text stringlengths 181 608k | id stringlengths 47 47 | dump stringclasses 3 values | url stringlengths 13 2.97k | file_path stringlengths 125 140 | language stringclasses 1 value | language_score float64 0.65 1 | token_count int64 50 138k | score float64 1.5 5 | int_score int64 2 5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Year / Location: 2007 – 2009 / Brühlsche Terrasse, Dresden, Germany
Commissioned by: Trans-Media-Akademie Hellerau (award realisation)
Using bone conduction, a technology developed for hearing devices, the touched echo installation transmits sounds of the cities which were devastated in the 1945 carpet bombing in the Second World War, through the arms of the visitors when they rest their elbows on the balustrade and hold their ears closed. Several custom-made sound conductors mounted to the railing send sounds of airplanes and bombs exploding through vibrations; it is completely silent unless you touch the railing. The installation touched echo is a minimal media intervention set within a public space. The visitors of Brühl's Terrace in Dresden are taken back in time to the night of the terrible air raid which devastated their city February 13, 1945. In their role as performer, the visitor imagines themselves in the place of the Dresden inhabitants who must have closed their ears tightly in fear to shut out the horrendous noise of the explosions 65 years ago. When one leans on the balustrade the sound of airplanes and explosions is transmitted from the swinging balustrade through one’s arm directly into the inner ear.
Realised with the sponsorship award of Saxon Ministry of Science and the Fine Arts, with friendly support from the Trans-Media-Akademie Hellerau and Schlösser und Gärten Dresden, Geschäftsstelle Zwinger / Brühlsche Terrasse.
Developed in the New Media Class at the University of the Arts Berlin.
touched echo Osnabrück
Commissioned by: EMAF Osnabrück in cooperation with COLOSSAL - Kunst Fakt Fiktion
For the exhibition Bilderschlachten, part of European Media Art Festival Osnabruck 2009, I was invited to create an Osnabrück specific version of my work touched echo. The icons show the date of the first air raid on Osnabrück during World War II: 20.6.1940. Located on a bridge in the city center of Osnabrück the public space installation is heading into the direction, where English B-25 bombers attacked from. In their role as a performer visitors put themselves into the place of the people who shut their ears away from the noise of the explosions. While leaning on the balustrade the sound of airplanes and explosions is transmitted from the swinging balustrade through their arm directly into into the inner ear (bone conduction).
touched echo at National Art Center Tokyo
Commissioned by: Japan Medie Arts Festival
After receiving the Award of Excellence at the Japan Media Arts Festival, I was invited to exhibit a documentation of my site specific installation touched echo at the National Art Center Tokyo.
Bone conduction consulting
With my experience in creating bone conduction installations, I have been consulting agencies for setting up installations in museums or public spaces. Feel free to contact me for inquiries. | <urn:uuid:d9d798f9-169b-483d-a916-94eb2e6a1bed> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.markuskison.de/touched_echo.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.911361 | 641 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Premiums for a single person would go up by $600 more than would be the case without the legislation, the PricewaterhouseCoopers analysis concluded in the study commissioned by the insurance group.
"Several major provisions in the current legislative proposal will cause health care costs to increase far faster and higher than they would under the current system," Karen Ignagni, the top industry lobbyist in Washington, wrote in a memo to insurance company CEOs.
The study projected that in 2019, family premiums could be $4,000 higher and individual premiums could be $1,500 higher.
[# More #]
Baucus' spokesman, Scott Malhauser, contests the industry's price study, calling it a "health insurance company hatchet job, plain and simple."
Baucus spokesman Mulhauser said the study is "seriously flawed" because it doesn't take into account provisions in the legislation that would lower the cost of coverage, such as tax credits to help people buy private insurance, protections for current policies and administrative savings from a revamped marketplace.
White House health care spokeswoman Linda Douglass concurred. "This is an insurance industry analysis that is designed to reach a conclusion which benefits the industry, and does not represent what the bill does," she said.
The bill's review from the Congressional Budget Office last week estimated it would cover 94% of eligible Americans and reduce the federal deficit. But the PwC study was specifically aimed at measuring the cost burden for privately insured individuals.
[The PwC study] concluded that a combination of factors in the bill - and decisions by lawmakers as they amended it - would raise costs.
The chief reason, said the report, is a decision by lawmakers to weaken proposed penalties for failing to get health insurance. The bill would require insurers to take all applicants, doing away with denials for pre-existing health problems. In return, all Americans would be required to carry coverage, either through an employer or a government program, or by buying it themselves.
But the CBO estimated that even with new federal subsidies, some 17 million Americans would still be unable to afford health insurance. Faced with that affordability problem, senators opted to ease the fines for going without coverage from the levels Baucus originally proposed. The industry says that will only let people postpone getting coverage until they get sick.
Other factors leading to higher costs include a new tax on high-cost health insurance plans, cuts in Medicare payments to hospitals and doctors, and a series of new taxes on insurers and other health care industries, the report said.
"Health reform could have a significant impact on the cost of private health insurance coverage," it concluded.
Insurers played a major role in defeating then-President Bill Clinton's health care plan in the 1990s. Sunday, the industry stopped short of signaling all-out opposition. "We will continue to work with policymakers in support of workable bipartisan reform," Ignagni said in her memo. | <urn:uuid:7a2d3c5a-f8a7-48a4-b7b6-87714eb177e3> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://townhall.com/tipsheet/meredithjessup/2009/10/12/audit_of_health_care_bill_reveals_rising_premiums/print | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279933.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00117-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972454 | 601 | 1.953125 | 2 |
There has been an increase in mail thefts recently, according to authorities.
Newport Beach Police Department sent out a crime alert Wednesday, warning residents about mail and package theft.
Authorities have seen an increase in this type of crime throughout the city since the beginning of the year, according to the message.
“Always use a blue post office collection box or deposit your mail inside your local post office. ,” the alert recommends. “Always make sure that you have someone home to receive your deliveries so that they are not left unattended.”
The Newport Beach Police Department suggests several safety tip for residents s to reduce the chance of becoming a victim of mail and/or identity theft.
Police advise residents to collect their mail during the day and not leave it overnight, whether it’s in a home mailbox or a post office box.
Thieves look for bank statements and credit card bills, which can be used to create counterfeit checks or fake identifications.
They also look for personal checks enclosed in utility bills or other payments.
“Thieves take these stolen checks, remove the ink, and then fill out the blank check in their name and desired amount,” the alert states.
Other safety tips include: Never send cash or coins through the mail; when reordering checks have them sent to a bank; when traveling, ask a trusted friend or neighbor to pick up mail; if an expected check or bill doesn’t arrive, contact the issuing agency immediately; always shred all mail or documents containing personal information prior to throwing the documents away; and check financial statements regularly. If an account has been compromised, notify the financial institution
They also urge residents to contact the police department immediately if they have been the victim of identity theft. | <urn:uuid:002f19b0-6f76-45a7-aa8e-269c5b7d0912> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.newportbeachindy.com/police-mail-package-thefts-increase/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279368.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00323-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.929576 | 361 | 1.875 | 2 |
Apply sentencing standards equally
In response to “Pregnant teacher to be let out of jail” (Local, Feb. 7): Let’s say the headline read, “Teacher to be let out of jail” and the story was about a male teacher who got a former 17-year old female student pregnant. If a judge let something like that happen, and the male teacher only had to spend a year in jail and be put on three years’ probation, and not have to register as a sex offender because “She is very much in love with him and is looking forward to having his baby,” I’m sure people would be outraged. But this [baloney] is just about par for our justice system. – Allen Stanko, Alpine
Progress welcomed; depiction isn’t
I was disturbed by the use of the phrase, “Ramona pig farm” when describing the area that would house the solar farm panels (“Supervisors approve Ramona solar farm,” Local, Feb. 7). It was mentioned again as a swine-raising, cattle grazing area. The next sentence stated rejection opposition from neighbors who say it would be an eyesore. Anyone never having been there would wonder why Ramona would not want a “clean solar panel” farm there? The area houses pigs in a modern, clean barn and I have never seen a pig on the land since they started the farm. Yes, there are a few cows grazing and standing under trees in hot weather, but they are a calming sight to behold.
It is agricultural land and there are fine farms and homes surrounding it. Ramona wants progress but does not want to lose what it values most, the rural part of our community. It was very generous of Supervisor Horn to offer his orchard for solar panels; Sol Orchard should jump on that.
It is frightening to have other people decide our destiny on the “hill.” Perhaps it is time to think INCORPORATION. – Sherill E. Marciano, Ramona
Prescription was a failure
In response to “Food stamp bill infantilizes the poor” (Editorial, Feb. 7): You write “… most low-income food stamp users aren’t obese. …” What’s your evidence for that strange remark?
You, who have never lived among the poor, know nothing about them or their diets or body sizes or weights or anything else. I who have lived and do live among them, see them daily and see their obesity and know the incidence and prevalence of weight-related diseases.
So intense is obesity that the California Endowment has a 10-year effort in City Heights aimed at improving my neighbors’ health. Much of the endowment’s activity is directed toward ending obesity. A ban on using food stamps for junk food will help.
That’s my evidence that my neighbors, many of them food stamp recipients, are obese, so I ask again, what’s your evidence that food stamp users aren’t obese?
Your prescription to educate people was a failure even before you wrote it. You have frequently complained that we fail to educate children adequately across a range of subjects, yet you would have us educate them and their families about diet and obesity – a failed prescription even before you wrote it. – Jim Varnadore, City Heights
In response to “U.S. to trim carrier presence in gulf” (Feb. 7): Defense Secretary Panetta noted [Wednesday] the Pentagon would have to cut $46 billion from defense if the Congress couldn’t agree on a budget-in essence, kicking the proverbial budget can down the road again. (He’s probably low if only referring to sequestration and not including the earlier, decade-long $500B cut by then-Secretary Gates.) We’ve been kicking the can since summer 2011 with accompanying uncertainty on national defense.
General Dynamics announced last month a $2B cutback (loss) in scheduled work. Other waterfront repair businesses are feeling the uncertainty, with ripple effects throughout the affected economies. Bayfront San Diego will feel the heat. Panetta warned that 800,000 civilian defense workers nationally would be furloughed. A Jan. 10 Pentagon memorandum from Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter cites programs to save and, more disturbing, “Categories of Approved Near-Term Actions,” noteworthy by the verbs “freeze, terminate, reduce, curtail, cancel, clear.” It’s high time the commander in chief got involved. All he’s done since 2011 is threaten to veto efforts to avoid sequestration. Bumpity-bump down the road goes the never-ending kick-the-can drill. – George R. Worthington, Chula Vista
Drones’ use poses a policy conundrum
In response to “Congress eyes U.S. drone strikes” (Feb. 6): America has increased the number of drone attacks to kill suspected terrorists. How will the U.S. retaliate, if and when the terrorists employ similar undeclared warfare. Will such selected killing be resolved by who has the most, the fastest or deadliest weapon delivered by air.
– Bill Stuart, La Mesa
Immigration and enforcement
In response to “Napolitano: Border is ‘safe’ but not perfect” (Local, Feb. 5): Maybe what Janet Napolitano meant was that the borders were safe for illegals to cross at will. After all, isn’t that what this administration wants? – Margaret O’Canna, Carlsbad
Increased enforcement of laws and regulations [to make] sure people are eligible for employment is not needed. Every person in the country will be legal, so who will they be looking for? – Allen Vanderlinde, Alpine
In response to “Secular San Diegans not faceless unknowns” (Opinion, Feb. 7): Rick Stravinsky uses the word “secularism” in a very strange way. I prefer he call himself and fellow-believers in a non-God universe “atheists,” a perfectly good, understandable word, recognized for centuries and understood by all. “Secular,” on the other hand, has many meanings, most related closely to religion. According to my dictionary, the first meaning is nonreligious, which I think is what Stravinsky strives to achieve. But really, so many things are nonreligious, that it certainly can mean almost anything: farming, for instance, or shoe polish, clocks, cars, vacations. Be specific and call atheists what the word means: against or non-God.
The rest of his argument stands up several straw men and shoots them down. Nonpersuasive, poor little atheist children, victims like so many others in our society, laughed at and taunted. Or this religious looming monster, forcing others into religious practices they disapprove of. History is full of actual instances of forced behavior on both sides, and even today pressures are applied to behave in certain ways. Witness our Super Bowl halftime performance: lewd, crass, loud, sex-saturated. I would say in all ways it was totally secular. Not my cup of tea, but much of present-day America does not agree with me. Live and let live, my sainted mother’s motto.
Atheism’s historic attachment to other than heterosexual behavior is tenuous. Religion’s teaching about sexuality is more likely akin to self-control than to controlling others. People who organize under the mantra of Coalition of Reason should be reasonable. – Patricia Sharp, Carlsbad
In his piece touting the rise of secular San Diegans (Feb. 7, Opinion) Rick Stravinsky has this to say about redefining marriage to accommodate same-sex couples: “Why should we allow the church to utilize the apparatus of the state to impose (her beliefs about marriage) on society at large?” I would ask why should we allow secularists, atheists, agnostics, and homosexual advocates to use the apparatus of the state to impose their beliefs about marriage on society at large?
We have a minority in our society bullying corporations, institutions (e.g. the Boy Scouts) and pretty much everyone to agree with their world view, or get into the closet. They don’t want a rational discussion of what marriage is and what the effects of changing it might be. They want their way. Period.
Mr. Stravinsky says, “If your belief system does not support gay marriage, don’t have one.” Marriage is an institution that affects everyone in society whether they “have one” or not. Respectful discussion – in secular terms – is what is needed on this issue, not having it rammed down our throats by a very vocal and well-funded minority. – Martha Martin, Rancho Peñasquitos
Mariners should note light’s shorter range
In response to “Lighthouse goes LED” (Local, Feb. 7): The Point Loma lighthouse is getting a long-lasting, cheaper light. But I also noticed that the new LED light has a range 10 miles shorter than the old light! I have come home from Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, after running for three days and am so happy to see the lighthouse light before I reached the Coronado Islands! Now I must wait until I get 14 miles or less away instead of 24 miles away before making a course change to enter the San Diego channel.
I hope this shorter range of a lighthouse doesn’t confuse us mariners. This needs to be put out to all of the boating community. Saving money is important, but safety is my goal as a longtime mariner. – Paul Caronna, Scott Jones Yacht Brokers, San Diego
Rail effort not a solution to congestion
The traffic congestion study summarized in Wednesday’s U-T (“Region’s gridlock no worse, study says,” Feb. 6) shows Los Angeles and San Francisco/Oakland metro areas tied for second worst, behind only our nation’s capital in annual delay per commuter. San Diego fares a lot better, but commuters here know how congested many freeways and surface streets regularly get. Congestion within these major metro area costs billions annually and creates massive air pollution.
Enter the planned California High Speed Rail project, approved by voters based on cooked data. The politicians are charging full speed ahead despite a lack of interest by private investors and a state financial picture that requires the highest taxes in the nation to prevent collapse.
Here’s the question: If it is completed, what impact will it have on traffic congestion within each of our metro areas? Answer: Absolutely none, zip, zero, nada! This is simply insanity, and voters should let their legislators know they won’t stand for continuation of this boondoggle. Let’s focus on serious problems, not pie-in-the-sky feel good schemes. – William Bradshaw, San Diego
Where do pharmacies fit into discussion?
Why is it not the case that the discussion of access to “legal” medical marijuana (i.e., prescription required) requires a patient to fill their prescription at an established, licensed pharmacy? Why are the bureaucrats not proposing regulations that allow CVS, RiteAid, etc., to dispense this “drug” similarly to other drugs they sell? Why does attempted legalization always seem to imply the need to establish an entirely new method of dispensing drugs? I must have slept through these discussions. – Mark Bryning, San Diego
What are the criteria?
It’s encouraging that Mayor Filner has taken steps to ensure that traffic law enforcement serves to promote public safety more than to replenish the city’s coffers (“Filner puts a stop to red-light cameras,” Feb. 2).
Now maybe the mayor can investigate whether the police department has any articulable guidelines on when a driver committing an infraction that does not result in injury or property damage is given a ticket and when he or she is reported to the DMV, which will automatically revoke or “indefinitely suspend” the license, prehearing, pending a “re-examination” process that is totally controlled by the hearing officer.
Could the driver’s age, or the fact that the vehicle is “beat up,” possibly have a big influence on how the police exercise this discretion in America’s Finest City? – Andrea Monk, San Diego
Whittling isn’t part of Congress’ DNA
Your editorial “Budget cuts: Surgery beats slaughter” (Feb. 4) rightly suggests we look for lower-level items that can be
reduced or eliminated, rather inflict draconian slashes at higher levels sure to have huge unintended consequences. But, our elected politicians will not consider cutting or reducing lower level items. They focus only on the huge categories of expenditures, and refuse to discuss lower level details. Your approach could remove funding earmarked for that new park in one’s district, which helps ensure his or her re-election. No item can be less important than another.
We have no idea how our tax dollars are being spent! – Leland E. Bolt, San Diego
A matter of degrees
Bart Denson (Letters: Keystone Pipeline, Feb. 2) says there are no “definitive” links between climate change and man-made CO2. Peer-reviewed atmospheric science has discovered that temperatures in the troposphere are increasing while temperatures in the stratosphere above are decreasing, exactly what would be expected as elevated CO2 levels redirect more infrared radiation away from the stratosphere and back to a warming Earth.
Furthermore, he conveniently selects 1998 to 2012 to make his case against global warming due to CO2. It’s true that Earth warmed only slightly by modern standards during this time frame. However, when global temperatures dating back to 1980 are included, we see that Earth has warmed at a rate of 0.17 degrees Celsius per decade. This is 12 times faster than the fastest natural warming rate (0.014 degrees Celsius per decade) in the past 800,000 years. – Wyman E. Hack, El Cajon
An unlucky fate for Lindbergh mural
In response to Matthew T. Hall’s column, “Can airport’s Lindbergh mural really be over and out?” (Local, Feb. 6): Hall says, “So should we restore the mural? Re-create it? Do something else in that space? Should Lindbergh’s legacy continue to fly in San Diego?”
Of course Lindbergh’s legacy should continue to fly in San Diego. The fact is, artist John Whelan’s Lindbergh mural was not good. Charles Lindbergh was a tall, lanky-built person. Slim, actually.
The mural depicted him as very stocky built. That was a fatal flaw. I would like to see the mural replaced with one showing Lindbergh looking like the real Lindy. – James Caldwell, Serra Mesa
I find it outrageous that petty politics and religion should deny the Lindbergh mural to be exhibited at our airport.
Charles Lindbergh is an American and San Diego icon. What kind of people would deny the mural to be exhibited on a wall of our airport? We want that mural on the wall. We want that mural to remind us of the great American Lindbergh was and will forever be, no matter the mean and degrading few who would deny the vast majority of San Diegans who want him on that wall! – Roger G. Lowney, San Diego
Consensus unlikely in Afghanistan
Regarding “Peace talks with Taliban stall” (Feb. 4): Did the U.S. government think two corrupt groups of people – the Taliban and Karzai – could really come to an agreement? With two groups of corrupt, murderous [people] in the same room, nothing gets done.
Sadly, the U.S. government is naive enough to think it will. When our military leaves, [Afghanistan] will go back to how it was and we [will have] wasted lives, taxpayer money and 10 years fighting a useless war promoted by the U.S. government and Karzai. – Paul McClain, Oceanside
Transformation on an unwelcome track
Yes, President Obama has a mandate. Remember, he said he would transform America. That’s it! It is on track, and by the time his next four years are up, he will have arrived at his station.
Good luck to all who voted for socialism. they will find their freedoms have dissipated. – Edith Lawrence, San Diego
Prop. 30 brings stability to schools
This letter is in response to Maureen Magee’s article, “S.D. schools plan no layoffs” (Local, Jan. 23).
For the past few years our Poway Unified School District as well as all San Diego School Districts have had to undergo severe cuts and teacher layoffs due to major budget deficits. Each year I have listened to news reports explaining the recurring story of budgeting problems at the state and local levels that have real effects on our schools and the quality of our education. Each school season brought the fear of more teacher layoffs, more program cuts, and the threat of larger class sizes, all of which have a negative impact on our students, teachers and other educators. For the first time in a long time however, I am happy to learn that this year will be different for all of the San Diego school district.
The passing of Prop. 30, along with selling off surplus properties and using an attrition plan, have all helped to generate new revenue that will stabilize the education budgeting process for S.D. There will be no cuts or layoffs for the San Diego schools this year! I feel that we are turning the comer on the school budgeting crisis with new money coming in from Prop. 30.
In my opinion, there is nothing more important in our world than educating our youth. I know that times are tough and new taxes are hard to swallow, but this tax is an investment in our future economy. This issue is especially important to me as I plan to become a teacher one day myself. For everyone who voted to pass Prop. 30, I thank you. – Laura Lampassi, Poway High School senior, Poway | <urn:uuid:ddb32904-6124-495d-bc4b-219fbd982b22> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/sdut-teacher-solar-food-stamps-pentagon-2013feb08-story.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718285.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00105-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954975 | 3,885 | 1.5625 | 2 |
“Scary – How did you do it? How did you reach 99% of our 230 employees in just 2 hours? You touched a diverse group from Engineers to Sales to Production workers, and at all levels! Thank you for opening our eyes and challenging our thinking – I don’t know how else to put in words the reaction of what took place the day you came.”
– Vanessa A. Human Resources Administrator
VisionHeart is dedicated to eliminating hate, violence, and prejudice in corporations and workplaces around the world. We provide the tools for organizations to create this as a reality in their workplace. We believe that each individual has the capacity to interact with all human behaviour with love, compassion, and understanding “even in the face of negative words or actions” without themselves becoming negative in the process.
The learned behaviour prevalent in society today is based on reactionary energy and the belief that the solutions to conflict live outside of one’s self. Within the foundation of his training, Scary brings all participants to the same level of awareness, that every person is involved to some degree in the use of words as negative energy for communication, unaware of the cycle in which they participate.
The Scary Guy specializes in teaching those who are repeatedly offending themselves and others, either as individuals, teams, or corporate communities. He has 45 years of independent study on the varying behaviors caused by emotional stressors based on zero-emotional intelligence, which is played out at all levels within the multitude of everyday interactions and communications.
VisionHeart delivers core systems and programs to empower the cognitive and emotional health and character of the company, through the empowerment of all individuals within it. Each person is taught to understand the flow of words and non-verbal communication as energy, enabling them to make choices with that knowledge. When you harness the power of each individual’s personal capacity to become responsible for all of their words and actions, you enable them to become successful, healthy, and active contributors, creating growth and development in the company as a whole. | <urn:uuid:a2a2e3a2-ba0b-43e8-bfcd-b08d6c38975a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thescaryguy.com/visionheart/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.96166 | 423 | 1.578125 | 2 |
I figured I'd use rand() to get a number between 0 and 20000 twice to get a random x and y coordinate. This works but it gives me random coordinates from within a square.
What I really need is coordinates within a circle. How can I limit my random x/y to within a circle which has a radius of 20,000?
I've tried a few sample codes online but most of those seem to be for computing spheres and finding the distance between two points on a sphere and I'm not knowledgeable enough to apply those to my usage of just picking a random coordinate within a circle (flat) radius.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
You can get a random
x between -20,000 and 20,000 and use Pythagoras law to get the positive
y value. Then you do a random 0 or 1 to make that value positive or negative.
$r = 20000; $x = rand(-$r, $r); $y = rand(0, 1) ? -sqrt(pow($r, 2) - pow($x, 2)) : sqrt(pow($r, 2) - pow($x, 2)); var_dump($x, $y);
I am not sure how the numbers are distributed exactly but it sounds about right. | <urn:uuid:1e7e9fa0-6e93-4155-9f16-51eb2b259e84> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://codedump.io/share/QoIUT1wX7ZiJ/1/how-can-i-get-a-random-x-and-y-coordinate-inside-a-circle-radius | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280292.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00336-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.899325 | 272 | 2.421875 | 2 |
Born: Mar 18, 1844; Russia
Died: Jun 21, 1908; Russia
Mainly known for his symphonic works, especially the popular symphonic suite Sheherazade, as well as the Capriccio Espagnol and the Russian Easter Festival Overture, Rimsky-Korsakov left an oeuvre that also included operas, chamber works, and songs. Rimsky-Korsakov's music is accessible and engaging owing to his talent for tone-coloring and brilliant orchestration. Furthermore, his operas are masterful musical evocations of myths andRead more legends.
Born in 1844, Rimsky-Korsakov studied the piano as a child but chose a naval career, entering the College of Naval Cadets in St. Petersburg in 1856. However, he continued with piano lessons; in fact, in 1859, Rimsky-Korsakov started working with the French pianist Theodore Canille, through whom he met Balakirev, an important mentor and friend.
In 1862, after graduating form the naval school, Rimsky-Korsakov was at sea for two and a half years, devoting his free time to composition. Upon Rimsky-Korsakov's return to St. Petersburg, in 1865, Balakirev conducted his friend's First Symphony, which was hailed as the first important symphonic work by a Russian composer.
Rimsky-Korsakov was appointed professor of composition and orchestration at the St. Petersburg Conservatory in 1871. The following year, he married Nadezhda Purgold, a pianist. In 1873, Rimsky-Korsakov left active duty, becoming inspector of navy orchestras, a job which he held until 1884.
During the 1870s, Rimsky-Korsakov composed, conducted, and collected Russian folk songs. In 1878, he started composing the opera May Night, after a story by Nikolai Gogol, his first stage work based on a story containing fantastic motifs. Following the production of May Night, in 1880, Rimsky-Korsakov began work on Snow Maiden, based on Nikolai Ostrovsky's poetic retelling of a Slavic myth, which was performed in 1882.
Saddened by Mussorgsky's death, in 1881, Rimsky-Korsakov devoted himself to editing his friend's unpublished manuscripts. A master orchestrator, Rimsky-Korsakov felt obliged to help colleagues whose manuscripts needed revision. Thus, in 1887, when Borodin died, Rimsky-Korsakov agreed to orchestrate and complete Borodin's opera Prince Igor.
Rimsky-Korsakov wrote the Spanish Capriccio in 1887, completing the Russian Easter Overture and Sheherazade the following year. Having composed these resplendent works, however, Rimsky-Korsakov went through a period of despondency; there were deaths in his family, and, in 1893, Tchaikovsky died.
In 1895, Rimsky-Korsakov's Christmas Eve, another opera after a Gogol story, was produced. The composer's subsequent works recreated the rich world of Russian myths and legends. Sadko, completed in 1896, conjured up a medieval Russian legend. In 1901, Rimsky-Korsakov blended the legend of Kitezh and the story of St. Fevroniya to create a complex Christian-pantheistic narrative. Completed in 1905, the year when the politically progressive composer was temporarily dismissed from this teaching post, The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden, was produced in 1907.
Rimsky-Korsakov's last opera, The Golden Cockerel, completed in 1907, was inspired by a politically subversive story by Alexander Pushkin. The production of this work was a struggle, because the subject matter aroused suspicions among government censors. The opera was finally produced, in 1909, the year following the composer's death, by a private opera company in Moscow. Read less
YOU MUST BE A SUBSCRIBER TO LISTEN TO ARKIVMUSIC STREAMING.
TRY IT NOW FOR FREE!
Sign up now for two weeks of free access to the world's best classical music collection. Keep listening for only $0.0/month - thousands of classical albums for the price of one! Learn more about ArkivMusic Streaming | <urn:uuid:2d6283ce-aa42-4f96-af77-c58d01af0644> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/Name/Nikolai-Rimsky-Korsakov/Composer/10151-1&source=KDFC | 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 | 0.963289 | 940 | 3.015625 | 3 |
So I bring you some of the basics, in French.
|A is for aimer|
|A is also for affection and affectueux or affectueuse|
|B is for baiser. The noun, people!!|
|C is for chéri or chérie|
|C is also for cher.|
|E is for embrasser|
|F is for fevrier|
|F is also for fleur. Love the French names!|
And what is Valentine's Day if not toi et moi?
Illustrations from Mon Premier Larousse en couleurs, 1953 | <urn:uuid:285c2e67-8dff-4839-ba3d-7c6b4a785c57> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://pollyvousfrancais.blogspot.com/2014/02/10-little-french-words-to-know-for.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988725475.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183845-00509-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.822788 | 134 | 1.523438 | 2 |
4 years old by October 15
These groups are getting ready for that big leap to Kindergarten. They require a well-rounded curriculum of math, reading readiness, stories, the alphabet, music, computer, cooking, art, social studies, dramatics,
and gross motor activities.
Monthly themes and field trips make learning fun and incorporate the academic, social and physical skills essential to that all-important time ahead
After School Program
In this highly successful group setting, children actually have a vote in the activities of the day. In response to their choices, the Growing Tree staff plans a wide range of outdoor activities, original arts and crafts,games and snacks.
Of course, the after-school agenda includes supervised homework.
The Falcons are also welcome on school holidays, vacations, and in the Summer. | <urn:uuid:7039778e-b269-4856-96cd-65a02aa0dd39> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thegrowingtreepreschool.net/classes | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00666.warc.gz | en | 0.936288 | 192 | 2.375 | 2 |
I've thought about this a lot, and I believe there's some sort of magic woven into the cloak by Ignotus Peverell that ensures the cloak will stay within the family line.
The first clue is in the Tales of Beedle the Bard:
"But though Death searched for the third brother for many years, he was never able to find him. It was only when he had attained a great age that the youngest brother finally took off the Cloak of Invisibility and gave it to his son. And then he greeted Death as an old friend, and went with him gladly, and, equals, they departed this life."
Although this story is from a children's fable, some believe it has factual roots -- quirky Xenophilius, of course, as well as Dumbledore and Grindelwald among them. The fable chronicles not only the items of legend, but also the manner in which they change possession.
Nega-Dumbledore later states:
“The Cloak, as you know now, traveled down through the ages, father to son, mother to daughter, right down to Ignotus’s last living descendant, who was born, as Ignotus was, in the village of Godric’s Hollow.”
None of this is even remotely conclusive proof, of course. But it does lend evidence to explain how, despite Harry's cavalier, negligent treatment of the cloak, he never lost ownership of it. Each time Harry and his cloak were parted, they were infallibly reunited. Imagine if the cloak were a hundred dollar bill. Would the following statements remain true?
In book 1, Harry leaves the cloak at the top of the tower after handing off Norbert to Charlie's associates. Dumbledore returns it later.
In the Prisoner of Azkaban, he tosses it aside at the base of the Whomping Willow. Snape helpfully brings it to Harry in the Shrieking Shack. Harry, determined to lose the thing, leaves it behind yet again. Lupin eventually retrieves it and returns it to Harry.
When Harry is captured by Umbridge in her school office, the cloak is left in a heap on the floor yet again. Nothing more is said of the cloak for the rest of the book; but apparently, miraculously, all the Slytherins ignore it and it is somehow returned to Harry's possession by the next book. Despite his most fervent efforts, Harry can't seem to rid himself of the cloak.
On the train in Half-Blood Prince, Harry tumbles out of the luggage rack and loses his cover. Malfoy graciously replaces the cloak over Harry, tucking him in like a caring mother. Later, the cloak is again tossed aside at the top of the Astronomy tower, where it remains all but forgotten until the next book.
Additionally, the cloak is not summonable. In Deathly Hallows:
“Accio Cloak!” roared one of the Death Eaters.
Harry seized its folds, but it made no attempt to escape: The Summoning Charm had not worked on it.
I believe the reason for this is two-fold. Obviously, an anti-summoning charm would add to the perfection of the invisibility offered by the cloak. Secondly, it would be one of possibly many enchantments preventing the cloak from being stolen.
There are situations where others borrow the cloak -- Snape, at the Whomping Willow; Ron and Hermione, scouting the Ministry of Magic; and Dumbledore from James as he was investigating the Deathly Hallows. But it's clear that they all considered Harry to be the owner of the cloak. If Draco had taken the cloak against Harry's wishes, I'm guessing he would do so not intending to give it back -- which is what the hypothesized enchantments would prevent. Evidence suggests that anyone who comes across the cloak has a compulsion to intend to return it to its owner. | <urn:uuid:f07aefed-f103-4d04-b8f3-a6b4ab18b77d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83919/why-didnt-malfoy-take-the-cloak-after-performing-petrificus-totalus/83955 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570651.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807150925-20220807180925-00466.warc.gz | en | 0.975328 | 818 | 2.015625 | 2 |
Detailed human health and environmental risk assessment of some 1,000 active substances authorised for use in pesticides before 1991 has led to the removal of more than two thirds of them from the market.
The risk assessment review evaluated each substance with respect to the health of consumers, farmers, groundwater and non-target organisms, such as birds, mammals, earthworms and bees.
According to the European Commission, there were around 1,000 active substances contained in tens of thousands of products on the market when the review was launched in 1993.
The review has led “to the removal from the market of more than two thirds of these substances,” said Health Commissioner Androulla Vassiliou, presenting the final results last week.
The majority of substances, about 67%, were eliminated because “dossiers were either not submitted, were incomplete or were withdrawn by the industry,” the Commission said. Some 70 substances were withdrawn from the market because the evaluation revealed risks to human health and the environment.
Another 250 substances (26%) passed the harmonised EU safety assessment. A database of the approved active substances is being launched today (16 March 2009).
Late last year, the European Parliament and the Council reached agreement on new market authorisation rules for pesticides proposed by the Commission in July 2006 (EurActiv 19/12/08). The regulation, set to enter into force later in 2009, replaces the 1991 Directive on market authorisation of pesticides, under which the sixteen-year review was conducted, and thus restarts the assessment process for substances that are currently authorised.
The new regulation tightens the environmental and health criteria for approval, introduces a ban on certain toxic chemicals and establishes the principle of compulsory mutual recognition of market authorisation inside three geographical zones (north, centre and south) of the EU.
- European Commission:Commission completes pesticide review programme – an important step to ensure the protection of health and environment(12 March 2009)
- European Commission:Database on active substances
- European Commission:Plant Protection - Evaluation & Authorisation
- European Food Safety Agency (EFSA):Pesticide Risk Assessment Peer Review Unit (PRAPeR) | <urn:uuid:91860a4f-ba2b-4d52-8fd4-3cf14f0fe8bc> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.euractiv.com/section/agriculture-food/news/eu-completes-16-year-pesticide-review/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720153.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00324-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953095 | 442 | 2.25 | 2 |
http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php ... 97,0,0,1,0
This documentary is made by filmmaker David Grubin and narrated by Richard Gere.
It tells the story of the Buddha's life, a journey especially relevant to our own bewildering times of violent change and spiritual confusion.
It features the work of some of the world's greatest artists and sculptors, who across two millennia, have depicted the Buddha's life in art rich in beauty and complexity. Hear insights into the ancient narrative by contemporary Buddhists, including Pulitzer Prize winning poet W.S. Merwin and His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
This documentary is brought to you by http://www.comethailand.com.
A place to post videos, pictures, and any other sort of Buddhist or non-Buddhist media.
1 post • Page 1 of 1
Who is online
Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 8 guests | <urn:uuid:add32573-e6ca-45e4-9c9f-f1d75cb9444c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.dharmawheel.net/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=6787 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280761.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00098-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.920331 | 201 | 1.929688 | 2 |
The Food & Friends kitchen and grocery pantry are always hopping with activity! We prepare more than 3,000 meals each day, so it takes many helping hands to make sure all the food is prepped, portioned and packaged correctly. Food & Friends' kitchen is a fun, hands-on atmosphere where you can learn as much about how to chop an onion as you can about the volunteer who is chopping next to you. No culinary experience is needed, just a willingness to pitch-in and get the job done. You must be at least 14 years old to volunteer in the kitchen and 18 years old to use knives or other slicing equipment.
Kitchen shifts are available the following days and times (with flexibility):
Monday-Thursday: 7:00-9:00 a.m., 9:00 a.m.-Noon, 1:00-3:00 p.m., 5:30-8:00 p.m.
Grocery pantry shifts are available the following days and times (with flexibility):
Monday-Friday: 8:00-10:00 a.m., 10:00 a.m.-Noon
If you are interested in becoming a kitchen or grocery pantry volunteer, please email firstname.lastname@example.org. | <urn:uuid:fa2ab884-57b2-45e0-98df-6c18d8fbce78> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.foodandfriends.org/site/pp.asp?c=ckLSI8NNIdJ2G&b=7565163 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720468.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00487-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940424 | 261 | 1.554688 | 2 |
Donnie Ray Koonce is a professional basketball player who plays Forward ; Shooting guard as number 30. Koonce was born on June 13, 1959, in North Carolina. Koonce’s weight is 190 pounds. Koonce’s height is 6 ft 3 in. This article takes a deep dive into Donnie Ray Koonce’s net worth.
In high school, Donnie Ray Koonce played basketball for Jones Senior (Trenton, North Carolina). Koonce played basketball in college with Charlotte 49ers men’s basketball (1977-1981). In the 1981 draft, Koonce was chosen number 89 in round 4 by the Detroit Pistons.
Koonce played for the Atlantic City Hi-Rollers (CBA) during 1981-1982 as well as the Toyota Super Corollas (PBA) in 1982. Later, Koonce played for the San Miguel Beermen (PBA) throughout 1983, and the Alaska Aces (PBA) (PBA) over 1986.
Basketball annual payments range between a few thousand dollars and millions of dollars annually, depending on a number of factors. Although on average, NBA players earn a salary of about $2 million, a small contingent of players with D-league crossover contracts are paid as little as $50,000. The salary cap for NBA players is around $100 million, although as of today no player makes anywhere near that amount. The top players earn close to $35 million. Outside of the NBA, yearly earnings can dip below $20,000 per year for minor league teams.
