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Showing and teaching the children magic tricks encourages skills, such as self-discipline – unless you practice magic skills you will fail – and critical thinking. It also helps children to think from another person’s perspective, and consider how they are feeling.
Wiseman, who is based at the University of Hertfordshire, reports an experiment he conducted in cooperation with two Hertfordshire schools, JFK school and the Wroxham School in Potter’s Bar, in which children aged 10 to 12 were taught magic instead of the standard curriculum of Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE). The magic lessons involved teaching them how to perform two simple tricks and encouraging them to practise them on friends and family. Teachers rated the children as “more sociable confident” after magic lessons, and the lessons were also very popular with the children.
I’m particularly interested by the potential to introduce habits of critical thought at such a young age. A child who knows how to do seemingly impossible things using quite simple and easily taught deceptive techniques, and who has experience of watching the thought processes of other people while they view a magic trick, is better equipped for evaluating the seductive claims of con-men, religions, paranormalists, ufologists and the like.
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Art meets conservation in the eastern Sierra
The Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep has the unique distinction of being the only endangered bighorn subspecies of three in the United States.
The population dropped to 100 individuals in the 1990s, but has since rebounded, and hit 500 individuals in 2012, spurring optimism for the continued growth and recovery of this rare and unique megafauna.
Artist and science illustrator Jane Kim started her Migrating Mural project last fall with the completion of the first bighorn sheep mural on the Mt. Williamson Motel in Independence.
The project will take a year and include murals of bighorn sheep on buildings along U.S. 395 in Olancha, Bishop, and Lee Vining.
The concept is to fuse art and conservation, bringing awareness of a rare and special species to citizens and travelers by highlighting this species roughly along its habitat range.
Kim conceived the idea while on a long drive.
“As I was looking out into the landscape,” she said, “seeing different buildings, seeing birds fly by, I thought ‘wow, it would make this drive so interesting if there were murals on the buildings that shared stories of different animals that live in this area.’”
And what better animal to highlight than the endangered Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep?
The Sierra Nevada Bighorn Sheep Foundation is hosting a fundraiser at the Mountain Light Gallery in Bishop on Feb. 16, complete with a silent auction of select photos and generous raffle prizes from Sage to Summit.
Tickets are on sale through Sage to Summit, and include a guided field trip spotting bighorn sheep Feb. 17.
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Economics Today: The Micro View (14th Edition)
KEY MESSAGE: Readers learn best when they see a concept applied in the context of examples they understand. That is why Economics Today is so successful when readers hail from a wide variety of backgrounds. An abundance of relentlessly current, news-worthy examples motivate every chapter and reflect the interests of today's diverse reader population.
Introduction: The Nature of Economics; Scarcity and the World of Trade-Offs; Demand and Supply; Extensions of Demand and Supply Analysis; The Public Sector and Public Choice; Taxes, Transfers, and Public Spending; Dimensions of Microeconomics: Consumer Choice; Demand and Supply Elasticity; Rents, Profits, and the Financial Environment of Business; Market Structure, Resource Allocation, and Regulation: The Firm: Cost and Output Determination; Perfect Competition; Monopoly; Monopolistic Competition; Oligopoly and Strategic Behavior; Regulation and Antitrust Policy in a Globalized Economy; Labor Resources and the Environment: The Labor Market: Demand, Supply, and Outsourcing; Unions and Labor Market Monopoly Power; Income, Poverty, and Health Care; Environmental Economics; Global Economics: Comparative Advantage and the Open Economy; Exchange Rates and the Balance of Payments
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Each day includes a balance of indoor, classroom-based components and outdoor field experiences. Daily activities include nature walks, behinds-the-scenes tours of research labs and field work in beautiful locations. All institutes emphasize hands-on, minds-on inquiry-based education. Participants will have the opportunity to hear from scientists, engineers, and other practitioners in the field, and engage in investigations that can be added to your classroom toolbox.
MITS offers two different types of Summer Institutes: a one-week on-site institute or a hybrid model which includes an on-line course component. Both start with an introductory half-day on a Saturday in June followed by a one-week on-site experience in one of the first two weeks after July 4. In the one-week model you can choose to earn either 40 PDPS or 3 graduate credits and 67.5 PDPs. The hybrid model offers an additional 4 weeks of online work which complements the on-site experience and content and is flexible with your schedule. You can decide to earn 50 PDPs or 4 graduate credits and 90 PDPs.
Each regional institute has a different focus and target audience.
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You don’t want to miss the opportunity to investigate how scientists and land managers collaborate to improve the health of coastal ecosystems! In this week-long institute, we’ll roll up our sleeves to collect and analyze data from rocky shores, marshes, and tidal flats of the North Shore.
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This one-week institute will explore the Science and Engineering Practices and the instruments used to study the unique flora, fauna and geology of Cape Cod. Activities in this institute include visiting a marine animal hospital and getting your feet wet to practice core sampling techniques in a tidal marsh.
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Feeling disconnected from the world around you? It’s time to reconnect with Mother Nature! This one-week institute will highlight ways humans impact and are impacted by the natural world, even in their own backyard, and will examine the physical, chemical and biological factors at play.
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Using the living laboratory of the Merrimack River Watershed, this hybrid institute will investigate waterways as resources for renewable energy, examples of advancement in engineering, and site of ecological research. Activities include building your own mill-and-canal model, testing water samples and a boat tour of Lowell National Historical Park. All aboard!
- Southeast Region: To the Moon and Back: Engaging Your Students in Earth and Space Science Through Inquiry
Blast off into inquiry-based learning in this hybrid institute! Learn how technology, engineering and mathematics are used to study planet Earth, outer space, and the fascinating connections between the two. You’ll walk away with knowledge and resources that are out of this world!
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A Listserv is an electronic mailing list using the Listserv computer program, which differs from distribution lists used in email programs. With a Listserv, you can create a topic and distribute information or start a discussion with a list of subscribers. Listservs are often used by universities and politicians to communicate with a large body of people, but these mailing lists can also be used by people who share common interests. Learn how to create a Listserv for your specific needs.
1Download the Listserv program that best meets your needs in the Download area of http://www.lsoft.com/. There are 3 options for any operating system:
- Listserv Classic is the first and most often used of the Listserv programs. It meets the needs of most individual users and includes email and discussion groups.
- Listserv Lite is for entry-level electronic mailing lists and does not contain advanced features.
- Listserv Maestro meets the needs of heavy users with a large number of subscribers.
2Register your Listserv mailing list with the name, category and description of the list.
- Make certain the name of the list and the email address that people will use describe the group as much as possible, such as ROADRUNNERS@LISTSERV.TAMU.EDU for recreational runners.
3This is a good time to set up a password for managing your electronic mailing list. Password verification will be sent to you with instructions on activating it.
4Decide whether you want your electronic mailing list to be public or private.
- A public list means that anyone can join.
- If you want to create a Listserv that is private, let Listserv know when you register it. Don't join directories such as Yahoo! Groups.
5Add members after you start a Listserv.
- Invite people to join by typing in their email addresses on the management page.
- The people who receive your invitations can join or "opt in."
- Other people can subscribe by sending a message to the Listserv; however you must approve membership requests.
6Include subscription information as a default at the bottom of Listserv messages that go out. This allows people to subscribe or unsubscribe at any time.
7Create a Listserv message where you can add important information to headers and footers to publicize something or for notification purposes.
8Send a message to the email addresses you created for the Listserv mailing list.
- Anyone in the Listserv can send a message unless it's a moderated list.
- If you start a Listserv that is a moderated list, then you must approve messages before posting them to the electronic mailing list.
9Monitor traffic after you start a Listserv.
- Encourage spirited discussions.
- Make everyone aware of rules about what is not allowed in the Listserv.
10Use the pull-down list menu if you are managing more than one Listserv mailing list.
11Go to the management page any time you want to manage Listserv settings.
- Choose "Subscribers" or the Subscriber button to add or delete subscribers or change any of their information.
- "Bulk op." is for managing bulk operations, but be careful. When you use this command, you cannot undo it.
- The Commands button can be used to manage your electronic mailing list or enter Listserv commands.
- Try out Listserv by downloading a free evaluation copy.
- Warn inappropriate subscribers with a private email. If the inappropriate behavior continues, ban them from the Listserv mailing list.
- Listserv is a registered trademark of L-Soft International Inc. Therefore, the term should only be used with Listserv electronic mailing lists.
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Does Vitamin C Really Fight Colds?
"I take vitamin C every day 1000mg especially when I can remember it, even more when I have a cold and that seems to help a lot."
Lots of people swear that vitamin C can keep colds at bay. They're in good company. Nobel prize-winning scientist Linus Pauling believed it too. So the idea would seem to be nothing to sneeze at. But the cold, hard facts suggest otherwise.
A review of 30 studies involving more than 11 thousand subjects found that daily vitamin c generally did not ward off colds.
But there were some exceptions: for marathon runners, skiers, and soldiers in frigid conditions, the vitamin appeared to cut their risk of colds by half.
As for the effect on symptoms, it's slight. In studies regular vitamin c users had colds that were shorter, on average, by one day or less.
Those who started vitamin c once they felt sick did not seem to benefit at all-unless they took a massive dose of 8000 mg.
That's far more than the 2000 mg a day upper limit considered safe for adults. Above that, vitamin c can cause stomach upset and kidney stones.
Also, it's best not to take more than 500 mg at a time, since that's about all the body can absorb.
As long as you don't overdo it, there's probably no harm in popping vitamin c as a defense against colds. But the best way to get the vitamin is through foods like oranges. That way, even if you aren't preventing colds, you'll still be doing a favor for your health and your tastebuds.
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You’re excited to start mining and generating passive income with your Goldshell BOX. You may even have your miner shipped and ready to go already. But how do you actually set up your ASIC?
We’ve written this article to guide you through the set-up process and clear up some common misconceptions. The process is super simple and should take less than 10 minutes.
In this article we’re using a Goldshell Mini-DOGE as an example, but the process is the same for any Goldshell BOX model:
Here’s everything you’ll learn:
- What you need to get started, and how to decide on a Power Supply
- How do you access the miner’s user interface?
- How do you connect to a mining pool?
- Recommendations for mining pools and coin wallets
ASIC Miner Set Up: What do I need to get started?
After you get your miner itself, you’ll also need a Power Supply (PSU) and an Ethernet Cable.
The Power Supply (PSU) converts the alternating high voltage current (AC) from the outlet into direct current (DC) which can be used by your miners.
If you’ve bought the Goldshell BOX with the 300W Power Supply Add-on, you can skip the next step as you have everything you need to power your miner.
Please note: if you are mining in the USA or Canada, you might need to buy a new power cord. The Goldshell BOX with Power Supply Add-on comes with a Type-I power cord (suitable for China, Australia and New Zealand). USA and Canada outlets on the other hand, require a Type-B power cord. The cord from a desktop computer will work fine; it looks like this: Amazon example.
How do I choose the right Power Supply (PSU)?
Read this section if you bought a standalone miner and still need a power supply.
The most important things to look for when choosing a Power Supply (PSU) are:
The wattage is the maximum amount of power the PSU can output. The PSU must have a wattage that is higher than the miner power consumption. You will also want a bit of headroom. Maxing out your power supply at 100% is not good for longevity; in fact PSU’s generally run at optimal efficiency at 70-80% load.
- 80 Plus rating means that the PSU is rated for at least 80% efficiency.
- 80 Plus Bronze means the PSU is rated for at least 82% efficient.
- 80 Plus Silver means the PSU is rated for at least 85% efficiency.
- 80 Plus Gold means the PSU is rated for at least 87% efficiency.
- 80 Plus Platinum means the PSU is rated for at least 90% efficiency.
The more efficient a PSU is, the less extra power it has to draw from a wall – saving you money in the long run. It’s up to you to determine if the long-term savings of having a more efficient PSU are worth the higher cost of the PSU. At LeetMiners, we aim to use 80 Plus Gold (at least 87% efficiency) or higher for all our mining activities.
Many Chinese produced PSUs do not have efficiency ratings, as 80 Plus is an American standard. Companies will report the efficiency directly on the products in terms of percentage.
Example: Goldshell Mini-DOGE
We know that our Mini-DOGE requires 233W to run. Check asicminervalue.com for your own miner’s power requirements.
In this example setup we’re going to use a Goldshell brand PSU that supplies 1200W. 233W is only 19% of 1200W, far under our suggested 80% threshold, so we could use this PSU to power multiple miners if we wanted to.
The PSU we’re using will work anywhere in the world, because it has “INPUT: 110-240V’ on its label.
- The U.S. uses 120 volts (you’ll see 110 V in places because of legacy)
- Europe and much of the rest of the world uses 240 volts.
Below are are some other recommendations for PSUs.
Recommended Chinese Mining Brand PSUs for ASIC mining
|Name||Wattage||Efficiency Rating||Price||Total Connectors||Link|
|Bitmain Antminer APW7 Power Supply||1000W @ 110v-120v|
1800W @ 220v-240v
|Goldshell 4-Connector Power Supply||1200W||90%||$199.99||4x||Goldshell|
|Bitmain Antminer Power Supply APW3++||1600W||93.5%||$239.99||10x||Amazon|
Are normal brand Power Supplies compatible with ASIC miners?
Yes, they are: you don’t have to use a ASIC brand Power Supply with your ASIC miners. We like the PSUs in the table above because they are generally good quality, are fairly priced, and miner manufacturers sometimes include them as part of deals.
Here are some quality PSUs from general hardware brands:
|Name||Wattage||Efficiency Rating||Price||Total Connectors||Link|
|CORSAIR RM750x||750W||80 Plus Gold (87%)||$139.99||4x||Amazon|
|Super Flower Leadex III Gold||750W||80 Plus Gold (87%)||$129.99||2x||Amazon|
|MSI MPG Series A850GF||850W||80 Plus Gold (87%)||$129.80||6x||Amazon|
Question: Will I trip the circuit breaker?The circuit breaker trips it cannot handle the excess load of electricity. A 15 amp circuit in the US is rated for a peak load of 15A x 120V = 1800 Watts. However, mining is a contiguous load so it is subject to an 20% de-rating, giving you 1800 * 0.8 = 1440 Watts. So, in order to not risk overheating the internal wiring and circuit breaker you must stay under 1440 watts for that entire circuit.
Which Ethernet cable should I use?
The ethernet cable is simply to connect the miner to the internet through your router. Choice of ethernet cable is not a huge deal. If you don’t have a spare lying around, any amazon cable with good reviews will do, just make sure your ethernet cable is long enough if your miners will be far away from your router.
Now that we have everything we need, we plug our miner into the PSU and plug the PSU into the outlet. Then we connect our miner to the router.
The miner comes to life with a hum and then quiets down.
The status light will also turn on – don’t be worried if it is red for now.
Connecting the miner: Access the miner’s web interface
Now it’s time to access the miner interface so we can get mining.
Go to https://find.goldshell.com/ to find the IP address of your miners.
What if I don’t see anything on find.goldshell.com?
The Goldshell website has been known to not update in time.
If you do not see the IP address of your miners, you can download Angry IP Scanner to see if your miners are connected properly and view their IP addresses.
After running Angry IP Scanner you will see a list of IPs like this.
Blue is normally YOUR IP.
Green means that the IP address is active, and the device connected to it is responding to requests. This is most likely your miner/s. You can test them by going to the IP addresses in your browser.
Connecting to the Miner web interface
Take the IP address of the miner and enter it in our browser.
You’ll see an interface that looks like this.
You’ll have to unlock the miner by creating a username and password:
The initial password is 123456789 – use this to unlock the account, and then you can change the password later.
How do you connect a miner to a mining pool?
The last thing we need to do is to connect the miner to a pool.
A mining pool is a group of crypto miners who combine their miner computational power to strengthen the probability of finding a block. If the mining pool finds a block successfully, the reward is split amongst pool participants.
Rewards are usually divided according to the proportion of hash power each individual contributes. For example, if I contribute 5% of the pool power, then I receive 5% of the rewards mined by the pool.
We recommend mining in pools because: while a solo miner will receive the full reward for finding a block, the odds of achieving success is very low due to high resource and power requirements. Teaming up with others dramatically improves success rate.
Great, but how do I find the most profitable pool to be in?
The industry is dominated by a small number of large pools. The miner’s dilemma: a larger pool has higher overall hashrate so it will be able to mine more rewards overall. But in a smaller pool you provide a greater proportion of computational power, and thus receive a greater proportion of the rewards.
Sites like whattomine.com provide rankings for pools, however the best method to discovering what is most profitable for you is to try multiple pools yourself. You can try pools for 2-3 days each, and see which one yields the most coins.
Connecting to the f2pool
We’ll use the f2pool as an example, since its one of the largest, most established pools with an easy to use interface:
Change the currency I’m mining to Litecoin, or whatever you are mining.
Go back to the Goldshell interface and click on the miner tab. Under “Pool settings” click add
Fill your credentials. Note: Goldshell separates out the stratum+tcp portion of the address so you only have to type the URL into the URL field.
When the miner is connected, you will be able to see its Hashrate in the pool interface.
Add a Wallet Address
Last step is to add your wallet address so you can get paid!
Navigate to your account settings and add your LTC address. Since we’re dual mining LTC and DOGE, don’t forget to add your DOGE address too.
Pool / Wallet Recommendations for Different Coins
We get asked this question a lot, so we’ll write a longer article about our recommendations and rationale behind them soon.
For now, these are our quick recommendations for which pools to mine in, and which wallets to store those rewards in.
|Miner||Coin/s Mined||Pool Recommendation||Wallet Recommendation|
|Goldshell Mini-DOGE||Dogecoin, Litecoin||f2pool||Ledger S|
|Goldshell HS-BOX||Handshake||dxpool||Bob Wallet|
|Goldshell LB-BOX||LBRY Credits||zPool||LBRY Desktop Wallet|
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By Lara Moamar
What are your plans for the future? This one daunting question casts a permanent shadow on students’ time at university. Whether you’re a law student stuck in the fierce competition for an internship, a finance student aiming for the Big Four, or even an overwhelmed first year English Literature student like me, we’ve all felt this surging sense of anxiety as to what our future holds and wondered what we need to be doing to ensure that we get on the right path. In these isolating times, spending all day glued to a desk, this is especially true.
It is difficult to know what you want to be or where you want to work so early on. More often than not, even those who have mapped out their ten-year career plan end up working in sectors they would not have expected. That isn’t to say that we should abandon planning altogether; rather, remember to retain an open-minded approach as we attempt to navigate the fog of the future.
The only way to soothe our fears for the future is to stop avoiding them. Our minds are cluttered by all the different goals we want to achieve. Excitement is replaced by angst and fear of failure: 79% of university students worry about getting a job, while 72% worry about debt. This anxiety manifests itself in two polarised responses: students either want to throw themselves into extracurriculars and any online skill courses that have the potential to ‘look good on a CV’, or we are frozen into a state of inaction and choose to ignore the looming responsibilities ahead.
While stress has become a permanent fixture of the university experience, there are a few ways we can combat it. Before aimlessly scrolling through internships and job opportunity pages, we need to seriously reflect on what it is we could envisage ourselves doing. Taking an hour or two from your weekend to write down your strengths, weaknesses and inspirations is a great first step. Setting short-term goals along with the practical steps to achieve them allows you to feel that sense of gratification without getting lost in the bigger picture. Ask yourself what your priorities are in a job. Do you need something that pays well?
What type of work environment do you prefer? Do you want something creative? Once you can see your thoughts in writing it is easier to incorporate a few career-oriented tasks into your weekly agenda without feeling overwhelmed.
These tasks are dependent on what year you’re in or what discipline you’re aiming for. Starting points like setting up a LinkedIn
profile or taking a look at online sample CVs gives you the confidence to seek out more opportunities. Taking advantage of the university’s career service, talking to people who work in your dream career field, engaging in networking events and mentorship schemes all help you to refine your interests and plant a seed of excitement for the future rather than fear.
In this productivity-crazed age we need to be conscious that we do not have to join everything under the sun to be successful in the future. The behemoth task of ‘figuring out your life’ is not something that will be resolved by a simple career test or to do list: it is a learning experience we all undergo. The social and economic bleakness of current times means that it is important for us to remain optimistic and support each other.
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The Tufts Medical Center Neurology Department in Boston offers comprehensive evaluation, consultation and management of diseases of the central and peripheral nervous systems and the neuromuscular system.
Our team of doctors strive for excellence in patient care; research and scholarship; and teaching, training and mentorship. We have specialized expertise across these areas:
Nationally Recognized Neurological Expertise
You wouldn't trust your health to just anyone. At the Neurology Department, you'll be in good hands. Our neurologists have earned "Top Doctors" honors from Boston Magazine and U.S. News & World Report, while Tufts MC has received recognition such as the American Stroke Association Gold Plus Award and the American Heart Association SCORE Award. They also speak regularly at national and international neurological forums.
Our physician team represents the entire spectrum of medical expertise. In addition to clinicians focusing on patient care, we have clinicians who also are educators, scholars or scientists as well as basic, translational and clinical trial scientists.
From basic science through clinical care, all of our doctors maintain an ongoing dialogue with one another. This commitment to communication helps ensure you get access to the most advanced, promising therapies available today.
A Spirit of Collaboration
We believe in strong collaboration both within and outside of our department. Our neurologists often work closely with colleagues in the Neurosurgery Department in managing patients. As necessary, they also consult with Tufts MC specialists in areas such as Psychiatry, Radiology, Neurology, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, and Critical Care Medicine.
How does the Tufts MC spirit of collaboration impact the patient experience? You can count on accessible, highly personalized care from experts who are well-equipped to manage your particular neurological problem. And it all takes place in an intimate environment designed to make you feel like a human being, not a number.
Furthermore, we appreciate the bond that most patients have with their primary care physician. So whenever possible, we try to treat your condition here and then refer you back to your local doctor for ongoing care.
Important Research Initiatives
As part of a major academic medical center, research is a vital aspect of our departmental mission. Our doctors are regularly conducting research that advances the neurology field and publishing their findings in peer-reviewed journals.
Current research activities range from the basic scientific mechanisms of neurological disease to National Institutes of Health-funded and pharmaceutical-based clinical trials for:
- Multiple sclerosis
- Neurodegenerative disorders
- Neuromuscular disorders
- Neuroprotection in stroke
Training Tomorrow's Leaders in Neurology
Teaching and training, too, are essential components of our work. Our department offers medical student clerkships, a large residency training program, a clinical research fellowship program and three subspecialty clinical fellowship programs. In addition, our senior clinicians actively mentor post-doctoral fellows along with junior and mid-career faculty members. | <urn:uuid:9ad6bf42-bbaf-4f16-827d-361fe8f063ae> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.tuftsmedicalcenter.org/patient-care-services/Departments-and-Services/Neurology/Overview.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280410.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00452-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942279 | 591 | 1.507813 | 2 |
Japan‘s industry minister has said the country will atttempt to set up a commercial hydrogen supply chain by 2030. To establish this, the minister has requested a budget of $800m for next year. The country’s basic hydrogen plan, released in 2017, said this would involve annual imports of more than 300,000 tonnes of hydrogen by 2030. Later this year, the country will receive its first liquefied hydrogen import from Australia
The consumption of electricity and gas in European Union (EU) nations declined by 10% and 11% respectively in the second quarter of this year. The Covid-19 lockdown significantly suppressed the region’s energy industry. Renewables generated 43% of energy in the EU across Q2, due to a rise in solar electricity consumption.
GOGLA, the association for the off-grid solar industry, stated that sale of lighting products declined 26% globally in 2020, from the corresponding period of last year. Prior to the Covid-19 crisis, the off-grid solar industry was expected to grow. However, Covid-19 has disrupted efforts to maintain a 13% annual growth rate required to achieve the goal of providing cheap and clean energy to all by 2030 globally. | <urn:uuid:f9ea8bd9-b8ee-495d-be77-e8c92a431e50> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.power-technology.com/uncategorized/coronavirus-company-news-summary-japan-plans-hydrogen-supply-chain-covid-19-pushes-eu-energy-consumption-down-by-10/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00277.warc.gz | en | 0.962522 | 253 | 2 | 2 |
Over one-in-five region need an official say religion
By 2015, completely one-in-five places around the globe (22%) experienced stated a single status faith, usually enshrined inside constitution or fundamental legislation of the country.
In Afghanistan, for instance, Islam certainly is the certified say faith, specified expressly within the structure: a€?The worthy faith of Islam may be the institution of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan.a€? 3 The constitution additionally needs the president and vp to are part of hawaii institution a€“ just as do some various countries a€“ alongside individual officers must affirm allegiance toward the basics of Islam within their oaths of office. Constitutional partiesa€™ charters should never owned despite the maxims of Islam, along with Ulema Council, a gaggle of influential Islamic scholars, imams and jurists, contact routinely with federal officials to suggest on rules. 4 The constitution mandates that a€?No regulation shall contravene the principles and provisions of holy faith of Islam in Afghanistan.a€? A rather modest display of region (20 percent) have a chosen or popular institution. These aren’t official say religions, but can be listed in the structure or laws as being the placea€™s typical, traditional or cultural religion(s), and may get advantages of the state that are not afforded to other religious beliefs.
An example of a preferred institution is actually Buddhism in Laos, the spot that the constitution cannot clearly name Buddhism as the official state faith, but claims: a€?The status areas and shields all legitimate recreation of Buddhists and of follower of some other religious beliefs, [and] mobilizes and encourages Buddhist monks and newbies also the priests of other faiths to participate in tasks which are advantageous to the land and other people.a€? 5 In practice, government entities sponsors Buddhist centers, encourages Buddhism as a component of the countrya€™s recognition, and uses Buddhist ceremonies and rituals in condition options. Buddhism is also exempted from some rules that connect with additional spiritual communities. Like, the us government brings the the printing process, import and distribution of Buddhist religious media while restricting the publication of religious ingredients for almost all various other religious teams. 6
Someplace else, circumstances may prefer numerous religions while nevertheless offering amazing benefits to one religion basically. One example is, Russian law designates Christianity, Islam, Judaism and Buddhism as the regiona€™s a€?traditionala€? religious beliefs, whilst identifying the a€?special contributiona€? of Russian Orthodox Christianity to Russian record. A few typical faiths receive particular many benefits: kids deciding to just take a religious studies study course may choose from tuition to the four traditional religions or a common system on business religions, and a government program funds military chaplains is fixed to chaplains top four religions. Continue to, the Russian national shows preferential remedies toward the Russian Orthodox ceremony (ROC) specifically. For example, government entities offered the ROC patriarch with security and entry to official automobiles, and a study unearthed that significant presidential grants directed at agencies controlled by or with association into ROC happened to be a type of a€?hidden federal government supporta€? for all the religious. 7
a thinner most of places (53%) don’t have any official or recommended institution by 2015. Of their borders, these region treat various religious beliefs (for example, Christianity, Islam) almost equally, as well as their authorities usually have a neutral relationship with religion.
Islam most common say religion; Christianity most commonly a€?favoreda€? faith
Islam might worlda€™s most typical recognized religion. Among the 43 region with circumstances religion, 27 (63per cent) identity Sunni Islam, Shia Islam or just Islam ordinarily since their official trust.
Many region in which Islam certainly is the established institution (16 of 27, or 59percent) come into the center distance and North Africa. Also, seven legally Islamic nations (26%) come into the Asia-Pacific place, such as Bangladesh, Brunei and Malaysia. And there tend to be four region in sub-Saharan Africa in which Islam might be status institution: Comoros, Djibouti, Mauritania and Somalia. No countries in Europe as well as the Americas have actually Islam because their established institution.
Christianity may secondly popular established religion across the world. Thirteen places (30per cent of region with the official religion) maintain Christianity, in most cases, or a certain Christian denomination to be their official state institution. Nine top region have Europe, as an example the United Kingdom, Denmark, Monaco and Iceland. Two countries in Americas a€“ Costa Rica together with the Dominican Republic a€“ plus one inside the Asia-Pacific domain a€“ Tuvalu a€“ get Christianity because their certified status faith. A particular region in sub-Saharan Africa are formally Christian: Zambia.
Buddhism certainly is the recognized faith in two countries, Bhutan and Cambodia. Israel will be the only state in the world with Judaism as its established condition institution. 11 with no country name Hinduism since its formal say institution a€“ though India has a robust Hindu governmental gathering, and Nepal come around enshrining Hinduism in 2015, after rejection of a constitutional modification proclaiming Hinduism because condition faith resulted in a confrontation between pro-Hindu protesters and police force. 12
One of the 40 region which has a chosen or favored faith a€“ yet not the state county religion a€“ the majority of favor Christianity. Twenty-eight region (70percent) bring Christianity like the favorite institution, mostly in European countries along with Americas. Five region in sub-Saharan Africa and three into the Asia-Pacific part has Christianity as being the favored faith.
After Christianity, Buddhism may following that most commonly preferred religion. All countries with Buddhism being the popular faith a€“ Burma (Myanmar), Laos, Mongolia and Sri Lanka a€“ come into the Asia-Pacific location. Three places a€“ Sudan, Syria and chicken a€“ benefit Islam but don’t declare it as hawaii faith.
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I'm presuming readers of this and other blogs have at least one thing in common (besides having access to the Internet): a large appetite for the news. We want to know the new things that have happened. We'll ask "what's new" or "was neu ist" or some such question; "inquiring minds want to know...."
The last two days, I have focused on the use of language... or perhaps its misuse... in the realm of news and information. It has been said ad nauseum that "knowledge is power." I'm sure that is partially correct, but in today's world it seems that "the news" is power. The news is what we could call "marketed knowledge." After all, what good is knowledge if it doesn't lead to power of some sort? That doesn't mean political or military power, although it certainly can lead to that. It can mean acquiring prestige and honor among peers. And being first to tell... first to make the news... is often the difference between power and parroting.
Bloggers seldom make the news... are the first to tell. Bloggers seldom acquire power from what they write; their goal is more to share opinions about what is considered "the news." What readers seek from bloggers is perspective... applying their intelligence, intellect... their minds to statements presented as knowledge or fact by "the News."
The last couple of days, I have given my perspective about issues making the "news" circuit... affirmative action, global warming, the economy and economists... but with the emphasis on how the misuse of language colors the news.
Why? Because it interests me and I hope it interests you.
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Henry Louis Mencken (1880–1956)... and one could add "not all human problems really are."
“The Divine Afflatus,” A Mencken Chrestomathy, chapter 25, p. 443 (1949)
It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.... The Government is on course for an embarrassing showdown with the European Union, business groups and environmental charities after refusing to guarantee that billions of pounds of revenue it stands to earn from carbon-permit trading will be spent on combating climate change.
- O. Henry
The Independent (UK)
FEDERAL RESERVE & HOUSING
February 3, 2006 Go back to 1999-2000 and see what the Fed did. They are following the same pattern for 2005-06. If it ain't broke, the Fed will fix it... and good!
August 29, 2006 The Federal Reserve always acts on old information... and is the only cause of U.S. recessions.
December 5, 2006 Last spring I wrote about what I saw to be a sharp downturn in the economy in the "rustbelt" states, particularly Michigan.
March 28, 2007
The Federal Reserve sees no need to cut interest rates in the light of adverse recent economic data, Ben Bernanke said on Wednesday.
The Fed chairman said ”to date, the incoming data have supported the view that the current stance of policy is likely to foster sustainable economic growth and a gradual ebbing in core inflation”.July 21, 2007 My guess is that if there is an interest rate change, a cut is more likely than an increase. The key variables to be watching at this point are real estate prices and the inventory of unsold homes.
August 11, 2007 I suspect that within 6 months the Federal Reserve will be forced to lower interest rates before housing becomes a black hole.
September 11, 2007 It only means that the overall process has flaws guaranteeing it will be slow in responding to changes in the economy... and tend to over-react as a result.
September 18, 2007 I think a 4% rate is really what is needed to turn the economy back on the right course. The rate may not get there, but more cuts will be needed with employment rates down and foreclosure rates up.
October 25, 2007 How long will it be before I will be able to write: "The Federal Reserve lowered its lending rate to 4% in response to the collapse of the U.S. housing market and massive numbers of foreclosures that threaten the banking and mortgage sectors."
November 28, 2007 FED VICE CHAIRMAN DONALD KOHN
"Should the elevated turbulence persist, it would increase the possibility of further tightening in financial conditions for households and businesses," he said.December 11, 2007 Somehow the Fed misses the obvious.
