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Connecting the Knowledge Ecosystem Founded in 2019 at Columbia University, The Knowledge Graphs Conference is emerging as the premiere source of learning around knowledge graph technologies. We believe knowledge graphs are an underutilized yet essential force for solving complex societal challenges like climate change, democratizing access to knowledge and opportunity, and capturing business value made possible by the AI revolution.
KGC bridges the gap between industry, which is increasingly recognizing the necessity of integrated data, and academia, where semantic technologies have been developing for over twenty years. Our events, education, content, and community efforts facilitate meaningful exchange between diverse groups, and increase awareness, development and adoption of this powerful technology.
Conference – bridging the gap between research and industry
We organize workshops and tutorials to progress a number of Tech4Good themes, targeting objectives such as the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the development of a COVID-19 vaccine. At our most recent conference, 530 attendees participated, representing over thirty industries across forty-two countries. Speakers ranged from Bell Labs pioneer John Sowa to Morgan Stanley, AstraZeneca, and leading academics from Europe and USA. A variety of workshops and tutorials were also given, including several on tech4good themes–from the UN SDGs to personal health graphs and fake news.
KGC Vision and Values
Our goal is to build the community and become a leading source of learning around knowledge graphs.
We will achieve this by engaging and convening industry leaders and innovators, across sectors.
We will focus on the diversity of perspectives:
Professional Diversity: Industry practitioners, Business Users, Faculty, Scientists, Students
Gender & Age diversity
We will gather, share and publish content to increase learning.
We will build the community online and in-person through our content, meetups and conferences.
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Integrating data from knowledge graphs to enhance library discovery
As part of the Linked Data For Production: Pathway to Implementation (LD4P2) project’s larger goal of building a pathway to the use of linked data in the description of library resources, we are exploring the integration of linked data sources in library discovery interfaces. Through a series of focused experiments and prototype building, aided by user studies and feedback, we have explored linking and displaying connections between library catalog data and linked data sources such as Wikidata and DbPedia as well as library authorities such as FAST, Library of Congress Subject Headings, and the Library of Congress Name Authority File. Examples of areas we investigated for the integration of linked data include: knowledge panels bringing in contextual information and relationships from knowledge graphs like Wikidata to describe people and subjects related to library resources in the catalog; suggested searches based on user-entered queries using results from Wikidata and DbPedia; and browsing experiences for subjects and authors bringing in relationships and data from Wikidata and library authorities. In this presentation, we will review the challenges and opportunities with bringing in information from external knowledge graphs into a library catalog to support discovery. LD4P2 (http://ld4p.org) is a multi-institution collaborative effort funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. | <urn:uuid:fb1c7b23-5389-4e65-9c42-0b85b356ff87> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://watch.knowledgegraph.tech/packages/kgc-21-attendees/videos/d2-v12-huda-khan | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573667.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819100644-20220819130644-00073.warc.gz | en | 0.915174 | 661 | 1.726563 | 2 |
COP16 Side Event: A green economy and the renewal of political commitment to sustainable development
Statement by Mr. Sha Zukang, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, Secretary-General for the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development
8 December 2010, Cancun
His Excellency Maanee Lee,
Dr. Supachai Panichpakdi,
Mr. Achim Steiner,
Ladies and gentlemen,
I am honoured to join Dr. Supachai and Achim Steiner at this event on the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development or Rio+20.
I am especially delighted to welcome His Excellency Maanee Lee, Minister for the Environment from the Republic of Korea.
I am sure that all of you are familiar with the upcoming Rio+20 Conference.
Convened by the UN General Assembly, the Conference will take place in Rio de Janeiro in 2012.
Its objectives are to secure renewed political commitment for sustainable development, assess progress to date and gaps in implementation, and address new and add emerging challenges.
The themes of the Conference are the topics of our discussion today, namely a green economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication and the institutional framework for sustainable development.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon has appointed me as the Secretary-General of the Conference. It is a weighty responsibility and I am giving it my utmost attention and commitment.
I know that for the Conference and its outcomes to be successful, I must listen to you – stakeholders from government, civil society, academia and the private sector…
And I must work with my colleagues in the UN system, including those who have helped organized today’s event.
My role is to serve you.
I do not pretend to be an expert on all sustainable development issues.
My colleague Achim Steiner is an authority on the green economy, and my friend Dr. Supachai has held senior government positions and he is a renowned expert.
I am a career diplomat, steeped in politics, and I can speak to you from a politician’s perspective on why this conference is so important.
First, let me say that I am not interested in birthdays. Despite its symbolic significance, it is not of much consequence that the Conference marks the 20th anniversary of the first sustainable development conference in Rio.
The conference is needed because of the state of our world today.
So many countries are still experiencing the fall out of the recent financial and economic crisis. It has caused enormous social distress and impeded progress on the Millennium Development Goals.
The economic crisis, compounded with the food and energy crisis, and the looming problem of climate change, could lead to a world overshadowed by fear, cynicism, and despair.
Some ask if sustained economic growth is still possible.
Others ask why the response to climate change is so slow.
Developing countries fear the abandonment of the development agenda.
Developed countries have yet to fully grasp the broad impact of emerging economies.
Small island states are anxious to simply survive.
But, ladies and gentlemen, there is also good news.
In recent years we have seen rapid growth and poverty reduction in developing countries.
We have also seen a huge expansion in sustainable development programmes – those that tackle economic, social and environmental challenges all at once.
Many of these programmes can serve as pillars of a green economy…programmes on renewable energy… energy efficiency…waste management…afforestation…integrated water management and sustainable agriculture.
We have seen enormous creativity.
New technologies are being diffused at a breathtaking speed. There are new forms of collaboration, corporate responsibility movements, dynamic city governments and new and widening circles of leadership. The G6 became the G8 and is now the G20, marking the changing global economic landscape.
So, while progress in implementation has been slow, we are not starting from scratch.
But we need to do more.
At events like this one today, we can start by asking ourselves hard questions.
But first, let me clarify at the outset that we are for a green economy.
The General Assembly has decided to focus on a green economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication and the institutional framework for sustainable development, because progress in these two areas is critical for accelerating implementation, through harmonizing the relations between growth and environment and through building up institutions for advancing implementation.
In that sense, a green economy is seen as holding the key to faster implementation of sustainable development. A green economy provides the missing entry point to accelerated progress. It offers new avenues and opportunities for pursuing the integration of the social, economic and environmental pillars of sustainable development.
The green economy serves as a lever that can leverage actions in a broad spectrum of economic sectors, generating momentum for poverty eradication, economic transformation and increased incentives for a real paradigm shift characterized by low inputs, low emissions, low wastes, higher efficiency in resource uses and better product designs,.
But many questions remain unanswered Allow me to pose those in the hope that they will stimulate the discussions today.
First, is the goal of a green economy in any way putting at risk the imperative for growth and development in developing countries?
The economic challenges facing developing countries vary, depending on the size of the economy, the stages of development and other relevant factors. Will they be in a position to implement one-size-fits all solutions?
Will aid-dependent countries be forced to reorder their investment priorities?
Will countries appease their domestic constituencies by imposing new forms of trade protectionism or aid conditionality under the green banner?
Central to the questions is the uncomfortable – yet unavoidable – topic of how much it will cost to implement a green economy.
How will the costs and risks be distributed?
These are real concerns of developing countries. Because of these concerns, a green economy was not included in the outcome document of the MDG Summit.
Now, even for some developed countries, there is also the question of whether they will be able to change the historical pattern of growth and change their unsustainable production and consumption patterns,
I know that Achim’s remarks will address all these questions.
Second, is a green economy an incarnation of the Washington Consensus – that is, an embodiment of laisser-faire free market tenets?
Given the preoccupation of many green economy advocates with market solutions, will it end up restricting the policy space for developing countries?
In this regard, there is also another concern – how did the word growth disappear from this discourse?
Growth has been central to narrowing the gap between rich and poor countries, achieving MDGs, and building capacity for integrated policies, but it is no longer mentioned in green economy advocacy efforts
Nor is financing and technology support highlighted in the discussion. Clearly we will need both to make progress in a green economy. The question is how.
I hope Dr Supachai’s insights will help kick off this discussion.
Thirdly, how can the international community assist countries to prepare for and later implement the outcomes of Rio+20?
If Member States are able to reach agreement and tap into the potentials of the green economy, there will be a better chance to reach agreement on the institutional framework for sustainable development and on coordinated and integrated follow-up, including through capacity development.
In this regard, I am delighted that His Excellency Maanee Lee is able to join us today.
The Republic of Korea and the United Nations have agreed to establish a new Office on Sustainable Development, in Inchon, Korea. It will be dedicated to providing technical assistance to developing countries.
We will use this occasion to sign our formal agreement on this office – to demonstrate our common resolve and to place the questi
on of capacity building on the table.
I hope Minister Lee’s intervention will generate a dynamic discussion from the audience on this issue.
Ladies and gentlemen,
As I said in the beginning, I am a political animal.
The job of a politician is to bring agendas and constituencies together, to find practical ways of moving forward, and to enhance synergies.
This, in the end, is what sustainable development is all about.
It is why I am excited by what we can achieve at Rio in 2012.
I hope all of you will join us on this exciting journey, and that the younger audience members will continue to carry the flag of sustainable development when my generation passes from the scene.
As my Brazilian friends say, “a luta continua” – onward with our struggle.
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News at NECHV
The Human Services team at the New England Center and Home for Veterans continues to lead the way in providing compassionate and effective care to the most vulnerable Veterans.
The Human Services team at the New England Center and Home for Veterans continues to lead the way in providing compassionate and effective care to the most vulnerable Veterans. Staff recently attended international and national conferences to share the success they have had using progressive models of care and innovative partnerships after moving away from a less effective “abstinence-only” model that is still practiced by many service providers today.
The abstinence-only policies at the NECHV required Veterans to maintain abstinence from alcohol or drugs in order to receive services at the Center. While this model worked for Veterans who were able to maintain sobriety, Veterans who struggled to adhere to abstinence-only policies often slipped through the cracks. The newer model of care, which has been in practice since 2015, is characterized by trauma-informed care and harm reduction principles. Trauma-informed care recognizes the far-reaching impact of trauma and its signs and symptoms in order to facilitate healing. Harm reduction seeks to minimize the risks associated with substance use disorder, while not necessarily focusing on abstinence. While this approach allows all Veterans, including those who live with complex challenges, to receive needed services, there are still barriers that prevent Veterans from seeking care.
Together with the Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program (BHCHP), the NECHV aims to reduce barriers to accessing care and treatment. Lena Asmar, MSW, LICSW, Director of the Veteran 360 Behavioral Health Programs at the NECHV and Geren Stone, MD, of the BHCHP, presented their collaborative efforts at the 2018 National Coalition for Homeless Veterans (NCHV) Annual Conference. For example, to address a barrier like distrust of providers, something that is often based on previous bad experiences with providers or systems of care that are difficult to navigate, the NECHV/BHCHP partnership works to meet Veterans “where they are at.” BHCHP operates a clinic inside the NECHV that provides services from primary care to addiction treatment. Doctors even make weekly house calls to Veterans living in the single resident occupancy units at the Center.
These efforts to reduce care and treatment barriers include a program called Office-Based Addictions Treatment (OBAT). OBAT was started to address the impact of the current opioid epidemic in a realistic way. By using a harm reduction approach, providers are able to engage Veterans who are actively using substances in a welcoming environment, without judgement. By discussing with them ways they can minimize the risks that come with active substance use, case managers and clinicians can build a trusting relationship with Veterans to make sure they stay engaged in care. That relationship is key to giving Veterans a higher chance of success. In addition to addiction treatment, the clinic also offers hepatitis C treatment.
OBAT is just a piece of a larger program focused on working with Veterans who have been diagnosed with Opioid Use Disorder. Asmar and NECHV’s Vice President of Human Services Kristine DiNardo, M.Ed., LMHC, presented NECHV’s strategies for supporting Veterans with Opioid Use Disorder at the International Conference on Veterans Healthcare in Amsterdam, Netherlands, such as training staff in overdose prevention and naloxone administration. Asmar, Stone, and DiNardo hope the audience members at the conferences are inspired to launch similar collaborative programs of their own.
NECHV is also leading the way in housing Veterans. Veterans Welcome Home Housing Specialist Sia Vissering, MSW, LCSW, Veterans Welcome Home Case Manager Chelsea Maillett, BS, and NECHV Director of Housing Services Sean Terry also attended NCHV to present their work. In their presentation Street to Home: Progressive Engagement and Stages of Change, Vissering and Maillett discussed their strategies for helping chronically homeless Veterans use their strengths to find housing. By using progressive engagement techniques, motivational interviewing, and the stages of change model to determine a Veteran’s readiness to move forward, Vissering and Maillett are able to identify the areas in which Veterans are struggling in regards to housing, determine what they need to help them overcome those barriers, and help them find the motivation to achieve their housing goals. Sean Terry’s presentation Meeting the Housing and Employment Needs of Chronically Homeless Veterans provided an overview of strategies to overcome the multiple complex barriers chronically homeless Veterans face to help them achieve stable housing and employment.
“There are bound to be challenges when we move into new environments.” – Sia Vissering of the @NECHV. These challenges typically arise during attempts to resolve homeless veterans’ housing crises, but leveraging their strengths can help them overcome. #NCHV18 pic.twitter.com/MuB6kxHux8
— NCHV (@NCHVorg) June 1, 2018
The NECHV continues to be a leader in providing human services to Veterans in a way that recognizes their humanity and autonomy, offers a judgement-free setting in which to discuss treatment options, and keeps an avenue to recovery open, even if Veterans are not ready to take that step. By sharing their successes with other Veteran services organizations, the NECHV seeks to inspire a new way of care for Veterans nationwide.
CONTACT ADVANCEMENT TEAM
New England Center and Home for Veterans
17 Court Street
Boston, MA 02108
Charlene F. Pontbriand
Senior Vice President, Advancement
Mark O. Gough
Director of Corporation and Foundation Relations
Director of Sponsorships and Events
Philanthropic Officer, Community Engagement
Lead Development Associate
Development Systems Manager
The New England Center and Home for Veterans is pleased to announce that the annual Greater Boston Stand Down will take place on Friday, September 9, 2022 at Boston City Hall Plaza. This yearly event brings together community providers and Veterans in one place to provide Veterans easy access to services and employment opportunities.
As in past years, over 100 service providers, employers, and community organizations are expected to turn out and provide essential supportive services, including housing assistance, medical care and wellness programs, legal support and employment assistance. Veterans will also be able to enjoy a free lunch and live entertainment.
Important information for Veterans planning to attend:
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The Starostin brothers After 75 years, Russia has finally declassified a case against four soccer legends accused of plotting to assassinate Stalin
On June 20, the newspaper Kommersant published an article revealing new details about the criminal case against Nikolai Starostin, the founder of the Spartak Moscow soccer club, and his three brothers, who played on the team — all of whom were arrested in 1942. The Federal Security Service finally declassified the first two volumes of the case in June 2018, making the documents available to researchers. The rest of the case materials will be unsealed next year. The Soviet authorities tried to convict these brothers — now legends of Russian soccer — of plotting to assassinate Joseph Stalin at the 1937 May Day Parade in a series of terrorist attacks.
In 1935, Nikolai Starostin founded the “Spartak” sports society, modeled on the “Pischevik” soccer club. A year later, the first Soviet soccer championship took place, and Spartak instantly became one of the most popular teams in the country, catapulting its players to stardom.
In July 1937, Stalin summon Alexander Kosarev (the head of the Soviet All-Union Leninist Young Communist League) and asked for an update on the fight against “enemies of the people” within the Komsomol. Kosarev explained that his organization didn’t have any enemies of the people, but Stalin didn't like that answer, and a few days later he secretly ordered a “repression operation” against “anti-Soviet elements.” Police immediately started investigating the Staristin brothers, who were among Kosarev's closest friends.
On August 13, 1937, the Spartak team returned from Paris, after winning an international tournament. The players were surprised to find, however, that nobody showed up to welcome them home. That September, Soviet newspapers started running articles slamming the Staristin brothers for supposed bourgeois sympathies and aspirations of becoming professional soccer players, which was illegal in the USSR, where all athletes at least formally combined their competitive play and industrial work.
Between December 1937 and January 1938, police arrested 11 people with personal ties to the Starostins. The first man taken into custody was Viktor Ryabokon, a referee, who later testified that Nikolai Starostin had plotted a terrorist attack against Joseph Stalin. In February, police arrested several more people close to the Staristin brothers. Everyone arrested told investigators the same story: On May 1, 1937, a group under Nikolai Starostin’s command planned to carry out a series of terrorist attacks during the May Day Parade at Red Square. A bomb was supposed to go off inside the Lenin Mausoleum, and gunmen stationed in the square and atop the “GUM” State Department Store were going to shoot Stalin. Investigators concluded that the assassination never took place due to poor planning. Researchers from the “Memorial” human rights group told Kommersant that these testimonies were almost certainly obtained through torture.
By mid-1938, most of the people arrested over the preceding six months had been sentenced to death and shot. Kosarev, the man who assured Stalin that he needn’t fear “enemies of the people” in the Komsomol, was executed in February 1939.
In March 1942, police arrested Nikolai, Andrey, and Peter Starostin. Their brother Alexander was arrested in October. Then, according to the partially declassified police records, someone apparently intervened and started protecting the Starostin brothers. Initially, prosecutors wanted to try them for treason, but these political charges were ultimately dropped for lesser economic offenses. As Nikolai Starostin wrote in his memoirs, the case “was reduced to allegations of stealing a wagon loaded with textiles, and in the end they had to sink to the absurdity of [charging us] with propagating the mores of bourgeois sports.”
In 1943, the brothers were each sentenced to 10 years in prison for alleged anti-Soviet agitation, accepting bribes, and embezzlement. In 1945, supposedly at the request of his son, Vasily (a soccer fan), Stalin pardoned Nikolai Starostin. The other brothers had to serve out their entire sentences. In 1955, the case was reopened and the original verdict was overturned.
The criminal case against the Starostins is no secret; the brothers wrote about their prison sentences in their memoirs. The case materials, however, have been sealed for 75 years, and the actual essence of the charges against them weren’t known officially until now. The “Memorial” human rights group says it will publish a special project on its website where it will explore the case files in detail for the first time.
The first people sentenced to execution by firing squad were Trofim Kadrileyev and Vladimir Strepikcheyev on January 21, 1938. By mid-1938, most of the arrested athletes had been sentenced to death. “But what’s interesting is that any mention of the Starostins disappeared from every verdict and criminal indictment. It turns out that everything during the investigation was leading up to their arrests, but when it came time for a verdict their names disappeared everywhere,” says Memorial historian Sergey Bondarenko. | <urn:uuid:3771af5f-a2e4-486d-9156-cc117326a8c1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://meduza.io/en/feature/2018/06/21/the-starostin-brothers | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00678.warc.gz | en | 0.976628 | 1,106 | 2.125 | 2 |
The words ton, tonne, tun sound the same but have different meanings and spellings. Why do ton, tonne, tun sound the same even though they are completely different words?
The answer is simple: ton, tonne, tun are homophones of the English language.
A unit of weight equal to 2,000 pounds (0.907 metric ton or 907.18 kilograms). Also called net ton, short ton.
A unit of weight equal to 2,240 pounds (1.016 metric tons or 1,016.05 kilograms). Also called long ton.
A metric ton. See Table at measurement.
A unit of capacity for cargo in maritime shipping, normally estimated at 40 cubic feet.
A metric ton.
A large cask for liquids, especially wine.
A measure of liquid capacity, especially one equivalent to approximately 252 gallons (954 liters).
Definitions from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition and Wordnik.
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“Kensaki Ika/ケンサキ烏賊 goes by the Latin name of Loligo (Photololigo) edulis Hoyle,1885, but that complicated name does not prevent this particular squid to be extremely popular in Japan!
It is of course known under other local names: Ak Ika/Red Squid, especially in Shizuoka, Budo Ika/Grapes Squid, Shiro Ika, Gotou Ika.
They will soon appear in the markets in Summer.
They are mainly caught by line.
They are more and more available live, so great specimens can be easily bought.
They are a very versatile kind of squid as they can be appreciated as sashimi, sushi, simmered, boiled, broiled, dried, and especially as tempura!
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मीटर, इंच लांबीचे माप, छंद, वृत्त, (वीज, गॅस इ.च्या वापराचे) मोजमाप करणारे यंत्र
Noun(1) the basic unit of length adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites (approximately 1.094 yards(2) (prosody(3) rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration
(1) Individual coal balls range from a few centimetres to over a metre in length.(2) the Horatian ode has an intricate governing metre(3) the wall was less than a metre high(4) Form poems are also noted for their traditional use of rhyme, metre and stanza.(5) Skelton used the octosyllabic metre , and a rough manner which was to be paralleled in later times by Butler in Hudibras, and by Swift.(6) Rates of sedimentation may range from a few centimetres to about a metre per thousand years.(7) a dance song in fast quadratic metre(8) This form of poetry comprising more than a dozen couplets in the same metre has come a long way and so have ghazal singers.(9) Significantly both these phrases stand out as exceptions to the anapaestic metre .(10) unexpected changes of stress and metre(11) This was rhythm, a voice singing over the reliability of the metronome piano beat, the metre .(12) The plants ranged in height from five centimetres to over a metre .(13) Squid come in all sizes, from a centimetre to over a metre in length, and the life cycles of different species vary greatly.(14) We can deduce the stress pattern of a word from the metre of a line.(15) Electro magnetic frequency meters will measure fluctuations in electromagnetic frequency, which could suggest a spirit is using the energy to manifest.(16) The oddest thing was losing the feet and inches and changing to metres and centimetres.
(1) square meter :: चौरस मीटर
(2) parking meter :: पार्किंग मीटर
(3) cubic meter :: घनमीटर
(4) water meter :: पाणी मापक
(5) flow meter :: मीटर प्रवाह
(6) hour meter :: तास मीटर
(7) light meter :: प्रकाश मीटर
(8) electric meter :: विद्युत मीटर
(9) electricity meter :: वीज मीटर
(10) meter reading :: मीटर वाचन
1. m ::
2. cadence ::
3. time ::
English to Marathi Dictionary: metre
Meaning and definitions of metre, translation in Marathi
language for metre with similar and opposite words. Also find spoken pronunciation of metre in Marathi and in English language.
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What metre means in Marathi, metre meaning
in Marathi, metre
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Readers Question:. From an economic perspective, provide an explanation of the following quotation: “In an underdeveloped country, don’t drink the water; in a developed country, don’t breathe the air.” (Jonathan Raban, 1976).
I don’t usually answer readers questions on this blog, but, this looked quite interesting.
The first part of the sentence is relatively straightforward. Underdeveloped countries (less developed is the more pc term we use these days) struggle to have sufficient economic resources to provide the basic necessities of life. Even clean drinking water is a luxury many can’t afford.
The more difficult question would be why so many people don’t have access to clean drinking water when the world economy is relatively affluent? According to End Water Poverty 1.1 billion lack access to clean water. Furthermore, the crisis is said to claim the lives of 5,000 children a day. Lack of clean water is said to cost the African economy the equivalent of 5% of GDP every year. Clearly there is an economic and social benefit to improving water supplies and sanitation but there is both a lack of political will and basic resources, especially in rural areas.
In theory, aid from developed countries could help to solve the problem; but, there are several problems.
- AID accounts for a very small % of developed countries GDP
- Even when AID is given, it is often tied aid not focused on the most important projects.
- It is difficult to get aid to work effectively. (Does Aid increase Economic welfare)
‘In A Developed Country Don’t Breathe The Air.’
One immediately thinks of China. 20 years ago, the Chinese were famous for everyone cycling - and as a consequence of the low industrialisation hey had relatively good air quality. 20 years of rapid economic expansion in China has led to an unprecedented improvement in living standards; but, at the expense of more pollution, especially from an increasing number of cars.
Thus the economic expansion of China is a mixed blessing. True, some people have more income, but, in some cities it is dangerous to go out running because of the bad air quality. Paula Radcliffe, Britain’s marathon runner was understandably worried about the pollution in China for the Beijing Olympics. In China the problem is also exacerbated by a high population density.
Of course, economic development doesn’t have to lead to worse air quality. Britain introduced strict pollution laws after the great smogs in London of the 1950s. Better technology could lead to pollution free engines.
Even now, we have the potential to improve air quality a lot within developed countries. The problem is an unwillingness to change from polluting energy sources to emission free energy sources. It is a clear case of market failure and highlights the issue that economic growth doesn’t necessarily improve living standards.
If the political will was there, developed countries could have improved GDP but also good air quality. But, who wants to pay higher tax on petrol to subsidise emission free engines?Does GDP measure economic Development?
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Suppliers and eCommerce managers are all too familiar with coordinating with logistics hubs, yet there is still a lot of ambiguity surrounding these facilities. Find out what exactly occurs in a logistics hub and how they function to optimize your supply chain.
What is a Logistics Hub?
Logistics hubs act as linking points that facilitate the efficient flow of goods. Contrary to what most people think, logistics hubs aren’t only used for storage. They’re also the center for the manufacturing, assembly, labeling, organization, coordination, separation, distribution, and transportation of goods for national and international transit. As businesses become more complex and expand into the global platform, you can only imagine the number of operators, workers, services, goods, and data that go in and out of logistics hubs. Typically, logistics hubs house offices, storage facilities, warehouses, distribution centers, trucking, and shipping services.
Understanding Logistics Management
Logistics management plays a vital role in organizing and implementing policies and regulations to create a seamless workflow, from order fulfillment up until customers receive their parcel. With the management of tangible resources and consumable items also comes the management of incoming logistical data, including warehousing, materials handling, inventory, packaging, transportation, and security. To efficiently handle the supply chain, most logistics operators will use software or AI to analyze data and optimize logistics operations. Logistics management focuses on two functions: inbound (internal operations) and outbound (flow from the point of origin to consumption).
Flow of Logistics Management
A logistics management network will involve several points of distribution. These may include additional intermediaries and vendors, but the main linking points are:
- Suppliers or manufacturing center
- Distribution centers
- Warehouses and storage facilities
- Transportation facilities
- Destination point (consumer or commercial retail location)
For goods to efficiently and seamlessly move along this path, it is necessary to apply the four main types of logistics management. The good news is that you don’t have to figure it out on your own! With the help of logistics experts and expert freight platforms like GoShip.com, it is possible to achieve smooth-sailing logistics operations.
1. Supply and Inventory Management
Quality logistics companies will have state-of-the-art inventory management software to help coordinate, plan, and procure raw materials to complete logistics tasks. This also involves transportation, storage, and inventory of goods at each stage of the logistics process.
2. Distribution and Transportation
This involves the movement of stored materials to their predetermined destination, including loading, unloading, and inventory of stock and how they are used. Generally, this type of logistics management will control the movement of stock from a warehouse to the retail stores that distribute the goods to the public.
3. Production Logistics
The main goal of production logistics and management is to distribute supplies to forward production. This will also involve storage, transportation, and testing to achieve positive customer feedback and capital efficiency.
4. Returns and Reverse Logistics
This type of logistics management concerns reclaiming goods and materials, such as when a customer seeks to return a product and requests a refund.
How GoShip.com Can Offer Streamlined Logistics Solutions
Unlike your regular logistics operators, GoShip.com partnered up with the best freight shipping carriers and services in North America to cater to each client’s precise needs and goals. You can rest assured that each of these shipping companies uses the best methods and latest technology to deal with warehousing, inventory, distribution, transportation, and data analysis.
The truth is, you don’t have to know everything about logistics and shipping operations. Leave it to the experts to safely and efficiently handle your goods from order fulfillment up until you get a 5-star review for customers. With the help of logistics management experts, it is possible to achieve customer retention and satisfaction. This can ultimately drive up revenue by saving on operational costs through proper organization of the supply chain. | <urn:uuid:07a7025b-135f-41ec-82db-4d6d86dfe7fc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.goship.com/blog/what-is-a-logistics-hub-and-how-does-it-work/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.9345 | 811 | 3 | 3 |
Digital solutions are critical to tackle both economic growth and deep decarbonization. Digital simulation platforms act as convergence point to integrate models, tools, and business operations.
The whole energy system needs to be considered—how we make, move, store, and use fuels and gases for clean energy transitions, and these systems are extremely complex.
There are multivariate issues and changing, dynamic parameters that need to be considered. Software automations and digital solutions are a tool to aid in reducing the complexity of systems-thinking and provide options for better solutions. We can simulate what happens before implementing, seeing how it affects not only the process itself but also organizations, people, and other interacting entities.
Today, we’re using digital solutions to improve things like field operations, record information in databases rather than on paper, and analyzing that information to understand how we can make improvements and maximize the use of our current infrastructure. We’re starting to explore AI applications and taking a more predictive approach to operations, at times even changing business processes to leverage more of those automations and predictivity. We’re also using new low-carbon energy sources that change the way in which we interact with our existing energy systems and meet demand of consumers. At times, energy consumers can also be localized producers when you consider solar energy and battery storage.
To get to 2030 and 2050 goals, we need to use tools that integrate disparate applications and demonstrate ways to optimize our decisions while also ensuring equity and access while these energy transitions occur.
Enabling energy transitions with digital solutions
This compelling session explores how automations, actionable data, advanced analytics, digital twin applications, and other cutting-edge technologies can be leveraged to support decarbonization commitments with a people-focused approach.
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Why do you think you feel happy when you see someone you know or suddenly feel low for no exact reason? Sometimes your mood is good and sometimes not. Have you ever given it a thought? What do you think is responsible for your sleep, emotions, memory, mood, appetite, etc.? If you guessed serotonin, you guessed it right.
Serotonin is a chemical that affects the function of your entire body. It helps the brain and nerve cells to communicate with each other. So, when it decreases, it affects your sleep, mood, emotions, appetite, etc., causing depression, anxiety, sleep disorders, and so on. But there is good news. There are several ways to boost serotonin levels.
13 ways to boost serotonin levels
According to a study, tryptophan is responsible for the production of serotonin in the body.
If the tryptophan level is low in your body, then the serotonin level will also decrease. So, the best way to boost your serotonin levels is to increase the intake of tryptophan.
Tryptophan, an amino acid, is responsible for the growth of the body and the production of necessary nutrients, like enzymes, proteins, neurotransmitters, and muscles.
However, you don’t get serotonin directly from foods. Tryptophan is converted into it by enzymes in the brain. And the foods that are rich in tryptophan are:
- Nuts and beans
- Dairy products such as milk, cheese
- Tofu, etc.
These foods help increase insulin levels in the body, which aids the body in converting the tryptophan into serotonin in your brain.
Besides these, taking foods rich in vitamin B, zinc, omega-3, magnesium, and iron helps boost happiness, sleep quality, and mood.
Also, avoid alcohol and tobacco since these will decrease the serotonin levels in the body. Plus, if possible, stay away from consuming too much caffeine and sugar.
So, get ready to retain your happy days back and enjoy by focusing on a healthy diet.
One of the ways to boost serotonin levels is to exercise and keep your body moving and active.
Have you ever questioned why your body always becomes too relaxed and fresh after exercise? Why your self-esteem and self-satisfaction increase? Why your depression, stress, and fatigue decrease after a walk? Why you feel hungry after workouts? Because your body produces serotonin which helps to boost your mood and appetite. It helps to release tryptophan.
Therefore, it is crucial to break a sweat. Moreover, it helps to release other hormones and chemicals responsible for improving mood. And you don’t have to do intense exercises. Light ones like walking, jogging, etc., are good to go. Also, you can engage in sports, swimming, cycling, dancing, etc.
Always take care of your health and fitness if you want to boost serotonin levels.
Exposure to sunlight
You may not have ever thought that exposure to sunlight would affect the serotonin levels in the body. But, according to a study, the brain produces more serotonin levels on sunny days than other times. It is because the vitamin D that we get from the Sun is essential for our body. Otherwise, the deficiency in vitamin D causes mental disorders like depression, schizophrenia, etc.
Even though you get vitamin D from food, it is necessary to get sunlight every day. It is because the Sun is the best source of vitamin D.
So, spend more time out in the Sun to get more vitamin D. Even if it’s for an hour or two, go outside. It is better than not getting any sunlight. However, remember to use sunscreen to prevent sunburn.
Many people are attracted to oily, junk, and canned foods. Do you think they are healthy? Of course not. They are the causes of several health problems, like food poisoning, ulcers, diabetes, cancer, etc. Because such foods directly affect your different parts of the body, mainly the stomach. So, it is necessary to keep the gut healthy.
Keeping your stomach healthy not only prevents diabetes, ulcers, cancer, etc., it also helps to boost serotonin levels in the body. So if your gut is healthy, then you are healthy as well.
When your stomach is healthy, it helps to support the functions of nerve cells in the brain. In addition, it aids blood vessels in carrying necessary nutrients to the brain, improving the communication between the cells.
So, always focus on keeping your stomach healthy to boost serotonin levels.
We cannot deny that mental problems, like depression, stress, anxiety, etc., are the leading causes of sleeping disorders, dissatisfaction, etc. It entirely takes away your happiness and happy moments. Therefore, when you reduce your stress, most of your problems, be it physical, mental, or social, will automatically fade away.
Moreover, stress affects your nerve cells that produce serotonin in the brain.
When your stress and tensions are wholly gone, a prosperous and happy life will welcome you. It will automatically heal your every pain and boost your serotonin levels.
Therapies not only relax your body and reduce your stress and anxiety, but it also boosts your serotonin levels.
Therapies such as aromatherapy and psychotherapy or individual therapy help reduce your cortisol levels, a stress hormone. Thus, improving your mood and boosting serotonin levels.
Besides these, you can try massaging your body. It regulates your mood and relaxes your body.
Your mood, emotions, and sleep quality is directly related to serotonin levels. When it decreases, your affection and feelings also reduce and vice versa. And one way to maintain them is through meditation. Meditating regularly helps to boost your serotonin levels.
Meditation reduces your stress levels, relaxes your mind and body, gives you peace, and makes you happy. It prevents unnecessary thoughts and tensions from taking over your brain. And when that happens, it enhances your mood and raises serotonin levels.
So, meditation is essential to keep your body and mind in an active state all the time.
It is crucial to take a break from your work and give yourself time to have fun and enjoy.
Taking breaks helps to boost your mood and increase your performance and productivity. When your brain is stressed due to work overload, it creates tension and pressurizes you, making you irritated, dull, and tired every time. As a result, your brain and body can’t function as expected.
But when you take a pause and refresh yourself, your mind and body will be calm and active. Thus, helping you to boost serotonin levels.
You can travel, go on a vacation or plan a camping trip and live your life to the fullest. It will enhance your mood, keep you active and energetic.
