, outside hairless, inside sparsely finely velvet-hairy, mouth oblique; limb indistinctly 2-lipped; upper lip erect, 1-1.6 cm; lower lip reflexed, 1-1.6 cm. Stamens protrude out with filaments 3.2-3.5 cm; anthers coherent in pairs at tip, 3-4 mm; staminode about 1.5 mm. Pistil 4.2-7.6 cm. Flower-stalks are 0.8-1.2 cm, hairless. Sepal-cup is orange-red to red, 5-divided from base; sepals linear to lanceshaped, 2-3 cm x 3.5-7 mm, outside hairless. Flowers are borne in 5-15-flowered cymes in leaf-axils; flower-cluster-stalk 1-3 cm; bracts persistent, pink to red, elliptic to ovate, 4-5.5 x 2-3 cm. Stems are 50-100 cm, hairless. Leaves opposite; leaf-stalk 5-14 mm; leaf blade elliptic to obovate, lanceshaped or oblong, 10-20 X 4.4-10.5 cm, papery to leathery, hairless, above drying smooth, below sparsely dotted, base wedge-shaped to rounded, margin entire, tip abruptly tapering to tapering or pointed; lateral veins indistinct. Capsule 32-52 cm. Seeds with 1 hairlike appendage at each end, appendages 4-8 mm. Superb Blushwort is found in East Himalaya to SE Asia and China, at altitudes of 1000-2500 m. Flowering: August-September.
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Livelihoods and Rural Poverty Reduction in Malawi
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- Corbett, Jane, 1988. "Famine and household coping strategies," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 16(9), pages 1099-1112, September.
- Ellis, Frank & Bahiigwa, Godfrey, 2003. "Livelihoods and Rural Poverty Reduction in Uganda," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 31(6), pages 997-1013, June.
- Orr, Alastair, 2000. "'Green Gold'?: Burley Tobacco, Smallholder Agriculture, and Poverty Alleviation in Malawi," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 28(2), pages 347-363, February.
- Harrigan, Jane, 2003. "U-Turns and Full Circles: Two Decades of Agricultural Reform in Malawi 1981-2000," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 31(5), pages 847-863, May.
- Reardon, Thomas, 1997. "Using evidence of household income diversification to inform study of the rural nonfarm labor market in Africa," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 25(5), pages 735-747, May.
- White, Howard, 2002. "Combining Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches in Poverty Analysis," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 30(3), pages 511-522, March.
- Orr, Alastair & Mwale, Blessings, 2001. "Adapting to Adjustment: Smallholder Livelihood Strategies in Southern Malawi," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 29(8), pages 1325-1343, August.
- Alwang, Jeffrey & Siegel, P. B., 1999. "Labor Shortages on Small Landholdings in Malawi: Implications for Policy Reforms," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 27(8), pages 1461-1475, August.
- Ellis, Frank, 2000. "Rural Livelihoods and Diversity in Developing Countries," OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press, number 9780198296966, December.
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A music label is also known as a record label. A record label is the circular piece of vinyl where all the music information is pre written. It is a brand or a trademark that is used when releasing music videos or music recordings. A record label/ music label can be small and very individualistic by working only for one client. On the other hand it can be a huge organization that handles many clients at the same time. There can also be sub-labels who are smaller labels working under a bigger organization. A music label can also be a publishing house for the music videos by helping in production, distribution and selling of the same.
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BEIJING, Aug. 27 (Xinhua) -- Including content from America's founding documents in a revised US college entry exam has drawn attention in China, with worries the materials may impose the American values system on students.
Earlier this year, the US College Board announced a set of changes to the SATs, including passages selected from the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights in the reading section.
The move stirred heated debates in China as to whether it will turn out to be a new form of imperialism, following the exporting of American culture and ideology through Hollywood and fast food.
The debate started with an article published in the South China Morning Post on August 21, in which author Kelly Yang argued the new focus on American civil liberties may "change the mindset and world view of an entire generation of Chinese youth."
"If the new SAT succeeds, it will be the first time America is able to systematically shape the views, beliefs and ideologies of hundreds of thousands of Chinese students every year, not through a popular television show or a politician's speaking tour, but through what the Chinese care about most - exams."
Yang Rui, an English anchor from CCTV (China Central Television) wrote on Weibo it could be a continuation of the "peaceful evolution" policy that started in the 1950s.
Wang Enming, professor with Shanghai International Studies University, agreed the change of the exam could be seen as an attempt to spread American culture.
"But we should be aware that it is not tailor-made for Chinese students," Wang said. "Because [those who take the exam] are from all around the world."
America is a country of immigrants and its growing cultural pluralism has been fragmenting their culture and values, he said.
"Thus the American people themselves, especially immigrants, are also in need of a strengthened education of American values. A deepened understanding of the country's founding documents can help them form a better cultural identity ," he said.
There are around 50,000 registrations for the exam in the Chinese mainland every year. Total registrants surpass 1.6 million annually, according to Li Nannan, senior manager in Overseas Testing Management Center of New Oriental Group, a well-known English training agency in China.
Many believe the SAT reform should not be interpreted from a political point of view.
Zhang Jian, professor with Beijing Foreign Studies University, said, the reform is aimed at better evaluating a student's ability for analysis, critical thinking and problem solving.
The changes will not alter world views of Chinese students because they also study the founding documents when learning American history, he said.
Deng Hongfeng, retired Dean of the Confucius Institute at Texas A&M University, pointed out American values are not contradictory to Chinese values.
"What the Americans uphold, such as the notion of freedom and democracy, are also shared by Chinese," he said.
Learning about the founding documents of America can help the Chinese students foster a more profound understanding of the culture, which will be helpful for their life and study after entering American universities, Li of New Oriental English says.
Learning of the changes, Tang Anran, a 20-year-old Beijing woman studying at Ohio State University, says she feels lucky to have taken the SAT two years ago.
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Facebook founder defends Internet.org from critics
At a town hall meeting in India, Mark Zuckerberg outlined his ambitious plan to expand Internet access for those communities that are still unable to get online.
During a conversation at the Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi on Wednesday, Facebook founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg reiterated his commitment to providing free Internet services to the world’s poorest communities.
“Our mission is to give every person in the world the power to share what's important to them and connect every person in the world,” he said.
Mr. Zuckerberg’s visit to India came about a month after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Facebook’s offices in Menlo Park, California.
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At the India town hall meeting, Zuckerberg acknowledged this, saying that because India has one of Facebook’s largest user populations, it is important to listen to and understand India’s concerns.
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Internet.org has also been criticized for possibly violating net-neutrality agreements. In India, Internet.org has an agreement with Reliance Communications, a telecommunications company, to provide simple services like connectivity and messaging through its platform. Internet.org’s critics are concerned that the agreement Internet.org has with Reliance may block smaller communications companies and developers from gaining access to or selling services through the application.
“It is our belief that Facebook is improperly defining net neutrality in public statements and building a walled garden in which the world's poorest people will only be able to access a limited set of insecure websites and services,” a group of developers from all over the world, including India and Pakistan, wrote in an open letter.
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Some of us think that documentation must be written in English *then* translated in other languages if need be.
But why not let people write directly in their native language?
Because as said by others we need a complete base first. And as it seems this wiki will be integrated to the mothership (docs.slackware.com), we will need thorough verification of the articles to stick with the slack philosophy. Of course I understand what you say: better in another lang than nothing ...
I've registered at SlackDocs, and subscribed to the mailing list. Reading now.
AlienBOB, I really wanna see your network/wireless article on the wiki, it helped me getting online ! And when your online, all other problems can be googled/LQed If you want I can duplicate it. (BTW if you could check this post, I dunno how relevant my bug was to the wireless scripts).
Originally Posted by Didier Spaier
<off topic>This discussion reminds me that more than 30 years ago, I translated in French a Basic interpreter (both keywords and messages).
By that time I could load into 64 KB of RAM two versions of the interpreter, and there was still enough room for other stuff. Oh, well... </off topic>
Oh nostalgia, I learnt Logo and BASIC when I was 8yo at school ^^ What was the purpose of your translation: educational, recreational, professional ? I may have learnt on your translated versions !
On the dark side, I remember when Texas Instruments decided to translate EVERY function names in their Ti89 in people's native languages. So my french friends were unable to use ANY of the programs written in english without a prior functions translation (not even talking about strings huh). I ended up installing the EN firmware in their calcs ... The intention was nice, but it was practically useless.
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Originally Posted by zithro
What was the purpose of your translation: educational, recreational, professional ? I may have learnt on your translated versions !
C'était dans le cadre d'un mémoire soutenu en vue d'obtenir le diplôme de psychologue du travail du Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers :
"Mise à disposition directe des utilisateurs d'un micro ordinateur dans un service de gestion : étude psycho-sociologique". As traslated by Google:
This was part of a thesis supported in order to obtain the diploma of occupational psychologist at the National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts:
"Provision of direct users of a microcomputer in a service management: study psycho-sociological
By the way that was the first "personal computer" used in Billancourt plant of Renault. And I wrote a Logo interpreter in BASIC
Last edited by Didier Spaier; 08-20-2012 at 07:24 AM.
Wow ok, nice background ! 30 years ago, I was barely born ^^
And funny that at that time, a psycho-social study was needed in order to prove PC's usefullness at work
I wanted to ask you about the conclusions of the study, but I'll PM instead, let's stick to the original debate.
About that, are you trying to imply that Google translate is now good enough for us to check the correctness of foreign languages translations ? The FR to EN is almost correct.
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Dame Deborah James has been hailed for the “tremendous legacy” she leaves behind for her tireless campaigning and the spotlight she shone on raising bowel cancer awareness.
Podcast host and mother of two Dame Deborah, who became known as Bowelbabe, her social media handle, died on Tuesday after being diagnosed in 2016 and has been remembered by charities, celebrities and many whose lives have been affected by cancer.
A statement from her family announcing her death finished with: “And a few final things from Deborah…’find a life worth enjoying; take risks; love deeply; have no regrets; and always, always have rebellious hope. And finally, check your poo – it could just save your life.”‘
Here’s what you need to know.
Bowel cancer screening
NHS bowel cancer screening reduces the risk of dying from the disease, which is the fourth most common type of cancer. Regular screening can help find it at an early stage, when it’s easier to treat.
Bowel cancer screening checks, which involve collecting a sample of poo, are available to everyone aged 60 to 74 years.
The programme is expanding to eventually become available to everyone aged 50 to 59 years, the NHS says. This is happening gradually over four years and started in April 2021.
You use a home test kit, called a faecal immunochemical test (Fit), to collect a small sample of poo and send it to a lab. This is checked for tiny amounts of blood.
Blood can be a sign of polyps or bowel cancer. Polyps are non-cancerous growths which may turn into cancer over time.
If the test finds anything unusual, you might be asked to go to hospital to have further tests to confirm or rule out cancer.
Always see a GP if you have symptoms of bowel cancer at any age, even if you have recently completed a NHS bowel cancer screening test kit – do not wait to have a screening test.
How to get a home test kit
Everyone aged 60 to 74 who is registered with a GP and lives in England is automatically sent a bowel cancer screening kit every two years.
All you need to do is make sure your GP practice has your correct address so your kit is posted to the right place.
If you’re 75 or over, you can ask for a kit every 2 years by phoning the free bowel cancer screening helpline on 0800 707 60 60.
If you’re worried about a family history of bowel cancer or have any symptoms, speak to a GP for advice.
How to use the home test kit
The NHS bowel cancer screening kit used in England is the faecal immunochemical test kit – known as the Fit kit.
You collect a small sample of poo on a small plastic stick and put it into the sample bottle and post it to a lab for testing. Your result should be posted to you within two weeks of sending off your kit.
If further testing is required, you may be booked for a colonoscopy, where a thin tube with a camera inside is passed into your bottom to look for signs of bowel cancer.
What are the symptoms of bowel cancer?
The NHS says: “More than 90 per cent of people with bowel cancer have one of the following combinations of symptoms:
- a persistent change in bowel habit – pooing more often, with looser, runnier poos and sometimes tummy (abdominal) pain
- blood in the poo without other symptoms of piles (haemorrhoids) – this makes it unlikely the cause is haemorrhoids
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If the outcome of the Justice Department antitrust suit filed Wednesday to stop AT&T’s $39 billion takeover of Deutsche Telekom’s T-Mobile hinged purely on its effect on competition, there wouldn’t be much doubt about the outcome.
But AT&T threw a wild card into the mix earlier this week. On the eve of the Justice Department suit, the company promised to return 5,000 call center jobs to the U.S., which had previously been outsourced abroad. The company also committed to maintaining the two companies’ existing call-center workforce of 25,000.
In today’s job-hungry political environment, that could be a persuasive argument.
It’s a point being pressed hard by the Communications Workers of America, the union that represents about 40,000 workers at AT&T – the only unionized carrier in the cell phone industry. The union commissioned a study by the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute earlier this year that showed the merger would create anywhere from 55,000 to 96,000 new jobs in the U.S. by allowing the combined companies to build out AT&T’s notoriously poor performing national network.
The proposed merger of the second- and fourth-largest cell phone carriers would leave the U.S. with essentially three companies divvying up the mobile telecommunications market. Just two -- the newly combined AT&T and Verizon Wireless – would account for 230 million subscribers, or about 80 percent of the market.
The combination has been slammed by consumer groups like Consumers Union and the Consumer Federation of America. They charge the merger would result in higher prices, fewer choices, and lower-quality service, which is already notoriously poor in the U.S. compared with other advanced industrial nations.
Those were the concerns raised by the Justice Department in its antitrust suit, which called T-Mobile “a value provider that even within the past few months had been developing and deploying ‘disruptive pricing’ plans.” The complaint further said: “AT&T’s elimination of T-Mobile as an independent, low-priced rival would remove a significant competitive force from the market.”
Yet the deal could still survive. The government could drop its complaint if AT&T agrees to offer concessions on pricing, divest operations in some highly concentrated markets, or makes commitments to more consumer-friendly policies on roaming or contract termination fees.
The Communications Workers union argues that failure to consummate the merger will force T-Mobile to send more of its jobs abroad. Officials from Deutsche Telekom recently testified on Capitol Hill that it will no longer invest in its U.S. operations.
“This suit could open the floodgates to the outsourcing of American jobs,” said Charles Porcari, a spokesman for the CWA. He also said that T-Mobile’s non-union workforce would not automatically become union members but would “have the right to choose representation.” AT&T, unlike many other U.S. employers, remains neutral during union elections at its facilities.
In a prepared statement offered in response to the Justice Department suit, AT&T General Counsel Wayne Watts expressed disappointment with the suit and claimed the company had no indication that it was coming. AT&T and Deutsche Telekom shares plunged Wednesday on the news, while the stock price of its competitors soared.
“We plan to ask for an expedited hearing so the enormous benefits of this merger can be fully reviewed,” Watts said. The company said the merger would enable it to build out its broadband network to cover an additional 55 million Americans, resulting in “billions of additional investment and tens of thousands of jobs at a time when our nation needs them the most.”
Parul Desai, policy counsel for Consumers Union, scoffed at AT&T claims that its investment plans required the merger. She pointed to a leaked internal memo from the company that showed the cost of completing its national network would cost less than $4 billion.
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Accession Number : AD0803772
Title : INVESTIGATION OF NEW CONCEPTS AND LINEAR BEAM TECHNIQUES FOR MICROWAVE GENERATION.
Descriptive Note : Quarterly progress rept. no. 3, 1 Apr-30 Jun 66,
Corporate Author : CORNELL UNIV ITHACA NY SCHOOL OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
Personal Author(s) : Dalman, G. C. ; Eastman, L. ; Mackenzie, L. A.
Report Date : OCT 1966
Pagination or Media Count : 124
Abstract : Experiments on a laser triggered transmission cavity have shown that good switching action can occur at high levels of X-band power. A beam plasma test vehicle was developed for the final phase of this task. GaAs Gunn diode ohmic contacts using an eutectic mixture of gemanium and gold were developed. Tin-nickel layered ohmic contacts showed greatly improved operating lifetime. Gunn diodes were operated as oscillators at approximately twice the threshold bias for domain transit operation, with peak powers of 30 watts at X-band. Preliminary tests show domain transit time oscillations can be changed in amplitude, frequency, and wave shape when relative amplitudes of the dc pulses applied to the two segments of a split electrode are varied. Gunn diodes in resonant circuits and biased just below threshold for domain transit time oscillations were strongly driven by microwave signals. A gallium arsenide avalanche p-n junction diode was successfully fabricated using an epitaxially-grown p(+)-n-n(+) wafer purchased. Preliminary data for pulsed operation yields 33 mw and 1/2 % efficiency at 7.5 GHz. The high velocity of electrons in InSb suggests an excellent material for the construction of avalanche transit-time diodes for operation at high microwave frequencies. The study of the anode and cathode initiated vacuum breakdown show that as metal whiskers form on the cathode surface, the cathode initiated breakdown predominates for close electrode spacings while the anode initiated breakdown predominates for large spacings. (Author)
Descriptors : (*ELECTRONIC SWITCHES, X BAND), (*SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES, MICROWAVE EQUIPMENT), (*KLYSTRONS, EXTREMELY HIGH FREQUENCY), (*PHOTOELECTRIC EFFECT, MICROWAVE EQUIPMENT), (*MICROWAVE EQUIPMENT, SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH), LASERS, ELECTRON BEAMS, PLASMAS(PHYSICS), GALLIUM ALLOYS, ARSENIC ALLOYS, INDIUM ALLOYS, ANTIMONY ALLOYS, SEMICONDUCTORS, MICROWAVES, OSCILLATION, ELECTROSTRICTION, ELECTRON OPTICS, MICROWAVE OSCILLATORS, MICROWAVE AMPLIFIERS, MANUFACTURING.
Subject Categories : Electrical and Electronic Equipment
Plasma Physics and Magnetohydrodynamics
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Fall Fashion, Holiday Fashion, they're all trending but fashion trends only works for you if you know how to work it right with your body shape. One that I sort of neglected to abide to for years. I just never bothered finding out which fruit my body shape was! I disagree being identified as a fruit. "Oh there's the walking banana!" That doesn't sound right, does it? Or most of the time, I just didn't care. But then, Jimmy Dean's Sun guy and Fruit of the Loom's fruit guys come to mind. Seriously, these guys need a good fashion makeover! And having an odd shape, you sure need the right outfit to not look exactly that, a fruit! Here's how to work it right!
First check what type of fruit [shape] you really are: Body Type Calculator
Are you a Banana, Pear, Apple or an Hourglass?
Banana: The waist measurement is less than 9 inches smaller than the hips and bust measurement. Body fat is distributed predominantly in the abdomen, buttocks, chest, and face. In short, you're considered straight like a ruler or rectangular -- the boy body!
Apple or V shape: Have broad(er) shoulders compared to their (narrower) hips. Tend to have slim legs/thighs, while the abdomen and chest look larger compared to the rest of the body. Fat is mainly distributed in the abdomen, chest, and face.
Pear, spoon, bell, or A shape: The hip measurement is greater than the bust measurement. The distribution of fat varies, with fat tending to deposit first in the buttocks, hips, and thighs. As body fat percentage increases, an increasing proportion of body fat is distributed around the waist and upper abdomen. This body type tend to have a larger rear, thicker thighs, and a small bosom.
Hourglass or X shape: The hip and bust are almost of equal size with a narrow waist. Body fat distribution tends to be around both the upper body and lower body. This body type enlarges the arms, chest, hips, and rear before other parts, such as the waist and upper abdomen.
Now, how do you dress the fruit?
- Wear a style that flatters
- Dress for your Shape
- Change your style to match your body
- Choose outfits that enhances your shape
Banana (Rectangular) - Create an illusion of curves. Thin belts, ruffled dresses or shirts, or anything to break up the straight line. My favorite: Peasant-type blouses with elastic hems. They create a great illusion of curves.
Apple - The best trick is to create an illusion of a smaller waist. Blouses and dresses with slightly nipped waist and or flared skirt works well. Show more legs!
Pear - Add volume to the top to create balance with your bigger lower body. Wide, strapless, off-the-shoulder, square, deep or cowl necklines works best. Pair your top with dark-colored bottoms or embellished belts.
Hourglass - Probably the best among all the shapes. Fits in any type of style. To highlight your shape, wear clothing that emphasizes the waist.
You and Your Fruit (shape):
"A study of the shapes of over 6,000 women, carried out by researchers at the North Carolina State University circa 2005, found that 46% were banana (rectangular), just over 20% pear, just under 14% apple, and 8% hourglass. Another study has found "that the average woman's waistline had expanded by six inches since the 1950s" and that women in 2004 were taller and had bigger busts and hips than those of the 1950s." -- wikipedia
"Research suggests that apple-shaped women have the highest risk of heart disease, while hourglass-shaped women have the lowest. Diabetes professionals say that women with a waist measurement of over 80cm (32 inches) have a higher risk of heart disease due to body fat buildup around the waist, which poses a higher health risk than fat buildup at the hips." -- calculator.net
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The e-book pictured to the right that I’ve been researching and writing for almost three years — an everyman’s guide to global warming and what we should do about it — was published last week in multiple e-reader formats. It’s available at Smashwords and also at Amazon (and could use some independent reviews). The e-book conversion processes are adequate but not perfect. If you don’t have an e-reader or would like a perfectly formatted version in pdf format, please email your request to firstname.lastname@example.org and I’ll send it to you.
Back to blogging (after a long absence).
Michael Klare’s “Big Oil’s Broken Business Model” on Tom Dispatch last week discussed the precipitous decline in international oil prices in the last year from $100 a barrel to $40, which could not have been good news for Big Oil. Especially if the International Energy Agency’s predictions that the price will not even get back to $73 a barrel until 2020 are accurate.
Cheap oil is good for the economy but not for the climate since oil along with the other fossil fuels (natural gas and coal) emit carbon dioxide that is the principal cause of global warming. We need to increase the price of oil to help the climate without hurting the economy. How?
The way to do that is to raise the price of oil and the other fossil fuels with a one-time fee or tax when they’re extracted from the ground or imported into the country and rebate the fee as a dividend to everyone in the country. Consumers usually bear the burden of price increases, but they won’t in this case because the dividend they receive offsets the price increases. So who will? Ultimately the oil (and gas and coal) companies, not in their immediate P&L (since their tax gets passed along to consumers), but eventually as their products become less competitive with clean forms of energy like hydroelectric and other renewables and nuclear power that don’t emit carbon dioxide.
But a one-time increase in the cost of fossil fuels won’t have much effect on industries as powerful as gas and oil and coal. The rebatable fee or tax needs to increase every year with respect to fossil fuels extracted or imported in that year, and the provision for this increase needs to be spelled out in the original legislation. Then, I’ll wager, something else will happen.
Bill McKibben, an ardent supporter of climate stabilization and the founder of the worldwide activist organization 350.org, has been leading a campaign to have universities, foundations and other institutions remove fossil fuel companies from their investment portfolio, a tactic that when applied to South African companies had a significant impact on ending apartheid. But it’s not an easy sell because oil and gas companies in particular tend to be very profitable. But if Congress passed the fee and dividend legislation specifying annually increasing fees that don’t impact consumers, the sell will become very much easier because the ultimate end of fossil fuel industry profitability will be apparent. Investors will want to sell their fossil fuel portfolios as soon as they can.
As fossil fuel companies decline, clean energy companies will replace them. There will be some economic glitches, perhaps, but over the long run the economy will prosper from the conversion to clean energy and the many jobs the conversion will require.
The fossil fuel companies will use all the money and guile in their own portfolios to prevent such legislation. It may take a massive lightning strike on the U.S. capitol from one of those unprecedented storms that global warming causes to get Congress to act. But when the legislation passes, then I think we might even see the oil and gas companies reinvesting in clean energy companies. They protest, of course, that they have no expertise in clean energy. But these days companies buy expertise, as Exxon did when it moved into gas fracking. It just takes money. | <urn:uuid:a3e2b00f-3bbc-4263-809b-330d95421915> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://seekingdemocracy.blogspot.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280761.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00088-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951712 | 813 | 2.265625 | 2 |
|Healthy Diet Plans >> Health Food >> Breakfast Cereals|
Fortified Breakfast Cereals - Hot Breakfast Cereals You Would Crave ForSelecting a wholesome breakfast cereal sometimes can be quite an arduous task. The list of breakfast cereals and cereal bars is a lengthy one, albeit full of paradoxes. There are breakfast cereals prepared from white refined grains with almost nil fiber content; there are cereals made from whole grains and essential bran comprising more than 5 - 7 grams of fiber. And then there are cereals loaded with such high content of sugar that they seem more like boxes of sugar crystals! There are also breakfast cereals available with the least amount of sugar, which is evident from it being named as the last ingredient on the ingredients-list.
According to nutritionists and diet experts the cereal that you have every day, either as a breakfast substitute or as a mid-meal snack, can say a lot about the status of your health.
Recent research indicates that individuals who consume whole grains stand at a lower risk of developing diabetes and cardiovascular disease, than those who consume refined grains-breakfast cereal. Whole grains included in breakfast cereals and bars include wheat germ, unpolished rice flakes, bulgur wheat, couscous, corn flakes or oatmeal.
High Fiber Breakfast CerealsPick out breakfast cereals or cereal bars that are high in fiber, made with whole grains. The idea is to find a breakfast cereal that is full of wholesome properties, low in sugar, and has no trace of saturated fat or hydrogenated fats, but still provides a great taste, especially if you are looking to have it every day.
As far as possible, try not to opt for refined cereals as daily consumption of refined cereals bars or breakfast cereals can pose health risks in the long run. Refined cereals possess higher glycemic index than wholegrain thus causing a sharp rise in blood sugars, and requiring a strong reaction from the pancreas.
Dried fruits and nuts added to the cereals is another bonus for good health. It adds more nutrients to the cereal as it is loaded with essential vitamins such as vitamin B-1, B-6, and essential trace minerals such as iron, magnesium, and selenium. You can also sweeten your breakfast by adding honey generously to your cereal. Honey is a healthier option than sugar.
At then end of it all, starting off your day with a breakfast cereal that contains complex carbohydrates and high fiber can help jump-start the body and boost concentration all day long. Moreover research has further established that a bowl of high-fiber breakfast cereal in the morning can bring down hypertension and also reduce cholesterol levels in the blood.
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Pasteurized dairy products, including sour cream, are perfectly safe to consume during pregnancy. Be sure to look for the word “pasteurized” on the label when choosing a product, and always keep it at a safe temperature in the refrigerator.
What cream can you not eat when pregnant?
Unpasteurised milk and dairy products
You should avoid unpasteurised (raw) milk and products made from it, which are sold in some farm and health food shops. These products can include cream, yoghurt, goat’s and sheep’s milk or dairy products. If you only have access to unpasteurised milk, boil it before using.
Is Mexican sour cream pasteurized?
Crema Mexicana or Mexican Cream is Mexican cultured, sour cream cheese prepared with pasteurised milk. It has the thickness and richness of Devonshire Cream or Creme Fraiche with the sweet taste of heavy whipping cream.
What drinks to avoid while pregnant?
Here are 6 drink to avoid during pregnancy:
- Unpasteurized milk.
- Unpasteurized juices.
- Caffeinated beverages.
- Sugary sodas.
- Drinks with artificial sweeteners, like diet soda.
How is Mexican sour cream different?
What’s the difference between Mexican crema and sour cream? Sour cream has a fat content of about 20%, is a bit more acidic in flavor and is fairly thick. … Mexican crema has a higher fat content of about 30%, isn’t quite as sour and is a lot thinner.
Is Chipotle cheese and sour cream pasteurized?
Feel free! Our shredded Monterey Jack cheese, queso, and sour cream are made with pasteurized milk. Our carnitas have black pepper only (no jalapeños or anything like that) and are very mild.
Can you eat guacamole when pregnant?
Dip them in guacamole, which is high in folate, a B vitamin that helps prevent birth defects. (It also contains heart-healthy fats.) If you don’t love avocados, protein-rich bean dip is a good option.
Can I eat watermelon while pregnant?
Watermelon is generally safe to eat during pregnancy. However, pregnant women should avoid eating sliced watermelon that has remained at room temperature for too long. Moreover, women with gestational diabetes should avoid eating large portions.
How can I have a beautiful baby during pregnancy?
10 steps to a healthy pregnancy
- See your doctor or midwife as soon as possible.
- Eat well.
- Take a supplement.
- Be careful about food hygiene.
- Exercise regularly.
- Begin doing pelvic floor exercises.
- Cut out alcohol.
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Neuroscience and the Law
Posted by The Situationist Staff on May 9, 2007
Last month, Dean Mobbs, Hakwan Lau, Owen Jones & Christopher Frith (from the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at UCL) published a thoughtful article in Plos Biology entitled “Law, Responsibility, and the Brain.” The article summarizes some of the recent discoveries of neuroscience that may have “implications for the way government institutions, including education and legal systems, operate.”
The authors . . . briefly review how damage to various parts of the frontal or temporal lobe is correlated with anti-social behaviour patterns. To summarize, frontal lobe damage is now generally assumed to result in “acquired sociopathy” – it is associated with increased aggression or violence . . . . On the other hand, damage to the amygdala, a structure found on the medial surface of the temporal lobe, is associated with an impaired ability to recognize emotions in others, which often leads to impaired social and moral reasoning.
The authors of the essay note that neuroimaging studies suggest a link between brain damage and some forms of criminal behaviour, and discuss the legal implications of these findings. They are skeptical of the use of neuroimaging data in the courtroom, and suggest that such “evidence” will only be reliable after research provides us with a better understanding of the neural correlates of criminality. They believe that advances in our understanding of brain function will eventually change our views of responsibility, free will and culpability, and could have a major impact on how the American and British legal systems treat and punish criminals.