So what is basketball player Donnie Ray Koonce’s net worth in 2018? Our estimate for Donnie Ray Koonce’s net worth as of 2018 is:
Looking for other basketball players? Check out these basketball net worth articles: Frank Ramsey, Alex Acker, Paul Silas, Jordan Aboki, Jeff Ferguson, Jan Veselý, Koko Archibong, Mark Dean, Marina Kress, Pierluigi Marzorati, and Derek Anderson. | <urn:uuid:128cb245-fbcf-4717-a4ed-781740c789bb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thesquander.com/donnie-ray-koonce-net-worth-2018-what-basketball-player-worth-1715154562 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00066.warc.gz | en | 0.955738 | 434 | 1.664063 | 2 |
What Proficiency-Based Grading Means for Your Student by Logan Smith was originally published on gettingsmart.com
Ed note: According to competencyworks.org, proficiency-based grading is a system of grading that is “1) Connected to clearly defined learning objectives. 2) Separate academic achievement from behaviors, and, 3) Focused on learning progress.”
The new Standards-Based grading system currently used throughout the U.S. education system is significantly different from the letter-grade system that most parents grew up with.
This system is designed to allow high-achieving students to progress more rapidly through the curriculum, and ensure that all students reach a certain lower bound of proficiency. Each student’s level of achievement can be measured, and the over-all degree of learning advancement attained by the entire class can also be more accurately determined.
Basic Overview of the Proficiency-Based Grading System
1. Grades have a clear translation
Under the older letter-based grading method, there is a lack of consistency in what level of achievement a particular letter-grade represents, and where the cut-off is between different grades. Grading has a large subjective element, and varies between different subjects. In the humanities, for instance, being able to answer 90 percent of the questions correctly might be considered “A”-level work, but in the sciences this might be as low as 40 percent, because there are clearer “right” and “wrong” answers and more room for mistakes.
Proficiency-based grading eliminates this ambiguity by setting specific lower bounds on achievement. Students do not progress through the curriculum until they have demonstrated proficiency in the subject-area, based on concrete criteria. This allows a teacher to determine what level of material is appropriate for each student, and which students need extra instruction or remedial teaching in order to excel. Each grade is a descriptive qualification that helps to identify each student’s strengths and weaknesses.
2. Grading Criteria Are Constantly Evaluated
Proficiency-based grading takes the guesswork out of assigning different weights to homework and tests. Standards of proficiency create concrete targets toward which assignments can be geared, so that teachers can focus on teaching toward specific learning objectives and assessing each student’s level of proficiency.
3. Examples of Standards-based Grading in the Classroom
In a study out of New York University, Lorena Llosa wrote about researchers in California who were validating whether or not standards-based grading assessment of English proficiency for English-language learners “measured the same constructs” as that of the standardized state test. The study sampled fourth grade students from eight schools with “a majority population of English-language learners—50 percent or more.”
All schools were located in an urban area of California. 1,124 students total were tested. After initiating and comparing results from the two tests, researchers found that “overall, [the] study concludes that the evidence gathered via the ELD Classroom Assessment tends to be consistent with that provided by the CELDT, the standardized measure.”
Another study performed a similar test, and examined whether the Center for Research on Education, Diversity & Excellence’s (CREDE) standards-based grading system could effectively reflect achievement of “at-risk American Indian eighth graders studying mathematics”. The study noted that the traditional method of mathematics instruction is “ineffective for many students, particularly students from certain cultural minority groups” (National Center for Education Statistics, 2000).
The study tested 31 mathematics students, ages 13-16, from two reservation middle schools in the Southwestern United States. Researchers found that “This study found that students instructed in a manner consistent with CREDE’s pedagogy standards had greater achievement than students instructed with traditional mathematics instruction,” though because of the small sample size, “these results merely approached statistical significance.”
Researchers hypothesized, however, that “these same results might have proved significant had they been achieved by a larger sample.” (R.Soleste Hilberg, Roland G. Tharp & Leo DeGeest, 2000).
The Potential Benefits of Proficiency-Based Grading
1. Curriculum structure aids students at all levels
The re-structuring of curricula benefits gifted students by allowing and encouraging them to progress at their own faster pace, and creates the space for them to do so. At the same time, slower learners are not penalized for taking a longer time to finish assignments and meet course requirements. Adjusted assignments and evaluations do not call for grading modifications.
2. Proficiency-based grading reveals substantive quality
When students are required to meet certain standards in the classroom, they learn to evaluate their own skill levels and growth. When students continuously revise their own performance levels, they attain higher levels of self-sufficiency and self-worth. Patricia L. Scriffiny, a math teacher at Montrose High School in Montrose, Colorado, reports that the standards-based grading system has been used very successfully in her school during the past three years. Many students have excelled in their studies and gained high levels of excellence in their objectives and achievements.
3. Standards-based grading can trigger additional educational reforms
When grading and achievement standards are clearly defined, school curricula are often re-evaluated and revised. The needs of students at all learning levels are addressed, and parents can more easily comprehend the deficiencies, progress, achievements or pronounced advancements of their children.
Since alternative assessments are provided for students who have difficulty testing, both students and parents are relieved of the anxieties and fears of student course failures. Parents appreciate opportunities for students to retest when ready, and slower achievers show strong improvement over time and often begin to excel.
A study from the Journal for Research in Mathematics Education evaluated performance in standards-based and traditional algebra classes. Researchers found that while both practices were “positively related to performance”, the methods by which traditional and standards-based students are measured makes comparing the two practices difficult.
They concluded “instructional practices may need to be coupled with changes in curriculum to realize effects on student achievement.” A reform in instructional practices and curriculum, however, may ultimately help all students.
What This Means for Your Child
One notable characteristic of proficiency-based grading that many parents have remarked on is its similarity to the currently used workplace evaluations of employees. These similarities can greatly enhance the ability of teachers to prepare students for the real world outside the classroom. The result for your child is the chance for a high-quality education that is delivered at a pace that doesn’t leave them lagging behind their peers.
Citations: R.Soleste Hilberg, Roland G. Tharp & Leo DeGeest (2000): The Efficacy of CREDE’s Standards‐based
Instruction in American Indian Mathematics Classes, Equity & Excellence in Education, 33:2, 32-40
Daniel F McCaffrey; Laura S Hamilton; Brian M Stecher; Stephen P Klein; Delia Bugliari; Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, Nov., 2001, vol. 32, no. 5, p. 493-517
Image attribution flickr user travishorn; bonus points if you can explain why there is a dog in the picture; What Proficiency-Based Learning (And Grading) Mean for Your Student; What Is Proficiency-Based Grading? | <urn:uuid:da068a7a-538f-42d5-9e8f-37a853b4d058> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.teachthought.com/pedagogy/assessment/what-proficiency-based-learning-mean-for-your-student/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281331.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00228-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946264 | 1,555 | 3.59375 | 4 |
We usually think of technology as a fairly straightforward entity.
This is even true for complex areas such as medical technology.
We imagine that a discovery is made, technology implements that new knowledge and it all ends up in the hands of the people who need it the most.
But the reality is often far more complex.
We tend to see more branching paths in the world of medical technology than straight lines.
For example, consider stem cell-related technologies.
These have been under heavy discussion for decades.
But we still don’t really see them used anywhere except for the most advanced hospitals.
The average doctor’s office can’t make use of it.
As such, we’d hardly think it could appear in the home of the average person who needs it.
But what if the reason simply came down to lack of proper implementation?
Basically, if the people doing the research weren’t integrating other cutting-edge features in order to advance their techniques to the next level.
That’s actually the exact case for a number of important medical techniques.
Thankfully, we can read through LifeWave reviews and find relief in the fact that people are still getting to use those important technologies.
The main reason comes down to the fact that LifeWave is willing to jump forward down the path of medical research rather than letting itself be constrained to the standard path.
With stem cell technologies, LifeWave began work in their in-house labs.
They first tackled the issue of power consumption by finding a way to convert the body’s thermal output to usable energy.
Next, they worked out a way to leverage the photoactivation of stem cells into their system.
Finally, by tying all of that together they were able to create adhesive patches which could stimulate stem cell activation in the skin.
The LifeWave reviews all go into detail regarding just how much this and similar breakthroughs have helped them go about their life.
It’s often like seeing a wellness oasis in a landscape of ill health. As difficult as people’s struggles might be, they’ve been able to find relief with LifeWave.
And it shows that we sometimes need to jump to the next place on the road of technological development.
Thankfully LifeWave has been able to do exactly that. | <urn:uuid:95727777-a5f6-46b3-a2c5-623fd68691b4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://danielfinnigan.com/lifewafe-reviews-highlight-the-need-to-occasionally-jump-ahead-in-the-world-of-technological-progression/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00271.warc.gz | en | 0.954088 | 479 | 2.390625 | 2 |
The Professional Preparation section lists academic qualifications such as degrees and diplomas. Each record stores the degree, major, institution and year. The records can also be hidden from public view by checking the hide checkbox. Please click here for available slides.
The Research and Expertise section describes the areas in which you have expertise or are involved in research. Research Explorer's search engine indexes data in this field for keyword searches. Please click here for available slides.
Decision-making: negotiation, cooperation, trust, reputation building, social utility, strategic learning. Economic design: market trust systems and negotiation decision support. Methods: experimental (lab) economics, game theory.
The Publications section lists any and all publications worked on. Research Explorer's search engine indexes data in this field for keyword searches. The category field is a user defined field where any number of categories can be created by the user to categorize publications. For example, publications can be categorized by the Journal that they appear in. Please click here for available slides.
Bolton, Ben Greiner and Axel Ockenfels, Engineering Trust: Reciprocity in the production of reputation information, Management Science, forthcoming.
Bolton, Axel Ockenfels and Ulrich W. Thonemann, Managers and students as newsvendors, Management Science, forthcoming.
Bolton and Jeannette E, Brosig-Koch, How do coalitions get built? Evidence from an extensive form coalition game with and without communication, International Journal of Game Theory, 2012, 41, 623-649.
Bolton and Axel Ockenfels, Behavioral economic engineering, Journal of Economic Psychology, 2012, 33, 665-676.
Bolton, Axel Ockenfels and Felix Ebeling, Information value and externalities in reputation building, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2010, 29, 23- 33.
The Affiliations section lists affiliations with various organizations within the University or external. Research Explorer's search engine indexes data in this field for keyword searches. Please click here for available slides.
Institute for Operation Research and the Management Sciences
American Economic Association
The Appointments section lists work experience including previous appointments. Research Explorer's search engine indexes data in this field for keyword searches. Please click here for available slides.
When Dr. Gary Bolton started college, inflation was at its highest point in decades. U.S. manufacturing was on the decline. And an oil shortage forced rising gas prices and long lines at the pump.
“As a kid growing up in the ‘70s, I would read the newspaper and wonder why the economy was so messed up,” he said.
Bolton’s interest in the economic conditions as a youth inspired an academic career that has been distinguished by prestigious academic appointments, multiple National Science Foundation grants, dozens of articles in top economic journals and speaking engagements around the world.
Last fall, Bolton, a professor of managerial economics, was named O.P. Jindal Chair and co-director of the Center and Laboratory for Behavioral Operations and Economics in the Naveen Jindal School of Management. He runs the center with Dr. Elena Katok, his wife, an Ashbel Smith Professor of Operations Management.
The Additional Information section describes any other topics you wish to display on your profile that is not in another section. Research Explorer's search engine indexes data in this field for keyword searches. Please click here for available slides.
Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS)
American Economic Association (AEA)
Economic Science Association (ESA)
Please verify the information in this request and mention any changes or suggestions in the comments section. Email notifications and confirmations regarding this will be sent to you at fromEmail and the profile owner. If you would like to receive it at a different email address, please change the email address listed on your profile. | <urn:uuid:5dbbc65d-ec4e-4735-8730-ac2ccae49df9> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://explorer.utdallas.edu/editprofile.php?pid=1003431 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282926.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00390-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.884657 | 809 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Central Australian Aboriginal Congress welcomes the report of the NT Legislative Select Committee on Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD)i, which shows a comprehensive understanding of the issues in the broader public health context.
“It is really significant to have a parliamentary report whose authors grasp the need for public health measures for the whole community, as well as for pregnant women and their children,” said Congress CEO Donna Ah Chee.
We know that FASD causes permanent changes to a child’s brain. Whilst early detection may reduce the risk of adverse long-term effects, we must act early, even before women realise they are pregnant if these terrible conditions are to be prevented. We need to reduce excessive consumption of alcohol by all – women and men alike.
“The report gives formal acknowledgement to key alcohol policies that Congress has advocated for many years including a ‘floor’ or Minimum Unit Price (MUP) on take-away alcohol set at the cost of full-strength beer, currently around $1.30 per standard drink. This is the first time any NT Government report has recognised the importance of this key public health strategy and it is very welcome,” said Ms Ah Chee.
“Another recommendation is the need for effective pregnancy and early childhood programs so that all children can maximise their potential, including those who are exposed to alcohol both in pregnancy and in the early years after birth. Parental support programs such as the Nurse Family Partnership program are recommended for wider implementation, as well as the Abecedarian Educational Day Care approach that works directly with children.
“Too many reports acknowledge the need to address early childhood but fail to say exactly what needs to be done. I really commend the courage of this Committee.”
Last week the Foundation for Alcohol Research (FARE) released a report into alcohol’s impact on children and families. The Hidden Harm, launched by Australian of the Year, Rosie Batty, further reinforces the issues that Congress put to the NT Select Committee, of which it has clearly taken note.
“It’s obvious that being raised in an alcohol-fuelled unpredictable, chaotic and frightening household is very deleterious to children. It affects their education, development and general well-being, and it certainly increases the likelihood of health problems. The Select Committee members have understood the significance of all of this,” said Ms Ah Chee.
The report also recommends other population-wide measures to reduce alcohol consumption and harm, including point of sale supply reduction measures such as the police Temporary Beat Locations (TBLs).
“Since the recent reduction in TBL coverage in Alice Springs we have seen an increase in access to grog, and consequent drunken behaviour. This has put a strain on all emergency services. The harm to young children from this is preventable. If the TBLs are not fully enforced then they must be replaced with the use of photo ID at the point of sale to get the same result. For the sake of our kids we cannot afford to go backwards on this supply reduction strategy,” Ms Ah Chee continued.
The report also recommends improved treatment services including special services for children with FASD.
“This report could prompt a real change in the struggle to address alcohol and one of its most serious effects – FASD. I congratulate and applaud the courage of this Select Committee and urge the government to implement all of the recommendations,” Ms Ah Chee concluded. | <urn:uuid:8e9e4964-f29a-4744-a20e-1912ed95d8cb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.caac.org.au/news/nt-legislative-assembly-committee-leads-the-nation-in-its-fasd-report/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.960845 | 720 | 2.15625 | 2 |
The Nikolo-Naberezhnaya Church or Church of St. Nicholas on the Embankment (Церковь Николы Набережного). An elegant and artistic wall hanging was delicately made using pyrography, or decoration by wood burning. Titled and signed "Церковь Николы Набережного XVIII by Анохов В". Circa 1991 or shortly after. 9½" x 11½". 1 only.
The Nikolo-Naberezhnaya Church (Church of St. Nicholas on the Embankment) is located on the high bank of the Oka River in Murom, Vladimir Region. Church legend has it that Nikolai the Wonderworker appeared there several times. The church was first mentioned in 1566, when it was still a wood structure, and it was also said that Ivan the Terrible visited Murom on the eve of his campaign to take Kazan. The stone church was built in 1700-1717. In 1940 the church was shut down and later ignominiously transformed into a poultry farm. In 1991, the church was transferred to the Vladimir-Suzdal diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church and resumed services. | <urn:uuid:16aa7852-1550-4100-bb51-d4e3db977d27> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://therussianshop.com/church-of-st-nicholas-on-the-embankment/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.966009 | 292 | 2.078125 | 2 |
A new satellite that promises to bring broadband Internet to homes and businesses across Europe and the Mediterranean was successfully launched on Sunday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Eutelsat's Ka-Sat is due in service in 2011 and is the third broadband Internet satellite to be launched in the last six weeks. SkyTerra-1, on which Ka-Sat's technology is based, was launched in mid-November and will provide service across North America while Hylas-1 was launched at the end of November and will target Europe. (See the Ka-Sat launch on YouTube.)
Ka-Sat will cover the continent with 80 spot beams -- focused signals that cover an area a few hundred kilometers across. Unlike traditional satellite beams that cover all or most of a continent, spot beams allow for frequencies to be effectively reused in multiple regions without interference. The result is increased capacity.
Each of the spot beams will have an overall capacity of 900Mbps, shared between all users, and the entire satellite will have a capacity of 70Gbps.
The same spot beam system is being used by the two other recently-launched broadband satellites. SkyTerra-1 covers North America with 500 spot beams while Hylas-1 covers the U.K., Ireland, Spain, Portugal and Eastern Europe via eight regional spot beams.
Eutelsat already offers a satellite broadband service called TooWay. It was launched in 2009 and provides a two-way satellite broadband connection with download speed of up to 3.6Mbps for around
Ka-Sat will enable TooWay to boost speeds to around 10Mbps from the satellite and 4Mbps up to the satellite.
The satellite is also being eyed for other services including local digital TV and digital cinema distribution.
Prices for reception equipment and the service haven't been announced. Eutelsat said the price of reception equipment should benefit from being based on the same basic technology as SkyTerra. | <urn:uuid:bf3772b2-2ac7-410f-a4f2-0338dd443716> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.pcworld.com/article/214937/article.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280730.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00256-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950476 | 398 | 1.960938 | 2 |
Stories about Humanitarian Response from April, 2010
Lin Zhao (林昭）, a Peking University student, was arrested in 1960 during the Anti-Rightist Campaign launched by Mao Zedong in 1957 and sentenced to death on 29 of April (today) in 1968, 42 years ago at the age of 35. She could have exchanged for her freedom and life by...
Martin from Kurashi blogs about the recent protest in Tokyo calling for the Japanese Parliament to remove the U.S. marine air base from Futenma, Okinawa in the city of Ginowan.
Adventures in Life visits downtown Port-au-Prince, while Chronicles of an Unplanned Return blogs about Haiti's school system.
Signifyin’ Guyana thinks the actions of the country's President have something endearing about them, adding: “I hope it turns out to be a lasting positive part of his legacy…”
Indiscrétions tells the story [Fr] of a Haitian girl deported from Guadeloupe by the French customs authority, for allegedly presenting fake identity documents at the airport, while Gwakafwika announces [Fr Cr] a conference about Guadeloupean immigration in Haiti from the 1800s to the 1900s.
Nick Fielding reflects on the plans to reintegrate Taliban fighters back into society of Aghanistan, reviewing a new report by the Afghan Analysts Network.
Although they are neighbors, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan are worlds apart economically and politically. Annasoltan examines some of the big differences with some potentially controversial arguments.
A mainstream media news story which highlights “the problems posed by continued food aid to Haiti”, grabs the attention of Ellen in Haiti, who says: “The problem with the article is that it just talks about food aid….in Port au Prince. There is so much else in Haiti that needs...
Pop star Madonna shares her motivation to help Malawian girls: Having lost my mother at such a young age, I felt a close connection to these children. Their stories had touched my own. In a country of 14 million, a staggering one million children have been left alone with the...
Discussions of the Kazakhstani bloggers this week were centered around three topics, all related to the deep-rooted problems of governance in the country.
The Haitian Blogger agrees that the goals of non-governmental organisations in Haiti should be “to put themselves out of business.”
Between local government attempts to keep news of the Yushu earthquake contained and China's top leaders calling for "all-out" assistance from the public, desire from offline and virtual civil society to contribute to rescue efforts any way they can has been loud and forward.
The Haitian Blogger questions the presence of the American Red Cross in Haiti.
Lebanese blogger Mireille shares her friend Rita‘s plan of shaving her head to “break the chemo-therapy taboo and the conventional beauty standards” and to “raise awareness and funds for cancer” in her latest post.
PH from veggie discourse translated a story about a 85-year old Anhui elder died from starvation. To this, village cadre Cheng Xiangan replied: “Who told him not to have a son (as in, Cheng Baoping deserved to be in the helpless circumstance).”
A National Taiwan University graduate student, Lee Nien Lung, was sentenced to 18 months in prison in the end of March 2010 under the charge of animal cruelty. The sentence given to Lee Nien-lung by the Taipei District Court for abusing and killing three cats is the longest in Taiwan’s...
The Haitian Blogger calls PBS’ recent documentary on the Haitian earthquake “distorted”, saying: “It would have been great if the writers and producers of ‘The Quake’ had offered a documentary that was not only representative of the immediate aftermath of the devastating earthquake, but was also an accurate historical, political,...
Madonna blogs from Malawi about Raising Malawi Academy: “Our academy will educate, protect, and empower 450 young girls who are Malawi’s hope for the future. We will stop the brain drain happening in so many African nations—our students will receive an internationally competitive education while incorporating local values.”
Taiwan is the 9th country that publishes The Big Issue. Li Chi Zhong, the founder of Roodo Blog, introduces this model to Taiwan with a hope to develop a new type of social business. One month before publishing the first issue, bigissue.tw started its Facebook fan page to recruit volunteers. So far it has 27,000 fans.
July Dream wrote about a blood donation drive organized on April Fool's Day in Myanmar. | <urn:uuid:4a14d64b-7513-45a8-9246-04385be1452d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://globalvoices.org/-/topics/humanitarian-response/?m=201004 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00670.warc.gz | en | 0.945472 | 993 | 1.734375 | 2 |
How do I change Inches to Decimal Feet and Avoid
2. What are the Basic Area and Volume Formulas?
3. Why Converting Units will be One of the Most Useful Things You will Ever Learn?
4. How do I Learn the Basics of Math and Algebra?
5. How do I Know When to Fold-'em in Texas Hold-'em?
6. What are 3 Useful Trigonometry Concepts?
7. Tricks of the Trade & Rules of Thumb for Basic Math:
Bud Caldwell, one of the best Superintendents I ever worked with, taught me the value of changing inches into decimal feet. We were reviewing a shop drawing for a piece of equipment with lots of anchor bolts, and everything was in feet, inches and fractions of an inch. In his head, he quickly converted the inches and fractions of an inch into decimal feet, so we could easily add and check dimensions. He showed me a wonderful little trick of the trade that I've used for over 25 years. The inches to decimal feet conversion table shows illustrates the information.
As you know, adding fractions challenges most of us. We probably learned the concept of lowest common denominator at some point, but struggle to remember how to actually use it. So to add feet and inches, we have to deal with fractions and with that 12" in a foot concept, which means we have to add by hand, using pencil and paper. Special calculators for adding feet, inches and fractions of inches are available, but they always seemed difficult to use for me. So adding a string of dimensions in feet, inches and fractions of an inch gets much easier if we can simply convert to decimal feet.
Numerous situations occur where these conversions help:
Let's use accessible route as an example. Say the building finished floor elevation is 401' - 6 1/4" and the grade at the parking space is 400.14'. The sidewalk between the parking space and the front door has a distance of 30'. Now you probably know that an accessible route has a maximum slope of 5%, or it becomes a ramp and needs handrails. So 401' - 6 1/4" converts to 401.52. Then subtract 400.14 to find the grade change of 1.38'. To find the slope, divide the grade change of 1.38' by the distance of 30' to get a slope of .046 or 4.6%, which is less than the maximum of 5% allowed by code. So it works.
To figure how much concrete to order for a slab on grade, you need to know some basic area and volume formulas. Most of us understand that length times the width times the thickness gives us the volume. We may need a bit more help, though, when the things aren't rectangular or other complexities arise. Let's start with an example and work through how to utilize the geometry of common shapes.
Hopefully, the example above makes sense to you and simply illustrates a few useful concepts. If you need some help understanding the example, you may want to review the US Navy Basic Math and Algebra training class. This course give lots of basic and more advanced information for understanding math.
The areas and volumes of common geometric shapes probably don't need to be memorized. It's usually simple just to know where to easily find the formulas. By knowing how to use these formulas, you will be able to solve many construction problems, such as:
These questions and many more get solved by knowing how to calculate
the areas and volumes of
I remember learning how to convert units in Biology Class in high school. I've used that skill ever since that time and it has helped me solve many problems (and avoid lots of mistakes). The process of converting units is simple and powerful. The secret to consistently getting the right answers lies in always listing the units and taking the time to cancel the units as you proceed through the process. A few examples shown below in "Converting Units - Examples" which illustrates the process clearly.
By learning to solve problems by setting up simple math problems, you will be amazed at how many complicated issues you can understand and problems you can solve. The problem solver with a good attitude advances, making more money and getting more responsibility. So take the time to learn how to set up simple math problems that help you convert units. Use this same technique every time:
This simple little technique can really help you.
The ability to use math as a tool can separate you from many others in the construction field. Just as carpenters work at a level above laborers partly because of their skill with tools, you can work at a higher level with the ability to formulate and solve number problems.
The US Navy Basic Math and Algebra course provides instruction that assumes no prior knowledge. You can use this course in one of two ways:
The advantage of working through the entire course comes from the
fact that math knowledge builds on itself. The more clearly you
understand the basic building blocks of math, the better you will learn
and retain more advanced concepts. The disadvantage of working through
the entire course is the time it will take and that you will probably
learn many things that aren't directly applicable to construction.
You don't really need to know anything about Probability and Statistics for construction (at least I don't think you do). So why do I include the US Navy Probability and Statistics courses? It's cool stuff to know.
Understanding basic probability theory helps you understand life. To have a basic grasp of how random events happen will allow you to better assess risks and rewards. And it helps your poker game! You can check out some teaching about probability at the US Navy Pre-Calculus and Probability course.
Statistics, on the other hand, is the math that helps you understand large bunches of information. We use statistics to help us make informed decisions. A construction company, as an example, may be concerned with improving productivity for its trades people. As various bits of information is analyzed, perhaps they find that the absenteeism on Fridays is significantly higher than any other day. Statistics can be used to help understand how much of that absenteeism is just random or if it's a significant finding. Say the statistics indicate a substantially higher absenteeism on Fridays, then the company looks for causes. The employees get their paychecks on Thursday afternoons. So now there is a management choice to be made.
Many construction companies use quality improvement programs that
utilize statistics. If a company wants to improve results, they must
understand what's really going on in their day to day processes. To
understand how processes are truly working, we need to measure things,
then try to figure out what is significant. Statistics help us
understand what is really going on. Some good teaching on statistics can
be found in the
US Navy Introduction to Statistics course.
When most people hear "Trigonometry", they they assume it's something they could never understand nor use. I've actually never had a course on trigonometry, so I'm no expert, but I learned three really useful things on my own. Sine, Cosine and Tangent help me solve all sorts of problems. If I'm actively involved in building anything, I'm using these few simple formulas. The figure below explains the concepts and gives some examples.
If you want some more information on trigonometry, see the
US Navy Trigonometry course. | <urn:uuid:cd4ec704-6510-4dea-ba54-0efd32964d2c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.constructionknowledge.net/general_technical_knowledge/general_tech_basic_math.php?category=General | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281574.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00026-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950244 | 1,532 | 3.4375 | 3 |
Remember when people could still deny climate change with a relatively straight face? It wasn't really that long ago. Halfway through this decade, say in 2015, it was still mostly visible in statistics. Then news sources started reporting on just how bad things really were becoming. Sparsely at first, more and more often as time passed. And today?
Maybe you've heard that we just lived through the hottest October ever recorded, but then (articles in French) so was June and for that matter also July, not to mention the past four years. And while Indonedia has reduced forest fires, in the Amazon they were stoked on purpose. More recently, California's led to a massive blackout, and that looks likely to be just the beginning. Heck, last summer even the Arctic was burning.
Meanwhile, also in June India was melting, with the drought chasing many farmers to the city (if not driving them to suicide), not that cities weren't also struggling. Think the developed world is doing better? Turns out, Americans drill ever deeper for fresh water these days, not least because food giants are sucking the wells dry. (And yes, that happens in America as well.)
Oh, we'll have more humidity than we can handle soon, just not the kind we need. Turns out, heavy rains are getting common everywhere, while oceans are rising faster than estimated, which in turn endangers more coastal areas. Add to that the melting permafrost (article in French again; here's the same story in English), not to mention all that ice in Greenland, and we're all going to end up in literal hot water. Full of plastic, no less. Most of which won't be so easy to clean up, though people are trying.
Meanwhile, we have more CO2 in the air than in the last three million years, and methane emissions are 100x higher than we thought (an even more dangerous gas). You'd think people would be at least trying to slow down, but no, we keep emitting more crap.
Still expecting a miracle? | <urn:uuid:f463e573-bf55-4baf-8523-936f36e076bb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://felix.plesoianu.ro/blog/chronicling-climate-catastrophe.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00469.warc.gz | en | 0.985932 | 420 | 2.265625 | 2 |
How to Make a Vinegar Compress for Bruises and SprainsNatural Remedies
Have you ever wondered what people used to do to treat bruises and sprains before the invention of the home freezer which allowed convenient access to the wonder of ice cubes 24/7?
I used to sometimes wonder about this, especially when my children were toddlers and absolutely refused to allow me to put ice anywhere near, let alone directly on their skin. Putting ice on an injury is not a comfortable process, after all, and not many young children I’ve ever encountered tolerate it very readily for more than a few seconds.
Forget the cute little ice packs in the shapes of animals or other friendly creatures. My children would have none of it, thank you very much!
As it turns out, there is a highly effective remedy for sprains, bumps and bruises that doesn’t involve any ice whatsoever. It’s called a vinegar compress. If an herb like sage is utilized along with the vinegar to heighten the potency, then the remedy is called a vinegar poultice.
The application of a vinegar compress is written about in the elementary school reader, Elizabeth Blackwell, Girl Doctor, which chronicles the childhood of the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States in 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell.
My daughter, who read this book last year, checked it out of the school library and brought it home to me last week. She told me that the vinegar compress was described in Chapter 2 and that I should write an article about it to help parents know what to do for bumps and bruises when their children can’t stand ice.
Children come up with such great ideas, don’t they?
She also gently scolded me for not writing about a vinegar compress last year when she was actually reading the book. She said it was high time I wrote about this and to do it right away because she needed to return the book to the school library pronto.
Ok then! When your child feels that strongly about something, you pretty much need to do it, right? I hope this remedy is helpful to many parents out there whose children dislike ice on bumps and bruises as much as my children did.
Vinegar Compress (plain or with optional sage leaves)
Vinegar (any type will do, I prefer raw apple cider vinegar)
4-5 sheets of strong brown paper or bamboo paper towels
Large glass bowl (I use these)
Fresh sage leaves (optional)
Nontoxic food wrap (optional)
Fill the glass bowl with about 1 quart of vinegar. Cut large pieces of heavy brown paper (grocery store bags work great) or bamboo paper towels (not regular paper towels!) and fold them them over several times into strips. Each strip should be about 5 inches wide and 15 inches long.
Place each strip in the bowl of vinegar one at a time.
Remove the strip from the vinegar when soaked through and gently wring it out.
Wind the strip tightly around the affected area. Continue with additional strips until the entire bruised or sprained area is covered. The coolness of the vinegar compress should feel comforting and not painful in any way. Cover snugly with nontoxic food wrap to keep in place if desired.
Change the vinegar compress often. Every hour or two would be optimal, but at the very least, each time it dries.
Within a few hours, the swelling should start to go down as the vinegar draws the bruising to the surface.
If you would like to use the optional sage leaves with the vinegar compress to increase the potency of this remedy, follow these steps instead to create a sage vinegar poultice:
- Place sage leaves on a clean wooden cutting board and flatten out gently with a rolling pin to bring the juices to the surface. Be sure not to tear the leaves.
- Place the bruised leaves in a medium sized pan and just barely cover with vinegar.
- Simmer on very low heat for about five minutes. You should see a bit of steam as the leaves blanch, but be sure not to bring the mixture to a boil!
- Remove the leaves and cool for a moment on a clean cloth.
- Apply the sage leaves while still hot to the injury and cover with a towel to keep as much heat in as possible.
- Leave in place for about an hour until the swelling begins to subside.
- Repeat as necessary to speed healing and alleviate discomfort.
The plain version of the vinegar compress is a helpful remedy to have on hand when ice is not available like for camping or hiking excursions. Simply pack a small flask of vinegar and some brown paper strips in your first aid kit for emergency treatment of sprains and bruising.
Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist
Subscribe today and gain access to my exclusive & FREE weekly newsletter packed with the latest health news, Real Food recipes, video how-to's, special discounts and much more! | <urn:uuid:d41174dd-b7a2-431a-92fb-86e832f0de9d> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.thehealthyhomeeconomist.com/how-to-make-a-vinegar-compress-for-bruises-and-sprains/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282140.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00127-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944285 | 1,020 | 1.664063 | 2 |
What is too much noise? Gordon Park Speedway has been in the public eye since 1947. I personally feel the track is not too noisy or disturbing; it's just one man trying to make some noise.
I took noise-level readings with the same Radio Shack decibel machine the county used on the race track in December 2003 (the county's imposed noise limit is 60 decibels).
I found a running family automobile has a reading of 72 decibels; television, 75; ringing telephone, 86; ceiling fan, 68; dishwasher, 70; washing machine, 75; running water in the sink or shower, 74; garbage disposal, 81; blender, 87; riding lawn mower, 110; hair dryer, 90; chain saw, 125; and ambient noise on the steps of the Columbia County Courthouse, 74.
Also, what about a high-school football game? It's at 88 decibels. A car radio is 77, and flushing a toilet is 73. And let's not forget the train; it comes through four times a day, seven days a week at 150 decibels, but no one complains about that noise.
Is the noise level at the race track too noisy or not? I feel Gordon Park Speedway is no more physically or mentally damaging or a nuisance than any other everyday sound. I look forward to future races at Gordon Park Speedway.
William Goolsby, Hephzibah
© 2017. All Rights Reserved. | Contact Us | <urn:uuid:822d402d-ba84-47d6-ba74-59b0ae06927a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2004/04/02/let_410798.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279189.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00064-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.917258 | 307 | 2.03125 | 2 |
Nature's undead : snapping rattlesnakes, frozen frogs, and other animals that seem to rise from the grave / by Alicia Z. Klepeis.
- 1 of 2 copies available at Evergreen Indiana.
0 current holds with 2 total copies.
|Location||Call Number / Copy Notes||Barcode||Shelving Location||Status||Due Date|
|Jefferson Co PL - Hanover Branch||JUV 591.5 KLEP (Text)||39391100285848||Juvenile Nonfiction||Checked out||02/01/2017|
|Linton PL - Linton||J 591 KLE (Text)||30149000791532||Non-Fiction Juvenile||Available||-|
- ISBN: 9781515724810 (library binding : alk. paper)
- Physical Description: 32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: North Mankato, Minnesota : Edge Books/Capstone Books, a Capstone imprint,
|Bibliography, etc. Note:|| Includes bibliographical references and index.
|Summary, etc.:|| "Discusses organisms that regrow limbs or other body parts, organisms that move after death, and organisms that go into states of low metabolism"-- Provided by publisher.
|Target Audience Note:|| Ages 9-14.
Grades 4 to 6.
Search for related items by subject
|Subject:||Adaptation (Biology) > Juvenile literature.
Animal behavior > Juvenile literature.
Animals > Miscellanea > Juvenile literature.
Search for related items by series | <urn:uuid:d9cd62f7-b691-4580-b471-d49240f28960> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://evergreen.lib.in.us/eg/opac/record/20813787 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280835.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00049-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.651264 | 344 | 2.171875 | 2 |
5. Stellaria L., Sp. Pl. 421. 1753. Gen. Pl. ed. 5,193.1754; Boiss., Fl. Or.1:705.1867; Edgew. & Hook. f. in Hook. f., Fl. Brit. Ind. 1:229.1874; Schischkin in Kom., Fl. URSS. 6:389.1936; McNeill in Notes, R. B. G. Edinb. 32 (3): 389-395.1973.
SHAHINA A. GHAZANFAR & YASIN J. NASIR
Annual or perennial, prostrate to erect herbs. Inflorescence of solitary or few to many flowered lax dichasial cymes. Sepals 4-5, free, with scarious margins. Petals 4-5, deeply bilobed, sometimes absent. Stamens (3-7)10. Styles 2-Capsule ovoid, splitting to the base by 4-6 valves. Seeds rather large, few; number, usually tuberculate.
A large genus with 120 cosmopolitan species. Represented in Pakistan by 11 species.
Stellaria webbiana (Benth. ex G. Don) Edgew. & Hook. f. in Fl. Brit. Ind. 1:230.1874.
Leucostemma webbianum Benth. ex G. Don, Gen. Syst. 1:449.1831.
Benth. ex C. Don, Gen. Syst. 1:449. 1831. Glabrous perennial. Stem shining, 10-15 cm. Leaves 10-12 x 0.75-1 mm, linear, apex acicular, sessile, 1-nerved, patent. Flowers 1, axillary. Pedicels slender. Sepals 5-6 mm, lanceolate, acuminate, margins broadly curious. Petals about twice the length of the sepals, bilobed to about the middle. Capsule as long as the sepals. Seeds with long processes at the back.
The distribution of the species according to Edgeworth & Hooker f. in Flora British India, 1:231. (1874) is from Kumaon to Sirmur. It has been reported from Kurram by Stewart, in the Ann. Cat. Vasc. Pl. W. Pak. & Kashm. p. 255. based on Aitchison’s list of Kurram Flora (in J.L.S. Bot. 18:37. (1880) sp. no. 793.) I have no specimens of the species from Kurram. The record needs confirmation. | <urn:uuid:1ff92213-27ea-4d1f-813e-d45a84592ded> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=131299 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280872.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00313-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.767397 | 573 | 1.960938 | 2 |
In recent months, states across the country have been passing laws designed to make it harder — and in some cases, nearly impossible — to get an abortion.