Listen to music
One of the ways to boost serotonin levels is by listening to music. We all know that music helps us to relax and calm our minds. Even for a moment, it aids in enhancing our mood and prevents unnecessary tensions and thoughts from controlling us.
Moreover, it is said that listening to music helps to boost serotonin levels in the brain by reducing cortisol, a stress hormone. In addition, it helps in the production of chemicals and hormones responsible for happiness and good mood.
People who don’t sleep or don’t get quality rest are often the ones suffering from depression, stress, and look tired. They get irritated over small things and struggle to find happiness in their life. They lose their appetite. Also, they lose the ability to make rational decisions. And because of this, the body loses the ability to produce and release enough serotonin.
However, getting quality sleep enhances your mood and appetite. Your mind will refresh from the load that it gets during the daytime. It will reduce your stress by keeping cortisol levels under control. As a result, your body will get enough rest to produce serotonin.
So, a good night’s sleep of seven to eight hours is essential to boost serotonin levels.
Connect with people
Loneliness and boredom are some leading problems to low serotonin levels. When people are lonely, unnecessary thoughts dominate over the mind, which may stress the brain. Moreover, they are less likely to deal with their anxiety and problems.
But when you connect with people, it makes you happy, and you will feel relaxed. And when that happens, it will help your body to produce serotonin. It will help neurons and other cells in the body to release chemicals to convert tryptophan into serotonin.
However, connecting with people doesn’t mean virtually, like going online and chatting. You should interact with them personally in the real world.
Look for ways to be happy and positive.
If you want to boost serotonin levels, then find more ways to be happy and positive. Find things that make you feel right and good and give them time. It can be anything, like hobbies, spending time with friends and family, hiking, traveling, rafting, kayaking, camping, and so on. Moreover, try to look at every situation positively.
If thinking about something or someone makes you feel good, then do it. It will help trigger your mind to relax and be happy. As a result, it will help increase serotonin levels.
If you are having trouble with stress-related problems, then it is an indication of low serotonin levels. As a result, you may need the help of doctors. So, it is best to consult the experts as soon as possible and start medications to boost serotonin in the body.
For a healthy and happy life, serotonin is essential. So, try the above-mentioned ways to boost serotonin levels. However, remember that too much serotonin level is dangerous. So, keep it under control and maintain it.
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To say that John Patrick Shanley's Doubt is an essay in action is misleading, since we're more aware of watching the human dilemmas unfold than we are of learning from the play. As the current production (through July 16) at Roger Williams University's Barn Summer Playhouse reminds us, we're fascinated not so much by the conclusions that characters come to than by the turmoil they put themselves through.
The basic story is simple, a sort of triangular firing squad. At a Bronx parochial school, the principal, the elderly Sister Aloysius Beauvier (Sharon Coleman), suspects one of the teachers, a priest, of being a pederast. Young Sister James (Alex Maynard) brings her inconclusive information that bolsters the notion of her superior while she remains dubious. The good-natured, well-liked priest, Father Brendan Flynn (Jeff DeSisto), denies the charge, which is never formally presented, and is understandably, self-righteously, furious over the eventual accusation.
It is 1964, a time of social ferment and change, when "the whole world seemed to be going through some kind of vast puberty," as Shanley put it. More significantly, the Roman Catholic Church's harboring, forgiving, and quietly reassigning countless pedophiles had not yet come to light.
The first words of the play are from Father Flynn, delivering a sermon. "What do you do when you're not sure?" he asks his parishioners, going on to celebrate the fellow feeling that accompanies this universal, existential state. "Doubt can be a bond as powerful and sustaining a certainty," he concludes. "When you are lost, you are not alone."
How smart and satisfying that the playwright unifies the three characters, despite the extreme contrast of their perspectives, with this common plight.
The purported victim of Father Flynn is a 12-year-old boy, Donald Miller. He is new to the school, its first African-American, and since he has made no friends, Father Flynn takes him under his wing as his protector. We never see the boy, but Sister Aloysius calls his mother in to see if she has suspicions about the priest. Mrs. Miller (Carolyn Tidwell) reacts unexpectedly, to say the least, to the sister's suspicion. Not only is she not worried for her boy, she doesn't care if the allegation is true, just so he can stay at the school and remain on track for a good high school and then college. Implausible? Perhaps, but not more so than some people react offstage.
Sister Aloysius is characterized right away as suspicious by nature and conservative to the point of complaining that Frosty the Snowman is a pagan artifact promoting witchcraft. She criticizes Sister James for being overly enthusiastic in her classes when she should be calm and sober. "Liars should be frightened to lie to you," she instructs the young nun. Coleman is excellent as the strict Sister Aloysius, making her more of an unyielding disciplinarian than a martinet. As with religious faith itself, she tightly clutches her certainty over Father Flynn's guilt, despite not really knowing.
The contrasting Sister James is an admitted innocent, naïve, and what Maynard contributes to the character is a thoughtfulness as she has to make up her own mind about Father Flynn. There is some guilt thrown into her psychological mix as well, since she precipitated the furor, telling Sister Aloysius that she smelled alcohol on the boy's breath after he was meeting privately with the priest, an incident that eventually was smoothly explained away. | <urn:uuid:32287dd6-fe9f-4dc2-8b34-17a92585e75b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://thephoenix.com/Boston/Arts/123656-review-doubt-at-roger-williams-university/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280900.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00004-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971192 | 745 | 1.507813 | 2 |
Introduction to Point-of-Care Ultrasound
Using the ultrasound machine
Basic cardiac ultrasound
We will cover two cardiac views:
- Subxiphoid 4-chamber
- Parasternal long axis
We will use these views to assess:
- Cardiac anatomy (chambers, pericardium, valves, etc.)
- Basic contractility (hyperdynamic, normal, depressed, and standstill)
- Pericardial effusion and tamponade
Inferior vena cava ultrasound
The inferior vena cava (IVC) can be used to assess fluid responsiveness in patients with shock or hypotension. The diameter of the IVC should be measured during inspiration and expiration, at a point between the right atrial inlet and where the hepatic veins drain into the IVC. Thus, the spot labelled “IVC” in the image.
A narrow (<2.5cm) IVC with greater than 50% collapse during spontaneous respiration is associated with fluid responsiveness. Fluid responsiveness means an increase in cardiac output after a fluid bolus. A dilated or plethoric IVC (>2.5cm) with less than 50% collapse is associated with minimal fluid responsiveness.
Basic lung ultrasound
Most of lung ultrasound is the study of artifacts.
We will look for pulmonary edema by assessing for:
- A-lines: Bright white (hyperechoic) horizontal lines which are reflections of the pleura
- B-lines: Hyperechoic vertical lines which are reverberation artifacts from edematous interlobular septa
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Burkina Faso is a land-locked country in West Africa surrounded by Ivory Coast, Ghana and Niger. After gaining independence from France in 1960, the country underwent major governmental changes and until 1984 was known as the Republic of Upper Volta. The then-President Thomas Sankara moved to change its name. Burkina Faso comes from the country”s two native languages, M?or? and Dioula. Burkina, from M?or?, means “men of integrity,” while Faso means “fatherland” in Dioula. Today Burkina Faso is known to mean “Land of upright people” or “Land of honest people.” French continues to be the official language of government, business and many of its people.
Photographer, musician and filmmaker David Pace was invited to join colleagues on a trip to Burkina Faso in 2007. Although he was initially skeptical of the trip”s outcome, it formed the basis of a body of David”s work that continues to this day, documenting the people of Bereba, a remote rural village in Burkina Faso without electricity or running water that David has been making annual trips to film, photograph and document. He currently serves as resident director of the Study Abroad Program in West Africa at Santa Clara University. His photographs from Burkina Faso have been recently exhibited at the Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, Mass., the 511 Gallery in New York, the Camerawork Gallery in Portland, Ore., and the World Affairs Council of Northern California in San Francisco. While continuing to teach Photography in the Bay Area, David sits on the board of directors of both SF Camerawork and the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art.
David”s photographs of Burkina Faso are part of a fascinating exhibition of three Bay Area photographers, also including Robert Dawson and Joel Leivick, curated by UC Santa Cruz”s Sesnon Gallery director Shelby Graham. All three photographers are graduates of UCSC and Shelby first became aware of them when she was pursuing a graduate degree at San Jose State. Today Shelby has placed these three artists side by side in the exhibition “Three Lives in Photography”. The exhibit runs through May 10.
I spoke with David about Burkina Faso and his work.
Kirby Scudder >> When did you first become interested in Burkina Faso?
David Pace >> I have always been interested in traveling and exploring what other places are like. After graduate school, I began to travel a lot primarily to Europe, photographing and then through Santa Clara University, I was presented with an opportunity to travel to El Salvador. I spent about four years working on a project there. I had two colleagues who were working with the same study abroad program in West Africa. They saw the work I was doing in El Salvador and thought I might be interested in joining them when they were on sabbatical in Burkina Faso. I went, but I really hadn”t had any desire to go to Africa and didn”t know what to expect. When I first got there, I didn”t know what I had got myself into. It was completely different from anything I had ever experienced and I wondered if I had made a big mistake. It is a French-speaking country and I didn”t speak French and no one spoke English. It”s hot, dusty. And it wasn”t until I left the city and went to the village of Bereba that my opinion changed. My eyes were open to the possibilities of photographing there and I have been going there ever since.
KS >> The color in your work is incredible. What was it like to shoot in the quarry?
DP >> Color was one of the things that attracted me to the place. The stone is laterite that comes from soil rich in iron and aluminium which gives it that incredible orange rust color. They are excavating layers and layers of bricks and essentially creating rooms in the quarry that gives it a sense of an architectural place. I am really fascinated by these man-made landscapes. These bricks are the main foundation for most of the buildings in the region. They are carving each of the bricks by hand and they weigh about 30 pounds a piece. During each of my trips I visit the quarry four to six times and they always love the portraits I have done of them.
For more information about “Three Lives in Photography,” go to art.ucsc.edu/galleries/three-lives-photography
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The Kiel Canal in Germany was closed on 28th October following a collision between the 116m long and 5,831gt/200 built gas carrier Coral Ivory and the 100m long coastal freighter Siderfly. The 2,882gt/1985 built Siderfly was on her way from Brunsbüttel to Antwerp while the Coral Ivory had just left a berth near Brunsbüttel bound for Uusikaupunki in Finland when the collision occurred at around 03.00 local time. After swinging back out in to the canal the AIS track for the Coral Ivory indicated that she was caught by a strong gust of wind that contributed to the collision.
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Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. ~ Albert Einstein
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. ~ Bruce Feirstein
Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries. ~ Patty Duke
An elderly gentleman at a local gas station (“petrol” for those non-Americans reading this!) was the inspiration for this post. The poor man appeared to be in need of wiper fluid. He needed to open the hood of his car (“bonnet” for those non-Americans!) in order to place the new windshield wiper fluid in.
I first noticed this gentleman when I heard both of my daughters suddenly break out into fits of laughter, then hysterics. The man was pounding, and I mean POUNDING on the hood of his car with his hands, trying to get it to open. He would then curse, stop on the ground, run to the back of the car, and then head to the front of the car and repeat the pattern, continuing to pound on the hood – over, and over, and OVER again. He would then walk away and repeat. This must have happened over half a dozen times. Each time the man returned to the car my daughters found themselves laughing harder – “Mom, he is SOOO funny! Why does he keep doing that? It isn’t helping him open the hood” Needless to say, after all those attempts, he opened the bottle of windshield wiper fluid and directly dumped about half the bottle on his windshield and then got in the car and turned his wipers on.
This incident, of course, made me think of the Einstein quote that I listed at the beginning of this entry. How often do we insist on doing the same thing over and over and over again even though the results do not change? How often do we insist on doing the same thing that is NOT working for us over and over and over again even though the results do not change? Sadly, more often then we realize.
I can think of so many different situations and circumstances when people get stuck in patters that do not serve them well. Relationships are often the most common place this occurs. People will repeat patterns of dysfunction and continually blame the “other” person – even when they have had a string of five or six divorces! How is it that a person who has had five or six divorces lacks the insight to realize that the one common factor in every divorce is them?!?
I also see this pattern regularly with people who struggle to maintain employment. There are people who just do not manage to properly fulfill their duties and responsibilities and end up moving from one position to the next, often let go because they just cannot do what they are needed to do. Sometimes laziness is a cause, and sometimes it can be a deeper issue, such as attention deficit disorder that is causing the continual failure. It would be wonderful if these people had the willingness and resources to analyze what is causing the dysfunctional patterns and work to change them.
Sometimes we find these patterns in our daily lives…. my kids do silly things all the time without thinking. My daughter had dry itchy hands at school a few months ago. She kept putting lotion on, but her hands got worse, so she was diligent with the lotion – throughout the day. When she came home completely red and with hives I had to break the news to her that she was most likely allergic to the lotion at school (she was) and that she actually made her problem worse by continuing to apply more and more throughout the day. I gave her a different lotion at home (and an antihistamine) with instructions to never use the school lotion again and the problem was solved.
Today, 232 days ’til 40, I challenge you to evaluate the situations in your life that seem to cause you to meander in circles without meaningful movement and change. Ask yourself if you are repeating patterns with the expectations of a differing outcome – if so, change those patterns! | <urn:uuid:94bb171f-7300-43ca-9181-424298a2a7c6> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://400daystil40.wordpress.com/2012/07/04/232-days-til-40-einsteins-definition-of-insanity/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279224.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00482-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980039 | 839 | 1.921875 | 2 |
What is the population of Kingsport TN in the United States?
- Kingsport is the largest city in the Kingsport– Bristol – Bristol, TN-VA Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), which had a population of 309,544 as of 2010. The Metropolitan Statistical Area is a component of the Johnson City –Kingsport–Bristol, TN- VA Combined Statistical Area – commonly known as the ” Tri-Cities ” region.
- 1 What counties are in Kingsport?
- 2 What is the racial makeup of Kingsport Tennessee?
- 3 Is downtown Kingsport safe?
- 4 What is the crime rate in Kingsport TN?
- 5 Is Kingsport Tennessee a good place to live?
- 6 How big is Kingsport Tennessee?
- 7 Does Kingsport smell?
- 8 How cold does it get in Kingsport Tennessee?
- 9 How did Kingsport get its name?
- 10 Where is the safest place to live in Tennessee?
- 11 What city in Tennessee has the highest crime rate?
- 12 What kind of wildlife is in Kingsport Tennessee?
What counties are in Kingsport?
Kingsport is a city in Sullivan and Hawkins counties in the U.S. state of Tennessee; most of the city is in Sullivan County and the city is the largest in both counties, but is the county seat of neither. As of the 2010 census the population was 48,205; as of 2019 the estimated population was 54,127.
What is the racial makeup of Kingsport Tennessee?
Kingsport Demographics White: 91.19% Black or African American: 3.54% Two or more races: 3.26% Asian: 1.21%
Is downtown Kingsport safe?
Kingsport is in the 18th percentile for safety, meaning 82% of cities are safer and 18% of cities are more dangerous. The rate of crime in Kingsport is 47.35 per 1,000 residents during a standard year. People who live in Kingsport generally consider the west part of the city to be the safest.
What is the crime rate in Kingsport TN?
Kingsport, TN crime analytics With a crime rate of 58 per one thousand residents, Kingsport has one of the highest crime rates in America compared to all communities of all sizes – from the smallest towns to the very largest cities.
Is Kingsport Tennessee a good place to live?
Kingsport is a town in Tennessee with a population of 53,376. Kingsport is in Sullivan County and is one of the best places to live in Tennessee. Many young professionals and retirees live in Kingsport and residents tend to be conservative. The public schools in Kingsport are highly rated.
How big is Kingsport Tennessee?
The 5 largest ethnic groups in Knoxville, TN are White (Non-Hispanic) (72.4%), Black or African American (Non-Hispanic) (16.9%), White (Hispanic) (3.73%), Two+ (Non-Hispanic) (2.93%), and Asian (Non-Hispanic) (1.77%). 0% of the households in Knoxville, TN speak a non-English language at home as their primary language.
Does Kingsport smell?
KINGSPORT – The air in downtown may not be perfect, but the smell is definitely better. While the residents of Kingsport have had to deal with offensive odors pretty much since the city’s inception, a particularly pungent smell came into being earlier this year, most noticeably in the downtown area.
How cold does it get in Kingsport Tennessee?
In Kingsport, the summers are long, warm, and humid; the winters are short, very cold, and wet; and it is partly cloudy year round. Over the course of the year, the temperature typically varies from 28°F to 86°F and is rarely below 14°F or above 92°F.
How did Kingsport get its name?
The City of Kingsport received its name from a simplification of the name “King’s Port” which was the old name given to the area along the Holston River by early pioneers. In 1822, the Holston River was first chartered by boat.
Where is the safest place to live in Tennessee?
Here are SafeWise’s top 20 safest cities in Tennessee:
- Church Hill. Population: 6,671.
- Signal Mountain. Population: 8,605.
- Mount Carmel. Population: 5,295.
- Oakland. Population: 8,323.
- Whiteville. Population: 4,466.
- Camden. Population: 3,573.
- Pleasant View. Population: 4,686.
- Brentwood. Population: 43,217.
What city in Tennessee has the highest crime rate?
Memphis had a violent crime rate of 11.07 violent crime incidents per 1,000 residents and a property crime rate of 39.9 per 1,000 residents according to the latest data from the FBI. The most recent data from the Memphis Data Hub shows violent crime is up nearly 9% from the previous year.
What kind of wildlife is in Kingsport Tennessee?
Resources for free wildlife removal in Kingsport Tennessee is full of wildlife, including snakes, squirrels, raccoons, skunks, opossums, and more. Wildlife removal is a complex field. I recommend professional Kingsport wildlife control services if you want to solve a critter problem legally and correctly. | <urn:uuid:f1b1053c-b4f1-469f-b4a9-d62b1b4b4f54> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.okcorraldisco.com/tennessee/what-county-is-kingsport-tennessee-in-correct-answer.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00075.warc.gz | en | 0.933608 | 1,141 | 1.90625 | 2 |
CITY SWEPT BY HIGH WINDS; The Storm that Wrecked Galveston Reaches New York. A MAN KILLED IN BROADWAY Struck by a Broken Banner Pole -- Navigation in the Bay and Rivers Difficult -- A Ferryboat's Plight.
New York got its share yesterday of the storm that wrecked Galveston. Luckily for the inhabitants of Manhattan Island, the character of the storm changed entirely after it had left a trail of death and destruction in Southern Texas, and as it swept through the northern part of that State, and through portions of the Middle West, it was as a zephyr in comparison with the hurricane of a few days before.
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Army to Strengthen Ground Combat Vehicles
The U.S. Army Research Laboratory has collaborated with Alcoa, the world’s third largest producer of aluminum, in order to come up with a way to better protect soldiers from improvised explosive devices (IEDs). The solution that they decided on is a single-piece aluminum hull designed for ground combat vehicles. This hull not only makes ground vehicles more durable, but lighter and cheaper as well.
"For decades, the Army has recognized the survivability benefits of a single-piece hull due to its thickness, size and shape for ground combat vehicles," said Dr. Ernest Chin of the Army Research Laboratory. "Our collaborative effort to develop continuous and seamless aluminum hull technology has the potential to be a game changer for how combat vehicles are designed and made to better protect our soldiers."
The new aluminum hull would improve the performance of combat vehicles in four major ways, the first being improved blast protection.
The combat vehicles are usually manufactured with welded seams but with the new hull those seams would be completely eliminated, thus improving the durability and protection of the vehicle.
The aluminum hull also increases damage resistance. In the event that an enemy attempts to destroy a combat vehicle, the chances that they are successful have been decreased. The Alcoa alloys are more blast-absorbent and will reduce damage taken.
The design of the hull is also more efficient than before with a reduction in weight. This weight reduction brings about the fourth benefit of the aluminum hulls – cost savings. Due to the weight reduction, fuel efficiency will be enhanced, assembly time reduced, and complexity diminished.
“Alcoa has helped the U.S. military stay ahead of emerging threats by innovating durable, lightweight aluminum technologies since World War I,” said Ray Kilmer, Alcoa Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer. “Our experts are now developing the world’s largest, high-strength aluminum hull for combat vehicles to better defend against IEDs, the greatest threat our troops face in Afghanistan, while meeting the Army’s affordability needs.”
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Many people today point to the “screen culture” of Australia’s young people as the source of our childhood obesity crisis. But creative thinkers see it as its possible solution.
The government authorities, health experts and educators who urge parents to get their screen-head kids away from the electronic surfing, chatting and gaming, and replace it with “real” activity instead, may be missing something.
Today’s children are encouraged to participate in basically the same activities that older generations took part in when they were young: playing in the park, riding bikes, or joining organised sport.
But why should 21st century children have the same interest in these conventional activities when they view them from a technology-charged world?
Modern life is lived within the context of computers, and even more so for children. While “digital immigrant” parents adapt to new technologies in much the same way as an adult learning a second language, their “digital native” offspring have taken up and mastered new technologies with ease.
Rather than convincing young people of the merits of conventional exercise and sports, it may be worth promoting fitness and health in, and through, the computer worlds they inhabit.
But let’s think beyond the latest wave of interactive computer games that offer virtual bowling, boxing, dancing and martial arts.
The challenge is to shift computer gaming from merely “entertainment” to a medium for education, where all children can access the benefits. Computer-simulations have found their way into building design, air-flight training, medicine, real estate and tourism. So why not let our schools play a prominent role in integrating physically interactive computer games and sports into their physical education curriculum to promote fitness and health? Better yet, why not add interactive electronic learning into conventional subjects, such as geography, biology or history?
With the emergence of high quality 3D graphics and animation, interactive tele-immersive virtual environments, and wireless technologies, a classroom in the not-too-distant future may include a laboratory with 30 or 40 stationary bicycles and treadmills, each connected to a computer.
A simulated geography excursion, for example, could be projected on a huge screen in front of the class. As with any geography excursion, there would be landforms, vegetation and land use to observe and analyse. However, in order to move through the virtual landscape, students would have to cycle on a stationary bike or walk on a treadmill.
Similarly, in biology, students could pedal their way through the blood vessels of a virtual human body, while in history, students could walk their way along a virtual Kokoda Track, complete with the inclines of its rugged hills.
In addition to knowledge about geography, biology or history, students would also learn to monitor their heart rates and energy output during each session to ensure they are exercising at an appropriate intensity and duration, as well as tracking their fitness progress over the course of the school term.
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For thousands of years, people have relied on dogs for hunting, companionship, survival, and protection. But in the last century, people have called upon canines to aid those coping with a number of diseases. Formally trained dogs have guided blind Americans since 1929. Now, dogs aid those with Alzheimer dementia and Parkinson disease. But, perhaps the greatest gift these animals can give their owners is renewed independence and the improved ability to live and work in our modern world.
What Service Dogs Can Do
Many organizations around the world train dogs to assist people with a wide assortment of disabilities. Some animals pull wheelchairs. Some help their owners get out of bed or into and out of the tub. Others help their owners to maintain balance and coordination when walking and doing other activities. Service dogs have even learned personalized skills like flipping light switches, picking up items, carrying supplies, and opening and closing doors.
Many people with disabilities or illnesses can obtain greater independence with the help of service animals. Below are just a few examples of what service dogs can potentially do:
- Alert people who are deaf or hard of hearing to the presence of others or to important sounds, such as sirens and alarms, a person's name being called, traffic, or a child crying
- Provide help with mobility, such as retrieving objects, helping a person to balance while walking, carrying items in backpacks, or leading people who have visual impairments around obstacles
- Provide stress relief for people with mental or emotional disabilities
- Provide protection during a seizure and helping someone become reoriented and mobile after the seizures
- Possibly alert people, and their caregivers of oncoming seizures, giving time to stop activities and assume safe positions before seizures occur
Thinking About a Service Dog?
The decision to bring a service dog into your family can be a big one, and it should not be entered into lightly. Service dogs undergo extensive training at nonprofit programs where they master watching out for their human's special needs and learn how to take corrective measures. A trainer assesses each dog's natural abilities and tendencies, builds on those strengths, trains the dog to meet the specific needs of its human partner, and teaches the person how to behave with the dog and what commands and reinforcements to use.
Pet Partners provides information about service animals and consumer tips for those considering a dog. Some of the factors to consider include:
- Cost —Training can run as high as $20,000, but funding possibilities exist.
- Care —Just like any dog, service animals require veterinary attention, feeding, water, walks, and play time.
- Love for animals —Dogs are not for everyone, especially those afraid of animals or anyone unwilling to accept care responsibilities.
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What is normal and what is magical?
The coins glow magically as the sun strikes them at just the right angle.
As Peter Donnelly, the Sand Artist, is working on his creation onlookers can throw money from the Pier.
Young teenage boys throw coins not so much in appreciation, but to prove their accuracy in getting them into the hat. Whatever the reason the Sand Artist appreciates their gifted support.
When Peter has completed his latest creation, he does not rush over and gather up the coins, but makes his way to the Pier so that he can see what everyone else can from that lofty platform. At ground level it is very hard to see the shapes and forms carved in the sand. | <urn:uuid:f877dd65-cf6b-4a35-a62b-286dd71fa809> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.flickr.com/photos/stevetaylors/6456809309/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280718.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00409-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981113 | 143 | 2.171875 | 2 |
Cast lead tobacco jar, English, 1790-1860.
© Science Museum / Science & Society Picture Library
Square jar used for storing pipe tobacco with cambered lid surmounted by a dolphin shaped finial and hunting scenes on the jar panels. Containers for storing pipe tobacco were traditionally known as jars. The earliest types were cylindrical and fairly plain, while later ones were oblong, cast from carved wooden panels. | <urn:uuid:e162de95-329b-4fbc-a256-6cad38bf382f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.ssplprints.com/image/130725/richardson-claire-cast-lead-tobacco-jar-english-1790-1860 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281450.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00171-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950985 | 88 | 2.71875 | 3 |
JERUSALEM, July 17 (JTA) Fighting in the ongoing Israeli-Hezbollah standoff has been confined to two of the Middle East’s smallest countries, but the outcome could have major strategic implications for the region as a whole. The dismantling or severe weakening of the Shi’ite militia would be a major blow against global terrorism, rogue states Syria and Iran and possibly even Iran’s nuclear plans, Israeli analysts maintain. But, they warn, if Hezbollah emerges intact as a fighting force, Israeli prestige and the global war on terrorism could suffer significant setbacks. In the Israeli view, time is of the essence: If the international community does not allow Israel the time it needs to finish the job, the result could be a strategic defeat, analysts say, adding that Washington’s position on the timeframe will be crucial. The intensive Israeli bombing of Lebanese infrastructure and Hezbollah targets was triggered by Hezbollah’s capture of two Israeli soldiers July 12 in an ambush in which eight other soldiers were killed. The government decided it could no longer tolerate a situation in which the Shi’ite militia uses its 14,000 rockets to intimidate Israel and make cross-border raids with impunity, confident Israel will avoid sharp retaliation for fear of rocket attacks on its civilian population. The aim of Israel’s tough military response was to change the rules of the game, Defense Minister Amir Peretz declared last week, adding that Israel would not allow Hezbollah militiamen to return to their border positions or continue to use rockets to threaten Israel. But there is much more at stake. One of the unstated goals of the operation is to restore Israel’s deterrent capacity: When the dust settles, will Israel be perceived as the fragile spider’s web Hezbollah chief Sheik Hassan Nasrallah likens it to, or as a regional superpower, capable of setting the Middle Eastern agenda? The strong air force response was intended to send the second message. Some analysts put the stakes even higher, and see in Israel’s fight against Hezbollah the front line in the West’s battle against global terrorism. Maj.-Gen. (res.) Ya’acov Amidror, a former head of research in military intelligence, identifies three strategic gains that would ensue from Hezbollah’s military demise: The capacity of Israel’s enemies to produce terrorism would be significantly reduced; Lebanon would become a truly democratic country, a cornerstone in American efforts to democratize the Middle East; and, most important, the West’s campaign to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power would receive a major boost. “The Iranians use Hezbollah to threaten that if anyone takes action against their nuclear program, the Middle East will burn. Therefore, depriving Hezbollah of its firepower will have a major impact on the struggle to prevent the creation of a nuclear Iran,” Amidror told JTA. But will the Iranian mullahs allow Israel to achieve such a significant strategic victory? Amidror believes that, for now, there’s little they can do about it. “The great thing about the situation today is that Iran doesn’t have the capacity to influence what Israel does or doesn’t do in Lebanon. This may not be the case in a few years’ time, so there is wide global interest to allow Israel to act freely in Lebanon before it is too late,” he maintains. In an interview on Israel Radio, former Mossad chief Ephraim Halevy took a similar view. “What is happening in the North is an indirect confrontation between Israel and Iran,” he argued. “It will have an impact on the entire Middle East and on the positions and prestige of many regional players. The more clear-cut and significant the Israeli victory, the greater the positive ramifications will be.” Hezbollah’s decisive defeat would reverberate in Gaza and Tehran. Analysts say that images of destruction in Lebanon could dampen Palestinian terrorist morale and signal to Iran the kind of fate that might be in store for it if it continues to defy the West on the nuclear issue. International conditions for Israeli action have never been more favorable. In the post-Sept. 11 world, Hezbollah is isolated in the international community. Even Arab countries like Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan blamed the militant group’s “irresponsibility,” rather than Israel, for the current crisis. Moreover, Syrian troops are no longer in Lebanon, having left after last year’s assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. And recognizing their interest in striking a blow against global terror and Iran’s long terrorist arm, members of the G-8 industrial nations meeting in St. Petersburg, Russia, issued a joint communique Sunday that seemed to give Israel more time to act. Former Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz estimated Monday that it would take about another two weeks to achieve a decisive result. The endgame will depend on the military results on the ground and just how much of Hezbollah’s Katyusha rocket capability Israel is able to destroy. It also will depend on whether Israel feels compelled to send in ground forces to nullify Hezbollah’s remaining rocket power. For now, Iran and Syria are sending Hezbollah messages encouraging it to stand firm. In a Knesset address Monday, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert outlined Israel’s public conditions for ending the crisis: return of the kidnapped soldiers, an end to Hezbollah rocket fire and the deployment of Lebanese army forces along the border with Israel. These three conditions are likely to morph into a demand for the implementation of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1559 of September 2004, which calls for the dismantling of all Lebanese militias, including Hezbollah. The question is whether Hezbollah will be weak enough after the fighting for the Lebanese government, with help from the international community, to be able to impose that kind of solution. Will Hezbollah militiamen agree to be incorporated into the Lebanese army? And will Israel agree to the dispatch of a multinational force to patrol the border and help impose a cease-fire? For Israel, the optimal solution would be Hezbollah transformed into a solely political organization, the central Lebanese government in control of all armed forces and a positive modus vivendi between Jerusalem and Beirut. But, even if the IDF achieves a decisive military victory, it may have to make do with less. 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How many galaxies can you count in this picture? This image of a barred spiral galaxy (NGC 3259) was released this week by the ESA/Hubble Team. What strikes me about this image is the sheer number of galaxies that appear to be surrounding this beautiful barred spiral galaxy. It’s almost as if the barred spiral galaxy is adrift in a sea of galaxies. | <urn:uuid:667d4063-6ef1-4ffa-a8f1-5c2f1fdf6b2b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.outerspaceuniverse.org/tag/barred-spiral | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279368.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00324-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9364 | 89 | 2.25 | 2 |
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Lake Macquarie or Awaba is Australia's largest coastal salt water lagoon. Located in the Hunter Region of New South Wales, it covers an area of 110 square kilometres (42.5 sq mi) and is connected to the Tasman Sea by a short channel. Most of the residents of the City of Lake Macquarie live near the shores of the lake.
Lake Macquarie is twice as large as Sydney Harbour and is the largest permanent salt water lake in the southern hemisphere. However, it is slightly smaller than Port Stephens, which is about 43 kilometres (27 mi) to the northeast of the lake. | <urn:uuid:726aa1a4-1f6f-4ca0-aab1-fb2c1996c9e5> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.genkin.org/cgi-bin/browse.pl/landscapes/lakes-rivers-waterways/lake-macquarie-nsw | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280763.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00515-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954129 | 139 | 2.21875 | 2 |
Cookie dough is one of the best examples of something that’s so bad but also so good. You’re not really supposed to eat raw cookie dough. However, it tastes too good for folks not to give in, especially if it has chocolate chips in it.
Sure, you can enjoy them in cookie form but the softness of raw dough is something a lot of people love. And you’ll really miss out on that if you turn it into cookies.
Curious as to how you can enjoy your favorite cookie dough without worrying about your tummy? Here’s an easy deep fried cookie dough recipe that you can try:
For the dough, you can get your favorite ready mix or use these ingredients:
1 cup all-purpose flour
¾ cup chocolate chips
⅓ cup brown sugar
⅓ cup granulated sugar
¼ cup milk
4 tbsp butter, melted
½ teaspoon vanilla
1 ⅛ cup milk
¼ cup flour
2 tsp vegetable oil
1 tsp baking powder
¼ tsp salt
¼ cup sugar
Here Are The Steps:
- Line a baking pan with parchment paper and set it aside.
- Make your dough. Using an electric mixer, start by mixing your butter and sugar to a smooth consistency. Add in the vanilla and milk and blend nicely. Follow with the flour and chocolate chips and mix until they’re smooth.
- Scoop cookie dough balls and line them up in the baking pan with parchment paper. Freeze for 20 minutes.
- Prepare the batter. Mix the flour, baking powder, salt, and sugar in another bowl. Mix the milk, vanilla, and cooking oil in a separate bowl. Pour the liquid mix into the dry ingredients and stir the mixture until it reaches a smooth consistency.
- Heat the oil up to 375F.
- Take out the cookie dough balls from the freezer and dip each one in the batter mixture before placing them in the oil. Cook until golden brown.
- Sprinkle with some sugar powder or drizzled with chocolate.
Not a big fan of deep frying?
Unfortunately, this dish won’t turn into a puff pastry when air fried. You can still, however, use the dough recipe to make air fried cookies. Just don’t add the batter as that might keep you from getting the result you want.
Health Benefits of Cookie Dough:
To be very honest, this cookie isn’t the healthiest food out there. It contains a lot of sugar, calories, and fats that it’s not really something you’d want in your diet if you’re trying to eat better.
You can, however, make your cookie dough a bit healthier. How? Here are a few ways:
- Swap out your all-purpose flour to whole wheat, oat, or almond flour. These ingredients might not necessarily have fewer calories but they can be more filling than regular white flour. They also contain more vitamins and nutrients, making them better alternatives.
- Swap out your regular chocolate chips for dark chocolate ones. Dark chocolate contains more nutrients than regular chocolate, so they’re deemed as better options for health buffs.
- Cut down your sugar. Less sugar means fewer calories. Doing this can also help you control your blood sugar levels.
