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PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI—A U.S. program that seeks to save Haiti’s forests by shifting people away from charcoal stoves has largely failed to reach its goals, according to an audit by the U.S. Agency for International Department.
Few Haitians bought the alternative stoves, in large part because even the cheapest cost $10, while charcoal stoves go for as little as $2. The liquefied petroleum gas stoves aimed at commercial and institutional users cost about $100. The World Bank says nearly 80 per cent of Haiti’s 10 million people live on less than $2 a day.
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The audit reported a lack of financing available to help people cover the costs.
It said only 337 of a hoped-for 4,550 street food vendors, orphanages, and schools shifted from charcoal to liquid petroleum gas, and a minority of those targeted for the smaller stoves made the switch.
Development professionals have often tried to wean people in poor countries away from charcoal stoves because creation of the fuel can devastate forests. Charcoal production is widely blamed for leaving Haiti with only 2 per cent of its original forest cover.
The $8.2 million project was launched in 2012 by Chemonics International Inc., a for-profit company based in Washington, D.C., that works throughout the developing world. It is among the many U.S. groups that received contracts to help Haiti rebuild following the 2010 earthquake.
The new audit is the latest to report that Chemonics failed to meet targets for its work in post-quake Haiti.
A review in 2012 revealed that a $53 million contract from USAID wasn’t on track to complete its work on time, had a weak monitoring system and didn’t involve community members. Two years prior, USAID auditors found the firm failed to hire thousands of Haitians as planned under a cash-for-work program, and instead spent the funds on equipment and materials.
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New project launches to bring more hydrogen fuel cells to eastern ChinaSeptember 3, 2018
The project’s goal is to promote the development of a hydrogen-powered vehicle industry.
China’s Ministry of Science and Technology has launched a hydrogen fuel cells project with the purpose of building a “hydrogen city” in Jinan, a city located in Shandog Province in east China.
The project has several goals in relation to hydrogen.
Among these objectives include advancing research and development of core technology, promoting the application of hydrogen fuel cells in vehicles, and pushing forward the development of a hydrogen-powered vehicle industry, reported Xinhuanet.
To help bring the project to life, Shandong Heavy Industry Group (SHIG), a Jinan-based heavy machinery and automotive manufacturing company, has teamed up with Ballard Power Systems and Westport Fuel Systems. Both Canadian companies are leaders in the industry, with Ballard specializing in the development of engines fueled by hydrogen and Wesport specializing in natural gas.
In addition to signing agreements with Ballard Power and Wesport Fuel Systems, SHIG is also cooperating with the local government to put hydrogen-powered buses on the road in the next three to five years.
China is aiming for the mass production of hydrogen fuel cells in vehicles by 2020
What’s more, automotive and equipment manufacturing group, Weichai Power, a subsidiary of SHIG, is also working toward furthering the improvement of fuel cells in the eastern Chinese province and the nation.
According to Weichai Power CEO and SHIG chairman of the board, Tan Xuguang, with an investment of 1.98 billion yuan ($290 million), Weichai will be working with 12 other companies, universities and research institutes to improve upon the adaptability and sustainability of fuel cells.
Weichai Power has also recently acquired a 19.9% stake in Ballard Power, making it the fuel cell company’s largest shareholder, reported Hydrogen Fuel News. Part of the new deal with Ballard will see Weichai gain exclusive rights to manufacturer the Canadian company’s next generation LSC fuel stack and specific LCS-based modules for China’s bust, forklift and commercial truck markets.
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My drawings are accurately detailed but provide very limited information. For instance, my image of the globe does not show the continents or the oceans. Yet this does not make it difficult for us to see the object for what it is. On recognizing an image, each of us has the extraordinary capacity to assume the absent information without conscious effort. Each viewer brings associations from personal experience, preferences and aversions, from their own individual social, cultural and historical context. The simplest images can release unexpected depths of knowledge and memory.
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Publisher : Elsevier - Science Direct (الزویر - ساینس دایرکت)
Journal : Schizophrenia Research, Volume 150, Issue 1, October 2013, Pages 151–156
Objective The primary objective was to identify specific groups of patients with a first-episode psychosis based on family history, obstetric complications, neurological soft signs, and premorbid functioning. The secondary objective was to relate these groups with cognitive variables. Method A total of 62 first-episode psychoses were recruited from adult and child and adolescent mental health services. The inclusion criteria were patients between 7 and 65 years old (real range of the samples was 13–35 years old), two or more psychotic symptoms and less than one year from the onset of the symptoms. Premorbid functioning (PAS), soft signs (NES), obstetric complications and a neuropsychological battery (CPT, TMTA/TMTB, TAVEC/TAVECI, Stroop, specific subtest of WAIS-III/WISC-IV) were administered. Results We found three clusters: 1) higher neurodevelopment contribution (N = 14), 2) higher genetic contribution (N = 30), and 3) lower neurodevelopment contribution (N = 18). Statistical differences were found between groups in TMTB, learning curve of the TAVEC, digits of the WAIS and premorbid estimated IQ, the cluster 1 being the most impaired. Conclusions A cluster approach could differentiate several groups of patients with different cognitive performance. Neuropsychological interventions, as cognitive remediation, should be addressed specifically to patients with more impaired results.
In recent years an increasing interest in the assessment of cognitive variables in people with schizophrenia and first-episode psychosis has emerged. The results of most of the studies carried out have demonstrated a neurocognitive deficit in people with schizophrenia and first-episode psychosis. The most prevalent cognitive impairments detected in people with schizophrenia are those related to deficits of memory, executive function and attention (Green, 1996, Hoff and Kremen, 2003, Sharma and Antonova, 2003, Dickinson et al., 2007, Nuechterlein et al., 2008 and Brébion et al., 2012). Memory and learning problems were among the most studied cognitive variable in first-episode psychosis related to control groups, showing a worse functioning in people with a first-episode psychosis (Bilder et al., 2000, Galderisi et al., 2009, Zanello et al., 2009, Holmén et al., 2010, Jahshan et al., 2010 and Zabala et al., 2010). O'Connor et al. (2009) point out that verbal memory is affected in people with a first episode psychosis regardless of the premorbid IQ. Moreover, Galderisi et al. (2009) found that people with a first episode psychosis scored worse than healthy controls in processing speed, motor dexterity, and cognitive flexibility tasks. Zabala et al. (2010), in a sample of early-onset first-episode psychosis, add attention to this list. However, not all people with a first-episode psychosis performed worse than controls in cognitive assessment (Leeson et al., 2010 and Bartholomeusz et al., 2011). Some of this variability may be explained by the presence of latent subgroups that differ in etiology and key neurobiological underpinnings. Identifying these subgroups could help to improve the treatment of schizophrenia and first-episode psychosis (Jindal et al., 2005). According to the neurodevelopment hypothesis, the etiology of psychosis may involve pathological processes, caused by both genetic and environmental factors that begin before the brain approaches its adult anatomical state in adolescence (Fatemi and Folsom, 2009). Several markers of congenital alterations indicative of neurodevelopmental insults have been found. It is well documented that there are higher rates of neurological soft signs in patients with schizophrenia than in healthy controls (Heinrichs and Buchanan, 1988); moreover this higher prevalence has been observed in first-episode patients (Bombin et al., 2005, Compton et al., 2007, Ruiz-Veguilla et al., 2008 and Mayoral et al., 2012). In addition, there is consistent evidence showing that a large number of people affected by the spectrum of psychotic disorders manifest poor social and academic adjustment prior to initiation of the disease (Allen et al., 2001, Norman et al., 2005 and Monte et al., 2008). Emerging evidence points to schizophrenia as a familial disorder with a complex mode of inheritance and variable expression (Meltzer and Fatemi, 2000). Moreover, Gottesman et al. (2010) found a higher familial risk when one or two parents presented a mental disorder. The study also differentiated a higher risk in the offspring of couples diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder than in children with only one affected parent. While familial risk factors account for a significant rate of predisposition to schizophrenia, there is also evidence of an important environmental contribution. Obstetric complications are among the most studied environmental indicators of risk for schizophrenia (Clarke et al., 2006). All the variables described above are associated with schizophrenia and psychotic disorders and can be detected prior to onset of symptoms. They may, in part, help us to explain the heterogeneity of spectrum of psychotic disorders. To explore this we chose to use an approach based on cluster analysis. K-means clustering has been used to examine the heterogeneity of psychotic disorders (Lee et al., 2011 and Dawes et al., 2011; Ruiz-Veguilla et al., 2008 and Richards et al., 2008). However, no previous studies have used cluster analysis either for grouping patients according to factors prior to onset of illness or for grouping patients in samples of first-episode of psychosis. | <urn:uuid:208ab4e2-e6bc-4f8f-b728-98b57e7ed632> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://isiarticles.com/article/31987 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280891.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00152-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.881059 | 1,378 | 1.5625 | 2 |
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Scientists believe that learning how to play an instrument like the piano will not only make you a better musician, it may make you a better student. "If you want to maximize your children's intellect, give them music lessons." Says Dr. Mark Tramo, neuroscientist at Harvard Medical School. He goes on to make the comparison between the benefits of learning piano and the well-known benefits of playing sport. "It's a lot like saying: If you exercise your body by doing calisthenics, you not only build your coordination, you also improve your ability to play football and tennis,"
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Colin Cloud, a trained forensic scientist, has devoted his life to observation.
Colin Cloud, a trained forensic scientist, has often been described as “a real-life Sherlock Holmes.” A native of Scotland, Cloud is traveling with the Illusionists, a national tour featuring eight magicians with different talents. Billed as “the deductionist,” Cloud emulates his childhood literary hero — and perhaps surpasses him. Using observation and deduction, Cloud can tell nearly anything about you.
In advance of The Illusionists: Live from Broadway, Nov. 22-27 at the Overture Center for the Arts, Isthmus played detective, attempting to learn Cloud’s secrets.
What is your favorite Sherlock Holmes story?
Easily “A Study in Scarlet.” It paved the way for the future of crime writing.
Holmes claimed that he could “identify 140 cigarette and cigar brands by their ash alone.” Can you?
It can vary from the sound one’s change makes in their pocket to allow me to calculate how much they have on them, to the hairs one’s pet might leave on their clothing. To list everything I’m noticing and deducing would take at least 20 years, as that’s how long I’ve now been at it and in adding to my bank of knowledge on a daily basis.
You can even identify PIN codes by examining oils left on phone keypads.
Modern mobile phone screens hold an exact track of where your fingers have been and what you’ve been pressing. So make sure to wipe them down. Of course, when the participant is willing, I do have other means of accessing their thoughts.
Can anyone develop this talent?
Probably. What I do isn’t a psychic gift. But knowing what I’m doing and being able to do it are two very different things. You’d need to spend the time learning, memorizing and observing the same things as me.
Is your talent useful socially? Romantically?
The single most important thing is connection with people, the ability to build rapport with people, understand them and listen to them. Really listen to them. Well beyond the mere words they’re speaking, you’ll find that you’ll have a much better understanding of the person sitting in front of you...and behind you, when you get your skills up to par with mine.
Do you find that you’re always “on”? Does your ability ever interfere with, for example, relaxation? Watching TV or a movie?
I’m constantly training my mind and body. If I’m not in the gym working out, I’m paying attention to people and life, always looking for new inspiration. Of course, everyday life is the perfect source of new and wonderful creative ideas. The real key is to learn to turn it off. I don’t like people feeling uneasy — well, too uneasy — around me.
Have you ever worked with law enforcement or as a detective?
Yes. But unfortunately I’m not at liberty to comment on my involvement with them.
Sherlock’s brother Mycroft had even greater reasoning ability. Where do you fall on the Sherlock-Mycroft scale?
Going up against two fictional characters is tough. Needless to say, neither of them had to use their skills in the real world, so I feel I’m at an advantage. It would make for one very interesting poker game.
You have a Watson?
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The abundance of countless species of fishes, coral reefs and beautiful aquatic plants has made the Maldives world famous for its marine life, making it one of the most sought after diving destinations of the world. 70 different kinds of coral in almost every colour surround the atolls, with around 700 species living among the reefs. The corals are home to a variety of tropical fish in a kaleidoscope of dazzling colours, such as the butterfly fish, angelfish, clownfish, the triggerfish and the parrotfish. Hiding amongst the corals are moray eels, octopus, starfish and over 200 varieties of crustaceans such as hermit crabs and lobsters.
There are several species of large fishes that can be found swimming in the clear waters of the lagoons or near shorelines around the islands, you can even spot them near water pavilions of Luxury Hotels in Maldives like the PER AQUUM Huvafen Fushi Maldives. Some of the remarkable fish species found here are Trevally’s, Blue-Lined Snappers, Dogtooth Tuna, Fusiliers and the solitary fearsome barracuda.
The Maldives are also home to several indigenous varieties of mantra rays, sting rays and eagle rays, as well as several varieties of sea anemones and jellyfish. Sea turtles like the green turtle, the hawksbill turtle and the leatherback turtle are common sights near the shoreline. Most Maldivian resorts organise special diving and snorkelling excursions so you can appreciate the beauty of these sea creatures up close.
Out in the open seas and swimming among the reefs are large pods of dolphins and whales of different varieties. You can even spot the elusive whale shark during late summers. Wherever you are in the Maldives, you are guaranteed breathtaking underwater sights from schools of bright tropical fish swimming through the clear lagoons to magnificent whales soaring through the deep ocean waters.
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Wishing Wells – Did my son know what a wishing well was? No! So we opened up the iPad to see what Wikipedia and Google Images had to say and show us (seriously there isn’t much to know; if you know what a wishing well is, then you pretty much know everything there is to know about the concept). But wait! We thought this was noteworthy: during the course of the year, Disney properties accumulate around $18,000 in coins from their various wishing wells and fountains. That is a LOT of wishes! The money is donated to charity. Nice. (And now my son knows exactly what to do the next time he encounters a wishing well.)
We’re still drawing – we decided that Monday nights should be “official drawing with pastels nights”, and we are still being inspired by the “20 ways to Draw a Jellyfish” book. Basically, my son selects the color, I hold the pastel and then he grasps my wrist and guides my hand. The activity has my son’s full focus, it feels quite therapeutic, and we are getting a bit of hand-eye coordination going on. Drawing the sea-life inspired us to listen to the very short “The Aquarium” by Camille Saint-Saens (composed in 1886) (and BTW, used during the prologue of the “Beauty and the Beast” movie).
Farmer Brown’s story problem – Back to wishing wells! Did you know that there is a wishing well on Farmer Brown’s ranch? Inspired by the Disney corporation, once a year Farmer Brown cleans out of the bottom of the well and donates all of the coins to the local elementary school music program, to help purchase instruments. This year, Farmer Brown recovered 185 quarters, 100 dimes, 220 nickels, and 236 pennies. How much was Farmer Brown able to give to the school? If the cost of a decent recorder instrument is $8.00, how many recorders can the school purchase with Farmer Brown’s gracious donation?
What’s a recorder? My son didn’t know. So we learned that the slender wooden instrument (sort of like a VERY simplified clarinet) (sort of), was quite popular during the Renaissance. (No present day Renaissance faire aiming for authenticity should be without wandering musicians playing recorders.) AND here comes an interesting related factoid: when King Henry VIII died in 1547, seventy-three recorders were found among his possessions. He was obviously quite a collector of many things (we briefly discussed his many wives). But back to the recorder – it is now an instrument of choice for children’s musical programs (probably due to the fact that a recorder of adequate quality can be made of plastic, so is economically feasible).
Music of the recorder – this music is so much better than we were expecting!!! We want to try to play a recorder – we’ve already ordered one from Amazon.
- Sopranino Recorder Concerto in C major, movement 1 – composed by Antonio Vivaldi in 1728. Lively!
- Ode to Joy, from the final movement of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony (1824) – Apparently “Ode to Joy” is a basic learning melody for the recorder, so we found a video that showcases a group of very serious young potential musicians.
- Greensleeves – this old, old English folk tune was even mentioned in Shakespeare’s “The Merry Wives of Windsor” (1602), giving documented proof that this is indeed music of the Renaissance.
Welcome to the best part of my day!
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Frequency of "Oquenda" Surname in the US
2000 US Census
The surname "Oquenda" is not included in the US Census Bureau's ranking of surnames with 100 or more people. Since fewer than 100 people with this surname were included in the 2000 Census, it is relatively uncommon.
Source: "Frequently Occurring Surnames from the Census 2000", US Census Bureau.
1990 US Census
Accoring to the US Census Bureau, "Oquenda" ranked #69,449 in frequency out of 88,799 surnames for which statistics were released from the 1990 Census.
Source: "Frequently Occurring Surnames from the 1990 Census", US Census Bureau.
"Oquenda" Graves on Histopolis
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Ironton, industrial city (1990 pop. 12,751), seat of Lawrence co., S Ohio, on the Ohio River; inc. as a city 1865. Chemicals, dyes, metal pipes, plastics, and iron products are manufactured, and some coal is mined. Ironton was a great iron-producing center during the Civil War. From c.1900 to 1910 the city had the largest blast furnace in the world, Big Etna, with a capacity of 100 tons per day. However, the development of the northern iron-ore ranges and improved transportation by rail and on the Great Lakes led to the decline of its iron industry by the early 20th cent. The remains of many giant charcoal iron furnaces are local landmarks.
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My subject is Hillary Clinton in her role as America's foremost leftist. This is not an obvious idea to those leftists who identify themselves as radicals. Purists of the creed are likely to regard both Clintons as opportunists and sellouts of their cause. But the left is not and has never been a political monolith, and its factions have always attacked each other almost as ferociously as their political enemies.
It is possible to be a socialist, and radical in one's agendas, and yet moderate in the means one regards as practical to achieve them. To change the world, it is first necessary to acquire cultural and political power. And these transitional goals may often be accomplished by indirection and deception even more effectively than by frontal assault. Political stratagems that appear moderate and compromised to radical factions of the left may present an even greater threat from the perspective of the other side. In 1917, Lenin's political slogan wasn't "Socialist Dictatorship! Firing Squads and Gulags!" It was "Bread, Land and Peace."
Yet Hillary Clinton as America's "first lady of the left," is also not an obvious subject to many conservatives. And since conservative politics begins with the defense of America's constitutional order, this is a far more significant matter. Underestimating the foe on any battlefield can be a fatal fault; in politics likewise.
This problem is exemplified in a brilliantly etched and elegantly deconstructed portrait of Mrs. Clinton by former Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan. Thus, the focus of The Case Against Hillary Clinton is not Mrs. Clinton's kitsch Marxism or perverse feminism or cynical progressivism. Instead, it is her narcissism. It is this psychological nexus in which Noonan finds the key to Hillary Clinton's public persona. It is almost as though Mrs. Clinton's politics were merely instrumental to her career, as changeable as her famous hairstyles.
"Never has the admirable been so fully wedded to the appalling," Noonan writes of the subject and her faithless spouse. "Never in modern political history has such tenacity and determination been marshaled to achieve such puny purpose: the mere continuance of Them."
The wit is sharp but the point just wide of the mark. There are many unprincipled narcissists in politics. But there has never been a White House so thoroughly penetrated by the political left. Noonan's psychological characterization is surely correct. But if Hillary and Bill Clinton were unable to draw on the dedication and support of the left—if they were Republicans, for example—there would be no prospect of a continuance of Them.
Ever since abandoning the utopian illusions of the progressive cause, I have been struck by how little the world outside the left seems to actually understand it. How little those who have not inhabited the progressive mind are able to grasp the ruthless cynicism behind its idealistic mask or the fervent malice that drives its hypocritical passion for "social justice."
No matter how great the crimes progressives commit, no matter how terrible the future they labor to create, no matter how devastating the catastrophes they leave behind, the world outside the faith seems ever ready to forgive them their "mistakes" and to grant them the grace of "good intentions."
It would be difficult to recall, for example, the number of times I have been introduced on conservative platforms as "a former civil rights worker and peace activist in the 1960s." I have been described this way despite having written a detailed autobiography that exposes these self-glorifying images of the left as so many political lies. Like many New Left leaders whom the young Mrs. Clinton once followed (and who are her comrades today), I regarded myself in the 1960s as a socialist and a revolutionary. No matter what slogans we chanted, or ideals we proclaimed our agendas always extended beyond (and well beyond) the immediate issues of "civil rights" and "peace."
