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Common Rain Gutter Questions
Review common rain gutter supply and installation questions that our Service Partners pros get asked and the answers that they provide. If you don’t see your question, contact your local branch for help.
What Is Galvanic Compatibility?
To find out which metals will not cause a corrosive reaction when coming in contact with one another, you must know the placement of the two metals in the galvanic series. Metals that are near one another in the galvanic series have little corrosive effect on each other. When metals are far apart in the galvanic series, there is a greater potential for corrosion. To keep your metals galvanically protected, ensure they are compatible.
What Are Common Rain Gutter Configurations?
There are many possible rain gutter system configurations, depending upon the size and shape of the gutter, the placement and sizing of the downspout system, and the building demands. The most common configurations include:
- Rain gutters are available in 5”, 6” and 7” k-style (or Ogee) patterns, as well as 6” half round. Commercial or specialty applications may call for a box or square gutter.
- Downspout systems are available in 2” x 3”, 3” x 4”, 4” x 5” rectangular configurations, as well as 3” and 4” round sizes.
- The most common rain gutter combinations are 5” gutter with 2” x 3” downspouts and 6” gutter with 3” x 4” downspouts.
What Colors Do Service Partners Rain Gutters Come In?
Service Partners has a wide array of rain gutter colors in-stock and ready to be delivered to you right away for your home or building project. All of our painted metal accessories are manufactured from the same metal used for our gutter coil. This means you will have an exact match from downspout to elbow, and miter to gutter. Contact your local branch for availability.
What Is Rain Gutter Coil?
Rain gutter coil is used to form a seamless gutter trough, which collects rainwater as it flows off the roof. It is available in specific sizes to make the different sizes of gutters. A 11 ⅞” coil is used to produce 5” gutters, a 15” coil is used to produce 6” gutters, and a 18” is used to produce 7” gutters. Aluminum coil is most common, which is available in .027 and .032 gauge material.
Can Rain Gutters Be Used in Residential or Commercial Construction?
Seamless rain gutters are a system comprised of a gutter trough, elbows and downspouts, designed specifically for each building application, no matter which construction type you’re working in. Seamless rain gutters are utilized in both residential and commercial construction, in addition to any area of the U.S. | <urn:uuid:d890d95c-d6b6-4997-bbf2-aa27bac0996d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.service-partners.com/seamless-gutters/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00667.warc.gz | en | 0.921033 | 628 | 1.742188 | 2 |
For the average college student, mornings can be one of the trickiest and most frustrating times of day. If you happen to be awake between the hours of 7:00 and 10:00 a.m., there is an 85 percent chance that you are highly annoyed with the behavior of someone else who is awake between those hours as well (sleepers tend not to cause trouble). In order to avoid early-morning hatred for friends, blockmates, and not-so-innocent bystanders, you should first identify the type of riser with whom you are interacting and proceed to practic proper morning etiquette accordingly. At a time when it is so very easy to offend, it is essential to proceed with extreme caution.
Morning liveliness is a touchy subject. For those of you who wake up perfectly full of vim, ready to chatter your way into te day, we commend you. However, please know that your chipperness, while admirable, is wildly frustrating to essentially everyone else. Attempt to gauge the levels of conversation that seem appropriate. Should you be alone in your room with someone of the same morning tendency, prattle away. But, do make sure to know your audience. Some of the less-chipper among us are perfectly happy to allow you to talk at us while we slowly chomp our cereal, provided at least 50 percent of the responses are adequately met by a meaningful grunt. Others cannot abide even this amount of exertion, and will make it fairly obvious through the employment of so-called “death stares” and, sometimes, “bitch faces.”
As for the most common form of morning conversations, you must think of them as something like a small, fragile bird: Bring up the wrong topic, get overly excited, or make any sudden movements, and these subjects will shut down or play dead. Gentle treatment will result in the gradual strengthening of their conversational means; by the end of breakfast, they may be as chipper as yourself, but the time this requires will depend on the subject.
For those on the other side of this conundrum, and the opposite end of the table, be aware that the giddiness you feel when encountering a small puppy for the first time roughly approximates how “morning people” awake each morning. Be sympathetic. Such enthusiasm is difficult to contain. While it may be an honest expression of your emotions, staring down friends and close acquaintances is not a socially acceptable form of behavior. If you are not yet physically in control of your face, warn others the day before to avoid unnecessary offence. Do not overextend yourself, but do try to use words, at least occasionally.
Ah, the sounds of the morning: The birds tweet sweetly, soft whistles of wind rustle the fall leaves, and a few friendly dogs offer up their barks. While it’s tempting to add your own playlist of death-metal bands or loudly-bellowed bars of an opera libretto to the symphony of the morning, please refrain. Morning sounds should be enjoyable to all, and unnoticeable to those aslumber. Moreover, some sounds should not be shared to anyone at any point in the day. To the couples who refuse to let the break of day separate the course of love, you have our full respect and Harvard singles’ collective envy. However, no one should be awakened by the not-so-neighborly cries of “Ohhhhh Tommmm...” or “Yeah, baby. Yeeeeaaah!” It’s more than aesthetically jarring; it’s rude. Please be cognizant that four walls don’t rule out an unwitting audience and adjust the volume of your sweet music accordingly. The walls are thin, the night is long.
As concerns actual music: This is a sensitive issue, but a good rule of thumb is to assume that the mornings are not the best time to impress upon your neighbors your excellent music taste or vocal abilities. While you may one day tempt the girl from across the hall into your room with the irresistible strains of 80s German synth-rock, attempting this in the morning will likely have the opposite of the intended effect. Harvardians with ample singing ability (and especially those without), be aware that your songs of praise may not be so praiseworthy in the eyes of your neighbors in the early hours.
For those who hold the mornings to be a sacred and meditative time, and particularly for those who practice alternative forms of spirituality—you have our deep admiration. But, a word of caution for morning practices that might involve loud circular breathing patterns, worrisome-wheeze-sounding exhales, or Gregorian Chants: Care of the soul is wonderful. Psychological damage inflicted upon others is not. | <urn:uuid:0b4f2cc8-6bb2-45b4-a8b1-c9f023a61d15> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2012/9/27/etiquette-mornings/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570868.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808152744-20220808182744-00077.warc.gz | en | 0.944282 | 990 | 1.945313 | 2 |
Hard to Miss Design In RoboBoy
Matt Slagle, a technology staff writer for the Associated Press, wrote an article titled “Robot Maker Builds Artificial Boy” (2007). In the article, Slagle reported on cutting-edge robotic engineering done by David Hanson, owner of Hanson Robotics. Hanson and his company of engineers have been working on Zeno, a 17-inch-tall, six-pound roboboy for five years. They have spent hundreds of man-hours and hundreds of thousands of dollars on Zeno.
What do they have to show for their efforts? Little Zeno has a face covered with a patented rubbery, skin-like substance Hanson calls frubber. Zeno can learn to recognize a face and associate it with the name of a person. Hanson comments that, due to these abilities, Zeno “can build a relationship with you” (as quoted in Slagle, 2007). Zeno is attached to a wireless computer that can tell him “how to frown, act surprised, or wrinkle its nose in anger” (2007). Hanson hopes to market thousands of Zenos in the years to come, at a cost of $200 to $300 each.
Slagle also mentioned another boy named Zeno. Hanson’s 18-month-old toddler has the same name as the robot. The article says that baby Zeno is a “rambunctious toddler who frolics with free rein among priceless electronics” (2007). Baby Zeno has self-repairing skin that is well-designed to let heat and waste out, or to conserve heat as needed. Baby Zeno needs no wireless computer to tell him how to frown, smile, or laugh. His body produces energy from such everyday items as green beans or sweet potatoes—no battery needed. His eyes see, his nose smells, his stomach digests, his feet run, and his hands feel and grab. He is a boy, just a regular boy. But he is lightyears ahead of what robo-Zeno will ever be.
Zeno the robot is the culmination of five years of intelligent design and engineering. Yet the toddler Zeno is much more advanced in every significant way. If we asked an evolutionary scientist if robo-Zeno was designed, no doubt he would respond in the affirmative? But if we ask him if baby Zeno exhibits intelligent design, how would he respond? No?
It is amazing that design is so easy to recognize in both robots and humans, but so often missed by evolutionary scientists when they study humans. In truth, every human is “fearfully and wonderfully made” (Psalm 139:14). Each human being testifies loudly to the conclusive fact that there is a God in heaven.
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Covering a total area of 9.6 million square kilometers, China is located in eastern Asia and on the western shore of the Pacific Ocean. China’s continental coastline extends for about 18, 000 kilometers and its vast surface is studded with more than 5, 000 islands whose Taiwan and Hainan are the largest.
As its latitude spans nearly 50 degrees, China has many kinds of climates and the main feature of China’s climate is continental. Much of landmass in the middle of China is located in the temperature zone. The south of China is with tropical and subtropical zones and the north of China is with Frigid Zone. So temperature differs dramatically across the country.
For example, Heilongjiang Province, northern part of China, has a long winter with no summer while Hainan Island has summer all year round. The Huaihe River valley (parts of Anhui provinces and the north part of Jiangsu province) is marked by distinctive seasonal change but in the south of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau is spring all year round. The temperature in the northwest hinterland changes strikingly. China's high tundra zone is located in the Qinghai-Tibet where temperature changes dramatically during summer and incredibly low in winter. Some desert areas remain very dry year round. | <urn:uuid:e7024ae9-f1d5-4200-ad03-f42ff5b5811b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.chinatravel.com/facts/china-overview.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282935.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00241-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947292 | 272 | 3.625 | 4 |
Anemia is a common health issue reported in today’s busy lifestyle. Iron deficiency, vitamin B12 deficiency and deficiency in folic acid are some among the common causes reported for the formation of anemia. Certain home remedies are found to be very effective to treat anemia. Let’s see here the natural treatment for iron deficiency to recover from anemia. Beetroot is one among the best recommended food sources to alleviate the risk of anemia problems. To get effective result, it is generally suggested to drink beetroot juice daily.
Beetroot juice is found to be equipped with a good amount of fiber and potassium. If you are in search of a safe cure to treat anemia problems, feel free to make use of this remedy as per the need. Similar to beetroot juice, apple juice is another natural cure to treat health issues like anemia. For effective result, drink two cups of apple juice daily.
Sesame seed is another safe cure to alleviate the risk of anemia. As per studies, black sesame seed is found to be enriched with a good amount of iron compounds. Hence try to make use of this remedy as per the need. Blackstrap molasses is another safe cure for treating health issues like anemia problems. Blackstrap molasses are found to be very effective to increase the production of red blood cells in body. To get effective result, it is generally recommended to consume molasses with apple cider vinegar.
Spinach is another common food item to alleviate the risk of fatigue problems. As per research, this exotic food item is found to be enriched with a good amount of iron, vitamin B9 and E. Also, never hesitate to boil spinach leaves before consumption. This habit can reduce the amount of oxalic acid in spinach leaves. Tomato, enriched with iron is another safe cure to treat anemia problems. High amount of vitamin C and lycopene in tomato assures health benefits devoid of side effects. For effective result, eat one or two tomatoes daily. If possible, drink a cup of tomato juice daily.
Similar to tomato, pomegranate is another safe remedy to treat anemia problems. Presence of protein, carbohydrate, fat and fiber in pomegranate keeps body healthy. Improving blood flow is another main benefit of using pomegranate juice. To get maximum health advantage, feel free to drink pomegranate juice daily in the morning. If you are in search of a safe cure for treating health issues like anemia, feel free to make use of pomegranate juice as per the need.
Parsley leaf is another safe cure for treating anemia problems. It is very high in iron and folic acid. Vitamin C present in parsley leaf allows easier absorption of iron into bloodstream. If possible, it is advised to make use of dried and fresh parsley leaves in soups, gravies and strews. Do you like to eat dates? Including dates in diet is a safe cure for treating health issues like anemia problems.
As per research, dates are found to be as a rich source of calcium, manganese, copper and magnesium. It improves red blood cell production safely and naturally. For maximum health advantage, it is advised to drink date syrup daily in the morning. Feroplex capsule is one among the best sold products to treat anemia problems. You can make use of this capsule twice per day.
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Company Name: Ayush Remedies
Company Info: Ayush Remedies is a dynamic company devoted to spread Ayurveda, the holistic life science worldwide. The company focuses on promoting good health through the goodness of nature. The company has played a pioneering role in re-establishing the ancient knowledge by making people aware of the wonders of Ayurveda, the ancient Indian health care system and the magical properties of herbs.
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A friend, coworker or family member is caring for someone with pancreatic cancer. You want that person to also feel cared for, supported and loved through what can be a challenging time. But you’re not sure what to do or how to help.
This is an all-too-common scenario, but the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network (PanCAN) has suggestions.
Below are seven ways you can show the caregiver in your life just how much you care for them:
- Offer to help in specific ways. Drop off a meal, clean the house, pick up their kids from school, or grab their dry cleaning, groceries or a prescription.
- Have patience and listen attentively to pick up on subtle or indirect ways they may be asking for help.
- Plan a fun activity you can do together. Make an appointment for a manicure or massage, sign up for a restorative yoga class, have a coffee date, go to a movie or plan a movie night at home.
- Offer to spend time with the patient so your friend can have a break to do something on their own.
- Tell them how special they are to you. Valentine’s Day is just around the corner – drop off a simple bouquet of flowers, a care package filled with their favorite things, or even a heartfelt, handwritten card.
- Listen attentively and without judgment. Caregiving can feel isolating. Ask how they’re doing and create a safe space for them to share their thoughts and feelings about what they’re going through.
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This one is a whopper. U of Alabama poli-sci Prof. Michael J. New:
criticized the report’s finding that parental involvement laws and other state laws restricting abortion have little impact on overall abortion rates.
“Since parental involvement laws only directly affect minors, Wright should have mentioned that analyzing their effects on the overall abortion rate is not a methodologically sound way to gauge their actual impact,” New wrote.
In other words, the report extrapolated the efficacy of parental consent laws by counting its effect on women who don't need parental consent.
Bottom line, according to New:
“Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good continues to miss opportunities with their abortion research,” New told CNA.
“I think that they would be more effective if they would be more willing to publicly acknowledge the positive impact of pro-life legislation and try to constructively work with pro-life groups to promote social policies that will further reduce abortion rates. Instead Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good seems primarily interested in providing moral, political, and theological cover for supporters of Barack Obama and other Democrats who support ‘abortion rights.’”
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The political debate about finance in the US is often cast as markets versus regulation, as if “more regulation” means the efficiency of private sector decisions will necessarily be impeded or distorted. But this is the wrong way to think about the real policy choices that – like it or not – are now being made. The question is actually what kind of markets do you want: fair and well-functioning, with widely shared benefits; or deceptive, dangerous, and favoring just a relatively few powerful people?
In a speech on Wednesday, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D., MA) laid out a vision for better financial markets. This is not a left-wing or pro-big government agenda. Senator Warren’s proposals are, first and foremost, pro-market. She wants – and we should all want – financial firms and markets that work for customers, that encourage innovation, and that do not build up massive risks which can threaten the financial system and bring down the economy.
Senator Warren puts forward two main sets of proposals. The first is to more strongly discourage the deception of customers. This is hard to argue against. Some parts of the financial sector are well-run, providing essential services at reasonable prices and with sound ethics throughout. Other parts of finance have drifted, frankly, into deceiving people – on fees, on risks, on terms and conditions – as a primary source of profits. We don’t allow this kind of cheating in the non-financial sector and we shouldn’t allow it in finance either.
The unfortunate and indisputable truth is that our rule-making and law-enforcement agencies completely fell asleep prior to 2008 with regard to protecting borrowers and even depositors against predation. Even worse, since the financial crisis, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Justice Department, and the Federal Reserve Board of Governors proved hard or near impossible to awake from this slumber.
We need simple, clear rules that ensure transparency and full disclosure in all financial transactions – and we need to enforce those rules. This is what was done with regard to securities markets after the debacle of the early 1930s. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), for which Senator Warren worked long and hard, has started down a sensible road towards smarter and simpler regulation. The CFPB needs to go further – including on auto loans – and for this it needs renewed political support.
The second proposal is to end the greatest cheat of all – the implicit subsidies received by the largest financial institutions, structured so as to encourage excessive and irresponsible risk-taking. These consequences of these subsidies have already caused massive macroeconomic damage – this is why our crisis in 2008-09 was so severe and the recovery so slow. Yet we have made painfully little progress towards really ending the problems associated with some very large financial firms – and their debts – being viewed by markets and policymakers as being too big to fail.
If you could visit a casino with the prospect of keeping all your winnings, while your losses would be partially or completely paid by someone else, how much would you gamble? You would bet a huge amount – presumably as much as the house allows. Big banks are run by smart, rational people. The incentives they face – which themselves have worked long and hard to retain – are not acceptable from a broader social point of view.
Senator Warren wants to cut through the complex morass of modern regulation. Force the biggest half dozen banks to become smaller, simpler, and more transparent. Limit the tax deductibility of interest for large highly leveraged financial institutions, so they choose to fund themselves with relatively more equity and less debt.
And reform the emergency powers of the Federal Reserve – to strengthen its ability to deal with genuine disasters while also ensuring an appropriate level of democratic review and control. The days of secretive bailouts should end.
Senator Warren’s main point is this:
“without some basic rules and accountability, financial markets don’t work. People get ripped off, risk-taking explodes, and the markets blow up. That’s just an empirical fact – clearly observable in 1929 and again in 2008.”
Of course you cannot outlaw all cheating or prevent all forms of future potential macroeconomic problems. But the legislative framework and presidential priorities matter. This is demonstrated by what happened since the 1980s, when the deregulation of finance distorted incentives in very ways that proved very dangerous.
We can choose now to make markets function better. Put in place simpler, clearer rules and enforce them.
This is a completely centrist agenda. As a result, there is real potential here for bipartisan policy initiatives – and there are senators on both sides of the aisle who show signs of being willing to go to bat for exactly these kinds of sensible pro-market ideas.
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Social media tools like Twitter and Facebook have been around for several years now, but some media organizations are still just getting around to figuring out how to handle them — and in many cases, as we’ve written before, they spend a lot of time talking about what journalists should not do, and very little about what they should do. Bloomberg is the latest to come out with this kind of social-media policy, which spends most of its time telling staff all the things they should avoid doing.
The Bloomberg policy, which was sent to the Emedia Vitals blog by a source, starts off well enough, by saying that social networks and social-media platforms are “a powerful way to reach millions of new readers and expand the impact of our reporting,” and that social media “is a useful complement to our work so long as principles of fairness, accuracy and transparency are upheld.” So far, so good.
Then, however, the policy goes on to list all the things that reporters and editors with Bloomberg shouldn’t do. Staff “should not use social networks to express political opinions or to advocate on behalf of a particular issue or agenda,” and posts on any network or platform “should never express bias based on race, sex, religion, or nationality.” Reporters and editors “cannot use social media to express opinions related in any way to their professional assignment or beat.” Staff are also forbidden to join any groups or social networks that are dedicated to a particular political opinion or cause, are not allowed to “engage in arguments with those critical of our work,” and are not allowed to mention any internal discussions or meetings.
All of these restrictions and bans are very similar to the ones that the Toronto Star newspaper laid out in its new social-media policy, which I wrote about recently: never discuss stories in development, do not talk about newsroom issues, don’t express any opinions about the topics you cover, and don’t respond to readers.
These kinds of policies have a number of flaws — including the fact that much of what they are prohibiting is either common sense or impossible to police (or both). During a discussion of policies on Twitter on Tuesday, journalism professor Jeff Jarvis echoed a motto tweeted by Katie Rosman of the Wall Street Journal, who said that deputy managing editor Alan Murray told her the best policy was “Don’t be stupid.” And John Paton, CEO of the Journal-Register Co. newspaper chain and architect of its digital-first strategy, posted his own social-media policy recently, which told employees to consider three points — all of which were blank (the implication being that there are no explicit rules).
One of the biggest flaws of most policies is that they spend so much time talking about how bad social media is for the profession, and so little time talking about what makes it useful, or how to approach it as a positive tool for journalism. About the only positive thing that both the Bloomberg policy and the Toronto Star policy are willing to admit to is that social media such as Twitter and Facebook are really good for promoting your content (although Bloomberg does mention that it’s “good etiquette” to occasionally link to interesting work created by others, which is more than many policies do).
But social tools are good for so much more than just promoting content — not to mention that if all a journalist does is promote his or her content, people will quickly determine that their account is just self-promotional spam, and pay little attention. So what would a positive social-media policy recommend? Here are a few suggestions that I’ve come up with — feel free to add your own in the comments:
- Talk to people: this has nothing to do with promoting your own content. It means engaging in conversation about issues, and responding to and/or asking questions of others. It’s called a conversational medium for a reason. Unfortunately, most media outlets explicitly forbid this.
- Reply when you are spoken to: if you don’t respond when someone asks you a direct question or makes a point in reference to you, it’s like ignoring someone who is standing right beside you and talking to you. That doesn’t mean responding to every troll or flame.
- Re-tweet others: social media gets very boring if all you do is post links to your own things, or post your own thoughts. Lots of other people have interesting things to say — find some and re-tweet them. Maybe they will return the favor.
- Link to others: the same goes for links — social media is a tremendous tool for finding interesting content, and you should share it when you find it, not just keep it to yourself. If you do this, others are more likely to share your links when you post them.
- Admit when you are wrong: this is difficult for many journalists, since we like to pretend that we never get anything wrong — which everyone knows is untrue. So be transparent, as much as it pains you, and admit when you got something wrong. It builds trust.
- Be human, but not too human: it’s okay to show emotion — in fact, it’s good, because it shows that you are human, and people relate to other people. It’s called social media for a reason. But be the best version of yourself — and don’t ever tweet drunk 🙂
Those are just some of the principles that make social media what it is, but I have yet to see a social-media policy — apart from possibly the blogging and commenting guidelines at The Guardian — that focuses on this kind of behavior, instead of spending all its time talking about what could go wrong, or telling reporters and editors things they shouldn’t do. | <urn:uuid:04454a30-0fb0-4c52-9acc-da69836b9048> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://old.gigaom.com/2011/05/03/social-media-policies-lets-talk-about-what-you-should-do/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572161.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815054743-20220815084743-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.962588 | 1,205 | 1.867188 | 2 |
Last Monday I commenced a home study with the JW elder named Charlie, who I mentioned in my introductory post. About a month ago I had invited Charlie to take
[Left: "What Does the Bible Really Teach?" Watchtower Bible & Tract Society of New York: Brooklyn NY, 2005]
me through the JWs home study for prospective new members but I thought he had refused.
In the meantime my Christian mother-in-law had given me a copy of "What Does the Bible Really Teach?" which a JW at her door had given her. I assumed this must be the very book that JWs use in their home studied for prospective new members.
So when Charlie returned earlier this month and said he would start meeting with me every Monday, I prepared for a discussion with him about one of the Appendices, "Who Is Michael the Archangel?" at pages 218-219 of the book.
However, Charlie wanted to work though the book from the beginning, and I agreed. But we only got as far as the first page of chapter 1, "What Is the Truth About God?" That is, when we got to:
"Children are not the only ones who ask questions. As we grow up, we keep asking. We do this in order to find our way, to learn of dangers that we need to avoid, or to satisfy our curiosity. But many people seem to stop asking questions, especially the most important ones. At least, they stop searching for the answers. ... Why is it often good to ask questions? ... Why do many stop trying to find answers to the questions that matter most?" (Watchtower Bible & Tract Society, "What Does the Bible Really Teach?" Watchtower Bible & Tract Society of New York: Brooklyn NY, 2005, p.8).
I asked Charlie whether the Watchtower really encouraged asking questions about the Watchtower and its doctrines? I am not going to give Charlie's answers, to preserve his confidentiality, so all I will give here are my questions (in bold with the page number first).
I am posting these here so that they may be of help to either: a) other Christians ministering to JWs; b) prospective new JWs studying this book; or c) JWs who are having doubts about Watchtower doctrines. There are other online critiques of this book, which I have not relied upon and don't necessarily endorse, including: Catholic Ex-Jehovah’s Witnesses and Jehovah's-Witness discussion forum.
For our next meeting this coming Monday, I am going to ask Charlie the following questions (which at first will backtrack slightly):
P7a. Are we going to be "learning what the Bible really teaches" or just what the Watchtower organization says the Bible teaches?
"The fact that you are reading this book shows that you would like to find out what the Bible teaches. This book will help you. Notice that the paragraphs have corresponding questions at the bottom of the page. Millions have enjoyed using the question-and-answer method when discussing the Bible with Jehovah's Witnesses. We hope you will too. May you have God's blessing as you now enjoy the thrilling and satisfying experience of learning what the Bible really teaches!" (Watchtower Bible & Tract Society, "What Does the Bible Really Teach?" Watchtower Bible & Tract Society of New York: Brooklyn NY, 2005, p.7).
If someone with no previous Bible knowledge was shipwrecked on a desert island with just the Bible, would they just by reading the Bible discover JW's distinctive teachings?
P7b. Does the Watchtower organization really encourage its members to undertake a program of daily Bible reading" such that they "read the entire Bible in a year"?
"GET TO KNOW YOUR BIBLE ... You will quickly become familiar with the Bible by looking up the scriptures cited in this publication. Also, why not start a program of daily Bible reading? By reading three to five chapters a day, you can read the entire Bible in a year." (WB&TS, 2005, p.7. Emphasis original).
Why did The Watchtower of August 15, 1981, attack those JW's who "read the Bible exclusively, either alone or in small groups at home"?:
"From time to time, there have arisen from among the ranks of Jehovah's people those who ... say that it is sufficient to read the Bible exclusively, either alone or in small groups at home. But, strangely, through such `Bible reading,' they have reverted right back to the apostate doctrines that commentaries by Christendom's clergy were teaching 100 years ago ...." (The Watchtower, August 15, 1981, pp.28-29).
If by reading "the Bible exclusively" one would arrive at the "doctrines that ... Christendom's clergy were teaching" does not this show that JW doctrines are not based on "the Bible exclusively" but Christianity's doctrines are?
P8. Does the Watchtower organization really encourage its members to not "stop asking questions" about the Watchtower and its doctrines? (already asked-see above).
P12. Why does the Watchtower make so much of the name "Jehovah" when it does not appear in the original Hebrew and in fact was first used by a Roman Catholic monk in AD1270? (see `tagline': "Aid", p.884):
"If you want someone to get to know you, what might you do? Would you not tell the person your name? Does God have a name? Many religions answer that his name is `God' or `Lord,' but those are not personal names. They are titles, just as `king' and `president' are titles. The Bible teaches that God has many titles. `God' and `Lord' are among them. However, the Bible also teaches that God has a personal name: Jehovah. Psalm 83:18 says: `You, whose name is Jehovah, you alone are the Most High over all the earth.'" (WB&TS, 2005, pp.12-13. Emphasis original).
Also the name "Jehovah's Witnesses" was not used until it was invented by `Judge' Rutherford in 1931, i.e. 52 years after Charles Taze Russell founded the Watchtower Society in 1879. (see `tagline': "JWs Proclaimers").
P 13. Is it not misleading to claim that "God's name" (YHWH) "appears thousands of times in ancient Bible manuscripts" when that is only in Hebrew Old Testament manuscripts but not once is YHWH transliterated into Greek in any New Testament manuscript? (see `taglines': "Aid", p.886; Rhodes; Martin):
"The truth is that God's name appears thousands of times in ancient Bible manuscripts. So Jehovah wants you to know his name and to use it. In a sense, he is using the Bible to introduce himself to you." (WB&TS, 2005, pp.13-14. Emphasis original).
P14. If "Jehovah wants" us "to know his name and to use it" why does the New Testament emphasise knowing and using Jesus' name? (see `also tagline': Reed):
Name of Jesus: God's command is to have faith in (1Jn 3:23); believers have life in (Jn 20:31); apostles called on Jews (who already believed in Jehovah) to repent and be baptized in (Acts 2:38; 8:16; 10:48); apostles spoke and taught in (Acts 4:18; 5:40); evangelists preached in (Acts 8:12; 9:27); Christians justified in (1Cor 6:11); Christians sanctified in (1Cor 6:11); apostles healed sick in (Acts 3:6,16; 4:10), performed miraculous signs and wonders through (Acts 4:30), demons cast out by (Acts 16:18); opposition to (Acts 26:9); Christians risked their lives for (Acts 15:26; 19:13); died for (Acts 21:13); churches assembled in (1Cor 5:4); Christians to call upon (1Cor 1:2); thanks to be given in (Eph 5:20); every knee should bow at (Php 2:10); everything to be done in (Col 3:17); to be glorified (2Th 1:12); Christians appealed to in (1Cor 1:10), Christians commanded in (2Th3:6).
We probably won't get as far as this, and this post is getting too long, so this will be continued in a future post: "What Does the Bible Really Teach?" pp.15-17.
The pronunciations `Jehovah' and `Yahweh' By combining the vowel signs of 'Adhonay' and 'Elohim' with the four consonants of the Tetragrammaton the pronunciations Yehowah' and Yehowih' were formed. The first of these provided the basis for the Latinized form `Jehova(h);' The first recorded use of this form dates from the thirteenth century. C.E. Raymundus Martini, a Spanish monk of the Dominican Order, used it in his book Pugeo Fidei of the year 1270." (Watchtower Bible & Tract Society, "Aid to Bible Understanding," , Watchtower Bible & Tract Society: Brooklyn NY, Second edition, 1971, p.884. Emphasis original).
"A milestone, though, was reached at a convention held in Columbus, Ohio, in 1931. On Sunday, July 26, at noon, Brother Rutherford delivered the public discourse `The Kingdom, the Hope of the World,' which was broadcast over a vast radio hookup, with more than 300 additional stations later rebroadcasting the message. At the end of the discourse, Brother Rutherford served notice on Christendom by reading a stinging resolution entitled `Warning From Jehovah,' which was addressed `To the Rulers and to the People.' To his invitation that they adopt the resolution, the entire visible audience stood and shouted, `Aye!' Telegrams later received indicated that many of those listening on the radio likewise raised their voices in agreement. From one o'clock, when the public discourse was finished, until four o'clock, when Brother Rutherford reentered the auditorium, the atmosphere was charged with excitement. Brother Rutherford had specially requested that everyone who was really interested in the noonday warning to Christendom be in his seat at four o'clock. Promptly at four, Brother Rutherford began by stating that he regarded what he was about to say as of vital importance to everyone who could hear his voice. His listeners were keenly interested. During his discourse he presented another resolution, this one entitled `A New Name,' which was climaxed by the declaration: `We desire to be known as and called by the name, to wit, Jehovah's witnesses. `The thrilled convent' again jumped to their feet with the ringing shout `Aye!' They would henceforth be known as Jehovah's Witnesses!" (Watchtower Bible & Tract Society, "Jehovah's Witnesses, Proclaimers of God's Kingdom," Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, Brooklyn NY, 1993, pp.79,82. Emphasis original).
"In view of this evidence, it seems most unusual to find that the extant manuscript copies of the original text of the Christian Greek Scriptures do not contain the divine name in its full form. The name therefore is also absent from most translations of the so-called `New Testament.'" ("Aid to Bible Understanding," 1971, p.886).