"Uncertainties about the economic outlook are unusually high right now," he said. "These uncertainties require flexible and pragmatic policymaking -- nimble is the adjective I used a few weeks ago."
December 13, 2007 [from The Christian Science Monitor]
"The odds of a recession are now above 50 percent," says Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Economy.com. "We are right on the edge of a recession in part because of the Fed's reluctance to reduce interest rates more aggressively." [see my comments of September 11]January 7, 2008 The real problem now is that consumers can't rescue the economy and manufacturing, which is already weakening, will continue to weaken. We've gutted the forces that could avoid a downturn. The question is not whether there will be a recession, but can it be dampened sufficiently so that it is very short.
January 11, 2008 This is death by a thousand cuts.
January 13, 2008 [N.Y. Times]
“The question is not whether we will have a recession, but how deep and prolonged it will be,” said David Rosenberg, the chief North American economist at Merrill Lynch. “Even if the Fed’s moves are going to work, it will not show up until the later part of 2008 or 2009.”January 17, 2008 A few days ago, Anna Schwartz, nonagenarian economist, implicated the Federal Reserve as the cause of the present lending crisis [from the Telegraph - UK]:
The high priestess of US monetarism - a revered figure at the Fed - says the central bank is itself the chief cause of the credit bubble, and now seems stunned as the consequences of its own actions engulf the financial system. "The new group at the Fed is not equal to the problem that faces it," she says, daring to utter a thought that fellow critics mostly utter sotto voce.January 22, 2008 The cut has become infected and a limb is in danger. Ben Bernanke is panicking and the Fed has its emergency triage team cutting rates... this time by 3/4%. ...
What should the Federal Reserve do now? Step back... and don't be so anxious to raise rates at the first sign of economic improvement.
Individuals and businesses need stability in their financial cost structures so that they can plan effectively and keep their ships afloat. Wildly fluctuating rates... regardless of what the absolute levels are... create problems. Either too much spending or too much fear. It's just not that difficult to comprehend. Why has it been so difficult for the Fed?
- Bruce Hall
- Michigan, United States
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Do you ever have those moments where you know you need to calm down but you just can’t?
Where little things set you off and you know you need to make a change? Do you feel like you want to be a calmer mom? It’s completely normal to have moments where we get stressed out, worked up, pissed off and more. Why are moms so stressed out?
Pop Sugar surveyed Millennial moms to find out more about their stress. I don’t necessarily identify as a Millennial but the results are worth noting and probably span to other age groups. From the respondents of the survey, 45% of moms said they were more stressed than they thought they should be, and only 28% said they’re as happy as they should be.
I can relate. Can you?
The response talks about moms having less time for self-care. And if we have less time to take care of ourselves, we’re more likely to be on edge, short-tempered, and less able to react calmly to our children and the demands of life. For some of us (myself included) it can be hard to be a calm mom. Kids are a challenge and even on their best days they are demanding.
Though it’s a challenge at times, in those moments where we feel stressed out, overwhelmed, or mad, we need to be able to calm down. Parents need to be able to practice self-regulation skills if we want to have any chance at all at helping our kids regulate their own emotions. Remember that children learn so much from what the see from us. Even though we may be trying to teach our kids to control their emotions, that doesn’t mean we personally will have an easy time doing it. If we have the skills to calm ourselves down, not only can we teach a great lesson, but we can do so from a much better place emotionally and mentally. Isn’t life just better when we’re not so stressed out? When mom is stressed out, the whole family struggles.
How to be a Calm Mama
If you want some support with calming down and controlling your emotions, then The Calmer Mama Checklist is for you. Being able to calm down is a skill that we can develop. Even if you feel like you have a very hard time controlling your emotions, with time, practice and patience, you can become a calmer mama. While there are many ways to calm yourself down, there are 5 simple steps you can take to identify what sets you off, notice how you react, and then have strategies in place to calm down. We want to make sure we’re aware of what triggers our feelings of being upset or overwhelmed. For example, maybe it’s your kids making a mess, or running late. Try to figure out what sets you off and see if you can do anything to address these challenge. For example, can you enlist your kids to help clean up or can you all work as a family to get out of the house on time?
Make sure you also know how your body tells you that you’re feelings stressed; we’re all different. Some people notice their heart racing while others feel like their head is spinning. Others start to yell! Chances are, your body and mind are telling you that you’re getting worked up before you react so start to pay attention.From there we need to be able to calm down, for example taking deep breaths or even giving yourself a time out. Even moms need a break! Remember that learning to calm down is a skill. Kids can push your buttons like nobody’s business, so take the time to learn how to be a calm mama. When you learn to control your emotions, not only will you feel better, but you may also notice that everyone in your family is a bit calmer as well. Click here to download the checklist for free or pin the image for later.
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America’s Voice has put together a new post-election memo that identifies three takeaways and one lesson for both parties to learn as they turn to the future:
- TAKEAWAY ONE: The Democrats’ gamble to not take action on immigration failed, costing them in voter enthusiasm.
- TAKEAWAY TWO: Republicans would be wrong to think they can repeat their 2014 immigration strategy and win in 2016.
- TAKEAWAY THREE: When it comes to exit polls on Latino and Asian American voters, the only reliable finding is that these polls are unreliable.
- THE LESSON: When it comes to immigration, good policy is good politics.
According to Frank Sharry, Executive Director of America’s Voice:
The 2014 election sets the stage for the President’s executive action on immigration and the 2016 election. The President needs to do right by millions of hardworking immigrants with deep ties to America. The Democrats need to lean in on immigration and deliver for the fastest growing groups of voters in America. Republicans need to rethink their lurch to the right on immigration, a move that cost them the White House in 2012, and could cost them the White House and the Congress in 2016. The lessons leaders draw will determine the future of millions of hard working immigrants with deep ties in America, as well as the future of both political parties.
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DR. HOOK- Drug TV: Endless pharmaceutical ads pose risks
Iggy is probably the most famous dog in the world. Personally, I don't consider dogs to be dogs. They are our babies. Love them, love them, love them!
Our baby, Ms. Maggie Moo, comes to work with us everyday. She gets more treats and attention from our patients than any of us at the office. (I had to ask people to stop giving her treats because it was affecting Ms. Moo Moo's girlish figure.)
I also love Ellen DeGeneres. She's one of the funniest and kindest celebrities out there. And I understand why she's so upset about the dust-up that erupted when she gave an adopted pet to her hairstylist's family– only to have the rescue agency confiscate it. To make things worse, she had to plead to end the death threats towards the agency.
What's wrong with people? Death threats targeted at the Dixie Chicks to Halle Berry and now a doggy adoption agency. Do we all need to take a chill pill?
Well, from watching the commercials during the evening news, I think the pharmaceutical companies believe so. Three times a week while working out in my gym, I have the privilege of watching the evening news. Unfortunately, it is not recorded on my DVR (like at home) so I have to suffer through all the commercials. And I've noticed something: they're almost all medication related. At one point, there were five pharmaceutical commercials in a row. If I weren't a doctor, I probably would have confused them all and mistaken a cholesterol medication to be a restless leg syndrome medication. "So you mean if I take Lipitor I'll get a good night's sleep like Dr. Jarvik?"
Now don't get me wrong. Overall, I like pharmaceutical companies because they've come out with great medications that have increased our longevity and quality of life. On the other hand, why all the commercials? Shouldn't medications be determined between the doctor and patient? I get quite a few patients in my office asking me about medications they saw on TV.
"Hey, doc, could I try this one? The commercial was so dazzling that it must be a good drug."
"Ah, you were on that before, and it made you vomit and confused. Remember?"
True, the pharmaceutical commercials tell you about the side effects, but boy are they savvy at it. Usually attractive people are doing something fun as the cool-as-a-cucumber narrator surreptitiously announces the side effects. "Side effects include liver failure, kidney failure, brain death, stroke, heart attack, good old fashion death, a compulsion to go to Las Vegas and gamble with prostitutes, vomiting blood– did we mention death?– TTP, which I won't explain because I don't know what I means either, and decrease in semen."
Oh, yes, what's the deal with announcing prolonged erections and decrease in semen? Thank God I don't have children because if my child asked me what that was all about, I'd cringe and say something like, "Decrease in seamen means the Navy lets go of some officers, and prolonged elections occur when democracy isn't working like the 2000 presidential election."
Again, that's definitely a subject the doctor and patient should discuss.
I wonder how many over-the-counter medications there are, because there must be a pill out there for everything– well, at least it seems this way with the Blitzkrieg of commercials. The problem with these over-the-counter medications is that I see a lot of patients overdosing on them— in particular the medications that used to be available only by prescription. Because a friend of a friend of an enemy of a friend uses double or triple the suggested dose, I have patients coming in doped up like Marion Jones at the Olympics.
Remember that diet and exercise are the best medicine out there. Just don't watch all the food commercials.
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Transcript of SPICESS
7 key concepts
everything has a location on the space that is the surface of the earth, and studying the effects of location,the distribution of things across this space is organized and managed by people , which helps us to understand why the world is like it is
-hot deserts are closer to the tropics than cold desserts.
-the namib dessert is influenced by cold ocean currents that blow onto the desserts
the world is made up of places, so to under stand our world we need to understand its places by studying their variety, how they influence our lives and how we create and change them.
-people who live slums are very poor.
-slums are different to where i live because where i live no one is poor.
people and things are connected to other people and things in their own and other places, and understanding these connections helps us to understand how and why places are changing.
-where its rains regularly there is a higher population because there is easier access to water.
-there is also more vegatation in areas with higher rainfall because it is easier for it to grow.
the concept of change is about using time to better understand a place, an environment, a spatial pattern or a geographical problem.
-over time sydneys suburban area has nearly quadripeled in size since 1917.
-all of the earliest setellments are located very close to the coast.
people live in depend on the enviroment, so it has an important influence on our lives.
-urainium is mined in colarado
-diggers and tools have helped to change this mining environment.
sustainabilty is about maintaining the capacity of the environment to support our lives and those of other living creatures.
-solar power is sustainable because it is harnessing a limitless resource.
-solar panels harness the of the sun.
when we examine geographical questions at different spatial levels we are using the concept of scale to find more complete answers.
-at a zoomed in scale you can see alot more detail.
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Units of Study
CLST2609 - Modern Welsh Language and Culture 2
Semester 2, 2011 | Credit Points: 6
Coordinator: Anders Ahlqvist
The Welsh language has one of the oldest literary traditions in Europe.The language is widely used today and is the vehicle for a rich culture. In this course the Irish language will be studied in depth (in the context of Welsh history and culture), building on the insights achieved through attending CLST2608.
2x1500wd essays (46%), 1x2000wd written exam (46%) and 1x500wd oral exam (8%)
1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week
18 junior credit points including CLST2608
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The Individual Retirement Account (IRA) was first introduced in 1974 with the enactment of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA). As the 2014 tax year filing deadline approaches, IRA investing strategy is front and center in the minds of Americans willing to create their own financial independence. It would be an understatement to say that the IRA has grown in complexity since its inception. Of all the many different types of IRAs, perhaps the most important one is the Roth IRA. No other account type offers tax-free gains, tax-free distributions, and tax-free transfer to heirs. Income limits do apply and for 2014 begin at $114K for single filers and $181K for married couples filing jointly. Please see your ASG advisor for alternative strategies if your income prevents you from funding a Roth IRA.
Roth IRA contribution limits remain unchanged for 2015. For wage earners under the age of 50, the limit is $5,500. For workers above the age of 50, the limit is $6,500. This annual funding limit is separate from the limits of employer-sponsored retirement plans such as the 401(k). The rule of thumb for most investors is to fund the employer sponsored plan first and at a level that allows for taking full advantage of company matching contributions. Next, fund the Roth IRA. Lastly, go back to the employer sponsored plan to make additional contributions, if possible.
A prior year IRA contribution is allowable up until the tax filing deadline in April. Your advisor at ASG stands ready to help you determine your prior year funding level and beat the deadline, in case you are underfunded. There is some sense of urgency to build a meaningful Roth IRA balance now. We hope that the tax-free benefits of Roth IRA investing withstand the test of time, but just this year, the White House proposed a plan to eliminate the tax benefits of a popular college savings plan known as the 529. (The proposal was quickly withdrawn.) What with the government planning on running deficits over the long term based on population demographics, no one knows for sure how long the mighty Roth IRA might last.
Once a Roth IRA is fully funded, it must be invested in such a way as to optimize your individual risk/return profile. The corresponding asset allocation decision is among the most important decisions investors make. Once more, your ASG advisor stands ready to analyze portfolio construction and recommend adjustments for 2015, if necessary. In the meantime, we keep a watchful eye on the economic calendar, business news, and the current events that shape the markets. | <urn:uuid:2d38876f-831a-432d-9d79-7600a8e37e51> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.assetstrategiesgroupllc.com/march-2015/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00677.warc.gz | en | 0.945021 | 516 | 1.726563 | 2 |
Clearly, banks, large companies, government instrumentalities and forecasting firms believe the employment of an economist on staff is valuable, despite the high cost of top professionals. But what value are economists to the man in the street? [more]
According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics “Economists study how society distributes resources, such as land, labour, raw materials, and machinery, to produce goods and services. They may conduct research, collect and analyse data, monitor economic trends, or develop forecasts. Economists research a wide variety of issues including energy costs, inflation, interest rates, exchange rates, business cycles, taxes, and employment levels, among others.” A variety of specialist economists are described: microeconomists, industrial economists or organizational economists, macroeconomists, monetary economists or financial economists, international economists, labour economists or demographic economists, public finance economists and econometricians.
They apply their efforts to government, finance, banking, business, health, education, agriculture, urban and regional economics, law, history, energy, the environment and so on. Economists obtain the data, use mathematical modelling to develop forecasts, and analyse and interpret the meaning of data. That they continue to be employed attests to their value to their employers. A brief but informative article on Economists in the Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2008-09 Edition of the US Bureau of Statistics is worth a read if you wish to go further.
Some economists perform economic analysis for the media, or make their analyses available to the media. It is about these that this piece focuses. It addresses the question of what they contribute to an understanding of economics among the general population, and concludes ‘not much’.
I’m sure every reader must have smiled wryly about, or become frustrated by the conflicting and ever changing opinions and forecasts offered by a bevy of economists regularly engaged by the media for their expert opinions, and even more so at the so-called ‘economics correspondents’ of newspapers and online outlets. While a high level of expertise in the field of economics can be expected from those occupying the professional position of economist, the same is not exhibited by some of the latter. One is left wondering whether they have had formal training in economics. Unless they fully understand what they’re writing about, it’s unlikely anyone else will. Take David Uren’s post on The Australian Current Account Blog yesterday: Did the cash hit make a difference? and see if you can work out what the piece is driving at. Uren usually writes well, but this piece left one wondering whether his point was that the consumption curve did not show the blip the disposable income curve did. Judging from the comments that followed, bringing in the Friedman versus Keynes hypotheses served only to muddy the waters. Economics is hard enough without enveloping it in fog.
What about the scramble among media commentators to predict the next interest rate movement, the next unemployment rate or the next GDP figure? The commentators play a game to see who hits the bullseye, or gets closest, no doubt to get a high five at the drinking hole that night. Some will be right, some wrong, but what does it matter? What difference does it make whether their predictions are right or wrong? What decisions are made based on their predictions? Maybe some players in the stock market might gamble on their predictions, but what a gamble it is. To take interest rates as an example, for the man in the street, predictions are useless; only the actual movement counts. So why on earth do they bother making predictions? Is it just a media game with which they go along for a fee? Waiting for the actual figure seems eminently more sensible than scaring people that the rate may rise, or disappointing them when the predicted fall does not occur. But rest assured this silly game will go on, on TV, radio, online and in the papers because it's media fodder.
The recent GDP figures were a subject of great debate with most estimates varying from around 0.2 to 0.4%, until some further data emerged that had economists running to their spreadsheets to insert the new data and come up with a new GDP figure, then revised down to maybe even negative, reviving the talk of ‘technical recession’. Then, to everyone’s astonishment, it came out at 0.6%, and so the rush was on to explain how that figure came about. The next day Tim Colebatch in The Age in The GDP numbers don't add up was disputing the ABS’s sums and confidently predicting the figure would be markedly revised down in the next quarter’s figures, maybe even to negative. He’s been quoted by others but no one I have read has confirmed his analysis. Maybe he’s right, but if he’s not, he’s created concern among those who want to see a steadily improving economy.
My point is that economists seem to have such wildly varying opinions about the same data set that the public is left wondering who’s right, and how the economists can vary so grossly in their explanations and predictions.
One of my longstanding gripes has been about the influence on economics writers of their preferred economic model. Ergas’ reference in the Current Account Blog to his beloved Friedman in response to the upbeat GDP that just about everyone else attributed to the stimulus packages, is a case in point. I wrote about this in on TPS in The problem with economists back in February. Referring to the contemporary debate about when and how the stimulus should be withdrawn now that the economy seems to be recovering, Crikey’s Bernard Keane said on Thursday “There are no - no - economists or business groups who think it is time for the stimulus to be wound back, except for those on the far right or Liberal shills such as Henry Ergas, who opposed the stimulus package in the first place.”
Another grumble is the way journalists allow their political leanings to influence what ought to be an objective analysis of the undeniable facts. Michael Stutchbury of The Australian is an example. Quoting again from Bernard Keane in Wednesday's Crikey: “After the March quarter figures, anti-Labor commentators like Michael Stutchbury tried to argue that the modest growth was a consequence of exports only, ignoring the fact that the stimulus packages had prevented domestic demand from collapsing the same way it had in the US, the UK and other developed economies. Today’s figures blow the Stutchbury argument clean out of the water, with exports a trivial contributor to the overall growth figure – although like the Coalition, Stutchbury has now switched to urging that the stimulus has been too successful and needs to be wound back.”
With commentators of the likes of Ergas and Stutchbury, what can us readers who lack a profound knowledge of economics, really believe? As Keane put it in a piece on Crikey, Nothing more stimulating than press gallery groupthink: “The ‘debate’ over whether the Government should pull back on the stimulus package is a classic case of a press gallery trying to frame a real-world issue into a narrow, political framework that suits its own reporting purposes. It is a collective illusion being foisted on the mainstream media’s ever-smaller audiences by journalists and commentators unable or unwilling to see outside the gallery prism of winners and losers and political personalities.”
What is it that convinces economics correspondents that their view of the world is one that politicians ought to take seriously; what persuades them that they know better than the elected government with its Treasury staffed with experts in many fields and accomplished economists, well-resourced departments that can provide it with information, modelling and advice? For a lone journalist to confidently direct trenchant criticism at the government over economic policy and assertively give gratuitous advice to it about how to proceed, seems the height of impertinence. Yet they do it every day, presuming the Government is too simple to understand the situation and is waiting breathlessly for their advice. Today Peter Hartcher, a good journalist, in what is a well-written piece in the SMH, PM's next challenge: holding the reins of a soaring economy, referring to Kevin Rudd's original conversation with Ken Henry about the looming GFC on board a plane, says: "Now is the moment for Rudd to get Ken Henry back onto the plane. Rudd needs to ask him the same question, but for the other side of the cycle: now that Australia is recovering solidly, what is the plan for the best-case scenario?" I’m glad Hartcher mentioned that; otherwise Rudd might never have thought of it. He goes on: “Paradoxically, the implications of a strong recovery will be even scarier for Rudd than the threat of a recession. And the work of responding wisely will be infinitely harder. Why? Because the Government's pre-emptive strike against recession was a vast bomb-drop of taxpayers' money. It worked. Now the right response to an unexpectedly strong recovery is to withdraw planned spending, to go about the landscape taking money back from voters.” More gratuitous advice.
Why do good journalists write in this condescending way? Is it really to bring Rudd and the Government up to speed? Surely not. Is it to impress readers with the writer’s insight, erudition and wisdom? More likely. The problem is that so often the journalists get it wrong, and have to backtrack hoping nobody notices. They would do their professional image less damage if they argued the pros and cons of each issue and each option, quoting a variety of opinions from diverse reliable sources, and then if they feel persuaded by one argument over another, to draw a reasoned conclusion. This would go down much better with thinking readers than the adamant, resolute opinion and advice they so often offer. Two example of what I mean are Mike Steketee’s sensible piece in today’s Weekend Australian: All things still being unequal, and Shaun Carney’s sound article Shock Tactics in today’s Age.
The thrust of this piece is threefold:
First, those who make predictions on TV, radio and in the press about interest rates, unemployment figures, the quarterly GDP, or any other periodic economic data sets, would be best engaged doing something more useful. If we never heard another prediction, many of which are wrong, but just waited patiently for the actual figures, we would all be better off.
Next, we would all benefit immeasurably if those who are paid to write/speak for the media on economic matters were to stick to the facts, present them accurately in full and unembellished, and if interpretation is called for, put aside the bias of preferred economic models, and their political leanings, and call it the way an experienced unbiased economist would. For journalists writing for some of our papers this would be a tall order. But why should we be burdened by lack of expertise, conceptual bias and political distortion? The subject matter is too important for each of us and for our economy for anything less than exemplary comment.
Finally, we would all benefit from well-reasoned articles based on the widest variety of facts and opinions, rather than the dogmatic, assertive self-opinionated offerings, so often lacking real substance, with which we are too often assailed.
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Is this desert possible?
Yes, If you have cold ocean currents flowing south from the cold northern hemisphere regions and an predominant onshore wind direction you can get a dry interior where you want it. Without a gulf stream equivalent bringing warm moist air to the West coast of your northern reaches (Europe), you can have much dryer conditions in your Winthold and Thaliak regions.
I drew all over your map (not as nicely as Hofmannfan). I guestimated your equator. But feel free to move it if necessary. This is just to show you the idea. Black - Equator. Red - warm ocean current. Blue - cold ocean current. Green - predominant wind direction. Numbers - rough temp scale indication
Wind flowing over cold water is generally dry. As soon as the wind hits land it will no longer pick up any new moisture and become dryer and dryer the further into the interior you go. In our world on a west coast, with a cold ocean current this normally means fog banks and very little actual moisture making it far into the interior Eg Namib Desert in SW Africa. It would be a different story if you had had an east coast with a warm ocean current and no mountain range blocking it, this would have allow the moist air to reach quite far inland (eg north America great plains).
The Winthold coast will have slightly more rain than the Thaliak regions. As any moisture the coastal air is holding will fall first on the coast and then the winds will become drier and drier the further East you go.
With your N/S mountains, you will be pulling cold air down from the Arctic nearly all the way to the Equatorial regions. Expect some mega storms when warm air meets cold air. But back to the desert. Cold air will flow from the mountain to the interior (mountain anabatic winds), bringing very cold dry air to your Thaliak desert region eg 'Berg winds. Winds blowing in the opposite direction, katabatic winds (typically sea breezes) would be weaker and wouldn't bring much moisture to the mountain range. What little air moisture there is, will experience orographic uplift and probably fall as a light sprinkling of snow along the entire stretch of your range.
The only reason Gretland isn't dried out by the dry winds from the mountains is because of the Hadley cell circulation. This is where hot moist air rises at the equator and sinks at roughly 30 degrees North and south of the equator (the tropics). You might want to move the equator a bit further south than in my drawing. This will still allow the Thaliak desert region to exist. Probably a bit better as my map doesn't give the currents a lot of time to cool down!
Can I have 1 or 2 major rivers?
Your northern and eastern Thaliak regions will be drier than the south and western regions which could still receive some rainfall. Rivers can flow anywhere you like, as you will have a large amount of snow in your northern mountain regions. This can supply water for rivers. You just have to decide where to place them. If you wish to keep the NE regions as dry as possible, have only very small streams/rivers flow out in the top sections of the desert and the main river/s flow further South and then across to the west.
This river supply could also explain why Winthold is more fertile as the river winds it's way through the coastal hills.
One thing to take into account, the rivers formed from the rainfall from the Hadley cell convection should not be allowed to flow into the Desert (too much or too frequently). You need a geological boundary to force the river flow back into Gretland. This does not need to be a mountain range, but a change in underlying rock type or tectonic fault line will do the trick. Even a small range of hills should prevent the rivers from flowing north (if you use a fault line, lots of water can trigger frequent earthquakes).
Your current map, shows a mountain range jut out of your N-S range. This should prevent any rivers from flowing directly into your driest desert regions. You can have a major river flow through the SW Thaliak region into S Winthold.
Large groups of trees in the desert?
Wherever there is water, you can have vegetation. You can have several smaller rivers from the north mountains feed underground aquifers. These could provide water for several oasis's in your dry region if you wish. You can also have hidden valleys, protected from the cold dry wind. If water flows through them they can be little Sangri La's. Pretty much, if you want them, you can have them. Just justify where the water is coming from. It doesn't have to be air or surface based moisture.
Where would I find mines?
This is really a whole other question. But quick answer. ANYWHERE you want them. Geological deposits are not constrained by current-day surface conditions. You can give your world any sort of geological history you feel necessary to explain why you have certain deposits where you have them. The trick is to explain how your inhabitants found them. This is why a lot of mines are found in the mountains. The rock we were interested in was very near the surface and we literally tripped over the shiny metal stuff.
Granite, marble etc are metamorphic rocks and formed during intense heat (think lava). The finer grained rocks will have cooled over a much longer time/higher pressure than the coarser grained rocks. Generally that can mean that the coarser grained rocks will be found above the higher 'quality' stuff.
Rivers wash away rocks and minerals from the mountains, and are another excellent source of 'easy' mining. Gold, Diamonds, Titanium, Aluminium can all be found in alluvial deposits.
Like I said, you can decide what you want and where, and then if you really need to you can research the geological history of your world...as long as you can explain why your inhabitants knew there was a deep gold reef at location X, you don't have to explain how the gold mine actually got there. | <urn:uuid:64ad268b-134d-45bb-99c6-e654012ca5ff> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/55052/constructing-a-desert-area | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00676.warc.gz | en | 0.951503 | 1,278 | 2.9375 | 3 |
Bad Axe is hoping to form spring in-line hockey leagues
Published 10:44 am, Monday, April 25, 2016
BAD AXE The parks and recreation department here is looking into creating in-line hockey leagues this spring.
The leagues are for players in Grades 3-12 and there is a player fee of $50 per participant.
Organizers say required equipment includes in-line skates, a helmet with a full face mask, stick, hockey, mouthpiece, gloves, and elbow and shin/knee pads.
Registration forms are available from the Bad Axe Parks and Recreation Department, located in Bad Axe City Hall. Forms may be mailed to the Bad Axe Parks and Recreation Department, 300 E. Huron Ave., Bad Axe, 48413.
The league also is looking for volunteer coaches and referees who are interested in a fun, skill-building league.
Those interested should contact Bad Axe Parks and Recreation Director Rich Barker at (989) 269-2630 for more information.
In other hockey news, Barker along with Bad Axe Councilman Doug Gainor have sent letters to all units of government in Huron, Tuscola and Sanilac counties exploring the feasibility of developing a tri-county ice hockey authority.
The purpose of the authority will be to construct an ice hockey facility for the use and benefit of the tri-county area, the letter reads.
The letter goes on to say the tri-county ice hockey authority will look into a variety of funding sources such as federal grants, local and state funding, local businesses and service organizations.
The letter is going to give us an idea of what type of interest is out there and see what type of response we get from the different communities, Barker said.
He said hes interested in seeing something along the lines of a community center erected.
I would like to see something like a community center with lots of different aspects like a track where seniors and people of all ages can come walk, with meeting rooms and basketball courts, Barker said.
The whole idea came as a result of the current in-line hockey rink not being used much, he said.
Theres some big concerns why no ones using this new in-line hockey rink, so Doug and I are going to see what kind of interest is out there from surrounding communities in the area to form an authority, Barker said. … This is something thats going to take years to look into. | <urn:uuid:e99d836b-906a-4326-8640-4e893233ba30> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.michigansthumb.com/news/article/Bad-Axe-is-hoping-to-form-spring-in-line-hockey-7310183.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721595.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00477-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950969 | 501 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Managing Water in Multi-Layered Political Systems
Edited by Dustin E. Garrick, George R.M. Anderson, Daniel Connell and Jamie Pittock
Chapter 4: Water scarcity, conflict resolution, and adaptive governance in federal transboundary river basins
Federalism is characterized by multiple, independent, jurisdictions that exercise concurrent authority over citizens regarding a diversity of issues. Numerous scholars have noted the advantages of federal systems. Federalism ësignificantly broadens the perspectives brought to bear on an issueí (Shapiro 2011: 40), which produces several benefits, from governments acting as ëlaboratoriesí, developing and testing different policies; to redundancy, which allows for failure without the entire system collapsing. And, from learning and error correction to the effective representation of many and diverse interests. Of course, this description of federalism is too panglossian. Governments in a federal system are no more immune to public goods problems and collective action dilemmas than are individuals. The promise and opportunity of federalism is only to be realized if governments are supported and encouraged to cooperate and coordinate to realize shared benefits, and if competition and conflict among governments is kept within productive bounds and not allowed to become destructive. In other words, as Bednar (2009) argues, opportunism among governments in federal systems must be checked. Bednar (2009: 9) defines opportunism as when a government or governments in a federal system pursue their own interests at the expense of the general welfare. Opportunism may take at least three forms: encroachment ñ when a higher level government undermines the authority of a lower level government; shirking ñ when governments fail to follow through with their commitments and responsibilities to the union; and burden shifting ñ when governments impose externalities on one another (Bednar 2009: 9).
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Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono, speaking after talks with South Korean counterpart Kang Kyung-wha, said both sides shared that view over the dispute, which is a bitter legacy of Japan’s 1910-1945 colonization of the Korean peninsula, Reuters reported.
“In that sense, I want to firmly make progress towards resolving (this matter),” Kono said outside the Chinese capital of Beijing, in comments carried live on Japanese public broadcaster NHK.
“I think the fact that we ... were able to talk in this difficult situation could lead to big progress towards resolving this problem,” Kono said. “I want to stay in close touch and continue to talk.”
A South Korean official said both sides reiterated their positions but the meeting was meaningful in restoring diplomatic dialogue and reaffirming the need to keep talking, South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency said.
Relations soured after the South Korean Supreme Court ordered some Japanese firms to compensate Korean wartime workers last October, a move strongly condemned by Tokyo, which says the matter was resolved by a 1965 treaty normalizing ties.
The feud has spilled over into trade, after Japan tightened export controls on materials vital to South Korean chipmakers and then dropped Seoul from a list of countries eligible for fast-track exports, prompting South Korea to take a similar step towards Japan.
The number of South Korean tourists visiting Japan fell last month to its lowest in nearly a year, amid a far-reaching boycott of Japanese products and services, from cars to beer and tours.
Kang again urged that Japan’s tightened controls be eased, and relayed concerns about media reports and international environmental groups’ claims that Japan plans to release contaminated water from the Fukushima nuclear plant into the ocean, Yonhap said.
Kono also said Japan wanted Seoul and Tokyo to maintain a military intelligence-sharing pact that could expire if South Korea decides not to roll it over this week.
“This is an important framework for the United States, Japan and South Korea and ... should be maintained,” Kono said, adding that he had discussed the intelligence pact with Kang.
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Your Achilles tendon is the tendon that connects from your calf muscles to the heel bone. An injury to the Achilles tendon can happen to anyone at any time. Types of Achilles tendon injuries include: Achilles Tendinitis and Achilles tendon rupture.
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From childhood, girls love to play with mommy’s
makeup. As the years go by, teen girls may not even dare to
go out without makeup. Over the years, women use some
form of makeup on almost daily bases. Cosmetic brands are a
multibillion-dollar industry and women are willing to spend any
price for beauty. Unfortunately, many of these cosmetics may
contain toxic ingredients with potential harmful health effects.
The price may not be paid until later in life with different degrees
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The Choices Winners Make
We are the total of our experiences and choices, positive or negative. The truth is most people fail to take full ownership of those choices and therefore fail to have any real chance to improve their life.
I always felt that having a selective memory or being forgetful kept me from remembering negative or bad stuff. That stuff that shows up later in life causing frustration, depression, or an overall desire to throw in the towel.
After working hard to recognize my shortcomings, I realized that change has mostly to do with choices. Every day we decide our future path through the choices we make. Who we want to be, where we plan to be, and what style of life we plan to live.
When we don’t decide to make intentional choices, we have to accept where we end up with, most likely that will be nowhere we want to be.
