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President Donald Trump reached a majority disapproval rating quicker than the five U.S. presidents who served before him, recent Gallup and Quinnipiac polls revealed.
In his first eight days, 45 percent of Americans disapproved and 10 percent were undecided, Gallup showed. The poll was released Jan. 28, 2017.
Trump's inauguration was Jan. 20 in Washington D.C.
According to a new Quinnipiac University poll released last week, 36 percent of American voters approve of Trump's handling of his job after his first week, while 44 say they disapprove. By comparison, former President Barack Obama received a 59-percent to 25-percent approval rating in the first Quinnipiac poll taken after his inauguration in 2009.
Asked how they expected Trump's presidency to turn out, 43% say they think Trump will be a "good" or "great" president, while 52 percent said they expect Trump will be "not so good" or "bad" -- with 36% expecting the worst.
Still, 53 percent of Americans said they are optimistic about Trump's presidency, and more say that Trump will help the economy than hurt it.
The Quinnipiac poll also found that American voters are critical of Trump's personal qualities. Large majorities say that he is not level-headed or honest, and 53% say that he "does not care about average Americans."
Working in Trump's favor: Slightly more say that Trump has good leadership skills (49 percent to 46 percent), and large majorities believe that he is intelligent and a strong person.
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The Equipment Expert is designed to monitor the installed equipment of the caster and provide operators with valuable feedback about any maintenance work required. Equipment could include, for example, an entire segment, individual rolls, a mold, or mold plates. Equipment test reports, manuals, and instruction documents for equipment are viewed in the human machine interface. For every piece of equipment, lifetime or partial-lifetime criteria are defined. Such criteria might include the number of heats, casting time, casting length, tons, durations, or any other factors. The Equipment Expert collects these criteria for each piece of equipment and notifies operators when a lifetime criterion is due to be reached, in order to facilitate preventive maintenance. | <urn:uuid:61c6db45-2e41-4246-a5a1-f0451ab27af5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://magazine.primetals.com/2018/03/01/equipment-expert/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00269.warc.gz | en | 0.919807 | 141 | 1.523438 | 2 |
Our first video in a series looking at modern Britain and the effects government policies are having on ordinary citizens.
In part one, we take a look at austerity and the welfare system, including austerity, bedroom tax, council tax, fuel poverty, universal credit, and poverty in general.
Coming in part two: Freedom.
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It’s no secret that we Canadians love our beach holidays, and there are plenty of destinations south of the border to choose from when we go in search of sun and surf: Mexico, the Caribbean, and Florida, just to name a few. In most cases though, taking a sun holiday means a long journey, and long journeys are almost always more expensive than shorter ones. But what if there was an alternative destination with sunny, beautiful beaches, excellent attractions and dining, all at a fraction of the travel time?
There is. It’s Myrtle Beach.
Located in South Carolina, Myrtle Beach is 500km closer to Toronto than Orlando, which translates to around ten hours less time in the car, and that translates into ten hours more time on the beach! If you prefer to travel by air, it’s a short-haul flight from Toronto to Myrtle Beach International Airport on WestJet or Spirit Airlines (departing from Niagara Falls, NY), and seasonally via Porter Airlines.
Once you arrive, you’ll be thrilled with the warm subtropical climate that averages 2800 hours of sunshine per year, and a beach season that runs from April until late October. Myrtle Beach is technically an artificial island surrounded by water on all sides, which means more shoreline and therefore, more beaches. In fact, the city of Myrtle Beach itself is situated on a 60-mile long continuous stretch of beach called the Grand Strand. The warm waters of the Atlantic on the shores of Myrtle Beach are ideally suited to swimming, watersports, or fishing from one of the iconic piers along the coast.
While the beach is the main draw (it is named Myrtle Beach after all), there is plenty to do off the sand as well. When you’re ready to venture away from the waves a bit, start by strolling along the 1.2 mile-long Oceanfront Boardwalk and Promenade, along which you’ll find a seemingly endless array of hotels, parks, restaurants and shops. While you’re exploring the shoreline, don’t miss the SkyWheel, a187-foot tall observation wheel that operates year round. The SkyWheel is like a space-age ferris wheel (think London’s Eye), with 42 glass-enclosed, temperature controlled gondolas and stunning views of the Atlantic. If you’re ready for a little bit more adventure, check out one of the many amusement parks and water parks in the area. Ranging from thrill rides to go karting and mini golf, some are even located right on the beach!
Myrtle Beach has a lot to offer hardcore adventure-seekers as well. Speed-addicts can rent jet skis or try racing a few laps on a real NASCAR speedway, and adrenaline-junkies can test their mettle on several zip lines and ropes courses. For a more down-to-earth experience, don’t miss out on the opportunity to take in a few rounds of golf at one of Myrtle Beach’s beautiful and challenging golf courses. Tee off at one of the nearly 100 courses in the area, many designed by prestigious architects like Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer and Greg Norman, and enjoy the beautiful scenery. Some of the courses are built on former plantations and boast fascinating stories along with stunning landscapes. Best of all, kids play free at most Myrtle Beach area golf courses!
Long days in the sea air will really work up an appetite, so it’s a good thing that Myrtle Beach has so many excellent dining options to choose from. For the foodie, fresh-caught seafood or fish is a must, and the local restaurants along the Grand Strand don’t disappoint. Choose from North Carolina-style Calabash cuisine, with its traditional lightly-breaded, fried seafood meals or the traditional low-country cuisine, featuring a wealth of seafood caught fresh-daily, local Carolina Gold rice and of course the southern staple: grits. In addition to the locally inspired fresh-to-table options, Myrtle Beach has restaurants ranging from award-winning fine dining establishments to traditional American fare at classic burger joints and pizzerias (and everything in between).
When all is said and done, it’s hard to see why anyone would pass by Myrtle Beach at all, isn’t it?
By Jen Maier
Jen is someone who never does anything halfway. You can find her obsessively active on social media, traveling and exploring as much as she can while also operating as manager, consultant and chauffeur to kids and managing her thriving digital/social consulting practice.
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SSH key management with LastPass
This repository has a script called
lastpass-ssh which integrates LastPass with SSH. You store your SSH key passphrases in LastPass, and SSH key files somewhere else. To start using SSH, you type
lastpass-ssh and it will unlock all SSH keys with appropriate passphrases.
How to install
sudo brew install lastpass-cli sudo gem install lastpass-ssh
You make yourself an "SSH" subfolder in the LastPass’ "Secure Notes" and add secure notes there. Each note has a name and a passphrase. The name corresponds to the filename of the SSH key file, and the passphrase is its key’s passphrase.
Example: if you have a key like
~/.ssh/ , then the name of the Secure Note would be
How to use
It will poll the "Secure Notes/SSH" folder and for each note of name "A", it’ll try to perform
ssh-add ~/.ssh/A with an appropriate passphrase.
You can change the location of keys by passing
--keys-path=<where-you-have-keys> . By default all keys are added. You can change this behavior by passing
--key=KEYNAME option, where
KEYNAME is the name of the key file you want to add.
lastpass-ssh script is based on the
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Latest News: Everest and "fair play"
Joseba Sanz. 33 years old. Born in Bilbao, Basque Country. I practice
mountain climbing and athletics since my youth. I share a permit and
infrastructure with Nick Nielsen (from Greenland), some Czechs and some other
ascent is special because I will do it without oxygen. Today, more than 1,000
people have climbed Everest, some with the help of high altitude Sherpas and
professional guides, some others with more autonomous and adventurous spirits,
but what really makes a difference is to climb without using supplemental
oxygen. With this climb, I would be the first Basque to climb Everest without
expedition starts in Nepal, where I will join an international group, with
whom I will share the climbing permit and services at Base Camp. From
Katmandu, we will head to the Tibetan border. We will pass Zhangmu, Nyalam
Base Camp, the acclimatization period starts, and so the furnishing of the
high altitude camps, to finally attack the summit.
the detailed program, lasting more than 2 months:
Arrival to Katmandu.
Last preparations for the expedition.
Day 04: Katmandú - Tíbetan
border - Zhangmu
Day 05: Zhangmu - Nyalam.
Day 06: Nyalam - Tingri.
Day of acclimatization in Tingri.
Trip to Chinese Base Camp (5.400 m.).
Stay at Chinese Base Camp.
Stay at Chinese Base Camp.
Trekking to intermediate Camp.
Trekking to Advanced Base Camp (6.400 m.).
13-58: Period of Acclimatization, furnishing of the high altitude camps and
Trekking from Advanced Base Camp to Chinese Base Camp.
Trip to Tingri.
Zhangmu - Katmandu.
Days 63-64: Stay
Flight back to Euskadi.
Relevance of the ascent: As I have
said before, I will climb without the use of artificial oxygen, which makes
this ascent in one of more commitment and more climbing relevance.
1,100 people have gone to the summit of Everest, and until today only a around
a 100 have
done it without using supplemental oxygen.
days, there are people who constantly use oxygen from 6,500 or 7,000 meters.
They get more from the ascent if everything goes without problems, but if
there are delays and oxygen runs out, they will suffer more. Besides, those
who refuse to use it as an aid, leave some bottles in the last tent for
medical use, to use it as a remedy in case of emergency. The risk is to get
back to it.
participants of commercial expeditions, where the major objective is to
guarantee the summit in exchange of almost 10 million pesetas they pay, use it
intensively. On the other hand, there are every day more climbers who choose
to breath the real mountain air on Everest. A risky and committed bet.
Sanz. Bilbao. 32 years old. Among my ascents are:
*Himalaya (Tibet): Cho-Oyu
*Argentina: Aconcagua (6.969
*Alpes: Mont Blanc (4.810 m),
Cervino (4.478 m), Aiguille de Bionassay (4.052 m), Gran Paradiso (4.061 m),
Breithorn (4.180 m), Wildpitze (3.772 m), etc.
Europe: Naranjo de Bulnes, Ben Nevis, etc., multiple ascents in the Pyrinees.
*Moroco: Toubkal (4.165 m).
*Chile: Villarrica Volcano
*México: Orizaba (5.675 m),
Popocatepelt (5.465 m), Toluca (4.632 m).
*Guatemala: Atitlán Volcano
(3.535 m), Pacaya Volcano (2.552 m).
*El Salvador: Izalco Volcano
(1.950 m), Santa Ana (2.385 m).
Volcano (1.610 m).
*Irán: Damavand Volcano
have made a great number of trekkings:
trekking in the Blue Mountains.
trekking in the Escambray
trekking in Nanga Parbat.
trekking in Hoggar.
trekking of Annapurna, trekking of Jomoson.
*Argentina: trekking in the Perito Moreno Glacier, Fitz Roy National Park and
Cerro Torre, Tierra de Fuego National Park.
trekking in the Torres del Paine National Park. | <urn:uuid:c31e351d-eb44-4bd2-bd29-d8bc31d61ded> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.everestnews2004.com/everestnews/sanzeverest2004.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280483.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00302-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.768357 | 1,035 | 1.703125 | 2 |
Wrt54g kismet with linux server
From DD-WRT Wiki
This is how I installed the kismet_drone on the wrt54g (v2.2) and wrt150n (v1.1) while running the kismet_server and kismet_client on a Linux box. (I was using version 2005.06.R1 of kismet.)
Also tested on a v2.0 wrt, dd-wrt firmware v22-r2 and kismet version kismet-2005-08-r1.
The wrt's are slow machines, so you cannot run the whole of the kismet program directly on the wrt. Kismet is split into three separate modules : the drone, the server and the client. The drone is a small program which gets the raw data from the wireless card itself. The client is the user interface to display the results on your screen. The server is the piece if software that sits in the middle of the drone and the client.
The method shown here puts the only the drone on the wrt and runs the server and client on your Linux box.
If you do not have a Linux machine that you can use, then have a look at Kismet Server/Drone for instructions on how to run the server and the client with cgywin under Windows.
Note: The drone on the wrt doesn't support channel hopping to search through all of the wireless channels, so a small script has to be ran on the wrt to manually do the channel hopping. Also, the wireless driver on the wrt doesn't support the reporting of the received signal strength so all of the signals reported to the user via the client will not display the correct signal strength.
Preparing the wrt54g
Installing the drone
First, I installed the latest release of the DD-WRT firmware.
I then using the web interface, set it up to use a static ip address, disabled the dhcp server and also enabled telnet and ssh access to the wrt. (You may prefer to leave the dhcp server running if you do not have another dhcp server on your network). I also turned off the firewall.
Now we need to get the files onto the wrt. There are several ways of doing this. You may find it easier to copy the files to a local desktop machine and then later copy them to the wrt as this means that you can edit the conf file on the desktop (using the editor of your choice) rather than having to use the 'vi' editor on the wrt.
(Quick Vi Tutorial : http://math.la.asu.edu/vi_tutorial/vi3.html)
Method 1 - using a local web-server
On the Linux desktop machine at a console, type
telnet <address of wrt>
(If you have sshd enabled, you could use ssh instead.)
Log in using user name 'root' and the same password as the one for the wrt's web interface (the default is 'admin').
Then at another terminal, download the MIPS binaries for the wrt. Download them from the kismet website http://www.kismetwireless.net/download.shtml . I used version 2005-06-R1a which was the latest version.
cd into the directory where you downloaded it to and unzip it.
tar -zxvf kismet-2005-06-R1a-wrt54.tar.gz
As I have a local web-server running on my desktop box, I decided to use it and wget to copy the kismet files over to the wrt. So I then copied the kismet_drone and conf/kismet_drone.conf files to the root of my web-server.
Go back to your other terminal with the telnet session to the wrt.
The /tmp directory is the only place on the wrt's file system which is writable as it is stored on a ramdisk. This means that every time that you power down the wrt, you have to reload the kismet files to it.
Get files onto wrt
wget http://<ip address of desktop box>/kismet_drone wget http://<ip address of desktop box>/kismet_drone.conf
Put kismet_drone.conf file in /tmp/etc directory.
mv kismet_drone.conf /tmp/etc
and make drone executable
chmod +x /tmp/kismet_drone
Method 2 - get files directly from the Internet
This method assumes that your wrt has direct access to the Internet so that you can directly download the compressed files from the kismet site onto the wrt using 'wget'.
Telnet into the wrt and get the compressed MIPS files from the kismet site. Unzip them, move the kismet_drone and kismet_drone.conf files the the correct place, delete the unwanted files and then make the drone file executable. (If you are using a more up to date version of kismet, you will have to use a different URL and file names.)
telnet <ip address of wrt> cd /tmp wget http://www.kismetwireless.net/code/kismet-2005-06-R1a-wrt54.tar.gz tar -zxf kismet-2005-06-R1a-wrt54.tar.gz mv kismet-2005-06-R1a-wrt54/kismet_drone /tmp/kismet_drone mv kismet-2005-06-R1a-wrt54/conf/kismet_drone.conf /tmp/etc/kismet_drone.conf rm kismet-2005-06-R1a-wrt54.tar.gz rm -rf kismet-2005-06-R1a-wrt54 chmod +x /tmp/kismet_drone
Here's the more recent version: http://www.kismetwireless.net/code/kismet-2005-08-R1-wrt54.tar.gz http://www.kismetwireless.net/code/kismet-2006-04-R1-wrt54.tar.gz
Method 3 - using scp to copy files from a local Linux box
You could probably also use scp to load the files to the wrt from a local desktop box instead of wget/web-server.
Download the kismet drone wrt files to a directory on your machine. Open a terminal and enter the directory that you downloaded the files into with
cd <path to dir>
Then unzip the kismet files with
tar -zxvf <kismet file>
This will unzip the files and put them into a subdirectory. Enter this directory with
cd <kismet directory>
At this point it is probably a good time to edit the config files instead of having to do it later on the wrt itself. (See the 'configuring the drone' section below)
Then copy the files over to the wrt using scp to the /tmp directory on the wrt.
scp kismet_drone <ip address of wrt>:/tmp scp conf/kismet_drone.conf <ip address of wrt>:/tmp/etc
Configure drone
You then need to edit the drones conf file -- I used the vi editor to modify the conf file. I believe that vi is the only editor that comes with the firmware. If you have never used it before, you might need to google for a quick vi guide. Alternatively, you could modify the conf file on your desktop machine with your favorite editor before copying the files to the wrt.
Change the line
allowedhosts=<address of desktop box>
(You could also allow access to all the machines on your local network by doing 'allowedhosts=a.b.c.0/24' where a.b.c are the first three octets of your networks ip address. This would also make it possible for more than one machine at a time to connect to the drone and display the results.)
Next, change the line
(I have read that this line should be different if running another version of the hardware - this works with v2.2 of the wrt54g).
Running the drone
Now we start the drone...but first, we need to put the wireless interface into passive monitoring mode.
wl ap 0 #switch off access point mode wl passive 1 wl channel <channel number>
The driver for the wrt doesn't do channel hopping, so it needs to be done with a small script running on the wrt.
Then run the drone.
If this works, it will display some messages ending with 'Allowing connections from <desktop ip address>'. You will need to keep the telnet session open, as closing it will terminate the drone.
Preparing the desktop
Install server and client
You will need to be logged in as root. As I use a debian based Linux distro, I started by using apt to install kismet.
apt-get install kismet
Unfortunately for me, the version of kismet available using apt was not the same as the version as the drone and the drone was unable to talk to the server as the protocols had changed between the two versions of kismet. The versions (probably) need to be the same. In the end, I installed kismet on my desktop from source from the kismet site (http://www.kismetwireless.net/download.shtml).
cd <download directory> tar -zxvf <kismet source file>tar.gz cd <kismet dir> ./configure make make install
Configure kismet
[note: I found that the config files were in /etc/kismet when installing using apt-get, but they were in /usr/local/etc when installing from source.] First, you need to make a kismet user for the server to run as.
...and fill in the blanks. Then you need to edit the /usr/local/etc/kismet.conf file and change
Set the wireless source by changing
source=kismet_drone,<wrt ip address>:3501,wrt54g
I found that kismet couldn't write its log files to the default directory, so changed the line
so that the log files get saved in the kismet users directory (/home/kismet).
Run kismet server and client
Now everything should be ready. First you will need to run the server in the background. (I assume that you still have the kismet_drone running via a telnet session to the wrt (see the 'running the drone' section above.)) then run the GUI client.
/usr/local/bin/kismet_server & /usr/local/bin/kismet_client
Stopping kismet
Press shift Q in the GUI to stop the kismet_client, then stop the server which we set running as a background process.
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digging bee/wasp green stripes on back metalic green eyes
Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 9:55 AM
Was hoping you could indentify these bees. there are at least 30 to 40 that just stared showing up and digging in our flowerbed.
madera, CA (central valley)
This is a Sand Wasp in the genus Bembix. We look forward to seeing these wasps each summer. The two places in Los Angeles where we encounter them are in the Los Angeles River near the Glendale Narrows and near Union Station downtown at the freeway underpass when we walk to a film lab. The Bembix Sand Wasps or Digger Wasps. according to Charles Hogue in his wonderful book Insects of the Los Angeles Basin, are: “characteristic inhabitants of dry sandy areas such as beach bluffs and mesas, sand dunes and arroyos; I have seen them working in the long jump pit on the track at the University of Southern California. They fly low and rapidly over the ground seeking prey and tending their burrow nests. The nests are shallow tubes running obliquely into the soil; each contains a single larva, which the female keeps supplied with a diet of fresh flies and other insects. In practicing this form of continuous provisioning of the larvae, sand wasps differ from spider wasps, mud daubers, and many other digging wasps, which provide only a single cache of food that must last throughout the larva’s development. Sand wasps are not social insects, as are hornets and yellow jackets; yet, as a result of the tendency of individuals to nest in the same area, a type of colony develops.” So, Sand Wasps help to eliminate an overabundance of flies which often plague us humans during the hot summer months. | <urn:uuid:8dab808d-4374-4659-9e4f-7b8493c7198c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.whatsthatbug.com/2009/07/06/sand-wasp-5/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280900.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00003-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949487 | 381 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Growing up in 1970s Britain, it was a given that classic World War II movies like Where Eagles Dare and The Battle of Britain would play over and over again on our handful of channels, and WWII comics were ubiquitous among kids, usually with German soldiers spouting ridiculous phrases like “Achtung! Englischer Schweinhunds!” in most every panel.
I thought those days had passed, though, as the long shadow of that war gradually faded. Apparently not: Clive Anderson details the strange and continuing British fascination with the Nazis for the BBC News Magazine:
The late Alan Coren famously published a collection of humorous pieces in book form, called Golfing for Cats. And he put a swastika on the front cover. He had noticed the most popular titles in Britain in those days were about cats, golf and Nazis.
That was in 1975. Thirty-six years on – and now more than 60 years since the end of World War II – Nazi books are going stronger than ever. A staggering 850 books about the Third Reich were published in 2010, up from 350 in the year 2000.
And they mostly still have a swastika on the front cover.
The phenomenal and continuing success of books about the Nazis includes fiction, non-fiction and science fiction.
They include the occult and the Nazis, Nazi magic, Nazi weaponry and Nazi doctors. There’s the history of SS uniforms, SS staff cars, SS recruitment and propaganda.
You can read counter histories imagining Britain if the Nazis had won or post-war histories of the exploitation of Nazi scientific discoveries by America and the other Allied powers.
There is a first hand account of Himmler’s masseur. There are serious histories, adventures with the Panzer Division, and secrets of the Gestapo.
Collectible Spoons of the 3rd Reich by James Yannes is not an invention of Private Eye but a work, I suppose, of genuine scholarship. There’s even a book about the Fuhrer’s own collection of books – Hitler’s Private Library.
So what is going on here? Are British book-buyers still looking for a warning from history or are some of them attracted by the ghastly glamour of history’s most evil baddies?
Are some readers indulging some form of Nazi fetish? Some enthusiasts track down first editions of Hitler’s Mein Kampf.
Is that necessary to understand the workings of a deranged mind, or something bordering on hero worship?…
[continues in the BBC News Magazine]
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|Title:||Spectral Interferometry for Broadband UV / Optical Missions|
|Authors:||Jerry Edelstein and David J. Erskine|
We describe a broadband high-resolution spectrograph using an externally dispersed interferometer ('EDI'), a hybrid of interferometry and classic grating-dispersion. In EDI, a grating spectrometer disperses the output of a fixed-delay white light interferometer. The interferometer provides a fiducial comb causing a spectral Moire┤ that effectively increases ('boosts') the conventional spectrograph resolution by factors of several-fold and diminishes deleterious effects such as focal blur or pupil shape change.
EDI may be applied to slit imaging, multi-object or echelle spectrometry because the inteferometer unit can accept a large field and preserves imaging. EDI works well for broad-band absorption spectroscopy because its spectral heterodyning technique overcomes detector resolution limitations and its classical dispersion tolerates the wide-band continuum noise penalty otherwise suffered by internally dispersed interferometers (e.g. SHS). EDI's sensitivity is comparable to a classical spectrograph?s and unlike purely interferometric Fourier Transform Spectrographs, EDI can operate over a wide simultaneous bandpass.
EDI spectroscopy offers important advantages for large aperture and high-resolution space-mission instrumentation because EDI boosting permits high-resolution results to be obtained with smaller low-resolution spectrograph units, large slit widths, or poor and unstable optical focus. We describe the EDI, show EDI-echelle and spectrograph results for astronomical objects, and explain how this method can be applied to space-missions for UV-Optical spectroscopy.
|Title:||Enabling Technologies for the Next Generation of UV-Optical Missions|
|Authors:||James C. Green|
New technological developments will provide significantly enhanced performance for the next generation of instruments. I will discuss the need for these capabilities from a scientific perspective, as well as show how they can be used to envision missions capable of achieving these science goals.
|Title:||NHST in Context: Future Steps to Large Optical Space Observatories 2010 - 2050|
With several scenarios possible for developing large optical space astronomy missions over the next fifty years, and these missions requiring lengthy development times, it helps to understand how each mission might contribute to the technologies of subsequent missions, such as are described in NASA's long-term Structure and Evolution of the Universe and Origins programs. Scenarios we eventually choose to pursue should be driven by science goals and priorities, but also by the benefits of coordinating technology. Sketching out now a variety of possible integrated technology roadmaps helps put the potential paths in context, with the aim of maximizing the utility of our earlier missions, perhaps beginning with NHST.
|B. MARTIN LEVINE|
|Title:||The Nulling Coronagraph-Using a Nulling Interferometer for Planet Detection in Visible Light with a Single Aperture Telescope|
|Authors:||Michael Shao, B. Martin Levine, J. Kent Wallace, and Duncan Liu|
This talk describes a space mission for direct detection of Earth-like extrasolar planets using a 'nulling coronagraph' instrument behind a 4m telescope in space. A 4 beam nulling interferometer is synthesized from the telescope pupil, to produce a null proportional to theta^4 which is then filtered by a coherent array of single mode fibers to suppress the residual scattered light. Starlight suppression of 1e-10 is achievable using diffraction limited telescope optics and similar quality components in the optical train (lambda/20). We show key features of the system design, present latest results of laboratory work in demonstrating deep and stable nulls, and discuss future key technical milestones.
|CHARLES F. LILLIE|
|Title:||Deployable Telescope for the Next UV/Optical Telescope (NHST) Mission|
|Authors:||Charles F. Lillie|
The Hubble Space Telescope has demonstrated the ability of a large aperture telescope operating in the 0.1 to 1.0 micron spectral region for answering many outstanding scientific questions about planet detection/characterization, star/planet formation, dark matter and baryons, galaxy/black hole formation, and cosmology. This paper presents a design concept for a large aperture, deployable wide field telescope for UV/Optical imaging, spectroscopy and coronagraphy. The paper will also discuss the system trades, technology development efforts, and mirror manufacturing approaches leading to an affordable design for the next UV/Optical Telescope.
|Title:||Solid State UV Detectors|
Future NASA UV/Optical astrophysics missions are influenced by the objectives of the Origins and SEU themes of NASA. In order for missions beyond HST and GALEX to result in major new scientific impacts, they will require significant detector advances, particularly in quantum efficiency, resolution, and number of pixels.
The current UV detection technology can be classified into two major categories: 1. Solid-state devices based on silicon or wide bandgap semiconductors and 2. A combination of photoemissive device, i.e., photocathode, a gain component, and an electron detector. Electron bombarded CCDs (EBCCDs) and microchannel plates (MCPs) are in this category.
An immense investment has been made in silicon visible imagers in order to produce detectors with very low noise, low dark current, and very large imager formats. In addition, new techniques such as lateral gain CCDs and low noise CMOS sensors are being developed so that silicon sensors continue to improve and become viable for photon counting applications. High purity silicon detectors either in hybrid or monolithic format are also used for energy-resolved measurements. To achieve the highest UV/optical quantum efficiency in all of these silicon detectors, independent of their readout scheme, they must be back-illuminated and properly passivated.
Wide bandgap materials such as gallium nitride (GaN), silicon carbide and even diamond are intrinsically solar blind and are being formed into UV detector arrays as well as UV photocathodes. Usually an array of diodes is made and is hybridized to a CMOS readout. Additionally, monolithic imagers with transistors made from the host or substrate material exist at least in concept. These materials offer the promise of direct solar-blind UV imagers and research into their development is important. Further investment is necessary before imagers in these new materials can provide performance equivalent to silicon imagers.
In this talk, we will discuss silicon-based UV/optical detector technology, quantum efficiency enhancement, as well as wide bandgap material-based UV detector technology. In the wide bandgap category, we will focus on detectors based on GaN and its alloys as well as photocathodes based on this class of material.
|Title:||Deformable Mirror Technology|
Deformable mirror technology has begun to change drastically in the last few years. In the past, deformable mirrors were a separate part of the optic train and consisted of discrete ceramic actuators bonded within a optical structure. The mirrors were usually some of the largest components in the system. Now we are seeing a revolution in mirror technology. Mirror are becoming substantially smaller as we integrate actuators and electrical connections within the ceramic structure. In addition, electronics are becoming smaller, lighter, with less power requirements. Xinetics will describe some of these advances and how they would apply to future space telescope systems.
|Title:||Large Format UV-Optical Hybrid Sensors: Si PIN Diodes and Related Technologies|
|Authors:||B.J. Rauscher, D. Figer, & M. Regan|
Silicone PIN diodes are emerging as an attractive alternative to CCDs for high-end space-based astronomy applications. Both Rockwell and Raytheon forecast 2Kx2K pixels formats on the near term and read noise per correlated double sample approaching that of a CCD. We review Si PIN diode technology and discuss their potential application to future UV-Optical space missions.
|Title:||High performance MCP detectors for UV-visible Astrophysics|
Advances in photocathodes (GaN, Diamond, GaAs), microchannel plates (Silicon MCP's), and readouts (Cross strip) are poised to make a significant impact on the capabilities of future space instruments. Alkali halide cathode efficiencies have been improved and GaN photocathodes have achieved >40% DQE in the UV with a bandpass limit of ~400nm. In addition diamond photocathodes have been made with 40% DQE and bandpass up to 200nm, and GaAs photocathodes with ~50% DQE in the visible have been made. Silicon MCP's of 25mm format with ~7Ám pores, have been made, achieving gain of nearly 104 for a single Si MCP. The quantum detection efficiency for Si MCP's is the same as glass MCP's, but the background is as low as ~ 0.02 events sec-1 cm-2, the best for any MCP. Flat fields are free of any periodic modulation, and the gain uniformity is good. Silicon MCP's have low stopping power for X, gamma and cosmic rays, are stable at high temperatures (>800░C), and chemically compatible with many photocathodes. Cross strip anodes based on multi-layer metal and ceramic cross strip patterns encode event positions by direct sensing of the charge on each strip (cross strip) and determination of the charge cloud centroid for each event. The spatial resolution (<5um) achieved is sufficient to resolve 7um microchannel plate pores while using low MCP gain (≈2 x 10^6). Image linearity is good enough to see distortions in the microchannel plate pore alignment, and the low MCP gain will enhance the overall lifetime of MCP detector systems.
|Title:||Application of Precision Deformable Mirrors to Space Astronomy|
Precision deformable mirrors are an enabling technology for active correction of large optical systems in space. Deformable mirrors, such as those developed by Xinetics specifically for application to space astronomy, bring together precision surface figure control, open-loop stability, high actuator count, and a compact format. The characteristics of these deformable mirrors, as measured in the laboratory at JPL, are combined with predictive models to illustrate their applications in high contrast space astronomy applications including TPF and pre-TPF planet-survey concepts.
|WILLIAM B. WHIDDON|
|Title:||A JWST Derivative Design for the Next Large Aperture UV/Optical Telescope|
|Authors:||William B. Whiddon|
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is designed for imaging and spectroscopy in the 0.6 to 28 micron spectral region with a ~6.5 meter diameter telescope that is diffraction limited at 2 microns and passively cooled to ~40 Kelvin. This paper will discuss the modifications to the JWST design that would be required to meet the astronomy community’s need for a large aperture (4-10m) telescope operating at UV/optical (UVO) wavelengths for wide-field, high spatial resolution imaging, multi-object spectroscopy, and coronagraphy after retirement of the Hubble Space Telescope. The paper will also discuss the design trades and technology development efforts needed to achieve these capabilities.
|Title:||Second-generation holographic grating technology|
Diffraction gratings fabricated using holographic recording techniques are quickly becoming the gratings of choice for use in astronomical instrumentation due to their inherently low in-plane scatter and high efficiency. The aberration control available with holographic gratings has proven to be another advantage over their mechanically ruled counterparts. FUSE and HST/COS both capitalize on the performance enhancements provided by first-generation holographic gratings, aberration-corrected gratings recorded with spherical wave-fronts. Despite the gains in performance afforded by first-generation holographic grating technology, these gratings are inherently limited in their ability to correct aberrations higher than third order, e.g. coma or slit curvature.
In recent years the technology for recording second-generation holographic gratings has matured sufficiently to warrant serious consideration by the astronomical community. Second-generation holographic gratings are recorded with aberrated wave-fronts. This effectively increases the number of aberrations in the light path that can be controlled and opens up the potential for non-conventional instrument designs that could meet the needs of future UCV/optical space-based missions.
I will present first generation holographic design theory and methodology and compare to second-generation holographic grating technology. I will discuss the potential for performance gains using second-generation holographic gratings and discuss areas where these gratings could support spectrometers for the next generation of UV/optical instrumentation.
|ROBERT A. WOODRUFF|
|Title:||Design concepts for future large aperture wide field of view UVIS optical systems|
|Authors:||Robert A. Woodruff|
The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has provided superb imaging and spectroscopic capability for studying galaxies, stars, and nebulae in the ultraviolet and visible (UVIS) wavelength regions, as well as in the near infrared. The HST is a 2.4-meter telescope with imaging, spectroscopic, and limited coronagraphic instrumentation. NASA plans to discontinue its operations in 2010. Next generation ultraviolet and visible telescope capability to replace HST is currently under discussion. The new facility would include a very large aperture collector, ultra wide field of view (WFOV) imagery, precise wavefront control, and high UVIS efficiency. Such a facility would combine ultra wide FOV imagery that is diffraction-limited at Lyman-a (l=122 nm) with efficient broad spectral coverage. The design must also provide spectroscopic, and possibly coronagraphic, capability in addition to imagery. This paper will discuss design trades for such capabilities and present design configurations. The paper will also identify key technologies needed to support the implementation of the new facility. | <urn:uuid:5843fb77-d6e3-4353-a03d-5200feef1abf> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.stsci.edu/institute/conference/nhst/abstracts.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280835.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00046-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.88424 | 3,085 | 1.859375 | 2 |
A New Cosmic Meter Stick
The scientists measured the distance to an X-ray source by observing the delay and smearing out of X-ray signals traversing 30,000 light years of interstellar gas and dust. Chandra has "opened a new world," said Peter Predehl of the Max-Planck Institute, Garching, Germany, the lead author on a report to be published in the European journal Astronomy and Astrophysics.
Above: A team of scientists used Chandra to observe a halo around the X-ray source Cygnus X-3. The halo (beyond the yellow ring in the center) is due to scattering of the x-rays by interstellar dust grains along the line of sight to the source. The sharp horizontal line is an instrumental effect. By monitoring the behavior of X-rays propagating through the halo, astronomers have estimated the distance to this source, which is believed to be a star orbiting a black hole.
"Geometrical distance measurements are of particular importance for astronomy. Now we have a new method that works for distant sources," Predehl said. One of the most crucial pieces of information needed in astronomy is the distance to the stars and galaxies. This information also is among the most difficult to obtain because, with rare exceptions, astronomers cannot measure distance directly and must use a variety of ingenious but uncertain techniques.
This new method relies on the scattering of X-rays by interstellar dust grains between a source and the Earth. The dust produces a halo, much like the halo around a traffic light on a foggy night.
Other members of the team included Vadim Burwitz and Joachim Trumper, also of the Max-Planck Institute, and Frits Paerels of Columbia University, New York, NY. Trumper and a colleague proposed this method 27 years ago, but it could not be applied until an X-ray observatory with Chandra's unique capability was available.
Left: An artist's concept of a high-mass x-ray binary system like Cygnus X-3. Gas from a massive star feeds the accretion disk of an orbiting black hole or neutron star. The accreting gas heats up and shines brightly as an X-ray source.
Predehl and colleagues observed Cygnus X-3 for 3 1/2 hours with Chandra using the Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer (ACIS). By analyzing the time variations in the halo, the astronomers determined that the distance to Cygnus X-3 is 30,000 light years, within about 20 percent accuracy. The accuracy was limited by the short observing time, which was less than the full 4.8-hour period of variation. The team hopes to refine this estimate in the near future, as data from a longer observation of the source becomes available.
Right: The culprit -- an interstellar dust grain. Our universe is a very dusty place. Dust usually shows its presence by blocking out light emitted from stars or nebulae. By studying how dust absorbs, emits, and reflects light, astronomers conclude that interstellar dust is much different than the cell and lint based dust found around a typical house. Interstellar dust grains are composed mostly of carbon, silicon, and oxygen and are usually less than about 1/1000 of a millimeter across. This picture shows the result of a fractal adhesion model for dust grains involving random conglomerates of spherical compounds of different properties. [more information from NASA/Goddard's Astronomy Picture of the Day]
In principle, the method also could work for nearby galaxies, such as the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds and the Andromeda Nebula. If so, it would help astronomers in their quest to understand the size and age of the universe, since it would provide an independent estimate of the size of the first steps on the cosmic distance ladder.
The ACIS instrument was built for NASA by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania State University, University Park. NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, manages the Chandra program. TRW, Inc., Redondo Beach, CA, is the prime contractor for the spacecraft. The Chandra X-ray Center at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics controls science and flight operations from Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Chandra home page -from Harvard
Chandra News -from NASA
X-Rays - Another Form of Light - the basics of X-rays from the Chandra home page at Harvard
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(written from a Production point of view)
Pocket Books is a publishing imprint, a subsidiary of Simon & Schuster. It is the imprint under which all current Star Trek mass-market paperback novels are published. It also released hardcover and trade paperback novels and reference works until an editorial reorganization at Simon & Schuster in 2009, when those formats were incorporated into a new imprint, Gallery Books.
The origins of the company date back to 1939, with the publication of the first paperback books in the US by Robert Fair de Graff. Previously, books were only published in hardcover, and often priced at several dollars apiece – beyond the means of most people during the Depression. The success of paperback publishing in Germany and the UK led to de Graff's efforts, which, being sold at 25 cents each, were much more affordable. In addition to carefully selecting his titles, de Graff sought to establish new channels of distribution, such as drug stores, five and dime stores, and department stores – all places that, prior to his efforts, had not sold books. de Graff presented his idea to several publishers before Simon & Schuster decided it was worth a look. To this end, Pocket Books was formed.
Simon & Schuster purchased the company in 1966. In 1975, Simon & Schuster, and thus Pocket Books, was sold to Gulf+Western (which had also bought Paramount Pictures in 1966), and was incorporated into Viacom in 2002.