"Jehovah's Witnesses are told through Watchtower publications that God's true name is Jehovah. They are taught that superstitious Jewish scribes long ago removed this sacred name from the Bible. But there is no need to worry, the Watchtower Society says! The Society's New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures has `faithfully' restored the divine name in the Old Testament where the Hebrew consonants YHWH appear. [Bodine, M., "Bible Answer Man," Christian Research Newsletter, May/June 1992, p.3] Moreover, the name `Jehovah' has been inserted in the New Testament by the Watchtower New World Bible Translation Committee in verses where the text is believed to refer to the Father. [Ibid] They have taken the liberty to do this despite the fact that it blatantly goes against the thousands of Greek manuscripts of the New Testament that we have-some of which date from the second century. (The New Testament always uses the words `Lord' [Greek: kurios] and `God' [Greek: theos], never `Jehovah'- even in quotations from the Old Testament. [Bowman, R.M., "Understanding Jehovah's Witnesses," Baker: Grand Rapids MI, 1991, p.114])" (Rhodes, R., 1993, "Reasoning from the Scriptures with the Jehovah's Witnesses," Harvest House: Eugene OR, Reprinted, 2006, p.49. Emphasis original).
"The first major error we shall discuss is that Jehovah's Witnesses have restored the divine name `Jehovah' to the text of the New Testament. But let us observe this pretext as they stated it in their own words. `The evidence is, therefore, that the original text of the Christian Greek Scriptures has been tampered with, the same as the text of the LXX [The Septuagint ... a Greek translation of the Old Testament] has been. And, at least from the third century A.D. onward, the divine name in tetragrammaton [The Hebrew consonants YHWH] form has been eliminated from the text by copyists.... In place of it they substituted the words kyrios (usually translated `the Lord') and theos, meaning `God' ` (NWT, 1950, p.18). The `evidence' that the Witnesses refer to is a recently discovered papyrus roll of the LXX which contains the second half of the book of Deuteronomy and which does have the tetragrammaton throughout. Further than this, the Witnesses refer to Aquila (A.D. 128) and Origen who both utilized the tetragrammaton in their respective Version and Hexapla. Jerome in the fourth century also mentioned the tetragrammaton as appearing in certain Greek volumes even in his day. On the basis of this small collection of fragmentary evidence, Jehovah's Witnesses conclude their argument: `It proves that the original LXX did contain the divine name wherever it occurred in the Hebrew original. Considering it a sacrilege to use some substitute such as kyrios or theos, the scribes inserted the tetragrammaton at its proper place in the Greek version text' (NWT, p. 12). The whole case the Witnesses try to prove is that the original LXX and the New Testament autographs all used the tetragrammaton (NWT, 1950, p. 18) but owing to `tampering,' all these were changed; hence their responsibility to restore the divine name. Such is the argument, and a seemingly plausible one, to those not familiar with the history of manuscripts and the Witnesses' subtle use of terms." (Martin, W.R. & Klann, N., 1953, "Jehovah of the Watchtower," Bethany House Publishers: Bloomington MN, Reprinted, 1981, pp.131-132. Emphasis original).
"To explain this error of translation is an elementary task. It can be shown from literally thousands of copies of the Greek New Testament that not once does the tetragrammaton appear, not even in Matthew, possibly written in Hebrew or Aramaic originally, and therefore more prone than all the rest to have traces of the divine name in it-yet it does not! Beyond this, the roll of papyrus (LXX), which contains the latter part of Deuteronomy and the divine name only proves that one copy did have the divine name (YHWH) , whereas all other existing copies use kyrios and theos, which the Witnesses claim are `substitutes.' The testimonies of Aquila, Origen, and Jerome, in turn, only show that sometimes the divine name was used, but the general truth, upheld by all scholars, is that the Septuagint, with minor exceptions, always uses kyrios and theos in place of the tetragrammaton, and the New Testament never uses it at all. Relative to the nineteen `sources' the Watchtower uses (NWT, pp. 30-33) for restoring the tetragrammaton to the New Testament, it should be noted that they are all translations from Greek (which uses kyrios and theos, not the tetragrammaton) back into Hebrew, the earliest of which is A.D. 1385, and therefore they are of no value as evidence." (Martin & Klann, 1953, p.132. Emphasis original).
"Jehovah's Witnesses misuse the name Jehovah ... They teach that it `is wrong to fail to use that name.' (You Can Live Forever in Paradise on Earth, page 44) For them it is one of the identifying marks of the true religion, so that any church or denomination that does not feature the name continually in its worship services and in its literature is automatically part of Satan's empire of false religion. The most obvious refutation for this is that such a standard would condemn Peter, Paul, John, and the other New Testament writers and the first century churches associated with them. There is no evidence that the apostles or the early Christians-particularly the Greek-speaking converts who quickly made up the majority of the early Church-attached any such special significance to the use of this name. Rather, congregations of believers were `assembled in the name of our Lord Jesus.' (1 Corinthians 5:4 NIV) In seasons of persecution Christians were `insulted because of the name of Christ.' (1 Peter 4:14) The apostles taught `in the name of Jesus' and proclaimed that `there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.' (Acts 4:12, 18 NIV)" (Reed, D.A., 1996, "Answering Jehovah's Witnesses: Subject by Subject," Baker: Grand Rapids MI, Second printing, 1998, pp.143-144. Emphasis original) | <urn:uuid:d536117c-3f74-4b6a-ab99-b322eed8046a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://jesusisyhwh.blogspot.com/2008/01/what-does-bible-really-teach-ch-1a.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279368.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00329-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949468 | 3,891 | 1.625 | 2 |
The Windows registry is a large database that contains the settings and configurations for hardware, programs and applications running on your computer. Whenever you install programs, its keys and values are embedded in the registry, where you can configure them or perform troubleshooting steps to repair damaged programs. If the registry is not properly maintained, it can suffer errors that cause system and application problems.
Registry errors can be caused by improperly uninstalled applications that leave registry entries that cause start-up problems. Viruses, Trojans and spyware are also known to cause registry errors because they install registry entries that are very difficult to remove manually. They also change file associations and prevent you from opening executable files. Registry errors are also caused by a vast number of unnecessary files on your computer system that use system resources with no added benefit.
The "Blue Screen of Death" is a common type of registry error. When the settings are improperly configured on the registry, the computer crashes and displays this frequent blue screen error as a result of registry errors. DLL errors are other common types of registry errors that occur when an application is missing a vital DLL file that helps run the executable files of that application. Registry start-up errors are other common registry errors. These errors usually occur when a start-up item is missing or improperly configured.
Registry errors cause the overall system to slow down. Because the registry is the central configuration center for programs and system components, any errors cause slow start-up and shutdowns. Registry errors cause applications to slow down, freeze and eventually crash. Registry errors also reconfigure boot options and prevent your PC from booting up. Registry errors are also known to cause network errors, especially if there are malware entries that create network intrusions.
Prevention and Solutions
Properly uninstall programs and applications you do not use. While most programs can be uninstalled from the "Add or Remove Programs" window on the Control Panel, others must be uninstalled using a removal tool supplied by your software's manufacturer. Run frequent virus scans, and delete malicious files that install on the registry and cause programs to crash. Fix registry errors with free registry cleaning tools such as CCleaner, Glary Utilities and BleachBit (see Resources below). Registry cleaners remove unnecessary registry entries and repair ActiveX and missing file extensions.
Never download programs, games or applications from unauthorized websites. Many of the downloads on such sites are bundled with Trojan viruses that install entries in the registry. Unless you are a trained professional, never try to manually fix registry errors; you're likely to seriously damage your computer's functionality. Always back up the registry so you have a restore point you can come back to in case of system errors. | <urn:uuid:7af3b6ab-5168-4e5e-a04a-3c21598b4e5f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.techwalla.com/articles/what-is-a-registry-error | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281419.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00488-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.917664 | 547 | 3.3125 | 3 |
Geologists are saying that we are already living in a new era on planet Earth called Anthropocenus. They say it was generated by the industrialised nations and their elites after turning Industry into the new engine that defines the whole planet's dynamics.
Despite all the attention that environment is getting lately the truth is that an economic model based on the uncontrolled and abusive exploitation of natural resources and excessive consumption of manufactured goods is still being taken as an example for a prosperous future in most underdeveloped countries, despite its obvious failure.
After decades of historical exploitation by the official metropolis, Africa is now hopelessly embracing the remains of other´s mistakes becoming a target market for low quality and highly toxic products with hardly any planning made to manage the “after party”.
With this state of things we decided to approach all environmental issues as a whole, projecting what the challenges would be for the territories that are more exposed and less prepared for the consequences of this excess. We decided to visualise the effects of macro-economics into African micro-routines. | <urn:uuid:9ad72013-beea-4628-a0e2-502fdf986d77> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.lademiddel.com/test.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00076.warc.gz | en | 0.96538 | 216 | 2.15625 | 2 |
The triple digit heat has hit the Panhandle and already this year, we've broken records.
So that means you've more than likely cranked up the air conditioning to keep you cool a few times.
But can our power grind handle that energy surge?
The sun's rays have been beating down on us already this year, even breaking some records. The bad news is it's still spring.
While other parts of the state are concerned about meeting energy demands over the next few years, potentially causing rolling blackouts, Xcel Energy has a different outlook here.
"We did add a new power generation facility last summer near Lubbock. We've got another one coming on next summer, we've got new transmission lines that are being built that are going to connect us to other sources of power," said Wes Reeves, Xcel Energy Spokesman.
That project will connect lines from down near Lubbock on up to Oklahoma. Reeves says that will ensure that when those peak months come around, we'll have the energy to meet the demand.
"It's a very important line it's going to be in service hopefully by 2014 that will connect us further back in the east where we can access some good sources of power not only economic power that's going to be possibly be cheaper then we can sometimes generate, but also during these peak summer months we can bring in extra power as needed," said Reeves.
But he does warn you should take precautions.
"You can over heat a transformer, get lines that are overworked or overloaded and that does happen sometimes so we have spotted outages on hot days occasionally".
Here are some tips to conserve. During the day, set your thermostat to 78 degrees. Don't immediately turn your thermostat to 70 degrees, do it gradually.
Avoid using extra electricity during the peak times of 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., like using your dishwasher.
Reeves says that will safeguard our energy capacity for years to come when that thermometer climbs into the triple digits.
Another way you can help conserve and earn money, Xcel Energy has a new saver's switch. They install it onto your compressor and help control how often it runs.
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Even if Bikram yoga is your personal idea of hell, sweating through an outdoor workout session during the dog days of summer may actually be a big fitness advantage.
Sure, the cool, crisp weather of autumn will make you want to strap on your sneakers and get outside. But pushing yourself in the summer heat could help improve your performance in running, cycling, or other cardio activities. As long as you take the right precautions, workouts in hot weather may give you a boost if you’re training for an endurance event, such as a marathon, Tough Mudder or some other sort of weekend warrior-style event. Hot-weather training may even eclipse high-altitude training when it comes to improving your performance.
Here's what you need to know to sweat it out safely.
How Heat Can Boost Exercise Performance
There's some science behind how heat can help improve fitness levels: Researchers from the University of Oregon tracked the performance of 12 very high-level cyclists (10 male, two female) over a 10-day training period (with two days off in the middle) in 100-degree heat. Another control group did the exact same exercise regimen in a much more comfortable, 55-degree room. Both groups worked in 30% humidity.
Researchers discovered that the cyclists who worked through the heat improved their performance by 7% (a noticeable and significant amount in cycling), while the control group did not show any improvement. What surprised researchers most was that the experimental group not only showed that they had achieved a level of heat acclimation, but the training also helped them to function better in cooler environments.
Here are the magic numbers you need to know to maximize your heat acclimation:
101. The number of degrees Fahrenheit you need to elevate your core body temperature during training sessions, says Minson.
60. The number of minutes you want to have that elevated core temperature maintained during your heat training to make sure that you’re truly getting the heat acclimation benefits, says Minson.
5 to 10. The number of days you need to train in the heat. “To really heat acclimate the way we’re talking about, someone has to really go out and exercise in the heat for five to ten days, with pretty significant exposure at times,” Minson says. Just be sure to follow warm-weather precautions to keep from overly stressing your body.
Read on: Safety tips for hot workouts
Safety Tips for Hot Workouts
Elevating your core body temperature so much that you pass out (or worse!) during a workout is not going to score you any points in the fitness department, so it's up to you to know your limits. “People just need to be wise enough to listen to their bodies,” says Cedric Bryant, Ph.D., a fitness expert for the American Council on Exercise. “It isn’t a ‘no pain, no gain’ situation.”
Try these tips to stay safe when the heat is on.
Drink up. You obviously sweat more as it gets hotter and more humid, so you’ve got to make sure you’re replacing all those fluids as you run, bike, or do other workouts in such extreme weather. Dr. Bryant recommends consuming 16 to 24 ounces of water a couple hours before exercising in hot temperatures. Past that, he says to take in another six to eight ounces of fluids every 15 to 20 minutes of exercise. If you’re looking to do something moderate for less than an hour, water should be fine, but anything more intense will require sports drinks to get those carbohydrates and electrolytes, he says.
Mind the humidity. Humidity is also a huge factor to take into account, and it’s something Minson’s study didn’t test for. “The principle way in which the body cools itself during exercise is through sweat,” Dr. Bryant says. “It hits our skin's surface and it evaporates to cool the body. In a humid environment, you don’t experience as much of that evaporative cooling effect because the environment is already pretty saturated with fluid.” Bryant says to consider moving activity indoors on days that are extremely hot and humid, since it just makes the environment particularly stressful on your body.
Don't go overboard. Finally, know that you can still be in good shape without heat acclimating. Minson and Bryant each say they only recommend it to very fit, competitive athletes who need to be ready for weather extremes and/or want to get an edge.
Still, if you’re a serious recreational athlete planning to run a marathon or compete in some sort of weekend-long competition, it’s better to get your training in when the heat is on and be ready in case you’re up against 95-degree weather with high humidity at your next event. There, you might feel tempted to push your body past its limits, but in training, you have the chance to improve your heat acclimation and conditioning over time without pushing yourself too hard. Make sure to wear breathable clothing and don’t go overboard on intensity during the first couple hot workouts. | <urn:uuid:29c7d60e-96b0-44e6-9de8-47477ee232b1> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.mensfitness.com/training/endurance/the-heat-wave-workout-how-to-train-in-hot-weather | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280128.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00385-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956281 | 1,075 | 2.328125 | 2 |
|Interest Rate||14 %|
|Monthly Instalment (EMI)||5465|
|Total Interest Amount||62334|
|Total Amount (Principal + Interest)||262334|
Whenever someone is planning to take a personal loan, he/she is concerned about these things- interest rates that he/she will be offered, loan tenure for the relaxed repayment and the EMI (Equated Monthly Installment) that he/she will have to pay. The interest rates and the loan amount is decided by the banks/NBFCs depending on the overall profile of the applicant. Once the rates and the repayment period are final, the borrower would look forward to knowing the EMI or equated monthly installments that he/she will have to pay for the personal loan.
Now, what is an EMI or Equated Monthly Installment? It is the monthly installments that the borrower has to pay and is calculated on the basis of the interest rate, tenure and loan amount. Since everything is digitalizing, calculating the Personal Loan EMI is very easy with the help of the personal loan EMI calculator.
EMI calculator is the tool that is used to calculate the monthly installments of a loan be it a personal loan or any other loan. After the personal loan eligibility calculator, with the help of Personal Loan EMI Calculator, a borrower can know in advance the monthly installments of each and every month for the total tenure. For the detailed information on the monthly installments, the total interest outgo and the total amount (principal + total interest), a customer must fill in these details in the EMI calculator:
Now, let us take an example for the better understanding. Let us assume that a person is looking for a personal loan of loan with the below requirements:
Loan Amount- ₹ 2,00,000/- Tenure- 5 years and Interest Rate- 14.50% p.a.
On the basis of this data, the monthly installments that the borrower will have to pay is:
Table for EMI per month, Total Interest Outgo and Total Amount
|Loan Amount (in ₹)||Interest Rate (p.a)||Tenure (in Years)||EMI (in ₹)||Total Interest Outgo (in ₹)||Total Amount (Principal + Interest)
|Year||Principal (in ₹)||Interest Outgo (in ₹)||Balance Amount (in ₹)|
Here are the parameters based on which personal loan EMI is calculated:
Loan Amount: The first and most important thing to know when it comes to calculating EMIs. The monthly installment of the loan is directly dependent on the loan amount which varies from lender to lender and is calculated on the basis of the personal loan eligibility. For a better financial planning, the EMIs should not exceed more than
Interest Rate: Be it any loan, the interest rate that a person will be offered on the money borrowed. Generally, the banks offer the rates on annual basis.
Tenure: The longer the tenure, the easier it is for the debtor to repay the fund to the banks or to the financial institution from which he/she is taking the loan. For a personal loan, the general tenure is up to 5 years.
Processing Fees: Other than the interest rate, banks charge a certain processing fee at the time of the loan approval. In general, the processing fee ranges from 1% to 5% of the loan amount.
In a personal loan equated monthly installment calculator, two formulas are used where the first one is used to calculate the monthly interest rate and the second one is used to calculate EMI. Here is the mechanism of these two calculators:
The calculation in the EMI calculator is done through the below-given formula:
E = P . r . (1+r)^n/((1+r)^n – 1)
where,E = EMI (Equated Monthly Installment)
Amortization is the process of reducing the value of an asset or the balance of a personal loan by a specific periodic amount. Every time the EMI is paid, there is some of part of principal also paid along with it. The principal is the original loan amount that the borrower has to pay. However, by making regular periodic payments, the principal gradually decreases and slowly comes to zero.
Be it any kind of loan, the most important thing that the debtor looks for is the EMI. For the calculation of the monthly installments, Personal Loan EMI Calculator is the tool used. Unlike any other loan, a personal loan is an unsecured loan where no collateral is required to get a loan. However, there is certain eligibility criteria set by different banks on the basis of the profile of the loan applicant like the income, age, profession, monthly income, etc. Since this loan can be taken without keeping any asset as security, the rates are calculated is directly dependent on the repayment capacity of the applicant, monthly expenses and other financial liabilities (if any). The best advantage of taking a personal loan is that the borrower has the freedom to use the money as per their choice as there are no conditions attached to the usage of the money.
Some of the important questions that a borrower must ask to himself/herself are- How much will amount do you need? How much money will you pay as interest? The answer to all such queries is the EMI calculator. By mentioning the basic details in the calculator, you can get a clear picture of the monthly installments that you will have to pay for the loan amount.
EMI calculator has many advantages and some of them are as follows:
Accuracy: The manual calculation of the monthly installment might not give the accurate results as the calculation is a little tricky. However, if the calculation is done through online EMI calculator, the result would be accurate for sure. So, it would be suggested to use the EMI calculator tool instead of getting into such complicated calculation.
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CONGRESSWOMAN ELISE STEFANIK
On Tuesday, January 27, 2015, the House will consider H.R. 351, the LNG Permitting Certainty and Transparency Act, under a rule. H.R. 351 was introduced on January 14, 2015 by Rep. Bill Johnson (R-OH), and referred to the Committees on Energy and Commerce.
H.R. 351 directs the Department of Energy (DOE), for proposals that must also obtain authorization from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) or the United States Maritime Administration to site, construct, expand, or operate liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facilities, to issue a final decision on the application within 30 days. Moreover, this legislation deems a NEPA review to be concluded: 1) 30 days after the publication of a Final Environmental Impact Statement (if required); 2) 30 days after a publication by the DOE of a Finding of No Significant Impact (if the project needs an Environmental Assessment); and 3) upon a determination by the lead agency that an application is eligible for a categorical exclusion pursuant to regulations under NEPA.
In addition, H.R. 351 confers original and exclusive jurisdiction upon the U.S. Court of Appeals for the circuit in which the export facility will be located for any civil action related to the review of: 1) a DOE order regarding the application; or 2) DOE failure to issue a final decision on the application. This legislation further requires Courts to order DOE to issue a final decision if it finds in a civil action that DOE has failed to issue one. In order to better streamline these civil actions, H.R. 351 requires Courts to set any civil action brought under this Act on the docket for expedited consideration.
Finally, H.R. 351 amends the Natural Gas Act to require DOE to publicly disclosure specific export destinations of LNG exports as a condition of approval of authorization to export LNG.
The 30-day decision is required to fall after the later of: 1) the conclusion of the review to site, construct, expand, or operate and LNG facility required under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA); or 2) the date of enactment of this Act.
A “Categorical exclusion means a category of actions which do not individually or cumulatively have a significant effect on the human environment and which have been found to have no such effect in procedures adopted by a Federal agency in implementation of these regulations (§1507.3) and for which, therefore, neither an environmental assessment nor an environmental impact statement is required.” See 40 CFR Section 1508.4.
Technological innovations have unlocked vast domestic natural gas and oil reserves, dramatically reversing production that had been in decline for decades. The U.S. “emerged as the world’s largest producer of natural gas and oil in 2013” and production is expected to continue increasing in the years ahead. According to one expert, “this energy revolution already supports 1.7 million jobs and could support 3 million jobs by 2020.”
U.S. natural gas production, in particular, has skyrocketed due to developments in horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing. “[The Energy Information Administration’s] rising estimates of natural gas reserves strongly suggest that American output can exceed domestic needs into the future. Specifically, it projects a 56 percent production increase by 2040, remaining well above projected domestic demand.” Studies show that increased LNG exports would benefit not only the overall economy, but also individual consumers. “A study by ICF estimated that LNG exports are expected to contribute 665,000 net job gains by 2035.” Beyond the economic benefits, increased LNG exports could bolster national security and help the U.S. more effectively achieve its foreign policy goals. Pumping more LNG into the global market could “enhance national security by supplanting the influence of the troublesome participants currently dominating those markets, especially Iran and Russia.” In testimony before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, representatives from countries including the Czech Republic, Haiti, Hungary, India, Japan, Lithuania, Puerto Rico, Singapore, South Korea, and Thailand all expressed a strong interest in U.S. LNG.
Despite the potential economic and geopolitical benefits, “many outmoded federal policies, based on the old assumptions of energy scarcity and rising imports, are still in force and stand in the way of the opportunities before us.” Since the first application to export LNG to a non-Free Trade Agreement (FTA) country was submitted almost four years ago, the DOE has issued a final decision on only five of the 38 applications —some for more than a year. Under the current approval process, “U.S. natural gas exports require federal approval pursuant to Section 3 of the Natural Gas Act (NGA) (15 U.S.C. §717b), with [DOE’s] Office of Fossil Energy and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) being the lead authorizing agencies.” Applications to export LNG to countries with which the U.S. has a FTA are granted with minimal delay. However, the approval process for exporting LNG to other countries is far more complicated. “The [NGA] establishes a rebuttable presumption that a proposed export of natural gas to a non-FTA country is in the public interest; however, the statute does not define ‘public interest’ nor identify the criteria that must be considered. As a result, DOE identified a growing list of factors, including economic impacts, international impacts, and security of supply. In addition, DOE relies on outdated, 1984 Policy Guidelines related to the import of natural gas (at the time, it was believed that the U.S. would need to import more LNG) to weigh these factors. Overall, DOE’s standard of review is unpredictable, evolving, and has been slow to reflect the nation’s newfound natural gas abundance and the growing benefits of energy exports.”
Increased LNG exports would have both economic and geopolitical benefits; yet DOE’s slow approval process could cause the U.S. to miss these tremendous prospects. “America’s window of opportunity will not remain open for long. In the face of continued delays, nations with near-term energy needs will be forced to look elsewhere for supplies, LNG facilities will have difficulty securing financing in an uncertain regulatory environment, and America will see greater competition from other LNG exporters.”
House Committee Report 113-477.
Id. at 3.
House Energy and Commerce Committee, H.R. 6, the Domestic Prosperity and Global Freedom Act (Apr. 30, 2014).
House Committee Report 113-477 at 9.
Id. at 3.
Department of Energy, Applications Received by DEO/FE to Export Domestically Produced LNG from the Lower-48 States (as of December 31, 2014).
Michael Ratner, Paul W. Parfomak, Ian F. Fergusson, & Linda Luther, U.S. Natural Gas Exports: New Opportunities, Uncertain Outcomes(Sep. 17, 2013) at 5.
House Committee Report 113-477 at 7.
House Committee Report 113-477 at 3.
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Burning calories with 'Futile protein cycle'
- 09-07-2007, 12:42 PM
Burning calories with 'Futile protein cycle'
I apologize if the title is misleading. Surely some salivated thinking this post would detail a new method of losing weight. I thought it be of interest to those in the business.
Burning Extra Calories With A 'Futile Protein Cycle'
ScienceDaily: Burning Extra Calories With A 'Futile Protein Cycle'
Science Daily — A new study in the September issue of Cell Metabolism, a publication of Cell Press, points to a new method for burning off all those irresistible extra calories--by turning on an energy-draining, but otherwise futile, cycle of protein synthesis and breakdown.
Christopher Lynch of The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine and his colleagues found that they could drive such heightened protein turnover in mice by disrupting an enzyme involved in the metabolism of some amino acids, the building blocks of proteins.
The enzyme-deficient animals showed elevated blood levels of the essential amino acid leucine, an important nutrient signal, and became slimmer than normal mice despite eating more food. They also showed "remarkable" improvements in glucose and insulin tolerance, and resistance to becoming obese on a high-fat diet.
"The mice on the outside look normal, just skinnier and smaller," Lynch said. "After looking at their metabolism, we found that for the same activity, they were using more energy."
Moreover, the researchers found that the animals that ate the most food also expended the most energy. "That would be ideal for people who are overweight," Lynch said. "They could continue to eat and just waste the energy and be thin."
Abundant food supplies and a sedentary lifestyle have contributed to the current epidemic of obesity in Western nations, the researchers said. Obesity results when people consume more energy in their diet than they expend. In both short-term and relatively long-term studies, high-protein and low-fat diets have been found to increase energy expenditure, they noted, while short-term protein intake helps stave off hunger.
The effects of dietary protein are thought to be driven at least in part by leucine and perhaps other so-called branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs). Yet it has remained unclear whether leucine supplementation actually improves or worsens obesity, Lynch said.
In the current study, the researchers generated mice lacking the enzyme BCATm, critical for the first step in BCAA breakdown, which caused their leucine levels to rise by more than 10-fold. As a result of the enzyme deficiency, the animals ate more food but were lean in comparison to normal mice. The researchers traced the effect to an energy-demanding increase in protein turnover that appeared to be directly related to the amount of food the mice ate.
"Unfortunately for dieters, it appears unlikely that the tactic used by the [mutant mice] to avoid weight gain, i.e., a big increase in protein turnover, can be achieved by merely ingesting high-protein diets or leucine supplements," said Susan Fried and Malcolm Watford in an accompanying commentary. An earlier study found that eating leucine can only increase its levels to twice the normal concentration, they noted. And unlike the enzyme disruption, dietary leucine stimulates protein synthesis while it slows protein breakdown.
Nonetheless, the scientists all agree that the findings could lead to new weight-loss therapies. "It is possible that revving up protein turnover by manipulating BCATm activity through pharmacological means is worth exploring as a treatment for obesity in humans," Fried and Watford said.
The researchers include Pengxiang She of The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine in Hershey; Tanya M. Reid of Wake Forest University Health Sciences in Winston-Salem; Sarah K. Bronson, Thomas C. Vary, Andras Hajnal, and Christopher J. Lynch of The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine in Hershey; and Susan M. Hutson of Wake Forest University Health Sciences in Winston-Salem.
This work was supported by NIH grants DK053843 and DK062880 (C.J.L.), GM39722 and AA12814 (T.C.V.), and DK34738 and NS038641 (S.M.H.).
Reference: She et al.: "Disruption of BCATm in Mice Leads to Increased Energy Expenditure Associated with the Activation of a Futile Protein Turnover Cycle." Publishing in Cell Metabolism 6, 181--194, September 2007 DOI 10.1016/j.cmet.2007.08.003.
Note: This story has been adapted from a news release issued by Cell Press.
- 09-07-2007, 01:12 PM
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KNOXVILLE – (RealEstateRama) — An energy efficiency initiative led by the city of Knoxville, Tennessee, the Alliance to Save Energy and other partners is among six finalists for the international C40 Cities Bloomberg Philanthropies Awards in the Cities4Energy category.
The awards recognize the most innovative and impactful efforts by cities around the world to tackle climate change. Knoxville’s Extreme Energy Makeover (KEEM) joined initiatives in Austin, Copenhagen, Vancouver, Qingdao and Chicago as finalists in the Cities4Energy category, recognizing excellence in building energy efficiency and clean energy.
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Guest Post by Rabbi Shalom Z. Berger, Ed.D.
I asked R. Shalom Berger, one of the co-authors of Flipping Out?, to write down his thoughts about this provocative article by Dr. Shawn Zelig Aster in the Yeshiva College newspaper The Commentator: link. What follows are his comments and recommendations (cross-posted to his blog here: link).
We all know the inspiring story of Rabbi Akiva who reached the age of 40 as an illiterate ignoramus, yet through dedicated effort succeeded in becoming a Torah scholar of renown and a leader of the Jewish people. A less well-known story about Rabbi Akiva is his personal testimony that before he began to study, he had a negative - indeed, a violent - attitude towards those who did learn Torah. When describing his youthful desire to meet a Torah scholar so that he would have the opportunity to injure him, he specifically said that he would bite him in a manner that would break his bones (see Pesahim 49b).
Thus, the shepherd Akiva had two strikes against him. Not only was he an ignoramus, he also had a profound hatred for the institution of Torah study.
Click here to read moreWhat drove a person of this character to submit to the ignominy of studying the alphabet as an adult, sitting in the same classroom with small children? What made him change his attitude and his ways? According to numerous stories in the Talmud and Midrash it was his devotion to his beloved Rachel, the woman he married.
Jewish schools - in every generation, but especially in an era of openness and choices - have a crucial responsibility concurrent with their job of teaching Jewish literacy and texts. They have to also teach them to value, love and desire to participate in Jewish life (in educational jargon we say that we need to get students to develop in both the cognitive realm and the affective realm).
In his article, Shawn Zelig Aster laments the lack of preparedness that he finds in students entering his class after 12 years of day school education. Of course, many of his students have had another year (or two) of study before they descend on the Yeshiva University campus. What did they do during their year in Israel, which was, in theory, dedicated in its entirety to the study of Jewish texts? My friend and colleague Yoel Finkelman set out to study this very question, and in a research study that he tantalizingly titled "Virtual Volozhin" examined what goes on in those programs. What he found was that many of these institutions put more effort into socializing their students into the value system of the Jewish community than they do actually teaching them to study on their own. (Don't just take my word for it. You can see Finkelman's study early version here - DOC and final version in the book Wisdom from All My Teachers). Perhaps I should mention that in my own study on one-year Israel programs (see here), most of the questions that I asked related to issues of belief and practice - which showed marked "improvement" over the year - rather than accomplishments in text study. One question did ask how students graded themselves with regard to understanding a Hebrew Gemara shiur - 12% rated themselves as "excellent" at the beginning of the year; at the end of the year 16% gave themselves an "excellent" score. I would have hoped for better.
Which of those two goals is more important? Which responsibility is primary? Given a choice, should schools emphasize the mind or the soul? For different schools in different communities, for different teachers working with different students, the answers will vary. It is possible that a school that chooses to define its vision and goals as developing a student's Jewish identity, producing graduates who are committed to Jewish values, to Israel, etc., may be successful in attaining its objectives, even if it does not produce students who can parse a Jewish text. (I may or may not choose to send my child to such a school.)