Real change happens when we think through our choices and decisions in our daily efforts to make better, more concise decisions. Often, we make bad choices to act negatively in the heat of the moment. People hold on to the things that have happened to us in the past. You have to understand the history and that those reactions got you where you now stand.
Turning Things Around
In striving for a 24k life, there are some choices we need to make before a moment even presents itself.
We have to choose to let some things go and not dwell in the negative spaces of our past situations, circumstances, and happenstance. We must remember to remind ourselves of what not to do during tough times and make better choices.
- Living in the past
- Looking for faults
- Not taking actions
- Be understanding
- Find a winning way
- Winning words
- Dismiss rather than engage foolishness
Stay In Your Power
There is power and strength in making a consistently reliable choice. The new choices you make are not going to be easy. You have already made the easy ones, and they have led you to an unacceptable place.
Most things that were easy to accomplish were not necessarily right for you or your success. Take the right road, no matter how difficult. The tough decisions lead to an easier route in the future.
There is always a price to pay for a great life. Usually, that price is high at first and significantly more manageable later in life. That is because you have created a habit of doing the right thing early even though it hurt. As you go through life, that habit lessens the pain and increases the reward.
To find your power and stay in your power, make the more challenging choices first.
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PARIS — A major French report released Tuesday found that an estimated 330,000 children were victims of sex abuse within France’s Catholic Church over the past 70 years, in France's first major reckoning with the devastating phenomenon.
The president of the commission that issued the report, Jean-Marc Sauvé, said the estimate, based on scientific research, includes abuses committed by priests and others clerics as well as by non-religious people involved in the church. He said about 80% are male victims.
“The consequences are very serious,” Sauvé said. “About 60% of men and women who were sexually abused encounter major problems in their sentimental or sexual life.”
The 2,500-page document prepared by an independent commission comes as the Catholic Church in France, like in other countries, seeks to face up to shameful secrets that were long covered up.
The report says an estimated 3,000 child abusers — two-thirds of them priests — worked in the church during that period. Sauvé said the overall figure of victims includes an estimated 216,000 people abused by priests and other clerics.
Olivier Savignac, head of victims association “Parler et Revivre” (Speak out and Live again), who contributed to the probe, told The Associated Press that the high ratio of victims per abuser is particularly “terrifying for French society, for the Catholic Church."
The commission worked for 2 1/2 years, listening to victims and witnesses and studying church, court, police and press archives starting from the 1950s. A hotline launched at the beginning of the probe received 6,500 calls from alleged victims or people who said they knew a victim.
Sauvé denounced the church’s attitude until the beginning of the 2000s as “a deep, cruel indifference toward victims.” They were “not believed or not heard” and sometimes suspected of being “in part responsible” for what happened, he deplored.
Sauvé said 22 alleged crimes that can still be pursued have been forwarded to prosecutors. More than 40 cases that are too old to be prosecuted but involve alleged perpetrators who are still alive have been forwarded to church officials.
The commission issued 45 recommendations about how to prevent abuse. These included training priests and other clerics, revising Canon Law — the legal code the Vatican uses to govern the church — and fostering policies to recognize and compensate victims, Sauvé said.
The report comes after a scandal surrounding now-defrocked priest Bernard Preynat rocked the French Catholic Church. Last year, Preynat was convicted of sexually abusing minors and given a five-year prison sentence. He acknowledged abusing more than 75 boys for decades.
One of Preynat's victims, Francois Devaux, head of the victims group La Parole Libérée ("The Liberated Word"), told The Associated Press that “with this report, the French church for the first time is going to the root of this systemic problem. The deviant institution must reform itself.”
He said the number of victims the report identifies is “a minimum.”
"Some victims did not dare to speak out or trust the commission,” he said, expressing concerns that the church in France still “hasn’t understood” and has sought to minimize its responsibilities.
The church must not only acknowledge events but also compensate victims, Devaux said. “It is indispensable that the church redresses the harm caused by all these crimes, and (financial) compensation is the first step.”
The Preynat case led to the resignation last year of the former archbishop of Lyon, Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, who has been accused of failing to report the abuses to civil authorities when he learned about them in the 2010s. France’s highest court ruled earlier this year that Barbarin did not cover up the case.
French archbishops, in a message to parishioners read during Sunday Mass across the country, said the publication of the report is “a test of truth and a tough and serious moment.”
“We will receive and study these conclusions to adapt our actions,” the message said. “The fight against pedophilia concerns all of us … Our support and our prayers will keep going toward all the people who have been abused within the church.”
Pope Francis issued in May 2019 a groundbreaking new church law requiring all Catholic priests and nuns around the world to report clergy sexual abuse and cover-ups by their superiors to church authorities.
In June, Francis swiftly rejected an offer from Cardinal Reinhard Marx, one of Germany’s most prominent clerics and a close papal adviser, to resign as archbishop of Munich and Freising over the church’s mishandling of abuse cases. But he said a process of reform was necessary and every bishop must take responsibility for the “catastrophe” of the crisis. | <urn:uuid:153aeb65-e1d9-4b02-b342-982a9c3187c3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thenationalherald.com/french-report-330000-children-victims-of-church-sex-abuse/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00677.warc.gz | en | 0.96946 | 1,032 | 1.71875 | 2 |
Notes: Greenwich Park was built on a curve with three platform faces, a side platform and an island; for much of their length the platforms were covered by awnings. There was also a central road between the platforms which allowed locomotives to be detached from incoming trains and run-round ready for departure. A water crane was sited at the London end of the island and a siding for spare engines lay behind the signal box.
The substantial brick entrance building was on the west side of Stockwell Road; it included the booking hall, a buffet, together and ladies' rooms for both first and second class passengers. There was a canopy at the front of the building and a two storey stationmaster's house alongside. At the rear of the building there was a small covered concourse giving access to the platforms.
The station was initially called Greenwich but after the amalgamation of the LCDR and SER in 1899 it was renamed Greenwich Park in 1900 to avoid with the SER's Greenwich Station.
After closure the platforms were buried but the station building was not demolished until about 1968. During the 1920s it was leased to the Mayfield Temperance Billiard Club but before demolition it was used by a timber merchant. The Ibis Hotel now stands on the site of the station building with a car park on the site of the platforms.
BRIEF HISTORY OF THE GREENWICH PARK BRANCH
The original plans for the Greenwich Park branch proposed a line from Nunhead through Greenwich terminating at the Royal Dockyard in Woolwich. With the opening of the South Eastern Railways extension from Greenwich to Woolwich in 1849 there was no longer a need to serve Woolwich and the London Chatham & Dover Railway were eventually authorised to build a 2m 18ch line between Nunhead and Crooms Hill, on the western side of Greenwich Park by an Act of Parliament in July 1863.
Financial problems delayed construction until 1871 when the branch opened as far as Blackheath Hill on 18th September with one intermediate station at Lewisham Road; a second at Brockley Lane was opened in June 1872. There was a regular 45 minute service although most trains shuttled between Nunhead and Blackheath Hill which was unpopular with commuters who had to change at Nunhead to reach central London.
Despite disappointing receipts, the LCDR continued with their proposal to extend to Greenwich. The original powers had lapsed and a new Act was required which was received in 1881. The company was still in financial difficulty and the extension wasn’t completed to Greenwich Park (Greenwich until 1900) until 1st October 1888. A substantial terminus was built in Stockwell Street and not Crooms Hill as originally planned because housing development had overtaken the railway.
The extension failed to attract additional traffic to the line which was unable to compete with SER's direct line from Greenwich into central London. Leisure traffic was more successful however with the branch providing a convenient route to Crystal Palace, a major tourist destination in South London.
With the amalgamation of the LCDR and SER in 1899, Greenwich was renamed Greenwich Park to avoid confusion and with the introduction of electric trams from 1908 it was soon clear that the line could never make a profit. A push-pull service was introduced in 1913 in an attempt to cut losses and by the start of WW1, a 20 minute peak hour service and 45 minute off peak service was being maintained. Both the Greenwich Park and Crystal Palace branches were closed on 1st January 1917 as a war time economy measure; the Crystal Palace service was reinstated in 1919 but the Greenwich Park branch never reopened.
After closure, the line remained open for freight traffic as far as Brockley Lane and the section between Brockley Lane and Lewisham Road was used for carriage storage. There was a proposal to electrify the line and reopen it but this was quickly dropped.
In 1927 Southern Railway refurbished the section of line between Nunhead and Lewisham Road as part of a scheme to improve freight operations in the locality; this involved building a spur down to join the Mid Kent line between St. Johns and Lewisham, at the same time the track was reballasted and relaid reopening on 7th July 1929. The remaining severed section of the branch between Lewisham Road and Greenwich Park was formerly abandoned by Act of Parliament in 1929.The new loop line number of freight services in the area and it was electrified in 1935.
Passenger trains began using the loop on 30th September 1935, with a peak-hour service between Dartford and St. Paul's (Blackfriars) taking the pressure off the overcrowded services into Cannon Street and Charing Cross. This passenger services was withdrawn on 16th October 1939 as a war time economy measure but was reinstated on 12th August 1946.
Today the loop line forms an important part of Southeastern rail network with two trains an hour in each direction running between Dartford and Victoria. Since the line reopened in 1929 there has been no suggestion that the two intermediate stations at Brockley Lane and Lewisham Road should be reopened.
Sources: London Railway Record Vols. 7, 8 & 11(April & July 1996 & April 1997) published by Connor & Butler
Other web sites: Abandoned Tube Stations . Tickets from Brian Halford & Michael Stewart
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Kelli Space, the author of this post, is a 2009 graduate of Northeastern University and a student loan advocate. She created the site twohundredthou.com to solicit help with her hefty monthly payments. You can follow her on Twitter at @twohundredthou.
The one solid piece of financial advice that I’ve received for the past six years has been to not default on my student loans. It sounded bad, and I knew I had to avoid it at all costs. A few years ago, though, I finally decided to dig a little deeper into the mystery of “default”: sure, it was the result of missing payments and not adhering to the terms laid out in the original agreement or promissory note. But then what?
It turns out that one of the major effects of student loan default is that your credit will likely take a nosedive. Credit is important as, when damaged, it may result in the inability to take out a mortgage, open a credit card, or take on other personal loans (oh great, more debt!). Poor credit might make you an undesirable candidate to even rent an apartment, or lease a car; you can imagine a landlord wouldn’t be confident in your ability to pay rent on time. While these may or may not be things you’re considering right now, you don’t want to limit your possibilities for the future!
Aside from bad credit, defaulting on a loan might cause your lender to garnish your wages directly from your paycheck. Lenders can also intercept your federal tax refund if applicable. Even your lottery winnings can be withheld! You finally catch that big break, but your student loan debt creeps up behind you…
Worse, you could get sued — by both federal and private lenders. Apparently there is also no time limit on student loan default lawsuits, according to NOLO, and “you can be sued indefinitely.” Lenders can also turn defaulted loans over to collection agencies who have been notorious for harassment, and will undoubtedly tack on collection costs to the amount of your loans.
I’m stressed out just thinking about this.
But there is help. To avoid these burdening consequences, you have a few options before you default. You can discuss forbearance with your lender, whereby the two parties come to an agreement to lower payment for a mutually agreeable period of time. Perhaps you can pay half of what your current monthly payment is; you might have 2 years of eligibility to be able to forbear your loan payments.
You also have the option to defer your loans for a period of time, which essentially means to suspend your payments.
The option to declare bankruptcy is also there for those who can prove extreme undue hardship in direct relation to their student loans. I’ve read that less than 1% of all cases are discharged, but there are a few “undue hardship” examples listed here for reference. Bankruptcy is always a last resort, as it, too, will ruin your credit for upwards of a decade, but it is understood that for some it is necessary and the only feasible option.
There are also tons of resources online to help get you in the spirit of earning more, spending less, and putting more money toward your debt each month. Some of these resources are quite powerful, and the online personal finance community — particularly the get-out-of-debt crowd — is a positive group of people anxious to help you cross the finish line. You can check out Wise Bread’s list of top personal finance blogs here. And don’t forget to sign up with ReadyForZero to help rid yourself of any other debt, as well.
This article is part of our Student Loan Debt Resource Center. If you’re looking for additional information about student loans, be sure to pay a visit!
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Straw Bale Construction/Characteristics/Passive solar
(Please help expand this section, specifically adding comparative)
Straw bale like all other organic insulation materials are better able to buffer heat than inorganic insulation. Basically this improves thermal comfort within a building, exterior temperature swings are delayed and damped. Having thermal mass is the difference between the interior comfort experienced within a catherderal or in a corrugated shed, either in the summer or winter. The fact that a straw bale wall should be plastered on innner and outer surfaces greatly enhances the heat buffering effect by substantially adding to the thermal mass of the building.
The combination of insulation with sufficient thermal mass creates the high level of comfort experienced in most straw bale buildings. Adding extra thermal mass by even thicker plaster layers on inner surfaces encounters the effects of diminishing returns. Doubling the thickness over 35mm (which seams to be the optimum) increases comfort by an insignificant amount. Depending on the location overheating can take place if there is too much equator facing glass. This can be combatted by adding extra thermal mass. Shading though is far more effective but correctly dimensioning the amount of glasing is even better as it saves the heat loss through the glasing at night or overcast days.
(Passive Solar should be moved to a more appropriate section)
Passive solar refers to buildings designed to maximise the heating and cooling effects of the environment around them. They are called passive because there are none (or few) parts of the design that require energy to operate. The most common technique for passively taking advantage of the environment is maximising solar gain by exposing interior surfaces to the suns warmth and then designing the building to best contain that warmth. At the other end of the scale, where climates are hot and passive cooling is what's needed, one technique is using rising warm air to draw basement cooled air up through a building.
Any building taking advantage of passive solar gain must have well insulated interior surfaces which are exposed to sunlight and have enough mass to store daytime heat and release it at night. How suited a straw bale house is to taking advantage of solar gain depends on the mass (think of thickness) of the inside plaster coating, though some maintain that straw bale constructions are inherently unsuitable for passive solar gain (although the article seems to neglect the surface plaster). It should be stressed that straw bale homes are not inherently good for passive solar gain, they need to be designed to make use of it, it doesn't just happen. The same is true of any building material or system.
Following are the basic features that distinguish straw bale buildings designed to maximise passive (think of free and sustainable) heating and cooling:
- Limited exterior wall surface with high insulation.
- Equator-facing, East and West Roof overhangs correctly sized to block the summer sun (angle) and still allow the lower winter sun angle to provide heating of interior thermal mass.
- Passive preheating/precooling of external air by drawing through cellers, porches, glass houses and heat exchangers.
Features specific to cold climates
- Large (super insulated low-e) glass surfaces with high orientation for maximum sun exposure of the buildings interior. In strawbale buildings the inside plastered surface of the bales is a great surface for collecting sunlights heat and radiating it slowly back to the inside space. See also w:Solar_gain:solar gain.
- Superinsulated doors, windows and frames. Glazing with low-emissivity glass coatings facing outwards
- Position doors for minimum wind exposure, preferably with an enclosed porch.
- External postbox, not an in-door hole.
- Building envelope air-tightness (see below).
- For extra winter heating the focus is on renewable fuels (plant oils/ charcoal and wood) or sun heated systems (solar collectors or heat pumps).
Features specific to hot climates
- Glass openings (and leisure areas) need to be protected from radiated heat from surrounding object like sun baked sand or earth, outside planting can greatly reduce radiated ground heat.
- Shading and orientation to avoid sun exposure, especially to the buildings interior.
- Position windows where they can make the most efficient use of prevailing wind for cooling and ventilation.
One common source of confusion when talking about 'passive' construction is the term 'breath' which is more accurately known as “vapor permeability”. People talk about straw bale walls breathing, but this has nothing to do with air moving through the wall, it's about moisture moving through the wall. Really it is better to refer to it as moisture permiability. In this way walls that can transport odour filled moisture to the outside contribute to a high air quality, without air moving through the wall. | <urn:uuid:d3461b99-b2e8-4e9e-b0b1-f07a51ac78db> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Straw_Bale_Construction/Characteristics/Passive_solar | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280266.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00504-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.926898 | 998 | 3.078125 | 3 |
Full Frame features photo essays and conversations with photographers in the field.
Balochistan extends over 350,000 square kilomaters (about the size of Germany) and is the largest province in the Pakistan Federation. About 7 million people live in Balochistan and the population comprises Iranians, Pakistanis and Afghanis. Balochistan is among the richest provinces in Pakistan, with valuable natural resources in gold, cobalt and gas. But its people are the poorest, suffering for decades under the Pakistani government. The Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) seeks to address this economic discrimination. The armed group's resistance regularly makes headlines in the Pakistani national press.
Balochis cultivate a resentment toward centralized power, accusing the government of delaying provincial development while at the same time plundering Balochistan's rich resources. The BLA was most active starting in 2006 when a number of Balochi political leaders were killed. The BLA continues to target the Pakistani army, which it views as an occupying imperialist force.
In the photographer's words:
For me photography is a way to meet people. It’s a tool to see and listen better. The photographic process is a passage to reveal another face of the truth. What fascinates me is that a photograph is taken in less than a second but it can take months to prepare. I like the idea of staying long, watching, waiting for the good light and learning things. In some ways my camera allows me to live with people, to share with them even if their thinking is far from conventional.
Balochistan is in turmoil. This vast mountainous desert at the crossroad of Iran and the Indian subcontinent share values with both cultural spheres but Balochis cultivate an original tribal culture. My time photographing in the dry red mountains with Balochis fighters was a powerful experience. I remember my fear before my first meeting with the 40 heavily armed guerrilla fighters, but at this time photographing was a way to keep a certain distance. It soon became an object of interaction and my key to entering the intimacy of the fighters. I remember the sweet light of the early morning after a harsh night with the fighters. I try to avoid any judgment but the Balochis I met were sharing and joking continuously with each other. They were ready to give their lives far from their families for a cause that few people have heard of and without any financial advantages. They were proud and sure about their fight.
About the photographer:
Marc’s work revolves around social issues and identity concerns mostly focusing on unrepresented communities and groups. He began his carrier by photographing the workers at an isolated shipping yard in Pakistan. This work was recognized by the Paris-Match Young Reporter Grant in 2003 and has been shown in Musee des Beaux Arts de Chartres, France.
He graduated from the Sorbonne University, Paris and from Sciences Po, Toulouse where he studied geography, political science and journalism (1999-2005).
Since then, Marc has been working in Pakistan, India, Afghanistan and China. His long-term work “Lost From Balochistan” on Balochistan province in Pakistan won an honorary mention at the 2010 Anthropographia Award. This story, exhibited in Paris and screened at Spain's Gijon Photojournalism Festival 2009, will be published in a book by 2010.
His photographs have appeared mostly in the French press: AFP, Marie Claire, Liberation, Paris Match, Match du Monde, ChinePlus and Figaro Magazine.
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Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Thinking about the gap between economy and business fares
Was sent a question as a follow up to the recent post on the airline industry with fuel at $60 per barrel. Was asked "Wanted to get your thoughts on the possibility of airlines lowering their prices. Most think the airlines will maintain prices despite the falloff in passenger demand".
Here is my reply
I have been trying get my head around the two competing airline trends. Firstly the decline in demand but also the corresponding drop in capacity. The current economic pain is in effect being absorbed by the airlines through reductions in supply. This can only last so long, as there reaches a point where airlines cannot cut any more (ie cheaper to keep planes in the air than on the ground). The other factor that will hit in the next month or two is a dramatic reduction in premium fare usage by consumers. I have looked a very unsophisticated statistical sample (my peers, friends and check-in staff at premium class counters) and have noticed people flying long haul economy for work they had not done so for ten years. This sent me to think about the costs of long haul premium travel now and historically.
I remember that back in 1990 when I first starting looking at travel as more than just a wide eyed kid, the gap from economy to business to first was double:double. Business was twice the cost of Economy and First was twice again. An economy trip to Europe from Australia was $2,000-2,500, business was $4,000 - $5,000 and first was $8,000-10,000. Now, 18 years later you can still get an economy fare to Europe for around $2,500. But the gap to business and first is times four and times one and a half. Business is now four times the cost of economy and first is now one and a half times the cost of business. No doubt that the quality of the 2008 version of premium product is light years beyond that of 1990 (flat bed as standard, limo pick ups, hundreds of hours of interactive entertainment, world class restaurants in airport lounges etc) but the price gap is now significant. Of course, airlines have looked to fill that gap with premium economy (twice the price of standard economy). But the 2008 version of premium economy is not as good as the 1990 version of business (seats smaller, pitch not as deep, staff not as attentive).
The airlines were able to justify/maintain/get away with this increasing the price gap/multiple from 1990 to 2008 due to a booming economy and ever increasing T&E budgets. But now the economy is boomed out and T&E budgets are being wiped out. From this I believe that the first hit on pricing we will see is in premium classes. I expect that very early next year (if not starting right now). Meanwhile capacity cuts will continue. Then some tipping point will hit where capacity cuts have reached as far as they can and early cuts in premium have gone as low as they can. Then economy fares will hit the floor and more airlines will hit the wall.
I say all this back on good old fashioned blogger intuition and anecdotally driven research. I have not done the deep price and capacity analysis that should accompany an answer like this - but that is the blogger prerogative.
UPDATE - LA times travel blogger Jen Leo just let me know that expiring and midnight tonight Qantas are offering two for one in all classes to AU and NZ. Expect this to be the first of many.
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Games are the most desired styles of leisure, especially for children and adults alike. Games which might be played out internet ranges from entertaining display-based arcade game titles to your severe enterprise of combat and plan computer games. The kinds of game titles you could obtain on the net count on what you are looking for. Some game titles are available mainly for certain parts of the planet, and others can be obtained nearly anyplace.
Games are a form of multiplayer on the internet video gaming. A multiplayer internet game is often a laptop or computer online game that is certainly sometimes online, to a certain extent or totally experienced over the internet. There are lots of various kinds of games online. Examples include adventure video games, unit card game titles, simulation computer games, message video games, athletics game titles and sporting computer games.
Most games online are words-dependent. Participants receive a limited number of commands and so are then instructed to use and employ a range of resources or gadgets in the video game surroundings. Which is the standard plan right behind textual content-structured online games. Uncomplicated text-dependent games tend to be very easy, nevertheless the complication on the orders and the instruments used to perform them do range from remaining fairly easy to extremely difficult. In some instances, complicated graphics enables you to present much more visual stimuli on the people.
The most well-liked games online are those that enable athletes to engage in tactical fights with digital people, just like warcraft. Arena of Warcraft is amongst the most popular MMORPGs (Fully developed Games). It enables athletes to generate their unique exclusive empire by picking out a race and choosing beings to accompany them. Gamers can create a category and choose objects, armour and weapons because of their personality. So as to conquer foes and inevitably acquire the game.
Other online games that are exactly like An entire world of Warcraft are titles just like Xbox stay, that permits athletes in order to connect to Xbox Exist Arcade and use the web along with their Xbox 360 System system to spend time playing towards other individuals in the world, competitors take on various tasks just like warriors, managers, wizards and intruders and so on., and should collaborate. Though this style of gambling may seem like it becomes a direct competitor to everyone of Warcraft, the programmers of Xbox exist attempt to take new stuff to the genre. They have got released an all new leveling system that will permit players to succeed through the online game at their own individual schedule, without the need of experience like these are caught inside of a traditional MMO-sort grind. The Xbox are living gambling program may also feature public attributes which allow athletes to chitchat and be a part of community forums even though performing their preferred games online.
One more exceptionally brought up online games that could be getting plenty of fans is conflict royale match. This really styled activity is rather very much the same as the well-liked micromanagement type of activity have fun with that can be found in the concept of wii sporting activities. Gamers manage a identity and expend their time getting involved in fights with good friends or competitor gamers. They make things by successful struggles and ultizing a wide variety of weaponry as they overcome in becoming the most powerful mma fighter across the world.
With the number of games online staying experienced by millions daily, there is very little suspect that there will invariably be a huge interest on a lot more games. Some experts assume that online video gaming will surpass the recognition of video gaming consoles. One particular reason for this is that there is significantly less systems associated with online games than there may be with gaming consoles. Game devices can be very expensive and need to have a higher degree of customized products to properly operate. On-line video games basically uses a personal computer and a web connection.
Across the upcoming year or two, we have to expect a large amount of games online to be unveiled available. New games shall be developed for every single major foundation. Some companies have previously released major new titles that ought to be launched in 2021. We have to continue to see plenty of new time produces very soon. With all the surge in demand for on the net esrb, games and vcrb creation must increase correctly.
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- Eloise Head, a self-taught baker, has a recipe for Nutella cookies made with just four ingredients.
- They include Nutella, plain flour, an egg, and baking powder, and can be customized with candy.
- Head's recipe only has a few steps, and the Nutella cookies are ready in 10 to 12 minutes.
Self-taught baker Eloise Head has become a social-media hit with her simple and quick recipes that only require a few ingredients.
These easy Nutella cookies require just four ingredients, and you only need to bake them for 10 minutes.
"I love making cookies, they're one of my favorite things to make — especially soft and chewy ones," Head told Insider. "I love baking with Nutella as it's so versatile, and I love the flavor of chocolate and hazelnut, so these were a no-brainer."
Head's Nutella cookies only require four main ingredients
To make six Nutella cookies at home, you'll need:
- 300 grams of Nutella
- 85 grams of plain flour
- 1 large egg
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
If you want to throw in some additional flavor, Head recommends adding 100 grams of M&M's — as she did in her video — or anything from Reese's Pieces to chocolate chips.
Here's how to make the 4-ingredient Nutella cookies
First, mix your Nutella, plain flour, egg, and baking powder in a large bowl. Then throw in your M&M's, or whatever additional ingredients you've chosen.
Scoop up about two tablespoons of the mixture and roll it into a ball. Pop each ball on a baking tray and repeat until you finish the dough.
"They're pretty messy, but stick with it," Head said. "And if you prefer not to get your hands messy, use a cookie scoop to transfer them onto the baking tray."
And make sure you leave at least 4 inches between each cookie as "they do spread a fair bit," Head added.
Then bake the cookies for about 10 to 12 minutes at 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
"Try not to overbake the cookies, unless you like them extra crunchy," Head said. "They may appear soft and a bit oily when they come out of the oven, especially if you add M&Ms."
"Let them cool fully on the tray and they will turn out perfectly soft, moist, and chewy," she added.
Head recently went viral for her easy cinnamon roll recipes
"I've always loved cinnamon rolls, but they can be pretty time-consuming to make, and I would usually end up making them in large batches," Head told Insider. "I had played around with this two-ingredient dough and thought it would be an amazing and quick alternative to make cinnamon rolls."
"I find that people tend to have their favorite biscuits, chocolates, and spreads, so when they're included in a recipe, they're instantly drawn to them," Head said.
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Letter to President Obama on Highly Qualified Teacher Issue
NCTE has joined more than 50 organizations -- including education, civil rights, disability, student, parent, and community groups -- in sending a letter to President Obama about legislation in Congress that would allow teachers still in training to be considered “highly qualified” so they can meet a standard set in the federal No Child Left Behind law.
Read how NCTE members supported NCTE's literacy education advocacy efforts throughout 2010!
On behalf of students and teachers, NCTE members took action in November 2010 to stop the de-funding of the National Writing Project, Reading Is Fundamental, and other programs by asking their sentators to opposed the Coburn amendment. The Coburn amendment proposed a moratorium on earmarks beginning with the 2011 budget. This moratorium would impact directed funding programs across departments of the federal budget. Both the National Writing Project and Reading Is Fundamental are considered earmarks even though they are authorized programs in the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.
On September 29, 2010, the Senate passed S.R. 668 declaring October 20, 2010, the National Day on Writing!
NCTE's Action Alerts ask members to contact policymakers to request their support for legislation affecting literacy education. Your voices have been heard! On October 8, 2009, after NCTE members had sent several hundred letters to their Senators, the U.S. Senate passed a resolution declaring October 20 as the National Day on Writing.
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Your Action Helped in Declaring October 20, 2009,
the National Day on Writing!
On October 8, the U.S. Senate passed a resolution declaring October 20, 2009, the National Day on Writing. NCTE members sent more than 400 letters to their Senators asking them to support this resolution.
NCTE Speaks Out on Arizona Department of Education Ruling on Teacher Speech: Evaluate Teachers on Their Competence, Not on Their Accents.
On June 7, 2010, NCTE sent a statement to the Arizona Department of Education about its recent ruling that teachers whose spoken English it deems to be heavily accented or ungrammatical must be removed from classes for students still learning English.
NCTE gave feedback to Congress regarding the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA):
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Before 9 a.m. on Saturday morning, cars lined up at Citizens Field for free coronavirus testing.
The City of Gainesville, Community Foundation, Walmart Foundation, and the health department partnered to provide testing to Gainesville residents.
“(In) Alachua County, the numbers are spiking, they’re going up and so we wanted to provide an opportunity for the vulnerable population particularly the residents in east Gainesville to have an opportunity to come out and get tested,” City Commissioner Gigi Simmons said.
The Alachua County Health Department provided over 700 tests on a first-come, first-served basis for the UF Mobile Outreach Clinic to administer.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, data shows some minority groups are at a greater risk of hospitalization or death resulting from COVID 19.
David Rountree, director of diversity and inclusion outreach for the Community Foundation of North Central Florida, said it’s a trend that is currently being seen in Alachua County.
“We’re seeing results where 49% of the hospitalizations are apart of the African American and Black community, 42% of the deaths here in Alachua county are actually acquainted to the Black population and African American population where they make up 19 to 20% of the population,” Rountree said.
Simmons said there are many reasons why minorities are considered a vulnerable population.
“People of color, in general, are in a situation and are in neighborhoods or communities that lack access to healthcare, we lack access to food, we have a disparity in our communities,” Simmons said.
Rountree said cases continue to rise in the state of Florida, and he reminds everyone that it is important to protect yourself and get tested if you feel sick.
“Wearing masks and social distancing is one thing you can do but also getting tested right now will at least help you understand where you stand and then make sure you take the necessary precautions to stay safe for our community,” Rountree said.
Rountree also added that he hopes the foundation will be able to provide more opportunities for drive-up testing in the future.
Free coronavirus testing is also available on Wednesdays and Fridays at the former City Regional Transit headquarters location. Call 352-334-8810 to schedule an appointment. | <urn:uuid:06123e8e-2f72-492f-a01e-f148656a2ff4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wuft.org/news/2020/06/29/as-confirmed-cases-rise-gainesville-offers-free-drive-up-testing-at-citizens-field/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00073.warc.gz | en | 0.936134 | 495 | 1.875 | 2 |
- Black Environment Network
- working across diverse sectors for ethnic environmental participation.
- Inclusion Europe
- campaigning for the rights and interests of people with intellectual
disability and their families throughout Europe
- Inclusion Scotland
- a consortium of organisations of disabled people and disabled
individuals. They aim to draw attention to the physical, social,
economic, cultural and attitudinal barriers that affect the everyday
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Good oral health is important to childrens’ overall health. Yet, for some, regular dental care may not be affordable. Healthy Smiles Ontario is a program for children 17 and under who do not have access to any form of dental coverage. If eligible, children will get regular dental services at no cost.
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Materials documenting activities of African-American political activist in Hattiesburg,
- Language: English
- Subject: Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.).
- Subject: Programs (Publications).
- Subject: Fliers (Ephemera).
- Names: Hattiesburg High School.
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My dog Sammy’s water bowl buzzed with activity yesterday morning. When I went to fill it with fresh water, I noticed a honeybee had fallen in. In its attempt to free itself from the sticky surface tension of the water’s surface, the bee’s wingbeats created a spectacular pattern of repeating waves on the water’s surface. I went and got the camera, took a few photos and then offered a blade of grass to the bee, which it quickly grabbed with its forelegs, allowing me to lift it from the bowl. The bee that lived got me thinking about waves and light. For that I’m as thankful as he was.
A honeybee’s wings beat about 200 times per second or in scientific terms 200 Hertz (200 cycles per second). Since the human ear can pick up sounds as low as 20 Hertz, we can easily hear a bee buzz by. Mosquitos beat their wings at a higher frequency – some 600 Hertz – which is why they sound higher pitched to our ears. The more beats per second, the higher the frequency and the shriller the sound.
