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When we think of the brilliant flora and fauna of planet Earth, the usual suspects tend to come to mind, such as the great intelligence of dolphins, or elephants, and even, humbly speaking, ourselves.
Mushrooms, it’s probably fair to say, aren’t famed for their intelligence. For many, they’re controversial pizza toppings or dangerous poisonous horrors (not the same variety though, hopefully), and not much else. As it turns out, we’re not giving them nearly enough credit.
Astonishingly, the famed Koko the gorilla could use a vocabulary of more than 1,000 signs. Perhaps even more astonishingly, though, scientists believe that certain mushrooms may be able to communicate between themselves too, using a supposed vocabulary of 50 words!
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Mushrooms have always been fascinating case studies, thanks to their unique and potentially terrifying properties. The dreaded death cap mushroom, for instance, is so toxic that it causes sickness severe enough to cause irreparable damage to the cells in mere hours. Half of those poisoned by the death cap die, a fate that, in 1534, befell Pope Clement VII.
Mushrooms, clearly, are not to be underestimated. Particularly not now that we know they seem to be communicating with each other.
Fungi are often much more than what we see. In 1998, the largest known organism on the planet was discovered. At a reportedly four square miles large, how was it not discovered sooner? Because we didn’t know that what appeared to be multiple fungi were actually all a part of the same whole!
Believed to be up to 8,650 years old, the Armillaria ostoyae is found in the Blue Mountains of Oregon. Scientists tested samples in the region and found that they were related, part of one gigantic organism! Also known as the “Humongous Fungus,” the Armillaria ostoyae was connected through a string of hyphae that made up many small parts of the singular organism. It is through these small varied connections that the gigantic organism is able to thrive.
Now, you won’t hear tiny mushrooms talking away to each other at night in shady forests (that would truly be the stuff of nightmares), but through the magic of electric impulses, it seems they’re talking all the same!
Mysterious Mushroom Messages
UWE Bristol’s Andrew Adamatzky studied these impulses in several varieties of mushrooms. For the study, split gill, ghost, enoki, and caterpillar fungi were used. Data was collected via the use of electrodes, which were placed among the “roots” of this curious assortment of mushroom varieties. It was discovered that the pulses were not random but ordered. In a sophisticated fashion, in fact, to the degree that the coordination suggested the fungi were talking.
The pertinent question would be: What exactly do mushrooms talk about?
They often seem to be quite solitary organisms, revelling in the dark and the damp, but it seems that their primary concerns may be those shared by all forms of life: keeping themselves safe through warnings of danger and detecting something tasty and nutritious that may be within reach!
In April 2022, Adamatzky published the study titled “Language of fungi derived from their electrical spiking activity.” In research performed on the human brain, spikes in such activity and the region in which these spikes occur, can and have told us many things about how our own minds work.
Adamatzky, apparently being a rather fun guy, took the outlandish step to apply similar methodology when examining the communication of the mushrooms.
“We found that spikes are often clustered into trains,” the scientist writes, which would suggest not just a lot of activity, but a lot of coordinated activity. At these times, it seems, the fungi had something vital to tell each other. Spikes varied in frequency and intensity between the different species, and the study strove to determine the meaning of these events.
To do this, the researchers considered the length of words and vowels in English. The average lengths of a vowel sound in the English language, per the report, is 0.3 seconds, and this peculiar data made for fascinating reading. The length of a word in the “fungi” language, it seems, is incredibly similar to the length of a word in human languages. The average English word length is 4.8 spikes (the unit of measurement used in the study), and the spikes in a C. militaris train number 4.7!
In sum, these mushrooms aren’t just speaking, but they’re speaking in a manner similar to human speech!
Protection Against Attackers
These disparate, yet connected, colonies, would need to have some way of communicating for their own survival. The study suggests that this is what they’re doing: should a single mushroom’s state change, perhaps if it’s threatened, then these trains alert the rest of the whole, with electrical impulses running along as they do in our own nervous system.
It sounds remarkable, and it is, but it’s not without precedent.
It is understood that plants can communicate and coordinate. Herbal plants will form connections through “runners” that can connect them in the same plant system. Radboud University’s Josef Stuefer tested the communication skills of a clover by investigating the behavior of caterpillars. When a caterpillar ate a leaf from one of the connected plants, the critters that followed them were more unwilling to consume more of the compromised plant.
Why? Because the clover had sent a sort of defensive distress signal in response to the initial attack!
Stuefer reported that this action created a chemical reaction, making the rest of the leaves tougher and less appetizing. “This is an early warning system, very much like in military defense,” the researcher said, “each member of the network can receive the external signal of impending herbivore danger and transmit it to the other members of the network.”
It seems reasonable to assume this is part of the purpose of mushrooms’ communication: identifying dangers and reacting to them. As Adamatzky concluded, though, there is still much to be learned before we can truly decode the mushroom language, how sophisticated it really is, and the roots of its true purpose.
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Ice forms when water freezes and turns solid. Snow is created when that ice forms crystals and falls from the sky. Though no two snowflakes are alike, nearly all of them have six sides.Continue Reading
Because it's solid with a crystalline structure, ice is actually considered a mineral. It's a mineral based on an atom of oxygen bonded covalently with two hydrogen atoms. Covalent bonding occurs when elements share electrons, instead of grabbing them from or giving them to one another. This gives ice many of its properties.
One property of ice is that it's less dense than water because of the way hydrogen bonds when the hexagonal crystals of ice are formed. Because of this, ice floats on water, which has immense consequences for the climate of the Earth.
Snowflakes are made when minuscule water droplets are super-cooled in a cloud. These droplets must get well below 0 degrees Fahrenheit for a snowflake to form. This is because water molecules or tiny bits of contaminants need to form a sort of nucleus for the snowflake to be built around, a process only possible at -31 degrees Fahrenheit.
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Gillian's Place is again asking the men of Niagara, "Are you man enough?"
The organization, which provides shelter, counselling and other services to assist abused women and children, is set to host its Walk a Mile in Her Shoes fundraiser on Saturday at The Pen Centre in St. Catharines.
Men are encouraged to participate in a symbolic march against societal restrictions placed on women, and specifically the issue of violence against women and children. The event is also aimed at showing men are willing to stand together with women in making the world a safer place.
All proceeds support Gillian's Place, which provides a 24-hour support line, safe shelter, safety planning, emotional support, legal advice, transitional assistance and public education. All services are free and completely confidential.
Executive director Tanja Loeb said Gillian's Place saw a 25 per cent increase in crisis shelter stays last year.
"This significant jump speaks to the critical need we are addressing in our Niagara community, and how important it is to ensure our services can handle the increase in demand," said Loeb. "When we stand together and send the message that this behaviour is not tolerated, we remind women that there are options outside of their abusive relationship."
There is still time to register for the walk at http://walkamileinhershoes.ca. Participants can walk individually or form a team to walk one mile at The Pen Centre. They are encouraged to collect pledges in support of Gillian's Place. This year's fundraising goal is $100,000, and as of Tuesday the organization had hit 55 per cent of its target.
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The Ecuadorean ambassador, Ana Alban, was forced to dash home to fetch a blow-up mattress for Assange to sleep on.
The same bodyguard, apparently bearing croissants, returns to fetch the never-married philandering leader the next morning.
At one point she talks of sending “the comrades” to fetch an ideological enemy.
The largest D color flawless diamond ever auctioned, the 101.73 carat jewel is expected to fetch at least $20 million.
Rhino horn is particularly lucrative—each kilogram can fetch up to $66,000.
Tommy, boy, fetch out the loaf and the cheese and the teapot.
"I'll fetch 'em as fast as you can nail 'em on," replied my willing assistant.
One day his sisters-in-law asked him to fetch them some water.
I told one of them idle bobbies to go and fetch him from Bloomsbury.
I wish you could send down your cart to fetch it from there to Padstow.
Old English feccan, apparently a variant of fetian, fatian "to fetch, bring near, obtain; induce; to marry," probably from Proto-Germanic *fatojanan (cf. Old Frisian fatia "to grasp, seize, contain," Old Norse feta "to find one's way," Middle Dutch vatten, Old High German sih faggon "to mount, climb," German fassen "to grasp, contain"). Variant form fet, a derivation of the older Old English version of the word, survived as a competitor until 17c. Related: Fetched; fetching.
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Is Monk Fruit Paleo?
If you’re anything like most people, you’ll read the title and think, “Oh, monk fruit. That’s great! …What’s a monk fruit?”
Monk fruit has been a hot topic in the Paleo community recently, as it may have potential as a new (and possibly Paleo!) sweetener. Monk fruit, also sometimes known as luo han guo, is a unique plant grown only in China. It got its name from the Buddhist Luo Han monks, who were some of the first to cultivate the fruit hundreds of years ago.
But with all of the toxic compounds and negative side effects associated with other artificial sweeteners, can monk fruit really be a part of the Paleo diet? Or is it just another Paleo no-go?
What you should know about monk fruit
Many people who have tasted monk fruit say that it tastes like chocolate or molasses, and its flavor isn’t the only thing that has people talking. The sweetness in monk fruit comes from a type of glycoside called mogrosides, and these mogrosides are full of antioxidants that help the body function healthily. Additionally, monk fruit helps to reduce oxidative stress on the body, so your body receives the support that it needs to function at full potential.
One study on the effects of monk fruit on the body showed no toxic effects; in fact, the animal subjects were given large amounts of the luo han guo sweetener (3g per kg of their body weight—on a 10lb dog, that’s 30g of sweetener!), yet they showed no ill effects and did not gain weight.
So then, what negative effects does monk fruit have? Aside from the rarity of its habitat (only in Guangxi, China), Paleo experts agree—it’s great!
What do other Paleo gurus say?
Mark Sisson says: “Legend has it that the monk fruit vine sustains its caretakers by enveloping them and transmitting pure life-force directly into their hearts. And if you have the climate to grow monk fruit, you might try setting up that whole symbiotic relationship/lifeforce exchange thing (perfect for people who telecommute). I’d say it’s worth a shot if you’re looking for a non-caloric, natural sweetener. Verdict: Primal.”
Jane Barthelemy says: “Luo Han Guo is a 100% natural Paleo sweetener. I suggest caution in buying Luo Han Guo as it is often mixed with other ingredients such as cane sugar or dextrose (a corn sugar), [but] I believe it to be a very good concentrated sweetener.”
So is monk fruit Paleo?
Monk fruit is a promising addition to the Paleo diet, offering sweetness and nutrition all in the same package. Be careful when buying in order to avoid monk fruit mixed with artificial sweeteners like corn. This brand on Amazon is pretty pure.
Some Paleo experts suggest Swanson as a good supplier of high-quality monk fruit extract (this brand on Amazon gets great reviews), and if you want to powder it yourself, ask any Chinese medicine herbalist for Plum Flower brand momordica fruit.
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Agilent Technologies introduced the recent version of the Agilent VEE graphical programming software for test and measurement at European Microwave Week 2008.
The recent version improves execution time, reduces programming effort, simplifies programme debugging and provides direct support of LXI devices and databases.
Multithreading and multicore programming capabilities result in fast performance. Multithreading, which is created by multiple execution threads, decreases runtime, enhances response time and accelerates input/output (I/O) throughput.
In a multicore PC, the new version of Agilent VEE, version 9.0, allocates individual execution threads to different CPU cores, increasing programme performance.
Auto-completion of SCPI commands simplifies programming and eliminates the need to memorise command syntax. Conditional breakpoints improve debugging and a breakpoints window lets the user to explore and control all programme breakpoints.
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Picture it, a luxury villa in Italy built for a goddess by a Roman emperor with the perfect seaview of the Amalfi Coast. Imagine it built over 2,000 years ago and you are still able to visit it today.
I had seen signs for Villa Oplontis many, many times while riding the ailing Circumvesuviana train between Sorrento and Napoli. The day I stepped off at Torre Annunziata was the day I stepped into a dream, the dream of Poppoea Sabina, thought to be the second wife of Nero. Wow, if she was the second wife, just imagine what the starter wife received?
The archaeological site sits off the beaten path, about 5 miles west of Pompei, and was buried by the infamous eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in August 79 A.D. However, in my opinion, an amateur archaeology buff, this Villa is more well-preserved than its more famous ancient neighbor.
After a short descent, you walk into a world of ancient wonder, where zebra stripes still line the walls of each hallway, where dinosaurs can be seen painted on the nursery walls and where the sacrificial altar still stands in the massive kitchen.
Sabina had every Italian luxury in the sprawling, open-plan vacation villa. Yes, this was her holiday home. Her bedroom had the perfect view of the Bay of Naples and the deadly Mt. Vesuvius (although a concrete seawall now protects the villa), while her baby nursery utilized an acoustically ground-breaking, non-electrical intercom.
Each room’s walls were painted with murals of the physical objects in that room or adjacent courtyards, with the artisans leaving behind a painted photograph of the ancient splendor. The open plan brought light into each darkened corner. It is an astonishing place to visit.
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Blind girl pole vaulter among the best in Texas ranks
AP Sports Writer
AUSTIN, Texas -- To see the world as 15-year-old Charlotte Brown does, imagine looking through a tiny straw. Strip away all color and depth perception from the pinhole view and use a right eye that can’t distinguish shape from shadow.
Now run about 80 feet, counting seven steps with your left foot before planting a nearly 13-foot pole in the ground to launch your body a dozen feet into the air.
That’s right. Brown is a pole vaulter. And despite being legally blind, she’s one of the best in Texas and a favorite to medal Saturday in Class 3A at the high school state championship meet at the University of Texas.
"I’ve always wanted to do stuff with adrenaline," Brown said Friday. "Most people think it’s crazy to pole vault. I’ve always just thought it would be lot of fun. I run full speed at a stationary object that I can’t see."
Brown is one of at least two legally blind pole vaulters competing for state titles this weekend. Aria Ottmueller, 17, of Chandler, Ariz., is competing in that state.
Brown, who lives in Emory, a town of 1,200 about 65 miles east of Dallas, was born with normal vision but developed cataracts when she was just 16 weeks old. That led to the first of several surgeries on her eyes, including insertion of artificial lenses. Her vision stabilized until she was about 11 when it started getting worse and doctors still have not been able to determine why. She reads Braille.
Despite the disability, she attacked athletics from an early age to keep up with two older brothers. There was even a time she was determined to play football.
"She wanted to play wide receiver," her father Ian Brown said. "So we went in the front yard and tossed the ball around. That’s when we decided that not being able to see the ball was a bit of a challenge."
Nothing else has stopped her. Brown runs cross country, where her teammates wear bells on their shoes to help lead her through the course. As a sprinter, she qualified for the state regional finals in the 100 and 200 meters. She runs inside, where it’s easiest to distinguish the light and dark contrast between the track and grassy infield to help her stay in her lane.
And until last season, she also played basketball, where she typically guarded the opposing point guard and had a tendency to deliver some hard fouls.
But pole vault requires special timing, balance, strength -- and courage -- to excel and it is difficult enough for someone with perfect vision to master. Ian Brown admits he was nervous the first time his daughter practiced the vault in 7th grade. He was sizing up the landing pit when he asked her a series of questions:
Can you see the bag? No.
Can you see the bar? No.
Can you see the pit? No.
"I’ve got some concerns here," Brown told his daughter.
"Great," she replied. "Now get out of the way."
"She’s utterly fearless," dad said. "To be a pole vaulter, a person needs a bit of daredevil. With her, it’s kind of remarkable. The person who should be the most frightened of it isn’t frightened at all."
That fearlessness, and a routine honed to perfection, has carried her to the state meet.
To jump, Brown sets a special tape marker 76 feet, 6 inches away from the launching point. Her approach to the bag is measured in 14 steps, but once she starts, she only counts the seven steps with her left foot. That’s because it’s fewer numbers to think about and she uses her left to plant and launch herself skyward.
From there, it’s just a matter of going up and coming down. It’s also the one time being blind might be an advantage, Brown said.
"It would be scarier to vault if I could see," she said. "I wouldn’t want to look down."
The key for Brown is staying straight on her approach. If she drifts right or left on her approach, she risks smashing into the standards that hold the crossbar she’s trying to clear. Mistakes -- and crashes -- have happened, but she’s never been seriously hurt. She had one bad flop when she first started training, but shrugged it off by telling herself "now I know what NOT to do."
To keep her running in a straight line, Brown unfurls an 80-foot strip of dark artificial turf next to the lane. That gives her a light/dark contrast that she can follow to know she’s running straight.
"I’ve gotten some strange looks along the way," she said.
Brown qualified for the state meet with a height of 11-6, which tied her for second best in her classification. She’s more than a foot under the best qualifying mark of 12-8, but Brown said she’s recently jumped 12-5.
"She could win this," said Emory Rains High School track coach Jeff Lester, who has started tutoring Brown on running hurdles. "It’s a rhythm race. I don’t think she’ll have any problem once we get over the first one ... One thing I learned about her is as soon as you tell her she can’t do something, she does it."
American Jenn Suhr, the Olympic gold medalist in the women’s pole vault, was amazed that Brown has been able to overcome her disability and excel.
"Vaulters count on all their senses. We use depth perception to adjust if your stride is too long somewhere or you misstep. She has to tune into her body and rhythm. It’s remarkable," Suhr said. "She’s an inspiration."
Brown said many vaulters she competes against don’t know she’s legally blind. She doesn’t wear dark glasses to cover her hazel eyes and doesn’t walk with a cane. In an interview Friday, the only trace of her disability came when she poked with her feet to judge the depth of each step on a short staircase.
"I don’t normally tell people. I know some of them have found out. A few of them have told me it’s really cool what I’m doing," she said. At some meets, Brown said other vaulters have helped to hold down the strip of turf in strong winds.
Brown said she’s just starting to realize that her story can be an inspiration to others with disabilities.
"When I started this it was just fun and it was a challenge," Brown said. "Now people tell me it is inspiring ... if it can inspire people to do something new or challenging, that’s cool."
Brown has already started a career as a motivational speaker. She was invited last summer to give a 15-minute speech to a group of Dallas business executives about overcoming challenges.
"She spent about three months writing and working on that," Ian Brown said. "She got a standing ovation."
After Brown competes Saturday, she will be presented with a special spirit award from the National Federation of State High School Associations. Later this month, she will go to New Jersey to get a seeing eye dog and she has big plans for it. Brown wants the dog to run cross country with her next season and sit next to the runway when she pole vaults.
"He’ll have to be in shape," Brown said.
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Gyllene Uttern - "The Golden Otter" - in southern Sweden was originally built as a roadside café in 1932 but the castle-like building was added within a few years. It is now mainly a hotel and restaurant. I haven't passed it in many years but it is supposed to look very much the same as when the German Nazi flag was up for German visitors (4th image).
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LAHORE, Pakistan -- A sewing center run by Daughters of the Cross nuns has for the past 20 years been helping illiterate slum dwellers gain the skills to support their families.
"We started crochet classes in the compound of a local Christian's house," said Wazira Mariam, the oldest teacher of St. Anne's Gharelu (household) center, now located in Lahore's St. Francis parish. "There was no roof" and classes were conducted that way for three years, she recalled.
Most of the men in the slums are unemployed and the women work as house maids.
"We are trying to help the children from broken families and those who don't go to schools. The skills can help them earn a respectable living," said Sister Shamim Tariq, supervisor of the center.
Mariam says in the early days the nuns went door-to-door to persuade women of the value of learning sewing skills.
"We visited houses and urged both house maids and their children, wandering in the streets, to learn sewing. We showed them it was a way to an extra source of income and a respectable living," she said.
German Sister Anna Xaveria started the center in 1989. "She first conducted a survey of the area and taught poor Christians about hygiene and the importance of education or learning a skill" Mariam said. "Everybody used to call her baji (elder sister)."
Sister Xaveria died in Lahore in 2005 at the age of 71.
Now 40 students, including six Muslims, attend the sewing classes in the double-story building. The one-year course also teaches skills such as painting, knitting and recycling. Students pay 100 rupees (US$1.19) a month.
The staff of two nuns and two laywomen teach the teenage girls how to produce sweaters, caps, cushion covers, flower pots and priests' stoles.
Naseem Bibi, one of the center's past students, now runs her own sewing center and a beauty parlor. "Customers see our sewing machines and they make their orders," she said, adding that she is able to make a comfortable living, thanks to the skills she learnt at the center.
The center, however, is struggling financially.
"We don't have enough wool for teaching purposes," Sister Tariq says. She said the center's monthly income of 2,000 rupees from fees only goes to pay electricity bills and wages.
The center's 20th anniversary celebrations also had to be canceled because of security concerns in violence-plagued Pakistan.
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In about two weeks, diplomats from the U.S., Russia, China, Britain, France, and Germany will sit down in Geneva with their Iranian counterparts to discuss Iran's nuclear program. In a best-case scenario, Iran will agree to international oversight of its nuclear activities in exchange for the easing of tough economic sanctions.
The sanction regime has significantly debilitated the Iranian economy, and is seen as the central factor behind Iranian President Hassan Rouhani's much-ballyhooed charm offensive. After a phone call between Rouhani and President Obama, Western diplomats are cautiously optimistic that a breakthrough on Iran's nukes might finally be on the horizon.
But as with most issues, Republicans don't really trust Obama to get this right. Two months ago, the GOP-led House approved tighter sanctions against Iran. While that bipartisan bill awaits Senate action, Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) has introduced another bill that would, among other measures, authorize Obama to use military force to prevent Iran from developing nukes.
The idea, Franks tells The Guardian, is to strengthen the president's hands in the Geneva talks and "inject into the discussion the importance of Mr. Obama not making a bad deal — because a bad deal is worse than no deal at all."
However, as it turns out, House Republicans may have just done Iran a potentially massive favor.
Thanks to the government shutdown, the two programs in charge of overseeing sanctions — the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) and the State Department's sanctions monitoring agency — have been "completely, virtually, utterly depleted," Undersecretary of State Wendy Sherman told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Thursday. Furloughs at the NSA and CIA are also hampering intelligence on sanctions violations, she said.
The Daily Beast's Josh Rogin and Eli Lake have some numbers that show the scope of the furloughs: 90 percent of the OFAC's self-explanatory Office of Terrorist Financing and Intelligence (TFI) are out, and only 30 of the 345 employees of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) survived the furloughs. FinCEN's network of banks and the OFAC "are two of the most potent tools the U.S. government has used to pressure Iran," say Rogin and Lake.
So, what might a lapse in sanctions enforcement mean? In broad strokes, says CNN's Jamie Crawford, the furloughs mean the OFAC "is currently unable to sustain its core functions of issuing new sanctions against individuals and entities deemed to be assisting the governments of Iran or Syria, as well as terrorist organizations, narcotics cartels, or proliferators of weapons of mass destruction."
Mark Dubowitz of the pro-Israel Foundation for the Defense of Democracies is more specific, and more alarmist. "At a time where sanctions pressure is the only instrument of U.S. policy that is actually working to persuade the Iranian regime to negotiate over its illicit nuclear program, the Treasury furloughs could not be timed worse," he tells CNN. "With hyper-partisan politics sidelining Treasury's G-Men, Iran's Supreme Leader is getting his sanctions relief without giving up any nuclear concessions."
Speaking to The Daily Beast, Dubowitz predicts that thanks to the furloughs, "the Iranians will engage in massive sanctions busting to try to replenish their dwindling foreign exchange reserves." If the OFAC isn't following Iran's money trail, he adds ominously, "you’ve extended the economic runway of the Iranian regime and increased the likelihood that they could reach nuclear breakout sooner rather than later."
The State Department's Sherman says the U.S. sanctions cops have a little breathing room: "We believe that we have some time, but we don't have a lot of time."
But nobody is arguing that this is anything but good for Iran.
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Forex trading is considered to be toughest business ever. Mainly because it has higher risks tha any other kinds of business. Of course, I don't compare forex trading to those businesses where you hav to take out a loan before you start, when you are in debts, then it's the activity with the highest risks ever. In my opinion, everything basically depends on how you relate to the particular activity and your whole attitude toward this activity. I believe that the higher risks, the higher chance to be successful in this activity, while I also think about possible losses. Here everybody decides on his own, whether he is ready for taking such risks or not. Nobody is made to do something, everything happens because of their own wish.
No doubts, that forex trading is considered to be the toughest business ever. Everything because you have to learn lots of things when it comes to trading. Of course, some traders handle the task of becoming successful in trading without any solid experience, but it's just an exception. The vast majority of traders face all the difficulties which forex trading prepares for them. I believe that here everything depends on how serious is your attitude toward trading activity. If you will treat it like an occupation or real profession, then I guess you will be able to understand all the peculiarities of this activiy and as the consequences - byou becoem successful.
I do totally agree with this idea that tradinf is not the easiest business ever, to put it mildly. You should learn a lot, practise new skills, work on your psychology and there is still huge uncertainty. I mean that even if you work a lot nobody can guarantee that you will be a success right away. So, I really think that trading is for those people who are interested in markets and finance. It is extremely hard to keep on trading when you have no interest in this whole field.
With proper risk management, one can make good profits in forex trading. However, the main thing is to know how much risk you are willing to take.When you have an idea about your risk tolerance, you can always take necessary measures to limit your losses.
Indeed, forex trading is tough. But as the trader keeps on trading and gaining knowledge, he becomes aware of the effective trading strategy for him. The trader over time acquires the required trading skills and masters them, forex trading becomes simpler for him. A trader needs to be consistent and disciplined in order to achieve this level.
Forex is not something where you can expect a quick making money account, it is much more than that. And because it involves lots of knowledge and skill, it can be seen as tough and hard business to crack
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Locate from www.crimelibrary.com, a criminal from one of the following links: Serial Killers, Notorious Murder Cases, Gangsters and Outlaws, The Criminal Mind, or Terrorists, Spies and Assassins. Read the biography of your chosen criminal. Discuss the link between socialization references in the research you conduct and the theories in the text. You may use additional resources to research the criminal. Include the following points:
What kind of family life might the criminal have had?
What educational background did he or she have?
What type of peer relations did he or she have?
What measures, if any, might have been taken to avoid this crime?
In your opinion, how strong is the link between social forces and crime? Explain your answer. (700-1050 words)
Have you considered which criminal you would like to focus? Go to the website www.crimelibray and click on serial killer - the top tab.
One approach to help you with an essay assignment like this one is to address each questions, which can act as a tentative outline for the paper. It will have an Introduction (thesis or purpose statement) Body (questions), and Conclusion (restate thesis or purpose statement in different wording, sum up main points), like all academic papers.
Let's look at Charles Manson.
1. What kind of family life might the criminal have had?
Charles Manson was born 12 November 1934 in Cincinnati, Ohio. His 16-year-old mother, Kathleen Maddox was promiscuous, a criminal, drank too much and failed to take care of her illegitimate child. Soon after his birth, Kathleen was briefly married to William Manson, and Charlie's last name changed from Maddox to Manson. Kathleen grew up in a strict religious home and seemed to rebel against all she was taught. In 1940, she was found guilty of Strong Armed Robbery and sent to prison.He probable had mixed childhood messages. For example, six-year-old Manson was moved to various relatives. His grandmother subjected him to the fanatical religious standards, from which his mother fled. One uncle he stayed with decided Manson was too feminine, so dressed him as a girl for his first day of school. Another uncle, while caring for Manson, killed himself in protest to the authorities taking his land. There were no consistent modes of behavior for Manson to live by, a fact that carried into his adulthood.
In fact, a story Manson often told described the lack of care his mother showed him. "Mom was in a cafe one afternoon with me on her lap. The waitress, a would-be mother without a child of her own, jokingly told my Mom she'd buy me from her. Mom replied, 'A pitcher of beer and he's yours.' The waitress set up the beer, Mom stuck around long enough to finish it off and left the place without me. Several days later my uncle had to search the town for the waitress and take me home." Mom also choose boyfriend over Manson. For example, Charlie and his mother were ...
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So, have you ever felt oppressed by vegetables?
Don’t laugh (well, maybe just a chuckle then…).
A few years ago, I signed up for weekly deliveries of organic veg. Great idea. A selection of in-season fruit and veg delivered to the door, locally sourced where possible. Fresh, good quality kitchen materials always on hand. What’s not to love about that?
So, week-in-week-out, the veg arrived on cue and I lunched and dined on the spoils and even made the occasional jar of pickle. Happy days. Sometimes, though, I would struggle to get through my weekly vegetable quota and, if I forgot to cancel subsequent deliveries in time, a certain degree of vegetable stock-piling would ensue. I would always attempt to work through the little vegetable mountain as best I could, given my deep-seated abhorrence of food waste. There were times, though, when it would get the better of me and I would soon start to feel oppressed by its continued presence. The ringleaders of this vegetable-led oppression were cabbage and his buddy turnip.
The Chief Oppressors
I appreciate the potato only as a protection against famine, except for that, I know of nothing more eminently tasteless.
From The Physiology of Taste (1825) by Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Perhaps the author’s experience was based on potatoes such as Lumpers, a variety grown in Ireland in the early 1800s. A piece in this weeks Daily Telegraph quotes Alan Romans, author of The Potato Book, who describes Lumpers as “A nasty, wet potato but with a huge yield … No one would eat it today. It gives a real insight into how desperate and determined the Irish were to survive.” And so we were, clearly!
Searching for potatoes (Lumpers, no doubt) during famine times in Ireland - Illustrated London News, circa 1849
[image from Vassar College Views of the Famine
Well, scallions, actually.
At least that’s what we always called them at home.
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Chocolate ball mill refining machine is designed for milling chocolate cream or similar oil-based products by the continuously frictions between high quality 6-8mm steel balls. Chocolate mass will be homogeneously ground into 20 to 25 microns in the double jacketed steel cylinder. The temperature controller will precisely control the heating.
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Nov 18, 2008 We discuss the types of ball mill, the basic principles of the ball mill, how it works, the details of design including equations for optimum dimensions in all cases, some manufacturers for the ball mill, and estimation of the cost the ball mill. 6. 1. Introduction Ball mill is an efficient tool for grinding many materials into fine powder.
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11/4/2016 - Science National Honor Society Induction Ceremony
On Wednesday, October 26th, the Science National Honor Society (SNHS) of Canton High School celebrated its new inductees in its second annual induction ceremony.
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Speaking ill of the deadSep 9th, 2009 | By Ian Poulton | Category: Ministry
The widow did not seem overwhelmed by grief, in fact, she seemed quite light-hearted about the matter. Shock often acts as an anaesthetic to the pain of grief and it seemed likely that the moment would come when the pain of loss hit her. The lightness continued.