- Use healthier oils to cook. To further make your cookie dough recipe healthier, use healthier types of oil when deep frying. Canola, olive, avocado, and flaxseed oils are just some of your better options. | <urn:uuid:05cc81e2-f260-454d-80c8-64220cc48c62> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://fryerhouse.com/easy-deep-fried-cookie-dough-recipe/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.916734 | 743 | 1.695313 | 2 |
How can you lack belief in the existence of god.
Simple - "X believes in god" is a statement/predicate about human X.
For a non-believer, the state of believing in god is exactly as inconceivable as the state of not believing in god would be for a believer. Both need mind-shattering experiences to truly switch around, there is no way through simple logic to change that (proof: if there were a way - in either direction - the issue would be resolved by now, and we would not be having this discussion).
Even indoctrinating gullible young humans for many years through childhood and adolescence does not with certainty work to instill either belief or disbelief in them, as demonstrated frequently by young adults switching to the "other camp" when out of the control of their parents or community.
God here I defined as prime cause. As the world is a sum of collections of events, causally linked to the past through time, then there must be a prime cause.
There are several (simple, logical) fallacies in those sentences:
- "God is a prime cause" is a definition, and has no "true or false" meaning; at this point in your argument it gives an attribute/predicate ("is a prime cause") to a concept ("god"). That is certainly applicable for mono-religions because humans simply created that definition. But from this definition there does not follow "Every prime cause must be god".
- If, at this point in your argument, you imply "God is" (that is, "God exists"), then you can stop right there - then you will have started the argument with the fact you wanted to prove, in the first place.
- "[All events are] causally linked to the past through time" - that is false. All spacetime points/events which are outside of each others light cone are not causally linked. And this predicate of not-being-causally-linked survives back right up to the instant of the Big Bang.
- "there must be a prime cause". No. There may, or may not be a prime cause, but "must" is patently false here. We can easily think of ways that the universe could start without a prime cause. It could be an infinitely repeating meta-process of universes being separated by infinitely many Big Bangs. It could be that the concept of "cause" itself breaks down at the singularity. It could be that the next Hawking resolves the error in our formulas and the singularity simply disappears. It could be that our universe sprang into being spontaneously the same way we know/assume that certain virtual (but still real) quantum particles spontaneously appear and disappear even in the deepest vacuum, with no single other particle anywhere around. Plenty of possibilities, none of which anyone can disprove just yet.
- You did not write it, but there is an invisible statement at the end of your argument: "Therefore, god is that prime cause". This is not the case either. You can define God to be a prime cause, but you cannot define it to be the only prime cause. Hence, even if there were a prime cause (which I am not arguing against!), nothing tells us that that must have been god.
As of now big bang singularity has been discovered.
No. The Big Bang has not been "discovered", almost all of it is just one theory on top of another on top of another. The only thing that is certain is that we have not witnessed anything that disproves the Big Bang. That is the nature of science. Until we disprove the Big Bang, it is a possibility. We can get ever more sure about it, but we will never know with absolute certainty.
Every scientist underwrites that contract. The scientific method is about "formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses". We can, by principle, never "prove" the Big Bang, we can only disprove it by witnessing something that conflicts clearly with it. Science has rewritten itself over and over again. Being 100% irrevocably sure of something is a clear sign of pseudo-science or religion.
Specifically, while we are pretty sure that "something happened" back then, we also know perfectly well that our current mathematical model of the Big Bang is wrong (or at least incomplete). Not wrong in the sense of "false", but wrong in the sense that we need a much more complicated theory. Similarly to how Newtons laws are not quite false in everyday cases, but are patently wrong in the big picture. We are still thinking about it...
But to say this big bang to occur in nothingness, where there is no volume, no time, no energy, completely nothing.
To say that would be extremely false. The opposite was true. From the Brief Answers to Cosmic Questions, by Harvard University:
``No. The Big Bang was not an explosion IN space. It was a process that involved ALL of space. This misconception causes more confusion than any other in cosmology. Unfortunately, many students, teachers, and scientists(!) mistakenly picture the "Big Bang" as an explosion that took place at some location in space, hurtling matter outward.
In reality, ALL of space was filled with energy right from the beginning. There was no center to the expansion, and no magical point from which matter hurtled outward. The confusion arises in part because of the amazing conclusion that the OBSERVABLE portion of the universe was once packed into an incredibly tiny volume. But that primordial pellet of matter and energy was NOT surrounded by empty space... it was surrounded by more matter and energy (which today is beyond the region we can observe.) In fact, if the whole universe is infinitely large now, then it was always infinite, including during the Big Bang as well.
To put it another way, the current evidence indicates only that the early universe - the WHOLE universe - was extremely DENSE - but not necessarily extremely small. Thus the Big Bang took place everywhere in space, not at a particular point in space.´´
On to your argument:
There ought to be cause(s) to this singularity,
Maybe there ought, maybe there ought'nt. We certainly do not know enough about the universe to know. Maybe the physical, real phenomenon that is represented by our mathematical singularity is precisely something that precludes any causality (insofar as causality is a "physical" thing in the first place, and not just a mental crutch we need in our limited understanding of reality, the answer to which I'm pretty sure nobody knows with certainty).
But even if it is that way, then...
In the end it still lead to god.
... that last argument is again a fallacy. You start out by proposing that everything is caused by god, and therefore everything leads back to god. Logic does not work that way. In the best case (if there is a real god which functions the way you propose), you can just skip everything in your argument, and be done with your first assertion. And if there is not, then you are starting from a false statement, from which you can, by logic, prove anything. Hence, this argument proves nothing.
Be sure to understand that I am not telling you that it needs logic for god to exist. But for some people, including scientists and philosophers, you do need logic to convince them of something... hence, to go full circle to your first question:
How can you lack belief in the existence of god.
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Download links and information about Alice by Tom Waits. This album was released in 2002 and it belongs to Rock, Songwriter/Lyricist genres. It contains 15 tracks with total duration of 48:15 minutes.
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This 15-track song cycle was written by Waits and his wife Kathleen Brennan in 1992 for Robert Wilson’s stage production of Alice, loosely based on Alice Liddell, the young girl and muse for Lewis Carroll’s Alice In Wonderland books. It had been considered Waits’ lost masterpiece, since it had been never been officially recorded. Ten years later, it was released simultaneously with another Robert Wilson-inspired collection, Blood Money. Alice is a gentle, romantic suite, scored for a small chamber orchestra with songs modeled on waltzes, folk tunes and jazz ballads. Waits describes it as “adult songs for children, or children’s songs for adults.” Violins, cellos, French horns, marimbas, and clarinets sculpt the sound and Waits approaches the material with much tenderness. Even the occasional rave-up (“Kommienezuspadt”) sounds muted. Waits’ true horrors — and the album’s most compelling tracks — are hidden under the surface. “Poor Edward” is a mournful ballad that heard carefully recounts the suicide of a man with two faces, while “No One Knows I’m Gone” and “I’m Still Here” are sung by characters resigned to their fates as forgotten men — only rescued by Waits’ intrigue and compassion. | <urn:uuid:1fda47ad-9d1c-426a-b61e-90f955a46dd7> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.wikimp3.org/album/tom-waits-alice-2002/133034/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721595.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00479-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.881942 | 515 | 1.84375 | 2 |
National and regional EPA officials will visit Lincoln, Neb., on Wednesday, June 5, to present $400,000 in EPA Brownfields grants to representatives of the West Haymarket Joint Public Agency. These grants will provide key funding for the cleanup of hazardous substances at two former commercial properties that will be revitalized as part of Lincoln's West Haymarket Redevelopment Project.
The two grants, totaling $400,000, are part of more than $4.5 million in funding provided to nine cities and two state agencies in EPA Region 7 by EPA's Brownfields Assessment, Revolving Loan Fund and Cleanup (ARC) Grants program.
EPA officials will make a ceremonial grants presentation to representatives of the West Haymarket JPA at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, June 5, at Iron Horse Park, at 7th and Q Streets, in Lincoln.
The West Haymarket JPA, a governmental agency formed by the City of Lincoln and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, will use the funds to clean up hazardous substances at the former Scrap Metal Recycling Facility at 550 N Street, and the Jaylynn Former Manufactured Gas Plant and Lumber Yard at 660 N Street.
The former scrap metal recycling facility also has been used for bulk oil storage and railroad operations, and is contaminated with volatile organic compounds, heavy metals, and PCBs. The former manufactured gas plant site also has been used as a lumber yard and scrap metal recycling facility, and is contaminated with volatile organic compounds and heavy metals.
The West Haymarket Redevelopment Project encompasses 400 acres of blighted and underutilized property that lies on the western edge of Lincoln's downtown and Haymarket district. Centered around the new 16,000-seat multi-purpose Pinnacle Bank Arena, which is scheduled to open this fall, the project will also include new hotels, a community plaza, and retail, office and residential space.
EPA's Brownfields ARC Grants target areas of communities where environmental cleanups and new jobs are most needed to facilitate redevelopment. Communities like Lincoln use ARC Grants to conduct environmental assessments, cleanup planning, cleanups and community outreach.
Brownfields are defined as those properties whose expansion, redevelopment, or reuse may be complicated by the presence or potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant. Brownfields sites include all "real property," including residential, commercial and industrial properties. It is estimated that there are more than 450,000 brownfields in the U.S. Cleaning up and reinvesting in these properties increases local tax bases, facilitates job growth, utilizes existing infrastructure, takes development pressures off of undeveloped, open land, and both improves and protects the environment. | <urn:uuid:3628305f-2b8d-4892-8175-4e9366d2e5e3> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://lincoln.ne.gov/city/mayor/media/2013/060513.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282935.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00245-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941643 | 551 | 1.695313 | 2 |
40 Terms That Prove Michiganders Have an Accent!
We in Michigan don't realize that we have an accent...we think anyone from out of state - or even up north - have an accent......but no, NOT US!
Well, yes we do.
We sloppily pronounce words because some are too difficult or we're just too lazy.
Proof? Here goes.
40 Terms That Prove Michiganders Have an Accent
...also, most words that end in "ing" become just plain "in" and many, many others.
Okay, okay, not ALL Michiganders talk like this...but a lot of us do, ME included! And I've heard EVERY ONE of the above 40 terms uttered by Michiganders!
How bout choo? Goddenny suggestions? Let's hear 'em!
Find out more fun stuff about how we Michiganders use & abuse the English language on wanderwisdom.com by CLICKING HERE!
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Opened by Associated British Cinemas(ABC) on 10th October 1938 with Charles Laughton in “Vessel of Wrath”. Originally it had 2,769 seats (1,086 in the circle, 1,683 in the stalls), it included full stage facilities which were used for number one presentations until 1969. Originally named Regal Cinema (one of ABC’s preferred names for its theatres), it changed to simply the ABC in 1961.
Tripled at a cost of 500,000 pounds in 1969 (a fortune then), it was the first such conversion in Europe and its new capacities were 870, 738 and 318 (still large). The complex had two large licensed bars as well as 70mm facilities in the two largest auditoria.
Closed by Odeon in December 2000 (they had their own theatre operating at that time on Clerk Street), the building was demolished, apart from the facade in January 2001.
A four-screen ‘miniplex’ is housed in the basement of the new office development now occupying the site which incorporates the original building’s facade. This opened as the Odeon Lothian Road on 5th September 2003. This would not exist but for a covenant on the building which stipulated that any new development must incorporate a cinema. But for this, Odeon would surely not have bothered as Edinburgh is rapidly becoming (like many parts of the United Kingdom) vastly overscreened.
On 19th March 1993, Historic Scotland designated the facade of the ABC a Grade B Listed building.
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by The Minister of Information JR
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The island most intriguing to the imagination of the U.S. currently is the Caribbean nation of Cuba, which fought and won a revolution in 1959 against the U.S. puppet regime of Batista and has since endured the imperialist yoke of an embargo that has been trying to starve the revolutionary islanders into a submission of ideals and resources. Just this year Obama became the first sitting U.S. president to visit to the island since the time that the revolution took root. His trip symbolized the easing of some of the restriction of the embargo while keeping others in place.
This year at the San Francisco Black Film Festival, “Codigo Color, Memorias” is one of the internationally made jewels that will be exposing the Bay Area to the issue of colorism in Cuba as well as young people’s intellectual laziness on the island when it comes to learning the history of those before them who fought so they could enjoy the luxuries that they have today.
“Codigo Color, Memorias” will screen on Saturday, June 18, 4-6 p.m., at the African American Art and Culture Complex, 762 Fulton St. I sat down with the filmmaker, William Sabourin, for an exclusive Q&A about his informative and perfectly timed film. Check him out in his own words.
M.O.I. JR: While living in Cuba, what inspired you to want to become a filmmaker?
William Sabourin: Ever since I was a little boy, I always had a fascination for images, colors and stories. I used to have my own fantasy world, as most kids. Mine, though, manifested into whole cities and landscapes that I would actually draw with my index finger in the air.
I would spend hours doing that crazy stuff. I remember my mom calling me out and asking me to play with real toys. I would pretend for a while but eventually would comeback to my “unfinished piece” and keep working on it.
After starting going to school and getting teased for my drawing habits, I figured I had to do something else. I remember I would gather my friends and I would make up tales and stories then would give everyone lines to learn, rehearse. When I thought it was ready – usually about ten minutes later – we’d perform and record our silly voices on a cassette tape. Then we would all listen to ourselves talking and laughing about our own stories.
It was very amusing to hear our little voices imitating sounds and often impersonating adults and other kids. At the time, it was hard to find an audio cassette recorder in Cuba, but my family was fortunate enough to have one, so I would often get big crowds – kids and adults alike – to listen to the recordings.
The crowds in my mom’s living room grew so large and loud with laughter that she eventually got tired and put an end to it. So I guess that was when I realized that I could entertain and get people’s attention to focus on a story I wanted to tell.
M.O.I. JR: What inspired the making of “Codigo Color, Memorias”?
William Sabourin: Alberto Lescay, a friend, teacher and mentor, approached me in late 2014. He was very frustrated about a conversation he had with his younger son Alejandro, who was 24 at the time. Alejandro and his friends were complaining about racial discrimination they had experienced and seen in Cuba, claiming it was horrible and that something had to be done about that.
His father tried to tell him that, although he recognized that there was still racism in Cuba, it used to be far worse before the revolution, especially in Santiago de Cuba, the city they call home and one of the Blackest in Cuba. After a discussion, Alberto was disturbed to find out his son and friends knew nothing about the history of racial relationships in Cuba before 1959. They’d heard all the slogans – racial discrimination being abolished – and all the rhetoric about Cuba becoming an equalitarian society and so forth but apparently had never heard real anecdotes told by real people who lived in pre-revolution Cuba.
Then Alberto persuaded me to make a film to address the subject. After a little bit of consideration, I agreed and then he decided to get the foundation that he directs to help with the funding for the film. I wrote the script in a couple of months, put a team together and started shooting in April 2015.
M.O.I. JR: Do you fear that the Cuban government will see this film as counter-revolutionary because of its criticism of racism in Cuban culture?
William Sabourin: No, I don’t think so. The film made its world premiere in the International Film Festival in Havana last December and since then has had multiple screenings in events and festivals throughout the Island. On top of it all, just last Saturday, “Codigo” was broadcast in national Cuban TV – on prime time!
It’s no secret Cuba’s government has been known for its censorship of works of art and expressions critical of the state’s agenda and for a lack of tolerance on criticism and dissent. To my immense pleasure, it looks like there is a small opening; an evolution is taking place. The fact that this film is being well received speaks of the absolute need for the conversation to continue and the desire of the Cuban people to have a dialogue about the disturbing racist tendencies most humans manifest.
M.O.I. JR: Can you talk about the history of Mayor Arnez of Santiago and his effect on Cuban culture and image and his son’s effect on Cuban culture and image with his American TV show?
William Sabourin: The truth is that Desiderio Arnaz remains very irrelevant and forgotten in the memory of most Cubans.
My experience showing the film in Cuba is that almost 100 percent of the audience finds out about Arnaz, his actions and his son’s success in the U.S. for the first time while watching the film.
Part of the explanation is that those Cubans who could afford having a TV set in the ‘50’s when “I Love Lucy” first aired were the upper middle class, and the majority of those people left Cuba for good in the first years after the revolution in 1959. So the Cubans who remained in the island didn’t watch or hear about Desi Arnaz. By the time they had a TV, we didn’t get American TV shows or American nothing for that matter. The cold war was into a full rage mode.
M.O.I. JR: Why did “Codigo Color, Memorias” see it as a problem that the youth of Cuba are not into their history? In your opinion, what does that spell for the future of Cuba?
William Sabourin: Young people in Cuba are not really that different from young people in any other country. They have just tuned deaf to 58 years of the same voice and the same message. They don’t want to hear the same rhetoric and speech about how bad it was decades before they were born and how grateful they should be now that things are much better.
No, they want and expect more. Internet access, instant access to music, social media and latest technology is what they dream of, and they don’t have that. So for the most part they have become indifferent to politics, ideology and even history.
It worries me to see that, of course, especially the history part, and that’s the main reason I made the movie with such an unusual visual style, narrative and sound design. I wanted to connect to the youngsters out there right away. I knew making a “traditional” historical documentary on race with the same “visual and narrative codes” wouldn’t stand a chance; I knew kids in Cuba would not watch it.
I wanted them to not lose interest in the history lesson and to learn a couple of things in 31 minutes. I took a gamble with the style I presented. Incredibly, I think it has worked.
M.O.I. JR: Can you tell the history that is contained in the film about how one of Batista’s Black officers could have captured Fidel and his whole July 26th movement, but let them go?
William Sabourin: Sarria Tartabu was a Black officer who, ironically, had been promoted by Batista when he implemented the tactic to Blacken his army. He wanted more and more Blacks to participate in the extermination of the mostly white upperclass revolutionary movement led by Castro.
After Castro and a group of his men were captured following a failed attack on Batista’s second military fortress, one of Sarria’s soldiers put a gun to Fidel’s head ready to execute him. Indeed, that was the modus operandi at the time: If you got caught, you got executed, sometimes tortured first, then executed. It was well known, and of course many revolutionaries, if caught, preferred to be executed right away.
Apparently Sarria felt differently about Batista’s orders and stopped his soldier from executing Fidel and his mates. Allegedly he calmly said: “Don’t shoot! You can’t kill ideas!” Later that day, instead of taking prisoner Castro to the Garrison – where the torture was for sure awaiting – he took him instead, against his boss’s orders, to a place similar to a townhall, where all the national and international journalists were present, reporting and covering the bloody events of the days.
Once the journalists saw the men arrive, they took pictures of the prisoners and published them in newspapers. Batista knew he could not torture or execute Castro, thus Fidel Castro went to trial and eventually to forced exile in Mexico in ‘56.
Three years later, when Castro and his rebel army won, Sarria joined Fidel’s side and became part of his earliest elite secret service squad.
M.O.I. JR: How were Blacks generally viewed during the start of the Cuban Revolution?
William Sabourin: It’s a difficult question to answer, I guess it depends on what side you are asking about. The white rich Cubans that left for South Florida early on saw Blacks in Cuba as a bunch of indoctrinated Communist ignorant bastards who were supporting a crazy murderer and they were eventually going to pay a price for that.
Then there were white Cubans who decided to stay in the island, by far the majority. They bought into Castro’s experiment and supported his dream for an equal society, free of gambling, vice, racism, illiteracy and poverty. So, despite having racial prejudices against Blacks, fomented by years of slavery, colonialism and inequality, these white Cubans were willing to start anew, following Castro’s persuasive message and undisputed leadership. Apparently just the willingness wasn’t enough.
M.O.I. JR: Do you think that Cuba’s lack and the Caribbean’s lack of a “Black is Beautiful Black Power Movement” has contributed negatively or positively to the self-esteem of Blacks on the island? Why or why not?
William Sabourin: Thankfully, the Black Beauty Movement has started to get some traction in Cuba, especially in the big cities. Hopefully with the opening of relations, more Black brothers and sisters from the U.S. get the chance to visit Cuba and exchange experience that undoubtedly will benefit and spiritually enrich both sides.
M.O.I. JR: What do you want people to get out of this film?
William Sabourin: I just want people to watch and feel – then listen and listen and then talk.
The People’s Minister of Information JR Valrey is associate editor of the Bay View, author of “Block Reportin’“ and “Unfinished Business: Block Reportin’ 2“ and filmmaker of “Operation Small Axe“ and “Block Reportin’ 101,” available, along with many more interviews, at www.blockreportradio.com. He can be reached at email@example.com. | <urn:uuid:8b79610c-4266-49bd-91dd-6deeae1a8961> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://sfbayview.com/2016/06/codigo-color-at-sf-black-film-fest-cuban-doc-explores-colorism-and-cultural-ignorance-on-the-island/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.978565 | 2,638 | 1.515625 | 2 |
1. China wants an Apology from the Japanese Emperor
That’s what Xinhua demanded on Tuesday, anyway: “Injustice has a source, a loan has a lender” (冤有头，债有主).
2. China wants North Korea to shut up
That’s because North Korea wanted South Korean loudspeakers to shut up. That has now happened, but on Monday, the loudspeaker crisis wasn’t yet resolved, and that was terrible, because South Korean president Park Geun-hye considered to stay at home in Seoul, due to the bad political weather on the Korean peninsula, rather than attending the PLA military parade on September 3.
Korean tensions won’t take China hostage, announced the “Global Times”, the quasi-Chinese parallel universe for foreigners who don’t understand Chinese, suspecting that certain forces in Pyongyang, Seoul, or outside the peninsula are gambling on this. Sino-NK compares the article in English and its – somewhat different – Chinese original.
The anger was actually understandable, as sino-narcissistic as it may have been. After all, Park’s attendance – now (re)confirmed – lends a lot of face to the parade of an army which actually had comparatively little to do with the defeat of Japanese imperialism, as Taiwanese president (and former KMT chairman) Ma Ying-jeou pointed out last month.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon can hardly be considered one of the certain forces in Pyongyang, Seoul, or outside the peninsula anyway. According to Reuters, citing Xinhua, he has defended his trip to Beijing next week to watch a military parade marking the end of World War Two following concern from Japan. Ban is scheduled to attend the sublime distortion of history, too.
Ban defended his planned attendance in Beijing next week after Japan’s foreign ministry had sent a message to the United Nations, saying that the events draw attention to the past for no purpose and that the United Nations should remain neutral, and a senior ministry official expressed strong dissatisfaction with Ban’s plan to observe the military parade in Tiananmen Square.
Tokyo’s top diplomats apparently felt an urgent need to prove that you don’t need to be Xinhua to talk like a wide-mouth frog.
3. China wants to cast off Western Linguistic Manipulation
This is what Huanqiu Shibao, translated and quoted by Fei Chang Dao, actually meant in its editorial on Thursday: a need to cast off Western linguistic manipulations and steer clear of the linguistic traps that they set when it comes to democratic concepts. CCP democratic practice proves that most “lingustic traps” are digital these days.
4. India is a Victim of such Manipulation
No, Mao Siwei, a former consul-general to Kolkata, doesn’t say that. He only suggests that India’s political system has (or leads to) problems, with all important legislation stalled in parliament. And he doesn’t even say that. He only quotes a Times of India editorial that says so.
5. How Marco Rubio would “deal with China”
On the basis of strength and example, of course, like any presidential candidate, prior to entering the White House and inheriting his predecessors desk (and files). Marco Rubio‘s first goal – repeat: first goal – would be to restore America’s strategic advantage in the Pacific. How so? By restoring the Pentagon’s budget to its appropriate level, of course:
This will allow us to neutralize China’s rapidly growing capabilities in every strategic realm, including air, sea, ground, cyber space and even outer space.
I will also promote collaboration among our allies, as America cannot and need not bear the full burden of counterbalancing China’s power.
Well, some of them will be in Beijing on Thursday, saying Hello to the victorious “People’s Liberation Army”. Maybe Rubio should first ask America’s quasi-allies in East Asia what they are going to spend on their countries’ military. Hegemony is unsustainable. Partnership might work.
6. Contested Economist Obituary of Tashi Tsering
The Economist published an obituary on Tashi on December 20 last year, and Woeser, who apparently furnished the news magazine with a photo taken by her husband Wang Lixiong ten years earlier, took issue with several points of the article. A few days after the Economist’s publication, she had recorded her objections. High Peaks Pure Earth offers an English translation. (Btw, Woeser also unveils the identity of the author of the Economist’s obituary – as a rule, authors remain anonymous there. The Economist explains why.)
7. Women can’t keep a Secret secret
Hilary Clinton can’t, Woeser can’t (see previous note, re the Economist’s Tashi Tsering obituary and its now uncovered author), and nor can Ambassador Caroline Kennedy.
Anyway, who cares. In the digital age, secrets are rapidly going out of fashion.
8. No “Russia Today” Rep Office in Latvia
According to Delfi, a Baltic online publication quoted by Euromaidan Press, the Latvian Registry of Enterprises denied permission to RT, saying that “the documents submitted by Russia Today contradict the Constitution of Latvia as well as several other laws”. Seconding the decision, the National Council of Electronic Media in Latvia reportedly alleged that the goal of the Russia Today Russian state news agency is to spread biased information in the information space to support the interests of Russia’s foreign policy.
A People’s Daily article in April suggested that the European Union was on the defensive in a “propaganda war” with Russia.
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TIFTON, Ga., March 30 (UPI) -- An empty home in Georgia is infested with as many as 20,000 bats and officials say they've declared it unfit for human habitation until the bats are cleared.
"The interior and exterior walls are just full of guano," Melissa Skidmore of Tru Tech, an animal removal service, said of the home in Tifton, Ga.,
"Some of it is old and has turned to dust and it is just a cocktail of pathogens. People going in will need proper equipment to cover their skin, clothes and noses. We are talking about between 10,000 and 20,000 bats," Skidmore told The Tifton Gazette Monday.
The infestation of Mexican free-tailed bats was one of the worse she had ever seen, she said.
A local code enforcement officer said he had no choice but to post the declaration when he saw several live bats upstairs and spotted several dead bats on the bottom floor of the house.
"We just want to get the neighborhood safe," Russel Gay said. "It really doesn't need to sit here like this for another six months."
Local real estate agent Julie Smith said the house is in foreclosure with an agency that has a buyer interested in purchasing the house.
"The goal is for everyone to work together so that a family can live here safely," Smith said. "We hope it can again become a house in the historic district that is a viable property on the tax digest." | <urn:uuid:73dc56e6-99db-4405-8e19-82bc7ea279eb> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2011/03/30/Georgia-house-infested-with-20000-bats/UPI-26161301515070/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279189.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00055-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.986376 | 309 | 1.65625 | 2 |
The importance of Prototyping and wire-frames.
I have done many projects involving high fidelity wire-framing (usually with OmniGraffle, Sketch, Invison, or Photoshop and Illustrator.)
I was working on several prototypes for a global community website and found it very difficult to get any feedback. I was in an unusual situation in which I actually knew who my users were, all 330 of them. However, they were very busy entrepreneurs who had no time to spend on the development of a site whose use they had yet to understand. This makes the design and development of a site even harder, as vocal members will assert their taste, while passive members will stay silent, and feeling uninvolved and not connected to the design, they will drift off. It was only by pulling the users into the discussion via a blog that I was able to create some sort of interaction.
MY FAVOURITE PROTOTYPING PROJECTS:
MetLife Global NextGen project
World Trade Centre Global Intranet
Verizon devices UX
Here is an example of a comparison I made of two websites that have the same objectives. Two publishing houses that sell scholarly works.
I prefer testing a site in a real-world situation, my skills at Photoshop help me enormously in this respect. I don’t believe anyone, especially a sample untrained user, can make much sense of wireframes.
Prototyping and wireframes are an essential way to create a site that the content producers – often marketing managers or editors – can understand before the heavy lifting of the developer begins. This reduces costs and improves communication. However, wireframes and prototyping are luxuries that not every project can afford (in time and money) or is really necessary.
An example is a small microsite with limited content. These can be built very easily in WordPress in a matter of hours and can be prototyped on the fly. The advantage of this is that its a real What -You-See-Is-What-You-Get experience, and when finished, so is the development. Also, if your designer is an experienced developer, and the project team and stakeholders are a small group, then direct to development strategy is the way to go.
I have worked in both ways, developing in Joomla as well as wireframing in all sorts of tools, from Word to online wireframing tools like Protoshare. A good prototyping strategy upfront saves a lot of work and miscommunication in the long term. | <urn:uuid:74ddd3b0-d39e-4061-8526-ee0b4eb13f64> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://andygrogan.com/prototyping-and-wireframes/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00070.warc.gz | en | 0.965303 | 516 | 1.632813 | 2 |
Low-level flying is one of the most important techniques used by the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm during military operations, but practicing such a skill can sometimes come at a cost, as reporter MICHAEL MARSH found out at RNAS Yeovilton.
PERFECTING the art of helicopter low-level flying is no mean feat.
Get it wrong and the enemy will shoot you down – if the electricity wires haven’t already snared you.
But pilots risk their lives getting the technique down to a ‘T’, ready to fend off potential attacks in some of the world’s most hostile war zones.
I’m at RNAS Yeovilton – one of the Navy’s two main air bases – to learn how this finely-tuned skill protects our troops abroad and witness first-hand the dangers it brings.
If I wasn’t aware how risky low-level flying was before my visit, a stark introduction from the station’s Commanding Officer, Jock Alexander, helped ram home the point.
“People have died doing this,” he said. “We don’t just do it because it’s fun – we do it because we have to. It’s not willy-nilly, there are reasons why.”
Soon it’s not hard to see what Cdre Alexander is talking about.
Trees, wires and horses mean training day in day out over Somerset’s countryside is taken as seriously as a tactical operation in Afghanistan.
With training come hazards, making it one of the most rigorous learning processes on the Navy syllabus.
RN Commander (air) Neil Thompson said: “It’s a high-demand activity for our pilots. It requires a lot of training and a lot of time is taken perfecting the art of low-level flying.
“The threat we face every day on operations is very real. They’re real threats we have to prepare for.”
In 2003, rider Heather Bell, 38, was killed when her horse was spooked by a low-flying Chinook in Lincolnshire, causing it to bolt and throw her to the ground.
There are on average four to six horses per kilometre on British soil and Somerset’s large riding community means it is no exception.
It is illegal to low fly over built-up areas, controlled air space and restricted areas, such as Hinkley Point nulcear power station, but it is virtually impossible to fly low and avoid livestock at the same time, as I found out while cruising over the countryside at a little over 100ft in a Sea King Mk4 helicopter.
The Commanding Officer of 848 Squadron, Richard Sutton, who has flown in the Navy for 20 years, and seen frontline service in Northern Ireland, Iraq and Afghanistan, said: “It’s a very, very fiercely regulated environment to operate in.
“We take the regulations very seriously – you can go to prison for two years for illegal low-level flying – so we don’t do it ad hoc or for the hell of it.
“Safety is paramount. We invest an awful lot of time, energy and money on getting pilots to the right standard.
“Wires are helicopter killers. A lot of us have lost friends to wires over the years. There’s nowhere in the countryside where there are no wires. They’re very hazardous.
“This is a high stress, high workload environment. We all have families who we want to go back to at the end of the day.
“Even in a tactical operation we don’t want to fly over populated areas. People get on their phones and say ‘hey, guess what – there’s a helicopter coming.’”
While the Navy often comes under fire for straying too close to horses, some riders accept that they must themselves take responsibility.
Sheila Hardy, head of safety at the British Horse Society, said: “The biggest issue is making ourselves seen as riders. So many seem to think ‘why should we?’ ”
Michael ‘Pepsi’ Kohler, who runs an equestrian centre at Bridgwater College, said he has made provisions in a bid to make riders more aware of passing aircraft.
He said: “We can hear helicopters coming. It’s an unwritten rule that if you can hear one we stop riding until it has passed.
“The lack of high-visibility vests comes down to people being lazy, but I think it will change.”
During my 45-minute flight from Yeovilton to Westonzoyland, via Ministry of Defence-owned Merryfield at Ilton, the intensity of low-level flying was apparent.
The risks for pilots and horse riders alike are there for all to see, but the two hope they can continue to work together while our armed forces train for their next call of duty.
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The shift to highly-automated workplaces and overall wage stagnation has been leading more and more individuals to choose freelance work as a primary or secondary job.
Since Uber and related companies classify their drivers as “independent contractors” and not traditional employees, they offer a measure of freedom (drivers choose their own hours and have some control over how much income they bring in), but also some very big risks.
The biggest risk to South Carolina Uber drivers?
Jobs that involve driving professionally also involve a heightened potential for vehicle collisions that could cause injuries, automobile damage, or worse and as independent contractors, Uber drivers may not be covered by state workers’ compensation laws.
Most mid-sized and large cities have Uber and Lyft drivers on the roads, earning money and helping individuals get to their destinations safely. Columbia, South Carolina even has its own page on the Uber website, as our city has embraced it as a way to conveniently cut down on travel time.
Nationally, more than 1.5 million people work as independent contractors while driving for Uber. Jobs in the transportation industry, which includes driving for Uber, involve a much greater risk for serious collisions. They also face 200 injury-causing incidents per 10,000 workers, putting this category at the very top of “most dangerous professions”, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Injured Uber drivers facing time off the job, medical bills, and a sudden loss of income may assume they simply have no recourse, as they are not considered employees as the term is traditionally defined.
When it comes to Uber, we are actually beginning to see some optimistic moves in the right direction.
While there have been rumors for some time about Uber considering implementing a system of providing opt-in Workers Compensation for their contracted drivers, it was only in 2017 that we saw concrete steps taken to put the plan into motion.
Uber is currently “testing” an optional protection program where drivers have the option to pay about $.0375 per mile they driver, with riders paying about $.05 more per mile, and in return the drivers receive Workers Compensation coverage.
With potential benefits going up to $1 million dollars, covering both the loss of weekly earnings and to help offset medical expenses, this pilot program has been viewed as a potentially important move by advocates of injured workers throughout the nation.
The program was initially implemented in only a few states, with our own South Carolina being of the first.
We’ll be keeping a close eye on this program moving forward, as we begin to see more accurate results as to how many drivers are using the program and how well it operates in providing a form of employee protection even in the “gig economy”.
Bluestein Attorneys is a firm dedicated to Workers Compensation and advocating on behalf of South Carolina employees who have become injured or ill due to workplace events or conditions.
If you’ve been injured on the job or you’re facing an occupational illness, Bluestein Attorneys is here to help. We’d be happy to sit down with you to discuss your unique situation, and work with you on deciding what the next best step is for you and your family.
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The Effectiveness of Afterschool Tutoring Programs on Student Achievement in an Urban School District: A Quantitative Analysis of Selected School Programs
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The intent of this study is to investigate the effects of implementing afterschool tutorials and attendance at those tutorials on student achievement in mathematics and reading. The data was compiled for the 2012-2013 academic year. This study used a non-experimental post hoc design; a combination of causal-comparative and correlational methods were used. ANCOVA was used to compare the independent-variable groups’ pre- and post-treatment means on the NWEA reading and mathematics RIT scores.