So Shelley O'Brien, manager of The Yale Hotel in the tiny Michigan town of Yale, made an offer to anyone traveling out of their state for the procedure: Come to Michigan and stay at her hotel for free.
"Dear sisters that live in Alabama, Ohio, Georgia, Arkansas, Missouri, or any of the other states that follow with similar laws restricting access, We cannot do anything about the way you are being treated in your home-state," the post reads.
"But, if you can make it to Michigan, we will support you with several nights lodging, and transportation to and from your appointment," the post reads.
It was a bold stance for the mother of three to take in her largely conservative town that's home to fewer than 2,000 people. But O'Brien said she felt it was important.
"Women should have autonomy over their own bodies," she said. "If we do not have control over our own bodies, then this is not a free world."
The Yale Hotel's Facebook post has since received thousands of shares and hundreds of comments. Responses have been mostly positive, O'Brien said, though she has gotten some pushback from online trolls and others.
So far, O'Brien said no one has taken her up on the offer, though she has a room ready for anyone who needs it. She said she's calling it "Jane's Room" -- a nod to Jane Roe, the pseudonym for Norma McCorvey, the plaintiff in the landmark Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade.
The offer has, however, been good for business. In the weekend after she made the post on Facebook, she said she made $400 more than the week before.
In the past few months, Alabama passed a near-total ban on abortion, while states including Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and Ohio have passed "heartbeat" bills that ban abortions after a fetal heartbeat can be detected.
Earlier this week, Republicans in the Michigan state Senate introduced bills that would punish doctors for performing abortions after a fetal heartbeat can be detected. The Republican-led House and Senate also voted in May to ban a common second-trimester abortion procedure and make it a felony for physicians to perform it, except to save a patient's life.
Michigan's Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has said she would veto bills that restrict abortion access, and a group called Right to Life of Michigan plans to launch a petition to bypass her promised veto. | <urn:uuid:1b7d0d27-05d9-4fd7-9043-10760607fdba> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.kristv.com/news/national/a-michigan-hotel-is-offering-free-accommodations-for-anyone-traveling-for-an-abortion | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00474.warc.gz | en | 0.975174 | 537 | 1.554688 | 2 |
Alison was born and raised in the seaside city of Port Elizabeth in South Africa. Showing her leadership qualities even in her youth, she was Head Girl of Collegiate High School for Girls in 1985. After studying at the Port Elizabeth Technikon for...
Call 1300 314 788
or fill this form
- Female Motivational Speakers
- Inspirational Speakers
- Motivational Speakers
- Overcoming Adversity / Resilience Speakers
Testimonials for Alison
Alison travels from International
Fee Range: POA
Fee Range: POA
Alison's BiographyAlison was born and raised in the seaside city of Port Elizabeth in South Africa. Showing her leadership qualities even in her youth, she was Head Girl of Collegiate High School for Girls in 1985. After studying at the Port Elizabeth Technikon for a further year, she worked for three years before travelling to London in 1990. She spent four years overseas working and travelling. On her return to South Africa, she took up a position as an Insurance Broker with a Port Elizabeth business.
In December 1994, Alison was abducted outside her home by two men who raped, stabbed and disemboweled her, finally slashing her throat 16 times to make sure she was dead. No-one could have believed that anyone with such severe injuries could live but, miraculously, she did.
The manner in which she survived, her inner strength and determination, her lack of bitterness, and her serenity and humility captured the attention of the whole of South Africa. In 1995, she was awarded the prestigious Rotarian Paul Harris Award for 'Courage Beyond the Norm'. In the same year she was the first recipient of the Femina magazine's 'Woman of Courage' award. She was also chosen as Port Elizabeth's Citizen of the Year at a glittering ceremony.
Alison has been speaking on the professional speaking circuit for several years. Her aim to 'make a difference' has been overwhelming as she has spoken to countless thousands of people which include large business corporations, women and social groups as well as several schools. She has addressed international audiences in over 20 different countries including the USA, Australia, Europe, Asia and Africa.
Audiences sit in rapt attention as Alison speaks of the brutally cruel torture to which she was subjected and how she has overcome the challenge of that experience by applying her own ABC - Attitude, Belief and Choice. You learn to recognise the importance of attitude at all times. You will gain insight into the power of belief in yourself and she will share of the freedom and responsibility of making choices, no matter what happens in your life.
Not everyone has the natural talent to inspire others from bad experiences but her message teaches how valuable life is and that the solutions to the challenges facing us lie within ourselves. Alison weaves her three strands of her life's philosophy - attitude, belief, choice - into an unbreakable lifeline of strength for all to hold onto as a life skill never to be forgotten. | <urn:uuid:a3d71dbe-aadc-44a5-b3b1-b88447f65900> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.platinumspeakers.com.au/speaker/alison/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00676.warc.gz | en | 0.975949 | 630 | 1.53125 | 2 |
, Research Paper
Israel and the Future of a Palestinian State
Emergence of the Modern World
Chaim H. Respes
Sunday, November 26, 2000
Israel and the Future of a Palestinian State
Introduction: Video – A Search For Solid Ground
I. The Palestinians claims to the region
A. Brief oral description of Palestinian biblical claims
B. Description on how Palestinians lost their land
C. Outside influence that shaped today for Palestinians
II. The Historical components
A. A look at the land under Arab conquest
B. A look at Arab nationalism and local population
C. The British Mandate and its Effects
III. The Modern past
A. W.W.I and its effects
B. Arab Palestine, the Christian Community, and State of Israel
C. American and Russia?s foreign policy
IV. Peace vs. Identity
A. The role of the PLO
C. How much land can the Palestinians identify as a homeland
V. The Leadership
A. A look at the Arab populations leaders
B. Other Leaders within the Palestinian people
Conclusion: A brief description of how I feel things will shape out in the future
The topic that I discussed today is entitled Israel and the future of a Palestinian State.
What I plan to do is give a little insight on a subject that has been fought over or discussed since
Biblical times. With tools like the video and handouts I wanted to show opposing views, ideas,
hopes, and oppositions. I hope to have given historical background, information about Israeli?s
control and clues about American involvement among other things. By the end of my
presentation and paper I hope to have accomplished two things:
to give a more factual understanding of what is going on.
to have seamlessly pieced together all of the factors into
one cohesive report.
The Palestinian problem has presented itself as a problem globally since W.W.I, roughly
the past 70 years. Since the Independence War of 1948 the conflict between Arabs-Israel has
culminated in a major war almost every decade thereafter. The plight of the Palestinians is a
sympathetic one on international tables, as the United States, the Pacific Rim, and the European
Union vie for economic domination of the emerging world. It is a problem I feel will never be
resolved because of the emotional entanglements and the money making propensity that lie
within the regions borders. It must be pointed out that prior to 1947 Palestine was not a very holy
land. Governed by the British under the League of Nations Mandate, the country was dominated
by violence and terrorism. The Palestinian problem was, is, and probably forever will be a
conflict of rights as well as a complexity of wrongs. For the purpose of this report I will examine
several key factors in this issue
American Foreign Policy
Failed attempts at peace
Key leaders/mitigating factors
To say that the Palestinians lost their homeland is a factual point that most Israeli?s will
not argue against. This is a problem that the Palestinians, Jews, Bedouins, Druze all share. You
see this is bigger than just the Jews and the Palestinians. A misconception that is held however is
that the Palestinians controlled the land then lost it because of treachery/bribery between the
British government, Zionist political leaders, & Western influences. The truth is the Palestinians
rejected the original two-state partition plan that the United Nations, Great Britain, & Zionist
political leaders all agreed to. The Palestinians trace their claim Biblically like the Jews in more
recent times they stake a claim in the once Ottoman controlled territory.
Once the Ottoman Empire was defeated Palestine and its people served as the bridge
geographically, economically, and socially between the Mashreq (Arab East) and Maghreb (Arab
West). The Palestinian people are related to the people of Lebanon and Syria to the north, Jordan
and Iraq to the east, Saudi Arabia to the southeast, and Egypt to the West. It should be noted that
in times of peace and war only Lebanon & Jordan have allowed Palestinians other than political
figures across their borders for extended periods of refuge. All Arab led countries in the region
(with the exception of Anwar Sadat after a defeat in battle) had made some denouncing
statement when it came to the Palestinians making peace with Israel.
Prior to 1917 the area of Palestine was controlled by eight different political factions.
From 1917 to 1948 the British governed the area. It is interesting that the British wanted to hand
over their power to anyone but the French after 1933. The British government courted
propositions and ideas from Arabs living in Palestine, outside of Palestine, and European Jewry
repeatedly from 1933 to 1948. The British government upon suggestion from the Peel
Commission wanted and planned to partition Palestine into a Jewish state, an Arab state, and a
British zone in and around Jerusalem for 3-5 years or until the two people could live
harmoniously with one another.1 For whatever reason the Palestinians rejected the agreement.
Up until the last minute the British tried to negotiate a fair deal with the Palestinians. In 1939 the
British repealed a part of the Balfour Declaration that called for unchecked immigration of
Palestine by the Jews. Instead the ?White Paper? put limits on how many Jews could immigrate
to the land2.
The Arab population of Palestine was small and limited until Jewish resettlement
restored the barren land and drew to it Arabs from neighboring countries. When organized
Jewish colonization began there were fewer than 150,000 Arabs in the land. In the twelve and a
half centuries between the Muslim conquest in the seventh century and the beginning of the
organized Jewish return to Palestine was laid waste.
A second misconception that needs to be looked at is Israeli occupation of Palestine.
There are those who would have us believe that Great Britain just moved out and Israel seized
power. Facts however unpleasant for some, show us a different picture. In fact the British
government handed over the issue of Palestine to the UN in February of 1947. The General
Assembly appointed the UN Special Committee on Palestine – UNSCOP – to investigate the
entire problem and make recommendations toward a solution.
Appointed in May 1947, UNSCOP, included eleven ?middle powers? and smaller
nations: Australia, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Guatemala, Holland, India, Iran, Peru, Sweden,
Uruguay, and Yugoslavia. Its report, prepared after three months of investigation in Europe,
Palestine, and the Arab states, listed eleven unanimous recommendations, the most important of
which emphasized the need
to terminate the Mandate at the earliest practical date
to preserve the ?economic unity of Palestine as a whole?
to safeguard ?the character of the Holy Places.?
On September 25th of that year the report was submitted to the General revisions a
majority view was adopted on November 29th of that year3. The Arab League which included
Palestinian leaders voted unanimously to reject this proposal. The Arabs went so far as to send
military units into Palestine to disrupt communications and attack Jewish settlements.
When the British began to withdraw from Palestine the Arab countries encouraged the
chance for a jihad4 to destroy the new Jewish state. It was at this time that large of Palestinians
began to leave their home and the country. These refugees were told to do so by their community
leaders and the global Arab leaders at the time. Throughout its times of trying to gain recognition
to modern day, Israel has garnered some type of support from America. Every President since
Wilson has acknowledged the need for an Israeli state. It is paramount in reviewing all
information about this subject that one use history as a guide to what probably would occur in
the future. it is key to note that the Arab countries of power Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, and
Lebanon only sought peace or traces with Israel after the 1967 war. Their military debacle
brought shame and harsh realization to the Arab sword.
When Egypt and later on Jordan signed their treaties with Israel nothing was mentioned
on their part about the plight of the Palestinians or the situation of Palestine. The countries that
were at the forefront of all previous political discussions and who represented the Palestinian
people along with the leaders such as Yasser Arafat only negotiated for what their countries had
lost. Is this the fault of the Jews? In fact, Yasser Arafat criticized these countries when they
accepted peace with Israel and told their leaders and people that they would be dealt with.
Clearly, there are questions that need to be answered regarding who has the Palestinian people?s
true interests in mind. Palestinian political leaders from the beginning have spoken from both
sides of their mouths. Claiming on the one hand to want to be a neighboring state with Israel and
blaming Israel for countless delays. In fact, the PLO, PNC, PPP, nor the PNF have fulfilled step I
of the Oslo Accords which states ? Israel should be recognized; and also calls for and
amendment in the Palestinian Declaration of Principles which calls for the destruction of the
Jewish state and annihilation of its people.
Unlike the Palestinians, Israel?s Proclamation of Independence promises social and
political equality to all of its citizens, regardless of faith or heritage. Arabs who remained in the
country after in the country after both wars became full citizens. Moreover, most of the Arab
refugees who return to Israel, whether by legal or illegal means have been granted full
citizenship rights. Arabs have the right to vote and hold political offices of the government at any
level. They have a right to freedom of the press. Arabic, their official language is an official
language in the Knesset,5 government publications, and all forms of media. It is the language of
instruction in Arab public schools. Today more than 90 percent of Arab children attend school as
against 45 percent prior to the establishment of Israel. Has the Israeli majority then been cruel or
unusually harsh to the Palestinian/Arab population.
While the Israeli government has taken positive steps Palestinian leaders have made
questionable ones. Despite the global stance towards education Palestinian leaders continuously
tell their people to forsake the school system and keep their children at home or in jobs.
Knowing that the U.S. is a democracy and showing Democratic ideals would gain favor in global
relations with other countries Yasser Arafat has turned his cheek. Arafat instead is a devout
follower of Communist principles. His rise to power included Marxist strategies and tactics.
Leaders under Yasser Arafat have done even worse. These unchecked leaders have established a
branch of police similar to the secret police of Russia and Germany.
They seek out and execute males who they believe to be sympathetic to Israeli rules and
ideals. Harsher things happen to women who have sought more independence in Israeli culture.
These groups once controlled and backed by the upper echelon of Palestinian government have
sprung out on their own to create a more complex picture. These groups founded by extremists
in the Arab world some seeking to overthrow Yasser Arafat began strategized terrorist attacks on
Jews, Israeli?s, and Palestinians. It is these groups and their Intifada6 which has caused most of
the schism between the Palestinian people and the Israeli people.
It is clear to all parties involved that a fair settlement be reached. This conflict has
claimed too many lives in this century and hopefully will not drag to deep into the upcoming
one. The Palestinians view Israelis as oppressors. Arabs in general feel that Jews are dhimmi7
because of cultural differences. The Israelis and Jews not living in Israel want to ensure that
there is a safe place for all its inhabitants and Jews to call home. They seek to avoid events that
took place during W.W.II. At one point and time or another G.B. France, Russia, the U.S. and
the UN have played major roles in policies and failed attempts at peace. The Palestinians as well
as Jews have claims to the land. Historically, the Palestinians forfeited most of that right when
they chose not to accept a two-state solution proposed in 1947 and 1967. It was only in the late
80?s and 1990?s during the collapse of the S.U. that the PLO wanted to accept this plan.
After the 1967 war Israel doubled its size allotted by the Partition Plan. It was only
because of wars initiated by the surrounding Arab countries that they did so. Terrorist activities
and the probability of imminent danger has caused the need for Israeli control over certain
territories to preserve national security. These are the area in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that
were won during the war. it has been because of a great alliance with Democratic countries
especially the U.S. that Israel has been able to defend itself in times of crisis. It is possible U.S.
support has been so great because of its inaction towards Jews during W.W.II. Whatever the
reason U.S. economic support goes into the billions every year. What most don?t know is this
same money is distributed among Palestinians as equally as possible.
We must look carefully at the region in which we are talking about. As you can see Israel
is not a large piece of land to begin with. It becomes even smaller when you factor in the
cultural, religious, and economical ties that all parties share. For the Israelis to give up
everything they would surely be putting themselves in danger. For the Palestinians to receive
nothing would be a clear tragedy. From the beginning to the end trust is the underlying issue.
Despite the closeness in heritage peace hasn?t been achieved fully in this fragile region. The
process of peace has been very unstable and far from predictable. Steps have been taken by
governments such as Jordan, Russia, GB China, and the U.S. to bring the parties involved to an
amiable conclusion in which both parties compromise and gain.
A major step occurred in the middle 1990?s when then Prime Minister of Israel Yitzchak
Rabin met with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and a conditional peace proposal was agreed
upon. They met in Washington, D.C. signed this agreement called the Oslo Accords, and shook
hands. This agreement was and is a paramount occurrence for any and all future settlements. It is
nearly impossible for any other nations to influence the leaders of the Israelis and Palestinians
because of their emotional ties to what they fight for.
Nearly every family whether they be Christian, Druze, Yemenite, Armenian, Palestinian,
Bedouin, or Jewish has experienced the loss of a family member be it father, brother, uncle, etc.
because of war or terrorist attack. There is no doubt that something needs to be done. it is
evident that Palestinians need an autonomous homeland. At the same time it is imperative the
threat of destruction be lifted by the Arab surrounding countries. The Israelis need to be given
assurances of safety. The key to all of this though is looking beyond the propaganda and
evaluating the facts. Trust is the determining factor that needs to be brought forth. Who can the
Palestinian people trust to look out for their wishes? Who can the Palestinian Leaders trust to
push onward without terrorism? Who can the Israelis trust in it all?
O?Neill, Bard E. The Persian Gulf War: A Political – Military Assessment
Freedman, Robert O. The Middle East After Iraq?s Invasion of Kuwait
Encyclopedia Encarta 1996
Sapir, Dr. Shaul Historical Geography of Jerusalem Through the Ages
Nissan, Dr. Mordechai Contemporary Middle East
Bender, David L. Are Palestinian Rights Being Ignored
Abcarius, M. F. Palestine Through the Fog of Propaganda
Aronson, G. Creating Facts: Israel, Palestinians and the West Bank
Bethell, N. The Palestine Triangle: The Struggle Between the British, the Jews and the Arabs
Andrew Gowers and Tony Walker Behind the Myth: Yasser Arafat
Rishmawi, M. ?The Actions of the Palestinian Authority Under the Gaza/Jericho Agreements.?
The Palestine National Authority : A Critical Appraisal
Berger, Morroe The Arab World Today
Friedman, Robert, I. Zealots for Zion
Greenstein, Ran Genealogies of Conflict
Hart, Alan Arafat Terrorist or Peacemaker
Spiegel, Steven The Arab-Israeli Search for Peace
Becker, Jillian The PLO
Caplan, Gerald Arab & Jew in Jerusalem | <urn:uuid:f8c6b97c-6826-4472-b84e-2764ab5b103f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://mirznanii.com/a/91149/israel-and-future-of-palestinian-state-essay | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280872.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00316-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947375 | 3,481 | 2.765625 | 3 |
The Jews of Cuba, Film and Discussion
April 3, 2012, 7:00pm
Bureau of Jewish Education
1835 Ellis Street, San Francisco
In 1961 Cubaís revolutionary government effectively banned religious observance, leaving the Cuban Jewish Community struggling to sustain itself. Brazilian Jewish filmmaker Milos Silberís Jubanos: The Jews of Cuba tells the humbling story of the 1,500 Jews who remained in the country despite these difficulties.
The screening of the 43-minute film will be followed by a panel discussion with participants from the JCCSF and Lehrhaus Judaica mission to Cuba, including Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan and tour leader Ariel Goldstein. They will share what they learned when visiting Cubaís Jewish communities in January 2012.
For more information visit BJE's website. | <urn:uuid:ee28bf15-221a-459d-a854-4373185372de> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.bechollashon.org/events/San_Francisco/2012/April/cuba.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280730.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00255-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.897983 | 164 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Extract of A new system, or a new order of things, delightful Dreams if ever any were! An Essay.
Man seems to have been set upon Earth to cultivate the Plan of his Creator; to be his Second, to perfectione the producer of Nature for his necessairy maintenance & comfort. Therefore it is infered, that superfluity, unnecessairys, luxury, have never been intended to be cultivated, as being looser of time & creating propensities to many mischiefs & vices. Industry applyed to the producer of the Soil Keeps to innocence, gards from ill doing. Rewarded in proportion to the labour bestowed, Man is recompensed at his ow will. Provided with Intilligence to direct, strangth to execute, an order of Action is necessairy his fellow men. To do unto others as they will have the others do unto seems indispensable. In studying Nature, with his Reasons he learned his dutys, towards his fellow Creatures & his due acknowledgment to his Maker. After the Industry the harmony of His worck, he saw that, all able [. . .] were undeserving to be maintained at the expence of the toils of the laborious therefore with all the committer of disorder lost their freedom, were bound to worck for their full maintainance, untill corrected, or untill a new Discovry a Masterpiece made might liberate him or alleviate his suffirings, then reintegrated among his Brethern & viewed as more meritorious for having mended himself. Liberty of dissolving conjugal union, when ill consequences are not foreseen. Children of disorderly Perents raised up by the public. Unable pitied & maintained by others. Tallents gifts of the Creator, none to be neglected. but all ever cultivated for the advantage of the Society. Reason, Philosophy, Industry, Morality, freedom, as the best Guides to arrive to the happiest state possible. All the wante restricted to utility, no luxury, no superfluity, all usefulness; an explicit treaty made for the government of all. The first principle of medicine & surgery thought. No instrumental Musik, but vocal cultivated for recreation. No gaming as destruction of feeling for others. No Poetry, enemy of truth & Morality, except its usefull part. No navigation out of our own Territory, to Keep on our own ways & manners. No trade with all the Wold, they create a conflict of interest destructive of the desinterestness, of the Morality ruling in the Republic. No relation, no communication with foreign Countrys to guard against infection & vices. No mine of precious Metals & Stones. In forbidding them all representations of fictitious value are of course forbidden. But that proscription the source of disturbance, treachery, corruption, tyrany, luxury & demoralising are mostly at an end. Instead of a mischiefious trade, an exchange of the Productions of the Soil is substituted, one for an other & brought to all the usefulness they are susceptible.
For the above purpose & others following, a strict principle of distinction shall stand that, Where ever utility ends, luxury begins. Where advantage ends, loss begins. That to arise to the highest states of perfection possible, concessions must be made, rather relinquish minors, for obtaining major advantage. No house of entertainment where every Brother’s house is one. If ever a foreigner appears, nor will be for plundering, their property is not of easy transport, to be well supplyed, escorted & reconducted out of the Territory. No spirituous liquors, they consume produce hard acquired, applicable to better use, then much rain, brutality, disorder presented, health; agreable comfort gained. But Wine, Cider, Bear used with reason are whole some provoque hilarity, the two first consume no produces, raised on land not the most valuable, agree with the taste of the many, are prefered. All foreign production prohibited. All production of our soil permitted under the above & following restrictions
The main Aim being to make Man happy with less objects; to reduce his wants to the necessariys, all imajinairy & created wants are discarded. If tobaco is util in medicine, is it the same in dayly use? In husbandry the best methodes researched & followed, for obtaining an uniform & most usefull way of tillage, also lessening the labour & geting with less land as much as with more. Public Officers compensated with produces. No Domesticity. Children & Apprentices to worck for their father & Master & occasionaly for their Neighbours by turn or paid in produces The jung people to received after married from their father & Master the necessairy for their settling, to be more considerable as they did longer & more stead attend to their duty. Tradsmen paid of manufactured articles in produce.
The Community shall own all the land, who is to divide it among the Entended Settlers. To prevent an undue influence, to keep to equality, so necessairy for independence & happiness. None shall possesse more than double the land alloted equaly to every Chief of a family. even to be reduced by the will of the majority of the District The permit of more than an equal share of land, to be granted for reward of industry &ra taken from those who lost their liberty from misconduct, or from vacant land, at their death to return to the State, or to become the lot of one of the Children, as well as primitive share for another Child. Dying without Issue to return to the Community, except it had been disposed of for a deserving friend. None has any right to dispose of his land except by exchange for a like tract. And to be approved by the Administration of the District. The number of Cattles restricted to that their land can feed. All their moveable property disposable at their will. A tract of land alloted to the Gl Governmt for raising produce for their own consumption & their Attendants & for providing by exchange their necessairy Moveable.
Ways of communication all over the Community, to receive & forward weakly gratis, the new law & all Kinds of news. but no Dispatch, Letter &a shall be sealed, this meaning secrecy a [. . .] upon confidence, is punishable
Wiewing the Society as an Association for certain interests. No Agente ought to be selected by all its Members. the Chief of a family a full vote, his Wife & Childern each a fraction of vote; all to be modelled by the Chief. entiteled to vote only after married. A preatable Election to take place for nominating Candidates.
A Gl Government for objets of a general tendency. Each District a Gt for its own ruling. Kept constantly of a equal influence. Every District to have three Protectors, whose dutys shall be to visite a neighbouring Districtx to inquire into their moral, the observance of the restrictions, Industry, Order, remonstrate when needed, praised when due. Take a view of their Crops & of their probable amount, of their ways of Husbandry. Whether tradsmen are wanting or too many exist, & generaly about all their wants & take memorandum. To review the Institutions of high grade & the houses of correction. Then to report to their Superiors who are to provide to the wants of the individuals. Protectors are forbidden when officiating of anything on politics.
No Power of pardoning, new trial may take place. The highest punishment, the loose of liberty for life, except when regenerated, freedom of Speech, but ansewrable for its veracity. Revealers of mischiefs acknowledged. Concealer punishable. Reparation & Restitution invariably observed. Crimes, mischiefs invariably punished. A good Action has its worth where ever it comes from. All to be usefull, none to live on the toils of others. Ruler more punishable on account of more trust. Editors of news, a public Agent paid by it, forbidden to medle with politic, they may publish the politic of others In this [. . .] & answerable. No party engrossing priviledges, but to discover the truth. Every year the Sovereign People have a right to call a Convention to reform their principles of Gt its fondamentals are unalterable, as freedom guided by morality, Equality of right, Civil & religious rights. right of property except of land. free Press, punishment of the offenders, reward to the well doers, our Restrictions. The Year recommence with the vegetation. Every Being owes its acknowledgment to to a supreme Dispensator, none are obligatory. No law for repos; the need of it calls for its enjoyment.
Tradsmen for our necessairys indispensable. Husbandry the most inocent pursuit highly prefered. The culture of Reason as the most powerfull Conductor. Freedom never for injuriing others. A Supreme Arbiter a future destiny, rewarding the good & punishing the guilt. A Cult. desired as a secondairy for the observance of the civil regulation. Civil & religious laws+ are become united. Who ever breaks any of them offends the Soverign Ruler.
Every District provided with a Judiciairy, composed of Justice of order. Arbitrators, three Justices joigning to form a second Tribunal with Jurys & a tribunal of Appeal with Jury. All the Judge shall attend on trial being but 3 5. a majority of them is not sufficient, the Judge abscente might light on the Case & bring to an other decision; for its possibility supernumerary Juges appointed, those attending only compensated.
A Tribunal composed of Members of all the Dristricts shall dicide all Controverscie, betwixt the Gl Government & the Districte Governmente & the Gts & the Individuals. All questions of the constituanlity of the law. All anticipation of or neglect of power, on the part of the several Government shall be restricted to due Bonds. The same for the Judiciairy Power.
The Gl Government, shall make annualy an of the Quantum of Produces of the Soil required for the maintenance of the Officers attending on public affaires. Regulated on a standard of Writ made yearly by them to wit. One Bushell of wheat being worth any other quantity of other produce, & any kind of moveables. So leading to collect an assortement of produce & Goods proportioned to the use to be made of. & not bearing harder than the real value of objects. Divided on all the settled inhabitants of the Districts. & delivred duly & in due time to the Collectors choosen for that purpose. New settlers or others afflicted by some misfortune to be exempted, but not the lazy & neglectful. This disability to be made out in weakly Meetings of each Section. This Contribution equaly divided on account of the same means to satisfy it. With those not having an article wanted to borrow it or exchange it with a Neighbour. When higher than the Share demanded, to join two or more, or the Collector to give Credit or Debit for that over or less given, to be settled even the next year. Of tradsmen when their articles not wanted, to get them from others by exchange. If one refuse to contribute, the Collector with two other men to take the contribution out of his property & rapport the case to his Superior. So making up a Stock of Keepable provisions of all the necessairys of life & transportable by turn to the Officers. Of those not Keepable to be obtained by their own industry or by exchange. Nothing wasted, when more produce than needed to store it up in the public Grenairys for times of want. The Contribution to be some thing higher than wanted for replanishing the public stocke. District Legislators to make the estimate of the provisione 6. months before the time of delivrery, the share falling to each Officer & published over the Districts Collectore inspected by Officers selected by the Legislature. No favour or disfavours, well compensated & severely restricted. No public Contribution for minister of Cult.
Houses of correction & worck made to maintain themselves fully. for all the Criminals of the District besides [. . .] Drunkards, Unrevealers, Adultery, Bastardes, all disturbers of order & the contraveners to the principles of the Government Breaking in [. . .] correction & not inhumain treatements. Every one free of expatriating, provided giving due notice to the Gt, provided with provisions, but loosing its share in the Community & forbidden to return.
It is laid as a fundamental. That the Officers ought to be entrusted with such Power only that it would be dangerous for the multitude not to confide them & to be kept as tenants of the property of the people, returned to the Owners in due time unimpaired.
Exercised to the sevrals Whipons for hunting & deffencive war only.
Observation for the better management, of rural & domestik oeconomy & other Topiks. but room .
ViW: Jefferson Papers, Tucker-Coleman Collection. | <urn:uuid:cabb71fa-bc1b-4505-a49e-62d8bd99f1e1> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/98-01-02-3330 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280900.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00000-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946284 | 2,745 | 1.867188 | 2 |
Plus, internal competition promotes greater research, advances in technology and improvement in the cost-to-quality ratio of end products over time. 801-876-2711. The cost to Miroku was very high. Today FN’s firearms are used by the armed forces of over 100 countries and the Group is a primary provider of light machineguns to the U.S. armed forces. Also, Miroku continued the sale of Miroku-branded guns in their own, non-U.S. markets. Motivation was high. Miroku is a publicly traded company on the Nikkei stock exchange. Miroku Gun Works, Kochi City, Japan. Second, price instabilities in Belgium (and Europe in general) made it essential to have additional factory(s) situated in diverse economies so production would never be held hostage to events in one country. 1893 is considered the beginning of the Miroku company as a manufacturer. In 1967 Browning formalized a quality control process. In the 20th century Western manufacturing techniques began to take hold in Japan. The staff at the Canada office works with dealers all across Canada. Browning is currently a fully owned subsidiary of FN Herstal. As a blacksmith and gunsmith, Karaji Miroku experienced success, but it had been a very small beginning – that was about to change. Miroku management recalls that this project was the most expensive ever and was characterized by long-time Miroku general manager, Mr. Shidei, as “a lot of money!” But strategically they all knew that Browning and the new Citori was the path forward to a bright future for Miroku. Business contacts continued and in 1965 John Val Browning visited the Miroku factory for the first time. This rifle was made at a small "factory" set up by John and his Brothers in Ogden, Utah, in 1878. One of the most significant changes in the relationship between Browning and Miroku occurred in 1976. Customer Service, Advertising, Website functions, accounting, sales, etc., are all performed in our rural setting not far from the town of Morgan. Miroku continues to distribute its own line of firearms separate from the Browning brand. By 1968 the single barrel trap gun to be known as the BT-99 began and shipments started to Browning. The company was founded in Ogden, Utah, in 1878 by brothers John Moses Browning (1855-1926) and Matthew Sandefur Browning (1859-1923). , Browning was the make of pistol originally depicted in the Nazi propaganda play Schlageter, from which the quote "when I hear the word culture, I reach for my gun", often associated with Nazi leaders, originates. So, true to form, a brokering agreement was established with an export firm and in 1963 the Miroku made over and under was being sold by Charles Daly for U.S. distribution. , Browning is the sponsor of hunting show Goin' Country hosted by Kristy Lee Cook which used to air on the Versus channel before it became the NBC Sports Network. This is a tribute to a company that has stayed true to its mission in both word and deed for well over a century. The earliest days of the Miroku company story are humble indeed. Browning In 1963, .38 caliber revolvers bearing the Miroku name were exported to the United States. Over time FN grew into a group of companies and brands which eventually became the “Herstal Group.” Today’s Herstal Group is comprised of several strong entities, including the world famous brands of Browning, Winchester Repeating Arms, FN Herstal and FNH USA. It was not an exact copy, but a fine over and under nonetheless. Miroku brand shotguns are highly regarded and often used by Japan’s Olympic teams in shotgun events. Japan This is most likely why -- on Ido’s visit to the U.S. -- Dankin arranged an introduction between Mr. Ido and Browning President, John Val Browning. If you own a Browning, it was most likely designed by John M. Browning or right here in Morgan -- and shot and tested just a few yards from where this information was written. Copyright Browning 2013-2017. The actual line from the play is slightly different: "Wenn ich Kultur höre ... entsichere ich meinen Browning!" | <urn:uuid:89eb0b50-df7b-4ff8-8bb6-75890153aa8b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.miquelonmeter.com/ESW/blog/what-browning-guns-are-made-in-the-usa-0f9e65 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573667.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819100644-20220819130644-00076.warc.gz | en | 0.96751 | 935 | 1.539063 | 2 |
Choosing a proper enclosure for a bearded dragon is one of the first important things you must decide on before buying it. It is better to acquire an enclosure that is suitable for the bearded dragon’s entire life span to begin with.
It can become quite costly if you purchase a small enclosure then need to purchase a larger enclosure later on as it grows to become an adult.
The best long-term solution for a bearded dragon enclosure is a standard 125-gallon tank. This tank measure 72″ long by 18″ wide by 16″ tall, and will provide adequate space for even a large adult to roam around. An enclosure that is less than 55 gallons is not recommended.
Bearded dragons need more horizontal floor space than height as they are not huge climbers like chameleons, or geckos. Because of this, tanks with roomy floor space are much better suited for bearded dragons than tanks with high sides.
It is important to take floor space into account when acquiring an enclosure for a bearded dragon.
The most common bearded dragon habitats are made of glass, like a fish aquarium.
They are very easy to maintain and provide an excellent way for you to view your bearded dragon (and for it to view you). A glass enclosure can last the entire life span of your bearded dragon with proper care.
You can also buy an enclosure made from plastic or acrylic. These enclosures are lightweight, but tend to cost a bit more.
Many of them feature convenient front, sliding doors that make access a snap. Unfortunately, they tend to scratch very easily which can be bad for a bearded dragon.
Bearded dragons have sharp toenails and will often scratch along the sides of the enclosure. After a while the sides of the enclosure can become blurred, or have a sandblasted look. Acrylic tanks can also hold humidity and moisture which can be detrimental to your bearded dragon over the long term.
Many enthusiast prefer to use large plastic tubs or baskets as enclosures for their bearded dragons. There are some advantages to this type of open-air enclosure such as improved air flow and a large floor space. The down side to using this type of enclosure is it is not very attractive, to you or the bearded dragon.
An important factor when choosing an enclosure is the security of it. You don’t want your bearded dragon to be able to easily escape during the middle of the night, or while you are gone. Many fish tanks, or vivariums specially designed for reptiles come with a heavy metal screen cover that fits snugly on the enclosure. These are ideal when using a glass or acrylic enclosure.
Make sure it is a full metal screen cover for maximum security and safety. Plastic screens can easily melt when using heat lamps to warm the enclosure. Also, never use a glass top on your enclosure, as they will filter UVB rays that are important to your bearded dragon’s health.
It is also a good idea to use a locking lid if you have small children or other pets in the home. You don’t want young children, or Felix the cat to go exploring in your bearded dragon’s home.
I recommend using a 125-gallon glass enclosure with a snug-fitting heavy metal screen cover for your bearded dragon enclosure. It is relatively inexpensive and will last you and your bearded dragon for many years! | <urn:uuid:20f4e2b6-5a32-44c4-83cd-0cb7f22b16b6> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.beardeddragoncare101.com/choose-proper-enclosure-bearded-dragon/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280761.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00089-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951091 | 690 | 1.984375 | 2 |
Jan, the vice president of a public relations firm, tried everything she could think of to lose weight. The 58-year-old, who declined to share her full name, tried the traditional route with various diets, including Weight Watchers. She also tried more extreme techniques, such as demanding that her husband threaten her with divorce if she did not lose weight. None of it worked. Then in 2003, she found herself in the hospital with a life-threatening blood clot in her leg, which doctors said was the result of her obesity. She survived the clot, but it did not cure her of the desire to eat until she was full—and then eat some more.
While recovering from surgery at home in Sacramento, Calif., she continued to sneak food. “I was like an alcoholic,” she said. “I couldn’t stop.”
As soon as her family left the house, she said she would crawl downstairs and binge on anything she could find. It was not until months later, when she called herself a “food addict” aloud and in front of other people for the first time, that she began to recover control of her eating.
She would crawl downstairs and binge on anything she could find.
In recent years, some scientific research has suggested that food can be addictive, much like drugs or alcohol. But the term “food addiction” and the notion that humans could be addicted to something they need for survival is controversial among health experts.
UNDERSTANDING SO-CALLED “FOOD ADDICTION”
There is no scientific consensus on how the term “food addiction” should be defined, or whether the medical community should consider food an addictive substance at all.
The Food Addiction Institute, a non-profit organization that tracks research in the field, defines food addiction as a chemical dependence caused by changes in the brain in reaction to the biochemistry of a specific food, several foods, or volume of food.
For a substance to qualify as addictive in the medical profession it must meet certain criteria. The American Medical Association identifies four such criteria for a substance to be considered addictive: bingeing, withdrawal, craving and sensitization. Sensitization means that if you expose an animal to one substance, it will have a heightened neurological response to a second substance. For example, an animal that is already addicted to sugar would have a higher likelihood of becoming addicted to cocaine or another drug of abuse.