The matter became clearer sometime later when a neighbour commented that the woman was enjoying herself for the first time in years now she was rid of her horrible husband.
No-one in college days ever suggested that loss was something that might be welcomed and that the prospect of seeing the person again would definitely take the sheen off an eternity in heaven.
Beginning to read William Trevor’s Love and Summer while making dinner, the thought occurred that maybe pastoral care at times of bereavement should be based not on repeating platitudes, but a careful sensitivity regarding the relationships between the deceased and the survivors.
The anticipation of personal contentment, which had long ago influenced Mrs Connulty’s acceptance of the married state and the bearing of two children, had since failed her: she had been disappointed in her husband and in her daughter. As death approached, she had feared she would now be obliged to join her husband and prayed she would not have to. Her daughter she was glad to part from; her son – now in his fiftieth year, her pet since first he lay in her arms as an infant – Mrs Connulty had wept to leave behind.
Perhaps Mrs Connulty’s daughter would be as relieved to see her mother depart as Mrs Connulty was relieved to be rid of her husband, yet in both cases in a real situation the same words would have been said expressing great sorrow for the person’s loss.
What message is given to people when the church blandly asserts that we shall spend forever with those who have gone before us? What do we say when we say prayers couched in terms such as:
Strengthen them to meet the days to come
with steadfastness and patience,
not sorrowing as those without hope,
but in thankful remembrance of your mercy in the past,
and waiting for a joyful reunion in heaven.
What if the person felt like Mrs Connulty and had no desire whatsoever for a reunion in heaven? Are these terms used in funeral liturgies articles of faith? Does faith in the resurrection mean being stuck with someone forever?
If a woman has had to endure years of being kept short of money to feed her family, of being verbally abused, of being knocked about when her husband came home drunk, of being belittled in front of others, what good news does the church offer when it tells people that they they will be reunited in heaven?
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Welcome to Marrowfat Peas – Home of Mushy Peas!
Welcome to the Marrowfat Peas Authority!
Why Marrowfat Peas? Why this blog? Well, marrowfat peas are the type of peas used in the British favorite “mushy peas” recipe. That . . . and. . . a trip to the United Kingdom. While on a hunt across the UK for the best fish and chips in England, I had the honorable pleasure of stumbling upon the Royal Oak Pub in Winchester, an amazing place that has been in operation for nearly a millenium. Of course, after ordering a proper pint of ale there was only one thing I even noticed on the menu . . . Fish n Chips!!! And along side of this most amazing dish of fried fish was this mushy pea stuff that reminded me of grade-school cafeteria days where nobody ate those gross vegetables that came with the pizza. Not excited in the least about this. But hey, I’m gonna try it. And then it happened. One of those movie-moments like the scene in Ratatouille . . . I was hooked. This stuff was AWESOME! So unlike the traditional peas we get here in the USA, these had rich flavor and color, and a texture that was just perfect. They were so good that I ordered a second portion of just the mushy peas. It wasn’t until much later that I learned the secret to having peas turn out like this – the type of peas! Enter the world of Marrowfat Peas which are completely different than garden peas or other types of peas. There are essentially three major types of peas: Pisum sativum var. sativum, the common garden pea; Pisum sativum var. medullare, the so-called “marrowfat” pea; and Pisum sativum var. saccharatum or axiphium, the sugar pea. I will go into the history of peas later, but there are literally hundreds of strains of peas that are all slightly different. And, because England’s weather is essentially perfect for growing marrow variety peas, and, the United States’ weather is better suited for other types of peas, we just don’t see true mushy peas made from marrowfat peas here in the USA. Sorry people, but unless you’ve been to Britain or a proper British pub, you have likely never had the likes of real mushy peas. Your only choices are to find a British pub or restaurant that has found a source of marrow fat peas for their mushy pea recipe, buy them as canned mushy peas, or buy them online as dried marrowfat peas and cook them at home. Then of course, you could also grow marrowfat peas yourself from heirloom seeds and make your own mushy peas from the ground up! Whatever your pleasure, we hope to provide useful information here for your mushy pea journey. Nobody should be denied the pleasure of true British mushy peas any longer! Have no fear, we will provide mushy pea recipes here, sources for where to buy arrowfat pea seeds for growing, where to buy canned mushy peas, and much more. Have a hap-pea day! | <urn:uuid:86f3d97d-b527-4054-b61b-9d571ff08327> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.marrowfatpeas.com/marrowfat-peas-articles/welcome-to-marrowfat-peas/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00269.warc.gz | en | 0.94674 | 680 | 1.757813 | 2 |
P, J, & J Again
And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart,Matthew 17:1
And after six days Jesus taketh with him Peter, and James, and John, and leadeth them up into an high mountain apart by themselves: and he was transfigured before them.Mark 9:2
And it came to pass about an eight days after these sayings, he took Peter and John and James, and went up into a mountain to pray.Luke 9:28
Peter, James, and John got another opportunity to be closer to Jesus than the other disciples. But why is it always these three? We can speculate on the possibilities of why but it really just boils down to this – Jesus wanted it that way.
In this, we get a glimpse at the sovereign right of God to do things as He wills. Our will, desires, or plans are sometimes considered by God. But in any case, God has the right to do things however He wants to. After, He is God!
This trio was blessed to privately witness the resurrection of a little girl. They also got to see a portion of Jesus’ glory in these verses. On both of those occasions, Jesus told them not to tell anyone what they had seen. In the case of the transfiguration, they were charged to keep it a secret until after Jesus rose from the dead. What great privilege thee men had but it also amazes me that Jesus chose the three men who talked the most and told them to keep quiet. The impetuous Peter and the Sons of Thunder had to keep a secret!
These three will also later the agony of Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane. This shows us that to be a close friend to someone doesn’t mean you are just there on the mountaintop with them. You are there with them in their deepest sorrows.
Another thing that we should consider is that just a few days before, Jesus told all the disciples the criteria for following Him. They were literally called to suffer in their service to God. On this mountain, these three got to see two of the best examples of faithful servants of God in Moses and Elijah. They both had dedicated their lives to God’s service and it was often a great struggle and sacrifice. However, we can see in this scene that they are now at peace in the presence of Jesus! We should use this account to remind us to keep pressing forward in God’s service.
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How to fix battery drain issues on your iPhone following a software update
Apple is always releasing updates to fine tune it’s software and make it better, faster, and, of course, preserve the battery life. But, sometimes with these updates and changes, your previous settings can make for worse battery life under the new configurations that Apple has put into place. Take, for example, the iOS 8.4.1 update, which has some users reporting battery life issues since upgrading. Fortunately, these things are usually easily correctable. Let’s take a look at some ways to tweak your settings after an update if you’re experiencing battery drain issues.
Step 1: Recalibrate the battery
Recalibrating the battery can often fix issues related to the battery life on your device. You can perform these steps on any of your iOS devices (iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch):
- Charge your device to 100%
- Discharge the device until it shuts off itself
- After the device shuts off, plug it back in and charge it back to 100% without any interruption
- After the device is fully charged, perform a hard reset by holding down both the power/sleep and home buttons at the same time until the device restarts. Release the buttons once the device reboots.
Once you’ve performed these steps, the battery will have been re-calibrated.
Step 2: Hard reboot
Sometimes, the most simple things can fix issues with iOS, and one of the easiest that you can try is a hard reboot. To do this, follow this simple step: Hold down the power/sleep and home buttons at the same time until the device restarts. Release the buttons once the device reboots.
Step 3: Reset settings
If the above steps refuse to fix your device, you can always delete the device settings without affecting the data stored on your device. To do this, perform these steps:
- Open Settings
- Navigate to General | Reset
- Select the Reset All Settings option (Figure A)
You can easily reset all of your settings.
Resetting your settings will not remove the data stored on your iOS device—only personal settings like wallpaper and network connections.
If you have Touch ID or a password set on your device, then you’ll be prompted to enter it. After this, you’ll be given a chance to change your mind about this operation, choosing to continue or cancel.
By continuing, your device will reboot and have its personal settings removed (networking settings for Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, Do Not Disturb, Notifications, General settings, Sounds, Brightness, and Privacy settings).
Step 4: Manage your location settings
One of the biggest battery drains on iOS devices is using apps that provide consistent access to your location information. I’ve previously written a guide to managing apps using your location. Taking a look at that article and make sure that any apps you no longer wish to use your location information in the background have been disabled.
Step 5: If all else fails, clean install
While this step is a bit drastic, a clean install for major iOS updates will ensure that old settings, old apps, and more importantly, old habits are not carried over to the newly released version of iOS.
To perform a clean install of iOS, check out this handy overview from the Apple Support website.
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Can we engineer a cooler earth?
As CO2 mitigation efforts lag, some explore sun-blocking, cloud-forming technologies, and more.
Launch myriad mirrors into space to deflect a fraction of sunlight from reaching Earth. Seed the stratosphere with sulfur or other particles to cut some of the sun’s rays. Bioengineer trees to soak up huge amounts of carbon dioxide from the air. Scatter unmanned self-powered ships to roam the world’s oceans funneling sea spray high in the sky to help form protective clouds.
Thinkers have posed a number of creative ideas on how to protect the planet from global warming. But they’ve been dismissed by most environmentalists and many in the scientific community as science-fiction whimsy, at best. At worst, critics say, these schemes might have unexpected and potentially disastrous consequences or distract from the effort to cut greenhouse-gas emissions.
But today, attitudes show signs of shifting as meaningful efforts by governments to cut emissions have proved elusive. More and more scientists and environmentalists, despite their continuing reservations, are seeing “geoengineering” projects as a necessary backup plan. In June, the top scientific academies in 13 countries, including the United States, joined in a call for more aggressive action against global warming, including serious consideration of geoengineering.
At the same time, the Group of Eight leading economic powers meeting in Japan failed to set any near-term goals to reduce emissions. The group’s soft, conditional goals for 2050 will be too little, too late, many environmentalists say.
“The reality is that de-carbonization is not happening fast enough,” says Jamais Cascio, an environmentalist and futurist in northern California.
The need for geoengineering is “almost certain,” he says.
The attitude among tech-friendly environmentalists, sometimes called “Bright Greens,” has been shifting in favor of geoengineering, Mr. Cascio says. “This is by no means anyone’s first choice, but it is better than the alternative,” he says, which is unmitigated warming of the planet.
“I think that you’ll see quite a few relatively desperate nation-states willing to try something like [geoengineering] simply to avoid global disaster,” Cascio says. Since such efforts are very likely, in his view, the role of environmentalists will be to “make sure we do it in the way that is most responsible,” he says.
Opponents remain unpersuaded and point to a litany of potential problems with geoengineering schemes. Chief among them is that efforts to engineer humanity’s way out of the climate challenge are likely to distract from the hard work of mitigation: cutting greenhouse-gas emissions.
“To me, that [argument] doesn’t make sense,” says Samuel Thernstrom, a resident fellow studying public policy and geoengineering at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) in Washington. No political leaders have said they would drop emission cuts in favor of geoengineering, nor do opinion polls indicate the public supports that idea, he says. In fact, Mr. Thernstrom argues, geoengineering is more likely to have the opposite effect. If a US president says we’ve got to start thinking about blocking the sun to cool the earth, “People are going to start taking mitigation [emission cuts] really seriously,” he says.
Geoengineering faces legal hurdles. Would nations or private enterprises undertake the projects? Would an international agreement need to be reached? Might countries work at cross purposes?
“What if India wanted it a couple of degrees colder, and Russia didn’t mind it a couple of degrees warmer?” asks Alan Robock, an environmental sciences professor at Rutgers University in New Jersey. Last spring, Dr. Robock published a paper entitled “20 reasons why geoengineering may be a bad idea.”
Such projects could also have military applications and as such could violate an existing global treaty that bans altering the climate for hostile purposes, he says. If the effects are salutary in one part of the world, but harmful in another, who decides what will be done? Any scheme also could bring with it unintended consequences and hard-to-quantify costs. Seeding the atmosphere with sulfur particles, for example, is likely to turn the sky whiter. “How do you quantify no more blue skies” as a cost, Robock asks. (One compensation: The number of fiery red and yellow sunsets would increase.)
A recent study using computer models showed that putting sun-deflecting mirrors in space would cool the Earth, but wouldn’t return it to the way it was before human-generated global warming began.
“Some places get warmer, some places cool down ... some places get wetter, some places get drier,” says lead author Dan Lunt, a climate modeler at Britain’s University of Bristol. He calls the new climate that would emerge “Sunshade World,” an Earth in which CO2 levels remain high but temperatures are moderated. The closest equivalent to that condition last occurred during the Cambrian period about 500 million years ago, the paper says.
The most talked about proposal would send sulfur or other fine particles high into earth’s atmosphere using airplanes, balloons, or perhaps even artillery shells to block out a tiny fraction of the sunlight. “The aerosol idea frightens people a lot,” Thernstrom says. Sulfur is a pollutant, and studies show it would slightly increase acid rain over the poles. The polar ozone holes would close more slowly, with some ill effects. “But compared to the effects of uncontrolled warming, that’s not that big a concern,” he says.
Blocking sunlight, adds futurist Cascio, “is at best a delay of the worst temperature-related consequences of global warming in order to give us more time for de-carbonization.”
Any long-term approach to solving global warming, Thernstrom says, almost certainly will have three aspects: emissions reductions, geoengineering, and steps to adapt to an altered climate. “The question is, ‘What is the ratio among those three pieces?’ ”
Schemes to slightly dim sunlight also wouldn’t solve the problem of ocean acidification, caused by airborne CO2 entering seawater. More-acidic oceans would harm coral reefs and upset ocean ecology, with possible far-reaching effects. Ocean acidification is “at least as big” a problem as that of CO2 in the air, Cascio says.
Despite the new buzz around geoengineering, including a recent seminar at AEI, some opponents are adamant. Raymond Pierrehumbert, a professor of geophysics at the University of Chicago, has proposed a 10-year moratorium on research into geoengineering, to ensure humanity isn’t tempted to try this option.
But a new consensus seems to be forming around the idea of stepping up research, even as differences remain over when, if ever, to deploy such schemes. Robock, who maintains strong reservations, also favors research. “We have to know if it’s reasonable or not, how long it might work, what the problems would be, how much it might cost,” he says.
The US government now spends between $2 billion and $3 billion on global warming research, and will probably spend more under the next president. If just $100 million of that over five years were spent on geoengineering research, “We would learn an awful lot,” Thernstrom says.
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Tech firms are helping information move faster in a crisis, but some vulnerable people are shut out
By Megan Rowling
NEW ORLEANS, March 10 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - What do you do if you are a disaster manager in a coastal city when a powerful earthquake hits offshore?
You start tweeting life-saving updates and safety information to the public, alert your volunteers via SMS and set up a helpline.
You host a conference call for rescue workers using open-source tools and provide them with access to key documents via an online file-sharing service before reaching out to emergency accommodation providers through lodgings websites.
At a conference on resilience in New Orleans this week, technology companies outlined the increasingly sophisticated tools they are offering - on an altruistic basis - to help people cope better when disasters strike.
They are also collaborating to advance the speed and efficacy with which those tools can be deployed, said Kellie Bentz, head of global disaster response and relief for online accommodation marketplace Airbnb.
"In this space, we don't believe there is any room for competition - we should all be working together; there is just too much to do," she said.
Tech firms, including Google and Facebook, have "a very informal charter" to talk to each other so they can work better with governments and aid groups, she added.
And it's not just in natural disasters like earthquakes and floods that tech companies are offering help.
HELPING PEOPLE IN NEED
Later this year Airbnb plans to launch a new community of socially minded hosts that want to put up - for free - people in need, from refugees to aid workers and the homeless, said Bentz.
The company already enables its 3 million hosts to offer shelter to people hit by emergencies and those who assist them - a service that has been activated in some 55 disasters globally since 2013, with more than 2,000 nights' accommodation donated.
Cloud communications platform Twilio.org, meanwhile, is partnering with the International Rescue Committee charity so that refugees in Greece can find out the date of their asylum appointment in their own language via a phone-based voice response system.
Tom Tarantino, Twitter's public policy manager, said the company aims to "weaponise Twitter in a disaster" by helping users make the most of different features - from dedicated hashtags to Twitter handle lists, adverts and live video - to get vital information to those affected as quickly as possible.
If communications go down or are overloaded in a disaster, an SMS version of Twitter can be activated, or Twilio can use its connections to find out which data networks are still on and figure out when others will be up and running, the experts said.
Yet while these companies are seeking innovative ways to assist in disasters, they acknowledged technology cannot always substitute for human support, and some of those affected may be reluctant to try out new things in tough circumstances.
To overcome this issue, Airbnb sends employees and volunteers to disaster zones to help people use the online platform, Bentz said.
"Not all digital solutions are right to solve human problems," said Erika Murdock Balbuena, head of strategic initiatives with Twilio.org.
In a crisis, people may not want to have to sign up for something on a web page but just be reassured they will have a safe place to sleep, she added.
In a separate discussion at the conference, government officials highlighted the difficulties of using vast amounts of information pouring in via social media to make good decisions.
"From an emergency management perspective, it's a huge mess," said Sara Estes White, deputy chief information officer for New Orleans. "How do you take it and make it useful?"
Mark Dix of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said agencies must become "clever in how we manipulate, use, sort and filter that data" to answer the right questions.
Software has been developed that can mine tweets and other crowd-sourced reports from crisis zones to find out what is happening where - from mapping floods in Jakarta to identifying relief needs after Hurricane Sandy hit New York in 2012.
But some vulnerable groups - often the elderly or the poorest families - cannot use the internet, experts cautioned.
In New Orleans, which was battered by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, around two-thirds of the lowest-income groups do not have access to the internet, said Estes White.
When the east of the city was hit by a tornado this February, very little was posted on social media, she noted.
"Digital literacy is a significant challenge that isn't being truly addressed," she said.
A representative of United Way 211, a service that helps people across North America find local resources, said when floods hit Louisiana last year, there was still a need to knock on doors and hand out printed information about getting aid.
Estes White said offline information remained essential to piece together a full picture of the situation on the ground and reach all those in need.
"I would caution against thinking that social media is a total solution," she said.
(Reporting by Megan Rowling @meganrowling; editing by Astrid Zweynert. Please credit the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers humanitarian news, climate change, resilience, women's rights, trafficking and property rights. Visit http://news.trust.org/climate)
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Are you putting yourself and your family at risk?
Here are some driving practices that increase the likelihood of an accident, and ways to prevent them:
Using the phone: Texting and talking while driving are extremely dangerous. Think you've solved the problem by using a hands-free device? Think again. The National Safety Council has shown that even talking into a headset while driving can have dire consequences. Because both driving and talking are "thinking tasks," it's impossible to give your full attention to driving if you're talking at the same time, and the effect is magnified if you are talking to a device, rather than a passenger. Bottom line: if the conversation is important, it can wait.
Driving with Fido: Driving without a seat belt is just as dangerous for our furry friends as it is for humans. Tending to pets while driving can cause accidents, and leaving pets unsecured increases the chance they will be hurt if an accident occurs. It's tempting to let your pooch ride beside you or spread out on the back seat, but for your sake and theirs, make sure your animal is in a secure carrier or blocked-off section of the car while in transit.
Wearing a seat belt: Wearing a seat belt is the number one way to protect yourself against injury and death in the event of an accident. But many adults still do not wear seat belts on a consistent basis. Model seat belt use for your children, and make it a habit to buckle up every single time.
Chowing down: When you're consuming a meal or a drink behind the wheel, you're risking a lot more than a stain on your favorite sweater. Spilling food or hot coffee can throw you completely off balance and cause you to swerve off the road. Make it a point to eat meals in appropriate places, like at the table.
Managing your music: Not having the right tunes may seem like a serious problem, but taking the time to play with the radio or iPod while driving may have real consequences. Get the music going before you start your trip, and if you absolutely must change CDs or find a new station while in transit, pull over.
Driving drowsy: It's been widely demonstrated that driving while drowsy can be just as bad, or worse, than driving drunk. Resist the urge to go just a little bit further if you're feeling sleepy on a long car trip. Take the time to stop and sleep, even by just pulling off the road if you have to.
Rubbernecking: If you're human, it's extremely tempting to try and get a good, long look at an accident on the side of the road, or at the poor guy who just got pulled over. But giving in may mean setting yourself up for an accident or a ticket of your own. Mind your own business, for safety's sake.
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To move people through the first three stages of change into action (becoming more physically active), we must consider factors that contribute to personal beliefs about aging and physical activity. Generational bias, gender bias, and media images of aging and fitness can form unseen barriers to participation and thus prevent a person from moving from sedentary behavior to a physically active lifestyle. Understanding these factors can help us address and remove them.
Life-course theory, which posits that the historical times and places people experience over their lifetimes have an influence on their lives (Bradley and Longino, 2001), provides an important perspective on generational bias. This life course shapes a person’s personal beliefs, and although vast differences exist among people depending on their personal experiences, important similarities emerge with regard to physical activity.
To effectively deliver the message of wellness to adults at each stage of change, we must understand similarities in the life course of adults older than 60 and how the resulting personal beliefs create the lens through which these people view physical activity programs and program messages.
For example, before today’s labor-saving technology, life was much more physically demanding, forging a strong association (for the 60+ generation) between physical activity and the hard physical work necessary both on the job and at home. Time spent in sedentary relaxation was often considered the reward for a hard day’s work. I have heard many older adults express a belief in their “earned right” to rest and relax, so, for some, age is the ultimate “pass” from exercise. Unfortunately, few recognize the high price (in functional decline) they will pay for prolonged sedentary behavior.
In addition, adults older than 60 grew up during the era of the industrial revolution, when a good portion of time and energy was devoted to conceiving of ways to remove the burden of physical exertion. Therefore, the perception that physical exertion is undesirable and happily avoidable lingers for many adults. Furthermore, automation and labor-saving devices brought a dramatic and welcome change of lifestyle, but only for those who could afford it.
Automation was new and expensive, forging a strong link between financial success and reduced physical exertion. There was a clear distinction between laborers and “gentlemen” who did little physical work and between housewives and “ladies of the house” who had domestic help. This generation started with the push lawnmower, traded up to the power lawnmower, and moved up further to the riding lawnmower, and when they had really “made it” they could hire someone else to mow the lawn. When filtered through generational bias, the message of physical activity as a positive aspiration is a hard sell to many adults.
Our cultural climate encourages both males and females to be physically active, including engaging in vigorous sports and other physically challenging activities. However, that has not always been the case. Traditional gender roles and gender bias created both active and passive barriers to physical activity for many adults.
As recently as the 1970s, girls and women were actively discouraged from engaging in recreational exercise. School policies required dresses for girls (unsuited to active play), recognized very few sports as appropriate for girls and women, and failed to fund any female teams, effectively relegating girls to a passive role watching boys play. I personally recall that when girls were first allowed to play basketball they were required to play only half-court. The full-court game was considered too vigorous, and vigorous exercise was considered unladylike at best and harmful at worst (to the “weaker” sex). Many women now aged 60+ were, as girls, counseled by physicians and parents to avoid hard physical exertion for fear of damaging reproductive organs.
The perception of exercise as potentially harmful to anyone “delicate” can be pervasive for many adults, even those who believe in the benefits of exercise. This perception can pose a significant barrier to physically frail people or those living with multiple chronic conditions. Current research identifies health problems, fear, and pain as the most commonly perceived barriers to exercise (Cohen-Mansfield et al., 2003; Rasinaho et al., 2007). Benjamin and colleagues (2005) found that physically frail older adults considering exercise were significantly influenced by subjective norms (i.e., the perceived social pressure to perform or not perform a given behavior). For many people, motivation to increase physical activity requires a belief that such a change is desirable, doable, and socially acceptable in light of health status.
Men aged 60+ can also have negative associations related to physical activity. Although boys were encouraged to be more physically active than girls, after a certain age physical activity just for fun was considered a frivolous use of time. A prevailing attitude was that a man with so much time and energy should be doing something productive (Van Norman, 2004). In addition, consider the media images of the 1950s and 1960s showing men coming home from work to be greeted at the door by their wives (with snacks and a newspaper) and encouraged to relax in the easy chair as a reward for a hard day’s work.
Many older men also relate fitness to the tough, grueling, and painful exercise they did in military boot camp, concluding that they don’t want any part of it, that they can’t be successful, that any less vigorous exercise really couldn’t do much good anyway, or some combination of these.
Helping adults change perceptions of exercise is made more difficult by media portrayals of fitness as an extreme. In addition, media images that reinforce negative expectations of aging, or portray a narrow view of successful aging, also make it difficult for many adults to believe in their ability to retain health and vitality throughout the life span.
The media often portrays fitness as exclusive to the “body beautiful” set, portraying an extreme ideal that is completely unrealistic and therefore personally irrelevant to the majority of the population (regardless of exercise habits or diet). Fitness is placed out of reach of the average person, regardless of age, and the consumer culture’s preoccupation with perfect bodies and youthful images is especially demeaning to older adults. It creates negative associations with age-related changes and aggressively promotes a belief that these changes are highly undesirable (Bradley & Longino, 2001). This image prevents many people from perceiving themselves as capable of being fit.
The prevailing media image of aging is largely dominated by extremes, effectively reducing older adults to caricatures and leaving them both seriously underrepresented and marginalized by the media (Krueger, 2001). One extreme is characterized by frailty and dependence, spawning endless jokes about aging as well as commercials and sitcoms that portray older adults as nonvigorous, sexless, confused, and a collective drag on social programs and the economy. To complicate matters, much aging research done in the past used subjects who were nursing home residents rather than those who lived independently or even a cross-section of the older adult population. This skewed research sample significantly contributed to the overemphasis of the negative aspects of aging and forged the expectation that most older adults will end up frail and dependent. These portrayals are a cornerstone of ageism, which can reduce older people’s opportunities for life satisfaction and dignity (Chodzko-Zajko, 2005).
The other extreme showcases “woofies” (well-off older folks), marketed as slender, healthy, financially secure, and at leisure in some fabulous resort community. They are portrayed as the lucky minority who through remarkable genes and large amounts of money and leisure time have escaped the usual consequences of aging. These extremes dominate the media and our perceptions even though it is clear that the majority of older adults exist in the broad range between these extremes. Both negative stereotypes and limited views of successful aging can have a significant impact on the self-esteem, body image, and self-efficacy of older adults. Setting the bar so high or low has significant implications for the perceived range of available and acceptable lifestyle options for adults to relate or aspire to (Bradley and Longino, 2001).
All of the psychosocial elements discussed ultimately determine a person’s health beliefs, choices, and behaviors, which in turn affect health outcomes. Wellness specialists who understand and apply the psychosocial elements of exercise behavior to program development can help clients activate the power of the mind–body connection to improve well-being.
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Also referred to as an industrial panel board, panel boards are the location where the electricity or power is generated. Simply put, it’s the main source of electrical power generation in any industry. When you have a panel board that is in direct contact with electricity and motion, you have potential for great danger. There are times when an electrical shock can occur, especially if there is a panel fault. The potential dangers with contact with electrical power is what led to the invention of panel boards. With the invention of this safety device, electrical power distribution has been greatly improved. Also, next time when you see a large industrial circuit breaker, you’ll notice that there are many panel boards between the breaker and the circuits. This is to help keep everything safe and protected from accident or injury.
When the circuit breaker panel is damaged, there is a huge potential of loss of electrical power to certain industrial sections or buildings. To prevent loss of electrical power, the panel boards are placed in the breaker panel closest to the equipment, which can then isolate the damaged section by using metal conduit or other isolation device. Then, the panel boards are isolated from each other to minimize the shock hazard. To know more about panel boards, read on to know more about their functions and application in industrial sectors.
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Industrial panel boards are usually used in printing presses, sewing machines, food processing plants, hospitals, chemical plants, electronics factories, woodworking shops, auto parts and heavy machinery units. Basically, they are important to keep these industries safe during power interruption. They are also used in other commercial sectors where they need to isolate certain circuits that may be susceptible to damage due to water, fire or electrical shock. For instance, some food processing plants may have multiple panels to prevent contamination of water used for washing and drying the vegetables and meat. The same is true with automotive assembly lines that have breakers that need to be isolated from the car body.
You can find different types of panel boards for specific applications at your local retailers. You can buy them according to size, color, number of posts and terminal connections, etc. You should purchase them from a reputable source so that you get good quality and best performance. There are several brands in the market and you must make the best choice based on your specific requirements. The advantage of buying online is that you can easily compare the prices and features of different brands so that you purchase the one that meets your requirements at the lowest price. Also, you can find a number of products on special discounts and you can buy them in bulk to reduce cost.
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Up in the Twin Cities area folks are speaking a new language. Or, should I say Palinguage. It sounds sorta familiar because it's Latin based. But different from the plain English we're used to speaking, in Palinguage recognizable words take on new meanings. Won't you take a moment to learn some Plainguage so you can talk like a hypocritical conservative?
REPEAT THE FOLLOWING:
If you're a minority and you're selected for a job over more qualified candidates you're a "token hire." If you're a conservative and you're selected for a job over more qualified candidates you're a "game changer."
If you live in an Urban area and you get a girl pregnant you're a "baby daddy." If you're the same in Alaska you're a "teen father." (Actually, according to your own MySpace page you're an F'n redneck that don't want any kids, but that's too long a phrase for the evil liberal media to take out of context and flog morning noon and night).
Black teen pregnancies? A "crisis" in black America. White teen pregnancies? A "blessed event."
If you grow up in Hawaii you're "exotic." Grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers, you're the quintessential "American story."
Similarly, if you name you kid Barack you're "unpatriotic." Name your kid Track, you're "colorful."
If you're a Democrat and you make a VP pick without fully vetting the individual you're "reckless." A Republican who doesn't fully vet is a "maverick."
If you say that for the "first time in my adult lifetime I'm really proud of my country" it makes you "unfit" to be First Lady. If you are a registered member of a fringe political group that advocates secession that makes you "First Dude."
A DUI from twenty years ago is "old news." A speech given without proper citation from twenty years ago is "relevant information."
And, finally, if you're a man and you decide to run for office despite your wife's recurrence of cancer you're a "questionable spouse." If you're a woman and you decide to run for office despite having five kids including a newborn... Well, we don't know what that is 'cause THAT'S NOT A FAIR QUESTION TO ASK.
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Justice Carol Ronning Kapsner
Judge Gail Hagerty appeared via telephone
Judge Douglas Herman appeared via telephone
Judge John T. Paulson
The executive committee of the Judicial Conference met on August 17, 2007. Chair Maring called the meeting to order at 8:03 a.m.