New Left progressives—including Hillary Clinton and her comrade, Acting Deputy Attorney General Bill Lann Lee—were involved in supporting, or protecting or making excuses for violent anti-American radicals abroad like the Vietcong and anti-American criminals at home like the Black Panthers.* We did this then—just as progressives still do now—in the name of "social justice" and a dialectical world-view that made this deception appear ethical and the fantasy seem possible.
As a student of the left, Jamie Glazov, has observed in an article about the middle-class defenders of recently captured Seventies terrorist Kathy Soliah: "if you can successfully camouflage your own pathology and hatred with a concern for the 'poor' and the 'downtrodden,' then there will always be a 'progressive' milieu to support and defend you."* Huey Newton, George Jackson, Bernadine Dohrn, Sylvia Baraldini, Rubin Carter, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Rigoberta Menchu and innumerable others have all discovered this principle in the course of their criminal careers.
There is a superficial sense, of course, in which we were civil rights and peace activists—and that is certainly the way I would have described myself at the time, particularly if I were speaking to a non-left audience. It is certainly the way Mrs. Clinton and my former comrades in the left refer to themselves and their pasts in similar contexts today.
But they are lying. (And when they defend racial preferences now—a principle they denounced as "racist" then—even they must know it).
The first truth about leftist missionaries, about believing progressives, is that they are liars. But they are not liars in the ordinary way, which is to say by choice. They are liars by necessity—often without even realizing that they are. Because they also lie to themselves. It is the political lie that gives their cause its life.
Why, for example, if you were one of them, would you tell the truth? If you were serious about your role in humanity's vanguard, if you had the knowledge (which others did not), that you were certain would lead them to a better world, why would you tell them a truth that they could not "understand" and that would hold them back?
If others could understand your truth, you would not think of yourself as a "vanguard." You would no longer inhabit the morally charmed world of an elite, whose members alone can see the light and whose mission is to lead the unenlightened towards it. If everybody could see the promised horizon and knew the path to reach it, the future would already have happened and there would be no need for the vanguard of the saints.
That is both the ethical core and psychological heart of what it means to be a part of the left. That is where the gratification comes from. To see yourself as a social redeemer. To feel anointed. In other words: To be progressive is itself the most satisfying narcissism.
That is why it is of little concern to them that their socialist schemes have run aground, burying millions of human beings in their wake. That is why they don't care that their panaceas have caused more human suffering than all the injustices they have ever challenged. That is why they never learn from their "mistakes." That is why the continuance of Them is more important than any truth.
If you were active in the so-called "peace" movement or in the radical wing of the civil rights causes, why would you tell the truth? Why would you tell people that no, you weren't really a "peace activist," except in the sense that you were against America's war. Why would you draw attention to the fact that while you called yourselves "peace activists," you didn't oppose the Communists' war, and were gratified when America's enemies won?
What you were really against was not war at all, but American "imperialism" and American capitalism. What you truly hated was America's democracy, which you knew to be a "sham" because it was controlled by money in the end. That's why you wanted to "Bring the Troops Home," as your slogan said. Because if America's troops came home, America would lose and the Communists would win. And the progressive future would be one step closer.
But you never had the honesty—then or now—to admit that. You told the lie then to maintain your influence and increase your power to do good (as only the Chosen can). And you keep on telling the lie for the same reason.
Why would you admit that, despite your tactical support for civil rights, you weren't really committed to civil rights as Americans understand rights? What you really wanted was to overthrow the very Constitution that guaranteed those rights, based as it is on private property and the individual—both of which you despise.
It is because America is a democracy and the people endorse it, that the left's anti-American, but "progressive" agendas can only be achieved by deceiving the people. This is the cross the left has to bear: The better world is only achievable by lying to the very people they propose to redeem.
Despite the homage contemporary leftists pay to post-modernist conceits, despite their belated and half-hearted display of critical sentiment towards Communist regimes, they are very much the ideological heirs of Stalinist progressives, who supported the greatest mass murders in human history, but who remember themselves as civil libertarian opponents of McCarthy and victims of a political witch-hunt. (Only the dialectically gifted can even begin to follow the logic involved.)
To appreciate the continuity of communism in the mentality of the left, consider how many recent Hollywood promotions of the industry Reds and how many academic apologies for Stalinist crimes (in fact, the vast majority of recent academic texts on the subject) have been premised on the Machiavellian calculations and Hegelian sophistries I have just described.
Naturally, today's leftists are smart enough to distance themselves from Soviet Communism. But the Soviet dictator Nikita Khrushchev was already a critic of Stalin forty years ago. Did his concessions make him less of a Communist? Or more?
On the other hand, conservative misunderstanding of the left is only in part a product of the left's own deceits. It also reflects conservatives' inability to understand the religious nature of the progressive faith and the power of its redemptive idea. For instance, I'm often asked by conservatives about the continuing role and influence of the Communist Party, since they observe quite correctly the pervasive presence of so many familiar totalitarian ideas in our academic and political culture. Though still around and sometimes influential in the left, the Communist Party has been a minor player for nearly fifty years. How can there be a communist left (small "c" of course) without a Communist Party?
The short answer is that it was not the Communist Party that made the left, but the (small 'c') communist Idea. It is the idea, as old as the Tower of Babel, that humanity can build a highway to Heaven. It is the idea of returning to an Earthly Paradise, a garden of social harmony and justice. It is the idea that inspires Jewish radicals and liberals of a tikkun olam, a healing of the cosmic order. It is the Enlightenment illusion of the perfectibility of man. And it is the siren song of the serpent in Eden: "Eat of this Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, and you shall be as God."
The intoxicating vision of a social redemption achieved by Them—this is what creates the left, and makes the believers so self-righteous.
And it did so long before Karl Marx. It is the vision of this redemption that continues to inspire and animate them despite the still-fresh ruins of their Communist dreams.
It is this same idea that is found in the Social Gospel which impressed the youthful Hillary Clinton at the United Methodist Church in Park Ridge, Illinois. She later encountered the same idea in the New Left at Yale and in the Venceremos Brigade in Communist Cuba, and in the writings of the New Leftist who introduced her to the "politics of meaning" even after she had become America's First Lady. It is the idea that drives her comrades in the Children's Defense Fund, the National Organization for Women, the Al Sharpton House of Justice and the other progressive causes which for that reason still look to her as a political leader.
For these self-appointed social redeemers, the goal—"social justice"—is not about rectifying particular injustices, which would be practical and modest, and therefore conservative. Their crusade is about rectifying injustice in the very order of things. "Social Justice" for them is about a world reborn, a world in which prejudice and violence are absent, in which everyone is equal and equally advantaged and without fundamentally conflicting desires. It is a world that could only come into being through a re-structuring of human nature and of society itself.
Even though they are too prudent and self-protective to name this future anymore, the post-Communist left still passionately believes it possible. But it is a world that has never existed and never will. Moreover, as the gulags and graveyards of the last century attest, to attempt the impossible is to invite the catastrophic in the world we know.
But the fall of Communism taught the progressives who were its supporters very little. Above all, it failed to teach them the connection between their utopian ideals and the destructive consequences that flowed from them. The fall of Communism has had a cautionary impact only on the overt agendas of the political left. The arrogance that drives them has hardly diminished. The left is like a millenarian sect that erroneously predicted the end of the world, and now must regroup to revitalize its faith.
No matter how opportunistically the left's agendas have been modified, however, no matter how circumspectly its goals have been set, no matter how generous its concessions to political reality, the faithful have not given up their self-justifying belief that they can bring about a social redemption. In other words, a world in which human consciousness is changed, human relations refashioned, social institutions transformed, and in which "social justice" prevails.
Because the transformation progressives seek is ultimately total, the power they seek must be total as well. In the end, the redemption they envision cannot be achieved as a political compromise, even though compromises may be struck along the way. Their brave new world can ultimately be secured only by the complete surrender of the resisting force. In short, the transformation of the world requires the permanent entrenchment of the saints in power. Therefore, everything is justified that serves to achieve the continuance of Them.
In Peggy Noonan's psychological portrait of Hillary Clinton, one can trace the outlines of the progressive persona I have just described. She observes that the "liberalism" of the Clinton era is very different from the liberalism of the past. Clinton-era liberalism is manipulative and deceptive and not really interested in what real people think because "they might think the wrong thing."
That is why Hillary Clinton's famous plan to socialize American health care was the work of a progressive cabal that shrouded itself in secrecy to the point of illegality. Noonan labels Clinton-era politics "command and control liberalism," using a phrase with a familiar totalitarian ring. But, like so many conservatives I have come to know, Noonan is finally too decent and too generous to fully appreciate the pathology of the left.
She begins her inquiry by invoking Richard Nixon's comment that only two kinds of people run for high office in America, "those who want to do big things and those who want to be big people." She identifies both Clintons as "very much, perhaps completely, the latter sort," and clinically examines their narcissism by way of unlocking the mystery of who they really are.
Regarding the husband, Peggy Noonan is probably right. I do not think of Bill Clinton as a leftist inspired by ideas of a socially just world, or as having even a passing interest in the healing of cosmic orders. He is more readily understood as a borderline sociopath. Fully absorbed in the ambitions of self, Clinton is a political chameleon who assumes the coloration of his environments and the constituencies on which his fortunes have come to depend.
Hillary Clinton is not so slippery. Despite the cynicism she shares with her husband, one can clearly observe an ideological spine that creates political difficulties for her that one knows he would be able to avoid. This is not to deny the force of her personal ambitions or the power of her narcissistic regard. But these attitudes could be expected in any member of a self-selected elite, especially one like the left, which is based on moral election.
For this reason, it would be difficult to separate the narcissistic from the ideological in the psychology of any political missionary. Do they advance the faith for the sake of the faith, or because advancing the faith will turn them into saints? Do the Lenins of history sacrifice normal life in order to achieve "big things" or because they hunger for the canonization the achievements will bring? It is probably impossible to finally answer the question. But we can observe that the narcissism of Stalin—ex-seminarian, Father of the People and doer of epic revolutionary deeds—makes the Clintons' soap opera of self-love pale by comparison.
Despite their life-long collaboration, Bill and Hillary Clinton are different political beings in the end. Her marital rages provoked by a mate whose adolescent lusts put their collective mission at risk are probably a good measure of just how different they are.
"In their way of thinking," Noonan observes of the Clintons, "America is an important place, but not a thing of primary importance. America is the platform for the Clintons' ambitions, not the focus of them." The implication is that if they were principled emissaries of a political cause, the ambition to do big things for America would override all others. Instead, they have focused on themselves and consequently have made the American political landscape itself "a lower and lesser thing."
They have "behaved as though they are justified in using any tactic in pursuit of their goals," including illegality, deception, libel, threats and "ruining the lives of perceived enemies . . . " They believe, she continues, "they are justified in using any means to achieve their ends for a simple and uncomplicated reason. It is that they are superior individuals whose gifts and backgrounds entitle them to leadership." They do it for themselves; for the continuance of Them.
But the fact is they all do it. The missionaries of the big progressive causes, the Steinems, the Irelands, the Michelmans, the Friedans, and Hillary Clinton herself, were all willing to toss their feminist movement overboard to give Bill Clinton a pass on multiple sexual harassments, and on a career of sexual predation that reflects his utter contempt for the female gender.
Indeed, the Clinton-Lewinsky defense—accord which the feminists signed onto, can be regarded as feminism's Nazi-Soviet Pact. Their calculation was both simple and crude: If Clinton was removed, Hillary would go too. But she was their link to patronage and power, and they couldn't imagine losing that. Their kind was finally in control of the White House, and the conservative enemies of their beautiful future were not.
Almost a decade earlier—in the name of the very principles they so casually betrayed for Clinton—the same feminists had organized the most disgraceful lynching of a public figure in America's history. Despite fiercely proclaimed commitments to the racial victims of American persecution, they launched a vicious campaign to destroy the reputation of an African American jurist who had risen, unblemished, from dirt-shack poverty in the segregated south to the nation's highest courts. They did it knowingly, cynically, with the intent to destroy him in his person, and to ruin his public career.
Has there ever been a more reprehensible witch-hunt in American public life than the one organized by feminist leaders who then emerged as vocal defenders of the White House lecher? Was there ever a more sordid betrayal of common decency than this collective defamation—for which no apology has or ever will be given?
What was the sin Clarence Thomas committed to earn such punishment? The allegation—that he had talked inappropriately ten years before to a female lawyer and made her uncomfortable—appears laughable in the post-Lewinsky climate of presidential gropings and borderline rapes that the same feminists have sanctioned for their political accomplice. Thomas' real crime, as everybody knew but was too intimidated by the hysteria to confirm at the time, was his commitment to constitutional principles they hated. They hated these principles because the Constitution was written for the explicit purpose of preventing the realization of their socialist and egalitarian dreams.
Peggy Noonan is right. The focus of Hillary Clinton's ambition is not her country. But it is not just herself either. It is also a place that does not exist. It is the vision of a world that can only be achieved when the Chosen accumulate enough power to change this one.
That is why Hillary and Sid Blumenthal, her fawning New Left Machiavelli, call their own political philosophy the politics of "The Third Way." This distinguishes it from the "triangulation" strategy Dick Morris used to resurrect Bill Clinton's presidency. Morris guided Clinton, in appropriating specific Republican policies towards a balanced budget and welfare reform as a means of securing his re-election. Hillary Clinton was on board for these policies, and in that sense is a triangulator herself. But "triangulation" is too merely tactical and too morally crass to define a serious political philosophy. Above all, it fails to project the sense of promise that intoxicates the imaginations of self-styled "progressives." That is why Hillary and Sid call their politics "The Third Way."
"The Third Way" is a familiar term from the lexicon of the left with a long and dishonorable pedigree in the catastrophes created by messianic socialists in the 20th Century. It is the most ornate panel in the tapestry of deception I described at the beginning of this essay.
In the 1930s, Nazis used "The Third Way" to characterize their own brand of national socialism as a equidistant between the "internationalist" socialism of the Soviet Union and the capitalism of the West. Trotskyists used "The Third Way" as a term to distinguish their own Marxism from Stalinism and capitalism. In the 1960s, New Leftists used "The Third Way" to define their politics as an independent socialism between the Soviet gulag and America's democracy.
But as the history of Nazism, Trotskyism and the New Left have shown, there is no "Third Way." There is the capitalist, democratic way based on private property and individual rights—a way that leads to liberty and universal opportunity. And there is the socialist way of group identities, group rights, a relentless expansion of the political state, restricted liberty and diminished opportunity. The Third Way is not a path to the future. It is just the suspension between these two destinations. It is a bad faith attempt on the part of people who are incapable of giving up their socialist schemes to escape the taint of their discredited past.
Is there a practical difference in the modus operandi of Clinton narcissism and Clinton messianism? I think there is, and it is the difference between "triangulation"—a cynical compromise to hang onto power until the next election cycle, and "The Third Way"—a cynical deception to ensure the continuance of Us, until we acquire enough power to transform everyone else. It is the difference between the politics of getting what you can, and the politics of changing the world.
A capsule illustration of these different political ambitions can be found in the book Primary Colors, which describes, in thinly veiled fiction, Bill Clinton's road to the presidency. Primary Colors is an admiring portrait not only of the candidate, but of the dedicated missionaries—the true believing staffers and the long-suffering wife—who serve Clinton's political agendas, but at the price of enabling the demons of self.
These staffers—political functionaries like Harold Ickes and George Stephanopoulos—serve as the flak-catchers and "bimbo eruption"—controllers who clean up his personal messes and shape his image for gullible publics. But they are also the idealists who design his message. And in the end, they enable him to politically succeed.
It is Primary Colors' insight into the minds of these missionaries that is revealing. They see Clinton clearly as a flawed and often repellent human being. They see him as a lecher, a liar and a man who would destroy an innocent person in order to advance his own career. (This is, in fact, the climactic drama of the text). Yet through all the sordidness and lying, the personal ruthlessness and disorder, the idealistic missionaries faithfully follow and serve the leader.
They do it not because they are themselves corrupted through material rewards. The prospect of fame is not even what drives them. Think only of Harold Ickes, personally betrayed and brutally cast aside by Clinton, who nonetheless refused to turn on him, even after the betrayal. Instead, Ickes kept his own counsel and protected Clinton, biding his time and waiting for Hillary. Then joined her staff to manage her Senate campaign.
The idealistic missionaries in this true tale bite their tongues and betray their principles, rather than betray him. They do so because in Bill Clinton they see a necessary vehicle of their noble ambition and uplifting dreams. He, too, cares about social justice, about poor people and blacks (or so he makes them believe). They will serve him and lie for him and destroy for him, because he is the vessel of their hope.
Because Bill Clinton "cares," he is the vital connection to the power they need to accomplish the redemption. Because the keys to the state are within Clinton's grasp, he becomes in their eyes the only prospect for advancing the progressive cause. Therefore, they will sacrifice anything and everything—principle, friends, country—to make him succeed.
But Bill Clinton is not like those who worship him, corrupting himself and others for a higher cause. Unlike them, he betrays principles because he has none. He will even betray his country, but without the slightest need to betray it for something else—for an idea, a party, or a cause.* He is a narcissist who sacrifices principle for power because his vision is so filled with himself that he cannot tell the difference.
But the idealists who serve him—the Stephanopoulos's, the Ickes's, the feminists, the progressives and Hillary Clinton—can tell the difference. Their cynicism flows from the very perception they have of right and wrong. They do it for higher ends. They do it for the progressive faith. They do it because they see themselves as having the power to redeem the world from evil. It is that terrifyingly exalted ambition that fuels their spiritual arrogance and justifies their sordid and, if necessary, criminal means.
And that is why they hate conservatives. They hate you because you are killers of their dream. Because you are defenders of a Constitution that thwarts their cause. They hate you because your "reactionary" commitment to individual rights, to a single standard and to a neutral and limited state obstructs their progressive designs. They hate you because you are believers in property and its rights as the cornerstones of prosperity and human freedom; because you do not see the market economy as a mere instrument for acquiring personal wealth and political war chests, to be overcome in the end by bureaucratic schemes.
Conservatives who think progressives are misinformed idealists will forever be blind-sided by the malice of the left—by the cynicism of those who pride themselves on principle, by the viciousness of those who champion sensitivity, by the intolerance of those who call themselves liberal, and by the ruthless disregard for the well-being of the downtrodden by those who preen themselves as social saints.
Conservatives are caught by surprise because they see progressives as merely misguided, when in fact they are fundamentally misdirected. They are the messianists of a religious faith. But it is a false faith and a self-serving religion. Since the redeemed future that justifies their existence and rationalizes their hypocrisy can never be realized, what really motivates progressives is a modern idolatry: their limitless passion for the continuance of Them. | <urn:uuid:75eea959-4e76-435f-a992-8a3bd8470f33> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=24376 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280872.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00314-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972037 | 5,870 | 1.617188 | 2 |
What problems does an electrical engineer face?
In fact, the misapplication of bonding and grounding connections, poor wiring practices, and a true lack of understanding of the theory behind grounding may be the biggest problems electrical engineers and electricians face.
What do electrical engineers do daily?
From radar to motors, electrical engineers design, implement, maintain, and improve all the electronics everyone uses everyday. Daily activities include studying technical manuals, articles, and other publications; designing, testing, and assembling devices; and writing reports and keeping track of various assignments.
Which is the toughest course?
Toughest Courses in the World Explained
- Engineering. Considered one of the toughest courses in the world, engineering students are required to have tactical skills, analytical skills, critical thinking, and problem-solving abilities.
- Chartered Accountancy.
What are the disadvantages of electrical engineering?
- Limited Employment Growth. Job growth in the electrical engineering field from 2008 – 2018 is anticipated to be a mere 2%.
- Ongoing Education Required. As a result of evolving technology, electrical engineers have to consistently update their education.
- Risky Occupation.
Why is electrical engineering so hard?
This is because many of the processes involved in EE are simply not visible. Electrical engineers cannot see currents move through circuits. They cannot see wireless signals, electric fields, or magnetic fields. Beyond mastering theory and fundamentals, EE requires students to troubleshoot and analyze in real time.
What do electrical engineers study in college?
Steps to Becoming an Electrical Engineer Bachelor’s degree coursework typically includes digital systems design, electrical circuit theory and differential equations. In addition to classroom work, electrical engineering majors can participate in laboratory work and field studies.
What is the basics of electrical engineering?