It would be irresponsible to say that "real" knowledge is the ability to study Jewish texts and that belief and a sense of connection with Judaism is merely window dressing. Current educational theory recognizes that "intelligence" comes in all shapes and sizes, and that the ability to interact with others or to reflect on oneself intelligently (interpersonal and intrapersonal intelligences), for example, must be valued together with the traditional modalities of literacy (reading, riting, rithmetic) - see Howard Gardner's work for more information on this - here. Nevertheless, Aster's question is a good one. Given that we expect all of our students to learn basic concepts of literacy, after 12+ years of day school education "Why can't Chani (or Moshe) read?" And more importantly, what should we do about it now?
There are many reasons why day school students don't learn to read, write and understand Hebrew.
I am sure you can come up with more. Of course, as Aster argues, any short term advantages of this system will become disadvantages when the more mature student realizes that he or she is functionally illiterate.
In many day schools today there in no culture of speaking Hebrew or of seeing knowledge of Hebrew language as a value. Responsible educators should see that as a challenge - there is a need to change the culture in order to accomplish both the cognitive and long-term affective the goals of Jewish schools. Difficult as it is, changing the culture of education is something that can be done. If KIPP schools can take traditionally low-achieving inner city kids and turn them into successful learners by engaging parents and students and creating a culture of learning (see here), our schools can do this with Hebrew language.
Learning to read Hebrew should begin early and be presented as something challenging, but attainable. Today there are a variety of available systems for teaching Hebrew in the classroom that make use of current pedagogic methods of language acquisition. Effective knowledge of Hebrew (and I am aware of those who claim that modern Ivrit and the language of Tanakh cannot be compared, but that is not our discussion at the moment) is essential for enjoying learning. I recall having the privilege of attending a course in pedagogy given by Nehama Leibowitz. After a few classes, a woman who taught 5th grade in a day school in the mid-West asked Nehama why her students enjoyed their secular studies classes so much more than their limudei kodesh classes. In answer to Nehama's question of when they started learning Humash, the teacher proudly said that they started in kindergarten. Nehama's response was that such children would never love learning Torah, since they never had the opportunity to learn its language. Her recommendation was that they should not start learning Humash until 2nd grade, devoting their time prior to that in learning the relatively small number of shorashim that make up all the words in Sefer Bereshit. Only when they could independently read and understand would they enjoy their learning.
A while back, I received a post on Lookjed, the Jewish educators' discussion list that I moderate as part of my work at the Lookstein Center at Bar-Ilan University. In it, an 11th grade rebbe in a modern Orthodox school described what he did in his classroom, and turned to the list for reactions to how he dealt with the student who admitted that he was functionally illiterate (to see the discussion, go to here. If such discussions are of interest to you, you can sign up for Lookjed at here). Most of the people who responded excoriated him for his willingness to test the student on themes and ideas, ignoring his deficiencies in simple reading and text recognition. While the author of the post took the criticism well, I felt that it was somewhat unfair, as he would have been hard-pressed to undo years of cultural messages and missed opportunities in the space of a twice weekly 45 minute Humash class.
Shawn Zelig Aster's call for a rededication of resources and attention to teaching Hebrew in elementary and high schools, however, is not being made from a high school classroom, but from Yeshiva University, whose abilities and resources far outstrip anything that a local yeshiva high school might have. Much as today's elementary school students deserve better training and preparation so that they will be able to feel comfortable studying traditional texts and participating in the mesorah, today's adult students deserve no less. Perhaps YU should offer serious Ulpan classes while its freshman are students in Israel, or require that its associated one-year Israel programs to do so. Maybe there should be a language prerequisite for attending Bible classes in YU, as well as remedial courses for those students whose abilities are not sufficient or for students who recognize that they have missed out on some of the basics. In the intensive Talmud programs it might be worthwhile to offer shiurim for students who need to work on their basic skills, even after years of day school study, and to make sure that the number of students in a given shiur remains small enough that individual attention can be paid to every student. These kind of efforts may make a real difference.
After all, it is never too late to learn. With the proper impetus, even someone who without the proper background can become a Torah scholar. Just ask Rabbi Akiva.
Thursday, February 19, 2009
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Living in the Eleventh District
The spirit of Dallas has propelled the nation's fifth-largest city to world-class status. Many of the top corporations are headquartered in Dallas, the banking and financial center of the Southwest. Southern Methodist University, the University of Dallas and the Dallas County Community College District are but a few of the area's educational institutions. Nightlife and cultural activities abound in such areas as the Arts District, the West End and Uptown Dallas. Dallas is also home to several professional sports teams.
Situated at the foot of the Franklin Mountains on the Texas-Mexico border, Texas' westernmost city has an international flavor. El Paso is a multicultural city with more than 400 years of history and a growing and diverse economy influenced by manufacturing, military bases and international trade between the United States and Mexico.
Houston, the largest city in the Southwest, made its reputation as an oil town. But today the city's diverse economy is a major component of the vibrant business climate in the Southwest. Home to NASA's Johnson Space Center, the Port of Houston and the world-renowned Texas Medical Center, Houston also offers a varied selection of sporting events, nightlife and leisure activities.
This city represents an interesting blend of history and culture, with the Alamo, Spanish missions and Riverwalk among the area's most popular attractions. San Antonio's economy is largely based on tourism and several major military facilities. The city boasts some of the finest learning institutions in the Southwest. San Antonio's setting in the Texas Hill Country provides many sporting and recreational opportunities. | <urn:uuid:89ff7255-2bff-4b62-b1f6-62936c990143> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.dallasfed.org/careers/living.cfm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280763.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00513-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946689 | 316 | 1.789063 | 2 |
Fitness for less: Low-cost ways to shape up
Want to work out but think you can't afford it? Think again. Consider these low-cost alternatives to a pricey gym membership.By Mayo Clinic Staff
If the only thing keeping you from starting a fitness program is the cost of a gym membership, here's good news. You don't need to join a gym to take physical activity seriously. Plenty of low-cost alternatives can help you get fit without breaking your budget. These tips can help you get started.
Take advantage of everyday opportunities
You don't need a gym or special equipment for an aerobic workout. With a little foresight, activities you may take for granted can become part of your fitness routine.
- Step it up. Take a brisk walk every day, whether it's in your neighborhood or a local mall. Take the stairs instead of the elevator or make a full workout of climbing the stairs. Sneak in extra steps whenever you can by parking farther away from your destination.
- Make housework a workout. Mow the lawn, weed the garden, rake the leaves or shovel the snow. Even indoor activities such as vacuuming and scrubbing count as a workout if you increase your heart rate.
- Play with your kids. If you have children, don't just watch them play. Join them for a game of tag or kickball. Walk them to the park. Dance. Take a family bike ride. Go to a community pool. Even if you don't swim, you can enjoy time in the water or walk in the shallow end. Do your kids play video games? If so, plug in with them and swing a virtual tennis racket or do a little boxing.
Improvise by using household items or your body weight
If you'd rather not spend a penny on exercise equipment, use ordinary household items or your body weight for various upper and lower body exercises:
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- Canned goods. Many canned goods can serve double duty as hand weights.
- Chair or step stool. Use a chair for support when doing exercises such as leg curls. A low, sturdy step stool can become exercise equipment if you use it for step training — an aerobic exercise resembling stair climbing.
- Use your body. You don't need to go to the gym and lift weights to increase your muscular fitness. Use your body weight to do weight training exercises and resistance training.
See more In-depth
- Physical activity and your heart. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/health-topics/topics/phys. Accessed March 20, 2015.
- 2008 Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. http://www.health.gov/PAGUIDELINES/guidelines/default.aspx. Accessed March 20, 2015.
- Overcoming barriers to physical activity. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. http://www.cdc.gov/physicalactivity/everyone/getactive/barriers.html. Accessed March 20, 2015.
- Workout to go. National Institute on Aging. http://go4life.nia.nih.gov/workout-to-go. Accessed March 20, 2015.
- Ratamess NA. Resistance training equipment and safety. In: ACSM's Foundations of Strength Training and Conditioning. Philadelphia, Pa.: Wolters Kluwer Health Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2012.
- DIY Exercise. American College of Sports Medicine. http://www.acsm.org/access-public-information/newsletters/fit-society-page. Accessed March 23, 2015.
- Tips to help you get active. National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. http://win.niddk.nih.gov/publications/tips.htm. Accessed March 23, 2015.
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NEW annual crime figures for Sutton, Kingstanding and Oscott have shown a sharp increase in violent crime over the last 12 months.
But police chiefs claimed overall crime is at its lowest in nine years and 850 more crimes had been solved than the year before.
The police statistics showed there were 226 more violent crimes between April 2005 and 2006 than the year before.
Other statistics for the D2 Sector, which covers Sutton, Kingstanding, Oscott and part of Erdington, included: 11 more burglaries; 26 fewer vehicle crimes; 50 less robberies.
There were 15,999 crimes in 12 months, 22 crimes fewer than the previous year, in which police proclaimed was the lowest crime rate for eight years.
Sutton Coldfield MP Andrew Mitchell met with Sutton's crime reduction officer, Lewis O'Rourke, after the latest crime figures were released.
He said: "We must ensure that local solutions are used to deal with local problems.
"I believe that this will lead to much better neighbourhood policing and look forward to working with Lewis O'Rourke to ensure that all possible measures to give added protection to the community of Sutton are being implemented."
And Mr Mitchell, a member of David Cameron's shadow cabinet, laid the blame of the police's problems at Tony Blair's door.
"The current system of command and control through central targets is this Labour Government's creation," he said.
"Regional forces, covering up to 6,000 square miles, will erode local accountability and will cost £175 million, which equates to a £33 increase in council tax bills."
For the last two years Sutton Coldfield police officers have been coping with the massive regeneration of their Lichfield Road police station.
Chief Supt Paul Scott Lee praised the officers when he opened the new cell block.
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Fort Bragg in Mendocino County, California — The American West (Pacific Coastal)
Erected 1986 by Native Sons of the Golden West, Frank D. Deal, Grand President. Provided by funds of the James D. Phelan Trust (February 8, 1986).
Marker series. This marker is included in the Native Sons/Daughters of the Golden West marker series.
Location. 39° 26.774′ N, 123° 48.271′ W. Marker is in Fort Bragg, California, in Mendocino County. Marker is on North Franklin Street, on the right when traveling north. Click for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 430 North Franklin Street, Fort Bragg CA 95437, United States of America.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 3 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies. Fort Bragg (about 700 feet away, measured in a direct line); Charles Russell Johnson (about 700 feet away); The Weller House (approx. 0.2 miles away); Whirring Saws Silenced: A Pictorial History of the Mill Site (approx. half a mile away); Surrounded By Trees (approx. half a mile away); Dynamite Shack (approx. half a mile away); Our Past Through Our Trash (approx. half a mile away); The Parrish Family Cemetery (approx. 2.7 miles away). Click for a list of all markers in Fort Bragg.
Also see . . . California State Military Museum Fort Bragg. (Submitted on August 22, 2008, by Syd Whittle of El Dorado Hills, California.)
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Organised in cooperation with NFAS (Norwegian Forum for Autonomous Ships), the European Commission’s Directorate General for Transport (DG MOVE), and research giant SINTEF, the summit will shine the spotlight on the potential of autonomy to enable “new, smart and sustainable business models”.
It is, notes Nor-Shipping Director Sidsel Norvik, “a unique gathering of global expertise for a subject central to the future of shipping.”
Preparing for potential
Norvik continues: “Autonomy needs to be demystified: Autonomy is not a goal in itself but a means to realise new and better maritime transport systems. Key developments are accelerating in their pace and scope, but there remains an element of uncertainty over how new operational models will impact upon businesses and, not least, how the regulatory landscape will evolve on a national, regional and global basis.
“This summit will help business leaders understand, and prepare for, a future of increased autonomy. Global trends will be explored and expert insights delivered, demonstrating how these vessels can create not just safer, more efficient and sustainable operations, but also huge business growth potential. It’s a fascinating subject and a ‘must attend’ for ambitious industry frontrunners.”
Mapping tomorrow today
Topics taking centre stage at the summit include the latest regulatory outlook, the industry’s position, how vessels can contribute towards transport decarbonisation goals, and their role in building more intelligent, efficient logistics chains. Key speakers for the presentations and panel discussions will be announced within the next few weeks.
In addition, marine operations from the Mayflower Autonomous Ship (a unique solar- and AI-powered research vessel, exhibiting in Nor-Shipping’s Blue Economy Hall) will be streamed throughout the day. A drinks reception will round-off the day’s busy programme.
“This will be the first summit of this scale dedicated to the subject since the start of the global pandemic,” concludes Norvik. “It’s therefore a vital gathering point for sharing expertise and communicating developments, but also for networking and gaining ‘hands-on’ understanding of autonomy’s enormous potential for our industry.”
Nor-Shipping 2022 will feature six themed exhibition halls across a total of 22,500 sq m of space at the Norges Varemesse facility in Lillestrøm, Norway. Almost 900 exhibiting companies are expected, from around 50 countries, showcasing their capabilities to an anticipated 50,000 participants. A range of activities, including the After Work at Aker Brygge networking and socialising programme, will take place around Oslo. The theme of Nor-Shipping 2022 is taking positive #ACTION within the ocean space. | <urn:uuid:55a1514d-ae2c-4f1f-a277-7726625d0c5a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nor-shipping.com/ship-autonomy-and-sustainability-on-course-for-nor-shipping/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00079.warc.gz | en | 0.906292 | 578 | 1.632813 | 2 |
GUENTHER, CARL HEINRICH
GUENTHER, CARL HEINRICH (1821–1870). Heinrich Guenther, teacher, politician, and musician, was born Carl (or Karl) Heinrich Guentherat Zeitz, Saxony, on September 9, 1821. He was the son of Karl Friedrich Guenther and Johanne Rosine (Weitze) Guenther. He sailed to Texas with the colonists of the Adelsverein in 1845. He established himself as a community leader. On January 25, 1854, he married Margarethe Elisabeth Schertz in Comaltown (now part of New Braunfels), Texas; they had seven children. Guenther taught in the city school until 1858, when New Braunfels Academy superseded it. In 1854, as a delegate of the Politischer Verein of New Braunfels, Guenther was elected president of the annual Staats-Säengerfest in San Antonio on May 14 and 15. He served on a committee with a Dr. Nohl and Louis C. Ervendberg to formulate plans to stir up interest for a national convention of the Bund Freier Männer at St. Louis early in November 1854. He was also one of the first directors of the Germania, the first singing society in Texas, organized at New Braunfels on March 2, 1850. During the Civil War he became a captain for one of the companies of the local militia. Guenther died in New Braunfels on April 8, 1870, and was buried in New Braunfels Cemetery. A Texas Historical Marker was erected at his gravesite in 2010. See also GERMAN MUSIC.
Rudolph L. Biesele, The History of the German Settlements in Texas, 1831–1861 (Austin: Von Boeckmann-Jones, 1930; rpt. 1964). Edgar R. Dabney, The Settlement of New Braunfels and the History of Its Earlier Schools (M.A. thesis, University of Texas, 1927). Historical Marker Files, Texas Historical Commission, Austin. “Karl Heinrich Guenther,” Find A Grave Memorial (http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=11173823), accessed November 3, 2015. New Braunfels Zeitung, December 17, 1852; April 29, July 1, 1853; May 19, 26, 1854; April 15, 1870; July 22, 1926.
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I’m no longer calling feeds “RSS feeds”. From now on I’m calling them “syndication” feeds, or just “feeds”. There have been two standards for doing this type of XML-based website syndication for a long time now — Atom and RSS. RSS is older and has more penetration, so its name has been confused with its function. Just like Xerox, Kleenex and Google.
Well, I don’t use Xerox to mean copy, I don’t use Kleenex to mean tissue, and the only reason I use “google” to mean search is because it’s vastly superior to the alternatives. If that changes I’ll drop it as well.
And that’s the case with RSS. It’s not simply not superior to Atom — it’s inferior. Here are a few of the highlights:
- Atom offers a number of technical advantages that hinge on a more precise and scalable definition. Think XHTML vs. HTML4. Examples include (from the Atom Wiki):
- RSS 2.0 requires feed-level title, link, and description. RSS 2.0 does not require that any of the fields of individual items in a feed be present. Atom 1.0 requires that both feeds and entries include a title (which may be empty), a unique identifier, and a last-updated timestamp.
- RSS 2.0 may contain either plain text or escaped HTML, with no way to indicate which of the two is provided, and the RSS 2.0 content model does not permit actual well-formed XML markup, which reduces the re-usability of content. Atom has a carefully-designed payload container, where content must be explicitly labeled.
- RSS autodiscovery has been implemented several times in different ways, often relies on unregistered (thus invalid) application/rss+xml MIME type, and has never been standardized. Atom [WWW]standardizes autodiscovery. The application/atom+xml MIME Type is registered with IANA. Additionally, Atom feeds contain a “self” pointer, so a newsreader can auto-subscribe given only the contents of the feed, based on Web-standard dispatching techniques.
- RSS 2.0 is not in an XML namespace but may contain elements from other XML namespaces. There is no central place where one can find out about many popular extensions. Atom 1.0 is an XML namespace and may contain elements or attributes from other XML namespaces.
- RSS 2.0 does not specify the handling of relative URI references. Different feed readers implement differing heuristics for their interpretation. There is no interoperability. In practice, relative URI references cannot be used in RSS feeds.Atom 1.0 specifies use of the XML’s built-in
xml:baseattribute for allowing the use of relative references.
- RSS 2.0 can be encrypted or signed like any other web content, if treated as arbitrary content. Rules for applying standard XML Encryption and XML Digital Signature on entries are included in Atom 1.0.
- The RSS 2.0 specification includes no schema. Atom 1.0 includes a (non-normative) ISO-Standard RelaxNG schema, to support those who want to check the validity of data advertised as Atom 1.0.
- Atom is run by the Atompub Working Group group is specified in RFC 4287 while RSS is basically run by a single genius who’s arguably very hard to work with.
“Dave Winer has done a tremendous amount of work on RSS and invented important parts of it and deserves a huge amount of credit for getting us as far as we have. However, just looking around, I observe that there are many people and organizations who seem unable to maintain a good working relationship with Dave.” — Tim Bray (member of the W3C and co-creator of XML)
- Google perfers Atom.
“That is the sound of inevitability.”
The bottom line for me is that Atom seems to be more technically sound as well as more open. When you combine that with Google having chosen it as their preferred syndication protocol, that pretty much seals it for me.
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You've Got Your Teacher Evaluation. Now What?
A couple of weeks ago, Megan Allen, a fifth-grade teacher in Tampa who blogs at transformED, wrote a post entitled "I've got my teacher evaluation. Now what?" In her post, Allen shared six suggestions that would help link teacher evaluations to effective professional development. The following post is our response to Megan.
Megan, I think lots of teachers across America are with you. We at Learning Forward are with you. And we offer these recommendations in response to your observations and requests.
1. The definition of professional development must broaden. We must say "adios" to the one-size-fits-all workshops.
Learning Forward's definition of professional learning puts the primary focus on professional learning that takes place in schools among teams of teachers who share collective responsibility for the success of their students. It is informed and focused on the student and educator performance data that guide identification of professional learning needs and the selection of professional learning strategies that specifically address those needs. It's not a one-size-fits-all solution but is focused on selecting strategies tied to specific needs. It has been introduced for federal adoption in the last three sessions of Congress. Perhaps you will help us see it adopted.
2. Professional development must be differentiated.
How you acquire a new skill or develop a deeper understanding may differ from how your colleagues do so. Having access to options and quality information that informs your decisions is key to ensuring you access the support that will help you get the results you seek. In addition to asking your team members for support, seek out other forms of professional support that are available through your school system professional development department; online communities in your subject area; as well as peer evaluators, coaches, and your supervisor.
3. Hybrid roles can be the connectors and "invisi-brokers" of this differentiated learning.
If a "hybrid" teacher or other resource teacher visits your classroom I expect he or she to have the skills and knowledge to assist you with the precise instructional challenges you face. It is not enough to provide you with a book or video. He or she must be prepared to model, co-teach, or observe and provide feedback. When we invest resources in these positions we must be able to document their impact.
4. The National Board Certification process needs to be embraced.
I agree that teachers who step up and demonstrate commitments to professional learning need to be supported and leveraged. School systems must invest in the knowledge and skills that NBCTs and others need to support the growth of peers and others. Many schools have embraced the PLC strategy and yet a very small percentage have ensured that the facilitators have developed knowledge and skills to promote deep thinking, learning and transformation among the team. Collaboration alone does not produce the kinds of changes and support we need in classrooms.
5. Teacher leaders must lead the charge.
Learning Forward holds the belief that the expertise to solve most of our most complex problems related to student learning reside among the educators in schools right now. Teacher leaders are key to finding these solutions and collaborative team-based professional learning will ensure the spread of solutions from teacher to teacher. More teachers need to develop expertise in the research base that undergirds effective professional learning and advocate for it. To begin with, review the standards for professional learning at www.learningforward.org/standards.
6. School schedules should be rethought so teachers have time to be learners.
At Learning Forward we say, "At school, everyone's job is to learn." There are many examples of schools that have made collaborative learning time a priority (search on the word "time" at www.learningforward.org for examples). This issue can be resolved.
Finally, Megan, remember that addressing your individual evaluation is but one purpose of a comprehensive system of professional learning. You have every right to expect that you will have the support, time, and leadership for you and your colleagues to address your team and schoolwide priorities as well as time to implement new programs meant to produce better outcomes for your students.
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YWM 2013 Offers Americans Evidence-based Strategies to Improve Weight and HealthPosted in: Educational Resources, Events
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Tampa, Fla. – The road to weight-loss and weight management is often paved with confusing and misleading messaging, which makes improving health quite challenging. More than 93 million Americans face this challenge each and every day, but the nation’s leading weight and health charity, the Obesity Action Coalition (OAC), is set to offer a ground-breaking National Convention aimed to help all individuals on the lifelong journey with weight. To view more of this news release, click here. | <urn:uuid:ba244900-6e76-42d3-8157-140bc0568394> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.obesityaction.org/newsentry/ywm-2013-offers-americans-evidence-based-strategies-to-improve-weight-and-health | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280872.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00311-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931634 | 126 | 1.6875 | 2 |
A metal and Open Source ARM 64-Bit Laptop for tinkering and fun
The Pinebook Pro is meant to deliver solid day-to-day Linux or *BSD experience and to be a compelling alternative to mid-ranged Chromebooks that people convert into Linux laptops.
In contrast to most mid-ranged Chromebooks however, the Pinebook Pro comes with an IPS 1080p 14″ LCD panel, a premium magnesium alloy shell, 64/128GB of eMMC storage* (more on this later – see asterisk below), a 10,000 mAh capacity battery and the modularity / hackability that only an open source project can deliver – such as the unpopulated PCIe m.2 NVMe slot (an optional feature which requires an optional adapter).
The USB-C port on the Pinebook Pro, apart from being able to transmit data and charge the unit, is also capable of digital video output up-to 4K at 60hz.
CPU: 64-Bit Dual-Core ARM 1.8GHz Cortex A72 and Quad-Core ARM 1.4GHz Cortex A53
GPU: Quad-Core MALI T-860
RAM: 4 GB LPDDR4 Dual Channel System DRAM Memory
Flash: 64 GB eMMC 5.0
Wireless: WiFi 802.11AC + Bluetooth 5.0
One USB 3.0 and one USB 2.0 Type-A Host Ports
USB 3.0 Type-C ports with alt-mode display out (DP 1.2) and 15W 5V 3A charge.
MicroSD Card Slot: 1
Headphone Jack: 1
Keyboard: Full Size ANSI(US) type Keyboard
Touch-pad: Large Multi-Touch Touchpad
Power: Input: 100~240V, Output: 5V3A
Battery: Lithium Polymer Battery (10000mAH)
Display: 14.1″ IPS LCD (1920 x 1080)
Front Camera: 2.0 Megapixels
Power Supply included
Dimension: 329mm x 220mm x 12mm (WxDxH)
Weight: 1.26 kg (2.78 lbs)
- Best for Tinkering: Linux - Majaro (Default), Ubuntu, Debian, Arch ARM, Kali, Gentoo, LFS, etc; Note: Only ARM versions of Linux are supported, it can't run x86 OS/software
- August 2020 version | CPU: 64-Bit Dual-Core ARM 1.8GHz Cortex A72 and Quad-Core ARM 1.4GHz Cortex A53 | GPU: Quad-Core MALI T-860 | RAM: 4 GB LPDDR4 Dual Channel
- Flash: 64 GB eMMC 5.0 | WiFi 802.11AC + Bluetooth 5.0 |
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Zaha Hadid's smooth curving addition to the University of Oxford weaves through existing buildings, changes height, and twists and turns to avoid an existing Sequoia tree. The new structure, clad in mirrored stainless steel, houses a 117-seat lecture theater, a multi-purpose gallery space, archives, reading rooms and offices.
The new structure sits amidst the exisiting campus buildings, including a Victorian-era convent and library, and the Brutalist Hilda Besse building. In order to fit into the surroundings without disruppting the existing layout, the architects designed the addition as a reflective structure that slightly meanders between the existing buildings and a century-old tree, with a changing height to accommodate the existing structures.
The reflective tunnel-like structure connects 68 and 66 Woodstock Road and has three above-ground levels and one underground level which houses a lecture theater. The ground floor features a large multi-functional gallery space, while the first and second floor house reading rooms, offices and 2,200 square meters of book storage. The interior spaces were designed in contrast with the sleek steel exterior and the walls are clad in oak-veneer boards combined with perforated acoustic panels.
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NAVIN SAYS FAMOUS. FIELDER- MUST 'PLAY . IN DETROIT -OR QUIT
By G. R. Pulford.
Detroit, Mich., April 22. "Ty Cobb will not be sold, he will not be
traded; he will play ball for the Detroit club or not at all."
Such is the position of the Detroit ball club, as stated to me by Presi
dent Prank Navin in his office at Navin field.
I came to Detroit to get at the bottom of the "Cobb story," just' now of
absorbing interest to every baseball fan in the country. Whether Cobb
will play is of more interest to the fan than the lopping off of duty on wool
"Do I understand that you will drive Cobb out of baseball?" I asked
President Navin. ,
"No; I want Cobb to play, but I want him to play with the Detroit club,"
"Suppose Cobb continues to -refuse to play at your figure. Wfll you
'fight.it out along the same line if it takes all summer?' Are you willing to
risk the temper of the public?"
"The Detroit public is with the Detroit club in this. The fans believe
Cobb's demands are out of reason. The public doesn't care so much for
one player as it does for a combination of winners.
"I do not mean that Co"bb is not a great attraction, but Cobb cannot
make Detroit a winner, and that's what the public wants. If I can put a
winning combination upon the field without Cobb, the public will be satis
fied. "It is not the individual player, it is not the club owner that counts, ,but
the game. The public demands a winner, no matter whose personality
makes winning possible. And the public's money makes baseball.
"Mr. Navin," I said, "presumably the difference between yourself and
Cobb is one of dollars. Granting that Cobb' has been an egotistical boy, a
swell-headed kid, the fact remains that he is the greatest ball player in the
"I believe the public, which supports baseball, as you say, is entitled
to 'the best, so long as it is willing, to pay for it. If the Detroit ciub'and
Cobb cannot agree, won't you sell or trade Cobb to some team which would'
pay what he asks? The publid doesn't care who pays his salary, but it
does want to see him in action."
"Ty Cobb will not be sold, he will not be traded," responded Navin,
with a click of his jaws. "He will play for the Detroit club 'or not at all.
I am through. There has been too much talk already. If Cobb comes here
and signs for what he had been offered he.can play at once, but the Detroit
club will not recede one inch. This is final. I pass from now on."
Rumors that Cobb will be traded to the New York or Philadelphia
American league clubs will scarcely hold water. It is eyident the American
league is determined to stand behind the Detroit club and make -an example
of Cobb nojt only to punish Cobb, but to put the brakes on players who.
have the temerity to demand more money than the club owners think they
The whole thing in a nutshell Is that the public wants Cobb, because
he is liable to do anything from refusing to sleep in the room assigned him
at the hotel to stealing home while the pitcher holds the ball and scoring'
the run that wins the game.
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Does Radio Frequency Radiation (RFR) emitted from your cellphone scramble your brain? If your answer is that is not possible, why then are drivers having up to ten times more accidents after they end their calls? Evidence, decades old, appears to point to brain malfunction induced by wireless radiation as the unspoken cause of higher rates of car accidents.
It has been 18 years since a major study appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine called Association between Cellular-Telephone Calls and and Motor Vehicle Collisions.(1) The study showed, not too surprisingly, that there was evidence that cell phone use was associated with higher rates of automobile accidents. In the conclusion of their study the authors were vague as to what was the cause of the increased accidents but driver distraction was what the media decided was the cause.
Since then dozens of industry funded studies about cellphone use and driver distraction have been published. Almost all of the studies reported that the driver was too busy talking on the phone to drive properly. It seemed researchers hardly ever discussed data that pointed towards other possible causes. Their conclusions focused instead on the main stream paradigm that the drivers mind was not on the business of driving while they talked on the cellphone. This made a lot of sense and it is probably a factor but it did not explain the sheer number of accidents occurring.
Reports stating that automobile accidents were caused by cellphone use were not unexpected. However in the late 90’s the real reason as to why the drivers had more accidents had the potential to cause a tremendous shock wave and prove to be of enormous importance, not only for the wireless industry, but also for the health and safety of billions of people who were about to start using wireless devices daily.
It appeared that many industry funded researchers did not notice that the data they provided in their research indicated that the cause of the accidents was not primarily driver distraction but something much more profoundly disturbing. The evidence from the Redelmeier Study as well as subsequent studies have shown that RFR emitted from cellphones was inhibiting brain function and possibly causing car accidents.(2)
Needless to say the ramifications of this revelation, if proven to be true, were enormous, especially because back in 1998 the wireless industry was about to explode into one of the largest and most profitable industries in the world. The idea that the RFR emitted from wireless devices was dangerous and a health threat was an inconvenient truth that stood between the industry and hundreds of billions of dollars in profits.
Had the truth emerged then and was acted upon I think that it would not be a stretch to say the course of history would have been changed with hundreds of thousands of lives saved and millions of illnesses avoided. But it would not be so. It is eighteen years later and it seems the wireless industry has effectively kept a lid on the evidence. How they did it and why they were successful is the topic of another very important discussion.
The Redelmeier Study was well constructed and the data meticulously recorded. Risk factors were carefully evaluated and there were a large number of drivers involved. Everything was set up to generate good data.
However the conclusions in the study seemed to ignore a key factor. I contacted Dr Redelmeier and in an email asked him how could the researchers conclude that the cause of the accidents was driver distraction when the driver was not on a cellphone for at least 76% of the accidents in this study? He replied saying the study did not address that issue but he speculated that the drivers were possibly distracted by thinking about what was said in the call.
Was it possible that the memory of a cell phone call, no matter how distracting, could make the driver up to 4 times as likely to be in a car accident and 6 times as likely to have an accident after using hands free technology? On top of that, young drivers in this study were having 10 times as many accidents after using a cell phone. It just did not make any sense.
It was widely known that brainwaves could be influenced by RFR from cellphones. If so it seemed logical to conclude that the driver’s brain function was being diminished when exposed to radio frequency radiation from the cellphone which led to a higher possibility of being involved in a crash. Several scientific studies published between 1998 and 2000 would show that RFR exposure to the brain inhibited brain function.(3)
With RFR induced brain malfunction now a prime suspect of the cause of the accidents examine Table 2 in the abstract of the Redelmeier study. It lays out the time of the car accidents, the time when the cellphone call had ended and the length of the call. This table shows an astonishing trend. The driver was most likely to have a crash right after the cellphone call ended and as time went by he became less and less likely to have an accident. Moreover there appeared to be a dose /response relationship. Below is a graph depicting the data from the from the Redelmeier Study.
