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Baylor University Researchers Study Barriers and Resources to Physical Activity in Texas Border Towns
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WACO, Texas (Feb. 20, 2013) --Obesity, diabetes and other ailments plague impoverished communities at higher rates than the general United States population. In rural Texas border towns, or colonias, Mexican-American residents are at an even greater risk for chronic health problems.
Physical activity has shown to reduce the risks for chronic health problems, but "few Mexican-American and lower-income Americans, including children, engage in physical activity that bring about health benefits," according to a study conducted by Baylor University and Texas A&M University researchers.
"Mexican-American adults and children, especially those living in colonias and other new-destination immigrant communities, are at an escalated risk of being diagnosed with diabetes, obesity, hypertension and high cholesterol," said Renee Umstattd Meyer, Ph.D., assistant professor of health, human performance and recreation at Baylor and lead author of the study. "Through our study, we were able to examine and better understand real and perceived barriers, resources and opportunities for physical activity in these communities."
As part of the study, data collectors conducted face to face interviews in Spanish with 94 mothers and their children, ages 6 to 11, in colonias in Hidalgo County, Texas.
The findings show that in these neighborhoods there is a lack of traffic lights, limited recreation facilities and parks, traffic and graffiti ¬¬that can hinder physical activity whereas access to yards and outdoor patio spaces in these neighborhoods could lead to physical activity. The greatest barrier to activity was unleashed dogs on the street, which affected girls more than boys. Additionally, boys more so than girls reported lack of time as a factor in not being physically active.
There were also significant differences based on country of birth.
"More American-born children--42 percent--'reported not having energy' as a barrier to being active versus 12 percent of Mexican-born children," Umstattd Meyer said. "Lack of transportation was more of a barrier for children born in Mexico compared to children born in the United States."
Schools also have a significant impact on physical activity. More than 73 percent of children and mothers view schools as the main location for physical activity in their community with home being second. Other community amenities are factors as well.
"Parks and churches are environmental structures that support physical activity. However, a limited number of parks were documented within or near the colonias, and more than 42 percent of children reported not having a park as a barrier to activity," Umstattd Meyer said.
Learning more about the community's contributing factors to physical activity can lay the groundwork for creating fitness and wellness initiatives targeted to the needs of the community.
"These findings will help us be more effective when designing and implementing future initiatives aimed to improve the health of Mexican-American families," Umstattd Meyer said. "Additionally, our research can help guide decisions about resource allocation within colonias and other immigrant communities to increase parks, playgrounds and access to school grounds."
Other contributors to the study include: Megan Patterson of Baylor University; Joseph Sharkey of Texas A&M and Wesley Dean of Texas A&M.
ABOUT BAYLOR UNIVERSITY
Baylor University is a private Christian University and a nationally ranked research institution, characterized as having "high research activity" by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The University provides a vibrant campus community for approximately 15,000 students by blending interdisciplinary research with an international reputation for educational excellence and a faculty commitment to teaching and scholarship. Chartered in 1845 by the Republic of Texas through the efforts of Baptist pioneers, Baylor is the oldest continually operating University in Texas. Located in Waco, Baylor welcomes students from all 50 states and more than 80 countries to study a broad range of degrees among its 11 nationally recognized academic divisions. Baylor sponsors 19 varsity athletic teams and is a founding member of the Big 12 Conference.
ABOUT BAYLOR SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
The Baylor School of Education is accredited by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education and consists of four departments: Curriculum and Instruction (preparation for classroom teachers and specialists); Educational Administration (post-graduate preparation for school leadership); Educational Psychology (undergraduate and graduate programs for those who are interested in learning, development, measurement, and exceptionalities); and Health, Human Performance and Recreation (preparing for sport- and health-related careers, athletic training and careers in recreational professions, including churches).The School of Education enrolls more than 1,000 undergraduate students and 300 graduate students, employs 70 faculty, and is one of the few school s in the State of Texas that offers a yearlong teaching internship. | <urn:uuid:1658b52e-cc80-463f-bea1-c61dfe6d1480> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.baylor.edu/mediacommunications/news.php/?action=story&story=127514 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00476.warc.gz | en | 0.962084 | 1,005 | 2.8125 | 3 |
Magnetic and magnetocaloric properties of cubic Laves phase RCoNi (R Gd, Tb, Dy, and Ho) compounds have been studied. The RCoNi (R Gd, Tb, Dy, and Ho) compounds order ferromagnetically at ∼200 K, ∼113 K, ∼68 K, and ∼42 K (TC), respectively. Field dependent magnetization data of RCoNi at 5 K in fields up to 7 T reveal saturation behaviour with minimal hysteresis. Magnetocaloric effect in terms of isothermal magnetic entropy change has been calculated. Maximum isothermal magnetic entropy change values of ∼-7.2 J/kg/K, ∼-10.1 J/kg/K, ∼-15.5 J/kg/K, and ∼-19.6 J/kg/K are obtained for RCoNi (R Gd, Tb, Dy, and Ho) compounds for 7 T field change close to TC. Substitution of 50 at. Ni in Co-site of RCo2 has led to the reduction of TC of the parent compounds by nearly one-half, but broadened the magnetic entropy change vs T curve and hence improved the relative cooling power. The large magnetocaloric effect associated with RCoNi compounds makes them potential candidates for low temperature magnetic refrigeration applications. © 2013 American Institute of Physics. | <urn:uuid:8956a002-66b8-4b6b-ac1f-6e184f215a10> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://publications.iitm.ac.in/publication/magnetocaloric-effect-in-the-rare-earth-intermetallic-compounds | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808213349-20220809003349-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.886334 | 285 | 1.5625 | 2 |
I was a poll official in the 1996 Republican Presidential Primary in South Carolina in one of the most important Republican counties: Lexington. At the time, the Republican Party used small paper ballots that seemed to be printed on rice paper. After the ballot was cast, the voter would fold them and hand them to me. I squeezed them into a small slit on the ballot box. Unfortunately, the paper was so thin that no matter how hard I tried to avert my eyes, a poll official would usually see for whom the voter voted. Even the imprint of a pen in a certain place unfortunately revealed the preference of a voter. I took to trying to slide the ballot into the box blind without looking, but you can only do so much. Since then, the party no longer runs the elections and paper ballots, which are the worst form of voting possible, are not used.
This experience yielded insights into the electorate that day based on age, gender, race, and even clothing (eg. button down shirt vs. #3 hat). While there are exceptions to the rule, politics is often a contest of competing cultural and demographic clans. South Carolina has “rules” and clans and trends to watch for that bear little resemblance to Iowa or New Hampshire. Here’s five:
5. Geography Rules.
Lexington County is usually the bell wether county. The largest Republican county, the winner of Lexington usually is the winner overall. But a Republican needs numbers in the upstate to win. Greenville and Spartanburg counties are the deep reservoir of Republican votes, and they skew heavily conservative and evangelical. Trump can finish a close second in the upstate to Ted Cruz, win Lexington and probably win the primary. On the other hand, a candidate who draws top numbers out of Greenville, Spartanburg and Lexington is almost certainly going to win the state. Richland County, the seat of state government, will be friendlier to the establishment preferred candidate such as Bush or Rubio. Charleston and the coast is filled with less ideological Republicans and new transplants from the north. Trump or Bush may play well there.
The biggest question is whether Trump, despite his vulgarity, pro-choice background and trial balloon to appoint his staunch pro-abortion sister to the Supreme Court, can pull enough evangelical voters away from Ted Cruz. If evangelicals vote their anger instead of their beliefs, it could be a good day for Trump.
4. Ted Cruz is winning the South Carolina Ground Game for now.
I spoke with a number of South Carolina GOP activists including former county chairs in some of the big GOP counties. They tell me the Cruz ground game appears to be running at high RPMs. Large road signs have been a staple of South Carolina politics. Cruz has the most 4 x 8 signs along roads. Trump doesn’t have much of a presence on the ground. I am told Kasich and Rubio are nowhere to be seen. It is inconceivable that Kasich will be able to sustain his second place finish from New Hampshire.
3. Deep respect for the Bush family spells trouble for Marco Rubio.
The Bush family cultivated deep and profound loyalty in South Carolina over 20 years. Among the pro-defense rank and file, both father and son are very popular and this loyalty is stronger than any aversion to extending the Bush dynasty. On top of that, both Bushes cultivated loyalty among party officials, donors and ex-government officials. I would not be surprised if Jeb Bush won Richland County, and I expect him to finish no worse than second there.
All of which spells trouble for Marco Rubio. Rubio’s fall from third in Iowa to a punch line based on a bad Styx song in less than a week shows how a well timed debate punch can trigger costumed street theater and a frenzy on social and conservative media. It didn’t help that a Rubio partisan was caught on video roughing up a costumed Mr. Roboto. Ideological conservatives in South Carolina seem more likely to gravitate toward Ted Cruz than Rubio. After New Hampshire, Rubio appears to have shrinking territory in South Carolina.
2. Dirty tricks are standard fare in South Carolina politics.
When Ben Carson complained about Cruz supporters mentioning Carson was skipping New Hampshire to get fresh clothes in Florida, Carson and Trump spent days using this phony issue to try to slow Cruz down. On Twitter, some called it vote fraud.
It wasn’t. Voter fraud has a specific meaning, and telling caucus goers that Carson announced he is going to jet off to Florida instead of behaving like a candidate isn’t voter fraud. It’s competence. Nor does a campaign bear an obligation to provide updates to every tweet or email it has sent. That’s Carson’s job, not Cruz’s.
If you are still hot about Cruz, then you better stop paying attention. South Carolina is the place where anything that isn’t illegal is going to happen, and there is nothing the candidates can do about it. Activists in all camps know the tricks. South Carolina is the home of rough stuff. It is where Carroll Campbell and Lee Atwater transformed a state and spawned generations of political activists to follow in their footsteps. What Cruz did to Carson in Iowa is ponies, cupcakes and roses compared to what’s coming. As I’ve written at PJ Media before:
South Carolina is the land of three dearly departed political masters: Lee Atwater, Carroll Campbell and Rod Shealy. These three political operators gave no quarter to foes, and a new generation of consultants has taken their place. I recall one political consultant in South Carolina who made a point to spray paint his own client’s signs with slurs. Sympathy, you see, gets votes too.
1. Does South Carolina Still Have a Culture of Courtesy?
South Carolina is a state where politics might involve behind-the-scenes knife fights, but on the surface politics was a courteous affair. Above all, politicians were courteous. If the political operatives had a culture of no quarter, candidates were polite and well spoken.
I’ve had occasion to meet and spend a great deal of time with so many South Carolina politicians – both Republican and Democrat- and all of them behaved with a profound and ritualistic courtesy: Carroll Campbell, Marshall Williams, Hugh Leatherman, Jim Miles, David Beasley, Joe Wilson, Lindsey Graham, John Courson, John Drummond, Wes Hayes, Phil Leventis, Strom Thurmond, Yancey McGill, Nick Theodore, I could go on and on. None of them behaved or spoke like Donald Trump. They were all gentlemen, and that’s a good thing.
Trump’s bombast and behavior is an anti-body in the South Carolina political culture.
This culture goes back centuries where those with power were expected to sound like they belonged in power. Think Lord Grantham in Downtown Abbey. Those in power spoke about others a certain way and voters were uncomfortable with anyone who didn’t comply with this ancient convention. Those in power were expected to treat others how they would want to be treated.
A candidate like Donald Trump who calls other candidates vulgar names, routinely sprinkles obscene words into his speeches, says things like we’ll “beat the sh&# of enemies” and behaves as Trump behaves would never be in the mix. South Carolina has never liked New York values. If Trump does well, it may signal that South Carolina’s culture of courtesy has faded. A Trump win would mean South Carolina isn’t the place it used to be. | <urn:uuid:ea1cf0b6-6764-4912-bca4-a2a74a5d6b23> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pjmedia.com/jchristianadams/2016/02/10/5-things-to-watch-in-south-carolina-gop-primary-n123776 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00277.warc.gz | en | 0.961113 | 1,561 | 1.601563 | 2 |
This looked like a classic Bible movie, the likes of which I loved watching as a kid. The Ten Commandments. Ben Hur. You know what I'm talkin' about. Eye popping special effects, miracles, heroic struggles, bigger-than-life stuff.
The fact that we were completely secular and didn't give God a second thought had nothing to do with it. These movies rocked.
I was ready for Noah to rock my world in the same way.
Then I began hearing swirling discontent coming from people who were afraid the movie wouldn't be purely Biblical enough.
This is a Hollywood movie after all.
Film makers have lots of other considerations and even when they've loved a story since their youth, they make trade offs. This was recently called to mind when rewatching all of The Lord of the Rings movies for A Good Story is Hard to Find podcast recently.
Director Peter Jackson made some choices I agreed with and some I didn't. He mentions in the extras that he actually got lost down the wrong track a few times and was able to return to the original message only at the last minute.
In fact, that's not a bad place to start when considering how stories must be adapted to move from one medium to another. Since the Bible was originally oral and then written down, Jewish tradition often chose to keep everything even when it conflicted. They didn't want to throw something out in case it was important in a way they couldn't see at the time.
And from that arose the tradition of midrash. Midrash is a traditional Jewish way of trying to understand the underlying spirit of scripture, sometimes connecting it to modern life, by creating parables. This allows for some imaginative storytelling as rabbis look for interpretations that are not immediately obvious but are nevertheless held within the original text.
I figured that as long as we got a good, entertaining movie Noah would, at the very least, be an interesting modern midrash on the story's applicability to our times.
Steven D. Greydanus, respected movie critic for the National Catholic Register, devout Catholic, has invested a considerable amount of thought into the flap over Noah.
Whatever the movie looks like, I expect some pious moviegoers, especially biblical literalists, will be upset or angry about anything in the film that goes beyond the biblical text, or that contradicts their own ideas about the story, or that doesn’t dovetail with their conception of the message of the Bible.Greydanus hits the nail on the head. He's got several good pieces which I read with interest as they came along. If you are curious about why the movie is worth watching, despite not being what might be called "strictly Biblical" then these may interest you also. Heck, they're interesting no matter what.
Is this really necessary? I don’t think so. By way of providing some perspective, here are a few points that I think thoughtful Christians, particularly Catholics, should consider in evaluating Aronofsky’s film and others like it.
We all grow up with this version of the story, we read it to our own kids, and many of us never look at the text any other way. (For example, picture books invariably stick with the “two by two” motif, ignoring the verses that refer to seven pairs of “clean” animals.)
There’s nothing wrong with this familiar version of the story. But we shouldn’t mistake it for the canonical story itself — nor should we be too quick to reject interpretative or imaginative approaches to the text that challenge our assumptions. A retelling that defamiliarizes the story, that makes us rethink what we thought we knew, can be a valuable thing.
- Everybody chill out about the 'Noah' movie — this where the above excerpt comes from and he develops this theme quite well.
- Interview: ‘Noah’ Writer-Director Darren Aronofsky and Co-writer Ari Handel — this had to be fun for Greydanus because Aronofsky and Handel had read his "Everybody chill out" piece and loved it.
- SDG Reviews 'Noah' - I haven't read this yet. But SDG's reviews are always thoughtful and good.
In a clearing within a woodsy arboretum on Long Island, on dry land, Mr. Friedberg's crew spent about six months erecting the front entrance and sides of an ark about 60 feet high, out of steel and foam designed to look like logs. For scenes in the ark's interior, they built a three-story set to the same scale inside an armory in Brooklyn.I can't wait.
"We decided that it would be built to biblical proportions," Mr. Friedberg explains. That means it isn't a seafaring ship but a large rectangular box intended to keep Noah's family and the menagerie afloat, specified by scripture to be 30 cubits high, 50 cubits wide and 300 cubits long (a cubit is the distance from human elbow to middle fingertip). Sunk in a cement foundation, the "ark" was framed in I-beams.
In October of 2012, Hurricane Sandy hit like some kind of cosmic message and flooded parts of New York. "The ark did fine," says Mr. Friedberg. "It enjoyed its chance at some real weather. It did better than some of our own houses."
Other Christian reactions to Noah, all via Brandywine Books.
- Phil Cooke: Why I'm Recommending Christians See The Movie Noah
He's got many good reasons, but this was my favorite:
9) Do we as a Christian community really need to “protect” ourselves from a movie that isn’t 100% Biblically accurate? Would the Apostle Paul have run from the challenge? Rather than withdrawing from the discussion, I suggest that we seize the moment, turn the tables, and use this to our advantage. Pastors should be preaching messages on the Noah story. Let’s use the film to share our faith with friends and co-workers. Like the Old Testament’s Joseph, who rose to remarkable heights in an alien and hostile culture, let’s not shy away from these opportunities, rather, let’s use them to demonstrate the power of God’s Word.
- Gregory Alan Thornbury: Darren Aronofsky's Noah.
It's a long, thoughtful piece that you need to go read for yourself, but let's let this give the overall tone:
Aronofksy's Noah is a way of putting ourselves before the Bible's "dangerous question" as Barth put it. The grim, gritty, and supernatural antediluvian biblical world takes us back into ancient history, of origins. Who are we? What has gone wrong with the world? Where is justice? Is God there? What does he have to say? That ancient world sets us back on our heels and forces us to take stock in this strange new world inside the Bible.
Steven D. Greydanus is turning into quite the authority on the Noah movie. He's being interviewed everywhere, asked tons on questions, and has a couple more pieces written. I'm not reading either of these until I've seen the movie, but wanted to share these links.
- The Noah Movie Controversies answers the many questions he's being asked. If there's a misconception out there, he's addressing it.
- Noah: A Theological Reflection. Here's the description of the piece: Darren Aronofsky’s controversial film is sometimes divisive and divided, but is also deeply serious about Scripture and essential questions.
- Father Barron's take on Noah ... What is significant is that Noah remains utterly focused throughout, not on his own freedom, but on the desire and purpose of God. God, creation, providence, sin, obedience, salvation: not bad for a major Hollywood movie!
- Darwin Catholic's review ... which comes down halfway between Greydanus' enthusiasm and (as Darwin put it, taking the words from my mouth) "Barbara Nicolosi's bizarre rant." (Note: Nicolosi's piece made me long for Roger Ebert's witty, erudite reviews of movies he hated. Nicolosi is no Ebert.) At any rate, Darwin is always worth reading and I'll go past his spoiler alert once I've seen the movie. | <urn:uuid:c1089969-a696-464b-9d97-5d3f2e750e11> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://happycatholic.blogspot.com/2014/03/noah-movie-controversies.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720737.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00219-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962249 | 1,747 | 1.765625 | 2 |
Imagine a world where you order something from Google's online shopping service and a self-driving truck delivers it straight to your door.
It could happen. The company has a clever idea for autonomous delivery platform where self-driving vehicles would port loads full of packages to their designated destinations, as detailed in a new patent published today.
Once an autonomous truck arrived, customers could get their packages from one of the truck's individual compartments using a personal PIN number or their phone via near-field communication. Each truck would also be equipped with a payments system.
The vehicle would then scoot away to the next delivery location.
Although patents never prove that a company actually plans to execute on an idea, this one makes perfect sense for Google:
It's already working on self-driving cars. It already has an online shopping service. It has already expressed interest in autonomous delivery via Project Wing, its drone delivery initiative.
Amazon, too, is working on delivery drones. Both technologies — autonomous drones and cars — will need to pass some serious regulatory hurdles before they're loosed on the air or roads, but this patent does show that Google's already thinking about the future uses of self-driving vehicles. | <urn:uuid:55b86883-f754-45d4-997f-aff3154e9d16> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.businessinsider.com/google-autonomous-delivery-platform-patent-2016-2?r=UK&IR=T | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280730.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00245-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965556 | 244 | 2.21875 | 2 |
The World’s Smallest “Better Than GPS” Inertial Navigation System Now Available
Drones, robotic, and payload devices now enhanced by this low cost, small footprint, highly accurate, multi-sensor system
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, UNITED STATES, September 5, 2017 /EINPresswire.com/ — Inertial Sense announced today the availability of its low-cost, very small footprint, highly accurate inertial navigation system: the μINS (“micro-INS”). The platform’s patent-pending design delivers the smallest and lowest-cost commercial solution available.
“We’re excited to deliver a technological breakthrough—in size, weight, power consumption, and cost. Historically, quality GPS-aided inertial navigation has been cost prohibitive and too large for many applications,” said Walt Johnson, CEO and founder of Inertial Sense. “As such, ‘better than GPS’ solutions have been designed into only a few systems. Now, as industries such as the commercial and consumer drone industry have grown into high volume markets, the demand for a solution like ours—an accurate, low-cost navigation system—has really grown.”
The μINS is the world’s smallest sensor module of its kind—approximately the size of 3 stacked US dimes. It provides high-quality direction, position, and velocity data for multiple applications by intelligently fusing sensor data from GPS (GNSS), gyros, accelerometers, magnetometers, and a barometric pressure sensor. Additionally, this solution offers:
• Robust noise rejection for unparalled accuracy
• Simplified integration and accelerating time-to-market for our customers with a factory-calibrated system
• A better end-user experience with cutting-edge navigational and 3D motion tracking benefits
Inertial Sense will also be displaying the μINS at the company’s InterDrone Booth (#807) (September 6-8, 2017 in Las Vegas). More details are available at inertialsense.com.
About Inertial Sense
Inertial Sense is disrupting the navigation and 3D motion tracking industries with the smallest, lowest cost modular navigation systems ever. Founded in 2013, Inertial Sense is delivering market-leading innovations aimed at vehicle autonomy (manned and unmanned) and payload device innovation. Inertial Sense is a privately-owned US company.
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What's Good for New GM Is Bad for the Rest of America
November 24, 2010
The measure of success of the General Motors (GM) bailout should not be how fast GM emerged from bankruptcy, but the degree to which contracts are honored in an impartial process. By this measure, the bailout/takeover is a complete failure, says John Berlau, director of the Center for Investors and Entrepreneurs at the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
- The bankruptcy courts rubber-stamped a reorganization plan designed by Obama's "Team Auto" officials that disregarded two centuries of bankruptcy precedent to massively favor the United Auto Workers (UAW) over bondholders.
- As a result, according to several prominent business academics, the cost of capital will likely experience a significant rise for all U.S. businesses and entrepreneurs who wish to form new firms.
A look at the disproportionate equity stakes received by the UAW shows the depth of the bondholder robbery that took place. As described by Ross Kaminsky of the Heartland Institute and Rossputin blog:
- The UAW will own 75 percent more of the new GM than the investors holding $27 billion of debt to the existing company, even though GM's own bankruptcy filing shows that the "employee obligations" to the UAW are billions of dollars less than the debt owed to bondholders.
- Bondholders will get 1/6th the ownership stake of the government despite having lent more than half as much money to GM.
What about the jobs saved? Numbers like "a million jobs" are thrown out, but no one knows what would have happened if the government would have stayed out, says Berlau.
In fact, as a whole, the auto rescue may result in net job losses, both because of the likely increase in the cost of capital from bondholder treatment, and because of the rapid shutdown of auto dealers that has cost tens of thousands of jobs. In other words, the sales forces didn't have the clout with the Obama administration that the UAW has.
Soruce: John Berlau, "What's Good for New GM Is Bad for the Rest of America," OpenMarket.org, November 17, 2010.
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Effort to Resolve Health Care Shortage Expands to Congress
Hawaii’s congressional delegation is looking to boost efforts ongoing in Hawaii to address the shortage of health care providers in Hawaii – particularly on neighbor islands.
The Rural Preventative Health Care Training Act of 2013 would fund training for students capable of treating the 110,000 Hawaii residents who live there and in rural areas of Oahu.
“This legislation is critical to ensuring that everyone has access to affordable health care and preventive services regardless of where you live,” said Sen. Brian Schatz, who along with Sen. Mazie Hiron introduced the Senate version of the bill.
While the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, will provide a “big step towards solving our health care crisis, there are still communities in Hawaii and across the country that have difficulty finding the appropriate care for their families,” Schatz said in a statement issued today.
“We must provide the appropriate training to students and those that want to serve our community, and this legislation would do just that.”
US Reps. Tulsi Gabbard and Colleen Hanabusa introduced a House version of the bill.
“Access to quality care health care is a basic necessity, and one which oftentimes does not exist for those in our underserved rural communities,” Gabbard said. “This bill takes steps to address this urgent problem.”
In its current form, the bill would appropriate $5 million in each of the next four fiscal years to provide preventative health care training at community colleges or other institutions in rural areas.
There are at least two bills still alive in the Hawaii Legislature aimed at reducing the state’s shortage of doctors.
House Bill 417 would provide an as-yet undetermined amount of funding for a residency training program at Hilo Medical Center for primary care physicians.
The program is designed to get greater numbers of doctors to serve their residency period on the neighbor islands which in turn leads to more physicians deciding to open their practice there.
A similar measure, Senate Bill 665, would provide funding to expand the primary care program at the University of Hawaii’s John A. Burns school of medicine.
The bills have been approved by both houses of the state Legislature and are headed to conference committees to work out differences in language.
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Who We Are
KIPP SoCal Public Schools is a network of 22 high-performing, college-preparatory public charter schools. We educate more than 9,800 students in grades pre-K through eighth in the greater Los Angeles area and San Diego. Additionally, we support approximately 5,100 alumni on their journey to and through high school and college.
What We Believe
KIPP SoCal believes that the purpose of education is for liberation. This means that we see, develop, and inspire the limitless potential in each and all of our KIPPsters.
What We Do
At KIPP SoCal we build trusting relationships that are strengthened by high expectations and collaboration alongside laughter and joy. We set ambitious goals and hold each other accountable for students achieving their greatest potential. We work together with each other and in partnership with families and communities in the active pursuit of a more equitable world. We do the right thing, even when it's not always comfortable standing up and speaking out against anti-blackness, racism, oppression, and injustice. We persevere through obstacles and treat failure as an opportunity to learn and grow.
What You'll Do
- Teach the knowledge and skills, nurture the confidence and character, and inspire the passion needed for our students to achieve their goals, live their best lives, and positively impact the world
- Value and draw upon students’ experiences and backgrounds
- Utilize a variety of instructional strategies based on the diverse needs of all the students that engage all students
- Develop and administer a variety of assessments to measure students’ growth towards goals and to monitor students mastery of the content standards
- Analyze informal and formal student assessment results and use this information to drive and inform instruction
- Communicate and collaborate professionally with teammates, parents, and community members
- Implement classroom management techniques to create a nurturing and structured classroom environment and structure
- Maintain high expectations for students academic achievement and conduct
Joining KIPP SoCal Means the Following
- Working at an organization committed to the hard work necessary to ensure education is for liberation
- Spending time with students and families in the best communities of LA, Compton, and San Diego
- Support and care from fellow teachers, administrators, and regional team members
- Ongoing professional development and coaching from a school site manager
- Creation of an individualized credentialing plan with top-notch support from our dedicated Talent Team
Working with Us Means the Following Perks
- Very competitive and transparent compensation package inclusive of a generous benefits package
- 100% of healthcare premium costs covered by employer, dependents added at 50% of the cost
- Employer paid KIPP SoCal life insurance
- 401(k) plan with up to 6% match by KIPP SoCal
- Voluntary Benefits (Supplemental Life, Accident, Short Term Disability, Pet Insurance, etc.)
- Generous time off program includes 22 holidays and sick leave
- Other great benefits (Flexible spending account, EAP, tuition reimbursement for dependents, etc.)
** PLEASE NOTE: KIPP SoCal Public Schools requires that all team members be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 for the safety of our students, family, and staff. Team members may apply to seek a medical exemption. Regardless of your current vaccination status, our team can advise you on how to fulfill this important requirement so that you can start the position in a timely way. We’re here to help. **
KIPP SoCal Public Schools is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation/gender identity, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
KIPP SoCal strives to ensure that our careers website is accessible to all, including individuals with disabilities. If you require reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process due to a disability, please contact us. You can find our contact information on our website, http://www.kippsocal.org/
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When I use the computer, I almost forget the important safety rules to follow. But I am an elephant and I never forget. Do you remember all the important rules when you use the computer?
Let’s look at them together again.
If you remember to follow these Internet safety rules, you will be smart and be safe.
This means that I never give my name, phone number, house address, e-mail address or location of my home or school. I don’t post photos of myself unless my parents say it is OK to share with a friend or family member by e-mail.
This safety rule is fun. I have to choose a name that does not say whether I am a boy or a girl. My friends will know that it is me.
I have a password.
This safety rule is also fun. I have to create a password that is unique and hard to guess, but easy for me to remember. No one except my parents, know what it is… not even my best friend.
I will only “chat” with people I know.
When I am old enough and start to e-mail and use chat messages, I will only communicate with people that I know and that my parents approuve of.
I will tell my parents when something makes me feel uncomfortable.
This is not so fun. Sometimes, things are written or shown on the computer that makes me feel uncomfortable. I know to tell my parents right away.
I will have good “Netiquette”.
Good “Netiquette” is good etiquette on the Net. This means that I will treat others with respect. I will not send rude or mean messages and I will not post things such as words or photos from someone else.
Finally, I will not believe everything that I read or see on the Internet!
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Why FISH-i Africa works
International and regional cooperation is key to addressing IUU fishing cases successfully.
The investigation of IUU fishing incidents requires highly technical analysis, access to databases, and a strong network of experts within the global community. FISH-I Africa has combined these tools with country-level political will, resulting in successful enforcement actions.
- Regular meetings have provided the opportunity for discussion and analysis while also building relationships and trust and creating positive peer pressure to achieve results
- Systematic information and intelligence sharing has provided a collective knowledge and a sense of collective action. By acting together the Task Force is stronger than any of its individual members.
- Communication of incidents of illegal fishing and related actions taken by Task Force members is key – it encourages collective action.
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The Future Googleplex Unveiled
on 02 March 2015
Google’s most innovative product yet just might be their own headquarters. They’ve called upon architecture aces Bjarke Ingels of BIG and Thomas Heatherwick of Heatherwick Studios to design the next generation of their Googelplex in Mountain View, California. Combining open community spaces with seamless, nature-focused design, the collaboration has led to modular workspaces blanketed by a translucent glass canopy that transforms the new “buildings” into a massive greenhouse. Check out the full design recap in a new video released by Google. | <urn:uuid:7f1073ed-73ed-4848-b58c-7c3787608c75> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.coolhunting.com/link/future-googleplex-unveiled | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279410.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00162-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.917658 | 126 | 1.6875 | 2 |
The Collected Lyric Poems of Luis de Camoes
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Book DescriptionLuis de Camoes is world famous as the author of the great Renaissance epic The Lusiads, but his large and equally great body of lyric poetry is still almost completely unknown outside his native Portugal. In The Collected Lyric Poems of Luis de Camoes, the award-winning translator of The Lusiads gives English readers the first comprehensive collection of Camoes's sonnets, songs, elegies, hymns, odes, eclogues, and other poems--more than 280 lyrics altogether, all rendered in engaging verse. Camoes (1524-1580) was the first great European artist to cross into the Southern Hemisphere, and his poetry bears the marks of nearly two decades spent in north and east Africa, the Persian Gulf, India, and Macau. From an elegy set in Morocco, to a hymn written at Cape Guardafui on the northern tip of Somalia, to the first modern European love poems for a non-European woman, these lyrics reflect Camoes's encounters with radically unfamiliar peoples and places. Translator Landeg White has arranged the poems to follow the order of Camoes's travels, making the book read like a journey. The work of one of the first European cosmopolitans, these poems demonstrate that Camoes would deserve his place among the great poets even if he had never written his epic.
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Book DetailsISBN: 9780691136622
(229mm x 152mm x 24mm)
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publish Date: 1-Jul-2008
Country of Publication: United States
Books By Author Luis de Camoes
Selected Sonnets, Paperback (April 2008)View all books by Luis de Camoes
The most important writer in Portuguese history and one of the preeminent European poets of the early modern era, Luis de Camoes (1524-80) has been ranked as a sonneteer on par with Petrarch, Dante, and Shakespeare. This title demonstrates the range of Camoes' interests and invention.
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Author Biography - Luis de Camoes
Landeg White is the translator of "The Lusiads of Luis Vaz de Camoes" (Oxford World's Classics), which won the Teixeira-Gomes Prize for translation in 1998. A prolific poet and scholar, he teaches English and American studies at Universidade Aberta in Lisbon, Portugal.
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Known to many as the world’s greatest living explorer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes has put pen to paper to pay his own tribute to the people who have inspired him, from fellow explorers and brave policemen to families and freedom fighters.
Wherever in the world Fiennes gives one of his lectures or motivational speeches, someone always asks who inspired him to embark on his sometimes crazy adventures.
So for the first time, he explores this idea by revealing his own personal heroes and what lessons their actions have taught him in his own often hazardous profession.
There are heroes of faith, great survivors, those who test themselves against natural dangers and those whose courage comes from being caught in situations of unimaginable horror.
This fascinating and revealing book describes the extraordinary and often horrific events that led to these ordinary individuals becoming Fiennes’ greatest heroes.
From polar survivor to a knifed and beaten policeman, from a woman missionary to a special forces soldier, these are stories to both shock and amaze.
Rather than putting together a collection of medal-winning military heroes, Fiennes has cast his net wider to include individuals whose heroism has been part of civilian life rather than on the world’s battlefields.
One of his earliest heroes is the vicar of Eyam, the Derbyshire village which famously isolated itself to protect its neighbours when the Black Death plague struck in 1665.
Clergyman William Mompesson persuaded the residents of Eyam to quarantine themselves inside a set village boundary perimeter rather than fleeing and spreading the disease.
At least a third of the village died in the outbreak but their sacrifice was a stunning example of communal courage in a time of terror.
Another outstanding heroine is Gladys Aylward who was born in London in 1902 and was seized by a missionary zeal to help the people of China where a quarter of the world’s population lived in dreadful poverty and had never heard of Christianity.
Refused an official missionary role because of her lack of education, Aylward paid for her own travel expenses and made a perilous train journey to the walled Chinese town of Yangcheng.
Aylward became a revered figure among the people, taking in orphans and adopting several herself, intervening in a volatile prison riot and advocating prison reform, risking her life many times to help those in need.
In 1938, the region was invaded by Japanese forces and Aylward led about 100 orphans to safety over the mountains, despite being wounded herself.
Another of Fiennes’ heroes is fellow explorer Douglas Mawson whose instinct for survival was so strong that he beat horrific odds to cheat death in frozen Antarctica in 1912.
Rather than accepting starvation and death when his exploration mission went horribly wrong, he and Xavier Mertz, another member of the party, ate their sled dogs. The dogs’ livers proved poisonous to humans and Mertz died leaving the emaciated Mawson to travel alone the 100 dangerous miles back to Cape Denison.
His survival remains to this day a miracle of mind over matter of heroic proportions.
Awesome and inspirational, these are heroes who will live long both in the memory and in tales of exceptional bravery.
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Spread the Word
Telling others about the need for curriculum improvements is vital to the success of your campaign.
Here are some ideas for how to get the word out:
- Make overheads to display meeting notices in classrooms before class, or write the information on chalkboards.
- Use e-mail to send out notices of meetings and coordinate organizing efforts.
- Make flyers and post them on bulletin boards in libraries, dorms, athletic facilities, and hospitals (so third- and fourth-year students can see them) and in bathroom stalls. Distribute notices and flyers in student mailboxes. Make them entertaining and eye-catching so people will read them (see Appendix 5 for a sample flyer).
- Place notice of the meeting in your school newsletter and newspaper.
- Speak at the meetings of other student groups, especially those that co-sponsor your efforts.
- Make a phone tree of your friends and ask them to call their friends.
- Make buttons and wear them on your backpack (e.g., “Will you be prepared?” “Ask me about improving reproductive health education!”). Contact MSFC for buttons and stickers.