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Child Support Division
General Frequently Asked Questions
Q. I am supposed to receive a certain amount per month for child support. The amounts that I receive some months do not add up to the court ordered monthly amount and the checks are for different amounts.
A. In cases where an income withholding order has been issued to a payer to withhold the monthly amount, most times it is the employer's payroll period which can determine the time period and the amounts sent in on behalf of the obligor.
Examples: The court order is $100 per month or $1,200 yearly. The following may be the amounts sent in by the employer, depending on the employer payroll periods, prorated out for the upcoming year.
- 12 pay periods per year = $100 per month (paid in one check)
- 24 pay periods per year = $100 per month (paid in two $50 checks)
- 26 pay periods per year = $100 per month (paid every other week @ $46.16 up to $100 for the month). Two months during the year will have three pay periods
- 52 pay periods per year = $100 per month (paid once a week @ $23.08 up to $100 for the month). There will be four months during the year with a fifth pay period
In Examples (c) and (d), there will be months when the court ordered amount will not be received or paid out even though the income withholding is working properly. However, over a 6 month period for (c) and 3 month period for (d), as well as annually, the $1,200 would be forwarded to the family.
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The town has played a conspicuous part in military history: its fortifications date back to Roman times, and it has several traces of the period, including the 1st-century mausoleum of the Roman general Lucius Munatius Plancus at the top of the Monte Orlando.
Gaeta's fortifications were extended and strengthened in the 15th century, especially throughout the history of the Kingdom of Naples (later the Two Sicilies). Present day Gaeta is a fishing and oil seaport, and a renowned tourist resort. NATO maintains a Naval base of operations at Gaeta.
It is the ancient 'Caieta', situated on the slopes of the Torre di Orlando, a promontory overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. Gaeta was an ancient Ionian colony of the Samians according to Strabo, who believed the name stemmed from the Greek kaiétas, which means "cave", probably referring to the several harbours. According to Virgil's Aeneid (vii.1–9), Caieta was Aeneas’ (another legend says Ascanius') wet-nurse, whom he buried here.
In the classical age Caieta, famous for its lovely and temperate climate, like the neighbouring Formia and Sperlonga, was a tourist resort and site of the seaside villas of many important and rich characters of Rome. Like the other Roman resorts, Caieta was linked to the capital of the Empire by Via Appia and its end trunk Via Flacca (or Valeria), through an opposite diverticulum or bye-road. Its port was of great importance in trade and in war, and was restored under Emperor Antoninus Pius. Among its antiquities is the mausoleum of Lucius Munatius Plancus.
At the beginning of the Middle Ages, after the Lombard invasion, Gaeta remained under suzerainty of the Byzantine Empire. In the following years, like Amalfi, Sorrento and Naples, it would seem to have established itself as a practically independent port and to have carried on a thriving trade with the Levant.
As Byzantine influence declined in Southern Italy the town began to grow. For fear of the Saracens, in 840 the inhabitants of the neighbouring Formiæ fled to Gaeta. Though under the suzerainty of Byzantium, Gaeta had then, like nearby ports Naples and Amalfi, a republican form of government with a dux ("duke", or commanding lord under the command of the Byzantine Exarch of Ravenna), as a strong bulwark against Saracen invasion.
Around 830, it became a lordship ruled by hereditary hypati, or consuls: the first of these was Constantine (839–866), who in 847 aided Pope Leo IV in the naval fight at Ostia. At this same time (846) the episcopal see of Gaeta was founded when Constantine, Bishop of Formiae, fled thither and established his residence. He was associated with his son Marinus I. They were probably violently overthrown (they disappear suddenly from history) in 866 or 867 by Docibilis I, who, looking rather to local safety, entered into treaties with the Saracens and abandoned friendly relations with the papacy. Nevertheless, he greatly expanded the duchy and began construction of the palace. Greatest of the hypati was possibly John I, who helped crush the Saracens at Garigliano in 915 and gained the title of patricius from the Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII.
The principle of co-regency governed the early dynasties: Docibilis associated John with him and John in turn associated his son Docibilis II with him. In 933, three generations were briefly co-ruling: John I, Docibilis II, and John II. On the death of Docibilis II (954), who first took the title dux, the duchy passed from its golden age and entered a decline marked by a division of territory. John II ruled Gaeta and his brother, Marinus, ruled Fondi with the equivalent title of duke. Outlying lands and castles were given away to younger sons and thus the family of the Docibili slowly declined after mid-century.
Allegedly, but improbably, from the end of the 9th century, the principality of Capua claimed Gaeta as a courtesy title for the younger son of its ruling prince. In the mid-10th century, the De Ceremoniis of Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus lists the ceremonial title "prince of Gaeta" among the protocols for letters written to foreigners.
Prince Pandulf IV of Capua captured Gaeta in 1032 and deposed Duke John V, assuming the ducal and consular titles. In 1038, Prince Guaimar IV of Salerno took it from him and, in 1041, established the Norman counts of Aversa, who were afterwards princes of Capua, as puppet dukes. The native dynasty made a last attempt to wrest the duchy from Guaimar in 1042 under Leo the Usurper.
In 1045, the Gaetans elected their own Lombard duke, Atenulf I. His son, Atenulf II, was made to submit to the Norman Prince Richard I of Capua in 1062, when Gaeta was captured by Jordan Drengot. In 1064, the city was placed under a line of puppet dukes, appointed by the Capuan princes, who had usurped the ducal and consular titles. These dukes, usually Italianate Normans, ruled Gaeta with some level of independence until the death of Richard of Caleno in 1140. In that year, Gaeta was definitively annexed to the Kingdom of Sicily by Roger II, who bestowed on his son Roger of Apulia, who was duly elected by the nobles of the city. The town did maintain its own coinage until as late as 1229, after the Normans had been superseded by the centralising Hohenstaufen.
In the many wars for possession of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, Gaeta, owing to its important strategic position, was often attacked and defended bravely. In 1194 the Pisans, allies of Emperor Henry VI in the conquest of the kingdom, took possession of the city and held it as their own.
In 1227 the Hohenstaufen Emperor Frederick II was in the city and strengthened the castle. However, in the struggle between Emperor Frederick and the Papacy, in 1228 it rebelled against Frederick II and surrendered to the pope, after the Papal forces destroyed the imperial castle in the fray. After the peace of San Germano of 1230, it was given back to the Sicilian kingdom. In 1233, Frederick regained control of the important port and fortress. In 1279 Charles I of Anjou rebuilt the castle and enhanced the fortifications. In 1289 King James II of Aragon besieged the city in vain. From 1378 Gaeta hosted for some years antipope Clement VII. The future King of Naples Ladislaus lived in Gaeta from 1387. Here, on 21 September, he married Costanza Chiaramonte, whom he repudiated three years later.
King Alfonso V of Aragon (as Alfonso I of Naples) made Gaeta his beachhead for the conquest of the Kingdom of Naples in 1435, besieged it, and to his own disadvantage displayed great generosity, by aiding those unable to bear arms who had been driven out from the besieged town. After a disastrous naval battle he captured it, and gained control of the kingdom. He enlarged the castle, which became his royal palace, and created a mint. In 1451 the city was home to the Treaty of Gaeta, stipulated between Alfonso V and the Albanian lord, Skanderbeg: the treaty ensured protection of the Albanian lands in exchange for political suzerainty of Skanderbeg to Alfonso.
In 1495, king Charles VIII of France conquered the city and sacked it. The following year, however, Frederick I of Aragon regained it with a tremendous siege which lasted from 8 September to 18 November.
In 1528 Andrea Doria, admiral of Charles V, defeated a French fleet in the waters off Gaeta and gave the city to its emperor. Gaeta was thenceforth protected with a new and more extensive wall, which also encompassed Monte Orlando.
In the War of the Spanish Succession, on 30 September 1707 Gaeta was stormed and taken after a three-month siege by the Austrians under General Daun. On 6 August 1734 it was taken by French, Spanish and Sardinian troops under the future King Charles of Naples after a stubborn defense by the Austrian viceroy of four months. Charles' own daughter Infanta Maria Josefa of Spain was born here in 1744. The fortifications were again strengthened; and in 1799 it was temporarily occupied by the French.
On 18 July 1806 it was captured by the French under André Masséna, after an heroic defence. It was created a duché grand-fief in the Napoleonic Kingdom of Naples, but under the French name Gaete, for finance minister Martin-Michel-Charles Gaudin, in 1809 (family extinguished in 1841).
On 8 August 1815 it capitulated to the Austrians after a three months' siege. It had been attacked and partially reduced by ships of the Royal Navy on 24 July 1815.
Finally, in 1860, it was the scene of the last stand of Francis II of the Two Sicilies against the forces of United Italy. The king offered a stubborn defense, shut up in the fortress with 12,000 men and inspired by the heroic example of Queen Maria Sophie after Garibaldi's occupation of Naples. It was not until 13 February 1861 that Francis II was forced to capitulate when the withdrawal of the French fleet made bombardment from the sea possible, thus sealing the annexation of the Kingdom of Naples to the Kingdom of Italy. Cialdini, the Piedmontese general, received the victory title of Duke of Gaeta. Gaeta was the center for the Montenegrin rebels that opposed the unification of Yugoslavia, The Greens, 1919-1924.
After the Risorgimento and until World War II, Gaeta grew in importance and wealth as a seaport. The nearby town of Elena, separated after the Risorgimento and named after the queen of Italy, was reunited to Gaeta following World War I. Mussolini transferred Gaeta from the southern region known today as Campania (formerly Terra di Lavoro, to which it is historically and culturally attached) to the central region of Lazio.
In April 1938 Gaeta was the scene of an extraterritorial vote of German and Austrian clerics, studying at the German college of Santa Maria dell'Anima, on the question of the German annexation of Austria ("Anschluss"). The place of the vote was the German heavy cruiser Admiral Scheer, which anchored in the harbour of Gaeta. In contrary to the overall German result, these clerical votes rejected the Anschluss with over 90%, an incident which was coined as "Shame of Gaeta" (Vergogna di Gaeta, Schande von Gaeta) at the time.
After the king dismissed Mussolini in the summer of 1943, the latter was initially taken via Gaeta to the island prison of Ponza. After Italy surrendered to the Allies, however, the town's fortunes began to decline. Recognizing its strategic importance, and fearful of an Allied landing in the area, German troops occupied the city and expelled most of the population. The zone of exclusion began with a five-kilometre border from the historical city centre. Soon after, however, the population was expelled even beyond this point. The Gaetani were finally ordered to leave the area completely. Those who could not were placed in a concentration camp, and a few were taken to Germany.
Following the Allied advance across the Garigliano and the Allied occupation of Rome, the Gaetani were allowed to return to their city and begin the process of rebuilding. In subsequent decades the city has boomed as a beach resort, and it has seen some success at marketing its agricultural products, primarily its tomatoes and olives. Many of its families count seamen among their number. However, the decades since World War II have been as difficult for Gaeta as they have been for most of Italy's Mezzogiorno. In particular, its importance as a passenger seaport has nearly vanished: ferries to Ponza and elsewhere now leave from the nearby town of Formia. All attempts to build a permanent industry as a source of employment and economic well-being for the town have failed. Notable losses include the Littorina rail line (now used as a parking lot and a marketplace), the AGIP refinery (nowadays a simple depot), and the once-thriving glass factory, which has become an unused industrial relic.
Gaeta does have a viable tourism industry, as it is a popular seaside resort. Its warm, rain-free summers attract people to its numerous beaches along the coastline, such as Serapo and Sant'Agostino Beaches. Nearly equidistant to both Naples and Rome, Gaeta is a popular summer tourist destination for people from both cities' metropolitan areas. | <urn:uuid:2786176c-757e-43bf-b17b-cf0e0b66e824> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Place:Gaeta%2C_Latina%2C_Lazio%2C_Italy | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280292.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00340-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971396 | 2,803 | 2.8125 | 3 |
When multiple sclerosis affects the spinal cord, how different or progressive is this form of MS compared to MS that only affects the brain? Do any treatments help to reverse damage done to the spinal cord? I have cervical spine atrophy (used to be a lesion) as well as scattered white matter lesions on the frontal lobes. Last week, I had a severe attack, and was hospitalized for five days with IV Solu-Medrol (methylprednisolone). It did help, but I'm much more disabled than I was before. An MRI done after the first infusion found new lesions on the cervical spine vaguely enhanced, but it seems I've had some nasty damage. I had to stop treatment because I became leukopenic and anemic, and my white blood cell count was higher than usual. I did four Novantrone treatments about three years ago, and I'm very hesitant to try Tysabri, due to the compromise already showing on my immune system.
When MS affects the spinal cord, patients may have more significant clinical problems. Although the spinal cord is a small structure, it carries very important motor and sensory nerve fibers to the arms and legs. The brain is a much larger structure, and there are many “silent” areas in the brain, so when MS affects the brain, the patient may have multiple lesions without significant clinical symptoms. This is unlikely when someone has a lesion in the spinal cord.
The treatments used for relapses occurring in the spinal cord are the same treatments we use to treat relapses or flare-ups in the brain. There are no treatments to help reverse damage done to the spinal cord, just as there are no treatments to help reverse damage to the brain by MS.
In regards to your specific situation, although you had four Novantrone (mitoxantrone) treatments three years ago, Tysabri (natalizumab) would be a consideration — given your clinical history of worsening of spinal cord lesions — since it has the best data for MS patients in preventing new lesions, relapses and MRIchanges, even in the spinal cord. Unlike Novantrone, which is a generalized immunosuppressant, Tysabri is a monoclonal antibody which has a specific action to prevent inflammation. Thus, it would be appropriate to have a discussion with your neurologist about the use of Tysabri.
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Moving Megamouth - the timelapse
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On 22 September 2010 Megamouth III, the WA Museum's extraordinarily rare and valuable megamouth shark, was moved from Perth into a purpose built tank at the WA Museum – Maritime in Fremantle.
Moving Megamouth was a massive logistical activity that took over one year to plan. Over 7000 litres of ethanol had to be disposed of, a fragile and priceless specimen had to moved across a city, and extensive and ongoing conservation processes had to be developed.
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Vibrating machines are exercise machines with vibrating platforms that shake your body as you do strength training exercises, though you can also use them for massage and stretching. These machines increase the muscle activity in your body as you exercise on them, a study reported in the July 2010 of the "Journal of Strength Conditioning Research" noted. Exercising on a vibration machine may also give you a harder workout, increasing your oxygen intake.
Oscillating Vibration Machines
Vibration machines have either an oscillating or triplanar platform. The moving platform is the main component of a vibration machine and is the only part that vibrates. You can sit on the platform, stand on it, kneel or place your lower legs, hands or forearms on the platform to do a variety of exercises. When you do so on an oscillating vibration machine, the platform shifts up and down on each side like a seesaw. The actual distance the platform moves is minimal. At the farthest points on the sides, the platform may raise and lower less than an inch. You can control the speed that the platform moves with the control panel. Since strengthening your muscles is the goal, higher speeds work better.
Triplanar vibration machines are different than oscillating machines. The triplanar machines move in three directions or planesr. A triplanar platform moves forward and backward, side to side, and up and down all at the same time. The price of a triplanar vibration machine is higher on average. However, you can get more speed on a triplanar machine than on an oscillating machine, which is more useful for strength training because more stress is placed on your muscles. The speeds usually range from 20 Hz to 50 Hz, while oscillating machines max out at 20 Hz or less.
Mini Portable Vibration Machines
Vibration machines for strength training also come in smaller portable or miniature versions. Some machines, such as the Port-a-Vibe Portable Whole Body Vibration Machines have upright and resistance cords for upper body strength training. Other models have an upright, a console and rails so they are just smaller versions of the full-size vibration machines, while other mini machines are just the platform that can be easily picked up or stored under a bed. The mini vibration machines do not have anything for you to hold on to, but you can always place them near a wall, a high backed chair or a railing if you need help with balance. Mini and portable vibration machines are usually less expensive, though some are still fairly powerful, reaching speeds of 50 to 60 Hz. | <urn:uuid:c558c378-c87c-4958-9972-5e0437f0be28> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.livestrong.com/article/264016-exercise-machines-that-make-you-shake-strengthen-muscles/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280242.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00080-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.91363 | 530 | 2.234375 | 2 |
Today the National Kidney Registry (NKR) and University of California, San Francisco Medical Center (UCSF) announced that all living kidney donors who donate at UCSF will be provided Donor Shield protections through the NKR.
These living donor protections include reimbursement for lost wages, travel and lodging, in addition to donation life insurance, donation disability insurance, legal support and financial coverage for any uncovered complications that may rarely arise.
This advances the promise from President Trump’s recent executive order announcement to support “the selfless individuals who donate kidneys by granting them reimbursement for extra expenses associated with organ donation such as lost wages.”
“As the first transplant center in the western United States to implement Donor Shield, we are thrilled that this program can be provided to our donors because it is the right thing to do,” said Dr. Chris Freise, Surgical Director of the Living Donor Kidney Transplant Program at UCSF. “All disincentives to living donation should be eliminated so that donors are protected from as many donation-related risks as possible.”
Valerie Chipman, Lead Transplant Exchange Coordinator from UCSF, commented, “We have been utilizing Donor Shield for our NKR participating donors since July, and it has been greatly appreciated by our donors and their caretakers. The expansion of the Donor Shield program to all of our donors will help reduce disincentives to kidney donation for these heroes who are in turn helping to get many more patients off dialysis. Our living kidney donors deserve the best protections available.”
“As a kidney donor myself, I am excited to see many top transplant centers adopting Donor Shield protections for the brave donors who are giving the gift of life,” said Garet Hil, CEO of the National Kidney Registry. “Donor Shield already covers all NKR donors and will soon be implemented at a dozen centers for direct donation transplants, allowing us to cover approximately 1,300 donors per year—which is approximately 20% of all U.S. living kidney donors.”
About UCSF’s Living Kidney Program
The UCSF Connie Frank Transplant Center provides care for patients before and after kidney transplants. Established in 1964, our program serves as a major transplant center for the West. Our kidney team evaluates over 1,000 patients a year as potential transplant candidates and performs more than 325 transplants a year. In 2015, we performed more kidney and combined kidney-pancreas transplants than any other program in the U.S., according to data from the Organ Procurement and Transplant Network.Back to Press Releases | <urn:uuid:e533376e-90d3-4784-904a-e2166e699e43> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.kidneyregistry.org/news/ucsf-medical-center-is-first-transplant-center-in-the-western-u-s-to-provide-donor-shield/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00471.warc.gz | en | 0.927613 | 550 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Montana Takes First Place in Poll Ranking Best States to Live in
They call Montana "The Last Best Place," and, apparently, most Montanans actually think that.
A recent poll by Gallup shows that a whopping 77 percent of Montanans though that their state was either the best, or one of the best places in the U.S. to live.
Respondents were given four options in the poll and could respond by saying their state was either "the best possible state to live in," "one of the best possible states to live in," "as good a state as any to live in," or "the worst possible state to live in."
Gallup notes some striking differences among the top rated states (low population, colder climates, western geography). Perhaps the perception of good governance also plays a factor? A quick view at another Gallup poll (see image above) shows that most of the top ten states to live in also report strong trust in state governance.
Here's the ranking for the best states to live in:
- Montana 77%
- Alaska 77%,
- Utah 70%
- Wyoming 69%
- Texas 68%
- Hawaii 68%
- New Hampshire 67%
- North Dakota 67%
- Colorado 65%
- Vermont 61%.
Rhode Island took the bottom spot with only 18% of it's residents claiming it as a top place to live. Illinois was slightly better at 19%, followed by Mississippi at 26%.
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Career and Education Opportunities for Payroll Bookkeepers in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Many educational and employment opportunities exist for payroll bookkeepers in the Oklahoma City, Oklahoma area. There are currently 3,100 working payroll bookkeepers in Oklahoma; this should grow by 1% to 3,130 working payroll bookkeepers in the state by 2016. This is better than the nation as a whole, where employment opportunities for payroll bookkeepers are expected to shrink by about 5.2%. Payroll bookkeepers generally compile and post employee time and payroll data.
Payroll bookkeepers earn about $13 hourly or $29,080 annually on average in Oklahoma and about $16 per hour or $34,810 per year on average nationally. Earnings for payroll bookkeepers are better than earnings in the general category of Clerical in Oklahoma and better than general Clerical category earnings nationally.
The Oklahoma City area is home to forty-four schools of higher education, including eight within twenty-five miles of Oklahoma City where you can get a degree as a payroll bookkeeper. The most common level of education for payroll bookkeepers is a high school diploma or GED. You can expect to spend only a short time training to become a payroll bookkeeper if you already have a high school diploma.
CAREER DESCRIPTION: Payroll Bookkeeper
In general, payroll bookkeepers compile and post employee time and payroll data. They also may compute employees' time worked, production, and commission.
Payroll bookkeepers inspect time sheets and other data to uncover and reconcile payroll discrepancies. They also verify attendance and pay adjustments, and post data onto designated archives. Equally important, payroll bookkeepers have to compile employee time and payroll data from time sheets and other archives. They are often called upon to issue and record adjustments to pay pertaining to previous errors or retroactive increases. They are expected to process and issue employee paychecks and statements of earnings and deductions. Finally, payroll bookkeepers compute wages and deductions, and enter data into computers.
Every day, payroll bookkeepers are expected to be able to listen to and understand others in meetings. It is also important that they write clearly and communicate well.
It is important for payroll bookkeepers to keep track of leave time, such as vacation and sick leave, for employees. They are often called upon to conduct verifications of employment. They also keep informed about changes in tax and deduction laws that apply to the payroll process. They are sometimes expected to distribute and collect timecards each pay period. Somewhat less frequently, payroll bookkeepers are also expected to ready and balance period-end reports, and reconcile issued payrolls to bank statements.
Payroll bookkeepers sometimes are asked to post relevant work hours to client files to bill clients properly. and direct special programs. And finally, they sometimes have to complete time sheets showing employees' arrival and departure times.
Like many other jobs, payroll bookkeepers must be thorough and dependable and be reliable.
Similar jobs with educational opportunities in Oklahoma City include:
- Broker Assistant. Perform clerical duties involving the purchase or sale of securities. Duties include writing orders for stock purchases and sales, computing transfer taxes, verifying stock transactions, accepting and delivering securities, tracking stock price fluctuations, computing equity, and keeping records of daily transactions and holdings.
- Correspondence Clerk. Compose letters in reply to requests for merchandise, damage claims, credit and other information, delinquent accounts, or unsatisfactory services. Duties may include gathering data to formulate reply and typing correspondence.
- Courtroom Clerk. Perform clerical duties in court of law; prepare docket of cases to be called; secure information for judges; and contact witnesses, attorneys, and litigants to obtain information for court.
- File Clerk. File correspondence, cards, and other records in alphabetical or numerical order or according to the filing system used. Locate and remove material from file when requested.
- Human Resources Administrator. Compile and keep personnel records. Record data for each employee, such as address, weekly earnings, absences, amount of sales or production, supervisory reports on ability, and date of and reason for termination. Compile and type reports from employment records. File employment records. Search employee files and furnish information to authorized persons.
- Insurance Claims Processor. Obtain information from insured or designated persons for purpose of settling claim with insurance carrier.
- Insurance Processing Clerk. Process applications for, changes to, and cancellation of insurance policies. Duties include reviewing insurance applications to ensure that all questions have been answered, compiling data on insurance policy changes, changing policy records to conform to insured party's specifications, compiling data on lapsed insurance policies to determine automatic reinstatement according to company policies, canceling insurance policies as requested by agents, and verifying the accuracy of insurance company records.
- Library Clerk. Compile records, sort and shelve books, and issue and receive library materials such as pictures, cards, slides and microfilm. Locate library materials for loan and replace material in shelving area, stacks, or files according to identification number and title. Register patrons to permit them to borrow books, periodicals, and other library materials.
- License Clerk. Issue licenses or permits to qualified applicants. Obtain necessary information; record data; advise applicants on requirements; collect fees; and issue licenses. May conduct oral, written, or performance testing.
- Loan Inspector. Interview loan applicants to elicit information; investigate applicants' backgrounds and verify references; prepare loan request papers; and forward findings, reports, and documents to appraisal department. Review loan papers to ensure completeness, and complete transactions between loan establishment, borrowers, and sellers upon approval of loan.
- Mail Clerk. Prepare incoming and outgoing mail for distribution. Use hand or mail handling machines to time stamp, open, and route incoming mail; and address, seal, and affix postage to outgoing mail or packages. Duties may also include keeping necessary records and completed forms.
- Municipal Clerk. Draft agendas and bylaws for town or city council; record minutes of council meetings; answer official correspondence; keep fiscal records and accounts; and prepare reports on civic needs.
- Office Clerk. Perform duties too varied and diverse to be classified in any specific office clerical occupation, requiring limited knowledge of office management systems and procedures. Clerical duties may be assigned in accordance with the office procedures of individual establishments and may include a combination of answering telephones, bookkeeping, typing or word processing, stenography, office machine operation, and filing.
- Order Clerk. Receive and process incoming orders for materials, merchandise, or services such as repairs, installations, or rental of facilities. Duties include informing customers of receipt, prices, and delays; preparing contracts; and handling complaints.
- Payroll Machine Operator. Operate machines that automatically perform mathematical processes, such as addition, subtraction, and division, to calculate and record billing, accounting, and other numerical data. Duties include operating special billing machines to prepare statements, bills, and invoices, and operating bookkeeping machines to copy and post data, make computations, and compile records of transactions.
- Procurement Clerk. Compile information and records to draw up purchase orders for procurement of materials and services.
- Receptionist. Answer inquiries and obtain information for general public, customers, and other interested parties. Provide information regarding activities conducted at establishment; location of departments, offices, and employees within organization.
- Statistical Clerk. Compile and compute data according to statistical formulas for use in statistical studies. May perform actuarial computations and compile charts and graphs for use by actuaries. Includes actuarial clerks.
- Weighter. Weigh, measure, and check materials, supplies, and equipment for the purpose of keeping relevant records. Duties are primarily clerical by nature.
EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES: Payroll Bookkeeper Training
Gordon Cooper Technology Center - Shawnee, OK
Gordon Cooper Technology Center, 1 John C Bruton Blvd, Shawnee, OK 74804. Gordon Cooper Technology Center is a small school located in Shawnee, Oklahoma. It is a public school with primarily less-than 2-year programs and has 918 students. Gordon Cooper Technology Center has a two to four year program in Accounting Technology/Technician and Bookkeeping which graduated five students in 2008.
Vatterott College - Oklahoma City, OK
Vatterott College, 4621 NW 23, Oklahoma City, OK 73127. Vatterott College is a small college located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. It is a private for-profit school with primarily 2-year programs and has 310 students. Vatterott College has a one to two year and an associate's degree program in Accounting Technology/Technician and Bookkeeping which graduated seven and two students respectively in 2008.
Oklahoma State University-Oklahoma City - Oklahoma City, OK
Oklahoma State University-Oklahoma City, 900 N Portland, Oklahoma City, OK 73107-6195. Oklahoma State University-Oklahoma City is a medium sized university located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. It is a public school with primarily 4-year or above programs and has 5,912 students. Oklahoma State University-Oklahoma City has an associate's degree program in Accounting Technology/Technician and Bookkeeping which graduated sixteen students in 2008.
Eastern Oklahoma County Technology Center - Choctaw, OK
Eastern Oklahoma County Technology Center, 4601 N Choctaw Rd, Choctaw, OK 73020-9017. Eastern Oklahoma County Technology Center is a small school located in Choctaw, Oklahoma. It is a public school with primarily 2-year programs and has 478 students. Eastern Oklahoma County Technology Center has a one to two year program in Accounting Technology/Technician and Bookkeeping which graduated two students in 2008.
Francis Tuttle Technology Center - Oklahoma City, OK
Francis Tuttle Technology Center, 12777 N Rockwell Ave, Oklahoma City, OK 73142-2789. Francis Tuttle Technology Center is a small school located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. It is a public school with primarily 2-year programs and has 1,879 students. Francis Tuttle Technology Center has a one to two year program in Accounting Technology/Technician and Bookkeeping which graduated twelve students in 2008.
Oklahoma Technology Institute - Oklahoma City, OK
Oklahoma Technology Institute, 9801 N Broadway Extension, Oklahoma City, OK 73114. Oklahoma Technology Institute is a small school located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. It is a private for-profit school with primarily less-than 2-year programs and has 38 students. Oklahoma Technology Institute has a less than one year program in Accounting Technology/Technician and Bookkeeping which graduated one student in 2008.
Rose State College - Midwest City, OK
Rose State College, 6420 S E 15th, Midwest City, OK 73110-2799. Rose State College is a medium sized college located in Midwest City, Oklahoma. It is a public school with primarily 2-year programs and has 8,427 students. Rose State College has an associate's degree program in Accounting Technology/Technician and Bookkeeping which graduated six students in 2008.
Oklahoma City Community College - Oklahoma City, OK
Oklahoma City Community College, 7777 S May Ave, Oklahoma City, OK 73159-9987. Oklahoma City Community College is a large college located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. It is a public school with primarily 2-year programs and has 12,550 students. Oklahoma City Community College has a less than one year and an associate's degree program in Accounting Technology/Technician and Bookkeeping which graduated two and five students respectively in 2008.
Fundamental Payroll Certification: The Fundamental Payroll Certification (FPC) is open to all those who wish to demonstrate a baseline of payroll competency.
For more information, see the American Payroll Association website.
LOCATION INFORMATION: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Oklahoma City is located in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. It has a population of over 551,789, which has grown by 9.0% in the past ten years. The cost of living index in Oklahoma City, 82, is well below the national average. New single-family homes in Oklahoma City cost $142,600 on average, which is below the state average. In 2008, 1,474 new homes were built in Oklahoma City, down from 2,559 the previous year.
The three most popular industries for women in Oklahoma City are health care, educational services, and accommodation and food services. For men, it is construction, public administration, and accommodation and food services. The average travel time to work is about 21 minutes. More than 24.0% of Oklahoma City residents have a bachelor's degree, which is higher than the state average. The percentage of residents with a graduate degree, 8.1%, is higher than the state average.
The unemployment rate in Oklahoma City is 6.5%, which is less than Oklahoma's average of 7.1%.
The percentage of Oklahoma City residents that are affiliated with a religious congregation, 65.7%, is more than both the national and state average. Grace Place Baptist Church, Grace Presbyterian Church and Grace United Methodist Church are some of the churches located in Oklahoma City. The most prominent religious groups are the Southern Baptist Convention, the United Methodist Church and the Catholic Church.
Oklahoma City is home to the Colonial Square and the 50 Penn Place as well as Rotary Park and River Park. Shopping malls in the area include 240 Plaza Shopping Center, 74 South Shopping Center and Council Crossings Shopping Center. Visitors to Oklahoma City can choose from Rodeway Inn Oklahoma City, Harvey Janitorial Sales and Market Source for temporary stays in the area. | <urn:uuid:527a05e2-28fb-4275-bdb9-76b300ef2bfb> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.careeroverview.com/usa/oklahoma/oklahoma-city/office-and-administrative/clerical/payroll-bookkeeper/ | 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 | 0.941142 | 2,817 | 1.984375 | 2 |
Norman Ernest Borlaug Facts
Norman Ernest Borlaug (born 1914) was a biochemist who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for his work in developing varieties of cereal grains that would produce high yields in developing countries.
Norman Ernest Borlaug was born on March 25, 1914, near Cresco, Iowa, in the part of that state known as "little Norway." His Norwegian immigrant parents were farmers, but when he graduated from high school in 1932 he left to attend the University of Minnesota. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1937, majoring in forestry. The same year he married Margaret G. Gibson. His graduate work in plant pathology at Minnesota earned him a Master of Science degree in 1940 and a Ph.D. in 1941.
Having received his doctorate, Borlaug became an assistant professor at Minnesota in 1942, but left the following year to work as a biochemist with the chemical firm of E. I. du Pont de Nemours. In 1944 he joined a new team of scientists sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation to "export the United States agricultural revolution to Mexico." Their work resulted in the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) whose goal was the development of varieties of cereal grains (wheat, rice, and corn) that would produce higher yields in the developing countries of the world.
The Green Revolution
The agricultural revolution in the United States was based largely on the massive introduction of new varieties of plants and animals, new machinery, and the use of chemical fertilizers, pesticides, and irrigation, all supported by a massive reorganization of agribusiness and rural life. In 1944, Borlaug and his colleagues found in Mexico exhausted fields, sometimes dating back to Aztec times. Their initial aim was to develop a variety of wheat which was adaptable to many different areas, resistant to a particular disease called rust, and responsive to the application of fertilizers.
The wheat used by Mexican farmers had long stems, naturally evolved over the ages in an effort to rise above the shade of surrounding weeds. When the yield of this wheat was increased, the heavy heads bent the thin stems over, a problem called "lodging" by farmers. Using two experimental plots, one in the north of Mexico and the other near Mexico City, Borlaug and the CIMMYT team drew upon Japanese short-stemmed wheat and developed a HYV (high yielding variety) that greatly increased production.
The success of the Rockefeller team with wheat and later rice led to the enthusiastic proclamation of a "Green Revolution, " the notion that world hunger could be solved, at least in the short run, by the adoption of these new varieties of grains and the cultivation methods that would allow them to work their miracles. Borlaug became much sought after as a consultant by India, Pakistan, Tunisia, Morocco, Afghanistan, and similar countries with large populations and small crop yields. In 1970 the work of CIMMYT was recognized when Borlaug was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo. He was the 15th American to win the prize, but it was noted at the time that it was significant that he was a scientist, rather than a politician or statesman. The Nobel Prize was only one among many citations and honorary degrees which he received for his work.
Borlaug remained a researcher at the Mexican experiment station of CIMMYT until 1960 when he also became the associate director assigned to the Inter-American Food Crop Program of the Rockefeller Foundation. In 1964 he was made director of the wheat research and production program of CIMMYT and, that same year, associate director of the Rockefeller Foundation. He retired in 1983 but remained as a consultant. In 1984 he completed a tour of Latin America, Africa, and Asia, using his knowledge and prestige to press for adoption of CIMMYT's new hybrid corn. This variety, like the earlier ones of wheat and rice, was bred specifically to maximize the production of maize in those parts of the world where it remained the most important cereal crop.