No one is talking on a cell phone when these these crashes occurred. This graph clearly shows the shorter the time between the end of the call and the accident, the higher the risk factor of having an accident. There is a clear and consistent pattern. The driver is 4 times as likely to crash just after the cellphone call was ended, 3 times as likely 10 minutes after the call was ended, and 1.5 times more likely to crash 20 minutes after the call ended. This is strong evidence that something was impeding the person’s brain function as a result of using a cellphone and it had a lingering effect.
Other results in the study showed even higher risk factors for some sub groups. The research showed that hands free drivers were 50% more accident prone than hand-held cell phone users.When a driver uses a hands free device in a motor vehicle the cellphone company is allowed to boost the signal because the antenna is not close to the users head. If the driver is using a wired headset the wire itself can deliver an even larger dose of radiation to the brain with the ear bud inserted in the ear. As well some vehicles have wireless networks in the vehicle that links to a second wireless network which relays the signal to the nearest cellphone transmitter. All of these features increase the signal strength inside the vehicle and thus the RFR exposure to the brain. This would help to explain why hands free drivers had 50% more accidents than drivers who held the cellphone in their hand.
The Redelmeier study also showed that young drivers were up to 10 times more likely to have a crash if they had used a cellphone. Research shows that younger people’s physiology makes them the most vulnerable group to the harmful effects of RFR exposure. Young people have thinner skulls and the radiation from the cellphone penetrates further into the brain which could cause even more disruption of their cognitive abilities than adults.(4)
To conclude this study showed .
- Brain function of the driver was diminished after talking on a cellphone.
- The driver was most likely to crash just after the call ended and less and less likely to crash as time elapsed after the call.
- Hands free drivers had more accidents than hand held cellphone users. They were also exposed to more RFR.
- Younger drivers had the most accidents after using a cellphone. Cellphone radiation has the greatest negative impact on those with thinner skulls and with not fully developed physiology.
These factors all combined strongly indicate that RFR exposure to the brain of the driver impaired his ability to drive and consequently he had an elevated risk of having a car accident.
This evidence gleaned from the Redelmeier study held the keys to the solution of this problem, in my opinion. The incongruity between the data and the conclusions in the study was the stimulus for further investigation that led to what I think is the real cause of the elevated risks of having a car accident after using a cellphone. This was a well-constructed study and even though my conclusions are very different than Dr Redelmeier this work must be commended for its accuracy.
It appears to take about 30 minutes between when a cellphone call has ended and when there is no longer any elevated accident risk. Much like drinkers, users of wireless technologies should wait until their wireless buzz has worn off before they operate a motor vehicle. What happens to the brain in the long run as a result of RFR exposure is the topic of another article.
Walt McGinnis is an Electromagnetic Radiation Tester and Electrician living in Victoria BC. www.McGinnisElectric.ca
(1): Association between Cellular-Telephone Calls and Motor Vehicle Collisions. DONALD A. REDELMEIER, M.D., AND ROBERT J. TIBSHIRANI, PH.D
(2): Cell Phone Radiation alters brain function: acknowledgments to a great mentor, now deceased, Dr Neil Cherry.
For years the cell phone companies and government authorities have assured us that cell phone are perfectly safe. They state that the particular set of radiation parameter associated with cell phones are not the same as any other radio signal and therefore earlier research does not apply. They also mount biased review teams who falsely dismiss any results that indicate adverse biological and health effects and the flawed pre-assumption that the only possible effect is tissue heating. There is a very large body of scientific research that challenges this view. Now we have published research, primarily funded by governments and industry that shows that cell phone radiation causes the following effects:- Dr Neil Cherry Probable Health Effects associated with cell phone towers.
- Alters human reaction times, Preece et al. (1999),
- Induced potentials, Eulitz et al. (1998),
- Slow brain potentials, Freude et al. (1998),
- Response and speed of switching attention (need for car driving) significantly worse, Hladky et al. (1999).
- Alters brain activity including EEG, Von Klitzing (1995), Mann and Roschkle (1996), Krause et al. (2000).
- Disturbs sleep, Mann and Roschkle (1996), Bordely et al. (1999)
- Altered reaction times and working memory function (positive), Koivisto et al. (2000), Krause et al. (2000).
(4): THE BIOINITIATIVE REPORT 2012 -A Rationale for Biologically-based Public Exposure Standards for Electromagnetic Fields (ELF and RF), Conclusion
- Weakens the blood brain barrier, BBB (p<0.0001) with a dose above 1.5 J/kg. For a 2 minute exposure the SAR = 0.013 W/kg and 10 minutes, SAR – 0.0025W/kg: Persson, B.R.R., Salford, L.G. and Brun, A., (1997).
- A Fifteen-minute exposure, increased auditory brainstem response and hearing deficiency in 2 kHz to 10 kHz range, Kellenyi et al. (1999).
- While driving, with 50 minutes per month with a cell phone, a highly significant 5.6-fold increase in accident risk, Violanti et al. (1996); a 2-fold increase in fatal accidents. with cell phone in car, Violanti et al. (1998); impairs cognitive load and detection thresholds, Lamble et al. (1999).
- Significant changes in local temperature, and in physiologic parameters of the CNS and cardiovascular system, Khdnisskii, Moshkarev and Fomenko (1999).
- Causes memory loss, concentration difficulties, fatigue, and headache, in a dose response manner, (Mild et al. (1998)). Headache, discomfort, nausea, Hocking (1998). | <urn:uuid:10efc1ee-7ac0-4d4d-9796-6c6e1667b890> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.powertothepeople.ca/cellphone-radiation-causes-car-accidents/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280835.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00053-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969722 | 2,391 | 2.390625 | 2 |
Penelec Default Rates To Go Up By 30%
Pennsylvanian households and businesses served by the utility company Penelec will pay more for electricity from June 2021, if the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PPUC) approves new tariffed residential and commercial default rates, filed by the group of FirstEnergy Pennsylvania utilities.
Penelec serves approximately 585,000 customers within 17,600 square miles of northern and central Pennsylvania. What sort of increase should customers expect to come into effect if the new rates are approved?
For Penelec residential customers, this means a 30% increase, from the current rate of 4.98¢ per kWh to a new rate of 6.46¢ per kWh, starting June 1, 2021.
For Penelec commercial customers, this means a 5% increase, from the current rate of 6.05¢ per kWh to a new rate of 6.37¢ per kWh, starting June 1, 2021.
For a household with an average electric usage of 1000 kilowatt-hours per month, this represents a $15 bump on the monthly utility bill. For a small business with similar electric usage, it would mean paying approximately $3.20 extra. If approved, the new default rates would be effective for the three-month period between June 1, 2021, through September 1, 2021.
The steep proposed rate hikes are largely caused by the state-wide infrastructure and technological upgrades to the Pennsylvanian electric distribution system, spread out across the five years between 2020-2024. | <urn:uuid:7984c9e6-63bb-4033-9006-8fad951df802> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.electricrate.com/news/penelec-ptc-increase/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00076.warc.gz | en | 0.940019 | 321 | 1.632813 | 2 |
‘We will never give up any part of our territory’ - Saakashvili
Saakashvili was speaking at a joint news conference in Tbilisi with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Negotiations were focused on the situation in the troubled region and finding ways to resolve the tension.
Merkel called on the Russian troops to be withdrawn from the Georgian-South Ossetian conflict zone and wants an international peacekeeping mission to be deployed in the region.
“We should manage very promptly the bringing of the international peacekeepers to the region, Russian President Medvedev agreed,” she said. “We need to reach refugees, we need humanitarian corridors.”
Merkel said Germany and the EU are ready to contribute towards the international peacekeeping forces.
She also reiterated that Georgia can become a NATO member and will join the alliance if it wants to. But she called on Georgia to adhere to the ceasefire agreement.
In typically bullish mood, Saakashvili told the news conference that Georgia will not give up Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
“As I once said, and one thing should be made very clear, Georgia will never give up any square kilometre of its territory. No matter what happens we will never reconcile with the fact of annexation or indeed separation of parts of territory from Georgia with the attempts to legalise ethnic cleansing”.
His views directly oppose the stance of the two republics, who insist they want to separate from Georgia. Eduard Kokoity, president of South Ossetia, said last week: “We don't doubt the results of the two referendums that have been held on the territory of the republic of South Ossetia. We do not intend to hold a third one. We respect the will of out people and we know what we want.” | <urn:uuid:567c5d52-8f06-45b1-ba3d-5c98b7859a6e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.rt.com/news/we-will-never-give-up-any-part-of-our-territory-saakashvili/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280718.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00402-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953874 | 386 | 1.90625 | 2 |
WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) — Wilmington firefighters tested their agility and dexterity today at Cape Fear Community College’s North Campus. The test included performing tasks similar to those they would encounter in an actual fire.
The obstacle course started with dragging a dummy weighing around 175 pounds, setting up and taking down a ladder, carrying heavy hoses up several flights of stairs, pulling a water-filled hose and toting two large saws.
“It’s definitely a good gauge for you to come out here and see where you’re at healthwise, if there’s anything you need to improve on. It’s also a really great training for us to come out here and get some hands on experience,” firefighter Dane Waggett said.
The annual test also raises any red flags in the firefighters’ health. Some try to improve their previous years time, but the ultimate goal is to complete the exercise without stopping. | <urn:uuid:8fd367f3-72ea-412a-a869-ecfbe483f7b4> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.wwaytv3.com/2013/03/19/wilmington-firefighters-take-annual-physical-test/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718423.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00271-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958813 | 200 | 1.734375 | 2 |
AL Bulletin 430-14-1
Date: January 21, 2014
Subject: SOI- Area of Responsibility for Resource Soil Scientist (RSS) in Alabama
Purpose: To update the area of responsibility (AOR) for the two Resource Soil Scientist (RSS) in Alabama.
Expiration Date: September 30, 2014
In order to maintain Area integrity in providing Technical Soil Services by the Resource Soil Scientists (RSS) in Alabama, the RSSs assignments will follow NRCS Areas. This bulletin supersedes previous instructions regarding Area of Responsibility of Resource Soil Scientist providing Technical Soil Services in Alabama.
Effective, February 1, 2014, the North and Central Area Technical Soil Services will be provided by Milton Tuck, RSS of the Central Area Staff. The West and East Area Technical Soil Services will be provided by James Mason, Resource Soil Scientist of the East Area Staff (see map). These changes will be reflected in Appendix H of the USDA-NRCS Alabama Personnel Directory.
For questions contact Lawrence McGhee, State Soil Scientist SSS at 334-887-4559 or email@example.com.
WILLIAM E. PUCKETT | <urn:uuid:a1703aab-ed75-4ab7-b758-ad54eb9efe32> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/al/people/employees/?cid=stelprdb1243191 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718866.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00003-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.785177 | 259 | 1.648438 | 2 |
When using the RadHTMLChart ScatterLineSeries with data that straddles January 1st, 1970, it seems that by default the Y axis crosses the X axis at 1/1/1970. If all of the data precedes 1/1/1970, the Y axis crosses the X at its maximum value.
When using a date axis with a databound ScatterLineSeries, how can I ensure that the Y axis always crosses the X axis at its minimum value?
To see an example, simply replace the relevant C# code from the Date Axis
demo page with this:
dt.Rows.Add(1, 2, new DateTime(1969, 06, 12));
dt.Rows.Add(1, 5, new DateTime(1969, 12, 12));
dt.Rows.Add(2, 6, new DateTime(1970, 06, 17));
dt.Rows.Add(3, 4, new DateTime(1970, 09, 18));
dt.Rows.Add(4, 7, new DateTime(1971, 03, 18));
I have tried setting the XAxis.MinValue and XAxis.AxisCrossingValue properties to either zero or (decimal)minValue.ToOADate(), but it either has no effect, or causes all points before 1/1/1970 to render incorrectly - the chart begins at 12/31/1969, and all points before that date "crowd" the axis. | <urn:uuid:7739236d-da86-4baa-9976-1f84fbfc09b3> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.telerik.com/forums/scatterlineseries-date-axis-axiscrossingvalue | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282202.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00552-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.754753 | 315 | 2.03125 | 2 |
(James Smith, “Keep Close to Christ” 1857)
A Christian minister was dying. He had a young sister whom he tenderly loved, and in whose welfare he felt the deepest interest. She came to pay the last visit, and receive from his lips the last words of advice. The words of a dying minister, realizing the value of the soul, and the solemnity of eternity, are important words. Taking her by the hand, and fixing his eyes upon her with a loving look, he said: “Keep close to Christ!”
What could he say of more import? Her life lesson was comprised of four words: “Keep close to Christ!” She had come to Jesus, she loved Jesus, she found happiness in Jesus; but the dying brother knew . . .
the deceitfulness of the human heart;
the power of the world’s fascinations,
and the craft and subtlety of Satan,
therefore he exhorts: “Keep close to Christ!”
May the Lord give us grace to get near to Him; and then give us more grace, to keep near to Him; for alas! how many of us, like Peter, follow Him afar off!
Therefore What must we do, to keep close to Jesus?
We must keep close to His Word. Here He . . .
reveals His mind,
displays His love, and
exhibits His beauty!
It is a revelation of His deepest, sweetest, kindest thoughts!
Because It is an exhibition of His infinite, eternal, deathless love!
It is a mirror in which we may see His unparalleled beauty and excellency!
No one can keep close to Jesus who does not daily, seriously, and prayerfully read His Word. That Word . . .
received into the heart by faith,
digested by meditation, and
reduced to practice in life,
will bring the soul and Christ together!
For the more we know of Christ, the more we shall love Him; the more we shall prize, pant for, and seek to enjoy His presence!
Blessed Spirit, help us so to read the Word, as always to find Christ in it; and by it endear Him more and more unto us, and bring us into closer fellowship with Him!
~ ~ ~ ~
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Some cold facts on furnaces
Here are some tips if you’re furnace shopping or just looking for ways to lower your energy bill.
The Sacramento Bee
Chilly temperatures prompt thoughts of staying warm — and maybe replacing that old furnace.
If you’re furnace shopping, look for energy efficiency. The more efficient the furnace, the lower your energy bill will be.
Furnaces with the Energy Star label have a rating of 90 AFUE (annual fuel-utilization efficiency) or higher. An AFUE rating of 90 means that the furnace produces 90 units of heat output for every 100 units consumed.
To help your furnace work at its highest efficiency, change the air filters. Clogged filters slow the flow of air and makes the furnace work harder. During winter, change the filters every month.
Here are more tips from energy expert Noah Horowitz of the Natural Resources Defense Council:
• Use a programmable thermostat. These devices can cycle off your heating system when no one is home and turn it back up before you return. It’s an investment up front — about $100 for most homes — but this simple tool can carry much of the energy-efficiency load in your home by cutting heating and cooling costs by 20 to 30 percent, Horowitz says.
In winter, set the thermostat to turn off when you’re at work, but kick back on an hour before you come home.
Regulate humidity. The more humidity in a room, the warmer it feels, Horowitz says. A room temperature of 70 degrees combined with humidity of 10 percent feels like 64 degrees, but 80 percent humidity makes it feel like 71. Use a humidifier to fight dry air; you’ll use less heat and still feel warm.
But don’t turn your home into the tropics, Horowitz warns. Dust mites, mold and mildew thrive in high humidity. Use an indoor humidity gauge to keep the range at 30 to 40 percent. Follow the humidifier’s cleaning instructions to deter mold and bacteria growth. | <urn:uuid:dcd4b368-1c98-4753-b744-89662d45ae72> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://old.seattletimes.com/html/homesrealestate/2023047404_hrefurnacesxml.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720000.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00024-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.884399 | 424 | 2.546875 | 3 |
with healthful, plant-based foods.
As coronavirus (COVID-19) has impacted communities around the world, many people have wondered whether there are steps they can take to stay healthy. Everyday preventive measures—such as handwashing, avoiding contact with sick individuals, and good hygiene—can go a long way in reducing your risk for viruses, bacteria, and other pathogens.
But studies have also shown that healthful diet and lifestyle habits can help boost the body’s natural defenses:
Eating a low-fat, plant-based diet may help give the immune system a boost. The immune system relies on white blood cells that produce antibodies to combat bacteria, viruses, and other invaders. Vegetarians have been shown to have more effective white blood cells when compared to nonvegetarians, due to a high intake of vitamins and low intake of fat.1
Eating a low-fat diet may also be protective. Studies have shown that limiting dietary fat helps strengthen immune defenses. Research also shows that oil may impair white blood cell function and that high-fat diets may alter the gut microbiota that aid in immunity.2,3
Maintaining a healthy weight can also benefit the immune system. Obesity has been linked to increased risk for influenza and other infections such as pneumonia.4 Plant-based diets are effective for weight loss, because they are rich in fiber, which helps fill you up, without adding extra calories. Fiber can also lower BMI, which is linked to improved immunity.5 A plant-based diet has also been shown to reduce inflammatory biomarkers.6
Vitamins, Minerals, and Antioxidants
Studies have shown that fruits and vegetables provide nutrients—like beta-carotene, vitamin C, and vitamin E—that can boost immune function. Because many vegetables, fruits, and other plant-based foods are also rich in antioxidants, they help reduce oxidative stress.7
Beta-Carotene: Beta-carotene is a powerful antioxidant that can reduce inflammation and boost immune function by increasing disease-fighting cells in the body. Excellent sources include sweet potatoes, carrots, and green leafy vegetables.
Vitamins C and E: Vitamins C and E are antioxidants that help to destroy free radicals and support the body’s natural immune response. Sources of Vitamin C include red peppers, oranges, strawberries, broccoli, mangoes, lemons, and other fruits and vegetables. Vitamin E sources include nuts, seeds, spinach, and broccoli.
Zinc: Zinc is a mineral that can help boost white blood cells, which defend against invaders. Sources include nuts, pumpkin seeds, sesame seeds, beans, and lentils.
Our bodies need sleep to rest and recharge. Without a sufficient amount of sleep, we increase our risk for developing serious health problems—like heart disease, Alzheimer’s disease, and obesity. Inadequate sleep has also been linked to suppressed immune function. One study found that those who sleep fewer than five hours per night are more likely to have recently suffered a recent cold compared with those who sleep more.
Need help falling asleep? Try adding healthful fruits, vegetables, grains, and beans to your diet. One study found that diets rich in fiber and low in saturated fat can lead to deeper, more restorative sleep. Learn more about how a plant-based diet can lead to better sleep.
Reprinted with permission from Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
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The Commemoration of Bede the Venerable, Theologian
May 25, 2012
Today we remember Bede the Venerable (973-733/5 ad). He was the last of the Early Church Fathers and the first to compile the history of the English church. Born in Northumbria, Bede’s parents took him to a local monastery in northern England at the age of seven for his education, and he never left the monastic life. He became a deacon at age 19, which was quite early. (The conical age was twenty-five.) He was ordained a priest when he was thirty. He rarely left the monastery and devoted the rest of his life to teaching and writing. He once wrote, “I have spent all my life in this monastery, applying myself entirely to the study of the Scriptures; and, amid the observance of the discipline of the Rule and the daily task of singing in the church, it has always been my delight to learn or to teach or to write.”
Bede was, in fact, the most learned man of his time. He was a prolific writer. He published 25 commentaries on books of the Bible (he felt these were his best works), and it is said “his commentaries are still fresh today.” He also published works on the history of the saints, grammar, metrics, and chronology (he introduced the dating of years from the birth of Christ). Today he is probably known for his works on history. His careful use of sources provided a model for historians in the Middle Ages. His book The Ecclesiastical History of the English People, is still the best source of English history from 597 to 731, when the Anglo-Saxon culture developed and Christianity triumphed.
He had just finished a translation of the Gospel of John into Old English when he died. His most famous disciple, Cuthbert, reported that died with the words of the Gloria Patri on his lips. He received the title “Venerable” within two generations of his death and is buried in Durham Cathedral as one of England’s greatest saints.
Collect for the Day
Heavenly Father, you called your servant Bede, while still a child, to devote his life to your service in the disciplines of religion and scholarship. Grant that as he labored in the Spirit to bring the riches of your truth to his generations, so we, in our various vocations, may strive to make you known in all the world. Through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.
Appropriate prayers include
- For universities, colleges, and schools
- For students and teachers
- For biblical scholars and translators
- For the teaching and learning of history in general, and church history in particular
- For a life devoted to Christ
Blessings in Christ,
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Author : Abdi, Basheer A.
Public knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding the coronavirus disease pandemic: a cross-sectional study in the Kurdistan region, Iraq
European Journal of Molecular & Clinical Medicine,
2021, Volume 8, Issue 2, Pages 1148-1161
Background/Objectives: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an emerging viral respiratory disease
that has currently reached apandemic status.This study aimed to assessCOVID-19 knowledge,
attitudes, and practices among the Kurdishpopulation in Iraq.
Methods: This cross-sectional studywas conducted fromJuly 15 to September 15, 2020 among the
Kurdish population in Iraq. A total of 885 subjects were interviewed. All subjects were aged 15–75
years. Knowledgescores, attitudes, and practices of subjects were analyzed according to demographic
Results:The study subjects were largely male,the average age was31.79 years,and 41.92% subjects
were from Erbil province. Approximately 85.31% subjectshad enhancedknowledge regarding disease
prevention and control. The lowest subscale scores were related toclinical manifestations of the
disease. Knowledge scores were significantly associated with age, place of current residence, and
level of education.A large number of participants believed COVID-19 would be controlled and the
fight against the pandemic would be won.Subjects’ attitudes toward success differedsignificantly by
demographic characteristics, except marital status. Approximately 40.03% subjects reported that they
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I am 19 years old and today when I woke up I had a pain in my face near to my ear. Only when I open my mouth this pain increases, but I already I have a little cold but what is the reason and actually what is this disease. Please reply.
My age is 19 and am a student. About an 8 years ago due to an accident my upper front teeth(both teeth) were slightly broken horizontally and iam not feeling well wid this broken teeth. I have heard that this problem can be overcome by arranging artificial teeth coverings(for only two teeth) but are they surely safe for me to go ?
I have dental problem Unable to bite or chew food there is a gap on the left top portion of my tooth line what ever I eat it stand and accumulates the food particle and creates pain and more sensitive fear of going to dentist.
My wife is about 39 years old and suffers from mouth ulcers very frequently. She was administered Vitamins (G- Fulvin) along with mouth gel on several occasions by the doctors but the problem keeps on occurring. Is it due to some other reasons viz. Liver problems or something else, kindly suggest. She also have some gastric problems.
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Getting braces is the best thing you can do for your teeth. Yes, the process is painful. And maintenance of braces can get too much, but it is not undoable!
When you have braces on teeth, those teeth need extra attention to protect them from decay, staining and gum disease. You should also take precautions to avoid damaging the braces. For example, activities to avoid include eating chewy or sticky sweets, eating hard or crunchy foods, biting your lip, breathing excessively through your mouth and pushing your tongue against your teeth,
So if you got braces for the first time, here are some helpful tips you can swear by. Read on.
Listen to your orthodontist: This is kind of obvious, but seriously, listen to what your orthodontists says. You may wonder if you really need to do this or that, but not paying attention to your doctor’s advice can actually prolong your treatment, and extend the time you need to keep your braces on.
Brush every time you eat: Although brushing twice a day is the standard oral care recommendation, when you wear braces, you should brush after every time you eat — even after that mid-afternoon vending machine snack or some late-night munchies. That's because food particles easily become trapped in the braces, and the longer those particles stay trapped, the greater risk you have of developing dental problems. Use a soft toothbrush with round bristles, or an electric toothbrush if you prefer.
Rubber Bands: If you have been asked to use rubber bands, it is always recommended to carry rubber bands with you all the time, so if one breaks it can be replaced promptly. Rubber bands wear down and lose their elasticity, so they should be replaced often, definitely after every meal. Wearing the rubber bands all the time will keep the treatment progressing at an optimum pace.
Use your back teeth to chew: Don’t bite into that burger with your front teeth like you are accustomed to doing. This actually gets the food to stick on to your braces. So eat food that you can cut into bite size pieces and chew easily with your back teeth.
Drink plenty of water: Skip that soda, which will only erode your teeth, and drink water after meals. This not only keeps you healthy, but with water, you can swish it around your mouth to rinse out any big chunks of food.
Stay away from crunchy food: Crunchy foods are dangerous, not only do they get stuck in your braces, they also can get quite painful to remove. Plus, crunchy foods can be bad news for the shiny braces you just got for yourself.
Speak up: If during an appointment you have any query, no matter how silly, ask your orthodontist. Your doctor is there to help and guide you, so don’t shy away from asking questions and discussing your problems. Or if some part of the brace is hurting mildly, get it checked at once. Air your troubles, that is what your doctor is here for.
After The Braces Are Off-
Whitening products, including whitening toothpaste and mouthwash, should not be used until after braces are removed. After braces come off, some discoloration of the teeth will likely be present, so this is a good time for a child to use whitening strips.
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過共晶Al-Si合金溶湯と異種合金溶湯との混合過程における過冷却現象と初晶凝固 Undercooling and primary solidification behavior in mixture of hypereutectic and another Al-Si alloy melts
A simplified numerical model is presented to investigate the undercooling and solidification behavior of a hypereutectic Al–Si alloy during the mixing process of two kinds of molten alloys with different temperature and composition. This model involves a single slab of the second melt (Al–32 mass%Si alloy) stretching in the infinite bulk of the first melt (Al–12 mass%Si alloy). The second melt and, in some cases, a part of the first melt near the second melt are undercooled and solidified in the course of the mixing. The number of primary crystals is maximized at a certain strain rate of the stretching slab, depending on the initial thickness of the slab, while the maximum undercooling of the second melt increases as the strain rate increases. These results suggest that excessive agitation during the mixing may depress the refinement of the primary crystals.
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As a climate scientist, I am quite familiar with the background facts that Prof Michael E. Mann (now at Penn State U) so shamelessly distorts in his new book The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines.
First, the scientific background:
Manns claim to fame derives from his contentious (and now thoroughly discredited) hockeystick research papers (in Nature 1998 and Geophysical Research Letters 1999). His idiosyncratic analysis of proxy (non-thermometer) data from sources like tree rings, ice cores, ocean sediments, etc. did away with the well-documented Medieval Warm Period (MWP - 900-1200AD) and Little Ice Age (LIA - 1400-1800AD)documented by Prof. H.H. Lamb, the founding director of the Climate Research Unit of East Anglia U (CRU-EAU). Mann then asserted that the 20th century was the warmest in 1,000 years. His temperature graph, shaped like a hockeystick (on its side) immediately became the poster child of Al Gore and the IPCC, the U.N. science panel, to support their claim of anthropogenic global warming (AGW).
Two Canadian statisticians, Steven McIntyre and Ross McKitrick, soon found serious errors in Manns analysis; they even showed that random data fed into Manns algorithm would produce hockeysticks. To add insult to injury, while the 2001 IPCC report used Manns result to bolster its AGW claim, the most recent 2007 IPCC report no longer relies on it. Mann still defends itsort ofand so do some of his uncritical supporters. We have had no word yet from Al Gore.
In his book, Mann distorts the e-mail record from the Climategate leak; those e-mails have not been altered or edited in any way. They document a conspiracy among a clique of British and U.S. climate scientists to control what goes into IPCC reports, and to keep contrary views by skeptics from being published in recognized science journals by manipulating the peer-review process.
The most complete discussion of the Climategate e-mails can be found in The Hockeystick Illusion: Climategate and the Corruption of Science by Andrew W. Montford. A more technical discussion has been ongoing in McIntyres blog at www.climateaudit.org.
Mike Mann also attempts to mislead readers by citing facts. He does this by mixing up temperature level (measured in degrees C) with temperature trends (degC per decade)hoping no one would notice. While current levels are high (since the climate is still recovering from the LIA), the trend has been essentially zero for more than a decadein spite of rapidly rising CO2 concentrations.
In reading Manns original papers, I noticed something very strange: his temperature record (blue curve in the IPCC report) based on proxy data suddenly stops in 1978 and is joined smoothly to the thermometer record from weather stations (red curve), which shows a steep rise in temperature. By contrast, atmospheric temperatures measured from weather satellites show only insignificant warming between 1978 and 1997as do the independent data from weather balloons around the world.
Puzzled by this disparity, I e-mailed Mann (then at the U. of Virginia) and politely asked about his post-1978 proxy temperatures. All I got in return was a nasty replywhich only served to confirm my suspicion that Mann was hiding the data because they disagreed with the widely accepted thermometer record, which had suggested the existence of global warming. I believe that this is the true meaning of the phrase Mikes Nature trick, used in the leaked Climategate e-mailsin conjunction with hide the decline. It all suggests manipulation of crucial data.
Naturally, I am anxious to learn if Manns suppressed post-1978 data show a warming. If they dont, then the U.N.-IPCCs case for AGW collapsesand so do all policies to control the greenhouse gas CO2. These policies include emission trading (cap & trade), carbon sequestration from power plants, and various costly schemes for developing alternative, green forms of energy. We may have already wasted hundreds of billions of dollarsfor no good purpose. If so, then Mann and his supporters have much to answer for.
The Legal Phase
In 1999, Mann joined the U. of Virginia faculty as an assistant professor and left for Penn State six years later after failing to gain tenure. In fact, he was a member of my Department of Environmental Sciences, although we did not overlap.
In 2010, Virginias newly elected Attorney General Kenneth Cuccinelli, following Virginia FATA (Fraud Against Taxpayer Act) law, issued a Civil Investigative Demand on the university for Manns e-mails, work notes, and other documentation. The university, a state-supported institution, has resisted this demand, citing academic freedom and similar excuses. They have employed a private law firm and spent about $1 million so far.
I am quite disappointed by my universitys opposition to releasing Manns e-mails to Virginias AG. Those e-mails could clear up the mystery of Mikes Nature trick and reveal hidden data. I am told that no objection was raised by UVa when Greenpeace requested the e-mails of skeptical facultyincluding mineunder the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). So much for the universitys principled defense of academic freedom.
Virginias Supreme Court has now turned down AG Cuccinellis demand, based on a technicality in the interpretation of the Virginia law. But the American Tradition Institute is trying to extract Manns e-mails from UVa, using the FOIA. Their chance for success is goodparticularly since not only does the university now admits that some 12,000 e-mails exist (previously claimed to have been deleted)but it has also released these e-mails to Michael Mann, even though he is no longer a faculty member.
As Tom Jackman reports (Wash Post, March 21):
The ATI case began quietly in January 2011, with a FOIA request to UVa for e-mails to and from Mann and 39 people, involving five grant programs. Seven months later, UVa produced almost 1,800 e-mails, but said it was withholding another 12,000, which they argued were not public record, or were exempt under Virginia FOIA law 2.2-3705.4(4). The case is scheduled for argument on April 16 in Manassas (in Prince William County, Virginia), in suburban Washington, DC. From there, the case will likely begin its ascent up the appeals court ladder and is poised to make law on how Virginia institutions may use FOIA to withhold from some and give to others. Not to mention create an international stinkif Manns e-mails show he has manipulated climate change data, an accusation for which he claims to have been cleared.
As Jackman further reports, Mann said his shared interest, with UVa, in his e-mails means that the e-mails can be released to him, but not to climate skeptics. The American Tradition Institute, the conservative group hoping to show that climate change scientists like Mann manipulated their data, argues that UVa cant give the e-mails to one person and not another. By giving the e-mails to Mann, the university has waived any exemptions its claiming from the state Freedom of Information Act, ATIs lawyer David Schnare argues.
