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Teachers are the second parents for many kids as they spend more time with them than their parents. Teachers can use various techniques to improve a child’s intellect using proven methods. Every kid needs language, cognitive, and relational skills to enhance their IQ.
Well-planned training imparted regularly and good education will help any kid improve their IQ score to a certain level. Teachers who spend more time with students can do a great job improving a child’s intellect.
Find the difference games
Children with low IQ often struggle to spot the difference between objects. They try hard to recognize the alphabets, understand the difference between the numbers, spot colors, etc. They work to understand core theoretical concepts as they reach the higher class.
Training such students in playing simple find the difference games will make a drastic positive difference. The difference guru website has a plethora of content regarding finding the difference, differentiating between deer tick and wood tick to insect tick and tick mark indicating right answer, etc.
Children who struggle to learn directly will find it interesting to remember doing something extra like comparing or spotting the difference, increasing their interest in the study, and training their brain better.
Music lessons help children who lack in studies improve to a certain level. Researchers say understanding the notes is easy for many kids who fail to decipher spoken words or alphabets. Music appeals to the brain’s creative side rather than the reasoning side, and kids find it easy to follow the lessons.
Taking music lessons frequently and following the notes automatically trains them to listen better in the classroom and grasp academic concepts better than before. Teachers should try to engage the children with low IQ in taking music classes to help them comprehend their studies better.
Most of the kids with weak IQ struggle with comprehension and sometimes with spelling. Some kids do well in their studies, but they have low IQ because they fail to develop their language skills. They cannot express themselves because of the language block.
Teachers should encourage the children to play simple language games. Ask them how a particular cartoon character, friend, and teacher will say the same thing. Their friend will tell them to be quiet, while the teacher will say the word silence assertively, and the cartoon character will say don’t talk stylishly.
Children playing such games will start to note the way language gets used in different ways to communicate the same message. It will help them express themselves in several ways.
Kids love comparison games and often stick around for such activities rather than do homework. Make them compare simple things like a desk, a chair or a light bulb, and an electrical switch. Ask them to say what color it is, how it looks, what it gets used for etc.
The kid will say the light switch is small, and the light bulb is huge, the chair is red, the desk is black, etc. Comparison games help the kids to relate their textbook knowledge to real-life and improve their IQ substantially.
Some kids do well in visuospatial training like using the maze, putting together a prism, or dealing with 3-D models. For some reason, such activities appeal more to male children than female children. Kids struggling with math often start doing better after they get introduced to visuospatial training.
Kids with low IQ who struggle to count from one to ten can easily set up molecular structures with a perfect ball count in each section. Visuospatial training is a bit hard to provide in the classroom setup. But teachers can arrange for kids with weak IQs to have a weekend session or once in a fortnight session of such classes to improve their knowledge. | <urn:uuid:5b85a20e-2d7c-4dec-b0db-ef849849a546> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.managementexchange.com/story/what-techniques-can-teachers-implement-improve-iq-score-kids | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808213349-20220809003349-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.945521 | 757 | 3.515625 | 4 |
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This Curriculum Area Project, ENL Reading Wonders Supplemental Curriculum, is grade 1 curriculum to be used alongside with the Grade 1 Reading Wonders program being implemented in regular education classrooms throughout the year. This curriculum focuses on Units 3, 4, and 5 (Weeks 1-5). Weekly Concepts and Essential Questions from Reading Wonders were used to create additional lessons that will reinforce standards and content necessary to be successful in the regular classroom. Through exploration of fiction and nonfiction texts, students will strengthen their language skills through practicing new vocabulary words, engaging in guided reading lessons, utilizing ELL books, practicing their grammar and writing skills, and phonics. This curriculum is aligned with Common Core Learning Standards.
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The change of food is bound to change the qualities of your physical body. Food is not just energy, it is also a qualitative thing. Food is not just a fuel, it contributes more than fuel -- it gives you either transparency, or non-transparency. The insight into this phenomenon can mutate, and you can have altogether a different type of body. And it is not so difficult to change this body, because the body is a flux, every moment changing itself; it is a process, it is not a static thing. The moment you came here, you had another body; now the body has changed. It is changing constantly, every moment; it is riverlike, moving and changing -- it is not a static thing.
Meditation makes more human, more of the heart, and we can see the whole stupidity of people killing living beings for their food. It is their sensitivity, their aesthetic awareness that makes them vegetarians.
it is a by-product of meditation. Wherever meditation has happened, people have become vegetarian, always, for thousands of years.
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Anyone who is a parent or has looked after a small child will be familiar with the dreaded moment when a toddler tells you, “I didn’t do anything.” Once you hear these words, it’s a sure bet that you will find food on the floor, toys smashed to pieces or crayon scrawls on the wall. But it’s not just kids that employ these naively transparent methods, politicians are pretty adept at using them too.
Graffiti by Absent
It was, therefore, pretty easy to see through the government’s spin doctors this week as they insisted that the issue of debt restructuring did not come up at all during a meeting in Athens between Prime Minister George Papandreou and renowned financier George Soros. Visiting George did not mention the subject even once, government sources told journalists.
Posted in Economy, European Union, Greece, Greek politics
Tagged Bruegel, Competitiveness, Debt restructuring, Der Spiegel, Dimitris Vayanos, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, EU, European Commission, European Union, George Soros, Greece, Greece competitiveness, Greece debt restructuring, Greece haircuts, Greece reforms, Greek bonds, Greek debt, Greek economy, IMF, International Monetary Fund, London School of Economics, Sovereign debt crisis, Zsolt Darvas
- Illustration by Manos Symeonakis
Every year, Greece celebrates its independence on March 25. It marks the date when the revolution against Ottoman rule began in 1821. This March 25, though, the proposition of Greece standing on its own will not seem so attractive. Should the European Union leaders’ summit on March 24-25 end in disappointment — as many expect it to — debt-stricken Greece will be left dangerously isolated.
Prime Minister George Papandreou has spent the last few weeks furiously trying to cultivate contacts with his European counterparts — including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and European Council President Herman Van Rompuy — in the hope they might be able to sway opinions ahead of the March 25 summit and a meeting of leaders from eurozone countries on Friday, March 11.
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Wednesday, February 25, 2015
Is Faith missing from Evangelisation?
We, a few clergy, had a discussion on evangelisation recently, we often do, and I always come away feeling uneasy, as if something is wrong, something is missing.
The thing is we were not talking about evangelisation but increasing or retaining Church membership, even for Catholics there is a difference. Yes, the Church is the Body of Christ, coming to Mass, receiving the Body of Christ, being the Body of Christ is important but all of that comes about because of faith, which is deep trust in the person of Jesus Christ.
"When the Son of Man comes will he find any faith on earth?" Jesus asks, and the disciples in turn ask Him to increase their faith. One gets the impression in St John's Gospel especially that Jesus works miracles so that the disciple might increase in faith. It is easier to talk about schools or programmes, social functions, deepening knowledge, participation, lay involvement, or even theology, devotions or prayer, anything but Jesus Christ himself.
Catholics are often a bit perplexed when Protestants talk about 'a personal relationship with Jesus Christ', some Catholics are much happier with a personal relationship with the Church and they can recite documents and Popes, Councils and Catechisms but seem to be dead as far as faith is concerned. I suspect this is why the current Sovereign Pontiff, as a Jesuit has a bit of a downer especially on young seminarians, younger priests and 'traddies' in general, as well as leprous courtiers, curial officials, old maids etc., the list is quite long.
St Ignatius of Loyola was very much into the spirituality of a personal encounter with the person of Jesus, not just in 'The Exercises', but in the entire formation of his novices, for example the pilgrimage to Manresa, were they were sent out like the first disciples and taught to rely on Providence. The early Jesuits were outstanding men of faith, no religious order seems to have had so many canonised saints at its foundation, nor such a variety of different kinds of men, from St. Francis Xavier to St. Peter Favre or St. Francis Borgia to St. Aloysius Gonzaga. What they all have in common is a personal 'humanistic faith', in that Renaissance sense of Catholic of spirituality, in the person of Jesus Christ.
I think this is what our beloved Holy Father is prodding and kicking us, at time even painfully beating us into accepting. I know many clergy find this a deeply painful time and unsettling, I admit I do myself, old certainties vanish like smoke, many of us feel a real impoverishment. It is like those nobly born Iberian novices sent out on the road with nothing, to rub shoulders with the not necessarily friendly poor and to learn to trust in the Providence of the Good God. Francis' oft repeated "poorer Church for the poor", is incomprehensible apart from what 'poverty' has always really meant in Catholic Tradition: possessing nothing but Christ.
Evangelisation is surely about teaching us to live by faith, to trust the promises of Christ to 'set out into the deep', as St John Paul used to teach, rather like St Francis Xavier going to the East or those evangelist of the New World going to lands and cultures they did not know where everything was unknown and uncertain, with Christ the only thing that was sure and certain. Pope Benedict gives the example of living by faith, as being cast adrift in a turbulent sea with nothing to cling to but the rough wood of the Cross.
The great problem is that of course in the cold wet misery of the turbulent sea it is easy to become so numb that one looses grip of the rough wood. Amongst the third or fourth generation of Jesuit novice masters, it was not unusual for their better formation and to teach deeper detachment, for them to persuade bands of peasants to rough up young novices just a little. In such situations either one looses what passed for faith or it grows, fortunately God holds onto us even if we feel we are loosing grip of Him.
Evangelisation is not about external structures but interior transformation, not trusting in princes, even of the Church, but in Jesus. For many Catholics the last fifty years have been about stripping faith away and replacing it with human reasoning. The movement towards October's Synod is prime example, it is in today's world very reasonable to admit the divorced and remarried or those in homosexual relationships to Holy Communion but faith, and maybe faith alone, compels us to hold fast to the words of Jesus Christ that divorce and remarriage are adultery and homosexual acts are gravely sinful. Faith, and perhaps faith alone, that demands us to warn those who approach Holy Communion in an objective state of sin that they in the words of St Paul are likely to die and 'eat and drink their condemnation'.
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New Zealand has a long history of tolerance and understanding. Indeed, we go even further than that with the recognition that our society should respect a diverse range of cultures and peoples as we act as a positive international citizen.
Against that backdrop, there is a global refugee crisis. Conflicts across the Middle East and more have torn family’s apart, left futures uncertain and have begged for a more concerted response from the global community.
United Future believes New Zealand needs to do more in the light of this crisis and must rethink our current position on refugees. That stance should be more comprehensive than the central government proscribing a particular number of refugees that are allowed to come to our shores.
We have a near political consensus that we need to do more towards this crisis. Further, we can see a wide range of community groups and local governments becoming actively involved in proposing solutions and support for any move to bring on more refugees who are in need of our help.
The current refugee crisis should be seen as an opportunity to not only meets our moral obligations as an international citizen, but also to solve problems in our own country. For example, we can already see local governments saying that they have vacancies for employment; why not explore settling people in need of such employment in those areas?
Moreover, we can see family members of refugees who already live here being faced with the deplorable situation that some of their family are to be trapped in a part of the world where their future is both uncertain but may also be at risk. These situations beg for action from a country that can afford to reunite such families together again.
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Are you maximizing the productivity of your induction cap sealer?
Finding the best cap sealer for your application might not be as simple as you think. With the introduction of several new models over the past few years you have more choices than ever before. And your choices aren't only limited to the cap sealer's power supply and sealing head. New options and features can add value and productivity to your investment.
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There appears to be a misconception in the packaging industry concerning the relationship between the kilowatt ratings of induction sealing systems and sealing capability. While it is true that a higher kilowatt rating means a more powerful system, this doesn't necessarily result in higher sealing rates.
Future of Induction Sealing: Trends & Developments Report
Sustainability, ease of use, productivity & anti-counterfeiting top the list in this insightful report from Mary Ann Falkman. Discover how material & equipment developments are driving change in the packaging industry. Read more courtesy of Enercon …
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Teachers like to say there’s no such thing as a "dumb" question. And when it comes to induction sealing I’ve heard them all. In this article I’ll answer some of the more common questions.
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In order to get a good hermetic seal, it's necessary for the foil innerseal, inside of the cap, to be in contact with the lip of the container and have consistent pressure around the circumference. This is accomplished by applying the cap with the correct application torque.
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Today, “there is a kind of exhilaration here,” says Ed Ray, president of Oregon State University, one of several leaders who helped screen Crew for the post. “It’s pretty exciting that we’re not just tagging along and being woeful. … No other state is trying to do what we’re doing.”
A lesson in doing things ‘the Oregon way’ (Statesman Journal)
In an insightful and inspiring speech at Oregon State University last week, Wheeler talked of what it meant to be an Oregonian, to do things “the Oregon way.”
Moore Family Center grand opening set for June 6 (The Lund Report)
OSU-discovered compound could keep buildings cool (Sustainable Business Oregon)
Some species of butterflies likely to be less adaptable to climate change (Portland Tribune)
“We’re already expecting localized extinctions of about one third of butterfly species, so we need to understand how climate change will affect those that survive,” said Javier Illan, with OSU’s Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society.
Board of Higher Education approves 3.4% tuition hike (Portland Business Journal)
Tuition at Oregon’s seven public universities now averages $6,570 per year for undergraduates. (See also: Oregonian)
Big Changes in College Health Plans (Wall Street Journal)
Oregon State University currently arranges a plan for students but doesn’t require them to carry coverage. Last year, when the plan covered up to $50,000 in benefits, it cost $2,421 for 12 months, a figure that the school expects to rise.
Developers unveil student housing plan for Sather property (Corvallis Gazette-Times)
The 33-acre parcel, which wraps around the OSU Foundation property to the north of Western Boulevard and west of 35th Street, is just outside the city limits. (See also: KTVZ)
Singing In The Rain: Technology Improves Monitoring Of Bird Sounds (NSF’s Science 360)
Researchers have created a computer technology that can listen to multiple bird sounds at one time to identify which species are present and how they may be changing as a result of habitat loss or climate change.
Does this smell tasty? OSU research says your nose knows (Portland Tribune)
“Vanilla has no taste at all,” says Juyun Lim, an OSU assistant professor of food science and technology.
NEW! Forestry Dean Forums: The OSU community is invited to attend the campus forums for finalists for the Cheryl Ramberg & Allyn C. Ford Deanship of Forestry, held 10:45 a.m. to noon at Richardson Hall 107, as follows: Steve Kelley, North Carolina State University, June 4; Barry Goldfarb, North Carolina State University, June 6; and Thomas Maness, OSU, June 11. Campus forums will be recorded and posted online June 12.
COB Faculty Retirement: Please join the College of Business for a retirement celebration honoring Carol Brown and Jack Drexler on Monday, June 4 from 3-5 p.m. at Bexell 202. Information: 541-737-2219.
Recreational Sports Memberships: Summer Memberships and Locker Rentals will be available for purchase starting June 4 at the Recreational Services Desk, (541) 737-3736. To see if a friend or spouse is eligible for membership, view our membership types page.
NEW! Spring Chorale: University Chorale will hold its spring concert at noon Thursday, June 7, in the Kelley Engineering Center Atrium. The group is a mixed chorus of students, faculty, staff and community members. Selections for the spring concert focus on issues of war and peace. Free admission.
NEW! CL@SE Forum: All are invited to an open forum about the new OSU Center for Latin@ Studies and Engagement (CL@SE) on Wednesday, June 13, 3:30-5 p.m. in the MU Journey Room. Meet the Center’s leadership, learn about CL@SE, upcoming events, and discuss how you can engage with CL@SE.
NEW! Evening Public Sale at the OSUsed Store. The OSUsed Store is open for our monthly evening public sale Wednesday, 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at 644 SW 13th St. Departments may shop weekdays 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. with the exception of Wednesday mornings; personal purchases may only be made during public sale hours. For more information, visit our website.
Bennys: 14th Annual Bennys, honoring the achievements of student-athletes, is June 5 at 5:30 p.m. in Gill Coliseum. $20 per person; dress is business casual. For tickets call 541-737-2370.
Beaver Store Event: The OSU Beaver Store is welcoming the community to a ceremonial groundbreaking event on June 5 from 1-2 p.m. on the ground level of the parking garage across from Reser Stadium. The event will feature remarks from OSU President Ed Ray and displays of designs and renderings for the new 50,000 sq. ft. flagship store. Refreshments served.
Vet Event: Clients of the OSU Veterinary Teaching Hospital are invited to join us in celebrating the 10,000th pet to visit our Small Animal Clinic. We will have goodies, giveaways, and hospital tours. Tuesday, June 5, 5:30 – 7 p.m., Small Animal Clinic lobby, 700 SW 30th St., Corvallis. (Although we love your furry friends, please leave them at home.)
Moore Center Opening: The College of Public Health and Human Sciences invites the OSU community to the official opening of the Moore Family Center for Whole Grain Foods, Nutrition and Preventive Health, honoring Charlee and Bob Moore of Bob’s Red Mill, and the announcement of its new endowed director. The reception will be held from 2:15-3:30 p.m. June 6 in the Hallie E. Ford Center.
Procrastinators Unite: The Pride Center at OSU is offering end of term study tables, as well as a social area with comfy couches and chairs, plus yogurt parfaits, from 7-10 p.m. June 5-7.
Lectures and Seminars
Horticulture Spring Seminar Series: June 5, 4 p.m. Speaker: Michael Russell, OSU Horticulture Graduate Student, “Management of caneberry production landscapes to provide resources for beneficial insects” ALS 4000.
News for Employees
NEW! Recycling Tip of the Week: Composting at OSU. Did you know that Campus Recycling can help you compost in your department? Options include using compost drop points or receiving and maintaining a worm bin. You can also compost by choosing to dine at an OSU restaurant that composts, or bringing your compost to a drop point on campus. Learn more on Campus Recycling’s blog.
NEW! Retirement Reception: You are invited to a Retirement Reception for Connie Braaten, 3-4:30 p.m. on Friday, June 8, in the Memorial Union Main Lounge. If you cannot attend, you may send well wishes at the MU Guest Services office, 112 MU or email@example.com. Or contact Connie directly at 737-6253 or email at Connie.firstname.lastname@example.org through June 29, 2012.
NEW! Dads Weekend Game: Oregon State University students may begin purchasing Dad’s Weekend tickets Mon., June 4 for the Nov. 3 football game against Arizona State at Reser Stadium. Students and parents may purchase up to two tickets. Tickets are available by calling 1-800-GO-BEAVS and can also be purchased at the Ticket Office in Gill Coliseum, Room 107.
Insurance Coverage: Beginning July 1, OSU must begin providing its own insurance coverage. No longer will the Oregon Department of Administrative Services take care of insuring OSU’s employees, equipment and property. Faculty and staff who may need to insure equipment or property, or who oversee activity groups of students should go to this website as a starting point: http://risk.oregonstate.edu/
TIAA-CREF Counseling: If you would like to schedule a one-on-one consultation with Shane Roghaar, TIAA-CREF Financial Counselor, he will be on campus for individual consultations on June 6 & 7. Shane can answer your questions regarding the Tax Deferred Investment and Optional Retirement Programs. To sign up, please call (800) 732-8353 or schedule Online.
Student Resident Promotion: University Housing and Dining Services is pleased to provide a free promotional opportunity for OSU affiliated offices, clubs or student groups again this fall. UHDS will accept posters and fliers for placement in residence halls and cooperative houses just prior to student resident arrival this fall, Sept. 3-13. To participate, please contact (541) 737-5622 or email@example.com
To apply for the below positions, visit http://jobs.oregonstate.edu unless otherwise specified:
Analyst Programmer 2 – University Housing & Dining Services invites applications for a full-time, 12-month, Analyst Programmer, competency level 2 position. Posting # 0009044. Closes June 4.
Department of Forest Ecosystems & Society is hiring two Research Associate Post Doc positions in tree floral biology/biotechnology and outreach. Posting #0008912 & #0008910. Full consideration: May 14. Closes June 4.
Research Analyst 2 -The Office of Sponsored Programs invites applications for a full-time, 12-month, Research Analyst 2 position. Posting #0009088. Closes June 6.
Public Information Representative 2 – College of Public Health and Human Sciences invites applications for a full-time, 12-month Public Information Representative 2 position. Posting #0009046. Closes June 8.
The University Library is accepting applications for an full-time, tenure track annual Associate Professor position. Posting #0009031. Closes June 10.
Printing & Mailing Services invites applications for a full-time Administrative Program Assistant position. Posting #0009090. Closes June 12.
The Office of Business Affairs are accepting applications for a full-time, Accountant 1 position. Posting 0009093. Closes June 12.
Accounting Technician, Arts and Sciences Business Center, F/T, 12-month, classified position. Posting #0009117. Closes June 14.
College of Business is recruiting for a full-time Finance instructor to teach 2012/2013 academic year. Posting # 0007284. Closes June 15.
Recreational Sports is seeking applicants for a full-time, 12-month Fitness Services and Education Coordinator position. We seek creative initiative with a passion for fitness. Posting #0009071. Closes: June 15.
The Office of Business Affairs is accepting applications for a full-time Accountant 1 position. Posting #0009119. Closes June 18.
Information Services – Media Services Central Web Services invites applications for a full-time, 12-month, fixed term Project Manager-Business Analyst position. Posting # 0008908. Closes June 30.
Work/Life Coordinator – The Office of Academic Affairs invites applications for a full-time, 12-month, fixed-term Work/Life Coordinator position. Posting #0009070. Review of applications will begin on June 6, closes June 30.
Three open rank faculty searches in genomics and systems biology. The positions are: Nucleic Acid Sequence Bioinformatics, Posting#0009027; Systems Biology of Host-Microbe Interactions Posting #0009034; Applied Discrete Mathematics in Systems Biology #0009025. Full consideration: June 30. Closes July 30.
The OSU Foundation is currently recruiting for the position of Administrative Assistant for Donor Relations/Special Events in the Corvallis office. This position provides high level administrative assistance and support to the Donor Relations and Special Events team. Send cover letter and resume to Fran Judy, Sr. HR Coordinator, OSU Foundation.
Traffic and Maintenance
Campus Wide: Due to annual maintenance on the campus steam distribution system, Facilities Services will need to temporarily shut down all steam services to campus from June 18-21. This will affect all hot water and heating services.
Corvallis: Summer is teasing us just a little, with temperatures hovering at a chilly 60 today. Showers expected through Wednesday.
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Spending the time to prepare your semi-truck for winter prevents unnecessary accidents and breakdowns from happening, which means less time in the shop and more time hauling loads and making earnings. Most winter-weather-related failures can be avoided with a thorough checkup and targeted dose of preventive maintenance before temperatures dip. Tips: TEST YOUR COOLANT Most coolant manufacturers specify product life at 24 months. If your coolant is older, flush the system and replace the coolant. Even if the coolant hasn’t reached the two-year mark, use a refractometer or hydrometer and test strips to find out whether the freeze point is adequate and the coolant is preventing aeration, corrosion and cavitation. MAINTAIN THE ENGINE-BLOCK HEATER The block heater keeps the engine warm overnight and increases chances the engine will start well in cold temperatures. Compared with gas engines, diesel engines have a more difficult time starting in cold weather because they need higher cylinder temperatures. PREPARE THE WINDSHIELDS If your windshield wiper fluid is getting low, refill it and switch to a cold temperature blend. Ensure your windshield wipers are working properly and invest in a new set if they aren’t. CLEAN THE AIR TANKS Check your air dryer to ensure it’s functioning properly and inspect it for leaks and corrosion. You can clean your air tanks by removing the drain plugs and allowing them to dry. Your air dryer stops water from icing over brake lines, so it’s important to keep the air dryer in good condition. EXAMINE COOLANT HEATERS AND OIL HEATERS Improve cold weather engine startability and decrease engine wear in extremely cold environments (temperatures below 11 degrees Fahrenheit for extended periods). CHECK YOUR TIRES Check each tire to make sure they are properly inflated, have plenty of tread left and don’t have any cracks or degraded rubber.
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Part of the Research Program on: Protest, Justice and Deliberative Power, 1st International Symposium
Publié le mardi 09 décembre 2014 par Céline Guilleux
This trans-disciplinary research project aims to study the distinct and multiple forces that are currently reshaping political systems and challenging the fundamental structures of democratic life and political democracy all over the world.
This trans-disciplinary research project aims to study the distinct and multiple forces that are currently reshaping political systems and challenging the fundamental structures of democratic life and political democracy, all over the world.
The global political environment of the early 21st century has been marked by two distinct yet interlaced phenomena. On the one hand, we are witnessing world-wide revolutions, of Arab Springs, Outraged (Indignados), Occupy Movements, incessant International Solidarity and Awareness Campaigns; interconnected activism, interlaced protest and political contestation of all sorts. On the other, there is a growing perception and emerging generalized sense that exclusive elites of very powerful and wealthy people govern the destiny of a disenfranchised and impoverished majority.
Worldwide, there are constant and systematic calls for the expansion and the re-invigoration of democracy; a global outcry for more, different and real democracy comes at a time when the institutions that are supposed to represent the will of the people are disconnected from and out of touch with the world and life experienced by citizens on a day to day basis. The very idea of democracy seems to be in crisis; these new times create new challenges to the structures of politics, bring new questions to the forms of representation and demand new, distinct and creative solutions for the possibility of legitimate governance.
For many, this is an exciting period of change and formation, of new and vibrant forms of political subjectivities and participation. For others, it is a time to defend old conceptions of authority and politics, whether democratic or not. Yet for others, this very same period is lived with fear and under conditions of intimidation, repression and lack of opportunities. Political change is sweeping the world over, but the direction, effects and consequences vary dramatically from context to context and from peoples to peoples.
We invite colleagues and activists from all disciplines and professions interested in exploring and seeking explanations to these issues in a collective, deliberative and dialogical environment to send presentation proposals which address these general questions or the following themes:
1. Democracy, Ethics and Globalization
- Are we witnessing the globalizing of democracy, the democratizing of globalization or neither? What would these trends mean and what would be their significant differences?
- What role does ethics have to play in assessing processes of globalization at local and international levels? What role should it play?
- How can democratic processes of representation, deliberation and participation be re-energized? How can they be taken seriously, made legitimate again, redirected and recalibrated?
- How can democracies deal and manage with the growing phenomenon of “sans-papiers”, the “transient” and “the no-ones?” How are global migratory flows forcing us to re-conceive of democracy and the politics of belonging?
- How can human need and environmental values be balanced in 21st century democracies? What are the ethical challenges of sustainability?
- How do we define democracy in an interconnected world where competing representations of the good life inevitably collide? Should we redefine democracy under different global and ethical premises?
2. Empathy and Emancipatory Subjectivities
- What new means and measures are open for selves to find others in the global Agora? How are intercultural encounters with self and other framing conflicts? How are they re-envisioning ideals and images of justice?
- What are both destructive and creative tensions participating in the social constructions of collective identities?
- How do we expand democratic horizons and political inclusiveness? How can we fight against stereotypes, forms of modern slavery, marginalization of migrants and foreigners? How can we participate in making the disenfranchised political agents of change, active participants of decisions and sources of cultural richness?
- How are new social media and social networks re-framing our sense of belonging to political community and movements? How are technology and inter-subjectivity fuelling the articulation of new networks of resistance and change?
3. Economy, Distribution of Wealth and Democracy
- What alternative spaces, procedures and forms for democracy are we witnessing? How are new social movements and global protest forcing us to consider a bottom-up re-articulation of globalization and to rethink north-south global relations?
- How are economies of war and new forms of economic and political destabilization giving rise to new forms of oppression and exclusion in the global context?
- What are the new cartographies of political marginalization and repression, of poverty and anxiety, of migration and economic misery in the 21st century?
- The hyper-concentration of wealth and the generalized impoverishment of majorities have divided territories, nations and the world in a wealthy 1% versus a 99% of struggling people: What new trans-cultural movements and networks are searching for alternative models and creating the conditions for new economic growth and equal development?
4. Borders, Nations and Supranational Institutions
- With the recent collapse of global financial institutions and the erosion of national sovereignty, how is the nation being reconceived? Is it being transformed to encompass new forms civic resistance or is it being built as a fortress of reactionary politics?
- How are supranational political organizations (United Nations, European Union and the like) responding to new political challenges and the need to renew and reinvigorate democracy?
- With increasing flows of people crossing borders, with new levels of migration and both up and non rootedness framing lived experience, what policies of inclusive and exclusive citizenship are being enacted? How is this changing the very idea of political participation and belonging, citizenship and nation?
- The politics of environmental risk and the realities of the global financial crisis are making evident our need to rethink our understanding of negotiation and responsibility in a world scenario. More specifically, they demand recognizing how interlaced territories, regions and the life of people are, and require rethinking the nature of borders and frontiers. What new models of sovereignty can be offered to address these global phenomena?
- Are we entering the era of Democracy 2.0? How is participatory democracy being re-envisioned? What is the role of social networks in the articulation of regional and cosmopolitan citizenship?
- What does it mean today to belong to a multicultural nation? Who defines where a nation begins and where it ends? How can we come to terms and accept multiple belongings, multiple citizenships?
5. Art, Creativity and Democracy
- How might art be considered a democratic strategy? How might it be employed to develop both local narratives and global concerns for empowerment and social change?
- Is art politics by other means? Should it be considered and evaluated as such?
- New technologies, cyberspace and the transformation of culture: Is the commodification of space by the cultural industry being contested? How and to what effect?
- What artistic representations of placelessness, dislocation and trauma in the new geographies of exclusion are being developed?
- How is art, globally and locally, representing the new emerging political subject; the need and demands for political democratic renovation?
- How might art be employed to engage the public in environmental dialogue? What is the relationship between art, activism and civic life?
- Art offers a means for advancing democratic ideals, but how can more democratic conceptions of art be developed?
If you are interested in participating in this Annual Symposium, submit a 400 to 500 word abstract as soon as possible and no later than
Thursday 16th of April, 2015.
(For justifiable cases, we do uphold a tolerance period of eight days.)
Please use the following template for your submission:
Second: Affiliation, if any;
Third: Email Address;
Fourth: Title of Abstract and Proposal;
Fifth: The 400 to 500 Word Abstract.
To submit an abstract online follow these steps:
- Go to our webpage: www.alternative-academia.net
- Select your Symposium of choice within the list of annual events (listed by period and city)
- Go to LOG IN at the top of the page
- Create a User Name and Password for our system and log in
- Click on the Call for Papers for the Symposium
- Go to the end of the Call for Papers page and click on the First Step of Submission Process button
- Follow the instructions provided for completing the abstract submission process
For every abstract proposal submitted, we acknowledge receipt. If you do not receive a reply from us within three days, you should assume the submission process was not completed successfully. Please try again or contact our technical support for clarifications.
All presentation and paper proposals that address these questions and issues will be fully considered and evaluated. Evaluation of abstract submissions will be ongoing, from the opening date of Wednesday 29th of October, 2014. All Prospective Delegates can expect a reply time to their submission of three weeks.
Accepted abstracts will require a full draft paper by Thursday 7th of May, 2015. Papers are for a 20 minute presentation, 8 to 10 pages long, double spaced, Times New Roman 12. All papers presented at the symposium are eligible for publication as part of a digital or paperback book.
We invite colleagues and people interested in participating to disseminate this call for papers. Thank you for sharing and cross-listing where and whenever appropriate.
- Antonio Cuadrado-Fernandez, Independent Researcher, Ecopoetry Instructor, Norwich, England, Email: email@example.com
- Marina Kaneti, PhD Candidate, Politics, New School for Social Research, New York, New York, Email: firstname.lastname@example.org
- Alejandro Cervantes-Carson, General Coordinator, International Network for Alternative Academia, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, Email: email@example.com
Alternative Academia is an international network of intellectuals, academics, independent scholars and practitioners committed to creating spaces, both within and beyond traditional academe, for creative, trans-disciplinary and critical thinking. The Network serves to facilitate experimental and collaborative encounters that blur the boundaries and broaden the limits of how issues, themes and ideas can be articulated and reconfigured. Dialogue, discussion and deliberation define both the methods employed and the ethics upheld by this network.
Our annual symposia are forums that foster the development of new frames of reference and innovative structures for the production and expansion of knowledge. These meetings are small in scale, intensely interactive and based on a dialogical model of academic engagement throughout the entire period of each symposium. All delegates are presenters and constitute a critical and engaged audience for all delegate presentations.
INAA is an independent, autonomous and not for profit organization, based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Registration Number: ESG65895088.
- Études du politique (Catégorie principale)
- Sociétés > Études du politique > Sciences politiques
- Sociétés > Études du politique > Histoire politique
- Sociétés > Études du politique > Mouvements politiques et sociaux
- Sociétés > Études du politique > Sociologie politique
- Sociétés > Études du politique > Politiques et actions publiques
- Sociétés > Géographie > Géographie : politique, culture et représentation
- Sociétés > Études du politique > Institutions politiques
- Betahaus BCN - Carrer de Vilafranca 7, Gràcia
Barcelone, Espagne (08024)
- jeudi 16 avril 2015
- Democracy, political culture, Political change, Social movement, legitimacy
- Alejandro Cervantes-Carson
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We were studying guidance at the meeting today, this stood out to me;
Baha’u’llah’s teachings testify to the nobility of the human spirit. The society He envisions is one worthy of that nobility and founded on principles that guard and reinforce it. The oneness of the human family He places at the core of collective life; the equality of women and men He unequivocally asserts. He reconciles the seemingly counteracting forces of our own age-science and religion, unity and diversity, freedom and order, individual rights and social responsibilities. And among His greatest gifts is justice, manifested in institutions whose concern is for the progress and development of all peoples. In His own words, He has “blotted out from the pages of God’s holy Book whatsoever hath been the cause of strife, of malice and mischief amongst the children of men” and, concurrently, “laid down the essential prerequisites of concord, of understanding, of complete and enduring unity”. Might one not ask, what would be a befitting response to such gifts?
October 2017 Universal House of Justice
The answer that resonates with me is obedience!
We discussed how some have taken the letters of the Universal House of Justice as suggestions, just as in the past they took directives from The Guardian as suggestions, and before him Abdu’l-Bahá.
The House of Justice is the center of the Covenant! This gift is unmatched in history. To the best of our ability and understanding, as Bahá’ís, we should be obedient to the directives of The Universal House of Justice and the laws of the faith. | <urn:uuid:03715ac8-aa25-456b-9840-595a13f5d267> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bahaiunityblog.wordpress.com/2017/11/19/reflection-meeting/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00078.warc.gz | en | 0.957006 | 339 | 2.125 | 2 |
Celebrant: Our Lord commands us not to be distressed or fearful. With confident trust, then, we bring our needs to him.
That the Pope and bishops, as successors of the apostles, may clearly teach and lovingly guide the Church, we pray to the Lord...
That all who have been baptized and received into the Church this Easter may grow in the Risen Life of Christ, we pray to the Lord...