The Pocket Books logo is a kangaroo named "Gertrude".
The Star Trek license Edit
Pocket acquired the license to publish Star Trek fiction in 1978 when Gulf+Western requested the development of a Star Trek book line as a promotional tie-in for the first Star Trek film, Star Trek: The Motion Picture. A total of sixteen titles, both novels and reference books, were intended to coincide with the premiere of the film, including one flippantly titled U.S.S. Enterprise Officer's Date Book (Playboy magazine, January 1980, p. 310). However, due to the film's mixed reception, only about half of these were ultimately released. One of these, the December 1979 novelization of that movie, was the company's first Star Trek novel, and marked the start of a long-running role for the company as the sole officially-licensed publisher for Star Trek novels in all formats.
David G. Hartwell was instrumental in getting the initial Star Trek license and authors for the series, and was the first editor of the line.
As the number of Star Trek series increased, and novels for each series slotted into the publishing schedule, Pocket reached a peak of publishing two mass-market paperbacks a month, a pattern which continued for ten years until 2005, when it was reduced to one per month.
On the title pages of many Star Trek novels from the early 2000s onward, a location from that novel is included as an additional Pocket Books office.
As already indicated, Pocket Books also retained the license to release Star Trek reference books in the US. Their first title was the 1979 Star Trek Speaks, published under the imprint "Wallaby Books"; a brand which, like the "Wanderer Books" imprint for juvenile readers, was used for Star Trek titles on occasion in that period. Publication outside the US was sub-licensed to (amongst others) Titan Books for the UK market, Heyne Verlag, VGS Verlag and Heel Verlag for the German market, Fanucci Editore for the Italian market, and Dai-X and Bunkasha for Japan, in translation where applicable. Incidentally, as if to reflect the popularity Star Trek enjoyed in these markets, Germany, Japan and, at some distance, Italy were the countries which saw the most translated reference book titles by far, starting with those published by Pocket Books.
Due to perceived diminishing interest in these kind of works, the number of new reference publications dropped sharply after 2002. Licenses to publish reference books were eventually extended to other publishers, starting in 2009 when Titan Books published Star Trek - The Art of the Film. Abrams Books and 47North have since also been contracted to release licensed Star Trek reference books.
- Note: reference books are in chronological order by year of first printing
- Novel series
- Star Trek (1979-present)
- Star Trek: The Original Series (1979-present)
- Star Trek Photostories (1980-1982)
- Star Trek: The Next Generation (1988-present)
- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993-present)
- Star Trek: Voyager (1995-present)
- Star Trek: Enterprise (2001-present)
- Star Trek: Starfleet Academy (1993-1998)
- Star Trek: New Frontier (1997-present)
- Star Trek: Starfleet Corps of Engineers (2000-present)
- Star Trek: Stargazer (2000-2004)
- Star Trek: Klingon Empire (2003-present)
- Star Trek: The Lost Era (2003-present)
- Star Trek: Titan (2005-present)
- Star Trek: Vanguard (2005-2012)
- Star Trek: Mirror Universe (2007-present)
- Star Trek: Starfleet Academy (2010-2011)
- Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations (2011-present)
- Star Trek: Seekers (2014-present)
- Star Trek: Discovery (2017)
- Reference books
- Star Trek Speaks (1979, as "Wallaby Books")
- Star Trek Spaceflight Chronology (1979, as "Wallaby Books")
- Star Trek: The Motion Picture Make-Your-Own Costume Book (1979, as "Wallaby Books")
- Star Trek: The Motion Picture Peel-Off Graphics Book (1979, as "Wanderer Books")
- The USS Enterprise Bridge Punch-Out Book (1979, as "Wanderer Books")
- The Making of Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1980, as "Wallaby Books")
- Star Trek: The Motion Picture Blueprints (1980, as "Wallaby Books")
- The Star Trek Compendium (1981, as "Wallaby Books")
- The Making of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
- The Klingon Dictionary (1985)
- The Official Star Trek Quiz Book (1985)
- Mr. Scott's Guide to the Enterprise (1987)
- Captain's Log: William Shatner's Personal Account of the Making of Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)
- The Worlds of the Federation (1989)
- Star Trek: The First 25 Years (1991, canceled)
- Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual (1991)
- Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion (1992)
- Star Trek Chronology (1993)
- The Making of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1994)
- Star Trek Encyclopedia (1994)
- Star Trek - Where No One Has Gone Before (1994)
- The Art of Star Trek (1995)
- The Ferengi Rules of Acquisition (1995)
- Inside Star Trek: The Real Story (1996)
- Make It So (1996)
- Star Trek: Federation Passport (1996)
- The Klingon Way (1996)
- Star Trek: The Next Generation USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D Blueprints (1996)
- Star Trek: These are the Voyages... (1996)
- Klingon for the Galactic Traveler (1997)
- Star Trek: Federation Travel Guide (1997)
- Star Trek Phase II: The Lost Series (1997)
- Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Continuing Mission (1997)
- Star Trek: The Original Series Sketchbook (1997)
- Q's Guide to the Continuum (1998)
- The Secrets of Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)
- Star Trek: Action! (1998)
- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Technical Manual (1998)
- Star Trek Science Logs (1998)
- Star Trek: The Next Generation Sketchbook: The Movies (1998)
- The Tribble Handbook (1998)
- A Vision of the Future - Star Trek: Voyager (1998)
- Fade In: From Idea to Final Draft (1999, canceled)
- The Q Chronicles (1999)
- Quotable Star Trek (1999)
- Star Trek Cookbook (1999)
- Star Trek Sticker Book (1999)
- The Definitive Star Trek Trivia Book (2000)
- The Klingon Hamlet (2000)
- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion (2000)
- Star Trek: Paper Universe (2000)
- Starship Enterprise (2000, canceled)
- Unseen Frontier (2000-2001, canceled)
- The Definitive Star Trek Trivia Book Volume II (2001)
- The Magic of Tribbles: The Making of Trials and Tribble-ations (2001, eBook only)
- Star Trek: Celebrations (2001)
- Star Trek: Starship Spotter (2001)
- The Hologram's Handbook (2002)
- I'm Working on That (2002)
- Star Trek: Star Charts (2002)
- Star Trek: The Starfleet Survival Guide (2002)
- Star Trek: Voyager Technical Manual (2002-2003, canceled)
- Star Trek: Voyager Companion (2003)
- Ships of the Line (2006)
- Voyages of Imagination (2006)
- Star Trek 101 (2008)
Chronology and continuity in the Pocket novels Edit
From the mid-1980s onward, there was a general belief that novels could not make significant character changes, such as the death of a character or a promotion contradicting an established on-screen rank. This has often been considered to have been the influence of Richard Arnold, although that is disputed.
However, novels were free to provide explanation for character changes and events that took place in canon, such as the Star Trek: The Lost Years miniseries which followed James T. Kirk's role as Chief of Starfleet Operations, as well as explaining other promotions such as Pavel Chekov's role as security chief.
A frequently-used concept in the Pocket Books novels of the 1980s was the existence of a second five-year voyage of the USS Enterprise under Captain Kirk (taking place either before or after The Motion Picture), something which was not stated in canon, but did not contradict the chronology known at the time. The 2005 novel Ex Machina and its follow-ups returned to this idea.
With the ending of the various television series, a greater degree of creative freedom saw the restriction on character change relaxed somewhat. This included the death of Kathryn Janeway in the novel Before Dishonor, and the Enterprise novels retconning Trip Tucker's death. This period also saw the novels developing into their own internal continuity, with Star Trek authors and Pocket Books editorial often collaborating to enhance consistency between various manuscripts.
Particularly with regard to The Original Series, it is generally accepted that the number of novels published means that the characters would not have had enough time to participate in all of the depicted adventures.
Star Trek editors Edit
- David G. Hartwell
- Mimi Panitch
- Karen Haas
- Dave Stern
- Kevin J. Ryan
- John J. Ordover
- Margaret Clark
- Marco Palmieri
- Ed Schlesinger
- Jennifer Heddle
- Jaime Costas
Pocket Star BooksEdit
The Pocket Star Books line is a subsidiary of Simon & Schuster that specializes in media tie-in eBooks. As such, a number of the Star Trek novels are released under the Pocket Star Books imprint when released in ebook format.
Further reading Edit
- "Star Trek Encyclopedias", Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 1, Issue 4, August 1999, pp. 90-91
- "Star Trek: Non-Fiction Books", Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 1, Issue 7, November 1999, pp. 59-61
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Throughout the months of March and April, artists, designers, educators, parents and arts enthusiasts from our Boston Chinese Community will be leading workshops in Josiah Quincy Elementary School classrooms, exposing children and teachers to the power of expression thru the Visual Arts.
The culmination of these workshops will be an art exhibit on Friday, April 27, at 6 p.m. in the JQS Gymnasium that celebrates all of the students’ artistic works; there will be music and refreshments. This year’s theme is “Diversity Thru Art,” covering a range of significant artists, movements, techniques and their impact on global culture.
At the exhibition and fundraiser on April 27, students will proudly display their work, demonstrating the subjects learned and articulating their varied creative connections to the arts. Parents and community members will be encouraged to purchase student artwork at the event. All funds raised will go towards implementing an after-school program for the arts at JQS in the next school year. Your help is needed to make this event a success – we urge you to join us in making JQS and our Chinese Boston community richer thru art. | <urn:uuid:8070721b-6030-438f-bfca-4e65866fc5c4> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://beaconhilltimes.com/2012/03/20/josiah-quincy-elementary-school-diversity-thru-art/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281069.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00270-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951722 | 236 | 2 | 2 |
SERVICE TO ANOINTED
Memorise: He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet’s reward; and he that receiveth a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man’s reward. Matthew 10:41
Read: Matthew 10:40-42, Bible in one year: Ezra 8:24-10:44, Ecclesiastes 7:9-18
Elisha was devoted to serving the servant of God, Elijah. This devotion was one of the qualities that qualified him for uncommon greatness. The Bible stated that Elisha poured water on Elijah’s hand (2 Kings 3:11). With this and also as stated in our memory verse, it is clear that there are lots of blessings reserved for those who serve God’s prophets. You can serve a man of God without getting physical remuneration from him. However, when a man of God pronounces blessing on you saying “God bless you” from a friend differ from that which a man of God pronounces. A “God bless you” from a man of God is loaded with prophetic blessings. Hence you must be ready to do what will qualify you for a divine benediction. Recently, I was in the United States and one of my sons in the Lord shard a testimony. He testified thus:
“God surprised me during the General Overseer’s (G.O.) previous visit. Prior to the G.O.’s arrival, my pastor told me that he had chosen me to drive the G.O. around during his visit. I tried to explain to my pastor that it might not be easy for me to take up this assignment because I was preparing for a major examination, but my pastor insisted. I thought I could manage to combine driving the G.O. with preparing to write the crucial examination because my understanding was that the G.O. would spend just one day. To my surprise, the G.O. spent a whole week. When he was leaving he simply said, “God bless you”. To the glory of God, I passed my exams in flying colours and I got a new job and prospered tremendously.”
May God remember all your labour of love towards the minister of God in Jesus’ Name.
Elisha was committed to the business of the kingdom. Therefore, when Elijah asked to know what he wanted, he had only one answer: a double portion of the power on Elijah (2 Kings 2:9). Elisha asked for what he would use for God’s work. The Bible in Matthew 6:33 says:
“But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.”
God is looking for those who are concerned about His kingdom’s business. As from today, may the Lord grant you the mind to work for Him and to work with His anointed ministers.
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The IMAJINE project develops around three key issues: (1) To understand and map socio-spatial inequalities across territories within contemporary Europe (i.e. across regions in countries, countries in Europe, and regions in Europe) and how to address them– WPs 1, 2, 3 and 6; (2) To analyse whether and to what extent socio-spatial inequalities trigger the political mobilisation of regionalist actors demanding for some territorial autonomy – WP7; (3) To examine the link between such inequalities and migration flows – WP5. These three core themes are framed within the Spatial Justice approach, which conceives of socio-spatial inequalities not just in terms of economic unbalances, but as a matter of (un)fairness, lack of opportunity, and “right to”. Assuming the Spatial Justice framework also means to address inequalities not just in terms of economic redistribution, but in terms of empowering regions and providing them with the necessary opportunities to reduce the gaps fairly.
All IMAJINE’s researching teams are investigating these topics by using a wide range of approaches, methods and scope of analyses. At the crossroads of these researches, there is WP4, coordinated by the University of Siena (Italy), which aims at investigating all the core IMAJINE’s core topics from the people’s perspective. Accordingly, WP4’s research questions are:
- (1) Perception of socio-spatial inequalities: Do people actually perceive that there is a gap between regions within the same country, or between country/regions within the EU? Do they perceive it as a matter of (in)justice?
- (2) Addressing Socio-spatial Inequalities (I) Policy approach – Territorial cohesion and Spatial Justice: Do people support measures for reducing these gaps? Do they support solidarity and territorial cohesion measures as a matter of spatial justice?
- (3) Addressing Socio-spatial Inequalities (II) Polity approach – Territorial autonomy: Do people consider greater regions’ empowerment as a way to address inequalities?
- (4) ( Socio-spatial inequalities and migration: Do people perceive spatial inequalities as a cause of migration flows? And, on their turn, do people perceive migration flows as a further source of spatial inequalities?
From 13th to 14th February, IMAJINE’s researchers met in Siena to develop ideas on how to develop the survey questionnaire that will explore citizens’ attitudes on these dimensions. Surrounded by the amazing (and exceptionally warm) Tuscany landscape, the two-days workshop provided insights for innovative ways to measure people’s perceptions and preferences on socio-spatial inequalities, redistributive measures, territorial autonomy, and migration. The meeting was useful to examine the challenges of designing a survey questionnaire, but also to figure out solutions and ideas to address them.
Above all, however, the Siena workshop was a great occasion to bring together an interdisciplinary group of researchers, to share their knowledge and the first results emerging from the IMAJINE’s project, to be included in the WP4 survey. Indeed, this is the added value of the IMAJINE project, an interdisciplinary community of academics that is promoting an innovative understanding on questions of territorial inequalities and spatial justice, through different, yet closely interconnected, approaches and perspectives.
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All these events took place in one day. All of the following articles came from the July 22, 1938 Palestine Post.
The headline was for an especially gruesome act of terror, with the "bandits" murdering women and children at point-blank range while shouting praise to Mohammed.
Meanwhile, an attack against a vineyard resulted in another Jew being killed before the attackers were driven off:
Near the Dead Sea, another attack killed three more Jews doing surveying:
A man who was attacked by a mob in Haifa died of his injuries:
Another Arab Haifa mob attacked Jews as well:
Arabs were stopped while trying to bomb Tel-Aviv:
Of course, Jews weren't the only targets when tolerant, civilized Arabs went wild:
And for some strange reason, even Jews in neighboring countries were considered legitimate targets:
The British had an interesting punishment for Arabs who attacked them. Amazingly, there is not one record of international condemnation for this "crime":
At that time, Jews had a most appropriate response to Arab terror.
It is a shame that today's Zionists don't understand the power of such a move anymore. For those who fell, the early Zionists created a new settlement in their memory.
The only way terror can be fought is to make it counterproductive, and if every terror attack in the name of real estate would have a firm response of "Fine, now you lose more land," it would cease.
Giving away land for free would appear to have the opposite effect.
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Predicting the Presidential Election, 2012
Amidst all the fuss about President Obama's sagging poll numbers, the struggling U.S. economy, and "who's up and who's down" in the Republican presidential primary contest, American University Professor Allan Lichtman has issued his "sure fire" prediction for the outcome of the November, 2012 election.
Lichtman is no crystal ball gazer. His predictions are based on a formula he developed in 1981 in collaboration with a Russian geophysicist, who had previously specialized in creating models used to forecast earthquakes. Their approach was based on a thorough analysis of the forces at work in shaping the political landscape in every U.S. presidential elections from 1860 to 1980. From this examination they developed their predictive model. And since then, Lichtman has used it to correctly forecast the outcome of every election from 1984 through 2008.
Instead of looking at polling numbers which show a snapshot of public opinion at a point in time, Lichtman analyzes macro trends in the economy and the society, viewing them as if they were tectonic plates whose shifting below the surface have the ability to create rumblings that can alter the political landscape. He identified 13 such indicators and calls them the "13 Keys to the Presidency."
According to Lichtman, if the incumbent party (that is, the political party that is currently in the White House) can claim eight of the "13 Keys", then they can be assured of victory in the next election. If, on the other hand, they hold seven or less, they are headed for defeat.
The "13 Keys" (with some explanatory notes) are:
1. Incumbent-party mandate: in the last congressional election, the incumbent party increased its seats in the U.S. House of Representatives.
2. Nomination-contest: there is no serious contest for the incumbent-party nomination (as Carter faced from Senator Edward Kennedy in 1980).
3. Incumbency: the incumbent-party candidate is the sitting president.
4. Third party: there is no significant third-party challenge (which can be seen to garner at least 5% of the vote-as was the case in 1992 when Ross Perot won 19%, helping Clinton defeat Bush).
5. Short-term economy: the economy is not currently in a recession.
6. Long-term economy: real annual per-capita economic growth is equal to or greater than it was during the past two terms.
7. Policy change: the incumbent administration effects major changes in national policy.
8. Social unrest: there is no sustained social unrest (of the magnitude of the civil rights and anti-Viet Nam movements).
9. Scandal: the incumbent administration is untainted by a major scandal (like "Watergate" or the Clinton impeachment).
10. Foreign or military failure: the incumbent administration suffers no major failure in foreign or military affairs (like Viet Nam or the Iran hostage crisis in 1980).
11. Foreign or military success: the incumbent administration achieves a major success in foreign or military affairs (such as winning World War II).
12. Incumbent charisma: the incumbent-party candidate is charismatic or a national hero (much like Eisenhower in 1952 or Obama in 2008).
13. Challenger charisma: the challenging-party candidate is not charismatic or a national hero (as Reagan was in 1980).
At the end of December, 2011, I hosted Lichtman on my TV show, "Viewpoint", where he issued his "one year before the election" prediction. According to Lichtman, the only three "Keys" which President Obama has definitely lost, to date, are #1, #6 and #12. Democrats clearly suffered significant losses in the 2010 mid-term elections (Key #1); the economy will not recover sufficiently to mark an increase in per capita income (Key #6); and while Obama was a charismatic figure in 2008, his aura has diminished and will not be a major factor in his favor in 2012 (Key #12). That makes three "Keys" gone. In addition, there are a few that are questionable, namely: Key #10 and Key #11-since it is not clear that killing bin Laden or the withdrawal from Iraq will be seen as "victories," or, conversely, that instability in Iraq and Afghanistan or a dreaded future terrorist attack will constitute a "foreign policy failure."
Nevertheless, this still leaves a maximum of ten "Keys" and a minimum of eight "Keys" in the President's favor, enough for Lichtman, who has never been wrong, to confidently predict Obama's reelection in November. | <urn:uuid:1cf60a03-e95b-4291-8286-77ebf549bc87> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.factsandarts.com/index.php/current-affairs/predicting-presidential-election-2012 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00669.warc.gz | en | 0.951903 | 958 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Senior Lecturer at the Department of Inorganic Chemistry Mikhail Bukharov talks about his work funded by a grant from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research.
“We study the ties between complex compounds and their dynamic behavior in a solution, - says Mr. Bukharov. – We use copper with amino acids and some oligopeptides as models”. Amino acids and copper are both essential for human metabolism, so the research group can study their functioning mechanisms.
The practical result here is the development of antineoplastic medications that consist of amino acids and microelements. Thus the research can help make some progress in oncological treatments.
“By now we have studied some copper and amino acid complexes and presented our research results in such journals as Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics and Inorganic Chemistry, - continues Mr. Bukharov. – We managed to prove that the coordination number of copper (II) in solution, i. e. the specific number of ligands that attach to a copper ion depends on ligands themselves. There was a theory that copper (II) in solution only has six coordination positions for ligand attachment, but since early 2000s there have been publications about potential penta- or tetracoordination of copper (II). We proved that a number of coordination positions depends on ligands themselves – the stronger their binding the more probable pentacoordination structure is”.
The results have been discussed at several international conferences. The research group also uses mathematical modelling in their work through quantum chemistry and molecular dynamics methods.
The group consists of four researchers whose work also involves the Department of Quantum Electronics and Radio Spectroscopy of KFU and Ilmenau University of Technology. | <urn:uuid:6607c560-e2a0-4f4a-82f6-2c746668a125> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://kpfu.ru/eng/news-eng/antineoplastic-substances-copper.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280899.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00576-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938446 | 350 | 2.046875 | 2 |
Eating Recovery Center In The News: Examiner.com
January 28, 2013
Chief Marketing Officer Julie Holland, MHS, CEDS is the National Eating Disorders Examiner. Read an exceprt from her blog on how eating disorders do not discriminate and the prevalence of eating disorders in the LGBT community below, or to read it in its entirety, click here.
Eating disorders, body image and the LGBT community
Eating disorders do not discriminate. Regardless of gender, skin color, religion or income, these potentially deadly illnesses can have detrimental physical, emotional and mental effects. Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals are not immune to eating disorders either. In fact, according to some studies, gay men are more likely to have an eating disorder than straight men due to increased pressure to meet physical standards that are often considered more “attractive” within the gay community.*
Eating disorders among the LGBT community
For some gay men, eating disorders may develop as an outcome of sexual repression. These intense feelings of conflict translate into being dissatisfied with one’s own physical body. Unfortunately, some gay individuals are shamed for who they are by family, friends or colleagues, and often times, they use disordered eating behaviors as a means for taking control of something when their lives feel chaotic.
Feldman and Meyer cite the sociocultural perspective as a “prominent explanation for the high prevalence of eating disorders among gay and bisexual men” in their 2007 study, “Eating Disorders in Diverse Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Populations.”** According to the study, gay and bisexual men have been found to have the same weight and body image pressures and expectations when it comes to relationships as straight women; thus they experience similar unrealistic body ideals. Disordered eating behaviors then develop as an attempt to attain these ideals or cope with confusion often surrounding sexual orientation.
Lesbian and bisexual women may not have the same body image pressures as gay men, as these two groups tend to have differing viewpoints on ideal body image. However, gay women often have similar struggles with sexual orientation and a desire to be accepted in society as a whole, and can engage in disordered eating thoughts and behaviors as a means to manage their anxiety.
LGBT adolescents are especially at risk
Adolescents and young adults who struggle with sexual orientation are especially at risk for eating disorders as they cope with “coming out,” being accepted by their families and fitting in with their peers. A 2009 study by researchers at Harvard University and Children’s Hospital Boston examined the correlation between sexual orientation and binge eating and purging.*** Among the findings were heightened rates of binge eating among both males and females who identified themselves as gay, lesbian, bisexual or “mostly heterosexual.”
As is true with most adolescents, the body image ideals and expectations of teenagers identifying as gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender are significantly impacted by the media. Some segments of the LGBT community and gay media place a hyper-focus on an unattainable body image and idealize stylists and the fashion and beauty industries, which are all highly body-conscious. | <urn:uuid:ef133791-c52f-4f1c-a3a0-bd7dc1c114ca> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://www.eatingrecoverycenter.com/blog/2013/01/28/eating-recovery-center-in-the-news-examiner-com-5/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718278.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00239-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96517 | 641 | 2.875 | 3 |
What is the front end to your solaris application? Does it also reside in Solaris or does it reside in Windows? In Web? etc.... The front end location is a greater determinant of how to generate load than is the backend.
It depends on what your application is doing. For most business applications I worked with the only difference is how you will monitor the server - scripts are the same (some differences can be for the WinSocket protocol). Is a native graphical front-end only way to access your application? | <urn:uuid:6c5b1acb-2f1e-414d-a9fa-e18f84e5a051> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.sqaforums.com/forums/hp-mercury-loadrunner/28839-loadtesting-unix-application-lr.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988722951.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183842-00211-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.928939 | 106 | 1.570313 | 2 |
With the growth, variety, and criticality of video – the ways in which we capture, process, and distribute video streams are changing. Today, video producers and consumers want more control over the process. This includes technical aspects such as resolutions, latency, workflows, and a myriad of other factors. However, just as important are the ways video is distributed.
The challenges of modern video-based applications
The challenges of cloud-based workflows
How to overcome challenges with edge computing in live video streaming
How to remove the cost of traditional broadcast-grade equipment
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CSI SAFE is specifically developed for the design of raised floor and foundation slab systems. A model based on 3D objects can be created in SAFE or imported from SAP2000, ETABS, or CAD.
We cover the entire CSI Safe Structure Design Course in the following modules:
The first module covers Introduction to SAFE and its basic interface.
The second module covers the description and use of modelling tools in CSI SAFE software.
The third module covers materials and modelling of Slabs. The module also covers analysis, design of slabs and data imports from Etabs software.
The fourth module covers the modelling of flat slabs. The module also covers design checks for quality assurance purposes.
The fifth module covers the design of isolated footings, modelling and analysis. The module also covers model optimisation.
The sixth module covers the design of combined footing, design checks for quality assurance purposes.
The seventh module covers the modelling of strap footing and shear checks. The module also covers the design of strap footing.
The eighth module covers Mat modelling and analysis. The module also covers design checks for quality assurance purposes.
The ninth module covers Eccentric Footing design.
The tenth module covers Pile Cap design and modelling. The module also covers design checks for quality assurance purposes.
|Lecture 1.0||2501 Module 1A Intro and Basic Interface to Safe|
|Lecture 1.1||2501 Module 1B Basic Interface of Safe|
|Lecture 1.2||2502 Module 2A Modelling Tools in SAFE|
|Lecture 1.3||2502 Module 2B Modelling Tools in SAFE|
|Lecture 1.4||2503 Module 3A Material and Modelling of Slab|
|Lecture 1.5||2503 Module 3B Analysis Design of Slab and Etabs Imports|
|Lecture 1.6||2504 Module 4A Modelling of Flat Slab|
|Lecture 1.7||2504 Module 4B Design and Checks|
|Lecture 1.8||2505 Module 5A Design of Isolated footing|
|Lecture 1.9||2505 Module 5B Footing Modelling and Analysis|
|Lecture 1.10||2505 Module 5C Design and Optimization|
|Lecture 1.11||2506 Module 6A Modelling of Combined Footing|
|Lecture 1.12||2506 Module 6B Design And Checks|
|Lecture 1.13||2507 Module 7A Modelling of Strap Footing and Shear Check|
|Lecture 1.14||2507 Module 7B Design Of Strap Footing and Checks|
|Lecture 1.15||2508 Module 8A Mat Modelling and Analysis|
|Lecture 1.16||2508 Module 8B Design and Checks|
|Lecture 1.17||2509 Module 9 Eccentric Footing|
|Lecture 1.18||2510 Module 10A Pile and Pile Cap Dimensions|
|Lecture 1.19||2510 Module 10B Pile Cap Modelling , Design and Checks|
I am Ankush Jain, a Structure Engineering Expert based in India.
Career Summary : Mr Ankush Kumar Jain is the mentor of the course. Mr Ankush Kumar Jain has submitted his PhD thesis and soon he will be awarded a doctorate degree from one of the prestigious Institutions in India. He is M.Tech. in Structural Engineering and B.Tech. in Civil Engineering. Mr Ankush Jain is having 10 Years of structural design experience. He has designed more than 200 residential and industrial structures. He has extensive experience working in STAAD Pro, E-TAB and SAP 2000. Ankush has designed industry-oriented courses and after learning his courses, students will be able to design, analyze and optimize the structures.
Professional Qualification : B. Tech, M.T.ech, PhD in Structure Engineering
Area of Expertise : Structure Engineering
LinkedIn Profile : https://www.linkedin.com/
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Anti-Semitism to be a highlight of Orwellian global media 9/11 conspiracy
The general public’s reluctance to entertain any opposing views different from the usually silly and misleading official 9/11 story have been relegated to the realm of conspiracy theory and the Orwellian global media propaganda against Israel.
Consequently, the tragic events of September 11, 2001 triggered a global “War on Terror,” which led to the Afghanistan-Iraq wars and have provided the United States an impetus for the adoption of the controversial Patriot Act.
Indeed, the fabricated big lies surrounding the 9/11 attacks opened a new era towards the relentless assault of civil liberties and the militarization of American society and law enforcement.
Fallacies of 9/11 inside job
According to Frank Gaffney of the Center for Security Policy, the 1993 World Trade Center (WTC) bombing, Oklahoma City and the 9/11 attacks were Iraqi false flag operations.
Today, we have an opportunity to learn from the 9/11 timeline and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) foreknowledge of the attacks which reveal the hidden lies and sinister acts of the most heinous crimes against humanity.
Time and again, there were too many questions with regard to the official 9/11 story. As difficult as it may the hidden truth on 9/11 were inconclusive and yet unmistakably bogus and remains shrouded in complete secrecy.
Let’s take a minute to re-acquaint ourselves about everything inconsistent with the 9/11 story:
First, recall the documentary media evidence of the WTC-7 towers coming down at free-fall speed, defying the laws of physics. Science and deductive reasoning will easily support the cause of the WTC-7 collapse as a physical impossibility in the absence of explosives used in controlled demolition.
Second, the subsequent affirmation by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) that the WTC buildings collapsed due to the impacts of fire were anomalous.
In a powerful mini-documentary, “Architects & Engineers: Solving the Mystery of WTC 7″ effectively expose the fraudulent official story of WTC 7′s destruction and the explosive evidence omitted from the NIST report .
The explosive proof is totally incontrovertible.
Simply put, an experiment using thermite certainly shows that 9/11 was an inside job. The omission of data in the NIST report is a red flag to anyone familiar with scientific procedure. The engineers concluded that the planes and fires alone could not have caused the deadly collapse.
Third, WTC owner Larry Silvertein admitted that WTC-7 was ‘pulled’ on 9/11, which is the standard slang for controlled demolition. (See video) Firefighters and rescue workers talked about explosives and bombs going off, all over in the buildings.
Fourth, the loss of crucial forensic evidence is ostensibly suspicious and shocking. A structural engineer who was a member of the team assembled by the American Society of Civil Engineers to investigate the WTC site after 9/11 complains about the decision to rapidly destroy the remaining structural steel from the collapsed WTC buildings.
Fifth, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) has a track record of intercepting planes within minutes. Can’t imagine why the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) on hijacking wasn’t followed until 10:06 AM, when United Airlines Flight 93 crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. One of the planes, American Airlines Flight 11, crashed into Tower One of the WTC 8:50 AM. United Airlines Flight 175 crashed into Tower Two at 9:04 AM and collapsed to the ground at about 10:00 AM.
Sixth, for the most part, the Bush Administration initially opposed 9/11 Query Panel until the 9/11 families pressed for it. Bush said the investigation should be confined to Congress because it deals with sensitive information that could reveal sources and methods of intelligence. And, why was the 9/11 commission ordered to scale down investigation?
Seventh, after being told there were no health hazards thousands of first responders have been afflicted and ignored by the government. Some have died from respiratory failure due to micronized steel, glass, concrete in their lungs and nano-thermite in the dust samples indicative of controlled demolition.
Eight, no one has been fired for 9/11 up until the indictment of Vice President Dick Cheney’s Chief of Staff Lewis Libby, who leaked the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson in retaliation for her husband’s public criticism of the war in Iraq.
Ninth, there is consensus within the government on two issues: the terrorist attacks were brilliantly planned and executed, and the intelligence community was in no way prepared to stop them. One bureaucratic victim, may be CIA director George Tenet, whose resignation is considered a necessity by many in the Bush Administration.
Finally, CIA Intelligence Asset Susan Lindauer provides us an extraordinary first-hand account from behind the intelligence curtain that shatters the government’s lies about 9/11 and Iraq, and casts a harsh spotlight on the workings of the Patriot Act as the ideal weapon to bludgeon whistleblowers and dissidents.
Lindauer ‘s “affidavit will prove beyond any shadow of doubt that those officials in the Bush Administration knowingly and deliberately practiced “command failure” to thwart the 9/11 attack. It will prove that those officials hyped a War with Iraq as a probable outcome of the attack, exciting motive and opportunity for an orphan intelligence team to lay explosives through the Towers to maximize damage and guarantee the outcome.”
“This was done with full knowledge of the consequence – that a fellow American was subjected to false arrest, false imprisonment on a military base without trial or hearing, and threats of forcible drugging in prison, as a judicial effort to destroy knowledge of the CIA’s advance knowledge of 9/11 – thus safeguarding Silverstein’s profits. I know, because I was that American.”
Ironically, in the cloak and dagger world of operational intelligence, classified information exposed by whistle blowers are thought-provoking and dangerously alarming.
CNN on ‘Jews did 9/11’
In a world studded by deceit and propaganda, attempts of connecting the dots by shadow intelligence condemning the Jews and refusing to admit 9/11 an Iraqi false flag operation is paranoid, racist and anti-Semitic.
Notwithstanding, the overwhelming scientific evidence and solid proof that the attacks were an inside job- nobody can refute direct witness accounts from whistleblowers within the inner sanctum of the intelligence community.
Furthermore, because of the visas and other documentation needed by the hijackers to infiltrate into the United States, a major foreign intelligence service might also have been involved.
Whoever wants to argue this ridiculous claim of Mossad as a 9-11 culprit, were flatly debunked by the CIA’s foreknowledge of the 9/11 attacks. The only plausible explanation was Mossad may have gathered intelligence about the attacks in advance and not shared it.
One thing is certain- the gigantic conspiracy theory was fueled by an Administration that exploited Al-Qaeda and the Jewish liberal media’s “useful idiots” by pinning the blame on Israel.
In a nutshell, we must overcome an Orwellian media network’s most outrageous propaganda imaginable and must constantly be vigilant from erosion of our constitutional rights and to preserve our freedom from tyranny this time from the Obama Administration.
Let us not forget the tragedy of 9/11- a testament to America’s greatness, resilience and continued relevance in the face of all odds and dangerous threats from within.
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There are all too many tumors that can form deep within your dog’s body — in bones or tissue, or within organs like the heart, liver, and kidneys — without your knowledge. But some tumors in dogs can be detected by a pet parent during grooming, while petting your dog, or through simple visual observation. And while it can be scary every time you find a new lump or bump on your pet, not all tumors are problematic. Many are benign, and some are easily treated even if cancerous.
If you do spot a change in your dog’s appearance, it’s very important to visit the vet to find the cause and decide if any treatment is required. Below are some tumors that you might find through touching or looking at your dog.
1. Mammary-Gland Tumors
You’ll rarely find these tumors in unspayed females, but if your dog has not been spayed, these tumors are fairly common. The tumor can be detected by touch, can be large or small in shape, and they are most often located in the glands closest to a dog’s groin. Larger tumors — sized at more than an inch and a half — tend to have a worse prognosis. Tumors that are attached to the skin often are cancerous, whereas tumors capable of being moved with your fingers are more likely to be benign.
2. Testicular Tumors
Testicles that are enlarged, or the presence of one testicle that is larger than another, is often a likely tip-off to testicular cancer. If you notice any change in the shape of a dog’s testicles, get in touch with a vet for an examination. Note that dogs with undescended testicles are very likely to develop testicular cancer, so if that is this case with your dog, be vigilant to swelling of the descended testicle or your dog’s abdomen. Neutered dogs can’t develop testicular cancer.
3. Mast Cell Tumors
One of the most common skin tumors in dogs, mast cell tumors are raised growths that appear on your dog’s skin. Tumors caused by mast cells are cancerous — your vet can determine if a lump on your dog’s skin is the result of mast cell growth through a needle aspiration of the lump.
If you spot a bright red hairless bump on your dog’s skin, you may feel alarmed, particularly since histiocytomas often appear very suddenly — even overnight. The good news is that histiocytoma tumors are benign. However, as with any bump, it’s always recommended that you have a vet diagnose the issue, since other red or hairless bumps can be problematic.
These cancerous tumors occur from blood cells, and while they commonly appear within internal organs like the liver and heart, they can also occur on a dog’s skin. Most commonly, hemangiosarcomas on the skin will appear on a dog’s hind legs or neck, or any body part that is hairless. They are very often red or black in color, and can be treated with a combination of surgery and chemotherapy.
Melanomas are dark in color — usually black or brown — and look a lot like moles. These marks can appear on the eyelids, nail bed, mouth, or skin of dogs. While some are benign, others are malignant, so it’s important to check in with the vet, since appearance alone cannot reveal the status of the mole-like mark.
These fatty skin tumors are benign, and appear on the subcutaneous layer of a dog’s skin, often on the neck or belly. These tumors have a soft feel — not firm — and can be moved.
8. Basal Cell Tumors
These tumors are quite common in dogs. Often there is just one of these tumors, and although their size varies, they are usually hairless and raised above the skin. You’ll spot these tumors on a dog’s neck or shoulders. Generally, they are not malignant, and can be surgically removed.
9. Squamous Cell Carcinoma
These tumors are a result of sun exposure, and generally occur in hairless areas on your dog. They can be a variety of colors — red, white, or gray. More often than not, these tumors are malignant and need to be surgically removed.
Also known as lymphosarcoma, this cancer of the lymph nodes has several classification types. Multicentric lymphoma, the most common variety for dogs, is characterized by swollen glands at the dog’s neck. Although there is no cure for lymphoma, chemotherapy is used to reduce symptoms and extend a dog’s life.
Keep an eye out for growths and swollen areas on your dog — while some will be nothing to worry about, it’s a good idea to follow up on any physical changes in your dog’s appearance with the vet.
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A business venture : opening a dollar store in Mexico.