Basic Laws: Ohm’s law, Kirchhoff’s voltage and current laws, Nodes-Branches and loops, Series elements and Voltage Division, Parallel elements and Current Division, Star-Delta transformation, Independent sources and Dependent sources, source transformation.
Do electrical engineers get paid well?
The national average annual wage of an electrical engineer is $101,600, according to the BLS, just around double the average annual salary for all occupations, $51,960. Below is a list of the top-10 highest-paying states for electrical engineers.
What programs do electrical engineers use?
- 10 Must Learn Electrical Engineering Software for EE Graduates.
- MATLAB (Software for Numerical Computing)
- Simulink (GUI based software for Dynamic System Simulation)
- Pspice (Electrical Schematic Software)
- Multisim (Circuit Simulation & PCB Design Software)
- ETAP (An Electrical Engineering Software for Power Systems)
What every electrical engineer should know?
10 skills every electrical engineer needs to know
- Performing circuit analysis.
- Working with op-amps.
- Understanding analog filters.
- Designing digital filters.
- Designing feedback control.
- Managing hot components.
- Working with RF.
- Appreciating firmware.
What problems do electrical engineers solve?
They focus on safety, sustainability, and budgetary value. Motor control, power and energy transmission, signal processing, and microelectronics are all possible career paths for electrical engineers.
What are the pros and cons of being an electrical engineer?
– You learn how to deal with electrical equipment safely and correctly so that you can keep yourself safe. Cons: – Very large scale job and it requires numerous hours spent on several different parts of the job. – It requires abilities and knowledge with numbers which is difficult for some.
Where do electrical engineers work?
Electrical and electronics engineers work in industries including research and development, engineering services, manufacturing, telecommunications, and the federal government. Electrical and electronics engineers generally work indoors in offices.
Does electrical engineering require coding?
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Photo by Thomas J. Story from Sunset
When I received the latest issue of Sunset magazine in the mail I thumbed passed the first few articles but stopped on one entitled "The unplugged home," about a San Francisco family who has created a technology-free home. By that I mean this family does things the "old-fashioned way." They don't have TVs, computers or smartphones around the house. Their appliances don't have any LED interfaces. The clocks are all analog and the phone is a rotary dial telephone. The family doesn't have a microwave, but they have a handpress juicer, flour grinder, and everything needed to make foods completely from scratch. They don't even have an electric coffeemaker, but instead they use one of those stovetop coffeemakers. Basically, any modern day electronics the family keeps out of the house.
The family doesn't want to overexpose their kids to modern day technology. They make it clear that their not completely anti-technology - both parents have iPhones that they use sparingly outside the house - but inside their home is supposed to be an escape from technology. Instead of computers or video games, there is plenty of yarn, colored pencils and other materials for arts & craft projects. They have acoustic instruments that the parents and kids can play to make music. Other means of entertainment include board games, cards, reading books (not e-books) and for the parents - being able to sit down and read the entire New Yorker without distractions.
Moe points out the time on his wristwatch instead of his smartphone.
The article made me think of two things.
First, that one of the things I enjoy about watching classic movies from a modern perspective is seeing old-fashioned ways of doing things or items that the majority of us just don't use anymore. I love seeing in old movies offices with no computers, printers, or other electronics and all their cords. Instead every desk in a classic movie is usually very simple, with just a typewriter or notepad. Some other things I enjoy seeing in classic films are people reading newspapers, keeping time on a wind-up watch, making coffee on the stove, keeping notes in a notepad instead of their smartphone, people writing letters (with perfect penmanship of course), cash registers with push buttons, levers, and bells, people cooking from scratch or making anything from scratch. I could go on and on, but the point is, I enjoy watching a world before techno overload.
The second thing the article made me think of is whether or not I could ever go technology free like the family featured in Sunset? I'll admit it. I'm a techno junkie. I have an iPhone that my wife is constantly telling me to put down. I'm so bad at times that I may be using my smartphone, watching the TV and viewing something else on the computer or iPad at the same time! As much as I love the simpler things of the past I love technology! I do admit though that it can become intrusive.
I could never rid my life of all techno clutter, but one of my New Year's resolutions is to be a little more conscious of technology in my life.
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What would you do if you had 24 hours to save the world? Perhaps you’d design an app that helps people prepare for extreme heat waves, or maybe you’d create a battery service to power off-grid homes in Cambodia. At the Climathon event, a 24-hour global “climate hackathon” competition that took place last month, attendees had 24 hours to come up with scalable, unique ideas for addressing the impacts of climate change in their city. It’s all about saving the world one idea at a time.
Climate-KIC Europe’s annual Climathon addresses environmental problems of the world simultaneously in one big race towards the most ingenious and innovative city-specific climate solution. With over 100 participating cities across numerous countries, it is the biggest climate event in the world, and was this year expanded to six Australian cities by Climate-KIC Australia.
Melbourne’s challenge was to build resilience to the effects of extreme heat and heatwaves, an event that is no stranger to Melbourne residents. The event recognised the efforts of two separate teams to award joint winners. ‘Chill Out’ plans to develop a website and complementing app to allow the public to look up and give feedback on locations that satisfy their need for safety and comfort during a heat wave. Whereas ‘The Green Team’ proposed integrating and improving existing green and water sensitive urban design (WSUD) solutions to build a grid of green and cool corridors that connect existing safe and suitable gathering spaces during heatwaves. There’s room for a collaboration there, could a ‘cool corridor’ become a location on the ‘Chill Out’ map? Stay tuned.
In South Australia, the focus was the recently launched Carbon Neutral Adelaide, a program for Adelaide’s ambitious pledge to become the world’s first carbon neutral city by 2050. Thus the goal of this Climathon was to find radical solutions for expanding the program and meeting Adelaide’s *modest* emissions target. The winners were the minds behind the Metro Card Reward, an idea to implement a rewards system into public transportation, where commenters are incentivised to travel on the public transport network instead of their personal vehicles. Point rewards are redeemable by purchasing products and services from sponsored businesses. It’s like frequent flyer points for catching the bus, and all without the heavy price of carbon dioxide.
‘Clean and renewable energy solutions’ was the focus of the city of Bassendean in Western Australia and Sydney NSW Climathons. The ‘Regen Basso’ team took the prize in Bassendean, meeting the goal of “local renewable energy initiatives” by proposing a community scale solar panel installation. In Sydney, the winning team ‘Ease Energy’ proposed facilitating clean energy access in developing countries with a battery swapping service to power houses in off-grids areas of Cambodia. Ease Energy utilises new compact battery technologies, allowing the control of the battery charging process, so the life of the batteries would be significantly extended.
“We are very excited about all the different ideas that came out of the Sydney Climathon 2017
and hope that some of the teams will successfully create businesses to drive impact in Cambodia and the developing world in the future” says Bridget McIntosh, Director of Emerging Markets for Sydney Climathon’s host EnergyLab.
If being the nation’s political capital, the ACT Climathon wanted to find a way to also become the electric vehicle capital of Australia. The goal of Canberra’s climathon was met by the team at ‘reStart’ who simply proposed an on-demand, portable EV charging station. Smart, sleek and efficient; the transport revolution has arrived.
In a true moment of globalisation, cities had the chance to link up via live stream across the states to share ideas and motivate each other, tapping into the global community of climate activists and innovators. This encompasses the vision of climathon which brings locally communities together to ultimately tackle climate change on a broad scale.
The events could not take place without Climate-KIC Australia’s partner institutions, who hosted and coordinated the events across the nation: the University of Melbourne, Curtin University, EnergyLab and the University of Adelaide.
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Alarms are serious conditions that require attention. Excessive errors can trigger alarms, as can hardware problems and signal disruption. The alarms are coded as colors. As with performance events, different vendors define alarms differently, and finding detailed descriptions of them can be challenging. RFC 1232 also describes most alarms, though again, they are described for use in SNMP, and the descriptions are not intended as a standard for hardware implementation.
A red alarm is defined in RFC 1232 as follows:
A Red Alarm is declared because of an incoming Loss of Signal, Loss of Framing, Alarm Indication Signal. After a Red Alarm is declared, the device sends a Yellow Signal to the far-end. The far-end, when it receives the Yellow Signal, declares a Yellow Alarm.
A red alarm is triggered when a local failure has been detected, or continuous OOF errors have been detected for more than x seconds (vendor-specific). The alarm is cleared after a specific amount of time has elapsed with no OOF errors detected (the amount of time varies by hardware).
When a device has a local red alarm, it sends out a yellow alarm.
Figure 21-6 shows a sample red alarm. Something has failed on Telecom Switch C. The switch triggers a local red alarm, and sends out the yellow alarm signal to alert its neighbors of the problem.
Figure 21-6. Red alarm
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These doodles are mostly for stress relief for me plus training my hand after the time of many wrist inflammations due to strain. They were made from 2016 to now.
When I begin such a doodle I have no plan. All I know is that it will follow some rules how the edges are connected and what angles are allowed. So the doodle would just grow like a crystal. As you can see they also may vary in symmetry and number of axes - which also might be broken sometimes in favour of other patterns. That's what I call them, "Muster" - German for "patterns".
I usually do these on 4-5mm squared paper. Some were made on a thin hexagon isometric 5mm grid or dot grid. Some are made colourfull by pencils including ones in neon and metallic, markers or just plain ink.
Images which go with my Extra Fine Nib Ink Review (EFNIR) posts. (Reviews of inks using only a Japanese EF nib.)
Images with a file name ending in capital "AP" show the ink on absorbent paper. Above the black line is puzzle paper (like thick newsprint), while below is old 20lb copy paper. Images with a file name ending in a capital "S" show a scan (rather than photograph) of the ink.
A file name with no code-letter in the file name, just the ink name, is a screen capture of the review from the video. A file name ending in a capital "Z" is a "zoom" photograph taken with a USB microscope. A file name ending with "W" (possibly followed by a number), or "WT", indicates the results of a water test. A file name ending in "LW" is a microscopic photo (at 100x) with a scale showing the line with in microns (micrometers). A file name with "Smear" at the end is a microscopic photo of the ink spread on a slide.
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Project Description2000 RADA
On The Boards/Merit
Ferguson Shamamian & Rattner's graceful concept for McAllister Point Model Homes, a master planned community on the grounds of an 18th century plantation, befits the project's historical setting. The parcel of land designated for the project offers unobstructed views of a protected rice basin and bird nesting sanctuary and of the Ogeechee River. "The plan was generated by the location," says principal-in-charge Don Rattner. "Rather than just let one or two houses have that view, we decided to create a more 'urban' envelope."
FS&R followed the model of the traditional Savannah square, a landscaped square bordered by houses. They coupled it with plans designed in the Charleston side-yard tradition--each home is turned perpendicular to the street and contains a two-story side porch. The strategy honors the project's Southern roots, and it succeeds in granting all of McAllister Point's residents hard-to-beat views. "Having the houses frame the commons is just a great idea," said one judge. | <urn:uuid:d4078d9d-bc5f-4411-9c9c-07748a9dfcc4> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.architectmagazine.com/project-gallery/mcallister-point-model-homes-the-ford-plantation | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280266.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00495-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946761 | 225 | 1.945313 | 2 |
You wake up feeling like you are hung-over, muscles hurt, then you realize you need to run to the bathroom. You call in sick to work, and spend the day in bed – quietly hoping your intestines will calm down and while you don’t feel like eating – you just want to keep down some water for a bit. The next day you wake up feeling fine- maybe a touch weak, but ok. It isn’t the flu, you were poisoned.
No virus, influenza or otherwise, lasts for only 24 hours. When flu season comes, that miserable virus will last 2 to 3 weeks. What does last for that period of time is food born illness.
So before we go into that– be sure to get vaccinated against the flu!
Kitchen Safety and Avoiding Food Poisoning
Food poisoning (technically we doctors call it foodborne illness) happens when we eat or drink something that is contaminated with bacteria, parasites, or viruses, or with some chemical that causes illness.
FACT: Every year 48 million people in the United States become ill from food, 128,00 are hospitalized, and 3,000 people die from foodborne illnesses.
With chicken we worry about salmonella.However, if you are cooking above 130°F, the salmonella bacteria are unable to grow, as are all other common bugs. Still, food safety is important. Wash hands after handling raw meat, and wash all surfaces and utensils after they come in contact with raw meat. It is more likely that the raw meat will contaminate those surfaces and that those surfaces will pass the bugs onto other foods than you becoming sick from the meat directly.
For beef, the FDA states that it is safe when kept at a temperature of 130°F for 112 minutes or 140°F for 12 minutes. The temperature of a rare steak is between 130°F and 139°F in the center. By cooking the steak for 45 minutes at 136°F in a sous vide water oven, you will keep well within the recommended limits. Some cook the steak longer—two to four hours—but I find that 45 minutes for a 1-inch-thick steak works well. The fast grilling of a steak or standard cooking will also kill those bacteria.
Proper handling of poultry – includes washing all surfaces and utensils
The biggest issue with bacteria and food safety is cross-contamination. This means the bugs from one food are passively transferred to another food, where they grow. For example, if you wash some raw chicken in the sink where there is a cutting knife, you can contaminate that knife with bacteria. If you clean the knife insufficiently to rid it of the bacteria and then use it to cut some cooked eggs, these eggs can become the perfect place for bacteria to grow like crazy (especially if the eggs sit at room temperature). If you eat the eggs, you can get sick from the chicken (so the chicken came first). The lesson here is that if you wash raw poultry in the sink, be sure to have that sink cleaned out well to avoid cross-contaminating other utensils or serving dishes. Anytime you handle any raw meat or eggs, treat everything they touch as if it just came out of the toilet.
Do not use the same cutting board for raw and cooked meats. If you own only one cutting board, be sure to wipe it down with a bleach solution after cutting raw meat on it.
If you use a knife or fork or any instrument on raw meat, wash that utensil carefully. Essentially, consider raw meat to be contaminated, along with anything it touches: you, your clothes, your cooking utensils, your cutting boards, and your knives. Remember, when people get sick from the bacteria from raw meat, it is typically because of cross-contamination from other foods, from food workers improper techniques.
Refrigerate all foods promptly. If food is at room temperature for more than two hours, it may not be safe to eat. The bacteria that cause food poisoning typically do not produce an odor or change the texture of the food. Think about this the next time someone invites you to a buffet.
Make certain that your refrigerator is kept at 40°F or cooler, and that there is plenty of room for air to circulate in the refrigerator. Keep the freezer at or below 0°F.
Wash your hands carefully. I use a special soap made primarily from alcohol, the same type of soap surgeons use before scrubbing in the operating room. You can purchase this from most stores; one brand is Purell. Always wash after handling raw meat, poultry, fish, shellfish, produce, or raw eggs. Scrub and lather for at least for 20 seconds after handling any raw meat. An easy way to do that is to sing “Happy Birthday” to yourself twice while scrubbing your hands.
Wash all fruits and vegetables under running water before eating or cooking them. Use a vegetable brush to scrub melons and cucumbers, and then dry with a paper towel. Consider the vegetable brush contaminated, so sanitize it frequently.
It is better to throw out food than to be sick. Don’t be afraid to toss out any food that makes you suspicious.
How do “they” decide how much and how long to cook? Microbiologists have determined how much heat and time is needed to kill 90 percent of the bugs To kill 99 percent of the bugs you have to cook the food for twice as long (or increase the heat).
MYTH: You want to kill all those bugs!
No, let’s not. First, it is probably impossible to do that. Second, the longer you cook something or the higher temperature you cook it, the more the heat will affect the flavor of the food. There are no guarantees that overcooking food will make it safe, or that under cooking food puts you in danger.
Because it is an average, the standards are much higher than commonly needed. Even if you were to kill 99.9999 % and someone’s thermometer was off, or the oven was not heating properly, then overcooking provides some safety but at the expense of flavor.
The entity responsible for this in the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS). As with most government bodies, it has a scientific advisory panel that makes recommendations. The advisory panel found that the FSIS figures for poultry were way too high. The FSIS recommends temperature and time enough to kill 99.99999 percent of the bacteria) but the panel recommended enough to kill 99.995 percent of the bacteria.
Using a digital thermometer means never guessing
At 122°C there are no bugs that are known to survive – on this planet.
But on Chopped they reject undercooked food!
I’m a huge fan of the Food Network. On the show Chopped you will see the judges reject food that they consider “undercooked” or “raw.” Are they crazy? Well, they might be (most chefs, like surgeons, get a bit nutty). But they sometimes are overdoing it when it comes to chicken or worrying about cross-contamination in a 20- to 30-minute contest. The funny thing is they will eat something that a chef has double-dipped. (The mouth has a far higher bacteria content, but if they would kiss it, they eat it!) The bottom line: over cooking foods ruins the flavor and texture. Pork can be pink, and chicken should not be cooked to an internal temperature of over 145C – and use a thermometer (guessing is never precise).
My favorite quote is from Chef Gordon Ramsay, who on his show “Hell’s Kitchen” will scream at the contestants when they undercook food (they usually under cook scallops or halibut on the stove top). He yells: “It’s raaaaaw!!!” Then tosses the food on the floor or in the trash.
(1) The loss from food borne illness in the United States is about 77 billion dollars a year.
J Food Prot 2012 Pub Med ID 22221364
(2) The time and temperature combinations for beef can be found from the Food Safety and Inspection Service guidelines. http://www.fsis.usda.gov/oa/fr/95033f-a.htm The part of their Chart is here: Min Internal Temp F 6.5 log lethality 7.0 log lethality 130 F 112 min 121 min 135 F 36 min 37 min 140 F 12 min 12 min 145 F 4 min 4 min 150 F 67 seconds 72 seconds The 6.5 log lethality means you are killing 99.99997 percent of the bugs (also called 6.5D) . A 7D lethality means you are killing 99.9999999 per cent of the bugs. If you have highly contaminated poultry (37,500 bacteria per gram of raw meat) then 3.5 ounces of meat would have 5.4 million Salmonella. To drop 7D means you would reduce 10 million pathogens to one bug. It takes about 105 Salmonella per gram of food to cause illness, less Salmonella than that cause no clinical symptoms. Thus, with worst case scenario you could kill just 99.999 per cent of the bacteria and not have symptoms (a 5D reduction).
Min Internal Temp F
6.5 log lethality
7.0 log lethality
The bacteria E. coli strain 0157 can cause illness with as little as 10 bacteria per gram of food. Thus a 6.5 D would not be adequate but a 7D would. As you increase the temperature, it decreases the time – it is a logarithm scale, which is why the drop in time with an increase in temperature. In low temperature cooking (Sous Vide), medium rare beef is typically cooked at 136 degrees for 45 minutes to an hour. That, combined with the searing of the surface at 400 degrees (most bacteria would reside on the surface of the meat) in addition to seasoning the surface of the meat with salt,which also kills bacteria, provides a large margin of safety. Most bacteria do not live above 120 degrees, and as you increase the temperature you kill more of them. At 102 degrees most bacteria can no longer reproduce- which is the protective nature of human fevers.
Sous Vide – its quite safe
(3) There are many ways of becoming contaminated by food workers. Most food illness comes from food workers, not from cooking. Another reason to cook and eat at home.
J Food Prot 2009 Pub Med ID 19205488
(4) Hand washing guidelines can be found at the CDC website. The keys are to not wear rings, jewelry, watches when handling raw food. Soap and water are fine- keeping the water running or turning on the water with a paper towel works. After any food preparation, and as often as needed, to remove contaminated residue. Remember, before handling food to wash also- consider your hands unclean. http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/vsp/cruiselines/handwashing_guidelines.htm
I like to hand wash by singing “Happy Birthday” twice – then I know I am done!
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This page contains information on the various packaging situations we do related to Toolforge. This refers specifically to Debian packages (.deb).
Approximate list of .deb packages we handle for Toolforge:
- tools-webservice: gerrit page: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/admin/projects/operations/software/tools-webservice clone URL: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/operations/software/tools-webservice
- jobutils/misctools: gerrit page: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/admin/projects/labs/toollabs clone URL: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/labs/toollabs
- TODO: any other?
sbuild tool is a simple and powerful tool to build debian packages.
Our packaging building hosts have sbuild ready to use. The first time you try to use sbuild you should add yourself to the sbuild unix group:
user@tools-package-builder-02:~$ sudo sbuild-adduser $LOGNAME [..] user@tools-package-builder-02:~$ newgrp sbuild
There should be environments to build packages for the most common distros: jessie, stretch, buster.