Criticism of Borlaug's Methods
Over his long career Borlaug saw his Green Revolution go through periods of vast praise and harsh criticism. Initially, when applied carefully to the most suitable lands (especially lands easily irrigated), crop increases were spectacular. By the mid-1970s about 90 percent of Mexico's wheat crop was made up of HYVs, and in Asia and North Africa 35 percent of the wheat and 20 percent of the rice was HYV. At first, crop yields were up to 400 percent larger than with traditional varieties, but within a few years yields had dipped by nearly half. In part this was caused by bad weather, but energy prices were driving up the cost of fertilizers (so that less was used), and pests were finding the new cultivation methods to their advantage. Because they were both energy and labor intensive, the new crop varieties crowded out small farmers who could not afford to raise them. It was even charged that crop innovations made social conflict more certain by widening the gap between the rich and the poor farmers of the world. During the 1980s environmentalists criticized Borlaug's high-yield dependence on inorganic fertilizers and effectively pressured donor countries and philanthropic organizations to back away from such programs in Africa. Borlaug responded by saying, "Some of the environmental lobbyists of the Western nations are the salt of the earth, but many of them are elitists. They've never experienced the physical sensation of hunger. They do their lobbying from comfortable office suites in Washington or Brussels. If they lived just one month amid the misery of the developing world, as I have for 50 years, they'd be crying out for tractors and fertilizer and irrigation canals and be outraged that fashionable elitists back home were trying to deny them these things."
Sasakawa-Global 2000 Projects
Borlaug was lured out of retirement in 1984 by Japanese philanthropist Ryoichi Sasakawa who, along with former president Jimmy Carter, wanted to improve agricultural production in Africa. Borlaug's association with Sasakawa and Carter produced the Sasakawa-Global 2000 project. Although environmentalists still opposed his methods, yields of corn, wheat, cassava, sorghum, and cow peas were greatly increased in Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Togo. During the 1995-96 season, Ethiopia recorded the greatest harvest in its history. Borlaug even made headway in Sudan, near the dry Sahel, until project efforts there were terminated in 1992 with the onset of civil war.
Borlaug continues to lead an active life by dividing his time between the CIMMYT where he advises young scientists, Texas A&M where he teaches international agriculture, and the Sasakawa-Global 2000 projects that operate in 12 African nations.
Further Reading on Norman Ernest Borlaug
A brief first-hand account can be found in Norman E. Borlaug, Land Use, Food, Energy and Recreation (1982). A more technical description is Haldore Hanson, Norman E. Borlaug, and R. Glenn Anderson, Wheat in the Third World (1982). The standard secondary source is Lennard Bickel, Facing Starvation: Norman Borlaug and the Fight Against Hunger (1974), which deals also with the personalities involved in the early days of the Green Revolution.
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Sustainability is becoming more and more important in today's world. To do your part, do you shop unpackaged food? Then you've come to the right place. Here are some shops in Bremen where you can shop sustainably and without packaging.
Selfair is centrally located in the viertel district. The zero waste shop was the first of its kind in Bremen. Here you can find everything your sustainable heart desires - from lentils, detergent and pulses to fresh fruit and vegetables. The shop also offers hygiene products and a fresh produce counter with cheese, dips, olives and Turkish meze. You can even shop here on Sundays!
At Füllkorn, you can buy classic products such as cereals, pasta and much more. Two highlights also await you in the shop on Kornstraße: in the sweets corner you will find chocolate sultanas and chocolate-covered peanuts, and you can grind your own flour from various grains.
The shop with the French name is located just behind the Wilhelm-Kaisen-Brücke on the edge of Neustadt. At L'Epicerie you can get everything that makes your sustainable beauty heart beat faster. The assortment includes various soaps, hygiene products, menstrual cups and peelings. You will also find a large selection of wine, dried fruits and tomatoes.
Holthorfs Heimathaven is a former colonial goods store in the heart of the viertel district and still furnished in the same way. The goods adorn the stylish, old shelves in various decorative jars and take you on a journey back in time. You'll find products like teas, muesli, homemade spreads and many more. You can also take part in various tastings.
This shop has it all! In Bremerhaven's first zero waste shop you can get everything from bamboo toothbrushes, washing-up liquid and fashion to baby carriers. Here you can not only buy unpackaged, but also find a large selection of second-hand and green fashion. The assortment list is regularly expanded.
Sustainability is a top priority at Kornkraft in Habenhausen. The organic shop already pays attention to products with less plastic and packaging when selecting the assortment. Many products are also offered in bulk and at the unpackaged station you can fill your own grains or muesli into containers that you have brought with you.
Here you can also get alternative packaging options, such as fruit and vegetable nets, cotton bread bags, reusable egg boxes or deposit freezer bags. Cheese or olives can be filled into containers that you bring with you. The organic food shop also has a collection point for cotton bags.
Quelle: Kornkraft Bioladen
This REWE has a special feature in store for you: Here you will find a filling station for cereals, pasta, muesli and sweets. All you have to do is choose a container on the spot and the fun can begin. The goods are then weighed and paid for at the checkout. In addition to the filling station, you can also buy vegetables and fruit plastic-free. Weightless cloth bags are available for this purpose. You can also choose products without packaging at the meat and cheese counter.
Quelle: Fotolia/ Werner
Nele, Caro and Nora have opened the Füllerei in Findorff and are looking forward to your visit. The assortment includes dry groceries, hygiene products, cleaning products and all kinds of accessories for the bathroom, the kitchen and a low-waste lifestyle. Special highlights at the Füllerei: the nut mill and regional milk from the Kaemena farm. | <urn:uuid:26f2d3d0-6f5a-44b2-b918-77575441d642> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.bremen.eu/life-in-bremen/shopping/zero-waste-shops | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00270.warc.gz | en | 0.93491 | 831 | 1.5 | 2 |
Similar to batteries, fuel cells operate with electrochemical reactions between the anode or cathode and the electrolyte membrane, but with continuous fuel and air supplies.
When hydrogen comes in contact with the catalyst, the hydrogen splits into protons and electrons. The protons pass through the proton exchange membrane unimpeded and proceed to the cathode side, while the electrons are blocked and forced to travel through an external circuit. As they travel along the external circuit, they provide the electricity needed for auxiliary power or to drive a motor. Eventually the hydrogen protons and electrons reunite and combine with oxygen to produce water. | <urn:uuid:5d4519dd-b96c-4d2b-b16f-9e1729b2a31d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://genevos.com/marine-fuel-cell/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00666.warc.gz | en | 0.923832 | 125 | 3.890625 | 4 |
Once as little kid, I thought that all fats were unhealthy. Whenever I got an Oreo as a treat, my parents made sure to buy the option with 30% less fat. This led me to the following equation:
Less fat = More healthy
But now, I often wonder, is that the entire truth? Are all fats bad?
To answer the above question, we need to understand what types of fats exist.
Saturated fats are solid at room temperature such as butter, coconut and palm oil. A wide variety of desserts contain this type of fat.
Trans fats are hard at room temperature and are present in highly processed foods and snacks. They have been converted from a liquid to a solid through hydrogenation to increase food products’ shelf life.
Unsaturated fats are liquid at room temperature and are mainly sourced from plants. Unsaturated fats come from many food sources, including seeds, nuts, avocados, seafood, and vegetable oils.
Are all fats bad?
Saturated fats increase low-density lipoproteins, the “bad” cholesterol. These lipoproteins do not mix well with blood, which causes plaque buildup and narrows the path for blood to flow. By lowering the intake of foods with solid fats, namely processed, fried, and animal food products, individuals may better control their cholesterol intake.
However, not all fats are bad. Cholesterol is crucial for many metabolic processes, such as produce bile acids to aid in digestion and absorption of the food we eat. What is most crucial is to encourage eating the right foods containing high-density lipoproteins, the “good” cholesterol, which can actually help remove excess cholesterol.
While much research has been done, we still cannot deduce whether or not saturated fats increase the risk of heart disease. Yet, many experts agree that incorporating unsaturated fats in one’s diet is beneficial to one’s heart health in the long term.
Many foods contain at least one type of fat. By better understanding the different types and their effects, it makes our life less hectic by not having to eliminate all fats to maintain a healthy diet. Here are a few suggestions:
- Gradually replace saturated and trans fats with foods that contain healthy fats from seeds, legumes, and seafood
- Eat dairy, eggs and seafood in moderation; they may contain cholesterol but contain important nutrients that the body needs to function
- Read the ingredient list! Many products are advertised as less fat therefore more healthy. But they are often replaced with other ingredients whose names we cannot pronounce (yikes!) that may be equally or even less healthy.
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King Lear: Plot Summary
The story opens in ancient Britain, where the elderly King Lear is deciding to give up his power and divide his realm amongst his three daughters, Cordelia, Regan, and Goneril. Lear's plan is to give the largest piece of his kingdom to the child who professes to love him the most, certain that his favorite daughter, Cordelia, will win the challenge. Goneril and Regan, corrupt and deceitful, lie to their father with sappy and excessive declarations of affection. Cordelia, however, refuses to engage in Lear's game, and replies simply that she loves him as a daughter should. Her lackluster retort, despite its sincerity, enrages Lear, and he disowns Cordelia completely. When Lear's dear friend, the Earl of Kent, tries to speak on Cordelia's behalf, Lear banishes him from the kingdom.
Meanwhile, the King of France, present at court and overwhelmed by Cordelia's honesty and virtue, asks for her hand in marriage, despite her loss of a sizable dowry. Cordelia accepts the King of France's proposal, and reluctantly leaves Lear with her two cunning sisters. Kent, although banished by Lear, remains to try to protect the unwitting King from the evils of his two remaining children. He disguises himself and takes a job as Lear's servant. Now that Lear has turned over all his wealth and land to Regan and Goneril, their true natures surface at once. Lear and his few companions, including some knights, a fool, and the disguised Kent, go to live with Goneril, but she reveals that she plans to treat him like the old man he is while he is under her roof. So Lear decides to stay instead with his other daughter, and he sends Kent ahead to deliver a letter to Regan, preparing her for his arrival. However, when Lear arrives at Regan's castle, he is horrified to see that Kent has been placed in stocks. Kent is soon set free, but before Lear can uncover who placed his servant in the stocks, Goneril arrives, and Lear realizes that Regan is conspiring with her sister against him.
Gloucester arrives back at Regan's castle in time to hear that the two sisters are planning to murder the King. He rushes away immediately to warn Kent to send Lear to Dover, where they will find protection. Kent, Lear, and the Fool leave at once, while Edgar remains behind in the shadows. Sadly, Regan and Goneril discover Gloucester has warned Lear of their plot, and Cornwall, Regan's husband, gouges out Gloucester's eyes. A servant tries to help Gloucester and attacks Cornwall with a sword – a blow later to prove fatal.
News arrives that Cordelia has raised an army of French troops that have landed at Dover. Regan and Goneril ready their troops to fight and they head to Dover. Meanwhile, Kent has heard the news of Cordelia's return, and sets off with Lear hoping that father and daughter can be reunited. Gloucester too tries to make his way to Dover, and on the way, finds his own lost son, Edgar.
Tired from his ordeal, Lear sleeps through the battle between Cordelia and her sisters. When Lear awakes he is told that Cordelia has been defeated. Lear takes the news well, thinking that he will be jailed with his beloved Cordelia – away from his evil offspring. However, the orders have come, not for Cordelia's imprisonment, but for her death.
Despite their victory, the evil natures of Goneril and Regan soon destroy them. Both in love with Gloucester's conniving son, Edmund (who gave the order for Cordelia to be executed), Goneril poisons Regan. But when Goneril discovers that Edmund has been fatally wounded by Edgar, Goneril kills herself as well.
As Edmund takes his last breath he repents and the order to execute Cordelia is reversed. But the reversal comes too late and Cordelia is hanged. Lear appears, carrying the body of Cordelia in his arms. Mad with grief, Lear bends over Cordelia's body, looking for a sign of life. The strain overcomes Lear and he falls dead on top of his daughter. Kent declares that he will follow his master into the afterlife and the noble Edgar becomes the ruler of Britain.
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King Lear: The Complete Play
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The First Publication of King Lear
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The Condition of Lear's Mind
Goneril: Physically, Intellectually, and Morally
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Date: Immediate, June 3, 2013
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RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE INSTALLS
FIRST EV CHARGING STATION
PROVIDENCE, R.I., June 3, 2013 – Rhode Island College has installed a charging station for electric cars at its Keefe Transportation Center as part of the college’s focus on creating a greener college campus. The charging station supplies electric energy for recharging plug-in electric vehicles including all electric-cars and plug-in hybrids.
“With electric cars, you’re not burning fossil fuels,” said Jim Murphy, sustainability coordinator at the college. “They eliminate the carbon and soot and everything that gets into the atmosphere that we breathe. It covers many different areas in terms of not having to transport gas or oil and the elimination of pollution that is a result of using fossil fuels.”
The EV station is the final component for the Keefe Transportation Center, which also includes a bus shelter, Zipcars and rental bicycles. The center was constructed to provide shelter for commuters in inclement weather and to decrease the number of cars on campus.
The shelter was developed through the collaboration of RIC and the New England Institute of Technology (NEIT). Richard Gouse, president of NEIT, asked architectural students at the institute to take on the challenge of designing a bus shelter for RIC.
The students were grouped into teams and each team presented their designs before a RIC panel. Once a final design was selected, Saccoccio & Associates, an architectural firm in Cranston, RI, agreed to refine the specs pro bono.
The new EV station and other green initiatives, including the development of green and cost-saving initiatives by campus offices and divisions related to waste reduction, recycling, energy efficiency, green cleaning and sustainable planting, were established as part of a campus-wide effort to make RIC a model campus for sustainable practices and programs.
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What is Mediation?
“Mediation is a transformative pathway where more than just agreements are possible.” (Carolyn Manning)
The aim of mediation is to open up communication channels between participants. This creates an opportunity, for the parties to discuss their concerns and issues with each other and engage in shared problem solving which can result in a new understanding and/or agreement. The mediator manages this process and provides a supportive environment where the voices of all parties are heard. The mediator will ensure that the discussion is balanced and fair. Mediation does not result in winners and losers but addresses the underlying need and concerns of the parties.
It is important to understand that mediation is a confidential, voluntary process that relies on the willingness of both parties to fully participate. The mediator will not make decisions about how the dispute is resolved. This will be decided by the people involved in the mediation. Mediation is not about forcing an outcome, assigning blame, giving advice or fact finding. | <urn:uuid:14ebadc4-8ef7-4ad7-a68a-aa8484756d71> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://carolynmanningconsultingservices.com.au/mediation/what-mediation/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00669.warc.gz | en | 0.959294 | 201 | 3.5 | 4 |
Launching the Everyone A Changemaker movement in Bangladesh
It is in solemnity, admiration, and hope that Ashoka announces the launch of the Everyone A Changemaker movement, and the first cohort of Ashoka Young Changemakers, in Bangladesh in the name of the late great Sir Fazle Hasan Abed KCMG.
Sir Abed nominated the first Ashoka Fellow, he served on selection panels, and has been an early supporter of many Ashoka Fellows in South Asia. In the last couple of years, Sir Abed worked closely with Bill Drayton and the Ashoka team to start initiatives like the BRAC University Empathy Lab and the Frugal Innovation Forum 2019 on Scaling Opportunities for Youth.
Speaking to the power of the 'everyone a changemaker' vision and BRAC's work, in her 2010 article on The Transformative Potential of the Poor, then CEO of BRAC USA, Susan Davis wrote:
"It is remarkable how much potential the poor realise they have in themselves as a result of becoming involved with BRAC. To me, revealing such transformative potential inherent in each of us, particularly to the most vulnerable and marginalised among us, is Abed’s most important contribution to an open society. He puts into practice Ashoka’s vision of an 'everyone a changemaker' world articulated by its founder Bill Drayton."
Sir Abed's legacy of close to half a century is that of helping people realise their own potential to lift themselves out of poverty, to take charge of their lives, and to lead their communities in solving pertinent problems. Ashoka, along with BRAC and our network of Ashoka Fellows in Bangladesh, is committed to taking forward that legacy.
How best to do that than to bring Bangladesh's top young changemakers to the table, along with leaders in government, and launch a movement that will end the 'New Inequality'?
This weekend a select group of 16 young changemakers, all under the age of 20, along with co-leaders from government, business, media, and social entrepreneurship are gathering in Dhaka to collaborate and bring to life the Everyone A Changemaker movement in the country.
We are excited to be sharing the invite to the launch of the Sir Fazle Hasan Abed Ashoka Young Changemakers selection panel and press conference on January 25th, 2020 at the BRAC Centre Inn, Dhaka.
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Widow clearing out late husband's chest of drawers found £300,000 18th century gold coin made from captured Spanish treasure
- Coin is one of just 20 Queen Anne 'Vigo' five guinea pieces made in 1703
- Pensioner didn't know husband had it and says he had no interest in coins
A widow who found an old coin as she cleared out her late husband’s chest of drawers today sold it for nearly £300,000 at auction.
The unidentified woman had no idea her husband had the valuable treasure stashed away among his clothes.
It was only when an expert inspected it that it was revealed to be a ‘lost’ coin made from gold seized by the British from a Spanish treasure ship in 1702.
Lying in a drawer for years: The 'Vigo' gold coins were only bought by 'seriously wealthy' people in 1703
The unnamed pensioner, from Tunbridge Wells, was told the coin had an estimated value of up to £120,000, but today it was auctioned for more than double that following a tense stand-off between two telephone bidders.
The coin is extremely rare as only 20 were made from 7.5lbs of gold seized from Spanish treasure ships by the British in Vigo Bay, northern Spain, in 1702.
Even in 1703, when they were made by the Royal Mint, they would have been extremely expensive and bought only by the rich.
The whereabouts of fewer than 15 of the coins are currently known about, and they are in private hands.
The coin that was sold today is thought to have been inherited, rather than bought, by the woman's late husband, as he showed no interest in coin-collecting when he was alive.
Leslie Gillham, of auctioneers Gorringes, said: 'A client of ours asked to bring in some coins that she had found at home.
'I wasn’t really excited at the time because most coins we came across are worth very little.
Flip-side: The five-guinea piece bears the date 1703 and four shields with the arms of England, Scotland, Ireland and France on one side. On the other side is the bust of Queen Anne
'She produced from her handbag one or two old silver coins worth a few pounds. I flippantly said "It's a pity you haven’t got any gold ones" and she said that she had.
'With that she produced this 1703 five guinea piece. She said she had found it in her late husband’s chest of drawers and he died some years ago.
'She knew nothing about it at all and neither did her grown-up children. I thought that it must have been a fake. She left it with me to do some more research on.
'I sought a second opinion which confirmed it was genuine and I went and saw her to give her the good news.
'She was very cool over it.
'Her husband was a professional man and beyond that we have no idea how he came by it. He must have inherited it.'
The series of 'Vigo' coins were made out of treasure captured by the British fleet after they failed to take Cadiz in 1702 but managed to seize gold and silver from Franco-Spanish treasure ships coming back from America.
'This coin is in an extremely fine condition. It is very rare, and is one of the most desirable gold coins around.'
- Leslie Gillham, Gorringes auctioneers
The coins were made as part of an attempt to detract attention from the British failure at Cadiz, highlighting instead the haul of treasure they seized on their way home.
Mr Gillham said: 'The treasure was received at the Royal Mint by the Master of the Mint, Sir Isaac Newton.
'It was decided that the treasure had to be coined as part of a propaganda opportunity.
'About 20 of the Queen Anne Vigo five guinea coins were struck and they would have been bought by seriously wealthy people at the time and kept as part of the family treasure.
'This coin is in an extremely fine condition. It is very rare and is one of the most desirable gold coins around.'
The coin sold at Gorringes in Tunbridge Wells for a hammer price of £240,000, and with buyer’s premium and VAT added on, the total amount was £296,160.
CHURCH PAINTINGS FETCH ALMOST £1MILLION AT AUCTION
A set of four 14th century paintings which have hung on the wall of a village church for 150 years have fetched almost £1million at auction.
The paintings depicting Christ were found to be by Italian artists Niccolo di Pietro Gerini after cleaning work was carried out on them in the 1990s.
They had previously been hung at St Michael and All Angels' Church in Withyham, East Sussex, after they were donated by Edward John Ottley in the 1840s.
After their true value was discovered it was decided not to return them to the church due to security issues and conditions so the artworks - dating back to about 1390 - were transferred on loan to Leeds Castle in Maidstone, Kent.
They were sold yesterday at Sotheby's in London for £950,000.
Valuable: Two of the paintings which fetched almost £1million at auction
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Constructivism is one of the brightest areas of Moscow architecture. The Moscow avant-garde was ahead of its time and influenced the work of the best architects of our time: Zaha Hadid, Peter Eisenman, Rem Koolhaas.
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History of Elden | The Cars
Mk 12 – Elden PRH 12
Formula 3 / Formula Atlantic / Formula B | 1972 to 1973 | 3 Cars Produced
The Elden PRH 12 is a Formula 3 car with a clean-sheet monocoque design using the Cosworth BDA 1600cc engine.
Changes from the Mk 9 include: an all new monocoque chassis from Arch Motors, wheelbase increased from 84 inches (Mk 8 Formula Ford standard) to 87 inches and a new bulge on the side to accommodate regulation ‘bag’ fuel tanks and their
surrounding deformable structure (foam filler covered in aluminium).
Three chassis were ordered from Arch Motors in August 1972, however they required a minimum order of six. So Elden upped the order to six, but requested slow delivery. Three were used for the Mk 12 and then subsequently two for the Mk 15 and one for the Mk 16.
The new bodywork originally came above and over, covering the roll bar. To reduce wind buffeting of the driver, holes were drilled to allow the air to flow more smoothly. Later regulation changes limited the bodywork height, so this was reduced to just below the roll bar maximum height.
The Mk 12 was also used as a test-bed with Piper to produce a hydrogen powered racing car. The chassis was modified to accept hydrogen storage cylinders whilst Piper worked on engine development. Piper had issues with hydrogen’s high flame speed: the valves couldn’t close quickly enough to stop the flame from returning back to the carbeuretor. Their solution was to mix incoming air with cooled exhaust gases which solved the problem. However the end result was an engine that could only produce 20 horsepower. The unwieldy water-cooling required to cool the exhaust to make the solution would made the car impractical and so efforts were discontinued.
Mk 12 cars that went to the USA were sold as and raced in Formula Atlantic and Formula B categories.
Notable Teams, Owners and Drivers
Works Team, sponsored by Mitford: Ken Appleby (Owned Mitford, a transport business), Mike Catlow (Later an F3, Formula Atlantic and Group C driver), Andy Sutcliffe (Later an F1 driver for March)
Lee Fjellanger (Winner of ICSCC CSR Championship in 2007, 2008 and 2009 with the Mk 12)
Ted Wentz (Wella Formula Ford Championship winner in 1973).
Notable Races, Championships and Records
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from falls increases with age.
To decrease the rate of falls, MHA developed a
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Turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, cranberries and side dishes galore! Thanksgiving meals are filled with tasty foods, but often those dishes stick around for much longer than a day. And while Thanksgiving leftovers are as sought after as the big meal itself, turkey and side dishes are only safe to eat for a certain amount of time.
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To set the stage for safely storing your leftovers, keep these tips in mind:
- Store leftover food in shallow containers no more than 2 inches deep.
- Refrigerate or freeze leftovers within two hours.
- Set the fridge temperature between 33 and 40 degrees Fahrenheit, and your freezer at 0 degrees Fahrenheit or lower.
- Remove cooked turkey from the bone, and store it separate from stuffing and gravy.
- Make sure you store any meat, eggs, veggies and milk within two hours.
- Throw away food left out at room temperature for longer than two hours.
- Discard foods that may be unsafe to eat.
- Reheat leftovers to 165 degrees Fahrenheit.
Whether you enjoy your leftovers as they are or use the ingredients to make new dishes, it’s important to keep expiration dates in mind.
- Turkey: 4 days. Eat turkey within four days of cooking. If you use the turkey in a new dish like a soup or casserole, only consume within those initial four days. Another option is freezing the cooked turkey. Turkey can last up to four more months if frozen. However, keep that four-day time frame in mind. If it is frozen two days after cooking, once it is thawed out, it is only good for two more days.
- Stuffing and gravy: 2 days. Use stuffing and gravy within two days of cooking.
- Side dishes: 5 days. Enjoy miscellaneous side dishes up to five days after cooking, depending on the ingredients included in the dishes.
The main reason to enjoy your leftovers before these time frames is bacteria. Bacteria can grow in your food. The longer the food is in the fridge, the more bacteria it can harbor.
Bacteria and viruses found in food can cause food poisoning (or foodborne illness). You can prevent food poisoning by washing your hands often and cooking and storing food safely.
Alternatives to leftovers
If you cook a big meal and have more leftovers than you’ll be able to use up, consider giving all guests a plate to-go. Not only will they be thankful to have some delicious food to take with them, but you won’t have to worry about consuming all leftovers or discarding those you couldn’t finish.
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Wireless Abstract XML (WAX)
Definition - What does Wireless Abstract XML (WAX) mean?
Wireless Abstract XML (WAX) is an abstract markup language and a set of tools designed to facilitate wireless application development and portability. WAX is a specification developed by Morphis, an open-source application development platform from Kargo.
Languages such as HTML, wireless markup language (WML) and handheld device markup language (HDML) are not portable from one wireless device to another. WAX operates at a much higher level compared to other markup languages and is therefore portable across different wireless devices. The application developer creates the WAX specification of a particular code section, which can then be implemented across different devices without underlying modification. WAX has a very small learning curve, so application developers can learn the technology in a very short amount of time with desired customizations.
Techopedia explains Wireless Abstract XML (WAX)
The issue of portability in wireless devices arises due to the different image formats and text files supported on different handsets. The high-end handheld devices support image formats such as JPEG and BMP, while the low-end devices can only offer support for GIF images. Therefore, a portable language is essential during application development because it can automatically map such constraints on specific devices. WAX includes an XML database of services, device recognition features and a registry to determine optimal rendering of content. Devices that share similar aspects and attributes can be grouped under one category. WAX specification is converted into various wireless languages with the help of XSL transformations.
WAX language specifications function at a very high level of abstraction. They are based on the syntactic properties of both HTML and WML. The same WAX component is rendered in a different way on different devices by the browser with respect to optimal subjective appearance. The WAX specification is converted into the target HTML, HDML and WML markup languages by applying extensible style sheet transformations (XSLT).
A device registry containing the various device manufacturers, device identification traits and other features is included to determine the optimal content delivery mechanism. The registry is extensible by the developer to include more device-specific information for specialized applications. For example, multiple formats of the same image can be stored in the disk and the appropriate format can be rendered for a particular device at runtime.This can be done by determining its capabilities and specifications from the registry. Images can also be named in a particular format to identify which version of the image should be delivered to the browser at run time.
The WAX servlet is the core class of the WAX specification. However, languages and servers other than Java-based ones can be used. Also the inherent WAX classes provide database pooling and application logging mechanisms.
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- In the late 1800s, England's Industrial Revolution attracted many workers from Scotland, who brought with them a variety of terriers. These terriers included the blue and silver Paisley and the blue and tan Clydesdale, both dogs with long silky coats and prick ears.
- These dogs interbred with the native English terriers, which included the 10 pound Waterside terrier, a breed that excelled at ratting. In addition, crosses were made to a cross-bred Scotch terrier, an old style Skye terrier, and an Old English terrier. These dogs became the foundation of the Yorkshire terrier, a breed originally used to rid the mills of rats.
- With the emergence of dog shows in the 1860s, many high society women turned their attention to pedigreed dogs that could look stylish on their mistress's lap, and the Yorkshire terrier fit the bill.
- Huddersfield Ben (1865-1871) became the first influential show dog and sire.
- The breed was exhibited as Broken Haired Scotch terriers until 1870, when the name was changed to Yorkshire terrier at the suggestion of a reporter.
- Yorkshire terriers were in America by the 1870s
- AKC recognized the breed in 1885.
- Yorkies remained fairly unknown until the 1970s, when their popularity began a slow, steady rise. In 1995 they entered the top ten list of AKC's most popular breeds, and have only continued to rise.
Yorkshire Terrier Behavior Concerns
- Makes a delightful and entertaining companion.
- Playful and good with children, but children must be supervised because they could easily hurt such a small dog.
- True to its terrier heritage, it is spunky, busy, and often mischievous.
- Tends to pick fights with larger dogs, and may chase small pets, especially rodents.
- A one family dog, tending to be aloof toward strangers. Early socialization so that it willingly accepts new people is important.
- Does best with reward-based training involving food or games.
- Learns quickly, but also bores quickly, and may come up with its own ideas.
- Some tend to bark a lot, which should be discouraged from an early age.
- Housetraining can be more challenging than with many other breeds.
Yorkshire Terrier Suggested Exercises
- Makes a lively and alert housedog.
- Although many of its physical exercise needs can be met with indoor games, it still needs the mental stimulation of walking and sniffing outdoors.
- A walk around the block once or twice daily will meet its outdoor needs, not counting bathroom breaks.
- Many Yorkies have been trained to use indoor potty systems.
- Dog parks are not generally a good idea unless only small dogs are allowed together.
- Swimming is not recommended unless constantly supervised. Swimming with a full coat could be dangerous.
- Games and tricks provide needed mental exercise.
- Excursions in doggy purses can also provide entertainment.
Yorkshire Terrier Grooming
- Coat is long, fine and perfectly straight.
- Adult color is dark steel blue with tan points. Young puppies are black and tan, with the black gradually turning gray and then blue as adults.
- Brushing and combing every day or two is necessary to prevent matts.
- Many pet owners elect to have their dogs professionally groomed, or clipped into a trim that is more easily cared for.
- Hair must be kept out of eyes to avoid irritation.
- The hair around the anus must be checked daily for hygiene issues.
- Shedding is below average.
- Regular tooth brushing may prevent periodontal disease, which is common in Yorkies.
Suggested Yorkshire Terrier Nutritional Needs
- Yorkshire terriers tend to stay in good weight.
- Adult dogs should be fed a balanced diet, with restricted calories if the dog starts to gain too much weight.
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QUITO, Ecuador (AP) - Repeated explosions are rocking Ecuador's Tungurahua volcano, which is also shooting out chunks of molten rock.
The country's National Geophysics Institute says that a constant plume of gas and ash is rising about half a mile (1 kilometer) above the crater on Monday, with ash falling on nearby communities. Some of those towns are being evacuated for safety.
The renewed eruption began last week and plumes on Sunday rose as high as 3 miles (5 kilometers) above the 16,479-foot (5,023-meter) crater.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky., Jan. 18 (UPI) -- A boxing expert marked Kentucky native Muhammad Ali's 70th birthday by explaining why the legendary athlete's legacy remains relevant.
Tris Dixon, editor of Boxing News, said Ali, who was born Cassius Clay in Kentucky, has a list of accomplishments in the ring that most athletes can only dream of, CNN reported Wednesday.
"Everything that Ali has done and stood for, you can only aspire to be like him," Dixon said. "He was the king in the biggest and best era of heavyweight champions."
Ali, who rose to prominence with a gold medal in the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome, retired from boxing in 1981 and was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 1994.
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Turns annual extremist march into a fundraiser for a very good cause
Originally published 03/21/2013
BERLIN — Chancellor Angela Merkel’s center-right government said Wednesday that it would not try to ban a far-right political party deemed “racist, anti-Semitic and revisionist” by domestic intelligence, choosing instead to focus on combating neo-Nazi extremism through other channels.The decision comes as Germany’s main political camps stake out their positions ahead of a general election in September, in which Ms. Merkel is seeking a third term in office. The chancellor’s main rivals, the center-left Social Democrats and the Greens, who control the upper house of Parliament, announced in December that they would seek to have the far-right National Democratic Party, or N.P.D., banned on grounds that it violated the Constitution.
Originally published 02/22/2013
Thousands of anti-fascist protesters blocked a neo-Nazi march in Dresden, Germany, on Wednesday night, on the 68th anniversary of the British and American air campaign that killed an estimated 25,000 people in 37 hours of bombing.In recent years, the German broadcaster Deutsche Welle reports, anti-fascist activists “have outnumbered neo-Nazis who previously had used Dresden’s bombing anniversary to stage large ‘funeral’ marches to recall the demise of Hitler’s Third Reich.” On Wednesday, about 800 neo-Nazis were prevented from marching by thousands of police officers and counter-demonstrators, as more than 10,000 anti-fascist protesters formed a human chain in the city....
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1.1 This specification covers the requirements for rod drawing stock in diameters from ¼ to 13/8 in. (6.4 to 35 mm) produced from electrolytic tough-pitch or oxygen-free coppers and are suitable for further fabrication into electrical conductors.
1.2 The values stated in inch-pound units are to be regarded as standard. The values given in parentheses are mathematical conversions to SI units that are provided for information only and are not considered standard.
1.3 The following safety hazards caveat pertains only to Section 13. This standard does not purport to address all of the safety concerns, if any, associated with its use. It is the responsibility of the user of this standard to establish appropriate safety and health practices and determine the applicability of regulatory limitations prior to use.
2. Referenced Documents (purchase separately) The documents listed below are referenced within the subject standard but are not provided as part of the standard.
B5 Specification for High Conductivity Tough-Pitch Copper Refinery Shapes
B115 Specification for Electrolytic Copper Cathode
B170 Specification for Oxygen-Free Electrolytic CopperRefinery Shapes
B193 Test Method for Resistivity of Electrical Conductor Materials
B224 Classification of Coppers
B577 Test Methods for Detection of Cuprous Oxide (Hydrogen Embrittlement Susceptibility) in Copper
B846 Terminology for Copper and Copper Alloys
E8/E8M Test Methods for Tension Testing of Metallic Materials
E18 Test Methods for Rockwell Hardness of Metallic Materials
E29 Practice for Using Significant Digits in Test Data to Determine Conformance with Specifications
E53 Test Method for Determination of Copper in Unalloyed Copper by Gravimetry
E478 Test Methods for Chemical Analysis of Copper Alloys
E1606 Practice for Electromagnetic (Eddy Current) Examination of Copper and Aluminum Redraw Rod for Electrical Purposes
E2575 Test Method for Determination of Oxygen in Copper and Copper Alloys
Other DocumentNBS Handbook 100 Copper Wire Tables
ICS Number Code 29.050 (Superconductivity and conducting materials)
UNSPSC Code 26121500(Electrical wire); 30102409(Copper rods)
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This report will look at Football hooliganism and how it has changed through the years. It will look at the early years of hooliganism and compare the hooliganism to today's hooligan firms. It will identify the way in which the hooligan has changed through the years from being easily identified, to the casual years in which the hooligan was more accustomed to the casual lifestyle of designer clothes along with the violence. It will also discuss the media's portrayal of a football hooligan and look at how football matches are policed with the use of CCTV to combat violence at football and how this has changed football hooliganism.
A hooligan is said to be a young violent, destructive or badly-behaved person. Hooliganism is said to be unruly aggressive behaviour that is associated with hooligans. Such behaviour is commonly associated with sports fans, particularly supporters of association football (Dunning at al, 1998)
The word hooliganism and hooligan began to be associated with violence in sports, in particular from the 1960s in the UK with football hooliganism.