1. Examine the role of external governance and its impact to the
2. Make final recommendations about the feasibility of this global
3. Evaluate various exit strategies: e.g., divestiture of assets,
handing over to joint venture partner, diversification, or shutting down
operation, and contingencies for your global venture
I need assistance in the following in regards to a business venture that is opening a dollar store in Mexico. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks
1. Examine the role of external governance and its impact to the organization.
The role of external governance is crucial as there are various political risk factors that could jeopardize business operation. Here if the political situation is unstable then the environment is unfavorable for the business. Similarly higher Government debt, Budget deficit or surplus is also unfavorable. The other factors are:
Tax Laws and other economic laws
Foreign trade regulations
Import tariffs and quotas
Restrictions on international financial flows
Environmental protection laws
Copyright and patent laws
All these have an impact. The more the transparency in the laws and less the regulations, the better it is for the business. On the other hand stringent and opaque regulations jeopardize the business opportunities. Moreover if there is political instability, inefficient governance and judiciary system also affect the business.
In Mexico the last presidential election ended the 70 year one party rule (Wikipedia) which was due to the desire to regain national confidence avoiding another bloody revolution that over threw the government in 1917. The 70 year rule was marked by corruption, nepotism and lack of economic growth.
"On July 2, 2000, Vicente Fox Quesada of the opposition "Alliance for Change" coalition, headed by the National Action Party (PAN), was elected president, in what are considered to have been the freest and fairest elections in Mexico's history. Fox began his six-year term on December 1, 2000. His victory ended the Institutional Revolutionary Party's (PRI) 71-year hold on the presidency. "
Now " Felipe de Jesús Calderón Hinojosa (b. August 18, 1962 in Morelia, ...
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PHILADELPHIA — A former Nazi concentration camp guard who was allowed to emigrate to the United States decades ago should be deported because his work as a guard constituted "persecutory conduct," a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.
Anton Geiser, 83, was granted a visa in 1956 to come to the United States. Geiser did not cite his Nazi ties on his visa application, but he is not accused of lying about them. Files from the period have been lost, and it is not clear what questions he was asked.
The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court said in its ruling that Geiser's work as a Nazi guard would meet the standard for persecutory conduct banned under the Refugee Relief Act, which was in effect when he entered the country and that he should have his U.S. citizenship revoked and be deported.
"We conclude, as have other Courts of Appeals, that according to the plain meaning of the RRA, concentration camp guards 'personally advocated or assisted in ... persecution,'" Judge D. Michael Fisher wrote.
Geiser's lawyer, Adrian N. Roe, had argued that guards not deemed war criminals were sometimes allowed into the country by the State Department. Roe complained that the Justice Department, in its efforts to expel former Nazis, was revisiting decisions made a half-century ago.
Roe did not immediately return a message after office hours Tuesday.
The Justice Department had argued that Geiser's visa approval was "a mistake" that should be corrected, however belatedly.
Geiser, an ethnic German, served as an armed SS Death's Head guard at Sachsenhausen concentration camp near Berlin. He then was transferred to an SS officer training camp at Arolsen, where he escorted prisoners to and from the Buchenwald camp, where tens of thousands of Jews and others were exterminated. Geiser was at Arolsen until April 1945.
Geiser has lived in Sharon, Pa., about 60 miles northwest of Pittsburgh, since June 1960. He married and had three sons. In 1987, he retired from a steel company.
The Justice Department's Office of Special Investigation has been pursuing naturalized citizens with alleged Nazi ties for three decades. The office has prevailed in more than 100 cases, leading to at least 65 deportations, a spokeswoman previously said.
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Those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it
One student thought the phrase “we accept all persons” should be broadened to cover animals. Another worried that the word “delineation” was alienating because “it means drawing lines, and don’t we object to lines?” The only sentence everyone seemed to support wholeheartedly was the final one: “Power to the People!”
And get this bit:
At the second national convention, attended by about 200 members, the students spent a day discussing how not to oppress one another. They split into caucuses based on gender, class, race and sexual orientation.
Let me guess; the male, upper-middle class, white straights had the big ballroom, while the female, poor, black lesbians could have fit into a phone booth?
The article points out:
The epilogue also includes a drawing of Pat Korte, with shaggy hair and big, alarmed eyes. Jessica Rapchik, 19, was the S.D.S. co-founder with Mr. Korte. She says she was surprised that her role goes unmentioned in the book. The omission, she says, points to “larger problems in our society — men being sought out as voices of authority.”
Guess whose picture accompanies the article?
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This essay has been submitted by a student. This is not an example of the work written by our professional essay writers.
The preparation of this project on the topic-" substitution reactions.": a profile' would not have been possible without the valuable contribution of my TEACHERS.
I would like to give most specially thanks to my CHE sir Dr. Ashish kumar who is my chemistry teacher to giving me the important guidelines during making this project.
So, I hope this project will provide large and sufficient information about the different coordination numbers present in the coordination chemistry.
In substitution reaction, afunctional groupin a particularchemical compoundis replaced by another group. Inorganic chemistry, theelectrophilicandnucleophilicsubstitution reactions are of prime importance. Organic substitution reactions classified in several mainorganic reactiontypes depending on whether thereagentthat brings about the substitution is considered anelectrophileor anucleophile, whether areactive intermediateinvolved in the reaction is acarbocation, acarbanionor afree radicalor whether thesubstrateisaliphaticor aromatic. It also is helpful for optimizing a reaction with regard to variables such as temperature and choice of solvent Substitution reaction : chlorination of methane
These kind of substitution reactions happen when the reagent is a nucleophile, which means, an atom or molecule with free electrons.
- Anucleophilereacts with analiphaticsubstrate in anucleophilic aliphatic substitutionreaction.
- When the substrate is anaromaticcompound the reaction type isnucleophilic aromatic substitution.
- Carboxylic acidderivatives react with nucleophiles innucleophilic acyl substitution. This kind of reaction can be useful in preparing compounds
The Nucleophilic substitutions can be produced by two different mechanisms:
- Monomolecular nucleophilic substitution (SN1): In this case the reaction proceeds in stages, the compounds first dissociate in their ions and then this ions react between them. It's produced by carbocations.
- Bimolecular nucleophilic substitution (SN2): In this case the reaction proceeds in only one stage. The attack of the reagent and the expulsion of the leaving group happen simultaneously.
- Electrophilesare involved inelectrophilic substitutionreactions and particularly inelectrophilic aromatic substitutions:
Electrophilic reactions to other unsaturated compounds thanarenesgenerally lead toelectrophilic additionrather than substitution.
Aradical substitutionreaction involvesradicals
- The term nucleophile comes from the Greek meaning 'nucleus loving', in other words nucleophiles seek positive charged centres. Nucleophiles have lone pairs of electrons and may carry a negative charge. There are many examples of nucleophiles, such asNH3,H2O,CN-,HC?C-, andOH-.
- Alkyl halides contain a halogen (X =F,Cl,BrorI) covalently bonded to a carbon atom. Due to the electronegativity differences between carbon and the halide, theC-Xbond is polar with a partial positive charge (?+) on the carbon atom and a partial negative charge (?-) on the halogen. Halogens are good leaving groups and can be replaced by an incoming nucleophile.
Nucleophilic substitution is the reaction of an electron pair donor (the nucleophile, Nu) with an electron pair acceptor (the electrophile). An sp3-hybridized electrophile must have a leaving group (X) in order for the reaction to take place.
Mechanism of Nucleophilic Substitution
The term SN2 means that two molecules are involved in the actual transition state:
The departure of the leaving group occurs simultaneously with the backside attack by the nucleophile. The SN2 reaction thus leads to a predictable configuration of the stereocenter - it proceeds with inversion (reversal of the configuration).
In the SN1 reaction, a planar carbenium ion is formed first, which then reacts further with the nucleophile. Since the nucleophile is free to attack from either side, this reaction is associated with racemization.
In both reactions, the nucleophile competes with the leaving group. Because of this, one must realize what properties a leaving group should have, and what constitutes a good nucleophile. For this reason, it is worthwhile to know which factors will determine whether a reaction follows an SN1 or SN2 pathway.
Common examples include
- Organic reductionswithhydrides, for example
- hydrolysisreactions such as
- Williamson ether synthesis
R-Br + OH-?R-OH+Br-(SN2) or
R-Br + H2O ? R-OH +HBr (SN1)
R-Br +OR'-?R-OR'+ Br- (SN2)
Electrophilic aromatic substitutionorEASis anorganic reactionin which an atom, usuallyhydrogen, appended to anaromatic systemis replaced by anelectrophile. The most important reactions of this type that take place arearomatic nitration,aromatic halogenation,aromatic sulfonation, and acylation and alkylatingFriedel-Crafts reactions.
Aromatic nitrationsto formnitro compoundstake place by generating a nitronium ion fromnitric acidandsulfuric acid.
Aromatic sulfonationofbenzenewith fumingsulfuric acidgives benzenesulfonic acid.
Aromatic halogenationof benzene withbromine,chlorineoriodinegives the corresponding aryl halogen compounds catalyzed by the corresponding iron trihalide.
TheFriedel-Crafts reactionexists as anacylationand analkylationwith acyl halides oralkyl halidesas reactants.
The catalyst is most typicallyaluminium trichloride, but almost any strongLewis acidcan be used. In Fridel-Crafts acylation, a full measure of aluminium trichloride must be used, as opposed to a catalytic amount.
Basic reaction mechanism
In the first step of thereaction mechanismfor this reaction, the electron-rich aromatic ring which in the simplest case isbenzeneattacks the electrophileA. This leads to the formation of a positively-charged cyclohexadienylcation, also known as anarenium ion. Thiscarbocationis unstable, owing both to the positive charge on the molecule and to the temporary loss ofaromaticity. However, the cyclohexadienyl cation is partially stabilized byresonance, which allows the positive charge to be distributed over three carbon atoms.
In the second stage of the reaction, aLewis baseBdonates electrons to the hydrogen atom at the point of electrophilic attack, and the electrons shared by the hydrogen return to thepisystem, restoring aromaticity.
An electrophilic substitution reaction on benzene does not always result in monosubstitution. While electrophilic substituents usually withdraw electrons from the aromatic ring and thus deactivate it against further reaction, a sufficiently strong electrophile can perform a second or even a third substitution. This is especially the case with the use ofcatalysts.
A radical is a species that contains unpaired electrons.
Typically formed by a homolytic bond cleavage as represented by the fishhook curved arrows:
RADICAL CHAIN MECHANISM FOR REACTION OF METHANE WITH Br2
Step 1 (Initiation)
Heat or uv light cause the weak halogen bond to undergo homolytic cleavage to generate two bromine radicals and starting the chain process.
Step 2 (Propagation)
- A bromine radical abstracts a hydrogen to form HBr and a methyl radical, then
- The methyl radical abstracts a bromine atom from another molecule of Br2to form the methyl bromide product andanotherbromine radical, which can then itself undergo reaction 2(a) creating a cycle that can repeat.
Step 3 (Termination)
Various reactions between the possible pairs of radicals allow for the formation of ethane, Br2or the product, methyl bromide. These reactions remove radicals and do not perpetuate the cycle.
There are two components to understanding the selectivity of radical halogenations of alkanes:
- reactivity of R-H system
- reactivity of X.
The strength of the R-H varies slightly depending on whether the H is 1o, 2oor 3o. The following table shows the bond dissociation energy, that is the energy required to break the bond in a homolytic fashion, generating R.and H.
Halogen radical, X.
- Bromine radicals are less reactive than chlorine radicals
- Br.tends to be more selective in its reactions, and prefers to react with the weaker R-H bonds.
- The more reactive chlorine radical is less discriminating in what it reacts with.
The selectivity of the radical reactions can be predicted mathematically based on a combination of an experimentally determined reactivity factor, Ri, and a statistical factor, nHi. In order to use the equation shown below we need to look at our original alkane and look at each H in turn to see what product it would give if it were to be susbtituted. This is an exercise in recognizing different types of hydrogen, something that will be important later.
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The iPad is a tablet computer designed and developed by Apple. It is particularly marketed as a platform for audio and visual media such as books, periodicals, movies, music, and games, as well as web content. At about 700 grams, its size and weight are between those of most contemporary smartphones and laptop computers.
Apple began taking pre-orders for the iPad from U.S. customers on March 12, 2010. The Wi-Fi version of the iPad went on sale in the United States on April 3, 2010. The Wi-Fi + 3G version was released on April 30. iPad with Wi-Fi + 3G offers superfast data speeds up to 7.2 Mbps over 3G cellular networks around the world. It's perfect when you're out and about with no access to a Wi-Fi network, because you can still get a fast connection for surfing the web, sending and receiving email, or getting directions.
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* MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and mov file formats;
* Motion JPEG (M-JPEG) up to 35 Mbps, 1280 by 720 pixels, 30 frames per second, audio in ulaw, PCM stereo audio in .avi file format;
* Support for 1024 by 768 pixels with Dock Connector to VGA Adapter; 576p and 480p with Apple Component AV Cable; 576i and 480i with Apple Composite AV Cable;
iPad Supported TV Formats
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* 576p and 480p with Apple Component AV Cable;
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iPad Supported Audio Formats
* Frequency response: 20Hz to 20,000Hz;
* Audio formats supported: HE-AAC (V1), AAC (16 to 320 Kbps), Protected AAC (from iTunes Store), MP3 (16 to 320 Kbps), MP3 VBR, Audible (formats 2, 3, and 4), Apple Lossless, AIFF, and WAV;
* User-configurable maximum volume limit;
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Some reasons why
Emily Bazelon's Sticks and Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy looks at bullying, among other things, from the perspective of someone who was bullied. In a Slate interview with Emily Yoffe, Bazelon discusses recent research suggesting that going after the weak had no benefit to bullies if their objective was ultimately social. But if they picked on someone near them in the social hierarchy who was a possible rival, that often had a social benefit. It's also valuable that she draws a distinction between physical and social aggression. I managed to get both: the Full Monty.
My experience mirrors Bazelon's idea that bullying is a failed social strategy. Concord was a very socially-conscious little city, and here's the first point on which I differ from what I've read of Bazelon. Her hypothesis is that adult intervention may harm more than help, by pinning the victim label on the bullied for life. Sorry, the adults are involved, or were in my school, before any bullying happened. It's adults (parents) who create the wider social context, and adults (teachers and administrators) who re-create that context in the schools. In my junior high, the social ladder some wanted to climb was a warped little mirror of the wider society in the city.
Consider my context. Every classroom in every grade had an academic status, and a social status that followed it. On paper this was confidential; in practise everyone knew their status, and presumably some aspired to move up, or were pressured to move up by ambitious parents. In Concord, there was an upper crust composed of the professional classes and bankers. The next level was occupied by state officers, an important element in a state capital, including my father. The aspiring usually were small businessfolk. My two principal tormentors (excluding their little band of enforcers) were a) the son of a furniture store owner and b) the son of a junkyard owner. Interestingly, both were Jewish in a town with more than its share of anti-semitism. All of us were in the class ranked #3 on the pecking order. Except that it was adults who created the wider social context, The idea of bullying equals holds up. As the son of a state official (one known to be aggressively opposed to anti-semitism, I later learnt) in the same class, I would have qualified as a suitable target.
I should comment here that my parents were not helpful. They stuck to the conventional bromides and largely were oblivious to my pain. My body was not: toward the end of the year, soon after the beatings were showing signs of getting out of hand, I came down with severe adenoiditis. Being hardly able to speak in class just added to my miseries, but it soon became bad enough that I was taken out of school for several weeks. By the time I came back, the worst of my travails with peers had ended: presumably an absent and sick target was of no use and they had gone for someone else.
Did this bullying succeed? Apparently not. My attackers were nobodies by high school, where the social puzzle was shaken up. In high school we had honours college prep, college prep, business, "general," and industrial arts. Home rooms were strictly alphabetical order, so twice a day the different classes had to rub elbows. My two little nemeses were far apart alphabetically. They were deprived of their goons, because industrial arts students spent much of the day in a separate building. Finally, their academic skills were not quite there (we'll get to that in a later post).
In After Newtown, an important point was raised. It is usually a media myth that teenage rampage killers are loners. More often, they are people who very much want to belong somewhere in the rigid adolescent hierarchy. I find this true. In seventh grade, I missed one important boat and nearly missed another.
In sixth grade, I had discovered a talent for choral music. (Something to do with the gene pool? Well duh!) I was good enough to be picked for a city-wide elementary school chorale. That should have been a cue for me, since the junior high had a very good music department, including a chorale, which like most chorales was frantic for good male voices. In my early adolescent mind, joining the chorale seemed like a slur on my masculinity, so I didn't audition. The irony of this was that the theme of my two little bullies and their muscle was that I was gay. Had I joined the chorale, I would have belonged to something out of the reach of the bullies, or at least had a social group to fend such clowns off.
I also turned down an invitation to what seemed to be nothing more than dancing lessons, for the same reason. Oddly enough its organisers persisted with me, and by eighth grade I yielded to parental pressure. What's germane to the discussion is that by joining this little coterie, I was on neutral--equal--ground with a couple of people who had at least been fellow travellers with my seventh grade gangstas. Back to Bazelon again: they surely perceived themselves as superiors in that group, and I was not inclined to contest it. At any rate, I began breaking the ice with people of both sexes and getting out from under the burden of social pariahdom. I don't recall that either of the main players were part of this group. Hindsight suggests no Jews were. Note, again, that it wasn't kids who organised these dance parties: it was adults. Had I joined the group in seventh grade, it would probably have inoculated me against this particular aggression. I would have been oblivious to the price tag then, but it makes me cringe in retrospect.
Last post, I made a snarky remark about whether we should require an adult level of sophistication of children as one preventive of bullying, at least by teachers.
Looking back, I also recall that nobody ever bullied those who exuded adulthood, i.e., those who could be perceived as social superiors. Last time, my example was a polymath who already lived for his music and was obviously intellectually miles ahead not only of any potential bully, but also of most peers and most teachers. He combined offhand brilliance with social competence that most adults could envy. He would hardly have noticed a bully.
By contrast, those like me who tried to take their time and size up this new environment seem to have been vulnerable. If one was also awkward and shy, the situation worsened. All these traits prevent impulsiveness, which grade 6-8 culture seems to value above all other behaviours. To be deliberate is to seem afraid. At any rate, Bazelon is on the right track here. When something signals superiority, the bullies back off.
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Original publication in Acupuncture Today May 2018 issue.
Life expectancy continues to increase among the World population and in the U.S., as such our desire for a good quality of life in those golden years is of utmost importance.1 A good quality of life isn’t measured by just being alive, it includes the ability to do normal day-to-day tasks, be free of pain, have nourishing, healthy relationships, and most importantly having a nourishing and healthy relationship with ourselves. The beauty industry is booming more than ever before, and with it the demand for anti-aging and youth enhancing products and treatments.2 Research continues to favor the effects of cosmetic acupuncture, showing noticeable, results after a short series of treatments.3-4 However, in most studies regarding cosmetic acupuncture the function of the full body acupuncture treatment and the importance of the Shen, and its effect on the face and appearance is often overlooked. A person who lacks their Shen showing through their eyes and face is often seen as looking dull, tired, or even unattractive. This property of beauty has no correlation with the physical structure of the face and is based solely in the person’s true self, or spirit, being expressed through the eyes and facial appearance.
Original publication on Acupuncture Today May 2019
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“Qigong and acupuncture will not only make you smarter, but also make you sexier and get better dates” touted the late Dr. Daju Suzanne Friedman to her students. They always laughed at this joke, but also knew there was definitely some merit to it, because after practicing qigong or receiving an acupuncture treatment the results were obvious; feeling better, a clarity of mind and an improved overall appearance. When a person completes a meditation retreat it’s not uncommon for their peers to see them as not just looking more clear and relaxed, but also looking more youthful and more present. Mindfulness works, it helps us to relax, let go of stress and actually takes the body into a regenerative brainwave state, and doing this has an incredible anti-aging effect throughout the entire body, from improved clarity of mind, to preserving telomeres and visible improvements in the skin and appearance.
In the same way meditation helps to take the brain and body to a restorative state, acupuncture does so as well; it’s part of the reason why patients get off the table feeling great, looking relaxed and talking about how incredibly relaxing the treatment was. There are different types of brainwaves the human body experiences, they affect different levels of consciousness and serve different purposes - all relevant and important. In today’s society, the stressed out sympathetic nervous system is ever dominant, so taking time to wind down and drop in to a regenerative state is incredibly important, although it can often be difficult for some to get into that relaxed state. Acupuncture can help almost anyone drop in to a relaxed state without the effort, making acupuncture a great tool, like mindfulness meditation to help people experience renewal and healthy aging.
How on Earth can these tiny needles actually make my wrinkles go away?
The beauty industry continues to boom and grow, there are topical creams, lotions and potions all the way to cutting edge cosmetic surgeries. Some treatments simply fail at being effective, while others may be effective but very costly and invasive, finding a more natural treatment that is actually effective can be a difficult task. Cosmetic acupuncture is a centuries old practice, used originally in ancient China as a treatment for royalty, it is continuing to be a sought after, safe and effective alternative treatment to more invasive anti-aging procedures.
Cosmetic acupuncture is a multi-leveled treatment, aimed at treating the entire person in a holistic approach. Aging should be considered a chronic, whole body process, so when we are looking at how to slow down that process it is critical to look at the whole picture. Utilizing only a cream or serum will have limited effect if the person continues to smoke cigarettes, be perpetually dehydrated, or in a constant state of elevated stress for instance. What we do in our lives, our lifestyle in and of itself, has a dramatic effect on how we look, so it should be no surprise that much of the benefit of cosmetic acupuncture lies in its’ holistic approach. When we approach skin care and anti-aging skin care in particular, there are a few goals we need to keep in mind, a treatment that adheres to these goals helps us administer effective skin care that produces desired results, while also avoiding injury to the skin structure so that the effects can last without repercussions later on.
Dr. Kim Peirano, DACM, LAc is the owner and Acupuncturist behind Lion's Heart Wellness in San Rafael, CA and Integrative Cosmetic Acupuncture Technique for training Acupuncturists in Cosmetic Acupuncture methods. Dr. Kim is a licensed Acupuncturist and Intuitive Healer. | <urn:uuid:a71f861f-914a-453b-8292-b963dfcc4be8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.integrativecosmeticacupuncture.com/blog | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.948741 | 1,027 | 1.710938 | 2 |
The Religious Origins of the French Revolution
Although the French Revolution is associated with efforts to 'dechristianise' the French state and citizens, it actually had long-term religious - even Christian - origins, claims Dale Van Kley in this controversial new book. Looking back at the two and a half centuries that preceded the revolution, Van Kley explores the diverse, often warring religious strands that influenced political events up to the revolution. Van Kley draws on a wealth of primary sources to show that French royal absolutism was first a product and then a casualty of religious conflict. On the one hand, the religious civil wars of the sixteenth century between the Calvinist and Catholic internationals gave rise to Bourbon divine-right absolutism in the seventeenth century. On the other hand, Jansenist-related religious conflicts in the eighteenth century helped to 'desacralise' the monarchy and along with it the French Catholic clergy, which was closely identified with Bourbon absolutism. The religious conflicts of the eighteenth century also made a more direct contribution to the revolution, for they left a legacy of protopolitical and ideological parties whose rhetoric affected the content of revolutionary as well as counter-revolutionary political culture. Even in its 'dechristianising' phase, says Van Kley, revolutionary political culture was considerably more indebted to varieties of French Catholicism than it realised. | <urn:uuid:9e391c96-a38d-4157-801f-1f2604867a2b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.history.ac.uk/history-online/book/isbn/0300064780 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280504.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00135-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957819 | 282 | 3.328125 | 3 |
Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
Kafka on the Shore is powered by two remarkable characters: a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who runs away from home either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long-missing mother and sister; and an aging simpleton called Nakata, who never recovered from a wartime affliction and now is drawn toward Kafka for reasons that, like the most basic activities of daily life, he cannot fathom.
As their paths converge, and the reasons for that convergence become clear, Haruki Murakami enfolds readers in a world where cats talk, fish fall from the sky, and spirits slip out of their bodies to make love or commit murder. Kafka on the Shore displays one of the world's great storytellers at the peak of his powers.
About the Author
Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo. His work has been translated into more than fifty languages, and the most recent of his many honors is the Yomiuri Literary Prize, whose previous recipients include Yukio Mishima, Kenzaburo Oe, and Kobo Abe. From the Hardcover edition.
“As powerful as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. . . . Reading Murakami . . . is a striking experience in consciousness expansion.” –The Chicago Tribune
“An insistently metaphysical mind-bender.”
–The New Yorker
“If he has not achieved that status already, Haruki Murakami is on course to becoming the most widely read Japanese writer outside Japan, past or present.”
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Under section 49(5) of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 (SSFA), governors act as agent of the local authority when they pay for these goods and services using money from:
- the school’s delegated budget; or
- amounts the school receives from local authority central funds for specific purposes.
The delegated budget covers items such as:
- equipment; and
and the governors are free to spend it for the purposes of the school as they see fit.
Local authority central funds
Local authority central funds cover items such as:
- capital expenditure;
- special needs provision; and
- home-to-school transport.
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Americans are just starting to become aware of the tremendous potential of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, as a method of producing oil, and especially, natural gas. Kansas has recently seen a flurry of activity in this area, and fracking is expected to provide many thousands of jobs for Kansas, along with cheaper energy.
Filmmakers Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer produced the 2009 film Not Evil Just Wrong that uncovered the myths and misinformation spread by radical environmental extremists.
Now the two have looked at fracking and hope to produce a documentary film on this topic. They hope to use a new method of financing the film — crowdfunding. Following is a press release announcing this effort. The link to the funding page is FrackNation: A documentary project in Los Angeles, CA by Ann and Phelim Media LLC.
Controversial filmmakers announce crowdfunding campaign for documentary to “expose the truth about fracking”
“FrackNation” investigates the alarming and apparently misleading claims made about fracking, and looks at the benefits the process can bring to some of the poorest communities in the U.S. and across the planet.
Los Angeles (February 8, 2012) — Controversial filmmakers Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer announced a crowdfunding campaign today for their new documentary, FrackNation.
The feature-length film looks at the process of fracking for natural gas, demolishing much of the scaremongering surrounding the process and featuring the millions whose lives have been positively transformed by this emerging industry. FrackNation investigates the health claims surrounding the process, and reveals the startling lack of scientific evidence to substantiate them.
Controversially, McAleer and McElhinney are fundraising for FrackNation on Kickstarter.com.
“Normally, Kickstarter projects are pro-radical environmentalism,” said McAleer. “FrackNation will be the first documentary funded through Kickstarter to challenge the environmental establishment. It will appeal to the workers and small farmers who know the truth, but never see it represented in modern documentaries.”
In a unique fundraising move, McAleer and McElhinney, a husband and wife filmmaking team, have announced that everyone who helps pay for FrackNation will become an executive producer on the film. “This will be a documentary funded by the people for the people,” said McAleer.
FrackNation comes on the heels of a new anti-fracking film is due to be released by activist filmmaker Josh Fox. Fox made Gasland, an Oscar-nominated film, which propelled fears about fracking into the public arena. Fox is now planning a HBO-funded Gasland sequel. Fox has received $750,000 to make the new documentary.
“The Hollywood/environmental establishment has wheeled out big bucks to tell its story,” said Ann McElhinney. “We’re just asking for $150,000. Ours will be a grassroots film telling real stories about real people across America and the world.”
The filmmakers say the documentary was inspired when they encountered journalistic censorship. McAleer questioned Fox at a Q&A following a screening of the film, during which Fox admitted the people could light their tap water long before fracking was introduced. The “lighting water” scene is one of the most famous parts of Gasland, and led to many of the scares surrounding the process.
“I was shocked when Fox said he this had existed in these areas decades before fracking. However, I was doubly shocked when Fox’s lawyers contacted me to take down my video of our Q&A which I posted on YouTube,” said McAleer. “Fox was trying to censor another journalist and that got me interested: What was he trying to hide?”
McAleer and McElhinney have already filmed in Pennsylvania, New York, California, Poland, and the U.K.
“FrackNation will feature small farmers, the working class and others who are benefiting from this economic boom. We will also look at the backgrounds and motives of those opposing fracking,” said McElhinney.
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Smartphone cameras have only gotten more phenomenal in the past three years, with companies beefing up photo resolution, adding more lenses, and integrating photo storage options that keep you snapping without fear of filling your camera roll. Ask anyone with an Instagram account and you’ll soon discover the camera is the killer feature on any smartphone.
If you’ve got the latest and greatest smartphone, you should step up your photography game to match. So here are some tips from professionals, along with some accessory recommendations, that will take your snapshot game from amateur to Ansel Adams.
First, start with a clean slate
Before you shoot a single picture, you’ll want to make sure your gear is in order. Often, that means doing a bit of pre-shot cleaning. “That’s the first rule for me,” says portrait and fine art photographer Henry Oji. “Always clean your phone camera lens before you take an image.”
While wiping your lens on your jeans might do the job, using coarse materials, like a cotton shirt, or a napkin you dipped in water, may end up damaging your lens over time. If you’d like to keep scratches at bay, use a softer material — like a microfiber cloth — to clean any smudges off your camera lens.
A little framing goes a long way
Artfully framing shots may require a more creative state of mind, but that doesn’t mean you have to line everything up all by yourself. Luckily, you can employ your camera to assist you when it comes to framing and composing your shots.
In iOS, visit Settings and select Camera. From there, enable “Grid” to deploy a rule-of-thirds overlay in the Camera app. That grid will help you better compose your image, and keep your shot parallel with any vertical or horizontal lines in your shot. On Android devices, visit Settings > Apps > Camera, and select “Grid Lines” to choose between a rule-of-thirds overlay or a square overlay for perfectly framed Instagram images.
That framing is one part of composing the image itself — and so is making sure you’re not capturing any unwanted subjects while you shoot. “Composition, composition, composition!” says portrait and nightlife photographer Kenny Rodriguez, whose subjects rarely stay in one place for long. “I would suggest making sure that everything in the frame is there because you want it there.”
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Ditch the digital zoom
As much as you’d love to get a closer look at that dog across the field, you might have to be content with a picture. But zooming in before you take the shot is not the solution. Digital zoom shots are simply cropped and resized images, unlike the optical zoom functionality you might find on a full-blown camera. Digital zoom will not only yield a grainy image, it will reduce the resolution of the overall photo and exacerbate any vibrations from your hands, leaving you with an inferior representation of that adorable canine. That includes shots taken on phones with multiple camera lenses, like the iPhone XS or Samsung Galaxy Note 10+.
In general, avoid digital zoom as often as possible — but knock yourself out with the telephoto lens on your smartphone, if it has one.
Look for light before making your own
The flash of an LED light from a smartphone doesn’t flatter anyone, no matter what pose you’re striking. And that glaring light coming from a single source will more often than not give your images a harsh, odd-colored look compared to light being diffused from one or multiple sources.
Instead of depending on an underpowered light to properly illuminate your subject, try to find other sources of light you can use, be it the waning sun, some indoor lights, or even some candlelight if you want to get artsy with it. If you’re really at a loss for light, you could always employ another smartphone’s flashlight mode to provide a more consistent light source.
Watch out for cloud storage shenanigans
Cloud storage services, like Google Photos or iCloud, can be a great way to take a ton of photos without worrying about how much space is left on your phone. But some of these services don’t automatically store the highest possible resolution version of your photos, or, if you take lots of pictures, you may have to pay a monthly fee to back up all your high-res photos. “A cloud-based backup service is actually one of the best investments you can make,” says architecture photographer João Morgado.
If you’re willing to sacrifice image quality for increased storage space, then feel free to send only low-res photos to the cloud. But if you want to hold onto every pixel, or prize image quality above everything, storing photos in their original format and paying the premium of a few bucks each month might be worth it.
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Steady yourself — or use a tripod
If your shots of the city skyline look a little off-kilter, or your images during sunset seem a bit blurry, you should familiarize yourself with the photographer’s most useful tool: the tripod. “A good tripod … is absolutely essential, but for smartphone photographers it is usually left out,” says Morgado.
Sure, a steady hand is always better than a shaky one, but neither can match the tripod’s versatility when it comes to putting your own spin on your photos. “It gives you an amazing range of new techniques and photography styles: long-exposures, time-lapse, low light photography, light painting and many many other uses.”
Pocket-sized tripods are perfect for smartphone photography, and are often device-agnostic, meaning you can use it with almost any phone. You can even purchase smartphone cases with built-in mounting threads to stick them on more professional tripods or other camera accessories like shoulder straps.
Go remote with a shutter button
Hate setting a timer and sprinting into frame only to get an awful picture out of it? Sounds like you need a remote shutter, an ideal accessory for shooting images that require a more steady hand, or self-portraits. “Tapping the screen, no matter how careful you are, it will cause vibrations that will affect your photography,” says Morgado, whose architecture photography often requires long exposures. “It is a no-brainer for long exposures and night photography and it will for sure improve your technique.”
Some devices, like Samsung’s Galaxy Note series of smartphones, feature an included stylus that doubles as an inconspicuous remote shutter button, and can be concealed in your hand or pocket when you’re ready to take the shot. Not an Android fan? Remote shutters are pocketable, inexpensive, and connect to your phone via Bluetooth.
Or tell your (Android) phone to take a picture
Since your smartphone’s already constantly listening, waiting for you to demand its attention, why not make it take your selfies, too?
On Android smartphones, you can ask your Google Assistant to take a photo, selfie, or timed image and watch your smartphone open the camera app. On Google’s Pixel smartphones, you can have Google automatically detect the perfect moment for a photo, be it a big smile or a kiss, thanks to its AI-powered face detection features like Top Shot and Photobooth.
On iOS, Siri will open the camera app for you, though you’ll have to press the button yourself.
Experiment with exposure
Exposure can make or break any photo, and is the difference between showcasing a subject in all their splendor, or ending up with a shot that leaves them looking like a shadow of their real self. “Always tap the screen to lock focus on the subject you’re photographing,” says Oji. “This is particularly useful when shooting people against skies. It prevents you from having dark images.”
Of course, if that’s the artistic look you’re hoping to showcase to all of your followers, there’s an easy fix. “If you want silhouettes, just tap the sky, to underexpose your subjects.”
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Portrait Mode works when there’s light
Using any device’s “portrait mode” feature, which simulates the shallow depth of field found in photos shot on professional cameras, will usually net you a more visually appealing shot. “It’s better for taking portraits of people,” says Oji.
While everyone loves the look of a photo from an expensive “real” camera, relying on it too much can hurt more than it helps, especially if your environment isn’t exactly conducive to portrait shots, like in dimly lit rooms. “But if you’re using an iPhone, use portrait mode only when you have sufficient light.” | <urn:uuid:69625d11-39da-4a92-8c1d-3208e0c5bdc3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://news.yahoo.com/want-better-smartphone-photos-try-164435094.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808213349-20220809003349-00466.warc.gz | en | 0.915316 | 2,025 | 1.5625 | 2 |
Section I – Organizational History
Regis Corporation, a Fortune 1000 company, specializes in beauty salons, hair restoration centers, and cosmetology education. The Company owns, franchises, or holds ownership interests in approximately 12,700 worldwide locations (Regis Corporation, 2009).
Regis’ corporate and franchise locations operate under concepts such as Supercuts, Sassoon Salon, Regis Salons, MasterCuts, SmartStyle and Hair Club for Men and Women (Regis Corporation, 2009).
In addition, Regis maintains an ownership interest in Provalliance, which operates salons primarily in Europe, under the brands of Jean Louis David, Franck Provost and Saint Algue. Regis also maintains ownership interests in Empire Education Group in the U.S. and MY Style concepts in Japan. System-wide, these and other concepts are located in the U.S. and in over 30 other countries in North America, South America, Europe, Africa and Asia (Regis Corporation, 2009).
In its nearly 9,500 North American salons, Regis offers a wide range of hair care services including haircuts, styling and coloring, as well as a wide selection of professional hair care products (Regis Corporation, 2009).
Through their 96 Hair Club for Men and Women locations, Regis also offers a comprehensive menu of hair restoration products and services (Regis Corporation, 2009).
Section II – Strengths and Weaknesses
I would consider two of Regis Corporation’s strengths to be their longevity & brand recognition and salon geographic locations. Two of Regis Corporation’s weaknesses are poor management and poor management.
Strength #1- Longevity & Brand Recognition
Regis began 88 years ago and since then has grown into a multi-billion dollar company. Regis Corporation owns several well-known brands such as SuperCuts, Master Cuts, Vidal Sassoon, and ProCuts. They also have their own complete hair care line of products called DesignLine.
Strength #2- Salon Geographical Locations
Regis strategically places all of their salons in locations with high customer traffic flow such as malls, shopping centers, and Wal-Mart Supercenters. Having salons located in these areas allows for customer flexibility as well as a highly visible location for potential walk-in clientele. Regis is also has salons operating in Canada and Puerto Rico, as well as over 400 salons operating internationally in Europe (Regis Corporation, 2009).
Weakness #1- Poor Management
After reading many Regis employee reviews from glassdoor.com, the majority of cons the employees listed had to do the management. Employees described management as unconcerned with quality of stylists hired, unresponsive to employee’s needs and concerns, and low opportunity for advancement. Upper and lower level management need to be properly trained and incorporate employee empowerment which includes employee recognition, sharing leadership, and providing feedback (“Glassdoor.com,”).
Weakness #2- Poor Customer Service
After reviewing many customer reviews, many of the complaints were centered on customer service issues. Some customers complained they were rushed through their service and there were complaints of having to wait over an hour for their service even though they had an appointment. Bad customer service is bad for the hair business because you not only loose that one client; you also lose any future referrals from the client and it can develop a bad reputation for the salon itself (“Glassdoor.com,”).
Section III – Opportunities and Threats
Two current opportunities for Regis Corporation’s are their hair restoration businesses and the availability of real estate for new construction. Two of Regis Corporation’s current threats are the downturn of the general economic environment and their current negative same-store sales.