To date, neither the American Medical Association nor the American Psychological Association has recognized “food addiction” as a disease or psychiatric disorder, which has potential consequences for treatment. Food addiction is not included in the American Psychiatric Association’s current Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the DSM IV. However, binge eating disorder, which is characterized by frequent episodes of extreme over-eating, often followed by feelings of guilt, is set to be included in the fifth edition, which will be released in 2013.
Food addiction is not included in the American Psychiatric Association’s current Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
While a handful of researchers argue that foods, most notably sugar, are addictive, many scientists have chosen to wait for more research on the neurological effects of food on the brain before they embrace the term. Plus, food addiction can stigmatize obese individuals, according to Joseph Frascella, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse’s Division of Clinical Neuroscience & Behavioral Research. To soften the stigma, health experts have started using the more benign sounding “food and addiction.” “It’s a subtlety,” said Frascella, “but it moves the focus from the individual to the food.”
Regardless of the terminology, an increasing number of scientific studies suggest that food, like drugs or alcohol, can indeed have addictive qualities. The Food Addiction Institute has compiled a bibliography of 2,733 peer-reviewed studies on aspects of food addiction. Human genetic research, animal studies, brain imaging and biochemical studies of the digestive processes all indicate that some people could experience addictions to food. There are more than 70 million food-addicted adults in the U.S. according to estimates by David Kessler, professor of pediatrics epidemiology and biostatistics at UC San Francisco Medical School and a former commissioner of the U.S Food and Drug Administration.
The Food Addiction Institute has compiled a bibliography of 2,733 peer-reviewed studies on aspects of food addiction.
Studies of the hormone leptin present some of the strongest human evidence for food addiction, according to Kent Berridge, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at the University of Michigan who has studied how pleasure from food is generated in the brain.
Leptin regulates appetite and tells people when they’re full. An extremely small proportion of the population is born without the leptin gene. These people feel as if they are constantly starving.
Researchers at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge, England, recorded a case of a leptin-deficient girl who ate enormous meals and constantly demanded snacks. After a year of leptin treatment, she lost weight and reported that she no longer felt constantly hungry. Berridge called leptin-deficient people “proof of the logical possibility that something like a food addiction exists.”
While very few people are born without the leptin gene, ongoing research indicates that many more could be leptin-resistant. Researchers say leptin therapy, like the therapy that was administered to the leptin-deficient girl, could be a promising treatment for obesity in the future.
Dopamine is a neurotransmitter — a chemical messenger — in the brain that is linked to the reward system. In 2001, Gene-Jack Wang, chairman of the Brookhaven National Laboratory Medical Department, and Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, published an influential study in the prominent British medical journal, The Lancet, which examined brain images of obese people. The study found that the brain’s ability to register dopamine was significantly lower in some obese individuals. “We did not expect a result like that,” Wang said. The study suggests that some people might overeat to counterbalance low levels of dopamine, one of the chemicals in the brain linked to pleasure.
“Animal studies indicate that most, if not all, drugs of abuse increase levels of dopamine in part of the brain — the reward system, the nucleus accumbens,” Frascella said. “We know that food increases dopamine, too.”
When people eat highly palatable—sweet, salty and fat—foods, taste buds in the tongue respond by sending signals to the brain reward circuitry. Studies show that these foods blunt the dopamine receptors in parts of the brain. This means that some people may need to eat more to reach the same level of pleasure, Frascella said.
Many subsequent studies have supported the idea that food is physically addictive, including one published in April in The Archives of General Psychiatry. Researchers at Yale University’s Rudd Center for Obesity Research and Policy took brain scans, or MRI’s, of people they deemed to be food addicts through a 25-point questionnaire, and showed them images of a chocolate milkshake. The scientists found that the parts of the brain associated with anticipation and craving were activated by the image. Furthermore, actually tasting a milkshake was associated with decreased activity in the part of the brain that makes people feel full, or stop eating.
Paul Johnson and Paul Kenny, neuroscientists at the Scripps Research Institute in Florida, found that rat brains react similarly to junk food as they do to drugs. Their study, published in March 2010 in Nature Neuroscience,involved implanting electrodes in rats’ brains. Some of the rats were given healthy diets, others were given limited amounts of junk food diets, and the last group was given unlimited amounts of junk food. Johnson and Kenny discovered that the rats on junk food diets needed more and more junk food stimulation to reach the same level of pleasure and reward as the rats on healthy diets.
Many scientists are reluctant to use the term “food addiction.” Gene-Jack Wang, the author of the 2001 dopamine study, prefers instead to refer to the umbrella terms “food and addiction,” or “refined or processed food addiction.”
Barry Levin, an obesity researcher and professor of neurology and neurosciences at New Jersey Medical School, is also wary of the term. While hormones like leptin and insulin impact brain function, imaging studies still don’t prove cause and effect. “People draw conclusions based on the function of the brain, and it’s fairly meaningless as far as I’m concerned,” said Levin. Researchers who study addictive behavior often refer to the decrease of dopamine receptors in the brains of obese individuals, said Levin. “It’s interesting, but doesn’t tell you that’s what drove them to be that way.”
“There is this release of chemicals in your brain that may be similar to what you see with cocaine,” said Ronna Kabatznick, a professor of psychiatry at the University of California-San Francisco who thinks that “food addiction” is perhaps too grave a term for the situation. “But you see that with shoppers, with love, in many different circumstances. The question again is: what is the behavioral element? You still have a choice, even though those circuits might be going wild. How are you going to respond to them?”
WILLPOWER V. BIOCHEMISTRY
Food addiction has nothing to do with willpower, according to Anne Kathrin, a psychologist who has written several books about food addiction. Brain chemistry is always stronger than willpower, and the body’s chemical cravings will always overrule individual resolve.
Once the combination of chemical events in the brain is set in motion, a chain reaction takes place, Kathrin says. “Over time the pleasure center of the brain changes so that it requires even more of the substance that triggers it.”
“Over time the pleasure center of the brain changes so that it requires even more of the substance that triggers it.”
Those susceptible to food addiction might start by eating a piece of pie for dessert every day. After a while they want a bigger piece, and then they might want some cookies and ice cream, too. Over time, the addiction grows stronger and they will have to eat more often, says Kathrin.
Selena Bartlett is the director of Preclinical Development at the Gallo Center, a University of California San Francisco-affiliated research center that focuses on the impact of addiction on the brain. She says people have as much control over their food addiction as they have over their height. In other words, none.
Some people get angry over the term “food addiction” because they feel it gives overeaters an excuse for their behavior. “They will say, ‘I’m not addicted to food, why should you be?” Bartlett said. “I’m not addicted to alcohol, why don’t you say, ‘no’? I just say, ‘no,’ why don’t you say, ‘no?’”
Bartlett is in the initial stages of testing a drug that would help people control compulsive eating. In a recent rat study she tested ezlopitant, a drug that blocks the action of substance P, a neurotransmitter that is believed to play a role in the reward system. In the study, rats given ezlopitant showed decreased motivation to consume water sweetened with sugar, water sweetened with saccharin, and an alcohol solution. Other researchers are looking at leptin as a potential therapy for food-addicted people.
In his book The End of Overeating, former FDA Commissioner David Kessler explains how the food industry creates and markets sweet, salty and fattening food, so that people keep coming back for more. As a society, Kessler writes, “we can identify the forces that drive overeating and find ways to diminish their power with comprehensive labeling, public education campaigns, regulation of marketing and new perspectives on what kinds of behavior are acceptable and appropriate.”
Many self-described food addicts end up in 12-step addiction recovery programs modeled after Alcoholics Anonymous. Overeaters Anonymous has about 5,000 weekly meetings across the U.S.
Soon after returning from the hospital a friend suggested that Jan join Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous, known by participants as FA. The program is one of the stricter food addiction groups, emphasizing abstinence from trigger foods, and requiring members to adopt an eating plan and have a former food addict sponsor. Within three months of joining, Jan lost about 50 pounds.
Today, she is healthy-looking and fit. She weighs her meals three times a day, and has returned to her full-time job. For now, her eating is in check, and she’s convinced that FA saved her life. But, like an addict, the only way for her to stay safe is for her to abstain from her trigger food, sugar. Even the smallest taste of a cookie might set her back on the path of uncontrolled eating, she says.
- Overeaters Anonymous, a program that uses the 12-step program for food addicts.
- Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous, a membership-based organization that uses the 12-step for food addicts.
- Food Addiction Institute, a non-profit organization for food addicts.
- Yale University’s Rudd Center for food policy and obesity
- Lenoir M, Serre F, Cantin L, Ahmed S. “Intense Sweetness Surpasses Cocaine Reward.”PLoS ONE, August 2007.
- YouTube video featuring UC San Francisco pediatrics professor Robert H. Lusting on “Sugar: The Bitter Truth”.
Listen to these audio profiles of seven self-described food addicts living in the Bay Area.
Eliza by Anja Strejcek
Click to hear Eliza’s story.
Eliza, 64, has been a food binger and compulsive overeater for most of her life. She eats until she is physically sick and sometimes pours liquid detergent over food to keep herself from eating it.
Kim by Anja Strejcek
Click to listen to Kim’s story
For many years, food was Kim’s drug of choice — she would even deny her husband sex unless he bought her ice cream. Four years ago, the 60-year-old joined Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous, and has regained control of her life.
Jane by Anja Strejcek
Click to listen to Jane’s story
Jane, 39, is a recovering food addict and a bulimic. She spent her high school years starving herself during the day and then gorging on endless quantities of fast food at night.
Noma by Anja Strejcek
Click to listen to Noma’s story.
Noma, 49, is a recovering food addict who used to weigh nearly 300 pounds. She joined Food Addicts Anonymous in 2006 and subsequently lost nearly half her body weight. In this profile she discusses the pain she felt walking around the world as an obese woman.
Jan by Anja Strejcek
Click to listen to Jan’s story.
Jan, 58, tried everything she could think of to stop eating. When diets failed, she turned to extreme measures like demanding that her husband divorce her if she did not lose weight. Nothing worked. In 2003, she wound up in the hospital with a life-threatening blood clot caused by obesity. Even during her recovery, she continued to overeat and sneak food.
Nicky by Anders Lammers and Anja Strejcek
Click to hear Nicky’s story.
Sugar-crazed since childhood, Nicky, 67, has battled her weight all her life. Now in recovery, she has turned to spirituality to address the root causes of her overeating.
Peter by Anders Lammers, Anja Strejcek and Rebecca Wolfson
Click to hear Peter’s story.
Peter, 32, eats when he is bored, stressed and not even hungry. He tries to keep his eating in check to avoid losing his girlfriend. But he can’t stop.
Cookie Monster by Anders Lammers and Rebecca Wolfson
Click to listen to the story of the Cookie Monster, Manuel.
Leo, 31, uses Sesame Street’s Cookie Monster to cope with his own compulsive, emotional eating. Rather than feel shame, Leo imagines the monster as an innocent but unruly character he has to keep in line.
A special feature: The Plus-Sized Comedy Queen
By Anders Hoeeg Lammers
While performing at a comedy club in Oakland, Calif., Kamane Malvo Marshall explained her stage name, Queenie TT, to the crowd. “That ‘TT’ stands for ‘tremendous tail,’” she said. “I’m not ashamed of my plus-sized status. I’m doing what God has called on me to do. I’m making calories sexy.”
Marshall, 35, is a comedian, an author of a self-published book called Praise be to the Plus-Sized Sister, and an occasional motivational speaker. On stage, she exudes confidence, wears peroxide-blonde wigs, belly dances, and talks candidly — proudly even — about her weight. But in her private life, Marshall’s relationship to her 420 pounds is more complicated. Since age 8, she has struggled with her weight. At her heaviest, she weighed 465 pounds.
I’ve been on the winning and the losing side, the scale going up and down, up and down, up and down, for as long as I can remember,” said Marshall, who remembers being the only 200-pound cheerleader in high school.
In August, Marshall will undergo gastric bypass surgery to lose weight. “I want my legs back. I want my body back,” she said. “There’s no cure for this thing. Something has to give, and it’s the weight,” she explained. “This thing” is her lymphedema, a blockage of the lymphatic system that causes painful swelling, which landed her in the hospital. “ For me, it’s at a point where it’s life or death. So do you want this cookie or do you want to live? And I want to live.”
Marshall wants to have children, and to do so safely, she needs to drop dozens, perhaps even hundreds, of pounds. She joined a 12-step program for compulsive overeaters and is trying her best to avoid bingeing with the support — and watchful eyes — of her slim husband and her parents.
She’s had to endure a lot of pain in her life, primarily because of her size,” said Carl Malvo, Marshall’s father. “She has guts, she has that kind of tenacity, where no matter what she sets her mind to, she gets it done.”
Marshall finds strength in her existing family, and the children she hopes to soon have. “I have a responsibility to my husband and my family to be healthy,” she said. “I want to be here a long time. I think the world needs me.”
In her stand-up act and alter ego, Queenie TT, Marshall discovered a healthy alternative to overeating, something she can lose herself in other than food. “I have found me another addiction, which is my comedy and my writing and my motivational speaking,” she said. “Sharing my story has really been a blessing to me.”
But she still feels the overwhelming pull of food. “I haven’t had a binge, one of them bona fide, suck-your-mama-down binges for a year now,” she said. “But even with gastric, I will always live with it. I will have to always fight. Every day.” | <urn:uuid:6c726c1f-c3c8-4173-ab06-ad9825a12a16> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://berkeley.news21.com/theration/2011/07/27/the-science-of-food-addiction/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279189.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00060-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962366 | 4,264 | 3.125 | 3 |
This is as much a cookbook as it is a gardening book, and at least half the book is devoted to plant-based whole food recipes, most of the ingredients coming from your own garden. Each recipe is simple, with the minimum of ingredients, and the reader is encouraged to experiment and modify the recipes to his or her own taste. All of the recipes include a high proportion of vegetables, greens, fruits, nuts and legumes. Making your own jams, chutneys, preserves and fermentation are also covered. The book is worth the price for the recipes alone, and they will inspire you to want to grow your own produce. It is amazing to see the diversity of dishes that can be prepared from a single garden.
This is a good book for beginners and experienced gardeners alike. Highly recommended, and you can purchase it on Amazon or at Graham’s Spiralseed website. | <urn:uuid:4153b43e-9c84-46a9-a863-b7d7eda17aa1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://vegansustainability.com/book-review-the-vegan-book-of-permaculture/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00075.warc.gz | en | 0.964134 | 182 | 1.859375 | 2 |
Today is the 11th of November. 90 years ago today hostilities in World War I came to an official end. This day commemorates all the war dead - especially from WWI and WWII but from other conflicts past and present. Here in my locale, in France, three wreaths were laid at the monument and the Tricoleur, the Union Flag and the Star and Stripes are flying at half mast from behind it. In the larger town nearby the flags of all the alied nations are flying and a wreath was laid for the fallen enemy as well. What way do you remember in your town? Was it today, was it the weekend just past? Has the custom died out anywhere yet? I hope not. | <urn:uuid:85733d90-31b3-4c11-b724-77dc7b9cc5f9> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://www.lpsg.com/threads/thank-you-we-havent-forgotten.109485/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720962.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00386-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977911 | 148 | 2.265625 | 2 |
Project µSpectre aims at providing an open-source platform for efficient FFT-based continuum mesoscale modelling. Its development is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation within an Ambizione Project and the European Research Council within ERC-StG-757343. Please find the documentation on Read the Docs.
Computational continuum mesoscale modelling (or computational homogenisation) involves computing the overall response of a periodic unit cell of material, a so-called representative volume element (RVE), to a given average (i.e., macroscale) strain. Typically, this is done using the finite-element method, even though it is neither able to leverage its main strength, the trivial handling of complex geometries, nor otherwise particularly well suited for periodic problems. An alternative method for modelling periodic RVE, developed by Moulinec and Suquet , is based on the fast Fourier transform (FFT). This method has evolved substantially over the last two decades, with particularly important and currently underused improvements in the last two years, see Zeman et al .
This new method for the solution of the core problem of computational homogenisation is significantly superior to the FEM in terms of computational cost and memory footprint for most applications, but has not been exploited to its full potential. One major obstacle to the wide adoption of the method is the lack of a robust, validated, open-source code. Hence, researchers choose the well-known and tested FEM that has numerous commercial, open-source or legacy in-house FEM codes.
The goal of this project is to develop µSpectre, an open-source platform for efficient FFT-based continuum mesoscale modelling, which will overcome this obstacle. The project is designed to
propose a de facto standard implementation for the spectral RVE method that subsequent implementations can be compared to, in order to concentrate the development effort of all interested parties in the field,
make µSpectre widely accessible for users by providing language bindings for virtually all relevant popular computing platforms and comprehensive user's manuals in order to help widespread adoption, and, finally
make µSpectre eminently modifiable for developers by developing it in the open, with a clean architecture and extensive developer's documentation in order to maximise outside contributions.
Furthermore, this project places great importance on truly reproducible and verifiable science with a credible open data strategy in the firm belief that these qualifiers help to reach and guarantee a high level of scientific quality, difficult to reach otherwise, and to attract outside collaborations and contributions that help boost the scientific output beyond what can be achieved by a single team.
H. Moulinec and P. Suquet. A numerical method for computing the overall response of nonlinear composites with complex microstructure. //Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering//, 157(1):69–94, 1998. doi: 10.1016/S0045-7825(97) 00218-1.
J. Zeman, T. W. J. de Geus, J. Vondřejc, R. H. J. Peerlings, and M. G. D. Geers. A finite element perspective on non- linear FFT-based micromechanical simulations. //International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering//, 2017. doi: 10.1002/nme.5481. | <urn:uuid:b0968cc8-76ae-43c7-b8dc-77e45b2ce792> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://c4science.ch/tag/%C2%B5spectre/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00667.warc.gz | en | 0.875144 | 716 | 1.789063 | 2 |
Picture a typical suburban landscape in America: a six-lane arterial strip punctuated by traffic lights, big-box retailers, multiplex cinemas, patches of "landscaping," a barrage of signs, and plenty of parking. Now picture a typical church in such a landscape: a large, prefabricated, windowless "worship center," dominated by a performance stage and surrounded by a sea of parking. It is a combination of the big-box retailer and the cinema.
A culture that builds such landscapes and such churches, we might reasonably assume, is a culture that is privatized, consumer driven, and amusement oriented. Clearly, our buildings are an expression of our culture. As Winston Churchill said, "We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us." But, of course, as those who have been transformed by God's grace, we strive not to be conformed to our culture; rather, we seek its reformation. As with all of culture, church architecture is in serious need of reform.
The history of church architecture is filled with magnificent edifices built in a variety of shapes and sizes representing a variety of artistic and theological tastes and perspectives. The subject is complex and controversial. So, where should we begin in thinking about how to build churches that serve the needs of the local church and truly glorify God?
I suggest that we begin with the church. Let's begin by recognizing that, properly speaking, the church is not a building. The Puritans understood how confusing it is to use the word "church" to refer both to man-made buildings and to the mystical Body of Christ. Richard Mather, for example, wrote: "There's no just ground from Scripture to apply such a trope as church to a house for public assembly." The New England Puritans preferred to call such buildings meetinghouses.
In saying this, they recognized further that such buildings are never to be thought of as "sacred spaces." The Reformed view of church architecture is at odds with much of architectural history and with much of contemporary church architecture. Indeed, a "sacramentalist" approach dominates church architecture; most of the world's great church buildings were built to create a sense of "the sacred." While we can admire the beauty of such churches and the ingenuity of those who built them, we must join the seventeenth-century Puritans in rejecting the faulty theology laid in their foundations.
It is because of this nonsacramentalist view that the Reformed tradition has been castigated by many, both inside and outside the church. Puritans and Calvinists have been roundly condemned as haters of all things beautiful. After all, is it not because of our impoverished sense of the sacred that "low-church" Protestants have produced the big-box churches I described earlier? Indeed, there might be some truth in this critique. But it need not be so.
I suggest that we approach church architecture in terms of worship and witness, the twin goals of the church. Worship is the purpose of the church. It is what the church does when it gathers. Worship, as we understand it from the teaching of Scripture, consists of the reading and preaching of the Word, public prayer, congregational singing, and the celebration of the sacraments. It is to be done "in spirit and in truth," with "reverence and awe," and "according to Scripture." The building in which we worship is the physical setting for this supremely important activity, but it is not to be worshiped itself, nor should it distract us or lead us to worship any created thing. A Reformed church architecture should be, at the outset, supportive of and subordinate to Christian worship. But does this mean that it should be unattractive or drearily utilitarian? Is beauty excluded? Absolutely not!
John Calvin wrote, "Decorum ought to be observed in the sacred assemblies" (Commentary on I Corinthians). According to Calvin, the chief principle governing public worship is decorum, a concept that describes how we are to behave, dress, and, I would add, build. For Calvin, decorum is a general principle that includes qualities such as propriety, gracefulness, dignity and, yes, beauty. Indeed, these are the qualities that should be sought in church architecture.
Much could be said about how these qualities are achieved, but an example will have to suffice. My own churchif I may be so boldthe Independent Presbyterian Church in Savannah, Georgia, exemplifies these qualities. It is a traditional, but monumental structure, with a spacious but classically ornamented auditorium. It serves the services of public worship with dignity and delight, in a manner appropriate to the occasion (decorum). Its architecture facilitates reverent worship, but does not demand its own reverence. It is not a sacred space.
The dignity, decorum, and beauty that we seek in designing places for public worship should extend also to the external witness of the church. We must not forget that, besides being a gathered body of believers, the local church is also an earthly institution. Like all civic and commercial institutions, when churches construct buildings, they are building public statements about their identity. In other words, all buildingswhether art museums, gas stations, big-box retailers, or churchesbear witness to the institutions they serve.
Churches cannot ignore their civic role. The location, site planning, quality of materials, craftsmanship, and design of a church building either contribute to or detract from the overall quality of the built environment of a community. Churches must consider, not only the architectural design of their building, but also its urban designthat is, its relationship to the streets, blocks, and neighboring buildings of its community. Much could be said about this as well, but, in the interest of brevity, I will again use my church as exemplary of good urban design. The four buildings of our "campus," are, in my opinion, dignified, decorous, and graceful in their architectural design. They are also integral components in the built fabric of the city, well fitted into its system of streets, blocks, and squares. The buildings of the church are an asset and an adornment to the city.
Like all of society, our culture's built environment is in dire need of reformation. Sprawling landscapes of multilane highways, disconnected pod developments, and cheaply built, warehouse-style buildings are indicative of a self-absorbed society that is far from pursuing the true chief end of man. The automobile-oriented, big-box, entertainment-style worship centers built by many churches today seem only to perpetuate such culture. How we build our churches is a matter too long ignored. Reformed churches should seek to build buildings fit for the supreme task of corporate worship, while contributing to the beauty and welfare of the city of man.
The author teaches architectural history at Savannah College of Art and Design and is an elder at Independent Presbyterian Church. New Horizons, February 2011. | <urn:uuid:b343aa8e-c84c-43ce-a4c1-78b55d2f0d1b> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.opc.org/nh.html?article_id=688 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718957.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00437-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968538 | 1,428 | 2.375 | 2 |
Predicting the transfer of contaminants in ruminants by models : potentials and challenges
Certain undesirable substances in feed can transfer into foods of animal origin after ingestion by livestock animals. They become contaminants in food that may threaten the consumers' health. Commonly, feeding trials with animals are conducted to assess the transfer of undesirable substances into animal tissues or milk. Such feeding trials explore the effects on transfer of the various physiological systems (e.g. ruminant and non-ruminant gastro-intestinal tracts) as well as different livestock production intensities. Using alternative methods to mimic the complex physiological processes of several organs is highly challenging. This review proposes a potential cascade of in vitro and ex vivo models to investigate the transfer of contaminants from feed into foods of animal origin. One distinct challenge regarding the models for ruminants is the simulation of the forestomach system, with the rumen as anaerobic fermentation chamber and its epithelial surfaces for absorption. Therefore, emphasis was given to in vitro systems simulating the rumen with its microbial ecosystem as well as ex vivo systems to replicate epithelial absorption. Ruminants contribute significantly to the food sector, not only through meat but also through milk production. The transfer from blood into milk has to be evaluated by employing a suitable model. At the end, in silico approaches are introduced that can fill the gaps or substitute in vitro and ex vivo models. The integratory in silico method of physiologically-based toxicokinetics puts together the information gained from all alternative methods to simulate the transfer of ingested undesirable substances into foods of animal origin. | <urn:uuid:bc83ee1a-4a30-4f87-a974-36bd12de1ef0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://elib.tiho-hannover.de/receive/tiho_mods_00004481 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.93962 | 321 | 2.390625 | 2 |
Mae Boren Axton
|Mae Boren Axton|
September 14, 1914
Bardwell, Texas, United States
|Died||April 9, 1997
|Known for||Co-writing "Heartbreak Hotel"|
Mae Boren Axton (September 14, 1914 in Bardwell, Texas – April 9, 1997 in Hendersonville, Tennessee) was known in the music industry as the "Queen Mother of Nashville". She co-wrote the Elvis Presley hit single "Heartbreak Hotel" with Tommy Durden. She worked with Mel Tillis, Reba McEntire, Willie Nelson, Eddy Arnold, Tanya Tucker, Johnny Tillotson, and Blake Shelton.
Mae Boren was born in Texas to Mark L. and Nannie Boren. The only daughter out of nine children, she was the sister of United States Congressman Lyle Boren. When Boren was two years old the family moved to Oklahoma. She attended East Central State College and the University of Oklahoma, where she earned a bachelor's degree in journalism. She obtained a public teaching certificate and taught English and journalism at schools throughout Oklahoma.
Boren married John T. Axton, an officer in the US Navy, and they had two sons: country star Hoyt Axton and John, who became an attorney. The family lived in Comanche, Oklahoma during the children's pre-teen years. In 1949, Axton was stationed in Jacksonville, Florida and the family moved there. Boren taught English at Dupont High School.
Boren was the link between Elvis Presley and RCA Victor. She introduced a 19-year-old Presley to Colonel Tom Parker after a performance in Jacksonville, FL. She worked on behalf of Bob Neal to promote Presley and pressured RCA Victor's Nashville division head Stephen H. Sholes to sign Presley. In 1955 Boren co-wrote the Elvis Presley hit-song "Heartbreak Hotel" with Tommy Durden. Durden presented the idea to Mae Axton, from a newspaper article he had read about a man who had killed himself, leaving behind only the message "I walk a lonely street." It was Boren who suggested there be a Heartbreak Hotel at the end of the man's lonely street thus creating Elvis' first #1 record and one of rock n rolls greatest hits.
- "Thomas Durden". Obituaries. The Guardian. Retrieved 30 September 2011.
- Oklahoma Historical Society: Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture-AXTON, LYLE HAGLER
- Oklahoma Historical Society: Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture-AXTON, MAE BOREN
- Larry Cohen Productions: North Florida Music Hall of Fame-Axton, Mae
- Axton, 384.
- DeMain, Bill. "Elvis' First #1 Hit: "Heartbreak Hotel"". Performing Songwriter.
- Cossar, Neil (2011). This Day in Music: An Everyday Record of 10,000 Musical Facts. London: Omnibus Press. p. 109. ISBN 9781780381855.
- Axton, Mae Boren. Country Singers as I Know 'Em. Hurst: Sweet Publishing Co. (1973).
- Mae Boren Axton from Black Cat Rockabilly Europe
- Obituary from The Independent
- Oklahoma Women's Hall of Fame Oral History Project -- OSU Library | <urn:uuid:7fa98f18-ea40-4571-9d6e-849a21357ed0> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mae_Boren_Axton | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721387.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00448-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.906487 | 707 | 2.1875 | 2 |
It is natural for parents to want their children to receive the best education available, and the competition for it has grown considerably over the centuries. Many parents in the past were unable to provide any education for their children, but government sponsored education has given them a helping hand. Once a person is educated, they tend to want to pass it on to their children. This factor has given parents the ability to dream their children will progress even further academically and in life.
The competition to provide children with the best education comes in different forms, and parents often explore all of them. Getting their children into the highest rated schools is one way to accomplish their dream, but some parents choose to simply educate their children at home to achieve success. Other parents might decide to move to a better school district, and some of them will provide their children with a tutor or additional online schooling to achieve their goals. | <urn:uuid:80ada2f4-0c63-4edf-9513-8e83cb4aea63> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.pc-college.co.uk/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.989894 | 179 | 2.546875 | 3 |
The 34th Sunday through the Church Year is known in the Ordinary Form of the Mass as the Solemnity Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe (today); the communities who use the Extraordinary Form of the Mass celebrated this feast on the last Sunday of October.
Pope Pius XI, in 1925, instituted this feast as a response to the rise of modern totalitarian states and growing secularism. We feel the effects of the ideology today. In the Pope’s mind, Christians were to keep their eyes focused on the goal of creation – the fullness of the Kingdom of God in a complete way through Jesus Christ. Consider what Saint Paul wrote to the Colossians: “He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation; for in him all things in heaven and on earth were created, things visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or powers—all things have been created through him and for him.”
“The Son of Man ‘came not to be served but to serve’…that King whom to serve is to reign” Thus, the “‘state of royal freedom’ proper to Christ’s disciples: to serve means to reign!”
In Jesus of Nazareth, Holy Week, Pope Benedict wrote:
“Jesus performs for his disciples the service of a slave, he ’emptied himself’ (Phil 2:7).
“What the letter to the Phillipians says in it great Chrisotological hymn –namely, that unlike Adam who had tried to grasp divinity for himself, Christ moves in the opposite direction, coming down from his divinity into humanity, taking the form of a servant and becoming obedient even to death on a cross (cf. 2:7-8) — all that is rendered in a single gesture. Jesus represents THE WHOLE OF HIS SAVING MINISTRY IN ONE SYMBOLIC ACT. He divests himself of his divine splendor; he, as it were, kneels down before us; he washes and dries our soiled feet…” (p,56-7)
The image for today’s feast is Jesus washing the feet of Peter which demonstrates in a most profound way Jesus’ kenotic essence (kenosis means Jesus taking on human nature in a total way without sin and decay; you can think of the Lord’s Infancy narratives) thus representing his kingship in a new way rather with a crown (as is ofttimes the representation). Jesus could have easily come with earthly symbols of power and honor but according to his loving, merciful, kenotic reality he chose the very opposite.
And Saint Therese of Lisieux has an interesting way of pointing us: “Here on earth, where everything changes, only one thing doesn’t change: the King of Heaven’s way of acting as regards his friends. Ever since he raised up the standard of the cross, it is in its shadow that all must fight and gain the victory over ourselves.” | <urn:uuid:1c628b43-5387-4580-be5b-6847ae442c7a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://communio.stblogs.org/index.php/tag/christ-the-king/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280292.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00347-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965088 | 645 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Timeless Fitness Tip
Let's talk about stretching. The results of a study found those who did a toning/stretching routine at least three times a week, had the same improvement in self esteem you hear about exercise giving you.
To feel great without a vigorous work out, sign up for a stretching and/or toning class, or purchase or rent a video.
- Stretch big: Stretch the large muscle groups of the upper and lower body. Hold each stretch for 20 to 30 seconds.
- Tone, too. Strength training for 20 to 30 minutes, two or three times a week is recommended in addition to the stretching. Do 8 to 12 repetitions for each major muscle group.
- Keep it up! People who are active more frequently have an increased "Strength Esteem" as well as a "physical condition self-esteem".
On the flip side of this, those that stopped moving had a significant drop in both aspects of self-esteem.
Fitness Stretching Hint
Try a beginner's Hatha yoga tape - yoga is an excellent way to deeply stretch all the muscles in your body on a regular basis. Yet, it is gentle and non-impact so it will not harm your joints or cause other exercise related injuries.
For beginners, we recommend Yoga Stretch for Beginners and Beyond . This DVD will help you develop a strong foundation of total body strength, stamina and flexibility. There is no chanting or sanskrit terminology used.
Yoga and/or Tai Chi
Practicing yoga can improve balance, tone muscles and release stress. Hatha Yoga provides a slow-paced intro to basic poses. For a challenge, Ashtanga yoga offers a fast-paced flow with constant movement. Bikram, or "hot" yoga, covers 26 positions in an over-heated room to warm and stretch muscles, ligaments and tendons.
Balance fitness pursuits with an activity that connects body and mind: Tai Chi. Tai Chi is an ancient form of soft martial arts, using graceful, flowing poses that allow you to focus on movement and breathing at the same time - creating a feeling of relaxation, calm and overall well being. If you are new to Tai Chi, might we recommend BodyWisdom Media: Tai Chi for Beginners ? This DVD is the perfect way to explore and experience the numerous benefits of Tai Chi, no matter what shape you are in.
Disclaimer: The material on this Web site is not intended to replace advice from your doctor or fitness professional. Please consult with your physician before beginning any fitness program or fat or weight reduction program. FitnessandFreebies.com takes no responsibility for individual results, or any claim made by a third party. | <urn:uuid:656aa3fa-a498-4cb0-bba7-0a6499b30c19> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.fitnessandfreebies.com/archives/fitness/fitness-tip42.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285289.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00144-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.922712 | 554 | 1.945313 | 2 |
Colorado Springs, Colorado 2022-07-17 18:11:14 –
Pueblo County, Colorado — Heavy rains on Saturday afternoon caused a dangerously high level of part of the Arkansas River near Pueblo West.
Use this map to get a closer look at where the water level has risen above 15 feet.
As of Sunday, the water level is still 15.09 feet. According to the National Weather Service, this raises high concerns about floods. You can see the breakdown of the flood level categories. The main flood level is listed as 11 feet.
When the water level soars, it is shown on the map below. After 3:00 pm on Saturday, heavy rains moved through the area, causing water levels to skyrocket from about 4 feet to just over 15 feet.
click here For more information on the water level of the Arkansas River.
Flooding possible as Arkansas River waters reach 15 feet near Pueblo West Source link Flooding possible as Arkansas River waters reach 15 feet near Pueblo West | <urn:uuid:edae10fe-9e27-4a58-8aeb-84f911d3e2b0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://eminetra.com/flooding-possible-as-arkansas-river-waters-reach-15-feet-near-pueblo-west-colorado-springs-colorado/1025695/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00477.warc.gz | en | 0.922879 | 210 | 1.828125 | 2 |
The single 8amp relay board is a compact unit designed to be used as an interface between a low current switching device like an Access Control System door control board and a high powered locks.
This is a modular unit that can be used to switch a number of devices.
The contacts are rated at 8amps resistive up to 30Vdc.
There is also a diagnostic LED on the relay board to indicate that the relay is operated
The terminals are raising clamp type which will not damage the cables and can take up to a 2.5mm2 cable
The unit is based on a standard foot print so that it can be mounted with other TDL boards on the optional TDL Mounting Base to ensure a neat and tidy installation. | <urn:uuid:864570e1-d265-424b-8a8e-524e0038e393> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://trojandev.com.au/product/tdl-1rb-single-relay-board/?show_tech=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00475.warc.gz | en | 0.940372 | 150 | 1.8125 | 2 |
Gaza Ceasefire: After 1800+ Dead, What Led Israel to Stop the Assault, and What Comes Next?
(FEDERALJACK) After a nearly month-long assault that left at least 1,865 Palestinians dead, Israel has pulled its ground forces from the Gaza Strip under the 72-hour ceasefire that went into effect earlier today. Israeli and Palestinian factions have agreed to attend talks in Cairo on a longer-term agreement. Gaza officials say the vast majority of Palestinian victims were civilians in the Israeli offensive that began on July 8. Israel says 64 of its soldiers and three civilians have been killed. Palestinians are returning to homes and neighborhoods that have seen a massive amount of destruction. Nearly a quarter of Gaza’s 1.8 million resident were displaced during the fighting which destroyed more than 3,000 homes. The ceasefire was reached after international outrage over Palestinian civilian deaths peaked, with even Israel’s chief backer, the United States, criticizing recent Israeli shelling of United Nations shelters that killed scores of displaced Palestinians. | <urn:uuid:2e778ac3-d602-49c2-93b1-2ef979d5acdc> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.federaljack.com/gaza-ceasefire-after-1800-dead-what-led-israel-to-stop-the-assault-and-what-comes-next/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280587.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00556-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973304 | 208 | 1.664063 | 2 |
#December2021 #DIGCChristmasCelebrationService #OurMonthOfReleaseRecoveryAndReplicationThroughPraiseAndCelebration #OurYearOfReleaseRecoveryAndReplication
CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION SERVICE – SATURDAY, 25TH DECEMBER 2021
ANCHOR SCRIPTURE(S): LUKE 2:1-14.
MESSAGE TOPIC: THE PURPOSE OF CHRIST’S BIRTH
By: Dr Paul Enenche
MESSAGE OBJECTIVES: Understanding the purpose of Christ’s birth
WHY WAS THE CHRIST BORN?
1. Jesus Christ was born to redirect man back to God (Gen. 3:24; John 14:6; Matt. 2:1-2; 2Pet. 1:19)
After man was driven from the Garden, mankind became hopeless lost and has been looking for a way back to God
Whereas religion is man looking for God, Christianity is God looking for man.