That nations may set aside their conflicts and call upon the Name of the Lord of Life, Justice, and Peace, we pray to the Lord...
That Christ's farewell gift of peace may be preserved through a renewed respect and protection for every human life, we pray to the Lord...
For all students who are completing their academic year, that they may use the knowledge and skill they attain to serve God's people in truth and justice, we pray to the Lord...
For comfort to all who are ill, and eternal rest to all who have died, we pray to the Lord...
you have made your dwelling with us.
Hear our prayers, fulfill our needs,
and grant us your salvation.
We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.
The Creator's Eternal Dream
Pope Francis, in his Apostolic Exhortation "The Joy of Love," writes, "The Psalmist says: “You knit me together in my mother’s womb” (Ps 139:13). Every child growing within the mother’s womb is part of the eternal loving plan of God the Father: “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you” (Jer 1:5). Each child has a place in God’s heart from all eternity; once he or she is conceived, the Creator’s eternal dream comes true. Let us pause to think of the great value of that embryo from the moment of conception. We need to see it with the eyes of God, who always looks beyond mere appearances." (AL, 168)
Acts 15:1-2, 22-29
Rv 21:10-14, 22-23
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The readings today instruct us that as a fruit of the Resurrection, we enjoy the presence of Christ forever, through his Holy Spirit. That Spirit both enlightens us interiorly and as a society, bringing about peace and right relationships.
The truth that the Spirit brings, first of all, is one with the word of Jesus and the Father, as the Gospel passage explains. No “new gospel” can come along under the purported inspiration of the Spirit. No such inspiration will contradict the settled teachings of the Church. Jesus says the Spirit will “remind” us of what he said. Such reminders are necessary as we journey through history, and through periods, as in our day, when certain trends obscure fundamental truths, such as that of the sanctity of life. When influences in society like the decisions of government or the messages of mass media line up against the sanctity of life, the Spirit “reminds” the faithful and the Church of the truth about life and how it is to be respected.
The Spirit guides not only individuals, in whom God resides (as the Gospel passage indicates), but also the community, as the first reading demonstrates. Moreover, the guidance, or light, of God will be the center of the community in the world to come. That is why the Second Reading indicates that there is “no need of sun or moon to shine on” the new Jerusalem, because “the glory of God gave it light and its lamp was the Lamb.” The truth of God is what holds his people together, and brings the peace of which Jesus speaks in the Gospel. This truth is the foundation of the right relationships between us, including our relationships with the youngest and most vulnerable members of the human family. | <urn:uuid:ab4fb2ba-c7b0-408a-b50d-a31f9398a22a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://priestsforlife.org/liturgy/liturgicalresource-cycles.aspx?id=55 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281353.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00065-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956208 | 812 | 1.515625 | 2 |
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The plants grow predominantly in amphibious habitat through some forms like Riccia fluitans, Ricciocarpos natans and Rellia species are aquatic. The gametophytes are well developed, green and autotrophic to which the sporophytes are not only attached but are also physically and physiologically dependent. The plant body consists of simple parenchymatous cells. Xylem, phloem and lignified cells are completely absent. The fertilisation takes place in presence of water. The spermatozoid swims to the neck of archegonium. It passes through the canal formed by the disintegration of neck canal cells and ventral canal cells and fuses with the egg.
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The PRC's planned unmanned lunar
expeditions this decade include a sample
return mission [CLEP].
The Once and Future Moon
Smithsonian Air & Space
Controversy quickly followed astonishment with the recent release of a white paper outlining China’s intentions in space. Sparking particular buzz from the Internet was a statement about human lunar missions being an objective for future Chinese space efforts. That statement drew comment ranging from sophisticated to simplistic, yet in my opinion, most of the discussion to date neglects the essential point of what this means to humanity’s future in space.
The report lays out China’s plan for missions to the Moon of increasing complexity and capability. The Chinese orbiters Chang’E 1 (2007) and Chang’E 2 (2010) made global maps of the Moon’s morphology and topography. The Chang’E spacecraft demonstrated China’s ability to navigate trans-LEO space. After Chang’E 1’s mapping mission was complete, the spacecraft was deliberately de-orbited to impact the Moon. However, after surveying a potential landing site for future missions, the Chang’E 2 spacecraft left lunar orbit and was sent to the Earth-Sun L2 point, a stable location 1.5 million km from the Earth. This maneuver is quite complex and its successful completion demonstrated their capability to maneuver spacecraft throughout cislunar space. It also lays the groundwork for more complex lunar and planetary missions in the near future.
The white paper reiterates the Chinese strategy of orbiter-lander-sample return for lunar exploration with robotic missions, of which the Chang’E series is the first step. The paper mentions human spaceflight activities occurring only in low Earth orbit, specifically asserting their determination to conduct an “independent” space exploration program. Closing remarks in that section of the report have been drawing the most attention: China intends to conduct “studies on a preliminary plan for a human lunar landing.”
In NASA terms, such wording would lead no one to conclude that anything remotely flight-ready was within a decade or two of occurring. But our way is not their way. The Chinese clearly are systematically pursuing a series of steps to incrementally increase their flight experience, technology base and operational expertise in low Earth orbit, but in a direction unmistakably toward the Moon and throughout cislunar space.
Despite some pronouncements of military doom – visions of Red Army Space Troopers descending upon us – a war in space does not appear imminent. Over several pages, the report repeatedly proclaims China’s intention to “peaceably explore and use outer space,” especially in conjunction with an endless series of United Nations mandates, innumerable Moon treaties and international kumbayah. Perhaps, as Queen Gertrude once observed, they doth protest too much.
|Daniell crater 35.39°N, 31.14°E, as photographed from Chang'E 2 in 2010 [CNSA/CLEP].|
Military action is not the only possible geopolitical threat on Earth or in space. Although it is probably too early to tell, the real issue is how serious is China about expanding their sphere of operations beyond low Earth orbit to the Moon. Currently, their human space program appears to be relatively benign, with simple Earth orbital missions, the construction of a rudimentary space station, crew EVA – all steps and capabilities that a nascent space faring nation must learn and develop. Their proposed robotic lunar exploration plan likewise makes sense, in that they first orbit and map, then survey in detail to land, rove, explore and return samples. For each step, a new capability is developed, building on existing ones, with all contributing toward a future strategic position. Hmmmm – an incremental architecture with cumulative series of small but interlocking steps. What a concept!
The reaction of space observers in the West seems bifurcated along the lines of “The sky is falling!” or “Who cares?” For the former, some note that the Chinese space program is run by their military. Moreover, the demonstration test of a Chinese anti-satellite weapon in 2007 did not engender the international peaceful good feelings so stridently expressed in the white paper. Those who read potential danger in Chinese intentions in space are not being unreasonable, even if there appears to be no immediate threat. For the latter group, nothing that China has done, is doing or ever could do in space would bother them. ASAT testing? Any alarm is labeled “hysteria.” Chinese lunar landings? So what? We did that 40 years ago. These people know not what they don’t know. Holding such a position is patently naïve.
The real cause for concern is not a Chinese presence in cislunar space or on the Moon, but our absence from it. Although much has been made of China’s purported movement toward capitalism in recent decades, they still possess an authoritarian political system, one with scant regard for the rule of contract law, copyright, private property and western notions of free market dynamics. Although some may not care whether China conquers the Moon, if they are the only ones on the Moon, they will determine what operational regime and legal template will prevail there. Advocates of “commercial space” might do well to carefully consider such a scenario – commercial companies are incorporated under national auspices on Earth, pay taxes to terrestrial governments, and are subject to the laws of the country in which they are based. They will not be free agents either in space or on the Moon.
I argued almost two years ago that there is a new “space race” but that it is quite different in character from the first one. The outcome of this race will determine what kind of politico-economic paradigm will prevail on the new frontier of space. One can imagine a situation in which a country establishes a permanent presence on the Moon and maintains control of the resources there. Yes, the Moon is a big planet, but the valuable concentrations of water lie in small areas near the poles. Water at the poles of the Moon allow a space faring entity to develop routine access to the entirety of cislunar space, where all of the economic, scientific and security space assets of many countries reside. Space control in the new century does not refer to “Death Stars” bristling with space weaponry, but to situational awareness, assurance of service, and the defense and maintenance of space-based assets. Control of cislunar space – meaning in this case the ability to routinely travel throughout its extent and to all the various orbits of cislunar satellites – does not mean to militarize or weaponize space, but rather the permanent presence of a space faring power of a particular ideology or worldview, undeterred by the absence of a competing ideology.
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1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Bangor (Co. Down)
BANGOR, a seaport and market-town of Co. Down, Ireland, in the north parliamentary division, on the south side of Belfast Lough, 12m. E.N.E. of Belfast, on a branch of the Belfast & County Down railway. Pop. of urban district (1901) 5903. It carries on a considerable trade in cotton and linen and embroidered muslin. It is greatly frequented as a watering-place, especially by the people of Belfast, and there are golf links and important regattas held by the Royal Ulster Yacht Club. Slight remains are to be seen of an abbey of Canons Regular, founded in the middle of the 6th century by St Comgall, and rebuilt, on a scale of magnificence which astonished the Irish, by St Malachy O'Morgair in the first half of the 12th century. Bangor was incorporated by James I. and returned two members to the Irish parliament. | <urn:uuid:e8699bea-7ee3-4832-af5a-5a7be371322e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Bangor_(Co._Down) | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280791.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00358-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951604 | 221 | 2.390625 | 2 |
Breast Cancer Screening
Breast cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer death among women, second only to lung cancer.
Breast cancer screening can lead to early diagnosis, quick intervention, and more favorable outcomes. It is the routine examination of a woman’s breasts to check for cancer before there are signs or symptoms of the disease.
Are You At Risk?
Breast cancer researchers have identified a number of risk factors for women who are at an increased risk of developing breast cancer. Those factors include:
- Advanced age
- Personal history of breast cancer
- Mutations of the BRCA1 or BRCA 2 genes
- Not having children or having the first child after 30
- Starting period before age 12
- Dense breast tissue
- Radiation therapy to the chest before age 30
- Menopause after 55
- Hormone therapy after menopause
How Do We Screen For Breast Cancer?
In addition to a self-exam or a clinical exam where the patient or trained professional feels the breasts for lumps or abnormalities, there are diagnostic exams to check for breast cancer.
A mammogram (an X-ray of the breasts) is the most common diagnostic tool used to screen for breast cancer. Experts recommend regular mammograms for all women once they reach the age of 40. If a woman’s breast tissue is very dense, an ultrasound may be performed to show a more detailed image of the breast tissue.
How Do You Get Screened?
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The difference between cannabis and hemp is often a cause for confusion and controversy. Both cannabis and hemp are from the species C. sativa and both are classified as illegal Schedule I drugs under the Controlled Substances Act. However, four states allow adult-use cannabis and 13 states allow industrial hemp production. The federal government continues to condemn the cannabis plant, but in 2014, a provision in the federal Farm Bill allowed universities and state departments to grow industrial hemp for academic research.
Popular misconceptions have tried to distinguish between the two by saying cannabis is female and hemp is male, or cannabis will get you high and hemp will not. In fact, the only legal difference between the two is an arbitrary line drawn that determined hemp was anything with less than 0.3 percent THC and cannabis was anything over.
However, the man who drew that arbitrary line in 1971, Ernest Small, also wrote, “There is not any natural point at which the cannabinoid content can be used to distinguish strains of hemp and marijuana.”
Since Small, the genetic differences between the two have not been studied in-depth. That is, until now.
In a study published on Wednesday in the scientific journal PLOS ONE, a team of Canadian researchers set out to provide a clearer picture of the scientific differences between cannabis and hemp. They studied the genotypes of 81 marijuana and 43 hemp samples and used DNA variants in the genome to find relationships between the two.
“As both public opinion and legislation in many countries shifts towards recognizing cannabis as a plant of medical and agricultural value, the genetic characterization of marijuana and hemp becomes increasingly important for both clinical research and crop improvement efforts,” wrote Jonathan Page, a University of British Columbia botanist, and Sean Myles, a population geneticist at Dalousie University, in the introduction to the study.
Page and Myles discovered that hemp had a high amount of genetic separation from cannabis after centuries of breeding the plants for different uses. The genetic differences were so stark that the researchers called for a new classification system to more reasonably separate marijuana from hemp.
“The genetic difference between marijuana and hemp has legal implications in many countries,” said Page. “Right now, the genetic identity of a marijuana strain cannot be accurately determined by its name or reported ancestry. Ultimately we require a practical, accurate and more reliable classification system of this plant.”
“Cannabis breeders and growers often indicate the percentage of Sativa or Indica in a cannabis strain, but they are not very accurate,” said Page in a press release.
The researchers also discovered that there was only a small correlation between the actual ancestry of a strain inferred from the DNA sequence and the ancestry that a strain’s breeder reported. For example, they wrote that a sample of Jamaican Lamb’s Bread that was classified as sativa was almost genetically identical to an indica from Afghanistan.
According to the study, this research was the first time an investigation of the cannabis population has been published using using a method called “high-throughput genotyping” which can investigate a genome more thoroughly.
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January 14, 2008
T-Rex Had Teen Pregnancies
Dinosaurs grew fast, reached sexual maturity early and died young
ATHENS, Ohio "“ Dinosaurs had pregnancies as early as age 8, far before they reached their maximum adult size, a new study finds.Researchers at Ohio University and University of California at Berkeley have found medullary bone "“ the same tissue that allows birds to develop eggshells "“ in two new dinosaur specimens: the meat-eater Allosaurus and the plant-eater Tenontosaurus. It's also been found in Tyrannosaurus rex.
The discovery allowed researchers to pinpoint the age of these pregnant dinosaurs, which were 8, 10 and 18. That suggests that the creatures reached sexual maturity earlier than previously thought, according to the scientists, who will publish their study Jan. 15 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The scientists originally studied the bones, which come from different geologic periods, to learn more about dinosaur growth rates. Because researchers rarely find fossils of adult dinosaurs, some have speculated that the ancient beasts never stopped developing, said Andrew Lee, a postdoctoral student at the Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine who conducted the work as a graduate student at University of California at Berkeley with scientist Sarah Werning.
The new study suggests another explanation: Dinosaurs grew fast but only lived three to four years in adulthood. Offspring were probably precocious, like calves or foals, Lee said.
"We were lucky to find these female fossils," Werning said. "Medullary bone is only around for three to four weeks in females who are reproductively mature, so you'd have to cut up a lot of dinosaur bones to have a good chance of finding this."
The research also offers more evidence that dinosaurs were less like reptiles and more like birds. Though dinosaurs had offspring before adulthood, their early sexual maturity was more a function of their tremendous size than any anatomical similarity to crocodiles.
When they factored in the size of the dinosaurs, Lee and Werning found that the reptile model for sexual maturity predicted that the ancient beasts would have had offspring as late as age 218. "That's clearly ridiculous," Lee said. Research shows that most dinosaurs only lived until age 30, though long-necked creatures such as Brontosaurus may have reached 60.
"We hope this is the last nail in the coffin, but some scientists still cling to the notion that dinosaurs weren't like birds," Lee said.
The discovery also sheds new light on the evolution of birds. The presence of medullary tissue in these dinosaurs, which lived as long as 200 million years ago, shows that the reproductive strategies of modern birds have ancient origins.
Because birds have evolved to be much smaller than dinosaurs, however, their reproductive strategies and growth spans now bear no resemblance to those of T. rex. Birds grow to adulthood in only 40 days, but may take one to 10 years to reach sexual maturity. That's relatively similar in other tiny critters such as shrews, Lee said.
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In the corridors of the Kasai nutritional centre in the Democratic Republic of Congo, mothers and their children wait for doctors to take care of them.
Susan and her daughter, Rosette escaped conflict in the Kasai region to find shelter in Kikwit in the country’s southwest. But, like thousands of other displaced people, she is desperate for help to feed her child.
“My daughter is malnourished and I have no money to feed her. She started to eat sand because she was so hungry. Now her belly is swollen. I can’t get my daughter medication and have no way of treating her. I’ve got nothing. I’m begging you to help me”, Susan said.
I can't get my daughter medication and have no way of treating her. I've got nothing. I'm begging you to help me.
Rosette passed away after this story was filmed.
Baleka Mado came with her four-year-old son Kanu, who is one of 260,000 children who, according to UNICEF, suffer from severe malnutrition. Insecurity means families cannot farm crops or earn money to buy food in the region.
“When we left the bush, it was because of hunger and suffering. When we found a village to rest in, I was told about this hospital where children could receive free medical care and food’‘, Mado said.
Children’s agency, UNICEF estimates that 260,000 children in Kasai are suffering from severe acute malnutrition and are in need of lifesaving treatment.
“They heard about the care offered in this hospital and her mother did not wait, she came immediately with her child and after the clinical examinations, he was declared malnourished’‘, said Nutritionist, Benjamin Chibangu.
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COVID-19 may be as contagious economically as it is medically. This eBook addresses some key questions: How, and how far and fast, will the economic damage spread? How bad will it get? How long will the damage last? What are the mechanisms of economic contagion? And, above all, what can governments do about it? | <urn:uuid:b72f4b77-72bc-4662-87e5-01d2b970165e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/richard-baldwin | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808213349-20220809003349-00466.warc.gz | en | 0.962063 | 69 | 1.757813 | 2 |
URUMQI, July 28 (Xinhua) -- Fossils of Hipparion fauna have been found in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
Archaeologists with the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) recently discovered these fossils which could date back to 8 million years ago at a hillside in a pasture in Wenquan County.
The fossil beds are concentrated and dense, and some fossils are interrelated. After preliminary analysis and identification, the fossil group is left by Hipparion and common members of Hipparion fauna such as antelope, Palaeotragus and Tetralophodont which existed at the same time, according to Wang Shiqi with IVPP.
Hipparion fauna was widely distributed in the mid-latitude region of Eurasia 8 million to 5 million years ago, and their fossils were found in many provinces in northern China, Greece and Turkey.
In Xinjiang, Hipparion fauna only appeared in Wenquan County, making it a key location to link the distribution of Hipparion fauna at the east and west ends of Eurasia, which is of great significance for the study of paleoecological evolution during this period.
This fossil discovery site has high scientific research value, and will be excavated in a planned way in the future, Wang said.
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By June12Legacy.com, July 7, 2022
Session 1: Examining the June 12th, 1982 Demonstration
What happened on June 12th, 1982? How did it come together and what impact did this massive mobilization have? Speakers will address the ways race, class, and gender affected the organizing process, and how cultural and artistic efforts brought a new energy to the work. Looking back forty years is not enough. This session will also address how that experience can help us strengthen today’s work to eliminate nuclear weapons, with an emphasis on building a movement that links issues and communities.
(Moderator: Dr. Vincent Intondi, Panelists: Leslie Cagan, Kathy Engel, Rev. Herbert Daughtry)
Race, Class, and Nuclear Weapons: Links in the Same Chain
This session will discuss how the nuclear issue has affected BIPOC since 1945. From nuclear waste, testing, mining, production, and use, nuclear weapons have proven to be inextricably linked to race. Speakers will focus on how this history has been lost, is currently being recovered, and how to build the necessary bridges to organize on multiple fronts. There will also be a discussion on how the nuclear disarmament movement can more thoroughly anchor its work in a commitment to racial, economic, and social justice.
(Moderator: Jim Anderson, Panelists: Pam Kingfisher, Tina Cordova, Dr. Arjun Makhijani, George Friday)
It Starts in the Classroom: The Importance of Education in the Nuclear Disarmament Movement
From eliminating any discussion of critical race theory, banning books, and the “Don’t Say Gay” bill in Florida, our education system is under attack. This session will examine why education and school curriculums are vital for a more just and equal society and how it relates to nuclear disarmament. From the humanities to sciences, students often grow up learning little about the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki or why they should pursue a career in the nuclear field. Speakers will explore how we can improve the education system to address these critical issues.
(Moderator: Kathleen Sullivan, Panelists: Jesse Hagopian, Nathan Snyder, Katlyn Turner)
Climate Change, Nuclear Weapons, and the Future of the Planet
Climate change and nuclear weapons-two phrases that are often described as the “existential threats of our lives.” From the devastating effects of both, to the organizing efforts on each front, these two issues and movements have much in common and are connected in many ways, both big and small. The question then, is how do organizers work together to save this planet and ensure future generations will be able to live in a world where they do not have to fear nuclear war or catastrophic natural disasters that result in a warming planet that is too far gone to save?
(Moderator: Kei Williams, Panelists: Benetick Kabua Maddison, Ramón Mejía, David Swanson)
Art as Activism, Activism Through Art
On June 12, 1982, and the days leading up to it, art was everywhere. Poets spoke on street corners. Dancers campaigned for nuclear disarmament. Groups and individuals used song, dance, puppets, street theater, and a bevy of other artistic expressions to say no to nuclear war. The role of art has always been and continues to be a central piece of organizing and activism in the struggle for a more just and equal world. This session will look at how art is used for organizing, discussing traditional use of art to new and innovative ways through filmmaking and VR experiences.
(Moderator: Lovely Umayam, Panelists: Molly Hurley, Michaela Ternasky-Holland, John Bell)
Session 2: Where Do We Go From Here?
How do we talk to people about the real threat of nuclear weapons? How do we connect the nuclear issue with other pressing issues of the day? This session will review some the large, overarching issues that have been explored throughout the day. Speakers will discuss current ways in which people can get involved in the nuclear disarmament movement, and reaffirm our commitment to a planet without nuclear weapons, a planet where peace prevails and justice reigns.
(Moderator: Daryl Kimball, Panelists: Zia Mian, Jasmine Owens, Leslie Cagan, Katrina vanden Heuvel, With a Special Poem From Sonia Sanchez)
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If you have a heritage-listed home or a home in a conservation area and want to do alterations and additions, there are some things that you will need to know. Buildings are given a listed status to mark their historical and architectural significance and to protect them from damage and inappropriate alterations.
The NSW Heritage Office defines a conservation area as “Area located on the State Heritage Register or on a Local Environment Plan (LEP) for their heritage significance. They also contain individually listed heritage items.
We would recommend that you research the neighbourhood’s era and as much as you can about your property’s period and style, especially if you’re trying to restore your period home.
Remember, renovating doesn’t necessarily mean replacing everything in the existing style; you can keep some of the period features and have a design that successfully integrates the old and new.
Before you start any design works, you need to investigate what kind of modifications you can and can’t make on your property as there is a good chance you can’t make specific changes.
An experienced local architect will help you identify these and tailor your dreams to obtain the council’s approval.
As you may know, there are two approval options available to obtain a building approval in NSW;
- A Council Development Application (DA) and Construction Certificate (CC) or
- A Complying Development Certificate (CDC) via a private certifier.
Being in a heritage conservation area will rule out the CDC approval option.
There are many challenges that an architect needs to negotiate when designing alterations and additions under the DA process. These include:
- The council’s Planning Controls (LEP and DCP)
- The National Building codes (known as the National Construction Code)
- Client budgets and
However, the council imposes more significant restrictions on what can be designed by your architect, as they must consider in greater depth areas like Streetscape, Character, Scale, Form, Material and Colour.
Some council controls can restrict your design to:
- A single-storey development and/or an attic conversion
- Retaining existing elements of you home like roofing materials, chimneys, dormer windows, filaments etc.
- Front façade treatments and colour schemes
- And even your front fence
And as part of the documentation submitted in the Development Application, you must include a Heritage Impact Statement (HIS). The HIS must comply with a particular presentation style and delve into your building’s history and how what is proposed complies with their heritage overlay. In most cases, your architect can provide this additional report if they choose to. But on some occasions, and for some projects and council areas, the council will require a suitably qualified Heritage Architect to write the HIS.
In summary, we recommend appointing a local architect who knows the council requirements and has experience in dealing with your council and heritage projects.
At Willoughby Architects, we have undertaken alteration and additions in Willoughby, Artarmon, Crows Nest, Chatswood, Birchgrove, Paddington, Darlinghurst and Marrickville. You can see our recent approvals here.
Willoughby Architects is an architectural firm based in Willoughby on Sydney’s lower North Shore. We design, organise approvals and project manage the building process for new build homes and renovations for existing homes. At Willoughby Architects, we are committed to producing sustainable, innovative architecture.
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Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Putin; Straits of Hormuz
"Iran has warned repeatedly that it would close the narrow Strait of Hormuz at the mouth of the Gulf if the United States or Israel attacked it amid tensions over Iran's nuclear program.
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My Little Angel just looooves to draw on the wall. Maybe it’s my ‘independent child-rearing’ philosophy (also known as leaving the kids unattended in the other room as much as I can get away with), but at our house it seems to be a simple if/then formula. If there is a crayon (pencil/marker/chalk) anywhere in the bottom 28 inches of our house, then he will find it. If he finds it, then he will use it to draw on the wall.
I have a friend who just rolls with the punches, and lets the house become one big chalkboard. She figures when the kids both top 5 they can paint over everything, and until then, why spend any time worrying or scrubbing? I applaud the surrender, and if we owned our home, I would seriously consider such a tactic. But we rent. That shit don’t float.
After some experimentation I discovered the magic mark-removal method. It’s simple, nothing new or exciting here, but I was excited, and that’s what counts.
- Spray marks liberally with pure vinegar
- Pour a teaspoon of baking soda onto a wrung out rag
- Scrub that SOB till it’s white again
I tried just vinegar, and just baking soda. Neither worked. Gotta mix ’em baby. Maybe it’s the science project foaming action, maybe it’s the grit of the baking soda reaching down into the textured surface of the paint. Whatever it is, it works. It can take some hard scrubbing though, especially pencil marks.
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Victoria's climate has long set the scene for annual danger. William Kininmonth examines how, through history, these threats have erupted catastrophically.
IN THE evolving history of Victoria there will be some days never forgotten because of the magnitude of lost lives and devastation from uncontrollable fire.
Black Thursday was February 6, 1851, when one-quarter of the emerging colony of Victoria burned. February 14, 1926, does not have a special name but 60 lives were lost in widespread fires. Seventy-one lives were lost on Black Friday, January 13, 1939, and vast areas of forest were destroyed in fires that continued for another eight days. On Ash Wednesday, February 16, 1983, fires erupted from the Adelaide Hills to east of Melbourne and 47 Victorians died.
Black Saturday, February 7, 2009, is now added to this dreadful roll call.
These were not the only days of fire devastation, just the worst. The climate of Victoria with its winter rains and summer heat sets the scene for annual danger. Grasses and forest vegetation grow prolifically in the warm moist conditions of spring and dry out over summer into a tinderbox, just waiting for an ignition. And the ignition generally comes, either naturally as in lightning strikes, through accidents or from arson. But not all fires reach the intensity and spread with the ferocity of our worst.
Two characteristics mark the historic fire days. The first is a long period of significantly below-average rainfall; the second is special meteorological conditions on the day, with a combination of high temperatures, low humidity and strong winds.
Bureau of Meteorology published records show that since 1900 the average annual rainfall for Victoria has varied from 356 millimetres (in 1967) to 919 millimetres (in 1973). The same records also show that the rainfall for the year before each major fire day ranked among the lowest: 1925 ranked 16th lowest at 511 millimetres; 1938 ranked fifth at 412 millimetres; 1982 ranked second at 362 millimetres; and 2008 ranked 15th at 504 millimetres.
Below-average rainfall during the preceding winter and spring does not allow the soil moisture to become fully replenished. As a consequence, the grasses cure early and the forests become extraordinarily dry during the following summer.
Rainfall is highly variable from year to year and more frequent low or high annual rainfall years have been characteristic of given decades. The decade from the mid-1930s to the mid-1940s was particularly dry and this pattern has been repeated over the recent decade.
In contrast, some very high rainfalls in the 1950s and the 1970s made those particularly wet decades. Broadly speaking, the first half of the 19th century was drier than the second and rainfall has now returned to the early 20th century pattern.
There is no simple explanation for the varying rainfall, although the changing patterns of surface temperature over the warm Indian and Pacific oceans are known to be important but complex influences. To a large extent it is the changing tropical patterns of ocean surface temperature that regulate the transfer of heat and moisture to the atmosphere, and also the location and intensity of tropical convection.
The weather systems responsible for Victoria's rainfall rely on a supply of moisture from the tropics. When the focus of tropical convection shifts from the western Pacific to the central or eastern Pacific, such as during an El Nino event, the weather systems affecting Victoria can be starved of their essential moisture. Conversely, La Nina events, with their focus of tropical convection more to the north and west of Australia, are a more favourable source of moisture.
In addition to an appropriate source of tropical moisture there is need for a favourable air current to bring the tropical moisture across Victoria to feed into passing rain systems. Ideally, the moist air ascends and converges into the clouds of the rain system and widespread rainfall results. Ideal conditions are the exception rather than the rule.
To a large extent it is a matter of chance whether a potential rain system moving over Victoria accesses a favourable moisture supply. If the tropical moisture source and the middle and high-altitude westerly airflow across southern Australia, known as Rossby Waves, provide a good link then good rains ensue. However, if either the tropical moisture source or the persisting location of the Rossby Waves is unfavourable then seasonal rainfall is low.
Even when there has been low rainfall in the preceding winter and spring it takes a special conjunction of meteorological processes to bring the extremely high temperatures, dry air and strong winds that are characteristic of the mega-fire events. A detailed investigation will be made of the meteorology leading up to and during the recent fires as part of the Royal Commission, but there are general characteristics that are already apparent from the available information. What will need to be evaluated is why these characteristics achieved such intensity.
The analysis of the meteorology of the 2009 fires will be assisted by observing systems and data that were not available during earlier disastrous bushfires. The Bureau of Meteorology's sophisticated satellite surveillance, its network of radar stations and the network of automated meteorological observing stations not only supported the excellent monitoring and early warning services but, with the accumulated climate data, will give new insights into how the extremely hazardous conditions developed.
Daily temperature and humidity over Victoria during summer follows a bi-modal pattern. When the winds are from the southern sector the temperatures are typically mild and humidity is relatively high, having origins from the oceans to the south. When the winds come from the north from the continental interior temperatures are hotter.
Wind direction alone is not sufficient to explain the extremely high temperature and low humidity experienced on Black Saturday, Ash Wednesday or Black Friday. The air spreading across the Victorian countryside had its origins in the middle atmosphere where it is naturally dry. As it descended to the surface the air warmed by compression in the denser air and brought the strong winds of the middle atmosphere with it. To a large extent, the surface temperatures that were reached are a reflection of the altitude from which the air originated.
In the weeks leading up to the major fire event the middle atmosphere airflow across southern Australia had been from the north-west, extending from the Indian Ocean to the Tasman Sea. This in itself was not unusual. It was the heavy monsoonal rains and cyclonic activity that had deluged the north of Australia that gave special character to the situation.
Widespread buoyantly ascending air associated with the clouds and rain of the tropical rain required compensating mass subsidence elsewhere. This was occurring in the north-westerly airflow, drying it out and contributing to the long dry spell over southern Australia through January.
A cooler air mass formed a southern boundary to the dry subsiding air. The boundary extended from north of Perth, crossing the south coast to the east of Esperance and extending to Tasmania. A long high-level cloud line marked the air mass boundary for much of the time in the days leading to the fire event. Radar images suggested light rain at times to the east of Esperance in the cooler air and on the morning of the fires there was rain over and offshore from western Tasmania. On the eastern side of the boundary the air was hot and dry.
On the morning of Black Saturday the air mass boundary acted as a barrier to the air spreading from the tropics and subsiding air was channelled over south-eastern Australia. The dry air from the middle atmosphere was forced downwards in the north-westerly airflow and heated by compression as the density increased near the surface. As the sun heated the ground, the stability of the airflow decreased and the air was able to mix through a great depth bringing wind strength from the middle atmosphere to the surface.
It was the combination of the special dynamics of the airflow and the heating of the surface that brought about the high temperatures, the low humidity and the strong north-westerly winds. On Black Saturday 2009 new temperature records were set over a wide area, including 46.4 degrees in Melbourne with a relative humidity of less than 6 per cent. By comparison, fire-day temperature in 1926 was 39.9 degrees; Black Friday 1939 was 45.6 degrees (the previous record); and Ash Wednesday 1983 was 43 degrees.
Compounding the impact of the hot dry air was the strong winds as air from the middle atmosphere was brought to the surface. The effect of the winds was clearly observable on the Bureau of Meteorology radar as fires developed north of Melbourne. The initially small plumes rapidly intensified and spread south-east to cross the Gippsland coast. Once the initial fires became established in the hot dry airflow the burning debris and embers were carried ahead to spot and start secondary fires, which themselves developed to become sources of new embers.
Horrendous as the fire conditions were during the day, they were compounded late in the afternoon when the air mass boundary moved inland as a cool change. All of a sudden the now extensive north-eastern boundary of the fires became a leading edge as the strong south-westerly winds of the cool change advanced. The air ahead of the change was still dry, temperatures were high, and the firefront was fanned by strong winds. Even after the cool change had passed there were remaining fires fanned by strong winds that posed a continuing danger.
A point to be emphasised is that the meteorology of extreme fire days develops and persists over a period of many days. Black Friday of 1939 was part of a heatwave over south-eastern Australia that sequentially, over a week, brought record temperatures to Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney.
A week before Black Saturday 2009, Melbourne had a series of three days with temperatures in the low 40s with intervening days about 30 degrees as temperatures were tempered by sea breezes.
The excellent early warnings, on-day predictions and real-time advice given by the Bureau of Meteorology on Black Saturday point to the importance of maintaining the modern infrastructure that supports these essential services. Megafires fortunately are a relatively rare event but each summer has the potential for another catastrophe.
It is fashionable to promote climate change as being a contributor to changing fire frequency and intensity. The pattern of rainfall over the past century does not point to a trend of reduction in rainfall. Nor has any link been offered between global temperature trends and the meteorology of Victorian heatwaves. Extreme bushfire events are rare events and must be analysed according to the statistics relating to rare events; the breaking of a previous temperature record established 70 years earlier does not establish an underlying trend.
The firestorm conditions of Black Saturday 2009 resulted from the earlier conditioning of vegetation and the unusually intense meteorology of the heatwave that established hot dry airflow and accompanying strong winds over a wide area. While it is possible to broadly identify and monitor the characteristics there is much to be learned about the large-scale controls over seasonal rainfall and the unique meteorology of heatwaves. Ongoing research, early adoption of new technologies and the maintenance of robust meteorological infrastructure are essential strategies forming part of our community defence against future megafires.
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President Bush Links War in Iraq to War on Terrorism
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RAY SUAREZ: For months, President Bush has warned that the U.S. faces a stark choice: combat terror in Iraq or fight it at home. It’s a point he kept making at his Rose Garden press conference this morning.
GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States: Al-Qaida’s going to fight us wherever we are. See, that’s their strategy. Their strategy is to drive us out of the Middle East. And the fundamental question is, will we fight them? I’ve made the decision to do so. I believe that the best way to protect us in this war on terror is to fight them.