Light like sound also is made of waves, but while sound waves are compressions (peaks) and relaxations (troughs) of air, light is an electromagnetic wave composed of alternating electrical and magnetic fields. Light doesn’t need a medium for travel. It zooms through a vacuum as happily as through water, glass or air. Sound requires a medium, either air, liquid or solid, for it to register in your ear. We don’t often think of it, but sound travels very well through solids. I remember as a kid putting my ear to the iron rails to anticipate a train coming before I could see it. Then we got our pennies ready, so the train could flatten them into little pancakes.
Despite their differences, sound and light still both waves that behave like waves of water with repeating peaks and troughs. Like the honeybee’s wings stroking the water, light “beats” or has a frequency, too that depends upon its color. If you think a mosquito is high-pitched, light will blow you away. Red light has a frequency of 430 trillion Hertz and and violet light 750 trillion Hertz. That’s right – when you shine a flashlight, 750 trillion wave crests pass through a given point in space every second. That’s some buzz!
And since visible light is only a small part of the entire light or electromagnetic spectrum, those numbers go much higher as we move toward ultraviolet, X-rays and gamma rays. The higher the frequency the light, the more energy it packs, too. That’s why ultraviolet light can burn and damage skin. Light that vibrates at fewer cycles per second than visible light packs less punch. Infrared light, which we sense as heat, as well as radio waves are its most familiar forms.
While we’re on the topic of light, our big, bright sun let loose a powerful M-class flare early this morning. It was centered in the large sunspot region numbered 1283 in the photo above. Since this spray of sub-atomic particles from the flare is directed toward Earth, auroras are a possibility in the nights ahead. I’ll be monitoring solar weather forecasts to let you know if anything might materialize. | <urn:uuid:e1b68759-b131-4b76-9f8f-16e8636842b2> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://astrobob.areavoices.com/2011/09/06/a-honeybees-wingbeats-hint-at-the-grooviness-of-light/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280292.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00346-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959474 | 707 | 3 | 3 |
Map of the Month - October
GfK Purchasing Power for Frozen Foods and Ice Cream in Germany
The average nationwide purchasing power for
frozen foods and ice cream is €83 per person, per year. However, the purchasing power for these particular product lines varies significantly by region. For example, inhabitants of Germany’s Ruhr Area (Ruhrgebiet) and the metropolitan regions of Hannover and Hamburg have funds well in excess of the national average for these product lines.
This month’s map illustrates the varying demand for these product lines based on consumers’ places of residence. Immediately apparent is the discrepancy between available purchasing power in the eastern and western parts of the country – a particularly striking phenomenon given that this divide does not exist in the case of many other product lines. This suggests that households on a tight budget refrain from these product types; by contrast, in the case of conserves, inhabitants of the country’s eastern states actually spend more than their western counterparts. Inhabitants of the more sparsely populated regions of eastern Germany also have easier access to fresh produce, making them more likely to limit their purchase of frozen items.
GfK GeoMarketing offers a detailed Germany-wide map that illustrates the distribution of purchasing power for frozen foods and ice cream (Illustration and data source: GfK GeoMarketing, GfK Purchasing Power for Retail Product Lines 2008).
This particular product line provides a carefully calculated indicator of the funds available in a given area for the purchase of frozen foods and ice cream at retail locations. To determine these figures, GfK GeoMarketing calculates and cumulates the potential demand for individual products belonging to the broader product line for every municipality, postcode district and street segment, Germany-wide.
GfK GeoMarketing offers up-to-date purchasing power data for 64 product lines in the food and non-food sectors. Companies use this information to more accurately determine turnover potential, plan sales territories or locations and optimize their regional product lines.
Download the map in high-resolution .TIF format (14,8 x 21 cm)
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The company is a subsidiary of the international GfK network. Ranked among the world’s top 5 market research organizations, the GfK Group consists of 115 subsidiaries and approx. 9,000 employees, with operations in more than 100 countries.
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Angelina Jolie says she has had her ovaries and fallopian tubes removed to prevent cancer.
The actress and filmmaker made the announcement Tuesday in an op-ed in The New York Times. She says a blood test showed a mutation in the BRCA1 gene, which gave her an 87 percent risk of breast cancer and a 50 percent risk of ovarian cancer. She had a double mastectomy in 2013.
Jolie says she had the procedure done last week. She still has her uterus, adding that uterine cancer does not run in her family. Her grandmother, mother and aunt died of cancer.
She says she will look for ways to strengthen her immune system to prevent cancers.
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College of Business Administration Departments
School of Accountancy
The School of Accountancy at Georgia Southern University is fully accredited by AACSB International, and offers both undergraduate and graduate degree programs in Accounting.
Finance and Economics
The Department of Finance and Economics offers B.B.A. degrees in economics, regional economic development, finance, and international business and a B.A. and minors in economics and regional economic development for non-business majors. DFE also offers a Master of Science in Applied Economics.
The Department of Management primary degree offering is the B.B.A. degree in Management. The department also houses a specialty emphasis area for the Management degree, the B.B.A. degree in Management with an emphasis in Operations Management.
Information Systems (IS) is first and foremost a business degree. This degree program prepares graduates to increase business agility and competitiveness through the application of Information Technology (IT). IS students gain a solid foundation in business and become computer-savvy through hands-on experience with the latest technologies.
Logistics and Supply Chain Management
The Department of Logistics and Supply Chain Management offers a bachelor of business administration (BBA) degrees majoring in logistics and intermodal transportation as well as a major in management with an emphasis in operations management.
The Department of Marketing offers Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) degrees in the areas of marketing. Our degree programs provide students with the problem-solving skills and versatile knowledge base needed to manage and lead the modern organization.
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Center for Science and the Imagination to Launch at ASU's Newest Interdisciplinary Building, ISTB4
Interdisciplinary Science and Technology Building IV (ISTB4)
Photographer: Bill Timmerman
Under the guidance of university president Michael Crow, Arizona State University has become known for its innovative projects and ever-growing number of research initiatives and interdisciplinary schools.
This fall, the school will add one more to the list: The Center for Science and the Imagination, "an institutional platform for ambitious thinking and creative collaboration between the humanities, arts and sciences." Ed Finn, assistant professor at the School of Arts, Media and Engineering and the Department of English will serve as director of the center, which will officially launch on Monday, September 24.
Finn describes the centers as a "sort of connective tissue" that will bridge the many pre-existing science, innovation, and research groups within the university. He hopes to connect students, projects and ideas across various disciplines to "foster creative and ambitious thinking about the future."
For example, the center will provide science students a place for creative projects.
"It will be a safe space for really open collaboration," Finn says. "To create collaboration between students of different backgrounds."
The center will also join forces on large-scale university projects such as "Hieroglyph," a project to foster partnerships between scientists and science fiction writers. Finn says he also hopes to turn "Emerge" - a campus-wide event held last March that challenged artists, engineers, scientists, storytellers and designers to rethink possible futures - into an annual event.
For a full list of future collaborations see the center's website.
The launch will be held at the recently completed ISTB4 building on the ASU Tempe campus. President Crow and Intel Futurist Brian David Johnson will discuss future projects and formal partnerships with the center including Intel, Slate Magazine and the Society for Science and the Public.
This will offer an opportunity to explore the new ISTB4 building, the largest single research building at ASU. The building houses the university meteorite collection - the largest university-based collection in the world - as well as a Curiousity rover replica, NASA exhibits and the 4,300-square-foot "Gallery of Earth and Space Exploration."
Tickets are available for free at the Center for Science and Imagination website.
Finn will also be speaking at the Arizona Science Center on Friday, September 21 from 7 to 8 p.m. as a part of the Science Cafe series. The informal discussion will be called "Envisioning the Nano City."
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Piloto de Tecnología 5G Comunidad Valenciana (Red.es)
2020 - 2021
This is a project to validate the capabilities of 5G technology in Valencia, Spain by testing 15 use cases that involve sectors of health, industry, energy, gaming, and tourism. Valencia 5G has a budget of 10,145,234 euros and involves Orange, Huawei, Arborea Intellbird, CFZ Cobots, Global Omnium Idrica, Etra Research, and Development, Red Eléctrica y de Telecomunicaciones Innovación y Tecnología and Robotnik. The project aims to contribute from three approaches: support the deployment of the first 5G networks in Spain; experiment with the network management techniques; and testing the main capabilities of the technology: ultra-reliable and low-latency communications; massive machine-to-machine communications; and extremely high speed and capacity mobile broadband. The MCG of the iTEAM will be involved in 5 out of 15 uses cases, being these: (1) Robotic Remote diagnostic. (2) Fleet management: Robotics Remote control of AGVs. (3) Robotics-Remote inspection and maintenance. (4) 5G Digital Contents. (5) Massive IoT for smart meters in supplies. The use case of robotic remote diagnostic for the skin cancer diagnostic using the 5G mobile communications network, consisting of a specialist will scan the patient remotely using robotic arms that have built-in biometric sensors that capture and process the information. On the other hand, the VLCCAMPUS-5G of the Universitat Politècnica de València, has been chosen as one of the testing scenarios. | <urn:uuid:28591f73-311c-4383-95f0-73b872e285de> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.iteam.upv.es/project/piloto-de-redes-moviles-5g/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00669.warc.gz | en | 0.794756 | 369 | 2.109375 | 2 |
Are We Over Race?I am dismayed to learn, via Caleb, of Annie Proulx's reaction to Brokeback Mountain's loss to Crash as Best Picture of the Year at the Academy Awards (she wrote the story from which the former was made.) She seems to think that racism is a rather quaint subject (presumably in comparison to homosexuality among white cowboys.)
Caleb is right: confining social problems (or the discussion thereof) to the past is a dangerous game in which certain causes are elevated above others, or entirely dismissed.
And yet race (and ethnicity) has returned in such a big way. The sudden death of Milosevic has delayed reckoning with genocide and the global community's role in preventing it. At least seventy thousand people (probably many more) have died in Darfur. The ethnic troubles in France have shown that societies discrimination can persist in societies that claim racial toleration.
The current issue of Nouvelles Questions Feministes shows the extent to which race has reasserted itself: the issue is dedicated to discussing the compatibility of anti-racism and anti-sexism. Christine Delphy discusses how feminist critiques were hijacked by policy makers to create discriminatory policies (related to the headscarf matter.)
I'll admit that I have no interest in seeing Brokeback Mountain: the problems of Marlboro Men don't intrigue me, and I think that there are already great films that deal with, even normalize, homosexuality (where the Oscar for Hedwig and the Angry Inch?.) Perhaps people should ask whether homosexuality made Academy voters uncomfortable. Dismissing racism, however, creates its own problems, especially when race and sexuality ought to be analyzed in terms of one another rather than in isolation. | <urn:uuid:d2bb040c-3359-47ca-8592-f7a42271ce91> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://rhineriver.blogspot.com/2006/03/are-we-over-race.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280221.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00227-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962514 | 356 | 1.796875 | 2 |
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Our modern culture encourages boys to grow up and act as loutish, irresponsible children forever. Girls have their childhoods despoiled by being drilled in the mannish ways of sexual activity long before puberty.
Boy the way Glen Miller played;
Songs that made the hit parade.
Guys like us we had it made;
Those were the days.
And you knew who you were then.
Girls were girls and men were men.
Mister we could use a man
Like Herbert Hoover again.
Didn’t need no welfare state;
Everybody pulled his weight.
Gee our old LaSalle ran great.
Those were the days.
When I was a little girl back in the early 1960’s, before the world went mad, life was easier than it is today. Why? Because, as so elegantly put by Edith Bunker above, everyone knew who they were then: girls were girls and men were men. Today, girls are raised to be men and men are, well, they’re just confused. The deadly combination of feminism, socialism and political correctness have robbed two generations of Americans—aptly named Generation X, and Y; the unknown quantities—of their proper identities according to the Natural Law. Day after day give evidence that the tender mercies of liberals have left millions of people dazed and confused and our moral fiber in tatters.
In the old days, the family unit was sacrosanct. A man was the king of his castle and that castle was to be defended against any and all who would dare to breach it; by force, if necessary. This very concept was the basis of the founding of our country. Today, a man’s property belongs to the communal tax-base, and his children are little more than wards of the state, as evidenced by this PSA run on MSNBC which actually admits this. And boy, how the state has been raising them.
Back in Archie Bunker’s halcyon days, girls were considered children and were treated as such; that is, until they grew up to be women who would assume the honored and vital roles of wives and mothers if they so chose. Now, little girls—once the very epitome of innocence—who formerly scampered happily and unencumbered through childhood in pigtails, are taught that their most important function in life is sex; a notion that was formerly discouraged as detrimental to society, even for grown men.
It is truly disgusting to contemplate that these sweet little ones must have their girlhoods despoiled by being drilled in the mannish ways of sexual activity long before puberty. And now, thanks to our morally bankrupt judiciary, these girl-men will have access to abortion pills—the murderous equivalent of male ‘protection’—which are available to them without parental notification; further proof of their ‘liberating’ masculinization.
As for our boys, quite the opposite is true. In the past, boys were raised to grow into men who were respectful of women and their elders, but during childhood they were expected to show a certain degree of rambunctiousness; as in “boys will be boys.” Now, their boyish ways are drugged out of them by their communal village parents; until, that is, they reach adulthood, where our modern culture encourages them to act as loutish, irresponsible children forever. Confusing? Not really, when you consider that the aim of liberals seeks to keep them docile as regards their former status as heads of households and responsible American guardians of their family’s autonomy and liberty.
In a time which seems eons ago, our national motto was “In God we trust.” Today, those who would hew to that belief are considered hateful and harmful to society. To paraphrase the eminent author and raconteur G.K. Chesterton—who would have a field day in Barack Obama’s America—those who believe in nothing will believe in anything. Well today, youngsters are counseled, ad nauseam, to “believe in themselves;” as if such belief will accomplish, and even more importantly, excuse anything. And while the little moppets continue in that vein, they are encouraged by their government nannies: as long as that belief comports itself with modern leftists’ twisted templates of gender identity.
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Groundbaiting as a method of attracting fish can be very effective, but a little dropped in the right place works a lot better than random scattering over a wide area.
Groundbaiting is carried out to attract fish into a swim and set them feeding. There are various methods of groundbaiting, depending mainly upon the type of water, the rate of flow, and the species of fish sought.
Groundbaiting in fresh water Groundbaiting with a heavy mix- ture which drops to the bottom fast is needed at times, but once there it should break up quickly. In fast flowing water, when barbel or bream are the quarry, a ball of groundbait which sinks quickly is thrown in slightly upstream so that when it hits the bottom and breaks up, the particles drift along the bottom and
through the swim. Bream usually swim in large shoals, feeding on the bottom, and large amounts of groundbait are often needed to concentrate the shoal in the swim. A large bucketful of groundbait is generally the minimum required for a day’s fishing.
Baiting up a swim several days in advance can pay dividends, particularly when bream, tench or carp are sought. This can draw a big shoal of bream into the swim and hold them there until fishing starts, even though their usual tendency is to be on the move.
A ball of groundbait can be used to land a quantity of loose maggots on the bed of a deep swim. In strong flowing water, such as a weir stream, bank clay can be worked into the mixture for this purpose. It is then moulded in the shape of a cup, the cavity filled with maggots, worms or another bait, and the top closed over. A strong flow, coupled with the action of the wriggling bait, will soon break up the balls, sending the hookbait samples trickling along the bottom to bring fish close.
Groundbaiting from a boat
When fishing from a boat, ground-bait can be dropped over the side or lowered to the bottom in a meshed bag weighted with stones. An occasional tug on a cord attached to the bag will release and circulate particles of the groundbait through the mesh and into the swim.
When ledgering, it is essential to get the groundbait in the right place, and then to fish the baited hook in the middle of it or as close as possible – on the downstream side.
Groundbaiting is frequently done with the use of mechanical devices, such as bait-droppers, swimfeeders and catapults. One sure way of landing loose maggots, or other hookbait samples, on the bottom, is to put them there by means of a bait-dropper, of which there are various kinds on the market. The loaded bait-dropper is lowered to the bottom of the swim, when a trip wire opens the lid and releases the con-tents. The match angler usually starts by putting down several droppers full of hookbait samples. Once the fish move into the swim, the bait-dropper should be used with caution, for it may scare the fish.
Scattering by hand Bait-droppers are obviously not so useful when fishing on the drop, or if taking fish from under the surface when small fish are relied on to make up the match weight. Scattering bait loosely by hand or by catapult is more effective in that case.
Good catches of fish are often made by using choice maggots as hookbait and groundbaiting with inferior maggots, or feeders as they are known. Feeders are generally used in conjunction with a cloudbait. As one becomes expert in casting with one hand and tossing the feed or attractor in with the other, both hookbait and groundbait will enter the water together. The choice maggots on the hook will sink slowly and enticingly amidst the dissolving cloudbait and the feeders.
Use of the swimfeeder
When ledgering the midstream an effective way of getting maggots down to the bed of the river is to use a gadget known as a swimfeeder. These come in various designs and sizes, but the basic model is a celluloid tube that is attached to the ledger tackle. The open-ended type is packed with maggots, with breadcrumbs as plugs at both ends.
With groundbait plugs the feeder can also be used to concentrate hempseed or casters in the vicinity of the baited hook. The closed or blockend type of feeder is filled with maggots only.
After the tackle is cast out it reaches the bottom and the flow of water swings the baited hook to a position downstream of the swimfeeder. From this the maggots will wriggle out through the holes and into the right place – around the baited hook.
A swimfeeder deposits groundbait exactly where it is needed – but it does not always put enough there.
This is why, when ledgering, ground-baiting the swim manually is sometimes employed at the same time as offering the hookbait samples in the swimfeeder.
Care must always be exercised when groundbaiting a swim where specimen fish are the quarry. On a river, the introduction of a large quantity of groundbait will invariably attract shoals of small fish, and these can prove a nuisance.
A form of groundbaiting which is ef-fective in many types of waters, par-ticularly for surface and mid-water species, is cloudbaiting. This means clouding the water by introducing minute particles which the fish will search through, looking for more substantial food.
After taking note of the rate of flow of the water, the angler regularly throws small balls of cloudbait into the swim. This is done upstream, so that the cloud drifts down and through the area being fished. The float tackle is cast out immediately after, following the groundbait closely through the swim.
For roach, dace and chub fishing on a small, secluded river, regular swim-baiting can be made by the use of a ‘drip-feed’ – a tin with a few holes punched in the bottom, which is filled with maggots and hung from a bridge or overhanging branch. The steady trickle of maggots over a long period will entice fish from some distance away into the swim.
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If you haven’t seen the Denver Botanic Gardens’ exhibit, called Native Roots/ Modern Form: Plants, Peoples and the Art of Allan Houser, hurry over. The exhibit is on for just one more month, until November 13, 2011.
Houser’s exquisite bronze sculptures are wonderfully set among Southwestern plants at the Gardens and show the artist’s connection to the land and his pride in his native ancestry. An American modernist, Allan Houser (1914-1994) was a tribal member of the Warm Springs Chiricahua Apache, and he’s famous for his depiction of native themes and visages.
This exhibit celebrates bonds between people and also presents American Indian uses for plants indigenous to the Rocky Mountains and the Southwest.
The Botanic Gardens has once again melded sculptures and botanicals into something unique to behold.
—Laurel Kallenbach, freelance writer and editor
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James Gray’s films (Little Odessa, The Yards, We Own the Night, Two Lovers) typically have a reliable, one-time watchability while lacking the central appeal required for multiple viewings. The Lost City of Z fits that description quite well. The film, based on David Grann’s bestseller, recounts Colonel Percival “Percy” Fawcett’s obsession with discovering a lost civilization in the Amazonian wilds. He made several trips, including the ill-fated final one upon which he disappeared, to the same river near the border of Bolivia and Brazil to find the city he dubbed Z (his critics derisively said he sought El Dorado, or some other such mythical city of gold).
In Gray’s well-meaning but methodically paced exploration of Fawcett’s obsession, Charlie Hunnam (“Sons of Anarchy”) plays the British explorer with the proper amount of stiff upper lip and controlled hubris. What starts as a map-making expedition at the behest of the Royal Geographical Society becomes a survival quest into a land actively trying to kill him. Hunnam has both the gravitas of an early 20th Century British soldier and the magnetism to engage viewers for nearly two and a half hours. As Fawcett’s constant companion, Henry Costin, Robert Pattinson is near unrecognizable beneath a bushy beard, which probably does more to separate him from Twihards seeking more Edward Cullen than anything. Recognizing Ian “Emperor Palpatine” McDiarmid in a rare non-Star Wars appearance is just an added treat.
Excursions, however brief, into other, non-exploratory aspects of Fawcett’s life, like World War I, slow down an already deliberate film. Fortunately, each of the three Fawcett expeditions depicted increase in intrigue and, often, danger. As shot by Darius Khondji, these unexplored lands are as gorgeous as they are deadly. But so is the pacing established by Gray; many audience members may get as lost as Fawcett.
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December 2, 2014
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The Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, announced today that it will receive Phase II funding through Grand Challenges Explorations, an initiative created by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that enables individuals worldwide to test bold ideas to address persistent health and development challenges. R. Paul Johnson, MD, director of Yerkes, will continue to pursue an innovative global health research project, titled “Single cell transcriptional profiling of latently infected CD4+ T cells.”
“I’m thrilled and grateful to have this support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support our efforts to pursue a new approach to identify and better characterize the latent reservoir of SIV-infected T cells,” says Johnson. “This research has the potential to reveal new information that can help us design novel strategies to treat HIV.”
In 2011, Johnson was awarded a Phase I Grand Challenges Explorations (GCE) grant. GCE Phase I recognizes individuals worldwide who are taking innovative approaches to some of the world’s toughest and persistent global health and development challenges. GCE invests in the early stages of bold ideas that have real potential to solve the problems people in the developing world face every day. Phase II recognizes those ideas that have made significant progress toward implementation.
Johnson’s project is one of 14 Phase II Grand Challenges Explorations grants recently announced.
In this continuation study, Johnson and his research team will use a novel approach involving a highly sensitive, high throughput single cell qPCR technique to analyze CD4+ T cells latently infected with simian immunodeficiency virus or SIV. CD4+ T cells, which play a key role in initiating the body’s response to infections, can become latently infected with HIV or SIV, and persist despite years of treatment with antiviral drugs. The persistence of these latently infected cells represents one of the primary barriers to efforts to eradicate HIV from patients treated with antiviral drugs. The researchers will isolate the cells from lymphoid tissues of SIV positive rhesus macaques that are being treated with potent antiretroviral therapy and then couple the analysis with the identification of subsets of memory CD4+ T cells that are highly enriched for latently infected cells.
“By analyzing expression of a panel of molecules that are differentially expressed on the surface of CD4+ T cells, we will identify novel cell surface biomarkers that, either alone or in combination, represent a distinct signature of latently infected cells,” says Johnson. He continues, “The use of single cell transcriptional profiling represents a unique approach to address the fundamental challenges in characterizing latently infected reservoirs and should provide essential information necessary for the development of strategies for viral eradication.”
About Grand Challenges Explorations
Grand Challenges Explorations is a U.S. $100 million initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Launched in 2008, more than 1,070 projects in more than 60 countries have received Grand Challenges Explorations grants. The grant program is open to anyone from any discipline and from any organization. The initiative uses an agile, accelerated grant-making process with short two-page online applications and no preliminary data required. Initial grants of US $100,000 are awarded two times a year. Successful projects have the opportunity to receive a follow-on grant of up to US $1 million.
Established in 1930, the Yerkes National Primate Research Center paved the way for what has become the National Institutes of Health-funded National Primate Research Center (NPRC) program. For more than eight decades, the Yerkes Research Center has been dedicated to conducting essential basic science and translational research to advance scientific understanding and to improve human health and well-being. Today, the Yerkes Research Center is one of only eight NPRCs. The center provides leadership, training and resources to foster scientific creativity, collaboration and discoveries, and research at the center is grounded in scientific integrity, expert knowledge, respect for colleagues, an open exchange of ideas and compassionate, quality animal care.
In the fields of microbiology and immunology, infectious diseases, pharmacology and drug discovery, transplantation, neurologic and psychiatric diseases, as well as behavioral, cognitive and developmental neuroscience, Yerkes scientists use innovative experimental models and cutting-edge technologies to explore and test transformative concepts aimed at: preventing and treating viral diseases such as AIDS; designing novel vaccines for infectious diseases such as malaria and tuberculosis; enhancing the potential of organ transplantation and regenerative medicine; discovering new drugs and drug classes through high-throughput screening; defining the basic neurobiology and genetics of social behavior and developing new therapies for disorders such as autism and drug addiction; understanding the biology of neurodegenerative diseases, such Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases; and advancing knowledge about the evolutionary links between biology and behavior.
The Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center of Emory University is an academic health science and service center focused on missions of teaching, research, health care and public service. Its components include the Emory University School of Medicine, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, and Rollins School of Public Health; Yerkes National Primate Research Center; Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University; and Emory Healthcare, the largest, most comprehensive health system in Georgia. Emory Healthcare includes: The Emory Clinic, Emory-Children's Center, Emory University Hospital, Emory University Hospital Midtown, Wesley Woods Center, and Emory University Orthopaedics & Spine Hospital. The Woodruff Health Sciences Center has a $2.5 billion budget, 17,600 employees, 2,500 full-time and 1,500 affiliated faculty, 4,700 students and trainees, and a $5.7 billion economic impact on metro Atlanta. | <urn:uuid:dff090cc-bfd8-4f87-ac65-ddbe8ede8651> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.yerkes.emory.edu/about/news/microbiology_immunology/Johnson_Gates_Grant_2014.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988717954.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183837-00509-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.919987 | 1,236 | 1.984375 | 2 |
Decentralization and Policies for the Protection of Children and Adolescents in Brazil
Brazil has made concrete its commitment to the principles of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in the creation of a number of State Programmes of Action. This ‘decentralised’ strategy marks an unprecedented step in a country with a strong tradition of ‘top-down’ federal thinking and limited experience of participatory planning. This paper examines the impact this novel approach has had upon the situation of children and adolescents. Recent achievements include the eradication of polio, a significant reduction in the incidence of measles and neonatal tetanus and an improvement in the management of public schools.
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This is Mr. Truant’s account of Bloomfield, using information gathered from a variety of sources. It is reproduced from ‘Look! This was Timsbury’ by kind permission of the Cheshire Home.
In the early days when Bloomfield was mentioned, it contained mostly miners’ cottages. They had no mains services, such as electricity, water or mains sewerage, most toilets being a bucket or cesspit situated at the bottom of the garden. The seating was mostly two-seater, one seat for an adult, the other for a small child. Some were for three; I could never understand why three, unless it was for a quiet family gathering. The seat was made of wood and it was usual after the weekly wash to use the hot water from the copper to scrub the wooden seat, which was then almost white.
As toilet paper was not widely available or too expensive it would be someone’s duty in the household to cut the newspaper into squares. A hole was pierced through the corner with a skewer, a piece of string passed through the hole to make a pack which could then bang on a hook in the toilet ready for use.
At the rear of the cottages would have been what was known as the wash house, which contained a copper boiler. A fire was lit underneath to boil the water for the weekly wash, also often used for the bath, which was of tin, and placed in front of the living room fire. As you know the miners would need to have a bath after each shift (no pit-head baths in those days).
In the house itself there would be an open fire, often with an oven to one side for baking, but on Sundays the joint of meat was roast in front of the open fire, the meat being rotated by means of the meat jack or spit as it was often named. This was worked by clockwork which you would wind with a key as you would for a clock; a dripping tray was placed under the meat to catch the fat or dripping. Often a piece of coal would fall into the dripping from the fire. (I suppose this all added to the flavour.)
The lighting was from oil lamps, or from the candle stick, the latter having to be used to light the way to the toilet at the bottom of the garden after dark. The candle stick was also used to light one’s way up the stairs and also to undress for bed.
Drinking water was drawn from the well, often shared by several families, by means of a bucket held by a rope.
In those days the roads were not dressed with tar as we have today, the quarry owners would unload a huge load of large stones at a convenient site alongside the road to be repaired and men would be employed using long handled hammers to break the stones into small enough stones for the steamroller to roll into the new surface.
The children who always walked to school would often run to school bowling a hoop. The girls’ hoops were mostly made of wood, the boys hoops often made of iron. One of the other games often played on the way in the road (there was not the traffic in those days) was the whip top, which was kept spinning by means of a whip made from a stick with a long piece of string attached. You would then whip the top to keep it spinning. | <urn:uuid:0a67249f-d471-4962-b4b7-c6c4272458d3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.timsbury.org.uk/bloomfield-memories-1/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00467.warc.gz | en | 0.991449 | 696 | 2.703125 | 3 |
New research, presented this morning at the 54th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Hematology (ASH), has identified important associations between Plasmodium falciparum (Pf) malaria and endemic Burkitt Lymphoma (eBL) that may help researchers identify young children who are more susceptible to eBL.
Unlike previous studies in which malaria infection alone was considered the important factor, this study approached the evolving complexity and heterogeneity of the humoral immune response to Pf as a key component for risk of developing eBL in young children who reside in malaria endemic areas of Equatorial Africa. The circumstances potentially set the stage for the development of serological signatures as biomarkers to better indicate the risk of developing eBL during malaria infection.
The study, titled "Risk of Burkitt Lymphoma Correlates with Breadth and Strength of Antibody Response to Plasmodium falciparum Malaria Stage-Specific Antigens," was authored by Jeffrey Bethony, Ph.D., associate professor in the department of microbiology, immunology, and tropical medicine (MITM) at the George Washington University (GW) School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS), along with Amar Jariwala, M.D., assistant research professor in the department of MITM at GW SMHS, and Maria Candida Vila, graduate student at the GW SMHS Institute for Biomedical Sciences. This research was done in collaboration with Sam Mbulaiteye, M.D., infections and immunoepidemiology branch, division of cancer epidemiology and genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, who spent decades collecting the case and control sera in Ghana, as well as the study design and statistics.
The GW SMHS research team developed, optimized, and standardized an extensive panel of serological tests of recombinant Pf antigens representing several stages of the parasite life-cycle assayed in more than 700 cases and control samples from young children. These young children were either resident in Pf malaria endemic areas of Ghana, had eBL, or were the same age, sex, and of the same village to match a child who did not have eBL. Bethony and his colleagues used an immunomics approach to their antibody response to Pf malaria. This enabled different statistical and epidemiological associations to be made between a range of antibody response to Pf malaria antigens and eBL, establishing a pattern of immune responses rather than a single immune response, identifying the children who are at risk for developing eBL.
"Plasmodium falciparum malaria has long been suspected as an important trigger to Epstein Barr Virus associated lymphoma of very young children living in Equatorial Africa," said Bethony. "Our study adds to this literature, explaining that it is not simply the presence or absence of Pf malaria infection, but the breath and complexity of the antibody response to malaria that may be the true indicating factor for who develops eBL and who does not."
The study showed a significant increase in the risk of developing eBL in young children who had a distinct pattern of antibody responses to several different recombinant Pf malaria antigens, including some antigens which are vaccine candidates. Of special note, the study also found a significant decreased risk of eBL in children with antibodies to SE36, a vaccine candidate protein that has been associated with lower risk of malaria in epidemiological studies.
These results not only confirm a strong association between Pf malaria and eBL, but provide a new perspective on the long established relationship between Pf malaria and eBL. This could pave the way for future studies that use protein arrays, containing hundreds of recombinant proteins to develop an antibody signature for children most at risk of developing eBL during Pf malaria infection.
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10-Jul-2007 -- Confluence S33136 was to be our second confluence visit during our West Coast Trip. Discussing this confluence with my brother-in-law who owns a farming property in Buckleboo, it was soon very clear that this confluence would be either on his property or very close to his boundary. Inspecting Frank’s photos, Peter was then able to confirm that this confluence adjoins his property, and was in fact on his neighbours land, Michael Schaefer. When I contacted Michael, my brother-in-law Peter Vandeleur had already spoken to Michael about this confluence and he had no objections in entering his land to log this confluence.
Leaving the township of Kimba, we headed out on the main Buckleboo road. The bitumen road soon ended and it then became a very good quality country dirt road. We then arrived at Bascombe Rocks Road, where it was time to turn left and head out towards my brother-in-laws farm. Arriving at Peter’s farm, we then entered the same track that Frank also took, which is part of Peters property. From where we left the vehicles, it was an easy 200 metres walk to the confluence.
