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Reposted from the Huffington Post
"Scientists ... involved in developing public health and environmental protections recognize we do not need (and we almost never obtain) proof beyond a reasonable doubt. Waiting for absolute certainty is a recipe for failure: People will die, and the environment will be damaged if we wait for absolute proof ... Out of all scientific uncertainties, few are more complex than understanding the causes of human disease. Scientists cannot feed toxic chemicals to humans to see what dose causes cancer."
Doubt Is Their Product, Dr. David Michaels, 2008
This is how Dr. David Michaels, a leading epidemiologist and former U.S. government scientist, begins a chapter in his seminal and groundbreaking book, Doubt Is Their Product.
The book describes in depressing detail how industries, their scientists, corporate lawyers and large PR firms have "shaped and skewed" science to create doubt about the dangers of chemicals and other toxins industries produce.
The chapter is aptly named: "Tricks of the Trade: How Mercenary Scientists Mislead You."
Michaels published his book in 2008 three years before an Ecuador court awarded a group of Ecuadorian villagers $9.5 billion in damages, resulting from Chevron's intentional contamination of the Amazon rainforest. The oil giant admitted to substandard drilling practices by dumping 16 billion gallons of untreated, toxic "formation water" into waterways relied on by the local population for drinking water as well as building over 900 huge unlined pits to serve as permanent storage for pure crude and water laced with known carcinogens, such as benzene and cadmium.
Comparing the amount of contamination and the amount of time it has remained in the environment with other similar disasters, Ecuador's is one of, if not the, worst environmental disasters in the world.
Since losing the Ecuador trial, Chevron has been trying to discredit the judgment through a series of retaliatory lawsuits in the U.S. Along the way, Chevron has been plying its own special "tricks of the trade" with America's judiciary and the news media – tricks that noted U.S. experts have called "fundamentally flawed" and "grossly exaggerated."
Chevron's goal has been to create doubt about the contamination's impact, arguing no proof exists that its oil and its operations harmed the environment or an Ecuadorian villager ever, even though Chevron's predecessor Texaco explored for oil exclusively in the concession area and was the only operator of all of the well sites from 1964 to 1990.
Let me repeat. During that 26-year-period – according to Chevron and its scientists – the company's admittedly substandard drilling practices did nothing to harm the environment or one single person.
This is part of their "proof": Chevron argued that Mother Nature had "weathered" the oil so much it was harmless and, as a result, no cleanup was needed. Problem is Chevron cheated on its weathering test. The oil giant's scientists found weathering – or degradation of oil – even in fresh oil. Chevron's inaccurate use of the test, USEPA Method 8014, "grossly exaggerated the magnitude of weathering." (See more of Chevron's "tricks of the trade" below.)
With its high-priced attorneys, scientists and academics, Chevron has bamboozled one activist U.S. judge and some legal reporters into believing that to prove causation of death and disease the villagers must all but exhume dead bodies and examine them until finding drops of oil inside with the Texaco brand.
Nothing less is good enough, they argue. But such nonsense has never been the standard of proof in a court of law for damages.
American Lawyer's Michael Goldhaber and Businessweek's Paul Barrett have twisted the legal standard of causation in their individual books about the lawsuit, holding the Ecuadorians to a much higher standard than they would face even in U.S. courts, which have a long history of rejecting industry demands of absolute certainty.
As Michaels points out in his book, it is scientifically impossible to prove direct causation of a health problem with absolute certainty. Making that the standard would allow Chevron and indeed the entire oil industry off the hook for every health problem they cause.
Michaels wrote: "Epidemiologists cannot state that a specific chemical exposure has definitely caused the cancer of a specific patient. The lung cancer from asbestos is indistinguishable from the lung cancer from smoking."
But, that hasn't stopped cancer victims and the U.S. government from winning damages for health impacts from tobacco and chemical companies. And, it didn't stop the Ecuadorians in their historic case. Academic studies (here and here) have been conducted that show the closer the villagers live to the oil sites, the higher the rates of cancer among them. Uterine cancer victim Rosana Sisalima with her granddaughter are shown here at their San Carlos home in 2004 near Chevron's well sites. Rosana succumbed to cancer in 2006. (Photo by Lou Dematteis/Redux)
Despite Chevron's efforts to discredit the studies, [scientists from across the world criticized those efforts; see here], the Ecuador courts accepted the evidence and ruled accordingly. In fact, three layers of courts in Ecuador – a total of nine judges, including a five-judge panel from the country's highest court - found against Chevron on precisely this legal theory.
Yet Chevron's manipulation of the evidence continues in collateral legal proceedings where Chevron hopes to discredit the Ecuador judgment and evade paying for a clean up. The oil giant's scientists, led by Dr. Sarah McMillan, are helping the company in this regard. (See here and here.)
But Chevron's antics are being more and more exposed.
Dr. Jeffrey Short, recently retired from a 31-year career as a research chemist at the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, reviewed the reports of Chevron's scientists from the Ecuador case and shot holes all through them. So did Dr. Edwin Theriot, the former director of environmental programs for the U.S Corps of Engineers, no bastion of liberal-leaning environmentalism.
Dr. Short, whose report was commissioned by Ecuador's government, concluded that findings by Chevron's scientists – one of whom I know has been paid millions for his work over the years – are based on "fundamentally flawed," "grossly exaggerated," and "fundamentally inappropriate" testing methods. (See page 3.)
He wrote of Chevron's scientists: "(Their) bias toward underestimating the amount of residual crude oil in a field sample ... is well understood by Chevron's own experts."
In other words, Chevron's experts know their evidence is bullshit.
It's manufactured science – the kind Michaels warned us about – designed to produce doubt and create uncertainty, even when it's right before your very eyes.
Chevron's Tricks of the Trade:
For a scientific explanation of these testing methods, see Dr. Jeffrey Short's study.
- Chevron used the wrong test to measure toxins in soil – kind of like putting a stethoscope in someone's mouth to see if they have a fever. Chevron's test, though, sounded so, well, scientific: Toxicity Characteristic Leachate Procedure or TCLP. Only problem is it doesn't measure toxins in soil. (I guess Chevron thought no one would notice.)
- Chevron switched toxic dirt samples for clean ones to submit to court – kind of like convincing someone who doesn't take drugs to pee into a cup for an addict. Chevron paid one of its Ecuadorian consultants to switch out the samples and had no shame touting its "clean" findings. See this photo below of an oil pit where Chevron found no contamination and introduced its "clean" samples as evidence to the Ecuador court.
- Chevron undercounted the most hazardous hydrocarbons – kind of like a kid showing his or her parents only those tests with high scores and shredding the rest. Eventually, though, it catches up with the student and it did with Chevron, too. See here.
- Chevron argued that Mother Nature had "weathered" the oil so much it was harmless and, as a result, no cleanup was needed – kind of like justifying a decision to leave date-expired bottles of poison around for kids to play with. But Chevron cheated on its weathering test. They found weathering – or degradation of oil – even in fresh oil. Chevron's inaccurate use of the test, USEPA Method 8014, "grossly exaggerated the magnitude of weathering." | <urn:uuid:956d7e44-a4bb-49a5-a400-0194f574e2d9> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.chevroninecuador.com/2014/09/how-chevrons-scientists-misled-courts.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719416.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00363-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963964 | 1,738 | 2.40625 | 2 |
Zanoni, by Edward Bulwer Lytton, , at sacred-texts.com
Learn to be poor in spirit, my son, if you would penetrate that
sacred night which environs truth. Learn of the Sages to allow
to the Devils no power in Nature, since the fatal stone has shut
'em up in the depth of the abyss. Learn of the Philosophers
always to look for natural causes in all extraordinary events;
and when such natural causes are wanting, recur to God.—The
Count de Gabalis.
All these additions to his knowledge of Zanoni, picked up in the various lounging-places and resorts that he frequented, were unsatisfactory to Glyndon. That night Viola did not perform at the theatre; and the next day, still disturbed by bewildered fancies, and averse to the sober and sarcastic companionship of Mervale, Glyndon sauntered musingly into the public gardens, and paused under the very tree under which he had first heard the voice that had exercised upon his mind so singular an influence. The gardens were deserted. He threw himself on one of the seats placed beneath the shade; and again, in the midst of his reverie, the same cold shudder came over him which Zanoni had so distinctly defined, and to which he had ascribed so extraordinary a cause.
He roused himself with a sudden effort, and started to see, seated next him, a figure hideous enough to have personated one of the malignant beings of whom Zanoni had spoken. It was a small man, dressed in a fashion strikingly at variance with the elaborate costume of the day: an affectation of homeliness and poverty approaching to squalor, in the loose trousers, coarse as a ship's sail; in the rough jacket, which appeared rent wilfully into holes; and the black, ragged, tangled locks that streamed from their confinement under a woollen cap, accorded but ill with other details which spoke of comparative wealth. The shirt, open at the throat, was fastened by a brooch of gaudy stones; and two pendent massive gold chains announced the foppery of two watches.
The man's figure, if not absolutely deformed, was yet marvellously ill-favoured; his shoulders high and square; his chest flattened, as if crushed in; his gloveless hands were knotted at the joints, and, large, bony, and muscular, dangled from lean, emaciated wrists, as if not belonging to them. His features had the painful distortion sometimes seen in the countenance of a cripple,—large, exaggerated, with the nose nearly touching the chin; the eyes small, but glowing with a cunning fire as they dwelt on Glyndon; and the mouth was twisted into a grin that displayed rows of jagged, black, broken teeth. Yet over this frightful face there still played a kind of disagreeable intelligence, an expression at once astute and bold; and as Glyndon, recovering from the first impression, looked again at his neighbour, he blushed at his own dismay, and recognised a French artist, with whom he had formed an acquaintance, and who was possessed of no inconsiderable talents in his calling.
Indeed, it was to be remarked that this creature, whose externals were so deserted by the Graces, particularly delighted in designs aspiring to majesty and grandeur. Though his colouring was hard and shallow, as was that generally of the French school at the time, his DRAWINGS were admirable for symmetry, simple elegance, and classic vigour; at the same time they unquestionably wanted ideal grace. He was fond of selecting subjects from Roman history, rather than from the copious world of Grecian beauty, or those still more sublime stories of scriptural record from which Raphael and Michael Angelo borrowed their inspirations. His grandeur was that not of gods and saints, but mortals. His delineation of beauty was that which the eye cannot blame and the soul does not acknowledge. In a word, as it was said of Dionysius, he was an Anthropographos, or Painter of Men. It was also a notable contradiction in this person, who was addicted to the most extravagant excesses in every passion, whether of hate or love, implacable in revenge, and insatiable in debauch, that he was in the habit of uttering the most beautiful sentiments of exalted purity and genial philanthropy. The world was not good enough for him; he was, to use the expressive German phrase, A WORLD-BETTERER! Nevertheless, his sarcastic lip often seemed to mock the sentiments he uttered, as if it sought to insinuate that he was above even the world he would construct.
Finally, this painter was in close correspondence with the Republicans of Paris, and was held to be one of those missionaries whom, from the earliest period of the Revolution, the regenerators of mankind were pleased to despatch to the various states yet shackled, whether by actual tyranny or wholesome laws. Certainly, as the historian of Italy (Botta.) has observed, there was no city in Italy where these new doctrines would be received with greater favour than Naples, partly from the lively temper of the people, principally because the most hateful feudal privileges, however partially curtailed some years before by the great minister, Tanuccini, still presented so many daily and practical evils as to make change wear a more substantial charm than the mere and meretricious bloom on the cheek of the harlot, Novelty. This man, whom I will call Jean Nicot, was, therefore, an oracle among the younger and bolder spirits of Naples; and before Glyndon had met Zanoni, the former had not been among the least dazzled by the eloquent aspirations of the hideous philanthropist.
"It is so long since we have met, cher confrere," said Nicot, drawing his seat nearer to Glyndon's, "that you cannot be surprised that I see you with delight, and even take the liberty to intrude on your meditations.
"They were of no agreeable nature," said Glyndon; "and never was intrusion more welcome."
"You will be charmed to hear," said Nicot, drawing several letters from his bosom, "that the good work proceeds with marvellous rapidity. Mirabeau, indeed, is no more; but, mort Diable! the French people are now a Mirabeau themselves." With this remark, Monsieur Nicot proceeded to read and to comment upon several animated and interesting passages in his correspondence, in which the word virtue was introduced twenty-seven times, and God not once. And then, warmed by the cheering prospects thus opened to him, he began to indulge in those anticipations of the future, the outline of which we have already seen in the eloquent extravagance of Condorcet. All the old virtues were dethroned for a new Pantheon: patriotism was a narrow sentiment; philanthropy was to be its successor. No love that did not embrace all mankind, as warm for Indus and the Pole as for the hearth of home, was worthy the breast of a generous man. Opinion was to be free as air; and in order to make it so, it was necessary to exterminate all those whose opinions were not the same as Mons. Jean Nicot's. Much of this amused, much revolted Glyndon; but when the painter turned to dwell upon a science that all should comprehend, and the results of which all should enjoy,—a science that, springing from the soil of equal institutions and equal mental cultivation, should give to all the races of men wealth without labour, and a life longer than the Patriarchs', without care,—then Glyndon listened with interest and admiration, not unmixed with awe. "Observe," said Nicot, "how much that we now cherish as a virtue will then be rejected as meanness. Our oppressors, for instance, preach to us of the excellence of gratitude. Gratitude, the confession of inferiority! What so hateful to a noble spirit as the humiliating sense of obligation? But where there is equality there can be no means for power thus to enslave merit. The benefactor and the client will alike cease, and—"
"And in the mean time," said a low voice, at hand,—"in the mean time, Jean Nicot?"
The two artists started, and Glyndon recognised Zanoni.
He gazed with a brow of unusual sternness on Nicot, who, lumped together as he sat, looked up at him askew, and with an expression of fear and dismay upon his distorted countenance.
Ho, ho! Messire Jean Nicot, thou who fearest neither God nor Devil, why fearest thou the eye of a man?
"It is not the first time I have been a witness to your opinions on the infirmity of gratitude," said Zanoni.
Nicot suppressed an exclamation, and, after gloomily surveying Zanoni with an eye villanous and sinister, but full of hate impotent and unutterable, said, "I know you not,—what would you of me?"
"Your absence. Leave us!"
Nicot sprang forward a step, with hands clenched, and showing his teeth from ear to ear, like a wild beast incensed. Zanoni stood motionless, and smiled at him in scorn. Nicot halted abruptly, as if fixed and fascinated by the look, shivered from head to foot, and sullenly, and with a visible effort, as if impelled by a power not his own, turned away.
Glyndon's eyes followed him in surprise.
"And what know you of this man?" said Zanoni.
"I know him as one like myself,—a follower of art."
"Of ART! Do not so profane that glorious word. What Nature is to God, art should be to man,—a sublime, beneficent, genial, and warm creation. That wretch may be a PAINTER, not an ARTIST."
"And pardon me if I ask what YOU know of one you thus disparage?"
"I know thus much, that you are beneath my care if it be necessary to warn you against him; his own lips show the hideousness of his heart. Why should I tell you of the crimes he has committed? He SPEAKS crime!"
"You do not seem, Signor Zanoni, to be one of the admirers of the dawning Revolution. Perhaps you are prejudiced against the man because you dislike the opinions?"
Glyndon paused, somewhat puzzled to define; but at length he said, "Nay, I must wrong you; for you, of all men, I suppose, cannot discredit the doctrine that preaches the infinite improvement of the human species."
"You are right; the few in every age improve the many; the many now may be as wise as the few were; but improvement is at a standstill, if you tell me that the many now are as wise as the few ARE."
"I comprehend you; you will not allow the law of universal equality!"
"Law! If the whole world conspired to enforce the falsehood they could not make it LAW. Level all conditions to-day, and you only smooth away all obstacles to tyranny to-morrow. A nation that aspires to EQUALITY is unfit for FREEDOM. Throughout all creation, from the archangel to the worm, from Olympus to the pebble, from the radiant and completed planet to the nebula that hardens through ages of mist and slime into the habitable world, the first law of Nature is inequality."
"Harsh doctrine, if applied to states. Are the cruel disparities of life never to be removed?"
"Disparities of the PHYSICAL life? Oh, let us hope so. But disparities of the INTELLECTUAL and the MORAL, never! Universal equality of intelligence, of mind, of genius, of virtue!—no teacher left to the world! no men wiser, better than others,—were it not an impossible condition, WHAT A HOPELESS PROSPECT FOR HUMANITY! No, while the world lasts, the sun will gild the mountain-top before it shines upon the plain. Diffuse all the knowledge the earth contains equally over all mankind to-day, and some men will be wiser than the rest to-morrow. And THIS is not a harsh, but a loving law,—the REAL law of improvement; the wiser the few in one generation, the wiser will be the multitude the next!"
As Zanoni thus spoke, they moved on through the smiling gardens, and the beautiful bay lay sparkling in the noontide. A gentle breeze just cooled the sunbeam, and stirred the ocean; and in the inexpressible clearness of the atmosphere there was something that rejoiced the senses. The very soul seemed to grow lighter and purer in that lucid air.
"And these men, to commence their era of improvement and equality, are jealous even of the Creator. They would deny an intelligence,—a God!" said Zanoni, as if involuntarily. "Are you an artist, and, looking on the world, can you listen to such a dogma? Between God and genius there is a necessary link,—there is almost a correspondent language. Well said the Pythagorean (Sextus, the Pythagorean.), 'A good intellect is the chorus of divinity.'"
Struck and touched with these sentiments, which he little expected to fall from one to whom he ascribed those powers which the superstitions of childhood ascribe to the darker agencies, Glyndon said: "And yet you have confessed that your life, separated from that of others, is one that man should dread to share. Is there, then, a connection between magic and religion?"
"Magic!" And what is magic! When the traveller beholds in Persia the ruins of palaces and temples, the ignorant inhabitants inform him they were the work of magicians. What is beyond their own power, the vulgar cannot comprehend to be lawfully in the power of others. But if by magic you mean a perpetual research amongst all that is more latent and obscure in Nature, I answer, I profess that magic, and that he who does so comes but nearer to the fountain of all belief. Knowest thou not that magic was taught in the schools of old? But how, and by whom? As the last and most solemn lesson, by the Priests who ministered to the Temple. (Psellus de Daemon (MS.)) And you, who would be a painter, is not there a magic also in that art you would advance? Must you not, after long study of the Beautiful that has been, seize upon new and airy combinations of a beauty that is to be? See you not that the grander art, whether of poet or of painter, ever seeking for the TRUE, abhors the REAL; that you must seize Nature as her master, not lackey her as her slave?
"You demand mastery over the past, a conception of the future. Has not the art that is truly noble for its domain the future and the past? You would conjure the invisible beings to your charm; and what is painting but the fixing into substance the Invisible? Are you discontented with this world? This world was never meant for genius! To exist, it must create another. What magician can do more; nay, what science can do as much? There are two avenues from the little passions and the drear calamities of earth; both lead to heaven and away from hell,—art and science. But art is more godlike than science; science discovers, art creates. You have faculties that may command art; be contented with your lot. The astronomer who catalogues the stars cannot add one atom to the universe; the poet can call a universe from the atom; the chemist may heal with his drugs the infirmities of the human form; the painter, or the sculptor, fixes into everlasting youth forms divine, which no disease can ravage, and no years impair. Renounce those wandering fancies that lead you now to myself, and now to yon orator of the human race; to us two, who are the antipodes of each other! Your pencil is your wand; your canvas may raise Utopias fairer than Condorcet dreams of. I press not yet for your decision; but what man of genius ever asked more to cheer his path to the grave than love and glory?"
"But," said Glyndon, fixing his eyes earnestly on Zanoni, "if there be a power to baffle the grave itself—"
Zanoni's brow darkened. "And were this so," he said, after a pause, "would it be so sweet a lot to outlive all you loved, and to recoil from every human tie? Perhaps the fairest immortality on earth is that of a noble name."
"You do not answer me,—you equivocate. I have read of the long lives far beyond the date common experience assigns to man," persisted Glyndon, "which some of the alchemists enjoyed. Is the golden elixir but a fable?"
"If not, and these men discovered it, they died, because they refused to live! There may be a mournful warning in your conjecture. Turn once more to the easel and the canvas!"
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As an academic discipline, art history is the study of art and architecture. Concerned with the whole of human history, art history examines creative works as aesthetic products of human ideas, feelings and conditions within a context strong.
Many careers do not necessarily demand a specific major, but require a variety of demonstrated skills and accomplishments. The study of art history develops many of these critical, analytical, and communicative skills, and can be a solid preparation for a variety of other professional fields. In addition, it is important to note that, today, art history may provide a unique advantage for entry into the fields of law, medicine, science, or business, as many employers welcome professionals with broad intellectual backgrounds and interests. These developed skills range from historical knowledge of past cultures, to the formal and theoretical analysis of aesthetic works; and, therefore, provide the student of art history the opportunity to examine the quality, motivation, and meaning of images and objects from the past.
Source: University of Texas at Austin, Fine Arts Career Center; Rutgers University, Careers Services
Art History Degrees and Certificates
Usually granted to recognize acquired knowledge and skills in museums, galleries, or archives management, and/or technology. See Department offerings in Applied Museum Studies certifications.
Art History Career Alternatives
The knowledge and skills gained through the study of art history serve as a foundation for a wide range of occupations and career choices. Today, the employment outlook for most graduates is competitive, but the following art history career alternatives reflect the professional possibilities for students at a variety of educational levels. With preparation, arts-related entry level positions can be found in education, museums, non-profit and government agencies, and business.
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|The Journal for MultiMediaHistory
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Thomas J. Kriger
the 1939 strike. DFU Collection, St. Lawrence University.
Federal Bureau of Investigation files. From the author.
Rufus J. Quinn on redbaiting
tactics against Archie Wright.
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The photographs used in this article are found in the Dairy Farmers Union Collection, Owen D. Young Library, St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York. The author would like to thank Tim Wright; Lynn Ekfelt, Owen D.Young Library archivist; Linda Casserly, Town and Village of Canton (NY) historian; and Claudia Giffen, Town of Clare (NY) historian, New York for providing him access to these photographs. The farmers whose voices are heard in the article requested to remain anonymous.About the Author: Thomas J. Kriger is associate director of research/legislation at United University Professions, the union that represents academic and professional employees in the State University of New York (SUNY) system. He has taught at St. Lawrence University, Providence College, and the University of Northern Colorado. From 1980 to 1993, he was assistant manager of Ontario Orchards Farms, one of the largest fruit and vegetable farms in central New York.
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Notes for Part IV:
40. In August, 1940, Sheffield Farms and Borden's paid DFU farmers a lump sum of $91,090.25 to settle a suit filed by the DFU and supported by Mayor LaGuardia. Ignoring LaGuardia's agreement, the dealers had issued checks based on prices lower than those specified in the 1939 strike settlement. See The Union Farmer, 25 August 1940; Dyson, 175-6. [Return to text]
41. For the dealers' redbaiting campaign, see Dyson, 177-81; see also Tim Wright, "Milk Strike: The History of the Dairy Farmers Union of New York, 1936-1941," (unpublished senior thesis, Princeton University, 1974), Ch. 5; for the Dies Committee allegations, see United States Congress, House, Hearings on Investigation of Un-American Propaganda Activities in the United States (Washington D. C.: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1938), Vol. 1, 913. [Return to text]
42. Ogdensburg Journal, 19 July 1956, 4. [Return to text]
43. Watertown Daily Times, 8 April - 12 May, 1941. [Return to text]
Dyson, Lowell K. "The Dairy Farmers Union." Chap. In Red Harvest. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1982, 168-85.
________. "Dairy Farmers Union." Chap. In Farmers' Organizations. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1986, 67-71.
Ford, Linda G. "Another Double Burden: Farm Women and Agrarian Activism in Depression Era New York State." New York History (October 1994): 373-98
Kriger, Thomas J. "Syndicalism and Spilled Milk: The Origins of Dairy Farmer Activism in New York State, 1936-1941." Labor History forthcoming, 1997-1998.
________. "'Power Lies in Their Milk:' The Story of Archie Wright and the Dairy Farmers Union, 1936-1941." St. Lawrence County Historical Association Quarterly 41 (Winter 1996): 1-28.
________. "Milk Strike! The Politics of Dairy Farmers' Movements." Ph.D. diss., City University of New York, 1994.
LaGuardia, Fiorello. "Urban Support for the Farmer." In New Deal Thought. ed. Howard Zinn. New York: Bobbs-Merrill, Inc., 1966, 227-31.
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Kaiafas or Thermal Springs of Kaiafas (Greek, Modern: Καϊάφας) is a spa in the municipality of Zacharo in southwestern Greece. It is located 347 km SW of Athens, 30 km SE of Pyrgos, 20 km S of Olympia, nearly 32 km N of Kyparissia and some 90 km NW of Kalamata. The Thermal Springs of Kaiafas, is a geological formation that consists of a spring where warm water comes from deep inside the Earth's crust and flows up to the surface. The spring is located inside a naturally formed cave in the foot of the Lapithas mountain. The water of the spring contains an important concentration of sulfur compounds and is also rich in minerals. It has therapeutic properties, and there is a spa facility exactly outside of the cave's mouth. The spa has been a major tourist attraction and is visited by people who want to bath in the thermal water of the spring. The springs location is very close to the Kaiafas Lake and the sandy beaches of the Ionian sea coast. Much of the area is covered with pine forests, in which the Pinus halepensis pine species prevail.
http://www.hotelpelops.gr/kaiafas_samiko_pool.htm (in Greek)
http://www.zacharo.gr/1/8544.html (in Greek)
http://hellas.teipir.gr/prefectures/greek/Hleias/Kaiafas.htm (in Greek)
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In June and July, NOAA scientists discovered elevated sea levels along the entire U.S. East Coast. After observing water levels to 0.15 to 0.61 meters (six inches to two feet) higher than originally predicted, NOAA scientists from the Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS) began analyzing data from select tide stations and buoys from Maine to Florida. They found that a weakening of the Florida Current Transport – an oceanic current that feeds into the Gulf Stream – in addition to steady and persistent Northeast winds, contributed to this anomaly.
The highest sea levels during the event occurred closer to where the anomaly formed in the Mid-Atlantic, where cities like Baltimore, Maryland, at times experienced extreme high tides as much as 0.61 meters (two feet) higher than normal.
In addition to the current and steady winds, elevated water levels in the latter half of June coincided with a perigean-spring tide, an extreme predicted tide when the moon is closest to the Earth during a spring tide. This tidal event added to the observed sea level anomaly, produced minor coastal flooding, and caught the attention of many coastal communities because of the lack of coastal storms during this time that normally cause such anomalies.
“The ocean is dynamic and it’s not uncommon to have anomalies,” said Mike Szabados, CO-OPS director. “What made this event unique was its breadth, intensity, and duration.”
While it is not unusual for smaller regions and estuaries along the East Coast to experience this type of event at this time of year, it is significant that the geographic extent of this event covered the entire East Coast.
The June–July 2009 sea level anomaly is unique because northeast winds along the coast were not at a multi-year high and the Florida Current Transport was not at its low–two factors that can cause elevated sea levels. However, the coupled effect of these two forces created sea levels that were at the highest levels all along the East Coast.
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About Engine Mountings
The vehicle front compartment produces a lot of noise as well as vibration as they are running. Thankfully, due to the advances in technology, vehicle manufacturers have managed to minimize the noises from the front bonnet with better insulating materials to protect it. Similarly, the engine mounting that is equipped in your vehicle is aimed to prevent unnecessary noises and to absorb as much vibration as possible that is coming from the engine.
Without the engine mounting, the entire vehicle body will be vibrating heavily which will cause extreme discomfort to both the passengers and driver of the vehicle.
Today, we will be sharing with you on the tell-tale signs of a failing engine mounting!
How does the engine mounting work?
Generally, the car engine is heavy. On average, a sedan vehicle such as the Hyundai Elantra AD or Kia Cerato K3 engine weighs anywhere between 100-150kg. This is similarly the case for many other sedan model in the market. All of this weight, is supressed and distributed among the various engine mounting equipped in your vehicle. The average vehicle comprise of 3-4 engine mounting on all ends of the vehicle
When the engine is switched-off, the mounting is just rested on its weight itself. However, when the engine is revving or in motion, the engine mountings are securing and holding the overall engine component in place. Through this whole process, it is putting severe weight and pressure on the mounting, which can cause wear and tear.
Symptoms of a failing Engine Mounting
1) Excess Vibration felt on the vehicle
With regards to a worn out engine mounting, the most prominent symptom felt will be vibrations. Vibrations can be felt in the front compartments of the vehicle if the engine mountings are wearing out. In addition, some vibrations can even be felt when you are shifting your gears to the desired gear preferred.
2) Impact Noises
The second most common symptom of a failing engine mounting are noises that could be heard from the front of the engine compartment. This will definitely be unwanted by drivers who prefer a smooth and quiet ride. In addition, 8 out of 10 of our clients has suggested that noises are usually common when shifting gears from “D” to “R” or the other way round.
3) Misalignment of the engine
In the worst case scenario (for vehicles having an undetected faulty engine mounting or accidents) will have this problem. A misalignment of the engine is usually prominent when you do a physical inspection of it. You can do so when you open up your bonnet. If the engine mountings are faulty the engine will tilt to one end
The aftermath of a faulty engine mounting
As mentioned earlier, the purpose of the engine mountings is to ground the engine securely to the vehicle. If the engine mountings become loose or faulty, it will cause free movement of the engine. This may cause damage internally to the engine block or other components of the vehicle. This includes, the belts, fan , radiator or even tensioners.
The aftermath will be drastic, and it will cause even more for the repair
Life-Span and Cost of Replacement
The lifespan of the average engine mounting is approximately 4-5 years. However, if you are frequently hitting the roads or visiting Malaysia on a frequential basis, it may wear off even earlier!
The cost for an average engine mounting cost around $260- $380 (Korean and Japanese vehicle).
Most vehicle workshops will charge an average of $120-$200 for installation of the mountings
The vehicles that are due for change includes those manufactured in year 2011- 2014 such as the Hyundai Elantra MD, Elantra AD, Kia K3, Nissan Sylphy B17, Nissan Qashqai J11 and many more!
It is extremely important to ensure that your vehicle engine mounting is performing well. A faulty engine mounting is detrimental, and it should be replaced before the stipulated time frame. As the engine mounting is made up of mainly rubber components, it will definitely wear out at some point of time. At Drivewise autoparts, we advocate that preventive mantainence is required for all vehicles. As such, do change your engine mounting once they are due!
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The following information is intended to supplement, not substitute for, the expertise and judgment of your physician, pharmacist or other healthcare professional. It should not be construed to indicate that use of the drug is safe, appropriate, or effective for you. Consult your healthcare professional before using this drug.
LANSOPRAZOLE DELAYED-RELEASE SUSPENSION - ORAL
COMMON BRAND NAME(S): Prevacid
This medication is a proton pump inhibitor (PPI) used to treat various acid-related stomach and/or throat (esophagus) problems (e.g., acid reflux or GERD, ulcers, erosive esophagitis, Zollinger-Ellison Syndrome). Lansoprazole works by blocking acid production in the stomach. Lansoprazole may also be used to treat ulcers due to the long-term use of certain drugs for pain or swelling (NSAIDs-nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs). In addition, this medication may be used in combination with antibiotics (e.g., amoxicillin, clarithromycin) to treat certain types of ulcers.
How To Use
Take this medication by mouth, usually once daily, before a meal; or as directed by your doctor. Empty the packet and pour the contents into a container with 2 tablespoonfuls (1 oz or 30 ml) of water. Stir the mixture well and drink the entire suspension mixture immediately. Do not save it for later use. If any granules remain in the container after drinking the mixture, add a little more water to the container, stir the mixture again, and drink it immediately. Do not use other liquids or foods to make this suspension mixture. Do not crush or chew the medication granules in the suspension mixture or prepare a supply in advance. Doing so may destroy the drug and/or increase side effects. Do not use the mixture in feeding tubes as the suspension may clog the tube. Potent acid-reducing medicines such as lansoprazole can decrease the effectiveness of sucralfate, as well as other drugs such as the antifungals ketoconazole and itraconazole. If instructed to take any of these drugs while taking lansoprazole, consult your doctor or pharmacist regarding the proper timing of each dose. For example, if you are instructed to take sucralfate in addition to lansoprazole, it is best to take the lansoprazole at least 30 minutes before your sucralfate. Antacids may be taken along with this medication, if needed. The dosage and length of treatment is based on your medical condition and response to therapy. Use this medication regularly in order to get the most benefit from it. To help you remember, use it at the same time each day. Continue to take this medication for the prescribed length of treatment even if you are feeling better.
Constipation or diarrhea may occur. If any of these effects persist or worsen, notify your doctor or pharmacist promptly. Tell your doctor immediately if any of these unlikely but serious side effects occur: stomach pain. An allergic reaction to this drug is unlikely, but seek immediate medical attention if it occurs. Symptoms of an allergic reaction include: rash, itching, swelling, dizziness, trouble breathing. If you notice other effects not listed above, contact your doctor or pharmacist.
Before using this medication, tell your doctor or pharmacist your medical history, especially of: heartburn combined with lightheadedness or sweating or dizziness, chest pain or shoulder/jaw pain especially with shortness of breath, pain spreading to arms or neck or shoulders, unexplained weight loss, liver problems, other stomach problems (e.g., tumors), any allergies (including drug allergies). This medication should be used only when clearly needed during pregnancy. Discuss the risks and benefits with your doctor. It is not known whether this drug passes into breast milk. Breast-feeding while using this drug is not recommended.