Justice Kapsner made a motion to approve the minutes of the April 16, 2007 meeting. Seconded by Judge Hagerty. The motion carried and the minutes were approved.
The discussion then turned to the proposal to amend the Judicial Conference bylaws. Chair Maring explained that the Judicial Conference was unable to act on the proposed amendment at its June meeting because there was no quorum present. The members present at that meeting suggested the executive committee consider amending the definition of quorum. The list of surrogate judges keeps increasing and many do not attend the Judicial Conference.
Judge Hagerty suggested that an alternative to the current language of "a majority of district court judges and supreme court justices."
Justice Kapsner noted that judicial referees have an interest in decisions made by the Judicial Conference and are usually active participants at conferences. She suggested that a quorum should include referees as well as active judges and supreme court justices.
Chair Maring said only one referee and one municipal court judge are actually members of the Judicial Conference.
Judge Herman suggested that, rather than trying to define a quorum by role, it would be better to define it mathematically. He suggested 25 as the number of Judicial Conference members needed to form a quorum.
Justice Kapsner suggested 28 as a majority of all district court judges and justices. Judge Hagerty
responded that she favored 25 because it is a good representation and easy to remember.
Judge Herman moved and Judge Hagerty seconded that the executive committee recommend amending Article IV section D, line 1 to read:
"A quorum consists of twenty-five (25) members of the Judicial Conference."
The discussion then turned to how changing the number required for a quorum would effect future amendments under Article VI.
Justice Kapsner indicated concern about a quorum of less than the majority deciding a controversial issue and suggested that a majority should mean a majority vote of all judges and referee members present at the Judicial Conference.
Judge Hagerty suggested that a majority should be those present and voting. She said that a minimum of a ten-day notice is given to all members of the Judicial Conference, and they should be present if they are interested in an issue.
Judge Herman agreed noting that if a small majority were to pass a controversial issue, it is likely that the topic would come back at a later meeting as a motion to reconsider
Judge Hagerty moved and Judge Herman seconded that the executive committee recommend amending Article VI, line 2 to read:
"of the Judicial Conference by a majority vote."
Chair Maring then asked if there were any other parts of the bylaws that should be reviewed.
Justice Kapsner said that in Article II, paragraph 1, line 3, the phrase "association of district judges" was not a correct reference to the judges' association. Judge Herman suggested that since there is no longer an association of just district judges, the words "association of" should be struck. Judge Hagerty agreed, noting that the intent is for the district judges to elect their representatives to the Judicial Conference.
Justice Kapsner moved and Judge Hagerty seconded that the executive committee recommend amending Article II, paragraph 1, line 3 to read:
"and two district judges elected by the district judges."
The next agenda item was the matter of the new chair and the chair-elect. Because there was no quorum at the June Judicial Conference, the chairmanship could not be passed from Chair Maring to Chair-Elect Herman. Justice Maring urged all members of the executive committee to encourage their colleagues to attend the November Judicial Conference in order to reach a quorum.
The final agenda item was the agenda for the November Judicial Conference. The conference will begin at 9:30 a.m., which is a half-hour earlier than the normal start time. The first item on the agenda will be the business meeting. At that time, Judge Herman will be installed as Chair, and he will be responsible for overseeing the rest of the conference.
Chair Maring said that Judge Geiger is interested in the chair-elect position. Judge Hagerty said that at the business meeting, she will make a motion to nominate Judge Geiger as the chair-elect.
The draft agenda for the November conference was reviewed. Chair Maring said there is one open slot on the agenda on Monday, from 2:45 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. She said she and Lee Ann Barnhardt were struggling to come up with a program for that section of time. She suggested a diversity program might fit in that time slot and solicited suggestions from other members of the executive committee. Judge Herman suggested a program on equal treatment in the courts. Justice Kapsner suggested an open forum on jury issues. Chair Maring will follow-up on these suggestions.
At this point, both Judge Herman and Judge Hagerty asked to be excused from the meeting to attend to previously scheduled court business and the meeting was adjourned at 8:25 a.m.
Sally A. Holewa
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Center for Resource Solutions
Green-e Energy Updates Biomass Eligibility in National Standard
San Francisco, CA (April 25, 2013)—Center for Resource Solutions (CRS) today announced updates to the Green-e Energy National Standard regarding the eligibility of biomass as a renewable fuel source. The new language clarifies the circumstances under which organic matter can be burned for electricity generation and have it be considered eligible for inclusion in a Green-e Energy certified renewable energy product.
The update was approved by the independent Green-e Governance Board after two open-stakeholder consultation periods conducted throughout 2012.
Highlights of the changes include clarified language on forestry residues, tree plantations, and the limited circumstances under which whole trees will be eligible as a fuel source (e.g. trees that are certified as thinnings that improve ecology, or have died and fallen naturally). Whole trees from Federal lands are ineligible, as are waste-to-energy technologies such as municipal solid waste gasification. There have been no changes to landfill gas and wastewater methane eligibility. Rules around hydropower, related to repowering and efficiency upgrades, have also been updated as part of this stakeholder consultation.
These changes will go into effect with generation occurring July 1, 2014 and later and used toward Green-e Energy certified sales, with the potential for extended recognition of contracts with biomass facilities that would otherwise no longer be eligible under the revised National Standard.
The latest version of the Green-e Energy National Standard v2.3 is available at www.green-e.org/energystandard.
Green-e will be holding a free informational webinar about these changes on Wednesday, May 22, 2013 at 11:00 AM PT. Register Here.
About Green‑e and Center for Resource Solutions
A program of Center for Resource Solutions, Green‑e is North America's leading independent consumer protection program for the sale of renewable energy and greenhouse gas reductions in the retail market. Green‑e offers certification and verification of renewable energy and greenhouse gas mitigation products through Green‑e Energy, a renewable energy certification program; Green‑e Climate, a greenhouse gas emission reduction certification program; and Green‑e Marketplace, a program that provides forward-thinking organizations a simple, nationally recognized logo they can use to communicate their renewable energy and climate commitment to their customers and stakeholders. To learn more about Green‑e Certified products and programs available in all 50 states and Canada, visit www.green-e.org. | <urn:uuid:06c9e6dc-5061-4247-a6e5-2886ad5bb2cf> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://resource-solutions.org/pressreleases/2013/042513.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283008.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00085-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.922333 | 512 | 1.789063 | 2 |
Mathematical Symbols and Abbreviations
This leaflet provides information on symbols and notation commonly used in mathematics. It shows the meaning of a symbol and, where necessary, an example and an indication of how the symbol would be said. For further information from mathcentre resources, a search phrase is given. This Quick Reference leaflet is contributed to the mathcentre Community Project by Janette Matthews and reviewed by Tony Croft, University of Loughborough.
Sigma notation provides a concise and convenient way of writing long sums. This leaflet explains how.
The modulus of a number
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The RI diploma system: The truth about NECAP
As students across the state are in the process of taking their NECAP (New England Common Assessment Program) tests as part of our system of statewide assessment, the conversation continues about the appropriate use of NECAP assessments as one element in our diploma system. To help students, families and the public at large understand the truth about our use of assessments, to tackle misinformation head-on, to allay some public fears and concerns, and to provide students with confidence that they can earn a diploma, we have developed a short set of questions and answers about our Diploma System:
Is it true that Rhode Island students can fail to graduate on the basis of a single, standardized test?
No. The truth is that, in Rhode Island, we use multiple measures to determine whether students are ready to earn a diploma and to succeed beyond high school. The measures include course completion, performance-based demonstrations of proficiency (such as senior projects), and success on state assessments or on other approved assessments.
Is it true that students have to pass the NECAP in order to graduate?
No. The truth is that students who score partially proficient or better when they take the NECAP in grade 11 have met this graduation requirement. Those who have not yet met the graduation requirement will have two opportunities to retake the NECAP again in their senior year. If they improve their score, they have met this graduation requirement – regardless of their performance level. RIDE has also approved 10 other assessments, including the PSAT and the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery that students can use to meet this graduation requirement. In addition, waivers are available for students for whom – for any reason – tests of any kind are not a good measure of their abilities.
Is it true that the NECAP assessments are not appropriate for use as a graduation requirement?
No. The truth is that the NECAPs are high-quality assessments that we use for many purposes, including guiding instruction, informing parents about student progress, and as part of the decision-making about placement, services and graduation. The NECAPs require students to provide written responses to questions that show their thinking and reasoning. Designed on the same model as the MCAS assessments used as a graduation requirement in Massachusetts, the NECAP is an appropriate test for use as one component of a Diploma System.
Is it true that the NECAP requirement penalizes students who haven’t received an adequate education?
No. The truth is that handing diplomas to students who are not ready for success penalizes students. Although we recognize that schools cannot make up for years of poor, inadequate education with one year of instruction and support, the opportunity to graduate by showing growth ensures that our graduates are at least making progress toward proficiency. This opportunity also ensures that students aren’t penalized for something beyond their control.
Is it true that, because Rhode Island will introduce a new assessment in 2015, we should wait until then to include assessments in the Diploma System?
No. The truth is that at present, 75 percent of our recent graduates who enter the Community College of Rhode Island must take remedial courses, at their own expense, before they begin to earn credits. We cannot let this continue. We must provide all students with the education they need and deserve – while it is our responsibility and while it is their right.
Is it true that the NECAP encourages test preparation and “teaching to the test?”
No. The truth is that schools where students perform well on state assessments do not focus on test preparation. Rather, teachers in these schools provide great instruction that engages students on many levels and teaches key academic skills: Solving problems, reasoning well, writing clearly, reading with precision, thinking creatively, grappling with abstract ideas. The NECAP, unlike many typical machine-scored, fill-in-the-bubble tests, also requires students to write out responses to questions – showing what they know and how they think. Test preparation and rote memorization will not improve performance on this kind of high-quality assessment.
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Preventing Alzheimer’s Disease – Interview with Dean Sherzai of Cedars-Sinaiby Shaheen E Lakhan, MD, PhD, MEd, MS | May 6, 2015
Numerous studies show promise in the prevention of Alzheimer’s disease in animal models, but invariably fail in humans. However, time after time, lifestyle changes have been shown to alter the course of illness in large population studies. My interview with Dean Sherzai, MD, PhD, director of the Alzheimer’s Disease Prevention Program at Cedars-Sinai, aims to shed light on preventing Alzheimer’s Disease with both therapeutics and lifestyle modifications.
Shaheen Lakhan: What does the Alzheimer’s Disease Prevention Program at Cedars-Sinai offer to patients, caregivers, and the biomedical community?
Dean Sherzai: The Alzheimer’s Disease Prevention Program offers a new approach to Alzheimer’s care, emphasizing prevention and focusing on the creation of an all-encompassing support network for patients and their families.
Prevention is a part of the Alzheimer’s spectrum that rarely has been talked about, due somewhat to the fact that we only recently have begun to identify many of the factors that influence risk. The insidious nature of the disease – with onset starting many years before its seemingly irreversible symptoms appear – has reinforced a sense that Alzheimer’s strikes at random, without warning and without recourse. Now, with the growing recognition that its course can be changed if the disease is diagnosed early enough, we are working to make innovative early detection screening technologies available.
Even in cases where disease exists and prevention no longer is possible, we look to slow disease progress and spare patients and families the heaviest burdens for as long as possible.
Caring for a person with Alzheimer’s hits families hard financially, through lost work and wages, and emotionally, with the grief that comes from gradually losing a loved one. The effects are physical, too. According to the Alzheimer’s Association, people caring for patients with Alzheimer’s and dementia had $9.3 billion in additional health care costs of their own in 2013. Too often, patients and families are left on their own after a diagnosis is made, and the tensions and financial burdens tear them apart.
Our center is designed to serve as a coordinating resource, working with other professionals and community agencies to provide education, counseling and support. If we can help families foresee and manage the inevitable challenges they will encounter, we can help them draw closer instead of being driven apart.
We are only at the beginning of our understanding of all the factors that come together to produce Alzheimer’s, and we have a lot to learn about stopping, reversing and curing the disease. But we have strong clues with basic and animal research pointing us in promising directions. Several studies are about to start at Cedars-Sinai, and as these and many other research projects are translated from pre-clinical to clinical trials, we will need patient volunteers.
A program like ours, based at a hospital with a strong research component, will provide doctors and researchers with a large number of well-documented cases, enabling them to provide the latest advances to patients while collecting immense amounts of data in the search for treatments and cures.
SL: Why do potential therapeutics for dementia work in animal models and not humans?
DS: About 50 drugs have worked in animal models, but not in humans. Part of the answer lies in the fact that even the best models do not perfectly represent disease in humans. But a much more significant factor, we believe, is that therapeutics that have worked in animals were initiated in humans too late in the disease process to be beneficial. We have learned that Alzheimer’s causes damage in the brain many years before symptoms appear, by which time more than half of brain cells are irreversibly injured.
It may be that some of the therapies do work – but only if they are initiated early enough. This is one reason our center aims to identify people at risk and provide early detection screening.
SL: What lifestyle changes can alter the development of neurodegenerative diseases? What is the evidence regarding nutrition and risk of dementia?
DS: Nutrition, exercise and certain kinds of mental activity can affect quality and quantity of life. Thirty minutes of moderate exercise most days, adopting a Mediterranean-style diet, and engaging in enjoyable activities that stimulate the brain appear to be helpful in delaying onset and influencing progression of Alzheimer’s. So far, no drug can do that.
The Alzheimer’s Association summarizes some of the nutrition guidelines coming from recent research. Many studies, such as those at the Fisher Center for Alzheimer’s Research Foundation, indicate that a diet that is good for the heart also is beneficial for brain health.
There is evidence that a vegetable-based diet has a positive effect on cognitive health and disease modification. There is also evidence that regular
not only has positive influence on disease progression, but may actually slow down brain atrophy. The data on cognitive exercises is still weak, but the Finnish Geriatric Intervention Study to Prevent Cognitive Impairment and Disability (the FINGER study) and others have shown that the positive effect one sees in relation to cognitive exercises is usually in the context of support and social activity.
SL: Where should we focus federal research funding for dementia?
DS: For the last few decades we have been focusing on this devastating disease at a later stage of the disease, which appears not to have responded to any therapies. Today we need to focus on early detection and intervention. This means that a significant amount of dollars must be directed to three major areas:
- identification of early biomarkers of the disease,
- larger screening programs that catch a greater proportion of the population at risk for the disease, and
- intervention trials at these earlier stages when we believe there is greater hope for disease modification and abatement.
SL: What are the most promising technologies/therapeutics for dementia prevention, early detection and treatment?
DS: Many different avenues are being explored. Researchers at Cedars-Sinai will be investigating two drugs already on the market for other conditions, and we are studying ways to spur the immune system to help fend off Alzheimer’s.
In the area of early detection, several innovative approaches have been proposed. One noninvasive, relatively inexpensive technology, pioneered at Cedars-Sinai and now in clinical trials in the U.S. and Australia, is believed to detect Alzheimer’s-associated changes in the retina at the back of the eye even before they develop in the brain. If the device receives Food and Drug Administration approval, it could offer an easy, painless, widely available, early detection screening, which in turn could lead to early intervention with lifestyle modifications and eventually medications to stop or slow the disease.
SL: Any closing remarks for the readers of Brain Blogger?
DS: We as a society and as treatment professionals must do more for patients and caregivers affected by Alzheimer’s. A center like ours, with a network of community partners, can make a tremendous difference in the way the disease affects a family. Also, we must all work to move from a sense of helplessness to one of empowerment. Certainly, there is a genetic component of Alzheimer’s, but there are steps we can take to change the course of the disease and reduce its impact in individual lives and globally.
Antidepressant May Benefit Traumatic Brain Injury
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Voices of ILGA-Europe: On the frontlines for equal marriage in the Czech Republic
From the high-powered offices of government, to the vanguard of the Czech Republic’s LGBTI movement, Czeslaw Walek tells his story of activism in action.
Our second Voices of ILGA-Europe contributor is Czeslaw Walek, the Chair of Prague Pride, who we met during our most recent conference in Prague. Czeslaw talked to us about the frustrations that powered his journey from the high offices of government to becoming one of the Czech Republic’s most prominent activists, and how ILGA-Europe has helped along the way.
“When we started, we didn’t know what to expect,” says Czeslaw Walek, remembering the very first Pride in the Czech capital of Prague, back in 2011. The march was a huge success, and since then has grown from strength to strength. So too has the Czech Republic’s LGBTI movement, to the point that the country could well become the first post-communist country with full marriage equality.
“At this moment we are a bit stuck in the parliament with the discussion,” Czeslaw says, referring to the delay tactics used by the opposition in parliamentary debates. “But the actual marriage equality campaign is a big success, because it’s not only lobbying and advocacy in the Parliament, but it’s a nationwide conversation about who LGBT people really are and what position in society they should have.”
To find out more about the human rights situation of LGBTI people in the Czech Republic, visit the country’s annual review page here.
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New Urbanism is catching on in Mississippi. The neighborhood design movement that focuses on diverse, close-knit, walkable neighborhoods in close proximity to jobs, stores and schools started in the 1980s as an alternative to suburbs.
The concept gained a lot of traction in Mississippi with the publicity brought when the Congress for New Urbanism touted New Urbanism concepts at the Mississippi Renewal Forum held after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
A number of Coast cities have adopted “SmartCode” zoning regulations in the years since Katrina. Whereas traditional zoning puts commercial in one area and residential in another, SmartCode allows mixed-use developments that promote people being able to live near where they work, shop, attend school and go to church.
SmartCode supports community vision, local character, conservation of open lands, transit options and walkable and mixed-use neighborhoods. It is designed to prevent wasteful sprawl development, automobile-dominated streets and empty downtowns.
After Hurricane Katrina, there has been a migration away from the most vulnerable waterfront areas of the Coast to areas on higher ground farther to the north. That could create suburban sprawl with people having to commute longer distances to work. But, the new town of Tradition, located a 15-minute drive north of Biloxi, is working to create a new community with schools such as William Carey University on the Coast, shops, restaurants and homes located in close proximity.
The town’s first neighborhood is called The Village at Tradition.
“The Village is a place where gracious front porches take prominence on our streets, rather than garages and driveways,” said Brynn W. Joachim, vice president of sales and marketing at Tradition Village Realty, LLC. “All of our residents love the return to traditional architecture. However, New Urbanism planning principles go far beyond architectural beauty. We narrow our streets to slow the flow of traffic that makes walking and biking more appealing. We plan gathering spaces to encourage neighborhood interaction. We set up organizations, like our Village Institute, to plan events, seminars, and concerts to ensure that these activities continue long after the community founder’s work is done.”
Two new residents, a young couple who lost their home in Katrina, love the “escape” to the Village where all is not hurricane-ravaged. Joachim said they appreciate being outdoors and enjoying great scenery right in their neighborhood. In fact, they are adding an outdoor courtyard for additional entertaining space.
“One of our empty nester couples loves the smaller yard and spending less time on lawn maintenance, which allows them to relax and entertain friends and family more,” Joachim said. “A young mother with a seven-year old daughter, whose home is under construction, is looking forward safe, quiet streets, and to the proximity of our parks for her child to play.”
Other New Urbanism communities in Mississippi include the Cotton District in Starkville, The Township at Colony Park in Ridgeland, Lost Rabbit Development LLC at the Ross Barnett Reservoir.
Mark Frascogna, managing partner of Lost Rabbit, said the development encourages interaction between residents. People do not need to get into a car to go everywhere, and instead can visit with neighbors when walking to shops, restaurants, work or just to enjoy the scenery.
Michael A. Barranco, principal, Barranco Architecture, Town Planning and Interior Design, Jackson, who helped design the buildings in Lost Rabbit and The Township at Colony Park, said the tenants of New Urbanism are not new.
“These principles simply reinforce elements that promote and enable community from a physical standpoint,” Barranco said. “The physical form, if articulated properly, then leads to the emotional and spiritual dynamics that are necessary and essential for mankind to truly live. True community is a proper balance of the physical, emotional and spiritual, all of which are found in our ‘most loved places’.”
Barranco said often people have so programmed their lives to focus on conveniences that they miss many beautiful opportunities that exist in their inconveniences. He is of the opinion that the preferred trend towards New Urban places is that people want to truly live again.
“People are tired of the mundane habit of waking up, entering the garage, getting in the car and driving miles to work in a segregated building, surrounded by a parking lot or perhaps a parking garage where at lunch time they are forced to either bring their lunch or drive to eat.
“This same process is then repeated on Sundays when they once again get into their car and drive miles to their church, which has moved from the heart of the city (away from community) and into a cow pasture.
Barranco said because true New Urban communities—both old and new—now exist in places such as downtown Jackson, Belhaven, Fondren, The Township at Colony Park and Lost Rabbit, people are beginning to understand the importance of place. They are no longer “hoodwinked” by suburbia where the best thing about the neighborhood is the entry gate beyond which lies unfortunate missed opportunities, where roof forms dominate and one hesitates trying to remember which house is theirs.
People who live in New Urban communities often say they feel more alive or connected to their community and the people and activities that occur within the community. There is a sense of pride when someone says, “I live in Fondren or Belhaven” or “I live at Lost Rabbit or The Township.”
“Great New Urban (or “Old Urban”) places promote connectivity,” Barranco said. “It starts with the design of the plan, which translates into everything else. Very few great New Urban communities — if any — are gated.”
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March 25, 2019
Frankfort Regional Medical Center has invested in the Selenia® Dimensions® system from Hologic, the most state-of-the-art 3D Mammography equipment available. Frankfort Regional is the first in the state of Kentucky to offer Clarity HD high resolution 3D(tm) imaging. It creates ultra-high resolution 3D images of the breast in one-millimeter slices, which allows the radiologist to review a 3D image of the breasts layer by layer, one thin slice at a time. It utilizes low dose radiation and has comparable radiation doses to a 2D exam.
The device also includes the SmartCurve(tm) Breast Stabilization System -- a curved compression device the mirrors the shape of the breast, which provides greater comfort for the patient and clearer pictures for the radiologist. With pain being the number one complaint during mammograms,7 this fear of pain prevents many women from making regular breast imaging appointments a priority. Not only can this have a negative impact on patient volume and satisfaction scores, but it can put women at risk of a cancer being missed, or diagnosed at a more advanced stage. With improved comfort,6 the SmartCurve(tm) system was designed to address this challenge and provide a better patient experience for women during their mammograms.
“We are committed to delivering effective, evidence-based, innovative care at Frankfort Regional Medical Center,” says Reed Hammond, Chief Executive Officer. “We are excited to bring this level of technology to the communities we serve.”
3D Mammography has revolutionized how breast cancer is detected by providing a better option for women of all breast densities compared to 2D alone.1-2 Researchers have found that:
- A 3D Mammography exam finds 20-65% more invasive breast cancers compared to 2D alone, an average increase of 41%.3
- 3D Mammography is FDA approved as superior for women with dense breasts compared to 2D alone.1-2
- This technology reduces callbacks by up to 40% compared to 2D
alone, giving your patients piece of mind and eliminates the potential for unnecessary additional radiation exposure.2,4
Frankfort Regional Medical Center is excited to offer 3D Mammography, an advanced FDA-approved breast imaging technology. Utilizing advanced breast tomosynthesis technology, 3D exams are clinically proven to significantly increase the detection of breast cancers, and also decreasing the number of women asked to return for additional testing.1-7
1) FDA submissions P080003, P080003/S001, P080003/S004, P080003/S005
2) Friedewald SM, Rafferty EA, Rose SL, et al. Breast cancer screening using tomosynthesis in combination with digital mammography. JAMA. 2014 Jun 25;311(24):2499-507.
3) Results from Friedewald, SM, et al. “Breast cancer screening using tomosynthesis in combination with digital mammography." JAMA 311.24 (2014): 2499 2507; a multi-site (13), non-randomized, historical control study of 454,000 screening mammograms investigating the initial impact the introduction of the Hologic Selenia® Dimensions ® on screening outcomes. Individual results may vary. The study found an average 41% (95% CI: 20-65%) increase and that 1.2 (95% CI: 0.8-1.6) additional invasive breast cancers per 1000 screening exams were found in women receiving combined 2D FFDM and 3D(tm) mammograms acquired with the Hologic 3D Mammography(tm) System versus women receiving 2D FFDM mammograms only.
4) Bernardi D, Macaskill P, Pellegrini M, et. al. Breast cancer screening with tomosynthesis (3D mammography) with acquired or synthetic 2D mammography compared with 2D mammography alone (STORM-2): a population-based prospective study. Lancet Oncol. 2016 Aug;17(8):1105-13.
5) Independent survey conducted by Kadence International, June 2015
6) Smith, A. Improving Patient Comfort in Mammography. Hologic WP-00119 Rev 001 (2017).
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At universities nationwide, employment of administrators jumped 60 percent from 1993 to 2009, 10 times the growth rate for tenured faculty. “Administrative bloat is clearly contributing to the overall cost of higher education,” says Jay Greene, an education professor at the University of Arkansas. In a 2010 study, Greene found that from 1993 to 2007, spending on administration rose almost twice as fast as funding for research and teaching at 198 leading U.S. universities.
How can students and parents tolerate these types of statistics? How can faculty members tolerate it? I think that several factors contribute to the administrative bloat. If we don't address these factors, then we will have a hard time reducing the administrator-faculty ratio.
- First, accreditation agencies serve a useful function, but they have placed increasing burdens on universities. Efforts to achieve and/or preserve accreditation soak up enormous amounts of time, and they require a lot of administrative work. I don't think the return on investment is justified in many cases. Could we streamline accreditation processes? Absolutely. Will we? Well, these accreditation bodies are big businesses. They aren't likely to streamline unless enormous collective pressure is put upon them.
- Second, we do a terrible of preparing people for senior academic administration jobs. We name professors to senior administrative posts with virtually no leadership development efforts to enable them to succeed. We all know that a great teacher or researcher may not have the skills required to lead an organization. Companies spend significant amounts of time and effort on leadership development; universities throw people into the ocean and expect them to swim. When they start drowning, we appoint a few more associates or assistants to help them stay afloat!
- Third, many universities offer a wide variety of additional services to students today as compared to several decades ago. Those services cost money, and they require administrators to oversee these efforts. There is no free lunch. If we want to reduce administrative bloat, we have to take a close look at the services we are demanding from our universities.
- Fourth, universities have faced an increasing regulatory burden, particularly when it comes to federal regulations that affect large research institutions. Satisfying the regulatory requirements has taken increasing amounts of administrative work.
- Fifth, too many universities operate in a very top-down fashion. Faculty and staff members do not feel empowered to make many decisions. That centralized organizational structure is a remnant of the past. Many companies have changed in recent years, adopting leaner and flatter structures. Universities continue to operate in a much more command-and-control environment in many instances, despite the talk about being faculty-led, consensus-oriented, and the like. | <urn:uuid:e7e2c533-f2d4-4716-9bb1-80be6f840ee2> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://michael-roberto.blogspot.com/2012/11/one-step-toward-attacking-college.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281419.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00492-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960294 | 551 | 1.96875 | 2 |
Abstract The zone of avoidance is regarded as the last frontier in mapping the large-scale structures of the local universe. In this zone, the universe is obscured by the Milky Way galaxy appearing devoid of extragalactic objects due to extinction. However, the Spitzer Space Telescope has provided images of the entire galactic disk in infrared wavelengths allowing for the identification of new galaxies within this zone. To further understand the large-scale structures of the local universe, we observe and study the images compiled in the GLIMPSE-3D survey as an effort to reduce the zone of avoidance and disclose the extent of the Ophiuchus supercluster (Hasegawa et al. 2000). The Ophiuchus connects to Hercules supercluster through a galaxy wall perpendicular to the CfA2 Great Wall. Furthermore, the Hercules-Ophiuchus wall might extend further into the southern hemisphere crossing the galactic plane (Wakamatsu et al. 2005). Therefore, data from the GLIMPSE-3D survey could provide enough evidence to support the continuation of the Hercules-Ophiuchus wall through the galactic plane. Our search for extragalactic objects is being done by eye-inspection using the ds9 image viewer. The data observed corresponds to the inner galaxy area with longitudes between |ℓ| = 2° and latitudes 1.25° ≤ b ≤ 4.75° making 11.6% of the total available data from the survey. Our preliminary results have revealed 286 possible galaxies in the northern galactic hemisphere which are yet to be cross-checked for identification. In addition, some of these candidates might be members of Ophiuchus centered at (ℓ = 0.56°, b = 9.27°) given their proximity. The finalised results of our research will include the observation of both northern and southern galactic hemispheres and planes for galaxy identification using GLIMPSE-3D data.These results will aid to determine if the Hercules-Ophiuchus wall crosses the galactic plane and allow for an improved mapping of the large-scale structures in our local universe. | <urn:uuid:6c12576c-f9cb-4093-bff2-dca528c83fe8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://baas.aas.org/pub/aas236-332p04-flores-carrubio/release/1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00668.warc.gz | en | 0.882923 | 435 | 2.65625 | 3 |
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Unformatted text preview: E. Innovations that were not seen in earlier churches V. Body Paragraph : Interior/Exterior (all ties into previous body paragraph) A. Functionality of the interior B. How the functionality of this building gave it form C. Baldachino, interior designs, etc. VI. Body Paragraph : Innovations A. Each architects contributions, innovations and unique designs- Michelangelo, Maderno, Bernini, Della Porta, Fontana, etc. B. Which architects contributions or innovations were most impressive and effective? C. Piazza di San Pietro designed by Bernini VII. Body Paragraph : Effects A. What influences did this church have on others B. 1-2 examples of these influences in other churches IIX. Conclusion : A. Restate thesis B. Importance of San Pietros influences that are even seen today....
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If you’ve read Thinking, Fast and Slow, the Nobel Prize–winning Princeton psychologist Daniel Kahneman’s wonderful book about behavioral economics — and if you haven’t, you really should — you’ll know that Kahneman believes he owes a great deal of his success to his extremely productive, decade-spanning friendship with Amos Tversky, a fellow psychologist, who died in 1996.
It was a point Kahneman drove home in an interview I did with him in 2013, when I asked him about winning one of the most prestigious prizes in the world on the basis of work he had done with a friend who had since passed away: “I never forget that the recognition I get is for work that was done by a successful team of which I was lucky to be a member,” he said.
Together, the two men did a great deal of the grunt work of establishing behavioral economics as a field, and that field’s key insight — that humans are, in fundamental ways, irrational in certain aspects of their decision-making (such as by failing to weigh risks and rewards accurately and appropriately) — has echoed loudly ever since they started publishing their work.