RAY SUAREZ: Yesterday, at the Coast Guard Academy commencement, the president raised the stakes even higher, asserting that once highly classified intelligence data revealed al-Qaida in Iraq was hatching plots against the U.S. He was pressed on those comments today.
JOURNALIST: Mr. President, after the mistakes that have been made in this war, when you do, as you did yesterday, where you raised 2-year-old intelligence talking about the threat posed by al-Qaida, it’s met with increasing skepticism. A majority in the public, a growing number of Republicans appear not to trust you any longer to be able to carry out this policy successfully. Can you explain why you believe you’re still a credible messenger on the war?
GEORGE W. BUSH: I’m credible because I read the intelligence data and make it abundantly clear, in plain terms, that, if we let up, we’ll be attacked. And I firmly believe that.
Look, this has been a long, difficult experience for the American people. I can assure you al-Qaida, who would like to attack us again, have got plenty of patience and persistence. And the question is, will we?
Yes, I talked about intelligence yesterday. I wanted to make sure the intelligence I laid out was credible, so we took our time. Failure in Iraq will cause generations to suffer, in my judgment. Al-Qaida will be emboldened. They will say, “Yes, once again, we’ve driven the great soft America out of a part of the region.” It will cause them to be able to recruit more; it will give them safe haven. They are a direct threat to the United States.
And I’m going to keep talking about it. That’s my job as the president, is to tell people the threats we face and what we’re doing about it. They’re dangerous, and I can’t put it any more plainly to the American people, and to them, we will stay on the offense. It’s better to fight them there than here.
And this concept about, well, maybe, you know, let’s just kind of just leave them alone and maybe they’ll be all right is naive. These people attacked us before we were in Iraq. They viciously attacked us before we were in Iraq, and they’ve been attacking ever since.
They are a threat to your children, David. And whoever is in that Oval Office better understand it and take measures necessary to protect the American people.
RAY SUAREZ: Again in his news conference, the president re-emphasized the high stakes of the war in Iraq.
GEORGE W. BUSH: One of the areas where I really believe we need more of a national discussion, however, is, what would be the consequences of failure in Iraq? Failure in Iraq affects the security of this country, and it’s hard for some Americans to see that. I fully understand it.
I see it clearly. I believe this is the great challenge of the beginning of the 21st century, not just Iraq, but dealing with this radical ideological movement in a way that secures us in the short term and more likely secures us in the long term.
The front in Pakistan
RAY SUAREZ: We take up the debate on where to fight terrorism with Rand Beers, who served in counterterrorism posts on the National Security Council staff and at the State Department under the last four presidents, including George W. Bush. He's now president of the National Security Network, a non-profit foreign policy advocacy group.
And Danielle Pletka, who's the president for foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, she's a former Republican staff member at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Rand Beers, the president has said in the last couple of days, the safety of America depends on the outcome of the battle of Baghdad. Another way of formulating that "fight them there so we don't have to fight them here" idea. Is he right?
RAND BEERS, President, National Security Network: I don't think, certainly, is the way that he meant to say that he's right. I think that we really have the central front or the headquarters of al-Qaida in Pakistan and along the Pak-Afghan border.
What they are doing in Iraq today is basically drawing us into a struggle where they can kill us, and demonize us, and where they can have other people do most of their dirty work. We're not going to defeat them there, and we should recognize that, and concentrate, if we're concentrating on terrorism, on other areas of the world.
RAY SUAREZ: Danielle Pletka, do you agree with that premise, that the United States has to fight terrorism in Iraq or else we'll be fighting it here?
DANIELLE PLETKA, American Enterprise Institute: Well, I think we have to fight terrorism everywhere. And certainly, if you listen to al-Qaida and you listen to the pronouncements of bin Laden or al-Zawahiri, you hear that they think the principal front line for the battle is, in fact, in Iraq.
I think to suggest that somehow we can ignore Iraq, that we can withdraw from Iraq without consequence, just to concentrate on the northwest frontier province of Pakistan, really is naive. I think we have to fight them there, and I think we need to be a lot tougher there.
But I also think that we have to fight them and defeat them in Iraq or they will, as the president said, make themselves a headquarters in Iraq, as they did in Afghanistan, and follow us here.
RAY SUAREZ: Well, even people who disagree with the president say we have to fight terrorism, but the president in these speeches takes it one step further. Would you agree that, as he posits, leaving Iraq would make it more likely that there'd be an attack on the United States in the United States?
DANIELLE PLETKA: Absolutely, because retreat is defeat. And if we retreat from Iraq, we cannot but expect that al-Qaida and all of those who follow them will see this as a retreat by the United States.
This was the history of the 1990s. This is what we saw. We had small skirmishes in Somalia. We had larger losses in Saudi Arabia. We had the Cole. We had the Africa embassy bombings and more. And in each instance of these al-Qaida attacks, we did not respond. We stayed the course, in doing nothing.
We let them operate in Afghanistan. We let them operate in Sudan. And they took a lesson from that. Bin Laden has written a great deal about this: America is weak; America can be attacked; America can be defeated. It sounds foolish to us, but it's a real rallying cry, and we cannot be defeated in Iraq.
The threat of terrorists in Iraq
RAY SUAREZ: Rand Beers, the president said it again today that leaving Iraq would make the American state more vulnerable to terrorist attack.
RAND BEERS: I think that one can certainly posit the possibility that terrorists -- al-Qaida terrorists who are in Iraq -- might at some point attack the United States. But I don't think the possibility for that is very high.
I think that it is much more likely that any terrorist attack on the United States is going to be mounted or emanating out of Pakistan. Just as the letter that the president quoted today -- or yesterday, I should say -- that al-Qaida was talking to Zarqawi and suggesting that he might open a cell that could attack the United States, he was doing that at the same time that an operation was being planned in London, the London subway bombing.
We've had the attempt at airliners out of the United Kingdom. Again, that was mounted out of Pakistan, not out of Iraq. I think that the probability of something happening out of Iraq at this point in time or at some point in the future is probably far less probable than something emanating out of Pakistan.
RAY SUAREZ: So you're saying these things move on separate tracks?
RAND BEERS: Yes.
RAY SUAREZ: That the intelligence revealed by the president at the Coast Guard commencement, for instance, undermines his point rather than supporting it, that operations are being planned to attack the United States even as the United States continues to fight in Iraq?
RAND BEERS: That's correct. And I think that we can expect the United States to be in danger for some time to come. Al-Qaida -- I agree with the president. Al-Qaida wishes to attack the United States. I just don't find it plausible that the United States is directly threatened by what's happening in Iraq, directly threatened in the United States.
RAY SUAREZ: Danielle Pletka, how do you respond to that?
DANIELLE PLETKA: Well, I guess I'm really confused about it for a couple of reasons. The first is that, yes, it's true, while we're fighting al-Qaida in Iraq, there should be no doubt it's going to be hard for them to plan. We've knocked out Zarqawi. We've killed others, and we've killed some in Pakistan and Afghanistan, as well. While they're on the run, it's going to be hard for them.
If we retreat, if we surrender in Iraq, then I think we should have no doubt that there will be places from which they can plan and operate. That doesn't take away from their ability to plan and operate elsewhere. That's why we need to be fighting them in Iraq and elsewhere.
But the second part of this is, it reminds me of the discussions that we had with the Clinton administration about Afghanistan in the 1990s. There was a huge amount of frustration that the rise of the Taliban, at the fact that the Taliban was giving al-Qaida a safe haven, and that the administration wasn't doing enough about it. Now, to be fair, the Congress wasn't doing enough about it, either.
But, again, you heard the same sort of complacency about where they would be doing their planning. No, they're not going to operate and plan against us in the United States. They're focusing on Africa. Or they're focusing on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
I think that they are focusing on us. And where we give them room to breathe, they will operate, and they will plan, and they will strike us, and they will be encouraged and emboldened if we retreat and allow them that headquarters in Iraq.
Iraq before the war
RAY SUAREZ: Well, once again, the president brought it up today, that the United States was attacked even before it was in Iraq, but was Iraq the way it was now before the invasion? Could it be the kind of Petri dish it is for terrorism before the Americans rolled in from Kuwait?
DANIELLE PLETKA: I think that Iraq isn't now what it was then. Iraq was a dictatorial state run by a dreadful, evil man, Saddam Hussein, so the question I guess I have to ask are two.
The first is, if, in fact, the consequence of toppling an evil, cruel dictator is that terrorists will threaten us, should we therefore not topple that dictator? And then I would ask, what else shouldn't we do? Because you know, terrorists don't like us supporting Israel, either. Perhaps we really shouldn't support Israel.
But, in fact, terrorists don't like a lot of things. And they're going to opportunistically attack us wherever we operate. They didn't like us in Saudi Arabia, either.
They don't like us in a whole variety of places, the Philippines, for example. They don't want us there, either. Should we get out? Should we take that threat seriously? Or should we do what's in our national interest?
The second part of that question is, yes, there are people who assert that Iraq would have been more stable, the stability of the grave that existed under Saddam Hussein, had we not gone in and al-Qaida wouldn't be operating there. But we are where we are. And so, from that standpoint, I ask again, understanding that we are where we are, why do we want to retreat from that battle? We can't roll back time.
Terrorists outside of Iraq
RAY SUAREZ: Rand Beers, take that question. She asked it; you can answer it.
RAND BEERS: Well, we're talking here past one another. I'm not suggesting that we should pull out entirely from Iraq. I'm simply suggesting that we ought to refocus our effort there. I'm suggesting that we ought to support the Iraqis in taking care of their own problems.
And I'm suggesting that we ought to concentrate on al-Qaida outside of Iraq, as well as not giving them a free reign in Iraq. No, I'm not suggesting that, either. But I do think that we've over-invested our effort in Iraq. And by over-investing in Iraq, we're both giving al-Qaida an opportunity to recruit around the world, because we're there in the way that we're there, and we're less able to devote either personnel or resources to dealing with al-Qaida in other places.
RAY SUAREZ: Does a superpower get to figure out, to pick where it stages its battles against its perceived enemies? Can the United States choose Iraq as the place to fight al-Qaida?
RAND BEERS: Only if al-Qaida is prepared to invest its full force there; otherwise, we're fighting a battle that's a partial activity on the part of al-Qaida.
We should focus on where al-Qaida's central headquarters is. And we should do what we need to do in order to bring them to heel there. If we can do that, then we have a far better job of dealing with al-Qaida in other places around the world.
But the other half of that is the much broader struggle to separate the support that al-Qaida gets from populations.
RAY SUAREZ: Rand Beers, Danielle Pletka, thank you both.
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We write with the words we cannot always say out loud.
From being a loner, to realizing 'goodbyes' are possibly better than 'hellos,’ to understanding and indulging in — not loneliness — but self-love, to loving all the wrong people … This poet has written it all.
Beau Taplin, a poet from Melbourne, Australia, has built a poetic structure that withstands the assumed boundaries of what poets are set out to be and write. Seemingly enough, the six books he has written break down those same boundaries and relinquish further assumptions of what a poet should be.
Words have a powerful history and continue to live on that legacy.
In one of Beau’s poems titled ‘Growing Pains,’ he explains just that.
“Awfully, we all learn very early on that a human being can break you in a few short, simple words.”
That’s the power of poets. We write with passion. We write with the words we cannot always say out loud.
We write with the words that we feel in our very flesh and bones, and THAT is what makes a poem so powerful and enriched with emotion.
A poem itself is an emotion — like each of these from Beau Taplin ...
If you're searching for the best quotes and memes to share with the people you love (or just want to feel inspired yourself) ... look no further! From the sweetest love quotes, inspirational sayings, and hilarious friendship truths, we've got you covered.
"Hey listen, it's alright, feeling a little heartbroken now and then is a good thing. It's how you know you still care. It's how you know there are things for you in this world that will still matter, that are still worth hurting for." — Beau Taplin
"I need you to pinpoint the precise moment the idea of dying became more beautiful to you than how you feel when you look into your own reflection. When your friends and family first begun to cover their ears and avert their eyes as thought your tears were nails down a chalkboard. When every inch and fibre of your being first begun to scream at its own existence. Now, dismantle it. Tear it to goddamn pieces. Know that every breath you take is a triumph. That the beating in your heart is like a clenched fist raised to the world as its witness, chanting, 'I made it. I made it. I made it.'" — Beau Taplin
"I'm not interested in light little flings, skin-deep attractions, or long loveless marriages. With you, I only want raw, full-blooded connection, to share a bond full of passion and breathtaking adventure. After all, love is not a pastime, but a magnificent privilege." — Beau Taplin
"There are worlds in you, and I have fallen in love with every one." — Beau Taplin
"Awfully, we all learn very early on that a human being can break you in a few short, simple words." — Beau Taplin
"Oh darling, do not be ashamed of the way you cry for him. It does not give him the power over you. Like the great floods of old you are simply washing yourself of wickedness, and soon he will be forgotten." — Beau Taplin
"I'm not afraid of commitment. I'm afraid of surrendering control too quickly—of placing my heart into hands that won't know how to hold it." — Beau Taplin
"I rarely open up. I don't like to feel vulnerable or be misunderstood. But now and then I get to talking to somebody and something about them just resonates with me—whether total stranger or old friend, in their presence, I feel a certain safety, a rare calm, and everything comes gushing out." — Beau Taplin
"Please, do not mistake my tendency to be private and standoffish for either sheepishness or arrogance. Once you get to know me, you'll find I'm both lively and kind. These high walls aren't here because I want to keep the whole world out. I'm just very particular about who I invite back to mine." — Beau Taplin
"We don't mean to hurt each other but we do. And perhaps no matter how right we are for each other, we'll always be a little too wrong." — Beau Taplin
"Goodbyes take a great deal of courage, but what takes even more is the Hello that comes next. To cast your aversions aside despite all you have suffered and take a chance on somebody new. To risk it all again because you know human connection is precious and rare and always worth the risk." — Beau Taplin
"I am a loner at heart, though you wouldn't know it. I regularly make an effort to leave the house and mingle, and when I do, I endeavor to appear both approachable and friendly. However, in the back of my mind, there always lies this dull steady ache, begging me to leave." — Beau Taplin
"'My heart beats in almosts. It's constantly in pursuit of those whom it desires, but the moment it comes too close, it recoils and trembles, stops dead in its tracks, and bolts in the opposite direction. I hold onto what makes me miserable and let the good things go. I'm self-destructive,' I said. 'It's the way I've always been.'
'And why do you think that is?'
'Because it's easier to destroy something you love,' I said, 'Than it is to watch it leave.'" — Beau Taplin
"It certainly wasn't love, but we carried the same scars and sometimes that is close enough." — Beau Taplin
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In this book of stories you will find many examples of the marvels in the living things created by Allah, and will once again see the unique nature of our Lord’s power. You will also remember to respond to every event created by Allah with patience and submission and to give thanks to our Lord at every moment.
You will learn why it is very important to behave well to people around you, that cleanliness is a feature of a believer, and that pleasant words are a virtue that is pleasing to Allah.
These are the names of some of the stories in this book:
Anwar and the Tortoise, What Rasheed’s Brother Taught Him, Omar and the Penguin, Jamal and the Parrot, There’s Good in Everything, It’s Important to Follow the Good Word, The Cleanliness of Believers, Naeem and the Pretty Peacock, Anwar and the Little Bird, Maqsud and the Kitten, Sayid and the Squid, Kareem and Grandpa Hassan. | <urn:uuid:ee8921d4-7ec8-4a2f-9ae4-5f7f3c71c1dd> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://widasarisaraswati.blogspot.com/2011/01/free-download-stories-for-thinking.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279489.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00008-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942967 | 213 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Jurors in Bristol have acquitted the "Colston Four" on charges of criminal damage, finding that protestors who toppled a statue of local slaver Edward Colston during 2020's protests against racism committed no crime. CNN:
After a two-week trial, the group were cleared when a jury at Bristol Crown Court returned not guilty verdicts on Wednesday following three hours of deliberations. Loud cheers erupted from the crown court's public gallery as the four — who opted for their case to be heard by a jury — were cleared.
British conservatives are in uproar, with some, including one minister of parliament, calling for juries to be scrapped altogether. The sitting Attorney General, a Conservative MP, offered a more blandly authoritarian "I love juries, but…" missive on Twitter.
But it's another Tory bigwig, Jacob Rees-Mogg, who is most strenuously arguing otherwise: "juries are the "great sublime protector of liberties," he told Parliament.
"The decision does not set a precedent. It was a case decided by a jury on the facts before them."
Mr Rees-Mogg added: "I think he is right that we should protect monuments, right that they should be removed by due process, but one of our greatest monuments is the jury system which is the greatest protector of our liberties."
There doesn't seem to be any actual admission yet of jury nullification—a "perverse verdict" in UK terminology—in which a jury intentionally refuses to follow the law, for reasons. It would be interesting to see it occur in England under these circumstances, as jury nullification is popularly associated in modern times with American juries refusing to support legal slavery and segregation. England was the origin of the practice of jury nullification, though, part of a popular reaction against draconian punishment for trivial crimes. Nullification is constitutionally part-and-parcel of the jury system—an unavoidable feature of entrusting the finding of fact to a defendant's peers. It benefits conservatives, too: the traditional all-white American jury is an example of how nullification is encouraged when it suits the establishment.
Consider Braverman's call for more legal procedure and guidance at high yet murky levels of the state: it's not so much a demand for show trials (as some on Twitter suggest) as a recommendation for something more ambigiously and inexorably British. "Tell trials," if you like, Kafka with a nice cup of tea ruined by wig dust.
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Internet of Things (IoT) devices are revolutionizing the way we share data and carry a huge charter to improve our banking, shopping, transportation, patient, and individual care and safety, to name a just a few. The mission is admirable, but with thousands of devices flooding the market, the lack of standards and multitude of security deficiencies are creating an on-ramp to corporate, government, and private networks that is wide open to cyberattacks.
This isn’t a problem we might face in the future, it is already happening. Last November, a computer network managed-service provider in South Florida discovered that body cameras purchased for a local police department were infected with a version of Conficker, one of the world’s most prolific computer worms. The worm moved swiftly from the cameras to the connected computer and immediately attempted to spread to other machines on the network.
Earlier this year, Shodan, a search engine for IoT, launched a service that lets users browse for vulnerable webcams. With minimal effort, users can find images of sleeping babies, the back rooms of banks, laboratories, college campuses, and more.
The collection and sharing of IoT data is reshaping many industries, improving safety and productivity, while reducing costs. Research reports forecast that that up to 200 billion smart devices, ranging from smart refrigerators to commuter buses and advanced medical equipment, will be connected by 2020. Gartner estimates that 6.4 billion connected devices will be in use in 2016, up 30% from last year. However, the security infrastructure to protect sensors and cameras that feed data into networks is sorely lacking. High availability and safety are important attributes of IoT deployments and downtime of IoT sensors and/or a network can cause serious damage to an organization and, depending on the deployment, public safety.
IoT sensors and devices can introduce multiple points of vulnerability into a network. Just a few of the security challenges include a dramatic increase in unauthorized access, weak encryption, targeted attacks exploiting vulnerabilities in vendor software, and weak passwords. Once inside the network, attackers can use stolen credentials or move laterally to gain illegitimate access to company assets, information, or to cause damage to critical infrastructure.
Healthcare organizations are attractive targets for cyberattacks since they use picture archive and communications systems (PACS’s) servers, which store critical patient data such as x-rays and other digital images, payment gateways for credit card processing, and other data gathering and aggregation frameworks.
Lack of Adequate Security
To date, many IoT sensor and device manufacturers have failed to provide adequate security to their devices. The market for consumer IoT devices such as cameras, thermostats, or other connected home devices is very price sensitive and manufacturers have focused on minimizing price versus building in security. Each of the 6.4 billion devices connected in 2016 are potentially exploitable, especially problematic given that IoT devices are just as susceptible to the types of cyberattacks that have been plaguing organizations, such as ransomware. It is notable that at Def Con this year, hackers demonstrated the first ransomware attack on IoT smart thermostats, proving that this is no longer just a hypothetical fear. In this attack an attacker could crank up the heat and lock the IoT device until sweltering occupants paid a ransom to unlock it.
With the increase in IoT adoption, things are being forced to change. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has, in recent years, brought more than 50 cases against companies that did not provide reasonable security precautions to their products, services, and networks. Maneesha Mithal, associate director of the FTC’s division of privacy and identity protection, said, “The message from our enforcement actions is that companies can’t rush to get their products to the market at the expense of security. If you don’t have reasonable security, then that could be a violation of the FTC Act.”
Compliance to regulation is always good, however, it should never be taken as a security plan. With over 700 reported security breaches reported in 2015, it is clear that even with the best efforts at prevention, the clever hacker can and will find his way into the networks. Because of this, companies should have an adaptive defense of prevention and detection for both their enterprise and IoT networks. A new generation of deception technology is designed to detect in-network cyber attackers regardless of whether the attack is a targeted, stolen credential, ransomware, or insider threat. Deception has become increasing popular since it uses highly-efficient luring and engagement techniques vs. relying on signatures or attack patterns to identify attackers.
IT and security teams can configure these deception platforms to appear identical to IoT systems based on XMPP, COAP, MQTT, HL7, and DICOM-based PACS servers in their networks. IoT vendors use the protocols to support a wide away of applications that allow for a more cohesive machine-to-machine communication and monitoring concerning critical data and machine status. The deception platform then appears as production IoT servers and service gateways, deceiving attackers into thinking they are authentic devices as they look to onramp onto production networks.
An Ounce of Prevention
To prevent the hacker from sneaking onto the network from these devices, early visibility to attacker in-network reconnaissance and lateral movement is critical. Deception is designed to make the entire network a trap and provide the real-time visibility and alerting of these in-network threats. The solution should also not just detect the threat but be able to identify different threats, their threat levels, and provide an incident response playbook that includes detailed attack information to automatically quarantine and remediate infected systems.
Hackers use the element of surprise, bidingtheir time to complete an attack. By engaging with the decoys and not the production devices, the attackers reveal themselves and IT and security teams can quarantine and study them for detailed forensics that they can then use for remediation and prevention of future attacks. The IoT deception solution should analyze the attack techniques, the lateral movement of the attack, which systems are infected, and provide the signatures to stop the attack.
Businesses deploying or expanding their IoT networks should build a comprehensive adaptive defense strategy to protect these critical assets. Seven critical actions to build this defense include:
- Build security in from the start – Make decisions about how information is collected, how long it’s retained, and who can access it with security in mind. And, review these decisions periodically as the network grows and evolves.
- The type of data collected will inform security decisions – IT and security teams should understand in detail what individual and device identifiers the device will collect and transmit, actively and passively, from and about users. Teams should view this data in terms of whether the data is personal to the user or can identify the device location. They should ensure manufacturers have employed extra security considerations when developing a device that will collect sensitive consumer data, such as financial information, geolocation, or information collected about high-risk groups such as children or the elderly.
- Think through how data is handled - IT and security teams should develop policies that impose limits on the collection and retention of consumer data. This might include retaining only truncated credit card information, for example. Teams should also minimize the amount of data collected to reduce the potential for compromise.
- Protect the data via additional security measures – Security measures should go beyond simple safeguarding of the device, they should also include administrative, technical, and physical safeguards of the entire network.
- Check vendor performance claims – when deploying physical sensors or devices, IT and security teams should re-confirm that the products are protected as claimed by the vendor.
- Put in place policies to safeguard the network form third parties – Create documented processes for third-party service providers to handle critical data and network hardware and software. This can include limiting their exposure to the network and data, and requiring the vendor to provide notification of any breach.
- Stay up to date on security trends – Prevent what you can, but also have the visibility into threats that have bypassed these systems. Make sure these systems can detect both known and unknown threats and that they deliver substantiated alerts and attack forensics to streamline incident response, remediation, and ongoing attack prevention.
Securing the vast amounts of data generated in IoT environments and their open architectures carries significant risks that IT and security teams, company management, and boards of directors must understand and be proactive in managing. Deception technology is a valuable element of an adaptive defense strategy for IoT continuous threat management and will provide efficient and much need visibility into in-network threats for IoT environments that arise from the lack the standardization and the controls to secure it.
Over time, enhancements will be made to better secure IoT networks and their critical data, however, as we have seen, even in highly controlled enterprise environments, an attacker will still find clever ways to get in. The best defense for IoT networks will continue to be one that has a balance of prevention and real-time detection to know what’s lurking in your network. | <urn:uuid:65e98a44-8a5f-4251-a2c9-076540d21996> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.dbta.com/Editorial/Trends-and-Applications/Arming-IoT-Networks-with-Early-and-Accurate-Advanced-Cyber-Threat-Protection-113993.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573908.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820043108-20220820073108-00269.warc.gz | en | 0.942846 | 1,855 | 2.71875 | 3 |
Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) are used by many organizations to connect remote networks together and to securely access the network when away from the offices. Thanks to Google's network services and a third-party company, Gbridge, you can have your own VPN.
You can install the Gbridge software (see Figure 1) on all your computers to remotely access your desktop, files, and to sync or backup folders. All this travels through your virtual encrypted network, so everything is totally secure--great for when connecting to your computers from Wi-Fi hotspots. You can even invite friends to your Gbridge network, giving them limited access to your files and computer.
Here's a rundown of the features and functionality offered by Gbridge:
- Access files shared by Gbridge on your or your friends' computers, from within a Web browser.
- When remotely viewing photos, it creates automatic thumbnails and sideshows.
- It also gives you instant access to video and media files.
- Access the regular Windows shared folders/drives between your computers.
- Use remote desktop over an encrypted connection to your or your friends' computers.
- Use AutoSync to synchronize folders between your computers and/or friends.
- Use EasyBackup to automatically have a directory(s) backed up to another computer.
Understanding the Accounts and Hostnames
When you login later, you'll also notice that you must input a Hostname. This is a name that identifies the particular computer and is displayed in Gbridge on each of your computers and your friends' computers. For example, for your computer at home you might put HomeDesktop, for the PC at work you might use WorkDesktop, and for the laptop you might just say Laptop.
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The 50th anniversary of the enactment of Title IX will be celebrated on June 23.
Title IX is a broad-based statute prohibiting gender discrimination in all aspects of educational programs and activities, including athletics.
Title IX was not enacted until my competitive days were over. Yes, I am old(er). I remember well the inequities during my 10 years of competing. Not so much at the youth level, but when I reached high school and college.
My high school district offered boys’ competitive swimming but not for girls until my senior year. I did participate in synchronized swimming, but since I already had been competing in competitive swimming since the age of 10, it was disappointing. It was nice I was able to participate in AAU and YMCA swimming during those early years.
My final year competing was as a freshman in college. Women’s sports were in the early stages at the college level and my university started a competitive swim team. However, we struggled to get access to the primary pool on campus before 9 p.m. because of classes and the established men’s team.
We had to pay for our own team suits. We traveled to away meets in private cars.
When I got my public relations job at another university about five years later, the sports information office was not covering the few women’s sports offered by the separate women’s athletics department. There was one full-time staff member assisted by two student assistants. In my capacity as a news writer, I became the first full-time assistant sports information director covering women’s athletics about two years later.
Local and national coverage of girls’ and women’s sports has improved greatly, but it still has room to improve. Without coverage, interest will not grow.
We’ve come a long way, but there’s still a ways to go. The NCAA recently was condemned for the equivalent of exercise/weight equipment provided for the women’s basketball tournament as the men’s tournament. Budgets still are lower for women’s athletics, women’s coaches can still be paid lower than their male counterparts. And so on.
However, women’s Olympic presence has steadily grown since the first modern Games in 1896, the last time women were excluded from competing.
Women comprised just 2.2 percent of athletes in their first Summer Games (1900) and 4.3 percent in their first Winter Games (1924). They didn’t reach 10 percent until 1936, 20 percent until 1960 and 30 percent until 1994.
The Olympics are nearly gender equal now. A Winter Games-record 45 percent of athletes in Beijing were women and 49 percent of athletes in Tokyo were women, a Summer Games record.
In reviewing male and female activities, The Office of Civil Rights considers whether the activity is structured and administered in a manner consistent with established intercollegiate or interscholastic varsity sports in the athletics program, including whether the operating budget, support services (academic, sports medicine and strength and conditioning) and coaching staff are administered by the athletics department or another entity, and are provided in a manner consistent with established sports; whether participants are eligible to receive scholarships and awards in established sports; and whether participants are recruited in a manner consistent with established sports.
Also, whether practice opportunities are available consistently, whether the regular season competition differ quantitatively and/or qualitatively; whether the number of competitions and length of play are predetermined by governing athletics organizations, a conference or a consortium of institutions; whether the schedule reflects the abilities of the team; and whether there is a defined season and who it’s governed by.
These are just a few of the guidelines educational institutions need to be concerned with when looking at their athletics programs.
I was aware of discrepancies when I was growing up in the sports world but I am thankful for the opportunities I did have. I am thankful I have in some small way been a part of making things better for the girls rising to greater competitive heights.
Nancy Justis is a former competitive swimmer and college sports information director. She is a partner with Outlier Creative Communications. Let her know what you think at firstname.lastname@example.org | <urn:uuid:9f0574c9-867a-4661-8db2-1cfc4ec6815f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thegazette.com/sports/remembering-a-time-before-title-ix/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00271.warc.gz | en | 0.977015 | 887 | 2.109375 | 2 |
Bear Valley National Wildlife Refuge
The 4,200-acre Bear Valley National Wildlife Refuge was established in 1978 primarily to protect a night roosting site used by many wintering bald eagles in southern Oregon. The property is mostly forested in Ponderosa pine, Douglas fir, incense cedar and white pine. These are mostly mature trees that offer the open branching pattern much favored by large raptors. As the property is also located mostly on a northeast slope, the roosting birds are protected from the prevailing westerly winter winds. Up to 300 bald eagles have been counted in these trees in a single night.
There are no human-oriented amenities on the property but to get to the viewing area, go to the Keno-Worden Road west of US Highway 97, just south of Worden. Go west until you cross the railroad tracks, then turn left onto a dirt road. Follow the dirt road for 1/2 mile, then park along the shoulder. The property itself is closed to all public entry other than a limited deer hunting season (pre-November 1), but it is possible to catch the bald eagle "flyout" during the winter months (January and February are best). The birds start leaving their roosts about 1/2 hour before sunrise and are most concentrated during that first hour of flight. The viewing spot is just to the east of the main roosting area.
Map of Bear Valley National Wildlife Refuge area
In the lower left is a map showing the location of the viewing area near Bear Valley NWR
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How does one research men in the Korean War?It doesn't seem that there are many military records available.
Does anyone know of books, fiche, etc. that are good sources to research men in this war?
I'm researching any GRIGGS that served in this war to write mini-biographies on each. I'm finding it difficult to find info and I know there must be more GRIGGS that served in this war that I've been able to identify to-date. HELP. | <urn:uuid:0f12a856-23d7-4ae4-81cc-dd735be56f8c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.genealogy.com/forum/general/topics/koreanwar/215/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280761.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00095-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969199 | 103 | 1.59375 | 2 |
Following David Cameron's speech to the Clean Energy Ministerial, below is a comment from Nathan Goode, Head of Energy, Environment and Sustainability at Grant Thornton;
"Cameron has pulled a rabbit out of the hat with his first speech on 'green issues'. We have confirmation that this Government remains committed to a diversified low carbon energy mix which is excellent news. Cameron's speech set the record straight with regards to his commitment to renewable and clean energy, and outlined concrete plans to take this sector forward into commercialisation.
"For the clean energy industry to thrive, it must retain a relentless focus on commercialisation. In a report Grant Thornton issued on 23rd April, we found that organisations globally are looking to clean technologies not simply for CSR reasons, but to save money and increase profitability. This tells us cleantech is going mainstream with the challenges and opportunities that this entails.
"The renewables sector has experienced some turbulence in policy support over the last few months. However, today, we see the Government recognises the importance of this sector and I hope that this pledge of support will be seen as a turning point in producing a successful and effective clean energy industry in the UK."
Off Shore Wind
"Cameron's speech detailed some of the ways in which his Government will support clean energy and in particular, he placed a strong focus on offshore wind. We're seeing targeted announcements designed to create collaboration and pathways to commercialisation for the offshore wind industry. Enhancing commercial viability is the best way to deal with the subsidy question as it gets us to position of reducing the subsidy quicker. This should be a win-win for the sector although the pathways to commercialisation must be constructed in the right way and given time to work efficiently as they won't solve cost problems overnight."
"The nature of the renewables sector means emphasis is often placed on the big ticket end but Cameron's speech made clear that Government realises the importance of SMEs in achieving the renewable energy targets set for the UK. SMEs and innovative entrepreneurs are key to making supply chains in the clean energy sector happen and therefore it is right that they are given support. He announced plans for the Entrepreneurial Fund that will not only enable smaller enterprises to attract investment and set themselves up, but it will be run by a panel of industry experts who will recognise the potential in the SME projects they will be assessing, reducing the likelihood of a fantastic idea slipping through the net as it does not correlate to a civil service 'tick sheet' method of approval."
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Circles of Influence™
Research across multiple fields highlights that there are multiple influences on how you move – your strategies for posture & movement – and how you feel – your symptoms and your experience of your body.
The ConnectTherapy Circles of Influence is a visual representation to illustrate this concept. The amount of linking and overlapping of the circles is dynamic and changes depending on how different influences affect you at different times and during different activities.
You (the patient) are at the centre, with your current experience of your body and your strategies for posture and movement – the dark blue “Strategies” circle. This refers to how you currently move – how efficient your movement strategies are, how you may be loading some areas of your body non-optimally, and perhaps how you may not be moving some areas enough. How you move, and how much you move, influences how you feel.
Then you see multiple different intersecting circles that can influence how you feel and how you move. There are the light blue “Systems” circles. You can see things like the Respiratory system, the Skeletal system (bones), the Cardiovascular system, and the Muscular system in these circles. Problems in any of these systems can affect how you move and how you feel, so they link into the central circles.
For example, a fractured rib (Skeletal system) will make you splint your ribcage with your muscles (Muscular system), making your thorax stiffer and less able to counter-rotate relative to your pelvis when you walk. Your strategy for walking will be less fluid and more rigid. You’ll also take less deep breaths due to the pain, which is less optimal for your Respiratory system. Your Nervous System (Neural) then learns a different way to breathe as a new habit. As you can see from this example, dysfunction in one system affects the function of other systems, and thus the light blue circles can overlap more to illustrate this.
The purple “Potential Barriers & Facilitators” includes potential influencers like stress, nutrition, the environment, emotions, and beliefs about your problem and your body. It is well established by science that all of these factors can either help you feel better and move better, or be a barrier for you to move optimally and feel well. Again, depending on the different events that happen in our lives, the amount of overlap this purple circle has on our experience of our body (the middle circle) and our ability to move well (strategies circle) changes over time and is dynamic.