Opportunity #1- Hair Restoration Business
In December 2004, Regis Corporation acquired the Hair Club for Men and Women (Regis Corporation, 2009). Currently this industry is comprised with numerous locations domestically and internationally. By consolidating and expanding, this industry would generate a great deal of revenue. Growth plans for hair restoration include construction of a modest number of new locations in untapped markets domestically and internationally (Regis Corporation, 2009).
Opportunity #2- Availability of Real Estate for New Construction
The availability of real estate for new construction is an opportunity for Regis to continue to expand not only the new construction of salons but also the construction of new hair restoration centers. By adding new units in convenient locations with good visibility and customer traffic. The availability of real estate will allow Regis to achieve long-term growth objectives (Regis Corporation, 2009).
Threat #1- Downturn of the General Economic Environment
Downturn of the economic environment results in customers spending less and waiting longer between returning visits to the salon. General economic factors include interest rates, recession, inflation, deflation, tax rates and policy, energy costs, and unemployment trends (Regis Corporation, 2009). Visits to hair restoration centers would be greatly impacted by increases in unemployment rates and decreases in income levels (Regis Corporation, 2009).
Threat #2- Negative Same-Store Sales
Same-store sales is taking the amount of revenue generated by stores (open one year or more) over a certain period and then comparing it to an identical period in the past. Many factors affect same-store sales such as fashion trends, competition, or even weather conditions. Regis same-store sales have declined for the eleventh consecutive quarter to 2.3% (Zacks Investment Research, 2011). Continued declines in same-store sales performance may cause us to be in default of certain covenants in their financing arrangements (Zacks Investment Research, 2011).
Section IV – Summary
Regis is a well-known brand name and had been in business for over 80 years. Regis is one of the largest companies in the hair care industry holding about 2% of the worldwide market. Their salons are conveniently located in malls, shopping centers, and even within Wal-Mart Supercenters. They have salons located all across the United States and have expanded their business to Canada, Puerto Rico, and Europe.
Regis needs to improve on their employee satisfaction in regards to management and need to focus on improving customer service relations.
Regis’s newly acquired hair restoration line provides a great opportunity to consolidate and expand this industry in turn creating a great deal of revenue. The availability of real estate for new construction is also a great opportunity for Regis to expand in the construction of new salons and new hair restoration centers, which will allow Regis to achieve long-term growth objectives.
A threat to Regis is the downturn of the economic environment, which results in consumers spending less and waiting longer between salon visits. If Regis same-store sales do not begin to improve it will have a huge impact on their financing arrangements.
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Intergenerational disadvantage has been defined as “disadvantage induced by the attitudes, social circumstances or economic limitations of a person’s parents (Vinson, 2009, p. 1). This disadvantage could be in terms of poverty, labour force or lack of access to opportunities that other children may have. One of the limitations of this concept is that it only takes into account direct family, so it is only how a person’s parents affect their disadvantage. However, evidence suggests that the local community also affects disadvantage, and that disadvantage tends to cluster. The obvious question that this paper tries to answer is do areas with high levels of disadvantage have high levels of disadvantage for all age groups in the area? Or are there areas where a high proportion of disadvantaged elderly people and a low proportion of disadvantage children live? And where are these areas (e.g. rural/regional areas, capital cities, inner urban areas). Answering this question will give some idea of which areas have entrenched disadvantage, so disadvantage that covers a number of life stages. It is these areas where broad policies to reduce disadvantage for everyone are important, rather than targeted policies to reduce disadvantage for children or the elderly. This paper finds that remote areas suffer the greatest proportion of people in areas where there are four life stages disadvantaged, and urban areas have the most people in areas where no life stages are in disadvantage. This does suggest that the Government should be concentrating on efforts to reduce multiple life stage disadvantage in remote areas. | <urn:uuid:23dd1e2c-f5dc-4c3f-8b26-5dec52d1d14b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1759-3441.2011.00159.x/abstract?globalMessage=0&systemMessage=WOL+Usage+report+download+page+will+be+unavailable+on+Friday+27th+January+2017+at+23%3A00+GMT%2F+18%3A00+EST%2F+07%3A00+SGT+%28Saturday+28th+Jan+for+SGT%29++for+up+to+2+hours+due+to+essential+server+maintenance.+Apologies+for+the+inconvenience | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282202.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00558-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956599 | 302 | 3.5 | 4 |
Highlights: RING-NECKED DUCK, CANVASBACK, DUNLIN, ICELAND GULL, GLAUCOUS GULL, CHIPPING SPARROW, PINE GROSBEAK, RED CROSSBILL
Once again coverage was light this week with the exception of Sunday Dec 16 when the Presqu’ile CBC was held, generating lots of sightings and proving that there are birds to find when people look.
About 300 MUTE SWANS were in Presqu’ile Bay on 16 Dec, which is below the recent average but likely just a product of more open water available outside the Park. A few MALLARD and AMERICAN BLACK DUCK have been seen but otherwise puddle ducks are absent. Fifty REDHEAD were seen on 16 Dec, followed by 125 on 18 Dec. More unusual were two CANVASBACK on 17 Dec, followed by one the next day. Also unusual was a RING-NECKED DUCK on 17 Dec. Eleven WHITE-WINGED SCOTER were found on 16 Dec. LONG-TAILED DUCK, in its spectacular winter plumage, was the most common duck with 1300 found on 16 Dec. A new record high of 32 WILD TURKEY was recorded on 16 Dec. A late HORNED GREBE was off Gull Is. on 16 Dec.
Raptors were well represented this week. A NORTHERN HARRIER was seen on Dec 16. A SHARP-SHINNED HAWK was noted on 18 Dec and single COOPER’S HAWKS were seen on 16 and 18 Dec. Seven BALD EAGLES were seen during the CBC on 16 Dec, at least four of which were in Presqu’ile Bay. A single RED-TAILED HAWK was reported throughout the week.
The long-staying DUNLIN was on Gull Is. on 16 and 18 Dec. An ICELAND GULL was seen on Gull Is. on 16 Dec and a GLAUCOUS GULL was seen the same day in Presqu’ile Bay. An adult LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL was also seen near the dump north of the park on 16 Dec., but could easily end up in Presqu’ile Bay so keep your eyes peeled. After being absent for several weeks at least four SNOWY OWLS were located on 16 Dec. BARRED OWLS were seen several times during the week.
A BELTED KINGFISHER was noted on 16 Dec. Northern Shrikes were seen on 15 Dec, 16 Dec, 17 Dec and 20 Dec. Likely the same RUBY-CROWNED KINGLET found last week was relocated on 16 Dec in the Fingers. Better coverage of conifer plantations produced 27 GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLET on 16 Dec as well as 11 BROWN CREEPER, giving a better indication of how common these birds actually are in winter. 120 AMERICAN ROBIN were seen on 16 Dec, but only one CEDAR WAXWING. The lingering BROWN THRASHER took several days off over the bird count but returned on 19 Dec to be recorded for count week.
SNOW BUNTINGS remain scarce with a flock of 20 over the Bay and 11 on Gull Is. on 16 Dec. A rare winter CHIPPING SPARROW was seen along Paxton Dr. on 16 Dec. Up to two WHITE-THROATED SPARROWS visited feeders on Bayshore Rd through the week and a SONG SPARROW was seen on 18 Dec. A COMMON GRACKLE was seen at one Bayshore Rd feeder on 14 Dec. It or another appeared at a different feeder from 17 Dec. onward.
A PINE SISKIN on 19 Dec was the only report. A flock of 18 COMMON REDPOLL was located on Dec 16. Increased coverage on count day resulted in 16 PINE GROSBEAK being located on 16 Dec. More unusual were two RED CROSSBILLS heard calling over the Fingers on 16 Dec.
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Saturday, January 21, 2017
Baby not getting enough milk
My 4 week old baby falls asleep at the breasts within 10 minutes of breastfeeding. Because of this he is often cranky and needs to be fed every 1 hour. I started noticing this for the last 1 week. Could this mean that my breast milk is very little? Is there any ways to increase my breast milk as I really want to breastfeed my baby for a year. I am not getting enough sleep for the last couple of days. Could this be a reason for my low milk supply.
There are many possible reasons for low milk supply.
If your baby falls asleep at the breast, it does usually mean that he is not getting enough milk to keep him interested. He may be sucking too far out on the tip of the nipple.
One way to keep him sucking is to massage your breast toward him while he is at the breast.
Be sure his lips are flanged well up onto the areola and that his nose is brushing up against your breast.
After about 20 minutes, pump both breasts simultaneously to stimulate more milk production.
You can feed the baby that milk after the nest breastfeeding session.
Pumping after all feeds is an excellent way to increase your milk supply.
In addition, you may want to take Fenugreek, 610 mg capsules, two 4 time per day for at least 2 weeks or until you have an adequate milk supply.
Rest and fluids (not just water) are also very important.
Best wishes for success.
Jeanne L Ballard, MD, FAAP, FABM
Professor Emeritus, Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynecology
College of Medicine
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So the response of the GOP presidential candidates to the National Organization for Marriage’s Presidential Pledge speaks a lot about who they are listening to: the people, or the media and cultural/political elites.
The short and simple pledge NOM asked candidates if they would sign is this:
I pledge to the American people that if elected President, I will:
One, support a federal constitutional amendment that protects marriage as the union of one man and one woman.
Two, oppose and work to overturn any Supreme Court decision that illegitimately finds a constitutional “right” to the redefinition of marriage. This includes nominating to the U.S. Supreme Court and federal bench judges who are committed to restraint and applying the original meaning of the Constitution, and appointing an attorney general similarly committed.
Three, conduct a review of regulatory, administrative and executive actions taken by the current Administration that have the effect of undermining marriage and work to restore our policies to be consistent with the proper understanding of marriage as the union of one man and one woman. Consistent with this, prevent the promotion of a redefined version of marriage in public schools and other government entities.
Four, support the First Amendment Defense Act and other legislation that recognizes the right of organizations and individuals to act in the public square consistent with their belief that marriage is the union of one man and one woman without fear of retaliation from the government.
Five, direct the Department of Justice to investigate, document and publicize cases of Americans who have been harassed or threatened for exercising key civil rights to organize, to speak, to donate or to vote for marriage and to propose new protections, if needed.
Four candidates have signed the pledge thus far: Ted Cruz, Rick Santorum, Ben Carson, and Bobby Jindal.
These four are standing tall against the pressure of big government, big business, the media, Hollywood, and a Supreme Court that thinks it is the supreme being.
Where are the rest of them?
For their part, Mike Huckabee and Scott Walker said they do not sign any pledges but will stand against the redefinition of marriage. That’s nice, I guess. But why don’t they put it in writing? Why not guarantee the American people that you mean what you say?
As for the others who have not signed yet, I have a question.
Clause one of the pledge means standing for natural marriage. Two means standing for the Constitution and against judicial activism. Three means stopping big government from inserting itself into a social debate it does not belong in. Four and five mean protecting free speech.
These seem like perfectly reasonable positions that all conservatives and even moderates [should] share. So my question is, what part of the pledge do you disagree with? Do you not support the Constitution, small government, and free speech?
Another question for Jeb Bush, Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, Chris Christie, John Kasich, Rick Perry, Carly Fiorina, Lindsey Graham, George Pataki, and Jim Gilmore: Whose side are you on? Are you on the side of the American people, who want the debate over our most important social institution to continue, or are you going to cower because your elitist friends in the media, Washington, and and Wall Street told you to shut up?
Cruz, Santorum, Carson, and Jindal won’t shut up, and for that, they deserve some serious consideration from the people of Iowa and across the nation.
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Oedipus Rex Essay, Research Paper Oedipus All tragic heroes suffer a downfall because of their tragic flaws. In the Greek story of Oedipus, he is responsible for his downfall because of his tragic flaws and his hubris. When Oedipus was born his parents, King Lauis and Queen Jocasta, went to an oracle. They were told Oedipus would kill his father and marry his mother.
Oedipus Rex Essay, Research Paper
All tragic heroes suffer a downfall because of their tragic flaws. In the Greek story of Oedipus, he is responsible for his downfall because of his tragic flaws and his hubris. When Oedipus was born his parents, King Lauis and Queen Jocasta, went to an oracle. They were told Oedipus would kill his father and marry his mother. Jocasta and Lauis didn’t want this so they stuck a spike into Oedipus (means swollen foot) ankles and had a servant of theirs leave him on the mountain Citheran. A Shepard brought Oedipus to the king and queen of Cornith, and they became his new parents. He grew up and soon went to an oracle like his real parents had and was told the same exact thing. Oedipus wanted to avoid this and ran away to the city of Thebes where he was born. On his way he came to three roads. There people on a horse and carriage were trying to get him off the road and he soon became angry and killed all of them except one. The one who lived was the servant who had saved Oedipus’s life on the mountain. One of the many people he did kill was King Lauis. The gods became very angry with this. Oedipus was thought to be a hero because he got past the Sphinx. He was made king and married Jocasta. This shows a major flaw of Oedipus’s life. Hamartia (tragic flaw) is shown in the story when he ran away from his fate but, was actually running towards it. This also shows Oedipus’s hubris. Another major tragic flaw of his was his bad temper and how he killed Lauis. Later in the story more of Oedipus’s flaws were shown. Besides his bad temper and his extensive amount of pride, he conveyed stubbornness and impulsive rashness. He showed stubbornness when he would not listen to Jocasta or anyone else. And he showed rashness by being foolish and cursing his family, trying to kill them and making himself blind. All this led up to a horrible downfall.
Oedipus’s weaknesses and actions were both reasons that lead to the terrible tragedy he faced. His foolishness to try to escape his destiny was the most significant flaw. It brought him right into what he did not want and brought horrible things upon his life and family. His actions made him become a murderer and a shameful person all because he tried to change the way things were meant to be in his life. Thus, Lauis and Jocasta had tried to escape what was to happen in the future for them also. It too came back and hit them and ended in tragedy.
Sochocles was telling us that free will is living your life the way we want and the way it is and not looking to see what is held for us in the future. In a way people can control their destinies by living their life in a good way and planning things right. The whims of the gods may have a plan for all of us or they may not. In Oedipus’s case, he could have resisted killing his father and marrying his mother. And the gods would have spared his family and himself, or that could have just been the way his life was meant to be. It is always best to just live life as it is meant to be and don’t try to change any of it.
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Based on observations, scientists say that the entire universe began with a “big bang.”
All of the matter of the universe was originally compressed into an infinitely small “pellet”:
“Our universe is thought to have begun as an infinitesimally small, infinitely hot, infinitely dense, something – a ‘singularity’. Where did it come from? We don’t know. Why did it appear? We don’t know.”
Yes – where did it come from?
What did it explode into, if the space-time continuum didn’t exist until the explosion?
How did the explosion create a universe of consistent, knowable physical laws?
Should we even care?
Jewish teaching says, “Yes.”
Torah says, “In the beginning, G-d created…” suggesting that the “creation” is separate from the Creator. Rashi’s translation differs but suggests the same thing.
Human creation is like that – a person collects materials from outside himself – wood, copper, brass, etc. – and puts them together to make a house. After he’s finished and walks away, the house is still there. The builder doesn’t have to be there for the house to continue being there; the creation and the creator are separate. This is true of anything a human being creates.
But the Besht — the Ba’al Shem Tov — teaches us that Divine creation is different: the Hebrew letters of G-d’s words remain in everything created to continue giving it all “life” and existence, even today! [*]
In traditional prayers, too, we say of G-d, “Ha-m’chadesh b’tu’vo b’chol yom tamid ma’ah’seh b’rei’shith” – [G-d is the One] Who continually renews the creation daily, in His Goodness.” G-d is constantly creating the Universe (or universes) – even at this very moment!
Kabbalah and Hasidut go even further: The “materials” out of which G-d is creating are themselves not separate from G-d (as the wood, copper, etc. are from the human house builder). G-d, creating “from” and “within” Himself, is always “in” the things created. In truth, “אלץ איז גאט: Altz eez G-t. All is G-d.”
Thus, the actual material of the “big bang,” whatever its form, wasn’t separate from G-d: “v’Hu ha-ya, v’Hu ho-veh, v’Hu y’h’yeh…” – Who was, Who is, Who (always) will be. . It’s not separate after the “big bang,” even now.
“Matter is not something apart from Divinity, but only the visible aspect of Divinity…”
The appearance of being separate from G-d is based on the impression that our senses give us. Even scientific observation is based on the senses.
The knowledge of G-d’s intimate connection with all things, unknowable by the senses, must be perceived by the mind and heart alone.
“Everything that exists is continually in the process of creation; and the Creator resides with and in that which He is creating…We must therefore realize that [G-d] is nearer to man than man may postulate Him to be.”
The rest is “realizing”: “knowing” by “direct personal experience.”
Now, go and pray or meditate.
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The Arctic could become ice-free during Summer months within 20 years (Image: Bjorn Alfthan/UNEP - www.grida.no)
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Arctic special Arctic will become 'more of a Mediterranean than a frozen border'
October 19th, 2011
The Arctic was once out of reach to anyone but intrepid explorers. Today it's a natural resource battle ground. Arctic expert Charles Emmerson tells the Ecologist what's changed
Rosie Spinks: Can you talk a little bit about our fixation with the Arctic? What propels us to know the unknown?
Charles Emmerson: You talk about the unknown. But there’s another question here: unknown to whom? Indigenous populations have been in the Arctic much, much longer than the Arctic has been known to Europeans. Really up until the 19th century – and sometimes beyond – there have been two Arctics: the one indigenous people have known for thousands of years, known intimately on a local, liveable scale, and then the European view of the Arctic, as a vast, blank space on the map, as an unknown quantity, as a place of mystery, a place where we didn’t even know where the coastlines ran. Up until the beginning of the twentieth century there were opposing views on whether there was ice at the North Pole or, as some people thought, an open polar sea.
RS: When did climate change start affecting the Arctic?
CE: Human life and human habitation in the Arctic have always been somewhat marginal, so relatively small environmental changes have had potentially large changes in terms of population. This may be the explanation for human migrations through the Arctic over many thousands of years. More recently, one of the classic mysteries of Arctic history is the extent to which it was a relatively warm period which allowed for European settlement of Greenland, a thousand-odd years ago, and the extent to which a much colder period may have been responsible for killing off that population.
The fact that there are potentially plentiful oil, gas, and hydrocarbon resources in the Arctic tells you something about previous states of vegetation in the Arctic. But what you can infer from that about the nature of climate change today is limited. There is a difference of timescale – and timescales matter a lot for human societies.
Has the Arctic been relatively ice free at points in the past? Yes. But it doesn’t follow from that that the climate change currently being experienced in the Arctic – much faster than elsewhere in the world – is somehow just a natural variation, or nothing to worry about: warming in the Arctic is a fact, it is happening over a timescale which is already affecting people who live there, and continued warming will likely affect the lives of many, many, more beyond the Arctic. The Arctic is a key part of the global climate system. Change there may accelerate change elsewhere.
RS: What are the motives for humans developing the Arctic? How have they changed?
CE: There was, perhaps, an earlier era of exploration which was partly about these rather heroic, or sometimes tragic, characters who wanted to test themselves against the elements. That was certainly the popular – and powerful – imagery of the Arctic. But, even then, it was also about very much about national prestige, and calculations of potential benefits. The search for the Northwest Passage also involved very serious strategic considerations for a shorter trade route between Europe and Asia.
The idea of a quest for knowledge remains very much alive in the Arctic – particularly in Arctic science. In some ways, however, political and economic interests are a lot sharper than they were a hundred years ago. It isn’t just about climate change – it’s more about resources.
The economic resources of the Arctic have been known about for a long time. In the 1850s the search for whale oil decimated the Arctic whale population. In the 1870s and 1880s people were looking for graphite in northern Canada. Later, gold. At the beginning of the twentieth century: coal, and then oil. The notion of there being resources in the Arctic is deeply embedded. But the question has always been: Can those resources be extracted in way which is economically sustainable? That depends quite a lot on price, and on the commercial and technical ability to find and extract resources. What’s perhaps different now from the past is that we are in a world where extraction has become more technically possible and where economic factors tend to support it. When oil is at a $100 a barrel there are many more viable projects than at $20.
I think there is still a pioneering exploratory spirit in some respects. For scientists who work on the Arctic these are in some respects amazing times. Arctic science has begun to receive a lot more support: we’ve just come out of an International Polar Year. Arctic science is finally being recognised as being of major, global importance. And the idea of the Arctic a frontier to be explored and harnessed is certainly a significant part of some countries’ national development strategies for the Arctic. It’s still a powerful idea.
RS: Do you think this idea of civilisation and latitude being inseparable is changing at all?
CE: The idea of civilisation being linked to latitude made sense in agrarian societies where basic food productivity was the basis of development. In industrial societies, or with mechanised agriculture, latitude – or rather the particular climate associated with particular latitude – became a less important factor in economic development. Other things began to matter more: access to mineral resources, for example. Economic geography can change; and changes in the natural environment can be a major factor in driving that change.
One of the consequences of climate change now is that the environmental conditions associated with a particular line of latitude in a particular place are likely to change in the future. Some areas of the north may become more liveable. Areas of the south may become less liveable. But the consequences are likely to be complex. Infrastructure built on permafrost is at risk. Warmer weather may mean more storms and more coastal erosion. It’s not a simple case of everything moving north.
But I think the map is changing in other ways. If you look at the map of the world you or I grew up with, it had the Arctic at the top, the Antarctic at the bottom, and both as depicted as barriers, edges. But of course as the Arctic opens up I think that that conception of the Arctic being a barrier through which you cannot pass is going to have to change. You’re going to have to start looking at polar-centred maps of the world, with the Arctic Ocean as what it may eventually become – more of a Mediterranean than a frozen border.
RS: Who is involved in the exploitation of the Arctic, and do you see any signs that the main players are trying to develop the Arctic in a responsible way?
CE: All the Arctic states are interested, to a greater or lesser degree, in economic development in the North. Hydrocarbon development is already a fact in parts of Alaska, Norway and Russia. You’ve got mines in northern Canada. Offshore, development is most likely off the coast of Norway and Russia.
In some respects the Arctic is becoming more like the rest of the world, politically and economically. Our imagined Arctic is a beautiful and wonderful thing – but it corresponds less and less to the reality of what’s actually happening.
Exploitation of resources, wherever it happens, always entails risk. I think that, for me, the question now is not whether development will happen in the Arctic – it already is – but how quickly, and how we can ensure that it happens with the greatest degree of environmental protection. For me the point is to make sure that countries and companies are held to the highest possible standards if they do push ahead with resource exploitation.
Governments are key in all this: they set the frameworks. Some countries have relatively good regulation: Norway, for example. That’s the gold standard. In other countries, such as the US, regulatory frameworks haven’t worked well. The environmental benchmarks and knowledge isn’t always there. And then there are big question marks over Russia.
I think that some companies – certainly not all – do realise that there is substantial reputational risk involved in Arctic development: they need to get this right. That’s a good thing. If a company screws up in the Arctic there may be massive financial liability, they may find it hard to get projects elsewhere, they may be exposed to negative shareholder or consumer sentiment. Companies should only get involved in the Arctic if they can show they are responsible, and capable.
Does that mean there are no problems? No. There are lots of problems. There are far too many unanswered questions. There are far too many gaps in our knowledge. But I do think we’re heading in the right direction in terms of governments and businesses recognising their broader responsibilities. But holding them to those responsibilities is going to be a continuing challenge.
Charles Emmerson is a senior research fellow at Chatham House and author of The Future History of the Arctic
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Bruce Parry: the Arctic's climate is 'changing faster than anywhere else'
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Arctic special Putin’s Russia will lead a ‘new era of Arctic industrialisation’
The isolation of the white wilderness is coming to an end. Scientists and activists are urging caution but Russia is leading an urgent rush to exploit the Arctic’s oil and gas reserves. Tom Levitt reports
Arctic special How oil and corruption have become so closely linked
As a new oil-fever gathers pace in Arctic countries such as Greenland the lesson from history is that where there is oil, corruption will quickly follow. Eifion Rees reports
Arctic oil spill could take 'year or more' to clean up
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Camille Seaman: photographing the disappearing Arctic
The Native American photographer Camille Seaman documents climate change effects on the Arctic and Antarctic. Her iceberg images are aesthetically pleasing, but the key message is that they may not be here for much longer
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Melinda T. Gervasio, Wayne Iba, Pat Langley
Mixed-initiative systems present the challenge of finding an effective level of interaction between humans and computers. Machine learning presents a promising approach to this problem in the form of systems that automatically adapt their behavior to accommodate different users. In this paper, we present an empirical study of learning user models in an adaptive assistant for crisis scheduling. We describe the problem domain and the scheduling assistant, then present an initial formulation of the adaptive assistant’s learning task and the results of a baseline study. After this, we report the results of three subsequent experiments that investigate the effects of problem reformulation and representation augmentation. The results suggest that problem reformulation leads to significantly better accuracy without sacrificing the usefulness of the learned behavior. The studies also raise several interesting issues in adaptive assistance for scheduling. | <urn:uuid:45588dd3-0e26-4693-977b-094aba2a42fa> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://aaai.org/Library/AAAI/1998/aaai98-102.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281649.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00442-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.927872 | 173 | 1.546875 | 2 |
Ann Wings dual remote electronic dog description and user manual
This remote infrared alarm is set infrared detectors and alarms in one, with a wireless remote control and power supply component alarm system. When the infrared detector once detected illegal invasion of human movement, start immediately issued high-decibel siren alarm 30 seconds of the scene sound, play a powerful deterrent. The alarm uses a special infrared sensor processing chip, PIR dual pyroelectric infrared sensor, Fresnel lens and advanced digital remote sensing technology, micro-power ASIC and automatic temperature compensation technology with microprocessor control, decoding the integration of advanced design techniques. By detecting human radiation of infrared heat and start the probe site sound alarm, time to stop theft. is a variety of vehicles, homes, shopping malls, offices, courtyards and street stores and other anti-theft facilities ideal place. Is the modern family, shops, enterprises and institutions of the necessary anti-theft products.
Alarm sound level: 105dB (decibels)
Remote control distance: about 2 meters -5 meters
Detection range: 3-5 meters distance, angle of 110 degrees
Operating voltage: DC 6V (four AA batteries)
Overall volume: 120 * 70 * 45mm
1. Open the computer after the battery cover, for good positive and negative battery (4 5), the host where power lights up, indicating normal energized;
2. Press the remote control; alarm will 'tick' to ring out; and the right of the green lights above the host; the lamp is off about 20 seconds; when the host enters normal working condition;
3. When someone enters its detection range, the left light flashes for about about five seconds, the panel will sound an alarm.
4. Host alarm time for about 30 seconds, then stopped as someone enters the detection zone, it will still alarm, if the remote control when the alarm is disarmed, NA me will need to re-arming with a remote host to enter the work state. ( Click the remote boot is armed, press the disarm).
1. The probe should avoid straight to the outside, so as not to walk around idlers lead over false positives;
2. The probe corresponds away from heat source; for example, air-conditioning outlet; heating; air conditioners; stove, etc;
3. The installation should avoid the sun, car lights direct the probe;
4. Regularly check whether electronic dog is working properly, to avoid false negatives;
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The following scenarios and questions are designed to draw together the content of the chapter and to exercise your understanding of the concepts. There is not necessarily a right answer. The thought process and practice in manipulating the concepts is the goal of this section. The answers to the scenario questions are found at the end of this chapter.
For a given network, all routers share a common multiaccess segment. One router is elected the DR and another is elected the BDR.
|1.||Which parameter determines the router that will be selected as the DR in an OSPF network?
|2.||Could a router with a priority value of zero assume the role of a DR or a BDR in the OSPF?
|3.||How is the OSPF router ID determined on a Cisco router?|
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Elected officials and lawyers representing Sandusky and Erie County met in court on Tuesday in hopes of settling a long-lingering water lawsuit.
Here’s the major points from the daylong conference inside Erie County Common Pleas Court:
The outcome: Still undetermined.
Neither side could find common ground on determining the exact price for which Sandusky will sell water to Erie County.
The trial date: Still undetermined.
Officials from both governments previously told the Register that if neither side could compromise on a specific rate by Tuesday, then a trial — likely a lengthy and costly one — would happen.
A judge apparently saw enough good faith between both sides to delay a trial — for now. The court set a date of July 25 for both parties to provide a progress report. Depending on what occurs then, the case could go to trial.
“The object is to avoid a trial,” Sandusky ex officio mayor Dennis Murray Jr. said. “A trial has its own costs, and we want to avoid those costs. We were unable to reach progress, but both sides demonstrated flexibility. There were some new ideas brought to the table, and we are going to continue working on that.”
The two sides will continue meeting informally.
The dispute: Erie County commissioners claim they pay Sandusky too much for water; Sandusky city commissioners claim Erie County pays too little for water.
Almost two years ago, Sandusky city commissioners filed an $8.5 million lawsuit, alleging Erie County has underpaid the city for water purchases and violated other provisions from a 2006 agreement.
Sandusky commissioners and Erie County commissioner Pat Shenigo favor the proposed volume-driven rate formula to set a starting purchasing price, which would be dictated by how much water the county purchases from the city.
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Item description for Handbook of Epidemiology by Wolfgang Ahrens...
The Handbook of Epidemiology provides a comprehensive overview of the field and thus bridges the gap between standard textbooks of epidemiology and dispersed publications for specialists that have a narrowed focus on specific areas. It reviews the key issues and methodological approaches pertinent to the field for which the reader pursues an expatiated overview. It thus serves both as a first orientation for the interested reader and as a starting point for an in-depth study of a specific area as well as a quick reference and recapitulatory overview for the expert. The book includes topics that are usually missing in standard textbooks and that are only marginally represented in the specific literature as well as innovative areas, e.g. molecular epidemiology, ethical aspects, practical field work, health systems research, quality control, and good epidemiological practice. Each chapter is written by one or more leading scientists and represents the state-of-the-art knowledge.
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Release Date Jul 16, 2004
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New PSAs from the Ad Council and COVID Collaborative Speak to Those Still Hesitant About Vaccination Across Rural Communities
NEW YORK, NY, October 19, 2021 — In September 2021, incidence rates of COVID-19 in rural America were roughly 54% higher than elsewhere in the country according to the Rural Policy Research Institute. As this disparity and rates of vaccine hesitancy continue, the Ad Council and COVID Collaborative partnered with trusted rural voices like the American Farm Bureau Federation, the Cooperative Extension System and others to release new PSAs today that feature and speak to rural Americans from across the country. The PSAs showcase the firsthand impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and vaccines for seven individuals and families, encouraging Americans who may still be questioning the vaccines to seek the latest accurate information about getting vaccinated.
“With the disproportionate impact of the pandemic in rural areas across the country, it’s critically important that Americans in rural communities hear these powerful stories from each other, their neighbors,” said Lisa Sherman, President and CEO of the Ad Council. “We’re grateful to these individuals and their families for sharing their powerful and poignant stories. Our aim is to uplift their voices, meet rural Americans where they are, and let these experiences inspire millions more to feel confident in the vaccines.”
Research from the Rural Policy Research Institute showed that rural counties had higher rates of COVID-19 than their urban counterparts in 39 states this September. However, large groups among the rural population who remain undecided about vaccination continue to have concerns about long-term side effects of the vaccines (73.7%) and doubts about the efficacy of vaccination (69.6%) due to new breakthrough cases, according to recent Ad Council research. Recent CDC data reveals that 35% of rural Americans are unvaccinated, which is a vaccination rate 10% lower than their urban and suburban counterparts.
“I shared openly about getting COVID last year and about getting vaccinated--not wanting to meet with that virus again. I appreciate the many other farmers, ranchers and rural neighbors who are sharing their journeys, too, including those in these new PSAs,” said Zippy Duvall, President of the American Farm Bureau Federation. “Farmers and ranchers are stronger together, and that especially goes for getting ahold of the pandemic. You can’t go wrong in seeking out information about your COVID-19 vaccination options from a trusted source, like your doctor, and we’re proud to be a part of empowering Americans to make that choice.”
The PSAs highlight experiences from a wide variety of individuals, including family pharmacists in Texas, a football coach in North Carolina, newlyweds in Mississippi, family farmers in Kansas and Georgia, a lifelong cowboy in Texas and a self-proclaimed “sports mom” in Georgia. The breadth of identities represented in the PSAs, and found across rural America, contribute to the relatable, compelling nature of each story. Whether motivated by their families, faith, communities or other perspectives, the participants open up about the diverse factors that went into their decisions to get educated about the COVID-19 vaccines, and ultimately get vaccinated themselves.
“As the pandemic continues to have an outsized impact in rural areas, our vaccination education campaign will redouble its efforts to reach the tens of millions of Americans in these communities who are still questioning whether or not to get vaccinated against COVID-19,” said John Bridgeland, Co-Founder and CEO of the COVID Collaborative. “A nationwide response must reach every part of the country and we’re eager to help engage more Americans to get answers to their questions about the vaccines.”
In collaboration with the American Farm Bureau Federation, the National Association of Farm Broadcasting, the National Association of Community Health Centers and the Cooperative Extension System, the PSAs will be distributed nationally with a specific focus on rural areas in the South and Midwest.
The full series of seven stories can be viewed here on YouTube.
“We are grateful to partner with the Ad Council in ensuring that rural residents have the right tools and information to make an informed decision about the COVID-19 vaccines,” said Ron Yee, MD, Chief Medical Officer of the National Association of Community Health Centers.
Major media partners and industry trade associations, including Facebook, FOX, Google/YouTube, National Association of Broadcasters, Outdoor Advertising Association of America, Radio Advertising Bureau, Television Bureau of Advertising among others have committed to providing significant donated media time and space to run and amplify the new PSA assets. What If Media Group will also continue to provide support by sending vaccine messaging via email to unvaccinated people living in rural communities. Per the Ad Council’s model, the TV and digital creative will be distributed in the United States where it will run in donated media.
Deborah Riley Draper, Founder and CEO of Coffee Bluff Pictures and a Georgia native herself, wrote and directed the PSAs. Her company, Coffee Bluff Pictures, served as the agency of record and production company. “The south has a rich history of storytellers, and I was honored to create an opportunity for seven families to share their experiences and the impact of both the vaccine and the pandemic on their lives and their communities,” says Draper. Recently, she worked with the Ad Council on the Tuskegee Legacy Stories in partnership with descendants of the men involved in the U.S. Public Health Service Syphilis Study at Tuskegee. Draper is an award-winning and critically-acclaimed filmmaker, author, motivational speaker, and advertising agency veteran. She was named to Variety Magazine’s "2016 Top 10 Documakers to Watch" list, and is a member of the Film Fatales and a Facebook SEEN Program alum and mentor.
The new rural content is part of the Ad Council and COVID Collaborative’s COVID-19 Vaccine Education Initiative, “It’s Up To You.” The overarching creative platform was developed by Pereira O’Dell, with additional campaign assets created by JOY Collective, Alma, Saatchi & Saatchi, Deutsch LA, Group SJR, Coffee Bluff Pictures and other partners to ensure the American public has the latest and most accurate information about the COVID-19 vaccines. To date, the campaign has received $200M in media support and related publicity across all channels, with at least 75% of Americans eligible for the vaccine having seen “It’s Up To You” ads and driving over 9 million sessions to GetVaccineAnswers.org. Of those who visit GetVaccineAnswers.org with concerns, nearly 60% left feeling more confident about getting vaccinated.
Leading contributors to date include Amazon, Apple, Bank of America, Cisco, Comcast NBCUniversal, CVS Health, Facebook, General Motors, Google and YouTube, The Humana Foundation, Reckitt, Salesforce, Verizon, Walgreens and Walmart. Significant contributions have also been provided by Adobe, America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), the American Heart Association, the American Medical Association, BNY Mellon, Budweiser/Anheuser-Busch Foundation, Business Roundtable, Caterpillar Foundation, Citi, Ford Motor Company, Honeywell, JPMorgan Chase, Kaiser Permanente, Mastercard, the New York Life Foundation, Stanley Black & Decker, Synchrony, Target, Unilever, Wells Fargo and ViacomCBS.
The Ad Council
The Ad Council has a long history of creating life-saving public service communications in times of national crisis, starting in the organization's earliest days during World War II to September 11th and natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Sandy. Its deep relationships with media outlets, the creative community, issue experts and government leaders make the organization uniquely poised to quickly distribute life-saving information to millions of Americans.
The Ad Council is where creativity and causes converge. The non-profit organization brings together the most creative minds in advertising, media, technology and marketing to address many of the nation's most important causes. The Ad Council has created many of the most iconic campaigns in advertising history. Friends Don't Let Friends Drive Drunk. Smokey Bear. Love Has No Labels.
The Ad Council is a nonpartisan, nondenominational organization, engaging a diverse range of communities, including the faith community, to impact society for good. The organization’s innovative social good campaigns raise awareness, inspire action and save lives. To learn more, visit AdCouncil.org, follow the Ad Council's communities on Facebook and Twitter and view the creative on YouTube.
COVID Collaborative is a national assembly of experts, leaders and institutions in health, education and the economy and associations representing the diversity of the country to turn the tide on the pandemic by supporting federal, state and local COVID-19 response efforts.
The COVID Collaborative is co-chaired by former Governor and U.S. Senator Dirk Kempthorne (R-ID) and former Governor Deval Patrick (D-MA) and led by Co-Founder and CEO John Bridgeland and President Gary Edson. COVID Collaborative includes expertise from across Republican and Democratic administrations at the federal, state and local levels, including former FDA commissioners, CDC directors, and U.S. surgeon generals; former U.S. secretaries of Education, Homeland Security and Health and Human Services; leading public health experts and institutions that span the country; the Business Roundtable, National Association of Manufacturers and U.S. Chamber of Commerce; the NAACP, UnidosUS and the National Congress of American Indians; the Skoll Foundation, The Allstate Foundation and The Rockefeller Foundation; and associations representing those on the front lines, from the American Public Health Association and Association of State and Territorial Health Officials to the Council of Chief State School Officers and the Council of the Great City Schools. | <urn:uuid:e9d8613c-1fbc-4a34-bdef-e95d5e24df9c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.adcouncil.org/press-releases/rural-americans-share-personal-stories-to-inspire-confidence-in-covid-19-vaccines-in-local-communities-and-nationwide | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.935974 | 2,065 | 1.992188 | 2 |
You won’t go back to regular Tic-Tac-Toe after this!