You can switch between them easily:
user@tools-package-builder-02:mypackage/$ sbuild -d jessie [..] user@tools-package-builder-02:mypackage/$ sbuild -d stretch [..] user@tools-package-builder-02:mypackage/$ sbuild -d buster [..]
Sometimes the build-deps required to clean the source tree are not installed outside the chroot. To workardound this, use the
--no-clean-source switch when calling sbuild.
Adding extra repos and packages is super easy, check the
--extra-repository option in the sbuild manpage.
Additional upstream documentation: https://wiki.debian.org/sbuild
TODO perhaps put here yuvi's method and bryan's method from Portal:Toolforge/Admin#Bd808's_method_(pdebuild).
This is a custom script to automate most of the build & publish steps of the process.
The steps are done in order:
- git stage: create a random directory in the package build server, git clone the source repository and checkout a given branch.
- sbuild stage: run sbuild to build the debian package.
- copy stage: copy the resulting .deb packages from the package build server into the aptly server at a random directory.
- aptly stage: add the .deb packages to a given repo and publish it.
- backup stage: run rsync from the aptly tree to NFS (optional).
- cleanup stage: delete random directories created by the script.
You can locate this script in the puppet tree: modules/toolforge/files/wmcs-package-build.py.
user@laptop:~$ modules/toolforge/files/wmcs-package-build.py --help usage: wmcs-package-build.py [-h] --git-repo GIT_REPO [--git-branch GIT_BRANCH] [--build-dist BUILD_DIST] [--build-host BUILD_HOST] [-a APTLY_DIST] [--aptly-host APTLY_HOST] [-b] [-d] Utility to build and upload a .deb package to aptly optional arguments: -h, --help show this help message and exit --git-repo GIT_REPO git repository URL with the source pkg. This script will do a fresh git clone of that repo. Typical value is something like: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/operations/software/tools-webservice --git-branch GIT_BRANCH git branch to use to build the package from. Defaults to "master" --build-dist BUILD_DIST target distribution when building the package with sbuild. Defaults to "stretch" --build-host BUILD_HOST package build host. Typically a VM in CloudVPS with role::wmcs::toolforge::package_builder. Defaults to "tools-package- builder-02.tools.eqiad.wmflabs" -a APTLY_DIST, --aptly-dist APTLY_DIST target distribution in aptly. The resulting deb package will be uploaded to this distribution and then the repository will be published. Can be specified multiple times for multiple target distributions. If this argument is not provided, no aptly operations will be done. Example: -a stretch-tools -a stretch-toolsbeta --aptly-host APTLY_HOST aptly server host. Typically a VM in CloudVPS with role::wmcs::toolforge::services. Defaults to "tools-sge- services-03.tools.eqiad.wmflabs" -b, --no-backup If this option is present, this script won't backup aptly data over NFS -d, --dry-run Dry run: only show what this script would do, but don't do it for real
This script is supposed to run from your laptop, and it will start SSH connections to the different servers involved in building and publishing a deb package.
--help output should have enough information to know what every option does.
You are encouraged to use the
--dry-run first to know what the script would do (the actual SSH commands).
For the toolsbeta project
Try first in the toolsbeta project for testing purposes before releasing in the tools project.
For that, build the package and upload it to the -toolsbeta variants of the aptly repos:
user@laptop:~$ wmcs-package-build.py --git-repo https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/operations/software/tools-webservice -a stretch-toolsbeta [..]
Then you can install the package in toolsbeta servers for testing.
For the tools project
Once testing is done and you are confident with a given package version, you can just run the script again and have the package upload to the final destination:
user@laptop:~$ wmcs-package-build.py --git-repo https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/operations/software/tools-webservice -a stretch-tool [..]
packaging good practices
Some good practices, advises and hints about our packaging workflows:
- use the
sbuildtool to build the packages.
- when a new package is released (i.e, uploaded to a repository and/or distributed to clients) a git tag should be created in the git repository with the format debian/version.
- use the
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Irritable bowel syndrome
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a common intestinal condition characterizedby abdominal pain and cramps; changes in bowel movements (diarrhea, constipation, or both); gassiness; bloating; nausea; and other symptoms. There is no cure for IBS. Much about the condition remains unknown or poorly understood; however, dietary changes, drugs, and psychological treatment are often able to eliminate or substantially cureduce its symptoms.
IBS was once called--among other things--colitis, spastic colon, nervous colon, and spastic bowel. Some of these names reflected the now outdated belief that IBS is a purely psychological disorder, a product of the patient's imagination. Although modern medicine recognizes that stress can trigger IBSattacks, medical specialists agree that IBS is a genuine physical disorder--or group of disorders--with specific identifiable characteristics.
The symptoms of IBS tend to rise and fall in intensity rather than growing steadily worse over time. They always include abdominal pain, which may be relieved by defecation; diarrhea or constipation; or diarrhea alternating with constipation. Other symptoms--which vary from person to person--include cramps;gassiness; bloating; nausea; a powerful and uncontrollable urge to defecate(urgency); passage of a sticky fluid (mucus) during bowel movements; or the feeling after finishing a bowel movement that the bowels are still not completely empty. The accepted diagnostic criteria--known as the Rome criteria--require at least three months of continuous or recurrent symptoms before IBS canbe confirmed.
Researchers remain unsure about the cause or causes of IBS. It is called a functional disorder because it is thought to result from changes in the activity of the major part of the large intestine (the colon). After food is digested by the stomach and small intestine, the undigested material passes in liquid form into the colon, which absorbs water and salts. This process may take several days. In a healthy person the colon is quiet during most of that period except after meals, when its muscles contract in a series of wavelike movements called peristalsis. Peristalsis helps absorption by bringing the undigested material into contact with the colon wall. It also pushes undigested material that has been converted into solid or semisolid feces toward the rectum,where it remains until defecation. In IBS, however, the normal rhythm and intensity of peristalsis is disrupted. Sometimes there is too little peristalsis, which can slow the passage of undigested material through the colon and cause constipation. Sometimes there is too much, which has the opposite effectand causes diarrhea.
Some kinds of food and drink appear to play a key role in triggering IBS attacks. Food and drink that healthy people can ingest without any trouble may disrupt peristalsis in IBS patients, which probably explains why IBS attacks often occur shortly after meals. Chocolate, milk products, caffeine (incoffee, tea, colas, and other drinks), and large quantities of alcohol are some of the chief culprits. Other kinds of food have also been identified as problems, however, and the pattern of what can and cannot be tolerated is different for each person. Characteristically, IBS symptoms rarely occur at nightand disrupt the patient's sleep.
Stress is an important factor in IBS because of the close nervous system connections between the brain and the intestines. Although researchers do not yetunderstand all of the links between changes in the nervous system and IBS, they point out the similarities between mild digestive upsets and IBS. Just ashealthy people can feel nauseated or have an upset stomach when under stress, people with IBS react the same way, but to a greater degree. Finally, IBS symptoms sometimes intensify during menstruation, which suggests that female reproductive hormones are another trigger.
Diagnosing IBS is a fairly complex task because the disorder does not producechanges that can be identified during a physical examination or by laboratory tests. When IBS is suspected, the doctor (who can be either a family doctoror a specialist) needs to determine whether the patient's symptoms satisfy the Rome criteria. The doctor must rule out other conditions that resemble IBSby questioning the patient about his or her physical and mental health (themedical history), performing a physical examination, and ordering laboratory tests.
Dietary changes, sometimes supplemented by drugs or psychotherapy, are considered the key to successful treatment. A low-fat, high-fiber diet free of problem-causing substances such as lactose, caffeine, beans, cabbage, cucumbers,broccoli, fatty foods, alcohol, and medications should be followed. Bran or 15-25 grams a day of an over-the-counter psyllium laxative (Metamucil or Fiberall) may also help both constipation and diarrhea. The patient can still havemilk or milk products if lactose intolerance is not a problem. People with irregular bowel habits--particularly constipated patients--may be helped by establishing set times for meals and bathroom visits.
Although a high-fiber diet remains the standard treatment for constipated patients, laxatives may be prescribed. Loperamide (Imodium) and cholestyramine (Questran) are suggested for diarrhea. Abdominal pain after meals can be reduced by taking antispasmodic drugs such as hyoscyamine (Anaspaz,Cystospaz, or Levsin) or dicyclomine (Bemote, Bentyl, or Di-Spaz) before eating.
Psychological counseling or behavioral therapy may be suggested for some patients to reduce anxiety and to learn to cope with the pain and other symptomsof IBS.
IBS is not a life-threatening condition. It does not cause intestinal bleeding or inflammation, nor does it cause other bowel diseases or cancer. Although IBS can last a lifetime, in up to 30% of cases the symptoms eventually disappear. Even if the symptoms cannot be eliminated, with appropriate treatment they can usually be brought under control to the point where IBS becomes merely an occasional inconvenience. Treatment requires a long-term commitment, however; six months or more may be needed before the patient notices substantial improvement. | <urn:uuid:df7b2d78-2cd3-4d62-b9e9-81fd5525dc54> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.faqs.org/health/topics/92/Irritable-bowel-syndrome.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280410.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00455-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939974 | 1,295 | 2.84375 | 3 |
Google, on Thursday has reported that its profits has exceeded analysts’ estimates, despite of the fact that the average price of an ad it sells on websites and mobile phones continued to fall.
Google Inc., world’s leading search engine has managed to climb to a profit margin of $3.35 billion, i.e a total rise of 16% in profit, in the first quarter of the year.
The growth in its profits was primarily seen as the advertisers have increased spending on mobile promotions. The global search giant understanding the trend has stepped up to adapt this rapid changing technology environment where people are using Smartphone more often than PCs in order to access web. Google is continuously trying to enter these new ad-driven markets including smartphones, video and Web services. It has also recently announced to shut down its Affiliate network to focus on other services.
The company’s Android operating system is also one of the famous smartphone softwares in the world which has even leaped Apple’s IOS. According to a research by Gartner, Google’s operating system is now used on more than 70 percent of devices.
Google has also managed to improve its Cost per Click rate in the first quarter of 2013. The average price of cost per click (CPC) has decreased by a value of 4% Y-O-Y only, compared to 6% decline in the fourth quarter of FY’12. The company in February has announced that those who are using AdWords will soon be needed to pay more for ads on tablet devices if they want to advertise on PCs. | <urn:uuid:a040d58a-4985-4366-a55e-dfadfd22ca8d> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.iamwire.com/2013/04/google-profits-rises-with-increased-spending-on-mobile/8564 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281162.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00530-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974136 | 327 | 1.625 | 2 |
36 CFR 242.25 - Subsistence taking of fish, wildlife, and shellfish: general regulations.
(a) Definitions. The following definitions apply to all regulations contained in this part:
Abalone iron means a flat device which is used for taking abalone and which is more than 1 inch (24 mm) in width and less than 24 inches (610 mm) in length, with all prying edges rounded and smooth.
ADF&G means the Alaska Department of Fish and Game.
Airborne means transported by aircraft.
Aircraft means any kind of airplane, glider, or other device used to transport people or equipment through the air, excluding helicopters.
Airport means an airport listed in the Federal Aviation Administration's Alaska Airman's Guide and chart supplement.
Anchor means a device used to hold a fishing vessel or net in a fixed position relative to the beach; this includes using part of the seine or lead, a ship's anchor, or being secured to another vessel or net that is anchored.
Animal means those species with a vertebral column (backbone).
Antler means one or more solid, horn-like appendages protruding from the head of a caribou, deer, elk, or moose.
Antlered means any caribou, deer, elk, or moose having at least one visible antler.
Antlerless means any caribou, deer, elk, or moose not having visible antlers attached to the skull.
Bait means any material excluding a scent lure that is placed to attract an animal by its sense of smell or taste; however, those parts of legally taken animals that are not required to be salvaged and which are left at the kill site are not considered bait.
Beach seine means a floating net which is designed to surround fish and is set from and hauled to the beach.
Broadhead means an arrowhead that is not barbed and has two or more steel cutting edges having a minimum cutting diameter of not less than seven-eighths of an inch.
Buck means any male deer.
Bull means any male moose, caribou, elk, or musk oxen.
Calf means a moose, caribou, elk, musk ox, or bison less than 12 months old.
Cast net means a circular net with a mesh size of no more than 1.5 inches and weights attached to the perimeter, which, when thrown, surrounds the fish and closes at the bottom when retrieved.
Char means the following species: Arctic char (Salvelinus alpinis), lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush), brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis), and Dolly Varden (Salvelinus malma).
Closed season means the time when fish, wildlife, or shellfish may not be taken.
Crab means the following species: Red king crab (Paralithodes camshatica), blue king crab (Paralithodes platypus), brown king crab (Lithodes aequispina), scarlet king crab (Lithodes couesi), all species of tanner or snow crab (Chionoecetes spp.), and Dungeness crab (Cancer magister).
Depth of net means the perpendicular distance between cork line and lead line expressed as either linear units of measure or as a number of meshes, including all of the web of which the net is composed.
Designated hunter or fisherman means a Federally qualified hunter or fisherman who may take all or a portion of another Federally qualified hunter's or fisherman's harvest limit(s) only under situations approved by the Board.
Dip net means a bag-shaped net supported on all sides by a rigid frame; the maximum straight-line distance between any two points on the net frame, as measured through the net opening, may not exceed 5 feet; the depth of the bag must be at least one-half of the greatest straight-line distance, as measured through the net opening; no portion of the bag may be constructed of webbing that exceeds a stretched measurement of 4.5 inches; the frame must be attached to a single rigid handle and be operated by hand.
Diving gear means any type of hard hat or skin diving equipment, including SCUBA equipment; a tethered, umbilical, surface-supplied unit; or snorkel.
Drainage means all of the lands and waters comprising a watershed, including tributary rivers, streams, sloughs, ponds, and lakes, which contribute to the water supply of the watershed.
Drawing permit means a permit issued to a limited number of Federally qualified subsistence users selected by means of a random drawing.
Drift gillnet means a drifting gillnet that has not been intentionally staked, anchored, or otherwise fixed in one place.
Edible meat means the breast meat of ptarmigan and grouse and those parts of caribou, deer, elk, mountain goat, moose, musk oxen, and Dall sheep that are typically used for human consumption, which are: The meat of the ribs, neck, brisket, front quarters as far as the distal (bottom) joint of the radius-ulna (knee), hindquarters as far as the distal joint (bottom) of the tibia-fibula (hock) and that portion of the animal between the front and hindquarters; however, edible meat of species listed in this definition does not include: Meat of the head, meat that has been damaged and made inedible by the method of taking, bones, sinew, and incidental meat reasonably lost as a result of boning or close trimming of the bones, or viscera. For black bear, brown and grizzly bear, “edible meat” means the meat of the front quarter and hindquarters and meat along the backbone (backstrap).
Federally qualified subsistence user means a rural Alaska resident qualified to harvest fish or wildlife on Federal public lands in accordance with the Federal Subsistence Management Regulations in this part.
Field means an area outside of established year-round dwellings, businesses, or other developments usually associated with a city, town, or village; field does not include permanent hotels or roadhouses on the State road system or at State or Federally maintained airports.
Fish wheel means a fixed, rotating device, with no more than four baskets on a single axle, for catching fish, which is driven by river current or other means.
Fresh water of streams and rivers means the line at which fresh water is separated from salt water at the mouth of streams and rivers by a line drawn headland to headland across the mouth as the waters flow into the sea.
Full curl horn means the horn of a Dall sheep ram; the tip of which has grown through 360 degrees of a circle described by the outer surface of the horn, as viewed from the side, or that both horns are broken, or that the sheep is at least 8 years of age as determined by horn growth annuli.
Furbearer means a beaver, coyote, arctic fox, red fox, lynx, marten, mink, weasel, muskrat, river (land) otter, red squirrel, flying squirrel, ground squirrel, marmot, wolf, or wolverine.
Fyke net means a fixed, funneling (fyke) device used to entrap fish.
Gear means any type of fishing apparatus.
Gillnet means a net primarily designed to catch fish by entanglement in a mesh that consists of a single sheet of webbing which hangs between cork line and lead line, and which is fished from the surface of the water.
Grappling hook means a hooked device with flukes or claws, which is attached to a line and operated by hand.
Groundfish or bottomfish means any marine fish except halibut, osmerids, herring, and salmonids.
Grouse collectively refers to all species found in Alaska, including spruce grouse, ruffed grouse, sooty grouse (formerly blue), and sharp-tailed grouse.
Hand purse seine means a floating net that is designed to surround fish and which can be closed at the bottom by pursing the lead line; pursing may only be done by hand power, and a free-running line through one or more rings attached to the lead line is not allowed.
Handicraft means a finished product made by a rural Alaskan resident from the nonedible byproducts of fish or wildlife and is composed wholly or in some significant respect of natural materials. The shape and appearance of the natural material must be substantially changed by the skillful use of hands, such as sewing, weaving, drilling, lacing, beading, carving, etching, scrimshawing, painting, or other means, and incorporated into a work of art, regalia, clothing, or other creative expression, and can be either traditional or contemporary in design. The handicraft must have substantially greater monetary and aesthetic value than the unaltered natural material alone.
Handline means a hand-held and operated line, with one or more hooks attached.
Hare or hares collectively refers to all species of hares (commonly called rabbits) in Alaska and includes snowshoe hare and tundra hare.
Harvest limit means the number of any one species permitted to be taken by any one person or designated group, per specified time period, in a Unit or portion of a Unit in which the taking occurs even if part or all of the harvest is preserved. A fish, when landed and killed by means of rod and reel, becomes part of the harvest limit of the person originally hooking it.
Herring pound means an enclosure used primarily to contain live herring over extended periods of time.
Highway means the drivable surface of any constructed road.
Household means that group of people residing in the same residence.
Hook means a single shanked fishhook with a single eye constructed with one or more points with or without barbs. A hook without a “barb” means the hook is manufactured without a barb or the barb has been completely removed or compressed so that barb is in complete contact with the shaft of the hook.
Hung measure means the maximum length of the cork line when measured wet or dry with traction applied at one end only.
Hydraulic clam digger means a device using water or a combination of air and water used to harvest clams.
Jigging gear means a line or lines with lures or baited hooks, drawn through the water by hand, and which are operated during periods of ice cover from holes cut in the ice, or from shore ice and which are drawn through the water by hand.
Lead means either a length of net employed for guiding fish into a seine, set gillnet, or other length of net, or a length of fencing employed for guiding fish into a fish wheel, fyke net, or dip net.
Legal limit of fishing gear means the maximum aggregate of a single type of fishing gear permitted to be used by one individual or boat, or combination of boats in any particular regulatory area, district, or section.
Marmot collectively refers to all species of marmot that occur in Alaska, including the hoary marmot, Alaska marmot, and the woodchuck.
Mechanical clam digger means a mechanical device used or capable of being used for the taking of clams.
Mechanical jigging machine means a mechanical device with line and hooks used to jig for halibut and bottomfish, but does not include hand gurdies or rods with reels.
Motorized vehicle means a motor-driven land, air, or water conveyance.
Permit hunt means a hunt for which State or Federal permits are issued by registration or other means.
Poison means any substance that is toxic or poisonous upon contact or ingestion.
Possession means having direct physical control of wildlife at a given time or having both the power and intention to exercise dominion or control of wildlife either directly or through another person or persons.
Possession limit means the maximum number of fish, grouse, or ptarmigan a person or designated group may have in possession if they have not been canned, salted, frozen, smoked, dried, or otherwise preserved so as to be fit for human consumption after a 15-day period.
Pot means a portable structure designed and constructed to capture and retain live fish and shellfish in the water.
Ptarmigan collectively refers to all species found in Alaska, including white-tailed ptarmigan, rock ptarmigan, and willow ptarmigan.
Purse seine means a floating net which is designed to surround fish and which can be closed at the bottom by means of a free-running line through one or more rings attached to the lead line.
Ram means a male Dall sheep.
Registration permit means a permit that authorizes hunting and is issued to a person who agrees to the specified hunting conditions. Hunting permitted by a registration permit begins on an announced date and continues throughout the open season, or until the season is closed by Board action. Registration permits are issued in the order requests are received and/or are based on priorities as determined by 50 CFR 100.17 and 36 CFR 242.17.
Regulatory year means July 1-June 30, except for fish and shellfish, for which it means April 1-March 31.