Schnare then cited a Virginia attorney generals opinion from 1983 that once a public body disseminates any record, those records lose the exemption accorded by FOIA. Federal case law appears to be clearer that selective disclosure...is offensive to the purposes underlying the FOIA and intolerable as a matter of policy.
Meanwhile, a new angle has developed in Vancouver, BC. Canadian climatologist Tim Ball jokingly wrote that Mann should not be at Penn State but in a State Pen[itentiary]. Mann then improvidently sued Ball for libel. But this now leaves Mann open for the pre-trial discovery process, including a deposition under oath. We shall see how this case develops. Tim Ball has many ways to make his case in his defense. I am hoping he will focus on the suppressed post-1978 data. It would be fitting if Manns data are used to destroy the IPCCs case for AGW.
One way or another, the truth will come out. And when it does, we will witness a major earthquake that will encompass IPCC scientists, politicians in America and Europe, and the U.N. Lets hope we dont have to wait too long for this to happen.
|Atmospheric physicist S. Fred Singer is a Research Fellow at the Independent Institute, Professor Emeritus of Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia, and former founding Director of the U.S. Weather Satellite Service. He is author of Hot Talk, Cold Science: Global Warmings Unfinished Debate (The Independent Institute).|
HOT TALK, COLD SCIENCE: Global Warmings Unfinished Debate
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AN EVALUATION OF LOs IN USE: AN OVERVIEW OF THE CELEBRATE EVALUATION FINDINGS PROCEEDINGS
Robert McCormick, Nai Li, The Open University, United Kingdom
EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology, in Montreal, Canada ISBN 978-1-880094-56-3 Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE)
Most studies on reusable digital learning materials, Learning Objects (LOs), relate to their use in universities. Few empirical studies exist to explore the impact of LOs on pedagogy, especially in schools. This paper provides evidence from an evaluation of the use of LOs in schools. The evidence is from an EU-funded project Context e-Learning with Broadband Technologies, involving 500 schools in six countries across Europe, in a pilot to examine the impact of LOs on pedagogy. It brought together producers and users to try out technically and pedagogically sound ways of producing, making available through a portal, and using LOs. This paper reports data from both quantitative and qualitative studies conducted during 2004, including: online surveys (of the teachers involved); routine data from the portal; semi-structured interviews in 40 schools in all six countries; 13 classroom observation studies in selected schools in four countries; and three experimental studies in Finland.
McCormick, R. & Li, N. (2005). AN EVALUATION OF LOs IN USE: AN OVERVIEW OF THE CELEBRATE EVALUATION FINDINGS. In P. Kommers & G. Richards (Eds.), Proceedings of EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (pp. 3592-3599). Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE).
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This photo gallery supports classroom activities related to the SWFWMD podcast, "A Model of Florida's Groundwater." The groundwater model is a clear acrylic model that shows a cut-away view of how water moves underground in Florida. The photographs of the model can be used by a teacher to orient students before the model is used in the classroom. After the model is used to demonstrate groundwater principles, students can use the photos in their reports, projects, and other activities. Related real-world photos are also included. | <urn:uuid:663e9931-c4b6-4527-b922-1c0371771c73> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://etc.usf.edu/clippix/pictures/groundwater-model/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281649.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00445-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94936 | 103 | 3 | 3 |
This is a fairly simple code golf challenge. Your program, given an ASCII string, is to parse that string into two strings, which it will evaluate. If the second string is "later" than the first one, it will return a 1, if it is "earlier" than the first one, it will return a -1, and if they are the same, it will return 0. To clarify what "later" and "earlier" mean, let's take a look at ASCII character codes. You need to compare each character of the string, treating each of them as digits of a number. Later refers to a larger number, occurring after a smaller number. Strings will be formatted with a hyphen character to separate the two input groups.
Take a look at this example:
7-9as an input should return
7converts to ASCII code
9converts to ASCII code
57occurs numerically after
9is later than
LKzb-LKajas an input should return
The ASCII code sequences for this are
This is a code golf challenge, and byte count is how entries will be scored.
Any input from the 95 printable ASCII characters is accepted, excluding spaces, and hyphens for anything but separating the input. In addition, strings are not guaranteed to be the same length.
EDIT: To be more clear, each character is to be treated like a digit in a number. In the example
j is later than
z is later than
a, and since it is a more significant digit, it takes precedence. A string supplied will always be at minimum 3 characters, eliminating empty strings from the scope of this problem.
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Haptics has come to mean the lackluster vibration your phone gives off when you use the on-screen keyboard, but there’s plenty more potential for the technology. Steve Struebing has come up with HALO – Haptic Assisted Location of Obstacles – a headband intended to allow blind or visually-impaired users the ability to navigate without bumping into things.
Video demo after the cut
HALO uses an array of ultrasonic sensors to figure out potential obstacles in the surrounding space, but rather than translate them into radar-style “pings” or “clicks”, it uses vibration motors embedded into the headband. The closer you are to an obstacle, the more frequent and/or powerful the vibrations are.
At the heart of it is an Arduino Mega 2560 controller, and it runs off a single 9V battery. Struebing has put together an Instructable showing how the whole thing goes together, and the whole thing can be reasonable inexpensive – certainly in comparison to training up a guide dog. | <urn:uuid:18f20ab9-c78a-479b-8297-3e9291688423> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.slashgear.com/halo-diy-obstacle-avoidance-system-is-low-cost-radar-for-visually-impaired-video-13119156/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281331.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00225-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.888341 | 218 | 2.15625 | 2 |
THE cooler temperatures of fall may have arrived on the East Coast, but in California and the Pacific Northwest, fire season burns on. There are six large fires raging out West, and this year’s season is likely to burn 10 million acres of land, more than in any year since 1960, when federal records began to be kept.
Explanations abound: global warming has provided consistently hotter weather, and warmer winters have meant less snow melt during the spring. Drought has plagued the country, and invasive beetles have killed millions of trees, leaving mountains of ready-to-burn timber.
And yet a surprising number of fires in recent years haven’t been started by, say, lightning or even the unattended campfire that Smokey Bear persistently wags his finger against — but rather by far more surprising human acts.
In 2000, for instance, workers from the Union Pacific Railroad Company were welding tracks in Northern California when, authorities claim, sparks from their machinery ignited nearby brush. The resulting fire burned 52,000 acres. In 2004, a man was mowing his lawn near Redding, Calif., when he ran over some rocks, shooting sparks into the grass. That fire burned 11,000 acres, gutted 80 homes and caused $14.5 million in damages. This year, at least 21 wildfires in Utah, nearly a dozen in Idaho and several more in Arizona, Nevada, Washington and New Mexico were set by the errant bullets of target shooters flying into the brush.Continue reading the main story
All of this represents a kind of negligence that smart laws help prevent. And so fines are being assessed, and people are going to jail. Union Pacific paid $102 million to settle a civil lawsuit brought by the Department of Justice, while the Redding yard worker was sentenced to four years in prison for “unlawfully causing a fire by negligent operation of a riding lawn mower.”
The most recent — and most extreme — example is the case of a 31-year-old man named Rickie Lee Fowler. In August, Mr. Fowler was found guilty of setting what’s known as the Old Fire of 2003, one of the most destructive blazes in the history of Southern California. It began when Mr. Fowler, high on methamphetamines, tossed a lighted road flare into roadside scrub. The subsequent blaze burned more than 90,000 acres and cost Californians $40 million. Five elderly men died. Mr. Fowler’s jury has recommended that he be put to death. A judge will sentence him next month.
Mr. Fowler’s act was no doubt “despicable” (to borrow an adjective used by one of the arsonist’s own lawyers), yet those victims didn’t die from burns or smoke inhalation. They were killed by heart attacks induced from the stress of evacuation, some in locations far from the fire’s front lines. It seemed not to matter to Californians, frustrated residents of a state that’s experienced more than 400,000 wildfires since 1933.
Still, if all of these penalties reinforce one crucial idea — that reducing the number of human-started fires is an absolute imperative — they nonetheless remain generally far too weak, representing only a fraction of the damage such fires wreak every year. Too often, federal, state and local fire authorities choose to issue “advisories,” suggesting guidelines for behavior in fire-prone areas rather than doing the tough business of rewriting laws.
Admittedly, passing such legislation is not easy. The authorities who sought to regulate those target shooters earlier this year encountered aggressive opposition from gun rights advocates. A spokesman for a gun rights group in Utah dismissed such legislation by saying, “To impugn all shooters and the sport is to demonize an activity that is safely done by tens of thousands of Utahans every week.”
But the Utah State forester wanted sportsmen only to swap their steel bullets for lead ones, which don’t emit sparks when they strike rock. He eventually got them to do so, through an emergency measure, but only on state property, not federal land, where many fires raged. (Some practice shooters fire at exploding targets — store-bought canisters that blow up when pierced by a bullet. These are largely legal, but they should be banned immediately.)
Officials have also struggled to curb the use of all-terrain vehicles in the backcountry during fire season. Like the sparks from the Union Pacific welding equipment, the mufflers of four-wheelers have been known to ignite passing brush. And yet many outdoor enthusiasts refuse to keep them in the garage for a few months every summer. Most states require A.T.V.’s to be equipped with what are known as “spark arresters,” but enforcement is minimal, and clearly, fires are still being ignited. Residents across the country are often asked to reduce water usage during periods of hot weather — why can’t we do the same with A.T.V.’s?
California and the Pacific Northwest will most likely be fighting wildfires into November. By enacting some straightforward measures, the severity of future wildfire seasons could well be lessened.Continue reading the main story | <urn:uuid:ef57eee8-8134-40cf-a314-8d354b476b4e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/19/opinion/the-wildfires-still-burn.html?ref=forestandbrushfires | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281424.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00338-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96451 | 1,082 | 2.921875 | 3 |
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President Obama Outlines Plan to Combat Climate Change, Says Keystone Pipeline Must Not Increase Greenhouse Gases
President Obama today outlined his plan to combat climate change, calling for new standards to reduce carbon pollution and saying he would not approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline if it produces more greenhouse gas emissions.
"As a president, as a father and as an American, I am here to say we need to act," the president told a crowd of roughly 500 people at Georgetown University. "I refuse to condemn your generation and future generations to a planet that's beyond fixing. And that's why today I'm announcing a new national climate action plan, and I'm here to enlist your generation's help in keeping the United States of America a leader, a global leader in the fight against climate change."
Obama's speech, which he delivered outside in the blistering heat, came four months after he urged lawmakers to come up with bipartisan solutions to climate change in his State of the Union address.
"I still want to see that happen. I'm willing to work with anyone to make that happen," he said. "But this is a challenge that does not pause for partisan gridlock."
In the meantime, the president is seeking to advance his climate agenda through a series of executive actions in an effort to side-step the gridlock in Congress.
Obama issued a directive to the EPA to draft carbon pollution standards for both new and existing power plants.
"Right now, there are no federal limits to the amount of carbon pollution that those plants can pump into our air - none, zero," he said. "We limit the amount of toxic chemicals like mercury and sulfur and arsenic in our air or our water, but power plants can still dump unlimited amounts of carbon pollution into the air for free. That's not right, that's not safe and it needs to stop.
"For the sake of our children and the health and safety of all Americans, I'm directing the Environmental Protection Agency to put an end to the limitless dumping of carbon pollution from our power plants and complete new pollution standards for both new and existing power plants," he said to applause.
As the State Department comes under increasing pressure from Republicans and business leaders to approve the Keystone XL pipeline, Obama said the project should be allowed to move forward only if does not "significantly exacerbate the problem of carbon pollution."
"Allowing the Keystone pipeline to be built requires finding that doing so would be in our nation's interests," he said.
The president issued a stern warning to "doomsayers" who claim his proposals will harm the economy or who question the need to take action.
"We've got to move beyond partisan politics on this issue," he said.
"I don't have much patience for anyone who denies that this challenge is real. We don't have time for a meeting of the flat earth society," he said, reviving a line from his 2012 campaign. "Sticking your head in the sand might make you feel safer, but it's not going to protect you from the coming storm. And ultimately, we will be judged as a people and as a society and as a country on where we go from here."
The president's proposals are controversial. While the plan to reduce emissions from coal-fired power plants is being hailed by environmentalists, the opposition has already dubbed the plan "Obama's War on Coal."
"The regulations the president wants to force on coal are not feasible. And if it's not feasible, it's not reasonable," said Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va. "It's clear now that the president has declared a war on coal. It's simply unacceptable that one of the key elements of his climate change proposal places regulations on coal that are completely impossible to meet with existing technology."
House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, slammed the president's proposed regulations before Obama outlined them publicly.
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Youngest son of the Steward of Gondor, Denethor II, and brother to Boromir. Faramir captured Frodo Baggins, Samwise Gamgee, and the creature Gollum. He later let them continue their quest to Mt. Doom. Faramir fought in the Battle of the Pelennor and was wounded. He later became Prince of Ithilien, fell in love, and married the Lady Eowyn of Rohan.
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Charles Sheppard Smyth 1846 – 1925
Established in or by 1881. Charles advertised in his own name until 1919. The business eventually became Smyth & Sons. It was sold to Wrates, a local firm, in the 1930s.
Studios were operated at Skegness and Wainfleet and possibly Chapel Saint Leonards.
|1861||Back St, Aldeburgh, Suffolk – age 15 – apprentice|
|1871||East End, Alford, Lincolnshire – age 25 – joiner|
|with Emma Smyth – wife – age 26 – photographer|
|1881||6 Barkham Street, Northolme, Lincolnshire – age 35 – photographer|
|with Emma Smyth – wife – age 37 – photographer|
|1891||Lumley Road, Skegness – age 45 – photographer and joiner|
|with Emma Smyth – wife – age 46 – photographer|
|and John B. Starbuck – brother-in-law – age 39 – photographer|
|1901||32 Lumley Road, Skegness, Lincolnshire – age 55 – photographer|
Charles Sheppard Smyth was born in Aldeburgh in Suffolk in 1846 the son of carpenter Charles Smyth and Elizabeth.
In 1861, at the age of 15, he was living at Back Street, Aldeburgh and working as an apprentice (possibly as a joiner).
Later, Charles went to Alford in Lincolnshire and lived next door to John Starbuck and family, who was an early Lincolnshire photographer and who also originated from Suffolk. By the winter of 1870, Charles was learning about photography.
In 1870, at the age of 25 Charles married Emma Starbuck in Holbeach, Lincolnshire. Emma was one of John Starbuck’s daughters. She was born in 1845 and originally came from Conningsby in Lincolnshire; she was a year older than Charles.
In 1871, the census shows Emma Starbuck was a registered photographer by trade and Charles was a joiner. The census also shows that the next door neighbours were photographers called Starbuck. Emma came from this family and had obviously taken her trade from her father. It is likely that Charles learnt his new found photography skills from both John Starbuck and his daughter Emma.
In 1881, Charles (age 35) and Emma (age 37) were living at 6 Barkham Street, Northolme, Lincolnshire and both were listed as photographers.
Charles is registered as the postmaster of the Post Office, West Street, Alford, Lincolnshire in 1885 and was also the vestry clerk.
Charles and Emma established a good photography partnership within their marriage, unusual for the times, and set up various businesses in Skegness and Wainfleet – and possibly in Chapel Saint Leonards (still to be confirmed), all in Lincolnshire.
They were the first photographers in Skegness. Their original studio was in the High Street and then it was moved to 15 Lumley Road.
In 1891, the census shows Charles as a photographer and joiner and Emma as a photographer. They were at Lumley Road, Skegness and were with Walter (15), Harry (11) and Winifred (9) and brother in law John B. Starbuck, also a photographer.
By 1896, the main studio was at 32 Lumley Road where the family lived and had a shop until a house was purchased in Algaitha Road. The house was named Aldeburgh after the town in Suffolk where Charles originated from and is called that to this day – 2009 (it is now a solicitors business).
Charles’ studio was very popular for photographs with backdrops and quite often had a boat to one side which people sat on, with sand on the floor to complete the seaside effect. Unlike today, the beach came up to the Clock Tower area in those days.
Some photographs which depict the year in which Skegness Clock Tower was opened (1897 – Queen Victoria’s Jubilee), show one of Smyth’s Studio’s. This looks like a large wooden hut on the corner of Lumley Road and the Clock Tower, with ‘Smyth’s Studio’ written on the side (see below).
Charles and Emma had 3 children; Walter Smyth (born 1876), Harry Aldeburgh Smyth (born 1880) and Winifred Mary Smyth (born 1882). Harry Aldeburgh Smyth’s middle name was also taken from the name of the town where Charles came from. All of them, as well as Charles’ 21 year old niece Ada Nainby, were listed as photographers in the 1901 census.
Charles became the Choirmaster for the Wesleyan Church in Skegness (now the Methodist Church) and his daughter Winifred was the organist. They both have individual plaques located in the church in their honour – see below.
Harry Aldeburgh Smyth, Charles’ son, served in the Great War as an aerial photographer in the Royal Flying Corps, taking and processing early reconnaissance pictures of enemy trench locations and crashed aircraft. There are various pictures remaining in the family today of his work. The picture below shows Harry in the RFC and the wording on the miniature tripod in the picture says ‘Half size – for children and dogs’.
Harry Aldeburgh Smyth came back from WW1 to carry on photography and the photography business changed its name to ‘Smyth & Sons’ sometime after 1919. Harry eventually took over the business when Charles died on the 6th May 1925 at the age of 79.
The business of Smyth’s was believed to have been sold to Wrates photographers of Skegness by Harry in the 1930’s.
|Father||Charles Smyth – born c.1816 in Coldfair Green, Suffolk|
|Mother||Elizabeth – born c.1821 in Winston, Suffolk|
|Born||1846 in Aldeburgh, Suffolk|
|Married||1870 in Holbeach, Lincolnshire to Emma Starbuck – born 1845|
|Child 1||Walter Smyth – born 1876 in Spilsby district, Lincolnshire|
|Child 2||Harry Aldeburgh – born 1880 in Spilsby district, Lincolnshire|
|Child 3||Winifred Mary – born 1882 in Spilsby district, Lincolnshire|
|Died||1925 in Skegness, Lincolnshire|
- Martin Smyth (great great grandson of Charles Sheppard and Emma Smyth & great grandson of Harry Aldeburgh Smyth), family historian, who provided the information for the life story above
- Marcel Safier for additional research and census data
- Sandy Barrie for trade directory information
- Ron Cosens for images from the Victorian Image Collection
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APPSC Assistant Hydrogeologist Syllabus 2017:Aspirants who are searching for the APPSC Assistant Hydrogeologist examination. Here you can know about the previous question papers & Exam pattern & other important information from our site. You can download previous APPSC Assistant Hydrogeologist question papers here before attending the exam applicants can check for the previous question papers, syllabus & Exam pattern here. Practice APPSC Assistant Hydrogeologist previous papers well to score good marks in your exam. Aspirants can only use them as a reference for their preparation. Before going to the examination candidates must know about the pattern of the exam so that he can judge what to read and what not to so for the sake of candidates here we are providing both exam pattern and syllabus. Keep visiting all India jobs for regular syllabus and job updates.
APPSC Assistant Hydrogeologist Exam Pattern 2017:
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|2.||Paper 2||Geology(P.G. Standard)(Including Hydrogeology)||150||300||150 Min|
APPSC Assistant Hydrogeologist Syllabus 2017:APPSC AH Syllabus for General studies & Mental ability
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- The mineral wealth of Andhra Pradesh.
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- Charlotte Henningsen, MS, RT, RDMS, RVT, Chair and Professor, Diagnostic Medical Sonography Department, Orlando, FL
- Kathryn Kuntz, MEd, RT(R), RDMS, RVT, FSDMS, Assistant Professor, Radiology Electronic Curriculum Coordinator Sonography Program Mayo Clinic Adjunct Faculty Florida Hospital College of Health Sciences Orlando, FL President SEAC, Inc Sonography Education & Accreditation Consulting, Inc
- Diane J. Youngs, MEd, RDMS, RVT, Program Director Mayo School of Health Sciences Sonography Program Assistant Professor of Radiology College of Medicine Rochester, Minnesota
Providing a solid foundation in sonography, Essentials of Sonography and Patient Care, 3rd Edition prepares you to succeed in the classroom and in practice. It describes the origins and evolution of diagnostic medical sonography, and includes proven study techniques such as note taking, effective listening, and test-taking strategies. Addressing the clinical environment, this book covers topics such as taking a patient’s vital signs, safety considerations, body mechanics, patient transfer, infection control, emergency procedures, and assisting patients with special needs. Career discussions include the sonographer’s role in various clinical settings, ethics and professionalism, and job search and interview techniques. Written by expert sonographer Marveen Craig, Essentials of Sonography and Patient Care points you toward a sound future in sonography.
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- Updated scanning protocols for the four major clinical specialty exams ensure that you are well-prepared for clinical practice.
- Updated instrumentation information and photos introduce the equipment you will be using during training and in clinical practice.
- End-of-chapter critical thinking questions help in applying chapter content to reality-based scenarios.
- Professional Organizations and Agencies appendix furthers your career with a listing of influential organizations and agencies.
- Scanning protocols for the four major clinical specialty exams detail what constitutes a complete sonographic examination.
- Thorough, step-by-step presentation of patient care in a sonography setting teaches you how to perform basic medical techniques and interact with patients.
- Sonographer Safety Issues chapter explains how to scan with proper scanning technique and posture to avoid repetitive-motion musculoskeletal injuries.
- Note boxes add information on applying concepts to the clinical setting.
- HIPAA information provides the knowledge you need to comply with federal law.
- Objectives and key terms introduce each chapter’s important content.
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Are you a night time nosher? Do you get hungry in the evening and start craving junk foods?
Well, there is one simple trick proven to curb those unhealthy cravings.
UK researchers have found that eating a breakfast high in protein can stop you raiding your cupboards looking for fatty, sugary foods in at night.
It seems that when overweight or obese young women ate protein-rich breakfasts they not only felt fuller for longer, their brain messages responsible for food cravings were significantly reduced.
What’s more, high-protein breakfasts are so effective in reducing feelings of hunger that the impact can be felt all day.
So what’s the ideal protein-rich breakfast?
They say the ideal amount of protein to have at breakfast is 35 grams. The women in the study ate egg and beef-based foods such as burritos, egg waffles and sausages, and the researchers also recommend plain Greek yogurt and cottage cheese.
As I am looking to shed 32 pounds before I hit the beach this summer I have been testing the premise that swapping cereal and toast for a high protein breakfast will reduce evening cravings.
I’m delighted to say it works, so I’ve come up with these 7 great high protein breakfasts for you to try out too. Not only are they delicious and satisfying, but hopefully they will set you up for the day and see you on your way to a slimmer waist this summer.
First things first. Replace bread with this high protein Carb Free Cloud Bread recipe. Prepare a batch in advance and they keep in a sealed container for about 3 days.
Every time a recipe or meal plan calls for bread, use this scrumptious alternative.
This recipe uses coconut flour and almond flour instead of wheat. It is high in protein and fiber and is really filling.
I like to serve it with traditional eggs and bacon its great with a drizzle of agave syrup, yogurt or sour cream too.
Eggs are known to be a rich source of protein. Aside from mushrooms, additional vegetables can be added on the omelette for a healthier breakfast.
To beef up the protein without adding calories make it with two whole eggs and one egg white.
I really enjoy smoked fish for breakfast. This is a lovely, easy recipe for a weekend brunch.
Try replacing the potato with sweet potato or Zucinni (courgette), and the rocket with baby spinach.
This is a vegan recipe that non-vegans will enjoy. If you’d like to try a different breakfast without the eggs, then this one’s a must try.
Tofu is quite bland so I recommend that you add a drop or two of sesame oil or tabasco and some soy sauce for added punch.
If you like to eat meat in the morning this simple Italian breakfast recipe is enough to keep you pumped up. You can prepare it the night before and then pop it straight under the grill for a fast and convenient meal.
Why not try replacing the pineapple with cherry tomatoes and add one chicken liver to the skewer, brush with olive oil and cook for an extra 3 minutes.
This Granola recipe has a great mix of different nuts, which brings you lots of health benefits. You can add of subtract any number of ingredients for variety. As you make this in advance its great for those who don’t have much time to prepare breakfast but would like to have a healthy high protein food in the morning.
Serve with Greek yogurt and home made stewed apple or any soaked and poached dried fruits for a really hearty and refreshing breakfast.
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Are you shaping up for the summer or for life? We would love to hear any great anti-snacking tips or inch-loss stories. After all, what works for you might help someone else.
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Back in March 2007, the Boston MySQL User Group watched and heard Brian DeLacey give a tutorial of Ruby on Rails, including its interaction with MySQL using ActiveRecord. I knew absolutely nothing about Ruby on Rails before attending the presentation, other than Ruby was a language and people were saying that Rails made for easy development. You can
Reminder: Due to busy summer conference schedules, we are going to be publishing the podcast every other week.
This week we talk about a monitoring plugin from PalominoDB that uses caching (like the cacti templates) and allow for arbitrary calculations of thresholds based on status and system variables, and items from the PROCESSLIST.
Nagios pnp4nagios - from the site, "PNP is an addon for the Nagios Network Monitoring System. PNP provides easy to use, easy to configure RRDTools based performance charts feeded by the performance data output of the Nagios Plugins."
In the backup glossary we asked if anyone knew how to get logical data out of physical InnoDB files. Mike Hamrick of Blue Gecko wrote in to say that Percona's InnoDB recovery tool helps to do just that. He writes:
"The 'page_parser' tool will read ibdata files or individual .ibd files and turn them into a series of 16k page files suitable for processing with a tool called 'constraints_parser' which spits out a number of tab separated lines of table data suitable for a LOAD DATA INFILE.
Special thanks to Tim Callaghan for giving a fantastic presentation of VoltDB at Monday's Boston MySQL User Group meeting. Even though the title was "for SQL developers" there was a lot of content for DBAs as well (how backups are done, what the data and server-level architecture is, etc). It was an EXCELLENT presentation on how VoltDB works, and what applications it is and is not appropriate for. The video is almost 2 hours long; there's a LOT of excellent information in it.
Video for the presentation at the 2009 MySQL Camp:
by Morgan Tocker
The best way to performance tune a system is to find out what your bottlenecks are, and attacking those first. In the first part of this session, I'll be looking at some of the issues faced with common database workloads. From there, I'll then be showing how you can get more information out of MySQL and your Operating System to find out about your workload. This session is designed for beginner to intermediate MySQL users.
So I got my hands on an HP mini 1000 last week. Not bad for $250 at Best Buy, although it has needed some help, namely:
- External USB hard drive - I got the Mini 1000 that comes with a 16 Gb SSD, and want this to be my primary computer (I'm not a gamer, just web surfing and *occasional* video editing). I bought a 320Gb Buffalo Mini Station, for about $60 at Microcenter.
- 2 Gb RAM - already had a stick, free for me (otherwise $20), easy to pop in.
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On the last sales tax holiday, I splurged and bought the Taj Mahal of swing sets, plunking down $2,400 for a monument to fun (First kid, don’t judge). This year I will probably head over to Costco and buy six jumbo boxes of diapers just to stick it to the tax man (Second kid, standards change).
Many residents of Massachusetts will be doing the same thing this weekend, stocking up to take advantage of a sales tax holiday that saves them 6.25 percent on most purchases. The two-day reprieve cost the state $23 million last year, but our Beacon Hill leaders feel good about the move because it helps consumers and drives extra business to merchants.
You know what would feel really good? The state rolling back the sales tax to 5 percent. Raised in the throes of the Great Recession, when the world as we know it was crumbling, the sales tax is generating close to $1 billion more a year now than it was then.
We have been paying the higher tax rate since August 2009, and now that the economy is recovering and all tax revenues are stabilizing, it’s time to lay the groundwork for a lower sales tax. The state posted $627 million more in tax revenues than anticipated last fiscal year, according to preliminary figures. And when we give more money, Beacon Hill is certainly comfortable spending it, increasing the state budget last year and continuing the trend this year in part by raising $500 million in taxes on cigarettes, gas, and computer services.
More than a dozen states bumped up their sales taxes during the recession, and now some are reversing course. California, Arizona, and North Carolina have lowered their tariffs, and the District of Columbia will return to its 5.75 percent rate, down from 6 percent, in October, according to the Tax Foundation, a nonpartisan research organization.
Economists generally don’t like raising the sales tax because it’s a regressive measure, meaning it disproportionately hurts those at the bottom of the economic ladder. Earlier this year, Governor Deval Patrick proposed to lower the sales tax to 4.5 percent while raising the income tax from 5.25 percent to 6.25 percent and doubling personal exemptions.
It was a bold plan that went nowhere.
“We cannot afford to cut the sales tax, no matter how politically popular it might be to do so,” said a statement issued Tuesday by state Representative Jay Kaufman, a Democrat from Lexington who is the House chairman of the Joint Committee on Revenue. “Any reduction in the state sales tax would trigger an adverse impact on the state’s economy.”
No it wouldn’t. If you give people, meaning consumers, more money to spend, that’s what helps the state’s economy. Kaufman is talking about helping the state government, which is different.
We have already done our part. Last fiscal year, the state collected $4.26 billion in sales tax on goods and services, a number that has steadily risen from $3.24 billion in 2009, the year the rate went into effect. With an improving economy, that number will keep going up.
Plus the balance sheet will only get better because of the Internet. Amazon.com has agreed to start collecting sales tax on Massachusetts purchases after Nov. 1 because it now has an office in Cambridge, triggering a federal law that allows states to collect sales tax from online retailers that have a physical presence in the state. The Retailers Association of Massachusetts estimates that Amazon will bring in up to $45 million in tax revenues. Congress is also weighing a federal law that would no longer exempt most Internet retailers from collecting state sales tax. That measure, backed by Amazon, passed the US Senate in May. The National Conference of State Legislatures has estimated that Massachusetts could reap, in total, $268 million in tax revenues from online purchases.
The state will always find a way to spend whatever money we send its way, and then claim to never have enough. That’s what governments do, now as always. It’s better to have money in the pockets of consumers than in the hands of state legislators. That’s how you raise sales tax revenues, not by depending on a jacked-up rate.
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Thailand's capital has many famous wats and some highly respected teachers. Meditation practice can be difficult, however, due to crowded conditions, noise, air pollution, and lack of English. The city may best serve as a place for information before one heads out to the countryside. Unless you're a resident of Bangkok, there's no reason to stay here since wats and meditation centres in other parts of Thailand can be reached in as little as an hour's bus ride away; even most distant provinces lie only an overnight bus or train ride away.
The World Fellowship of Buddhists (W.F.B.)
The W.F.B. works to bring Buddhists of the world closer together by helping to exchange news and views of groups in different countries and by promoting ways to bring greater peace and happiness to the world. Since the W.F.B.'s founding in 1950, more than 100 organizations in 37 countries around the world have joined as regional centres. The headquarters in Bangkok offers a free talk and meditation class in English from 2 to 5:30 p.m. on the first Sunday of each month, provides information on places to learn and practice meditation in Thailand, and distributes some English and Thai books. The headquarters publishes a quarterly journal, the "W.F.B. Review," which has wide-ranging articles on Buddhist topics. A library has many English books on Buddhism, including some hard-to-find titles. The office is open Mon.-Fri. 9 a.m.- 4:30 p.m. at 33 Sukhumvit Rd. (between Soi 1 and Soi 3), Bangkok 10110; tel. 251-1188, 251-1189, or 251-1190.
International Buddhist Meditation Centre (I.B.M.C.)