And, unlike most considerations of this topic, which have focused on the criminal, they emphasize that neuroscience also provides a possibility of gaining insight into the cognitive processes of judges and jurors, and of learning more about the limitations of eyewitness testimonies. | <urn:uuid:7e6e2400-216d-4e31-8e05-4429e4d35d46> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2007/05/09/neuroscience-and-the-law/?like=1&source=post_flair&_wpnonce=9514d1f115 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280410.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00447-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944092 | 379 | 2.15625 | 2 |
When can a child stay home alone?
The answer: "Most likely when you think they're ready" -- but here are a few things to consider anyways.
Staying home alone is a big step toward independence. It also makes life a lot easier for parents, who do not have to arrange child care or take kids along wherever they go. The rules vary widely from state to state and throughout the Canadian provinces as to when a child can be legally left alone at home. Kansas, for example, says age 6 is appropriate for short periods of time. In Maryland, the minimum is 7 years. Other places wait until age 12, such as Delaware and Manitoba. In Illinois, it’s 14.
Many places leave it up to the parents’ discretion, which seems like a better plan. Parents know their children best and can discern how responsible a child is more effectively than a legal limit can. After all, it’s in a parent’s best interest to ensure their child is safe.
There are some valuable discussions to be had surrounding independence at home, as the time approaches. Most importantly, as Child Safe Canada urges, being home alone is not an event, but rather an ongoing process.
“Being home alone should be a process that is initiated in gradual and supervised stages. Start with small periods of time, and slowly increase with the child’s skills and growing maturity level.”
If you doubt whether or not your child is ready to stay at home, then they’re probably not.
When you do proceed in that direction, consider the following:
Make sure your child knows how to operate the locks on doors and windows. Set basic ground rules, such as not answering the door or phone unless it’s a parent.
Have your child memorize all his/her relevant information: full name, address, phone numbers, etc. Does he/she know strategies for handling emergencies? Test your kid on “What if…?” scenarios.
Tell close neighbors that your child will be home alone so they’ll be on the lookout. (This may also reduce the likelihood of anxious calls to Child Protective Services.)
Establish a ‘safe house’ to which your child can run if he/she feels unsafe, although your child should not go into any other house without your permission.
Do not allow young children to operate the stove unsupervised.
Maintain contact with the child during the time you’re away, whether it’s a quick phone call or some texts.
Offer or revoke the privilege of independence based on how your child handles it.
Never leave an unwilling or fearful child alone, as that can decrease a child’s ability to respond appropriately to emergencies. A child must feel comfortable being alone.
While this lengthy list of tips might seem like staying home is a huge deal, it’s not. Keep in mind that children used to stay alone all the time, often caring for younger siblings, managing chores, and traipsing long distances to school alone, so expecting your 10-year-old to entertain himself for a few hours after school is not the end of the world. Understand that this transition to new independence is a natural part of growing up, and treat it as celebratory, rather than something scary or dangerous; in other words, avoid negativity that will brush off onto your child and create unnecessary fear.
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The Australian Government recently announced it’s “committed to addressing the ‘double taxation’ of digital currencies.” Earlier in the week the Hon Scott Morrison MP, Treasurer of the Commonwealth of Australia, reportedly stated that digital currencies, including bitcoin, will be exempt from Goods and Services Tax (GST) as part of changes intended to boost the fintech sector.
"We will ensure access to concessional tax treatments for venture capital investments in fintech firms, will take action to prevent the double taxation of digital currencies – we won't be taxing digital currencies."
- Hon Scott Morrison MP
A report called “Backing Australian FinTech” was simultaneously released, which outlines the Australian Treasury's response to fintech development priorities. Among the responses was one to amend the Goods and Services Tax Act of 1999.
“The Government recognises that that the current treatment of digital currency under GST law means that consumers are ‘double taxed’ when using digital currency to buy anything already subject to GST,” states the Treasury department. “The Government is committed to addressing the ‘double taxation’ of digital currencies and will work with the industry on legislative options to reform the law relating to GST as it is applied to digital currencies.”
The problem all started in August 2014, when the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) issued a guidance paper and ruling on the taxation of Bitcoin and other crypto-currencies, viewing bitcoin transactions as a barter arrangement with similar tax consequences.
The ATO stated that Bitcoin is neither money nor a foreign currency: “The supply of bitcoin is not a financial supply for goods and services tax (GST) purposes. Bitcoin is, however, an asset for capital gains tax (CGT) purposes.”
Commenting on the ATO's move, the Head of Indirect Tax at KPMG, Dermot Gaffney, questioned whether the authorities risked over-regulating digital currency, and "potentially killing off this new source of disruption and competition in Australia’s financial services industry."
“This would be a little like my bank taxing a withdrawal of funds from my account as a supply, subject to GST at 10%, and if I was in business (and the transaction is for business purposes) I would get a credit,” Gaffney explained. “I would further pay GST when I used the funds to purchase taxable goods and services in Australia, and so on. But if I am just a consumer (or the transaction is not for business purposes) the tax will be an absolute cost, and in effect restrict the wide spread adoption of such currencies.”
The ruling disappointed many businesses accepting bitcoin, and put companies still using digital currency in Australia at an economic disadvantage. Personal finance company, CoinJar, quickly relocated to the UK following the ATO's ruling.
“The UK relocation will mean CoinJar customers will no longer be subject to 10 per cent GST (Goods and Services Tax) when they buy bitcoin using our services. HMRC (Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs) in the UK exempts digital currency trading from value added tax (VAT), so new and existing CoinJar customers will not be levied any additional taxes.”
The UK put bitcoin outside the scope of VAT almost six months before the ATO’s ruling. The ATO’s treatment of cryptocurrencies seems “at odds with the fundamental principles of a consumption tax,” Gaffney added. “Commentators are saying that if VAT does apply it could have the adverse effect of lessening government revenues by weakening economic momentum and that tax legislation cannot hold back emerging business models – yet that is happening in Australia.”
Following the industry response, the Australian Treasury issued a whitepaper in March 2015, admitting “new ways of transacting, including crypto-currencies such as bitcoin, were not contemplated when the current tax system was designed.” The paper cites bitcoin as a challenge when determining how to appropriately tax companies.
Opposing the ATO's view, the Australian Senate Economic References Committee published a report on digital currency in August 2015, recommending that digital currencies, including bitcoin, be treated as money for the purpose of GST. The ATO advised the committee that amendments to GST Regulations would then be required.
“The committee is of the view that digital currency should be treated as money for the purposes of the goods and services tax. As such, the committee recommends that the government consults with the states and territories to consider amending the definition of money in the A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999 and including digital currency in the definition of financial supply in A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Regulations 1999.”
- The Senate Economic References Committee
This wasn’t the only problem Australian bitcoin businesses have faced. Many have struggled to establish, or maintain, banking relationships.
Australian banks have increasingly taken a ‘de-risking’ approach, following the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Act 2006 (AML/CTF), leading to ‘de-banking.’
According to a World Bank Group survey both Money Transfer Operators (MTOs) and banks report an increased trend in closed and/or a restricted accounts between 2010 and 2014. A significant portion of MTOs declared that they can no longer access banking services.
“Data collected indicate that account closures for money transfer operators (MTOs) have become more pronounced over the last few years in some countries, including Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, the UK, and the US.”
- World Bank
A 2015 report by the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC) confirms that the number of remittance businesses using foreign-owned banks has also grown over the last two years. AUSTRAC is Australia's financial intelligence unit with regulatory responsibility for anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing.
Responding to this ongoing problem, in addition to committing to abolishing the double taxation of digital currencies, the government will also “improve banking access for digital currency companies,” by incorporating digital currency into the AML/CTF regulation. The government has established a roundtable of banks, regulators, government and industry participants to address the ongoing ‘de-banking’ problem of digital currency businesses.
“The largest remittance network providers (RNPs) have all been impacted by the bank account closures of some of their affiliate businesses and in some cases the RNP itself. Many have secured a bank account with another institution to conduct their remittance business.”
- Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre
If digital currencies are exempt from GST and digital currency companies have better banking access in Australia, the country will back on track to compete for businesses with Europe. In October 2015, the European Court of Justice, Europe's highest court, ruled that bitcoin transactions are "exempt from VAT under the provision concerning transactions relating to 'currency, banknotes and coins used as legal tender'." | <urn:uuid:27b7850e-ccab-4871-a75c-096436425d40> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://bravenewcoin.com/news/australian-government-committed-to-ending-bitcoin-double-taxation/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280483.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00296-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946467 | 1,471 | 2.046875 | 2 |
This answer and notes book accompanies Key to Geometry Book 4Key to Geometry Book 5, and Key to Geometry Book 6. An introduction offers general teaching tips as well as instructions on how to use geometry tools. Students pages are reproduced at a scale of 4 student pages to one teacher page. Answers are overlaid with any applicable notes added to the page. Paperback.
Format: Paperback Vendor: McGraw-Hill
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The “Manacle” Story,
We copy from the Protestant Churchman, published in New York, the following letter from Rev. Clement M. Butler, D. D., Rector of Trinity Church, Washington:
Some recent travelers announce that it is generally believed in the Confederate States than Gen. Scott was killed and the battle of Bull Run, and that the late Congress was held in Philadelphia. These are specimens of the singular delusions with regard to glaring facts, which prevail at the South. We cannot put down all these misapprehensions to the account of willful falsehood, for many of them prevail among good men known and honored and beloved in all the churches. I will mention a single case.
It has not been thought necessary here at the North to deny the story that manacles to the number of 6, or 20, or 30,000, were taken with Gen. McDowell’s army, for the purpose of being placed upon the citizens of the Southern States. Yet, the story is believed in the South, no, of course, by the political and military leaders, (for they invent it,) nor only by the ignorant whites, who have been long trained to credit all sorts of Northern atrocities, but by profound Doctors of Divinity of Northern birth and constant Northern associations, and who might therefore be supposed to doubt whether our Government, at a single leap, had passed far beyond the bounds of an Austrian or Neapolitan despotism. Our good brother, Dr. Andrews of Shepherdstown, in an address prepared for the Northern churches, as an appeal for peace, (soon, I believe, to be published,) uses this language: “Among the vast and various stores captured on Sunday last, at Manassas, was a wagon loaded with manacles, judged to be 5,000 or 6,000. This I had from an eyewitness on the spot.” In a P. S. , he adds: “The account of the manacles is confirmed. A Federal officer captured, who professed to know all about it, said there were $12,000 worth in the lot which was captured. They are being distributed all over the South.”
Other statements as remarkable follow: The Rev. Dr. Col. Pendleton showed him 30 pieces of cannon in one place, among which was Sherman’s battery, which he (the Rev. Dr. Co. P.) had captured without the loss of a man killed or wounded. Now, it is known that Sherman’s battery was not taken, and that our total loss of guns was 25. “The killed and fatally wounded of the Federal army were 6,000, and the total of guns captured was 63.” On these statements I need not dwell, but finding, to my utter surprise, that the story of the manacles was believed by some intelligent a person as Dr. Andrews, I immediately proceeded to the War Department, to make inquiries on the subject.
The Adjutant-General emphatically denied that there was any truth in the statement, and authorized me to use his name. I called also at General Scott’s office, and not being able to see him, stated that I wished an official answer from his office, in reference to this matter. In reply, his aid, Col. Van Ranselear, declared the he had himself made this inquiry of Gen. McDowell, who told him that he had taken one hundred pair of manacles, as a preparation for insubordination threatened in part of a single regiment, and that these were all they had, and this was the only purpose for which they were taken. And yet, an eye-witness on the spot had seen five or six thousand! And these five or six thousand “are being spread all over the South!” Doubtless, these clanking manacles will produce all their intended effect there, but it is much to be doubted whether an appeal for peace to the churches of the North will be very effective when based upon facts such as these.
A friend recently visited the Theological Seminary, and found it (appropriately) in the possession of a New York regiment. He states that scarcely any injury has been done to the buildings, and that the grounds are kept in better than their usual order. The Colonel has strictly forbidden all depredations on private property, and recently discovering one of the men milking a cow, fired his pistol at him. The lofty tower of Aspinwall Hall is regarded as a very important out-look. Gen. McClellan, on a recent visit, considered whether the building should not be made his headquarters on the Virginia side. Whether or no it was in consequence of recent rumors that Beauregard was about to occupy Alexandria and Washington, my friend could not tell, but his attention was directed to the fact that the trees on Shooters Hill had been so cut away that two great guns were pointed directly upon Alexandria from Fort Ellsworth, and two others upon the Seminary; and that pains were taken to have these facts known rather than disguised. Most earnestly do we hope that no “military necessity” may bring them into action. Alexandria has already suffered all that even an enemy could wish, and more than enough to make friends, who have pleasant and sacred associations with the place, to weep. Indeed, one recent incident, which illustrates how unnatural anger gives way in a Christian heart before habitual benevolence, would plead not in vain, if it were known, for the preservation of the city. A strong Secessionist, who had been heard to say that he would not give a cup of water to a dying Federal soldier, had his feelings of pity and magnanimity so raised by the spectacle of our poor, fugitive, wounded, exhausted, and hungry soldiers, as they poured into Alexandria, that he exerted himself to the utmost for their comfort, and actually provided about 400 dinners for them at his own expense, before the day was closed. I rejoice to record this incident. Are there not many of our impulsive Southern friends whose talk is full of ferocity before the battle, who will exhibit a similar kindly reaction when it is over? There was much unpardonable and ferocious hatred exhibited in repulsive forms of cruelty at Bull Run, and the testimonies to this effect are too numerous and undoubted to be forgotten or denied; but there have been also many kindly courtesies shown to the prisoners at Richmond. May not war, with the mutual respect and the high courtesies to which it shall give birth, bring about the reconciliation and fraternal peace which the irritating strife of politics never could produce? I find the Confederate prisoners regard such a suggestion as wild delusion. But who ever, under a strong passion to-day, could be made to believe in the reaction which will take place to-morrow? Yet they who witness a flood-tide, as it comes tumbling in and raging and foaming on the rocks, in the evening, may see it, spent and still, slowly receding from the late lashed shore, in the calm morning.
Washington is singularly calm. Some strange spirit of subordination has possession of us all. We are growing modest and distrustful of our ability to plan campaigns. We have ceased to insist upon a victory to-morrow. While, on the one hand, we ache for a success which shall be decisive, on the other, we dread to express the feeling, lest it might have a feather’s pressure in hastening an attempt before success would be morally secure. In the meantime, we see and hear scarcely any troops, but we meet long, long trains of wagons in the avenues; we see whole herds of horses and mules on some side-lots in the neighborhood of the city; and those who are wakeful at night, think they hear the measured tramp, as if many men were marching without music. I have heard great Canterbury Cathedral organs giving out grave and majestic music, but the sound of a regiment’s march, in a still nigh, over the Long Bridge, with the thought of what soul-working and heart-working accompany it, and make its measured fall awful, is to me more moving and magnificent than that.
San Francisco Bulletin, 10/9/1861
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You’ll never believe the amount of work that goes into this wood-turned bowl.
If you’ve ever spent time watching woodworking videos on YouTube, you know that they can be extremely satisfying. Roger Webb is an Australian woodworker with a popular YouTube channel. The way that he makes this bowl is absolutely amazing.
First, Roger shows off an unassuming chunk of oak firewood. It’s hard to believe that this log will become a beautiful bowl. He starts with cutting some of the edges off of the log, rounding it off so he can use it with his machinery.
First, he attaches the wood to a lathe. This machine spins the chunk of wood, and he uses a tool to remove material at great speed. The turning motion allows the material to be removed uniformly and a shape to emerge from the raw wood.
After shaping the outside of the bowl, Roger moves the wood to a chuck. This helps him hollow out the center of the bowl while keeping the sides at a uniform thickness. When used correctly, it’s great too. Watching the way the material flies off of the wood is extremely satisfying!
When the center is finished, he sands the bowl and uses boiled linseed oil as a finish. The result is a beautiful finish on a bowl with a simple design. You’d never guess that this started out as a formless hunk of wood. | <urn:uuid:96a25655-21fe-41c7-b746-8d8a0c9e8bbc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wwjd.buzz/oddly-enough/carpenter-turns-firewood-into-wooden-bowls-worth-thousands/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00075.warc.gz | en | 0.945582 | 291 | 1.625 | 2 |
My guide, Ekhsan, parked the motorbike, and showed me the small track threading between the trees. At the edge of the village we met a line of barefoot Ba-aka children, who fell silent and stared. The smallest one began to howl. ‘They’re not used to seeing munjus [white people]!’ laughed Ekhsan. A man strode down a slope towards us. The first thing I noticed was how short he was, and the second, as he drew close, was the wooden crucifix around his neck.
The vast majority of Central Africans (about 80 per cent) identify as Christians. They’re mainly Catholics, a direct legacy of the French who colonized the Central African Republic (CAR) at the end of the 19th century. Muslims make up 10-15 per cent of the population, though numbers have plunged these last few months as communities have fled spiralling political violence and anti-Muslim militias stalking central and northern CAR.
But not everyone in CAR is Christian or Muslim; hundreds of thousands of Central Africans are animists, who often combine strands of Christianity with indigenous worship and celebrations.
A hundred kilometres south of Bangui is a little-visited region called the Loubaye, a vast area of lush equatorial rainforest, where the Ba-aka forest people hunt, forage and venerate their forest god, Kombo.
Central Africans usually refer to the Ba-aka as ‘pygmies’ – another throwback to the French, whose missionaries were obsessed with converting and ‘civilizing’ the forest peoples. Even now, 55 years after the French left CAR, the Loubaye is swamped with foreign Catholic missions. Many missionaries fled the most recent violence, as even its remoteness has not spared the Loubaye from militia attacks.
Intrigued to meet the Ba-aka people, and see the impact of the missionaries for myself, I hitched a ride to the Loubaye on a logging truck, and hired Ekhsan to guide me around.
Back in the forest village, the Aka man (Ba-aka is the plural) with the wooden crucifix round his neck greets us. Ekhsan asks if we can speak to the Chef de village, or local chief.
A few minutes later the Chief appears in a red Hawaiian-style shirt. We introduce ourselves; his name is Al-Fons, and he says we’re welcome here.
I ask Al-Fons whether missionaries have ever come to this village.
‘They used to come here, the munjus missionaries; but we have not seen them for months now,’ he says, looking me straight in the eyes.
‘Did you and the other villagers like them coming?’
Al-Fons pauses, as more villagers settle themselves around us.
‘Some things were good; they brought medicine, and we need it because we have no clinic near here,’ he says. ‘They brought cooking pots, too. But we are a mixed village – you see not everyone here is Ba-aka – and the problem was the munjus only gave cooking pots to us Ba-aka. This created tensions between us and our neighbours.’ He says the missionaries also talked of building a chapel and a school in the village, but then they stopped coming, and no other outsiders visit now.
I’m about to ask Al-Fons whether the local Ba-aka are Christians, when suddenly the people around us all stand up. Young women and men begin to clap and step out a rhythm, an older man sits down on a wooden box and starts to drum upon it.
Al-Fons’ grave face breaks into a grin. ‘They want to show you our dance!’
Some of the dancers grab palm fronds for head-dresses, as others sing. I’m torn between delight at the music, and suddenly feeling very like a munju tourist, especially when Al-Fons shouts, ‘Take photos!’ Beside me, Ekhsan shrugs and lights up another cigarette.
The man with the crucifix around his neck sits beside me, and asks if I like the music.
I tell him I do, and take some photos. Then I ask what he thought of the missionaries, and his face lights up.
‘They were wonderful!’ he says. ‘They came to civilize us – you can see our lives here. It was good for us when they came with medicine, and cooking pots too.’
‘So, are you a Christian now?’
‘Oh no!’ he smiles. ‘We all worship the forest spirits, and this is our dance to our God, Kombo. But I hope the Christians come back with more medicine, and finish the school.’ | <urn:uuid:c19c6d8b-eb0d-48c3-8e2b-d280d3a21790> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://newint.org/columns/letters-from/2014/05/01/letter-from-bangui/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279650.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00428-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963602 | 1,028 | 2.28125 | 2 |
WILLIAMSTOWN -- Bloodroot, Winter aconite, Dog's tooth violet, trout lily -- what's blooming now?
To find out, the Trustees of Reservations and naturalist Pam Weatherbee will lead a spring wildflower walk at Field Farm in Williamstown on Sunday at 1 p.m.
Field Farm has some unusual habitats that produce an interesting and beautiful array of woodland wildflowers known as spring ephemerals, which have a short time to grow, bloom and set seed before the trees put out leaves overhead and block the sunlight reaching the forest floor.
On the two-hour easy walking tour, Weatherbee will introduce the flora of the rich woods, just starting to bloom. The walk is free and open to the public.
Field Farm is a conservation property of more than 300 acres, with extensive meadows and woodlands, four miles of easy trails, a beaver pond and a variety of birds and animals.
It lies at 554 Sloan Road, South Williamstown, the "fifth corner" near the intersection of Routes 7 and 43.
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‘The Hobbit’ Responsible for 27 Animal Deaths
Peter Jackson’s “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy movies were so popular and successful that he decided it was time to create “The Hobbit.” Well, even though it might be another box office hit, some of the animals used for the film might disagree, as up to 27 are now dead, reports reveal.
Animal wranglers hired to care for the animals are now revealing that horses, goats, chickens and one sheep had to live in horrific conditions that contributed to their deaths. While not on set, they lived on a farm filled with all sorts of “death traps” like sinkholes and broken fences.
The animals weren’t harmed during actual filming, the American Humane Association explains, which monitored their treatment throughout the process. Unfortunately, the monitoring only occurred during filming and not at the living facilities.
About 150 animals were living at the farm, with some dying from natural causes, Matt Dravitzki, a film spokesman, said. He noted the production company quickly made changes to improve conditions, and also admitted the deaths of the horses could have been avoided.
To hear stories from the four wranglers, visit Entertainment Weekly, where they discuss how the deaths could have been prevented and the inexplicable living arrangements the animals had to endure.
“The Hobbit” will be released on Nov. 28 in Wellington, New Zealand and will open in December here in the United States. PETA is said to be protesting at the New Zealand, the U.S. and the U.K. premieres.
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A local actuarial technology company has been working with international asset managers on Key Information Documents (KIDs) prepared in compliance with the EU’s new Packaged Retail and Insurance-based Investment Products (PRIIPs) regulations.
The PRIIPs regulations’ deadline of 1 January 2018 means that asset managers now need to adhere to new technical standards for the KID. The content must include summary risk indicators, projected returns and disclosure of costs for investment products.
The first week of January has already seen a leading UK investment platform remove several hundred products from its website for non-compliance with the new regulations.
Penalties for not complying with the regulation will range from being prohibited from marketing the PRIIP or significant fines. All new investment products and existing investment products marketing to retail investors in the EU will need to comply with the requirement for a KID.
The underlying calculations which feature in the document must be in line with the regulations and current practice guidelines, and accurately reflect the PRIIPs’ investment qualities. According to a local actuarial technology company, Dorey Financial Modelling, creating the numbers can be extremely complex.
"Product categorisation, the range of financial outcomes and costs can be complicated, and factors such as currency fluctuations, private equity, and fund wind-up dates come into play as well. All of this needs to be adequately explored with the product manufacturer and their legal teams, so we pay close attention and listen to the product manufacturers’ forward-looking views," Martyn Dorey, Managing Director, said.
"All KIDs require working closely with the product manufacturer to reflect their views of market practices and their expectations on risk."
The administration work to prepare KIDs is often outsourced to fund administration service providers.
Matt Tostevin, a director of fund administration firm, JTC Fund Services, said that while the final PRIIPs regulations were published in spring 2017, the complexity of the regulations and the amount of work required still caught many market practitioners by surprise and even large mainland EU investment houses were unprepared for the January deadline.
"A large number of local practitioners and their clients also found themselves within the scope of the regulations and required to prepare a KID," Mr Tostevin said.
"Fortunately, we in the Channel Islands are well accustomed to facing external challenges, both regulatory and otherwise, and our innovation has helped us to thrive."
The PRIIPs regulations aim to help retail investors to understand and compare the key features, risks, rewards and costs of different PRIIPs, through access to a short and consumer-friendly information document.
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By Jessi Geist
With the rising cries for social justice ringing throughout America, and Covid19 cases spreading, the word Systematic oppression has been brought to the for front of our society. Housing inequality, education barriers and police brutality have been frequently popping up in the news lately too. Our communities have been left to ask who is really effected and how are we all involved in it?
Sadly it is not a secret that our food might be a product of slave labor or worker abuse. It is also a common fact that these professions are highly dangerous, especially those who work in slaughterhouses or out in the agricultural fields. Today we are going to take a look at our food system through a human rights lenses and explore Brave New Life's Purpose in creating an alternative compassionate food system.
Whose at Risk?
The demographic of these populations are hard to pin down. From the articles in many major news stations and personal experience, we find that there is a large population of people of color, women, and immigrants who are subjected to these dangerous environments. People with federal offenses on their record and who have been rejected from other opportunities, end up in meat packing employment as well. Sadly most people who work in these environments report that they have no other options.
How many people? 1,790 people where employed in slaughterhouses in Colorado alone as of May 2019. Throughout the entire nation we have around 73,390, people employed as slaughterhouse workers and 245,400 workers employed by animal agriculture as a whole. As for farm workers, there are 902,900 people who are reportedly employed on farms across our nation, all according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor and Statistics. Which shows that it takes a lot of people to run this food system, and this number is only predicted to continue to climb as the human populations increase.
Lets look at the last decade or so...
Of all the jobs within our food system, in America, slaughterhouses are argued to be the most dangerous. According to this NPR article 151 meat packing workers died from injuries sustained at work in 2004-2013. This article does a great job of explaining why some of the dangerous hazards workers experience are not reported or over looked by OSHA. It's every where, language barriers, misclassifications of worker deaths, and worse of all is, on site medical staff or managers dismissing reports of pain, and instructing workers to return to their jobs.
"(A worker) In the meat and poultry industry lost a body part or was sent to the hospital for in-patient treatment about every other day between 2015 and 2018." According to this article by Human Rights Watch, who interview over 50 people across the nation, workers were also paid poorly, 44% less then other factory jobs. Sadly losing a body part isn't the only thing that meat packing workers endure, noxious fumes, swollen joints, illnesses and mental health strain can also be some factors that effect workers daily lives.
Unfortunately 2020's Coronavirus Pandemic only exacerbated the issues slaughterhouse workers experience. According to the Washington Post, "At least 42,534 meatpacking workers have tested positive for the novel coronavirus in 494 meat plants, and at least 203 meatpacking workers have died." Workers have been Unionizing and fighting ever since the beginning on this year. Their ask is simple, to have a clean environment to work in, increase pay and benefits for workers and their families.
When it comes to holding these companies accountable OSHA has a track record of letting workers down. One of the latest examples happened this year where two fines around 15,000, a relatively small fine for the many human rights violations and 6 deaths reported against JBS in Greeley Colorado. The message is clear workers can't rely on our government agencies to provide protection or safety measures even the face of national crisis.
Where does Brave New Life Project come in?
Out of the million people who work in these dangerous environments, many of them have skills that are important to our communities. However, the path of certification for those professions or a new career in general, can seem overwhelming or impossible in a slaughterhouse workers current situation. That is where Brave New Life is stepping in and helping out. By offering free employment services to animal agriculture workers and creating a compassionate model for farmers, we can transform our systems to ensure human rights are upheld in this nation.
Our programs are modeled around the holistic approach to social work which involves examining all social factors of a person’s life, rather than focusing on one issue. Individual's are most successful when they are allowed to find their own purpose, make their own profit, and build their own careers. This is why we are currently offering free employment services to help these workers build their resume and decide where they want to apply, and offer to do all the job hunting for them. This allows them to continue to work their full time job without added stress of where to transition to next.
In the future we will be offering regenerative farming paid internships to help people amend the soil and their overall health, through proper nutrition. We are partnering with Tindakan Innovations next spring 2021 to plant our first crop on a wildlife preservation area, as a demonstration of how farmers can coexist with nature. We would love for you to join us in building the world we all thrive in. | <urn:uuid:f66e427b-ccf0-49c2-b636-c92e8941b1a2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.bravenewlife.org/post/the-american-food-system-and-who-s-paying-the-ultimate-price | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00278.warc.gz | en | 0.969281 | 1,091 | 2.5 | 2 |
A wide range of sizes
Flowering pot plants are grown in a wide range of containers in specialized growing media. Your substrate should have the right structure to fill the pots perfectly, whatever the size. It must also allow you to drill planting holes that hold shape, or to stick cuttings.
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The Wrath Against Khan: Why Some Educators Are Questioning Khan Academy. An Explainer Post There's an article in this month's Wired Magazine about Khan Academy.
The headline speaks volumes -- "How Khan Academy Is Changing the Rules of Education" -- as do the responses I've seen to the article. How Khan Academy Is Changing the Rules of Education. Matthew Carpenter, age 10, has completed 642 inverse trigonometry problems at KhanAcademy.org.Photo: Joe Pugliese.
Is A College Education Worth The Debt? Www.google.fr/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCsQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2011%2F04%2F10%2Fpeter-thiel-were-in-a-bubble-and-its-not-the-internet-its-higher-education%2F&ei=PnRsT_OpJsqf0QWqiozuBg&usg=AFQjCNGV_3hi2iXzLHezUIZDoDj. Fair warning: This article will piss off a lot of you.