MathemaTic-Tac-Toe adds a mathematical twist that breathes new life into an old game while maintaining the simplicity that has made Tic-Tac-Toe so popular.
The goal of every Think Square resource is ‘Intentional fun’ and this game is no different.
As students play they will learn to work backwards, add, subtract, double and halve values, find averages, multiples, friends of fifteen, explore combinations, properties of odd and even numbers and more!
This resource provides a print licence for a classroom of student booklets as well as extension questions, scenarios and activities to inspire curiosity, develop critical thinking and improve game-play. | <urn:uuid:8e7f2b85-2039-4ec4-b3d7-71eb5b274ee5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thinksquare.com.au/store/print-and-play/mathematic-tac-toe/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571989.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813232744-20220814022744-00468.warc.gz | en | 0.892867 | 168 | 2.828125 | 3 |
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ISIC Rev.3 code 2915Structure
This class includes manufacture of:
- machines for the mechanical handling of materials, goods or people other than over-the-road vehicles. Manufacture of simple as well as complex machinery; continuous or intermittent action machines; stationary as well as mobile machines; and machines integrally mounted on a wheeled chasis.
- pulley tackle and hoists; winches and capstans; and jacks.
- derricks; cranes, including cable cranes; mobile lifting frames, straddle carriers; works trucks whether or not fitted with a crane or other lifting or handling equipment, whether or not self-propelled, such as are found in factories, warehouses, dock areas, station platforms and elsewhere, including tractors for railway platforms.
- other lifting, handling, loading or unloading machinery (e.g. lifts, elevators, liquid elevators, conveyors, teleferics).
- parts specialized for lifting and handling equipment including buckets, shovels, grabs, but not bulldozer or angledozer blades.
Exclusions: Manufacture of internal combustion engines for lifting and handling equipment is classified in class 2911 (Manufacture of engines and turbines, except aircraft, vehicle and cycle engines).
Manufacture of tractors used in agriculture is classified in class 2921 (Manufacture of agricultural and forestry machinery).
Manufacture of construction equipment is classified in class 2924 (Manufacture of machinery for mining, quarrying and construction).
Manufacture of materials handling equipment specifically designed for underground use is also classified in class 2924.
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Shadertoy Multipass Demopack for GeeXLab
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Morphological Anti-Aliasing 11 (December 2011)This sample demonstrates a post-process pixel shader technique that applies Fullscreen Anti-Aliasing to an image. Morphological Antialiasing (MLAA) was originally developed by Intel Lab but was designed for a CPU based post-process. This sample demonstrates a modified MLAA implementation adapted to run on the GPU. | <urn:uuid:a97082d7-8e1a-4899-b280-7b6635769903> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.geeks3d.com/forums/index.php/topic,2453.msg2837.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285001.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00307-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937646 | 103 | 1.585938 | 2 |
Rice growers can make efficient use of birds to clean up their fields and
control their weeds and insects. The availability of sufficient nutrients in
these fields allows rice growers to grow ducks, geese and turkeys at low
This article can also be found at World Poultry Volume 20 number 11. To view the article online simply click on the link below.
Keywords: Cuba, country, management, rice, ducks, efficiency, geese, turkeys, grazing
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Apache Web Server, GNU/Linux Operating System, MySQL Database, Mozilla's Firefox Browser.
All pillars among the open-source community.
Each of these deserves its imminent position as a venerated project. Each has changed the world, and not a little. Moreover, they are the projects that spring to mind when we seek to justify the brilliance of the open-source licensing and development models.
But if this is intended to be a list of the highest-impact and most significant open-source projects, there is a project missing from this list.
VA VistA is arguably the best electronic health record (EHR) in existence. It was developed over the course of several decades by federal employees in a collaborative, open-source …[Read more] | <urn:uuid:5dc8d0f3-1efa-4b93-9ba5-c9ea4f2914e7> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://planet.mysql.com/?tag_search=2471 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283008.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00081-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9322 | 156 | 1.703125 | 2 |
In the past few decades, there has been an increase in demand for safety evaluation and control of dental materials used daily in dentistry; however, this task is difficult and cumbersome. Dental materials that are passive and do not react with the oral environment will be more stable and have superior durability. It is expected that dental materials will be universally accepted and will not cause harm or injury to the surrounding structures in the oral cavity. This is an entirely negative approach to the material tolerance and biocompatibility, and hides the possibility that some positive gains can be achieved. Side-effects of dental materials are believed to be rare, and generally, those that have been reported are mild. There are wide varieties of materials used in dentistry, which include liners, irrigants, intracanal filling materials, intracanal medicaments, prosthetic materials, restorative materials, subgingival implants, and mouth rinses. Therefore, in this study, the biocompatibility of various commonly-used clinical materials used in contemporary dentistry was discussed. | <urn:uuid:de65b0a0-afe4-48ff-894d-7b567664afa9> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.2041-1626.2012.00140.x/full?globalMessage=0 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279410.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00163-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946165 | 212 | 2.84375 | 3 |
World markets have dropped, extending heavy losses from last week, as the financial crisis in Europe continues unabated, with uncertainty hanging over Spain’s banking sector and Cyprus looking increasingly likely to need a European Union bailout.
Investors have been scared by a US report showing a sharp slowdown in the number of jobs created last month, adding to weak data from other major economies like Europe and Asia.
Unemployment in the 17 countries that use the euro currency stayed at a record-high 11 per cent in April. And there were signs that growth in China, which helped sustain the global economy through the 2008-2009 recession, is slowing significantly.
China’s manufacturing weakened in May, according to surveys released Friday.
Evidence of slowdown
Adding to the evidence of a slowdown, new figures showed companies placed fewer orders to US factories for the second straight month. The commerce department said Monday that orders for factory goods fell 0.6 per cent in April from March.
In Europe, Germany’s DAX lost 1.2 per cent to 5,978.23 though France’s CAC-40 managed to rise 0.1 per cent to 2,954.49. Markets in Britain were close d for a public holiday.
US markets opened lower, while in Spain, investors are waiting for what the government intends to do to boost the finances of some of its ailing banks.
The worry is that the government is already strapped for cash and might be overwhelmed by the costs of rescuing its own banks. It might have to tap EU rescue funds, but it is reluctant to do so because such aid would come with conditions on the government’s policies.
Despite the number of job seekers in Spain falling by a slight 0.63 per cent to 4.71 million people, the second consecutive monthly drop after hitting a record high in March, Spain has the highest unemployment rate in the industrialised world, with 24.44 per cent of the workforce idle, according to the national statistics office.
“Spain’s parliament insists it won’t be needing a bailout, but nor is it looking likely to find direct loans to inject into its banking system,” Al Jazeera’s Jonah Hull, speaking from Madrid, said.
“So the feeling becomes that the government may well find itself with no choice but to seek an international bailout which would of course be enormously bad news for a country already facing its second recession in just three years.”
Spain fell into recession early this year just two years after pulling out of its last one, and official data showed on Thursday that investors pulled a record amount of money out of the country in the first three months.
Meanwhile in Cyprus, the central bank governor said the eurozone member is struggling to find €1.8bn to inject in its second-largest lender, Cyprus Popular Bank, by a June 30 deadline.
That means it is increasingly likely to have to accept EU rescue funds. The chairman of Cyprus Popular Bank also suggested an EU loan now seemed more likely.
Markets came under siege earlier during trading in Asia. Japan’s Nikkei 224 index dropped 1.7 per cent to close at 8,295.63, its lowest finish since Nov. 28, 2011.
The broader Topix index ended below the 700 mark for the first time since December 1983, Kyodo News Agency said.
Hong Kong’s Hang Seng tumbled 2 percent to 18,185.59. South Korea’s Kospi shed 2.8 per cent to 1,783.13. Benchmarks in Taiwan and Indonesia fell three per cent and 4.3 per cent, respectively.
Mainland Chinese shares also lost ground, with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index falling 2.7 per cent to 2,308.55.
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Russia on Friday said its initiatives with Turkey helped improve the situation in the South Caucasus and solve the region's prevailing political problems
Moscow has always supported a proposed 3+3 format -- comprising of Iran, Russia, and Turkey plus Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia -- Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said, referring to a scheme suggested by Baku and backed by Ankara to help resolve disputes in the region.
"We immediately saw a very good unifying potential in this initiative and immediately ... we advocated that our Georgian neighbors should also be involved in this process, proceeding from the fact that the more opportunities for communication, the better for solving the remaining problems," said Lavrov, speaking at an annual press conference evaluating the foreign policy developments of the past year
Underlining that this format would help develop the entire region, Lavrov said: "We support these efforts, we actively participate in them, they contribute to the normalization of the situation in the South Caucasus and help create conditions for the remaining political problems to be solved much more actively and fruitfully through, among other things, economic cooperation between the three countries of the South Caucasus and their three large neighbors -- Russia, Turkey, and Iran," he said.
Lavrov regretted that Georgia did not join the first meeting of the 3+3 format last December, saying Russia had asked Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to explain to Georgia the benefits of joining. "Taking part in the format will not oblige them (Georgia) to anything," the diplomat said.
He also welcomed the first meeting between representatives of Turkey and Armenia that took place on Jan. 14 in Moscow as the two countries pursue efforts for normalization, adding that Russia had helped organize the meeting.
Moscow suspects that the West will increase its military presence along Russia's borders in two to three months, Lavrov said.
He said Russia had "reason to believe" this would happen if it did not comply with the West's demands on "how to deal with its troops on its territory."
Lavrov pointed out that a proposal by Russia for the West to provide it with security guarantees was aimed at reducing the military confrontation and de-escalating overall tensions in Europe, adding that the West's intentions were "exactly the opposite."
"NATO is increasing its ground forces and aviation in the territories that are directly adjacent to Ukraine, the scale and number of exercises on the Black Sea have increased many times recently," he said.
Lavrov also noted that NATO had invited Finland and Sweden to join the alliance at the time of Russia-US consultations on security guarantees.
Asked why the EU was not invited to the security discussions, the minister said Brussels had "destroyed" all connections and that there were no communication channels left.
"We regret that the European Union itself destroyed all the mechanisms seven and a half years ago, including the mechanisms within which practical aspects of ensuring security were discussed. And now, we have turned to the United States and NATO,
"With NATO, at least on paper, we still have the Russia-NATO Council, this structure still exists, and no one has destroyed the Founding Act. And with the European Union, all communication channels are cemented by our European colleagues," he said.
Lavrov did not mention which steps Russia could take if talks on the security guarantees fail, underlining the need to wait until the West presents a response in written form.
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Toyota has called “grossly inaccurate” a news report on CNN that charges the Japanese maker with covering up a memo that could reveal additional causes for so-called “unintended acceleration.”
The Japanese giant recalled millions of vehicles in late 2009 and early 2010 due to a series of issues that could cause its vehicles to unexpectedly race out of control. But Toyota insisted that the problems did not include defective electronic control systems – a conclusion echoed by a pair of studies authorized by U.S. federal safety regulators.
Nonetheless, the latest report by CNN, which cites internal documents, could prove problematic considering the maker is facing numerous suits by owners who claim they experienced unintended acceleration. If the network’s report proves true it could also pose a problem since the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has already imposed record fines on Toyota for failing to properly act when it discovered prior safety-related problems. | <urn:uuid:6ed8f836-6a4f-4f5a-b396-26dd48d84358> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.thedetroitbureau.com/sti/anderson-cooper/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719646.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00128-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962243 | 184 | 1.765625 | 2 |
Hemp oil, for example, is full of beneficial plant compounds called phytocannabinoids that can promote relaxation throughout the body, including in tense muscles.* You’ve probably heard of hemp’s best-known cannabinoid, CBD.
In preclinical research (mice), CBD and its cannabinoid derivatives have been shown to help support a healthy inflammatory response and healthy joints.* Meanwhile, the clinical research in humans for phytocannabinoids in hemp oil and joint comfort for both oral and transepidermal (topicals) delivery is an exciting area of emerging research.*
Some researchers suspect that the phytocannabinoids found in hemp act similarly to those that the body naturally produces (aka endogenous cannabinoids) during exercise.* This would help explain why, in addition to alleviating everyday stress, the plant compounds promote that full-body calm that you’d get after a good run.*
mindbodygreen’s calm+ supplement combines cannabinoid-rich USDA- and E.U.-certified organic hemp oil with two other calming plants: ashwagandha extract and lavender oil.* The result is an everyday supplement that can help make the body feel a bit more balanced, no matter what funky position it happens to be stuck in.*
While calm+ can help counteract the effects of sitting all day, it won’t cure them.* Be sure to pair it with proper posture (here are some PT-approved tips for cleaning yours up), occasional movement breaks, and stretches that focus on improving mobility and easing stiffness to stave off those deskside aches. | <urn:uuid:e1fcec85-6381-424c-a63a-963e143b98f4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://getthinquick.net/this-supplement-can-help-ease-the-sticky-tension-you-may-be-feeling-in-your-body/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00274.warc.gz | en | 0.925433 | 324 | 1.53125 | 2 |
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Posted by shanon on Wednesday, February 29, 2012 at 4:44am.
1. In the dining room brigade system, the positions of maitre
d’hôtel and/or captain may be combined under the title of
A. communard. C. chef de salle.
B. boulanger. D. sommelier.
2. Rachel and Mark are discussing the requirements of a
healthy diet. Rachel says that essential amino acids come
from a mix of complete and incomplete proteins. Mark says
only complete proteins can provide amino acids to the body.
Who is correct?
A. Rachel is correct.
B. Mark is correct.
C. Both Rachel and Mark are correct.
D. Neither Rachel nor Mark is correct.
3. Which one of the following combinations includes one or more sources of complete
A. Tofu and rice C. Beans and pasta
B. Fish and rice D. Hummus and tofu
4. A chef is preparing a roasted meat, and wants to ensure that the meat will be nicely
browned and full of flavor and aroma. Which of the following will need to occur to get
A. Caramelization C. Maillard reaction
B. Poaching D. Conduction
5. In a cooking context, which of the following materials is the best heat conductor?
D. Any dense liquid
6. The four sources of calories are
A. carbohydrates, fiber, fat, and cholesterol.
B. carbohydrates, proteins, fats, and vitamins.
C. carbohydrates, fats, sugars, and cholesterol.
D. carbohydrates, proteins, fats, and alcohol.
7. Which of the following is an advantage of microwave cooking?
A. It browns food more quickly than a conventional oven.
B. It’s more efficient for cooking large batches of food.
C. It heats foods with a high fat content more quickly.
D. It’s the best method when metal dishes are being used.
8. George and Maria are discussing the odds of becoming sick from a food-borne illness.
George says that the majority of microorganisms are helpful or harmless and only a
small percentage are harmful. Maria disagrees and says that all microorganisms are
harmful if we come in contact with them. Who is correct?
A. George is correct.
B. Maria is correct.
C. Both George and Maria are correct.
D. Neither George nor Maria is correct.
9. If you became ill because workers at your favorite restaurant failed to practice proper
hygiene procedures, the illness would most likely be due to which of the following?
A. Fungi C. Parasites
B. Viruses D. Bacteria
10. Elizabeth and Carlos are chefs at a local restaurant. Elizabeth says that meat and poultry
should be stored at a lower temperature than eggs. Carlos says that produce
should be stored at a higher temperature than dairy products. Who is correct?
A. Elizabeth is correct.
B. Carlos is correct.
C. Both Elizabeth and Carlos are correct.
D. Neither Elizabeth nor Carlos is correct.
11. You work in the kitchen brigade system and your day-to-day responsibilities include
hot appetizers, soups, pastas, and egg dishes. Your title is most likely
A. communard. C. sous chef.
B. vegetable chef. D. expediter.
12. Which of the following would be an example of mechanical convection?
A. Cooking steaks on a charcoal grill
B. Stirring a thick soup on a stovetop
C. Baking a cake in a glass baking dish
D. Popping a bag of popcorn in the microwave
13. When an egg cooks, the egg white changes from a transparent fluid to an opaque solid
in a process known as
14. To make an oil-and-water vinaigrette stable, you could add
A. shallots. C. mustard.
B. herbs. D. salt.
15. Marcy has just returned from a doctor’s visit, where she learned she has a calcium deficiency.
She’s worried about developing osteoporosis, so she decides to add yogurt and
milk to her diet. Her husband, Scott, says she should add broccoli and leafy greens to
her diet. Who is correct?
A. Marcy is correct.
B. Scott is correct.
C. Both Marcy and Scott are correct.
D. Neither Marcy nor Scott is correct.
16. Imagine that you’re frying or deep frying. With respect to fatty cooking fluids, the
smoke point will be highest in
A. a pure vegetable oil. C. a reused vegetable oil.
B. liquefied lard. D. bacon grease.
17. Which of the following is the best method for thawing frozen food?
A. At room temperature C. In the microwave
B. Under refrigeration D. Under running water
18. Because you’re aware of the temperature danger zone, you would discard any food
that has been held at 120°F for more than _______ hours.
A. six C. three
B. four D. two
19. According to information offered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, an ideal daily
calorie intake might consist of
A. protein 27%; carbohydrates 59%; fats 14%.
B. protein 55%; carbohydrates 20%; fats 25%.
C. protein 34%; carbohydrates 48%; fats 18%.
D. protein 14%; carbohydrates 58%; fats 28%.
20. Which of the following is the first thing to occur when sugar is exposed to heat?
A. The sugar melts into a thick syrup.
B. The sugar takes on the texture of caramel.
C. The sugar changes color from clear to brown.
D. The sugar caramelizes and turns to a deep brown color.
Can someone please check my answers.
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i was working on ESP32 with WIFI and MQTT and that worked.
Very simpel begin , just switch on and off a LED on GPIO pin, by subscribing to the topic and publish on or of.
When i wanted to extend the code with webserver and configured lib dependencies it compiled but when i go to the IP address of the device in a web browser it crashed.
So got in contact with the designer of the library and got as feedback that platformio had some issue’s , he asked me to load the code in Arduino IDE which i did and it compiled and works for days now.
The link to the github discussion is the following:
WiFiWebServer/examples/WebServer at master · khoih-prog/WiFiWebServer · GitHub)
The ticket that i filed
The comment that i got back from him when i asked the differences between Arduino IDE and Platformio i got the following answer:
The conclusion of this is that platformio is not compatible
IMO, PIO is not totally mature yet, and must require more knowledge and skills to manually configure / modify the settings of PIO as well as related libraries, or receiving compiler errors. This currently is the price you have to pay for better debugging environment, if necessary or a must.
We’re still waiting the days PIO can compile as easily as Arduino IDE, without changing anything internally to the libraries’ settings.
You can contribute to PIO by posting an issue in PIO Forum and make that day closer.
It’ll be beneficial if you’d post the link here after having created the PIO Forum issue.
I think the proof is delivered when compiling the same project with Arduino IDE and it works right away.
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5 Years Later, Egypt Government Crackdown On Dissent Persists
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST:
It was the spring of 2011. The Arab Spring protests in Cairo deposed longtime strongman Hosni Mubarak from power. After that, there was talk of change in Egypt, a new political opening that would lead to real democracy. Now, five years later, many Egyptians say that opening has slammed shut under the leadership of the new president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. Most notably, anyone who speaks out against the government risks going to prison. Last week, a prominent lawyer in Cairo who represents imprisoned or missing Egyptians himself went missing. To talk about all this, we're joined now by NPR's Leila Fadel from Cairo. Thanks for being with us, Leila.
LEILA FADEL, BYLINE: Thank you.
MARTIN: We mentioned this human rights lawyer who was - who has disappeared along with hundreds of other Egyptians. Why is this happening? Why are people being arrested?
FADEL: Analysts are talking about a government in a state that seems to feel out of control. They're trying to keep control at the time where the country's in a financial crisis. They're dealing with an insurgency in Sinai. And so the answer is to keep people in line through this type of political repression that we're seeing, these mass arrests, these mass sentencings in court and the many cases of security forces basically disappearing Egyptians.
MARTIN: I imagine this has got to have a broader chilling effect, even on just daily life there.
FADEL: Yeah, I mean, you definitely feel a difference in the city. Cairo was always a very lively, fun city, chaotic. And even under Mubarak, who was an authoritarian leader, there were always known red lines - what you could say and what you couldn't say. And nowadays, that's really changed. People don't really know what they can and can't say anymore. And one of the biggest examples of that was the death and torture of an Italian Ph.D. student here who was found on the side of the road with stab wounds and cigarette burns on his body, signs of awful torture. And that is being attributed to security forces. And it's not unusual to have people disappear and then show up dead. But it is unusual for it to happen to a foreigner from a country that's closely allied with the Egyptian government. And so people just don't know where the red lines are now.
MARTIN: What's the government's explanation for this crackdown? Do they give one?
FADEL: Yeah, I mean, the government says that this is a time of instability. They don't want Egypt to become like Syria, like Libya. And people are very afraid of becoming like Syria or Libya. And so that is what is said every time there's any type of crackdown - that this is what's best for Egypt. But I think that excuse is starting to run dry a little bit. For the first time, there's what feels like a moment happening in Egypt where there is more people speaking out despite the risks.
MARTIN: Is it better or worse, daily life in Egypt, than it was under Hosni Mubarak before the Arab Spring?
FADEL: I think it's unquestionably worse. That's what you hear from observers and people who live here. And so not only are you seeing mass arrests, mass death sentences, police repression, but you're also seeing a country that has a major financial crisis. There's no foreign currency really available for Egyptians. Their purchasing power is down. And so life is worse without the benefits of the stability of what they thought an authoritarian regime would bring.
MARTIN: NPR's Leila Fadel in Cairo. Thanks so much, Leila.
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(or diocese), a territorial unit of ecclesiastic administration in the Orthodox, Catholic, and Anglican churches, headed by a bishop. In Kievan Rus’ the division into eparchies was brought about under Grand Prince Vladimir Sviatoslavich in the tenth century, at which time they numbered not more than eight. Subsequently the division of Russia into eparchies corresponded roughly to the administrative division into provinces. By the early 19th century Russia had 36 independent eparchies, each headed by an eparchial bishop. At the present time the boundaries of the eparchies—where they exist—roughly correspond to the administrative division of the USSR into oblasts and republics. | <urn:uuid:c2b577fc-65be-4fed-adc0-7bc4eeae44d1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Archeparchy | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00077.warc.gz | en | 0.943695 | 173 | 2.640625 | 3 |
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An additional essential facet of hair care is personal health. This connects to the therapy of the hair by the individual. While dealing with a person’s hair, care ought to include using antibacterial hair shampoos along with mild cleansers. Making use of conditioner is additionally an essential aspect of hair care.
An individual who is making use of a professional hair shampoo ought to be informed about the regional plan of the hair shampoo maker. It is an excellent suggestion for him or her to understand whether the maker requires washing of hair shampoo off the scalp prior to it is used. Some manufacturers need the shampoo to be rinsed off totally; some only need a partial wash off. This information can make a distinction in the frequency with which a patient cleans his/her hair.
While making use of a hair shampoo tray to apply the hair shampoo, it is advisable to wash hands extensively after every cleaning so that the spread of germs is decreased. In case of a breakout of any kind of kind in a certain roots, the client ought to right away rinse the location with water. This is the safest strategy to take, especially in the case of exceptionally large or regular outbreaks. Following this, the client must follow up with a moisturizer that contains vitamin E or colloidal oatmeal for more nutrition of hair and skin.
In case the client finds it difficult to follow the previously mentioned suggestions or consider an experimental technique, it is recommended to acquire a hair shampoo tray from a shop or a producer understood for its top quality. In this fashion, the cost entailed will certainly be topped a broader variety of products. In case of any issues, the producer will certainly be liable to offer reimbursements as well as will aid the individual in remedying the issue. This is much better to a shampoositter whose just worry is earning money.
The client should not scrub shampoo off his/her hair but instead, ought to lather up totally with water. Massaging shampoo off the hair will lead to washing away essential nutrients from bordering skin and hair. Applying a conditioner while washing hair will ensure that the hair roots are not stripped of their crucial nutrients.
As a whole, it is best to consult a skin specialist, that will remain in a position to suggest an ideal treatment for the person based on the individual’s requirements as well as the underlying skin problem. Nevertheless, a skin doctor is probably the best person to provide advice as they are totally familiar with the intricacies of the body and exactly how every aspect impacts the others. There are many different reasons that people suffer acne, the most typical of which is stress. This is another instance where it would be important to get in touch with a skin specialist that will certainly have the ability to provide audio medical guidance. In most cases, a dermatologist has the ability to advise a course of therapy for patients’ hair, nail as well as face, based upon his or her own assessment of the situation.
Hair care is a basic term for cosmetology as well as hygiene involving the hair that expands on the head that is described as human. Hair care practices vary depending on the social as well as physical features of everyone’s hair and also exactly how easily it can be managed. The general suggestion behind hair care practices is to make it look tidy and healthy and balanced. There are different techniques as well as items that are utilized in order to preserve the great looks and handle the hair treatment.
In some parts of the globe, specifically those staying in desert regions, appropriate watering is very vital. It is really important to bear in mind that not all individuals who reside in the locations where there is dry climate need to fret about their hair’s wetness. Individuals who reside in the locations where there is lots of water do not need to worry about the dampness in any way and also can capitalize on the advantages offered by hair care. Hair care specialists recommend the use of a humidifier or dehumidifier to supply the ideal wetness airborne for the hair to take advantage of. This will help it to remain supple as well as protect against dryness and damage.
Some people pick to utilize hair treatment items that are abundant in nutrients. It assists keep the wellness of the scalp and also can boost the top quality and look of the hair. There are several minerals and vitamins in numerous hair treatment items that you can make use of on your head to maintain it healthy. These consist of Vitamin B6, Biotin, magnesium, zinc, iron and silicone. You need to additionally avoid using chemical-based products on your head because these may have hazardous active ingredients that might harm your scalp or create rashes or various other kinds of irritabilities to occur. click to investigate
Choosing the best hair shampoo is an additional key factor in maintaining the hair looks fresh and also vivid. There are numerous hair shampoos readily available for you to pick from. Some are light, oily or natural and also have important oils to moisturize and also condition the scalp. Others are very thick and also have extreme moisturizing residential properties to lock the dampness in the scalp as well as protect against dryness. There are likewise shampoos which contain anti-oxidants to free the scalp of toxins and improve the wellness of the hair. | <urn:uuid:98268927-cfe8-4558-a15b-19abd0389b1f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dw3soul.com/2021/08/09/whats-so-trendy-concerning-hair-care-that-everyone-freaked-out-over-it/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571989.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813232744-20220814022744-00471.warc.gz | en | 0.969727 | 1,325 | 2.078125 | 2 |
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LITTLETON -- Students from across Colorado will compete in Littleton on Feb. 11 at the Colorado High School Science Bowl for a chance to win a trip to the big game in STEM education -- the National Science Bowl in Washington, D.C.
In total, 48 teams from 31 Colorado schools will compete for the statewide title, including returning champion Ridgeview Classical Charter School from Fort Collins.
Ridgeview Classical emerged victorious in 2015 and 2016.
The winning team will represent Colorado in the Energy Department's National Science Bowl, April 27-May 1, in Washington, D.C. The Colorado High School Science Bowl is hosted by the department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).
The National Science Bowl began in 1991 as a way to encourage high school students to explore math and science in a fun academic competition.
Four students comprise each team, with a fifth serving as alternate, and the teams face off in a fast-paced question-and-answer format on a range of science disciplines including biology, chemistry, Earth science, physics, energy and math.
Schools are allowed to register one or two teams.
The competition will be held at Dakota Ridge High School, 13399 West Coal Mine Ave., Littleton, from 9-5:30 on Feb. 11.
Participating schools include:
- Arapahoe High School (Centennial) - two teams
- Cherry Creek High School (Greenwood Village) - two teams
- Cheyenne Mountain High School (Colorado Springs) - two teams
- Coronado High School (Colorado Springs)
- Dakota Ridge Senior High School (Littleton) - two teams
- Eagle Ridge Academy (Brighton) - two teams
- East High School (Denver)
- Fairview High School (Boulder) - two teams
- Fort Collins High School (Fort Collins) - two teams
- Fossil Ridge High School (Fort Collins) - two teams
- Gilpin County High School (Black Hawk)
- Highlands Ranch High School (Highlands Ranch) - two teams
- Justice High Charter School (Lafayette)
- Lakewood High School (Lakewood)
- Liberty Common High School (Fort Collins)
- Littleton High School (Littleton) - two teams
- Loveland High School (Loveland)
- Niwot High School (Niwot) - two teams
- Peak to Peak Charter School (Lafayette) - two teams
- Poudre High School (Fort Collins) - two teams
- Ralston Valley Senior High School (Arvada) - two teams
- Ridgeview Classical Charter Schools (Fort Collins) - two teams
- Rocky Mountain High School (Fort Collins) - two teams
- Smoky Hill High School (Aurora)
- Soroco High School (Oak Creek)
- South High School (Denver)
- Standley Lake High School (Westminster)
- Vail Christian School (Vail) - two teams
- Valor Christian High School (Highlands Ranch)
- Wheat Ridge High School (Wheat Ridge)
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WASHINGTON — The National Transportation Safety Board indicated Thursday that an investigation into the failure of lithium-ion batteries aboard two Boeing 787 planes is still far from determining a cause.
Deborah A.P. Hersman, chairwoman of the board, said a battery that caught fire in a 787 parked at a gate at Logan International Airport in Boston showed signs of short-circuiting and of a ‘‘thermal runaway,’’ in which a chemical reaction begins to overheat the battery and speeds up as the temperature increases. But Hersman described these as ‘‘symptoms,’’ and pointedly declined to say whether those problems were the cause of the incident, which, combined with a similar event in Japan, has led to the grounding of all 50 of the planes in service.
“These are all symptoms that something’s wrong,’’ she said. ‘‘Understanding what came first and what triggered the next thing, that’s information we are working to identify.’’
While there were no deaths or injuries, she said, ‘‘These events should not happen.’’
“There are multiple systems to prevent against a battery event like this,’’ she said. ‘‘Those systems did not work as intended. We need to understand why.’’
Hersman highlighted the seriousness of the problems more bluntly than other officials have, and her comments made clear that Boeing will not be able to get its planes back in the air anytime soon.
The battery damage was so significant, she said, that investigators are having difficulty retrieving information from the battery control system.
Japanese aviation authorities are leading the investigation into the second battery incident, which occurred earlier this month on a 787 flown by All Nippon Airways. It made an emergency landing in Japan after its pilot reported a burning smell in the cockpit while smoke alarms rang.
Hersman’s briefing, the first by the safety board on the batteries, fleshed out some of the questions facing engineers
With 50 airplanes grounded and Boeing’s marquee new product in limbo, engineers working for Boeing, its suppliers, and government agencies in this country and in Japan are scrambling to determine what happened. But Hersman was not making any promises.
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By Peter Biggins
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Only three of our ancestors in PetersPioneers fought in the Civil War. One was William Koch, who served as a sergeant in the Third Michigan Infantry Regiment. This story is about the other two--Peter Schickell and Joseph Schickell. They were brothers, and they both were regimental band leaders.
Peter was born January 17, 1833, and was a year old when he came to America in 1834 with his parents, John Adam and Eva Maria Schickell and three sisters from Bavaria. They were from Kassel, which is 32 miles east northeast of Frankfurt. At that time, Kassel was in the Main-Kreis region in the far northwest corner of the Kingdom of Bavaria. In 1866, as a result of the Treaty of Prague, Kassel became part of what is now the Kinzig-Main-Kreis region in the far south of Hesse. Kassel is small village and is now part of the town of Biebergemund.
The Schickells settled in Tiffin, Ohio, and had three more children there. The last was Joseph, born on September 23, 1839.
In April 1842, Charles Dickens stopped in Tiffin to have lunch at the hotel and transfer from private stage coach to railroad. Peter would have been age 9 and Joseph 2.
In August 1853, the Schickells moved to Grand Rapids, Michigan. Joseph, 13, went with them, but Peter, 20, stayed in Tiffin.
Peter and Joseph's father, John Adam, was a music teacher, which explains why they served as regimental band leaders in the Civil War.
On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln, who had declared "Government cannot endure permanently half slave, half free..." was elected president, the first Republican, receiving 180 of 303 possible electoral votes and 40 percent of the popular vote. On December 20, 1860, South Carolina seceded from the Union, followed within two months by Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas. On February 9, 1861, The Confederate States of America was formed with Jefferson Davis, a West Point graduate and former U.S. Army officer, as president. On March 4, 1861, Abraham Lincoln was sworn in as 16th President. On April 12, 1861 - At 4:30 a.m. Confederates under Gen. Pierre Beauregard opened fire with 50 cannons upon Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina, beginning the Civil War. On April 17, 1861, Virginia seceded from the Union, followed within five weeks by Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina, thus forming an eleven state Confederacy. On April 20, 1861, Robert E. Lee resigned his commission in the United States Army and accepted command of the military and naval forces of Virginia.
On July 17, 1862, Congress passed a law that ordered the mustering out of regimental bands. The bill was approved by the President and announced in the War Department's General Order 91 of July 29, 1862. Joseph was discharged at Harrison's Landing, on the James River, south of Richmond, Virginia, on August 13, 1862, having completed 14 months of service. It so happened that when the order of disbandment reached the Army of the Potomac, the bands had seen considerable and hard service on the Peninsula, under General McClellan, and therefore the men gladly accepted their discharges.
On March 1, 1864, Joseph was placed on detail to regimental headquarters to play in the Band. On May 1, he was made leader of the Regimental Band. He was promoted to Artificer on November 1, 1964, and Sergeant on April 5, 1865.
The regiment was made up primarily of engineers and mechanics. It did not function as a unit but was broken into four detachments assigned to divisions of the Army of the Ohio. These units performed engineering duty on the Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad, Nashville & Northwestern Railroad, the Tennessee & Alabama Railroad and the Memphis & Charleston Railroad. They re-opened the Tennessee River. They performed engineering duty on the Memphis & Charleston Railroad and the Atlantic & Western Railroad. They were ordered to Atlanta, Georgia on September 25. On the march to the sea they destroyed railroad track and bridges. They were present at the Siege of Savannah December 10-21 and went on to participate in the Carolina Campaign January to April, 1865. They were back in Tennessee to work again on the Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad. They participated in siege of Murfreesboro, Tennesee December 5-12, 1864. They rejoined Regiment at Goldsboro, N. C., March 25, 1865 and advanced on Raleigh April 10-14. Occupation of Raleigh April 14. Bennett's House April 26. They marched to Washington, D. C., via Richmond, Virginia, April 29-May 20. They participated in the Grand Review May 24. They returned to Nashville July 1, were mustered out September 22, and were discharged at Jackson, Michigan on October 1, 1865.
Joseph was among those discharged at Nashville, Tennessee, on September 22, 1865, having completed 20 months of service. We know nothing more about Joseph except that his father's notebook, written in 1878-79, says he "participated in the war in the southern states and lies buried in Columbus, Ohio." And, his father's 1879 obituary says that Joseph "entered the service against the rebellion and died in the cause of his adopted country."
The 10th was organized at Cincinnati, May 7th, 1861, for three months service, and June 3d, for three years, under Colonel William Haines Lytle. During Peter's enlistment, the 10th served in the numerous battles. West Virginia Campaign July to September, 1861. Battle of Carnifex Ferry September 10. Operations in the Kanawha Valley and New River Region October 19-November 24. Pursuit of Floyd November 10-15. Gauley Bridge November 10. Cotton Mountain November 10-11. Moved to Louisville, Ky., November 24-December 2, thence to Elizabethtown, and to Bacon Creek December 26. Duty there till February, 1862. Movement to Bowling Green, Ky., February 10-15. Occupation of Bowling Green February 15-22. Advance on Nashville, Tenn., February 22-March 2. Advance on Murfreesboro March 17-19. Occupation of Shelbyville, Fayetteville, and advance on Huntsville Ala., March 28-April 11. Capture of Huntsville April 11. Advance on Decatur April 11-14. Action at West Bridge near Bridgeport April 29. Duty at Huntsville till August. March to Louisville, Ky., in pursuit of Bragg August 27-September 26.
On July 17, 1862, Congress passed a law that ordered the mustering out of regimental bands. The bill was approved by the President and announced in the War Department's General Order 91 of July 29, 1862. Peter was discharged as a 1st Class Musician at Nashville, Tennessee, on September 10, 1862, having completed 12 months of service.
After his discharge, Peter went to Grand Rapids rather than Tifffin. In June/July 1863, Peter was included in the Class I draft list for Kent County, Michigan. Class I included men 20-35 and unmarried men 36-44. Peter was listed as being from the Second Ward, age 30, occupation Musician, Single, born in Germany, and no former military service.
In 1867, Peter married Ann E. Cordes. They lived in Madison, Wisconsin, for a couple years, where their first two children, Anna and Cecilia, were born. By the 1870 census, however, they were back in Grand Rapids, where their third child, Eugenia, was born. Peter was shown as a retail grocer in the 1870 census and a musician in the 1880 census. In the 1889 Grand Rapids city directory, he was a partner in Shinkman and Shickell, engaged in insurance, real estate, and loans.
On July 7, 1903, Peter, age 70, applied for a Civil War disability pension based on his service as a Musician in the 10th Ohio Infantry.