Football hooliganism is unruly and destructive behaviour such as brawls, vandalism and intimidation by association football club fans (The Independent, 2004).
The term football hooligan has been created by the media to identify trouble makers during football matches. In the mid-1960s the media was flexible and indeterminate in giving the hooligan label to different incidents. Football hooliganism is seen by most to mean violence or disorder involving football fans (Clarke, 1978)
Football hooligans are looked at as noisy, violent people who want to make trouble. Evidence suggests that most of these hooligans are in their late teens or early 20's (Porter, 2002). In addition, it states that they come from mainly working class backgrounds It is also suggested that generally hooligans are from low-income occupations and some are unemployed or are working in a poor economy (Clarke, 1978)
There are specific types of disorder that have been labelled hooliganism. Spontaneous and usually low level disorder caused by fans at or around football matches is one type of incident where hooliganism has been labelled to the incident. In addition, the hooligan label has been given when there has been a deliberate and intentional violence involving organised gangs who attach themselves to football clubs and fight firms from other clubs (Sugden, 2003). Fights between supporters of rival teams may take place before or after football matches at pre-arranged locations away from stadiums, in order to avoid arrests by the police, or they can erupt spontaneously at the stadium or in the surrounding streets (Scott & Pearson, 2007).
Football hooliganism ranges from shouts to opposing fans to actual fist fights that can then lead to riots. In the most extreme cases, hooligans, police, and bystanders have been killed, and riot police have intervened with tear gas, armoured vehicles and water cannons (Reiner, 1985).
Football hooliganism has been seen as first occurring in the mid to late 1960's, and peaking in the late 1970's and mid 1980's before calming down following the Heysel and Hillsborough disasters involving Liverpool supporters (Buford, 1992).
In the past stadium brawls have caused fans to flee in panic resulting in some fans being killed when fences or walls collapsed (Murphy et al, 1990)
The Heysel disaster on 29 May 1985 led to the deaths of 39 supporters and a ban of English clubs from European competition for five years. The 1985 European Cup Final was held at the Heysel stadium in Brussels. The ageing ground had been chosen as the venue for the final despite misgivings from both Liverpool and Juventus (Maguire, 1986). Trouble erupted between rival fans. A section of Liverpool fans stormed an area of Juventus fans, as the Juventus fans tried to escape a wall collapsed, many fans were crushed, thirty nine Italian and Belgian fans died and hundreds were injured. In the aftermath UEFA banned English clubs from European football for an indefinite period. The ban was eventually set at five years for English clubs and ten years for Liverpool. In the end Liverpool actually only served six years of the ban returning to European football one year after other English clubs.
Some Liverpool fans claimed that Juventus supporters precipitated the violence by hurling stones and other missiles. Others have blamed poor organisation and lack of crowd control by the Belgian authorities, saying that there were insufficient police inside the stadium to prevent fans from clashing. In Italy, the perception of the English fan as hooligan's remains, as a result of the Heysel disaster in 1985, and any large gathering involving drinking, chanting and singing even with normal staples of the English supporter are viewed as alien and threatening to Italians. Although the blame for the trouble that occurred at Heysel stadium is shifted between the fans and the policing, this incident was put down to hooliganism (Marsh, 1996)
With this tragedy hanging over the head of English football another stadium disaster occurred involving Liverpool fans. This disaster happened at Hillsborough stadium in Sheffield. On 15 April 1989, where 96 Liverpool fans were crushed to death and hundreds more injured on the steel-fenced terraces of Sheffield Wednesday's stadium, which was hosting that year's FA Cup semi-final (Jones, 1992)
Liverpool fans had to enter their designated stand at Leppings Lane through a small number of decrepit turnstiles. Once inside, many made their way on to the terraced lower stand which was ringed with blue-painted steel fences and laterally divided into five separate pens. Fencing had been put up by many football clubs during the 1970s and 80s to control crowds and prevent pitch invasions. Pens 3 and 4 that were directly behind the goal were full, but outside the ground thousands of fans were still waiting to get in. The pens official combined capacity was 2,200. It was later discovered that this should have been reduced to 1,600 as crush barriers installed three years earlier did not meet official safety standards. Police ordered a large exit gate to be opened to alleviate the crush outside the ground. Around 2,000 fans then made their way into the ground and headed straight for a tunnel leading directly to the already full pens. This influx caused severe crushing in the pens. Fans began climbing over side fences into the relatively less packed pens 1 and 5 to escape. It was later estimated that more than 3,000 supporters were admitted to the central pens which was almost double the safe capacity ((Jones, 1992).
When the game kicked off trouble occurred behind the goal in the Liverpool end. Five minutes into the game a crash barrier that was put up to prevent problems like this collapsed causing people to fall on top of each other. Supporters continued to climb perimeter fences to escape, while others were dragged to safety by fans in the upper tiers. When the problem happened, police instructed the referee to stop the game. Fire fighters with cutting equipment had difficulty getting into the ground, and although dozens of ambulances were dispatched, access to the pitch was delayed because the police were reporting crowd trouble.
The inquiry into the disaster led by Lord Chief Justice Taylor established that main cause was a failure of police crowd control. He wrote that the key element of police control at fault was the failure to close off the tunnel leading to pens 3 and 4 once Gate C had been opened. He went on to criticise police for their failure to handle the build-up of fans outside the ground properly, and their slow reaction to the unfolding disaster.
Taylor went on to criticise police commander, Chief Superintendent David Duckenfield, for failing to take effective control, and South Yorkshire police, who attempted to blame supporters for the crush by arriving at the ground late and drunk. Despite the Taylor report, which was also critical of Sheffield Wednesday Football Club and Sheffield City Council, in 1990 the director of public prosecutions decided not to bring criminal charges against any individual, group or body on the grounds of insufficient evidence. This disaster was firstly blamed on football hooligans but evidence suggests that it was the opposite of this. Reports have said that the disaster happened because of bad policing at the match and that the fans actions were because they were looking for safety whilst in the situation of panic.
After this disaster major changes occurred in English football. Football stadiums were ordered to take down the fencing surrounding the pitches that were put up top prevent crowd trouble after this disaster and all seated stadiums were planned.
The Football Supporters Association, said that change can be traced back to 1985, after 39 Italian fans were killed at a European Cup final during rioting by Liverpool supporters (Perryman, 2002)
The tragedy prompted a great deal of soul searching among football fans, and English teams were given a five-year ban in Europe. Their return in 1991 came in the form of a European Cup Winners' Cup final between Manchester United and Barcelona, in Rotterdam. About 26,000 United fans travelled to Holland and there were just 28 arrests, mostly just for drunkenness. Brown said that there's no doubt the tone of football has changed (Humphries, 1995)
The old hooligans have grown up and those young enough to replace them often can't get into matches. Capacity is down because stadiums are all seater, tickets have shot up in price and getting into a match is no longer a case of queuing up outside the ground and paying at the gate. It all conspires to make life very difficult for the young, casual fan who was your typical hooligan (Scott, 2003)
A report by the National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS) has revealed arrests for football hooliganism in England and Wales were up 8% in 2007. It also showed that while violence inside stadiums is rare, the problem has moved to areas such as pubs and train stations. The Football Supporter's Association (FSA), however, has stressed that the overall trend for football related violence is down. Although the general agreement is that there has been a huge improvement from the situation in the 1970s and 1980s, the NCIS figures are sure to reopen the debate on football hooliganism (Sleap, 1998)
Football hooliganism has been reported to have first occurred in England. This media labelled English disease has proved highly contagious. Europe these days, hooligan culture is a far greater problem than in its country of origin. Supporters in Holland, Germany and Italy can all claim to have picked up England's bad habits. And as those countries begin to clamp down, a new wave of violence is washing over the former Eastern-bloc countries such as Poland and Hungary. In England, the traditional Saturday afternoon punch-up that blighted domestic football during the 1970s and '80s is largely a distant memory (Giulianotti, 1994)
The legendary super hooligan armies, such as Manchester United's Red Army and West Ham's Inter City Firm, have become less publicised under the combined forces of severe legislation, all seater stadium, supporter segregation and closed circuit television (O'Neill, 2005)
The change of the typical hooligan through the years has shown that hooligans are now hard to identify. The change came in the late 70's. The term casual is one that tends to stick the most, but there were also 'Perry's' from Manchester and 'Scallies' from Liverpool and numerous more other regional names for a similar type of football fan (Brimson, 2007)
The casual scene originated from Liverpool in the late 70's. Liverpool travelled to Europe and a number of fans started to pick things up on their travels. Before long, expensive sportswear and designer labels found on the continent were soon also finding their way onto the terraces (Brimson, 2003). Sergio Tacchini, Fila and Lacoste tennis shirts were quite popular around this time. Many firms were going on shopping trips to Europe to loot a number of German, French and Swiss designer sportswear stores, as security was far more negligent than in the UK. Over the course of a few years, everybody was wearing the brands, with each individual firm showing preference to particular brands (Brimson, 2006)
The UK may have been the breeding ground for football violence through the 70's and 80's with firms like Manchester United's Red Army, West Ham's Inter City Firm (ICF), Millwall's Bushwhackers and Chelsea's Head hunters but the European's and South American's have taken the violence to new levels. Weapons such as knives, bats and even firearms have created a new culture of football hooliganism. Since the redevelopment of football grounds, CCTV and higher levels of policing at football matches in the UK, the number of arrests have fallen and most games pass without incident. But football hooliganism is alive and well in many countries, especially in places of high unemployment (Dunning et al, 2002)
England has one of the biggest following of supporters in the world, whether it is the national side who regularly take 100,000 fans to major tournaments or club sides in European competition. England also has a fierce reputation for violence with an unprecedented number of incidents spanning three decades (Kerr, 1994)
Disorder in and around English stadiums has reduced since the 1970s and 80s, and English football grounds are now safer than the average town centre on a Saturday night (Hargreaves, 1986)
With the problem of hooliganism showing signs of control, trouble occurred during a carling cup match between West Ham United and Millwall in 2009. Violence surrounding Millwall's visit to West Ham led to 13 arrests. This brought about the question of should we fear the return of hooliganism? Pitched battles with police, groups of angry young men chasing rivals through city streets and drunken violence on public transport are scenes familiar to trouble during football matches through the 1970s or 1980s. It is much different from the image that the English Premier leagues have projected over recent time (2009)
A report published in 1999 revealed that football hooliganism in Britain had increased, for the first time in six years. The report, by the National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS), shows that arrests for violent disorder at football matches almost doubled over the last season. Drew (1999), said that while the number of people involved in football related violence remained relatively small, they were well organised, and often used football matches as a cover for other criminal activity.
The falling arrest rates at matches over 20 years, suggest troublemakers are a rogue minority. Pearson (2009) said that the West Ham trouble does not represent a resurgence of the high-profile clashes of the past. He goes on to say that while the annual number of arrests dropped from more than 6,000 in the mid-80s to fewer than 4,000 now, the problem has never really gone away. The police are constantly trying to stop groups of supporters fighting each other but it usually takes place away from the football stadium, between railway stations and pubs (Downes and Rock, 2005)
Greater regulation of matches and ticketing policies requiring names and addresses have made it easier to identify troublemakers, who can be banned from matches for up to 10 years by courts. Pearson (1998) also stated that we need to be worried about going back to the dark days of hooliganism. While gangs with football allegiances still organise violence, the numbers involved are smaller. Away from the grounds, fewer fans are likely to be drawn in. Williams (2009), agrees that trouble at one game does not represent resurgence in football violence. But he says it would be dangerous to think we are in a post hooliganism era, particularly for fixtures with a history of violence such as West Ham United and Millwall.
Football hooliganism is a highly visible phenomenon, as journalists and TV cameras are present at virtually every match. Since the 1960s, journalists have been sent to football matches to report on crowd behaviour as much as on the game itself. As a result, media coverage of football-related disorder and violence is extensive, and the British tabloid press in particular devote apparently unlimited column inches to any incident that occurs, complete with sensationalist headlines (Cohen, 1970)
Although there is no direct equivalent of the British tabloid extremes in other European nations, most researchers have identified problems relating to media coverage of football hooliganism (Ingham, 1978). In all of the countries with significant levels of football-related disorder, researchers have found that hooligans relish the media coverage they receive, and often positively seek it - with rival groups actively competing for column inches and mentions in sensational headlines (Armstrong, 1998). The influence of the media was highlighted in a recent European Parliament report on football hooliganism, which recommended that the media avoid sensationalism and promote fair-play and sporting values (Greenfield 2006)
The media portrayal of football hooliganism has been glamorised by documentaries and films such as The Football factory and Green Street which include West Ham United fans. This media portrayal gives a bad name for football fans. West Ham's firm is known as the Inter City Firm (ICF) which derived from there use of the rail network to travel to matches to meet with rival firms. The ICF would leave a calling card after they had caused trouble at matches, which usually involved fighting opposition fans and smashing up there pubs (Scott and Pearson, 2006)
The Inter City Firm's reputation has been glamorised and brought to the public eye by the films and books that have been devoted to the subject. Films such as the firm which follows the leader of the ICF in a brutal look at football violence and urban frustration, and Rise Of The Foot soldier which follows the life of Carlton Leach and his rise up the criminal underworld beginning with West Ham's hooligan element (Ward, 1986).
Cass Pennant is the most well known figure to evolve from West Ham's firm writing many books and being the subject of his own movie in the film Cass. Cass Pennant's story is remarkable given the level of racism that was prevalent during the 1970's and 80's in Britain. Cass managed to rise to the top and become one of the generals of the ICF despite being black. With Pennant being the leader of the ICF during times of high levels of racism, this shows how much influence violence has on football because he became the main leader of the firm and was well known and respected around the country because of his reputation.
Football Hooliganism has been called the 'English Disease' on many occasions (Mason, 1979). However, it is not limited to England, and many other countries have serious hooligan problems. In Italy, violent groups within the Ultra factions have recently been involved in a number of serious violent incidents including attacks on English fans. (Greenfield, 2006)
The risks of problems in Italy are particularly high in Rome, and in 2007 hooliganism resulted in the death of a police officer. In the same year Manchester United fans were involved in trouble with the police during a match against AS Roma. After a goal was scored by AS Roma, Manchester United fans retaliated to the home fans who threw objects such as bottles into the Manchester United away end of the stand.
When the two groups of supporters come together they were separated by perspex barrier. Police stepped in to stop the trouble but were heavy handed and assaulted Manchester United fans with police batons. The police tried to control the problem but were the main reason for the disorder. Many people said that Manchester United Hooligans were to blame for the trouble but footage shows that police could not control the problem correctly resulting in many Manchester United fans being injured.
The Sun newspaper wrote "Riot police baton-charged Manchester United fans during the 2-1 defeat in Roma tonight. Supporters were beaten back as they reacted angrily to being taunted by rival fans. One man was left nursing a bloodied head at Italian side Roma's Olympic Stadium. United followers were barracked after a goal after 44 minutes into the Champions League quarter-final first-leg match. Italian fans ran at a plastic partition separating them from the United terrace. In response, some of the United crowd breached the line of stewards and hurled objects over the partition".
This shows that Manchester United fans were not the only fans to blame. Although they reacted badly to the situation, the Italian fans started the disorder and the Italian police continued to cause problems.
The Sun newspaper went on to say "Before the game, seven United fans had been injured in clashes with Roma supporters outside the stadium." (The Sun, 2007)
This continued serious disorder between factions of Ultras has led to ground closures and also possibly Italy's failure to host the 2012 European Championships.
After the disorder in Italy, the return match at Old Trafford in Manchester was set to be heavily policed because of the fear that trouble would occur. Just as the police thought, fighting broke out between Manchester United fans and AS Roma fans. This incident was better policed and arrests were made with no heavy handed policing situations. Although trouble occurred out side the stadium before the match, no trouble occurred within the stadium and Manchester United came away 7 -1 winner on the night.
Research has shown that Eastern Europe, Belgium and Holland all have greater problems in terms of hooliganism than the UK, where disorder in and around stadium is very rare (James, 2006)
Holland is one of the most tolerant and liberal countries in the world but has some of the most violent football hooligans (Marsh, 1996). Firms were formed and they became more organised and violent. The biggest four hooligan firms in Holland belong to Feyenoord from Rotterdam, Ajax from Amsterdam, FC Den Haag and FC Utrecht. The rivalry between these firms is intense, with the biggest hooligan elements belonging to Ajax and Feyenoord who have the largest following. Ajax's F-Side and Feyenoord, who come from the second largest city in Holland, have been at the forefront of hooligan violence and have been at war for years.
In 1989 a match between Ajax and Feyenoord made world news after two homemade bombs exploded injuring nineteen, nine of them seriously. Ajax's stadium was turned into a war zone and it was a miracle nobody was killed. The growing reputation of Dutch hooligans went global and the authorities started to look at measures that could be introduced to contain them. Like the measures taken in England, all seater stadiums and CCTV was introduced but this didn't change anything, the violence just went from the stadium into the streets (Loweson, 1995)
In 1997 the top boy from Ajax was murdered when the F-Side clashed with hooligans from Feyenoord. They were not even playing each other on the day of the fight. They met on the side of the motorway just outside Amsterdam. The F-Sides leader was battered to death. The government conceded that hooliganism was out of control and called in the army to police football matches and help control the situation.
FC Den Haag's hooligans are called North Side, which comes from the end of the ground that they congregate in. Den Haag is an old fashioned football club. They have been dubbed the Millwall of Holland and there main rivals are Ajax. There hatred dates back to the late 1980's where Den Haag threw bombs and flares into the Ajax end (Walvin, 1986) The game was stopped after 45 minutes as police fought running battles with fans in all four sides of the ground. Footage shows numerous motionless bodies being carted out of the stands. The hatred took a new twist in 2005 when Den Haag Hooligans set fire to Ajax's supporters club in the middle of the night. A year later 70 of Ajax's firm attacked Den Haag's clubhouse, stabbed two of there firm as well as burning down there clubhouse. They also tried to set two members of Den Haag's firm on fire. This led the police to block the motorways between Den Haag and Amsterdam, the government declared a state of emergency (Bale, 1993)
FC Utrecht firm is Bunnikzijde, again after the side of the ground they are situated. There younger firms members have been brought into the hooligan world in Holland at a time when weapons are used in every single fight. They don't know any different but because of the security at matches today they are forced into pre arranged battles away from the stadiums. The viciousness of these battles has left the media repeatedly stating that more football related deaths are inevitable in Holland. Despite the governments attempt to stamp out football violence it doesn't seem to be going away (Holt, 1990)
A number of different approaches have been used by the police in order to police football hooliganism. One of the key approaches has been the use of undercover operations. The use of plain clothes officers to infiltrate groups of hooligans has been used in the UK since the 1960s (Pratt et al, 1984)
It is unlikely that football will ever be totally free of crowd disorder. Whenever large groups get together, often under the influence of alcohol, there is the potential for disorder, regardless of whether there is a football match taking place or not. All manner of legal means and policing tactics have been tried to control hooliganism, including deterrent sentencing, legislation such as the Football Offences Act (1991) and the creation of the Football Intelligence Unit. During the perceived height of football hooliganism in the 1970s and 80s, successive governments implemented a series of aggressive policies that contained little evidence of an understanding of hooliganism. Many served only to worsen the problem, create an increasingly confrontational attitude between fans and police, and drive the violence away from the immediate environment of the football ground (Taylor, 1971)
Attempts to prevent hooliganism have seen legislation such as the Football Disorder Act (2000) introduced to prevent suspected hooligans travelling abroad. Such moves obviously have serious consequences for innocent fans. There are concerns about whether banning orders have any serious effect in reducing disorder involving English fans abroad in the light of evidence suggesting it is not known hooligans who actually become involved (Stott and Pearson 2007).
Football hooliganism domestically has changed significantly since the Taylor Report (1990). All-seater stadiums, Football Intelligence and Closed Circuit Television in particular have meant that incidents of violence inside football grounds are rare. In addition, arrests for football related crimes have reduced dramatically since the late 1980's whilst attendances have risen (Morris, 1981). However, this does not mean that football hooliganism has necessarily reduced. Much football disorder has been pushed from the stadium itself to other meeting places, with groups needing to be better organised (Marsh, 1978). It also now has the potential to be more violent. The location of most serious disorder means that violence is rarely reported and that the police will be less able to control it and make arrests (Hayward, 1995)
Often the extent of the disorder is exaggerated by excessive media reporting and in many cases English supporters are the victims of attacks by local fans or police rather than the aggressors. The press has typically claimed such disorder is the result of hooligans travelling with the intention of fighting and being able to draw drunken English fans into disorder. However, analysis of incidents by Stott and Pearson's (2007) criticised this view and suggested that external factors such as indiscriminate policing and the presence of aggressive local youths were usually the cause of rioting involving English fans abroad.
UK police have to deal with the problem of organised firms trying to confront each other on a regular basis, although the disorder is rarely reported due to the lack of coverage of incidents and as it usually takes place far from the ground, normal fans do not tend to be directly affected by it (Dunning et al, 1988)
In conclusion, Football Hooliganism is a well conceived, presented subject that discusses a great deal on the subject of anti-social behaviour, which is a problem that seems to get larger and larger in organised societies (Downes and Rock, 2005).
Football hooliganism is detrimental to the sport. As a result of safety measures and controlling of supporters, hooliganism has changed (Neurberge, 1993). To avoid excesses in hooliganism in future, fierce measures will have to be balanced by a social preventive approach. From research, several elements are critical to avoid excesses in hooliganism (Hutchinson, 1982)
The UK has been perceived as having the biggest and longest problem with hooliganism and has as a result taken the lead in the policing of this problem Hooliganism still presents a problem for the Police. Although there is a serious problem from domestic hooliganism, it seems to be a greater problem on a Europe-wide basis (Hall, 1978)
The prevention of football hooliganism depends on the efforts of a variety of institutions (Pearson, 1983). The prevention of football hooliganism requires a concentrated and continuous response. Despite resemblances, football hooliganism is nested within particular fan cultures. Prevention strategies should therefore be designed to fit local needs (Dunning et al, 1993)
Football violence has been a problem in Britain since the creation of the game, and despite the steps and significant progress that has been made to tackle the situation, in all likelihood it will still be a problem for the remainder of time (Ferguson, 1993).
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It is generally accepted that billiards evolved from a game, played outside on a lawn that was similar to croquet, played sometime during the 15th century in Northern Europe and France. Play was moved indoors to a wooden table with green cloth to simulate grass, and an edge was placed around the table to keep the balls from falling to the floor. The balls were shoved, rather than struck, with wooden sticks called "maces" in England. The term "billiard" derived from French, either from the word "billart," the wooden sticks, or "bille," a ball.
Most information about early billiards comes from accounts of royalty and other nobles playing the game. The first written reference to a billiard table occurred in a 1470 inventory of the possessions of King Louis XI [reigned (1461–83)] of France. This table had a hole in its center serving as a forerunner to pockets. At this time kings and high ranking nobility ordered their own custom made tables and set their own rules. The nobility practiced the local monarch's variety of billiards assiduously. An invitation to play with the king was a chance of a lifetime that could lead to a court office and the king would expect the invited player to show enough skill to make the game interesting. Other early billiards royal players included: Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots (1542-1587); King Louis XIV (1643-1715); Marie Antoinette and her husband King Louis XVI. It has been known as the "Noble Game of Billiards" since the early 1800's. In 1609, the game was familiar enough to the public that Shakespeare mentioned it in his play Anthony and Cleopatra. In 1674, the first book to mention billiards The Complete Gamester stated that in England there were "few Towns of note therein which hath not a publick Billiard-Table".
The cue stick was developed in the late 1600's. When the ball lay near a wall, the mace was difficult to use because of its large head. In such a case, the players would turn the mace around and use its handle to strike the ball. The handle was called a "queue" - meaning "tail" - from which we get the word "cue". For a long time only men were allowed to use the cue; women were forced to use the mace because it was felt they were more likely to rip the cloth with the sharper cue. A French Captain Mingaud, who was a political prisoner in Paris during the French Revolution, studied the physics of shot making. He added a leather pad to the end of the cue, reducing the pressure exerted on the wood. By rounding off the cue end he increased the area of the tip that could put a rotation on the ball itself. When the ball was hit off center with his cue it created backspin. Cues were used by most players by 1810.
The game was originally played with two balls on a table with a hoop similar to a croquet wicket and an upright stick used as a target. During the eighteenth century, the hoop and target gradually disappeared, leaving only the balls and pockets, which were, most likely, added to the table in the late 1700's. Tables originally had low vertical walls whose only function was to keep the balls from falling off the table. The walls came to be called "banks" because they resembled river banks. Players discovered that balls could be bounced off the walls and began to deliberately plan shots that included a rebound from the table edge or "bank," creating a "bank shot". The "banks" were unpadded until the 1600s when they began to be stuffed with flax, cotton, or horsehair and came to be called cushions.
Billiard tables had been covered in a woolen material for several centuries, perhaps as early as 1500. Charles Cotton observed in 1674 that "the finer and more free from knots [the cloth] the better it is". The advent of the Industrial Revolution allowed production of a truly fine woolen billiard cloth made in large quantities that made it available at a reasonable cost.
The two-to-one ration of length to width did not become the standard proportions for billiard tables until the 18th century. Early tables were custom constructed by cabinet makers for the buyer. Because the beds of these tables were made of wood, they warped within just a few years. John Thurston began experimenting with a slate table bed in 1826 and by 1840 slate had become the table bed of choice. John Thurston also introduced rubber cushions in 1835. The previous stuffed cushions had tended to deadening the motion of rebounding balls. Goodyear discovered vulcanization of rubber in 1839 and by 1845 it was used to make billiard cushions that gave rebounded balls more energy. By 1850, the billiard table had essentially reached its current form.
Balls were originally wooden but by the end of the 1600s ivory had replaced wood. Ivory balls, however, were never consistently dense and the nerve in the elephant's tusk left a small hole in each ball. John Wesley Hyatt of New York developed composition balls in 1868. These balls were celluloid, one of the earliest plastics, which was a preparation of cellulose nitrate, camphor, and ethanol. These composition balls were highly flammable and were rumored to explode! A new formula in 1893 solved the problem.
Billiard equipment improved rapidly in England after 1800. Chalk was used to increase friction between the ball and the cue stick. The leather cue tip was perfected by 1823. Visitors from England showed Americans how to use spin which explains why it is called "English" in the United States but nowhere else. The British themselves refer to it as "side". The two-piece cue came into use in 1829.
During the early 1800s billiard tables were lit by candles. Drip trays were necessary to prevent wax from getting on to the table. These trays tended to reduce the amount of light reaching the table. Candle light was replaced by oil lamps, but a tray was still necessary to prevent drips of oil from damaging the cloth covering the bed of the table. By the 1860s gas lighting led to better illumination and improved play.
Famous Georgian Billard Players
In England, King George IV (1820-1830), King William IV (1830-1837), Queen Victoria (1867-1901)(who had billiard tables both at Buckingham Palace and Osborne House) and the Duke of Wellington all owned billiard tables. In France, Napoleon had a billard room at his home Malmaison. Two tables were exported to St. Helena--one for the use of Napoleon during his exile and another for the garrison of English soldiers guarding him.
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Contested Borderland: The Civil War in Appalachian Kentucky and Virginia
Brian D. McKnight
On July 25, Brian D. McKnight delivered a Banner Lecture entitled "Contested Borderland: The Civil War in Appalachian Kentucky and Virginia." During the four years of the Civil War, the border between eastern Kentucky and southwestern Virginia was highly contested territory, alternately occupied by both the Confederacy and the Union. In Contested Borderland, Brian McKnight examines the features of the region's geography and the influence of the attacks on borderlands caught in the crossfire of opposing forces. He reveals how the dual occupation of the Union and Confederate armies divided the borderland population, creating hostilities within the region that would persist long after the war's conclusion. Professor McKnight teaches history at the University of Virginia's College at Wise. | <urn:uuid:47ce15aa-5da4-44f0-acdf-868f95b037ce> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.vahistorical.org/read-watch-listen/video-and-audio/contested-borderland-civil-war-appalachian-kentucky-and-virginia-0 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284411.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00461-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.916719 | 166 | 3.171875 | 3 |
THERE'S NO question that we need alternatives to sitting in L.A. traffic, and the Wilshire Boulevard corridor is as good a place as any to start.
While the continuation of the Red Line subway along Wilshire championed by Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and others is a worthy goal, the project's $5-billion cost is staggering. Even if the money is found, the 10 years it would take to construct is too long to wait for a solution to our worsening congestion there. Why not improve what's already working on Wilshire: Metro Rapid Line 720, which boasts about 50,000 boardings a day between East L.A. and Santa Monica?
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority's BRT (or "bus rapid transit") experiment on Wilshire and in other parts of the city is like a bus system on steroids. In order to approximate the speed and capacity of a more expensive urban rail system, the Metro Rapid buses exploit their advantage over conventional MTA buses by scheduling more frequent service, fewer stops, coordination with subway station locations and even a device that extends a green light for an approaching bus.
Now, transit planners want to make the Metro Rapid system even more productive by installing a dedicated bus lane along Wilshire and implementing a prepaid fare system, similar to the Valley's Metro Orange Line. These improvements could cut bus travel time between downtown Los Angeles and Santa Monica by an estimated 20% to less than 50 minutes, making a Wilshire BRT line competitive with a subway.
However, there are complaints about traffic problems and the temporary loss of business during construction. There are also concerns about the permanent loss of street parking if the curb lane is used for buses or, alternatively, the destruction of Wilshire's signature planted median if center lanes are created for the buses. These objections are threatening to derail both the MTA's current one-mile pilot project in West L.A. and the entire Wilshire plan.
Local officials now considering the fate of the bus lane ought to look at how Bogota, Colombia — a metropolis of nearly 7 million residents — tackled its traffic problems. Former Mayor Enrique Peñalosa spearheaded a 300-mile system of bus lanes, bicycle paths and pedestrian streets that is widely credited with dramatically reducing urban traffic. By 2005, there was a 32% reduction in commute times and a 40% drop in air pollution, according to one study.
The success in Bogota has shown that bus rapid transit is a proven solution for moving people efficiently. New York and San Francisco, cities with mature rail systems, have recently announced plans to build bus rapid transit lines using dedicated lanes. All this suggests that before we consider spending $5 billion — and waiting at least 10 years — for a subway, Los Angeles should be investing a fraction of that sum to create a first-class BRT system on Wilshire by the end of 2008.
The MTA estimates that it would cost $232 million to complete the dedicated lane on Wilshire. The savings over a subway system would be more than enough to justify spending money on replacement parking, traffic management, transitional assistance for affected businesses and more trees to replace the planted medians.
Dedicating road space to bus riders makes transit work better for everyone, and it ultimately benefits motorists by reducing the number of cars on the road. Instead of caving into parochial interests, county and city officials should push for dedicated lanes along all of Wilshire Boulevard. | <urn:uuid:96ea37e3-70c6-4b00-b93b-53276ca35866> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.latimes.com/news/la-oe-woo18nov18-story.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280929.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00423-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945378 | 699 | 2.21875 | 2 |
The plan is a collaboration between various federal agencies, including the Departments of Commerce, Defense, Homeland Security, Justice, State, Treasury, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Office of the United States Trade Representative. As a part of the Plan, the Obama administration has pledged to increase diplomatic pressure, consider the possibility of additional legislation, and look to prosecute additional criminal cases in order to combat the theft of trade secrets.
“There are only two categories of companies affected by trade-secret theft: those that know they’ve been compromised and those that don’t know it yet,” Attorney General Eric Holder reportedly said at a White House conference Wednesday according to the Wall Street Journal. “A hacker in China can acquire source code from a software company in Virginia without leaving his or her desk.”
The release of the Plan follows allegations of cyber hacking by the Chinese military, and hopefully represents the federal government’s effort to “respond to growing complaints by American companies about the theft of corporate trade secrets by other countries and foreign companies.”
The Plan’s official unveiling took place at the White House on Wednesday, when Obama administration officials from a variety of federal agencies unveiled a government-wide strategy designed to reduce trade secret theft by hackers, employees, and companies. The plan consists of five main points: (1) focusing diplomatic efforts to protect trade secrets overseas, (2) promoting voluntary best practices by private industry to protect trade secrets, (3) enhancing domestic law enforcement operations, (4) improving domestic legislation, and (5) promoting public awareness and stakeholder outreach.
Under the terms of the new plan, the State Department will take advantage of diplomatic meetings between countries in order to provide a platform to stress the importance of preventing theft of trade secrets. The Plan would “increase international engagement,” especially with countries which pose a significant threat of theft of trade secrets from American companies.
Industry Best Practices
In conjunction with the United States Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator (“IPEC”), the Obama administration also plans to assist private companies in developing industry best practices to protect against trade secret theft. According to the Plan, these best practices “should encompass a holistic approach to protect trade secrets from theft via a wide array of vulnerabilities.” Included are a variety of areas for companies to focus on in the development of best practices, such as research and development, human resources, and information and physical security policies.
Domestic Law Enforcement Opportunities
Another goal of the plan is to enhance domestic law enforcement opportunities. Under the terms of the Plan, both the FBI and the Department of Justice will continue to prioritize the investigation and prosecution of corporate and state sponsored trade secret theft. Furthermore, the FBI will continue to expand its efforts to fight unauthorized computer access involving the theft of trade secrets. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) will also work to inform the private sector regarding prevention of trade secret theft, informing the private sector of industry specific threats, the types of information targeted, and the methods used to conduct such espionage. At the same time, the Department of Justice and the FBI will continue outreach and investigations to prevent and combat the theft of trade secrets.
Potential New Legislation
The Plan also includes “a pledge to study whether new legislation is needed to combat trade secret theft.” This past year, President Obama signed two key pieces of legislation, The Theft of Trade Secrets Clarification Act, and the Foreign and Economic Espionage Penalty Enhancement Act, both of which will assist in the prosecution of trade secret theft. The administration will continue to evaluate current legislation, and will discuss the passage of additional legislation, if it is found to be necessary. The Plan may provide momentum for the Protecting American Trade Secrets and Innovation Act (“PATSIA”), which was introduced last year in Congress but did not get out of committee. PATSIA would provide a civil cause of action in federal court for certain trade secret cases.
Promotion of Public Awareness
Finally, the government will promote public awareness of the growing threat of trade secret theft in the United States in order to mitigate losses. The government will conduct education and outreach through resources like the Department of Commerce’s www.stopfakes.gov, which provides useful information regarding trade secret theft, and how to protect trade secrets in priority markets. The United States Patent and Trademark Office will also provide trainings regarding protection of confidential and trade secret information, and the FBI will continue its current outreach programs.