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In the present study, we examined the associations between cognitive processes and vocational identity development. A sample of 318 Korean emerging adults participated in the study. Using three-wave longitudinal data and applying multilevel modeling, we tested within- and between-person-level associations. We found that individuals who are higher in career self-efficacy than others are more likely to be engaged in exploration and commitment. Those who exhibit more dysfunctional career thoughts are less likely to be engaged in commitment but more likely to reconsider their identities. We found a similar pattern at the within-person level: At times when one exhibits high self-efficacy than usual, one is more likely to be engaged in exploration and commitment; however, at times when one exhibits more dysfunctional thoughts than usual, one is less likely to be committed to a career and more likely to reconsider. We discuss the implications of the study results.
- multilevel modeling
- school-to-work transition
- vocational identity
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
- Developmental and Educational Psychology
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Brampton, Ontario (PRWEB) June 19, 2013
For 21 days this summer, Jessica VandenBussche will tackle a 3,000 kilometre trek across Ontario by bicycle. Her goal? To make Ontarians aware that exercise is an excellent option to treat those with mental illness.
Starting out in Thunder Bay on June 21, the 24-year old Kinesiology major will ride as far as 135 kilometres per day to spread her message. She hopes to stop along the way to give talks and lead fitness activities at schools, mental health units, fitness centres, and anyone else that will listen.
Mental illness accounts for 14% of the world's diseases. Nationally, 1/5 of Canadians will experience a mental illness in their lifetime. Many more will be affected by it, through a loved one who suffers. There are many treatment methods, but, says VandeBussche, “there is no ‘best practice’ for treating mental illness. Medication is not always effective. And psycho-therapy is financially out of reach for many Canadians.” But VandenBussche points out there is one form of treatment that is free, accessible, sustainable and potentially highly effective: physical activity.
Balanced exercise has been proven to enhance brain function, mood and overall health. According to some doctors, physical activity can be more effective than therapy or medication:
-physical activity can help a person with depression learn new thinking strategies
-a person suffering from addiction has a better chance of staying true to their plan and avoiding the addicting habit, if they work out regularly
-physical activity can help someone with anxiety relax by releasing feel-good hormones. Community-oriented exercise can help everyone make friends and increase their support network
Although seeking professional help may still be necessary, exercise is an important aspect of the treatment plan and a very accessible and inexpensive way to get started. Jessica’s goal is to spread this message and hope in the future that mental health agencies and the medical profession will come together to implement fitness strategies when treating those with mental illness.
The northern leg of her journey will take her from Thunder Bay to Providence Bay from June 21 to the 29th.
June 21 Thunder Bay/Gravel river
June 22 Gravel river/Marathon
June 23 Marathon/Wawa
June 24 Wawa/Batchawana Bay
June 25 Batchawana Bay/Laird
June 26 Rest Sault Ste. Marie
June 27 Laird/Blind River
June 28 Blind River/Providence Bay
For a complete schedule and route map, please visit the website at
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As soon as the waves of the North Atlantic closed over the stern of RMS Titanic on 15 April 1912, the myths began surrounding her design, construction and transatlantic voyage. The Titanic disaster today is a classic tale, a modern folk story, but like all folk stories, our understanding of what really happened has been clouded by the way the disaster has been recounted over the years.It was said that the builders and owners of Titanic claimed she was ‘unsinkable’. The claim actually made was that she was ‘practically unsinkable’, close enough, but nevertheless an unfortunate statement and one which would haunt both builder and owner for years. This article tries to explain material and design failures that caused the rapid sinking of Titanic.
on April 14, 1912
Titanic collided with a massive iceberg and sank in less than three hours. Damaging nearly 300 feet of the ship’s hull, the collision allowed water to flood six of her sixteen major watertight compartments. At the time, more than 2200 passengers and crew were aboard the Titanic for her maiden voyage to the United States. Only 705 survived. According to the builders of the Titanic, even in the worst possible accident at sea, the ship should have stayed afloat for two to three days.
On the night of April 14, although the wireless operators had received several ice warnings from others ships in the area, the Titanic continued to rush through the darkness at nearly full steam. A time line of the events that followed is shown in Table 1.
|11:35 p.m.||Lookouts spot the iceberg 1/4 mile ahead.|
|11:40||The Titanic sideswipes the iceberg, damaging nearly 300 feet of the hull.|
|Midnight||Watertight compartments are filling; water begins to spill over the tops of the transverse bulkheads.|
|1:20 a.m.||The bow pitches; water floods through anchor-chain holes.|
|2:00||The bow continues to submerge; propellers lift out of the water.|
|2:10||The Titanic tilts 45 degrees or more; the upper structure steel disintegrates.|
|2:12||The stern raises up out of the water; the bow, filling with water, grows heavier.|
|2:18||Weighing 16,000 tons, the bow rips loose; the stern rises to almost vertical.|
|2:20||The stern slips beneath the surface.|
|2:29||Coasting at about 13 mph, the bow strikes the ocean floor.|
|2:56||Falling at about 4 mph, the stern strikes the ocean floor.|
The two pieces of the Titanic lie 2,000 feet apart, pointing in opposite directions beneath 12,500 feet of water. The bow section remains mostly intact, although the damaged portion of the hull is covered with a 35-foot high wall of silt and mud that plowed up when the Titanic hit bottom, so the point of fracture can not be seen. For 73 years, the Titanic remained undisturbed on the ocean floor. On September 1, 1985, oceanographer Bob Ballard and his crew discovered the wreck of the Titanic about 350 miles southeast of Newfoundland, Canada . Since then, four more expeditions have visited the Titanic. In 1991, the first purely scientific team visited the site. The dive was called the Imax dive because the purpose was to create a film for Imax theaters. The Soviet submersibles used in the dive were capable of staying submerged for twenty hours and were equipped with 110,000-lumen lamps. With this equipment, scientists were able to take pictures of the Titanic wreck and eventually uncover new evidence into the cause of the Titanic disaster.
Causes of the Rapid Sinking
On an expedition in 1991 to the Titanic wreck, scientists discovered a chunk of metal lying on the ocean floor that once was a part of the Titanic’s hull. The Frisbee sized piece of steel was an inch thick with three rivet holes, each 1.25 inches in diameter . Since the retrieval of this piece of steel, extensive research has been done to uncover additional clues to the cause of the rapid sinking of the Titanic. The following is a discussion of the material failures and design flaws that contributed to the disaster.
When the Titanic collided with the iceberg, the hull steel and the wrought iron rivets failed because of brittle fracture. A type of catastrophic failure in structural materials, brittle fracture occurs without prior plastic deformation and at extremely high speeds. The causes of brittle fracture include low temperature, high impact loading, and high sulphur content. On the night of the Titanic disaster, each of these three factors was present: The water temperature was below freezing, the Titanic was travelling at a high speed on impact with the iceberg, and the hull steel contained high levels of sulphur.
The Hull Steel.
The first hint that brittle fracture of the hull steel contributed to the Titanic disaster came following the recovery of a piece of the hull steel from the Titanic wreck. After cleaning the piece of steel, the scientists noted the condition of the edges. Jagged and sharp, the edges of the piece of steel appeared almost shattered, like broken china. Also, the metal showed no evidence bending or deformation. Typical high-quality ship steel is more ductile and deforms rather than breaks.
The material used in titanic showed brittle properties under the cold weather temperatures and caused that catastrophic failure.
The wrought iron rivets that fastened the hull plates to the Titanic’s main structure also failed because of brittle fracture from the high impact loading of the collision with the iceberg and the low temperature water on the night of the disaster. Figure shows the Titanic during her construction, with the riveted hull plates of her stern visible. With the ship travelling at nearly 25 mph, the contact with the iceberg was probably a series of impacts that caused the rivets to fail either in shear or by elongation. As the iceberg scraped along sections of the Titanic’s hull, the rivets were sheared off, which opened up riveted seams.
Along with the material failures, poor design of the watertight compartments in the Titanic’s lower section was a factor in the disaster. The lower section of the Titanic was divided into sixteen major watertight compartments that could easily be sealed off if part of the hull was punctured and leaking water. After the collision with the iceberg, the hull portion of six of these sixteen compartments was damaged, as shown in the figure above. Sealing off the compartments was completed immediately after the damage was realized, but as the bow of the ship began to pitch forward from the weight of the water in that area of the ship, the water in some of the compartments began to spill over into adjacent compartments. Although the compartments were called watertight, they were actually only watertight horizontally; their tops were open and the walls extended only a few feet above the waterline.
The sinking of the Titanic has become one of the most well known disasters in history. Because of the terrible loss of life and the demise of what everyone believed was an “unsinkable” ship, people are intrigued and curious about what caused the rapid sinking of the Titanic.The failure of the hull steel resulted from brittle fractures caused by the high sulphur content of the steel, the low temperature water on the night of the disaster, and the high impact loading of the collision with the iceberg. When the Titanic hit the iceberg, the hull plates split open and continued cracking as the water flooded the ship.
Low water temperatures and high impact loading also caused the brittle failure of the rivets used to fasten the hull plates to the ship’s main structure. On impact, the rivets were either sheared off or the heads popped off because of excessive loading, which opened up riveted seams. Also, the rivets around the perimeter of the plates elongated due to the stresses applied by the water, which broke the caulking and provided another inlet for the water.
The rapid sinking of the Titanic was worsened by the poor design of the transverse bulkheads of the watertight compartments. As water flooded the damaged compartments of the hull, the ship began to pitch forward, and water in the damaged compartments was able to spill over into adjacent compartments. Not only did the compartments not control the flooding, but they also contained the water in the bow, which increased the rate of sinking.
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Staff and pupils at a Burnley school are celebrating after it was given the highest possible rating by inspectors.
Ofsted upgraded Holly Grove School, in Barden Lane, which teaches children with a range of disabilities and special educational needs, from good to outstanding following a visit in May.
Inspectors praised the progress made by children, their learning environment, staff, support for parents, pupils’ behaviour, leadership and safety.
The report said: “Any barriers preventing pupils from learning and making progress are immediately and very expertly tackled by staff.”
The school’s Early Years Foundation stage was also highlighted in the report as giving pupils a good start for learning.
“Pupils develop knowledge, skills and understanding very effectively. With the positive encouragement, high expectations and excellent resources found in the Early Years Foundation Stage all children develop very quickly into active learners. They soon gain vital skills so they communicate very effectively, do much more on their own, and work increasingly well with others.”
Inspectors found the quality of teaching to be outstanding with precise planning and organisation leading to effective learning.
“Teachers’ expertise, and that of their assistants, is of very high quality, built upon a strong tradition of professional development and gaining higher qualifications. Staff keep up a constant dialogue checking that their teaching and planning is effective and improving.”
Pupils at Holly Grove were said to have outstanding behaviour and staff manage behaviour well. Parents reported their children love going to school.
“The school’s positive impact on pupils has a very good effect on life at home.”
“The school’s work to keep pupils safe and secure is outstanding. Work and activities are thoroughly planned and supervised so that risks are clearly understood and reduced.
“Staff very effectively ensure that pupils feel safe by clearly explaining everything to them so they always know what is happening. As pupils increase in independence, they learn to be aware of risks and how to stay safe, for example, by learning the rules of using the internet safely.”
Outstanding leadership was highlighted by inspectors as giving the school clear direction.
“A strong culture of professional development is firmly embedded. Many staff have developed a high level of expertise and gained extra qualifications, adding to their effectiveness. This has increased the school’s capacity to develop very successful strategies to meet the wide range of pupils’ disabilities and special educational needs.”
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Second in a series of stories about the state's newest members of Congress
BOSTON — The state's congressional delegation has long prided itself on having experienced politicians, but in recent years that's changed.
One newer face among the delegation: U.S. Rep. Katherine Clark, who's from Melrose and represents Massachusetts' 5th Congressional District.
And already, Clark has become a national leader in the fight against cyber abuse, and her work to protect women from online harassment may finally convince the Department of Justice to investigate more of these cases.
One of those cases is that of Brianna Wu, a gamer from Arlington who also makes video games. And that ticks off some guys, which means they send her creepy death threats, sometimes in scratchy video form.
"This is a video we were just sending off to the FBI today," Wu showed me on a recent visit to her home. "You know, that's just one death threat of 106. This is just another day of my life these days. It's exhausting."
Wu says she's received those 106 threats in the last 10 and a half months.
She says the threats are partly because the gaming industry is changing. More women are becoming gamers, and that's upsetting the old order.
"It's all about scaring women in the industry until we're silent. Right? Like, that's the game," she said.
But Wu refuses to be silent. In fact, she's been so vocal, her story caught the attention of her congresswoman: Katherine Clark.
"[Clark] wanted to understand what the FBI was doing," Wu said.
"And what we found is that the FBI really wasn't responding to her," Clark said in an interview. So she reached out to the FBI directly. "Frankly, it was a disappointing and frustrating conversation, because they were very clear that prosecutions of these crimes just wasn't a priority," Clark said.
And that worries Clark, because as she's become a leading voice on Capitol Hill for this cause, she's begun to hear more and more from women across the country about online harassment.
"We're sending a strong message that you're not welcome," Clark said. "And we are certainly saying to younger women that some of these fields, or if you're interested in writing on feminism, that this is part of what you have to accept about being online and talking about certain topics."
Clark says that message is unacceptable. And she doesn't understand why law enforcement appears to write off these threats as harmless antics. Danielle Keats Citron, a University of Maryland law professor, has found indictments that reveal federal prosecutors pursued only 10 cases of cyberstalking between 2010 and 2013.
"If somebody in your office said, 'I know you're gonna be in the parking lot at 5 p.m., and I'm going to be there and I'm going to murder you,' and, 'Here, I'm going to send you a video of the knife that I'm going to use,' we would be all over that," Clark said. The congresswoman says we ought to take threats made through the Internet just as seriously.
And that stance is getting some traction.
In late May, the U.S. House of Representatives formally agreed to put pressure on the FBI, thanks to Clark. The House urged the Department of Justice to "intensify its efforts to combat this destructive abuse."
Then, last month, Clark filed a bill for additional resources and training. She's asking for $4 million a year. That money would help hire 10 new FBI agents dedicated to investigating Internet threats.
And she wants to ensure each U.S. attorney's office designates an assistant U.S. attorney to investigate and prosecute these types of crimes.
Clark added: "And, we're also hoping to follow that up with giving local police enforcement the training and some of the expertise and help that they need to be able to take these virtual crimes and bring it to real-life, real-time solutions and help for these women."
Women like Wu.
Some days, she works from her one-story, disheveled home, where her three dogs keep her company.
"You know, when you came to my house today and knocked on the door," she told me on my visit, "every time that happens, I have this fear response, because they've doxed my address and I've had people tell me they're coming to my house to kill me so many times now."
Wu is tall — 6-foot-2 — with red streaks in her brown hair. She admits her height can look intimidating when she stands up, but she's scared — so scared she keeps a Louisville slugger bat by the front door.
"I've had people telling me my dead, mutilated corpse is going to be on the front page of feminist websites," she said.
Wu says these threats have now become so routine, but they're still emotionally and economically debilitating. She has tried to reach out to law enforcement, but nothing is ever really done to investigate and prosecute the threats.
Clark is pushing for that to change.
"We're not asking for the FBI or the federal government to come in and police the Internet," Clark said. "We're just saying, 'Investigate these cases and enforce the good laws that we already have on the books.' "
Wu is thankful for the efforts.
"In a political environment, where law enforcement has frankly not been very helpful for my family at all, Katherine Clark is the reason we're getting any attention on this at all," Wu said.
In an industry full of mythical heroes, Clark's become an unlikely hero for female gamers.
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How do you count a yarn over?
If the preceding stitch is a purl (or a variant of a purl), then you don’t need to do anything, because the yarn is already where you want it. Once the yarn is in front, just bring it over the top of the right needle to the back. That’s your yarnover!
What does yarn mean in knitting?
Yarn is a textile commonly made of either animal-based fibers (sheep’s wool, mohair, angora), plant-based fibers (cotton, hemp, silk), or synthetic fibers (polyester, nylon, rayon). These interlocked fibers (referred to as plies) are spun together into thicker strands.
What’s the difference between yarn and yon?
YFWD: This is a YO done between two knit stitches. … YRN: This is a YO done between two purl stitches. You’re starting with the yarn in the front, so you bring it all the way around the needle until it’s back in the front again; you’re doing steps 2 and 3 of the YO. YON: This is a YO done after a purl and before a knit.
Is yarn over the same as yarn forward?
Yarn Over. A “yarn forward” is more commonly the British term, while a “yarn over” is the preferred American term. … For instance, if you are working a purl stitch, your yarn is naturally in the front of the work.
Does a yarn over count as a stitch?
The term “yarn-over” refers only to the act of wrapping the yarn around the needle, and not to the working of the next existing stitch. Yarn-overs are often used to increase the number of stitches, since knitting a yarn-over creates a new stitch where none existed previously, but does not use up a stitch on the needle.
What does M stand for in knitting?
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|M1R||make one right; single right-leaning knit increase|
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The following infographic covers the differences in music, movies, video games, and sports stars that have influenced the generations.
According to this source, kids today are less likely to use marijuana and cigarettes and more likely to practice safe sex, however, they are less likely to finish high school. Decreased graduation risks might be correlated with the devaluation of college degrees, the shift towards working in business and arts fields that do not always require a high school diploma, and other socio-economic factors.
While modern teens are less likely to graduate from high school, they are more likely to believe that they will attend college in the future (58.3% in 1980 vs. 79.2% in 2004).
There is also less excitement or proactive behavior towards obtaining a driver's license; only 43% of 15-17 year olds had their driver's license in 2004 as compared to 52% in 1982. Is this because parents can no longer afford to buy their teenagers a car or is it something else?
But does this infographic really tell us anything important about their real differences? Do you think that this infographic is a little too superficial?
Another thing to consider is that this visual has outdated information. Career fields are changing swiftly and I doubt that this graphic truly captures modern tenns' career aspirations.
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in plain English — in simple, frank terms. mean well — have good intentions. хотеть сделать, как лучше. He meant well, but it turned out that he spoiled a couple of things for me.
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Regional groups and negotiating blocks
Negotiating Groups at COP 6
Based on the tradition of the UN, Parties are organised into five regional groups, mainly for the purposes of nominating candidates for election the Bureaux. These groups are Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean (GRULAC), and the Western Europe and Others group (WEOG) (the Others in WEOG are: Australia, Canada, Iceland, New Zealand, Norway, Switzerland, the US).
The five regional groups are not usually used to present the substantive interest of Parties and several other grouping are more important to the climate negotiations. These are referred to as Ōnegotiating groups.”
The Group of 77 and China
Developing countries generally work through the G-77 and China to establish common negotiating positions on issues of interest to them. With 133 members, the G77 is the largest coalition in the United Nations. It provides the means for the developing world to articulate and promote its collective interests and enhance its joint negotiating capacity on all major international environment, social, and economic issues in the United Nations system, and promote economic and technical cooperation among developing countries. This is a large and diverse group with differing priorities on climate change, and thus individual developing countries also intervene in debates, as do spokespersons of groups within the G-77. The current Chair of the G-77 and China is Nigeria. Click here for more information.
The European Union
The 15 members of the European Union (EU), along with the European Community (which is also a Party), meet in private to agree on common positions for the negotiations. The country that holds the EU presidency “ a position that rotates every six months- speaks on behalf of the group as a whole. For more information, click here.
Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS)
AOSIS is a coalition of 43 small island and low-lying coastal countries that share similar development challenges and concerns about the environment, especially their vulnerability to the adverse effects of global climate change. It functions primarily as an ad hoc lobby and negotiating voice for small island developing States (SIDS) within the United Nations system. Samoa currently holds the Chairmanship of AOSIS. For more information on AOSIS, click here.
ŌJUSSCANZ” and the ŌUmbrella Group”
Both these are coalitions of non-EU developed countries, which act as information-sharing and discussion fora. JUSSCANZ stands for Japan, the US, Switzerland, Canada, Australia, Norway and New Zealand. Iceland, Mexico, the Republic of Korea and other invited countries may attend meetings. The Umbrella group is a variation of the JUSSCANZ coalition, although there is no formal list of participating countries. This group emerged following the adoption of the Kyoto Protocol.
Least Developed Countries
The Least Developed Countries (LDCs) are officially designated as "least developed" by the General Assembly of the United Nations, i.e. by the world community as a whole, on the basis of a number of agreed criteria. Forty-eight countries are designated as LDCs. They announced their intention to negotiate as a group at the 13th sessions of the subsidiary bodies in Lyon, France. Vanuatu currently chairs this group. For further information, click here.
Group of States of Central Asia, Transcaucasia and Moldova
Environmental Integrity Group
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Buffalo is one of the largest cities in New York state, following only New York City. It is located in the state's western region, near the Niagara River and Lake Erie. Located in Erie County, Buffalo is home to many kid-friendly attractions, including the Buffalo Zoo, the Buffalo Museum of Science and the Buffalo City Hall Observation Tower. For families visiting Buffalo with children, there are several fun, kid-friendly restaurants in the city.
Anchor Bar is one of the most famous restaurants in Buffalo due to the fact that it is the home of one of the most well-known foods in America, the Buffalo chicken wing. Buffalo wings were created at the Anchor Bar in 1964 by Teressa Belissimo, a mother of one of the bartenders. Both lunch and dinner are served at this fun restaurant that features a kid-friendly ambiance and dozens of photographs of celebrity customers on the wall. The restaurant also sells Buffalo-wing related souvenirs, including attire, key chains, shot glasses, postcards, bumper stickers, stuffed animals and their signature hot sauce. Anchor Bar offers a children's menu for kids under the age of 12. The menu includes chicken fingers and french fries, chicken wings with celery and bleu cheese, pizza logs, spaghetti and hot dogs.
1047 Main St.
Buffalo, NY 14209
Ichiban Seafood Steakhouse
Ichiban Seafood Steakhouse Restaurant is a Japanese dining establishment located in Buffalo. The restaurant specializes in sushi and hibachi seafood and steak. Children will enjoy dining at Ichiban Seafood Steakhouse because, similar to other hibachi restaurants, the chef will prepare the meal directly at the table, occasionally performing tricks in between the meats or vegetables (and often directly interacting with children). Some of the items that are available on the menu include steak and chicken, filet mignon and scallops and chicken tatsuga age. The restaurant also offers a dessert menu, with ice cream options including mango, vanilla and green tea flavors.
Ichiban Seafood Steakhouse
3192 Sheridan Drive
Buffalo, NY 14226
Chef's Restaurant has a cozy, family-oriented atmosphere and serves traditional Italian dishes. In existence since 1923, Chef's Restaurant has an airy and open ambience. It was named the city's best family-friendly restaurant in 2008 by Parents Connect of Nickelodeon. The diverse menu includes meals such as pasta broccoli, wheat spaghetti, gnocchi, apple walnut salad, vegetable lasagna, chicken parmesan and veal steak. The children's menu is available for kids that are under 10 years of age. The children's menu provides favorites like ravioli, applesauce, celery and chicken fingers. The children's dessert is orange sherbet.
291 Seneca St.
Buffalo, NY 14204
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April 6, 2009
WESTERN CATHOLIC REPORTER
Obedience is for children. When we grow up, we can make our own rules. That, too often, is the way we think.
A little observation will lead one to the contrary conclusion – children are prone to disobedience. The mature person is one who has ordered his or her life according to a law greater than oneself. It is immature to disobey, mature to obey. Those adults who are liberated from obeying other people's rules are actually the least mature.
Jesus was the ultimate obedient one. "I always do what is pleasing to (God)," he said (John 8.39). "My food is to do the will of the one who sent me and to complete his work" (4.34).
Imagine that! Jesus, the fully liberated one, does not do his own will. He obeys "the one who sent me."
For St. Paul, obedience is one of Jesus' defining characteristics. It is what makes him Lord. Once Jesus became human, "he humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death" (Philippians 2.8).
Because of his total obedience, God exalted him to such an extent that everyone should bow before him. His obedience transforms him into the one who is to be obeyed. In fact, his always doing what is pleasing to the Father is the basis of his authority. He is to be obeyed because he obeys.
This has great significance for how we ought to live our lives. Paul contrasts his beloved Philippians – "you have always obeyed" – with the "crooked and perverse generation" in whose midst they live. Their obedience is a sure sign that God is at work in them (2.12-15).
Our call is not to be "creative," to be freelancers raising our own opinions above the truth given by the Holy Spirit. It is to be obedient to God's will, indeed to live within that will.
Father Raniero Cantalamessa, preacher to the last two popes, urges us to fall in love with obedience. "Obedience is the key to God's heart," he writes (Life in Christ, p. 192).
The more we obey, the more God will ask us to obey. "When God finds a person determined to obey him, he takes the life of that person in his hands. . . . Minute by minute, he defines the gestures and words of that person, his way of making use of his time, in short everything" (p. 189).
HE'LL MAKE YOU HIS OWN
Authority – not worldly power, but real authority – comes from giving one's life over to God. Endeavour to make not only the large decisions of your life, but also even the small daily decisions, instruments of God's will. Turn to him at every moment and he will more and more make you his own.
The little word "obey" pops up repeatedly throughout Paul's letters. There is the obedience of faith (Romans 1.5, 16.26), obedience to the Church's teaching (6.17), obedience to the good news (10.16), obedience to the truth (Galatians 5.7) and obedience to Christ (2 Corinthians 10.5).
When Paul writes, "It is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me" (Galatians 2.20), he is not simply imagining Jesus living inside of him. Rather, he is talking about a life whose every breath is breathed by Christ. It is God's will, not his, which constantly gets acted out.
It was on a donkey that Jesus rode triumphantly into Jerusalem – an unassuming, unpretentious donkey. This humble, obedient animal gave glory to Jesus without putting itself at the centre.
The spirituality of obedience is donkey spirituality. It is loyal and calm. It has no aspirations to being "creative," to putting itself at the front of the parade and demanding that God tag along.
When we are full of pride, we may snicker at the donkey. But the donkey loves God and carries him into Jerusalem. In the final analysis, there is nothing higher to which one can aspire.
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2. Grind 2 g of fresh, leaf tissue to a powder in Liquid Nitrogen in a chilled mortar and pestle.
3. Scrape the powder into a chilled 50 ml tube.
4. Add 3 to 5 ml CTAB Buffer per gram tissue to the tube.
5. Incubate the sample at 60°C for 30 min with occasional gentle swirling.
6. Add the same volume of Phenol:Chloroform to the sample, gently swirling.
7. Centrifuge at 16,000 X g at room temperature for 10 min.
8. Remove the yellow, aqueous phase with a wide-bore pipette to a new 50 ml tube (see Hint #1).
9. Add the same volume of Chloroform:Isoamyl Alcohol to the tube, gently swirling.
10. Centrifuge at 16,000 X g at room temperature for 10 min.
11. Transfer the upper, aqueous phase to a new 50 ml tube.
12. Add two-thirds volume of cold 100% Isopropanol to the tube and mix gently to precipitate the nucleic acids (see Hint #2).
13. Centrifuge at 5,000 X g at room temperature for 10 min.
14. If any strands of DNA are visible, spool the non pelleted DNA with a glass hook. Discard the supernatant.
15. Add 5 to 10 ml Wash Buffer to the DNA pellet, including the spooled DNA collected with the glass hook.
16. Incubate for a minimum of 20 min (see Hint #3).
17. Centrifuge at 16,000 X g for 10 min.
18. Pour off the supernatant and allow the DNA pellet to dry.
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How to Find Events & Programs at the Library
There is a search tool on our website to find events and programs at various branches of Harris County Public Library. You can limit your search by age of the target audience, type of program, and branch location(s). For example, you can do a search to find Teen programs that will be held at the La Porte, Freeman, and South Houston branches. Or you can look for nearby branches that have Storytimes for Toddlers…or Book Discussion groups…or Tax Assistance. All kinds of programs! To use the search tool, click on Events Calendar on our home page. The next page will be a list of the various branches. Click on the branch location itself if you want just your neighborhood branch, like La Porte. But if you would like to search to find more options, click on Search Events and Programs. On that page, you can customize the search to find the events and programs that interest you and your family. | <urn:uuid:c3797638-1027-422a-bc2a-d9402cd670ea> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.hcpl.net/content/how-find-events-programs-library | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281649.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00437-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.927603 | 199 | 1.609375 | 2 |
TABLE OF CONTENTS
A Guide to the J. Ealy Moore Diary, 1892
J. Ealy Moore (1866-1937) was born in Bedford County, Tennessee, on April 21, 1866. In 1874, Moore’s family moved to Burnet County, Texas, and began raising cattle on a small scale. The XIT Ranch hired Moore in 1887 to work in its Yellow House Division. He worked as a cowboy for a year and half, before attending Centenary College in Lampasas, 1889-1891. In 1892, Moore again went to work for the XIT Ranch, this time in its Oho Bravo division near the New Mexico border. From 1892 until 1894, he worked as a trail boss, driving cattle to XIT’s Montana finishing range. After his last Montana cattle drive in 1894, he became the manager of XIT’s Rita Blanca division.
Moore remained in the cattle business with XIT until 1902 when he was elected judge of Hartley County. Following his two terms as judge, he served as Dallam county treasurer for three years. From 1910 to 1930, he operated an insurance business in Dalhart, Texas. Moore died in Amarillo in October 1937.
"Moore, J. Ealy," Vertical Files, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin.
The J. Ealy Moore Diary, 1892, contains an account of Moore’s 1892 cattle drive from the Texas Panhandle to Montana. The diary, April 20 - July 29, 1892, contains brief notes of the miles they traveled each day and where they made camp at night. Furthermore, the diary includes lists of expenses incurred and supplies purchased during the trip. Additionally, before Moore donated the diary to the university he wrote a short autobiography in the diary, relating his experiences as a cowboy in the Panhandle during the 1880s and 1890s. The diary also contains a photograph pasted in the back cover, depicting Moore in his real estate and insurance office at Dalhart, Texas, in 1912.
The collection is open for research.
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Certain knowledge is power, because it fills a void which would otherwise be occupied by fear and doubt! You cannot have a positive and negative occupying the same space in the world, and likewise they cannot occupy the same space in your mind. Fear & negativity is fuelled by lack of positive knowledge, especially when it becomes true understanding.
Knowledge, and it’s counterpart truth, operate at 3 main levels, physical/material, mental & spiritual or energetic, as described here.:-
For people whose awareness is mainly focused on the physical world, they judge life based on what they See. For them seeing is believing. To try and convince them of spiritual and ‘energy’ truths is usually a waste of time, because they don’t have that frame of reference or conscious awareness to understand. They look to seek ‘proof’, evidence and facts. This is home base ‘reality’.
For people operating at the mental level, where they like to use logic and deduction, for them ‘believing is seeing’. They realise that all seeing comes from their thoughts, however they are primarily stuck in their belief patterns and are seeking the root causes of their beliefs. These people often get emotional and reactive to information that counters their beliefs. It can become a never ending loop, often referred to as the Hegelian dialectic.
The next highest level of knowledge is the ‘spiritual‘ or energetic based reality, and these people operate in KNOWING, as they can see the physical, mental/emotional and spiritual truths and can integrate these levels in a holistic way of wholeness living. For them knowledge is based on the source reality and causes, and knowledge becomes understanding & wisdom. They understand how to balance the left & right brain, and their mind with their spirit, heart and body.
To give high spiritual knowledge is not going to make sense to a physically based being. And people who pass off as spiritual, without having done the required integration work of the physical and mental is also not going to progress in life until they experience all levels and understand. Many new age people fall in this category & quote the law of attraction, without actually attracting anything meaningful.
No level is better than another, it’s just where people are at in their life development, this is not a judging session. There is always someone above us trying to assist us and there is always people below us, needing assistance. Think of how you met people, learned certain lessons and next minute, they are gone from your life.
So the EarthStar knowledge Tree starts with having sound roots and a base in the world, with healthy careers, finances, physical health and a world that is also well balanced in these areas. If the world is out of balance, then this will show up each persons weak spots even more keenly! And as we grow, in knowledge of the world, we fill in the spaces with positive intent that would otherwise be taken by something much less positive!
Freedom is a by product of knowledge, understanding, wisdom, which altogether makes up our consciousness....or our level of comprehension of life, relative to true reality. Once we reach understanding of source reality and it’s many branches of life, we are then truly free, as we know it’s all about the we. | <urn:uuid:9cb248bf-2b71-452d-bde9-f27d9e09374a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://earthstarfreedom.com/what-is-the-knowledge-tree-why-is-it-power/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00678.warc.gz | en | 0.967456 | 681 | 1.898438 | 2 |
This is an archived blog post from The Acorn.
Patrick Chisholm offers two simple rules to guide foreign policy.
Being open and friendly, but tough when one needs to be, is a strategy for success. In other words, nice guys but resolute guys finish first.
That holds true not just for individuals, but also for nations…
Whether it is a nation or a person, a key to success is to be friendly and kind to anyone who reciprocates, yet tough toward those who try to inflict harm.
A computer model even illustrated this lesson. Developed by The Santa Fe Institute, it was a digital fish tank. Users could introduce new life forms to observe whether their species thrived or died out among the other life forms. According to tech guru Winn Schwartau, each life form had a complex set of rules governing its behavior. Over time, wrote Schwartau, the life form that consistently dominated abided by the following rules:
“1. My species will always play nice with you. I will never be aggressive to you. We will make every attempt to cooperate and work with you and everyone in our (global) fish tank.