Ring net means a bag-shaped net suspended between no more than two frames; the bottom frame may not be larger in perimeter than the top frame; the gear must be nonrigid and collapsible so that free movement of fish or shellfish across the top of the net is not prohibited when the net is employed.
Rockfish means all species of the genus Sebastes.
Rod and reel means either a device upon which a line is stored on a fixed or revolving spool and is deployed through guides mounted on a flexible pole, or a line that is attached to a pole. In either case, bait or an artificial fly or lure is used as terminal tackle. This definition does not include the use of rod and reel gear for snagging.
Salmon means the following species: pink salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha); sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka); Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha); coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch); and chum salmon (Oncorhynchus keta).
Salmon stream means any stream used by salmon for spawning, rearing, or for traveling to a spawning or rearing area.
Salvage means to transport the edible meat, skull, or hide, as required by regulation, of a regulated fish, wildlife, or shellfish to the location where the edible meat will be consumed by humans or processed for human consumption in a manner that saves or prevents the edible meat from waste, and preserves the skull or hide for human use.
Scallop dredge means a dredge-like device designed specifically for and capable of taking scallops by being towed along the ocean floor.
Sea urchin rake means a hand-held implement, no longer than 4 feet, equipped with projecting prongs used to gather sea urchins.
Sealing means placing a mark or tag on a portion of a harvested animal by an authorized representative of the ADF&G; sealing includes collecting and recording information about the conditions under which the animal was harvested, and measurements of the specimen submitted for sealing, or surrendering a specific portion of the animal for biological information.
Set gillnet means a gillnet that has been intentionally set, staked, anchored, or otherwise fixed.
Seven-eighths curl horn means the horn of a male Dall sheep, the tip of which has grown through seven-eighths (315 degrees) of a circle, described by the outer surface of the horn, as viewed from the side, or with both horns broken.
Shovel means a hand-operated implement for digging clams.
Spear means a shaft with a sharp point or fork-like implement attached to one end, which is used to thrust through the water to impale or retrieve fish, and which is operated by hand.
Stretched measure means the average length of any series of 10 consecutive meshes measured from inside the first knot and including the last knot when wet; the 10 meshes, when being measured, must be an integral part of the net, as hung, and measured perpendicular to the selvages; measurements will be made by means of a metal tape measure while the 10 meshes being measured are suspended vertically from a single peg or nail, under 5-pound weight.
Subsistence fishing permit means a subsistence harvest permit issued by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game or the Federal Subsistence Board.
Take or Taking means to fish, pursue, hunt, shoot, trap, net, capture, collect, kill, harm, or attempt to engage in any such conduct.
Tine or antler point refers to any point on an antler, the length of which is greater than its width and is at least 1 inch.
To operate fishing gear means any of the following: To deploy gear in the water; to remove gear from the water; to remove fish or shellfish from the gear during an open season or period; or to possess a gillnet containing fish during an open fishing period, except that a gillnet that is completely clear of the water is not considered to be operating for the purposes of minimum distance requirement.
Transportation means to ship, convey, carry, or transport by any means whatever and deliver or receive for such shipment, conveyance, carriage, or transportation.
Troll gear means a power gurdy troll gear consisting of a line or lines with lures or baited hooks that are drawn through the water by a power gurdy; hand troll gear consisting of a line or lines with lures or baited hooks that are drawn through the water from a vessel by hand trolling, strip fishing, or other types of trolling, and which are retrieved by hand power or hand-powered crank and not by any type of electrical, hydraulic, mechanical, or other assisting device or attachment; or dinglebar troll gear consisting of one or more lines, retrieved and set with a troll gurdy or hand troll gurdy, with a terminally attached weight from which one or more leaders with one or more lures or baited hooks are pulled through the water while a vessel is making way.
Trophy means a mount of a big game animal, including the skin of the head (cape) or the entire skin, in a lifelike representation of the animal, including a lifelike representation made from any part of a big game animal; “trophy” also includes a “European mount” in which the horns or antlers and the skull or a portion of the skull are mounted for display.
Trout means the following species: Cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarki) and rainbow/steelhead trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss).
Unclassified wildlife or unclassified species means all species of animals not otherwise classified by the definitions in this paragraph (a), or regulated under other Federal law as listed in paragraph (i) of this section.
Ungulate means any species of hoofed mammal, including deer, caribou, elk, moose, mountain goat, Dall sheep, and musk ox.
Unit and Subunit means one of the geographical areas in the State of Alaska known as Game Management Units, or GMUs, as defined in the codified Alaska Department of Fish and Game regulations found in Title 5 of the Alaska Administrative Code and collectively listed in this part as Units or Subunits.
(b) Taking fish, wildlife, or shellfish for subsistence uses by a prohibited method is a violation of this part. Seasons are closed unless opened by Federal regulation. Hunting, trapping, or fishing during a closed season or in an area closed by this part is prohibited. You may not take for subsistence fish, wildlife, or shellfish outside established Unit or Area seasons, or in excess of the established Unit or Area harvest limits, unless otherwise provided for by the Board. You may take fish, wildlife, or shellfish under State regulations on public lands, except as otherwise restricted at §§ 242.26 through 242.28. Unit/Area-specific restrictions or allowances for subsistence taking of fish, wildlife, or shellfish are identified at §§ 242.26 through 242.28.
(c) Harvest limits.
(2) Fish, wildlife, or shellfish taken by a designated individual for another person pursuant to § 242.10(d)(5)(ii) counts toward the individual harvest limit of the person for whom the fish, wildlife, or shellfish is taken.
(4) Unless otherwise provided, any person who gives or receives fish, wildlife, or shellfish must furnish, upon a request made by a Federal or State agent, a signed statement describing the following: Names and addresses of persons who gave and received fish, wildlife, or shellfish; the time and place that the fish, wildlife, or shellfish was taken; and identification of species transferred. Where a qualified subsistence user has designated another qualified subsistence user to take fish, wildlife, or shellfish on his or her behalf in accordance with § 242.10(d)(5)(ii), the permit must be furnished in place of a signed statement.
(d) Fishing by designated harvest permit.
(1) Any species of fish that may be taken by subsistence fishing under this part may be taken under a designated harvest permit.
(2) If you are a Federally qualified subsistence user, you (beneficiary) may designate another Federally qualified subsistence user to take fish on your behalf. The designated fisherman must obtain a designated harvest permit prior to attempting to harvest fish and must return a completed harvest report. The designated fisherman may fish for any number of beneficiaries but may have no more than two harvest limits in his/her possession at any one time.
(3) The designated fisherman must have in possession a valid designated fishing permit when taking, attempting to take, or transporting fish taken under this section, on behalf of a beneficiary.
(4) The designated fisherman may not fish with more than one legal limit of gear.
(5) You may not designate more than one person to take or attempt to take fish on your behalf at one time. You may not personally take or attempt to take fish at the same time that a designated fisherman is taking or attempting to take fish on your behalf.
(e) Hunting by designated harvest permit. If you are a Federally qualified subsistence user (recipient), you may designate another Federally qualified subsistence user to take deer, moose, and caribou, and in Units 1-5, goats, on your behalf unless you are a member of a community operating under a community harvest system or unless unit-specific regulations in § 242.26 preclude or modify the use of the designated hunter system or allow the harvest of additional species by a designated hunter. The designated hunter must obtain a designated hunter permit and must return a completed harvest report. The designated hunter may hunt for any number of recipients but may have no more than two harvest limits in his/her possession at any one time except for goats, where designated hunters may have no more than one harvest limit in possession at any one time, and unless otherwise specified in unit-specific regulations in § 242.26.
(f) A rural Alaska resident who has been designated to take fish, wildlife, or shellfish on behalf of another rural Alaska resident in accordance with § 242.10(d)(5)(ii) must promptly deliver the fish, wildlife, or shellfish to that rural Alaska resident and may not charge the recipient for his/her services in taking the fish, wildlife, or shellfish or claim for themselves the meat or any part of the harvested fish, wildlife, or shellfish.
(g) Cultural/educational program permits.
(1) A qualifying program must have instructors, enrolled students, minimum attendance requirements, and standards for successful completion of the course. Applications must be submitted to the Federal Subsistence Board through the Office of Subsistence Management and should be submitted 60 days prior to the earliest desired date of harvest. Harvest must be reported, and any animals harvested will count against any established Federal harvest quota for the area in which it is harvested.
(2) Requests for followup permits must be submitted to the in-season or local manager and should be submitted 60 days prior to the earliest desired date of harvest.
(h) Permits. If a subsistence fishing or hunting permit is required by this part, the following permit conditions apply unless otherwise specified in this section:
(1) You may not take more fish, wildlife, or shellfish for subsistence use than the limits set out in the permit;
(2) You must obtain the permit prior to fishing or hunting;
(4) If specified on the permit, you must keep accurate daily records of the harvest, showing the number of fish, wildlife, or shellfish taken, by species, location, and date of harvest, and other such information as may be required for management or conservation purposes; and
(5) If the return of harvest information necessary for management and conservation purposes is required by a permit and you fail to comply with such reporting requirements, you are ineligible to receive a subsistence permit for that activity during the following regulatory year, unless you demonstrate that failure to report was due to loss in the mail, accident, sickness, or other unavoidable circumstances.
(j) Utilization of fish, wildlife, or shellfish.
(i) The hide, skin, viscera, head, or bones of wildlife;
(ii) The skinned carcass of a furbearer;
(iv) Unclassified wildlife.
(i) The hide of a wolf, wolverine, coyote, fox, lynx, marten, mink, weasel, or otter;
(iv) The hide or meat of squirrels, hares, marmots, beaver, muskrats, or unclassified wildlife.
(4) You may not intentionally waste or destroy any subsistence-caught fish or shellfish; however, you may use for bait or other purposes whitefish, herring, and species for which bag limits, seasons, or other regulatory methods and means are not provided in this section, as well as the head, tail, fins, and viscera of legally taken subsistence fish.
(5) Failure to salvage the edible meat may not be a violation if such failure is caused by circumstances beyond the control of a person, including theft of the harvested fish, wildlife, or shellfish, unanticipated weather conditions, or unavoidable loss to another animal.
(7) If you are a Federally qualified subsistence user, you may sell handicraft articles made from the skin, hide, pelt, or fur, including claws, of a brown bear taken from Units 1-5, 9A-C, 9E, 12, 17, 20, 22, 23, 24B (only that portion within Gates of the Arctic National Park), 25, or 26.
(ii) Prior to selling a handicraft incorporating a brown bear claw(s), the hide or claw(s) not attached to a hide must be sealed by an authorized Alaska Department of Fish and Game representative. Old claws may be sealed if an affidavit is signed indicating that the claws came from a brown bear harvested on Federal public lands by a Federally qualified user. A copy of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game sealing certificate must accompany the handicraft when sold.
(8) If you are a Federally qualified subsistence user, you may sell the raw fur or tanned pelt with or without claws attached from legally harvested furbearers.
(9) If you are a Federally qualified subsistence user, you may sell handicraft articles made from the nonedible byproducts (including, but not limited to, skin, shell, fins, and bones) of subsistence-harvested fish or shellfish.
(10) If you are a Federally qualified subsistence user, you may sell handicraft articles made from nonedible byproducts of wildlife harvested for subsistence uses (excluding bear), to include: Skin, hide, pelt, fur, claws, bones (except skulls of moose, caribou, elk, deer, sheep, goat, and musk ox), teeth, sinew, antlers and/or horns (if not attached to any part of the skull or made to represent a big game trophy) and hooves.
(12) You may sell the horns and antlers not attached to any part of the skull from legally harvested caribou (except caribou harvested in Unit 23), deer, elk, goat, moose, musk ox, and sheep.
(13) You may sell the raw/untanned and tanned hide or cape from a legally harvested caribou, deer, elk, goat, moose, musk ox, and sheep.
(k) The regulations found in this part do not apply to the subsistence taking and use of fish, wildlife, or shellfish regulated pursuant to the Fur Seal Act of 1966 (80 Stat. 1091, 16 U.S.C. 1187); the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (87 Stat. 884, 16 U.S.C. 1531-1543); the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 (86 Stat. 1027; 16 U.S.C. 1361-1407); and the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (40 Stat. 755; 16 U.S.C. 703-711), or to any amendments to these Acts. The taking and use of fish, wildlife, or shellfish, covered by these Acts will conform to the specific provisions contained in these Acts, as amended, and any implementing regulations.
(l) Rural residents, nonrural residents, and nonresidents not specifically prohibited by Federal regulations from fishing, hunting, or trapping on public lands in an area may fish, hunt, or trap on public lands in accordance with the appropriate State regulations.
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VIDEO: Building Advocates for Clean Energy on Global Wind Day
As part of the celebration, the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), held a “Construct a Turbine” competition on June 14 in which people from the Washington, D.C. area built their own wind turbine models while helping to promote clean, renewable energy. Participants included representatives from James Madison University, the League of Conservation Voters, Environment America, American Wind Energy Association and the Sustainable Business Council.
For many attendees, the competition was a chance to continue to support renewable energy while gaining knowledge of how wind power works. Ashley Friedman, a member of the team from LCV, attended the event because she supports the cause. She’s already participated in a lobby day in support of the investment tax credit for wind energy and said she hopes that participants will advocate for increased use of wind energy in the future.
AWEA CEO Tom Kiernan stated that AWEA put on the event in order to raise awareness of the power, simplicity and cleanliness of wind energy. Kiernan sees wind energy as a critical part of the solution to global climate disruption - and he thinks wind can provide at least 20 percent of the electricity generated in the United States sooner rather than later.
It's a prediction that doesn’t seem unreachable. Wind power is currently one of the fastest growing sources of American manufacturing jobs, and 45,000 wind turbines are already installed across the United States.
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Everybody deserves to look after their mental health.
Working within a high-pressure industry such as journalism, a toolkit is needed to protect one’s sanity and should be a cornerstone when sending young professionals out into the field.
These pressures can include working under time-restraints, meeting deadlines or chasing potential interviewees. Behind the scenes contains many more variables than you might expect.
Not everyone is built to produce original and snappy content in these conditions and journalists could be at risk of burnout if they do not have access to the mental health infrastructure they need.
Many suffer from mental health issues, yet, our society often encourages people to push through times of hardship. Listening to symptoms and looking after our needs can be seen as a sign of weakness, but if our cups aren’t full, how can journalists serve communities and report on current affairs?
A journalist is faced almost daily with stories of crime, illness, war or injustice and are expected to remain well-informed and up-to-date with goings-on.
Unfortunately, tragedy makes the news and this can have a huge impact on the journos behind the stories. People are more interested in the news when their anxieties about the world are being fuelled by current events, for example, the Russo-Ukrainian war or the Coronavirus pandemic. For some journalists, giving a voice to events like that can give them a sense of heroism, it matters that people’s stories are being heard.
Tragic reports on subjects like this could paint a picture of the world being a bad, unfair, and dangerous place and this is something people should be able to access counselling for. Looking at the world through these lenses of horror seeps into every aspect of human life and can seem inescapable.
Not to mention war correspondents and foreign correspondents, whose lives are often in the middle of conflict, can be affected drastically and permanently.
I’ve been experiencing a lot of fear and anxiety due to the amount of news I’ve come across throughout my studies as a journalism student.
No one should be ignorant of current affairs, as we’re all part of this world; sharing the same planet, living at the same time over our whole existence. And therefore, I believe, people should be involved with their surroundings as much as they can.
Regardless, my proposed idea to cope with these issues is to develop a practice focused on processing triggering information on an internal level. There is an opportunity for critical thinking when debating the amount of information people consume, especially with the rise of misinformation online.
However, another step further could be teaching emotional awareness in relation to the type of information we consume.
We should allow for a balanced place where we’re able to accept the facts, yet, still remain sane and grounded in life through coping techniques. The media shouldn’t paint the ultimate picture of one’s reality. It also shouldn’t capitalise on human disasters and the uneasiness of its audiences.
Freelance journalist and columnist Christopher CJ Stone thinks most journalists are insane. He also thinks that there are certain practices (many are thousands of years old) that would benefit everyone, especially aspiring journalists. One of these practices is his morning meditation before he starts writing.
“You’ve got to develop a mental balance, keeping your mind clear. ‘Stop the world I want to get off!’ is the old phrase that comes to mind, but meditation provides that. It stops the world for a moment.”
Journalists are not the only people coping with bad news. On a daily, media occupies our mental space, it has the ability to wrap us up in our own biases or prejudices.
When Mr Stone was asked how to deal with the collective distress caused by negative events presented in the press, he encouraged establishing a healthy mindset.
“In the end, you have to take a positive view on life regardless of what’s happening. How do you deal with that? Do you get angry at the world? You don’t, you simply have to let these things be. There is horror in the world, but you have to keep your own perspective on it.”
Serving communities and working towards bettering the world in which we live, comes with a price.
Looking after our thoughts and beliefs reflects on what we send back into the world. Without purposeful mental strengthening and nurturing, we’re setting ourselves into an unsustainable future, where all parties end up overwhelmed and unable to handle the influx of negative rhetoric.
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Tuesday (10 July 2007) I was a co-faciliator of an âunconferenceâ session at a JISC Emerge meeting which aimed at helping to consolidate the Emerge community of practice.
Wikipedia provides a definition of an unconference: âAn unconference is a conference where the content of the sessions is driven and created by the participants, generally day-by-day during the course of the event, rather than by a single organizer, or small group of organizers, in advance.â
So my co-facilitator, Brian Kelly (I have ‘borrowed some of his report for this blog entry) and I had to prepare for an event driven by the participants and not by ourselves. The approach we took was to prepare for a number of ways of stimulating discussion, if this was needed. However on the day it turned out that this was not needed as two interesting discussions took place in our two sessions: one on transliteracy and one on the ethical aspects of use of social networks.
Professor Sue Thomas of De Montford University introduced the âtransliteracyâ topic. Again looking at Wikipedia I find the definition of Transliteracy given as âThe ability to read, write and interact across a range of platforms, tools and media from signing and orality through handwriting, print, TV, radio and film, to digital social networks.â. (This has been taken from the PART (Production and Research in Transliteracy) Group Web site).
Whilst we were downstairs having an ongoing and evolving discussion around these issues, upstairs a series of round table discussions (once more participant driven) were being held. Participants in the JISC Emerge community are preparing a series of bids for project under the JISCX Users and Innovation programme. Most of these nascent projects focus on the use of Web 2.0 technologies for learning – including simulations, games and tagging.
But it seemed to me that many of the issues we were discussing – social practices in the use of technologies, skills and competencies required by users – both learners and teachers, ethical issues and issues of ownership and control – are the real issues which underpin the use of Web 2.0 and social software.
Here is a list of key words I jotted down during the discussion:
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Precognition is the ability to see, hear, sense and know an event or situation taking place in the future.
This ability to have foreknowledge of an event, is one of the main ways that the realness or importance of your intuitive abilities may begin to dawn on you. Precognition can begin to occur in dreams, in meditations or in intuitive readings that you give to yourself or others. The knowledge or sense of the occurrence of an event is more than predicting behaviors of those that you know, love and care for - it’s an intuitive ability of being able to see things that happen in the future for events, people or places, where you have no logical reason to know this information.
Precognition is the ability to know a truth before the truth makes itself known in the physical world.
As you may already know or have heard, anything that we can think, dream, feel or imagine, becomes real in the emotional energetic or spiritual worlds, before it is made to manifest in the physical realm. We begin to create our worlds in the way we wish, with a simple thought.
Think of it this way. You desire a new soft leather bag with cushioned straps to carry your laptop on the train without strain to your shoulders. You think up, on your train ride home, the perfect bag for your laptop. You imagine, the best laptop bag for you, should a laptop bag of this nature exist. You have thought it, dreamt it and imagined it before it exists in your physical world.
You have created the future event of obtaining this laptop bag, before you actually go out, in the physical world and obtain it.
And you’ve done this with so many things - imagining apartments you’d like, lovers you’d prefer to have, jobs and careers that would be most ideal, should they exist.
You create events in your energetic, emotional and spirit self world before they are created in the physical world.
Precognition is the ability to know these pre-created events for yourself and others. It’s the ability to sense, feel, see or know a truth of a future event as it begins to manifest in the energetic and spiritual worlds.
At this point, you may be wondering, is precognition always a good thing?