Peter died on June 14, 1910. On June 20, 1910, Peter's widow, Annie, applied for a Civil War widow's pension based on his service as a Musician in the 10th Ohio Infantry. Annie died on June 1, 1920.
The memory of 1st Class Musician Peter Schickell and the Bloody Tinth lives on in the form of a band called The Bloody Tinth, a Cincinnati based American-Irish rock band. Rachel Schott, the violinist for the band, brought this to our attention in February 2011: "We're releasing our first full length cd in March and re-launching the website and so it was in a search for some images related to the real Bloody Tinth that I came across your information. My mother is an amateur genealogist (and the drummer for the band is my brother). It will be a delight to all of us to share your website and the knowledge of Mr. Schickell. We have so much fun playing music, driving to pubs, enjoying the hospitality and good food of so many establishments and people…but we truly hope to honor the original Tinth with our music and hope that we can meet you someday."
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Writer did nothing to support claims on currency manipulation
In the Jan. 26 Opinion section, Robert Scott [from McClatchy Newspapers] writes about currency manipulation. As a reader, I am not an experienced economist, but I believe Mr. Scott owes me more specificity if he wants me to take his column seriously.
Long ago, an English professor in the New York State University system told his students (myself included) that it was the writer’s obligation to provide clarity in his work rather than to simply offer sentences that could be misunderstood by those who read the material. The professor cautioned us to do the necessary work that produces clarity rather than to pass on the obligation to the readers.
I offer a few points of criticism regarding Mr. Scott’s article.
If there are 20 Asian nations manipulating their currencies for national gain, name several. (Exclude China. We know about that country.) Three or four will give us a starting point for confirmation. If the U.S. unemployment rate is really 10.2 percent because of “missing” workers, what constitutes the use of that adjective? Tell us briefly who these missing workers are and why they affect the unemployment rate.
How does the purchase of U.S. sovereign debt reduce the value of the lender’s currency? (Does China reduce its currency value when it lends the United States money?) What multinational companies have used foreign currency manipulation for their benefit? Explain the process.
As Mr. Scott closes his column, he pointedly overlooks the particular advantage currency manipulation has been to the United States in support of its own trade and GDP (gross domestic product) growth, especially with regard to Japan in the early 1970s.
I suggest the inclusion of this poorly written column offers little to inform your readers. Instead it seems to be more of a political effort to superficially explain some of the nation’s economic and financial problems without regard for clarity.
Writer’s rap on Denise Brucker without merit
Denise Brucker’s service to the city was not a stellar one? Perhaps Mary McClaine should take a few lessons from the 14-year Schenectady City Council veteran [Jan. 27 letter, “Another council vacancy, another appointment”].
As Denise stated in her farewell speech, it wasn’t about her; it was about working together to get things done. Maybe she didn’t pass any big-profile legislation in her tenure on the council. However, what she did do was what any great public servant should do: She answered phone calls, listened to distressed citizens and addressed their concerns.
Whether it be someone whose basement was flooded from a backed-up sewer line, a longtime homeowner who was calling to complain about drug dealers in the house next door, rented to them by an absentee landlord, or a woman whose beloved pet was attacked by a vicious dog, Denise got results for them. Councilwoman Brucker got results because she could pick up the phone and call the people in the position to help.
Denise likes people and people like Denise. The friendship and goodwill she generated working with department heads and city officials enabled her to get results. Politics is ultimately about helping people, not about coming down to the biweekly meetings and spewing venom at good people who are sincerely there to help the citizens of our community.
The writer is Denise Brucker’s husband.
Natural gas must be seen as secondary source
Coal and nuclear electric plants are best suited as base (24/7) power. Natural gas plants are ideal for intermittent peak power requirements and standby for wind and solar farms.
Natural gas is irreplaceable in several manufacturing applications. Its increasing use in power plants, home heating, transportation (truck and train), chemical/plastic manufacturing and future overseas sales bodes of increasing natural gas prices.
Exporters can sell natural gas overseas for $12 [per million British thermal units], well above our typical $3 to $4. Take note that we pay world oil prices despite our lower production costs. Expanding gas exports may similarly force a world price on domestic natural gas.
All things considered, we still have great need for our unfairly demonized coal and nuclear power plants. Ending their use proportionally draws down irreplaceable natural gas reserves. Our coal plants are the cleanest in the world. China is putting new, and very dirty coal, plants online at the rate of about one per week. The whole world is polluted by their emissions.
If we want less pollution and more jobs, we should be building more clean-coal plants. Cheap energy invigorates U.S. manufacturing and will reduce China’s requirement for more dirty plants.
Pollution-free, nuclear power will become even more competitive. Fifty years of design experience have created extremely safe and less costly reactor designs. Modern “spent fuel recycling” technology will reduce atomic waste and assure centuries of reliable, stably priced electric power.
A fact-based energy plan will use natural gas wisely by appropriately balancing environmentally friendly energy sources.
Wallace J. Hughes
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The band name “Steely Dan” comes from the name of an object in a William S. Burroughs’ book called “Naked Lunch.” The band itself was started in 1972 by Walter Becker and Donald Fagen. Now, Becker and Fagen had played in other groups prior to Steely Dan, including one which had Chevy Chase on drums. Yes, THAT Chevy Chase.
The song coming up is from the album “The Royal Scam,” released in 1976. I’ve seen comments on a video or two of this album being severely underrated.
Upon listening to the lyrics, you wonder if this is one of those songs where things escalated out of hand just a little too quickly…
Steely Dan – Don’t Take Me Alive
The next song is from an album that was released the next year, called “Aja.” It was one of their best-selling albums, going platinum. The song name itself was inspired by Deacon Jones of the NFL. The song itself was about loser needing a name for themselves.
Steely Dan – Deacon Blues
And one of Mary's favorite Steely Dan tunes:
RIKKI DON'T LOSE THAT NUMBER (1974)
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What the heck is going on with doctors in some parts of the country who prescribe risky drugs for older adults? According to an analysis of more than 6 million seniors on Medicare Advantage, more than 20 percent are prescribed at least one high-risk medication. The problem is most common in the South, among women, and in relatively poor areas, report public health researchers with Brown University. Risky medications are ones that health authorities have specifically recommended against prescribing to …
Despite all our medical advancements, let’s face it: a lot of pills look alike. To make matters worse, sometimes pharmacists make mistakes and dispense the wrong prescription, which can have devastating consequences. Since taking the wrong dose of the wrong medication could be disastrous, it’s important to make sure you know, for sure, which pill you’re taking.
Once upon a time, we trusted that our doctors knew our all of our medications, and how they interacted. But now, trooping off to the cardiologist one day, and the gastroenterologist the next, with a side of psychiatrist? And what happens if, say, you forget to mention all the drugs you’re taking to each doc, and even if you do, do they know how all the drugs you’re taking interact?
A new CDC study reveals that nearly 3 in 10 Americans has shared prescriptions with someone else.
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Ben Schmidt, an assistant professor of history who specializes in the digital humanities, has created a Bookworm that allows users to search references to specific words used throughout The Simpsons’ 25-season run by season, episode, and even time within each episode. Excellent.
With support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Digital Scholarship Group at Northeastern is hosting an international service called TAPAS that will provide low-cost publishing and storage services for users to create, curate, and share high-quality data using open-source tools.
Northeastern University celebrated the work of the newly created Digital Public Library of America with a daylong series of workshops focused on the future of the online repository.
Northeastern will commemorate the six-month anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombing by hosting a special one-day exhibit encouraging people to add to Our Marathon, the university’s crowd-sourced digital archive.
Renowned digital humanities scholar Julia Flanders, a new professor of the practice at Northeastern, leads two dynamic endeavors: The Women Writers Project and Digital Humanities Quarterly.
The sprawling cast of characters in the Irish novel Finnegans Wake compares to the meme culture that permeates the Internet today, according to research by English major Tom Murphy.
Assistant professor David Smith is leveraging digital humanities techniques to analyze syntactic changes throughout history in an effort to understand how languages evolve.
Northeastern on Wednesday hosted “THATCamp,” a so-called “unconference” that offered attendees a unique way to navigate the novel field of digital humanities.
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Henry Robertson Blaney
(1855 - 1913)
Henry Robertson Blaney was active/lived in Massachusetts / Japan. Henry Blaney is known for Oriental, tropical painting, etching.
Biography Henry Robertson Blaney
Henry Robertson Blaney (1855-1913)
Henry Blaney was born in Dedham, Massachusetts on January 29, 1855. He was an artist, accomplished in etching and drafting. In 1896 the publishing house of Lee and Shepard printed his book, Old Boston, Reproductions of Etchings in Half-tones which included etchings, photographs, and text by Henry Blaney, as well as "rare wet-plate negatives taken from 1855 to 1869, owned by Mr. Blaney.
A self-taught artist, he exhibited at the Paris Exposition in 1900. In the Buffalo Exposition in 1901 he received an honorable mention for etchings.
The artist lived for 8 years in Algeria and the Holy Land. His specialty was oriental
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THE DEATH OF BASICS.
“Don’t forget to use your Manners!” That expression certainly dates me as a child of the fifties and--I’m proud of it! Every parent I knew used that expression when their child left the house…whether it was to go next door and play, attend a meeting, go to work….or go on a date. Back-When-- manners defined a person. A person’s manners---or lack of manners- spoke volumes about that person’s family.
For almost ten years-between 1960 and 1970, I taught charm classes with an emphasis on Manners. Through the years, I’ve heard from many of my former students, asking me to consider teaching charm classes again...for their children.
Some things should never be allowed to go “out of fashion or out of style.” Traditional Manners are certainly among those “some” things. And----- that brings me to the crucial subject of "manners in business".
Customer Service--which should be a top priority for every business-- large or small….has almost died. I’m not talking about a Customer Service Department that has a robotic answering machine with a recorded menu; a robotic voice that puts you on-hold for endless minutes while you listen to insulting ads or disgusting, loud “music”.
I’m talking about real people in all departments of every company....I mean every paid employee who greets you at the door--- from across a counter-- or answers your phone calls. I'm talking about every employee within a company, who should be responsible for meeting every customer's needs and making every customer---a satisfied customer. No company can succeed without a strong Customer Service base.
A successful company of any kind is only as good as its Customer Service. Customer Service is the responsibility of every employee…..from the bathroom to the board room.
Personally, I began to sense the lack of Customer Service--about nine years ago, when I moved-back to Arkansas. I noticed it where I taught, where I bought groceries, and it’s absence almost “slapped me in the face” each time I drove through McDonald’s Drive-Through for a quick-fix meal.
Steadily, I experienced more and more attitudes and less professional service. I began to document how many times I failed to hear: “Thank You”, “Come Again”; Thanks for stopping by; or “Hope to see you soon.” I knew Customer Service was in serious trouble when I stopped hearing my least-favorite-canned-farewell: “Have a nice day.”
Several months ago, I had lunch with a retired Public Relations executive and shared my thoughts about The Death of Customer Service. Within seconds, he was lecturing me; informing me: “ The "old” style of doing business no-longer works in today’s modern marketplace. Today’s Employees demand to be treated as equals. The Law will no longer “tolerate” the outdated attitude that: “The Customer Is Always Right.” For any company to hold- fast to this old way of thinking…. implies that the customer, on one side of the counter or phone--is superior--is better and smarter than the employee-- on the other side of the counter or phone. Such an attitude reeks of a slave/master scenario from the past... and will not be allowed."
After hearing the executive’s argument---I realized I should have kept my mouth shut. After all, his opinion was not based on experience but—rather-- on Racism and Liberalism. Yes, this so-called authority on all-things-business has always been a diehard democrat. Since his teenage years…this “executive” has been a washed-in-the-blood CLINTONITE.
Not long after that useless luncheon, I crossed paths with a young black girl who'd recently left McDonald’s to work for Sonic. Seems she liked working at Sonic better than her old job at McDonald’s because she didn’t have to follow a “script”. When I asked what she meant by a “script”—she was more-than-happy to tell me about a local black leader from Little Rock who was well- paid to train McDonald’s workers on "how to deal with the public”---most-particularly--- white people. The Black Leader’s printed lessons instructed McDonald’s employees to: NEVER SAY THANK YOU; NEVER SMILE; NEVER ENGAGE IN FRIENDLY CONVERSATION.
The new SONIC worker said The Black Leader reminded All MCDONALD’S Workers that—historically-- WHITE PEOPLE MADE SLAVES OUT OF ALL BLACKS THEREFORE…THERE WAS NO REASON TO BE NICE OR TO THANK WHITE PEOPLE—FOR ANYTHING.
When all the good is gone, will life still be worth-living? When love, manners, truth, ethics, integrity, respect for others, and all values are dead--- will any form of life still exist?
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High above the desert mountains, an HH-60G Pave Hawk glided through the evening air.
What was supposed to be a standard maneuvering exercise turned into an inflight emergency when the helicopter suffered a detrimental bird strike.
“The impact was enough for the pilots to decide to land the aircraft as soon as possible and see what was going on,” said Tech. Sgt. Jason Lesieur, 55th Helicopter Maintenance Unit flightline expeditor at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz. “From there, we got a call saying that the aircraft had landed out in the middle of nowhere on the side of a mountain.”
When the coordinates of the aircraft were received, mid shift maintainers loaded the supplies needed for the job into trucks and rushed off to the landing zone.
It took the crew two hours to get close to the site, but because of the nature of the landing, the rest of the journey had to be made on foot. The Airmen grabbed their gear and trekked for one mile through a mountainous terrain.
“The guys were sent out to initially see what was wrong with the motor,” Lesieur said. “They found out the blades on the interior of the motor were damaged and a new engine needed to be installed.”
After hours of examining the helicopter and scoping out the area for future teams, the mid shift crew was met by two HH-60Gs. The day shift team arrived and brought with them the engine that would replace the damaged unit in the helicopter.
“We ended up determining that we were not going to be able to get a ground vehicle into the area,” said Tech. Sgt. Jesse Rivas, 55th HMU lead tech for crew chiefs. “We decided to airship the replacement engine and maintenance crane, along with the six personnel chosen for the swap, to the site.”
Once the day team relieved the mid shift crew maintainers, the day team began to unload the replacement engine. Because the swap was being done with limited equipment, the engine had to be lifted out of the helicopter by hand.
“It took all six of us to download the engine onto a cart,” said Senior Airman Casey Lafond, 55th HMU helicopter crew chief. “Once we loaded it up, we had to transport it across a rocky landscape to the aircraft, which was about 15 ft. away.”
After setting up the crane used for the exchange, the determined crew immediately got to work and swapped out the engines.
After the day team’s shift was over, another HH-60G arrived with the swing shift crew. After passing off the information needed to complete the job, the day team flew back to the base. Shortly after, the engine was successfully installed and the helicopter was ready to return home to D-M.
The 55th HMU team members successfully completed an engine swap in a mountainous landscape in less than 48 hours, a feat that is not easily accomplished.
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Tangs and vulnerability to ich
Hi, a LFS told me that tangs are especially vulnerable to ich and other problems. Is that true? Would I endanger the other occupants of my tank if I added a tang?
As far as I know, tangs are more prone to ich than other diseases thus endangering other occupants, of course.:wink2:
But ich will be present only when tangs are exposed to fish with ich. They may not show symptoms for awhile but if they get stressed, you know what's next.:dunno:
Nothing manages to avoid stress in my tank :P How do I ensure that a tang I purchase does not have ich?
well ich looks like thishttp://www.fishforum.com/userpix/50_...wn_small_1.jpg
Don't buy tangs in lfs you aren't sure of. You'll only increase the possibility that ich will invade your other fish.
My experience so far has taught me to be unsure of every LFS... they are all in the business of selling fish and I think they would tell me a fish's entire head would grow back if I inquired about purchasing one that was laying at the bottom of the tank half eaten.
Anyhow, I know what ich looks like but subtle ich can be difficult to spot. The best way to guard against it is to simply make sure the other tank occupants seem healthy? I don't feel confident because I know that I have no idea to really know how long any of the occupants have been in the tank at the LFS. Also, can't ich be dormant in the tang?
Somebody told me something about a freshwater treatment - you put a saltwater fish in a bucked of freshwater for just a second or two and all of the ich jumps off because they can't live in it for that moment or something... has anyone heard of this? Or what about preventative treatment of the tang in a bucket with ich medicine before it goes into the tank...
Would either of these preventative measures be okay? We have had a bunch of losses and we are thinking of adding a tang - I don't know if I could continue on if after everything else our remaining fish got ich because of a new occupant...
one person was going to sell me a one eyed kissing gourami. :crazy: i should fo said ill take it for 50 cents
Tangs are beautiful, tangs are trouble. I've quit buying them. They are indeed very prone to ich and treating ich in a reef tank isn't worth the headache. When my tangs came down with it I'd try feeding better and just wait and see. Can't get em out cause of the rockwork. Can't medicate as most meds contain copper and will kill all of your inverts and micro orgainsms that make your reef tick. Can't raise temps (raising to above 86F helps speed up the life cycle and subsequently kill of the parasite). When they came down with it I just hoped for the best. If you have a fish only tank this is a simpler task.
They also seem to prefer eating fish food to algae. It's easy, has high proteins, and gives a satisfaction of being full picking at algae all day long cannot give. Many of them will die from eating a prepared meal each day. They will eat and eat yet waste away. They are mainly herbivores and their innards have adjusted to a select diet over a millenia.
I'd highly suggest, as in with any new fish purchase, a Q tank. Quarantine them in a bare 10g tank to watch their behavior for about 3 weeks. If you have any algae encrusted LR you can switch out pieces for feedings. Supplement with Nori or other dried seaweed.
I know many people that keep them with much succes and they are beautiful, just be prepared.
And this is marine but I know you're citing it as an example for lfs' stupidity.:wink2:
There goes Mike's post.:thumbsup:
It's a PITA when one lfs tried to sell me 20 neon tetras showing signs of NTD.:frustrated:
Can anyone reccommend a fish that is similarly as beautiful but does not have the attendant risks of ich?
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OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) -- A Senate panel is weighing a measure that would prohibit a future Washington state governor from issuing a death penalty reprieve until after receiving a recommendation from a state Clemency and Pardons Board.
The Senate Law and Justice Committee heard public testimony on Senate Bill 6566 Wednesday. The measure was introduced after Gov. Jay Inslee said earlier this month he is suspending the use of the death penalty in Washington state for as long as he's in office.
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Bart Holterman, 22 December 2017
with Kevin Martin and Bart Holterman
A Project on the Low German merchants’ trade from Bremen and Hamburg with the North Atlantic islands is not complete without the vessels that made trade across the ocean possible. The written sources tell us that many German ships were lost along the coast of Iceland, but until today, not a single mentioned shipwreck was found. This is not surprising, given the circumstance that underwater archaeology in Iceland is not even twenty years old.
Some facts about finding shipwrecks
The saying “Searching for a needle in a haystack” is fitting pretty well to the search for shipwrecks mentioned in historical documents, considering the abilities to determine a ship’s position in the past and the fact that 71 % of Earth’s surface is covered by water. Even today, many ships vanish without a trace. On top of that, the number of archaeologists looking for certain shipwrecks is extremely low. Therefore, most shipwrecks are found by accident and they remain more or less anonymous.
However, technology has improved and the potential for finding shipwrecks is much higher today than in the past. A number of devices can be used and combined for surveying the sea floor. A common combination is a side-scan sonar and a number of magnetometers, but this is still no guarantee for finding wrecks. When a ship is too decayed, or has settled into the sediment, the sound-rays of the side-scan sonar will not be able to produce a recognisable image. Moreover, magnetometers will not detect anomalies from the earth’s magnetic field when there is not enough metal on board the ship. Especially for medieval ships and early modern merchant vessels without guns, this can easily be the case. A sediment sonar could be a solution, which measures changes of density in the sediment with sound signals. The disadvantage is that waterlogged wood has the same density as waterlogged sediment. If a shipwreck has no denser cargo or ballast on board, the sonar will not detect density changes. Therefore such ships will remain hidden, even if an area is surveyed. Divers might be suggested as a final solution but a diver’s operating range is very limited, as he/she depends on depth, weather conditions, visibility and air supply.
The fact is that archaeologists rely in most cases on coincidences, which is how most of the known shipwrecks were found. The reason for this is that many other professions like builders, fishermen, geologists etc. spend much more time working on the sea floor than archaeologists, and sometimes stumble upon a wreck. One famous example for this is for example the “Bremen Cog” in the German Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven. A suction-excavator operator found it in the river Weser close to Bremen, when he was working on an extension of the riverbed. It became one of the most important finds in ship archaeology. Over the past decades, since underwater became an area of archaeological interest, hundreds of shipwrecks have been registered by the heritage departments of the German federal states but only a few of them could be identified by historical documents.
When we approach the shipwrecks from the historical documents, we have to realize that mentioned positions for lost ships are most of the time very vague. This situation can extend the search area dramatically without even knowing if the wrecks still exist as a coherent site. The conditions of the natural environment are vital to the survival of remains. Rugged coastlines, strong currents, micro-organisms, the chemical consistence of the water and the like can severely contribute to the decay of organic matter, metals and even certain types of stone. In the Mediterranean Sea, for example, ship hulls will not survive for a long time above the sea floor due to temperature, salinity and micro-organisms. Iron will soon vanish by the reaction with salt and oxygen and even marble and copper-alloys will decay. The opposite situation can be found in the Northern Baltic or the Sea Black Sea, for example. The Northern Baltic is deep, has a very low salt content and is cold. This prevents wood-decaying organisms to multiply and destruction from anchors or looting divers. The Black Sea water, on the other hand, has hardly any oxygen in a certain depth, which almost freezes time on the sea floor.
In addition, the circumstances of the sinking in connection to the natural environment play an important role. A German ship in Spanish service in 1588, the Gran Grifon, hardly left any structural remains. Another extreme example is the destruction of a united navy fleet of Lübeck and Danish ships during the Nordic Seven Years War on the west coast of Gotland in 1566. Out of thirty-seven ships, fifteen were lost and 6000 to 8000 sailors lost their lives in the so-called Visby-Disaster. Intensive archaeological diving surveys for several years could not reveal any wreck site. The ships literally vanished, most likely because they disintegrated in the storm on the rough sea floor and their remains were thrown up on the beach.
These examples shows us that a sunken ship mentioned in the historical documents does not always leave a proper wreck site. Sometimes scattered debris spread over square kilometres of sea floor can be all that is left of a ship.
The missing wrecks of Iceland
In theory, Iceland has a high potential for finding shipwrecks. Since the late 9th century, humans settle here and they had no other way than to cross the rough North Atlantic Ocean and make landfall on a rugged coast. Many ships, Norwegian, Danish, English, Low German and Dutch, evidently got lost on their route between continental Europe and Iceland. A considerable number of these found their end on the coast of Iceland, as we can read in the historical documents. Ragnar Edvardson has calculated a number of about 450 shipwrecks in Iceland, from the period from 1100 to 1900, most of which foundered on the West coast. Until today, no wreck from the period of the Low German trade has been found. The oldest ship found in Iceland is currently a Dutch merchantman, which sank in the harbour at Flatey in Breiðafjörður in 1659, and is currently under investigation by Kevin Martin. The scarcity of known shipwrecks in Iceland is not necessarily because they vanished completely, but because maritime archaeology is a very young discipline in this country and started only with sporadic projects from 1993 onwards. The relatively few inhabitants of Iceland also reduce the possibility of coincidental discoveries of wrecks due to the lack of building activities.
Vive la Coïncidence!
However, coincidences happen – even in Iceland. In 1998, an excavator hit timbers while digging a cable trench near Búðir on the Snæfellsnes peninsula in Western Iceland. They turned out to be fragments of a ship that was buried under the sand of an estuary. Some timbers and ballast stones were recovered by archaeologist Björn Stefánsson, and brought to the National Museum of Iceland in Reykjavik, were they were documented and put in storage. None of the recovered timbers was suitable for dendrochronological dating, but the ballast included stones that can possibly originate in Norway, Britain or Greenland. However, this does not give any indication were the ship was coming from, because ballast was taken from board and loaded in all harbours depending on the cargo and to adjust the angle of the ship in the water, to trim the ship. The recovered timbers give the impression of an old carvel-built ship. The material seems not to be of the finest quality, but this is hard to judge from only a handful of timbers. A promising fact is that Búðir was an important trading centre in Iceland for at least 200 years. It was already visited by Bremen merchants in the late 16th century, who called it “Bodenstede”. For a long time it was the main trading site for the Snæfellsness Peninsula, called first by cargo ships of the Low German merchants and later by Danish and Dutch ships. It was abandoned as a trading post in 1787.
For this reason, we have written sources on the activities on this site including the loss of several ships during these 200 years. The problem for the identification of the accidental found ship is the fact that there was not only one ship lost near the site. We know at least about eleven ships that are reported to have been lost at Búðir and its harbour Búðavik. Of those eleven ships, one was from Bremen. It belonged to the merchant Vasmer Bake and sank in or close to the harbour of Bodenstede in 1587. This was reported by Carsten Bake, his son, who himself was involved in the Iceland trade. In 1607, a Danish ship wrecked at Búðir. For 1666, another ship sank west of Búðir. More ships sank in this area in 1724, 1728 (Danish) and 1754, and lastly, Bjarni Sívertsen’s cutter, which got lost here in 1812.
Certainly, it is possible that the ship found in 1998 is Vasmer Bake’s lost vessel from 1587, but the timbers cannot give us any more detailed information. All we can say today about the few recovered timbers is that there are five floor timbers and two fragments with an unknown function. The floor timbers indicate that the cable trench hit the wreck most likely in the bow section, leaving most of the buried remains uncovered. Each plank was attached to each frame with at least two tree nails, and each frame was connected to the keel with one or two tree nails. The dimensions of the floor timbers vary a lot, from flat and wide to high and narrow. This might be an indication that whoever built the ship faced either a shortage of crooked compass timbers, or the building did not rely on an even framing in a shell based building method, or both. However, it can also not be excluded that we face the remains of Bjarni Sívertsen’s cutter from 1812. Only future investigations might give us an answer.
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Chengdu might be China’s most underrated city, though its worldwide reputation is slowly catching up to this wonderfully easygoing and exciting city. Chengdu has been a creative hub since its earliest days, with artworks from 33 centuries ago unearthed recently in Jinsha. As the capital one the three kingdoms, Shu, Chengdu has always been Southwest China’s major power. Chengdu is surrounded by high mountains at the base of the Tibetan plateau, connected regionally since 4th century BCE by the shudao, a system of roads cut into the sides of cliffs. Getting to Chengdu wasn’t easy: poet Li Bai famously wrote that it was harder than climbing into the sky. Nowadays, Chengdu is much less isolated, linked to the rest of the world via rail and planes, but continues to produce wordsmiths like Li Bai. Many of China’s lauded writers, scholars, poets, and increasingly, rappers and hip hop artists claim Chengdu as their home.
Chengdu has always been a self-sufficient place that did things its own way. Over 14 million inhabitants make Chengdu China’s 5th most populous city, many who speak the Chengdu version of Sichuanese. The “land of plenty” is also known as the home of pandas, Chengdu face-switching opera, most excellent spicy street food, a thriving culture of tea houses and mahjong, and in the past decade, as an explosive creative center. Several of China’s world-class museums and galleries like the A4 Art Museum and 1000 Plateaus have run for decades in the city, and Art Chengdu’s second edition of their contemporary art fair this year contributes to expanding Chengdu’s visual arts scene. Artist-run spaces like Almost 4, a tiny project space and coffee stand that takes its name from it’s minute square-meterage, work with neighborhood businesses on their residential street to bring contemporary art into unconventional settings. In 2003, four artists rented studios by the Chengdu airport that they named after the constructions’ blue metal roofs. Over the years, the original Blue Roof Art District relocated and expanded on the eastern side of the city, where the Blue Roof Museum now stands and a constellation of artist villages have popped up in the neighboring towns.
Many of Chengdu’s creative spaces bridge communities by combine art, design, bookstores, and music venues, like Nu Space, that has exhibitions upstairs and live music in their downstairs venue. The vibrant music scene runs the gamut of official venues and jam bars where artists hang out and improvise, hanging out over street-side hot pot and chuanchuan until late. Steam Hostel recently launched a video series recording live shows in unconventional settings. Underground clubs and recording studios hide in unassuming apartment buildings, and even the megaclubs in plazas surrounded by skyscrapers give space for artists to create experimental installations, like the Ghost happenings.
Chengdu is expanding quickly, especially southward, where the New Global Center currently claims the record of the world’s largest continuous building, and where software parks and startups set up new headquarters. In 2010, the city’s first subway line opened, growing into a six line network in nearly just as many years. Creative spaces that combine art, design, and technology are also popping up, like the maker space A-Mass that focuses open source technology and fires kilns using everyday materials like ash to make new ceramic glazes.
Chengdu’s known for its chill, relaxed and fun-loving vibe. Chengdu is also one of China’s most queer-friendly cities, embracing a “live and let live” attitude where everyone can thrive. With deep spiritual ties to Tibetan buddhism through surrounding sacred sites like E’mei mountain and the world’s largest stone buddha, and proximity to bountiful bamboo forests, Chengdu is also one of China’s most liveable cities, with beautiful riverbanks and parks cutting through the city.
This city guide video was filmed by Jessica Kingdon & Kira Simon-Kennedy, edited by Li-Lian Alhskog-Hou. This guide is written and produced by Kira Simon-Kennedy, with edits and additional translation by Amanda Zhang.
- Wu Zhuoling 吴卓玲
- Bohan Phoenix
- Cai Liyuan 蔡丽媛 of the A4 Art Museum & residency
- Artworks by 陈秋林 Chen Qiuling from her exhibition Peppermint
- Artworks by 100KM 100 公里 collective
- Jiang Shan 江山
- A-Mass Studio 一门社
- Nu Space
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Making a difference requires more than viral YouTube videos and Broadway stage credits. It requires action, education, and above all, passion. Innovator and activist Todrick Hall has all these qualities in spades, and he’s using them to spark dialogues within the black community about HIV treatment and prevention. He’s teaming up with Janssen Therapeutics for their Positively Fearless campaign, which celebrates the bravery that inspires people living with HIV to seek treatment and fight stigma.
Since rising to prominence on the ninth season of American Idol, Hall has become a fan favorite with his ultra-viral YouTube videos — including my favorite, Beauty And The Beat (It’s hysterical!) — as well as being a guest judge on RuPaul’s Drag Race and starring in Broadway’s Kinky Boots. In fact, he’s gotten so popular among young people that his fans call themselves themselves “Toddlerz.” His new, acclaimed documentary Behind The Curtain: Todrick Hall (released by Wolfe Video) is now available to stream on digital platforms.
Hall knows the influence he’s starting to build, especially among young gay and bi men of color, which is why hearing the latest statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention inspired him to not only insert dialogue about HIV prevention into his work, but to do so in his every day life as well.
According to the CDC, if current HIV rates continue, one in two African-American men who have sex with men (and one in four Latino MSM) will be diagnosed with HIV in their lifetime. Additionally, only 54 percent of African-Americans living with HIV are on treatment, and fewer (49 percent) are virally suppressed.
“When I hear those statistics, they’re just mind-boggling to me,” Hall says. “And that’s a 2017 statistic? That sounds like something that should have been over and done with years ago. And I just don’t want to rest and get off of this topic until those numbers have dramatically decreased.”
That may be easier said than done but Hall is not afraid to say that he, too, has been victim to shame and fear when it comes to testing. Yet with education, discussion, and trust, there is no reason for either to exist. Hall learned that the old fashioned way.
“There’s a thing that [still] makes me nervous to go to the doctor,” he shares. “But after I go there, I feel great about it, and I feel awesome just knowing what my status is and knowing that I can go out and be honest with the people who I’m meeting and forming relationships with.”
It’s no surprise that Hall is eager to share the resources PositivelyFearless.com offers visitors: a slew of information, catered specifically to gay and bisexual African-American and Latino men, including fact sheets, tips, and resources about HIV medication resistance and other frequently asked questions pertaining to HIV. For Hall, it’s a resource he wished he had growing up.
Above: Todrick Hall wowed the crowds performing at Atlanta Black Pride
“I have dated a few people that were poz and I was so afraid,” he reflects. “It was like a huge issue in my relationships and I had to go out and try to seek out all these pamphlets and stuff. But I felt like I was getting little scraps of information that I could kind of piece together and paper-mache some type of solution to my problem. But when I went to PositivelyFearless.com it [had] all of the information that I needed to know… I felt like all of the statistics spoke to me, and helped me have information that I wasn’t able to easily find whenever I was looking for myself.”
For many couples in serodiscordent relationships (when one person is poz and the other isn’t), there is often a fear of judgment when openly addressing the subject. Hall was no exception. In large part, the apprehension is due to recognition of the enduring cultural mindset that HIV is a death sentence. When in fact, HIV is a manageable condition that’s impossible to transmit to a sexual partner while one is on treatment with an undetectable viral load.
Furthermore, those who practice PrEP (medication that when used regularly prevents HIV from entering the body) — or are interested in doing so — are also experiencing judgement and shaming. These are the kind of stigmas that Hall is hoping to erase.
Above: Todrick Hall (left) and Deondre Moore, another advocate with the Positively Fearless campaign, tool around Atlanta Black Pride
“I was a little bit nervous in the beginning to openly say that I had dated people who were positive, for my own sake and my own reputation, but also for other people who I’ve dated,” Hall says. “When I realized that so many people were like, ‘Thank you for saying that, because I’m positive and I felt like no one would want to date me,’ I felt like it [became] this huge thing that the more we talk about it and the more people are open to dating other people, I think it helps crush the stigma. It makes people feel like it’s okay to go out and know your status. And whatever it’s going to be, you’re going to be better off for knowing it. You’re going to be healthier. And you’re just going to be a much happier person in the end.”
Hall continues, “Love is difficult no matter what situations you’re faced with. I think that everybody has their own problems about falling in love. I definitely understand where they’re coming from with that fear. I think it is a valid feeling to cross your mind. But I think that the more people are educated… the more they play their part in helping people that they fall in love with understand. It would have been very nice for me, when I was dating someone [poz], for them to give me information that they had found themselves, and to open my eyes to it…. It might not always work out, but I think the person that’s worthwhile—and worth you being with — will stick with you through thick and thin.”
Access to care, especially in black communities, have been a large barrier in eradicating HIV rates. Despite the U.S. seeing a 14 percent drop in HIV diagnoses among African-Americans between 2010 and 2014 (fueled by a steep decline among African-American women), according to HIV.gov, African-Americans are still the ethnic group most affected by HIV. That’s one reason it’s more important than ever to increase access to care in rural communities — especially in the South, where HIV rates are the highest in the country.
But access to treatment isn’t everything. It doesn’t fight stigma. It can’t make someone get tested, adhere to treatment, or use preventative tools like PrEP.
“I think a great lifelong strategy is to be honest and be open and having people who have the ability to reach millions of people use their voice to educate people,” Hall says. “That’s always going to be a smart strategy, which is why I’m really happy that I teamed up with Positively Fearless, because I have so many people in this community that follow me. They come to my show. And I want to just encourage them to take care of their health. And to jump onboard. To go get tested. To go get medication. Stay on that medication!”
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T. S. Arun¹, A. Irshad² and P. Gokulakrishnan2 1Division of Avian Genetics & Breeding, Central Avian Research Institute, Izatnagar, Bareilly, 243122 2Division of Livestock Products Technology, Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar, Bareilly, 243122
The poultry farming in India occupies an important position due to its enormous potential to bring about rapid economic growth, particularly benefiting the weaker sections due to its low investment requirement and short gestation period. Poultry which is considered as a backyard proposition in the early 1960`s has now been transformed into a strong agro based commercial activity having tremendous employability and income generating potential contributing nearly 0.7 % of national GDP and about 10% of livestock GDP. Indian poultry sector has been growing at around 8-10 % annually over the last decade with broiler meat volumes growing at more than 10 % while table egg at 5-6 % driven by increase in domestic consumption. Farmers in India have moved from rearing country birds in the past to rearing hybrids which ensure faster growth of chicks, higher eggs per bird, increased hatchability, low mortality rates, excellent feed conversion and consequently sustainable profits to the poultry farmers.
The changing food habit of the population in different parts of the country is another aspect that has to be considered while formulating strategies for augmenting poultry production. Diversification of poultry production in terms of giving focus on new species such as Turkey, Japanese Quail, Guinea Fowl, Emu and Ostrich can be a very good alternative.
Emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) is native to Australia and is the second largest bird in the world by weight after ostrich. These birds are having a high economic value for meat, egg, oil, skin and feathers. It originated about 80 million years ago and was imported to United States around 1930. The leading countries of emu rearing are the United States and China. Emu is an important source of meat and its fat is peculiar in having medicinal value and also having lubricant properties. Emu farming is also popular in other parts of the world for its unique qualities. Emu farming, which began in India with a single farm in 1996, has presently expanded to around 2900 emu farms in more than 15 states accounting for 1.4 million birds (Naveena et al., 2013), mainly in states of Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu And Punjab. The main objective of these farms is to produce meat and products for local markets.