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Last year, during a lull in the Van Cliburn piano competition in Texas, where he was on the jury, I persuaded this rara avis to tell his story, which turned out to be nothing so banal as rags to riches (his father was a well-to-do clothes merchant). It was, on the contrary, both unexpected and inspiring.
Born in Magdeburg in 1923, Pressler started playing the violin at six, and the piano soon after; his teacher was the local organist. All went well until the Nazi persecution kicked in, when he and his brother began to receive taunts in the street. "At that age, you get used to it; you assume it will just stop soon." But it didn't. "In 1938 we were barred from school, and it became difficult for the organist to be seen visiting our house. I began to feel more and more pressure." His inflections, I noted, were still quintessentially German. "Yes," he agreed, "that is ironic." In 1939 they fled to Trieste, whence they caught the last boat to Palestine. "But I felt the pressure more and more, and began to develop something strange. Every time a meal-time arrived, I could not eat. So, I became very, very thin."
So thin, in fact, that he fainted while playing a Beethoven slow movement during one of his early piano recitals. "Was it anorexia? I've no idea - it's all a blur now. Maybe I want to forget it. Or maybe I don't need to remind myself of it." But his career had started, alongside his day job in a grocer's shop. He made a name for himself in Israel by tackling the hardest pieces he could find, and then, hearing of a Debussy competition in San Francisco, he gatecrashed and won it.
His recording break came when MGM wanted to release the soundtrack of a film in which Artur Rubinstein played Schumann: since Rubinstein's recordings were owned by RCA Victor, MGM had to record the same music with a stand-in. Pressler stood in so impressively that MGM adopted him as its resident virtuoso.
Co-founding the Beaux Arts Trio was another accidental turning-point; the name was only a fill-in, but it now graces 75 records. "We learnt our craft giving badly paid concerts all over Israel. It was bloody, but somehow we found a way of playing together, of creating a face." That face has survived several changes in the string jobs, but if you listen to each combination - all available on Philips - you will find in their respective approaches a serene continuity, with Pressler its unchanging heart. Three years ago, Pressler was suddenly invited to give his debut solo recital at Carnegie Hall. "And I thought, this is ridiculous, at this point in my life. But I realised that if I didn't accept the challenge, it would only be because of fear." He consulted his wife and children, then went ahead and played, to tumultuous acclaim.
"It felt like a present from God - that the circle of life had been completed. That the hands still respond, and the brain is still there. Because, in music, it's not what you have been, but what you are."
FULL MARKS, then, to Gramophone for making this award - and for most of the others in this year's excellent crop. But you do sense an unhealthy symbiosis between it and the industry it exists to comment on. Consider Gramophone's strange custom of sending pre-publication proofs of reviews to the companies concerned. This is justified as a way of "ensuring accuracy". In the normal world, accuracy is what editors are employed to ensure, but this tight little world is not normal. Gramophone is still run by the family firm that has been in charge of it for 75 years, and the magazine has always tried to reconcile a critical stance with its policy of maintaining good relations with the record companies. But there must be times when those things are irreconcilable. Does that word "accuracy" never get stretched?
Never mind. In January next year, Gramophone will win itself more Brownie points by launching a world music quarterly called Songlines. Since the world music market is expanding by leaps and bounds - look at the shelves in your local record store - this is an eminently sensible ploy. But how typical that at the same time Radio 3 should be poised to axe its World Music programme, after condemning it to a late-night graveyard slot. This is yet another idiocy for Roger Wright to unscramble, when he takes over the helm.Reuse content | <urn:uuid:21eb599f-5977-442a-832c-8838af9d2363> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/classical-when-life-itself-is-an-achievement-1177033.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280128.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00383-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.983434 | 975 | 1.648438 | 2 |
|Julia and Paul Child|
In August of 1945 two atomic bombs were dropped on Japan. Shortly afterward, Japan surrendered and VJ day was celebrated on 8/15/45.
In September of 1945, just weeks later, President Truman signed an executive order disbanding the OSS (Office of Strategic Services) which had gathered intelligence and fought behind enemy lines during the war. This action had the overwhelming support of the US Congress at the time.
The naivete of President Truman and most members of the US Congress in dissolving our worldwide intelligence apparatus is truly staggering. We'd won the war beating Germany and Japan; No more need for an American intelligence service! Those who write dark conspiratorial histories of America's grasping imperialist ambitions typically forget these chapters in our history.
Historians Isaacson and Thomas write in their history of the cold war The Wisemen, "Americans had grown weary of global responsibilities...and wanted nothing more than to "settle our difficulties with Russia and then go to the movies and drink Coke," according to Averell Harriman. Source: The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made, Walter Isaacson & Evan Thomas, 1986, (www.amzn.com/1451683227). In late 1945, the veterans of the "greatest generation" wanted to return home and begin work on launching the baby boom without giving further thoughts to war and international politics.
One direct consequence of Truman's executive order was the dismissal from the OSS of Paul and Julia Child (8/15/12 marked the centennial of her birth, see earlier post, Happy Napoleon Day!, 8/15/12) who had met and fallen in love while serving in the OSS in Ceylon and in China. During the war, she even invented a recipe for shark repellent that was designed to save the lives of downed naval airmen--did it contain butter? After leaving the OSS, the couple returned to the United States and were married. Paul was re-assigned to work for the USIA (United States Information Agency) in Paris. Without Truman's dissolution of the OSS Julia Child might never have become a French-trained Cordon bleu chef, famous author or television personality.
Later in life Julia Child wrote a book (with Alex Prud'homme) called My Life in France (www.amzn.com/0307475018) which tells the story of her consuming love affairs with Paul Child, France and Cooking. The half of the movie Julia and Julie that was worthwhile was based loosely on this book--an anorexic cook who prepares a year's worth of Julia Child recipes -- I don't buy it! Reading My Life in France makes one hungry for classic French cuisine. I can relate to her exuberant joy in the pleasures of expat life.
Paul Child was a foot soldier in the cold war efforts who helped created presentation materials in Paris, Marseille, Bonn and Oslo. In her book My Life in France, Julia Child writes, "So icy was the Cold War now that Paul and I were half convinced that the Russians--"the wily commies," he called them--would invade Western Europe. He suffered nightmares over the possibility of an all out nuclear war. He grew snappish at the office, convinced that the busy world that ate up his days was trivial in light of our nation's unpreparedness. I declared that I was ready to man the barricades to defend la belle France ad her wonderful citizens." Julia later writes that Paul was preoccupied with "the fact that the U.S. wasn't doing enough to prepare Western Europe for a Russian invasion". In Paris, Paul did his best for the USIA creating, for example, presentations on the Berlin airlift that saved Germans from starvation in 1948 (see earlier post, http://americanconservativeinlondon.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-corporations-that-won-cold-war.html).
Julia and Paul Child were, undeniably, liberals for their time. She was a young woman who was in rebellion against her father -- a conservative Republican businessman from Pasadena. Julia tells us that Paul, "had to bite his tongue when my father's friends would casually scorn President Truman, Jews, Negroes, the United Nations, or all those "Phi Beta Kappas" in Washington".
Julia did not "like Ike" and she let her father know it. After the election of 1952 Julia had this exchange with her father...Julia "'Well, I guess you Pasadenans are pretty glad about Ike's election results.'
'Glad? I should say we are!' Big John thundered. 'Why who wouldn't be? Everybody's glad! But of course you people over there, you wouldn't know how the country feels--all your news is slanted.'
This was hard to take, especially from the man who read only the right-leaning LA Times. For the record, Paul and I were avid devourers of the New York Times, The Herald Tribune, Le Figaro, Time, Fortune, The Reporter, Harper's, The New Yorker, even L'Humanite, not to mention the flood of embassy cables, intelligence briefs, and other twenty-four-hour-wire-service and ticker sheets pouring in from around the world. So -- whose news was slanted?"
Commander Kelly must note here that Julia Child writes these words without even a trace of irony. The answer to her question is, of course, that BOTH father and daughter's news sources were slanted! They always are. Some, dear reader, have even accused Commander Kelly of being somewhat slanted!
When McCarthyism broke out in the US, Paul Child was summoned back to Washington and subjected to interrogation. Paul Child, the OSS spook, was suspected of being a treasonous commie spy in the state department. Julia Child was a committed New Dealer -- recall that the Democrats in 1952 had won 5 consecutive Presidential contests over twenty years. Accordingly, she did not "like Ike" and blamed him for complacency in the anti-communist withchunt.
She writes, "What was happening to America? Several of our friends and colleagues were tormented by McCarthy's terrible witch hunt. It ruined careers and, and in some cases, lives. Even president Eisenhower seemed unwilling to stand up to him, which made me angry. When Eisenhower announced that he'd run for a second term, after having a heart attack, I had no doubt that Adlai Stevenson would make the better (an more resilient) president. Ike was just not inspiring: I got nothing but a hollow feeling from his utterances, as if Pluto the dog were suddenly making human noises. Just about anyone from the GOP had, for me, a fake soap-selling ring to him, with the exception of Herbert Hoover, who had impressed everyone on a recent swing through Europe. Stevenson, on the other hand, had a nobility of ideals that appealed to me. I just liked eggheads, damnit!"
Julia Child might have been surprised to learn that Eisenhower in (see earlier post, Eisenhower in London, 7/23/12) loathed Senator Joseph McCarthy, in Stephen Ambrose's words "almost as much as he hated Hitler." Ike ordered all members of the executive branch to ignore McCarthy's summons with his Army committee hearings in the US senate. When Senator McCarthy went after the US Army he was taking on the American institution that was dearest to Ike's heart. Moreover, it was Ike who was, in fact, the principal architect of McCarthy's self-destruction in his showdown with the US Army. For a full account of how Ike broke McCarthy see Jean Edward Smith's "First off the Tee" chapter in his book--Eisenhower in War and Peace, 2012 (http:/www.amzn.com/140006693X).
|Julia Child's Classic|
It was, of course, not principally in the field of political commentary that Julia Child made her mark on the world, but rather in the kitchen; here she excelled. The childless 6'2" Child poured out her passion into mastering French cooking and then explaining it effectively to the wide American public. She, along with her collaborators, wrote the classic Mastering the Art of French Cooking (www.amzn.com/0375413405) which was published in 1961 and made its way into countless American homes. She then went on to become the French Chef on public television.
Vice president Nixon and Nikita Krushchev fought their famous battle of the kitchen in Moscow in 1959 (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/24/opinion/24safire.html?_r=2). Previously, I credited General Electric with making many of the appliances that helped American women surpass their Soviet counterparts in the kitchen (see earlier post, The Corporations that Won the Cold War, 8/19/12), but that of course, is only part of the story. Corporations such as GE and Frigidaire may have supplied some of the "hardware," but it was Julia Child and others like her who created the essential "software" to advance the deplorable state of American cookery.
Julia Child's success meant that a surprise Soviet "borscht" first strike would be answered by the USA, not only with burgers and fries, but also with a devastating "boeuf bourguigon" reprisal!
Julia Child loved using butter and cream in her preparation of rich French sauces such as Bearnaise and Beurre Blanc. She adored pate and foie gras (see earlier post, Marijauna and Pate in California, 6/30/12). It is safe to say that "liberal" Julia Child would be horrified by the politically correct approach to food and nutrition espoused by today's liberal diet police (e.g. Michelle Obama). She made the world more delicious by her presence. She was a bridge across cultures and represented an America that would remain, not isolated, but rather, engaged positively with the world.
|Commander K. flashes the "V for Victory" sign at Comrade Lenin in Fremont, WA|
Commander Kelly says, "Julia and Paul Child, therefore, each deserve credit in helping to guide the West to a most delectable victory over communism in the Cold War. Pass the butter!"
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The ancient Greek Gods and Goddess contain a wealth of stories and legends, wrapped in Myths which typically provide a story with a morale code designed to influence the reader into behaviour as fitting Greek culture of the era.
In this article, we look at Proteus and the myths and legends surrounding Proteus, Proteus relationship to and with other Greek Gods and Goddess and key events and stories which relate to ancient astrology and the changing seasons.
Son of Abas and Ocalea, twin of Acrisius, who had a sister called Idomene. His name suggests he is the first, and according to Homer, he lived on Pharos, and island in the Nile delta, and he has all the characteristics of the other ancient sea god Nereus. Being able to prophesise and change form at will. In the Odyssey, he is referred to as Proteus of Egypt. Considering he was thought a god of rivers as well as the sea, I cannot help, thinking that he is a personification of the Egyptian god of the Nile, the word Nile whose spirit, essence was called Hapy= river, or Nilus in Greek. And considering Proteus' other name Nereus, for both these gods share exactly the same abilities and both are referred to as (the Old Man of the Sea, I am inclined to think they are two titles given to same entity. Later references state he is one of the sons of Poseidon, but it more likely that as Poseidon replaced Nereus after Zeus ousted Cronus, that Proteus was also previous too, and replaced by Poseidon. As Proteus of Egypt, it was said he married a Nereid called Psamathe. | <urn:uuid:7dd15ac1-9775-40b9-bc36-30d97a952b13> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.secret-vault.com/gods-and-goddess/greeks/encyclopedia/proteus.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00270.warc.gz | en | 0.975312 | 363 | 2.46875 | 2 |
The Power of Public Speaking Community Podcast Series. Season 2. Episode 8.
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Don Waisanen, Professor of Communication, Marxe School of Public and International Affairs, Baruch College, City University of New York
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Krista Hoffmann-Longtin, Associate Professor of Communication Studies, IUPUI; Assistant Dean for Faculty Affairs and Professional Development, Indiana University School of Medicine
Caitlin McClure, founder of Caitlin McClure & Company
Gary Ware, Creative Catalyst / Workshop Facilitator Breakthrough Play
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IMPROV(ING) YOUR PUBLIC SPEAKING SKILLS
A lively discussion on the uses of improvisational theatre training for communication education and presentation skills.
Check out Don's new book, Improv for Democracy: How to Bridge Differences and Develop the Communication and Leadership Skills Our World Needs (https://amzn.to/3nDggWA),
Check out Caitlin’s co-edited, forthcoming book, The Applied Improvisation Mindset: Tools for Transforming Organizations and Communities (https://amzn.to/3cUhIRQ)
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Some students at Franklin Elementary have been very busy the past few months. This project was much more meaningful than the typical homework assignment.
Mrs. Dittmar's class waited patiently for their guest.
"It was really nice because I like seeing all the military soldiers coming in, because it's so nice to have them come here and influence us,” says fifth grader Nicole Ellis.
For the past four months students have been working on a special gift for soldiers.
“It was really cool, because I’ve ever really crossed stitch very much before and it was really fun learning all the new techniques,” says Ellis.
The pillows were handmade, with stars and stripes pattern with the students name on the back. On Wednesday, May 22, 2013, they got to present them.
"They really need to be recognized, because they keep our country safe and it makes me feel really good,” says Ellis.
"It shows that the teachers and the students took time out of their day to really put some effort and thought into what they were doing,” says First Class Sergeant Matthew Favory, who was there to collect the pillows.
The pillows will then be passed on to soldiers fighting overseas.
"Any time you can get a piece of home it kind of helps take your mind off what's going on overseas,” says Sgt. Favory.
It’s a small, but meaningful reminder of home.
“It’s always nice to know that everyone back home is thinking of you,” says Sgt. Favory.
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Authorial Artists: 5 Painters Who Also Wrote
Everyone wants to be a writer—deep down anyway. And maybe not everyone wants to tell stories on a professional or even professionally amateur level, but it is true that we're all storytellers at heart. The desire to share information, life lessons, and laughs through constructed narratives is innate to our species. We tell stories to engage with others, to flatter them, impress them, bond with them. There's a reason, for instance, couples have that "how was your day" exchange: telling each other the events of the hours they spent apart helps them feel as though they weren't apart at all. When your grandmother tells you a story of her crazy youth, you get to know a side of her you never knew she had. Storytelling is a part of humanity, and we all engage with it in some capacity every single day.
Some people are also gifted visual artists, and they tell stories by mixing and applying paint to canvas, creating objects, settings and people that communicate ideas. Even when artists paint in abstract terms, they're still transmitting their thoughts and emotions, providing the viewer a window into their subconscious. So it's no surprise to learn that some of the world's most famous painters also engaged with literary writing on some level throughout their careers, creating novels, plays, poetry, and screenplays. Let's take a look at five of those big name artists and ask the ultimate question: is their writing any good?
1. Pablo Picasso
He may be one of the most famous painters out there, tied only with Vincent Van Gogh—I mean, you've either got a print of Starry Night or The Old Guitar Player hanging up somewhere in your home, right? Or maybe you've got the Guernica coffee mug? Even if you're not that familiar with his broader body of work, or even his place in art history, you know who this guy is, so I'll skip the introductions and move straight on to Picasso's writings.
It actually seems inevitable Picasso would gravitate toward words and stories. Three years ago the Yale University Art Gallery held a special exhibition titled Picasso and the Lure of Language, which celebrated the artist's bookish or language-based works. Covering the exhibition for the New Haven Independent, Allen Appel reports that Picasso's obsession with words stemmed largely from his association with Gertrude Stein, "that word-experimentalist par excellence," who reportedly told Picasso, "Anyone who can paint like you, Pablo, has no business hanging out with other painters," and advised him to befriend other writers instead. This Picasso did, becoming quite chummy with poet, novelist and art critic Guillaume Apollinaire. He was also seen hobnobbing with the likes of Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis, and James Joyce, all guests of Stein and Alice B. Toklas's salon gatherings in Paris.
These literary acquaintances no doubt inspired Picasso to try his hand at writing. In 1937 he produced The Dream and Lie of Franco, a three-sheet volume of panel sketches accompanied by prose poems—really, a comic strip, if we're being honest. Picasso followed this work up with two largely un-produceable surrealists plays, Desire Caught by the Tail (1941) and The Four Little Girls (1949), plus another volume of sketches matched with prose titled The Burial of the Count of Orgaz (1959). Picasso's literary output more or less petered out after Orgaz, as he refocused his efforts on painting and sculpture.
So is Picasso Any Good?
Well, I'm no poetry expert, so let's review a sample from Picasso's The Dream and Lie of Franco:
silver bells & cockle shells & guts braided in a row
a pinky in erection not a grape & not a fig.. [sic]
casket on shoulders crammed with sausages & mouths
rage that contorts the drawing of a shadow that lashes teeth
nailed into sand the horse ripped open top to bottom in the sun..
Seems alright to me, if perhaps not very clear or concise. I mean, I understand the work was politically motivated, and I can see that in some of Picasso's word choices, but at the end of the day, what is he actually saying here?
Ditto for his dramatic work. I haven't gotten my hands on The Four Little Girls, but I have read Desire Caught by the Tail, and while it's entertaining in a WTF-is-going-on? kind of way, I'm not so sure I really 'get it.' Let's take a look at Act II, Scene II, in which all the characters are bathing together in a giant, sudsy tub (and, yes, there's a character named Big Foot):
You've got a shapely leg and a well turned navel, a slender waist and perfect tits, the ridges of your eyebrows are maddening, and your mouth is a nest of flowers, your hips a sofa, and the flap-seat of your belly a box at the bull-fights in the arenas in Nîmes, your buttocks a dish of baked beans, and your arms a sharkfin soup, and your and your bird's nest again the spiciness of a bird's nest soup. But my dear, my ducky, and my pet, I'm in a dither, in a dither, in a dither, in a dither.
Old whore! Little trollope!
My dear fellow, where do you think you are, in the house or in a brothel?
If you continue, I'm not going to wash myself any more and I'm going away.
Where's my soap? my soap? my soap?
Yes, the hussy!
And then some dogs enter the stage and proceed to lick everyone. No, I'm not kidding.
So I suppose it's fair to say Picasso's literary work is good, if you're into that sort of thing, though he's really not breaking any new ground in the surrealist/bizarro camp. Good thing he stuck with painting.
2. Salvador Dalí
If Picasso is the Prince of Cubism, then surely Dalí is the King of Surrealism. The man produced some pretty trippy and interesting images, many of which are instantly recognizable. Like Picasso's Old Guitar Player, the 'melting clocks' from Dalí's painting The Persistence of Memory are firmly ingrained in our culture.
But unless you're a film nerd, you're probably not familiar with the screenplays he co-wrote with fellow Spanish surrealist Luis Buñuel, Un Chien Andalou (1929) and L'Age d'Or (1930). Pixies fans take note: the song 'Debaser' references the most famous scene from Un Chien Andalou: "Got me a movie / I want you to know / Slicing up eyeballs / I want you to know." That's right, Dalí and Buñuel's 17 minute, plotless journey into pure surrealism features a POV shot of a woman's eyeball being sliced open with a razor blade. Maybe you've heard of that? L'Age d'Or, which loosely follows the exploits of two young lovers, is also famous for a single scene: the female protagonist performs felatio on a marble statue's toe. Uh huh.
But if we're really going down the rabbit hole with Dalí's literary work, let us not ignore his lone novel, Hidden Faces, published in 1944. According to Wikipedia, the novel "describes, in vividly visual terms, the intrigues and love affairs of a group of dazzling, eccentric aristocrats who, with their luxurious and extravagant lifestyle, symbolize the decadence of the 1930s." This brief GoodReads review from Sicienss provides some additional info:
The verbal Dalí is different than the visual Dalí. He doesn't write straight-forwardly surrealistically; rather, he couches the (plausible) events that occur in his fictional world in strange metaphors, in the associations that exist within the minds of his characters. I recall a particularly thrilling passage in the opening pages where he equates a woman's bare knees with the skulls of children.
In 1955, Dalí also wrote and designed an animated short for Walt Disney, titled Destino, which didn't see the light of day until 2003. He also produced a live-action short in 1975 titled Impressions of Upper Mongolia, about an expedition to find hallucinogenic mushrooms. Oh yeah, and this:
So is Dalí Any Good?
Un Chien Andalou and L'Age d'Or are both considered hallmarks of the experimental film genre, and with good reason. While Picasso had to try very hard to be surreal and weird, Dalí and Buñuel were surreal and weird. Andalou in particular manages to engage and fascinate despite its lack of plot and rampant non-sequiturs (a scene featuring two men hauling, by rope, dead animal carcasses and a piano, for instance), but that's the point. The film is supposed to be anarchic and disorienting, like a night of dreams and nightmares without cohesion. Seeing this movie is no jaunty trip to the cinema. If this isn't your cup of tea, however, Destino offers more of a plot and is a real treat to watch.
As for Dalí's novel, Hidden Faces, it has a strong cult following, but I suspect this is because it was written by Salvador Dalí. I haven't picked this one up myself, but there's a webpage dedicated to nothing but quotes from the book. Here's an example:
The boat glided off and lay steeped in a kind of supernatural peace . . . a milky silence. . . . One heard a faint lapping of water against the keel, like a sound of lunar saliva. The moon-drenched kite lying against a bulwark looked like a stellar ray that had just dropped there like a sign of the Zodiac.
'Lunar saliva?' Only Dalí knows what 'lunar saliva' sounds like. Also, 'like a stellar ray that had just dropped there like a sign of the Zodiac.' I have no idea what that means. It sounds cool, though.
My final verdict: watch the short films, skip the book, unless you're in the mood for some crazy-ass, nonsensical prose—which is okay. I'm sometimes in the mood for that myself.
3. Julian Schnabel
Julian Schnabel was a prominent figure in the Neo-Expressionist movement of the late 70s/early 80s, an approach to art that blended abstract forms with roughly-depicted people and objects. Schnabel was particularly prominent in the New York City scene for his "plate paintings"—massive works adorned with broken pieces of ceramic dining ware and paint.
Despite all his accolades as a static visual artist, however, Schnabel began pursuing narrative filmmaking. In 1996 he wrote and directed Basquiat, a biopic about friend and fellow Neo-Expressionist Jean-Michel Basquiat, starring Jeffrey Wright in the titular role and featuring Dennis Hopper, Benicio Del Toro, Gary Oldman, and David Bowie as Andy Warhol. He followed up Basquiat with Before Night Falls, an adaption of Reinaldo Arenas's autobiography about persecution of homosexuals in 1970s Cuba (featuring a breakthrough performance by Javier Bardem as Arenas).
In 2007 Schnabel released The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, another adaptation of an autobiography, this one by Jean-Dominique Bauby, the one-time French Elle editor who became almost completely paralyzed after a stroke, save the use of his left eye. The film was nominated for four Academy Awards that year, including Best Director. Though Diving Bell didn't win any Oscars, it did pick up AFI's Movie of the Year award, and took home the Best Director award at Cannes. Miral, about a young girl wrapped up in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, arrived in 2010, though Schnabel had no official hand in the screenwriting process. The film wasn't as critically successful as his previous work, and boasts a 5.9 out of 10 on imdb.com.
So is Schnabel Any Good?
If the details above aren't convincing enough, then let me tell you, yes, he's actually quite good. True, much of his film work consists of adaptations, but this doesn't mean the man has no understanding of narrative fiction—if you're a good director, you have to. Schnabel's films are never terribly long—an hour and a half on average—but they feel longer, and much more dense than 90 minutes usually allows. They all sport top-notch acting and offer windows into the protagonists' minds. This is particularly true of Diving Bell, which is nothing but the world according to Bauby; the scene in which the character's right eye is sewn shut, depicted in POV, literally puts you right in the center of Bauby's horror (and serves as a visual homage to Dalí and Buñuel). It's an effective, not-for-the-squeamish scene that shows off Schnabel's talent for storytelling as communication of idea or emotion to the audience.
Also, Basquiat is one of my all-time favorite movies, since it boasts not only all the above qualities, but also one killer soundtrack.
4. Andy Warhol
You've heard about Campbell's Soup Cans, Green Coca-Cola Bottles, the first Velvet Underground LP and the concept "15 minutes of fame," but the King of Pop Art didn't just vibrantly reproduce commodities/celebrities, design album covers and coin adages. Warhol was also deeply involved in fictional endeavors, primarily films.
Let's talk about those movies. Between 1963 and roughly 1973, Warhol and his "Factory" of superstars produced hundreds of films, many shot by the white-wigged man himself. Some titles, like Kiss, Eat, and Blow-Job (all 1963) were experiments in static filmmaking, each depicting exactly what their title describes (with the exception of Blow-Job, which is actually the recipient's facial reactions to said act). Many other films were narrative-based, like Batman Dracula (1964), produced without DC Comics' permission and now long gone, but credited as being the first campy depiction of the Caped Crusader. Vinyl (1965) is loosely based on Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange, predating Kubrick's decidedly more faithful adaptation by six years. There's also Blue Movie, aka Fuck (1969), about an adulterous couple alternately engaging in serious conversation and...well, the title says it all. L'Amour, about two American woman looking for rich husbands in Paris, was co-written and co-directed with longtime collaborator Paul Morrissey.
Warhol also contributed to the literary world with a, A Novel, a roman à clef starring Factory regular Ondine, aka Robert Olivio, with other Warhol clan members making clandestine appearances. The text is a verbatim transcription of several conversations between Warhol and Ondine, in which the latter regales the former with his amphetamine-fueled exploits.
Strangely, Warhol intended a, A Novel as a response to Ulysses. Certainly, it's just as difficult to understand as James Joyce's masterpiece: as I said, the novel is a verbatim transcript, full of disjointed thoughts, stories that ramble on or stop abruptly, and even typos made by the various typists Warhol employed. This is all intentional, as Guardian writer Andrew Gallix reports that Warhol wanted to produce a "bad novel." Check the win box on this one.
So, is Warhol Any Good?
Like judging Picasso's literary output, distinctions of good and bad concerning Warhol's work are subjective to the reader. If you're into weird experimental films and texts, then surely Warhol is a genius; however, if you prefer your movies and novels linear and sensical, the man was a hack. a, A Novel reminds me of Jack Kerouac's The Subterraneans, a punctuation-less speedball of a book that I couldn't finish, but the difference is, Warhol's novel was intended somewhat as a joke, and Kerouac's wasn't. Similarly, his films were never meant to be anything more than they were: experiments, funny exploits, and improvisations. If you go into either expecting pinnacles of fiction, you’ll be disappointed; however, if you place no expectations upon your reading/viewing experience, you might have a good time.
5. Yoko Ono
Yep. You might think Yoko Ono is nothing more than John Lennon’s widow and the woman responsible for The Beatles’ break-up, but like it or not, she did contribute significantly to the conceptual art movement (also, The Beatles hated each other and would have broken up anyway, regardless of Ono's presence). Her art projects are too numerous and multifaceted to really get into here, so for a decent overview check out her Wikipedia page.
Now, on to the task at hand: Ono’s writing. She created a fairytale called Invisible Flower when she was 19 years old, written in a quasi-children’s book style, featuring lines of prose matched with paintings and sketches. Not published until 2012 at the insistence of her son Sean Lennon, Invisible Flower tells a tale of hidden beauty and the one person—‘Smelty John’—who notices it (the use of the name John is mere coincidence; the piece was written several years before even meeting Lennon). Many Amazon users praise the book for the starkness of its imagery and the simplicity of its message.
In 1964, Ono published an odd little book called Grapefruit, a collection of ‘instructional poetry’ that the reader can either try at home or simply enjoy as reading material. Highfalutin-ness notwithstanding, I think humor comes into play with this book as well. Here’s an example:
TUNAFISH SANDWICH PIECE
Imagine one thousand suns in the
sky at the same time.
Let them shine for one hour.
The, let them gradually melt
into the sky.
Make one tunafish sandwich and eat.
Blending the fantastic with the mundane in a kind of punchline: I mean, come on, that’s funny.
Grapefruit was reissued in 1970 with about 80 more instructional pieces tacked on, and it’s still in print today. Ono hasn’t written much since that time, though she did create a piece titled My Hometown, which was used as the basis for an animated short of the same name in 2011. The poem calls for greater social awareness and pushes people to think about the world as their ‘hometown.’ Check out the short film over at Ono’s website imaginepeace.com.
So, Is Ono Any Good?
Say what you want, but I think so. It’s clear to me her writing—really, anything she’s ever laid her hands on—is meant to be whimsical. Children and adults alike can appreciate her simple messages of peace and love, and I see no reason to deride her for this. As I said before, a lot of people only recognize Ono for her spot in the Beatles-verse, but I encourage those people to dig a little deeper. I’m not a huge fan of everything she’s done, but I’m 100 percent behind her writing.
For more information on non-writers who wrote, try Cath Murphy’s column The Good, The Bad, and The Sadly Deluded: Actors Who Write. And if there are any other visual artists who took to the pen not mentioned here, shout out in the comments section.
Until next time.
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As the Hollywood studio system began to break apart, the regular production of film westerns also declined, though early television relied on the genre to attract its first audiences. Western films had already employed color and widescreen processes to draw audiences away from the small screen, and films set in the modern West, such as Lonely Are the Brave (David Miller, 1962) and Hud (Martin Ritt, 1963), or addressing the growing youth market, such as Billy Jack (Tom Laughlin, 1971), attempted to update the old form. Nevertheless, the lighthearted Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (George Roy Hill, 1969) emerged as one of the most successful westerns of all time, even as the genre seemed to be losing its relevance for younger audiences.
The late renewal of the genre would came from somewhat surprising sources: the director Sam Peckinpah (1925–1984), a veteran of television westerns, released Ride the High Country (1962), starring veteran cowboy stars Randolph Scott and Joel McCrea (1905–1990) in a film that realistically announced the end of an era. Peckinpah's greater impact came with The Wild Bunch (1969), an extremely violent film about a team of outlaws on the run in Mexico that was widely understood as a commentary on the ongoing war in Vietnam. Famous for its intricately edited, slow-motion bloodbaths, the film was both condemned and hailed as a masterpiece; there is no question that it altered the future depiction of violence in cinema. Another, even more unanticipated source for the western's revival was the body of Italian westerns known with some derision as "spaghetti westerns." Drawing upon a long European fascination with the western, the most internationally successful and influential examples, including Per un pugno di dollari ( A Fistful of Dollars , 1964) and Il Buono, il brutto, il cattivo ( The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly , 1966) were directed by Sergio Leone (1929–1989), at first starring the American actor Clint Eastwood (b. 1930). Although they were even more thoroughly stylized than Peckinpah's films, the Italian westerns shared his vision of a largely amoral, relentlessly violent world (though sometimes allowing moments of slapstick comedy). Often poorly dubbed, the Italian films nonetheless changed the sound of the western as well, largely through the unprecedented and distinctive soundtracks of Leone's prolific composer Ennio Morricone (b. 1928), who mixed trumpets, electric guitars, and bizarre sound effects to drastically challenge the folksy conventions of the traditional western soundtrack. At the very least, the Italian western successfully challenged the implicit notion that the genre could only be successful in the hands of American filmmakers.
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The Great Southern region of WA is home to the state’s oldest settlement of Albany, established in 1826. The area’s suitability for viticulture was identified by Professor Olmo in 1955, and later by John Gladstones, well-known for his pioneering work in Margaret River. Wines have been produced commercially in the region since the mid 1970’s.
The region is a particularly large one, skirting the south-west of the Western Australian coast for over 200 km and pushing inland for almost 100km. It covers a wide variety of conditions and topography within its 5 designated sub-regions from the coastal, maritime subregions of Albany and Denmark to the inland, continental subregions of Mount Barker, Porongurup and Frankland River.
Elevation ranges from 0 to 400 metres from sea level and is gently undulating, with the exception of the Porongurups, which are immense granite outcrops and form a physical landmark of massive size and beauty.