Finally, the pink “Drivers” circle links all of the other circles. Drivers are areas in your body that are not functioning optimally to support your movement strategies, and are the “way in” to changing how your whole body moves and changing how you feel. These are the regions in your body that we do further assessment of in order to determine what treatment techniques to use and what exercises to prescribe.
Overall, the Circles of Influence illustrate the many different influences on how you feel and how you move. In order to design the most effective treatment program for you, we do a thorough, whole body assessment process to understand your goals and determine what the most important influences are for you, your body and your ability to do the things you love. | <urn:uuid:e7df25fc-edf9-4f55-9424-ef534b745291> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://synergyphysiopilates.com/unique-approaches/circles-of-influence/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00274.warc.gz | en | 0.928449 | 697 | 2.46875 | 2 |
Everyone probably has a different definition of "big." More than two pages? More than 25? The underlying concern is this: what constitutes a project plan that is meaningful and also useful and usable, as opposed to being just so much overhead that someone had to spend time creating and maintaining? The plan document for any project needs to be long enough to
contain the information needed to define and communicate the major parameters of the project: the objectives, deliverables, tasks, schedule, and other elements required to achieve the desired outcomes, as defined during the planning process. Thus, the length of each section will be determined by the amount of information and depth of detail needed to convey this for the particular project. And the length of a monolithic project plan document will be the sum of those parts.
Which raises a very important point: It doesn't have to be in one document. Here are a few notes on how project plan documents may differ. The base goals are the same, though—to have a document that is meaningful and useful (it imparts information people need to know), and is usable (it's formatted in such a way that people can and will refer to it rather than ignoring it).
A large project typically would have a traditional Project Plan document. There are lots of groups in the company involved, a larger size team, lots of moving parts, a number of different stakeholders interested in what's going on. So it makes sense to have a way to communicate major project parameters to all those people.
Does that mean a 30-page monolithic document is in order? Using the "meaningful and useful" and "usable" tests, the project manager might decide that the info gets handled this way: All the summary info in the Project Plan document, and all the details of each area outside it. For example, the Project Plan document gives a short list of key major milestones, but the more detailed full milestone table the team tracks to is held separately as a single file. The Project Plan summarizes major risk items, but the full risk list or risk register is a separate working document used by the team.
The acid test is this: If you put it into the big project plan document, is anyone going to use it to help the project on a day-to-day basis? If a risk list is buried in a 30-page document, is anyone going to look at it regularly, and is the project manager even going to want to update it in that format?
Thus, a large project may often have a Project Plan document at a higher level as a communication tool, and detailed working files for all the various aspects like risks and milestones.
A small project may easily fit its plan information into one document that is less than 10 pages. Does that still sound too long for a smaller project? The key is to focus on meaningful and usable. Even a small project needs to communicate the goals, scope, dates, etc. in a way that tells the team and stakeholders what the plan is. Yes, for a two-week project a 10-page document sounds like big-time overkill. One page in a Word document or a long email might be good enough for a one-week project.
For a three-month project, if we do a thorough job of everything, there may be ten pages worth of stuff, especially if individual items like the risk list are included in this plan document. Some teams on smaller projects like to do that—they'd rather just pass around and update one 10-page document than update a bunch of little ones.
The subjects or topics to be addressed in the Project Plan can be found in our guideline Planning and Scheduling: Create Project Plan Document and the related Generic Project Plan Document provides an example of a basic plan. These templates provide guidelines and outlines for Project Plan documents and information about how to tailor the document to your project. Other resources in our Planning and Scope Resource Index provide examples of various project plans.
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- Duffin, Jacalyn
- Date of entry: Mar-16-2008
- Last revised: Mar-15-2008
Dora Rare, the only girl child born in multiple generations of her family is encouraged by her mother to establish a bond with Miss Babineau, an odd isolated midwife, whose wisdom on health matters is much sought after by the local women in their small Nova Scotia community. Gripping and intimate encounters with her neighbours as birthing mothers and as women seeking control over their fertility lead Dora to accept a role as Marie’s successor. When arrogant, young Dr Gilbert Thomas comes to town with his strong ideas about science and birth, he is appalled at the practices of the local women; he also resents the competition. Dora embarks on a difficult marriage herself and seeks temporary refuge in the United States where she witnesses a new kind of independence.
This novel won 3 awards from the Canadian Booksellers Association.
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anxious to become acquainted with the principles of were satisfied that we had a right to enter ; after which, Christianity; and such was his progress, that in the we deposited a present for the private minister of state, month of June he was admitted publicly into the Moung Zah, and were ushered into his apartment in the Church of Christ by baptism, and in the following dered us to sit before several governors and petty kings,
palace-yard. He received us very pleasantly, and orweek the Missionaries enjoyed the high privilege of who were waiting at his levee. We here, for the first sitting down at the Lord's table with the first-fruits of time, disclosed our character and object—told him, that their mission, a converted Burman. In reference to we were Missionaries or propagators of Religion ;' that this interesting young man, Mrs Judson writes :- we wished to appear before the emperor, and present
“ Little did I think, when I last wrote, that I should our sacred books, accompanied with a petition. He so soon have the joyful intelligence to communicate, took the petition into his hands, looked over about balf that one Burman has embraced the Christian Religion, of it, and then familiarly asked several questions about and gives good evidence of being a true disciple of the
our God, and our Religion, to which we replied. Just at dear Redeemer. This event--this single trophy of vic- this crisis, some one announced that the golden foot was torious grace, has filled our hearts with sensations, hard about to advance; on which the minister hastily rose ly to be conceived by Christians in Christian countries. up, and put on his robes of state, saying, that he must This circumstance has convinced us, that God can and seize the moment to present us to the emperor. We does operate on the minds of the most dark and igno- now found, that we had unwittingly fallen on an unprorant; and that he makes his own truths, his own words, pitious time, it being the day of the celebration of the the instrument of operation. It serves, also, to encour
late victory over the Cassays, and the very hour when age us to zope, that the Lord has other chosen ones in his majesty was coming forth to witness the display made this place. As Mr Jadson has given some account of
on the occasion. When the minister was dressed, he just the first impressions of this man, and as I have had him said, “How can you propagate Religion in this empire ? particularly under my instruction since his conversion,
But come along.' Our hearts sunk at these inauspicious I will give you some of his remarks in his own words, words. He conducted us through various splendour and with which you will be much interested. “In our Re- parade, until we ascended a flight of stairs, and entered ligion there is no way to escape the punishment due to
a most magnificent hall. He directed us where to sit, sin ; but, according to the Religion of Christ, he him and took his place on one side, the present was placed self has died in order to deliver his disciples. I wish all
on the other, and Moung Yo, and another officer of the Burmans would become his disciples; then we should Mya-day-men, sat a little behind. The scene to which meet together as you do in your country; then we should
we were now introduced really surpassed our expectaall be happy together in heaven. How great are my
tion. The spacious extent of the hall, the number and thanks to Jesus Christ for sending teachers to this coun- magnitude of the pillars, the height of the dome, the try! and how great are my thanks to the teachers for whole completely covered with gold, presented a most coming! Had they never come and built that zayat, Igrand and imposing spectacle. Very few were present, should never have heard of Christ and the true God. and those evidently great officers of state. Our situaI mourn that so much of my life passed away before I tion prevented us from seeing the further avenue of the heard of this Religion. How much I have lost!' It is hall; but the end where we sat opened into the parade, peculiarly interesting to see with what eagerness he which the emperor was about to inspect. We remained drinks in the truths from the Scriptures. A few days about five minutes, when every one put himself into ago I was reading with him Christ's sermon on the the most respectful attitude, and Moung Yo whispered mount. He was deeply impressed, and unusually so that his majesty had entered. We looked through the lemn. These words,' said he, 'take hold on my very hall, as far as the pillars would allow, and presently heart; they make me tremble. Here God commands caught sight of the modern Ahasuerus. He came forus to do every thing that is good in secret, not to be ward, unattended—in solitary grandeur-exhibiting the seen of men. How unlike our Religion is this! When proud gait and majesty of an Eastern monarch. His Burmans make offerings to the pagodas, they make a
dress was rich, but not distinctive; and he carried in great noise with drums and musical instruments, that his hand the gold sheathed sword, which seems to have others may see how good they are. But this Religion taken the place of the sceptre of ancient times. But it makes the mind fear God; it makes it, of its own ac- was his high aspect and commanding eye, that chiefly cord, fear sin.'"
rivetted our attention. He strode on. Every head, Shortly after this period two more made a public pro- excepting ours, was now in the dust. We remained fession of their belief in the principles of Christianity. narch. "When he drew near, we caught his attention.
kneeling, our hands folded, our eyes fixed on the moThe Missionaries and their object now became well
He stopped, partly turned towards us__ Who are these?' known in Rangoon. The people, however, seemed to · The teachers, great king,' I replied. What, you be afraid of repairing to the zayat, lest the jealousy speak Burman—the priests that I heard of last niglit?' of the government should be excited. The attendance, • When did you arrive ?' ' Are you teachers of Relitherefore, was daily diminishing. Mr Judson and his gion?' 'Are you like the Portuguese priests?' * Are only remaining associate, Mr Colman, saw that no fur- you married ?? · Why do you dress so?' These, and ther attempts could with safety be made without the appeared to be pleased with us, and sat down on an ele
some other similar questions we answered; when he authority of the king. With the permission of the vated seat_his hand resting on the hilt of his sword, viceroy, accordingly, they set out to Ava, leaving their and his eyes intently fixed on us. Moung Zah now befamilies at Rangoon. Their first convert, Moung Nau, gan to read the petition. accompanied them. They took with them as a present “ The emperor heard it, and stretched out his band. to his Burman Majesty, the Bible, in six volumes, Moung Zah crawled forward and presented it. His covered with gold leaf, in the Burman style, and each majesty began at the top, and deliberately read it through. volume enclosed in a rich wrapper.
In the mean time, I gave Moung Zab an abridged copy
On the 25th Janu- of the tract, in which every offensive sentence was cor, ary 1820, they arrived safely at Amarapora, at that time rected, and the whole put into the handsomest style and the capital of the empire. The particulars of their inter- dress possible. After the emperor had perused the peview with the king are too important to be omitted :- tition, he handed it back without saying a word, and
“ We proceeded to the palace. At the outer gate took the tract. Our hearts now rose to God for a dis. we were detained a long time, until the various officers play of his grace. “O, have mercy on Burmah! Have
mercy on her king !' But, alas ! the time was not yet Rangoon, from having been the theatre, in which
He held the tract long enough to read the two so much of the faithfulness, power, and mercy of God first sentences, which assert, that there is one eternal had been exhibited—from having been considered, for God, who is independent of the incidents of mortality, ten years past, as my home for life-and from a thouand that, besides him, there is no God; and then, with sand interesting associations of ideas, had become the an air of indifference, perhaps disdain,-he dashed it to dearest spot on earth. Hence, you will readily imagine, the ground! Moung Zah stooped forward, picked it that no ordinary consideration could have induced my up, and handed it to us. Moung Yo made a slight at- departure.” tempt to save us, by unfolding one of the volumes which On her arrival in Calcutta, Mrs Judson was persuadcomposed our present, and displaying its beauty ; buted to change her intention, and to embark in a ship bis majesty took no notice. Our fate was decided. bound for England. On her passage she had a severe After a few moments, Moung Zah interpreted his royal master's will, in the following terms :_ In regard to the attack of her complaint, which confined her to her cabin objects of your petition, his majesty gives no order. In
for several days. During her stay in England, she reregard to your sacred books, his majesty has no use for
sided chiefly in the house of the late excellent Mr them-take them away.'
Joseph Butterworth, member of parliament, a man of The next day they made some further efforts to ac- an admirable Christian spirit, and one who could so complish their object, but in vain; and accordingly fully appreciate the worth of his guest, that at a meetwithout delay they returned to Rangoon. They imme-ing of the English Baptist Missionary Society, he statdiately called the three converts together, and stated ed that Mrs Judson's visit to his family showed him the result of their visit, at the same time, expressing it more strongly than ever the effect of the apostolic adas their determination to forsake their present station, monition :-“ Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, and attempt the establishment of a mission in a popul- for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.” ous tract of country between Bengal and Arracan. After spending a few months in visiting various places, The converts remonstrated against their departure, and both in England and Scotland, she set sail for New York, as some favourable symptoms were beginning to appear where she arrived on the 25th of September 1822. I among the people, it was at length resolved that Mr and was during her visit to America, that she prepared for Mrs Judson should remain in Rangoon, and that Mr the press her “ History of the Burman Mission,” which and Mrs Colman should proceed to Chittagong. has been read with no small interest by Christians on
Thus were Mr and Mrs Judson again left alone, but both sides of the Atlantic. The labour connected their hearts were cheered by the evident spread of a with the compilation of this work, tended not a little spirit of enquiry among the natives. From the extent to retard her restoration to health. By the care and of her exertions, however, in imparting instruction to kindness of her friends, however, and particularly of the native females, as well as from the effect of climate, her brother-in-law, Dr Elnathan Judson, she had so far Mrs Judson's health began to yield. The disease, which recovered as to set sail from Boston in the summer of was an affection of the liver, increased to an alarming 1823, along with Mr and Mrs Wade, who had been degree, and it became necessary that she should repair set apart as Missionaries for Burmah. without delay to Bengal. Mr Judson thought it right During the absence of Mrs Judson, the members of to accompany her. But before setting sail, they had the Church at Rangoon had increased to eighteen, and the satisfaction of seeing the Christian Church at Ran | Mr Judson's hands had been strengthened by the arrival goon increased to the number of ten individuals, in- of Dr Price, as a coadjutor in the mission. No sooner, cluding one female. On the 19th of July 1820, Mr however, did the king hear that a Missionary had come and Mrs Judson embarked for Bengal. They were ac- to the country, possessed of medical knowledge, than companied to the vessel by all the native converts, and he instantly gave orders that he should be brought by nearly a hundred other individuals, who testified to the capital. Dr Price, accordingly, obeyed the sumsincere grief at their departure.
mons, and Mr Judson also, a few days after his wife After spending a few months at Serampore, Mrs Jud. reached Rangoon, set out with her for Ava, the residson found her health considerably improved, and she ence of the king. resolved to return with her husband to the scene of their At this time, in consequence of repeated encroachlabours. Their return was hailed by the converts with ments of the Burmese government on the British pose the utmost satisfaction. It was soon but too apparent, sessions in India, a war was proclaimed, and in May however, that Mrs Judson's disease had been merely 1824, an army of nearly six thousand English and mitigated by her stay at Serampore, not totally eradi. native troops, under the command of Sir Archibald cated. It was at length resolved, therefore, that she Campbell, arrived at Rangoon. The Missionaries who should visit America ; and on the 21st of August 1821, had remained after the departure of Messrs Judson and she embarked for Bengal. Her feelings on parting Price were for some time in imminent danger, until the from her husband, and from the little Church in Bur-capture of the town by the British, secured for them mah, will be best described in her own words :- liberty and protection. News speedily reached Ava
“ Those only who have had to pass through a variety that Rangoon had been taken, and the court was thrown of toil and privation, to obtain a darling object, can rea- into the greatest commotion. A suspicion arose, and lise how entirely every fibre of the heart adheres to
was quickly propagated, that the foreigners residing in that object, when secured. Had we encountered no difficulties, and suffered no privations in our attempts
the country must have been conveying to the British to form a Church of Christ, under the government of a
army secret information, and orders were issued for the heathen despot, we should have been warmly attached apprehension of all foreigners then in the capital. The to the individuals composing it, but should not have scene which ensued is graphically delineated by Mrs felt such tender solicitude and anxious affection, as in Judson, in a letter to her brother-in-law in America :-the present case,
“ On the 8th of June, just as we were preparing for
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dinner, in rushed an officer holding a black book, with “ The next morning I sent Moung Ing to ascertain a dozen Burmans accompanied by one who, from his the situation of your brother, and give biin food if still spotted face, we knew to be an executioner, and a 'son living. He soon returned, with the intelligence, that of the prison. Where is the teacher ?' was the first Mr Judson, and all the white foreigners, were contined inquiry. Mr Judson presented himself.
in the death prison, with three pair of iron fetters each, called by the king,' said the officer ; a form of speech and fastened to a long pole to prevent their moving ! always used when about to arrest a criminal. The The point of my anguish now was, that I was a pri, spotted man instantly seized Mr Judson, threw him on soner myself, and could make no effort for the release of the floor, and produced the small cord, the instrument the Missionaries. I begged and entreated the magistrate of torture. I caught bold of his arm; “Stay, said I, to allow me to go to some member of government to I will give you money.' Take her too,' said the state my case, but he said he could not dare to consent, officer; she also is a foreigner.' Mr Judson, with an for fear I should make my escape. I next wrote a note imploring look, begged they would let me remain till to one of the king's sisters, with whom I had been infurther orders. The scene now was shocking beyond timate, requesting her to use her influence for the re. description. The whole neighbourhood had collected lease of the teachers. The note was returned with -the masons at work on the brick house threw down this message_she' did not understand it;' which was their tools, and ran--the little Burman children were a polite refusal to interfere; though I afterwards screaming and crying--the Bengalee servants stood in ascertained, that she had an anxious desire to assist us, amazement at the indignities offered their master—and but dared not, on account of the queen. The day dragthe hardened executioner, with a kind of hellish joy, ged heavily away, and another dreadful night was bedrew tight the cords, bound Mr Judson fast, and drag- fore me. I endeavoured to soften the feelings of the yed him off I knew not whither. In vain I begged and guard, by giving them tea and cigars for the night, so entreated the spotted face to take the silver, and loosen that they allowed me to remain inside of my room, withthe ropes, but he spurned my offers, and immediately out threatening as they did the night before. But the departed." I gave the money, however, to Moung Ing idea of your brother being stretched on the bare floor, to follow after, to make some farther attempt to miti- in irons and confinement, haunted my mind like a spectre, gate the torture of Mr Judson, but instead of succeeding, and prevented my obtaining any quiet sleep, though when a few rods from the house, the unfeeling wretches nature was almost exhausted. again threw their prisoner on the ground, and drew the " On the third day I sent a message to the govercords still tighter, so as almost to prevent respiration. nor of the city, who has the entire direction of prison
" The officer and his gang proceeded on to the court-affairs, to allow me to visit him with a present. This house, where the governor of the city and officers were had the desired effect; and he immediately sent orders collected, one of whom read the order of the king, to to the guards to permit my going into town. The gocommit Mr Judson to the death prison, into which he vernor received me pleasantly, and asked me what I was soon hurled; the door closed, and Moung Ing saw wanted. I stated to him the situation of the foreigners,
What a night was now before me! retir- and particularly that of the teachers, who were Ameed into my room, and endeavoured to obtain consola- ricans, and had nothing to do with the war. He told tion from committing my case to God, and imploring me it was not in his power to release them from prison fortitude and strength to suffer whatever awaited me. or irons, but that he could make their situation more But the consolation of retirement was not long allowed comfortable ; there was his head officer, with whom I me, for the magistrate of the place had come into the must consult, relative to the means, The officer, who verandah, and continually called on me to come out, proved to be one of the city writers, and whose counand submit to his examination, But previously to going tenance, at the first glance, presented the most perfect out, I destroyed all my letters, journals, and writings assemblage of all the evil passions attached to human of every kind, lest they should disclose the fact, that we nature, took me aside, and endeavoured to convince had correspondents in England, and had minuted down me, that myself, as well as the prisoners, were entireevery occurrence since our arrival in the country. When ly at his disposal ; that our future comfort must dethis work of destruction was finished, I went out and pend on my liberality in regard to presents, and that submitted to the examination of the magistrate, who these must be made in a private way, and unknown to inquired very minutely of every thing I knew, then any officer in the government ! • What must I do,' ordered the gates of the compound to be shut, no per- said I, 'to obtain a mitigation of the present sufferson to be allowed to go in or out, placed a guard of tenings of the two teachers ? • Pay to me,' said he, two rufans, to whom he gave a strict charge to keep me safe, hundred tickals, (about a hundred dollars), two pieces and departed.
of fine cloth, and two pieces of handerchiefs.' I bad “ It was now dark. I retired to an inner room with taken money with me in the morning, our house being my four little Burman girls, and barred the doors. The two miles from the prison ; I could not easily return. guard instantly ordered me to unbar the doors and come This I offered to the writer, and begged he would not out, or they would break the bouse down. I obstinately insist on the other articles, as they were not in my [03refused to obey, and endeavoured to intimidate them by session. He hesitated for some time, but fearing to threatening to complain of their conduct to the higher lose sight of so much money, he concluded to take authorities on the morrow. Finding me resolved in dis- | it, promising to relieve the teachers from their most regarding their orders, they took the two Bengalee painful situation. servants, and confined them in the stocks, in a very “ Į then procured an order from the governor, for painful position. I could not endure this; but called my admittance into prison ; but the sensations prothe head man to a window, and promised to make them duced by meeting your brother in that wretched, horall a present in the morning, if they would release the rid situation, and the affecting scene which ensued, I
After much debate, and many severe threat will not attempt to describe. Mr Judson crawled to enings, they consented, but seemed resolved to annoy the door of the prison (for I was never allowed to enme as inuch as possible. My unprotected, desolate state, ter), gave me some directions relative to his release; my entire uncertainty of the fate of Mr Judson, and but before we could make any arrangement, I was orthe dreadful carousings and almost diabolical language dered to depart, by those iron-hearted jailors who could of the guard, all conspired to make it by far the most not endure to see us enjoy the poor consolation of distressing night I had ever passed. You may well meeting in that miserable place. In vain I pleaded imagine, my dear brother, that sleep was a stranger to the order from the governor for my admittance; they my eyes, and peace and composure to my mind.
again harshly repeated, Depart, or we will pull you
out.' The same evening, the Missionaries, together “ Notwithstanding the order the governor had given with the other foreigners, who paid an equal sum, were for my admittance into prison, it was with the greatest taken out of the cominon prison, and confined in an difficulty that I could persuade the under jailor to open open shed in the prison enclosure. Here I was allow- the gate. I used to carry Mr J.'s food myself, for the ed to send them food, and mats to sleep on, but was sake of getting in, and would then remain an hour or not permitted to enter again for several days.
two unless driven out. We had been in this comfort. "My next object was to get a petition presented to able situation but two or three days, when one morning, the queen ; but no person being admitted into the pa- having carried in Mr Judson's breakfast, which, in conlace who was in disgrace with his majesty, I sought to sequence of fever, he was unable to take, I remained present it through the medium of her brother's wife. | longer than usual, when the governor, in great haste, I bad visited her in better days, and received particu- sent for me. I promised him to return as soon as I had lar marks of her favour. But now times were altered : ascertained the governor's will, he being much alarmed Mr Judson was in prison, and I in distress, which at this unusual message. I was very agreeably diswas a sufficient reason for giving me a cold reception. appointed, when the governor informed me that he I took a present of considerable value.
She was wished to consult me about his watch, and seemed lolling on her carpet as I entered, with her attend- unusually pleasant and conversable. I found afterants around her. I waited not for the usual question wards, that his only object was to detain me until the to a suppliant, ‘What do you want ?' but in a bold, ear- dreadful scene about to take place in prison, was over. nest, yet respectful manner, stated our distresses and for when I left him to go to my room, one of the our wrongs, and begged her assistance. She partly rais. servants came running, and with a ghastly countenance, ed her head, opened the present I had brought, and inforined me, that all the white prisoners were carcoolly replied, Your case is not singular ; all the ried away. I would not believe the report, and instantly fureigners are treated alike,' * But it is singular,' said went back to the governor, who said he bad just heard 1; the teachers are Americans ; they are Ministers of of it, but did not wish to tell me. I hastily ran into Keligion, and have nothing to do with war or politics, the street, hoping to get a glimpse of them before and came to Ava in obedience to the king's command. they were out of sight, but in this was disappointed, They have never done any thing to deserve such treat- I ran first into one street, then into another, inquiring ment; and is it right they should be treated thus ?' of all I met, but no one would answer me. At length, ! The king does as he pleases,' said she; I am not the an old woman told me, the white prisoners bad gone king, what can I do?' You can state their case to towards the little river; for they were to be carried the queen, and obtain their release,' replied I. . Place to Amarapora. I then ran to the banks of the little yourself in my situation, were you in America, your river, about half a mile, but saw them not, and conhusband, innocent of crime, thrown into prison, in irons, cluded that the old woman had deceived me. Some and you a solitary, unprotected female, - what would of the friends of the foreigners went to the place of exe. you do?' With a slight degree of feeling, she said, Icution, but found them not. I then returned to the gowill present your petition-come again to-morrow.' I vernor, to try and discover the cause of their removal, returned to the house with considerable hope, that the and the probability of their future fate. The old man as. speedy release of the Missionaries was at hand. But the sured me, that he was ignorant of the intention of governnext day, Mr Gouger's property, to the amount of fifty ment to remove the foreigners, till that morning; that thousand dollars, was taken and carried to the palace. since I went out he had learned, that the prisoners The officers, on their return, politely informed me, they were to be sent to Amarapora, but for what purpose should visit our house on the morrow. I felt obliged he knew not. "I will send off a man immediately,' for this information, and accordingly made preparations said he, 'to see what is to be done with them. You can to receive them, by secreting as many little articles as do nothing more for your husband,' continued he, 'take possible, together with considerable silver, as I knew, care of yourself.' With a heavy heart I went to my if the war should be protracted, we should be in a state room, and having no hope to excite me to exertion, I of starvation without it. But my mind was in a dread- sunk down almost in despair. For several days preful state of agitation, lest it should be discovered, and vious, I had been actively engaged in building my own cause my being thrown into prison. And had it been little room, and making our hovel comfortable. My possible to procure money from any other quarter, I thoughts had been almost entirely occupied in contrivshould not have ventured on such a step."
ing means to get into the prison. But now I looked The conduct of this heroic female, during her hus- towards the gate with a kind of melancholy feeling, band's imprisonment, is surely sufficient to impress but no wish to enter. All was the stillness of death; even the most thoughtless mind, with the vigour and no preparation of your brother's food; no expectation efficacy of Christian principle and feeling.
of meeting him at the usual dinner hour ; all my em
ployment, all my occupation seemed to have ceased, were left untaken, no means untried, to promote the and I had nothing left but the dreadful recollection comfort, and, if possible, to effect the deliverance of that Mr Judson was carried off, I knew not whither, the persecuted ambassadors of Christ. Time after time, --It was one of the most insupportable days I ever she made application to various members of the king's passed. Towards night, however, I came to the dehousehold; and amid all her discouragements, she still termination to set off the next morning for Amarapopersisted in presenting petitions, in making urgent per
ra, and for this purpose was obliged to go to our house
out of town. sonal entreaties, and devising new schemes for the re
"Never before had I suffered so much from fear in lease of the prisoners. “ For nearly a year and a half,” traversing the streets of Ava. The last words of the says she," so entirely engrossed was every thought governor, • Take care of yourself,' made me suspect with present scenes and sufferings, that I seldom re- there was some design with which I was unacquainted. flected on a single occurrence of my former life, or re- I saw, also, he was afraid to have me go into the streets, collected that I had a friend in existence out of Ava,” and advised me to wait till dark, when he would send me Heart-rending, indeed, is the account of the sufferings in a cart, and a man to open the gates. I took two or which the Missionaries endured ; and did our space the medicine chest, to deposit in the house of the go
three trunks of the most valuable articles, together with permit, we could give a plain unvarnished tale, which,
vernor: and after committing the house and premises nevertheless, would be enough to melt a heart of stone. to our faithful Moung Ing and a Bengalee servant, who One or two passages will suffice,
had continued with us, (though we were unable to pay
his wages,) I took leave, as I then thought probable, of to consent, hoping much from Mr Judson's assistance our house in Ava for ever."
in making peace. And a short time after this, when she had reached “We now, for the first time, for more than a year Oung-pen-la, where Mr Judson was confined, she and a half, felt that we were free, and no longer subthus remarks:
ject to the oppressive yoke of the Burmese. And with
what sensation of delight, on the next morning, did I “ Our dear little Maria was the greatest sufferer at behold the mast of the steam-boat, the sure presage this time, my illness depriving her of her usual nourish
of being within the bounds of civilized life. As soon ment, and neither a nurse nor a drop of milk could be
as our boat reached the shore, Brigadier A. and another procured in the village. By making presents to the officer came on board, congratulated us on our arrival, jailors, I obtained leave for Mr Judson to come out of and invited us on board the steam-boat, where I passed prison, and take the little emaciated creature around the
the remainder of the day, while your brother went village, to beg a little nourishment from those mothers down to meet the General, who, with a detachment of who had young children. Her cries in the night were heart-rending, when it was impossible to supply her ther down the river. Mr Judson returned in the even
the army, had encamped at Yandaboo, a few miles fur. wants
. I now began to think the very afflictions of Job ing, with an invitation from Sir Archibald to come imhad come upon me.
When in health I could bear the various trials and vicissitudes, through which I was call- ing introduced, and received with the greatest kindness by
mediately to his quarters, where I was the next morned to pass, but to be confined with sickness, and un
the General, who had a tent pitched for us near his own able to assist those who were so dear to me, when in dis
took us to his own table, and treated us with the kindness tress, was almost too much for me to bear , and had it of a father, rather than as strangers of another country. not been for the consolations of Religion, and an assured
“ We feel that our obligations to General Campbell conviction that every additional trial was ordered by in
can never be cancelled. Our final release from Ava, finite love and mercy, I must have sunk under my ac
and our recovering all the property that had there been cumulated sufferings. Sometimes our jailors seemed a
taken, was owing entirely to his efforts. His subselittle softened at our distress, and for several days to
quent hospitality, and kind attention to the accommodagether allowed Mr Judson to come to the house, which
tions for our passage to Rangoon, have left an indelible was to me an unspeakable consolation. Then, again, impression on our minds, which can never be forgotten. they would be as iron-hearted in their demands, as
We daily received the congratulations of the British though we were free from sufferings, and in affluent officers, whose conduct towards us formed a striking circumstances. The annoyance, the extortions and op- contrast to that of the Burmese. I presume to say, that pressions to which we were subject, during our six months residence in Oung-pen-la, are beyond enumera
no persons on earth were ever happier than we were,
during the fortnight we passed at the English camp. tion or description."
For several days this single idea wholly occupied my At length the approach of the English army towards mind, that we were out of the power of the Burmese the town convinced the government that some decisive government, and once more under the protection of the steps must be taken to arrest their progress. Hitherto English. Our feelings continually dictated expressions they had trusted to force, now they began to think of like these, . What shall we render unto the Lord for endeavouring to procure a peace.
At length it was re
all his benefits towards us?'" solved to send to the English camp Mr Judson, along It was chiefly in consequence of the eloquent, forcible with one of two English officers who had been taken appeals of this wonderful female, that the Burmese goprisoners. Dr Price, however, being anxious to go, vernment were persuaded to submit to the terms of peace. Mr Judson remained behind. The court waited with But such were the extreme sufferings through which she the utmost anxiety for the return of the ambassadors ; had passed, that her frame, already weakened by frequent and at length Dr Price arrived, bringing the terms of attacks of disease, could not long survive the shock. peace; one part of which was, the immediate surrender And, accordingly, during the absence of Mr Judson, on of the prisoners, particularly Mr Judson, his wife, and an exploring expedition with Mr Crawford, the Comchild. With considerable hesitation, the terms were missioner of the Governor-General of India, Mrs Jud. agreed to, and Mr Judson and his family set out to the son, having been attacked with a severe fever, was cut British camp. Their departure is thus described in the off, after eighteen days' illness. It would be consoling glowing language of Mrs Judson :
to know something of the state of her mind in her last “ It was on a cool, moonlight evening, in the month moments, but this cannot be discovered. She died in of March, that, with hearts filled with gratitude to God, a land of strangers ; and to the few friends who surand overtlowing with joy at our prospects, we passed rounded her dying bed, the severity of her disease predown the Irrawaddy, surrounded by six or eight golden vented her from saying much. But her life speaks voboats, and accompanied by all we had on earth. The lumes in favour of Christianity, as not merely impelling thought we had still to pass the Burman camp, would sometimes occur to damp our joy, for we feared that to all that is amiable and excellent, but to all that is some obstacle might there arise to retard our progress.
heroic and magnanimous, and truly sublime, in the charNor were we mistaken in our conjectures. We reached acter and actings of the human being. the camp about midnight, where we were detained two hours; the Woongyee, and high officers, insisting that
DISCOURSE. we should wait at the camp, while Dr Price, (who did
By The Rev. J. A. WALLACE, not return to Ava with your brother, but remained at the camp,) should go on with the money, and first as
Minister of Hawick. certain whether peace would be made. The Burmese “And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when government still entertained the idea, that as soon as the thou comest into thy kingdom. And Jesus said unto English had received the money and prisoners, they him, verily I say unto thee, to-day shalt thou be with would continue their march, and yet destroy the capital. me in paradise.”—Luke xxiii. 42, 43. We knew not but that some circumstance might occur to break off the negotiations ; Mr Judson, therefore, the power of divine grace, than that which is
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Format SD Card on Samsung Galaxy Tab S2
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Sooner or later you are going to want to erase data from your microSD card. Maybe it will be because you're upgrading to a larger card, or maybe you have decided it's time to wipe things out and start over. Obviously, you could simply delete files, one or two at a time; however, this is not very efficient. That's especially true of those who have large capacity microSD cards that are full of data. In such cases, the best choice is always to format the microSD card.
The actual process of formatting the microSD card is very simple and very fast. Just keep in mind that formatting your microSD card will permanently erase all photos, music, videos, files, and other images or data. While there are methods to recover some of these items, they don't always work. Therefore, backup any data you do not wish to delete. With that in mind, let's begin the tutorial.
Open the Storage Menu
- 6Proceed to the next section.
Format Your microSD Card
- 2This will open a new window informing you that data cannot be recovered after the SD card has been cleared.You will be asked if you wish to continue. As this tutorial is on how to format your microSD card in the Samsung Galaxy Tab S2, we will now press 'FORMAT SD card'.
- If you do not wish to continue you may press the back button or the home button.
- 4You will see several pop-up messages that require no action from you with the last informing you that the SD card has been inserted.You may now press 'OK'.
- Do note that you will see messages while formatting the microSD card that the card is being removed or unmounted and then being mounted again. Simply ignore these messages, as erasing the card also changes its status in the system, requiring the system to automatically remount it.
- 6Congratulations!You have successfully formatted your microSD card, and can return to using your Galaxy Tab S2 as normal.Advertisement
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Burning fuel cannot create a result like this
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Who can explain the sudden collapse of the twin towers of the World Trade Center on 9/11?
The buildings literally disintegrated into dust and molten metal burned in the sub-basements for MONTHS.