- Ask to be added to your medical school’s activity fair. Be prepared to present a case for improving the curriculum.
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Renewable energy is growing – and as it grows, more and more wind turbines, solar farms and other projects are being built on formerly contaminated Superfund sites.
Our RE-Powering America’s Land Initiative encourages renewable energy development on current, former and potentially contaminated land, landfills and mine sites. The initiative develops screening and mapping tools, drafts technical resources and best practices, and highlights case studies and success stories.
Siting renewable energy facilities on formerly contaminated land can not only be done safely, it can also benefit communities, as these projects create new, low cost sources of clean power, and can bring new resources to the table to get cleanups done faster. The projects support property values, more jobs, more tax revenue to support public services and a better local economy. They also help to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. | <urn:uuid:c63fe0bd-60d2-4bb1-93d6-020f84e69fc9> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://blog.epa.gov/blog/tag/energy/page/3/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282202.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00553-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.926818 | 170 | 3.125 | 3 |
“Hello” is one of the first and easiest words to learn in Italian.
Language for travel- the perfect context to start learning a language. When you learn a new language for travel, you learn all the vocabulary and grammar you need in context. Learn enough words and phrases, and they will start overlapping. You can then start creating your own sentences.
Pick a new theme each week, for five weeks. Try using vocabulary columns and mastering the theme for the week. After studying the list, take a piece of paper and write the words and phrases on a column in Italian. Try to recall the English, writing the equivalents. Do again, giving the Italian.
I also love the Goldlist method. Copy the words and phrases as you see them in a notebook. Look them over, and see which ones you can easily recall. Make a new page with the Italian phrases you still need to learn and their equivalents. Keep going with this and watch your skills grow.
Checkout some themes to get learning hello in Italian and beyond.
Learn Italian Fast: Meeting and Greeting
|My name is______________.||Mi chiamo…|
|How are you?||Come sta?|
|So- so.||Così così.|
|Where are you from?||Da dove viene?|
|It’s nice to meet you.||Piacere di conoscerla.|
Learn Italian Fast: When Things Go Wrong
|I have a headache.||Ho mal di testa.|
|I have a sore throat.||Ho mal di gola.|
|I have an upset stomach.||Ho un’indigestione.|
|Where is the police station?||Dov’è il posto di polizia?|
|I’ve been robbed!||Sono stato derubato!|
Learn Italian Fast: At a Hotel
|I would like to check in.||Desidero fare il check-in.|
I have a reservation.
Ho una prenotazione.
Learn Italian Fast: Eating and Drinking
|I’d like a __________, please.||Vorrei un una __________, per favore.|
|Enjoy your meal.||Buon pranzo.|
|Wine list, please.||Il menu dei vini, per favore.|
|Could I get the bill, please?||Il conto, per favore?|
|Can you recommend a restaurant?||Mi può consigliare un ristorante?|
|Are there any good bars near the hotel?||Ci sono dei buoni bar vicino all’albergo?|
Learn Italian Fast: Getting Around
|One ticket, please.||Un biglietto, per cortesia.|
|Where is the bus stop?||Dove è la fermata dei bus?|
|How much does it cost to the city center?||Quanto costa un biglietto per andare in centro città?|
|How much does it cost to the airport?||Quanto costa per andare all’aeroporto?|
|Here, please.||Qui, per cortesia.|
|Where is the closest taxi stand?||Dove è il posteggio dei taxi più vicino?|
|Where is the closest subway stop?||Dove è la fermata più vicina della metropolitana?|
Want to learn more than just hello in Italian with the free guide? https://reallifelanguage.lpages.co/italian-for-travel-and-beginners/
This link has a guide with survival tasks and links to audio file podcasts. These podcasts are not traditional. They are bite-sized files of language in chunks. Use them to create your own playlists. Play, listen, repeat, and learn. Once you have enough of these chunks, you’ll start making your own sentences with what you’ve learned. | <urn:uuid:ff32c5bb-51ff-44e1-a142-779eb9008bb7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://reallifelanguage.com/reallifelanguageblog/2020/08/05/hello-3/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00076.warc.gz | en | 0.716439 | 989 | 2.421875 | 2 |
There are only two ways you can save more: you can increase your income, or cut back on your spending. Here are seven great ways to save by spending less:
- Buy and sell second hand goods on trading websites. Have a rule that before you buy anything new, you have to get rid of something first. That way, you avoid accumulating clutter.
- If you have to buy new, use price comparison sites on the internet to find the cheapest deal. However, stay away from one-day deal sites to avoid impulse buying.
- Wait before you buy. If you have spotted a must-have pair of shoes in your lunch hour, wait until the next day or the next week before you think about buying. You might find they are not such a compelling purchase the next time you see them.
- Negotiate the price you pay. This is a lot easier to do if you pay cash. Negotiating can work well on a high value purchase such as a car, or something that has no value past a certain time, such as a last minute stay at a motel.
- Choose lower cost alternatives. Take your partner out for a romantic picnic instead of a swept-up dinner at a restaurant. Give hand-made or home grown gifts. It’s the thought that counts!
- Don’t pay extra for designer labels, expensive brands or the latest model gadget. Whether it is groceries, appliances, clothing, cars, haircuts, or mobile phones, let others brag about having the most expensive version while you bank your money.
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Basically, what it does is look at half of a symmetrical 12*8 image and tell you if that image is a sprite of a space invader or not.
So far, testing is apparently successful, with the total “incorectness” lowering continually. The desired outcome is that the space invader sprites give a “result” of 1 and the non space invader ones give 0. Testing is slow, but you can close and continue testing where it left off, without fear of data loss.
You might ask, why would this be useful at all? Well,
The plan is to build a second neural network that generates images from random noise. The first neural net will be tasked with detecting if the image was generated, or if it is an original space invader. We will train the neural networks until the second generates good looking space invaders, and then voila, we have a way of generating space invaders easily and quickly.
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China’s eight biggest listed banks have posted their weakest first-quarter growth in net profit since the 2008 global financial crisis.
With the exception of China Merchants Bank (03968.HK, 600036.CN), net income for the banks grew by single-digit percentages, down from an average of 12 percent in the same three-month period a year earlier.
For each of the state-run lenders that make up China’s largest commercial banks, growth fell to below 2 percent.
Many suffered from higher bad debt charges, partly due to slowing economic growth, and narrowing net interest margins, the result of interest rate cuts.
This may be the dominant trend for the country’s banks for the rest of this year.
The banks may seek more capital via preference share sales and by lowering dividend payouts this year, after growth in bad debt accelerated for most of the largest lenders in the first quarter.
In the three months to March, ICBC led state bank peers with bad loans surging 16.9 percent, followed by Bank of China at 16 percent.
Bad debt charges rose by an average 46 percent at the eight biggest banks.
This was a drag on retained earnings growth and resulted in capital pressure on these lenders, which may launch plans for more share sales this year.
In the past week, the share prices of the eight largest Chinese lenders listed in Hong Kong retreated an average 1.2 percent, reflecting the weak first-quarter results.
These banks have rallied 11.8 percent on average year-to-date, buoyed by market optimism about China’s monetary easing and investment fund flows from the mainland.
The views expressed in this article are those of Francis Chan, a senior banking analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence.
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Big fun for your head and body
This laboratory in the sun is proof that science is anything but boring. Its larger-than-life activities are designed to let your inner scientist stomp around and shout out loud. Lift a car with the help of a lever, roll a giant granite sphere, and play with air pressure.
Lift a car and put air power to work
Ready for a workout? Try lifting a 2,437-lb car, or giving Big Science Park’s two-and-a-half-ton granite sphere a roll. With science, it’s a cinch.
The carefully-reconstructed native prairie in Big Science Park resembles the landscape in parts of Ohio before European settlers arrived. During the warmer seasons of the year, you’ll find an array of native flowering plants, including the Royal Catchfly, Prairie Dropseed, and the Gray-Headed Coneflower. Permitting even small portions of Ohio to its native state benefits human health and the environment. | <urn:uuid:ed1e12d4-da72-4e05-a098-df0f2169bd4e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cosi.org/exhibits/classic-exhibits/big-science-park | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00268.warc.gz | en | 0.93698 | 212 | 2.953125 | 3 |
ὡς conjunctive is found in dependent clauses.
Declarative: that, like ὅτι. Cp. cross2577 ff., 2614 ff.
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Clustering and interpretation on real nutritional data
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Nutritional Genomics studies diet-gene-disease interactions and aims to promote health and disease prevention. It is based on the idea that everything ingested into a person’s body affects the genome of the individual and, therefore, both genes and nutrients modify the same metabolic processes. This paper presents an application of clustering and interpretation over real heterogeneous data coming from a nutritional study. The individuals are clustered by their diet and physical activity habits and the resulting clustering is interpreted. This work is part of a methodology to deal with data from dietary intervention studies.
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Sustainable, Green Developing in Samara, Costa Rica
Montana Samara ocean view development started in late 2004. We were fortunate to find a couple of beautiful family owned farms covered with majestic trees and with spectacular ocean views. These were surrounded by land that had been clear cut for pastures. From the start we knew we wanted to develop it with mother earth in mind, trying to make it better than we found it. We plotted our roads and lots to help preserve all of the old growth trees and forests that were left. We work very hard to reclaim most of the forest that had been cut for pastures and help nature recover these lands. We planted thousands of beautiful native trees and ornamentals, including many varieties of fruit trees. Even this effort was done in a very calculated, ecological sound method. No insecticides or pesticides have ever been used on Montana.
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Using nature first ethics and applying these values in our development and our day-to-day operations, we strive to go from being dependent consumers to being responsible producers. This also gives you a beautiful place for you to have the option to live that way as well. Practicing this type of living helps build skills that will allow us and our community to be more resilient and be prepared for the changing future with less available resources and thrive even with a break in the commercial food supply chain.
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Steven A. Camarota is the director of research at the Center for Immigration Studies.
The findings of this analysis show that if a border wall stopped a small fraction of the illegal immigrants who are expected to come in the next decade, the fiscal savings from having fewer illegal immigrants in the country would be sufficient to cover the costs of the wall. This analysis takes the likely education level of illegal border-crossers and applies fiscal estimates developed by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NAS) for immigrants by education level. NAS calculates the future fiscal balance immigrants create — taxes paid minus costs. NAS reports fiscal balances as "net present values", which places a lower value on future expenditures than on current expenditures.
Based on the NAS data, illegal border-crossers create an average fiscal burden of approximately $74,722 during their lifetimes, excluding any costs for their U.S.-born children. If a border wall stopped between 160,000 and 200,000 illegal crossers — 9 to 12 percent of those expected to successfully cross in the next decade — the fiscal savings would equal the $12 to $15 billion cost of the wall.1
Among the findings:
- There is agreement among researchers that illegal immigrants overwhelmingly have modest levels of education — most have not completed high school or have only a high school education.
- There is also agreement that immigrants who come to America with modest levels of education create significantly more in costs for government than they pay in taxes.
- A recent NAS study estimated the lifetime fiscal impact (taxes paid minus services used) of immigrants by education. Averaging the cost estimates from that study and combining them with the education levels of illegal border-crossers shows a net fiscal drain of $74,722 per illegal crosser.2
- The above figures are only for the original illegal immigrants and do not include any costs for their U.S.-born descendants. If we use the NAS projections that include the descendants, the fiscal drain for border-crossers grows to $94,391 each.
- If a border wall prevented 160,000 to 200,000 illegal crossings (excluding descendants) in the next 10 years it would be enough to pay for the estimated $12 to $15 billion costs of the wall.
- Newly released research by the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) done for the Department of Homeland Security indicates that 170,000 illegal immigrants crossed the border successfully without going through a port of entry in 2015.3 While a significant decline in crossings from a decade ago, it still means that there may be 1.7 million successful crossings in the next decade. If a wall stopped just 9 to 12 percent of these crossings it would pay for itself.
- If a wall stopped half of those expected to successfully enter illegally without going through a port of entry at the southern border over the next 10 years, it would save taxpayers nearly $64 billion — several times the wall's cost.
Important Caveats and Observations About These Estimates
- In addition to crossing the border surreptitiously, aliens join the illegal population primarily by overstaying a temporary visa. A southern border wall would not address this part of the illegal flow.
- A large share of the net fiscal cost of illegal immigrants is at the state and local level, not the federal level. The costs of building the wall will be borne by the federal government.
- To create its long-term fiscal estimates for immigrants by education level, the NAS uses the concept of "net present value" (NPV). This concept, which is commonly used by economists, has the effect of reducing the size of the net fiscal drain that unskilled immigrants will create in the future. The NAS does this because costs or benefits years from now are valued less in economics relative to more immediate costs. But this means the actual net lifetime fiscal cost of illegal border-crossers, given their education levels, is possibly $140,000 to $150,000 each in their lifetimes if the NPV concept is not used.4
The Importance of Educational Attainment. There is a good deal of agreement among researchers that the education level of immigrants is a key factor in determining their net fiscal impact. As a recent study by the NAS states, the education level of arriving immigrants is one of the "important determinants" of their fiscal impact.5 This finding is similar to a 1997 study by NAS that also examined the fiscal impact of immigrants.6 This conclusion also is mirrored by a 2013 study from the Heritage Foundation. Referring to the education level of household heads, Heritage concluded that "Well-educated households tend to be net tax contributors." But at the same time, "Poorly educated households, whether immigrant or U.S.-born, receive far more in government benefits than they pay in taxes."7 My own research has come to the same conclusion.8 The reason for this is straightforward: Those with modest levels of education tend to earn low wages in the modern American economy, and as a result tend to make low tax payments and often qualify for means-tested programs. The less educated are a net fiscal drain, on average, regardless of legal status or if they were born in the United States or a foreign country.
Education Levels of Illegal Immigrants. In terms of the educational attainment of illegal immigrants, there is a good deal of evidence that they have modest levels of education, much lower than native-born Americans or legal immigrants. The Heritage study discussed above estimated that, on average, illegal immigrants have 10 years of schooling. My own analysis for all illegal immigrants (visa overstayers and illegal border-crossers together) is that 54 percent of adults have not completed high school, 25 percent have only a high school degree, and 21 percent have education beyond high school.9 The Pew Research Center has estimated that of all adult illegal immigrants, 47 percent have not completed high school, 27 percent have only a high school education, 10 percent have some college, and 15 percent have a bachelor's degree or more.10 These figures are for all illegal immigrants, including those who overstayed a temporary visa, not just illegal border-crossers.
Education Level of Border-Crossers. Since the border wall would by definition only impact the flow of those who cross the border illegally and not those who overstay a temporary visa or are smuggled into the country, it is necessary to estimate the education level of illegal border-crossers separately. Illegal crossers tend to be the least educated component of illegal immigration because they are mostly from Latin America and because more educated foreign nationals wishing to come to the United States can often qualify for a temporary visa, which they can then overstay.11 For example, a person with few years of schooling, a low paying job, and no property in their home country is not likely to qualify for a tourist visa or other temporary visitor visa. American consulates overseas would typically deny such a person a tourist visa (B2) or business traveler visa (B1) because the assumption is that such persons may be coming to stay permanently. They are "intending immigrants" in the terminology of the consular service. This is especially true for the primary sending countries of illegal immigration, which are all developing countries.12 A more educated person is much more likely to qualify for a tourist visa, or for that matter a guestworker visa or a student visa, which they can then overstay.
Because illegal border-crossers are overwhelmingly from Mexico and the rest of Latin America, we use the education level of illegal immigrants from Latin America to estimate border-crossers' education profile. My analysis of illegal immigrants from Latin America indicates that they have the following education: 57 percent, less than high school; 27 percent, high school only; 10 percent, some college or associate's degree; 4 percent, bachelor's only; and 2 percent, more than a bachelor's.13 These educational levels provide a baseline for estimating the fiscal impact of illegal crossers. However, as we will see, even if we use somewhat different estimates of education, the fiscal impact of illegal border-crossers is still large and negative.
Fiscal Impact by Education Level. The 2016 NAS study mentioned above projected the lifetime fiscal impact (taxes paid minus services used) of immigrants by education. These estimates are expressed as a net present value. This is a concept used in fiscal studies to express the sum total of costs or benefits over long periods of time — in this case a lifetime. NPV represents the fiscal balance (taxes paid minus costs) if we had to spend the money today. Later in this report we discuss in more detail the concept of net present value, both its usefulness and it shortcomings.
In addition to the original immigrant, the NAS study also has separate estimates for the descendents of immigrants over 75 years.14 In this analysis we focus only on the fiscal impact of the original immigrant. The tax payments and costs created by the descendants of immigrants over 75 years are speculative, whereas the estimates for the original immigrants are more grounded in current reality. The NAS study does not report separate estimates for illegal and legal immigrants. Rather, they simply estimate tax payments and expenditures on immigrants as they appear in Census Bureau data, primarily the Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement. As result, the education estimates from the NAS are for both legal and illegal immigrants.
The NAS fiscal projections include eight different scenarios, each with different assumptions about future spending, tax rates, and the future flow of immigrants. It is not entirely clear what set of fiscal assumptions are best, and the NAS study itself does not identify the one best scenario. In Table 1 we simply take all eight scenarios and average them together by education level.
It should be pointed out that in every scenario from the NAS, as shown in Table 1, immigrants without a high school education are a significant net fiscal drain during their lifetimes. That is, they pay less in taxes than they use in services. Those with only a high school education are a net fiscal drain in seven of the eight scenarios. In contrast, the most educated immigrants, those with at least a bachelor's degree, are a net fiscal benefit in all eight scenarios.
Calculating the Fiscal Impact of Border-Crossers. The first column of Table 2 reports the average fiscal effect of immigrants by education level, taken directly from the bottom of Table 1. Column 2 in Table 2 shows the education level of illegal border-crossers as discussed above. Column 3 multiplies the average cost by the share of border-crossers who fall into that educational category, and the bottom of column 3 adds up the costs to give a weighted average. This means that using the NAS average fiscal costs of immigrants by education and assuming the educational distribution of illegal border-crossers shown in the table means that the lifetime net fiscal drain per illegal crosser is $97,759. However, for reasons discussed below we think this figure somewhat overstates the fiscal costs.
As already mentioned, the NAS fiscal analysis includes all immigrants — both legal and illegal. Although illegal immigrants do access some welfare programs and create other significant costs, it is still the case that less-educated illegal immigrants create smaller net fiscal costs than less-educated legal immigrants. Unfortunately, the NAS study has very little discussion of how legal and illegal immigrants differ in their fiscal impact. The study does state: "Unauthorized immigrants as a group may have a more positive fiscal impact than authorized immigrants."15 We agree with this conclusion and so we adjust the fiscal drain created by less-educated illegal immigrants so it is less than that of less-educated legal immigrants.
To estimate the adjustment factor, we use the 2013 study by the Heritage Foundation mentioned above. That study has estimates for immigrants by education and legal status.16 While adjusting has the effect of reducing the fiscal costs for less-educated illegal immigrants, it also reduces the fiscal benefits for immigrants who are more educated. This reflects the fact that while higher-skilled illegal immigrants are assumed to create a fiscal surplus, they often are unable to find work commensurate with their education level because of their legal status and so have to work at lower paying jobs. As a result they do not have as large a positive impact on public coffers as their legal counterparts. Since there are relatively few illegal border crossers in the higher education categories, adjusting for the most educated crossers makes only a modest difference to the results.
The right lower corner of Table 2 shows that the fiscal costs of border-crossers, including the adjustment, is $74,722. Adjusting does significantly reduce the fiscal costs — by 23.6 percent. However, it is still the case that every 100,000 individuals who cross the border illegally cost taxpayers nearly $7.5 billion. It must be remembered that these are the present values of the lifetime net fiscal costs (taxes paid minus services used) for illegal border-crossers only, with no costs for their children or descendants.
Do Net Present Values Make Sense? Net present values are created by reducing or "discounting" costs or benefits in the future based on how long in the future they take place. Page 325 of the NAS study states that they used a 3 percent annual discount rate, which is common in this kind of analysis. So, for example, the fiscal balance (whether a net drain or benefit) an immigrant creates two years after arrival is reduced by about 6 percent. After 10 years the amount is reduced by about 26 percent, and at 20 years the discount is 45 percent. This means events that occur further in the future have a smaller impact on the total costs or benefits today. Comparing the net present value fiscal costs of illegal border-crossers to the costs of a wall can be seen as reasonable because the wall has to be paid for up front while the fiscal drain accrues over time. Using an NPV makes the costs of the wall and illegal border-crossers more comparable.
The primary downside of using NPVs for fiscal estimates is that it masks the size of future outlays created by less-educated illegal border-crossers. For example, using a 3 percent annual discount rate, as the NAS study does, means that if an illegal immigrant creates a net fiscal burden of $10,000 in the 23rd year of the projection, it will be reported and added to the total NPV as only $4,900 because of discounting. Without discounting, the actual outlays associated with illegal immigrants are much larger. This fact is worth keeping in mind when looking at the NPVs.
Making Different Assumptions. There are four key variables in the above calculations. The first is whether to include the children of illegal crossers. Many of the descendants of less-educated immigrants struggle, earning low wages and using a good deal in public services. If we use the NAS study's estimates that include the progeny of immigrants, the fiscal drain increases to $94,391. But, as already mentioned, the tax payments and costs created by the descendants of immigrants in the NAS study go out 75 years and are speculative. Therefore it makes more sense to focus on the original immigrants only.
The second question is what fiscal scenario from the NAS study should be used. (All the scenarios are shown in Table 1 of this report.) Scenario 1 makes assumptions that are most favorable to the fiscal impact of immigrants. If we use only this scenario, then the net fiscal costs drop significantly, to $20,092 for each illegal crosser. While significantly less than our estimates shown in Table 2, which reflect all the NAS scenarios averaged together, the best possible fiscal scenario for immigrants still shows a substantial net cost that would equal $2 billion for every 100,000 illegal border-crossers. This reflects the fact that even if one makes very favorable assumptions about immigrants it is still the case that less-educated immigrants, which account for most illegal crossers, are a large fiscal drain.
By way of contrast, if we use Scenario 8 from the NAS study, which makes the least favorable fiscal assumptions about immigrants, the net fiscal impact of each border-crosser increases dramatically — to $125,141, or $12.5 billion for every 100,000 illegal immigrants. This is a good deal more than when all NAS scenarios are averaged together, as reported in Table 2. But what is important to note is that no matter what NAS scenario is used, there is a significant lifetime net fiscal deficit for illegal border-crossers.
The third key assumption in our estimates is the education level of illegal border-crossers. As already discussed, there is widespread agreement that illegal immigrants are a relatively unskilled population. Further, illegal crossers are the least educated component of illegal immigration because they are mostly from Latin America and because, as already noted, more educated foreign nationals can often qualify for a temporary visa, which they can then overstay. The poor and less educated from Latin America typically have no other realistic option for getting into the United States than surreptitiously crossing the southern border.
If we assume that border-crossers are as educated as Pew estimated for all illegal immigrants, not just border-crossers, the average fiscal cost would still be very large — $57,778.17 While somewhat less than our estimated cost of $74,722, it would still mean that each group of 100,000 illegal border-crossers creates a net fiscal cost of more than $5.8 billion during their lifetimes. Again, Pew's figures show that about three-quarters of illegal immigrants have less than a high school education or only a high school education, and this makes them a large fiscal drain.
Finally, there is the question of the difference between the net fiscal impact of all immigrants (legal and illegal) by education level, which is what the NAS estimated, and the fiscal impact of illegal border-crossers. In Table 2 we adjust the fiscal impact of illegal border-crossers significantly, reducing the costs of less-educated illegal immigrants relative to immigrants of the same education by almost 24 percent. If we more than doubled this reduction to 50 percent for all educational categories, the net fiscal costs of border-crossers would still be $48,879. Under a 50 percent reduction, each 100,000 illegal immigrants still create a cost of nearly $5 billion, a very sizeable impact.18 Like the other assumptions, the adjustment factor matters, but the education level of illegal crossers drives the results and the fiscal balance is decidedly negative.
Overall, different assumptions can affect the results. But because the overwhelming share of illegal border-crossers have not completed high school, or have only a high school education, it would require highly implausible assumptions to avoid a substantial net fiscal drain from those who cross the border illegally. In short, illegal border-crossers are a large net fiscal drain because of their education levels and this fact drives the results. Therefore, a border wall would pay for itself even if it only stops a modest fraction of those expected to successfully cross in the next decade.
1 There is no one definitive estimate of what a system of barriers, fencing, and walls will cost. The cost depends heavily on what type of system is constructed and the length of that system. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has said Congress would appropriate $12 to $15 billion for the wall, though he gave no time frame. As the senator is in a key position of authority to determine appropriations, his estimate seems a useful starting point for estimating what the federal government will spend on the wall. See Kate Drew, "This is what Trump's border wall could cost", CNBC, January 26, 2017.
2 Please see the methodology section of this report for an explanation of how we adjust downward the NAS fiscal cost estimates, which are for both legal and illegal immigrants, to reflect the cost for illegal border-crossers only.
3 John Whitley et. al., "Assessing Southern Border Security", Institute for Defense Analysis, May 2016, p. iv, Summary Table. It should be noted that some share of the 1.7 million border-crosers expected in the next 10 years may be people who successfully cross the border more than once. The border study does not have an estimate for the number of individuals who might cross successfully more than one time over a 10-year period. But if that number was perhaps a quarter of the total, then the number of unique border-crossers over a 10-year period would equal about 1.275 million. If this is correct, then a wall would have to stop 13 to 16 percent of illegal crossers in the next 10 years. Alternatively, if 41 percent are the same person successfully crossing more than one time in a 10-year period and the total number of unique crossers was one million, then a border wall would need to stop 16 to 20 percent of crossers to pay for itself.
4 The NAS does not report the fiscal impact of immigrants with and without the reduction in costs, referred to as discounting by economists. However, if one assumes a 45- or 50-year lifespan for illegal immigrants after they arrive and that the fiscal drain is evenly spread throughout their time in the United States, then the actual average fiscal costs are likely between $140,000 to $150,000 — perhaps twice what the costs are when the NPV is used. It must be emphasized that our undiscounted cost estimate is only an educated guess and the actual costs could be higher or lower. Later in this report we discuss in more detail the advantages and disadvantages of using NPV to think about fiscal issues.
5 Francine D. Blau and Christopher Mackie, eds., The Economic and Fiscal Consequences of Immigration, Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, September 22, 2016, p. 286.
6 James P. Smith and Barry Edmonston, The New Americans: Economic, Demographic, and Fiscal Effects of Immigration, Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 1997.
7 Robert Rector and Jason Richwine, "The Fiscal Cost of Unlawful Immigrants and Amnesty to the U.S. Taxpayer", Heritage Foundation, May 6, 2013, p. v.
8 Steven A. Camarota, "The High Cost of Cheap Labor: Illegal Immigration and the Federal Budget", Center for Immigration Studies, August 2004.
9 Steven A. Camarota, "Immigrants in the United States, 2010: A Profile of America's Foreign-Born Population", Center for Immigration Studies, 2012, p. 69.
10 Jeffrey S. Passel and D'Vera Cohn, "A Portrait of Unauthorized Immigrants in the United States", Pew Hispanic Center, April 14, 2009, Figure 16, p. 11.
11 A study done for DHS by the Institute for Defense Analysis found that the overwhelming majority of successful border crossers are from Latin America. See John Whitley et. al., "Assessing Southern Border Security", Institute for Defense Analysis, May 2016, p. 24.
12 Less-educated people from developed countries can often enter the United States as tourists without a visa under the Visa Waiver Program. Developing countries are not typically part of the program.
13 This is based on analysis of illegal immigrants identified in the public-use files of the 2011, 2012, and 2013 Current Population Survey's Annual Social and Economic Supplement by the Center for Immigration Studies.
14 Both the estimates for the original immigrant and descendants are found on in Table 8-12 on p. 341 of the study. Francine D. Blau and Christopher Mackie, eds., The Economic and Fiscal Consequences of Immigration, Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, September 22, 2016, page 286.
15 Ibid., p. 280, end note number 2. See end note 16 in this report for a discussion of the fiscal costs of illegal vs. all immigrants (legal and illegal).
16 The Heritage Foundation reports the average fiscal impact for illegal immigrant and legal immigrant households by education level. They also report the number of households by education and legal status. With this information it is a relatively straightforward matter to calculate the average fiscal impact of all immigrant households (legal and illegal) by education. We then divide this amount by the estimated costs for illegal households by education to create an adjustment factor. So, for example, among illegal high school dropout households the net fiscal impact is -$20,485 a year, and for households headed by a legal immigrant who is a dropout the drain is a good deal more: -$36,993. In Heritage's estimate, illegal immigrants create a net fiscal cost that is about 55 percent that of the burden created by households headed by high school dropout legal immigrants. But this is not the proper comparison, as the NAS estimates are for all immigrants, not just legal immigrants. Given the number of households Heritage reports, the fiscal impact for all immigrant households (legal and illegal) headed by a dropout must be -$30,294. As this equals .676 of the estimated costs of illegal dropout households reported in the Heritage study, this becomes the adjustment factor. We do the same for the other educational categories. As the Heritage study does not show separate estimates for those with only a bachelor's degree and those with a graduate education, we use the same adjustment factor for both. Taken together, this approach reduces the net fiscal drain of illegal immigrants by almost 24 percent.
It is possible that this adjustment factor may be too large and that the costs of illegal immigration are actually greater. A study published by the Center for Immigration Studies in 2016 showed that the average illegal immigrant household creates 91 percent of the welfare costs of the average immigrant household (both legal and illegal). See Jason Richwine, "The Cost of Welfare Use By Immigrant and Native Households", Center for Immigration Studies, May 2016. However, welfare is only one cost and the Richwine study did not take into account tax payments. In a 2004 study of the federal budget, I found that the average household headed by an illegal immigrant created a fiscal drain equal to 79 percent that of households headed by legal immigrants with the same level of education. Relative to all immigrants (legal and illegal immigrants together), illegal immigrants created a fiscal cost equal to 88 percent that of legal immigrants, again controlling for education. However, the 2004 study was only for federal expenditures and tax payments. That study did not include costs and tax payments at the state and local level. See Steven A. Camarota, "The High Cost of Cheap Labor: Illegal Immigration and the Federal Budget", Center for Immigration Studies, August 2004. Later in this report we discuss the effect of using a different adjustment factor.
17 As will be recalled from the discussion above, Pew estimated that 47 percent of all illegal immigrants, not just illegal border-crossers, have not completed high school, 27 percent have only a high school education, 10 percent have some college, and 15 percent have a bachelor's or more. To make the estimates match the educational categories in the NAS study, which reports graduate degrees separately, we assume that 10 percent have a bachelor's degree and 5 percent have graduate degrees.
18 This would mean, for example, that the fiscal cost of legal immigrants with the same education would be substantially higher so that the average is what the NAS study reports. In the Census data the NAS study used, immigrants can only be legal or illegal, so the larger the reduction in costs for illegal immigrants, relative to all immigrants, the higher costs legal immigrants must create. Mathematically, the fiscal costs must average to those reported in the NAS study for all immigrants by education level. | <urn:uuid:07c941f8-8dfc-4565-bcb6-3179d02773b3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cis.org/Report/Cost-Border-Wall-vs-Cost-Illegal-Immigration?utm_campaign=388708543d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_16&utm_medium=email&utm_source=E-mail%20Updates&utm_term=0_7dc4c5d977-388708543d-45105185 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.950731 | 5,662 | 2.84375 | 3 |
Funk, V. A. and Chan, Raymund (2008) Phylogeny of the spiny african daisies (Compositae, tribe arctotideae, subtribe gorteriinae) based on trnL-F, ndhF, and ITS sequence data. Molecular Phylogenetics And Evolution, 48 (1). pp. 47-60. ISSN 1055-7903
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The tribe Arctotideae (African Daisies), of the flowering plant family Compositae (Asteraceae), is a diverse and interesting group with a primarily southern African distribution (ca. 13 genera, 215 species) and many species in the Cape Floristic Region. It is divided into two subtribes: Arctotidinae (ca. 5 genera, 85 species) and Gorteriinae (ca. 8 genera, 130 species). The monophyly of the genera within the subtribe Gorteriinae and their relationship to one another was investigated using 71 samples/212 sequences including 64/141 of which are newly reported from three phylogenetic markers, two from chloroplast DNA (trnL-F and ndhF) and one from the nuclear genome (ITS). The outgroup was composed of seven members from the sister subtribe. Results show the subtribe Gorteriinae to be divided into three monophyletic groups, the Gazania-Hirpicium-Gorteria group, the Didelta group, and the Berkheya-Cullumia group. Within these three groups are 13 sub-groups, one of which has sub-clades. The genus Berkheya Ehrh. is paraphyletic, falling into five different sub-groups. The two monotypic genera, Cuspidia and Heterorhachis are not nested within any of the Berkheya clades. Hirpicium and Cullumia each have most of their taxa in a monophyletic group, but they also have one or two taxa associated with other clades. Four of the five sub-groups of Berkheya have morphologically recognizable shared characters, such as habit and spines that have been recognized by past studies. However, the grouping of one species with Didelta is difficult to explain. Support for the major clades and most of the sub-groups is strong but the relationships among some of the terminal taxa are variable.
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A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. – Jesus Christ
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates. – Lao Tzu
You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection. – Buddha
Hope, Not Nearly There by David Breeden
I am not alone. There is a Love holding me. by Heather Rion Starr
The Promise and the Practice: Repairing Our Mistakes with Love (Time for All Ages) by Jaelynn Pema-la Scott and Erika A. Hewitt
A Gesture of Love by Kimberly French
For each day of Chalica we will offer activities, some are fun and some are more reflecting, a chalice lighting, and a meditation. Gather everyone together, light the chalice, and breathe into the principles with us each day.
- Write a Letter to an elected official about an injustice
- Pay for the person behind you in the drive-through line
- “Want me to pick something up for you?” If you know someone is overwhelmed – perhaps by a new baby, family health issues, or something else – give them a call when you’re going out to the store. Ask if they’d like you to pick something up. We’ve been the beneficiaries of this random act of kindness, and it’s great.
- Try to go the whole day without arguing with anyone
- Go out to eat and tip the server double
- Go to the store or mall with the family and stand outside and open the doors for people
- Find a social justice cause and/or a new way to support it.
- Educate yourself and your family on a social justice issue. These Youtube channels are a great way to start.
- Write a journal entry about what Justice, Equity, and Compassion mean to you.
- Write a poem about being kind.
Chalice Lighting: (If you don’t have a chalice at home, remember that the point of a chalice is that it is a symbol so any candle will work.)
Justice, Meaning, and Purpose By David Breeden
We light this chalice
remembering and honoring our own tradition
and celebrating the rich diversity of traditions among us.
As we search for justice, meaning, and purpose,
may we remember that justice, meaning, and purpose
live first in deeply listening to one another.
This chalice lighting was written for a multifaith gathering.
Our Meditation today is about Love. Focusing on love helps us to remember that each person is important.
May We Reach Out in Honesty and Love by Dennis McCarty
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A word about the title of this paper. It is of course a twist on best-selling book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. Given that heretics twist things I can't see any problem with my spin on the title.
We recognise that there are different types of error. Not all errors fall into the same category of seriousness, and they are not equal in the damage that they can do. For example, John Wesley's views on holiness (and of course the offshoots in the various forms of Higher Life teaching) were wrong, and because they were wrong they were pastorally damaging. This defective version of holiness created false expectations about the nature of the Christian life. These expectations were of course never realised. However, even though this is an error it is not heresy. Over this error, and we might add a few others, we would not regard Wesley as a heretic.
