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Investigation into a collision between a passenger train and a tractor at Hockham Road level crossing, Norfolk, 10 April 2016.
At 12:30 on Sunday 10 April 2016 a train travelling from Norwich to Cambridge collided with an agricultural tractor and trailer at Hockham Road level crossing. The tractor driver was seriously injured, and the train driver and several passengers received minor injuries. The tractor was destroyed, and the train was badly damaged.
Hockham Road level crossing is on a private road near Thetford, Norfolk, and also carries a public footpath. Vehicle users must open and close the crossing gates themselves, and at the time of the accident they had to use the telephone to obtain permission from a signaller at Cambridge, before going over the crossing. In 2012, the crossing had been provided with red and green lights which informed users whether it was safe to cross, but this equipment had been intentionally decommissioned at the time of the accident.
The tractor driver was given permission to cross the line, and had reached the mid-point of the crossing when his vehicle was struck by train 1K77, the 12:03 Norwich to Cambridge service, which was travelling at 84 mph (135 km/h). There were 135 passengers and two crew on the train, which did not derail and came to a stop 410 metres beyond the crossing.
The trailer separated from the tractor and struck the side of the train several times, breaking windows and puncturing the outer body of the train, before coming to rest next to the tractor at the side of the railway line. The driving cab of the train was severely deformed by the impact, and the driver’s door broke away.
Our investigation will identify the sequence of events that led to the accident. It will also consider:
- any factors which may have influenced the actions of the people involved
- the method of authorising vehicles to use the crossing
- the history of the crossing equipment
- the performance of the train during the collision
- any underlying management factors.
Our investigation is independent of any investigation by the railway industry, the Office of Rail and Road, and the British Transport Police.
We will publish our findings, including any safety recommendations, at the conclusion of our investigation; these will be available on our RAIB website.
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Five SSD Predictions for 2012
The real impact of solid-state drives will be felt the second half of this year.
Of the three pillars that make up data center infrastructure (servers, storage and networking), none face greater change than storage.
Aside from the fact that more and more business units are turning to the cloud to accommodate increasing data loads, internal storage infrastructure, typically SAN and/or NAS, is starting to look particularly shaky as the need for speed and flexibility overtake raw capacity on the list of top priorities.
Two of the major disrupters are solid-state storage and the PCIe bus. Taken separately, they are powerful components within legacy enterprise environments. But as I mentioned a few weeks ago, they have the power to remake those environments into integrated compute/storage clusters that are not only cheaper and less complicated than traditional storage networks, but offer greater flexibility as enterprises embrace Big Data and the cloud.
Since then, a number of developments have come out to make the SSD/PCIe combo even more compelling for the enterprise. One is the new Kilimanjaro platform developed by OCZ Technology and Marvell. Set to debut in the new Z-Drive R5, the platform provides a high degree of scalability and system redundancy while eliminating traditional SAN components like the storage controller. The R5 will offer up to 12 TB of capacity and will support VMware ESX and ESXi environments, as well as Linux, Windows Server 08 and OS X.
Meanwhile, Fusion-io has added a new component to its ioMemory subsystem that cuts SSD latency even further by streamlining the link between the server CPU and stored data. The Auto Commit Memory system bypasses the server operating system where software instruction cycles and other processes can hamper data delivery. The company recently showed the system in San Francisco where it hit 1 billion IOPS across eight HP ProLiant servers.
PCIe is so beneficial to SSD platforms that vendors are eager to bring the technology in house. Micron Technology, for example, recently acquired Virtensys, which specializes in PCIe virtualization. This is a key move for Micron in that it allows local storage to be pooled across multiple servers. In clustered environments, this increased flexibility allows for the kind of dynamic load balancing and data flexibility that will be commonplace in the cloud. | <urn:uuid:0ca65339-78e6-45f1-ae1e-c515a0c5182b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/solid-state-storage-and-pcie-fast-and-furious-for-the-enterprise/?cs=49572 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279650.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00429-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.926694 | 470 | 1.5 | 2 |
Piper Green and the Fairy Tree marks the sixth book I have reviewed by the wonderful Ellen Potter and I absolutely ADORE it! I reviewed the first book in Potter's Olivia Kidney series, which would make the PERFECT step up for readers after finishing the Piper Green and the Fairy Tree series, back in 2008! It has been such a treat to continue reading her books over the last seven years and experience the imaginative story telling and creative talent Potter brings to each new book and genre she tackles. I am especially excited by this new direction Potter has taken because it allows me to champion (once again) books that are written at a reading level that I have labeled Bridge Chapter Books, populating that former no man's land between leveled readers (like Frog & Toad) and chapter books (like Magic Tree House.)
Piper Green is a character I look forward to getting to know better, especially as she is drawn by Qin Leng, with her pink cheeks and her confident stance. Chapter One of Piper Green and the Fairy Tree (and every Chapter One in the series) begins with Piper telling readers THE IMPORTANT STUFF, as her brother Erik who is "fourteen and very smart," and has left home to attend high school on the mainland, suggested she do. The Greens live on Peek-a-Boo Island, off the coast of Maine where Mr. Green works as a lobsterman. Although Piper only lists these two important things ("1. All the kids on the island ride a lobster boat to school. 2. There is a Fairy Tree on my front lawn.) she slips in a few more interesting facts, telling readers,
If you don't lie lobster boats of Fairy Trees, you should probably do something else. For example, you can go outside now and look for beetles. My little brother, Leo, likes to do that. He only eats the green ones. He says they taste like bacon.
This is a great taste of Piper's narrative voice and Ellen Potter's distinctive writing style, which shines through in every book she writes. Potter has a way of creating every day kids who also happen to have a few (or more) peculiarities that are thoughtfully (not precociously) endearing and entertaining. In her work for older readers, the peculiarities of her characters deepen in profound and moving ways. In Piper Green and the Fairy Tree, Piper's most noticeable peculiarity is her choice to wear her brother's old earmuffs, which are green with a monkey face on each muff, all the time, despite the fact that it is the first day of school and she has a new second grade teacher.
Potter packs this short book with so much, from the Maddie Rose, Mr. Grindle's boat that takes the few kids from Peek-a-boo Island to Mink Island for school each day, to the basket full of warm goodies Mrs. Grindle, the Peek-a-boo Island bakery owner, leaves on the Maddie Rose each morning for the kids to Michelle, the "wife" of Leo, Piper's little brother, who is a piece of paper. Their children are three Post-It notes stuck on Michelle. As the story unfolds, Piper has more to deal with than missing her big brother. The new teacher is NOT a kind princess, despite her "long golden hair that made waves all down her back" and her "swishy light blue dress." Ms. Arabella is all business and earmuffs are not on the agenda. Instead of going to school, Piper hides in a tree and watches the Maddie Rose head off to school. Hearing crying coming from inside the tree, Piper enlists the help of Mrs. Pennypocket, who is out walking her dog, to get to the bottom of the mystery. After an amazing treasure is pulled from the tree, Mrs. Pennypocket gives Piper a flashlight and asks her to look inside the hollowed tree trunk. Letters carved inside the tree reveal that it is THE fairy tree that Mrs. Pennypocket's grandmother, Laura, always told her about! Whenever Laura hid a treasure in the tree, it was replaced with a new one - by fairies! Mrs. Pennypocket also tells Piper that the fairy treasure taken from the tree brought Laura all kinds of good luck. Piper knows that she has to leave something behind for the fairies and she makes a very brave, sweet choice.
In Piper Green and the Fairy Tree: Too Much Good Luck, Piper's day starts of great. Her room is getting painted her favorite color, she finds the perfect strawberry for her oatmeal that she takes to the Fairy Tree, and Mrs. Grindle's goodie basket is filled with her favorite - cinnamon rolls. When her tooth falls out, Piper is excited to have a FOURTH good thing happen to her - until Jacob, whose father is very superstitious, tells her that three things are good luck, but four things is too much good luck. Piper scoffs, but things do seem to go from great to not so great as the day unfolds. Potter weaves a new girl with an allergy to guinea pigs, a wicked witch, a wand, an assignment titled IN MY OWN WORDS, a single, dangly earring, a profuse apology and a lost parakeet into this fantastic second book the the series. In addition to the interesting kid characters, Piper Green and the Fairy Tree is populated with a superb cast of adults that guide, support and teach Piper in ways that are gentle and never didactic or heavy handed. I can't wait to see what the next books in this exciting new series brings!
The Olivia Kidney Series
Middle Grade Novels by Ellen Potter
The Humming Room, a contemporary retelling of The Secret Garden.
Books by Ellen Potter I need to review...
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Fifty private conversations with CEOs of international NGOs, on the challenges they currently face, and what their organisations (and the aid and development sector as a whole) might look like by 2030.
For more than a century now international non-governmental organisations (INGOs) have played a vital humanitarian role, delivering emergency relief and longer-term development assistance.Many have grown into powerful, complex, international organisations with global reach.
But there is a widespread feeling within the INGO community that this is a period of transition, when INGOs need urgently to find new ways of working in the face of rapid change. A time to reassess their roles, with questions being raised about their legitimacy, their core identities, their income streams, their relationships with donors and the people they help: in short, their relevance in a fast-changing world.
This survey gives an unprecedented ‘peek behind the curtain,’ showing what leaders of INGOs think about the purpose of their organisations, the challenges that they face, and their visions of the future.
With its emphasis on rich, qualitative data, the Leadership Survey offers a uniquely vivid picture of the lived realities of INGO leaders, and the challenges that they face: both the challenges to their organisations and the challenges that they face as individuals, in providing leadership in uncertain times.
The Leadership Survey was conducted by Nuffield College, University of Oxford, in partnership with the Centre for Humanitarian Leadership and Save the Children UK.
"INGOs are still dominated by Northern-founded bits struggling to achieve global balance and reinvent themselves to be more representative of the world. The question for us is whether we can create a more globally balanced, more globally democratic set of institutions that don’t feel like the anachronistic manifestations of the old world order."
More than 50 leaders of INGOs (of different sizes, structures and mandates) offered their frank opinions in hour-long interviews about their organisations and the wider sector. The leaders were able to speak freely and informally in one-to-one conversations which ranged widely, meaning that their individual opinions could be given space.
The interviews were semi-structured in nature, exploring six key themes:
- The future of the aid and development sector
- The legitimacy of aid
- ‘Your organisation’
- Leadership for the future
- Future finance, and
- Disruption to the aid and development sector
INGO leaders were asked to articulate their visions for the aid and development sector by 2030. What should the sector look like in order to meet the challenges that it faces? The most frequently cited vision was of an aid and development system in which:
- INGOs are less dominant, and operate through a more diverse range of actors
- The power dynamics have shifted in order to make the sector more ‘localised’
- Relationships are more networked than hierarchical
- INGOs are more proactive in meeting the needs of communities
- INGOs are more connected with their stated purposes.
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The minimum wage for workers working within the city limits of St. Louis will increase from $7.65 per hour to $8.25 per hour on Thursday, Oct. 15, 2015, if the raise is not blocked by court order. Pursuant to St. Louis City Ordinance No. 70078, employers are required to provide employees with notice of the wage increase in two ways. First, employers must post a notice advising employees of the current minimum wage and their rights under the ordinance. This posting must be done in a conspicuous place at every facility within the boundaries of the city of St. Louis where employees work. Second, every employer also must provide this notice with the employee’s first paycheck subject to the new minimum wage.
The City of St. Louis Department of Human Services today posted form notices on its website for employers, but the Department is still waiting for aldermanic approval for these notices. That approval is expected before Thursday.
The minimum wage increase to $8.25 per hour on October 15 will be effective for just a short time, as the ordinance outlines a series of annual wage increases thereafter. On January 1, 2016, the minimum wage will again increase to $9.00 per hour, followed again by an increase to $10.00 per hour on January 1, 2017. Under this ordinance, the last set increase will occur on January 1, 2018, at which time the minimum wage rate will increase to $11.00 per hour. In 2019 and beyond, the minimum wage will increase based on any percentage rise to inflation.
The City minimum wage has been the source of recent litigation in the city of St. Louis, and thus may not go into effect on October 15. On October 6, Judge Steven Ohmer of the St. Louis Circuit Court heard arguments from business groups that this ordinance violates state law. The current state law prohibits any city or town in Missouri from establishing a minimum wage rate that exceeds the wage rate set by state or federal law. In Missouri, the state minimum wage is $7.65 per hour. This law recently went into effect after the Missouri House and Senate voted to override Governor Nixon’s previous veto of the bill.
Judge Ohmer’s decision is expected before the local St. Louis City ordinance is scheduled to go into effect. As employers wait to hear the court’s determination as to the validity of this ordinance, they should prepare themselves for the immediate effect that the ordinance will produce should it go into effect. These actions should include having notices ready to post and payroll ready to adjust to this potential wage increase. | <urn:uuid:36d2379a-34a8-4a86-8031-2064b0e80fec> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=909991d9-cbf1-40d1-ae90-019ac4f0d2e5 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282935.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00235-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948069 | 531 | 1.859375 | 2 |
Carrotwoods (Cupaniopsis anacardioides) are named for their bright orange wood concealed under a layer of bark. These attractive little trees fit into almost any size landscape, but are carrotwood tree roots invasive? Find out about the invasive potential of these trees as well as how to grow them in this article.
Carrotwood Tree Information
What is a carrotwood tree? Growing only 30 to 40 feet tall with a spread of twenty to thirty feet, carrotwoods are decorative little trees with a lot of potential in the home landscape. Many small trees are a disaster around patios and decks because they drop litter in the form of leaves, flowers and fruit, but carrotwoods are neat trees that don’t require constant cleanup. Their leathery, evergreen leaves create year-round interest.
That being said, in warm, moist climates such as those found in Hawaii and Florida, carrotwood trees can become an ecological disaster. They readily escape cultivation and take root in unwanted places. They don’t have the natural controls that are present in their native Australia and New Guinea regions, so they spread to crowd out native species. Before planting a carrotwood tree, consult your local Cooperative Extension agent about the tree’s invasive potential in your area.
How to Plant Carrotwood Trees
Plant carrotwood trees in a sunny location with average, moderately moist soil. Dig a hole as deep as the root ball and twice as wide. Set the tree in the hole and backfill with the soil you removed from the hole.
It’s a good idea to fill the hole with water when it’s half full of soil to allow any air pockets to settle, and then continue to backfill until the soil in the hole is level with the surrounding soil. Don’t mound the excess soil around the base of the tree. Once the hole is full, press down gently with your foot.
Carrotwood Tree Care
This lovely little tree looks light and airy and makes a well-behaved street tree. It’s right at home growing in the lawn as a specimen or providing light shade for a patio. Slow growth and limited size means that it won’t take over small yards.
The tree is undemanding, and nothing could be easier than carrotwood tree care. Newly planted trees need weekly watering in the absence of rain until they become established. Once they are growing on their own, they only need water during prolonged drought.
They don’t usually need fertilizer, but if you feel that your tree isn’t growing as it should, sprinkle a little complete and balanced fertilizer around the root zone.
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Medicaid: What You May Need To Know
New York Connects provides helpful information to frequently asked questions about Medicaid to help you plan for the future.
What is Medicaid?
Medicaid is a program for New Yorkers who can’t afford to pay for medical care. Often times people needing home care and skilled nursing homes will need to apply.
What information is needed to apply for long term care or a nursing home through the Medicaid program?
The current laws require that a person applying for these services under Medicaid submit 60 months worth of the following documentation from the date of application:
1. Copy of Power of Attorney
2. Birth Certificate, baptismal certificate or driver’s license
3. Marriage certificate – if spouse deceased – copy of death certificate; if separated or divorced – proof of separation or divorce
4. Verification of present address with shelter expenses or proof of residence prior to admission to nursing home
5. Last four pay stubs if employed
6. Award letter or photocopy of most recent check for:
Social Security/Railroad Retirement
Pension or retirement
Union benefits/workmen’s compensation benefits
New York state disability insurance
Court-ordered support/alimony payments
7. Rental Income – verification of amount received, tax bills, maintenance and repairs and utilities paid
8. All bank and credit union checking and savings account transactions – for open and closed accounts
9. Explanation and proof (including receipts and canceled checks) of all withdrawals and deposits over $1,000 for bank accounts, investments, retirement plans, annuities
10. Life insurance policies, verification of current cash values and name of beneficiary
11. Vehicle registration and title for all vehicles in household. If sold or transferred within last 60 months, provide documentation
12. Stocks, savings bonds, securities – even if currently closed or surrendered- and any transactions with in the last 60 months
13. IRAs/Employee-related pension funds/Keogh plans/401 K statements – for the last 60 months
14. Burial fund agreement/current bank statement
15. Deed to all property owned – if life use or real estate in property – must see the transfer deed
16. Current proof of mortgage/escrow, tax bills, and homeowners insurance on all properties owned
17. Income tax returns for the last five years – including all 1099s
18. Original annuity contracts and verification of any income received. Annuities are subject to a 60-month review.
19. Trust documents and amount of principal and interest. Can principal be invaded? Limitations, if any? Trusts are subject to a 60-month review period
20. If applicant (or spouse) sold or transferred property within the last 60 months provide proof of value at time of sale/transfer, closing statement of sale/transfer
21. Proof of health insurance, proof of last premium paid and letter of credible coverage for prescription plans
22. Letter verifying Medicare cut-off dates, health insurance payments and cut off dates and private payments made to the nursing home if applicable
23. Bills showing any current outstanding medical bills including nursing charges
24. Armed services home discharge papers or proof of military service for applicant/spouse
What is a “lookback” period?
When applying for Medicaid for nursing facility services (nursing homes), the local Department of Social Services will look at financial transactions to determine whether any assets have been transferred or given away for less than fair market value during a certain time period prior to your application in order to determine if a transfer of assets penalty period needs to be applied. This is known as the “lookback” period. Currently the “lookback” period is 60 months, or five years, prior to the month you are applying for coverage of nursing home care.
A penalty period may be imposed for the transfer of non-exempt assets for less than fair market value. The penalty period results in a period of intelligibility for Medicaid coverage of nursing facility services. A penalty period is not applied for the transfer of your home to the following individuals:
Child under the age of 21
Sibling who has an equity interest in the home and has resided in the home for at least one year immediately prior to you entering the Nursing Home.
Adult child who resided in the home for at least two years, immediately prior to you entering the nursing home and who provided care to you which permitted you to reside at home rather than in a medical facility.
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FIYH heads this subsection “PASTORAL ROLE OF THE PREACHER.” Let’s read:
Preachers who are conscious of their representative role strive to preach in a way that indicates they know and identify with the people to whom they are speaking. Their preaching is pastoral, displaying a sensitive and concerned knowledge of the struggles, doubts, concerns, and joys of the members of a local community.
The term “pastoral” gets a bad rap in some conservative circles. I’m not sure what to make of that; one of the leading complaints about the implementation of Vatican II in parishes is how insensitively it was done.
John 10:14 shows Jesus giving the principle by which pastoral leadership identifies with those led. It is not a leadership that passively gives in or accepts everything the community hopes for or wishes for:
To be in touch with the cares and concerns, needs and good fortunes of the assembly does not mean that the preacher has to answer questions or solve problems in every homily. There will be occasions when nothing we can say will do anything to change a situation. We cannot raise a dead daughter to life; our words will not stop inflation or lower unemployment.
Most people are not looking for miracle cures and reversals of fortune. Most often, it is enough that people know others are with them.
What our words can do is help people make connections between the realities of their lives and the realities of the Gospel. We can help them see how God in Jesus Christ has entered and identified himself with the human realities of pain and of happiness.
This is really the core of pastoral ministry, and by extension, pastoral preaching: that Jesus knows them and that the preacher can communicate that reality.
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There is certainly evidence that anti-STX-neutralizing antibodies persist more than the future in the circulation of the patients and render incredibly unlikely the chance of HUS recurrence18. a uncommon problem after kidney transplantation and could be connected with disease, CNI or mTOR inhibitor toxicity, antibody make use of (OKT3), or severe vascular rejection. The medical picture can be obscure and treatment rests on removal of inciting element with or without plasma exchange / FFP infusion. Nevertheless, some evidence shows that both entities could be distinguished based on the existence and/or activity of the von Willebrand element cleaving protease (ADAMST13). HUS can be seen as a microangiopathic hemolytic anemia, thrombocytopenia and renal failing. It impacts 1 in 100,000 adults and qualified prospects to get rid of stage renal failing (ESRF) in 50% of these. In kids the average rate of recurrence can be 2 every 100,000, with maximum occurrence in Argentina (20 in 100,000). The prognosis in kids is way better with just 2% to AP521 4% of these progressing in ESRF in Traditional western Countries5C7. The prognosis difference of HUS between adult and kids is mainly because of the mainly harmless Shiga C toxin (STX) C connected HUS that impacts kids in nearly 80% of instances while in adults the occurrence is 5%. Pathogenetically, the activation of microvascular endothelium qualified prospects to endotheliumCblood cell discussion and platelet thrombosis and moreover to occlusion of capillaries and little vessels of focus on body organ. Classification of post-transplant HUS HUS after kidney transplantation seems to affect a growing number of individuals. The rate of recurrence of HUS can be higher in transplant individuals in comparison to general human population. After transplantation, HUS could be characterized repeated or de novo HUS (Desk 2). Desk 2 Factors behind HUS after kidney transplantation Open up in another windowpane Recurrent HUS The 1st case of repeated HUS was reported in 1976. Since that time an extremely adjustable price of recurrence which range from 9% to 54% continues to be reported in various series8. Differentiation of recurrent HUS from other circumstances makes up about these results mainly. A recently available meta. analysis demonstrated how the recurrence rate can be 27%8. Older age group at onset of HUS, shorter suggest period between transplantation and HUS or ESRD, living related treatment and transplant with calcinurin inhibitors have already been connected with an elevated threat of recurrence. Conceivably, older age group at starting point and faster development to ESRD both reveal non-STX . connected HUS, whereas the improved risk connected with living related transplantation probably disclosed a hereditary (familial) predisposition to the condition. Afterwards, it was recommended that the development to ESRD was from the kind AP521 of HUS rather than the patient age group. Recurrent disease happens in most individuals with familial HUS which is normally because of mutations in the gene for go with factor H9 as well as the gene for go with element I10,11. Recurrence can be in addition to the way to obtain the transplant (Compact disc or LD) or the immunosuppressive routine12. Reviews of kids with end stage renal disease who underwent continuing liver organ and kidney transplantation, the second option to normalize element H function and focus aren’t motivating 13,14. Individuals with mutations in the gene for membrane cofactor proteins (MCP), a membrane proteins highly indicated in the kidney possess successful transplantations without disease recurrence15,16. Today we realize that STX-associated HUS will not recur after transplantation (0.8% recurrence in kids)17. There is certainly proof that anti-STX-neutralizing antibodies persist over the future in the blood flow of these individuals and render incredibly unlikely the chance of HUS recurrence18. Adult individuals with STX Actually. related HUS are without threat of post-transplant recurrence virtually. Non-STX HUS presents a considerable threat of recurrence and AP521 graft reduction after renal transplantation both in kids and in adults. Kids present a recurrence price which range from 50% to 90%19C21. In every series probably the most recurrences happened inside the first 8 weeks after transplantation. Graft result was poor with graft reduction occurring several weeks after HUS recurrence and which range from 80% to 90%. In adults, recurrence of non-STX HUS can MAFF be frequent and occurs early after transplantation. The chance of recurrence is leaner in individuals with pre-transplant bilateral nephrectomy in comparison to non-nephrectomized individuals21. General graft achievement may be reduced in individuals with repeated HUS, the main one and five yr graft survival approximated to become 33% and 19% respectively in a single series in comparison to 57% for individuals without repeated HUS. The AP521 results of repeating HUS after transplantation can be worse in familial types of HUS leading invariably to graft reduction and because of this doctors should discourage the usage of living related donors with this establishing. Screening for go with factor H, element I and membrane cofactor proteins genotype could possibly be useful in individuals with ESRD because of no-STX HUS who want to possess a kidney transplant. Administration The usage of low dosage dipyridamole and aspirin continues to be reported after transplantation with inconsistent outcomes22,23. CsA and antilymphocyte globulin ought to be used with extreme caution. Large inadequacy of the precise protease.
- Indeed, focusing on broadly indicated markers such as CD25 or CD27, which are indicated in both T and B cells, or CD28, indicated in both CD4 and CD8 T cells, could cause unspecific blocking of this marker in cells that are not involved in a specific disease (3)
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So I am looking at ways to cool my nutrient reservoir. My ideal solution would create a snap-in water temperature regulator that simply uses a temperature probe, 110VAC outlet, and a pair of hoses to connect to any system. Here's what I've got planned so far.. * Controller $38 * Elements $17 * Chilling block $15 * Active heat sinks (x2) $26 * Pump $10 * DC Power supply $35 My plan is to thermal glue three of the elements onto the water chilling block. Then use the two heat sinks to actively cool the reverse side of the elements. I would then mount this chilling reservoir to the side of the nutrient tank, connect the pump to pull water into the cooling block from the resevoir. When the pump is turned on, it would suck water from the top outlet of the chilling block, which would create a reverse pressure system pulling fresh nutrient solution out of the reservoir. The block would be slightly tilted so all the water will drain from the bottom inlet back into the reservoir when the pump is turned off. Are there any better solutions out there? Any feedback is welcome. | <urn:uuid:75762174-3482-4ab6-9302-1db2b2b2bfbe> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.rollitup.org/t/diy-water-reservoir-chiller.925345/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279410.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00174-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.916746 | 232 | 1.734375 | 2 |
Wills and Probate : Advance Directives
What does the term "Advance Directives" mean?
In Ohio, "Advance Directives" is the term used to describe three types of legal documents you can complete to express your wishes regarding your future health care:
(1) a durable power of attorney for health care (POA),
(2) a declaration for mental health treatment, and
(3) a living will.
An advance directive can be an important tool for you as a consumer of mental health and other disability services to guide your care should your attending physician determine that you lack capacity to make your own health care choices.
How can I create an Advance Directives document?
Where can I find more information on Advance Directives?
The Ohio Legal Rights Services has a list of frequently asked questions that can be of assistance to you.
See also the Forms & Education tab in this section for more information.The information in this site is not intended as legal advice.
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By Maria Carolina Marcello
BRASILIA (Reuters) - A congressional committee in Brazil approved a constitutional amendment on Thursday that would limit public spending increases for 20 years, handing President Michel Temer an initial victory in his plan to plug a widening deficit.
The lower house committee voted 23-7 to pass the proposal, which will be put to a vote in the full chamber early next week. Its approval requires two votes in the plenary of the lower house and two more in the Senate, needing a three-fifths majority in each.
The unprecedented amendment, which limits the growth of federal spending to the rate of inflation, is aimed at gradually closing a yawning budget gap that topped 10 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) last year.
It is the first of a series of austerity measures to assuage market concerns that the once-booming economy, which was stripped of its investment grade rating last year, could be hurtling towards a debt crisis.
The cap would mark a sea change for public finances in a country where governments have long spent more than they earned.
In an interview with Reuters before the vote, Finance Minister Henrique Meirelles said approval of the ceiling by the committee would be a "important step to implement the fiscal adjustment."
In an address to the country broadcast over radio and television, Meirelles later said that bringing spending under control was vital if Brazil was to restore credibility and attract investment to grow again. He pledged that health and education spending would not be cut.
Analysts have said that further reform to slash the cost of an overburdened pension system is crucial to bring the deficit under control, in addition to measures to curb spending and increase revenues.
Temer, who took over the presidency on an interim basis in May when president Dilma Rousseff was impeached, has vowed to balance Brazil's overdrawn accounts. His government has stepped up its reform efforts since Rousseff was formally dismissed in August, launching a campaign this week to convince Brazilians of the need to tighten belts.
Temer has warned that pension system's deficit will hit 100 billion real ($31 billion) this year and could reach 150 billion by end-2017.
"At some point a retired person will knock on the government's door and there won't be money to pay their pension," he said in a TV interview on Wednesday. He said the government would not tax its way out of the fiscal crunch.
The spending cap is expected to win approval in Congress, but the measure has fanned a heated debate about austerity in a country battered by a two-year recession, high inflation and rising unemployment.
"The government says this will help the war on unemployment, but this is war on the unemployed because their health services will decline and there will be less money for education," said Alessandro Molon of the left-of-center Rede party.
Thursday's committee meeting was disrupted by teachers who protested that the amendment would reduce spending for education. They were removed by security guards.
Temer's government and allies are confident the amendment has enough support to clear a first vote in the lower house on Monday or Tuesday and win full approval by Congress before year-end.
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In some regions where we’ve worked the longest and have extensive stakeholder networks, we are expanding from our site-specific work by collaborating with organizations that have a larger community, regional or national reach. Below are examples of these types of projects underway in India.
Collaborating with India's National Board of Examinations (NBE)
Children's HeartLink is collaborating with India's National Board of Examinations to enhance India’s pediatric cardiology fellowship training programs through the use of online education modules. The objective of the project is to bring pediatric cardiology teaching standards up to the same level across all teaching centers in the country, so that the knowledge base for pediatric cardiologists will be expanded and, ultimately, the screening, referral and treatment system for children with heart disease will be improved. See more detail about this project here.
Fostering the development of Parent Advocacy and Support Groups
In conjunction with our partners, Amrita Institute for Medical Sciences in Kochi, India, and Narayana Hrudayalaya Hospital in Bangalore, Children's HeartLink is supporting the developing of a parent support group for families of children with congenital heart defects (CHD). Read more about this project on The Pulse.
Collaboration with the Indian Academy of Pediatrics (IAP)
This collaboration will enhance the skills of practicing pediatricians in early detection of pediatric heart disease. Increasing awareness of the problem among pediatricians through continuing medical education programs, seminars, and symposia is likely to be most helpful in early diagnosis and timely referral of cases. The curriculum has been developed by pediatric cardiologists in India and members of the pediatric cardiology chapter of the IAP. The workshop training is provided by practicing pediatric cardiologists working in established pediatric heart programs, through face-to-face seminars with practicing pediatricians. We anticipate that as a result of this training more patients will be referred for treatment and higher demand for pediatric cardiac care will be created. Increased demand could be a valuable lever in health policy considerations about expanding the system of pediatric cardiac care across the country.
In addition to our partner site relationships, Children’s HeartLink builds and maintains partnerships with other key organizations promoting the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of pediatric heart disease.
Examples include a Chagas disease prevention project based in Ecuador and large teaching hospitals specializing in pediatric cardiac care in China and India.
Congenital heart disease is the world's most common birth defect, affecting one in 100 children. Ninety percent of these children live where there is inadequate medical care.
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I was in Claire’s a few weeks ago shopping with my daughter. For those of you who don’t know what Claire’s is, it’s a fun girl’s store that has everything teen girls like. You can get anything and everything like make-up, jewelry, purses even hair extensions. We always run into a very sweet college girl Heather (who is getting her degree in education at Loyola University) at Claire’s. On our last visit, we got on the subject of school. I asked her how her classes were going and if she liked her teachers. We talked for a while about campus life and what she liked about her subjects. She described that in one of her classes, students were required to sign up for Facebook and interact on the Facebook social media site for a grade. They would be graded based upon how well they kept their wall and the interactions (posting and commenting) and relationships that developed through Facebook.
After talking to Heather, I thought about the computers I used in college. First of all, I didn’t own a computer, and there was no such thing as a laptop or notebook for a college student. We signed up to use computers at the library. Remembering back, provided was a large room with 6-10 computers in it. Do you remember computers with huge tube monitors? Anyway, we really only used computers to type and print out our papers. To write a research paper I went to the library and checked out books, or I would do some research at the library and take notes home with me. Back in the early 90’s the internet did not carry the wealth of information it does today. I tried to look up some facts for papers on several occasions, but information was very limited.