No, it’s not always beneficial to know all there is to know about the future for yourself and others, for a variety of reasons - spoiling the surprise and the lesson, being the main one. But, don’t worry - if you aren’t meant to see, sense or know something. You won’t.
Your Guides, Angels and Loved Ones (and all the Universal powers that be) are who and what connects you to this source of Universal wisdom. Your connection to the source, to the Divine Light, is where your pre-knowing information originates. And, if it’s not in your highest and greatest soul good to know something, you won’t know it. Your Spiritual Support team is very good at assisting you on your path and helping to decide, what it is in your highest and greatest good to be aware of at any moment.
With precognition, you have the ability to see all aspects and spectrum of the future, as long as it’s aligned and in your greatest good to know. Which means, it’s possible to predict and see events as menial as someone you know walking into a cafeteria, to an earthquake in a south american country.
At this point, you may be asking, if I can’t stop it, what’s the point in seeing it? If it doesn’t really matter, why is it being shown to me?
There’s a variety of reasons as to why you may see and be aware of the future, and here are the most common. With the ability to tap into energetic and spiritual events that already exists, you are tapping into Universal wisdom. And there’s always a reason for that.
3 Reasons Why Precognition Exists
1. To Make You Aware of Your Abilities
There’s no better way to gain your trust in the Spiritual and psychic world than to show you something that you would have no way of knowing, and then for it to happen. It’s like a Spiritual wake-up call, a slap in the face.
Sure, it’s easy to explain away knowing something about the past, or knowing something about the present - perhaps you read about this information somewhere, overheard a conversation or heard it on a television show playing in the background, when you were making dinner. But, it’s impossible to pre-know the future without having some sort of intuitive, psychic or spiritual connection. And while you may have always acknowledged your hunches and gut instincts, it’s time you acknowledge and accepted that perhaps your intuitive strengths are naturally much stronger than you give yourself credit for.
Sometimes, there’s no way to stop a future event from happening, especially not something that’s out of your complete control - like a natural disaster in another country or someone else getting fired for work, or a family member crossing over. But, knowing this information, before it happens, is one of the most salient ways possible and available to your Spirit Guides to get your attention, to begin to wake you up. To begin to realize, that maybe you’re doing more than simply dreaming.
2. To Help Yourself
Knowing a future event and being given the pre-knowledge of a future occurrence, such as seeing the scene of an accident, if you take a certain trip or go down a certain road, is one of the ways that those in Spirit help protect, guide and assist you on your path. When we are given awareness about the future, even if it’s ‘bad’, we are also given the opportunity to alter our path and take another route.
Thus, future predictions and future scenes are not always destiny, but rather, simply an option for what could happen, should you choose this path. The knowledge of a potential future event, in many cases is an opportunity given to you the change the outcome, or the destination.
3. To Help Others
To be made aware of a future occurrence for others, such as in a spontaneous dream, in a reading or in a meditation, is an opportunity for you to help and guide others, though, the information isn’t always given to you to share.
Rather, many times, precognitive information given to you from Spirit or the Universal Source, is actually an opportunity for you to adapt and shift your future behaviors to better tailor them to the needs of others. For example, if you had a dream your grand father was dying in one week, is it in the highest and greatest good to share with him and your entire family this information? Not really. But, this information could guide you in spending more time with your grandfather, being more compassionate and gentle with him, and encouraging others to do the same.
In another example, imagine you saw in a dream or a meditation, that your best friend was walking out of their office building, with a box of all their belongings in their arms. Are they getting fired? Are they quitting? Who knows yet! But something, is definitely happening and perhaps, this information was shown to you, so that you can help coach your friend to start putting out their resume and job applications.
Often times, even if the precognitive information you see, sense or feel is about someone else, it’s information for you to use, for the highest and greatest good possible. It’s a gift to you, to assist you in adapting to your physical, social or cultural environment, in the coming hours, days and weeks.
Precognitive information is much like being given a weather forecast, so you can best decide your plan of action, to adapt to the upcoming patterns.
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By James Kwak
No, I’m not talking about the fact that a major bank is named Fifth Third Bank. (As a friend said, why would you trust your money to a bank that seems not to understand fractions?) I’m talking about Fifth Third Bancorp. v. Dudenhoeffer, which was heard by the Supreme Court last week.
The plaintiffs in Fifth Third were former employees who were participants in the company’s defined contribution retirement plan. One of the plan’s investment options was company stock, and the employees put some of their money in company stock. (Most important lesson here: don’t invest a significant portion of your retirement assets in your company’s stock. Remember Enron? Anyway, back to our story.) As you probably guessed, Fifth Third’s stock price fell by 74% from 2007 to 2009—this is a bank, you know—so the plaintiffs lost money in their retirement accounts.
The claim (I’m looking at the 6th Circuit opinion) is that the people running the retirement plan knew or should have known that Fifth Third stock was overvalued in 2007, and they breached their fiduciary duty to plan participants by continuing to offer company stock as an investment option and by failing to sell the company stock that was owned by the plan. The suit was dismissed in the district court for failure to state a claim, so on review the courts are supposed to accept all the plaintiffs’ allegations as correct. | <urn:uuid:079cb551-16fc-4aa8-a72c-9ab59a84f0a0> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://baselinescenario.com/tag/erisa/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280364.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00037-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980881 | 309 | 1.609375 | 2 |
When you need help from emergency services, you typically don’t need it in 15 minutes: you need it now.
To that end, Capital City Fire/Rescue is working under the auspices of a larger state program to push access to Narcan, which helps counteract overdoses from opioids, out to the community.
“All of our transport rigs, our engines, and even our (Community Assistance Response and Emergency Services) vehicle are going to carrying it soon,” said Andrew Pantiskas, CCFR’s emergency medical services officer, in a phone interview. “We’re giving them the ability to not have to go in for that kit, and improving patient care overall.”
Community distribution, scheduled to begin next month, is part of Project Hope, a state Department of Health and Social Services program to help combat opioid overdoses in the community, Pantiskas said. The program will distribute Narcan kits to individuals that are having an opioid overdose, so that themselves or someone around is having an opioid overdose in the future, they have the response at hand.
“Basically, what we’re looking at is extending our emergency response agencies’ reach with their kits,” Pantiskas said. “We would be helping get more Narcan whether or not they go to the hospital.”
Decentralization of health care and pushing community and telehealth care has been a major priority of the state’s, especially since the beginning of the pandemic saw jam-packed emergency rooms across the state.
“We want to have a wider net of people,” said Dr. Quigley Peterson, CCFR-sponsored physician at Bartlett Regional Hospital. “We want to help keep people from dying. I think that’s really important. When this started, people would say ‘you’re just facilitating their addiction.’”
Pantiskas said CCFR is getting 100 doses of Narcan to begin. Narcan use during calls for all of CCFR each year ranges in the 30-50 range, Pantiskas said.
“I figure that’s a good round number. We’re going to put five kits on each rig we respond with,” Pantiskas said. “I can see us probably giving this out once, maybe twice a week in Juneau.”
Statewide, the program delivered more than 12,000 across Alaska so far, according to the program website.
“This is a way the state can get it to people who need it,” Pantiskas said. “It’ll also be really good for parents who have pain meds in the house.”
An opiate overdose can result in a person’s body stopping an unconscious function such as breathing, Peterson said. The Narcan comes in a nasal applicator to rapidly reverse the overdose, Pantiskas said.
“It’s made so the public can literally put it in someone’s nose and squeeze. Even a kid could do it,” Pantiskas said. “It blocks the receptors that would be stimulated by the opiate, the morphine or the heroin.”
Pantiskas said opiate uses– and overdoses– are distributed, rather than targeting any one particular demographic.
“I would say 2020 had maybe a slight increase. 2021, we started getting back on the right track,” Pantiskas said. “It’s very spread out. You can’t stereotype it too much. Sometimes it’s kids, sometimes it’s adults, sometimes it’s the homeless population. There’s not one set population I could say is doing it.”
CCFR Narcan Use by Year
2018- 46 times
2019- 48 times
2020- 46 times
2021- 37 times
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Pair programming is a practice in agile software development where two programmers share a workstation. This includes a single computer. One programmer (called the driver) writes the code while the other (the observer) watches, reviews, and provides guidance. The two programmers switch roles frequently. Sometimes as often as every 15 minutes.
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During its tenure in Minneapolis, Dayton’s Gallery 12 was a powerhouse in the American contemporary art scene. While it was originally greeted with disdain by the art world at its founding in 1964 because it was a department store gallery, it soon gained a reputation as a serious player in the art scene, showing works by the biggest names in the contemporary art world, such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and Jasper Johns. Dayton’s Gallery 12 played a unique role in shaping the Midwest art scene, and the American art scene more broadly.
It kickstarted the contemporary art market in the Midwest, a market that many critics had doubted existed. Dayton’s Gallery 12 was strengthened by the unique opportunities it provided. Dayton’s Gallery 12 was able to exhibit large collections with huge ranges of works in ways that would not be available elsewhere due to space and other concerns, allowing artists–and even gallery owners such as Leo Castelli–to display large volumes and varieties of works, creating a unique experience which benefited both artists and local viewers.
A list of exhibitions at Dayton’s Gallery 12 follows:
Pavlos Paper Constructions
Castelli at Dayton’s
Stella, Noland, and Caro
Sugarman: Sculpture and Lithographs
David Hockney: Drawings
Charles Ross: Prisms
OR: an Introduction (Jud Fine)
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Wake vortex behind an airplane shows the disordered small scales characteristic of turbulent flows together with a large scale coherent structure, the vortex. Credit: NASA Langley
Professor Department of Engineering Physics
Faculty Director AMEP Program
Editorial Board Physical Review Fluids
I am an Applied Mathematician at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, with a joint appointment between the Department of Mathematics and the Department of Engineering Physics.
I have developed a Self-Sustaining Process theory for shear flows that has provided an ab initio method to discover families of 3D traveling wave solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations in all canonical shear flows (plane Couette, Poiseuille and pipe flows with velocity, stress or mixed boundary conditions). The traveling wave solutions appear to constitute the unstable `backbone' of turbulent shear flows. My other research activities focus on geophysical flows and computational methods for solving partial differential equations.
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Lugenia Burns Hope, née Lugenia D. Burns (born Feb. 19, 1871, St. Louis, Mo., U.S.—died Aug. 14, 1947, Nashville, Tenn.) American social reformer whose Neighborhood Union and other community service organizations improved the quality of life for blacks in Atlanta, Ga., and served as a model for the future Civil Rights Movement.
Hope gained experience as an adolescent by working, often full time, for several charitable and settlement organizations. Between 1890 and 1893 she attended the Chicago Art Institute, the Chicago School of Design, and the Chicago Business College. In 1897 she married educator John Hope.
First in Nashville, Tenn., and then, for more than 30 years in Atlanta, Lugenia Hope organized community services and worked for civil rights. Soon after arriving in Atlanta, Hope worked with a group that eventually evolved into the Neighborhood Union, the first female-run, social welfare agency for African-Americans in Atlanta. From 1908 to 1935, as head of its Board of Managers, she oversaw the provision of medical, recreational, employment, and educational services to Atlanta’s black neighbourhoods.
At the beginning of World War I, the Union ran the Atlanta Young Women’s Christian Association’s (YWCA’s) War Work Councils to serve black soldiers who were barred from the recreational activities available to white soldiers through the base canteens and other entertainments associated with the United Service Organization (USO). As a result of their success, she was approached to coordinate a nationwide network of Hostess Houses that eventually provided both black and Jewish soldiers, and their families, with a wide variety of services from recreation to relocation counseling.
Hope was also a founding member of the Atlanta Branch of the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs. Through her club work, she became involved in national reform activities and particularly in the efforts to challenge racial discrimination within various reform organizations. In 1920 Hope led a challenge to the practices of segregation and white-domination within the national YWCA.
Hope’s style went beyond the traditional racial politics of the period. She sharply criticized the widespread belief that black Americans had to prove their readiness for citizenship. Her leadership resulted in her assuming the office of First Vice President of the Atlanta chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. As such, she organized citizenship schools that offered six-week classes on voting, democracy, and the U.S. Constitution. Other chapters around the country utilized such strategies and later modified them for use in the early stages of the Civil Rights Movement. In 1936, the year of her husband’s death, Hope fell ill and spent the remainder of her life in New York City, Chicago, and Nashville. | <urn:uuid:1f18b63d-42e2-411b-a1a9-69afb2d05cb6> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lugenia-Burns-Hope | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721405.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00313-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964062 | 568 | 3.046875 | 3 |
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Burton Upon Trent
Burton Upon Trent
Burton Upon Trent
Burton upon Trent being close to the border with Derbyshire is located on the bank of river Trent. According to population census of 2011, the population was 72,300. The local people of the city are named as “Burtonian”. The beer industry of the city is famous in the United Kingdom. They prepare beer from the barley which is the main ingredient. The two deadly wars were fought on this land. The first war was fought between the Earl of Lancaster and Edward II in 1322 and Lancaster got defeated. In 1643, the second war which was First English Civil War was ended with the fortification of whole town by Royalists. It became a market town in the beginning of the modern period. The city also has railway station for rail mode commuters.
Ryknild Street which is famous parish of today was once a long road that connects north and east part of the town. The previous records of Domesday book shows that it was controlling lands associated with Leicestershire particularly Appleby Magna and a few more. The lion’s share of revenue comes from monastery during 1530’s. There were frequent visits noted from royal dynasty including Edward I, Henry II, and William I. King John granted a royal charter to hold market on every Thursday during the 12th century. The King Henry III and King Henry IV were the other two kings that renewed the charter. The Peel family role was commendable in the Industrial Revolution. In 2002, a large scale celebration was organized to celebrate the golden Jubliee and Queen Elizabeth participated in the event.
The town also acted as administrative center for the East Staffordshire Borough. Andrew Griffiths has been representing the MP seat since May 2010. It got the status of municipal borough in 1878 and county borough in 1901. At that time, there were 50,000 people living in the town. According to census of 1971, the strength of population was 50,201. The parishes such as Shobnall, Burton, Brizlincote, Branston and Anglesey were created in the town.
Geography and Demography
Burton is 109 miles from the capital city, London. The town height from the sea level is 50 m approximately. A huge quantity of salt is found in the water of the town. This water is very much beneficial for the Beer and Wine industry. As per the 2011 counting, the population of the town stands approximately 72,300.
The brewing industry got expansion for many years. The major revenue of the city comes from this industry. Molson Coors, Marston are the famous brands. The Burton Bride is the local company of the town that have hot cake brands such as Bridge Bitter, Stairway to heaven, Golden delicious and Damson Porter. The famous companies headquarters such Spirit Pub Company, and Punch Taverns. The major business companies provides a lot of opportunity to local people.
The town geographical area covers both sides of the river. The famous Trent River provides water to the city. There are two routes for Cyclists who usually prepare for national level competition. Since time Immemorial, a small ferry has been operated in the town. The general aviation airfield is 4 miles far and to the west of the city.
The four different teams of the town participate and represents it in Football league. The Lichfield Cricket club, Burton Cricket club, Dunstall cricket clubs were the main clubs of the city. There is also the oldest rugby union i.e. Burton Rugby Football Club. The city’s weightlifting teams is internationally recognized. All the national as well as international weightlifters get trained at Powerhouse Gym Club. | <urn:uuid:5db90058-2e56-4669-b5bc-e21b9be6c598> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.datrixtraining.com/course/project-and-programme-management/apm-training/apm-pmq/schedule/burton%20upon%20trent | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00477.warc.gz | en | 0.964182 | 988 | 2.65625 | 3 |
Mobile Moodle FAQ
Note: You are currently viewing documentation for Moodle 2.4. Up-to-date documentation for the latest stable version of Moodle may be available here: Mobile Moodle FAQ.
- 1 How can I use Moodle on mobile devices?
- 2 Where can I download the official Mobile app for iPhone and Android?
- 3 How do I get the official Mobile app to work for my Moodle site?
- 4 Where can I select a theme for mobile devices?
- 5 I can't access my Moodle site using the app
- 6 Moodle Mobile app say I need 2.4 or higher
- 7 How can I log out of the Mobile app current site?
- 8 I can't view the courses tab as an administrator
- 9 See also
How can I use Moodle on mobile devices?
There are currently 3 main ways to use Moodle on mobile devices:
- Users can open Moodle sites in their mobile web browsers.
- Users can download native apps for their mobile devices.
- Admins can configure their Moodle site to be Mobile-accessible through server extensions.
- The official Mobile app developed by Juan Leyva with support from Jerome Mouneyrac, Moodle HQ and others.
- MoodleTouch (aka mTouch) for iOS, created by Ali OzGur
- mPage for iOS and Android (work in progress), created by Mass Media HK
- Mbot for Android, created by Code Guild
- The My Moodle app for iPhone, created by Moodle HQ (no longer being developed)
- Droodle - an Android client for the Moodle 2.1 platform
- MoMo (Moodle for Mobiles) - Requires a server extension and a client app; supports most mobile OSes including Symbian.
- Moodbile - Reference implementation of Moodle Web Services. Under development.
- iPhone4Moodle - Under development.
Where can I download the official Mobile app for iPhone and Android?
The app can be downloaded for free from the Google Play Store and Apple App Store
How do I get the official Mobile app to work for my Moodle site?
Firstly, your Moodle site must be using Moodle 2.4 or later.
Secondly mobile web services must be enabled. See Enable mobile web services for details.
Where can I select a theme for mobile devices?
In Site administration > Appearance > Themes > Theme selector.
New in Moodle 2.2 onwards is the MyMobile theme especially designed for mobile devices.
I can't access my Moodle site using the app
Notice that by default Mobile access is disabled in Moodle. The administrator of your Moodle site (which must be version 2.4 or later) must enable mobile access.
Authentication methods like Shibboleth, CAS or LDAP/SSO are supported only using a Moodle add-one (See Moodle Mobile additional features)
You should verify also that Debugging and "Display debug messages" are disabled in your site (go to Administration / Development / Debugging for checking that options)
If your site uses a SSL certificate it must be a trusted certificate. For security reasons the app doesn't work with self-signed certificates.
Moodle Mobile app say I need 2.4 or higher
The administrator of your Moodle site (which must be version 2.4 or later) must enable mobile access as follows:
First, in Site administration, Advanced features enable Web Services, then
In Site administration > Plugins > Web services > Mobile tick the 'Enable web services for mobile devices' checkbox, then click the button to save changes.
Some Moodle sites uses special authentication methods like Shibboleth, CAS or LDAP/SSO that currently are not supported. See https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MOBILE-113 for more information.
Also, remember that global site admins can't use the app, you must access as teacher or student.
How can I log out of the Mobile app current site?
You can add a new site in Settings -> Sites -> Add a new site and then delete your previous site using the X button near your old site name.
You can also reset completely the app using Settings -> Development -> Reset the application
I can't view the courses tab as an administrator
Moodle Mobile app is not suited for administrators ad the app displays only the courses you are enrolled in (not the courses you can see by capabilities).Note that the targeted user of the app is mainly a student or teacher.If you want to see the courses as an admin, you must be enrolled in the courses. You can use a non visible role or something similar.
- Moodle for mobile forum
- Tracker area Moodle for Mobiles
- Using Moodle Proposal for Supporting Mobile Themes and Browser Detection forum discussion
- An open course, about "Teaching using Mobile - Best practices"
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Source: The Portal to Texas History
Country: United States
City: Shackelford County - Fort Griffin
Issues of this title available in Elephind: 148
Items (articles and/or pages) from this title available in Elephind: 539
Earliest Date: 4 January 1879
Latest Date: 21 January 1882
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One thing I always find common among people who use a browser all day is the shear amount of tab hoarding they do. I find this totally insane for a number of reasons. The first being that it’s completely counter-productive. You may not realize it, but each tab you open becomes a weight on your mind. The more tabs you open, the more distracted your mind becomes. The more distracted your mind, the less productive you will be in general. In this post, we will go over a few reasons why we open multiple tabs and talk about ways to minimize the impact or get rid of those tabs entirely. You can only read one thing at a time, after all.
One area where we may find it hard to avoid multiple tabs is doing research. Doesn’t matter what kind of research it is, the end result is a gang of tabs or windows open with stuff related to your topic. You might rationalize this as the way research is done. If you were using actual books, you might have a bunch of them open to you, possibly scribbling notes from each or comparing their contents. This is a new day and you’re not using real books. These are just web pages and you can take them with you.