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Commercial Interior Design
Interior design is responsible for the planning, design and implementation of interior concepts into spaces across many sectors including residential, medical, entertainment, educational, professional and commercial. Each one of the above sectors can be broken down into specific areas and we are going to take a closer look at the commercial design process and focus on Hospitality interior spaces.
The commercial sector is made up of brands and businesses such as restaurants, bars, cafes, hotels, workspaces, offices and retail spaces. Whilst there are crossovers between residential and commercial interior design it’s important to point out that they are very different and require completely different levels of skill in various areas. Commercial interior design isn’t just about getting the design or aesthetics right, it’s much much more than this. As mentioned above commercial design is purely for businesses and therefore there is much more to consider.
Commercial interior design refers to interior design specifically carried out for businesses and projects are usually carried out in commercial environments. When designing a commercial interior space it’s incredibly important for the designer or design agency to be able to understand the business’ needs and the intended functionality of the space. As well as understanding these fundamentals the designer is also responsible for balancing this with the design aesthetics and implementation of the design concept too. It is essential for commercial interior design that the space has been designed to elevate the business and meet it’s short and long term needs. Interior designers will ensure the experience for both the staff and customers compliments the function of the space and more importantly the future vision of the brand.
What is a Commercial Interior Designer
Interior designers – often referred to as interior architects are responsible for overseeing an interior transformation from start to finish. Commercial interior designers in particular have a wide skill set and their role often includes spatial planning, general arrangements, FF&E schedules, architectural drawings, 3D rendering, visualisations, budgeting, client negotiation, and contractor management. They are professionals and creatives who work with businesses to create brand storytelling through interior environments, whether this be office spaces, restaurants, bars, coffee shops, retail stores.
The right interior designer will work with the business to understand the brand, the functionality of the space and the intentions of the business, they will then use this as a foundation to start researching, developing and shaping initial interior concepts. A commercial interior designer will collaborate with many professionals and contractors throughout the entire process and will be responsible for making sure the interior concept comes to fruition. Commercial Interior Designers don’t just deal with the interior detailing and problem solving they also make sure that the entire design concept and building works are aligned and applicable to the industry standards and regulations. Commercial interior design practices mostly align, and work to the ‘RIBA’ plan of work. This is an industry recognised process that organises the process of briefing, designing, constructing and operating projects into eight stages set out below.
Stage 0: Strategic Definition
Stage 1: Preparation & Briefing
Stage 2: Concept Design
Stage 3: Spatial Coordination
Stage 4: Technical Design
Stage 5: Manufacturing & Construction
Stage 6: Hand Over
(Stage 7: Use)
Commercial Interior design for hospitality
Hospitality Interior design in itself can have many types of interior projects. The hospitality sector covers the main 3… Hotels, restaurants and bars but also includes cafes, coffee shops, entertainment spaces and leisure venues too. Each interior design project will vary however there are some key principles within hospitality design that if carried out correctly can transform a hospitality brand.
Key things to think about within hospitality design include brand strategy and how the interior design company will genuinely integrate the brand’s vision and values across the materials, messaging and interior. This process should fall into the early stages of the project and inform all decision making moving forward through each stage. A key part of this is the designer/company being invested in the company and their vision.
Spatial planning is hugely important in commercial design but especially in hospitality design. Understanding the needs of the staff and the customers should not be overlooked. A customer’s entire brand experience can be affected by the spatial planning of the interior, similarly an employee’s role and job satisfaction can be defined by how well the space functions. Finding a balance between beauty and function can be challenging and this is why working closely with a commercial interior designer is key. Not only does spacial planning have to be considered for design and functionality purposes but it also has to comply with industry regulations. Access is one of many other key areas that needs close attention when designing a hospitality space, these include regulations around w/c’s, alarm systems, fire exits, product/furniture specs, Kitchen and abc of house standards.
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Peabody Energy, proposes to extract a further 27 longwall panels from the Metropolitan mine under the last remaining undamaged reaches of the Waratah Rivulet and its tributary streams. The mining is proposed to finish under the Woronora Dam storage area itself. The panels responsible for the damage that has occurred are relatively narrow longwall panels, 158 metres in width and up to two kilometres long, but the proposed new longwall panels are likely to be more extensive and will be more damaging.
In addition, the Indian coke and coal giant Gujarat NRE Coke floated its Australian subsidiary India NRE Minerals in May 2007. At the same time, the new player also announced plans to return the historic NRE No.1 colliery into a 4 million tonne per annum, multi-seam longwall operation by 2012. The three main seams proposed for mining at the colliery are the Bulli coal seam, and the largely untapped Balgownie and Wongawilli seams. Gujarat also plans intensive longwall development of its extensive Avondale holdings to the south.
Meanwhile, BHP-Billiton released expansion plans for the Dendrobium mine January 2008. The longwalls panels will be 300+ metres wide under twenty-two endangered swamps and several streams in our water supply catchments and plans to advance towards the actual stored waters.
In 2001 BHP-Billiton's experts predicted damage that included surface cracking up to 250 mm wide, drainage of streams, the draining upland swamps, mining induced landslides and rock falls affecting 10 per cent of cliffs, death of native vegetation due to methane gas emissions and water pollution from the emergence of ecotoxic groundwater. The BHP-Billiton's experts are very clear that maximising coal extraction will cause severe damage to essential water supply areas, a view more than confirmed by the metre-wide surface crevasses and water in-rush events into the mine; damage that is way excess of predictions.
The Dendrobium mining approval set a precedent for mining that is now fifty per cent more intense than operations prior to 2001. That level of environmental abuse is now being taken up by the other players. Even the lower intensity mining caused considerable damage to water catchments and supply infrastructure, as described in the above table. The Dendrobium Mine should not been approved and the proposed Stage 3 extensions should be refused due to the damage that will be caused.
Only the risk of catastrophe prompted a reduction of the approved Dendrobium mine layout by one longwall panel in the first area mined, and for the longwall panels in second mining area to be relocated away from Lake Cordeaux, but the intensity of mining was not reduced. The concern of the mine regulators was to prevent Lake Cordeaux being drained, not to ensure adequate catchment protection. A regulatory approach that seems to only draw a line when exploitation verges on madness.
Damage must be prevented by creating protection areas where coal is retained to prevent surface subsidence. The coal mining industry must be required to protect the ecological integrity, including the preservation of water quality and flow, for these water supply areas upon which 4.5 million people depend. To achieve this goal, the regulatory environment must be vastly improved. | <urn:uuid:ea15ba6a-b3a1-4a30-a6e4-1773bd018073> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://www.colongwilderness.org.au/campaigns/stop-your-catchments-cracking-up/the-impacts-of-current-mine-proposals | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718278.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00241-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948542 | 667 | 2.53125 | 3 |
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George Sand was a celebrated yet controversial French writer whose personal life oftentimes overshadowed her creative production. Known for its blend of romance and realism, her writing was effortlessly spontaneous and prolific without sacrificing style and form. Sand stated that the primary happiness in life was to be in love, and so she focused on relationships in most of her novels as she tackled the complexities of politics, society, and gender.
Works in Biographical and Historical Context
Aristocratic Upbringing in Berry
Sand was born Armandine Aurore Lucille Dupin in Paris on July 1, 1804, to parents from very different backgrounds. Her father, Maurice Dupin, was an aristocratic soldier, while her mother, Sophie Delaborde, was the daughter of a bird trainer. After her father’s death, the four-year-old Sand was entrusted to her paternal grandmother at the family estate of Nohant in Berry, a historical region in France that would later be the setting of several of her novels.
Reached Maturity in Paris
When her grandmother died, Sand, then seventeen, was reclaimed by her mother and taken to Paris. At eighteen, Sand married Casimir Dudevant, a local army officer, and later gave birth to two children. Unmoved by her coarse, unromantic husband, Sand grew restless and left her husband and children in 1831 to pursue aspirations of a literary career in Paris. Because divorce in France was illegal at this time, she battled in court for a legal separation that included property rights and custody of one of her children. She eventually prevailed, and Michel de Bourges, who advised her during her legal proceedings, became her lover. Supportive of her strength of character, Bourges persuaded Sand to express herself politically. His influence colored the remainder of Sand’s writing, which increasingly reflected her feminist and political concerns.
The failure of the 1830 revolution in France had coincided with the failure of Sand’s marriage. The three-day 1830 revolution saw the removal of King Charles X, an ultraroyalist who had ruled since 1824. Charles wanted to restore the absolute powers of the monarchy and the supremacy of the Catholic Church. Leftist forces allied with the upper bourgeoisie to replace Charles with Louis Philippe of the house of Orleans as a “citizen-king,” who agreed to be ruled by the desires of the rising industrial plutocracy.
An Unconventional Woman
Free from the social restrictions of marriage, Sand actively pursued life as a writer, moving in literary circles, selling articles, and being mentored by writers, such as Henri de Latouche and Charles Sainte-Beuve. Sand began an affair with Jules Sandeau, a young intellectual who embraced an exciting life that took advantage of Paris’s cultural offerings. Encouraged by her daring partner, Sand began dressing as a man to gain access to venues that were usually closed to women.
Though the identity of the young cross-dresser was soon public knowledge, Sand enjoyed shocking the Parisian cultural scene and continued to elicit gossip with her dress and her habit of smoking in public (considered scandalous for a woman). While these actions endangered her reputation, they also gained her literary and social fame. Inspired by Sandeau’s own literary output, she continued to write, collaborating with Sandeau and eventually publishing her first solo novel, Indiana (1832), under the male pseudonym George Sand.
Failure in Love Affects Writing
Jealous of her success, Sandeau broke with Sand, who was thrust into a period of despair. Disillusioned with men and love, she wrote Leila (1833), a novel exploring women’s inability to follow their true desires. Soon after, she began a relationship with a young poet, Alfred de Musset, and joined him in his travels throughout Italy.
Sand, a would-be anarchist, candidly admitted that she hated all political factions and said that had she been born a man, she would be dangerous. Shortly after the failed 1830 revolution she wrote Une Conspiration en 1537, in which she dramatized the anarchist she herself could not be: the Renaissance prince Lorenzo de Medici, who assassinated his cousin Duke Alexander de Medici of Florence in 1537. When Sand gave Musset Une Conspiration en 1537as a gift in 1833, Musset rewrote the play into his masterpiece, Lorenzaccio (1834), preserving Sand’s main characters and events.
Though her liaison with Musset ended when she fell in love with the doctor who was tending to Musset during an illness, Sand’s time in Italy with Musset sparked her first autobiographical writing, a series of Italian travel vignettes published as Letters of a Traveler in 1847. With a talent for observation, Sand explored the nature of travel and the customs of Italy through a series of vivid portrayals of cultural life abroad.
For nine years, Frederic Chopin was Sand’s next famous lover. During Sand and Chopin’s time together in relative seclusion in Majorca, Spain, both artists enjoyed a period of great creative productivity. Sand completed another novel before turning to a literary investigation of socialism, a growing movement in the nineteenth century that criticized the Industrial Revolution for creating inequality and poverty while advocating for the even distribution of wealth. Her dream for a more egalitarian society was reflected in Horace (1842). Sand, who believed that country people had a better understanding of democracy, idealized provincial life, an approach that would influence writers from Thomas Hardy to Leo Tolstoy. However, her provincial idealism also gained criticism for its patronizing tone and its rustic, historically inaccurate portrayals.
Sand’s next work demonstrated a more autobiographical feel. Though she denied it was drawn from her own life, her 1859 novel She and He depicts her tumultuous relationship with Musset. The work was immediately attacked for its depiction of Musset, who had died two years earlier, and Sand was criticized for using men to her advantage. She and He even provoked Musset’s brother to write a novel in response, and Lui et Elle (He and She) appeared just six weeks after Sand”s book.
Though Sand was criticized for her “unfeminine” affairs and her carefree, dismissive attitude toward convention, she was still held in high regard, and her 1860 novel Le Marquis de Villemer appeared to great fanfare. Along with several of Sand’s other works, it was later adapted for the stage. As a result, Sand began writing plays with rustic settings, creations that were extremely popular and rein-vented Sand in the eyes of French society.
Retired to Nohant
After her 1872 retirement from the world of Paris theater, Sand settled at the family estate in Nohant. There, she spent time caring for her granddaughters, for whom she wrote several stories and novels emphasizing self-confidence, acceptance, and change. She grew less concerned with politics, preferring to enjoy the company of family and friends, including authors Gustave Flaubert and Ivan Turgenev. After suffering from a stomach ailment that was most likely cancer, Sand died in her bedroom on June 9, 1876.
Works in Literary Context
Sand is best known for bold statements about the rights of women in nineteenth-century society, her exploration of contemporary social and philosophical issues, and her depiction of the lives and language of French provincials. Each period of her literary career focused on specific themes and had its own set of influences. Her rustic novels are perhaps the truest representation of her form as an author.
Rebellion Against Marriage
The works of her first period reflect her rebellion against the bonds of marriage and deal largely with the relationships between men and women. Clearly influenced by English poet Lord Byron and French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Sand wrote romantic novels full of passionate personal revolt and ardent feminism, attitudes that went against societal conventions and outraged her early British and American critics. These early novels, including Indiana, Lelia, and Jacques (1834), were extremely successful and established Sand as an important literary voice for her generation.
The works of Sand’s second period—such novels as Consuelo (1842-1843) and The Miller of Angibault (1845)—reveal Sand’s increasing concern with contemporary social and philosophical problems. These novels were strongly influenced by French philosopher and politician Pierre Leroux and deal specifically with humanitarianism, Christian socialism, and republicanism. Considered by many to be her least credible works, their tone is often didactic and their plots obviously contrived.
Sand’s pastoral novels, which depict rural scenes and peasant characters, form the last phase of her career. Set in Berry, where she grew up, The Haunted Marsh (1846) and Francis the Waif (1847-1848) were inspired by her love of the French countryside and her sympathy with the peasants. Realistic in background detail and distinguished by their gentle idealism, these pastoral works are considered by many critics to be Sand’s finest novels. Although she continued writing until her death, few of the works written after her pastoral period are remembered today.
Sand’s work is recognized as an important step in the development of the French novel, influencing writers like George Eliot and Thomas Hardy with their provincial idealization and portrayal of rustic lifestyles. An admired colleague of Victor Hugo and Alexandre Dumas, Sand was also an inspiration to Gustave Flaubert, with whom she had a meaningful literary friendship. Opposites in most every regard, she and Flaubert shared ongoing intellectual arguments over their conflicting literary philosophies.
Works in Critical Context
Considering the moral climate during her lifetime and her open defiance of social standards, it is not surprising that Sand became better known for her personal life than for her literary accomplishments. From the onset of her career, Sand’s flamboyant lifestyle colored serious critical evaluation of her work. Reception to Sand’s literature was oftentimes hostile, with critics dismissing her ”adolescent” work based on what they perceived to be her lack of morality.
Criticism through the Years
When several of her novels were adapted for the stage, Sand enjoyed great popular success, and many of her books were reissued to a receptive audience. In spite of this, much of Sand’s work was dismissed as autobiographical and beneath literary notice. After her death in 1876, Sand’s literary popularity declined. There is evidence that Sand’s most ardent attackers could have been motivated by gender bias, professional or personal jealousy, or genuine aversion to her art and politics. Whatever their driving force, Sand’s critics succeeded in diminishing her accomplishment, and she fell into obscurity. Sand’s work was rediscovered in the 1950s and began to receive serious attention from feminist critics who have since redefined her place in the French literary canon.
Marked by Sand’s critique of marriage and her incipient feminism, Indiana outraged some early British and American critics, but was extremely popular with the general reading public, prompting early reviewers to speculate about the author s sex by identifying both masculine and feminine qualities in the novel s language and characterizations. More recently, critics have argued the extent to which Indiana can be interpreted as a feminist novel, and many have studied Sand s manipulation of conventional gender categories through her transformations of Ralph and Raymon. The work has also been read as a critique of bourgeois domesticity and its circumscription of women within the household or private sphere. Modern scholarship has also noted that Sand crafted the central personalities in Indiana from stock characters of romance. Raymon, for example, is a Don Juan type.
Many critics have offered interpretations of the novel, including Carol V. Richards. In George Sand Papers: Conference Proceedings, 1978, Richards interprets the novel as ”not the failure of love … but the triumph of an ideal love which wins for the heroine the happiness she missed in her loveless marriage.
- Crecelius, Kathryn J. Family Romances: George Sand’s Early Novels. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987.
- Dickinson, Donna. George Sand: A Brave Man, the Most Womanly Woman. Oxford, U.K.: Berg, 1988.
- Richards, Carol V. ”Structural Motifs and the Limits of Feminism in Indiana.” In George Sand Papers: Conference Proceedings, 1978. Edited by Natalie Datlof et al. New York: AMS Press, 1982.
- Schermerhorn, Elizabeth W. The Seven Strings of the Lyre: The Romantic Life of George Sand. Whitefish, Mont.: Kessinger, 2003.
- Seyd, Felicia. Romantic Rebel: The Life and Times of George Sand. New York: Viking, 1940.
- The George Sand Association. Retrieved March 16, 2008, from http://people.hofstra.edu/david_a_ powell/gsa.
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A special edition of the School Science Review devoted to Education for Sustainability, published to mark the half way stage of the UNESCO Decade, seemed like an ideal opportunity for an article on the potential of the Earth Charter for science teaching in secondary schools. The only difficulty was that the Jeffrey Newman, EC affiliate in the UK, has no scientific expertise whatsoever – so it was necessary to find collaborators.
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Jason Holbrook was formerly Head of Science and is now Deputy Head of Avonbourne School in Bournemouth. It was through his involvement with the Earth Charter in writing the article that he and the Head Teacher, Debbie Godfrey-Phaure decided that Avonbourne should become the first school in the UK to endorse the Earth Charter. Jason has ensured that the article includes practical suggestions of use to teachers in their development of a scientific curriculum.
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The Making of Life of Pi: A Film, a Journey (Hardcover)
Diversely illustrated with 275 photographs and illustrations, The Making of Life of Pi tells the inside story of how renowned Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee brought Yann Martel's international bestseller to life as a 3-D film.
With a rich, entertaining text and a wide variety of facts, anecdotes, visual portfolios, and sidebars sure to delight readers of all ages, The Making of Life of Pi follows the making of the film from pre-production through final cut. Of course, you'll meet Suraj Sharma, the sixteen-year-old unknown Indian high-school student who won the part of Pi although he had no acting experience and didn't even know how to swim—yet in the end performed all of his own stunts. You'll learn about the massive wave tank, custom-built for the film that replicated a vast, stormy ocean in all its moods, thanks to a complex and specially devised menu of wave and wind combinations, some really powerful machinery, and tons of water. You'll get to look inside the fifty-page fully illustrated "survival guide" that shipwreck survivor Steven Callahan created for Pi to consult on his raft. And you'll read about King, Themis, Minh, and Jonas, the four Bengal tigers used in the film—and discover how visual effects were able to create a seamless 3-D image of the tiger Richard Parker.
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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Sept. 11, 2017 – While most fourth-year medical students just recently learned where they will be completing their residencies, Tommy Kelsey has already spent five weeks training for his post-graduation destination – the U.S. Navy.
Kelsey, a member of the Wake Forest School of Medicine Class of 2017, will serve as a lieutenant in the Navy after his graduation in May and will begin his residency in orthopaedic surgery at Naval Medical Center San Diego.
“I’ve always wanted to serve my country in some way,” Kelsey said. “Helping improve the quality of life for military members and their families is my way of serving, and I’m excited and ready for what this next chapter holds.”
Kelsey, 27, a native of Massachusetts who earned his bachelor’s degree at Wake Forest University and a master’s degree at Boston University, applied for the Health Professions Scholarship Program (HPSP) the same day he received his acceptance letter to Wake Forest School of Medicine.
The HPSP, which is offered by the Army, Navy and Air Force, offers prospective physicians a paid medical education and a monthly stipend in exchange for service as a commissioned officer in the medical corps.
“As a scholarship program, the HPSP provides financial support during medical school; however, this alone should not be the reason a student decides to join the program,” Kelsey said. “Being in the military requires a lot of personal sacrifice and one must ask themselves, ‘Do I want to serve in the military?’ If the answer is not a clear yes, then this may not be the best program for that individual.”
As a physician in the Navy, Kelsey will attend to service members and their families in a similar fashion as a civilian doctor would. Military physicians are often presented with early leadership roles and opportunities to take part in humanitarian relief efforts stateside and internationally.
Kelsey said he based his decision in selecting the Navy on his interest in the Navy’s universal capabilities in air, land, and sea; the Navy’s participation in global humanitarian efforts; and the location of its bases.
Kelsey is one of three HPSP students in this year’s School of Medicine graduating class. The two others, Kenneth Feehs and Abraham Choi, are also going to serve in the Navy and will be completing their residencies at Walter Reed National Medical Center in Bethesda, M.D.
“Wake Forest School of Medicine is committed to developing strong leaders and approaching physician education holistically,” said Allston J. Stubbs, M.D., associate professor of orthopaedic surgery at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. “Tommy has been instrumental in several of our research projects and his success relates back to his hard work and dedication. I’m confident he has a bright future ahead of him, and we’re proud to have him representing us in the U.S. Navy.”
After completing his five-year residency in orthopaedic surgery, Kelsey will be assigned to a duty station either stateside or at a Naval medical center overseas. After serving his commitment, he will have the option of staying active in the military or joining civilian life.
Both of Kelsey’s grandfathers served in the military, one in World War II and the other in the Korean War.
“I had the opportunity to follow after my two grandfathers and to restart the tradition of my family serving in our military,” Kelsey said. “Knowing that I’ll have the chance to practice and approach medicine in a different way and to provide medical care for those who have served and sacrificed a lot for our country will hopefully provide great job satisfaction.”
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Culture media are a combination of pre-defined ingredients that support the growth and proliferation of microorganisms in an artificial/in vitro environment. They are used for the isolation of organisms from various samples such as clinical specimens, food, or the environment.
Based on the consistency, culture media are further categorized as solid, semisolid, and liquid (broth). Functionally, culture media can be classified as differential, selective, enriched, enrichment, assay, transport, etc.
Czapek medium is also called Czapek’s agar (CZA) or Czapek-Dox medium. It is used to isolate the Aspergillus, Penicillium, Paecilomyces, and other fungi
Phenylethyl alcohol agar (PEA) is a selective medium used to cultivate Gram-positive cocci, from a sample containing a mixed flora.
Bacterial species capable of producing H₂S release sulfide which combines with iron present in the medium forming black precipitate.
Tinsdale Agar is used for the selective isolation and differentiation of C. diphtheriae from diphtheroids.
This semisolid medium is used for the transportation of swab specimens for preserving the viability of N. gonorrhoeae, H. influenzae, N. meningitidis.
Growth supporting characteristics, physical characteristics and sterility testing of the culture media has to be tested before putting them in use.
Brain Heart Infusion (BHI) broth is a general-purpose liquid medium for the cultivation and maintenance of a wide variety of microorganisms.
Kligler Iron Agar is used for the differentiation of microorganisms on the basis of glucose and lactose fermentation and H₂S production.
Deoxycholate citrate agar is used for the selective isolation and differentiation of Salmonella and Shigella species.
Selenite broth is an enrichment medium for the isolation of Salmonella and Shigella from stool, urine, water and food products.
Bird Seed Agar is a solid medium used for selective and differential isolation of Cryptococcus neoformans from clinical specimens.
Bismuth sulfite agar is a modification of original Wilson and Blair medium used for the isolation of Salmonella typhi and other salmonellae.
It contain chromogenic substrate which is utilized by the microorganisms to give colored colonies that is specific for each microorganism.
Tryptic Soy Agar (TSA) is a general purpose culture medium for isolation and cultivation of a wide variety of organisms.
Thioglycollate broth supports the growth of anaerobes, aerobes, microaerophilic, and fastidious microorganisms.
Cary-Blair transport medium is used to transport clinical specimens suspected to contain enteric pathogens, including Shigella, Salmonella, Vibrio.
Alkaline Peptone Water (pH 8.4) is a suitable enrichment broth for the isolation of Vibrio cholerae and Vibrio species.
Salmonella-shigella (SS) agar is commonly used for the selective isolation and differentiation of Salmonella and Shigella.
Thayer-Martin agar is a selective medium used for the isolation of Neisseria gonorrheae from specimens containing a mixed flora of bacteria.
Nutrient agar is a general-purpose medium for the growth of a wide variety of non-fastidious microorganisms.
Originally formulated for dermatophyte growth and pigment production, SDA is used for growth and maintenance of fungi.
Potato Dextrose Agar (PDA) is an ideal medium for slide culture preparation. It promotes sporulation of moulds.
First reported by Baird–Parker, it is a selective medium for the enumeration of Staphylococcus aureus in foods.
Cetrimide agar test the ability of an organism to grow in the presence of cetrimide.
XLD Agar is a selective and differential medium for the isolation, cultivation, and differentiation of gram-negative enteric microorganisms.
Differential medium used for urine culture as it inhibits the swarming of Proteus and also supports the growth of gram-positive cocci.
Common transport media are Cary and Blair medium, amies medium, Staurt’s medium, and VTM for virus.
Hektoen Enteric Agar (HE) is a selective and differential medium to isolate and differentiate Salmonella and Shigella from other Enterobacteriaceae.
Fungal culture media contains high carbohydrate and nitrogen source. They may also contain cycloheximide and antibacterial agents to inhibit contaminants.
New York City medium is primarily designed for the isolation of pathogenic Neisseria. It also supports the growth of genital mycoplasmas.
TCBS agar is a selective as well as differential culture medium used for selective isolation and differentiation of Vibrio species.
Chocolate agar (heated blood agar) is an enriched medium used in clinical laboratories for cultivation of fastidious bacteria. e.g., Haemophilus influenzae.
Buffered Charcoal Yeast Extract (BCYE) Agar medium is recommended for use in the cultivation and primary isolation of Legionella spp.
Eosin methylene blue (EMB) agar is a selective and differential medium used to isolate fecal coliforms.
Blood agar is an enriched medium which supports growth of gram-positive cocci and differentiates them on the basis of hemolysis (α, β, or γ).
Selective (against gram-positive bacteria) and differential culture medium (LF and NLF), commonly used for the isolation of enterics.
Mannitol Salt Agar selects and differentiates Staphylococcus species. Staphylococcus aureus ferments mannitol and gives yellow colonies.
Best medium to use for routine susceptibility testing for non-fastidious bacteria.
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The red fox (Vulpes vulpes) is the largest of the true foxes, as well as being the most geographically spread member of the Carnivora, being distributed across the entire northern hemisphere from the Arctic Circle to North Africa, Central America and Asia. Its range has increased alongside human expansion, having been introduced to Australia, where it is considered harmful to native mammal and bird populations. Because of these factors, it is listed as Least Concern for extinction by the IUCN. It is listed among the "world's 100 worst invasive species".
The red fox originated from smaller-sized ancestors from Eurasia during the Middle Villafranchian period, and colonised North America shortly after the Wisconsian glaciation. Among the true foxes, the red fox represents a more progressive form in the direction of carnivory. Apart from its large size, the red fox is distinguished from other fox species by its ability to adapt quickly to new environments and, unlike most of its cousins, is not listed as Endangered anywhere. Despite its name, the species often produces individuals with abnormal colourings, including albinos and melanists. Forty-five subspecies are currently recognised, which are divided into two categories: the large northern foxes, and the small, primitive southern foxes of Asia and the Middle East.
Red foxes are social animals, whose groups are led by a mated pair which monopolises breeding. Subordinates within a group are typically the young of the mated pair, who remain with their parents to assist in caring for new kits. The species primarily feeds on small rodents, though it may also target leporids, game birds, reptiles, invertebrates and young ungulates. Fruit and vegetable matter is also eaten on occasion. Although the red fox tends to displace or even kill its smaller cousins, it is nonetheless vulnerable to attack from larger predators such as wolves, coyotes, golden jackals and medium and large felines.
The species has a long history of association with humans, having been extensively hunted as a pest and furbearer for centuries, as well as being prominently represented in human folklore and mythology. Because of its widespread distribution and large population, the red fox is one of the most important furbearing animals harvested for the fur trade.
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Assessing in RE
This course is designed to support teachers with planning and designing for RE and explore rich assessment strategies.
Term 2 Week 8, Friday, 19th June 2015 9am - 4 pm
Catholic Conference Centre, Rm 8, 116 George St, Thebarton.
CORE FOCI AND PRIORITIES
- Religious Education
- General Capabilities
AITSL AUSTRALIAN PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS FOR TEACHERS INCLUDE
- Standard 1: Know students and how they learn. (1.5)
- Standard 2: Know the content and how to teach it.(2.1 & 2.3)
- Standard 3: Plan for and implement effective teaching and learning 3.2 & 3.3
- Standard 5: Assess, provide feedback and report on student learning. (5.1, 5.2 & 5.5)
APRIM/REC/Religious Leaders & Teachers of Primary & Middle years
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There’s a new flap about Jackson Pollock. A member of the Board of Regents of the University of Iowa suggested that the University take steps to estimate the market value of Jackson Pollock’s Mural, a centerpiece of their collection, with the idea that the $100 million it might bring if sold would be useful in repairing recent flood damage. A firestorm of criticism erupted all over the news. The Wall St Journal, Time, the Des Moines Register, Modern Art Notes and many others have put in their two cents, all condemning the very idea.
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Last year, along with several of my colleagues at the Center, we published a paper in the journal Contemporary Jewry that reported, contrary to the conventional wisdom, that American Jews’ emotional attachment to Israel was not declining. Rather, according to the annual surveys conducted by the American Jewish Committee since the mid-1980s, the level of attachment had held fairly steady—or slightly increased—over the past quarter century. As often occurs when conventional wisdom is upended, our paper elicited challenges from skeptical colleagues.
Our colleagues’ challenges were both methodological and conceptual. The AJC surveys included only respondents who said their religion is Jewish. What if we had examined surveys that included respondents who identify as Jewish but not by religion? Moreover, almost all contemporary surveys report that older Jews are more attached to Israel. If declining attachment across the generations doesn’t explain this finding, then what does? To try to answer these questions, we sought additional data, in particular, pairs of surveys conducted at substantial time intervals that asked about emotional attachment to Israel and included broad and inclusive samples of Jews. With these data, we could test our central finding that emotional attachment to Israel held steady since the mid-1980s. We could also test a possible explanation for the phenomena: Rather than attachment to Israel declining across the generations, emotional attachment to Israel increases over the lifecycle.
In a new article, to be published in the next issue of Contemporary Jewry (and now available on-line), we report on the fruits of these efforts. We identified four pairs of national and local community surveys conducted between 1990 and 2005. Conducted at ten-year intervals, these pairs of surveys asked identical questions about emotional attachment to Israel and used survey samples that included Jews-by-religion and Jews-not-by-religion. With these data in hand, we could double-back on the question of American Jews’ emotional attachment to Israel and address the challenges posed by our critics.
A summary of the key findings can be seen below. Although the available data are not as comprehensive as we would like, our findings are clear and confirm the previous study: Over the past quarter-century, the emotional attachment of American Jews to Israel did not decline and age differences in surveys reflect the dynamics of lifecycle rather than generation.
We are now focused on the future. We are currently in the field collecting data for the third wave of our longitudinal study of the “Birthright Israel” generation study and look forward to reporting how the current cohort of Jewish young adults is changing as many make the transition from young adulthood to settled adult lives. This year, we will in particular be examining how our respondents’ views about Israel have developed in recent years. We look forward to reporting what we learn in a future issue of Constructs.
“Understanding Young Adult Attachment to Israel: Period, Lifecycle and Generational Dynamics”
About the Study
We compared four pairs of surveys conducted at ten- year intervals that asked about emotional attachment to Israel: The community surveys of Boston (1995 and 2005), Miami (1994 and 2004). and South Palm Beach (1995 and 2005), and the National Jewish Population Surveys (1990 and 2000).
These four pairs are the only ones we could locate that meet the criteria for inclusion in the study: All four pairs include Jews by religion and Jews not-by-religion; all were conducted at significant intervals; and all employed identically worded questions about Israel.
Three patterns were remarkably consistent across all four pairs of surveys.
1. Emotional attachment to Israel increased between the surveys conducted in the 1990s and the surveys conducted in the 2000s.
2. Emotional attachment increased over the lifecycle during the 1990s and 2000s. Statistically significant increases occurred as the age cohorts of young adults (in the 1990s) matured into middle age (in the 2000s).
3. The younger age cohorts appear to be more attached to Israel than decade-older cohorts were at the same age. Although not always statistically significant, these findings suggest that Israel attachment may be increasing across the generations.
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Piasa Bird vandalized; reward fund started
Alton, Ill. – An Alton woman who's upset that a prominent landmark was defaced has started a fund to help police find the culprits.
The Piasa Bird is a mythological beast painted on the bluffs along the Mississippi River.
It was damaged last weekend when vandals threw tar-dipped sticks at the bird, dripped tar on the park's patio and walkway and drove over the sidewalk.
Marlinda Birkner put down $1,000 on Wednesday to offer as reward money and hopes others will add to that amount.
Police say the vandals also dabbed tar on the park's keystone patio and concrete walkway, and drove over the sidewalk. The vandals also damaged light fixtures and the drinking fountain, breaking glass-block windows along the way.
They say the incident occurred between 9 p.m. Saturday and 6:30 a.m. Sunday.
Someone also recently scratched an obscenity into a decorative wall and painted on the park's arrowhead marker that gives the history of the Piasa Bird.
"I think it is disgusting," said Phil Roggio, the city's development and housing chief. "I don't know who would think it was fun to vandalize a city park or demean the history of the area."
The Piasa Bird is said to be based on a long-vanished American Indian rock painting that decorated a river bluff near here.
Over the years, the bird's likeness has appeared in several locations and in various styles, including a metal cutout affixed to a bluff. The latest version a painting about 50 feet wide and two stories tall, with the bottom edge roughly 20 feet above the ground was painted by community members in the mid-1990s.
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Watch ITV Wales' National Correspondent Rob Osborne's report
Performance against the eight minute ambulance response target is now the lowest on record.
The percentage of red calls receiving a response within eight minutes was 50% in October, down by 2.3% on the previous month.
It comes following months of pressure on 999 services, with reports of long waits for ambulances across the country.
Last month, military personal were drafted in in an effort to help ease pressure on ambulance crews.
The Welsh Ambulance Service has stressed that it is too early for the military’s intervention to have had an impact but did add that it should be reflected in November’s statistics.
Lee Brooks, director of operations at the Welsh Ambulance Service, said: "Subpar ambulance response times are a symptom of the pressures across the entire health and social care system.
"Issues being felt in other parts of NHS Wales, like delayed discharges which can hinder flow through hospitals and lengthen ambulance waits at the ‘front door’ of the Emergency Department, have a direct consequence for us because fewer ambulances are available to respond to patients waiting in the community.