Given all of this, it’s very exciting that one of the top authors in the country, Michael Lewis, has taken on the Tversky–Kahneman friendship, and the ideas it produced, as the subject of his next book.
Alexandra Alter of the New York Times writes:
“The Undoing Project” explores the groundbreaking work of two psychologists, Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, whose research into decision making and judgment has challenged fundamental beliefs about human nature. In study after study, they showed that when it comes to making decisions, humans are predisposed to irrationality. Their surprising findings have had profound implications for everything from behavioral economics and politics, to advanced medicine and sports.
Few details are offered other than that, but we won’t have to wait too long to find out more anyway, since the book is due out in December. And given Lewis’s skill in explaining complicated concepts and interweaving them with potent human stories, this is likely to be a very good read for anyone interested in human psychology. | <urn:uuid:7a39463e-c6c6-4ad8-843e-bc661b0f0949> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/06/michael-lewiss-next-book-will-be-about-the-godfathers-of-behavioral-economics.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280587.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00566-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975268 | 466 | 2.25 | 2 |
- By Jennifer O'Hara
Mayo Clinic Radio: Planning Long-Term Care/Parasite Blog/Mouse Avatars
Choosing long-term care for a loved one ... or yourself ... can be a difficult decision. The level of care, the cost and the physical surroundings all must be considered. Mayo Clinic geriatric specialist Dr. Paul Takahashi offers guidance on how to evaluate long-term care facilities and services. Also on the program, parasitologist Dr. Bobbi Pritt talks about her unusual blog, "Creepy, Dreadful, Wonderful Parasites: A Parasitologist's View of the World."And Dr. John Weroha explains how mouse avatars are helping in the fight against cancer in humans.
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Youth United group honors MLK's legacy by giving back at Hagerstown church
Influential civil-rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. once said: “Everybody can be great, because anybody can serve.”
A group of about 30 Washington County youths took that quote to heart as they spent a good portion of their Saturday giving back with a free community meal at Otterbein United Methodist Church in Hagerstown.
The spaghetti dinner for those in need was organized and hosted by United Way of Washington County’s Youth United volunteer group, led by students from North Hagerstown High School.
Kosie Nkwonta, a junior at North and one of the group’s leaders, said they wanted to do something around MLK Day to give back and bring the community together, “just like Martin Luther did.”
“That was the main thing that he did, so I feel like this event kind of embodies him, in a way, by bringing people together,” she said.
Traffic into the church was light early on, as it appeared some people may have decided to stay home with initial weather forecasts calling for snow and wintry precipitation to begin early Saturday afternoon.
Still, the youths were hard at work cooking up a full meal of spaghetti, meatballs, sauce, salad and cookies. They had already prepared about 30 pounds of spaghetti by the time they opened the doors at 2 p.m. Smiling faces and bowls of salad on the counter greeted visitors as they walked into the church’s fellowship hall.
“These kids are just very bright, and not only are they bright, but they want to make a difference. It’s inspiring,” said Allison Dillow, director of marketing and engagement for the local United Way, which paid for the food.
The group hoped to serve about 200 people. They planned to donate leftovers to local homeless shelters or offer a hot meal to first responders.
Among the first few to grab a bite to eat, Delbert Hubble of Hagerstown finished off a plate of spaghetti with his mother, Louise Hubble, and his aunt, Frances Lowery.
“I thought it was pretty good,” he said of the food. “I think this is fantastic for people. It’s nice to see they want to bring people together.”
While she already enjoys helping others, North senior Zaryah Pavon said the event also gave them a chance to talk with people and learn more about their lives.
MLK was a major inspiration for Pavon, who said King’s leadership in the civil-rights movement “did so much for communities and society.”
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(Plastemart) -- The Punjab Government has decided to strictly implement The Punjab Plastic Bags (Manufacture, Usage and Disposal) Control Act', prohibiting the manufacture, disposal and usage of polyethylene bags from virgin plastic of thickness not less than 30 micron and size not less than 8 X 12 inches and of a colour other than specified. The Council of Minister look forward to a strict implementation of the ban from May 1, 2011.
Every manufacturer of polyethylene would print on each carry bag his name, address, registration number, size, thickness and nature of plastic and codification as per IS :14534 :1998. The Act specified that no person would throw in any drain, ventilation shaft, pipe and fitting connected with private or public drainage or at any public place or in any place open to public view any non-biodegradable garbage or plastic or biodegradable garbage in a non-biodegradable bag. The violation of the act by the manufacturer, carrier, user or unauthorised disposal of the polyethylene would attract imprisonment up to three months. | <urn:uuid:92a51237-a054-4d8b-9769-6ec032fb8be3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mrchub.com/news/98750-punjab-government-to-strictly-implement-the-punjab-plastic-bags | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00271.warc.gz | en | 0.921221 | 224 | 1.6875 | 2 |
Efficient and equitable water, wastewater and stormwater management for the megacities is becoming an increasingly complex task. The special issue will focus on water management in its totality for megacities, including their technical, social, economic, legal, institutional and environmental dimensions through a series of specially invited case studies from different megacities of the world.
At present, around one out of two of the earth’s 6.3 billion people live in urban areas. Each year, the world population grows by around 80 millions. Practically all of this growth is urban, primarily due to migration. World’s urban population is expected to reach 5 billion by 2030, which is nearly 2/3rd more than in 2000, and would mean that 60% of world’s population will live in urban areas.
The case studies analysed include some of the most interesting and challenging megacities of this planet, Dhaka, Istanbul, Jakarta, Johannesburg, México City, Riyadh and São Paulo. They assess different aspects of how water is intermingled in the overall development milleau. The book considers the magnitudes, nature and extent of the present and future challenges and how these could be meet in socially acceptable and cost-effective ways. The contributors are all acknowledged water experts from different parts of the world.
This book was previously published as a special issue of the International Journal of Water Resources Development.
1 Preface ASIT K. BISWAS. 2 Water Management for Major Urban Centres ASIT K. BISWAS. 3 Megacities, Development and Water OLLI VARIS. 4 Water Management in Singapore CECILIA TORTAJADA. 5 Water Management in Istanbul DOGAN ALTINBILEK. 6 A Regulatory Approach to the Jakarta Water Supply Concession Contracts ACHMAD LANTI. 7 Water Management in ArRiyadh WALIDA ABDERRAHMAN. 8 Water Management in Dhaka KHONDAKER A. ZHARULHAQ 9 Gold, Scorched Earth and Water: The Hydropolitics of Johannesburg ANTHONY TURTON , CRAIG SCHULTZ , HANNES BUCKLE, MAPULE KGOMONGOE, TINYIKO MALUNGANI & MIKAEL DRACKNER. 10 Water Management in Metropolitan Sa˜o Paulo B.P.F. BRAGA, M. F. A. PORTO & R. T. SILVA. 11 Water Management in Mexico City Metropolitan Area CECILIA TORTAJADA. 12 Megacities and Water Management OLLI VARIS, ASIT K. BISWAS, CECILIA TORTAJADA & JAN LUNDQVIST
Most of the world’s water problems, and their solutions, are directly related to policies and governance, both specific to water and in general. Two of the world’s leading journals in this area, the International Journal of Water Resources Development (sponsored by the Third World Centre for Water Management, Mexico) and Water International (the official journal of the International Water Resources Association), contribute to this special issues series, aimed at disseminating new knowledge on the policy and governance of water resources to a very broad and diverse readership all over the world. The series should be of direct interest to all policy makers, professionals and lay readers concerned with obtaining the latest perspectives on addressing the world’s many water issues. | <urn:uuid:95549331-d17a-46de-a2e4-7b85cf52eef0> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://www.routledge.com/Water-Management-in-Megacities/Tortajada-Varis-Biswas-Lundqvist/p/book/9780415568494 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720468.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00489-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.87388 | 719 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Buddha Statue Collection
This collection of home and garden statues recalls an age in which peaceful meditation and contemplation were daily practices vital to health and happiness. The anchoring figure of our statue collection is Buddha, the world-renowned teacher, philosopher and spiritual leader who achieved enlightenment while meditating under a fig tree in ancient India. It is believed that by studying his calm gaze and serene posture, one may begin to unravel the mysteries of inner harmony and personal peace. Many people report that placing a Buddha statue in their environment strengthens awareness, encourages self-affirming attitudes, and enables concentrated meditative practice. These statues are made by artists all around the world and come in an abundance of sizes, styles, colors and materials, including garden Buddha statues. From glasswork to metal, from resin to stone, from ceramic to wood, from abstract to detailed, each statue can transform the space you live, work and play in. | <urn:uuid:12d911a2-ef3c-43cf-9dc1-c221da83f31c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.buddhagroove.com/statues/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280891.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00159-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95241 | 187 | 2.296875 | 2 |
AN urgent campaign launched to help a little girl battling a rare form of cancer has been gathering pace.
More than £20,000 has already been raised for Niamh’s Fund since its launch at the beginning of July.
Niamh Storey-Davidson, eight, from Preston Park, Brighton, has almost exhausted all the treatments available to her in Britain.
Her best hope is to take part in trials being developed abroad but these are expensive and her family need to make sure they have the money before signing up.
Niamh was diagnosed with a Wilms’ tumour in 2012 after doctors discovered a lump the size of a rugby ball on her left kidney.
She has had more than 70 weeks of chemotherapy, three major operations, a stem cell transplant and radiotherapy but the cancer returned earlier this year.
Her parents, Gilli and Adam, are in talks with centres in America and Britain to keep up with the latest drug trials and developments while trying to raise the money needed.
Friends, family and Niamh’s classmates have thrown their support behind the campaign by holding fundraising and awareness events.
The latest was an end-of-term party in Preston Park on Wednesday, which attracted scores of pupils from Balfour Primary School, which Niamh attends, plus many friends and relatives.
Niamh and her family were also at the event.
The family are also supporting the work of Bethany’s Wish, the only Wilms’ tumour charity in the UK.
Any funds not used for Niamh’s treatment will go towards research into relapsed cases.
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NCERT Solutions Class 7 Science Chapter 8 Winds, Storms and Cyclones are provided here to help students in understanding the topic thoroughly. All these solutions are solved by experts with a detailed explanation. Class 7 NCERT Solutions for Science Chapter 8 includes all the textbook exercise questions and answers. These solutions will help students complete their assignments & homework.
NCERT Solutions for Class 7 Science Chapter 8 Questions and Answers
Question 1: Fill the missing word in the blank spaces in the following statements:
(a) Wind is ___________air.
(b) Winds are generated due to _________ heating on the earth.
(c) Near the earth’s surface _________ air rises up whereas _________ air comes down.
(d) Air moves from a region _________of pressure to a region _________of pressure.
Answer: (a) Wind is moving air.
(b) Winds are generated due to uneven heating on the earth.
(c) Near the earth’s surface, warm air rises up whereas cold air comes down.
(d) Air moves from a region of high air pressure to a region of low air pressure.
Question 2: Suggest two methods to find out wind direction at a given place.
Answer: The following are the two methods to find out the direction of wind.
(i) While flying a kite, air exerts pressure on the kite due to which the kite flies. The direction in which the kite flies is the direction of blowing of wind.
(ii) While riding a bicycle, the direction in which it is difficult to ride is opposite to the direction of the blowing wind.
Therefore, while flying a kite or riding a bicycle, the wind direction at a given place can be determined.
Question 3: State two experiences that made you think that air exerts pressure (other than those given in the text).
Answer 3: We can experience air pressure in our daily activities such as:
(i) When we fill the air in the balloon, it becomes tight and if we try to fill more air balloon will get burst which proves air exerts pressure.
(ii) Wind causes curtains, doors and windows to move with the direction of the wind. This demonstrates air exerts pressure.
Question 4: You want to buy a house. Would you like to buy a house having windows but no ventilators? Explain your answer.
Answer: No, a house which has no ventilators is not a safe or healthy house to live in. The air circulation is not there in such a house. So, it has no fresh air. Because warm air rises up and goes out through ventilators and fresh air comes in through windows.
Question 5: Explain why holes are made in hanging banners and hoardings.
Answer: Air exerts pressure. Wind blowing in high speed may break or displace many things. If holes are made in hanging banners and hoardings, then air can pass through these holes, which reduces the air pressure exerted on the banners and hoardings. That is why holes are made in hanging banners and hoardings.
Question 6: How will you help your neighbours in case cyclone approaches your village/town?
Answer: We can help our neighbours in case of a cyclone approaches, by any of the following measures:
- By helping them shift to a safer place.
- By helping them to shift their animals, necessary households and vehicles to a safer place.
- By calling emergency services such as fire station, police and medical centres.
Question 7: What planning is required in advance to deal with the situation created by a cyclone?
Answer: Self-help is the best help. Therefore it is better to plan in advance and be ready with defence against any approaching cyclone. Planning required in advance to deal with the cyclone-hit situation:
- Keep an emergency kit at home.
- Store enough food in water proof bags.
- Store safe drinking water as contaminated water can cause diseases.
- Keep phone numbers of emergency services like police, hospital, friends and relatives ready.
- Make necessary arrangements to shift the essential household goods, domestic animals and vehicles, etc. to safer places.
Question 8: Which one of the following place is unlikely to be affected by a cyclone?
(ii) Mangaluru (Mangalore)
Answer: (iii) Amritsar
Question 9: Which of the statements given below is correct?
(i) In winter the winds flow from the land to the ocean.
(ii) In summer the winds flow from the land towards the ocean.
(iii) A cyclone is formed by a very high-pressure system with very high-speed winds revolving around it.
(iv) The coastline of India is not vulnerable to cyclones.
Answer: (i) In winter the winds flow from the land to the ocean.
Having a good grasp over CBSE NCERT Solutions for Class 7 Science will further help the students in their preparation for board exams and other competitive exams. NCERT Solutions for Class 7 Science Chapter 8 Winds, Storms and Cyclones provided by CBSE Path help students to clear their doubts and to obtain good marks in the exams. All the solutions provided in this article are strictly based on the CBSE syllabus and curriculum. | <urn:uuid:3848696b-f114-4307-b88f-e0cd6247e299> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.cbsepath.com/ncert-solutions/class-7/science/chapter-8-winds-storms-and-cyclones/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573908.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820043108-20220820073108-00264.warc.gz | en | 0.9285 | 1,131 | 3.828125 | 4 |
We are very proud of the variety of wildlife that surrounds our Isle of Mull cottages here on the farm
Each cottage has advice written by Prasad, to guide you to where you might see certain species – like the White Tailed Sea Eagle, an Otter, Hen Harrier or Golden Eagle.
We don’t organise structured guided tours on the farm, but are happy to share our knowledge of the bio-diversity here with you, and to talk about how the wildlife is encouraged here through our complicated grazing management!
There is nothing more special than discovering a rare plant or watching a Golden Eagle soaring on the northerly wind over the Treshnish woodland.
In addition to the general tourist information in each cottage, there is additional information about Mull wildlife and more specifically records of the wildlife you might see here on the farm.
In the Phone Room, we have a library of wildlife reference books with information on Mull wildlife as well as more general Hebridean and Scottish books. There are also spare binoculars (in case you forget yours), local books and maps guests are welcome to borrow.
We are also very lucky to have Prasad living here. He has been recording the wildlife on the farm since 2006. Prasad’s blog is online for anyone to look at, and we have printed a book of his bird sightings and general wildlife records for our guests to enjoy.
159 species of Birds recorded on the farm. Prasad’s full Treshnish and North Mull bird lists are available on his blog, and we have his book in the Reference/Phone Room.
Moths and butterflies
256 macro-moths (high effort), 95 micro-moths (with minimum effort) and 18 butterflies recorded on the farm.
Moths of special interest include:
Bleached Pug (NSb), Scotch Annulet (NSb), Great Brocade (NSa), several large colonies of Transparent Burnet (Nsa) and The Grey (RD3).
Moth status key
NSb = Nationally Scarce b, recorded in 31-100 10x10km squares NSa = Nationally Scarce a, recorded in 16-30 10x10km squares. RD3 = Red Data Book 3, recorded in 15 or fewer 10x10km squares
373+ species of Flowering Plant species recorded on the farm.
Arable plants include: Corn Spurrey (V), Welsh Poppy (NS) and White Ramping-fumitory, a rare plant on Mull.
15 species of orchids:
Heath Spotted-orchid and Heath Fragrant Orchid are abundant throughout the farm.
Common Spotted-orchid, Northern Marsh-orchid, Greater Butterfly-orchid, Early-purple Orchid, Common Twayblade are abundant in the late mown in-by meadows.
Rare orchids in the meadows include Frog Orchid (NS, V, BAP), Small-white Orchid (V, BAP).
The upland areas hold high numbers of Bog Orchid (NS) and small numbers of Lesser Twayblade and Early Marsh Orchid.
Treshnish wood holds the rare Narrow-leaved Helleborine (NS, V, BAP), Bird’s-nest Orchid (NT) and Broad-leaved Helleborine, a rare Mull orchid. Common Twayblade is also common in the wood.
Treshnish in-by fields hold several threatened flowering plant species:
Field Gentian (V, BAP) and Wood Bitter-vetch (NT, NS).
Lichens and fungus
Treshnish probably holds the highest concentrations of Hazel Gloves fungus in Britain (and Europe).
Treshnish hazelwoods are also the home to several extremely rare lichens, including: Arthonia excipienda (NT, NR), Arthothelium macounii (V, NR, BAP, IR), Pseudocyphellaria norvegica (NS, BAP, IR), Pseudocyphellaria intricata (NT, NS, IR) | <urn:uuid:551b220b-804c-434f-807f-22526cd38d83> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://treshnish.co.uk/discover-treshnish/wildlife/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00075.warc.gz | en | 0.918866 | 880 | 2.1875 | 2 |
A funeral home director has admitted making thousands of dollars illegally selling body parts to medical researchers.Megan Hess, 45
Megan Hess, 45, has pleaded guilty for her part in the scheme in which bereaved families were told their relatives had been cremated. But the cremations never took place.
From around 2010 to 2018, Ms Hess ran a non-profit “body broker service” alongside the Sunset Mesa funeral home in Montrose, Colorado.
The money made from selling body parts enabled Ms Hess to offer cheaper cremations than their rivals. This in turn guaranteed a steady supply of bodies. She even offered free cremations to low-income families.Terri Reid
Instead, according to court documents, the funeral home would sell entire bodies or parts such as torsos, arms, legs and heads to researchers. Families would be handed ashes, wrongly believing they were the remains of their dead relative. On one occasion, it is alleged, an urn had been filled with concrete dust.
Ms Hess allegedly forged dozens of body-donor consent forms, the court was told. She also doctored other paperwork, including lab results. Ms Hess is also alleged to have earned $40,000 from extracting and selling gold teeth from some of the bodies. “I exceeded the scope of the consent and I’m trying to make an effort to make it right,” Hess told the US District Court in Grand Junction, Colorado.
Ms Hess faces a potential 20-year jail term when she is sentenced in January, even though eight counts were dropped by prosecutors as part of a plea agreement. Her mother, Shirley Koch, who is in her late 60s and allegedly assisted in the scheme initially denied the charges but is now scheduled to change her plea on July 12.
Bereaved families said they felt Hess had not expressed enough remorse for her actions. But they regarded the plea agreement as generous but accepted it because of their desire to move on. “I would like to hear Ms Hess admit what she has done instead of a jury finding her guilty,” Debra Schum said.
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Since my Algebra II experiment years ago, I've been obsessed with students to start making connections between graphs and algebra. Fairly consistently I have students who dismiss graphing and something uninteresting because no one seems to making connections about why it's so interesting. That's it's possible the "x= " they're able to find with a calculator represents something. Pre-Cal has some algebra objectives and I've brought what I learned with that experiment along for the ride.
In addition to emphasizing graphing, I've been demanding a lot of explanations from my kids this year. A go to for a while now has been justifying a situation. Recently I gave kids a graph and three possibilities. In class we focused on the quadratic formula, it's super solving powers, and it's ability to show you the x-values of the intersection points for a pair of functions. In the setup for this question, I didn't specifically ask them to use this method, though most went with that approach. Here's a representative sample:
The brute force method. The student solved all three and made a connection to the picture with their work. Nothing wrong with it.
However, some found other ways:
An excellent observation of graph transformations. The functions used were simple enough that spotting some features was a quick way to accomplish the task.
The next student made a similar find:
Not only did they attempt a quadratic formula solution (apparently done on the calculator and not recorded) but they weren't satisfied that the mere presence of an imaginary number would do the trick. The slope of the line was important!
This last one might be my favorite:
Not only do they grind through the quadratic formula here, but they remember that if those intersection points are solutions, they are useful! I think only one other student (out of ~60) tried this out.
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HVAC certifications are now a common method to prove to employers that you are a qualified technician. Independent trade associations and states have joined the certification game since the 1990 passage of the Clean Air Act. A HVAC mechanic is now able to obtain several different HVAC certifications, some of which are not required. Whichever certification you choose to earn, it will increase your knowledge and make you more money in this field of work.
In order to become a certified HVAC technician, you must complete an apprenticeship program. Apprentices learn the skills and techniques to install and repair HVAC units in their states of operation. The majority of courses last four years and require five hundred hours in hands-on training and exams. In addition to the classroom instruction it is also necessary to have experience working in the field prior to seeking your certification. Additionally, HVAC certification can lead to higher income and more opportunities. If you’re considering getting certified, here are a few things to consider.
Generally, the course will require an high school diploma or GED, though it can also be completed with an undergraduate degree. Anyone who has worked for an authorized HVAC technician have a greater chance of landing a job. A HVAC apprenticeship program provides on-the job training. It will take you anywhere from six to 10 weeks working under the supervision of a highly qualified coworker. At first, you may start by shadowing a more experienced coworker, doing basic tasks, and then moving into more complicated projects.
There are many kinds of HVAC certifications, and the requirements for each differ. Some are work-ready, while others require a single course, multiple-topic tests, or hands-on training. Some require previous working experience in the field. Others require more work experience, but most require no prior education. In the United States, the government-sponsored exams are more thorough than those offered by private companies. Don’t delay if are looking to become certified. Make sure that you’re applying to the right program that meets the requirements of the job you’re applying for.
While you could get a job as an HVAC technician through an apprenticeship, you’ll need to complete an official course of instruction before you can apply for a real job. The Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA is a certification agency for technicians working in the heating and refrigeration industries. The HVAC apprenticeship program will provide you with all the knowledge about HVAC equipment and let you practice your skills in any HVAC facility. You can learn more about the programs for certification that are available to HVAC technicians.
There are numerous other training options available which allow you to learn on the job, in addition to HVAC apprenticeships. An associate’s degree can help you become an HVAC technician. This degree will give you a leg over other fields, such as teaching at universities. If you’re looking to work in the field, you’ll need to find a way to get your HVAC certification. There are a variety of ways to do it. You can enroll in an online course or study from a reputable source.
Certain certification programs require a GED or high school diploma, whereas others are more advanced. You can also take a licensing exam in addition to your certificate. To be able to obtain this certification, you’ll have to pass an exam. The test will provide an understanding of HVAC equipment and how to install it. A certification is required to be employed. It is highly recommended to obtain a certification from an approved institute.
In addition to the certification in addition to certification, you can also earn an apprenticeship-related certificate. An apprenticeship is a course that lasts between three and five years and blends classroom learning with hands-on experience. You’ll receive hands-on instruction from an experienced technician and a higher salary. In addition to getting valuable knowledge and experience, you’ll also get the chance to work with residential and commercial HVAC equipment.
In addition to obtaining certifications In addition to certifications, HVAC technicians can also obtain certifications. HVAC technician is able to pursue a variety of different types of apprenticeships. An apprenticeship is a training program that lasts three to five years and includes both classroom instruction and hands-on training. An apprenticeship will help you learn everything, from designing HVAC equipment to the installation. An apprentice will be trained to perform both the installation and repair of HVAC equipment. After they have completed their training, they are able to apply for a job with the local business.
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When: Saturday September 15th
Where: Bahen Center Room 2185 – University of Toronto (40 St George Street, room 2185 *Just north of College on St George) * The Bahen Centre is a fully accessible space.
What does it mean to be a revolutionary today? Can you be a revolutionary without a revolution? What exactly does a revolutionary do? How do we fight racism? How can students win free tuition? Does voting make a difference? Are the police on our side? We all have questions, but together we have answers.
‘I am a revolutionary’ is a one-day conference that aims to discuss these and other questions about being an effective anti-capitalist activist. Organized by the International Socialists, the conference features three workshops that will discuss how to be a revolutionary in your workplace, on your campus, in your neighbourhood, and in the social movements. We will try and address debates about who has the power to change the world, the connection between capitalism and oppression, and the need for revolution. People introducing the topics will draw on historical examples, theory and personal experience to try and discern what it means to be a revolutionary in the here and now.
Sessions will take the form of a short introduction on the topic, followed by group discussion. Everyone is welcome to participate and share their experiences.
12:30 pm Registration
1:00 pm Who has the power to change the world?
- Capitalism is based on the exploitation of the majority of the world’s population by a tiny elite. How do they get away with it? This session will explain how class society works and how workers could overthrow it.
2:15 pm Break
2:30 pm How does capitalism cause oppression?
- Sexism, racism and homophobia are just a few examples of oppression. Where do these ideas come from? This session will explain the roots of oppression and the best ways to fight it.
3:45 pm Break
4:00 pm Why do we need a revolution
- Economic crisis, climate change and war are all features of capitalism – which is why we need to get rid of it. This session will explain what revolutionaries can do to fight capitalism and why they need to be organized to work for an alternative.
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What kind of World will we leave for our Grandchildren.
Greedy corrupt Politicians created this World
Greed! Burning down a field of wheat if more profit can be made from selling the ash.
A New Dawn is on the Horizon
.“Someone has to step in and tell the stories that need to be told. The stories we need to hear if we’re to create a better world.
Time is running out. we have to stop the clock. together we can do this.
What kind of world do you want to leave for future generations?
"One like we have".
A world with more pollution, less life. more disease, and more social injustice.
The worldwide Corvid-19 pandemic has brought many changes, Schools and businesses closed economic activity has slowed, travel has decreased.
Many people have lost their source of income. Many of the impacts are challenging, especially to people already struggling to make ends meet. While acknowledging the pain of the disruption, we can be open to opportunities to help others, and to shift the direction that our lives, and the world around us.is living in.
"What kind of world do you want to live in and leave for future generations"?
What is the purpose of our life in this world. why are we here?
What is the goal of our work and all our efforts? What need does the world have of us?
Leaving an inhabitable planet to future generations is, first and foremost, up to us.
I am glad so many of you have your eyes open to the questions of the day, and to the great change that is taking place in the structure of society.There is always hope for improvement when people are willing to try to understand, The change will take place whether we understand or not,the workers themselves will work out their own salvation. All we can do is get in the procession,we are marching towards a new freedom. We are learning that freedom is the only safe condition for all human beings, men, women.and children. Only through freedom- freedom for all- can we hope for true democracy. Some of us have imagined that we live in a democracy,we do not.A democracy would mean full opportunity for all.It would mean that every child had a chance to be well born,well fed.well educated and properly started in life. It would mean that every human being had a voice in making the laws and in exercising its privileges. It would mean that all men and women enjoyed the fruits of their labour. Such a democracy has never existed.
In the course of history there comes a time when humanity is called to shift to a new level of consciousness, to reach a higher moral ground, A time when we must shed our fear and give hope in each other, “That time is now”
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Great response by male visitors of Amsterdam Sail 2015 event to pee for green roofs
Male visitors of Sail Amsterdam 2015 massively respond to the request by the city's water utility to pee at special locations for their urine to be collected and turned into fertilizer.
The Amsterdam water utility targets to harvest 100,000 liter of urine during the five-day festival.
Sail Amsterdam is the world’s largest free nautical festival, featuring more than 600 tall ships. This year's event started on 19 August and is expected to attract 1.7 million visitors.
Three innovative urban greening projects
The pee is treated in a special phosphate factory that turns the 100 m3 urine into 140 m3 struvite fertilizer.
The struvite is used for three innovative urban greening projects by the Amsterdam Rainproof platform.
These projects involve a blue-green roof of a business complex, the garden and the roof of a hostel, and a vertical garden against the wall of a primary school.
Green spaces on roofs and walls absorb rain to prevent floods. In addition they cool the city and make it more livable.
Value of urine
Urine contains phosphate, an increasingly scarce resource used to make fertilizer. It is expected that the natural phosphate resources will be exhausted in 30 years. As phosphate is important for the global food production, recovery of phosphate is inevitable.
Amsterdam's water company Waternet and water authority Amstel, Gooi and Vecht recover phosphate from sewage in a special phosphate factory since 2013.
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
+31 889 39 40 00
www.rainproof.nl (in Dutch only)
Amsterdam Sail 2015
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Edited by William A. Pencak
Edited by William A. PencakPennsylvania’s Revolution embodies a new era of scholarship about the state’s Revolutionary past. It breaks from a narrowly focused study of Philadelphia and the 1776 Constitution to evaluate Pennsylvania’s internal conflicts during the Revolutionary period. Pronounced struggles between Pennsylvania’s own citizen factions during the late eighteenth century are often cited by historians to demonstrate how this trend produced important social and political changes throughout the American colonies. By examining these experiences from multiple angles, this book reflects the overarching themes of the Revolution through a detailed study of Pennsylvania—the most radical of the thirteen colonies.
- Table of Contents
- Sample Chapters
In this volume, William Pencak brings together fifteen essays that expand our knowledge of the complex changes that occurred in Pennsylvania during this tumultuous era. Acting as a companion to John Frantz and William Pencak’s regionally focused 1998 volume Beyond Philadelphia, Pennsylvania’s Revolution takes a topical approach to the discussion of the state’s internal turmoil. Through the lens of political and military history along with social history, women’s history, ethnohistory, Native American studies, urban history, cultural history, material culture, religious history, print culture, frontier/backcountry studies, and even film studies and theater history, this volume gives readers a glimpse of the diverse nature of contemporary and future historiography of Pennsylvania’s Revolutionary period.
William Pencak is Professor of American History at Penn State University and editor of five previous volumes from the Penn State Press.