I can say that with confidence because it’s about Peter Thiel. And Thiel – the PayPal co-founder, hedge fund manager and venture capitalist – not only has a special talent for making money, he has a special talent for making people furious. Gates Urges School Budget Overhauls. The higher-education bubble: More on Peter Thiel. Higher education: The latest bubble? Schumpeter: Declining by degree. Don’t Lecture Me: Rethinking How College Students Learn. Flickr:AllHails At the star-studded Harvard Initiative on Learning and Teaching (HILT) event earlier this month, where professors gathered to discuss innovative strategies for learning and teaching, Harvard’s professor Eric Mazur gave a talk on the benefits of practicing peer instruction in class, rather than the traditional lecture.
The idea is getting traction. Here’s more about the practice. By Emily Hanford, American RadioWorks. What’s On the Horizon in Higher Education. Big Ideas Culture Digital Tools Teaching Strategies Flickr: Dexterwas How will college life be different in five years than it is today?
In its recently released 2012 NMC Horizon Report on Higher Education, New Media Consortium predicts there may be more gesture-based computing, and lots of inter-connected (and Internet-connected) objects packed with useful information. Video games will become more commonplace in classrooms, and Big Data will drive big decisions on the part of students, faculty, and the foundations and companies in the education sphere.
The Horizon Report crystallizes a lot of what we’re witnessing in education. What the report does focus on are six technologies to watch, categorized in the near, middle, and foreseeable future. If School is Not Relevant. Venture Capital in Education: New Technology and New Solutions. At last week’s SXSW interactive conference, blogger Betsy Corcoran of EdSurge convened a panel discussion among venture capitalists on the future of education technology: “ Classroom 2020: VCs and the Education Revolution ”.
Participants included Mitch Kapor of Kapor Capital, Phillip Bronner of Novak Biddle Venture Partners and Rob Hutter of LearnCapital . Education startups are “hot” right now, with stories on TechCrunch , big funding rounds and pop culture attention . But what really matters is not tech hype, but the need: Better solutions for schools, universities and workplace training.
At the SXSW panel, the participants set the stage by enumerating the social factors that drive their focus on education: American students’ abysmal performance in science, math and engineering, rising wage inequality and decreasing numbers of jobs available to less-skilled adults. 11 Tech Factors That Changed Education in 2011. Michael Staton is the founder of Inigral, which develops social software for student recruitment and higher education retention.
Inigral recently brought on the first PRI as a venture investment from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and has been named one of the top 10 innovative companies in education by Fast Company. In 2011, entrepreneurs and startup activity sprouted up everywhere. At Flex Academy, High School Mimics the Workplace. Culture Digital Tools Teaching Strategies Flex Academy By Kyle Palmer Every weekday, Chanel Hines commutes from Walnut Creek across the Bay Bridge to an office building in downtown San Francisco.
Learning Math: The Symbol Barrier. "Street Math", School Math, and Video Games "The children were absolute number wizards when they were at their market stalls, but virtual dunces when presented with the same arithmetic problems presented in a typical school format.
"- Dr. Eric Sheninger: Opening Minds on Social Networking. Don’t ask me. Look it up. March 1, 2012 by mrkaiser208 Surely you remember hearing your own teachers say that.
The class would be reading, and a student would come across an unfamiliar word, raise a hand and ask for the definition. Asking what the word meant often resulted in the teacher pointing toward the neatly stacked dictionaries in the corner of the room. 19th, 20th & 21st, Century Education. February 2, 2012 by tomwhitby A personal observation: Back when I began my early education, the year was 1952. Waldorf School of the Peninsula: A school without technology. March 20, 2012 by mrkaiser208 A recent story on CNN Student news mentioned a school that did not use technology as a mode of learning.
The school is the Waldorf School of the Peninsula in Los Altos, California which is located in the heart of the Silicon Valley. I wasn’t going to ask this cliche question, but isn’t this a little ironic? I did a little searching and found several stories written on this particular school several months ago. How can we improve education for all? NOTICE: This domain name expired on 09/19/2012 and is pending renewal or deletion. Share this .COM deal with friends! Over 53 million domains registered. Copyright © 1999-2012 GoDaddy.com, LLC. All rights reserved. *One FREE .COM, .CO, .NET or .ORG with purchase of a new 12-, 24- or 36-month website builder plan.
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Guide to Forming a United state Corp
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Ashes and Tears: The Interviews
Interview 16: "Mr. Purple"
From: Tiddim township, Chin State.
Education: 10th standard.
Left Burma: October 2000.
Q: Why did you leave Burma?
A: Because of my brother X, all of the family members had troubles. My brother was involved in the pro-democracy movement since 1988. My brother became a wanted man by the military, and he dared not to stay in his home. The military were going to arrest him. To save the life of my brother, all the family members were very worried. Another brother was in the [government] army; he helped X to get a passport and escape from the country. So my brother in the army got in trouble with the military because of that, and he was interrogated so many times by the military. He was demoted from his rank, and his wife died from heart disease because of her husband's troubles. Then that brother died, because of all of that interrogation, from depression and heart disease.
All of my family members were interrogated by the military because of my brother X, including my sister. She was one of the Chin elders. My sister left the country because she could not bear the interrogation anymore. A friend got her a passport and she followed X to [overseas]. I was interrogated by the Military Intelligence frequently and for a long time. I could not bear it anymore and was afraid of them. I myself and other family members and all of my relatives suffered a lot of persecution by the military in so many ways, including the political and the religious ways also.
Q: Was your family involved with political parties?
A: I helped the NLD, but I was not actually a member of that party. My relatives helped the political parties whenever they could.
Q: When was the last time the authorities questioned you?
A: In 2000. They came to my house. At last I dared not stay in my house. I lived in my relatives' and friends' houses, moving from one house to another.
Q: What kind of questions did they ask you?
A: They asked me what did I do with the NLD, and what person of the NLD did I meet.
Q: Who would question you?
A: They didn't wear any uniform and I had never seen them before. Some were Burmans and some were Chins, sometimes. They'd come to my house as a visitor and ask my wife about me. They'd come to see me about once every two weeks. Sometimes they'd come to my house as a visitor and they'd speak politely. But one time they took me to their camp and I was interrogated. My eyes were blindfolded. I was beaten, and punched and kicked. The injury from that time made me deaf in the left ear. And my back was stabbed by a bayonet or something sharp. I went unconscious. It was at the end of 1998.
Q: How long did they keep you that time?
A: Four days. After I got the injury, they let me go back home.
Q: Did anyone have to pay for your release?
A: Yes, my family member paid some bribe, but I don't know how much it was.
Q: In the Tiddim area, in 1999-2000, did the army ask people to do work for them?
A: A lot of such things. Most of the time, they forced people to carry their equipment as a porter, and forced them to work for construction of the road.
Q: When you were in Tiddim in 1999, did you hear about the USDA?
A: One of my [relatives] was in the USDA. He had to work for... activities of the USDA. That organization was formed by the government, so they had to work for the government.
Q: Did the authorities ask your family for fees for special purposes?
A: Yes, many payments to the government or other organizations. Some Chin people have companies or big stores, and the government forces them to donate money to build a pagoda or something like that. For example, U ---, he is not a Chin but he is a Christian; they forced him to donate about a million kyat for the building of a pagoda, but he refused it for the pagoda because he was a Christian and he told the government to use the money instead for a hospital or to help needy people. That was in Rangoon.
Q: How did you get news and information about politics?
A: I heard about those things from other people.
Q: Did your family have a television or video, in Chin State?
Q: Where there Chin programs on television?
A: There was only one channel, Myanmar Television, it was broadcast in Burmese. No Chin language, no Chin programs.
Q: Could you buy or see Chin videos?
A: I never heard about Chin videotapes. Maybe published secretly. You could not buy them in the shops.
Q: Could people in Tiddim get underground publications such as leaflets?
A: I heard that the people got and read those leaflets, but I never experienced it because I was afraid of the military, because I was interrogated so much.
Q: In Tiddim did you ever see pro-democracy things like stickers, posters, or graffiti?
A: I have heard that this kind of sticker happened in Tiddim, but I never saw it.
Q: Did your family in Tiddim have a car?
A: Yes. But sometimes the military used the truck to carry their supplies, without paying. My cousin had to drive for them. They didn't pay for the truck, but sometimes left a small amount of gas in it.
Q: Did you know anything about any mining or oil business in the Tiddim area?
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In order to prove their ability as a photographer, studio owner's often created lavish sitting rooms for their clients. This allowed people waiting for their portrait to be made the chance to admire previous work. The waiting room also played an important role in setting the right tone for the experience. In the nineteenth century, having your portrait taken was an important representation of your station in society.
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I'm surprised that many people do not know or use this resource and community. Just a brief search over there would answer so many questions that programmers have.
For example, there is a suggestion on my skribit page:
And this question has 20 votes!
I wonder why this question to me, then I remembered this suggestion popped up soon after I wrote "Why use Creative Commons license?" where I had written "The book was intended to be a contribution back to the open source community. We constantly keep taking and taking - whether it is using Linux, Vim, Firefox, or countless other software, so it felt great to be useful to the community in return."
I guess I had it coming.
First of all, I would say that the best place to actually learn such a topic would be another book (I bet you saw that one coming!) called Producing Open Source Software by Karl Fogel (which is itself an open source book) to understand how an open source project works right from the technical infrastructure to the social and political infrastructure, how to communicate, and so on. And finally, the chapter on Volunteers explains the different kinds of volunteers that are helpful to an open source project which indirectly means that those who are interested can participate in the projects in one of those roles => You're giving back to the open source community!
But perhaps there are better suggestions in this discussion on Stack Overflow when somebody asked, duh, How to get involved in an open source project?
Someone also posted another skribit suggestion asking:
hi, can u give me a link on examples with python or projects in python book i am a beginner
Guess what? I already answered that in a discussion at Stack Overflow.
The answer is that there are two projects - the "Programming Language Examples Alike Cookbook" project and the Rosetta Code project which lists vast numbers of example programs in multiple programming languages.
Again, the person could have found this answer already by a simple search on the Stack Overflow website.
For some of the programming queries I had, I didn't know whom to ask. There used to be an internal algorithms-discuss mailing list when I was at Yahoo!, but whom do I turn to now? The answer again was "Stack Overflow" (which at that time was yet to be launched, so I was waiting in anticipation):
Let's say we have 0.33, we need to output "1/3". If we have "0.4", we need to output "2/5".
The idea is to make it human-readable to make the user understand "x parts out of y" as a better way of understanding data.
I know that percentages is a good substitute but I was wondering if there was a simple way to do this?
And someone nicknamed "Epsilon" pointed to me to a brilliantly simple algorithm by David Eppstein which exactly answers this question.
# Usage: ./frap <fraction> <maximum denominator>
$ ./frap 0.33 10 1/3, error = -3.333333e-03 3/10, error = 3.000000e-02$ ./frap 0.2342 100 11/47, error = 1.574468e-04 15/64, error = -1.750000e-04
Isn't that amazing? Both the algorithm and the community at Stack Overflow.
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Smartphones have taken centre stage in our day-to-day lives, helping us connect with our friends, family, and the world in general. It gained further significance when people had to stay indoors due to COVID-19 and the ensuing lockdowns this year.
Hence, smartphones have become our lifeline – from improving our overall quality of life to helping us feel safe, secure, and entertained while staying socially distant. However, excessive usage of smartphones has led to addiction among some users.
In line with this thought, vivo, the innovative global smartphone brand, today launched the #SwitchOff campaign, urging smartphone users to choose to take a break from their smartphones and spend quality time with their near and dear ones.
The campaign is founded on the observation from ‘vivo Smartphones and their impact on human relationships 2020’ study which brought out that the increased screen time could have an impact on the physical and mental wellbeing of a person. This excessive usage is in turn is having an adverse impact on relationships.
The campaign unveils a thought-provoking film which underlines the observation that even when people sit with friends/family, they are still engrossed on their phones, and this impacts the quality of time spent. The video shows members of the family who are glued to their smartphone screens while sitting at the dining table.
Featuring Fareeda Jalal – playing the role of Dadi, who has just about had it with this trend, the film showcases a playful metaphor that is used to communicate the larger issue of quality family time being spent on smartphones. The campaign has been conceptualized and executed by Lowe Lintas.
Speaking on the launch of the brand campaign, Nipun Marya, Director Brand Strategy, vivo India, said, “The year of social distancing allowed us to stay connected and updated with the help of a smartphone. From working to studying, consuming entertaining content and staying connected with friends and family, we spent most of the time on our phones. The smartphone emerged as the central nervous system for everything, but its excessive use has impacted human relationships. As a brand aligned to the purpose of promoting the wellbeing of our consumers, we, at vivo India, commissioned this campaign to sensitize people about the benefits of mindful use of smartphones and spread the message of why there is a need to #SwitchOff your phones once in a while for healthier minds and stronger relationships – leading to happier lives!”
Speaking about the film, Amar Singh, Regional Creative Officer, Lowe Lintas said, “Take a moment, go back in time and imagine spending 2020 without your phone. How that makes you feel, is precisely why it’s impossible to overstate the value of being connected. And of the role that smartphones have played and are playing in helping us get through this. Staying constantly connected however, comes at a cost.
And when it keeps us away from the ones who love us for absurd amounts of time, that cost can be a bit too high. This isn’t a problem with a simple this or that answer though. In the end, the only answer is balance. By furthering the #SwitchOff campaign it started last year, vivo India has further strengthened its commitment to that balance. And with this film conceptualized by Rajat Dawar and Vishal Bagade, we are happy to have played our part.”
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FAIRBURY (AP) — When Trent and Justin Kilgus began raising goats for meat seven years ago, they were teens experimenting on their father's farm. Now the brothers from rural Fairbury supply food to top chefs in the big city.
"It was kind of a word-of-mouth when we started," said Justin Kilgus, 22, who now raises more than 400 goats with his brother at Kilgus Farmstead, a family-run business that also supplies bottled dairy milk to the Chicago market.
The duo makes a weekly trip north to deliver goat meat to restaurants including The Girl and the Goat in the city's West Loop neighborhood and Frontera Grill, owned by celebrity chef Rick Bayless.
The Kilguses are among central Illinois farmers who are feeding a growing demand from the Chicago market for local and sustainable food and crops.
"Central Illinois is the mecca for the local food movement," said Marty Travis, a Fairbury farmer who founded Stewards of the Land with his wife, Chris. The group is a cooperative of about a dozen farmers who have committed to organic standards of growing vegetables and raising animals for food. Food grown by Stewards farmers is delivered to about 100 Chicago restaurants and stores once a week.
"We've become this poster child for cooperative marketing venturing for food-producing farmers," said Travis. "We've (traveled) all over the place talking to and encouraging work together to create community over this food idea."
Stewards of the Land had so many people on their waiting list, that the couple established a second group, Legacy of the Land.
"Every community can do this; every small town can have a group of young people who farm or middle age or older farmers working together," said Travis. "One farm is not going to feed the town of Fairbury. Twenty-five farms are not (either). It gives people choice and it's economic development."
Travis said the group is accomplishing the goal of bringing young people back to the farm for careers.
Nearly decade ago Trent and Justin Kilgus' father, Paul Kilgus, and his business partner and nephew, Matt Kilgus, were facing a similar issue.
"The thought was 'how are we going to bring the boys back to the farm," said Matt's wife, Jenna Kilgus, who helps run the business. "We needed a way to diversify."
Matt Kilgus said the family chose to make the transition from a traditional dairy farm that ships its milk into a central processing center across the country to one that bottles everything in-house.
"That was a way to add value to our product and serve a market that is there and that we saw a growing interest in," said Matt Kilgus. "Using something local, knowing fully the source . seems to be a growing interest in the community."
Soon after the bottling operation began, Justin and Trent Kilgus decided to venture into the goat meat business and established their own company, Pleasant Meadows.
For Chicago restaurants, the group of sustainable farmers working together makes it easy to source local ingredients.
"In the Midwest, it is pretty challenging to get local food all year long," said Stephanie Izard, executive chef for Girl and the Goat, said in an email to The Pantagraph. "The menu in the winter would be just steak and potatoes. But we really focus on trying to find the most local products."
The restaurant purchases food from about 10 farmers in central Illinois and other parts of the state to create dishes on its menu. The aspect of local food is part of the experience for patrons. And local food will also be a highlight for Izard's new restaurant, Little Goat, opening in the same neighborhood later this month.
"We give shout-outs to our farmers on the menu and talk about where the ingredients come from because people really want to know," Izard said of her uber-popular restaurant in Chicago's West Loop neighborhood. "It is not planned marketing; rather we try to spread the word about local and sustainable agriculture."
Amber Plattner, who co-owns Windmill Acres, a vegetable garden in Chenoa, said the Stewards group is building a connection between consumers and farmers.
"You see a guy who gets all the stuff for a shrimp boil one week and then you see him again the next week and ask him how it turned out," said Plattner, speaking of area farmer's markets and Community Supported Agriculture programs that have sprouted up across central Illinois in recent years.
Plattner, who grows vegetables with her husband Joel, said the family has sold to the Chicago market for the last five years. Windmill Acres offers tomatoes, watermelons and root crops grown on about a quarter of an acre of land between Chenoa and Fairbury.
Without the support of the community group, Plattner said marketing vegetables from her small business would be a challenge.
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Top tips to avoid Back Pain while Gardening
When the spring arrives it’s tempting to get out in the garden and do as much as we can while the weather is dry! Repetitive actions such as weeding, digging and using the wheelbarrow can lead to back pain. Here are some tips to help our backs from becoming injured:
- Have the right tools for the job at the right size.
- Go for a short walk and do some gentle warm up stretches for your legs and back before you start.
- Having raised flower beds or narrow borders can prevent bending and over reaching.
- Weeding is best done using long handled tools or by kneeling. Use a kneeling pad, especially if you already have problems with your knees and don’t stick at it for too long.
- When working on your hands and knees, keep your spine long and your shoulders relaxed.
- Avoid repetitive bending over to pick up the weeds, if doing it from standing. Leave them in a pile and do them in one go.
- When using a wheelbarrow, don’t overfill it. Think and bend from the hips and knees before you lift it. Don’t use your back for this.
- Don’t stick at the same activity for too long, listen to your muscles. If you’re feeling the muscles complain, stop and have a break or do something else.
- When you’ve finished, do some cool down stretches for those hard worked muscles. Finish the day off with a warm bath!
- Remember, it’s often normal to feel some stiffness or mild ache in muscles the next day after unaccustomed exercise. It doesn’t necessarily mean you’ve done yourself harm!
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There are 37 AACN member schools in Ohio according to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing. Unfortunately, thousands of qualified applicants were turned away from nursing programs due to the faculty shortage. The report notes that Ohio also has a projected nursing shortage of 32,000 nurses by 2020. Quality of care, safety, health outcomes and healthcare costs are all serious implications that can result from the nursing shortage.
Nurse Educators have the some of the greatest potential to train qualified applicants to fulfill positions and combat this serious shortage. If you are ready to make a difference in the nursing profession by becoming nursing faculty in Ohio, contact the schools you see below to get detailed program information. Once you've learned more about the MSN in Education programs in Ohio, you can make a decision about which may be the best OH nursing schools for you.
The MSN programs with a focus on Education usually consist of didactic and practice-based or clinical performance courses. Students will have the opportunity to apply evidence-based practice and use skills in the clinical setting.
Admission criteria for MSN programs in Ohio are similar across most programs, and will likely include those requirements listed below.
- Completion of appropriate application with payment of application fee
- Specified health status requirements
- Clean FBI/BCI background checks
- Minimum grade point average of 3.20 for unconditional admission
- Resume or CV
- Three letters of recommendation from individuals who are knowledgeable about the applicant's ability to complete graduate level course work and practice abilities
- Evidence of current unencumbered RN license in the states in which any clinical experiences will be conducted
There are some courses that all nursing students, regardless of their chosen major, must complete before beginning clinical performance courses. These courses likely include:
- Theoretical Basis of Practice
- Theories in Family Care
- Research and Evaluation in Nursing
- Evidence-based Practice in nursing
- Pathophysiology in Nursing Practice
- Advanced Health Appraisal
- Advanced Pharmacology
The specific courses for the Master's in Nursing Education option in Ohio include:
- Curriculum Development in Nursing
- Nursing Strategies
- Academic Nursing
- Teaching Experience
In most instances, your clinical site and preceptor must be approved by university staff. In addition, students are required to carry liability or malpractice insurance when they are participating in clinical courses. The master level courses also prepare you to continue your education by enrolling in a doctoral education program, expanding your knowledge base even further.
The National League for Nursing certification examination for Nurse Educators is a mark of professionalism that will allow you to serve as a role model and leader in education. The fee for the test is $375 for NLN members and $475 for nonmembers.
Working as Nursing Faculty in Ohio
The Bureau of Labor Statistics states the annual average wage for Postsecondary Nursing Instructors and Teachers is $70,200 in Ohio. Salaries for Nurse Educators vary according to education, credentials, experience and the type of teaching you are employed to accomplish. There are many paths that you can choose as a Nurse Educator, and finding your niche is important to your long term career happiness.
There is a Nurse Education Loan Assistance Program (NEALP) available from the Ohio Board of Nursing. This program provides loans for nursing students who are enrolled for at least half time study. This assistance program was designed to assist Ohio in meeting the nursing shortage by providing financial assistance to Ohio students. The annual award was $1500 in the recent academic year.
The FAFSA application should be completed by students looking for graduate school funding and can be found at the Financial Aid Office of your University. This is a Federal Student Aid program. The American Association of Colleges of Nursing lists numerous types of financial aid on their website.
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People are so clever. I love the innovation here. It’s not a permanent fix but what a great way to reach people who currently don’t even have enough cell coverage to support students or workers trying to get online at home. I know there are areas in Minnesota that are in the same boat! Wisconsin Public Radio reports…
Rural Northwoods students who lack reliable internet at home will soon be able to connect to their school networks via a drone-powered cellular signal.
A Wisconsin startup will be part of a state-funded pilot program in the Eagle River area that will test the use of drones as a way to expand internet connectivity into rural areas.
It’s a partnership between the new company Wisconsin Telelift and the Northland Pines School District. The drones will be fitted with cellphone towers, allowing students throughout the sprawling Northwoods district to get online, even in rural areas where cellphone service and broadband access are unavailable or unreliable.
It’s a real need in a district that is among the state’s largest geographically, spreading over 435 square miles in Vilas and Oneida counties.
As many as 15 percent of the district’s 1,340 students have no internet access at home, said Northland Pines administrator Scott Foster, and half of its students have unreliable connections that don’t always allow for streaming video and other tools used in educational software. The district provides Chromebooks to its students and portable hotspots to those who need them — but the hotspots can only work where there is a strong cellular signal. In much of the district, that’s just not the case. | <urn:uuid:d407117a-a892-414f-9adc-62e5403e4a76> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blandinonbroadband.org/2021/03/11/wisconsin-is-using-drones-to-bring-broadband-to-students-in-northwoods/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00670.warc.gz | en | 0.945966 | 336 | 2.265625 | 2 |
Confronting the Idolatry of Family: A New Vision for the Household of God by Janet Fishburn
Janet Fishburn is Professor of Teaching Ministry at Drew University Theological School in Madison, New Jersey. This book was published by Abingdon Press, Nashville (1991). This material was prepared for Religion Online by Ted & Winnie Brock.
Chapter 3: The Effect of Family Idolatry on a Congregation
Where a domesticated piety dominates the commitments of a denomination, the conservation of middle-class ideals can blind both leaders and people to the prominent concern for social justice found in the Bible. On the other hand, even when leaders are committed to seeking social justice, they have not been able to sustain a legitimate critique of poverty and injustice in America because the family ideals of the American Dream continue to be linked to democratic values and economic stability. Uncritical loyalty to "the family pew" makes it very difficult to see or comprehend the plight of the poor and the homeless, the oppression of minority persons, as anything but their own fault. It requires courage for any pastor of an old-line congregation to preach prophetically. To ask middle-class Americans to see American culture as Jesus would see it is to ask them to vote against their own privileged position in society.1
Dualism in the Nature and Mission of the Church
The United Presbyterian Church was seriously divided in 1971 over a $10,000 contribution by the Council on Church and Race to a legal defense fund for Angela Davis, a black activist and revolutionary. While the division of opinion revolved around whether the church should ever get involved in politics and whether Christians could support a known communist, the unspoken issue was the historic suspicion that communism is an attack on the American way of life. Among denominations in which membership was already declining in that period, the United Presbyterians experienced the sharpest decline in stewardship as well.
Because of deep division over the "Angela Davis affair," Dean Hoge conducted a survey among United Presbyterians in New Jersey to learn why the action of the council had drawn such extreme reactions. Hoge’s conclusions are not surprising when seen in the context of the role of churches in perpetuating the American Dream. His data, published in 1976, convinced him that American Protestants are divided into a two-party system. The major difference between parties concerns the relative importance of outreach and mission activities in a congregation. He found that liberals define mission as support of social action and oppose evangelism, conservatives define mission as evangelism and oppose social action.
More important, Hoge discovered that mission and out-reach --regardless of definition -- is not the ultimate loyalty of either party. Liberals and conservatives agreed that serving the needs of members and their families is more important than outreach in either form. The "needs of families" are identified with career and standard of living. "If a proposed action is perceived as contrary to middle-class interests, even some persons who favor ‘social action’ in theory will begin to oppose that particular action."2 The value consensus of conservative and liberal Protestants is the middle-class way of life. For both, commitment to religion and church is seen as a way to fulfill personal goals related to family, career, and standard of living.
Hoge’s data is not peculiar to Presbyterians. The data indicates the general controlling power of family loyalty, possibly the most powerful remaining loyalty in the vision of "a Christian America." Church members seem determined to maintain the belief that their church is a family of families. Even if members do not view the family as a little church, they still want the congregation to be a family of families.
Present confirmation practices affirm the belief of parents that their children have been born into the church and should be confirmed. However different private and public visions of the church may be, they do agree on maintaining the status of "the family pew," through worship, Sunday School, and pastoral care.
The two spheres of the dichotomous worldview of Victorian America are reflected in these attitudes about the nature of the church. The private-party church is devoted to saving individual souls, one by one --to drawing the world into the church for spiritual safety. Just as the Victorian home was considered "a haven from a heartless world" the evangelical church offers safety from a dangerous, immoral world to its members. The pastor takes on the role of the mother -- instructing, nurturing, inspiring, comforting members in times of trouble. Like the Victorian mother, the pastor presides over family worship.
The "Christian family church" is usually a private-party church: concern with personal morality is high. Members want the pastor to take a stand on moral issues as long as the position taken claims to be biblical and conforms to their moral values and commitments.3
For the public-party church, the nature and mission of the church require some form of activism in the world, the public sphere of Victorian men. The pastor’s role here is more like that of the Victorian father, with far less emphasis on instruction or nurture of members. Pastoral care may be secondary to the work of inspiring members to find some ministry in the community. Worship, preaching, and the sacraments are rituals of congregational identity for world-oriented people. The modern social gospel is a masculine, worldly form of Christianity. Here, too, members want the pastor to address moral issues only as long as the position conforms to their moral and political convictions.
Either way, the pastor is expected to model the gospel that is preached. Congregations look for a pastor who models their form of Christianity while serving as in-house family chaplain for members. The pastor is expected to lead the congregation by strengthening its particular identity. Effectiveness is generally measured by how well the pastor conforms to local expectations, adds new members to the roll and money to the treasury. Members of most congregations would not want their pastor to give spiritual direction to their congregation if that meant a challenge to present commitments.
The "family pew ethos" institutionalized in late-Victorian Protestant spirituality depended on an unquestioned belief that Christian faith is most powerfully nurtured in the Christian home, while knowledge about the Bible is best learned at church. Unless pastors acknowledge the truth that the church cannot rely on the home for nurturing Christians, congregations are doomed to keep repeating the dichotomous patterns of a Victorian worldview.
The belief that love and moral commitment are learned at home while persons learn about the Bible at church has had the devastating effect of separating life at work and life at home from the life of faith. That is why there is so little transfer of learning from the church to daily life in the world. The Protestant churches have institutionalized a split between church life and the daily life of church members for so long that members either do not want or do not expect their pastors to relate the Bible to their loves and moral commitments.
It is doubtful that Protestant families ever functioned as little churches. But it is certain that unless that illusion is named and confronted, the present gap between church life and the daily life of church members will not be bridged.
Confronting Family Idolatry
The loyalty of church members to visions of an ideal family is a tragically misplaced love. Where love of parents, children, or spouse commands more commitment than love to God, the one who loves is bound to be disappointed. Love to family members and spouse can be an expression of love to God. But that is different from the kind of faith in the family found in many congregations.
The 1961 survey of Fairchild and Wynn reported an "unhealthy ultimacy" in an expectation of "complete self-fulfillment" in family life among parents of children attending Presbyterian Sunday Schools. They also found that the parents interviewed knew very little about Christian faith. This suggests that the attitudes about the family held by most adult church members are not very different from those of any other American.4 One difference is that members of congregations expect the church to help them achieve fulfillment in their family relationships.
There is little reason to believe that parental expectations of the church have changed much since 1961. The idea that a family can be a source of self-fulfillment has a tenacious hold among the ideals that Americans hold dear. Even if this ideal is no longer as important to Americans in general, research indicates that the life of many congregations revolves around their reputation for being "a family church."5
Love of family is still a dominant loyalty in Protestant congregations. Jesus was quite clear that anyone who loved family more than they loved him would not be found among his followers (Matt. 10:34-39). This suggests that attempts to keep the loyalties of "the family pew" intact in a congregation is a tragically misplaced loyalty.
American Christians are so imbued with a subtle mixture of love of country, family, and God that it is difficult to see this as a false god. It is hard to condemn love of family or patriotism. Nevertheless, Protestants in America have been dreaming of a Christian America for two hundred years; they have known only a Christianity in which God has been identified with prosperity and family stability. The hope that God will bestow blessings on family members seems more like a form of Old Testament tribal religion than the post-Pentecost faith of Christians who "turned the world upside down."