Vorasak and Helen Jandamit founded this organization in association with high-ranking monks of Mahachulalongkorn Buddhist University to provide information on Buddhism and Buddhist meditation for English-speaking people. A "Buddhism and Philosophy Discussion Group" meets on Saturdays from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Dharma Vicaya Hall; it's led in English by Miss Seonai (Sona) Gordon and is very popular. Mahachulalongkorn Buddhist University conducts Budddhist study courses; register at the Dhamma Vicaya Hall. Current information about places to learn and practice meditation is available too. This is probably the best source of information for finding out about good teachers in the Bangkok area. The I.B.M.C. publishes and distributes books about Buddhism, has a list of meditation centres, and puts out a newsletter. Contact Vorasak and Helen c/o T.E.L.S., 26/9 Chompol Lane, Lardprao Lane 15, Bangkok 10900; tel. 511-0439 or 511-3549.
WAT MAHA THAT
MEANING OF NAME: "Temple of the great element" (refers to a famous copper pagoda)
ALSO SPELLED: Wat Mahadhatu
ADDRESS: Tha-Phrachan, Bangkok 10200
DIRECTIONS: Located west of Sanam Luang (parade grounds) and south of the National Museum and Thammasat University. Main entrances are on the west side from Maharaj Road. Many city buses pass by.
TELEPHONE: (02) 222-6011 (Section 5)
(02) 222-4981 (Section 5 secretary)
(02) 222-2835 (Dhamma Vicaya Hall)
MEDITATION SYSTEM: Vipassana using techniques similar to those taught by Mahasi Sayadaw. Based on Four Foundations of Mindfulness described in the Maha Satipatthana Sutta. Concentration is developed on the rise and fall of the abdomen, then awareness is directed to physical and mental sensations.
TEACHING METHOD: Individual daily interviews. Weekly lectures in Thai (usually on Sundays). Most meditation instruction and practice takes place in Section 5.
TEACHERS: Ajahn Maha Sawai Nanaviro (Thai; age 35)
Ajahn Phramaha Boonchit (Nanasangvaro) (Thai; age 34).
Other experienced monks and laypeople assist.
Ajahn Phramaha Suphap Khemarangsi (Thai; age 45) is head of Section 5.
LANGUAGE: Teachers and some assistants in Section 5 can speak a little English, though instruction is normally given in Thai. If no one speaks English when you visit, ask at the Dhamma Vicaya Hall.
DESCRIPTION: Large, busy temple of 50 rai (20 acres). Founded in the 18th century, Wat Maha That serves as an important center for Thai Buddhism. Many of the monks attend Mahachulalongkorn Buddhist University here. Crowds of worshippers visit the various viharns, shrines, chedis, and Buddha images on the grounds. Monks in the Dhamma Vicaya Hall sometimes speak English and can answer questions; scheduled talks are given here. Meditation takes place in Section 5; you're welcome to join in on the group sitting and walking sessions.
SIZE: Monks: 300-400 (one of the largest populations in Thailand during the Rains Retreat) (30-50 monks in Section 5)
Novices: 50-70 (about 10 in Section 5)
Nuns: 10-12 (about 8 in Section 5)
Laypeople: about 500 (30-40 in Section 5)
DAILY ROUTINE: In Section 5: 6:30 a.m. breakfast; 7-11 a.m. morning chanting (about 30 min.) and sitting and walking group meditation; 11:30 a.m. lunch; 1-4 p.m. sitting and walking group meditation; 4 p.m. drinks; 6-8 or 9 p.m. evening chanting (about one hour) and sitting and walking group meditation.
FOOD: Good quality and variety. A simple breakfast in early morning, then the main meal in late morning; drinks are served in the afternoon. Meditators can also arrange for food, including vegetarian, to be delivered from shops.
ACCOMMODATIONS: Laypeople usually stay in dormitories, separate for men and women; conditions tend to be crowded. Monks, novices, and some laymen have individual rooms. Electricity and running water. Bathing is from jars or showers; Asian-style toilets.
WRITE IN ADVANCE?: Not necessary.
ORDINATION: Possible as monk, novice, or maechee. First ask chief of Section 5, who will inform the abbot. One then has an interview with the abbot. Longer ordinations of 1-2 years or more are preferred.
OTHER INFORMATION: Laypeople follow 8 precepts and normally wear white clothing. Mahachulalongkorn Buddhist University Bookstore, facing the street on the north side of the wat, has some English books on Buddhism; other Buddhist bookstores are on the same street.
WAT BOVORNIVES VIHARA
MEANING OF NAME: "Temple of excellent abode"
ALSO SPELLED: Wat Bovoranives, Wat Bovorn, Wat Bowonniwet, Wat Bowon.
ADDRESS: 248 Phra Sumen Rd., Banglamphu, Bangkok 10200
DIRECTIONS: On Phra Sumen in Banglamphu district, 2 blocks north of the Democracy Monument. Many city buses pass through the area.
TELEPHONE: (02) 280-0869 or 281-2831-3
MEDITATION SYSTEM: No formal teachings or meditation instructions are currently offered. The teacher is very busy with duties. This temple is mentioned because it's an important center for Thai Buddhism. Usually a few foreign monks are in residence who can answer questions.
TEACHERS: His Holiness Somdet Phra Nyansamvara, the SupremePatriarch (sangharaja) of Thailand (Thai; age 78).
DESCRIPTION: Thirty-one rai (12.5 acres) in an urban setting with some trees and a few open spaces. Small canals criss-cross the grounds. Some of the buildings have notable Thai or European architecture. The Great Chedi, glittering with gold-colored tiles, towers more than 50 meters; relics of the Buddha lie inside within a small metal chedi. If you're here on a Sunday afternoon, you can visit the Dhamma Museum in the tall building near the street; exhibits include Buddha images, temple paraphernalia, skeletons and other meditation objects, and "cremation books" (given out on cremation occasions). Resident monks engage primarily in Dhamma studies; Mahamakut Rajavidyalaya Buddhist University is on the east end of the grounds.
SIZE: monks: 100-160
laypeople: (just schoolboys and workmen)
DAILY ROUTINE: Not generally available or recommended for meditators.
ORDINATION: Foreigners occasionally ordain here but few stay;contact the secretary for details.
OTHER INFORMATION: A small English library is available at Gana Soong (International Section). Mahamakut Bookstore, on Phra Sumen across from the wat, has many Buddhist books in English; publishers represented include Buddhist Publication Society, Pali Text Society, and Mahamakut Rajavidyalaya Press; closed Sunday.
The temple has had a long and glorious history. In 1836, King Rama III, in a boat procession, invited Prince Bhikku Mongkut to become abbot of Wat Bovornives Vihara. Prince Mongkut was a scholar of Pali Buddhism and the first Asian king to speak English fluently. On the death of Prince Mongkut's half brother King Rama III, he left the Order to become king, being known in the West as King Rama IV. In 1956, King Mongkut's great grandson, H.M. King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the present king of Thailand, was ordained and resided at Wat Bovornives for a period. The royal history continues with the ordination of Crown Prince Vajiralongkorn and several of his children who, after ordination, resided here.
WAT PAK NAM
MEANING OF NAME: "Monastery at the mouth of the river"
Uppdate January 2009:
"You may interested to know that this book ("Samma Samadhi" by T. Magness) which was originally published in 1960 and had been enlarged and is currently called "Vistas - Buddhist Insights into Immorality" which makes for even more comprehensive understanding of the method.
ADDRESS: Therdthai Rd., Amper Phasicharoen, Bangkok 10160
DIRECTIONS: Located west across the Chao Phraya River in Thonburi, part of metropolitan Bangkok. Easily reached by city buses #4, 9, or 103. If you don't mind some spray (the water isn't too clean), you can take a long-tailed boat to the wat from Rajinee (Rachini) and Saphan Phut jetties north of the Memorial Bridge on the east side of the Chao Phraya.
TELEPHONE: (02) 467-0811
MEDITATION SYSTEM: The technique begins by concentrating on a point inside the body in the center of the abdomen, 2 finger-widths above the navel. This point is said to be the place where consciousness has its seat. The words "Samma Araham" can be repeated mentally to aid initial development of concentration. A luminous nucleus appears at the center point, then develops into a still and translucent sphere about 2 cm in diameter. Within the sphere appears another nucleus which emerges into a sphere. The process continues with increasingly refined spheres or forms appearing in succession. The high levels of concentration achieved are used in vipassana to develop penetrating insight. A qualified teacher is important in this practice. The late abbot Ven. Chao Khun Mongkol-Thepmuni (1884-1959) popularized this meditation system. The wat has a book in English, "Samma Samadhi" by T. Magness, that explains the technique in detail.
TEACHING METHOD: Individual interviews as needed. Talks in Thai by a monk or a tape recording of Ven. Chao Khun Mongkol-Thepmuni are given 2 or 3 times a day at group sittings in the meditation hall.
TEACHERS: Chao Khun Bhawana Kosol Thera (Thai; age 72); he speaks English and Japanese.
Ven. P.K. Bhavananuwat (Thai; age 77); he speaks a little English.
LANGUAGE: Teachers speak some English and people are usually around who can translate. Easiest for one who can speak Thai.
DESCRIPTION: The "bot" and many large, multi-story buildings are tightly packed on the 17-rai (7-acre) grounds. Urban setting. Large crowds of worshippers come on weekends and Buddhist holidays. The wat dates back to the early 18th century in the Ayuthaya Period.
SIZE: monks: 200-400 (one of the largest populations in Thailand during the Rains Retreat)
laypeople: about 100 (half practice meditation)
DAILY ROUTINE: Meditators can practice individually or attend group sessions.
FOOD: Good quality and variety; offered in the temple at daybreak and at 11 a.m. Monks and novices can go on pindabat if they wish. Laypeople eat after monks and novices.
ACCOMMODATIONS: Monks and novices usually stay in individual rooms, some with attached Thai- or western-style bathrooms. Nuns have shared rooms. Laypeople may be able to stay except during the Rains Retreat.
WRITE IN ADVANCE?: Not necessary.
ORDINATION: Men spend a minimum of one month as a layman, then 3 months as a novice before full ordination as a monk. Women can request maechee ordination, though no westerners have done so.
OTHER INFORMATION: Ven. Chao Khun Mongkol-Thepmuni revived this system of meditation, sometimes called "Dhammakaya." He's very highly venerated by the Thais. A shrine room in the wat contains his coffin and a life-like wax statue. Laypeople practicing meditation normally follow 8 precepts and wear white clothing; visitors staying a week or two can follow 5 precepts and wear regular clothing.
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Words-In-Context for Hope of Freedom:
Southern Blacks and the American Revolution
Chapter Two: A Spanish safe haven in Florida
Charter: A charter is a legal document authorizing a specific agreement. This can range from chartering a boat for deep sea fishing to establishing a formal branch of an organization (bank, fraternal order, college fraternity or sorority, etc.). In this case, the charter was a formal document authorized by the English government that allowed a group of investors to establish the colony of Carolina. This charter fully explained the conditions for establishing the colony, the rights and privileges of the colonists, and what was expected of them in return.
Fueled: A reference to using some form of fuel to create, maintain, or increase energy – perhaps, even an explosion. In this case, it refers to the King of Spain adding an explosive “fuel” to his conflicts with England by offering freedom to English slaves who escaped to Florida.
Lightning Rod: Lightning rods are used to attract the destructive power of lightning strikes safely away from buildings and other structures. In this case, the disputed land between Florida and Carolina – Georgia – was attracting hostile activity away from the main port cities of St. Augustine and Charles Town, and into a much less developed area.
Chapter Three: 1763: Drastic change for Blacks in the Southern Colonies
Safe Haven: Any place offering shelter and safety. Sailors refer to harbors and ports as havens during storms. But havens aren’t always harmless places. In the old Wild West, havens could also refer to a place where outlaws were safe from the law.
Mother Country: In the colonial era it was believed that colonists should be treated like small children – obedient without question. The empires of Great Britain, France, and Spain were seen as the “mother-figures” to the child-like colonies. When the thirteen colonies rebelled against Britain, they were referred to as “unnatural” colonists acting out in an “unnatural” manner. They believed that such rebellion and disobedience went against the natural order of things.
Haunted: Here, haunted refers to fearful things that were very real – in this case, bandits. During the American Revolution, some men took advantage of so many fighting-aged men being off to war. Their homes, farms, families, businesses, etc., were often unprotected. Bandits were often feared more than soldiers.
Saturated: In this case, the author is trying to make us understand how this horrible attitude toward slaves had so thoroughly soaked into the American culture that it was considered “normal” to treat other human beings so badly.
Chapter Four: British proclamations of “Freedom”
Longing: An emotion or strong feeling, resulting from an unfulfilled desire or dream; a craving. In this case, the natural desire to be free.
Hunger: When a person wants very much to achieve a goal or make a change in their lives, it’s often described in the same manner as the gnawing feeling we get in our stomachs when we’re hungry. In this case, the slaves hungered for freedom.
Domino-Fashion: The chain-reaction achieved when dominoes are stood closely together and knocked into each other. In this case, it’s a reference to the southern colonies falling to the rebellion like dominoes, from Virginia down to Georgia, as rebellion swept the continent.
Powder Keg: During the colonial era, gun powder was stored in wooden kegs and small barrels. Powder kegs had to be kept away from any potential flame, as even a spark could ignite the powder with deadly, explosive results. Much in the same way, Governor Tonyn saw the advancement of the rebellion toward East Florida like a fire moving quickly toward his colony. He believed that it would take very little for the situation to become explosive and rebellion to consume his colony.
Sweep: As the word is used here, think of the rebellion as a broom that’s sweeping through the southern colonies, pushing Loyalists and the British army out of their country.
Fence-Straddlers: During the American Revolution many could not decide which side of the rebellion to take. Rather than committing to one side or the other, they hoped to “straddle the fence” until a clear winner might be determined. In this case, what the British did by encouraging slave insurrection not only angered those already in rebellion, but pushed many who had yet to make up their minds to join the revolt.
“end around”: An “end around” is a play in game of football where one team attempts to advance the ball by running completely around the pile-up of people in the middle of the field rather than taking the shorter, more difficult route right through them. In this case, General Prevost chose not to make his way back to Savannah by plunging his troops directly at the larger American army, but by swinging out around them down the Sea Islands of South Carolina and Georgia and heading down the coastline in hope to avoid a major conflict.
Chapter Five: For those who found freedom…?
Chains of Tyranny: Tyranny is when a people are ruled unfairly and unjustly by absolute authority, with no voice of their own. “Chains of tyranny” was a term used constantly in the American colonies, as the revolutionaries referred to themselves as slaves under Britain’s laws and taxes, bound by the shackles and chains of unfair and unjust laws.
Pawns: Pawns make up the largest number and most easily sacrificed pieces on a chessboard. In this case, slaves were seen in the same manner. The British weren’t offering them freedom because they deserved better treatment. Lord Dunmore believed that the threat of a slave revolt was so frightening to slave owners that the rebels would back down rather than face this danger. Dunmore’s goal was to use this threat to suppress the rebellion before freeing any of the slaves so that the economy of his own colony of Virginia wouldn’t be hurt by his actions.
Chapter Six: In the service of the Crown
“black ops”: This term is short for “Black Operations,” which are covert military strikes that depend upon secrecy and deception. The East Florida Rangers performed any number of military services for the Crown, which ranged from espionage to cattle rustling to battlefield engagements. At first only Governor Tonyn knew their missions and directed their assignments.
Stuff of legends: When an action or actions make a dynamic impact, the people involved are often seen as larger than life; heroes or villains alike. To the Loyalists, Thomas Brown was a legendary hero who led the East Florida Rangers with honor and distinction. To those in rebellion, Thomas Brown was a name to be greatly feared. Brown was, in real life, what legend has credited to Banastre Tarleton – the most hated and feared British officer in the southern backcountry.
Ushered back: To be “ushered” is to be assisted or escorted from one place to another. In this case, former slaves were being assisted, or ushered, back to a full state of humanity by the people who offered them the opportunity to act as free men.
Exact a pound of flesh: This phrase comes from Shakespeare’s play, The Merchant of Venice, and is a term for revenge. In this case, it’s the idea that a former slave might have an opportunity to face a slave owner – perhaps even their own former owner – on the battlefield.
A Sailor’s lot: The rolling of dice used to be called “casting lots.” Your “lot” was whatever your dice came up, and there was no changing them. In the same way, sailors in the British navy understood that their lives were going to be hard, the work back-breaking, the food bad, and the danger of being killed or horribly wounded was always present. That’s just how it was.
Cut: To divide or be divided; to cut away from a larger object. In this case, taking a “cut” meant that equal shares of a ship’s plunder was divided and distributed among the crew.
Façade: Fake, false; a deception or illusion. It’s often used to refer to the decorative front of a building that’s been made to look more ornate from the street than the rest of the structure.
Filtering: To pass slowly from one place or item into another, in the same manner that water drips slowly through coffee grounds and the coffee filter into the pot. In the case of making coffee, a filter is used to keep the coffee grounds out of the coffee pot. The water is what is filtering; the coffee grounds are being filtered. As the word is used here, Loyalists are traveling slowly, one ship-load or wagon-load at a time, from the rebellious colonies into the loyal colony of East Florida over a period of several years. | <urn:uuid:d4e7d06e-a51c-4029-aa5b-bb3a06664911> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.colonialra.com/educators/hope-of-freedom/words-in-context/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00470.warc.gz | en | 0.970869 | 1,938 | 3.84375 | 4 |
Introduction to systems of equations
A system of equations is a collection of two or more equations that contains the same variables.
This is a system of two equations with two variables:
In solving a system of equations, we try to find values for each of the unknowns that will satisfy every equation in the system.
x=1, y=1 are solutions of the system
Let's see: 3·1+1=4 and 2·1-3·1=-1.
They satisfy both equations in the system.
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Medicina (Buenos Aires)
versión On-line ISSN 1669-9106
The odor emitted by a patient may be one of the first major clues leading to an early diagnosis. Certain conditions produce a characteristic smell and several diseases are associated with a specific odor. We report an illustrative case and review olfactory physiology, the value of smell in physical examination, and finally discuss several illnesses associated with unusual odors.
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: Know Your Risk for AMD
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a common eye condition that causes damage to the macula, which is located at the center of the retina and is the part of the eye needed for central vision. When the macula is damaged, the center of your field of view may appear blurry or dark. People who have AMD tend to have good peripheral vision; they just can't see directly in front of them.
There are two forms of AMD: dry and wet. In the dry form, toxic byproducts accumulate and form yellow spots called drusen. There's a yellow pigment (lutein) deposited in the retina to help prevent toxicity from ultra-violet light. This pigment layer can erode, further limiting the body's ability to clear toxic materials from the eye.
In the wet form, blood vessels may invade the retina and start to bleed, causing sudden vision loss. However, this may be reversed—it's important to contact an eye doctor immediately if you experience vision loss or any other eye problems.
About 90 percent of people who have AMD have the dry, slowly progressive form of the condition. In some people, AMD progresses so slowly that vision loss in one or both eyes may occur over a long time. The most common symptom is a blurred area in the center of your vision. This area may grow larger over time, or you may develop blank spots in your central vision. AMD does not lead to complete blindness, but the loss of central vision can interfere with everyday activities.
The major risk factor for AMD is age; this condition is most likely to occur after age 60. Other risk factors include a family history of AMD, smoking (studies show smoking doubles the risk of AMD), and race (AMD is more common among Caucasians than among people of African American or Hispanic descent). High blood pressure and atherosclerosis also increase the risk for AMD.
While there is no cure for AMD, there is natural support for people who suffer from or at risk for the dry form of AMD:
• Antioxidants: The seven-year ARED (Age-Related Eye Disease) study found that antioxidants beta-carotene, vitamins C and E, and zinc helped to reduce the risk of vision loss from moderate to severe macular degeneration. Lutein also shows promise for reducing AMD risk.
• Omega-3 fats: The omega-3 fatty acid DHA (docosahexaenoic acid) is a major component of the retina, and supplementation is essential to rebuild the retina and help repair damage. In one study, supplementation with omega-3s led to significant improvements in vision acuity for 100 percent of participants with dry AMD within for and a half months.
Since the early stages of AMD may start without symptoms, the National Eye Institute recommends a comprehensive eye exam to detect AMD. This may include a visual acuity test (an eye chart to measure how well you see at distances), a dilated eye exam (drops are placed in the eyes to dilate the pupils to provide a better view of the back of your eye), and a fluorescein angiogram (fluorescent dye is injected into your arm, and pictures are taken as the dye passes through the blood vessels in your eye, making it possible to see leaking blood vessels).
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The Ark truly represents Jesus, as the ark of the covenant factors to the new sanctuary we will have in Jesus Christ one day. If you have enjoyed this article, you will definitely love the subsequent component of the Ark of the covenant as I discover what was inside the Ark and the importance of every piece.
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As the warm, summertime weather continues to sporadically make its presence known in the Rose City, you know Juneteenth is right around the corner.
Unlike last year, with multiple celebrations on different days, there is only one Juneteenth celebration this year, held from 1 p.m. to 8 p.m. on June 14 at Jefferson High School. The parade prior to the event starts at 11 a.m. and leaves from the Wells Fargo Bank Walnut Park branch, 5730 N.E. MLK Blvd.
Tisha Stigler, co-chair of the People's Juneteenth Committee, says the celebration is different this year and they are working to get the "sour taste" left by some of the failed celebrations of the past.
"This year's Juneteenth doesn't consist of the same people from years ago," she said. "This is not like it has been."
Juneteenth is the celebration of independence from slavery. On June 19, 1865 Buffalo Soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas to inform enslaved people there that they had been technically free … for two and a half years. President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation became law in 1863.
The Oregon celebration was officially begun in 1944 in Portland's Kaiser Shipyards by Clara Peoples. What began as that lunchtime commemoration for freedom is now a large daylong celebration attended by hundreds
This year's celebration will feature an awards ceremony; a hair cutting contest; a fashion show; performances by the World Stage Theatre; live bands; vendors providing food, information about job opportunities and companies' diversity councils. The event will be free for all.
"It's a celebration for the people," said Ora Lee Green, who expects attendance to triple from last year. Green, who has been involved with Juneteenth since 1972, said she hopes that one day the celebration of freedom will be as widely celebrated as other similar freedom holidays such as the Fourth of July and Cinco de Mayo. | <urn:uuid:6358daa0-1633-44eb-95e5-383901593475> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.theskanner.com/news/northwest/3295-juneteenth-celebration-set-to-be-bigger-better-2008-06-05 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283689.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00350-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975012 | 407 | 1.796875 | 2 |
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The Inquiry Role Approach; Research on Classroom Teaching and Learning.
Bingman, Richard M.
This brochure, designed to acquaint teachers in Kansas City area public and parochial schools with the Inquiry Role Approach (IRA) to Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS) courses, prepares for their cooperation with the Mid-Continent Regional Development Laboratory (McREL) in testing an IRA model during the 1968-69 school year. Four program objectives are listed: to provide opportunity for pupils to develop and use social and inquiry skills which enable them to participate as responsible members of a team engaged in formulating and testing biological concepts and hypotheses, to provide assistance to the teacher in his guidance of student learning by providing resource materials and classroom organization designed to provide a climate in which his role is changed from information disseminator to learning situation manager, to help develop teacher skills in developing study guides and other curricular aids which facilitate the continued development of pupil inquiry skills and attitudes and student responsibility for his inquiry activities, to develop a packet of tested materials and classroom procedures which will be available for school and district adoption. Included are general notes on the methodology, a diagram of sequential steps in the IRA, an overview of the 5-year IRA project, and 18 pages of student comments on IRA. (JS)
Publication Type: N/A
Education Level: N/A
Authoring Institution: Mid-Continent Regional Educational Lab., Inc., Kansas City, MO.
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Class 8 Voice Change Exercise with Answers
1. My father would take me for evening prayers to a very old mosque.
2. My parents were widely regarded as an ideal couple.
3. My voice startled her.
4. Nature, keep him warm.
5. Nor shall death brag thou wand’rest in his shade.
6. Not a simple jab of the knife will do it.
7. Not once or twice have I already had the privilege of applying to you for help.
8. Of course, you’ll be surprised and perhaps even angry.
9. Often is his gold complexion dimmed.
10. One must consult magicians.
11. One must draw up in advance, a table of days, months and years.
12. One must know beforehand what was going to happen.
13. One must understand the difference.
14. One of her forebears was bestowed the title of Bahadur by the British.
15. One should always attend to all that was going on.
16. Our ancestral house was built in the middle of the 19th century.
17. Pick up my pocket-book.
18. Put yourself in contact with me.
19. Rough winds shake the darling buds of May.
20. Say it again-I didn’t hear it all!
21. Seeing the Tsar, he greeted him.
22. Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
23. She carried it slung across her shoulder.
24. She cut him a half of her ten-cent cake.
25. She did not release him.
26. She gave a little exclamation.
27. She heated some lima beans and ham.
28. She led him down the hall to the front door.
29. She left the door open.
30. She picked the boy up by his shirt front.
31. She shut the door.
32. She still held him.
33. She switched on the light.
34. She thought me a romantic fool.
35. She told him about her job in a hotel beauty shop.
36. She would forget our brief encounter.
37. She would place a banana leaf before me.
38. Shut up or I’ll shoot you like a partridge!
39. Sit down.
40. Some replied that the most important thing in the world was Science.
41. Spit it out!
42. Take this ten dollars.
43. Thank you, ma’am.
44. That man would have attacked you.
45. The boy could not hear other roomers laughing and talking in the large house.
46. The boy looked at her.
47. The carriage wheels changed their sound and rhythm.
48. The frost has wrought a silence.
49. The guard blew the whistle.
50. The hermit again gave no answer.
Answers of Above Exercise
1. I would be taken by my father for evening prayers to a very old mosque.
2. People regarded my parents as an ideal couple.
3. She was startled by my voice.
4. Nature, let he be kept warm.
5. Thou wand’rest in his shade shall nor be bragged by death.
6. It will not be done with a simple jab of the knife.
7. The privilege of applying to you for help has not already been had once or twice by me.
8. Of course, (something) will surprise you and perhaps even angry.
9. It often dims his gold complexion.
10. Magicians must be consulted.
11. A table of days, months and years must be drawn up in advance.
12. It must be known beforehand what was going to be happened.
13. The difference must be understood.
14. The British bestowed the title of Bahadur to one of her forebears.
15. All that was going on should be always attended to.
16. Our forefathers built our ancestral house in the middle of the 19th century.
17. Let my pocket-book be picked up.
18. You are told to put yourself in contact with me.
19. The darling buds of May are shaken by rough winds.
20. Let it be said again-it was not heard all by me!
21. The Tsar being seen was greeted by him.
22. Will thou be compared to a summer’s day by me?
23. It was carried by her slung across her shoulder.
24. He was cut a half of her ten-cent cake by her.
25. He was not released by her.
26. A little exclamation was given by her.
27. Some lima beans and ham were heated by her.
28. He was led by her down the hall to the front door.
29. The door was left open by her.
30. The boy was picked up by his shirt front by her.
31. The door was shut by her.
32. He was still held by her.
33. The light was switched on by her.
34. I was thought a romantic fool by her.
35. He was told by her about her job in a hotel beauty-shop.
36. Our brief encounter would be forgotten by her.
37. A banana leaf would be placed before me by her.
38. You are ordered to shut up or you will be shot by me like a partridge.
39. You are requested to sit down.
40. It was replied that the most important thing in the world was Science.
41. Let it be spit out!
42. Let this ten dollars be taken.
43. Ma’am, you are thanked.
44. You would have been attacked by that man.
45. Other roomers could not be heard laughing and talking in the large house by the boy.
46. She was looked at by the boy.
47. Their sound and rhythm were changed by the carriage wheels.
48. A silence has been wrought by the frost.
49. The whistle was blown by the guard.
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Ambassador of Slime (3.5e Prestige Class)
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Ambassador of Slime
The most alien of life forms – slimes, oozes and jellies – now have an ambassador for their way of life. What that ambassador does or says about these creatures varies between individual ambassadors of slime. For most people the oozes, slimes, and jellies of the world are at best nuisances that despoil stored foodstuffs, and at worst deadly monsters that dissolve people. The ambassador of slime aims to bridge the gap and protect oozes from people that would kill them just for existing, and to keep oozes out of places they shouldn't be so they're not killing people. The ambassador of slime holds oozes in high esteem and seeks to emulate their unusual abilities. Ambassadors of slime are always welcome comrades in adventuring parties that operate mostly in underground areas, as they can best handle the oozes and slimes encountered there. Ambassadors of slime are fairly common in the underdark, and somewhat uncommon on the surface.
Becoming an Ambassador of Slime
Connecting with slimes, oozes, molds and jellies is an intensely personal, and disturbing, experience. A strong constitution is needed to survive the exposure.
|Skills:||Knowledge (dungeoneering) 9 ranks, Knowledge (nature) 9 ranks|
|Saves||Base Fortitude save +3|
|Special||Must have had physical contact with a slime, ooze, mold or jelly.|
|1st||+0||+2||+0||+0||Raise Slime, Rebuke Ooze, Slime Pool|
|2nd||+1||+3||+0||+0||Consumption, Slime Toughness|
|6th||+4||+5||+2||+2||Call Forth Ooze|
|7th||+5||+5||+2||+2||Meld into Stone|
Class Skills (2 + Int modifier per level)
Slime Pool (Ex): An ambassador of slime generates a slime pool which he uses to evoke many of his powers. The ambassador has slime points equal to his ambassador of slime class level + his Constitution modifier. The slime pool is restored after eight hours of rest. As long as the ambassador has any unspent slime points, oozes treat the ambassador as though they are under the effect of the charm monster spell. Any aggressive action from the ambassador of slime, or his allies, toward an ooze creature immediately ends this effect. Oozes with an Intelligence score higher than 3 are immune to this effect.
Raise Slime (Su): At 1st level, an ambassador of slime may expend 1 slime point to use a full round action to create a puddle of slime. The effect is the same as the grease spell with a caster level equal to his ambassador of slime class level. The ambassador must concentrate each round to maintain the raised slime, and the raised slime disappears if a Concentration check is failed or if the ambassador stops concentrating on this effect. The ambassador is immune to the effect of his own raised slime. He can have only one raised slime active at a time.
Rebuke Ooze (Su): An ambassador of slime can rebuke or command oozes as an evil cleric rebukes or commands undead. He is treated as a cleric of a level equal to his ambassador of slime class level for this purpose. Using this ability takes 1 slime point from the ambassador of slime’s slime pool.
Consumption (Su): At 2nd level ambassador of slime may use the consumption ability as a full round action in the area that is effected by his raise slime ability. Consumption is otherwise identical to the death knell spell, with a caster level equal to his ambassador of slime class level. All creatures in contact with the raise slime area are affected by consumption. The saving throw DC is 10 + the character's ambassador of slime class level + his Constitution modifier. If multiple creatures are within contact with the area of the raise slime effect their Hit Dice do not stack together for determining the duration of the temporary hit points, Strength bonus, and caster level bonus gained from the death knell spell, use the creature with the highest Hit Dice for determining the duration.
Slime Toughness (Ex) At 2nd level an ambassador of slime has changed his body in such a way as to mimic some of the innate resilience of ooze creatures. He gains damage reduction that is overcome by bludgeoning weapons. The amount of damage reduction is equal to half his ambassador of slime class level.
Poison (Su): At 3rd level the ambassador of slime can emulate the poisonous nature of oozes by having his skin exude a small amount of poisonous slime. The ambassador of slime can poison a creature by touch by making a melee touch attack, as a standard action. This ability is identical to the poison spell, the victim can negate the effect with a Fortitude save, the save DC is 10 + the ambassador's ambassador of slime class level + his Constitution modifier. Use of this ability takes 1 slime point from the ambassador of slime’s slime pool.