What is the quickest way to tell all your friends you just saw Bulls player Derrick Rose at your favorite restaurant? You’ve got it! Facebook! Facebook and other social media sites have given us an easy way to share our news to everyone instantly. You couldn’t do that 15 years ago!
In the past decade or so, is amazing how much internet has changed how students learn and live. Take a look at these astonishing statistics found on SEO.com.
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Tallest Christ statue in India ready
Thiruvananthapuram: A 33.5-foot-tall statue of Jesus Christ, billed as the tallest in the country, is ready to be blessed on Saturday at the campus of the Mar Baselios College of Engineering and Technology here.
Made out of a mixture of resin, catalysts, fibre and wax by popular Malayalam film art director Premachandran, the statue has been placed on a 22-foot-tall building in the college campus.
"The work was finished in a record 35 days, with 30 workers working day and night. The project was taken up by the father Midhun Markose, a student who died in a road accident, to serve as a memorial," said the master sculptor.
A model of the statue was first made in clay and then a mould of it was prepared using plaster of paris.
"The fibre material is capable of withstanding the vagaries of weather and has been given a marble finish, besides a full painting using automotive paint to give it a good look," said the 47-year-old sculptor.
The statue will be blessed by Major Archbishop-Catholicos of the Malankara Catholic Church, Moran Mor Baselios Cleemis.
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Is President Obama the smartest guy in the room?
According to Peter Baker, in his profile of the president last Sunday,
“[O]ne prominent Democratic lawmaker told me Obama’s problem is that he is not insecure — he always believes he is the smartest person in any room…”
–Peter Baker, The Education of a President, New York Times Magazine, October 17, 2010.
Yet Obama seems to be lacking in at least one key skill. For,
“C’est une grande habileté que de savoir cacher son habileté.”
(To know how to hide one’s ability is a great skill.)
–François, Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Maximes (245)
Whether or not Obama is the smartest person in the room is beside the point, particularly in an age when two or three smart people, under the right circumstances, are often smarter than the smartest among them.
Human intelligence is not unidimensional (see, e.g., Howard Gardner’s books on mulitple intelligences). One can be smart in one dimension and not so smart in another. Speed of mental processing can be easily mistaken as indicating thought superior to the slower and more methodical thinking of someone who, for example, takes a broader number of variables into account based on his or her experience.
More importantly, perhaps, brilliant or creative suggestions by advisers may be thwarted by the fear of appearing unintelligent, or not as smart as the president. It has been widely reported that the president can be abrupt and cut aides off sharply if he feels they are repeating points in his briefing papers or information he already knows.
He should bear in mind that his advisers’ task is to brief a president, not a kíng.
Obama also appears to limit access for informal conversations to a small circle of trusted White House aides. Here the risk of “groupthink” is real, and not eliminated by acknowledging it intellectually as a possibility. Outside this circle, he doesn’t seem to have advisors who are empowered to directly challenge his thinking on central points.
Baker reports, “Obama has been aggravated by friction among his advisers. “He’s a little frustrated with the internal dysfunction,” the aide said. “He doesn’t like confrontation.”
Ordinary people don’t want a president who believes he is smarter than everyone else.
The paradox is that the president is an immensely engaging figure. Recently, on the morning TV program The View, the contrast between his cold, cerebral and rather defensive tone and body language when talking about public policy issues, on the one hand, and his warmth, spontaneity, and engaging personality when addressing less weighty issues, was sharply displayed.
His future success with the public may depend on his studiously avoiding giving any any impression that he thinks he is smarter than other people (and that they don’t “get it” because they are not as smart as he is), while learning to infuse his policy discussions with greater warmth and empathy. Simple conversations with people from Main Street, in which the president is fully present and listening–not explaining–could go far to win voters back.
Except when addressing specialized audiences, he should generally avoid in public highly sophisticated technical arguments which most voters are not likely to easily grasp.
The president’s political problem is that the people he speaks to, in the language of intellectuals and Wall Street, have done quite well in recovering from the recession, while the dumb chumps on Main Street have been left holding the bag.
Obama will not resolve that problem by explaining how the dumb chumps just don’t get it.
The president doesn’t need to be the smartest person in the room. But he needs to be smart, smart enough to hide his great abilities from ready view.
The Trenchant Observer
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Wearing black headsets with tentacle-like sensors stretched over their foreheads, the competitors stare at cubes floating on computer screens as their small white drones prepare for takeoff.
As drone racing gets faster, cheaper and more mainstream, it was only a matter of time before drone pilots ditched the controller and made the leap to an actual brain-computer interface, as these researchers from the University of Florida did last week.
BCI technology has been used in the past to control everything from novelty toys to artificial limbs for paraplegics, and researchers at the University of Minnesota were actually the first to show off a mind-controlled drone in 2013. But as TechCrunch points out, this brain-controlled drone competition is another first.
The low speeds and short, 10-yard indoor course might look a little tame compared to speeding through the woods in first person, but the emphasis here is on the control scheme rather thrill of the event. During the “race,” 16 pilots were rigged up with special electroencepholagram (EEG) headsets that translate their brainwaves into specific commands controlling a DJI Phantom. While these student-pilots look like they needed some intense concentration to get those quadcopters off the ground and moving forward, it’s not much of a stretch to visualize the next generation of pilots using their minds to blast specialized drones through race courses across the globe. | <urn:uuid:856f7826-52c0-4752-8525-45027112e9e8> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://techoptimals.com/2016/04/25/first-brain-controlled-drone-race-florida/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283008.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00085-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949657 | 285 | 2.546875 | 3 |
Lymphedema is a buildup of lymph fluid, which contains infection-fighting white blood cells. The condition can cause swelling anywhere in the body, including the arm, hand, leg, or foot. Lymphedema is most commonly caused by the removal of or damage to lymph nodes during treatment for cancer, though some people are born with it. There is no cure for lymphedema, and so doctors focus on managing the symptoms.
Treatment of lymphedema typically includes lifestyle modifications, such as wearing compression garments and taking steps to avoid a skin infection. Rarely, doctors perform surgery to transplant healthy lymph nodes to the affected area.
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Measuring Computer NFCMEAS - Characterization of Antennas
For the European leader in the production of NFC cards we have designed the device NFCMEAS. NFCMEAS is a measuring computer which determines the electrical properties of the antenna of a NFC card within 45 ms. NFCMEAS is primarily used for quality checks during the production of NFC cards.
Central element of the device is a FPGA, type XILINX ZYNQ. A Linux operating system controls the device. The digital circuits of the FPGA fabric have been developed using VHDL. The graphics of the touchscreen have been designed applying Qt, all other programs have been written in assembler or C. | <urn:uuid:3e6e7e91-8e83-4eaf-88b1-f5f3a55181cc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ic-design.de/electronic-devices/design-example-measuring-computer.html?L=0 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00275.warc.gz | en | 0.936139 | 141 | 2.40625 | 2 |
What to Expect in Counseling
By Rev. Dr. Curt Keller
PCC Board Member
Seminaries tend to expect graduates to have taken at least a basic course in pastoral care and/or counseling. I am sure that much of what is taught in such classes have changed since I took one a few years ago. Providing counseling from the position of a pastor tends to be different than that of those who are professional counselors. And the practice of counseling/therapy has been changing over the years. What has pushed most of these changes is a focus within the field of using evidence based practices. This means that there has been a large focus on using techniques that have been proven to work in clinical trials rather than that which is based on theory and should work according to the theory. Brain research has also been helpful to show what can work and what will probably not be effective.
Older counseling models were designed so that the first few sessions were so that the counselor/therapist and the clients would get to know each other and have a connection so that the real work could begin. Often it was labeled as building trust. However, today models are used that start with the real work in the first session with an expectation that positive change in the lives can begin quickly. It is no longer assumed that it took years to get to where we are and it can take years to change. We may have had a life time to get to where we are, but we do not need another lifetime to change.
In our clergy assistance program, like in most therapy programs, the client can expect to not only meet the therapist/counselor during the first session and begin building some trust, but can expect that the counselor will begin helping the client make changes during the first session. Clients should not be using this program with the attitude that we only have 6 sessions and what can be done within those six sessions, rather the attitude should be that we have 6 sessions and hopefully we will not need to use them. Counseling is an interactive intervention. I have worked with several different employee assistance programs (another name for our CAP) which had fewer than 6 sessions available to the employees and it is amazing how much can be accomplished in just a few sessions when all involved set a goal of trying to get the presenting issue resolved in those few sessions. You should expect a counselor who wants to help you resolve your issues as quickly as possible who will be asking you to do certain things to help you achieve the changes you want. The assignments will attempt to help make positive changes that will continue well after the therapy is finished.
One of the mistakes that we can make going into the therapy setting is thinking that we have the answers as to what needs to be done. If we had the answers, we would not need to go to therapy. Counselors are trained to listen to us, but look for other solutions than what the client brings into therapy, because if the client had the answers the issues would have been resolved long ago. Not all counselors will be a good match for all clients, even though counselors and therapists are trained to work with all people. Sometimes it just does not work, but remember that this tends to be the exception not the rule.
Sometimes clients are looking for specific types of counselors, such as those who specialize in EMDR or label themselves as Christian counselors. If a certain specialty is needed in your case and who you are seeing does not have that, then you and the counselor can discuss that and you can be referred to someone who does have that specialty. However, most often this is not the case and the counselor being seen can handle your issues. Just because we have heard of a certain technique or orientation in counseling does not mean that such is beneficial for us or any more beneficial than the evidence based method that is being used with our current therapist.
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Discussion in 'Windows Desktop Systems' started by kcnychief, Aug 5, 2005.
Very interesting read...
It's kind of a joke. It could be run on basically any OS.
F-Secure has their pants in a wad over every little thing. These are just Monad scripts running on the system, just like batch files, perl scripts, Ruby scripts, Cygwin bash scripts etc.
Its going to happen anyway, viruses aren't going to dissapear from existence just because Microsoft have updated their Windows security.
Thank you. You are spot on. Here's a good read on this (non) issue: http://www.leeholmes.com/blog/MonadAndTheFirstVistaVirus.aspx
I liked this quote by Adam Barr - "Are you concerned that every version of Windows has the dreaded "cmd /c rmdir c:\ /s" virus in it? If not, then you have no reason to be concerned about Monad."
I thought it was MSH they where targeting MS Command Shell, or is it one and the same thing?
Yes, it is. "Monad" is the codename for MSH.
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I am writing in response to the Dec. 1 Current in Carmel cover story: “A cautionary tale: After overdose deaths of family members, authors publish book about dangers of addiction.”
First, my heart goes out to the writers for the pain and loss they’ve experienced. Awareness, through any means, can be an effective tool to help fight the devastating disease of addiction.
Having struggled with a family member myself, it’s important to know that there is another way to help their loved ones. I was introduced to an organization I had never heard of while attending sessions at a treatment center where my family member was staying. They referred me to Al-Anon, which is a sister organization to Alcoholics Anonymous.
Al-Anon Family Groups were started over 65 years ago and meet in over 130 countries to help families and friends. There are over 50 meetings in the Indianapolis area alone. Members help each other by practicing the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous themselves, by welcoming and giving positive solutions to families of alcoholics and by giving understanding and encouragement to the alcoholic.
What I discovered was an anonymous, spiritual (not religious) program, and a community of people that helped me make better decisions for myself and consequently, my loved one. As a result of years in meetings and working the program, which I’ll gladly do for the rest of my life, I can gratefully say my family member recently celebrated six years of sobriety in AA. I know the steps I took and the changes I made were instrumental in their recovery.
There is help and hope for family members, and lives can be changed and restored.
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This report describes the typical weather at the Charlotte County Airport (Punta Gorda, Florida, United States) weather station over the course of an average February. It is based on the historical records from 1999 to 2012. Earlier records are either unavailable or unreliable.
Punta Gorda, Florida has a warm humid temperate climate with hot summers and no dry season. The area within 25 mi of this station is covered by croplands (64%), oceans and seas (15%), grasslands (12%), and forests (6%).
The month of February is characterized by gradually rising daily high temperatures, with daily highs ranging from 74°F to 78°F over the course of the month, exceeding 84°F or dropping below 65°F only one day in ten.
Over the course of February, the length of the day is gradually increasing. The shortest day of the month is February 1 with 10:55 hours of daylight; the longest day is February 29 with 11:37 hours of daylight.
The earliest sunrise is at 6:52am on February 29; the latest sunset is at 6:29pm on February 29; the latest sunrise is at 7:14am on February 1; the earliest sunset is at 6:09pm on February 1.
Daylight saving time is observed in 2012 but it neither starts nor ends in February, so the entire month is in standard time.
The median cloud cover is 16% (mostly clear) and does not vary substantially over the course of the month.
On February 15, a representative day, the sky is clear or mostly clear 61% of the time, partly cloudy 6% of the time, and mostly cloudy or overcast 28% of the time.
The average probability that some form of precipitation will be observed in a given day is 19%, with little variation over the course of the month.
Throughout February, the most common forms of precipitation are light rain, moderate rain, thunderstorms, and heavy rain.
Light rain is the most severe precipitation observed during 48% of those days with precipitation. It is most likely around February 27, when it is observed during 10% of all days.
Moderate rain is the most severe precipitation observed during 25% of those days with precipitation. It is most likely around February 8, when it is observed during 6% of all days.
Thunderstorms are the most severe precipitation observed during 15% of those days with precipitation. They are most likely around February 29, when it is observed during 4% of all days.
Heavy rain is the most severe precipitation observed during 12% of those days with precipitation. It is most likely around February 1, when it is observed during 3% of all days.
Either snow is exceptionally unlikely to fall at this location in February or this station does not reliably report precipitation types.
The relative humidity typically ranges from 44% (comfortable) to 94% (very humid) over the course of a typical February, rarely dropping below 29% (dry) and reaching as high as 100% (very humid).
The air is driest around February 28, at which time the relative humidity drops below 52% (mildly humid) three days out of four; it is most humid around February 17, rising above 92% (very humid) three days out of four.
Dew point is often a better measure of how comfortable a person will find the weather than relative humidity because it more directly relates to whether perspiration will evaporate from the skin, thereby cooling the body. Lower dew points feel drier and higher dew points feel more humid.
Over the course of a typical February, the dew point typically varies from 46°F (dry) to 61°F (comfortable) and is rarely below 33°F (dry) or above 69°F (muggy).
The time of the month between February 1 and February 29 is the most comfortable, with dew points that are neither too dry nor too muggy.
Over the course of February typical wind speeds vary from 1 mph to 16 mph (calm to moderate breeze), rarely exceeding 20 mph (fresh breeze).
The highest average wind speed of 8 mph (gentle breeze) occurs around February 27, at which time the average daily maximum wind speed is 16 mph (moderate breeze).
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The supplies were in warehouses seized by al-Shabaab and they were later believed to have been set ablaze, the Department for International Development (DfID) said.
Details of the incidents appeared in DfID's annual accounts which stated that there was no prior warning of the attacks and its partner organisations in Somalia were unable to move the supplies.
The accounts said the £480,000 was written off "following the theft between November 2011 and February 2012, by al-Shabaab in southern Somalia, of DfID funded humanitarian materials and supplies from the offices and warehouses of partner organisations, to which DfID had provided funding to deliver projects and programmes".
It continued: "DfID's partners had no prior warning of the confiscations being carried out and therefore had no time to prevent the loss by relocating goods.
"DfID continues to work with its partner organisations to ensure that risks like this are identified and that the organisations take appropriate action. This can include putting effective controls in place, where possible, to mitigate and/or eliminate such risks which reduce the effectiveness of our aid.
"While the theft suffered represented a stores loss, the property was not stolen from DfID stores. DfID funding was provided to purchase goods but no benefit was received by the end recipient due to the theft."
A spokesman for the department said: "DfID works in some of the most dangerous places in the world, including Somalia, because tackling the root causes of poverty and instability there ensures a safer world and a safer UK.
"Working in conflict-affected and fragile states carries inherent risk. DfID does all it can to mitigate against this but, on occasion, losses will occur.
"We work with our partners to design programmes that protect our investment from misuse or theft."
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Stegosaurus & Ceratosaurus art print
Stegosaurus & Ceratosaurus print of an original oil painting by paleo-artist Josef Moravec shows a Ceratosaurus nasicornis in the background, and a Stegosaurus armatus in the foreground. The two dinosaurs are shown on a fern savannah, with small palms and other trees scattered about the mid-ground and distant background. Both of these dinosaurs lived during the Jurassic Period, ranging from 156 to 145 million years ago.
Within the print, the features of the stegosaurus are prominently displayed, from the sizable plates upon its back, to the prominent spikes on the end of its tail. It is speculated by archaeologists that that these plates were used to help control body temperature, though they could have been involved in defense or mating display. The Stegosaurus was a plant eating dinosaur, and a large one; they were about 30 ft long and up to 9 feet long, weighing in at approximately 4,000 pounds. It has long been thought, due to the very small head of this animal that it was not exceptionally intelligent.
The Ceratosaurus was a theropod, belonging to the same group as the later Tyrannosaurus Rex and its contemporary, the Allosaurus, another meat-eating theropod dinosaur. They probably hunted in groups, and likely were scavengers as well. Imagine the terror of being surrounded by a group of these predacious creatures! They are estimated to have measured 20 feet from its head to the tip of its tail and weighed up to 2,000 pounds, with the males thought to be larger than the females. It is noted for having a pair of bony ridges above its eyes and a horn on its nose. They had massive heads with large sharp teeth and likely very good eyesight like most predators, and considerable intelligence. Its legs and tail were massive and muscular. Easily seen in the print are the small arms, ending in the very well defined claws that its species is known for.
Overall, this quality art print is a magnificent piece of art displaying two of the most impressive dinosaur species to have existed during the Jurassic Period. The stunning detail of the dinosaurs and the simple, yet beautiful, display of their surrounding environment gives a great view of these beasts who ruled the earth in its antiquity. This work is sure to please anyone who appreciates dinosaurs, and anything prehistoric, and would make a wonderful addition to any collection of art relating to that period of time. Josef Moravec, is a renowned paleo-artist, whose works have been featured in Natural History Museums throughout North America and Europe. His works are known for their accuracy and attention to detail. What child or adult dinosaur enthusiast wouldn’t love to have this print displayed in their room or study? | <urn:uuid:fb0e0717-771a-4b44-8d35-8078204ad875> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://blog.dinosaurcorporation.com/2013/05/stegosaurus-ceratosaurus-art-print.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280872.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00319-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975114 | 570 | 3.03125 | 3 |
This lesson has more elements than most families will need. Choose those that meet the needs of your own family. Remember to vary the quiet and active portions of the lesson to prevent restlessness.
Purpose: To help family members set a goal for the coming year to become shepherds.
Materials: Candy canes, pictures of shepherds relating to the Christmas story, pictures of Jesus as a shepherd (link provided), scriptures for each person, nativity set,
1. Read the story told by John R. Lasater concerning his trip to Israel and his discovery of a shepherd's love for his sheep. If your family is older, you may want to share the entire talk with your family. (It is brief.)
2. Show a picture of the Savior, possibly one of him with sheep. Greg Olson has several that are especially appealing. His paintings, The Good Shepherd or Lost No More are good choices, and may be placed on your computer for viewing during the lesson. Prints can be purchased at LDS book stores. Discuss the picture and ask family members why the Savior is called the Good Shepherd. Refer to the story told at the start of the lesson.
3. In connection with the above question, explore scriptures relating to the Savior as a shepherd. Those family members who can read can be encouraged to explore the topical guide. The section of Jesus as the Good Shepherd can be found online. If your children are young, choose one or two to share with them. Help them to find these scriptures in their own books even if they cannot read, and help them to mark them. Explain words they may not understand.
4. Bring out a nativity set for use in the next section. Your children might enjoy making their own nativity as in a prior home evening or as an activity the previous Sunday. You can print a free pattern from the Friend. Read the Christmas story and then read it again as the children act out the story with the nativity. Children can each be given pieces of the set to place as they appear in the story.
5. Move the shepherds away from the scene, and place them in their fields again. Ask them to imagine being a shepherd. What would they feel as each part of their story happened? Why did Heavenly Father choose them to receive the message? (Shepherds were not important people.)
6. Ask family members to think about ways they can be shepherds in their own lives. For ideas, explore the following talks from church publications:
The Importance of Shepherds by Marra Hyde.
Fear Not by the First Presidency, 1982
Thoughts on The Good Shepherd by Elmer S. Ellsworth
Sheep, Shepherds, and Sheepherders by James R. Moss
Each of these articles suggests different approaches to the idea of being a shepherd. You may want to choose one for use in your family, or you may want to ask family members to read the articles and summarize them to the others. Then select one that appeals to your family goals or allow each family member to select his own.
7. As a family, set goals to become shepherds in whatever manner meets your needs. Encourage family members to set a personal goal as well. Display the family goal in a prominent place. If you have a family artist, ask him to create something visually attractive. You might also purchase or draw sheep or shepherds to place around the house to remind the family of their goals.
1. There is a shepherd shortage in modern-day Bethlehem. The new generation is taking on more profitable work and we may someday have no shepherds left to see there. 2,000 Years After Christ's Birth, Bethlehem's Shepherds are Dwindling
Make your own candy canes.
The Story of the Candy Cane Candy Canes represent the shepherd's crook.
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HARARE — THE Finance ministry should relax insurance regulations outlawing insurance companies from investing offshore in order to tap into capital from global financial markets, a top think tank has said.
The Zimbabwe Economic Policy and Analysis and Research Unit in its study on the financial sector said reforms in the insurance sector could help generate foreign currency.
The economy has in recent time been underperforming owing to liquidity constraints stemming from low exports and declining foreign direct investment.
Zimbabwe’s central bank figures show the country registered a meagre $67 million in foreign direct investment in the first half of 2014, down from $165 million over the same period last year.
“There is need to conclude the review of the restriction that forbids insurance and pension funds from investing offshore. The review has been going on since 2010. A certain percentage of their assets could be invested offshore for risk diversification, given limited favourable investment opportunities domestically,” Zeparu said in a report.
“Some of these companies are facing challenges in Zimbabwe. Under the prevailing economic conditions in Zimbabwe, allowing insurance and pension funds to invest offshore could further reduce liquidity in the economy.”
Experts say low uptake of prescribed assets also reflects an unattractive return on investment on the domestic market.
Short-term insurance companies are required to reserve five percent of their funds for prescribed assets while life assurance companies and pension funds are required to put up 7,5% and 10%, respectively.
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August 31, 2011
If an armed band of brigands is determined to take your land, or your crops, or your resources, or impress you and your friends and family into slavery, or establish some other kind of permanent control or direction over all of you, you can hardly prevent them from doing so just by ignoring them. You have to repel them and defeat them.
Now I suppose you can succeed here and there in repelling and defeating threats by adventitiously banding together temporarily into an organized, rule-governed unit for that limited purpose, and then dissolving back into a less organized form of existence. But the threats are persistent and many, and it’s both inefficient and ineffective to keep forming and dissolving units of organized power only when threats arise. For one thing, you will want to deter threats from acting against you in the first place, rather than continue paying the high price of only banding together and acting once threats have arisen, and have begun to do their damage. The practical thing to do is to preserve the band as an organized society; to debate, refine and improve the rules under which you live and organize your cooperative activity and common life; and to establish settled practices for keeping these rules and in place. And then you are a government.
Nope. This is the problem underpinning Dan Kervick’s whole line of thinking here (along with that of people like Gus diZerega and others in the state-as-self-organizing-network camp). He has convinced himself that anarchism is the lack of persistent institutions or organizations because he seemingly defines governments or states as any persistent institution or organization. Either that or he thinks this is the case in matters of large-scale defense. But why should we accept this? I find that to be a weird way to think of it.
If you’re going to tell an anarchist that they don’t really oppose the state if they support any kind of “organized, rule-governed unit” for defense (as Kervick suggests is prudent), then it probably helps to know what they mean by a “government” or “state”: Read the rest of this entry »
August 16, 2011
From the transcript of Ron Paul’s interview with Piers Morgan last night:
On abortion, I just recognition [sic] as a physician and scientist that life does exist prior to birth. There is a legal right to it and there is a biological definition of it. And most people don’t think about it, that if you say the woman has a right to do what she wants with her body and what is in her body, that means that an eight-pound baby a month before birth can be destroyed and the doctor be paid for it.*
There is something awfully bizarre about a society that says oh, that’s OK because it’s a woman’s body. And every argument for all abortion endorses the principle that you can take that life and abort it and kill it. And I had to witness this. It’s very, very disturbing.
So I think that somebody has to speak for the meek and the small. And they do have legal rights. If you’re in a car accident and a woman’s pregnant and her baby dies, you’re — this is homicide. You’ve committed a very serious crime. You killed a life.
So, this whole thing that is simple to woman’s right to do what she wants with her own body — no, you have to deal with the fact. You have to decide is there a real life there? And there is a real life there.
I’m liable as a physician. If a woman comes in and if she’s a week pregnant or 10 months, pregnant, or was eight, nine months pregnant — if I do something wrong, rightfully, so I can be liable for injuring the fetus. So, if I give her the wrong medication, I’m liable for this.
To pretend that life doesn’t exist, that’s like putting blinders on.
And I don’t talk a whole lot about it. But I’ve made the emphasis the other day that if you truly care about liberty, you have to understand life because how can I defend a woman’s or any individual’s right to lead their own life as they choose and even do dumb things and drink raw milk or whatever they want to do, at the same time say that life is not precious?
And we can throw away a life even if it weighs eight pounds because it’s within the woman’s body.
I believe in property rights. I believe that a baby in a crib deserves protection, even though I honor property. And a house is our castle.
But nobody, nobody would say oh, a woman after the baby’s born, we can kill it. And today, we have this — all these abortions. But if a young girl is in a desperate situation and she happens to deliver her baby and kills it, she is arrested immediately. But if she had done it a day before, there was no crime and the doctor gets paid money.
That — even if you divorce this all from the law and enforcement of law, but morality. Our society has to decide whether that’s morally right or wrong in dealing with this.
I have high respect for life. Therefore I have high respect for liberty. And it’s hard to separate the two.
I’m going to defer to Paul’s experience “as a physician and scientist that life does exist prior to birth” and then I’m going to explain why that doesn’t matter at all when it comes to whether or not women have the right to abort a pregnancy on demand and without apology. In fact, I’ll even raise the stakes and say that we know for a fact that the baby (yes, ‘baby’, since we’re accepting Paul’s premise for now) will grow up to cure cancer and bring about total world peace.
[TRIGGER WARNING for descriptions of hypothetical rape.] Read the rest of this entry »
May 22, 2011
Here are two nearly identical “boardroom” scenes from the current season of Donald Trump’s Celebrity Apprentice. If sexism were still a problem, the reaction to Star Jones in the second clip would have been different from the reaction to John Rich in the first. We might expect Donald Trump to call it PC bullshit or for Meat Loaf to make a play about good intentions. But since women got the right to vote, like, a long-ass time ago, it doesn’t turn out that way, natch.
Scene 1: Episode 7 @ 01:16:54
Scene 2: Episode 10 @ 02:01:20
(The links will cue to the right spot after some ads. There are also captions below the video for those who can’t or don’t want to hear it.)
November 19, 2010
Take some time out from your TSA protest or your next debate over the Lockean proviso to check your privilege, dudes. I’ll begin.
I am privileged because of my sex. I could choose to be defensive or learn. I choose to learn. I sometimes think and act in a sexist way and this is not compatible with anarchism. I can do something about it. I can not derail others trying to do something about it. I will repeat these words:
I, for one, hate men. Not all of them, but lots of them. And I hate them precisely because they act like men are supposed to act. I.E. because they are controlling, exploitative, rude, callous, and/or violent, just like they were brought up to be. I hate men who act like that and I hate myself when I realize that I’ve acted that way. I don’t think it’s because I’m a neurotic bundle of self-loathing or because I’m aiming to become one; it’s because I think that all of us men have a long way to go to break ourselves out of habits and beliefs that keep us from acting like decent human beings as often as we should. We grow up thinking that we have the right to do a lot of fucked up stuff and then we usually go on to do it at some point or another. Often at many points throughout our lives.
There are many men that I love and mostly trust but I love them and mostly trust them for the demonstrable steps they’ve taken away from the way that men are normally expected to act. And I’m doing what I can to help the efforts to change those expectations and those actions—in myself, and in others when I can reach them—but I can’t say I blame a woman at all if she doesn’t like most men or doesn’t necessarily trust our motives straight off the bat.
I am an anarchist.
I am a feminist.
I will not choose between them.
It is not possible to choose between them.
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Depending on the type of land, Barn Owls need between 14 and 47 hectares of rough grassland within 2km of suitable nesting and roosting sites.
- Arable – mainly crops: 14-21 ha.
- Pastoral – intensively-grazed grassland: 31-47 ha.
- Mixed Landscapes: 17-26 ha
To support a sustainable breeding population of Barn Owls over a wider area, land beyond 2 km radius also needs to be suitable. Overall, the proportion of the landscape that needs to be rough grassland is 2.5 to 3.7% in pastoral, 1.4 to 2% in mixed, and only 1.1 to 1.7% in arable landscapes.
Our research clearly shows that the amount of rough grassland Barn Owls need in arable landscapes is less than half of the amount they need in intensively grazed grassland (pastoral) landscapes. This means that even without rough grassland, arable landscapes are already twice as good for Barn Owls as pastoral ones. This, plus the fact that that rough grass field margins and ditch sides are a lot more common in arable landscapes, could explain why there are a lot more Barn Owls in the east of England than in the rest of the UK. See the latest Barn Owl distribution maps. | <urn:uuid:36beb99a-77c2-4eeb-a500-750f07466376> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.barnowltrust.org.uk/how-to-manage-land-for-barn-owls/barn-owl-habitat-requirements/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280835.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00051-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.915249 | 275 | 3.15625 | 3 |
We can think of no better way to describe this laser projector project than Epic. [C4r0] is a student at Gdansk University of Technology and he’s been working on this projector for at least a couple of years. It uses several different laser diodes pulled out of DVD burners, Blu-Ray drives, and entertainment equipment (the green diode is from a disco laser).
In order to direct the beams he built a series of brackets that hold dichroic filters which reflect some wavelengths of light while allowing others to pass straight through. Each diode also needs a driver, most of which he built from scratch. And once the hardware has been designed and tested, what does one do with it? If you’re [C4r0] you build it into a money case with professional-looking results.
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Role of biotechnology in exploring and protecting agricultural genetic resources, (The) (En)
This publication provides an up-to-date overview of the current status of the world's genetic resources for food and agriculture; of the use of biotechnology tools for characterizing and conserving these genetic resources, and of the many specific issues involved in using them for these purposes in developing countries. It brings together papers from an international workshop held on 5-7 March 2005 in Turin, Italy, on the role of biotechnology for the characterization and conservation of crop, forest, animal and fishery genetic resources as well as the background and summary documents from an e-mail conference on the same subject that was held three months afterwards.
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Three backyard chicken farmers talk about what it's like to raise a flock. Daniel Orr cooks with goat cheese. At a local pie shop, community is on the menu.
Our three backyard chicken farmers are back to talk about preparing your birds for winter. In the kitchen, two adult recipes -- martini and drunken watermelon.
Our three backyard chicken experts talk about how difficult the hot hot summer was on their birds, and they give tips for helping your flock survive the winter.
Jana Wilson calls chickens the snack food of the wild kingdom. She is joined by two other chicken farmers to talk about which predators to look out for.