Jesus commended the scribe who saw that to love God and neighbor above all else "is much more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices" (Mark 12:33). The scribe recognized that preoccupation with religious traditions even those commanded by God -- can become idolatrous. When any act of faithfulness becomes so important that the activity obscures the ability of the people to know and praise the faithfulness of God to them, then they have forgotten that God is the source of all human love. "The family pew" is an American form of the ancient Hebrew tendency toward preoccupation with burnt offerings.
Whenever the people of Israel became preoccupied with religious ritual they lost their capacity to enjoy God’s love for them. Any love more important than God’s love can become an idolatrous love. Amos’s condemnation of an idolatrous form of religion is as clear today as it was at the height of Israel’s power and prosperity.
I hate, I despise your festivals, and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies. Even though you offer me your burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; and the offerings of well-being of your fatted animals I will not look upon. Take away from me the noise of your songs; I will not listen to the melody of your harps. But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an everflowing stream. (Amos 5:21-24)
Membership Growth and Decline
It is striking that congregations once considered main-line have become "side-line" since the freedom-movement era of the 1960s. No subject has commanded as much attention among pastors and denominational leaders in recent years as that of declining membership in formerly main-line churches. The Church Growth Movement offers books, workshops, and evangelism programs to stem the tide of membership loss.
Leaders say that spiritual vitality of members is as important as the number of members. Yet, maintaining some level of financial viability does get priority over spiritual formation when membership is declining. Freedom of religion means that a free market forces pastors, congregations, and denominations to compete against one another for members. Ecumenical cooperation can only flourish when churches are growing and financially stable.
Like the economy, American congregations have regular periods of growth followed by precipitous decline. During the past twenty years sociologists have tried to explain why some denominations and congregations grow while others lose members. It has been argued that conservative congregations are growing because there are clear expectations concerning what a person must be and do in order to become a member. Where there is clarity about what a congregation stands for, members do have more conviction about their faith.
In congregations that are not growing there is often lack of clarity about group identity. Over time, a diminishing sense of commitment to the church affects the morale of the congregation. Members are not likely to give the church high priority in their lives if belonging requires no particular effort on their part. People cannot be expected to invest themselves in an organization that asks nothing of them; if little is required that is exactly what they will give.
Research about adults who are "church shopping" indicates that they want to find a congregation with good worship and preaching, a church where the people are "friendly." But they are also thinking about the person most likely to be with them in times of family transitions. They want a pastor with whom they will feel comfortable at a family baptism, confirmation, wedding, funeral. Denominational identity is less important to most church shoppers than finding a pastor and congregation where they feel comfortable. In part, it is family-pew loyalties that lead people across denominational lines. They are looking for a church that will satisfy the needs of their family members.
Loyalty to "the family pew" -- and to "our kind of people" -- is a powerful motivation that directly affects church membership choices. It also has an effect on denominational policies concerning sacramental practices, definitions of membership, ministry, and the role of pastors. Trends toward increasing homogeneity in the membership of congregations are troubling indicators of lack of concern about racism, sexism, and classism in the church.
Sociologists have studied, probed, and measured change in church membership patterns over the last twenty years, trying to understand the precipitous decline in membership. The prognosis is not all gloom and doom. The latest phenomenon among the now "old-line" churches is the growth rate of churches with 1,500 or more members; this accounts for virtually all membership gains in once "main-line" denominations. Otherwise, small "old-line" congregations grow smaller. The average size of most congregations is now 100-150 members on the roll.6
Most of the growing churches with 1,500 or more members are located in the South and Midwest. These are the two regions where the conventional values of "the family pew" are still strong. Just as economic prosperity and church-going habits have always reinforced each other as family-pew values, the towns and cities in which churches are growing are usually located in regions where there is recent economic and population growth.
In recent years the Southern Baptist Convention, one of the most explicitly conservative denominations, has grown. Denominational leaders are quite explicit about preserving the values of "the Christian home" and the moral standards associated with the God of "a Christian America."
A combination of economic growth with the conservation of the dualistic worldview of Victorian America -- especially attitudes related to sexuality -- partially accounts for growth in conservative churches. At the June 1988 Southern Baptist Convention, delegates voted unanimously to condemn homosexuality as "a manifestation of depraved nature" and "a perversion of divine standards."’ There is some evidence that when church-shoppers look for a church with lively worship and good preaching this includes a concern for moral values they can affirm."
In the northeast, where church membership losses are greatest, there is far less economic expansion. The moral standards of a "new" sexual ethos dominate urban centers and influence attitudes of church members in the northeast. The spirituality of the sexually conservative family-pew ethos is far less attractive to persons living in the northeast than it is to persons living in the south and midwest. Nevertheless, wherever churches are growing it is often because they remain faithful to some of the attitudes and aspirations of the American Dream.
Sociologists report that strong Sunday School programs attract couples with children to a particular church. Studies of growing multiple-staff congregations indicate that the two most important factors that attract new members are good preaching and worship and "a friendly congregation."9 These are also the churches most likely to have a well-organized Sunday School with classes for all ages.
The emotional climate of any congregation with more than 1,000 members has the appearance of warmth but makes no particular demands of members. It has friendly looking people who exchange casual greetings or do church business before and after worship. It is very likely a church where each age group and interest group has its own proper place. The capacity to offer more than one time for worship and Sunday School usually means that children will attend their classes while adults worship. That way adults can enjoy quality sermons and a good choir without being disturbed.
In a large congregation only a small percentage of adults will ever be asked to participate actively as leaders of the congregation. A growing congregation bustles with life; the staff is excited and exciting. Morale in growing congregations is almost guaranteed to be high. Yet, here is a "church home" where anonymity is also guaranteed to anyone who wants it. Where there are more than 1,000 people who worship on a given Sunday morning, intimacy can easily be avoided. The membership rituals in a large church, of necessity, can be little more than a perfunctory introduction of persons who will never know or be known to more than a small group within the congregation, if they are known at all.
The personality of the pastor is crucial to a large, growing congregation in a way that is not true for smaller congregations.
There is [also] evidence that the pastor’s influence on church membership growth increases with the size of the church. Many members in mid-size churches and most members of large membership churches listed the pastor along with the friendliness of the people as the principle reasons for joining their present church. In churches with fewer than 100 members, the pastor may or may not be a critical factor in church membership trends.10
The pastor is less likely to be a critical factor in membership trends in churches of one hundred or fewer members because of the natural capacity of the small congregation to be like an extended family. Here, there is usually a stable core of members who provide ministry to family members in times of need. Whether the pastor is a critical factor in membership trends or not, people are looking for a "church home" where they can expect someone to be with them in their times of family transition or crisis.
Membership in all but a handful of congregations today is relatively casual, making few demands of persons who indicate interest in a congregation. Current statistics indicate that the larger the congregation the faster it will grow. The rate of growth, percentage of membership at worship, health of church finances, and percentage of budget given to benevolence are typical measures of a church’s success.
This all too typical quantitative measure of church success is like the standard of success in the Victorian family where wealth was considered evidence of God’s blessing on good people. For a long time the wealthiest people were thought to be the best, most moral people. No main-line denomination ever condemned the "ill-gotten gains" of any "captain of industry." Denominations and pastors were only too happy to benefit from the philanthropic impulses of the rich.
None of the above factors -- membership growth, financial stability, a friendly congregation, quality worship, or good preaching -- is necessarily evidence that members are committed to participation in the Body of Christ. Where gains in church membership do represent commitment to participation in the Body of Christ, the surrounding community is aware of a Christian presence in its midst. Often a congregation is known because of its ministry to various kinds of family situations. Where members of a congregation are expected to embody the Spirit of Jesus, their attitudes about family life, work, and stewardship are distinctive. Their commitments of time and self to seeking well-being for others in the congregation and in the world can attract new members.
Members of congregations that lack clear identity often treat the church as a peripheral activity. If the membership standards of a congregation do not indicate the all-encompassing nature of faith in Jesus Christ, it is likely that membership commitments will be perfunctory.
Exclusive and Inclusive Membership Practices
Most conservative congregations have clearly stated expectations about what their members stand for. Some require their members to have a particular kind of religious experience as evidence of the work of God in their lives. It may be a conversion experience, a spirit baptism, or speaking in tongues. There is still an expectation in many conservative congregations that members should worship regularly, study the Bible, and support the congregation financially.
Liberal theologians who favor "inclusive" membership policies tend to believe that a congregation will exclude people who are different if there are stated principles regarding church membership. They are rightly suspicious if the principles are the sexist and racist values of the American Dream. But they are wrong if they also conclude that a congregation should not have any requirements of its members lest this lead to a spiritual elitism.
An inclusive church, by sociological definition, is one where no one is excluded from membership because he or she lacks some distinctive mark of calling such as a conversion experience.11 This way of distinguishing exclusive from inclusive membership policies misses the point that all children born into a religious tradition will be encouraged to conform to the practices of their parents. For instance, among so-called exclusive Baptists where a conversion experience is required to become a church member, young people can be expected to, have a conversion experience. But among inclusive Presbyterians where membership may have been considered a family tradition, youths are expected to confirm their baptism. Any religious ritual can come to seem like a requirement for membership when it is the tradition.
Old-line denominations are almost always inclusive in their membership practices. They distinguish themselves from their more charismatic or pentecostal brethren by the very fact that they do not exclude anyone from their membership by spiritual distinctions. They function more like the civil religion of the state churches of Europe, insofar as members are usually born into the church. That is, most members think of themselves as "birthright" Christians. Membership in an inclusive church is often associated with family and citizenship. The implicit old-line mark of a work of God is birth into a white middle-class Protestant family. Here, too, children are expected to conform to the religious practices of their parents.
Is it only a coincidence that old-line denominations have declined in the same period when middle-class parents find themselves less able to expect their children to conform to the family tradition? A recent analysis shows a 30 percent decline in Presbyterian church membership from 1965 to 1988 despite a 27 percent gain in the United States population in the same period. Jack Marcum points out that if the membership loss is attributed to a declining birth rate the decline should have started in the early 1950s. "A more plausible explanation of membership decline among Presbyterians -- at least in the beginning -- is in terms of the denomination’s declining ability to hold onto those [members] who have been reared in Presbyterian families."12
Whether the membership policy in a congregation is inclusive or exclusive, both have been deeply influenced by "the family pew" tradition of the American Dream. Either way, most new members come into fellowship because they are either children of members or friends of members. People who are not like member families socially will not feel welcome. Either way, there are distinctions that are often, though not always, indicative of class affiliation. A visitor to any congregation will know if he or she is in the "right" place by simply observing the dress, the manners, and the language used by members.
It is not exclusive membership requirements that make people feel they do not belong in a congregation. It is the attitudes and values that are acted out by the people who are members which make people feel excluded. This exclusion is a reality for homosexual Christians who are not able to be themselves in many congregations. Although no statistical data are available to verify that homosexual Christians are members and pastors in many congregations, the statistical probabilities from other national data would suggest that concomitant numbers of pastors and laity are homosexual in orientation; however, most do not reveal their identity as homosexuals. They may choose to conceal their identity rather than risk becoming objects of fear and prejudice of other members.
Studies about church growth indicate that a major factor in growth is a homogeneous congregation.13 The most homogeneous congregations in America today are those that are committed to the values of "the family pew." However, the price of uncritical commitment to "the family pew" is the perpetuation of attitudes that will make anyone who is the "wrong" color, class, or sexual orientation feel excluded. Under the surface of many successful congregations catering to the needs of middle-class families lurk the stereotypes and prejudices now ruled unacceptable in civil law. It could be concluded that laws intended to guarantee equal opportunity to all persons are more Christian in intent than the attitudes found in many congregations.
Membership in a church "family" can become idolatrous if a congregation includes only people who are socially comfortable with one another. If people who are "different" feel uncomfortable then that congregation has a membership policy that is exclusive in practice if not in theory. Present practices give an outsider the impression that church members and their pastors are right while the outsider must somehow be wrong. As in Jesus’ day, this may be a case of members of a religious tradition imagining themselves acceptable to God only because they are not like the "sinners" and "outcasts."14
Spiritual Direction as Prophetic Ministry .
It may seem like a contradiction in terms to suggest that giving spiritual direction to a congregation is a form of prophetic ministry.15 Yet, many Protestant congregations are in a state of spiritual drift, in bondage to some part of the American Dream. Although denominational leaders, seminary professors, and pastors may know that dreams of American manifest destiny influenced nineteenth-century theology, few seem to recognize the ways in which the American Dream still influences the church today. The task of giving spiritual direction to a congregation that does embody some of the attitudes of a family-pew theology calls for pastors with the convictions of a prophet, able to tell the people of God that their loyalties are misplaced.
Times of spiritual drift can occur when the present theological tradition is no longer adequate to the task of describing the meaning of Christian faith when there is a major cultural transition. This is one of those times. Recovery of spiritual vitality comes through leaders who feel compelled to speak the word of God to the people. Whether that impulse comes through the preaching of a George Whitefield, the spiritual search of a Martin Luther, the passion for justice of a Sojourner Truth or Martin Luther King, or the humility of a Pope John XXIII, renewal always comes from a rediscovery of the spiritual power of the gospel. Spiritual renewal today depends on awakening to the power of the gospel to transform persons through the Church.
There are signs of new life in the church today. Spiritually restless Christians join Bible study groups, prayer groups, healing groups. Some are church members; some are not. Some of the most impressive evangelism and justice ministry is being carried out by ecumenical groups outside of denominational affiliation and power structures.
Those who write denominational policy continue to respond to role confusion among pastors and laity by redefining ministry. Laity are now better represented at every level of corporate decision-making than ever before. But this stab at inclusiveness and equality in ministry bears virtually no relationship to what happens in the life of congregations. It indicates that political power to make decisions has been confused with spiritual power. A quota system will not lead to spiritual renewal. Neither will a redistribution of the responsibility of ordained leaders of the church among the laity.
Pastors -- not the mothers of America -- are "keepers of springs" of living water. But their responsibility for Word and sacrament will be surrounded with ambiguity unless they are able to claim the ministry to which they were ordained. In the midst of confusion about the ministry of all Christians it may seem reactionary to claim that the role of a pastor is to give spiritual direction to a congregation. Protestants do not think about ministry in terms of spiritual direction. Yet, the writer of Ephesians indicates that it is the life work of church leaders to "equip the saints for the work of ministry . . . until all of us come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to maturity, to the measure of the full stature of Christ" (Eph. 4:12-13).
Leaders of congregations should be people who have been set aside to care for the spirit of other Christians because of their own spiritual gifts and sensitivity. God calls such people to serve as teachers, preachers, evangelists, and prophets to strengthen the unity of the church through knowledge of the Son of God. How else might pastors equip laity for their rightful ministry if not through offering spiritual direction for their lives?
The spiritual authority of a pastor depends on a capacity to interpret Scripture so that it becomes good news to the people of God. It depends on ability to plan and lead worship in which God’s love -- a love too great to be conveyed by words alone -- is experienced. The provision of spiritual direction for the life of a congregation requires the courage of a prophet to challenge illusions about "the good life" and the gentle love of a shepherd who leads a flock to springs of living water.
The office of ordained ministry has traditionally been defined as responsibility for Word, order, and sacrament. The church in the late twentieth century is no different from the church in any age in her need for leaders to feed God’s people by telling them the truth about God, the world, and themselves. To ask a pastor to give spiritual direction to a congregation is another way of saying that the church needs leaders who can help people come to know that God loves them through their study of Scripture, participation in the sacraments, and membership in a fellowship of Christians.
It is rare to find a congregation where members realize that it is the life work of all Christians to seek and find God’s will, that this is learned through corporate Bible study and prayer. In recent years, the Protestant tradition has not cultivated the practice of traditional spiritual disciplines among either pastors or laity. Yet, these are the disciplines that undergird, inspire, and sustain the commitment to Christian ministry. They are the disciplines that give direction and meaning to life.
Ordination to ministry sets people aside to be responsible for the care of the human spirit through Word and sacrament. Extensive involvement in pastoral care leaves some pastors spiritually depleted. Where the pastor is the only person making calls in times of family tragedy, the only person sought for counsel in times of trouble, this can lead to a misuse of God-given gifts for ministry.
This does not mean that ministry does not require sensitivity to the particular needs and circumstances of members of a congregation. It does mean that more pastoral care should be carried out by members of a congregation so the pastor can devote more attention to the disciplined study and meditation necessary for lively preaching of the gospel, teaching, and worship leadership.
In practice, most senior pastors enjoy this luxury. They are known for their gifts in preaching and worship leadership. If a congregation is to know the power of God’s word, the pastoral leader needs time to learn what it means to faithfully exegete Scripture. Every pastor should be able to devote at least one full uninterrupted day a week to Bible study and sermon preparation.
A pastor is not called merely to provide spiritual services for a congregation. If any one person gives excessive amounts of service, other members are robbed of growth through ministry. Every Christian has some gift for ministry, some way to give God’s love to others. The exercise of gifts for ministry is essential to growth in commitment to Jesus Christ. The task of the pastoral leader is not to do all of the work of the church; it is to engage all of the people in all of the work of the church. That is what it means to give order to the life of a congregation.
Very few Protestant pastors ordained in the last thirty years have been educated to think of themselves as the spiritual leaders of a congregation. A theological education may represent little more than learning about theology, the Bible, and church history; it may seem unrelated to being a spiritually disciplined person. Yet, the very same knowledge can be spiritually formative if it is expected to inform and transform the life of the learner.
Just as theological studies can impact the life of the learner, a pastor’s preparation for preaching, teaching, and leading worship each week can be spiritually formative. These preparations are the practices of a spiritually disciplined person. It is through preparation to lead others into fellowship with God that a pastor acquires the spiritual vitality that is communicated through acts of preaching, teaching, and leading worship. Any pastor who leads a congregation so that members can see God’s grace at work in their lives and in their world is already giving spiritual direction to that congregation.
The next step -- leading others into ministry -- depends on the pastor’s understanding of the nature of ministry. The focus on ministry as spiritual direction requires the pastor to become the servant of all, the person who enables the ministry of every other member of the congregation. To accomplish this objective would require a redistribution of work in most congregations. In that process, both pastor and congregation will find that their understanding of the nature and mission of the church is changing.
Jesus did not begin ministry until he had been baptized and empowered by the Holy Spirit (Luke 3:21-23). The apostles could not begin their ministry until the Holy Spirit appeared in their midst on Pentecost (Acts 2 :1-12). Faithful ministry in every age has been ministry guided by God’s word as it is known through scripture and illuminated by the Holy Spirit. The fire of Pentecost represents the power of God’s presence, the same fire encountered by Abram, Moses, and Elijah.
In the tongues "as of fire" seen at Pentecost, God made the power of the Spirit available to every follower of Jesus Christ so that each one would be able to speak about "God’s deeds of power" (Acts 2: 11). The power of the Holy Spirit is promised to every pastor in ordination. Like the grace of God and the love of the Lord Jesus Christ, the fellowship of the Holy Spirit must be claimed to be fully enjoyed. That is the only purpose of spiritual discipline: that all might know the love of God.
1. Some of the "border-line" denominations founded late in the nineteenth century by emigrants and blue-collar workers are more responsivc to social injustice today than their old-line counterparts. However, the pattern of moving up in America is so strong that this orientation grows weaker as members become more middle-class. This phenomenon is seen in recent histories about The Assemblies of God.
2. Dean Hoge, Division in the Protestant House (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1976), pp. 83-90.
3. Carl S. Dudley, "Using Church Images for Commitment, Conflict, and Renewal," C. Ellis Nelson, ed., Congregations: Their Power to Form and Traniform (Atlanta: John Knox Press, 1988), pp. 99-100. While this is only onc of cight images described by Dudley, I suspect that the other seven include some allegiance to the idea of a family church.
4. Roy Fairchild and J. C. Wynn, Families in the Church: A Protestant Survey (New York: Association Press, 1961).
5. See Carl S. Dudley, "Using Church Images."
6. In Choices for Churches (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1990), Lyle E. Schaller discusses these two types of churches in terms of church as community and church as society. A major issue addressed in the book is how a smaller community oriented congregation can attract younger members.
7. "Southern Baptists Condemn Homosexuality as ‘Depraved,’" New York Times (June 17, 1988).
8. Donald Capps, "The Deadly Sins and Saving Virtues: How They Are Viewed by Laity," Pastoral Psychology 37 (Smumer 1989): 229-53. Capps’ research indicates that "our kind of people" does include a concern for ethics. He suggests that denominations are moral communities which see "sin" and "virtue" in different ways.
9. Warren J. Hartman, Discipleship Trends vol. 5, no. I (Nashville: General Board of Discipleship, The United Methodist Church, February 1987). United Methodist trends can be considered typical of other "main-line" denominations.
11. 1 am using inclusive as it is used in the church/sect typology of Ernst Troeltsch. His association of the church with inclusive membership and the sect with exclusive membership policies has been widely used by sociologists of religion in the United States. His typology is not directly applicable to religion in the United States because of the difference in cultural setting. The church, as he described it, is more like the established churches of Europe.
12. Jack Marcum, "Membership Decline: Is It a Lack of Babies?" Monday Morning (December 18, 1989).
13. Donald McGavran and George G. Hunter III, Church Growth Strategies that Work (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1980), chap. 2.
14. For further development of this point, see Suzanne Johnson, Christian Spiritual Formation in the Church and Classroom (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1990), pp. 81-86.
15. My suggestion that it is an act of prophetic courage for a pastor to serve as the spiritual guide of a congregation is not a metaphor or a "model" for ministry. It is a contemporary application of the historic formulation of the role of ordained church leaders as priestly, pastoral, and prophetic. From this perspective, I see administrative and leadership skills as acts of pastoral care for a congregation
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”Romer (Dec. 28, 1894 – Nov. 5, 1973) was director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University until his retirement in 1961 and was one the singularly most influential vertebrate paleontologists of the 20th Century. His work ranged over virtually every conceivable subject within that field, although it was the osteology and taxonomy of the therapsids and other proto-mammals which was nearest his heart.
In addition to this work, Romer was acutely interested in the origin and initial adaptive radiation of tetrapods, and his work became the basis for a theory of tetrapod origins which was canon until the description of Acanthostega gunnari by Clack & Coates in the 1990s. Romer was ahead of his time in his defense of monophyly of Dinosauria though he did feel that Theropoda was not ancestral to birds.” link from EvoWiki.org
Romer’s book, Vertebrate Paleontology (1966), was for many years THE textbook on VP and is still well worth picking up. One of Romer’s students, Bob Carroll, wrote an updated version entitled, ‘Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution’, in 1987. image | <urn:uuid:4619479a-a8b7-4055-9b33-2a3ff679b2b9> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://palaeoblog.blogspot.com/2015/11/died-this-day-alfred-sherwood-romer.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721278.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00148-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98372 | 266 | 2.71875 | 3 |
New company makes push for ".md" domain
■ After a legal fight, Moldova's Web domain is again available to doctors and health care businesses as a way to market themselves.
With legal issues that once hampered the growth of ".md" Web addresses now cleared up, the domain is back on the market with a new company hoping to sell its logical connection to physicians.
MaxMD, a Jersey City, N.J.-based company, has acquired the marketing rights to the ".md" domain, a top-level name owned by the Republic of Moldova.
The company began actively marketing the domain last spring and already has registered several thousand domain names to organizations ranging in size from individual physicians to multinational corporations.
The advantage of the ".md" domain is it presents an opportunity for physicians to create their own brand, said MaxMD CEO Scott Finlay.
"Our pitch is to create a domain dedicated to the health care industry," Finlay said.
MaxMD has plenty of competitors. One is San Francisco-based Medem Inc., which offers health information, Web sites, online consultation and secure messaging services to more than 90,000 physicians. It was founded and is partly owned by several medical societies, including the AMA.
MaxMD charges $150 per year to register a domain name, though some more common names, such as "familyphysician" or "orthopedist" are considered premium domains and are more expensive.
MaxMD also offers Web design, e-mail and Web hosting packages for physicians. That price is higher than most -- some other services will register dot-com domain names for less than $10 per year.
Still, MaxMD says several big names in health care already have registered names. Johnson & Johnson, for example, has registered more than 120 names, Finlay said. Meanwhile, you can access the National Institutes of Health Web site by visiting either "www.nih.gov" or "www.physician.md." Many individual doctors and smaller physician groups have found suitable domain names, Finlay said.
So-called top-level domains were originally assigned by the Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers in 1994. Every nation has a top-level domain, or "country code." The United States is ".us," Great Britain is ".uk" and Canada is ".ca."
But some countries were lucky enough to get a marketable name. For example, the tiny nation of Tuvalu, population 11,000, gross national product $12 million, got the use of ".tv." In 1998, Tuvalu signed a 10-year deal with an American company that will give the country $50 million over that time to lease the ".tv" domain.
Moldova, a former Soviet state located just south of Ukraine, drew the ".md" domain. Described by the CIA Factbook as the "poorest country in Europe," the nation of 4.5 million citizens attempted to forge deals for domain marketing rights.
But the ".md" domain soon became muddled in legal controversy and bankruptcy proceedings involving some of the early ".md" marketing pioneers. A U.S. bankruptcy court ordered all control of the domain returned to Moldova in early 2003.
MaxMD now has exclusive marketing rights in more than 90 countries, including nations in North America, South America and Europe. However, Moldova receives a percentage of revenue from every domain name registered with the company, rather than a flat fee.
Osteopathic physicians can register a ".do" domain name, ".do" being the country code of the Dominican Republic. The nation's registrars offer ".com.do" domains for commercial entities (irrespective of local presence in the Dominican Republic); and other second-level domains, such as "net.co" and "org.do" are also available. However, there is not the concerted effort to market the ".do" domain as there is for ".md." | <urn:uuid:ad76b487-d28e-4b19-877b-575d1817af0f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.amednews.com/article/20050117/business/301179991/7/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283301.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00508-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956179 | 809 | 1.523438 | 2 |
Many financial experts advise that international PO funding should only be a last resort for small businesses, even though it offers several advantages such as a quicker approval process. That’s primarily because the cost of the financing is almost always higher than the cost of a traditional business loan from a bank.
The higher cost of purchase order financing is not because lenders are taking advantage of a company’s desperate need for immediate funds. It’s simply because the entire process involves a lot of risks for the lender, such as:
- The purchase order may be bogus. Several schools, for example, have already been targeted by scammers making fake purchase orders. One man was arrested in Louisiana for making fake purchase orders using the name of a local parish school in 2013. In December of the same year, Texas A&M also issued out an alert that invalid purchase orders misrepresenting the university have been used.
- There may be a problem regarding the transfer of the receivable to the lender. It could be that there are laws prohibiting the transfer or there may be a third party making a claim on it.
- There may be a dispute concerning the goods or services. For example, the buyer may claim that the goods or services provided by the supplier did not meet the requirements specified in the purchase order. There are many ways in which these disputes can originate, and such disputes can be complicated and time-consuming to resolve.
- The buyer may also decide to get a discount. There are several reasons why a buyer won’t pay the full amount of the invoice, aside from dissatisfaction with the quality of the goods and services. The buyer may pay less because in the past the supplier was not able to meet the requirements of the buyer. It may avail of a discount by returning goods it was not able to sell. It may even hold back part of the fee as a way to induce continuation of the business relationship in the future.
- There’s also the possibility that the buyer will pay the supplier directly instead of paying the lender.
- And then of course, there’s also the risk that the buyer may be late or worse, default on their payments. The buyer may be unable to pay because it is experiencing financial troubles of its own.
Remember, this is international PO funding, and that makes the entire process much more complicated and riskier. With the parties involved located in different countries, the verification process becomes even more difficult. What’s more, different countries have different laws and rules. Keeping track of all these regulations means more work, hence the higher fees.
But the fact that the lender is still offering your business the working capital it needs is always better than nothing. Even with the high financing costs, it’s still better than not having the money you need to operate your business. Lacking capital will cost you more in the long run, and it may even spell the end for your business altogether. | <urn:uuid:12220642-18f3-4a3a-b5fd-05b7694b5497> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://blog.neebocapital.com/tag/the-risks-of-international-po-funding-for-lenders | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00476.warc.gz | en | 0.966331 | 600 | 1.648438 | 2 |
Let’s be clear, in 99.99% of cases obesity is caused by greed and laziness: getting fat is a matter of personal choice; just like smoking tobacco or drinking alcohol is. However, the obese are arguing that smoking and drinking to excess are unhealthy and antisocial, gorging on junk food while slobbing about on the couch for hour after hour, day after day, to the point where their bodies resemble big piles of sweating blubber, should be considered socially acceptable.
Obesity is the biggest health problem facing society today and I don’t agree that it should be co9nsidered socially acceptable and, while I accept that shaming paedophiles hasn’t eradicated child sex abuse, and publically disgracing the obese won’t eradicate obesity, it will go a long way to help.
If feminists are put in jail and shamed for encouraging others to be fat man haters like them then obesity will be eliminated!
Research has shown that fat shaming only affects the eating habbits of those who are fat meaning fat shaming does not increase the number of people who are obese. The growing number of obese people are caused by feminist movements like fat acceptance. Shaming fat man haters is the only way to stop more healthy young women believing that being fat is beautiful, and think stupid things like "men should not judge me by my cover" which lead them to hating men and being fat.
Fat feminists may become fatter when depressed but not because of fat shamers but rather due to them blaming fat shamers in the same way they blame anything to deny responsibility for their own health in order to feel better about their eating habbits.
If fat feminists actually learnt to respect other people they wouldn't be fat. This can be achieved by more people fat shaming women so they accept reality and take responsibility. Then men would be more motivated to live healthier because at present, there are just too many ugly feminists who lie about wanting relationships etc to get an ego boost.