The predominant soils are either lateritic gravelly sandy loams (marri country) or sandy loams deriving directly from granite and gneissic bedrocks. They are typically brown - grey brown in colour, with the percentage of clay varying from one location to another. Fertility is low to moderate, as are typical yields, resulting in wines of intense and concentrated flavours.
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More and more of us want to support smaller brands – companies with a deeper purpose than just ‘sell stuff’ and who are making a difference.
So we’re curating a list of those who are doing just that. Shining a light on the brands that are founded on doing good; be it in the production, the packaging, recycling measures, or supporting environmental projects. No greenwashing, only good vibes. Here’s to those whose mission is for people and the planet.
Inspiration and innovation
Founded in 2012 by volunteer beach warden and coastal enthusiast Dom Bridges, natural beauty brand Haeckels is a pioneer in sustainable skincare. Disillusioned by his role in the advertising world and the production methods of many larger skincare companies, Dom quit his job and relocated to Margate.
Starting out as a ‘kitchen project’, Dom collected seaweed along the Kent coast and would bring the harvest back home to experiment. Through trial and error, he realised that he had a knack for creating rich, fragrant products that really worked. With encouragement from his wife, he set up a lab to investigate further.
Dom’s advertising background meant he had experience in selling global brands, but now he wanted to celebrate something local. To create simple hand-crafted products that showcased the county’s natural coastal ingredients.
Born from the beach
Ten years on, the vegan, eco and environmentally friendly brand has grown, taking on staff and working with scientists to develop the most conscious and effective products whilst remaining active in the local community. Sold all over the world, with customers including Solange Knowles, the label’s indulgent treatments and scientifically-proven formulas have become a word-of-mouth hit. The seaweed base for all their UK products is picked by hand from the beach just steps away from their original lab/shop.
More impressive is that when Japanese shops wanted to stock their wares, instead of shipping it over, Haeckels partnered with Japanese teams to develop a truly localised vision for their market. Providing work and cutting carbon at the same time – the definition of thinking global and acting local.
So why seaweed? Mostly due to its hydrating properties. This powerful plant is rich with valuable vitamins, minerals and amino acids. It’s also anti-bacterial, skin rebuilding and anti-inflammatory. Haeckels all-natural products come in compostable packaging too. The mushroom mycelium boxes, complete with seeded paper, can be sprinkled over the garden.
Swap rubbish for skincare
Haeckels sees itself as an “amplifier of the natural world and as a community problem solver”. They have a fantastic drive to solve the waste problem by creating grown-to-order products and encouraging recycling with incentives. Take empty glass bottles back to the store, for example, and receive a discount. Quirkily, you can even bring a bag of beach rubbish to their Margate shop with visual proof that it came from the beach and you receive a free product.
The London store, located on Broadway Market, is also flying the sustainable flag. Its chairs are manufactured using moulds made from food wastage, the store’s walls are crafted from leftover mussel shells from local food manufacturers and an exfoliating soap is made using leftover coffee beans from local roasters. It’s the perfect example of how retail environments can learn to be more eco-friendly, while maintaining a great customer experience.
Dom says we should ask for more from those businesses we interact with. “Let’s get real and support each other for better products, better communication. By allowing customers to demand more, we cull unnecessary brands and save the planet from manufacturing drain.”
Haeckels are doing things stylishly, sustainably and differently. It feels like they are shaping the future.
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I’ve been watching members of my own family – who cover almost a century in age range – happily eat their fruit and vegetables. Over the past few days I’ve watched a 16 month old gobble up his banana and eat half an avocado giving greater preference to them rather than to his French toast or chicken and pasta. A three year old went for the blueberries and strawberries decorating her “happy face pancakes” before touching anything else and loves to put blackberries on the tips of her fingers and eat them one by one.
At the other end of the age spectrum, my 95 year old Aunt and 92 year old Mother, raised on a farm, rely on their fruit and vegetables as the mainstays of their diets. My Aunt wanted me to take a banana home to the 16 month old and my Mom routinely brings fruit when she visits her sister.
No one is vegetarian – everyone just naturally prefers a plant-based diet. They do couple their fruit and veggies with meat, fish, dairy, grains, and a whole lot of nuts — and they do have occasional desserts. What they eat is a Mediterranean style diet – but they wouldn’t describe it as such. It’s just what goes on the table and what they eat and enjoy. For my Mom and her sister, two out of 13 children, that’s a lot of fruit and veggie nutrients over close to a century’s worth of time.
- They may reduce the risk of cancer and other chronic diseases; help control blood pressure and prevent heart disease and stroke; help to avoid diverticulitis; and guard against two common causes of vision loss, cataracts and macular degeneration.
- They have a mellowing effect on blood sugar levels that can help keep your appetite in check.
- They provide essential vitamins and minerals, fiber, and other substances that are important for good health.
- Most of them are filling and are naturally low in fat and calories.
- They taste good and look great on your plate.
Not counting potatoes—which should be considered more of a starch than a vegetable—the average American eats just three servings of fruit and vegetables a day. Dietary guidelines call for 5 to 13 servings of fruit and vegetables a day (2½ to 6½ cups), depending on your caloric intake. A person who needs 2,000 calories a day would need 9 servings, or 4½ cups a day (remember, potatoes don’t count). Aim for a variety of types and colors to give your body the mix of nutrients it needs. The more colorful, the greater the rainbow, the better the nutrition for your body.
Red fruit and vegetables get their color from the pigments lycopene and anthocyanin. Lycopene, found in produce like tomatoes, watermelon, and pink grapefruit, may help reduce the risk of certain cancers, especially prostate cancer.
Anthocyanins, found in strawberries, raspberries, red grapes, and other fruits and vegetables, are powerful antioxidants that protect cells from damage and help with heart health.
Orange and yellow fruit and vegetables get their color from natural plant pigments called carotenoids. Beta-carotene, found in sweet potatoes, pumpkins and carrots, is converted to vitamin A which helps maintain healthy eyes and mucous membranes. Carotenoid-rich foods can also help reduce the risk of heart disease and cancer and can improve immune system function.
Chlorophyll, a natural plant pigment, gives green fruit and vegetables their color. Some greens — like spinach, dark leafy greens, green peppers, peas, cucumbers, and celery — contain lutein which works with zeaxanthin– found in corn, red peppers, oranges, grapes and egg yolks — to help keep your eyes healthy and reduce the risk of cataracts and age-related macular degeneration.
Indoles in broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, and other cruciferous veggies help protect against some types of cancer. Leafy greens, spinach, and broccoli are great sources of folate, a B vitamin that helps reduce risk of birth defects.
Blue and purple fruit and vegetables get their color from natural plant pigments called anthocyanins, like those found in blueberries and grapes. They are powerful antioxidants that protect cells from damage and may help reduce risk of cancer, stroke, and heart disease. Blueberry consumption has also been linked with improved memory function and healthy aging.
White fruit and vegetables, colored by pigments called anthoxanthins, contain allicin — which might help lower cholesterol and blood pressure and possibly help reduce the risk of stomach cancer and heart disease.
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.- After receiving the pallium from Pope Francis on Sunday’s feast of Sts. Peter and Paul, Archbishop Leonard Blair expressed that the “beautiful” moment serves as a reminder of the basics of his ministry.
Referring to the “ancient tradition of the pallium which the Pope confers on metropolitan archbishops,” Archbishop Blair explained to CNA June 29 that “in recent years it’s been done on this feast of Saints Peter and Paul here in Rome.”
“So it was a very beautiful, moving experience to be with archbishops from all over the world to receive the pallium.”
The pallium is a white woolen garment that represents the traditional and peculiar sign of the metropolitan office, and is given annually to the new archbishops appointed during the year.
Archbishop Blair was one of the 24 new Metropolitian Archbishops who Pope Francis conferred the pallium to during June 29’s Mass for the feast of Saints Peter and Paul, and was the only American present.
In addition to the 24 who were there, three others were absent, and will officially be installed at a later date.
Speaking of the significance of receiving the pallium, Archbishop Blair explained that “it’s an honor,” and recalled reading through the prayer used for the blessing and conferral of the pallium during the ceremony ahead of the Mass.
“What it refers to is unity and communion, the bond of charity and strength to carry out responsibilities as an archbishop,” he explained, so it represents “a sign of our communion with the Holy Father and with one another in the collage of bishops throughout the world.”
Observing how everyone faces challenges no matter what their state in life, Archbishop Blair noted that “being an archbishop requires a little extra help from heaven, we might say.”
“So this is a reminder that the Holy Father is with us in the exercise of our ministry, and we’re with him as part of the collage of bishops and the Church Universal.”
The archbishop explained that he was particularly moved by Pope Francis’ homily in that he gave “a very beautiful reflection about the basics,” stating that “I think that’s one of the themes of his papacy, is that we have to get always to the basics of the Gospel message.”
“He ended his homily somewhat dramatically with those words of Jesus to Saint Peter ‘Follow me,’” the archbishop recalled, stating that “That’s what’s important, and we can’t get distracted or bogged down by other things…I think that he communicates that very clearly and well.”
Archbishop Blair then recounted how Pope Francis came to meet the archbishops before Mass began, explaining that he greeted each of them personally, and that afterward, “we had a picture together and he went around to shake hands once more, so that was very nice.”
Explaining how this is not the first time he has met Pope Francis, the archbishop recalled how he was in Rome for a meeting at the time he received the call from the apostolic nuncio to the U.S. informing him of his appointment to the Hartford, Conn., diocese.
“The next day we had an audience with Pope Francis,” he said, so “I took the occasion to thank him for his confidence in me in naming me to Hartford.”
Archbishop Blair, 64, oversaw the diocese of Toledo, Ohio before his appointment to Hartford in October, where he replaced the 76-year-old Archbishop Mansell who had led the diocese since 2003 until his resignation after reaching the age of retirement.
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Few venues in rock history can match the hallowed legacy of the Fillmore East. The ornate theater located on Second Avenue near East 6th Street in New York City only operated for three years, but in that time, it hosted some of the greatest legends the music industry has ever known, including Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, the Allman Brothers Band, B.B. King, Eric Clapton, and Sly and the Family Stone to name just a few. But it wasn’t just the names emblazoned on the marquee that made the Fillmore East a special place to catch a show; it was the man who ran it.
Bill Graham, a German transplant born Wulf Wolodia Grajonca, opened the venue on March 8th, 1968, to stand as an East Coast outpost for his burgeoning live-concert empire. Graham operated a tight ship, demanding nothing less than excellence from his staff and the artists who inhabited his stage. To him, everything was about the fan experience, and he went out of his way to provide the best kind of atmosphere to take in a live performance, from the ornate, hand-rendered posters he printed up to announce the gigs; the lavish psychedelic visuals he commissioned the Joshua Light Show to provide behind the stage; the 35,000-watt, 26-speaker sound system custom designed by Bill Hanley; and even the barrel of free apples he left out for people departing at the end of the night. No detail was too small for Graham’s notice.
As a result, the bands and artists who played the Fillmore East, as well as its San Francisco counterpart, typically went the extra mile. For just $3, $4 or $5, you, as a ticketholder, were granted a pass to be taken to someplace truly magical. Today, the building operates as a wing of the Emigrant Savings bank, but in its late Sixties, early Seventies heyday, the Fillmore East was a place where you knew going in that you were going to witness something extraordinary. Here, on the 45th anniversary of the venue’s 1971 closing, we look back at 15 of the greatest shows that went down there.
Big Brother and the Holding Company – March 8th, 1968
For the very first performance at the Fillmore East, Graham decided to bring a little bit of the sound of San Francisco out to the East Coast and tapped Big Brother and The Holding Company for the honor with Freddie King placed in the opening slot. The New York cultural cognoscenti descended on the venue that evening to see for themselves Graham’s operation at work, and to check out the buzzy blues-rock band fronted by a singer from Texas named Janis Joplin. Even though tensions in the group were at an all-time high because of Joplin’s burgeoning star status, Big Brother managed to set their differences aside that night and deliver a tremendous performance, especially in the second set, which kicked off at nearly two in the morning and garnered a rapturous standing ovation. In the course of just one night, the entire city was put on notice: The Fillmore East was the new place to be.
The Doors – March 23rd, 1968
In the late 1960s, the Doors, and particularly their frontman Jim Morrison, were one of the most unpredictable live acts on the planet. You simply didn’t know what they were going to do or how long they were going to do it for. Just two weeks after the Fillmore East opened, Graham booked the Southern California psych rockers to play four sets of music spread across two nights. The final set on the second evening was the one to catch. That night, the Doors played their regular collection of material but apparently enjoyed themselves so much that they came back after most of the crowd had thinned out and played again for nearly an hour. It was an incredible showing, and left a tremendous impression on one audience member in particular: future punk poetess Patti Smith. Her boyfriend, photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, was working as an usher at the venue and managed to get her a free pass to the show. It was a galvanizing experience, as she explained in her autobiography Just Kids. “I felt, watching Jim Morrison, that I could do that,” Smith wrote.
Sly and the Family Stone – Oct 5th, 1968
The Fillmore East was widely regarded as a palace of blues and rock, but every once in a while the place could get downright funky, like when Sly and the Family Stone rolled through in October 1968. The band had yet to really break through in the way they would following their turn at Woodstock the following year, and the release of their platinum-selling greatest-hits collection in 1971. Nevertheless, when their time came, they played that like they were already the biggest stars in the world. The energy throughout all four shows is incredibly intense, reaching a near-boiling point during the final performance. Opening with “M’Lady,” Sly and his group of musicians treated the crowd to a full-on soul explosion that never let up from start to finish. The highlight comes smack dab in the middle of the set with an ecstatic rendition of their single “Dance to the Music” featuring a hurricane of guitar solos amid a series of seismic horn blasts. At the center of it all of course is Sly, who keeps the energy high and the groove moving. While many iconic musicians would take over the Fillmore East stage in the years to come, you’d be hard pressed to pick out a better showman than Sly Stone.
Led Zeppelin – January 31st, 1969
Led Zeppelin’s sole residency at the Fillmore East came just a little more than two weeks after the band’s first, eponymous album became officially available for sale in the United States. Despite Jimmy Page’s cachet as the former guitarist of the Yardbirds, they were placed in the opener’s slot just before the psychedelic outfit Iron Butterfly closed out the show. During the first set, the Zeppelin boys absolutely wiped the floor with the “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” hitmakers, especially with their extended performance of “Dazed and Confused.” It was so total a drubbing in fact, that the headliners demanded that they switch spots with the young British upstars for the later set so that they wouldn’t be forced to suffer the same humiliation twice in one night.
Jimi Hendrix – January 1st, 1970
If not for a contractual dispute, this show probably never would have taken place. Before he made it big, Jimi Hendrix had signed a deal with Ed Chalpin of PPX sometime around 1965. Later on, as he climbed the charts as the leader of the Jimi Hendrix Experience while signed to a different contract with Track Records, he was sued by Chalpin for a share of his profits. As a way to settle the dispute, Hendrix agreed to give over his next album to PPX for them to distribute as they saw fit. Not wanting to hand him the tapes of his magnum opus Electric Ladyland, Hendrix opted to form a totally new group with his old Army buddy Billy Cox on bass, and the funky Buddy Miles on drums. The outfit performed on just one occasion, January 1st, 1970, at the Fillmore East, offering two sets of music that were distilled into the album Band of Gypsys. While these two shows don’t quite manage to reach the emotional or musical highs of Hendrix’s performances at Monterey, Woodstock or at Graham’s Winterland a little over a year earlier, Hendrix’s performance of the song “Machine Gun” still stands as one of peak moments of the guitarist’s short career.
Grateful Dead – February 13th, 1970
Bill Graham had a playful relationship with the Grateful Dead, who often delighted in pranking the stern promoter, but he knew he could always count on them to deliver for the crowd. Once, they even dosed his can of 7-Up with LSD right before they went onstage. Graham later described it as “one of the greatest evenings of my life.” The Dead played at the Fillmore East on several occasions, but this performance near the beginning of 1970 stands out from the rest. The Dead played for hours that night, but the highlight of the extended three-set performance came when Duane Allman and Peter Green of Fleetwood Mac came out to jam with the band on the song “Dark Star.”
Joe Cocker – March 27th, 1970
On Sunday, August 17th, 1969, Joe Cocker etched his name into rock history with his guttural, scene-stealing set at Woodstock. That day, he was backed by his formidable Grease Band, who followed him as he shook, rattled and bellowed his way into immortality. A little over seven months later, the gravel-throated Brit was back in the United States headlining an extensive 48-city tour that was dubbed Mad Dogs and Englishmen. The crown jewel of the run of course came at the Fillmore East: a performance that was recorded for posterity and later released as a live album. The band that Cocker brought with him onstage featured 20 musicians total, including three different drummers. And yet, for all their combined power, they still failed to outshine their raspy front man as he “crooned” his way through some of the biggest hits of the day like the Rolling Stones’ “Honky Tonk Women,” the Beatles’ “She Came in Through the Bathroom Window” and Bob Dylan’s immortal ballad “Girl From the North Country.”
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – June 6th, 1970
By 1970, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young were being feted by many as America’s answer to the Beatles thanks to their combination of tender folk balladry and socially conscious rock. When they finally booked a run of shows at the Fillmore East that summer, demand for tickets was off the charts. Fans lined the block four deep the night beforehand just to get their hands on one. Though they may have rubbed the Fillmore East crew the wrong way with their demands to block the Joshua Light Show and bring in their own sound equipment, the results onstage spoke for themselves. The sets were broken down into two portions, electric and acoustic, and each man was allowed their own time in the limelight to show what they could do. After the final performance on the final night, the audience simply refused to leave, so Graham himself went to the band and begged them to do an encore. Crosby demanded cash before they would agree to go on again, so the promoter started slipping $100 bills under the door. When he reached eight, they finally acquiesced and went out for one more song.
Pink Floyd – September 27th, 1970
In the fall of 1970, while a relative hit in the U.K., Pink Floyd was a little less than a sure bet across the pond. The band had soldiered on admirably in the wake of the dismissal of its frontman Syd Barrett, but American promoters were still skeptical of their ability to draw a crowd, Graham being chief among them. When it came time for Pink Floyd to tour the U.S. for the first time that year, Graham opted not to promote the gig and instead rented out the Fillmore East to the band at the cost of $3,000. Pink Floyd ultimately managed to sell out the venue, and put on a tremendous sonic and visual display by performing their then-latest album, Atom Heart Mother, in its entirety. To help them achieve the same sounds they had committed to vinyl, the group brought in a 10-piece horn section as well as a 20-piece choir. This was the first time that Americans audiences really got to experience the brain-frying sensory overload of seeing Pink Floyd live. It wouldn’t be the last.
Johnny Winter – October 3rd, 1970
It’s a little difficult to remember now, but back in 1970, Texas guitarist Johnny Winter was a huge star. He had just inked one of the most lucrative recording contracts in the history of the music business that came with a whopping $600,000 advance, and was tapped by many to be the next great gunslinger in the mold of Jimi Hendrix or Jeff Beck. The demand to see him live was intense, and when he brought his band, featuring a young Rick Derringer on second lead guitar, to the Fillmore East in the fall of 1970, the place was packed to the rafters. Winter didn’t disappoint, busting out his glass slide and letting loose with a scorching 20-minute plus jam on B.B. King’s “It’s My Own Fault” while adding his own signature Texas tone to Bob Dylan’s “Highway 61 Revisited.”
Derek and the Dominos – October 23rd, 1970
Following the breakup of his bands Cream and then Blind Faith in the late Sixties, Eric Clapton was more or less a man in the wilderness. He joined up for a while with Delaney and Bonnie, then headed down to the American South and formed a new outfit he called Derek and the Dominos with Duane Allman playing co-lead guitar on their sole album, Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs. Fueled by his lust over his friend George Harrison’s wife Patti Boyd, the record turned out to contain some of the most emotionally explosive material he would ever produce. Though he continued to remain apprehensive about his role as a frontman, this stop at the Fillmore East found Clapton in fine form. For reasons that remain unclear, he abstained from playing the title track from his latest release during this show, but for nearly two hours he regaled the crowd with a number of newer selections like “Why Does Love Got to Be So Sad?” and “Key to the Highway” alongside old favorites like “Crossroads” and “Presence of the Lord.” The recordings from this short residency eventually made up two different live albums: 1973’s In Concert and 1994’s Live at the Fillmore.
Santana – April 3rd, 1971
Much like Janis Joplin and Co. at the Fillmore East opening gig, Santana hit the stage on April 3rd, 1971, as a band coming unglued. Cocaine had recently entered the picture, fomenting tension and paranoia between the members of the group. But just like Janis and her band, Carlos and the rest of Santana managed to set their squabbling aside and turn in a transcendent performance during the headlining set. In the beginning, Graham had been the band’s manager and was instrumental in getting them on the bill at Woodstock in 1969. They had gone their separate ways since then, and maybe with an eye to showing the promoter what he was missing out on, the leader and guitarist took his playing into the stratosphere. The opening number “Soul Sacrifice” is the high point and finds the group’s namesake going toe-to-toe with future Journey guitarist Neil Schon for a tremendous 12-minute six-string shootout.
Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention – June 6th, 1971
On this night at the Fillmore East, the stars aligned to give rise to a brilliant one-off collaboration. John Lennon and Yoko Ono were in the midst of an interview with a radio DJ on June 6th, 1971, when the interviewer casually mentioned that he was headed out to see Frank Zappa and his band that night at the Fillmore. Lennon mentioned that he was a fan of Zappa, so the DJ invited him along. The Mothers of Invention played their regular, freaky set that night, but then when it came time for the encore around 2 a.m., Zappa brought out both Lennon and Ono, who were greeted with a massive cheer. The duo jammed with the band for almost half an hour. The first number they pulled out was the rock & roll classic “Baby Please Don’t Go” which Lennon introduced by saying, “It’s wonderful to be here. This is a song that I used to sing when I was in the Cavern in Liverpool. I haven’t done it since.” Frank Zappa was used to blowing people’s minds, but this was something else entirely.
B.B. King – June 19th, 1971
Memphis blues great B.B. King had already played at the Fillmore West the previous year and was overwhelmed by the warm reception he received from the San Francisco crowd. Now with a major crossover hit to his name, “The Thrill is Gone,” King was a much better known entity, and performed his unmistakable brand of the blues for a rapt New York audience. While the early set went well, the later set, with King’s liberal use of a wah-wah pedal, was otherworldly.
The Allman Brothers Band – June 27th, 1971
By the summer of 1971, Bill Graham was officially fed up with the concert promotion game. He was tired of losing out bookings on bigger name artists to lesser-quality basketball arenas like Madison Square Garden. And the asking prices for the acts he did book were borderline cost-prohibitive. With all that in mind, he decided to close the doors of the Fillmore East. For the final performance, he invited one of his favorite groups, the Allman Brothers Band, to regale the New York audience one last time with their explosive blues rock. The Allmans played until dawn on June 27th, giving the hallowed venue the fitting sendoff that it deserved. “We played for roughly seven straight hours with everything we had,” drummer Butch Trucks remembered. “The feeling was just so overwhelming that I just started crying. Then we got into a jam, I think it was ‘Mountain Jam,’ that lasted for four straight hours. Nonstop. And when we finished, there was no applause whatsoever. The place was deathly quiet. Someone got up and opened the doors, the sun came pouring in.” | <urn:uuid:5ccee58e-384e-48b2-a57e-67187da12248> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://musicvideotop.com/fillmore-east-15-great-shows/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720238.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00189-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97921 | 3,851 | 1.5625 | 2 |
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Feature Wed Aug 15 2012
by Nicki Yowell
Just because some of us out there make zines doesn't mean everyone knows what they are.
The following is a sort of guide for zinesters as to how to approach questions, concerns and misunderstandings regarding what we do by the non-zinsters among us, one that is clear and thoughtful without being condescending or insular. This guide doubles as a introduction for anyone who's curious about zines. Feel free to guide and be guided by it!
To be sure, we all have a wide variety of definitions of what a zine actually is. I've heard people say things including "it has to be photocopied," "there can't be any advertising," "only one person can be involved in making it," "it has to be laid out by hand," "the person/people who make it cannot make a profit," "it must in some way involve feminism, anarchism, cupcakes, veganism, bikes or punk bands," (just kidding on the last one. But not really.)
For our purposes here, I'm going to call a zine a small publication made outside of a traditional publishing model. I know that broad of a definition is problematic for some people but, in this day and age, zines range from the pasted-together-in-five-seconds variety, to art books to lo-fi music journals, to professionally illustrated comics and everything in between. I think an inclusive categorization helps us rather than hurts us.
At any rate, despite the disparate nature of the kinds of zines made, there are some issues common to all zinesters. Whether people just don't get why we bother doing it or how we came up with the idea, it's helpful to be able to explain why zines are important.
The Very Supportive/Good Intentioned/Boundary-less Dad
(The following is a rough, albeit hyperbolic, transcript of an actual conversation with my father)
"So, how have you been? What have you been up to?"
"Oh, you know, just working on some stuff. I've got a few zines in the works."
"That's great. You're so creative. I showed some of your distant relatives your snarky, weird pizza zine the other day."
"Oh, um, I really would prefer you didn't send Grandma writing of mine that has the word 'fuck' or 'erection' in it. You know it was hard for me to share that part of my life with you let alone someone who remembers me more as a pig-tailed geography bee participant than as an adult."
"Well, I'm just so proud of you. You're going to win a Pulitzer some day with one of your zines. So creative."
"It doesn't usually work that way."
"You're going to do so great and sell tons of them. Do you want to go into business with me? I can open a zine store and sell zines to everyone back home. I can be your manager."
"I don't think so. I wouldn't call making zines a growth enterprise."
"I don't know if I mentioned this to you but I purchased a large bulk order of your zine from (insert local small press vendor here) to pass out to everyone I know. I hope you don't mind. You're going to be a big hit."
This dilemma, one this author is quite familiar with, illustrates that people who love and support us sometimes misunderstand why we do what we do - even after we've explained it many, many, many times.
Some third parties expect that you want or plan to make money, or reach some level of fame or prominence, through your work. It's plain to see that making zines won't leave anyone rolling in the dough. If we somehow do end up the world's first zinester multi-millionaire, it's the last thing we'd expect.
If you need to let someone know, hey this isn't about the dough, bro, simply tell them that this project is more for fun than profit. Give them an example of an amazing time a zine helped you connect to someone, or how empowering it feels to have your words read. If you are, in fact, trying to make money, more power to you. But me, I like to remind the venture capitalists I love that it's not all about that.
Zines are not mass-produced
Unless a zine is made on Lulu or MagCloud and/or by someone with a disposable income, there are a limited number of zines in a run. That's the appeal of it for most people. I've had friends who intentionally leave zines on bus seats or pass them out to anyone indiscriminately. But some of us, (myself included) like to be selective when something takes that much time and energy to make. If Dad or best friend Judy, or next-door neighbor Mr. McWitt wants a whole box of zines to him/herself, kindly explain that you did a die cut on that cover or you pasted and arranged the pages by hand. By no means do you have to give your zines to interested parties just because they want them. You made them; they're your zines.
The dubious boundary question
For me, it falls in line with the previous idea of zines not necessarily being passed out all willy nilly. Being a student of journalism, I know that anything I publish, (i.e. make public) is free reign to anyone who may stumble upon it. That means that before I unleash something into the world I have to be comfortable with the idea that anyone could see it. And that means everything, including the bizarre collages, stories about awkward dates, Dada poems, and fictional tales of sexual fetishes.
That being said, I don't necessarily want my twice-removed relatives stumbling upon the colorful story I wrote about me nearly shitting my pants. I tend to enjoy staying in the realm of "yes, I made this common knowledge" while dwelling in some obscurity, at least as far as family is concerned. If we put what we say out into the world, we ultimately can't control who sees it. It's up to us to decide how vigorous we'll be with making that part of ourselves public. I know some people have solved this problem by using pseudonyms. I stay in the gray area, knowing it's out there but knowing it will probably stay hidden to most unless I introduce it to them.
How do you guys deal with any of these issues? I know it's trial and error and we all have our methods.
Nicki Yowell is a Chicago zinester whose work includes Lightness &
Darkness, 'Za the Pizza Zine and the forthcoming A Font by Any Other
Name. When not making zines she freelances, works as a nanny and does
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Task force sees no benefit of screening in asymptomatic individuals
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) has issued a final recommendation statement on screening for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The task force found no benefit of screening in persons without respiratory symptoms and recommends against screening for COPD in asymptomatic adults. The statement was published in the April 5 online issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
In the United States, approximately 14% of adults 40 to 79 years of age have COPD, which is the nation’s third leading cause of death. Persons with severe COPD are often unable to participate in normal physical activity because of deterioration of lung function.
To update its 2008 recommendation on screening for COPD in asymptomatic adults, the task force reviewed the evidence on whether screening for COPD in asymptomatic adults (those who do not recognize or report respiratory symptoms) improves health outcomes. The USPSTF reviewed the diagnostic accuracy of screening tools (including prescreening questionnaires and spirometry);whether screening for COPD improves the delivery and uptake of targeted preventive services, such as smoking cessation or relevant immunizations; and the possible harms of screening for and treatment of mild-to-moderate COPD.
The USPSTF found no studies that directly assessed the effects of screening for COPD in asymptomatic adults on morbidity, mortality, or health-related quality of life. The task force also found no studies that examined the effects of screening on relevant immunization rates.
The USPSTF examined the treatment efficacy of four classes of medications used to treat COPD: long-acting beta-agonists (LABAs), inhaled corticosteroids, long-acting anticholinergics (tiotropium), and combination therapy with corticosteroids and LABAs. No trials were conducted in asymptomatic or screen-detected populations; all were conducted in populations with moderate COPD. Two studies of LABAs found no difference in all-cause mortality but noted decreased exacerbation of COPD symptoms in the treatment groups compared with the control groups in a post hoc analysis. Six trials of inhaled corticosteroids found decreased exacerbation of COPD symptoms but no difference in all-cause mortality, dyspnea, or quality of life.
Potential harms of treatment include pneumonia with the use of LABAs and inhaled corticosteroids, and decreased bone density and increased fractures with the use of inhaled corticosteroids. However, the study data were sparse, and there were no differences between the intervention and control groups.
The potential harms of using prescreening questionnaires and screening spirometry are false-positive and false-negative results. The USPSTF found no evidence to estimate the short- or long-term harms of these screening tests.
Similar to its 2008 findings, the USPSTF determined that there is no clinical evidence to support screening for COPD in asymptomatic persons, or that screening improves morbidity, mortality, or health-related quality of life. The task force also found that early detection of COPD, before the development of symptoms, does not alter the course of the disease or improve patient outcomes.
The task force concluded that screening for COPD in asymptomatic persons has no net benefit.
Sources: USPSTF(link is external); April 5, 2016; and JAMA(link is external); April 5, 2016.
Paul Lendner ist ein praktizierender Experte im Bereich Gesundheit, Medizin und Fitness. Er schreibt bereits seit über 5 Jahren für das Managed Care Mag. Mit seinen Artikeln, die einen einzigartigen Expertenstatus nachweisen, liefert er unseren Lesern nicht nur Mehrwert, sondern auch Hilfestellung bei ihren Problemen. | <urn:uuid:e7fe486c-fdd0-4d79-998e-beb8a6429206> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.managedcaremag.com/news/uspstf-issues-new-recommendation-copd-screening/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00674.warc.gz | en | 0.88056 | 846 | 2.25 | 2 |
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Hepatitis Australia welcomes the appointment of Hon. Greg Hunt as Minister for Health and Minister for Sport.Read More
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AMA President, Dr Michael Gannon, said today that prevalence of BBVs is significantly higher in prisons, yet custodial facilities provide a unique opportunity to protect the health of inmates.Read More
More new medicines for hepatitis C will continue to become available in 2017 and they will be more effective across a range of hepatitis C genotypes. From 1 January [grazoprevir + elbasvir], given as a once daily tablet, will be available on the PBS and presents a new option for people with genotype 4.Read More
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Freshwater Turtles: Testudines
While most freshwater turtles have hard boney shells, three species known as softshell turtles have fleshy shells adapted for swimming. Turtle shells provide protection from predators. Snapping turtles, such as the Florida snapping turtle and the alligator snapping turtle, can bite with great force and reach large sizes.
Turtles are ancient shelled reptiles that have existed for 220 million years. Florida has more species of turtles than other states. Of the 26 types of turtle species found in Florida, the vast majority (18) are freshwater turtle species. Besides freshwater turtles, Florida is home to the gopher tortoise, box turtles, and five sea turtle species.
Although all turtles are air-breathing reptiles, aquatic turtles can hold their breath for long periods of time. All freshwater turtles lay eggs on land in holes they have dug. When the eggs hatch, the baby turtles (hatchlings) return to water.
Florida has approved strong conservation measures for freshwater turtles.
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Play time is the best platform for language development. The most important thing is to find toys that your child loves.
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International travel on U.S. airlines is expected to be at record levels this summer, according to the Air Transport Association. Despite the soft economy and high fuel prices, people are ready to go this year.
But good travel takes good planning, whether it’s finding good flights and fares, researching hotels and destinations, investigating great restaurants, museums, shopping, attractions, beaches, events or festivals.
As vacationers head out this summer, that planning probably needs to include some emergency preparations. Given all that is going on in the world, it’s prudent to take precautions before you leave home and take along some key items you’ll probably never need.