2. Jesus Christ was born to connect earth to Heaven, the terrestrial to the celestial,
humanity to Divinity (Luke 2:8-10,13-14)
3. Jesus Christ was born to reintroduce the life of God back to man (Gen. 2:15-17; Rom. 3:23; 6:23; 1John 4:4; 5:4)
God wanted man to re-experience the Zoe life of God once again
Jesus came with a supernatural life in a human body so that humanity can partake in Divinity
4. Jesus Christ was born to attract all men to God (John 12:32)
Jesus used the angel to speak to the shepherds and a star to speak to astrologers
Where you are is not as important as who you are; your present situation is not as important as your future destination
Your content is more important as your condition
5. Jesus Christ was born to tackle the sin question (Gen. 3:21; Ex. 12:3-4; Heb. 9:7; 10:3-4)
In the Garden, God sacrificed an animal for the couple – Adam and Eve; in Egypt a ram was sacrificed for each household, in Israel a ram atoned for a nation but this was not enough to atone permanently for the sins of man
The blood of animals is limited, corrupted and temporary
The Blood that was to be shed needed to be massive enough to delete the iniquity of mankind at once and the only One that can do that is God but God cannot die as God so He had to become a Man
6. Jesus Christ was born to reveal the infinite possibilities and immutability of God (Isa. 9:6-7; 2Pet. 3:8)
7. Jesus Christ was born for the restoration of peace to mankind (Isa. 9:6; Luke 2:13-14)
7a. Peace is freedom from disturbance
7b. Peace is the absence of worry, anxiety and fear
7c. Peace is defined as a state or period in which there is no war
7d. Peace is the combination of hope and joy
Where there is hope there will be joy and where there is joy, peace will be established
WHAT IS OUR RESPONSE TO THE CHRIST?
1. Allow Him, not just to be born at Christmas but to be born in your life (2Pet. 1:19)
2. Allow Him to live His life through you (Phil. 1:21)
Father, thank You for Your Word to us today. To You be all the glory Lord, in Jesus’ Name.
Jesus, I ask that You be born in my heart and You live Your life through me today, in Jesus’ Name.
– Jehovah is finding you where you are!
– Everything that is a bondage of your life, today that bondage is broken!
– The devil thinks he has spoilt God’s plan for you but God has a better plan!
– God is about to contract something for your sake and expand something else for your sake!
– Every pressure, anxiety and fear of your life disappears forever!
– Whatever is challenging, fighting or confronting your peace is over now! | <urn:uuid:8d60a049-0ed5-4c7d-b7b0-33aaead792fd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sportafriq.com/the-purpose-of-christs-birth-dr-paul-enenche/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00268.warc.gz | en | 0.932658 | 907 | 1.84375 | 2 |
President’s Lecture Series Spring 2019
Dr. Mary J.C. Hendrix, president of Shepherd University, has created this lecture series as part of the Lifelong Learning Program. The lectures are free to the public with advanced registration as seating is limited.
SPRING 2019 LECTURES
All lectures will be held at 6:30 p.m. in the Robert C. Byrd Center for Congressional History and Education Auditorium.
Charlie Kiser, Jr., CEO at Atlas Blockchain Group Inc.
Tuesday, February 26
This presentation will delve into the fascinating, mysterious, and ultimately revolutionary genesis, growth and adoption of bitcoin, blockchain, and cryptocurrencies. You’ll hear firsthand about the early struggles, regulatory curiosity and attempts at enforcement, and the early business cases and financial infrastructure that are leveraging this new technology. What are the practical applications of this tech today? How are businesses incorporating the technology? Can regulators globally foster understanding and still maintain control? This lecture will answer these questions and highlight the opportunities available with cryptocurrencies.
The Neural Underpinnings of Memory Function in Aging and Disease
Dr. Arnold Bakker, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at John Hopkins School of Medicine
Monday, March 25
Dr. Arnold Bakker is an assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences in the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. His research focuses on the neural underpinnings of memory function in aging and disease including Alzheimer’s disease, specifically using neuroimaging methods. He’s also an investigator on a new clinical trial for individuals with mild memory problems.
An Evening with Charlie Matthau
Charlie Matthau, Film and Television Director and Actor (Interviewed by Alan Gibson)
Monday, April 22
Join Alan Gibson and Charlie Matthau for an on-stage discussion of what it was like growing up in Hollywood royalty, what he learned from his dad, and who were his mentors. They will discuss the current state of the film industry and how it’s evolved from those early days. | <urn:uuid:082c1203-b121-4ad3-a5b9-889fd4c63db2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.shepherd.edu/president/presidents-lecture-series-spring-2019/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00470.warc.gz | en | 0.932181 | 413 | 1.585938 | 2 |
Jul 23, 2015
Post By: Children's Health
Right now, all across this great state, expectant moms and dads are scanning through hundreds of crib bedding options. Perhaps you have already done this yourself, painstakingly agonized over the perfect baby blue or pale pink. “What will my baby like the most,” you think as you flip through magazines and click through a million websites with nursery inspiration pictures.
Three short years ago, I was part of that expectant population, too. I spent tens of hours and hundreds of dollars on custom crib bedding for my miracle child, Mack. What I failed to do, though, was barely even consider crib safety. I assumed that just because a major retailer sold a crib and its accessories that they were safe. I have since learned this is not the case.
Recently, two major recalls were announced — one for crib tents and the other for drop side cribs. Of course, I owned both of these and while my almost 3-year-old son has been in a ‘big boy bed’ for about 6 months now, I feel guilty about not being an informed mother. What if Mack had been injured from something that was totally preventable?
Fortunately, the experts here at Children’s have lent their knowledge so that for my next child, I will be better prepared.
Susan Kuehn, RN, a manager in Neonatology, and Claudia Romo, a program manager in Injury Prevention, shared the following:
The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has recalled all drop side cribs and they can no longer be made or sold. This once popular style of crib has been proven to cause infant deaths. If you have one, replace it with a new crib made after June 28, 2011. Cribs must now pass five new and safer federal standards designed to better protect infants while they sleep.
Do not use cribs older than 10 years or broken or modified cribs. Infants can strangle to death if their bodies pass through gaps between loose components or broken slats while their heads remain entrapped. Make sure there are no gaps larger than two fingers between the sides of the crib and the mattress.
Babies should sleep on a firm, flat mattress. To prevent suffocations, never place thick quilts, blankets, pillows, comforters or bumpers underneath or around him or her. Stuffed animals or soft toys also should not be placed near your sleeping newborn.
Crib Tents have recently been recalled and pose strangulation and entrapment hazards for children. If you own a crib tent, specifically one manufactured by Tots in Mind, contact the retailer for a refund.
Never place a crib near a window with blinds, curtain cords or baby monitor cords; babies can strangle on cords.
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends that healthy babies be placed on their back (not on their stomach or side) to sleep.
The safest place for a baby to sleep is in a crib (versus co-sleeping).
Babies should sleep only in sleepwear labeled “flame resistant.”
Mobiles should be tightly secured to the crib or even better, wall mounted with sturdy hardware. Avoid dangling chords, which may pose a strangulation danger to your child while in their crib. Pay careful attention that mobiles and toys do not have any sharp edges or parts that may break and hurt baby.
Crib toys should be plush and made of soft materials with no removable parts that may pose as choking hazards to babies. Read toys labels to ensure they are age and developmentally appropriate for your child. Always report malfunctioning toys to the CPSC using their online form.
Sign up to get updates on what's new at Children’s Health!
Thank you for subscribing to the Children's Medical Center Newsletter. | <urn:uuid:301e3cff-7e4b-4645-a361-7700691c801b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.childrens.com/keeping-families-healthy/family-blog/category/safe-families/keeping-baby-safe-in-his-crib | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282926.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00398-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962683 | 796 | 2.171875 | 2 |
Butterflies, cattle, and the military may seem like unlikely bedfellows, but for native prairies — some of the most threatened habitats in the world — the trio are closely connected.
Anecdotal evidence suggests that the improbable pairing of cattle grazing and native prairie conservation is not only compatible, but mutually beneficial. Carefully managed grazing regimes can improve weed control and plant health, help re-establish native plants, and increase plant diversity compared with an unmanaged system. However, until now no systematic study has attempted to track the impacts of managed grazing on native prairie plant communities in Western Washington.
Scientists at Washington State University, in partnership with the U.S. Department of Defense and the Center for Natural Lands Management, have established just such a study in order to see how "working landscapes" might support habitat conservation goals.
In Washington State, much of the only remaining native prairie lands, are found in Southern Puget Sound including on Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Thurston County. These prairies support a diverse array of plant and animal species at risk for extinction. These include the rare, native golden paintbrush, the Taylor’s checkerspot butterfly, and the Mazama pocket gopher, which was recently listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.
Southern Puget Sound prairies are the focus of the Sentinel Landscape pilot project, a federal, local and private collaboration intended to preserve agricultural lands, plus restore and protect more than 2,600 acres of public and private prairie lands and wildlife habitat. At the same time, the $12.6 million project funded by the DoD, the Natural Resources Conservation Service, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will reduce restrictions to military training activities on JBLM land.
"This is a unique partnership between agricultural and conservation professionals looking to improve productivity and conserve species," said Lucas Patzek, director and agriculture faculty for WSU Thurston County Extension. "It’s part field research to study how we might be able to integrate native plant species into working livestock operations on South Puget Sound prairies, to extend habitat for the recently listed checkerspot butterfly, and it’s part outreach."
The three-year study includes plots on Fred Colvin’s 550-acre black and red angus cattle ranch in south Thurston County. Fencing and research plots were set up on Colvin’s property last fall to measure differences between excluding cattle and allowing them to graze.
Certain fields are managed to improve native plant diversity and cover, while others are managed for a mixture of non-native species such as orchardgrass and tall fescue.
"They’re trying to figure out whether cattle can be part of a commercial cattle operation plus help as far as the prairies are concerned," Colvin said. "Frankly, if you don’t have ag on these prairies, you might as well write the prairies off. Because what’s the other alternative use? Forestry? That won’t work. Pavement? I’ll tell you the pocket gopher can’t live under pavement."
As the Sentinel Lands project moves forward, Colvin wants to be sure the needs of the landowner — the ability to have a productive and profitable farming operation — are given priority.
Managing intensive grazing
To introduce producers to the concept of integrating livestock with prairie habitat conservation, Patzek developed a unique three-part managed intensive grazing course.
Colvin and over 60 other participants who took the course this summer learned about the importance of designating areas for livestock to graze when native plant pastures are either dormant or are being seasonally deferred during critical growth periods of the native species.
It’s too early for results, but Patzek expects to find that, through prescribed management, the cattle will selectively graze the non-native perennial grasses that limit the establishment and growth of native species. He also expects that the cattle hoof action will more readily return organic matter to the soil and promote seed contact with soil for improved rates of germination of native plants like golden paintbrush.
It can take a couple of years for native plants to get established, so Patzek expects the research will continue as part of a long-term restoration and management project.
In the meantime, Patzek will continue to offer workshops for private landowners to better manage agricultural endeavors in Western Washington prairie ecosystems. A series of fall workshops will teach agricultural producers how to conduct ecological site assessments.
Source: Washington State University | <urn:uuid:42bb0d45-f758-4918-99e8-60193dc1f806> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.agweb.com/article/cattle_could_protect_butterflies_conserve_prairies_naa_university_news_release/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280065.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00547-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936562 | 940 | 3.34375 | 3 |
Converting a percent to a fraction is done by placing the number of the percent over 100. In final form, the fraction needs to contain only integers, and be simplified as much as possible.Continue Reading
No matter what percent is given, place the percent in the numerator (top) of the fraction. Draw the fraction line under the percent number. Place 100 below the line as the denominator of the fraction.
To be a proper fraction, neither the numerator nor the denominator can contain a decimal. If the percent contained one decimal place, for example 1.5 percent, multiply the top and bottom of the new fraction by 10. If the percent contains more than one decimal, add as many zeros to the end of ten as there are decimal places. The example 1.25/100 should be 125/10,000 after multiplying the top and bottom of the new fraction.
By dividing the top and bottom by a common factor, the fraction is simplified. Continue to divide both top and bottom by common factors until the fraction cannot be simplified any more. In the previous example, 125/10,000 should be simplified until it is equal to 1/80. | <urn:uuid:f0ba0b19-89e7-47ca-8dde-422dbde56cec> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.reference.com/math/convert-percent-fraction-c71595fb37b4b3e4 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281450.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00182-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.891859 | 240 | 4.03125 | 4 |
More than 500 submissions were evaluated by a panel of experts in the architecture world. Winners will be honored at the AIA 2014 National Convention and Design Exposition in Chicago in June.
Here is a look at some of the winners.
The campus for the Centre for International Governance and Innovation in Waterloo, Ontario consists of two three-story connected buildings made up of locally-sourced limestone, brick, wood, and glass. (KPMB Architects)
As plants from the garden extend down and over the roof of the building, the design of the Visitor Center at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden helps patrons transition from the street to nature. (WEISS/MANFREDI)
With this project, an unremarkable gymnasium from the 1950s was converted into a meeting house and arts center for the Sidwell Friends School, a Quaker-affiliated school in Washington, D.C. (KieranTimberlake)
New facilities for the Savannah College of Art and Design integrate the ruins of America’s only surviving pre-Civil War railroad station, preserving them within a modern concrete building. (Sottile & Sottile in association with Dawson Architects) | <urn:uuid:1e311137-576a-47f9-8ff4-642471943ef6> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://therealdeal.com/2014/01/19/a-look-at-the-aias-newly-honored-buildings/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280891.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00157-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946686 | 242 | 1.523438 | 2 |
In the tunnels of the Agnico Eagle Laronde gold mine, 2.62 kilometers below the surface of the earth, it’s a challenging environment. Air enters the mine through multiple fresh air openings, circulates through the underground tunnels filled with workers and machinery, and returns to the surface through exhaust airways. Extreme conditions in the exhaust airways, including high temperatures and humidity levels, dust filled air, machine exhaust and hot, dirty water, as well as space limitations, make chiller operating conditions a
Selected for their high-temperature operation, three Trane 1000-ton chillers were installed in the mine to keep workers comfortable. Not designed for the harsh mine environment, the chillers failed, with the extreme conditions causing surging, never seen before by the company’s engineers. When the same unit failed for the second time within eighteen months, the Agnico Eagle technician called Trane engineers for help.
Trane representatives, including members of the engineering team, visited the Agnico Eagle mine in Quebec to try to determine the cause of the chiller failures. They took the failed parts back to Trane facilities in LaCrosse, Wisconsin, for analysis and provided Agnico Eagle with a full report. The broken parts were replaced, including changing a set of guide vanes to one more suitable for the extreme environment.
Troubleshooting issues, planning for expansion
While Trane worked to solve the cause of the chiller failures, Agnico Eagle planned their next mine extension, which would go deeper into the earth. Appreciating Trane’s honest, straightforward approach throughout the troubleshooting and solution finding process, Agnico Eagle agreed to consider Trane for the new leg of their mine, but only under the condition that they could first discuss the project with the Trane engineering team.
Custom designed for extreme conditions
A customer visit was arranged to the Trane facilities in LaCrosse, Wisconsin, which included a meeting with the Trane engineering team and a plant tour. Agnico Eagle management was able to ask questions and discuss the project fully. After the meeting, Agnico Eagle was convinced that the previous problems had been resolved, that Trane could build a “custom” unit that would operate under the extreme mine conditions and that Trane chillers were the most reliable on the market for this kind of project. Five Trane 1300-ton CenTraVac™ centrifugal chillers were purchased to keep Agnico Eagle’s four shifts of workers comfortable in the new mine extension.
Overcoming challenges, improving safety
The five CenTraVac chillers were shipped to Agnico Eagle for installation in the mine extension. The installation crew dismantled the chillers into three pieces and put them on a slate, which was pulled down a thirty-mile spiral ramp until it reached the case where they would be placed. Knowing that a refrigerant leak would be cause for evacuation, the Trane team took extra safety precautions as they worked. Safety features were also paramount for the equipment. With the Trane CenTraVac chillers operating at internal pressures lower than the atmospheric pressure, if a gasket should fail, air will go into the unit instead of refrigerant coming out, eliminating the impact of an underground leak.
After multiple failures on previously installed Trane chillers at its mine in Quebec, Agnico Eagle met with Trane to resolve issues and improve their systems. Regaining confidence in the Trane units and the company’s ability to troubleshoot problems, Agnico Eagle installed five new 1300-ton Trane CenTraVac™ chillers in their mine extension. “We wanted to have a meeting with Trane to be sure we were in business together,” said Christian Quirion, maintenance manager, Agnico Eagle. “We met with the Trane engineers. There was a lot of expertise in the room and the teamwork was good.
“With the old 1000-ton chillers, we were running them more safely at 75 percent, but with less capacity, we were always running on the edge. With the new chillers, we will have four running and one spare. We are farther from the edge and have more flexibility and efficiency. Modifications have been done with the new chillers. They are built stronger and there is no possibility of surge. There are no mechanical issues with the new chillers. They are running well.”
“Trane took problems in hand and corrected them,” Quirion added. ”They did the job correctly and we are now satisfied. It didn’t go smoothly early on, but the last step was perfect.” | <urn:uuid:799d1b45-5e5b-472b-896e-e14ce0609262> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.trane.com/commercial/north-america/canada/en/about-us/newsroom/case-studies/industrial/agnico-eagle.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00266.warc.gz | en | 0.967031 | 985 | 1.625 | 2 |
Where is it?
Buttons, not just for coat fronts anymore!
Tired of your run of the mill party games geared to the tot set? How about those overly complicated games requiring hours of preparation and about 500 lbs of game supplies. Button, button, Who’s got the Button is an uncommon, yet simple game that the little ones just love.
The best news is that the only thing you need to play is a button! Go search those lint filled corners in the laundry room, find a button and let’s play.
Button, Button Who’s Got the Button is a very simple game. This can be played with children as young as three, and children up to the ages of six or seven still find it entertaining.
Object of play (how to play)
The object of this game is simply to pass the button from ‘it’ to another person secretly. Everyone tries to guess who has the button.
Gather the children into the circle with the birthday child in the center. Each child should hold their hands together with palms and fingers touching.
‘It’ or the child in the center holds his or her hands in the same way, but they are concealing the button in their hands. To make the exchange ‘it’ walks around the circle gently putting her hands between the palm to palm hands of each player. Before the circle is completed ‘it’ secretly drops the button into someone else’s hands by pulling her palms apart, just a little and letting the button fall into the palms of the other player’s hands.
With the circle complete and the exchange made it is important for each of the children to keep their palms together, remember they are keeping a secret. The children say “Button, Button Who’s Got the Button?” If a child thinks they know they may add “Johnny has the button!” If they are correct in their guess they win and are now ‘it’ and the game starts again. If no one is able to guess then the child who has the button wins and becomes ‘it’.
A simple, engaging game that will entertain your party goers and not drive you insane with endless hours of prep! Sit back, enjoy and let the games begin. | <urn:uuid:75e08003-6e36-414e-9397-881bf31456aa> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.momswhothink.com/birthday-party-games/button-button.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282935.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00247-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954181 | 480 | 3.046875 | 3 |
Do you have to speak in public for your job? Have you always wanted to be a prolific public speaker? If the thought of public speaking makes you want to tear out your hair, you're in good company. These tips can be very helpful for you. Keep reading to learn more about overcoming your fears of speaking in public.
Excellent Ideas About Public Speaking That Are Easy To Understand
Look Here For Great Advice About Public Speaking Your audience will not remain attentive unless you work to keep them listening. You have to work at getting attention and work hard to keep it. To get results, you must work for it.
Look At This For Important Public Speaking Information If you want others to get the most from your speech, make sure to prepare. Be prepared when it comes to your topic. If necessary research your key points for better understanding of them. Jot down the things you wish to convey. Go over your remarks again and again until you have them memorized. Solid preparation gives you confidence for the speech itself.
Telling the audience a true story is a great way to become good at public speaking. Before speaking to the audience it is important that your speech is outlined. It is important that you lead into the story with an introduction and that you end with a conclusion. Your story should be based upon a real event, as this will help ensure that your words are natural and authentic.
You can become better at public speaking by telling a story that is true. Outline your story before your speaking engagement. Knowing how to speak your ideas clearly in the right order will help you better communicate your ideas. Base your story on something that happened in real life.
Practicing is the best way to ensure that you know what you are going to say. Practice in the mirror to find any room for improvement. However, also make sure you practice in front of a live audience to get constructive feedback.
Practicing is the best way to ensure that you know what you are going to say. Tweak your speech by recording it and practicing in front of your mirror. However, it is best to practice before loved ones, so they can give you constructive advice.
Get the audience engaged and with you before you launch into your actual speech. Smile towards them when you enter. Shake a few hands if you can. When you show this positive attitude, the audience will show more interest in what you will be talking about.
Deep breathing can help curb your anxiety. Breathing deliberately and deeply, followed by a complete exhale, can work to bring nervousness down. Inhale and count to four, then exhale and count to five. Do this about 6 times to calm yourself down.
You need to master your material in order to gain true confidence. Talk about something that you like and that you already know a little about. Keep your tone conversational and you'll impress your audience with your knowledge instead of confusing them with complicated jargon.
Clearly, you must have good public speaking skills to successfully climb the business world ladder. Public speaking is all about making persuasive arguments. Use the advice you learned here to accomplish this the next time you find yourself preparing for a speech. | <urn:uuid:63a23b84-ec70-4297-8da9-ce2c91860494> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://rake2perch.wallinside.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281746.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00292-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957611 | 643 | 2.515625 | 3 |
June 23, 2013
June 23, 2013
June 26, 2013
23.626.1 - 23.626.12
The Role of Graduate Student Mentors on Undergraduate Experience in a Summer Engineering Research ProgramResearch experiences for undergraduates have increased in availability at universities andgovernment laboratories throughout the nation. Government agencies, universities and privatedonors support these activities with a variety of expectations, including providing a more skilledworkforce, creating a greater emphasis on graduate education and increased retention of studentsin highly technical fields. While the value of these programs has been well-established, there is apaucity of empirically-based research on the various models and practices of these experiencesand how they directly impact the undergraduate students. The focus of this study was a NationalScience Foundation funded Research Experience for Undergraduate (REU) program at a 4-yearcollege in the Midwest funded for over seven years. In a previous study, we found that theundergraduate students interacted more frequently with graduate student mentors than theirfaculty advisor while in the program. The purpose of this study was to examine more closely therole of the graduate student mentors and how they influenced the undergraduate studentexperience. Two data sources analyzed in this study were pre- and post-program surveys andsemi-structured interviews, both administered to the undergraduate students. Thirty-one codesemerged from the data (interviews and surveys) that described the role of the graduate studentmentors and were grouped into three main areas: 1) Academic Programs and Careers inengineering fields (9 codes), 2) engineering research Teaching and Learning (11 codes), and 3)Building Relationships in engineering work environments (10 codes). Content validity of theassessments were established by three independent educators and the codes emerged from thedata using the constant comparative method. Over the 10-week period, the undergraduatestudents reported spending an average of 38.4±8.4 hrs/week on their research project. Additionaltime was spent attending seminars on research ethics and graduate school and taking off-campustours to other research and clinical facilities organized by the program. The time spent in directinteractions with their faculty advisor was relatively low (3.8±3.8 hrs/week) compared to thegraduate student mentors (22.6±18.7 hrs/week). Depending on the student, there was a broadrange of interaction time spent with both the faculty advisors and graduate student mentors (2-40hrs/week). When examining the nature of these interactions, 75% of undergraduate studentsreported having influential experience with their graduate student mentors related to AcademicPrograms and Careers and 100% reported influential experiences related to Teaching andLearning and Building Relationships. In exploring Academic Programs and Careers further,many of the experiences (42%) were related directly to the undergraduates’ academic and careerpaths. The other two categories of experiences were related to exposure to graduate school (28%)and laboratory careers (30%). Related to Teaching and Learning, undergraduate studentsdescribed various methods and strategies (i.e., demonstration, questioning, and discussion) thegraduate students used to teach them about their research project (50%). The undergraduatestudents also described what they learned about research design and performingtechniques/protocols from the graduate student mentors (39%); and, how the graduate studentmentor reviewed and critiqued their written work and prepared them to effectively communicatetheir research findings (11%). In regards to Building Relationships, the graduate students weredescribed as mentors (53%), collaborators (32%), and supervisors (15%). In conclusion, thisresearch provides insight into the role of graduate student mentors have in an REU program andhow they directly influence undergraduate students experiences with engineering research,graduate school and careers while in the program.
Campanile, M. F., & Doe, F., & Jacobs, E. R., & Lederman, N. G., & Brey, E. M. (2013, June), From the Undergraduate Student Perspective: The Role of Graduate Students in an Undergraduate Research Program Paper presented at 2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Atlanta, Georgia. 10.18260/1-2--19640
ASEE holds the copyright on this document. It may be read by the public free of charge. Authors may archive their work on personal websites or in institutional repositories with the following citation: © 2013 American Society for Engineering Education. Other scholars may excerpt or quote from these materials with the same citation. When excerpting or quoting from Conference Proceedings, authors should, in addition to noting the ASEE copyright, list all the original authors and their institutions and name the host city of the conference. - Last updated April 1, 2015 | <urn:uuid:456c3571-0adf-4721-9ff2-7dba90414bd1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://peer.asee.org/from-the-undergraduate-student-perspective-the-role-of-graduate-students-in-an-undergraduate-research-program | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.939942 | 1,008 | 1.578125 | 2 |
Evergreen Evergest EQ
For Optimal Starch Digestion for Horses
Digestibility of feed is almost as important as its nutrient content.
Evergreen Evergest EQ: A Multi-Enzyme Blend of Non Animal Source Enzymes Especially Formulated for the Digestive System of Horses
The horse has a more complicated digestive system than most as he has two systems; he digests feeds enzymatic ally in the foregut and ferments in the hindgut
Your horse is a natural grazer and its digestive system is designed primarily for the intake of concentrated plant fiber. As concentrated grains and grass under stress become more of a reliable feed source for horses, it has been estimated that less than 60% of grain is digested before entering the cecum. Undigested starch in the cecum quickly ferments to lactic acid by bacteria. Such starch can substantially increase acidity and predispose horses to colic and laminitis, costly and potentially dangerous diseases for horses. Evergreen EvergestEQ with patented Digeseb Equine is a multi enzyme blend of non-animal source enzymes containing a combination of proteases, Alpha & Beta amylases, HemiSeb, lipases and others. HemiSeb is a mixture of various enzymes including cellulases, beta glutanese, xylanase, pectinase, beta galactosidase and phytase. This product is specifically formulated to aid in the digestive system of Horses. Evergreen Evergest EQ is very effective in the pH range of 3 to 8, working continuously throughout the pH variations in the digestive track.
This special enzyme complex is capable of breaking the 1-6 carbon bonds found in legume sugars. These sugars, namely raffinose, stachyose, pentosans, etc, are not digestible in the small intestine. They in turn, pass through the small intestine and enter the large intestine where they are fermented by the microbial flora and produce gas, resulting in bloating, pain and general discomfort.
HemiSeb consists of the enzymes required for hydrolyzing hemicelluloses, pectin, and cellulases. Most vegetarian diets, which consist of legumes, wheat rice, soybean etc. contain certain inherent residues, which are not digested due to a lack of endogenous enzymes. Indigestible plant residues include non-starch polysaccharides (NSP’s) Galactosides, Phytates and other antinutritive factors (ANF) like lectins, tannins, tryspin inhibitors etc. These inherent residues trap (lock) valuable nutrients. HemiSeb unlocks these trapped nutrients and improves digestibility.
HemiSeb also contains the enzyme phytase. Phytase phosphorus, which the vegetarian diet does not often provide the body, is made available by the phytase enzyme. Phytase hydrolyses the phytate bond. Thus HemiSeb unlocks metabolizable energy and nutritive factors trapped in these fibers and make it bio-available to the body. Thus it improves the digestibility, reduces bloating and improves nutritional factors.
We have recently learned that digestibility of a feed is almost as important as its nutrient content. Everything the horse eats must be processed through the digestive tract in order to be used by his body for energy, growth, reproduction and maintenance of health. Often excess starch can’t be digested in the beginning of the tract by the horse’s enzymes for several reasons
1) He just doesn’t have enough enzymes
2) The starch is too compact to be broken down.
3) There isn’t enough time, because most feed goes from the mouth through the foregut and into the hindgut in less than 6 hours. Starch entering the hindgut is used, by starch digesting bacteria, to produce lactic acid. The addition of lactic acid, to the hindgut, results in a lowering of hindgut pH. Many of the beneficial, fiber-digesting bacteria cannot tolerate the more acidic conditions, so they die and release toxins into the hindgut. The presence of these toxins often results in colic and founder.
The Digestive Tract
Foregut- Stomach and small intestine-1-6 hours- Horse Enzymes digest sugar, starch fat and protein
Hindgut – Cecum and Colon -18-36 hours- Bacterial Enzymes digest plant fibers
Evergreen Evergest EQ enzymes reduce the amount of starch transiting to cecum by over 80%. The enzymes in Evergreen Evergest EQ helps prevent excess starch from reaching the lower tract and its potential complications: colic and laminitis.
Enzymes in Evergreen Evergest EQ
*Proteases for effective protein digestion
*Alpha and Beta amylases for starch digestion
*Lipases for fat breakdown
*HemiSeb for breakdown of oligosaccharides from legumes
Provides high digestibility and absorption
Preserves muscle glycogen stores
Reduces the amount of protein and muscle breakdown during stress.
Enhances the body’s production of glutathione , a natural antioxidant
Improves lipid digestibility.
Evergreen Evergest EQ is a natural approach for your Horses’ total health Helps prevent “carbohydrate overload” in horses by breaking down concentrated starch Evergreen Evergest EQ enzymes are effective throughout the pH range of 3-8 in horse intestinal system.
Increases short chain fatty acids for full nutrient value in cecum. Helps protect mucosal lining in large intestine
Overcomes Anti-Nutritional Factors (ANF’S) inherent in today’s feed Helps prevent undigested sugars from causing gas, bloating, pain and general discomfort.
Predisposing Factors of Laminitis
If the horse eats excess grain or grass that is under stress and has accumulated excess non structural carbohydrates (NSC) ie, sugars, starch, fructan, it may be unable to digest all of the carbohydrate in the foregut. The excess moves to the hindgut and ferments in the cecum. The presence of this fermenting carbohydrate in the cecum causes proliferation of lactic acid bacteria and an increase in acidity. This process kills beneficial bacteria, which ferment fiber. The endotoxins and exotoxins may then be absorbed into the bloodstream, due to increased gut permeability caused by irritation of the gut lining by increased acidity. The endotoxaemia results in impaired circulation particularly in the feet. The result is laminitis.
Evergreen Evergest EQ features BPPS Technology
Bioactive Protein Peptide System
A unique delivery system that helps enzymes unlock vital nutrients from grains and other feed ingredients. BPPS delivery system maximizes the nutritional value of today’s concentrated feeds.
• Provides increased enzyme stability for greater digestibility, nutrient absorption & utilization of feed
• Increased nutrition preserves muscle glycogen stores • Improved protein digestion reduces muscle breakdown during stress
• Enhances endogenous glutathione, a natural antioxidant.
• Improves lipid digestibility
• Lower incidence of hindgut starch fermentation.
• Lower risk of acidosis in hindgut
• Reduces risk of colic and laminitis associated with hindgut acidosis.
• Strengthens the Immune System | <urn:uuid:57c2fbe0-eacf-4587-9a42-c633ed7856c1> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.evergreenequine.com/catalog/Evergest_EQ-19-1.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719566.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00262-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.896198 | 1,539 | 1.75 | 2 |
|Project by bluekingfisher||posted 03-30-2016 06:53 PM||1331 views||6 times favorited||6 comments|
We as woodworkers know how tricky it can be to hold round stock such as dowels when drilling on marking or trying to plane a flat edge for cutting a mortise etc.
So, this is my version for holding the stock securely for such tasks. Two beveled battens with 45 degree chamfers are glued and screwed to a base which can be clamped to your bench or drill press table. A small groove is cut in the edge of each batten near the base, which act as the guide rails for the holding clamp. The clamp is two right angled 50mm stretcher plates screwed to a square scrap of hardwood cut to the same width as the two battens. I made a small knob from scrap, drilled a hole in it and cut a mortice to take the head of the bolt and epoxied it in place. A T nut is countersunk into the hardwood clamp base so the bolt can be screwed down to hold the stock in place.
The clamp can also be held steady in place against the battens while the dowel stock can be butted against the fence as seen in photo 2. By laying out marks at required spacing as marked on a piece of masking tape on the edge of the batten rail, the dowel can be rotated while holding a pencil at the layout marks to ensure an accurate mark can be formed on the circumference of the dowel. Useful if you need to cut or sand to a line where accuracy is required.
The clamp will hold round stock up to 32mm for drilling, enough capacity for most operations.
-- No one plans to fail, they just, just fail to plan | <urn:uuid:5859483a-d905-4d98-86b0-787a93a05c7b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://lumberjocks.com/projects/235786 | 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 | 0.943019 | 371 | 1.671875 | 2 |
During his flight to Russia on Tuesday, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert informed us that he would like the next Israeli president "not to be a politician."
It is not clear how he defines a politician, but it is quite clear what he thinks of his own kind, and probably of himself.
To tell you the truth, we, too, don't have an especially good opinion of Olmert and his colleagues. Nevertheless, we would be wary of generalizations. After all, not all Israeli politicians are too tainted and inferior to be president. Surely one can be found among the has-beens who fled from the stench of political life.
The distinction is not between politicians and non-politicians, but between transgressors and honest people. Olmert, of all people, should have been more careful than to tarnish all politicians. If they're unfit for president, are they fit to serve in their posts that determine our fate?
The flight to Russia inspired Olmert to make another proclamation. He is thinking of offering the presidency to Elie Wiesel. Wiesel's respectability is indisputable. He is a Nobel Prize winner and his national and international reputation as bearer of the Holocaust memory is world encompassing.
However, Israel has never been the center of Wiesel's life, and even his commitment immediately after the Six-Day War, to build a home in East Jerusalem, was not kept.
Ben Caspit wrote in Maariv yesterday: "Those around Olmert believe that bringing Wiesel to Israel would fill the public with enthusiasm."
I must admit, I'm not enthusiastic. Are we so impoverished that we cannot find even one worthy candidate among us - a politician or not? Has the state lost all its assets that it must go begging for a president in New York?
Now we are being reminded that we toyed with the idea of offering Albert Einstein the Israeli presidency. That was many years ago, in the early days of the state. What may have been right 60 years ago is not right today. Wiesel had his whole life as a Jew, and our entire time as a Jewish state, to make a decision. He chose not to choose the Chosen Land as his home.
And if Wiesel is an option, why not Haim Guri, whose works were inspired by the place and the times and the pulse of Israeli life? Or Dalia Dorner, former Supreme Court Justice, who recently started speaking in public and many await her words? Or perhaps Sami Michael, not only an important author but a fearless fighter for human and civil rights at a time when rights are trampled? Or maybe Aharon Barak, whose reputation goes before him and would bring much respect to the presidency?
There, Olmert now has four names of non-politicians, who, nonetheless, belong to us, to the larger Israeli family.
But maybe there is something to Olmert's inclination after all. Speaking of importing candidates, why not expand the idea? Under the current circumstances, we should seriously consider importing a defense minister, chief of staff and, first and foremost, a prime minister.
Want to enjoy 'Zen' reading - with no ads and just the article? Subscribe todaySubscribe now | <urn:uuid:34c1c1e8-2521-42a5-a47c-276cf9717a9d> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.haaretz.com/the-next-president-why-look-for-a-candidate-overseas-1.202777 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280835.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00048-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979145 | 668 | 2.109375 | 2 |
Protect the confidential information of patients and staff!
Data security in health care is a necessity as the dependence on technology within the sector is ever-increasing. Electronic systems continue to reduce the time required to complete complex paperwork, creating more available time for health care workers so they are able to direct a greater focus on treating people and spending the time required with patients.
Making medical documents electronic has opened the door to easy sharing of medical files between physicians, other health care professionals and insurance companies. Gathering and storing documents in electronic databases has put the sector at greater risk of being hacked, resulting in the realisation of an increasing need for high-quality data security.
Why is data security so important?
With the growing reliance and use of technology, the health care sector is required to spend more on data and network security intelligence in a bid to reduce the risk of cybersecurity threats and malicious attacks from hackers. It is up to health care providers to take responsibility for protecting patient records. By acquiring highly qualified IT specialists and using secure database systems the risk of patient records being leaked to the black market is reduced, protecting patients from identity theft, Medicare fraud or financial losses.
Understand the risks
Once inside a system, hackers have access to millions of people’s records and personal information, as well as the ability to control essential services required. Most commonly, hackers will put a ransom on the information taken, using it as leverage to bribe health care providers.
Neglecting to make data security in health care a high priority can lead to damage being incurred by both patients and the health care organisation, often resulting in financial implications. The underinvestment in cybersecurity has already caused a loss of £4.6 billion pounds each year, affecting roughly 27 million patients.
Preventing a data breach is not as simple as closely monitoring systems, as a hack can happen within a number of minutes or seconds and can go undetected for weeks, if not months. So, it is of the utmost importance that health care providers take data security seriously and implement systems that comply with GDPR standards, protecting current and old patient records. | <urn:uuid:a2f89f74-e22b-4884-8cbf-e069cd925d9c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.dsa-connect.co.uk/data-security-in-health-care/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00078.warc.gz | en | 0.948176 | 428 | 2.921875 | 3 |
To bring home the power of storytelling, Don Doyle tells about the time he was telling "The Three Billy Goats Gruff" to a group of kindergartners.
"We put the tables together to make a bridge and we had three goats and many, many trolls," Doyle said. "We played out the story and the baby and the momma got across all right, but when it came time for the papa goat to get across, I asked them how we could keep the trolls from eating him up.