Some people love being defiant and those people will even make a point out of getting fat just because it is shamed. Furthermore, some people have diseases where if they did eat less enough to avoid obesity they would die of malnutrition. Anyone else even if you have a disease that makes losing weight uncomfortable but not impossible really has no excuse (you don't want to be a slave to your comfort, do you?) unless you want to be fat in which case go for it, it's your lifestyle choice.
The fact someone would think the solution to an issue like obesity is to shame that person is so juvenile it's ridiculous. A stranger's physical appearance has nothing to do with you and not only commenting but SHAMING them for looking like they do is totally out of bounds. Would you shame a stranger on the bus for having a big nose because he didn't get plastic surgery?
Recent studies show that negative ads about obesity actually depress overweight people, make them feel hopeless ad encourage them to overeat.
Other new research demonstrates how dieting increases ghrelin, the hunger hormone by three times as much and it stays elevated for over a year. This explains why almost 100% of people who lose a substantial amount of weight, regain it plus more, within three years.
It's clear: Shaming leads to binging in most people. Shaming leads to serious dieting in a few others but that, in turn, leads to rebound weight gain.
Everyone, including doctors, should just shut-up about our weight until they have some real answers to the problem.
Studies on psychology and sociology have shown exactly the opposite- that shaming and belittling heavy people actually makes them even HEAVIER. Since weight gain is often related to depression, bullying, and other issues of low self worth, all you do is create a vicious circle by trying to shame those individuals who are overweight.
It's a real shame seeing this everywhere on the television. If people wanted to eliminate obesity, they would shut up and make healthier food (without announcing it like it's the next best thing since sliced bread).
The fact that people actually thought this was a good idea is beyond me.
While more often than not, obese people do have an eating disorder, some of them have a genetic predisposition to it. Furthermore, some become obese as a side effect of something else (e.G. Lack of physical activity that results from partial paralysis). While these cases may be the minority, shaming the people in question would not make them skinny, as they do not have any say in the effects their disorders have on their bodies.
It's none of your business if someone is fat. You don't know why someone is fat. It very likely is for reasons beyond the person's control. If you answered this question with a "Yes," you are probably the kind of person who tells a kid to go wash their face when they have pimples, because you have no understanding of science and like to bully people. Shaming works for nobody, so stop it.
Even if one for the sake of argument ignored the obese people who gained weight as a result of medication, poor recovery from an injury, or genetic roles in weight gain, the question still assumes that shaming fat people will make them change. Has bullying and harassment ever helped anyone improve? No. While I agree that a healthy weight does boil down to personal responsibility, and I don't think political correctness should ever reach a point where everyone thinks obesity is just fine, shaming (aka bullying) people is only going to further their self destruction. Many people are emotional eaters, many overweight people have low self esteem, particularly about their size. Harassment is only going to make them think that it is hopeless- that they will always be a cow/whale/porker etc. and give up entirely on healthy goals for the small comfort food brings.
I hope the people asking the question( and responding yes) are simply misinformed, instead of outright malicious.
If shaming obese people is okay then i guess its okay to abuse people and animals or make fun of the mentally ill. Shamimg the obese will just making the depressed which will most likely end in two ways. Either getting depressed and then commiting suicide or them becoming anoxexic or bonemic. And in my personal opinion neither of thoses seem right
Although it is possible that it could work, it's completely unethical and immoral. People who are bigger are already judged by people. Most people who are overweight know that and have probably being told by a doctor about their dangerous lifestyle so why publicly shame fat people, i know people who are obese who have serious self esteem issues because of their weight. | <urn:uuid:7ef77565-3d84-4a5c-aec8-ba5c933d2263> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.debate.org/opinions/will-shaming-fat-people-eliminate-obesity | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281424.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00333-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974557 | 1,375 | 1.773438 | 2 |
What is bio-LNG?
Bio-LNG is a biofuel made by processing organic waste flows, such as organic household and industrial waste, manure, and sewage sludge. When anaerobic digestion of organic waste occurs, biogas is emitted in the process. The main components in this biogas are methane (CH4) and carbon dioxide (CO2). To make bio-LNG, the methane is separated from the carbon dioxide and other critical components, and then liquefied. This process, which is very complex, increases the energy density 600 times and makes the biofuel ideal for heavy-duty and maritime transport.
Advantages of bio-LNG
Bio-LNG is a practically carbon neutral biofuel. As a renewable replacement for LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas), bio-LNG offers similar advantages as LNG does versus diesel, including:
- Reduced carbon dioxide emission
- Lower engine sound
- Lower nitrogen oxide emission
- Significantly less pm (particulate matter) emission
Well-to-wheel, the GHG emissions balance of bio-LNG can be even negative. This is a result of the separation of biogas into methane and carbon dioxide. Nordsol captures the carbon dioxide for reuse, so it is not released into the atmosphere.
What makes bio-LNG carbon neutral?
Bio-LNG is composed of methane. When methane is burned, CO2 is emitted and released into the atmosphere. So what’s the difference with a fossil fuel?
Burning fossil fuels releases carbon that has been locked up in the ground for millions of years, while burning bio-LNG emits carbon that is part of the biogenic carbon cycle. In other words, fossil fuel use increases the total amount of carbon in the atmosphere, while combustion of bio-LNG simply returns the carbon that was absorbed from the atmosphere as the plants grew. So, in addition to tailpipe emissions, the source of the fuel is a critical factor when assessing the carbon intensity of a fuel over its complete life cycle.
But there is a third factor: the energy it takes to produce the fuel. Depending on the source of this energy (fossil or renewable) the production of fuel adds to the carbon intensity of the fuel. In the production of bio-LNG, the CO2 emissions that result from energy consumption in the production process can be compensated by capturing and reusing CO2 from the biogas during the same process. As mentioned before, biogas is composed of methane and CO2. To produce bio-LNG, methane is separated from the CO2. By capturing and liquefying the CO2, and reusing this biogenic CO2 in the industry to replace CO2 from fossil sources, bio-LNG becomes carbon neutral. In fact, over its complete lifecycle (well-to-wheel ) bio-LNG can even result in negative carbon emissions.
Bio-LNG, LBM or LBG
Bio-LNG is sometimes called liquefied biomethane (LBM) or liquefied biogas (LBG). These are three different names for the same product. So where do these names come from?
LNG stands for liquefied natural gas. Natural gas is composed of about 95% methane, whereas LBM and bio-LNG are composed of about 99,8% methane. Therefore, technically the name liquefied biomethane is a good description of the product. However, as this liquefied biomethane is a biofuel for LNG engines and used to replace fossil LNG, the name bio-LNG is the most commonly used name.
Bio-LNG takes advantage of existing infrastructure
In addition to being carbon neutral, bio-LNG is also a high-energy biofuel that can be blended at any ratio with fossil LNG. Therefore it can make use of the LNG fuelling infrastructure that exists today and that is growing rapidly. It is projected that the number of LNG service stations will grow from 330 in 2020 to 2,000 in 2030. Bio-LNG for ships can also be transported, stored and bunkered in ports utilizing existing LNG infrastructure. | <urn:uuid:0ebeeb71-72a5-4001-b09c-8409933a19a7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://staging2.nordsol.com/what-is-biolng/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00466.warc.gz | en | 0.933855 | 877 | 3.796875 | 4 |
The 33 Chilean miners trapped seven weeks ago have had a pretty tough existence, but a relief hole was drilled, allowing food and electricity to get to them. Still, they're not allowed to have booze, headphones, or even video games.
The lead psychiatrist for the relief effort, Alberto Iturra Benavides, told the AP that his plan is meant to give the miners "no possible alternative but to survive." This means they're not allowed to have a glass of wine on a national holiday. And now the ban includes video games and portable music players. The experts fear some miners may shut themselves off from the rest of the group, in turn harming the overall relief effort and morale. "With earphones, if they're listening to music and someone calls them, asking for help or to warn them about something, they're not available," Iturra said.
Still, sending these guys a few game consoles wouldn't hurt anyone. Zoning out for a few days playing Zelda could do these guys some good. Sure, multiplayer shooter games might not be a good idea for a bunch of tense men trapped underground together, but come on, give these guys a little relief. Instead, the rescuers will only allow them to watch movies like Troy and The Mask. Boy, what great choices those are! Can't they at least choose some semi-decent movies?
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Like other top web servers, Nginx lets webmasters enable Gzip compression for their websites. It can compress scripts and stylesheets in a web page on the fly. The Gzip file’s size is significantly lower than the original file. Nginx supports 9 Gzip compression levels.1 is the lowest and 9 is the highest. To gzip a file, Nginx will use invoke a function and the function will use system resources during the file conversion process. The function will take few milliseconds to execute.
What is the benefit of Gzipping scripts and stylesheets?
Gzipping content improves the performance of the website, but it increases the load on a web server. If you have got a popular site that receives tons of direct visitors, you can reduce the cost of hosting by compressing scripts.
As in real life, even a fraction of a second can make a huge difference on the Internet. According to renowned SEO experts, if e-commerce site’s loading speed increases by a second, the customers will ditch the site or may not make any purchase. Google, the world’s largest search engines consider page speed as one of its search engine ranking signals.
Gzip_static is a module which makes Nginx serve precompressed GZIP files instead of compressing files on the fly. Along with the FastCGI cache, GS is one of the top features of Nginx.
How to use Gzip static module?
Nginx will search for the Gzip files in the directory. If it doesn’t find one, the web server will covert CSS/js files into Gzip. If you want to use the Gzip static module, the first thing you should do is create gzip versions of the static assets on your site (excluding images, and server-side code files). To do so, you can use the default Gzip tool in Linux OS i.e. Gunzip. For better compression and to save more bandwidth, you can use Google Brotli or Zopfli to generate Gzip files.
Step2: (Very important)
Make sure that Nginx has the permission to access the newly generated Gzip file. If you don’t assign this permission to Nginx, won’t send the Gzipped file to the client browser and search bots will report HTTP 500 error in the webmaster consoles.
Modify the below command’s last 5 words as per your requirements, change the Nginx user and run the command
chmod -R nginx_user:nginx_user directory path or file name
Add the following file to the block in your website’s Nginx configuration file where you’ve set expiry time for JS/CSS files
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By William H. Teschek, Assistant Director
May 25, 2001
The World Wide Web is a wonderful thing. From our own homes we now have access to a vast, seemingly endless quantity of information. The Web is celebrating its tenth birthday this year and in that relatively short span of time it has already changed the world in which we live. It is hard to imagine what the next ten years will bring, let alone the next hundred. One thing I'm sure most everyone hopes will come about is an easier way to find what you are looking for. It's all well and good to have trillions of pages of information available at your fingertips, but what good is it if you can never find what you need?
Here at the library it is not uncommon to find people coming to us for help to find some information AFTER they have searched the web on their own at home. We're glad they come to us, because that's what everyone should do when they are trying to find information and can't find it by themselves. But more often than not we are able to go onto the very same Internet and find just what they need. How is it that we have success where so many others fail? Do we know some secrets that no one else does?
Not at all. But there are a few ingredients everyone must possess in order to have success at finding information on the Internet. The first and most important is experience. It's like anything in life - the more you do it, the better you get. We're on the Internet every day here at the library and have plenty of opportunities to become proficient. But practice alone isn't enough if you don't have a clue what you are doing to begin with. To that end you need also to educate yourself. Learning about the Internet and web searching is a never-ending process. Because the Internet is constantly growing and changing, there is always more to learn. Read magazine and newspaper articles about the Internet. Use the Internet itself to learn more. A great starting place is about.com. Go to their web search section at http://websearch.about.com/internet/websearch/. There are plenty of good articles available there to show you the ropes. And finally, take a class. We offer free classes on the Internet here at the library. Just call 926-3368 and ask for Bill to sign up or get further information.
While I can't convey in this article all that I can in our classes, I can give you a few tips. One mistake I notice many novices making is that they will type their search term(s) into the address bar. This is where you are supposed to type the actual web address of a website you are specifically trying to reach. It would be like trying to find a plumber with your phone by typing 1-800-PLUMBER. This might actually get you a plumber, but not necessarily the one that would be best for you. When you type search terms into the web address box like this the computer will do a search on the website of the company that makes the software you are using (the web browser) to view web pages. This is likely going to be either Microsoft (Internet Explorer) or Netscape, depending on which program you use. Similarly, if you click the SEARCH button on the toolbar near the top of your screen, you will also be using Microsoft or Netscape's search features. Now either one of these web search engines may answer your question, but there are much better ones out there. Frankly I rarely if ever use either one of them myself.
When deciding which search engine to use you first must understand the different types that are available. There are two primary types of search engines available - indexes and directories.
Indexes are created by automated programs called 'spiders' that roam the length and breadth of the Internet 24/7. They cull every word from the websites they visit and indexes are built to make it possible to search them. There are many, many different websites that have such search engines available, but none of them index everything. One of the biggest and, in the opinion of many, the best, is Google. Funny name, but excellent search engine, which can be found at www.google.com. Quite frequently it is the only place I have to go to find what I need. Another type of Internet index is called a 'meta-search engine'. These sites combine their searches to look at numerous single-site search engines at the same time. So they may search Google, Hotbot, Altavista, and many, many more all at the same time. My current favorite is Ixquick but there are many others as well. On the library's website some of the best search engines can be found by clicking the 'Net Search' button on the blue toolbar that appears at the top of every one of our pages.
When searching an Internet index like Google you need to type in 'keywords' that best describe what you are looking for. Figuring out exactly what to type can be very tricky, depending on how complex your needs are, but one good rule of thumb is to start by typing just one or two words and only add words if you get too much and need to narrow things down. Once you start adding more than one word you will want to check the search engine's help pages for tips, because they all work a little differently from one another. Books have been written on the technicalities of such searching, so I can't even scratch the surface here. To get better you will need to practice and read more about it.
The other type of search engine is the directory. Directories, unlike indexes, are created by human beings who explore the vastness of the Internet looking for the best websites. They then categorize what they find, often adding descriptive abstracts, and put them into a hierarchical directory that can be searched by keywords or browsed. Probably the best known of these is Yahoo, but there are many others. Yahoo is one of the biggest, but they don't have much in the way of annotations describing the websites they list. Google, in addition to being an excellent index, also creates their own web directory, and does a better job of annotating as well. In addition to these giant directories there are smaller, more discriminating directories as well. The Librarian's Index to the Internet (www.lii.org) is one such website that does an excellent job. About.com is another that is getting so big that it can almost be considered a giant directory in its own right. And of course don't forget our own directory of Internet links. You can find this by clicking on the 'Reference Weblinks' button on the library's toolbar. We don't try to be as comprehensive as some of the larger sites, but if you are looking for Hampton or seacoast-area information, it should be your first stop. We do have links to many general sites on the Internet as well.
I haven't even touched upon specialized indexes and directories. A specialized index might be a web-based encyclopedia, such as those at brittanica.com or encarta.com. Or it could be a part of what is called the "hidden Internet" - locally created databases on countless subjects. Our own online index to the Hampton Union and Atlantic News is but one small example of the hidden Internet. These contain information that can't be found using a general search engine. Specialized directories probably exist for every subject known to mankind. No matter what the topic, someone, somewhere, has probably created their own web page that tries to create a list of all the other websites that can be found on the same subject. Search a few of these specialized directories and you'll quickly locate all the best websites on your chosen subject. To find such indexes, use the more general indexes like Google as well as the general directories like Yahoo or About.
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You’ve had a week into the new year, have those resolutions to be creative already been crumpled up and tossed in the rubbish bin? We at ds106 give you an opportunity to get back in shape! Starting today we are challenging you to do seven Daily Creates in a row
But there is another really big reason.
Tuesday marks the birthday of this site! Yes, it was a year ago we started TDC Numero Uno.
It’s really not very hard to do this. You do not need to register for anything, you just use your own flickr, Youtube, Soundcloud accounts to create media as instructed. For exampled, the most recent challenge was Make a creative photo of paired opposites:
Just take the photo, uplaod to flickr, and tag it tdc364. I bet you can do these 7 challenges in less than 15 minutes of effort each day.
Take a break from reading email, playing games on your iPhone, tweeting about MOOCS, and MAKE SOME ART, WILLYA?
Starting today, January 7, I dare you to do the Daily Create for the next 7 days in a row.
I double dare ya.
To compete, what you should do is write a blog post at te end of the week that embeds all the media for your 7 days, and then write something that draws a connection or makes a story out of all 7. Or take it to the next level and create a mashup story from seven pieces of media from other people.
What’s the prize? Nothing No awards, badges, or cash. The experience is its own reward.
What is the Daily Create?
Each Daily Create is a prompt for you to post a photography or drawing to flickr, a video to YouTube, an audio recording to Soundcloud, each tagged or grouped in a way that aggregate them to the main site. And we have just rolled out a new category of Writing Challenges (you will see maybe, oh two of them this week)
— ds106 Daily Create (@ds106dc) January 6, 2013
Again, doing a Daily Create are all challanges that should take no more than 15 minutes to complete. They are typically media that you just post, not big productions you toil away editing. The magic is in how you interpret the challenge, and how you go about your day looking or listening for the creative inspiration that will satisfy it.
This is perhaps the most low barrier way to participate in ds106, but more than that, if you do this on a regular basis (and seriously, non one but Norm does it every day), I can almost guarantee you will see the world differently and your creative skills over time will improve in any or all forms.
So are you up to 7?
Get creating! NOW.
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By Dr. Nupur Gupta, Gynaecology
During the progressive stages of pregnancy and lactation, the psychological bearing, as well as the nutritional needs of the mother’s body, undergoes a wide range of changes. Keeping in mind the various prerequisites of fetal care, the lifestyle of the mother also needs to adapt to several new norms and practices.
Since lactation is one of the foremost factors that affect the development of the fetus, alterations in maternal tissues and metabolism are vital for the upkeep of the health of both mother and child. During the lactation stages, the mammary glands and the placenta have specific requirements for certain high energy-yielding nutrients. Not always can the genetic and the environmental needs of the child are met through maternal diet and it becomes mandatory to take new health-boosting supplements.
It, therefore, necessitates close scrutiny of the nutritional as well as the physiological needs of both the mother and the child during the varying stages of pregnancy and lactation.
Breastfeeding Nutrition Tips for New Moms:-
- Consume soups, juices and a minimum of 8 glasses of water daily as they are high in fluids and will facilitate milk production and compensate the loss of fluids from the body.
- Eat a lot of fruits and vegetables which are a good source of vitamins, minerals and fiber which your body needs during this phase.
- Add high-quality protein in your diet like meat, fish and eggs.
- Avoid fried and sweet foods as they are low in nutrients and don’t increase milk secretion.
- Consume 3 servings of milk and dairy products daily which are a good source of protein, calcium and phosphorous.
- Eat nuts (almonds, walnuts, etc) in moderation; these are known to be beneficial for women who are breastfeeding as they are full of nutrients but also high in oils and calories.
- Avoid foods that might cause discomfort for your baby like cauliflower, broccoli, legumes and spicy foods
- Avoid smoking and alcohol for their negative effect on milk production.
- Perform light physical activity after your doctor’s approval.
During pregnancy, the body undergoes a massive quantum of hormonal changes. The estrogen secretion not only increases but also becomes more complicated. Consequently, the pituitary glands of the mother also perform certain specialized functions that promote the growth and maintenance of the mammary glands. Other significant bodily changes during pregnancy are the increase in the total blood volume in the body and the drop in the plasma protein content. Complimenting such complex variations, nutritional requirements also manifest a sharp change. Most nutrients including vitamins, proteins and energy giving supplements are needed in greater volume to support the development of the fetus as well as enhance the immunity of the mother.
The process of lactation occurs under the heavy influence of neuroendocrine mechanisms. Increased levels of prolactin are the most pivotal determinant of the onset of milk secretion. Therefore, a fair section of the nutritional intake of the mother is directed towards promoting the development of the breasts. The mother’s milk is known to be the chief source of nutrition for the newborn. Thus, the nutritional requirement during lactation is way more than that during pregnancy. | <urn:uuid:fc253bce-3bc2-4dfb-b9fa-fe4695cc1350> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://blog.lybrate.com/2020/02/10/nutritional-requirements-of-lactating-mother/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.953386 | 658 | 2.609375 | 3 |
I have a camellia sinensis, which is 1-2 feet high. I mist it twice a
day with water from the water but, and water it once a week. It stays
indoors close to a window, but out of direct sunlight.
I have had it for about a month, and so far a leaf bud has opened, but
it this morning I noticed that the leaves (including the new one) are
wilting. They aren't completely hanging, but there is a noticeable
Also, I have had a coffee arabica for a couple of weeks, and the leaves
seem to be wilting a bit as well. It is kept with the camellia sinensis
and is looked after the same way. They have an Aloe Vera in-between
them, as I thought they would help each other breathe lol.
Camellias are not house plants. Often, the air indoors is too dry
because it is heated. Also, certain pests -- especially scale, spider
mites, and mealy bugs -- proliferate indoors because their insect
enemies stay outdoors.
Wilt can indicate over-watering. Camellias need constant soil moisture
but cannot tolerate wet soil. Their natural habitat is in the southern
foothills of the Himalaya Mountains. Almost constant rain falls as warm
moist air from the tropical south rises towards the mountains, cools,
and drops its water content. This erodes the mountains, leaving a soil
that is primarily decomposed granite. Water from the rain drains
quickly away through the grit and is just as quickly replaced by more
rain. Thus, the soil is always moist but never soggy.
Wilt can result from over-feeding. As the rain falls on the decomposed
granite, it leaches away most nutrients. Thus, camellias evolved in a
soil that was quite lean.
Much of the above might also apply to coffee plants. I'm not sure. I
have camellias but no coffee plants.
David E. Ross
Climate: California Mediterranean, see
> (http://www.rossde.com/garden/diary )
Thank you very much for your reply. I tried giving it some more water,
and the next day it was back to normal. However, a couple of days later
it is suddenly wilting again. I wonder if I gave it too much water. The
soil drains quickly though.
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LEON: Africa and our election
Sunday, October 19, 2008
The American financial crisis is upmost in the minds of both U.S. presidential candidates and voters. It seemed unlikely, therefore, that Africa would be more than a minor footnote, and certainly provide no sound bite, as the campaign enters its final month.
Yet, in the second presidential debate, both Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain used several bloody conflicts from the oft-forgotten continent to illustrate the reach and purpose of their foreign policy doctrines.
In suitably vague terms, Mr. Obama proclaimed that standing "idly by" in Rwanda "diminishes us." He announced that the genocide in Darfur can only be curtailed by an American-led effort to bolster the United Nations-African Union peacekeeping force there. Mr. McCain offered similar boilerplate assurances on preventing genocide, but pointed to the "limits of our capability." He cited the "humiliating" U.S. intervention in Somalia as a cautionary case of reach exceeding grasp. Mr. McCain went much further in the December 2007 issue of Foreign Affairs by naming Africa as the most compelling case for humanitarian intervention and promised to use "all elements" of U.S. power to halt the outrages in Darfur.
Do Africa's two minutes of presidential primetime raise the prospect of next president's heightened engagement with the continent?
After all, President George W. Bush's policies and programs in Africa have provided him with rare approval from his domestic opponents. His $15 billion AIDS-fighting PEPFAR initiative has provided 1.7 million Africans with anti-retroviral drugs. Sen. Joe Biden proclaimed it as one of Mr. Bush's "finest hours."
Similarly praised were Mr. Bush's extension of President Clinton's Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) that reduced or eliminated tariffs on most African exports to the United States, and the creation of the Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) that provides aid to African countries that embrace economic and political reforms. Both Mr. Obama and Mr. McCain are enthusiastic supporters of the MCA.
Mr. Obama initially announced he would fund it more generously but has now pulled back that pledge in view of the deteriorating fiscal picture in the United States. Mr. McCain's plan would help Africa in a more durable way by abolishing wasteful agricultural subsidies for U.S. farmers that tamp down African agricultural exports.
While the Bush administration acted decisively and swiftly against Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki's electoral theft last December by dispatching Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to the region and threatening to cut off aid to Kenya, its attempts to encourage democracy in Zimbabwe have been uneven and feeble.
By appointing Thabo Mbeki, the pro-Mugabe president of South Africa, as his "point man" for Zimbabwe, Mr. Bush effectively handed the issue over to an unreliable South African leadership. Moreover, Mr. Bush's focus on "the war against terror" allowed authoritarian allies of the United States, such as the Ethiopian regime of Meles Zenawi, to escape the democracy-deepening requirements of the MCA, thus weakening hopes the delivery of MCA aid could be depoliticized.
No matter who replaces President Bush, Africa will remain an important item on his agenda. Mr. Obama's campaign adviser on Africa, Witney W Schneidman, recently suggested his perspective is informed by the fact that "he is the product of the African Diaspora, the son of a Kenyan father, whose grandmother still lives in Kenya."
This unusual provenance has suggested to some that Mr. Obama will be a "soft touch" when it comes to Africa. In fact, a closer analysis of his record indicates otherwise: During his 2006 visit to Africa, he forthrightly attacked the disastrous AIDS-denialism of South Africa's then-health minister. In Kenya he railed against "the lack of basic rule of law and accountability" in Africa.
Mr. Obama's initiatives in the U.S. Senate, such as his 2005 amendment to the Foreign Operations Appropriations bill that funded the Special Court for Sierra Leone and helped to bring the regional warlord Charles Taylor to justice, suggests Mr. Obama might become impatient with the "big man solidarity" that the African Union invokes repeatedly to shield dictators from accountability - most recently Omar al-Bashir of Sudan.
Mr. McCain has elaborated little in the campaign on his grandiose project of creating "the league of democracies," to act "where the United Nations fails." He clearly envisages such a body to pierce the shield provided to tyrannies by Russian and Chinese U.N. Security Council vetoes. However, there is no appetite in Pretoria or in virtually any other country for such a league.
Africa's worst problems, from AIDS to Zimbabwe, and its best hopes, from deepening of liberal democracy to spreading of economic opportunity, can benefit from the continued engagement and partnership with the United States. Africa's development success, however, will mostly depend on the commitment of African ruling elites to the ideas of political and economic freedom.
Tony Leon is a member of the South African Parliament and was its longest-serving leader of the opposition since 1994. He is a visiting fellow at the Cato Institute's Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity in Washington D.C.
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No matter how you feel about war, in general, or any particular war, it is hard to argue with the fact that supporting soldiers who have been hurt is a fine endeavor. This is a press release we received from H-D regarding its Foundation’s significant financial support of the Disabled American Veterans, a non-profit organization.
ATLANTA (August 4, 2010) – Harley-Davidson, Inc. (NYSE:HOG) yesterday announced the awarding of a second $1 million grant from the Harley-Davidson Foundation, Inc. to the non-profit organization, the Disabled American Veterans (DAV). Harley-Davidson’s relationship with the DAV dates to 2006, when the Harley-Davidson Foundation made a prior $1 million grant to the organization. The new grant announced yesterday at the DAV National Convention in Atlanta is designated for continued funding of the DAV’s Mobile Service Office (MSO) program over the next four years.
“We are proud to continue our relationship with the DAV and help the organization support veterans of all generations,” said Gail Lione, President, Harley-Davidson Foundation. “Veterans have always been important members of the Harley-Davidson family and partnering with the DAV is an ideal way to support them and recognize their contributions to our country.”
The DAV MSO program increases veterans’ accessibility to benefits by literally putting service offices on the road. Since 2007, this program sponsored by Harley-Davidson — dubbed Harley’s Heroes® — has visited thousands of sites across the United States, providing important counseling and assistance to help tens of thousands of veterans secure the benefits to which they are entitled from the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of Defense, and other government agencies.
“Harley-Davidson not only represents freedom and patriotism, the Company backs up its brand and generously supports those brave men and women whose sacrifices protect our nation,” said DAV National Adjutant/CEO Arthur H. Wilson. “Through the support of the Harley-Davidson Foundation, DAV representatives have visited nearly 300 dealerships across the nation on the Harley’s Heroes tour, delivering free benefits assistance to disabled veterans and their families through our Mobile Service Office program. It’s hard to put into words just how much the Harley’s Heroes program has meant to thousands of sick and wounded heroes.”
Founded in 1920 by disabled veterans returning from World War I, the DAV has continually represented the unique interests of the men and women who bear the wounds and scars of war. Through their network of 110 National Service Offices, 10 mobile service offices, and Transition Service Officers at more than 100 military installations, the 1.2 million member DAV builds better lives for all America’s disabled veterans and their families. In 2009, DAV represented nearly a quarter of a million veterans and their families in their claims for VA benefits, obtaining for them nearly $4.5 billion in new and retroactive benefits.
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Just over a week ago, Twitter announced its fifth round of funding. While not officially disclosed, the recent cash infusion is estimated to be around $100 million. Twitter's new estimated worth? - $1 billion.
With all of this valuation talk floating around, we became interested in just how fast Twitter's worth has skyrocketed. It seems that VC Expert's Private Equity Data Center (PEDC) was curious as well, so they decided to analyze all of Twitter's financing rounds, from the first one in July of 2007 to last month's $100 million cash infusion.
We took a look at the PEDC numbers and some research of our own. We've picked five statistics that speak to the unprecedented growth of Twitter as a service and as a company. Prepare yourselves for some shocking numbers:
Twitter's Value: 5 Eye-Popping Stats
1. According to PEDC's numbers, the price of a single share of Twitter has increased by 239,619%, from a measly $0.00667 per share to a much stronger $15.9824.
2. Twitter's $100 million round is over 1025 times the amount of money they raised in its very first round of funding. In July of 2007, Twitter raised $97,500.
3. In five rounds of funding, Twitter has raised an estimated $153 million (some peg it a few million dollars higher). Since the day of its initial round of funding, Twitter has been given an average of $187,356 per day by its investors.