This week’s Middle Seat lays out travel tips from security experts and the State Department, including a government service worth signing up for in order to get email alerts about local situations at your destinations.
No matter where you are going, it’s smart to do some research on the local climate and crime. Those areas frequently trip up travelers. Weather can not only disrupt flight schedules but also create climate problems for travelers unprepared for extreme heat or cold. Petty crime is a tourist trap in just about any city in the world – be prepared by knowing where the dangerous neighborhoods are and protecting yourself against pickpockets. | <urn:uuid:6cc2481d-bb06-4239-a8a3-033dd9b73d74> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://blogs.wsj.com/middleseat/2011/06/09/good-travel-takes-good-planning-dont-forget-your-water-purification-pills/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282926.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00402-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.927523 | 262 | 1.898438 | 2 |
“Masses of Worthless Paper”
By Frederick Sheehan
07/19/10 North Weymouth, Massachusetts – We wince at congressional ineptitude but in one category legislative aptitude is improving: propaganda. The on-again, off-again finance bill (it’s on-again) was described by the Wall Street Journal as “the most extensive remapping of financial regulation since the 1930s.” It is nothing of the kind.
Where to open a critique is as much a problem as where to close it. So, this will start and end at the source: the Federal Reserve. In a single sentence, the Journal captured the most compelling reason to heave the proposed legislation into the BP oil spill: “The Federal Reserve would emerge as the pre-eminent regulator, with responsibility for the most complex financial companies.”
The Federal Reserve has less understanding of banking than Bonnie and Clyde. Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke is unable to comprehend there was cause-and-effect between the boom the 1920s and the Great Depression of the 1930s. His ineptitude gave then-Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan the academic cover to reduce the fed funds rate to one percent in 2003. The most egregious credit bubble in the history of the world followed. Learning nothing, Simple Ben has now cut the funds rate to zero, creating an even greater credit bubble than the behemoth that collapsed in 2007.
Bernanke and his cohorts have no excuse for their ignorance. Federal Reserve policy in the 1920s was central to the credit write-offs that sank bank balance sheets later. This story was chronicled by dozens of economists in the 1930s. Their contribution is resurrected in “Masses of Worthless Paper,” now posted on the AuContrarian.com website, in the “Articles” section. This was originally written for the May, 2010, Gloom, Boom, and Doom Report.
It is too late to escape the consequences of what Greenspan and Bernanke have done. But, there is no excuse for allowing the ruin to continue inflating. Chairman Bernanke keeps adding fuel to the conflagration. He should be handed a one-way ticket on a coal car to Princeton this afternoon. | <urn:uuid:1d813364-4e4b-41dd-a3c1-de46e94360bd> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://revolutionradio.org/?p=3374 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718957.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00435-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959879 | 467 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Hey friends, I’m back with another fun activity to keep your little learners busy! Today’s FREE Printable Scissors Skills Haircut Worksheets are not only great for practicing scissor skills. They are also a fun way to pretend play a day at the salon!
Do you ever have those days where you just have to get a lot done but your children have other plans? The other day I had a huge deadline to meet at work. Because I work from home most days, it was almost IMPOSSIBLE to focus.
I’ll admit, sometimes the easiest thing to do is to turn on the TV and let them get some screen time in. But I often forget about this secret weapon: scissor skills!
It’s amazing how as soon as I whip out the scissors (child safe) and a worksheet, my house becomes so quiet. I immediately have at least 15-30 minutes of uninterrupted focus to myself.
Practicing scissor skills are beneficial for children in many ways:
- Fine motor skills (separation of hand, finger dexterity)
- Bilateral coordination skills (two-handed coordination)
- Visual perceptual tasks
- Promotes grasp pattern
- Focus and attention
- Visual-motor skills (hand-eye coordination)
- Strengthening hand muscles
Now, I know some of you may feel a little nervous about letting your child play with scissors. My oldest is a pro at 4 years old but he has been practicing since he was 2. So he uses child-safe scissors with metal blades. BUT my 2-year-old is just starting, so we use plastic blades with her. We love these from amazon. They are just sharp enough to cut through paper but not enough to hurt her if she gets her fingers in the way.
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How to the FREE Printable Scissors Skills Haircut Worksheets
To use this FREE Printable Scissors Skills Haircut Worksheets activity, first, download using the form below:
Next, just print and give your child some safety scissors and let them have a go! It may be tempting to jump in when they are having trouble but encourage them to give it a try! Let them be the ones to ask for help if they really need it.
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The Assiniboine Park Zoo has opened its new Australian Walkabout Exhibit. It allows visitors to walk in an enclosure with four emus and 14 female red kangaroos and their young joeys.
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OBJECTIVE: To determine whether the increase in frequency of cesarean section is associated with a decreased incidence of major birth trauma. STUDY DESIGN: A retrospective cohort study was performed evaluating all neonatal cases of major birth trauma from January 1989 to December 1994. Major birth trauma was defined as peripheral plexus or nerve injuries, fractures, or lacerations. The data were grouped into two mutually exclusive periods (January 1989 to December 1990 vs January 1991 to December 1994) in which a significant difference in the cesarean section rate was known. RESULTS: Of 17,957 deliveries during the period, 141 cases of birth trauma occurred. One hundred thirty-seven of the 141 medical records were available for review, and 116 were classified as having had major birth trauma and were included in the study. The overall incidence of major birth trauma was 6.5/1000 deliveries. During the two-year period (January 1989 to December 1990), 18.3% of deliveries were by cesarean section and the major birth trauma rate was 8.4/1000 deliveries. During the following 4 years, the cesarean section rate was 22.3% and the major birth trauma rate was 5.3/1000 deliveries. Significant differences in the birth trauma (χ2 = 6.12, p = 0.013) and cesarean section (χ2 = 40.80, p < 0.001) rates were observed. Controlling for the mode of delivery lessened the association between time period and birth trauma incidence (χ2MH = 3.28, p = 0.07). A significant decrease in the occurrence of major birth trauma in neonates delivered by cesarean section in the later period was discovered (relative risk = 0.46, 95% confidence interval 0.22 to 0.97). This decrease appeared to be mediated by a decrease in total lacerations between the periods (χ2 = 11.76, p < 0.001), because the rates of other types of major birth trauma did not differ in neonates delivered by cesarean section or the vaginal route. CONCLUSIONS: With a 4% increase in rate of cesarean section at our institution, a significant decrease in the occurrence of major birth trauma was observed. This finding cannot be explained by a decreased risk of neonatal trauma in patients delivering vaginally, but rather by a decreased risk of neonatal trauma at cesarean section during the latter period.
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remembering february 20, 1988 — the day manchester came out
In 1988, a rally through central Manchester turned the city upside down. Not only was it the start of Manchester becoming Britain’s unofficial capital of Gay -- it was a useful microcosm for what would happen in the rest of the country.
Photography Alasdair McLellan
The following is an edited extract from Paul Flynn's Good As You.
Manchester has form for proving itself as a "can-do" city, over and over. "That's how Manchester perceives itself and the gay scene could ride off the back of that, as well as benefiting from Manchester pushing itself forward to compete with other European cities," says Chris Payne, a short, confident man who edited City Life's sister magazine, Gay Life, at the tail end of the 1980s. It is a city particularly good at bouncing back from adversity. "It bid for two Olympic Games and didn't get them, but actually it gets the Commonwealth Games. An IRA bomb goes off and, after the emergency services have dealed with the aftermath, a competition is announced to rebuild Manchester. It's a renaissance city."
There may just be something in the water. "It's strong-minded, strong-willed, and independent. It has a history of being radical, being independent, standing on its own two feet. With my marketing head on I go back to product, place, people, price, and promotion to assess Manchester's village and where Manchester is in terms of selling itself. So Manchester as a scene is big enough to attract the biggest names and businesses, but it isn't as big as London, which people can feel isolated in, in a series of mini-villages that don't always connect."
Manchester is a small enough place to hear them all talk at once and yet big enough to facilitate real, effective engagement on a common cause. It is a city of gobshites and polemicists, of personal publicists and poetic mavericks. It is blessed and occasionally cursed with mercurial levels of city pride. "The emergence of the gay village all sits," says Payne, "in a wider position of where Manchester was in the mid- to late-eighties, under a Labour administration that was willing to work with the Conservative government if it was willing to promote Manchester."
"Manchester is strong-minded, strong-willed, and independent. It has a history of being radical, being independent, standing on its own two feet."
The city's student population regenerates the city every September, a new demographic at entry level of their serious, independent thinking. "The fact that Manchester has a very strong, vibrant student population," says Payne, "the largest in Europe both then and now, means that every year Manchester is reborn, with tens of thousands of new people living in the city. It's continually refreshed." It's continually, visibly young in a way a city as prohibitively expensive as London can never be. "Within that there are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, curious, what we would now describe as metrosexual and polysexual people. Manchester gives space to them all. This builds conversations about human rights, women's rights, rights for people of colour, a whole range of progressive issues. So there is a wellspring of support there that was particularly strong in the eighties, archetypally so. It's a backbone to what everyone's doing."
All of it coalesced on February 20, 1988 with a march through the city center supported by the already thriving underground gay world of the city and facilitated by a cleverly pragmatic city council — and policed by the force of the city's evangelical Christian chief of police, James Anderton. The No Clause 28 rally saw over 20,000 demonstrators emerge from the sidelines and stomp down Market Street, towards Albert Square. This was a historic act, constituting a record number of protestors drawn to the city, and a symbolic one, too, with the council handing over the civic reins to the gay and lesbian community. "Just to be able to have the event in Albert Square and to be inside the town hall," says Payne. "You were looking out and down on the square and watching it fill up. It really was magical. There are famous shots from that day, aerial views of Albert Square just full of protestors. The energy that gives people is quite incredible."
The demonstration looked like the end of one era of gay Manchester and the beginning of another. Spotting familiar faces from the gay village was like playing a local game of pin the tail on the donkey. Council leader Graham Stinger made his triumphant speech: "First of all, on behalf of the Manchester Labour Party and the City Council I'd like to welcome everybody from outside Manchester to Manchester and say what a wonderful and magnificent demonstration this is." The crowd roared. "This is the largest national demonstration there has been in Manchester in the last 20 years and we are very proud of it… We're told by the police that there are 12–15,000 people here, though given the police aren't the most numerate people we're still counting." Another roar. "We think there are about 20,000 people."
By now the crowd was cheering like the terraces at Old Trafford and Maine Road football grounds, the regular soundtrack to Saturday afternoons in two corners of the city. "People at the moment in this country are very concerned about health and about civil rights, and we shouldn't make the mistake of thinking that Clause 28, the attacks in the national media and the press on gays and lesbians are disassociated. The real project that the Conservatives are on is to destroy public service, to destroy local democracy, and to place the power into the hands of those people and those organizations with most money. The reason Clause 28 has been introduced is to divert attention from their real project: to scapegoat, victimize, and create a new second-class citizen. Manchester City Council and the Labour Party in Manchester are not prepared to be used to help create second-class citizens in this city or anywhere else."
"Manchester is a small enough place to hear them all talk at once and yet big enough to facilitate real, effective engagement on a common cause. It is a city of gobshites and polemicists, of personal publicists and poetic mavericks. It is blessed and occasionally cursed with mercurial levels of city pride."
Stringer left the stage for Tom Robinson to sing " Glad to Be Gay." The crowd sang back as one, "Sing if you're glad to be gay, sing if you're happy that way," the city's first, collective, unifying good-as-you moment. Sir Ian McKellen, the marvelous Lancashire-born-and-bred actor, then just plain old Ian McKellen, delivered a speech to give proceedings his personal touch: "I'm here because I'm one of millions of normal homosexuals who are affected by this new law. Clause 28 is designed, in part, to keep us in our place. But it didn't work with me. We must be out and about in the streets of Manchester. We must be out and about in the media. We must be out and about in pubs and clubs and in the classroom, talking about homosexuality, encouraging our friends and families to think about homosexuality and, in fact, in that sense, promote homosexuality. Until this whole country realizes, as we do, this Clause 28 is, in itself, to coin a phrase, 'an unnatural act.'"
McKellen stepped down to introduce Michael Cashman, who had moved on from playing Colin in EastEnders, one half of the first gay couple featured on primetime British TV, and was now at the start of his serious political career. "I'm here because I'm proud,' said Cashman, clenching his fist to the air. "Gay men and women are ordinary men and women made extraordinary by society's focus on what we do in bed. As ordinary men and women we demand the same rights, no more, no less, the same rights as other ordinary, civilized human beings. There's been a lot of talk about the money that is spent to "promote" homosexuality. Even Saatchi & Saatchi couldn't sell it for us. In a civilized society it shouldn't be necessary to spend money to promote equality. Because that's all we want. Equality. Nothing more. Finally, I want to leave you with this. They can round us up. They can gas us. They can shoot us. They can do whatever they like with us, but they will never annihilate us, because so long as a man and woman procreate, so homosexuality will exist. And we will never surrender."
By now the scenes in Albert Square looked something like the work of Harvey Milk during his galvanizing work for gay rights. Cashman handed over the microphone to fellow soap opera alumnus Sue Johnston, then playing matriarch Sheila Grant on Brookside. "I'd not intended to speak," she said. "I'm not very good without a script. But when I first heard about Clause 28, I thought about Hitler's burning of the books. And we all know what happened there. It must not happen here." Later, at a Never Going Underground concert at the Free Trade Hall, one of a series in support of the rally, Jimmy Somerville took to the stage to sing " There's More to Love than Boy Meets Girl." McKellen followed the Communards on stage to tell the hollering crowd that the first time he was in the building was to see a Cliff Richard concert, leaving the audience to draw their own conclusions about what that might say about past gay visibility in Britain.
"Manchester is acutely about a sense of its own place, and within that the lesbian and gay community is able to bloom and blossom and grow because there is a fertile and sympathetic environment. It's all about coming out of the shadows and into the sunshine."
"The party went well on into the night," says Chris Payne. "We'd enlisted all the bars and clubs. They had all got extra licenses which the council had granted. What we did was invite all these people to our city, to demonstrate and to have a great time."
The city's emerging nightlife had a part to play. "It was political but it was with a purpose, and there was the party element. We made sure people actually enjoyed themselves. Suddenly, all these people that had come together and had never been to Manchester before thought, this is all right here, we'll come back again. That helps create impetus. We didn't stop there. In 1989 we did Love Rights, then followed that on with Liberation 91, all things continually in opposition to Clause 28 and then spreading out to fight for the equalisation of the age of consent. We just kept the momentum up."
He continues. "Things rub off on each other. This is a transformational moment for Manchester and a transformational moment for wider gay culture. I'm not saying that Manto [which became the first glass-fronted gay bar in the country when it opened on Canal Street in 1990] couldn't have happened without the Clause 28 march, but it helped. This is also Manchester that is consumed by itself as 'Madchester'. It's the summer of love and ecstasy from 1988 onwards. It is that party atmosphere. It is The Haçienda and FAC 51. It is T-shirts that say 'On the Sixth Day … God Created Manchester.' Manchester is acutely about a sense of its own place, and within that the lesbian and gay community is able to bloom and blossom and grow because there is a fertile and sympathetic environment. It's all about coming out of the shadows and into the sunshine."
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genetic alterations affecting genes encoding components of the NADPH oxidase system (CYBB, CYBA, NCF1, NCF2, NCF4) leading to classical or variant CGD with impaired respiratory burst function in all phagocytic cells. Ongoing research suggests that the latter group may also include other genetic alterations such as CD40L deficiency leading to X-linked hyper-IgM syndrome and Mendelian susceptibility to mycobacterial disease (MSMD) caused by mutations in IFNGR1 and IFNGR2 receptors [93, 94].MSMD may also derive from a primary defect of the NADPH oxidase system, as Bustamante et al. have recently reported a phenotype limited to mycobacterial infections in two kindreds with genetic alterations of CYBB that lead to a cellular defect only in macrophages and EBV-B cell lines. “
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it has not been used in haemato-oncology. Here, we report that intra-tumoural administration of LVR01 (attenuated S. Typhimurium strain with safety profile) elicits local and systemic anti-tumour immunity, resulting in extended survival in a lymphoma model. LVR01 induces intra-tumoural recruitment of neutrophils and activated CD8+ T cells, as well as increasing the natural killer cell activation status. Furthermore, a systemic specific anti-tumour response with a clear T helper type 1 profile was observed. This approach is an alternative therapeutic strategy for lymphoma patients that could be easily moved into clinical trials. “
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Biking for health benefits is re-gaining popularity as people are growing tired of being shut in and finding new ways to spend time outside while keeping a safe distance from each other. Ironically, biking not only provides some exercise but can provide an easy commute to work, grocery store or pharmacy. Biking will also save miles, and wear and tear on your car. It is especially useful if your shopping centers or places of work are nearby your home.
Washington D.C. is where the trend started. People have taken to it quickly as they take in the cherry trees in bloom and bike around the monuments and beautiful old sites and parks that make this city a sight to behold.
Biking provides a change in scenery after long work hours spent staring at a screen. Biking for health is a good alternative calorie burn to the more strenuous forms of exercise such as running and hiking. It is essential to get out and get your exercise with our diet changes, which include more processed food sources.
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Jewish World ReviewOct. 28, 2002 / 22 Mar-Cheshvan, 5763
http://www.NewsAndOpinion.com | While everyone is arguing about what kind of memorial should be built on or near the World Trade Center, one has quietly appeared just paces from the Eternal Flame in Battery Park. It is small. A little weird. And possibly perfect.
It's a labyrinth.
You know, a kind of maze - although this is one you can't get lost in. It is simply a circular path within a path within a path, made of cobblestones flush with the grass. Slowly, the paths lead you to the middle, although to get there you have to keep doubling back and turning around, like a ball jiggling in a plastic party favor. When at last you do reach the center, you just may get centered, too.
"It's not a puzzle, it's a contemplative walk," says Warrie Price, president of the Battery Conservancy. The idea is to give visitors a little journey inward in every sense of the word.
It works. Walking in circle after circle, a visitor keeps confronting West St., Castle Clinton and the bay with the Statue of Liberty (or at least her head peeking over the temporary New Jersey ferry terminal). In other words, to follow the labyrinth is to gaze upon New York old and new, natural and man-made, traumatized and triumphant.
West St. was one of the main escape routes from the Trade Center on 9/11. In the long months to follow, it served as the main corridor for the cleanup machinery - and the remains.
Castle Clinton, meanwhile, was the Ellis Island of its day. Eight million immigrants passed through from 1855 to 1890. It represents our openness to the world, our diversity.
And the Statue of Liberty? 'Nuff said. Put it all together and you've got New York.
But as dizzying a perspective as the labyrinth offers, its history is equally evocative.
Labyrinths get their name from a mythical mazelike castle said to have sat on the island of Crete. In the middle of this Labyrinth lived the Minotaur - half-man, half-bull and the all-around favorite pet of King Minos, sworn enemy of ancient Athens.
"It's a charmingly terrible story," says Donald Kagan, professor of classics at Yale. Every nine years, the king of Athens - Aegeus - had to send 14 youths to be sacrificed to the Minotaur or King Minos would wreak vengeance. One year, Aegeus' son Theseus volunteered to go.
So sad was Aegeus that he sent Theseus off in a ship with black sails. "If you come back, raise a white sail so I'll know as soon as I spot your ship that you're safe," he told his boy.
When Theseus got to Crete, King Minos' daughter Ariadne fell for him. Hard. She gave Theseus a sword to kill the Minotaur and a ball of thread so he could find his way back out. (It is from Ariadne that we may get the word for spider - arachnid.)
All would have ended happily if A) Theseus hadn't abandoned Ariadne on an island on his way home, and B) He had remembered to put up a white sail. Spying the black sail on his son's ship, King Aegeus leaped to his death.
There is something very resonant about loss and leaping and a commemorative labyrinth.
Even more resonant is the fact that in the Middle Ages, labyrinths became popular on the floors of great cathedrals. Since it was nearly impossible to get to Jerusalem in real life, "Following a labyrinth was a way of going on a symbolic pilgrimage," says Diana Balmori, head of the architecture firm that bears her name.
Moreover, she says, the twists, turns and dead ends along the way came to represent the voyage of life itself: We may get lost, but we must keep searching.
True, it's hard to keep all this in mind while walking a circular path near the honking, screeching streets of Manhattan. But in this maze of tears and wonder we tread, it is good, sometimes, to appreciate the journey.
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[+ ZOOM] Bog Asphodel Michael Hogan
Bog Asphodel is apparently extant only in the New Jersey Pine Barrens. Populations in North Carolina, South Carolina and Delaware reportedly have all been extirpated. Within the Pinelands, populations have suffered, historically, from the creation cranberry bogs and other transformations of the habitat. Current threats are mainly from alteration of habitat, such as succession. Whether or not this succession has been accelerated by hydrological changes caused by humans is an important question to be investigated. Beavers also destroy populations when they create ponds that flood the plants. This extremely rare plant is one of our highest conservation priorities.
Flower: "Mid-June to late July." (Stone)
Habitat: Wetlands. Open stream corridors, streamside savannas, openings in cedar swamps.
State Rank: S2
Global Rank: G2
Key to Ranks/Codes
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The present research work was based on the results of an enthnobotanical research project conducted in the Galliyat areas of NWFP, Province (Pakistan) during July 2003-March 2004. The region is mountainous with pine forests. Botanists have rarely studied the remote villages of the area, hence ethnobotanical information is quite meager. The local people of the area have always used surrounding natural resources that is wild plants for medicinal purposes and have for a long time dependent on the surrounding plant sources for their food, shelter, fodder, timber, fuel and health care. The present study mainly focus on the information regarding indigenous uses of plants for medicinal as well as other purposes by the native people of the area The ethnobotanical data of 40 plant species belonging to 37 genera and 26 families, during summer and winter season were collected. Among them the two families belong to gymnosperms, two families of pteridophytes, one family of monocot and 21 families of dicot (Angiosperms) were studied ethnobotanically. The ethnobotanical inventory consist of botanical name of plant followed by its local name, family, habit and habitat, flowering period, voucher specimen number, part use, ethnomedicinal uses and other ethnobotanical uses.
Arshad, Muhammad and Ahmad, Mushtaq
"Ethnobotanical Study of Galliyat for Botanical Demography and Bioecological Diversification,"
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Pilot on Financial Literacy and Women Empowerment (FLWE) in 4 states
PSIG through its Financial Literacy & Women Empowerment (FLWE) projects has imparted composite training on Financial Literacy and Women Empowerment issues to women clients of 20 partner MFIs. Adopting a training of trainer approach the trainings were imparted by 184 Master Trainers (MTs)/community resource persons directly to 1.39 lakh women clients over a period of 15-18 months. With the help of a national resource agency trainings were delivered to MTs who in turn trained women clients of partner MFIs. Key features of the program include:
- Development of gender integrated Financial Literacy modules. Existing financial literacy material in public domain only focused on the financial aspects, ignoring gender differentials & intra-household inequalities in access & control over resources that affect women’s financial behavior. PSIG FLWE modules address this issue.
- Intensive 26 days of residential training to master trainers in 3-4 phases over a period of 12 months.
- Delivering trainings to women clients in 3 phases/modules in 30 hour sessions spread over 12 months.
- Mass Awareness Camps to mobilize and create awareness in local communities about Financial Literacy and facilitate interaction of women clients with banks and formal financial institutions.
- The project leveraged technology by adoption and use of mobile and tablets based MIS for real time data collection and monitoring of trainings.
- Baseline and end line survey of each project conducted for impact evaluation.
- Additional trainings given to women on use of digital payment modes during the demonetization phase
Outcomes and impact of FLWE pilots:
- The projects successfully trained 1.39 lakh women directly on financial literacy and women empowerment issues in 4 states of PSIG
- Creation of cadre of 184 strong resource persons (men and women) on Financial Literacy and women empowerment issues at the grass roots
- Findings from impact evaluation of FLWE pilot project in UP & Bihar of 40,000 sample size highlighted:
- Increased awareness of women clients about household savings and insurance of clients and reduced subscription to dubious financial schemes (from over 31 per cent to 2 per cent).
- Women reported increase in confidence in dealing with financial institutions, government departments and police.
- FLWE training participants reported a higher access to toilets with water. 45 per cent of the respondents in the treatment group reported access to a toilet with water as against 29 per cent for the baseline group and 31 per cent for the control group.
- Partner MFI’s more likely to institutionalize the FLWE approach within their operations as trained clients are likely to manage their household finances better and manage their cash flows effectively to ensure that the repayment of installments is made on time.
- Improved awareness of rights and entitlements under government schemes and marginal increase in ownership of productive assets.
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Women have been criticised for their poor parking abilities as compared to men.While it is said that ladies simply cannot master the fine art of steering a car backwards into its proper place, male boasts about motoring skills.
Now, official figures are likely to inflame the parking row, by suggesting that women do, indeed, find parking harder than men.New data from the Driving Standards Agency, an executive agency of the UK Department for Transport, indicate that women are more likely than men to fail their driving test because of problems parking.The statistics also confirmed that women are more likely overall to fail their practical test, the Telegraph reported.The DSA figures, released under the Freedom of Information Act, revealed that examiners recorded 1,660,206 errors by candidates that were serious enough to mean a failed test — 718,244 by men and 941,962 by women.
The total number of errors exceeds the number of tests taken because many failed candidates made multiple mistakes.In 2010-11, 50 per cent of male candidates failed and 57 per cent of women, resulting in an overall failure rate of 54 per cent.
The data also revealed the errors that led each candidate to fail, and show a wide disparity between the sexes over parking. While 18,798 male candidates failed for lack of control during the dreaded reverse-park manoeuvre, the female figure was 40,863.
Women were also more likely to fail for inadequate “observation” of road conditions during the parking test: 12,280 men committed that error, compared with 15,945 women.Estimates suggest that the average woman driver passes her test after 52 hours of teaching, compared with about 36 for men.
The DSA figures also showed that there were some tests that men were more likely to fail.Many learners have the rubric “mirror-signal-manoeuvre” drummed into them, but some men still fail to get the message: more men than women failed because they did not check their mirrors before signalling, by a margin of 6,899 to 6,223.
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Nov. 28, 2010
According to various preliminary reports that have started coming in, online spending on Black Friday
actually increased almost sixteen percent compared with Black Friday in 2009, with social networking sites
gaining momentum as a source for shopping advice. Also, MIDs (mobile Internet devices) played an increasingly
important role as well.
And according to additional numbers supplied from Coremetrics, which gathered data from the sites of
more than 500 retailers in the U.S. including Bloomingdale's, Macy's and Petco, online sales were up 15.9
percent, with the average order value rising about $20, from $170.19 to $190.80.
Coremetrics said that, although the percentage of online shoppers arriving at retail websites from social
networking sites was still relatively small, the phenomenon was gaining momentum, with Facebook at the top of
The company said shoppers were using sites like Facebook to find out about deals and inventory levels. It
also said the slice of shoppers arriving at sites via mobile devices also jumped almost 27 percent year-over-year.
Also, it's important to note that Coremetrics pointed to a new trend, saying "surgical shopping" seemed to
be widespread, with people checking out 18 percent fewer products on sites than they did a year ago--an
indication that they target a specific product rather than just browsing through a site, looking around for
a good deal.
And health and beauty, and department-store sites saw encouraging figures as well. On average, eCommerce
shoppers spent almost eighteen percent more time in virtual department stores, and health and beauty retailers
reported a 73.2 percent increase in first-time buyers year over year, and a 53.5 percent increase in the
number of visits in which shoppers actually clicked away with a purchase.
Overall, such good numbers weren't expected by some eCommerce analysts, and were viewed as encouraging.
"We're watching online retail, and increasingly social media and mobile, become the growth engines for
retailers everywhere, as consumers embrace online shopping not only for its ease and convenience, but as a
primary means of researching goods and services," John Squire, the company's chief strategy officer, said in
Nevertheless, eCommerce shopping has yet to conquer the cash register. According to the Associated Press,
online deals still account for just between 8 percent and 10 percent of holiday spending.
Overall, researcher ShopperTrak said Black Friday sales figures for brick-and-mortar stores barely registered
an increase over 2009, rising a mere 0.3 percent. But the company said that the message was mixed because
numbers for the first two weeks of November were unexpectedly strong--a rise of about 6 percent year over year.
"Also, a rather high percentage of retailers concentrated on pushing folks to their Websites with various
online-only sales, which most likely influenced Black Friday performance as well," ShopperTrak founder Bill
Martin said in a statement.
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Recent Firings Serve as a Reminder of the Employment Struggles Unjustly and Sometimes Illegally Faced by Transsexuals
By JOANNA GROSSMAN
|Tuesday, Mar. 20, 2007|
Steven Stanton -- a confirmed transsexual and the city manager of Largo, Florida -- was recently put on administrative leave, pending being fired by the City Commission. News of his preparation for sex-reassignment surgery had sparked a vigorous, mostly negative response from Largo residents - ranging from nasty e-mails sent to City Commissioners, to eggs thrown at Stanton's car.
Around the same time, Julie Nemecek, an assistant dean and associate professor at Spring Arbor University in Michigan, was fired, allegedly because she, too, was in the process of transitioning from male to female.
Do either of these transsexuals have legal recourse against their employers? Julie Nemecek might, but only because she lives within the jurisdiction of the lone federal court to recognize that Title VII prohibits employers to discriminate on the basis of transsexualism. In contrast, because Steven (soon to be "Susan") Stanton lives in a more typical and thus more unfriendly jurisdiction, he will probably be unable to hold the City of Largo accountable for his firing, even though circumstances suggest that it was discriminatory.
Transsexualism and the Law: Common Obstacles to Acceptance
Transsexuals are individuals whose gender identity differs from their anatomical sex, a condition often characterized as gender dysphoria or gender identity disorder. The category "transsexuals" includes both those who have had sex reassignment surgery and those who have not; a male-to-female transsexual can live out her entire life identifying as a woman without ever actually going under the knife.
Transsexuals face a variety of legal obstacles. One set of obstacles involves efforts to change one's legal gender, through re-issuance of a birth certificate and related legal forms of identification. This issue turns on a difficult question: Is sex something that can be changed? Without express legislative authority, courts have been reluctant to say yes. Some states permit post-operative transsexuals to get a new birth certificate reflecting their new anatomical sex, but the rest refuse.
A few months ago, the Board of Health in New York City came very close to adopting an even more progressive regulation: It would have permitted individuals to have their birth certificates re-issued to reflect a different sex whether or not they had undergone sex reassignment surgery, as long as they had "lived" as a member of the opposite gender for a sustained period of time. At the eleventh hour, however, the Board rescinded the proposed regulations, admitting that it had never considered basic questions such as whether prisoners who identified themselves as female, but retained male genitalia, would be housed with other female prisoners.
A second set of obstacles for transsexuals involves marriage rights. (I have written about both legal identification and marriage rights for transsexuals in a previous column.) The conundrum for transsexuals, most of whom are not homosexual, is that most courts have said that birth sex cannot be changed for purposes of marriage. Thus, an individual who was born a man cannot legally marry another man- even if "he" is now a "she" and has female genitalia, dress, and appearance.
Transsexuals and Employment Discrimination: An Unfriendly Terrain
Perhaps just as important as the problems transsexuals face with respect to legal identity and marriage is their precarious status in the workplace. Stanton's case epitomizes the plight of transsexual employees - who are often victims of openly hostile and bigoted environments, yet typically have no legal recourse. Nemecek's case, however, illustrates the potential for fairer treatment of transsexuals at work, through a broader anti-discrimination law.
Transsexuals have generally been unsuccessful in establishing rights under federal anti-discrimination laws. Most courts have held that neither transsexuals, nor gays and lesbians, comprise a protected class under Title VII. Efforts to enact federal legislation to protect against both these forms of discrimination have been undertaken, but thus far have been unsuccessful.
Fourteen states have adopted statutes banning sexual orientation discrimination, but only four of those statutes explicitly extend to discrimination on the basis of transsexualism. Many cities, however, protect transsexuals against discrimination through local ordinances.
Unfortunately for Stanton, Florida is not one of the states that protects transsexuals, nor is Largo one of the cities. (This is not necessarily surprising, given that Florida is infamous for being the only state that explicitly bans all homosexuals from adopting children.) Stanton, thus, has neither federal, nor state, nor local protection against suffering employment discrimination on the basis of his transsexualism. He hasn't yet threatened to sue, but that may simply reflect his realistic assessment of his low chances of prevailing.
Protection for Transsexuals: One Friendly Jurisdiction, and a Favorable Supreme Court Case
Nemecek has a better prognosis for her discrimination suit, and seems to be aware of that fact: Unlike Stanton, she has filed a complaint with the EEOC, an act that is the required precursor to filing a lawsuit. Her situation is legally more complicated than Stanton's, but more likely to work out in her favor.
Nemecek is fortunate that, unlike Stanton, she can invoke the 2004 ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (in whose jurisdiction the state of Michigan falls) in Smith v. City of Salem. In that case, a transsexual firefighter argued that he had suffered adverse employment actions and retaliation because of a gender identity disorder that led him to "express a more feminine appearance on a full-time basis," including at work. Contrary to rulings from several other federal appellate courts, the Sixth Court ruled that the plaintiff was indeed discriminated against on the basis of his sex, as Title VII requires, when he suffered discrimination on the basis of his transsexualism.