"They suggested all kinds of horrible, violent things. I said, ‘What's another way?' and this little boy, Damian, said ‘Let's put them to sleep'. Somebody else suggested a lullaby. So we all sang ‘Rock-A-Bye Baby' and the trolls all went to sleep."
Doyle will tell you the rest of his first experience teaching a kindergarten class when he and his fellow storytellers return to the Rim country for the fifth annual Tellabration! at 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 22 at the Pine Cultural Hall. Similar storytelling events -- dubbed Tellabration 2003! -- will be held the same evening in small and large towns around the world.
"At the same time we're sharing stories here in the Rim country, people all over the globe will be telling and listening to their own tales," Doyle said. "Last year there were 273 Tellabration sites in this country, so thousands and thousands of people were listening to stories at the exact same time."
Doyle will be joined on stage by Valley storytellers Dorothy Daniels Anderson, Douglas Bland, Liz Warren and Ricardo Provencio. Rounding out the bill are Chuck and Barbara Casey, popular local musicians whose ballads often tell stories.
"Storytelling is one of the oldest art forms in the world," Doyle said. "Before people had a written language, they would come back and tell stories of hunts and battles, successes and failures.
"Many of us tell stories from our own personal lives as well as folk tales."
The founder of Phoenix Little Theater and an Arizona State University professor, Doyle became a full-time storyteller when he retired from ASU in 1991.
"I used storytelling as a tool when I was teaching creative drama, but I eventually realized the power it has as an art form. Storytelling can reach people in wonderful, life-changing ways."
Storytelling also encourages people to tell their own stories.
"It helps people to begin to tell their own stories to their families that need to know those stories to help them know who they are," Doyle said.
Educators are discovering that storytelling also has therapeutic applications.
"A lot of people are now taking storytelling into nursing homes, hospitals -- not just to take their minds off their own problems, but to help them identify with positive things," Doyle said.
But storytelling at this level is not intended for very young children. "Our audiences tend to be adults, but children who are in fourth grade and up will also enjoy the experience," he said.
The Pine Tellabration has increased in popularity each year.
"It's grown from 50 five years ago to over 200 last year, and this year we have 75 extra chairs, so we're hoping we can fill those," Doyle said. "It's exciting to see it grow like that and people seem to have a wonderful time."
All seats are $5, and tickets can be purchased at the door, with proceeds going to the Pine-Strawberry Archeological & Historical Society.
- Don Doyle has been telling stories to children and adults for more than 30 years. As a professional storyteller for the last 15 years, he is nationally recognized in his field.
- Dorothy Daniels Anderson spins fabulous true stories about the early days of Arizona.
- Douglas Bland is a pastor as well as a storyteller. His original life-experience stories and new twists on ancient tales feed the soul and tickle the funny bone.
- Ricardo Provencia is a counselor, teacher and storyteller. He tells personal stories, myths and trickster tales that paint vivid images of his Latino culture.
- Liz Warren tells a variety of stories, but finds herself returning to those that reflect the heroic journey of personal transformation.
- Chuck Casey and Barbara Kerr-Casey perform professionally as Trouble in Paradise. | <urn:uuid:bdf13fc7-88f1-4c75-ab34-5e3bd2468764> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.paysonroundup.com/news/2003/nov/17/rim_country_joins/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279169.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00214-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971993 | 905 | 2.109375 | 2 |
We love books! The classics and new books. We’ve shared all kinds of amazing booklists for kids over the years. What we haven’t shared is a collection of summer chapter books for kids.
We’ve shared amazing summer story writing prompts, but one of the best ways to spark a young reader’s imagination is to get them reading. So, we’ve pulled together our absolute favourite summer chapter books for kids to read.
Great Summer Chapter Books for Tweens
The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits and And A Very Interesting Boy by Jeanne Birdsall – (9-12 yr old) Here’s a classic summer book for kids. All the nostalgia rolls out on every single page. In the first book of the Penderwick series, the 4 sisters venture to a beautiful estate, Arundel. Their adventures include rabbits, exploring the grounds and the discovery of a curious boy. What adventures will this pod of kids get up to in the summertime?
We’ll Always Have Summer (The Summer I Turned Pretty) by Jenny Hann – (12 yr old+) Here’s a terrific summer series for older tweens and early teens. Love is complicated, especially when you think you love two boys…who happen to be brothers. This book, and this series, explore young relationships in a sweet manner. Readers will be laughing and crying along with Belly as she sorts through her feelings.
Half Magic (Tales of Magic) by Edward Eager – (9-12 yr old) I think every kid has felt the way Jane feels – summer has been terribly boring and she wishes something exciting would happen. Sometimes if you wish on a magic coin you actually get what you wished for! This classic novel is celebrating 50 years since its first publication and it still captivates young readers.
Shouting at the Rain by Linda Mullaly Hunt – (10 yr old+) Delsie moves in with her devoted grandmother in Cape Cod. She must navigate the difficult ending of a close friendship, come to terms with her mother’s issues and figure out how to forge a new path in this new place. Fortunately, Delsie finds a solid friend in Ronan and the two spend the summer getting to know each other and building a deeper understanding of what is really important in life.
Be Prepared by Vera Brosgol – (10 yr old+) Vera, a Russian immigrant, is having a hard time “fitting in” with the cool kids at school. She convinces her parents to send her and her brother to summer camp because all the cool kids go to summer camp. However, Vera is sent to a summer camp run by her Russian Orthodox church and it isn’t living up to her summer camp dreams. Over the course of her time at camp, Vera will learn all about camping, the great outdoors, being a pubescent girl and she’ll learn a thing or two about why sometimes it’s okay to stand out and not fit in with the cool kids. A great coming-of-age graphic novel with compelling illustrations.
Look Out for the Fitzgerald Trouts by Esta Spalding (8-12 yr old) While this story doesn’t specifically take place in the summertime, it feels like a summer story. The Fitzgerald Trout kids are parentless, living in a car on a pacific island…they are taking care of each other as best they can. While their irresponsible parents are unable to care for them, these kids learn how to take care of themselves through their silly adventures. While it seems like this could be a sad story, it is in fact a funny book about the many shapes that a family can take.
Gone-Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright (8-12 yr old) This book reminded me of my childhood summers spent at my grandparents’ house. Portia spends the summer with her cousin, Julian and they make a mysterious discovery. An abandoned town and a dried-up lake. What happened to this place? Follow along as Portia and Julian uncover the truth about Gone-Away Lake.
The Summer of Bad Ideas by Kiera Stewart (8-12 yr old) When Edie and her cousin, Rae, set out to make their way through their Grandmother’s list of “Ideas for a Good Summer” they discover that sometimes good ideas can be bad. Making their way through the list of seemingly reckless and silly ideas Edie becomes a little bit more of an adventurer and more like her fearless cousin and remarkable grandmother.
Summerhouse Time by Eileen Spinelli (8-10 yr old) Wouldn’t you love to visit a summerhouse every August, with your cousins? Sounds like a dream. Sophie looks forward to her time at the summerhouse and her time shared with her older cousin, Colleen. But, this year Colleen is standoffish – she’s growing up and dealing with her own issues. Sophie spends her time at the summerhouse confused over Colleen’s rejection of her, understanding her feelings for a boy and dealing with her father’s failing health. It’s anything but a “normal” August at the summerhouse. An easy read for early chapter book readers.
The Lemonade War by Jacqueline Davies (8-12 yr old) The Lemonade is all about schoolyard politics and sibling rivalry. A quick read, The Lemonade War kicks off a fun series of books about the battle between Evan and Jessie – siblings with different strengths and weaknesses. The book is filled with math and business language, which adds to its engaging storyline. Kids are going to want to read all the books in this fun series.
Fish Finelli (Book 1) Seagulls Don’t Eat Pickles by ES Farber (8-10 yr old) Okay, who is up for a silly summer adventure? Best friends Fish, J.T and Roger set out to find a mysterious treasure, and win a bet against their town’s bully. Readers follow along with all the antics and bumbling incidents that these boys get themselves into. Fun kick-off to Fish Finelli’s book series.
The Sun Will Come Out by Joanne Levy (9-12 yr old) They made plans to have an amazing summer at sleep away camp…together. But, when Bea’s best friend back out, at the last minute, she has to head to camp alone. Bea faces the mean kids and ends up meeting Harry – a boy who will inspire Bea and help her have a truly memorable summer.
Cody and the Fountain of Happiness by Tricia Springstubb (8-10 yr old) Here we have another easy summer read for kids. Meet Cody, her family and friends and delight in her summer adventures. Cody is an animal lover, who may be able to communicate with animals! While she thinks that it is going to be a boring summer (summer camp has been cancelled) it actually ends up being a pretty interesting summer for Cody and her friends.
First Class Murder (Wells and Wong Mystery) by Robin Stevens What happens when you combine Nancy Drew and Agatha Christie? You have a Hazel Wong and Daisy Wells mystery. These two school-aged girls always seem to find themselves wrapped in some sort of murder mystery. It’s no surprise that when they take a trip on the infamous Orient Express they are yet again in the middle of a murder mystery investigation. The Wells and Wong mystery series is super engaging for readers due to the stories, but also due to the characters and their relationship. I won’t give away the plotline, I’ll only say that these girls are going to have to work hard to solve this one.
Rescue at Lake Wild by Terry Lynn Johnson (8-12 yr old) Here is the perfect book for the young animal lover or environmentalist in your life. Madi is always rescuing animals…many, many animals. When she decides to rescue two beaver kits, Madi might be in over her head. She has to figure out how to care for beavers! Madi won’t be deterred and is determined to discover what led to the death of the beaver kits’ parents and what or who is threatening the Lake Wild ecosystem. Madi and her friends’ story is humorous and heartfelt – the perfect summer read for kids.
The Adventures of a Girl Called Bicycle by Christina Uss (8-12 yr old) If your name is Bicycle you are bound to grow up riding a bike…everyday! Bicycle is an orphan living among adults at the Mostly Silent Monastery. When Sister Wanda insists that Bicycle attend summer camp and meet some kids her age, Bicycle sets off on a cross-country bike adventure. Determined to meet her cycling idol, Bicycle stops at nothing to travel from the east coast to the west. She meets an amazing cast of characters on her trip and learns a whole lot about life along the way.
Camp by Kayla Miller (10-12 yr old) If you have a first-time summer camp kid in your house, then Camp is a great book for them to read. When Willow and Olive head to summer camp they have grand dreams of how awesome it is going to be. Will camp live up to their expectations? Will their friendship be able to handle the stresses that present themselves over the course of the summer? Love the illustrations in this camp graphic novel.
Shirley and Jamila Save their Summer Camp by Gillian Goerz (10-12 yr old) Here is a great summer chapter book for kids who are trying to find their place in a new neighbourhood. Jamila has moved to a new house and she thinks her summer is going to be super boring and lonely. However, she meets Shirley and they get themselves wrapped in the mystery of Oliver’s missing gecko! Do they have the detective skills to solve this mystery…possibly!
Forget me Not Summer by Leila Howland (10-12 yr old) What happens when 3 sisters from the BIG city (LA) spend their summer in a very small town, with their favourite Aunt? Marigold, Zinnia and Lilly have an unforgettable summer. Yes, they have to adjust to the new pace of the city. And, they have to find ways to get along with each other. But, by end of their summer vacation, they’ve made new friendships and have strengthened their sister bonds. Great for fans of The Penderwicks.
The Brightest Stars of Summer by Leila Howland (10-12 yr old) Here’s another book about the summer adventures of Marigold, Zinnia and Lilly. This summer in Cape Cod is all about exploring first crushes and their Aunt is planning her wedding and love is definitely in the air. But, we all know how heartache can totally exist when love is on the line. How will the sisters navigate all of these big emotions?
The Distance to Home by Jenn Bishop (9-12 yr old) This one touches on the difficulties of grief. Quinnen doesn’t know how she is going to get through this summer since the sudden death of her sister Haley. In fact, Quinnen is thinking she doesn’t even want to play baseball this summer…her favourite sport. But, maybe the support of her teammates is just what Quinnen needs.
Sunny Side Up by Jennifer L. Holm (9-12 yr old) Readers may think this book is going to be a straightforward story of Sunny spending her summer in Florida with her grandfather, but it isn’t that straightforward. Sunny’s grandfather lives in a community that is filled with older people and she couldn’t be happier to find Oliver, a kid her own age. But, this book is about more than summer adventures. It’s about the uncovering of family secrets and facing drug addictions. A wonderful graphic novel that opens the conversation around addiction and secrets with young readers.
The Thing About Gold Fish by Ali Benjamin (10 yr old+) Franny and Suzy’s relationship is going through the usual turbulence of middle school. Sadly, Franny drowns in the summer, while she and Suzy aren’t speaking and Suzy is at a loss. How could her friend, who is a strong swimmer, drown? Suzy becomes fixated on the belief that Franny must have been stung by a rare jellyfish. This is a beautifully written book and it will bring a tear to your eye. Suzy is consumed with grief and must come to terms with the truth behind her friend’s death and find a way to move forward without her.
Summer and July by Paul Mosier (10 yr old+) Summer friendships can be so complicated, especially when you’re in your early teens. When Juliet meets Summer she could not possibly have known the impact they will have on each other’s lives. A funny and thoughtful exploration of young friendships that flourish during the summer.
One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia (10 yr old+) One Crazy Summer may take place in the 1960s, but the story is relevant today. Delphine might be 11 years old, but she must take on the role of mother to her younger sisters, Vonetta and Fern. Their mother lives on the west coast and one summer she brings them to live with her. The girls are sent to a “camp” run by the Black Panthers organization. The girls and readers learn about the Black Panthers and learn about a difficult part of America’s history and the toll it took on Black women and children. A truly enlightening summer story for kids of all ages.
Summer of Lost and Found by Rebecca Behrens (10-12 yr old) When Nell’s mom unexpectedly changes their summer plans, Nell is not impressed. What fun can be had on Roanoke Island…without her all of her friends and without her dad!? When Nell meets Ambrose she discovers the mystery of the lost colony and she dives into the history of Roanoke Island. Over the course of her summer investigations, Nell will learn more about the missing colony and more about her own family too.
Now, for the hard part…which one will you read first?!
Have fun with our summer reading printables – we have a reading log, a summer book breakdown worksheet and a creative writing sheet too!
Looking for more books for kids to read this summer? Check out these chapter books that connect kids with nature.
Once you’ve read the book, it’s time to watch the movie! Check out all of these great books that have been made into movies
Make sure you are following along…
SUBSCRIBE TO KITCHEN COUNTER CHRONICLES TO HAVE OUR DELICIOUS RECIPES, FUN CRAFTS & ACTIVITIES DELIVERED DIRECTLY TO YOUR INBOX.
FOLLOW KITCHEN COUNTER CHRONICLES ON | <urn:uuid:590297c9-6320-4c62-b541-1a6a3b844b7c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.kitchencounterchronicle.com/the-best-summer-chapter-books-for-kids/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00270.warc.gz | en | 0.94866 | 3,136 | 1.867188 | 2 |
A model factory library for creating expressive, auto-completable, on-demand dev/test fixtures with Symfony and Doctrine.
Design Pattern that described by Python, This is the source code for the book of Everybody Know Design Patterns.
🏭 Open Source Manufacturing Execution System for JobShop type manufacturer.
🤖 Provides a fixture factory for doctrine/orm entities.
Factory for object creation and dependency injection. Works with normal C# apps or under Unity3d
No longer maintained, please migrate to model_bakery
Protocol oriented, Cocoa UI abstractions based library that helps to handle view controllers composition, navigation and deep linking tasks in the iOS application. Can be used as the universal replacement for the Coordinator pattern.
OOP is better with stamps: Composable object factories.
Factory of Redux reducers and their associated actions and selectors.
An example for booking movie seat, combined of Android Data Binding, State Design Pattern and Multibinding + Autofactory. iOS version is: https://github.com/lizhiquan/MovieBooking
A factory contract for creating metamorphic (i.e. redeployable) contracts. | <urn:uuid:154ad0cb-1eb6-4117-a39f-0df939e9e980> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://gitplanet.com/label/factory | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00077.warc.gz | en | 0.830668 | 319 | 1.59375 | 2 |
It says: "There is now general acceptance that these antiquated, unbalanced and illiberal laws are damaging this country's reputation for free speech. Frivolous actions are brought in order to shut down responsible journalism or stifle legitimate academic opinion."
The leader also gets in a reference to the type of super-injunction granted to Sir Fred Goodwin. "Our libel laws work against the interests of justice and a free press, a trend compounded by the alarming expansion of judge-made privacy law through the imposition of blanket reporting bans known as super-injunctions."
It says of the proposals in the draft Bill: "A new requirement that any allegedly defamatory statement must have caused 'substantial harm' to a client's reputation before an action can proceed is particularly welcome. So, too, are the public interest safeguards to protect academics and others from being sued simply for expressing views – even if they are defamatory.
"The Government is to be congratulated for recognising the need for what would be the first wholesale reform of our libel laws since 1843. It now needs to make good these fine ambitions by guaranteeing parliamentary time for the legislation."
The leader also makes the point that it is "the small publications, local newspapers and individuals who are hardest hit by the excessive costs of defending themselves in the courts, and are often forced to settle rather than contest cases they might otherwise win". | <urn:uuid:9c2edb2c-c2ec-4348-8793-614dde030db0> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://jonslattery.blogspot.com/2011/03/telegraph-welcomes-draft-defamation.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719027.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00303-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963494 | 285 | 1.648438 | 2 |
This page also contains general Jaco weather and climate information and a brief dicussion of seasons, rainfall and avearge temperatures.
DoceLunas has the most accurate Jaco Costa Rica weather forecast. It is based on the Weather Underground forecast for Puntarenas, which is about 50km to the north of Jaco. Weather Underground is a great site and has the most accurate forecast data for this region, but if you check the RSS feed on their Jaco forecast you will see it is actually the weather forecast for Chacarita, which is inland and far to the south. Temperatures in Chacarita are typically lower than temperatures in Puntarenas and Jaco and rainfall is typically quite a bit higher.
This is the Playa Jaco Costa Rica weather forecast page - click for main Jaco Costa Rica facts, map, tours, and nightlife page.
We also provide general information on Jaco weather and climate in Jaco Costa Rica. To find out more about seasons, average rainfall, high temperatures and low temperatures, humidity and more useful Jaco weather facts for travel planning, please visit our Jaco Costa Rica weather page for detailed weather information or read on below for a summary.
Temperatures can reach the mid 90's in downtown Jaco in December through March. The valley cools off quickly when you leave the downtown/beach area. Temperatures at the base of the mountains a mile from downtown can be as much as 10 degrees cooler. Under a tropical sun, the shade of the mountains and the trees make more noticeable difference than they would in a temperate climate.
In the green season, May-October, daytime highs are typically in the 80s or high 70s. In both seasons, overnight lows may dip into the high 60s.
Downtown Jaco Costa Rica is more developed that the surrounding valley and the black sand beach, streets, parking lots, and buildings soak up the heat from the tropical sun. Daytime highs reach the mid 90s downtown because of the heat sink effect of development.
Jaco Hotel DoceLunas is one mile from the beach in the shade at the base of the largest mountain rising from the Jaco valley, Cerro Puntudo, towering over 1,000 feet above the hotel. The shade gives us our own Jaco weather.
It is much cooler here. At mid-day in dry season, it can be as much as ten degrees cooler here than in downtown Jaco even though we are only 100 feet higher. This is partly because of the mountain, partly because we have preserved the canopy throughout the hotel so the grounds are shady, dappled with sun rather than baked, and partly because we are surrounded by fields and jungle, not pavement. You will love it.
Whatever the weather in Jaco Costa Rica, its always cooler in the shade at Jaco Costa Rica hotel DoceLunas. Find out more about our beautiful hotel in Jaco Costa Rica. | <urn:uuid:2da37de7-cbc0-43f1-9876-334524937eb2> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.docelunas.com/jaco-weather.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280872.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00312-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940002 | 614 | 2.09375 | 2 |
Saint Luke Evangelist by El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopulos). ca. 1605-1619. Cathedral, Toledo, Spain
The short answer today would probably be "not much." Art (that is, visual art—painting, sculpture, architecture, etc.) is, of course, visual, whereas the practice of apologetics is essentially verbal. You can’t make logical arguments very easily with images—they can be ambiguous or require interpretation—and clearly expressed reasoning with words shouldn’t need illustration. It would seem that the apologist could get along fine with words alone.
But as is well known, for many centuries—from the beginnings of Christianity in the catacombs, through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, to at least the Counter-Reformation—art played an indispensable role in the faith formation and life of the average believer. Art was the "Bible of the illiterate." It was by looking at mosaics, icons, paintings, frescos, stained glass, and sculptures that people who could not read, long the majority of the population, learned about the life of Christ, of Mary and the Saints, and the basic tenets of Christianity.
Truth Made Visible
Through most of Christian history, visual signs and symbols, like the fish, anchor, and cross, were used to establish Christian identity. Stories from the Old and New Testaments were brought to life in narrative illustrations filled with graceful shapes and beautiful colors. Even the physical form of the church building was used to instruct the unlettered faithful: the cruciform plan was a reminder of Jesus’ death and resurrection, the upward sweep of the columns and arches directed one’s eyes and thoughts heavenward, trefoils admirably distilled the essence of Trinitarian doctrine. Everywhere one looked there was a visible, material reminder of a fundamental Christian truth, communicated without words.
However, esteeming art exclusively as the illiterates’ Bible may lead to some unfortunate perceptions about it and its function in the life of the Church.
First, it suggests that art is simply a concession to ignorance, a second-rate account of the faith that is, in the end, expendable. Art is only needed in the Church because people are illiterate. Once they are able to read and enjoy "direct" contact with the Bible, their need for art should whither away. The presumption is that reading is superior to seeing, and that images cannot communicate as effectively as words can.
This was part of the Reformers’ critique of the Catholic Church. Protestants accused the Church of willfully keeping the faithful in ignorance so as to deny them access to the Scriptures. Being unable to read the Bible for themselves, simple Christians could not discover the true message of the Gospel, nor could they see how far the Church had departed from it. Clearly, since Catholics believed non-Biblical and superstitious falsehoods, the pretty pictures in Catholic churches were not doing the work of instilling a "saving faith" in the believer; only reading the Scriptures could accomplish that. At best, art might be a distraction, but in reality, it was a cheat and a subterfuge.
But worse still, in the Reformers’ eyes, art in the Church was the object of disgraceful and illicit worship: Catholic veneration of images and statues had become Popish idolatry, to be rooted out in iconoclastic fury. Statues were pulled down, windows smashed, paintings whitewashed, leaving a legacy of denuded churches and a dematerialized Christianity. The faith could be read about, but not seen. (In recent years, this repudiation of images, or at least an inordinate suspicion of them, has spread even to some segments of Catholicism.)
Beauty Must be Seen
Another unfortunate consequence of emphasizing the didactic function of art is the implication that that is its primary or only function. For some, art is valuable only in so far as it can be used to teach or edify (or to fill up an empty space in a flyer); questions of aesthetics or any sort of non-verbal knowledge are irrelevant. The stained-glass windows of Chartres are simply the felt banners or clip art of a former time. But this is a limitation, indeed an affront, to art. Whatever apologetical value it has, a work of art cannot be reduced to its meaning. If it were possible to do so, there would never be any need to actually see it; you could just read a description of it.
This is because beauty, one of the transcendent qualities of God, cannot be put into words; it must be seen. The Catechism of the Catholic Church, talking about truth, beauty, and sacred art, admits that while "truth in words . . . is necessary to man," it "can also find other complementary forms of human expression, above all when it is a matter of evoking what is beyond words: the depths of the human heart, the exaltations of the soul, the mystery of God" (CCC 2500). A purely verbal apologetics will find that some of the profoundest mysteries of the faith are forever beyond its reach.
Here we can begin to understand the inescapable and irreducible relevance of art to apologetics. Images are necessary to improve our understanding of God. But in fact, the reality about art is perhaps more radical and shocking than most Catholics, let alone non-Catholics, might suspect. The Catechism, with remarkable brevity and understatement, puts it simply: "Christian iconography expresses in images the same Gospel message that Scripture communicates by words. Image and word illuminate each other" (CCC 1160).
Art Reveals God
Take some time to let this statement sink in, for it is truly astonishing. Images express the same Gospel revelation that words do. Art (or at least some kinds of art—sacred art or icons) is as much a part of God’s revelation as Scripture is. It’s possible that this idea will actually sound heretical to some, but this is simply a demonstration of how far words—or the Word—have prevailed over images—or the Image—in our (Western) theology. The Eastern Churches have never forgotten the power of images, but the Western churches, Catholic and Protestant alike, contending with iconoclasm, Modernism, and the secularization of culture, among other forces, have seen images deprived of their rightful role in the divine economy. Thus, while we aren’t surprised that a writer would begin his account of Jesus’ life by proclaiming, "In the beginning was the Word," we must acknowledge that an artist could have asserted with equal force and validity, "In the beginning was the Image, and the Image was with God, and the Image was God." Jesus is the Word and the Image of God, and it is this truth that establishes the place of art as an equal partner with words in our faith and in apologetics.
A beautifully simple depiction of this harmonious relationship can be seen in a painting of St. Luke made by El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopolous) between 1605 and 1610. Tradition says that Luke, besides being the author of the Gospel that bears his name, was an artist. Who better to appreciate the equality of words and images? Here he holds a book in one hand, and a brush—or is it a pen?—in the other. The book is open to reveal a page of text, presumably his Gospel, which so vividly describes in words the Annunciation and Nativity of Christ; on the facing page, there is a painted representation of the Madonna and Child. "Word and image illuminate each other." Luke himself is portrayed against a dark backdrop, with slightly diverging eyes that lend him an air of reverie or abstraction; perhaps he is contemplating the word with one eye and the image with another. Overall, El Greco’s sensuous, expressive technique reminds us of the physical, sacramental quality of art.
Catholics today would do well to reclaim and recover art for the faith, and apologists should embrace it as an essentially Catholic means of explaining it. To do so will require some education, since so much of the visual tradition of the Church has been forgotten or ignored in recent centuries. Thus, while everyone who is reading this article is verbally literate, perhaps not all are visually literate.
This column hopes in some small way to foster visual literacy and respect for the place of art in the Church. In future articles we will expand on some of the ideas discussed here, and consider the apologetical content both of specific works of art and art in general, while exploring some of the elements of the visual language and grammar of art.
What does art have to do with apologetics? Everything. | <urn:uuid:761fe097-c372-4c83-97e5-d3b5b19cbf47> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.catholic.com/magazine/print-edition/what-has-art-to-do-with-apologetics | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280791.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00355-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958899 | 1,823 | 3.234375 | 3 |
ERIC Number: ED205732
Record Type: RIE
Publication Date: 1980-Aug
Reference Count: 0
Instructional Influence on Human Performance: Insensitivity to Contingencies. Interim Report September 1, 1979 through August 31, 1980.
Shimoff, Eliot H.; Matthews, Byron A.
Five experiments were conducted to determine whether properties inherent in some training procedures may subtly influence the adaptability of skilled performance of complex tasks. The first two experiments assessed the insensitivity of low-rate performances. Examined in the third experiment was the issue of whether instructions that focus attention on the contingencies can engender responding under the control of the contingencies. The fourth experiment involved developing a more efficient procedure for assessing the sensitivity of responding to natural contingencies, while the fifth experiment addressed the effects of verbal guesses about the contingencies on motor behavior under the control of the contingencies. Results indicated that instructionally induced insensitivity is a basic behavioral phenomenon, rather than a by-product of behavior that does not make contact with contingencies. If instructed insensitive behavior makes contact with contingencies, it appears likely that sensitivity to those contingencies will eventually develop. If training procedures explicitly call attention to natural consequences, instructionally induced insensitivity may be avoided. Thus, partial training where trainees are allowed to develop personal styles based on contingency contact would be beneficial. The fifth experiment reinforced the distinction between verbalization and motor performance and pointed to the need for further research on their potential interaction. (MN)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Modification, Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Style, Conditioning, Contingency Management, Feedback, Generalization, Instruction, Learning, Learning Processes, Learning Theories, Motor Reactions, Performance Factors, Psychomotor Skills, Reinforcement, Responses, Skill Development, Task Analysis, Teaching Methods, Transfer of Training, Verbal Operant Conditioning, Verbal Stimuli
Publication Type: Reports - Research
Education Level: N/A
Sponsor: Army Research Inst. for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, Alexandria, VA.
Authoring Institution: Maryland Univ., Baltimore. Dept. of Psychology. | <urn:uuid:241664fc-66ec-48d3-a7ab-278fa6853b03> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED205732 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279489.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00012-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.882832 | 445 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Are some of the non-pork products (i.e. Fillet-o-Fish) being cross contaminated with pork?
May 22, 2018
Our Filet-o-Fish® patty is cooked separately from meat items in 100% vegetable oil. However, due to the design of the oil filtration system, during the oil filtering process, there is a small chance the oil used to cook our fish patties can come into contact with oil that has been used to cook chicken products. We therefore cannot guarantee cross-contamination will not occur but we have taken measures to minimise the amount of any cross-contamination. | <urn:uuid:312c5c6c-07cb-47c8-87b2-347e3db64b2b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mcdonalds.com/gb/en-gb/help/faq/are-some-of-the-non-pork-products--i-e--fillet-o-fish--being-cross-contaminated-with-pork.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00479.warc.gz | en | 0.970271 | 133 | 1.6875 | 2 |
Borrowing money is not always a bad thing. There are countless people who have used loans to come out of difficult financial situations. Some of the ways a loan can help you include building your credit, purchasing an essential item, or covering medical bills.
If you are considering applying for a loan, you should carefully consider your reasons for making the application. We don’t use bridge loans, for example, for the same reason as a payday loan. You don’t want to incur unnecessary debt by spending the money on the wrong things. A loan can adversely affect your credit standing if you don’t manage it properly.
As long as you have a clear plan of how you are going to use the loan to your advantage, you are in a great position to make the most out of it. Of course, you should take some time to read through the intricate details of the loan agreement before you commit to it.
Here are some of the ways you could use a loan to your advantage:
1. Start your own business
Starting a business can be very challenging, especially, if you don’t have the required funds. With office space, permit and inventory requiring you to invest a significant amount of money, a loan is sometimes the only option left to most budding entrepreneurs. Using your loan to establish a new way of making money is definitely a good thing.
2. Maintain your home
Your home is one of your most important investments and, as such, you must always strive to keep it is great shape. If you are taking a loan to increase its value or prevent further damage, it is definitely to your advantage. According to Mammoth Investor, you should be looking for loans that have the friendliest terms, including the repayment period and interest rate.
3. Purchase a home
You can take a loan and use it as the down payment for a new home. Even if you don’t use it to make a down payment, you can still use it to cover other important expenses that relate to a home purchase. As you make your mortgage payments, you will also be building your equity.
4. Debt consolidation
Managing multiple loan accounts can be quite stressful. By consolidating all your debts into one loan, you will make it easier to manage your finances and gain more control over the situation. If you can find a loan with very good interest rates and use it to repay all your outstanding debts, you are better able to manage your financial obligations.
5. Cover medical expenses
One thing you should never take chances with is your health. If you are in a situation where your medical insurance is unable to cover your medical bills, a loan can help you bridge the gap. There is absolutely nothing wrong with taking a personal loan to pay for your medical expenses.
There are many ways you can use a loan to your advantage. The most important thing is to educate yourself on the various loan options available. You also need to be fully aware of the repayment terms. As long as you are taking a loan to improve your overall financial standing or take care of your health, it is worth it. | <urn:uuid:8ddc8b1f-7d1b-4c99-a097-d6f51b2083d1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://marketbusinessnews.com/loan-advantage/198492/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00078.warc.gz | en | 0.971153 | 639 | 1.757813 | 2 |
In June 2020, the House of Lords recommended that a code of practice should be developed for election material that ‘restricts fundamentally inaccurate advertising.’ The government response to the recommendation was, Mourinho-style, to ‘park the bus.’
Ever since the appearance of the ‘factual claim’ below in 2016, it has become increasingly obvious that political organisations cannot be trusted not to distort, manipulate, conceal or ignore data, evidence of which assertion we published in 2019 and 2021.
Those reports assembled a quantity of election material that we judged to be misleading or factually inaccurate or both. Very few of the decisions we made could be described as contentious. Most political untruths in advertising are pretty straightforward and in many cases almost risible, if it wasn’t for the fact that it is an election that is being influenced.
Nevertheless, come the 2022 local elections we decided, in the context of a particularly toxic political environment with the integrity of information very much under scrutiny, that we needed to establish a broader credibility and to demonstrate, in particular, that it is desirable and possible to establish a process by which election advertising can be reviewed by a broader constituency than our own resources could offer.
We have formed ‘EARP’, the Election Advertising Review Panel. We invited six senior people from inside and outside the advertising industry to create an executive that reviews factual claims in election ads and judges whether they are truthfully presented or otherwise. This exercise constitutes a ‘pilot’ for the next General Election, by which time we are planning involvement from established regulatory bodies.
The members of the Executive are:
- Dr. Katherine Dommett, Senior Lecturer at the University of Sheffield
- Jake Dubbins, Co-Chair of the Conscious Advertising Network
- Arvind Hickman, Media Editor, Campaign
- Will Moy, Chief Executive, Full Fact
- Poppy Wood, Public Policy Lead, Reset
We were obviously delighted that Lord Puttnam, responsible for the House of Lords recommendation referenced above, agreed to chair EARP. Here’s what Lord Puttnam has to say about it:
Download the Exec’s findings “Cost Of Lying Crisis. Lies For Votes” below. | <urn:uuid:629d89d4-f797-4a27-afeb-ccb099730869> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://reformpoliticaladvertising.org/earp-here-to-run-the-bus-out-of-town/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00270.warc.gz | en | 0.954789 | 466 | 1.632813 | 2 |
Duties & Authority
The Arizona Criminal Justice Commission was statutorily created in 1982, defined by A.R.S. §41-2401 through §41-2420, to carry out various coordinating, monitoring and reporting functions regarding the administration and management of criminal justice programs in Arizona. The ACJC serves as a resource and service organization for Arizona’s criminal justice community on a myriad of issues ranging from drugs, gangs and victim assistance to record improvement programs. The Commission also works to facilitate information and data exchange among state-wide criminal justice agencies. | <urn:uuid:7dcc0d72-436a-4f44-ae80-6423bf751563> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.azcjc.gov/ACJC.Web/about/duties.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282935.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00246-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933286 | 114 | 1.945313 | 2 |
Tomato, Darby Red & Yellow (Organic)
Solanum lycopersicum. Red with Yellow Stripes. 60 days. Indet.
Fairly early medium-sized, 2-4 oz, red fruit with yellow tiger stripes. One of the best striped tomatoes with excellent flavor, vigorous growth and high yields. Produces perfectly beautiful striped fruit for display on the tomato table at market and is a colorful addition to mixed quarts or flats. Developed in the 1960s by Dr. Lewis Darby of the Glasshouse Crops Research Institute in Littlehampton, England. Given to The Seed Ambassadors Project by Lila Towle, fellow Seed Ambassador and member of Frøsamlerne, the Danish seed saving group.
Sow indoors in flats with good potting soil as early as February, but no later than April. Keep warm and well-watered. Up pot seedlings into 4” pots once they have two true leaves. Transplant into the garden once danger of frost has passed.
Collect seeds from ripe fruit by squeezing into a jar and add 25% more water. Wait a few days for mold to form. When seeds sink and gel-sac is gone, stir, add water, then decant and rinse to clean. Dry thoroughly. Tomatoes are mostly self-pollinating; isolation is not usually needed for seeds to be true to type. | <urn:uuid:f69f35df-e9d9-477f-b5bb-2e9af780a97e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.adaptiveseeds.com/product/vegetables/tomatoes/tomato-darby-red-yellow-organic/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571090.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809215803-20220810005803-00078.warc.gz | en | 0.9218 | 296 | 2.25 | 2 |
Blood and Marrow Transplant
Finding Better Treatments for Children
We care for blood and marrow transplant patients before, during, and after the actual transplant. We are one of few centers to perform extracorporeal photopheresis, a treatment that helps children who experience dangerous post-transplant complications.
If your child has leukemia
or another blood disorder, such as sickle cell disease
, that isn’t responding well to treatment, he or she may need a bone marrow transplant.
Children’s National is one of the only dedicated pediatric bone marrow transplant programs in the region. In fact, we treat more children than all other Washington, DC area hospitals. The Blood and Marrow Transplantation team is a nationally recognized leader in pediatric blood and marrow treatment advances. Our Children’s Oncology Group (COG)-accredited transplant program is known for cutting-edge treatment protocols developed by physicians right here at Children’s National.
Blood and Marrow Transplant at Children’s National: Why Choose Us?
Children’s National is one of few programs with a team of dedicated bone marrow transplant physicians and advanced practice nurses. Our advanced knowledge allows us to deliver transplants with unparalleled expertise, even when your child is critically ill.
Highlights of our program include:
- Advanced treatments: We are one of few centers in the world offering extracorporeal photopheresis. This treatment helps children who experience dangerous post-transplant complications, such as graft vs. host disease. Read more about extracorporeal photopheresis.
- Comprehensive care: From pre-transplant education to outpatient follow-up care, we expertly deliver the full spectrum of care. This includes innovative therapies to prevent or treat relapse and viral infections. Learn more about cellular therapy treatment.
- Referral center: The level of care available at Children’s National gives your child the best chances for a good outcome. This is why parents from all over the region, country, and even other countries trust us to perform their child’s bone marrow transplant.