The solution here is to focus on each source and find the pieces that you need. Then, use something like Evernote to clip those pieces from the page and save them for later. Then, you close that tab and move to the next.
Keeping Up With Stuff
We all like to keep up with our social networking sites and forums. The problem arises when you have Facebook, FriendFeed, Twitter, Myspace, Buzz, and Email all in their own tabs in the same browser that you’re trying to do work in. It can get pretty ridiculous. We have to remember that you can only read one page at a time. You can only check one site at a time. There are a couple of solutions here:
- Application Shortcuts – Instead of keeping a tab open with Facebook or whatever running in it all day, just create an Application Shortcut. This makes Facebook a separate application from your browser that you can run at any time and close at any time. Chrome makes creating these shortcuts simple. You can also use Fluid or Prism.
- Pin Tabs – Another solution which reduces the clutter a little is to pin these tabs in your browser. This reduces their size to just an icon and tucks them off to the side. Chrome does this out of the box, but there are add-ons to accomplish the same with Firefox.
The one thing you should remember here is that you shouldn’t be checking all of these places all of the time. Try to set aside intervals where you take a break from your work and just dive into social media and email for a few minutes. This will increase your productivity by giving your mind a rest, making sure you keep your “inboxes” clean, and minimizing distractions.
Remembering Important Tasks
Sometimes, you come across a website that you need to take action on. There is something specific you need to do on this website, but you’re doing something more pressing at the moment. Instead of just leaving that tab open in your browser as a reminder, create an item on your task list and get it off your mind for now. If you’re not going to do it now, it shouldn’t be in your face. Most task managers allow you to add a task description, a URL, and whatever notes you might need for later. Remember The Milk even provides you a bookmarklet for just such an occasion.
Reading Things Later
You just came across something you want to read or a site you want to explore, but you just don’t have time at the moment. Don’t just leave the tab open and hope you get back to it later. You know you don’t have time to fully examine the link, but you need to make the time to properly bookmark it for later. Use the bookmarklets provided by sites like Diigo and Delicious to bookmark and tag the site before closing that tab. Leaving it open is counter-productive and the few seconds it will take to bookmark it are well worth the time investment. You could also try ReadItLater (FFx add-on) or Instapaper for this situation.
Your primary concern in dealing with tab hoarding should be the same as any other area of your life where you’re trying to be productive. You have to act on each thing immediately. If you can’t read it or handle it now, save it for later. The point is to get it out of your face and off your mind until you’re ready to take care of it. Otherwise, your general productivity takes a nose dive. | <urn:uuid:07cf8624-94a7-40e6-984d-bb191b5d1a05> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.blackweb20.com/2010/02/16/how-to-get-rid-of-too-many-browser-tabs/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281424.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00331-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94353 | 999 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Realtors must be aware of the issues related to selling, renting or leasing methamphetamine-contaminated property. The training sessions designed for realtors include:
Methampeatamine stimulates the central nervous system, constricts blood vessels, dilates the pupils and increases body temperature, heart rate and blood pressure. The user is put in a state of
constant fight or flight, making dealing with someone high on meth very dangerous. One hit of meth can keep the user high for 12 to 24 hours. Effects of the drug are increased self-esteem,
talkativeness, decreased appetite, dilated pupils, increased irritability, aggressive, violence, bizarre behavior, tremors and paranoia.
Meth can be a white powder or in crystalline form (ice). It can come in many colors depending on how it is being manufactured; it can also look like peanut butter. The majority of the meth in the US comes from Mexico, but there are many personal-use clandestine meth labs in operation.
Recognizing CLandestine Home-Meth labs
Clandestine methamphetamine labs are a problem that affect home buyers and realtors. These labs create toxic, deadly gases that permeate and contaminate homes. Studies conducted by National Jewish Hospital have also shown that smoking methamphetamine can contaminate a home. The contamination left behind from the manufacture and use of methamphetamine is a very real problem for everyone who deals with the rental or sale of residential or commercial property. Realtors, property managers, maintenance workers, cleaning personnel, utility and cable providers and anyone else that enters meth-contaminated homes are personally at risk. As a result many states have implemented cleanup guidelines or regulations for labs and are adopting disclosure laws for the sale or lease or property. | <urn:uuid:c9ff5bd5-67fd-4f90-90bb-6da9baa8efde> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.actondrugs.org/services/training-and-education/realtors/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280364.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00029-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931685 | 358 | 2.21875 | 2 |
The contradiction is lived with the great bearded fortune teller and reality. Formula that it leads to a fateful decision; translated into civil wars, murders, terrorist attacks, fanaticism, among other scourges that aguijonearon our continent. Finalizing this issue, same Che met his death delirado by your own company – theoretical and practical – to your photo and likeness. His portrait, receiver Beatus of content; a wine skin that we have filled with our own findings is Greek. As all caudillo, the mythological symbolism of his personality he owns in image. Front, beret and hair in the air, carrying 31 winters.
Miguel Angel had had the opportunity to replicate to Guevara in his sparkling marble from Carrara, I can say without hesitation, his sculptural product would be very similar to the picture of Alberto Diaz Korda. A striking similarity between the gaze of the Tomb Moses July II – and the physiognomy of Ernesto there is what scholars of art called the terribilita the blinding and predatory impact of a penetrating gaze. The geography of his face is sufficient argument to legitimise his greatness. Therefore, brandishing the chisel, each has built a Che, scraping in marbles of your consciousness, and in the majority of cases, do not have more than carved in his image and likeness. Che is an easily appropriable figure, the vast majority of young people becomes his numen, her ideas are simply promotive, timely aphorisms.
As I mentioned earlier, the creation of Che is not universal on the other hand, is a real Kaleidoscope.Located in the flowery land of humanism, Che is an example of unselfishness and sacrifice in pursuit of one’s neighbor. From the prisms Marxists, a theoretical and practical Latin American, which always recalled the 11 of Feuerbach theses and the need to transform the world. Breaded biological rebellion lenses extolled as a great doctor adalid, teens ritualizan their bedrooms with reviews and eloquent phrases that emphasize the necessity of attacking the system and always hold the impassable revolutionary character. | <urn:uuid:3a34b494-cfbb-4fdf-b14a-7fe8f6f65f3f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.netsearchamerica.com/2019/05/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00076.warc.gz | en | 0.962346 | 445 | 1.5 | 2 |
The scarcity of engineering colleges, medical colleges, management colleges or art and architecture colleges in the city have made aspiring graduates to ponder over different cities with an intention to get their hands on quality education. Gurgaon witnesses lakhs of migrants from different parts of the country and there are families who look for good education for their kids although the lack of higher education in Gurgaon is marking a negative point.
“Gurgan has always faced issue with the higher education. There are few engineering and architecture colleges which have been established in Gurgaon in the last decade but they are not sufficient enough to cater to aspiring graduates. The government has snubbed the higher education sector which ultimate results into students shifting their base to other cities. Gurgaon has developed as a corporate sector because private firms have invested hugely in the city and I feel same can be done in the field of higher education. There are several acres of land in New Gurgaon and Manesar where new colleges/ universities can be established. At present, the students of Gurgaon either opt for Delhi University or Rohtak University to pursue their higher education. University is something which is missing in Gurgaon and the concerned authorities should certainly take a step or two for the same”, said Councilor Reema Rani Singh from MCG's Ward No.34.
Gurgaon needs to pull its socks up at the earliest. If one looks at the schools, Gurgaon has become home of international and world schools and have succeeded in attracting parents. The same needs to be done with the higher education with a view to elevate the status of education sector in Gurgaon.
Surbhit Arora, who has done his schooling from Gurgaon, and now a Design Engineer feels, "The reason why students are not opting for pursuing higher education in Gurgaon is because firstly, the level of education is degrading day by day. Large number of private universities are coming up and because of this the cost of higher education has increased."
He added, "Secondly, the cost of living is also high in Gurgaon. The food facilities, transport and accommodation costs very much and its unaffordable for many families. Another reason is that there is a lack of multiple options for higher education. The quality of education and variety of options is very less. Lastly, there is a lot of regional disturbances and this affects the studies."
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I am talking about the 3g signals my good sir, not the data connection. Please be astute enough to learn the difference prior to commenting. Data connection refers to when you're connected to the internet, hence you can have a data connection with 2g signals, as well as 3g or 4g signals. But I was denoting to carrier video calling, sir, which only requires 3G SIGNALS, but the data connection. When using data connection you expend DATA as in MBs or KBs. Quite the contrary, when video calling through 3G SIGNALS, sir, you spend CREDITS of your phone, resembling when you're making a voice call.
I don't see how it is possible to me a 3g connection or signals and not be using data if you do not have a data connection you would not get 3g symbol so how do you figure you're not using a data connection symbol of the bars refers to your connection weather it is dada or your phone signal strength for calls so what do you mean your exclamation did not explain anything how can somebody help you with and explanation that didn't explain anything
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Even gazillion-time Oscar winner/nominee Meryl Streep has regrets.
Her biggest? "That my friendships suffered from lack of attention (compared to my mother’s deep and long-lived attachments) in favor of the time taken up by my family, my career and civic concerns," she tellsTime Out London.
Well, that's something to chew on. Because the A-list actress is not only talented -- she's smart and sensible, too. And now she's also opening up about some good advice she's gotten in the past -- and we're all ears.
When asked what advice she would you give to her 18-year-old self, she's all about body image: "Don’t waste so much time thinking about how much you weigh," she says. "There is no more mind-numbing, boring, idiotic, self-destructive diversion from the fun of living."
As for the best piece of advice she's been given, it comes from her husband, who she says tells her "Start by starting."
Streep, who stars as Emmeline Pankhurst in the new film Suffragette, says we shouldn't underestimate the power of being ladylike. "I would say it is underrated," she says. "Grace, respect, reserve and empathetic listening are qualities sorely missing from the public discourse now."
So is she a feminist or what?
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Objects like shelving units are often designed to adjust according to their contents, yet they generally hold the fixed dimensions of their sturdy frames. UP Interactive Storing is a unique piece of organizational furniture that changes its composition in a more significant way in order to accommodate a growing child.
Alexandra Ghioc's delightful child-friendly piece comprises a stiff backboard that's been made to resembled a magnified ruler. Mounted appropriately against the wall, the notches along its length accurately mark the distance from the floor in centimeters. This can be used to measure your youngster.
Three colorful cubbies with pointed sides can be gradually slid up the UP Interactive Storing System as the user gets taller. This way, the ledges might always be set to a convenient height, producing larger gaps between them for additional space as the kid acquires more possessions.
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The Three Facets of the Christian Walk
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As I begin this essay, I pray that I might be able to "rightly divide the word of truth", so that I need not be ashamed (2 Tim 2:15). This being my goal, I hope that you the reader might learn something from this essay. Remember though, to be as the Christians in Thessalonica, and examine all teachings based on their faithfulness to the scriptures (Acts 17:11).
As Christians, we are to go through life in a certain way. In Matthew 7:13-14, Jesus tells us that the proper path in life is narrow.
Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide [is] the gate, and broad [is] the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait [is] the gate, and narrow [is] the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
What then is this path? Well, as Christians, we know that the path to Eternal Life is through Jesus. Jesus tells us in John 14:6 that,
I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
So we know that, as Christians, we have already turned to face the right direction. As all Christians certainly know, though, the story does not end with the Sinner's Prayer. After that day of salvation, we must go to sleep, and then rise again the next morning, again having to face a fallen world. In order to be the "Salt of the World", as we are told we are in Matthew 5:13, we must know how to walk. Certainly one that follows all of the dictates of the scriptures is doing right (all of the dictates, NOT just the rules of action). It is my belief that the Christian walk can be broken down into three inter-related Facets.
The first of these facets is Worship. The word "worship" appears in the King James Version of the Bible 108 times. Under the classification of worship, one could include such things as praise, prayer, and thanksgiving. Worship, though, is more than these things. One can worship in all things, because to worship is to give glory to God (1 Peter 4:11). One can give glory to God by having a heart attitude of thanksgiving and praise when walking through a grocery store, through the woods, or down a street.
Worship should not be an event, but a habit. Certainly it seems easier, at first, to worship in a church sanctuary, when singing hymns, or at a youth camp, when everyone around you is worshipping. These times are special, because the coming together of believers is special (Matthew 18:20). We must, though, worship at all times, and in all things. No particular action can be considered worship by itself. The action, regardless of its merit, is incomplete unless the heart of the actor is focused on worship.
The second facet is Obedience. By obedience, I mean obedience in actions. This type of obedience is, of course, not evidence by itself of a Christian's faithfulness, but it is important. As we are told in James 2:20, "Faith without works is dead." Having made a decision to follow Christ in word, we must obey his teachings in deed as well. We must strive to be examples to a lost world. Let us be holy, so that, as vines in the Master's vineyard, we might bring forth good fruits that will set us apart from the thistles of worldliness (Matthew 7:16-20).
The third facet is the study of God's Word. In 2 Timothy 2:15 we are told to "Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth." The scriptures are a mighty weapon against evil, called the "Sword of the Spirit" in Ephesians 6:17. The might of God's Word is described in Hebrews 4:12, where we are told that,
For the word of God [is] quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and [is] a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
We have been given the scriptures so as to discern what is right and what is evil, and to judge teachings. Let us not dismiss this gift! Too often we see the believer who is only interested in the so-called "Plan of Salvation", and fails to see the value of learning more of the scriptures. Christians, remember what we are told in 2 Timothy 3:16:
All scripture [is] given by inspiration of God, and [is] profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.
It is by the scriptures that would should live, learn, teach, and interpret all that is around us. Without viewing our world through the looking glass of the scriptures, we will fall into the sad state described in 2 Timothy 3:7 - "Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth."
As you go about your Christian walk, remember that partial obedience is disobedience. We must strive to be complete Christians, "that the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works"(2 Timothy 3:17). It is easy for a Christian to only focus on one facet of the Christian walk. The Christian might praise God in all things, but not ever do anything. The Christian might obey in his actions, but rebel in his heart. The Christian might study the Word of God, but not act upon it. All of the components are essential, but none can stand alone. These three pillars support one another. The Christian must Worship the Lord, obeying his commands which are understood through the prayerful study of scripture. To neglect one of these is neglect them all. | <urn:uuid:cd0e7d15-df0f-480e-ae99-bb61ea2409a4> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.123helpme.com/view.asp?id=24193 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280763.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00514-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95912 | 1,315 | 1.695313 | 2 |
World trade may be growing more slowly since the financial crisis, yet demand for trade finance is accelerating.
Heightened risk in global markets has fueled the appetite for traditional trade finance instruments to cover potential defaults. The best trade banks remain profitable and the biggest among them are building market share by investing in electronic platforms.
Annual global trade growth has averaged about 3% in recent years, compared with 6% in 1983‒2007, according to the Paris-based International Chamber of Commerce (ICC). Nevertheless, the ICC’s 2015 global survey of trade finance, released last September, found a clear rise in demand for trade finance instruments. Of the 482 banks in 112 countries that responded to the survey, more than 63% reported an increase in trade finance activity over the previous 12 months.
“Increasing demand for trade-risk coverage products means increased business for trade finance banks. The underlying message is that there is an increased perception of commercial, bank and country risks in global trade markets,” the ICC said. Small and medium-size enterprises are having a difficult time getting funding from trade banks, it said. Of all trade finance proposals that were rejected, 53% were submitted by SMEs, the ICC found, while 79% of large corporations had proposals approved.
Nearly half the banks surveyed terminated correspondent banking relationships because of the cost or complexity of complying with new regulations.
Vincent O’Brien, chair of the ICC Banking Commission’s market intelligence department, said the results of the survey show that “not all is gloom and doom, despite the fact that the trade finance industry is certainly facing challenges and the trade finance gap is a clear issue.” Banks, he said, “have increased their capacity to provide trade finance, and we have an array of alternative lenders—such as specialist financiers, export credit agencies and multilateral development banks—stepping up to fill the trade finance gap.”
Growth in US demand for trade finance is benefiting the big banks, according to Greenwich Associates. “As trade finance becomes increasingly electronic, business is naturally going to gravitate to the biggest providers, who have made significant investments in their technologies,” wrote Andrew Grant, a consultant at the firm, in a recent report.
North America initiates 56% of its trade finance business electronically, compared with 48% for Western Europe and 28% in Asia, according to Greenwich Associates. The firm said Western Europe is moving closer to the North American model, allocating ever bigger shares of wallet to their lead banks.
In Asia, big corporates are turning to comparatively new market entrants, including local and regional banks, and the gap between the leading global banks and the rest of the market is narrowing. Many of these new entrants, Greenwich says, offer extremely competitive pricing, hoping to cross-sell other financial products to their large Asian trade customers.
Global Finance editors, with input from industry analysts, corporate executives and technology experts, selected the best trade finance banks in 84 countries and nine regions. In addition to awards for Best Bank for Trade Finance and Best Trade Finance Program, we added a number of new global awards this year: Best Bank for Commodity Finance; Best Trade Document Management; Best Trade Credit Insurance Provider; Best Bank for Export Finance; Best Bank for Structured Trade Finance; Best Bank for Trade Finance in Emerging Markets; Best Bank for Trade Finance in Frontier Markets; and Best Preshipment Financing Solution.
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Attention-seeking headlines: effective marketing tool, or annoying copywriting gimmick?
Browsing through Huffington Post a while back, something in a sidebar caught my eye: “The Truth About Where Cinnamon Comes From.” Huh. Were the origins of this beloved spice cloaked in a mystery about to be blown wide open by HuffPo? Intrigued, I clicked.
The shocking answer: cinnamon comes from a tree.
Okay. No harm, no foul, I guess. The article didn’t lie—it answered the question its headline posed. But still, I had to wonder: What’s the life expectancy of the clickbait-headline trend? Are we living in its final days, or has it just begun?
Here’s what I mean. Sites like Upworthy and ViralNova (founded in 2012 and 2013, respectively), which round up share-worthy videos and stories from around the web, regularly crown their posts with headlines like the following:
“This Guy Started With Nothing. What He Had Just 6 Weeks Later Made Me Ridiculously Jealous.”
“Facts About A Totally Unsexy Issue That Ought To Raise Some Eyebrows”
“The Cruel Owner Left This Dog In The Street To Die. I Still Can’t Believe What Happened After That.”
“The Side Effect Of Birth Control No One Talks About”
Each headline sets our curiosity humming, fairly begging us to click. And click we do: Upworthy averages approximately 75,000 Facebook likes per article—12 times more than even its nearest competitor, BuzzFeed. And ViralNova’s global ranking shot to #405 (#285 in the US) a few months shy of its first birthday.
(The “answers” to the headlines above, in order: A domed vacation home in Thailand; marginal income-tax rates; the dog recuperated and took top prize at an alternative dog show; it’s good for the economy.)
In the online world, where everybody wants to get a piece of the clicking (and sharing) action, these teaser-type headlines have proliferated wildly—Upworthy and ViralNova simply occupy the most extreme end of the spectrum. On Business Insider: “11 Outrageously Sexist Ads That Today’s Major Brands Wish You’d Forget.” On HBR: “The Worst Question a Salesperson Can Ask.” In a similar vein, on Vice: “Why Are So Many Social Media Managers Dipshits?” The mind spins. I want to read them all.
Content-marketing site Copyblogger, renowned for showing its readers how to use words to reach audiences, devotes a good chunk of its posts to writing headlines—“ the most important element for getting a blog post read,” according to Jerod Morris. If posts like “How to Write a Magnetic Headline (in Under 15 Minutes)” don’t help you, skip over to “10 Sure-Fire Headline Formulas That Work.” You’ll get a crib sheet of templates like “Who Else Wants [blank]?” and “Here Is a Method That Is Helping [blank] to [blank].”
And say you’ve got two variations of one headline: “Pay Attention, Harvard: What This Kid Does With A Packet Of Sugar Will Blow Your Mind” and “Pay Attention, Princeton: What This Kid Does With A Packet Of Sugar Will Blow Your Mind.” Run both for five minutes, see which one gets the most clicks, then switch permanently to that. Sites like Huffington Post are said to employ this kind of A/B testing regularly.
Of course, writing words designed to catch attention—and, ultimately, bring in cash—is hardly new. (How to Win Friends and Influence People was published in 1936. Great title.) It’s called copywriting, and I’m a proud practitioner. But these days, when the effectiveness of your headline can be measured down to the last click, has the art been stripped away? Has headline writing been boiled down to a pure science? And are the irresistible headlines on Upworthy and its ilk the purest expression of that science?