Mutable (Su): At 4th level an ambassador of slime’s face and body can be changed as a standard action, with a Concentration check at DC 20 as if under an alter self spell. This also allows an ambassador of slime to compress his body, allowing him to count as one size category smaller for purposes of squeezing through confined spaces or entryways. He also gains a +4 circumstance bonus on Escape Artist skill checks. The duration of this effect is a number of rounds equal to his ambassador of slime class level. Use of this ability takes 1 slime point from the ambassador of slime's slime pool.
Congeal (Su): At 5th level an ambassador of slime can transform himself into a creature of the ooze type as a standard action. This form is boneless and fluid, and his equipment harmlessly melds into his body. He can remain in this form for up to one hour. In all other respects, this effect works as the polymorph spell with a caster level equal to his ambassador of slime class level. Use of this ability takes 5 slime points from the ambassador of slime's slime pool, and can only be used once per day.
In this form the ambassador of slime can't speak or otherwise communicate with others around him. Although mind-reading or telepathic attempts will work, as he is not mindless. He can't cast any spells but can use supernatural abilities or abilities which require slime pool points, including summoning other oozes, slimes, puddings or molds.
At 7th level an ambassador of slime gains the ability to engulf a target as full round action. The target must be the same size category or smaller of the ambassador of slime. The ambassador of slime must declare an engulf attack and make a successful melee touch attack. If the engulf attack succeeds, the target must makes a Reflex saving throw to avoid being engulfed by the ambassador of slime, with a save DC of 10 + his ambassador of slime class level + his Strength modifier. Escaping from being engulfed requires the target beating the ambassador of slime with an opposed grapple check. Creatures who start their action engulfed suffer 1d6 points of acid damage per 2 ambassador of slime class levels the ambassador of slime has, and the engulfed creature will start drowning.
At 9th level an ambassador of slime's size category is increased by one level when in ooze, slime, or pudding form. Treat this as if the ambassador of slime was under the effects of the enlarge person spell, with all the normal bonuses and penalties of the spell.
Dissolve (Su): At 5th level an ambassador of slime may corrode metal and breakdown organic material at will, as a standard action. This ability acts like rusting grasp, except it affects wood, metal, and flesh. Unlike the spell, this ability can be used defensively and functions by touch or when an object comes into contact with the ambassador of slime. Weapons destroyed this way are destroyed after damage is dealt to the ambassador of slime. Using this as a touch attack deals 1d6 acid damage per ambassador of slime class level. Use of this ability takes 2 slime points from the ambassador of slime’s slime pool for every round it is used. This ability does not function on enchanted material, nor can this ability dissolve more than 5 pounds per ambassador of slime class level.
Call Forth Ooze (Sp): At 6th level an ambassador of slime may bring forth a patch of green slime, a black pudding, a brown mold, a gray ooze, an ochre jelly, or a gelatinous cube as if he had cast a summon monster spell in an area effected by his raise slime ability. The duration is as long as he maintains concentration on this ability, then for 1 round/ambassador of slime class level after he stops concentrating. Use of this ability take 3 slime points from the ambassador of slime’s slime pool.
Regenerate (Su): At 9th level an ambassador of slime may regenerate as a full round action. This ability is identical to the regenerate spell, and can only be used a maximum of twice per day. Use of this ability takes 3 slime points from the ambassador of slime’s slime pool.
Avatar (Ex): At 10th level an ambassador of slime gains the ability to fully become any ooze creature. For 4 slime points from his slime pool he can become any creature of the ooze creature type as if under the effect of a shapechange spell. In addition, even while in his normal racial form he permanently gains darkvision of 60 ft., blindsight of 30 ft., and becomes immune to sleep effects. If the ambassador of slime already has darkvision or blindsight then it stacks with the darkvision and blindsight gained from this ability. While under the effects of this ability, he retains all his ambassador of slime class abilities and features, but still loses all other supernatural abilities as per the normal rules of the shapechange spell. | <urn:uuid:dd84be22-7ec7-4436-967c-b165dcbac20c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/Ambassador_of_Slime_(3.5e_Prestige_Class) | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280900.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00008-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.929801 | 2,089 | 1.679688 | 2 |
The Android OS broadcasts "system messages" which can be received by any client application which requests them -- without any user permission oversight. These broadcasts expose potentially privacy sensitive information about the user’s device and location to all applications running on the device. This includes the WiFi network name, BSSID, local IP addresses, DNS server information and the device's MAC address. Some of this information, such as MAC addresses, is no longer available via APIs since Android 6 (Android P is #9), and extra permissions are normally required to access the rest of this information. However, by listening to these broadcasts, any application on the device can capture this information... thus bypassing all permission checks and existing mitigations.
Full episode at twit.tv/sn679
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Managing the Silver Tsunami
The “silver tsunami” is the ongoing retirement of Baby Boomers. In the U.S., about 10,000 boomers retire every day, about 4 million per year, and this will continue for the next fifteen years or so (1). Over 30 million jobs will open up overall, and many of those will require knowledge and skills that the next generations cannot supply (2). Disciplines like chemistry, geology, and metallurgy were vibrant a generation ago with strong academic programs churning out engineers and scientists with advanced degrees. Today, at least in the West, such fields have given way to biology, computer science, and finance. Not only are the experts retiring but whole disciplines are in decline.
Although nearly three-quarters of HR professionals acknowledge that loss of boomers’ skills is a problem, few have taken action (3). And the longer companies wait to address the issue, the worse it gets.
It doesn’t need to be this way. At Imaginatik, we’ve spent nearly 20 years helping organizations use online, crowd-sourced Idea Challenges to become more collaborative and innovative. Such idea campaigns can also be used to manage the “Silver Tsunami” transition quickly, cheaply, and at very large scale, because they:
- identify those with specific skills and a willingness to help others.
- connect senior and junior workers in formal and informal “mentoring” relationships to close the skills gap preemptively
- build a “living” database of knowledge and expertise that remains long after the senior generation has retired
Here’s how it works: a leader or manager launches a crowdsourced “call for ideas” on a specific topic where a high degree of domain-specific skill or expertise is required. Anywhere from dozens to thousands of people can be invited to participate. When managed well, these Challenges draw hundreds, or even thousands, of submissions – and usually several times as many comments and votes.
Challenges are a powerful way for organizations to solve thorny business or technical problems in the here-and-now. Even better, a record of ideas, comments, and suggestions also persists in the database post-Challenge, and can be mined in the future when similar skills or expertise are required. Smart organizations take this “surfaced” knowledge and curate it actively.
Furthermore, the ensuing discussion from a Challenge – both online and offline –engenders deep, meaningful subject-matter dialogue that typically continues afterward, and often deepens over time. Hidden experts and specialists across the organization become more obvious to younger workers who need coaching and skills development – and vice-versa. Senior workers are essentially “raising a hand” as implicit mentors by contributing to these Challenges. The best HR departments take note of these behavioral indicators to invite these hand-raisers to participate in more formal training and mentoring programs for the next generation of skill workers.
Sometimes, today’s most vexing business problems (like the Silver Tsunami) cannot be solved by the traditional levers – HR databases, skills surveys, classroom training programs, etc. Instead, consider addressing the problem head-on with the help of Challenge-based online collaboration and idea-generation programs.
(1) Cohn, V., and Taylor, P. (2010) Pew Research: Baby Boomers Approach 65 –Glumly, http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2010/12/20/baby-boomers-approach-65-glumly/
(2) Bidwell, A. (2013) Economy Will Face Shortage of 5 Million Workers in 2020, US News and World Report, http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/07/08/report-economy-will-face-...
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Jeremy Shere appears in the following:
Wednesday, December 18, 2013
Producing energy from fossil fuels is a dirty, expensive but hugely profitable enterprise. At some point we will have exhausted all the easily accessible sources of fossil fuel and will have to turn to other, cleaner, renewable energy sources. Jeremy Shere looks at what those alternatives will be. In Renewable: The World-Changing Power of Alternative Energy, he tours a traditional coal-fueled power plant, a solar farm at Denver’s airport, attends a Wind Power Expo and a wind farm tour in Texas, and investigates turbines deep in New York City’s East River. He explains the most promising types of renewable energy: namely, biofuel, solar, wind, geothermal, and hydropower. | <urn:uuid:b46e236d-dc7c-4643-8bb4-46e6d285f885> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.wnyc.org/people/jeremy-shere/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280242.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00071-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.909542 | 160 | 2.015625 | 2 |
Don't like your credit score? Or even worse, too afraid to check it? Try this out: Blame it on being too nice.
A paper published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology explores why agreeable people tend to have lower credit scores, save less, and are more likely to default on loans.
"Recent research suggests that agreeable individuals experience greater financial hardship than their less agreeable peers," authors Sandra Matz and Joe Gladstone write in their study. It has a great title, too: Nice Guys Finish Last: When and Why Agreeableness Is Associated With Economic Hardship.
When it pays to be a scrooge
It's easy to conclude that nice people are just big pushovers, leading to bad financial decision making. You might assume they may be more willing to lend people money or more easily taken advantage of in risky financial situations. Maybe their poor negotiation skills are partly to blame because they end up getting paid less.
The researchers found there's no proof any of these rationalizations rings true. They concluded the reason is far more simple.
People who are more agreeable simply just don't care as much about money. Scrooge-y people obviously care a lot -- probably too much. Depending on which side of the spectrum you fall, this mindset may contribute to how you manage your money (or don't).
Splitting up the check
Here's an illustrative example. Say you're out to dinner with a group of friends. The bill hits the table. How should you divvy it up?
Some are fine splitting everything evenly. Even if it's not totally fair and they might end up paying a little more, they figure it all balances out. What's a few bucks? Plus, it's no fun to bust out the calculator. They kind of just don't care how it all goes down.
Others might want to itemize everything. Everyone should pay for their meal and exact number of drinks they consumed. These people do care about a few bucks, and they don't want to get stuck paying for other people. If it doesn't go their way, you'll certainly hear about it.
While this isn't a perfect example, it does help to understand why some people might be inherently better with money than others. Caring more about money might mean that you'll work towards making sure you'll have more of it, even if it means being the curmudgeon of the group. But if you're a more positive, upbeat person who cares more about having a good time, your financial health might not be one of your top priorities.
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The National Governors Association, National Conference of State Legislatures and the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators released a report yesterday that estimated the five-year cost associated with implementing the REAL ID Act at $11 billion over five years. This estimate is broken down as follows:
- Re-enrollment of all drivers license & ID holders to meet guidelines: $8.48 billion
- New processes for verifying applicants: $1.42 billion
- Drivers license and ID design requirements: $1.11 billion
- Support costs: $0.04 billion
This analysis goes a couple of levels deeper in the report, providing a fairly rigorous assessment of the costs of REAL ID. And the report offers nine top-level recommendations:
- Extend the compliance deadline;
- Provide the funds necessary for states to comply with Real ID;
- Provide the federal electronic verification systems necessary to comply with the law;
- Require states to employ electronic verification systems only as they become available;
- Implement a 10 year re-enrollment schedule;
- Adopt uniform naming conventions to facilitate electronic verification between files;
- Allow reciprocity for persons already vetted by the federal government
- Establish card security criteria based on performance—not technology; and
- Grant the Secretary of Homeland Security the flexibility to recognize innovation at the state level.
I’ve written in the past that REAL ID is a bad idea, arguing that:
If Real ID is a “de facto†national ID system, then it’s one of the worst possible forms of one: it’s not likely to deliver the potential security benefits of an integrated system; it doesn’t save money via national-level economies of scale; it has no clear funding stream; and oversight on privacy issues will be difficult in a 50-state stakeholder environment.
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"Food and drinks should carry labels showing how long it would take to walk or run off the calories, a leading health expert suggests," the Daily Mail reports.
In an opinion piece in the British Medical Journal, Shirley Cramer, chief executive of the Royal Society for Public Health, argues that the current "traffic light" food labelling system is not promoting positive changes in public health.
Cramer makes the case that "activity equivalent" labelling could change people's behaviour.
The widely used "traffic light" food labelling system is based on concepts most of us learn very early on in our childhood: green means "good", amber means "OK", and red means "bad".
Traffic light information is provided on an item's fat content, saturated fat content, sugar content, and carbohydrate content. In short, the more green on the label, the healthier the choice.
However, a 2015 poll carried out by Populus found 41% of UK adults found current front-of-pack information confusing.
As Cramer points out, "Such information needs to be as simple as possible so that the public can easily decide what to buy and consume in the average six seconds people spend looking at food before buying."
The idea behind activity equivalent labelling is that a series of easily recognisable icons would be used to represent types of physical activities, such as brisk walking (walking fast enough to get you slightly out of breath), running, cycling, and swimming.
The icons would be combined with a number representing the number of minutes you would need to spend doing that activity to burn off the calories in the food or drink item.
Examples helpfully provided by the Daily Mail include:
Cramer makes an intriguing case that such a scheme would offer the public a carrot rather than a stick: "The public is used to being told to avoid particular drinks and to cut down on specific foods. By contrast, activity labelling encourages people to start something, rather than calling for them to stop."
Currently, legislation regarding the mandatory labelling of food and drink is decided at the European level.
Even if there was a political will and the food and drink industry was on board, it would probably take several years for such a scheme to come into place. And that is a very big if.
There is the possibility that some forward-thinking manufacturers might adopt the scheme on a voluntary basis. If the scheme proves popular with the public, it could also boost their sales and so be a possible win-win.
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Ah, the life of a superprofessor. Since I started teaching a massive open online course, I’ve been called “Internet royalty” by the Financial Times and been told I had great skin on the public-radio show Marketplace. This must be what the edX president Anant Agarwal meant when, responding to concerns that MOOCs were overhyped, he asked, “What better to hype than education? For the first time, you’re going to make the teacher a rock star” (Information Week).
And you know what? I hate it.
It’s not that I mind the attention, or the compliments. I’m always happy to give my parents some material to show that their son the academic isn’t wasting his life in the ivory tower. And it’s validating to be recognized for the hard work I’ve put into teaching about a new subject in a new way. No, what troubles me is what the myth of the MOOC instructor as rock star implies. It’s not just wrong; it’s dangerous.
Agarwal isn’t the only one framing things this way. The notion that a growing share of courses will be taught by renowned “superprofs” permeates the MOOC conversation. And it’s easy to understand why. What teacher wouldn’t want hundreds of thousands of adoring fans? What student wouldn’t want the pedagogical equivalent of Bono or Bruce Springsteen giving their lectures?
We need to stop talking this way. Reinforcing the view of MOOC instructors as rock stars is bad for professors, bad for universities, and, most important, bad for students.
I say this as a MOOC supporter and the instructor of the Coursera MOOC on gamification (motivating people using techniques from game design). I’ve now taught two sessions, and I’m getting ready for a third, with a total of over 150,000 registrations from more than 150 countries. It has been the most exciting and rewarding teaching experience of my life. I see huge potential for MOOCs to improve education, both inside and outside the academy.
Yet I’m not blind to the dangers. MOOCs can and will make some things worse, even as they make others better. And if we as faculty members don’t conscientiously push MOOCs in the right direction, they might well do more harm than good.
The rock-star meme implies that teaching is all about performance. What happens on stage is still what matters, even if techno-hip educators supplant traditional sages. Talk of rock-star faculty members reinforces the static lecture model that MOOCs were, ironically, developed in part to destroy. The audience at a rock concert is listening, not interacting. Decades of research and a modicum of common sense confirm that students engage and learn more through active participation in the classroom. For all the talk of personalized analytics and adaptive learning, MOOCs built around faculty rock stars will just transfer the lean-back experience of the lecture hall to a screen.
It doesn’t have to be this way. One of the greatest and least remarked-upon benefits of MOOCs is to open up room for experimentation in teaching. Today there’s as much variation among MOOC offerings as there is between MOOCs and “traditional” courses. The first MOOCs were loosely coordinated collaborative conversations, in which the faculty member served at most as a curator and shepherd. Even among the more structured xMOOCs, some are polished, scripted, high-production-value lectures, while others have a distinctly do-it-yourself ethos. I did all the instructional design and video editing personally for my MOOC, for example. Think coffeehouse singer-songwriter vs. packaged pop star.
The more a MOOC is defined as an expensively staged experience supported by an army of back-stage roadies, the less risk-taking and pedagogical experimentation we’ll see. And the less we faculty members will own our teaching. I don’t mean just in the intellectual-property sense. I mean that, like many rock stars, we’ll be “the talent” out front, but not the ones controlling the creative process. And as I discovered in my MOOC, students can tell. They don’t take MOOCs to watch brilliant actors perform; they do so to learn from and connect with human beings.
Most worrisome, calling MOOC instructors rock stars implies something about the overwhelming majority of faculty members who don’t, or won’t, or can’t teach a MOOC. When someone speaks about giving students access to the “best” professors, there’s serious baggage attached. The most effective teachers may not be best suited to the MOOC performance model, or they may not work for the research-oriented institutions that have the resources and reputation to be net producers of MOOCs. In fact, they almost certainly don’t.
This is where the danger becomes apparent. You can bet that, for all the talk about freeing faculty members to focus on personalized instruction, some cash-strapped administrators will try to replace the master teachers on their own faculties with inexperienced teaching assistants, now that the distant rock stars are doing the heavy lifting. If we’re going to use the music industry as a model, we ought to remember that for every celebrity rock star, there are thousands upon thousands of struggling musicians. Is that the future we want for higher education? In some ways, it’s not so far from the present.
And this leads to a final fact: Rock stars don’t have responsibility. Mick Jagger and Kurt Cobain aren’t like you and me, because they get to do all sorts of crazy, destructive things without fear of consequences. (And when they crash and burn, we get the guilty pleasure of watching the train wreck.)
That’s not what faculty members should aspire to. We’re not performance artists, and we’re not mercenaries. We have exquisite freedoms, but not of that sort. We have obligations to our institutions and our colleagues and our students. And part of our job is to communicate to students, as they go out into the world, that they have responsibilities to others.
Perhaps it’s already too late. In an article in The Chronicle earlier this year, several MOOC instructors waved off concerns about how their courses might be used. I was reminded of the musical comedian Tom Lehrer’s satirical take on the Nazi and later American rocket scientist Wernher von Braun: “Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? That’s not my department …”
Fortunately, not all MOOC teachers are so blithe. The more we hear about rock stars and superprofs, though, the harder it will be to engage in conversations about the risks and how to mitigate them.
We’ve progressively lost the ideal of higher education as a communal investment to promote an empowered citizenry and an enlightened public discourse, not just a financial equation in which tuition goes in and job training comes out. Used well, MOOCs could push against that trend, by opening up the university and its faculty in new ways. As a big glittering stage for a small number of superstar performers, however, MOOCs will make things worse.
So, thanks for the kind words. Maybe I do have nice skin. But I’m no rock star.
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The french TGV (train à grande vitesse, High speed train) sets a new conventional rail record, with a speed of 574.8 kmh. The record was established on April 3,2007, surpassing the previous record of 1990 (515.3kmh). The train is a special tgv, named "V150" (for 150 met/sec, ca. 540kmh)with a souded-up engine (25,000hp, like two F1 starting grids), and larger wheels.
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Tuesday, June 12, 2011
Our first visit to one of the most famous monuments in the city of Bandung, Bandung Lautan api is a monument located in Tegalega, Bandung city. Who does not know Bandung Lautan api Monument in Tegallega? But do you know the initiator of the monument?
He is Sunaryo, a man who was born in Banyumas on May 15, 1943.
Monument Bandung Ocean of Fire, is a monument that became landmarks of Bandung. This monument is 45 meters tall, has a side by 9 field.This monument was built to commemorate the events of Bandung Ocean of Fire, the scorched earth where there is a South Bandung, led by Mohammad Toha.
This monument is located in the middle of town that is located in the Field Tegallega. This monument is one of the most famous monuments in Bandung.This monument became the center of attention every year on March 23 commemorate Bandung Ocean of Fire. Our memories flashed to events 65 years ago, when the city of Bandung into a sea of fire.
Ultimatum to Army of the Republic of Indonesia (TRI) to leave the city and the people, politics gave birth to "bumihangus". People are not willing to Bandung exploited by the enemy. They fled to the south along with the fighters. Decision to be taken by consensus Bandung burned the Union Assembly Priangan Struggle in the presence of all the power struggles, on March 24, 1946.
Colonel Abdul Haris Nasution as the Commander of the Third Division, announced the results of the deliberation and ordered people to leave the city of Bandung. That same day, the group running the length of the population left the city Bandung.
Bandung deliberately burned by the TRI and the people with the intention that the Allies can not use it anymore. Here and there, billowing black smoke rising high in the air. All the power was off. England began to attack so fierce fighting occurred. Battle of the most exciting happening in the Village Dayeuhkolot, south of Bandung, where there is a large munitions factory owned by Allied. TRI intends to destroy the ammunition dump. For that comanded
youth Muhammad Toha and Ramdan. The boys managed to blow up the warehouse with hand grenades.
Large warehouse exploded and burned, but the two young men were burned in it. Bandung city administration staff initially will remain in the city, but for the sake of safety then at 21:00 was also out of town. Since then, approximately at 24.00 South Bandung has been empty of inhabitants and TRI. But the fire still burning city rising. And Bandung was transformed into a sea of fire.
Bandung scorched earth is the right thing, because the strength of TRI and the people will not be able to resist a powerful enemy. Next TRI with the people to fight the guerrillas from outside Bandung. This event gave birth to the song "Halo-Halo Bandung" which excited the people of Indonesia burning power struggle.
Bandung Ocean of Fire became a popular term after the arson incident. Many wonder where the term originated. AH Nasution Large recalled during a meeting in Regentsweg (now Jalan Dewi Sartika), after returning from his meeting with Sjahrir in Jakarta, to decide what action will be made to the city of Bandung after receiving the British ultimatum.
Bandung Ocean of Fire The term appears in the daily Suara Merdeka dated March 26, 1946. A young journalist at that time, namely Atje Bastaman, witnessed the burning of Bandung from the view of the hills around Mount leutik Pameungpeuk, Garut. From the top it Atje Bastaman see Bandung are flushed from the Cicadas to Cimindi.
After arriving in Tasikmalaya, Atje Bastaman eagerly and immediately wrote a story entitled Bandoeng Thus Laoetan Fire. But due to lack of space for writing the title, the title was shortened by the news Bandoeng Laoetan Fire.
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By Catherine Tsounis
Thalassemia originated in the Mediterranean region. It is a disorder caused by the weakening and destruction of red blood cells, caused by missing genes that affect how the body makes hemoglobin. It is a genetic illness. The Cooley’s Anemia Foundation, a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization is a strong partner for families living with Thalassemia. Maria Hadjidemetriou, a member of the Board of Directors for Cooleys Anemia Foundation and Executive Committee Member and Patient of Thalassemia, presented information on the genetic disorder at the recent 2014 Hermes Expo International at the Concordville Inn, Concordville, Pennsylvania.
Ms. Hadjidemetriou said in a letter that she heard about 2014 Hermes Expo International “on the professional social media site Linked In…… I called you that day to find out more if this will be a good avenue for me to advertise my professional services in real estate. When you mentioned the numbers of Greek Americans participating in this event I realized the importance of having presence for the nonprofit foundation I am Board of Directors, the Cooley’s Anemia Foundation that advocates for the genetic blood disease, Thalassemia.”
She remembered Mr. Paul Kotrotsios, founder of Hermes Expo International and Hellenic News of America newspaper, response, “I know Cooley’s Anemia” which led me to saying “I have Thalassemia”. Then Mr. Kotrotsios you offered us to exhibit gratis. You knew how this disease has affected our Greek Community and the importance of educating and bringing awareness on what it is to be a carrier of Thalassemia.”
Ms. Hadjidemetriou thanked him for mentioning the “foundation’s name during the meeting sessions. You have introduced to us other prominent Greek Americans who are part of AHEPA. They embraced our foundation and the disease. There is no cure to Thalassemia. But for me what is a source of cure is awareness and love. You have given us both. We thank you Mr. Kotrotsios for your kindness and empathy. This is what it is to be Greek. I am honored to know you as it lives within you.”
The professional blessed his “initiatives for Hermes Expo International to grow in many other industries led by Greek Americans. May prominent Greek Americans give back to the youth who will carry this torch to another generation.”
Mr. Kotrotsios believes “It is our duty to build awareness in our community for the Cooleys Anemia Foundation. We are happy that we were able to connect Ms. Hadjidemetriou with organizations, such as AHEPA, that want to help. We will promote your mission, in joint community events.” For more information, contact Paul Kotrotsios, MBA, Founder & Publisher, Hellenic News of America,
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According to the National Center on Sleep Disorders Research of the National Institutes of Health, 70 million American adults suffer from some kind of sleep disorder. Disorders such as sleep apnea have been linked to an increased likelihood of stroke, hypertension, or heart failure. It is now documented that sleep deprivation can facilitate mistakes or incidents at work; mood swings; an increased chance of obesity; and, drowsy driving, a serious condition often associated with traffic accidents and fatalities. In recent years the number of sleep disorder practitioners has grown substantially, and researchers have made breakthroughs in understanding sleep, why it's crucial to general health, and what disrupts it. "The Encyclopedia of Sleep and Sleep Disorders, Third Edition" examines the key terms, conditions, remedies, long-term health consequences, and advances that have been made in sleep health, sleep research, and sleep disorder diagnosis and treatment. This timely revised edition covers more than 80 sleep disorders in more than 800 entries and includes three informative essays - "History of Sleep and Man", "Psychology of Sleep", and "Sociology of Sleep", the latter of which is new to this edition. An all-new introduction, helpful appendixes, a bibliography, and an index complete this extensive encyclopedia. Topics covered in this title include: Accidents; Biological clock; Diet and sleep; Elderly and sleep; Infant sleep; Melatonin; Narcolepsy; Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome; Restless leg syndrome; Surgery and sleep disorders; and, more.
More About the Author
Charles P. Laughlin is a former Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. He was born in 1931.
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Near Infrared protein analyzers have become a fixture in today’s agricultural business. The popularity and success of the NIR technique has led to a situation where companies make critical decisions based upon the information supplied by these instruments. Decisions on purchasing, payment, sorting, binning, blending and load-out are commonly based on the results supplied by NIR instruments.
No longer is it simply moisture or protein that is of interest, but other traits such as oil, fiber, starch and softer "quality" parameters are often analyzed with NIR instruments. Therefore data integrity and accuracy are critical to the success and long-term profitability of these decisions.
Recent developments in NIR technology help improve results and accuracy at both a hardware and user level, thus allowing even greater possibilities of control.
DIODE ARRAY TECHNOLOGY
The DA7200 from Perten Instruments is one of these new breeds of NIR technology. The DA7200 is the second-generation diode array based NIR analyzer from Perten.
The primary hardware differences from past technology are in the design of its optical bench. Traditional scanning instruments use a moving optical grating and a narrow slit passing sequential wavelengths of light onto a detector — thus the term scanning. A single spectrum/scan is collected in most instruments in about 45 seconds. Diode array technology allows the use of a stationary wavelength grating. The grating spreads the "light" (similar to a prism) onto a series of diodes or pixels. Each pixel represents an individual wavelength. In this way, it acts similar to a digital camera in that it collects all information simultaneously as opposed to sequentially.
A single spectrum is collected in about 15 milliseconds. It measures whole grain as well as intermediate products such as mash and slurry, and it is configured so that multiple products can be measured without changes to the instrument hardware setup.
ENHANCED SYSTEM ACCURACY
The optical benches of diode array based spectrometers are mechanically simple in that there are no moving optical components in the analyzer. This allows for accurate and reproducible production of spectra and, thus, analytical results. The improved optical accuracy makes development and subsequent transfer of calibrations simpler.
Instrument accuracy is often the only source of error taken into account, but there is an equally important and often greater source of error — operational or procedural errors caused by the user.
Operators can often influence test results. For example, sample cups/cells can have several sources of error, including variability from cell to cell or damage. But the largest source is of variability in packing the samples.
The DA7200 employs a pour-and-place design to remove that source of error. The sample is poured into an open-faced dish and placed under the instrument. When an analysis is performed the dish is rotated to present a large surface area for analysis — very important for analysis of heterogeneous products such as grains and feeds. The data collection speed allows the instrument to take advantage of averaging many results in a short time. The averaging effect provides a more accurate result.
The DA7200 also incorporates an in-line emission source that automatically monitors wavelength accuracy and corrects the wavelength scale if necessary.
Through use of the open-faced sample dish, there is no sample-to-instrument contact, thereby reducing possibilities for cross contamination of results by poor cleaning.
The analysis area of the DA7200 is 108 cm2 thus improving accuracy on non-homogen-eous products.
FASTER ANALYSIS AND SAMPLE THROUGHPUT
Overall analysis speed depends on two aspects: spectrometer speed and sample handling requirements. The DA7200 provides results in 3 seconds or less. The result is an average of approximately 300 individual readings. The open architecture and design of the DA7200 allows for enhanced sample throughput by speeding up the sample presentation and cleanup steps. The practical usage process — from opening a sample container, pouring out the sample into the dish, accessing the software on the instrument, actual analysis and placing the sample back into its container or throwing it away — results in a 15 to 20 second total analysis time. The sampling system requires no sample preparation, such as grinding, and since there is no sample-to-instrument contact, there is relatively little cleanup required, even on sticky, greasy or wet samples. The speed of analysis allows for not only quicker results but significantly greater sample throughput.
The DA7200 addresses reliability and maintenance in several ways. The stationary grating provides a stable, reliable optics bench, resulting in a sturdy instrument platform.
Most NIR instruments, including the DA7200, use a similar style of tungsten halogen lamp as the light source. However, the new design of the DA7200 improves energy throughput and allows the lamp to be run at lower power, thus increasing its lifespan. A user replaceable spare is located in the instrument housing to further reduce downtime and maintenance costs. The software and user interface operate under the Windows XP platform, enabling the instrument to be contacted remotely for technical diagnostics, calibration updates, transfer of data, or software upgrades. | <urn:uuid:af66b76b-d5c5-4c2d-b246-63c4fb13df41> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.world-grain.com/news/archive/technical-profile-analyzing-improvements.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279189.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00058-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.927715 | 1,052 | 2.90625 | 3 |
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Executive functions refer to the cognitive and mental abilities that help people get things done. They direct actions, control behavior, and motivate us to achieve our goals and prepare for future events.
When a person’s executive functions fail, he has trouble analyzing, planning, organizing, scheduling, and completing tasks. People with an executive function deficit commonly lack the ability to handle frustration, start and finish tasks, recall and follow multi-step directions, stay on track, self monitor, and balance tasks (like sports and work demands). If this sounds familiar, watch this video.
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Pine Creek in Indiana
verbiage below was supplied by Indiana DNR's Canoe Guide. The information
was last updated at least 16 years ago. Put-in points have disappeared
and new ones have formed.
is very important that you submit any trip reports that you have
and include what the put-in and take out points look like. With
your help we can build a new and improved Indiana Canoe Guide. We
will revise the information below as new information presents itself.
you have a favorite river, chances are that you know it best. You
can adopt a river for this site, then write about it and describe
the put-in points. You will get full credit and you will be doing
ALL Hoosiers a big favor.