Both my brother-in-laws farm and Michael’s farm adjoin the Pinkawillinie Conservation Park. From the general view photo, you can see that they crop their land to the park boundary, which makes a very different backdrop. All the crops in this area were looking great and I do hope that the rest of the season is good, as like most parts of Australia, the last few years have been very trying for farmers in this area. Another interesting photo opportunity was the native plants that were in flower and doing well after the recent good rains.
After the usual confluence dance, it was down to taking the required photos. Returning to our vehicles, it was time to head further west on our West Coast Trip. Rather than retracing our tracks to Kimba, we took the very interesting Buckleboo Stock Route through the Pinkawillinie Conservation Park. This is a four wheel drive track only, due to the very soft sand in the area. Seeing that we did this track during winter, it was not a problem, with only one main sand dune requiring a second attempt to get over, but anyone doing this same track in the middle of summer will be put to the test, with many sand boggings. It was a very pretty drive through the Conservation Park, with many fine camping spots along the way. Many of the local native vegetation were in flower which also adds to the driving atmosphere. This is one four wheel drive area in South Australia that is a much kept close secret, and well worth the drive if in the area.
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Located on the south side of Holmes Lake in Holmes Park, Hyde Memorial Observatory is owned by the City of Lincoln and maintained by the Parks and Recreation Department. The facility is operated by knowledgeable volunteers who are available to answer questions about the night sky, explain how the equipment works and interpret special astronomical occurrences.
Open to the public on Saturdays:
- October – March: 7 – 10 p.m.
- April – September: 8 – 11 p.m.
Gaze at the night sky through three powerful telescopes, enjoy two programs about astronomy or space exploration that change monthly, and interact with knowledgeable volunteers. Free.
Weekday special showings for groups of 20 or more may be arranged with two weeks notice by calling 402-441-8708.
For more information: http://www.hydeobservatory.info/
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Public interest in male pattern baldness is rooted in cosmetic concern. However, baldness is also worth studying interesting for its interesting combination of biological characteristics: it is strongly hairitable , sex-limited, age-related and common, affecting 80% of Caucasian males. Genetically-speaking, baldness is a complex trait, meaning that there are a multitude of contributing genetic and environmental factors. These characteristics make baldness an attractive trait to study. Why does it only occur in males? Why is baldness so predictably patterned: from scalloped temples and hairline retreat, to thinning crown, to the dreaded end-stage horseshoe ? And how heritable is it? Is your maternal grandfather s dratted X-chromosome really to blame?
We studied the genetics of male pattern baldness genetics in 205,327 European males from the UK Biobank. We found that baldness is strongly genetic up to 62% heritable. Common genetic variants accounted for almost 40% of heritability, meaning that most of the variants that contribute to baldness are widely spread throughout the population. However, the more baldness-associated variants one has, the more likely that they will go bald.
We also found that the genetic variants contributing to baldness are numerous, rather than being from a few rare mutations. 624 independent regions scattered across the genome were robustly associated with increased risk of baldness. We were particularly interested in the X-chromosome as it is often neglected in genetic analyses, yet altered androgen receptor sensitivity is associated with baldness. Of the 624 associated regions, 26 were on the X-chromosome, and these made a disproportionate contribution to the heritability.
We looked for whether baldness shares a genetic basis with other traits. Interestingly, there was consistent correlation between increased baldness severity and earlier puberty onset in both sexes (exhibited by facial hair onset and age of voice breaking in males, age of menarche in females, and reduced growth spurt in both sexes). There were also unexpected genetic correlations with increased bone mineral density and pancreatic beta-cell function. These genetic correlations may plausibly be explained by shared androgen pathways. There were also suggestive correlations with reproductive traits such as fewer number of children fathered in males, and fewer live births and increased age of first birth in females. They collectively imply a weak association between increased baldness severity and reduced reproductive fitness.
Overall, we provide genetic insights into baldness: a trait of interest in its own right, with additional value as a model sex-limited, complex trait.
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By Nadia Johnson
Being a young president of a tenant association one faces many challenges, such as the people you are fighting for don’t see a reason worth fighting anymore. I was starting to feel like these challenges and many other challenges yet to come was unique to me and vice president Kimberly because of our age and our inexperience of being a part of a tenant association.
However, that was all before we went to a community organizing and leadership development institute in Chicago. Not only did we discover that there are many people who are going through the same struggle we are going through when it comes to public housing and organizing tenants, but that it is a struggle that crosses racial, sexual orientation, class, religion, and educational borders. We also saw how there are so many young people who are fighting for the same beliefs and principles that we are fighting for and that was refreshing to both see and hear. What was the name of this great leadership conference where we got all this new inspiration from? Well, if you really want to know, it was the Ella Baker Institute.
ONE DC members & other EBI participants visit local Chicago muralist Hector Duarte.
Ella Baker founded an organization called the Student Nonviolent Coordination Committee (SNCC) which was a civil rights organization that combated racial inequality during the 1960s. In developing SNCC, Ella decided that this organization should hit two fronts-- direct action and voter registration. Ella believed in "participatory democracy,” meaning each person should get involved individually and have a voice in the organization. She also argued that "people under the heel," referring to the most oppressed sectors of any community, "had to be the ones to decide what action they were going to take to get (out) from under their oppression.”
In learning this at the retreat, I have decided to take the Heritage at Shaw Station Tenant Association into a different direction. This direction is going to be broken down into two pieces: direct action by the tenant association and the tenants; and to have every tenant on the property, both new and old, to see their place in this fight and to commit fully to participating.
All in all, I am glad that we attended this retreat about leadership. I not only learned about Ella Baker, but I also got to see the sights of Chicago and be revived spiritually, emotionally, and mentally by the culture of Chicago, the common sisterhood and brotherhood of other leaders in the struggle, and the wonderful and inspirational poetry that we heard. It is my hope that along with vice president Kimberly, we can take the necessary steps forward and bring the tenant association into new heights. | <urn:uuid:160d602d-4a57-4e3f-8ad7-45f889dd378f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.onedconline.org/ebi_nadia | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573667.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819100644-20220819130644-00078.warc.gz | en | 0.977248 | 543 | 1.914063 | 2 |
Project Implementation Planning
Project managers who manage new implementations use project plans to document the project’s tasks, the responsibility for each task and associated target dates and task dependencies on each other. PMs use this document to gain awareness of what tasks need to be accomplished and the status of the project at any given time. They are often responsible for the overall implementation and providing project status communication to stakeholders and team members. This article will cover an implementation plan example explaining which components are necessary to ensure the success of your project. [caption id=“attachment_133127” align=“aligncenter” width=“1024”] Implementation plans are needed to track the work being done on a project[/caption] Creating a solid project implementation plan is essential if you want to be an effective PM. The project plan stands as the single most important documentation of the milestones and key aspects of the project.
Implementation Project Plan Structure
The implementation project plan is a grid made up of columns and rows. Each column represents a different area of information and each row lists the tasks or section header. An example of a project implementation plan may have the following columns:
- Task – list of project tasks
- Percentage Completed – lists the percentage of each task completed
- Status – task status such as: completed, on schedule, behind schedule, cancelled
- Day Started – date task begun
- Day to Be Complete – estimated date of task completion
- Actual Completion Date – date task was completed
- Task Assignment – Name of task owner
- Priority – task priority such as High, Medium or Low
- Milestone – Yes or No to indicate if this is a milestone task
You may also want to include a column for task number. A second column call “Task Predecessors” can list the task numbers that precede each task. Your rows of tasks will vary depending on the type of project you are managing, although general project tasks will likely cross multiple project types. Tasks are typically grouped together by major area or similar functional area. For example in your implementation project plan, the first set of tasks may regard the project initiation. One row may be entitled “Project Initiation” with a set of indented tasks such as:
- Collect Project Ideas
- Gather Business Requirements
- Identify Executive Project Sponsor
- Get the Project Team in place
- Prepare Project Charter
- Conduct Kickoff Meeting
What an Implementation Plan Is Not
The implementation project plan is a separate document from the project charter, business or IT requirements or the work breakdown structure. The project charter is a summary document that lists aspects of the project including project scope, background, objective and goals, executive sponsor and project team members, budget and resources. Business and/or IT requirements list specific details that need to be included in the project and the work breakdown structure (WBS) is a visual tool that groups project tasks by hierarchical structure, similar to an organizational chart. Instead, the implementation project plan is a stand-alone document specifically created to capture tasks, dates and responsible parties.
Project Managers use several software applications specifically designed for project management. From Microsoft Project to web-based applications such as At-Task, ClientSpot or Basecamp, all are viable tools to create the implementation project plan. Many users may prefer to document their plans in simpler tools such as Excel for easy changes and printing. Some software options allow for creation of Gantt charts and reports in addition to the project plan grid. A project implementation plan example template can be found in our media gallery. | <urn:uuid:9929cccb-b49d-459e-bb88-6a4aeb746f7e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.brighthubpm.com/project-planning/87423-putting-together-a-project-implementation-plan/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00676.warc.gz | en | 0.873278 | 739 | 2.390625 | 2 |
One of the benefits of modern technology is that home water softening systems have become more efficient, cutting down on salt and water usage. An efficient water softener uses the precise amount of brine, requiring fewer regenerations. Less waste eases the strain on the environment and lowers the cost of softening water for homeowners. During regeneration, resin is flooded with brine water to flush hardness minerals down the drain. As a result of a brine tank kept at optimal level for regeneration, the salt in a tank is motionless for longer periods of time.
In areas of high humidity, where water softeners are often housed, the combination of humidity and standing salt water often causes the formation of salt bridges. A salt bridge is simply a hard crust that has developed over the water in your brine tank causing improper regeneration. If you’ve noticed your water has suddenly become hard, or brine isn’t being produced and your water softener has stopped using salt, your tank may have developed a salt bridge.
Salt is a necessary part of the ion exchange process. Salt-based water softening, using the process of ion exchange, is the only way to effectively eliminate hard water. Your water softener’s brine tank should be checked regularly and cleaned as needed. When salt bridges, an empty space forms between the water and the salt in your tank. When this happens, the water that enters the tank from the bottom doesn’t reach the salt. The salt will not dissolve to make brine, and without brine, a water softener’s resin bed will not regenerate, resulting in hard water and no salt usage.
Salt-based water softeners are the only way to eliminate hard water. The impurities and trace minerals nearly always found in salt can contribute to build-ups and clumping. This can’t always be avoided, but using high purity salt will leave less storage tank residue, lowering the likelihood of salt bridging and salt mushing.
Removing Salt Bridges From The Tank
Salt bridging is a common problem and one that most DIY homeowners can easily tackle. First, turn off the water to your softening system or use the bypass valve. Find a blunt tool with a long handle, like a broom or mop, and turn it upside, handle first, into your tank. Tap the center of the salt bridge with the handle until it breaks and falls into the tank. Continue to break apart at the salt crust until the entire bridge is cleared, including any remaining salt along the edges.
When chipping away at the bridge, be careful not to puncture or crack the tank. Some tanks have platforms at various heights, so never use more force than necessary. The deeper the salt level in the tank, the more tedious it is to remove, but tapping away gently at the salt should be enough to cause it to crumble. Breaking the salt bridge, and not the tank is the goal.
As you go along, scoop and remove any loose chunks of salt at the surface. Pour some warm water to clean and dissolve any stubborn salt from the bridge remaining at the bottom of the tank. When all has been cleared, take your softener out of bypass and consult your owner’s manual to begin a new regeneration process. Regenerate until all the salt in the tank has been cleared. Then add fresh salt and let the water softener operate as usual.
Is Your Salt at Fault?
If salt bridges become a recurring issue, it could be that the salt you’re using is of poor quality. Not all salt is the same-- it comes in all shapes, sizes and purity levels. Salt with the highest purity levels is truly soluble, meaning it’s easily dissolved in water, and a better choice for your system. High purity salt treats your hard water and extends the lifespan of your equipment. When choosing salt, consideration should be given to water hardness levels, softener design, and household water usage. For long-lasting and consistent water softening, consult your user manual for the manufacturer’s salt recommendation.
Proper leveling of salt is just as important the type of salt you place inside your tank. To ensure your water softener will provide perfectly softened water for your household, never overfill or replenish too frequently. Keep your brine tank at least a quarter full of salt, and no more than 6 inches below the top of the brine tank. Your salt level should remain a few inches above the water level.
Always use salt specifically designed for home water softening systems. Evaporated salt is the purest form of sodium-based salt used for softening water, and is the least likely to cause bridging. Look for reputable brands to supply your salt and shop around for good deals. When you use high purity salts, like Morton’s System Saver Pellets, found here on Amazon or Pure and Natural Softener Salt, here, or Diamond Crystal’s Bright and Soft, you will likely dodge many of the salt issues that appear inside a softener’s brine tank, as well as eliminate the buildup that hard water can leave inside your pipes and appliances.
Avoid cheap salt that won’t effectively remove hardness ions and can cause frequent maintenance. The more hard water minerals your system eliminates the better your water will perform during everyday household use. Using the right salt gives your water softening equipment the advantage it needs to provide an uninterrupted flow of high-quality, softened water throughout your home. | <urn:uuid:76f7c9c8-5f9a-4ed4-94e3-ac598941faf9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.discountwatersofteners.com/what-is-a-water-softener-salt-bridge-and-how-to-fix-it/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00275.warc.gz | en | 0.941709 | 1,128 | 2.5625 | 3 |
|Illinois Statues (page 1)|
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|Ramses Statue & Gold Pyramid
|The 55-foot-tall Ramses Statue stands in front of the Gold Pyramid. The Pyramid is a six-story tall, 17,000 square foot private home. It was the largest 24 karat gold-plated object ever created, before its exterior was stripped. The building contains a replica of King Tut's tomb. There is also a garage with three pyramids and a gift shop. The place opened in 1977. These photos are from 2006. After being closed for many years, the Gold Pyramid reopened in 2011 for tours and conference space. For more, see these websites: 1, 2, and 3. [map]|
Gurnee, IL in 2006:
|Waukegan, IL in 2011:|
|Onan Roofers, originally Onan Garages, was founded in 1955. This statue is owned by Jim Onan who also owns the Gold Pyramid above. I assume the statue was modeled after Jim. The statue has a garage tucked under his right arm and holds a hammer in his left hand. It was originally part of a sign with blocks that spelled out O-N-A-N. By 2006 when the top row of photos were taken, the neon had been removed and the letters painted over. Around 2007, the company moved and the statue and sign were removed. The statue was repainted and installed in 2010 at the company's offices in Waukegan. [map]|
|SupermanMetropolis, IL||SupermanMetropolis, IL||PopeyeChester, IL||Dick TracyNaperville, IL|
Metropolis is the self-proclaimed hometown of Superman. This 15-foot- tall bronze representation of him (left photo) was installed in 1993. He replaced a seven-foot-tall fiberglass statue from 1986. [map]
This six-foot-tall bronze Popeye statue was installed in Segar Memorial Park in 1977. Chester calls itself the hometown of Popeye since the character's creator was born there. There is another Popeye statue in Chester. There are others in Arkansas and Texas. For more, see this website. [map]
This Dick Tracy sculpture was created by Don Reed and installed on the Riverwalk in 2010. It is made of bronze and about nine feet tall. The sculpture depicts the comic strip character using his two-way wrist radio. Dick Locher, one of the cartoonists that worked on the comic strip, has lived in Naperville since 1969. For more, see this website.
|Revolutionary Soldier [gone]
St. Charles, IL
|The Revolutionary Soldier is 18 feet tall and holds a 14-foot-long musket. The statue was carved from a fallen oak tree by the store's owner. It was completed in 1976 as a bicentennial memorial. The Soldier was installed in front of Custom Furniture. The photos above are from 2012. In 2014, it was announced that the store was closing. In 2017, the statue and chair were disassembled and moved to Pingree Gove, IL where they were to be restored. In 2020, the chair was restored. For more, see these websites: 1 and 2.|
|Fisherman and TroutNiles, IL (now Twin Lakes, WI)|
|The Fisherman and Trout statues had been abandoned for decades. The dense vegetation made them nearly impossible to shoot. The statues advertised for the Fishermen's Dude Ranch fishing ponds which existed from 1957-1997. I believe the Fisherman held a fishing pole with a line that extended to the lure in the Trout's mouth. The ponds were filled in but the statues remained. The statues were produced by FAST Fiberglass. In 2015, the statues were sold to the owners of Mad Dan's in Twin Lakes, WI. Later that year, the statues were restored and installed on the roof of the restaurant. For more, see these websites: 1 and 2. [map]|
|Man with FishChicago, IL||AtlasCrystal Lake, IL|
The Man with Fish statue and fountain stands in front of the Shedd Aquarium. It was created by Stephan Balkenhol in 2001. The painted bronze statue is 12 feet tall. [map]
This Atlas statue is located inside at the Greenhouse of Crystal Lake.
|Rockmen GuardiansRockford, IL|
|The Rockmen Guardians were built from 1987-1988 by Terese Agnew. The four statues are about 12 feet tall and made of granite rocks and cement. They are located in a park next to the Rock River. [map]|
More Illinois Statues:
Paul Bunyan (University Park)
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Property Maintains Value – Even with Wind Turbines
Wind turbine proponents should be thrilled to know that green energy generators have little impact on property value, and in some cases even increase property value.
In the heated debate over whether industrial wind farms damage property values, the latest Ontario study concludes the giant turbines have “no statistically significant impact” on the sale prices of residential properties.
The study by the Municipal Property Assessment Corporation (MPAC), the government-appointed body that administers the province’s property assessment system, contradicts other studies that found the turbines knocked as much as 35% off the value of surrounding homes.
In reaching their conclusion, MPAC used 2012 as a base year and examined 15 market areas with industrial wind turbines, including Elgin, Middlesex, Oxford, Huron, Perth and Lambton counties and Chatham-Kent.
To back their study, MPAC asked an outside expert to review their conclusions.
The analysis by Robert J. Gloudemans, a property tax and assessment consultant from Phoenix, Arizona, found the presence of wind turbines had a minor impact on property values with properties within one kilometre of a wind turbine tending to be about 4% lower.
Backers of the wind energy sector call the MPAC study sound while opponents argue it is a flawed work by bureaucrats trying to please their political masters.
“Hopefully, others can accept the findings as legitimate,” said Brandy Giannetta, Ontario director of the Canadian Wind Energy Association.
Giannetta said the findings were consistent with other international studies that also found turbines have little impact on property values.
“What is most important about this study is that it is statistically significant,” she said.
Jane Wilson, president of Wind Concerns Ontario, the provincial group fighting wind farms, said MPAC was faced with numerous requests from people for re-evaluation of their properties because of wind turbines.
“I think their intent was to put a chill on some of these actions,” Wilson said.
She also challenged the study’s conclusion, pointing to an appendix in the study that indicates properties more than five kilometres from a wind turbine are about $50,000 more valuable than properties within one kilometre of a wind turbine.
“It’s like the people who wrote part one didn’t read what the people who wrote part two said,” she said.
The MPAC study took particular aim at an earlier study by Ben Lansink, a London-based real estate appraiser who found wind turbines drove down residential property values by 30 to 35%.
MPAC questions Lansink’s methodology and suggests there may have been some bias in the selection of properties by Lansink.
Lansink on Tuesday said he had reviewed the MPAC report and found no evidence to support their conclusions.
His own report showing a drop in values was based on actual sales, not a mathematical formula, he said.
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Baltimore County Public Schools are encouraging parents and guardians to register their children early for the 2013-2014 school year.
School officials said early registration allows families to collect proper documentation and schools to plan and adjust staffing for the upcoming school year.
Officials said parents must register their child if he/she:
- Is enrolling for the first time in a Baltimore County school.
- Has recently moved to Baltimore County from another county.
- Has changed residences within Baltimore County since last school year and will begin attending a new school as a result of that move.
- Will be entering Grades 6 or 9 in the 2013-2014 school year.
- Does not legally reside in Baltimore County but may be allowed to attend a county school (considered a “non-resident” student under Board of Education Policy and Superintendent’s Rule 5150).
- Additional requirements may be part of the registration process.
For more information about student registration, parents can call their local schools or visit the BCPS website to view policy and rule 5150.
All BCPS schools are open during regular business hours, Monday through Friday, throughout the summer. Parents should contact their local schools to schedule appointments. If students need English language support, parents must contact the Office of World Languages and the English for Speakers of Other Languages program.
Parents must visit the school that their child will attend to register for the upcoming school year.
At the time of enrollment, parents must produce their child’s birth certificate, immunization records and residency documentation (unless the child is identified as homeless), as well as photo identification of the parent.
The BCPS website contains a list of documents needed for registration.
All children entering grades 6 and 9, regardless of where they attended school last school year, are required to verify their residency. The process must be completed by Aug. 2, to avoid withdrawal. The verification process does not apply to homeless, shared domicile or non-resident students, whose residency is reviewed or renewed annually.
Families experiencing homelessness can request assistance with the school registration process by contacting either the last school attended or the nearest school. The schools can provide the name and telephone number of a school pupil personnel worker or a school-based homeless liaison. For more information, families may call 410-887-0404.
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|Racial Segregation as a Cause of Systematic Economic Disadvantage|
If you surveyed the
maps in Racial Segregation in the U.S., two facts
would be evident: 1.
Moderate to high levels of black/white racial segregation, and somewhat
lower but still substantial Hispanic/white segregation, are the norm for
major U.S. metropolitan regions.
|This model is drawn from the arguments of Douglas Massey and Nancy Denton in American Apartheid (Harvard UP, 1993). Roll your mouse over the items to view explanations of their causal influence. The blue arrows designate the influence of antiblack racial antipathy. Racism is a major cause of segregation. But segregation propagates its own effects mainly through "color-blind" mechanisms. Thus, it is an error to ascribe the proximate cause of much black disadvantage to direct discrimination.|
|Massey and Denton's model subsumes two other major models of systematic black disadvantage. William Wilson's "spatial mismatch hypothesis" (The Truly Disadvantaged, UChicago, 1987), postulating that inner city black poverty is caused by the flight of jobs to suburbs, where blacks can't reach them, is depicted through the red arrows. The "culture of poverty" theory, postulating that blacks are poor because they reject middle-class cultural values, is depicted through the green arrows. Some vicious circles--causal paths that return on themsleves--are observable in this model. White antipathy causes segregation, which causes concentrated poverty and oppositional culture, which reinforces white antipathy. Low housing values create worse public finances, causing poor public services, reducing housing values even further.| | <urn:uuid:48f2e309-d32c-4c2b-a80a-dc71bfca2ee6> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.umich.edu/~lawrace/consequences.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279933.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00120-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.903117 | 346 | 3.328125 | 3 |
On the other hand, assurance covers those incidents whose happening is unquestionable, but their time of occurence is uncertain. Traditional life insurance was originally developed to provide beneficiary death benefits in the event of the insured persons death. Life insurance covers only the life risk of the person insured. There is a surrender value of policy, in life insurance. Sep 20, 2019 a participating life insurance policy is a policy that receives dividend payments from the life insurance company. Please note that intentional acts to hurt or damage, as well as criminal or fraudulent acts are excluded from both policies. The insurance which covers life risk of the insured, is life insurance or assurance. Click here to know which plan is best for you in terms of premiums, maturity benefits and death. Difference between life insurance and health insurance digit.
The contracts of fire and marine insurances are contracts of indemnity. There is life insurance and non life insurance and each category has its variants like term and endowment in the former and health insurance, among others, in the latter. Description wikipedia life insurance is a contract between an insurance policy holder and an insurer or assurer, where the insurer promises to pay a designated beneficiary a sum of money the benefit in exchange for a premium, upon the death of an insured person often the policyholder. Life insurance is also known as assurance, whereby the sum assured is paid to the insured, while the general insurance policies are called as insurance. Explain guide to understand the difference between life insurance and general insurance and their different uses. Jul 11, 2019 term life insurance is the most basic insurance policy. Difference between life insurance and health insurance. Life assurance vs life insurance whats the difference. We used 20year and 30year term life policies because no applestoapples comparison is possible for the length of. Life insurance covers you for a set term that you decide at the onset of the policy usually between 10 and 25 years. Universal life insurance is another type of permanent policy, offering a little more flexibility. In the event of death, the amount is paid to the nominee. Now that you know the thinline difference between a mediclaim plan and a health insurance plan, it will definitely help you to make the best insurance decision.
It is a life insurance policy that provides coverage for a specific period of time and usually for a fixed premium. They expire at the end of the term, which can last up to 30 years. Life insurance, as the name suggests, is insurance plan that covers the risk of contingencies that can affect human life and pays out the sum assured to the nominee on the death of the insured, or to the insured on the expiry of the definite term. Both insurance policies cover insured person in different ways. Assurance provides coverage for events that will occur, such as death. Difference between a named insured, insured, and additional. There are many a type of general insurance policies and the common ones for an individual is mediclaim insurance, motor insurance, home insurance, travel insurance and fire insurance etc. Aug 14, 2017 there are many a type of general insurance policies and the common ones for an individual is mediclaim insurance, motor insurance, home insurance, travel insurance and fire insurance etc. By the nature of its coverage, life insurance is a longterm contract. You pay monthly premiums for a long time until the policy reaches maturity. Named insureds are individuals or companies listed in the policy declarations.
The differences are that with life insurance the size of payout would be preset whereas with life assurance it would depend on the guaranteed minimum and the. Difference between life insurance and health insurance with. A life insurance policy, for example, provides coverage to an. Feb 25, 2020 the key difference between life insurance from funeral insurance is that you get a lump sum benefit that you can use for other purposes other than the funeral. Whole life insurance, on the other hand, is considered a permanent life.
In other words, the insured is the covered individual in the life insurance contract. You pay annual premiums for the entire term of the policy. Providing life cover to the policyholder is the main objective behind opting for life insurance. Insurance implies a contractual arrangement between two parties, i. Life insurance is a contract which ensures your life risk and also works as in an investment avenue. In any life insurance policy, the insured is the person on whom the protection is purchased. When choosing between whole life or term life insurance, there are a number of variables to take into account. Reliance general explains the difference between health insurance and life insurance in detail and advices to have a medical insurance. General insurance is typically defined as any insurance that is not determined to be life insurance. The document which covers all the details of the contract is called as an insurance policy. Know the difference between life insurance and general insurance, life insurance is a way to help protect your loved ones financially and. It is a bond between the person getting insured and the insurance company that in the unfortunate event of the insureds demise, the life insurance heshe paid.
General insurance or non life insurance policies, including automobile and homeowners policies, provide payments depending on the loss from a particular financial event. General insurance covers any other risk except for liferisk of the person injured. However, several products evolved in the latter part of the 20th century that also incorporated a type of savings or investment component to the policy. Depending on the insurance company, you may be able to receive dividend payments from the policy. Burial insurance policies can vary between life insurance companies, so you may find it offered in the form of a term policy or whole life policy. This is the most common type of insurance purchased for homes.
Any insurance other than the one which covers the risk of life is called general insurance. At first glance, permanent life insurance policies and annuity contracts exhibit polar opposite goals. But, in case you are looking forward to purchasing a mediclaim insurance policy, read on to know more. As you pay your premiums, you can build up cash value in the policy. The difference between life insurance and life assurance. For example, a 10year term policy only pays within the 10 years that the policy is in force.
Some examples of nonlife insurance products include, but are in no. Difference between life and health insurance hdfc life. Difference between life insurance and general insurance with. A nonparticipating policy does not have the right to share in surplus earnings, and therefore.
Participating and nonparticipating life policies life ant. There are slight and subtle differences between insurance and assurance, discussed in this article in detail. The differences between term and whole life insurance. For most people, the negatives of whole life insurance outweigh the negatives and term life insurance is the better option but there are some circumstances where a whole life policy is a better fit. Under the contract, the policyholder pays a certain sum of money as a premium to the insurance company. Like all permanent life insurance policies, whole life provides lifelong coverage and includes an investment component known as the policys cash value.
Initially has more expensive premiums than term life insurance, but can potentially save you money over the life of the policy if in force for a considerable number of years. Theres no money paid at the end of the policy term. Term life insurance is the most basic insurance policy. In general, the younger and healthier you are, the easier it will be to qualify for life insurance. In life assurance, a person can choose to cash out his policy anytime he so desires. If no death occurs within the policy term then no claim can be made and the policy will end, thus a payout is not guaranteed. What is the difference between insurance and assurance. Types of life insurance policy life insurance vs general insurance. So, a term life insurance is a pure death benefit plan. These life insurance products increase a policys growth potential by letting policyholders choose a basket of stock, bond, and money market funds to invest in. Life insurance is a contract in which an insurer, in exchange for a premium, guarantees payment to an.
What is the difference between hazard insurance and homeowner. Group life insurance vs individual life insurance policies. The year you stop paying premium for whatever reason, your term life insurance cover ends. Jun 01, 2017 knowing the difference between life insurance and general insurance will help you choose the right type of plan for you, as per your needs and requirements. Life insurance and general insurance are two different forms of insurances. Insurance provides protection to the holder to policy, from the incidents that are likely to happen and they are compensated when the event occurs. Term and whole life insurance policies both come with their own sets of positives and negatives. It is a pure insurance plan with no investment component. Borrowing from a life insurance policy the balance. The most basic type of life insurance is called term life insurance, where you choose the amount you want to be insured for and the period for which you want cover.
Difference between insurance and assurance compare the. Life insurance policy is a contract between an individual policyholder and an insurance company insurer. Burial insurance vs funeral insurance protective life. A named insured may be a sole proprietorship, partnership, corporation or another type of entity. Key differences between life and general insurance hdfc life. Nov, 2015 the terms insurance and assurance are used frequently in the financial industry.
Life insurance is a contract between an insurer and a policyholder in which the insurer. Difference between health insurance and life insurance. What is the difference between insurance policy and insurance. Insurance provides financial coverage for unforeseen circumstances surrounding an event, such as fire, theft, or flooding.
There is a major difference in the duration of life insurance policies and general insurance policies. Most people take out life insurance to ensure their financial commitments. Mar 01, 2018 key differences between life and health insurance. However, if you survive the term the policy will end and no cash sum will be paid out. The insured can claim only the actual amount of losssubject to a maximum of sum assured. The most common difference between a term insurance and traditional life insurance plan is that a term insurance plan only provides death benefit in case of demise of the insured within the term period, whereas a life insurance policy offers both death and maturity benefit to the insured. In a table below, we have covered all the key points between life insurance and general insurance. Homeowners insurance combines hazard insurance with liability coverage. Many lenders will require liability coverage, and therefore a homeowners insurance policy, in order to complete a real estate transaction.
Health insurance refers to a type of general insurance, which covers the medical expenses of the insured, but only up to the amount covered. Apr 15, 2020 general liability policies cover various people and entities as insured parties. General insurance covers any other risk except for life risk of the person injured. May 17, 2017 group vs individual life insurance policies we often get asked this question, which type of policy is best for me, should i take out a policy through a group insurance scheme i. The life insurance policy rates are based upon the insureds age, health and lifestyles factors at the time of application. It is called participating because it is entitled to share or participate in the surplus earnings of the life insurance company. Apr 21, 2020 these life insurance products increase a policy s growth potential by letting policyholders choose a basket of stock, bond, and money market funds to invest in. While life insurance seeks to provide an individuals family with a lumpsum fiscal payout. Knowing the difference between life insurance and general insurance will help you choose the right type of plan for you, as per your needs and requirements. Below are annual price comparisons between term life and whole life insurance.
The key difference between life insurance from funeral insurance is that you get a lump sum benefit that you can use for other purposes other than the funeral. Term insurance and life insurance have their own pros and cons. May be the only difference between insurance policy and insurance certificate occurs under letter of credit payments. What are the key differences between life and general insurance.1322 250 506 1512 1118 53 228 1041 736 1274 1283 265 418 1168 6 343 75 916 384 691 467 237 1010 954 66 1071 618 869 37 1516 1190 32 253 633 152 1008 634 1451 706 465 116 547 | <urn:uuid:7e8c1292-723b-4a8d-96f7-804617b53625> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://rectmolyse.web.app/1408.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00269.warc.gz | en | 0.951588 | 2,502 | 2.375 | 2 |
The January 2012 Pentagon document on Strategic Guidance, entitled “Sustaining Global Leadership: Priorities for Twenty First Century,” has inaugurated a new cold war in the Asia-Pacific region between the United States and China. The document affirms that the United States will of necessity rebalance, or “pivot,” towards the Asia-Pacific region. The goal of the rebalancing—American “global leadership”—is a fancy name for empire, maintained by military superiority.