What then is heresy? Michael Horton helpfully describes it as "any teaching that directly contradicts the clear and direct witness of the Scriptures on a point of salvific importance." The late Harold O. J. Brown said that heresy:
Designated either a doctrine or the party holding the doctrine, a doctrine that was sufficiently intolerable to destroy the unity of the Christian church. In the early church, heresy did not refer to simply any doctrinal disagreement, but to something that seemed to undercut the very basis for Christian existence. (Heresies, p. 2)Heresy is the kind of doctrinal error that is so serious that it redefines the gospel.
We also recognise that there are different types of people who fall into, or who embrace and propagate error. In an unpublished paper given at a B.E.C. conference the late Robert Sheehan helpfully talked about how in the New Testament there are five kinds of people who are in error, and five different responses to those errors by the apostles. They are:
1. The sincerely ignorant
2. The sincere misinterpreter
3. The temporarily inconsistent
4. The deceived
5. The deceivers
There are those who are sincerely ignorant, as Apollos was in Acts 18:24-28. He was eloquent, competent in the Scriptures, and instructed in the way of the Lord. Luke says that he taught accurately the things concerning Jesus. But there was something missing, and when Priscilla and Aquila heard him they explained to him the way of God more accurately. Apollos was in error but not denounced for it. He was teachable and led into further usefulness in ministry.
Others sincerely misinterpret things. They don't want to be in error but they have misunderstood the teaching of the Bible on a particular point (we will come back to this later). Sheehan cites 1 Corinthians 5:9-11 as an example of this.
Then there are the temporarily inconsistent. This is Peter at Antioch whom Paul had to oppose. Peter was not regarded as unregenerate, but his conduct was not in step with the truth of the gospel (Galatians 2:11-14).
So we recognise that there are different kinds of error, different people who are involved in them, and different ways of handling those errors and people.
What about handling truth and error in our ministries?
Since we are committed to the exposition of God's Word we will be dealing with teaching on error as it arises in the text. If we are preaching through Colossians we will explain the features of the type of error troubling the church there, and how to respond to it. This commitment to exposition should prevent the pulpit from being preoccupied with error, or to shy away from confronting it. As Gresham Machen noted, the New Testament books are filled with conflicts with error and the need for churches to go on holding to the truth.
We will also need to deal with error when it becomes a clear and present danger to our churches. At times we will need the courage to name and shame heretics, as Paul did in 2 Timothy 2:17, and not be content with general descriptions of their errors. Calvin said that ministers have two voices, one for the sheep and one for the wolves. We need to wisely discern how to do this in pastoral ministry today.
Having said all this by way of introduction, in the body of this paper I want to deal with the highly effective habits of heretics. There are plenty of books, ancient and modern, that deal with heresies in an A-Z fashion. I want to look at the practices, the behaviour, the habits of heretics. What are they doing in relation to the truth? How do they behave in and among churches? Think of the way that Paul describes them as swerving from the truth (2 Tim. 2:18), and of wandering into vain discussion (1 Tim. 1:6). Peter describes false teachers secretly, as opposed to openly, introducing destructive heresies. In Galatians the false teachers fawn over the believers. Paul says "They make much of you, but for no good purpose. They want to shut you out, that you may make much of them" (Gal. 4:17).
As we go through the seven habits (and there could be many more) please excuse me if I do not state the obvious. Of course heretics will be manipulative and authoritarian. I want to press beyond the general description of that manipulation and look at some specific habits where this is manifested. | <urn:uuid:770dab58-a53b-40d1-9092-7e63ca833c05> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://against-heresies.blogspot.com/2008/01/seven-habits-of-highly-effective.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285001.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00302-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966307 | 1,125 | 2.09375 | 2 |
First you’ll need to check your audio and/or video file is in MP3 form. If the file isn’t in MP3 format then use personal files converter. All you have to do is use specific software that allows you to convert and encode sound files on PC and Macintosh personal computer. It’s very quick and easy for this don’t be placed off if this describes what you need to do.
Decide on the schedule. Weekly, monthly, daily or if you feel are pleased. I suggest weekly can people are happy with that schedule. Whatever you do, possess a record that you stick to your schedule.
Now occasion microphone. A headset type is optimal. Adjust the microphone so it sits just below your jaw in order to your neck area. Now startup your computer. You’ll have to have a recording tool of some type. I use WavePad but there are a lot of other free tools available. After you have finished recording you’ll need to save outcome into MP3 format.
Project your personality from podcast. People will listen to podcast not really for info that is roofed in it, but also because of one’s style of presentation and your personality.
I believe iTunes is owned by Apple and it’s also a easy way get your podcasts off on buying foot. To many people visit iTunes on every day basis for free podcast app (globalcastingresources.com) content that they can download, as well as will require your face to face the valuable resource also. Make sure you operate in a niche and aren’t a generalist. It is actually going to hard to seek a loyal following if you’re writing on the wide connected with topics.
Those who listen rrn your podcast regularly will require that you continue for making new cloth. It’s important that you think about this before one goes this method.
Though affiliates are awesome, you want to sell your own product regularly. Promote the heck out today and let your customers know what they’re getting. Wish sell your podcasts. Offer your customers something a good deal. Provide bonuses, discounts, free content, as well as other incentives for trusting in your product.
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[en] Atmospheric Composition and Structure: Thermosphere-energy deposition ; Atmospheric Composition and Structure: Airglow and aurora ; Magnetospheric Physics: Energetic particles ; precipitating ; Magnetospheric Physics: Storms and substorms
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Gone are those days when you could afford to have a nice independent house with enough space around for a lush green kitchen garden. In the good old days, some of our parents were blessed with fresh vegetables plucked right from own their kitchen gardens!
Today, if we have a pot of Tulsi or money plant (devil’s ivy) at our cranked apartments, that’s considered a luxury! In our hectic daily lives today, can we afford to have a tiny little kitchen garden in our balcony and grow some vegetables?
Does gardening mean to you toiling in the hot sun to till the soil, manuring and watering it, planting the seeds, then weeding the soil and then regular watering and then finally cutting the harvest? No, relax, sometimes life does provide an easy way out!
Surprisingly, kitchen gardening in an urban setting is quite easy. There are people who not only have grown vegetables, but also successfully maintained a lush green terrace garden or even grown Ragi! The images below tell better tales than words do!
Anusuya Sharma and her husband are pioneers in roof top kitchen garden in Bangalore. Due to their regular activities and articles published in the media, their tiny kitchen garden on top of their 30×40 feet sized house is now a demonstration site for agriculture students!
Abhinav Gangumalla, the founder of Hyderabad Goes Green is another pioneer in our own city. He has innovated a water-proof garden known as ‘Square Foot Garden”. In his small plot around his shop in Banjara Hills, he has cultivated many ornamental plants and vegetables.
Siddartha Sikdar, an IT consultant has created a terrace garden haven in Pune! He has been self-learning Permaculture and practicing it in his suburban building, which is a row house in a gated community.
What are the different plants that can be grown at home? Mostly they would be flowering plants and ornamental shrubs, right?
Wrong! A lot many plants including many types of vegetables can be grown at home in pots and in limited space. There are people who not only have grown and harvested vegetables, but also successfully maintained a lush green terrace garden!
Plants can be categorized based on climatic type, seasonal and their commercial value. For our purpose of urban farming, we can broadly divide them into two types –
- Perennial plants – these plants have long span of life usually lasting more than a one year and are not affected by seasons. Typically, most ornamental plants are perennial.
- Seasonal plants – these plants have a short span of life typically lasting only one season. Typically, most food bearing plants are seasonal.
Eligibility criteria for kitchen gardeners
A housewife, an IT consultant and a retail entrepreneur – these examples prove that there is no typical kitchen gardener. Although any tom, dick and harish can aspire to become a good kitchen gardener, only a few can really attain the professional status due to some eligibility criteria –
- Patience – a must have criteria since potting, planting, watering, and then ripening all are slow processes. A green gram seed germinates in a day, while coriander takes 28 days! |
- Muddy hands – as they say you can enjoy the fruits without muddying your hands, kitchen gardeners should not mind a little mess of handling wet soil and compost once in a while!
- Sunlit space – you should have a balcony or a washing space where direct sunlight comes in at least in the morning.
- Spare time – you should be able to spare 20 minutes every day in the morning to check your plant’s growth and one hour’s time every weekend to tend the plants.
- Stomach for failures – no task in this world can be failure free, but gardening can be disheartening sometimes due to nature’s vagaries.
- Chemical resistance – you must resist the temptation to buy any kind of pesticides, chemical fertilizers, growth hormones which are promoted as stimulators for your plant’s growth.
Step 1 – Ground preparation
Since there is no real ground to prepare in an apartment or a terrace, this task implies the work to be done to create a layout for your plants. You can begin with a just a single pot of plant and slowly add more later, or you could buy a bunch of pots and begin simultaneously. If you are worried about earthen pots breaking up, you can prefer cement or plastic pots. The ideal ones are large flat cement panes and plastic containers.
Step 2 – Soil mixture and potting process
Ideally you should have a 1:1:1 mixture of red sand, soil and compost. Place the 1 portion sand at the bottom of the pot, the next level is 1 portion soil and final portion is the compost or manure. It can be decayed cow dung, vermicompost from earthworms or plain compost. In the beginning you can buy compost to fill your pots, but the next time, you should be preparing it yourself!
Step 3 – Planting and gardening
You should be selecting the right plants that are suitable to your kitchen garden. Ideally, regular vegetables such as tomato, chillies, potato, mint, coriander, brinjal, lady’s finger, methi can all be grown in pots. However, it is better to experiment with just two in the beginning. Seeds of these plants can be bought in any agricultural shop or horticultural nursery where they sell flowering plants.
Step 4 – Pest care and harvesting
Pests and diseases such as leaf rot, aphid infection are rare for hardy vegetable plants. However, if they occur, they can be controlled by bio-pesticide spray made of neem, turmeric ash, etc. The last step is to pluck and enjoy the harvest!
Finally, if you have already begun your journey of urban farming, please await our expert guidance to move on to the advanced level.
Meanwhile did you know that World Kitchen Garden Day is celebrated on the last Sunday of every August by the Kitchen Gardeners International! So it’s high time for our Aloo Pyaaz from our humble kitchen to go international!
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Throughout the spring semester, FIRE is drawing special attention to the state of free speech at America’s top 25 national universities (as ranked by U.S. News & World Report). Today we review policies at Emory University, which FIRE has given a red-light rating for restricting free expression on campus.
We start by examining whether Emory—a private institution—has made any commitments to free expression that would lead students and faculty to believe they are entitled to free speech at the university. One such commitment is found in the university’s Discriminatory Harassment Policy, which provides that
Emory University abides by the values of academic freedom and is built on the assumption that contention among different views is positive and necessary for the expansion of knowledge, both for the University itself and as a training ground for society at large. Emory is committed to the widest possible scope for the free circulation of ideas. (Emphasis added).
In addition, it is a violation of Emory’s Undergraduate Code of Conduct to interfere with "the rights of others to free expression." (Emphasis added).
And yet Emory’s own policies do precisely that. For example, students in Emory’s residence halls are prohibited from engaging in any "acts of intolerance," which include all "use of epithets or names in a derogatory manner." In 2003, a similar prohibition on "acts of intolerance" in Shippensburg University’s speech code was found by a federal judge to be unconstitutionally overbroad:
The amorphous term, "acts of intolerance" … can be reasonably interpreted to encompass speech, not just conduct, that intimates intolerance. So construed, the provision of the Code prohibiting acts of intolerance directed at others, which by its terms provides that it is not limited to the examples of prohibited acts cited therein, could certainly be interpreted as prohibiting speech that is protected by the First Amendment.
Bair v. Shippensburg Univ., 280 F. Supp. 2d 357, 370 (M.D. Pa. 2003) (emphasis in original).
In addition to relying on a term found unconstitutional by a federal court, Emory’s policy gets even worse. In a frightening grant of unfettered discretion, the policy states that "The Office of Residence Life and Student Conduct have the sole right to determine what is considered an [Act of Intolerance]." With this addition, this policy not only explicitly prohibits protected expression (simple name-calling, such as the use of "names in a derogatory manner," is largely protected), it also leaves students at the mercy of university administrators to decide what else might be punishable. The policy’s grant of "sole discretion" to residence life administrators means that students can NEVER know what speech will be punished, since at any moment administrators might exercise their discretion to decide that a particular expression was out of bounds. As a result, this policy chills speech in Emory’s residence halls, a place where dialogue among students should be at its freest.
The same Emory residence hall policy also prohibits "discriminatory harassment." While the actual definition of discriminatory harassment is reasonable, the policy goes on to contradict itself by prohibiting certain types of expression outright, regardless of whether they rise to the level of actual harassment: "Such conduct includes but is not limited to, objectionable epithets, demeaning depiction or treatment, and threatening or actual abuse or harm." The reality is that however unpleasant most "demeaning depictions" may be, they are protected by the First Amendment; satire and parody, for example, frequently work by demeaning their targets, and yet they are socially important forms of speech that are entitled to strong First Amendment protection.
Emory’s Information Technology Conditions of Use policy also threatens free speech on campus. The policy provides that any electronic communication "that is perceived by its recipient as sexual or discriminatory harassment as defined by University policy may be considered a violation." By defining impermissible speech exclusively in terms of its effect on the recipient, this policy leaves Emory students at the mercy of the most sensitive members of the community. Precisely to avoid this outcome, the legal definition of harassment includes both a subjective (must be perceived by the victim as harassment) and an objective (must be offensive to a reasonable person in the victim’s position) element; only if conduct is both objectively and subjectively harassing is it unprotected by the First Amendment. Additionally, Emory’s policy states that "[t]he display of offensive material in any publicly accessible area is likely to violate University harassment policy," but provides no definition of "offensive." There are a lot of legitimate, and perhaps even important, materials that students and faculty may be accessing that others might find offensive. This policy opens the door to allegations of "harassment" based on entirely subjective feelings of offense. If this sounds like an overstatement, just take a look at FIRE’s case at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis, where a student-employee was found guilty of racial harassment for reading, in the break room in front of his co-workers, a historical book about a fight between Notre Dame students and the Klan—simply because some of his co-workers found any mention of the Klan offensive.
By maintaining these policies, Emory is chilling free speech on its campus and disregarding the commitments it has made to freedom of expression. Stay tuned next week for information on the state of free speech at Rice University.
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Famous Quotes About Shout Out Loud
Browse 13 famous quotes and sayings about Shout Out Loud.
Top Quotes About Shout Out Loud
1. "My mother is no longer shouting or shaking me, but she is still holding me very tightly. Even though I didn't speak out loud, she heard me and understood. "Don't you know?" she asks me back. "Don't you know who you are?" Tears are sliding down her cheeks and falling off onto my face. I never knew how hot someone else's tears feel. "You're part of me," she says, as if it is the deepest truth she knows. "You're all the family I have. The only person I can count on. You're flesh of my flesh and blood of my blood, my only baby, and nothing else comes close to that. Nothing."And then she runs out of words, so she just clings to me, and not all the doctors in the world can pull her away."
Author: David Klass
2. "Their roar is around me. I am on the brink Of the great waters—and their anthem voiceGoes up amid the rainbow and the mist.Their chorus shakes the ground. I feel the rocksO'er which my feet hang idly—as they hungO'er babbling brooks in boyhood—quiveringUnder the burst of music. Awful voice! And strong, triumphant waters! Do I standIndeed amid your shoutings! Is it mineTo shout on this gray summit, where the bird,The cloudy, monarch bird shrieks from his crag,O'er which he's wheeled for centuries? I lift upMy cry in echo; but no sound is there,And my shout seems but whisper. Extract from the poem "Niagara" by Grenville Mellen, 1839."
Author: Deborah L. Halliday
3. "On my way home that evening I felt an effervescence of spirit which built up inside me until I felt like shouting out loud for the sheer hell of it. The school, the children, Weston, the grimy fly-infested street through which I hurried - none of it could detract from the wonderful feeling of being employed. At long last I had a job, and though it promised to tax my capabilities to the full, it offered me the opportunity - wonderful word - of working on terms of dignified equality in an established profession."
Author: E.R. Braithwaite
4. "Fred and George, however, found all this very funny. They went out oftheir way to march ahead of Harry down the corridors, shouting, "Make way forthe Heir of Slytherin, seriously evil wizard coming through ......Percy was deeply disapproving of this behavior."It is not a laughing matter," he said coldly."Oh, get out of the way, Percy," said Fred. "Harry's in a hurry.""Yeah, he's off to the Chamber of Secrets for a cup of tea with his fangedservant," said George, chortling.Ginny didn't find it amusing either."Oh, don't," she wailed every time Fred asked Harry loudly who he wasplanning to attack next, or when George pretended to ward Harry off with a largeclove of garlic when they met."
Author: J.K. Rowling
5. "The wife correct " Lorelei prompted. "She makes sure her husband is treated with the proper regard and she is the one who sees after his care just like you would do a treasured pup." Annabeth frowned. "I suppose that's true." "Thank you " Lorelei said. "Now if you wish to train a man to listen to you you never shout you whisper. They take extra special care to listen to a quiet tone while they automatically shut out loud ones. And just like you would a dog when he comes at your bidding you reward him. That way he'll always come instead of ignoring you or putting you off."
Author: Kinley MacGregor
6. "Ace!" Tate shouted, both Wendy and I jumped and twisted our necks to look his way. "You cashed out or what?" Tate asked still in a shout. "I'm cashed out," I shouted back. "You wanna socialize for the next hour or are we gonna go?" He was still shouting and I was acutely aware, due to the fact that the noise level declined significantly, that the entire bar was listening. "Keep your pants on!" I yelled. The noise level disappeared. "Babe, get your ass over here," Tate ordered. "Patience, Captain, I'm talking to Wendy," I shot back. "Ass. Over. Here!" Tate commanded. I looked at Wendy and snapped loudly, "He's so darned bossy!" Two men and a woman sitting at the bar close to us burst out laughing. "You better get your ass over there," Wendy advised, I rolled my eyes and stomped across the bar."
Author: Kristen Ashley
7. "I'm sorry?" I shouted over the noise from the snowmobile Max was sitting astridde."Climb on!" he shouted back and I stared at the snowmobile."Can't we walk?" I asked loudly."No.""Drive?""No."I took a step back. "Maybe...""Duchess, get...the fuck...on."
Author: Kristen Ashley
8. "One thousand ways to say good-byeOne thousands ways to cryOne thousand ways to hang your hat before you go outsideI say good-bye good-bye good-byeI shout it out so loudCause the next time that I find my voice I might not remember how."
Author: Maggie Stiefvater
9. "He could tell her he loved her. He ached to shout it out loud for the gods and everyone to hear. Little good it would do. Better to trust in the moon's promises than in the word of the Thief of Eddis. He was famous in three countries for his lies."
Author: Megan Whalen Turner
10. "He's my father!" she bellowed, pointing to Trevanion."Vestie!" Beatriss said firmly, stopping to stare up at her. "I'll snip at the tongue if i ever see it in such a way again! Trevanion, speak to her."Vestie hung her head, shamefaced."Vestie," he said, his voice still gentle."Yes, Father.""Shout it out louder, my love. Shout it out louder."
Author: Melina Marchetta
11. "I crawled back to bed, knowing I was done for. Hours later, the phone in our room started ringing. It was George. He was not happy."Room 312. Now!" he shouted.Bouldy got up. I tried to pull myself together, splashing my face with water and hauling on my shorts and flip flops. It was a lovely day outside, the sun was scorching hot and there wasn't a cloud in the sky, but it might as well have been a pissing wet morning in St Albans for all I cared. I felt sick to the pit of my stomach as we made the Walk of Death to Room 312, which I knew was Paul and Gus's room.When we walked in, I thought I'd arrived in downtown Baghdad. Water dripped from the ceiling. The board games were in pieces and all the plastic parts were scattered over the floor. The balcony window was wide open and I could see a bed upended by the pool outside."
Author: Paul Merson
12. "Never give birth to children thoughtlessly!'' I want to shout it out loud.That is why, stroke by faltering stroke, I've written this all down."
Author: Sayo Masuda
13. "Desperation is a great giver of clarity: Bartimaeus needed no time to decide what to do next. "Jesus! Son of David!" he shouted. "Have mercy on me!" (Mark 10:47). The crowd turned to him in disgust. "Shut your mouth, son of filth!" But Bartimaeus knew what it meant to be despised. He also knew that the chance of a lifetime was literally passing him by, so he called to the Savior all the louder. (From: Bartimaeus)"
Author: Sherri Gragg
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Accession Number : AD0601632
Title : THE APPLICATION OF PHOTOGRAPHIC PHOTOMETRY TO ELECTRONIC DISPLAY SYSTEMS.
Descriptive Note : Scientific rept. no. 1
Corporate Author : ITEK CORP WALTHAM MASS
Personal Author(s) : Sanford,Lloyd C. ; Harvey,David I. ; Kohler,Robert J.
Report Date : JAN 1964
Pagination or Media Count : 22
Abstract : A technique for determining absolute luminance of objects as viewed by an orbiting Tiros satellite is described. Because the Tiros system was designed to provide qualitative rather than quantitative photographic data on meteorological conditions, cloud formations, geographic location of storm centers, etc., it was necessary to perform an analysis of the discontinuities and nonuniformities in the photoelectronic portion of the system which distorted the luminance display. The assignment of luminance values to the viewed object, as imaged ultimately in photographic film, involves the alteration of object luminances by (1) the satellite-borne, opticalelectronic imaging system, (2) the conversion of illuminance to telemetered signal, (3) the transmittal of this information to a ground receiving station, (4) the ground monitor cathoderay tube (CRT), and the photographic recording and development processes. Each of the factors altering the luminance transfer were quantitatively evaluated to allow the determination by the satellite system of cloud luminance. (Author)
Descriptors : (*METEOROLOGICAL SATELLITES, PHOTOGRAPHIC EQUIPMENT), (*PHOTOMETERS, OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS), (*DISPLAY SYSTEMS, VIDICONS), ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT, PHOTOELECTRONS, IMAGES, LUMINESCENCE, CATHODE RAY TUBES, PHOTOGRAPHIC RECORDING SYSTEMS, CALIBRATION, NOMOGRAPHS, PHOTOGRAPHIC MATERIALS, TELEVISION DISPLAY SYSTEMS, GROUND SUPPORT EQUIPMENT
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It contains some solid practical advice for troubled marriages. On the whole, it’s good stuff.
Two items caught my attention—particularly because of how they seem to be at odds with things John Piper teaches:
- “If [love is] commanded, that means it’s not a feeling.”
- “God couldn’t command you to do something that was impossible for you to do.”
Here’s a transcript of the relevant portion with the key parts in bold:
Do you know that love is commanded in the Bible? If it’s commanded, that means it’s not a feeling. You ever thought about that? See, we live in this day when—”I don’t feel like I’m in love.” Well, the Bible says, “Husbands,” Ephesians 5—what?—”love your wives.” Titus 2 says that older women should train younger women to love their husbands. If it’s commanded, it’s possible. You say, “But, I can’t love them. I don’t feel like I love them.” The love doesn’t begin with you. God is love, 1 John 4 says. God’s love comes to you to love your spouse. The great lie is, I don’t love you so we shouldn’t be married. The answer is, you need to get closer to Jesus, and you’ll have all the love you need. God couldn’t command you to do something that was impossible for you to do. He couldn’t tell you to love someone if he wasn’t willing to give you the love to love them.
Love Is Not a Feeling.
On the first point, I wonder if Mark simply meant that love is not exclusively a feeling. I’m inclined to think so, but the words themselves struck me as being the very kind of thinking that Piper takes such great pains to refute in Desiring God (and elsewhere):
One thing is for sure: Love cannot be equated with sacrificial action! It cannot be equated with any action! This is a powerful antidote to the common teaching that love is not what you feel, but what you do. The good in this popular teaching is the twofold intention to show (1) that mere warm feelings can never replace actual deeds of love (James 2:16; 1 John 3:18) and (2) that efforts of love must be made even in the absence of the joy that one might wish were present. But it is careless and inaccurate to support these two truths by saying that love is simply what you do, and not what you feel. . . .
The very definition of love in 1 Corinthians refutes this narrow conception of love. For example, Paul says love is not jealous and not easily provoked and that it rejoices in the truth and hopes all things (13:4–7). All these are feelings! If you feel things like unholy jealousy and irritation, you are not loving. And if you do not feel things like joy in the truth and hope, you are not loving. In other words, yes, love is more than feelings; but, no, love is not less than feelings. (116–17)
Even if Mark believes that love is not exclusively a feeling, his conditional statement “If it’s commanded, that means it’s not a feeling” is logically flawed. There are plenty of commands in the Bible that deal with our feelings. Again, Piper comments,
Positively, Christians are commanded to have God-honoring feelings. We are commanded to feel joy (Philippians 4:4), hope (Psalm 42:5), fear (Luke 12:5), peace (Colossians 3:15), zeal (Romans 12:11), grief (Romans 12:15), desire (1 Peter 2:2), tenderheartedness (Ephesians 4:32), and brokenness and contrition (James 4:9). (Desiring God, 89)
While I’m not completely sure of Driscoll’s view on love as an emotion, my gut feeling is that there probably is no real disagreement between Driscoll and Piper on this point. I do wonder, though, if all of Driscoll’s listeners walked away with the understanding that love is both volition and feeling and that God often does command us to feel certain things.
God Doesn’t Command What We Can’t Do.
I’m nearly positive that Driscoll would disagree with the notion that God’s commands are possible for unbelievers. This is precisely the logic of Pelagianism—and a large segment of the church today: God wouldn’t tell people to do something they have absolutely no power to do, so God’s commands may be taken as indications of man’s abilities.
In this video Driscoll is dealing with believers, not unbelievers. But is it true that “God couldn’t command you to do something that was impossible for you to do”?
When I heard these words, my mind immediately went to Piper’s treatment of Hebrews 6:3. Here are some selections from Piper’s sermon on Hebrews 6:1–3, “Let Us Press On to Maturity”:
1. God governs the progress of sanctification (or maturity).
In other words, he has final say in whether we overcome our bent to sinning and make progress toward maturity. We will press on to maturity if God permits it. That is, we will make progress in our sanctification and holiness if God permits it. He decides ultimately if and how fast we advance in holiness.
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3. God sometimes wills that something come to pass which he forbids us to bring to pass.
That is, he sometimes decrees what he forbids. In this case, for example, he may not permit someone to press on to maturity. Nevertheless he commands us to press on to maturity. So he is decreeing immaturity while commanding maturity.
If Piper rightly understands Hebrews 6:3—and I think he does—it would seem, then, that God can and does command believers to do things that are at times impossible for them to do (i.e., by virtue of His decree, that is, His unwillingness to enable us to do them).
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Smart shopping is about buying fresh vegetables that are in season, in the quantity you need for the meal you are going to prepare, within a few days you are going to prepare it. That ensures you not only get the best freshness and most nutrition, but that you also get the best value for your dollar.
Smart shopping is also about buying and making your own things like smoothies as an example. For the price of 1 1/2 smoothies you can get about 12 homemade smoothies just by buying a bag of frozen fruit. Best of all, you can control the ingredients, like sugar. A homemade smoothie with a cost of about .75 a piece is far less than what they charge at the local smoothie shop for $5.00+ a piece. Of course there is nothing wrong with going out to purchase a single smoothie, but I can create a whole meal for one on $5.00.
Smart shopping is, above all, about being aware of cost. Pricing is a key factor when deciding what to purchase and where to purchase. If you know that certain stores are notorious for their markups than it pays to shop at multiple locations.
Make sure that you don’t let your “elite-ism” keep you from shopping at stores that you wouldn’t otherwise patronage. These is nothing wrong with these establishments. They sell the same products as the more expensive stores and the savings can be tremendous.
In these tough economic times, saving money is vitally important. So be smart when you shop. Take a notebook with you and jot down the prices of various products and different locations and you’ll see the difference from location to location.
Also, be sure to look at the flyers that are delivered to your door weekly and use your coupons. These marketing materials are printed for your benefit and there is nothing wrong with using them.
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People have always wondered what it would be like to live overseas. They see pictures of foreign countries and think about being right there at that very moment. It's not always possible to move to another country, purely because you don't have the means and you may not want to uproot and move your whole life to a faraway place and leave everyone and everything you have ever known behind. It may seem dreary at best, but a new country will bring you lots of opportunities and challenges that will make your life interesting and it will leave you feeling more fulfilled once you get over there and make a success of it.As it stands currently, a lot of people from all over the world are looking at immigrating to Australia as an opportunity to start a new life. To find an immigration lawyer Sydney you can simply look them up over the internet and contact them directly. They specialise in immigration law that is specifically applicable to Australia. In most cases the ability to stay in the country is based on specific requirements that you need to meet before they will give you a permanent residence Visa. They are particularly partial to skilled people that can bring their knowledge and work experience to the country to help contribute to the explosive growth that Australia is currently experiencing. So if you have a specialised degree in business, science and engineering, or a specialised profession then you would definitely be considered if you want to move over there. Family and business are the next two important things they will look at for immigration. If you are going there to set up a business or to stay with residential family then they will also consider your application. If you happen to be a student and you want further your studies in a foreign country, they will also grant you permission to live there for the time that you are studying. When you consult an immigration lawyer you get access to all the detailed information that you need to be successful with your application. They can advise which category visa would be best suited for you, and then they can help you get everything in order before you make the application. You may want to ask around for good lawyers before you speak anyone, but at least you can get an idea of what to expect if you source them online.Take the time to ask as many questions as you can. Formulate a decision based on what they tell you and decide whether to apply or not.
Person who has become lawful permanent resident after marriage but was not able to take spouse along to US, this Form I-824 follow to join application can be used. In this case a separate Form I-130, Petition for Alien Relative need not be filed instead US consulate just needs to be informed that as you are a lawful permanent resident and apply for immigrant visa for your spouse. Your spouse need not wait any further for availability of a visa number. Similarly if your children were born before you became a green card holder they also may apply to join you.Eligibility to fill Form I-824Primary applicant qualifies if one of the following criteria is met:Immigration was through the diversity lotteryImmigration was through employment basisUS citizen relative helped you to immigrate.The foreign applicant should be either one of the following:Spouse or unmarried child below 21 years of age of the US lawful permanent residentSpouse through marriage before the green card was got by the primary applicantChild who was born before the green card was got by the primary applicantStep child from marriage (which existed at the time of admission to US) of primary applicant.Legally adopted child prior to primary applicant's admission to US.Following should be submitted to USCIS if you are eligible:Application for Action on an Approved Application or Petition, Form I-824Green card's photocopy.Photo copy of the petition or application used to apply for immigrant statusPhotocopy of Notice of action, Form I-797 used for your original application or petitionApplication InformationThere are five parts of the Form I-824 to be filled completely to avoid rejectionPart I: Primary applicant information which includes the family name, organization name, business or residence address, mailing address, telephone number where you can be reached during day, home country, country of citizenship, date of birth, Internal Revenue Service tax number of the business, Alien registration number and the social security number in US.Part II: Reason for request whichever appropriate should be selected.Part III: Additional Information requested about the original petition or application.Part IV: Signature with date without which the form is considered incomplete.Part V: Signature of the person preparing the form if it's not the applicant along with date and address.The Form I-824 application must be submitted at the correct USCIS Lockbox facility along with the check or money order for $405 as filing fee payable to U.S Department of Homeland Security. A person who has been granted asylum or refugee status in the United States may petition to have his or her spouse and/or unmarried children follow-to-join him or her in the United States using a Form I-730, Refugee/Asylee Relative Petition.You can choose if you require an email or text message notification of acceptance using Form G-1145 which is for E-notification of application or petition acceptance. After the application is checked for completeness in writing you will receive whatever the decision.
Janitorial services or the cleaning services for homes, offices and buildingsare provided by a janitor or in other words a caretaker. A janitor simply is a professional who takes care of the cleaning of the buildings, homes, offices, hospitals and schools etc. They can also take care of the maintenance and security of the buildings in addition. So a janitor is not strictly a cleaning professional. Mostlythe janitors are managed by the superintendent who takes the responsibility of supervising the performance of the janitors working under him. The janitorial services nowadays not only include simple cleaning tasks as in the past years but they also include multiple tasks such as taking care of the lawns to some extent, dusting furniture and computer equipment and cleaning kitchen equipments; microwaves, toasters etc. Nowadays with a busy schedule of the people living in the world since almost every person is striving to work for earning his livelihood, it is difficult for people to manage the house chores by themselves as in the olden days.So, the cleaning and household chores are managed by outsourced services. For this purpose the janitorial servicesare provided by not just individuals but byauthentic companies. The typical responsibilities of a janitor are cleaning and managing the bathrooms whether in homes or in offices which includes cleaning sinks, floors, mirrors,clearing garbage binsand similar also take care of the cleaning of the floors by mopping, sweeping and polishing and vacuum cleaning the carpets also. The kitchens are the main part of the homes and buildings which require to be regularly cleaned in a hygienic way. The other janitorial services are stripping and waxing the floors using the floor buffers, cleaning tables in cubicles and meeting rooms and also the locking and unlocking of the doors in the morning and the end of the day. The reasonsbehind the outsourcing of the janitorial services are that the basic cleaning services provided by the different enterprises are standardized to a large extent except a few variations and they also guarantee the performance of the workers since they employ workers on high paysand also train them according to their company policies.In the United States a lot of illegal immigrant populationis highly employed as janitors by different enterprises and agencies. They include people migrating from under-developed countries such as India, Kenya, and Pakistan etc. The people working as janitors are mostlyadvantageous to the cleaning companies since they acquire cheap labourand also there are so many substitutes available for a single employee because of the excess of the undocumented is very convenient for people to hire the services of the companies providing cleaning services since they save you from a lot of trouble and time waste for hiring individuals for each section of the chores at their homes and offices. Also it is much safefor them since the companies take the complete responsibility of the quality and security of the workers.
In the United States some of the inadmissible nonimmigrant applicants and aliens who are not eligible to be admitted as an immigrant or adjust status in US must file Form I-601 in order to seek a waiver of certain grounds of inadmissibility. They must submit all 11 pages of the INS forms. The Filing Fee is $585.Who should file Form I-601?Application for Waiver of Grounds of Inadmissibility may be filed by anyone of the following aliens:1. Outside US if an applicant has an interview with the consular officer but was found to be inadmissible.2. Applicant who has applied for adjust of status3. Visa applicant of K1 or K-2 type visas.4. Applicant who have applied for K-3, K-4 or V visas.5. Applicant who has applied for Temporary protected status (TPS).6. Applicant under the Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief act.7. Applicant under Haitian refugee Immigrant fairness act.8. Self - petitioner under the Violence against women's act (VAWA)9. Applicant who wants to adjust the status but is inadmissible since he/she already has not got a waiver to enter US on some ground with regards to the T non immigrant status.10. Applicants who are seeking waiver on the following grounds:a) Under Immigration and Nationality act (INA) section 212(a)(1) on health related grounds.b) Under INA section 212(a)(2) certain criminal grounds.c) Under INA section 212(a)(3)(D) as immigrant member in Totalitarian party.d) Under INA section 212(a)(6)(C) misrepresentation or fraud immigration except INA section 212(i) waiver not available in case, under INA Section 212(a)(6)(C)(ii) you are not admissible to US if you had claimed falsely to be a US citizen on or after September 30, 1996.e) Under INA section 212(a)(6)(E) applicant is smuggler or under INAsection 212(a)(6)(F) if applicant is being subject of civil penalty.f) Under INA section 212(a)(9)(B) if applicant is on 3 or 19 years bar.g) If applicant filed for TPS on certain grounds of inadmissibility.h) Under INA section 212(a)(9)(A) applicant who is alien previously removed and under (9)(C) if alien is unlawfully present after previous immigration violations, applicant who filed for NACARA or HRIFA adjustment or VAWA self petitioner .i) Under INA section 212(a)(1) public health and INA section 212(a)(4) public charge T non immigrant visa holders who apply for adjust of status may receive waiver but not for applicants who are inadmissible under INA section 212(a)(3)security related grounds, INA section 212(a)(10)(C) international child abductors or INA section 212(a)(10)(E) former citizen who renounced US citizenship to avoid taxation.The Form I-601 must be filed at a USCIS Lockbox facility along with complete Form G-1145, E-Notification of Application/Petition Acceptance if you want to receive an e-mail and/or text message that your Form I-601 has been accepted. To the first page of your application it has to be clipped.Filing procedure update from USCISIn the United States USCIS will Centralize Filing and Adjudication for Certain Waivers of Inadmissibility. Individuals abroad who have applied for certain visas and have been found ineligible by a U.S. Consular Officer would from June 4, 2012 be able to mail requests to waive certain grounds of inadmissibility directly to a Lockbox facility of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).Applicants must send their waiver applications and this change affects where individuals abroad, who have been found inadmissible for an immigrant visa or a nonimmigrant K or V visa. Applicants experience processing times from one-month to more than a year currently depending on their filing location. Faster and more efficient application processing and consistent adjudication will be provided by this centralization to customers.It does not reflect a change in policy or the standards by which the applications are adjudicated, it is part of a broader agency effort to transition to domestic filing and adjudication. Individuals will now be able to track the status of their case online by filing waiver applications with a USCIS Lockbox. Filings for Form I-601, Application for Waiver of Grounds of Inadmissibility would be affected by the changes.Immigrant visa waiver applicants in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, will have the option to either mail their waiver applications to the USCIS Lockbox in the United States or file in-person at the USCIS office in Ciudad Juarez during a limited six-month transition period. As a proactive act, with the huge caseload pending in mind, the USCIS will significantly increase the number of officers assigned to adjudicate the residual cases filed before June 4 for those filed during the interim six-month transition period. As a testing process USCIS has already transferred applications from Ciudad Juarez to other USCIS offices in the United States.