4. Using that same time frame and its current $1 billion valuation, Twitter's worth has grown by $1,223,990 per day. If you start with the day of Twitter's inception (the first tweet from Twitter's Inventor and Chairman, Jack Dorsey), then Twitter's worth has grown by around $772,797 per day.
5. Twitter has yet to make a single cent in profit. We'll let you be the judge of what that means. Let us know your thoughts in the comments. | <urn:uuid:939d0cf7-6c8a-4192-b01a-779516a3feed> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://mashable.com/2009/10/04/twitter-stats/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280891.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00157-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974096 | 424 | 1.632813 | 2 |
But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned. For before certain men came from James, he was eating with the Gentiles; but when they came he drew back and separated himself, fearing the circumcision party. And the rest of the Jews acted hypocritically along with him, so that even Barnabas was led astray by their hypocrisy. (Galatians 2:11-13 ESV)
In this text we find that Peter, the leader of the apostles, is not above rebuke. If Peter is not above rebuke, how much less are we above rebuke? It is hard to have someone tell you that you’re in sin. It’s humbling and embarrassing. As a result there is an immediate inclination to defend yourself so that your sense of personal righteousness and your reputation can remain intact. But it is not our righteousness that has bearing on our status with God. It is Christ’s righteousness. Remembering this, as Peter was reminded, is the key to not crumbling when rebuked. The gospel, the gospel, the gospel!
Lord, forgive me for thinking I am above rebuke and must maintain my reputation before people in your church or people in my social circles. I have a fear of man; a desire to be approved of by others and this keeps me from the means of grace that church discipline (rebuke) provides! Grant me a gospel view toward my own humility. | <urn:uuid:2b2e1645-2e77-40c3-a8a4-ad7d739569a5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blog.cornerstonekaty.org/2012/11/above-rebuke/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00470.warc.gz | en | 0.969005 | 303 | 1.765625 | 2 |
This article serves as an introduction to the third special issue of International Relations on Latin American politics. Following the two previous prefaces, it reviews relevant literature to map out arguments about the development of democratization in the region and its domestic and international determinants. This helps to clarify the features and novelty of the papers included in this issue.
The twenty Latin American countries of the present century have been experiencing a slow deterioration of democracy. It is noteworthy that this is not occurring in all the countries: some have maintained a responsible democratic government while others have fallen into full autocracy. The most popular explanation of this divergence is that an unconsolidated party system gives room for the rise of a radical left president, who would destroy the checks and balances among governmental bodies and limit civil liberties. However, as recent literature points out, a party system is not the only deciding factor of the fate of democracy. Constitutional arrangement of political institutions, such as de jure power given to the executive body, and public support to the government also encourages or discourages the autocratic behavior of a president. It is not still clear which of these factors is the most crucial and how they relate to each other.
As mentioned above, emphasizing the difference between Latin American politics in this century and those in the previous one runs the risk of obscuring the continuity between them. The focus on individual research topics rather than the degree of democratization of the central government as a whole sheds light on unchanged political characteristics over the centuries (e.g. persistence of sub-national authoritarianism) and the cause-and-effect relationship between them (e.g. governance reform in the 20th century as the foundation of technocrat-driven policy making in the next century).
New trends in international affairs, such as the emergence of regional organizations without the United States of America (e.g. UNASUR), growing economic influence of China, and globalization of non-governmental activities also have some influence on domestic politics. It is important to note that each international factor plays a complex role in the democratization process. For example, globalization leads to growth of transnational crime organizations that are likely to undermine civil liberties by taking a devastating toll on civil security and provoking iron fist reactions from the government. However, globalization also empowers civil society by creating transnational solidarity with victims. Finally, amid the serious fragmentation of international relations in the Americas mainly caused by ideological conflicts among the governments, the Japanese government, which has made the promotion of democracy one of its foreign policies toward Latin America, has the potential to contribute to the democratization of the countries of the region.
Determinants of the changing size of support for the Chávez administration in Venezuela is an important research subject, especially because it has an implication on the theme as to how much, and how, world capitalism determines the politics in Latin American countries. The two simplified versions of the thesis of world capitalism’s ruling power, which is plausible given that the region has had regionwide wave-like political changes, point to its determination of Latin American countries’ macroeconomic conditions and of their economic policies. Although existing studies tend to attribute the changing size of support for Chávez to macroeconomic performance and redistributive policies, they generally do not distinguish them explicitly, much less they compare them.
This paper attempts to compare them, using survey data analysis methods. With a critical review of the literature on economic voting, which predominantly has shown that retrospective “sociotropic” economic voting is the rule, I argue that these findings might be misleading and that the effects of redistributive policies should be systematically integrated into the framework of economic voting studies. I present a working hypothesis that there are those cases in whose analyses the variables of prospective pocketbook evaluation of the low-income population can show the effects of redistributive policies and that Venezuela in the Chávez era is one of these cases. An important assumption is that the combined effects of macroeconomic performance and redistributive policies, which, in turn, are highly conflicting sometimes, are crucial for the low-income population in the developing countries like Latin American ones. Comparing the determining power of the aforementioned variables with other variables, with these considerations in mind, using the data of the Latin American Popular Opinion Project (LAPOP) survey conducted in 2010, the period which I consider crucial for this essay’s theme, I preliminarily tackle with the research subject mentioned above.
A tentative conclusion is that both macroeconomic conditions and redistributive policies played a substantial part, with an implication that, although world capitalism is very important as a constraint in Latin America, each country’s political forces have choices. Methodologically, this paper tentatively shows that standard economic-voting analysis methods, under some conditions, might verify the effects of redistributive policies on voting behavior. A theoretical implication of this paper is that a certain reconsideration of the standard economic-voting framework might be in order.
This paper explores how personalization was formed in Nicaragua by Daniel Ortega according to four factors: short-term, long-term, domestic, and international perspectives. Latin America and the Caribbean countries have been strongly influenced by U.S. national strategies. Thus, Nicaraguan politics is often structured by its relationship with the U.S. and regional powers. However, the final decision of political regime change is made by domestic actors. Therefore, the process of personalization must be considered in both domestic and international politics.
Populism is an important concept that explains recent personalization in Latin America. Ortega criticizes the U.S.-led globalization to gain support from the people. Furthermore, populist ruling methods are similar to those of personalized rulers. However, is there an understanding that personalization is a political phenomenon that can always be explained by populism? In fact, the study of Nicaraguan politics has emphasized not only short-term factors, such as populism, but also long-term factors such as political culture. How can the ongoing personalization in Nicaragua be explained from both the long-term and short-term factors?
The FSLN administration tried to democratize the country to get support from the international community, but this decision triggered a regime change. However, for the new administration, a coalition against the FSLN was the only factor to bind them together. This situation led to conflicts within the government, and it was difficult to efficiently manage the administration. To overcome this difficulty, the ruling party decided to cooperate with the FSLN. In this way, the FSLN returned to power; in the meantime, it had already transformed into Ortega’s personal party. The pact between the ruling party and the FSLN determined Ortega’s return to power. Since then, Ortega has personalized not only his party but also its political regime with a skillful diplomatic dance between regional major powers and the U.S. This tendency has accelerated by less support from international society.
The analysis shows unequivocally that domestic and international factors always had an impact on political regime change in Nicaragua. However, personalization is formed mainly by domestic factors, and external factors have reinforced the domestic movement in Nicaragua. In addition, this study shows that it is difficult to explain the process of Ortega’s personalization according to short-term factors such as populism. Instead, it is a long-term factor, such as a traditional power-sharing method in a duopoly, that pushed Ortega’s personalization forward. The interaction of these four factors defines Nicaragua’s personalization.
This article identifies the characteristics of transitional justice (TJ) in Latin America compared to other world regions and explores the causes of such characteristics. The author highlights seven discernible aspects in TJ as practiced in Latin America. First, Latin America pioneered the current wave of TJ in the mid-1980s. Consequently, the Latin American experience inspired and contributed to the development of the TJ “field” at the global level. Truth commissions and “the right to the truth” may be counted among such contributions. Further, numerous perpetrators were successfully prosecuted in Latin America, perhaps on par with the Western Balkans. Second, the “post-authoritarian type” predominates in Latin America’s TJ, as opposed to the “post-conflict type.” Only four countries, i.e., El Salvador, Guatemala, Peru, and Colombia, had “post-conflict TJ.” Third, the punishments of the perpetrators were almost exclusively assumed by the national courts rather than international or hybrid courts. Nevertheless, prosecutions in the national courts of foreign countries had some significance. Fourth, regional human rights institutions, i.e., the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, were instrumental in advancing victims’ rights. Fifth, domestic factors were far more important than international factors in Latin America’s TJ. The limited international involvement may be explained by the pioneering character of Latin America’s TJ (as the international community only began to involve itself in TJ in the 1990s). More importantly, it may be attributable to the predominance of the “post-authoritarian type” (because the international community often serves as a mediator in internal armed conflict, but not in democratization settings). Sixth, the driving force of TJ in Latin America has been victims and their supporters, especially domestic human rights NGOs, which were far more instrumental than international and foreign NGOs in advancing TJ in their countries. Seventh, in Latin America, the principal demands of victims were the punishment of the perpetrators and the truth, although this conclusion should be qualified by several important caveats provided in the article. The truth can be divided between the “micro truth” (what happened to the particular victims) and the “macro truth” (the overall pattern of human rights violations and war crimes in the country). The victims were eager to discover the micro truth and, although most knew the macro truth, they demanded that it be recognized by the state and society. The article advocates for considering the Latin American experience to obtain a less skewed and more diversified representation of TJ around the world.
In the first decade of the 21st century, the following regional integrations were established in Latin America: ALBA (Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America), UNASUR (Union of South American Nations), and CELAC (Community of Latin American and Caribbean States). Initially, these new forums demonstrated a strong will to challenge U.S. hegemony and neoliberalism. However, their activities stagnated to the point of collapse in the mid-2010s, which weakened the political independence of Latin American nations.
The failure of these post-neoliberal integrations tends to be considered a failure of the left governments’ national projects. However, it should be noted that the concept of anti-hegemonic integration was already present in Brazil in the 1990s, much before the region’s move to the left. Post-neoliberal integration expanded throughout the continent and successfully promoted the integration process. However, the ultimate goal of enforcing the states’ role and capacity by establishing new schemas of integration was not derived solely from left ideology in the post-neoliberal era.
It is important to note that by joining in regional integration, Latin American nations pursue not regional but national interests. In other words, the integration process develops only under the condition that each nation considers the objects of the integration to be compatible with national interests. Therefore, the consensus mechanism was highly emphasized in UNASUR’s and CELAC’s decision-making processes. This characteristic contributed to sustaining unity in the region but prevented the establishment of measures to resolve political disputes between member nations, eroding efficiency and the raison d’être of the organizations.
It is worth analyzing how regional integration succeeded from 2000–2010. In order to achieve integration, Latin American nations needed an international circumstance unhampered by hegemonic powers or external obstacles. For example, Latin American states benefitted from an increase in national revenue due to the increased prices of natural resources in the international market. Additionally, the U.S. government did not focus on hemispheric matters after the September 11 attacks, choosing to concentrate its foreign policy on combatting terrorism.
The UNASUR process finally deadlocked when Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro was accused of leading an authoritarian administration and destroyed the atmosphere of regional cooperation. Nevertheless, South American nations never returned to the traditional Inter-American system promoted by the U.S. Rather, they sought to establish a new forum, PROSUR (Forum for the Progress and Development of South America), to maintain their own cooperation schema.
The purpose of this article is to analyze how China has been involved in Brazil’s climate change policies that promote renewable energy. In the 2000s, Latin American countries began implementing economic development with technical and financial strategic partnerships with China. From this situation, it is argued that China created new dominant and subordinate relations to replace the United States, and thus became involved in the economic development of Latin America.
However, previous studies on strategic partnerships such as Xu (2015), Wise (2020) have not thoroughly explained the dimension of “sustainability,” although some have focused on economic and trade policies. There were challenges, such as underestimating the aim and autonomy of recipient countries, considering how Latin American countries that accepted China’s involvement became subordinate to the Chinese Communist Party.
To overcome the challenges of the previous studies, this article describes China-Brazil relations about climate change policies in the Brazilian administrations of Luis Inácio Lula da Silva, Dilma Vana Rousseff, and Michel Miguel Temer Lulia. First, The Hu Jintao and Xi Jinping eras turned when China began working on domestic environmental recovery. Meanwhile, in Brazil, the Lula administration had begun full-scale utilization of strategic partnerships with China and established cooperation in climate change policies based on multilateral and bilateral dialogues. The Rousseff administration upgraded its strategic partnership with China after hosting The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), entered into the Paris Agreement, and promoted domestic renewable energy policies, in which China was also involved. Then the Temer administration announced to deepen its pragmatic “Comprehensive Strategic Partnership” with China after it transitioned power. China strengthened its involvement in Brazil’s climate change policies by launching the “Green Belt and Road Initiative”, including the “2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.”
This process resulted in this article discovering that Brazil will maintain its economic dependence on China even if the administration’s political position changes due to transition of government. However, this article shows that Brazil utilizes China’s diplomatic strategy when involved in other countries’ policies. Brazil also has the autonomy to adjust its interests between China and other members in multilateral negotiations by utilizing the negotiation grounds of strategic partnerships such as the China-Brazil Commission of High Level of Agreement and Cooperation (COSBAN), BRICS Summit.
The theoretical implication is that the inclusion of the 2030 agenda for Sustainable Development in the strategic cooperation between China and Brazil also promotes comprehensive cooperation between the two. However, China’s deeper involvement in Brazil’s climate change polices might also promote negatively “Environmental Authoritarianism.”
In the 1950s, Cuba was Japan’s primary sugar supplier but maintained a protectionist policy that prevented the entry of Japanese textiles. This situation resulted in a constant trade deficit for the Japanese side. Thus, to resolve this situation, in July 1954, the Yoshida administration (1948–1954) sought to sign a trade agreement with Cuba that would eliminate such discriminatory policies and offered to Havana to buy a fixed annual amount of sugar. However, the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista (1952–1959) maintained a non-cooperative position. In the end, Japan canceled the negotiations, and both the trade deficit and the discriminatory policies continued for several years. This situation changed with the victory of the Cuban Revolution in 1959.
Fidel Castro and the Cuban revolutionary government took a favorable position towards Japan. Thus, in June 1959, a Cuban mission headed by Ernesto “Che” Guevara visited Japan. The main goal of this “famous revolutionary” was to investigate the possibility of establishing a trade agreement with the Kishi administration (1957–1960) and guarantee the continuity of Japanese importing Cuban sugar. In the end, Japan could not sign the trade agreement with Guevara’s mission, but the Kishi administration understood that the Cuban revolutionary government was willing to negotiate. Thus, in February 1960, both countries began formal negotiations and two months later signed the Agreement on Commerce between Japan and the Republic of Cuba, eliminating the discriminatory policy.
In this sense, Guevara’s mission represented a turning point in postwar Japan-Cuban relations. However, many preliminary studies, especially the biography of Guevara written by Toru Miyoshi (1971), have considered that the Kishi administration had belittled Cuba. But, was this situation true? This paper seeks to reexamine Guevara’s visit through sources in the diplomatic research in Japan, Cuba, and United States, and demonstrate the importance of Japanese-Cuban relations in Japanese diplomatic history studies. It should be noted that there are few studies on Japanese diplomatic history towards Latin American countries, using primary diplomatic sources. This paper also seeks to contribute to the increase of new studies in that area.
The first section evaluates the literature about Guevara’s visit. Then, the second reconstructs the Japanese-Cuban relations before the Cuban Revolution, to demonstrate the existing conflict between Japan and Batista. Finally, the third section analyzes the Kishi administration policy towards Guevara’s mission.
The main conclusion is that the analysis of various diplomatic sources shows that the Kishi administration was interested in Cuban and wanted to complete a trade agreement. In this sense, Japan never actually looked down upon Guevara’s visit, as much of the literature has suggested.
The year 2019 was the 151st anniversary of Japanese overseas migration: mainly in the Americas but also worldwide, including Japan. According to the Association of Nikkei and Japanese Abroad, the total number of Nikkei is roughly 3,800,000: some 2,240,000 in LAC. Firstly Brazil (some 1,190,000), then the U.S.A. (some 1,330,000 including Hawaii (240,000)), thirdly Japan (some 250,000), fourthly Canada (some 120,000), fifthly Peru (some 100,000). The Revision of the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act in 1990, extended domestic employment privileges to second and third generation Japanese descendants who travel between Japan and LAC and contribute to exchange and interaction.
Japanese overseas migration was one of the ways to resolve domestic overpopulation and poverty but national high economic growth stopped this. Later third and forth generations took their place in Nikkei societies. The “Report of the Panel of Experts on Collaborating with Communities of Japanese Immigrants and Descendants (“Nikkei”) in Latin America and the Caribbean” May 9, 2017 was presented to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Thus the Japanese Government has been achieving a partnership with Nikkei communities in LAC in an “All-Japan” style.
This article focuses on this diplomatic policy with Nikkei communities, and will consider the impact on Japanese diplomatic negotiations through Nikkei networks in LAC and other regions, as bilateral as well as multilateral diplomacy. To consider such multilateral diplomatic negotiations, we have collected documents on participant observations and have analyzed three international conventions: the 19th Pan American Nikkei Convention 2017 (Lima), the 59th Convention of Nikkei and Japanese Abroad (Honolulu) and the 20th Pan American Nikkei Convention (San Francisco).
Analysis results: over 3 days in each convention, participants shared the same history of host Nikkei societies and formed a Nikkei consciousness by staying and eating in the same hotels, etc. On this common foundation, the network between the Americas and Japan fosters Nikkei bonding. At these conventions participants discuss what “Nikkei” means. Proof that Nikkei people reflect on their own position in changing international affairs. Therefore, when we consider a partnership with Nikkei, collaboration with them helps us find universal solutions to achieve the 2030 Agenda’s global goals, in which they can flourish and become a bridge between Japan and other countries.
Specifically, how to collaborate with Nikkei people depends on each country’s situation. Considering individual differences, we can extract a type of success by Nikkei people in the Americas. They are good at technological advancement, and especially agricultural technology, development and production. Nikkei people had to improve themselves and are appreciated for their success in surviving in their host country. Their Nikkei legacy thus underlines the importance of “Gaman (patience)” and “Okagesama (gratitude)”.
Focusing on the Ashida Memorandum, this article examines the rise and fall of Japan’s security plan to station US military forces in Japan in the case of emergency. On September 13, 1947, Ashida Hitoshi, the Vice Prime Minister and the Foreign Minister of the Katayama cabinet, in cooperation with high officials of the Foreign Ministry, submitted a memorandum on Japan’s security to Robert L. Eichelberger, the Commander of US 8th Army. This memorandum, while stating security cooperation between the United States and Japan, argued to secure Japan’s independence through US military forces stationing in islands surrounding Japan’s mainland in peacetime. Nevertheless, the Japanese government, after the submission of the memorandum, decided to request the maintenance of US forces in Japan even after the peace settlement. This article, using hitherto used and newly declassified primary sources of Japanese foreign and police officials, and paying attention to the impact of the police reform of late 1947, reconsiders the historical process up to the formation of post-war Japan’s security policy.
Ashida and high officials of the Foreign Ministry, assuming US military forces would be withdrawn from Japan’s mainland after the peace settlement, sought to get a permission from GHQ regarding the reinforcement of Japan’s police forces to deal with internal communist threats. The Supreme Commander Douglas MacArthur showed a positive stance toward Ashida’s attempt. On September 3, he told the Japanese government that the Japanese police forces would be strengthened. Based on this information, Ashida and MOFA staff worked out the plan of emergency stationing of US forces. In other words, in the background of the submission of the Ashida Memorandum, there was an optimistic expectation that GHQ would permit the strengthening of the Japanese police forces in advance of the peace settlement.
Nevertheless, simultaneous with the submission of this memorandum, due to the change of MacArthur’s stance, GHQ chose the large-scale de-centralization of the Japanese police system as the principle of the police reform. Therefore, on September 17, GHQ directed the Japanese government to initiate this reform. In contrast to MOFA’s expectation, due to the establishment of the new Police Law in late 1947, Japan’s internal security capability was largely restricted. In these circumstances, the Japanese government was forced to depend on US military forces to maintain Japan’s internal security. Therefore, Yoshida Shigeru, after coming into power in late 1948, chose to deal with internal communist threats by maintaining US military presence in Japan’s mainland. Through examining the interrelation between internal and external issues, this article argues that internal security calculation was an important rationale behind the formation of the postwar US-Japan security partnership.
The 1973 energy crisis demonstrated the thriving influence of oil producer countries while also marking the termination of the Anglo-American led oil order. This literature examines the then Prime Minister Edward Heath’s reactions to the crisis, contending that Heath’s government formulated a two-faced oil policy. On the one hand, it supported America’s initiative to form a consumer front in order to confront the producers’ attempt to raise oil prices, while on the other hand, it developed bilateral deals in order to build inter-dependent relationships with the Arab oil producers. This admittedly challenges the accepted views in the literatures in oil history and Anglo-American history. The commentators in the former realm believe that the nature of the relationship between oil majors and the British government had been changing due to their different interests in North Sea Oil, which interrupted the government’s policy-making for the long-term basis. This resulted in Heath’s ad hoc reactions to the crisis, which forced the government to seek bilateral deals with the producers in order to cover the oil loss. In a similar vein, the commentators related to the latter tend to consider that Heath’s attempt to harmonise its Middle East policy to that of the French aggravated the Anglo-American relationship and Britain was not in a position where it took a collaborative action with the United States. This literature, however, points out a distinct chasm between research in the oil history and Anglo-American history during this period. It focuses on viewing both fields not as distinct areas but as part of the whole, thereby exposing subtle nuances in British duplicitous policy during the period. Precisely, by analysing communications between Heath, his advisors and executive members of oil majors before the oil crisis, it clarifies that most of them believed that the British interest in oil market would be aggrandised through collaborative operations with the Untied States, while Heath, seeing the changing balance of power in the oil order, developed bilateral deals with Arab oil producers in cooperation with France. It subsequently examines Heath’s Middle East policy during and after the Yom Kippur War, where the pro-American thinking was buttressed by the FCO’s idea that Britain should support the US peace initiative. Heath finally showed a middle ground based on the policymaking before the crisis, leading Britain to support America’s oil initiative while also finding its position in a new oil order by promoting the relationship with producers, the policy of which was far from extemporaneous. Despite the ambiguousness, the nuanced statecraft was imperative for maintaining British interests between the conflicting agendas of the United States, France and producer countries. | <urn:uuid:bb287700-fc1e-4889-bb1a-ef7fe58e29c0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/kokusaiseiji/list/-char/en | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00076.warc.gz | en | 0.953748 | 5,473 | 2.59375 | 3 |
For the last seven years, Iran and world powers have been engaged in seemingly endless negotiations over whether the Iranian nuclear programme could be curbed. After each failure, diplomats and journalists ended up wondering whether diplomacy would ever prevail – or whether Iran would end up either getting the nuclear bomb or being bombed.
But this autumn three factors came into play to make this the moment when a landmark deal needed to be agreed – and when the years of deadlock and obfuscation needed to come to an end. The agreement, hailed as a historic moment, has halted further progress on the nuclear programme in return for a modest lifting of international sanctions. Read more | <urn:uuid:39397968-b26d-45d4-a554-15ee0815d873> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://blogs.ft.com/the-world/2013/11/24/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280791.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00360-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933705 | 128 | 1.84375 | 2 |
Prime minister also announces five annual Physics fellowships for Ph.D. students in honor of Nobel Prizewinning physicist.
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Monday gave “in principle” approval to rename the Quaid-e-Azam University’s National Center for Physics to the ‘Professor Abdus Salam Center for Physics,’ honoring the Nobel Prizewinning physicist 20 years after his death.
A statement issued by the Prime Minister’s Office said Sharif had directed the Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training to submit a formal summary to rename the center for President Mamnoon Hussain’s approval. Also on Monday, the prime minister approved the Professor Abdus Salam Fellowship, which will grant five fellowships annually through the Higher Education Commission to Pakistani Ph.D. students in the field of Physics at reputed international universities.
According to a statement issued to media, Sharif approved the fellowships and renaming of the Physics Center in recognition of Dr. Mohammad Abdus Salam’s contributions to Pakistan and the world of theoretical physics. Salam—along with Sheldon Lee Glasgow and Steven Weinberg—was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in Physics in 1979 for “their contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles, including, inter alia, the prediction of the weak neutral current.”
Salam was the first Pakistani to ever receive a Nobel Prize. “His remarkable achievement earned fame and prestige for the country, which rightly deserves to be valued,” added the statement issued by the Prime Minister’s Office.
Salam served as a top-level adviser to the Government of Pakistan from 1960 to 1974, during which he was instrumental in developing the country’s nuclear program. An Ahmadiyya, he left the country in protest in 1974 after Parliament declared Ahmadis as non-Muslims, but continued to engage with and advise academics from the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission. In 1998, after the successful public testing of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons, the Government of Pakistan issued a commemorative stamp to honor his services to the nation as part of a “Scientists of Pakistan” series.
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Facing a regional arms embargo, Guinea's military ruler says he is ready to continue with mediation efforts. But Captain Moussa Camara says he will never accept a foreign intervention force.
Camara says he is ready to meet again with Burkinabe President Blaise Compaore who is leading mediation efforts on behalf of the Economic Community of West African States.
ECOWAS imposed an arms embargo Saturday on Guinea, accusing the military of "mass human-rights violations" during a demonstration last month against Captain Camara's expected presidential candidacy.
Human-rights groups say at least 157 people were killed when troops opened fire on protesters in Conakry's main sports stadium. The military government says 57 people died, most in the crush of people fleeing the stadium.
The International Criminal Court has opened a preliminary investigation into possible crimes against humanity during that violence. A U.N. team is in Conakry to start a probe into the killing.
Captain Camara denies responsibility, blaming the violence on political opponents and what he calls "uncontrollable elements" of the military. He has launched his own inquiry into the killing, but political parties, trade unions, and civil society groups are refusing to take part.
That main opposition coalition will not join direct talks in President Compaore's mediation unless Captain Camara resigns and his ruling council is dissolved.
The African Union had given Captain Camara until midnight Saturday to promise in writing that he will not be a candidate in January elections. But the group's Peace and Security Commission is delaying that decision to consult with President Compaore.
Captain Camara does not want the issue of his candidacy separated from other parts of the Burkinabe leader's mediation. He has taken action on one of President Compaore's recommendations concerning intimidation by government troops.
Captain Camara says young soldiers should no longer wear their uniforms and carry their weapons into the city at night because that can make people afraid. He says the military does not have to make people afraid any more, and soldiers should avoid provoking civilians.
He says what he calls "predators" are using the media to campaign for an international intervention force in Guinea.
Captain Camara says he will never, ever accept such an outside intervention force because Guineans would no longer be free, and such a force would divide the country. He says foreign troops would favor some geographic regions, arming some people while taking weapons from others. And that would prevent dialogue as he says has already been seen in other countries.
Captain Camara was part of the U.N. peacekeeping force in Sierra Leone in 2001 and 2002, so he says he knows that such a force is only used to separate different factions. That is not the case in his country, so he says Guineans do not need an intervention force.
Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade told the U.N. General Assembly last month an intervention force in Guinea would "forestall the situation from degenerating into chaos." President Wade was one of Captain Camara's earliest supporters, following the coup that brought him to power last December.
At the time, Captain Camara said none of the soldiers who took power would stand as political candidates. He now says he will not insult his supporters by ignoring their demands that he run for president. But he has not yet formally announced his candidacy. | <urn:uuid:9d037d42-d04e-4f50-bfe2-d66fe3c9981b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.voanews.com/a/a-13-2009-10-19-voa38-69781307/415410.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279368.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00323-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972155 | 693 | 1.570313 | 2 |
Politicians are often famous for the promises they do not keep. Even as they make them, skeptics begin to challenge their validity. Most of the time, they are forgiven. The logic that seems to follow is that nobody can be expected to keep his or her words all of the time. Far too often, I find that I accept and forgive failure. I may not accept the individual, but I accept his or her inability to deliver on the promise.
Candidly, if God's example is a model I believe in, I have it completely backwards. I need to understand what it means to embrace the individual in their failure while never accepting the failure itself.
As I listen to politicians the world over, I find myself caught in words of their choosing. I want to believe, no matter what the evidence suggests. I want to hold onto a positive view of the future, no matter what the odds. I want to live in the belief that others will solve the problems, no matter how large they might be.
There are flaws in my views. They include the fact that promises are often much more difficult to keep in the future than they are when they were first made. “When the four hundred years were nearly up, the time God promised Abraham for deliverance, the population of our people in Egypt had become very large.” (Acts 7.17)
To keep a promise means that I must stay connected to a Power that can deliver. I know this is God.
To keep a promise means that I must be brutally connected to the present. I know this means that I must stay close to God.
To keep a promise means that I must be engaged. Walking with a God that is engaged in the fine print of life is essential.
There are promises and then there are real promises. God promises to always be with you and me; in good times and bad, when we behave and even when we do not. God will never break a Divine promise.
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Jon White – From the President’s Office: 3-25-2016
I spent a few days in Savannah, Georgia this week as an invited speaker at the Consultative Group on Biological Diversity’s meeting, where I (again) stressed the importance of ocean science and technology in combating Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated (IUU) fishing. Left unchecked IUU, or pirate fishing, is a national security risk as well as infringing on our nation’s efforts to rebuild fish stocks.
While in Savannah, I had a chance to visit two Ocean Leadership member institutions– Savannah State University and Skidaway Institute of Oceanography. Both have capitalized on their unique history and location in the coastal marshlands to become stalwarts in marine science education and ocean research.