- Seamless care: Working side by side, specialists in every aspect of blood and bone marrow transplantation develop personalized treatments and seamlessly deliver them to your child. Meet the team.
- Research: As the region’s only dedicated pediatric National Marrow Donor Program transplant center and a participating center in the National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded BMT Clinical Trials Network, Children’s provides patients with access to national clinical trials. In fact, our physicians lead a number of the trials. We also participate in the Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research and the Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplant Consortium, working with international colleagues to improve treatment and quality of life for transplant patients.
Blood and Marrow Transplant Using Any Stem Cell Source
A blood or bone marrow transplant replaces damaged tissue or blood-forming cells with healthy, immature donor cells (stem cells). Your child must receive stem cells that closely match his or her special genetic makeup. The donor is often a sibling or other family member. However, some children are hard to match, which can delay their treatment.
Part of what makes our program special is our success in working with any stem cell source. Through research and clinical trials, we are exploring additional stem cell sources. In fact, we are one of few programs in the country offering a trial for transplants using a biological parent’s donor cells (half matched donor).
When your child receives a blood or bone marrow transplant, the care he or she receives in the weeks following this procedure is nearly as important as the transplant itself.
Children’s National, ensures the success of your child’s transplant by:
- Protecting your child from infection: Your child stays in a private, high-efficiency particulate arrestance (HEPA)-filtered isolation room. This gives your child the highest level of protection from infection.
- Focusing on all of your child’s needs: Care at Children’s includes support for your child’s social and emotional well-being. This is especially helpful for children who have difficulty being isolated after their transplant. Our resources for families include help keeping up with schoolwork, bedside entertainment, and spiritual support.
- Performing round-the-clock monitoring: Experienced bone marrow transplant nurses deliver round-the-clock care. This includes meticulous attention to detecting complications, such as infections and graft vs. host disease, in their earliest stages.
- Delivering outpatient care in a dedicated clinic: After your child goes home, he or she receives follow up care in our brand new bone marrow transplant outpatient clinic.
Meet the team or for more information, call us at 202-476-6690.
Blood and Marrow Transplant Team
In This Section:
Have a question about a specific disease or condition or treatments or services we offer?
We see children locally and globally who need the kind of specialized expertise and child-focused care we offer.
Our providers represent medical and surgical specialties, family practice, and general pediatrics.
We take a team approach to care, where all specialties and departments are totally integrated to offer the best care for each patient and family. Our team collaborates with specialists in other departments to offer the best care possible.
Pediatric specialists work closely to ensure an integrated approach to care for each child and family.
We offer resources for families to help answer questions and ease your child’s hospital experience.
We value the network of referring physicians and staff and offer resources for training and patient referral.
We provide a wide range of clinical services, specialties and treatments dedicated to improving children’s health. | <urn:uuid:b9955930-b51e-40d1-9c60-8c55fa08a136> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://childrensnational.org/departments/center-for-cancer-and-blood-disorders/blood-and-marrow-transplantation | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279489.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00014-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.919566 | 1,188 | 1.914063 | 2 |
Alga, or the plural algae, is the latest breakthrough in the biofuel world. If our economy crashes or we experience an event that changes life as we know it (an EMP, for instance), fossil-based fuels may not be readily available to us.
That leaves three choices: walk, ride a horse, or find another way to fuel our vehicles. Since walking is pretty inefficient on long distances and horses aren’t an option for most people, finding a sustainable source of fuel will be paramount.
Today we’re going to talk about making fuel from algae. Before we begin, you need to know that this isn’t the easiest of processes because it involves extracting the oil from the plant. That does, of course, apply to any crop that you’re going to grow yourself for biofuel.
You’re going to need to invest some money into equipment and chemicals. You’re also going to need to invest some time into practicing and learning the exact process. Already-pressed oil is much simpler, but of course that may not be available if SHTF.
Choosing the Best Algae for Biofuel
The reason that alga is being considered the possible biofuel of the future is because some species yield up to 60% of their biomass in lipids, aka oil. To put that in perspective, corn yields about 18 gallons of oil per acre, sunflowers yield 102 gallons and micro algae yields 5000-15,000 gallons.
Also, algae can be grown on ponds and swamps that don’t compete with food crops. Significant difference, yes?
There are a ton of different types of algae on our planet but some are much more suited for biofuel than others. You want to find one that’s easy to grow, produces a high percentage of oil, and reproduces relatively quickly.
Chlorella is fairly popular among growers because it has a rapid growth rate and grows well in a pond setting.
It’s green algae that can be packaged for food after the oil is extracted so there’s no waste and it is multi-use.
About 29% of its dry weight is oil.
Because different types of algae thrive in different climates, you should choose based upon what you can grow and use the best.
Growing Algae for Biofuel
How you grow your algae will depend largely upon what type you grow, but there several different common ways. The standard ingredients that you’ll generally need are simply hydrogen, nutrients for your specific algae, water, and sunlight.
As algae have a harvesting cycle of about 1-10 days, you can grow a lot in a very short period of time. You can also harvest up to 90% of the crop without damaging your future yields.
There are a few different ways for you to grow algae for biofuel. They include:
- Open ponds. Though this may seem to be the easiest, most natural way, it poses some challenges. If your strain of algae isn’t hardy, it could be wiped out by poor weather, fluctuations in pH, or invasive algae or bacteria. Also, strains with higher lipid content grow much slower in an open pond environment depending upon these challenges.
- Closed-Loop Systems. These systems consist of a network of clear plastic bags or tubing exposed to artificial light or sunlight but not exposed to air. This prevents contamination from bacteria or other elements but requires that sterile CO2 be pumped through, as the system isn’t exposed to air.
- Photobioreactors. This is a method that uses a system of hoses or bottles that have water circulated through them and are exposed to light. The algae may also be grown in a container that’s completely opaque and enclosed indoors, with light being pumped into it. That’s an expensive, industrial way to do it though, and is outside the scope of the DIY’er. Again, you’ll need to pump CO2 through it in order to control the growth of your algae. This can be done using a bubbler similar to what you use to aerate a fish tank. There are currently systems that use gravity, which is great because they don’t require power. The problem with this process is that it’s in its infancy and an effective model hasn’t really been tested yet.
- Ultrasonic Extraction. This method involves the use of ultrasonic waves to crack the algae molecules in order to separate the biomass from the oil. Not really an at-home type of thing yet.
To get either system started, you simply add the nutrients and algae starts to the water. With the bioreactor, you’ll start circulating the water and with the pond, you just let it go.
Extracting Oil from Algae for Biofuel
The next step, after you gather your algae from the source, is to dry it thoroughly if you’re going to use a mechanical press to extract the oil. If you’re using chemical methods, this isn’t as necessary.
There are dryers made specifically for this, but since we’re operating on the premise that there will be no power, you can dry it in the sun. Let it dry completely; water in your diesel is a bad thing and good preparation here will save you work later.
Once the algae are dry, it’s time to extract the oil. If you just want to press it out without using chemicals, you can use a large press purchased specifically for this, or you can use a smaller home press.
The most effective way to extract the most oil from algae is by using a combination of manual and physical techniques. Use a press (screw, expeller or piston, depending upon your algae type) to get most of the oil out, then add a hexane solution to get the rest. Distill it or allow it to settle, then drain the oil from the bottom just like you do when processing vegetable oil.
To turn your algae oil into biofuel, you need to put it through a process called transesterification.
Growing algae is certainly a viable method of producing oil for biofuel that can be used to operate vehicles and machinery, to cook with, and to illuminate and heat our homes in a post SHTF world. For that matter, it’s a fabulous alternative to fossil fuels in the world as we know it. Research continues and as scientists learn more, better techniques for growing and harvesting algae will be discovered.
If you have any questions about making biofuel from algae, or if you’ve done it already, please feel free to tell us about your ideas or experience in the comments section below.
Other useful resources:
Sold Out After Crisis (Best 37 Items To Hoard For A Long Term Crisis)
Family Self Defense (Best Self Defense Strategies For You And Your Family)
Blackout USA (EMP survival and preparedness)
Conquering the coming collapse (Financial advice and preparedness )
Liberty Generator (Easy DIY to build your own off-grid energy source)
Backyard Liberty (Easy and cheap DIY Aquaponic system to grow your organic and living food bank)
Bullet Proof Home (A Prepper’s Guide in Safeguarding a Home )
Backyard Innovator (A Self Sustaining Source Of Fresh Meat,Vegetables And Clean Drinking Water)
By Theresa Crouse
Source : Survivopedia.com | <urn:uuid:f3b263d0-cd94-4e97-b3b0-e2872626b126> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.mydailyinformer.com/off-grid-diy-project-making-fuel-from-algae/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280242.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00080-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93198 | 1,548 | 3.125 | 3 |
Bermuda is invited to be part of the global movement and celebrate International Girls in ICT Day on April 28th. The Department of E-Commerce will celebrate the day for Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) by organising three events, including two student competitions.
Dr. Marisa Stones, Director of the Department of E-Commerce said: “The community is invited to participate in our efforts to encourage, foster, and mentor our young women to consider ICT as a career path, to grow in the ICT industry, and to eventually take on leadership positions.”
Dr. Stones added, “Let us celebrate the inspiring ICT women who are in our midst.
“The public can nominate any woman who stands out in the Island’s ICT sector by emailing(firstname.lastname@example.org) the name of a nominee, including the name of her organization/employer, and her contact details. Also, write a brief paragraph clarifying the contribution that your nominee is making in the ICT world – whether locally or globally.”
Meanwhile, the Department of E-Commerce has provided all primary schools with posters depicting internationally-recognised pioneers in the ICT industry. The schools have been asked to encourage their students to colour the poster and return the finished product by Friday April 22nd at 3pm.
Students in the island’s secondary schools are encouraged to produce a 30-second video clip in which they use ICT in a creative and innovative way and which centres on girls and ICT in Bermuda.
The winners of all three competitions will be announced on April 28th, 2016 at the International Girls in ICT Day Celebration. | <urn:uuid:87bc1c71-f414-43f1-a8bf-4884723c773b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.gov.bm/articles/bermuda-celebrate-inspiring-girls-ict-april-28th | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281649.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00448-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954838 | 346 | 1.710938 | 2 |
How do you write an introduction to an essay for kids?
2:01Suggested clip 104 secondsInformational Writing for Kids- Episode 4: Writing an Introduction …YouTubeStart of suggested clipEnd of suggested clip
How do you begin to write an essay?
Preparation: Decide on your topic, do your research, and create an essay outline. Writing: Set out your argument in the introduction, develop it with evidence in the main body, and wrap it up with a conclusion….Introduction of an essayHook your reader. Provide background on your topic. Present the thesis statement.
How do you write a family essay?
So, below are some tips experts at customessayorder.com recommend you to consider when writing a family essay.Select a topic. There are various topics about a family essay which talk of different things. Introduction. Develop a thesis statement. Clear and precise body paragraphs. Use transition sentences. Conclusion.
How do you write 10 sentences about your family?
10 Lines on My Family Essay For Class 1I have a wonderful family and love all my family members.My family consists of ten members – grandparents, parents, uncle, aunt, two brothers, one sister and me.My father is an engineer and my mother is a school teacher by profession.
What is family in paragraph?
Family is one of the integral parts of human beings. Every human is incomplete without a family. A family means to have a man, his wife, his kids, and his parents; all are living together. All the family members share equal parts while sharing the responsibilities within the family.
Why do I love my family paragraph?
I love my family because they help me succeed in what I want to do and they support me in what I want to do. I love them very much because they love me and care for me like any other kid. The most important reason I love my family is because they know and love Jesus and helped me to know him as my personal Savior.
What is a family answer?
Answer: Family is defined as a specific group of people that may be made up of partners, children, parents, aunts, uncles, cousins and grandparents. An example of a family is a set of parents living with their children.
What is family in simple words?
noun, plural fam·i·lies. a basic social unit consisting of parents and their children, considered as a group, whether dwelling together or not: the traditional family. a social unit consisting of one or more adults together with the children they care for: a single-parent family.
How do you introduce a family topic?
Then, it is more appropriate to introduce the mother, father, parents, spouse and child/children.My mother is Linda; my father is Bob.Lisa is married. Her husband is Peter.Jack is also married. My sister is Lisa; my brother is Jack.Sarah’s husband is Jack.Peter’s wife is Lisa.My parents are Linda and Bob.
Who all make a family?
Members of the immediate family may include spouses, parents, grandparents, brothers, sisters, sons, and daughters. Members of the extended family may include aunts, uncles, cousins, nephews, nieces, and siblings-in-law.
What are the 7 types of families?
Family StructuresNuclear Family. The nuclear family is the traditional type of family structure. Single Parent Family. The single parent family consists of one parent raising one or more children on his own. Extended Family. Childless Family. Step Family. Grandparent Family.
What are the 4 types of families?
We have stepfamilies; single-parent families; families headed by two unmarried partners, either of the opposite sex or the same sex; households that include one or more family members from a generation; adoptive families; foster families; and families where children are raised by their grandparents or other relatives.
What makes a happy family?
“I think what makes a happy family is to keep things fair and to always care about each other, and love each other. Families should always listen and help each other out. They should also have things together and share things. They should not fight but ask gently for something.”
What does a good family look like?
Some include: support; love and caring for other family members; providing security and a sense of belonging; open communication; making each person within the family feel important, valued, respected and esteemed. Here are some other qualities to consider when evaluating how well your own family is functioning.
How can I enjoy life with my family?
5 Secrets to a Stress-Free, Happy, Healthy FamilyEat, play, love. These easy ways to reconnect with your family can help create a really positive dynamic.Fun up family meals. Stay home, stay together. Be the cool parents. Create (and uphold) boundaries. Have an adventure. Celebrate your history. Start texting.
Is there a perfect family?
There are no ideal families, conflict is an inevitable part of family life, and large numbers of children know what it is like to grow up without seeing one of their parents, especially their fathers. So, remember, there are no perfect families and there are no perfect marriages or relationships.
Who is the happiest family in the world?
Dutch parents are among the happiest people in the world. But a year into motherhood, I stumbled upon a 2013 UNICEF report claiming that Dutch children were the happiest kids in the world.
What is the perfect family size?
A more recent study, from Europe, found that two was the magic number; having more children didn’t bring parents more joy. In the United States, nearly half of adults consider two to be the ideal number of children, according to Gallup polls, with three as the next most popular option, preferred by 26 percent. | <urn:uuid:cfaaaec7-a7a2-4992-a095-31b8b96d8fe0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.assemblymade.com/2020/12/how-do-you-write-an-introduction-to-an-essay-for-kids/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.961768 | 1,216 | 3.140625 | 3 |
Thunderbird is a free, open-source, and cross-platform email client from Mozilla. It also supports chat using the XMPP protocol.
To get started, download Thunderbird (if you haven’t already), run the application, and go to File > New > Existing Mail Account. In the new window, enter your name, Backstage email address, and password, then click Continue.
Next, Thunderbird will ask for more detailed configuration. Configure each setting as shown below, but use your company’s Backstage server address for the Server hostname fields (backstage.<yourcompanydomain.com>), and your own username (as it appears in your email address) for the Username fields.
Click done, and you should be ready to use your Backstage Mail account in Thunderbird. If you have a bunch of emails on your account, it will take some time to download them all so that they show up in Thunderbird.
To set up your Backstage Chat account in Thunderbird, go to File > New > Chat Account and select XMPP as the Chat network in the new window that appears and click Continue.
In the next window, enter your username (as it appears in your email address), and your domain (the part that comes after the @ sign in your email address). Click Continue.
Enter your password in the next window and click Continue.
In the next window, set your Alias. This is the name that will display in conversations with other chat users.
Next, open the XMPP Options dropdown. Set Connection security to Require encryption, enter your Backstage server address in the Server field, and set the Port number to 5223. Click Continue.
Verify that the configuration shown is correct, check off Connect this account now, and click on Done.
You’re now ready to start using your Backstage accounts with Thunderbird! | <urn:uuid:936e1e94-f96b-49f9-a232-24b8f0956fdd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://hostedbackstage.com/how-to/connecting-thunderbird-to-backstage-mail-and-chat | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00070.warc.gz | en | 0.871756 | 401 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Offshore farms ‘best bet’ for wind energy projects
Spokesman says Irish projects could generate €10 billion from export to Britain
Arklow Bank windfarm. The National Offshore Wind Association, which represents several offshore operators, said there was “no doubt that planning offshore is easier, because there’s nobody living there and we’ve done our environmental impact assessments”.
Offshore wind farms in the Irish Sea now offer the best prospect of exporting electricity to Britain, as the controversial proposals for the midlands will be delayed in the planning process, it has been claimed.
The National Offshore Wind Association, which represents several offshore operators, said there was “no doubt that planning offshore is easier, because there’s nobody living there and we’ve done our environmental impact assessments”.
Spokesman Grattan Healy, who is involved in an offshore project in Connemara, estimated Irish wind farms could generate €10 billion a year in revenue – more than enough to offset the import bill for oil, coal and gas of €6 billion a year.
Minister for Energy Pat Rabbitte has announced a public consultation on his department’s renewable energy export policy and development framework and the scoping of a strategic environmental assessment (SEA) of the projects planned for the midlands.
The Minister emphasised the “transparency” of this process. Proposed large-scale wind farms intending to export, he said, “must await the putting in place of this framework, which will be underpinned by an SEA”. The consultation closes on November 22nd.
Bord na Móna has also entered the fray, seeking potential partners for the development of a “clean energy hub” on cutaway bog in the midlands, with the capacity to generate 2 gigawatts of electricity for export to Britain. This could be worth €1 billion a year.
It would involve developing a number of wind farms on the company’s extensive 20,000ha of cutaway peatlands in east Co Offaly and west Co Kildare. The State-owned company has set a target of 2020 to bring this project on stream.
Far from people
One of the principal advantages of the proposal – seen as “significant” by the Minister – is that huge wind turbines would be built on cutaway bog “far away from concentrations of people” and thus would attract fewer objections.
In the meantime, offshore wind developers believe they have a head start. Their plans went to public consultation three or four years ago and the companies involved are now awaiting “imminent” publication of the department’s offshore development plan.
According to Mr Healy, some major schemes “already have consent in principle, while others are on the way”. Two projects “ready to go” are for Arklow Bank, where there are already seven turbines in operation, and Codling Bank, near Bray, Co Wicklow. | <urn:uuid:75e9ea5a-b36f-4e7b-84e9-086efe22b05b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.irishtimes.com/news/environment/offshore-farms-best-bet-for-wind-energy-projects-1.1582652 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280872.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00316-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947938 | 624 | 2.0625 | 2 |
MANGANESE AND ZINC LACK-CORRECTOR WITH LIGNOSULFONATE
Liquid mixture of manganese (Mn) and zinc (Zn) complexed by lignosulfonate.
Applications and doses:
Liquid lack-corrector of zinc and manganese, complexed by lignosulfonic acid to facilitate the absorption and transport of these trace elements inside the plant. Foliar application or fertigation is applied when the plant is in an active vegetation period at the beginning of sprouting..
Foliar: 400-600 cc/hl
Fertigation: 5 L/ha | <urn:uuid:ceae956a-01f9-4833-bb94-8b97a7165c76> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.biagro.es/en/producto/nutrobi-zn-mn-complex/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573623.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819035957-20220819065957-00667.warc.gz | en | 0.789782 | 141 | 1.875 | 2 |
Elephant Hindu God Ganesha Sculpture Vintage Ganesh Statue Temple Wooden Murti. Size: 14″inch(35 cm)High 8″inch(20 cm)wide 4(10 cm) thickness. Material: Wood (Single Piece). Ganesh, or Ganesha, is one of Hinduisms most popular deities. Ganesh is the remover of obstacles, the deity whom worshipers first acknowledge when they visit a temple. Ganesh is also patron of letters and of learning; Ganesh is the legendary scribe who, using his broken tusk, which he often holds, wrote down parts of the Mahabharata epic. Vintage Wooden Ganesha Statue for Home / Office Decor. This is a very nice used wooden hand crafted sculpture with Indian ancient figurines. GREAT IMPRESSIVE DECOR AND LOVABLE FOR COLLECTO RS. We also accept wholesale orders, Please write to us for wholesale enquiries. We will work with you to until you are satisfied. THANKS FOR SHOPPING WITH US. The item “Elephant Hindu God Ganesha Sculpture Vintage Ganesh Statue Temple Wooden Murti” is in sale since Saturday, August 11, 2018. This item is in the category “Antiques\Asian Antiques\India”. The seller is “exclusive-arts” and is located in THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, KERALA. This item can be shipped worldwide.
- Type: Statues
- Primary Material: Wood
- Age: Post-1940
- Region of Origin: India
- Original/Reproduction: Vintage Original | <urn:uuid:c234c11b-2011-4660-b553-bfb6537c36d7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://woodsculpturevintage.com/elephant-hindu-god-ganesha-sculpture-vintage-ganesh-statue-temple-wooden-murti/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.906501 | 341 | 1.539063 | 2 |
Snow and cold is engulfing much of the country this year. While it's great to hire someone to plow your driveway and walkways, for 'do-it-yourselvers' shoveling snow actually can be a good form of exercise. However, the tools and techniques we use often puts a strain on our hearts and backs. Now comes a new back-saving snow shovel that makes moving snow easier and safer.
The Sno Wovel snow shovel is ergonomically designed to reduce back strain and heart stress. The Sno Wovel has a metal snow shovel blade attached to a 3-foot-tall metal wheel. The handlebars are chest-high, reducing the need for bending. You can adjust the handlebars to fit your height. By simply pushing the wheel the snow accumulates in the blade. By snapping the handlebars down, the Sno Wovel throws the snow with little effort. University of Massachusetts researchers tested this tool and said it cleared snow 3 times faster than a conventional snow shovel and reduced the risk of heart and back problems.
For more information and to watch a video of this new product, go to: Sno Wovel . | <urn:uuid:bd25c306-37da-4f1e-8473-b2107f6ff187> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://garden.org/learn/articles/view/3103/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280587.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00559-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939669 | 234 | 2.046875 | 2 |
Covered pot by Jean Derval
Small covered stoneware pot with a bird shaped handle to the lid by Jean Derval Vallauris, France 1950s signed to the base Jean Derval is a French mid century potter who worked with Picasso at Madoura in the 1940s
In the 1940s Jean Derval joined his friends Robert Picault and Roger Capron in Vallauris where they had created a pottery workshop. An elegant world of amateurs and artists was found at this time on the Côte d’Azur with Pablo Picasso at its center. Derval entered the famous Madoura workshop in 1949, where he rubbed shoulders with the Andalusian master for two years. | <urn:uuid:539ebe95-b627-4719-9061-4cbd16bb7927> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://3details.com/product/covered-pot-by-jean-derval/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00068.warc.gz | en | 0.960614 | 160 | 1.679688 | 2 |
Pileated Woodpeckers are primarily insect eaters, preferring carpenter ants and other insects. Big holes gouged in dead wood are a sign of pileateds probing in search of delectable insects.
Pileateds can be attracted to suet feeders, but to accommodate these big birds, you've got to think BIG! Here are some feeder options that our customers have had pileated success with. All these pictures were taken by our customers!
The feeder that has the most reports of pileated feeding is our suet log feeder. These feeders are long enough for these huge birds to comfortably perch on. Fill it with peanut suet plugs if hung on a baffled Advanced Pole System® set-up; fill it with hot pepper suet plugs if hung in a tree.
Other customers have had good success with a Suet Sandwich feeder when hung flush to a tree. The birds can perch on the tree trunk while probing into the sandwich feeder to access the suet inside.
This feeder is somewhat squirrel resistent in design; thin suet slabs are pressed between the two hard-plastic faux tree trunk side, allowing only a 1/4" opening to access the suet. This is plenty for woodpeckers (and other suet-loving birds) but it limits access to squirrels.
The WBU Double Tail Prop Suet Feeder is designed with the Pileated Woodpecker in mind. It holds two cakes of suet, which is needed for this big-billed bird and has a prop on the bottom for the bird to use as a "kick-stand".
So if you're lucky enough to have Pileated Woodpeckers in your area, think about putting out one of these accommodating feeders and see if you can attract them to some suet! | <urn:uuid:2677fd01-92fd-4476-b876-ffd929a05c4a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://wildbirdsunlimited.typepad.com/the_zen_birdfeeder/2010/04/bird-feeders-for-pileated-woodpeckers-think-big.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279410.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00172-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944424 | 385 | 1.53125 | 2 |
When sending cryptocurrencies…Bitcoin Dominance In December 2017… The problem that often arises is verifying that you have the right address, due to the fact that it is a complicated string of letters and numbers, even doing a copy and paste most likely results in you meticulously confirming that whatever pasted correctly, although it should have.
This is where Unstoppable Domains intends to help drive adoption of crypto with their blockchain domains. These domains can not just be used as completely functional websites, with decentralized applications (dApps) integrated, but also as a payment hub address where users can receive over 275 various crypto coins and tokens. By giving complicated crypto addresses a human legible name, Unstoppable Domains intends to be the domain addresses of the future.
unstoppable domain is a san francisco-based company that is supplying domain name extensions that are connected to the blockchain instead of being tied to the dns system specifically you can get a dot crypto which is tied to the ethereum blockchain or you can get a zillow domain extension which is tied to the silica blockchain which is an alternative to ethereum the benefit of using these blockchain based domain name extensions is just that they are decentralized so the dns system is controlled and run by icann so anything constantly needs approval from that governing body but something like a dot crypto or zillow these are based on the blockchain and they are simply totally decentralized so there’s no governing body there’s nothing that needs any kind of approval or consent you as the owner own your domain so in this video i wish to describe to you whatever that you require to called a newbie about unstoppable domain make sure to examine the links in the description for time stamps and any resources discussed in this video so let’s start how does domain name registration actually work i think
individuals are going to be quite stunned that it’s way more technical and complex than you pictured so when you go to someplace like namecheap.com or godaddy.com you’re not really purchasing the domain what you’re doing is you’re releasing the domain through a icann accredited domain name register why do i state i can license because you can’t get your domain names straight from i can which is again the nonprofit company that handles the dns system you have to go through an icann licensed domain name register in order to get a domain name and that’s simply how it works like you resemble why do i need to do that i do not understand why asking me those are simply the guidelines which’s what people have actually been providing for the last couple of years in order to get a domain name so that’s why you need to pay an annual charge on your domain due to the fact that you’re not really purchasing an owning domain name what you’re doing is renting their domain name so you’re going to namecheap.com to get your.com what they’re doing is then they’re going through the windows registry that manages that domain name extension which is then completely managed and arranged by icann broadly speaking so like when you get it.com.net.org the registry for that extension
Is unstoppable domains on Ethereum? Bitcoin Dominance In December 2017
is a verisign for instance so all these different domain name extensions have various computer system registries and the function of the registry is simply to manage the administrative information for that particular domain name nft domain names versus the conventional dns system what’s the distinction well the conventional dns system is a central system as i alluded to earlier based around icann so you have actually icann you have your domain computer system registries then you have your icann licensed domain registrars nfts by contrast are non-fungible tokens non-fungal meaning like you can’t jump in and change it however like what does that particularly imply a non-fungible token is just a piece of data found on a blockchain that is verifiable and represents a distinct digital item in this circumstances our domain names dot crypto versus dot zill what’s the distinction with these 2 so if you leap over to unstoppabledomainnames.com link in the description you’re going to find out that you can’t geta.com.net.org why well you can’t you must currently kind of understand why since those are handled by verisign which is a domain name pc registry which is managed by icann that belongs to the dns system that’s why you can’t get those types of domain names through unstoppable domain you can only get blockchain based domain right now they just have a dot crypto in dot zo at the time of recording this video the primary distinction is that these 2 are tied to different block chains that’s it so you have Bitcoin Dominance In December 2017
your dot crypto which is tied to the ethereum blockchain you have your dot zill which is connected to the silica block durian blockchain is way more industrialized and you have a bit more functions and services developed around uh at the ethereum blockchain with a dot crypto domain than you finish with a dot zill but functionally speaking they are the same individualized crypto addresses that can be set up as a payment entrance so this is the main function of unstoppable domain undoubtedly over time as like we have actually decentralized web host develop gradually it will be possible to utilize like a decentralized domain name and a decentralized web host to produce your own decentralized website currently it’s not truly possible i suggest you can do it but it’s quite technical uh.
One-time purchase of domain.
Streamlines method which people interact with crypto addresses.
Censor resistant domain saved in your wallet.
More performance than conventional domains.
Supports 276 crypto properties.
Need to spend ETH to claim domain.
Still some concern as to whether Unstoppable Domains will attain prevalent adoption.
Some domains are still pre-sale only.
What is Unstoppable Domains?
Unstoppable Domains was founded in 2018 by Matthew Gould, the current CEO, who saw a need for it to be easier for users to connect with crypto addresses. The objective of Unstoppable Domains is to be like the DNS system that entered into location, so users did not have to find out IP addresses in order to get to websites, except for crypto addresses.
In this way they have succeeded considerably, as they have produced a domain system that allows users to set up payments for 276 digital possessions under a single domain, while also being able to be utilized as a totally functioning site that can even have dApps built onto them since the domain is hosted on the blockchain. With a single payment and no yearly renewal charges, Unstoppable Domains is an intriguing tool for crypto users.
Is Unstoppable Domains Safe?
Unstoppable Domains is exceptionally safe due to the fact that when declared the domains exist under your address on blockchain, indicating they are as safe and secure as the blockchain itself.
It is twice as safe due to the fact that this also implies that the domain can not be obstructed by anyone aside from you, so your site is never ever at risk of being down due to censorship. The site for purchasing the domains is safe also and can be protected with two-factor authentication.
How Much is Unstoppable Domains?
The cost of Unstoppable Domains depends upon a two primary aspects, though it needs to be noted that purchasing a domain is a one-time expense and requires no annual renewals of any sort.
The first factor is the cost of the domain itself, this can vary from $20 USD to well over $1000 USD depending on the domain you select, as expense is based on domain type (. crypto is more than.wallet for instance), and the length of the domain name, with much shorter domains costing extra. In addition, there are exceptional domains that cost 10s of thousands.
The next factor is the gas charges related to using the Ethereum blockchain to claim your domain, because the domains are stored on the Ethereum blockchain, the transaction to claim them can be found in ETH and is not consisted of in your initial purchase. The gas costs you will pay will depend upon the current expense of ETH and the network blockage at the time of the transaction. Overall you can get most likely yourself a cheap.crypto domain and claim it for under $50 total.
What Are the very best Functions of Unstoppable Domains?
There are a few features of Unstoppable Domains that stand apart. The fact that it is a one-time purchase without any yearly renewal is incredibly attractive considering the way standard domain ownership works, and in addition, the domain is censor resistant, meaning it can not be removed by anybody other than the owner.
The domains also have more performance than traditional domains due to the fact that they can be used to a payment router, but likewise utilized to develop sites with dApps constructed directly on them because they exist on the blockchain, allowing the use of wise contracts on your site. Bitcoin Dominance In December 2017
Possibly the very best and most appealing feature of Unstoppable Domains is that is offers you a way to have one address for you to receive 276 various crypto assets, implying when you set it up you will only ever require to understand your domain and your payments will be routed to the wallets you established for each cryptocurrency. It is simpler not only for you, but for anyone who you wish to get funds from.
There is only one genuine potential dealbreaker when it comes to utilizing Unstoppable Domains, which is the expense of declaring your domain with Ethereum.
This might only be a dealbreaker since you do not have any Ethereum at your address and need to buy some in order to declare your domain, or if for some reason you believe it is unreasonable to pay the gas fees. This is a one-time transaction fee, and unless you decide to sell/transfer your domain to someone else it will be the extra cost associated with getting your domain. | <urn:uuid:841efd10-e357-4e25-ad9d-0d6cc06e3b41> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.lfmchurch.org/bitcoin-dominance-in-december-2017/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00671.warc.gz | en | 0.946899 | 2,086 | 1.734375 | 2 |
The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/0265-671X .htm
Received August 2002 Revised March 2003
A methodological comparison of three strategies for quality improvement
Jeroen de Mast
Institute for Business andIndustrial Statistics of the University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Keywords Quality improvement, Statistical process control, Taguchi methods Abstract Quality improvement is understood by Juran to be the systematic pursuit of improvement opportunities in production processes. Several methodologies are proposed in literature for quality improvement projects. Three of thesemethodologies – Taguchi’s methods, the Shainin system and the Six Sigma programme – are compared. The comparison is facilitated by a methodological framework for quality improvement. The methodological weaknesses and strong points of each strategy are highlighted. The analysis shows that the Shainin system focuses mainly on the identiWcation of the root cause of problems. Both Taguchi’s methods and the SixSigma programme exploit statistical modelling techniques. The Six Sigma programme is the most complete strategy of the three.
Introduction According to Juran (1989) the activities in companies that assure quality can be grouped in three processes: (1) quality planning; (2) quality control; and (3) quality improvement. In this paper, I focus on the last process, quality improvement. It consistsof the systematic and proactive pursuit of improvement opportunities in production processes to increase the quality to unprecedented levels (“breakthrough”). Typically, quality improvement activities are conducted in projects. Its proactive and project-wise nature distinguish quality improvement from quality control, which is an online process that is reactive in nature. Compare as well Ishikawa(1990, p. 201) and Taguchi’s (1986) distinction between online and ofXine quality control.
International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management Vol. 21 No. 2, 2004 pp. 198-213 q Emerald Group Publishing Limited 0265-671X DOI 10.1108/02656710410516989
The author wishes to thank the Editor and referees for their useful comments. This paper is supported by funding under the EuropeanCommission’s Fifth Framework “Growth” Programme via the Thematic Network “Pro-ENBIS” contract reference: G6RT-CT-2001-05059. The author is solely responsible for the content and it does not represent the opinion of the community.
With the purpose of guiding an experimenter in conducting a quality improvement project several strategies have been proposed. I deWne a quality improvement strategy to be:
.. . a coherent series of concepts, steps (phases), methodological rules and tools, that guide a quality professional in bringing the quality of a process or product to unprecedented levels.
Three strategies for quality improvement 199
Traditionally, statistical methods have played an important role in quality improvement (as well as in quality control). The Weld of industrial statistics hasyielded a number of methodologies for quality improvement. Improvement strategies based on statistical methodology typically follow the pattern of empirical inquiry: (1) They try to identify improvement opportunities by discovering (causal) relations in the process between quality characteristics and inXuence factors. (2) Conjectured relations are tested to empirical data before they are acceptedas true (De Mast, 2002). I shall call improvement strategies that comply with the two points above statistical improvement strategies. In the literature on industrial statistics three statistical improvement strategies have received a lot of attention, namely Taguchi’s methods, the Shainin system and the Six Sigma programme (see, for example, Nair, 1992; Steiner et al., 2002; Hahn et al.,... | <urn:uuid:4a137da1-f70e-4bd3-a5c7-d8a4c371af4d> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.buenastareas.com/ensayos/Six-Sigma-Taguchi-And-Shainin/1669143.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280310.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00180-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.903982 | 763 | 1.75 | 2 |
The Family Headache
From a young age, Jimmy remembers his father, Tommy, having “sick headaches”—Tommy’s migraines would make him nauseated, cause him to throw up, and leave him sick in bed for several days. When he was about 45, Jimmy began having these headaches, too. “It’s one of the worst feelings in the world. A building pressure will grow worse and worse until it almost feels as if your head is going to explode.”
Much like his father, Jimmy, now 58, experiences dizziness, sensitivity to light, and nausea when he has a migraine. He must stay in a dark room to help relieve his photophobia. He may take over-the-counter pain relievers to ease the pain, but he doesn’t find real relief until he’s able to throw up. “It’s really the only thing that works for me, but the headache will still linger for a few hours more even then.”
Jimmy’s son, William, a junior in college, experienced his first migraine when he was 13. “I had never really had a headache before that point, so I wasn’t entirely sure what I was experiencing,” William says. He explained the symptoms (blurry vision, sensitivity to light, and pain behind the eyes) to his parents, who immediately recognized the similarities between William’s symptoms and his father’s. They took him to their family doctor, who prescribed naproxen. Later, as William’s symptoms became worse, his doctor prescribed Maxalt, which he takes when he feels a migraine beginning. Now, at age 21, he averages one episode a year.
“I started having migraines at a much earlier age than my dad, but I know what to be aware of for my own children,” William says. “It’s in my genes, and it will be in theirs. I will want them to get treatment as quickly as my parents got treatment for me if they ever start having problems.”
The Importance of Knowing Your Triggers
“I hate drinking because I know it gives me headaches,” says Katelyn, a 22-year-old public relations account manager. “When I wake up hung over or with a wine headache, I feel awful because I just gave myself [a migraine], and it could have been avoided.”
Katelyn, whose grandmother and aunts also have frequent migraine headaches, discovered that alcohol was a trigger for her migraine headaches by diligently keeping a log of her symptoms, what she ate, what she was drinking, what medicines she took, etc. “My goal was to avoid preventative medication,” she says. “I didn’t want to be taking medication every day.”
Using her migraine logs, Katelyn and her doctors came to the conclusion her headaches might be the result of her birth control pills. “It's taken me nearly four years to realize that estrogen may be a big trigger for my migraines. I am now on a birth control that does not have estrogen. The hormone [in the pill] is progesterone, and that seems to have balanced out my hormones and my headaches,” she says. “I still get headaches, but now I can treat them with over-the-counter Excedrin.”
Finding the triggers that cause your headaches and learning to avoid them helps you live a more balanced, pain-free life, Katelyn says. “I make sure to eat at the same times every day. I still find myself getting migraines if I don’t eat breakfast, or if I don’t eat a balanced meal with enough protein. It’s so important to take care of your body,” she says.