If you are one of those people who wish to live resides in the United States then Green card lottery is the one of the best option for US immigration. Although many people know about Green card Lottery but still some people are not about this is the finest option to attain the US Green Card. This is officially called Diversity Immigrant Visa lottery or DV lottery. The name diversity signifies to promote diversity in the United States in other words it gives opportunity to the people coming from different countries to live resides in the USA.Every Year United States Citizenship and Immigration Services ( USCIS ) conducted this lottery for the purpose to issued 50,000 Green Cards to the immigrants in the countries have less immigrants ratio in United States from the last five years. This Lottery is referred by the variety of names such as US Visa Lottery, US Green Card Lottery, USA Visa Lottery, Diversity Lottery and DV Lottery. To obtain Green card through this lottery is properly based upon luck and millions of people take part but only 55000 immigrants are selected from all over the world because results will be generated through the random computer lottery draw.In order to participate in Green card Lottery you just need to fill the application form. Before filling the application form you must be the native of the qualifying country and meet your education and training experience. For deep inside about the Green card Process you can check out the official website . Once you meet all the requirements you can easily register yourself. Suppose if you are married then you can also register your family along with your registration. If you submit the application the confirmation id given to you and with this id you can easily track your application.If you will be one of the luckiest winner then you will be notified by the email or personal phone calls and you can also check the results on the website which I mentioned above. Green Card holders will receive so many benefits such as you can sponsor or petition your family members or relatives, also get government job opportunities in United States or if you want to pursue your further studies then you can pay less if you are the permanent citizen in United States.To Conclude I must say that this US Visa Lottery is the best chance to obtain Green card so live your dream today! Apply and live permanent resides in United States.
The Immigration Act of 1990 created a new opportunity for investment based immigration for foreign nationals. Basically, the new program granted a conditional permanent residence valid for two years for the immigrant entrepreneurs who invested a minimum of $1,000,000 or $500,000 dollars in high unemployment or rural areas. In addition, the immigrant investors had to create and preserve 10 full time and permanent jobs for qualified US workers. The new possibility was given the name of EB-5 investor visa and the attorney who handled the paperwork and all the necessary procedures was called EB-5 lawyer.The complexity of the paperwork and the bureaucracy of the whole process can simply make an investor turn around and leave the entire program. The EB-5 investor visa program is essentially a beneficial program for both parties but without the help of an EB-5 lawyer, the program may as well be abandoned. There are numerous questions related to the program which only a specialized attorney can answer such as:??? What is the success rate of EB-5 investor visa applications???? What are the business sectors likely to succeed in the EB-5 process???? Are all regional centers the same as far as success rate and functionality???? What is the most adequate regional center for your particular case???? What can a client expect to be the most difficult part in the EB-5 process???? What is the greatest concern about regional centers???? Is an investment based on a stand-alone business more advisable than an investment in one of the USCIS regional centers?Again, there are many questions when it comes to the eligibility requirements of the EB-5 investor visa which only an EB-5 lawyer can answer. Any potential investor needs to understand that, although things may sound simple, they are not. Here are some things an investor may need to clarify as far as eligibility goes:??? The investment needs to be a commercial investment which means any for profit business type??? A passive investor cannot qualify for permanent residence??? The investment of capital needs to be considered from all points of view including the amount of the investment, the equity capital, kinds of capital, escrow, at risk proof, tracing and legal source of capital, and so on. ??? The investment must benefit the economy of the United States ??? The new enterprise needs to create or save 10 permanent jobs excluding the owner or his family, independent contractors, and other exceptions. ??? The investment in troubled business doesn't require creating 10 jobs ??? The enterprise may qualify for the Pilot Program of 10 indirect jobsHowever the matter of EB-5 investor visa is regarded, the need of an EB-5 lawyer is imperative. It is unlikely that a potential investor will have any chances of success as long as they act independently without professional legal help. Actually, the program registered such a law success rate that many possible candidates have given up on the idea.
The last decade or so has seen political and economic upheaval in the land of the free, and never before has it been so difficult to gain entry and permanent residency status in the United States. This calls into question Emma Lazarus' beautiful sentiments on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty, which cry:"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. The wretched refuse of you teaming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"The United States may not be welcoming the "homeless, tempest-tossed" masses, but there is one "golden door" that remains invitingly open. The economic upheaval and downturn of the last decade or so has left American businesses and enterprises sorely in need of willing investors, and that's good news for any cash heavy foreigners looking to buy in to the American dream. By coming into the country on an EB-5 investor visa, foreigners who are willing to put their money where their mouth is can gain permanent resident status for themselves and their immediate family in a little under three years. Not that the process is easy, and not everybody has a half million dollars to invest in a business venture that may or may not pay off.What If You Don't Want To Run A Business?Of course, just because you've got cash in hand and are ready to invest in your future in the United States doesn't mean that your particular version of the American dream includes starting or running your own business. The EB-5 investor visa requires that you do invest in a business, and at a minimum of $500,000, but you don't have to actually start or run your own business unless you want to. For those who prefer to simply invest and let someone else worry about the business details, a Regional Center investment is a great option.Created by the U.S. government specifically for the EB-5 program, Regional Centers are commercial enterprises that have been officially designated by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) as "targeted employment area" investments. They allow EB-5 investors to fulfill program requirements by funding a pre-qualified business which is designed to create and maintain the mandatory job positions and documentation required by the EB-5.Regional Center investments are popular with foreign investors who wish to concentrate on a career or education that is unrelated to their investment business. But don't think they offer a free ride. Although Regional Center managers do provide the bulk of the labor and documentation you'll need on the business end of things, the EB-5 application and proof of fulfillment process is a long and drawn out battle through layer upon layer of ruthlessly scrutinized paper work, and most of the foreign nationals who do gain their permanent resident status through the EB-5 visa program owe their success to the expertise and skill and experienced EB-5 consultants.
The last minute reprieve was granted by the Minister of State for Immigration, Damian Green to extend the fishermen's visas for one year and has been welcomed by Strangford MP Jim Shannon and MP Angus Brendan MacNeil, who campaigned on behalf of the Filipinos to change UK immigration policy so that they could remain in the UK.The Immigration Minister Damian Green has allowed them another year visa extension while a determination is made on the level of qualification the Filipinos have for UK citizenship. The fishermen have been working in Scotland and Northern Ireland under a concessionary scheme for fishermen from outside the EU. Recently, Filipino fishermen have been considered an integral part of the fishing community and many local skippers said that without employing Filipinos they would be unable to put to sea due to lack of crew.According to Mr. Shannon, the situation was that the visas were not being renewed for those who were not of European citizenship unless they qualified for a UK Tier 3 Visa and the arguments made by the fishermen were that the Filipinos were qualified to that standard. The extension is aimed to give time for a new scheme to be put in place and for the Government to set up a training programme for these fishermen. It will ensure that they can meet the skill level the UKBA requires in the future.Angus MacNeil MP said: "I am glad that Damien Green MP saw common sense on this issue… His decision to extend the visas means that many domestic UK jobs will be saved as well". "Skippers were literally days from bankruptcy and UK workers in fish processors were very close to losing their jobs so I thank Mr. Green for allowing all of these people to continue working in the UK".However, the Minister also stated in his letter that this was the last UK visa extension by the Home Office for these people on the stipulation that the skipper/owners along with fishermen must provide written confirmation that they understand there would be no more extensions and the fishermen must leave the UK by 31 August 2012. | <urn:uuid:6970f361-a0d2-4a99-a1c4-17653da0921e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://celebrateimmigrants.us/category/lawyer/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00267.warc.gz | en | 0.960426 | 4,765 | 1.539063 | 2 |
Situated half an hour south of Nadi, Vatulele Island is a secluded tropical oasis uniquely shaped like a footprint. An enduring culture and tradition still exists on the northern side of the island with 4 traditional villages still active.
The spectacular natural environment of Vatulele Island is as charming as the warm and friendly Fijian people whose livelihoods consist of fishing, farming and traditional tapa cloth making. This relaxed way of life is a sight to see and the native inhabitants of the island are more than welcoming towards their visitors.
Vatulele Island offers a truly rare experience, offering tourists the opportunity to witness this ancient culture first hand through the special Sunday church services, a fun game of football, the smiling children in their classrooms at school and the skilled tapa cloth makers at work. The Chief will even meet his visitors in an imperial bure and invite them to take part in the traditional Kava ceremony before allowing them to explore the traditional homes of his village.
Surrounded by the dazzling waters of the South Pacific, Vatulele Island invites every type of water-based activity and leisure pursuit including paddling, sailing, fishing, snorkelling and diving. Even swimming takes on a whole new meaning here.
Recognised as one of Fiji's premier dive destinations. Dive among eagle rays, turtles, tropical fish and colourful coral reefs at a fantastic range of dive sites. Vatulele Island offers a number of amazing holiday dive sites including Huka Levu/4 Sisters, Huka Lailai, Labyrinth, Robert's Folly, Coral Garden, Cathedral, Fish Tank, Turtle Mountain, Fortress, Aquarium, Magic Pinnacle, Bird Island Wall, Wahoowall and Devil's Ledge. | <urn:uuid:a0289a29-d746-49a1-b5cb-bfcdde610e90> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.travelonline.com/fiji/vatulele-island | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279933.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00128-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9447 | 358 | 1.78125 | 2 |
The Closing of Sugar Plantations: Interviews with Families of Hamakua and Kaʻu, Hawaiʻi
These are life history interviews conducted with displaced Hamakua Sugar Company and Ka‘u Agribusiness Company workers and their families. The workers or their spouses were surveyed earlier for a Center on the Family research project on job loss. August 1997, 598 pages, 2 volumes, photographs.
Kalihi: Place of Transition
In this community-focused project, long-time residents talk about their experiences in Kalihi, a multi-ethnic working-class area of O‘ahu. June 1984, 1120 pages, 3 volumes, photographs.
Koloa: An Oral History of a Kaua‘i Community
Thirty-three residents describe life, past and present, in Koloa, the site of the first commercial sugar plantation in Hawai‘i. September 1988, 1518 pages, 3 volumes, photographs.
Lana‘i Ranch: The People of Ko‘ele and Keomuku
Detailed descriptions of the daily lives of cowboys, their spouses and children, and other ranch residents. July 1989, 934 pages, 2 volumes, photographs.
Pioneer Mill Company: A Maui Sugar Plantation Legacy
Eighteen former workers and residents of Pioneer Mill Company on Maui comment on such topics as childhood activities, family dynamics, camp housing, plantation employment, and union and community involvement. Also discussed are the decline of the sugar plantation and the closing of Pioneer Mill Company. December 2003, 508 pages, 1 volume, photographs.
Reflections of Palama Settlement
Twenty-nine individuals recall their life experiences and articulate the significance the Palama Settlement has had for themselves, Palama residents, and others. August 1998, 852 pages, 2 volumes, photographs.
Remembering Kaka‘ako: 1910–1950
A controversial area undergoing redevelopment, Kaka‘ako was once known as the toughest district in Honolulu. Twenty-six former residents discuss sports, community organizations, and the old neighborhood as it was when Kaka‘ako was home to 5,000 of the city's working class. December 1978, 1252 pages, 2 volumes, photographs.
A Social History of Kona
The changing lifestyles of Kona (at one time the largest community in Hawai‘i outside of the sugar plantation system, and the only area in the United States to grow coffee commercially for over 100 years) are documented. June 1981, 1727 pages, 2 volumes, photographs. Slide/tape show on videotape available.
‘Ualapu‘e, Moloka‘i: Oral Histories from the East End
Thirteen interviewees talk about the ‘Ualapu‘e Fishpond project, the historical and cultural role of fishponds, and everyday life on East End, Moloka‘i. June 1991, 576 pages, 2 volumes, photographs.
Waialua and Hale‘iwa: The People Tell Their Story
The histories of Waialua, one of O‘ahu's few remaining sugar plantations, and Hale‘iwa, a neighboring town, as told by Caucasian, Chinese, Filipino, Hawaiian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Puerto Rican senior citizens. May 1977, 1880 pages, 9 volumes. Slide/tape show on videotape available.
Waikiki, 1910–1985: Oral Histories
Study of a community's transformation from taro fields, duck ponds, and bungalows to nightclubs, curio shops, and towering hotels, as observed by fifty long-time residents, workers, and business operators. June 1985, 1999 pages, 3 volumes, photographs.
Waipi‘o: Mano Wai (Source of Life)
Old-timers recall taro farming and daily life in this remote Big Island valley and talk about the many changes that occurred in the first half of the century. Young residents and old discuss their visions for the future of Waipi‘o and taro. December 1978, 1335 pages, 2 volumes, photographs. Slide/tape show on videotape available. | <urn:uuid:9272ba2b-6691-4f19-8f92-b38243f9bf79> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ethnicstudies.manoa.hawaii.edu/center-for-oral-history/communities/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00066.warc.gz | en | 0.921431 | 870 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Climate Action Planning
This is a well-researched and written handbook useful for all involved in curbing greenhouse gas emissions and adaptation measures against global warming at the local level. The authors, who are academics and practitioners, were actively involved over several years in the development and implementation of climate action plans, as well as sectoral goals for climate change mitigation and adaptation.
The book consists of ten chapters and two very useful appendices, one describing the main points of climate science, the other giving details of a public participation programme.
Although focused on action at the local level, the authors include the wider national and international context of greenhouse gas emission reduction targets and other state or regional objectives in different parts of the USA, not least to demonstrate the limits of local action. They give a precise definition of what they understand by climate action planning and make clear that its success depends on community involvement, approval and cooperation from conception of a climate action plan to its formal adoption, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and adjustment. For that reason they emphasise what they call co-benefits which accompany actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and identify where adaptation may be necessary for coastal erosion and rising sea levels. The book includes numerous boxes with examples of how municipalities have adopted and implemented targets and climate action plans.
The authors emphasise the importance of instruments to quantify targets in two rather technical chapters on ‘Greenhouse gas emission accounting’ and on ‘Climate change vulnerability assessment’. The chapter on ‘Pathways to successful implementation’ emphasises the need for a budget and its support by municipal leaders across parties and election cycles.
They attribute the greatest chances of success to a consistent method of engaging the local community, acknowledging the efforts and sometimes restrictions that the community and individuals need to endorse in order to turn climate action plans into reality. They are also pragmatic about how much can be demanded from the general public and what advantages need to be in it for them.
The concluding chapter, ‘Time to act’, brings together the methodological, political and technical aspects of climate action planning which they see in the longer term as an inherent part of statutory local planning, in the way energy efficiency has been included in mainstream planning. The book’s key messages are: active community involvement throughout; participation by key stakeholders from the public, private and voluntary sectors; budgets secured for implementation for the short and the longer term; and, high-level political support for those responsible for climate action planning, implementation, monitoring and adjustment. | <urn:uuid:2be6c567-8734-43d4-87a4-a68ce3bfe3f5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.udg.org.uk/publications/book/climate-action-planning | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00668.warc.gz | en | 0.936651 | 511 | 2.578125 | 3 |
We believe in cultivating children's critical and creative intelligences. With daily activities emphasizing each of the learning styles, children will be free to create and explore as they encounter new challenges. By modelling self-correcting behaviors, teachers will assist students in developing the intellectual framework necessary for making appropriate, reasoned decisions.
At International Preschools, students will engage in our research-based curriculum that meets the learning needs of every student, with daily lessons in music, art and kinesthetics. In addition to a 45 minute free play period and 45 minutes of outside time, students enjoy a nut-free vegetarian lunch and the following weekly lessons. Language: Italian, Japanese, Spanish and German. Activities: Social and Cultural Studies, Mathematics, Science, Philosophy and Computer.
Each week of our Summer Camps features an exciting topic that we use to integrate all of the academic goals for each student. Our camps are open to students through 3rd grade and work from the Georgia Performance Standards for the upcoming school year. In addition to content-rich music, art and kinesthetic learning every day, students in our Summer Camps delve into the fun of reading, math, science and social studies related to the weekly themes. | <urn:uuid:42a68cfe-ef59-4521-a5b5-20bcb91081c5> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.savvysource.com/preschools/ga/atlanta/international-preschools-morningside | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284411.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00455-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931991 | 243 | 2.765625 | 3 |
SAMAD, FARIDA (2005) SEMANTICS STUDY ON TERMS AND SYMBOLS USED ON THE INTERNET YAHOO CHAT. Other thesis, University of Muhammadiyah Malang.
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Language is a key of communication, and communication itself is not limited in the family, society and nation but it can be done in a cyber space or Internet. The abbreviation of internet is international network. People use internet as a means of communication. One of the facilities that can be found on internet is Internet chat or chatting. Chatting is a virtual place when two people or more can have a typed conversation in real time. Meanwhile on internet chat, we can find that yahoo messenger is popular nowadays. People who participate in yahoo messenger use terms and symbols as need for communication to represent common phrases that they say one another. Those combinations always appear in the conversation. They are so unique, and it seems that not all people know those combinations and their meanings. Considering this condition, it also brings the writer to analyze the process of how those terms and symbols are used. The purpose of this study is to know the terms and symbols commonly used by the chatters on the Internet yahoo chat particularly yahoo messenger and to find out the formation of those terms. In this study, the writer used qualitative descriptive research design because it dealt with words and phrases, not statistical analysis. The data source used in this study was conversation among chatters on yahoo messenger channel at Revolusi-net. To collect the data, the instruments used in this study were the writer herself and observation. The writer joined in the chatting among chatters of regional chat room on yahoo messenger channel. She collected and identified terms and symbols commonly used in the conversation among chatters on yahoo messenger channel. Finally, she put them on the table and analyzed them based on their number of characters. The result of this study showed that there were forty-two terms and twenty symbols commonly used by the chatters on yahoo messenger channel. The word formations found on yahoo messenger channel, included acronym, borrowing, clipping, ejaculation and multiple processes. The formation of those terms could be explained more in chapter IV. The writer hoped that by using those combinations, people would enjoy chatting in economical way.
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Me, at MoneyWatch:
Making America's risk of a financial crisis great again: In the decades prior to the financial crisis, the U.S. underwent a period of financial deregulation under the assumption that market forces would prevent financial institutions from taking excessive risk. In particular, the shadow banking system — financial institutions that don’t operate as traditional banks — was lightly regulated.
However, as Alan Greenspan admitted in testimony on Capital Hill after the financial crisis, that assumption turned out to be wrong. The traditional banking sector, which is highly regulated, weathered the storm fairly well, but the shadow banking system came crashing down — and brought the economy with it.
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Before bringing a pet house, you need to do some preliminary study to know its needs and demands. Some simple care requirements must be followed, whether you’re taking home a horse, dog, cat, rabbit, or mouse. Feeding, working out, living arrangements, vet checks, and grooming will all need to be considered, and you should have a full grasp of these concepts.
Proper Animal Care
To ensure that they enjoy a long and active life, you should be informed of the most important treatment guidelines. So, if you’re searching for some of the best pet-care guidance, this article will come in useful.
Discover what type of pet food your pet needs, and make sure you purchase the highest-quality food possible. A mix of fresh veggies and dry commercial animal food will be enough for most pets. Cats and dogs both choose kibble and canned food. If you’re feeding other pets, you might want to seek advice from an expert to ensure you’re providing them with the right food.
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Typically, the person or company from whom you purchase the pet will inform you of the best nutritional requirements. The library will include a large range of books that will provide you with extensive and well-researched details on the proper nourishment for various animal species.
All animals require exercise. Depending on the kind of pet you have, the amount of activity needed will differ. For example, a cat only needs to be allowed outside for a few minutes with a bell to scare away the birds. Make sure you know the pet’s physical needs before adopting it. Getting a pet and not exercising it properly is bad, so choose a cat instead of a dog if you don’t enjoy long walks.
You’ll need to consider the kind of living arrangements you’ll have to provide before bringing your new animal house. Heat and a dry place to rest are necessary for most animals. If you’re getting a rabbit, you may need a unique cage. You can get a woven basket with nice soft bedding for your dog or cat to sleep in if you have one. Horses, of course, will need to have a stable and good paddock.
Veterinarian visits can be expensive, so consider getting pet insurance if you have a new pet. Vaccinations and semi-annual veterinarian appointments are required for most animals to check their health and happiness and find potential health issues early. You must schedule regular visits with a professional veterinarian and regularly check your dogs. This will prevent them from serious and debilitating diseases, allowing them to live a long and healthy life.
When you get your pet, you’ll want to make sure you get the best grooming tools so you can keep them clean and happy. Choose an animal that matches your lifestyle and think about grooming before buying an animal rather than after. Showering is one of the most important and challenging grooming jobs for most pet owners. It’s natural for animals to dislike bathing, yet they’re necessary for keeping pets clean and healthy-looking.
By following these guidelines, you can assure that your animal is well taken care of, happy, and healthy. Before you decide to welcome an animal into your life, make sure you understand the time dedication that comes with raising and caring for one. If you properly care for your animal, you can expect years of friendship and enjoyment.
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Survey shows Zeeland teens face challenges similar to others
Parents of Zeeland Public Schools are more involved than most, and the community supports its students through mentoring programs, but overall, students in the district are about the same as students across the nation.
The challenges teens face in Zeeland are the same ones teens in the rest of the United States are trying to tackle, according to the results of the latest biennial Search Institute Survey, which was completed in 2010.
Students in grades six, eight, 10 and 12 completed the survey, which is based on 20 internal and 20 external assets of students. The survey showed students with a high number of assets (30 to 40) do well in school and excel in many aspects of their lives, while those with few assets (0-10) struggle in many areas, including academics and risky behavior.
The following is breakdown of Zeeland students: 0-10 assets, 11 percent; 11-20 assets, 32 percent; 21-30 assets, 41 percent; 31-40 assets, 17 percent.
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Sensitivity can affect your spine and muscles around it. They are the core of your body, and they work hard to maintain balance and straight posture. Here are possible causes of pain that you feel when you lay down.
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Strain or pulled muscle
When lifting or twisting incorrectly, a pulled muscle or strain may occur. When performing certain movements or in certain positions, muscles, ligaments and tendons can become painful.
Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS), is a form of arthritis. AS pain is typically located in the lower back or pelvis. The pain is often worse at night when you are less active.
You may have a tumor, growth or other problem in your spine if you are experiencing persistent back pain. Because of the pressure placed on your spine, lying down will make your pain worse.
Although often called degenerative disc disease, the exact cause of this condition is unknown. DDD, despite its name, is not a disease. DDD is a progressive condition that can develop from injury or wear and tear over time.
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Lower back pain treatment
The diagnosis of your lower back pain will determine the treatment options. To relieve minor aches or pains, short-term treatment can also be carried out at home. The following are some of the options for at-home treatment:
When you sleep, elevate your legs and knees
- Heat pads
- Taking over-the-counter medications
Do not be inactive or idle for too long. To prevent stiffness, you might consider reducing your physical activity for a few days and gradually returning to normal.
Most minor lower back pain will resolve on its own within a few days. Talk to your doctor if it persists.
- AS Treatment
The severity of your case will determine the treatment for ankylosing Spondylitis. Your doctor might prescribe nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAIDs) to treat your case.
Your doctor may recommend biologic medication, such as a tumor necrosis inhibitor (TNF blocker) or interleukin 17(IL-17) inhibitor, if the NSAIDS don’t work. If your pain is severe, you may need surgery.
- Treatment for spinal cancer
The severity of the spinal tumor will determine what treatment is recommended. Radiation therapy or surgery may be recommended by your doctor to prevent nerve damage from the spinal cord. You have a greater chance of regaining your health if you recognize the symptoms as soon as possible.
- Treatment for degenerative discs
The majority of degenerative discs can be treated using non-surgical methods, such as:
- Pain medication
- Physical therapy
- weight loss
Surgery is often complicated, so it is best to postpone until you have other options.
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Gay Liberation Front veterans reflect on ‘radical’ changes since UK’s first-ever Pride march
On 1 July 1972, hundreds of queer people marched defiantly through the streets of London to demand that they be treated with respect by a society that loathed them.
It was a seismic moment in what was then a small, burgeoning liberation movement. The queer people who took to the streets that day were angry – they were sick of being policed, sick of being told that they were disordered, and sick of living in a society where their self-expression was strictly controlled.
Drawing from the women’s liberation movement and from the fight for Black civil rights in America, around 500 Gay Liberation Front (GLF) activists sent a clear message that they would no longer be silenced.
That march has gone down in history as the UK’s first ever Pride march, even if it wasn’t officially called that at the time. Half a century on, many of those GLF activists are dismayed by where the Pride movement has ended up. Today, police officers and arms manufacturers take part in Pride parades while politics largely takes a back seat.
Veterans from 1st UK Pride in 1972 in Trafalgar Square, where it started. L to R: me, Bruce Howard Bayley, Stuart Feather, Eric Ollerenshaw, Nettie Pollard & John Lloyd
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— Peter Tatchell (@PeterTatchell) June 20, 2022
That’s why some of those same activists are taking to the streets on 1 July to mark 50 years of Pride. They’re inviting everyone who “can’t stand” the Tory government to join them for a protest that will retrace the exact route of the 1972 march.
To mark 50 years of Pride, PinkNews sat down with Nettie Pollard and Stuart Feather, two of the activists who took part in the original GLF march, to reflect on their history of activism and to find out why they’re staging their own protest march in 2022.
PinkNews: You both marched in the first GLF march in 1972 – what was that like?
Nettie Pollard: I felt at home. It was a lovely experience to be out with so many other LGBTQ+ people. Ever since April of ’71 I’d been wearing a GLF badge all the time so I was very familiar with people’s reactions to gay people. I didn’t feel the least bit worried about the march – for some of the people, it was the most enormous step to go out in public.
Stuart Feather: It felt wonderful. There were maybe 500 of us on it so we felt very secure, very safe, and we were very prepared for all kinds of remarks being made as we passed by. By then the people that I identified with in GLF, we were becoming much clearer in what we wanted to do and what we wanted to be. So we were all in drag and make-up and nail varnish and stuff – not pretending to be women or anything like that, but just men in frocks who could be immediately identified as homosexuals. So that was really exciting.
PinkNews: Nettie, can you tell us a bit about what it was like for women in the gay liberation movement at that time? Was there too much of a focus on gay men?
Yes, I would say so. Also it’s that we were outnumbered by the men. I mean there were at least five times as many men as there were women there, so that’s partly why we started off by having a separate women’s group which met on a Friday. We would go to the general meeting on a Wednesday, and some people only went to the women’s group – we could talk very much about our experiences, how we felt about things. It was a private place where we could be ourselves.
Remember, things were much, much harder for women in those days. Women were expected to get married. They didn’t have equal pay, there was no sex discrimination act in force, there was no rape in marriage. Husbands could chastise their wives. We now have battered women legislation but it wasn’t there then. Women were not expected to take the lead in anything and they were not expected to have careers, and the lesbians who had children would lose their children immediately if they were seen on a gay march because that would be used against them by the courts.
How did you both come into activism and how did it connect with discovering your sexuality?
Stuart: Well I guess I’d been having sex with classmates at school from the age of about 13 or 14 – I can’t quite remember – but by 15 the penny dropped that I was one of them and that was a big shock at first. By 16 I had a regular boyfriend. He was 19 and he knew stuff about the Wolfenden report coming out. We arranged to go to different newsagents to buy the newspapers and we would go through them together at lunchtime to look at who was pro and who was anti in the newspapers. When I was 18 I left home and we got two separate bedsits in a house in Huddersfield and there was a big gay community there.
I’ve always had my bold moments. I remember, it was 1961, I had friends in South London and for some reason they said, ‘We’re going to this dance, would you like to come?’ And it was a straight dance. This boyfriend of mine was sort of doing little steps in the corner and I said, ‘Let’s just dance,’ so we did, and there was a sort of electric moment where people were startled, but within five minutes everybody was beaming and it all seemed perfectly natural. So that was a bit of an eye-opener for me.
Nettie: I was somebody who was attracted to men and totally failed as a heterosexual – never had a boyfriend and I was looking for a liberation movement. Then my best friend turned out to be gay and we went to a gay liberation meeting. I never looked back after that – I got very deeply involved in gay liberation, and then I found I was attracted to women. It was such a wonderful atmosphere – the things we did together, the fun we had.
It wasn’t all serious. People tend to think of pioneers being very serious and brave. It was in a way, but it was also about having great fun. After the gay Pride march [in 1972] we all went to Hyde Park and played silly games and shared food and took drugs, because recreational drugs were very much part of the culture of the GLF – mainly cannabis but also LSD. Quite a proportion of people who were involved in GLF also took those drugs. It’s something that brought us together. Family’s not quite the right word, but there was a connection with people we hadn’t known a year before. Suddenly they were part of us and we were part of them.
That first march in 1972 was very heavily policed – what was that like?
Nettie: Yes! There was almost more police than marchers – it was extraordinary, and they all looked very grim as well, like, ‘Do we really have to do this?’
Stuart: Disdainful, they were. They were looking down their noses and sneering, mainly. [GLF member] Andrew Lumsden found a policeman who gave him a long, sly wink – in fact, in those days there were lots and lots of gay policemen because it was a safe. No one would ever dream that a policeman could be gay. Police were so respected in those days – everyone believed that what they said was true.
Nettie: There were also policewomen – that was of great attraction to lesbians because it was a way of mixing with other women.
Was there any sense of fear or trepidation going into that first Pride march knowing that it was going to be so heavily policed?
Nettie: Well I was very used to going on demonstrations – I’d been on Vietnam demonstrations and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and others, so no, I wasn’t the least bit worried. Certainly being with all my comrades on this march, I didn’t feel the least bit nervous. I think the people who did feel nervous may have felt so because they weren’t out and this was a big coming out, but I had already done that.
It sounds like a time of really rich activism with different movements ready to come together and show solidarity. Could we do with more of that today?
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Nettie: I think there’s a split in a sense. We’ve got commercial Pride, the one on Saturday (2 July)… It’s not connected with liberation, nor are all of the floats, which are not very ecological to start with but advertising Barclays and Tesco – it really has become a parade and not necessarily a good parade. We wish well to all the people that go on it, the ordinary marchers. For some of those it’ll be the first time they’ve come out. But there is something drastically wrong with the movement, which is why the GLF is going to have its own demonstration which will be a protest.
Stuart: I think it’s rather difficult to get unity until we have a common political basis for understanding our position in society and that’s just not available at the moment. We are a socialist movement. The GLF right from the beginning was founded on socialism, on the idea of changing society, because we said, it’s not us who’s going to change, it’s society that’s going to change. I think that is the great block of misunderstanding on the part of some groups [today], and I don’t think intersectionality will work until we have a common basis for talking about our differences.
Nettie: Things have changed radically in the last 10 years. I think the movement got pretty complacent. People were saying things like, ‘Well we’ve got gay marriage and anti-discrimination laws, we don’t really need to exist anymore.’ But some of us were saying, ‘Yes, but for how long?’ It doesn’t mean we mightn’t be more oppressed again in the future, and I think we can see the way things are going. There are terrible things happening around the world with Roe v Wade and the issue of conversion therapy, which the government pretends they’re going to outlaw for lesbians and gays but which they’ll refuse to outlaw for trans people. We’ll have to see if they actually do anything – I don’t think they’re going to do anything for anybody. They’re just targeting trans people because they’re not as popular as the “respectable” lesbians and gays.
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The Creed of Half Japan, by Arthur Lloyd, , at sacred-texts.com
The title of this chapter is the title of a Japanese poem on the Life of the great Kōbō Daishi: "Glory to the Great Teacher."
Kōbō Daishi's life, as it has lived in the religious traditions of Japan, is full of wonders. It is true that the present generation scoffs at the wonders, and tries to construct lives of the distinguished monk with all the miracles left out. The rationalized biographies do not suit the popular fancy. It is as the wonder-working Apostle of a new form of faith that Kōbō Daishi lives in popular fancy, and the religious historian cannot afford to leave out the miracles which adorn or disfigure his life. The miracles are part and parcel of the religious history of the country.
The poem "Namudaishi" is a religious ballad, written in the ordinary 126.96.36.199 metre of the Japanese wasan. It is not a great poem; but it gives a good summary of Kōbō's life as it appears to the ordinary Buddhist believer in Japan. And it has never yet been presented to the English-speaking public. 1
1. On the fifth day of the middle decade of the sixth
month in the fifth year of Hoki, 1 in the Baron's Hall on the shore of Byōbu, in the land of Sanuki, a bright light shone. It was the birth of our great sage.
2. When the lad was but five years old he would sit constantly among the lotuses, and there hold converse with the Buddhas. But what he spoke of he never told, not even to his mother.
3. In his heart there arose the desire to save mankind from all their sorrows and pains, and he sought on Mount Shashin 2 to accomplish this desire by the sacrifice of his own life. Then angels came and saved him from death.
4. Whilst at play he built himself a pagoda of clay. The Four Heavenly Kings 3 at once came and stood guard over it. The Imperial Messenger passing by saw the prodigy and was amazed. "This," said he, "is a divine prodigy."
5. In the fifteenth year of his age, in spring-time, he left his native village and went to Kyōto, where he diligently studied all the doctrines of Confucianism. But he found that they contained no wisdom wherein he might put his trust.
6. In his search after truth he learned all Buddhist doctrines. Of all the Buddhas he learned to trust especially in Hōjō, 4 whom he made his special deity.
7. But [his mind was so nimble] that though he learned but one thing or two, he could thence deduce
a thousand. "Many are the ways," he said in his Sangoshiki; "but Buddhism is the best of all."
8. At Muroto in Tosa he was performing his devotions. A bright star fell from Heaven, and entered his mouth. At midnight an evil dragon came forth against him; but he spat upon it, and with his saliva he killed it.
9. It was in the nineteenth year of his age that, looking up to Gonzō as his religious guide, 1 he took upon himself the vows of the Bodhisattva, and became a homeless S’ramana, striving after enlightenment, and wearing the black silk robes of the Buddhist priest.