"Coupled with staff absence exacerbated by Covid-19, and a significantly higher volume of calls, our ability to get to patients quickly has been significantly hampered in recent months, and we’re sorry to all of those patients who have had a poor experience.
“Fifty troops re-joined us in mid-October, and a further fifty joined us the following week, and it’s enabled us to send more ambulances to more patients, more quickly – for patients in our ‘Amber’ category, it’s taken up to an hour and a half off our response time."
Latest NHS statistics at a glance
The average time patients spent in emergency departments has also reached a new record high of three hours and seven minutes.
The latest month’s data shows that 65% of patients in all NHS emergency departments spent less than 4 hours in the department from when they arrived.
This is well short of the 95% target and was: 1.9 percentage points lower than the previous month, 12.3 percentage points lower than the same month in 2020.
People behind the statistics
Responding to the statistics, Darren Hughes, director of the Welsh NHS Confederation, said: "The NHS in Wales is currently facing unsustainable pressures, from all angles – problems facing social care, the ongoing impact of Covid-19, increasing demand for urgent and emergency care, as well as primary care, staff shortages and of course, the backlog of treatment.
"These statistics show the unrelenting high levels of demand the ambulance service and emergency departments are facing, with October seeing the highest number of immediately life-threatening (‘red’) calls made to the ambulance service since records began.
"We welcome the Welsh Government’s announcement of investment in diagnostic equipment, but without addressing staffing problems and wider system issues at play, there is only so much the NHS can do to address waiting times.
"It’s critical that funding and resources are focused on alleviating pressures facing the social care sector to assist in reducing the bottleneck, ensuring medically fit patients can safely be discharged into the community, freeing up much-needed capacity in the NHS.
"However, we need to be honest with the public that winter is going to be extremely difficult.
“The whole system is working together to find solutions to solve the problems, improve patient flow, manage high demand and keep people out of hospital where possible, but the pressure on the system is higher than at any other point during the pandemic.
“NHS leaders are very mindful that behind these statistics are people, both patients and the staff who are working day-in, day-out to do all they can to keep patients safe. We cannot thank them enough.”
Commenting on the latest figures, the Welsh Government said it doesn’t expect to see progress on waiting times until spring.
A spokesperson said: "The latest data shows pressure on our health and care system continues to grow.
“We have invested an extra £248m this year to transform the delivery of services and tackle waiting times, but because of the ongoing pressures and effects of the pandemic, we don’t expect to see real progress before the spring.
“Earlier this year we provided an additional £25m to go towards supporting the transformation of urgent and emergency care services to deliver the right care in the right place, first time.
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Personal Finance That You Need To Know Now
Can you wish you can enhance your financial picture now and to the future? You simply need a bit know how to make the change. Thankfully, the suggestions in this post can get you off to a good beginning.
To save lots of both time and money, buy bulk quantities of lean protein. If you wind up using whatever you bought, you might drastically decrease your expenses. It is a time saver to spend amount of time in some day to use this meat and set aside some to get a meal every day.
When you desire a favorable credit standing, use two, 3 or 4 bank cards. One card will never sufficiently build up your credit. Over four cards can drag your score down and become hard to manage. You need to start by getting two charge cards and trying to get one third or fourth one as needed.
Be aware of your finances simply by making detailed arrangements for the financial stability. Developing a solid plan may be motivating, because it provides you with a purpose to be effective tough to prevent overspending.
Remove old-style incandescent bulbs, and replace them energy-efficient CFL bulbs. Changing to better lights will decrease your utility bill and help the environment.
CFL bulbs typically stay longer than regular lights. Also, you will certainly be conserving money by not having to constantly buy new bulbs.
When obtaining student loans, ensure that you will be able to pay them back when all is considered and done. Private schools can be quite costly to get rid of.
Maintain your finances straight by avoiding accruing an excessive amount of personal credit card debt. You have to keep a close eye on your own credit use in order to avoid getting into too deep. Really consider any purchase you will be intending to make on the visa or mastercardadditional resources Before deciding to create a purchase using a credit card, you should think of the amount of time along with the interest that might be charged should you complete the transaction. If it should take you in excess of 30 days to totally pay along with the item is something it is possible to live without anyway, leave it from the store.
A person searching for a way to add a little bit more to their financial resources could make good use of his / her old laptop. Used electronics that are working can net a reliable chunk of change. Even selling one’s broken laptop is a means to get a free tank of gas or any other financial benefit.
Sometimes, regardless of your meticulous planning and preparations, financial crises appear. Find what late fees are charged, and the way late you are able to pay your rent without getting into serious trouble. Consider your entire options before selecting a lease.
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Configuration used for this walk-through
Android development tools and environments are in a constant state of flux, an attempt has been made here to provide sufficient links to reference material to enable one to accomplish the desired results using a different setup, however this is the configuration used for this walkthrough.
- Commercially purchased FUGU device with Android 5.1.0 image LMY47D*
- Linux system running Ubuntu 12 with internet access
*Factory image 5.1.0 LMY47D should be flashable to any commercially purchased FUGU device
Building a rooted boot image
In order to enable full functionality of the MDK tools it is necessary to have root access to the device, which requires building the boot.img image yourself. Although the steps included will also result in building a system.img and recovery.img these appear to be unnecessary at this time for getting the MDK tools working.
Follow the instructions for initializing the build environment and downloading the source as located on the source.google site: http://source.android.com/source/downloading.html
As suggested per the instructions I located the latest branch for checkout and build, which at the time was LMY47D or android-5.1.0_r1 for the fugu device. So once all appropriate packages are installed the pertinent command sequence from within the directory where you wish to build the source code is:
- repo init -u https://android.googlesource.com/platform/manifest -b android-5.1.0_r1
- repo sync -j5
- source build/envsetup.sh
- lunch full_fugu-userdebug
- make -j8
Note that the lunch command may also be run without parameters and the appropriate option selected from the menu, this may be necessary for later kernel versions and the keyword is likely to change. Of importance is that you are building a FUGU device, and you want a USERDEBUG build option.
At this point hopefully the build is successful and there should be several files including the needed boot.img file in the out/target/product/fugu/ directory.
Rooting the Device
Now that you have build a boot image it's necessary to flash it onto the device. Connect it via a USB cable and turn it on, then verify your connection with "adb devices" to ensure your device is listed. If not then you may need to turn on developer options in your existing image and enable USB debug.
At this point a fairly simple sequence of commands should enable you to flash your new boot image to the device.
- adb reboot bootloader
- fastboot oem unlock
- fastboot flash boot out/target/product/fugu/boot.img
- fastboot oem lock
- fastboot continue
Ready to Go!
You are now ready to go! You should be able to:
- Use your device like normal as though it were just out of the box
- Connect via adb and utilize "adb root" to have root access visibility to the device
- Run Intel® VTune™ Analyzer with Energy Profiler
- Getting Started with VTune
- Further details on getting FUGU device working, specifically with SoC Watch and Energy Profiler
- More generic Getting Started with Energy Profiler
Recovering from Disaster
If something should go wrong, or perhaps you simply wish to return your device to a factory default un-rooted image this is possible as well. Factory images are located here:https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images and include instructions and run scripts for as simple a process as can be imagined. In fact the device I used to develop these instructions came with Android 5.0 with which this process did not work as desired, but by using these factory images I updated it to 5.1.0 (LMY47D) and then the procedure worked like a charm.
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One of the requirements of the psychology major and its two related concentrations at SUNY New Paltz is the Research Experience Component. This is intended to provide students with a broader understanding of research methods, to increase their knowledge of human psychology, and to expose them to research topics that they may want to pursue later in an independent study.
Types of Research Activities to Complete the Requirement
To satisfy the Research Experience Component requirement, psychology majors must accrue at least 12 half-hour credits (i.e., 6 hours) worth of research activities. The number of credits earned for each activity depends upon the type and length of the activity (see next section). Such activities may include any combination of the following:
- a) In-Person Study: These studies require you to set up an appointment with the researcher by signing up for a personal time slot on the Sona Systems website (see below) and arriving at a laboratory or similar location on campus at the specified date and time. When you arrive for your appointment a researcher will direct you as to the specifics of their study. You may sign up for this type of activity through the website and again, you will be asked to physically go to the specific study location at the time you sign up for in order to gain credit.
- b) Online Study: Frequently faculty and graduate students will post research studies on our website with a web link to their online research survey. In order to access these surveys for credit, simply go to our website and click on the view studies tab. From there you may select the study you would like to participate in.
- c) Job Talk/Lecture: Scholars and researchers often speak on campus about their new research. A job talk is a research-oriented talk given as part of the interview process by professors seeking employment at our university’s Psychology Department. A lecture may involve one or more researchers or scholars seeking to inform the student population and public about current topics in psychological research. To gain credit toward the Research Experience Component by attending a job talk or lecture, you must first sign up first on the website, then attend the lecture and sign in on the sheet passed around the room.
- d) Journal Article Summary: Students may write a review paper based on an empirical research article provided by the Psychology Department. In order to utilize this option, you must contact the subject pool coordinator and choose an article from our approved selection.
Studies and job talks/lectures which offer subject pool credit will be available for sign up on the website. For journal article summaries, or if you have a question about whether an event or study is eligible for Subject Pool credits, please email the subject pool coordinator.
1 Please note that Psychology minors do not need to complete the Research Experience Component.
Credits toward the psychology Major Credit Requirement (MCR)
The number of credits earned depends upon the length and type of activity:
- Job Talks/Lectures and Online Studies: Each 0.5 hour or 30 minutes of research time is worth one (1) research credit. For example, participation in a onehour survey or talk will grant two (2) research credits.
- In-Person Studies: Each 0.5 hour or 30 minutes of research time is worth one (1) research credit, as with online studies. However, these studies will be worth 2 additional credits to further compensate for the restricted scheduling opportunities and time used to commute to the on-site laboratory. For example, participation in a one-hour physical study will grant four (4) research credits (2 half-hour credits plus 2 additional credits).
- Journal Article Summaries: Reading and writing a review of a paper is worth two credits.
Credit Toward a Class
Some psychology instructors use the Sona Systems website to offer extra credit in their course for participating in research activities and attending talks. However, this is at the discretion of the instructor and not every psychology class will offer extra class credit for engaging in the activities described above.
In these cases, you can allocate your credit for participating in an activity to either the Research Experience Component or the class, but not both. E-mail the subject pool coordinator if you are unsure about how to allocate the credit.
The Sona Systems Website
Research studies and talks are coordinated through online subject pool software called Sona Systems. Students may sign up for the available studies and talks electronically after creating a personal account through the Sona Systems website.
Once a personal account has been created, you will use this site to keep track of progress toward the Research Experience Component and schedule future research appointments.
Whether you are working on the Research Experience Component or extra credit for a course, you need to create an account on the Sona Systems website. Here’s how to do this.
- Go to the website address above with your Internet browser of choice.
- Click on the tab labeled ‘Request an account here’ directly below NEW PARTICIPANT at the lower left of the screen and follow the prompts.
- Complete the prescreen questions.
- Select a course or major credit requirement when prompted; make this selection based on where you need credit to be allocated. For example, if you need to complete the Major Credit Requirement, but also wish to apply credit toward a course offering extra credit, select both of these options. You may always return to your profile and add or remove course selections as needed.
- Use the main menu to view studies, change your password or details and check if credit has been granted for previous studies.
After You Participate
- Once you have participated in research, or attended a lecture, you will normally be credited within 48 hours. If it should take longer to see your credit appear on your website profile, do not be alarmed! This delay might be due to a weekend, holiday or other interference of life that prevented the researcher from crediting your account. If you are concerned about not receiving your credit, email the subject pool coordinator and indicate the study you completed and your name.
- You may choose how to apply the credit after you receive it. It can be applied toward either a course you are currently enrolled in offering credit or your major credit requirement, but not both. Once credit is applied to a certain class or major, it cannot be changed. If you only select a single course or only the MCR for assignment of credit during a semester, the system will automatically credit the single selection.
- Please note that all credits must be assigned by the last day of classes in a given semester in order to count as extra credit for a course you are taking in that semester. All unassigned credits left after the last day of classes may be applied towards future semester’s extra credit or the MCR.
What If I Have To Cancel an Appointment?
If you sign up for a physical study, you can cancel it up until 24 hours before it starts. You have two options to cancel:
- You can cancel by logging into your Subject Pool account and finding your appointment. This is the preferred method of canceling an appointment.
- If you cannot get to a computer, you can call the researcher’s lab (not her or his office) and inform the research assistants that you need to cancel and reschedule your appointment. Contact information for each lab is available in on the Sona Systems website at the specific study webpage. Try to call 24 hours or more in advance if possible. You can then login into the Subject Pool website to reschedule your appointment.
Satisfying the Research Experience Component Requirement
- To see how many credits you have earned toward the Research Experience Component (or toward extra credit in a course), log into your account and clicking on "My schedule/credits." You will also be able to see what future events you have signed up for.
- Try to have all of your credits completed prior to your final semester at SUNY New Paltz to avoid a deficiency notice from Records and Registration.
- After successfully completing and applying 12 credits towards the Research Experience Component, you must inform the subject pool coordinator by email that you have completed at least 12 credits. The subject pool coordinator will then submit the necessary paperwork to Records and Registration on your behalf. This should be done at least a month before graduating to ensure that it is processed in time.
Who do I contact with questions?
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On Sunday, May 22 from 1 – 4 pm at Lotus of Life Chiropractic in Decatur, GA, I will be taking part – along with other alternative healthcare practitioners – in a wellness event to honor and remember the service and sacrifice of our veterans and military families.
The event is being organized by Sara P. Gartland, LMT to honor the memory of her brother, Capt. Dennis L. Pintor, who was killed in action in Baghdad, Iraq on October 12, 2004. I’m grateful that Sara has decided to put together this day to provide much-needed healing and support to people who have endured much on physical, emotional and spiritual levels as a result of their service to our country. My husband is a Desert Storm veteran (USMC) and I have a number of other family and friends who have served in the military. I know that those experiences do not leave the body and can linger for years after returning home.
I will offer 30 minute Reiki mini-sessions to help the body restore its natural balance. Reiki is a form of energy healing using hand placements lightly on or just above the body. Reiki treaments are very relaxing, and can help reduce stress, anxiety and alleviate discomfort or pain. As with many forms of Eastern medicine, the ultimate goal and benefits associated with Reiki are to feel healthier and happier and progress toward a state of greater self-awareness.
A number of alternative therapy services will be provided by licensed and certified professionals, including:
- Massage Therapy
- Healing Touch
A recent article in the L.A. Times highlights the epidemic of PTSD affecting our military veterans. The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Department of Veterans Affairs failed to adequately care for veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and that “treatment delays for PTSD and other combat-related mental illnesses are so “egregious” that they violate veterans’ constitutional rights and contribute to the despair behind many of the 6,500 suicides among veterans each year.” Hopefully, the VA will begin to make much-needed changes to their system to give our veterans the treatment and support they deserve. As bodyworkers and healers, we at least have the opportunity at this event to share our gifts and simply say thank you.
To register or for more information contact:
Sara P. Gartland, LMT
This event is open to veterans of all wars, Gold and Blue Star families. Advance registration recommended.
To learn more about Reiki and the work I do, please visit my site: Dragonfly Reiki
For more information on how Reiki is being used to help returning veterans cope with PTSD, anxiety and pain from injuries, see the article “Reiki for Veterans,” written by Eileen Day, M.A., RMT and Michael Emanuel, RMT.
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This article will cover what causes slow draining septic tanks. Any homeowner knows that his or her property is a lifetime investment. Everything about it from day one needs to be installed or built perfectly. It’s the only way to make sure that the entire property functions right and lasts longer. High quality materials should be used on it. Every connection should be skillfully and accurately placed. Every detail should be precise so that even when huge calamities come, the property will still remain standing. There are materials that are high quality AND expensive. But there are those that are high quality but don’t cost as much. These are called green materials that are basically harnessed from recycled materials. It would be wise to invest in them because they endure any climate change and are very durable. But whatever type of material you opt for, caring for the property as a whole is still the most important thing to do as a homeowner. It’s not enough that you spent that much in building a home. You have to allot a budget for its maintenance as well.
The technical aspect of the home is what’s gravely important. The technical of the home and property bring out the most out of the aesthetics. The septic system is an important example. It is the wastewater treatment facility of the household since it cannot access the sewage system. The septic system should function optimally so that the entire property will be safe from damage and the household members safe from health hazards. Of course, there are unavoidable factors that lead to neglecting the septic tank. And this leads to a collection of problems. A common one is a slow draining septic tank. This is when the drains, sinks, and toilets in your house eliminate wastewater very slowly, to the point that it stays stagnant for a while. This exposes the living space and everyone in it to toxic fumes and untreated wastewater. When this happens, you could either gamble in using your plunger/drain cleaner or you could call the local septic expert.
The septic professional should be able to determine what causes slow draining septic tanks in just a few minutes of thorough inspection. If the problem isn’t in the indoor plumbing, then the problem lies in the septic itself. There are lots of possibilities but the main thing is that it’s caused by misinformation or neglect. Usually, the pump-out schedules are not kept with the help of the septic expert. Pumping out the septic tank enables it to have more free space for continuous wastewater treatment. If the solid waste particles are just left there to fill it up, then expect a long-term slow draining septic tank. Another cause of slow drains is the high water load brought in by heavy rains and the excessive use of washing machines and dishwashers. The solid wastes get stirred up, delaying their breakdown. Then they’re pushed into the drain field to clog it. Trees and hardwood plants have invasive root systems that get into every part of the septic system. They’re especially fond of the septic tank because this is the receptacle of all water and nutrients that they need. They block the normal pathways of the wastewater treatment and even damage the physical components. If you have construction projects or vehicles placed over the tank, then their heavy weights cause soil compaction. Soil compaction crushes the septic parts which results to leaks, backups, and overflows.
After the inspection, the septic expert would then administer any necessary repairs or minor replacements. Then the septic tank will be pumped out and cleaned with a very efficient additive—the bacteria based additive. The bacteria in this organic additive are not synthesized. They natural and don’t have any chemicals to harm the user or the surrounding environment. These organisms just want to consume the solid waste materials. As they do so, they remove the foul smells. With bacteria, causes of slow draining septic tanks will definitely be eliminated for good. | <urn:uuid:3a4f9859-b993-4f75-8046-65a0e1aba7a3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://septictankcare.net/causes-slow-draining-septic-tanks/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00270.warc.gz | en | 0.951759 | 809 | 2.203125 | 2 |
Farkındalık, ilgi ve memnuniyet oranı sıralaması.
Technologies with less than 10% awareness not included. Each ratio is defined as follows:
- Satisfaction: would use again / (would use again + would not use again)
- Interest: want to learn / (want to learn + not interested)
- Usage: (would use again + would not use again) / total
- Awareness: (total - never heard) / total
Zaman içinde aketteki teknolojiler hakkındaki görüşlerin değişimine genel bir bakış.
Technologies with only one year of data are not included.
This chart splits positive (“want to learn”, “would use again”) vs negative (“not interested”, “would not use again”) experiences on both sides of a central axis.
Bar thickness represents the number of respondents aware of a technology.
My 2021 Pick: Kevin Powell
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Earning a driver’s license is a most important event for most young Americans. Sixteen is the minimum age at which Indiana teenagers can obtain a driver’s license. How can anyone say that rising the driving age would be favorable to the general community? While it is true that the amount of car accidents involving teenagers is notably higher than the number involving the older portion of the population, that is still not a likely reason for declining fifteen and sixteen year olds the right to drive. Some people might say, “Most sixteen year olds do not have the experience it takes to be in control on the road.” How can one become experienced without practice? There would be so many disadvantages to raising the legal driving age by even two more years.
When most American youths are fifteen and sixteen, they are still under the constant watch of their parents; every aspect of their life is analyzed. While this may be annoying to some teens, it does tend to keep them out of trouble. Most teens need the driving tips and lessons provided by their parents. A lot of teens are out on their own or in college when they turn eighteen. Therefore, their parents are not there to teach them how to parallel park or merge into a lane of traffic.
Being under your parents’ roof also provides extra motivation to stay out of trouble. Many parents tell their children that their license will be taken or they will be grounded if they get a parking ticket or get busted speeding. The never ending harass of parents tends to steer teenagers away from alcohol, drugs, and other disobedience issues. When you are on your own, your parents are not there to remind you to obey the speed limit and stay a few car lengths behind the car in front of you. These may sound like minor things, but if they are not practiced, you can get into a lot of trouble.
Another reason why it would not be wise to raise the driving age is that many eighteen year olds have schooling they need to get to and jobs they need to hold in order to support themselves or even their own family. It would be senseless to have a bunch of eighteen year olds out on the interstate going forty-five miles per hour or crashing into the median. Just the fact that they are eighteen does not automatically make them better drivers. They still need to practice as with any other task. It seems to me that the only effects of raising the driving age would be a lot of displeased young people and just as many car accidents as we have now.
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Stop bruxism or teeth grinding with EFT Scripts
If you're considering a mouth guard or a bite plate for bruxism treatment, consider this a mouth guard is more of a band-aid solution than a cure for teeth grinding. One very effective bruxism treatment is EFT or Emotional Freedom Techniques. EFT involves tapping lightly on various places on the face and body while focusing on the troubling issue like bruxism or teeth clenching.
To 20 percent of adults react to stress at night by clenching their jaws and grinding their teeth. This is called bruxism. Many of the causes of bruxism are emotionally based. EFT or Emotional Freedom Techniques can help you release all these emotions. Stress, anxiety, resentment, frustration, anger, heartache and fear are emotions which appear to cause bruxism and can be reduced using EFT.
By using EFT on stress you can release things, people and places that are causing you to feel stressed.
70% of all bruxism is caused by anxiety. Whatever the cause of you anxiety, you can tap it away with EFT.
EFT works really well with resentment and letting go of your frustrations. Physical, mental, verbal and emotional. EFT treats all these angers at any level you want.
Heartache is often deeply hidden, but EFT will help you to let it go. By removing your fear youíll end up doing what you want to do.
Some examples to help making your EFT script for bruxism. So no more teeth grinding or clenching!
- I donít know why I grind my teeth
- I donít think I grind my teeth.
- I grind my teeth and I have never done it before
- I donít know why Iím frustrated, I let it go anyway
- I choose to let go my bruxism
- I choose to stop teeth grinding
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The Anthropological Turn series, Suiseisha
In 2015, a Japanese publisher, Suiseisha (水声社), whose previous focus was French and other international literature, started a new translation series called “The Anthropological Turn (人類学の転回 jinruigaku no tenkai),” reflecting Japanese general readers’ interest in anthropologies of science and technology and their relations to philosophy, literature, and arts.
The series includes: Marilyn Strathern’s Partial Connections (2015 『部分的つながり』[publication date of the Japanese translation]), Eduardo Viveiros de Castro’s O mármore e a murta: sobre a inconstância da alma selvage (2015『インディオの気まぐれな魂』), Annemarie Mol’s The Body Multiple: Ontology in Medical Practice (2016『多としての身体：医療実践における存在論』), Michel Serres’s Écrivains, savants et philosophes font le tour du monde (2016『作家、学者、哲学者は世界を旅する』), Trinh T. Minh-ha’s Framer Framed (2016『フレイマー・フレイムド』), Frédéric Keck’s Un monde grippe (2017『流感世界 : パンデミックは神話か』), Bruno Latour’s La fabrique du droit : une ethnographie du Conseil d'État (2017『法が作られているとき : 近代行政裁判の人類学的考察』)
The Body Multiple, Japanese translation
Juxtaposition By Annemarie Mol: The author's introduction to the Japanese translation of The Body Multiple.
Gendaishisho (Contemporary Thought) special issues
Gendaishiso (現代思想) is a monthly academic/popular journal, which led a Japanese intellectual movement called New Academism (inspired by structuralism, post-structuralism, and postmodernism) in the 1980s. Recently, Gendaishiso has hosted several issues related to the anthropologies of science and technology.
One of the special issues, The New Directions in Anthropology (人類学のゆくえ), published in March 2016, includes translated lectures and articles by Philippe Descola, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Marilyn Strathern, and Patrice Maniglier.
The Age of Anthropology (人類学の時代), another special issue published one year later (in March 2017), starts with a conversation between Shinichi Nakazawa (anthropologist) and Juichi Yamagiwa (primatologist). It includes the translated texts of Philippe Descola, Marisol de la Cadena, S. Eben Kirksey and Stefan Helmreich, Anna Tsing, Morten Axel Pedersen, and Tim Ingold.
A regular issue called The Cutting Edge of Primatology (霊長類学の最前線, December 2016), starts with a conversation between Juichi Yamagiwa (the same primatologist) and Masakazu Tanaka (anthropologist). Anthropologists such as Akinori Kubo (anthropology of technology, robots, and AI) and Takanori Oishi (ecological anthropology, multispecies anthropology) also contributed articles discussing human/non-human relations.
In December 2017, the journal published an issue on Anthropocene (人新世), introducing the concept with the translated texts of Casper Bruun Jensen, Bruno Latour, and Donna Haraway, along with original articles by Japanese anthropologists including Keiichi Omura (indigenous movements) and Katsumi Okuno (multispecies ethnography).
The intersections of anthropology and STS in Japan have recently created a kind of new publication trend, which serves to introduce and deepen global anthropological discussions, including the ontological turn, human/non-human relations, multispecies ethnography, and the Anthropocene.
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Carrigan, Verna Hurley
by Bob Hurley
Verna Carrigan was born September 19, 1914, in Juneau, Alaska. She was the second of three children of parents, Robert Cornelius Hurley and Minnie Scott Hurley. In 1921, at the age of seven, Verna moved with her family to Anchorage where her father was employed by the Alaska Railroad. In 1925, she returned, with her mother and brothers, to Juneau. Her father stayed in Anchorage studying law, ultimately becoming an attorney, and practiced both there and in Juneau until an accident, followed by illness, led to his untimely death in 1936.
During these childhood years, hardships were looked upon as a common occurrence, and the strength and work ethics of her mother and grandmother held the family together with a bond that would endure through the years ahead, and formed the foundation of Verna’s character.
During her teenage years Verna worked at the Zynda Hotel (later became the Juneau Hotel) and the Baranof Hotel, filling various positions from desk clerk to head switchboard operator. Soon, it was apparent that her real position in life was to be at her family’s business, the Juneau and Douglas Telephone Company, which was started by her grandfather, Edward Webster, in 1893. As the years progressed, each of the siblings took on more of the duties of the company, each finding their own niche, groomed and supervised by mother, Minnie, and Grandma Webster. Verna’s place was at the switchboard, connecting calls manually by cord and plug. It was a key position in the system, and during times of storms or a major fire, the operators were the hinge of all communications. They held their posts at all costs, making sure the calls got through, disregarding meals or personal matters. In time, she was the Chief Operator and Company Vice-President. In addition, she alone was responsible for production of the new directory every year.
When Verna married Roy Carrigan, there was no doubt what his future would be. Roy soon became a familiar face with the company as a telephone man, installing phones by day and repairing storm damaged lines by night. That was an occupation and a bond that they shared for nearly forty years until the family business was sold.
Timothy, the family German Shepard, could be found riding in Roy’s company truck by day and being guardian and companion to Verna and Roy at all times. I’m confident there was no place in the world where Verna wouldn’t have been safe as long as her dog, “Timmy,” was there.
Verna took pleasure from the earth by helping Mother Nature in the garden. Her home was always a colorful feast for the eye from early spring until late fall. She helped others with her green thumb, quick with advice for those in question, and quick with a hand for those no longer capable.
She learned to cook at her mother’s side, and she learned her lessons well. Verna specialized in difficult candies, and her confections were always a great treat at the many family gatherings.
Retirement brought a lot more free time to Verna; she spent that time focusing on arts and humanities, the things she valued most. She spent time with her close friends, gardening, working with the Catholic Church, and helping her husband, Roy, who by now was nearing the end of his time here with us.
It was but a few short years after Roy’s passing that Verna received her calling and left here quietly in the early morning hours of July 24, 1992. She left this world in peace and in comfort, knowing that for years to come, people would know her and enjoy her without ever meeting her. To accomplish this she left nearly all her assets to charities and organizations that she believed in. The organizations included:
l. University of Alaska Foundation – Juneau Campus - half to the library, half to scholarships
2. Juneau Symphony, Inc.
3. Hospice and Homecare of Juneau
4. Juneau Public Library Foundation
5. Gastineau Humane Society
6. Bartlett Memorial Hospital
7. Diocese of Juneau - for the Shrine of St. Therese
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Calls on others to support Rainforest Trust’s global work protecting tropical habitat
“The science is clear on the connection between preventing deforestation and addressing the climate crisis. Rainforest Trust’s commitment to protecting habitat and its inherent biodiversity is fundamentally important. I wanted to support Rainforest Trust’s direct-action approach, and I hope others will join me in supporting this crucial work,” said Mr. MacFarlane.
The Seth MacFarlane Foundation made the gift to Rainforest Trust’s Conservation Action Fund to support the work of establishing protected areas that prevent deforestation and protect habitat, work that is vital for the health, and the future, of the planet.
“Protecting intact forests is the best way to help species and our global ecosystem. Saving rainforests and tropical habitat has been our mission for more than 30 years. We are thrilled that Seth is adding his voice in support of our work. His trust in our ability and the positive impact we make is incredibly meaningful and motivating,” said Rainforest Trust Acting CEO Mark Gruin.
Rainforest Trust’s successful model builds partnerships with local conservation partners to facilitate conservation from the ground up. This year, Rainforest Trust has protected rainforests across the tropics including:
- Peru – more than 100,000 acres of indigenous lands protected through land titling in the Peruvian Amazon
- Ecuador – more than 2,000 acres of rainforest safeguarded in both the Ecuadorean Amazon and Chocó (Western slope of the Andes)
- Democratic Republic of the Congo – more than 117,000 acres in community reserves in the Congo Basin, a vast rainforest with little formal protection
Seth MacFarlane’s talents encompass every aspect of the entertainment industry. As a writer, director, producer, animator, actor, comedian and singer of some of today’s most popular content, he has garnered five Emmy Awards, six Grammy Award nominations and an Academy Award nomination for his work in television, music and film while also expanding his career in the worlds of music and philanthropy. Through the Seth MacFarlane Foundation, he continues to be an avid supporter of science communication, the climate crisis, cancer research and equal rights for all.
MacFarlane is perhaps best known for creating the hugely successful television shows FAMILY GUY, which is currently celebrating its 20th anniversary, and the fan-favorite series AMERICAN DAD!, now airing its 14th season. MacFarlane created and currently executive produces and stars in Hulu’s live-action, one-hour space adventure series, THE ORVILLE. He is also executive producing COSMOS: POSSIBLE WORLDS, which is the next installment to the Emmy-winning COSMOS: A SPACE TIME ODYSSEY that he also executive produced and was seen by more than 135 million people worldwide.
On the film side, he wrote, directed and produced the commercially successful comedies TED, TED 2 and A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST, which have collectively grossed more than $800 million at the worldwide box office. As a singer, he has released five successful studio albums with his first, Music is Better Than Words, debuting at No. 1 on the iTunes Jazz chart and receiving four Grammy nominations. His most recent album, Once in a While, debuted at No. 1 on the Apple Music and iTunes New Release Jazz Pages and the iTunes Top Albums Jazz Page. He most recently recorded a sixth album at the infamous Abbey Road Studios and is gearing up to record his seventh and eighth albums.
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For more on the fires, “United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bellheads to California to find out how communities are learning to coexist with the frequent destruction. The original series airs Sundays at 10 p.m. ET.
A fierce wildfire outside Yosemite Park in California is displaying “unprecedented” behavior, “moving extremely fast” and limiting the time authorities have to warn area residents to evacuate, a state fire official said.
“The fire behavior we’re seeing in this incident is truly unprecedented,” Cal Fire Battalion Chief Jon Heggie said of the Oak Fire, which exploded over 16,700 acres and destroyed at least seven structures. “It moves extremely fast and the reaction time to get people out is limited because this fire moves so fast.”
At least 3,000 people were forced to evacuate their homes due to the fire, by A press release from Governor Gavin Newsom’s office on Saturday, since it began Friday in the Sierra Nevada foothills.
In total, more than 2,500 people are fighting the fire, which is 10% contained, according to a Monday update from Cal Fire. Crews use more than a dozen helicopters, 281 fire engines and 46 water tankers, which are used to transport large quantities of water, the agency said.
Officials, Heggie added, are doing their best to work with law enforcement and let residents know when they need to leave.
“But the reality is it’s going so fast, it doesn’t give people a lot of time, and sometimes they’re going to have to evacuate with the shirts on their backs,” he said. “But their life, safety is obviously the most important thing.”
The fire “remained active in some areas” through Sunday evening “due to dry and dead fuel,” Cal Fire’s update said Monday.
The agency also revised down the number of destroyed structures from 10 to seven and the number of damaged structures from five to zero, calling the earlier figures a “preliminary estimate”.
Among those who lost their homes were Jane and Wes Smith, their son Nick Smith told CNN his parents were left with “just the clothes on their backs and the shoes on their feet.”
“It’s quite sad to see the house I grew up in and grew up in,” he said. “It hits hard.”
His mother only had time to load their horses before escaping the area, Smith said, while his father was busy working on the fire as a Mariposa County sheriff’s deputy. Now the couple stay with friends and family as they recover from the loss.
Smith launched a GoFundMe to support her parents’ recovery, writing “37 years of memories, generations of family treasures and countless other sentimental things. Although it is materials, it is devastating to literally lose everything in the blink of an eye without notice.
Newsom declared a state of emergency for Mariposa County on Saturday, citing the thousands of displaced residents, destroyed homes and threatened critical infrastructure.
An evacuation center was established at Mariposa Elementary School, along with a small animal shelter. The county fairgrounds and Coursegold Rodeo Grounds serve as shelters for large animals, according to the sheriff’s office.
Parts of the Sierra National Forest, which borders and partially overlaps Mariposa County, are closed to the public due to the fire, the Forest Service announcement Sunday.
“Fire behavior consists of flanking, retreating, and creeping through lands, roads, and recreation areas in National Forest Systems,” the agency said on its website. “This closure will support public safety by keeping members of the public out of hazardous burning areas and allow firefighting resources to fight the blaze without public interference.”
The Oak Fire is the largest of California’s active blazes, which were fueled by prolonged drought conditions across much of the state, leaving behind brittle vegetation and rapidly burning undergrowth.
The fire is also having an effect on the weather in other states. The National Weather Service of Portland, Oregon, noted in a tweet that high temperatures could be affected or lowered if smoke from the Oak Fire reaches their city.
Heggie also noted that the blaze was ‘indicative’ of what has been seen more widely in wildfires across the state and across the American West in recent years: it was ‘burning with such speed and intensity’ , Heggie said, due to prolonged drought and human activity. -caused climate change.