Emus live in most habitats across Australia, although they are most common in areas of Sclerophyll forest and Savannah woodland, and least common in populated and very arid areas, except during wet periods. There are three subspecies recognized inhabiting sandy plain and open forest of northern, south-eastern and western south of Australia and adjacent islands. Emus have been shown to travel long distances to reach abundant feeding areas. Emus sleep during the night, and begin to settle down at sunset, although it does not sleep continuously throughout the night. Overall, an emu sleeps for around seven hours every day. Throughout the world the bird is mainly used for exhibition purpose.
|Adult weight||40-60 kg|
|Height of bird||5-7 feet|
|Reproductive capacity||25-35 years|
|Age at sexual maturity||18-24 months|
|Age of breeding||Male||28-32 months|
|Sound produced during breeding season||Male||grunting|
|Egg production||more than 16 years|
|Chick weight||330-360 g|
|Height of chick||6-8 inches|
|Life span||30 to 50 years|
|Feather||Chick||black and white|
|Adult||black and brown|
It is a flightless bird, reaches height about 6 feet with a weight of 45-60 kg. There are no definite emu breeds but are captive bred (O’Malley, 2003). An adult emu weighs between 40 and 60 kg, with the female usually slightly heavier than the male. At birth emus are around 6-8 inches in height having black and white stripes. They are docile birds having a slender body than an ostrich. They can run at a speed of 40 km/hr. Chicks are able to walk within hours of hatch. As chicks, emu make a whistling, chirping or cheeping sound. Both the sexes have similar dark grey head and neck. Emus have long legs, with three large toes, each with a claw and body is covered with feathers. Emu feathers are long and brown, and grow in pairs with two shafts joined at the base. They are the only birds that have double feathers. Mature birds have bare blue neck with mottled body feathers. Emu completes its physical growth within 12 months, matures within 15 months, and starts laying at 2-3 years of age. The hen lays around 20-50 eggs per year. Emu eggs are beautiful dark green in colour. They are big eggs weighing between 400-750 g. Inside the shell is white.
Proper hygiene and sanitation should be maintained during hatching. After hatching, chicks should be kept in incubator for 48-72 hrs for better yolk absorption to prevent various infections. Chicks hatched in incubators have to be brooded artificially until about 6 weeks of age. This period may have to be extended, depending on the outside environment and condition. If the weather is warm, chicks should have access to outside runs during the day from 1-2 weeks of age. Before receiving, the chick shed should be thoroughly cleaned and disinfected as well as litter material such as paddy husk, pine shavings, sand and sawdust should be spread on the floor. Appropriate brooding temperature should be maintained for effective management and better health. Provide brooding temperature of 900F/320C for first 10 days and 850F/290C till 3-4 weeks. If temperature is low, chicks usually crowd together in one place and at higher temperature they are well dispersed. Sufficient floor space with run space should be provided.
During brooding 23 hrs of light should be provided and 40W bulb is sufficient for every 100 sq ft. Adequate number of drinkers and feeders should be provided. Chick guard should be at 2.5 feet high for initial 3 weeks of age to prevent predators and the width should be increased as per requirement. Chick guard should be removed by 6 weeks of age. Proper drainage should be maintained to avoid dampness. Brooding is done with the help of infrared lamps, gas heaters or electrical bar heaters.
During growing period male and female should be reared separately. Maintain the litter in dry condition to prevent fungal growth. Regular turning of the litter is necessary. Addition of dry paddy husk is economical. Effective drainage is a must to keep the floor dry.
Floor space at different age
Floor space at different age
|0.5 sq ft||4 sq ft||100 sq ft||250 sq ft|
Female emus begin to breed at about 18-20 months and continue to lay eggs for more than 16 years. Emus lay a beautiful, dark, emerald green egg that is in itself a masterpiece.
Breeding season in emu starts from December/January every year. Flock or pen mating system is usually practiced in emus. During pen mating male to female sex ratio should be maintained 1:1 and pairing should be done based on the compatibility thus we can improve the egg fertility. The pair is kept in individual breeding pens and provides privacy by trees and shrubs to induce mating. Mature hens and cocks should be separated after the breeding season. This will allow the birds to be more rested and they will begin egg production more readily when placed together for the breeding season in September. When start pairing hen and cock, always present the cock to the hen in her pen. Sometimes pairs are incompatible and do not mate. If this occurs, present the cock to a different hen. During flock mating sufficient space should be provided to avoid fighting. Equal male to female ratio should be maintained. Semen collection and artificial insemination is also found to be successful in emu.
Emu females will compete over males as the breeding season progresses and less non-sitting males are available. Males usually remain in fasting condition and produce grunting sound. Females loosely hang down air sac and produce booming sound. The male emu generally sits on the nest. The female emu attracts the male emu by raising her tail feathers, squatting on the ground and leans forward. Duration of mating process is 15 seconds. However, violent outbursts only seem to occur when the male feels his brood is threatened. In general the emu is a docile and curious bird, but it tends to also be largely solitary. The Emu will usually only be been seen in groups during the breeding season and when food is scarce.
Incubation and hatching
Two types of incubation are there
- Natural incubation
Incubation period for emu is 56 days. A nest site should be provided to young female emu after attaining sexual maturity. In natural incubation male sit on the egg for brooding purpose. The female typically wanders off to start another clutch of eggs. It will sit on 7-12 eggs and begin to incubate the eggs and will forcefully defend the nest from predators or even female that attempt to lay more eggs in his nest. The male will not leave the nest during the period and will lose up to one-third of his weight. They stand several times in a day to roll the egg. When the eggs hatch, the male will care for and protect the chicks for another 18 months. Chicks will reach maturity and can begin breeding when they reach two years of age. It is better to shift the hatched chicks to brooder house. The main disadvantage of natural brooding is more space requirement.
|Age at first laying||2 ½ year|
|Time of egg laying||Morning (around 5.30 am-7.00 am)|
|Egg production||Average 25 eggs per year|
|Average weight of egg||625 g (570-680 g)|
|Slaughter age||12-18 months|
|Colour of egg||Varies from light to dark green|
2. Artificial incubation
For artificial incubation, eggs are collected once or twice daily and placed in an incubator. Eggs should be collected daily if possible to reduce pre-incubation problems and disinfected using a recognised egg-sanitation process. Egg should not be stored for more than 3 to 4 days at room temperature and can be stored in a cool room at a temperature of 10-16oC for up to 10 days. The eggs should be kept for approximately 12-18 hrs at room temperature before placing it in the incubator. Batches are then set in the incubator at regular intervals (setting batches at 10 day intervals is a common practice). The incubator will need to be run at a dry bulb temperature of 96-970F and wet bulb temperature of 70-800F at a relative humidity of 30-40% throughout the first 50 days of incubation.
|Temperature||97.5 0F||96.5 0F|
|Turning||Once in 3 hrs||No Turning|
The eggs will require turning a minimum of 3 times per day. This can be done manually or by using automatic turning devices in the incubator. Turning should be done till the 48th day of incubation. Eggs should always be turned an odd number of times per day when turned manually. This makes sure that the embryo does not go into the same position each night with the risk of it becoming stuck to the side of the shell and subsequently dying. At day 50, the eggs are transferred, the hatcher having slightly lower temperature and high humidity as compared to the incubator. The higher humidity helps to moisten the internal membranes and soften the shell to assist in the hatching process. Eggs are not turned during this period in the hatcher. By 52nd day chicks start pipping. The chicks should be dried and kept at least 24-72 hrs in the hatcher.
Emus are primarily herbivores. They eat grass, seeds, flowers, young plants and fruit. They also eat some insects (including caterpillars and grass hopper). They swallow small stones (called gastroliths or gizzard stones) which stay in the gizzard and help grind up food. In wild state, emus thrive on large insects, small vertebrates and nutrient concentrated parts of plants. Emus are short-day breeders and will decrease their feed consumption from 1.5 kg per day per bird to 0.45 kg per day per bird during the breeding period (Angel, 1993).
The digestive system of emu is similar to that of poultry excluding distinct crop. Proventriculcus acts as storage organ for food. Plant matters take 5-6 hrs on average, whereas grains take less than a day to two days depending on the nature of the food item. In small flocks, emu forage for fruits and insects. Under intensive system of rearing, the diet of the emu is based on concentrate feed containing a right proportion of protein, carbohydrates, fats and minerals for normal growth and development. In case of emu chicks, two types of feeding practices are common i.e. free feeding and hand feeding. In free feeding there may be chances of overfeeding or underfeeding, both have adverse effects. As compared to hand feeding, less labour is required for free feeding. But feed and water requirements should be adequate in hand feeding. Emu are excellent converters, 2.5/4 kg of feed to 1 kg of gain. Adult Emu consume on average 500 to 750 g of feed per day. Emu can exist on a simple diet and require a lot of water, drinking 4 to 6 liters daily. The average feed requirement ranged from 20 to 25 Kg per bird up to six months of age.
Nutrient requirements suggested for emu at different age groups (McDonald, 1991; Scheideler, 1997; Mannion, 1999; Angel, 2003; Aganga et al., 2003; Rao, 2004, Reddy, 2004; Kokan and Crewford, 2005)
|Methionine + cystine (%)||0.75||0.7||0.6||0.76||0.47|
|Total phosphorus (%)||0.80||0.7||0.6||0.6||0.6|
|Available phosphorus (%)||0.55||0.5||0.4||0.4||0.4|
|Sodium chloride (%)||0.40||0.3||0.3||0.4||0.3|
|CF % (max)||9||10||10||10||10|
|Vit. A (IU/kg)||15000||8800||8800||15000||8800|
|Vit B12 (µg/kg)||45||22||22||45||22|
|Disease||Causes||Symptoms||Prevention & Treatment|
|Aspergillosis||Fungus (Aspergilla sp.)||Respiratory system affected: depression, respiratory distress
(not in emu after 12 weeks of age )
|1. Removal or control of favourable areas of fungal growth.
2. Dust control in brooder sheds.
3. Proper hygiene
|Salmonellosis (paratyphoid)||Salmonella spp.||Chick mortality (starts from 2-3days post hatch to weeks), depression, lethargy, dropping of head, profuse watery diarrhoea.
|1. Antibiotics (nitrofuran)
2. Daily collection of eggs, fumigation with formaldehyde.
3. Biosecurity measures.
4. Formaldehyde fumigation of hatcher between batches.
|Slipped tendon/ perosis or chondrodystrophy||Deficiency of Choline, Manganese, Zinc, Copper, Niacin, Biotin, Vit E, VitB12, Calcium and Phosphorus.||Swelling of hock joint, shortened leg bones, slipped gastrocnemius tendon.||Supply deficient nutrients.|
|Rickets||Low calcium or phosphorus content, vitamin deficiency||Weak legs due to soft and bended bones, difficulty in standing and walking||Supply deficient nutrients.|
|Osteomyelitis||Bacterial infection like S.aureus and E.coli||Antibiotics|
|Osteochondrosis||Over nutrition and excess feeding of salt, low calcium, acid-bases imbalance and toxic compounds like aflatoxin.||Abnormal cartilage mass in the proximal head of the tibiotarsus due to abrupted metaphyseal blood supply.||Treatment involves dietary adjustment of the calcium:phosphorus ratio and achieving a dietary electrolyte balance of ∼250 mEq/kg. Dietary changes rarely result in complete recovery.|
|Encephalomalacia||Vitamin-E deficiency||Nerves get affected. Backward staggering, incoordination, weakness and sitting on hock are the general symptoms||Dietary supplement of Vitamin-E|
|Chick mortality||Improper nutrition, stress, genetic disorders and bacterial infection||Starvation, weak chicks, death||Proper care, avoid stress. Proper nutrition|
In emu enteritis and viral eastern equine encephalomyelitis (EEE) were reported (Jefferey, 2001). In India so far few outbreaks of Ranikhet disease were recorded based on gross lesions but were not confirmed. However, the birds vaccinated for Ranikhet disease at the age of 1 (lasota), 4 (lasota booster) weeks; 8, 15 and 40 weeks by Mukteswar strain gave better immunity (Reddy, 2004).
Emu is a totally marketable bird, having high economic value for their products like meat, egg, oil, skin, and feathers. These birds are adoptable to varied climatic conditions. From a consumer perspective, the emu represents a natural resource useful to an unprecedented standard. Emu farming offers great scope and potential economic resource, because of its supplementary income, additional employment and simplicity in management. By adopting proper care and management, emu farming can turn to be a very good source of income. A key to success emu farming can be achieved by institutional support, availability of superior quality emu chicks and marketing of live birds and by products.
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Angel, C.R. (1993). Research update: age related changes in digestibility of nutrients in ostriches and nutrient profiles of ostrich and emu eggs as indicators of nutritional status of the hen and chick. AAV Publication Office, Lake Worth, FL, pp. 275-281.
Mannion, P.F., Kent, P.B., Barram, K.M., Trappett, P.C., Blight G.W., and Sales J. (1999). Lysine requirements of growing emus. Br. Poult. Sci. 40: 309-311.
Naveena, B.M., Sen, A.R., Muthukumar, M., Girish, P.S., Praveen Kumar Y. and Kiran, M. (2013). Carcass characteristics, composition, physico-chemical, microbial and sensory quality of emu meat. British Poultry Science. 54:3, 329-336.
Rao, N.S. (2004). A study on the performance of emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) in Andhra Pradesh. MVSc thesis submitted to the Acharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University, Hyderabad. pp 1-62. | <urn:uuid:d12f3369-84df-4886-bf2a-7920dd349c7d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thepoultrypunch.com/2019/04/emu-farming-and-management/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.902391 | 4,772 | 2.59375 | 3 |
SPARKLE Proudly Announced Diamonds Sputtering Technology For Video Cards
Taipei, Taiwan - February 16, 2009 - SPARKLE Computer Co., Ltd., the professional VGA card manufacturer and supplier, today proudly announced Diamonds Sputtering technology for video cards, which raise the bar for video card cooling technology.
Now with more and more advanced relative technologies, the performance of video cards is getting stronger and stronger, there will be more heat generated by video cards, which significantly impairs the life expectancy of GPU and video memory chips on video cards. Video card companies have a lot of programs come and go to solve the problem of heat dissipation. The most commonly seen in general is the use of fans with cooling fins to do additional cooling. in the early days, the cooling job can be done simply with a fan or cooling fins, but in today's graphics cards with more intense heat than before, the cooling job must be done on the technologies not the same as before, not just rely on the fan and cooling fins. Video card companies must go to find some relatively new method to solve the problem of heat dissipation.
With a strong R&D team, SPARKLE introduced Diamonds Sputtering technology, which plate a Diamond-like Carbon (DLC) membrane on the surface of video cards cooling fins to realize the cooling effects of DLC. Diamond-like Carbon (DLC) membrane can help to quickly transfer the heat from GPU and video memory chips to the cooling fins. SPARKLE R&D team found in the study that Diamond-like Carbon (DLC) which gradually been found in the past few years has many high-natures, such as high optical penetrating, high-chemical corrosion-resistant, excellent friction properties and good compatibility. In addition, Diamond-like Carbon (DLC) also has a high heat conduction. General heatsink is relies on the electronics movement within the metal (such as copper) to do heat conduction. The diamonds do heat dissipation four times faster than copper, it relies on the phonons which is produced by the crystal lattice vibration, to bring heat to lower temperature places. Diamond-like Carbon (DLC) can achieve both functions at the same time, that is, transferring heat to lower temperature places with both graphite metal bond and diamond insulation bond (the covalent bond) . Apart from this, Diamond-like Carbon (DLC) can transfer carbon surface heat (atomic vibrations) into the infrared radiation of electromagnetic waves in bold (Black Body Radiation) , directly to the air molecules.
SPARKLE R&D team is now using the leading technology of Plasma Enhanced CVD, (PECVD) for SPARKLE graphics cards, to plate Diamond-like Carbon (DLC) membrane on the surface of video cards cooling radiator, providing unbeatable cooling effect, significantly raising the heat transfer speed from the GPU and video memory chips to the cooling radiator. With tests, SPARKLE R&D team found that compared with no Diamond-like Carbon (DLC) membrane, Diamond-like Carbon (DLC) membrane can reduce the value of thermal resistance of the radiator about 0.05, the radiator temperature can be reduced by 5 degrees Celsius, greatly accelerate the heat conduction from GPU and video memory chips.
In addition, SPARKLE R&D team also found that, in addition to outstanding cooling effect, the Diamond-like Carbon (DLC) membrane is a super-hard carbon coating, it can protect the radiator metal from scratching. Diamond-like Carbon (DLC) membrane can isolated the air to avoid the thermal conductance reduction of radiator due to oxidation (such as the formation of Cu2O or Al2O3). Diamond-like Carbon (DLC) membrane can also protect heat sinks from water vapor or acid-base erosion. Therefore, Diamond-like Carbon (DLC) membrane is the best option for extending the service life of SPARKLE graphics cards.
Because the current cost of this technology is still high, SPARKLE will consider the appropriate application step by step according to the real situations of the new products.
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Wide and well marked lanes with clear markings all along, and distinctive road markings at the junction of diversions, merging points, interchanges, ramps etc. Retro-reflective cat eyes for night driving. Replete with signage boards comprising Regulatory Signs, Warning Signs and Informatory Signs.
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Most advanced ITS System
Yamuna Expressway is the most hi-tech highway in the country today. Built with an intention to provide the commuters with a safe, secure and convenient way to travel between Agra & Greater Noida; the Yamuna Expressway boasts of having state of art “Intelligent Transportation Systems” to facilitate these objectives.
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All three Main Toll Plazas (MTP) equipped with best-in-class “RF-iD” based Electronic Toll Collection (ETC) System, for non-stop passage of vehicles with pre-paid tags.
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Highway Traffic Management System (HTMS)
• Surveillance Camera after every 5 Kms on an average
• Video Incident Detection System (VIDS)
• Speed Monitoring and Vehicle Recognition System
• Variable Message Signs (VMS)
• Meteorological System
• Speed Monitoring and Recognition System to ensure disciplined driving.
Emergency Call Boxes (ECB) at every 2 kms on either side of the Expressway - Emergency Call Boxes(ECB) have been placed at every 2Kms to provide the road user an emergency communication channel to seek help in case og emergency. These call boxes will have hands-free operation and will be able to connect the user instantly to the control centre to seek assistance.
One of its kind, 12m wide Variable Message Sign Boards for display of information and warnings on weather, speed restrictions, traffic load, diversion etc.
System Integration and Centralized Monitoring & Control:
• Fibre-optic network for systems convergence to the sub-control and Central Control Centres.
• Central Control Centre of the Expressway, with large Video Wall plotting “Dynamic Road Map”
• Round-the-Clock Fast Response Teams with specially designed custom-built vehicles for first level support to road users.
For emergency response of any nature; the expressway will have designated teams on a 24*7 basis equipped with specially designed vehicles. These vehicles are custom-built based on international standards and equipped with relevant tools for giving first level support to road users. The vehicles themselves will be monitored using a “Vehicle Tracking System” and “Mobile Radio” which will facilitate easy tracking and reliable communication. | <urn:uuid:23f98b4d-ecb8-41a6-968a-48b88949745a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.yamunaexpresswayauthority.com/expprov | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280364.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00031-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.880472 | 726 | 1.703125 | 2 |
If it’s done right, deep ripping can help address a compaction problem in the field, but if you’re not careful, it can also make it worse.
As with any kind of tillage, you have the potential of breaking up soil aggregates with a deep ripper or subsoiler, but that’s not all, notes Aaron Daigh, soil physicist at North Dakota State University, in the video below.
If the shanks aren’t at the right depth, a deep ripper can add to the plow pan or compacted layer, he explains.
“When that shank and ripper goes through, it’s moving soil in all directions around it. So if you go too shallow, you can actually compact soil on top of the compaction layer and make it thicker. The same way on the other side, if you aim below it…you’re lifting soil up into it,” says Daigh.
So where should you aim the shanks? And how do you determine that depth?
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Many individuals wonder what regions the rowing machine exercises because they want to know if it is an efficient workout or if they should use a specific variation of cardio equipment.
You’ll be pleased to find that the rower is one of the most made significant contributions machines available, and it outperforms several others, as well as the walker and elliptical, in a variety of ways.
Various muscle groups are stimulated different phases of the rowing action you are in: the catch, the drive, the finish, or the recovery. You’ve probably hit all significant groups of muscles by the conclusion of a whole stroke.
- Rowing Muscles Engaged in Four Processes
- Muscles a rowing machine work:
- Rowing Machine Advantages
- So, does a rowing machine help you gain muscle?
- How Does Muscle Targeting Differ from Other Machines?
Rowing Muscles Engaged in Four Processes
To comprehend what muscles a rowing machine works, it’s vital to realize that, as previously said, the rowing stroke has four unique sections. Your posture is in a new role at each level, and as a result, various muscles are recruited.
Here’s a quick rundown of each level, followed by a description of the specific muscles being treated.
Phase 1: The Catch
The catch is the first step of a rowing stroke, during which you are stooped forward near just in front of the apparatus. To accomplish so, you must cross your legs forward to your chest while keeping your lower leg vertical to the ground. It will build your triceps, thighs, and lower back while you are in that posture.
When performing the catch action, bring your arms and elbows forward together keeping your shins down vertically. Back muscles will also provide you with sturdy assistance and motor coordination.
Phase 2: The Drive
The drive occurs when you push out of the catch area and bring the bar back. As you fully straighten your legs and bounce your weight into an upright position, you must push your foot off. Your forearms, elbows, and crossbar should be tight to your ribs at the trailing edge.
The drive will help you build a strong your legs, shoulders, stomach, and back, but particularly your hamstrings and glutes. When driving with your hips, your forearm should be at an angle of 45 degrees.
Phase 3: The Finish Stage
The finish is when you snuggle the crossbar into your chest at the end of the drive. To maintain bodily stability throughout the final phase, you must activate your core. The momentum will help you to completely stretch your legs and bring the handle forward to your chest. Simultaneously, your right arm will spin in a rowing action.
The last phase will focus on strengthening your torso, which is made up of five core muscles: transverse abdominis, interior abdomen inclination, exterior abdomen oblique, pyramidal, and transversal abdominis. During this period, your shoulders will also contract, and your muscle fibers will help with stability.
Phase 4: Recovery
The rehabilitation stage is the most important step of the rowing action, which reverses the preceding three phases. To begin, stretch your arms forward to the crankshaft while maintaining them straight to the pavement. Shift your weight until you’re again inside the catch position, while your thighs pull you forward.
The process of recovery will need you to manage your movement and engage various muscle groups simultaneously. Your triceps, upper legs, and calves will all work together to get you back to the beginning position. This is where you stretch your arms, lean forward, and bend your knees, gliding forward over the rowing apparatus and recovering to the capture position. The procedure then begins again.
Sure. If you look at the alternate stages of rowing above, I’m sure you can spot at minimum some of the unique groups that are activated in each step of rowing.
For example, in the initial Catch phase, you’re developing your tris, elbows, traps, abdomen, and thighs. The legs, body swing, and arm squeeze through components of the Drive phase and all engage separate muscle groups.
In the Finish level, the stabilizer muscles (side back) and biceps are added to the mix. The triceps, as well as the abdominal and wrist muscles, are included again in the Recovery stage.
Muscles a rowing machine work:
If you usually walk straight past the pedaling apparatus at the gym, you might even want to try it out the next time you go. Rowing not only provides good aerobic exercise but also targets a surprising amount of muscle areas, making it a perfect addition to your strength-training regimen.
Rowing also strengthens the specific areas of the dorsi muscle in your back. “After pushing through your legs in the rowing stroke, you set yourself up to be in a better position to push with your back and lats,” The idea is to pinch your neck and shoulders together while you drawback on the grips with your arms.
Just remember to employ the appropriate technique to get the most out of each stroke. “People frequently get the second quarter of the movement incorrectly by trundling in before extending their arms again,” Crawford explains. “Think legs, core, arms; arms, core, legs to guarantee appropriate technique and sequencing.”
Rowing is also regarded as a significant leg workout. “Your major leg muscles in rowing produce your power,” she says Bustle, referring to the quadriceps, calves, and hamstrings.
This is because you straighten your knees and continue pushing mostly on outposts to drive your body backward. “Think about all the musculature you use when you squat, that is what rowing accomplishes over a long period.”
To properly train your muscles when rowing, focus on solid technique, therefore watch the video above to learn how to make a perfect rowing stroke. You’ll note that you’re intended to lean back slightly at the end of the exercise – this is known as the finish, and it’s the phase that stimulates your abdominal muscles, according to Crawford.
You’ll also engage your core, glute muscles, and serratus anterior groups as you go forward throughout the wave. Chang adds that this move compresses your body like a swinging, which enables you simply end up power for the next movement.
Biceps and Glutes
During the stroke, your hips hinge open, which, according to Chang, works the leg muscles in the same manner that a deadlift would. That’s why you’ll be uncomfortable throughout your entire abdomen the next day after rowing, not just your arms.
Rowing engages the deltoids, which are located in the upper of each shoulder. Then there are your biceps, which, according to Chang, provide around 10% of the overall force of your row when you bring the paddles inwards towards your sternum. Consider this a comprehensive weight training session.
Rowing Machine Advantages
Rowing machines provide obvious muscle advantages. By how large part of your muscles will be functioning, it is considered the ideal workout. It’s fantastic for losing weight, improving physical equilibrium, and healing from an accident. This section delves further into the benefits of rowing equipment.
Cardiovascular and Strength gains
Rowing is good for your muscles as well as your brain (CNS). Because rowing provides such a thorough exercise, it also has a positive effect on maintaining your heart rate raised. This activity is also utilized in exercises because it develops the lungs, allowing them to utilize oxygen more efficiently.
Rowing works not just your muscles but also your nervous systems. Rowing works your entire body, so it keeps your heart rate raised and your lungs working hard. Aerobic exercise gets its name from the fact that it enhances your immune function to use oxygen efficiently. While many people prefer strength training to aerobic exercise, research has shown that neither can lower the microvascular complications (CVD) on its own.
When aerobic and strength activities are integrated (like in rowing), CVD risk variables can change in as little as 8 weeks. Rowing is also an excellent cardiovascular activity for anyone suffering from joint discomfort or injury.
The rower machine is an excellent technique to fast burn calories. If you’re running low on time but still want to get good exercise, one of these pieces of equipment can help. Majority of them let you to personalize your workout by providing varied levels of resistance.
The rowing machine workout will also enhance the “afterburn effect,” in which your muscle fats will continue burning long after you have completed the activity. Rowing activity may consume more than 300 calories in 30 minutes for the typical individual.
Not many pieces of equipment are great for counting calories and caloric expenditure, but a piece of rowing equipment certainly checks both boxes, thanks in part to the fact that it works so many of your muscles.
It increases strength and endurance
Rowing’s mix of strength and cardio will aid in the development of both strength and endurance.
Power is your capacity to produce maximal force in a short period, such as when jumping, sprinting, or hitting a heavy bag or a softball.
Rowing correctly requires you to utilize your leg muscles to move your strength back and your shoulders and arms to row, both of which demand power.
Endurance refers to your body’s capacity to keep up with an exercise, such as rowing, for an incredibly long time. Rowing counts as both cardiovascular and muscular endurance.
It has minimal influence
Rowing eliminates a number of fat while putting little load on your joints. It is a wonderful session for dynamic treatment since you can control your mobility and intensity.
It is occasionally advised as a kind of exercise for persons in the beginning phases of osteoarthritis. In 2014, research of 24 persons conducted over 8 weeks discovered that joint forces and moments, or revolutions, in the forearm, arm, spinal, and thigh improved by 30%. (3Trusted Source). High-impact activities like running and plyometrics are not the same.
So, does a rowing machine help you gain muscle?
That is another often asked topic, by what regions does the pedaling machine train. No, the rower device training will not give you bodybuilding-type muscles with bulging biceps, massive quads, and an immense wingspan.
And if you’ve seen a competitive rower, you know they’re in excellent shape…long and slim with tremendous distinction in their arms, legs, and abdominal areas. Looking at the data above, this comes as no surprise, as each stroke engages all of these muscles. Now double that by hundreds upon thousands.
To assist increase your definition, you may sharpen up regions everywhere across your body while burning a lot of fat. So, the rowing machine provides an excellent workout…you can lose fat, they’re terrific for the abs, biceps, triceps, forearms, quads, and every significant strength in your body, and also the lot of the minor ones, will be put to work with each movement of the equipment.
How Does Muscle Targeting Differ from Other Machines?
The rowing machine provides an excellent all-around exercise and may easily compete with other popular cardio devices.
For example, it provides a greater upper body exercise than a treadmill while putting less strain on your legs and joints.
It is analogous to an elliptical, which likewise provides a back and legs exercise while being less impactful than a treadmill.
An indoor exercise cycle, like the treadmill, does not provide an upper body workout, therefore the rowing machine has an advantage there as well.
So, when it comes to simply muscle engagement, the rower’s apparatus is undoubtedly at or towards the top of the list. It’s a full-body exercise, and some of the smaller muscle fibers that are recruited during your workout have not been targeted, even on an exercise machine, since the action is so different.
You may have observed that many gymnasiums now include pedaling equipment as part of the group fitness regime, recognizing the efficacy of the workout they deliver. Concept 2 Model D’s and E’s may well be spotted at fitness centers all across the world, and they can be interconnected with each other for contests or just tracking your performance and efficiency.
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When a technical term is used more and more frequently the exact definition becomes “blurred” and its true meaning is usually greatly distorted.
This what happened to the term ‘business intelligence’ or BI. Ever since, when the term had only appeared, the development of technologies has substantially expanded our understanding of BI and of what advantage and benefit the company can retrieve from their available data.
So, what does ‘business intelligence’ mean today? How it could be useful for companies and how to apply its underlying ideas correctly to ensure the steady growth of efficiency and profitability of a business?
What is business intelligence? Why is it important?
BI consists of two completely diverse, but at the same time complementing one another aspects.
- Value for the business.
Implies how companies can use the available information in order to multiply profit and efficiency and bring new products and services to the market successfully.
- IT strategy.
Includes the idea of what technological solutions to apply in order to achieve greatest possible utility of BI.
Presentation of data in a specific format for efficient usage by the company has always been a challenging task. For many organizations, it is quite complex to determine what particular information is required for a specific use.
Such business analysis requires certainty in methodologies and goals.
Earlier BI resources were limited by the lack of available data collection technologies. Nevertheless, modern technologies such as big data, analytics, mobile services and cloud computing in their combination allow obtaining a continuous flow of detailed information quite fast and with no serious investments.
Still, the current bottom line lies in extracting some valuable sense from these data and, in many respects, it is much more complicated than collecting information itself.
Five efficiency criteria of BI-system (and BI-strategy)
1. While selecting a BI-system one should be guided by the real needs of a particular company
The most common and at the same time the most dangerous mistake is when the BI-systems dictate the strategy of their usage. As a result, the company gets plenty of non-synchronized applications, awkward interface and the infrastructure that is already out of date, yet so entrenched in the IT system that could be barely substituted.
2. Be flexible
Flexible model of the integration of the appropriate software involves constant repetition of certain operations with the gradual development of the system. This allows companies to evaluate the success of the project at any point of time, to determine at what stage it is and towards what it moves.
As a rule, creating, testing and integration of BI-technologies goes much more smoothly when the company receives real-time feedbacks from all the running processes and is able to make required adjustments on the fly. It is vital for BI-systems!
3. User-friendly interface
BI-solutions focus on collection, visualization and management of the data.
Usually, when it comes to large amounts of numeric information companies face a risk to get exceptionally technical, inconvenient and incomprehensible data for the “illiterate” users of the system. This information is highly functional, but impractical, especially when it is badly integrated with other applications.
Integration is a key point in deploying BI-technologies. In case the interface is non-intuitive, complex and inconvenient for the end users, BI-system will definitely work inefficiently.
There is a tendency to allocate significant resources for the integration of the latest technologies promising unprecedented results. However, such investments potentially may do more harm than good. Intelligent, targeted and smooth integration is the key to avoid serious errors during implementation.
4. BI is a tool available to everyone
BI has been long used by completely different users, not only by experts with appropriate education and experience. BI-system should be simple and easy to understand to everyone.
For this purpose, companies have to attain the convenience of analytics and the reports drawn on its basis; it should be simple and demonstrative. The collected data should be presented in the way so that any user could easily make definite conclusions.
5. Centralize your data
The desire to achieve the result, based on useful information implies proper data handling. Receiving data from multiple sources and storing it in a centralized information DB, capable of filtering, sorting and removing the unnecessary is critical for the deployment of the applications involved into making business decisions. Apart from that, risk management also becomes more effective through transparency and structure.
General excitement over BI is evident
The role that IT plays in the world has significantly changed over the past few years thanks to the information ‘boom’. Still, construction of a technological infrastructure is not enough for successful data management.
That is why, ‘business intelligence’ it is not just a fashionable term it is a concept that demonstrates the need to move beyond the paradigm of a separate, isolated existence of data analysis and business goals.
In fact, BI reminds us that technologies and business must be closely linked, so that the business goals and business guidelines predetermine the choice of software and, the software in return would provide useful information leading business to success.
Business Development Manager
Professional Software Development
The infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) market has exploded in recent years. Google stepped into the fold of IaaS providers, somewhat under the radar. The Google Cloud Platform is a group of cloud computing tools for developers to build and host web applications.
It started with services such as the Google App Engine and quickly evolved to include many other tools and services. While the Google Cloud Platform was initially met with criticism of its lack of support for some key programming languages, it has added new features and support that make it a contender in the space.
Here’s what you need to know about the Google Cloud Platform.
Google recently shifted its pricing model to include sustained-use discounts and per-minute billing. Billings starts with a 10-minute minimum and bills per minute for the following time. Sustained-use discounts begin after a particular instance is used for more than 25% of a month. Users receive a discount for each incremental minute used after they reach the 25% mark.
2. Cloud Debugger
The Cloud Debugger gives developers the option to assess and debug code in production. Developers can set a watchpoint on a line of code, and any time a server request hits that line of code, they will get all of the variables and parameters of that code. According to Google blog post, there is no overhead to run it and “when a watchpoint is hit very little noticeable performance impact is seen by your users.”
3. Cloud Trace
Cloud Trace lets you quickly figure out what is causing a performance bottleneck and fix it. The base value add is that it shows you how much time your product is spending processing certain requests. Users can also get a report that compares performances across releases.
4. Cloud Save
The Cloud Save API was announced at the 2014 Google I/O developers conference by Greg DeMichillie, the director of product management on the Google Cloud Platform. Cloud Save is a feature that lets you “save and retrieve per user information.” It also allows cloud-stored data to be synchronized across devices.
The Cloud Platform offers two hosting options: the App Engine, which is their Platform-as-a-Service and Compute Engine as an Infrastructure-as-a-Service. In the standard App Engine hosting environment, Google manages all of the components outside of your application code.
The Cloud Platform also offers managed VM environments that blend the auto-management of App Engine, with the flexibility of Compute Engine VMs.The managed VM environment also gives users the ability to add third-party frameworks and libraries to their applications.
Google Cloud Platform networking tools and services are all based on Andromeda, Google’s network virtualization stack. Having access to the full stack allows Google to create end-to-end solutions without compromising functionality based on available insertion points or existing software.
According to a Google blog post, “Andromeda is a Software Defined Networking (SDN)-based substrate for our network virtualization efforts. It is the orchestration point for provisioning, configuring, and managing virtual networks and in-network packet processing.”
Containers are especially useful in a PaaS situation because they assist in speeding deployment and scaling apps. For those looking for container management in regards to virtualization on the Cloud Platform, Google offers its open source container scheduler known as Kubernetes. Think of it as a Container-as-a-Service solution, providing management for Docker containers.
8. Big Data
The Google Cloud Platform offers a full big data solution, but there are two unique tools for big data processing and analysis on Google Cloud Platform. First, BigQuery allows users to run SQL-like queries on terabytes of data. Plus, you can load your data in bulk directly from your Google Cloud Storage.
The second tool is Google Cloud Dataflow. Also announced at I/O, Google Cloud Dataflow allows you to create, monitor, and glean insights from a data processing pipeline. It evolved from Google’s MapReduce.
Google does routine testing and regularly send patches, but it also sets all virtual machines to live migrate away from maintenance as it is being performed.
“Compute Engine automatically migrates your running instance. The migration process will impact guest performance to some degree but your instance remains online throughout the migration process. The exact guest performance impact and duration depend on many factors, but it is expected most applications and workloads will not notice,” the Google developer website said.
VMs can also be set to shut down cleanly and reopen away from the maintenance event.
10. Load balancing
In June, Google announced the Cloud Platform HTTP Load Balancing to balance the traffic of multiple compute instances across different geographic regions.
“It uses network proximity and backend capacity information to optimize the path between your users and your instances, and improves latency by connecting users to the closest Cloud Platform location. If your instances in one region are under heavy load or become unreachable, HTTP load balancing intelligently directs new requests to your available instances in a nearby region,” a Google blog post said.
Taken from TechRepublic
If you follow our blog regularly you probably remember that my last post was dedicated to Sitecore CMS. This time I decided to represent for your review one more powerful at the same time arguable CMS – Magento. Magento as well as Sitecore CMS is meant to build big things but this time in the world of ecommerce: helps to create online stores.
As the field of ecommerce is tending to grow and develop continuously IT solutions try to meet the needs and offer the best solutions to make it extremely innovative, make the managing process easier for holders and of course attract as many customers as it is possible. There are many CMSs for this purpose like PrestaShop, OpenCart, osCommerce, phpShop, Spree, nopCommerce and others. The choice of CMS depends on what kind of eCommerce/business you intend to go on. You need to take into account such aspects as the size of your firm, whether you haveB2B, B2C or you’re retail, what management system you use or you will use ecommerce platform for that, connection of you websites with other sales channels, your programming skills: PHP, .NET, etc.
So as you may see there are many CMS available today, the choice depends on what type of business you have and type of software you use. Nevertheless, beyond the rich variety Magento is considered to be one of the front runners.
Almost all claims that Magento is rather complicated system as it is built on Zend framework; however has a lot positive aspects. Generally it is characterized as big, complicated and powerful CMS/platform that provide excellent and multiply options to grow you website.
Magento is also very serious CMS and there is no doubt that it is not for everybody. It is tool for professional rather than for amateur.
-It rather complicated to use and work on it for its coding style, so be prepared to spend/charge from your development team twice more hours than usual. Also if you’re not experienced in coding or working with this CMS we would offer to hire skillful developer/development team with proven past experience to help you with that. Based on our experience working with Magento you should be prepared that the development process could take much more time as you will need to learn all the curves that CMS has.