1 “Falling Under the Domination Totally of Presbyterians”: The Paxton Riots and the Coming of the Revolution in Pennsylvania
2 The Americanization of the Pennsylvania Almanac
3 German-Language Almanacs in Revolutionary Pennsylvania
4 Religion, the American Revolution, and the Pennsylvania Germans
John B. Frantz
5 Out of Many, One: Pennsylvania’s Anglican Loyalist Clergy in the American Revolution
6 The Sons of the Old Chiefs: Surveying Identity and European-American Relationships in the “New Purchase” Territory (Centre County, Pennsylvania, 1769–1778)
7 Double Dishonor: Loyalists on the Middle Frontier
8 Esther DeBerdt Reed and Female Political Subjectivity in Revolutionary Pennsylvania: Identity, Agency, and Alienation in 1775
Owen S. Ireland
9 Redcoat Theater: Negotiating Identity in Occupied Philadelphia, 1777–1778
Meredith H. Lair
10 William Thompson and the Pennsylvania Riflemen
Robert J. Guy Jr.
11 Agency and Opportunity: Isaac Craig, the Craftsman Who Became a Gentleman
Melissah J. Pawlikowski
12 Constructing Community and the Diversity Dilemma: Ratification in Pennsylvania
Elizabeth Lewis Pardoe
13 The Decline of the Cheerful Taxpayer: Taxation in Pennsylvania, c. 1776–1815
Anthony M. Joseph
14 Two Winters of Discontent: A Comparative Look at the Continental Army’s Encampments at Valley Forge and Jockey Hollow
James S. Bailey
15 Music, Mayhem, and Melodrama: The Portrayal of the American Revolution in Pennsylvania on Film
Appendix: Publications of Henry Miller
Translated by Jan Logemann
Notes by William Pencak
List of Contributors
The famous painting by Benjamin West of “William Penn’s Treaty with the Indians” is perhaps the most famous iconic representation of colonial Pennsylvania aside from Benjamin Franklin. It signifies the peaceful relations begun in 1682, when Penn founded the colony, that broke down only in 1755 at the outset of the French and Indian War. But the painting originated as a weapon in a political controversy; it was executed in 1771 by Benjamin West, the history painter to King George III, at the behest of the Penn family proprietors, who wished to contrast the peace that had prevailed in their province to the recent internal strife they sought to blame on their Quaker Party adversaries, who were seeking to transform Pennsylvania into a royal government.
Periodization is an important lens through which history is viewed. If we separate peaceful pre-1755 Pennsylvania from the strife the colony and state endured between that year and 1800, we lose sight of the important fact, brought to significant scholarly attention by James Merrell, that it was the very manner in which Pennsylvania kept the peace that was responsible for the violent reaction against it that followed. By removing Indians through chicanery against their wishes, using the Iroquois as the iron fist behind the velvet glove of treaty presents and payments to compel their southern neighbors to move west, Pennsylvania ensured that smoldering resentments would burst into flames once people on the frontier began ignoring the established boundaries. Similarly, the largely harmonious political system fashioned by the Quakers in the mid-eighteenth century only flourished because Quaker-dominated counties were overrepresented, and in peacetime neither the western settlers nor the Philadelphia artisans had much to complain about.
By the early 1760s Pennsylvania was ruled by an unrepresentative government whose proprietary and Quaker factions were both kowtowing to a British administration that would decide which one would rule the province. They had failed to protect the frontiers, blaming each other (with historians still taking one side or the other) for stalling defense measures to avoid taxes (the proprietors) or make inroads on proprietary power (the Quakers). The province’s ruling elite was thus unwilling to lead Pennsylvania in the struggle against British taxes and regulations, as, for example, the Virginia planters and the Massachusetts legislature were. Historians seeking to show that the American Revolution was an internal struggle that produced important social and political change have turned more frequently to Pennsylvania than to any other state. From Charles H. Lincoln’s 1901 Revolutionary Movement in Pennsylvania and Theodore Thayer and Robert Brunhouse’s volumes in the series on Pennsylvania politics published by the State Historical and Museum Commission in 1953 and 1942, respectively, to studies by Gary Nash, Richard Ryerson, Charles Olton, Steven Rosswurm, Billy Smith, and Ronald Schultz written between 1970 and the early 1990s, Pennsylvania’s revolutionary turmoil has proved the most fertile American territory for scholars seeking class and sectional struggles. Elisha Douglass, in Rebels and Democrats, and Gordon Wood, in The Creation of the American Republic, focused especially on the Pennsylvania constitution of 1776 as the most extreme example of this revolutionary transformation. Benjamin Franklin’s metamorphosis from the main supporter in the 1760s of changing the province from a proprietary to a royal government, to the state’s first president under the new state constitution, to a leading Federalist who sought to supplant it at the Philadelphia Convention in 1787, exemplifies this turbulence.
Studies that concentrated on state-level upheaval have recently been joined by others that examine the equally important events that occurred throughout the commonwealth. Beyond Philadelphia looked systematically at the Revolution in various regions of the state, supplementing Jerome Wood’s older book on Lancaster. Friends and Enemies in Penn’s Woods, along with a monograph by Gregory Knouff, deal with the savage frontier warfare and accompanying racial division of society into white and red that accompanied the Revolution in the northeast and far west of Pennsylvania. Owen Ireland has cast the state’s political conflict in ethnic and religious terms. Francis Fox has marvelously reconstructed the lives of obscure people in Northampton County to show how the Revolution made and broke fortunes and careers with great rapidity. Gary Nash and Jean Soderlund have recounted the Revolution’s impact on its African American population. Three recent monographs greatly enhance our understanding of the violence and social turmoil that accompanied Pennsylvania’s revolution: David Preston and Paul Moyer on Native Americans, revolutionaries, and loyalists on the western and northeastern frontiers, respectively, and Terry Bouton on tax resistance and court closings. Paul Douglas Newman is currently preparing a book on westerners’ attempts to form a separate state.
The empowerment of new citizens was a major consequence of Pennsylvania’s internal revolution. The importance of Nathan Kozuskanich’s essay, which opens this collection, lies in his showing the direct connection between the principles of the Paxton Boys—who in 1763 vented their frustration against the province’s inability to defend them by massacring innocent Christian Indians who were under provincial protection—and those of the new revolutionary government that emerged in Pennsylvania in 1776. For admirers of the constitution of 1776 as an exercise in democracy that gave power to the western part of the state and Philadelphia’s artisans, it is not pleasant to remember that the same constitution was also an exercise in populist authoritarianism that made swearing a Christian oath (in a state still containing many Quakers and other pacifists) to defend the commonwealth the basis of citizenship, and rode roughshod over individual rights by confiscating dissidents’ guns and property, and prosecuting as traitors those who criticized it.
Recently, Hermann Wellenreuther has examined the grassroots proceedings of Pennsylvania committees that organized the Revolution in spite of a reluctant provincial government, tracing the process of communications between Philadelphia and the hinterland that made the Revolution possible in the countryside. But private communications were at work as well. Patrick Spero and Philipp Münch examine how almanacs, the most popular secular literature of early America, conveyed revolutionary ideology. What is interesting, though, is how reluctantly and how few of the almanacs in Pennsylvania actually espoused the Revolution openly in a state that was severely divided, and whose capital and “old counties”—Philadelphia, Bucks, and Chester—were heavily loyalist and neutral. But the aged Henry Miller (Heinrich Müller), who was only two years younger than Benjamin Franklin, was crucial as a conduit of revolutionary ideology for the Pennsylvania German speakers—the majority in the counties of Northampton, Berks, Lancaster, and York and a significant minority in Philadelphia—who came into their own as soldiers and officeholders. In an appendix, Jan Logemann reinforces Miller’s importance in spreading word of the cause in his pamphlets and newspapers.
Although by no means as important as in early colonial America, when publications that were neither religious nor sanctioned by the government were rare, ministers still played an important role in disseminating ideas from their pulpits. John Frantz demonstrates the active involvement of Pennsylvania German-speaking ministers in the Revolution: although many favored the cause, the presence of pacifists and loyalists among them reflected Pennsylvania’s general internal division. Pennsylvania’s dozen Anglican preachers, on the other hand, with the exception of Philadelphia’s William White, all became loyalists, reflecting both their oath to the king and the fact that most of them were missionaries sent from Britain.
Besides politicizing the hinterland, the Revolution involved new actors in the city and environs of Philadelphia. Esther DeBerdt Reed, as Owen Ireland shows, was one of many women who found themselves drawn into the conflict. As the daughter of a former provincial agent, however, she had well-defined ideas of her own even before the Revolution began and is famous as the first woman to organize American women for a political purpose—to raise money for the impoverished Continental treasury in 1780. Most women who expressed their opinions on the struggle, however, did so only when the war touched their lives directly. Meredith Lair, in her study of British theater in occupied Philadelphia, shows how even loyalists were offended by the arrogant behavior of officers who flouted curfews and lived well during a time of trouble for most inhabitants.
Intending to liberate the loyal Americans from a revolutionary minority that it believed was terrorizing the general population, the British army, by exhibiting contempt for their allies, opponents, and civilian population alike, probably made more revolutionaries than all the writings and speeches of the patriots.
The Revolution reached to most remote regions of Pennsylvania. In Beyond Philadelphia, Tim Blessing and Frederick Stefon showed that the struggle in the Juniata and Wyoming valleys was more about who would possess the land than about loyalty to either side in the greater cause: Indians and those who became loyalists or revolutionaries took sides as best suited their chances of obtaining title to disputed land. Douglas MacGregor looks at the far western frontier, the area around Pittsburgh, disputed by Indians, Virginians, and Pennsylvanians; here a significant loyalist presence of Virginians who had relied upon that province’s loyalist British governor, Lord Dunmore, remained a thorn in the side of the Pennsylvania authorities throughout the war. Russell Spinney demonstrates, however, that on the West Branch of the Susquehanna River the handful of prerevolutionary Euro-Americans retained peaceful ties with Native Americans that had disappeared elsewhere until the war finally reached the valley in 1777, precipitating the “Great Runaway,” which required white resettlement (largely in the form of bounty land to veterans) following the war.
The war itself transformed the lives of many Pennsylvanians. Two authors in this collection present the two poles of the revolutionary experience. The Continental Congress looked primarily to the Pennsylvania Riflemen—the most accurate marksmen in the world, with experience in fighting Indians on the frontier—when it sought soldiers to aid New Englanders besieging Boston in the summer of 1775. Robert Guy Jr. tells their story through the eyes of their commander, William Thompson, whose lengthy imprisonment and premature death belie his regiment’s major contribution to the outcome of the war. Melissah Pawlikowski, in contrast, focuses on Isaac Craig, a Philadelphia carpenter who rose to become commander of the munitions depots in the Pennsylvania countryside following the Valley Forge winter, and later became one of the leading developers of the infant city of Pittsburgh. James Bailey reconsiders that winter itself and contrasts it in detail with the far colder, yet much less deadly, experience of the Continental army at Morristown in 1779–80. He also examines why we remember the former and have all but forgotten the latter.
The transformation of ideas was also an important part of Pennsylvania’s revolutionary experience. Elizabeth Pardoe looks at the convention where Pennsylvania ratified the federal Constitution, and brings to light the fact that James Wilson turned to Pennsylvania’s contentious recent history to refute the Anti-Federalists’ contention that the states could in any reasonable way represent the people’s interests. He anticipated James Madison’s insight that a multiple representation of popular interests at local, state, and federal levels was not only a possible but a far superior way of governing a large and diverse republic. Next, Anthony Joseph traces the transformation of Pennsylvanians from “cheerful taxpayers” to supporters of tax resistance in the Whiskey and Fries rebellions of the 1790s. Pennsylvanians did not object to paying taxes, but they reserved the right to judge whether they were fair or unfair and act accordingly. At the same time, as the state efficiently invested its surplus money in bank stocks, Pennsylvanians lost the habit of paying taxes in the early nineteenth century and grumbled when they were required to do so (as we continue to do today).
The volume concludes with Karen Guenther’s traversal of the way films have dealt with Pennsylvania’s revolutionary experience. Unfortunately, few of these works have gone beyond romanticism, one-dimensional portrayals of characters, or simplistic interpretations of the conflict. We can only hope that someday revolutionary Pennsylvania will be featured in a film similar to the one that depicts the Revolution as experienced by a Connecticut woman, Mary Silliman’s War, which graphically illustrates the turmoil of the war, its tragedy as well as its triumph. I am no film director, but I hope this volume will help bring to life much of the diversity and reason for the persistent fascination of Pennsylvania’s revolution.
Back in the 1920s, a Harvard professor told a young Perry Miller that there was little more to be written about the Puritans. A few years ago, as eighteenth-century Pennsylvania—especially the frontier and the Revolution—was becoming one of the hottest topics in the historical profession, I wondered whether I ought to have warned away the youthful enthusiasts, much as that old-timer warned Miller. I’m glad I didn’t. As its natural resources were once deemed, Pennsylvania’s revolutionary past seems truly inexhaustible, as do the (mostly young) historians who keep finding more to say about it.
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Shanghai prepares more COVID-19 tests amid new restrictions across China
Numerous Chinese cities are adopting new COVID-19 restriction measures, from business shutdowns to lockdowns, to curb new infections, as the Shanghai shopping mall prepares for another mass testing campaign after detecting the sub-variant of Omicron BA.5.
As China clings to its “proactive zero-contagion” policy to quickly stamp out all outbreaks, the stringent curbing measures by local governments come despite the low number of cases, at a time when much of the world live with the virus.
The central government has said restrictions must be as targeted as possible to reduce damage to the world’s second-largest economy after major disruptions this year clogged global supply chains and hit international trade.
Highly transmissible, BA.5 is causing outbreaks in many countries outside of China and has shown greater ability to escape vaccine-induced antibody reactions compared to other omicron subvariants, according to health authorities.
The discovery of one such infection in Shanghai raises the importance of quickly containing a nascent outbreak to avoid more disruptive measures, similar to the April and May lockdowns that hit the global economy and markets.
China’s currency, the yuan, fell against the dollar, and stock markets also weakened.
China data due out this week — June trade numbers on Wednesday; retail sales and industrial production last month and gross domestic product for April-June on Friday — will likely confirm that the economy slowed sharply in the second quarter amid coronavirus lockdowns in Shanghai and elsewhere.
Shanghai, China’s most populous city with 25 million people, has asked residents of several districts to undergo two tests in another round of mass screening from Tuesday to Thursday, similar to the one last week.
Its inhabitants already undergo tests every few days to ensure access to various places and public transport.
Authorities and some investors hope that these relentless tests will discover infections early enough to keep them under control.
The risk of a prolonged big city lockdown has been reduced by early checks, UBS Global Wealth Management said.
“We expect that the COVID restrictions, mainly in the form of continued mini-lockdowns for the rest of the year, will be less disruptive to production or supply chains, along with the gradual rollout of new relief measures,” it said in a note.
Daily counts of locally transmitted infections in Shanghai have risen since July 5, up from single digits earlier this month, but remain minuscule by global standards.
Most of the recent cases have occurred among those already in quarantine.
New restrictions in other places
On July 10, mainland China reported 352 new locally transmitted COVID infections, including 46 symptomatic and 306 asymptomatic, the National Health Commission reported Monday.
In the central province of Henan, the city of Qinyang has almost completely locked down its nearly 700,000 residents since Sunday, with one person from each household allowed to go out every two days to buy food.
In some areas, people have been told not to leave the house at all.
Four major districts in the northwestern city of Lanzhou in Gansu province and the southern cities of Danzhou and Haikou in Hainan province are under temporary restrictions for several days, with entertainment and cultural venues closed.
The regulations affect some 6 million people in the three cities.
The city of Nanchang in the southern province of Jiangxi, with a population of 6.3 million, closed some entertainment venues on Saturday, although the duration of the bans was not specified.
In the northwestern province of Qinghai, the city of Xining launched a mass testing campaign on Monday after one person tested positive on Sunday.
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Mo. lawmakers considering autism legislation
By Marshall Griffin, St. Louis Public Radio
Jefferson City, Mo. – Lawmakers in Missouri have begun work on legislation that would require insurance companies to provide coverage for treatment of Autism Spectrum Disorders.
Both House and Senate versions of the bill would mandate coverage of up to $72,000 a year for a therapy known as "applied behavioral analysis" treatment, or A.B.A., for patients age 21 and younger.
Steve Shad of St. Charles has an 8-year-old son with autism. He told a State Senate committee Tuesday that the therapy works, but that it's extremely expensive.
"Harry got very intensive therapy, eventually learned sign language, was able to talk, but then our finances ran out...we had to refinance our home three times...I had to rely on my in-laws and other friends (for financial help)," Shad said.
Insurance industry officials say the amount of coverage being proposed is too expensive, and hope to negotiate a smaller figure with lawmakers.
David Smith, an executive with Blue Cross and Blue Shield, says requiring $72,000 a year in coverage for patients 21 and under would hurt small businesses that provide group health coverage for their workers.
"If you look at the market today, larger groups (are) fairly stable; smaller groups, it's a nosedive...from the start of this century, every time there's an increase at all in premiums, you're seeing a drastic drop within that marketplace," Smith said.
But supporters say autism coverage is affordable, citing results in other states where insurance rates rose less than one percent.
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In the 21st century, a science studying the actions of very large groups of people might be developed. It was described in the fiction of Isaac Asimov, who called it Psychohistory.
Asimov described it with this analogy: in a gas, while the motion of a single molecule is very difficult to predict, the mass action of the gas can be predicted to a high level of accuracy.
Such science might arise from a combination of history, sociology, mathematical statistics, behavioural economics, psychology and other fields. An attempt to create psychohistory was Karl Marx's historical materialism.
If this science is be developed before the Technological singularity, it could help those who have access to it to directly influence course of humanity's future.
Accepting this possibility significantly complicates our ability to predict events before the Singularity, or to influence them. It's like trying to plot a strategy in a game of chess when there is a rule that one of the players becomes able to read the mind of his opponent once there are 20 pieces left on the board.
In Socio-tech... the predictive science of societal behavior by Yonas et al. in the original NBIC report socio-tech was defined as "the predictive — not descriptive — science of the behavior of societies. It is the convergence of information from the life sciences, the behavioral sciences (including psychology and the study of cognition), and the social sciences."
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What is SEO (Search Engine Optimization)?
so what is SEO? The objectives for this post are to explain the importance of search engine optimization, describe search engine optimization, identify Search Engine Optimization components, and highlight the benefits of search engine optimization.
IMPORTANCE OF SEO :
Your website needs to appear one of the top positions. Users trust search engines and having a presence in the top positions for the keywords the user is searching increases the website’s trust, search engine optimization will also get more users to your website and provide a better user experience.
Search Engine Optimization or SEO is not only about search engines, but good SEO practices that improve the user experience and usability of a website. Next, it can help you earn a competitive edge.
Lastly, SEO has one of the best ROI in advertising. The reason for this is because SEO is an inbound marketing strategy that is it allows you to market to people when they are looking for products and services. Your business provides.
WHAT IS SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION?
MAIN COMPONENTS OF SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION
SEO foundations is based on the three main components of search engine optimization. Those are the users the humans around the world who are using search engines every day, the search engines themselves, and thus the optimizer.
So let’s start with the most important of these.
It’s the user. These are made up of hundreds of millions of people who just like you who use search engines like Google every day. These are people from all over the world searching with text with images and videos, all kinds of things. All of these are considered to be users. And they are what drives SEO.
2. SEARCH ENGINES
The search engines themselves. The most common one of these, of course, is Google. Google company is based in California. It’s dominating the arena of search right now and has been for a while, but it’s not the only player in the game.
In fact, there are a lot of other important players. The other search engines that are big in the United States are Yahoo, which you may have heard of because it’s been around for a long time, And Bing, which is owned by Microsoft.
Outside of the United States. There are some other search engines that are very important. First and foremost, we have Baidu, which has an enormous market share in China. Yandex has the most market share in Russia. And then Naver, which is very important, and has the most market share in South Korea. In addition to that, you have very specific search engines that do one thing very well. A great example of this would be Wolfram Alpha. Which works on computational knowledge, complex mathematics.
3. SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZER
Now, the third component is the search engine optimizer, SEO it’s an acronym and it can be a very confusing acronym because it means two different things. SEO stands for search engine optimization, which is the field, and search engine optimizer, which is the profession so if you remember that, you’ll get everything else. That’s the trickiest part of this opening section. So what does SEO do? Well, SEO does a lot of things. And actually, as we’ll talk about, it’s an increasing amount of roles. But the important thing to get is that an SEO focuses on influencing organic rankings in the search engines, so they don’t primarily work on the paid advertising side of search.
SEO AND SOCIAL MEDIA
Knowledge of SEO raises the level of an entire organization’s marketing through all channels.
First by researching and developing a clear list of targeted search terms as keywords. You can use that keyword list in the rest of your marketing. In this case, by utilizing keywords from your research your posts, articles, and interactions on social media. We’ll be using the right keywords to engage your audience. In addition, they also helped to raise the overall context of your social media interactions as connected to your website and overall marketing by having consistency in your keywords.
Second, social media does not have a direct effect on your SEO, but an indirect effect. Good articles or videos published to social media can generate links and links are a vital part of SEO rankings. Of course, optimizing your social content with keywords, links, and SEO techniques can help you gain more visibility and reach the right audiences.
SEO PROS AND CONS
The biggest mistake that SEO is making is using outdated techniques. Unfortunately, the worst place for SEO advice can be found on a search engine. You see, for more than 20 years, people have been trying to figure out how to gain rankings in the search engines, as they have found some exploit or marginal technique. They’ve told others. People have written articles, and they’ve been published online.
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2011 Grants - Rissman
CRF Receptor Antagonism in Alzheimer's Disease
Robert A. Rissman, Ph.D.
University of California - San Diego
La Jolla, California
2011 New Investigator Research Grant
The beta-amyloid protein fragment and abnormal tau protein are two key suspects in Alzheimer's disease. Both tend to aggregate into clumps in the Alzheimer's brain that hinder cell-to-cell communication and cause brain cell death. Beta-amyloid is produced from a larger molecule called amyloid precursor protein, while toxic tau is produced when normal tau is abnormally modified in a process called hyperphosphorylation. Current research suggests that stress may play a role in promoting Alzheimer's pathologies or brain changes.
In previous studies with rodents, Robert A. Rissman, Ph.D., and colleagues have found that a type of brain protein called corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF), which is produced in response to stress, may play a role in tau hyperphosphorylation. The researchers also found that by reducing the activity of a particular receptor, or "docking site," for CRF, they could dramatically reduce beta-amyloid levels in the animals.
For their current grant, Dr. Rissman and colleagues will use rats to learn more about the mechanisms underlying CRF's role in toxic tau and beta-amyloid production. They will also test various genetic and drug therapies for hindering Alzheimer's-related CRF activities. Results of this research could lead to the use of anti-CRF treatments for dementia in human clinical trials. | <urn:uuid:631a637a-92df-4ba3-a68f-b8042deb784b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.alz.org/research/alzheimers_grants/for_researchers/overview-2011.asp?grants=2011Rissman | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280504.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00145-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.925766 | 357 | 2.078125 | 2 |
a. Let f(z) = z + 1/z. Determine all points at which f(z) is analytic. Use the Cauchy-Riemann equations to determine f'(z).
b. Let v = (x^2 - y^2)^2. Determine if v is harmonic. If your answer is yes, find a corresponding analytic function f(z) = u(x,y) + iv(x,y).
c. Let f(z) = e^(-x)e^(-iy). Show that f(z) is analytic everywhere and determine its derivative.
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The European Commission has been cracking down on tax loopholes of late, and one that has come in for particular scrutiny is the 1991 deal between Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) and Ireland. It is investigating whether the agreement breaks European Union laws which prohibit state aid to companies. Both the Irish government and Apple have stated that they work in accordance with the law.
Fears for Apple’s financial results
Apple released its annual financial report this week, in which it warned investors that “if the Company’s effective tax rates were to increase, particularly in the U.S. or Ireland…the company’s operating results, cash flows and financial condition could be adversely affected.”
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Chicken vaccination wins EU backing
22 February 2006, AMSTERDAM — The vaccination of poultry in the Netherlands against the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu will begin in two to three weeks, Dutch agriculture Minister Cees Veerman said on Wednesday.
22 February 2006
AMSTERDAM — The vaccination of poultry in the Netherlands against the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu will begin in two to three weeks, Dutch agriculture Minister Cees Veerman said on Wednesday.
The government, vets and the hobby poultry sector need the intervening period to prepare for the massive vaccination programme.
The European Commission gave conditional approval earlier on Wednesday for a French and Dutch demand for the right to vaccinate millions of birds against avian influenza as a precaution. This is the first time the Commission has endorsed such a vaccination programme.
"The vaccination programmes are authorised only for specific birds in specified regions, and will be subject to rigorous surveillance and control requirements," the commission said in a statement.
"These include movement restrictions, strict monitoring of vaccinated flocks to ensure that there is no undetected outbreak of avian influenza, and careful record-keeping."
France and the Netherlands are the two largest poultry producers in the EU.
Veerman emphasised he could not give a guarantee that vaccinated birds would not be culled in the event of an outbreak of the deadly H5N1 strain. He said a decision whether to kill vaccinated birds would depend on the size and nature of the outbreak. "I would only grant permission in the event of an absolute veterinary emergency," he said.
Dutch officials said it was difficult to estimate at this stage how many private owners of poultry will apply to have their birds vaccinated. It will not be compulsory for people with hobby birds to have their birds injected.
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If you have only slightly failed to reach the grades you strived for your GCSE or A-Level exams, don’t despair! Rather than taking a year for a retake course, you may be able to do a short booster course, revising only a few units. And after that, you can easily make a second try with exams for a better result.
What is your detour option?
To secure your target grades, you need to evaluate what went wrong last time, identify the gaps in your knowledge, focus on examination techniques and practise-practise-practise past exam papers in the run up to the second round of exams. The highly-experienced tutors at Cherwell College Oxford are ready to support you in all these aspects and help you reach your goals.
Grade booster revision courses are popular among students striving for more. They are personalised exam revision tutoring sessions, where students focus on specific areas that require improvement in the subjects they retake. The lessons are on one-to-one basis or in small groups, and students need only one or two terms to follow their plan for successful grades.
Who can join and how long are the booster courses?
Booster courses are available for Year 11 GCSE candidates, Year 12, and Year 13 A-Level Students. Depending on the requirement, one or two-term booster courses are available for students ready to re-sit their exams at Cherwell College Oxford. Due to the personalised nature of these courses they are available for all the key GCSE and A-Level subjects.
Why boosters are of great help?
Quite often, after the results day, the feeling of perplexity stands in the way of understanding what needs to be revised to succeed during the second round. But boosters exist to come as a pill to soothe the pain! The accelerated booster courses are highly effective because they help fill the gaps in subject-knowledge, instead of going through the entire programme again.
Tutors of Cherwell College Oxford have a keen eye and vast experience in identifying the units students need to revise and focus on in order to reach their target grades. Moreover, they help to rebuild confidence by working on the specific exam techniques and setting mock exams for those who need to practise and overcome the exams’ anxiety.
However, if a student has fallen short of the targets by more than one grade, we recommend taking a full one-year retake course to pass exams successfully after revising the entire subject syllabus.
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Marijuana use is not on the rise.
At least, that's the gist of the National Survey on Drug Use and Health done every year by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. In 2008 — the most recent data available — 6.1 percent of Americans 12 and older admitted using marijuana in the previous month.
In absolute terms, that number is probably low; after all, this survey asks people to admit to using illegal drugs. But the real significance of the number is that it's steady — it's been hovering right around 6 percent since 2002. Drug researchers say the real percentage may be higher, but it's probably holding steady, too.
This graph shows the percent of those age 12 or older who said they used marijuana in the past month.
And yet, during those same years, marijuana has been edging toward legitimacy. States with medical marijuana laws have made it possible for thousands of people to buy pot over the counter, in actual stores. Some police departments have started de-emphasizing marijuana arrests.
Critics of liberalization believe this inevitably leads to greater consumption.
"It's axiomatic," says John Lovell, a lobbyist for California police chiefs. He's also helping to organize the campaign against an initiative in California to make marijuana legal for adults.
"Anytime you take a product — any product — from a less convenient sales forum to a more convenient sales forum, use increases," Lovell says.
But cities where marijuana have been liberalized have not seen a spike in consumption, so far. In 2003, voters in Seattle made marijuana the "lowest law enforcement priority" for city police. Researchers tracked the results. Caleb Banta-Green studies drug use trends at the University of Washington's Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute. He says self-reported consumption and pot-related emergency room visits remained flat, before, during and after the initiative went into effect.
Banta-Green says he gets similar reports from drug researchers in other cities.
"I'm not hearing stories on a regular basis that, 'There was liberalization in marijuana policies, and soon afterwards, usage rates increased dramatically,' " he says.
At the same time, says Banta-Green, places like Seattle already had high rates of pot consumption before enforcement was relaxed, so it's not surprising that there was no big increase.
And opponents of liberalization say even if overall consumption stays flat, looser enforcement may increase pot smoking among minors.
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In 1492, Granada finally fell to the Christian army of Ferdinand Isabella, the Spanish monarchies. To unify their country under Christianity and to increase their power, Isabella and Ferdinand made use of the Inquisition. This was a court held by the Church to suppress heresy.
What was the name of the courts of the Church to suppress heresy?
The Inquisition was a powerful office set up within the Catholic Church to root out and punish heresy throughout Europe and the Americas. Beginning in the 12th century and continuing for hundreds of years, the Inquisition is infamous for the severity of its tortures and its persecution of Jews and Muslims.
What is the region called Palestine where Jesus lived and preached?
Chapter 14 Test
|The pope who called for a holy war in 1093?||Urban II|
|The region called Palestine where Jesus lived and preached?||Holy Land|
|The practice of selling positions in the church?||Simony|
|The English King who was left to lead the third Crusade and regain the holy land?||Richard the lion Hearted|
What was the new style of church architecture?
What was the new style of Church Architecture? In early 1100s a new style known as Gothic envoled throughout midieval Europle. Gothic comes from a Germanic tribe named Goths.
What allowed villages to grow more food by organizing land into three fields instead of two?
|How many crusades were there between 1097 and 1192 AD?||Three|
|The _______________ allowed villages to grow more food by organizing land into three fields instead of two.||Three field system|
|A scholar in the 1200s named __________ said that logic could prove many religious truths.||Thomas Aquinas|
Which group was most responsible for the spread of the bubonic plague?
Chapter 14 Test Review
|What was the name of the legislative body of medieval England?||parliament|
|Which group was most responsible for the spread of the bubonic plague to Europe?||Traders|
|What was the purpose of the Reconquista?||To drive the Muslims out of Spain|
What three practices showed the Church needed reforming?