Chickens give backyard farmers more than just eggs and meat. Three experts talk about how they help in the garden with fertilizing, tilling and pest control.
Chef Daniel Orr cooks with King Oyster and Chicken Of The Woods Mushrooms, and our backyard chicken experts talk about protecting your birds from predators.
Let's talk chickens! Three backyard chicken farmers answer your questions, and Chef Daniel Orr uses chicken bones and veggie scraps to make a stock.
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LC Female to SC Male Simplex Singlemode Fiber Optic Adapter
Fiber optic adapter, sometimes also called coupler, is a small device designed to terminate or link the fiber optic cables or fiber optic connectors between two fiber optic lines.
The LC-SC Hybrid Fiber Optic Adapter is a special style of fiber optic adapter that supports precision connection of different types of fiber optic connectors. It is specially designed to incorporate the Small Form Factor LC into SC configured environment. The compact design enables network operators to reduce cost via space-savings, and by eliminating hybrid cable assemblies.
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This is great:
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The second effect for drinking, the second of the tea for 10-20 seconds soaking time!
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1. Pu'er tea leaves will filter into Cup, about five grams (covered with Beidi, slightly higher).
2. Zhukai it will filter into the cup boiling water, covered at the end of tea.
3. For a while, with filter cups, disposable to the first tea.
4. Again into boiling water, covered at the end of tea, with a Beigai, standing about 20 seconds.
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Sunday, 3 May 2009
UN children's agency promotes abortion
The United Nations has reportedly been trying to stop the Dominican Republic from adopting a constitution which would protect human life from conception. In March Mr Nils Kastberg (left), the UN children’s fund’s director for Latin America and the Caribbean, asked legislators to liberalise abortion. The Swede used the customary argument that banning terminations led to women’s doing unsafe things. Happily, lawmakers of all parties seem to be ignoring his pleas and the measure is making good progress. It’s tragic that, of all UN bodies, the supposedly pro-child agency should be promoting the destruction of the unborn. | <urn:uuid:4826af85-273a-4c32-8099-1351a4e292e3> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://spuc-director.blogspot.com/2009/05/un-childrens-agency-promotes-abortion.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280891.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00157-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951782 | 142 | 1.960938 | 2 |
America has a terrible secret: 99% of the puppies sold in U.S. pet stores come from puppy mills, and nearly 100% of them have parasites at the time of purchase. Pet stores around the country sell dogs riddled with infections and ailments because their parents are housed in inhumane facilities, relentlessly bred and then callously discarded.
Laura, an unassuming animal rights crusader from Staten Island, NY, is fighting for change, one dog at a time. Exposing the cruel practices of American puppy mills, the disturbing but ultimately uplifting documentary MADONNA OF THE MILLS chronicles this woman’s remarkable rescue work of as she drives through rural Pennsylvania from puppy mill to puppy mill.
Kathleen Summers, manager of the Stop Puppy Mills Campaign at the Humane Society of United States, explains, “At puppy mills, dogs basically spend their entire lives in small wire cages. They never get out for exercise. They don’t have treats or toys. They don’t have, often, clean food or water, and they’re basically there to do nothing but make babies.”
Laura learned about puppy mills five years ago. Since then, she has saved as many of the breeding dogs as she can, relocating them to new and loving homes. She drives hours to Lancaster County, Pa., where she has cultivated relationships with numerous Amish and Mennonite breeders, many of whom entered the business as a lucrative way to supplement their farm incomes.
Though the practice of mass-breeding puppies is inhumane and illegal, breeders continue to thrive under lax regulation.
To date, Laura has saved more than 2,000 dogs, in the process changing both her own life and the lives of families fortunate enough to adopt one of these remarkable puppy mill survivors. Over the course of MADONNA OF THE MILLS, Laura rescues:
Danny, a male golden retriever who was traumatized by a lifetime of incarceration, but overcame his phobias and now provides companionship to a family with an autistic son; Liberty, a female retriever who had a total fear of people, and tried to hide during training class with other dogs and owners; Vivien Leigh, a female cocker spaniel who had rotting teeth, sores on her paws and ears, and a skittish personality; and Maisy, another female cocker who was “de-barked” by a farmer who crushed her voice box with a lead pipe.
In addition to interviews with Laura’s friends and family, MADONNA OF THE MILLS includes insights from activists at grass-roots organizations, including Bill from Main Line Animal Rescue, and officials from the U.S. Humane Society, as well as veterinarians who cite the dismal health records – parasites, infections, hip dysplasia, kennel cough and more – of pet-shop puppies, who will likely cost their owners far more in vet bills than the original price of the animal. The film also features a segment on Patti Page, the singer and dog lover who recently re-recorded her hit “(How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window?” as “Do You See That Doggie in the Shelter?” to encourage families to obtain their puppies from shelters instead of pet shops.
Director Andrew Nibley is an author, director, actor and comic. In previous incarnations he was a journalist, covering four U.S. Presidents, and worked as a CEO in the news, internet, music and advertising industries. MADONNA OF THE MILLS is his first film.
Producer Kelly Colbert is an advertising executive who has been a “foster mother” for puppy mill dogs through Rawhide Rescue. She traveled to Cameroon in 2009 to care for abused gorillas and chimpanzees as a volunteer with the Cameroon Wildlife Foundation.
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If a chicken-friendly environment is a checklist item for your move to the North Shore you may have to rule out the Village of Wilmette. According to Trib Local, Wilmette recently amended its municipal code to make it illegal to raise chickens. Winnetka, however, remains chicken-friendly.
Diane Schaffner, a Wilmette resident and organic gardener, is asking village trustees to reconsider their decision:
From a nutritional perspective, Schaffner argues that eggs from a local hen are better than those from the supermarket.
“The most obvious benefit is having your own very fresh eggs,” she said. “You’re controlling what the chickens eat, how they live. Each different breed produces a different kind of egg.”
If the local ordinance is changed, Schaffner said she’d be eager to acquire two or three hens.
“My yard is pretty small, but I would have a minimum of two,” Schaffner said. “It’s not recommended that you only have one. Chickens are very social and would benefit from the company.”
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Will the EPA bow to industry pressure and authorized a disastrous mountain-top removal at Spruce Mountain? Rainforest Action Network (RAN) takes action to call attention to the issue.
Five Percent a Year, every year, is all that we need.
Compounding works for money and it can work for ending our oil addiction and addressing climate change.
Six simple words serve as the core test for any climate legislation:
1. Scientifically Sound
2. Polluters Pay
3. Socially Equitable
Meet those standards and I’m onboard.
My father-in-law has brain cancer. He is a good man. He is the type whose hands are (sadly too often) filled at the end of a stroll with trash he picked up on the way. He has helped others in need, whether friends (doing all too many renovation and repair
Perhaps you’ve missed it, but in the climate / politics world there’s been a bit of a scandal that blew on 31 July: paid by the coal industry, a lobbying firm had sent forged letters to members of Congress against climate legislation. Don’t worry … it was all a ‘temporary’ employee who has been fired. Never mind. Nothing there. Go back to watching TV.
As the Republican Party ever-more prominently wraps itself in anti-science attitudes and positions, the scientific community ever more identifies itself with the Democratic Party and as liberals. Recent polling provides a window on this widening gap and suggests a potential avenue for scientists to reinforce the gap between most Americans and the Republican Party.
Amid the supplemental appropriations bill (warning, 144 page pdf), currently awaiting vote after a Conference Committee, is the Consumer Assistance to Recycle and Save (CARS) Program (pages 52-58). Naming bills in deceptive and often cutesy terms has truly become an art form. The CARS Program merits being in the same zone as the ever-so appealing sounding No Child Left Behind or Healthy Forests, an ever-so appealing name that doesn’t stand up to any serious scrutiny. To put it simply, rather than the CARS Program, this might be more appropriate called the C.R.A.P.P.: Consciously Rewarding Augmenting Pollution Program.
Sometimes a light of reason shines through the pablum, confusion, and truthiness that so dominates the traditional media’s editorial pages. And, sometimes that light requires us to blink, to sit back and conceive, as it might force us to question fundamental societal concepts. Thinking through environmental economics leads to conclusions that challenge basic assumptions about how global society operates. Eric Zencey’s NYTimes OPED lays out such lunacies, lunacies at odds with The Village’s concepts and thus lunacies worth paying attention to.
Perhaps you’ve noticed a grizzled old Republican in TV ads offering a solution to American’s oil addiction or showing up at public events with Democratic leaders. Putting aside all the issues of T. Boone Pickens’ past, water issues in the West, etc., there is a core, fundamental flaw in The Pickens’ Plan. . . that 50%. . …
Amid our massive challenges, we face an opportunity to get things right in ameliorating current economic crisis while helping to strengthen the economy indefinitely into the future and help solve some of our quite serious and pressing problems. We must strive to have the stimulus package not look to short-term consumption adrenaline but be based on W4 solutions. Here is an example of a win-win-win-win option for truly changing the game for the better for America and all Americans. | <urn:uuid:1a5e4641-3dd2-44cd-b7e4-da80e70977b6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://shadowproof.com/author/asiegel/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00075.warc.gz | en | 0.929282 | 763 | 1.898438 | 2 |
Blisters on your feet can take the joy out of hiking, or for that matter, life in general.
Here is what you can do to avoid them.
by Leon Pantenburg
When your feet hurt, you may end up hating whatever activity you’re involved in.
Blisters make it worse.
Blisters, according to webmd.com, are bubbles that pop up when fluid collects in pockets under the top layer of your skin. They can be filled with pus, blood, or the clear, watery part of your blood called serum. Most are shaped like circles. Depending on the cause, your blister could itch or hurt a lot or a little. They can appear as a single bubble or in clusters.
Blisters can be dangerous. On an extended outing, they might get infected in your hot, sweaty boots. Worse case scenario: since you can’t walk, your trip is over. You might need to be evacuated.
Here are some tips to help avoid getting blisters when hiking.
Toughen your feet before you leave. Don’t hike barefoot. Your feet will never get tougher than a broken beer bottle, rusty nail or barbed wire or thorn.
That said, I frequently wear flip-flops when walking my dog on a paved track. When it’s hot, I’ll kick off the flip-flops and walk barefoot. If my tender human feet can take the heat, so can her paws. This toughens the soles and edges of my feet and it helps a lot.
Waterproof footwear? Today, it is hard to find any boots without the moisture resistant liners. I don’t like the liners, and have yet to find one that works as advertised. The moisture barriers are supposed to keep outside liquid out, while releasing the sweat-generated interior vapor. But it’s all about air pressure. The liners, in my experience, can’t remove the interior moisture fast enough if you’re exerting yourself.
The liners make the shoe hot, which makes your feet sweat more. The footwear will stay wet, and your socks will soon be sodden. Blisters are created from moisture, abrasion and heat. Hot, wet feet get blisters.
Footwear that fits: Go to a reputable outdoors store, and get both your feet measured. Take along the socks you will wear in them. Generally, you will need a wider shoe or boot, one-half to a full size larger than your street shoes. Feet swell when you’re hiking, and depending on the weight of your pack, they may swell a lot. Too-small hikers end up becoming a common and sure-fire contributor to discomfort and blisters.
Break in your boots: We’ve all heard stories about people who took off from the trailhead in their new boots, and had to painfully hobble back. This should go without saying: NEVER start a hiking trip in brand new boots. It doesn’t matter how comfortable the boots were in the store, they still need trail time. (Here are some tips for breaking in new boots.)
Get good socks: In my experience of learning things the hard way, what really doesn’t work well is hiking in 100 percent cotton socks in waterproof or water resistant boots. Your foot perspiration will soon soak through the sock, and the boot will hold the moisture in.
Your socks will be perpetually soggy, which softens your feet and leads to blisters. (Here is why you should wear wool socks for summer hiking.)
Change your socks frequently. Try wearing thin, polypropylene liners next to your skin under your wool socks. The liners will cling to your feet, and keep the skin from rubbing on the coarser material.
Make sure there are no wrinkles in your socks. A wrinkle = a blister. It’s easy to get wrinkles across the arch when shoving your foot into the boot.
Don’t let hot spots develop: After you start walking, you may notice a place that feels a little bit warmer. Stop immediately and fix it! You may need to change socks, remove a wrinkle or apply Moleskin. A hot spot, unattended, can become a blister.
Carry and use Moleskin: Moleskin is a soft fabric with a thin layer of felt attached to a sticky backing. It is most often used on the feet to protect the skin from rubbing against footwear or against itself. It can also help cushion the feet. If you feel a hot spot coming on, apply moleskin.
Let the boots dry out whenever possible. During breaks, if practical, take your boots and socks off and let them dry in the sun.
Lace boots correctly for the trail: Make sure your boots are tight where they need to be, and loose where they should be. Adjust the laces accordingly. Going downhill, you’ll need to keep your toes from bumping the end of the boot. Uphill, the heel area of the boot needs to be tightened so your heel doesn’t rub up and down.
Trim your toenails: Carry a clippers so you can easily keep your toenails short. Clippers don’t weigh anything and you’ll be glad you had them.
I got these tips from an old infantryman:
Put Vaseline between your toes.
Use foot powder in your socks next to your skin, and inside the boot.
Here’s a couple bonus tips:
Plan for stream crossings: Check the topo map and see if you will be crossing a lot of streams. You want to keep your boots dry, but you DON’T want to carry a pack across barefoot. Take along lightweight hikers or tennis shoes that don’t have moisture barriers if you anticipate a lot of crossings.
Upgrade insoles: Many otherwise excellent boots have sketchy insoles. These can lead to rubbing. Check out some after market insoles if you have any concerns about insole quality.
Blisters on your feet can be painful and in extreme cases, could cause survival situations. The old mossy cliche’ is “Take care of your feet, and they’ll take care of you.” It’s always been true and it’s good advice today.
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The Difference Between Type 2 and Type 3Apr 19, 2022
Both Type 2 and Type 3 are in the Feeling/Heart Center of Intelligence where they have the common emotional struggle of shame due to their focus on their image and how believe they’re viewed by others.
They typically get their worth based on how good of an image they have...
Twos how helpful and loving they are, and Threes are focused on how successful they look to determine their worth.
Despite several overlapping qualities and the fact they are Wings of one another, there are some key differences that you’ll learn about in this episode to help you gain clarity on which one resonates most as your dominant type.
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ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES
Egypt Erupts; Crisis in Egypt
Aired January 28, 2011 - 23:00 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
ANDERSON COOPER, HOST: We are coming up on sunrise in Egypt right now, waiting, along with the rest of the world, for what happens next. Israel's neighbor, America's ally, capital of the Arab world in crisis, under curfew, the government in flux, the man who has run the country for decades apparently on the ropes with his people and clearly on notice from Washington.
What we have seen today has been extraordinary, Egyptians taking to the streets en masse today and late into the night; a day of rage that began in the mosques and spread into the centers of Cairo and Alexandria, Egypt's second city, and all across the country.
In some places, it resembled a human wave that rolled over police. Just listen.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It looks like the police are retreating, doesn't it?
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COOPER: Those are police trucks pulling back in a cloud of tear gas, a picture, for the moment at least, of a dictatorship in reverse.
Elsewhere, smaller groups fought running battles with the police well into the night.
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COOPER: They hurled slogans, paving stones, and Molotov cocktails, sacking government ministries, destroying the headquarters of President Hosni Mubarak's ruling party. As night fell, the army rolled in right in front of CNN's Ben Wedeman.
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BEN WEDEMAN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: I can tell you right now, four army tanks and at least as many Armored Personnel Carriers have just pulled up outside our building.
And this actually has been to the satisfaction of many Egyptians, because the worry is that the police have seemed to have completely disappeared. With them gone, that there's the specter of real chaos.
It was interesting. We were watching as the police station right behind our building was attacked by the protesters. All of the police had put on civilian clothing and ran away. And we're hearing reports of all the major police stations around Cairo have been sacked.
So, really, there is no longer a police force. It's the army and the Republican Guard that seem to be in control of the streets.
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COOPER: Well, late tonight, Egypt's President, Hosni Mubarak, went on television announcing he'll be forming a new government, but himself remaining in power.
Shortly afterwards, President Obama spoke with him, and, shortly after that, Mr. Obama went before the cameras to issue a warning.
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BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: And when President Mubarak addressed the Egyptian people tonight, he pledged a better democracy and greater economic opportunity. I just spoke to him after his speech. And I told him he has a responsibility to give meaning to those words, to take concrete steps and actions that deliver on that promise.
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OBAMA: And when I was in Cairo shortly after I was elected president, I said that all governments must maintain power through consent, not coercion. That is the single standard by which the people of Egypt will achieve the future they deserve.
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COOPER: A measured response from President Obama, but we hear from our own John King, who's at the White House, there is deep disappointments with the comments, with the statement that President Mubarak made. We'll talk to John King shortly.
A lot to talk about throughout this hour. We're going to have correspondents on the scene -- Nic Robertson in Alexandria, and in Cairo, Ben Wedeman who are joining us live right now.
Ben, what's the latest in Cairo at this hour?
WEDEMAN: Right now, Anderson, it's very calm, very quiet. The army has taken up positions. We're right next to state TV. The curfew is, in theory, in effect, but what we've seen is, during the night, lots of people are coming out, coming to greet the soldiers, coming to take pictures of themselves in front of tanks.
But we're not hearing any gunfire, no tear gas being fired. There's been scattered looting around the city -- the headquarters of the ruling National Democratic Party utterly torched, completely ransacked, police stations around the city in flames as well.
It appears the police force had utterly disappeared. Anderson, that was a police force widely hated by ordinary Egyptians, hated for their corruption, their brutality, their torture.
So, for most Egyptians, seeing the army arrive on the scene and the police leave was a source of a lot of joy and excitement.
COOPER: But, Ben, we've seen plainclothes policemen, thugs basically, beating protesters, taking them away. And, as you said, I mean, there -- you know, it's well known about torture and -- and other things that have gone on with the security police in Egypt.
Are those plainclothes guys, are -- are they off the streets as well?
WEDEMAN: It's difficult to say, since they're almost indistinguishable from anybody else.
But the assumption is that they may realize that this regime is tottering. And there's not much for them to defend at this point.
So, they may have just sort of disappeared back into Egyptian society, along with all the other uniformed policemen, who have somehow disappeared into thin air.
The feeling is that President Mubarak made his speech today, but we're in a period of transition. It may not be much longer that he's the president. The army's in control of the streets. The protesters will come back. They will come back, because their one single demand throughout the last four days -- and it's only been four days of protest -- is, down with Mubarak. And they probably will not stop until they see that achieved.
COOPER: Nic --
COOPER: Nic, you're in Alexandria, to the north, along the Egyptian coast. What's the situation like there right now?
NIC ROBERTSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: The only few people we've seen out on the streets this -- this time of night, when we were out an hour or so ago, were looters going into some of the burnt-out police stations, pulling out whatever they could get, tables, chairs. There wasn't a lot left.
But what was really interesting, the handful of army troops that are on the streets here in their Armored Personnel Carriers are right -- positioned right outside those burned-out police stations. Not clear what they're defending, because there's nothing useful left in those buildings, certainly no police to secure or even security for -- security -- apparatus for security.
Well, but what they're not doing is, they're not stopping the looters, as they have been very friendly with the crowds that have come to them, and they will be very well aware of what happened to the police today, who were literally beaten off the streets.
It was almost a seminal moment we watched where one man went up against the police with his hands in the air. There were rocks thrown from the crowd behind him at police. The police were throwing the rocks back. And he calmed the situation himself. And the crowds talked to the police, and the police backed off. More rocks flew, and the police fled.
The army will know, those soldiers, those young soldiers in the Armored Personnel Carriers will know that could be the situation that awaits them, because, as Ben says, the people will come back. Mubarak says that he won't go. And the army are there to enforce his rules. There's a confrontation coming, one way or another, with the army. They back off, or the crowds, it seems, are going to inevitably take them on, Anderson.
COOPER: Ben, the speech that President Mubarak made, there was at least one report by "The Wall Street Journal" that it was pre- recorded, that it was not a live speech. A, do we know that? And B, do we know where President Mubarak is right now?
WEDEMAN: It did seem to be a recorded speech, Anderson.
And, of course, President Mubarak is 82 years old. So, normally, he -- he stopped doing live appearances a few years ago. He normally resides in the Sharm el-Sheikh in the Sinai Peninsula. It's not clear whether he's there or in Cairo.
Certainly, under normal circumstances, he's there, but his -- his precise whereabouts aren't at all clear. The speech he made really shocked a lot of people. Just reforming a cabinet that is really just technocrats, people who carry out his orders, is not going to impress too many Egyptians.
Everybody knows that the cabinet traditionally has always been sort of yes-men to the president. So, the feeling is, he's just going to get a new group of yes-men.
COOPER: And -- and Ben, these demonstrations we have seen -- and you say there's going to be probably more today -- how are they being organized? How do people know where to go?
WEDEMAN: Well, there are some basic collection points. And, in fact, what's interesting is that, you know, in the past, we used things like Twitter and cell phones, neither of which work at the moment, to sort of find out who's going where.
Now there are certain standard points where demonstrations begin. People understand word of mouth. Landlines still work. So, spontaneously or otherwise, people will join in certain places.
However, I must stress, it's been four days of an unprecedented uproar in Cairo. Tomorrow, now that people -- now that the army is in the streets, people may decide to take a day off tomorrow.
COOPER: We're going to have more with Nic and Ben throughout this hour. They have just been remarkable on the ground, at great risk to themselves. And we appreciate it. We're going to have more with them coming up.
Joining us now, national security analyst Peter Bergen; Mideast scholar Robin Wright, senior fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace; and Fouad Ajami, who teaches -- he's a professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. He's a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution.
Fouad, would you call this a revolution?
FOUAD AJAMI, PROFESSOR OF MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES, JOHNS HOPKINS SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES: I think so. I think this is really an attempt on the part of the Egyptian people, a proud people, an ancient people, 80 million people, to recover their dignity from this man who has demeaned them.
The irony, the -- the tragedy of Hosni Mubarak is, here -- here was the son of the land, a man of middle peasantry. He inherits power, because he was there on the reviewing stand that day in -- in 19 --
COOPER: He survived standing on the reviewing stand when --
COOPER: -- when -- when Anwar Sadat was assassinated.
And I think there is -- of course, the rumor has always in a way trailed to him that the assassin, the lead assassin, told him to get out of the way. "I want to get this dog," he said, about President Sadat. He got out of the way.
He survived. He had every chance to bond with his people. The bond between -- between Hosni Mubarak and the Egyptian has been severed. The bond between his wife and the Egyptian people has been severed, between his son and the Egyptian people have been severed. I don't know if he can come back from this.
COOPER: You think -- you think this might be the end of him?
AJAMI: I think -- look, Hosni -- I mean, I listened to the speech. And I want to tell you something, as someone who -- whose language, native language, is Arabic. I was listening for the cadence of the man, for the seriousness of the man. He's a very uninspiring speaker.
The crowd wants him. So what he did is, he threw overboard to them, he offered them the prime minister. The prime minister means nothing. It's really about the regime.
COOPER: To offer up his cabinet means nothing. I mean, Hosni Mubarak is the power in Egypt and has been for 30 years.
AJAMI: And the question now, if you will, his relations with the officer corps, because, at the end, this is a regime; the spine of this regime is the officer corps.
And will the officer corps want to fight for Hosni Mubarak, or are they the sons of Egypt, who represent the spirit of Egypt? That really is the test.
COOPER: And -- and Robin, do we know the answer to that? I mean, the military is now on the streets. According to Ben, the police have retreated, even some of the plainclothes ones. Do we know what the military plans now?
ROBIN WRIGHT, SENIOR FELLOW, U.S. INSTITUTE OF PEACE: Well, I think you have to remember that the military is not just one body. It is a group of officers who may be loyal or have -- some of them have loyalty to the regime.
But then you have the rank and file, who will have their brothers and sisters, uncles, fathers out on the streets protesting and demanding the end to the Mubarak dynasty.
And so, the military may not respond evenly to -- if there are -- if there are demonstrations on the streets.
COOPER: Peter Bergen, the -- the Muslim Brotherhood is -- is basically outlawed in Egypt, although it's been sort of allowed back in -- in recent years in a very much limited way.
There is much concern in the United States about an Islamic regime taking -- taking power in Egypt. The Muslim Brotherhood is really one of the few organizations that -- that is -- is organized, even though it's been underground for -- for decades and decades and decades.
How concerned should the United States be about that, even though the Muslim Brotherhood up to now has not been in the forefront of this, although we're hearing just in the last 24 hours that they're starting to get involved in the demonstrations?
PETER BERGEN, CNN TERRORISM ANALYST: I think that concern would be overblown.
I mean, this is a group that, in a free and fair election in Egypt, which obviously hasn't happened for -- for a very long time, would probably get about a third of the vote. And, you know, this is also a group that isn't a bunch of sort of you know, raving, lunatic Islamic fundamentalists of -- you know, of the ilk of Osama bin Laden.
I mean, the Muslim Brotherhood is made up with a lot of professional men who are -- and -- and women, who are -- you know, they are certainly fundamentalists in their beliefs about Islam, but the -- the group itself a long time ago rejected violence. It came -- when it -- when it was first sort of born, it had -- it was against the British. And it had a -- really a terrorist wing, which it sort of has -- you know, has receded into history.
And so this is a group that I think is going to play some role in Egypt in the future. And they could well play a quite constructive role.
COOPER: Fouad, why did this happen now? I mean is this just because of what -- what -- the possibilities that were opened up after what happened in Tunisia?
AJAMI: I think Tunisia shamed the Egyptian people. I mean --
COOPER: Shamed them?
AJAMI: Yes, in many ways.
Look at -- look at Egypt, the pride of Egypt. The Egyptians have this idea that they are the center of the Arab world. Arab modernity began in Egypt. Arab cinema began in Egypt. Arab art began in Egypt -- and the first coup d'etat of Gamal Abdel Nasser.
I mean, so, in fact, the Egyptians have always believed in the centrality of Egypt to the -- to Arab world, 80 million of them, as we said. They look at this very marginal country on the outer consciousness of the Arab world, an afterthought in the Arab world. Tunisia, with 10 million people, sacks its despot, who exactly bears almost a striking resemblance, by the way, to Hosni Mubarak.
I mean, I love the fact that they're both men in their 70s and 80s with jet-black hair. There's something wrong with a -- with a ruler of 80 million people who is sitting wondering whether he should dye his hair or not.
So, as the Egyptians look at what happened in Tunisia, they've had it with Hosni Mubarak. And the spark in all revolutions may be very small. Had it not been that a man set on -- himself on fire in Tunisia; Tunisia would not have happened.
Had it not been that, in a way, the Egyptians watching Tunisia, they were emboldened by what happened in Tunisia. So, the autocracies of the Arab world were really living on borrowed time. And the -- and the material was there. What you really needed was the spark.
COOPER: We're going to have more with Fouad and -- and Robin and Peter Bergen, also with Ben and Nic.
Stay with us, everyone. We've got a lot more to cover. We're -- we're covering the story all throughout this hour.
You can weigh in as well. The live chat is up and running at AC360.com.
Up next: the implication of Washington's key ally in the Arab world now in turmoil; what White House insiders are saying. You heard what President Obama said publicly. Privately, we're hearing some other things. We're going to tell you that. John King has the reporting on that.
Also, some of the other big stories from around the country and the world and Isha Sesay -- Isha.
ISHA SESAY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hey there, Anderson.
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COOPER: All right.
We'll have more of the -- more from Egypt in a moment.
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WEDEMAN: The police continue to fire massive amounts of tear gas. It's like the Battle of Cairo here. Every -- almost every part of town has seen demonstrations and seen violent suppression of those demonstrations by the police.
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COOPER: That was CNN's Ben Wedeman earlier today with pictures of the uprising, the crackdown being beamed around the world, including Washington, where it's not being well-received by the Obama administration.
The United States is in a very uncomfortable position, having backed President Mubarak for decades.
While cautioning protesters to express -- express themselves peacefully, Mr. Obama spoke out for them, and not the leader they want gone.
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OBAMA: The people of Egypt have rights that are universal. That includes the right to peaceful assembly and association, the right to free speech, and the ability to determine their own destiny. These are human rights. And the United States will stand up for them everywhere.
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COOPER: That was President Obama this evening.
More now on the White House reaction and what insiders are saying from John King, host of "JOHN KING, USA."
John, over the last 24 hours, there's been a -- a real evolution in the Obama administration's handling of the situation. Were they caught off guard?
JOHN KING, CNN HOST, "JOHN KING, USA": They were caught off guard to some degree, and there has been quite an evolution.
The vice president is on record saying he would not consider Hosni Mubarak to be a dictator. The administration wishes he hadn't said that so publicly. The administration -- look, this is a traditional ally in the region, a very important --
COOPER: How -- how could he have possibly said that? I mean, how did he explain himself on that one?
KING: Well, because the United States -- remember, the sensitivity of the relationship. There are elections in Egypt. Now, those elections are a sham. You know that. I know that. The White House knows that.
For diplomatic reasons, they don't like to use the term dictator. They have criticized him in the past. And this is one of the fascinating issues here. Privately, they say they have been very tough with President Mubarak. Obviously, he hasn't listened to them. He didn't listen to the Bush administration either about democratic reforms.
And so you have had an evolution, Anderson.
One of the interesting things throughout the day today was, they were told -- there was frequent conversation with the ambassador in Egypt and others on the ground in Egypt.
They're saying: Look, the government, President Mubarak's government is going to tell you this is isolated. It is not. It is spreading and it is everywhere. They're going to tell you it is radical Islamists. It is not. It is it middle-class Egyptians. It is young Egyptians. It is old Egyptians. It is everyone.
COOPER: This is the U.S. ambassador telling this to the White House? KING: Yes, conveying back to the White House, essentially just saying, if they try tell you this is not a big deal, they are not telling you the truth.
This is a very big deal. And, Anderson, the calculation of most people tonight, would they like President Mubarak to reach out and start a dialogue? Would they like him to be able to extend this through the presidential election, an orderly and smooth transition? Yes, they would.
Do they think he can tonight? Most of the people you talk to think, no, we have reached the tipping point.
COOPER: Well, you talk about a presidential election. I mean, he was grooming his son to take over. Obviously, that situation has changed.
John, they finally spoke today, President Obama and Mubarak. Do you know -- what have you heard on background about that conversation?
KING: I'm told it was a brief conversation, that it was a relatively terse conversation. There's always a big debate in diplomacy, when do you play the president card? And all day long, people were saying, when would President Mubarak speak, when would President Obama speak?
Well, after President Mubarak's speech -- remember, all day long, the administration said, you must reach out. You must immediately open a dialogue with the demonstrators. And President Mubarak did no such thing. He said he would fire his government, which as Nic and Ben have told you, is viewed largely as a sham by the protesters.
And the president himself said nothing about his willingness to talk to them. And, at that point, we're told the President of the United States called him and was exasperated. And that's why you heard the President -- some are saying that President Obama's remarks were not tough enough, but he said: I need to see concrete steps in public.
That was a nudge to President Mubarak. And the administration says if they don't see those steps within the next 24 hours or so, when he reorganizes the government, they have a big, huge question as to whether President Mubarak can survive.
COOPER: His -- President Obama's public comments were -- were measured. Are you hearing -- I mean, how was President Mubarak's statement received in the White House?
KING: They were highly disappointed with it, because they wanted tangible proof that he was willing to begin a dialogue. And they see no evidence of that. They see a president who thinks he -- a president in Egypt who thinks he can somehow put this genie back into the bottle.
And Anderson, they don't think he can, which is why they also made clear and leading voices in Congress are making clear that, if they don't see more outreach, more democratic reform, more communications and dialogue with the protesters immediately, they're going to reconsider U.S. aid.