Big Pine Creek combines
natural beauty with a challenge for the canoeist. Like many small
streams, Big Pine Creek's water level fluctuates quickly, and usually
in April and May the meltwater and spring rains rush to the creek
and quickly turn it into a series of whitewater rapids. However,
during dry periods and much of the summer, canoeists should avoid
Big Pine Creek due to insufficient water levels.
One stretch named Rocky Ford is a series of rock ledges just downstream
from Rainsville. During periods of high water this stretch provides
some of the finest whitewater canoeing in Indiana. The water rapidly
slides over the creek's solid rock bottom for a distance of approximately
1/2 mile. Expert kayakers and canoeists are tested by the chutes
and standing waves (some as high as 3 feet) during high flow. In
addition to the excitement of high-water canoeing on Big Pine Creek,
the contrasts in beauty are exciting for any canoeist. The creek
cuts through heavily wooded terrain, meandering floodplains, and
sandstone ledges which form miniature canyons. The water quality
of Big Pine Creek is quite good, and the stream is generally clear,
except following a heavy rain. The creek bottom is typical of once-glaciated
areas, comprised mainly of gravel, scattered boulders and rock ledges.
The canoeist can observe scattered white pines and red cedars growing
out of the sandstone outcroppings. Hardwoods in the Big Pine valley
include oak, hickory, maple and cherry, and flowering dogwoods and
redbuds decorating the creek's corridor. Ferns, mosses and various
wildflowers provide a unique groundcover along much of the creek.
Deer, squirrels, raccoons, opossum and other mammals, along with
great horned owls, barred owls, screech owls, red-tailed and red
shouldered hawks, kingfishers and several other birds may be seen
by the river traveler in the Big Pine valley. Nature interpretation
is a popular pastime for canoeists on this creek.
Big Pine Creek extends approximately 51 miles from its source in
White County to its confluence with the Wabash River at Attica.
It is located approximately 20 miles west of Lafayette. The stretch
with the most reliable water level for canoeing extends from the
Rainsville Bridge to the Wabash River.
Bridge to Twin Bridges
From the Rainsville Bridge
to the Twin Bridges area is approximately 7 1/2 miles in length
and requires about 2 1/2 to 4 hours of canoeing. This area is the
most scenic and challenging section of Big Pine Creek with steep
banks and sandstone canyons tending to funnel the creek rapidly
through the valley.
It is in this area that the
Rocky Ford ledge series begins. Just below the ledges the stream
divides to bypass an island, then drops sharply as it makes a tight
"S" turn. At times of high flow, a hydraulic (a dangerous
stretch of upturning water) can form on the right side of the drop.
This particular stretch of sharp right angle turns, narrow passageways,
rock ledges and hidden boulders should not be taken lightly by canoeist.
Inexperienced paddlers should avoid this area during periods of
relatively high water. Below the "S" turn the stream
continues to move rapidly but is not as difficult for the canoeists.
The Fall Creek Gorge Nature Preserve, located in the Twin Bridges
area, is an interesting natural area along Big Pine Creek. Fall
Creek is a tributary of Big Pine Creek and runs through a spectacular
gorge area over a series of cascades and potholes. While not appropriate
for canoeing, is an interesting area to visit.
We found that: The put-in
site for this segment is at the Rainsville Bridge, where parking
is available for several vehicles along Co. Rd. 025 E (a.k.a.
N. Rainsville Rd.). The best access is downstream of the bridge
and on the left bank. From the Rainsville bridge proceed south
on Co. Rd. 025 E (a.k.a. N. Rainsville Rd., then Main St.) through
Rainsville. (The road turns into Co. Rd. 75 E just before it stops
at Co. Rd. 550 N.) Turn left (east) onto Co. Rd. 500 N, then quickly
right (south) onto Co. Rd. 100 E and continue to the take-out
site at Twin Bridges. [Note: According to maps, the bridge is
at the convergence of Co. Rd. 200 N and Co. Rd. 100 E to the east,
and of Co. Rd. 200 N Co. Rd. 025 E to the west. However, the signs
at the intersection of roads at the southwest end of the bridge
stated "Twin Bridges Rd." and "Pot Holes Rd.".
Access at Twin Bridges is upstream of the bridge on the left bank.
Vehicles should be parked off the road and along the bridge ramps.
A parking area adjacent to the Fall Creek Nature Preserve can also
be used for parking shuttle vehicles.
(FYI, just to the west of
the bridge over Big Pine Creek, on Twin Bridges Rd./Co. Rd. 025
E is a bridge over another creek. This other creek is Fall Creek
Photos of the Rainsville Bridge access point:
to the south on the bridge, at the access point that is downstream
, river left.
level marking are in red on the bridge support you see in this
Photos of the Twin Bridges access point:
barely see them taking out downstream of the bridge, river right.
corner of Twin Bridges Rd. and Pot Holes Rd, looking at the
Bridges to Quabache Park (Attica Area)
This section of the Big Pine Creek is approximately 7 miles in
length and requires from 2 1/2 to 4 hours to float downstream of
the Twin Bridges area, the creek's character changes. The valley
forms a broad floodplain with high walls set back a distance from
the stream. After the broad floodplain, Big Pine Creek passes through
another steep - walled gorge for approximately three miles before
it flows into the Wabash River. Canoeists must cross the Wabash
River since the take-out point is on the south side of the Wabash
at Quabache Park. This park is located about 2/3 of a mile (approximately
15 minutes) downstream of the confluence of the Wabash River and
Big Pine Creek, on the left bank.
CONSTRUCTION UPDATE - December 2014 - The SR 55 bridge over Big Pine Creek near the town of Attica, Indiana has been replaced. Construction is complete. There should no longer be any obstructions from the bridge work at this site.
The put-in is at Twin Bridges, as previously described, and to
shuttle vehicles continue south from the bridge on Twin Bridges
Rd./Co. Rd. 025 E until you dead-end into U.S. 41. Turn left (south)
and take U.S. 41 across the bridge over the Wabash River into Attica.
Make the first right onto Market Street (past the VFW Hall), then
turn right onto Canal Street, and dog-leg left, then right to the
access site on the Wabash River in Quabache Park. Parking and picnicking
are available in the park.
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Issued 3 May 2007
Short term relief but long term drought persists
With the demise of the 2006 El Niño event, 2007 has seen a general improvement in rainfall across Australia. Above average rainfall has been widespread across southern Australia for the four month period January to April 2007, with near to average rainfall across much of the Murray Darling Basin. April saw particularly good falls across southern Western Australia much of South Australia, and parts of western Victoria and New South Wales. While follow-up falls are clearly needed, this rainfall will provide short term relief to many agricultural systems.
History shows that the breakdown of past El Niño droughts has usually been associated with a shift to above-normal rainfall across much of eastern Australia. For example, of the 20 past El Niño-related droughts in the Murray-Darling Basin, in all 20 cases, a period of sustained above-normal rainfall occurred no later than the following winter (June-August). In 60% of cases this had occurred by the February-April period, whilst in the remaining 40% of cases it was later than that, most commonly in the May-July period. There is no historical precedent in 107 years of records for dry conditions to continue unbroken through the winter following an El Niño event.
An important consideration in the recovery from this drought event is the different rate at which systems respond to drought. At the current time, many catchments in eastern Australia are excessively dry from a very protracted period of below average rainfall and above average temperatures. This means that it will take above average rainfall just to produce average runoff, and very considerable rainfall to make a material difference to water storages.
Long term deficiencies remain in parts of southwestern and eastern Australia
Above average rainfall during April in Western Australia to the north of Carnarvon and to the south of Perth, eased areas of lowest on record rainfall for the period, but severe deficiencies still remain. In contrast below average rainfall for April in the area around Melbourne and in northern Tasmania caused an expansion of an area of lowest on record rainfall. Dry conditions were eased in parts of southern South Australia, which received above average rainfall for the month, but for the past twelve months, rainfall deficiencies remain evident in western WA. southeastern South Australia and in a band stretching across much of the region from Tasmania to southeast Queensland.
12-month rainfall deficiencies
For the 12-month period from May 2006 to April 2007, there were serious to severe rainfall deficiencies over southern and eastern Australia in a broad arc extending across southeastern SA, much of Victoria, much of southeastern NSW west of the Great Divide, and a large part of southeast Queensland. Northern and eastern parts of Tasmania were also affected as was WA west of a line from around Exmouth to Bremer Bay in the south. Record low 12-month falls were recorded between Dalby and Goondiwindi in southern Queensland, along much of WA’s southwest coast and Tasmania’s north coast, and in a large area around Melbourne.
The worst of the long-term deficiencies are likely to remain for some time. For them to be removed by the end of July, for example, falls over the next three months would need to be in the highest 10% of the historical record in many areas, especially in Victoria and southeast Queensland.
In comparison with the situation for the twelve months to March, areas of lowest rainfall on record shrank parts of western WA, particularly around Carnarvon and expanded in southern Victoria around Melbourne.
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Create/Solve Probability Formula, Using values 1-50
Hey guys, new to the forums here, this will be my first post, so be gentle to your math impaired friend here... (if this is in the wrong forum, plz move it)
To give a quick overview, this question is about texas holdem poker and calculating the probabilty of differnt "flops" occuring
( in this form of poker, you are dealt 2 cards out of the 52 card deck in the first round of play, once that round is completed a "flop" is dealt consisting of 3 cards from the remaining unseen 50 cards, in this discussion order does not matter)
! Here comes my math for dummies explantion, plz bare with !
so to calculate the probabilty of the flop being 3-3-3 whend you hold 65 in your hand would be calculated
( 50 unseen cards, 4 of which are a "3"
4/50=A=First card dealt
3/49=B=Second card dealt
2/48=C=Third card dealt
A x B x C= the probabilty of 3-3-3 occuring on the flop
first off is that correct?
Second and the reason im posting, this would mean that within calculating the probabilty of anything occuring on the "flop" my calculations would only ever involve
A- value between 1-50
B- value between 1-49
C- Value Between 1-48
Is there a calculator/software/program that will allow me to create the formula in the first part of the discussion, then allow me to tell it that the values I want it to compute are A/B/C, 1-50/1-49/1-48 respectively and it will solve every variable of that formula one by one, without having to type in every single differnt combination of possible values for A/B/C ?
I hope I phrased that right, if anyone has some info, or needs a clarification, plz post. TY | <urn:uuid:60b1253d-70d7-400b-ba0c-78a35e6ab374> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://mathhelpforum.com/advanced-statistics/44922-create-solve-probability-formula-using-values-1-50-a-print.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280504.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00136-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.930105 | 437 | 2.1875 | 2 |
The goal of this three-part series is to help people manage difficult conversations in spaces with school-aged children in relation to the current cultural moment (e.g. conversations about race and equity in schools and Covid protocols). Led by Jessica Hochman and Tonya Leslie of We Need 2 Talk, each webinar introduces Epoch Education’s RIR Protocol (Recognize, Interrupt, Repair): a tool for managing difficult conversations.
In this session, the second in the three-part series, the presenters set a historical context for conversations around equity. America has always had to fight for racial equity, but today’s battle has a different tone. In this webinar they discuss how conversations about equity and Critical Race Theory have made their way into mainstream conversations. Using the RIR protocol, they demonstrate ways for participants to manage these conversations. | <urn:uuid:3f104b0c-482b-4358-9217-afc7185aadfa> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://metro.org/events/managing-conversations-moment-part-2-crt-k-12-not-thing-so-why-are-we-talking-about-it | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00675.warc.gz | en | 0.933994 | 177 | 2.953125 | 3 |
What are the similarities and differences between crossflow and counterflow cooling towers? Let’s take a look!
Crossflow Cooling Towers
A crossflow cooling tower, because of its design, makes the hot process water flow down the fill media due to the force of gravity. This occurs while the air blows horizontally across the falling water, which cools it down. The air flow, of course, is the reason why it is named crossflow. In these towers, water requires only gravity for downward flow since there is no other force going against its direction. Hot water basins are placed above the fills, allowing for the water to be evenly distributed.
Crossflow Tower Pros
- Capable of up to 70% turndown.
- Utilizes high-efficiency heat transfer fill.
- Possible to clean water distribution system while in operation.
- Great performance in cold-weather applications.
Counterflow Cooling Towers
In counterflow cooling towers, the hot process water flows downward on the fill media to continue its flow down to drain onto the cold water basin. In this model, though, the air will enter the tower in a lower section, compared to the crossflow towers. The air will flow upward, passing through the water flowing the fill, resulting in a cooling down phase. The pressurized pipes and nozzles are also placed further apart than in crossflow models, as to not restrict airflow to the tower.
Counterflow Tower Pros
- Easy installation process.
- Low operating weight.
- Can use a wide variety of fill types.
Crossflow Vs Counterflow Maintenance Requirements
Routine maintenance is essential with cooling towers, regardless of the application. Typically, a crossflow cooling tower will have less maintenance needs over its lifespan. This is due simply to the number and location of air inlets in these models. While counterflow towers feature four air inlets, crossflow towers only have two.
Cooling Tower Operating Weights
A crossflow tower has a much larger operating weight than a counterflow model. Additional structures, though, do make for easier repairs and cleanings within crossflow towers. More piping found in the water distribution will only add to the weight of crossflow towers.
Should You Use A Crossflow Or Counterflow Cooling Tower?
Picking between these two cooling towers models will depend on the industry in need. Both crossflow and counterflow can be very effective at supporting chillers and achieving evaporative cooling.
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, that is native to eastern North America
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. It grows mostly in riparian zone
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s, from southern Ontario
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, west to southeast South Dakota
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, south to Georgia
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, northern Florida
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and southwest to central Texas
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. Isolated wild trees in the Upper Ottawa Valley
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may be an isolated native population or may have derived from planted trees.
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by Anton Shilov
09/23/2011 | 04:26 PM
Elpida Memory, the No. 3 DRAM maker in the world, said it had completed development of the industry's first 25nm process 4Gb DDR3 SDRAM, the smallest 4Gb memory chip, according to Elpida. The company believes that the new development will help it to boost profit margins that have been falling for some time now.
By using ultra-fine process technology the 4Gb DDR3 SDRAM becomes a more energy efficient chip and achieves higher productivity. As a 4Gb product, its density is double that of Elpida's 2Gb DDR3 SDRAM based on the same process node. The newly developed 4Gb DRAM enhances productivity by about 45% compared with Elpida's 30nm 4Gb DDR3 SDRAM. Compared with this same 30nm DDR3, it reduces operating current by about 25-30% and standby current by about 30-50%. It has also realized the industry's highest speed data transfer rate of 1866MT/s (1866MHz resulting clock-speed) with 1.35V or 1.5V voltage.
The new 25nm DDR3 SDRAM is expected to find applications in PCs and in servers used in data centers and other facilities that perform large-scale information processing tasks. Other applications are likely to include tablet PCs and thin ultrabook systems.
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Well, yes, there is global pollution. Whether it warms anything is another question. But the stink of corruption emanating from the Clintons and their Foundation is polluting the atmosphere of the world.
Ed Morrissey at Hot Air reports:
Ukrainian energy mogul Victor Pinchuk has connections to the Clintons that go back almost a decade, and financial connections to the regime in Tehran that go much farther …
Pinchuk owns Interpipe Group, a Cyprus-incorporated manufacturer of seamless pipes used in oil and gas sectors.
Newsweek [reports that it] has seen declarations and documents from Ukraine that show a series of shipments from Interpipe to Iran in 2011 and 2012, including railway parts and products commonly used in the oil and gas sectors. Among a number of high-value invoices for products related to rail or oil and gas, one shipment for $1.8m in May 2012 was for “seamless hot-worked steel pipes for pipelines” and destined for a city near the Caspian Sea. Both the rail and oil and gas sectors are sanctioned by the US, which specifically prohibits any single invoice to the Iranian petrochemical industry worth more than $1m.
In other words, Interpipe should have been slapped with penalties and sanctions for its operations with Iran. Pinchuk’s company has a US subsidiary, which means that US sanctions apply across the entire organization.
It was a clear case of sanctions-busting. So what happened?
The agency for imposing penalties for sanctions violations in these cases … is the State Department. …
Who was in charge at the State Department during this period? None other than Hillary Clinton. …
The person in charge of enforcing sanctions on Iran somehow missed key violations from a man who was pouring millions of dollars into her family foundation.
Between 2009 and 2013, including when Mrs. Clinton was secretary of state, the Clinton Foundation received at least $8.6 million from the Victor Pinchuk Foundation, according to that foundation, which is based in Kiev, Ukraine. …
In 2008, Mr. Pinchuk made a five-year, $29 million commitment to the Clinton Global Initiative, a wing of the foundation that coordinates charitable projects and funding for them but doesn’t handle the money.
The pledge was to fund a program to train future Ukrainian leaders and professionals “to modernize Ukraine,” according to the Clinton Foundation. …
Now there’s a good cause for you if you are searching for one! Modernizing Ukraine! Give, give to stanch your bleeding heart!
Despite all of Pinchuk’s activity with Iran, the State Department apparently took no action against his company or Pinchuk himself. That lack of response finally got the attention of Rep. Steve Stockman last November, before his retirement, who requested that the Department of the Treasury investigate Interpipe. So far, there have been no developments on that front. …
Sniff the air. As the reporter says: “That smells to high heaven.”
And the Pinchuk affair is only one instance of a foreign billionaire purchasing special favors from the present US government and a possible future US government:
There are many powerful people with access to enormous funds who go in for what we might call speculative bribery:
Pinchuk was among an elite few dumping tons of money into the Clinton Foundation … checks worth millions of dollars from company executives, philanthropists, billionaires and foreign organizations, among them … the Saudi Mohammed al-Amoudi and Rilin Enterprises, which is led by Chinese billionaire Wang Wenliang, a member of the Chinese parliament. …
It’s a sort of bet. The donors are willing to wager vast sums on what they consider a fair probability that Hillary will be elected president of the mightiest nation on earth, and then, they expect, their generosity will garner its reward.
With rather less of a chance on their side, however, they are also trusting to the Clinton honor. If their trust is well placed, we would have to expect US foreign policy under the next President Clinton to be bought and pledged already. But the saving disgrace of the Clintons may turn out to be that they have no sense of honor, any more than a sense of honesty. Who would be surprised? The foreign donors might be angry, but if they know anything about the Clintons at all they must know they were making no sure bet.
The Clinton Foundation’s “practice of accepting contributions from foreign countries” is said in the report to be “a major point of contention”. We can see why that may be the case. There was, for instance, a $500,000 check from Algeria “for Haitian earthquake relief”. There was nothing in the world stopping Algeria sending money direct to Haiti for earthquake relief, except that it was more concerned with bribing Hillary Clinton than relieving the victims of a natural disaster.
Saudi Arabia and Norway have each given between $10 million and $25 million to the Clinton Foundation since its inception, according to the organization’s records. …
For what? For Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea to fly about in a private jet? For Hillary to buy support for a presidential campaign run from the Foundation’s HQ?
Well, some of it perhaps. But some of it is also, definitely, for good causes.
On the subject of those lucky causes, what they are, and how good, we posted an article two days ago – The great good works and wonky dilemmas of William J. Clinton, April 18, 2015. Readers can judge for themselves how good they are.
Interested readers can also go to clintonfoundation.0rg/about, where the three Clintons boast:
We believe that the best way to unlock human potential is through the power of creative collaboration. That’s why we build partnerships between businesses, NGOs, governments, and individuals everywhere to work faster, better, and leaner; to find solutions that last; and to transform lives and communities from what they are today to what they can be, tomorrow.
Everywhere we go, we’re trying to work ourselves out of a job. Whether it’s improving global health, increasing opportunity for women and girls, reducing childhood obesity and preventable diseases, creating economic opportunity and growth, or helping communities address the effects of climate change, we keep score by the lives that are saved or improved.
What began as one man’s drive to help people everywhere grew quickly into a foundation committed to helping people realize their full potential. Because the best thing we can do together is give others the chance to live their best life stories.
We’re all in this together.
They’ll take the whole global village. They’ll take what there is to take. In a jolly, communitarian way. (And even individuals can be helped by the Clintons and a bit of foreign money to “work leaner”.) By hook and by crook, the Clintons will realize their full potential. They are living their best life story.
For more about this source of moral sepsis, read here about a new book by Peter Schweizer, titled: Clinton Cash: How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich.
Our guess is that the corruption goes far, far deeper than anyone has yet found out, or ever will.
Here are just some of the questions hanging in the air over the Obama administration, whose hands are soaked with the American blood shed in Benghazi, about the Generals in Disgrace Affair. They are by Victor Davis Hanson, and we take them from The Corner of the National Review:
How can some individual just call up an FBI friend (?) and thereby instigate an FBI investigation?
That is what Jill Kelley, now said to have been in an intimate relationship with General John Allen, did. Why did she do it?
It seems she is in serious debt, and may have hoped to launch a scandal in order to make money from the media.
How can a Florida socialite by any stretch of the imagination merit a vast e-mail correspondence with the nation’s highest ranking warriors entrusted to conduct our most critical struggles?
Because corruption has become normal.
What in the world is an “honorary consul general” and who extends such Alice Through the Looking Glass titles?
That’s what she called herself, and on the strength of the self-awarded title asked the FBI for diplomatic protection.
How can a Ph.D. candidate, without any journalistic or historical credentials, become the public face of a four-star general and be privy to information to the point of hitting the lecture circuit to pontificate about a CIA annex in Benghazi? How did an early-middle-aged married mother of two suddenly morph into a court biographer who lectured on everything from military practice to leadership to national-security challenges?
This refers of course to Paula Broadwell, who was not a writer but has her name on the biography (actually penned, we surmise, by her “co-author” Vernon Loeb) of General Petraeus. Our suggestion: She didn’t get close to the General because she was writing his biography; she thought up the idea of “writing” his biography as a pretext for staying close to him.
We are not outraged by adultery. As the schoolboy said, the lifelong marriage of one man with one woman is called monotony.
We are outraged by what Obama, Hillary Clinton, General Petraeus, Leon Panetta and Co allowed to happen, or caused to happen in Benghazi. The divers devious divas who play their parts in the spectacle of corruption merely decorate the stage.
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Austin City Council may choose to vote on banning so-called “stealth dorms” at its meeting Thursday, even though a study assessing the impact of the ban on housing affordability concluded that there was not sufficient time to determine the potential effects of the ban.
The study, which was released Monday, was conducted in six weeks, although Sheryl Cole, city councilwoman and mayor pro tem, originally proposed that an eight-week period be allowed. The council ultimately voted in favor of Councilman Chris Riley’s amendment to shorten the analysis period to six weeks, which passed 6-1.
In February, Austin City Council made an initial vote to pass the city code amendment, which would lower the number of unrelated adults who can live together in a house or duplex from six individuals to four. The amendment would only apply to residential complexes built in the future.
The amendment must be voted on two additional times before it is passed, with the second vote scheduled for Thursday, though Cole, speaking at a Student Government meeting Tuesday, said there is a possibility the council will take both the second and final votes necessary Thursday.
The economic study was conducted by the Austin Board of Realtors, who worked with Civic Analytics LLC, a research and consulting firm.
Civic Analytics founder Brian Kelsey, who was the principal researcher of the analysis, said in the report he thinks a more in-depth analysis is necessary if City Council members want to know the impact the ban would have on housing affordability.
Kelsey said he does not know how long a more in-depth analysis would take but thinks it would be beneficial to make any significant conclusions.
“You really need a housing economist to weigh in on this, or at least somebody much more familiar than I am with housing economics,” Kelsey said. “If more time leads to a more thoughtful analysis and results in a more data-driven evaluation of the proposed policy, then I’m all for it.”
According to Kelsey, the report reflects a city-wide issue rather than one that pertains only to University students. Kelsey said the city requested data from UT that could not be produced in the six weeks allotted for the report.
“It’s a preliminary analysis that was done in a span of about 72 hours after waiting nearly four weeks to collect as much data as we could,” Kelsey said. “My hope is that it presents a new way of analyzing the issue and that it can undergo some peer review and further refinement if anybody is interested in additional study.”
Lorre Weidlich, Hyde Park Neighborhood Association steering committee co-president, said she does not think the progress of the amendment will be affected by the report’s findings.
“[The researcher] drew some correlations, but, aside from that, he couldn’t draw any causations,” Weidlich said. “I don’t think the city council members will find this report any more useful than I did. I doubt that [they’ll request more time].”
According to Weidlich, the association cannot afford to wait much longer for the amendment to pass because historic houses would be torn down by developers and replaced with large duplexes.
“This ordinance is only for two years,” Weidlich said. “Take that two years and do a good analysis during that period, and then revisit the question.”
When the council originally debated and passed the first vote, councilman Bill Spelman — the only council member who voted against the ordinance — said he felt the data was necessary in order to make an informed decision.
“We’re flying blind,” said Spelman, who also serves as a professor in the LBJ School of Public Affairs. “We’re talking about a potentially enormous change in land usage in the city without any analysis, with only qualitative affordability assessments.”
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In this hands-on art camp, children will create art inspired by famous artists such as Van Gogh, Kusama, Goldsworthy, and our own Maude Lewis. Each day, we will focus on an artist and learn about how they created their works of art. Children will then work on their own projects, infusing them with their own imagination and creativity. Activities will include watercolour painting, sculpture, potato printing, wall murals, self-portraits, and nature art. Exploring art history will be dynamic, inspiring, and hands-on. Children will be encouraged to take chances, get messy, make mistakes (thanks Ms. Frizzle!), and most importantly, have fun! | <urn:uuid:35daad9c-f610-4796-9bc0-6c1e4266b9bd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://tagon4.ca/study-at-nscad/extended-studies/courses/winter/2019w-winter/march-breakhands-on-art-history-ages-5-7/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00277.warc.gz | en | 0.951651 | 144 | 2.859375 | 3 |
2004 SA Award
The 2004 South Australian Pearcey Award was presented to Dr Ross Williams. The award was presented by the Hon. Trish White, who is also a State patron of the Pearcey Foundation.
The award ceremony was held at the Hilton Hotel, Adelaide, on Wednesday 1st December 2004.
Dr Ross Williams
Ross obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University Of Adelaide in 1990, after which he worked for the Australian National Railways as a Safety Critical Software Analyst. Following this, Ross founded Rocksoft, designed and implemented the original Veracity product, and grew the company using the Internet as a marketing and distribution vehicle.
Ross conceived and developed the Blocklets software technology and has been the creative force behind Rocksoft's stream of new software technologies, including the Blocklets File Store, the Blocklets Network Protocol, and the Viarius self-healing enterprise architecture. Ross continues his involvement with Rocksoft in the role as Chairman in which he oversees corporate development, and in the role of Chief Technical Architect in which he creates and develops new software technologies. Ross is a member of the ACM, the IEEE, and the ACS.
Dr. Trevor Pearcey led the project team in Australia between 1947 and 1949 that built the fourth operational computer ever constructed, CSIRAC. Dr Pearcey died on January 27th 1998 and the Foundation was established in his memory to honour Australia's significant contribution to the world's IT industry.
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- DescriptionThe seven chapters address long-standing concerns from first-hand perspectives regarding women of color faculty in the academy, the marginalization of women of color scholars in the academy and the benefits of mentoring support. Discussion of such are threaded throughout this book. Mentoring has been a practice of leadership since Greek times, and research has documented the advantages of mentoring. Aligned with the authors espoused mentoring perspectives in this book, is the coined concept of synergistic mentoring Accordingly, Synergistic mentoring is defined as a mentor and mentee working together collaboratively to (a) generate a greater good for both, (b) integrate diverse perspectives into the context, and (c) construct together an otherwise unattainable goal attempted independently.
The authors of this book seek to enlighten, dynamic and critical discussions by and about women of color in the academy. Conceivably the most intriguing part of each chapter is the methodological approaches used to address race, gender, and social justice in the academy. Qualitative methods dominate the chapters with effective use of personal narratives and the lived experiences of the participants. The voices of those often igred or forgotten are examined building on the legacy of women of color in the academy who paved the way for this generation and future scholars of color. Moreover, the chapters presented herein challenge assumptions, perspectives and beliefs about the significance of women of color scholars in the academy. They are provocative and provide direction for future research that advance kwledge and understanding for a better society based on social justice, equity and equal opportunity. They also give voice to both the shared diverse and common experiences of this group of women scholars of color and provide useful guidance and new perspectives on transforming the world's academics into more inclusive and equitable environments around the globe (Thomas & Hollenshead, 2001). Ultimately, outcomes from these collections of scholarly discourse, may have important implications for effective policy and program practice that raise important questions about institutional commitments that advocate for the advancement of women of color in the academy.
- Author BiographyGaetane Jean-Marie, University of Oklahoma, USA
Cosette M. Grant, University of Cincinnati, USA
Beverly Irby, Sam Houston State University, USA
- PublisherInformation Age Publishing
- Date of Publication30/03/2014
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Revenue cycle management is one of the most critical processes that organizations need to master to be successful. Here’s what you need to know!
Understanding healthcare revenue cycle management is crucial for every healthcare organization, large or small. In this article we’ll take a look at the basics of healthcare revenue cycle management and its impact on the healthcare industry.
WHAT ARE THE BASICS OF HEALTHCARE REVENUE CYCLE MANAGEMENT?
For those who don’t know, revenue cycle management is the financial process that is used to manage administrative and clinical functions associated with claims processing, payment, and revenue generation. The process includes the identification, management, and collection of patient service revenue. This financial process is imperative to keeping healthcare organizations operating in order to treat patients. Essentially, it’s how the bills get paid!
Revenue cycle management begins when the patient makes their appointment to seek medical services, and ends when all claims and payments have been collected. Between the patient and the final collection, the process includes claims submission, and then sent out to the payer for reimbursement. The goal of healthcare revenue cycle management is to develop a process that helps organizations get paid the full amount for services as quickly as possible. That’s what makes it unique.
HOW DOES ONE SUCCEED AT HEALTHCARE REVENUE CYCLE MANAGEMENT?
Simply put, healthcare organizations must stay in the black and maintain profitability to be successful at healthcare revenue cycle management. Managing claims denials is the most effective way to do this. A great deal of errors can occur in the beginning stages of a patient’s account, which can carry on throughout the revenue cycle, disrupting claims reimbursement. It is particularly important to verify the patient’s insurance eligibility during pre-registration in order to be sure that insurance providers will reimburse the healthcare organization for any provided services.
Organizations should also seek to manage claim denials and have procedures in place for quickly handling any reimbursement issues. Anything from improper ICD-10 coding to a missing signature on a chart can cause a claim to be denied. Many claims denials are avoidable so long as staff are properly trained to use billing forms and in counseling the patient about medical costs. Revenue cycle software can also help automate processes like insurance verification and coding. Organizations should also track claims and investigate the causes of denials to help prevent them from occurring in the future. Using analytics software and services like health IT solutions is also recommended for successful healthcare revenue cycle management.
WHAT ARE SOME OF THE CHALLENGES WITH HEALTHCARE REVENUE CYCLE MANAGEMENT?
Healthcare regulations and reimbursement models are constantly changing and being updated, which can make it difficult for healthcare organizations to maintain their healthcare revenue cycle management policies. One of the main challenges for healthcare organizations is collecting payments from patients at or before the point-of-service. Many providers day that it can be daunting to try and collect payment from patients before they leave the office. This is further complicated by the fact that many patients cannot afford to pay medical bills upfront. It can be a real challenge to ensure debts are collected without pressuring patients to the point of pushing them to seek care elsewhere.
Another challenge to maintaining revenue cycle management is tracking a claim through its lifecycle from start to finish. As tough as it may be, professionals should monitor claims processes closely in order to ascertain where any errors are being made. It goes without saying that revenue could be lost if providers can’t identify where issues originated, and solve them with haste.
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