– Magento is extremely powerful offering a wide range of customization options. It is easy-editable gives an opportunity to improve the code regularly by making updates and fixing bugs. And what is important here is that code itself doesn’t require any changes!
– One more aspect is the rich variety of features that makes Magento so flexible. Let’s now review the key features of Magento:
- International support – multiple languages and currencies, list of allowed countries for registration, purchasing and shipping, localization;
- Site Management – control of multiple web sites, multiple languages.
- Catalog Browsing – easy navigation, advanced product filtering system, product comparison.
- Catalog Management – inventory management, batch import and export of products, different tax rates per location, additional product attributes.
- Analytics and Reporting – integration with Google Analytics and offers different reports.
- Payment – different payment methods: credit cards, PayPal, Authorize.net, Google Checkout, ePay, etc.
- Marketing Promotions and Tools – – coupons, discounts and different promotion options.
- Encryption Key – security storage of the sensitive data in the script’s database.
It is also scalable and it grows with your business. That’s the point why it is mostly recommended for mid to large size vendors.
Additionally it should be said that Magento team offers 24/7 live support. Of course it is not super fast but at least it works and you never know when you will need immediate help. Moreover it has video tutorials, good knowledge base, webimars, user guides and support forum. As Magento has three versions the opportunities of each version differs: Community Edition (downloadable version, you will need to find hosting and security for your store), Magento Go (cloud based of hosted Magento CE, preferably for small retailers) and Enterprise one, the last is complete ecommerce solution, fully supported and it is not cheap. Here it should be noted about technical support: Community version has an access only to the forums that are not so active mainly because Magento is relatively new and don’t have yet many followers. So there is no guarantee that you get an advice you need.
And at last as Magento is open source CMS it is free and you don’t spend your money to download it. But you will need to invest if you want to have store live.
At the same time (there is always the other sideJ) there are gaps (that make this platform a bit vulnerable and look unfinished) that need to be improved too. We have a made a short list of them:
- Slow – Many reports that the software is clunky and suffers from slow load times.
- Expensive – Even it is open source and free it will end up costing you after you add up hosting, security, and developer fees.
- No Customer Support – Magento CE users have no access to technical assistance with the exception of a forum.
- Requires Coding Experience – it requires users to have technical skills and experience in order create and launch stores. It is not for amateurs or hobbyists.
Some more aspects to consider:
- Confusing and hard to learn.
- Difficult to implement templates.
- Not much themes to choose.
- Software updates don’t work always properly.
To use Magento or not?
In my opinion Magento is proved to take one of the leading positions and has potential to save it. It has many positive aspects and if your business is well developed and you have large list of items to put online, you need to consider Magento and invest money in it. But of course be prepared for serious work with all the curves if you don’t have much knowledge in programming or take care to choose the development team wisely. And certainly don’t forget about tech support, Magento CE don’t have it.
In case you still considering whether adopt Magento for your business or not, feel free to share your personal experience with us leaving your comments below or contact me directly if you need assistance with your ecommerce shop to discuss the details.
Thank you for your attention!
Business Development Manager
Professional Software Development
Software-defined networking (SDN) is a hot, much debated topic and although still in its infancy, it offers the potential to transform how complex networks work. But don’t be fooled into thinking it’s only yet more industry hype, the era of Software Defined Everything is already upon us. Software is being applied to everything from servers, storage, data centres, right through to arguably the most ground-breaking piece of the jigsaw – the Wide Area Network.
SDN changes the way companies build their IT environments by essentially moving the “control plane” of the network away from each individual device in the network to a central controller that works with all the devices, both virtual and physical. This allows for a single controller to configure or manage the complete network, as opposed to each device managing its own functionality and being programmed individually. The technology has huge benefits for businesses, including reducing IT expenditure and enabling changes to the network quickly and easily.
The importance of the network
SDN deployments are still very limited and at their early stages of development. This is due in part to the fact that today’s corporate networks use open standards such as the IP protocol and Ethernet connectivity, but configuring the networks themselves often requires lots of manual tasks because each device on the network has separate policies and consoles. Making significant changes in the network – even with existing hardware – can be time-consuming, potentially taking a week or two. With the move towards server virtualisation and cloud computing, this has become even more complex.
With this in mind, it is no surprise that SDN is making its way to centre stage. SDN is being tackled from all sides of the ecosystem, from virtualisation vendors like VMWare to the traditional networking providers like Cisco. Not only is it going to fundamentally change the business models of the networking and server industries, but it is also going to escalate the importance of the network.
The value that SDN poses for businesses is immense. It holds greater potential for productivity increases from IT than any other development because of the way it acts as a unifying force between disparate elements – computing, networking, virtualisation, information, and business logic. There’s no doubt that SDN will be a disruptive force across cloud, carrier and enterprise networks, likely in that order. The natural progression of turning hardware into software will result in re-architected networks, data centres and infrastructures.
What the future holds
The integration of everything into the network will become a no-brainer in the coming year and this will essentially transform the network into the epicenter of ICT services. While no one can predict the SDN end-game, we are at the cusp of a revolution in the way global networks are designed, built, and managed.
By providing more real-time intelligence and deep application integration SDN is going to enable enterprises to realise innovation earlier with applications rolled out in hours instead of weeks. Organisations will achieve never-before-seen levels of agility while reducing both capital and operational overhead to the lowest levels ever delivered in enterprise solutions.
As a platform, SDN provides the potential to drive the next generation of IT services. Early high visibility adopters like Google and the recent significant increase in VC funding into the SDN area is fuelling momentum and the emergence of the era of Software Defined Everything looks set to change the power of the network for good. Organisations should be looking very seriously at how SDN can benefit their businesses before their competitors get there first.
Professional Software Development
Cloud computing is one of the most powerful trends nowadays. It offers vast opportunities as for the business profitability so can provide improvements in green initiatives which make enterprises more attractive and eco-friendly. Nevertheless, for every goal of this argument exists opposite opinion. So, let’s verify, concerning major factors of green computing and benefits of cloud computing: could we going green with cloud computing or no?
Defining Green Computing
Green Computing or Green IT as Cloud Computing is one of the cutting edge IT topics today. The key role of green computing is to make the use of computers as energy efficient as possible with minimal or no impact on the environment. As for the businesses it means to find the methods of cutting the consumption of power recourses and IT waste recycling. But that’s where the trouble lies. Adopting eco computing trend, saving energy, you have to be sure you won’t lose in money because the IT is where you always need to consume large amount of energy power. In this case what shall we do?
The benefits of Green Clouds usage: lower costs with high profit
So, here cloud computing is the way to save money and energy for your business. Let’s get into how to save from cloud computing with the benefit for the business both for profit and for the environment. Speaking about cost savings, cloud computing users first of all emphasize Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Using IaaS, users can improve their manageability and facilitate the maintenance of the resources. It means that benefit of business enterprises consists by avoiding spending on software and infrastructure resources, allowing business clients to focus on earning money rather than being weighted down with infrastructure concerns.
As the result, operating this model allows to reduce the consummation of power energy without spending money on running the servers. Moreover, with the absence of hardware to upgrade, no servers to repair and no software to install labor costs are also reduced.
One more aspect of Cloud Computing in order is how to accomplish money savings with a green role of using SaaS (Software as a Service). As it goes a step beyond IaaS by offloading applications to hosted services. With SaaS software accesses usually through a browser based client, meaning that it can be run on virtually any authorized computer, making desktop and laptop resources easily replaceable. Thus, when you also save on the support, it doubles the impact and in fact increases green role in business. For one hand, using cloud computing, there is no need any more for It department structure as the employees can work remotely, travelling and moving from one place to another because they have fast access to the internet and the ability to use all the services at hand, on the other hand it reduces the consumption of fossil fuels and the harmful pollution that results from vehicle emissions as well.
Meanwhile cloud computing offers vast opportunities, as always, every debate has two sides, so there is opposite opinion of the researches considering that cloud computing is just a theory. They consider that using data centers, for example, increases the possibility to get access from any point of the world with more frequency than using infrastructure hosting providers.
Nevertheless, Cloud Computing can still do more and can be more “green”, focusing not only on energy savings but also helps in recycling e-waste, claim the others. Within Cloud Computing we can cut the e-waste production by reduction of hardware and software. In order to optimize the hardware usage, cloud computing dealing with server virtualization that consolidates all servers into a single location, in such a way replacing all hardware by online devices and resources. So, buying or renting access to datacenters we minimize the usage of hardware, at the same time reducing the e-waste. Therefore, this solution improves both environmental and operational benefits.
Cloud green computing is the latest trend today. Balancing energy consummation and hibernating money form saving costs by leaving the purchase of servers, software, datacenter space or network equipment, make the businesses more efficient and attractive. A doubt regarding going green with cloud computing still remains open. So, I will be glad if you share your opinion or business experience of managing with cloud green computing. Thank you for the attention and please feel free to leave your comments.
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Professional Software Development
Windows Azure is considered innovative, simply reliable and powerful platform. The most important benefits of using it include: reduced cost, scalability, flexibility and efficiency. As you may notice, recently many enterprises, service providers, small businesses, and governments who is deeply interested in running their business challenges in efficient and effective manners, are looking for cloud solutions. So, we found interesting to find out what makes it so successful.
The answer for many companies is in the cloud. The Windows Azure Platform offers an increasingly new approach for which makes it trendy and successfully one for running the business. First of all let’s compare a little bit models of cloud computing IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) with PaaS (Platform as a Service). The first one is considered to be the traditional one producing on-premises custom applications. The problem is that such apps require additional spending: upfront costs to purchase hardware and acquire software licenses (database software, workflow, user management, etc.) as they all running on the location or on the server of the company. Windows Azure Cloud Computing is recognized as PaaS platform, it means that all tools to produce applications already exist and needed only the code for running custom apps. Obviously, it highly simplifies the developer’s works that already have the skills working with Windows environment. One more goal is the Azure’s care of all specialist services as Access Control Service, SQL Azure Database, Service Bus all running online and for free, because of having hosting in the cloud, remote location. It also provides you and your company an anytime and anywhere access. As a result, Windows Azure Platform with its services provides the best environment for creative and moneymaking challenges and decisions.
Make my words sound solid, I’ve asked the question to LinkedIn professionals about the growth of Windows Azures’ popularity and also I referred to some comments of enterprises’ experience working with cloud computing.
“…Of course it is also about money. If business thinks they can save 10% or 30% or more by moving their products into Azure then surely it makes it attractive option. …..Since there is so much business potential in the cloud I’m pretty sure the demand for azure developers is going to increase. I wouldn’t be surprised to see software companies trying to acquire best azure talent from all over the world. Think about it. If your company has lot of talented azure developers you have pretty good position when competing from project. Any project. Anywhere in the world. Systems from corporations, governments etc. Huge systems”.
“Any business that uses Microsoft’s development technologies and builds/owns/operates enterprise systems needs to quickly get up to speed with Azure. From an empirical perspective, at the Microsoft developer conference in Las Vegas last March, a small minority of all developers present at the conference were currently developing on Azure. So at least in the short term, my view is that the demand for experienced Azure developers is likely exceeding the supply”.
Every time after working with cloud computing the enterprises tell their success stories of using this new technology which make their businesses more competitive, challenging and help to achieve better business agility. Let’s see what representatives think about their experience.
“Windows Azure enabled us to harness more than a decade of experience in producing, managing, distributing and licensing digital media to build an enterprise-class digital asset management system — in less than 12 months — that can compete with the best and biggest in the digital asset management industry”
David MacLaren, founder and CEO of VRX Studios and now of MediaValet
“With only 11 employees, we run very lean operations and employ agile development methods. By using Windows Azure, we can achieve critical levels of scalability without compromising our efficiency. We have a dynamic infrastructure in place that leaves us well-prepared for our future growth and expansion”.
Vincent Vergonjeanne, Chief Executive Officer at Kobojo
“Development and deployment was very straightforward. We used our existing skills and development tools, including Microsoft Visual Studio development system, to migrate the website to the Windows Azure platform. Plus, we won’t have to change the way we work going forward. We now have a viable cloud-based solution that we can offer to our customers. By using Windows Azure and the Umbraco accelerator, we can meet our customers’ complex content management needs and their desire to take advantage of the benefits of the cloud”
Paul Hernacki, Chief Technology Officer at Definition 6
The reviewed comments, demonstrate new horizons and new opportunities with the help of Windows Azure Cloud Computing for small to midsize businesses. If you have something to add, be sure to leave a comment on this post.
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New US July gen capacity all RE
Led by wind, renewable energy accounted for all 405MW of new generation capacity in the US in July, and more than half in the first seven months of this year, according to a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) report.
In July, two wind farms with 379MW of generation capacity entered commercial operation, followed by five solar projects (21MW) and two small hydro facilities (5MW).
The wind farms are both in Texas: the 218MW Panhandle Wind Farm Phase 1 project in Carson County and the 161MW Spinning Spur Two Wind phase 2, according to FERC’s monthly Energy Infrastructure Update.
In January through July, the US installed 4.758GW of new generation capacity led by natural gas with 2.185GW, solar (1.226GW) and wind (1.196GW). Developers installed 124 solar projects and 22 wind projects.
The US on 31 July had 1,163GW of generation capacity in place. Wind was 5.26%, or 61.95GW, and solar was 9.31GW, or 0.75%.
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On a warm, sunny Sunday morning in August, some of the brightest minds in the Bay Area milled around a 38-year-old car ferry docked south of the San Francisco Giants' ball park. Eating muffins and drinking mimosas, they watched short presentations on topics ranging from artificial intelligence to techno-archeology to 3D gesture control.
This "Innovation Sampler," was part coming out party, part real estate open house for the Maritol (nicknamed The Icebreaker). The vessel is co-owned by Creon Levit, a senior research scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center, and a group of buddies-slash-angel investors-slash-entrepreneurs-slash-philanthropists. They purchased the boat in 2011 from architect Olle Lundberg, who brought the ship over from Iceland, where it formerly schlepped cargo, people and cars around the icy Norwegian Sea. Lundberg subsequently converted the Maritol into a very unusual houseboat. Initially, the new owners planned to use it as a live-work space, but as they learned, this would not jive with the rules and regulations of the San Francisco Port Authority,
"So we pivoted," Levit explains. "It's not a great space for people to live in, but it has a lot of beautiful spaces for meeting and working. It turns out to be one of the most desirable and interesting [working] spaces in San Francisco. It works well for people who want something a little different -- and people who want to bring their investors and customers to an interesting space. It's not your average incubator."
Matterport, which makes 3D models of physical spaces, is among the many startups that have toiled, collaborated and experimented on the Maritol. In fact, the company honed its technology in part by scanning and then 3D-mapping the ship's very intricate engine room. During the Innovation Sampler, Matterport demonstrated its product, allowing guests to don virtual-reality goggles to "walk through" the classrooms of a school. As I awaited my turn to step into the virtual space, I realized futurist, writer and Stanford professor Paul Saffo was finishing his visit. "I've tried a lot of those face-suckers," he says, referring to the virtual-reality mask, "But this is the best I've seen."
Back in real reality, the developers of a Kickstarter success story called, used the Maritol and the waters surrounding it as a test bed. The startup has since gone on to use OpenROV to help scientists collect underwater images around Antarctica and in the South Pacific.
Not all of the products and services developed at the incubator are quite so edgy: some are just good business ideas. What We Order is an e-commerce software that catalogs supply orders made by employees and then makes reorders quick and easy for anyone in the company. It links directly into accounting systems through enterprise resource planning (ERP) software.
"We were one of the What We Order alpha testers," Creon says. "We constantly order stuff from Costco, Amazon, Granger, McMaster-Carr and places that sell ship supplies. We can click, click, approve and there is no screwing around with different vendors."
The August gathering was not just a way to show off the talent and network of innovators that utilize the Icebreaker, it was also an event meant to help the incubator find a new berth. That's because the Port of San Francisco has told Levit that the Maritol is not in compliance and therefore must leave the port, post haste.
"We're really grateful that we've been able to be there for two years, and we hope we can work it out, in order to remain for years to come," Levit says. He and his partners are meeting with city officials and searching for an alternative berth. "The best option is to berth the ship somewhere else in SF," he says.
The mayor's office is trying to develop an innovation corridor, with startup-friendly developments, and Levit and his partners say they fit that vision. But if he and his partners can't find a new home in San Francisco, they'll consider the East Bay or another West Coast harbor city.
The crew is also hoping the long roster of Maritol's friends and supporters might help them find a creative solution to their predicament. Those friends present at the Innovation Sampler included technology pioneers, such as Brad Templeton, who founded the first-ever dot-com company, Dan Kaminsky, an Internet security expert, and Brewster Kahle, who founded the Internet Archive.
"You can't have innovation if you don't have the free exchange of ideas –- and a place to do that in," says Brendan Curran, an engineer at San Francisco-based healthcare software startup Blueprint Health in attendance at the recent event. "If places like this don't exist in San Francisco, then innovation can't exist in San Francisco."
(Photos by Tyson Macdonald (thumbnail) and Brad Kohlenberg)
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Lewis & MacDonald Freewriting (PDF sampler)
Today we’ve got an intriguing and imaginative creative writing exercise for you, excerpted from HomeschoolAdventure.com‘s upcoming book, “Mere Christianity Critical Analysis Journal” by Stacy Farrell. Based on C.S. Lewis’s “Mere Christianity”, this guide is a powerful tool to strengthen critical thinking while cultivating a biblical worldview, and may be used as independent study for middle school and high school students, yet is equally appropriate for use by adults.
The freebie resource we are offering today is a sample from the book which combines two profound ideas from C. S. Lewis and his mentor, George MacDonald. Because writing can be hard work, this “Lewis & MacDonald Freewriting” freebie was created to offset that hard work and encourage students to simply let loose and have fun writing!
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Home Care in Huntington Beach CA
It is not uncommon for seniors coping with Alzheimer’s disease or other forms of dementia to develop negative behaviors in the later stages. One of these behaviors can be aggression, or becoming combative during normal care activities. The Alzheimer’s Association notes that this type of aggression can come in the form of either verbal or physical combativeness, and that it can come on
very suddenly and with seemingly no explanation.
No matter how common combative behaviors are for seniors with Alzheimer’s disease or other forms of dementia, however, they can be extremely difficult to cope with as a family caregiver, and can even diminish your relationship with your aging loved ones. If you are facing combative behaviors from your parent in your care relationship, hiring a home care provider may help.
Some of the ways that hiring an in home health care services provider may be able to help you cope with your parent’s combative behaviors include:
• Experience. It is normal to be upset and even frightened by something that you have not experienced before or that is unfamiliar for you, and this can make it more difficult for you to know how to respond properly and adequately. A home care provider, however likely has experience caring for seniors dealing with Alzheimer’s disease or other forms of dementia, and has seen these types of combative behaviors before. Her experience puts her at ease and allows her to feel more in control of the situation, ensuring that your parents receive the care that they need safely and effectively.
• Coping techniques. Along with the experience of having seen these behaviors before, home care providers often have coping techniques that they use specifically to defuse stressful situations, ease anxiety, and calm seniors who are experiencing these behaviors. It is important to remember that these combative behaviors are most often a response to stress, anxiety, fear, or some physical need that is not being fulfilled. The care provider can use her coping techniques to ease the problem, find the origin, and make your parent more comfortable.
• Respite. Any situation seems worse when you are tired, overwhelmed, and stressed. These are common feelings for a family caregiver, and they can make encountering combative behaviors all the more unpleasant and hard to deal with. A respite care provider can step in to give you a much-needed break during your care journey, which offers you the opportunity to step away from the situation, get some rest, ease your own high levels of emotions, and come back calmer and more prepared.
• Separation. It is an unfortunate reality that the recipient of negative behaviors, including combativeness, is often the person that is closest to a senior coping with dementia. The senior may be feeling uncomfortable or embarrassed about needing help from an adult child, or may just feel angry about his situation, which he cannot process properly due to his dementia. Allowing a neutral care provider to handle some of his care tasks can ease this discomfort and reduce the negative feelings that can lead to combative behaviors.
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The recent dramatic high seas rescue of a merchant ship captain held hostage by Somali pirates stirred a public debate on whether cargo vessels should be armed. It also drew attention to the more than 1 million mariners who are essential in transporting 90 percent of the world’s traded goods, including humanitarian aid to needy countries.
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Can you mix lime and yogurt?
Adding lime zest, lime juice, and a smidge of honey makes Greek yogurt taste like key lime pie yogurt. It's divine. We especially love it with berries, but it's lovely on its own.
What happens if you put lemon juice in yogurt?
Some commercially available yogurt also contains probiotics – a gut friendly bacteria which augments the digestive system and immunity functions. Citrus and lemon in specific have strong detoxifying effects on the body. Lemon assists the liver is wiping out the toxins in the bloodstream.
Where can I buy key lime yogurt?
Can I use lemon juice to make yogurt?
Boil and cool milk as mentioned in the recipe. In the pot, retain a little milk and add lemon juice to curdle it and use as starter. ... Use methods 3 and 4 to make small quantity yogurt which can then be used as starter yogurt for the next batch.
How do you make yogurt from raw milk without a starter?
- Heat the milk on the stove and bring it to a boil. Then set it aside to cool.
- Add the chickpeas to the milk.
- Cover the milk and let it sit overnight in a warm place.
- After 10-12 hours, the yogurt will be ready.
- You can use this as primary culture and add it to more milk or consume it directly.
Can I make my own yogurt starter?
A "starter" contains the live bacterial cultures that help transform milk into yogurt. You can start a batch of homemade yogurt two ways: from a few tablespoons of store-bought (or previously homemade) plain yogurt, or with a yogurt starter powder.
Can I use Greek yogurt as starter?
Choosing a starter. A “starter” contains the live bacterial cultures that help transform milk into yogurt. ... If using store-bought yogurt, pick a plain yogurt (regular or Greek should work fine) that tastes good to you and check the label to verify that it has live, active cultures (this part is very important).
What is the best yogurt starter?
Best Sellers in Yogurt Starter Cultures
- ABY-2C Thermophilic Yogurt Culture. ...
- Yogurt Starter Cultures - Pack of 3 Freeze-dried Culture Sachets for Bifido Yogurt. ...
- Greek Traditional Yogurt Kit (basic) - w/ cheesecloth and 1 oz. ...
- Organic 100% Einkorn Sourdough Dehydrated Starter.
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As our regular readers know, we have long and successfully published the books by Unity. As part of the study of the topic, we were interested in, in particular, the tools ML-Agents Toolkit. Today we bring to your attention a translation of an article from the Unity blog about how to effectively train game agents using the “with oneself” method; in particular, the article helps to understand why this method is more effective than traditional reinforced learning.
This section then gives an overview of the self-play technology (playing with oneself) and demonstrates how to use it to provide stable and effective training in the Soccer demo environment from the toolkit. ML-Agents Toolkit.
In the Tennis and Soccer demo environments from the Unity ML-Agents Toolkit, agents pit each other like rivals. Training agents in such a competitive scenario is sometimes a very non-trivial task. In fact, in previous releases of the ML-Agents Toolkit, in order for the agent to confidently learn, a serious study of the award was required. AT version 0.14 a feature was added that allows the user to train agents using reinforcement learning (RL) based on self-play, a mechanism of fundamental importance in achieving some of the most high-end reinforcement learning outcomes, for example, Openai five and DeepMind’s AlphaStar. Self-play at work pits with each other the current and past hypostases of the agent. Thus, we get an adversary for our agent, who can gradually improve using traditional reinforcement learning algorithms. Fully trained agent can successfully compete with advanced human players.
Self-play provides a learning environment that is built on the same principles as competition from a human perspective. For example, a person who learns to play tennis will choose to spar opponents at about the same level as himself, since an opponent too strong or too weak is not so convenient for mastering the game. From the point of view of developing their own skills, it can be much more valuable for a novice tennis player to beat the same beginners, rather than, say, a preschool child or Novak Djokovic. The first one will not even be able to hit the ball, and the second will not give you such a serve that you can beat. When a beginner develops sufficient strength, he can move on to the next level or apply for a more serious tournament to play against more skilled opponents.
In this article, we will consider some technical subtleties associated with the dynamics of the game with ourselves, and also consider examples of working in virtual environments Tennis and Soccer, refactored in such a way as to illustrate the game with itself.
The story of a game with yourself in games
The phenomenon of playing with oneself has a long history, reflected in the practice of developing artificial game agents designed to compete with people in games. One of the first to use this system was Arthur Samuel, who developed a chess simulator in the 1950s and published this job in 1959. This system became the forerunner of a landmark result in reinforcement learning achieved by Gerald Thesauro in TD-Gammon; totals published in 1995. TD-Gammon used the TD (λ) time-difference algorithm with the function of playing with itself to train the agent to play backgammon so that he could compete with a professional person. In some cases, it has been observed that TD-Gammon has a more confident vision of positions than world-class players.
Playing with yourself is reflected in many of the iconic achievements associated with RL. It is important to note that playing with yourself helped develop agents for playing chess and gowith superhuman abilities, elite agents DOTA 2as well as complex strategies and counter-strategies in games such as wrestling and hide and seek. In the results achieved by playing with oneself, it is often noted that game agents choose strategies that surprise expert people.
Playing with yourself gives agents a certain creativity that is independent of the creativity of programmers. The agent receives only the rules of the game, and then – information about whether he won or lost. Further, based on these basic principles, the agent must develop competent behavior. According to the creator of TD-Gammon, such an approach to learning liberates, “… in the sense that the program is not constrained by human inclinations and prejudices, which may turn out to be erroneous and unreliable.” Thanks to this freedom, agents discover brilliant game strategies that completely change the way engineers think about certain games.
Competitive reinforcement training
Within the framework of the traditional task of reinforced learning, the agent is trying to develop a line of behavior that maximizes the total reward. The rewarding signal encodes the agent’s task – such a task may be, for example, plotting a course or collecting items. Agent behavior is subject to environmental restrictions. Such, for example, gravity, obstacles, as well as the relative influence of actions taken by the agent himself – for example, the application of force for one’s own movement. These factors limit the agent’s behavior and are external forces that he must learn to handle in order to receive a high reward. Thus, the agent competes with the dynamics of the environment, and must move from state to state precisely so that the maximum reward is achieved.
The typical reinforcement training scenario is shown on the left: the agent acts in the environment, transfers to the next state and receives a reward. The training scenario is shown on the right, where the agent competes with a rival, which, from the point of view of the agent, is actually an element of the environment.
In the case of competitive games, the agent competes not only with the dynamics of the environment, but also with another (possibly intellectual) agent. We can assume that the opponent is built into the environment, and his actions directly affect the next state that the agent “sees”, as well as the reward that he will receive.
Example Tennis from ML-Agents Toolkit
Consider the demo of ML-Agents Tennis. The blue racket (left) is the learning agent, and the purple (right) is his opponent. To throw the ball over the net, the agent must take into account the trajectory of the ball flying from the opponent, and make an adjustment to the angle and speed of the flying ball, taking into account environmental conditions (gravity). However, in a competition with an opponent, throwing the ball over the net is only half the battle. A strong opponent can respond with an irresistible blow, and as a result, the agent will lose. A weak opponent may hit the ball into the net. An equal opponent can return the serve, and therefore the game will continue. In any case, both the next state and the corresponding reward depend on both environmental conditions and the opponent. However, in all these situations, the agent makes the same pitch. Therefore, both learning in competitive games and pumping up rival behaviors by an agent are complex problems.
Considerations for a suitable opponent are not trivial. As is clear from the above, the relative strength of the opponent significantly affects the outcome of a particular game. If the opponent is too strong, then the agent may find it difficult to learn how to play from scratch. On the other hand, if the opponent is too weak, then the agent can learn to win, but these skills may be useless in competition with a stronger or simply different opponent. Therefore, we need an opponent who will be approximately equal in strength to the agent (unyielding, but not insurmountable). In addition, since the skills of our agent improve with each game completed, we must increase the strength of his opponent to the same extent.
When playing with yourself, a snapshot from the past or an agent in its current state is the opponent built into the environment.
This is where the game with ourselves comes in handy! The agent himself satisfies both requirements for the desired opponent. He is definitely roughly equal in strength to himself, and his skills improve over time. In this case, the agent’s own policy is built into the environment (see the figure). Those who are familiar with increasingly difficult learning (curriculum learning), we’ll show that this system can be considered a naturally developing curriculum, following which the agent learns to fight against increasingly powerful opponents. Accordingly, playing with yourself allows you to use the environment itself to train competitive agents for competitive games!
In the next two sections, we will consider more technical details of training competitive agents, in particular, regarding the implementation and use of the game with oneself in the ML-Agents Toolkit.
Some practical problems arise regarding the framework for playing with yourself. In particular, retraining is possible, in which the agent learns to win only with a certain style of play, as well as the instability inherent in the learning process, which can arise due to the unsteadiness of the transition function (that is, due to constantly changing opponents). The first problem arises because we want our agents to have a general understanding and ability to fight opponents of different types.
The second problem can be illustrated in the Tennis environment: different opponents will hit the ball at different speeds and at different angles. From the point of view of the learning agent, this means that, as you learn, the same decisions will lead to different outcomes and, accordingly, the agent will be in different subsequent situations. In traditional reinforcement learning, stationary transition functions are implied. Unfortunately, having prepared a selection of various opponents for the agent in order to solve the first problem, we, being careless, can aggravate the second.
To cope with this, we will maintain a buffer with past agent policies, from which we will choose potential rivals for our “student” for the long term. Choosing an agent from past policies, we get for him a selection of diverse opponents. Moreover, allowing the agent to train with a fixed opponent for a long time, we stabilize the transition function and create a more consistent learning environment. Finally, these algorithmic aspects can be controlled using hyperparameters, which are discussed in the next section.
Implementation and Usage Details
Choosing hyperparameters for playing with ourselves, we, first of all, keep in mind a compromise between the level of the opponent, the universality of the final policy and the stability of training. Training in rivalry with a group of opponents that change slowly or do not change at all, and, therefore, give a smaller scatter of results, is a more stable process than training in rivalry with many diverse rivals that change quickly. Available hyperparameters allow you to control how often the current agent policy will be saved for later use as one of the opponents in the sample, how often a new opponent will be saved, subsequently selected for sparring, how often a new opponent will be selected, the number of opponents saved, and the likelihood that in this case, the student will have to play against his own alter ego, and not against an opponent selected from the pool.
In competitive games, the “cumulative” award issued by the environment is perhaps not the most informative metric for tracking learning progress. The fact is that the accumulative award entirely depends on the level of the opponent. An agent with a certain game skill will receive a greater or lesser reward, depending on a less skilled or more skillful opponent, respectively. We offer implementation ELO rating system, allowing you to calculate the relative game skill of two players from a certain population when playing with a zero amount. During a single training run, this value should steadily increase. You can track it, along with other learning metrics, for example, a general award, using Tensorboard.
Playing with yourself in Soccer
The latest releases of the ML-Agent Toolkit do not include agent policies for the Soccer learning environment, since the reliable training process was not built in it. However, using the game with ourselves and some refactoring, we can train the agent in non-trivial behaviors. The most significant change is the removal of “gaming positions” from the agent’s characteristics. Earlier in the Soccer environment, the “goalkeeper” and “striker” clearly stood out, so the whole gameplay looked more logical. AT this video a new environment is presented in which one can see how role behavior is spontaneously formed, in which some agents begin to act as attackers and others as goalkeepers. Now the agents themselves are learning to play these positions! The reward function for all four agents is defined as +1.0 for a goal scored and -1.0 for a goal conceded, with an additional penalty of -0.0003 per step – this penalty is provided to stimulate agents to attack.
Here we emphasize once again that the agents in the Soccer learning environment themselves learn cooperative behavior, and for this, no explicit algorithm is used related to multi-agent behavior or role assignment. This result demonstrates that an agent can be trained in complex behaviors using relatively simple algorithms – provided that the task is well-formulated. The most important condition for this is that agents can observe their teammates, that is, they receive information about the relative position of the teammate. Forcing an aggressive fight for the ball, the agent indirectly tells the teammate that he should move in defense. On the contrary, moving away in defense, the agent provokes a teammate to attack.
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How Major League Baseball is Using GraphQL Posted inPlatforms Art Anthony July 13, 2022 Don’t steal bases if your team is winning by a landslide. Avoid bunting to break up a no-hitter. Never swing on a 3-0 count when your team is winning comfortably. Major League Baseball (MLB) has all sorts of unwritten rules, rooted in superstition, paying undue attention to its history.There are some ways, however, in which MLB has proven itself to be innovative and forward-thinking. No, we’re not talking here about Billy Beane’s adoption of the sabermetrics method during his tenure with the Oakland Athletics. First and last Moneyball reference, I promise.Instead, we’ll be looking at how Major League Baseball implemented a federated GraphQL architecture to solve the issue of service discovery and sprawl.This article follows a talk given by Olessya Medvedeva, Software Engineer at MLB, and Matt Oliver, Senior Engineering Manager at MLB, at a virtual QCon event. You can watch the presentation here.MLB’s Big ProblemAt MLB, Web Platform handles all core architecture, infrastructure, and DevOps. That spans various websites, such as MLB.com, MiLB.com, USA Baseball, and Play Ball. But it also means enabling many different teams (both development and baseball) to look after their own sites.Historically, their main challenge has been serving fully rendered pages composed of data coordinated from many disparate services — a recipe for slow load times and page failures. Beyond that, they had low visibility into who was making calls (making it hard to know who was pulling data from platforms).Oliver also speaks of a system so complex that the team struggled to determine where redundant calls were coming from, joking that they were prone to DDoS-ing themselves, as well as introducing disparate caching and poor handling of upstream failures.He also states that they had previously been burned by third-party integrations, and wanted to find a way to isolate clients from backend churn. Like a pitcher trying to close things out in the bottom of the ninth, Oliver and his team had their work cut out for them.Quick Fixes, Slow DecayOlessya Medvedeva, a software engineer on Oliver’s team, talks about how MLB attempted to use REST services where the client does the heavy lifting. She goes on, however, to highlight some of the problems with this as a solution:Clients are chatty.Response payloads are “all or nothing.”Backend data model is tied to frontend implementation.Backend service exposure.The team made attempts to address some of these issues using what they call mashups, but this wasn’t an ideal solution either. The mashups increased complexity, including adding a middle layer that was hard to keep track of. And there was the issue of which team owns these mashups…A lack of ownership sometimes led to the duplication of data access, resulting in feedback loops when services called each other. The overarching problem was that stakeholders lacked a holistic view of MLB’s API service. That’s when the company began considering using GraphQL to address some of these issues.Anatomy of MLB’s GQL ServiceInitially, MLB started by implementing the GraphQL trinity:Well-defined models describe the output.Resolvers translate a request into a response.Services provide internal data to resolvers.And using a GQL server as a proxy between clients and services resulted in some positive outcomes for them: it made deployment easier, kept updates to models clear, and created a single source of truth because all of their code was in one place.They found, however, that it didn’t solve every issue they were having. For example, a single source of truth also means a single point of failure. Beyond that, they found contributing with a large number of teams to be cumbersome and tightly coupled models to be restrictive.They later enlisted the services of Apollo, a platform that extends GraphQL with a focus on federation, which also recently launched what they call the Supergraph. In Oliver’s words, the aim was to create “a topology where you have multiple independent services unified by one gateway.”MLB’s Federated Graph Apollo CEO and co-founder Geoff Schmidt, argues that “as enterprises broke up their monolithic application architectures and moved to microservices, everything became so atomized that it now puts the burden on developers to piece everything back together when they want to build a new application on top of these systems.”Embracing federation meant the creation of sub-services with their own individual models and resolvers, separating pieces of the graph in a more modular way that still allowed inter-service communication. This means that:Each service is only responsible for its part of the larger graph.It’s easier for large teams to contribute or own parts of the graph.Independent services can be versioned and deployed irrespective of other services.It’s worth bearing in mind, of course, that GraphQL federation comes with its own set of things to watch out for:More complex CI/CDPotential for graph breakageConnections between parts of the graph can be less clearGovernance requires near-constant monitoringOliver and Medvedeva go on to talk about some use cases specific to MLB. For example, they explain how User Service and Baseball Service communicate with each other, the advantages of federated caching, upstream circuit breaking, and so on. These examples showcase how the process has decreased the number of calls between services, increased visibility upstream, and centralized data access. In other words, the adoption of federated GraphQL is doing (so far) precisely what they hoped that it would.Microservices vs. Federated GraphQL Sub-servicesIn some ways, Federated GraphQL might feel like a step away from microservices back towards a monolith. Why not just use service mesh? some might ask. On that topic, Oliver makes the following comment:“It might be simpler to go a service mesh-esque route, but you’re not going to get a lot of the things you get with Apollo (and strictly Federation) for free.” As useful as service mesh might be, it can get costly. And that’s something even large organizations like MLB need to think about.Anatomy of Federated GraphQLThe case study above is intriguing because it highlights a very specific problem with microservices. Although microservices offer advantages, they can also be problematic for larger organizations trying to break down monolithic services.This appears to be the issue MLB faces — how long do the benefits of breaking down a monolith into hundreds, or even thousands, of microservices outweigh the additional complexity and ownership issues generated by doing so?In this case, MLB addressed that issue by employing federated GraphQL to create sub-services that are independent but capable of communicating with each other. But, because they’re all part of the larger graph, they feel more closely aligned (and are accessible in a similar format) than comparable decoupled microservices might be.Federated GraphQL isn’t a silver bullet for everyone, but it might be worth investigating for organizations struggling with service sprawl or grappling with seemingly endless microservices. | <urn:uuid:efb5a363-9c77-4881-acb3-69f759f0f163> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nordicapis.com/how-major-league-baseball-is-using-graphql/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00668.warc.gz | en | 0.962516 | 1,511 | 1.734375 | 2 |
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