The document gives a prominent place for India in the U.S. strategy, which came as a surprise to many observers. While India is singled out with specific reference to strategic partnership, long-standing allies such as Japan, Australia, and South Korea are clubbed together under “existing alliances.” In his maiden visit to India in the first week of May, U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta piled on, calling defense cooperation with India “a linchpin in U.S. strategy” in Asia.
In what may be called cartographic diplomacy, the United States is keen to show that there is geostrategic and even territorial convergence between the United States and India in the region. The January Strategic Guidance document, for example, refers specifically to “the arc extending from the Western Pacific and East Asia into the Indian Ocean and South Asia.” In a November 2011 article for Foreign Policy, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton defined the Asia-Pacific as stretching “from the Indian subcontinent to the Western shores of the Americas. The region spans two oceans – the Pacific and the Indian–that are increasingly linked by shipping and strategy.” It is interesting to note the inclusion of South Asia in the geographic area of the Asia-Pacific pivot. South Asia has generally been considered a distinct strategic sub-region of Asia, one the United States apparently intends to integrate into its strategy for the broader continent.
The United States has been exhorting India to move from its “Look East” policy to an “Act East” policy. Washington expects India to go beyond forging bilateral relations with countries in the region and to get involved in their critical issues. This, the United States believes, is essential for the integration of the Asia-Pacific region under a U.S. umbrella.
Towards a Military Alliance
While India has provided assistance to the United States in Afghanistan and continued defense cooperation on other fronts, the two countries have operated under a formal framework only since 2005. An agreement signed that year proclaimed that the two countries were entering a new era and transforming their relationship to reflect their “common principles and shared national interests.” It underlined that the countries’ defense relationship was the most important component of the larger strategic partnership, entailing new joint military exercises, exchanges, and multinational operations. The major component is an expansion of “defense transactions, not as ends in and of themselves but as a means to strengthen our security, reinforce our strategic partnership, [and] achieve greater interaction between our defense establishments.”
From the outset of this new stage, it was evident that what the United States wanted was a military alliance. Ambassador Robert D. Blackwill, at the end of his New Delhi assignment in May 2003, said that the ultimate strategic objective was to have an Indian military that was capable of operating effectively alongside its American counterpart in future joint operations.
This framework was the basis of the nuclear deal between India and the United States that gave India de facto recognition as a nuclear-armed state, which was announced just weeks afterward. A series of defense-related agreements followed in 2007.
Although India remains unwilling at this juncture to sign pending defense agreements that might be construed as opening the door for an official military alliance with the United States, there has been considerable progress on U.S.-India arms transactions. The United States has bagged the largest number of arms contracts—about $8 billion worth in the last five years—despite its stringent and intrusive end use monitoring requirements. India has fundamentally reoriented its defense procurement, moving away from its traditional reliance on Russia. In fact, nearly half the value of all Indian defense deals in recent years has been in U.S. transactions alone.
In addition to a booming arms trade, India and the United States have conducted more than 50 joint military exercises in the last seven years. Against this, India’s joint exercises with other countries appear to be mere tokens.
Military-to-military relations have especially deepened in the realm of naval cooperation. The U.S. and Indian navies have cooperated operationally on four separate occasions: in the Strait of Malacca after 9/11, in disaster relief efforts after the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004-2005, in a non-combative evacuation operation in Lebanon in 2006, and counter-piracy operations in the Gulf of Aden since 2008.
In December 2001, the two countries reached an agreement on naval cooperation to secure the maritime routes between the Suez Canal and the Malacca Straits known as “chokepoints.” During the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, naval ships were provided by India to safeguard U.S. non-combatant and merchant ships transiting the Straits of Malacca, which freed U.S. naval ships for service off the coast of Pakistan. This has been officially acknowledged by Washington as a contribution by India to the “war on terror.”
India was also one of the very few countries to join the “core group” set up by Washington in the wake of the 2004-2005 Indian Ocean tsunami. The “core group” was actually a Pentagon plan to assess the geo-strategic implications of the tsunami and to gain the U.S. military access to areas where it had not previously been permitted. It was disbanded because of sharp criticism from the United Nations and European nations like France.
But India is apparently not the only South Asian nation being courted by the United States. The Times of India reported in June that Washington is in the process of stationing a naval base in Chittagong, Bangladesh. “Worried by the increasing presence of Chinese naval bases in the South China Sea,” the paper reported, “America now eyes a counter-strategy as it wants an overall presence in Asia – right from Japan to the Diego Garcia base in the Indian Ocean.” The Bangladeshi government has denied the report, but if it’s true, it could cast a shadow on India’s own security strategy and on U.S.-Indian naval cooperation. However, such an initiative would be perfectly in tune with Washington’s ongoing quest for more naval facilities in the region.
Problems in the Neighborhood
Although Obama administration officials have often stated that the so-called “pivot” is not aimed at any particular country, the Strategic Guidance document admits that it concerns at least in part the growing influence of China. Happy to avail itself of U.S. military technology but reluctant to raise tensions with its sometime rival, India is understandably cautious about aligning too closely with the United States against China.
That is why, in response to Panetta’s overtures, Indian Defense Minister A. K. Antony emphasized “the need to strengthen multilateral security architecture in Asia and move to a pace comfortable to all countries concerned.” It did not go unnoticed that on exactly the same dates Panetta was in New Delhi, India’s Foreign Minister S.M. Krishna was in China affirming the Sino-Indian bilateral relationship as a priority for India’s foreign policy and expressing India’s desire to expand strategic cooperation with China. Likewise, several statements have appeared with claims by U.S. and Chinese leaders that they are committed to collaborating on security in South Asia.
India has a host of problems with China in South Asia. These include increasingly strident Chinese claims on Indian territory, the lack of any progress in border negotiations, China’s nuclear links with Pakistan, and China’s support for the Pakistani position on Kashmir. The United States’ silence on these matters has given the impression, albeit indirectly, that it supports the Chinese positions.
Against this background, a strong case can be made for India to remain non-aligned in the new cold war. But there is perceptible resistance from the establishment to such an idea. Although India may not want to be described as the “linchpin” of the U.S. pivot, the present leadership will nonetheless reassure Washington that it broadly supports U.S. policies abroad, including in the Asia-Pacific. | <urn:uuid:1e9852b8-1301-4d6f-8b8e-b79444e408e8> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://fpif.org/india_linchpin_of_the_pivot/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284405.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00038-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954381 | 1,789 | 2.515625 | 3 |
In 1989 the Theodore H. White Lecture on Press and Politics was inaugurated with a panel discussion in the Forum featuring R. W. Apple Jr., Benjamin C. Bradlee and John King Fairbank. Blair Clark, a Shorenstein Center advisory board member and former vice-president of CBS News, worked closely with Marvin Kalb to raise the funds from more than one hundred friends and admirers of the reporter. Honored the next year was legendary broadcast journalist Walter Cronkite. Since its establishment, the Theodore H. White Lecture has become one of the hallmarks of the Shorenstein Center.
The Shorenstein Center’s first Visiting Lombard Professor was Tim Cook. A Williams College professor of political science, Cook taught a course on the press and government in the spring of 1990. The Laurence M. Lombard Professorship was established by the family and friends of Mr. Lombard, a director of Dow Jones & Company for 28 years. Alex S. Jones, director of the Shorenstein Center since 2000, now occupies the Lombard chair.
Frederick Schauer served as Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment from 1990–2008. The chair was funded in the early 1980s by gifts from dozens of media organizations and individuals in honor of Dr. Frank Stanton, president emeritus of CBS.
The chance meeting of a Harvard professor and a Philadelphia lawyer on a beach in Florida led to the establishment of one of journalism’s preeminent prizes, which is awarded by the Shorenstein Center. The professor, Gary Orren, and the lawyer, Robert Greenfield, soon joined with Marvin Kalb to create the Goldsmith Awards Program. The concept began with a desire to encourage strong investigative reporting and grew to include book prizes, fellowships and an annual career award. The Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, first awarded in 1993, has become one of the most prestigious awards in journalism.
The first occupant of the Bradlee Chair in Government and the Press is Thomas E. Patterson, who arrived at Harvard from Syracuse University in 1996. Benjamin C. Bradlee, former executive editor of the Washington Post, donated funds for the chair in the early 1980s.
Marvin Kalb directed the Center from 1987 until 1999. He formalized the Fellowship Program and expanded the research output of the Center through foundation-funded projects on presidential press conferences, the Pentagon Papers, press coverage of the Soviet Union, race, presidential election campaigns, the Los Angeles riots, China, financial institutions and more. He developed the introductory course on press, politics and public policy, expanded the Kennedy School’s curriculum, and led a program on media and American democracy for high school teachers. With co-editor Pippa Norris, Kalb launched the Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics.
The Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Alex S. Jones served as director of the Shorenstein Center from July 2000 until July 2015. Jones enhanced the Fellowship Program, raised the profile of the Goldsmith Awards, launched new initiatives to increase student engagement, and broadened the advisory board. He strengthened the financial underpinnings of the Center, with the strong support of the Shorenstein family. Jones convened conferences on new issues such as WikiLeaks, blogging and journalism and the reporting of science.
The Center became one of 12 institutions selected to participate in the Carnegie-Knight Initiative on the Future of Journalism Education. As part of the Initiative, the Center created and operates Journalist’s Resource, a website devoted to knowledge-based reporting.
The Center established the Lynette Lithgow Summer Internship Award, research assistant positions and full-tuition scholarships. The David Nyhan Prize for Political Journalism was endowed in 2005 and is awarded in conjunction with the annual Theodore H. White Lecture. The annual Richard S. Salant Lecture on Freedom of the Press was endowed in 2007, and the A.M. Rosenthal Writer-in-Residence program was established in 2010.
In December 2013, the Kennedy School announced an ambitious new fellowship in honor of Walter Shorenstein and a name change for the Center. A gift of $5 million from Doug and Lydia Shorenstein to Harvard University will be used to fund the new Walter Shorenstein Fellowship in Media and Democracy. The fellowship brings high-profile figures in the areas of media, politics and policy to the Kennedy School to engage with students, faculty, scholars and the public on important issues of the moment. The Center’s name became the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, in order to recognize the generosity and commitment of the Shorensteins to the Center whose name will now honor the entire family. The new name also more accurately reflects the Center’s broad focus on media in all its forms. The Walter Shorenstein Fellowship pays special tribute to the Center’s original benefactor and the current Shorenstein Fellowships are now titled the Joan Shorenstein Fellowships. | <urn:uuid:fa2e5cc3-5abb-4ce0-9248-50efdb6c4028> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://shorensteincenter.org/about-us/history/growth/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282926.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00392-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943925 | 1,017 | 1.515625 | 2 |
There are really a lot of idiomatic expressions with numbers, but how to work with them and where to find good resources to acquire them? Let’s talk about Italian idioms together.We’ll find out together the meaning of “non c’è due senza tre” and other expressions!
Numbers- non c’è due senza tre
If an Italian friend of yours comes to you in tears telling you that the girl he went out with “gli ha dato il due di picche”, what will you do? What if, while you’re pouring yourself a second glass of coke, someone says “non c’è due senza tre“, he’s proposing? Do you agree with the Italian expression “uno per uno non fa male a nessuno“?
Online resources – non c’è due senza tre
Online you can find many resources. For example, to deepen the expression the two of spades click here! If you’re curious about the second expression, here’s something that can satisfy your desire: “It literally translates ‘There’s no two without three’. The English equivalent is ‘All good things are three’, and it means that something that happened two times will likely happen also a third time”. For the third one, that can be translated literally into “one by one doesn’t hurt anyone”, we can say that it’s used to say that you have to share the burden and honor equally.
How to make them yours- non c’è due senza tre
To work on idiomatic expressions we recommend the beautiful book by Alma Edizioni “Italiano per modo di dire“. The web site Impariamo Italiano collects in alphabetical order all the existing Italian idioms and helps you to practice on them. We also mention the interesting Adblog’s page “Idioms with numbers“. If you don’t remember the numbers here is a useful review link.
Body, animals, food & drink
In the next few weeks if you follow us on our blog and social media you can learn more Italian idiomatic expressions using words taken from the semantic field of the human body, animals, food and drinks. “Bere come un pesce“, “avere uno scheletro nell’armadio“, and “can che abbaia non morde” will become expressions of your vocabulary!
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It’s not just light coming from your devices. They also emit electronic magnetic fields (EMFs) that—you guessed it—damage skin cells. “EMF emitted from our daily tech devices are not to levels of any pressing concern health-wise, but our skin does absorb these electric magnetic frequencies,” Dr. Ramin Sarshad of Cosmetique Aesthetics says. He suggests facials, which stimulate your skin’s lymphatic drainage system, helping your skin release the toxins that can build up. (At-home facial massage is another great option.) Much like with HEV light, the challenge with EMFs is that radiation reaches the deepest layers of our skin. So, in order to target it, your skincare needs to reach those layers, too. Look for products that boast tiny molecules—small enough to penetrate the different layers of your skin—like Hylamide’s Booster Low-Molecular HA ($20).
Which digital device are you willing to put down in the name of beauty? Sound off in the comments below!
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What this host? This mighty armyAuthor: Neil Barham (2005)
Published in 1 hymnal
Printable scores: PDF, MusicXMLAudio files: MIDI
1. What this host? This mighty army,
Conquering every prince of men?
Led by what high King, what champion?
Who, once dead, now lives again?
2. This, the Church, the Bride of Jesus,
Armor-clad by God’s own hand:
Shield of Faith and Sword of Spirit—
Shod by Gospel, firm to stand!
3. With the awesome Truth of Heaven,
Christ has girded her around,
So arrayed for every battle,
She shall pull all empires down.
4. Gleaming in the morning sunlight
See salvation’s helmet shine!
Trusting to that sure protection,
On she fights, renewed in mind.
5. O’er that heart once bound to evil,
Lies the mail of righteousness,
No satanic accusation
Can defeat such glorious dress!
6. Terrible in strength and valor,
Jesus leads His host to war,
His the vict’ry, His the conquest!
He has broken down Hell’s door!
|First Line:||What this host? This mighty army|
|Title:||What This Host?|
|Author:||Neil Barham (2005)|
|Notes:||Alternate tunes: ADORATION (DOANE), W. Howard Doane, 1832-1915; AUSTRIA (HAYDN), Franz J. Haydn, 1797; STUTTGART, Christian F. Witt, 1715|
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Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Foley hopes a 21-year-old legal opinion charts a path for Connecticut’s next governor to reduce unionized state employees’ salaries and benefits, regardless of whether workers voluntarily offer givebacks.
But the memo, drafted by former state Attorney General Clarine Nardi Riddle, strongly cautions against such a move, warning that unless an array of very difficult standards are met, any abrogation of contract obligations likely would prove unconstitutional.
And both the campaign for Foley’s Democratic rival and a state union spokesman said the Greenwich businessman’s statements were more likely to antagonize unions and undermine confidence in state government rather than to produce any tangible budget savings.
Foley’s position, first outlined in an article this week in the New Haven Register, stems from a memo prepared for the General Assembly in early May 1989, just before it would adopt nearly $700 million in tax-and-fee hikes, according to budget records. Those increases were designed to eliminate a budget deficit, and stave off the need for a state income tax – the latter arriving nonetheless in 1991.
When asked by legislative leaders whether government could decrease or delay contractually required “cost-of-living” raises, Riddle wrote that while the federal prohibition against states’ “impairing the obligation of contracts” is not absolute, the U.S. Constitution imposes “severe restrictions.”
“For this reason,” she added, “we advise you to approach the abrogation of provisions of collective bargaining agreements with extreme caution.”
Foley said Tuesday that he’s not certain Connecticut’s fiscal crisis – and its $3.26 billion deficit forecast for 2011-12 — would meet the standards Riddle outlined, “but it certainly creates some uncertainty for the unions” and underscores the value of making concessions that could avert layoffs or a court battle over raises.
“I hope I get the cooperation of union leaders so we can do the right thing,” said Foley, who already has indicated that public-sector wage and benefit concessions would play a key role in his plan to close the deficit without tax hikes – a move that Democratic nominee Dan Malloy and others charged is unrealistic.
And based on what Riddle wrote 21 years ago, the odds of backing state government’s more than 40,000 unionized employees into a legal corner seems like a long shot as well.
Based on a review of federal and state case law, the former attorney general wrote that several key factors should exist for any legislation stripping contractually promised benefits to have a chance of passing constitutional muster.
There must be a “severe financial emergency,” she wrote, adding that courts apply greater scrutiny when legislation targets benefits that workers “reasonably relied” on, such as cost-of-living raises.
The projected deficit for 2011-12 equals about 17 percent of current spending, and about one-half of all revenue expected to be generated this year by the state income tax.
And Riddle wrote that any effort to abrogate guaranteed benefits “must be based on an important and legitimate public purpose,” such as eliminating a budget deficit. But she quickly added that the courts have applied greater scrutiny, not less, when states interfere with contracts tied to their own employees – rather than to those involving the private sector – and the desire to avoid tax hikes isn’t a sufficient reason.
“A government entity can always find a use for extra money, especially when taxes do not have to be raised,” she wrote. “If a state could reduce its financial obligations whenever it wanted to spend money for what it regarded as an important public purpose, the Contract Clause (in the U.S. Constitution) would provide no protection at all.”
Former Speaker Richard Balducci, a Democrat who represented Newington when he led the House of Representatives from 1989 through 1992, said lawmakers decided against trying to abrogate any contracted raises or benefits. “I think people felt it was just bad policy,” he said. “And what happens if you do that, and then the employees decide not to show up for work?”
Roy Occhiogrosso, senior campaign adviser to Malloy, said Foley doesn’t have any new legal leverage to entice union concessions, but only continues to push labor away from the bargaining table.
“In the last debate, he (Foley) said that he could reduce the state workforce through attrition with no layoffs, and that state employees had nothing to fear from him,” Occhiogrosso said. “I think that, at times, he demonstrates a dangerous ignorance about the job that ought to make people pause.”
Foley, who has charged that Malloy is “in the pockets of the unions” and will not press public-sector workers for big concessions to help close the deficit, said those who question whether a Republican governor could effectively negotiate with labor “are just trying to help the Democratic candidate. That idea is ridiculous.”
State Employees Bargaining Agent Coalition spokesman Matt O’Connor said Foley’s comments don’t reflect “the type of tone you would want to take with anyone you hope to forge a collaborative partnership with.”
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Lenin (Unique Documental Reel Of 1918-1921).. (1969)
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AnnotationThe film displays separate moments of the life of Lenin captured by cinema tape.
VI Lenin speaks at the opening of a temporary monument to Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in Moscow November 7, 1918 - MS., LS.
VI Lenin stands on Red Square May 1, 1919 - LS.
VI Lenin of the floor in Red Square on November 7, 1919, takes the salute young Red Army units to commemorate the second anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution.
By area, the columns are sailors, passing cars, armored car - LS., MS.
VI Lenin with a group of officers is held on Red Square parade Vsevobuch May 25, 1919.
VI Lenin, NK Krupskaya, MI Ulyanov in Red Square before the parade.
Universal Military Training Soldiers in formation in Red Square.
VI Lenin speaks to troops Vsevobuch on Red Square May 25, 1919, takes the salute.
VI Lenin speaks from the balcony of City Council before soldiers going off to the front October 16, 1919.
Soldiers listen - LS.
The people welcomed VI Lenin - PNRM., LS.
VI Lenin and NK Krupskaya out of the House of Unions after the meeting I All-Russian Congress on adult education May 6, 1919.
May 1, 1919 VI Lenin on Sverdlov Square in Moscow lays the monument to Karl Marx - several of them.
VI Lenin monument on the tab "Emancipation of Labour" - a speech, oversees the work to lay the memorial - May 1, 1919.
July 19, 1920 - VI Lenin speaks at the opening session of the II Congress of the Comintern.
Members of Congress are listening - LS.
VI Lenin speaks at Uritsky Square (Palace Square) in Petrograd at an international meeting dedicated to the opening of the II Congress of the Comintern, July 19, 1920.
Rally participants listen to the VI Lenin - LS.
VI Lenin at the III Congress of the Comintern in Moscow in 1921 (writing while sitting on the stairs) - MS., CU.
VI Lenin in his Kremlin office (talking, no companion in the frame, another frame - talking with a reporter Eyre - it is not in the picture) - 1918-1921.
VI Lenin before his departure from the Red Square says goodbye to the parade of troops Vsevobuch May 25, 1919.
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- October 1, 2020
3:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Practices that Support High-Quality Inclusion (webinar)
Learning Level 1: Introductory/Awareness
Intended Audience: Administrators, ECSE and General Educators, Teacher Assistants, Social Workers, SLP’s, OT/PT’s
Join us in this introductory-level webinar to learn about practical strategies that support all learners. This is an opportunity to learn about adaptations and modifications to implement in your inclusive early childhood classrooms utilizing the Inclusive Classroom Profile. This interactive webinar will provide opportunities for early childhood professionals to engage with one another.
Continuing Education – This webinar will provide 2 contact hours for the following:
- Educator License Renewal
- CDA (Child Development Associate) credit in area(s) 2
- CE credit for SLP, SW, LCPC, PT, and OT professionals
- Gateways to Opportunity credit in area E (Org. ID# B40093, Event ID# )
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Andrea Zelisko, MD, Hector Romero Talamas, MD, Ali Aminian, MD, Esam Batayyah, MD, Kevin El-Hayek, MD, Stacy Brethauer, MD, FACS, Philip Schauer, MD, FACS, Thomas Rice, MD, FACS, Matthew Kroh, MD, FACS
Department of Surgery at Cleveland Clinic
Obesity is an exceedingly common chronic disease-a disease for which the incidence continues to rise and is linked to many comorbidities. Investigations between gastrointestinal motility and obesity are increasing and have shown a high prevalence of esophageal motility disorders in this population. There is incomplete and contradictory evidence on the impact of bariatric surgery on esophageal motility.
Achalasia is a rare esophageal motility disorder with a reported incidence of ~1.5/100,000. Very limited data exists on achalasia in the obese population and especially in those undergoing bariatric surgery. Furthermore, morbidly obese patients can have an atypical or even asymptomatic presentation of achalasia. Analysis from small reviews, reports an incidence of 0.5-1% in obese patients. Even less has been documented about the presence of achalasia after bariatric surgery. Current literature only documents two patients with achalasia and a history of bariatric surgery. With the intent to better delineate an association between bariatric surgery and achalasia, we sought out data from patients at our institution who developed achalasia and previously underwent a bariatric procedure.
METHODS AND PROCEDURES
Through a retrospective chart review, patients with a surgical intervention for achalasia during a ten year period were identified by an electronic medical records (EMR) search using CPT codes. Each patient’s EMR was reviewed for a history of bariatric surgery. Once the patients who met both the criteria were identified, a more dedicated review of their EMR occurred and patient information was constructed into a database.
After a review of 282 patients who had a Heller myotomy at the Cleveland Clinic from 2001 until 2012, five patients were identified that had prior bariatric surgery. Four of five patients had Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) for their bariatric surgery (one patient had vertical banded gastroplasty that was converted to RYGB). Of the patients who had only the RYGB, their initial body mass index (BMI) was over 50kg/m2, and for three of them, over 60kg/m2. The average and mean time from bariatric surgery to diagnosis of achalasia was five years. All patients had formal diagnosis of achalasia, including esophograms, esophagogastroduodenoscopy, and manometry.
We detailed our history of patients who had surgical intervention for achalasia along with a history of bariatric surgery. Unfortunately, preoperative esophageal symptoms (prior to bariatric surgery) were not clearly documented in the EMR. The possibility exists that these patients may have had motility disorders prior to initial surgery, but they were not identified or asymptomatic. Although the incidence of achalasia in the bariatric population is unknown, it does coexist and should be addressed when evaluating patients. Furthermore, since obesity and achalasia are treated with different surgical techniques when they occur independently, early identification of concomitant disease would help tailor individual patient care.
As obesity continues to rise to epidemic proportions and surgery continues to be the only long-term effective therapy for morbid obesity, the presentation and identification of achalasia in obese patients, and more generally esophageal dysmotility, needs to be recognized as it can affect pre and postoperative management.
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Emblem adopted 3rd January 1991
Yavne is situated in the shore plain, 8 km NW to Rehovot and south to Tel Aviv on road 40. Named after the
ancient city of Yavne or Yavne'el (Joshua 15:1-11). Est. 1949.
Pop. 30,000. In my visit there was only the national flag on the
The municipal emblem was published in the official gazette (Rashumot), 'Publications Gazette' section (Yalkut HaPirsumim), YP 3831, 3 January 1991, replacing the previous one of the Local Council Yavne (YP 854, 15 June 1961).
Source: author's own observation, 29 September 2001.
Dov Gutterman, 24 October 2001
The desk flag is white with emblem. Mr Ezra Bar, City Purchasing Manager wrote me on 24 October 2001 (my translation):
The emblem tells Yavne's story in the perspective of time:
The upper part symbolizes its past, the "Yavne and its wise people" era.
The central part symbolizes the wheels of work and industry.
The bottom part symbolizes the emphasis in the education area (shape of open book).
The motto powers the present, aims to the future and emphasises the past.
The emblem colours are orange and blue but are sometimes
Dov Gutterman, 13 November 2001
Yavne was established in 1949 and named after the ancient town
of Yavne, the center for the Jewish cultural life after the ruin
of Jerusalem in 70 A.D. For about 60 years Yavne was the Jewish
center until the Jewish rebellion of 132.
During the Crusaders era it was a fortified city named Ibblin. More information in English at <www.geocities.com>.
Photos of a light blue flag are at <www.yavnecity.co.il>, and I also observe light blue flags while visiting the ciry. It seems that this color adopted as the city color.
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412 pp., 6 x 9
Alabama Communists during the Great Depression
Elliott Rudwick Prize, Organization of American Historians
Outstanding Book Award, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America
Francis Butler Simkins Award, Southern Historical Association
A groundbreaking contribution to the history of the "long Civil Rights movement," Hammer and Hoe tells the story of how, during the 1930s and 40s, Communists took on Alabama's repressive, racist police state to fight for economic justice, civil and political rights, and racial equality.
The Alabama Communist Party was made up of working people without a Euro-American radical political tradition: devoutly religious and semiliterate black laborers and sharecroppers, and a handful of whites, including unemployed industrial workers, housewives, youth, and renegade liberals. In this book, Robin D. G. Kelley reveals how the experiences and identities of these people from Alabama's farms, factories, mines, kitchens, and city streets shaped the Party's tactics and unique political culture. The result was a remarkably resilient movement forged in a racist world that had little tolerance for radicals.
After discussing the book's origins and impact in a new preface written for this twenty-fifth-anniversary edition, Kelley reflects on what a militantly antiracist, radical movement in the heart of Dixie might teach contemporary social movements confronting rampant inequality, police violence, mass incarceration, and neoliberalism.
"A fascinating and indispensable contribution to the history of American radicalism and to black history."
"Reshaping southern history by restoring its radical past to historical salience, Robin Kelley writes an account that beautifully balances culture, government, economics, and ideology. His handling of race represents one of the book's greatest strengths, for Kelley keeps race at the center--as it was in the South in the 1930s--yet at the same time he traces the complexity of working-class consciousness among blacks and whites and realizes that matters of class and chronology influenced the severity of the color line."
--Nell Irvin Painter, Princeton University
"Should serve as a model for historians seeking to recapture the untold story of other southern radicals during the 1930s."
--Journal of Southern History
© 2016 The University of North Carolina Press
116 South Boundary Street, Chapel Hill, NC 27514-3808
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People in their 40s are likely to have to wait until May to get their coronavirus vaccine amid supply problems.
In a letter sent to local NHS services on Wednesday, chiefs from NHS England warned of a "significant reduction" in the weekly supply of coronavirus vaccines from the end of March.
The letter said these issues will continue for four weeks - meaning in April, priority will be given to over-50s and second doses, the Mirror Online reports.
It's understood that a delay in the delivery of five million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine from India is partly to blame for a forthcoming reduction in the UK's supply.
The delivery had been expected from the Serum Institute of India but has been held up by four weeks.
Matt Hancock has desperately tried to play down the scale of the problem, saying his target of offering a first dose to all over-50s by April 15 and all adults by July 31 will still be met.
A minister today insisted this will not delay the easing of lockdown, with beer gardens to open from April 12 at the earliest.
Here’s everything we know about the vaccine supply delay and what it means for you and the lockdown.
What is the delay?
The shortage emerged in a letter to NHS services last night by chiefs at NHS England.
The letter said: “Pleasingly this week and next see significant increases in vaccine supply.
“However, the Government's Vaccines Task Force have now notified us that there will be a significant reduction in weekly supply available from manufacturers beginning in the week commencing 29 March, meaning volumes for first doses will be significantly constrained.
“They now currently predict this will continue for a four-week period, as a result of reductions in national inbound vaccines supply.”
By coincidence, it came out minutes before Health Secretary Matt Hancock announced he had “fantastic news” about getting to 25million first doses.
Professor Martin Marshall, chairman of the Royal College of GPs, said news of constraints in supply was “disappointing” and “a bit of a setback”, and the focus in April will be on giving second doses to people who were vaccinated earlier in the year.
He told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “The impact of this shortage of supplies will happen on the group that we were hoping to start on in April, which is the people under the age of 50 without any pre-existing conditions, who are now going to have to wait until May."
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Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick admitted “lumps and bumps” have led to “an issue with some supply in the coming weeks”.
He told BBC Breakfast: “It does mean the vaccine rollout will be slightly slower than we may have hoped - but not slower than the target we set ourselves.
"We're going to move forward as quickly as we possibly can but it won't be as fast as we might have hoped for a few weeks.
“But then we have every reason to believe that supply will increase the months of May, June and July."
What caused the delay and where is AstraZeneca made?
A major factor is a delay to AstraZeneca doses which the UK had ordered from the Serum Institute of India.
Only 5million of 10million expected doses from India will be delivered this month, with the rest delayed by around four weeks.
The problem only became apparent in the last 48 hours, according to the BBC.
Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick hinted the problems may be wider than just the India shipment, saying he would not single out “any one factory or any one country” - or indeed any one manufacturer.
AstraZeneca manufactures its vaccine in several sites around the world, including in the UK, and details of exactly where Britain is getting doses from are kept tightly under wraps.
An AstraZeneca spokeswoman said: “Our UK domestic supply chain is not experiencing any disruption and there is no impact on our delivery schedule.” However, it’s understood “domestic” is the key word in this statement.
A Pfizer spokeswoman said deliveries "remain on track" for the first quarter of its 40 million dose agreement with the UK, with a "steady supply of vaccines" delivered to the nation.
What is the NHS doing about it?
Local health leaders have been told to focus efforts in April on the top priority groups 1 to 9 - which means all over-50s or vulnerable groups.
This means both getting second doses to those who’ve not had theirs yet, and ensuring over-50s without a first dose get theirs by April 15.
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The NHS letter, signed by Dr Nikita Kanani, medical director for primary care for the NHS in England, and Emily Lawson, chief commercial officer, says: "Those aged 49 years or younger should not be offered vaccination unless they are eligible via a higher cohort because they are e.g., clinically vulnerable, unpaid carer or frontline health and care workers."
It goes on: “Vaccination centres and community pharmacy led local vaccination services should close unfilled bookings from the week commencing 29 March and ensure no further appointments are uploaded to the National Booking System or Local Booking Systems from 1 to 30 April.”
Sources insist they expect vaccine supply to improve after April 30, and at some point this Spring the Moderna jab - a third approved by the UK regulator - should start arriving in the UK to ease pressure.
When will I get my jab?
The government insists all over-50s will get a first dose by April 15, and all adults by July 31.
But they won’t be drawn any further on the detailed timetable.
The Mirror understands there will be almost no first doses offered to healthy under-50s throughout the month of April.
Instead, the second half of April - after (and if) the over-50s target is hit - will be used almost entirely to give second doses.
Sources “hope” the rollout to over-40s will pick up from the start of May, followed by the over-30s then the over-18s.
Will I still get a second dose?
Yes. If you’ve had a first dose, the government is saying you will still get a second one, within the 12 weeks agreed by the UK authorities (to some opposition earlier this year).