That sends a chilling signal, because it is the billion dollars- plus in annual U.S. aid that keeps the Egyptian military up and running. And the Egyptian army, as everyone has said previously to me tonight, is the key institution right now.
When the demonstrators come back into the streets tomorrow or the next day, how will the army react? Will they stay loyal to President Mubarak?
So, the threat of cutting off aid, the tough words, not only from the White House, but from leading members of Congress, has to send a signal to the Egyptian government.
COOPER: Incredible times.
John, I appreciate the reporting.
I want to bring back the panel: Peter Bergen, Robin Wright, and Professor Fouad Ajami.
Robin, what do you make of the White House, how they have handled this thus far? I mean, it is a very difficult situation for the United States. They have supported this guy for 30 years. We've given him billions of dollars. How do you think they're handling it?
WRIGHT: Well, I think we've seen a turning point today, not only in the turnout of people on the streets of Cairo and Suez and Alexandria, but also the reaction from the White House.
This was the toughest language, and President Obama and the State Department put the regime on notice that it could no longer ignore the grievances of the people, that it had to reopen and allow freedom of -- of speech and expression, that it had to deal with opposition parties, and that it could not use violence.
And this was the main tool, has been for decades predating President Mubarak. And so this really was -- an important juncture in U.S. foreign policy as well. And this will have rippling repercussions throughout the region. The United States took a very strong stand in Tunisia in saying that it stood on the side of the people, now standing with the -- the people in Egypt.
This will send a strong signal, I think, throughout the 22 nations of the Arab world. This is not just the beginning of the end of the Mubarak dynasty. It will herald, I think, a period that a lot of regimes, whether it's Algeria, Jordan, Yemen, elsewhere, governments will have to respond to the needs of their people.
COOPER: Peter, you were interested to see also demonstrations in Yemen.
BERGEN: Yes. I mean, the -- the situation is -- is analogous in some senses. You've got a dictator who has been -- President Saleh, who has run Yemen for three decades or so, supported by the army, who has delivered very little for the -- his people, with the economy in Yemen in crisis. The country is running out of oil, the little it had, running out of water. It's got two wars going on. It's also got al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula headquartered there.
COOPER: These are pictures from Yemen right now that we're showing, demonstrations there.
And, I mean, the difference between Yemen and Egypt is, in Yemen, you know, there is a slightly more democratically -- there are parties in -- in Yemen which the president, Saleh, he's sort of allowed to grow up.
And they -- you know, by Arab -- by Arab standards, it's somewhat more democratic than other -- other Arab regimes -- admittedly, a rather low bar. And, so, we're seeing --
COOPER: Well, you also have -- you also have a heavy al Qaeda presence -- or heavy, but I mean, relatively speaking, an al Qaeda presence, and active military conflict going on in -- in several areas of the country in Yemen.
BERGEN: Sure, there's a southern secessionist movement in the -- in the south of the country. There's a sort of mini-war going on up in the north. Al Qaeda has, I think, inserted itself into a number of the tribes.
Yemen itself, you know, the tribes there settle their disputes, not with small weapons, but with artillery. This is a -- a country that's heavily armed, one of the most heavily armed countries in the world in terms of personal weaponry. And it's a country that's one of the -- the poorest country in the -- in the Arabian --
BERGEN: And, so, you know, lots of things could go wrong.
But the good thing is right now that those demonstrations have been -- have been peaceful.
COOPER: Fouad, we hear President Obama, you know, calling upon Hosni Mubarak --
COOPER: -- to actually start to make changes and do stuff.
Administrations have been suggesting him -- telling him to do that for -- for probably all of his 30 years.
COOPER: Why has he just not done it? I mean, it -- why -- is it just that they are so mired in corruption?
AJAMI: Look, Hosni Mubarak knows how to stiff America. He takes our coin and runs amok of our purposes. And he's done it through five American presidencies.
I think this dictatorship in -- in Egypt, it had the --
COOPER: And it is a dictatorship.
AJAMI: I mean, it's a -- it's a joke.
And I think, about the Obama administration, we should remember, this is the second time in a big way that the Obama administration has been caught by a popular hurricane, and couldn't place itself on the right side of things. Let's not forget what happened in Iran in the summer of 2009.
So, in Egypt, there is another replay. President Obama came into office in 2009, and it was kind of odd. It was paradoxical. Here is this man who was talking about change, but his first message was to the despots in the region, which is, Bush's diplomacy of freedom, which intervened in your internal affairs, is hereby annulled.
COOPER: Right. President Bush actually stopped allowing Hosni Mubarak to come to the White House.
AJAMI: Well, President Bush tried. I mean, I think President Bush circled both Egypt and Saudi Arabia and gave up at the end. There were really two -- at the end, the two -- the final two years of the Bush administration sought reconciliation.
COOPER: But why -- I mean, if you were a dictator, like Hosni Mubarak, why not make an effort to meet the needs of your people? Why not, if there's an earthquake, you know, have services to actually feed them, as opposed to letting the Muslim Brotherhood do it?
AJAMI: He just doesn't -- this is a soldier. This is a man of the barracks. He's a man of order.
I actually once described him as the cop on the banks of the Nile. He's a policeman. That's what he knows about life. He knows that life is about order. And he fears the mob. He fears the mass. And he fears his own country. He fears the bourgeois, the lawyers, the judges. He took away their rights. He took away their dignity.
COOPER: And you've been saying he uses the Muslim Brotherhood against both --
COOPER: -- the middle class and the United States.
AJAMI: That's the bogeyman. That's the standoff. That's the classic dance in the region between the autocrats on the one side and the theocrats on the other. And, there, we stand as outsiders.
We can't really order the life of Egypt. I mean, Obama can't. Bush couldn't.
So, it's really for them to order their own politics. And, in this dance between the autocrats and the theocrats, the autocrats are very brilliant. They always tell us, look, it's either us or the bearded ones out there.
COOPER: And Robin, when you hear that, I mean how -- for -- for those in the United States concerned about, you know, Islamic fundamentalists taking over in Egypt, how big a concern should that be? Peter Bergen says the Muslim Brotherhood, you know, probably wouldn't get a majority in an election.
WRIGHT: I think that's true in most of the Middle East countries. And what's so interesting about this juncture is that we see a movement emerging with a body but no head. It's not ideological. It has no affiliation with any of the ideologies, whether it's Nasserism of the earlier Egypt or the Islamic fundamentalism of the Muslim Brotherhood today.
This is something that is new. And it doesn't know where it's headed. It doesn't have a leader to guide it. And I think that the politicians that have -- whose names have been out there for a long time may end up being transition figures. But I'm not sure that they're going to be the ones who define Egypt of the future.
COOPER: Robin, were you surprised about this? Did you expect this?
WRIGHT: Well, I think -- I've been writing about this for a long time, but I think that you've seen a trend. This is the last bloc of countries in the world that has held out against the democratic forces of the last 30 years. And I think it was destined to go there.
It was a matter of what spark and the confluence of elements, be it the education of the majority of the people, the technology to circumvent state control, be it Al Jazeera providing images, or the Twitter and Facebook technology to communicate with each other, the demographics of it being a young population.
WRIGHT: And so that all of these things came together with the right spark, the right mood in the international community. This is the 21st century. And I think that's what is --
COOPER: Fouad, more -- more protests you think today?
AJAMI: Absolutely. And, you know, they can't stop here. This wasn't why this revolt erupted, so they can arrive at the moment where Mubarak says to them, "All right. I've heard your demand. I'm willing to reform. I'm going to give you a new lackey government."
COOPER: Right. Fouad Ajami, I appreciate your expertise.
Robin Wright, as well; Peter Bergen, John King, thanks for the reporting.
The question is: how did this chaos in Egypt begin? It's hard to believe the situation has deteriorated as much as it has, or exploded as much as it has in just a few days.
When we come back, a look at how the protest started, our coverage into Egypt in crisis. Also, more reports from Ben Wedeman and Nic Robertson, live from -- on the ground. We'll be right back.
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NIC ROBERTSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: What's been amazing is the roller-coaster volatility of what's going on, from extreme anger to extreme happiness. And I know you've seen it in the Middle East many times before, flipping on a dime. And that's what we're seeing right now this evening.
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COOPER: Some of the remarkable reporting from Nic Robertson and Ben Wedeman, who have been on the scene in Egypt all throughout these last several days.
The unrest that erupted full force today has been building since Tuesday. Social media, Facebook, Twitter, have been a key tool for protestors, at least until the government pulled the plug. We can actually show you what that looked like yesterday.
Take a look at this graph. It shows Internet traffic to and from Egypt across 80 Internet providers. You can see the volume suddenly dropping off to a trickle at 5:20 p.m. Eastern Time yesterday.
Today, President Obama criticized the Egyptian authorities for restricting Internet and cell-phone access.
Nic Robertson joins me again from Alexandria and Ben Wedeman from Cairo.
Ben, are cell phones working now? I mean, can you -- can people tweet? What is the situation with social media?
BEN WEDEMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Completely blacked out. No Internet whatsoever. Cell phones still don't work. It appears that this -- this policy of utter blackout continues. COOPER: And Nic Robertson, for you, is that the same situation? I heard you might have access to the Internet in Alexandria.
We're having a problem with Nic's audio; we'll try to get that --
ROBERTSON: You know the only thing that's working for me is my BlackBerry. I can send e-mails over my BlackBerry but I can't send -- can't send -- I can send e-mails with my Blackberry but can't send text messages, and I can't use it to make phone calls, which is really bizarre.
I'm sending e-mails to my wife, who's tweeting on my account for me. That's the way we're getting around it here.
COOPER: Ben, in terms of what happens in the next couple of hours, what are you expecting? What are you going to be looking for in the next three to four hours?
WEDEMAN: Well, once the curfew is lifted, even though not an awful lot of people are actually respecting it, we're going to have to see whether people are going to go back into the streets and start protesting the fact that Mubarak is still the president and doesn't seem to be expressing any willingness to step down.
Normally, the demonstrations start afternoon -- 3:00, 4:00, 5:00 in the afternoon. So probably the next three or four hours will be relatively quiet. A quiet that will probably be greeted with some happiness by Cairo residents and myself, I have to say.
COOPER: I can imagine. You -- you ran into some trouble on the streets today. What happened?
WEDEMAN: We were right in the middle of a demonstration, caught between demonstrators on the one hand and a large group of police, plain-clothed -- and they're the guys you have to watch out for -- and the uniformed police.
They saw us hiding behind a concrete pillar from the stones that were being thrown, grabbed the camera -- camera woman, Mary Rogers. All three of us, me, Tommy Evans, and Mary Rogers tried to wrestle with these guys. And these guys are really rough individuals.
In fact, Tommy Evans was face -- right into the face of one of them. He said the guy looked like he was on drugs. His eyes were all weird.
Anyway, one of those plain-clothes policeman cracked the viewfinder while we all had our hands on the camera, and they yanked it away, pulled it off.
And we were going to go back to the office immediately afterwards. But I was so angry, because we had some incredible pictures of ordinary civilians, a family of four, mother, father and two children, who had sat down on the pavement, sort of an ad hoc sit- in, and started chanting against the Mubarak regime. A group of these plain-clothes police -- policemen went after them with billy clubs, punches and kicking. And we had some other great pictures.
And when we lost those, I was so angry. I was -- I took some of that anger out on the commander of the police there and had to be dragged away by my colleagues.
COOPER: And you did this in fluent Arabic, because in case our viewers don't know, you are fluent in Arabic, so I'm sure you were quite effective in your -- in your anger.
You know, I want to get to Nic in a second, but Ben, I want to ask you one more question. You've spent so much time in Egypt over the years, and it's a question I asked Fouad. Why hasn't the Mubarak government met the needs of its people? I mean, if -- I've heard stories if there's a -- if there's a disaster, it's often the Muslim Brotherhood who's out there giving out loaves of bread, as opposed to the Egyptian. Why have they consistently failed to meet the needs of the people?
WEDEMAN: You know, some people, when describing the Mubarak regime, have -- have likened it to the pharaonic times. You had people at the very top of society who lived beyond the wildest dreams of the vast majority of people.
And the impression you get is that this top elite, which must be just a fraction of one percent of the population, lives in another world, a world of wealth and luxury and comfort that ordinary people can only dream of and that the people at the top have no idea what the rest of society lives like.
Now, we understand that Mubarak is surrounded by advisers who oftentimes will tell him everything's fine, everything's good. For instance, it's said that President Mubarak and his son, Gamal, don't even know that Cairo has a traffic problem. Because when they ever drive -- whenever they drive through the city, of course, the police have cleared all the cars off. So they're living in another world, and the masses are on another universe for them -- Anderson.
COOPER: That is certainly not the case over the last several days. They seem to have been brought back to this world.
We're going to have more from Nic Robertson and Ben Wedeman. Thanks.
First, a look at some of the other stories we're following right now. Isha Sesay has a "360 Bulletin" -- Isha.
ISHA SESAY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Anderson, new word of progress on "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," that repeal. In a memo today, Defense Secretary Robert Gates says all military branches will implement the repeal at the same time, hopefully by the end of this year, if not sooner. Gates said he wants a report on his desk by next Friday with guidelines on how the military will be trained for the change.
Delaware's medical examiner has determined a cause of death in the mysterious case of former Pentagon official John Wheeler. Official word is Wheeler died from blunt force trauma after being assaulted, although it's not known by whom. Wheeler's body was found in a Delaware landfill on New Year's Eve.
And Nelson Mandela's released from a hospital in South Africa today. The 92-year-old former president was treated for a respiratory infection. Great news: a collective sigh of relief that Mandela is out of hospital -- Anderson.
COOPER: Yes. And we certainly wish him well. Isha, more from you ahead.
Still ahead, the uprising as it unfolded, some of the most dramatic moments in a pivotal day from Egypt.
COOPER: Well, it really has been an extraordinary day in Egypt. It's very rare that you can say you're actually watching history unfold. But that is what all of us have been watching.
Over the last 24 hours of so, we've watched anger erupt into full-on fury in the streets. It's unclear how many have been killed, how many have been hurt. It's unclear how many have been arrested and maybe being tortured right now in Egyptian jails.
Despite the crackdown on the Internet and cell phones, the world is watching this revolt unfold on television and on Twitter. We wanted to show you some of the most dramatic moments, many of them unprecedented in Egypt's modern history.
We want to warn you: some of the images are very disturbing. You'll even see someone being shot. But this is what is happening in Egypt.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Mubarak, Mubarak, go to hell.
HALA GORANI, ANCHOR, CNN INTERNATIONAL: It was billed as a day of wrath, anger, directed at the government, directed at the autocratic leader of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak. Demonstrators saying he and his entire regime need to go.
In the streets of Cairo water cannons being used against demonstrators, tear gas pretty much enveloping many neighborhoods in Cairo. There are also protests in Alexandria, in Suez.
WEDEMAN: One of the hotels, the five-star hotels just down the streets from us -- I'm sorry, Hala, this tear gas is getting to us here. The security is confiscating the cameras of tourists. Of course, for a country that depends so much on tourism, for this sort of heavy-handed tactic to be used against the people who are a major source of income for this country is also a worrying development, to say the least.
A group of these plain-clothes policemen sort of converged upon us, and they tried to -- basically, they grabbed the camera from Mary Rogers, our camerawoman and cracked the view finder off. And, you know, after quite a tussle with these guys -- some of them are pretty big -- they took the camera away.
ROBERTSON: The protestors here say they're worried that live rounds of ammunition, that shots may be fired at them. This gentleman here -- this gentleman here saying that there's tear gas being fired.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They fired inside the mosque.
ROBERTSON: They fired inside the mosque is what this man was telling us here right now.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You're about to see a disturbing image of that violence: a protestor shot down in the middle of the street.
Now, it appears that man was unarmed, except for the rock he picked up just before that bullet's impact. Witnesses and a security source say he was killed.
ROBERTSON: The police clearly pulled back, because it just seems impossible to stop all the people throwing the rocks. The police almost seemed as if here they're on the same side as the crowd.
WEDEMAN: The army has come out into the streets. This was an armored personnel carrier full of army soldiers, just up there. This is the first time we've seen that the army has become involved. The army has stayed out of any civil disturbances since 1985.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The police vehicle behind me, the police tried to drive it into their ranks. And then apparently it got stopped, and now they're trying to topple the police vehicle.
This is an amazing scene. You can see people here screaming, "Allahu Akbar," "God is great."
WEDEMAN: They're moving toward the ministry's information building (ph). Now the police are firing tear gas back at them. But protestors are throwing rocks.
This is an incredible scene. This is history in the making on live television.
COOPER: Wow. An amazing editing job on that; just some of the most dramatic images we have seen over the last 24 hours or so.
Coming up, a look at this week's CNN Hero. He's an Israeli man whose own brother was killed by Hamas who is promoting peace and helping save lives. What he's doing for sick Palestinians in occupied areas is going to amaze you and inspire you. His story, next.
COOPER: Time now for this week's CNN Hero. Tonight we meet a man who is promoting peace between Israelis and Palestinians in a unique way, a way that's saving lives.
Five days a week and for free, he and his volunteers take sick Palestinians into Israel so they can get medical care. Take a look.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: When my daughter's health isn't normal, I go to the hospital five times a week for her dialysis.
We don't have treatment at all here.
YUVAL ROTH, CNN HERO, COMMUNITY CRUSADER: In Palestine, healthcare is very expensive. It's not accessible. It's a big difference between the life here and one minute away.
My name is Yuval Roth. We transport sick Palestinians from the occupied territory into the Israeli hospitals. If they should take a taxi, it would cost them a lot of money. They can't afford it.
My brother, he was murdered by Hamas people. That caused me to do something. Not in terms of revenge, but to look for a way for reconciliation and peace.
Right now we have about 200 volunteers. And we transport from the Israeli side to a checkpoint at least five days a week. It's a very exciting moment when you see improvement. It gives me a lot of happiness.
The price of the conflict is a lot more than the price of making peace. Regardless of political or religious I think that we all are human beings.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
COOPER: Well, remember, every one of this year's CNN Heroes are chosen from people you tell us about. To nominate someone you know who's making a big difference in your community, you can go to cnnheroes.com.
We'll be right back.
COOPER: That's it for 360. Thanks for watching.
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June 21, 2004
(Swans - June 21, 2004) It is ironic that those who would counter present political trends and
processes call themselves "Progressive." "Progress," the great drive
toward extinction now dominating the earth, is killing us all and taking
everything with it. To be "Progressive," then, is to join with the
lemmings heading for their terminal cliff.
Progressives decry the corporation and lament the 1886 Supreme Court decision which granted personhood to corporations. As persons, the corporations claim all the rights and privileges according people, human people only, under our Constitution and Bill of Rights. In spite of the myth of David and Goliath, biggest easily beats littler, at least so far.
Progressives decry the exploitations made possible by the religions, philosophies and politics celebrating human dominance. Survival of the fittest eliminates everything and everyone including those humans less fit.
Progressives decry the rich getting richer while the poor get poorer yet there is no other outcome possible under the dominance of progress.
Progressives decry . . . .
A century or so back in time, there were Progressives in politics. LaFollette of Wisconsin, senator and founder of "The Progressive" magazine was a major leader. Then, throughout the Midwestern states, over into the Plains states and swirling up through the Rockies; Progressives championed the small farmer, the worker, the littler who were getting shafted by the burgeoning biggers.
Pitched battles were fought with Pinkertons hired by the corporations. The governments, with occasional and then fewer exceptions, strongly championed the corporations. Cops, national guards and private armies of corporations protect property rather than people, suits rather than shirts.
Successive wars invoked patriotism and sacrifice to get Progressives to back off. Spanish-American War, World War One (the war to end all wars) and World War Two (the war engendered by the war to end all wars); all saw degrees of anti-Progressive efforts to thwart Progressives as folks were rallied to support our troops. Look up Helen and Scott Nearing's works to get perspective.
Now, with labor on the rack; globalism declared the way of the future; employment security seen as a laughing matter; jobs ratcheting up, up and away; Dennis J. Kucinich (the only nominal Progressive left) ignored; wither Progressive?
Why, other than nostalgia and looking backward to a past long gone, would we want to call ourselves Progressives? Progressive has become as silly and vapid a label as Sustainable. Progress has condemned us. Pushed us and the earth over the edge of the edge. If we are hanging on at all, it is with the tips of our outstretched fingernails sliding down and down.
The twenty years at the end of the 19th century formed the time fulcrum from which the corporate form was catapulted to world dominance. Thomas Berry declares that ". . . no other event in human history bears any proportionate consequence in the disruption of the planetary process. . ." The corporations ". . . took control not only of the human community but in some sense intruded into the functioning of the earth itself. . . and are even in possession of vast areas of the natural world." (1)
So much for progress.
Thomas Berry suggests The Fourfold Wisdom as guidance. Indigenous wisdom. The Wisdom of Women. The Wisdom of the Classical Traditions. The Wisdom of Science.
The old peoples were grounded. Women know. Classical times addressed balance. Science is now discovering earth and nature. Gaia awareness is spreading. All integrate spirit with and as essential to all else.
Within each designated Wisdom lies the consciousness, awareness of being part of rather than dominant over.
The War Department which morphed to the Department of Defense can morph again to the Department of Peace.
Capital may be redefined as sharing rather than exploiting.
Never forget that all things have their right and appropriate size and form. When that right size and form are exceeded, implosion results. We are witnesses to implosions on a roll. (2)
Those who called ourselves Progressives out of some possibly misplaced nostalgia now are challenged to lead in ways which gather up the residue of implosions, reform them to serve all and then to move confidently into today on our ways to tomorrow.
First, let's clear out Washington so we can get on with it.
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Posted by Andrew on Monday, April 27, 2009 at 6:21am.
This is my To kill a Mockingbird essay.
Please have a look and fix any mistakes
or awkward phrases ASAP Thank You
Written by Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel set in a fictional town of Maycomb during the 1930s. In this novel, Lee uses two main characters, Jem and Scout, to deliver her views and beliefs on the world which she grew up in. Out of various themes she provides, the most important messages she gives to the readers is courage. She illustrates true courage as having the strength to challenge entrenched social conventions that are unjust.
Throughout the novel, the author supports her perspective by showing different characters standing up for the outcast. Atticus¡¯ courage to protect Tom Robinson despite the fact that he was black is a crucial factor in the novel. Atticus sure was scared when he faced the lynch mob, but he stood up for Tom alone. His act of courage was not because he had to protect him as a lawyer, but he knew it was the right thing to do. In addition, Heck Tate protecting Boo Radley is an act of courage towards the social minorities. He thought after what Boo did to save Jem and Scout, it would be ¡°¡¦a sin. It¡¯s a sin and I¡¯m not about to have it on my head. If it was any other man it¡¯d be different. But not this man¡¦¡± (Ch30, p304). Therefore, Atticus and Heck clearly demonstrates true courage, especially to victims of the social supremacy in Maycomb.
Secondly, Lee reminds the readers not to give up easily, although they know they are going to lose. The way Mrs. Dubose overcome her morphine addiction is undoubtedly a great act of courage. Although it would have been better if she kept using her drugs, she endured her pain just because she wanted to go to God ¡®clean¡¯. Her courage even impresses Atticus, which he acknowledges her as ¡°the bravest person he (I) ever met¡± (Ch11, p124). Moreover, Atticus again shows his courageous personality, when he defended Tom in the court case. Despite his effort to protect Tom by ¡°¡¦ using (used) every tool available to free him (Tom Robinson)¡¦ in the secret courts of men¡¯s hearts Atticus had no case¡± (Ch25, p266). However, he still astounds the black community and receives respect as he respected Tom and his society. Ultimately, Mrs. Dubose and Atticus successfully deliver the true meaning of courage, by not giving up what they think it is right to do.
Last but not least, the author demonstrates courage by showing characters overcoming their fear or physical abilities in order to protect someone important. Finches¡¯ mysterious neighbour Boo finally comes out of his house in order to save Jem and Scout from Bob Ewell. Although he hasn¡¯t come out of his house for a long time and he is weak as a child, he defeated his fear just to protect young Finches¡¯. Moreover, Scout also showed her brave individuality by attacking Francis. In spite of her disadvantage of being a girl, she fights Francis because he called Atticus a ¡®nigger-lover¡¯. Her love of Atticus also can be seen when she tells her uncle Jack, ¡°I swear before God if I¡¯ll sit there and let him say somethin¡¯ about Atticus¡± (Ch9, p95). Consequently, defeating one¡¯s fear or physical abilities is clear shown as another factor of true courage by Boo and Scout.
Courage is an important aspect for people to have as they live. To deliver the true meaning of courage, Harper Lee uses various scenarios with different characters. By doing so, she manages to acquaint three main messages, which are to stand up for the social outcast, not giving up on what they believe its right and overcoming your weakness to protect someone you love. Therefore, the author successfully demonstrates true courage as challenging what is wrong and fighting for what is right.
- 10th grade Enlish - SraJMcGin, Monday, April 27, 2009 at 8:54am
set in a fictional = set in the fictional
messages she gives to the readers is = message (singular)
Atticus¡¯= Atticus' (typo)
he was black = is black
Heck Tate protecting = Heck Tate's protecting (noun here)
act of courage towards = toward?
Can you edit out those strange marks?
If it was any other = If it were...
The line "with my head" is a direct quote? Then it needs quotation marks.
Atticus and Heck clearly demonstrates = plural subject means verb should be demonstrate
Mrs. Dubose overcome = either "overcame" (past tense) or continue with the present "overcomes"
which he acknowledges = when he...
Please check all these verbs in the past tense. (had, respected = and it is "by using" not used
if I¡¯ll sit = if I sit?
is clear shown = clearly (adverb)
to stand up = standing up (the next 2 nouns are gerunds, so for a parallel construction, I'd change the first on e)
Scanning up and down is hard on my eyes but the ones above cover most of the errors.
- 10th grade Enlish - tamtam, Wednesday, May 13, 2009 at 8:45am
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B-Secur (Belfast, Northern Ireland) announced that it has received FDA 510(k) clearance for its HeartKey software library to detect heart arrhythmias.
HeartKey’s FDA-cleared algorithms can support the detection and management of arrhythmias outside of the traditional hospital environment, allowing clinicians to make more accurate clinical decisions based on larger amounts of data, according to the company. The FDA clearance covers HeartKey’s signal conditioning, heart rate and arrhythmia analysis EKG/ECG algorithms. The arrhythmia analysis algorithm includes atrial fibrillation, bradycardia and tachycardia.
HeartKey algorithms can be integrated in semiconductors for a broad range of devices in the medical technology, health monitoring and consumer wellness sectors, enabling rapid integration of medical-grade EKG/ECG software with those devices. It also provides the potential for technology device manufacturers and healthcare service providers to generate advanced medical-grade wellness and health data from any device and platform, according to the company. HeartKey can run embedded on a device, on the application layer and via the cloud.
“The inspiration around EKG/ECG and HeartKey is being able to take biometrics to the next level, enabling the development of trusted biosensing technology,” B-Secur CEO Alan Foreman said in a news release. “With HeartKey, EKG/ECG is used to determine who you are and how you are at the same time, and can help protect lives, data, and devices. With heart disease being the world’s single biggest killer, we are perfectly positioned to help save lives.”
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Stuck with a computer crash? It can be a frustrating situation to put up with. (Wait, how are you reading this? Let’s assume you have a secondary machine or you’re at a friend’s house.)
Here’s some key steps to take in order to, just maybe, get your machine back up and running, and if not, recover all your data and transfer it to a shiny new machine.
HOW IS IT CRASHING?
Are you getting the dreaded Blue Screen of Death, the screen filled with error messages that’s the last thing you see before your machine locks up? Take a digital camera photo of this screen and Google some of the error messages you see for some possible solutions.
Is your computer running for awhile and then locking up? It might be an overheating problem. Check the fans on the back of the machine and inside. Are they still running? Are they clogged with dust? Clean it out and check the fan connectors. If your fan has died, your system will quickly overhead and freeze. You’ll need to get a replacement fan and plug it in.
If your machine runs and then freezes, bad memory might also be the culprit. Your PC has a memory test built in. When you restart the PC, enter the BIOS (usually F10 or F12) and run the memory test and see what it says. It’ll tell you if it’s gone bad, and if so, you’ll need to replace it. Go to crucial.com for the correct memory for your machine, as well as some well-written instructions for removing your memory modules and putting in new ones.
If your machine starts up, but you get an error related to a missing hard drive, then your hard drive has crashed. You’ll need to get a new one, put it in, and boot from your Windows DVD or CD (look for Startup Options when you first start up your computer and hit that key). Then, you’ll need to try and recover the data from your crashed drive. Doing that is somewhat complicated and may be best left to experts.
If your machine starts up, but reboots during the startup process, over and over again, then a program you installed may be the culprit. There’s a really easy fix for this: boot from the Windows DVD or CD (again, check for Startup Options when your machine first comes on) and click Repair your PC, then Boot Repair. Windows will automatically fix the boot process so it runs smoothly.
If the above doesn’t work, start up in Safe Mode (check those boot options again to see that option) and go to your Control Panel, and return to the most recent Restore Point. This will bring your machine back to the state it was in before a recent application was installed. Be sure and run a virus and spyware scanner when it does come back.
If your machine won’t start up at ALL, check the lights on the front. Are they coming on, or is everything dead? If the former, it might be your monitor. Check the monitor connection for broken pins, and see if the monitor lights are coming on at all. You may need to replace the monitor completely, and the PC might be running just fine.
If the lights on the front of the PC won’t even come on, but the monitor appears to be working, make sure all power cords are plugged in correctly into the PC and outlet. If everything looks in order, it appears a power surge or some other cause has killed your PC.
NOW WHAT DO I DO?
If your PC is completely dead, and won’t come on at all, there’s a good chance your hard drive is intact. If you’ve got a secondary or new machine, open up the case and move the old hard drive into the new machine. If you’ve got another drive in the new machine, you’ll have to make sure it boots from the old one (unless you got a fresh, new copy of Windows with your new machine, then by all means, use your newer hard drive as the primary one). Either way, all of your files should be there when your new machine starts up. Hopefully!
Here’s some tips for preventing a crash from happening in the future.
1. USE A GOOD SURGE PROTECTOR
Power surges are the cause of many PC crashes. Make sure your surge protector, or power strip, is newer and isn’t the cheapest you can buy. Make sure everything is plugged into it and not the wall.
2. KEEP YOUR PC CLEAN
Check out our full suite of Spring Cleaning tips for keeping your machine’s hardware and software clean. Even if it isn’t springtime anymore.
3. RUN VIRUS AND SPYWARE SCANNERS
We recently discussed our favorite spyware and virus scanners. Check out our recommendations, and run scans regularly. Viruses, trojan horses and spyware like to crash and slow down your machine. Don’t let them.
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Islamophobia growing in America
"Osama bin Laden became a poster boy for all Muslims. There are billions of Muslims in the world, this one guy symbolizes all Muslims for most Americans because Americans are so politically uneducated. Our TV doesn’t report it, our schools don’t teach about it,” said filmmaker Danny Schechter.
A recent estimate from the Council of American-Islamic Relations says there are seven million Muslims currently living in the US. There are no exact numbers available, however, since the US Census Bureau does not collect data on religious identification, and in some ways, the lack of accurate information is contributing to the spread of Islamophobia.
“Racism is alive, well and kicking, with its main focus now on Muslims. 9/11 was largely about demonizing Muslims, and the recurring images that we get every couple of months are of a new car bomber, or underwear bomber, or shoe bomber. The impression is that Muslims are crazy,” said journalist Jerry Mazza.