“What I can tell you is that this is a direct result of what climate change is,” he said. “You can’t have a 10-year drought in California and expect things to be the same. And we are now paying the price for this 10-year drought and climate change.
Due to climate change, forest fires are becoming more frequent and severe. Fires burn longer and hotter where they have always occurred, according to a report released earlier this year by the United Nations Environment Programme, and also igniting in unexpected places.
“That dead fuel that’s resulted from that climate change and that drought is what’s driving them, what we now call ‘mega fires,'” Heggie said.
In years past, he said, the fires “have never grown at this rate or this magnitude.”
“Now,” he observed, “it’s commonplace.”
Cal Fire recognize The state’s longer wildfire seasons, which experts say are beginning to stretch throughout the year, are a direct result of climate change.
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Alfred Stieglitz’s photograph The Steerage (1907) was an early work of inventive modernism, and thought of by many historians to be a very powerful photograph ever made. In no particular order, here 25 Great Photographers You Should Know. Typically in images, we are too removed from our topics. For example, the time period Natural History was used to elucidate animals, plants, fungi and different lifeforms of their natural setting. Ansel Adams , recognized for his images of the American West and the Yosemite Valley, is among the most recognized landscape photographers.
However even when a photographer is working spontaneously, letting their atmosphere encourage them, they can still have a perspective they’re attempting to communicate. Many college libraries carry in-print and on-line versions of subject-particular encyclopedias like the Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics and the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Astronomy.
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President Barack Obama has ordered U.S. intelligence agencies to conduct a full review of the cyberattacks that allegedly tried to disrupt this year's election, as his successor Donald Trump casts doubt over Russia's possible involvement.
Obama's homeland security advisor Lisa Monaco first mentioned the need for the review while speaking to reporters on Friday morning, according to Politico.
"We may be crossed into a new threshold, and it is incumbent upon us to take stock of that, to review, to conduct some after-action, to understand what this means, and to impart those lessons learned," Monaco reportedly said.
The review is scheduled to be completed before Obama leaves office on Jan. 20. It will produce a report that will be shared with members of Congress, some of whom have already been calling for a wider investigation.
On Friday, Obama deputy press secretary Eric Schultz said the review will also look into election hacking activities that took place prior to this year's presidential race and will also go back to 2008. The president intends to make as much of the report as public as possible.
In October, U.S. intelligence agencies publicly blamed the Russian government for sponsoring high-profile hacks against U.S. political targets as a way to interfere with the election. However, the intelligence agencies didn’t provide specific evidence to support their claims.
Among the hacks was a high-profile breach at the Democratic National Committee that some security firms blamed on elite Russian cyberespionage teams. Sensitive files from the DNC were stolen as part of that hack and then leaked online, potentially damaging presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's reputation.
Russian hackers also allegedly stole emails from a Clinton aide that were later published by WikiLeaks just weeks before Election Day.
Russia has denied any involvement. But that hasn't stopped U.S. lawmakers from drafting legislation that would form a bipartisan commission to investigate the Russian government's possible role in the hacks.
The Obama administration has also considered retaliating against Russia for the alleged cyberattacks. However, President-elect Donald Trump voiced doubts about the Russian government's involvement.
“It could be Russia. And it could be China. And it could be some guy in his home in New Jersey,” Trump said in an interview with Time magazine conducted in late November.
On Friday, Representative Adam Schiff, California Democrat, said he approved the Obama's administration move asking for a full review of the hacking. He also called Trump’s denial of Russian involved "disturbing," and said the U.S. needed to respond to the Kremlin's cyber meddling.
"After many briefings by our intelligence community, it is clear to me that the Russians hacked our democratic institutions and sought to interfere in our elections and sow discord," Schiff said in a statement.
John Bambenek, a researcher at security firm Fidelis Cybersecurity, said the goal of Obama's review was to probably prevent Trump from further casting doubt on Russia's alleged involvement in the hacks.
"It does seem that President Obama wants to make a strong case that Russia was involved and potentially box President-elect Trump in on deflecting blame," Bambenek said in an email. | <urn:uuid:10bc557f-f519-4ab1-8694-7706d072fd68> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.reseller.co.nz/article/611401/obama-orders-review-election-hacks-trump-doubts-russia-role/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281450.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00179-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973999 | 644 | 1.835938 | 2 |
Energie : papiers de recherche moissonnés (4/04/2016)
Boom and Bust 2016: tracking the global coal plant pipeline / Christine Shearer, Nicole Ghio, Lauri Myllyvirta, Aiqun Yu, and Ted Nace. CoalSwarm, Greenpeace, and Sierra Club, March 2016, 79 p. http://sierraclub.org/sites/www.sierraclub.org/files/uploads-wysiwig/final%20boom%20and%20bust%202017%20%283-27-16%29.pdf
Executive summary : The world has too many coal-fired power plants, yet the power industry continues to build more. While the amount of electricity generated from coal has declined for two years in a row, the industry has ignored this trend and continues to build new coal-fired generating plants at a rapid pace, creating an increasingly severe capacity bubble. The problem of overbuilding is especially severe in China, where the average coal plant is now run less than half the time and the government recently announced plans to halt new coal plant approvals. Worldwide, 338 GW of new coal capacity is in construction and 1,086 GW is in various stages of planning—the equivalent of 1,500 coal plants. The amount of capital potentially wasted on these plants amounts to US$981 billion, or close to one trillion dollars. Meanwhile, as clean, renewable energy becomes more affordable and more accessible, the amount of capital wasted on these unneeded plants will be one and a half times the amount the International Energy Agency estimates could provide electricity to the 1.2 billion people who need it worldwide…
OPEC vs US shale oil: Analyzing the shift to a market-share strategy / Alberto Behar and Robert A. Ritz. Cambridge : Energy Policy Research Group, March 2016, 30 p. (EPRG working paper ; 1612) http://www.eprg.group.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/BeharRitz_OPECshale_March2016_final.pdf
In November 2014, OPEC announced a new strategy geared towards improving its market share. Oil-market analysts interpreted this as an attempt to squeeze higher-cost producers, notably US shale oil, out of the market. Over the next year, crude oil prices crashed, with large repercussions for the global economy. We present a simple equilibrium model that explains the fundamental market factors that can rationalize such a “regime switch” by OPEC. These include: (i) the growth of US shale oil production; (ii) the slowdown of global oil demand ; (iii) reduced cohesiveness of the OPEC cartel; (iv) production ramp-ups in other non-OPEC countries. We show that these qualitative predictions are broadly consistent with oil market developments during 2014-15. The model is calibrated to oil market data; it predicts accommodation up to 2014 and a market-share strategy thereafter, and explains large oil-price swings as well as realistically high levels of OPEC output.
Europe’s Energy Union: Foreign Policy Implications for Energy Security, Climate and Competitiveness / Thomas Raine and Shane Tomlinson. London : Chatham House, 2016, 29 p. https://www.chathamhouse.org/publication/europes-energy-union-foreign-policy-implications-energy-security-climate
By addressing structural divisions between member states, the Energy Union could have a beneficial effect on the EU’s capacity to conduct a unified and effective foreign policy… | <urn:uuid:16134911-f4a6-4405-978c-816e566e3b0e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://energieclimat.hypotheses.org/30897 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00273.warc.gz | en | 0.896442 | 747 | 2.203125 | 2 |
Small companies are increasing the amount of interest they have abroad including places such as India and Africa. Figures that have been put together by Western Union Business Solutions have shown that many companies are looking to diversify their customer base because of the financial troubles that are being experienced in the Eurozone.
The research showed that the amount of export that is going on by UK companies has increased greatly. The number of customers being supplied in Africa has increased by around six percent in the last three months, when compared with the previous three-month period. India has also seen an increase, although slightly less, at around four percent.
Small and medium-sized enterprises in the UK are being forced to move away from their traditional markets in order to stabilise their business in the face of economic uncertainty at home. David Sear, the chief operating officer at WUBS has stated, “Businesses are looking abroad in order to find new trade routes to boost sales after declining European trade.
It is not just Africa and India who have seen significant increases in the amount of trade from the UK, but South America and North America have also seen significant increases.”
This indicates that the various programs that are being implemented by the government to improve international trade for small companies are beginning to work. Mr Sear continued, “This is a strong indication that there is an increasing amount of confidence in international markets as companies start to look abroad for business opportunities.”
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China is set to display its maritime might in an unprecedented show Thursday as it parades its warships and nuclear submarines with 14 other nations to mark its navy’s 60th anniversary.
The fleet parade takes place in the eastern city of Qingdao along with 21 foreign vessels, just weeks after tensions flared up following a naval stand-off with the United States in the South China Sea.
China will unveil its nuclear-powered submarines for the first time during the parade — only the fourth to take place since 1949 and the first on such a large and international scale.
“It’s a show of force, of power,” said Jean-Pierre Cabestan, professor of political science at Hong Kong Baptist University.
“It’s a public relations display with a double message — China as an integrator, showing it is keeping with the rules of the international game, but also showing it is now in the big power arena.”
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Dev Nikhanj was India's finest all rounder in cricket. He was born on
6th January 1959 in Haryana. He was the former captain.
Kapil was just 20, he set a new record of scoring 1000 runs and taking 100
wickets. He made this record within a period of one year and 109 days only.
Kapil Dev started playing in the first class cricket in 1975, and the opportunity
for him to play in a test match for the first time came in 1978 during Indian
team's tour to Pakistan.
also achieved the unique double of 4000 runs and 400 wickets, the first ever
Indian player to do so. He also set the world record for taking the highest
number of wickets (432) in test matches in February 1994. Indian government
honoured him with the 'Padmabhushan' award. Kapil Dev has written his autobiography
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Correlates of physical activity in children and adolescents with physical disabilities
a systematic review
Li, R., Sit, C.H.P., Duan, J.Z.J., Fan, T.C.M., McKenzie, T.L., & Wong, S.H.S. (2016). Correlates of physical activity in children and adolescents with physical disabilities: a systematic review. Preventive medicine (pp. 184-193)
Background: The benefits of physical activity (PA) for children with disabilities are well documented, and children with physical disabilities (PD) are often less active than peers with other disability types. Various correlates associated with PA in children with PD have been identified in separate studies, and a thorough analysis of these correlates could aid in understanding and designing interventions that promote children with PD to be more physically active. The purpose of this systematic review was to provide a comprehensive summary of the correlates of PA in children with PD.
Method: A systematic search using PubMed, CINAHL, Cochrane Library, PsychINFO, Eric, and EMbase was initiated in October 2014 to identify studies examining the correlates of PA in children with PD aged 6-18years. Two researchers independently screened studies, assessed their methodological quality, and extracted relevant data. The correlates were synthesized and further assessed semi-quantitatively.
Results: A total of 45 articles were included in the detailed review. Several modifiable physical, psychological, and environmental correlates were consistently and positively associated with PA in children with PD. Some non-modifiable correlates (e.g., intellectual ability, parents' ethnicity) were found to be consistently and negatively associated with PA.
Conclusions: The correlates of PA in children with PD are multifaceted and along many dimensions. This review can have implications for future studies and these may confirm the consistency of variables related to PA. Insights derived from the outcomes may also foster the measurement of the magnitude of associations that could assist the development of future interventions.
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|SPAN 307 - LATIN AMERICAN CULTURE AND SOCIETY|
This writing-intensive course entirely conducted in Spanish, is an exploration of key periods, events, actors, and interpreters of Latin American cultural and political history since the late 15th century. The first half of the course will be devoted to the three centuries of Spanish colonial rule in Latin America while the second half will focus on the wars for independence in the early 19th century and the postcolonial period. Throughout the course we will study the contributions of diverse Amerindian, European, African, and Asian peoples to the making of Latin American society. Class presentations and discussions will be based on representative works from Latin America and Latin American diasporas in the areas of literature, music, film, and the visual arts. This course has been designed for students who have completed the intermediate year of Spanish or higher.
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Phoebe Power reviews
This is an apt title for a book that has been developing – egg by egg – for the past twenty years. Peter Daniels’ first collection includes poems that have featured in five previous pamphlets and won several major awards including the Arvon Competition. At 55 poems, it’s a big collection, but the different lines of thought that inevitably arise from sampling the full breadth of a poet’s work do, in Daniels’ case, thread together cohesively to form a book that sustains an anxious assessment of everyday living, in all its modernity and minutiae.
For instance, ‘The Jar’ looks at our denial of nature in the way we live. I enjoyed the visceral shock of the new pot of raspberry jam containing ‘something / brown and alive with legs’ as well as the image of the hideous ‘blue’ creatures found drowned in a water pail in ‘Mice’. In dramatising the speaker’s desperate attempt to ignore them, to ‘keep the lid down on the water’, Daniels reminds us that we can’t control nature, that it is always present at the margins, creeping inevitably ‘across our rug’ (‘Insects’).
It is this sharp awareness of the condition of being ‘civilised’, of our contrivance to live closed off from nature in a very human world, that lends an importance to the most interesting poems in the book, those centred around London. Daniels tunes into a collective experience of buses and tubes, the ‘walk to the station’ (‘Endeavours’), a glimpse of St. Paul’s – that suggests a specifically urban, inward-looking bubble, a sense of blinkered routine, like the buses that ‘drive the blood along our veins, carry us home’ (‘Routemasters’). ‘Endeavours’ is perfectly poised between a wise awareness of the need to continue living and working by the ‘book of experience’, fitting with the status quo, and a wary realisation that this kind of life is in some way limited, that ‘we hold it together between stations, between dreams’. ‘City Boy’ feels especially pertinent for our time, in its depiction of lives codified by capitalism: ‘I felt how this money / is part of us, and keeps ourselves within it’. These poems work because they awaken our insecurities about the structures governing the world that we are forced to buy into.
Daniels also takes us away from London and pans his sharp eye across a series of foreign locations. These poems are like a traveller’s idiosyncratic photographs requiring special explanation: a San Francisco fire station, a soldier in a bar in Palermo, a display about mammoths in a Minneapolis mall. Daniels shows us the human stories in the corners of these scenes – ‘the men / idly shooting hoops’ (‘The Fireyard’) – and maintains a sense of the wide-eyed traveller gazing round at the new culture in which he finds himself, catching strange and visual moments: a woman in a red skirt holding up the traffic as she licks ‘a deep strawberry ice-cream’.
The poems are at their most effective with a sharply-observed character or place at their centre, and I found I was less convinced by some of the work in the latter half of the book which reached for mystical themes, the images succumbing to a kind of fable-like vagueness of fountains and forest pools, phrases like ‘when the time is full’ (‘Done’)… Where elsewhere it succeeds, here perhaps the work suffers a little from Daniels’ extremely light touch, his style so direct and transparent it is almost prosaic. But for an unnerving tour of the modern landscape we all share, I recommend this full and varied collection from an experienced poet.
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Prime Minister Julia Gillard will be wearing out her shoe leather and hitting the airwaves to sell her carbon price package to a tough audience.
Reactions to the package, announced on Sunday, brought few surprises.
Those for a carbon price backed the scheme; opponents hated it.
The government will tax the 500 biggest polluters over three years from July 1 next year, starting at $23 per tonne of emissions. The revenue will be spent on compensating households and industry, and developing renewable energies.
Australia's adoption of a carbon price to combat carbon missions is controversial, with the coalition and many commentators doubting its effectiveness and predicting a bad impact on the economy.
Industries affected by the change - particularly steel and coal - will get $9.2 billion over the next three years.
But Minerals Council chief Mitch Hooke said the climate plan would "take a baseball bat to the Australian economy", including a $25 billion hit to mining, while doing little to reduce emissions.
Australia's biggest employer lobby group, the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, says the carbon tax will weaken the economy.
"Unfortunately, the environmental gain the government is looking for through innovation and changed business and consumer behaviour will be very limited because this is a tax that gets passed on, coupled with widespread compensation to protect people from it," said chief executive Peter Anderson, who sits on the federal government climate change business roundtable.
Businesses in the renewable energy sector were happiest with the package.
"We will see solar on steroids," the chief executive of the Australian Solar Energy Society John Grimes said.
The Australian Geothermal Energy Association (AGEA) says the scheme will provide a foundation for the development of clean energy projects.
"The industry and its potential investors need to see the details before funds will flow into clean energy projects," AGEA chief executive Susan Jeanes said.
Low and middle-income earners will get tax cuts, pension rises and welfare payments worth $14.9 billion over the next three years to compensate for price rises, which the government says will amount to only 0.7 per cent in 2012/13.
Consumer advocacy group Choice says the impact of a carbon price on households will be "relatively modest".
"With so many households identifying increasing energy costs as a concern, it will be crucial that the government does not take a backward step in the levels of compensation for consumers," Choice head of campaigns Matt Levey said in a statement.
"Businesses should also be put on notice that they should not use the carbon tax as an excuse to pass on unrelated costs," Mr Levey said.
UnitingCare director Lin Hatfield Dodds said the compensation arrangements were very good and clever, and she praised the lifting of the tax-free threshold.
"Essentially what they've done is made it simpler and fairer for low-income Australians who are working or for Australians moving from welfare payments," she told the Seven Network on Sunday.
National Seniors Australia says more than 280,000 self-funded retirees will miss out on any carbon tax compensation.
NSA chief executive Michael O'Neill says the government has been generous in compensating pensioners and Commonwealth Seniors Health Card holders, but not helped those who have provided for their own future.
"The very people who have had the good fortune to provide for their own future again fall through the cracks," Mr O'Neill told AAP.
Ms Gillard says she will spend the next five weeks - "wearing out the shoe leather" - to sell the carbon tax around the country.
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The Ultimate Guide to Private Lives
Steal away to Paris, France, this summer at the Cleveland Museum of Art to enjoy the sights and sounds of the small pleasures and modest acts of life found among the family gatherings, gardens, and city streets depicted in the paintings and prints in Private Lives: Home and Family in the Art of the Nabis, Paris, 1889–1900.
This show focuses on four Post-Impressionist artists who were members of the Nabis brotherhood: Pierre Bonnard, Édouard Vuillard, Maurice Denis, and Félix Vallotton. The Nabis derived their name from the Hebrew word, meaning “prophets.” In 1888, linguist Auguste Cazalis drew a parallel between the way they aimed to revitalize painting (as “prophets of modern art”) and the way the ancient prophets had rejuvenated Israel.
While their individual art styles differed, they group shared a common interest in the works of Paul Gauguin and Paul Cézanne. However, they were determined to renew the art of painting through their belief that a work of art was not a depiction of nature, but a synthesis of metaphors and symbols. This exhibition features a variety of mediums, including lithographs, woodblock prints, and paintings.
We encourage you to visit Private Lives and continue reading to for our recommendations on how get the full experience of the new exhibition.
Private Lives in Collection Online and on the ArtLens App
View the show in person and then take another look in Collection Online via the Private Lives exhibition filter. Scroll through to view the CMA-owned artworks; the other artworks are on loan from the show’s co-organizer, the Portland Art Museum, plus museums and private collections in the US and Europe.
Head to the ArtLens App to hear selections from Claude Terrasse’s Petites scenes familières (Familiar Little Scenes) that are performed by pianist Arseniy Gusev of the Cleveland Institute of Music. Terrasse was Pierre Bonnard’s brother-in-law, and Terrasse asked Bonnard to contribute illustrations to his musical compositions, including his Familiar Little Scenes, published in 1895.
Want more? While perusing artworks in the exhibition, listen to our Spotify playlist, Private Lives: the Sounds of Paris for some French tunes to get you in the mood.
Take the Exhibition Home with You!
Stop by the museum store to pick up a copy of the Private Lives catalogue — a perfect addition to your coffee table. There are also many other exhibition-themed items to choose from like French soaps, teas, and hand towels!
Private Lives Photo Challenge
Connect with a selection of the artworks in our weekly photo challenge! Starting July 5th, tag us in your recreation or reinterpretation of the selected artwork and use #StepInsideCMA. Get creative!
Winners will be picked at the end of each week to receive a complimentary pair of tickets to Private Lives AND a $10 voucher to Provenance Café.
Hint: Women with a Dog (pictured above) is the first artwork in the challenge!
July 21 — Fabric and Fashion: Pattern and Design in the Art of Édouard Vuillard
Artist Édouard Vuillard painted alongside his mother and sister, both of whom were dressmakers. How did this exposure to fabric and fashion impact Vuillard’s art?
Join fashion historian Catherine Amoroso Leslie of Kent State University and CMA chief curator Heather Lemonedes Brown as they discuss how Vuillard’s bold use of pattern reflects the fashions of the time.
August 18 — Painted Pets: Dogs and Cats in the Works of Pierre Bonnard
Easily identified by colorful and richly patterned scenes of everyday life, the work of Pierre Bonnard often showcases domesticated animals as part of the family unit.
Join historian Kathleen Kete of Trinity College and curator Mary Weaver Chapin of the Portland Art Musuem as they discuss how animals arose as an important subject for Bonnard and other artists of his time and the popularity of pets in late 19th-century France.
Additionally, come over to the north court lobby for casual talks that introduce the major themes of the exhibition. These mini chats are free; no ticket required. Join us on weekdays, from 10:00am-noon, and Wednesday and Friday afternoons from 2:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
Local French Fare
Before, or after, you visit the CMA and tour Private Lives, try some French cuisine and treats around Cleveland.
Le Petit Triangle—Parisian offering for morning coffee and pastries, casual midday meals, and evening dinners with wine pairings
EDWINS Leadership & Restaurant Institute — High-end French plates including meat and seafood options with upscale drinks served amid luxe decor
L’Albatros — Upscale, contemporary French destination with patio seating, cheese courses and daily specials
Gigi’s on Fairmount — Small and charming New York-style French bistro
Sophie La Gourmande — Modern patisserie brand specializing in treats with globally-inspired flavors and classic techniques
On the Rise — Local bakery offering French macarons, éclairs, and other delicious pastries
Fluffy Duck Café — Housemade breads & pastries plus hot & cold sandwiches in a casual cafe setting
@duroolowu — The Nigerian-born British fashion designer is best known for his innovative combinations of patterns and textiles that sometimes draw inspiration from Post-Impressionist artists.
@frenchwords — Expand your vocabulary and learn some French words and phrases.
It’s all in the details! The atmosphere of Private Lives is complete with wallpaper inspired by late 19th century French interiors and the sound of a piano playing French compositions illustrated by Bonnard. #StepInsideCMA and enjoy these sights and sounds of small pleasures found among the family gatherings, gardens, and the city streets.
Purchase your tickets to Private Lives, on view through Sunday, September 19.
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A gay woman in Londonderry, New Hampshire, has sued a Cracker Barrel restaurant, claiming that management did nothing after she complained of employees sexually assaulting her and making crude references to her sexuality. The woman, Bonnie Usher, joined the Cracker Barrel staff as a cook in 2000. In the complaint she filed with New Hampshire human rights commission, she says that she was denied better work shifts and promotions because she is a woman, that she was subjected to abusive language, was groped by a co-worker, and that a photo of the groping was hung on the wall of the restaurant’s employee area.
Usher was fired in 2004, and she is maintaining that the company fired her because she complained about mistreatment on the job. A spokesman for Cracker Barrel says the company was not aware of Usher’s complaints.
Bonnie Usher’s suit is interesting because it adds gender discrimination and sexual harrassment to a long list of employee complaints over many years. In the early 90’s, a Cracker Barrel memo, written by a company executive, was leaked. The memo stated that managers should fire employees who did not “demonstrate normal heterosexual values.” One lesbian employee, Cheryl Summerville, said the reason given on her separation papers was “Employee is gay.” Summerville’s Cracker Barrel was in Georgia, where there is no state protection for gay workers, so she was unable to take legal action against the company. There was a shareholder outcry against Cracker Barrel’s policy, and a decade-long boycott of the restaurant by gays and gay rights activists, leading to the addition of a non-discrimination clause in Cracker Barrel’s employee policies.
Then there was the matter of discrimination against African Americans. A civil rights investigation found that black diners in Cracker Barrel restaurants in seven states–about 50 Cracker Barrel locations–were segregated from whites in restaurant seating, seated after white customers who arrived later, and given inferior table service. Interviews with employees revealed that managers “often directed, participated in, or condoned the discriminatory behavior.”
In 2004, Cracker Barrel agreed to change its training and management practices to prevent discrimination against African American customers, though the company denied the allegations made against it. There were a hundred suits filed by individuals against Cracker Barrel, and–according to attorney Heidi Doerhoff–“They’re still fighting tooth and nail against all the private plaintiffs.”
Cracker Barrel’s Equal Opportunity Statement claims that “Cracker Barrel will not tolerate any form of discrimination, harassment or retaliation affecting its employees or applicants due to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, marital status, medical condition, or disability.” Though any chain can undergo the misfortune of having one of its franchises dishonor the company’s non-discrimination policy, accusations–so far, all of them proven–against Cracker Barrel have been so numerous for so long that the addition of a new one does not speak well for the company’s desire to change its ways. | <urn:uuid:d7e19c9a-4474-4c60-a8d7-cc2b466912d8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://practice.motherjones.com/politics/2006/02/cracker-barrel-sued-discrimination-again/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572161.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815054743-20220815084743-00477.warc.gz | en | 0.965321 | 650 | 1.867188 | 2 |
Y is for Yo-yo
In this printing practice instructional activity, learners learn to form the upper and lower case letter Y. Students practice their letters on the lines. This is not DeNelian style printing. There are examples but no letters to trace.
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Seasons and Weather: Read-Aloud Anthology
Kindergartners explore the cycle of the seasons in a 10-lesson language arts unit. Through a series of picture-supported read-aloud activities, children are able to identify the sequence of seasons and the types of weather associated...
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Spring Is Here: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 9)
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Alphabetic Understanding, Phonics, and Spelling
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Surprise!: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 2)
Surprise! is the theme of a unit covering such topics as consonants, blending, short vowels sounds, high frequency words, and number words. The unit's lessons also include teachable moments covering story structure, illustrations,...
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The first thing they teach you in journalism school is to get a subscription to The New York Times. It’s also the final thing they really need to teach you.
Any observant student can see that what’s on the front page of the Times often ends up leading the network newscasts that evening. Other newspapers also play follow-the-leader, either by directly republishing Times stories or by aping the “gray lady” in style (liberal, stilted) and appearance (dull, drab).
As an aside, there’s a CNN corollary to this. The cable network often steals story ideas from The Wall Street Journal. If that paper has a story on Monday about how food companies are charging the same amount for smaller packages, expect to see a CNN reporter live on Tuesday in a supermarket, holding up bags of potato chips. “Smaller bag, same price. Back to you in the studio.”
In any event, any aspiring journalist with a subscription to the Times and the Journal can go ahead and skip the last four years of J school; for a few hundred bucks a year he knows all he needs to know about what stories will be covered and how they’ll be reported. But the Times may not be with us for much longer.
“With more than $1 billion in debt already on the books, only $46 million in cash reserves as of October, and no clear way to tap into the capital markets (the company’s debt was recently reduced to junk status), the paper’s future doesn’t look good,” wrote Michael Hirschorn in The Atlantic’s January-February issue. “Regardless of what happens over the next few months, The Times is destined for significant and traumatic change.” Further, “At some point soon -- sooner than most of us think -- the print edition, and with it The Times as we know it, will no longer exist.”
Hirschorn writes as if this would be a sad development. But in reality, it’s probably a good thing.
The problem with much of American print journalism is that it’s too dull. Critics like to make fun of USA Today, calling it “McPaper.” But there’s a reason it has the highest circulation in the country: It’s at least interesting. That’s the same reason the New York Post and New York Daily News survive and even thrive, although they’re competing for the same market. They’re both fun, readable and compelling.
The Times, meanwhile, is the voice of an outdated liberal establishment. It chooses to ignore news it doesn’t like. For example, the April 15th Tea parties were buried on page 16 of the print edition, and mocked even there.
“Although organizers insisted they had created a nonpartisan grass-roots movement, others argued that these parties were more of the Astroturf variety,” sniffed reporter Liz Robbins. Somehow the paper had half a dozen reporters following the story, but managed not to print the fact that more than 5,000 people gathered in New York City alone.
The paper bungles the news in the stories it does cover. The April 16 Times’ front page featured a march in Afghanistan, where some 300 women turned out to protest a new law that severely limits the rights of women. “Women are mostly illiterate in this impoverished country, and they do not, generally speaking, enjoy anything near the freedom accorded to men,” the paper noted.
What’s changed? Well, women in Afghanistan today have the ability to protest only because the United States led a coalition to remove the Taliban in 2001 and allow an elected government to run the country. That’s the sort of fact that never seems to make The New York Times’ front page.
Sadly, this is the model so many newspapers across the country have chosen to follow. However, the failure of the Times could begin to change that.
This brings to mind the breakup of AT&T in 1982. At the time it seemed frightening to many. Here was a model that had worked for decades -- what would happen to the telecommunications industry without its giant leader?
What happened was competition. First in long distance, eventually in wireless technology. Today the very idea of a “long distance call” seems quaint. Virtually any call can be placed on a cell phone, and almost everyone has hundreds, even thousands, of minutes per month. However, this new world of portability and convenience wouldn’t have come about if AT&T had retained its monopoly.
As Mark Steyn noted on National Review’s “The Corner” blog recently, “The net result of the industry’s craven abasement before the Times is that American newspapering is dead as dead can be.” Sad but true.
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The Heavy will be able to carry satellites or spacecraft weighing more than 117,000 pounds into orbit, — making it twice as powerful as competing vehicles and more powerful than any vehicle in history except the Saturn V moon rocket, SpaceX says. The company also promises that the Falcon Heavy will arrive at the Vandenberg Air Force base in California facility before the end of the year, with a demo launch coming soon afterward.
SpaceX is apparently hoping the new rocket’s power and relatively low cost ($80 million to $125 million) will attract the Air Force for its communication and and spy satellite launches. The Air Force’s 2012 budget includes four launches at an average cost of $435 million, SpaceX says.
“”The Air Force has expressed interest,” Musk said today. “I’m very confident that we will have a deal by the time of the Falcon Heavy demo flight.”
This is all very impressive, though it’s probably worth bearing in mind that a number of people, including my recently-departed boss Owen Thomas, have criticized Musk for getting a bit ahead of reality when talking up his companies and achievements.
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The Best Cucumbers for Eating or Pickling
Plant different cucumber varieties for eating and pickling. When choosing cucumbers, the question is really “to burp, or not to burp?”
Cucumbers that make you burp are the ones that make great pickles; the burpiness means they have higher levels of cucurbitacin. Cucumbers that are best eaten fresh are called “burpless”, “eating”, or “slicers”, since so many of us slice them into salads or onto sandwiches. The refreshing aroma of cucumber says summer, and it’s the second most popular vegetable with home gardeners (after King Tomato, of course).
In our new video Tricia plants and grows cucumbers (and fights pests organically). Tricia likes pickling cucumbers, but most gardeners want eating cukes too.
Grow these cucumbers for fresh-from-the-garden flavors
The striped Armenian cucumbers shown above are a prized variety for eating and slicing (without burping). Suyo Long grows up to 16 inches of burpless tenderness. The celebrated Straight Eight is reliable and smooth, with heavy yields. Plus, it’s easy to slice in a mandoline. Lemon cucumbers are round and yellow just as their name would suggest. Their delicate skin and light flavor mean lemon cucumbers often get eaten in the garden. Sumter is a disease-resistant cuke that does well in many climates.
Grow these cucumbers for the perfect crunchy pickle
Okay, we made this one easy for you. If you want great pickles, you get a big hint if the word “pickle” is in the cucumber seed’s name! Homemade Pickles grows 5 to 6 inches long. Feeling patriotic? National Pickling came from research sponsored by the National Pickle Packers Association and works both when picked gherkin-small at 2 to 3 inches, or at standard 5 to 6 inches. We have a handsome, BPA-free Weck jar that’s outstanding for pickles.
Cucumbers that play on both teams
Some burpless cucumbers also make good pickles. They call the variety Muncher because it’s good straight from the vine, but it’s also a nice pickler if you pick it small (4 to 6 inches). Tendergreen is a burpless and you can grow it to 8 inches as a slicer, but if you want to pickle it just harvest the cukes when they’re small.
Spines The prickly hairs on certain cucumbers can certainly make their presence felt, as in you might need to wear garden gloves when you harvest your crop. The flavors of some spiny cucumbers make that little inconvenience worthwhile.
Stippling Those little bumps on some cucumber skins (shown above) have a special name. When reading seed pack information about cucumbers, watch for this word, if the bumpiness is a pro or a con for you.
Cucurbit Cucumbers are in the cucurbit family, along with pumpkins, squash, and melons. Why do you need to know that? First, because the name is fun to say. Second, because you can avoid many soil borne diseases if you rotate your crops and don’t replant family members in the same place for 3 years. We have an intro to vegetable families and crop rotation here.
For more information
Check out our video where professional cooking teachers show you How to Make Dill Pickles.
More cucumber articles in our Organic Gardening Resource Center:
We recommend the booklet Favorite Pickles & Relishes. If you want a longer resource on pickling, fermenting, and preserving take a look at our carefully selected set of books on those homesteading topics.
Choose the right cucumber seeds for your cucumber eating and pickling needs!
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The Vandals: The History and Legacy of Antiquity's Most Famous Barbarians
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Today, most people are familiar with the term “vandalism”, but are ignorant as to the word’s etymology. Yes, vandalism refers to the wanton destruction of property in the modern world, but the word’s origin is much more complex, as it was originally the name of an important Germanic tribe that flourished in Europe and North Africa in the fifth and sixth centuries AD. As the Vandals rampaged throughout Western Europe and later into North Africa, they left a swath of destruction in their wake, which is how the term 'vandalism' became associated with destruction.. The Vandals were a truly ferocious band of people who used the art of war to achieve its goals in ways that seem cruel and barbaric to modern sensibilities, but it was just one of many groups of people at the time who employed these tactics to seize power and land throughout Europe and the Mediterranean region. An examination of the Vandals through a combination of Latin language Catholic Church sources and Byzantine chroniclers, combined with studies by modern historians, reveals that the Vandals were much more than blood thirsty barbarians whose primary goal was the destruction of Rome.