Cabinet minister Robert Jenrick said: “Nobody who has an appointment should be concerned - you’re still going to get your second vaccine, all those appointments will be honoured.”
According to reports from the Mirror, if you got a first dose through vaccine centres or the national booking service, you should have got a second dose appointment booked in at the time.
If you went through your GP, you might not have got this second appointment booked in - but your GP should still get in touch to set you up.
Will the end of lockdown be delayed?
Ministers are insisting it won’t be, but we can’t know for sure.
Cabinet minister Robert Jenrick said there is "no reason to believe" the road map to easing the lockdown will be delayed by the shortage.
The Housing Secretary told Sky News: "There's no reason to believe the road map is affected by this temporary shortage in supply. There's no concern that we are off course on the road map."
But on the other hand, the roadmap - which allows beer gardens and non-essential shops to open from April 12 at the earliest - is clear dates can be delayed if the vaccine rollout slows.
Dr Simon Clarke, associate professor in Cellular Microbiology at the University of Reading, said the "ripple effects could last for months".
"It will undoubtedly make the meeting of the target dates for lifting restrictions more difficult than they otherwise would have been," he said.
"By pushing back the under-50s first doses, their second doses are also being pushed back.
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Bible verses about kindness
Are you nice or are you kind? People are considered nice when they are polite, but kindness is way more deeper than niceness. Kindness goes out of its way. A nice person can ask are you hungry? A kind person will bring out food for you without you even having to ask.
You never hear someone say the act of niceness, but you always hear people say the act of kindness. As believers many times we are nice, but not kind.
You can be nice and not care. You can be nice to someone and still not like them. It happens all the time in this world.
Most preachers today are nice. They say the right words, but they don’t really care. Their heart is not in it. They preach the sermon and go home and say, “I did my job.”
Kind preachers preach with fire, they pray an hour or more a day, they weep, and they make sure lives are being changed. Are you truly kind to others? Are you growing in the fruit of kindness?
- “You don’t need a reason to help people.”
- “One kind word can change someone’s entire day.”
- “Be somebody who makes everybody feel like a somebody.”
- “If you want more kindness in the world put it there.”
- “No man can do me a truer kindness in this world than to pray for me.” Charles Spurgeon
When you’re filled with the Spirit you change.
We have to get back to the prayer closet and cry out that God changes us. We are told to imitate Christ. When you are kind towards others you are being a reflection of the great kindness of our Father. You are letting go of selfishness and being an example of selflessness. You are bringing forth the fruit of the Spirit of God living in you.
When our heart is aligned towards God things like kindness and goodness come out, but when our heart is aimed towards the flesh we do things of the flesh. Many of you are struggling with meanness, but how long do you tarry in prayer before the living God? How much do you read the Word? Do you seek to get closer to His heart? Are you worried about TV, social media, etc. These things affect you.
We need God back in our lives. We must be filled with the Spirit, but we can’t be filled with the Spirit if we are filled with the world! This is serious! Have you drifted from God? When someone does not hide away with God you will see the results of that in their life.
They will be mean, grumpy, they never witness, they are extremely impatient, unforgiving, they are selfish, etc. We need to remove the things of the flesh to pour out the things of the Spirit. Get alone with God and stay there.
1. Galatians 5:22-23 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, gentleness, self-control. Against such things there is no law.
2. Ephesians 4:31-32 All bitterness, anger and wrath, shouting and slander must be removed from you, along with all malice. And be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving one another, just as God also forgave you in Christ.
3. Colossians 3:12 So, as those who have been chosen of God, holy and beloved, put on a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience;
The Spirit is willing.
The Spirit wants to do the things of God, but the flesh fights with it. The flesh says, “I have to go” or “I don’t have time.” The flesh wants to stop us from showing kindness. It starts to fear, it starts to make excuses, it gets lazy. When the flesh fights against the Spirit you get convicted.
You want to do it, but you’re hesitant. This is especially true when you have to be kind or forgive an enemy. The Spirit wants to, but pride, fear, and awkwardness might try to hold you back from going to that person and offering your help or seeking reconciliation.
The Spirit tells you to go make peace so you think about it for a while, then the flesh says, “he will be alright.” We have to trust in God and cry out for greater manifestations of the Spirit’s power in our lives.
4. Matthew 26:41 “Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
5. Galatians 5:17 For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever you want.
Everyone is kind to their friends, family members, etc.
Jesus tells us to take kindness to a different level. We are to be kind to our enemies. It is so easy to be kind to someone who likes you, but how about to people who hate you? How about to people who slander you and make fun of you behind your back?
Jesus was kind to people who hated Him. Jesus said, “Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.” To ask for forgiveness for others while they are crucifying you shows real love and kindness. When you show undeserved kindness to others you are imitating your Savior. Loving our enemies sets Christians apart from the ways of the world.
6. Matthew 5:40-42 And if anyone wants to sue you and take your shirt, hand over your coat as well. If anyone forces you to go one mile, go with them two miles. Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you.
7. Luke 6:35 But love your enemies, do good, and lend, hoping for nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High. For He is kind to the unthankful and evil.
We learn two things from David on kindness.
Kindness doesn’t have to wait for someone to ask. Kindness moves on its own. Also, we get a picture from David how kindness results in action. It’s so easy to say what you want to do, but never do it. Kindness leads you to do something from the heart.
8. 2 Samuel 9:7 “Don’t be afraid,” David said to him, “for I will surely show you kindness for the sake of your father Jonathan. I will restore to you all the land that belonged to your grandfather Saul, and you will always eat at my table.”
9. 2 Samuel 10:2 Then David said, “I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, just as his father showed kindness to me.” So David sent some of his servants to console him concerning his father. But when David’s servants came to the land of the Ammonites.
Many people are nice, but these verses show how you could be nice, but not kind.
Some people can offer you things, but in their heart they hope that you say no. You can say nice things but still be stingy. When you are kind your heart is aligned with your words. This is why kindness leads to action. Kindness results in doing things with a cheerful heart and not a grudging heart.
10. Proverbs 23:6-7 Do not eat the food of a begrudging host, do not crave his delicacies; for he is the kind of person who is always thinking about the cost. “Eat and drink,” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.
11. Proverbs 26:25 They pretend to be kind, but don’t believe them. Their hearts are full of many evils.
12. Deuteronomy 15:8 but you shall freely open your hand to him, and shall generously lend him sufficient for his need in whatever he lacks.
13. 2 Corinthians 9:7 Each one must do just as he has purposed in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
People remember and cherish acts of kindness.
Many of you don’t know how a moment of kindness can change someone’s life. People cherish kindness and when you go the extra mile. Kindness gives people hope. Many people are nice, but they don’t get dirty. When your actions show evidence of a heart that truly cares people take notice.
One time I went to the store and I noticed a couple of homeless men and I offered to buy them food. They were extremely thankful. We checked out and I went outside and I sat down with one of them. Immediately he was shocked that I would sit on the ground with him. We talked about Jesus and the gospel and I noticed he was getting very emotional and teary-eyed.
Finally, before I left we prayed and as soon as we were done praying he kissed my hand in thankfulness. He cherished that simple act of kindness. Usually people give a dollar just to say they gave and go on their way. We need to be willing to go the extra mile. Do we truly care? Does the pain of others really matter to us? When you show acts of kindness to the needy you are doing the same thing for Christ.
14. Acts 28:2 The islanders showed us unusual kindness. They built a fire and welcomed us all because it was raining and cold.
15. Ruth 3:10 “The LORD bless you, my daughter,” he replied. “This kindness is greater than that which you showed earlier: You have not run after the younger men, whether rich or poor.
Kind acts have an effect on us just as they do others.
They give us joy, we become more thankful about the little things, we become more selfless, we pour out love, it slowly changes us, we get to serve our King, etc.
16. Proverbs 11:16-17 kindhearted woman gains honor, but ruthless men gain only wealth. Those who are kind benefit themselves, but the cruel bring ruin on themselves.
Never doubt the power of your words.
God’s kind words have a major impact on our lives. They comfort us, encourage us, inspire us, guide us, etc. Kind words spoken at the right time affect people. They give people hope. They motivate people. Is your speech characterized by kindness? Don’t overlook kind words.
17. Proverbs 16:23-24 From a wise mind comes wise speech; the words of the wise are persuasive. Kind words are like honey–sweet to the soul and healthy for the body.
18. Proverbs 12:18 There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
19. Psalm 141:5 Let a righteous man strike me–that is a kindness; let him rebuke me–that is oil on my head. My head will not refuse it, for my prayer will still be against the deeds of evildoers.
The cross was a huge ultimate act of kindness on the part of God.
Notice that Isaiah says that it pleased God the Father to crush His Son. He didn’t do it with a grudging heart. He didn’t say, “I wish I didn’t have to do this.” God’s heart was aligned with the act and it pleased Him. When you show kindness from the heart you are becoming like the God you worship.
When you go the extra mile for someone who has never said a word to you before you become like God! You are being transformed and that is the evidence of God working in you. Jesus died the death that we deserve to reconcile us to God. He bore our sins and His righteousness was transferred over to us. We deserve Hell! What a great merciful act of kindness.
20. Titus 3:4-6 But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit. whom he poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Savior,
21. Ephesians 2:7-8 in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith–and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God–
22. Romans 2:4 Or do you disregard the riches of His kindness, tolerance, and patience, not realizing that God’s kindness leads you to repentance?
23. Isaiah 53:10 But the LORD was pleased To crush Him, putting Him to grief; If He would render Himself as a guilt offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days, And the good pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His hand.
Christians are to be known by our love.
Love never gives up and if love never gives then our kindness will never cease. Continue to be kind even when it is hard to be kind. If you struggle with this be still before the Lord and cry out for more kindness in your life. Get closer to Him and He will help you. Make war with these things that seek to hinder your kindness.
24. Galatians 6:9 So we must not get tired of doing good, for we will reap at the proper time if we don’t give up.
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The integration of high-tech choices in the healthcare industry has become the new normal for today’s patients, but an increase in high-tech options for patients addicted to drugs and alcohol may be on the rise. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (2016), a mini conference that included the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism revealed new research containing advances in neuroscientific knowledge related to science-driven treatment, drug memory, and biological mechanisms that fuel addiction. What does this mean for those searching for a treatment facility that is right for them? Deciding on a treatment center means looking at high-tech treatment choice, holistic treatment choices and blended treatment choices.
High-Tech Addiction Treatment
Many in recovery already understand that modern treatment programs are complex processes that includes counseling, a detoxification process, and a maintenance program after recovery. With this in mind, would high-tech solutions for treatment serve to increase the complexity of treatment, reduce recovery time, and reduce the likelihood of relapse? In essence, the answer to this question might be yes in all instances. For instance, pre-treatment consultations may see an increase in blood testing and neurobiological testing upfront before treatment begins to determine the direction and intensity of treatment. Furthermore, with new advancements in the knowledge of brain addiction, it is safe to say that pharmacological treatments will also work to reduce recovery time based on this data. Additionally, this same research could also serve to help reduce the possibility of relapse. Although any advancement in treatment or recovery cannot offer guarantees, high-tech research on addiction may serve to assist recovering patients in a smart way in the near future. Although high-tech solutions are paving the way for advancements in mind-body interactions, it is also important for those seeking recovery to look at holistic treatment plans.
Holistic Treatment for Drug and Alcohol Addiction
Beyond the assistance of neurological robots and high-tech pills, there is still the most important dynamic of all, the person in treatment. With this in mind, holistic treatment facilities present recovery plans that take into account the full lifestyle of the person. Therefore, those seeking recovery have facility options that provide full-service treatment plans that include relaxing creature comforts, meditation, and even outdoor recreation. However, holistic treatment plans may also comprise comprehensive therapy options that include family therapy, group therapy, and individualized counseling plans. Yet, treatment options don’t stop here. Unique therapy options, such as equine therapy, music and art therapy, and nutrition and healthy lifestyle planning, are also alternatives that may help those in addiction programs to make better choices and cope after recovery. All of these options are take into account with the differences in socialization, personality, and the physical status of the individuals that are in need of a detox local program.
Blended High-Tech and Holistic Treatment
Finding the best treatment facility for drug and alcohol addiction requires a facility that understands the complexity of individual addiction. Therefore, a better choice for recovery might be a facility, such as Holistic Recovery Centers, that maintains updated treatment programs that incorporates the latest in high-tech neuroscience related to addiction and provides several options in holistic treatments. Whether it’s a 12-step option with neurological testing or a program that includes animal therapy, a blended program may be the best fit for personal or family treatment. Blended treatment programs are designed to work no matter where a person needs to begin getting help, and this includes drug and alcohol recover programs that begin after emergency hospitalization or those that begin with self-initiated treatment. However, many blended programs also provide services for duel-diagnosis treatment, in-patient care, rehabilitative care, and partial-day treatment options. Intensive outpatient programs or IOP services are also an option for many seeking blended drug and alcohol assistance.
Advances in pharmacology and neuroscience are important to drug and alcohol recovery programs that may help reduce recovery time and help to reduce the chances of relapse. However, holistic addiction and recovery programs for drugs and alcohol serve to address this issue from the individualized care means that the they are providing care that recognizes all parts of the person. Although both high-tech solutions and holistic programs are important components of drug and alcohol recovery, those seeking these solutions may be able to find a program that blends these solutions into one comprehensive plan for the individual. Blended treatment facilities offer many amenities and recovery components that other programs may not offer. Therefore, it is important that those seeking treatment for themselves or a loved one find a program that offers complex solutions for this very complex issue.
National Institute on Drug Abuse. (2016). NIDA-NIAAA mini-convention: Frontiers in addiction research. Retrieved from
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ENERGY companies were called on to cut their prices to reflect the collapse in wholesale costs - writes Charlie Weston
The call came after one of the smallest players in the market, Flogas, said it would reduce the price of gas for households by 2.5pc, with effect from the start of next month.
The reduction will save householders around €20 a year. It is the second time in a year Flogas has reduced its prices.
But there is huge scope for more cuts across the board given that wholesale gas prices are down 23pc in the past year, according to Simon Moynihan of price comparison siteBonkers.ie.
He said there have been a number of small reductions in price from Electric Ireland and SSE Airtricity.
But he said the newest player in market, Energia, has just introduced discounts of up to 26pc for those prepared to switch to it for electricity, gas or both fuels.
“If you do not switch from your current suppliers you may get a 2pc to 2.5pc reduction in costs, but if you want to get discounts of up to 26pc then you need to move provider,” he said.
Electric Ireland has just cut its gas price by 2.5pc, while its electricity prices fell last November.
SSE Airtricity will introduce a €23 reduction in the annual cost of its electricity from next Monday.
Mr Moynihan said: “I would call on all suppliers who have not done so to cut their prices. There is plenty of room to do so given the fall in wholesale gas prices.”
The latest data shows he cost of buying natural gas on the wholesale market dropped significantly toward the end of last year.
Irish wholesale prices were down 23pc on average during the fourth quarter compared with the same period last year, according to the 2015 Wholesale Energy Market Report published by Vayu Energy.
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This test method describes the determination of the ash content of pulp, paper, and paper products by ignition at two different temperatures: Method A—ash content upon ignition at 525°C; Method B—ash content upon ignition at 900°C.
Formerly under the jurisdiction of Committee D06 on Paper and Paper Products, this test method was withdrawn in October 2009 due to insufficient committee interest in reviewing and revising the standard.
1.1 This test method describes the determination of the ash content of pulp, paper, and paper products by ignition at two different temperatures:
1.1.1 Method A—Ash content upon ignition at 525°C.
1.1.2 Method B—Ash content upon ignition at 900°C.
1.2 This standard does not purport to address all of the safety concerns, if any, associated with its use. It is the responsibility of the user of this standard to establish appropriate safety and health practices and determine the applicability of regulatory limitations prior to use.
2. Referenced Documents (purchase separately) The documents listed below are referenced within the subject standard but are not provided as part of the standard.
D585 Practice for Sampling and Accepting a Single Lot of Paper, Paperboard, Fiberboard, and Related Product
D644 Test Method for Moisture Content of Paper and Paperboard by Oven Drying
D686 Test Methods of Qualitative Examination of Mineral Filler and Mineral Coating of Paper
D1968 Terminology Relating to Paper and Paper Products
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by Liaquat Ahamed
(Penguin Press, 576 pages, $32.95)
Experts charged with setting national and international economic policy are capable of being dead wrong, says author Liaquat Ahamed. Following World War I, the four men who ran the central banks of France, Britain, Germany, and the U.S. were briefly viewed as wizards. Prickly Hjalmar Schacht saved Germany from postwar hyperinflation. Haughty Émile Moreau triggered a boom in French exports by keeping the value of the franc low. Bank of England governor Montagu Norman restored order to the entire international financial system by re-establishing a relationship between the value of the pound and gold. But that was the idea that “broke the world,” Ahamed says. The nations that managed to hoard gold—France and the U.S.—inadvertently pushed the international economy into the Great Depression.
A history of economics between the great wars may sound like dry stuff, said Steve Weinberg in the Houston Chronicle. But Ahamed’s first book is a “tour de force” of storytelling. The former investment manager can create a vivid character with a few quick strokes, and he transforms the leaps and lurches of the markets into gripping episodes in the lives of his four lead characters. The book “has personalities to spare,” said Janet Maslin in The New York Times. Its stars are so winningly eccentric that Ahamed is free to demote Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, and John Maynard Keynes to supporting roles. “Among the minor highlights of this eminently readable story” are the aristocrats and the shady scam artists who drop in for arresting cameos.
Blaming the Depression on the return to the “gold standard,” though, is simply misleading, said James Grant in The Wall Street Journal. Tying currency values to gold leads to its own problems, but 20th-century central bankers did something worse: They crowned a single currency as king and then empowered its backing government—first Britain, later the U.S.—to reset the currency’s value at whim. One of Ahamed’s great strengths is showing readers how difficult it was for experts to foresee the results of their blunders, said John Lanchester in The New Yorker. That awareness helps enormously to make his entertaining book “feel timely today.” | <urn:uuid:4d54bcc7-f379-45f7-9d00-5127a9b41fc6> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://theweek.com/articles/508783/lords-finance-bankers-who-broke-world-by-liaquat-ahamed | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720845.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00087-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95114 | 502 | 2.21875 | 2 |
Borgia Family, Spanish Borja, descendants of a noble line, originally from Valencia, Spain, that established roots in Italy and became prominent in ecclesiastical and political affairs in the 1400s and 1500s. The house of the Borgias produced two popes and many other political and church leaders. Some members of the family became known for their treachery.
Four Borgias became especially noteworthy in a historical sense. Alfonso de Borgia (1378–1458) established the family’s influence in Italy and became Pope Calixtus III in 1455 (seeCalixtus III). Rodrigo Borgia became a cardinal of the Roman Catholic church and, later (1492), Pope Alexander VI (seeAlexander VIunder Alexander [Papacy]). As cardinal and pope, Rodrigo fathered a number of children by his mistress Vannozza Catanei. Cesare Borgia (q.v.; c. 1475/76–1507), son of Rodrigo, achieved political power while ruthlessly attempting to establish a secular kingdom in central Italy. Lucrezia Borgia (q.v.; 1480–1519), a daughter of Rodrigo and a patron of the arts, became famous for her skill at political intrigue.
The family produced many other persons of lesser importance. One, St. Francis Borgia (1510–1572), a great-grandson of Rodrigo, was canonized. The family began to decline in the late 1500s. By the middle of the 18th century it had disappeared. | <urn:uuid:ba263953-aee4-4429-ab75-0e5b60cf06bb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Borgia-family | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.966144 | 313 | 3.265625 | 3 |
Surprise Your Mom With a DIY Planter Box
With Mother’s Day right around the corner, your mom is probably expecting flowers. So how about doing a little something extra for mom this year? Something handmade, like when you were a kid? A DIY decorative planter box is the perfect item to give her windowsill that extra pop!
And if you’re worried that building something like this may be beyond your skillset, have no fear. Read on for an easy step-by-step guide to making mom a custom planter box for housing her fabulous flowers.
Here are the materials you’ll need:
- Wood boards (You can ask the associate at the home improvement store to cut your pieces for you.)
– 1 piece @ 1” x 8” cut at 24” long – this is the base.
– 2 pieces @ 1” x 8” cut at 18” long – these are the upright sides
- 2 baseboard pieces (These need to be the same length as the base. I cut mine at 24” long, and they were just over 5” tall.)
- Wood glue
- Brad nailer
- Drill with a 3/8” bit
- Sisal rope
Begin assembling your planter box by attaching the sides to the base.
Squeeze a thin line of wood glue onto the side edge of the base. You’ll do this for every side you nail to another board.
Line up the bottom edges of the sides with the base and use a brad nailer to secure them to each other. I have a cordless brad nail gun and it’s a lifesaver for small woodworking projects like this one that don’t call for wood screws.
Tip: If you decide to use wood screws, just be sure to drill pilot holes first to avoid splitting the wood.
For this planter box, I nailed the sides to the base in 5 different places: Once on each corner and three more, equally spaced out along the bottom.
While the base and sides are setting up, cut out the rope holes in the upright sides.
I used my miter saw to angle the tops of my boards but you can leave yours with the straight sides if you don’t have access to a saw. If you do, you can cut 30 degree angles into each of the upper corners.
Mark the center of your board at least 2” from all sides and clamp down the board to drill a hole using the 3/8” drill bit.
Add wood glue to the bottom of the upright board and to both sides – only glue the bottom 4” or so because the rest will be exposed over the sides – then slide the boards in between the base and nail them into place with the brad nailer.
At this point, I filled each of the nail holes with a tiny bit of caulking, applied a thin coat of glossy acrylic craft paint to the bare boards, and threaded the rope through each of the side holes and secured them with knots on either end.
Although this box was not designed to withstand soil and water, your mom can plant real flowers in a plastic bin (that she can remove to water) and use the planter box as a decorative housing unit for her removable garden.
Otherwise, it’s the perfect size for 6” planted pots or even large Mason jars with flowers planted in them.
Finally, you can add personal touches by painting the planter box in your mom’s favorite colors or stenciling designs on the sides. This portable planter is perfect for any space and makes a lovely, unique gift for Mother’s Day.
What do you want to put in your customized planter box?
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The television news program - Seven Thirty Live: Around Town - explores Anacostia. The program begins with a brief history of Anacostia, coverage of Anacostia Story exhibition at the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum, and explanation of current resources and social conditions in Anacostia. Mrs. Ella Pearis talks about six generations of her family growing up in Anacostia and how the community of Anacostia has changed. Lawrence Bland, president of the Anacostia Economic Development Corporation (AEDC), and Ernest Darling, a neighborhood commissioner, speak about housing conditions in Anacostia and the work of AEDC. The program also includes a cheerlanding performance by students from Savoy Recreation Center and Savoy School; and musical performance by Experience Unlimited.
Television news program. Program begins at 000102. Part of Broadcast Programs. Dated 19770512.
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Fears for the resilience of London's transport network during the Olympics have been heightened by the closure of a tube link to Stratford after flooding.
The Central line, which connects the West End and City to the Olympic Park, was part-suspended after a burst water main flooded 800 metres of tracks with 2m litres of water via a ventilation shaft.
Hundreds of passengers were stuck on a train for two hours before being led up a tunnel to safety on Wednesday. A section of the line, including through Stratford station, remained closed until 4.30pm on Thursday.
A Transport for London spokesman said workers had been pumping out the water through the night and making sure the track and signalling equipment was functioning properly.
He said: "Clearly this was something that happened to us – it wasn't a failure of the tube network, it was Thames Water whose water main flooded the Central line.
"It's possible that things like this will happen at Games time, and we'll deal with them. We'll provide people with real-time travel information; it'll take longer, but we'll get people to the Games and back."
The latest problem followed delays and incidents over recent weeks on the Jubilee line, the other main line serving Stratford, which is anticipated to do most of the heavy lifting for spectators. The London Labour party has warned that the capital could be a laughing stock if the problems continue during the peak Olympic period.
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Intel recently released the first members of its new Arc family of GPUs, the A350M and A370M. Representing the mobile faction of the Arc lineup, these two GPUs will mostly be found in laptops. Intel has already scored design wins with ASUS, HP, Lenovo, Samsung, and others, which is not surprising given the strength of Intel’s laptop platform. Intel is positioning the A370M as a GPU for creator workloads with some light gaming. In other words, it should be particularly great for accelerating media workloads but still do fine in light gaming scenarios and casual titles. The A370M also leverages Intel’s Xe HPG microarchitecture and was manufactured with TSMC’s N6 node.
For the last month I’ve had the opportunity to use this new GPU in a pre-production Intel Arc 3 development notebook, which Intel sent me to review in my capacity as an industry analyst. The system itself has nice specs, with an i7-12700H CPU and 32GB of RAM and 1TB SSD, all while displayed on a 16” 1600P display. This is a contender for a nice thin creator notebook even though it is just a development machine.
Media creation and editing benchmarks
Given its positioning, most of my testing of the Arc A370M machine centered around the GPU’s capabilities in creator workflows and some light gaming scenarios. If it were a higher-end GPU, I probably would have tested gaming more thoroughly. For my creativity workload benchmarks, I used different versions of PugetBench with the popular DaVinci Resolve, Adobe Photoshop and Premiere Pro programs.
Running DaVinci Resolve 18, the A370M scored an average of 535 points, compared to the RTX A2000 (RTX 3050 Ti) in my Surface laptop, which scored 513. That said, the CPUs in these laptops are not the same; the A370M development laptop scored 54 in 4K media, while the Surface Studio Laptop scored 19. As far as GPU effects go, the RTX 3050 Ti may have outperformed the A370M with a score of 24 to the A370M’s 15. However, these numbers don’t necessarily tell the story as well as the total score given that DaVinci Resolve has Intel Deep Link support which includes Hyper Encode. Deep Link allows the CPU and GPU to work together to encode a workload, which boosted the fusion score from 88 to 93. This in turn increased the total score from 523 to 535. In the near future, as more apps start to enable CPU and GPU-accelerated encoding like Deep Link, it will become harder to compare systems.
In Photoshop the performance of the A370M was most impressive—an overall score of 1168 and a GPU score of 111.7. These numbers put the A370M development notebook into competition with other notebooks on the Puget public benchmark results, including a Lenovo system with the same CPU and a RTX 3060 GPU (with 1272 points total and a GPU score of 122.8). While the A370M didn’t beat it, it did come considerably closer to a 3060 than I expected. It did, however, beat the A2000 in my Surface Laptop Studio, which only put up a GPU score of 60.
On Premiere Pro, the Arc 3 development notebook came back with a total score of 591 and a GPU score of 30. This puts the A370M ahead of the NVIDIA RTX 3050 in most results, but behind the 3060 in others. The A2000 inside my Surface Laptop Studio, which is basically a 3050 Ti in terms of performance, scored almost the same GPU score of 30, putting it about on par with the A370M for performance in Premiere Pro. These GPUs will most likely go up against each other in this category, so Intel should be able to stay competitive with NVIDIA in the creator space.
As you can tell, performance can vary from app to app. It’s worth it to dive deep on these benchmarks to see how your GPU will fare with the specific programs you use regularly. For the most part, the A370M is doing quite well and keeping up with the competition.
I spent less time gaming on this machine than using it for photo and video editing, since that was the expressed purpose of this chip at launch. However, I was able to easily play a few games at medium and low settings, albeit not at the full resolution (1440P). In F1 2022, running at 1080P on medium settings, I was able to get an average of 55 FPS—an enjoyable casual experience. For a more graphically intensive game, like Elden Ring, I was able to get about 45 FPS at 1080P on Medium settings. While this isn’t necessarily the highest of frame rates, it is very playable and doesn’t stutter or lag. One of my favorite casual games to play—I mean benchmark—is Rocket League. Since Rocket League is a much less graphically intense game, I was able to crank it up to high graphical presets and still got an average of about 95 FPS. Nowadays, Rocket League pretty much runs on everything, so the high frame rate wasn’t much of a surprise.
In general, the Arc A370M has impressed me with its performance, especially in the creative apps benchmarked above. While it may not necessarily be the best gaming part out there, it does a good job of enabling casual gaming experiences and supplies ample GPU horsepower to the user. I am excited to see what Intel has done with Deep Link and hope to see more creative apps support it in the future. Since I ran the A370M on a development notebook, I am hopeful that we will see even better results with the many upcoming OEM laptops featuring the chip. Those should be landing in consumers’ hands any day now, so stay tuned.
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By Mark Stewart
Abelson's Hypothesis tells us that the genesis of the primitive atmosphere was the result of out-gassing. I concur with the hypothesis that there is no geo-chemical evidence for a primitive methane-ammonia atmosphere and that there is much evidence against it including:
(A) It has been estimated an amount of ammonia equivalent to present atmospheric nitrogen would be destroyed in about 30,000 years due to degradation by ultraviolet radiation. That is a negligible amount of time compared to the vast geologic ages needed for the accumulation of reduced organic compounds.
(B) If large amounts of methane had been present in the primitive atmosphere, irradiation would have produced large quantities of hydrophobic organic compounds that would have been absorbed by sedimentary clays. The earliest rocks would then have contaminated a large proportion of organic compounds, but such simply is not the case.
(C) If the earth were unable to retain xenon of atomic weight 130, other light constituents such as hydrogen, methane, and carbon monoxide would have been lost as well.
It is thus concluded that the concept that the earth had a dense methane-ammonia atmosphere is not supported by geochemistry and it is contradicted by the scarcity of xenon and krypton in our present atmosphere.
Studies of the composition of volcanic gases have shown that water and CO2 are the major volatiles produced by out-gassing. A significant amount of reducing potential is also brought to the surface in the form of hydrogen. In this hypothesis the amount of reducing potential brought to the surface is estimated by making a balance sheet of the oxidized and reduced chemicals in the atmosphere, biosphere, and sedimentary rocks.
Most of the carbon in sedimentary rocks is present as carbonate. Part is present as reduced carbon. The amount of oxygen that would be required to convert this material to CO2 and H20 is estimated to be 235 x 10 to the 20th power g. It is suggested in this hypothesis that a probable explanation for this discrepancy is that an appreciable amount of the carbon released from volcanoes was in the form of CO. Assuming that the discrepancy in the balance sheet for oxygen was due to H2 and CO produced by out-gassing, in this hypothesis, it was then calculated that the amount of these gases which reached the surface was 19 x 10 to the 20th power g of CO.
It is further assumed in this hypothesis that one of the precursors that gave rise to biologically important compounds was hydrogen cyanide (HCN). A combination of gases that could give to hydrogen cyanide consists of CO, H2 and N2. The CO produced by out-gassing, however, would be removed by reaction with the water of the primitive oceans to produce formic acid, resulting in a very low pressure of CO. It is, therefore assumed that the H2 produced by out-gassing would react with CO2 to produce enough CO to raise its pressure to a sufficient level.
Further assumptions must be made, however, since CO, N2 and H2 will not react to produce hydrogen cyanide in the presence of water. In this hypothesis it is believed that on the primitive earth a very low temperature may have existed at an altitude no greater than 20 kilometers and that this low temperature which gave rise to hydrogen cyanide existed above this temperature minimum and that it constituted primarily of N2, CO, and H2.
While this hypothesis, on the basis of geo-chemical and cosmological data has effectively demolished the methane-ammonia atmosphere (also known as Urey's Hypothesis), this hypothesis has failed to produce equally convincing evidence for a postulated primitive atmosphere of CO, N2, and H2O. The critical feature of this hypothesis is the assumption that out-gassing produced such large quantities of H2 and CO as 19 x 10 to the 20th power g and 17 x 10 to the 20th power g, respectively. This must be recognized as speculation not supported by the facts. A certain reducing potential was required for the abiogenic origin of reduced chemical compounds, so a hypothetical source was proposed.
The main constituents of volcanic gases are H2O, CO2, and N2. The mean composition of volcanic gases from Halemaumau in Hawaii is, by volume: H2O = 68%, CO2 = 13%, N2 = 8% and the rest is mainly sulfurous fumes. In Urey's hypothesis it has been pointed out that the gases escaping from lava lakes of Hawaiian volcanoes are so highly oxidized that it is difficult to account for the high state of oxidation. The proposal that out-gassing produced vast quantities of H2 AND CO is thus not supported by known data but seems to be contradictory.