More than half of American Muslims reportedly believe that the US government’s anti-terrorism policies have been singling them out.
“When you go to work, look for a job, they check your name, your name is Mohammed, they would rather skip you and hire the next person. In an airport and all that, you get double checked because of the name and all that,” said Mohammed Nekrouf, 25.
A wave of protests has taken place in New York because the Muslim community wants two of their religious holidays to be days off in public schools.
“It’s only two days. If Christmas holidays get a 10 day break, why can we not have two days,” asked teacher Batina Abdul-Mumia
“I want the school system, Michael Bloomberg, to close the schools on Eid Al-Fahr and Eid Al-Fatr. They have the abilities, they have the power, they can do it, if they wish to. The Muslim kids are as much a part of this community as everyone else,” said Bahr Mustafa of the Muslim Holiday Coalition.
To many, this lack of inclusion in the education system is just the tip of the iceberg. Projects to build a number of mosques around the US have also shown the intolerance of the wider society.
A planned Islamic Center and Mosque just steps from Ground Zero is the biggest such project fueling resistance right now.
“Nobody in their right mind would ever have a problem with that, but of course the Islamophobes, including the people who have been brainwashed by the 9/11 inside job, the people who orchestrated it, will make sure there is a lot of controversy about it,” said radio host and Muslim Kevin Barrett.
The belief is growing that when Islam does turn radical, it is because US foreign policies create a vicious circle.
“Eighty percent of the soldiers in Iraq were asked, 'why are you here?' They said, ‘payback for 9/11,’ even though Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11,” said Schecheter.
“A person is radicalized not by the ideology of Islam, but by American foreign policies. And this is actually the objective of the 'terrorists:' To get the West to show its true face on the international arena, to show itself as an imperialist power, to show itself as an ideological power that is false. The more they suppress domestic rights, the more Muslims will take the view that we are at war with the West and so this is the number-one factor contributing to terrorism on the international arena,” said Younus Abdullah Muhammad, author of the website RevolutionMuslim.com
“There is certainly a concern when they strap bombs to their chest or airplanes to their chest and they fly into the World Trade Center and they destroy and slaughter 2996 innocent American civilians, that we don’t want to now reward that kind of violence by building a 13 story mosque just two blocks away from ground zero where they murdered Americans in the name of a violent brand of Islam,” said Klingenschmitt.
Ibrahim Hooper, a spokesperson for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) argued however that no one was being rewarded with a large mosque; in fact, he contended that the project in New York was a community center for all faiths.
“We’re seeing opposition to mosques nationwide. You’re seeing oppositions not only to the Manhattan mosque, there’s opposition to a Staten Island, New York mosque, a Brooklyn mosque. We’re seeing opposition to mosques in Tennessee, Illinois and California,” said Hooper.
Hooper contends it is much bigger than the ‘ground zero mosque’ and that the fear of Islam is much greater, especially since the recent failed December bombing in Detroit.
Gordon argued that there are already “a hundred mosques in New York City” and that the ground zero mosque is a tower being built by foreign money. He likened it to Muslims building a mosque in Jerusalem and further argued that Muslims build mosques in cities they have conquered, using the historical examples of Constantinople and Jerusalem. Gordon also contended that the mosque will create an unsafe environment for New Yorkers.
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One of the first things we should do in the very early stage of a shura is to determine if the statement of the problem given to us is the right problem for us to try to solve. We do this by performing a diagnosis which essentially means trying to answer the question “What is going on here?”
Trying to answer this question allows us to better understand the situation we are faced with. Even though the person who initiates a shura is responsible for providing context for the factors that explain what the shura is all about, some of the explanation may not be clear and may not be complete.
For example, a shura might be presented to us as calling for a solution to the problem of not having enough money to finance a project. We look deeply into the situation and find instances where earlier decisions had been made that led to using available funds to finance activities that were inconsistent with the aim of the project.
We then ask what was going on that allowed this to happen and we eventually learn it was due to contention between two key stakeholders who strongly opposed each other. Consequently, people who earlier had committed to funding the project decided to stop supporting it.
If this example were real, then we would understand that we are actually trying to solve a different problem than the one given us.
An accurate diagnosis allows us to link facts into patterns and suggests that more attention should be given to some issues relative to other ones. It also makes it easier for us to see similarities between our situation and others from which we may learn valuable lessons.
The shura initiator should provide enough time in the Discuss phase to determine if the correct focus of the shura has been described. If changes need to be made it is better to make them as soon as possible to allow participants to reorient their thinking.
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A Peat Bog will maintain an area of 15x6x15 (X-Y-Z) with a 9x9 hollow center centered on the Peat Bog. It requires Bog Earth for operation and produces dirt as waste. Dirt is automatically ejected into attached buildcraft pipes or into adjacent chests. It needs to be powered by a Buildcraft engine.
A Turbary can be used to harvest the peat.
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The 2016 election, Cambridge Analytica scandal, and GDPR represent a tidal shift in how the ad tech and digital media industry will monetize their audience moving forward. And it’s overdue. Demographic data doesn’t define a person’s identity. People define themselves by what matters to them, by their interests, hobbies, and values, and they show this in what they read about online.
As we talk about technology in the publishing industry, we should consider what kind of tech will move us towards monetization through context-based advertising. This protects data privacy, and has the potential to finally gain an advantage over the platforms where many digital advertising dollars have shifted.
Consumer mistrust of platforms
When consumers found out that Russia played a role in the 2016 election via bots on Twitter, propaganda on Facebook, and even local events in the U.S., we were forced rethink the role social media played in our community. Were they purely a platform? If so, to what degree did they need to police the content and users? Further, if they had so much knowledge about their users, why couldn’t they prevent a malicious influence like Russia from infiltrating their platform?
The Cambridge Analytica scandal certainly didn’t help this cause, and weekly stories break about Facebook continuing to acknowledge privacy and data issues. This has planted the seed of doubt about whether these platforms and the underlying data could be trusted—not just by the general public, but by the marketers who provide the revenue stream for Facebook.
New privacy-conscious controls for consumers
GDPR was borne out of a general concern that consumers had a lack of control and transparency around their digital data—data that bore the monetary fruits of now enormous companies like Facebook, Google, and Twitter. That data also created the massive ad tech industry that developed complex methods to personalize and optimize ad targeting to the point where most experts in the industry still don’t quite know how the ecosystem works.
GDPR, in some ways, marks a boon for platforms and the end of an era for the ad tech industry. Any platform that collects its own massive amount of first party data (like Facebook, Google, Twitter), can relatively easily get the consent of the population. Ad tech, though, faces the burden of getting consent through 3rd parties, where the value of giving consent was not only unclear but potentially non-existent. The type of re-targeting and personalization that was prevalent before will start to change under GDPR as publisher-direct relationships with consumers become increasingly important.
So where does this all lead, in terms of current industry trends? There’s no lack of interest in moving from a programmatic model to more of a subscription-based model. But most of the innovation and investment in digital tech has been focused on ad-tech, data collection. We need to simply “do better” from an advertiser and consumer perspective given these trends.
From the advertiser side, the credibility of their 3rd party data is eroding with GDPR. There are some publishers that are large enough (or are building collectives) to create their own first party pools of data. However, none of them can reach the scale or targeting capabilities of companies like Facebook and Google. Marketers know this, and if they want the best targeting they’ll still go to the duopoly.
That said, because consumer privacy is becoming top of mind for more and more people, marketers are also worried about the experience around ad campaigns they run. They want to create an experience that doesn’t creep people out (for lack of a better term). Interest- or context-based advertising, as a result is coming back into favor for the privacy-conscious brands and marketers.
Targeting ads based on consumers’ interests or the context of what they’re reading instead of their personal data benefits everyone involved. Consumers maintain their privacy and build trust publishers. Publishers can then pass on this trust to brands who want their consumers to know that they care about their privacy. And, publishers who are armed with the right contextual data can still provide an advertising experience that’s targeted, but doesn’t violate consumers’ concerns.
Not only does data around interests protect anonymity, but it speaks to the core of who people are. Marketers who try to understand what matters to their audience through attention data—the topics and stories they pay attention to online—will have a leg-up on connecting that audience with content and products that they want.
Sachin Kamdar, Co-Founder and CEO—Parse.ly
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“Follow the Prophet”21971_000_006
When I was nine years old, we had a lesson in Primary about the Prophet Joseph Smith. I went home and asked my father, “How do we really know if this Church is true?” My father sat down with me on the couch. He told me the story of the Prophet Joseph Smith and bore his testimony to me. He said that if I would always follow the prophet, he would never lead me astray. From that time on, I never doubted my testimony of the Lord’s chosen prophets, and I have always tried to follow their counsel.
When I was a young man, the prophet was President George Albert Smith. President Smith was always a great friend of Boy Scouts. When President Smith died, my best friend and I were asked to stand as part of a Boy Scout honor guard by his casket. That was a great honor.
In 1994, I was called to serve as a mission president in Manchester, England. In that mission, we had missionaries from all over the world. Many of those young missionaries had never seen the prophet or heard him speak, yet they loved and followed him.
One of these missionaries was Sister Kita, who was from Albania. When she heard that President Gordon B. Hinckley was planning to visit Liverpool, where she was serving, she begged me, “President Richards, please don’t transfer me until after the prophet’s visit.” When the prophet came, I remember watching tears stream down her cheeks as she reached out to shake his hand when he walked down the chapel aisle. Sister Kita truly loved and followed the prophet.
A few years later, I received a very special phone call at home. It was President Hinckley. He said, “Brother Richards, you are called to the Second Quorum of the Seventy. You are in for a wonderful experience. May the Lord bless you.”
After I hung up the telephone, I realized that President Hinckley had not asked me whether or not I would accept the call to serve. But he had not needed to ask me because I had already decided as a young boy that I would always follow the Lord’s prophet.
The prophet’s call led me to far-off India. One day, Sister Richards and I approached a chapel, which was a tiny house in that Indian village. Five young boys were in front of the house, playing cricket with a hollowed-out stick. I borrowed the stick from one of the boys, and he threw me the ball. The boys all laughed at my attempt to play cricket. After we had played together for a few minutes, I asked them if they could sing for me. Much to my amazement, they began to sing, “I Am a Child of God.” I bore my testimony to those boys about President Hinckley. I knew that they, too, were learning to follow the prophet.
My grandchildren love to sing “Follow the Prophet.” * The last verse goes like this:
I promise you that if you will follow the prophet, your life—like mine—will be full of peace, happiness, and wonderful experiences.
There are also other people you can follow to find happiness. When I was eleven years old, my Primary teacher was Sister Esther Geis. The boys in our class knew Sister Geis loved us because she made us behave. In those days, we had Primary on a weekday after school. Across the street from our ward was a big empty field. We boys liked to play marbles in that field, and sometimes we forgot when it was time for Primary. Sister Geis would walk across the street and get us. Once she told my father, “Your son should shape up.” My father talked to me, and I did start behaving better.
Do you remember the army of Helaman, those two thousand young men who were so faithful to the Lord? Who taught them? “They had been taught by their mothers, that if they did not doubt, God would deliver them” (Alma 56:47). And I believe that if there were two thousand young men who were that faithful, there must have also been at least two thousand young women who were that good. These young people learned to have faith in God from their mothers. I am grateful that my mother taught me that same principle of faith. She was always a great example to me of following the prophet.
You children need to be just as courageous and faithful as those stripling warriors. You probably won’t have to fight too many physical battles. But you will have many spiritual battles in choosing right from wrong. Satan makes evil look so good, but it only brings chaos and unhappiness. When you understand that Heavenly Father gives us commandments so we can be happy, you will learn to obey because you want to, not because you feel you have to.
I also had a father I could follow. He was always my hero, and he taught me to love the gospel. He often took me fishing in the mountains. We sat by a stream and fished and talked about the gospel.
My father loved the Book of Mormon. I remember watching him read the Book of Mormon on Sunday afternoons. Before I went on my mission, I spent one summer doing construction work in Arizona. He suggested that I take my Book of Mormon with me. As I sat reading the Book of Mormon in a hogan in Arizona, I felt the Spirit very strongly.
The Book of Mormon has a spirit and power that is greater than that of any other book. As a mission president, I saw the lives of several missionaries transformed after reading it.
I encourage you to read the Book of Mormon, and to encourage your family to read it, too. Prepare yourself to serve a mission. It is one of the greatest things you can do.
We can follow parents, prophets, and teachers. But the most important person we can follow is Jesus Christ. As Helaman taught his children in the Book of Mormon, “Remember that it is upon the rock of our Redeemer, who is Christ, the Son of God, that ye must build your foundation … , which is a sure foundation, a foundation whereon if men build they cannot fall” (Hel. 5:12). Learn to pray to Heavenly Father, and He will always guide you. | <urn:uuid:3467190e-f44e-46df-8c7d-691ba16f6181> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.lds.org/friend/2001/11/friend-to-friend-follow-the-prophet?lang=eng | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281649.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00439-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.987424 | 1,333 | 1.507813 | 2 |
The Lady, Monkey & hybrid orchids all seem to be flowering well though the Lady will be looking past it’s best as we near the end of the month. This year we had the usual ~200 hybrids plus one Lady orchid and then a scattering of Monkey orchids concentrated mainly in the northern/western facing parts of the slope. This indicates to me that the Monkey orchids are under pressure but not from the hybrids – they in fact grow very happily in the same side of the slope purely because the soils there hold more moisture and are less exposed to the drying effect of the sun and wind. Nearly all of our losses have been on the exposed southern face of the slope, which used to hold the majority of the plants but in recent years the dry Spring weather has parched this side, wiping out most of the Monkey orchids that lived there.
On rather promising sign has been that where the soils are wetter and there orchids get more shelter, such as down on slope 1, there are quite a few good-sized Monkey orchids. I found these 2 (below) hiding in the grass and scrub about 1/3 of the way up the slope in the middle of the field. These have been seen on numerous occasions in previous years but can be hard to find.
Earlier in the month we had good numbers of Dingy Skipper, Small Heath and Green Hairstreak plus a few Grizzled Skippers too. I wasn’t there to confirm it but even a Marsh Fritillary was reported, which would be quite a coup for the site. On the 15th Dr Michael Geiser from the Natural History Museum in London came out to have a look round for interesting beetles and found over 40 species in just 3 rather rainy hours. It just goes to show how important it is to encourage experts to come and study the species so that we can have a better understanding of how to manage the site and also how we rank amongst other similar sites across the country. Many of the specimens Michael took away were also going to be added to the Darwin Tree of Life project’s cryogenic storage where their genomes will be scanned for future study. | <urn:uuid:2b80057e-0a37-4bc9-9c60-a8d8f527282a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://hartslock.org.uk/blog/?p=1186 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00273.warc.gz | en | 0.967311 | 447 | 2.265625 | 2 |
Eczema is a chronic skin condition where sufferers experience very dry, thickened, or scaly skin. In fair-skinned people, these areas may initially appear reddish and then turn brown. Among darker-skinned people, eczema can affect pigmentation, making the affected area lighter or darker.
Unlike Psoriasis, Eczema is an undefined rash on the skin and it is usually much more itchy.
Eczema often starts during infancy and continues into childhood. Some people outgrow the condition, while others continue to have it into adulthood.
Babies with Eczema suffer from an oozing, crusting condition that happens mainly on the face and scalp, but patches can appear anywhere.
What Causes Eczema?
The exact cause of eczema is unknown, but it’s thought to be caused by the body’s immune system overreacting to an irritant.
Eczema is also commonly found in families with a history of other allergies or asthma. Another theory is defects in the skin’s barrier may allow moisture out, and germs in.
Some people may have “flare-ups” of the itchy rash in response to certain substances or conditions, such as:
- Feeling too hot or too cold, high and low humidity, perspiration from exercise
- Exposure to soaps, detergents, shampoos, disinfectants, juices from fresh fruits, meats or vegetables, coarse materials, or coming into contact with animal dander
- Upper respiratory infections or colds
- Allergens: dust mites, pets, pollens, mould, dandruff
- Bacteria, viruses or certain fungi
- Dairy products, eggs, nuts and seeds, soy products, wheat
- Hormonal changes
- Stress can also make symptoms worse
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Hewlett-Packard (HP) (opens in new tab) is to make its printer cartridge packaging lighter and smaller in a bid to reduce the company's carbon footprint. It has redesigned the packaging (opens in new tab) for its printer cartridges to use more recycled and recyclable material.
According to HP, the new packaging will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 37 million pounds this year alone.
The new, lighter design will apparently save 15 million pounds of materials throughout 2007, including 6.8 million pounds of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plastic through material reduction, and substitution of recycled content plastic and paperboard.
Shipping the cartridges will be more efficient due to the smaller size, and HP estimates that traffic for cartridge shipments in the US and Canada will be reduced by 1.5 million miles this year. HP said this was equivalent to taking 3,600 cars off the road.
An HP LaserJet toner cartridge now uses 45 per cent less packaging than before, and a standard shipping palette can now fit in an average of 203 cartridges, instead of 144, HP said.
According to the company, the overall package weight for its inkjet cartridge multi-packs has gone down by 80 per cent since 2003.
Pradeep Jotwani, senior vice president at HP's supplies, imaging and printing group, said: "Developing environmentally responsible packaging is not only valued by HP, our customers and our partners; it is also good business."
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People and therapy
Tinder users who made use of the application prior to now one week are hired through Amazon Mechanical Turk. You targeted growing older people (that is,., 18a29 yr old, determine Arnett, 2000 ) that age group makes use of mobile dating programs with greater regularity in comparison to other age brackets (Grey & Anderson, 2016 ). An anonymous online survey had Dating In Your 40s singles been to shield the respondentsa confidentiality in order to cause them to feel comfortable while articulating their unique well-being updates (Bryman, 2012 ; Gilbert, 2008 ). Participants had been informed about the theme and were expected to give consent before they can start employing the research. Every person received a bonus of 1 US cash after properly doing the review.
In all, 351 mankind residents completed the review (completion fee: 75per cent). After leaving out participants who were more than 29 years (n = 50), and those who filled in neither female or male (n = 2), neither direct nor LBGTQ+ (letter = 2) or neither solitary nor in a relationship (letter = 1), 296 members have been between 18a29 years (meters = 26.30; SD = 2.90) remained in our taste, with 61per cent males, 90per cent identifying as directly and 70per cent distinguishing as solitary.
Compulsive Tinder make use of
Most people modified the five-point Likert (1 = never; 5 = usually) uncontrollable making use of social networks range (read Dhir ainsi, al., 2018 ) by upgrading the phrase a?Facebooka with a?Tindera. Witness desk 1 for additional information on descriptives.
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Dinner Table 1. Measurement descriptives.
Four intentions (in other words., amusement, commitment in search of, sexual performance and public acceptance) from the Tinder objectives Scale (TMS; Timmermans & De CaluwA, 2017a ) were used in this study. See dining table 1 for additional information on descriptives.
Subjective online business success (SOS)
Utilizing a five-point Likert level ranging from 1 (clearly disagree) to 5 (highly acknowledge), most of us developed a degree by which members had been questioned to indicate the extent to which these people concur or not agree with statements such as for instance: a?In earlier times one week i’ve believed that i’ve a lot of fights on Tindera. Discover counter 1 for more information on descriptives and scale gear.
Self-aware personal review
Tinder usersa uncomfortable public evaluation was determined using a five-point Likert measure which range from 1 (firmly disagree) to 5 (highly accept). View counter 1 for additional info on descriptives and scale gear.
Participants comprise told to resolve the well-being queries depending on how they felt after utilizing Tinder previously month. To begin with, the subscales joviality and unhappiness from PANAS-X (an expanded type of PANAS) were utilized (Watson & Clark, 1999 ). Individuals were asked to submit the degree that these people sensed the feelings of joviality and despair using a five-point Likert degree (1 = quite relatively or don’t in any way; 5 = exceptionally). Additionally, we tailored the anxieties degree developed by Dhir ainsi, al. ( 2018 ). We changed this five-point range (1 = often; 5 = never ever) toward the designed schedule and also to Tinder usage. The centered variables joviality, sadness and anxiety had been all normally dispensed, for all the genuine skewness principles becoming all below 2 along with total kurtosis worth getting all below 7 (Kim, 2013 ). See Table 1 for many more information on the descriptives.
Seen actual elegance
Participants graded their unique observed real elegance considering a 9-point Likert range, ranging from 1 (becoming most ugly) to 9 (becoming most attractive) (meter = 6.74, SD = 1.53; Courtois & Timmermans, 2018 ).
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For Immediate Release
Contact: Anthony Flint 617-661-3016 x116
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (March 17, 2009) -- Homeowners in community land trusts are much less likely to lose their homes to foreclosure than owners of market-rate homes, according to survey results released today by the National CLT Network and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.
At the close of 2008, homeowners in community land trusts had a foreclosure rate of 0.52 percent, compared to 3.3 percent among market-rate homeowners, announced earlier this month by the Mortgage Bankers Association.
“It’s clear that community land trusts significantly lower the risks of owning a home,” said Roger Lewis, executive director of the National CLT Network.
Among 1,930 CLT homeowners responding to the survey – representing about 60 percent of all community land trust homeowners nationwide -- only 1.4 percent were behind 90 days or more on mortgage payments at the end of 2008, compared to MBA data showing between 3.7 and 23.1 percent of market-rate homeowners behind 90 days or more on payments.
CLTs offer a budget-friendly way to make homeownership possible, removing the high cost of land from the overall price of a home. Typically run by non-profit organizations such as community development organizations, community land trusts lease land and sell the buildings at below-market rates. In exchange for purchasing homes at below-market prices, homeowners agree to limit the price of their homes when they sell, keeping them permanently affordable to future buyers. Although homeowners agree to forgo the possibility of big profits if their neighborhood's property values go up, they are attracted by the opportunity to own homes that they otherwise might not be able to afford.
In addition, homebuyers in community land trusts benefit from front-end guidance to acquire safe loans, and continuing support and counseling to keep up with mortgage payments.
“While home foreclosures are devastating families and neighborhoods across America, community land trusts are proving to be a highly effective way to create and sustain stable neighborhoods,” said Lewis. “That’s partly because community land trusts don’t allow the kind of ‘too-good-to-be-true’ financing that has taken down so many American families. There’s added support in CLTs because of the unique, long-term relationships between CLT organizations and homeowners. Often, CLTs provide help even before homeowners miss a mortgage payment. That kind of early action is key to saving homes.”
As a case in point, a single mother owning a CLT home in Chicago credits early intervention as the only reason she and her children still have a home after nine months of unemployment.
“We immediately connected her with foreclosure prevention services as soon as she lost her job and before she missed her first mortgage payment,” said Dena Al-Khatib, executive director, Chicago Community Land Trust. “It’s clear to us that but for the community land trust, this homeowner would have been another sad statistic in the foreclosure crisis. Instead, she's one of the success stories.”
There are over 200 community land trusts including some 6,000 homes across the US, from Delray Beach in Florida, to Austin and Chicago, and Irvine, Calif. Many CLTs have a track record of zero foreclosures among homeowners.
Communities that are set to receive federal funding for neighborhood stabilization and long-term housing affordability should consider investing in community land trusts, Lewis said.
Over half of survey respondents already have received, applied for or will apply for neighborhood stabilization program funds from the 2008 Housing and Economic Recovery Act. CLT organizations will use those funds to purchase foreclosed or abandoned homes and expand their CLTs.
The National CLT Network (www.cltnetwork.org) is a coalition of 230 nonprofits that operate community land trusts. The network aims to help supply decent, affordable housing in cities and rural communities across America by ensuring that property remains affordable even as land values increase. The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, a think tank in Cambridge, Mass. (www.lincolninst.edu) has done extensive research on community land trusts, and provided training and other guidance on best practices.
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"Many skin conditions that trouble runners can be quite annoying," says five-time marathoner Brian B. Adams, M.D., associate professor of dermatology and director of the Sports Dermatology Clinic at the University of Cincinnati. "They can cause such discomfort that they affect your performance or force you to stop." Luckily, the problems affecting your epidermis are mostly easy to prevent and treat. Here's how to be kind to your skin.
Are you steps away from a foot injury? How to spot the signs.
This fungal infection results in dry, scaly, red skin between the toes that can itch or burn. Because fungus thrives in warm, moist environments, summertime is a ripe time for athlete's foot. "Running in the heat magnifies the sweat production on the soles," Dr. Adams says.
Wear light, moisture-wicking, synthetic (not cotton) socks, says Stephen Pribut, D.P.M., a sports podiatrist in Washington, D.C. After you run, change out of your soggy socks and shoes and slip into dry after-sport shoes before you go for coffee or run errands. Don't stash your sweaty pair inside a dark gym bag or your trunk where they can't air out. You can also sprinkle antifungal powder on your feet before running.
Apply an antifungal cream for at least four weeks, even if symptoms appear to be gone in half that time, to make sure the infection is gone, says Dr. Adams. Soothe the itch by soaking your feet for 10 minutes in equal portions lukewarm water and apple-cider vinegar (which has antifungal properties). If the condition persists, see a dermatologist, who may prescribe an oral antifungal.
"This is probably the number-one raceday injury," says Paul Langer, a Minneapolis podiatrist and 26-time marathoner. These fluid-filled bubbles are caused by friction, excessive moisture (sweaty feet, wet weather), or shoes that are too small, too big, or tied too tight.
Buying properly fitted running shoes may sound like a nobrainer, but consider this: "Studies show that fewer than half of people's running shoes were fit correctly," Pribut says. Because your feet can expand a halfsize over a day, shop in the late afternoon or evening. If you've been on a running hiatus, don't assume you can jump into your old pair. As you age, your feet flatten and lengthen, so you may need to go up a size. If you get toe blisters, Bruce Williams, an Indiana-based sports podiatrist, suggests "toe socks," which fit like a glove (rather than like a mitten). Putting Vaseline, sports lube, and bandages over blister-prone spots may also help.
Stay Healthy: 10 Rules of injury prevention.
"Ignore blisters smaller than five millimeters (the size of a pencil eraser) since they're usually not painful," says Gregory G. Papadeas, D.O., a Denver dermatologist. But go ahead and pop doozies, especially if they hurt. With a sterile needle, prick the side of the blister and drain it. Don't remove the blister roof—cover it with an antibiotic ointment and moleskin or a bandage. If you feel a hot spot midrun, address possible causes: Are your socks bunching up? Is your heel slipping? Are your laces too tight? "If the blister hurts so badly that you're forced to change your gait, you're better off walking versus risking injury," Pribut says. | <urn:uuid:8924cb52-e273-407b-b124-70071af25087> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.active.com/running/Articles/5-Common-Foot-Problems-You-Can-Avoid.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280364.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00025-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.926699 | 765 | 2.125 | 2 |
Profile Based Adaptation
Normally, users are subjected to random performance and environmental variations. Adaptive systems exist to solve such problems due to great deal of variability, flexibility and dynamism. In an evolutionary context, adaptation is defined as a process that results in high-yield stability within a wide range of environments or conditions. It searches for variety of conditions that perform well in a in a subset of environment in a target system. An evolutionary mechanism is attached to an environment that is necessary for the proper development and functioning of the adaptation. This results in making compromises between solutions in an effort to maximize the fitness of overall solution. Adaptation function will optimize the power in a manner that delivers the desired performance as perceived by the application.
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Diet and Nutrition
Organic Foods . . . On the Rise
Have you noticed an increasing number of organic foods and beverages at a variety of retail stores? The number of organic products and distributors has grown substantially in the past few years, with some grocery chains now offering their own brand of organic foods.
What are organic foods?
Organic foods are produced with techniques that promote the use of renewable resources and conservation of soil and water. These foods are produced without using most pesticides, synthetic fertilizers, radiation, or bioengineering. Organic meat, poultry, eggs, and dairy products come from animals that are given no antibiotics or growth hormones. Therefore, consumers cite both environmental and health benefits as reasons for purchasing organic foods, in spite of their higher prices when compared to similar foods that are conventionally grown.
Are organic foods regulated by the government?
In October 2002, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) set standards for the way that organic foods are grown, handled, and processed. A government-approved certifier inspects the farm where the foods are grown to verify that all rules are being followed. Companies that handle or process organic foods after they leave the farm also must be certified.
In addition to these standards, the USDA developed strict labeling rules. Single-ingredient products, such as fruits, vegetables, eggs, meat, or milk, may be labeled "organic" if grown and processed according to USDA standards. Multi-ingredient products, such as cereals and snack bars, can be labeled "organic", if at least 95% of the ingredients are organic. They may be labeled "100% organic", if indeed all of the ingredients are organic. A product that is at least 70% organic may use the term "made with organic ingredients" on the front of the product, and may list the organic ingredients. Lastly, a product with less than 70% organic ingredients may list those ingredients on the side panel of the package, but may not make any organic claims on the front of the package.
What does the USDA Organic seal mean?
If a food contains the USDA organic seal, you can be sure the food is at least 95% organic. Terms such as "natural", "free-range", and "hormone-free" cannot be used interchangeably with "organic". Only foods that are labeled "organic" have met the USDA organic standards.
Are organic foods healthier and safer than other foods?
The USDA makes no claims that organic foods are healthier or safer than conventionally produced food. Although some studies have shown higher levels of nutrients in organic produce, more research is needed before conclusions can be reached about their nutritional superiority. More research is also needed to understand the health risks associated with long-term exposure to the pesticides, growth-promoting hormones, and antibiotics associated with conventional farming.
For more information about organic foods, visit the USDA website.
This article originally appeared in Nutri-bytes (January 2008), a service of the University of Cincinnati College of Nursing and was adapted for use on NetWellness with permission.
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NewYork-Presbyterian invests $15M in AI partnership
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital has struck a partnership with two Cornell University institutions to develop artificial-intelligence tools for cardiovascular care, the system said Wednesday.
The program will bring together physicians and researchers from NewYork-Presbyterian, Cornell Tech and Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science. NewYork-Presbyterian is providing $15 million in funding for the program over three years.
As part of the partnership, physicians from NewYork-Presbyterian’s affiliated medical schools—Weill Cornell Medicine and Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons—will work with AI researchers from Cornell Tech and Cornell Bowers CIS to study how AI can be used to improve cardiovascular health.
An initial area of research will involve developing tools to support physicians as they make treatment decisions for end-stage heart failure patients, the hospital system said. Later research will focus on predicting heart failure and heart disease so physicians can intervene earlier, before the disease progresses.
“Major algorithmic advances are needed to derive precise and reliable clinical insights from complex medical data,” said Deborah Estrin, associate dean for impact at Cornell Tech and a professor of population health sciences at Weill Cornell Medicine, in a news release.
The collaboration adds to a growing list of programs dedicated to developing AI solutions at healthcare organizations.
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles set up an AI division within its department of medicine in March. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City launched a department of AI and human health late last year. And Rochester, Minnesota-based Mayo Clinic in 2020 appointed a medical director for AI to coordinate initiatives across the system.
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Like many states before it, North Carolina is currently in the midst of a battle over gay marriage. In November, voters will go to the polls and, among other things, vote on Amendment One, a ballot initiative that would amend the state’s constitution to ban same-sex marriage. Ever since the amendment was announced, debate has been furious, and much of it has been hateful. Celebrity pastor and North Carolinian Billy Graham came out in support of the amendment, saying, “Watching the moral decline of our country causes me great concern.” Less subtle was pastor Sean Harris, who told his congregation that it needed to “smack” the gay out of children. “Dads, the second you see your son dropping the limp wrist, you crack that wrist,” he said. “Give him a good punch—you're not gonna act like that."