It is true that the Vandals sacked Rome in 455 AD, but even that act was a unique historical accomplishment in itself as they were only the third people to inflict such destruction on one of the world’s greatest cities. Despite living on the lawless marchlands of the Roman Empire, the Vandals were able to establish two different kingdoms, and introduce a fairly complicated code of royal succession, that gave stability to their people for some time. The Vandals also proved to be an extremely clever people in their use of violence and war, as they rarely engaged in violence for its own sake. They also often employed clever tactics on the battlefield to defeat the larger and more sophisticated armies of the Romans, and later, the Byzantines. The examination will also reveal that the Vandals were as adept at the arts of diplomacy and statecraft as they were with warfare. If they could obtain an advantage through negotiation, then they would choose that route over a war that threatened to decimate their forces. Despite having the image of the cruel barbarian warrior, the Vandals were not without God in their lives. Although the Vandals were Christians, they followed a different sect of Christianity, which often put them at odds with Rome and Constantinople, but throughout most of their history they stood fast to their theological beliefs. The bloodthirsty reputation accompanying the Vandals throughout the centuries has largely been the result of their theological beliefs that diverged from the orthodoxies practiced during the period by the church leaders in Rome and Constantinople. Though the Vandal culture was truly as important as any other in Europe and the Mediterranean region at the time, as was the case with many of the Germanic tribes that lived on the fringes of Rome, the Vandals were destined to find themselves the victims of the nascent Byzantine Empire in the end.
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October 6, 1998 – The Center and the California Native Plant Society filed a lawsuit that forced the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to list the Coachella Valley milk vetch and four other desert plants under the Endangered Species Act.
2001 – The Center and the California Native Plant Society filed a lawsuit against the Service challenging the agency’s failure to designate critical habitat for the milk vetch. The lawsuit resulted in a ruling that required the Service to designate critical habitat for the milk vetch and seven other imperiled plant species.
2003 – The Center joined with the Sierra Club in filing a lawsuit to overturn a plan to develop 460 acres of Coachella Valley milk vetch habitat outside of Palm Springs, California. The city had approved the project in violation of the California Environmental Quality Act by failing to prepare an environmental impact report.
December 14, 2004 – The Service proposed 3,500 acres as critical habitat for the Coachella Valley milk vetch. An additional 17,000 acres identified in the draft Coachella Valley Multiple Species Habitat Conservation Plan were excluded from this proposal.
December 14, 2005 – The Service issued its final decision, which designated no critical habitat for the Coachella Valley milk vetch. The agency claimed such a designation would be redundant because milk vetch habitat is covered under other wildlife-protection plans.
August 28, 2007 – The Center filed a notice of intent to sue the Service a second time over its failure to designate critical habitat for the Coachella Valley milk vetch. The notice also addressed 55 other wrongful Endangered Species Act decisions.
January 14, 2009 – The Center filed suit against the Bush administration to overturn the Service’s decision to withhold critical habitat from the Coachella Valley milk vetch.
February 12, 2013 – Responding to our lawsuit, the Fish and Wildlife Service finalized protection of 9,603 acres of critical habitat for the Coachella Valley milk vetch. The new proposal included four areas within the greater Coachella Valley in Riverside County, California, near Palm Springs. | <urn:uuid:34a5a854-6cea-4723-b26b-67ed24451dd8> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/species/plants/Coachella_Valley_milk_vetch/action_timeline.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282926.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00400-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932701 | 420 | 3.046875 | 3 |
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A Study on the Estimation of Air Pollutants Emission Factors in Electric Power Plants
Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment, volume 20, issue 3, 2004, Pages 281~290
The main purpose of this study was to characterize the air pollutants emission factors in electric power plant (EPP) using fossil fuels. The electric power plant is a major air pollution source, thus knowing the emission characteristics of electric power plant is very important to develop a control strategy. The major air pollutants of concern from EPP slacks are particulate matter (PM), sulfur oxides (SOx), nitrogen oxides (NOx), carbon monoxide (CO) and heavy metals. Throughout the study, the following results are estimated - PM : 8.671E-05 ∼ 8.724E+01 PM emission (kg) per fuel burned (ton) - SOx : 4.149E-04∼7.877E+01 SOx emission (kg) per fuel burned (ton) - NOx 1.578E-02∼9.857E+00 NOx emission (kg) per fuel burned (ton) - CO : 3.800E-04∼1.291E+00 CO emission (kg) per fuel burned (ton) - Hg : 1.220E+01∼3.108E+02 Hg emission (mg) per fuel burned(ton) From the statistical analysis by Wilcoxon signed ranks test between the emission factors of ours and U.S. EPA's, we can yielded that : p 〉0.05.
Removal of NO Using CuO/3Al
Catalyst Impregnated Ceramic Candle Filters
Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment, volume 20, issue 3, 2004, Pages 291~302
catalyst impregnated ceramic candle filters for nitrogen oxides removal were prepared by porous mullite(
) support and CuO catalyst deposited on this support to achieve uniformly dispersed CuO deposition, which are impregnated into the pores of available alumino-silicate ceramic candle filter. The CuO/3
catalyst impregnated ceramic candle filters were characterized by XRD, BET, air permeability, pore size, SEM and catalytic tests in the reduction of NOx by NH
. The observed effects of CuO/3
impregnated ceramic candle filters in SCR reaction are as follows : (1) when the content of CuO catalyst increased further, activity of NO increased. (2) NO conversion at first increased with temperature and then decreased at high temperatures (above 40
), possibly due to the occurrence of the ammonia oxidation reaction. (3) In pilot plant test for 3 months, NO conversion was greater than 90%.
Numerical Study on Warming Effect Due to Green House Gas in Microscale Atmospheric Domain
Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment, volume 20, issue 3, 2004, Pages 303~315
The change of land use such as the construction of way in mountainous area and tunnel leads to the quantitative change of the greenhouse gas. This study tried to clarify the effect of the change of land use around Miryang Ice Valley on thermal environment of micro-meteorological scale by numerical experiment. We carried out several numerical experiment under different atmospheric conditions with different amount of greenhouse gases. Heating rate increased by the greenhouse gas in the ground level is average of 0.0073 K/day. And the increasing rate if smaller than the daily average heat crossing quantity.
A Study on the Development of Source Profiles for Fine Particles (PM
Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment, volume 20, issue 3, 2004, Pages 317~330
The Purpose of this study was to develop the P
source Profiles, which are mass abundances (fraction of total mass) of a chemical species in P
source emissions. The source categories studied were soil, road dust, gasoline and diesel vehicles, industrial source, municipal incinerator, coal-fired power plant, biomass burning, and marine. The chemicals analyzed were ions. elements. and carbons. From this study, soil source had the crustal components such as Si, hi, and Fe. In the case of road dust. Si, OC, Ca, Fe had large abundances. The abundant species were S
, and EC in the gasoline vehicle and EC, OC, C
, and S
in the diesel vehicle. The main components were S
, S N
, and EC in the industrial source using bunker C oil as fuel, C
, Fe, and OC in the municipal incinerator source, and Si, Al, S
, and OC in the coal -fired power plant source. In the case of biomass burning, OC, EC, and C
were mainly emitted. The main components in marine were C
, and S
PAHs Source Fingerprints for Municipal Incinerator, Motor Vehicle Fuels and Industrial Boilers Emission
Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment, volume 20, issue 3, 2004, Pages 331~343
The results of individual PAH source profiles that can be applied to receptor model are as follows. The sum of 16 PAH concentrations was 391.41 ng/S㎥ in a tunnel. Phenanthrene was the most abundant compound among 16 PAH, and then pyrene, fluoranthene, anthracene, and naphthalene can be seen in elevated contents. 11,056.61 ng/S㎥ of 16 PAH concentrations in BC oil boiler was two times higher than 6,582.57 ng/S㎥) of those in LNG boiler. Naphthalene was the most abundant compound in both facilities. Phenanthrene, anthracene, and acenaphthylene were the second dominant compound group in order from both facilities. BC oil boiler had relatively high concentration of pyrene compared to LNG boiler that had high concentration of fluorene and did not detect pyrene. The sum of 16 PAH concentrations emitted from MSW incinerators after APCD (air pollution control device) was three times higher than those from MSW incinerators before APCD. However, the concentrations of more than 4-ring PAH compounds (e.g., benzo (a)anthracene) before APCD were higher than those after APCD. This fact implies that PAHs generated by combustion process are eliminated in APCD and they are continuously produced in stack or atmosphere by PAHs precursors.
Effects of Late Sea-breeze on Ozone Distributions in the Coastal Urban Area
Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment, volume 20, issue 3, 2004, Pages 345~360
The late sea-breeze and its impacts on ozone distributions were investigated during April to September from 1998 to 2002, in the Busan metropolitan area (including surrounding areas) using the surface ozone concentrations (obtained at 9 monitoring sites), local meteorological variables (obtained near the shore), together with synoptic data. The urban scale ozone concentration was also simulated using the MM5/UAM-V to better understand the role of late sea-breeze in Busan. The results from observation study showed that most of the late sea-breeze occurred when weak offshore synoptic flow (northwesterly) suppressed development of sea - breeze, and the ozone concentration level and frequencies exceeding ozone standard increased with the onset time of sea breeze. We also found that the late sea-breeze clearly induces relatively weak wind speed and high temperature during the daytime As a result it enhances the photochemical ozone accumulation and delays the occurrence time of the averaged maximum ozone concentrations. The results of simulation for high ozone episode (24 August, 2001) by MM5/UAM -V revealed that the late sea-breeze interacted with weak offshore synoptic wind can contribute significantly to high ozone concentration in the coastal urban area. The simulated horizontal and vertical distribution of ozone concentration indicated that ozone can be accumulated over the sea under stagnant condition and return to the land in the late afternoon with the sea breeze, suggesting both the relationship between late sea-breeze and recirculation and the importance of late sea -breeze effects influencing severe ozone pollution in Busan.
Examination of Dust Trapping Mechanism in a Metal Fiber Filter-bed
Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment, volume 20, issue 3, 2004, Pages 361~369
A metal fiber bed has seldom been applied to the practical filtration process despite its excellent mechanical and chemical stability. The filter-bed used in this work was highly porous with open structure, of which apparent porosity was 80 ∼ 90%. Although pressure loss across the filter-bed was very low, separation efficiency was found to be quite high. This paper focuses on the basic filtration mechanisms of a metal filter-bed and a thin ceramic filter from fly ash for reference. The experimental parameters were face velocity, dust loading and porosity of filter-bed. Pressure drop increased with increasing face velocity and dust feeding load for both filters. It also showed that dust particles deposited in the deep flow path, finally resulting in clogging the pore channels. It thereby indicates that the dominating mechanism of the metal filter-bed would be depth filtration. Meanwhile, the thin fly ash composite filters trapped the aerated dust mainly on the surface of the filter medium, so that the instantaneously formed dust layer might cause a steep increase of pressure drop across the filtration system.
Specific Resistance (K
´) of Dust Layer Deposited on Porous Media
Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment, volume 20, issue 3, 2004, Pages 371~380
In the dust separation by using porous filter media, the structure of dust layer deposited on the filter surface of filter medium directly affects the effective filtration. The present study has investigated the specific resistance (K
') of the dust layer and its porosity (
) for three different filters; FA composite filter, metal fiber filter and stainless filter. The specific resistance (K
') increased and at the same time the cake porosity (
) decreased with the increase of filtration velocity, possibly due to the compressible effect of dust layer. However, under the low dust concentration, subsequent dust particles would block the open channels through the layer resulting in high specific resistance of the layer. The FA composite filter among three filters was shown to be the most effective filter for dust cake filtration at low filtration velocities less than 0.1 m/s for an approximate dust concentration of 5 g/㎥.
Comparison of Chemical Characteristics in Wet and Bulk Precipitation Collected in the Iksan Area
Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment, volume 20, issue 3, 2004, Pages 381~396
In order to understand the precipitation acidity and chemical composition of ion species in Iksan area as well as to know the difference of chemical characteristics in precipitation samples from the viewpoint of precipitation sampling method, precipitation samples were collected by wet-only automatic precipitation sampler and bulk manual precipitation sampler in Iksan, from March 2003 to August 2003. The mean pH of precipitation was 5.0. There was a little significant difference in the mean value of pH between automatic and manual sampler. However, pH values of some precipitation samples were lower in automatic sampler than in manual sampler, especially in case of precipitation samples with small rainfall for March 2003. The mean concentrations of each ions in precipitation were generally a little higher in precipitation samples collected by the manual sampler than in those collected by the automatic sampler because of accumulation of dry deposition on the surface of glass funnel installed at the manual sampler during the sampling period or no rainfall. Dominant species determining the acidity of precipitation, were N
for cations and nss-S
for anions. The mean concentration of N
eq/L and 9
eq/L for the automatic sampler and 40 ueq/L and 16 ueq/L for the manual sampler, respectively. In addition, nss-S
eq/L and 13
eq/L for the automatic sampler and 32
eq/L and 17
eq/L for the manual sampler, respectively. Although the concentrations of the acidifying ions of nss-S
were about 3 times higher than those for foreign pristine sites, precipitation acidity were estimated to be natural due to the neutralization reaction of the alkaline species of N
with its higher concentrations. Considering the ratios of nss-S
, it was found that ammonium sulphate was dominant in Iksan precipitation. The major non-sea salt ions were maximum concentrations for March, but decreased with increasing of precipitation amount.on amount.
Applicability of CCT-ICP-MS for the Determination of Trace Elements in Airborne Particulate Matters
Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment, volume 20, issue 3, 2004, Pages 397~409
There has been few studies of either domestic or international to apply CCT-ICP-MS for the precise analysis of As and Cr components associated with airborne particulate matter. To date, the use of CCT-ICP-MS is strongly recommended for the accurate analysis of the toxic trace metals; this is because CCT-ICP-MS technique prevents polyatomic spectral interferences involved in the determination of As and/or Cr components. Taking advantage of CCT-ICP-MS technique, the measurements of about 20 metals were undertaken in this study. The standard reference material (NIST SRM 2783) was used for analytical quality control. To improve analytical accuracy and of acid efficiency, we selected nitric acid based on a test of three kinds of acid for microwave digestion method 1 ) nitric acid. 2) nitric acid and hydrogen peroxide. and 3) nitric acid and perchloric acid. When this method was employed, relative errors to SRM values of Al, As, Cr Fe, Mg, Mn, Pb, Sb, V, and Zn fell below 20%, while those or Ca, Si, and Ti were higher than 20%. The overall results of our study show that the concentrations of As and V determined by CCT-ICP-MS were satisfied with the certificated values within a relative error of 20e1c, whereas those determined by ICP-MS were 10 times higher than the certificated values.
Synthesis and Analysis of Nanosized TiO
Particles Using a Tube Furnace
Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment, volume 20, issue 3, 2004, Pages 411~419
Titania particles are widely used as a photocatalyst to treat various contaminants in air and water. Titania particles were formed by vapor-phase oxidation of titanium tetraisopropoxide (TTIP) in a tube furnace between 773 and 1,273 K. The effect of process variables such as furnace temperature, flow rate of carrier air, and flow rate of sheath air on powder size and phase characteristics was investigated using a scanning mobility particle sizer (SMPS), transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and X-ray diffraction (XRD). The size distribution of synthesized titania particles was characterized with mode diameter and peak concentration. The mode diameter ranging from 20 to 80 nm decreased with increasing flow rates of sheath air and carrier air, and increased with increasing furnace temperature. The peak concentration increased with increasing flow rates of sheath air and carrier air The best synthetic condition for high production rate can be derived from the experimental data set represented by mode diameter and peak concentration. The crystal structure of synthesized titania particles was found to be anatase phase, ensuring high photocatalytic potential.
Measurement of Dry Deposition Flux of Air Pollutants to the Waterbody
Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment, volume 20, issue 3, 2004, Pages 421~426
Dry deposition fluxes of inorganic acidic species to the waterbody were measured by the dry deposition sampler (DDS). DDS was composed of three pans filled with pure water. An average concentration increase during the sampling time, after removing an abnormal value if existed, was considered as the input by deposition. Important operation parameters such as the amount of water used and sampling time were determined through a series of laboratory experiments. The deposition flux measured by DDS was compared with that by the water surface sampler developed by Yi et ai. (1997a,b). | <urn:uuid:33b2bbae-063b-4526-a454-0a910623f302> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.koreascience.or.kr/journal/JournalIssueList.jsp?kojic=DGHGBJ&volno=20&issno=3&cnov_no=&year_GB=2004 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720238.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00190-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.920732 | 3,556 | 2.234375 | 2 |
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April in January: spring-like severe weather and record warmth in the Midwest
Posted by: Dr. Jeff Masters, 03:19 PM GMT em 29 de Janeiro de 2013
The calendar says its January, but the atmosphere looks more like April over the Midwest U.S., where a spring-like surge of warm air is interacting with a strong low pressure system to create a dangerous severe weather situation. The warm air surging northwards has already broken high temperature records for the date in Chicago, where the mercury hit 61°F at 7 am CST; a tornado watch is posted for portions of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Arkansas. Golf-ball sized hail fell at three locations in Oklahoma already this morning, and a wind gust of 75 mph was reported in a thunderstorm near Omega, Oklahoma. NOAA's Storm Prediction Center has placed portions of Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Missouri, and Texas in their "Moderate Risk" region for severe weather on Tuesday. This is the first "Moderate Risk" forecast issued during 2013. The primary threat will be damaging thunderstorm winds, but we will also see tornadoes, with the potential for a few strong EF-2 and EF-3 twisters. The surge of warm moving northwards ahead of the cold front spawning today's severe weather is bringing in warmth unprecedented for January in some locations. Monday was the hottest January day on record in Topeka, Kansas, which hit 77°F. That's 36°F above average. and 3° warmer than their previous highest January temperature. Columbia, Missouri tied its all-time warmest January temperature, 77°. Kansas City (74°F) and Wichita (74°F) both fell 1° short of tying their all-time January hottest temperature records. Balloon soundings of the atmosphere taken last night showed moisture levels in the top 5% for a January day over much of the Midwest, and several stations may set all-time rainiest January day records today. One candidate is Flint Michigan, where a heavy thunderstorm moved in at 7:30 am, dumping 0.75" of rain. With another round of thunderstorms expected tonight, Flint is poised to break its record for rainiest January day in its history--the 1.34" that fell on January 18, 1949.
Figure 1. A crazy weather day for the U.S.: our severe weather map from 10 am EST Tuesday, January 29. Severe thunderstorms were occurring in Kansas and Oklahoma, flood watches were posted for Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, and Wisconsin, and winter weather advisories, high wind advisories, and fire weather advisories were posted in other locations.
Figure 2. NOAA's Storm Prediction Center has placed portions of Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi in their "Moderate Risk" region for severe weather on Tuesday. This is the first "Moderate Risk" forecast issued during 2013.
Chicago's wild January weather ride continues
Chicago's craziest January in memory got even stranger today, when a surge of warm air pushed the temperature to 61°F at 7 am, breaking the previous high temperature record of 59°F for the date. Spring-like thunderstorms, accompanied by temperatures in the mid-60s are expected this afternoon--just a week after the city recorded a high temperature of 11°F and a low of -1°F (on January 22nd.) Chicago has been above 65°F in January just once in its history--on January 25, 1950, when the mercury hit 67°F. The average January high in the Windy City is 30°F, and today will be the 4th day the city has been 20 or more degrees warmer than that during January 2013. The roller coaster goes back downhill after the cold front moves through early on Wednesday, though--Chicago's high on Friday is expected to be near 15°F, with a morning low around 5°F. Chicago has also experienced record low snowfall this winter; the city got it's first 1-inch snowstorm of the season on Friday, when 1.1" fell at O'Hare Airport. This was the latest first 1-inch snow in city history, and ended a 335-day streak without a 1-inch snowstorm, the longest such streak since records began in 1872. Chicago has managed just 2.9" of snow during the winter of 2012 - 2013, which is 16" below average.
Chicago's roller coaster of temperatures doesn't compare, though, to what happened in Nowata, Oklahoma during the period February 10 - 17, 2011. A cold air mass combined with a fresh snow pack and calm winds allowed Nowata to hit a low of -31°F on February 10, 2011--the all-time coldest temperature ever recorded in Oklahoma. Gradual warming accelerated over the next week, and temperatures peaked at a record high of 79 degrees on February 17. According to the National Weather Service in Tulsa, Okla., this 110-degree temperature rise was the greatest change within seven days in Oklahoma history.
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Clade-specific 16S ribosomal DNA oligonucleotides reveal the predominance of a single marine Synechococcus clade throughout a stratified water column in the Red Sea
UNSPECIFIED. (2003) Clade-specific 16S ribosomal DNA oligonucleotides reveal the predominance of a single marine Synechococcus clade throughout a stratified water column in the Red Sea. APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY, 69 (5). pp. 2430-2443. ISSN 0099-2240Full text not available from this repository.
Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/AEM.69.5.2430-2443.2003
Phylogenetic relationships among members of the marine Synechococcus genus were determined following sequencing of the 16S ribosomal DNA (rDNA) from 31 novel cultured isolates from the Red Sea and several other oceanic environments. This revealed a large genetic diversity within the marine Synechococcus cluster consistent with earlier work but also identified three novel clades not previously recognized. Phylogenetic analyses showed one clade, containing halotolerant isolates lacking phycoerythrin (PE) and including strains capable, or not, of utilizing nitrate as the sole N source, which clustered within the MC-A (Synechococcus subcluster 5.1) lineage. Two copies of the 16S rRNA gene are present in marine Synechococcus genomes, and cloning and sequencing of these copies from Synechococcus sp. strain VVH 7803 and genomic information from Synechococcus sp. strain WH 8102 reveal these to be identical. Based on the 16S rDNA sequence information, clade-specific oligonucleotides for the marine Synechococcus genus were designed and their specificity was optimized. Using dot blot hybridization technology, these probes were used to determine the in situ community structure of marine Synechococcus populations in the Red Sea at the time of a Synechococcus maximum during April 1999. A predominance of genotypes representative of a single clade was found, and these genotypes were common among strains isolated into culture. Conversely, strains lacking PE, which were also relatively easily isolated into culture, represented only a minor component of the Synechococcus population. Genotypes corresponding to well-studied laboratory strains also appeared to be poorly represented in this stratified water column in the Red Sea.
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Will wind blow enviros apart?
Would you like to live next to a garbage dump? Power plant belching black smoke? How about a 24-hour-a-day factory noise machine?
Over the last three decades, green groups have paired with citizens fighting against these proposals in their communities. While local chambers of commerce and statewide business lobbies have nastily branded these guardians of home NIMBYs —for “not in my back yard” — and accused them of standing in the way of public necessity, their battles have resulted in some major policy gains for clean air and water.
Lois Gibbs, the homemaker turned activist by the discovery of toxic wastes in her Love Canal neighborhood in New York state, once memorably said that the way to force industry to generate less hazardous waste was to “plug the toilet.” By stopping new hazardous waste dumps and burners in their back yards, she said, so-called NIMBYs were driving the private and public sectors to rethink old assumptions about industrial processes and the hazards they create. To Gibbs, NIMBY was a badge of honor.
Now a new community-level movement is arising in Michigan and across the Great Lakes region. This time, established green groups may be separating themselves from it. As Michigan and other state and provincial agencies move to authorize wind farms in the Great Lakes, enviros outside the affected communities are not likely to join offshore wind opponents in any significant numbers.
Although the two camps generally agree wind power beats coal and other traditional electricity sources on environmental grounds, the gap between NIMBYs and professional green groups is growing fast for several reasons:
• Citizens facing offshore wind farms view them as an aesthetic blight and greens see beauty in their clean energy.
• There are unresolved scientific questions about the effect of offshore wind turbines on birds, bats and fish that opponents cite but the greens largely dismiss.
• The suddenness and lack of openness as some government-developer coalitions develop in Ontario, for example, have affected citizens sniffing collusion — and preordained official approvals.
These and other conflicts over offshore wind have the potential to get ugly. The former environmental alliance may soon be at war against itself.
Sherri Lange, an Ontario citizen, is a fierce opponent of dozen of offshore wind proposals emerging in the province’s Great Lakes waters — from Lake Huron to Lake Ontario. “For the tiny bits of power there would be thousands of turbines. These would be obsolete in 10 to 15 years.” She adds, “There’s no question that land-based or water-based, there are myth busters that need to be applied to the turbine industry. I can't even use the word ‘farm’ about it anymore. Too bucolic. To allow this array of economic and environmental destruction into our Great Lakes will be a tragedy that many generations will regret, on both sides of the border.”
Sandy Bihn, a respected western Lake Erie advocate from a suburb of Toledo, Ohio, says she’s watching the scramble toward offshore wind guardedly. A crusader against polluting utility and industrial facilities at the western end of the lake, she says, “I want to get rid of coal as much as anyone, but if ever there was a place to say no to wind because of the birds in the Great Lakes, it is here.”
Michigan is confronting its first major test case, a proposal by Scandia Wind Offshore and Havgul Clean Energy to set up scores of turbines in two Lake Michigan farms, one four miles off Mason and Oceana counties and another six miles off Ottawa and Muskegon counties. One Pentwater resident responded to the northern proposal’s feared impact on tourism and lakeshore property values: “Pentwater is going to be a ghost town. It’s gonna fold if this happens.”
To its credit, the Granholm administration has done a thorough and open job of exploring the potential of Great Lakes offshore wind and associated issues. An offshore wind council appointed by the governor has mapped high-potential wind zones and suggested some areas be off-limits to development. But the official position is to move ahead.
“It’s understandable that coastal communities have some reservations regarding their scenic vistas,” says Stanley (Skip) Pruss, director of Granholm’s Department of Energy, Labor and Economic Growth, “although some find wind turbines aesthetically pleasing. What we have to take into account is that clean, renewable wind energy complements our long-term efforts to protect our lakes from pollutants from fossil fuel combustion and climate change.”
The Michigan Environmental Council’s James Clift, who served on the offshore wind council, points out that the manufacturing of wind turbine components could put thousands of Michigan’s unemployed back on the job. Anchoring the turbines in deeper water, he adds, may reduce local resistance.
Both sides are genuine, and both have sound arguments to make. But there are two points to keep in mind. First, few if any staff members of the green groups supporting offshore wind turbines will live near them, or see them everyday — unlike residents of the affected communities.
Second, as Ontario advocate Lange argues, to her knowledge, not one coal-fired plant has closed in the world since the inception of wind power. That is, new wind farms are not offsetting dirty power, but adding supply on top of what coal furnishes. The tradeoff between wind and coal, so far, has been no tradeoff at all — it’s a partnership.
Maybe that should be a factor in the decision-making process before the environmental community's divide becomes a canyon.
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Tinnitus is a persistent noise or ringing in the ears often described as a sensation ranging from buzzing, whistling, ticking, roaring, chirping, to clicking, among other sounds. This noise is usually inside a person’s head in the absence of auditory stimulation.
It can also include sounds that slightly resemble human voices or even a pure steady tone like that heard during a hearing test and, in some cases, pressure changes from the interior ear. This sound may be soft or loud, low pitched or high pitched and appear to be coming from one ear or both. Most of the time, it comes on gradually.
In some people, the sound causes depression, anxiety or interferes with concentration. According to a report by the Hearing Health Foundation, as many as 50 million Americans suffer from tinnitus, with about 16 million of them seeking medical attention due to the discomfort from the condition.
Tinnitus isn’t a condition itself – it’s a symptom of an underlying condition such as age-related hearing loss, ear injury or a circulatory system disorder. In some individuals, the intensity can be changed by shoulder, head, and tongue jaw or eye movements.
There are two kinds of tinnitus:
- Subjective tinnitus; is tinnitus only you can hear. This is the most common type of tinnitus. It can be caused by ear problems in your outer, middle or inner ear. It also can be caused by problems with the hearing (auditory) nerves or the part of your brain that interprets nerve signals as sound (auditory pathways).
- Objective tinnitus; is tinnitus your doctor can hear when he or she does an examination. This rare type of tinnitus may be caused by a blood vessel problem, a middle ear bone condition or muscle contractions.
One of the most common causes is noise induced hearing loss. Other causes include: ear infections, disease, brain tumours, emotional stress, exposure to certain medications, a previous head injury, TMJ disorders, head injuries or neck injuries, acoustic neuroma and earwax blockage.
A number of mediations may cause or worsen tinnitus. Antibiotics, including polymyxin B, erythromycin, vancomycin and neomycin, cancer medications, including mechlorethamine and vincristine, water pills (diuretics), such as bumetanide, ethacrynic acid or furosemide, Quinine medications used for malaria or other health conditions, certain antidepressants and Aspirin.
Medical marijuana and Tinnitus
Tinnitus can lead to hearing loss in 90% of the cases, especially in debilitating cases that interfere with daily activities. Some of the complications that come along with tinnitus are fatigue, stress, sleep problems, trouble concentrating, memory loss problems, depression, anxiety and irritability. Treating these linked conditions may not affect tinnitus directly, but it can help you feel better.
Marijuana has been known to manage the conditions that cause tinnitus along with the complications arising from it. One of the main theories of tinnitus is that it is a form of sensory epilepsy, sometimes arising from neuronal hyperactivity in the brainstem cochlear nucleus.
One of the most important uses of cannabis is as a substitute for other, more dangerous or costly pharmaceutical drugs. Many patients report substantial reductions in use of narcotics, non-steroidal anti-inflammatories, anti-depressants, tranquilizers, sleeping pills and other drugs once they started using cannabis medicine. CBD is and anticonvulsant.
Increasing evidence suggests that cannabinoid drugs can also have antiepileptic effects.
Recently, it has been reported that cannabinoid CB1, CB2 receptors, and the endogenous cannabinoid, 2-arachidonylglycerol (2-AG), are expressed in the cochlear nucleus. CB1 receptors appear to negatively regulate the release of glutamate, and it is possible that their down-regulation during the development of tinnitus is responsible for the neuronal hyperactivity associated with the condition.
While tinnitus might seem like a mild annoyance to outsiders, people with severe tinnitus often find that it seriously disrupts their lifestyle. The sounds can make it hard to hear properly, sleep, or even go about their daily lives. Statistics from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) estimates that about 10% of the entire adult population in the United States, has experienced tinnitus lasting up to five minutes within the past year. With medical marijuana at play, the effects of tinnitus illness can be gotten rid of. | <urn:uuid:26c11c05-a773-4826-9df5-40f3750fb1eb> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.medicalmarijuanablog.com/benefits/marijuana-solution-tinnitus.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281331.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00224-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936497 | 973 | 3.6875 | 4 |
The IB Diploma Program, by which all ABF eleventh and twelfth graders enroll, is an internationally recognized degree program administered by the International Baccalaureate Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. To earn the IB diploma, college students must complete a two yr sequence of courses in humanities, math, and science. In addition, ABF students are required to complete a senior thesis and a singular class on interdisciplinary analysis, as well as requirements within the arts, group service, and athletics. This course aims to provide the student with a basis for critically serious about organization, management and the leadership of people. This course is right for any pupil taking up management positions in highschool. This course prepares these students who have an curiosity in leadership and managerial positions in community, social, governmental, professional, arts and business organizations.
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The Wisconsin Bachelor of Business Administration diploma program is based on a broad educational foundation combined with courses in business and economics. This curriculum is designed for these college students who want to put together for careers in business. Students will reveal the discipline‐based information in accounting, economics, finance, info systems, worldwide business, administration, advertising, operations, and statistics. The success and growth of your group is greatest when there are procedures and ideas to observe. In general, business finance represents the backbone of your organization. Unless info is timely and accurate, the complete operations may fall to pieces. The good thing about business finance is that mathematical or statistical formulation can create factual monetary results related to business info. | <urn:uuid:5fc42f26-ed62-4ff9-acf0-a60de2ee8e57> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dancingtrousers.co.uk/lease-finance-provides.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00275.warc.gz | en | 0.935982 | 1,087 | 2.015625 | 2 |
Sweden: Organized L.D.S. Emigration Groups
Organized LDS Emigration Groups Organized emigration from Scandinavian began in 1852 and continued up until about 1890. Leaders were called to assist the emigrants in the journey. Missionaries who had completed their missions would travel home to Utah with the emigrants. One or more of the missionaries were called to be the leader of the group. Most of the organized groups began in Copenhagen. The groups leaving from Copenhagen would be Danish and Swedish Saints. Often Norwegian Saints sailed out of Oslo and went directly to Liverpool where they would join with other Scandinavian Saints. The Scandinavians usually joined saints from other places in Europe and Great Britain in Liverpool. Detailed information about each company and names of missionaries, may be found in Andrew Jenson’s book, “History of the Scandinavian Mission”. Pages listed in the table below are for Andrew Jenson’s book. The number of Saints leaving shown in the table below includes children.
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Original Marius Bauer etching.
Very good impression printed in dark brown ink, with plate tone. From the only edition of 100 signed proofs.
Many regard Marius Bauer’s etchings from this period, after his return from his first journey to India, as the highpoint of his work in etching. Made on copper, unlike the zinc plates used for his Turkish trip, these images display a complex delicacy of line whilst retaining the wonderful spontaneous nature of his earlier works. By this time Marius Bauer had adopted a specific approach of not working directly from nature, but rather from how he remembered nature. His advise to one prospective artist was “cease working from nature; look at your subject attentively and draw it the next day; this is the only way to produce individual work”. This rather unusual approach explains why Marius Bauer’s works possess such a thoroughly pervasive atmosphere of the true orient when compared with the direct sketches of other artists whose work can so often appear little more than mere reportage.
It was this style of distinctive work which was to inspire artists such as E.S. Lumsden and other British etchers to travel to India and beyond.
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This picture was taken on March 6, 1969. It shows the Apollo 9 commander, James McDivitt, aboard the command module.
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History of Human Spaceflight
There are two type of space missions. Some missions are done by spacecraft that
are machines or robots. Other missions have people on the space ships. We call
the missions with people onboard "human spaceflight" missions.
The first astronauts
and cosmonauts (the Russian word for astronaut) were test pilots who were
very familiar with flying in fast and dangerous planes! The first human
being to travel into space was Yuri Gagarin (USSR, 1961), followed a month
later by the US astronaut Alan Shepard.
Once we found out that humans could travel in space, a "space race"
quickly developed between the United States and the Soviet Union. The United
States main interest was to land on the moon. The Soviet Union was more
interested in setting endurance records and doing scientific research.
Through a sequence of human and
space mission programs, including Mercury,
Gemini, and Apollo
, the United States finally
in landing the first people on the Moon in 1969
with Apollo 11
In 1973, the first American space laboratory
shot into orbit, and scientific experiments began to take place. Between
the United States scheduled only one or two human spaceflight missions.
Finally in 1981, the
United States revamped their human spaceflight program with several new missions
brand new spacecraft design, the space shuttle. The space shuttle is a
In the meantime, the Soviets made several missions testing out new spacecraft
became the "first" to create a space station. In 1971, the cosmonauts spent
several days aboard the first
space station. The cosmonauts continued to spend time on several space station
then, breaking several endurance records in space. Laboratory experiments were
conducted on all of these space stations, and the Soviets made great strides
expanding our knowledge of space, medicine, and engineering.
Now both countries participate in the International Space Station. It opened its doors to its first visitors in November 2000.
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Apollo 15 marked the start of a new series of missions from the Apollo space program, each capable of exploring more lunar terrain than ever before. Launched on July 26, 1971, Apollo 15 reached the Moon...more
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