In what way does firing a transsexual employee constitute sex discrimination? The roots of the theory lie in Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins, the decision in which the Supreme Court ruled that sex-stereotyping in the workplace is actionable under Title VII. In that case, a very successful woman employee at Price-Waterhouse was turned down for partnership at least in part because she wasn't "feminine" enough. Despite her superb rainmaking abilities, partners at the firm charged with evaluating her criticized her for being "too macho" and advised her to wear more jewelry and go to charm school.
That sort of gender policing, the Court ruled, violates Title VII. A woman should not have to "act like a woman" (particularly a stereotypical one) in order to keep her job if she's otherwise good at it. In a quote that's often repeated, the majority observed that: "[W]e are beyond the day when an employer could evaluate employees by assuming or insisting that they matched the stereotype associate with their group."
This was a watershed case in sex discrimination law and, yet, it has been underutilized as a precedent in the 18 years since it was decided.
Granted, this precedent has enabled some gay male employees to successfully challenge harassment or other forms of discrimination even though Title VII has been held not to protect against sexual orientation discrimination. Thanks to Price-Waterhouse v. Hopkins, if an effeminate gay male is singled out for adverse treatment, whether by the employer or by co-workers who harass him, he can allege illegal sex-stereotyping. In Nichols v. Azteca Restaurant Enterprises, Inc., for example, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit concluded that harassment of a gay, male employee reflecting hostility toward him because he was too "feminine" constituted illegal sex-stereotyping. (I considered this legal theory further in an earlier column).
But that theory is of no use for gays and lesbians who do conform to gender expectations. The simple fact that they may choose a same-sex partner has not been treated as "gender" nonconformity with the meaning of Price-Waterhouse, even though stereotypes still hold that they should choose an opposite-sex partner instead.
One might predict that the limited protection for gays and lesbians under Title VII bodes poorly for transsexuals, an even more ostracized gender minority. However, the premise of Price-Waterhouse - that employers cannot punish employees for gender non-conformity - is actually a better fit for discrimination on the basis of transsexualism, than for discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. After all, gender non-conformity is the essential trait of transsexualism, while many gays and lesbians do not exhibit it.
The Sixth Circuit in Smith relied on this reasoning to hold that the transsexual firefighter was protected by Title VII. Discriminating against a male who assumes a female identity is a form of gender policing as well, it concluded: According to stereotype, a "real" man wouldn't "switch" genders away from the one assigned to him at birth, and so a man who does so is singled out for maltreatment.
The ruling in Smith will likely dictate a favorable outcome for Nemecek, though her case could be complicated by Title VII's treatment of religious institutions. In answering her EEOC complaint, the University alleged that the firing was permissible because Title VII permits religious institutions to discriminate on that basis. According to the University, this exemption includes the right to fire faculty who "persist in activities that are inconsistent with the Christian faith." The University has two uphill battles here, however: proving that it is an exempt institution under Title VII, and, even if it is, proving, as well, that the exemption includes the right to exclude "bad" Christians in addition to non-Christians.
Transsexuals Deserve Full Legal Protection Against Discrimination
In sum, while there may be some recourse for those within the range of the Sixth Circuit's jurisdiction, the overwhelmingly majority of transsexual employees still face hard times in the current legal regime.
Thus, though an obvious target for bigotry and discrimination, transsexuals have little or no protection against it. Price-Waterhouse provides a way out of this regime, and a mandatory one at that. No court should be able to justify refusing to protect employees against transsexual discrimination, since the very essence of it is precisely the kind of gender policing that Price Waterhouse stressed was a noxious form of gender discrimination. | <urn:uuid:aa7def7d-d406-4169-9215-10d514d4d01f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://supreme.findlaw.com/legal-commentary/recent-firings-serve-as-a-reminder-of-the-employment-struggles-unjustly-and-sometimes-illegally-faced-by-transsexuals.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00273.warc.gz | en | 0.966382 | 2,144 | 1.710938 | 2 |
A recently announced sickle cell disease program in Luanda, Angola, is making progress in its objective to establish the Central African nation's first comprehensive initiatives to fight the disease.
The program, established as a public-private partnership between Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children's Hospital, The Republic of Angola and the Chevron Corporation, which has committed $4 million in funding over four years, has begun the pilot phase to assess the frequency of disease in Luanda, the capitol of Angola and its largest city.
No sickle cell screening program had been established in Angola to date, making it hard to determine exact rates of sickle cell disease in the city and surrounding province.
Outside of the United States, resources for screening and treatment are scarce. Many children die from the disease without even having a diagnosis, said Dr. Russell E. Ware, who serves as director of the program.
Angola also has one of the worst mortality rates in the world for children under age 5. Ware said a substantial portion of this could be attributed to unrecognized sickle cell disease and its complications.
"To get the program started, we had to first determine the size of the problem," said Ware, also a professor of pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine and director of the Texas Children's Center for Global Health and director of the Texas Children's Hematology Center. "We predicted there would be a high prevalence of sickle cell disease in Angola, but we found it to be even more common over there than we expected."
To begin the pilot phase, Ware and his team screened babies born in a local maternity center by taking a small blood sample from their heel, only a few hours after birth.
The first baby's sample was collected on July 19, 2011, by a team of BCM healthcare providers who have since trained local providers to test the samples for the presence of sickle cell disease.
"In less than two months, we have already identified a 22 percent rate of sickle cell trait in the babies born during that time, twice the predicted rate, and about 2 percent with sickle cell disease," said Ware.
To put that in perspective, Ware said if you screened about 2,000 babies born in Texas, only one would have sickle cell disease. In Luanda, you would find about 40 with the disease, which is remarkably high.
The future hope is that by identifying babies with the disease, the infant mortality rate in the city can be reduced. "Long term, we want to establish a screening program that will enable us to enact and treat these children across the country of Angola."
When the team collected the data, they also collected contact information to ensure they could follow up with the sickle cell disease patients and their families.
Babies affected with sickle cell disease will begin antibiotic treatment and receive special immunizations to prevent life-threatening infections.
Another important element of the program is the teaching aspect, said Ware. "We are teaching health care professionals from the city how to collect the blood, do the screening blood tests, and provide education about sickle cell disease. We hope to expand much more in education as the program progresses."
The program builds on the model of the Baylor College of Medicine International Pediatric AIDS Initiative at Texas Children's Hospital, which treats more than 100,000 children with HIV/AIDS across a network of clinical centers in Romania and Africa.
This pilot phase is a small, yet very important step forward in establishing a comprehensive national program for sickle cell disease in Angola, Ware said. "We have a lot of work to do," said Ware. "Together with our partners we are committed to overcoming this major global health problem in Angola and ultimately across sub-Saharan Africa." | <urn:uuid:b12021d3-d07a-487f-af1e-b4d80baf39fe> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.bcm.edu/news/community/angola-sickle-cell-disease-program-begins | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282926.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00398-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967085 | 761 | 2.703125 | 3 |
Purpose: The equivalent field size (EFS) method is widely used to estimate dose of nonstandard fields, such as elongated or arbitrary shaped fields, for both central axis and off axis points. However, its application is limited to fluence maps with uniform intensity. In this work, we propose a generalized EFS (GEFS) for nonuniform fluence maps and present a formula for GEFS-based dose calculation. Methods: A parallel-beam dose table (PDT) consisting of central axis dose of circular fields of various diameters at various depths is used to define scatter contributions, based on which we calculate GEFS of any given fluence map. Such obtained GEFS, together with the radiological depth and PDT, is used to determine the dose at the point of interest. We tested GEFS-based dose calculation on a water phantom for both uniform and nonuniform fluence maps and compared the results with those by the collapsed cone convolution/ superposition (CCCS) method. Results: For all test cases, the gamma index is less than 1 based on the 3%/1 mm criteria for more than 96% of the calculated points. Larger discrepancies mainly occur along the field edges in the buildup region. Conclusions: A generalized equivalent field size for nonuniform fluence maps was proposed and its application in calculating dose at any point was presented and verified through comparison with the CCCS method.
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If you are new at Slowpitch softball, here are a few steps to improve your hitting. It will help to practice this with real pitchers as well as in a batting cage.
Selecting the bat
1Choose your bat. Make sure it is a legal bat for your league. Your coach or manager will probably check that out first. The bat should not be too long or too heavy for you to have excellent control and feel comfortable swinging it. Bat speed is much more important that the size of the bat in how well or how far you will hit the ball.
Getting the correct grip
Hitting the ball
1Take several swings to warm up. Make sure you are clear of hitting anyone and get your muscles ready to swing hard. Swing all the way through and practice good technique.
2Step into the batter's box in a stance that feels comfortable. Most people stand directly parallel to home plate. You will want to adjust your distance from home plate to give you room to hit the ball if inside but not so far away that you could not reach a pitch on the outside of the plate. You will want to have good balance and move your feet about shoulder length apart. Make sure your back foot (one closest to the catcher) is well planted as you will use this foot to push and gain power as you swing.
- When up to bat, measure your bat with the middle corner of the plate.
3Take one or two swings in the batter's box. Make sure your swing covers the home plate. The pitch has to make it over home plate so make sure you are standing where the ball will pass you between your chest and mid thigh. You can hold up a hand if you need longer than a few seconds to get set and then just lower it when you are ready.
4Keep your eye on the ball. The ball will have to arch between 6–12 feet (1.8–3.7 m) and land just past home plate. Determine as quickly as possible if this will be a pitch that you will be able to hit well. Many times you can make contact with a pitch that is outside of the strike zone but it will not be your best hit so try not to swing at those. If the pitch is flat (does not arch 6-12 feet), even if it crosses the plate, you do not have to swing and the pitch will be called a ball. If you are not going to swing, relax and step out of the batters box once the ball crosses the plate. Make sure your bat is back and ready to go if you are planning to swing.
5Swing fast at the ball, swinging the bat level or very slightly upward. Remember bat speed is key here and make sure to swing through the ball. Your goal is to try to get the barrel of the bat to meet the middle of the ball. You will have more time to wait because the ball is coming in at a slow arch so make sure you time your swing to make contact with the ball as it crosses your strike zone and where you hit the ball best.
6Stride toward the pitcher as you swing, in order to increase your momentum and bat speed. Line drives are fast and usually hard to catch unless hit directly at a fielder so that is why you want to swing level.
- If you pop the ball up (hit the ball high in the air) without much distance, you are swinging up too much. Pop ups will give the fielders time to get under the ball to make the out, so adjust your swing if needed.
- Also, don't swing down either as this will cause a grounder and will also give the fielders a better chance to get you out. If you hit a foul ball (ball that is not between the white lines that extend to the outfield fence), you may have swung too early or you may have not hit the ball squarely.
- Try to make sure you are making contact with the ball on the sweet spot of the ball or at the widest part. Most metal softball bats have a larger sweet spot that makes it easier to hit the ball well.
7If you are in a game, you will run to first and listen or glance at your first base coach to determine if you should run to second or stay at first. Always run past the bag if the coach is not waving you on. If this is practice, get your bat back and get ready to hit again.
- Run as fast as you can and don't look at the umpire unless it is a pop up near any bases.
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I strike out a lot. When should I start to swing the bat when the ball comes down home plate?wikiHow ContributorThe best way to learn to hit a slow pitch is to swing up at the ball as it comes down to you. After you're good at that, switch to a level swing. It's harder to hit a slow-pitched ball that way, but you'll get the best hits (line drives) by swinging level to the ground. (That is, unless you're strong enough to swing up and hit the ball over the outfield fence every time.)
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- Confidence is important so every time you step into the batters box, believe that you will get a good hit.
- Practice to become a better hitter. Concentrate on swinging through the ball and swinging level. The more pitches you look at the better you will be able to determine which are balls and which are strikes. Most people are pull hitters (hit to left field if you are a righty or right field if you are a lefty) especially in slowpitch softball so become a good pull hitter first. Once you have down the basics, then you can work on hitting the ball to the opposite field
- Make sure you choose the heaviest bat you can swing fastest. Both are important but it is better to sacrifice a little bat weight for a faster swing.
- Don't be afraid to take a pitch or two unless you are down to your last strike. On your last strike, swing if it is close. Even if you get out you may be able to move a runner over. Also, some pitchers can get discouraged if they have problems throwing strikes so don't give them one easy by swinging at a bad pitch.
- Make sure you are clear of other people, animals and objects before swinging. Bats can hurt!
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During the first Coronavirus lockdown in March 2020, Frome Town Council set up an emergency food parcel delivery service. The service was aimed at those with no support system and designed specifically for those residents of Frome who are running low on supplies and unable to visit the shops for basic necessities. The service ran Monday to Friday, with a team of volunteers packing and delivering to those in need.
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Trauma induces very unpleasant internal emotional states. When an infant experiences an unpleasant emotional state, what does she do? She cries, which ought to bring the parent. The parent then, if he or she is well-regulated herself or himself, will then pick up the infant and go, “Aww,” and hold that baby and rock them, or sing to them in a sing-song kind of way. That will regulate the child’s internal state. Then the infant learns that emotional states that are unpleasant come and go. It’s okay. If I can’t handle it, I can ask for help. For the many of us who didn’t have that kind of holding environment, who didn’t have the parents around that could hold us in our unpleasant states and soothe us and regulate us because they were not regulated themselves, we end up fearing that these difficult emotional states are permanent and ‘I will stay stuck in them’, ‘I will never get out of them.’ Then what do we do?
One of the great things about reaching midlife is the perspective and the clarity we get as time begins to feel more precious and important. I remember reaching a point in my life where I no longer had the energy or the desire to chase after anything anymore. Not only that but it seemed like the strategies I used for most of my adult life – setting goals, creating detailed action plans and working my butt off to make success happen all stopped working.
This entry is taken from one of the most beautiful film scenes I’ve ever seen. It is between a father and a son. I wonder what the world would be like if there were more experiences like this in the world between parents and children.
It is a conversation between the son and his father after a young man staying with the family over the summer–and with whom the son has been having what he believed to be a clandestine relationship–returns to his home. The son after riding with him to the town with the airport comes back quiet but obviously impacted.
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A vulnerability evaluation is a risk management process used to determine, quantify and rank possible vulnerabilities to threats in a given system. It’s not remoted to a single field and is utilized to techniques across different industries, corresponding to:
Energy and other utility systems
The important thing element of a vulnerability assessment is the correct definition for impact loss rating and the system’s vulnerability to that particular threat. Impact loss differs per system. For example, an assessed air visitors control tower might consider a few minutes of downtime as a critical impact loss, while for a neighborhood authorities office, those jiffy of impact loss could also be negligible.
Vulnerability assessments are designed to yield a ranked or prioritized list of a system’s vulnerabilities for numerous sorts of threats. Organizations that use these assessments are aware of security risks and understand they need help figuring out and prioritizing potential issues. By understanding their vulnerabilities, a company can formulate options and patches for those vulnerabilities for incorporation with their risk management system.
The perspective of a vulnerability could differ, relying on the system assessed. For example, a utility system, like energy and water, may prioritize vulnerabilities to gadgets that would disrupt services or damage services, like calamities, tampering and terrorist attacks. However, an information system (IS), like a website with databases, might require an evaluation of its vulnerability to hackers and other types of cyberattack. On the other hand, an information middle could require an assessment of both physical and virtual vulnerabilities because it requires safety for its physical facility and cyber presence.
A vulnerability evaluation is the testing process used to establish and assign severity ranges to as many security assessment nyc defects as possible in a given timeframe. This process may involve automated and guide methods with various degrees of rigor and an emphasis on complete coverage. Using a risk-based strategy, vulnerability assessments could goal completely different layers of know-how, the commonest being host-, network-, and software-layer assessments.
Conducting vulnerability assessments assist organizations determine vulnerabilities in their software and supporting infrastructure before a compromise can take place. But, what exactly is a software vulnerability?
A vulnerability might be defined in two ways:
A bug in code or a flaw in software design that may be exploited to cause harm. Exploitation might happen via an authenticated or unauthenticated attacker.
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Issue No. 01 - Jan.-Feb. (2013 vol. 28)
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MIS.2013.18
James Lawton , US Air Force Research Laboratory
Austin Tate , University of Edinburgh
Niranjan Suri , Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition
Jitu Patel , Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
Coalition operations have emerged as a key feature of military and humanitarian interventions over the past two decades. In a coalition operation, two or more nations or agencies act together to accomplish anything from a major combat operation to a peacetime humanitarian mission. 1 Coalitions typically
consist of a collection of multinational military forces—often working alongside nonmilitary organizations such as the UN and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs)—to support missions with objectives set by consensus in the international community (for example, through the UN). These missions require agility and effective use of limited resources to achieve complex and multi-ple objectives. Participants must assemble and maintain a "virtual organization" reflecting the interests of participating countries, NGOs, and agents from the host nation. 2
The situation in these missions is typically fluid, resulting in frequent changes in strategies and objectives. Commanders must be able to clearly define and relay the mission objectives to planning and logistics staff, and from there to coalition partners and field personnel. They also need means for sharing information between the coalition partners and informing the public and media to counter misinformation.
The Knowledge Systems for Coalition Operations (KSCO) community is an international organization exploring research in using knowledge-intensive systems to support both military and civilian coalition operations. At KSCO's frequent technical conferences, practitioners and key decision makers in coalition operations meet with researchers in knowledge-based systems, information management, planning, and multiagent systems to exchange experience and ideas, share inspiration, and suggest novel concepts. Over the past 15 years, the community has come together seven times in locations such as Edinburgh, Vancouver, and, most recently, Pensacola, Florida. Papers and presentations from all these events are available via the KSCO community website at http://ksco.info/.
In 2002, IEEE Intelligent Systems published a special issue on KSCO topics that included key papers from the 2nd KSCO conference held in Toulouse, France. The current special issue celebrates a further decade of KSCO activities covering a broad range of coalition-inspired research and application areas. In all this work, several topics frequently occur.
Frameworks and Infrastructure
Papers on this topic describe general-use models and systems that enable a broad use of information technology in coalition situations. Examples include a foundational effects-based method for framing information to enable better decision making, virtual environments for augmenting the coordination of distributed coalition partners, and a model for characterizing information management in a coalition "infosphere."
Planning and Execution
Plans and planning are integral to any effective coalition, be it military or civilian. Such papers focus on computational methodologies and mechanisms to enable efficient coalition planning. Examples include a formal language to describe plans shared among coalition partners that supports mixed-initiative planning, a case study of how the organizers of a recent Olympic Games planned for cybersecurity, and the use of multiagent systems to carry out and monitor planning in highly dynamic environments.
Coordination and Collaboration
Once a coalition's activities are collectively planned, members must execute and monitor them in a coordinated fashion. This topic has centered on models and software systems that let small groups of coalition partners collaborate and coordinate joint activities in a tightly integrated manner. Examples include a constraint-satisfaction methodology to enable better team interaction, a resource management system that lets coalition partners better access items they might have access to from other members, virtual operations centers, and studies on how dynamically formed communication networks within a coalition impact distributed problem solving.
Understanding and Trust
To maintain an effective coalition, members must be able to understand their partners' needs and capabilities, believe that those partners will carry out agreed-on tasks, and trust that they're providing accurate information. Papers in this topic area have discussed ways in which information technology could help ensure this understanding and trust among coalition partners. Examples include semantic technology that helps improve information exploitation within coalitions and an automated approach to evaluating the trustworthiness of information that coalition partners provide.
Effective coalitions must share information about everything from shared goals and activities, situation awareness, available resources, member capabilities, and joint plans. Contributions in this area have presented foundational frameworks and mechanisms to enable efficient and effective information sharing in a way that all members can understand and use. Examples include using common ontologies within a coalition to minimize the ambiguity of shared information, using well-defined and agreed-on standards for information representation and communication, and employing formal methods to capture and disseminate command "intent" in a coalition environment.
Many coalitions involve multinational partners, each with its own unique cultural perspective on the joint operations in which the team is engaged. Research in this topic describes the critical need for cross-culture awareness and understanding in multinational coalitions. Examples include how different cultures approach critical coalition processes such as planning and information sharing, and a model of how the neurodynamics of situational awareness influence, and are influenced by, cultural norms and perceptions.
Information systems for supporting coalition operations must be able to provide accurate and timely information to a variety of users. Ensuring that these systems present an interface that can be effectively used by people with different technological backgrounds, cultural experiences, and interest in detail is critical to making them useful. In this topic area, papers have presented models and methodologies to define command interfaces for coalition information systems. Examples include computer-assisted interaction with information systems through intelligent virtual assistants and a methodology for defining compact interfaces for smartphones.
Over the years, the KSCO conferences have attracted a variety of guest speakers and technology developers with real-world experience operating in past and ongoing coalitions. Many speakers and contributors have had first-hand experience with using information technology to enhance their coalitions' effectiveness. Topics areas range from medical applications used to support disaster relief efforts to data collection at Olympic events.
In This Issue
For this special issue of IS, we've selected articles that cover work by academic, government, and industry researchers worldwide who are working together to develop knowledge systems to support such coalition operations. For example, the International Technology Alliance (ITA) program (www.usukita.com), established in 2006, is a joint UK Ministry of Defence and US Army Research Laboratory funded research project in network and information sciences. The ITA community, consisting of 24 academic and industry partners, is just one example of a large body of people actively engaged in research to support coalition operations; several articles in this special issue report on this work's results.
The article on "Improving Coalition Planning by Making Plans Alive," by Jitu Patel, Michael C. Dorneich, David Mott, Ali Bahrami, and Cheryl Giammanco, covers work by the ITA and addresses an important aspect of plan sharing and communication in coalitions via plans. The authors have done extensive work in the intelligent systems field and with a broader community of those involved with plan sharing to produce "standard" ways of representing and communicating plans. This work has drawn on a wealth of background information and made a significant contribution with a collaborative planning model (CPM) in the context of plan sharing across tools from different countries and agencies. The authors' aim is to make plans come alive by ensuring that dynamic use and refinement are possible across the agencies involved in complex coalitions and other rapidly changing situations.
In "Knowledge Management for Coalition Information Sharing at the Network Edge," Cheryl Giammanco, Ray McGowan, Anne Kao, Dave Braines, Stephen R. Poteet, Tien Pham, and Ping Xue describe further work in the ITA. Their article focuses on the important and recurrent KSCO theme of information sharing. In particular, they address getting information to the "edge of the network"—that is, the individual operators in the field or the soldiers in a theatre of operations. The article describes a way to query and gather information from a range of sources and communicate it both to and from those involved via a form of Controlled English (CE). The authors illustrate their concepts via a coalition Afghanistan agribusiness development and provincial reconstruction effort.
Continuing with the information-sharing theme, "Knowledge-Based Approaches to Information Management in Coalition Environments," by Andrzej Uszok, Larry Bunch, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Thomas Reichherzer, James Hanna, and Albert Frantz, describes an approach based on natural language and case-based reasoning to assist in releasing critical information to coalition partners in a controlled and timely fashion. The authors have used their knowledge-based approach to extend the US Air Force Research Laboratory's Phoenix information management system to provide more efficient ways of subscribing to and querying for information from coalition partners. The system automatically checks whether the requested information can be released without violating policies and identifying other relevant information of interest to subscribers.
"Developing Multiagent Algorithms for Tactical Missions Using Simulation," by Antonín Komenda, Jiří Vokřínek, Michal Ĉáp, and Michal Pêchouĉek, focuses on coordination and collaboration. The authors present a methodology for validating and verifying algorithms for multirobotic teams providing support to coalition operations. Their approach is based on the simulation-aided design of multi-agent systems (SADMAS) and implemented in their Alite software toolkit for multiagent prototyping. The authors demonstrate their approach's practicality via a multi-agent application that uses game-theoretic, plan repair, and multi-agent coordination algorithms to control a simulated robotic team supporting simulated troops in an evacuation mission.
Uncertainty, often arising from a lack of situation awareness and common understanding, is a significant problem in military environments. It's exacerbated within coalition operations given the restrictions on information sharing and differences in trust, common ground, and cognitive bias. In "Collective Sensemaking and Military Coalitions," Paul R. Smart and Katia P. Sycara describe a computational model of collective sensemaking. They further analyze the effects of communications networks and various network topologies on coalitions' ability to achieve collective sensemaking.
"Agilely Assigning Sensing Assets to Mission Tasks in a Coalition Context," by Alun Preece, Tim Norman, Geeth de Mel, Diego Pizzocaro, Murat Sensoy, and Tien Pham, presents a knowledge-based approach for automatically selecting and suggesting available sensing assets for tasks in intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance coalition operations. This topic represents a good example of using state-of-the-art information technology to let coalition partners collaborate in their joint efforts through resource sharing. The approach uses a representation of domain concepts and their relations based on an ontology, along with a knowledge base to store facts and corresponding methods for matching tasks against resources. The article also presents prototype mobile applications that could provide a front end for interacting with Sensor Assignment to Missions (SAM) to obtain recommendations of suitable assets for task allocations.
Finally, in "Extending Net-Centricity to Coalition Operations," Niranjan Suri, Andrzej Uszok, Rita Lenzi, Maggie Breedy, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Yat Fu, James Hanna, Vaughn T. Combs, Asher Sinclair, and Robert Grant provide the perfect example of how an information management system based on a service-oriented architecture (SOA) can support more agile information sharing between coalition partners. The authors characterize the Phoenix system as being ready to provide the fundamental infrastructure for realizing David Alpert's vision of a network-centric approach to future military missions. Furthermore, they identify the issues involved in applying this model to coalition information sharing, proposing that a federated SOA environment with policy-based information-sharing controls could improve this situation.
We hope that this collection gives an insight into the many exciting and productive research and development areas in knowledge systems for coalition operations.
We thank our colleagues in the Knowledge Systems for Coalition Operations research community and all those who reviewed the many articles submitted for this special issue.
Jitu Patel is a principal scientist at the UK Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL), where he's the program manager for the Information Superiority Experimentation Centre. Patel has a PhD in artificial intelligence from the Open University, UK. He's the general chair for the Knowledge Systems for Coalition Operations (KSCO) conference series and is a senior member of IEEE. Contact him at firstname.lastname@example.org.
Austin Tate holds the chair in knowledge-based systems at the University of Edinburgh, where he's also the director of the Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute (AIAI). He leads AIAI's efforts to transfer the technologies and methods of artificial intelligence and knowledge systems into commercial, governmental, and academic applications throughout the world. Tate has a PhD in machine intelligence from the University of Edinburgh. He's webmaster for KSCO and on the senior advisory board for IEEE Intelligent Systems. Contact him at email@example.com.
Niranjan Suri is a research scientist at the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition and a visiting scientist at the US Army Research Laboratory. His current research focuses on the notion of agile computing, which supports the opportunistic discovery and exploitation of resources in highly dynamic networked environments. Suri has a PhD in computer science from Lancaster University, England. Contact him at firstname.lastname@example.org.
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How do you get bark off a log?
The most common method is to use a peeling spud and drawknife combination. A peeling spud is a tool that removes the bulk of the bark by prying it off. This works best on non-winter cut wood. In log building a peeling spud is used to knock off the majority of a log’s bark.
How long does it take to remove the bark from a log?
With a spud and an axe, you ought to be able to completely remove the bark from a large log in a matter of minutes. One word of caution: a spring-peeled log will be slicker than a greased pig, so plan on allowing your freshly peeled logs to dry for a few days before hauling them in to place on your project.
What tool do you use to remove bark?
The bark spud (also known as a peeling iron, peeler bar, peeling spud, or abbreviated to spud) is an implement which is used to remove bark from felled timber.
How do you remove birch bark from a log?
Bark should be removed only when it comes off easy, usually in the first part of the growing season (May through June). 3. A small vertical incision through the outer bark (slightly less than 90o to the tree) is all that is needed to peel the bark away.
How do you strip oak logs?
How to get a Stripped Oak Log in Survival Mode Find an Oak Tree. First, you need to find an oak tree in your Minecraft world. Hold an Axe. Next, you will need to select an axe in your hotbar. Strip the Bark with the Axe. Chop down the Stripped Oak Log. Pick up the Stripped Oak Log.
What is debarked wood?
Debarking is the process of removing bark from wood. Traditional debarking is conducted in order to create a fence post or fence stake which would then go on to be pointed before being planted.
How do you preserve wood logs with bark?
Seal the wood with polyurethane to protect it from moisture damage. This is critical if you’ll be displaying your wood with bark outside. Dip a brush into polyurethane and spread it evenly over the surface of the wood and work it into the rough bark along the sides. Then, let the polyurethane dry for at least 24 hours.
What can I do with cedar bark?
The inner bark can be used to make traditional clothing such as vests, skirts and capes. Basket weavers can use the material immediately, but the bark must be dried for at least three years before it can be used to make clothing.
How do you soften old birch bark?
How Do I Soften Birch Bark? Fill a large, deep pot halfway with regular tap water. Place the pot of water on the stove burner. Turn on the stove burner, and set it to high. Pick up one birch bark sheet with a pair of long tongs. Reduce the heat on the stove to medium. Lay out a cookie tray lined with paper towels.
Does birch bark grow back?
Birch bark should be harvested in the spring when the sap is running in the trees. If the cambium is damaged the tree may die. If done right, a tree will re-grow its bark over the course of 10-20 years.
What happens when you strip the bark from a tree?
Stripping a tree’s outermost bark layer exposes the inner bark and cambium layers, weakening the tree’s injury response. Accidental or intentional removal of the outer bark layer stops food from flowing, causing the injured part of the tree to dry and decay.
Should I remove bark from live edge?
It’s highly likely to fall off with time, regardless of the measures taken to preserve it. Slabs will slowly lose their bark, which can lead to weekly cleaning underneath your table or finished piece. It allows you to sand the live edge making it less sharp and giving it a smooth feel to the touch.
How do you strip wood?
Obtaining. Stripped Wood can be obtained by interacting with Wood blocks using an Axe.
What can you do with oak logs Osrs?
Oak logs are used to travel to the Crafting Guild on the Balloon Transport System. Training Woodcutting via oak trees is a fairly quick method of obtaining nests.
How do you strip old furniture?
Here is the process: Using a chip brush and working in sections, brush on the Klean Strip Stripper relatively thickly. Scrape off the stripper and finish using a plastic scraping tool. Rinse off the surface with lacquer thinner, rubbing with steel wool. Allow to dry, and you’re done!.
How do you strip bark from a tree branch?
The bark will peel right off with gentle prying from the dulled edge of a 3-in. putty knife. If you’re forced to peel branches in the winter, or after the bark and sap has dried, you can loosen the bark first by applying heat and water, most effectively in the form of steam.
Is debarking painful?
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Mali unrest displaces at least 436 000
16 August 2012, 15:09
Dakar - Unrest in Mali after a coup and the
occupation of its sprawling north by Islamists and rebels has dislocated
nearly 436 000 people this year, a UN report said on Wednesday.
of 10 August 2012, the complex emergency in Mali had displaced an
estimated 435 624 people," the Office for the Co-ordination of
Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said.
"Of these, 261 624 refugees
from Mali have registered with the United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees in neighbouring countries, and 174 000 are internally
Since a military coup on 22 March which toppled its
president, Mali has fallen prey to hardline armed Islamist groups linked
to al-Qaeda's north African branch Aqim who have taken control of a
number of towns and villages.
According to OCHA, the worst
affected region is Mali's vast desert north, where 105 000 people have
fled fighting in the cities of Timbuktu, Kidal and Gao.
About 32 500 people have been displaced from the central city of Mopti and the rest from southern regions.
Islamist groups have imposed strict sharia, prompting outrage in recent
weeks by stoning an unmarried couple to death and cutting off the hand
of a thief. They are also accused of recruiting child soldiers to their
Risk of famine
In the fabled city of Timbuktu they destroyed ancient World Heritage shrines, declaring them "haram", or forbidden by Islam.
report also highlighted the health and food security crises wracking
the country, including an outbreak of cholera near Gao in early July
which has killed 11 people. About 140 cases have been reported.
location in the Sahel region, a semi-arid belt crossing the north of
Africa, also exposes it to a risk of famine, says the report.
Sahel is battling a severe food crisis after failed harvests last year
that have left millions hungry. The conflict in Mali has placed even
greater strain on food resources in the region.
The Food and
Agriculture Organisation warned that "emergency food assistance must be
provided to 4.6 million people" in Mali, which has a population of 14.5
So far, the UN's World Food Programme has reached 360
000 people in southern Mali, OCHA's report said, and over 148 000 people
in the north.
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A source in the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (Sudan) and official media said that 35 Ethiopian peacekeepers of the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID) were airlifted from Darfur in western Sudan to a refugee camp near the border after they sought asylum in Sudan.
The peacekeepers are among a group of 120 soldiers who were serving as part of the joint African Union and United Nations peacekeeping force that withdrew from Darfur and requested international protection this month before they were brought back.
A UN spokesman told Reuters that most of the peacekeepers are from Tigray, where clashes erupted in November between Ethiopian forces and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF).
The spokesman added that the 35 UN peacekeepers were transported on a United Nations plane on Sunday from Al-Fashir, the capital of North Darfur, to the eastern city of Kassala before being transferred by land to the Um Gargour refugee camp near the border with Ethiopia.
A spokesman for the United Nations peacekeeping force told Agence France-Presse: "So far, 120 ex-UNAMID peacekeepers who were to be returned to their country have requested international protection."
Clashes erupted between the federal government in Addis Ababa and the forces in Tigray, north of the country, in November, leading to the death of thousands of people and the displacement of more than one million civilians, including more than 60,000 people who fled to Sudan, according to reports.
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Oxford is at the forefront of technologies including photonics and AI that are transforming the space sector, as well as in business innovation to help space agencies and companies to adapt to the new business environment.