Thankfully, at least one pastor is going against the tide of anti-gay men of the cloth in North Carolina, and he’s not who you might anticipate. Pastor Ricky Woods is the senior minister at First Baptist Church-West, the oldest Black Baptist church in Charlotte. He says that the anti-gay sentiments Amendment One has stirred up are “troubling.” “This really is a civil-rights issue,” Woods told MSNBC. “A lot of people will know it was only a little over 40 years ago that North Carolina accepted interracial marriage. … This amendment is essentially making discrimination legal.”
Data shows that Blacks are more homophobic than whites, and African-Americans are more religious than other groups, as well. Those two qualities put together lead many people to believe that the majority of African-Americans in the church are bigots, intolerant of gays and lesbians despite the similarities between the struggle for gay rights and the struggle for Black rights. Pastor Woods proves that’s not the case, as do an increasing number of other Black ministers. We told you this last year:
[A]n opinion blog post in the Baltimore Sun suggested that Black religious leaders in the Baltimore area are coming out more and more in support of gays and lesbians in their folds. “Leaders such as Rev. Dennis Wiley, a Maryland resident and pastor of Covenant Baptist United Church of Christ in Washington, D.C., have spoken out publicly and unapologetically about their support for all loving and committed couples,” wrote Jamie Washington, himself a pastor at the Unity Fellowship Church of Baltimore. “Advocates like Rev. Dorothy Harris, pastor of Unity Fellowship Church of Columbia, and Pastor Larry Brumfield, with Westminster's Church of the Brethren, are standing firmly in solidarity.”
In short, just as it would be foolish for an African-American person to write off gay people as “sinners” without ever getting to know any of them, it’s also foolish for anyone to write off Black churches as hives of hate against homosexuals. If anything is sinful, it’s people’s stereotypes.
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Written by Kevin L. Howard
When Martin Luther put forth his 95 theses against indulgences on October 31, 1517, he probably never imagined what would transpire--the Protestant Reformation. By the grace of Almighty God, out of Luther's bold act to reform the Catholic Church came a return to the biblical teachings of justification in Christ alone through faith alone.
If you want to study further, I've linked to a few key people below.
Happy Reformation Day to you!
The Lutheran Tradition
The Reformed Tradition
The British Reformation
"In the measure that we love the gospel, so let us place a strong emphasis on the languages. For it was not without reason that God wrote the Scriptures in two languages, the Old Testament in Hebrew and the New Testament in Greek. That language which God did not despise but rather chose above all others for his Word is the language which we also should honor above all others. It is a sin and shame that we do not learn this language of our Book, especially since God has now provided us people and books, and gives us all kinds of things which both help us with this task and at the same time stimulates us to do this."
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Windows Group Policy settings can help with IT's two biggest enterprise desktop security tasks: protecting against malware and preventing users from tampering with their desktops.
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Windows Group Policy lets IT set folder options, scheduled tasks, security settings, software installations, drive mappings and other configurations for users or groups of users. For the purposes of this article, I'm talking about using Group Policy settings to improve security on desktops running Windows 7, Internet Explorer 9 and Office 2010. I am also assuming that domain controllers are running Windows Server 2008 R2. However, many of the Group Policy settings that I will discuss do exist in older operating systems.
Internet Explorer security zones
One of the first steps to securing desktops against malware is to harden Internet Explorer. Microsoft offers a number of Group Policy settings that can be used to force IE to behave according to corporate security and acceptable-use policies.
You'll need to address Internet Explorer security zones and content restrictions. To do so, install IE 9 onto the computer that you are using to edit the Group Policy settings. Next, configure the Internet security zone settings to meet your enterprise desktop security needs. Don't forget to make the Web browser aware of any trusted, restricted or local intranet sites. When you are done, go ahead and configure the browser's content restrictions to comply with your organization's acceptable-use policy.
Once the browser has been configured, open the Group Policy Editor and navigate to "User Configuration\Policies\Windows Settings\Internet Explorer Maintenance\Security." Double-click on the Security Zones and Content Ratings setting. When you do, Windows will display a dialog box that allows you to import the security and content settings that you have just configured.
While you are at it, I recommend going to "User Configuration\Policies\Windows Settings\Internet Explorer Maintenance\URLs" and double-clicking the "Important URLs" setting. You can then specify the browser's home page, search bar URL and online support page. Many forms of malware attempt to redirect these addresses to malicious sites, so centrally specifying the URLs through Group Policy settings can help to avoid browser hijacking.
Control Panel settings
One of the best things that you can do to prevent users from tampering with their desktops is to block their access to the Control Panel. A word of caution, though: Make sure that you do not apply this particular Group Policy setting to an organizational unit that includes administrative accounts or help desk accounts. Otherwise, you may lock yourself or the support staff out of the Control Panel.
With that said, you can access the Control Panel-related settings at "User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Control Panel." I recommend enabling the "Prohibit Access to the Control Panel" setting because it removes the Control Panel from the Start menu and from Windows Explorer. It also prevents users from running Control.exe, which is required for Control Panel applets.
Incidentally, if you have certain Control Panel settings that you want to be consistent across all of your desktops, you can implement those settings through the Group Policy Editor. The Control Panel settings are located at "Computer Configuration\Preferences\Control Panel Settings."
Securing Outlook with Group Policy settings
Malicious email messages are another source of malware. Although antispam software should catch most malicious messages, there is always the chance that an occasional message might make it into the user's inbox. Thus, it's a good idea to configure your Group Policy settings to secure Outlook.
More on Group Policy settings:
Group Policy tricks to secure network endpoints
Using Group Policy to lock down the Control Panel
Managing Terminal Services via Group Policy
The Group Policy Editor does not contain any Outlook-related security settings by default, but you can download a set of administrative templates for Microsoft Office.
There are way too many Outlook-related security settings to discuss them all, but be sure to take a look at the attachment-related security settings, which are located at "User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Microsoft Outlook 2010\Security\Security Form Settings\Attachment Security." You can use the attachment security settings to control what types of attachments users are allowed to open.
If you go to "User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Microsoft Outlook 2010\Security," you will find a setting that prevents users from customizing attachment security settings. I also recommend going to "User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Microsoft Outlook 2010\Security\Trust Center" and checking the security settings related to hyperlinks in suspected phishing messages and macro security.
Using Group Policy settings to configure User Account Control
Even though some administrators find User Account Control annoying, this feature can go a long way toward keeping your desktops secure. As with other enterprise desktop security settings, it's a good idea to centrally configure User Account Control through the use of Group Policy settings. You can find the User Account Control settings in the Group Policy Editor at "Computer Configuration\Policies\Windows Settings\Security Settings\Local Policies\Security Options."
Although it is impossible to discuss every vital enterprise desktop security setting, the ones presented here should give you a good start for securing your desktops. While you are at it, don't forget the importance of configuring the desktop's local security policies. Active Directory Group Policy objects only take effect once a user logs into the domain. Local security policies can help to safeguard desktops against pre-login exploits.
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Deloitte has released its 20th annual Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT) Predictions report, which highlights how worldwide trends in TMT may affect businesses and consumers worldwide.
In addition, the report highlights how many of these trends are being driven by the global pandemic’s economic and societal impacts, resulting in intensifying growth in video, virtual, and cloud technologies, as well as in media segments such as sports.
“With the global pandemic intensifying, we are seeing some technologies and platforms growing at an unprecedented rate which is a source of both challenges and opportunities for our TMT clients in and across the continent,” said Mark Joseph, Deloitte Africa Technology, Media & Telecommunications Industry leader. “We are, overall, excited by the catalytic and positive transformations and impact that these technologies, from 5G to virtual realities, present to Africa.”
5G is not hazardous to your health: Busting the radiation risk myth
As 5G becomes more widespread, some have sounded alarm bells about its supposed health hazards. The most common perception is that 5G causes cancer. The second fear is that 5G-emitted radiation weakens the immune system, enabling COVID-19 to spread.
We predict that in 2021, it is very unlikely that the radiation from 5G mobile networks and 5G phones will affect the health of any single individual, be it a 5G user, a user of any other generation of mobile phones, or any individual in the vicinity of a mobile network but not actually using a mobile device. “There is no link between the growth in COVID-19 infections and the roll-out of 5G networks,” said Joseph, “If education about 5G is to be effective in curbing popular fears, it needs to be compelling, consistent, and pervasive, and it needs to begin now.”
The 8K wave begins
Global sales of 8K TVs are likely to reach R50 billion in 2021, with equipment and services for producing 8K content generating hundreds of millions of rand more. These revenues will come predominantly from sales of 8K TV sets to consumers, with the standard becoming increasingly popular for the largest television set sizes. In addition, sales of equipment (such as cameras, monitors, storage, and computers) related to the creation and production of 8K content should generate hundreds of millions of rand globally for the year.
Next-generation RANs accelerate
Open and virtualised radio access networks (RANs) give mobile network operators (MNOs) the potential to reduce costs and increase vendor choice as they adopt 5G.
The open RAN market is still in its early days. We estimate that there are currently 35 active open RAN deployments across the globe, many of which involve MNOs testing open RAN in greenfield, rural, and emerging markets
Although deployments are starting slowly, they could easily double in 2021. While it may take anywhere from three to five years for the technology to fully mature, open RAN adoption should accelerate rapidly thanks to the logic of its network design and its strategic alignment with carrier needs. Economic and competitive forces are also converging to drive the market forward. If this trend continues, the open RAN market has the potential to grow substantially, with some estimating double-digit growth rates that will push open RAN to approach 10% of the total RAN market by 2025 from less than 1% today.
Education and the enterprise opt for virtual reality
The market for digital reality headgear is growing as immersive technologies gain popularity in the enterprise and for education. Deloitte predicts that, led by purchases by corporations and educational institutions, sales for enterprise and educational use of wearable headsets for virtual, augmented and mixed reality—collectively known as XR or digital reality—will grow by 100% in 2021 over 2019 levels.
Market growth for these types of headsets has already accelerated in some markets due to the risk of COVID-19 infection driving their use in teaching employees and students virtually rather than in person. With the pandemic accelerating the opportunity to demonstrate their value, digital reality headsets may continue to gain ground after the pandemic ends due to a variety of other benefits, such as lower cost, greater safety, and better learning retention.
The pandemic drives cloud growth
By some metrics, the cloud market grew even faster in 2020 than in 2019. According to the TMT Predictions report, this was driven by increased demand due to COVID-19, lockdowns, and the work-from-anywhere business environment. Deloitte predicts that revenue growth will remain greater than 30% for 2021 through 2025 as companies migrate to the cloud to save money, become more agile, and drive innovation.
With the pandemic driving more enterprises toward cloud, the market will likely emerge from the pandemic stronger than ever. Cloud providers and others in the ecosystem will also have the opportunity to capitalise on increased usage, while cloud users can seek to explore new ways for the cloud to create value. In the near future, cloud technologies may become the dominant solution across all types of businesses.
Women and tech transform sports
While the number of sporting events slowed during 2020, the potential for growth ultimately did not. Deloitte predicts that two major trends in sports—the increased monetisation of women’s sports, and the use of digital to create a hyper-quantified athlete—will continue their upward trajectory.
Women’s sports are now on track to be worth more than a billion rand in the years ahead. Its ability to generate substantial TV audiences, deliver value to sponsors, and draw fans has been demonstrated on multiple occasions over the past decade. Just as COVID-19 has catalysed fundamental reappraisals of many aspects of society, Deloitte predicts that women’s sports will also be perceived, promoted, and commercialised in new ways.
Another ongoing shift in sports involves the use of athlete data collection and analysis. With this data becoming increasingly real-time, it is now possible to measure indicators inside as well as outside the body, creating hundreds of new metrics to feed into decision-making—creating, essentially, the digital athlete. With the hyper-quantified athlete offering such strong potential, Deloitte predicts that by the end of 2021, multiple professional sports leagues will establish new formal policies around the collection, use, and commercialisation of player data.
Unleashing Industry 4.0 with the intelligent edge
The intelligent edge—the combination of advanced wireless connectivity, compact processing power, and AI located near devices that use and generate data—is already animating some of the largest technology and communications companies on the planet. Deloitte predicts that in 2021, the global market for the intelligent edge will reach R180 billion, continuing a CAGR of around 35%. That increase is being driven primarily by telecommunications companies and their expanding 5G networks, along with hyperscale cloud providers. These highly capitalised leaders’ trailblazing may make it easier for companies across multiple industries to attain the intelligent edge. | <urn:uuid:69cc6a2f-ae6d-453d-8985-9862dc635611> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.business-it.co.za/technology-media-telecoms-predictions-busting-the-5g-radiation-myth/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572161.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815054743-20220815084743-00470.warc.gz | en | 0.950978 | 1,449 | 2.0625 | 2 |
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Historians have referred to Ogden, Utah, as the graveyard of western journalism because of the short life expectancy of the dozens of newspapers that sprang up there after 1869. The completion of the transcontinental railroad that year quickly transformed the sleepy agricultural town into a bustling transportation hub. Newspapers came and went, vying for the thousands of potential readers arriving on the nine rail lines with terminals in the city. Ogden's Standard bucked the trend. Founded by Frank J. Cannon, the Standard first appeared on January 1, 1888, with its front page featuring a poem entitled "A Hymn to Progress." When Cannon was elected to the U.S. Congress four years later, the paper's business manager, William Glasmann, took over day-to-day operations. He acquired the Standard outright in 1894 and quickly molded it into a promotional organ for his own political career. Glasmann served three terms as mayor.
The paper also carried world and national news. When the Spanish American War erupted in 1898, the story occupied the Standard's entire front page. Local news included articles about Utah's booming mining industry, notes from the local police blotter, and such nuggets as the Christmas Eve 1907 account of a hapless man who accidentally killed his friend in a failed attempt to shoot his cowboy hat off with a pistol.
On April 13, 1896, Glassmann announced that “With this issue the Standard will appear at least twice a day, and probably will, when occasion demands it, run off extra editions. In publishing the evening edition of the Standard, we have but one object in view; namely to maintain the morning Standard.” This marked the birth of the Evening Standard which essentially ran the same stories as the Standard. The morning-edition Standard changed its name in 1902 to the Ogden Standard.
Frank Francis, an associate editor of the Standard, started the Morning Examiner on January 1, 1904, noting: “The Examiner will not be a party organ, nor the organ of any clique.” On April 30th of the same year, the Examiner surprised its readers with this headline: “The Examiner Sold…. In surrendering the Examiner to the Standard Publishing Company, we do so not as a matter of choice, but because we could not maintain its present excellent and complete form… No paper ever established in Ogden secured a greater number of paying subscribers in so short a time… We wish to emphatically deny the rumors that the Standard or Mr. Glasmann held any interest in the Examiner until today.”
Through its history, the Morning Examiner had other name changes, being called the Morning Standard and the Ogden Examiner. Glasmann continued to publish the Ogden Standard and Examiner separately, but in 1920 these two papers merged to become the Ogden Standard-Examiner. Today, the Standard-Examiner is the third largest daily in the state.
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October 1, 2020 | By Sikh Siyasat Bureau
Chandigarh: More than thirty activists, opinionists, professionals, farmers have issued a joint statement on Farmers’ struggle putting forward a viewpoint that instead of merely reacting on issues, the conditions which create these issues must be addressed.
A written statement released today under the name of around three dozen individuals reads as follows:
Panjab’s Farmers Should have the right to price-determination and international trade.
Instead of merely reacting on the issues, the conditions which create these issues must be addressed
The ongoing struggle must not be to get some subsidies but for the right to self-determination
Every sector, whether it is trade, technology, services, art etc., has the freedom to determine the price of its produce. The price of the tools, seeds, fertilizers and pesticides etc. used in farming is determined by the companies producing and selling them and not by the farmers who are the buyers of these products. But when it comes to Agriculture then it is the buyer, the Indian State (Delhi Takht), which decides the price of the farmers’ agricultural produce. When all other sectors give the freedom of price determination to the seller the farmers too should have the same freedom to sell his produce.
The Indian region greatly varies in climate, soil, water and capability; Consequently, the cost of production differs too. Hence there cannot be one uniform price for the agricultural produce in the region. Regional forums of farmers, agricultural experts and government representatives should decide the price of each crop for their respective regions.
Similarly, Panjab should have all the rights in marketing and trade of its agricultural produce internationally. Agro-trade with Pakistan, Arab countries and the Middle East might prove more beneficial for Punjab.
Panjab’s natural resources and its river waters have been forcibly controlled and unnaturally distributed by the Indian State (Delhi Takht). Getting control over its natural resources and river waters is the most fundamental and significant matter for Panjab.Punjab should get the rights over its own resources.
The issue of Panjab’s agriculture is not entirely an economic issue but is primarily a political one. A political struggle is needed for the Right to Price determination and the right to International trade, which could ensure a political system where the native communities are free to decide on their own matters, political and economic. So, the ongoing struggle must be fought for the right to self-determination of the people instead of just limiting it to certain facilities & subsidies.
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n. the existing use (residential, commercial, agricultural, light industrial, etc.) of a parcel of real property which is zoned for a more limited or other use in the city or county's general plan. Usually such use is permitted only if the property was being so used before the adoption of the zoning ordinance which it violates. Example: a corner parcel has been used for a gasoline station for years, and now the city has zoned the entire area as residential (for homes only). The non-conforming use will be allowed as "grandfathered in," but if the station is torn down the only use would be residential. | <urn:uuid:cb3f34fa-bd35-40fc-bf14-2c237bcc1545> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://dictionary.law.com/Default.aspx?selected=1336 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283008.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00090-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942906 | 130 | 1.890625 | 2 |
If you ever have ever wondered what it means when your tongue is white, well, we have the answer for you. We are going to explain the causes, symptoms, and natural home remedies for a white tongue coating, which can range in severity.
A white tongue mainly occurs when the surface of the tongue is colonized by bacteria or fungi, and dead cells become trapped in-between the small nodules on the tongue. For the most part, a white tongue is temporary and is rarely a cause for serious concern. There are many different reasons for a white tongue and we will outline these for you in more depth so you can have a better understanding of your tongue’s changing color.
Here are eight causes of a white tongue ranging in severity.
Leukoplakia: This condition is caused by a high production of cells in the mouth as well as deposits of keratin. White spots can appear on the tongue, gums, and inner mouth. Alcohol consumption and smoking can cause leukoplakia and won’t go away with brushing or scraping of the tongue. Although it is typically not dangerous, a patch can become cancerous.
Dry mouth or xerostomia: When the salivary glands don’t produce enough saliva, the mouth can become dry as a result. Saliva works as a mouthwash, clearing away debris and helping to break down food. Drinking more water is a simple solution for dry mouth. If another condition like Sjögren’s syndrome is the cause of dry mouth, your doctor can prescribe medications and other remedies to promote saliva production.
Oral lichen planus: This condition is caused by the immune system and is a long-term disorder. It can cause sores, discomfort, a burning sensation, and white lacey streaks. In severe cases, an antiseptic mouthwash or an oral steroid is required.
Oral thrush: This is a yeast infection of the mouth and can result in a burning sensation. Oral thrush is common in diabetics, infants, and the elderly, people with iron or vitamin B deficiencies, people on antibiotics, people with a weakened immune system, and individuals who use dentures. Antifungal medication is used to treat oral thrush.
Syphilis: This is a sexually transmitted disease caused by bacteria. Having oral sex with someone who is infected is how syphilis is transmitted. Syphilis is usually treated with antibiotics.
Periodontal disease: Improper oral hygiene can result in periodontal disease. Proper oral hygiene consists of brushing teeth, flossing, and using mouthwash. A bacterial infection can occur in the gums, causing the tongue to appear white. Preventative care is best to avoid periodontal disease.
Debris on tongue: Debris on the tongue can give it its white coating. Using a tongue scraper, you can improve the appearance of the tongue and remove the debris. Other causes of debris on tongue include dry mouth, smoking, poor oral hygiene, fever, a low-fiber diet, and damage to the tongue caused by dental appliances.
More serious causes: More serious causes of a white tongue include HIV/AIDS, mouth cancer, and tongue cancer. If symptoms of a white tongue last longer than two weeks, see your doctor.
A white tongue may appear completely white, spotted white, with lines of white, and can be related to infections or dehydration. The symptoms depend on the cause of white tongue. For example, in oral thrush, the entire tongue will appear white, but in leukoplakia whiteness will appear in patches where some areas of the tongue appear normal and other parts are white.
White spots on the tongue can be harmless or indicate a more serious health condition – it all depends on the location.
White spots on the side of the tongue as well as bumps can indicate a slew of problems including oral cancer, tongue biting, oral thrush, irritation of dental appliances, or tooth infections. To narrow down the cause, be mindful of accompanying symptoms.
White spots on the tip of the tongue can sometimes be painful, small in size, or multiple, all depending on the cause. A common cause for white spots on the tip of the tongue is when you bite your tongue, and the white spots appear as the injury heals. Oral thrush can be one other possible cause. If it’s bumpy, it may be a precancerous spot, too.
White spots on the back of the tongue can result from a number of diseases like swollen circumvallate papillae (taste buds found at the back of your tongue), canker sores, lichen planus, oral thrush, or allergic reactions. It is also common to have spots in the back of your tongue if you have strep throat or other throat infections.
Lastly, white spots under the tongue can be a result of canker sores, body heat (causes very painful large or small white bumps under the tongue), oral lichen planus, mucocele growth, oral cancer, and cold sores among other conditions. Be mindful of accompanying symptoms to determine the cause.
Tips to reduce white coating on the tongue include:
There are many home remedies you can utilize in order to prevent and treat a white tongue. Here are some of those home remedies you can try today.
Salt: You can scrub your tongue with salt using a toothbrush, or you can swish around or gargle salt water.
Probiotics: Probiotics can reduce the risk of fungal and bacterial infections. You can take probiotics in capsule or powder form, or consume foods that naturally have probiotics, for example, yogurt.
Vegetable glycerin: This is effective in combating white tongue brought on by dehydration. Brush your tongue with vegetable glycerin and rinse your mouth when you’re done.
Oil pulling: This is when you swish around olive oil or coconut oil in your mouth for at least 15 minutes, spit it out, and rinse your mouth.
Hydrogen peroxide: Mix one part hydrogen peroxide and two parts water, dip your brush into the mixture, and proceed to brush your tongue and rinse your mouth.
Aloe vera juice: Swish around aloe vera juice, spit it out, then drink aloe vera juice.
Regular brushing: Regular brushing of your teeth, gums, and tongue can prevent a white tongue.
Turmeric: Mix turmeric with lemon juice to make a paste. Scrub the paste on your tongue and rinse your mouth thoroughly.
Baking soda: Mix baking soda with lemon juice to make a paste. Brush your tongue with the paste and rinse your mouth.
Apple: Eating an apple a day can support healthy oral hygiene.
Avoid dehydration: Dehydration is a common, non-threatening cause of white tongue. Staying well hydrated can prevent white tongue due to dehydration.
Quit smoking: Smoking can lead to white tongue, while not smoking can prevent it.
Reduce your alcohol consumption: Alcohol can promote dehydration, which can lead to a white tongue.
The types of complications that can arise depend on the underlying cause of white tongue. Some possible complications associated with a white coating on the tongue include adverse effects from treatment, anxiety and depression, cosmetic disfigurement, spread of infection, tongue or oral cancer, tongue removal due to serious infection, transmission of a sexually transmitted disease, and weight loss.
You should see a doctor for your white tongue if you notice any changes to your tongue, if you experience pain of the tongue, or if the whiteness persists after several weeks. By using home remedies and medical treatments you should be able to rid yourself of the white tongue, but if complications arise see a doctor right away. | <urn:uuid:1b4566c8-16ed-42e5-8c29-50abd38d79e3> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.belmarrahealth.com/white-tongue-causes-symptoms-and-natural-home-remedies/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280292.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00344-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.909362 | 1,606 | 2.84375 | 3 |
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Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 From: mahdi tahir firstname.lastname@example.org Taken From: email@example.com
There has in recent times been a hue and cry about the practice of genital surgery on women in Africa. The prevailing perspective in America has been absolute condemnation. What is bothersome is not so much that people have a negative opinion of the practice, but that the issue is misrepresented as a form of child abuse or a tool of gender oppression. The language and tone of the outcry in most cases reflects a total lack of respect for the culture of other peoples. Even more bothersome is the false portrayal: the falsification of statistics and a successful demonization of the practitioners.
There may be an on-going debate about the effects or necessity for the procedure, but the essential truth is that the practitioners do not perform genital surgery on their girls, (nor on their sons for that matter) to oppress them or do them any harm. For them the procedure is carried out for the noblest of reasons, the best of intentions and in good faith. The fact that it can be performed in public in the countries that permit it demonstrates that the practitioners do not consider it dirty laundry or a dark hidden secret.
All over the world, innumerable reasons abound for the practice of genital surgery of both sexes, a procedure that dates back to a least 5,000 B.C. Broadly, they can be categorized according to health, religion, social, political and cultural considerations. While there has always been debate about the hows, whys and effects of the procedure, in recent times the genital surgery of women and girl children has been embroiled in contentious controversy.
In Africa, the rationale for genital surgery are as diverse as the continent itself. However one overriding perspective is that it is conceptualized as a process that applies to both men and women. Hence a framework that differentiates it according to gender is not a useful tool of analysis.
Be that as it may, here are some of the posited reasons for carrying out the procedure on women. For some cultures it is a component of a rite of passage to socially acceptable adulthood. For others it is a nuptial necessity. For yet others, it is a mark of courage, particularly where it is carried out on older people. For some it is a reproductive aid, increasing fertility. For others, it enhances sexuality. Many parents want surgery done on their daughters because it protects them from would-be seducers and rapists.
There are several countries in Africa where efforts are being made to discourage female genital surgery. They are doing this by providing up-to-date information to show its disadvantages, and why it may not be necessary to achieve whatever it is believed to accomplish. For example, with respect to infant mortality, when health workers explained to women that sexuality transmitted diseases could be treated with medication and that it is possible to have healthy living babies without genital surgery, they were convinced to refrain from having their daughters undergo genital surgery. There is however, no question that like any other form of surgery, particularly for the delicate region of the groin, if carried out improperly, or under unsanitary conditions, the damage done can be absolutely terrible. That is why, as long as it remains a practice, little girls and women deserve to have access to the same quality medical care that little boys and men have.
Over 80-100 million women in the world have experienced the custom first recorded over 4000 years ago in ancient Egypt. Because of its origin, it is sometimes, particularly in its variation as infibulation, referred to as a "pharonic custom." The ritual apparently spread from the Nile and its tributaries into adjacent regions such as Palestine. It spread through migration routes into the Magreb area (N.W. Africa), and across the Sahara and Sahel regions into the West African savanna. It also spread along The Red Sea Coast into The Horn of Africa and parts of East Africa. In some areas it is practiced by almost all groups, in other areas by some ethnic groups and not others, and in other African areas, such as Southern Africa, by only a few groups.
Female circumcision (FC) is traditionally practiced in some other areas outside of Africa. In those areas, it is found among certain indigenous Andean and Australian ethnic groups (of varied traditional religious and cultural backgrounds) and among Bedouin groups in Israel and surrounding areas. It was practiced (before European colonialism) in parts of Malaysia and Indonesia, although in these mainly matrilineal areas, it was done to enhance female sexuality rather than to control it as in most other places. In Africa Today
This custom is practiced predominantly in the Nile, Sahara, Sahel and Horn regions, where in most areas the overwhelming majority of women have or will experience it. In those areas some groups who traditionally did not have this custom are adopting it when they move into regions or urban zones where it is practiced, for example in Khartoum. In adjacent African regions such as West and East Africa, many cultures traditionally have practiced this custom. Examples of such groups are the Kikuyu and Masai of East Africa and the Fulani, Ibo and Hausa of West Africa. The custom is also found, to a lesser degree, among some groups in central and southern Africa. Most western seminars or media focus on FC as a Muslim custom or among African Muslim groups. This is interesting because this custom, not only originated in Africa during pharonic (pre-Judaic, Christian or Islamic times), but it is still practiced in the continent among African groups practicing traditional Judaism (in Ethiopia); traditional Coptic Christianity (Ethiopia, Sudan, Egypt); some of those who became Christian during or after the European colonial era; and among some Muslim groups.
In some regions, FC can be seen to be practiced by certain socio-economic groups, for example, among those of a particular culture or lifestyle: nomadic versus settled, or farming herding; Muslim versus Christian or traditionalist. In other regions, one finds the custom practiced by those of varied cultural / socio-economic types, for example, among sedentary urban and farming groups and among migratory herding groups in the Ethiopian-Eritrean highlands and Ethiopian-Somali Ogaden regions. It is mainly found in predominantly patrilineal groups in Africa. Some groups circumcising females also circumcise males.
Many groups that now circumcise men but not women were influenced by missionary and other European colonial influences to stop circumcising women and to also stop or reduce the traditional long socialization period, rituals and ceremonies preparing boys to be men. In the colonial period (the British in Kenya, see Jomo Kenyatta, Facing Mount Kenya) and also today some modern westernized African States have sought to minimize, limit or outlaw certain traditional practices of some ethnic groups within their borders (which, of course, do not reflect traditional ethnic borders). Such governments apparently value colonial or western institutions (such as government schools and churches) and the socialization of youth toward the sedentary lifestyle, national unity, loyalty and "modernization" much more than traditional customs such as the migratory lifestyle, ethnic Anbal group unity, loyalty and traditionalism.
Today, for example, the Kikuyu of Kenya find their land and customs under attack. The Masai of East Africa find their traditional area divided into two nation states, Kenya and Tanzania. They find themselves being pushed into more and more arid areas as officials and tourist companies feel that their cattle are overgrazing on grass-lands that wild animals that attract tourists need. The traditional Masai socialization of youth (both male and female) that lasts several years involves travel in groups with elders throughout their traditional region. During this period youth are intensely socialized for adult life, including several ordeal rituals, which includes male and female circumcision. The initiations are firmly rooted in and dedicated to their Masai identity and reject modern westernized society, which they are taught is inferior to their own lifestyle. After completion of this period, they are considered Masai adults and able to marry. Male and female circumcision is an essential part of the Masai socialization into adulthood. It is also an integral and necessary part of many other African groups' socialization towards recognition as adults in their society. In circumcising groups, a person who is not circumcised is often considered unclean, not fully formed as an adult member of society, not prepared to marry and bear children and a perpetual child.
When modern African governments seek to limit or outlaw such traditional practices as female circumcision, the groups practicing them usually either cross borders and continue the practice in adjacent nations (their own traditional ethnic territory) without such limitations or continue the practice in secret (usually under less hygienic conditions or access to an outside clinic, hospital or professional aid).
These two brief examples are typical of the conflict between traditional groups, their land and social customs and the interests of colonial or modern western states and institutions. It is always difficult for a group to accept dictates from the group they feel is attacking their land, and turning their children away from their traditional lifestyles towards one they neither understand nor admire and which diminishes their sovereignty and power. In such cases their distrust of outsiders based on material evidence (the loss of group property, taxation without true representation, the forcing of youth into national armies instead of allowing them to stay with their own people, lack of respect, work exploitation, etc.) makes meaningful dialogue on female circumcision impossible. Their children are taken away to government boarding schools and their youth to the army. Before children or youth are taken away, during school leave periods or during furlough periods from the army, elders seek to socialize and circumcise their offspring in shorter more intense periods. Naturally, when the environment or the economy changes, the culture is also affected. In this case, more extended socialization periods and later customary circumcision rituals become changed to shorter, more intense socialization periods and often earlier (before school age) circumcision of boys and girls.
Some practitioners of FC state its functions as: "It is our culture;" or, "It is our religious obligation;" or "All normal (our) people have done it," or "It makes you clean, beautiful, better, sweet-smelling," or "You will be able to marry, be presentable to your husband, able to satisfy and keep your husband, able to conceive and bear children."