10. At Shusenji in the province of Idzu, and in other places besides, he discovered the hot springs bubbling out of the earth. And it was he that demonstrated to the world the use of coal. 2
11. Inside the tower of the Temple of Kumadera in Yamato there was revealed to him the doctrine which is above all others. 3 But as there was none whom he could question thereon, he received permission from the Emperor to go to China for study.
12. In company with the ambassadors 4 that were sent
to the Court of the Tangs in China, he arrived at a certain port of China. But the party was not allowed to land, because they had not come to the usual port of debarkation.
13. Then did our sage write a letter in the name of the ambassadors, in the which he described all the pains and perils of the voyage over the sea, with its storms and billows. And then were they allowed to land.
14. Keikwa the Ac’ārya 1 was delighted to welcome him, and having purified the Mandara 2 for him, committed to him the whole of the great law of the Ryōbu 3 in its entirety, to its lowest depths.
15. Keikwa the Ac’ārya told him that the secret treasure of the Shingon law lay hidden within the sacred books, and that it would be well for him to make use of the help of pictures. 4
16. [From Keikwa] Kōbō received over a hundred books explaining the Ryōbu Mandara as contained in the
doctrine of the Vajrayāna. 1 Also he received many sacred vessels and implements that had been handed down from the days of Amogha, 2 the doctor of the Tripitaka.
17. The boy 3 whom he met wrote the character for "dragon" upon the water. But our Sage, seeing that one small stroke had been omitted, took up his pen and supplied that which was wanting. Then the dragon revealed himself in his true form and flew away to the sky.
18. Under Prajnā, 4 the monk of Nālanda in Central India, and under Munis’ri, the Master of the Tripitaka, he studied Sanskrit, and was by them presented with many books of the Scriptures in Sanskrit.
19. With a pen in his mouth, one in each hand, and one in each foot, he wrote five lines of a poem simultaneously. The Tang Emperor was astonished at what he saw, and gave him the title of the "Five-Pen-Priest."
20. But when Keikwa his teacher died, he wrote his
memorial on a monument, moistening his inkslab with his tears, and erected it at Ryūgen.
21. Now, when he was about to return to his own land, standing on the sea-beach he threw his vajra 1 towards Japan. Strange to say, the vajra flew straight across, and was found hanging on the branch of a pine-tree at Takano. 2
22. The secret doctrines which he had learned in the land of the Tang, together with many precious and rare objects for the protection of the land, all these, together with the catalogue, he offered in the Imperial Palace.
23. When, to return thanks for the divine protection afforded to him during his travels, he offered incantations before the treeless temple-ground (of the god of Kasui), straightway green leaves and bright flowers came forth in abundance on what had till then been the "Naked Mountain." 3
24. Our land had once possessed the tea-plant, 4 but the use of tea had been quite forgotten. Our Sage brought with him a millstone and some seeds of the tea-plant,
and taught our people how to prepare tea and drink it.
[I omit verses 25–28, the only one of any importance being the one in which Shōtoku Taishi is said to have appeared to him to teach him the Shōman-gyō, a Sūtra which concerns itself mainly with the duties of lay women. V. 29 is important.]
29. In the second month of the second year of Kōnin (Feb., 811 A.D.), along with the Emperor Saga, he received the Kwanjō of the gods 1 from the hands of Ōnakatomi, the famous ritualist.
30. Then, beginning with Dengyō Daishi, he admitted into his Church the head priests of all the Nara sects who had faith in his doctrines, and administered to them the
[paragraph continues] Baptism which admitted them into the priesthood of the Secret Doctrine.
31. At a religious discussion in the Palace of the Seiryōden his body suddenly assumed the appearance of Vairoc’ana. The Divine Light (Kōmyō) streamed out from him, and the whole company, overawed and trembling, fell to the ground and worshipped him.
32. That he might pray for the prosperity of the Fujiwara House, 1 he set up an altar in the Nannendō (at Nara), and there offered worship to Kenjaku Son. 2 Thereupon the god (of Kasuga) made his appearance and chanted a song of praise.
33. From China he brought to Japan the soil upon which the eight pagodas, 3 had stood. This soil he divided amongst eighty-eight places (in Sanuki), so that they who suffer from illness, as the result of Karma either in the past life or present, might go round them on pilgrimage and so be cleansed from their sins.
34. He prayed where the water was brackish, where it was foul, where there was no water at all. Everywhere, to the great joy of mankind, wells of pure water sprang up.
35. In the mountainous districts of the province of Kii, two dogs, one white and one black, and a hunter, 4
came to show him the way, and brought him to a place where there had once been the shrine of an ancient Buddha. 1 The god was the guardian deity of that hunting-place.
36. Then Nyuzu appeared, the god of that place (Kōya), and offered him that place until the coming of Maitreya, 2 in order that the land might be blessed by him (Kōbō).
37. When first he began to open up Mount Kōya, after he had found on a pine tree the vajra he had thrown, and after the sword. 3 had come out from the earth, then indeed he knew that the place was the seat of ancient Buddhist worship.
38. Not only did he make the pool of Tōchi in Sanuki, but in other places also he made pools. In addition to bridges and piers, he repaired a great number of bridges.
39. In order to save men from the plague 1 he preached the inner meaning of the Heart-Sutra. The roads were filled with men that had been raised from the dead; the whole land enjoyed the blessings of peace.
40. He founded the temple upon Mount Bandai and placed there as his successor the priest Furuichi from Tsukuba. He subdued the wilderness of Mount Futāra and called the place Nikkō.
41. He was anxious that the flowers of literature should flourish among our men of the Land of the Day-spring, and composed in the letters of our country a poem on the four verses of the Tathāgata.
42. The doctrines of S’akyamuni are eighty-four thousand in all, the last 2 being the teaching on Nirvana which Buddha himself gave. The most important of these have been thus interpreted.
44. Thus any man who can write the Kana characters of the Iroha, 1 whether he understand their meaning or not, becomes the disciple of our great Sage, and receives the happiness that comes from the Law.
45. This syllabary he founded on the Sanskrit alphabet, which we venerate as sacred, and arranged according to the principles of Nirvana, 2 handing it down to us in a word-picture of fifty syllables. Thus he provided for the education of future generations.
46. Basing his action on the expressed wish of the Emperor Saga, he founded in the Tōji Temple at Kyoto a shrine for the worship of Hachiman, 3 where he worshipped the god and laid upon him the duty of protecting the Imperial House.
47. The god of Inari 1 appeared on Mount Fushimi and received from Kōbō's hand the sacrifice he offered. "Together, you and I," he swore, "we will protect this people."
48. When there was a drought, he received an order from the Emperor, and made supplication for rain in the Imperial Garden of Shinsen-yen. Then the Holy Maidens and the Nāga Princes 2 appeared, and there was a gentle rain over all the land.
49. To Kenne, 3 who had been his companion on his visit to China, he entrusted the sacred globe as an object of worship. "This," said he, "has been consecrated by many mystic enchantments."
50. He mastered all the five branches of knowledge; 4 he studied the whole of the ten Pitakas. He was proficient in painting and in sculpture, and in order to promote the
intellectual welfare of his countrymen he founded the Shugei-shuchi-in. 1
51. During the second week of the first month in every year, there is held in the Imperial Palace a Festival of Prayer for the reigning Emperor. This was instituted by him; it was a most magnificent festival, and was maintained for a thousand years, even to the days of Meiji. 2
52. On one day after the twentieth of the third month of the second year of Jōwa (A.D. 835) he foretold that he should die, and leaving behind him a hundred esteemed and valuable instructions, departed this life.
53. For those whose affectionate desire should draw their minds to the Sage in after years, the prince painted a portrait of him. The prince 3 did indeed paint the face, but the eyes were painted in by the Sage himself.
54. When he died it was as though a bright light had gone out in the midst of a black night. Thousands of his followers, lay and priestly, followed him weeping to the graveyard of Okunoin in Kōya.
55. And what have the Emperor Saga and the Sage between them? There had been some compact between them, for, to? when the Emperor died, his coffin was mysteriously borne through the air to Kōya, and Kōbō himself, coming forth from his grave, performed the funeral obsequies.
56. Then did the Emperor Uda himself, wisely following in his father's footsteps, receive from the Sage's hand the sacred Baptism, and thus set a good example for succeeding ages.
57. Eighty years after his decease, an Imperial Messenger opened the gate of his sepulchre. His hair, they found, had grown long upon his head; they shaved it off and gave him a change of garments. 1
58. The Emperor that reigned in the days of Engi 2 (i.e. Daigo) was deeply impressed by the lessons of his life, and honoured him with the title of Kōbō Daishi. 3
59. When Shunnyū, the Imperial Messenger to the Temple in which our great Sage is worshipped, was unable to see the face of the Sage, the Sage himself guided the worshipper's hand to touch his knee. Never, as long as he lived, did the messenger forget that feeling. 4
60. The Emperors Kwampyō and Shirakawa, the retired Emperor, Go-Uda, and several others of our rulers had such faith in the Sage's merits that they made pilgrimages to Kōya to worship at his sanctuary.
61. Verily the teaching of the Tathāgata of the Dharma Kaya 5 (the Spiritual Body) has been handed down without change and without break; through the long chain of our patriarchs the lamp of light has been handed down to us. 6
p. 257 p. 258
243:1 There is an English translation published in 1909, in a volume on Kōbō Daishi entitled "Namudaishi." But it was made by some Japanese who knew but little English, and had no English friend to correct his translation. It requires some knowledge of "English as she is spoke" to understand it.
244:1 I.e. June 15, A.D. 774.
244:2 Mount Shashin is in the Island of Shikoku. The word means "throwing away the body "; and the place "the Mountain of Self-oblation." The idea of religious suicide or self-immolation is one of the saddest features of mediæval Buddhism. It always gives me the idea of a diabolical perversion of Rom. xii. 1.
244:3 I.e. the Shi Tennō. Originally Hindu deities, they have been pressed by the Mahāyāna into the service of Buddhism.
244:4 Akas’agarba, a well-known Bodhisattva.
245:1 Gonzō must have been a monk of the Vinaya sect. See above chapter on Dharmagupta. To have a religious teacher seems to be a necessity in Buddhism. I have seen it stated that without a teacher one cannot be saved, because the Way is the effect, the teacher is the Cause, and therefore, however much of the Way a man has acquired, if it is done without a teacher it is an effect without a cause, i.e. nothing.
245:2 Notice how quaintly the practical Japanese mind mixes up the material with the spiritual.
245:3 The legend is that in answer to earnest prayers for guidance he was told in a dream to look for a certain book in the Temple of Kumadera. He looked, and the book which he found was the "Vairoc’ana Sutra," brought to China from Southern India by way of the sea, and containing that Shingon doctrine which has such marvellous resemblances to the Egyptian speculations.
245:4 The ambassador on this occasion was Fujiwara no Ason. The embassy took tribute to China.
246:1 Ac’ārya is an Indian word unknown to the earliest periods of the Mahāyāna. Its use denotes a long association of Brahmans and Buddhists.
246:2 The Mandara is in one sense the pleroma, i.e. the sum-total of the divine personalities that go to make up the Godhead. The word is also used (and here, according to the Japanese commentary) to denote a magic ring or circle, used in sorcery. We must never forget the great part that sorcery plays in the Shingon, just as it did in the Egyptian Gnosticism, and its kindred Cabbala.
246:3 The Ryōbu doctrine is that there are two worlds, of which one, the world of ideas, is fixed and eternal. The material world corresponds to the world of ideas, with this difference, that the one Idea in the Ideal World may have many material counterparts in the world of matter. Thus the gods of India may be taken as the corporeal counterparts of the incorporeal Truths which the Eternal Buddhas stand for. The same, however, holds good for the gods of China and Japan. And things which are equal to the same thing are equal to one another.
246:4 Shingonism has undoubtedly always been a most potent stimulant of art.
247:1 Vajrayāna, i.e. the Shingon, which explains the world by reference to the Diamond World, or World of Ideas (Vajradhātu). The use of this word seems to show that the Shingon is distinct from the other streams of the Mahāyāna.
247:2 Amogha (Jap. Fukū) reached China from Southern India during the seventh century. He was a most prolific writer.
247:3 This boy is said to have been a manifestation of Manjuśri, the Bodhisattva who represents Wisdom, and who is specially connected with China. We can see that Manjuśri, whose "true form" is that of a dragon, or Nāga, has a special connection with the Avatamsaka (Kegon) doctrine, which I have described in the chapter on Nāgārjuna. His worship in China must at this time have been very popular, for Prajna went to China especially to make inquiries about him.
247:4 Prajnā brings us into close touch with Christianity, for it was he that collaborated with a Nestorian priest in the translation of a book out of the Hu language (Persian?) into Chinese. The book is said to have been a Buddhist Sūtra, but this is doubtful. I have been able to find out nothing about Munis'ri; but it is said that there was a Brahman also in their company—another indication pointing to the Hindu affinities of the Shingon.
248:1 The vajra is a little instrument of incantation, made of copper or some other metal, and looking somewhat like a thunderbolt, when held in the hand of the celebrant. It plays a large part in the Shingon ritual, and is an element in the names of many Shingon books and Shingon priests.
248:2 I.e. Kōya.
248:3 The story is that, when Kōbō started, he made a prayer at the Shrine of Usa Hachiman, commending himself to the protection of the gods. In answer to this prayer the god of Kasui (whose name is not given) promised to accompany Kōbō on his journey and to protect him wherever he went. In return for this Kōbō produced the trees and flowers. It is clear from this that Kōbō's object in going to China was to find a moyen de vivre for Buddhism and Shinto.
248:4 The same claim is made in the twelfth century for Eisai, the founder of the Sōtō sect. It would seem that in the long period of civil war the art of tea-growing was again lost.
249:1 This was evidently the formal inauguration of the Ryōbu Shinto. The Emperor, Saga Tenno, and Kōbō were baptized (Kwanjō) into the Shinto community by the chief ritualist of that faith. And the Shintoists in their turn were baptized into Buddhism by Kōbō. The bargain was struck on the assumption that the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas were essentially the same beings as the Shinto gods, and that the two religions meant the same thing, though they said it in different language. It does not matter, says the Shingon commentator, in praising the Scripture of the Lotus of the Good Law, whether one says in Sanskrit, Saddharmapundarika sūtram, or in Chinese, Myō Hō Renge Kyō, or in Japanese, Tayenaru nori no hachisu no hana no minori. The meaning and the effect are identical in each case.
Of the Emperor Saga, Murdoch says ("History of Japan," vol. i. p. 227) that he was "undoubtedly a highly accomplished man of brilliant parts … deeply versed in Chinese literature; that he did everything to encourage its study, and exerted himself to complete the Sinicization of the country." It was, however, more the splendour and magnificence of the Chinese Court than its solid virtues that appealed to him. Luxury and ostentation crept in, the nobles found it hard to meet the expenses of the Court life, and relief had to be granted them by exempting their domains from Imperial taxes. This impoverished the Court, created great semi-independent baronies, and brought about precisely that state of affairs which Kwammu had been at such pains to avert when he tried to break the power of the great Nara monasteries.
250:1 The Fujiwara family were coming into prominence at this time. For many years the head of this family was the practical director of the Emperor's councils; and the custom subsists to this day that the Empress of Japan is always a Fujiwara. The god of Kasuga, Ama no Koyane, is the deified progenitor of the Fujiwaras.
250:2 Kenjaku Son is a name given to the Bodhisattva Amoghapasa, often identified with Kwannon.
250:3 The eight pagodas are the eight stupas in India built over the relics of S’akyamuni, whose ashes were divided amongst eight tribes.
250:4 Kōbō Daishi knew better than to forbid hunting. The experiment had been tried during the Nara period, with the result that the nobles and warriors, after a brave attempt to comply with the Buddhist law, p. 251 had given up in despair and gone back to their hunting ways. My friend, Mr. Yanagita, of Ushigome, Tokyo, was kind enough to send me a few weeks ago a little pamphlet about some peculiar hunting customs in a little village on the slopes of the volcano of Mount Aso. Amongst other practices, it is customary in that village to hold a funeral service over the dead body of the wild boar. The form of service, which is called indō, and is very ancient, was drawn up for the villages by Kōbō Daishi.
251:1 Said to be Kaśyapa Buddha, S’akyamuni's immediate predecessor.
251:2 Kōbō constantly taught that Maitreya, the disciple of S’akyamuni, who has reached to Bodhisattvaship, and is now in the Tushita heaven, from whence he came once to lecture for Asangha (see above, Chapter XVI. p. 163), will come again at the end of the age to restore all things by the confuting of heretics. This is not a universal belief among Japanese Buddhists; but it is very strongly held by the Japanese Shingon.
251:3 In India ruling families belonging to the so-called Sun Dynast make a great deal of the Sword. Kōbō Daishi, who was a Sanskritist, probably knew this, and it may have been he that pointed out the importance to the Imperial Family of Japan (also a Sun Dynasty) of the Sacred Sword. We find the same idea with Attila and the Huns, and also perhaps in King Arthur's sword Excalibur.
252:1 This outbreak of plague is assigned in the Commentary to the year 820. Murdoch does not mention it. The Commentary passes over without a word the clause concerning the men raised from the dead. The Heart-Sūtra is the Prajnā Parāmitā Hridaya Sūtra, a very short Sūtra, which will be found in S.B.E.
252:2 The Sects are not in agreement as to which is to be considered the last Sūtra that Buddha preached. Some say the Nirvana teachings came last, but others give that place to the "Saddharmapundarika" or the Amida books.
253:1 The word Iroha, like our English word "alphabet," represents the first three characters of the Japanese syllabary, as arranged by Kōbō Daishi.
253:2 This is a reference to the well-known text, of which the Iroha poem is but a paraphrase—
"All phenomena are impermanent,
Because they are subject to the law of origination and perishing:
When this law of origination and perishing comes to an end
Calm will be found to be the true happiness."
253:3 Hachiman, a deification of the Japanese Empress Ōjin. Had Kōbō been contented with identifying Japanese deities with Buddhas he would have satisfied many minds. But his introduction of unnecessary Indian deities was much resented. Nichiren, for instance, accepts Amaterasu as Dainichi, and Ōjin as Hachiman, but attacks the other identifications most severely.
254:1 Inari is the farmers' god, the god of rice. Kōbō had already won the favour of the Imperial House, of the warriors, of the Fujiwaras, by his skilful identifications of deified heroes with Buddhas and Bodhisattvas. Now he claims the allegiance of the farmers. We can admire his great ingenuity; all the same, it was a terrible prostitution of the truth, and we are not astonished that the manly samurai should always have had the utmost contempt for him as an ingenious and not over-scrupulous miracle-monger.
254:2 Nothing is said in the English translation of "Namudaishi" (to which I have already alluded) about the Nāgas and maidens. But they are mentioned in the Japanese original.
254:3 Kenne is otherwise unknown. The "sacred globe" (Jap. hōshū) is a crystal ball.
254:4 The five branches of knowledge are the same as the five "branches of learning" which we used sometimes to hear of as children. The expression "ten pitakas," or ten Collections of Scriptures, seems to point to a conclusion that I have long since come to, though I have never had the opportunity of working it out, that the Chinese Buddhist Canon represents a collection of the Holy Books of ever so many distinct religious bodies, each of which requires quite independent treatment.
255:1 A sort of College. There were many of these founded during the reigns of the learned emperors. See Murdoch's "History of Japan," vol. i. p. 229.
255:2 This custom has now been given up.
255:3 The prince was Shinnyo, the third son of the Emperor Heijo.
256:1 In the minds of his followers, the Sage is still uncorrupted in his tomb, awaiting the coming of Maitreya. The Baptism of the Emperor Uda (if by Kōbō) must have been miraculous, for he did not come to the throne until 887.
256:2 The year-period Engi was from 908–922 A.D.
256:3 Kōbō's original name was Kūkai, and ultra-imperialist Confucianists always speak of him as such. Kōbō Daishi means "The Great Teacher who spread the Law."
256:4 This story is to be found in Satow and Hawes’ "Handbook to Japan," p. 416 (2nd edition).
256:5 I.e. Vairoc’ana, whose body is a spiritual body, and therefore unchangeable and everlasting, without beginning or end.
256:6 The patriarchs of the Shingon are well known. They are reckoned as eight: (1) Vairoc’ana, (2) Vajrasattva, (3) Nāgārjuna, (4) Nāgabodhi. These were in India. Then in China there were: (5) Vajrabodhi, (6) p. 257 Amoghavajra (Fukū), (7) Hui-Kuō (Jap. Keikwa). Then the doctrine comes to Japan with Kōbō.
There is a second enumeration. Vairoc’ana and Vajrasattva, they say, must not count, as very little is known of them. The eight patriarchs must be reckoned as: (1) Nāgārjuna, (2) Nāgabodhi, (3) Vajrabodhi, (4) Subhakarasiṇha (Jap. Zenmui), (5) Amoghavajra, (6) Keikwa, (7) Ichigyō, (8) Kōbō.
It must be noticed—
(i) that Nāgārjuna gets his information from Vajrasattva, who gets it from Vairoc’ana. It does not, therefore, represent a very old teaching. Nāgārjuna is reckoned as the thirteenth Patriarch of the Zen sect; he is at most only the third Patriarch of the Shingon. And if we assume Nāgārjuna to have lived about the middle of the second century, the inference is almost irresistible that Vajrasattva and Vairoc’ana cannot date from much before the middle of the first.
(ii) The Shingon Patriarchs, Vajrabodhi, Amoghavajra, etc., reached China, viā the sea-route, during the sixth and seventh centuries. They came from South India and Ceylon, in both of which places there were Egyptian colonies.
(iii) I have already in a previous chapter given many instances showing the close connection between Egyptian Gnosticism and the Shingon. I will now give another.
In the commentary to the last verse of Namu Daishi, the writer says that the Shingon is different from other forms of Buddhism. It has had no great changes, no violent reformations, no developments. Its doctrine has been handed down from generation to generation of the faithful by the transmission of what is called the "Seal of Vairoc’ana." The "Seal of Vairoc’ana" is said to be the secret meaning of the letter A in the Sanskrit alphabet. A-ji, as it is called, is a very sacred thing to a Shingonist. "The paths which must be trodden in visiting the buildings of Kōya San," say Satow and Hawes (l.c.), "together form the Sanskrit letter A, which is regarded as the symbol of the Taizōkai" (i.e. the Diamond World, or World of Ideas, of which Vairoc’ana is the centre and the life). In "Pistis Sophia" (Schmidt's edition, p. 81) there is a note given by a later hand. According to this, the Seal of the Undying One (ἀθάνατος, in Shingon, Amida is always amṛita) is ααα. He that sitteth on the throne (i.e. Christ the "First Mystery") is ααα; the interpretation of the whole Name of God is αααα, αααα, αααα. Ὁ μὲν πρῶτος οὐρανὸς φθέγγεται τὸ Α, says Irenæus of the Gnostic Marcus (Iren., lib. i. cap. xiv. 7). The Gnostics, it is well known, stole the Christ of the Christians. The Shingon, possibly without knowing it, have been for centuries the receivers of stolen goods.
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This is an area of putting out countdowns that I know is going to cause some controversy, but what the heck. We’ve never shied away from controversy, so why start now right?
So what is a Lyricist? Standard definition is: A lyricist is a writer who specializes in writing lyrics. For the sake of this post we’ll focus on Lyricist who specialize in writing lyrics for rap/hip-hop songs.
Warning! This is NOT top 5 most popular rappers or those that fill their songs with only punch lines so let’s our head away from the popularity contest.
5. Ill Blisss
Ill Bliss sometimes goes under the radar in terms popular hip-hop acts in Nigeria, and he’s not about the flash or the shine that comes with being in the game, but don’t get it twisted Oga Boss is sweet on the mic. With heavy story telling lyrics, that often blends english and igbo, his lyrics come out very clear and straight to the point. No need for forced punch lines and trying to impress.
“We are not of the same make/Somehow Illy found that commercial break/You remind of drake without the mic skills, just a pretty boy rocking transgender jeans/ Go ahead look stupid with the eye brow piercing, Me & X just dey drop lessons /Feel free to learn, the question is when” – Deep Down with XYZ
4. Ghost (SDC)
Not to take anything from the other half of SDC, Tec, but when it comes to lyricism, Ghost so takes the cake in the group. Whether it’s doing the punch line thing or the story telling mode, Ghost leaves a serious mark on any track he blesses. Probably one of my fav verses from him is his verse in Wetin I Go Do, which he takes us through the initial conversation with a lovely lady. You can almost use that as a guide on how to approach a lady.
I wont type out every word, but here’s a microcosm of his skill. Other impressive showings include, Getting You from their Dreamer Project album, Speaking In Tongues & I Got That Yeah (Clone Wars 2) . Actually almost everything he’s been on.
“Excuse me darling, I’m sorry I don’t mean to interrupt / I’m sure you’ve been approached by every brother in this club / so you’re used the attention / but I have a confession / when I saw you, wahali my heart stopped a couple of seconds / But what you working with is like a deadly weapon / You’re blessed, I’m guess your father is a reverend.” – Wetin I Go Do (The Dreamer Project)
3. Kahli Abdu
One of the most respected names in Nigerian hip-hop, Kahli Abdu is highly underrated and is primarily because he is one of the few purists we have in the game. He’s really about the kpangolo ish, and stays true to the game. His Ministry of Corruption mixtape could be arguably one of the dopest mixtapes in Nigeria over the past decade. (Dont argue, just accept).
What’s even more impressive is that you get the feeling Kahli has barely even scratched the surface with what he’s put out, and it’s been a lot already. The one thing I love about Kahli’s verses is that it’s like a story. You can put in a mixtape, and listen a few short stories that you can feel, relate to or empathize with.
“I lost my girlfriend over bullshit / I just let it go, I’m like i need a new chick / A few weeks in the scene and it’s useless / Truth is all these other girls are loser dawg, I cant do this / Now my ex is spreading rumors saying that I’m ruthless / How I got to this, I’m clueless” – WTF (Rebel Friday)
2. MI Abaga
You can’t argue with this one even if your life depended on it. Without a doubt, he is the most successful rap act Nigeria has seen. He was not the first, neither is he the ‘best’ but he’s the one that took it to a whole new level. As commercial as MI is, don’t get it twisted when it comes to lyrics, MI is a straight beast. So much so that he actually writes for a few others (we wont mention). He’s a lyricist & a song writer.
MI best lyrical work comes from his earlier stuff, and actually some tracks that might not even be hit songs per say. His word play, story telling, and sometimes mixing that with punchlines is unrivaled.
“Now I see that I’m narcissistic, so sadistic, I must’ve missed it, over time it was me that was pulling me back. He said, I falsely accused you, then I used you, then refused your help to help me see, I was pulling me back. She said, I know I went ballistic, cos I don’t want to be a statistic, is this realistic, it’s been pulling me back. Then she said, I wanna do this again, so let’s pretend, close your eyes, count to ten, go back when, it was nothing that was pulling me back. ” – Pulling Me Back
1. Mode 9
Modo Baba! Did you really expect anything different? Mode9 has been a beckon of light all rappers look up to, and no rapper in their right mind will ever want to try (Just ask Ruggedman). But besides the diss track, Mode9 often gets passed on because he’s not commercial, but anyone that knows anything about hip-hop in Nigeria knows Modo is King, and anytime the time comes, Mode9 shows what he’s made of (check Naija cypher).
So what’s so special about Mode9? His lyrics are clear, well thought out, not always masked with punchlines, but more importantly he’s almost annoyingly consistent. You can’t wait for Mode9 to have a wack patch of form, and you’ll be waiting for a long time. Even what could be wack, is still better than a lot of acts out there.
Modo is King! Dont argue, just accept.
“You rap for mechanics I rap and you panic/ leave you manic depressed damn it/ im too NICE,I expose you, now your covers compromised, shame on you / now pull your head warmer over your eyes / Take it off , eh hen !! Modenine is with the prize/Im bigger than you lyrically forget about size / heard your third albums gonna be your last, bye bye/ Hustling to sell it to shoe makers they no buy / waka waka waka was a track that nobody felt / OJB rap better than you, you need help!! / Know your secrets but I wont hit below the belt / Huuuuuu@@ do I hear a sight of relief?? Too easy” – Death Blow (Ruggedman Diss)
Notable mentions: Tec (SDC), Vector, Terry Tha Rapman, Loose Kaynon, Pryse, J-Berg.
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George Orwell's essay "Shooting an Elephant" explains the variations of tyranny. There is, of course, the colonial rule and control of England over Burma; on the other hand, there is the "tyranny of the majority" as the Burmese who stand watching the imperialist to see what he will do exert upon Orwell as he feels their physical threat:
For it is the condition of his rule that he shall spend his life in trying to impress the "natives"....
Here, then, are some reasons why shooting the elephant Orwell feels it is justifiable, as well as reasons why it is not.
- Orwell can display the British "good form" of acting with colonial discipline and protocol to the mocking Burmese priests, and, perhaps, quiet their dissent.
- As a member of the ruling race, he must kill the elephant because he cannot display sympathy for the dead Burmese man.
- In order to show power over the "sneering yellow faces of young men," who stand around him watching to see what he will do once he arrives on the scene, Orwell must act the part of the imperialist and exert power in whichever way is necessary.
They did not like me, but with the magical rifle in my hands I was momentarily worth watching. And suddenly I realised that I should have to shoot the elephant after all. The people expected it of me and I had got to do it; I could feel their two thousand wills pressing me forward, irresistibly.
If he does not shoot the elephant, he will be ridiculed.
- A white man must never display fear before the "natives." By doing so, he may avert being trampled upon and "reduced to a grinning corpse."
- While it may be practical for him to shoot the elephant, Orwell, he really does not want to shoot it, as doing so seems pointless.
- Shooting a "working elephant" is a serious matter:
It is comparable to destroying a huge and costly piece of machinery.
- The elephant is not a rogue elephant; "it seems very tame and docile as it calmly eats the grass. "...the elephant looked no more dangerous than a cow."
- Orwell feels it is morally wrong to kill the elephant. As he watches the elephant feeding with its "grandmotherly air that elephants have," it seems to Orwell "that it would be murder to shoot him."
- The elephant is worth more alive to the owner than if it were dead.
George Orwell writes this narratve to make a point about Imperialism. In and around all of the beautiful figurative language he employs, the elephant becomes a symbol of both the oppressed and the oppressors. Orwell presents us with both sides, placing himself in the story in a no-win situation. He recognizes the limitations of Imperialism at the same time that he recognizes the innocence of the elephant. He also admits his hate of the Burmese at the same time admitting his fear of appearing foolish in front of them.
The justifications for shooting the elephant include the fact that the elephant has damaged a hut, killed a cow, stolen fruit, and killed a Coolie. This gives him legal justification. While he recognizes the fact that the elephant's must is passed, he is pressed to shoot the elephant because of the will of the native crowd that has ammassed. He is more concerned with looking foolish in front of them than honoring the life of the elephant or worrying about its owner's livelihood.
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A Victim Of Her Own Poor Personal Choices? Why are middle-class New Zealanders so eager to visit the sins of struggling working-class parents upon their innocent children? And why are the comfortable so blind to the social consequences of punishing the poor?
MY NEPHEW is a policeman. For the last two years he’s been part of the beefed-up policing effort in South Auckland. He has his share of “better work stories”, but most of the policing he does is “domestic related”.
When he told me this, I pictured him stepping between angry men and women. That’s certainly a big part of his job, but what shocked me were his stories about children.
“The first thing we do is check to see that the kids are all right. So, it’s: ‘Where’s the fridge?’ No fridge. You’d be amazed how many houses I’ve been in that didn’t have one. So you look for the pantry. Nothing. No food. And there’s five kids in the house.”
My nephew isn’t judgemental. He simply tells me: “It’s a totally different world. People’s expectations are completely different. If you haven’t seen it, you just can’t imagine it.”
Our failure, as a nation, to respond to the reality of poverty, especially as it affects children, is, overwhelmingly, a failure of imagination. There are hundreds of thousands of New Zealanders who simply cannot conceive how a family could live without a fridge. How a pantry could be empty of food. How children could be left to go hungry.
Following an item on TV3’s Campbell Live showing the full lunch-boxes of Year 6 pupils at a Decile Ten primary school and the almost total absence of lunch-boxes (and lunches!) among children of the same age at a Decile One school, the letters columns of the daily press were filled with parental indignation.
This wasn’t evidence of child poverty, the letter-writers railed, this was evidence of parental failure and neglect.
The people who take this position aren’t heartless and judgemental right-wingers (as some of my hard-line left-wing brethren have been quick to brand them) they are simply working from a different set of expectations.
It is probable that they have never experienced a prolonged period without money. It’s equally unlikely that they have ever faced weeks or months without enough food to eat or a place to live. The chances are similarly high that they have never been forced to beg a state servant to provide these things for themselves and their family.
If no one you know has ever been penniless, hungry or homeless; if your expectations of an income, a well-stocked refrigerator and a warm and comfortable home have always been met; then it is actually very difficult to attribute the absence of these necessities to anything other than poor personal choices.
And if someone allows their children to depart for school hungry and without a full lunch-box simply because they’ve made poor personal choices, then that person is guilty of neglecting – even abusing – his or her children and deserves to be punished severely.
This is clearly the thinking behind the present government’s welfare reforms. Poor personal choices are being tackled head-on. Any repeated failure on the part of a welfare beneficiary to meet a very basic set of social and familial expectations is going to be punished – hard.
But self-righteous retribution is a poor substitute for empathic imagination. It does, however, allow us to kid ourselves that we’ve answered the biggest question arising out of the poverty debate: How does this happen? Once we’ve decided that poverty is the result of poor personal choices, then the search for evidence can cease. We all know the causes: time to concentrate on the remedies.
But we don’t know the causes – not really. We don’t like to think about the expectations that poverty hard-wires into children, or of its effects on the people attempting to raise them. We don’t factor in the consequences of domestic violence on childhood development, or the impact of poor nutrition and the diseases of poverty on the little human-beings growing up in houses without fridges, where the cold and damp weakens immune systems. We don’t grasp the effect on a child’s education of always being hungry, or having to move house every few months. We can’t imagine what it’s like: always being a stranger in the classroom; an outsider in the playground. We don’t think about the sort of person a child like that grows into.
Are these really “poor personal choices”? Did these children ask to be born into poverty? And do we ever stop to think what sort of people (with what sort of expectations and addictions) they will grow into? Because children do not remain children forever. As the sapling is bent, so grows the tree.
Only a handful of us: schoolteachers, nurses, doctors and, yes, policemen, move freely between the two nations that New Zealand now encompasses. If only our hearts and minds would open as wide as our eyes when we learn what they have seen in the nation of the poor.
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Moreover, in order to ensure confidence in their customers, all reputable online stores will offer you the option of money back in case you are not satisfied with the product you bought. In my perfect world, someone would cart me around everywhere, set up my music equipment for shows, quarantine the hipsters, and pay for me to stay in a luxury hotel during this exhausting week.
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The main thing for most of the musicians I know, is that having fun while playing is the most important thing. With bands like Wisebird and The Naked Eyes as well as solo artists like Brian Thunder who come from the Salt Lake City and Ogden areas, it makes for a good music scene.
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The last meeting of the Council of Ministers saw the passing of the draft of the budget for 2016. It will now be consulted with social partners.
When addressing the basic figures contained in the draft one has to recognize that the estimation of the deficit limit at a record high level of 54.6 bln PLN is a cause for concern. On the other hand, conservative income prognoses indicate that some of this sum is only a buffer against the necessity of amending the budget in case of unpredictable developments next year.