1. What three practices showed the Church needed reforming? The three practices such as the marriage of priests, simony; or the selling of positions in the Church and the appointment of bishops by kings showed that the Church needed reforming.
What was the practice of selling positions in the church?
Simony (/ˈsɪməni/) is the act of selling church offices and roles or sacred things.
Was a woman who helped rescue France from its English conquerors?
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Formation of Western Europe Vocabulary.
|Joan of Arc||a woman who helped rescue France from its English conquerors|
What problem was identified by Church reformers in medieval times?
Middle Ages Review
|What three problems were identified by Church reformers during the Middle Ages?||Village priests married and had families contrary to Church law. Kings, rather than Church leaders, appointed bishops. & Bishops sold positions in the Church for money.|
Why are churches so tall?
Firstly, climate wise, since church is a congregation space where a lot of people gather to pray, ceilings were designed so high to meet the scale of the same. The hot air rises up and it thus creates pleasant micro environment for the people.
Why are churches built in the shape of a cross?
Shape: they are most often built in a cruciform shape (cross shaped) Probably a fairly obvious reasoning behind this feature – the cross of course represents the cross in Christian teachings on which Jesus died for our sins.
Which church deviated from the traditional cross shape?
The Greek cross deviates in meaning from the traditional cross, which at the most basic level symbolizes the crucifixion.
Why did peasants move to the towns?
Peasants moved to the towns because, the population of western Europe grew quickly. … Towns grew larger and more important. Towns were dirty places, with narrow streets. Wooden houses in the towns were fire hazards.
Why did a system of record keeping develop in civilizations?
A system of record keeping developed in civilizations to keep track of important events. Government officials needed to document tax collections, the passage of laws, and the storage of grain. Priests also needs to keep track of the calendar and important rituals.
What economic changes resulted from food surpluses in agricultural villages?
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So the first "made it" isn't very exciting to the average human but...
...for someone who lived without her oven for a month, this is big! I finally got my new oven so I can actually cook and bake again! Check OUT this bad boy!
My first "made its" from the new oven?
|Hot beef for sandwiches on pretzel rolls. MMMMMM!!!|
One thing I have done in my class every year for AT LEAST 15 years is my "Unique of the Week". Some people call it "Star of the Week" or "Student of the Week"...you know the drill. What I do is send home a bag each week for the "Unique of the Week" to fill with photos, objects, special memories, and so on--about 10 minutes of sharing time. During the week, this student gets a special chair to sit in and a few other perks as well! They fill out a simple form that I have tucked in the bag before sending it home; they share the information on that form before sharing their goodies. We love getting to know each person a little better this way. I tell the students that they can bring the bag back ANY time during their week. This helps with students who have crazy weekends or might move from house to house. After the Unique of the Week shares, I ask the other students the same question every week.
"How many of you have something in common with ____?"
And guess what? They ALWAYS do!
|OK...this picture is a fail. The fabric pain I used on the handle has glitter in it. I just smoosh it around over the handles and the top margin of the bag to make it sparkle....|
|I trace the lines lightly in pencil then trace with the fabric paint.|
|Side one is complete!|
|The back just has the year and dots...each student after being "Unique of the Week" signs their name by a dot with Sharpie.|
Want to grab the freebie with the student form I use? Click the image below and it's yours!
Finally, I did make one addition to my store over the past week, and I have to say--I'm pretty excited about it! I have been frustrated in the past with graphing activities that have seemed too "lower level" and fill-in-the-blank-y for my taste. I thought and thought and finally came up with a set of activities that I think will push students' thinking and deepen understanding about graphs. Hope you like it!
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How does Baby B 4 Me work?
Baby B4 Me is a mobile application that connects parents and care providers outside of each other’s presence through a real chart update, a support net list, video, and text. For example, as a care provider myself, if the parent and I each have the app, I could check in while they are away and see that they would like the child to be fed at 6:00pm and put to bed at 8:00pm. When I had completed those tasks, I would check off the list. The parent would see in real-time that their child is on their routine, providing comfort to the parent while they are away.
Is your app currently available in the App Store, Google Play, or another marketplace? What’s the app’s price point?
No, Baby B 4 Me is not on any marketplace yet. Hopefully, by the end of the year, Baby B4 Me will be in the Apple store, and would have a download cost of $9.95. This cost would only be charged to the care provider. When the care provider pays for the app, they will receive a purchasing code to give their care provider. The care provider would log-in with the code and download the app at no additional charge.
Have you always been passionate about STEM, or is it something you kind of fell into? If so, what’s your earliest memory of getting involved in STEM?
STEM is something that I grew into. My school, Chicago Tech, is a technology school so we have been learning software development and coding since day one. I remember the first time I really got interested in STEM; it was during a summer STEM program at University of Illinois-Chicago. It was really fun and hands on–I think the hands on part is what really got me interested.
Why is it so important for young people to get involved in STEM?
It is very important for students to get involved in STEM because all of the jobs are developing a foundation in these particular areas. And STEM, to me, is the core of everything.
What’s next for you?
I am working on getting Baby B 4 Me into the App Store and patented.
Where do you see yourself in five years?
I see myself graduating with a master’s in nursing and a minor in computer programming.
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Your dermatologist is available to provide topical cream and other treatments for stings to help alleviate pain and itching. Contact your dermatologist for more information on how to properly care for your skin when an insect bites or stings you.
Should I go to dermatologist for bug bite?
A visit to a dermatologist is crucial if an individual experiences a bug bite, and subsequently feels abnormally tired, has headaches, body aches or rashes. To best avoid insect bites, covering up any exposed skin during outdoor activity can help.
What kind of doctor can identify bug bites?
Diagnosis of bug bites or stings
Your primary care doctor can diagnose and treat most insect bites or stings. Call 911 if you or your child experiences any of the following symptoms: Hives all over the body. Swelling in the mouth, throat, lips or tongue.
When should a bug bite be seen by a doctor?
Consider visiting a health clinic if you experience any of the following: Multiple stings or bites in a short period of time (regardless of immediate reaction) Rapidly spreading redness. New redness around the area starts more than 24 hours after the bite.
Can dermatologist diagnose bed bug bites?
BED BUGS BITES
More conclusive evidence of an infestation includes finding the signs of bedbugs in the sleeping environment. The patient will typically perform their own self-diagnosis. However, they might see a dermatology specialist because of unexplained bite marks or a skin infection due to scratching.
What helps bug bites heal faster?
Lifestyle and home remedies
- Apply a lotion, cream or paste. Putting calamine lotion or nonprescription hydrocortisone cream on the bite can help ease the itch. …
- Apply a cool compress. Try soothing the bite by applying a cold pack or a cool, moist cloth for a few minutes.
- Take an oral antihistamine.
What do spider bites look like on humans?
Typically, a spider bite looks like any other bug bite — a red, inflamed, sometimes itchy or painful bump on your skin — and may even go unnoticed. Harmless spider bites usually don’t produce any other symptoms. Many skin sores look the same but have other causes, such as a bacterial infection.
Do bug bites just go away?
Aside from a little irritation, they’re usually harmless and will clear on their own in just a few days. Not everyone has the same reaction, though, and it’s possible for a bite to result in small blisters, multiple bumps or bruise-like spots.
Do bug bites go away?
Don’t panic. Most bug bites and stings from common insects are harmless and heal quickly. But some bug bites and stings, like those from fire ants, wasps, hornets, and bees, may cause intense pain or even a serious allergic reaction. Others, like poisonous spider bites, require immediate emergency medical care.
How do you know if a bug bite is serious?
See your doctor if you have:
- Pain and swelling that extends to your stomach, back or chest.
- Stomach cramping.
- Sweating or chills.
- Body aches.
- Dark blue or purple area towards the center of the bite that may turn into a large wound.
What bug bites cause severe itching?
Chiggers. Chiggers come from the larvae of a type of mite and feed on vertebrates such as humans. Their bites produce a red welt with bright red dots in the center, accompanied by an intense and unrelenting itch.
What does an allergic reaction to an insect bite look like?
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سال انتشار: ۱۳۹۰
محل انتشار: نوزدهمین همایش سالانه مهندسی مکانیک
تعداد صفحات: ۴
M. Sepehrizadeh – MSc Student, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Babol Noshirvani University of Technology, Babol
A. Gorji – PhD Student, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Babol Noshirvani University of Technology, Babol
M. Bakhshi-Jooybari – Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Babol Noshirvani University of Technology, Babol
S. Norouzi – Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Babol Noshirvani University of Technology, Babol
Conical parts have a lot of usage in aerospace and special industries. These parts usually formed by spinning, explosive forming, multistage deep drawing. Due to their bad forming condition in conventional methods, some new forming methods have been explored to increase the drawing ratio, hydroforming is one of the more effective methods. In this study hydrodynamic deep drawing assisted by radial pressure is used to form the conical-cylindrical parts. Commercially pure copper is used in this research. The process is initially simulated using the FEM solver ABAQUS. Experiments have been conducted with different punch geometries. The punch geometries consist of conical and cylindrical wall segments. This paper examines the effect of cone angle on drawing ratio and thickness distribution of conical cups. Using the measurements of thickness variations on the cup wall, the quality of the cups drawn has been evaluated. The results of the study demonstrate that higher drawing ratio can be obtained by increase at cone angle and cause uniform thickness distribution. Also it was concluded that the conical-cylindrical parts had two critical regions at contact area of punch tip with the blank and the transition zone between the conical and cylindrical portions that variation at cone angle affected these regions and resulted to variation of these areas. It was proved that the results from the experiment and the simulation were in a reasonable agreement. | <urn:uuid:23fb6f18-8387-41fc-9a93-280593065f37> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.getpaper.ir/study-on-the-effect-of-cone-angle-on-drawing-ratio-and-thickness-distribution-in-hydrodynamic-deep-drawing-assisted-by-radial-pressure-of-conical-cylindrical-components.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283689.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00346-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.913211 | 493 | 1.710938 | 2 |
Apr 16, 2015 ACSAD (A Crystal Skull a Day) - Crystal Skull of Tranquility - Black Obsidian Carved Crystal Skull without Jaw Sculpture
Item ID:4804633 Size:6.0"x4.3"x4.7" (153x108x120mm) Weight: Material:Black Obsidian
The Crystal Skull of Tranquility is an exceptionally energetic crystal skull which clearly expresses a soothing and calming, yet quite potent presence. The Crystal Skull of Tranquility encourages each of us to foster within ourselves the attitudes and thoughts that promote our emotional and mental stillness and placidity. By doing this, we are able to maintain our optimal state of health, in our hearts and minds as well as physically, which in turn allows us to be more open and receptive to our spiritual reality and experiences.
The Crystal Skull of Tranquility encourages us to think again about the challenges and situations we experience with friends, acquaintances, and people we interact with. Where we find we have closed ourselves off to contact with others, the Crystal Skull of Tranquility helps us to understand this also means we are delaying our own personal growth. The Crystal Skull of Tranquility encourages us to remember that when we approach any challenge we face with love in our hearts, we will be motivated to manifest a positive solution which will be mutually beneficial for everyone. With a powerful expression of love and compassion, the Crystal Skull of Tranquility helps us to aspire to resolve our differences, and to let go of our expectations of how we think other people are, or should be.
Black obsidian has been used for scrying and facilitating intuition for thousands of years. It is an excellent stone to assist in seeing past illusion to discern truth, and to understand universal and spiritual laws, and oneself. Obsidian is considered an extremely effective stone of protection, and a very powerful energy mover, as well as an excellent filter for absorbing negativity from its surroundings. Obsidian can be programmed to transmute this negativity to a different expression of energy, or can be cleansed regularly by smudging with smoke, washing with running water, associating it with other crystals, and more methods.
Obsidian is effective for removal of blockages and bringing courage to face and overcome fears. Black obsidian is commonly considered to be quite powerful and caution is recommended when using it. It is wise to be prepared for the speed of the transfer of energy and information. Conscious programming prior to use is one way to address this quality of black obsidian. One explanation for the excessive power of obsidian could be the elemental forces at work during its formation. Volcanic lava, Earth and Fire, join with Water to cool the material so quickly there is no time for crystallization.
Black obsidian possesses an excellent grounding energy, and assists one to find and maintain a clear and focused mental acuity. It can help to temper emotional reactions and bring balance and consideration to one’s life and mental processes. It protects against negativity and assists one to release disharmony, resentment of self and others, and anger and fear caused by one’s reactions to the situations and challenges one faces as a part of life.
Physically black obsidian is used for pain relief and detoxifying the body. It speeds healing of wounds, improves circulation and brings warmth to the extremities, assists in the digestion processes, helps reduce cravings for foods, and can be helpful for reducing an enlarged prostate.
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Turkey and Armenia have been talking recently about normalizing relations, but they're divided still by conflicting accounts of mass killings of Armenians that happened almost a century ago. The World's Aaron Schachter reports.
Armenia's president is about to make history by signing an agreement with Turkey. Many Armenians living abroad feel it absolves Turkey of responsibility for what they call the Genocide of 1915. The World's Aaron Schachter has more.
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The conflict in Gaza hasn’t stopped Israelis from joining the viral sensation that has flooded the Internet: the ALS ice bucket challenge, which calls on people to post videos of themselves dumping buckets of ice water over their heads to raise awareness for Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, the neurodegenerative disease colloquially known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.
Actors, diplomats, politicians, prominent Israelis and U.S. Jews have been subjecting themselves to the big freeze and challenging others to do the same.
Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, Ron Prosor, joked before he doused himself that the experience was nothing new for him “as I usually get a chilly reception” at the UN. He challenged UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, “who spends most of his time trying to break the ice between countries," U.S. ambassador to the UN Samantha Power, “who is trying to put ISIS on ice,” and Israeli singer Rita, whose concert at the UN a year ago “melted hearts,” to follow suit.
The challenge, which requires anyone who undertakes it to nominate others, was inspired by a 29-year-old former athlete Peter Frates, who suffers from ALS. It has spread from his Boston peers to police chiefs, celebrities and pop stars, helping the ALS Foundation raise millions of dollars. Not bad for what’s essentially a giant digital game of freeze tag.
Jewish celebrities – from Adam Levine to Mark Zuckerberg – have enthusiastically taken up the cause. Appropriately enough, given that her name means “water” in Hebrew, actress Mayim Bialik also took up the challenge.
The phenomenon moved into the political arena last weekend when Justin Bieber called on President Obama to douse himself in ice. In Israel, PR guru Rani Rahav nominated both Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara. So far, neither head of state has obliged.
Even without a personal invitation from the Bieb, politicians in Israel have begun taking up the challenge. Two members of Knesset have filmed themselves speaking about ALS awareness, then succumbing to buckets of ice – probably just about tolerable in August in Israel.
Yesh Atid Knesset Member Dov Lipman, in a full suit and tie, announces in both Hebrew and English that he’s “bringing the challenge to the Knesset,” and urged three other MKs to take part as well.
At least one other MK, Eitan Cabel, has taken up the cause, as did U.S. ambassador to Israel, Dan Shapiro.
Not to be outdone, the famously media-savvy Israel Defense Forces has tried to redirect some of the viral attention to its own cause – the ongoing battle with Hamas that has so far claimed thousands of lives.
IDF soldier Corey Feldman, 26, and two peers decided to eschew ice entirely and create the “Hamas vs. Hummus” challenge. (In Israel, after all, the iconic chickpea spread is more plentiful than water.)
In a video, three IDF soldiers in full uniform smear their faces with hummus, nominating others (and offering the option of donating to charity Friends of the IDF instead, in case nominees are hummus-averse).
“Hamas is bad, hummus is good,” says one soldier astutely, his cheeks lathered beige.
It’s doubtful whether the Hummus Challenge will achieve quite the viral status that the Ice Bucket Challenge has. All controversy aside, one can only surmise that many IDF supporters would cringe at this scandalous waste of hummus – which obviously should be smeared on pita, not faces.
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From Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852–1912, by Donald Keene (Columbia U. Press, 2005), Kindle pp. 256-257:
The first meeting between representatives of the two countries lasted for four days. The negotiations were conducted with ritual politeness on both sides but consisted mainly of repetitions of familiar arguments. The Japanese wanted to know why their attempts to secure a treaty of peace and friendship had been consistently rebuffed; the Koreans in return wanted to know why the Japanese had used titles for their emperor that put him on an equal footing with the emperor of China, thereby placing Korea in a subordinate position. After denying any intent of asserting suzerainty over Korea, the Japanese asked why their ship had been fired on at Kanghwa. The Koreans answered that because the Japanese marines were dressed in European-style uniforms, they were mistaken for either French or Americans. They failed to apologize, saying merely that the provincial officials had not recognized that the ships were Japanese. The Japanese delegates then demanded why the Korean government had not informed its provincial officials of the flags flown by Japanese ships and insisted that this required an apology. The Korean commandant replied that he was charged only with receiving the Japanese visitors; he was not authorized to make an apology.
The negotiations dragged on, interrupted by periods of consultation between the Korean commissioners and their government in Seoul, but on February 27, 1876, a treaty of friendship was at last signed between Japan and Korea. After the signing ceremony, the Japanese offered presents to the Koreans, not only the traditional bolts of silk, but a cannon, a six-shooter, a pocket watch, a barometer, and a compass. The gifts (with the exception of the silk) were strikingly like those the Americans had given the Japanese when the first treaty between the two nations was signed, and the treaty itself had almost identical significance: Japan was “opening” Korea, the hermit nation, to diplomatic relations and to trade. One Western scholar later commented,
As the Western Powers had done with herself, so did she now, without one particle of compunction, induce Korea to sign away her sovereign rights of executive and tariff autonomy, and to confer on Japanese residents within her borders all the extraterritorial privileges which were held to violate equity and justice when exercised by Europeans in Japan.
When word of the signing of the treaty reached the diplomatic community in Tōkyō, the ministers of the various countries asked for an audience with the emperor so that they might express their congratulations. The emperor invited them to a banquet at the Shiba Detached Palace, where each minister had the opportunity to convey joy over the signing of the treaty and hopes for greater and greater friendship between Japan and Korea. | <urn:uuid:1342659b-6ea6-4150-b183-5cdc5fdb4f11> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://faroutliers.wordpress.com/2021/12/22/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00068.warc.gz | en | 0.981752 | 560 | 3.09375 | 3 |
Eat meals together as a family.
Experts say that families reap enormous emotional benefits when
its members regularly eat meals together: Family communication is
better, people eat more nutritiously, and the behavior of children is
better overall. All of this means that your household is less a den of
stress than a harmonious oasis.
Make your own healthful selections at the supermarket.
If you aren't the primary grocery shopper for the family, hit the supermarket with your spouse and make sure that the shopping cart contains foods that you like that also fit into your eating plan. This will increase the odds that home-cooked meals are appealing to you and help you reach your goals for weight loss and blood sugar control. It also will reduce the chances of arguments cropping up over menu selection.
Downsize—don't eliminate—the junk food in your cupboard.
Unless you do all of the household food shopping, you may feel as if you don't have much control over whether tempting foods enter your house.On the other hand, you might also be reluctant to ban all junk foods and "punish" your family. There is a middle ground: Ask the family shopper to buy those tempting foods in smaller sizes—half of a cake instead of a whole one, for instance, small containers of ice cream, and small bags of potato chips. If you end up indulging in these items, you'll at least have some automatic portion control.
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Create a playbook of healthful recipe favorites.
Ask each person in your household to scour cookbooks, food magazines, and the Internet for healthful recipes that look appealing. Try them out and put the "keepers" in your recipe file. Teach every family member how to make these meals—or at least the ones that they chose—so the daily cooking duties don't just fall on one person. The more involved (and proud) your family members are of their cooking contributions, the more fun healthy eating will be.
Flank less-healthy entrées with bowls of veggies.
On a night when the main dish at dinner does not fit with your meal plan, set a large bowl of raw or steamed vegetables on the table as a side dish. Take just a small portion of the entrée and extra helpings of the vegetable. Other members of your family probably won't be as meticulous about healthful eating as you, but that's okay. When you show this kind of flexibility, everyone will be satisfied by the household's dinner fare over the long haul.
Start a compost pile.
Many families have a "clean your plate" rule that just encourages everyone to overeat. However, when there's an earth-friendly way to recycle excess food, leaving food on your plate will not seem so wasteful. Plant-based table scraps and the trimmings from fruits and vegetables go in the pile. Turning your compost pile with a shovel once a week and dumping in your grass clippings will add a little more physical activity to your life as well.
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When schedules conflict, adjust your eating.
Say your son is playing his big clarinet solo in a talent show at noon, right when you should be having lunch. Why not pack your meal in a refrigerated lunch bag? To hold you over during the performance, eat half of your sandwich during the car ride to the show, and eat the rest of your lunch as soon as it's over. | <urn:uuid:0d540814-ffef-4b7a-a19b-15201f37b847> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.rd.com/health/healthy-eating/7-healthy-family-dining-tips/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283008.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00084-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965285 | 710 | 2.21875 | 2 |
Don't be too satisfied...
You know, the olympic games usually make me a cheery person, but a pair of articles that have been making the rounds of the intertubes have been making me a little cranky.
The first is an article in the Wall Street Journal about the trials and tribulations that the city of Boulder, Colorado is going through to reduce it's carbon footprint through incentives. The carrot isn't working even in the most self identified liberal places. The truth is that whether on the right or the left, people are people. Self sacrifice is hard. I was amazed by the success of Arduous gave up buying anything new for a year, but even Arduous will admit that it was not easy.
In full disclosure, I spent part of my childhood in Boulder, grew up outside of Boulder. The results don't surprise me since one does not know if one holds a value until it is seriously challenged and one has to act on that value. And Boulder is just too comfortable to be challenged in any meaningful way. That leads me to ...
The other article that is making the rounds is the TED Talk by Jamie Oliver on encouraging food education to every child in America. In this talk he spoke about the obesity and his efforts to educate the residents of Huntington, West Virginia how to cook and live within their means. He identifies the usual, and correct culprits in his talk. My sense is the people in the audience felt very self congratulatory. Yes, we know that obesity is bad. We need to do something comes out of the spirit of the talk. And then we all fall into the trap that afflicts those that know better.
Knowledge is Power
No, hate to tell you this, knowledge is not power, knowledge is a tool. It allows you to change your actions, but it does not in and of itself have any power. It's very easy to look at others and go they should do something. But it't hard to do that when you live in a bubble. Take a look at the following chart from the WSJ.com article:
Now Boulder is above the national average, and I can almost guarantee that Huntington is below the national average in these same categories. And it is easy to go to TED and intellectualize the problem, and I for some reason I have a feeling that more people from Boulder have gone to TED than from Huntington. Credit goes to Oliver that he actually went and lived in Huntington to experience the challenges that are out there for regular people. So the danger of the affluent left, is to think that their normality is normal, that it is not privileged and that knowing about the problem is enough. That self-satisfaction is dangerous, especially when you have the mechanisms to choose. That ultimately is what Jamie Oliver is trying to do is say that people should be educated and choose. But what happens when you are educated and you still choose poorly.
I'll close this blog post out with another link, and that is to the blog of the website OKCupid and their analysis of people's behavior when they think people are not looking. Most people I think will not identify themselves or their friends as racists. And if not being racist is not judging people by their race. (slightly more restrictive than judging people exclusively by their race) than the data is disconcerting. Again, the knowledge is racism is bad, but not bad when when it applies to our personal decisions. Cognitive dissonance is rampant and until we face and act on that knowledge it'll be difficult to make changes. This is why I am for architectural changes so that people act. If there is a corner you can cut, you will. Make it so you can't.
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September 30, 2013
Federal employees forced off the job during a government shutdown may have to turn in their government-issued BlackBerrys, iPhones and other mobile devices Tuesday morning, according to White House guidance on technology matters.
“Prohibitions of the Antideficiency Act extend to work performed from outside of the office, including via mobile devices or remote computer connections,” according to a Sept. 17 memo issued by the Office of Management and Budget.
The Antideficiency Act makes it illegal for the federal government to engage in activities for which it is not funded. The law does, however, allow for employees and services deemed “essential” to continue working, creating significant challenges for technology administrators who must determine how their systems and networks will continue to support essential functions without violating prohibitions against performing unfunded operations.
OMB’s guidance gives agencies responsibility for parsing the law’s requirements in the electronic age. Officials are to conduct “orderly shutdown procedures” Tuesday morning, but those procedures, which should take no more than two to three hours to complete, should not rely on notifying employees via smartphone or home access to work email. In other words, employees will have to come into the office to learn they are not allowed to continue working.
“Agencies have discretion to enforce these access restrictions in light of their own particular needs,” OMB wrote. “Some may choose, for example, to include in orderly shutdown activities a requirement that furloughed employees turn in their Blackberries until they return to the office; others may determine that circumstances warrant a different approach,” the memo said.
Most agencies did not specifically address the issue of government-supplied cellphones, tablets and other mobile devices in the guidance they provided employees, but there were some exceptions:
The Housing and Urban Development Department told workers: “You are prohibited from using HUD-provided devices (such as laptops, Blackberries, iPads, cell phones) during the furlough. You are also prohibited from using remote access to HUD email, HUDmobile, HUD business systems, or other HUD provided electronic capabilities.”
In its guidance to staff, the State Department said, "non-excepted employees should turn off all department-provided mobile devices, and excepted personnel should not communicate with non-excepted employees. For purposes of communicating work status to non-excepted employees, supervisors should have employee personal contact information on file."
It's not clear how employees will know in all cases which of their colleagues have been furloughed.
At NASA, no furloughed employees may access their work email or voicemail accounts or use BlackBerrys or other government-issued mobile devices. However, some furloughed employees may be designated as “on call” for emergency needs during the shutdown. Those employees are expected to regularly check email, or if that’s not available to them for some reason, to use alternative means to stay in contact with agency officials.
“No other use is permitted by any furloughed employee,” the NASA guidance states. “Employees who use NASA IT resources, such as their email account, for personal use under the acceptable use policy should make other arrangements prior to shutdown if they may want to receive such during the shutdown (e.g., change the destination for personal email).”
How will those employees know when to return to work? “The Office of Personnel Management will post operating status on their website at www.opm.gov,” the guidance notes. But employees will have to use their personal computers to do that.
This story has been updated.
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What to bring:
Students need knowledge and experience with C programming.
Laptops should be 32-bit and installed with the following:
Windows XP (Windows 2000 is acceptable)
Windows Device Driver Development Kit (DDK)
Windbg, which is free from Microsoft
Working Microsoft Symbols for your OS which you can download from Microsoft (Optional)
Rootkits are the primary tool used by malware to hide on a computer system. Take the next step in rootkit technology. This new 2nd-generation class teaches virtual memory subversion, fun with desktop firewalls, building kernel-mode command & control channels, and how to use in-memory rootkits without using device drivers or on-disk executables.
Covered in detail will be
- Memory subversion, including page table manipulation and the 'Shadow Walker' technique of Translation Lookaside Buffer (TLB) desynchronization
- How and where desktop firewalls hook to monitor communication
- Kernel-mode networking hooks for a TCP/IP 2-way command and control channel
- Loading and installation of rootkits without leaving a persistent device driver or executable binary on the filesystem
For those students less familiar with the tricks rootkits employ, we will still briefly cover the following topics with hands-on, coding exercises:
- Structure of a basic kernel-mode device driver
- How to load/unload a rootkit
- Interrupt hooking
- How to hide files and directories
- How to hide processes
- Attaching to the network
- Hardware level access
- Modifying memory descriptors
- Modifying kernel objects directly
The student will install a debug monitor and be able to send debug data out of the kernel driver. For students who do not have SoftIce, the instructors will project an interactive SoftIce session so the students can observe single stepping and other features of the kernel debugger. If students have trouble with their rootkit, the instructors will install the rootkit on the demonstration server and help debug the code. The student should leave this class with a working rootkit of their own effort.
Who should take the course?
This class is not intended for people who wish to learn about device drivers or Windows programming - we will not be covering any device driver technology or the kernel mode API's under Windows. The techniques offered in this course are directed at a Windows platform, but are generic enough to be applied in the UNIX environment as well. This class is designed for people wishing to gain an intimate and advanced knowledge of how rootkits operate. This includes practitioners who wish to build their own rootkit technology and security experts who simply want to further their understanding of the rootkit threat. This is an advanced course and the student must be able to code in the 'c' language. If you already code rootkits for UNIX, this class will give you the basics for converting your skills to a Windows platform. If you have never coded a rootkit this will be a great opportunity to get started and you will leave the class with real skills you can put to use in the field.
- Students need knowledge and experience with C programming.
- Laptops should be 32-bit and installed with the following:
- Network card
- Windows XP (Windows 2000 is acceptable)
- Windows Device Driver Development Kit (DDK)
- Windbg, which is free from Microsoft http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/debugging/installx86.mspx
- Working Microsoft Symbols for your OS which you can download from Microsoft http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/DevTools/Debugging/symbolpkg.mspx
- SoftIce (Optional)
Students are encouraged to
- Review the basic_* examples in Hoglund’s vault on rootkit.com
- Get the examples working on their laptop
- Compile basic_3.zip with the DDK
- Load the driver with InstDriver also in Hoglund’s vault
- Watch the messages in DebugView (http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/DebugView.html)
- Use the FU rootkit from rootkit.com to hide a process
- Read chapters 4, 5, 7, and 9 from "Rootkits: Subverting the Windows Kernel" for a good foundation on rootkit techniques
- Read "Shadow Walker: Raising The Bar For Windows Rootkit Detection" from phrack.org. The class will cover the more technical details of the paper, so a high-level understanding of the basic concepts presented in the paper is sufficient
Greg Hoglund is the CEO and founder of HBGary, Inc., and Jamie Butler joined the company two years ago as Director of Engineering. The company offers the Inspector reverse engineering tool suite and services for kernel development and vulnerability research.
Greg and Jamie recently authored one of 2005’s best selling computer security books, Rootkits: Subverting the Windows Kernel, and are active maintainers of the website http://www.rootkit.com.
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Chemistry SM-1131 Week 5 Lesson 1. Dr. Jesse Reich Assistant Professor of Chemistry Massachusetts Maritime Academy Fall 2008. Class Today. Test Wednesday Poem Movie Review: Periodic Table, Isotopes and Atomic Mass Atomic Mass Review for the test. Quote.
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Chemistry SM-1131Week 5 Lesson 1
Dr. Jesse Reich
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Massachusetts Maritime Academy
Just be careful because change will hurt.