The space sector is undergoing a transformation through advances in technology, for example through the miniaturisation of satellites leading to significant reductions in manufacturing and launch costs. Enhancements in compute and cloud capabilities are also transforming data processing, enabling the application of AI to satellite data to support complex operations and enhance decision-making by end-users (e.g. in forestry, disaster management, urban planning). Oxford is at the forefront of technologies including photonics and AI that are transforming the sector, as well as in business innovation to help space agencies and companies to adapt to the new business environment. This is why the European Space Agency has approached Oxford to develop a 1:1 partnership, initially in these three areas, to help them access our capabilities. An ESA_LAB@Oxford was established in Spring 2020. In AI, Oxford researchers have been working with ESA, NASA and tech and space companies to prototype new AI systems for improving operations and decision-making, with further interest from domain-specific academics (e.g. in forestry, earthquakes, volcanoes). The opportunity is for Oxford, working with these partners, to establish an AI for Space Institute that would develop pathways from initial prototypes through further research, translation and on to deployment, also collaborating with Europe’s largest space cluster, based at Harwell. An Institute in the order of £100m in funding is envisaged. No other Institute of this kind currently exists globally; an opportunity for Oxford to be at the cutting edge. Initial funding of £5-10m from would develop a runway for this institute.
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Extremely shocking information has recently been revealed in a new report released by the University of Queensland. According to the report, a person reduces his lifespan by 22 minutes for every hour spent watching television. That adds up to a staggering total of 5 years if 6 hours were spent in front of the tube on a daily basis. It seems that watching TV could be as hazardous to health as smoking or being overweight.
Experts from the University of Queensland, Australia, write: "TV viewing time may have adverse health consequences that rival those of lack of physical activity, obesity and smoking; every single hour of TV viewed may shorten life by as much as 22 minutes."
Watching TV is one of the most common and popular "activities" today. Due to the extreme prevalence behind TV viewing, the effects it has on overall population can't be overlooked. It is only in today's time period where anyone can easily find a TV in nearly every room in any house. They are no longer items simply for the family room.
Australian and American guidelines suggest that kids spend no more than 2 hours a day in front of a TV. With this new proven information, it is also recommended that parents limit their time in front of television sets. Not only does it lengthen the lifespan of adults, but it also has a positive influence on children, communicating that TV is not an item which should be focused on.
Today is a highly technological age. Before these massive advancements, kids and adults alike would be more physically active outside for many hours of the day. Problems stemming from cell phones, televisions, and microwaves weren't always an issue, and until recently there hasn't been cold, hard evidence demonstrating how harmful such technology can really be on overall health.
People make conscious health choices to not smoke or to eat healthy. This new report puts forth another choice people must make -- to avoid excessive television watching. The information is now there and readily available to be utilized by health-conscious individuals worldwide. TV is not only a highly popular household item, but for many families it is also a daily ritual. Now that the life-shortening effects of television have been highlighted, people must make a conscious decision to make a change.
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About the author
Anthony Gucciardi is a health activist and wellness researcher, whose goal is centered around educating the general public as to how they may obtain optimum health. He has authored countless articles highlighting the benefits of natural health, as well as exposing the pharmaceutical industry. Anthony is the creator of Natural Society (http://www.NaturalSociety.com), a natural health website. Anthony has been accurately interpreting national and international events for years within his numerous political articles. Anthony's articles have been seen by millions around the world, and hosted on multiple top news websites. | <urn:uuid:dc263a41-790d-4080-ba67-3b09630d7655> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://anabolicminds.com/forum/content/watching-tv-may-394/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281162.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00535-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962065 | 636 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Female Genital Mutilation – An Overview
This book documents, primarily, the medical and health facts about FGM. It also considers legislations, human rights declarations and other actors relevant to efforts to combat the practice.
Toubia, Nahid and Susan Izett
Publisher and location:
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Electric Power Procurement and Generation
The CPUC is also responsible for regulating Electric Power Procurement and Generation. The CPUC evaluates the necessity for additional power generation by the regulated utilities in California in both the long and short term. This task is accomplished using public input, data provided by the utilities, the California Energy Commission, the California Independent System Operator (CAISO), and following the regulations of the Commission, the Public Utilities Code, and the FERC.
The CPUC is interested in both the amount of power and how it can be used. As the percentage of renewable resources increases in California, the need for flexible power increases. Flexible power can ramp up and down to supplement the solar and wind generation to meet the total electric load. Additionally, there are load pockets in the state which need to be evaluated separately from the total load to assure local area reliability and local flexibility. Finally, there is an CPUC subsection on Resource Adequacy which determines that there is sufficient reserve power held by the utilities to assure reliable and affordable power to the ratepayers of California, both overall and locally.
Electric Power Procurement
- Combined Heat and Power (CHP) Program Overview
- Integrated Resource Plan and Long Term Procurement Plan (IRP-LTPP)
- Power Charge Indifference Adjustment
- Procurement Oversight
- Qualifying Facility and Combined Heat and Power Procurement Options
- Resource Adequacy Homepage
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A Tree of Life Necklace: a magnificent elm rooted in the world with branches in the sky. The Elm by Australia's Polli Design is a tree of life necklace with a finely etched stainless steel pendant on a sterling silver chain.
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The concept of a tree of life, rooted in the ground with many branches extending into heaven, is a motif in many world religions and philosophies. In Judaism, the tree of life is used to refer to the Torah itself: Etz Chaim, Hebrew for "tree of life". In Kabbalah, Jewish mysticism, the tree of life is in the form of the ten Sephirot, the ten aspects of G-d. | <urn:uuid:4751a536-c47e-4b64-ab91-931d42b53ac9> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://moderntribe.com/products/tree_of_life_necklace | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718296.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00539-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.910349 | 182 | 1.695313 | 2 |
Who’s sorry now? The Apologies (Scotland) Bill
Sometimes, saying sorry can go a long way to resolving a dispute. But if there are potential legal implications involved, you might think twice. Unlike the position in England & Wales, Scotland does not have a statutory framework dealing with the effect of an apology on liability. However, that could be about to change.
The Apologies (Scotland) Bill
The Apologies (Scotland) Bill is currently under Stage 1 consideration by the Scottish Parliament, with responses to committee questions sought before early May 2015. The Bill is designed to give legal protection to an expression of apology. It provides that in civil proceedings, with the exception of fatal accident inquiries and defamation proceedings, apologies will not be taken into account when considering liability.
An apology is defined as a statement that a person is sorry about an act, omission or outcome. It can be made by the person apologising (which can include a company) or by someone else on their behalf. Express or implied admissions of fault are covered, as are statements of fact in relation to the act, omission or outcome and undertakings to look at the circumstances with a view to preventing a recurrence. The Bill does not have retrospective effect; it will only apply to proceedings commenced after any Act comes into force.
The Bill has a broader purpose than simply protecting certain statements. It is hoped that the legislation will encourage a “cultural and social change in attitudes towards apologising.” The notes accompanying the Bill cite evidence from other jurisdictions with apology laws suggesting that such laws may lead to a decrease in the amount and cost of litigation. The Financial Memorandum, referring to experience in Michigan, suggests a 50% reduction in personal injury cases in eight years may be possible. It will be interesting to see whether the proposed legislation can achieve its anticipated aims in Scotland, whether in the personal injury sphere or beyond. | <urn:uuid:679bebf6-2a85-4199-8f94-31febb1368d5> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=9a315e9a-7f79-4e6a-ba84-f52f8fc738d1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280587.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00564-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946752 | 385 | 2.296875 | 2 |
Being There (1979) starring Peter Sellers, Melvyn Douglas, Shirley MacLaine
In Being There, Chance, a simple gardener, has never left the estate until his employer dies. His simple gardening-related utterances are mistaken for profundity by media and politicians alike.
Review of Being There
Being There is the story of a gardener. A genial, mild-mannered, idiot named Chance. He’s illiterate, and knows only two things: gardening and television. He watches a lot of television …. And that’s the only thing he knows of the world. He’s lived in seclusion his entire life, working for an elderly, wealthy man in Washington, D.C. Until the old man dies.
Through a mishap, he’s taken in by another wealthy couple — who impose deep meanings on his mundane sayings. Soon, he becomes a media sensation and a political consultant, as everyone sees brilliance in his simple statements. For example:
Quote from Being There
President “Bobby”: Mr. Gardner, do you agree with Ben, or do you think that we can stimulate growth through temporary incentives?
Chance the Gardener: As long as the roots are not severed, all is well. And all will be well in the garden.
President “Bobby”: In the garden.
Chance the Gardener: Yes. In the garden, growth has it seasons. First comes spring and summer, but then we have fall and winter. And then we get spring and summer again.
President “Bobby”: Spring and summer.
Chance the Gardener: Yes.
President “Bobby”: Then fall and winter.
Chance the Gardener: Yes.
Benjamin Rand: I think what our insightful young friend is saying is that we welcome the inevitable seasons of nature, but we’re upset by the seasons of our economy.
Chance the Gardener: Yes! There will be growth in the spring!
Benjamin Rand: Hmm!
Chance the Gardener: Hmm!
President “Bobby”: Hm. Well, Mr. Gardner, I must admit that is one of the most refreshing and optimistic statements I’ve heard in a very, very long time.
[Benjamin Rand applauds]
President “Bobby”: I admire your good, solid sense. That’s precisely what we lack on Capitol Hill.
That’s pretty much the entire joke throughout the movie. And, after a while, it gets tired. It’s enjoyable, but would have benefited from tighter editing.
Cast of characters
- Chance (Peter Sellers, A Shot in the Dark). The genial, friendly, gardener, who people think is saying deep profundities. But, in truth, he’s literally an idiot. A likeable idiot, but still … He knows nothing of the “real world” except for what he’s seen on TV, which leads to some comedy moments.
Eve Rand (Shirley MacLaine, The Yellow Rolls-Royce). The wealthy wife of the man who takes Chance in. And, she’s not exactly faithful to her husband … Ironically, Chance has no idea what to do with a woman until he sees something on television.
- Benjamin Rand (Melvyn Douglas, Mr. Blandings Build His Dream House). Eve’s husband, who mistakes Chance’s simple gardening statements as deep thoughts.
- President ‘Bobby’ (Jack Warden, Wake Me When It’s Over). The President of the United States. He also mistakes Chance’s simple statements as deep metaphors, and makes Chance a presidential advisor. Clearly, this is a commentary on politicians, as well as the mass media.
Editorial review of Being There courtesy of Amazon.com
In one of his most finely tuned performances, Peter Sellers (The Pink Panther) plays the pure-hearted Chance, a gardener forced out of moneyed seclusion and into the urban wilds of Washington, D.C., after the death of his employer. Shocked to discover that the real world doesn’t respond to the click of a remote, Chance stumbles haplessly into celebrity after being taken under the wing of a tycoon (Oscar winner Melvyn Douglas), who mistakes his new protégé’s mumbling about horticulture for sagacious pronouncements on life and politics, and whose wife (The Apartment’s Shirley MacLaine) targets Chance as the object of her desire.
Adapted from a novel by Jerzy Kosinski, this hilarious, deeply melancholy satire marks the culmination a remarkable string of films by Hal Ashby (Harold and Maude) in the 1970s, and serves as a carefully modulated examination of the ideals, anxieties, and media-fueled delusions that shaped American culture during that decade. | <urn:uuid:1ddc51d5-2be2-4800-92aa-364481614847> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://family-friendly-movies.com/comedy/being-there/?amp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00068.warc.gz | en | 0.92368 | 1,054 | 2.0625 | 2 |
CLARK, WILLIAM H.
CLARK, WILLIAM H. (1861–1931). William H. Clark, attorney, was born to William H. and Mary (McDowell) Clark near Brandon, Mississippi, on May 2, 1861. He attended Brandon Academy and graduated from the University of Mississippi in 1882. He returned to his hometown as principal of Brandon Academy immediately after receiving his college degree. He continued to study law in his spare time and resigned from the academy in 1883 to enter the law school at Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tennessee. He completed his legal education in 1885 and moved with his mother to Dallas, Texas. He worked in a series of positions-in the office of Seth Shepard, in the United States Court of Appeals in Washington, and subsequently in a number of other firms-before establishing a private practice in 1905. He married Virginia Maxey Falls of Brandon, Mississippi, on June 9, 1886. The couple raised seven children.
Clark was elected president of the Texas State Bar Association (see STATE BAR OF TEXAS) in 1897. At the time, he was the youngest attorney ever to hold this position. In a practice limited to civil law he successfully argued a number of cases before the United States Supreme Court, including Brown Cracker and Candy Company v. City of Dallas, in which he convinced the justices that a local ordinance reserving a portion of the city for bawdy houses violated the state constitution and state laws. Clark frequently advised committees of the state legislature in the framing of statutes. He was a Democrat and frequently served as a Dallas County delegate to the party's state conventions. He died in Dallas of a heart attack on September 17, 1931.
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Why Does Mobile Get Stuck On Google Account?
There are many people who know how to use their mobile but do not know what software is and how it works. If you buy a mobile phone from any company, you have the option to add your account inside it which we call Gmail Account, Google account.
Some people create their own accounts but forget to write down their email addresses and password on the book. Then sometimes their mobile slows down or they forget their mobile PIN code then they have to set their mobile hard Reset. After the hard reset, as soon as the mobile is turned on, it gets stuck in the Google account.
Now your mobile is stuck here. Here it is asking you for the same old Gmail ID that you created in this mobile. If you remember that Google account and you also remember its password then you will enter it then your mobile will be unlocked. But if you do not remember the Gmail account and its password, you must bypass the Google Account.
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In November of 2022, New York voters will have the chance to approve the largest Environmental Bond Act in the history of the state.
Passed as part of the state’s 2021-to-2022 budget, reauthorization of the Environmental Bond Act will provide $3 billion to upgrade water and sewer infrastructure, improve parks, and help communities around the state prepare for more frequent floods, rising seas and more extreme temperatures.
Jessica Ottney Mahar, policy and strategy director at The Nature Conservancy in New York, called the bond act a tremendous step forward for New York’s future.
“It means cleaner water, a safer community in the face of climate change, action to reduce the pollution that causes climate change,” said Mahar, “and also more conservation of our natural resources.”
She added the Environmental Bond Act, which had been part of the budget last year but was removed because of the pandemic, has the support of almost three-quarters of New Yorkers.
Mahar pointed out that the Environmental Bond Act also has a strong environmental justice component.
“A third of the bond act, $1 billion, will be directed to the communities that have been disproportionately burdened by pollution in the past,” said Mahar. “So, that’s a really nice new feature of this bond act.”
She said the bond act will protect or create an estimated 65,000 good-paying jobs in New York, helping the economy recover from the COVID pandemic.
Mahar noted that the bond act has the support of a large and diverse coalition that includes environmental and business groups, labor organizations, community groups and local municipalities.
“I think people realize that this is an opportunity to move projects forward that really better a lot of communities,” said Mahar, “help a lot of people, keep people healthier, create jobs, and this is something that is widely supported.”
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If you are an Indian and especially from North and Eastern India you know very well how important Rikshaws are in day to day life of a common middle class person. The face of a dark, expression-less man pulling a three wheeled machine for meagre charge has been an integral part of your life. Yet you do not know that they are the only marketing brain who use multiple pricing strategy for the service they provide in one single day to achieve their Target.
It is probably the only public transport means without any fixed pricing system yet it is comes under one of the very profitable small scale industry fetching good money for the Riskhaw owners. Normally in every small city, town or village there is one person who owns few Rikshaws then hire some people, mostly uneducated who do not
posses any special skills to earn their daily bread and butter for pulling it. On an average a Rikshaw puller makes around 300-500 rupees per day out of which he gives back almost one tenth to their Rikshaw owners and k
eeps the rest for himself. The success rate of this business structure is so good that even in Delhi which possesses one of India’s best transport structure ,Rikshaws are one of the most prevalent source of travel for shorter distance.
Being a guy from a small town of Bihar it always fascinated me as to what makes these” Rikshaw Wala’s” decide upon what price should be charged from a customer. This problem is more obvious to arise because you actually do not use any petrol or sophisticated machine in Rikshaws to make them run. Yet I always wondered what could be the factors that derive their pricing strategy. So after doing a lot of research work and chatting with the story started to unfold.
It so happens that every Rikshaw-wala knows a generalised earning if he is working on a particular area for one individual day. Unlike Auto Rikshaw’s they do not have any fixed stands. So they fix a rough idea about the amount they will be earning for that day. They basically divide their pricing strategy depending upon operation time.
1. Morning- Its is usually peak customer time with all office going people and students. So their main target becomes to get maximum customer if possible grab other’s customer by decreasing their offered price what in our Marketing terminology call “Competitive Pricing”. More the number of customers they carry more they make earning and in a sense closer to their “Target”.
- This is the time where you can get better result if you bargain, but too much of bargain can at times let you stand alone because see ,its morning and there are many others like you who want that RIkshaw.
- Pricing will be moderate at this time.
- Number of Riksaws available will be less more so because demand is high at that time.
2. Afternoon-This is the time when you can get to hear abnormally high rates. Mostly sun is high in the sky and even they know that pulling a cart along with someone at that times is something tough. So they prefer to go with “Premium Pricing” where if you are ready to pay price at the higher end then only you can expect their butts to move, else what happens is a common scene of people fighting with Rikshaw-walas “Yar he is asking too much…or bhaiyyaa are you mad”.They make sure they get almost closer to their daily earning target by getting one or two customer who agree with the Premium Pricing.
- When you ask them how much they will charge, make sure you are ready with the genuine price for that distance, its better to agree than leave.
- Good part is you will have lots of Rikshaw-walas to choose from as their will be many whose Morning shift was bad if you can find them you are lucky.
3. Night – Here comes the night and you will face “Value Based Pricing”. They will all make you feel with moderately high pricing that “look its night and you need us more than we need you” and trust me while returning back home we do know that we need them more than they need us and that makes the price go moderately high.
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sulphide inclusions and remediation of
Spontaneous fracture of toughened glass can be a significant problem in
curtain wall and other flat glass installations, and it is a problem
that is difficult to solve. It is well known and has been well
documented that spontaneous fracture in toughened glass is caused by
nickel sulphide (NiS) inclusions formed during manufacture. This
topic was covered in some detail in a 22 Sept 2001 article in New
Scientist, and the action
of nickel sulphide in toughened glass is explained in a recent article
in GlassOnWeb (PDF file, 510kB).
Dr John Barry of PicaMS has carried out two major projects on the
glass facades which suffer spontaneous fracture.
Work done in conjunction with Resolve Engineering
(Brisbane) which involved the development of the patented Photoglass
method for on-site detection of nickel sulphide inclusions in glass
windows ("detection of defects in glass", J.C. Barry, Australian patent
- 732132; US patent - 6236734). The Photoglass method was applied
in a major Brisbane building and resulted in removal of more than 200
suspect windows. An important outcome of the work was that the
rate of window breakage dropped from 2 failures per month to 1 failure
Scanning of windows in the main grandstand of a
Melbourne Racecourse. This project involved manual scanning
of windows in a (1400 sq metre) glass curtain wall. This detailed
study of inclusions in the windows helped racecourse operators to
improve viewing conditions in the main grandstand.
There are many cases worldwide where the spontaneous fracture of glass
in building facades poses a safety risk, and in these cases our
technology is especially useful.
The story of the
nickel sulphide inclusion told in pictures
The result of
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Pregnancy is one of the best times in a couple’s life but only when they prepare it well. There are a lot of reasons for the accidental pregnancies when they do not want to have baby. In such cases, they prefer to abort their child. If we see the abortion from the humanity perspective, it is really an offence. However, if you have eventually decided for an abortion, you should follow the natural & safe home remedies for abortion rather than surgical methods because they can have the side effects.
In the framework of this writing, AllRemedies.com will introduce to you top 18 natural home remedies for abortion in the early pregnancy without any side effect. These home remedies are collected carefully and completely from reliable sources. However, it is not intended to give medical advice and it is solely for the informational purpose. Continue reading this article to understand more!
Here are the Top 18 Natural Home Remedies For Abortion In The Early Pregnancy
Papaya has different names in different regions. For examples, this pear-shaped fruit is called as pawpaw in some islands of Australia and West Indies. In the East Indies and Southern Asia, this fruit is known with different names including lapaya, tapaya, and kepaya. People living in Brazil often call papaya as mamao. Papaya is not only delicious but also healthy. Because papaya has great sources of dietary fiber, vitamin E, C and E, folate, riboflavin, flavonoids, carotenes, magnesium, iron, and potassium. Therefore, it is not surprising to know that papaya is recommended eating because of many benefits. One of the benefits is that eating papaya can induce abortion.
Women who plan for abortion can eat not only the ripped papaya but also unripe or green one. It is due to phytochemicals that contain contraceptive properties in this pear-shaped fruit. Several studies have claimed that these phytochemicals can inhibit the progesterone activity. Dr.Penisse, a doctor found out a close relation between unripe papaya and abortion. He said that papaya is one of the fruits that are rich in oxytocin and prostaglandin. Oxytocin and prostaglandin aim to boost labor contractions in delivery. Therefore, papaya, as well as other foods that are loaded with oxytocin and prostaglandin, should be avoided during pregnancy in order to prevent any possible complications. If you plan for abortion, you can eat papaya and these foods.
Read more: Top foods high in potassium
Looking for home remedies for abortion and natural ways on how to ease the pain in delivery, you should not ignore cinnamon. Cinnamon is a spice used before delivery in order to stimulate the uterus. However, you only get this benefit of cinnamon for abortion when you consume high doses of cinnamon. It is a great idea to combine cinnamon method with other home remedies for abortion. If you want to get the optimum benefit of cinnamon in inducing abortion and easing the pain in the delivery process, you should not cook the spice cinnamon. This is because it can reduce the compounds and ingredients in cinnamon that can help to induce abortion.
It is recommended eating raw cinnamon directly or taking cinnamon supplements at the end of the pregnancy.
In most cases, pregnant women who planned for the abortion choose to take supplements because they do not have a strong taste but they are packed with massive amounts of spice cinnamon. However, before taking cinnamon, you should consult your doctor and remember to take it slowly. Cinnamon supplements may cause allergic reactions or sickness in some people.
Raw cinnamon has little side effects. To make sure that you and your child are safe, it is important for you to follow your doctor’s instruction and ask him about the recommended cinnamon consumption you should take before an abortion.
3. Goji Berries
Goji berries are known as wolfberries. People often marked goji berries as dried berries. Some people like its sour and sweet flavor while some do not. Every part of goji berries including bark, fruit, and leaves has been widely used as traditional Chinese medicine for ages. After being collected, goji berries pass the drying process and then they are packed carefully in boxes before purchase. The drying process aims to preserve the optimum nutrients and benefits of goji berries.
It is easily understandable when goji berries is used to treat many health problems because it has a great source of antioxidants, 18 amino acids, carotenoids, vitamins like vitamin A, vitamin E, B vitamins, omega-3, and omega 6 fatty acids, protein and 21 essential minerals such as zinc, iron, selenium, copper, germanium, calcium, phosphorous, magnesium, and manganese, etc. Moreover, goji berries are rich in anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, antifungal, and antioxidant properties.
Pregnant women often eat goji berries for two reasons. Firstly, it is considered as a healthy food that contains a lot of health benefits. Some people believe that pregnant women should eat 10g of goji berries on the daily basis because of their nutrient and vitamin content. Moreover, in the end of the pregnancy, goji berries consumption can induce the abortion by increasing uterine contractions. This is because goji berries contain compounds that have abortion-inducing properties.
However, not much evidence is conclusive. If you are a fan of herbal medication and relief, you should try goji berries during the pregnancy. However, some studies showed that betaine present in goji berries may harm pregnant women with diabetes or high blood pressure. Therefore, it is important for you to consult your doctor before consuming goji berries.
Doctors always advise pregnant women should not do any physical activities for heavy exercise such as weight lifting, running or skipping rope unless they do not plan to look for home remedies for abortion. In order to ease the pain during the delivery and have a successful abortion process, you should do rigorous exercises. It is a good idea if you can sometimes punch in your abdomen in the final months of pregnancy. Climbing of stairs is widely recommended if you want a natural abortion. Many pregnant women state that exercise like climbing of stairs is effective. However, it is still important to ask for the doctor’s advice and suggestion before trying. Pregnancy is a gift; therefore, you should be careful.
Acupuncture is well-known as one of the most powerful holistic practices over the centuries. Due to different reasons, energy may be stuck in your body and lead to some health problems and conditions. Acupuncture is a relief solution because it can free the energy in your body. Studies showed that once stuck energy in your body is free, you can get a significant relief and healing result. Acupuncture sounds simple; however, you should not overlook it. It can help to remove the foreign substances from your body. Moreover, acupuncture can get rid of the impurities from your body too.
When a baby stays inside in your body, the appearance of hormone in your body aims to hold this baby. Thanks to these hormones, your baby is safe.
However, if during the delivery, these hormones are still strong, it will be difficult for doctors to expel the baby. Acupuncture helps to control and decrease the activities of these hormone. Therefore, doctors always advise that pregnant women should not take acupuncture if they do not plan for the abortion.
6. Evening Primrose Oil
Evening primrose oil is extracted from the seed of its plant. Evening primrose oil is used for different health benefits. Using evening primrose oil can treat many skin disorders including psoriasis, eczema, and acne. Moreover, this oil is also effective in treating weak bone, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, Raynaud’s syndrome, Sjogren’s syndrome, high cholesterol, leg pain, asthma, chronic fatigue syndrome, diabetes, obesity, whooping cough, irritable bowel syndrome, ulcerative colitis, and peptic ulcer disease.
Primrose oil is useful for pregnant women too. It avoids high blood pressure, prevent late delivery and shorten labor. More importantly, you should mention the benefit of evening primrose oil in inducing abortion. If you plan to have an abortion, here are ways you can do with evening primrose oil.
- Massage a sufficient amount of evening primrose oil on the cervix
- Consume evening primrose oil in form of pill
However, before taking primrose oil pill, you should consult your doctor first.
Read more: Natural home remedies for asthma
7. Hot Shower
Taking a hot shower regularly is another home remedy that can help women to abort. You should combine this way with the intake of the natural products or herbs that are mentioned here. This simple method will surely help you have a safe way to abort and get the right result.
8. Sesame Seeds
Consuming the sesame seeds is one of the common and effective home remedies for abortion naturally.
You will need:
- Sesame seeds – a handful of them
- Firstly, you take a handful of these seeds.
- Then, you soak them in water for overnight.
- And you can drink it in the next morning.
You will need:
- Fried sesame seeds – a large teaspoon
- Honey – a teaspoon
- Firstly, you take the fried sesame seeds and honey.
- Then, you can consume the fried sesame seeds along with honey.
- This is also a safe method to abort a pregnancy.
In addition, you can also include sesame seeds in your dishes for the same result.
Pineapples contain the vitamin C and proteolytic enzyme bromelain that have caused many miscarriages in women. Bromelain can help to soften the cervix that can lead to miscarriage. Therefore, pineapple is one of the successful and simple home remedy for abortion and it does not affect to the women’s health.
You will need:
- A fresh pineapple
- A blender
- Firstly, you take a pineapple and you remove its skin.
- Then, you cut it into small pieces.
- Next, you use a blender to make a mixture by adding a little water.
- Finally, you can consume a glass of fresh pineapple juice every day to have your purpose.
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The last writings of an eminent British historian.
Hobsbawm (How to Change the World: Tales of Marx and Marxism, 2011, etc.), who died in 2012, gathers 22 essays that represent his deep and wide historical interests: 19th-century European culture, the role of the public intellectual, and the relationship of art to science, revolution and power. Selections include book reviews, journal articles and lectures, half previously unpublished. Hobsbawm characterizes the present as intellectually shattered: “an era of history that has lost its bearing, and which in the early years of the new millennium looks forward…guideless and mapless, to an unrecognizable future.” Science, religion and the arts, he contends, have lost their cultural force, and the current distrust of science marks a vast change from the 19th-century belief that it “held up the temple of progress.” The author champions such influential thinkers as chemist J.D. Bernal, author of The Social Function of Science (1939), and biochemist Joseph Needham, author of a groundbreaking history of Chinese science; both men aimed to affect “changing relations…between science and society.” Hobsbawm sees a “major cause for alarm” in the “rise of radical but predominantly right-wing ideologies” within Protestant Christianity and Islam. Fundamentalist movements are concerned not with fostering community but with “powerful, individual spiritual experiences.” The arts, he writes, no longer “function as measures of good and bad, as carriers of value: of truth, beauty and catharsis,” but instead have become merely consumer items for personal satisfaction. “Who can tell,” he asks, “on what terms reason and revived anti-reason will coexist in the ongoing earthquakes and tsunamis of the twenty-first century?” Global movements toward widespread suffrage and representative governments, he asserts, are undermined by weak leadership and uninformed, thoughtless voters.
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How exactly do you build a soundproof room? Start with a basic understanding of soundproofing construction. If you understand the basics, you’ll have a more educated eye to view your problem room. In general, we are trying to stop vibrations from getting to “your” side of the wall or ceiling.
Below is an illustration of the typical noise problem through a typical wall. They are making noise on their side of this wall, and you hear it.
The red arrows in the above diagram demonstrate how sound is conducted from their side to your side. Rigid drywall is rigidly connected to the wall studs, which are rigidly connected to your drywall. The vibration conducts straight through.
The blue waves indicate airborne transmission. Their drywall is vibrating back and forth which produces a sound wave in the air cavity. This, in turn, vibrates your drywall and recreates the sound on your side. The drywall becomes a giant diaphragm and acts exactly like your stereo speaker moving back and forth re-creating recorded sound from your favorite CD.
Let’s briefly look at the 4 basic elements of a well-isolated room.
The first element is decoupling. Keep in mind that sound is nothing more than a vibration. The vibration will travel (conduct) easily if there is a nice solid direct pathway to follow, like the string between two orange juice cans. If we cut the string, however, we “decouple” the pathway, and the sound vibration stops (no conduction).
Obviously for soundproofing, we want less sound vibration to travel from one side of the wall to the other. It is therefore enormously beneficial if we decouple the framing in our walls and ceilings. It’s simple, inexpensive and highly effective. Let’s look at different methods of decoupling:
- Double Stud Wall with Green Glue
- Soundproofing Clips with Green Glue
- Staggered Stud wall with Green Glue
- Resilient Channel with Green Glue
You can see that all of these methods offer varying degrees of separation of the drywall on one side from the drywall on the other side. Again, all of the walls shown are superior to a single stud (common) wall.
We can see how decoupling the wall studs limits the vibration trying to conduct through the wall. We are left with the airborne transmission represented by the blue waves. Note how decoupling does not affect airborne transmission.
So our decoupled framing reduces a good deal of vibration, but not all. We need to continue to the other elements to reduce more.
Air cavities will resonate. Ever “heard the ocean” in a seashell? Ever blow across the top of a bottle and heard the sound? Both sounds are actually the trapped air resonating. A hollow wall will also trap air that will resonate. When the wall is vibrated by sound (from your neighbor), the air in the wall cavity is also vibrated, just like a drum. This air cavity is another means for sound vibration to travel from one side of the wall to the other.
As you can see, even though the wall framing is decoupled, the vibrating air cavity will still transmit some sound through the wall between the wall studs. Simple fiberglass insulation will absorb some of this (absorption).
Insulation helps, and should be done if possible, but the vibration reduction is smaller than the other 3 Elements. You can use other insulation materials as well like cellulose, mineral wool, and recycled cotton. The key is to keep the density low. Don’t compress or pack the insulation.
So now we have a de-coupled and insulated wall framing. These elements stop much vibration, but not all. What do we do now?
3. Add Mass
A very important element. In this case, we simply mean to make the walls as heavy as you can. Common cost effective choices for heavy materials include Drywall, Plywood, OSB, and Cement Board.
For sound to conduct through a wall, it has to actually move the wall ever so slightly . A heavy wall is harder to move than a lighter wall. Simple as that. Drywall is one of the lowest cost sources of mass available. It is best to use two layers of 5/8″ drywall. It is very important to note that a heavy wall will still vibrate, just not as easily.
Note that adding mass improved things. It’s harder for sound to move this heavier wall. You will still hear low frequencies (bass) quite easily.
Simply adding more drywall does not get you a lot improvement in the low-frequency bass.
- Two Sheet of Drywall OL 05-1057
- Three Sheets of Drywall OL 05-1058
- Four Sheets of Drywall OL 05-1059
This graph illustrates the performance gains from adding additional drywall. While adding mass obviously helps, it doesn’t help as much as we need.
So we have a wall that is decoupled, has some insulation and is heavy. It stops much vibration but still not all. Is there anything else we can do to reduce vibration?
The last element for soundproofing. If we could reduce the drywall from vibrating in the first place, it would make the jobs of the mass, the insulation and the decoupling easier and much more effective. After all, standard drywall is a HUGE surface area that is vibrating.
Note how damping the drywall on the sound producing side of the wall reduced all vibration immediately. Again, the decoupling, absorption and mass all have less of a job to do, resulting in significantly improved performance.
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Wing part may be confirmed as from MH370 this week: Australia
[SYDNEY] Australia on Wednesday said official word on whether a washed-up plane part is from flight MH370 is expected this week, while reiterating it will continue hunting for the main debris field in the southern Indian Ocean.
Technical experts in France were to begin examining the flaperon, already confirmed to have come from a Boeing 777, in Toulouse later Wednesday after it washed up on the Indian Ocean island of La Reunion.