Keep in mind that among practicing groups, everyone or almost everyone in the community is circumcised. Therefore, it is normal in such groups. In such communities, those women who are not circumcised are traditionally prostitutes or members of outcast or formerly "slave" groups. But even most of those women are circumcised in communities where this custom is practiced. The only other women not circumcised in such a community would be outsiders-African or other women from non-circumcising groups-the others. Intermarriage with non-circumcised men or women is usually not allowed or is extremely rare. When it does occur, the circumcising group usually only permits it if the non-circumcised future spouse becomes circumcised.
During conflict, one way of identifying "the other" (as in Europe during W.W.II) is whether or not he or she is circumcised. Sometimes, even during certain recent intergroup conflicts in parts of Africa forced circumcisions, (usually of men kidnapped or captured from the non-circumcising competing group) sometimes occurred.
Often the rationale for male and female circumcision is that it is necessary to make a child (neutral term) a real male or female. This leads to a further explanation that "men are hard and women are soft," and that the "soft" part of a man's genital, e.g., the pre-puce or foreskin and the hard part of the female genitalia, e.g., the clitoris (possibly erectile) must be removed in order to make them truly male-all hard, and female-all soft. As in many other instances, the "crossover"-soft foreskin and hard clitoris-is seen as dangerous to the formation of "completely" male and female adults, who in traditional societies almost always have an equal but separate and complementary rather than equal and overlapping sexual and social role.
The explanation of surgical procedures that temple drawings and pyramid carvings show, done 4000 years ago, indicates that early African societies: ancient Egyptian, Nubian, Ethiopian, as well as medieval and modern societies, were aware of the erectile nature of the clitoris and that it was an orgasmic area of stimulation. Research also indicates that the process of socialization with the usually patrilineal birth group of a male or female child was often physically marked. That mark could be circumcision or scarification.
Scarification was to protect children from kidnapping in war or slave raiding and to locate those so abducted. It was also in many traditional groups thought to make the child different from the child sent by the gods or ancestors and therefore, hopefully, keeping that child from being reclaimed or taken back to the gods or ancestors quickly because of an altered physique. Ear piercing would be done for similar reasons.
Female circumcision, like male circumcision in the same group, is often thought to purify and protect the next generation from dangerous outside influences, to bind all youth to their peers or age set. As part of intensive group socialization, it also firmly establishes age set relationships, generational respect and authority patterns. At marriage, the authority over the bride is transferred to the spouse's patriline. The respect and economic value of the bride to her patriline and to her spouse is dependent upon her unquestioned virginity as demonstrated by the intact circumcision.
Other obvious functions include the control of female sexuality and marital chastity. At or before marriage in many circumcising societies, brides-to-be were inspected by their prospective marked female inlaws. Their circumcision is often inspected by their mothers, aunts, and other older female relatives.
Another function is to insure marriage in a society in which men have been taught that only circumcised women make good wives. Yet another function of FC is to limit the possible enjoyment level of sex for women. It also serves to implant fear of pain and being shamed and cast out if not a virgin girl or chaste wife. The actual day of circumcision is one of fear and pain, but also accomplishment and recognition as a full adult marriageable member of society. Some have compared it in western terms to a combination of first communion, confirmation or bat mitzvah and sweet sixteen occasion. The girl gets more recognition, including attention, special beautiful clothing, special food and jewelry, after this coming of age ritual than at any other time in her life except on her marriage day.
It is said that the three most difficult and yet joyous times in a women's life are at her circumcision, marriage and on the birth of her first child. Each marks a liminal period or transition from one stage of life to another, from the authority of one patriline to another. Female circumcision thus physically marks the female as belonging to a male family whose rights over her will be violated and whose wrath will be faced if she is sexually invaded.
Another of its functions is to symbolize the stability, respect and continuation of the group as expressed in the obedience, docility, faithfulness and maintenance of tradition of its females (the transmitters customs and maintainers of home and family-the basic social unit).
In summary, all of these functions emphasize the superiority of group needs over those of the individual and tie the individual to the group of birth. They also emphasize and support group solidarity and tradition over modern changes and male authority over female. However, they also emphasize and symbolize the male and group responsibility for females who accept group norms.
Female circumcision, described as female genital mutilation in Western discourse, has been actively addressed in recent years. The conclusions of these discussions seem to redefine the nature of African womanhood, objectifying African women as ignorant and powerless.
Female circumcision has been perceived as an act of barbarism, savagery, torture and maiming which deprives African women of their feminity, especially with regard to sexual sensitivity and pleasure. These views are articulated by Alice Walker (1992, 1993), Lightfoot-Klein (1989), Awa Thiam (1986) amongst others.
Further, it is argued that the act represents violation of human rights of children and women (Dorkenoo and Elsworth, 1992, Rodney and Dorkenoo, 1992).
These conclusions are affected by two major factors. One, is the use of Western cultural perpectives in assessing an African cultural experience. The second, is the discussion of the experience in isolation of its full cultural context. Assessing cultural values of people through different cultural frameworks have often led to distortions, misinterpretations and misrepresentations. This has been the case of female circumcision and the African woman.
The objective of this paper is to present an African based perspective for an insight into the discourse of female circumcision. It will discuss the cultural dynamics which affect female circumcision, fill gaps in existing anlysis, and assess some of the conclusions in Western literature.
Female circumcision is an intrinsic part of a total cultural experience. Its discussion can only be effectively undertaken as part of an entire cultural experience.
It is important to note that not all groups in Africa practice female circumcision. It is practiced in twenty-eight out of fifty-three countries (Lightfoot-Klein, 1989). Female circumcision is a cultural ritual whose nature varies among the different groups which practice it. As an essential part of cultural values, it affects the integrity and survival of communities.
Specifically it relates to the essence of womanhood, family system and religious beliefs; age, class and power; social identity and responsibilities. It is part of the corpus of female education and health care. A more comprehensive discourse of female circumcision should include all of these issues.
African societies exist as networks of mutually interrelated and dependent groups, emphasizing community rather than self and the individual. This value is evident in the family system characterized by polygamy and extended household, ancestral veneration, comunual land ownership and residential systems. The rights of individuals are not isolated questions and are not normally asserted against group interests because, traditionally, the group protects the individual.
Therefore like other cultural rituals, female circumcision is a collective experience. But, Western cultural perspectives, which emphasize the individual and self, see female circumcision as an individual experience and concludes that it is a violation against individual rights. If it is violation of rights, it should not be perceived strictly in relation to individual women or girls but it should be considered as a violation within a group or societal perspective.
Consequently, the young girls and women who undergo circumcision do not have individual legal status and rights apart from those of their communities and cannot challenge the collective wisdom of their communities. Such an exercise amounts to serious deviation from the norms of society. This study argues that circumcision is an issue that goes beyond gender, being affected by age and class and power. Therefore, for more effective analysis and interpretation of circumcision, youth culture in Africa needs to be examined in relation to the practice. African tradition does not ascribe equal status to both the young and elderly.
The perspective that female circumcision necessarily robs women of sexual pleasure presupposes that only the clitoris ensures sexual urge and guarantees sexual pleasure for women. Therefore, alI women who are not circumcized should experience sexual urge and sexual pleasure. If having the clitoris alone does guarantee sexual satisfaction and pleasure, it implies that all women with clitoris should always have sexual pleasure. But if that is not the case then there are other parts of a woman's body and dynamics yet to be made known and emphasized which affect female sexuality and responses.
This presumption suggests common reasons for women to engage in sexual relations and that all women should react to sexual stimulation in the same way regardless of cultural differences and social back- grounds. Sex in most African societies serves procreation, not necessarily the satisfaction of emotional needs. It is conceived as a sacred act and a spiritual experience with emphasis on spiritual compatibility of partners.
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The Anti-Stereotyping Pakistan:
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Cuba reports an increase in Covid-19 contagions, while the rate of positive cases decreases, compared to previous days, Public Health Minister Jose Angel Portal informed.
Although the highest spread of the coronavirus is reported in Havana, Mayabeque and Artemisa provinces, active patients have been currently reported in 90 of 168 Cuban municipalities, the minister explained on Saturday at a meeting of the Government’s Temporary Working Group to Fight the Pandemic.
During the meeting, chaired by Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel and Prime Minister Manuel Marrero, the governors of eight provinces explained the main actions to curb the pandemic.
Among them, they insisted on reinforcing epidemiological research, isolating individuals with suspected Covid-19 symptoms, and controlling the source of contagions and the contacts of confirmed cases.
The territories that had a higher number of Covid-19 cases in relation to the previous day were Mayabeque and Artemisa (both in the west), Cienfuegos (center) and Holguin (east), said the minister, who was quoted by the website of the Presidency of Cuba.
However, he said, active cases have decreased for three consecutive days across the country.
Cuba accumulates 49,161 Covid-19 cases and 44,566 patients have been recovered since March 11, 2020.
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After two weeks of in-person trial, a Los Angeles County jury awarded a 64-year-old woman diagnosed with mesothelioma $43 million on May 20, 2022. This verdict is among the largest seen in recent years. The woman, who was diagnosed with mesothelioma in 2019, blamed Algoma Hardwoods Inc. for her condition.
According to the evidence presented, the 64-year-old California woman never directly worked with the toxic substance known as asbestos. However, her husband used to work in a capacity that exposed him to asbestos. He worked with doors that contained asbestos. The asbestos dust from the doors got stuck in his skin, hair, and clothes, and he brought this dust home. Even though the woman sometimes assisted her husband on-site, most of the asbestos exposure she suffered was from the asbestos dust her husband brought home. According to a family representative, the 64-year-old woman suffered asbestos exposure while doing her husband’s laundry. Also, just being inside the home exposed her to asbestos.
From 1977 to 1980, Algoma made fire-resistant asbestos-contaminated doors. The jury found the company 50% liable for the 64-year-old woman’s mesothelioma. The jury then assessed comparative fault against other defendants. The following is a breakdown of the percentage of responsibility each defendant was awarded; | <urn:uuid:6832bf9d-8f0f-45ea-afea-85ccc204de10> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mesolawcenter.com/blog/2022/07/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00068.warc.gz | en | 0.973223 | 286 | 1.796875 | 2 |
Hosting a party with a medieval theme is an opportunity to sample traditional cuisine from the Middle Ages. Although few written samples of medieval food have survived, numerous cookbooks from the 14th and 15th centuries, such as "A Boke of Gode Cookery," provide numerous examples of traditional medieval fare. As the availability and range of food has differed little from then to now, You can easily and cheaply prepare recreated medieval party food. .
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Meat and Poultry
As people in the Middle Ages had access to the same types of meat and poultry as we do today, you have a lot of meat party food options to choose from. Start with "stewed beefe,"a selection of ribs baked in a sauce of wine, currants and onions. Serve"'mortrews" with sliced brown bread, a basic beef pate garnished with ginger. "Pourcfelet farci," a roast pig stuffed with egg yolks, Brie cheese and chestnuts makes for a typical party table Medieval centrepiece.
Bread and Grain
As bread was the staple of the medieval diet, include a homemade loaf of white bread in your party food menu for people to snack on. You also can serve "waffres," a sweet waffle made with ginger and cheddar cheese alongside "frytour of erbes,"' small pieces of herb-infused bread, fried in batter. Finally, "rice Lombard', cooked in saffron, cinnamon, sugar and the broth of your choice. Chicken or beef, for example, also makes an ideal accompaniment.
Sweet dishes in the Middle Ages were predominantly comprised of fruits and sugar. Almond was particularly popular in desserts, so offer your party guests some rice in almond milk as a sweet accompaniment. "Sambocade," a cheesecake made with elderflower and pears poached in wine and spices, make ideas for an authentic medieval sweet dish. You also can serve gingerbread, made with honey, spices and breadcrumbs. It was a firm favourite in the Middle Ages.
If you're serving alcoholic beverages, opt for apple or pear cider for an authentic experience. "Clarrey," or wine mulled with spices or honey, was also common in the Middle Ages. You can buy it pre-made in supermarkets today. Barley water, made from pearl barley, sugar and the juice of one lemon, and almond milk, made from blanched almonds and hot water, makes a good non-alcoholic period beverage.
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Symbolicator by Peter Hosey
This is a program to symbolicate crash logs generated on Mac OS X.
When you receive a crash log, pipe it through the Symbolicator. You'll probably want to send the output into a pager or editor.
symbolicator < MyApp-2009-01-01-130145_My-Computer.crash | less
The Symbolicator will use Spotlight to find any dSYM bundles it needs, and dwarfdump to extract symbol information for the addresses in the crash log; it will then replace the bare addresses in the log text with the matching symbol information, and write the symbolicated text out to its standard output.
- You do not need to tell the Symbolicator where your dSYM bundles are, nor to put your dSYM bundles into a special location. As long as Spotlight can find them, the Symbolicator will find them automatically.
- You can use ThisService (http://wafflesoftware.net/thisservice/) to make a Symbolicator service. With this, you can select the entire text of a crash log, use your preferred graphical editor's New Window with Selection service to copy that text to a new document, and then select the crash log text there and run your Symbolicator service on it. | <urn:uuid:51668303-b44b-4ba8-ad6a-9c9e04e0894e> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://bitbucket.org/ddribin/symbolicator | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719843.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00293-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.833609 | 278 | 1.585938 | 2 |
Meringue is a dessert made from whipped egg whites and sugar. It can be baked into a cake, or used as a topping for pies, pavlovas and other desserts. When making meringue, it is important to ensure that the whipped egg whites are free of any traces of oil or fat, as this will prevent them from forming peaks when whipped. If you accidentally make a mess while whipping your egg whites, here are a few tips for how to remove meringue
How To Remove Meringue From Baking Paper
There are a few ways to remove meringue from baking paper. One way is to wet the paper with a little water and then use a soft cloth to rub the meringue off. Another way is to heat the paper up with a hair dryer and then rub the meringue off.
1. A sharp knife 2. Baking paper 3. Bowl 4. Spatula
- Draw circles on the paper with a pencil, about 5 cm in diameter. flip the paper over so the pencil circles are facing
- Preheat oven to 120 degrees celsius
- Line a baking sheet with parchment paper
-If the meringue is stuck to the baking paper, it can be difficult to remove. -One way to remove it is to use a knife to score around the edge of the meringue and then peel it off the baking paper. -Another way is to soak the baking paper in warm water for a few minutes and then peel it off.
Frequently Asked Questions
How Do You Keep Meringues From Sticking To The Pan?
Some people recommend spraying the pan with cooking spray, others recommend dusting it with cornstarch or cocoa powder.
How Do You Remove Meringue From Parchment Paper?
There are a few ways to remove meringue from parchment paper. One way is to use a knife to slice the meringue off of the paper. Another way is to use a hair dryer to heat up the meringue and make it softer, which will then allow it to peel off more easily.
Do You Grease The Pan For Meringue?
No, greasing the pan is not necessary when making meringue. The meringue will release from the pan easily once it is cooked.
Do You Grease Baking Paper For Meringues?
There is no need to grease baking paper for meringues. The meringue will not stick to the paper.
How Do You Keep Meringues From Sticking To Greaseproof Paper?
There are a few ways to prevent meringues from sticking to greaseproof paper. One is to lightly dust the paper with flour before placing the meringues on top. Another is to spray the paper with a non-stick cooking spray.
Why Does My Meringue Stick To The Paper?
There are a few reasons why your meringue might stick to the paper. One reason might be that your oven is too hot and is causing the meringue to overcook and stick to the paper. Another possibility is that you didn’t add enough sugar to your meringue mixture, which made it too sticky to hold onto the paper. Finally, if you’re using old or wet eggs, this could also cause your meringue to stick to the paper.
What Can I Use Instead Of Parchment Paper For Meringues?
There are a few things you can use in place of parchment paper when making meringues. A silicone baking mat, a non-stick baking sheet, or even a coat of cooking spray will work.
How Do You Keep Meringue From Sticking To Parchment?
There are a few things you can do to prevent meringue from sticking to parchment paper. One is to make sure the parchment is coated with a light layer of cooking oil or non-stick cooking spray. Another is to dust the parchment with a little powdered sugar before adding the meringue.
How Do You Keep Meringue From Sticking To Paper?
There are a few things you can do to prevent meringue from sticking to paper. One is to make sure the baking sheet is lined with parchment paper. Another is to brush the meringue lightly with oil before baking.
There is no one definitive way to remove meringue from baking paper – it depends on the texture and stickiness of the meringue. Some ideas include using a spatula or knife to loosen the meringue from the paper, spraying the meringue with water and then peeling it off, or using a blow dryer to soften the adhesive. | <urn:uuid:aad3c95d-a6e1-4c77-8f52-1c6cea3e5520> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://rt66mainstreet.org/how-to-remove-meringue-from-baking-paper/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00269.warc.gz | en | 0.90763 | 969 | 2.171875 | 2 |
At the Hopi Pueblo, a sacred clown is a combination of jester, priest, and shaman and can serve many purposes. They amuse audiences, intensify rituals by contrasting the sublime and the ridiculous, and control behavior through comic object lessons. They are truly the ultimate tradition keepers and the supreme delight makers. This book will help the reader identify which personages are considered to be clowns and those that are not. With explanations of the purposes of the various clowns, historical background and Hopi carver's thoughts on these clowns, this is an important book for the collector and the scholar alike.
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January 6, 2015
Student loan debt can impact your financial profile, credit history, and credit score – either in a detrimental way or by improving your financial status and ability to save money. It all depends upon how you manage that student loan debt, and whether you are able to make your payments on time to fulfill your obligations as a responsible borrower.
What makes up my credit score?
Lenders and other creditors depend on credit reporting agencies to keep tabs on your credit history so that when you apply for a loan, they can see your track record for repayment. Banks and lenders also use your credit score – which is using a number to quantify your creditworthiness – as a quick snapshot that they use to evaluate how risky it may be to make a loan to you.
The lower your score, the higher the risk a creditor may perceive you as to making on-time payments. On the other hand, a high score usually indicates that you are a reliable and responsible borrower. If you do not yet have much history as a borrower, a student loan gives you an opportunity to begin building good credit. If you already have established credit, you can leverage repayment of your student loan debt to raise your financial profile even higher.
Who tracks my student loan payment history?
There are three major credit bureaus – Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion. They receive updates from creditors, including student loan lenders, and relevant information goes into your credit file where it can be viewed by authorized parties such as mortgage companies, credit card issuers, and lenders who handle auto and consumer loans.
In some cases, employers or potential employers may also ask for your permission to access your credit history. According to a survey of 1,528 Human Resources professionals, 25% use credit or financial checks while hiring for some positions. That is another incentive to proactively manage your student loans, since they may influence your career opportunities.
What are the risks of student loan payment default?
If you make a late payment, miss a payment, or default on a student loan, it can undermine your score and potentially create serious financial problems. A student loan default will likely remain in your credit report for seven years, weakening your credit score. If your financial profile is damaged, you may receive higher interest rates on future lines of credit or you may have a tough time getting approved for future credit altogether.
Defaulting on a student loan can trigger other consequences like having the debt turned over to a collection agency or sometimes even having your wages garnished to repay the obligation. You may also incur legal fees and court costs. If the situation is bad enough your tax refunds could be taken along with any professional licenses that you hold. If you are a doctor, lawyer, or teacher, for example, defaulting on a student loan could jeopardize your ability to maintain the license required for you to work.
What can I do to strengthen my credit score?
With a strong credit profile, you can borrow more easily, at lower and more attractive interest rates with preferential terms. Payment history comprises about 35% of your total score, so having a record of consistent, timely student loan payments enhance your score and financial profile.
If you have graduated and are looking to lower your current student loan interest rate, monthly payment, or just combine all of your student loan payments into one, you may want to consider refinancing your student loans.
Student loans can help boost your credit score if you make on-time payments or it could hurt your credit score if you choose not to. Understanding the importance of how your student loans can shape your credit score is an important step in building your financin
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AGRICULTURAL PRODUCERS’ WILLINGNESS TO PAY FOR REAL-TIME MESOSCALE WEATHER INFORMATION
By: Kenkel, Philip L.; Norris, Patricia E.
Kenkel, Philip L.; Norris, Patricia E., AGRICULTURAL PRODUCERS' WILLINGNESS TO PAY FOR REAL-TIME MESOSCALE WEATHER INFORMATION, Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Volume 20, Issue 2, December 1995, Pages 356-372
Mesoscale weather networks can provide improved weather information to agricultural producers. This technology can potentially improve production decisions, reduce irrigation and pesticide inputs, and reduce weather-related losses. Developing a mesoscale network to disseminate real-time mesoscale weather information requires a substantial investment. In addition, there are costs associated with maintenance of the system and distribution of the information available. While public funds may be available to support initial development of the system, there may be less public support initial development of the system, there may be less public support for maintaining the system and subsidizing users' access to the information. This study uses the contingent valuation technique to determine the willingness of Oklahoma farmers and ranchers, as one set of potential users, to pay for real-time mesoscale weather information. The results indicate that agricultural producers are willing to pay only a modest fee for improved weather information. Gross sales, irrigation, and past weather losses are among the factors shown to significantly impact willingness to pay. | <urn:uuid:04a8bf19-9684-4f36-9b75-1e9134afbb5b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://jareonline.org/articles/agricultural-producers-willingness-to-pay-for-real-time-mesoscale-weather-information/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00069.warc.gz | en | 0.859987 | 310 | 1.867188 | 2 |
An update on the National Security Strategy states that the UK faces current threats in the shape of nuclear weapons or materials falling into terrorist hands.
Meanwhile, a separate official document suggests that there has been a "significant increase" in the illicit trade of chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) weapons and materials.
An annual report on countering international terrorism by the Office for Security and Counter Terrorism, said it had "identified factors which have increased the risk that terrorists may acquire and use CBRN weapons".
Foremost was "the significant increase in the illicit trafficking of radiological materials". This, added to the prevalence of CBRN related information on the internet and a rise in radioactive material for legitimate purposes, led to an elevated risk that terrorists could get their hands on a dirty bomb.
Likewise the update on the UK's security strategy noted: "The UK does face nuclear threats now: the possibility that nuclear weapons or nuclear material fall into the hands of rogue states or terrorist groups."
The warnings came as the Home Office addressed concerns over the possible susceptibility of the UK to a Mumbai-style attack - in which terrorists launched their attack from the water. Home Office Minister Lord West announced that a new monitoring centre aimed at combating threats to the UK from the sea will be launched later this year.
The National Maritime Information Centre will combine the efforts of different Government agencies at tackling dangers such as terrorism, piracy and drug smuggling. On a visit to the Ministry of Defence joint headquarters in Northwood, Middlesex, where the centre will be based, Lord West said there was a "crying need" for better intelligence sharing by police, the Royal Navy, the Coastguard and other bodies.
He said efforts to monitor the hundreds of thousands of vessels around Britain's coastline had been "pretty ropey" in the past. The new £350,000 centre will aim to create a "single picture" of maritime activity once it begins operating at the end of this year.
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Methods are provided to estimate the magnitude and frequency of floods on natural North Carolina streams with drainage areas greater than 0.5 square mile (1.3 square kilometers). For 257 gaged sites, the magnitudes of floods having recurrence intervals from 2 to 100 years are provided in tables. For ungaged sites, equations, graphs, and maps allow estimation of flood magnitudes. Multiple regression techniques were used to define the relation between flood peaks and seven basin and climatic variables. Drainage area is the most significant variable. Inclusion of the other six variables reduced the standard error of estimate less than 4 percent. Regression equations gave consistently different results for stations in the Coastal Plain than for stations in the mountains and Piedmont. Accordingly, stations were divided into two groups and estimating equations were developed for each geographic area.
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Magnitude and frequency of floods in North Carolina, technique for estimating the magnitude and frequency of floods on natural streams in North Carolina | <urn:uuid:365b39e0-23bb-46df-bf12-dfbbb0f049e0> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/wri7617 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280504.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00142-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.923316 | 202 | 3.296875 | 3 |
^Wright, Angus, "Downslope and North: How Soil Degradation and Synthetic Pesticides Drove the Trajectory of Mexican Agriculture through the Twentieth Century" in Christopher R. Boyer, A Land Between Waters: Environmental Histories of Modern Mexico. Tucson: University of Arizona Press 2012, pp. 22-49.
^Gary Toenniessen et al. "Building an alliance for a green revolution in Africa." Annals of the New York academy of sciences 1136.1 (2008): 233–42. online （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）
Wright, Angus. Bruce Colman; Jackson, Wes , 编. Meeting the expectations of the land: essays in sustainable agriculture and stewardship. San Francisco: North Point Press. 1984: 124–38. ISBN 978-0-86547-171-9.Editors list列表缺少|last2= (帮助)
Cotter, Joseph (2003). Troubled Harvest: Agronomy and Revolution in Mexico, 1880–2002. Westport, CT: Prager [缺少ISBN]
Deb, Debal, "Restoring Rice Biodiversity", Scientific American, vol. 321, no. 4 (October 2019), pp. 54–61. "India originally possessed some 110,000 landraces of rice with diverse and valuable properties. These include enrichment in vital nutrients and the ability to withstand flood, drought, salinity or pest infestations. The Green Revolution covered fields with a few high-yielding varieties, so that roughly 90 percent of the landraces vanished from farmers' collections. High-yielding varieties require expensive inputs. They perform abysmally on marginal farms or in adverse environmental conditions, forcing poor farmers into debt." (p. 54.) | <urn:uuid:6eb219d5-fa61-4151-8e4b-15615c466bab> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%BB%BF%E8%89%B2%E9%9D%A9%E5%91%BD | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00466.warc.gz | en | 0.780091 | 423 | 2.359375 | 2 |
SECTION: BSN310RIZAL/ 1:30-3:00
ANATOMY OF THE ANTI-HERO
BY: NICK JOAQUIN
I. What is the essay all about?
Joaquin examines two portraits of Rizal. The first is that of León Guerrero's momentous biography, The First Filipino in which Rizal is pictured as a Victorian gradualist. He also noted that while Rizal did not give his blessing to Bonifacio because he believed the time was premature, he did not condemn the aim of independence per se. The second is a work much lesser known, "Rizal from Within" by Ante Radaic. In his examination of the character of Rizal, Radaic finds a man tormented by youthful insecurities based upon his diminutive size and his inability to successfully woo his first love Segunda Katigbak who, while in love with Rizal, followed the course of her parent's wishes and married another. According to Radaic, these insecurities plagued Rizal almost to the end and were a major factor in his continual striving toward excellence in all that he did. Following this Joaquin builds his own character assessment of Rizal finding a figure who is caught in a class and race struggle between the "native" (Indio), the Creole (Illustrado), and the (racially "pure") Spanish Peninsulars who flood the Philippines after the building of the Suez Canal and who force the Creole from positions of importance even though they were mostly inferior in both character, intelligence, and ability. Rizal identifies with the Creole and so denigrates the native character of the Philippines he champions.
II. What have you realized or learned about RIZAL?
When I speak of Rizal using my elementary and high school orientation, I see him as someone who embodies the exceptional characteristics that no other heroes have. Other than the fact that Rizal is known for his universally acclaimed works, he was introduced to me and to others as well, as someone who shows compassion, patience, love and respect for his... | <urn:uuid:fa26471c-e58e-4db0-aadd-06c7fcaa5484> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.studymode.com/essays/Anatomy-Of-The-Anti-Hero-788324.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283689.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00354-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978665 | 451 | 2.890625 | 3 |
In the presence of> 1 fetus in the uterus and multiple pregnancy is present.
A Mehrlingsgravidität occurs in 1 in 70 to 80 births. are considered risk factors
In the presence of> 1 fetus in the uterus and multiple pregnancy is present. A Mehrlingsgravidität occurs in 1 in 70 to 80 births. Risk factors Ovarian stimulation reproduction (z. B. In vitro fertilization) are (usually with clomiphene or gonadotropins) Assisted is Preceding multiple pregnancy Advanced maternal age The heavily overstretched uterus tends to premature labor and can thus born prematurely trigger (average gestational age 35 -36 weeks for twins, 32 weeks for triplets and 30 weeks for quadruplets). Irregular fetal position are common. The uterus can contract after the birth of their first child, leading to shear off the placenta and the increased risk for the remaining fetuses in utero. Sometimes the over-stretching of the uterus affects the postnatal contractions and leads maternal bleeding. Complications A multiple pregnancy increases the risk of pre-eclampsia, gestational diabetes, postpartum hemorrhage, cesarean section, premature birth and growth retardation. Some complications develop only multifetalen pregnancies. An example of this is the twin transfusion syndrome (if twins share the same placenta, this syndrome results in vascular exchange between the two, which may lead to an uneven distribution of blood). Prenatal diagnostic sonography A multiple pregnancy is suspected if the uterus appears too large for gestational age; such can be confirmed by an ultrasound. Therapy caesarean section at a given indication A caesarean section is performed for a given indication. A caesarean section is recommended in twins when the presenting twin is in a cephalic. Higher levels of multiple pregnancies are typically delivered by cesarean section regardless of their location. | <urn:uuid:53fe33bb-674a-4865-a5c8-1e5cb038a301> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://healthlifemedia.com/healthy/multiple-pregnancy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00077.warc.gz | en | 0.881139 | 401 | 2.546875 | 3 |
Postpartum Recovery Tips: Taking Care of the Scar
The wound from your C-section may feel sore for about 1-2 weeks. You may also feel weakness in the muscle that surrounds the wound. It would be best to ask a doctor about pain medication while nursing to avoid harming your baby’s health.
Kinds of C-Section Incisions
There are 2 kinds of incisions that you can get for your C-section. The first one is a horizontal incision, the pfannenstiel incision, which is also called a bikini cut, that is used for most cesareans. The cut is done on the lowest uterus part, which can help lessen bleeding.
The vertical incision, which is also called a classical C-section. Back in the day, it was more common than the bikini cut, however, it is now used for more specific cases. These types of incisions can take a bit longer to heal and may feel a bit more painful.
Typically a doctor will use dissolvable stitches. However, a doctor might use non-dissolvable stitches which will have to be taken out several weeks after you give birth. There are also other ways a doctor can close the incision, such as glue or staples.
Oftentimes a scar from a cesarean can heal properly. However, you may have issues with scarring when your body goes into overdrive with the healing process. This is more likely to happen if you have dark skin or are younger than 30 years old.
The first kind of scar you can get is a keloid scar. This happens when the scar tissue goes beyond the wound’s original boundaries,. This can create scar tissue lumps around your incision.
The second kind of scar that you can get is a hypertrophic scar. Compared to a normal scar, it is raised, firmer, and thicker but it will stay within the incision line.
When you shower — preferably once a day or as directed by your doctor — keep your wound clean by allowing soapy water to drip towards your wound without vigorously scrubbing it. You can pat dry the area gently using a clean towel when you are done.
To speed up your healing process, it is best to avoid tight-fitting clothing because it can irritate the incision. You can opt for loose-fitting clothes such as pajamas, jogging pants, baggy shirts, etc.
You should also avoid exercising because it can reopen your incision. Avoid lifting heavy objects and bending over because these movements can also reopen your incision.
Some doctors will tell you to leave your wound uncovered and allow it to heal naturally. However, other doctors will say that you can apply petroleum jelly or a topical ointment and use a bandage to lightly cover the wound. It would be best to ask your doctor what the best method would be to deal with your scar.
It is important to take care of yourself even when you have a baby who needs lots of your attention. You can follow these postpartum recovery tips to help yourself heal after cesarean surgery.
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- using this link http://www.asanet.org/ Answer these 3 questions in 1 full page and Do not re-list actual questions please.