Hydrogen is the element
1 is the atomic number
1.0079 is the atomic mass
Groups/families are up and down
Rows/periods are left to right
Group 1. Alkali Metals
Group 2. Alkaline Earth Metals
Group 3-12 Transition Metals
Group 17. Halogens
Group 18. Noble Gases
Main group 1,2 13-18
H, C, N, O, P, S, Se are organic elements
B, Si, Ge, As, Sb, Te, Po are metaloids
It’s an average mass of all the different isotopes.
(%abundance * mass) + (%abundance*mass) etc… = atomic mass
20.00*.9038 + 21.00*.0027 + 22.00*.0925 = 20.1677 = 20.17 amu = atomic mass
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Shortest distance between Mason and Hamilton is 13.7 miles (22.05 km).
Flight distance from Mason, OH to Hamilton, OH is 13.7 miles. Estimated flight time is 00 hours 01 minutes.
The driving distance from Mason, Ohio to Hamilton, Ohio is: 14.78 miles (23.79 km) by car.
Driving from Mason to Hamilton will take approximately 00 hours 20 minutes.
The distance between Mason and Hamilton is 24 km if you choose to drive by road. You can go 00 hours 15 minutes if you drive your car at an average speed of 90 kilometers / hour. For different choices, please review the avg. speed travel time table on the below.
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A car with a fuel efficiency of 8.3 l/100 km will need 1.97 liters (0.52 gallon) of gas to cover the route between Mason and Hamilton.
The estimated cost of gas to go from Mason to Hamilton is $2.14 (diesel $2.53).
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When employers evaluate health benefit plans for their employees, factors such as coverage, cost and customer service are typically cited as most important.
However, companies nationwide are looking for innovative ways to improve employee health and more effectively manage how much they spend on medical care, including adopting new value-based care approaches that shift how care is paid for and delivered.
Under value-based care arrangements, the healthcare providers that employees use are paid for achieving certain quality outcomes and demonstrating that they're improving people's health, rather than getting paid solely for the number of services they provide to patients. In other words, they're paid for value over volume. Value-based care arrangements can come in many forms for care providers, including performance-based contracts that tie specific portions of their compensation to achieving certain quality measures, or accountable care organizations that fully integrate both payment models and clinical services with the health plan.
Focusing on value also has the potential to help reduce our nation's overall healthcare costs. Nationwide we spend more than $2 trillion a year on healthcare; more than one-third of it considered wasteful. Companies and consumers deserve more for their healthcare dollars, and they should be receiving and paying for care that is based on proven quality measures and takes into consideration their specific healthcare needs.
One of the value-based care arrangements gaining interest among employers, especially companies that self-fund their health plans, is called a bundled payment. The bundled payment method reimburses a healthcare provider or hospital for a defined episode of care under a single fee or payment. For example, all services immediately prior to, during and after knee replacement or cancer treatments are sometimes being lumped into a bundled payment. This is a shift away from the common fee-for-service structure in which a care provider is paid separately for each treatment, appointment or test during a treatment plan, generating multiple claims within a single, broader episode of care.
Employers are increasingly using bundled payments for employees who undergo musculoskeletal procedures, which are becoming increasingly common due to an aging population and higher obesity rates. By 2030, the number of knee replacement surgeries performed nationally is expected to increase by 500%, according to a recent study from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project. Moreover, these surgical procedures are expensive (knee/hip replacements average $35,000 per operation), and costs vary widely among care providers.
A new UnitedHealthcare program with healthcare facilities nationwide, including The Christ Hospital in Cincinnati, is using a bundled payment for knee, hip and spine procedures, and participating employers have recorded an average savings of $10,000 or more per operation when compared with median costs in the same metropolitan area. Meanwhile, employees having the surgery may save $1,000 in lower out-of-pocket costs when accessing an in-network facility that accepts bundled payments.
Bundled payments are part of more than $52 billion of UnitedHealthcare's payments to hospitals, physicians and other providers that are tied to value-based care arrangements. By the end of 2018, that number is expected to reach $65 billion.
The shift toward increased collaboration, outcome-based payment and new benefit designs is transforming how we pay for healthcare and how healthcare is delivered. Employers play an important role in bringing these new approaches to life by incorporating them into the benefits for the more than 155 million Americans with commercial insurance.
Value-based payment methods are helping make better, higher-quality and lower-cost care a reality.
By: Sam Ho, Tim Cappel
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Nobody seems to want to get snail mail these days, and there have been a number of stories about how this is bound to boost the so far disappointing online banking sector.
Not exactly. Most banks offer services where you can pay your bills online. But you still have to get them in the mail.
But there are alternatives to those online banking "payment only" sites that are definitely seeing a surge of interest these days, as fears about anthrax being transmitted through the mail increase.
For example, banks have allowed customers to arrange automatic deductions to pay recurring bills for years. A newer, Internet-based option is a called a bill management service. These companies collect all your bills and present them online for you to pay. You can also go to individual Web sites and arrange to see and pay your bills electronically each month.
"It's too early to really have any statistics, but anecdotally, we are hearing that people are looking at all kinds of different alternatives to getting their bills paid, from direct deductions, to calling up on the phone and arranging automatic transfers to Internet solutions," said Julie Malveaux, a spokeswoman for the American Bankers Association.
There's nothing particularly new or high tech about having automatic deductions for your monthly mortgage or car payments taken from your checking account. Yet the ABA suggests even traditional services are seeing renewed interest among nervous customers.
When it comes to electronic bill management, this is where today's tragedies could turn into serious growth opportunities. These are the companies that consolidate your bills and send them to you online. The industry has shown snail-like growth in the past.
The Yankee Group, a Boston consulting firm, predicted the industry would grow from 7.3 percent of American households to 9.1 in 2001. In light of the recent reluctance of consumers to get mail, the group is revising those figures upward to 9.4 percent.
"We think the postmaster's statements about the safety of mail will definitely push people to try these services who never had a reason to use them before," said analyst Lisa Cebollero.
But while the industry is desperate for consumer awareness, it doesn't want to appear ghoulish in its desire to take advantage of the current situation.
"We want people using these services because they are convenient and improve cash flow control, not because they don't trust the Post Office," said Robert Unger, director of electronic billing and payment for NACHA Electronic Payment Assn. (formerly the National Automated Clearinghouse Assn.).
Here are how some of these options work:
If you want to handle your bill paying chores online and avoid getting physical mail yourself, then you need to go to companies like the U.S. Postal Service, AOL, Yahoo! and Quicken, among others and look for their bill consolidation services. The fee for collecting your bills, including having paper versions redirected to the service ranges from $4 to $12 a month. You must authorize them to debit your bank account or charge your credit card.
When you use direct online billing, you do all the work, going to each Web site each month to see and pay your bills electronically. Typically only utilities and major credit card issuers offer this, but it is free. Some, like AT&T, are so enthusiastic about the idea, they even offer incentives to pay this way.
Online shopping may or may not benefit from the current climate of fear and anxiety. On one hand, Internet rumors about malls being targets of terrorists could very well encourage consumers to turn to the keyboard for their holiday shopping this year.
Yet, the same anxiety about the mail that is boosting online financial services could hurt e-commerce. A lot of people may not be comfortable getting unexpected packages this year, even around Christmas.
One way to handle that problem would be to call or e-mail gift recipients and give them all the data you have on where the package is coming from and how and when it is being shipped.
It may take a little of the fun out of Christmas, but as the year 2001 comes to a close, no one needs any more surprises.
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The dangerous process of collecting honey
Have you ever heard anything about how the Nepalese honey hunters mined. Probably not every person to receive this honor. One photographer who traveled the country, managed to shoot unique pictures of how people extract the honey. This is very dangerous, but at the same time, they observe the most ancient tradition, which has created the nations Gurugngi.
In the year it happens a few times, people climb the rock, which is located in the central part of Nepal and start a real hunt for the «precious» honey. What’s interesting is that the people using all the same tools that were used by their ancestors before them. That is, the manual rope ladder, and very sharp bamboo poles.
But then we must remember that they must be used very carefully, in order to accurately chipping honeycomb with honey, then they should be also carefully placed in a hanging basket. Looking at this process, it can be called, so the ritual itself, which is transmitted from generation to generation. For starters, they pay tribute to the bees themselves, that is, except for the fact that they pray, they also bring their gifts, it can be rice, flowers, and fruits.
Women to this ritual in any case not allowed. And before that, he could not even look at it. After the prayer read by hunters kindle fire and smoke bees, after which the men descend and begin the process of collecting honey.
What’s interesting is that the fall, they will not be afraid, but to take away the honey bees, which are the largest in the world, yes, it’s very scary. These bees, the size can reach 7 cm and character they are very aggressive. So, they work very hard, but that’s how delicious honey, with nothing to compare. If you want to see a great process, it is necessary to know exactly when the season starts collecting and come here. | <urn:uuid:858a532a-bf34-4d4f-ae03-bc13eeb5849d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://set-travel.com/ru/world/en_interesting-facts/9265-the-dangerous-process-of-collecting-honey | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00475.warc.gz | en | 0.970009 | 402 | 2.4375 | 2 |
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Another consumer has fallen ill amid the multistate outbreak of hepatitis A infections linked to fresh organic strawberries.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported "one additional probable case related to this outbreak," raising the total number of outbreak-related cases to 18 within three states.
To date, 13 of the 18 people that reported illnesses, about 72%, have been hospitalized, according to the CDC, which updated the total number of cases on June 7.
FDA INVESTIGATING HEPATITIS A OUTBREAK LINKED TO ORGANIC STRAWBERRIES SOLD AT MAJOR RETAILERS
The outbreak-associated cases of hepatitis A have been reported in California, Minnesota, and North Dakota. Previously, the CDC reported 17 infections and 12 hospitalizations.
To date, no deaths have been reported since the federal officials began investigating the outbreak that's likely linked to fresh organic strawberries branded as FreshKampo and HEB and imported from Baja California, Mexico.
Of the people who were interviewed, the CDC reported that 11 out of 14 people reported eating fresh organic strawberries before becoming ill.
The potentially affected products are past shelf life and are no longer on store shelves. However, they were sold between March and April at major retailers. According to federal officials, the affected product may have been sold at stores including HEB, Kroger, Safeway, Sprouts Farmers Market, Trader Joe’s, Walmart, Weis Markets and WinCo Foods.
STRAWBERRY TEA RECALLED OVER HEPATITIS A CONCERNS
Urban Remedy also recalled one of its products, which may have been made with strawberries linked to this outbreak.
Certain lots of its Urban Remedy Organic Revitalizing Tea Tonic Strawberry Hibiscus Rose have the "potential to be contaminated with Hepatitis A," according to a recall notice posted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
People with hepatitis A can feel sick for a few weeks or up to several months. They can develop symptoms including, but not limited to, yellow skin or eyes, upset stomach, stomach pain, nausea, tiredness, joint pain, diarrhea or fever, according to the CDC.
In rare cases, it can cause liver disease and death, according to the CDC, although most people who become infected fully recover within a few weeks.
The CDC recommends that consumers contact their health care provider if they have eaten these organic strawberries, fresh or frozen, within the last two weeks and are not vaccinated against hepatitis A.
According to the CDC, "Hepatitis A can be prevented with a vaccine, which is recommended for all children at one years old and adults at risk."
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The 12 year established CWSA organisation created the biggest and most prestigious wine and spirits competition in China and is named by CNN as ”the most influential wine and spirits competition in the world“.
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The state of Arkansas is contained in 52,068 square miles and is populated by almost 3 million people. Arkansas was admitted to the union on June 15, 1836. The capital and largest city in Arkansas is Little Rock. There are seventy-five counties in Arkansas, Pulaski County being the largest and most populated. Arkansas is represented in the United States Congress by 2 senators and 4 members in the House of Representatives. The food products industry is the largest source of employment in Arkansas, followed closely by lumber and wood products. Arkansas is also one of the largest producers of cotton, rice and soybeans.
Through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), Arkansas is bound to make certain documents available to the public. This means the public has access to state agency rules and methods of operation, as well as the documents and information those agencies maintain. Meetings of state agencies and organizations typically fall under the Freedom of Information Act as well, allowing the public to view meeting minutes which help provide transparency as to the operation of the various state agencies.
Arkansas criminal records are maintained and provided through the Arkansas State Police. An individual representing an employer or a professional licensing board may access an online request for a criminal history check. Individuals outside of the above listed categories who wish to obtain a criminal history of an individual, must submit a manual record request in person or by mail to the Arkansas State Police Identification Bureau. This request will result in a record of felony and misdemeanor convictions in Arkansas.
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The district courts also have jurisdiction over small claims, which include cases where the amount in dispute ranges from $0 to $5,000. As with the city courts, the district courts have jurisdiction to hear cases involving misdemeanors and hear preliminary proceedings. The Arkansas circuit courts have jurisdiction to hear cases involving tort, contract, real property rights ($100/no maximum), and miscellaneous civil cases.
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The Arkansas court of appeals have mandatory jurisdiction in civil, noncapital criminal, administrative agency, juvenile, interlocutory decision cases. It has no discretionary jurisdiction. The Arkansas supreme court has mandatory jurisdiction in civil, capital criminal, criminal, administrative agency, lawyer disciplinary, certified questions from federal courts, original proceeding, interlocutory decision cases. Its jurisdiction is discretionary regarding civil, noncapital criminal, administrative agency cases.
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an implementation of Python in Common Lisp
CLPython is an open-source implementation of Python written in Common Lisp.
It aims to bridge the Python and Lisp worlds, so you can:
The project was started in 2006, and is currently (2013) not under active development anymore.
The clpython-devel mailing list is closed, but the archives (2006 - 2013) are available.
You can now report issues, ideas and patches via the GitHub issue tracker.
You can download and install CLPython using Quicklisp, which will resolve dependencies automatically:
Or use ASDF.
The CLPython source code repository is hosted on GitHub:
CLPython can be run in the following Common Lisp implementations:
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In the early days of World War II in Italy, Anna, a young widow who runs a small orphanage, carefully wraps her most cherished possessions-a dozen hand-blown, German-made, Christmas ornaments, handed down by her mother-and sends them to a cousin she hasn't seen in years. Anna is distressed to part with her only tangible reminder of her mother, but she worries that the ornaments will be lost or destroyed in the war, especially now that her orphanage has begun to secretly shelter Jewish children. Anna's young cousin Filomena is married with two-year-old twins when she receives the box of precious Christmas glass. After the war, Filomena emigrates to America, where the precious ornaments are passed down through the generations. After more than forty years, twelve people come to possess a piece of Christmas glass, some intimately connected by family bonds, some connected only through the history of the ornaments. As Christmas Day approaches, you'll join each character in a journey of laughter and tears, fractures and healings, as Filomena, now an eighty-four-year-old great-grandmother, brings them all to what will be either a wondrous reunion or a disaster that may shatter them all like the precious glass they cherish.
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In making this digression on the fate of the lost State, my desire has been to set out fully the situation that the Federal Government was called upon to face during the three first days from September 23 to 25. The few broken wireless messages, such as that brought to them by my friend Turnbull, warned the authorities that a major calamity had overwhelmed Western Australia. Sydney was in ruins, and stories of destruction of Newcastle and Port Kembla added to the ill tidings had thrown the people into a condition bordering on panic. Then over all came the report of the landing force at Port Stephens, the extent of which was at the moment unknown. Silence from Darwin added to the list of misfortune the certainty that it, too, the gateway by air, was in the hands of the enemy.
Messages from Britain warned the Government that the heart of the Empire was threatened, and that for some indefinite time there could be no hope of assistance to regain control of the sea that had been lost in the Naval reverse at Singapore. Our own naval force was bottled up in Sydney Harbour, and even had it been free, the immense superiority of the enemy made its value negligible.
To face the threat to our freedom as a race, was a militia force spread over the entire Commonwealth at a strength on paper of 35,000 men. From this had to be deducted all available in Western Australia, and probably those in Queensland, also. It was clear that if the enemy made good its footing at Port Stephens, an effective use of help from Queensland units would be greatly restricted, if not entirely prevented. Even though the men were available, difficulties in maintaining contact and an adequate supply of arms were almost insuperable.
Even in the first three days our small but precious air force had suffered irreparable loss. Only one machine survived the sabotage of the Richmond air force. And the loss at Port Kembla and Newcastle had reduced the remainder by 14 effective machines.
The only bright spot in the otherwise unbroken gloom was the knowledge of the enemy’s loss of one of its two great plane carriers. This was due to the splendid devotion of Squadron Leader James Garside. In the consternation that reigned when the shattered hangars were examined after the early morning explosion at Richmond, the certainty that the cause was foreign and not of local origin was manifest. Later, while discussions on the situation were in progress by telephone with headquarters, the first air raid on the forts was reported. The necessity for preserving, as far as possible, our fighting planes intact, decided headquarters not to throw the plane away. One machine against such odds could effect no damage, and its loss was certain.
It was at this juncture that Garside submitted a use for the plane, and volunteered to carry it into effect. It was evident from the strength of the air attack that one or more aircraft carriers formed part of the enemy force. These were being kept well out to sea for safety, being among the most vital and vulnerable of the enemy’s units. Garside suggested that the heaviest blow that could be struck, and one by which the defence would most greatly benefit, was the destruction of one of these aircraft carriers.
He, however, pointed out that an attempt to bomb the carrier was uncertain of success, and even a direct hit might do no more than cripple it temporarily. He then offered to take the sole remaining machine up with the maximum possible load of high explosives. With this he should fly southwards towards Jervis Bay, and then out to sea at low altitude, only turning north when he was well behind any possible enemy observation. Then, when finally he was able to sight the fleet, to crash his plane on or against the aircraft carrier.
To gain such a result the certainty of death, he claimed, could not, and must not be considered for a moment. He put forward his offer quietly, and in matter of fact tones, as though it had been a mere question of routine, and retired to await the decision.
Finally, Headquarters accepted the sacrifice, and the man least moved by the decision was Garside himself. In conference with the commandant at the aerodrome, the plan was discussed in detail. It was decided that the plane should leave Richmond, so that its flight southwards, seaward and the turn north should be completed at, as nearly as possible, after sunset. The idea was that the plane, flying in from the east, would itself be in a bad light, while the enemy fleet would stand clear against the light of the setting sun. Garside’s own plan was that, on sighting the fleet, he should fly low, barely above the water, in order if possible to strike the hull of the carrier just above the water line, if possible, amidships.
His contention was that the method of attack would be the least likely to be expected, and anticipated by the enemy. The speed of the bomber would reduce the chance of an effective hit to a minimum if they sighted him in time to open fire. In the final analysis the locality and position of the fleet, and especially of the plane carrier, were unpredictable, and he therefore must be free to act for the best results the situation offered when he reached his objective.
That afternoon Garside took off with his load of destruction, going to his death with a smile and a wave of the hand as though starting on a routine peace flight.
I have already told how, about sunset on the Saturday evening, a deep boom of an explosion was heard in Sydney from far out to sea. At the time an anxious group of watchers on North Head saw a momentary blaze of light from below the horizon, that heralded a sound as though of thunder, that came drifting across the water.
As it reached their ears, the watchers rose to their feet, facing seaward, silent and at the salute. A man had died!
[On the authority of officers of the Paramount Power, Marsden states that Garside’s attack was so sudden, and its method was so unexpected, that the enemy had no time to guard against it. When they first heard its approach all eyes were turned upwards, but the bomber roared in on them from the east almost invisible in the evening light, only a few feet above the water. It charged in at a terrific speed, and hit the aircraft carrier just above the waterline almost amidships. The ship blew up and sank instantly, carrying with it 100 planes, and all but three or four of its personnel. They admitted the seriousness of the blow, but expressed warm admiration of the self-sacrifice that effected it. — Eds.]
But the situation that faced the Government demanded something more than individual heroism. By Monday morning there was none in authority who did not recognise the grimness of the task, owing to the extent to which those first blows had crippled our resources, and shaken the morale of the people.
All plans for defence were based on the supposition that the Commonwealth would have had several weeks’ warning of any probable outbreak of hostilities. Not even the lesson of the Austrian crisis early in 1938, when a declaration of war was hourly expected, taught the authorities the truth that war could break out over night from a clear sky. The one eventuality for which no provision had been made was on them.
At the very least, six weeks would be necessary to mobilise and prepare troops to take the field even under the most favourable conditions. Now, with one State completely lost and beyond help, and with the enemy in actual occupation of a strategic post on the east coast, the call for action had come.
The call had not come to a country intact and corporate, but to a people shocked by major disasters, with a great centre of population, and one vitally important, in ruins. The destruction of Sydney had meant the disorganisation of plans that depended on that city for men who had been slain, and for essential arms and munitions that had been irreparably lost. The fleet had lost its flagship with all its crew, and the remaining units were as useless for action as if they had never existed.
The only branch of the defence force ready for action, the air arm, though strong in personnel, was even at its best too weak for the terrific task that had been thrust upon it. Plans for bringing the strength of fighting planes up to an adequate number had not been completed. In the first three days almost one quarter of its effective strength had been lost. Despite the destruction of one enemy aircraft carrier, the enemy had sufficient fighting strength on the second to meet the Australian air force on equal terms. But from first Newcastle Waters, and then from Charleville, had come news of large flights of planes bearing the red diamond on a black square. Of these 55 had been sighted moving south-east. It was evident that the enemy was being reinforced from Darwin for the losses it had sustained.
Confronted with this situation the Government had recognised that by no possible means in its power could it replace its lost fighting planes. Its aircraft factories were incomplete, and had they not been, they were short of essential materials.
It was imperative, therefore, that the air force at the disposal of the defence authorities must be rigidly conserved. Nevertheless, it was as imperative that the extent of the enemy’s force at Port Stephens should be ascertained without delay.
But, of all the disasters, the news of the enemy’s landing at Port Stephens was that which caused the Headquarters Staff the gravest concern — all the more because of the absence of detail. The first report had been received in Melbourne on Monday morning, September 25. It came from the postmaster at Karuah, at the extreme north-west of the inlet. It announced that six enemy destroyers had entered Port Stephens; the fleet, with a large number of transports, was close outside, and after shelling Nelsons Bay, men from the destroyers were landing. The terror-stricken inhabitants were flying from the district. After that there was silence.
A small squadron of private planes, hastily organised at the Mascot aerodrome, was sent north. These were piloted by officers from the Richmond aerodrome, but not one returned. Later in the day, three air force scouts departed on a similar mission of reconnaissance. Shortly after they passed the Hawkesbury River, they reported by wireless that they were being attacked by enemy aircraft. That was their last message.
It was not until Tuesday morning about 2 o’clock any more definite news was received. It was telegraphed by a resident of Port Stephens, Martin Hancock, a former Major of the A.I.F. He had succeeded in remaining hidden during the whole of Monday. Knowing the fate of Newcastle, when the lightkeeper at Stephen’s Point had given the alarm that the fleet was approaching, settlements round the port had been promptly evacuated. Most of the refugees had made eastward to Morpeth or East and West Maitland, where the news they brought spread panic.
Hancock reported that the troopships entered the Harbour, which had been examined by destroyers and planes. Soldiers had also been disembarked from the warships outside the heads by destroyers. The troopships had anchored in Salamander Bay. In all their movements the enemy seemed to be entirely familiar with the locality. He believed that two brigades with mechanised artillery were disembarked.
Only four troopships had entered the harbour, the rest, of which he counted twenty-two, remained outside with the fleet. During the whole operation at least two squadrons of planes were circling over the port. Towards dusk, leaving one cruiser outside and four troopships and three destroyers in the harbour, the fleet had turned southward. Hancock, who had left a motor cycle at Salt Ash, succeeded in passing through enemy posts along the Anna Bay Road. He did not reach Salt Ash until midnight, when he made across to the Booral Road through Williamtown, arriving at West Maitland an hour later, and dispatched his report.
It is ironical that a base that had been planned as an Australian naval station, and never used, should have been chosen by the enemy to gain its first foothold in the east.
Hancock’s message deepened the anxiety at Headquarters, for the departure of the fleet with the remaining troopships foreshadowed another landing elsewhere.
That the anxiety was warranted was confirmed dramatically on the morning of Wednesday, when two messages reached Melbourne almost simultaneously. The first, from Wallsend, announced that enemy troopships were at the wharves in Port Hunter, and that the ruins of Newcastle were occupied. Troops were already moving along the Maitland Road. The second was wirelessed from H.M.A.S. Adelaide. It was brief, but, brief as it was, it bore tidings of immeasurable disaster. The cruiser was in a hot engagement with enemy aircraft, and was being shelled from outside the harbour. At the same time, landings were being effected at Manly, Coogee, and Bondi beaches.
It is difficult for those who were not present to understand the feelings of General Mackinnon, the Commander-in-Chief, and the General Staff, when confronted with these messages. They and the members of the Council of Defence alone understood their purport. And at the same time they foresaw the inevitable result. The order for general mobilisation had been given on September 23. On this morning of Wednesday, the 27th, the movement was still incomplete. Two days more, at least, would be required to collect the widely-scattered units. And until then it was impossible to offer an effective opposition to the enemy.
On paper, the trained forces of the Commonwealth on a peace footing amounted to 35,000. With Western Australia and Queensland out of the picture, and with the crash of the New South Wales organisation, there were only actually three infantry brigades at the Commander-in-Chief’s disposal. At most he could depend upon two artillery brigades. There was one incomplete armoured car regiment, and an inadequate though efficient engineering and army service corps to complete the force at his command. At the most, less than one complete division of 16,000 men.
Already the strategic plan of the enemy was sufficiently developed for the Commander-in-Chief to realise what he had to expect. The first raid on the east coast was intended to prevent any interference with the enemy operations for consolidating their hold on the west. Now, the landings at Port Stephens, Newcastle, and Sydney disclosed the intentions of striking at the heart of Australia — that vital area, between Newcastle and Port Kembla, inland from the 150 miles of coastline. If a circle of 100 miles in diameter is drawn with Helensburgh, just south of Cronulla, as a centre, the arc, running through Newcastle and inland as far as Bathurst, encloses an area, the possession of which means the possession of Australia. It was for this paramount area that the enemy was undoubtedly striking.
It was clear that a third landing was intended at Port Kembla.
Were that effected, the three forces, working in conjunction, must succeed. Within the area lay some of the richest country in minerals and agriculture in the Commonwealth, and every essential line of communication.
The only hope of fending off the inevitable third blow lay in the air force.
It was not until long after that I heard any detail of those momentous conferences in Melbourne that took place on September 27. Despite the Prime Minister’s call for the assembly of the Federal Parliament in Canberra, it was found that the probable attendance could not exceed 30 members. In view of the urgency of the case, the venue of the session was changed to Parliament House, Melbourne. Canberra was too exposed and too far away from Headquarters. The Victorian capital became the seat of Government.
It was at Parliament House, too, that the Defence Council met, and here it was that, on the afternoon of September 27, General Mackinnon stated the naked truth to the Cabinet. The story was told me by a former Minister, just after the news of the decision of the Berlin Congress was made public — late in 1941. He related how a scared House had met, and in half an hour had passed an emergency appropriation of £250,000,000 — “might as well have made it £250,000,000,000 for all the good it did us,” he added. “Great Scot! What mugs we were.”
The Minister for Defence told the House all he knew, and that was precious little. But he assured them that by Christmas time we would have 100,000 men equipped and in the field. Preparations were being made for offsetting the loss of the Broken Hill Proprietary steel works and those at Kembla, by manufacturing in South Australia and Melbourne. He admitted we would be short of steel supplies for the time being. But he assured the members that there were ample supplies of infantry and artillery ammunition.
But it was the gloomiest session he had ever attended. More than a dozen members, including the Leader of the Opposition, had been killed on Bloody Saturday. The Minister confided to the House that the situation must be regarded as grave. But he was firmly of the opinion that the enemy could not reinforce what he called their “filibustering expedition.” While the loss of life and the damage done was deplorable, he was sure that within a short time the invaders would be driven into the sea.
When the House adjourned McKinnon was asked to meet the Cabinet to discuss the position. It was then that, as my informant put it, “we got it right in the neck.” He didn’t make any bones about it or beat about the bush. He said, “Mr. Prime Minister, I have just issued an order sending the entire air force at our disposal to the South Coast of New South Wales. An attempt at a third landing at Kembla is inevitable. If that landing succeeds I doubt if we can save Australia. As things are there is no other form of opposition I can offer.”
They were all pretty worried faces in the room, but as he spoke they grew paler still.
“We must recognise that Western Australia is already lost, but I do not anticipate any attack from that quarter ——”
“But why not? ——” broke in the Prime Minister.
“Because, sir, it would not be worth their while. They know quite well the hole we are in.”
No one spoke.
He went on. “With all the men I can gather from Victoria and New South Wales, with a mixed brigade from South Australia, I cannot muster a full division.”
Again he paused.
“None of those troops is hardened or fully trained for service. The possibility of this emergency and the peril from the lack of man power have been placed before successive Governments who have disregarded the military representations.”
“We can have 100,000 men trained and equipped by the end of the year,” said the Minister for Defence.
“Mr. Prime Minister. I am afraid the enemy will not give us until the end of the year before forcing a decisive engagement.”
“You mean ——”
“I mean, Sir, that the enemy are already at Maitland and Parramatta. To-morrow they may be in Mudgee. But by that time Lithgow will most certainly have gone, and possibly Moss Vale, if not Goulburn. We must face the facts, Sir. If the air force cannot stave off that landing at Kembla, they will be over the Victorian border in a week.”
It was the Minister for Defence who spoke. “A rather unusual pessimism for a Commander-in-Chief. Perhaps you can give us some grounds for your er — depressing prophecies.”
The stocky figure swung round. He was not a man who suffered fools gladly, and he had been working 20 hours a day since the 23rd. The effort with which he bit back the first words that came to his lips was evident, as he glared at the speaker.
“Yes!” he snapped. “You shall have my reasons. But first, let me tell you all, that I, or any other military officer, who gave you an optimistic estimate of our situation should be shot as a traitor.
“I have less than a division of insufficiently trained troops. It will be two days, at least, before I am in a position to move. The manner in which the enemy have moved from the time the first shot was fired indicates that they are thoroughly sure of their ground and their plans. Just as they knew of the gun emplacements on our forts so they know to a man our weakness. Do you imagine for one moment, with the advantage they have gained already, that they will give us an opportunity to enroll and train a thousand men, much less one hundred thousand?”
He stood up and pushed his chair back, and leaned forward with his hands on the edge of the table. “Listen, Gentlemen! From what we can gather, I am convinced they have already landed at least one division at Newcastle and Sydney each. They left Port Stephens with twenty-two troopships, apart from the men they may be carrying on their naval units.