Impact of the Plan
The Obama administration’s Plan takes a strong stance on the protection of American trade secrets. According to Robert Hormats, the Undersecretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment, the Obama administration’s “message is quite clear: The protection of intellectual property and trade secrets is critical to all intellectual property rights holders, whether they be from the United States or whether they be from Chinese companies or other companies around the world.” Attorney General Holder expressed his hope that the Plan would help combat the increasing threat of cyber-espionage, stating that the Justice Department would continue to make prosecution of trade secret theft a top priority. According to Holder, the department plans to bring additional economic cyber-espionage cases as a means of deterring foreign governments from hacking into American company’s networks.
The Plas voices the Obama administration’s displeasure with the theft of trade secrets by foreign governments. Furthermore, the Plan shows how the government can help private companies defend themselves against the sharing of trade secret information, and augment the Department of Justice’s law enforcement efforts. According to Victoria Espinel, the White House Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator, “Trade secret theft can cripple a company’s competitive advantage in foreign markets, diminish export prospects around the globe and put American jobs in jeopardy. The strategy that we are releasing today coordinates and improves U.S. government efforts to protect the innovation that drives the American economy.” Some believe that the Plan may lead to greater cooperation between the Department of Justice and US companies.
Whether the Plan will successfully reduce trade secret theft remains to be seen. Critics have noted that the Plan continues a number of pre-existing policies, and contains limited details regarding the implementation of new policies. However, regardless of how the details of the Plan play out, it clearly signals that the Obama administration is taking a strong public position against the theft of trade secrets, particularly by foreign governments and companies. | <urn:uuid:469ad3f6-e5f0-4761-a583-bcf62b0887ab> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.tradesecretslaw.com/2013/02/articles/trade-secrets/united-states-announces-multifaceted-plan-to-combat-trade-secret-theft-by-foreign-countries-and-companies/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721558.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00044-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93413 | 1,334 | 1.960938 | 2 |
Republican Rep. Mike Kelly said federal rules should only apply to firearms sold across state borders, where the U.S. government has constitutional authority to regulate interstate commerce.
The bill easily passed the state House of Representatives in April after picking up 11 co-sponsors. It now sits before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Its chairman, Sen. Hollis French, D-Anchorage, said he will schedule a committee hearing this winter.
The bill could place Alaska into a broader national discussion. Similar bills have passed in Montana and Tennessee, and Fairbanks attorney Lynn Levengood said the shift in Congress and the White House to Democratic control has gun-rights advocates following the debate and planning ahead.
“It's a fail-safe position,” Levengood told the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. “If federal law tries to undo our Second Amendment rights, we've got a fail-safe.”
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Oscillator indicators are standard tools to determine the market context for Forex derivative traders, Stocks derivative traders, Crypto derivative traders etc. Oscillator trading helps investors define the exact entry/exit points of a trade. As a result, professional traders use oscillators in conducting technical analysis while making trading decisions.
However, there are several types of oscillators in financial instrument trading including measuring momentum, volatility, strength, and trend. This article will introduce you to oscillator trading, how to use oscillators effectively, and how to generate the best trading ideas.
- What Are Oscillator Indicators?
- How to Use Oscillators in Technical Analysis
- Oscillator Trading in FTT & Stocks on Olymp Trade
- Final Thoughts
Interact with the underlined words and green dots to get additional details and explanations.
Explanations and definitions of terms.
What Are Oscillator Indicators?
You can group Forex oscillators in the momentum indicators group. Financial investors use oscillators in technical analysis more often to determine the market context appropriately. You can use these oscillators in technical analysis to determine the momentum, strength, current trend, breakouts, and more.
Oscillator indicators commonly have a feature of dynamic signal lines that may fluctuate within specific levels to declare overbought and oversold levels. The most common Forex oscillators are the Relative Strength Index (RSI), Commodity Channel Index (CCI), Stochastic, and Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD).
How to Use Oscillators in Technical Analysis
This part will describe the most efficient ways to use Forex oscillators. Different oscillator indicators involve different formulas and elements, and some readings in price charts and oscillator indicators may show results in an independent window.
When to Open Long Positions
Traders can use oscillator indicators to determine bullish momentum and open a long position at the right time. One of the most popular Forex oscillators is the Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD), which also acts as a trend indicator. Here, we'll focus on its function as an oscillator. If you're interested in studying more about MACD, explore this article.
The MACD histogram helps traders to identify the momentum of the price changes.
When the bars cross the zero level, the price increases, and traders open an Up trade.
Here is how it looks on the chart:
How can we forecast this moment of the price going up? Look at the histogram again.
When you see that the histogram is below its zero level but is gradually rising while the price is falling, that's the preliminary signal for the upcoming rise in price. At this moment, be ready to open an Up trade.
When to Open Short Positions
Oscillator indicators are useful tools for detecting the initial phase of bearish momentum. For example, the RSI indicator can be used to execute successful short trades. The RSI indicator results in an independent window containing a dynamic line that moves within a specific range of 0-100.
The RSI dynamic line fluctuates at three levels, declaring different forces on the asset price. The dynamic line moves above the 70% level when the price movement reaches an overbought condition.
Investors expect an upcoming bearish pressure when the RSI line stays above the top level.
However, the dynamic line can remain at that level while the bullish pressure remains intact. The dynamic line starts to decline below the upper (70) level and reaches below the central (50) level with sufficient declining pressure on the asset price. On the other hand, when the line moves below the bottom 30% level, it indicates the price has entered an oversold condition. Expert investors often seek a bullish reversal at this point.
Detecting a Sideways Trend Using a Forex Oscillator
Oscillator indicators are adequate to detect sideways as well. For instance, the Stochastic indicator can detect sideways trends alongside bullish and bearish momentum and trends. The Stochastic oscillator is displayed in an independent window containing two dynamic signal lines that fluctuate within a range of 0-100.
Detecting sideways trends is essential as it declares corrective market conditions. The price movement is slow, or the trend loses strength in this phase. It is common in the Forex market that prices move sideways just before a large increase or decrease in prices or before any significant news releases.
When both dynamic lines reach below the bottom level (20), the price may enter an oversold condition and above the top level (80) declares rapid buy pressure on the asset price.
Meanwhile, both dynamic lines frequently cross and move sideways, declaring the consolidation phase.
Combining Other Technical Concepts with an Oscillator Indicator
Expert financial investors often combine two or more technical indicators to determine more accurate trading positions. So of course, you can combine oscillator indicators with other technical tools or indicators for more efficiency. For example, you can use the Parabolic SAR indicator alongside the RSI indicator as a supportive indicator and combine both indicators' readings to generate trading ideas.
Suppose the RSI dynamic line starts to move upward from the bottom level and reaches near the central line. Meanwhile, the parabolic SAR indicator creates a series of parabolic dots that appear below price candles, declaring bullish pressure on the asset price.
The exact opposite scenario occurs when the price movement initiates a bearish momentum. The RSI line starts to decline, and parabolic dots flip to the upside of price candles, declaring sell pressure on the asset price.
Oscillator Trading in FTT & Stocks on Olymp Trade
Apart from using oscillators for Forex trading, Olymp Trade users can use this technique in FTT and Stocks regimes.
In FTT trading, traders speculate what direction the price will go after a chosen period of time. If successful, traders will receive their initial investment and a fixed payout. If unsuccessful, traders will lose the stake and miss the fixed payout.
Oscillators in a stock market offer to find strong market trends in FTT trading.
For example, if the RSI moves above the 70 level, the price is overbought. Similarly, if the RSI moves below the 30 level, it shows an oversold condition.
Therefore, in FTT trading, investors can open an Up position when the RSI returns higher from the oversold zone and a Down position when the RSI moves lower from the overbought position.
In Stock trading, the same theory is applicable. A suitable buy position comes when the RSI shows a rebound from the overbought 30 level.
Oscillator indicators are straightforward, and anyone with some basic understanding can use these tools in almost any trading instrument chart. You can also detect breakout levels using these tools alongside determining trends, momentum, and strengths. We suggest sufficient practicing before using this oscillator concept in live trading, as mastering the concept before applying it will help you use it more effectively and increase profitability.
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Oscillators are chart indicators that help determine overbought or oversold conditions in ranging or non-trending markets.
The relative strength index (RSI) is a technical analysis indicator that shows the strength of a trend and evaluates overbought or oversold zones in the price of an asset.
A bull market is when a market experiences prolonged price increases.
Reversal is a change in the price movement direction.
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It's been a year since Rusty the red panda captivated D.C. after a daring escape from the National Zoo and a subsequent jaunt through Adams Morgan.
On June 24, 2013, keepers went to Rusty's exhibit on the Asia Trail and discovered... no Rusty. They searched nearby trees and then put out an alert.
The freedom-minded red panda was on the loose for several hours before he was spotted nearly a mile away.
Ashley Foughty saw Rusty near 20th and Biltmore streets in Adams Morgan. She tweeted pictures of him scampering up an incline, prompting the National Zoo to retrieve him.
A team of animal care personnel and the Washington Humane Society converged on the scene, ending his brief vacation.
— Ashley Foughty (@AshleyFoughty) June 24, 2013
Rusty was taken to the zoo's animal hospital and received a rabies booster shot as a precaution.
The distance he had covered puzzled keepers, who reviewed surveillance video to make sure nobody removed him from the enclosure. Ultimately, they determined it wasn't foul play -- it was heavy rain, which caused branches to bend closer to the edge of Rusty's enclosure, providing a means of escape.
And the reason? Hey, a red panda's gotta eat. Staffers believe he would have been attracted to nearby bamboo and wanted a treat.
Rusty was the first animal to go missing from the zoo in recent memory.
"But he is a young male, he is a 1-year-old male, and we all know that young males like to test boundaries," said National Zoo Senior Curator Dr. Brandie Smith last year.
Oh, those teenagers, escaping their zoo enclosures and heading to a neighborhood known for its party atmosphere on the weekends.
But it turns out that since then, Rusty's grown up, settled down and moved out to the suburbs.
He and his lady love, Shama, have new digs at the Smithsonian's Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal, Virginia, where they moved in hopes of expanding their family.
They relocated in January because keepers were worried that the increase in zoo visitors intent on seeing one of those other pandas -- namely, giant panda cub Bao Bao -- could disturb the potential parents.
Although another red panda recently gave birth to two cubs, there's no word that Rusty and Shama have welcomed the pitter-patter of little paws just yet. | <urn:uuid:2deaf86c-cdf0-4157-b009-1d99a6919d46> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/weird/Rusty-the-Red-Panda-Marks-One-Year-Since-Epic-Escape-264401551.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720026.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00456-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973643 | 511 | 2.109375 | 2 |
German translation of gusty
Example Sentences Including 'gusty'
There was a warm gusty wind blowing, herding white clouds, all innocent of rain, down the valley.SACRAMENT (2001)
Momma looked towards the door, and the gusty darkness beyond.THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW (2001)
They walked towards the gate into the garden, buffeted by the gusty wind.A Question of Principle
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Carbohydrates along with fat are the two main fuel sources for your muscles. Your body can store about 2000 calories in the form of glycogen which will last about 2hrs for the average runner. So, during a long run of 2+ hours, these carb stores will be depleted. If they're not replaced during the run, then the runner will more than likely "bonk" or "hit the wall." Sports drinks and/or sports gels are a great way to restock the glycogen (energy) stores while on the run. But don't wait until you feel fatigued to begin resupplying or it will be too late.
Sodium is needed to help the body properly absorb the fluids you're taking in. Ever have that sloshing-in-your-stomach feeling during a race? The sloshing is probably not due to drinking too much too fast. More than likely the water is remaining in your belly because you've decreased your sodium levels so much that your body can no longer absorb the fluids, so they're just "stuck" with nowhere to go. Ever have calf or quad cramps? This too is often a sign of dehydration and depleted potassium levels.
There are so many different brands of sports drinks on the market all claiming they're the best for you. So what exactly should be in a sports drink? There are some basics you should look for. As for the "extras" in many sports drinks? For the most part, that's exactly what they are—extra. You'll have to decide whether you need the extras or not.
Staples Of A Sports Drink:
Most experts agree that the sodium levels of sports drinks should be in the range of 110 - 220 mg per 8 fl. oz. A newer brand, just recently available—The Right Stuff— contains no carbs, but it contains much higher levels of sodium and other electrolytes. To read a review of The Right Stuff [click here].
The carbohydrate concentration in a sports drink should be 6-8% or
6 - 8 grams per 100 ml
14.2 - 18.9 grams per 8 oz.
21.3 - 28.4 grams per 12 oz.
Sports drinks containing more than these quantities of carbs should be used for refueling after a workout, but not during.
Sports Drink Extras:
Energy drinks and sports drinks are often confused. In general, sports drinks don't contain caffeine. The smaller canned (and some bottled) energy drinks (i.e., Red Bull) often contain very large amounts of caffeine as well as sugar or other sweeteners. Research has shown that some caffeine ingested before a race can boost performance (click here for more info), but drinking large amounts of caffiene throughout a race can have adverse effects and cause stomach issues for many runners.
Some brands of sports drinks have added protein to their formula. Some claim the protein/carb mixture enhances performance. There is mixed results/opinions on whether performance is actually enhanced. The added protein, however, has been shown to speed muscle recovery. Accelerade, Amino Vital, Endurox R-4, and PowerBar Recovery Performance all contain added protein.
Some brands contain a wide array of added vitamins. While this may be good for your general health, there's no research to show that they will help with your performance or benefit rehydration.
There are actually three different types of sports drinks available—Isotonic, Hypotonic, and Hypertonic. Some are designed for use during a run, while others are designed for after activity hydration. Listed below is more info about each type of sports drinks.
Isotonic Sports Drinks—Contain electrolytes and 6-8% carbs. Isotonic sports drinks usually contain about 120-170 calories per 500 ml of fluid. Probably the most common type of sports drink, isotonic sports drinks are good for normal replacement of fluids lost through normal sweating incurred during middle and long distance runs. (Examples: Accelerade, Gatorade [original], Gatorade Endurance Formula, Powerade [original], PowerBar Endurance Sport [powder])
Hypertonic Sports Drinks—Contain about 10-15% carbs and usually about 240-320 calories per 500 ml of fluid. These drinks are designed to replenish carb levels after exercise or to top off the glycogen stores before an endurance run. Hypertonic drinks are good for marathons or ultraruns. Due to the high levels of carbs, if hypertonic drinks are used during exercise, it's very important that a runner also take in some isotonic or hypotonic drinks too to help replace fluids. (Examples: Endurox R-4, Gatorade Performance Series, PowerBar Performance Recovery, Isopure Endurance) | <urn:uuid:21475285-69b6-4d76-8ff1-ecc19fe3bb71> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://ncrunnerdude.blogspot.com/2009/09/what-to-look-for-in-sports-drink.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280791.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00356-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933637 | 987 | 2.078125 | 2 |
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Depth psychology is a broad term that refers to any psychological approach examining the depth (the hidden or deeper parts) of human experience. It is a applied in psychoanalysis.
It provides a set of techniques for exploring underlying motives and a method of treating various mental disorders. It seeks the deep layer(s) underlying behavioural and cognitive processes - the unconscious.
The initial work and development of the theories and therapies by Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud, Alfred Adler and Otto Rank that became to be known as depth psychology have resulted in three perspectives in modern times:
- Psychoanalytic: Freud's object relations
- Adlerian: Adler’s Individual psychology
- Jungian: Jung’s Analytical psychology and James Hillman’s "Archetypal psychology"
Those schools most strongly influenced by the work of Carl Jung, a 20th century Swiss psychiatrist who in his Analytical psychology emphasise questions of psyche, human development and personality development (or individuation).
The following is a summary of the primary elements of Depth psychology:
- Depth psychology states that psyche is a process that is partly conscious and partly unconscious. The unconscious in turn contains repressed experiences and other personal-level issues in its "upper" layers and "transpersonal" (eg. collective, non-I, archetypal) forces in its depths.
- The psyche spontaneously generates mythico-religious symbolism and is therefore spiritual as well as instinctive in nature. An implication of this is that the choice of whether to be a spiritual person or not does not exist - the only question is exactly where we put our spirituality: Do we live it consciously or unknowingly invest it in nonspiritual aspirations (perfectionism, addictions, greed, fame) that eventually possess us by virtue of their ignored but frightfully potent numinous power?
- All minds, all lives, are ultimately embedded in some sort of myth-making. Mythology is not a series of old explanations for natural events; it is rather the richness and wisdom of humanity played out in a wondrous symbolical storytelling. No story, no myth, and no humanness either.
- Because we have a psychical share in all that surrounds us, we are sane and whole only to the degree that we care for our environment and tend responsibly to the world in which we live.
- Analytical psychology (also Hillman's "Archetypal psychology")
- Jungian psychology
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Saturday, November 28, 2009
Ill-conceived US corn subsidies make "liquid Satan" high-fructose corn syrup a cheap ingredient
United States crop subsidies have long directed the course of food consumption patterns among Americans. When a crop like corn is subsidized by the government, food producers hone in on it for use in their products because it is cheap. In the case of corn, the crop is subsidized so heavily that it sells below the cost of production, leading to its excessive use as a sweetener in the form of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS).
For years the federal government has subsidized corn to the tune of several billion dollars a year. Much of America's heartland is covered by endless swaths of corn, often genetically modified because of the huge cash incentives offered to farmers who grow it. As a result, corn-based ingredients are present in a great majority of processed food products. Ingredients like maltodextrin, corn starch (typically modified in some way), corn syrup, and HFCS can be found in virtually every processed food.
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Starlings (Sturnus Vulgaris) are probably most famous for their murmurations, when thousands of birds swoop and dive in unison, creating an amazing sight to behold. However, the large numbers in which these birds flock and roost are the very reason why they can be viewed as a nuisance. Starlings are noisy, and often make untidy nests in buildings, which can become a problem when flocks can reach over 100,000 in number. The Wildlife Trust reports flocks of starlings can number over a million birds! People experiencing starlings roosting in their homes have reported sleepless nights due to the bird’s noise and activity, as well as large amounts of unsightly and unsanitary droppings. Insects and mites that live in the bird’s nests can also find their way into your home.
The starling has a long, pointed bill, pointed head, short tail, and triangular wings. From a distance, it can look black in colour, but on closer inspection they have a glossy metallic iridescent sheen of greens, blues, and purples on their plumage. The breast is flecked with small, pale spots, which become more apparent in winter. Juvenile starlings are a greyish brown colour. Starlings fly very fast, and have a reputation for being noisy, social, and gregarious. They often mimic other birds with their whistling and chattering. An example of the starling’s call can be found here.
When & Where to see Starlings
Starlings are native to the UK and usually remain all year round. Some starlings, however, are migratory travelling from northern Europe to winter in the UK from around September to October, returning home between February and March. During autumn at dusk, you may see a murmuration of starlings, especially in locations such as over reedbeds. Starlings are conspicuous birds, and common to the UK, therefore it is likely you will spot one!
Whilst this species remains a common garden bird in the UK, their marked decline in numbers means the starling, their nests, and eggs are protected under The Wildlife and countryside act 1981. It’s UK conservation status is currently red, which is the highest conservation concern. It is an offense to intentionally kill or injure a starling, or to harm or remove their eggs or nests whilst the nest in under construction or in use. Failure to abide by this law may incur a fine and/or a prison sentence.
Due to the starling’s protected status, the birds, their nests and eggs should not be disturbed while nesting. This means nests can only be managed before or after nesting season. As starlings have been known to reuse nests, it is important to speak to a professional pest control agency to look at addressing entry points once the birds have flown the nest.
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Indian government officials appear to be planning to discuss a new law the legal framework of which would completely ban cryptocurrencies in the subcontinent.
According to the news of September 15th Bloomberg, The Indian federal cabinet is considering a law banning cryptocurrencies six months after the courts lifted a general ban. Anonymous sources assured this The Indian government is promoting the development of blockchain technology, but not the trading of cryptocurrencies.
In response, Brad Garlinghouse, CEO of Ripple rated said decision as “disappointing”, to say that Cryptocurrencies had the potential to help the country’s underserved population:
Disappointing to see India freaking out on crypto and hampering an emerging industry that could serve one of the largest populations of citizens with no or no bank account. https://t.co/ffMUIQOnA7
– Brad Garlinghouse (@bgarlinghouse) September 16, 2020
In May, In India there were approximately 190 million unbanked adults who did not have access to a bank account or other financial instruments. Some experts have said so Crypto assets like Bitcoin (BTC) are one way to develop financial literacy with simple tools for investing and saving.
Before he The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) imposed a blanket ban on banks dealing with crypto companies in 2018. The country’s cryptocurrency market was valued at $ 12.9 billion. The Supreme Court put down RBI policies in March, which led to it to a boom in new stock exchanges on the subcontinent. A May report from OKEx and Coinpaprika crypto exchanges, The former saw site traffic from India grow 545.56% in the first quarter after the ban was lifted, and the number of new users also rose 4.100%.
However, News has been circulating since June that Indian government officials are considering a new law that could ban cryptocurrencies. In contrast to RBI’s approach of essentially blacklisting banks, The government might now consider banning cryptocurrencies through a change in the law that it claims would be stricter.
The Indian parliament convened again on Monday after being delayed due to the pandemic. Tanvi Ratna, CEO of the consulting firm Blockchain, Policy 4.0, explained Until September 13th, the list of bills to be dealt with did not include a cryptocurrency ban law as long as the government agency is in session for 18 days.
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One of the main attractions for those coming to Cahuita, the National Park is a natural paradise; dense jungle surrounded by pristine white beaches lined with coconut palms. The park is filled with beautiful tropical plants and birds, abundant wildlife, insects and hummingbirds, and the surrounding clear blue sea is home to a great deal of tropical sea-life. There are a multitude of activities to be enjoyed in the park including hiking, swimming, snorkeling, surfing, fishing, bird-watching, and beach sports. Others come to see the wildlife (most commonly white-faced and howler monkeys) or simply to relax and enjoy the sounds of nature. Officially declared a National Park in 1978, it was previously owned by Cahuita‚Äôs first settlers, fishermen from the Caribbean Islands. It is made up of 1,067.9 hectares of land area and 22,400 hectares of marine area, with some 600 hectares of coral reef being protected. It‚Äôs one of the most important reefs in the country and the most developed on the Caribbean Coast. See ‚Äėsnorkeling‚Äô section for more details on the coral reef. In 1996 the park was given a Blue Flag Ecological Award for the sectors of Puerto Vargas and Playa Blanca. Also important parts of the park are the wetlands and swamps, which are home to the ‚Äúsangrillo‚ÄĚ tree from which Cahuita takes its name. (‚ÄúKawe‚ÄĚ meaning ‚Äúsangrillo‚ÄĚ, and ‚ÄúTa‚ÄĚ meaning ‚Äúpoint‚ÄĚ.) The park can be entered at two different points. From Cahuita town itself, the entrance is at Playa Blanca, the white beach, and is open from 6am to 5pm, Monday to Sunday. Unlike other National Parks, here the entrance fee is on a donation basis, usually around 2000 colones, just under $4. The Puerto Vargas entrance, some 3.5km south-east of Cahuita, is open from 8am to 4pm Monday to Friday, and 7am to 5pm Saturday and Sunday. Entrance costs $10, and in both entrances the money goes towards the maintenance of the park, management and protection of natural resources, and also for projects in the local community. | <urn:uuid:dbbd7034-8e4f-4216-bf79-fe425663a237> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.vivatravelguides.com/central-america/costa-rica/caribbean-coast-costa-rica/cahuita/cahuita-activities/cahuita-national-park/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280221.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00229-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94768 | 522 | 2.046875 | 2 |
Traditionally, certain children’s books were designed for girls and others for boys – but this is something that a number of book publishers are looking to change
Following a number of other publishers and retail brands, Ladybird – part of Penguin Random House – has announced plans to make all of its books gender-neutral in a bid to ensure that children aren’t aren't influenced by their sex when choosing a book to read.
The upcoming rebrand is set to take place following a petition delivered by supporters on behalf of the Let Books Be Books campaign, part of the Let Toys Be Toys initiative.
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Tessa Trabue from Let Toys Be Toys said: ‘Every child is different and has their own individual taste; it makes no sense to push boys and girls towards separate books. We believe that books are for everyone.
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‘Children should have the freedom to read about or colour in robots, fairies, pirates or flowers, without publishers telling them otherwise.’
Let Toys Be Toys has already succeeded in persuading thirteen retailers, including M&S and Debenhams, to remove ‘Boys’ and ‘Girls’ signs from toy stores and packaging, and is working with Inclusive Minds, Letterbox Library and For Books’ Sake to encourage the publishing industry also to drop these ‘limiting labels’.
A number of publishers have already taken note of the campaign, including Parragon Books and Ivy Press.
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McConnell testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee (epa)
It has been more than six years since U.S. forces entered Afghanistan to battle the Taliban and help establish a stable central government.
During that time, international forces have been working under a UN mandate to help expand the authority of Afghan President Hamid Karzai's government beyond the capital of Kabul.
U.S. National Intelligence Director Michael McConnell now says Karzai's government has control over only about 30 percent of the country, while the Taliban controls about 10 percent of Afghan territory.
McConnell told the U.S. Senate's Armed Services Committee on February 27 that the remainder of Afghanistan is mostly under local tribal control -- a reference to factional leaders and regional power brokers who have maintained their own private militia forces.
Some media that covered McConnell's testimony paraphrased his remarks in a way that suggests that 70 percent of Afghan territory remains beyond the control of Karzai's government.
But Sebghatullah Sanjar, a policy adviser for Karzai, tells RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan that those reports are irresponsible because they fail to recognize that many local tribal leaders and commanders support and cooperate with Karzai's central government.
"The state of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, in accordance with the laws of the country, has complete sovereignty throughout Afghanistan with the exception of two or three districts in southern Afghanistan where we have security problems," Sanjar says.
"The commanders in Afghanistan -- be it at district level or higher and in the furthest provinces and districts [from Kabul] -- completely respect the rule of law and abide by Afghan laws," he continues. "They obey governors, district chiefs, and all those who are appointed by the state of Afghanistan and are responsible for tending to the daily affairs of the state of Afghanistan in villages and districts."
McConnell's report to the Senate says that although international forces and the Afghan National Army continue to score tactical victories over the Taliban, the security situation deteriorated in some parts of the south during the past year -- with Taliban forces also expanding their operations into previously peaceful areas of western Afghanistan and near Kabul.
It says that the death or capture of three senior Taliban leaders last year -- the Taliban's first high-level losses -- does not yet appear to have significantly disrupted Taliban operations.
McConnell's report concludes that Kabul must work closely with the Afghan parliament -- as well as provincial and tribal leaders -- to establish and extend the capacity of the central government. It also says that although the buildup of the Afghan National Police and the judicial system has improved in the past year, the police and court system remains constrained in its ability to deploy programs at the provincial and local levels.
It also says Afghanistan faces a chronic shortage of resources and of qualified and motivated government officials at both the national and local level.
A large part of McConnell's security assessment focused on the threat of nuclear proliferation or the possibility that nuclear weapons could fall into the hands of terrorist organizations.
It says Pakistan's political crisis does not appear to have seriously threatened the security and control that Pakistan's army has over Islamabad's nuclear arsenal. But it says there are some vulnerabilities.
Meanwhile, several pages of the 45-page report focus on concerns about Iran's nuclear intentions.
Expanding on a U.S. intelligence report last year that said Tehran appeared to have halted design work on nuclear weapons in 2003, McConnell said the latest intelligence suggests Tehran may have restarted work on nuclear weapons since mid-2007.
More importantly, McConnell stressed in his testimony that Iran has continued to work in two areas related to producing nuclear weapons -- the enrichment of uranium into weapons-grade material and the development of long-range, ballistic-missile systems capable of carrying nuclear warheads.
McConnell concluded that Iran could have enough highly enriched uranium to build a nuclear weapon as soon as late 2009 -- though he said it is "very unlikely" that Iran could succeed so soon. More likely, he said, Iran probably will be technically capable of producing enough enriched uranium for a weapon sometime between 2010 and 2015 -- though it could take longer.
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Police in the Pakistani city of Karachi say they have arrested a top Al-Qaeda financier who is on the United Nations Security Council's sanctions list.
Abdul Rehman Sindhi was arrested in a joint operation between police and intelligence agencies, police said on April 22.
"Sindhi is an old veteran of Al-Qaeda," senior police officer Muqadas Haider told Reuters. "He had stayed in touch with Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahri, and has worked with Harkat-ul Jihad Islami, Jaish-e Mohammad and the Al-Akhtar Trust."
Sindhi was put on the UN's sanctions list in 2012 for providing "facilitation and financial services to Al-Qaeda."
Pakistan has been under pressure to crack down on Islamist militants. It launched a renewed antiterrorism operation in 2014, when Al-Qaeda chief Zawahri announced the formation of a new wing, Al-Qaeda in the Indian subcontinent.
The region spans across Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh, and is home to more than 400 million Muslims.
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Weldon has 1,374 residents. It is located in Halifax county.
Automotive Technology schools in Weldon charged students an average tuition of $1,600.00 if they were North Carolina residents, and $7,722.00 if they were non-residents, during the 2009 - 2010 school year.
The average cost of books and supplies for automotive technology schools in Weldon is $1,200.00. There is one automotive technology college in Weldon for students to choose from. 33 students were reported to have graduated from automotive technology programs in Weldon in the 2008 - 2009 school year.
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Cell phones are no longer the portable convenience evolved from their wireless telephone counterparts. They too have evolved into Smart phones which have now commandeered their ranks amongst PC’s and tablets. Hard to imagine but today’s modern smartphone contains more computing power than all of the computers at NASA's disposal back in 1969. The year the USA first landed on the moon with Apollo 11. Pretty mind blowing, huh? Though you probably won't use your phone to control your own spacecraft or Mars Rover anytime in the near future, it will bring a world of other feasible functionality, like controlling your TV and turning on your household lights. With so many apps offering original ideas or redesigns of the way we operate. All for the sake of convenience, demand, and productivity; these apps are designed (for the most part) to increase efficiency on how we live or engage our products. With all the innovative app technology of today, are you making the most of what it offers? If so, what apps make your day to day life easier, fun, or profitable? Let me know, perhaps your findings will help others adopt (myself included) a new way of useful living. I’ll start it off…. | <urn:uuid:7e81d6d8-c00e-46ef-ad62-0f844103c0a4> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.securitycameraking.com/securityinfo/tag/mobilizing-your-security-system/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280900.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00000-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.930901 | 245 | 1.679688 | 2 |
Category: Children's Books|
The author of the book: Dick King-Smith
Format files: PDF, EPUB, TXT, DOCX
The size of the: 38.55 MB
Edition: Puffin Books
Date of issue: 26 September 2002
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In 2015, the UK became the first country in the world to have a comprehensive routine meningococcal vaccine programme targeting all of the main capsular groups of N. meningitidis. 1 An infant vaccine programme against meningococcal capsular group B Neisseria meningitidis (MenB) was launched from 1st September with an aim to reduce endemic MenB disease in early childhood. On 1st August 2015, an adolescent programme against groups A, C, W and Y meningococci (MenACWY) was rolled out to halt a growing outbreak of capsular group W disease (MenW) caused by a hypervirulent clone of N. meningitidis, in addition to maintaining control against MenC disease provided by the current adolescent programme. 2
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Meningococcal disease is the leading infectious cause of death in early childhood,3 and its control has been a public health priority for decades. In the UK, most cases have been caused by MenB and MenC, with small numbers caused by MenW and MenY; other capsular groups are rare (figure 1). During the 1990s, a rapid rise in cases caused by a single MenC clone led to the introduction of the National Health Service (NHS) MenC vaccination programme in 1999, which successfully controlled the outbreak and has sustained population protection against MenC over the past 15 years; it is now apparent that the success of this programme depends largely on indirect (herd) protection.4 Meningococci are carried in the nasopharynx of healthy individuals, particularly adolescents and young adults, and only cause disease when transmitted to susceptible individuals. MenC vaccines are made by chemical conjugation of the surface capsular polysaccharide to a carrier protein—such as tetanus toxoid or a mutant diphtheria toxoid (CRM197)—making a highly immunogenic construct. MenC conjugate vaccines provide individual protection against MenC disease and prevent acquisition of colonisation in the nasopharynx, thereby interrupting transmission of MenC so that the wider population is protected. Adjustments to the MenC programme in recent years have focused on enhancing immunity among teenagers to prevent colonisation and thus enhance indirect population protection as carriage of meningococci is highest among adolescents.
Since the success of the MenC conjugate vaccination programme, MenB has been responsible for almost all cases of invasive meningococcal disease in the UK, especially in children and young adults. In England, as in the rest of Europe, MenB cases have been declining across all age groups: from 1614 cases in the 2000/2001 epidemiological year (July 2000 to June 2001) to 418 cases in 2014/2015 (figure 1). This decline is most likely due to natural secular trends and MenB cases are expected to increase again at some point in the future (as seen with MenB and MenC in the mid-1990s), due to, for example, the introduction of a new MenB strain into the population. The burden of meningococcal disease is greatest in young children with half the cases currently diagnosed in those less than5 years of age. Infants (<1 year-old) have the highest number of cases and deaths due to MenB.5 After the 1st year of life, cases decline with age until adolescence where a smaller peak is observed (figure 2).
Development of vaccines against MenB has been difficult since its polysaccharide capsule is identical to saccharides which decorate fetal neural cell adhesion molecules and are, therefore, poorly immunogenic self-antigens.6 Previous attempts at making meningococcal vaccines using subcapsular antigens have been hampered by poor immunogenicity and/or antigenic variability of the antigens, which has limited progress in the development of vaccines against highly diverse endemic MenB strains. Fifteen years ago, however, the first meningococcal genome sequence was used to predict meningococcal surface antigens and to construct three components of the four-component MenB vaccine, 4CMenB. The fourth component of the vaccine is an outer membrane vesicle (OMV) made by detergent extraction of meningococcal OMVs from a strain causing an extended outbreak in New Zealand. This latter component has been used as a stand-alone vaccine and successfully controlled the epidemic in New Zealand.7 When combined with the other three components, 4CMenB is predicted to cover 73–88% of MenB strains causing invasive disease in the UK.8 ,9
After more than a decade of clinical development, 4CMenB was licensed by the European Medicines Agency in early 2013. The potential use of the vaccine in the UK was considered by the Department of Health's Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI).10 The deliberations considered the safety and efficacy of the vaccine and noted the high case fatality ratio (CFR) and sequelae rate of the disease, highlighting the importance of controlling meningococcal disease for child health in the UK. The cost-effectiveness analysis for this relatively uncommon disease showed that the vaccine would only be cost-effective at a low vaccine price,11 and JCVI recommended the vaccine for introduction if such a price could be met. The negotiations with the manufacturer took a year to conclude and a programme was announced in June 2015.1
This much anticipated and ground-breaking programme commenced in autumn 2015, with a three-dose schedule of 4CMenB to be offered as part of the primary immunisation schedule at 2 months, 4 months and 12 months of age. When 4CMenB is administered with other routine infant immunisations, fever occurs in 51–61% of infants.12 Despite previous advice that paracetamol might interfere with the immune response to infant vaccines, a recent clinical trial showed that prophylactic paracetamol significantly reduces the rate and intensity of fever after vaccination with 4CMenB, without affecting the immune responses to any of the infant vaccines.13 Consequently, parents will be advised to give three doses of paracetamol when their infants receive 4CMenB as part of the infant schedule, with the first dose given with or as soon as possible after vaccination. Paediatricians should be aware that, in clinical trials, some postvaccination fevers resulted in attendance at medical facilities. A careful history of recent vaccination should be elicited; fever due to vaccination peaks at around 6 h and is unlikely to persist beyond 48 h. As with all fevers in infants, the potential for serious bacterial infection should be considered, even when temporally related to the vaccine.