"Malaysian and French officials may be in a position to make a formal statement about the origin of the flaperon later this week," said Australian Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss.
He added that an expert from the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB), which is coordinating the search for the Malaysia Airlines jet, would be involved in examining the wing part when the case containing it is opened.
French and Malaysian experts, Boeing employees and representatives from China will also be on hand to determine if it comes from the jet that vanished en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board in March last year.
Truss added that Australia's national science agency, CSIRO, had confirmed that drift modelling showed debris could have been carried by wind and currents to La Reunion, some 4,000 km from the region where MH370 was thought to have gone down.
"I am advised that Australia's CSIRO drift modelling, commissioned by the ATSB, confirms that material from the current search area could have been carried to La Reunion, as well as other locations, as part of a progressive dispersal of floating debris through the action of ocean currents and wind," he said.
"For this reason, thorough and methodical search efforts will continue to be focused on the defined underwater search area, covering 120,000 sq km, in the southern Indian Ocean." Australia has been leading the hunt for the plane, with satellite and other data pointing it to coming down in the southern Indian Ocean.
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A teenager says she cannot have a life-saving £16,000 operation on the NHS - unless she actually suffers a heart attack.
Carla Maclean, 19, has a hole in her heart which means she's regularly out of breath, has palpitations and headaches.
She can't exercise in case the worst happens, and her job as an NHS apprentice in graphics and multi-media has been put on hold until she gets the medical treatment she needs.
Specialists have said although the procedure is routinely available for young children or the elderly, she must pay for it herself.
Carla, from Abbeydale, Gloucester, says she has been told she must wait to first have a stroke or heart attack before the NHS would operate. By then, she fears it could be too late and her health could be permanently affected.
Doctors found the hole around three years ago after a routine health check.
"I was told one in three people had it and it wouldn't be a problem," she said.
"To find out it has either got bigger, or it was initially misdiagnosed is devastating. Everything has got worse. I am short of breath and have chest pain every day. I can feel my health going downhill fast and have been off work for two months.
"The NHS will only fund it if I have a heart attack or a stroke. That could leave long term damage, or even be life threatening."
Carla has had regular consultations with doctors and cardiac specialists at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital who have said an operation would need to take place in Bristol.
She was referred for a follow-up appointment and expected to be given an operation date.
But cardiologists advised Carla a private procedure was the only way to guarantee her health, costing £16,000. The only treatment she has received is blood-thinning aspirin.
Although a review of funding for the kind of operation Carla needs is due next week, she would still have to prove she has a case.
"If I was younger or older, the NHS would do it," she added. "I've been told there is no study around my age group, so there is no funding.
"I'm worried I may drop dead if I exercise or do anything too strenuous. I'm starting to lose faith in doctors, it is upsetting. I can't get on with normal life."
Carla has written a letter to Gloucester MP Richard Graham in the hope he will back her cause. She is fundraising to help collect the money she needs for the procedure privately.
An NHS England spokesperson for Bath, Gloucestershire, Swindon and Wiltshire said: "Patent Foramen Ovale closure [Carla's defect] is not routinely commissioned by the NHS and would only be considered if the case is deemed exceptional by the individual's clinician. NHS England have not received an application regarding this case.
"This procedure is part of the Commissioning through Evaluation scheme which is looking at commissioning this procedure as part of a time-limited evaluation exercise.
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How on earth can you create a maths lesson using these items?
Well, first sort them into colours, then put twenty jelly beans into each cup. Make sure there are only two colours in each cup, write the contents on a sticky label and use that to seal the cup. Each cup should have slightly different numbers or colours – it prevents copying.
Note: Eat all the orange jelly beans – you’ll be doing your dignity a favour!
Have you figured it out yet? No? We’re doing probability tree diagrams without replacement. Now I know you could do this with one experiment at the front of the class, but getting everyone involved means it’s more hands-on and memorable.
I did a demonstration of this on the board first, before handing out the cups and worksheets. I told the class what was in my cup and picked out a jellybean. It was orange. I drew the first stage of the worksheet (see below) on the board: What was the experiment? How many of each colour do we have? What is the probability of each colour? Then we filled in the first stage of the tree diagram.
I ate the jellybean.
But you can’t do that – it messes up the experiment! I asked what would be the probabilities for a second jellybean now. They figured out the slight change to the probabilities. Then we went back and thought about what would have happened if my first jellybean had been lemon.
I always encourage students to work out all the possible outcomes before they even look at the rest of the questions. And this is why you need to eat all the orange – the list on the board was:
- P(LL) =
- P(LO) =
- P(OL) =
Do I really need to put the last one?
After much giggling, the class were let loose with their own cups. They did the experiment once with their standard cups and then had their work checked. They could then alter (eat) the contents of their cup so that a minimum of five beans of two colours remained. You can see an example of a student’s work here:
I summarised the lesson by looking at different types of probability problem where items are not replaced. I now have a nice ‘hook’ to refer to when discussing probability tree diagrams without replacement.
Download the worksheet here:
Tree diagram without replacement (pdf)
I printed out two per page as it fitted nicely in their books. The descriptions are deliberately vague to allow it to be used in different experiments.
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WASHINGTON — Western Slope mayors and community leaders are fighting mad at Rep. Doug Lamborn.
The Colorado Springs Republican is pushing to open up land to oil shale development in their communities without taking into account local impacts, they say. In addition, Lamborn’s Pioneers Act — which mandates 125,000 acres of public land for oil shale development and exploration — gives local communities and the state lower royalty rates than traditional oil and gas leases.
“It’s not a good deal for us,” said Rifle Mayor Jay Miller, a Republican. “We’re not against oil shale or gas development here, we just want it done in a way that doesn’t drive us into the ground.”
Mayors and county commissioners say they’re concerned about many parts of Lamborn’s proposal, including the fact the promise of oil shale is merely speculative and it has no viable commercial market yet. Lamborn’s measure passed out of a House committee this week.
Lamborn says the Obama administration has virtually shut down the promise of oil shale development and that his bill gives communities hope that someday oil shale would be a great domestic energy resource.
The U.S. holds more than 1.5 trillion barrels of oil, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
“I think it’s a great step forward,” Lamborn said. “I regret the Obama administration has been basically shutting the door up until now.”
But Western Slope leaders are worried that, if oil shale ever does start to make money, tiny towns like Rifle will not be able to to keep up on road and water-treatment plants’ wear and tear. They’re also worried about water rights: If oil shale becomes viable, the need for water in the desert could pit energy companies against residents and agriculture.
“None of us have ever said we’re opposed to energy development,” said Jim Spehar, a former Grand Junction mayor who is working with other Western Slope leaders on energy issues. “It’s how it’s done and keeping the communities whole.”
Lamborn said he didn’t know the Western Slope mayors and community leaders were trying to contact him. He said he didn’t receive their December letter or a message from any staffer after they tried to get a meeting with him when they visited Washington last fall.
“Someone is not telling the truth and it isn’t me,” he said, from his D.C. office Thursday. “I’ll meet with them at anytime. That’s not the issue. Now that I know about it, I’ll meet with them tonight.”
GOP House leadership packaged Lamborn’s Pioneers Act with a handful of other measures as revenue streams for highway and infrastructure funding, even though oil shale has yet to make any money.
Lamborn said Thursday that oil shale, “is not a real contributor to the highway transportation needs we have. It could be a contributor to the energy supply.”
The Obama administration has 30,600 acres already set aside for oil and gas exploration, according to Western Resource Advocates. Some oil shale is being successfully mined in Utah, but it’s a different process there because it’s not so deep into the ground.
The legislation also would revive the 2008 Bureau of Land Management push to open 2 million new acres in Utah, Colorado and Wyoming for oil shale exploration. Much of that land is already devoted to exploration of oil and gas, but Matthew Garrington of the left-leaning government watchdog group Checks and Balances Project says there are wilderness-quality areas in the mix, too.
“Rep. Lamborn can’t say with certainty what the impacts of oil shale are, everything is within the research and experimentation stage right now,” he said. “Right now, it’s just a gamble.”
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The DC Psychological Association presents:
"Mindful Self-Compassion: The ‘Yin & Yang’ of Compassion"
Presenter(s): Jeff Rosenberg, Ph.D. & Jennifer Stanley, M.A.
November 9, 2018
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
The Chicago School of Psychology, 1015 15th St, NW, 4th floor, Washington, DC 20005
3.0 Hours of Continuing Education is Offered for Psychologists
Continuing Education for Social Workers Pending
**PLEASE NOTE THIS WORKSHOP HAS BEEN CANCELLED**
Mindfulness provides a frame and a practice for tuning in and being with unfolding experience (phenomena arising and falling away). Mindful Self-Compassion provides a frame and a practice for tuning in and being with ourselves, the experiencers of experience. Compassion can be viewed as our response to suffering from a space of loving, connected presence. Sometimes, that response is predominantly one of soothing and comforting — a nurturing response that can be seen as the “yin” of compassion. And other times, that response is more one of advocating, protecting, and motivating — an assertive response that can be seen as the “yang” of compassion. In all cases, the common denominator is one of “caring for” coming from a stance of loving, connected presence.
Due to our conditioning, we can be wary and skeptical of compassion especially when it comes to ourselves. Our “inner critic” can lead us to doubt that compassion can lead to achievement or success. When viewed from this perspective, the research supporting the “yang” of compassion may seem paradoxical. How can compassion and acceptance lead to less procrastination and enhanced outcomes? Compassion is not “coddling.” Rather, it can challenge, motivate and support us to ‘be all that we can be’.
Our workshop will blend a mixture of guided meditation, exercises and a look at some of the relevant research.
Participants will be able to:
- Examine and appreciate the distinction between "mindfulness practice" and "mindful self-compassion" practice.
- Examine and appreciate the term “compassion” including what is meant by, and the relationships between, the “yin” and “yang” of compassion.
- Identify and understand the three components of mindful self-compassion, in terms of their positive and negative aspects.
- Understand the notion of “acceptance” as a call to fully-informed engagement and responsiveness rather than one of compliance and resignation.
About the Presenter(s):
Jennifer Stanley began her meditation practice in 1986 while living in Michigan. Her graduate training was in ecological-community psychology, and she spent many years as a public health systems researcher. In 2000, she became a member of the Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC. She has attended many residential retreats with IMCW, the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, MA, and the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies. She is a graduate of the two-year Meditation Teacher Training Institute with Tara Brach. She teaches weekly for IMCW (http://imcw.org/Teachers/TeacherDetail/TeacherID/77), and is a Mindful Self-Compassion trained teacher (http://www.centerformsc.org/user/398).
Jeff Rosenberg, PhD (George Washington Univ.) is a licensed psychologist in the District of Columbia in full-time private practice since 1999, previously working as a Staff Psychologist and Coordinator of Consultation and Outreach for the American University counseling center. Prior career was as a management consultant with an MBA and MA in Public Policy Analysis (Univ. of Chicago). Jeff is also: a Trained Teacher in Mindful Self-Compassion (centerformsc.org), teaching this program with Jennifer Stanley in the D.C. area; an Affiliate Teacher with the Insight Meditation Community of Washington (imcw.org) providing regular Dharma talks and guided meditations; and a former board and executive committee member of IMCW. He completed the Integrated Study & Practice Program, Barre Center for Buddhist Studies along with several other courses and Vipassana retreats as well as a two-year Non-Dual [Contemplative] Training with Matthew Flickstein. He wrote a chapter: “Identity Flexibility and Buddhism,” in IDENTITY FLEXIBILITY DURING ADULTHOOD; Springer, 2017. He’s a former board member and treasurer of Green Acres School, Rockville, MD, longstanding tennis player (former coach/teacher) and grandparent.
There is no corporate support/payment for this workshop.
DCPA Event Cancellation Policy: The DC Psychological Association is unable to provide refunds for events. However, we do allow up to one year to make up a CE session that may have been missed.
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32 And they went to a place called Gethsemane. And he said to his disciples, “Sit here while I pray.” 33 And he took with him Peter and James and John, and began to be greatly distressed and troubled. 34 And he said to them, “My soul is very sorrowful, even to death. Remain here and watch.” 35 And going a little farther, he fell on the ground and prayed that, if it were possible, the hour might pass from him. 36 And he said, “Abba, Father, all things are possible for you. Remove this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will.” 37 And he came and found them sleeping, and he said to Peter, “Simon, are you asleep? Could you not watch one hour? 38 Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.” 39 And again he went away and prayed, saying the same words. 40 And again he came and found them sleeping, for their eyes were very heavy, and they did not know what to answer him. 41 And he came the third time and said to them, “Are you still sleeping and taking your rest? It is enough; the hour has come. The Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners. 42 Rise, let us be going; see, my betrayer is at hand.” Mark 14:322
The passage above is the account of our Lord’s struggle in the Garden of Gethsemane. Biblically, there is a fascinating parallel that can be drawn between the first Adam’s struggle with the will of God in the Garden of Eden, which he failed at, and the last Adam’s struggle with the will of God in the Garden of Gethsemane, which He fully submitted to (For more on the relationship between Adam and Christ the last Adam, see Romans 5 and 1 Corinthians 15)
Also, we could examine the layout of the Garden, i.e. Christ drops off some of His disciples in an outer area, brings Peter, James, and John into an middle area, and goes into the inner area alone. It seems fair and reasonable to again draw parallel with Eden and begin to see the similarities between the Garden-Temple of Eden echoed here and foreshadowing the Garden-Temple of Revelation 22. (For more on the Temple motif of Scripture see The Temple and the Church’s Mission by Greg Beale) Either one of those motifs would warrant multiple blog posts, however there is another intriguing detail from this account that I would like to draw upon.
As Jesus drops off the three for their own garden trial, He exhorts them to, “Remain here and watch” as He goes further into the Garden. The “remain” component is straightforward enough, but the perceptive Bible reader might ask, “Watch for what?” One first inclination might be to anticipate the coming band of men to arrest Him, but that would seem to get the cart before the horse. Guthrie points out that the use of “watch” here is stronger than “keep awake” and “He is not telling them to scout out the enemy or to post lookouts to sound the alarm if any of them enemy approach.” Instead, there is a more likely relationship to the exhortation given here and the one given in Mark 13:35-36, “35 Therefore stay awake—for you do not know when the master of the house will come, in the evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning— 36 lest he come suddenly and find you asleep. 37 And what I say to you I say to all: Stay awake.” The command here, while given in the context of Gethsemane, is a vivid picture of the Christian diligence that Christ encourages us to have as we anticipate His second coming.
As He returns like the Good Shepherd to His sheep, Jesus instead finds Peter, James, and John asleep. His dismay is directed towards the “Rock” (Peter=Petros=Rock), but instead of calling him by Peter, Jesus calls him by his given name, Simon. Certainly this must be a stark reminder of Peter’s weakness and his nature prior to Christ renaming him. The scene must be painted with brilliant colors in order for us to feel the weight of the situation here. Our Lord has not merely wandered off to pray in the dark as the gospels have so enumerated many times before. No, this is a serious, heart-wrenching sorrowful moment. So much so that the Gospel of Luke records for us that Jesus sweat drops of blood (Luke 22:44). Can we even imagine the emotional toll that His agony was having on His physical body for that to happen? The gravity of this moment is contrasted with the slothfulness of the disciples; not just those on the periphery, but the inner circle; the Sons of Thunder and the Rock; yet for all their successes and reputations, all three are found not engaged in a struggle; not wrestling in pray or watching for temptation; but sleeping.
Jesus responds with a further exhortation, “Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.” Surely the second part of this verse is the most recognizable and most often quoted, but it is the first part that has captured my attention. In context, Jesus has already told them to keep watch, but now we see that prayer has been added to watch for the purpose of avoiding temptation. Temptation for what? They are in the middle of the Garden alone. What possible temptation might overtake them? For our own sake it is good to remember that we are never so far removed from the temptation in the original garden, Eden, resulting in the fall of man, that it does not still impact us today. In a very real manner, we are faced with little Eden’s each day. Little tests, temptations, and trials on our pilgrimage and Christ’s exhortation to watch and pray is certainly a picture for us also. Their temptation, and ours, was to forget the words of the Lord, neglecting prayer, and surrendering to the desires of the flesh, in this case sleep. “The flesh is the bridgehead ‘through which Satan moves to distract people from God’s plan; it represents the vulnerability of the human being.’” How then are we to overcome the weaknesses of the spirit? By the Holy Spirit – Watch and Pray.
A second time Christ returns and finds them sleeping and they have no answer for them because their eyes were heavy. Oh that we would not get groggy-eyed and wearing in our watchfulness and prayer as we await the coming of our Lord. Would that we would stay on our guard and vigilant. How many times have we been found sleeping when temptation has come? How many times have we been found too groggy-eyed to even continue in prayer? May it not be for us Christian. Watch and Pray!
A third time Christ returns to His disciples and rebukes them by way of questioning, “Are you still sleeping and taking your rest?” There could be a fascinating play on words here with the use of rest. In the parallel account from Matthew we read Jesus’ words, “Sleep and take your rest later on.” Matthew 26:45 We might ask, when we sleep aren’t we taking our rest? Aren’t the two inter-related? Not if Jesus has a future rest in mind, one in which the believer is to look forward to at Christ’s second coming. Note Revelation 14:13 “And I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write this: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.” “Blessed indeed,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors, for their deeds follow them!” The disciples here in Gethsemane were far too relaxed in their slumber. Jesus exhorts them to watch and pray lest they enter temptation and that is contrasted with their physical sleep. Clearly there is more going on here as we saw from the Mark 13 referenced. Our Lord has given us an earthly picture of a spiritual reality in which we are called to be vigilant against the desires of the flesh to be spiritually slothful and assume our Sabbath rest before the time has come. Our command from Christ dear reader is not to be passive or negligent in our salvation, but to watch and pray! Our Sabbath rest in Christ is a certainty, yet let us not be presumptuous. We may enjoy a preview of that rest now (Matthew 11:28) and may be reminded of it each Lord’s Day, but let us not be found guilty of resting before our Sabbath has been consummated at Christ’s return, lest we too be rebuked when our Lord finds us groggy-eyed and sleeping. Watch and Pray! And when we pray may ask, “Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.”
The relationship upon which I am drawing is the 3-divisions of the temple: Outer Court, Holy Place, and Most Holy Place and the comparison of three divisions made in Gethsemane. Likewise, one may find this 3-division arrangement in Eden as well, see Beale.
George Guthrie – NIV Application Commentary: Hebrews
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South African Journal of EducationOn-line version ISSN 2076-3433Print version ISSN 0256-0100
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MNGUNI, Lindelani. The curriculum ideology of the South African secondary school Biology. S. Afr. j. educ. [online]. 2013, vol.33, n.2, pp.1-11.
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However, in this post I simply want to address the overarching argument of the report that the experience of the past decade in the manufacturing sector has been -- as the title says -- worse than the Great Depression. This statement of the magnitude of the problem is thus the basis for arguing that policy actions are needed to protect manufacturing as a special sector in the economy. However, this overarching argument is hyperbole. It underscores the fact that ITIF has come to find itself on the wrong side of the innovation and manufacturing debate.
The figure at the top of this post helps to explain why the past decade is not particularly comparable to the Great Depression. The graph shows that while losses in manufacturing jobs were quite similar from 1929-1933 and 2000-2010, during the Depression the economy (inflation adjusted) contracted by 27% but during the latter period expanded by 18%!
One reason for this big difference is the much smaller role than manufacturing plays in today's modern economy. Almost by definition, manufacturing matters less to GDP and jobs than it once did. At the onset of the Great Depression, manufacturing was responsible for about 1 in every 3 non-farm jobs. Today, that number is more like 1 in 13.
The loss of manufacturing jobs is not unique to the US, as described by Mark Perry of the University of Michigan: "Australia's manufacturing/GDP ratio went from 22% in 1970 to 9.3% in 2010, Brazil's ratio went from 24.5% to 13.5%, Canada's from 19% to 10.5%, Germany's from 31.5% to 18.7%, and Japan's from 35% to 20%." These trends, I have and will argue, are the result of innovations that allow nations to get more output for less input.
A 2009 Congressional Research Service report (here in PDF and cited by ITIF) makes the case in more detail that the past decade is not comparable to the Great Depression:
There are substantial differences in the extent of unemployment during the Great Depression and the current recession. The unemployment rate rose almost eight-fold between 1929 (3.2%) and 1933 (24.9%). In contrast, it almost doubled between December 2007 (4.9%) and May 2009 (9.4%). At the peak of unemployment during the Great Depression (1933), one in four workers was unemployed, in contrast with fewer than one in eleven today. To approximate the pervasiveness of unemployment at the depth of the Depression, the number of workers without jobs would have to have totaled 38.6 million in May 2009, which is 24 million more workers than were unemployed this May (14.5 million).The loss of manufacturing jobs over the past decade is not worse than the Great Depression, and that is a good thing, for the economy and for the future of American workers.
Employers cut the total number of jobs on their payrolls much more deeply during the Great Depression than they have thus far in the latest recession. Between 1929 and 1933, employment on nonfarm payrolls fell by 24.3%, compared to 4.3% thus far in the recession. To approximate the relative extent of cutbacks that took place over the four-year period between 1929 and 1933, employers would have had to have shed 27.6 million more workers than they did between December 2007 and May 2009. In the goods-producing sector, 7.2 million rather than 3.0 million workers would have to have been laid off since the recession began to equal the relative impact of the four-year (1929-1933) decline. Within the goods-producing sector, construction companies would have had to have pared payrolls by 2.2 million more jobs than the 1.2 million positions cut through May 2009. Manufacturers would have had to have let go 2.5 million workers beyond the 1.8 million they displaced since December 2007 if the industry was in as relatively bad shape as it was in 1933. | <urn:uuid:65d3cf59-6852-43a8-8b3b-6a72b97e222a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://rogerpielkejr.blogspot.com/2012/03/worse-than-great-depression.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281649.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00446-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978665 | 804 | 2.25 | 2 |
|معنی||ستارے کا نام،ایک ستارہ|
|موافق دن||بدھ, جمعہ, ہفتہ|
|موافق رنگ||پیلا, نیلا, سفید|
|موافق دھاتیں||چاندی, تانبا|
|Name||Meaning in Urdu|
|Hazba||طاقت دینے والی|
|Basmalaah||اللہ کے نام سے|
|Amera||اعلی نژاد لڑکی|
|Shumaylah||اسلام میں پہلی خاتون جو رنگ برنگے کپڑوں کو پہنے ہوئےشُماعلہ تھی|
|Gulistan||پھولوں کا گھر،باغ ، پھلواڑی ، چمن|
|Pakdaman||جس کا دامن پاک ہو|
Prophet (P.B.U.H) once said every parent should provide their children good name. No doubt name has clear effects on the individuals. So, persons and things are affected by their names regarding beauty, ugliness, lightness etc.
It was all about the name and how a name affects personality. Now, there are important points regarding the name Sohela, which are listed below:
- Sohela name meaning in urdu is "ستارے کا نام،ایک ستارہ".
Personality of Sohela
Few words can't explain the personality of a person. Sohela is a name that signifies a person who is good inside out. Sohela is a liberal and eccentric person. More over Sohela is a curious personality about the things rooming around. Sohela is an independent personality; she doesn’t have confidence on the people yet she completely knows about them. Sohela takes times to get frank with the people because she is abashed. The people around Sohela usually thinks that she is wise and innocent. Dressing, that is the thing, that makes Sohela personality more adorable.
Way of Thinking of Sohela
- Sohela probably thinks that when were children our parents strictly teach us about some golden rules of life.
- One of these rules is to think before you speak because words will not come back.
- Sohela thinks that We can forget the external injuries but we can’t forget the harsh wording of someone.
- Sohela thinks that Words are quite enough to make someone happy and can hurt too.
- Sohela don’t think like other persons. She thinks present is a perfect time to do anything.
- Sohela is no more an emotional fool personality. Sohela is a person of words. Sohela always fulfills her wordings. Sohela always concentrates on the decisions taken by mind not by heart. Because usually people listen their heart not their mind and take emotionally bad decisions.
Don’t Blindly Accept Things
Sohela used to think about herself. She doesn’t believe on the thing that if someone good to her she must do something good to them. If Sohela don’t wish to do the things, she will not do it. She could step away from everyone just because Sohela stands for the truth.
Keep Your Power
Sohela knows how to make herself best, she always controls her emotions. She makes other sad and always make people to just be in their limits. Sohela knows everybody bad behavior could affect her life, so Sohela makes people to stay far away from her life.
Don’t Act Impulsively
The people around Sohela only knows what Sohela allows them to know. Sohela don’t create panic in difficult situation rather she thinks a lot about the situation and makes decision as the wise person do.
Elegant thoughts of Sohela
Sohela don’t judge people by their looks. Sohela is a spiritual personality and believe what the people really are. Sohela has some rules to stay with some people. Sohela used to understand people but she doesn’t take interest in making fun of their emotions and feelings. Sohela used to stay along and want to spend most of time with her family and reading books.
Q 1:What is Sohela name meaning in Urdu?
Sohela name meaning in Urdu is "ستارے کا نام،ایک ستارہ".
Q 2:What is the religion of the name Sohela?
The religion of the name Sohela is Muslim.
- Sohela name lucky number.
- Sohela name origin.
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a plane for smoothing curved surfaces.
noun 1. any of various plants having leaves that tend to lie in a plane at right angles to the strongest light, hence usually north and south, especially Silphium laciniatum. noun 1. Also called rosinweed. a tall plant, Silphium laciniatum, of central North America, that has yellow flowers and lower leaves that tend to align […]
[kom-nee-nuh s] /kɒmˈni nəs/ noun 1. a dynasty of Byzantine emperors that ruled at Constantinople, 1057?–1185, and at Trebizond in Asia Minor, 1204–1461?. /kɒmˈniːnəs/ noun 1. an important Byzantine family from which the imperial dynasties of Constantinople (1057–59; 1081–1185) and Trebizond (1204–1461) derived
[kuh-myoo-choo-uh l] /kəˈmyu tʃu əl/ adjective, Archaic. 1. ; reciprocal.
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Can You Freeze Protein Powder
Can you freeze protein powder? This is a common question that many people ask. First, we need to know what protein powder is. Protein Powder is a powdery substance that contains proteins, carbohydrates and fats.
These are the basic nutrients that make up any form of life including humans. The difference between different types of protein powders depends on what nutrients have been added to it or taken away from it.
Freezing Protein Powder
Freezing protein powder is a great way to save your favorite powders for later use. It can also extend the life of protein powder that’s nearing the expiration date. Of course, you’ll want to use your frozen protein powder within a few hours of freezing it.
Freezing protein powder is fine but it will not mix well, when you need it, plus the texture of it will also change. However, freezing protein powder will not destroy its nutrients. You can freeze smoothies and protein shakes but freezing protein powder is a bad idea.
What Is Protein Powder?
Protein powder is a powdered substance that contains protein. It can be made from many sources, including soy, rice, hemp seed, egg white and more. Protein powder is used by athletes to increase their daily protein intake or for those who are trying to lose weight by increasing their overall dietary intake of high-quality nutrients. Protein powder can also help people who have trouble digesting animal-based proteins such as whey or casein because it contains no fats or sugars.
Why Freeze Protein Powder?
Freezing protein powder is beneficial because it helps keep your favorite powders fresh while extending the shelf life of products that may be nearing the expiration date. Freezing also allows you to easily transport protein powder without worrying about spillage or breakage during transit. You can even take frozen protein with you on a trip so you don’t have to worry about finding healthy food options at airports or hotels when traveling long distances away from home. But only freeze when it is compulsory.
Can You Freeze Protein Powder?
Yes, you can freeze protein powder. But is it a good idea?
Protein powder is a great addition to shakes and smoothies, but it can get expensive quickly. Some experts say that freezing protein powder can save you money in the long run. Others say that it’s not worth the risk of spoilage. Whether you’re looking to save money or just avoid wasting your protein powder, here’s what you need to know about freezing protein powder.
- You don’t need to freeze protein powder, just put it in cool dark and air tight place.
- Freezing protein is bad idea because it will not mix well. Therefore, avoid it.
How Long Can You Freeze Protein Powder?
Protein powder can be stored at room temperature or in the refrigerator for up to one year, according to The University of Illinois Extension. If you plan to store protein powder longer than that, you should freeze it.
Freezing will preserve its nutritional value for up to one year if you use an airtight container or freezer bag to store it in, according to The University of Illinois Extension. Freezing also prevents bacteria from growing inside your homemade protein powder as long as it remains frozen at 0 degrees Fahrenheit or colder throughout its storage time.
How to Freeze Protein Powder
Protein powders are a great way to add more protein to your diet, but they can get expensive. If you buy a large tub of protein powder and only use a small portion of it at a time, then you may want to consider freezing it. There are many different ways to freeze protein powder.
Freezing Protein Powder in Jars
The best method involves freezing protein powder in jars or containers. You can purchase jars or containers from most grocery stores or pharmacies. You can also find them online if you have trouble finding them locally. Another benefit of using these containers is that they come with lids that seal off tightly so that no moisture gets into the container. This helps prevent bacteria from growing inside the jar and spoiling your protein powder before you have the chance to use it all up!
How Long is Your Protein Powder Good for?
The shelf life of protein powder depends on the type of product it is, how well you store it, and whether or not the package is opened. It also depends on whether or not you’ve refrigerated your protein powder.
Unopened protein powders that have been stored in a cool, dry place should keep for at least one year from their production date. This is assuming that the package has not been damaged in any way (i.e., punctured). If you’ve opened the package and stored it in a cool, dry place, then you should be able to use it for up to two years from its production date.
How to Store Your Protein Powder Safely
Freezing protein powder is a great way to make sure you’ll use it all up before it expires, or just get rid of that last bit of something that’s already expired. But there are some important things to keep in mind when freezing any food product:
- Make sure your container seals tightly. This will protect against leaks and allow you to squeeze every last drop out of your container when it thaws out again.
- If the container doesn’t seal tightly, wrap your protein powder in plastic wrap or aluminum foil before putting it into the freezer — this will help keep moisture out and prevent freezer burn on top of everything else!
- Don’t put anything else in with your protein powder while you’re freezing it.
While this is a quick and easy way to store protein powder, the texture and taste of it will be compromised. Freezing your protein powder is not recommended, but if you choose to, you will want to thaw the powder out before trying to mix it with any liquid. After getting the texture back to normal (if successful), you can keep it in your freezer for a year before having to toss it out. | <urn:uuid:ace5517a-19d0-4bc8-ad6d-25ae9127766d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://taratq.com/can-you-freeze-protein-powder/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00468.warc.gz | en | 0.941474 | 1,244 | 2.09375 | 2 |
Thürig, Barbara; Felix, Georg; Binder, Andreas; Boller, Thomas and Tamm, Lucius (2006) An extract of Penicillium chrysogenum elicits early defense-related responses and induces resistance in Arabidopsis thaliana independently of known signalling pathways. Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology, 67, pp. 180-193.
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An aqueous extract of the mycelium of Penicillium chrysogenum (further called ‘Pen’ induced early defense-related responses such as an extracellular alkalinisation in cell cultures and ethylene production in leaf slices of numerous mono- and dicotyledon plant species, including Arabidopsis thaliana, tomato, tobacco and rice. The Pen-elicitor was sensitive to protease digestion but insensitive to other enzymes, suggesting that the elicitor-active region is a protein or a peptide. Reversed phase, ion exchange and size exclusion chromatography revealed that the Penelicitor is heterogeneous. This prevented further identification of the elicitor. Pen protected A. thaliana from a broad range of pathogens, including an oomycete (Hyaloperonospora parasitica), two ascomycetes (Botrytis cinerea, Alternaria brassicicola) and a bacterium (Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000) without having a direct antimicrobial effect. Various mutants of A. thaliana were used to test whether Pen induces resistance on one of the known signaling pathways: Pen was fully protective against B. cinerea in A. thaliana transgenes or mutants impaired in the salicylic acid (NahG, npr1), jasmonic acid (coi1-1), and ethylene (ein2-1) signalling pathway. Similarly, Pen-mediated resistance against H. parasitica was not affected in the mutants npr1, coi1-1 or ein2-1. However, its efficacy was reduced in the transgene NahG. From these data on cell cultures and on A. thaliana we conclude that Pen contains at least one unidentified elicitor, most likely a protein or a glycoprotein, inducing resistance via signal transduction pathways different from classical SA/NPR1- or JA/ethylene-dependent pathways.
(c) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
|EPrint Type:||Journal paper|
|Keywords:||Pflanzenschutz, Pflanzenkrankheiten, Resistenzmechanismen Pflanzen, PEN, Phythopathologie, Hyaloperonospora parasitica, Alternaria brassicicola, Botrytis cinerea, Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato, Arabidopsis thaliana, Lycopersicon peruvianum, Lycopersicon esculentum, Nicotiana tabacum, Oryza sativa, Penicillium chrysogenum, Suspension-cultured cells, Aqueous fungal extract, Elicitor, early defense-related response, Signal transduction, Induced resistance|
|Subjects:||Crop husbandry > Crop health, quality, protection|
|Research affiliation:||Switzerland > FiBL - Research Institute of Organic Agriculture Switzerland > Plant Protection and Biodiversity|
|Related Links:||http://www.fibl.org, http://www.elsevier.com/locate/pmpp|
|Deposited By:||Tamm, Dr. Lucius|
|Deposited On:||30 Aug 2006|
|Last Modified:||12 Apr 2010 07:33|
|Refereed:||Peer-reviewed and accepted|
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