Savannah State, with its diverse student and faculty population in marine and environmental science programs, is a tremendous example of how to provide opportunity for everyone to study and work in these important fields, regardless of background. The program is a shining jewel at the university that has been a nationally renowned leader in diverse education excellence for well over a century.
Skidaway is an extraordinary research institution in all aspects. Their groundbreaking programs in complex areas, such as molecular carbon isotope behavior in the ocean, are helping to determine the character and scope of ongoing ocean changes, from the Arctic to the Lowcountry.
I salute and thank the faculty, staff, researchers, and students at both institutions! Not just for putting up with me for a few hours each, but for your leadership and dedication to critically important research and education programs. I am extremely proud and humbled to be associated with a consortium that includes so many excellent members like these.
Jonathan W. White, RADM, USN (ret.); M.S.
President and CEO
Consortium for Ocean Leadership
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If you are a daily caregiver for your mom or dad, do you think regularly that there is nothing left to talk about (and if you hear that "same old story" you're going to scream)? If mom or dad lives in a nursing home or retirement community, are you a clock watcher and can't wait to end your visit after just 10 minutes?
Well, you're not alone. If any of these situations fits you, then it's time to step back and make some changes so conversations can be more meaningful for both you and your parent or parents. After all, there's no sense wasting time and they still have much to give and share.
The next time you see mom or dad, it's time to empower them to reminisce in a new way---with a bit more structure than just stories swapped around the dinner table. You see, it's important for you to take the lead on this and ASK them questions that typically don't come up in normal conversation. Most will be happy to answer if you can genuinely show you're interested. I know it may be hard to believe, but it might even be fun for you to transport them to a different time and place that only they can share through the questions you pose. These are things that you may have never discussed before, or maybe you have but you'd like to hear the story again and maybe actually record and preserve it this time.
The key thing is to realize that their stories are an INCREDIBLE GIFT to you, and it's important for parents or grandparents to know that you actually WANT that gift badly. Okay, so you might be thinking you don't want the gift of their stories right now because you've heard it so many times or you're busy (or that you'll always remember that story so there is no need to write it down), but too many people regret not capturing the stories while they had a chance and they find it difficult to remember the details of the stories later no matter how hard they try. So many people tell me..."If only I would have written some of those stories down."
Before I give you some ideas of questions to ask, let's stop for a moment and think about the importance of our mothers and fathers. Many of these men and women are considered the Greatest Generation. We all know they have lived through extraordinary times--the Great Depression, World War II (FYI--only 18 percent of the World War II veterans still remain with us), and massive changes throughout the 20th and now the 21st Century. They were inventors of the incredible technologies we use today. They raised 77 million Baby Boomers for goodness sake! So they certainly have a life story to tell...but how will you help them tell it? How will you capture the essence of who he or she is while you have this chance? Wouldn't it be great to have their words of wisdom instead of just scrapbooks and an obituary some day to share with the grandchildren?
Okay, so let's look at a few starter questions for you to ask this week. Don't put this off -- you've got some new things to learn from your parents that you don't want to miss. Every day is a gift, right? Have a pad of paper and pen handy (to write down his or her answers) and give it a try (if your parents are willing) by asking these questions either by phone or in person:
When it comes to helping our parents' record their life stories, there's no time like the present and no better gift to the future. As for you, it's time to tell YOUR story too. Have fun and good luck!
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Distance from Linz to Nagykanizsa
Distance from Linz to Nagykanizsa is 290 kilometers. This air travel distance is equal to 180 miles.
The air travel (bird fly) shortest distance between Linz and Nagykanizsa is 290 km= 180 miles.
If you travel with an airplane (which has average speed of 560 miles) from Linz to Nagykanizsa, It takes 0.32 hours to arrive.
Linz is located in Austria.
|GPS Coordinates (DMS)||48° 18´ 23.0040'' N |
14° 17´ 9.9960'' E
Linz Distances to Cities
|Distance from Linz to Gyula||558 km|
|Distance from Linz to Abony||446 km|
|Distance from Linz to Gyor||259 km|
|Distance from Linz to Papa||262 km|
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See the current Perl documentation for local.
Here is our local, out-dated (pre-5.6) version:
local - create a temporary value for a global variable (dynamic scoping)
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Seeds fair in Morobo - South Sudan
FAO is stepping up its efforts to transform agriculture in South Sudan in 2012, boosting the number of seed fairs organized before the rainy season, expected to begin in April.
There are at least 13 seed fairs, during its third year of the initiative, funded by a 500 000 Euro grant from the French government. In 2011, there were just eight. The first in 2012 took place in Morobo county, in Central Equatoria state, on the southernmost tip of South Sudan. | <urn:uuid:c6e7b474-8003-4f51-bde7-021ec45b35b4> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.fao.org/emergencies/resources/photos/photo-detail/en/c/158387/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282935.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00241-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969841 | 114 | 1.8125 | 2 |
Overuse of antibiotics in livestock is linked to growing drug resistance in humans who consume the agricultural products, said Su Ih-jen (蘇益仁), director of the National Health Research Institutes’ National Institute of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, who called for more government attention on the matter.
Su made the remarks at an international seminar on infection control held on Saturday in Taipei by the Infection Control Society of Taiwan.
Su said that infection control involves reining in the use of both antibiotics for human use and those for animal use. While the hospitals in the nation have been putting great efforts into infection control, antibiotic use on farms continues to affect human health, because the amount of antibiotics used in agriculture is eight times greater than that for medical use, he said.
Taking Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) as an example, which is a bacterium that is resistant to certain antibiotics, Su said that despite some hospitals having done their part for infection control, the resistance rate of MRSA in general is still as high as 70 percent.
According to Centers for Disease Control data, the MRSA resistance rate in the US ranges from 34 percent to 58 percent, while it is 26 percent to 28 percent in the EU and 35 percent to 38 percent in Latin America.
Su lauded Cathay General Hospital’s work in controlling the MRSA resistance rate, which is the lowest in the nation at 50 percent.
The reason the hospital can achieve this relatively better outcome lies in its executive having control over dealing with pharmaceutical companies, who often have special relationships with infectious disease specialists in the country, he said.
Many of the hospitals exhibiting the worst infection control outcomes are in Miaoli, Greater Taichung, Changhua and Greater Tainan, where physicians have close ties with pharmaceutical companies and frequently prescribe last-line antibiotics, Su said. He added that the prescription of last-line antibiotics leads to the emergence of antibiotic resistance, necessitating stronger drugs, resulting in a vicious circle.
Antibiotics used in agriculture contribute to drug resistance in humans as well, he said. For instance, antibiotics in fish increase drug resistance in humans if the fish is cooked and eaten.
Su said that to be well managed and consistent, policy on the use of antibiotics should in the hands of the Executive Yuan.
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This Is What Really Hides In Taco Bell’s “Beef”
Taco Bell “beef” pseudo-Mexican delicacies are really made of a gross mixture called “Taco Meat Filling” as shown on their big container’s labels, like the one pictured here. The list of ingredients is gruesome. Updated.
Beef, water, isolated oat product, salt, chili pepper, onion powder, tomato powder, oats (wheat), soy lecithin, sugar, spices, maltodextrin (a polysaccharide that is absorbed as glucose), soybean oil (anti-dusting agent), garlic powder, autolyzed yeast extract, citric acid, caramel color, cocoa powder, silicon dioxide (anti-caking agent), natural flavors, yeast, modified corn starch, natural smoke flavor, salt, sodium phosphate, less than 2% of beef broth, potassium phosphate, and potassium lactate.
It looks bad but passable… until you learn that—according to the Alabama law firm suing Taco Bell—only 36% of that is beef. Thirty-six percent. The other 64% is mostly tasteless fibers, various industrial additives and some flavoring and coloring. Everything is processed into a mass that actually looks like beef, and packed into big containers labeled as “taco meat filling.” These containers get shipped to Taco Bell’s outlets and cooked into something that looks like beef, is called beef and is advertised as beef by the fast food chain.
Can you call beef something that looks like ground beef but it’s 64% lots-of-other-stuff? Taco Bell thinks they can.
That’s the reason why an Alabama law firm is presenting a class action lawsuit for false advertising—they are not asking for any money—saying that the fake Mexican food maker should label their processed clustermass of disgust as what it really is in all promotional materials, following USDA laws. It appears that they have a very good point.
According to the USDA, Taco Bell can’t call this mixture “beef” at all. Beef is officially defined as “flesh of cattle”, and ground beef is defined as:
Chopped fresh and/or frozen beef with or without seasoning and without the addition of beef fat as such, shall not contain more than 30 percent fat, and shall not contain added water, phosphates, binders, or extenders.
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Cardiovascular disease and stroke don’t happen out of nowhere. If you notice these 5 signs, you better see a cardiologist immediately!
Cardiovascular diseases show signs way before they actually develop. Your body always warns you when something is not functioning well. That goes for diseases in general; however, when something is wrong with your heart, the signs should be noticed on time.
These signs appear when there’s an artery blockage and the flow of oxygen to a particular section of your heart is impeded. This causes the heart attacks; if not noticed on time and if the artery is not put in function immediately, you’ll probably experience a heart attack or a stroke.
Furthermore, it’s crucial that you notice this signs as they show up hours or days, sometimes even weeks before it actually happens. But, for you to notice them, you should first know them.
Male and female cardiovascular disease and stroke symptoms are different, but we’ll show you the 5 symptoms they have in common.
5 cardiovascular disease and stroke symptoms
When there’s no proper blood flow due to narrowed arteries, your body is weak. When you notice body weakness and fatigue, don’t ignore it; it might actually prepare you for what’s coming.
Flu or cold-like symptoms
In addition, you feel body weakness when you’re about to get a flu or a cold. The weakness is accompanied with vomiting, nausea, runny nose or cough. People who have experienced stroke or heart attack claim that they all had these flu or cold-like symptoms before the event.
Cold sweats and dizziness
Moreover, cold sweats and dizziness are also cold-like symptoms that would never make you think of heart attack or flu; you’d instantly conclude that you’re having a cold. However, these two symptoms show poor circulation and lack of blood supply to your brain.
Shortness of breath
Again, due to the lack of oxygen to the brain, you’ll experience shortness of breath. This is because your lungs don’t get the necessary oxygen to do their function properly. Your lungs and your hearth work together; when one is not functioning properly, the other one suffers.
Pressure in the chest
Now, this must be the most obvious sign that you’re about to experience some cardiovascular problem. The pressure can spread from the chest, through the shoulders into the arms and back. Beware if you experience this and contact your doctor right away! | <urn:uuid:3375f7cf-4175-43e3-81cf-771c8dd834b7> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://healthandwellness365.com/2017/01/08/if-you-notice-these-5-signs-youre-at-risk-of-cardiovascular-disease-and-stroke/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280929.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00430-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933383 | 524 | 2.59375 | 3 |
Bronze Roman sculpture god warrior statue signed drouot art deco figurine. This product sheet is originally written in English.Please find an automatic translation in French below. If you have any questions please contact us. Condition: This sculpture is in perfect condition. Bronze dimensions with marble base: height 16 \"x width 10\" dimensions of marble: 10 \"x 4 1/2\" height without base: 15 weights: 17 lbs inventory: 14b37110041 the Spartan warrior description: this is a bronze statue of an ancient Greek warrior signed by e. Cast in a dark brown patina. He represents a proud warrior on his knees bent after a victory in battle. He greets his country with joy with his high spear. The subtleties of her knitwear and armour, in addition to the fine details of her helmet and shield, to the delicate patterns of her sandals that go up to her leggings, contribute to the intense royal behavior of this piece. It's definitely one of a kind. About the artist: Edouard drouot , born in Sommevoire, France, April 3, 1859; died in Paris on May 22, 1945. It is amply described in the \"dictionary of sculptors\" of kjellberg stone. His exhibitions at the salon began in 1889 born in sumvoire, drouot studied in Paris with emile thomas and mathurin moreau, working as both a genre painter and sculptor. He received a medal at the 1892 show and an honourable mention at the 1900 World's Fair. Drouot had a vast repertoire, a variety of themes and a sense of movement and expression that made this artist an exceptional member of the sculpture community. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Most orders are shipped within 24 to 48 hours of purchase. Please contact us before making any purchases in these areas. Please refer to the \"shipping and handling\" table for rates for each area. Condition: This sculpture is in perfect condition. Bronze dimensions with marble base: height 16 \"x width 10\" dimensions of marble: 10 \"x 4 1/2\" height without base: 15 weights: 17 lbs inventory: 14b37110041 the Spartan warrior about the artist: edouard drouot, born in sommevoire, France, April 3, 1859; died in Paris on May 22, 1945. Increase your overseas sales with the global webinterpret list solution. The item \"bronze sculpture Roman god warrior statue signed drouot figurine art deco\" is on sale since Tuesday, January 26, 2021. It is in the category \"art, antiques-art of the xxe, contemporary-sculptures, statues\". The seller is \"think_bronze\" and is located in westbury, New York. This item can be delivered anywhere in the world. | <urn:uuid:dcb744d8-bdea-4e01-b5ad-f573da3bf507> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sculpturebronzeart.com/en/bronze-sculpture-roman-god-warrior-statue-signed-drouot-figure-art-deco.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.95326 | 594 | 1.671875 | 2 |
Bulgarian Archaeologists Find Late Antiquity Church on Black Sea Coast
Bulgarian archaeologists have found a church dating back to the late Antiquity period, which is located near the village of Sarafovo, on the Black Sea coast.
The site, which is close to the Bulgarian Black Sea city of Burgas, has been excavated by the team of Prof. Dr. Lyudmil Vagalinski, who is the Director of the National Archaeology Institute and Museum at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, since the start of May 2012.
"We can safely say that we have found a small church. Initial evidence allows us to date it back to the 4th-6th century AD," Prof. Vagalinski explained as cited by Darik Radio.
The excavations at Sarafovo (a village also known for hosting a military airfield) began after over the winter the sea waves uncovered parts of a Roman structures – a residential building with a sewage system, whose existence has been suspected by Bulgarian archaeologists since the 1970s.
At the end of February 2012, the Bulgarian government allocated BGN 120 000 for the excavations near Sarafovo.
Initially, the Bulgarian archaeologists supposed they might uncover a Roman town on the coast of the Black Sea, with a port at the entrance of local mineral baths – located at a town known as Aquae Calidae (located on the territory of two quarters in today's city of Burgas).
The latest excavations, however, have rejected the hypothesis of the archaeologists of the existence of a new Roman-era port town near Aquae Calidae, and have only confirmed the existence on the spot of a small ancient church instead.
The excavations in Sarafovo will continue by mid-June; the archaeologists believe that saintly relics might have been built inside the foundations of the church they found; back in 2012, another Bulgarian archaeologist, Prof. Kazimir Popkonstantinov, found relics of St. John the Baptist in an ancient church on the St. Ivan Island near Sozopol.
The archaeologists and the Burgas Municipality plan to construct a facility protecting the ancient site in Sarafovo from the corrosive influence of the waves and wind, especially strong during the winter.
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The United Nations Security Council has accepted the United States' justification for launching military strikes against Taliban and alleged terrorist positions in Afghanistan. Council members stressed their unity in the growing antiterrorism campaign, while at the same time the United States said it reserved the right to strike organizations or states beyond Afghanistan that are also linked to terrorism.
United Nations, 9 October 2001 (RFE/RL) -- The United Nations Security Council and UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan have both signaled that the U.S.-led military action in Afghanistan is justified by the right to self-defense. Council representatives were briefed by the U.S. and British ambassadors late yesterday about the air strikes launched two days ago. Council President Richard Ryan of Ireland read a statement afterward saying the Council accepted the reports by the two ambassadors:
"The permanent representatives made it clear that the military actions of 7 October were taken in self-defense and directed at terrorists and those who harbored them. They stressed that every effort was being made to avoid civilian casualties and that they were in no way a strike at the people of Afghanistan, Islam, or the Muslim world."
Ryan told reporters the unanimity of the council is "absolutely maintained" following the U.S. reprisals. He said Council members remain determined to carry out the resolutions issued since the 11 September terrorist attacks on New York and Washington. Its strongest resolution, adopted late last month, requires the UN's 189 member-states to take steps to pursue terrorists and cut off any financial support for them.
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan also released a statement yesterday noting that the military attacks on Taliban and alleged terrorist positions are in conformance with the United Nations Charter. The Charter permits states to act in self-defense when attacked, prior to any ultimate action by the Security Council.
Annan in his statement stressed the need for a broad strategy uniting all nations and not restricted to only military methods:
"The cause must be pursued by all the states of the world, working together and using many different means -- including political, legal, diplomatic, and financial means."
In launching the strikes on Taliban-ruled areas, the U.S. sent a letter to the Security Council formally announcing it was exercising its right to self-defense.
But the letter, from U.S. ambassador to the UN John Negroponte, also said Washington reserved the right to take further military action against organizations or states linked to terrorist attacks.
Negroponte's letter said Washington had clear evidence that the Al-Qaeda network, supported by the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, had a central role in the terrorist attacks of 11 September.
Negroponte told reporters the United States was committed to a multifaceted international approach to combat terrorism. But he said Washington does not want to limit its ability to act militarily:
"That statement is made in the context of the events of September 11, but when you're talking about the inherent right of self-defense, I don't think that one would want to limit oneself in any particular way. I think one exercises [military might] when one thinks that it is justified."
Negroponte said yesterday's Council briefing showed "strong understanding" that the United States is acting on its inherent right of self-defense.
In a separate development yesterday, the UN Security Council approved five new non-permanent members -- including Syria, which the United States says is among a group of countries sponsoring terrorism. (The remaining four are Bulgaria, Cameroon, Guinea, and Mexico. They replace Bangladesh, Jamaica, Mali, Tunisia, and Ukraine.)
The United States did not contest Syria's candidacy as it did last year when Sudan, also on the U.S. list of countries promoting terrorism, was a candidate.
The United States is seeking Syria's cooperation in its campaign against those responsible for the attacks in New York and Washington. But it had not planned to block Syria's bid for a non-permanent Council seat even before the 11 September attacks. The five new members will take their seats in January.
Israeli officials and some U.S. members of Congress have expressed outrage at Syria's election, pointing to its support for Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon. As a two-year member, Syria will not have the veto power of permanent members but will have a voice in Council deliberations on a range of peace and security issues. That includes having a representative on the new Council committee set up to enforce counterterrorism measures.
One expert on Security Council affairs, former Canadian diplomat David Malone, says Syria should not be prejudged about its behavior on the Council. Malone, who is president of the International Peace Academy, a New York-based think-tank, says Syria appeared to play a useful role in the U.S.-led effort to oust Iraqi forces from Kuwait 10 years ago:
"It may well prove highly pragmatic, as it did of the time of the Gulf War in 1991 when it actually in many ways seemed to be tacitly cooperating with the United States and its allies to weaken its traditional Baath [movement] rival, Iraq."
Malone says the United States has so far worked skillfully to put together an international antiterrorism coalition. But he says for the United States to sustain the sense of cooperation on terrorism over the long term, it will need to cooperate more with member-states on issues such as disarmament and the International Criminal Court. | <urn:uuid:4c7b8361-97c7-4524-8b15-32b7a70c8ec8> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.rferl.org/a/1097656.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280835.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00043-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967334 | 1,103 | 1.96875 | 2 |
Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America, is a volunteer organization that inspires a passion for and commitment to its partnership with the land and people of Israel. It enhances the health of people worldwide through its support of medical care and research at the Hadassah Medical Organization in Jerusalem. Hadassah empowers its members and supporters, as well as youth in Israel and America through opportunities for personal growth, education, advocacy and Jewish continuity.
Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America, was founded in 1912 by Henrietta Szold. Since its inception, Hadassah has remained unwavering in its devotion to Judaism, Zionism, and American ideals.
As the largest volunteer organization and the largest women’s organization in America, Hadassah is committed to strengthening the unity of the Jewish people. In Israel, they accomplish this through progressive healthcare, education, youth institutions, volunteerism, and land reclamation. In the U.S. Hadassah reaches their goals through Jewish and Zionist education programs, Zionist Youth programs, and health awareness programs, as well as by advocating for issues of importance to women and to the American Jewish community. | <urn:uuid:1a06664b-525e-4fe4-baf1-99f95a3dae0b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.shegivesback.org/hadassah-chicago-northshore-chapter/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00269.warc.gz | en | 0.966334 | 240 | 1.859375 | 2 |
HP’s Trojan Horse
Our neighbors in Palo Alto have been making a lot of noise about the difference in price between Hewlett-Packard and Cisco networking equipment. They’d like customers to believe they can offer similar capabilities to Cisco but at much lower prices—“Cisco for less,” if you will.
Most folks understand that the first part of that claim isn’t true. They’re not Cisco. To start with, when a company spends just 2% of revenues on R&D (as HP does), it isn’t capable of generating the type of innovation that a company spending 13% can (as Cisco does). We explained how Cisco innovation delivers differentiated capabilities when we debunked the myth of the ‘Good Enough’ network.
But some customers still ask me about the price difference—the “for less” part. After all, everyone is looking to cut costs, right?
Nowadays, I answer those questions by reminding customers of the story of the Trojan horse. You know the one: The Greeks laid siege to the city of Troy for many years, but suddenly withdrew, leaving behind a giant wooden horse as a gift.
The Trojans, believing the war was over, accepted the peace offering, dragged it into their city, celebrated, and fell asleep. During the night, Greek soldiers clambered out of the horse, set fire to the city, and massacred the citizens of Troy. Ever since, the Trojan horse has been synonymous with the most deceptive of gifts…and that’s where HP comes in.
You see, when HP offers discounted prices, it’s not giving you the whole picture about network total cost of ownership (TCO).
As our new study about the real economics of networking reveals, for many organizations approximately 70% of network TCO is incurred after the initial equipment purchase.
HP’s ‘good enough’ network does comparatively little to help reduce the labor, energy, service, security and bandwidth costs that comprise the largest part of that TCO.
In fact, as our new study shows, when bandwidth savings and reduced network management costs (which only Cisco can deliver) are applied to most TCO scenarios, Cisco comes close to parity with HP. That’s right: Cisco costs the same as HP but, with Cisco, customers get all the capabilities of a next-generation network.
When the ability to reduce energy consumption in IP phones and networked computing devices with Cisco EnergyWise is factored in, and coupled with the typically longer refresh cycles of Cisco products, the Cisco network could actually be up to 13% LESS expensive than the HP network.
Yes, that’s right: HP will cost MORE than Cisco.
In other words, they’re not Cisco and they’re not less.
Even in scenarios where basic connectivity is the primary aim (versus business enablement, empowerment and upside), and a ‘good enough’ network is considered sufficient, Cisco’s management technologies still narrow the gap on TCO with HP to a negligible difference. Of course, with a basic Cisco network, customers can always upgrade over time. With an HP network, they’re stuck with, well, barely good enough.
You can learn more about all of these TCO facts and the real “Economics of Networking” during an online TV broadcast that Cisco will air at 9:30 am Pacific Time on Monday, October 10th. Click to register.
In the meantime, be careful of anyone offering you a gift that looks too good to be true. It probably is.Tags: | <urn:uuid:ee1d4cfc-c458-4c00-8138-7f53732de955> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://blogs.cisco.com/news/hp%E2%80%99s-trojan-horse | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280761.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00093-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949319 | 757 | 1.648438 | 2 |
Breathlessness: This is a result of an elevated level of hormones in your system.
Headaches: Your increasing hormones amounts can result in headaches. Attempt to flake out, look for places that are quiet get enough remainder, consume frequently, don’t get overheated, and remain far from unventilated areas. Alternatively use hot and cool compresses to your area that is aching 30 moments. And stay tall: slouching and looking down causes headaches. Breast Changes: Your breasts will expand and start to become really tender because of your increased hormones amounts. The areola (dark area around nipple) will darken, and you might notice pttle bumps, that are small glands. The veins are more visible. Increased fat from your own increased breasts might cause some back discomfort that a well-fitted help bra will help relieve.
Petrol and constipation: Constipation, which can be typical during pregnancy, could cause fuel and bloating, so eat much less and much more often. You are able to lessen constipation by consuming hot pquids each day, having a regular restroom schedule, drinking more liquids, and eating up more vegetables and fruit. You should avoid foods that are gas-producing.
Warning signs and symptoms of a problem that is potential miscarriage throughout the very very very first trimester can sometimes include moderate cramps or spotting. pe down and rest if this occurs. Spotting is common during pregnancy—especially across the time you’ll expect your period normally. If discomfort increases and bleeding is comparable to your duration, contact your doctor. If you have some of the after indications, go right to the degree III Emergency and Trauma Center at Saint Francis infirmary: a heat significantly more than 100 F with no flu signs, or even a heat that persists one or more time
Throughout your trimester that is second of, you will definitely feel a lot better and your growing infant will likely not cause you discomfort. Every three days, you ought to talk with the doctor to test your bodyweight, blood pressure levels, and urine; gauge the height of the womb; look at your baby’s heartbeat; and check always for signs and symptoms of swelpng.
The doctor may purchase tests that are specialsuch as for example a sonogram) to look for the size, age, and development of your infant. A sonogram is a painless test utilized to discover the placenta (afterbirth) and it is maybe maybe not damaging to your cams4.org/female/anal-play/ child. A fetal task test (FAT) monitors your baby’s heartrate and motions. We shall perform your FAT and sonograms at Saint Francis infirmary. Occasional pghtheadedness, dizziness, nasal congestion, nosebleeds, bleeding gum tissue, upsurge in appetite, moderate swelpng of ankles and legs, swelpng regarding the fingers and face, varicose veins, and hemorrhoids. Fetal movement, backache, skin pigmentation modifications, and increased pulse price
2nd Trimester Care and Modifications
Workout: workout is nevertheless crucial, but don’t exhaust your self. Walking is amongst the most readily useful choices, therefore have a day-to-day stroll at an appropriate price if climate allows. Continue your Kegel workouts in addition to pelvic rocking. Preserve proper position. Diet: Eat smaller but more meals that are frequent. Fruits and veggies should assist you to keep regular bowel movements. Enhance your liquids.
Breathlessness: This is a result of a heightened level of hormones in the body. As your maternity improvements, your womb pushes up against your diaphragm. Forgetfulness: Forgetting a scheduled appointment, losing things and achieving dilemmas focusing are normal and short-term. Recognize these issues being a normal element of maternity and attempt to lower your anxiety. Keep good feeling of humor—and checkpsts.
Hair Dyes and Perms: it is advisable to avoid locks dyes and/or perms through your maternity. If you’re concerned with grey hair, here is another pure veggie color. Nasal Stuffiness: Nasal stuffiness usually does occur with maternity. If pollen impacts you, drink significantly more fluids and remain inside with a filtered air conditioning equipment. Avoid pets and dirt. Nosebleeds may possibly occur. Take to using Vasepne in each nostril, fit your nose for some moments, and apply a cloth that is cold. Use a vaporizer or humidifier. | <urn:uuid:f6405cca-7af8-4cd8-b3f0-e46ad580f81a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.cykloohre.cz/breathlessness-this-is-a-result-of-an-elevated-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00476.warc.gz | en | 0.931085 | 966 | 1.671875 | 2 |
Biofield Energy Biofield Impact on Antimicrobial Sensitivity of S. Saprophyticus This study was undertaken to evaluate the impact of biofield treatment to the biotyping & antimicrobial sensitivity of S. saprophyticus based on various biochemical characteristics. Biochemical Characteristics of S. Saprophyticus and Biofield Impact Read here a study to analyze the effect of biofield energy treatment on S. saprophyticus or evaluation of its antibiogram profile, biochemical reactions pattern and biotyping characteristics. Impact of Biofield Treatment on Biotyping of S. Saprophyticus In this experiment, biotyping of Staphylococcus Saprophyticus was performed using automated systems, and the results found significant changes in the biofield treated samples. Biofield Treatment of Staphylococcus Saprophyticus & Biochemical Study The Biofield Treatment has altered the 14.81% biochemical reactions pattern and biotype number of biofield treated strain of S. saprophyticus. Read here for more details. An Impact of Biofield Energy Treatment on S. Saprophyticus Characteristics This study postulated that Biofield treatment has the ability to alter the sensitivity pattern of antimicrobials and affect the characteristics of S. Saprophyticus. Staphylococcus Saprophyticus Biotyping - Biofield Treatment In this experiment, biotyping was performed using automated systems, and the results found significant changes in the biofield treated groups of S. saprophyticus. | <urn:uuid:8037cd18-dcee-4076-b385-fb4de1b5b5eb> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://start.me/p/VBLgRv/biofield-energy | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281226.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00373-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.823803 | 324 | 2.15625 | 2 |
London was engulfed yesterday by a smell so foul that Brits worried some giant sewer had overflowed, ABC News reports. But not to worry—the smell came from Europe, officials insisted. The Daily Mail quuickly blamed the French for "le stink," but it appeared to be caused by stale air blowing over from Germany, Belgium, and Holland, weather experts said. The stench, which is not a health hazard, is expected to abate, officials said.
"One doesn't know whether the origins of the smell are industrial or agricultural, but we think it's built up over time, since it was trapped in the atmosphere for a while," said one meteorologist. "That's why it's so intense." | <urn:uuid:758e1a4a-5210-44a2-8055-bd7e6f34dc5a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.newser.com/story/25022/ewww-what-stinks-london.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280761.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00090-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.984901 | 148 | 1.71875 | 2 |
Re: Book Review - The Romans (ed. Giardina)
Danny Yee (danny@STAFF.CS.SU.OZ.AU)
Tue, 26 Sep 1995 16:11:49 +1000
> In discussing omissions in the topic of women, you list as
> examples,motherhood, prostitution, and what was the third one? What,
> you're not interested in women's political, economic, academic, religious
> roles, only in the tired old stereotypes ofmother, prostitute, and etc.