Prognoses for key macroeconomic indices have not changed in relations to the guidelines to the draft of the budget presented in June. The government estimates can be seen as realistic. The expected average annual inflation rate is the most objectionable, as it can turn out to be significantly lower than the Ministry of Finance assumes. This would exert negative pressure on the realization of the budget income plan, but due to the caution applied when constructing the plan, it should not lead to exceeding the budget limit.
Maintaining basic budget discipline is ensured by the stabilized spending regulation passed two years ago. Nonetheless, the budget draft is not free of pre-election elements, the inclusion of which means that the path of restricting public deficit delineated in the latest amendment to the convergence program will not be kept. This is bad news, as the current period of relatively good economic climate should be used to improve the balance of government and local government institutions. The realization of this goal is aided by the currently low public debt maintenance costs and the fact that GDP dynamics is approaching 4 percent.
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What Are Editing and Proofreading?
Editing and proofreading is a combination of all corrections and changes made in the process of editing and proofreading the author’s text (books, articles, etc.). The editor pays attention to both the form and the content, performing the necessary semantic changes in the text. Proofreading is the correction of spelling, punctuation, and typing mistakes.
How can specialists help students?
It is necessary to mention that the same person often performs the tasks of a writer, editor, and proofreader. For example, a student who wrote an essay should then check it for mistakes. Of course, this is rather complicated and painstaking work. Therefore, many students contact reliable companies, providing online essay writing services with the help of professional academic writers, like CustomWritings.
This, of course, is the guarantee that they will get excellent work without grammar and spelling errors, verified by the editor and proofreader.
After filling out an application on the website, the student receives an answer from the manager, clarifies the cost of work, the time of writing, the necessary requirements, etc. After that, he makes an advance payment, and specialists start writing the work. As soon as the paper is written and verified, the manager informs the client. Thus, the student gets a unique work checked by the editor and proofreader.
Common editing and proofreading mistakes
The common editing and proofreading mistakes that should be avoided are discussed below.
The manifestation of restlessness and inattention
To carry out proofreading and editing of texts takes a lot of time and special attention to the smallest details. But many of us simply do not have enough time to work on original materials in a free and relaxed atmosphere.
The high rhythm of modern life, when you need to do several things at the same time, leaves no room for work on grammar and spelling. Therefore, the main rule of proofreading and editing is that nothing should distract from checking the texts.
Non-observance of work discipline
The peculiarity of the work of our brain makes it difficult to find typos. During the normal reading, the brain instantly scans the contents of the text and, first of all, analyzes its meaning, trying to understand what is written.
To understand the order of letters, you need to abstract from the meaning of the text and concentrate on the rules of spelling.
Work in a hurry
Editing and proofreading do not tolerate fuss and haste. Indeed, the technical verification of textual content is a thorough process, when you need to peer into each letter, comma and point. Instead of a simple cursory review of entire sentences and paragraphs, you will have to check slowly all the words to see the content through the eyes of future readers.
Check on the day of writing
If the text is written today, postpone the final review until tomorrow. A fresh look will help you find typos and errors that are carefully hidden between the author’s lines.
If you need to hand over the material today, take a break from work for one to two hours and check a little later. This ensures the high efficiency of editing and proofreading even in a short time.
Correction of mistakes not in all places at once
If you find a typo or find a mistake — immediately correct the spelling. Use the search on the page and immediately change the words with errors to the correct spelling.
Incorrect spelling of names
Respect proper names: names of cities, geographical objects, historical figures, and just ordinary people with whom you live in the same historical era. If you have any doubts about the correct spelling, go to the official Internet resource (the source of the material), where you will find the correct version in the original interpretation.
Non-compliance with uniformity
The inconsistency in the choice of signs and symbols, the different spelling of numeric and physical quantities, as well as other common mistakes, are clearly visible to an outsider who will notice not only mistakes but also similar shortcomings.
It is important to develop a unified method of writing and follow the rules of editing and proofreading. Pay attention to any details: headings, links, image captions, tables, and explanations.
Deviation from the own style
Create your own style of writing and proofreading texts and observe it strictly. It will eliminate many corrections and save a lot of time on checking copyright materials.
The lack of desire to contact specialists
When there is not enough time or attention to detail is not your trait, then you need a professional editor and proofreader. A full-time specialist will help solve the problem with editing and proofreading, as well as tell you what you should pay special attention to. Subsequently, this will become a habit, and you will be able to see mistakes that were previously invisible.
The reluctance to take friendly help
If you find errors in other people’s materials, you should inform the authors in a friendly manner. Each of us is wary of being caught in illiteracy and, therefore, scrupulously treats personal gaps in the field of spelling and grammar.
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Managing your website, it’s not obvious. Certain websites initially have a nice layout, but due to the careless introduction of the content, there is not much left of that design. Therefore, save yourself from seven mistakes made and turn your website into a great masterpiece!
Tip 1: avoid miles of text
Internet reads differently than paper. For example, texts on a website must be “scannable”. Use attractive, short chapter titles, sufficient blank lines, headers and summaries. And above all, short to-the-point texts are lord and master on the internet.
Tip 2: visual language
A website is ideal for catchy or inspiring visual material. Text only works if there is a suitable picture to confirm what you are saying. impersonal stock images or photos of poor quality should really be avoided: Rely on an experienced photographer or art director.
Tip 3: smile please
What is not allowed on a passport, is a must on a team page: laugh. Sometimes team pages often resemble a collection of wanted criminals. Why not just go crazy? Feel free to see it from another side. People will find you sympathetic and are curious to get to know you.
Tip 4: color bomb
All those colors are an attack on the retina of your visitor. Keep your corporate identity tidy and watch over the readability of your website. Not everyone has the same sense of color, but you do not want to be regarded as a tasteless company.
Tip 5: stop yelling!
Select what is really important because not everything on your homepage can be emphasized just as hard. If “everything” stands out, “nothing” really stands out again. Avoid exclamation marks, block letters, hard colors, etc. If you don’t yell you appear more friendly and get a lot more in return.
Tip 6: watch out for poor SEO
“I want to be at the top of Google” is a frequently asked question. But then you first have to get to know your visitors and know how they are looking for you online. If the keywords do not appear anywhere on the website, you will not be found on them … As a website administrator you can help yourself a lot.
Tip 7: Text errorz
It is more common than you think: a website that is full of language errors. We know that copywriters do not work for free, so if you want to write yourself, have your work proofread by someone who does have some language sensitivity.
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The chief temple of a Roman city, the capitolium, was generally located at one end of the forum. The standard Roman temple was a blend of Etruscan and Greek elements; rectangular in plan, it had a gabled roof, a deep porch with freestanding columns, and a frontal staircase giving access to its high plinth, or platform. The traditional Greek orders, or canons (Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian respectively), were usually retained, but the Romans also developed a new type of column capital called the composite capital, a mixture of Ionic and Corinthian elements. An excellent example of the canonical temple type is the Maison Carree (circa ad 4) in Nimes, France.
Roman temples were erected not only in the forum, but throughout the city and in the countryside as well; many other types are known. One of the most influential in later times was the type used for the Pantheon (ad 118-28) in Rome, consisting of a standard gable-roofed columnar porch with a domed cylindrical drum behind it replacing the traditional rectangular main room, or cella. Simpler temples based on Greek prototypes, with round cellas and an encircling colonnade, such as that built about 75 bc at Tivoli, near Rome, were also popular. (MacDonald, 1986).
Recreational buildings and shops were dispersed throughout the Roman city. The shops were usually one-room units (tabernae) opening onto the sidewalks; many, including combination mill-bakeries, can still be seen at Pompeii and elsewhere. Sometimes an entire unified complex of shops was constructed, such as the markets built in the reign (ad 98-117) of Trajan on the Quirinal Hill in Rome and still standing, which incorporated scores of tabernae on several levels and a large vaulted two-story hall. « mai multe referate din Istorie | <urn:uuid:c4c1c76a-dba0-43cf-8b44-d8f3f2f6be34> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.e-referate.ro/referate/Roman_buildings2015-10-14.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00270.warc.gz | en | 0.965408 | 541 | 3.484375 | 3 |
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The plumbing professional's tape is most likely among the most essential things that you must have when trying to repair your plumbing system. There is even a saying that goes; "if a plumber's tape cannot repair it, after that nothing can". Although this is not absolutely real, there are times when this claiming is appropriate. For instance, if you wish to fix a damaged water pipes, the initial point that you have to do is to use the plumbing technician's tape. Just have it coiled the water pipes string to tighten the connection of the pipes and also bring it back with each other.
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Jean Purdy, Nurse & Embryologist
Discarded, annulled, and obscured, the tribulations and triumphs of Jean Purdy have been long dismantled by the patriarchy and further disparaged from accreditation in unraveling one of the most revolutionizing and prolific revelations within the scientific spectra. However, with extensive years of biases domineering over history, both Purdy’s life and variegated accomplishments still prevail within the penumbra of ambiguity and obscurity, despite several institutions beginning to enlighten others and salvage her fruitful contributions to the science domain.
Jean Marian Purdy, trailblazing nurse and proficient embryologist, was born on April 25, 1945 in Cambridge, England. Born to unidentifiable parents, Purdy was well acclimated with premium eminence education, wherein her enrollment within Cambridgeshire High School for Girls was believed to have prompted the preliminary origins of her scientific proclivities. Bolstered with quality education, Purdy manifested herself rather emblematically and with great esteem, from her distinguished position as the institution’s long-standing prefect, an all-star sports player, and even a prominent violinist within the school’s ensemble. However, despite equilibrated productivity within both academic and artistic spectrums, Purdy chose to allocate her pursuits towards science, wherein she triumphantly established her registration as a nurse prior to laboring under Southampton General Hospital. Unfortunately, Purdy and the hospital’s work ethics and climate conflicted, and she transferred to a local facility and proceeded to produce abundant research and investigations revolving around tissue rejection.
Upon completion, Purdy sought out for alternate prospects, from working at Papworth Hospital to subsequently being employed and taken under the wing by Robert Edwards at Cambridge’s Physiological Laboratory. Deeply archived within historical records, the alliance between three (not two!) scientists comprising Robert Edwards, Patrick Steptoe, and Jean Purdy were unraveled to have pioneered, spearheaded, and effectuated in vitro fertilization (IVF), leading subsequently to the first successful conception of the test tube baby. Described to be of great resilience and perseverance, Jean Purdy worked in close proximity with Edwards and Steptoe as they continued to hypothesize on plausible prospects and techniques, of which may be employed to treat infertility as a result of internal/external damage or blockage within the fallopian tubes.
From here, Purdy alongside Edwards and Steptoe conducted experimental researches, conclusively reaching an investigation on having physically extract mature eggs from the ovaries and combining them with sperm cells to be fertilized, applying the in vitro methodology, or simply the “in glass” technique, before re-injecting them within the uterus upon completing fertilization. Purdy eventually became one of the first individuals to witness the formation of a human blastocyst in vitro, describing how the blastocyst becomes composed of both inner cell mass (ICM) or embryoblast alongside an external layer of cells referred to as the trophoblast.
Purdy further described witnessing how the trophoblast surrounds the inner cell mass and fluid-filled blastocyst cavity referred to as the blastocoele, despite being submerged in a culture system. Purdy herself also attested to witnessing the first ever embryonic cell division, prior to then dividing and multiplying in quantity to form the human blastocyst’s inner cell mass. Purdy, Edwards, and Steptoe’s triumph became in pursuit as this experimental embryonic development was eventually attributed to the births of Louise Brown and Alastair MacDonald. Their venture continued to prevail, as they sought out for alternate locations and domains to expand and broaden the intellectual horizons of their research. This eventually led to Purdy’s establishment of Bourn Hall, previously functioning as a manor house within Cambridge to one of the most productive IVF clinics today.
Purdy’s endeavor was unfortunately cut short due to her calamitous death from her malignant melanoma diagnosis that terminated any plausibility of her being awarded with the Nobel Prize. Yet, despite implorations and requests imposed by Edwards and Steptoe, scarcely any recognition was endowed posthumously to Purdy. Her untimely death on March, 16 1985 was truly tragic by nature, as neither accreditation nor homage surpassed her, and hence she continued to remain in the penumbra of the IVF discovery. Even within the most diminutive of credits, Jean Purdy still prevails to remain obscured to the IVF revelation, despite her legacies of Bourn Hall Clinic and her immense expertise in distinguishing the physical phase transitions from embryonic cells to blastocystis in vitro.
Silenced and disparaged, Jean Purdy was never able to remark on her injustices and immensely arbitrary treatment by institutions today as her legacies were never truly expounded and were limited purely by patronizing institutions. Yet, voices from the margins experience resurgence today as many including science’s very own pioneers, debunk the patriarchy and salvage her reputation for good.
by Brianna Renatte Titiheruw
Having been intrigued with embryonic sciences myself, Jean Purdy’s rather opaque yet unwaveringly triumphant success within the field stemmed as the foundational grassroots of the field’s eventual expansion, development, and esteem. Prior to Purdy’s revolutionizing revelations within embryonic sciences, this particular branch was so frequently discarded and vilified as a rather superficial department which only accommodated minimal expansion in its findings, revelations, and other discoveries. However, as Purdy sought out to establish more “progressive” prospects to the field, embryonic sciences eventually received its much necessitated validation and was acclaimed as one of the most integral branches of which aid in disseminating more scientifically viable and ethical methodologies alongside techniques to highway the circle of life.
Jean Purdy’s prevail in attesting to one of the elementary discoveries of in vitro fertilization is deeply rooted at the core of how instrumental and integral women are within breaking boundaries and in contributing to both tangible and intangible aspects of scientific discoveries. Jean Purdy’s unique endeavor to recognition is one of the most inspiring facets that truly induced myself to recite her biographical report, as her profoundly revolutionary intellect and expertise in embryonic sciences distinguished her and enabled her male colleagues to perceive her as an equal, and not as a trivialized assistant.
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“Jean Purdy: Plaque Will Honour ‘Snubbed’ IVF Pioneer.” BBC News, BBC, 8 July 2019, www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-manchester-48908916. Accessed August 3, 2020
“Jean Purdy’s Overlooked Contribution to IVF.” Revista Pesquisa Fapesp, July 2019, revistapesquisa.fapesp.br/en/jean-purdys-overlooked-contribution-to-ivf/. Accessed August 3, 2020
Magra, Iliana. “Three Created a Fertility Revolution With I.V.F., but One, a Woman, Went Unrecognized.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 10 June 2019, www.nytimes.com/2019/06/10/world/europe/jean-purdy-ivf-plaque.html. Accessed August 3, 2020
Russell, Sam. “Woman Who Helped Pioneer IVF Left off Commemorative Plaque despite Protest.” The Independent, Independent Digital News and Media, 10 June 2019, www.independent.co.uk/news/health/ivf-test-tube-baby-jean-purdy-plaque-cambridge-university-a8950986.html. Accessed August 3, 2020
says:, Helen Sharpe. “Jean Purdy — the Forgotten IVF Pioneer.” Science Museum Blog, 19 July 2018, blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/jean-purdy-the-forgotten-ivf-pioneer/. Accessed August 3, 2020 | <urn:uuid:13613cbd-2292-4214-ab67-c381ef976b2c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://medium.com/rediscover-steam/jean-purdy-nurse-embryologist-4fc14bdcb6eb?source=post_internal_links---------4---------------------------- | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00266.warc.gz | en | 0.943846 | 1,782 | 2.234375 | 2 |
Are You at Risk for Acid Reflux?
Individuals of all ages are at risk for acid reflux and over half of all Americans will succumb to that risk and develop symptoms. Those who are elderly can have serious conditions as a result of untreated acid reflux. There are many risk factors for acid reflux. Do you know the risk factors for acid reflux? Are you at risk for acid reflux?
Knowing what the risk factors for acid reflux are will help you to avoid the things that can trigger acid reflux. There are several risk factors for acid reflux that individuals of all ages can have. The risk factors include a certain eating pattern, women who are pregnant, those who are obese, individuals who have developed respiratory diseases, those who smoke, and also those who drink alcohol.
Those at most risk for severe acid reflux are the elderly, Caucasian males over age 40 whom are also overweight and those who use nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) especially if they are also elderly, a female, use alcohol or tobacco products, have asthma, a hiatal hernia or are obese. Individuals with hiatal hernia are also at risk for severe acid reflux.
Your eating pattern could be putting you at risk for acid reflux if your eating pattern includes enjoying frequent heavy or large meals and then lying down afterwards, or bending at the waist such as for work after a heavy lunch. Individuals who consistently snack late in the evening or at bedtime are at risk for developing acid reflux.
It has always been that pregnant women complain about acid reflux especially during the last trimester of pregnancy because the growing uterus puts pressure on the stomach that pushes the food contents and stomach acid up towards and sometimes back up the esophagus. The sphincter muscle of the esophagus relaxes as during pregnancy which also makes this a likely scenario.
Individuals that are obese are at risk for acid reflux because obesity can contribute to the presence of acid reflux and increases the risk for certain complications of acid reflux like erosive esophagitis. Increased body mass index (BMI) has also been according to a study associated with an increased risk for another complication of acid reflux called, “esophageal adenocarcinoma”.
Individuals who suffer from respiratory diseases such as asthma, and also chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (COPD) like chronic bronchitis and emphysema, are also more likely to develop the symptoms of acid reflux.
If you are a smoker, you are increasing your risk for acid reflux because studies show that smoking can reduce the LES muscle function, which than increases the acid secretion, and impairs the muscle reflexes of the throat, which in turn damages protective mucus membranes. Smoking also reduces the saliva in your mouth (gives you dry mouth), and since saliva neutralizes acids no matter where those acids originate from such as those in the smoke or nicotine; this can lead to acid reflux although the studies do not show how this occurs only that it is more likely to happen. It is known that those who have used the popular nicotine patches have also experienced acid reflux but there can be several factors involved that could be triggering the acid reflux including the stress of quitting smoking or the nicotine.
Alcohol use also relaxes the LES muscles and when large amounts of alcohol are consumed, this may also irritate the mucous membranes of the esophagus, which can lead to acid reflux. Alcoholic beverages are known to increase the amount of acid in the stomach and if the person combines heavy alcohol usage and heavy smoking this doubles your risk for esophageal cancer, which is a complication of acid reflux.Enrich your life and the lives of others by learning Aromatherapy, Reflexology or Color/Crystal Therapy at the Alternative Healing Academy! Convenient and easy-to-handle payment plans are available! Get 10% OFF of any course simply by liking our Facebook Page! After liking the page, click 'shop now' to get the discount.
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Whatever else you can say about Donald Trump, you have to give him credit for not avoiding the press. Take today’s mythbusting story in the New York Times, for example:
While Trump remains a visible brand name around the city’s five boroughs, it is much harder to discern his imprint as a classic power broker, someone who is feared and can make things happen with a phone call or a quiet aside with the right person at the right time.
His real estate holdings in New York are modest….He rarely interacts with top politicians or government officials, or contributes to campaigns….Though he portrays himself as a major developer, his companies’ highest profile ownership stakes in real estate in New York include an office building on Wall Street; part of another on Avenue of the Americas; commercial space at Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue, where he lives; and parking below the Trump Plaza on East 61st Street.
….The major banks, for their part, say they are leery of lending to him after having lost millions of dollars on past deals. Lawyers and contractors he has hired in the past say he is slow to pay his bills, and often shortchanges them. Even the few Wall Street executives who say privately that he is a friend are loath to speak publicly about him.
If you called the Rubio or Cruz press shops for reaction to a story like this, they’d probably decline comment. They certainly wouldn’t put the candidate himself on the line. But Trump? No problem. He was happy to respond:
On the parking below Trump Plaza: “It’s a very successful garage.”
On his low New York profile: “I’m less focused on New York now. I started going international and national, which is what we are doing now, and then I did the presidential thing, so that to me is cooler than all of it.”
On not paying his contractors promptly: “If they do a bad job, they have to suffer.”
On the reluctance of banks to extend loans to him: “I don’t use Wall Street much because I don’t need money.”
This is all BS, of course, just like his “Cash is king” nonsense in the early 90s when he was liquidating everything he could lay his hands on—not because cash was king, but because his businesses were all failing. As for going international, he didn’t have much choice. No one would loan him money that would just get flushed down the toilet on failed development projects, so instead he licensed his name to rubes from the Middle East. And since he was still desperate for money, he cranked up every penny-ante, late-night shill he could think of to bring in a few bucks: Trump water, Trump vodka, Trump magazines, Trump steaks, Trump mortgages, Trump university, Trump energy drinks. As near as I can tell, they were basically all failures. If they weren’t, surely Trump would be trumpeting how much money he made from them.
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It's not every day that a particularly sexy piece of database technology winds up on the front pages of national papers or becomes integral to national and international policy and political debates. But that's exactly what's happening with data mining and related technology.
Most people in the United States, and many folks in the international community are aware of the press surrounding the analysis of phone records in the United States and abroad to search for potential terrorists. I won't state my political opinion here. Instead, I want to focus on the fact that the approach wouldn't be possible without vast data warehouses and data mining.
On the front page of the Washington Post, I've seen several recent articles related to data mining, and USA Today ran the front-page story "Data Miners Dig a Little Deeper" on July 12. The USA Today business section that day was devoted to issues surrounding data mining and privacy. It was an interesting read; I encourage you to check it out if you can find an issue or happen to have a subscription for viewing the article. I'm not singling out Microsoft, but the USA Today article began by using an example based on Hotmail and explained that Microsoft's analysis of Hotmail activity includes the time of day that emails are referenced as well as salary ranges for the ZIP code in question. The article said that Microsoft "knows a florist will pay a premium to have a coupon for roses reach males 30-40, earning good wages, who check their e-mail during lunch hours on Valentines Day."
I don't consider myself a data-mining expert, but I think the technology is exciting and holds huge potential to shape data management over the next decade. So, my first reaction to this news is, "That's really cool! I wish I had more time to become an expert in SQL Server-based data-mining technology." I also tend to be pretty conservative and pro-business, so my second reaction runs along the lines of "That's a really smart thing for Microsoft to do and they have every right to do it."
But I have to admit that the part of me that read "1984" in high school can't help but wonder what the natural evolution of this technology will be. Maybe opt-in clauses in the future will be written in a way that allows "Microsoft Flowers" to pre-ship the $500 Hawaiian orchid that Microsoft knows my wife admired because it's scanning our email and cell-phone traffic. (You've read about Microsoft's "Unified Communications" roadmap, right? Check it out at http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2006/jun06/06-25UCGRoadmapPR.mspx .) Microsoft also knows that I haven't bought her a present yet based on a study of credit-card charges it has access to through a data-sharing agreement with ReallyBigCreditCo. Of course, the opt-in agreement will grant me permission to send the orchid back, but Microsoft's data-mining skills will indicate that I'm much too lazy to actually do so, so pre-shipping is a good investment for them.
Ok, enough with the Orwellian postulations. Data mining does raise some interesting privacy concerns that I suspect will be debated broadly over the next few years. What's in data mining for you today? Data-mining is a part of the data-management world that's poised for huge growth. SQL Server is becoming an increasingly compelling platform for data mining, and I'm sure the SQL Server team understands the importance of continuing this trend over the next decade. And only a relatively small number of people have any significant amount of expertise with Microsoft or any other vendor's data-mining tools today. You don't need data-mining analysis to recognize that this trend should create high demand for skilled data-mining professionals over the next decade. | <urn:uuid:bd8eb0c0-49ef-42aa-a8a6-6613146dfe9d> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://sqlmag.com/print/data-mining/data-mining-big-brother-or-big-business | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279915.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00273-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954971 | 785 | 2.015625 | 2 |
In 2012, an executive who worked for one of the largest European service providers shared his dream with the attendees of Layer123’s first software-defined networking (SDN) & OpenFlow World Congress in Darmstadt, Germany. According to him, the reason for all the misery in carrier-land were not permanent price battles, flat-rates, and cut-through competition; it was us, the vendors. We were accused of only offering hardware that was too expensive and wasn’t interoperable forcing carriers to pay much more than necessary. The audience was impressed — especially when we were asked to collaborate, define common interfaces, agree on one communication language, and offer open, fully programmable boxes based on standard industry architectures to drive his cost down as much as possible. For the majority of the audience, this might have been the first time when they were confronted with the realities of the new, open world. Since then, the world keeps on changing, but for some reason, both carriers and (most) vendors are still alive. But OpenFlow, the savior of that day, is virtually dead. What went wrong?
Well, quite a bit. It took a while, but people close to the matter realized that even after several massive iterations, OpenFlow would never be powerful enough for managing a dense wave division multiplexing (DWDM) system, let alone something as complex as a packet-optical transport system (P-OTS) or an optical transport network (OTN) switch. This didn’t stop some vendors from claiming that their transport solutions are fully compatible with this not so powerful language, so a lot of confusion was injected into our industry, but in reality it never worked. The idea of one powerful controller, to control all network items, only worked in theory since it would hamper operations substantially due to the readily available compute power and lack of common standards. Over time, the dream of one language, one central controller, and flat, programmable networks became a playing field for marketing departments and clueless journalists. SDN, announced as the new messiah, went down from being the Holy Grail to becoming the next version of network management systems (NMS). Element management systems (EMS’s) are called Domain Controllers, NMS’s are Parent Controllers and Umbrella Network Managements (remember those?) are called orchestrators.
Meanwhile network functions virtualization (NFV) had entered the stage, and with it several competing “open” standards, which (you’ve guessed it) don’t interwork. And management and orchestration (MANO) was introduced as an alternative sort-of NMS for the NFV world, of course alongside the above mentioned SDN crowd. And even the formerly well-organized and well-tranched operations support systems (OSS)/business support systems (BSS) layer is whirled around with lifecycle service orchestration (LSO) initiatives. The lowest common denominator appears to be YANG and (not YING) network configuration protocol (NETCONF). As long as a vendor shows those magic terms in the middle of his overloaded network-diagrams, operators have at least a glimmer of hope that some fine day someone will offer them a good solution for evolving their networks going forward. So what went wrong?
Well, a bit. The biggest mistake we as an industry made was starting the network-revolution at box level. Remember the structure of networks? The higher up you go, the more unified they become. That’s what Northbound interfaces are made for, and even 20 years ago, those were sort of standardized. The further down you go, the more proprietary all solutions become. All network vendors are using different languages for communicating with their boxes, and the way packet networks are managed can’t be applied to transport networks. Maybe someday, but not today. Something like simple network management protocol (SNMP) never made it to the optical camp, for the same reason why OpenFlow got stuck — physics are complex, and this was ignored completely.
So where’s the way out? We might have already found it, it’s just not as nice as some people want it to be. Packet networks were always more uniform and closer to the well standardized IT environment of data centers, and some of their nodes actually talk OpenFlow. Optical transport networks can be managed via domain controllers, and YING and YANG will do the rest. Are there real benefits? Yes, as soon as we manage to bring the right capabilities to the parent controllers, as soon as they will start talking to orchestrators that control data centers as well, innovative end-end services can be defined and turned up faster than ever, networks can be optimized in a way that was never there before, and automation will take control to improve operations. It just takes another few years, but how long did it take to get the first plain old telephony system (POTS) network up and running, after Mr. Bell had invented the telephone? | <urn:uuid:90025d0b-01e4-4c3d-af79-c2144f72f4b1> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/contributed/what-went-wrong-long-journey-open-networks/2016/11/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282926.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00391-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972557 | 1,036 | 1.515625 | 2 |
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Aviation Industry Faced Huge Losses In 2011
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As the country celebrated 100 years of aviation in India, the Civil Aviation Ministry got a full-time minister Ajit Singh, replacing Vayalar Ravi who held the portfolio as an additional charge, only in the year-end.
There were three major helicopter crashes during the year, all in the northeast including one that claimed the life of Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu.
The year also witnessed a major scam involving pilots who got licenses by submitting fake or forged documents. The scam, which raised serious questions about aviation safety, led to the arrest of 23 people, including pilots, staffers of DGCA and middlemen.
Air India operations were hit by a nine-day strike by its pilots in April-May over salary and allowance payments which disrupted its flight schedules.
Flights of Air India and Kingfisher were also disrupted for a few days during the year as oil PSUs stopped supplies demanding daily cash payments for lifting of jet fuel.
To have a strong aviation regulator, the government planned to bring a legislation to set up a Civil Aviation Authority with financial and administrative autonomy in line with such bodies in several countries, like the US and the UK.
A tough financial situation saw the intervention of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The government got into the act to find ways to aid the beleaguered industry, with major airlines suffering enormous accumulated losses of nearly Rs 15,000 crore in 2010-11, up from Rs 7,038 crore in 2009-10.
The only carrier to post profit in the tough times was no-frill IndiGo, which also placed what is touted to be the 'largest' aircraft order in aviation history for 180 A-320s worth USD 15.6 billion from European manufacturer Airbus.
Air India suffered a loss of Rs 6,994 crore this year, while Kingfisher posted a Rs 1,027 crore loss and a mounting debt of Rs 7,057.08 crore.
Aviation consultancy firm Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation estimated that Indian carriers were set to post a record combined loss of USD 2.5 billion this financial year.
With large airlines like Air India and Kingfisher accounting for a major quantum of the industry losses, a Group of Ministers and panel of officers held several meetings to finalise a long-term capital infusion package for Air India.
The national carrier decided to sell and leaseback seven of the 27 Boeing 787 Dreamliners, scheduled for delivery till June next year.
The government, which had frozen the bank accounts of Kingfisher and Air India, de-freezed them early this month after they made part-payment of their service tax dues.
Kingfisher worked out deals with its lenders, including state-run banks, to lower its interest burden, as its promoter Vijay Mallya lobbied hard with the government to allow foreign airlines to pick up stake in Indian carriers. However, a final decision is yet to be taken on the matter.
In a bid to consolidate their position, Indian carriers undertook several steps to cut costs and rationalise their networks to match demand for air travel.
While Jet Airways decided to move ahead with plans to have a single no-frill banner instead of running both JetLite and JetKonnect, Kingfisher on the other hand decided to do away with its low-fare segment, Kingfisher Red, and continue with its full-service brand.
High taxes on jet fuel and equally high airport charges were the major cost heads for the Indian carriers, with the global airlines' body IATA estimating that fuel costs accounted for 45 per cent of the total costs, compared with 30 per cent for global carriers.
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) asked the government to set the country's aviation industry free from policy interventions like checking airfares and slash taxes, especially on jet fuel.
Instead of "micro-managing" the cash-strapped sector, the government should concentrate on building infrastructure and the air navigation system, IATA chief Tony Tyler said.
In India, he said the aviation industry contributed five per cent of GDP, around Rs 291 crore in taxes, provided four million jobs and another seven million jobs through tourism and related activities and hoped "these numbers will have a good impact on government policies."
Aviation experts projected that though air traffic would continue to grow strongly, financial recovery of the airline industry would be slow.
In a major initiative, India took the lead in attacking the European Union's decision to impose a hefty anti-emission tax on all flights, with the adoption of Delhi Declaration at a crucial meeting of the International Civil Aviation Organization Council and non-EU Member States, including US.
The government also signed a Bilateral Aviation Safety Agreement with the US to allow mutual acceptance of aeronautical products and parts developed in either country.
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Chart 1 below tracks Berkshire's "Adjusted Munger Value" quarterly since 1996 based on a simple method Charlie Munger referred to in his 1999 letter to Wesco shareholders. Charlie's method was simply book value plus one fifth of deferred taxes. Munger mentioned that each dollar of book value was much more valuable at Berkshire than a similar dollar at Wesco, but he did not say how much more valuable.
Munger explained how deferred tax could be thought of as an interest-free loan from the government that needed to be "repaid" only if Wesco sold investments and realised gains. Munger described his method as a guess but he did not explain fully why he thought one fifth was the right proportion.
So, Chart 1 tracks Berkshire's book value plus one fifth of float and deferred taxes, and multiplies the result by a premium that gets smaller as Berkshire grows relative to total US GDP. We call the resulting figure "Adjusted Munger Value" or AMV.
AMV matches pretty well with market price since 1996 showing four periods of over-valuation of 20% or more and five periods of under-valuation of 15% or more.
But there are those unanswered questions about how much a dollar of book value is really worth at Berkshire, and how much value accrues to shareholders from float and deferred taxes. So here is another approach.
Another Approach: Using Free Money
The point here is that Berkshire's $442bn of assets are partly funded by $49bn of deferred taxes, $73bn of insurance float and $122bn of other liabilities which are deducted to give book value of $198bn. This is correct accounting but does not reveal the underlying economics. Until they are "paid back", the deferred taxes and insurance float are earning returns for Berkshire. And the longer they earn money for Berkshire, the more they are worth to Berkshire's shareholders. (If you could get an interest free loan from your bank of a hundred thousand dollars repayable in a hundred years' time, how much would that hundred thousand dollars be worth to you and how much would it be worth to your bank?)
So it is really important to estimate how long Berkshire gets to use the deferred taxes and insurance float.
Berkshire's deferred tax liability arises mostly from unrealised gains on its investments and other property. The liability represents the tax that Berkshire would have to pay if it sold those assets. But so long as Berkshire does not sell, there is no tax to pay and Berkshire can leave it all invested in income-producing assets.
Buffett's preferred holding period is "forever" and Berkshire's deferred tax liability has grown more than eightfold over the past seventeen years. Nevertheless, Berkshire does occasionally need to sell assets, and the amount of deferred tax also changes with fluctuations in the prices of the stocks Berkshire owns. I guess that perhaps 85% can be considered very long-term funds.
The growth of insurance float has been much more stable but could yet dip in a bad year. Insurance float represents premiums paid to Berkshire by its customers that Berkshire expects to pay out later to settle claims. Some claims get settled quickly, but provided the overall level of float does not fall, Berkshire gains from investing billions of dollars at a zero cost of capital.
In fact, Berkshire's insurance subsidiaries make an underwriting profit most years. That means they get paid to hold the float, giving a cost of capital even less than zero! Buffett said in the latest annual report that he expected some increase in float in 2013 but that further gains would be tough to achieve. However, if there was any decline in float in the future, Buffett expected it would be very gradual.
So Berkshire should get to use the float for a long time.
Buffett also pointed out that the $73bn of float came at a "price" of $16bn of goodwill that is included in book value as an asset. So we should perhaps make a corresponding downwards adjustment here but let us keep things simple and guess that 85% of float can also be considered long term funds. (By counting only 85% of float and deferred taxes we are already deducting $18bn. A further deduction for the $16bn of goodwill would reduce the calculated value of Berkshire by a bit more than 4%.)
Sustainable Assets Long Term - SALT
Chart 2 below plots the sum of equity plus 85% of float and deferred taxes against market price, a measure we call SALT.
There is a strong correlation between SALT and market price (R2 = 0.88) that I think is more than just coincidence. Berkshire's equity, together with 85% of its float and deferred taxes, can all be thought of as very long-term, non-interest bearing capital available for Berkshire to invest in what might be termed Sustainable Assets Long-Term or SALT. So long as Berkshire can deploy this capital at average rates of return, each dollar invested has a dollar of economic value.
This greatly simplifies the valuation. We do not need to guess what an average rate of return should be, nor make a host of other estimates that are prone to error. Instead we just need to think about Berkshire's businesses and investments. Can they do averagely well in future?
One point to bear in mind is that $49bn of Berkshire's assets are cash or equivalents earning low returns in US Treasury bonds. We have already set aside $18bn, in case of a bad year for insurance pay-outs, by counting only 85% of float and deferred taxes. But the other $31bn of cash, waiting to be deployed at above-average rates in the next acquisition, is a chunk of SALT currently earning well below average. (But how little can $31bn of cash be worth?)
So what do you think? Is Berkshire's array of above average businesses likely to prosper averagely well in the future? (Including the "…eight subsidiaries that would each be included in the Fortune 500 were they stand-alone companies.") Are they worth their SALT? If so, Thursday's closing price of $117.07 for the B shares ($175,441 for the A's) would seem to indicate that Berkshire was priced close to intrinsic value. And if Berkshire's businesses continue to beat the average, we would then have a margin of safety provided by the prospect of above-average future growth. That is what I think.