Like MenC, 4CMenB was licensed on the basis of immunogenicity, although the OMV component has been shown to be efficacious against matching strains in New Zealand. A specific laboratory assay known as Meningococcal Antigen Typing System was developed as proxy for the existing correlate of protection, and this was used to predict the proportion of invasive MenB disease that might be preventable by 4CMenB.8 Consequently, there remains uncertainty about the precise level, breadth and duration of protection that will be induced by the new programme. The MenB implementation will be closely monitored by Public Health England with detailed follow-up of all laboratory-confirmed cases in children younger than 5 years. Acute and convalescent sera will be requested to assess immune responses to meningococcal disease in vaccinated and unvaccinated children. At the same time, meningococcal isolates and PCR-positive clinical samples will undergo genetic and molecular testing to determine whether or not they were potentially preventable by 4CMenB. The UK is, therefore, likely to be the first country to be able to determine vaccine effectiveness in the field. A detailed Public Health England surveillance plan for England is available online.1 The programme will be reviewed by JCVI and it is expected that the first reliable indications will become available around 2 years after implementation. The infant programme is expected to provide direct protection for vaccinated children but will provide limited indirect (herd) protection as infants are not thought primarily responsible for carriage and transmission of meningococci. Further work is being undertaken to assess the potential for an adolescent MenB programme that, like the MenC immunisation programme, might induce direct and indirect protection, but requires large-scale carriage studies and several years to gather the information required to support such a programme.
Rates of meningococcal disease vary over time as a result of complex interactions between population immunity and the meningococcal bacteria, driven by the arrival and eventual disappearance of various clones with differing potential for causing disease. During the 1990s, a specific clone, part of the ST-11 complex, and bearing the MenC polysaccharide capsule, caused a large increase in invasive disease and was associated with a high CFR. The response to this increase was the accelerated development and introduction of the MenC vaccine.14 The subsequent control of MenC disease in the UK has acted as a model for other countries and for other vaccines, including the recent deployment of conjugate vaccination against group A meningococci in Africa.15
Until recently in the UK, MenW has been a rare cause of meningococcal disease, accounting for less than 5% of all cases across all age groups.5 In the early 2000s, an international outbreak of MenW disease associated with pilgrimage to the Hajj was terminated by the introduction of mandatory MenACWY vaccination for all pilgrims.16 Since 2009, however, there has been a year-on-year increase in the number of MenW cases in England, from 19 in the 2008/2009 epidemiological year to 176 in 2014/2015, accounting for a quarter of all laboratory-confirmed meningococcal cases in that year (figure 3). The emergent MenW strain belongs to the highly virulent ST-11 clonal complex that was responsible for the UK MenC outbreak in the 1990s and is genetically identical to MenW strains currently causing large national outbreaks in South America.2 In England, MenW cases are being diagnosed across all regions and all age groups. Most MenW cases are diagnosed in previously healthy individuals who have not travelled abroad, indicating that this strain is now established as endemic, and who may develop severe clinical disease often requiring intensive care support. Moreover, the clinical presentation has sometimes been atypical, with septic arthritis and severe respiratory tract infections (including pneumonia, epiglottitis and supraglottitis) being over-represented among MenW cases compared with other meningococcal groups. Several adolescents and young adults with MenW septicaemia presented primarily with gastrointestinal symptoms and progressed rapidly to death without having the characteristic non-blanching rash. A consequence of such atypical presentations is that meningococcal disease is not considered in the differential diagnosis until a positive culture becomes available, potentially leading to delays in diagnosis, offering chemoprophylaxis to close contacts and identifying clusters and local outbreaks.
The alarming rise in MenW cases probably reflects the virulence properties of the ST-11 clonal complex. In South America, the MenW CFR was 27%.17 In the UK, since its arrival, MenW CFR has been more than double (12%) that seen with MenB disease over the same period (<5%), and similar to that observed with the MenC ST-11 clonal complex outbreak in the UK in the 1990s.18
Fortunately an effective vaccine for MenW already exists as part of multicomponent conjugate vaccines that also protect against group A, C, W and Y meningococci (MenACWY). Like the MenC conjugates, these vaccines contain the capsular polysaccharides of these four meningococcal capsular groups chemically conjugated to tetanus toxoid, CRM197 or diphtheria toxoid (diphtheria toxoid conjugate only available in the USA). In February 2015, the Department of Health accepted JCVI's advice that the vaccine should be used to control the rapid increase in the number of MenW cases. From 1st August 2015, the MenACWY conjugate vaccine will be offered to adolescents aged 14–18 years because this age group experiences a high attack rate, and, as with MenC, teenagers and young adults have the highest carriage rates and are considered to be responsible for driving transmission.19 The JCVI considered it highly likely that vaccinating individuals in this age group will result in wide population protection and eventual control of MenW. Because the MenACWY conjugate vaccine also protects against MenC disease, it will replace the MenC conjugate vaccine currently in the routine adolescent programme from late 2015 to maintain long-term population control of MenC.
The adolescent MenACWY conjugate vaccine will be introduced as rapidly as possible given the constraints in vaccine supply. The whole 14–18 year old cohort should be offered the vaccine during 2015–2017 (table 1). The proposed programme will:
Prioritise the current school year 13-year-olds (17–18 year olds) for vaccination through general practice in order to protect those entering higher education settings such as universities in the next academic year because 1st year undergraduate students, especially those living in university halls of residence, are at significantly higher risk of meningococcal disease than non-students.20 ,21
Replace MenC with MenACWY vaccination in the existing time-limited ‘freshers’ programme (ie, for older first-time university entrants who have not already received MenACWY through school year 13) through general practice.
Replace MenC with MenACWY vaccination in the routine adolescent schools programme (school year 9 or 10) from autumn 2015.
Include a catch-up campaign for current school year 10 students through schools from January 2016.
Plan subsequent catch-up campaigns to cover the current school years 11 and 12 when these students reach year 13.
The introduction of the MenB vaccine for infants may also provide some protection against MenW, since one of the components of 4CMenB vaccine (neisserial adhesion A, NadA) is found on the surface of the emergent MenW ST-11 clonal complex (unpublished observations). The MenB programme may, therefore, provide some protection for infants and toddlers until population control is established through the herd protection engendered by the adolescent programme.
Currently, the MenC conjugate vaccination programme consists of a dose at 3 months, 12 months (in a Haemophilus influenzae type b/MenC combination) and 13–14 years of age. Once the MenACWY programme and MenB programmes are fully established, it may be possible to drop the infant dose at 3 months because MenC disease is rare in infants, the adolescent MenACWY programme will maintain herd protection for the population and the infant MenB programme may also offer some protection against other meningococcal capsular groups, including MenC. The current programme with these recent changes can be found here: (https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/465880/9406_PHE_2015_Routine_Childhood_Immunisation_Schedule_12.pdf).
Because of the established enhanced national surveillance in place to monitor the MenC programme over the past two decades, the UK is in a unique position to evaluate the impact of both new programmes. The implementation of a comprehensive programme against capsular groups A, B, C, W and Y meningococci is a huge step forward for child health in the UK. While the full extent will not be known for several years, these programmes have the potential to have a major impact on the incidence of meningococcal disease across the whole population.
Meningococcal B (MenB) vaccination programme Public Health England. https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/meningococcal-b-menb-vaccination-programme (First published 30 June 2015)
Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, 2014 https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/294245/JCVI_Statement_on_MenB.pdf
Contributors All of the authors contributed equally to the development and final review of the manuscript.
Competing interests AJP is Chair of the Department of Health's Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation. AJP has previously conducted research on meningococcal vaccines on behalf of the University of Oxford funded by vaccine manufacturers but no longer does so, and has not received any personal payments from manufacturers. RB performs contract research on behalf of Public Health England for GSK, Novartis, Pfizer and Sanofi Pasteur but receives no personal remuneration. SNL performs contract research on behalf of Public Health England and St. George's University of London for vaccine manufacturers but receives no personal remuneration. JMW is the deputy chief medical officer at the Department of Health.
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Definitions for Universal
ˌyu nəˈvɜr səlUni·ver·sal
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word Universal.
universal, linguistic universalnoun
(linguistics) a grammatical rule (or other linguistic feature) that is found in all languages
universal, universal propositionnoun
(logic) a proposition that asserts something of all members of a class
a behavioral convention or pattern characteristic of all members of a particular culture or of all human beings
"some form of religion seems to be a human universal"
universal joint, universaladjective
coupling that connects two rotating shafts allowing freedom of movement in all directions
"in motor vehicles a universal joint allows the driveshaft to move up and down as the vehicle passes over bumps"
cosmopolitan, ecumenical, oecumenical, general, universal, worldwide, world-wideadjective
of worldwide scope or applicability
"an issue of cosmopolitan import"; "the shrewdest political and ecumenical comment of our time"- Christopher Morley; "universal experience"
applicable to or common to all members of a group or set
"the play opened to universal acclaim"; "rap enjoys universal appeal among teenage boys"
adapted to various purposes, sizes, forms, operations
"universal wrench", "universal chuck"; "universal screwdriver"
A characteristic or property that particular things have in common.
Of or pertaining to the universe.
Common to all members of a group or class.
Common to all society; world-wide
She achieved universal fame.
Cosmic; unlimited; vast; infinite
Useful for many purposes, e.g., universal wrench.
Etymology: From universalis.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Etymology: universalis, Lat.
All sorrowed: if all the world could have seen’t, the woe had been universal. William Shakespeare, Winter Tale.
Appetite, an universal wolf,
So doubly seconded with will and power,
Must make perforce an universal prey,
And last eat up itself. William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida.
This excellent epistle, though, in the front of it, it bears a particular inscription, yet in the drift of it is universal, as designing to convince all mankind of the necessity of seeking for happiness in the gospel. South.
From harmony, from heav’nly harmony,
This universal frame began. Dryden.
From things particular
She doth abstract the universal kinds. Davies.
An universal was the object of imagination, and there was no such thing in reality. Scriblerus Club .
The whole; the general system of the universe. Not in use.
To what end had the angel been set to keep the entrance into paradise after Adam’s expulsion, if the universal had been paradise. Walter Raleigh, Hist. of the World.
Plato calleth God the cause and original, the nature and reason of the universal. Walter Raleigh.
of or pertaining to the universe; extending to, including, or affecting, the whole number, quantity, or space; unlimited; general; all-reaching; all-pervading; as, universal ruin; universal good; universal benevolence or benefice
constituting or considered as a whole; total; entire; whole; as, the universal world
adapted or adaptable to all or to various uses, shapes, sizes, etc.; as, a universal milling machine
forming the whole of a genus; relatively unlimited in extension; affirmed or denied of the whole of a subject; as, a universal proposition; -- opposed to particular; e. g. (universal affirmative) All men are animals; (universal negative) No men are omniscient
the whole; the general system of the universe; the universe
a general abstract conception, so called from being universally applicable to, or predicable of, each individual or species contained under it
a universal proposition. See Universal, a., 4
In metaphysics, a universal is what particular things have in common, namely characteristics or qualities. In other words, universals are repeatable or recurrent entities that can be instantiated or exemplified by many particular things. For example, suppose there are two chairs in a room, each of which is green. These two chairs both share the quality of "being a chair," as well as greenness or the quality of being green. Metaphysicians call this quality that they share a "universal." There are three major kinds of qualities or characteristics: types or kinds, properties, and relations. These are all different types of universal. The noun "universal" contrasts with "individual", while the adjective "universal" contrasts with "particular". Paradigmatically, universals are abstract, whereas particulars are concrete. However, universals are not necessarily abstract and particulars are not necessarily concrete. For example, one might hold that numbers are particular yet abstract objects. Likewise, some philosophers, such as D.M. Armstrong, consider universals to be concrete. Most do not consider classes to be universals, although some prominent philosophers do, such as John Bigelow.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
ū-ni-vėr′sal, adj. comprehending, affecting, or extending to the whole: comprising all the particulars: applied to a great variety of uses.—n. a universal proposition, a general term, a universal concept.—n. Universalisā′tion.—v.t. Univer′salise.—ns. Univer′salism, the doctrine or belief of universal salvation, or the ultimate salvation of all mankind, and even of the fallen angels; Univer′salist, a believer in universalism.—adj. pertaining to such beliefs.—adj. Universalist′ic.—n. Universal′ity, state or quality of being universal.—adv. Univer′sally.—n. Univer′salness.—adj. Universan′imous, of one mind. [L. universalis—universus.]
Applicable to every human being
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is applicable to everyone on planet earth.Submitted by MaryC on April 11, 2020
Relating to the universe.
The universal truth is that we are one humanity creating together for the benefit of all humanity, animals and nature.Submitted by MaryC on February 15, 2020
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Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'Universal' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3631
Rank popularity for the word 'Universal' in Adjectives Frequency: #495
The numerical value of Universal in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
The numerical value of Universal in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
All of these things mean everything to me because without that I wouldn't be standing here( without arts education), and it's something that is universal -- and vaguely political, but not really.
Is any man afraid of change? What can take place without change? What then is more pleasing or more suitable to the universal nature? And can you take a hot bath unless the wood for the fire undergoes a change? And can you be nourished unless the food undergoes a change? And can anything else that is useful be accomplished without change? Do you not see then that for yourself also to change is just the same, and equally necessary for the universal nature?
Universal human rights is the most precious jewel of humanity. Most of it is buried in the mud. It is our responsibility to uncover it and make a safe and beautiful world free from discriminations and inequalities.
Hong Kong is facing a structural problem, unless we have true universal suffrage, and can use our surpluses to have genuine reform in terms of the social welfare system as well as the education system...a one-time sweetener won't help alleviate the anger of Hong Kong people.
We should create a free constitution, compatible with universal values.
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- všestranný, univerzálníCzech
- universell, allgemein, Universal-German
- yleispätevä, yleismaailmallinen, yleis-Finnish
- universel, universelleFrench
- uilechoiteann, comhchoiteannIrish
- inivèsèlHaitian Creole
- 전세계의, 우주의Korean
- sejagat, universalMalay
- космический, всеобщий, универсальный, глобальный, всесторонний, вселенский, общечеловеческий, всемирныйRussian
- universal-, universellSwedish
- phổ cậpVietnamese
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In a clear statement of “sovereignty never ceded” the Victorian-based Taungurung Land and Waters Council (TLaWC) unveiled and raised its sovereign flag at an event on Friday the 7th of May.
While the design of the flag was initially shared publicly in late 2020, Friday marked the first time that it has been officially raised.
During a ceremony at the Council’s offices in Broadford, situated an hour’s drive north of the Melbourne CBD, around 60 people, many of whom were Taungurung Elders and community members, joined together to witness the flying of the first Victorian Traditional Owner flag.
“This flag is a powerful step in the direction of asserting sovereignty on [our] Country,” TLaWC CEO Matthew Burns told Connection Matters Radio (CMR). “It is a further step towards unity.
“Since mob came back in 2003 to recommence the progression of collective interests, we have been re-integrating ourselves with Country and taking responsibility for Country.”
Mr Burns went on to state that the flag is a symbol of the path along which the Taungurung people are treading in their journey to heal Country and knowledge.
A massive response
The flag’s uniquely asymmetrical design, which was selected from an initial submission response of 36 designs, is the work of Taungurung Elder Aunty Loraine Padgham.
In speaking to CMR about the flag, Aunty Loraine said that it helped represent the Taungurung strength and leadership within the Kulin nation, a traditional alliance of five Traditional Owner nations across south central Victoria.
“The flag shows that we are moving forward and making a name for ourselves,” she said.
When asked about the seven stars on the flag, Aunty Loraine explained: “They represent the Pleiades constellation, which is known throughout the Kulin nation as the Seven Sisters. It forms part of our dreaming and is recognised throughout all Aboriginal communities across the country.”
Also in attendance at the raising of the flag was Victorian Attorney General Jaclyn Symes, MLC. Ms Symes, who is based in Broadford, has represented the Victorian Northern Region in the State’s Upper House since 2014.
When asked by CMR about the Victorian State Government’s reaction to the Taungurung statement that the flag represented sovereignty over Country, the Attorney General said: “For me, it’s about acknowledging the Registered Aboriginal Party here in the region.
“Obviously they work very well with government on advancing the rights of their people and I think a symbol of their identity is very welcome.”
Protecting the flag for the future
With Australia still coming to grips with the restrictions placed upon use of the Harold Thomas-designed Aboriginal flag, the TLaWC ensured it fairly gained rights for the flag in perpetuity.
“When we opened this up for community designs we made it very clear that there was going to be a $10,000 prize,” Mr Burns said. “And with that they [the winning artist] would be signing over the rights to be held by the Taungurung Land and Waters Council.” | <urn:uuid:bdb9d181-dd8a-49aa-a28c-8c3606eaa7d1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://vicaboriginalnews.com.au/2021-05-23/taungurung-unfurls-its-flag-of-sovereignty-and-unity/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.963304 | 680 | 1.710938 | 2 |
Cat cartoons are always popular with children and adults alike. For as long as i can remember i have been watching one sort of cat or another being chased, plotting, flying through the air or just being plain cute on my TV screen. I bet you can say the same.
These are my favourite cartoon cat characters of all time. I know there are lots more but these seem to me to represent all the many forms of animated kitties who have delighted us over the years. I hope you find your favourite one too.
Simon's cat is a modern day internet phenomenon. His popularity ahs spread worldwide simply through short little online videos.
Simon's cat is another cat with no name other than his owners.
For me Simon's cat is a winner simply because his behaviour mimics real life cats so much and so we can all identify with him. He loves nothing more than to chase birds in the garden, his ball in the house and to explore every nook and cranny of his world.
Simon's cat has to be my current favourite cartoon character and I love to read through his books and watch his cartoons to cheer myself up.
These UK TV cat cartoons ran for five series during the 1980's. Oddly enough the main character, a yellow cat does not have a name but is simply known as Henry's cat. However you never see Henry and in fact the cat seems not to have an owner at all.
This is a sweet little children's series which is simply drawn and has a similar feel to another great British Cartoon called Roobarb and Custard, which isn't surprising really as it was made by the same people.
Here is a short episode for you to enjoy.
Ok this is a weird cat cartoon to feature but i thought he had to be there as he is a bit of a modern phenomena. Scratchy is a rather strange looking cat carton that first featured within the Simpsons cartoon. He is part of a double act with a mouse called Itchy whose only role seems to kill Scratchy.
So this started as a cartoon within a cartoon which was watched y the cartoon Simpson kids. However ITCHY AND Scratchy's popularity grew and there have now been several short cartoons made just featuring them.
This is rather a violent cartoon which is based on the slapstick humour of Tom and Jerry but in a much more modern and violent way, presumably to suit the modern tastes of kids today. If you ask me I much prefer Tom and Jerry but hey! Each to their own.
Top cat also known as T.C was the leader of a gang of alley cats ( Spook, Benny, Brain, Chow Chow and Fancy - Fancy) living in New York.
T.C is a ducker and diver and a very smart cat who leads his gang in many plots to make a quick buck from unsuspecting people. Like all god cartoons there has to be a villain of the piece and this is Officer Dibble whose job it is to stop T.C and the gang from living in the alley and conning money from people. You would think that we would be on the side of the policeman but no, the lovable rogues in the gang are harmless and you always end up hoping that T.C comes out on top, which he always does.
This is one of the great cat cartoons even though only 30 episodes were made between 1981 to 1962.
The lisp speaking, cunning Sylvester the cat has been with us since 1945 via the Looney Tunes cartoons. He is a large domestic black and white cat who spends his day planning how to capture and eat his mistresses other favourite pet, Tweety pie, a yellow caged bird.
Of course although he comes up with many cunning plans Tweety always seems to be one step ahead and poor old Sylvester always ends up being put outside by his owner.
Other characters which feature with Sylvester and Tweety are Porky pig , Speedy gonzalas and Hippety Hopper.
Sylvester had his very own catch phase which he used whenever he was thwarted in his plans, it was " Suffering Succotash".
DID YOU KNOW - Sylvester has died the most out of all of the Looney Tunes characters over the years. But never mind in cartoon world they always come back to life again.
Everyone must know the Tom and Jerry cartoons. They were a big part of my growing up and I must admit I didn't much like Tom, I thought he was very nasty chasing poor jerry all the time. But he always came out worse so I guess I should have felt sorry for him.
DID YOU KNOW - Tom was first called Jasper in his first appearance .
Tom and Jerry were created by the Hanna Barbera Company for MGM and between 1940 and 1957 produced 114 cat cartoons. To this day new cartoons and films are still made by various other film companies. The cartoon is based on the rivalry of Tom the cat and Jerry the mouse, with slapstick comedy used to create the drama.
Tom and Jerry has to be one of the worlds most popular and longest running cat cartoons ever. With merchandise still sold to this day and the cartoons still viewed by millions of children every year.
Felix the cat is probably the oldest cat cartoon ever, appearing first in the silent film period. He is a simply drawn black and white cat with a big grin who gets into all sorts of adventures.
Over the years Felix's appearance has change quite a lot from the original drawings but even so he is still easily recognisable as Felix the cat.
His image has continued to be featured on all sorts of products even to this day and the name Felix is so associated with a black and white cat that even a brand of cat food has been branded after the name.
Hands up if you remember Snaggle puss? I must admit i only have a vague memory of him myself. Although not stricky a pussy cat he is a mountain lion be it a pink one.
Snaggle puss first appeared in a Hanna Barnara cartoon in 1959. He often appeared in the Yogi bear cartoons and often exclaimed "heavens to Mrgatroyd".
DID YOU KNOW - Snagglepuss was originally called Snaggletooth and was orange not Pink.
Stimpy is a fat strange looking cat who is rather stupid. He appears in his own cartoon series called Ren and Stimpy with his psychotic friend Ren a Chihuahua.
DID YOU KNOW - Stimpy is named after one of the creators art school classmates who was known as Stimpy. We can only hope that his classmate only shares the cartoons name.
Stimpy appears to enjoy scientific experiments and often creates strange and often dangerous devices. He also loves the smell of fresh cat litter, well who doesn't.
(Personal note - my own two rescue cats were called Ren and Stimpy in the cat shelter when we took them home. We quickly changed them to Byron and Shelley, much more fitting names we think for our two very intelligent kitties).
Bagpuss is probably best known in the UK, but for any of you who don't know him, he is certainly a cat you want to get to know. He is a lovable, kind and gentle saggy cloth cat who has the ability to magically turn stories into reality.
Bagpuss was created for a stop animation television series of the same name and was produced in 1974. Even though only 13 episodes were made it has become one of the UK's most fondly remembered children's series.
Let me introduce Bagpuss to you. He is a soft toy who belongs to a child called Emily who likes to find and bring home broken things so that they can displayed in a shop window so that the owners can come and find them again.
When Emily leaves the shop, Bagpuss come alive along with some of his friends ( carved mice on a church organ, a rag doll, a banjo playing from and wooden woodpecker called professor Yaffle) and they try to work out what the broken thing is and repair it.
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Cusack, P, McAndrew, SL, Cusack, FPB and Warne, AR 2016, 'Restraining good practice : reviewing evidence of the effects of restraint from the perspective of service users and mental health professionals in the United Kingdom (UK)' , International Journal of Law and Psychiatry .
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Safeguarding, balancing the concept of risk with the need for public protection and its implication for the lives of individuals, is an important facet of contemporary mental health care. Integral to safeguarding is the protection of human rights; the right to live free from torture, inhuman or degrading treatment, and having the right to liberty, security, respect and privacy. Professionals are required to recognise all of these rights when delivering care to vulnerable people. In the United Kingdom (UK) there has been growing public concern regarding abusive practices in institutions, with a number of unacceptable methods of restraint being identified as a feature of care, particularly mental health care. In keeping with the service user movement, and following a review of the literature, this paper discusses the evidence regarding restraint from the perspectives of service users and professionals within mental health services and considers the implications for future practice and research. In reviewing the literature findings revealed restraint can be a form of abuse, it’s inappropriate use often being a consequence of fear, neglect and lack of using de-escalation techniques. Using restraint in this way can have negative implications for the well-being of service users and mental health professionals alike.
|Schools:||Schools > School of Nursing, Midwifery, Social Work & Social Sciences > Centre for Nursing, Midwifery, Social Work & Social Sciences Research|
|Journal or Publication Title:||International Journal of Law and Psychiatry|
|Funders:||Non funded research|
|Depositing User:||SL McAndrew|
|Date Deposited:||22 Apr 2016 08:32|
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It has long been recognized that affected people must play an active role in decisions that affect their lives. Yet recent evaluations show that this is an area where the humanitarian sector is still lagging behind. There are few examples of systems that systematically capture the views and feedback from affected people, ensure they inform decision-making, and close the “feedback loop.” Many are not handling reports of sexual exploitation, abuse, and harassment appropriately, risking dangerous breaches of confidentiality. This webinar will be looking at some of the existing good practices, and at plans to scale them up and strengthen complaints and feedback mechanisms.
About the event series on accountability and inclusion
Progress has been made, but the humanitarian system – as a whole – is not accountable to the communities it serves. To help practitioners understand the current state of accountability to affected populations (AAP) and how they can be part of strengthening accountability and inclusion, PHAP is organizing a series of events together with the IASC Results Group on Accountability & Inclusion. Join us for four webinars touching on different aspects of accountability and inclusion, bringing together global and local perspectives:
- Implementing collective accountability to affected populations
- Navigating guidance on accountability and inclusion
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- Complaints and feedback mechanisms
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Along with the rapid development of science and technology, numerical control machine tool technology is increasingly far away, now woodworking engraving machine technology has very mature, not only on line carve, lettering, hollow out velocity accuracy, is a significant effect on relief, stereo carve ascension, have with artificial or indifference, even higher than artificial accuracy, but the speed gap is heaven and in earth.Woodworking engraving machine factory home in the country less say also have 100, but the engraving machine that each manufacturer place produces is different, this basically is reflected in exterior and configuration, when the customer is in woodworking engraving machine of choose and buy, must ask clear the configuration of engraving machine, otherwise, the manufacturer will take you when novice to cheat!Do not mention here after sales and price, but from the quality, wood engraving machine is good or configuration to calculate!
1: spindle motor brand and power spindle motor famous brands abroad have Italy HSD spindle motor power size is 1.5, 2.2, 3.0, 3.7, 4.0, 4.5 kw or more, the power of different size corresponds to the different application field, is given priority to with relief, you can choose to 1.5 or 2.2 kw, give priority to with cutting, cutting, 3.0 kw to 9 kw is the direction of the customer to choose.
2: guide: guide to the influence of woodworking engraving machine is mainly on the accuracy and the machine life, famous brand have Taiwan Hiwin and Yintai, said the second circle and square rail, but the circle is now very few people to use, the guide rail has 20, 25, 30, 30 guide rail is best, but the general woodworking engraving machine configuration is 25 guide rail.
3: fixture and vacuum adsorption: woodworking engraving machine fixed materials there are two ways :1 is fixture, 2 is vacuum adsorption, vacuum adsorption table convenient material, this is an advantage, the disadvantage is high power consumption.
4: drives and motors: most manufacturers choose is ray brand drive, this also is the domestic well-known brand, abroad have Japan yaskawa, this involves the workings of a woodworking engraving machine, stepper OR servo, if you have been communicating with multiple manufacturers, then you should know than stepping on the precision of servo system.
5: Frequency converter: The famous frequency converter is Fuling. The frequency converter of week engraving machine is driven by the motor of the main shaft of engraving machine. The main requirements are stable operation and smooth change of speed.The full speed fluctuation is small, the low speed moment is big, may guarantee the low speed cutting.
6: structure of lathe bed, bed have a light of lathe bed and heavy lathe bed, said the choice of this part is mainly aimed at the woodworking engraving machine will because when carving carving and shaking, most woodworking engraving machine Z axis stroke is 200 mm, but for some special industries such as: coffin coffin, must choose heavy body.
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is very important more than six parts, woodworking carving machine is good relied on these parts being driven, so before buying woodworking engraving machine, be sure to ask these configuration, these things seem complicated, actually not much, also to home after wood carving factory, will soon be able to familiar with, oneself also can get a sense of judgment | <urn:uuid:7c5cc48a-c58f-4be4-bd54-5337d6c70ca2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.acctekgroup.com/Industry_news/How_to_choose_a_cnc_router_1313.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00271.warc.gz | en | 0.931096 | 743 | 1.789063 | 2 |
Srinagar: With the onset of the Chilai Kalan a forty day long of biting cold, the valley of Kashmir is facing the crisis of the basic facilties of life like water, electricity and the basic connectivity of transport. Chilai kalan has brought many problems to every class of people and in every corner of the valley
People allege that if the administration had been ready for the crisis then we would not have seen these problems. Unfortunately, the power shortage in Kashmir coincides with the arrival of the chilai kalan. In 21st century we are facing a shortage of basic facilities. In evening hours the transport connectivity to the peripheral areas of the Srinagar disappear from the roads and mischievous drivers are demanding the high fare rate in the evening hours
Shakeel Ahmad a local commuter said ‘’ it is very difficult for us to find a cab, during the late hours of the day, the buses and other vehicles usually disappear after the 4 pm and we have to go back to the home on foot ‘’
Meanwhile, we tried to contact the RTO Srinagar but he was not available to talk on the issue.
Reports are coming to KNB from different areas of the valley that due to the freezing of the water pipelines the people are facing tremendous problems, now they are demanding the alternative for its
‘’As the water pipelines are frozen and the waters supply is halted, the PHE department should send the water tanker to the affected areas as the alternative ‘’ another local from Alusteng area said
Talking to the KNB chief engineer PHE Abdul Wahid said ‘’ we will look into the matter immediately and will direct the staff to look at the genuine grievances of people as soon as possible, besides the people should take care of their private connections and protect them from freezing ,he added alternative tankers will be sent to the areas having the severe water scarcity”. | <urn:uuid:b46d48ec-6d5a-4242-b621-4d46cdbd688a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thedispatch.in/chillai-kalan-in-kashmir-locals-suffer-with-the-lack-of-basic-amenities/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.964093 | 401 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Correction: A headline that appeared in print versions of this article incorrectly described the West Bank as disputed Israeli territory. The territory is occupied by Israel, with some areas under control of the Palestinian Authority. This version has been corrected.
PSAGOT, West Bank — The boutique wine varieties produced in this Israeli settlement east of Ramallah are sold at quality stores at home and abroad and have garnered top prizes in local and international competitions.
The labels on the bottles say they are from Psagot, Israel, containing wine produced from vineyards planted on ancient limestone terraces in the “northern Jerusalem hills” and aged in French oak barrels stored in an ancient cave.
Yaakov Berg, the energetic founder and chief executive of Psagot Winery, says he is reviving the winemaking traditions of his biblical forefathers, and he shrugs off suggestions that the labels mask the wine’s origin in an Israeli settlement in the West Bank.
“This is a geographical definition, not political,” he says of the reference to the Jerusalem hills. “When it comes to wine, the geographical area is critical, like Napa Valley” in California. As for the reference to Israel, Berg said that he is subject to Israeli law and that his winery is built on state land.
Psagot wine and other goods produced in West Bank settlements have been thrust into the limelight since July 11, when the Israeli parliament enacted a hotly contested law that imposes penalties for publicly calling for a boycott against Israel or its settlements. The controversy is the latest in a long-running debate over the settlement enterprise, which opponents say is a stumbling block to a two-state solution to the conflict with the Palestinians.
Under the law, individuals, organizations or companies promoting a boycott of settlement products face lawsuits, denial of tax exemptions and other benefits from the state, and exclusion from bids for government work. The law protects a range of goods produced at the settlements, from food and beverages to cosmetics, plastics and furniture.
The law entitles Berg to sue individuals or groups that call for a boycott of his wine and to claim damages in court, a move he says he is considering. Since the passage of the bill, he said, some customers have told him that they would shun his product because it comes from a settlement, but others have put in more orders in a show of solidarity.
Critics of the legislation have responded with defiant calls to boycott settlement products, and civil rights groups are planning to challenge it in the Supreme Court as unconstitutional, arguing that penalizing calls for a boycott is a violation of free speech.
The anti-settlement group Peace Now named Psagot wine and other settlement products in an ad campaign to boycott them, linking their purchase to support of the settlers. The group is also promoting a Facebook drive — “Sue me, I boycott settlement products!” — that has drawn nearly 8,500 supporters and is intended to encourage mass disobedience of the law.
“For now, the law has had a boomerang effect, heightening the debate over the settlements,” said Hagit Ofran, a Peace Now leader, adding that the sponsors of the bill “managed to get many people angry.”
Hagai El-Ad, executive director of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, which is leading the planned court challenge, called it “a clear-cut freedom-of-speech case.” El-Ad said Israelis have used boycotts as a legitimate protest tool on a variety of issues, most recently to force a lowering of the price of cottage cheese. “Why should it be legal to boycott cottage cheese, but illegal to boycott the occupation?” he said.
The law was sponsored by Zeev Elkin, a member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party, which has long supported the settlement effort as a rightful claim to the biblical Jewish homeland. Netanyahu told parliament last week that he approved the legislative initiative himself.
In a telephone interview, Elkin said that while Israel is fighting boycott calls against it abroad, it had failed to take action against similar calls inside the country. The purpose of the law, he said, is to provide legal recourse to people harmed by boycott campaigns that targeted them because of where they happen to live.
“It is legally prohibited to discriminate on the basis of religion, race, gender or nationality. Choice of residence is a basic right,” Elkin said. “I’m all for public debate, but the struggle can’t be waged on the backs of citizens.”
At the Psagot winery, Berg said his business was flourishing, with more than 100,000 bottles produced annually from the harvest of settlement vineyards across the West Bank. Along with boutique wine varieties like Berg’s, settlers have carved out a niche of organic food products, including mushrooms, goat cheese, olive oil and free-range eggs, which are sold in stores and served in restaurants across Israel.
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