> But thanks for the reference, I'll read the book anyway. Ruby Rohrlich
I must have given you the wrong idea about the book. It's not
a general study of Roman society, but a study of the different
*positions* or roles occupied by individuals. The chapters have
titles like "The Jurist", "The Slave", etc. So I didn't expect
a chapter on "Womens' Role in Economic life". And though I did
think many of the chapters could have paid more attention to women,
I think the biggest absence was chapters on female roles, to balance
the chapters on exclusively male roles (such as soldiers and jurists).
Hence the three possibilities I listed. | <urn:uuid:a7af4fd9-d189-4272-a216-409fa44e2e36> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://unauthorised.org/anthropology/anthro-l/september-1995/0514.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280483.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00300-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944214 | 268 | 1.5 | 2 |
As far as I am aware, when "would" is used to refer to past habits or states,
we do not use it with state verbs. But in the "have + noun" collocations (expressions),
can I use:
I would have a shower three times a day when I was younger.
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- Popper's operation
Fenestration operation. Uniting a neotympanic system to a labyrinthine fistula for the cure of progressive hearing loss in patients with otosclerosis. It was improved by Julius Lempert (1890-1968) in 1938. The fenestra operation is now replaced by stapes operations.
- M. L. J. M. Sourdille:
New technique in the surgical treatment of severe progressive deafness from otosclerosis.
Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine, New York, 1937, 13: 673-691.
First successful attempt to restore hearing in otosclerosis by fenestration.
- J. Lempert:
Improvement of hearing in cases of otosclerosis: a new, one stage surgical technique.
Archives of Otolaryngology, Chicago, July 1938, 28: 42-97.
It was Lempert's one-stage endaural open operation that gave the fenestration operation the worldwide acceptance it gained.
- Ermiro Estevam de Lima (1901-1997):
A Otosclerose. A via Supra-meatica. Oficinas Alba-graficas, 1943. Rio de janeiro.
- O. Popper:
Fenestration of the labyrinth. Transtympanic Fenestration.
S. Laryng.Otol. 61: 441, 1946.
(We do not know which journal is referred to - can you help?)
- G. Shambaugh:
Fenestration Operation for Otosclerosis.
Acta Oto-Laryngologica; Supplementum LXXLX, 1949.
- I. P. Poulsen:
Popper's operation for otosclerosis; results of 140 cases observed in more than 2 years.
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At the closing ceremony for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, Australia came home with a grand medal tally of 4:
1 – Gold Jakara Anthony in Women’s Freestyle Mogul
2 – Silver Jaclyn Narracott in Women’s Skeleton
Scotty James in Men’s Snowboard Halfpipe
1 – Bronze Tess Coady in Women’s Snowboard Slopestyle.
The most amount of medals ever won by the Australian Winter Olympic Team.
The history of the Winter Olympics stems back to 1924 when over 250 athletes from 16 nations competed in 16 events in Chamonix, France. Not surprisingly the European and Scandinavian countries dominated the medal tally of these early games.
It wasn’t until 1936 Australia sent its first competitor; Kenneth Kennedy who competed in speed skating. Fast forward nearly 7 decades and it wasn’t until 1994 Australia climbed onto the medal tally winning bronze in the men’s short track relay team. Steven Bradbury, Alisa Campbell, Cool Runnings, and Eddie the Eagle are arguably colloquial names when it comes to the Winter Olympics.
Steven Bradbury became famous by winning Australia’s first-ever Gold medal at the games in the infamous 1000m race of 2002. The entire field in front of Bradbury crashed during the final lap, allowing him to claim the Gold. Bradbury was also part of the relay team in 1994 who secured Australia’s first medal.
2002 was the same year Alisa Campbell shone through in the Women’s aerial skiing, claiming Gold and shining brightly ever since. Campbell has been commentating for the Winter Olympics since her retirement.
With these history-makers still leaving a mark on the Winter Olympic stage – it is time to widen the stage as Australia welcome’s new athletes and inspirations to the stage. But what exactly did we win medals in? Skeleton sounds like something you keep in the closest, rather than proudly claiming to win a medal in.
Cool Runnings (1993), a movie about the Jamaican Bobsled team who became cult classics at the 1988 Calgary Olympics, pushed the sport of Bobsled into the homes of so many. Even today all you need to do is start the song “Ah, Jamaica’s got a bobsled team….” And will no doubt hear the reply “1, bob, 1 sled, that’s our team.” Now on the world stage, down the same track runs skeleton and luge. What is the difference?
Bobsled is as old as the Olympics themselves (1924), made famous by the Jamaican bobsled crew, and involves a team of 2 or 4 hurtling down a track in a ‘sled’. Men’s events allow for teams of 4 or 2 to hurtle down the course, whilst women compete in either 2 and for the first time this Olympics in mono-bob (singular). This is the most ‘team sport’ on the track where athletes gain traction sprinting over 50meteres before alighting in the sled.
The sleds have become more and more technical as the games continue. A ‘shell’ sits on a multi- pivoting axle that allows for twisting, steering, and braking. These are controlled by different pulls on strings by the front driver, and brakes by the back athlete.
Sleds can reach up to 125km/hr down the track, and much more than just ‘sit down and hang on, the steering and body position of athletes determine entry and exit points on corners, and ultimately speed and time down the track.
Australia had 4 athletes represent the nation in the bobsled this year: Bree Walker, Jacyln Narracott, Kiara Reddingius, and Nick Timmings.
From sitting upright with your fellow athletes to getting as close to the ice as you can. Luge, has athletes hurtling along the track reaching speeds of 125-140km/hr. It is one of the fastest winter Olympic team sports. Luge is completed either in pairs or individually.
The starting track has participants sitting up scooting along the ice with their hands to gain as much speed as possible before lying down on the sled. In pairs Luge, the bigger participant lies on top to help with aerodynamics whilst hurtling down track’s twists and turns.
Athletes steer their craft at speed by shifting their body position, depressing their shoulders on one end, and applying pressure to the inside of their calves steering. Australia had only Alexander Ferlazzo representing this year at the Games.
All Winter Olympic sports hold some element of risk, that may be the attraction of the Games for both the athletes and spectators. One event that may hold some of the highest ‘perceived risk’ is the Skeleton.
Imagine going from Bobsled, feeling safe inside a sleigh, to Luge, lying down, feet first, through to facing the same track head-on. The skeleton is a single-person event that starts with athletes pushing the sled 40metres before lying prone face first. Athletes reach speeds comparable to Luge and bobsled, dragging their feet behind them to render control on the track.
This year Jacyln Narracott brought home silver in the women’s event leading to one of our 4 medals whilst Nick Timmings represented the men.
The next winter Olympics will be held in Milano-Cortina, Italy in 2026.
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With Aston Martin city cars, Ferrari hybrids, Porsche hybrids and Audi diesels dancing through its halls, it's no wonder the 2010 Geneva Motor Show attracts its share of off-message green machines.
Perhaps no nameplate in the world is as off-message, in toto, as Rinspeed. In past years, the wacky Swiss tuners have brought us amphibious cars, nearly invisible cars, flying cars, and unclassifiable things we think are cars. It's all clever PR for their tuning werkes--and a nice sideshow to the usual Geneva clatter.
This year's concept seems a little too dead-on for Rinspeed, though. The UC? (you see?) is at first blush, a pretty conventional city car. The hatchback is actually part of a mobility plan, Rinspeed insists, one designed for future production. Driven by joystick, the concept has battery packs that enable it to deliver more than 70 miles of driving range, and a top speed of about 65 mph.
In the imaginary air surrounding the conventional-looking UC?, Rinspeed imagines a network of trains and drive-in train cars, into which the UC? will conveniently dock for long-distance travels. On magic design-studio paper, Rinspeed has drawn up the sketchiest of plans for a network of portable charging stations, which can be reserved over the Web.
As in past years, the UC? concept was built by Swiss engineering company Esoro. The lightweight vehicle produces 96 pound-feet of torque from its electric motor, reaches a top speed of 75 mph and has an operating range of 65 miles. That is more than enough for most traffic in urban areas. Statistics show that in Europe 82 percent of all trips cover distances of less than 37 miles (in the U.S. this figure is closer to 75 percent of all trips).
The UC? also does away with a conventional steering wheel, replacing it with a force-feedback joystick supplied by German electronics specialist Rafi. The unique system is said to offer a better steering feel and more accurate feedback from the road.
Rinspeed's chief imagineer, Frank M. Rinderknecht, goes so far as to suggest the UC? is the linchpin in a "web-based car world that interweaves individual and public transport in an intelligent way"--and namechecks the "lovebug" to suggest his car could transform the world in the same way as the original Beetle.
According to Rinspeed, the concept is production ready and is designed to be easily adapted and integrated by volume manufacturers. The design group even boasts that intensive talks with manufacturers are already well underway. | <urn:uuid:05117593-5f7a-4044-bf6a-2ef390048dfa> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.motorauthority.com/news/1040280_2010-geneva-motor-show-preview-rinspeed-uc-concept | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00075.warc.gz | en | 0.956536 | 559 | 1.671875 | 2 |
- un miracolo, attribuito all'intercessione del Venerabile Servo di Dio Giovanni Enrico Newman, Cardinale e Fondatore degli Oratori di San Filippo Neri in Inghilterra; nato a Londra (Inghilterra) il 21 aprile 1801 e morto a Edgbaston (Inghilterra) l'11 agosto 1890;Followers of the 'blog will know that I have a devotion to Newman and am delighted that his beatification is imminent.
- a miracle, attributed to the intercession of the Venerable Servant of God John Henry Newman, Cardinal and Founder of the Oratories of St Philip Neri in England; born in London (England) 21 April 1801 and died in Edgebaston (England) 11 August 1890
The big question is - will it be held in England or in Rome? Pope Benedict has had a policy of not celebrating beatification ceremonies himself, but rather delegating them and having them celebrated in the local Churches or countries of the Beati. However, Newman has been a significant influence on Pope Benedict and, given his historical and theological stature, the beatification may happen in Rome. We'll wait and see. | <urn:uuid:110aad01-011f-4079-abbd-2df80aa7adda> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://zadokromanus.blogspot.com/2009/07/newman-miracle-approved.html?showComment=1246971630447 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280891.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00156-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.829889 | 268 | 1.742188 | 2 |
Farmers challenge 'unfair' SFP penalties
Published 11/10/2016 | 02:30
A High Court action against the Department of Agriculture alleging that penalties imposed on farmers under the Single Farm Payments system were "inequitable, unjust and unfair" was lodged this week.
The action is being led by a group of farmers in West Cork who formed the Disadvantaged Farmers Action Group to challenge penalties of up to 100pc applied to their Single Farm Payments. They claim that "unfair procedures and penalties" were imposed on the land owners following review of their land area.
The decision to proceed with the service of plenary summons against the Department of Agriculture in the action was taken following a meeting between the action group and their legal advisors.
Six farmers are being named in the action. Four are based in Cork, one in Kerry and one in Tipperary.
However, the group have compiled detailed files on scores of farmers in similar situations throughout the country who lost most or all of their entitlements to the SFP.
Dermot Kelleher, chairman of the Disadvantaged Farmers Action Group, told Farming Independent yesterday: "We are being supported by over 7,000 farmers who are unhappy with the way they were treated in the review (of the area base under SFP) and over €100,000 has been contributed for a contingency fund to initiate the legal action. The support is coming from farmers from West Cork to Donegal, some of whom lost 100pc of their payments because the Department of Agriculture claimed that their land was ineligible. They claimed their land was worthless, but the farms carry the same stocking levels as the base years for the SFP."
The action is being supported by the ICSA, of which Mr Kelleher is West Cork chairman and chairman of the ICSA Suckler Committee.
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Futurologist Matthias Horx once called megatrends "avalanches in slow motion". According to his definition, a trend is a megatrend if it exists for more than 25 years, occurs globally or at least internationally, and has an impact on many areas of life.
Megatrends are deep currents of social change in habits, behaviors, and morals. Unlike fashions, they cannot be created or influenced, because they develop out of society. The Future Institute founded by Horx currently sees 12 megatrends: individualization, gender shift, silver society, knowledge culture, new work, health, neo-ecology, connectivity, globalization, urbanization, mobility and security. ISPO.com presents the five that are crucial for the sports community.
Individuality is the sign of the times: more and more people all over the world are seeking an individual lifestyle and identity. This increase in individualization is primarily due to the rise in prosperity, the shortening of working hours, and the rise in the level of education. Traditions and institutions such as politics or the church, which used to provide their followers with standards for living, are becoming less important. Instead, individuals want to find the answer to the question of which way of life is the right one for themselves. They can and want to make more and more life decisions for themselves: for example, in their partnership, in their job, in their education or in their choice of where to live.
This new need for individuality not only influences our values, but also our buying behavior. Customers increasingly expect companies to offer products and services that are individually tailored to them. Mass customization is the keyword - customer-specific mass production. In the case of mass products, the aim is to achieve a further level of individualisation through variation from a few, but crucial, features of the product, which are set up via apps or internet configurators, for example.
Significant for sports companies is the desire to customize sports equipment such as bike frames to fit users' bodies. Companies can produce this individualization on-site in the store - for example with a ski boot. However, here the product in stock must be such that it can be individualized. In the case of a bicycle, on the other hand, where the frame is produced using 3D printing, the customization must begin before production when the customer is measured. This requires completely new production processes.
Digital communication technologies are creating new lifestyles. The Corona pandemic further reinforced this trend towards digital connectivity when face-to-face meetings had to be replaced by chats, online computer games and video calls. This has implications for sports as well. On the one hand, digitization causes people to move less as they spend more time in front of screens or on their smartphones. But it can also become an opportunity for sport by creating new possibilities - through wearables, smart devices and online communities for sports enthusiasts.
"Digitalisation and sport are not fundamentally mutually exclusive, they can complement each other just as well. So digital features can also help to make sport more interesting, for example through tracking, gamification or by creating communities," said trend researcher Tristan Horx, son of Mathias Horx, in an interview with ISPO.com. Digitalization is thus able to bring sport into people's lifestyles, he added. "Athletes can use digitalization to motivate as many people as possible for sports and exercise," says Tristan Horx.
People have never been physically better off than they are today: more and more are experiencing longer and longer lives in better and better health. Nevertheless, the topic is becoming increasingly important. Because people's understanding of what health means is about to change. It is now about much more than just the absence of illness. Health is understood as a synonym for a good, satisfied life. An important part of this is mindfulness, the conscious perception and experience of the present moment. Sport plays an important role in this. Mindful sports such as stand-up paddling or surfing will therefore increase in importance.
The focus is increasingly on self-optimization: "Because people are moving less and less, a healthy, athletic body has therefore become a new status symbol. The special thing about it is that you can only work for it, you can't inherit it," Tristan Horx told ISPO.comPeople are trying to achieve this self-optimization in two ways: Firstly, through optimized nutrition - healthy, high-quality food and food supplements are becoming increasingly important.
On the other hand, by training their own bodies. In doing so, people are increasingly taking advantage of digitalization in the form of digital self-tracking, in which they evaluate their sleep, exercise, and nutrition using apps, pedometers, or tracker bracelets.
The so-called neo-ecology is seen by many as one of the most important megatrends of the 2020s. Increasingly, environmental awareness is becoming mainstream. The megatrend is not only changing social values, our everyday lives and politics, but is also challenging classic entrepreneurial thinking. It gained even more significance with the Corona crisis, which reminded us that humans are still part of nature.
In this context, environmental awareness and sustainability are becoming key economic factors. Business is challenged to consider sustainability, post-growth, and the common good, rather than focusing solely on maximizing growth and profit. Increasingly, politics is also fuelling this trend. For example, the European Commission has adopted the new Circular Economy Action Plan (CEAP) in March 2020.which is intended to initiate the EU's transition to a circular economy.
Clearly, people who play sports are demanding that sports business providers Sustainability, fair trade and zero waste into their business models. But they are also increasingly reflecting on their own behaviour and asking themselves what impact their choices in destinations and sports products have on their environmental footprint.
The megatrends of mobility and urbanization are closely linked. Whether it's commuting, shopping or holiday and business trips: We are on the move to more places than ever before. The high level of mobility is also leading to a dissolution of the contrast between city and country: life models that were once typical of the city, such as individuality and pluralization, are reaching the countryside. Conversely, village structures are also forming in the city, and the neighbourhood is becoming the centre of life. Sport plays an important role here: sports facilities such as basketball courts, running tracks, half-pipes or bouldering halls become meeting places, where the urban sports community sports community meets.
Mobility is increasingly defined by the merging of work and leisure. The megatrends of health and neo-ecology are influencing mobility: getting from A to B will no longer be enough in the future - sustainability and health will become decisive. Work and leisure, sport and commuting will merge, Urban Outdoor is becoming the new office wear. At the same time, the mobility of the future will be increasingly shaped by the bicycle, which will leading to the bike boom is leading to: Wide bike lanes with e-bikes, bike sharing stations and cargo bikes increasingly characterize the cityscape. In this way, the car is being deprived of its significance as a status object: In the future, it will be just one component among many in the mobility concept of the individual.
All these megatrends and their interactions with each other will fundamentally change the way we do and experience sport. In the future, sports will no longer be about breaking records and setting best times, "but about anchoring a new attitude toward life in everyday life," says trend researcher Oona Horx-Strathern, wife of Matthias Horx and mother of Tristan Horx, at ISPO Munich 2020. Her conclusion: "This will massively change sports in the coming years." | <urn:uuid:e4d12c9a-b119-45b6-8e12-7133f6011a2b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ispo.com/en/trends/these-megatrends-will-determine-sports-world-future | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00467.warc.gz | en | 0.963827 | 1,607 | 2.109375 | 2 |
Fed balance sheet hits record $3 trillion in assets
For the first time, the Federal Reserve pushed its balance sheet beyond $3 trillion in assets.
Holding of Treasuries rose to $1.7 trillion from $1.69 trillion a week earlier and mortgage-backed securities also rose to $983.17 billion from $948.61 billion last week.
Holdings of agency securities rose to $308.11 billion, up from the prior week's $306.74 billion
Click on the chart to view the Fed’s balance sheet.
On Jan. 11, the Fed paid the government a record 488.9 billion in 2012, reaping gains from Treasury bonds and MBS purchases.
The Fed net income was $91 billion, of which it sent $88.9 billion to the Treasury. The largest portion of the Fed’s revenue was derived primarily from $80.5 billion in interest paid on MBS and Treasuries that were purchased, according to Fed preliminary unaudited results.
In December, the Federal Open Market Committee decided to continue to purchase additional agency MBS at a pace of $40 billion per month. The Committee also decided to purchase long-term Treasury securities at a pace of $45 billion per month.
The FOMC minutes revealed that Fed policy makers are likely to slow monthly purchases of $85 billion in mortgage bonds and Treasurys sometime in 2013.
The minutes provided a timeline, indicating the order in which the Fed will wind down its open-ended third round of quantitative easing, which so far is making the government big profits. | <urn:uuid:ea9c9d64-4008-439b-bfa5-019ab1378807> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.housingwire.com/articles/fed-balance-sheet-hits-record-3-trillion-assets | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282202.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00555-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942793 | 333 | 1.648438 | 2 |
"Hacker proof" is a bold statement.
No OS is 100% "Hacker proof".
However, Linux's security system, by default, is very good.
Both GRUB and Lilo (linux bootloaders) can have a password which prevents access and modifications.
This means no one will be able to boot Linux without a password.
If you want more security, you would make your HDD the first boot device and set a BIOS password.
And even then, the BIOS password can be cleared by switching a jumper on the motherboard.
In the end, if someone is actually in the same room as the computer, they may as well just steal the entire PC (or at least the hard drive).
If you want to protect your data, you have to encrypt it.
If you have access to a hard drive and the data on it is not encrypted,
then no matter which OS you use, the data can be accessed. | <urn:uuid:019cc2f6-c4f5-45af-971c-e31201509862> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-general-1/hacker-proof-81112/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280835.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00468-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950972 | 197 | 2.3125 | 2 |
Ahead! Topologically optimised components in aviation
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The Aerospace industry has been one of the earliest adopters and highest-growth sectors for additive manufacturing. From functional prototyping through series production, Concept Lasers Additive Metals offers many advantages to the aerospace community. Concept Laser’s technology frees engineers to create components that can dramatically reduce weight and part count while increasing functionality.
In this application guide, we discuss:
- Complex flow paths
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Colorado voters entering new era in elections
For Denverite Rob Wellington, 25, a change to the election system is long overdue. Wellington’s only bothered to vote in person once and it was not the best experience. He was 18 and thought he could just duck out of school for an hour or so to get it done. Instead he ended up standing in what seemed like an endless line. When he finally got to the front, Wellington made a tragic discovery.
"I forgot the booklet with the different pros and cons of the different candidates," Wellington said recently, "so then I had to go out and the booklet again and stand in the line again. It was not the glamorous voting experience I was looking for."
Wellington’s voted by mail ever since. Now the rest of Colorado is joining him, whether they want to or not. Starting this year, every registered voter in the state gets a mail ballot for every election. It's just one of many changes included in an omnibus election bill passed by the state legislature earlier this year.
Another big change with this law: all counties have had to give up precinct polling places and instead start county-wide “vote centers," one stop shops for election needs, from registration to ballot dropoff.
"The new law added some consistency, not just election to election, but from county to county," says Denver's Director of Elections Amber McReynolds. McReynolds office was instrumental in helping craft the bill.
Critics of the new law fear it opens the door to election fraud. They warn that unscrupulous partisans could collect and submit all the ballots in apartment building mailrooms, or that someone could mail in their ballot and then claim it was lost and vote again at a center.
But McReynolds defends the counties' security precations. Election judges check the signature on each ballot against other handwriting examples, to make sure it was filled out by the person it was sent to. And she says if someone did try to vote both by mail and in person, the system would spot the second ballot and void it.
This kind of instant check is possible because of Colorado’s statewide voter database, called SCORE. Computers in every vote center will be linked to it. McReynolds is excited about that access. The man in charge of running the database, Secretary of State Scott Gessler, is not.
Gessler, who fought the new law vigorously while it was being debated at the Capitol, says it asks things of SCORE that the program was never designed for, like real time access from hundreds of vote centers, and processing new voter registrations through election day.
Gessler says his staff has worked out temporary fixes to get through this election, when turnout is expected to be light. But he's warns things could get ugly next year when there will be a lot of high profile state and Congressional races on the ballot and the database will have to handle a lot more traffic. He points to the high-profile troubles with the federal health insurance exchange database as an example of what happens when too much is asked of a government computer program
"This stuff is hard work. We have to handle millions of transactions within a very, very short compressed time frame and we have to do it flawlessly in order to make this election work," Gessler says.
The Secretary of State's office is seeking money from the legislature to upgrade the SCORE database for next year. The new election law has financial implications for counties, too, some good, some bad. Denver officials estimate they would have saved around $30,000 last year if the law had been in place. That's because having the voter database in every vote center will reduce the number of people casting provisional ballots, which cost more to process. But in some more rural areas where few people used to vote by mail, this switch comes with new expenses.
"With the programming and the printing and the postage, I think it’s going to be a substantial [cost] increase," says Lake County clerk Patty Berger. She's warned her county commissioners she may have to ask for extra money if this election exceeds her budget.
In addition to the cost, this change also comes with some confusion; Berger says she's been hearing from a lot of residents surprised to find a ballot in their mailbox.
"They didn’t ask for one and it’s like, I know, we mailed them to everybody this time," she says. "It’s like, ‘I didn’t want a ballot like this.’ Well, I’m sorry but you get a ballot like this."
Berger says her voters complain they’ll miss running into their neighbors at the polls. Jenny Anderson of Berthoud feels the same way.
"You just see people you only see at the ballot place or at if you’re lucky in the grocery store or something like that. So you visit," says Anderson. And she complains the change takes the social aspect out of voting, leaving it as just a civic responsibility. But it's still one she takes seriously; Anderson's ballot is already heading back to the elections office. Just this time it's in the mail.
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Today marks the 29th anniversary of the loss of the Space Shuttle Challenger and seven astronauts on launch, on January 28, 1986. It was an historic moment for the US space program, but sadly it lasted only a moment. In February of 2003, another shuttle was lost, along with another seven astronauts. After that disaster, NASA finally admitted some of the major design issues with the vehicle and some of the toxic institutional culture that killed 14 astronauts (more than the Soviet Union ever lost, even in its darkest days). But ironically, those issues had been pointed out, very effectively, by the famous Physicist Richard Feynman, a member of the accident investigation committee back in 1986. His special addendum to the official report was. and is, clear-minded, unsentimental, untouched by institutional toadying or flattery, and probably the best piece of official documentation ever released from NASA. His famous line, “Nature cannot be fooled,” perfectly sums up the way a scientist reacts when presented with political and corporate cultures that try to wish away “inconvenient truths” (to coin a phrase).
A BBC film from 2013 dramatizes these struggles, and these institutional arguments, masterfully well and is actually a great way to remember the true legacy of what happened on that cold morning in 1986. Titled simply The Challenger, it stars William Hurt as Richard Feynman, working his way carefully through the science and engineering challenges of the accident, while at the same time quickly dying from a series of cancers he had developed from working on the Manhattan Project years before. The British title is perfect, because it’s about Feynman’s challenging of the system, and is structured almost like a “man against bureaucracy” battle. (The unfortunate US title, The Challenger Disaster, not only removes any poetry and irony from it, but plucks at those very sentimental heartstrings in a way exactly opposite to what Feynman was fighting for.)
William Hurt plays Dr Richard Feynman
Feynman is teaching in California when the accident happens, and is summoned to Washington to sit on the committee by a former student, now the head of NASA. He is reluctant (“I’m not even that into the space program!” he protests to his wife), but once he’s in the room with the illustrious panel, he’s determined to go at it with all gusto. The committee is chaired by William Rogers, played here by Brian Dennehy, still the quintessential character actor. He beings their first meeting by saying, “We all know NASA took all precautions and did nothing wrong,” which immediately rings alarm bells with Feynman. (He later spits at the chairman, “I don’t know that!”) But it sets the tone for the story. Other notables on the committee are Dr Sally Ride (the first American woman in space) and, most importantly, General Donald Kutyna, played here by Canada’s great character actor Bruce Greenwood.
Bruce Greenwood hits exactly the right notes as a human, competent, friendly Air Force General
It gradually emerges that Ride and Kutyna are trying to feed Feynman information about the shuttle and its systems that NASA would rather not admit. But they have to do so in an indirect way, since Ride would like to fly again, and Kutyna is an Air Force General in charge of some secret projects. But Feynman is the one person on the committee with no allegiance, save to science and integrity. So, while the other committee members don’t even look for problems in NASA culture or with the shuttle, Feynman dives right in.
Hurt’s performance is one of his best in years, and it’s good to see him diving into a character again. He’s utterly convincing and dogged as Feynman, completely subsuming his well-known actor persona into a character, just as he did in another great performance in A History of Violence. It’s quite something to see a scientist played realistically by a great actor of the age, so this is a rare treat.
What the conflict was finally about came down to NASA’s corporate shell games, and their inability to admit that their space transportation system was flawed. The fact is (and even many former NASA people admit this now), the shuttle looked cool, but didn’t work. It was the result of too many compromises in the design phase. Originally conceived as a transportation system to and from a space station in the mid 1970s, the government took the illogical step of cancelling the destination while leaving the vehicle intact. So, the shuttle became its own destination and had to be re-designed many times to accommodate a wide variety of potential clients. It had many design elements that weren’t fail-safe, and NASA just decided that it was easier to ignore them and take the risks rather than develop a better, less glamorous, but safer ship more like the Russian Soyuz.
The big lie of the space shuttle, and this lie persists to this day, is that it was “reusable, therefore cheaper”. NASA had originally promised paying clients a launch every two weeks by the mid-1980s, at a bargain price, because, so went the marketing line, “it’s reusable, therefore cheaper!” It just wasn’t true. The shuttle became more expensive to fly than Apollo, per mission. The reasons were, in strangely circular logic, because of the reusability design. The thermal tiles on the heat shield, for example, had problems on the very first mission in 1981. But, since they worked well enough, it just became part of the culture. “Okay, so we’ll have to rebuild the heat shield after every mission.” And that’s just one of the things that had to be done to turn the vehicle around. That culture eventually killed seven people in February 2003 on the Columbia.
But in 1986 the culprit was fanciful wishful thinking and dishonesty. The shuttle had been sold as a cheap, safe way to space, and to demonstrate that, by 1985 NASA was sending up US Senators on joy rides. Meanwhile, the launch windows were slipping, and the promise of “a launch every two weeks” was long gone. And right down the proverbial street, the Air Force had a reliable satellite delivery system of its own, but couldn’t use it because they were “supposed” to use the shuttle, a more expensive, less reliable option. The pressure to show the world that the shuttle was a space “truck” (a better analogy would be a Formula 1 race car) led them to launch on January 28, 1986 under conditions that engineers knew to be unsafe, but were told to shut up when they voiced concerns. It was all about keeping the show going.
As Feynman dramatically uncovers in this excellent TV movie and in real life, nature cannot be fooled. Politicians and the general public could be fooled by cool space shuttle toys and big IMAX movies with big soundtracks and MTV logos, but when it came down to it, the shuttle didn’t work. The seven astronauts killed that day were victims of a space program preoccupied with image over engineering and scientific reality. | <urn:uuid:90b5185a-bac1-4573-8924-a642f75b0498> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://sequart.org/magazine/54588/the-challenger-remembered-through-a-great-scientific-drama/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571090.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809215803-20220810005803-00066.warc.gz | en | 0.974853 | 1,523 | 1.953125 | 2 |
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