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Are sables just cookies or much more? This past week I baked sables also known as French shortbread. I didn’t think much of it at the time. We were having a friend visiting from San Francisco and I was in my second week of teaching diversity in the city (a course that explores diversity in Paris through culture, immigration, religion, fashion and lastly food).
I had put aside a few to give Lesley Porcelli, the food writer and baker, and upon eating the rest she emailed me “I was really, really smitten with those plain cookies! They were total perfection” (as opposed to the chocolate sables I usually bake). Then three days later she texted, “my father-in-law wants your shortbread recipe. We all love it”.
These cookies are a variation of Dorie Greenspan’s cornmeal shortbread, but the difference was that I didn’t use lemon zest or vanilla, and substituted lemon extract for both.
I didn’t think these cookies were blog worthy until I realized sables are much more than a cookie…they are symbolic of my first trip to Paris from 2009 when I discovered French pastries and and financiers (my other favorite french treat). And now that I am taking my students to Paris in January, I think it’s time I share the sables with my class as well.
Cornmeal Shortbread Cookies
(recipe adapted from Dorie Greenspan’s Baking: From My Home to Yours)
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 cup cornstarch
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup yellow cornmeal
2/3 cup sugar
Grated zest of 1 lemon (I used lemon extract)
2 sticks (8 ounces) unsalted, room temperature butter (use Kate’s butter if you can find it)
1 teaspoon of pure vanilla extract, or 1/2 teaspoon of pure almond extract (remember I skipped this and used lemon extract)
In a medium size bowl, sift together the flour, cornstarch, and salt. Whisk in the cornmeal, and set the mixture aside.
Working in the bowl of a stand mixer or other large bowl, rub the sugar and zest together with your fingertips until the sugar is moist and fragrant.
Add the butter and extract to the bowl and, using either your stand mixers paddle attachment or whisk, or a hand mixer, beat on medium speed until the mixture is very smooth (about 3 minutes).
Reduce the mixer to low speed and add the dry ingredients, mixing only until the flour streaks have disappeared into the dough (do not over-mix).
Roll the dough into two logs of dough, and refrigerate for at least 2 hours (or freeze for one).
Getting ready to bake:
Preheat the oven to 350F, and line two baking sheets with parchment paper or baking mats.
Place one of the rolls of dough onto a cutting board and slice about a 1/2 inch apart.
Place the baking sheets in the oven and immediately lower the oven temperature to 300F. Bake the cookies for 25-30 minutes, rotating the sheets from top to bottom and front to back halfway through the baking time. The cookies should just slightly golden.
Transfer the cookies to a cooling rack and cool to room temperature.
Sables…much more than a cookie?
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Walking along the cobbled streets of old Damascus is always a pleasure during the evenings, after the hot sun has set and more people venture around for a stroll through the markets. As dusk fell the evening call to prayer echoed across the city, but I noticed with some displeasure that the ancient Umayad Mosque's call to prayer was slightly different from the other mosques in the city, and not at all a nice one. The more sombre, drawn out, and spiritual adhan that I know and love is, here, replaced by a strange and unbalanced cacophony underlined by a bizarre chorus. Perhaps the intention was to give the mosque a unique sound, for Damascus and for Syria. If so then its creators succeeded, but only because of how unremarkable and bland they have made it. In a way this is a typically Syrian approach to many things. What can we do to make a good thing even better? Let's have more of it!
The beauty, and potential, that lie unlocked in this previously ignored gem of Damascus (by this I mean the old part of the city) and the surrounding area have been discovered, but, we have gone too far in renovating and preserving it. Rather than preserving the raw edginess of a living district where people work, live and pray, the result in old Damascus has been a bizarre disney-esque commercialisation of the area. It is a good thing that the area has been cleaned up considerably, but one question's the benefit of the many restaurants, hostels and bars which are sprouting throughout it. Fat Western girls in kufiyehs (we call them Suloks in Syria) mingle the streets with trendy Damascene well-to-do's, all feasting on a newly discovered vein of native authenticity that has not been corrupted by modernity. Yet in their voracious feeding frenzy they transform it into what they despise, refusing to see that the purity they are looking for is not in exotic, far-away locations with strange names, but within themselves. I don't know whether that is an accurate observation, but then again who knows what such things mean?
Writing these musings makes me instantly angry with myself for expecting Damascus to remain a quaint holiday destination forever frozen in time just so that some tourists can come and nod politely as they are lampooned yet again with the fact that it is the "oldest continuously inhabited city in the world". And what's wrong with just saying it is the oldest living city in the world? Living is a perfectly acceptable word after all, so why use two words when we can use just one? I guess that just wouldn't be very Syrian of us then, would it?
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clothilde weight mapping
by Gage Ullman on Aug 2, 2011 at 7:46:09 pm
Hey, I'm trying to get a specific text effect, something that looks like letters flapping in the wind, possibly made of newspaper or burlap or trash of some sort. It's got to be high wind, like a tornado, so it needs to be flapping violently, BUT it still needs to be readable. I'm using clothilde... there might be an easier way, but I think it would be cool if I could get it to work like this.
Anyway, I initially wanted it to look like a piece of newspaper blew in, slammed against the camera, and then peeled off and flew away, so I belted the corners of the paper to some cubes and pulled fabric into position with them, then pulled it off. So NOW I'm looking to make the middle part of the paper... I dunno, stiffer or something. So that it doesn't move as much in the middle as it does on the edges. My gut says could use weight-mapping to accomplish this, but I don't really know how... when I make a vertex map and put it on "stiffness" or "mass," nothing really seemed to happen. I actually have no idea how weight mapping works, so... I dunno... any thoughts? | <urn:uuid:65780cdd-80ab-4991-b57c-67d75e18dd07> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/19/875168 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280872.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00313-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977636 | 278 | 2.328125 | 2 |
Fothergilla gardeniiItem #3717 USDA Hardiness Zone: 5 - 9
Valuable plant used for hedges and borders. Attractive in 3 seasons; fragrant showy spring flowers, green leaves in summer and brilliant yellow, red, orange fall color. Low, dense, bushy shrub.
- OverviewLight Needs:Partial to full sunWatering Needs:Needs regular watering - weekly, or more often in extreme heat.Average Landscape Size:Slow-growing rounded shrub to 3 to 4 ft. tall, spreading wider.
- DetailBotanical Pronunciation:foth-er-GIL-a gar-DE-ne-iPlant type:ShrubDeciduous/evergreen:DeciduousSunset climate zones:2 - 9, 14 - 17Growth habit:RoundGrowth rate:SlowAverage landscape size:Slow-growing rounded shrub to 3 to 4 ft. tall, spreading wider.Special features:Bird Friendly, Deer Resistant, Easy Care, Fall Color, North American Native Selection, Year-round InterestFoliage color:Blue-greenBlooms:SpringFlower color:WhiteDesign IdeasPlant this lovely native in shade gardens or in woodland garden settings where its rangy character and white flower spikes are appreciated. Use as a single specimen for accent planting or mix into casual shrub borders or with other natives that need a color boost in spring or fall.Companion PlantsThis native shrub belongs beneath forest trees, both conifers and hardwoods, where Rhododendron hybrids like Anna H. Hall (Rhododendron x 'Anna H. Hall') and Roseum Elegans (Rhododendron x 'Roseum Elegans') thrive. It's related to Witch Hazel (Hamamelis virginiana) and shares the same requirements as native Strawberry Bush (Euonymus americanus) and Alaskan Fern (Polystichum setiferum).
- CareCare InformationFollow a regular watering schedule during the first growing season to establish a deep, extensive root system. Watering can be reduced after establishment. Feed with a general purpose fertilizer before new growth begins in spring.Pruning time: winter.Light Needs:Partial to full sunWatering Needs:Needs regular watering - weekly, or more often in extreme heat.
- History & LoreHistory:This American native is grouped in the witchhazel family. Its natural range is limited to isolated stands over the southeast from North Carolina to southern Alabama. Plants exist only in low lying damp wetlands. It was classified in 1765 by German botanist Johann Murray as one of three species in this genus. Linnaeus named the plant after a contemporary, John Fothergill, the English physician who introduced this and many other American natives to Europe. | <urn:uuid:5b677e24-a5ec-4b15-8d4e-10ea744c53a5> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.monrovia.com/plant-catalog/plants/2483/dwarf-fothergilla/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279189.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00053-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.866167 | 585 | 1.984375 | 2 |
The source of the clean aggregate is mixed and may come from tonnage received at recycle centers or sources such as foundations, curb and gutter, roads, highways, airport runways and more.
Much of our nation's transportation infrastructure now requires significant renovation and replacement. Many contractors are recycling concrete as a supplement to natural aggregates such as crushed stone, sand and gravel.
In the past decade both the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) and American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) have accepted recycled concrete as a source of aggregate into new concrete and have set the quality standards. These premier specifying agencies are confident that recycled concrete aggregate can be of high quality. Now it is the aggregate producers’ responsibility to produce quality recycled concrete aggregate. | <urn:uuid:80c55b66-24b9-432c-8778-47e412988c55> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.cdrecycling.org/the-waste-stream | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988722459.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183842-00343-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960924 | 159 | 2.65625 | 3 |
You’re probably using the wrong dictionary, James Somers suggests:
The way I thought you used a dictionary was that you looked up words you’ve never heard of, or whose sense you’re unsure of. You would never look up an ordinary word — like example, or sport, or magic — because all you’ll learn is what it means, and that you already know.
Indeed, if you look up those particular words in the dictionary that comes with your computer — on my Mac, it’s the New Oxford American Dictionary, 3rd Edition — you’ll be rewarded with… well, there won’t be any reward. The entries are pedestrian:
example /ig?zamp?l/, n. a thing characteristic of its kind or illustrating a general rule.
sport /spôrt/, n. an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment.
magic /?majik/, n. the power of apparently influencing the course of events by using mysterious or supernatural forces.
Here, words are boiled to their essence. But that essence is dry, functional, almost bureaucratically sapped of color or pop, like high modernist architecture. Which trains you to think of the dictionary as a utility, not a quarry of good things, not a place you’d go to explore and savor.
Worse, the words themselves take on the character of their definitions: they are likewise reduced. A delightful word like “fustian” — delightful because of what it means, because of the way it looks and sounds, because it is unusual in regular speech but not so effete as to be unusable, is described, efficiently, as “pompous or pretentious speech or writing.” Not only is this definition (as we’ll see in a minute) simplistic and basically wrong, it’s just not in the same class, English-wise, as “fustian.” The language is tin-eared and uninspired. It’s criminal: This is the place where all the words live and the writing’s no good.
The New Oxford American dictionary, by the way, is not like singularly bad. Google’s dictionary, the modern Merriam-Webster, the dictionary at dictionary.com: they’re all like this. They’re all a chore to read. There’s no play, no delight in the language. The definitions are these desiccated little husks of technocratic meaningese, as if a word were no more than its coordinates in semantic space.
John McPhee — one the great American writers of nonfiction, almost peerless as a prose stylist — once wrote an essay for the New Yorker about his process called “Draft #4.” He explains that for him, draft #4 is the draft after the painstaking labor of creation is done, when all that’s left is to punch up the language, to replace shopworn words and phrases with stuff that sings.
The way you do it, he says, is “you draw a box not only around any word that does not seem quite right but also around words that fulfill their assignment but seem to present an opportunity.” You go looking for le mot juste.
“Your destination is the dictionary,” he writes.
The dictionary McPhee went to was Webster’s — just not the modern one:
You can see why it became cliché to start a speech with “Webster’s defines X as…”: with his dictionary the definition that followed was actually likely to lend gravitas to your remarks, to sound so good, in fact, that it’d beat anything you could come up with on your own.
Take a simple word, like “flash.” In all the dictionaries I’ve ever known, I would have never looked up that word. I’d’ve had no reason to — I already knew what it meant. But go look up “flash” in Webster’s (the edition I’m using is the 1913). The first thing you’ll notice is that the example sentences don’t sound like they came out of a DMV training manual (“the lights started flashing”) — they come from Milton and Shakespeare and Tennyson (“A thought flashed through me, which I clothed in act”).
You’ll find a sense of the word that is somehow more evocative than any you’ve seen. “2. To convey as by a flash… as, to flash a message along the wires; to flash conviction on the mind.” In the juxtaposition of those two examples — a message transmitted by wires; a feeling that comes suddenly to mind — is a beautiful analogy, worth dwelling on, and savoring. Listen to that phrase: “to flash conviction on the mind.” This is in a dictionary, for God’s sake.
And, toward the bottom of the entry, as McPhee promised, is a usage note, explaining the fine differences in meaning between words in the penumbra of “flash”:
… Flashing differs from exploding or disploding in not being accompanied with a loud report. To glisten, or glister, is to shine with a soft and fitful luster, as eyes suffused with tears, or flowers wet with dew.
Did you see that last clause? “To shine with a soft and fitful luster, as eyes suffused with tears, or flowers wet with dew.” I’m not sure why you won’t find writing like that in dictionaries these days, but you won’t. Here is the modern equivalent of that sentence in the latest edition of the Merriam-Webster: “glisten applies to the soft sparkle from a wet or oily surface .”
Somers points us in the right direction:
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Yackandandah was a very industrious gold mining area from the 1850's right up until 1904. The large lake at Allans Flat was created by barge gold mining. The first Gold found was at the junction of Commissioners Creek and the Yackandandah Creek. This site is located in the Yackandandah Caravan Park.
You may still successfully pan for Gold in some creeks around Yackandandah.
GP The symbol for Gold Panning Areas
C The symbol for Camping Areas
Gold panning is permitted along Twist Creek at the Bullocky Gully, opposite the stock yards, and from "The Junction" upstream in the Nine Mile Creek to the Town Water Supply Dam. Obviously gold panning is not permitted upstream of the dam.
Gold panning may be conducted the entire length of Clear Creek upstream of " The Junction."There are many good camping sites around Clear Creek.
The Junction is where Clear Creek and the Nine Mile Creek join, forming the Yackandandah Creek. Gold panning is not permitted in Yackandandah Creek.
In Victoria you must obtain a Miners Right to pan for gold on Crown Land. Miners Rights are available from any court house in Victoria, or from the Beechworth Information Centre.
Camping sites are located downstream of "The Junction" along Yackandandah Creek.
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In spring time (March, April), one of the most featured events in the Buda Castle District is the Buda Castle Easter Festival The Festival was not scheduled in the Buda Castle in 2016. Instead, most Easter visitors could take a look around the Easter Market in central Budapest, on Vorosmarty Square. More about Budapest Easter on Top Budapest travel guide.
The Buda Castle Easter Festival (Budavari Husveti Sokadalom) has lovely sights, foods, concerts, and kid friendly games. The festival is usually each year, however, it is not scheduled in 2016. You can enjoy a series of concerts, dance shows, try the local Easter foods (milkbread / Challah, a special braided sweet loaf, which is part of the Easter celebrations), Easter hams, eggs, and more.
Although Easter is mostly a family event in Hungary, there are more and more people seeking some family friendly community event to take part in, and celebrate traditional Easter festivities and the coming of spring together.
The festival is a perfect program for those who are on an Easter holiday in Budapest, Hungary. With the festival ticket you are also entitled to visit the two major attractions inside the Buda Castle buildings: the Hungarian National Gallery and the Budapest History Museum.
In recent years, there have been very mild springs, but in 2013 the weather seemed to be stuck in winter. So there is no knowing what the weather is like at Easter in Budapest in 2014 or 2015, but mostly it is nice, sunny and around 10 degrees Celsius in the plus.
If you visit Budapest with children, they will surely enjoy the varied Easter program at the festival (do check the details for the best timing though). Some of the options from recent years included:
- Easter egg painting
- Easter Labyrinth
- Easter egg hunt
- Live shows for kids: puppet shows
- Carousel with baskets for the little ones
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Different approaches to bankruptcy
In the last fifteen years or so, lawyers working in law and economics and economists with an interest in legal matters have turned their attention to the topic of bankruptcy. A large amount of work has resulted, both theoretical and empirical, some of which has been concerned with the functioning of existing bankruptcy procedures and some with bankruptcy reform. Although researchers in this area have expressed different views, I believe that one can identify a conssensus on certain issues, e.g., the goals of bankruptcy and some of the characteristics of an efficient bankruptcy procedure. This paper summarizes this consensus. One point I will stress is that it is unlikely that "one size fits all." That is, although some bankruptcy procedures can probably be rejected as being manifestly bad, there is a class of procedures that satisfy the main criteria of efficiency. Which procedure a country chooses or should choose may then depend on other factors, e.g., the country's institutional sstructure and legal tradition. One can also imagine a country choosing a menu of procedures and allowing firms to select among them.
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Gallup: Joblessness now top priority for Americans
posted at 8:01 am on February 18, 2014 by Ed Morrissey
The Obama administration keeps bragging about the falling topline unemployment rate, but their audience has not been convinced of an improvement. According to Gallup’s latest survey on priorities for Americans, joblessness has now become the top issue — exceeding the economy and even dissatisfaction with Congress and government:
Americans have a new No. 1 problem. Nearly one in four Americans mention jobs and unemployment as the most important problem facing the country, up from 16% in January. The government and politicians had topped the list since the government shutdown in October.
Prior to last fall, either jobs or the economy had led the “most important problem” list going back to February 2008, and these two have regained their top spots in the Feb. 6-9 poll.
Healthcare continues to rank among the top problems, with 15% naming it, unchanged from January. Mentions of the federal debt/budget deficit are stable at 8%, despite Congress’ increasing the debt ceiling in February.
Although Barack Obama often “pivots” to the economy, usually when his approval numbers start to fall, the White House has not sustained any economic policy except that which they implemented at the beginning of the Obama presidency. The stimulus turned five years old yesterday, and unemployment is still at the top of this list, followed by the economy — and combined they account for 43% of the responses. That tells us a lot more about the “success” of the stimulus than the jobless rate, which has become unmoored from its historical track thanks to a sharp decline in the workforce participation rate.
Instead, the White House has spent the last few months talking about “income inequality” and immigration. Those priorities account for 12% of the electorate, if one takes the 3% for both “lack of money” and “poverty” and combine it with the 6% for “immigration/illegal aliens.” Even health care only gets 15%, roughly the same percentage of Americans who were uninsured for any reason in 2009.
Obama may want to talk about immigration and income inequality, but most Americans want to talk about getting back to work and having a growth economy. Republicans had better pay attention to voters rather than get caught up in Obama’s non-sequiturs.
Speaking of the jobless rate, John Crudele made headlines last year when he accused the Census Bureau of tampering with its numbers just before the 2012 election. Yesterday, Crudele elaborated on the point, and says his sources indicate the problem was broader than his first report indicated, and may involve the Bureau of Labor Statistics as well (via Jeff Dunetz):
In late August 2011, a manila envelope containing evidence of falsified data was sent to Keith Hall, who was then in charge of the BLS. “The Philadelphia Regional office [of Census] … engaged in a cover-up after it was reported that members of its staff falsified data in an effort to meet goals,” said the anonymous letter, a copy of which I have in front of me.
The letter identified the two supervisors who arranged the cover-up.
“In an effort to satisfy the sponsor [the BLS] … the numbers were literally made up,” said the tipster.
The BLS never acted on the letter. And that’s ironic because Hall, who was pushed out of the Labor Department in 2012, had been skeptical of the truthfulness of the BLS’s jobless numbers.
I interviewed Hall last July for this column, and he said at the time that the unemployment rate was “misleadingly low.” However, back then Hall — who is now at George Mason University — was attributing the misrepresentation to statistical anomalies in the way the unemployment rate is calculated and not outright fraud.
I asked Hall Monday if he remembers receiving an envelope containing evidence that data was being falsified. He didn’t. “I would have remembered that,” he said.
Did the envelope get lost in the mail? The tipster had a tracer on it through the Postal Service. Did someone else read the note, which, admittedly, was a little confusing, and choose to ignore it?
Crudele notes that the House Oversight Committee has opened an investigation into the falsification allegations, as has the Inspector General at Commerce, which has responsibility for Census (BLS is in Labor, and Census conducts surveys for them). He also believes that the US Attorney in Philadelphia may be conducting a preliminary review of the case, too. We’ll see if anything comes of this, but even the numbers we have show a population with a serious and chronic joblessness problem, despite the topline jobless rate of 6.6%. | <urn:uuid:1f731fc3-77b6-41d5-8e7f-5bb01a8c1da8> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://hotair.com/archives/2014/02/18/gallup-joblessness-now-top-priority-for-americans/comment-page-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282202.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00554-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974416 | 1,012 | 1.773438 | 2 |
The expert on Vatican diplomacy explains how the pope and his diplomatic team have a unique approach to the conflict in Ukraine, founded in natural law.
Since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Pope Francis has been particularly active, making numerous calls for peace, speaking directly with Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, and sending two cardinals to support refugees.
To understand Pope Francis’ and the Holy See’s diplomatic approach to this conflict, I.MEDIA spoke with Victor Gaetan, an expert on Vatican diplomacy. Originally from Romania, the author of God’s Diplomats now lives in Washington, DC, and is a regular contributor to Foreign Affairs magazine and the National Catholic Register.
What are the specificities of the diplomacy of the smallest state in the world, the Vatican?
The three principles that characterize the Holy See’s diplomacy are working behind the scenes, building connections for dialogue and mediating. For the Holy See’s diplomacy dialogue means not competing with the interlocutor or trying to contest it but having absolute independence and objectivity. It means means real mediating by listening.
How does the Holy See’s response to the conflict in Ukraine fit with its general diplomatic approach?
The Holy See’s current response is keeping with its traditional diplomatic action in conflict. For instance the pope and his diplomatic team, lead by Cardinal Pietro Parolin [Secretary of State], do not blame any specific party. They also work behind the scenes in order to bring different parties together, without ever engaging in public political analysis or speculation.
I will point for example to the unprecedented visit that Pope Francis made on February 25 to the Russian embassy to the Holy See, from where he talked to Patriarch Kirill. This was all quiet: we heard this unusual trip took place but the Holy See did not really comment. This visit, though, laid the groundwork for what was announced publicly later, on March 16, which was when the Holy Father spoke [through video-call] to Patriarch Kirill. We were given a most complete background of the conversation, with the points exchanged between the two made public to the world. In order to come to this public pressure that came from that conversation, something more discreet had to happen before, which was the unprecedented visit to the Russian embassy.
Why is the call between these two religious leaders significant in this context?
Its significant first of all because of the role of the Orthodox Church in Russia. After communism we witnessed a renaissance of Christianity in Russia. For the first time after more than 100 years the Russian Orthodox Church was no longer submitted to the state but working in harmony with it in both domestic and foreign policies. So the Patriarch and the Orthodox Church in Russia have an enormous influence over the state. With this in mind, it is essential to contact and try to exercise influence on the state through the Patriarchate.
How this was built is also very important. This excellent relation that Pope Francis has with Patriarch Kirill today is something that has been building for over 30 years. It all started in 1988 when a big Vatican delegation went to Russia for the Millennial celebration [marking 1000 years of Russian Orthodox Christianity] and they met with President Gorbachev as well. The relationship between the Vatican, Russia and the Orthodox Church has been ongoing for 30 years.
Has this official call between Francis and Kirill already had wider repercussions?
Yes, another very important diplomatic element is that, following Pope Francis’ virtual meeting with Patriarch Kirill, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, also spoke with the Patriarch. Archbishop Welby expressed almost verbatim the same concerns and preoccupations, and emphasized the need for diplomacy.
This is important because the Archbishop of Canterbury works absolutely in tandem with the British Crown and the Office of the Prime Minister. These conversations have several dimensions, as Patriarch Kirill also communicates directly with President Putin. This is one of the characteristics of the Holy See’s diplomacy, and in particular that of Pope Francis: engaging multiple religions leaders in order to bring about the same results of peace, preservation of sacraments, humanitarian aid to those feeling war zones and so on. This strategy of Vatican diplomacy could not have been implemented had the pope or the Secretary of State made public bellicose statements.
In light of Pope Francis’ decision to consecrate Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of the Virgin Mary, can we say that spirituality is becoming part of the diplomatic tools used by the Vatican?
It’s absolutely significant. Russia has already been consecrated to the Virgin Mary by Pope John Paul II in 1984 and then re-emphasized in 1989 at a very important time in the relationship between the Holy See and the government of the Soviet Union.
So why did Pope Francis decide to revisit this now? It has a strong diplomatic value as well as spiritual value. It is at the request of the Roman Catholic bishops of Ukraine, they asked and signed a petition for Francis to do this this beautiful and fascinating thing.
The Roman Catholic Church in Ukraine has been, since independence, pretty much sidelined by the Greek Catholic Church in the country. From the beginning the former has been closer to local and central authorities acquiring more properties. What Pope Francis is doing, in my view of reading the diplomatic nuances, is acknowledging and bringing out the historical value of the Roman Catholic Church, which happened to be of mostly Polish ethnicity in Ukraine.
The Holy See has also been providing a lot of humanitarian assistance. How does this fit into the Vatican’s diplomacy?
The humanitarian angle has been through Caritas, which is fully engaged in Ukraine and has been from the beginning of the war by distributing food and medicine and so on. Caritas works on the field indiscriminately, it helps everybody and is very well organized. It fulfills many aspects that would otherwise be handled by the United Nations or other international institutions.
Another tool or instrument of the Holy See are the “emissaries” who are sent in the field. They have three dimensions: the humanitarian dimension, the ecumenical dimension and the diplomatic dimension. The ecumenical dimension means they meet with different religious leaders for example. The diplomatic dimension means they communicate and gather information from the field, through missionaries, local leaders etc. They work with ethnic and linguistic maps for example, rather than military ones. This is done in order to get the reality of the situation that is then presented to the pope and his diplomats in Rome and decisions are made from there, to help them make objective decisions.
Pope Francis sent Cardinals Krajewski and Czerny to Ukraine in the last weeks to show support. What is the significance of this from a diplomatic point of view?
This move is not unprecedented. Pope Francis uses cardinals often to dispatch them to areas for sensitive negotiations or off the record meetings. Although the two cardinals concerned are not diplomats, as they are not part of the Secretariat of State, it is another way that Pope Francis exercises his full and tireless engagement in order to being peace.
Would you say the Holy See’s diplomacy is unique ?
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South African anti-apartheid icon Archbishop Desmond Tutu, described as the country’s moral compass, died on Sunday aged 90, sparking an outpouring of tributes for the outspoken Nobel Peace Prize winner.
Tutu, who had largely faded from public life in recent years, was remembered for his easy humour and characteristic smile — and above all his tireless fight against injustices of all colours.
South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa, announcing the archbishop’s death on Sunday, called him a man of "extraordinary intellect, integrity and invincibility against the forces of apartheid".
"The passing of Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu is another chapter of bereavement in our nation’s farewell to a generation of outstanding South Africans who have bequeathed us a liberated South Africa," he said, weeks after the death of FW de Klerk, the country’s last white president.
Mourners gathered outside his former parish in Cape Town, St. George’s Cathedral, while others massed at his home, some holding flower bouquets..
"It’s very, very sad he died. He was such a good man," said retired accountant, Diane Heard.
The South African cricket team wore black armbands in his honour on the first day of the first Test against India in South Africa.
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta said Tutu had "inspired a generation of African leaders who embraced his non-violent approaches in the liberation struggle".
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he was "deeply saddened" by Tutu’s death, calling him a "critical figure" in the struggle to create a new South Africa.
A tireless activist, Tutu won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 for combatting white minority rule in his country.
Famously outspoken even after the fall of the racist apartheid regime in the 1990s, Tutu never shied away from confronting South Africa’s shortcomings or injustices.
It was Tutu who coined the term "Rainbow Nation" to describe South Africa when Nelson Mandela became the country’s first black president in 1994.
And he retired in 1996 to lead a harrowing journey into South Africa’s brutal past as head of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which lifted the lid on the horrors of apartheid.
However, Tutu has also criticised the ruling African National Congress (ANC) — the vanguard of the fight against white-minority rule.
He challenged Mandela over generous salaries for cabinet ministers and stridently criticised the corruption that mushroomed under ex-president Jacob Zuma.
Ordained at the age of 30 and appointed archbishop in 1986, he used his position to advocate for international sanctions against apartheid, and later to lobby for rights globally.
Tutu was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1997 and repeatedly underwent treatment.
His public appearances become increasingly scarce and, in one of his last this year, he emerged from hospital in a wheelchair to get a Covid vaccine, waving but not offering comment.
The archbishop had been in a weakened state for several months and died peacefully at 7:00 am (0500 GMT) on Sunday, according to several of his relatives.
‘Larger than life’
The Nelson Mandela Foundation called Tutu "an extraordinary human being. A thinker. A leader. A shepherd."
"He was larger than life, and for so many in South Africa and around the world his life has been a blessing," it said in a statement.
Tutu was born in the small town of Klerksdorp, west of Johannesburg, on October 7, 1931, to a domestic worker and a school teacher.
He trained as a teacher before anger at the inferior education system set up for black children prompted him to become a priest.
He lived for a while in Britain, where, he recalled, he would needlessly ask for directions just to be called "Sir" by a white policeman.
Tutu relentlessly challenged the status quo on issues like race, homosexuality and religious doctrine and gave his pioneering support for the assisted dying movement.
And he did not shy away from his own end.
"I have prepared for my death and have made it clear that I do not wish to be kept alive at all costs," he said in an opinion piece in The Washington Post in 2016.
"I hope I am treated with compassion and allowed to pass on to the next phase of life’s journey in the manner of my choice."
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Lately I’ve been get more questions about this module. The github repro has some basic information but not the whole story. Here is the background on the module, some insights and some help to make you build one yourself.
Some time ago I was on the search for a drum trigger module and something to spend my time on. Mutable Instruments share all there products under a open source license. Grids is one of there discontinued modules based on a ATmega328P. This happen to be the same chip that is used by Arduino on there Nano (old one).
These Nano’s aren’t the most expensive and I also keep a few in my drawers. I like working with Arduino’s. Grids PCB’s are avaible on the internet so there wasn’t any need to build a new version. But all those PCB are surface mount parts and non of those uses the Nano. A that chip is a awful thing to solder.
So I thought of build one with through hole components and a Arduino Nano. A bit easier to solder for most people.
The schematics for Grids are public available. But not the files so I started out but just coping it in Kicad. From there on it was PCB design, placing the components and tracing all lines.
I’m still kinda new to making pcb’s and working with Kicad. I have no education on electronics but that’s not holding me back. But surly it was time to ask some help. I enjoy reading Muffwiggler and know there a lot of knowledge there for the Diy community.
Help was there and before that I didn’t know about decoupling caps and how to read these from a schematic.
Why don’t the draw these where the sit but just below on the schematics ??
My designing of the board may seem a bit weird at first (and second..). I wanted to make two board that will fit on top of each other. Otherwise it would be a realy big module. I designed it as one board where I could delete half of the board to make the Gerber files needed for the PCB manufacturer.
In the end I had to do it three times. First time the potentiometer where wrong way round, made a few footprint mistakes and still on the last board there are a few issues. But I got these from the manufacturer
The known issues
- The boards had a few production runs (3) and the last issues where workable. A wire had to be soldered between the tempo pot and ground. Lucky ground was very nearby.
I think I got this sorted on the github repro upload but didn’t order the board myself. Three times was enough. So I hope some will test this and report back to me. Else I still have so minor work to do and a new Github upload is needed.
- The led lights might be a little to bright with the current BOM, It’s a matter of opinion. But if you want to change them. (R25, R26,R27, R28)
- Power header and diodes are tight fit. Might wanna install the diodes last.
- A fellow “Wiggler” reports: The resistor R31 before the LM4040-5V is a 100k in Quinie’s design but a 10k in Mutable Instruments. (I have to double check but trust Mutable Instruments, I could have made a mistake here )
- panel hole for button might be a bit to big or small (depends if you use buttoncaps)
What should I’ve done differently
Well a lot of things maybe, but the files are out there and I can still update the current version. But one thing I would still like to do is matching it with a normal Grids panel layout.
Building It yourself
If you don’t want to order a multiple board (most go from 5 pcb and above) you can always send me a email. I might have few in stock as people keep asking me about it.
You can check my Github repro and order some boards and start from there (BOM below). If you have any question please drop me a email, wiggler message or github issue.
Some Pictures from builders
Thanks to all wiggler that helped on creating this. a special thanks to migueldetrool for doing a lot of testing a providing me with some issues reports.
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What supplements, if any, one should take are affected not only by diet, but by one’s desired health outcome. Supplements, as the name implies, are just that -- a supplement to one’s diet. The ability of a woman at age 40 to achieve ideal nutrient intake from food alone is difficult for most in practice and is influenced by food choices, calorie intake and activity. The more active one is, the more calories they can eat, and the easier it is to get the nutrients needed for optimal health. Still, getting what one needs is a challenge.
A 1995 study in the JADA tasked 43 dietitians with meeting government recommendations using up to 2400 calories (exceeding the 2000 calorie levels on which the recommendations were based). All of the dieticians failed at the task, showing just how difficult it can be meet nutrient recommendations from food alone.
The results of many nutrition surveys, including the NHANES (National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey), show women falling short on calcium, iron, zinc, folate and vitamins A and D. The intake of most B vitamins are suboptimal as well. One should always try to address nutrition through food first. Adding low-fat milk or other dairy products can increase calcium and vitamin D (in fortified milk). Orange juice can often be found fortified with these nutrients as well (the acidity increases calcium absorption). Bread, baked goods and grains/cereals have been fortified with folate in an attempt to increase its intake. Brightly colored fruits and vegetable provide a variety of nutrients, especially anti-oxidants. Sadly though, most Americans fall short on implementing these dietary recommendations.
Simply put, if you do not eat it, then you better find another way to get it. For many, the daily use of a properly formulated multiple vitamin and mineral formula will cover the bases and make up for common insufficient or suboptimal intakes. For exercisers who fail to get adequate fruit and vegetable intake (5-7 servings/day), the use of an antioxidant supplement may be helpful as well. dotFIT addresses these needs with the following formulas:
- Women’s MV - for non-exercising women.
- Active MV - for active, exercising women up to age 65
- Superior Antioxidant - designed to complement our MV formulas
Once a woman hits her 40s and she starts to approach menopause her body and nutrition needs begin to change. As estrogen levels decrease she may start to see less padding in her hips and thighs and more belly fat. That decline in estrogen also affects bone health, making calcium critical. What's more decreased stomach acid also makes it harder to absorb calcium from foods. This doesn't just affect bone health but can also increase hormonal swings related to PMS as well.
For women in their 40s calcium (and vitamin D to help absorb calcium) are more important than ever. You can get your daily 1,000mg dose of calcium from 3 servings of dairy. But if that's not your thing, a supplement in 2 divided doses of 500 mg apiece will also work. Because vitamin D is difficult to get from foods, consider a supplement of between 600 and 1,000IU.
Women over 40 need to increase their supplement intake to make up for common deficiencies such as low vitamin D. The body needs vitamin D to help absorb calcium and protect against bone loss associated with osteoporosis.
You're at greater risk for low vitamin D if you have dark skin, regularly wear high SPF sunscreen, or live in a northern climate. To get enough vitamin D from the sun, you need about 15 to 20 minutes of daily exposure, which is not always possible.
Other recommended supplements include calcium-magnesium, omega-3 fatty acids, and a good multivitamin.
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Why are there so many Jacks in fairy tales (Jack Be Nimble, Jack & Jill, Jack and the Beanstalk, Jack Sprat, etc.).