It should be emphasized that Abelson's Hypothesis, like all others, must appeal to hypotheses where data are lacking, and that, in the final analysis, no model of the primitive earth can be considered as anything more than a working hypothesis.
Mark Stewart A.D.
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5 Simple Money-Saving Tips That Will Help You Eat Out More Often [Sponsored]
Eating out at restaurants can be awfully expensive, especially if you do it regularly. Luckily, there are several easy ways to save a little money so your next restaurant bill doesn’t break the bank.
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Shrink Your Coffee Orders
Just because you need that cup of joe each morning to wake up doesn’t mean you need a cup the size of a Louisiana pothole! Scale down your order each time and you’ll be surprised how much you’ll amass. Better yet, buy fewer of those delicious but super-expensive coffee drinks.
Cut Out Bad Habits
Not that the promise of eating good food in nice restaurants should be the main motivator for kicking a bad habit, just think about how much money you’ll save each month — or even each week — by not buying that pack of cigarettes or six-pack of beer.
Create a Budget
Nobody likes math. OK, maybe that’s a bit harsh. But nobody likes having to be reminded of how much money they actually have. It may not be fun, but keeping track of your finances will help you see where you’re overspending and possibly help ensure you have some extra cash to spend on a nice meal at your favorite restaurant.
Coupons are cool! OK, maybe that’s an exaggeration. But shopping with a ‘save money’ mindset will ensure you’re not overspending at the grocery store, which means more money to spend on food you have zero chance of burning on the stove!
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STAYING UP LATE TONIGHT? CATCH THE LUNAR ECLIPSE
For those willing to stay up late, there will be a total lunar eclipse tonight, where the shadow of the Earth blocks out the face of the moon, in what astronomers say could be quite a celestial show -- weather permitting.
The eclipse will start in phases at 10:03 p.m. and last until 1:17 a.m. During that time, the total eclipse will last for 53 minutes, from 11:14 p.m. to 12:07 a.m. If atmospheric conditions are right, the shadow should turn a ruddy red or copper color and make the moon look remarkably similar to Mars.
Major planetariums in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties will have telescopes available to the public. There will be another total lunar eclipse on Nov. 8.
JUDGE LETS UNION LEADER REMAIN FREE ON BOND
Union leader Walter Browne will remain free on more than $150,000 bond until his trial next month, U.S. Magistrate Barry Seltzer ruled Wednesday in Fort Lauderdale federal court.
Browne was indicted in 2001 on federal charges that he cheated his union, the Federation of Public Employees, out of more than $400,000. He faces racketeering, embezzlement and mail fraud charges. Browne's attorney, Bruce Udolf, declined comment.
Earlier this month a grand jury added a new racketeering count, accusing Browne of taking contributions for his defense fund from companies whose employees the union sought to represent.
Federal prosecutors argued that with the additional charge, Browne's bond should be revoked and he should be placed on house arrest or await his trial in jail.
MAN IN TV CHASE FOUND GUILTY OF KIDNAP, ASSAULT
A man who abducted a mail carrier and led police on a nationally televised chase last January was convicted Wednesday of kidnapping, assault and weapons charges.
The federal court jury rejected Nevia Abraham's assertion that his actions were legally justified by necessity because his children were in danger.
Abraham, 38, of Fort Lauderdale, testified earlier this week that he wanted to use postal employee Tonya Mitchell in a ruse to get into his ex-girlfriend's house by having the carrier ask for her signature on a package. He said he was trying to get two of his preschool children away from Nicole Challenger, who he said had threatened to kill herself and the children.
Abraham led police on a slow-speed chase for 90 minutes, but surrendered after the truck was stopped. Mitchell testified that Abraham held a gun on her during the ride.
He could be sentenced to life in prison.
PLAYERS NEEDED FOR POLICE GOLF TOURNEY
Golfers are still needed for the third annual golf outing to benefit the Pembroke Pines Police Athletic League.
The event is Friday at the Pembroke Lakes Golf and Racquet Club, 10500 Taft St., in Pembroke Pines. Registration is at 11 a.m., followed by lunch and then golf. Cost is $400 for a foursome or $100 for individuals.
For more information, call 954-986-5044.
SCOUTS APPEAL FOR CASH HELD BACK BY UNITED WAY
MIAMI LAKES - The South Florida Council of the Boy Scouts of America asked supporters on Wednesday to help the organization replace almost $500,000 in funding pulled by the United Way.
The United Way of Miami-Dade's board voted to stop allocating money from its general fund to the Boy Scouts because board members say the Boy Scouts failed to live up to an agreement that included implementing a sensitivity program to help scoutmasters relate to children who have questions about their sexuality. The United Way allocated $480,435 for the Boy Scouts during the current United Way campaign, but after June 30 will not give them any more money. | <urn:uuid:b065f704-65f9-47b9-8ef9-934169f95acd> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2003-05-15/news/0305150114_1_federal-charges-federal-court-weapons-charges | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279410.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00174-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951348 | 819 | 1.507813 | 2 |
8 March 2016
Transitioning to the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) by 2019 will require a huge shift in mindset for people with a disability and the wider community, says a University of the Sunshine Coast researcher.
Master of Arts student Valmae Rose, who previously worked as the manager of National Disability Services Queensland, is investigating how the community can adjust the way it views individuals with a disability – from seeing them as vulnerable to understanding that they have the power to shape their own futures with the NDIS.
The research project will include a series of workshops with NDIS stakeholders and the findings will be used to help prepare both individuals and service providers prepare for the NDIS implementation.
Ms Rose said her 30 years’ work in the disability sector had made her aware that that, until recently, public discussion around disability had been “deficit-based” – focussed on what people with a disability were unable to do.
“Up until this point, we have emphasised the disadvantage and vulnerability associated with having a disability, but the NDIS assumes people are ready and willing to imagine and make plans for their future,” she said.
“As a result, there is a tension between the new assumption of power and control and the previous deficit-based mindset.
“I think it’s possible that people can experience vulnerability and still powerfully shape their own lives, but we need to have a much better understanding of the relationship between those two ideas.”
The workshops will involve about 60 individuals with a disability, family members and social service providers being taken through a reflective exercise known as causal layered analysis, in which participants analyse and then reconstruct their perception of reality.
She said she hoped the four-stage process, developed by futurist and USC adjunct academic Sohail Inayatullah, could eventually be used on a broader scale as a tool to help people prepare for their future under the NDIS.
“We want people to have big dreams and I think it will help if they have the opportunity to unpack their current reality – their past and present – to help shape something that’s new, fresh and full of possibilities,” she said.
“It’s a chance to try a process where the participants themselves do the interpretation, not an academic or a third party, and then make use of that improved understanding.
“The NDIS is moving into full transition mode and by 2019 it will be fully operational, so now is the perfect time for informed debate and investment in helping people prepare for the change.”
Ms Rose’s research is being supervised by USC Senior Lecturer in History and Futures Dr Marcus Bussey.
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Nutritional Advice For Patients After a Heart Transplant Surgery
A heart transplant is a serious operation in which a diseased or failed heart is replaced with a healthier heart from a donor. Doctors generally advise heart transplants to people whose conditions have not improved with medications and surgeries.
People who undergo this severe procedure are often suggested to follow the diet guidelines properly. This is because the heart is a crucial and sensitive organ and you cannot risk it with inattentiveness. A proper diet guideline comes with different aspects like food safety, optimizing calories, checking protein intake, monitoring carbohydrates consumption, etc. These guidelines help a patient to optimize a new heart so that it can function well in long run.
And, Nutrition is one of the essential factors for a healthy heart and a healthy life too. After a Heart transplant surgery, certain medications can change one’s nutritional needs and the ways in which the body processes food. Although, it is common in most cases that a dietician will help you with a proper diet chart explaining the nutritional choices that you can make. But, you can also make some serious efforts on your part as well by following these guidelines religiously.
Here are some nutritional guidelines for Heart Patients post-transplant surgery:
Maintain an ideal Body-Weight
People who are overweight or gain excess weight are at risk of developing high cholesterol, glucose, and triglycerides. All these factors can directly impact you and you might increase your chances of having elevated blood pressure and a higher possibility of arteriosclerosis. In addition, one can also have elevated blood pressure in case of using prednisone way too much. Hence it means that with excess body weight one can further develop complications even after a heart transplant.
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However, if you are underweight then it becomes even more important to reach your ideal weight because there are high chances that you might get an infection or rejection of the organ. Hence, you should always take care of the fact that you are having an adequate amount of fats and proteins in your diet. This will help you combat the possibility of complications. Once you attain your ideal weight, it is equally critical to remain within the close range because excessive weight places can add strain on your new organ.
One can follow these steps to get an ideal weight:
- Incorporate fruits and vegetables into your diet.
- Eat whole-grain bread and cereals.
- Avoid excessive alcohol
- Eat lean meats like fish or poultry.
- Stay hydrated.
- Follow safety guidelines to avoid the risk of infection.
Restrict sodium intake in your diet:
As Heart patients are more exposed to a problem like high blood pressure, doctors recommend no-added salt in their diet. To avoid fluid retention, you must go slow with salt. No-added salt does not mean zero salts in food. Instead, light salt is fine during cooking, you should not add salt after the food has been prepared.
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You can follow these tips to reduce salts in your food:
- Use fresh fruits and vegetables as they contain less sodium.
- Go for the fresh cuts of chicken or pork instead of the packaged ones.
- Read labels of the food products as they are generally listed with the amount of sodium.
- Always select spices that do not contain sodium on their labels.
- Beware of the products that have high sodium, but do not taste salty.
- Avoid highly processed food as they contain high sodium.
Monitor Fat Content in Diet:
Cholesterol level in the blood is directly related to coronary artery disease. Therefore, one should always moderately restrict cholesterol intake after the surgery. Doctors suggest reducing saturated fats intake, saturated fats are usually those fats that we get from animal products. In addition heart patients should substitute polyunsaturated fats, they are basically plant-originated fats and are liquid at room temperature. One of the major causes of coronary artery disease is chronic deposits of fatty substances, fibrous tissues in the walls of the arteries, and cholesterol.
Therefore, cholesterol plays an important role in transplant coronary artery disease.it is believed that blood cholesterol levels are somewhat influenced by the number of saturated fats, cholesterol, and dietary cholesterol. Hence, you can lower the amount of cholesterol if you control the number of saturated fats and substitute poly-unsaturated fats in your diet.
Even if you have no prior history of Heart diseases, dieticians advise you to follow a dietary fat modification to maintain blood cholesterol levels. In developing arteriosclerosis, there is no such level that you can call a low-cholesterol level. You can develop it even if you have a normal cholesterol level. But, still one should not ignore these factors.
Set a limit on your Sugar intake :
More sugar you will have, your body will produce more insulin and that can increase your chances for obesity and that in long run can develop cardiovascular disease. After a transplant too, dieticians do not suggest you use refined sugar. As high sugar can trigger high blood glucose levels and that can indirectly increase triglyceride levels in the blood. Therefore, it is recommended to limit the concentration of sweets and sugar in the diet. That will keep the number of carbohydrates to a moderate range.
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Tips that you can follow to reduce sugar from the diet:
- Read the labels of food carefully, because the product you bought might contain a lot of sugar.
- Avoid using processed food as it can contain high amounts of sugar.
- Increase the number of fresh vegetables and fruits in your diet.
- Avoid having sugary drinks.
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Austrian manufacturer Diamond Aircraft has a reputation for creating aeroplanes packed with innovation and technology. Steve Hitchen traveled to Wiener Neustadt to see what this design philosophy would do for the new DA62 twin.
Diamond's latest inspiration, the DA62 twin, is an attempt to combine style, quality and class with capacity; sort of like making a stretch limousine from a Mercedes SLS AMG. But, whereas such a car would have the handling of a barge of bricks, the DA62 is one of the sweetest aeroplanes you could ever hope to fly ... and that includes when one engine stops pulling.
Yes, that statement is coming from someone with very little twin time who fits neatly into the category of neophyte when it comes to asymmetric flight, but that in itself reveals the inherent nature of the DA62: it eliminates many of the stress-inducing features of twin flying to the point that its behaviour is closer to a large single than the traditional twins it was born to replace.
This machine seats up to seven, has two 180-hp Austro AE300 diesels, cavernous entry hatches and enough room inside to hold a small party. The max. take-off weight of 2300 kg says it all; a good half-tonne more than a Piper Seminole for the same power output.
From the tables in the spec sheets, it looks like the DA62 is set to slay everything else in its class, but there are very few in existence and none in Australia to verify the manufacturer's claims. There was no way out of this; I was going to have to go to the Diamond factory in Austria and see for myself.
Lucky for me, Diamond Aircraft was up for the challenge and embraced me with a hearty welcome that showed obvious confidence in their machine.
It was confidence not misplaced.
Come to Papa!
The first impression I got of the 62 as I walked out across the apron at Wiener Neustadt toward the low-slung, two-tone grey twin, was that it was likely just another DA42, but with 180-hp engines on either side. My mentor for the day, demo pilot Robert Mayer quickly dispelled that when he opened the huge gull-wing doors to reveal a beautifully appointed leather interior clearly not intended for the muddy boots of flying schools.
With a fuselage 630 cm longer and than the 42 and an extra 1 m on the wingspan, the 62 is a bigger aeroplane physically, and the longer cabin is evidenced by the third window for row three. Nope, not a beefed-up DA42, but a completely new twin obviously aimed at a different market.
For those people who know Diamond's visionary CEO Christian Dries, the DA62 won't come as a surprise; it epitomises his ideal of a GA aeroplane: it's fast, comfortable, highly automated, runs on diesel and is incredibly pilot-friendly. However, so is the DA42, so what was the imperative to design a larger, higher-powered twin?
"Particularly from North America, we've had complaints about the size," Dries explains. "The DA42 is a little more sporty, you or I might fit in perfectly, but if someone comes up who's 260 lb, and very tall, they have a problem. But, the DA62 seats giants! That doesn't mean that seven giants will fit in, but at least four. Plus, with 360 hp, it performs very well."
But there are twins around that out-power the DA62: Piper's Seneca V boasts 440 hp total and the Beech Baron tops the scales with 600 total. Yet, the DA62 manages to out-perform both of them with less power and a much lower fuel burn.
But it has one other attribute: the 62 is one of the sexiest looking aeroplanes on the market. With slender spreading wings and a low, elliptical nose profile, the 62 looks part Cessna Dragonfly and part Wedge-tailed Eagle. Throw in a touch of Mercedes Benz, and you get an immediate impression that there is no way this aeroplane could not be a super performer.
Tucked in close on each wing is an Austro AE300 180 hp diesel engine that runs on most grades of jet fuel. The AE300 is a 2.0-litre, turbo-charged, common rail motor, which is a Mercedes unit modified heavily for aviation use. By the time Austro (a Diamond subsidiary) is finished with the Benz product, the motor will maintain take-off power all the way to 9000 feet, by which time the Lycoming IO-360 is usually wheezing.
Thanks to the turbo, the Austro engine tips the scales at 186 kg dry, which is much more than the normally-aspirated Lycoming's 136 kg. However, the extra 100 kg in the engines of the DA62 is not apparent; the aeroplane's overall performance masks the weight penalty to the point that you'll never think about it again.
Gull-wing doors could have been invented for low-wing aeroplanes, yet so few have them; Socata's Tobago and Trinidad are first into mind. The magic of this design was apparent to me as I stepped up eagerly on to the wing of the DA62. After opening, the door was up in the air out of the way and left a yawning gap to let me step unhindered into the cockpit.
With pilot Rob Meyer busily strapping himself into the other seat, I reached up to the door and pulled it down without having to stretch myself. It locked down with a quality "thunk" that suggested BMW more so than Toyota Yaris. Once contained, I began to understand what Christian Dries was saying about space ... we could have carried a brass band with us on that test flight.
The seats are arranged front to rear in a two-three-two configuration, with the front seats able to lie almost completely flat; a feature you just don't find in other aeroplanes, yet one that can be considerably comfortable to the Pilot Not Flying on a long leg. The seats aren't adjustable forwards and backwards, but the rudder pedal can be adjusted electronically.
Before my eyes was a twin-screen Garmin 1000, with the MFD and PFD divided by back-up glass AH and speed and altitude tapes, comms panel and autopilot. Between the seats, the leather-appointed centre console contained the rudder trim, park brake, cabin heat controls and the magic levers for the electronic Engine Control Unit (ECU).
No throttle as such, no mixture controls, no prop pitch control – just two levers that command the ECU to set the power load as a percentage. Compared with the bouquet of six levers that grow from the quadrants of traditional twins, the Diamond system is neat, simple and defies confusion when the time comes to go asymmetric.
All the serious buttons like the fuel pumps, masters, start buttons, gear and flap levers are arranged across the lower panel, leaving the far left to the de-ice and ECU test switches and the far right to the circuit breakers.
Having settled into my plush surroundings like a fat Sheik, I was eager to see the DA62 do aeroplane things, so Meyer wasted very little time in getting the Austros fired-up.
The keyless starting sequence was frighteningly simple; perhaps annoyingly so for someone like me who regularly combats reluctant O-360s in Piper Archers. Masters on, wait for the glow plugs to reach operating temperature, press the big silver button and the AE300 swings into action without a even a suggestion of splutter or shudder.
No sooner were we off the blocks at Wiener Neustadt than I knew I was in a new generation of twin. The DA62 was so easy to taxi, characterised by a significant reduction in the turning inertia usually displayed by twins of older design. For all the resistance to a change of track, I could have been pedaling a large single.
At the holding point, I handed the 62 back to Mayer for the run-ups. Now, this was a thing of beauty! In your average twin, the run-up means cranking the pitch levers whilst checking to see if the manifold pressure (MAP), RPM and oil pressure respond. But Diamond's love of automation has eliminated that, delegating the engine checks to the ECU.
Now here's the tricky bit: the DA62 has two ECUs per engine. Only one is active on any flight, but both need to be tested. For this there is a simple switch that tests ECU A and ECU B separately, then, if returned to the AUTO position, enables the system to decide which ECU to make active based on the ECU hours. It's called the VOTER switch, because the computer "votes" on which ECU to use. During this process, the only indication that anything is happening is a slight shake as the ECUs click in and out. In fact, the pilot won't ever know which ECU the system chose to use; it's not something they need to know.
In the second test, Mayer simply pressed the ECU test button for each engine and the ECU ran through a series of test the equivalent of a CSU test in traditional twins. It was all over in seconds rather than minutes. In fact, the speed with which we ran through the checks engendered in me an uncomfortable feeling that we had forgotten a lot of important things.
We lined-up on runway 10, with Wiener Neustadt's customary 20-knot crosswind hitting us from the left. I slid the power levers easily forward and the AE300s wound up, accelerating us smoothly toward rotation speed. The DA62 was remarkably stable in that breeze to the point that I was wondering if the sock had gone limp.
After rotating, I instinctively lowered the nose slightly to gain speed, only to have Mayer check me. "Keep the climb attitude from rotation," he said. "Watch what it does."
What it did was keep accelerating from the moment the nosewheel left the ground, transitioning easily into a 1000 fpm climb. I got another rebuke when I went to pull the power back; the DA62 climbs easily at 100% power without a worry in the world.
A great day for a cruise
Cruising along with one hand on the stick and the other resting behind the power levers, I got a sort of space-age feeling. It was odd to be flying such large aeroplane with only a joystick – the same feeling I suppose Boeing pilots had when they first converted to Airbuses. It lasted only for a short time, after that I realised that this was a very civilised way of flying; nothing obscured the instrument panel at all and the hand movement was very natural.
My first reaction in rolling into a medium-bank turn was that the forces on the stick were greater than I had expected. Traditionally, twins have more roll inertia than singles anyway, so in that respect the DA62 was behaving like any other twin. I'll put the surprising control force down to me simply getting used to the stick.
The travel on the stick from centred to about a 30o turn was not a lot, so even though the stick feels stubborn, you don't have to move it far to get the desired result. The upshot is that this aeroplane handles magnificently and displays no sign of instability at all.
I pushed the power levers forward until the Garmin MFD told us we were at 95% power load. With the diesels at 2200 rpm, each engine was consuming fuel at a rate of 9.6 US gallons per hour. In our language, that's 36 lph or 72 lph total.
Some perspective here: respected US publication Plane&Pilot has estimated that the G58 Baron drinks a total of 121 lph at 75% power. I had to look twice at the MFD, and deliberately handed over to Mayer and took a photo because I knew I would question what I saw later on.
So what happens at a more sedate cruise? I backed the power levers until we reached 78% load. The Austros eased their demand for fuel back to a combined 58 lph. With an indicated airspeed of 159 knots at 7500 feet, the day gave us a KTAS of 178. I doubt there is another standard 360-hp twin out there that would give that speed for such a miserly fuel flow.
Cutting number two
It has been said by people more learned than me, that when both engines are running, a twin flies just like a big single. Ironically, a twin-engined aeroplane is never more like a twin than when one engine is out of action. How it behaves with one engine inoperative (OEI) can make the difference between defining an aeroplane as a good twin or an ordinary twin.
By that measure, the DA62 is a great twin!
After Mayer shut down the right engine, I went through the usual "dead foot, dead engine" routine, expecting to have to give it a boot full to keep tracking on the mountain ahead. Instead, I was a relieved to find that the rudder forces needed were remarkably light, I would estimate about half to one-third of that of an older twin.
Moving onto Phase 2 of the engine failure procedure, it was time to secure the engine, which was completed, literally, with the flick of a switch: the engine master. With no ignition switch or mixture control, simply turning off the master does the job, even to the point of the automatic feathering function cutting in and feathering the prop.
Within few seconds, Mayer and I were cruising along happily with Number 2 now officially a passenger.
But the big asymmetric shock came with the ability of the DA62 to climb and maintain height easily during OEI ops. With the nose pointed above the alpine horizon, Mayer demonstrated that the aircraft would climb nicely at 500 fpm. With a OEI service ceiling of 13,000 feet, you're about 5000 feet over the peak of Mount Kosciuszko, so Australian pilots wouldn't have any need to fear hitting anything hard.
Return to earth
The landing was going to answer one outstanding question: how would the DA62 handle the 20-knot crosswind? Once Mayer pointed out to me that the maximum demonstrated was 25 knots, the question sort of evaporated.
According to the book, the landing roll is 390 m, and although I didn't get out and measure the distance to stop that day, I have no reason to suspect it wasn't in that ballpark.
With the Austros cooling down and the hatch open, Mayer naturally asked me what I thought of Diamond's latest twin.
I told him the company had redefined multi engine aeroplanes by using automation to take away the demons of asymmetric flight: ability to control easily and climb at a respectable rate when OEI. Going through my notes later on, I could have come to that conclusion without even testing the plane; the flying philosophies of Herr Christian Dries would not have allowed the DA62 to be anything but easy and relaxing to fly in all conditions.
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In a major change from standard online operating procedure, the Mozilla Foundation has announced it will soon by defaults turn off all third-party tracking in its signature web browser, Firefox. Mozilla vice president of Firefox product Nick Nguyen writes in a blog post:
“In the physical world, users wouldn’t expect hundreds of vendors to follow them from store to store, spying on the products they look at or purchase. Users have the same expectations of privacy on the web, and yet in reality, they are tracked wherever they go. Most web browsers fail to help users get the level of privacy they expect and deserve.”
The Internet is loaded with programs that track users. A study from the University of Washington in 2016 showed that at least 75 percent of the world’s 500 most popular websites contain web trackers. A study from 2017 by Ghostery, an add-on extension to Firefox that blocks trackers, showed that ten or more trackers that collect personal data were found on 21.3 percent of the sites analyzed in their study. The two companies doing the most tracking were found to be Google and Facebook.
All these trackers affect user experience, too, adding to load time to pages. According to Ghostery, 55.4 percent of the total time required to load an average website was spent loading third party trackers.
The Internet was not always like this. Only 5 percent of the Internet’s most popular sites had trackers in 1998, for example. When asked about sites that did not have trackers, “said at the time. “If you’ve ever been to it, it’s almost like a website from the 1990s, just a bunch of hyperlinks.”would fall in that category,” Ghostery’s Jeremy Tillman
Ngyuen appears to have been focused on tracking since his return to the nonprofit in 2015. Speaking in a company interview last year, he said, ““When you think about who’s building browsers, everyone else is actually in the business of monetizing the traffic’s tracks. As a browser backed by a non-profit company, can give you a more useful web that’s more fun and more discoverable.”
In the present, Ngyuen says that in September the nonprofit will add “a new feature in Firefox Nightly that blocks trackers that slow down page load.”If that performs well, it will be added to Firefox 63, which is expected to arrive on October 23.
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Japanese electronic component makers are looking beyond a fickle smartphone market that once lured them with rocketing growth, tying their fortunes more closely to the most resilient of Japan's big industries: automobiles.
Component makers such as Murata Manufacturing Co Ltd and TDK Corp are capitalising on rising demand for electronics like those that make cars safer with automatic braking or less polluting with engine controllers.
In contrast, Murata and others are having an up-and-down ride shipping components for Apple Inc's iPhones, while declining smartphone orders were a factor in January when TDK slashed its full-year operating profit forecast.
The auto industry offers a stable alternative, especially because of the enduring prominence of compatriot automakers such as global leader Toyota Motor Co. The value of electronic components per car will grow 26 percent over the decade to 2022, according to Fuji Chimera Research Institute.
But the payoff may not be as quick and will favour those with a longer history in the business.
"TDK and Murata were early to start working in automobiles and are strong there," said Manabu Akizuki, executive director at Nomura Securities. "Moving into automobiles is not so difficult but it takes 10 years to bear fruit."
Murata is the world's largest maker of ceramic capacitors used to control power supplies in electronic gadgets. It gets 40 percent of its sales from smartphones, including the iPhone for which it has been a major supplier since 2010.
Orders were hit earlier this year when Apple curbed output of the iPhone 5. It now aims to rely less on smartphones and boost autos' share of sales to 20 percent from 15 percent.
"Once we have products in place to expand our sales of power-supply parts, we expect to be able to generate growth that can match (that of our components for) smartphones," President Tsuneo Murata said in an interview last month.
Global smartphone demand is growing 30-40 percent a year, but this is likely to slow to 10-20 percent after about two years, he said.
Others in the industry also bemoan smartphone volatility.
"In December, (orders for the iPhone) were cut in half," said one senior executive who declined to be named. "Then they fell by half again. At that time, I thought: 'We'd be better off not doing this. The inventories just pile up.' It took four or five months to work them off. A smaller company would've gone under."
Murata has acquired several companies to bolster its position in autos, including Finnish microelectro-mechanical sensor maker VTI Technologies, bought in 2012 for 20 billion yen ($200 million). The sensors, which detect a car's movements, are used in stability control systems to prevent skidding that can cause accidents.
HYBRID AND ELECTRIC CARS
Hybrid and electric vehicles such as Tesla Motors Inc's all-electric Model S have multiplied the opportunities for electronics manufacturers, especially battery makers Panasonic Corp and Hitachi Ltd.
Batteries, motors, car navigation systems and other electronics account for 50 percent of the value of an electric-powered vehicle compared with 20 percent for a gasoline-powered car, according to estimates from the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.
"The value of electronic materials and parts per vehicle will increase by factors of 10 with electric-powered vehicles," said Moritaka Kamiya, head of TDK's auto sales division.
TDK, which began supplying magnets for windshield wiper motors in the 1960s, bought German electronic parts maker Epcos for 200 billion yen in 2009. That saddled it with a declining business supplying parts for Nokia Oyj mobile phones, but also gave it sensors for car air conditioners and expertise in component modules, which offer higher margins than parts sold separately.
Other electronic components makers targeting the auto sector include Rohm Co Ltd. It increased its share of revenue from autos by 2 percentage points to 25.6 percent in the fiscal first half, and in September announced a tie-up with Freescale Semiconductor Ltd's Japan unit to boost its overseas business.
Nidec Corp, like TDK, has seen its hard disk drive component business shrink because of declining PC demand. In consequence, it has shifted focus to automotive uses such as windshield wipers and power steering.
The investment necessary to enter the market is substantial, says Nomura's Akizuki, but the stakes promise to be considerable.
The total market for automotive electronics will almost double to 26 trillion yen in 2022 from 14 trillion yen in 2012, according to Fuji Chimera Research Institute.
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October 31, 2016
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Bay Area residents demand end to bank’s financing of controversial North Dakota Pipeline in daring protest.
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San Francisco, CA – This morning, a dozen people were arrested in a daring occupation of the Citigroup Center lobby in San Francisco’s Financial District. The protesters demanded that Citibank, one of the largest funders of the Dakota Access Pipeline, stop financing the highly destructive project. The action comes in direct response to the crackdown by North Dakota law enforcement of protest camps blocking the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline where 141 were violently arrested on Thursday.
“We are determined to prevent the pursuit of extreme energy from destroying our communities,natural systems and climate, therefore confrontational protests like the water protector camps are necessary actions for change,” said Corazon Amada of Diablo Rising Tide, at today’s action. “We stand in solidarity with those who stand up for us all.”
The Dakota Access Pipeline has made international headlines in the past month as thousands have gathered in encampments along the Missouri River to block construction of the 1,100 mile-long pipeline. The pipeline would carry fracked-oil from the Bakken shale fields of North Dakota through 4 states to Patoka, IL for dispersal to several different pipeline systems for eventual refining and overseas export. The effort has reported over different 100 tribes represented at the camps. The pipeline threatens the Missouri River, an important source of water for the Standing Rock Sioux.
“I am here today because Indigenous friends and allies in North Dakota are literally risking life and limb to stop this pipeline,” said Christy Tennery-Spalding of Diablo Rising Tide while risking arrest at today’s action. “Oil companies and banks like Citigroup do not care about clean water and clean air of impacted communities. These companies only motivation is profit and we’re here today to say, ‘NO MORE!’”
Citigroup is a lead arranger and lender to the project. In August, the bank arranged for a $2.5 billion loan to the collection of oil companies building the pipeline. Along with Citigroup, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Mizuho Bank, and TD Securities are major lenders of the project. Currently, Dakota Access can only withdraw $1.1 billion from these lenders until certain government permits are issued. | <urn:uuid:c6995458-fd7e-4026-8c42-db76da9b2122> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://risingtidenorthamerica.org/category/uncategorized/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280410.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00451-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.921189 | 537 | 1.539063 | 2 |
Suggested Pre-Workshop Readings
Below are some articles and books that may give you a feeling of what has recently been happening in China before coming to the Workshop:
Professor Yasheng Huang, author John Pomfret, and investment strategist Andy Rothman discuss the America-China relationship under the Trump admininstration, speaking on topics from Trump’s appeal to Chinese voters to predictions for Trump’s influence on global trade.
Tom Miller, senior Asia analyst and managing editor at Gavekal Research, discusses his new book, China’s Asian Dream: Empire Building Along the New Silk Road. Miller combines policy analysis with his on-the-ground reporting from over a dozen countries to better understand China’s most ambitious foreign policy: Xi Jinping’s signature Belt and Road Initiative.
This article illustrates the ubiquity of smartphone payment options in China, primarily Alipay and WeChat, and the effects of this change on the Chinese, and soon perhaps Western, way of life.
This article explores China’s efforts to increase food production in the face of an increasing population, food safety scandals, and changing daily diets.
Committee of 100
This article summarizes the significant findings in the “2016 US China Public Perceptions Survey” (below), specifically focusing on areas of mutual agreement and common concern between US and China.
Committee of 100
This survey aims to analyze American attitudes on various China-related socio-political issues, hoping to idenitfy “the most salient domestic issues in U.S.-China relations.” Accompanying graphs, charts, and visuals display the responses of a representative sample of the US population.
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom
Professor Wasserstrom provides cogent answers to the most urgent questions regarding the newest superpower and offers a framework for understanding its meteoric rise, covering everything from Confucius and Mao to internet censoriship and what to expect in China’s future.
Mr. Fish profiles youth from around the country and how they are navigating the education system, the workplace, divisive social issues, and a resurgence in activism. Based on interviews with scholars, journalists, and hundreds of young Chinese, his engrossing book challenges the idea that today’s youth have been pacified by material comforts and nationalism. | <urn:uuid:d4b74ed3-452a-41e0-9e41-c0edb4829680> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://teachers.1990institute.org/2017-pre-reads/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00469.warc.gz | en | 0.899092 | 513 | 1.71875 | 2 |
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