1. Explain specific ways in which courses in sociology might help you achieve your career goals.
Next scroll down to the “Sections” link and enter that page. Look at the current sections of the American Sociological Association. Click on the three that you selected and read their mission statements.
2.Which three sections sound the most interesting to you and why? Describe how your interests of these 3 sections apply to a job you might envision yourself doing.
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- OPENNING SKINNERS BOX CHAPTER 6 for these questions just have quick answers
1. What does Harlow prove, using monkeys, about raising a child?
2. Why would Harlow’s methods be considered unethical?
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Social workers who are employed in homes for the elderly perform a number of functions, including helping older adults adjust to life in their new residences, advocating for their clients’ needs and rights, providing supportive counseling and making psychosocial assessments. These professionals, known as geriatric social workers, work in nursing homes, assisted living facilities and similar environments. Many states require that candidates hold require a master’s degree in social work as well as be licensed by the state.
When a resident is first admitted to an elderly home, a social worker will perform a psychosocial assessment to determine the level of care required and to assess whether specific services, such as counseling or psychiatric intervention, are needed. The purpose of a psychosocial assessment is to evaluate the person’s biological, psychological and social needs, according to the National Association of Social Workers. After an assessment is completed, the social worker discusses her findings with an interdisciplinary team, which usually consists of medical staff, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other professionals, to collaborate on formulating a treatment plan to address the resident’s needs.
Social workers also help residents adjust to life in their new homes. Adjusting to life in a supportive care setting can be difficult and challenging for those used to living independently. A social worker provides individual and group counseling as needed to help her clients overcome potential emotional, psychological and social obstacles to adjustment. If the facility does not provide certain services, such as psychiatric care, the social worker will refer her client to the appropriate resources and professionals.
Social workers advocate for their clients to ensure that their needs are met and that their rights are protected. Social workers who work in elderly homes should stay up-to-date with legislative changes and policies that can affect their clients. They are responsible for ensuring that residents are protected from abuse and neglect, and should report any suspicion of abuse or neglect to facility administrators and to appropriate regulatory and law enforcement officials.
In addition to educating her clients and their families about their rights and responsibilities, social workers also educate staff about the psychosocial needs of residents and provide training on multicultural and diversity issues. Social workers may conduct staff training seminars on these topics or discuss concerns as they arise with individual staff members. Social workers also provide consultation to the facility's administration to discuss relevant issues, such as the delivery of psychosocial care, as needed.
Social workers in elderly homes might be responsible for administrative tasks such as maintaining case files, writing case notes or reviewing treatment plans, participating in staff meetings and seminars, and contributing to quality assurance meetings.
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Leading American choreographer Dana Tai Soon Burgess and his husband Jameson Freeman have established an endowment for Dance at The University of New Mexico, Burgess’s alma mater. The Dana Tai Soon Burgess and Jameson Freeman Endowed Fund for Dance will support student learning, including student travel and lodging, as well as lodging, fees and other hospitality costs incurred to bring guest artists and guest speakers in the field of dance to the UNM Department of Theatre and Dance.
“We are grateful to Dana and Jameson for having the vision to give back to UNM and investing in our current and future dancers,” said Kymberly Pinder, dean, College of Fine Arts.
A native of Santa Fe, N.M., Burgess is the son of visual artists Joseph James Burgess, Jr. and Anna Kang Burgess. He studied dance and Asian History, graduating from UNM in 1990. As a student at UNM, he trained with Judith Chazin-Bennahum and Jennifer Predock-Linnell, who nurtured his natural talent for dance and his interest in choreography. He earned his MFA from George Washington University in 1994.
Dana Tai Soon Burgess’ career as a ground-breaking choreographer, dancer, performance artist and cultural figure has been the subject of critical acclaim around the world. He is the Smithsonian Institution’s first-ever choreographer-in-residence and serves as a cultural envoy for the US State Department. He has been referred to as “a national dance treasure” and the “poet laureate of Washington dance” by the Washington Post’s Pulitzer Prize-winning dance writer Sarah Kaufman. Dana founded the Dana Tai Soon Burgess Dance Company in 1992, now the preeminent modern dance company in the Washington, DC region.
The Dance Program at UNM endeavors to create knowledgeable and skillful dancers, guiding student academic and career goals to align with student affinities and abilities. We promote healthy physical practices in dance, encourage artistic exploration that can successfully encompass interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches to performance, enhance critical thinking skills that connect theory and practice, and provide an educational landscape that develops multicultural academic and artistic perspectives.
The vision of the program is to provide the most current, experimental, and sophisticated choreography curriculum and productions in the southwest, and to explore and value the rich tradition of dance history as a living legacy for the contemporary artist/scholar. The program promotes and utilizes national and international faculty connections for student academic and professional experience. For more information, visit the dance program website or contact Vladimir Conde-Reche: 505-277-4332, email@example.com | <urn:uuid:7ce4075b-195a-4030-a0ae-43e0db71f2c8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://news.unm.edu/news/unm-dance-alumnus-establishes-endowment | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00070.warc.gz | en | 0.940597 | 552 | 1.515625 | 2 |
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Topic: Metronomic Chemotherapy:Low-dose Chemo for Advance Cancers
Traditional chemo treatment delivers the highest doses possible to killl cancer cells along with good cells and more side effects. Metronomic is daily small dosages that are less damaging to healthy cells. This type of chemo treatment targets the endothelial cells found in tumor's vessels. By killing endothelial cells, the blood supply is cut off. Without a blood supply, cancer cells may die or tumor may shruink Tumors with out blood supplies usually remain small within 3 millimeters. Metronic chemo is sometimes called anti-angiogenic. This treatment has little to no side effect due to the smaller dosages but more frequently. Researchers are hoping this will be a way to keep cancer in check. I found this infor on the mayo Clinic site I don't know why this is not more commonly known. Read and evaluate for yourself if this site works or google search for more infor . I will be definitely checking in to this. It appears there is clinical trails for some cancers (catch 22 Phrase)
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/metron … py/CA00077
I hope this is of some interest for all and can be applicable in some way. I won't know personally until I get time to check it out further. Just another tint of hope in possibally manging the growth of cancer who knows.
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Dedication to beautification
People from across the state gathered in Webster City recently to share ideas on how to improve their communities.
Keep Iowa Beautiful, a statewide organization which aims to assist communities and organizations with cleanup and beautification projects, held its annual conference Wednesday at the Webster City Community Theatre. Over a dozen speakers discussed topics from art in rural communities to natural resources, creating a town identity and more.
Gerald Schnepf, executive director of Keep Iowa Beautiful, said Webster City was chosen to host the conference because the small town has many assets to showcase.
“When you look at the trail system, Briggs Woods Park, the rec center, the library, the theatre where we’re having the conference at, it’s all really great stuff and good models for other communities,”
While Webster City may not draw as many people as a conference in a larger city, Schnepf said it’s more important for the organization to share what small communities have to offer to others. It’s important for communities to gather those ideas, according to Schnepf, because those who labor to make their town look better reap the results.
“An attractive community retains people, retains residents, attracts new residents, attracts business and makes people have a sense of pride. A community that’s unattractive does everything in reverse,” Schnepf said. “Image is important to the cultural health and economic health of a community.”
One key element of community improvement efforts that Schnepf and other speakers discussed was the involvement of local youth. Schnepf said giving children a chance to be involved in the future of their communities ensures its long-term livelihood.
“If you don’t involve them, they don’t have ownership. What we tend to treat youngsters for is cheap labor. ‘Come out and clean up this, do that, paint that,’ rather than saying, ‘What are you ideas on what this community ought to look like?'” Schnepf said.
By getting children involved in their communities, Schnepf said it instills them with good, small town values that are important in life.
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More than 40 years after the state’s affordable housing law took effect, Milton is grappling with the prospect of the first development to be built in town under the statute.
A 300-unit development planned for a largely wooded area on the western edge of town has seen opposition from some residents, and town officials rushing to take action.
Mill Creek Residential Trust, a Texas-based company that specializes in apartment buildings, has marked out an approximately 19-acre slice of land on Brush Hill Road for the development. It would consist of three- or four-story buildings with rental town houses and apartments.
Mill Creek has not filed an official proposal, but the company’s vice president of development, Robert Hewitt, said it plans to make a filing within a month. Mill Creek executives met with Milton officials in October to discuss their plans.
“We feel that Milton is an exceptional town and that we can add benefit to the town by creating this housing product,” Hewitt said in a recent interview. “It gets [the town] on progress toward the affordable-housing goal.”
But residents near the project see it differently.
“A development of 300 families stacked on top of each other with no way to accommodate traffic is just not fair to anyone,” resident Denise Swenson said on a recent drive through the woods near her home.
The development would be proposed under the state’s Chapter 40B law, a 1969 statute that aims to encourage moderately priced homes in towns where fewer than 10 percent of the housing units meet the state’s criteria for being considered affordable.
In communities that don’t meet that threshold, 40B allows developers to bypass certain local zoning ordinances if at least 20 percent of the units in the development are set aside for people or families with low to moderate incomes.
Across the state, the law has often been controversial, as residents argue that 40B developments are too large or out of character with the neighborhoods. Still, with the help of 40B, towns such as Canton and Duxbury have made gains toward or met the 10 percent target.
Milton, however, has long been a town of single-family homes and only about 4.5 percent of its housing is classified as affordable.
“Milton just wants to remain as residential as it possibly can,” Selectman Tom Hurley said. “Anything the town sees as a threat to the residential/rural feeling tends to get pushed back. It’s just the way we are.”
Milton officials admit that the town now is facing the consequences for not setting up a plan to build affordable housing.
“As a community, we have generally been reactive,” Planning Board member Emily Keys Innes said at a recent meeting, where members discussed the need to act against the looming Mill Creek proposal.
The Planning Board, along with the Board of Selectmen, has decided to draw up a Housing Production Plan to try to stave off the project.
A Housing Production Plan specifies areas the town deems appropriate for affordable housing, along with a timeline of when that housing would be built. The Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development, one of the government bodies that reviews 40B proposals, requires towns to increase their stock of affordable housing by 0.5 percentage point a year in order to be exempt from 40B proposals.
Aaron Gornstein, department undersecretary, said a town’s efforts to meet the affordable-housing requirement is an important factor when the department evaluates 40B proposals.
“If there’s not a track record of producing affordable housing in the town, they’re going to have less leverage,” he said. “It’s something we encourage towns to be proactive about.”
Now, Milton is in a race of sorts against Mill Creek. The town wants to get its Housing Production Plan drawn up and submitted to the department before Mill Creek receives approval from MassHousing for the Brush Hill Road project.
The Planning Board will ask Town Meeting in the spring for the money to create such a plan, which Hurley said could cost anywhere from $10,000 to $30,000 and take three to six months.
“It’s something that should have been done a long time ago,” he said. “Not to stop affordable housing, but to properly identify places it should be.”
Though the timetable is unfavorable for the town, officials say they plan to try anyway. Even if the Mill Creek development gets approved, having an affordable-housing plan in place would help Milton attain the state’s 10 percent target.
Hurley said it also might be able to avert a 90-unit proposal for a 6-acre parcel on Randolph Avenue that has been put on hold due to wetlands mitigation issues.
Without a Housing Production Plan, the town is “basically at the mercy of the developer,” said Alexander Whiteside, Planning Board chairman.
The area eyed by Mill Creek is blanketed by trees, with a few clearings where three large houses sit. Those three owners have agreed to sell their land. Sonia Scheller, who resides on the largest of the three properties, declined to comment on her reasons for selling. The other two families could not be reached for comment.
Meanwhile, the neighbors can’t imagine how a 300-unit development could work in that area. They are concerned about traffic, the environment, property values, and quality of life.
Bordering the property is Hemenway Drive, a private road shared by 14 homeowners who are spread out among the woods, which they say are also home to coyotes, wild turkeys, deer, and owls.
Residents on the drive and in the surrounding acres say they bought their properties with the understanding that they would share the space with other single-family homes, not a development with hundreds of families.
“We were under the impression the land would not change,” said Mary Jeanne Langevin, who has lived with her husband, Gene, on Brush Hill Road for more than 16 years.
MassHousing’s site approval or denial generally takes 60 to 90 days. If approved, Mill Creek will apply for a comprehensive permit from the town’s Zoning Board of Appeals, opening a public hearing process that could take up to six months.
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Getting to the Olympics: Kids and Competitive Sport
The summer and winter Olympic Games, which alternate every two years, are the pinnacle of many athletes’ careers, and a lot of young people involved in sport have ambitions to be at the Olympics one day. But are competitive sports good for children, and is the aim of the Olympics a realistic goal?
Competitive Sports: The ProsCompetitive sports will stretch children’s abilities and offer them challenges and goals, as well s helping their social and leaderships skills, especially if they are part of a team or a club. Winning or improving on personal bests will give children a sense of achievement and improve their self-esteem. Not winning can also be a useful lesson to learn.
Competitive Sports: The ConsFor children that are not naturally sporty, competitive sports can put a lot of pressure on them, potentially leaving them with a sense of personal failure. For children that have a talent in sport and want to excel, training to be an elite athlete can take up the majority of their free time, which can have an impact on their school work, and leave them with little unstructured time for relaxing and hanging out with non-sporty friends. For more information about competitive sport, see ‘Should Kids Do Competitive Sports?’
About The OlympicsThe Youth Olympic Games, which began in 2010 in Singapore, are open to athletes aged 13-18. The 1st Winter Youth Olympic Games will be in Innsbruck, Austria in 2012, and the 2nd Summer Youth Olympic Games will be in Nanjing, China, in 2014. The next summer Olympics will be in London in 2012, followed by the Commonwealth Games in 2014 in Glasgow, and then the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The next Winter Olympics is in Sochi, Russia, in 2014.
Becoming an Olympic AthleteThe Youth Olympic Games could be a stepping-stone for the main summer and winter Olympic Games, and competitors for these are likely to be selected about 18 months beforehand.
In the Olympic Games, team members are selected for their potential to win medals for the country. Before selection for the Olympic Games, most athletes have been active in their sport for around ten years, and have attained world rankings in their particular sport. Not all Olympic athletes are adults:
- Marjorie Gestring (13) won a gold in springboard diving at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
- Bob Mathias (17) won a gold in the men’s decathlon at the 1948 London Olympics.
- Dmitry Nelyubin (17) won a gold in the men’s cycling at the 1988 Seoul Olympics.
- Fu Mingxia (13) won a gold in the women’s platform diving at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.
- Lipinski (15) won a gold in the women’s figure skating at the 1928 St Moritz Winter Olympics.
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Discussion Board Post A) As smartphones become increasingly ubiquitous, we continue to hear that nearly all of our personal data and activity can be potentially collected, shared, and used to target us in one way or another. As more patients begin to use their mobile devices for monitoring their health and for accessing, storing, sending, and receiving their health data, what are the dangers if these data are not secure and protected? Do the concerns extend beyond unwanted targeted advertising? (Consider issues such as patient data being accessed by health insurers, employers, or potential employers.) B) Perform online research to locate RECs in our geographic region. (Madison County, FL) What resources does the REC offer? C) What qualities and characteristics are necessary to be an effective informatics nurse in the public policy arena? How are these skills unique or somewhat different from the characteristics that make a good nurse in general? How are they the same? That is, what required traits are shared to perform these roles?
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Entry to School
Welcome to the Toronto District School Board! We hope to make your entering our school board an easy and inviting experience. We have provided some frequently asked questions to support you. If at any time you require further assistance, kindly reach out to the Principal at your local school or email us at: email@example.com
Frequently Asked Questions:
My child has special education needs and I want my child to remain in our local school in a regular class, can I do that?
Yes, we support inclusion. If your child is entering a TDSB school and has special education needs, contact your local school as soon as possible to discuss registration and set up an appointment with the Principal. At this meeting, you will be able to share your child's needs, provide any related documentation and create an entry plan, which may include special education support.
Following registration, most students will be placed in a regular classroom at their local school.
Besides the Principal, who can help me navigate the TDSB system?
Your local school Principal should be your first point of contact and can assist you with any of your concerns. TDSB also has Special Education and Inclusion Consultants assigned to your local school that can help you navigate the system and address any of your concerns.
I heard TDSB has a Special Education Program Recommendation Committee (SEPRC) to help fast track my child into an Intensive Support Program (ISP), how do I access this?
This process is designed to support families whose child has complex medical and/or physical needs. Schools register students and they are placed in the regular classroom. If a parent(s)/guardian(s) strongly believes the child would benefit from an ISP, the parent(s)/guardian(s) request a SEPRC to the local Principal.
The SEPRC recommends whether or not an intensive support special education program (ISP) would be required for a student upon enrolment in a TDSB school. Six to nine months after the student has been in the program, an IPRC will take place to decide if a student is exceptional and if the placement in the program is appropriate to meet the child’s strengths and needs. Children in kindergarten intensive support programs will be referred to an IPRC during their senior kindergarten year, in preparation for the following year.
What if I have questions and would like to connect with other parents who have children with special education needs; what is SEAC?
TDSB has a supportive group of parents and community association representatives that make up the Special Education Advisory Committee (SEAC) that you can reach out to. Contact information for the current SEAC membership
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Politician: Iraq Not to Become Base for Foreign Powers
Speaking to FNA on Wednesday, Fouzi Akram said Saudi Arabia doesn’t like to see Baghdad having constructive relations with its neighbors, adding that to this end it has adopted a hosdpilte policy since 2003.
Akram, who is also a former Iraqi MP, said because of the Saudi medlding in Iraq’s internal affairs, the Iraqis don’t hold a positive view on Riyadh.
He said Riyadh seeks to restore the former Baathist regime in Iraq which is wishful thinking as “Iraq will never return to its old days.”
On the same note, Iranian Ambassador to Serbia Majid Fahimpour described Iran and Saudi Arabia as two major Muslim states, and stressed that Riyadh is suffering from groundless Iranophobia illusions.
“The illusion of Iranophobia in Saudi Arabia is baseless; their interests lie in peaceful and friendly coexistence with a big and strong country like Iran,” Fahimpour said in an interview with Radio Sputnik in Belgrade on March 19.
Asked about Iran-Saudi Arabia relations, he said despite differences between the two countries on some regional issues, Iran and Saudi Arabia are two very important countries of the Muslim world that can resolve the problems in Syria and Yemen through dialogue and negotiations.
Fahimpour said that the Iranian officials have several times invited their Saudi counterparts to negotiations and talks to help resolve the existing problems.
In relevant remarks in February, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif lashed out at Saudi Arabia for its warmongering policies against neighbors.
Noting that terrorism and extremism are common threats and challenges to the world community, he said collective measures and policies are needed to fight back.
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Putting Wealth to Work
Oil revenues have made Trinidad & Tobago a rich little country and exporter of capital. The government's challenge is to channel some of that money into the local economy.
Vast offshore deposits of natural gas surround the tiny
island republic of Trinidad & Tobago. With
crude oil revenues generating 77% of the country's foreign
exchange revenues, and probable natural gas reserves of up to
80 trillion cubic feet lying within its jurisdiction,
Trinidad&Tobago is an island of wealth. Last year, the
country attracted the highest level of foreign direct
investment on a per capita basis for a western hemisphere
country. Its $5,126 per capita income was the highest in the
Caribbean. Since 1995, an annual average of $1 billion in
foreign direct investment has poured into Trinidad
& Tobago, coming mostly from oil and gas companies
paying to develop the country's natural gas reserves. Yet
Trinidad & Tobago cannot absorb the capital
inflows. According to the central bank, Trinidadian financial
institutions exported $352 million in capital in 1999 in the
form of bank lending, acquisitions and bond...
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Extriplex californica (Moq.) E.H. Zacharias
Habit: Plant < 3 dm, < 8 dm wide; taproot thick, +- fleshy; monoecious. Leaf: proximal opposite; blade 5--24 mm, entire, gray-scaly, base acute. Seed: +- 2 mm, black. Chromosomes: 2n=18.
Ecology: Sandy soils, coastal dunes, sea bluffs, scrub, salt marshes; Elevation: < 200 m. Bioregional Distribution: s NCo, CCo, SCo, ChI; Distribution Outside California: Baja California. Flowering Time: Apr--Oct
Synonyms: Atriplex californica Moq.
eFlora Treatment Author: Elizabeth H. Zacharias, as part of Atriplex
Jepson Online Interchange
Previous taxon: Extriplex
Next taxon: Extriplex joaquinana
Citation for this treatment: Elizabeth H. Zacharias, as part of Atriplex 2017. Extriplex californica, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_IJM.pl?tid=95361, accessed on January 17, 2017.
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- Long-term trends in river flows due to climate change are difficult to detect due to substantial inter annual and decadal variability as well as modifications to natural water flows arising from water abstractions, man-made reservoirs and land-use changes. Nevertheless, increased river flows during winter and lower river flows during summer have been recorded since the 1960s in large parts of Europe.
- Climate change is projected to result in strong changes in the seasonality of river flows across Europe. Summer flows are projected to decrease in most of Europe, including in regions where annual flows are projected to increase.
What is the trend in mean river flow in different seasons across Europe?
Trends in monthly stream flow for the period 1962-2004
Note: Trend given as standard deviations per year for monthly stream flow. Red colours mark decreases in stream flow whereas blue colours mark increases in stream flow.
- Flow Regime for International Experiment and Network Data (FRIEND) based on Unesco's European Water Archive (EWA) provided by Flow Regimes from International Experimental and Network Data (FRIEND Network)
Projected change in average annual and seasonal river flow
Note: Projected change in mean annual and seasonal river flow between the climate change scenario (SRES A1B, 2071-2100) and the control period (1961-1990). Simulations with LISFLOOD based on an ensemble of 11 RCMs.
- Assessment of Future Flood Hazard in Europe Using a Large Ensemble of Bias Corrected Regional Climate Simulations provided by American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Projected change in daily average river flow for four rivers
Note: Projected river flow 2071-2100 (green line) and the observed river flow 1961-1990 (orange line)
Dankers, R.; Feyen, L., 2008a. Climate change impacts on river flow in Europe (manuscript in preparation).
Based on observations and past trends, human interventions in catchments including water abstractions, river regulation and land-use change have considerably altered river flow regimes in large parts of Europe, making it difficult to discern any climate-driven changes in river flow to date. However, a comprehensive recent study has investigated time series of river flows in more than 400 small catchments with near-natural flow regimes to overcome these limitations [i]. The study finds indicate that annual river flow has generally decreased over the period 1962 – 2004 in southern and eastern Europe, and it has increased elsewhere. These findings are broadly consistent results from earlier studies (e.g. [ii]. Seasonal changes are also apparent, with a decreased flow in summer months and an increase in winter months in most catchments (see Figure 1). Similar results were found in national and regional studies [iii].
The magnitude of the observed seasonal changes clearly raises concerns for water resource management both today and in future decades. To date, however, despite the evidence of monthly changes to flow, there is no conclusive evidence that low river flows have generally become more severe or frequent in Europe during recent decades [iv].
Annual river flow is projected to decrease in southern and south-eastern Europe and increase in northern and north-eastern Europe [v]. Strong changes are projected in the seasonality of river flows, with large differences across Europe. Winter and spring river flows are projected to further increase in most parts of Europe, except for the most southern and south-eastern regions, which would exacerbate the observed trend. In summer and autumn, river flows are projected to decrease in most of Europe, except for northern and north-eastern regions where they are projected to increase (see Figure 2) [vi]. Such a trend cannot be seen that clear in the observed monthly stream flow for the period 1962-2004 (Figure 1).
In snow dominated regions, such as the Alps, Scandinavia and parts of the Baltic, the fall in winter retention as snow, earlier snowmelt and reduced summer precipitation is projected to increase river flows in winter and reduce them in summer, when demand is typically highest [vii]. For most parts of Europe the peak of the average daily flow for 2071-2100 is projected to occur earlier in the year compared to observations. For Northern Europe a slight increase of the peak of average daily flow is projected compared to a decrease in the other stations evaluated (see Figure 3).
[i] K. Stahl et al., „Streamflow trends in Europe: evidence from a dataset of near-natural catchments“, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 14, Nr. 12 (Dezember 1, 2010): 2367–2382, doi:10.5194/hess-14-2367-2010.
[ii] P. C. D. Milly, K. A. Dunne, and A. V. Vecchia, „Global Pattern of Trends in Streamflow and Water Availability in a Changing Climate“, Nature 438, Nr. 7066 (November 17, 2005): 347–350, doi:10.1038/nature04312.
[iii] Marius-Victor Birsan et al., „Streamflow trends in Switzerland“, Journal of Hydrology 314, Nr. 1–4 (November 2005): 312–329, doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2005.06.008; Donna Wilson, Hege Hisdal, and Deborah Lawrence, „Has streamflow changed in the Nordic countries? – Recent trends and comparisons to hydrological projections“, Journal of Hydrology 394, Nr. 3–4 (November 26, 2010): 334–346, doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2010.09.010.
[iv] K. Stahl et al., Trends in Low Flows and Streamflow Droughts Across Europe (Paris: UNESCO, 2008), http://library.wur.nl/WebQuery/wurpubs/374150.
[v] Milly, Dunne, and Vecchia, „Global Pattern of Trends in Streamflow and Water Availability in a Changing Climate“; Joseph Alcamo, Martina Flörke, and Michael Märker, „Future long-term changes in global water resources driven by socio-economic and climatic changes“, Hydrological Sciences Journal 52, Nr. 2 (April 2007): 247–275, doi:10.1623/hysj.52.2.247; Rutger Dankers and Luc Feyen, „Flood hazard in Europe in an ensemble of regional climate scenarios“, Journal of Geophysical Research 114, Nr. D16 (August 27, 2009), doi:10.1029/2008JD011523.
[vi] R. Rojas et al., „Assessment of Future Flood Hazard in Europe Using a Large Ensemble of Bias Corrected Regional Climate Simulations“, Journal of Geophysical Research Nr. in press (2012), doi:10.1029/2012JD017461.
[vii] Martin Beniston, Markus Stoffel, and Margot Hill, „Impacts of climatic change on water and natural hazardsin the Alps: Can current water governance cope with future challenges? Examples from the European ‘‘ACQWA’’ project“, Environmental Science and Policy 14, Nr. 7 (2011): 734–743, doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2010.12.009; BAFU, Auswirkungen der Klimaänderung auf Wasserressourcen and Gewässer: Synthesebericht zum Projekt «Klimaänderung and Hydrologie in der Schweiz» (CCHydro) (Bern: Bundesamt für Umwelt, 2012).
Indicator specification and metadata
This indicator shows the trends in monthly stream flow over more than 4 decades for locations across Europe.
The indicator also shows the projected change in annual and seasonal river flow in Europe for 2071-2100 (SRES A1B scenario) compared to 1961-1990.
For some selected locations, the projected change in daily average river flow for 2071-2100 compared to 1961-1990 is shown.
The units are respectively
- the standard deviation per year (sigma/year)
- percentage (%)
- cubic metres per second (m³/s)
Policy context and targets
In April 2013 the European Commission presented the EU Adaptation Strategy Package (http://ec.europa.eu/clima/policies/adaptation/what/documentation_en.htm). This package consists of the EU Strategy on adaptation to climate change (COM/2013/0216 final) and a number of supporting documents. One of the objectives of the EU Adaptation Strategy is Better informed decision-making, which should occur through Bridging the knowledge gap and Further developing Climate-ADAPT as the ‘one-stop shop’ for adaptation information in Europe. Further objectives include Promoting action by Member States and Climate-proofing EU action: promoting adaptation in key vulnerable sectors. Many EU Member States have already taken action, such as by adopting national adaptation strategies, and several have also prepared action plans on climate change adaptation.
The European Commission and the European Environment Agency have developed the European Climate Adaptation Platform (Climate-ADAPT, http://climate-adapt.eea.europa.eu/) to share knowledge on observed and projected climate change and its impacts on environmental and social systems and on human health; on relevant research; on EU, national and subnational adaptation strategies and plans; and on adaptation case studies.
No targets have been specified.
Related policy documents
A Blueprint to Safeguard Europe's Water Resources
COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE COUNCIL, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE AND THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS A Blueprint to Safeguard Europe's Water Resources /* COM/2012/0673 final */
Climate-ADAPT: Mainstreaming adaptation in EU sector policies
Overview of EU sector policies in which mainstreaming of adaptation to climate change is ongoing or explored
Climate-ADAPT: National adaptation strategies
Overview of activities of EEA member countries in preparing, developing and implementing adaptation strategies
DG CLIMA: Adaptation to climate change
Adaptation means anticipating the adverse effects of climate change and taking appropriate action to prevent or minimise the damage they can cause, or taking advantage of opportunities that may arise. It has been shown that well planned, early adaptation action saves money and lives in the future. This web portal provides information on all adaptation activities of the European Commission.
Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy
EC (2000). Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy. OJ L327, 22.12.2000.
Directive 2007/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the assessment and management of flood risks
Directive 2007/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2007 on the assessment and management of flood risks (Text with EEA relevance) OJ L 288, 06/11/2007, p. 27–34
EU Adaptation Strategy Package
In April 2013, the European Commission adopted an EU strategy on adaptation to climate change, which has been welcomed by the EU Member States. The strategy aims to make Europe more climate-resilient. By taking a coherent approach and providing for improved coordination, it enhances the preparedness and capacity of all governance levels to respond to the impacts of climate change.
Methodology for indicator calculation
Streamflow trends are calculated by the slopes of the Kendall-Theil robust line for standardized annual and monthly streamflow, as well as for summer low flow magnitude and timing. Streamflow records from 441 small catchments in 15 countries across Europe.
Projected change in mean annual and seasonal river flow between the climate change scenario (SRES A1B, 2071–2100) and the control period (1961–1990) are shown. Simulations with LISFLOOD based on an ensemble of 11 RCMs.
Projected change in daily average river flow between 1961–1990 (black line) and 2071–2100 (blue line) were simulated with LISFLOOD and driven by HIRHAM – HadAM3H/HadCM3 based on IPCC scenario A2.
Methodology for gap filling
- Stahl et al. (2010) Streamflow trends in Europe: evidence from a dataset of near-natural catchments. Stahl, K., Hisdal, H., Hannaford, J., Tallaksen, L. M., van Lanen, H. A. J., Sauquet, E., Demuth, S., Fendekova, M. and Jódar, J., Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 14(12), 2367–2382. doi:10.5194/hess-14-2367-2010
- Rojas et al. (2012) Assessment of Future Flood Hazard in Europe Using a Large Ensemble of Bias Corrected Regional Climate Simulations. Rojas, R., Feyen, L., Bianchi, A. and Dosio, A. Journal of Geophysical Research (in press). doi:10.1029/2012JD017461
Data sets uncertainty
Detailed data on water quantity is often difficult to assess, and homogeneous time series are generally shorter than those for meteorological data. It may, therefore, require substantially more time before statistically significant changes in hydrological variables can be observed than for meteorological variables, especially with respect to extreme events (floods and droughts). Quantitative projections of changes in precipitation and river flows at the basin scale remain highly uncertain due to the limitations of climate models and to scaling issues between climate and hydrological models.
Further information on uncertainties is provided in Section 1.7 of the EEA report on Climate change, impacts, and vulnerability in Europe 2012 (http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/climate-impacts-and-vulnerability-2012/)
No uncertainty has been specified
Global trends in streamflow and water availability
provided by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Climate change mitigation (Primary topic)
Typology: Descriptive indicator (Type A - What is happening to the environment and to humans?)
- CLIM 016
Contacts and ownership
EEA Contact InfoWouter Vanneuville
EEA Management Plan2014 1.4.1 (note: EEA internal system)
Frequency of updates
For references, please go to http://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/indicators/river-flow-2/assessment or scan the QR code.
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