“We do not know, beyond the fact that they have mechanised artillery and tanks, what their strength of mechanised units may be. But —— from the perfection of organisation and preparedness they have already exhibited, I am convinced they are much stronger in them than we are.”
The group round the table was silent as he walked over to a map on the wall.
“The one great urgent factor is to stop the progress of the enemy so as to allow him no time to consolidate his positions as he moves towards the Victorian border. When I said he would be across in a week, I was too optimistic. This is Wednesday, and I doubt if we have until Sunday.
“Gentlemen,” he said, sweeping his hand to the map. “They have now a practical possession of the New South Wales railway system, and of all the arterial highways and their mobility is assured.”
“But surely we can delay them by blowing up the railway bridges and destroying all petrol supplies on the line of march?” came a voice from the table.
Mackinnon returned and took his seat. “As Commander-in-Chief, my answer is, ‘yes.’ That course would effect some delay. But the answer to the problem is yours — not mine.”
“Problem?” queried the Prime Minister.
For answer, the General took a packet of papers from his pocket. “These are telegrams from Singleton, Cessnock, Liverpool, and other places. Every one of them tells the same story of ruthless slaughter of civilian population in the occupied districts. Every town or settlement they reach is subject to a systematic terrorisation. Age or sex makes no difference. They are sweeping ahead of them a vast, panic-stricken horde of refugees as they move south. These are using every possible form of transport. Some, of course, are moving west out of the line of march. Nevertheless all roads are congested with an uncontrolled traffic.
“You must visualise the situation clearly, Mr. Prime Minister. The evident intention of the enemy is to force you, the Government of this country, to accept their terms at the earliest possible moment. To do this they have adopted a policy of ‘frightfulness.’ They believe a terror-stricken people will force your hands, or that you will submit in order to stop the slaughter. If we cut the communication and destroy the petrol supplies on the line of advance, we condemn those refugees to death. Or, if not all, the greater number of them.
“Gentlemen, that decision rests with you. Thank God! It is not mine.”
“But, surely,” the Prime Minister said, “they will not dare to shock the civilised world with such crime. We have been able to establish communication with the Government of the United States. The report of such an infamy must move them to intervention.”
“That is a purely political matter,” replied Mackinnon. “If I venture any opinion at all it is that, judging from former actions of Washington, any optimism would be misplaced. In any case, intervention would be a matter of weeks; our problem is one of hours. If the enemy have considered such a factor at all, they have offset it in a determination to achieve a fait accompli.”
“You can offer no alternative?” came a voice from the table.
“None!” Mackinnon stood up, and looked round the strained faces. “I must advise you from the military situation alone. As regards the petrol problem I think it will solve itself. Investigation we have made in the past proves that the normal road supply would be entirely inadequate to meet an urgent demand for military purposes. The crowds rushing south will have drained every supply station in the line of advance. Possibly the enemy have made provision for their own supplies.”
“And the bridges?” The Minister for Defence asked.
“The destruction of the bridges must delay them — but not for long. It is you who must decide whether to cut that line of safety for the refugees. I have already given orders to all local authorities to try to turn the line of flight to the west. And I have dispatched a strong party of engineers by road. They are to reach as closely as possible to advanced parties of the enemy, and to cut the roads and bridges in any useful positions behind the fugitives.”
“When must you act?” The Prime Minister’s voice was unsteady as he spoke.
“Every hour — every minute counts. Apart from the assumption that the nearest enemy unit is only a little more than 200 miles from Albury — at Lithgow — there is the other factor of an attack and occupation of Kembla and Wollongong. If they strike there — and there is nothing to oppose them — they will move through Moss Vale and Goulburn to the vital road and rail junction at Cootamundra. That will result in cutting off all refugees north of that line. That would be an appalling situation, but not the worst aspect of it.”
“Could anything be worse’?” said the Prime Minister bitterly.
“Can you not realise what it would mean,” Mackinnon pointed to the map. “If they reach Cootamundra they are in possession of the entire vital area of Australia. With that in their hands ——”
He turned from the map and regarded them in silence.
“You mean that we’re ——” The Prime Minister did not put the thought into words.
“Nothing short of a miracle can save us.” Mackinnon’s voice carried a finality that left no room for argument or dissent.
“Have you formed any plans, General?” It was the Minister for Defence who broke the stunned silence in the room.
“So far as is humanly possible,” said Mackinnon grimly. “You must recognise the fact that the military initiative is entirely in the hands of the enemy. We can only try to anticipate his tactics, but we are positively on the defensive. But I must warn you, gentlemen. I should be failing in my duty if I attempted to minimise the critical nature of our position.”
“Let us hear the worst, rather than temporise with probabilities. We must know what we have to face.” The Prime Minister spoke for the gathering.
“You will need all your courage, gentlemen, but I do not doubt that. I only hope the people will display the same fortitude, for they, too, will be called upon to face the crisis of Australia’s history within a very few days.”
He resumed his seat and spoke quietly but decisively.
“In striking with synchronised attacks at both east and west, the enemy, who is fully conversant with our weakness, aimed at dividing our small force. We have already decided that any attempt to aid Western Australia by land is hopeless, and impracticable. I must jealously guard our small force for the desperate needs of the Eastern States.
“Queensland is hopelessly cut off, so we must rule out any hope of help from that quarter. Tasmania is isolated, though I am risking drawing one battalion of trained men as a reinforcement. When I say ‘risking,’ I mean that I am bringing them across from Burnie to-night to land them, I hope, in Portland to-morrow morning. But the possibility of the enemy sending destroyers to the Bass Straits is so great that I would not have done it had not the demand been so urgent.”
“What about Tasmania, General?” someone asked.
“Tasmania’s fate will be ours, in any case. They will not bother with the island or with Queensland until they have settled with us. Neither can offer any resistance — and the enemy know it.
“Gentlemen, we can only guess at the strength opposed to us, but I fear it is not less than three divisions: say, 48,000 men. But should it be only two, that is, 36,000 all told; the gravity of our position is not much improved. They are moving down to the Victorian border with all the speed they can muster. They know well that there are no means by which we can oppose them, and they know too that they can hold salient points in occupied territory with very small detachments. That is one of their objects in terrorising the country and cowing the civilians.
“I could move up to meet them over the New South Wales border, but believe me, gentlemen, it would take 100,000 troops to cope with the possibilities of their advance to Victoria. My base is here, and there are only too many ways in which they could hold me, while they outflanked me and came in on my rear. And moreover I cannot — dare not — divide my force.”
He held up his hand as the Prime Minister moved as though to speak. “Permit me to finish first, Sir. If I should move north, they may, and probably will, land behind me on the Victorian coast-line at Western Port. The longer their line of march from any one of their three landing places in New South Wales, the more their vulnerability increases. They know they must meet me, and they will do it at the first possible moment.”
“Their only possible line of advance is at one or more of the rail crossings at Albury, Corowa, Yarrawonga, or Tocumwal, but by any or all of these routes they must converge finally on Seymour by road or rail — and it is at Seymour my force is lying. If I do not go to meet them they are compelled to seek me out.”
“Seymour!” exclaimed the Prime Minister.
Mackinnon nodded. “It is the furthest point from their bases I can choose, and the one that will diminish their fighting strength to the greatest extent. Remember we will he fighting on ground we know, and I dare not choose a spot nearer Melbourne.”
“It seems a desperate chance, General.”
“That is what I want to impress upon you all,” Mackinnon said impressively. “It is desperate! but I am convinced that it is our only chance.”
“And if we fail ——”
“If we fail ——” The level gray eyes took in the silent group. “If we fail, then we reap our fools’ harvest. I use the expression without any personal implication. The fools are the entire population of this country, who have been warned again and again, and would not heed the warning.”
“And if you stop them?”
Mackinnon shrugged his stocky wide shoulders and smiled. “It will give us breathing space — but remember this! It will give them breathing space. Don’t misunderstand the situation. I am convinced that they have heavy reinforcements on the way. There is nothing in the Pacific to interfere with their communications. They can withdraw to the north, and consolidate and come again. The battle, even if we are successful, will weaken us too much to permit us to follow up any advantage.”
“You mean to tell us, then, that we must risk everything on one desperate throw, and if we lose it means unconditional surrender?”
“Exactly! All that would be left would be a useless guerilla warfare. It would do nothing more than enrage the enemy and make conditions harsher.”
“I may say, gentlemen,” he added, “that what I have told you is the considered opinion, not only of myself but of my staff.”
Never were there a sicker body of men than the eight Cabinet Ministers who listened to Mackinnon’s news. The utterly preposterous event that they and their predecessors had been warned of had actually happened. All the anxious questions they put to him only emphasised the acuteness of the peril.
None knew better than Mackinnon the almost hopeless task with which he was confronted. He had been forced to make a heartbreaking decision. He had to abandon New South Wales, and face a trained and elated army with half-trained and raw men. His only hope lay in that his men, who would be fresh, and fired by a spirit of high courage, would meet an army, tired by long marches, and who would fight on unfamiliar ground. But even so, he knew in his heart, that even if victorious, he must be eventually the victim of overwhelming numbers.
That night the Cabinet learned that the Government of the United States had protested against the slaughter of helpless civilians in Australia, and had received from the enemy’s Ambassador an emphatic assurance that the civilian population were being treated with consideration and a spirit of conciliation.
That night the Defence Council learned that the enemy had effected a landing at Port Kembla and Wollongong. Though two troopships had been sunk, only seven Australian fighting planes were intact.
At the same time came news of the first attempt at resistance on land by a hastily formed body of some fifty civilians, who, recognising the situation, made a desperate attempt to check the advance over the great bastion of the coastal ranges. They knew that the best line the enemy could take to reach the plateau was through the Macquarie Pass that winds down the precipitous face of the towering rampart of rock.
Arming themselves with shot guns and sporting rifles they piled into cars with all the explosives they could obtain. Half of them were experienced miners. Selecting a spot some third of the distance from the top of the pass they began feverishly to drill holes for their gelignite. An hour later they knew of the approach of a train of motor cars. Some fifteen or twenty went past filled with refugees who cried that the enemy were close behind.
They had left a guard of a dozen men on the bend below that on which they were working. A few minutes later an outburst of fire below warned them of the arrival of the enemy. A tree that had been cut through was hurled across the road by a charge of dynamite. While a dozen workers strove desperately to complete the drill holes that had been begun, the main body, from concealment in the undergrowth opened a steady fire down the pass. But under cover of a raking fire from machine guns the enemy moved up. As the fire of the defenders slackened the chatter of machine guns and the roll of rifle fire increased.
Seeing the attack must succeed, the charges were hastily inserted and exploded in an attempt to effect, at least, some damage. With the roar of the blast some hundreds of tons of rock were flung thundering down the mountain side. There was a momentary silence of firing as the mass of boulders went roaring and crashing among the timber — then it broke out again as the defenders began their retreat to the cars that they had left higher up.
It was a gallant but ineffectual attempt, for the road was only partially closed. As the first car sped round the next hairpin bend it was sighted by the enemy. It got through, but the next was swept with machine gun bullets and blocked the progress of those behind. The rest made a gallant fight to the end. The face above was too steep to climb. Though the men in the first car tried to cover their escape, the position was hopeless. They fell to the last man. Only one carload of six men lived to carry the news to Moss Vale that the enemy held the head of the pass.
The net was closing in.
That night, too, orders were issued for the removal of all inhabitants, live stock, and food supplies and fodder from the triangle formed by the railway, with Mangalore at its apex, and with the Murray at between Albury and Tocumwal as its base.
With the orders went another to the Field Company of Engineers to prepare all the bridges across the Murray in that area for demolition.
Erle Cox, Fools’ Harvest, Melbourne: Robertson and Mullen, 1939, pages 82-100
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Today, these files are part of the biggest collection of time-use diaries in the world, kept by the Centre for Time Use Research at the University of Oxford, UK. The centre’s holdings have been gathered from nearly 30 countries, span more than 50 years and cover some 850,000 person-days in total. They offer the most detailed portrait ever created of when people work, sleep, play and socialize — and of how those patterns have changed over time. “It certainly is unique,” says Ignace Glorieux, a sociologist at the Dutch-speaking Free University of Brussels. “It started quite modest, and now it’s a huge archive.”
The collection is helping to solve a slew of scientific and societal puzzles — not least, a paradox about modern life. There is a widespread perception in Western countries that life today is much busier than it once was, thanks to the unending demands of work, family, chores, smartphones and e-mails. But the diaries tell a different story: “We do not get indicators at all that people are more frantic,” says John Robinson, a sociologist who works with time-use diaries at the University of Maryland, College Park. In fact, when paid and unpaid work are totted up, the average number of hours worked every week has not changed much since the 1980s in most countries of the developed world…
But certain groups have experienced a different trend. According to analyses by Gershuny, Sullivan and other time-use researchers, two demographic groups are, in fact, working harder. One consists of employed, single parents, who put in exceptionally long hours compared to the average; the other comprises well-educated professionals, particularly those who also have small children. People in this latter group find themselves pushed to work hard and under societal pressure to spend quality time with their kids. “The combination of those pressures has meant that there is this group for which time pressure is particularly pertinent,” Sullivan says.
Some researchers are also testing new ways to record people’s activities as they can compare the results to the diaries:
In her preliminary analyses, Harms has found that gadget diaries and paper diaries show the same sequence of events, but that the gadgets reveal details that paper diaries missed. Most researchers in the field agree that the future lies in collecting data through phones and other devices. “Maybe this will bring a new boost to time-use research,” Glorieux says. He anticipates a situation in which reams of diary data — such as location, heart rate, calories burned and even ambient noise — are collected through phones and linked-up gadgets.
Much social science research is focused on particular events or aspects of people’s lives – not just a cross-section of time but also specific information measured in variables that we think might be related to other variables or that we think are worth measuring. In contrast, time-use diaries and other methods can help get at the mundane, everyday activity and interactions that make up a majority of our lives. Much of adult life is spent in necessary activities: making and eating food, resting and sleeping, cleaning, more passive leisure activities, caring for children. We also spend a decent amount of time alone or in our own head. These activities are occasionally punctuated by big events – something exciting happens at work or home, lively social interaction occurs, an important thought is had, etc. – to which we tend to pay more attention both in our own minds and in our data collection. Our methods should probably more closely match this regular activity and time-use diaries represent one way of doing this. | <urn:uuid:9cfc52d7-d5e8-492e-8f44-48431b5fd94d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://legallysociable.com/2015/10/23/the-biggest-time-use-diary-archive-in-the-world/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00273.warc.gz | en | 0.961051 | 760 | 2.984375 | 3 |
Home Page Chess Life Online 2009 April Chess Camp 101
|Chess Camp 101|
|By Dr. Alexey Root|
|April 21, 2009|
Begging for Housework|
At the beginning of the 2007 Klein chess camp, each camper was sorted into a Harry Potter house. Through solving chess problems, campers earned points toward the House Cup. The House Cup was an eight-ounce glass filled with Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans, to be shared among the winning house members. Jelly beans alone cannot explain why campers begged the instructors for more "house"work. Pride can. Each camper sincerely wanted their house to be the end-of-week House Cup winner. Having originated the Klein house point idea several years earlier, I was thrilled that it once again motivated learning both during and after class times.
Groups and houses were different. Group instruction is based on age and rating, but houses (for example, Gryffindor and Slytherin) contain members of multiple skill and age levels. During group instruction there is cooperation and competition. To use the Potter characters as examples of chess camper behavior: In class, Harry and Hermione sit next to each other and cooperate to stay ahead of Malfoy and his Slytherin friends. Outside of group instruction time (i.e. free time, snack, lunch) Klein campers from different groups but from the same house sat together cooperatively solving "house"work problems.
The next section is designed to guide potential campers and their parents in choosing a chess camp. I also focus on some camps that are held at college chess campuses, ideal spots for summer chess instruction.
Class Size, Cost, Fun, and Food
If you are considering chess camps, look first at the chess camp listings on the USCF Web site. The April 2009 issue of Chess Life for Kids also has two pages about chess camps. Other sources for chess camp information include school and city chess clubs, chess blogs and Web sites, and state chess organizations.
When selecting a camp, consider both classes and non-instructional times. During class times, chess campers should be taught by instructors who are knowledgeable about chess and about teaching methodology. You can check the instructors' ratings to assess their chess skills. To evaluate teaching skills, either observe instructors in action or ask past campers for opinions.
Look for an instructor to camper ratio from 1:10 to 1:16. Of course, a low instructor-to-camper ratio comes with a price. The best chess camps will have lower ratios and more highly trained instructors than a daycare, so will likely cost more than daycare too.
Even with a low instructor to camper ratio, parents with young children may not be comfortable leaving them at camp. Many camps allow parents to learn alongside their children. Some camps have separate chess classes for adult learners, so parents can be nearby but learn at their own pace.
Other parents stay at camp serving food and supervising recreation. Klein Chess Camp had pizza for lunch everyday. Parents picked up the order from the pizza restaurant, and served the slices back at camp. Campers with dietary restrictions ended up with cheese pizza or brought their own lunches.
Like Klein, many chess camps are held at public schools. Recreation occurs outdoors on the school playgrounds, fields, or swimming pools; or indoors in gyms. At camp tournaments, parents may be floor TDs or staff the results table. If you are willing to supervise the meals and snacks, recreation, or tournaments, you may be granted a lower camp fee. Ask the camp director now, before summer starts.
Chess Camp Structure
Some chess camps are structured like middle or high schools, with each instructor specializing in a different phase of the chess game just like teachers specialize in history, English, math, and so forth. Groups of campers with similar ages and chess ratings are formed. The groups rotate among four or five instructors. At Klein, there were openings, endgames, tactics, and strategy instructors. Each instructor prepared one content lesson per day, i.e. day one in tactics was forks, day two was pins, and so forth. The instructor then varied the difficulty (for example from one-move to three-move deep forks) for groups of different abilities.
In contrast, other chess camps are structured like elementary schools. One teacher has a group of similarly-rated students for the whole week. By teaching all the topics in chess to his or her campers, the instructor gains a detailed knowledge of their abilities.
Chess Instruction from the Final Four
The Final Four of college chess is over for 2009, but its competitors are teaching this summer. Players from Stanford University and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County are teaching chess away from their campuses. Stanford third board player Vaishnav Aradhyula wrote, "This summer Chris De Sa [Stanford fourth board] and I will be teaching at the 4th Annual Western Alliance Chess Camp in our hometown of Tucson, Arizona. Both of us have taught at the camp for two years (Chris in 2007 and 2008, and I in 2006 and 2007). The camp is organized by IM Levon Altounian, who coached Chris and me since middle school." UMBC Chess Program Associate Director GM Sam Palatnik wrote, "I am planning a weekend chess camp May 30-31, 2009 in Baltimore. Instructors will include WGM Sabina Foisor, GM Leonid Kritz, and me. Contact <[email protected]> for more information."
Also hosting summer chess camps are the two Texan teams from the Final Four, The University of Texas at Brownsville (UTB) and The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD). Chess team members, and UTB coach GM Gilberto Hernandez, are among the instructors. Although I work for UTD, I am not one of the UTD chess camp instructors. During the school year, I teach online courses. This summer I am teaching a summer chess course for students in grades 4-8 at MOSAIC.
As for the camp mentioned at the start of this article, Klein chess camp director Jim Liptrap is taking a year off, but plans for the next Klein camp to be in 2010. It's held in for one week, in either June or July, northwest of Houston, Texas. Jeff Ashton and Justin Gardner, instructors at previous Klein camps, are offering Houston Chess Camps this summer. Here is one of Jeff's chess problems.
What are your summer plans? If you are attending or teaching at a chess camp, please share your comments.
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BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union says the surcharges for surfing the Internet on mobile devices while traveling across the 28-nation bloc will be more than halved.
The European Commission says the new cap on the so-called roaming fees will be effective starting Tuesday, just in time for the summer holiday travel season.
It said Monday the price cap for one megabyte of data use will be lowered to 20 euro cents (27 dollar cents) from 45 cents — a 55 percent drop. Phone calls and text messaging services across national borders are also getting cheaper by about 25 percent.
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NPR released information on a study March 12, 2011, in the Lancet, indicating 64% of the students that exhibited ADHD symptoms actually had a hypersensitivity to some foods.” What’s interesting is Jim West has been treating kids with ADHD, ODD, Depression, Anxiety and Mood disorder the same way since 2003. Around 85% of students do not need medication for these issues as often changing diet, adding supplements, and increasing exercise or activity levels can do the trick just like it did for one of Jim West’s client, Taylor, seen in the Fox 35 news interview below.
“Hey Dad . . . home for lunch!” It was the middle of the day in Portugal and my nephews came home from school for lunch? My brother David lives in Mafra, Portugal and I was calling him from Orlando. He told me his kids come home from school everyday for lunch around noon and walk back to school around 1:30pm. During our call I recalled this happens in most countries across the globe.
In most countries students have the following routine and eat up to 2-5 lbs of carbohydrates, starch & sugar per month:
- Eat breakfast and burn carbohydrates off walking to school
- Walk back for lunch
- Burn carbohydrates off walking back to school
- Walk home about the time their parents are home from work
- Eat a snack and do homework
- Go outside and play to burn off the carbohydrates again
- Eat dinner and get ready for bed
In the United States the average student eats 21 lbs of sugar per month or 5 lbs per week (4 times the worlds average consumption per person):
- Eat breakfast and sit in a vehicle and carbohydrates turn to sugar
- Eat lunch and sit in class and crash mentally from the sugar rush
- Sit in a vehicle on the way home
- Eat a Snack and and carbohydrates turn to sugar then another sugar crash and sit to do Homework
- Play on the computer or video games until parents get home.
- Eat dinner, sit around watching T.V. and get ready for bed
Jim West, ADHD Expert has been interviewed by local and National TV & Radio including ABC’s Medical Minute, Daily Buzz, Fox 35, WESH2 NBC, & WKMG 6 CBS, & more. See below
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Sugar and carbohydrates are meant to give us a burst of energy for us to burn. However due to our fast pace and how far we live from school and work we eat carbs (cereal, pancakes, waffles, Pop Tarts) and sit, eat and sit, eat and sit, each day! Additionally, carbohydrates are easy and convenient and as Americans we love convenience. We are the #1 “Consumers” in the world and thus “consume” 6 times more carbohydrates than the rest of the world.
So how does what we eat (too many carbohydrates and sugars) effect us?
- 80% of students in America are deficient in Magnesium. If we consume too many carbohydrates our bodies can not absorb Magnesium. Magnesium is calming, helps us manage stress, increases focus, & it’s a natural muscle relaxer.
- If we do not absorb Magnesium it’s difficult to absorb Calcium which has many health benefits including improved sleep patterns, bone growth and density, it calms and helps with focus.
- Too many carbohydrates also effects the absorption of chromium which helps to balance our sugar levels.
- 25% of kids between 6-10 years of age have high blood pressure and at risk for hypertension and heart disease
- 1 out of 6 children are obese and 1 out of 3 are overweight.
- Unused Carbs causes spurts of energy, multiple mental energy crashes (trouble focusing on uninteresting tasks at school or work), the strong desire for more carbs and increased appetite, and weight gain.
- These Carbohydrate crashes happen each time we eat too many carbohydrates and effects our mental energy more and more throughout the day as we expend energy. Making it more difficult to do homework, household chores and tasks and effects our moods and how we handle frustration.
- At risk for Diabetes: Diabetes is 95% preventable but recently moved up to the #5 killer of Americans.
What can we do about this?
- Encourage more exercise and physical activity with sports, recreation, family walks, biking, etc.
- Limit computer and video games to 30-60 minutes per day to encourage social and play interaction with peers.
- Increase the Protein to Carbohydrate ratio
- Eat light meals at night with some carbohydrates to help us crash at night and improve deep sleep.
- Avoid Red Meat and Pork at night as it takes 8-12 hours to metabolize. When we metabolize we create energy and dinner time is the time we should be winding down.
- If kids are picky eaters discuss vitamins and supplements with your doctor.
- Watch out for Yellow, Red and Orange Food Coloring according to Dr. Oz
- Red Dye made of Insects?
- Red Food Coloring from Ground up Bugs since the Aztecs?
- Yellow Food coloring linked to a variety of immunologic responses have been attributed to tartrazine ingestion, including anxiety, migraines, clinical depression, blurred vision, itching, general weakness, heatwaves, feeling of suffocation, purple skin patches, and sleep disturbance. Certain people who are exposed to the dye experience symptoms of tartrazine sensitivity even at extremely small doses, some for periods up to 72 hours after exposure. In children, asthma attacks and hives have been claimed, as well as supposed links to thyroid tumors, chromosomal damage, and hyperactivity.
- Orange food coloring is a synthetic yellow azo dye, manufactured from aromatic hydrocarbons from petroleum.
- Complimentary Copy of the Diet and Information on the Supplements for ADHD
Changing how we eat directly effects how we think, feel, and act! Start today to modify how we eat at home, work and school and see a huge difference in improved focus, productivity and energy levels. Please consult with your physician about this article as everyone’s nutritional needs vary.
NPR Story – The Lancet Journal did a study: “Diet May Help ADHD Kids More than Drugs.”
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Future developments in the field of optimization will undoubtedly be influenced by recent interest and rapid developments in new technologies --- powerful vector and parallel machines. Indeed, their exploitation for algorithm design and solution of ``grand challenge'' applications is expected to bring new advances in many fields, such as computational chemistry and computational fluid dynamics.
Supercomputers can provide speedup over traditional architectures by optimizing both scalar and vector computations. This can be accomplished by pipelining data as well as offering special hardware instructions for calculating intrinsic functions (e.g., ,), arithmetic, and array operations. In addition, parallel computers can execute several operations concurrently. Multiple instructions can be specified for multiple data streams in MIMD designs, whereas the same instructions can be applied to multiple data streams in SIMD prototypes. Communication among processors is crucial for efficient algorithm design so that the full parallel apparatus is exploited. These issues will only increase in significance as massively parallel networks enter into regular use. | <urn:uuid:e20faf80-1362-4e5f-ba4d-0d9573080fce> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.phy.ornl.gov/csep/CSEP/MO/NODE57.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280929.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00431-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.923499 | 191 | 3.078125 | 3 |
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Photo Credit: The Seychelles Public Utilities Corporation
Recognising its invaluable promotion of sustainable development in Small Island Developing States (SIDS), the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) received the first ever “United Nations (UN) SIDS Partnerships Award” in the environmental category. The award, for IRENA’s SIDS Lighthouses Initiative (LHI), acknowledges the Agency’s response to a call for action under the SIDS Accelerated Modalities of Action (S.A.M.O.A) Pathway.
Launched by Portugal and Samoa, as Co-Chairs of the Steering Committee for SIDS Partnerships, the award was created in line with the Pathway, and addresses SIDS’ unique challenges in achieving sustainable development and implementing their commitments to the Paris Agreement. The Pathway sets out a comprehensive framework of actions and aspirations for SIDS over the next decade.
The awards ceremony took place on 11 July 2022 at ‘The Annual Global Multi-Stakeholder SIDS Partnership Dialogue’ on the margins of the UN High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development in New York. In his acceptance speech on behalf of the IRENA Director-General Francesco La Camera, Wilfried Biya, IRENA Permanent Observer to the UN, stated the award would boost the Agency’s commitment to help accelerate deployment of renewables in SIDS. “As one of the original partners of the S.A.M.O.A Pathway, IRENA is committed to support the energy transition in SIDS through the Initiative,” he said.
“IRENA thanks all the contributors of the Initiative and acknowledges that the global energy agenda can only be realised with strong global cooperation. We stand ready to support all island states in their paths towards a sustainable and resilient energy future,” Mr. Biya added.
At the ceremony, the award was presented to Mr. Biya by the Permanent Representative of Portugal to the UN, Ms. Ana Paula Zacarias, and the Permanent Representative of Samoa to the UN, Mr. Fatumanava-o-Upolu III Pa’olelei Luteru. Speaking while on mission to the United States, Mr. La Camera said, “It is a true honour for IRENA to receive the SIDS Partnerships Award.”
“We share this recognition with our partners who have been pivotal in making the Agency’s work in addressing the energy challenges in SIDS a success. The Agency will always champion the big ambitions of small islands,” he noted.
The SIDS LHI is an inclusive multi-stakeholder framework of action bringing together 39 SIDS from the Caribbean, the Pacific, the Atlantic, Indian Ocean and South China Sea (AIS) regions, as well as 32 partners from public, private, intergovernmental, and non-governmental sectors. The Initiative seeks to achieve a target of 10 gigawatts of total renewable energy installed capacity in all SIDS by 2030.
Photo Credit: SolarCity
Since its inception in 2014, the Initiative has become the driving force behind collaborations to scale up renewable energy. It defines achievable scenarios through country-led renewable readiness assessments and dedicated roadmaps, as well as provides support to attract appropriate investments through project facilitation among many other activities. Today, renewable energy uptake in SIDS is impressive. Globally, installed capacity in all SIDS has outstripped the target of 5 gigawatts by 2023, established under the SIDS LHI. An annual progress report on the SIDS LHI will be published later in July 2022.
“Enduring partnerships are essential for achieving the SIDS’ energy transition and climate action towards a 1.5°C world. This is why at IRENA, we are strengthening collaborations and establishing relationships that advance the global efforts of the international community on renewable energy,” said Gurbuz Gonul, IRENA Director of Country Engagement and Partnerships.
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Columbia Plans to Restore Brick Streets Over Two Decades
COLUMBIA - Streets in downtown Columbia will be receiving a complete makeover in the next 20 years.
The Columbia City Council voted at Monday night's meeting to restore the city's already exposed brick streets and to uncover streets with brick underneath.
Over the next 20 years, the city plans to replace the unstable sand and gravel under Columbia's exposed brick streets with a solid and more stable concrete base.
After a successful demonstration project, funding may be allocated during each budget cycle to uncover the following prioritized list of covered brick streets:
1. Elm Street from Fifth Street east to Hitt Street
2. Cherry Street from Seventh Street east to Hitt Street
3. Eighth Street from Walnut Street south to Elm Street
4. Ninth Street from Walnut Street south to University Avenue
5. Walnut Street from Eighth Street east to St. Joseph Street
6. Broadway from Fourth Street east to Waugh Street
The Historic Preservation Commission proposed the ordinance and worked with council members to come to a decision.
The council made the decision to modify the ordinance to reflect the concerns from the Columbia Disabilities Commission.
The commission raised concerns stating the brick streets make it difficult for some people to navigate on the streets and sidewalks.
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