-- Not Jack, the net
Hey, Joe/Bud/Mac/Bubba/John Doe. See? Lotsa general, catch-all, applies-to-anybody guy names out there. "Jack" is a nickname for the ever-so-common name "John." It's especially popular in England, the source of the Nimble/Beanstalk/Sprat Jacks you cite. | <urn:uuid:1b0336aa-f8c2-45b5-ac25-e2d56755e10e> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/1999/mar/24/why-are-there-so-many-jacks-fairly-tales/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719273.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00066-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.780514 | 121 | 2.046875 | 2 |
What could finally topple Iran's regime? Earthquakes.
Poor government response to earthquakes in Iran exposes the regime's corruption and incompetence. As the EU's Catherine Ashton and Iran’s Saeed Jalili meet in Turkey today, Tehran should heed history’s warning: No nuclear program can save a regime from a toppling earthquake.
Tel Aviv — In the past half-century, earthquakes have directly contributed to the overthrow of at least two authoritarian regimes in Nicaragua and Iran. By exposing government corruption and incompetency, earthquakes wield the ability to inflict political damage to the world’s most ironclad regimes with a level of potency matched only by their unpredictability.
As EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton and Iran’s chief negotiator Saeed Jalili meet in Turkey today to continue working toward an agreement on Iran’s nuclear program, the Iranian leadership should heed history’s warning: No nuclear program can save a regime from a toppling earthquake.
In 1972, a powerful earthquake devastated Nicaragua’s capital, Managua, setting off a chain reaction of public discontent that eventually led to the ousting of the notoriously corrupt Somoza dynasty. For the Nicaraguan people, President Somoza’s squandering of international emergency aid following the earthquake was the last straw in a series of blatantly corrupt moves that showed little regard for their wellbeing.
The second instance occurred in September 1978 in Iran, when a 7.7 magnitude earthquake killed more than 26,000 near the eastern city of Tabas. The dismal response of the equally corrupt shah pushed Iran’s already bubbling popular uprising to a boiling point, one month after the CIA made its historically erroneous assessment that the country was “not in a revolutionary or even pre-revolutionary situation.”
As the Somozas and the shah can attest from their resting place in history’s dustbin, earthquakes are much more than nature’s most destructive physical force.
Since the ayatollahs took power in 1979, more than 78,000 Iranians have died in hundreds of powerful earthquakes. The vast majority of those killed were crushed by their own poorly constructed homes, with earthquakes flattening entire villages in Iran’s neglected and impoverished rural areas in several instances.
Although the entirety of Iran’s territory sits on one of the most seismically active areas in the world, it ranks far lower than countries like Japan, Chile, and Turkey in terms of average earthquake magnitude and frequency.
And yet, the scale in which seismic events translate into humanitarian and economic disasters in Iran is staggering. This is due primarily to the wanton mismanagement and underfunding of the government’s disaster relief programs and earthquake preparedness measures, which in other nations have a proven ability to save countless lives.
While Iran’s seismic reality cannot be altered, the region’s political and economic tectonic plates are shifting against the ayatollahs’ favor. The potential damage – both political and physical – of another powerful earthquake will only multiply as Iran’s economy deteriorates and the government’s budget buckles.
Currently an estimated 2 percent of the country’s expenditure is devoted to disaster relief. This amount will be further expected to dwindle under the weight of international sanctions, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s irresponsible subsidy policies, and untold corruption throughout Iran’s ruling class. These factors have already caused tremors of public discontent among the middle class.
Several recent earthquakes have further shaken public confidence in the government. In August 2012, a 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck Iran’s rural northeastern provinces near the city of Tabriz, killing more than 350 and leaving 16,000 homeless. Local residents and response teams criticized the government’s delayed response, shortage of tents and medicine, and inability to reach many outlying villages altogether.
Mr. Ahmadinejad’s decision not to cancel a planned trip to Saudi Arabia three days after the Tabriz earthquake sparked outrage nationwide, while opening up the floor for infighting with his political opponents. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khameini was also the subject of rare criticism, after he only offered his condolences 30 hours after the quake struck. State media was accused of outright ignoring the disaster, choosing instead to cover the ongoing Olympic games, comedy shows, and “Western plots” in Syria.
this year, on April 10, a 6.3 earthquake struck about 100 miles south of the Bushehr nuclear reactor. This was just four days after negotiations with the P5+1 world powers in Kazakhstan ended with an Iranian refusal of the most comprehensive incentives package offered by the West to date. The offer was conditional on Iran halting uranium enrichment.
The world was able to breathe a sigh of relief after it became apparent that the quake would not cause a Fukushima-replay in the oil-rich Persian Gulf, although its symbolism cannot be ignored. The quake had destroyed several dilapidated villages and killed dozens while the nearby reactor remained unharmed – essentially turning Bushehr into an icon of the government’s misplaced aspirations to become a nuclear power at the cost of its citizens’ wellbeing.
Six days later on April 16, an even more powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck near the Iran-Pakistan border. Government officials initially claimed that the death toll would be “in the hundreds,” but damage to Iranian areas was ultimately minimal. While the government escaped another potentially embarrassing disaster, one can only imagine the repercussions had this earthquake had an epicenter in Tehran or Esfahan.
As they brace for the impact of particularly contentious presidential elections in June, Iran’s ayatollahs have made every effort to solidify their rule by portraying strength internally and defiance outwardly. Prospects for a solution to the nuclear issue have been decidedly pushed back until after the elections, while the Revolutionary Guard appears poised to swiftly crack down on any political mobilization in Tehran or elsewhere.
The Iranian regime may be confident in its ability to outmaneuver its political and military opponents, but it cannot defeat the powerful forces of nature beneath its feet. Whether it be armed conflict, economic prosperity, or natural disasters, history has shown that the legitimacy of any government rests primarily on its ability to provide security for its people.
Until Iran’s leadership heeds this reality, it may just be a few earthquakes away from crumbling.
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Multiple Hereditary Exostoses / Multiple Osteochondroma is a rare genetic bone condition in which multiple benign cartilage-capped bone tumors called exostoses / osteochondromas develop. They grow outward from the metaphyses of long bones, growth plates or from the surface of flat bones throughout the body.
I have not seen any direct research on the EXT genes that would connect 12 deficiency to MHE/MO/HME. Neuropathy has is seen in MHE patients. Periphial neuropathy this all depends of the context in the use of this term... Regards Sarah
Our family has a B-12 deficiency and periphial neuropathy that seems to be associated with our HMO. Do you have any information about this? Laurie
The MHE Research Foundation is always happy to assist MHE / MO / HME families in obtaining the medical information they need. Please feel free the to post your question and comments. Sincerely Sarah Ziegler The MHE Research Foundation Vice President & National Director of Research Executive Director, The MHE National Research Registry & Coordinator of Clinical Information Liaison Officer, University of Antwerp, Department of Genetics, Belgium Liaison Officer, Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute, Genetics Unit, Bologna Italy
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CoRDS, or the Coordination of Rare Diseases at Sanford, is based at Sanford Research in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. It provides researchers with a centralized, international patient registry for all rare diseases. This program allows patients and researchers to connect as easily as possible to help advance treatments and cures for rare diseases. The CoRDS team works with patient advocacy groups, individuals and researchers to help in the advancement of research in over 7,000 rare diseases. The registry is free for patients to enroll and researchers to access.
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In the din of swift criticism (pdf) of the proposed Harkin ESEA overhaul bill over its accountability rules – or lack thereof – it’s easy to overlook that there is some good language in the bill. In fact, that’s the irony – the proposed bill actually reflects a lot of smart learning about policy over the past decade-plus, including some that hasn’t shown up anywhere else.
Some examples: In considering gaps it explicitly calls for averaging student achievement data over three years rather than leaving it to states to make bad decisions (yes, flexibility not always great, some of the flexibility in the 2001 law led to silly policies). It introduces “mutual consent” (meaning teachers and their school have to agree to a placement, no force-transfers) in a few places. And it closes the comparability loophole that shortchanges poor students under Title I (though it seems that was the price of admission for Senator Michael Bennet of Colorado – a former school superintendent familiar with the inanity of that rule). It includes language on teacher evaluations and would protect Teach For America from efforts to eliminate the program using federal regulations. It also includes good policy on special education and limiting some abuses there. And it has a few things on teacher prep programs that – if adequately enforced – could make a difference.
But on the big question of accountability it takes the federal policy back to an approach on accountability that didn’t work in the 1990s under the 1994 Improving America’s Schools Act, and really before that. In other words the plane has some lovely wings and some nifty new stuff in the cockpit, it just wants for an engine. | <urn:uuid:256cdd35-5f6e-4a9a-99cc-2bb6a5192a3f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.eduwonk.com/2011/10/little-rights-big-wrong.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00271.warc.gz | en | 0.9619 | 342 | 1.796875 | 2 |
Social workers perform their tasks in a wide variety of social settings, involving intensely intimate contacts that intervene in a clients moral and social privacy. In this book the author argues the practical relevance of actual sociological research as a valuble resource that can help improve services for clients. A highly recommended book for all practitioners, teachers, managers, social policy planners, and students interested in sociological aspects in our society.
International Social Work
This book will be a useful resource for teaching. The author is convincing in his grasp of contemporary issues in social work and is successful in bringing his sociological perspective to bear on these issues.
The book is divided into chapters that focus on the relationship between social work and service users, informal care, illness, institutions, stigma, delinquency and relative deprivation. The text is broken down into easy-to-follow sections accompanied by references to the literature that will be useful to students.
Graham Allen, Department of Sociology, University of Southampton
We've been struggling for a text, but this is great for us… because it covers a wide range of material in a way that will be understandable by both the sociology and social work students. I particularly like the progression of the book, with each chapter following on well from the last. | <urn:uuid:eb5c4eae-3f05-48b9-bff3-955677be0dd0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://uk.hachette-push.io/products/social-workers-the-community-and-social-interaction | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571989.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813232744-20220814022744-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.937343 | 261 | 2.046875 | 2 |
Preschool Time incorporates thematic books, music, and more during 45 minute sessions. The theme for this week's storytime is unicorns. This program is designed for children ages 3 and up but all are welcomed to attend. All QPL programs are free and open to the public but space is limited; reservations are requested.
Come to the Teen Program Kickoff!
Before school starts, come to the library and learn what you can do all year long here with us!
Did you know we have 3 programs just for teens? You can participate in:
We will also have weekly hangout times every Tuesday for you to come to afterschool and hang with friends, grab a snack, and relax with games, art, and more!
Meet other teens and bring your friends to learn more about what you can do here at the library.
While you are at it, stay for the ice cream sundae bar and popsicles.
Take some time on this Thursday to explore what interests you by looking at some books, checking out our anime collection, and getting creative with us!
This program is for ages 13 to 18.
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The round towers of Ireland; or The mysteries of Freemasonry, or Sabaism, and of Budhism, for the first time unveiled. :
"Prize essay" of the Royal irish Academy, enlarged, and embellished with numerous illustrations /
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"Errors and omissions:" p. .
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There is a point system for traffic violations in GA, ranging from possessing an alcoholic beverage while driving (2 points), to passing a school bus (6 points) or exceeding the speed limit by 34 mph or more (6 points). Don’t take a chance on defending yourself. A lawyer can make you aware of your rights and help minimize your points.
Aggravated assault and battery are serious allegations, which cover the following acts: physically attacking a person; threatening to cause bodily harm; assaulting with a deadly weapon; and an intent to commit battery.
Simple assault, an ATTEMPT to inflict injury on another, is a misdemeanor crime which also carries a maximum of one year incarceration and/or a $1,000 fine.
There is a broad range of serious consequences for aggravated assault, depending on the specificity of the crime. For instance, if the assault is against a police officer, you would face five to twenty years in prison. If the victim is over the age of 65 or if the assault is of domestic nature, the range is three to twenty years. In a situation that involves assault with the robbery of a commercial vehicle, you would face a prison term of five to twenty years and a fine of $50,000 to $200,000.
In a situation where someone enters a home without the owner’s authority, WITHOUT committing a theft or felony, the offender is guilty of “criminal trespass,” as a worst-case scenario. This is a misdemeanor charge. If the offender entered and took property, however, then the offense becomes a burglary and the offender could be tried and sentenced on both the burglary charge and the theft charge. The burglary is a felony, and the theft could also be prosecuted as a felony, or a misdemeanor, depending on the value of the taken items.
If a person has touched you, intending harm or intimidation and restraint to your body, you should report it to the police. Victims of domestic violence can get a temporary restraining order, and the courts can decide custody and child support issues, etc. There are also people wrongfully accused of such violence, and the lawyer’s job is to strip away the emotionalism of the issue, and get down to the facts.
Stalking, with the definition of continually following, calling, or harassing someone for the purpose of intimidation, is a crime, and it can be the basis of relief in a family violence case.
Cruel treatment is one of the 13 grounds for divorce in Georgia. It consists of intentional infliction of bodily or mental pain upon the plaintiff.
Domestic violence is a pattern of abusive behaviors by either one or both partners in an intimate relationship, such as through marriage, dating, cohabitation, friends, or family. Depending on the severity and duration of the violence, it may or may not be constituted as a crime. For those who are wrongfully accused, your defense attorney can fight false allegations. For those in dangerous situations, as a victim of the violence, your attorney can help you get a temporary restraining order issued by the courts. Custody and child support, possession of the family home, and alimony can be decided upon by the court system.
Drug crimes are the abuse or use of substances such as marijuana, cocaine, amphetamines, morphine, heroin, or abuse of prescription drugs such as painkillers in the form of using, possessing, distributing or manufacturing such drugs. Such convictions can carry long prison terms and high fines. This is an obvious concern for our communities and one of the many areas that this firm is committed. By identifying the reasons or underlying causes of your arrest, including drug abuse and addiction, your attorney can help protect your legal rights.
Felonies are crimes including battery, arson, burglary, aggravated assault (using a deadly weapon), grand theft, robbery, murder, vandalism on federal property, rape, etc. Felonies carry the strongest penalties and are more severe than misdemeanors or infractions. Convicted felons, or those people convicted of felonies, may be prohibited from certain occupations, such as a teacher, lawyer, or military person; from owning guns; etc. For sex offenders, those people must register as such.
Juvenile crimes are defined as illegal or antisocial behavior committed by adolescents/children under the age of 18. Some of these charges are vandalism, gang activity, assault/battery, underage drinking, and theft.
There are many reasons as to why juveniles enter into risky, criminal activity, including family factors (parental abuse, neglect, separation), untreated mental disorders, a lack of self control and high impulsiveness, etc. A hired defense attorney can help someone charged with such crimes and assist them at acquiring a second chance at life.
A misdemeanor is a less severe criminal act, normally punished less than felonies, but more than infractions, or “regulatory offenses.” Most misdemeanors are punishable with monetary fines. Examples of misdemeanors are prostitution, public intoxication, disorderly conduct, vandalism, trespass, drug possession, reckless driving, and petty theft.
In 2008, the Georgia legislature made penalties for those driving without a license, or one that is not valid (revoked or suspended). The offender must now serve two days in jail and pay a minimum of a $500.00 fine.
Property crimes are shoplifting, petty or grand larceny, bouncing or forging checks, burglary, embezzlement/employee theft, auto theft, receiving stolen goods, criminal trespass, criminal damage to property, arson, or vandalism. The need for a good defense attorney is crucial when handling allegations of such crimes. Property crimes do NOT involve force or threat of such against a victim. In 2008, there were over 388,000 property crimes in Georgia. This category had the highest number of crimes for the population. Obviously this is a serious issue, and one that needs representation and the defense of an attorney.
Robbery is trying to forcibly take something valuable, thus putting the victim in fear of his/her life. Robbery carries a sentence of at least one, but not more than 20 years. Whether you have been arrested for robbery, or are the victim of a robbery, you need a lawyer to help defend your rights.
A defendant charged with a sex crime is someone who has been charged with a sexual offense, including assault, rape, child molestation and/or pornography, and indecent exposure. Some sex crimes are violent crimes, involving sexual exploitation, while others are in the form of exhibitionism.
Upon accusation of such crimes, it is extremely important to contact a defense attorney to avoid making costly mistakes, such as prematurely giving information to friends or family, who may in turn be charged with criminal activity by their knowledge of your situation.
The consequences of being charged with a sex crime, or being labeled as a sex offender in Georgia, means more than simple prison time. Public places, employers, schools, etc. must be notified of your presence once there is a decision of guilt by the court system and you have been required to register as a sex offender.
Theft crimes are the illegal taking of another person’s property without their consent. In some jurisdictions, it is synonymous with larceny. There are many ways to commit shoplifting. The offender is intending to take the item without paying for it, or to deprive the owner of all or some of their goods’ value by concealing the goods, transferring the good from one container to another, changing a price tag from one item to another, or wrongfully causing the wrong price to be charged. Under Georgia shoplifting laws, if you are convicted of such crimes with items valuing less than $300, it carries a charge of a misdemeanor with one year in prison and up to $1,000 in fines. The punishments increase with each subsequent offense. If the value of the item(s) is over $300, you will be charged with a felony and face one to ten years in prison.
White collar crimes are the act of taking money or property from others by use of fraud and deception. White collar crimes are committed by someone of high social status in his career; someone of high respectability.
White collar crimes include insurance, securities, mortgage, and internet fraud. Other examples are embezzlement, identity and credit card theft, fraud, and the writing of bad checks. It is important to get legal advice upon receiving a subpoena, getting a phone call from an investigator, or finding someone’s home or business being searched by the state.
The typical steps in a criminal proceeding are: for minor offenses, the charged can often call the court to find out the amount of the fine, plead guilty and send in their payment; or, if s(he) wants to plead not guilty and have a hearing, s(he) has to show up at the assigned hearing. The person may represent himself at this hearing, or have an attorney represent him.
For felony and misdemeanor proceedings, the process is more complex. Your attorney can be with you throughout the whole proceeding or you may waive the right and represent yourself. After the crime is committed, it is reported and investigated, and the person is arrested. When booking occurs, there is a recording of the defendant’s name, crime he/she is charged with, and the phone number, address, photograph and fingerprints of the accused.
Once the defendant is in court and enters a plea of either guilty, not guilty or no contest, s(he) is presented with a written accusation explaining the facts of the crime and his/her involvement in the crime. This accusation can be presented by a grand jury, prosecutor or a police officer. If the plea is not guilty, a date for trial is set.
Either bail is set or the defendant must be “detained” (kept in jail until trial). Bail can range anywhere from being released on your own recognizance, to posting thousands of dollars. If a higher amount is set for bail, a bail bondsman is often called to provide the payment in exchange for a lien against property as collateral, and a fee. Bail is forfeited if the defendant does not show up at the next hearing.
A preliminary hearing is where a judge decides whether the defendant should be held for trial. The prosecution has the burden of providing enough evidence to the judge that a crime did occur and the defendant did commit the crime.
In a criminal trial there are opening statements, the examination of witnesses and evidence, closing statements given, instructions for the jury, a rendered verdict after deliberation, and a verdict entered. Upon completion, the defendant may try a post trial motion (a motion for a new trial).
When the defendant is found guilty, a hearing is set to determine the sentence. The sentencing reports factor in prior payment of restitution or other crime convictions. These are often submitted to the judge and the judge pronounces judgment at a sentencing hearing. Other times, a jury or sentencing council will render the sentence.
The sentencing possibilities are 1)to be ordered to pay a fine, 2) to be released but with specific terms of probation, or 3) to be sent directly to jail. If the probation terms are violated, the probation can be revoked and the person will be sent to jail.
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More than 40% of the new drugs registered from 1981 to 2006 were obtained, derived or inspired from natural compounds. The influence of natural products in the anti-infective area is quite marked, being a great percentage of drugs derived or extracted from natural products. Vaginal infections are one of the most common reasons a women visits a gynecologist. Given the high popularity of natural therapies among women who suffer from chronic infections, it is urgent for women’s healthcare providers to be knowledgeable about such therapies. Additionally, many phytotherapeutic products have been suggested as natural sources of antimicrobial compounds. The increased resistance to conventional antibiotics is one of the main factors justifying the search and development of new antimicrobial agents, especially those of natural origin. Currently, phytochemicals are considered by the scientific community as very attractive targets for potential drug discovery and therapy. In this review, we will focus on the most relevant reports published during the last twenty years about the antimicrobial activity of plant extracts upon microorganisms most frequently involved in genital infections, such as Candida spp., Gardnerella vaginalis, Trichomonas vaginalis and Human papillomavirus. The relationship between their composition and the antimicrobial effects will be highlighted and vaginal therapeutic delivery systems that vehicle plant extracts both commercialized and under investigation will be included. | <urn:uuid:f8362a9e-b224-4fcd-9d5a-db7d96776d34> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.eurekaselect.com/article/53246 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00478.warc.gz | en | 0.95803 | 271 | 2.875 | 3 |
Australia’s February jobs report had something for everyone.
Unemployment fell to 5.8%, down from 6.0%, although the decline was partially caused by a fall in estimated labour force participation.
On the other hand, despite the drop in the unemployment rate, employment growth continued to disappoint, with the number of additional people in work rising by just 300, employment is still down by 6,600 over the past three months in seasonally adjusted terms.
The drop in the unemployment rate saw markets take the result as strong. Now that economists have had time to digest the report, it’s time to see what they’ve made of it.
John Peters, CBA
Today’s jobs data helps confirm that Australia’s economic growth transition from the mining to the non-mining sectors of the economy (and particularly the services sector) is pretty much on track. The RBA would find it difficult to cut rates against the backdrop of continued strength in the jobs data and a falling unemployment rate.
The central bank has also noted that the economic transition has some way to go and further mining related job losses are likely over coming years, but the flexibility shown by the labour market to date bodes well for the economic and jobs transition. Two decade low wages growth is also helping this transition. The latest wage cost index showed broad based wages growth of 2.2% pa.
In our view, unless there is a serious deterioration in the local growth outlook generally and particularly the labour market, and/or a meltdown in the global growth outlook (say a tanking in Chinese growth), then the RBA will be content to leave the cash rate at 2% over 2016. Markets think otherwise although they have trimmed the quantum of easing in 2016 from 0.5% just a few weeks ago to 0.25% currently.
Dylan Eades and Jo Masters, ANZ
The stalling in employment growth likely reflects some payback following the exceptional strength recorded towards the end of 2015. Nonetheless, measured employment growth still averaged a solid 19k in the six months to February.
The RBA continues to link monetary policy to the improvement in labour market conditions. At this stage, the trend improvement in the unemployment rate will be sufficient to keep the RBA on the sidelines for the time being and today’s data puts at risk our call for a May rate cut.
The RBA’s most recent communications suggests that it remains confident that employment growth will remain relatively healthy in the near term, but is less certain about further declines in the unemployment rate. The path for monetary policy outlook will depend heavily on whether further inroads in to unemployment can be made.
Tapas Strickland, NAB
Today’s employment report was positive, with the unemployment rate falling to 5.8%, from 6.0%. The unemployment rate over the past year has fallen by 0.5% points and is hugging the RBA’s February forecast track.
It is clear the labour market has improved in trend terms over the past year with the unemployment rate a full 0.5% points lower, while annual employment growth remains strong at 2.3% or equivalent to around 19,000 jobs a month. NAB’s employment index suggests such strength should continue over coming months and is suggestive of employment growth in the 15-17,000 range.
For the RBA, they are likely to interpret the jobs figures positively. The unemployment rate is around the level where they had forecast at the February Statement of Monetary Policy and is consistent with the improvement in the non-mining economy seen in the GDP figures recently. The RBA has explicitly linked the case for further easing to the employment data and today’s data should reassure the RBA that the improvement in the non-mining economy has continued into 2016. We suggest positive employment growth in excess of 14,000 per month (needed to keep the unemployment rate from rising) should alleviate any renewed pressure on the RBA to ease.
NAB sees the RBA on hold in 2016.
Paul Bloxham, HSBC
Today’s jobs numbers were weaker than expected, with broadly flat jobs in February. However, at the same time, the unemployment rate outperformed by falling to 5.8%, due to an unexpected sharp decline in the participation rate.
Measurement issues have pervaded this survey making it difficult to get a clear reading. This is the third consecutive month of weak jobs growth, but this partly reflects pay-back for very strong numbers late last year. Cutting through the noise, the trend measures show the unemployment rate is still below its peak, suggesting gradual labour market improvement.
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The Battle of the Crater : a novel / Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen.
- ISBN: 9781427216960 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- ISBN: 1427216967 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- Publisher: New York : Macmillan Audio, 2011.
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|Summary, etc.:|| A court of inquiry convenes at the Union Army headquarters to investigate the Battle of the Crater, one of the worst disasters endured by a disaster-prone army. The military news of that spring had been full of unrelenting frustration and outright catastrophe. Lincoln is losing the election, and with it, the war. Fearing the worst, the president calls on his old friend, reporter James O'Reilly, to cover the resulting court of inquiry and file a confidential report on what really happened.
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THE LAW OF THE UNFORESEEN, Poems by Edward Harkness. Pleasure Boat Studio, 3710 SW Barton St., Seattle, WA 98126, 2018, 116 pages, $14, paper, pleasureboatstudio.com.
In the cover notes, Anne Pitkin describes Ed Harkness’s poems as riding “a current of melancholy, a certainty of loss which deepens the vitality.” A northwest native, Harkness writes about his travels at home and abroad and reaches back through time to share the paths his ancestors took before him. And, in this poem, Walt Whitman joins the chorus.
Today’s poem suggests a great poetry prompt. What would happen if you invited a poet from the past (Dickinson, Rilke, Yeats?) to join your morning walk? What will they notice that you might otherwise miss? What snippets from their poems might you weave in? What will the two of you talk about as you meander?
Whitman Reading by Moonlight
Walt Whitman pads around on the lawn
in bathrobe and slippers. Moonlight
silvers the lilac tree by the dooryard,
the flowers long gone from lavender to rust.
He opens his notebook to read a recent draft,
the title appearing as–he can’t make it out–
“Growing Broken Berry,” it looks like.
Back in bed he sees himself forlorn,
alone on the stern, riding the Brooklyn Ferry,
his shirt collar turned up, his fingers
clutching the brim of his straw hat.
He opens his notebook and reads aloud
by moonlight a draft, its working title:
“Crossing Brooklyn Ferry.” In bed,
staring at the blank screen of the ceiling,
he watches himself tear out one page
from the notebook, then another.
When he releases them, they rise like gulls
aloft on the back draft, awhirl in a billow
of coal smoke and steam. Pages flutter
ungainly, as if wounded, alighting
on the wake’s white fire where they swim,
swirl, flatten and disappear
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MHT CET Biology Question Paper PDF Summary
Hello friends, today we are going to upload MHT CET Biology Question Paper PDF with the help of all of you. MHT CET Previous Years Question Papers are one of the best ways to assess one’s preparation for the upcoming exam. Candidates seeking admission are advised to go through the syllabus after solving the previous year’s question papers.
It will help candidates to understand the exam pattern of MHT CET 2022, know which topics are important, and check frequently asked questions. It is discussed below that why a candidate cannot attempt the main exam without solving the previous years question papers of MHT CET.
MHT CET Biology Question Paper PDF- Exam Pattern 2022
|Medium of question paper||Physics & Chemistry: English, Urdu, and Marathi
|Mode of Exam||Computer-based test|
|Subjects||Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics | Physics, Chemistry, and Biology|
|Total No. of Questions||150|
MHT CET 2018 Question Paper PDF – Students Review
Understanding the perspectives of students who have taken MHT CET in past years is beneficial. This will help you understand how the papers were written and how to prepare for them.
- MHT-CET 2018 was rated as one of the most straightforward engineering entrance exams by students.
- According to them, the paper’s difficulty level was not even half that of the 2018 JEE Mains.
- The students also stated that they had no problems with time management in both papers this year.
- There were fewer calculations and even some problems that were not numerical.
- The three subjects, mathematics, physics, and chemistry, were all of the moderate difficulty.
- In Physics, there have been more numerical-based problems than theoretical questions.
- In Chemistry, Chemical bonding and Organic Chemistry posed numerous questions.
- It was relatively simple for a well-prepared student to attempt 130 of 150 questions with an accuracy of 85 to 90%.
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Delving through Coroner’s cases may seem intrusive, uncomfortable and voyeuristic.
The reality is that the Coroner often makes recommendations … which may not be translated into practice for some time, wither due to systems issues (not least resource limitations) and lack of awareness. As rural doctors we have a tough remit – practicing the breadth of medicine, often without the backup and resources enjoyed by metropolitan specialists.
I believe that FOAMed can help bolster traditional sources of learning – particularly to “help bring quality care, out there” to rural Australians. Even more so when we recognise that ‘critical illness does not respect geography’ and so despite our resource limitations, we need to be able to at least initiate management for the whole gamut of clinical presentations.
Part of that process requires not just technical skills, but also awareness of non-technical skills and understanding limitations/difficulties inherent in our practice. Relevant Coroner’s findings can help shape our practice and are useful, if lessons learned are translated into tangible application in the bush.
One of my favourite papers is “If Nothing Goes Wrong is Everything Alright?‘ – an examination of statistical and psychological factors around rare events in medicine. If we accept that our work involves some degree of risk, for both doctor and patient, then we need to be able to assess this risk, manage it and ideally to mitigate against it.
But if such events are rare, then they may develop an attitude of ‘why bother? It won’t happen to me!’ amongst individual doctors, nursing staff or hospital admin. Worse, doctors may fall back on anecdote ‘I have never had difficulty with intubation!’ – whilst factually true, may be falsey reassuring when numbers of procedures is low.
The Elaine Bromiley case is one with which most GP-Anaesthetists will be familiar. For me this translated into examining not just my technical competence in airway management, but a long hard look at other factors. From this I have taken it upon myself to develop
- a crisis manual for use in the rural OT and ED, with adjuncts like ED prompt cards & an RSI kit dump
- use of a difficult airway trolley in my hospital, backed up with signage and protocols
- team training in crisis management with ED and OT staff
- a survey of rural GP-anaesthetists and their access to difficult airway equipment, presented at RMA2012, SMACC2013 and published in Rural & Remote Health
- FOAMed resources like this for sharing between rural doctors
…and that is just on one area of practice!
Here is a selection of Coroner’s Cases relevant to rural doctors.
Ever ordered an investigation? Of course you have! ALWAYS remember that the doctor who ordered the test is responsible for followup – so don;t discharge someone from the ED with a discharge summary saying ‘GP to follow up serum rhubarb’…and don’t send someone in for a scan then fail to act on the radiologist’s recommendations! Read this report and recommendation from the SA Coroner on need to followup, even to get police and ambulance to pay a visit if urgent…
Bottom line – don’t be afraid to awaken your patient and cancel the case. Use caution with iLMAs, they can be fiddly to remove once ETT sited – I have switched to AirQ-II iLMAs on this basis…
Extubation is potentially risky – this unfortunate case documents failed attempts to re-intubate a patient, extubated in an ICU on different site from previous (difficult) intubation. Lesson? Always inform colleagues of a difficult intubation – it may be very relevant down the track! Use the UK’s DIfficult Airway Society EXTUBATION GUIDELINES.
Highlights the need for appropriate pre-anaesthetic assessment, caution with obesity, OSA and opiates, as well as problems with assessment post op. Hindsight is 100%…
This can occur anywhere – in this case ICU, but more pertinently for rural doctors, in OT, in ED, or when transferring a ventilated patient. Like NAP4, this case demonstrates the need for mandatory ETCO2 monitoring wherever an airway is managed. Period.
Talking through a procedure is the ultimate test of whether you can do it. This case pertains particularly to difficulties with the growing problem of allergies causing anaphylaxis, the need for familiarity with anaphylaxis guidelines, & the huge challenges faced by remote area nurses and the DMOs who support them. Truly ‘critical illness does not respect geoggraphy’
One of the problems of psychiatric sedation is that patients risk loss of airway protective reflexes – I now approach such cases with the same manner as sedation int he ED/OT, mindful that they are unfasted and may have comorbidities, but that an elective pre-anaesthetic check is unfeasible when agitation causes a risk to self or others. ETCo2 monitoring and equipment to manage a difficult airway should be to hand, and a thorough ‘risk assessment’ made. I use a prompt with a psych safe sedation matrix as a helpful guide.
A young lady makes a deliberate, considered attempt at suicide – successfully. This case raises issues of suicide risk assessment. I now use the TRAAPED SILO SAFE method discussed in ‘Emergency FOAMed’ section
A sad case, highlighting that despite thorough risk assessment, a determined patient may inflict self-harm. The need for 1:1 nursing and removal of any potential weapons etc is the standard – whether this is achievable with limited staff is a problem we often face.
SAH is a diagnosis that can be missed, with this case obfuscated by a falsely reassuring scan despite ongoing headaches. It also demonstrated a failure of the receiving hospital to ‘marry’ referring doctor’s letter of referral with the patient in the ED – but perhaps could have been mitigated in some part by a phone call from the GP. Regardless, it demonstrates some of the difficulties in communication between referring and admitting teams – for which we could all do better.
Headaches need thorough workup, especially when ongoing and repeated. History, history and history…
In South Australia we are now well supported with backup from the Integrated Cardiovascular Clinical Network (iCCNet) providing 24/7 assistance with ECG interpretation and patient disposition for rural doctors. Hopefully other States have the same. Check out their site for protocols etc if not
Emphasises the need for rural doctors to consider prehospital assessments patient risk factors, use of serial ECG and troponins and available back up when evaluating a patient with chest pain.
In some areas, getting doctors to attend nursing home patients is difficult – meaning that many depend on busy and overcrowded EDs for same-day care. Hopefully this is one area in which rural doctors can excel – as we are both GP, nursing home deputising service and ED doctor all rolled into one!
Thinking septic arthritis? Then the joint needs to be examined. Period.
Failing to ask about allergies can lead to disaster. The Coroner also makes a comment on the dearth of rural doctors in regional Australia and an ageing workforce.
Stoic patients and the inherent difficulties in recognising evolving sepsis, can conspire to cause death. Whether implementation of charts to aid identification of the deteriorating patient will be translated to differences in morbidity and mortality remains to be seen. Sepsis still kills…
Leading on from sepsis, delay to definitive surgery for suspected faecal peritonitis can be disastrous. Again medical practitioners may struggle in the face of a risk of sudden acute deterioration in an otherwise stable patient.
Assessement of paediatric patients for dehydration is something we all do – but can be difficult, with skin turgor less useful in hypernatraemic dehydration. Consideration of admission, particularly when parents face a prolonged travel to/from medical review, low threshold for admission and both careful examination and explanation are useful reminders from this unfortunate case.
A blocked VP shunt is not a case we see often – but needs a high index of suspicion and again highlights the need for access to old notes, in this case old CT scans. Digital radiology may be of assistance in the future.
Reliance upon haemodynamic measurements alone is falsely reassuring – we know this from other causes of trauma. Similarly when there is bleeding, one needs to ‘find the bleeding, stop the bleeding’ and replace with blood products.
If a child is born with no pulse but electrical activity detected on ECG, then is this PEA sufficient to decide whether stillbirth vs live birth. The Coroner has made a determination.
The Coroner makes recommendations, particularly regarding home birth of twin and breech babies and need for either midwife or medical practitioner to conduct such births.
PPH is one of those crises that both obstetrician, anaesthetist and the team around them need to be familiar with. One can make a case for ready availability of checklists, a PPH box and simple effective medication in the rural setting.
Failure to consider neonatal GBS sepsis in the face of a negative vaginal screening swab highlights some of the problems of screening – as well as the potential of administering unnecessary antibiotics to women who test positive when screened but are free of GBS at delivery. The Coroner calls for a rapid screen intrapartum – a test we do not (yet) have, but which would clearly obviate false positive/negative tests at 37 weeks. Regardless of screening results, PROM needs to be remembered as a risk for neonatal sepsis.
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