The Importance of Seeking Help
Michelle, an elementary school teacher, has a vivid recollection of her first migraine. “I was 8 years old. I carpooled home from school with neighborhood friends to an empty house. My mother was running late from work, and I had to sit on the front steps with what felt like a headache that was going to cause my eye to explode from the inside out,” she recalls. “As soon as my mother got home, I rushed inside and threw up. The rest of the day is a blur.”
By 21, Michelle’s headaches were consistent and “frustrating.” By 23, they were chronic and debilitating. Now 29, she has not been headache-free in more than seven months. The headaches do not consume an entire day—they typically last only a few hours.
Michelle’s efforts to treat her migraines have been mostly unsuccessful thus far. By her own account, the first attempts were ineffective because the doctor (a family practitioner) didn’t seem to know how to treat her headaches. “He told me to take Aleve. After more migraine attacks, I returned to be given another medication, Maxalt, which did nothing for me,” she says. “After returning a third time, I was given a prescription dosage of naproxen, which is basically two doses of Aleve. It did nothing.”
She saw a neurologist for the first time when she was 24 and found the first real relief for her migraines since they began. “He was wonderful and gave me medications that made me feel so much better. He listened to me, he understood my pain, and he made me feel better,” she says. This relief, however, was short-lived, as Michelle quickly worked her way through the medicines that were effective until she had reached the highest doses she could take. Not willing to suffer endlessly, she sought out another neurologist who is working with newer migraine treatment technologies, including Botox injections. Though most of these have also had limited results, Michelle and her doctor have not given up hope.
“The most important thing is to find a doctor who believes and understands you,” she says. “And find someone who supports you. Many people will not understand, but some will try to at least support you.” | <urn:uuid:98cc4de1-be92-4406-8864-64ebc26ef9c8> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.healthline.com/health/migraine-true-stories-living-with-migraines | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279169.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00217-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.986921 | 1,314 | 1.851563 | 2 |
1 Answer | Add Yours
Nitrogen is a group 15 element. This means that it has three unpaired electrons in its valence shell p subshell. As a result, it tends to like to form three single bonds with other elements. Phosphorus and arsenic are also group 15 elements, so they behave in a similar fashion. Consequently, the formulas for the hydrides of phosphorus and arsenic are PH3 (phosphine) and AsH3 (arsine). Unlike ammonia (NH3), however, PH3 and AsH3 are both highly reactive and unstable in the atmosphere. Both will oxidize very easily from the oxygen in the air, and can only exist under inert conditions.
We’ve answered 317,447 questions. We can answer yours, too.Ask a question | <urn:uuid:9e76225e-2041-4016-8729-a1276e51d4f3> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.enotes.com/homework-help/formula-ammonia-nh3-predict-formula-corresponding-437204 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719027.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00303-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94227 | 164 | 3.34375 | 3 |
Laurel in Prince George's County, Maryland — The American Northeast (Mid-Atlantic)
An Angel Among US
February 28, 1922 - February 14, 2006
Dr. Arbona's distinguished career evolved from surgeon and general practitioner to psychiatrist, and took him from Mexico to New York, Maryland and Washington, DC. Seeing the devastating effects of substance abuse and mental illness on families and communities, he dedicated his life to improving mental health and relieving the suffering caused by addiction. He was recognized among his peers for his tenacity, intelligence, teaching ability, innate assessment skills and deep insight. He broke barriers as a vice chief of Prince Georges Hospital, challenging old stigmas of both psychiatry and alcoholism, and founding Maryland's first public alcoholic treatment unit. Known for his remarkable bedside manner, he saw his patients as people with value, rather than as disease entities. In his twenty years at Reality House,
Location. 39° 6.404′ N, 76° 50.959′ W. Marker is in Laurel, Maryland, in Prince George's County. Marker can be reached from Main Street, on the right when traveling west. Click for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 419 Main Street, Laurel MD 20707, United States of America.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker. First United Methodist Church of Laurel (within shouting distance of this marker); St. Philip's Episcopal Church (about 700 feet away, measured in a direct line); A “Little Dam” Powers the Avondale Mill (about 800 feet away); Site of Laurel's Civil War Hospital (approx. 0.2 miles away); Patuxent River (approx. 0.2 miles away); Avondale Mill (approx. 0.2 miles away); Avondale Mill: A Lost Treasure (approx. 0.2 miles away); Riverfront Park (approx. 0.2 miles away). Click for a list of all markers in Laurel.
Categories. • Science & Medicine •
Credits. This page originally submitted on , by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland. This page has been viewed 237 times since then and 3 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. submitted on , by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland. • Bill Pfingsten was the editor who published this page. This page was last revised on June 16, 2016. | <urn:uuid:e569e841-afb4-46b1-aff5-cfc35327c22b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=78932 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281450.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00175-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955413 | 518 | 2.140625 | 2 |
Accueil du site / Our projects : news and (...) / UN : Ban Ki-moon : Water is the key to sustainable development
UN : Ban Ki-moon : Water is the key to sustainable development
Publié : Mars 2013
During the Water Summit held in Budapest last October, Mr. Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary General, stressed the important role of water in sustainable development.
He presented three priority areas where water is essential for development : food security, adaptation to climate change and sanitation.
Mr. Jean-François Donzier, IOWater General Manager, was invited to lead the session on Water Governance in the Civil Society Forum organized within the Summit, during which he presented an introductory framework paper.
Dans la même rubrique
- Project « UWWT SIIF » : a free tool for European (...)
- Reunion Island : Tereos Indian Ocean
- 13th International Conference "EUROPE-INBO 2015", 21-24 (...)
- New Call for Interest : Assistance for Preparing (...)
- The participation of IOWater at the 7th World Water (...)
- Sultanate of Oman : Training for PAEW
- Palestine : Palestinian Water Authority (PWA) | <urn:uuid:005efd92-05ad-467d-86a3-2db902574ad9> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.oieau.org/iowater/our-projects-news-and-update/article/un-ban-ki-moon-water-is-the-key-to | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281746.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00284-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.796241 | 262 | 2.21875 | 2 |
- Intelligence for Architects
- More navigation items
By Ike Ijeh2017-02-10T07:30:00
A new scientific study tries to guage the brain’s psychological reaction to architecture and has some surprising results
Only logged in subscribers have access to it.
Existing subscriber? LOGIN
A subscription to Building Design will provide:
Alternatively REGISTER for free access on selected stories and sign up for email alerts | <urn:uuid:6d0aaf38-d558-4dad-bf60-737fbe495806> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.bdonline.co.uk/brain-archtivity/5086186.article | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00466.warc.gz | en | 0.814328 | 111 | 1.9375 | 2 |
With the recent signing of an Intergovernmental Agreement with the State of Illinois that allows for Kaskaskia College to now become owner of the former Animal Disease Lab, its Agriculture Program now has a new home.
This facility will provide the Agriculture and Horticulture Programs with a premier teaching facility that will include lecture, computer lab, and laboratory spaces. According to KC Professor of Agriculture, Aaron Heinzmann, “Our programs desperately needed increased space, as we have grown significantly over the last 8 years. Enrollment has grown 54% since 2005, and served nearly 100 students in 2012-13.”
This move will allow the KC Agriculture Program to expand from the current 1200 square foot room to a 44,000 square foot building. KC Professor Bill Waggoner says, “We have out grown our current set-up by leaps and bounds very quickly. As a 2000 graduate of the Agricultural Program at KC, I can personally say that this is a perfect fit. This move will give our students leading edge lab space to perform studies that will be very beneficial to the quickly changing Agricultural Industry”.
The Intergovernmental Agreement gives KC the building for a five year period with one five year renewal period. The new building, now being named the “Kaskaskia College Agricultural Education Center” will be ready for students for the Fall 2013 Semester which begins August 19.
KC Dean of Career and Technical Education, George Evans feels that the agreement will greatly assist our already successful Agriculture Programs with the space and tools necessary to take post-secondary agricultural education into the next century. Evans says, “This building will provide us with larger classrooms and abundant laboratory space. Keep in mind this building was built to service the agricultural industry, and we will continue to utilize the building for what its original purpose was. I am excited for the future.”
Heinzmann adds, “The facility also fits us at the right time, as the Agriculture and Horticulture programs have each added degrees and certificates in the last year. The Agriculture program has expanded from one Associate in Applied Science Degree in Agriculture to four AAS degrees.” The new degrees include Agriculture Business, Animal Science, Plant and Soil Science, and Dairy Science.
Recently, the Horticulture also added two new certificates that will be available this fall. These new programs include Landscape and Turfgrass Operations and Greenhouse and Nursery Production. Both programs are expected to contribute to the overall growth of the KC Horticulture Program.
The new facility will also allow the KC Agriculture Programs to increase local partnerships with many other agriculture education partners. It is the hopes of the program to increase cooperative efforts with the local Farm Bureaus, the University of Illinois Extension, the Illinois FFA Chapters and any other groups that are willing to partner to promote agriculture and horticulture.
Heinzmann adds, “We hope to serve the local community as well as the staff at the Animal Disease Lab did for so many years”.
For more information, contact Aaron Heinzmann at 545-3381 or Bill Waggoner at 545-3185. | <urn:uuid:5027f4d5-f8ab-4f90-8200-f41fc6bf72ba> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://kaskaskia.edu/News/NewsDetails.aspx?LISTID=d6ea35a6-b8ff-4bc6-a85f-1fc47c1d7c90&ID=3141 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284405.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00034-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943996 | 642 | 1.671875 | 2 |
Eating healthy food is an important part of having a strong immune system.
Kids should eat vegetables, fruits and whole grains.
They also need to drink lots of water and stay away from sugary drinks and junk food. Pouring milk on cereal or eating cheese with crackers for snacks is a good way to start the day.
Get Your Kids Vaccinated!
Vaccinating your children is an easy way to protect them from serious diseases – some of which can be fatal if left untreated. Immunizations are available for many different types of infections, including polio, hepatitis, measles, mumps and rubella.
Most schools require kids to have certain immunizations before they can attend school and it’s important to keep up-to-date with any new vaccinations that are recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
TV Time and Computer Time should be Limited
TV and computer time should be limited. Kids should still get enough sleep, eat healthy, exercise, and go outside. | <urn:uuid:709c994f-454d-404d-8d7f-1b652ebd6623> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.washyourhandsofthem.com/personal-hygiene.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00078.warc.gz | en | 0.947555 | 210 | 3.4375 | 3 |
1 Answer | Add Yours
The poets of the Romantic period were a product of their times. There was a surge in expression of the individual and his experiences and ideas. The focus shifted from the exclusive to the ordinary and this showed in the language that was used and subject matter that was chosen. Politically, there were upheavals in governments across the world and revolutions were taking place in France and spread to other states. Socially, and economically, the industrialisation of major companies ensured the rise of a new monied class that could afford an education and that pushed the old way of life out of existence.
The Romantic Poets lived colorful lives attracting as much attention by their social activities as by their poetry. Wordsworth and Coleridge advocated that poetry should be within the reach of the common man and wrote in simple everyday speech of people anyone would meet. They showed that the english language could be beautiful without recourse to learned allusions and mythological inclusions and traditional devices. Wordsworth wrote prodiguously and through his method of 'emotion recollected in tranquillity' could turn the ordinary things of each day into something poetic. Coleridge was gifted with the ability to create rhythms with ease and introduce a dream-like quality to his work. Keats, probably the most sensitive poet of England, brought a sensuous sensibility of feeling that was straight from his heart and the unshaken belief that he would be among the great poets of England no matter what his critics said. Shelley was intellectual and inspired and lyrical. It is said that no one has explained the way a cloud forms and dissipates as well as he has. Byron lead a colorful life and was misunderstood and maligned more than he deserved in all probability. He took society by storm with his good looks and poetry. As a lord, he took care of his inheritance with acumen and was interested in making a contribution in the government. Finally for undisclosed reasons he left England, tired of its insularity and toured the Continent before joining the rebels in Greece. Keats, shelley and Byron died young. But they made a mark for all time.
So much of what is accepted in our culture derives from the efforts of the Romantics. We think nothing of expressing individual ideas or valuing the opinions of others without basing our judgments on issues of class or learning.
We’ve answered 319,200 questions. We can answer yours, too.Ask a question | <urn:uuid:0097f51f-3d33-4289-93c4-04c34c03e5c6> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.enotes.com/homework-help/discuss-romantic-period-274876 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281574.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00023-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.987482 | 499 | 3.765625 | 4 |
Poliomyelitis vaccination and mass vaccination campaigns for kids and youth beneath 15 years of age began this Friday morning (5) in Santa Catarina. In accordance with the nation’s authorities, the goal of this motion is to “elevate vaccination protection to guard youngsters and younger individuals from vaccine-preventable illnesses”.
These campaigns are operating concurrently in all of the municipalities of this province between subsequent Monday (8) and the ninth of September. ID-Day, the Saturday of the federal government’s assembly the place vacancies are open for vaccination, will probably be on August 20.
The Superintendent of Well being Inspection, Eduardo Macário, defined that the principle focus is to resume the nationwide vaccination card: “The kid will come to the well being heart and his booklet will probably be checked. If a toddler wants multiple vaccine, the vaccine must be given on the identical time.”
The vaccination supervisor of Dive/SC (Directorate of Epidemiological Surveillance of Santa Catarina), Arieli Schiessl Fialho, emphasised that adherence to those two Campaigns is essential for Santa Catarina and Brazil to stay polio-free and kids and adolescents they develop up wholesome.
“Previously years, we have now seen a lower in vaccination charges, which is of concern to us, we should keep excessive safety to forestall illnesses which were managed or eradicated from returning to our society and vastly scale back the incidence of vaccine-preventable illnesses. ”, examined the vaccination supervisor.
“We’re engaged on different axes and routes in the intervening time. Our objective is to create engagement and strengthen communication methods. This marketing campaign has already handed to the Secretary of Communications and specialists of Epidemiological Surveillance of the nation, to deliver the mandatory strategies to keep away from social disruption, and likewise analyzed by the Regional Electoral Courtroom, relying on what is set. actions will probably be coordinated in response to the present legislation”, defined the Secretary of State for Well being, Aldo Baptista Neto.
Discover out which vaccines will probably be given within the Poliomyelitis and Multivaccination marketing campaign
- VIP (inactivated polio vaccine)
- OPV (Anti-Polio Vaccine)
- Yellow fever
- Three viruses (measles, mumps and rubella)
- dTpa (grownup diphtheria and tetanus)
- Grownup diphtheria and tetanus
- ACWY meningococcal illness
- Quadrivalent HPV (HPV varieties 6, 11, 16, and 18)
- BCG (onerous types of tuberculosis)
- Hepatitis B
- Pentavalent (tetanus, diphtheria, whooping cough, Haemophilus influenzae b and hepatitis b)
- rotavirus (diarrhea)
- Pneumococcal 10 (invasive pneumococcal illness of all 10 serotypes)
- Meningococcal C (meningococcal C illness)
- DTP (diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough)
- Hepatitis A
- rash (rash)
“Within the Poliomyelitis vaccination marketing campaign, the indication is random vaccination of youngsters from one 12 months to lower than 5 years of age (4 years, 11 months and 29 days) with OPV, until they’ve already obtained three doses of the fundamental VIP routine “. introduce the SES.
For kids beneath one 12 months of age, vaccination must be finished in response to the vaccination schedule discovered within the first schedule: 1 dose at 2 months, 2 doses at 4 months and three doses at 6 months, and -VIP vaccination. Estimated viewers is 488,948 youngsters aged 0 to 4 years.
Within the multi-dose immunization marketing campaign, all vaccines from the Nationwide Immunization Calendar will probably be given to youngsters and youth beneath 15 years of age. In accordance with the nation’s authorities, “there are 17 strains that defend in opposition to greater than 20 illnesses comparable to yellow fever, measles, meningitis, measles, rubella, tetanus and whooping cough”.
A number of vaccination marketing campaign doses are beneficial for all those that, for some purpose, haven’t taken their medicine or have an incomplete vaccination schedule. “It is very important notice that the required vaccination is 95% for nearly all vaccines, apart from rotavirus and BCG, which is 90%”, emphasised the SES.
Throughout the marketing campaign, youngsters and younger individuals can be vaccinated in opposition to Covid-19. In accordance with the steering from the Ministry of Well being, there isn’t a longer a necessity to attend for a interval of 15 days to be administered the Covid-19 vaccine and different doses of the Nationwide Immunization Calendar for 3-year-old youngsters. Subsequently, doses may be taken concurrently or at any time.
In case of doubt concerning the vaccination standing of a kid or younger little one, the advice is to examine the vaccination put up.
how will it work
- Throughout the marketing campaign, the municipalities of Santa Catarina should undertake the next vaccination methods:
- Extension of opening hours of vaccination rooms;
- Each Saturday is vaccination day, and the opening of well being posts, in the course of the Marketing campaign, each Saturday;
- Use each alternative to be vaccinated, particularly when a toddler or adolescent goes to the well being division for appointments or different procedures, to make sure vaccination standing;
- Keep away from entry boundaries comparable to non-binding proof of residence for vaccination;
- Use the college atmosphere for conversations with these in cost concerning the significance of vaccination, along with speeches and measures to lift consciousness amongst youngsters and adolescents, and the verification of data and actions of vaccination in these areas.
See extra info within the report Florianópolis Basic Info Sheet. | <urn:uuid:327f087d-8f07-4e26-915e-3d40fc08a6b6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://avonoren.com/video-sc-launches-campaigns-to-extend-immunization-of-youngsters-and-youth-take-a-look-at/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00275.warc.gz | en | 0.909367 | 1,258 | 2.28125 | 2 |
Here at Wealth Daily and our sister site, Energy and Capital, our goal is to help you make the right financial decisions.
Sometimes that means telling you to avoid a certain stock or sector. Sometimes it means telling you to go all in.
This is one of those all-in reports…
Peak Usage Becomes Average Usage
As lockdowns started here in the States, internet traffic jumped immediately. Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg said his company saw web traffic climb 20%, voice over internet protocol (VoIP) jump 25%, streaming ramp by 12%, and online gaming skyrocket 75%!
At AT&T, the story was similar. Wireless voice calls were up 44%, WiFi calling was up 88%, and it saw all-time highs in data traffic from streaming service Netflix.
Cloudflare, a company that provides cloud-based networking and cybersecurity services, said that it had seen network usage increase as much as 40% in Seattle, where the coronavirus first broke out in the U.S.
Google’s streaming site, YouTube, said that it would reduce its video quality from high to standard definition across the globe. Microsoft’s Xbox requested that gaming companies introduce updates and new releases only at certain times to prevent network congestion.
Internet service providers like Comcast, Verizon, and AT&T have been building out their networks for years to cover increasing demand, but company officials said they had never seen such a steep, sudden surge.
And all that extra use is still taking a toll on the networks. Median download speeds dropped 38% in San Jose, California and 24% in New York according to Broadband Now, the consumer broadband research site.
The Need for Speed
You see most internet connections in the country were built to send information in one direction — downstream. So those using cable and DSL are on networks built for downloads.
That’s great if all you’re doing is streaming movies while you’re stuck at home. But if you need to send data out, say in a video conference, your DSL leaves you SOL.
One of our editors has the fastest residential internet package Comcast offers. Its top upload speed: a whopping 10 Mbps. He can’t get more even if he offered to pay for it (which he did).
Mobile wireless networks, fixed networks in rural areas, and satellite broadband all suffer from the same capacity constraints as cable and DSL.
It’s so bad that Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile got together and struck a deal with Dish Network, the satellite TV company, to “borrow” its unused wireless spectrum to help boost their network capacity.
But even last-ditch efforts like that are still leaving millions without the networks they need. Like Pete Mitchell, we’ve got the need for speed. But we need it in both directions...
When Wireless Isn’t Really Wireless
You’ve likely heard talk recently about the growing 5G wireless network. If you’ve read many of our articles, you’ve heard a lot about it and the profits it will deliver shrewd investors.
You’ve heard how it’s going to completely change the way we live.
It will allow for connected cities that are more accessible to those of us with physical handicaps.
It will create smart homes that adjust temperature and lighting while you’re on your way home and even pour you a glass of wine if they detect you’re feeling a little stressed from work.
It will allow virtual reality and augmented reality to blend seamlessly with the real world.
It will be amazing once this new wireless network is up and running!
But there’s one problem… It’s not really wireless at all.
You see, in order to store all the data that all those new connected devices will create, you have to have a physical connection to storage facilities.
And these facilities, also known as server farms, are only linked to the outside world with one kind of connection. It’s the physical connection that can handle speeds fast enough to keep up with 5G.
And it’s called fiber-optic cable.
So the network may be “wireless” but it’s not “cable-less.” And without these cables, 5G networks cannot and will not ever exist.
But investors aren’t paying attention to that fact right now. They’re just looking at who’s going to be the winner of the 5G race or who’s going to hang the antenna from their towers.
That creates an opportunity for investors who know what the real backbone of the 5G network is. And we’ve got a list of fiber-optic companies helping to create that backbone, and they're all trading for less than $10.
But before we get to those, let’s talk a little bit about what fiber optics are and why they’re so critical for the 5G network.
When Wires Aren’t Really Wires
Fiber-optic cables are cables made from a bundle of optical fibers. Optical fibers are flexible, transparent strands made by pulling glass or plastic to a diameter slightly bigger than that of a human hair.
They’re called optical fibers because they’re used to transmit light from one end of the cable to the other. If you’ve ever had a doctor look inside you with a scope, those images that came up on the display screen were transmitted over optical fibers.
That’s a very important role fiber optics plays. But it’s not the only one. You see, fiber optics are widely used in communications because they allow transmission over long distances at higher bandwidths.
If you were to put that into wireless terms, they’re like a combination of 4G (that can travel long distances) and 5G (that can handle high bandwidths).
The 5G network will be a combination network of sorts. It’ll have 4G capabilities to send signals through buildings and over long distances, and it’ll have 5G capabilities to handle tons of data.
But the only way to get those data into server farms (and access them again quickly) is for the wireless network to be wired into the servers with fiber optics (which aren’t really wires at all).
So you’re starting to see why fiber-optic cables are so critical to the deployment of 5G across the globe.
Without those physical connections to the storage centers, there’s no efficient way to store the data and no easy way to access them when we need them.
And investors are starting to catch on as they search for the best fiber-optic stocks to play this long-term trend.
But most of the easy-to-find fiber-optic stocks are already trading close to $100 a share. And the big gains aren’t coming from incumbents in this new industry.
If you want the really massive profits from fiber optics, you’ve got to dig a little deeper to find companies that haven’t already been bid through the roof.
Fortunately for you, we love digging deeper into investments. And we’ve found several fiber-optic stocks that are still trading under $10 but likely won’t stay there long.
So now that you’ve got a better grasp of what it is and why it’s so important, let’s talk about the companies that could turn a small investment into a relative fortune.
Three Fiber-Optics Stocks Under $10
First on our list is Optical Cable Corporation (NASDAQ: OCC). This Roanoke, Virginia-based company manufactures the cables that will connect the 5G wireless network to the real world. The company’s cable is used mainly for telecommunications and is sold in the U.S. and 70 other countries worldwide. Plus, OCC has a deal to make military-grade tactical fiber-optic cable for the U.S. military.
And its shares trade for around $2.50 right now. But earlier in 2020, they were changing hands for as much as $3.60. And they’ve been as high as $6 in recent history. As investors look for companies likely to ride the fiber-optic wave created by 5G and the need for high-speed connections, these shares could easily hit their old heights and score investors a 50%–150% gain.
Next up is NeoPhotonics Corporation (NYSE: NPTN). Founded in 1996, NeoPhotonics makes and sells optoelectronic products that transmit, receive, and switch high-speed digital optical signals for communications networks. So we’re talking about the circuits, transceivers, and semiconductors needed to send and receive data over fiber-optic networks.
The company’s been growing revenues since 2018 and is currently bringing in about what it was when shares were worth $18. Those shares are currently trading right around $7. But they’ve got the potential to jump to $15 in just a matter of weeks. That could score investors a quick double. And then you’d be set up to watch the shares slowly grow to all-time highs as the fiber-optic network expands and NeoPhotonics’ devices become even more in demand.
Our third fiber-optic stock under $10 is a really good one and it’s got the potential to deliver a 50% gain in just a couple of weeks.
We’re talking about Applied Optoelectronics Inc. (NASDAQ: AAOI). Initially, this wouldn’t have made the list, but shares got whacked in the selling that hit the market in October 2020 and dropped back below $10. That’s after running up nearly 200% over just six months.
AAOI is a leading provider of fiber-optic networking products for internet data, cable television, fiber to the home, and telecommunications. The company makes a range of communications products at varying levels from components to ready-to-run equipment.
Shares have been as high as $100 in the past and could get back up there given some time and the right catalysts. But even a run back up to summer 2020’s levels of $15 would score investors a 50% gain from the current price.
Bonus: The BEST Fiber-Optic Stock Under $10
So there you have our three top fiber-optic stocks under $10. However, there’s one more out there that doesn’t make fiber optics but is potentially more likely to rally thanks to interest in this industry.
Instead of making the components of the fiber-optic networks and hoping companies opt for its products, this company spent the last five years building the nation’s largest fiber-optic cable network.
It’s got more of this critical asset than all of the telecommunications companies (Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile) have combined. It’s even got more than them plus the top cable providers in the country.
And it’s giving companies access to that network for a small fee (kind of like a tollbooth to get off the back roads and onto the highway).
So it should be no surprise that the only cities with true 5G access are ones on this company’s network. It’s a pretty powerful visual to see the network:
And then see the U.S. cities with 5G:
Every single city that has 5G access is also on this company’s network. That’s why all the wireless carriers already have contracts in place with this company. And that’s why even the U.S. government has inked multimillion-dollar deals, too.
This company owns the one asset that is 100% critical to successful 5G deployment. And it’s got more of it than any other company out there.
Investors haven’t caught on yet, however. And the share price is sitting right around $10. But that’s not going to last.
Just a few weeks back, you could have picked them up for only $5. And you’d already be up nearly 100%.
But the rally is far from over. This stock could easily double again in the coming months.
And by the time all is said and done and our nationwide 5G and fiber-optic network is up and running, we’re talking about a stock that could be worth $68 or more.
Get Paid to Get Profits
Plus, in order to get special treatment from the government, the company has agreed to share nearly all of its fiber optics profits with investors.
So not only will you have shares that could easily double, triple, or even give you a 10x return, but you’ll also get paid to watch them run up the charts.
We can’t think of a better deal than future profits plus guaranteed income. That’s why we’re so adamant that everyone reading this gets a stake in this stock.
And that’s why two of our experts put together a presentation explaining the opportunity, laying out all the details of the company, and showing how and why it’s going to lead the pack.
You can get access to that presentation by clicking this link.
It’s very informative and we highly suggest you take a few minutes from your day to give it a view. Once you’re done, you’ll be all set to capture massive profits and collect steady income from this fiber optics heavyweight.
But if you prefer to digest your information in the written form, we’ve got something for you too. They also created a report that includes all the same details as the presentation.
You can read that by clicking this link.
Time Waits for No One
Whether you watch the video or read the report, we implore you to get the information as soon as possible. This stock is way too cheap considering the value of the assets it controls.
And that low price isn’t going to last. So you need to act quickly. In this race, it’s the speedy hare that comes out on top, not the slow and steady tortoise.
The next time you hear about it, the stock could be trading at $15 already... or $20... or $25 as it shoots up the charts toward $68 or more.
So take some time now that you’re through reading this report to learn how to get involved, and then you can start watching your fiber-optic profits begin to add up.
You can get all the information you need to get started here. | <urn:uuid:35b03983-0ec4-4f2a-ba96-7b0dc3b50f75> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wealthdaily.com/report/wealth-dailys-top-three-fiber-optic-stocks-under-10/483 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00069.warc.gz | en | 0.944783 | 3,100 | 1.671875 | 2 |
Private Tutoring Firm Opens First Center Overseas Amid Sluggish China Demand
One of China’s largest private tutoring companies has made a foray into the U.S. as it looks to tap into rising demand from the surging number of Chinese students studying abroad.
The New York-listed TAL Education Group will open its first tutoring center in Silicon Valley, the company announced (link in Chinese) last week on social media. Run by its education agency Think Academy, called Xueersi in Chinese, the company will start an online math class in mid-October targeting elementary school students. It also plans to open offline classes next year at the new center.
In China, students are required to take a standardized test to apply to university. This exam score-focused assessment system has led to a domestic boom in private tutoring centers, as parents fight to improve their children’s chances of getting into an elite school.
Established in 2003, TAL rose to the prominence with its math courses amid a competitive industry where it trailed its rival, New-York listed New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc.
TAL has opened 676 tutoring centers in 56 cities across China that offer tutoring classes for students in grades one through 12. New Oriental has around 1,100 tutoring centers across the country.
In the first quarter of its 2020 fiscal year, which ends in May, TAL posted a $7.3 million loss, citing surging marketing expenses during its expansion. In comparison, it reported a profit of $66.8 million in the same period the previous year. Its latest first quarter revenue rose 27.6% year-on-year to $702.8 million.
But after-school education centers have seen demand slow in the domestic market since China’s Education Ministry undertook a policy to ease the schoolwork burden on Chinese students, whose parents often push them to take extracurricular classes. Seeking new revenue streams, TAL began to expand into new markets such as the U.S.
As of November 2015, 34,578 Chinese students were enrolled at American primary and secondary schools, a nearly fourfold increase from 2010, The Wall Street Journal reported.
In the autumn of 2017, around 360,000 Chinese students were enrolled at U.S. universities, where they made up more than 30% of the country’s international college students, according to data from the Institute of International Education.
TAL said it will offer math training courses for elementary school students to prepare for the American Mathematics Competition — an assessment tool used by some top American universities such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said Luo Boshen, head coach of a championship team in the International Mathematical Olympiad, a worldwide math competition for high school students.
TAL declined to comment on the center’s opening.
TAL is not the first Chinese private education company to expand overseas. In 2016, The Cathay School, based in the northern Chinese city of Tianjin, opened its first overseas tutoring center in Washington.
Contact reporter Tang Ziyi (firstname.lastname@example.org)
- MOST POPULAR | <urn:uuid:43735881-c26e-49ba-921f-e85d6b1a94e1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.caixinglobal.com/2019-09-11/private-tutoring-firm-opens-first-center-overseas-amid-sluggish-china-demand-101461493.html?cxapp_link=true | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00678.warc.gz | en | 0.954747 | 660 | 1.625 | 2 |
Last modified: 2002-09-28 by rick wyatt
Keywords: episcopal | philadelphia | pennsylvania | united states |
Links: FOTW homepage | search | disclaimer and copyright | write us | mirrors
by Eric Martin, 20 August 1999
This is the flag of the Episcopal Diocese of Philadelphia. It hangs inside the Christ Church in Philly at 2nd and Church Streets. The church was built between 1727 and 1754. George Washington, Ben Franklin, and Betsy Ross all have their own pews.
The flag has a St. George's Cross surrounded by a thick black border. At the center of the vertical column of the cross are three gold crowns, each with 3 points. Within the black border are ten white circles, one in each corner, one each at the ends of the horizontal bar of the cross, and two each spaced apart atop the vertical column of the cross.
Eric Martin, 20 August 1999 | <urn:uuid:2aa1884d-df5a-43ef-9869-a08aeb50df49> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.1uptravel.com/flag/flags/us-papha.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280761.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00089-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.916521 | 196 | 2.390625 | 2 |
Bindings are one of the most important pieces of XFire. They control how the incoming and outoing XML is mapped to objects.
The default binding in XFire is "Aegis". Aegis means "shield", and the point of it is to create a simple layer which makes going between objects and XML easy. Aegis also provides the layer which allows other bindings to integrate with XFire - like JAXB, XMLBeans and Castor.
Lets take a look at how you would use a different binding with XFire. The BindingProvider class is the one for actually taking the xml streams and reading/writing to them. When we create a service we need to actually supply a BindingProvider to the service. In the simplest case of creating a service you're probably writing code like this:
ServiceFactory factory = new ObjectServiceFactory();
But, what this is actually doing in the constructor is creating an AegisBindingProvider:
ServiceFactory factory = new ObjectServiceFactory(new AegisBindingProvider());
This AegisBindingProvider has the concept of a TypeRegistry and TypeCreators (don't worry you don't need to know much about this), which create Type classes for you. Types serialize and deserialize java classes. When you use a different binding it actually provides a different TypeRegistry and TypeCreator for its types.
So if you were to create a JAXB 2.0 binding you would do:
import org.codehaus.xfire.aegis.AegisBindingProvider; import org.codehaus.xfire.jaxb2.JaxbTypeRegistry; import org.codehaus.xfire.service.binding.ObjectServiceFactory; ... ServiceFactory factory = new ObjectServiceFactory(new AegisBindingProvider(new JaxbTypeRegistry()));
Each binding has a different type registry:
But don't stop here, you can use these BindingProviders with different ServiceFactorys. Here is an example using JAXB 2.0 and the annotation service factory.
import org.codehaus.xfire.aegis.AegisBindingProvider; import org.codehaus.xfire.jaxb2.JaxbTypeRegistry; import org.codehaus.xfire.service.binding.ObjectServiceFactory; ... ServiceFactory factory = new AnnotationServiceFactory(new Jsr181WebAnnotations(), new AegisBindingProvider(new JaxbTypeRegistry()));
If you just want to use the simple ObjectServiceFactory we have several convenience ServiceFactorys around:
You can use these just like you would an ObjectServiceFactory:
import org.codehaus.xfire.jaxb2.JaxbServiceFactory; import org.codehaus.xfire.service.ServiceFactory; ... ServiceFactory factory = new JaxbServiceFactory();
There is also one other type of binding, the MessageBinding. The MessageBinding has special semantics to allow you to work with XML streams and fragments real easily. Read more on the Message Binding page. | <urn:uuid:594afd03-4f16-40b1-b302-ee752f2bc4f6> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://maven.apache.org/doxia/doxia-example-book/bindings.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280310.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00191-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.750122 | 653 | 2.0625 | 2 |
If I were to ask you what made you gravitate into the classic car hobby, what you tell me? Was it remember how you spent time with your dad? Was it the crazy uncle who took you for toe-curling blasts between red lights without your mom knowing? Maybe it was the intricacy to which you adhered when you started building model cars at a young age. If you’re Greg Porter of Greenville South Carolina, the origin of this ’66 Chevelle can be traced back to his memories of building model cars and watching full-size race cars.
For Greg, the drive for full-sized fun began when he found this ’66 Chevelle languishing in a salvage yard. Like many enthusiasts, he immediately had a plan he was ready to execute. “When I was younger, I remember seeing a car at the track named Soulshaker,” Greg says. “This was in the ’70s, and even though that car was a ’69 Camaro, I wanted to build my own Soulshaker, so I named it after that car.”
Creating A ’66 Chevelle Gasser
Since the car was found in a salvage yard, you can probably imagine what condition the metal was in when Greg got the car to his shop. It definitely needed a lot of bodywork. When it comes to building a classic car, many enthusiasts need to rely on help when it comes to the paint and bodywork. It’s understandable, there is a lot of attention-to-detail work and knowledge that goes into creating a gorgeous finish. Luckily, Greg tells us he is a paint and body specialist. One look at the finished product and we are not going to argue that statement.
This was destined to be a race car from the onset of the build, so the rusty floors were not a concern to Greg — they were coming out anyway. The original floor was replaced with custom panels, larger inner wheel tubs were created, and the rear wheelwell openings were radiused to make room for hefty asphalt grabbers. When the new panels were made and the exterior rust repaired, the outside was covered in a smooth-as-glass shade of Marina Blue while the interior was sprayed gold. In case you are wondering, the car is steel, but the hood, trunk lid, and bumpers are not.
Greg was not only planning to name his ’66 Chevelle after a locally famous race car, but he also wanted to build a car that he could enjoy at various nostalgia races to truly honor the memory. To make this plan a reality, he worked with Horton Race Cars in Belton, South Carolina. The team at Horton started by updating the factory rear four-link by removing the triangulated unit and installing a true parallel system with coilovers.
Since Greg was looking to build something over-the-top cool, the front A-arm suspension was tossed in favor of a straight axle with ’46 Ford spindles. While in the ’60s, disc brakes were not the norm, Greg kept his eye on safety and added Wilwood units on all four corners.
What’s a cool gasser without some serious motivation? Greg not only wanted a large-by-huge motivator under the hood, but he wanted everyone to know it was a behemoth. To make it readily apparent, it was built to not only be powerful but also highly visible. Working with Gene Fulton, a big aluminum block was bored, filled with good parts, and then built to displace 707 cubic inches. Greg was reluctant to give us many details about the mill, but suffice to say, the 8-71 BDS blower poking up to the sky helps feed an animal. Sending all that horsepower to the fabricated 9-inch rear with 5.13 gears is an ATI-built Powerglide.
When we get older, many childhood memories are attributed to the hot rods we ultimately build. For Greg, it’s a combination of memories that came together to create this asphalt-buckling ’66 Chevelle. To honor that memory, he makes sure that it spends as much time as possible where it belongs, burning up the track and hopefully burning memories into the next generation of enthusiasts. | <urn:uuid:e7867afa-2813-4f84-8ee7-1afb1dfdef05> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.chevyhardcore.com/features/car-features/this-66-chevelle-ss396-is-more-than-cool-its-a-soulshaker/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572161.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815054743-20220815084743-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.978709 | 886 | 1.578125 | 2 |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.