I’m not so sure. While there may be some eternal principles at play when it comes to writing headlines, we humans are a quickly dissatisfied lot, and evidence is mounting that our patience with clickbait headlines is beginning to wear. The problem, of course, is when a gulf opens up between what headlines promise and what they deliver—like a vision of a tropical paradise that vanishes like a mirage once you read past the first paragraph. When the headline proves to be misleading. And when we get inundated with too much of the same thing.
The eye rolls that these headlines inspire seem to be morphing into a full-on backlash, at least if the cynics have anything to say about it. Coder Alison Gianotto created a plug-in called Downworthy, which switches out common clickbait words for more, um, tempered alternatives. So instead of seeing this in your browser: “Nothing Could Prepare Me For What’s Revealed When This Glacier Lake Melts. OMG,” you see this: “Does Anyone Fucking Care About What’s Revealed When This Glacier Lake Melts. No One Cares. At All.”
On a practical level, Facebook announced an update late in 2014, promising to crack down on clickbait (no word yet on its effectiveness).
The masters of satire at The Onion have also found clickbait too tantalizing to resist. Their new site, ClickHole, lampoons the trend with ludicrous personality quizzes (“Looking For A Second Opinion On Which ‘Sex And The City’ Character You Are?”), videos (“Inspiring! People Describe The First Time They Drank Gatorade”) and photo essays (“12 Balloons That Are Eerily Human”). My personal favourite ClickHole entry: “The Time I Spent On A Commercial Whaling Ship Totally Changed My Perspective On The World.” The article that follows is the full text of Moby Dick.
Even one of clickbait’s founding fathers, ViralNova creator Scott DeLong, had a temporary Frankenstein moment on Twitter, when he regretted the monster he had made. He wrote—and later deleted—this tweet: “I regret my part in facilitating the viral movement. The headlines are officially out of control. Time for me to move on.”
All this to say: we humans are changeable beasts. What works today may not work in the same way two months from now. The tide may already have turned against the clickbaitiest of the clickbait headlines— blessed news to the most easily irritated among us.
As Gianotto told inc.com, “I feel like we have to see a turning point. It’s like an arms race. One country arms itself and the other arms itself a little better. As every article headline becomes this bombastic thing, we will grow blind to them.”
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History, Mission, and Vision
In 1927 religious leaders met in Cleveland in response to organized campaigns of hatred spreading across America. They formed The National Conference of Christians and Jews (NCCJ) to mobilize citizens against the forces of violence and exclusion.
In September 2006, NCCJ of Cleveland became The Diversity Center of Northeast Ohio and joined the National Federation for Just Communities (NFJC). Our mission – “to eliminate bias bigotry and racism” remains the same, as do our programs, operations and governance structure. Today, through our School & Youth Programming, SHIFT Consulting, and LeadDIVERSITY we strive to reach toward our vision of creating communities where all people are connected, respected, and valued.
The Diversity Center promotes understanding and respect and institutional equality on matters of race, age, religion, sex, ethnicity, culture, ability, gender identity, sexual orientation, and socioeconomic status. We achieve this through youth programming and by promoting diversity and addressing institutional bias in the workplace.
School & Youth Programming
School & Youth Programming provides year round diversity centered workshops, camps, conferences, and retreats. These programs empower thousands of youth and youth serving professionals to build school environments that promote respect, acceptance, and inclusion. Students who participate in our programs learn how to become leaders and positive change agents in their schools and communities. For more information about School & Youth Services Click Here.
LeadDIVERSITY, is a program in which a select group of professionals engage with regional leaders and the greater community to raise the participants' awareness of diversity issues, build their leadership skills, and enhance their networks. Each session is designed to help participants explore the concept of diversity leadership and to analyze its personal, workplace, and community impact. For more information about LeadDIVERSITY Click Here.
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The Diversity Center is dedicated to eliminating bias, bigotry, and racism.
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Rural areas, like cities, provide a diverse range of economic opportunities. The majority of rural India contributes to the agricultural industry, which helps the country’s economy thrive. Firm owners in villages do not have to worry about tight rules, lengthy paperwork, high-end infrastructure, modern equipment, and so on when starting a business.
Villagers work in retail, livestock, commerce, and manufacturing, as well as contributing to the agricultural industry. Village entrepreneurs, whether little or large, have plenty of opportunities to start, grow, extend, and thrive their enterprises. We’ll go through some of the most popular small business ideas in rural areas in this section.
It does not need a lot of money or land to start a chicken farm. The sole job is to raise little chickens for a few weeks, following which they may be sold at the market or to wholesalers. Chicken farms need a significant upfront investment, but the return is not instant. AS a result, launching this business on a contract basis is highly recommended. Poultry farms provide income from both meat and eggs at the same time.
Because most villages are isolated from larger towns and cities, a clothing store that supplies people with the most up-to-date clothes apparel and high-quality fabric will be a success. Business owners will need to find garment suppliers that can bring a variety of clothing on a commission basis. Because villages do not have the means to go to cities on a regular basis, they must purchase clothing from the shop itself.
Door-To-Door supply of drinking water
Clean drinking water should be available to everyone, whether they live in cities or the countryside. Because of a lack of infrastructure and water treatment facilities, villages are barren from this. Freshwater from tube wells or hand pumps can be stored in huge cans and then delivered to villages’ doorsteps in trucks. This convenience will be paid per jar, and it might be a profitable business venture.
The shortage of well-trained instructors in rural regions is a major issue and opening a tutoring center with skilled teachers on staff might be a solid business concept. It will not only create work for competent local youngsters, but it will also assist individuals in locating a reputable teaching institute for children closer to their homes. The business requires little funding and space, and it is an excellent business option to investigate if you have the appropriate qualifications and expertise to manage a center. The tutoring business might begin with a small staff but will expand with time.
The market for organic fruits and vegetables is quickly expanding and living near villages and small towns provides a viable economic opportunity to begin growing and distributing the goods. However, starting a company is difficult and necessitates land or a contract with farmers to raise the food. Furthermore, these are perishable foods that must be kept refrigerated. For lower transportation and logistics costs, it’s best to start the firm close to vendors. | <urn:uuid:6674c401-6d5b-4b60-9cd1-9d733941307b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://empireweekly.com/successful-business-ideas-to-start-from-indian-villages-smaller-towns-2022/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00276.warc.gz | en | 0.942792 | 613 | 2.53125 | 3 |
From John Nelson
KABUL: The Tehrik-e-Taliban Afghanistan spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said Afghanistan want to join the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and Pakistan’s concerns will be allayed.
This was stated by Mujahid at a press conference on Monday shortly after the group announced it had captured Panjshir Valley, the bastion of the anti-Taliban forces. Mujahid said Afghanistan was keen on becoming part of the CPEC to partake in economic activities with the global community.
The spokesperson said that the new government in the war-torn country would address concern of Pakistan. “Pakistan’s concerns as a neighbour are valid,” Mujahid added. “Afghanistan’s land will not be used against any country, including Pakistan,” he continued.
The spokesman also vowed to complete the four-nation CASA power project between Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Pakistan. Mujahid said that the Afghan troops would be asked to resume their duties.
“The Islamic Emirate is very sensitive about insurgencies. Anyone who tries to start an insurgency will be hit hard. We will not allow another insurgency in the country,” Mujahid announced.
“Anyone who picks up arms and start resistance, without any doubts, will be our enemy. “The war has ended; the country is getting out of the crisis. It is now time for peace and reconstruction. We need the people to support us.”
Three weeks after seizing power but with no government so far announced, the spokesman said an “interim” system would first be announced to allow changes. Following Mujahid’s press conference, Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid on Monday hailed the Taliban’s desire to have Afghanistan incorporated in the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) as “encouraging”, saying “it is good” if the Taliban’s views about China were similar to that of Pakistan. | <urn:uuid:5ed93191-6482-4956-b845-f3efc73a6ddf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dailymailnews.pk/afghanistan-wants-to-join-cpec-taliban-spokesman/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.955083 | 428 | 1.625 | 2 |
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This little volume is another of the handbooks of medical history published under the general title of Clio Medica. The author has published many of the chapters as individual essays in the British Medical Journal. He emphasizes in the preface his friendship with John Dos Passos, which inclines the informed reader very early to the expectancy of finding an approval in this book of socialized medicine. That expectancy is confirmed in the final chapter of this history, which is entitled "Soviet Medicine." In this chapter the author indicates, however, that the social insurance scheme has not been wholly of benefit. Thus he says "In thus replacing the private by a governmental doctor and providing free treatment for the employees, the state, in spite of remarkable progress, has attempted a larger task than it has been able at present to solve adequately. Doctors and medical personnel are tired, overworked and often
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New research from the University of British Columbia has shown concussion-caused brain damage that had previously been invisible.
These new images suggest myelin, a crucial part of the nervous systems, is damaged in concussed athletes, and that damage can last longer than the clinical symptoms suggest.
Myelin acts as a sort of "insulator" around nerve fibres in the brain, says researcher Alex Rauscher, and when it is damaged, it slows down transmission of nerve signals and leads to impaired brain functioning.
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Rauscher's study followed players from a male hockey team and a female team, and performed MRI scans on the 11 players who suffered concussions.
"When the concussed people came in, we scanned them at three days, two weeks and two months so we could follow the trajectory of change in the brain using a myelin-specific scan," Rauscher told On The Coast host Stephen Quinn.
"By averaging over those 11 people who had a concussion, we were able to see that at two weeks there was still change to the myelin sheath … it had then recovered two months after the concussion."
Rauscher also performed standard concussion tests on the players, and despite the observed damage to the myelin, the players performed well on those tests and showed no extraordinary symptoms.
"There is the risk of overlapping injuries, and that's why people should be avoiding risky activities after a concussion," Rauscher said.
Rauscher says his work is only a single study, but could point to a recommendation for athletes to take more time off after a concussion.
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Melting experiments of a chondritic meteorite between 16 and 25 GPa: Implication for Na/K fractionation in a primitive chondritic Earth's mantle
Melting experiments at high-pressure and temperature were conducted at pressures from 16 to 25 GPa using chondritic starting material but with slightly enhanced Na- and K-contents while keeping the chondritic Na/K ratio constant. The experiments revealed that majorite garnet contains enhanced concentrations of Na (3.75-4.71 wt.% Na2O) and moderately enhanced concentrations of K (0.3-0.46 wt.% K2O) from 16 to 20 GPa and it is therefore the Na- and K-bearing phase at this pressure range. The Na2O/K2O ratio (8-15) in garnet is close to the initial chondritic ratio (7) of the starting material, which might indicate that at these pressures only little Na/K fractionation takes place. At pressures above 21 GPa, the high-pressure phases enriched in Na include majorite garnet (3.08-6.22 wt.% Na2O), magnesiowustite (1.83-3.3 wt.% Na2O), and (Mg,Fe)SiO3-perovskite (0.43-1.25 wt.% Na2O). These phases contain only small amounts of K (<0.1 wt.% K2O). The Na2O content of magnesiowustite progressively increases with increase of pressure, whereas Na2O contents of garnet and perovskite are negatively correlated with pressures between 23 and 25 GPa. Na/K fractionation takes place among the high-pressure phases (Na2O/K2O ratio: 56-102 in garnet, 5-20 in perovskite, and 43-94 in magnesiowustite), and between the high-pressure phases and the residual silicate melt above 21 GPa, and most of the K is partitioned into the residual melt. The hollandite-structured, high-pressure KAlSi(3)O(8)polymorph crystallizes from the liquid at 23 GPa. These results demonstrate that Na/K fractionation at P > 21 GPa should have taken place in the early accretional period in the primitive chondritic mantle of the Earth.
Keywords: melting experiment ; high pressure ; chondritic meteorite ; alkali element ; fractionation ; High-Pressure ; Allende Meteorite ; Peridotite Klb-1 ; Tenham Chondrite ; Phase ; Temperature ; Constraints ; Maskelynite ; Subsolidus ; Transition
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Limitations of XMI
Whilst XMI is a valuable means of defining a UML model in a common format, it is relatively limited in the amount of additional information it can tolerate using the standard syntax.
Notes on Enterprise Architect
A lot of information from an Enterprise Architect model must be converted to Tagged Values, which import into other modeling systems as additional information or are ignored completely. Enterprise Architect can both generate and read:
- XMI 1.0 and 1.1 using UML 1.3 format
- XMI 1.2 using UML 1.4 format, and
- XMI 2.1 using UML 2.x format
Round-tripping model elements using XMI in Enterprise Architect is possible using XMI 1.1 or XMI 2.1; XMI 1.1 uses the additional Tagged Values to store the UML 2.x information - this ensures model completeness when round-tripping UML 2.x model elements using XMI 1.1.
Enterprise Architect exclusively uses XMI 1.1 for round-tripping models using Version Control.
Notes for Exporting to Rose and Other Tools
There are discrepancies in the Unisys/Rose implementation with regard to spelling mistakes and slightly different syntax to the official XMI 1.1 specification, so problems might occur. The way Packages are arranged in different models can impact successful import into other systems; experimentation is the only work around for this problem.
Some parts of the XMI import/export process do not work as expected in products like Rational Rose; for example, Note Links are not supported, and State Operations import but do not appear in diagrams. Rational Rose only supports import of a full project, not a single Package.
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Smith (2010) pointed out that the software market value of Saudi Arabia would turn at US$ 641 million at the end of 2010, which was US $ 590 million in 2009. This has evidenced the software sector has a straight-line growth of 10% among the anticipated period but most of the players of the software sector have witnessed serious decrease in business-related software sales in 2009. The software manufacturing and trading organisations are struggling to get competence on shifting from labour-intensive manual environments to the completely automating back-office systems and the oil and gas sector is the prevalent software purchaser. The subsequent software purchaser is the government and telecom sector but the non-oil sector has a poor integration for industry-specific applications. This paper would investigate the low software quality of the non-oil sector of Saudi Arabia where Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) is focal point of the study and it would look for further recommendations as well as learning outcomes.
The selected company is SABIC which stands for “Saudi Arabian Basic Business Industries Corporation.” It is a multinational company, which is mainly a petrochemicals and steel manufacturer and has its headquarters in Riyadh. SABIC is growing faster and is experiencing higher performance for last few years. The basic materials for structuring the modern world are manufactured by SABIC such as fertilizers, steel equipments, medical equipments, computers, trucks, cars, buildings and many materials. It has experienced consistent profit worldwide, which triggers different ambitions for it in international business. It has almost 33000 employees all over the world while it has its business operations in almost 100 countries in six continents. As a proof of its performance, it has shown sales of SR 151 billion in 2008 along with net profit of 22 billion. 70% share of this company is enjoyed by the government and the rest is belonging to many shareholders (SABIC, 2010).
The vision of SABIC is to become the most preferable provider and world leader in chemical producing thus most of the people of the world become dependent upon SABIC for chemicals. It wants to provide the assurance for best quality of products and services, which it earns through innovation, learning, and excellence in operation. Along with this, it is assuring sustainable development and maximising the value for all of its stakeholders.
It has differentiation in its products offered to the clients, which started from chemicals to fertilisers, metals, and plastics. The main chemicals produced by SABIC are olefins, oxygenates, chemical intermediates, fibber intermediaries, industrial gases and linear alpha olefins. Under the product line of fertilisers, it has Urea, ammonia and phosphate and sulphuric acid. It has also some steel and metal products like flat steel and long steel. PVC, polyester, melamine, polystyrene, polyolefin, polyethylene, polypropylene are the basic plastic products of SABIC. SABIC has the target to maintain a world standard for these products which will ensure the quality of the products and will bring customer satisfaction (SABIC, 2010).
NZTE (2006) reported that though the oil industries are the most dominant sector, the government Saudi Arabia and its development partners are vigorously supporting to flourish its non-oil industries with the intention to achieving elevated levels of national self-reliance overall in essential products and services while the country has also initiated a scheme of privatisation of state owned entities. As an influential member Gulf Cooperation Council1 Saudi Arabia maintains its non-oil sector enhancement and privatisation programme with the standard and regulation of GCC (Al Mal Capital 2008).
Riyad Capital (2010) forecasted that the Information Technology market of Saudi Arabia has demonstrated a revenue generation of US $ 3.4 billion in 2008 and expected to gain US$ 5.6 billion within 2013. The Saudi IT sector aggregately with software and hardware has evidenced a Compound Annual Growth Rate2 of 11% with a per-capita IT expenditure expected to arrive at US$ 170 but the software market has not grown in relation to the others of the IT sector.
The problem faced by SABIC is to use the appropriate technologies available worldwide like computer technology, software, and internet to shape the offerings of the company along with designing the products and services more technology oriented and to innovate new technologies in the petrochemical sector (Parsons, 2008). The core problem is to identify which software SABIC should use as it has low quality software globally.
IDC (2008) forecasted that the contribution of IT sector to the economy KSA3 could be much higher if the software piracy rate can be reduce at least 10% of the present position that can contribute an additional job creation of 1,056 unites that add US$ 398 million of revenue and US$ 5 million goes to governments as tax.
The global operation of SABIC has increased the importance of using updated and quality software in all the steps of its operation. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is going through a period of industrialisation and technological advancement (Yasin & Zimmerer, 1995). So, SABIC should be engaged with this. As a multinational company, SABIC also needs sophisticated software in its global operation as almost all of the courtiers are accepting the new technologies for development. There are many countries, which are using highly sophisticated software in manufacturing. As SABIC has the target to become the global market leader, it has engaged to utilise different types of software.
SABIC has operations in six continents and in North America; it has operations in USA, Mexico and Puerto Rico. In Europe, it has operation in almost all countries. In Middle East, it has operation in Iran, Egypt, UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia. In Africa, it has its operation in South Africa only. In its Asia operation, it has operations in India, China, South Korea, Japan, Bangladesh, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Sri Lanka. It has operations in Australia and the Philippines. Beside these, it has some operation in many other countries. If these countries would assess technological or IT advancement, all of these countries have found developed or developing in sense of software use (Yavas, & Yasin, 1993). Therefore, it is necessary for the company to use some software, which will accelerate the operation and will give the competitive equality while the competitors of SABIC are using many software.
Software used by SABIC
No doubt, that SABIC is using some software in its operation but these are not in large scale or massive use. SABIC has developed some software for itself, which has not been updated or eligible to run with the demand of the era. For example, it is using some latest software in enterprise resource planning and development of planning environment, which is assisting mainly some analytical tools. It has developed a web site and using e-mail facilities. Through this, customers can access the website of the company to give orders and track them along with contact with the company but this website ahs also developed is some low quality software (SABIC 2008).
Using of e-commerce does not mean that it has developed its technology rather just giving the global customers the access to its operations (Pons, Aljifri & Fourati, 2003). The use of ecommerce in case of SABIC is limited in tracking product in transit, logistics operation, and shipment tracking. Beside, it has its own software named AMAN, which is accessory type software, which facilitate the integrated e-workflow and help the management to manage the flow of work. Only the senior managers, line managers, and safety professionals are using the software. These employees are using the software only for monitoring the performance of the human resource, identifying slack and reorganise it.
Importance of using software
The importance of using new and sophisticated software is critical for SABIC. As, it is considering some sophisticated materials and want to ensure the best quality products and services, it will have to ensure the use of high quality software in almost all sphere of its operations.
Chemicals, fertilisers, Plastics and metals all these product category has targeted both business and individual level customers. Chemicals are the basic building blocks for customer relationship of SABIC (SABIC, 2010). From clothing to furniture, detergents to foods all need different types of chemicals, which are provided by SABIC. Chemical is accounted for almost around 40% of the total production of SABIC. Olefin, a major chemical of SABIC is used as versatile substances and heavily associated with plastic. In such case, the purification is important which can be assured by use of software. Besides, other chemicals like aromatic and Oxygenates also need sophisticated software to assure the quality. Aromatic chemicals are used in producing everyday products and services. If software can be used in producing these items or quality checking, it will increase the accuracy of production.
SABIC is producing some intermediaries, which are basically chemicals, used in other operations to produce other products. SABIC is producing these chemical for mainly two reasons. Using these for its own operation and secondly to sell these chemical to others. These intermediaries are fibre, industrial gases, chemical intermediaries, and alpha olefins. To mix different chemical substances much software is used worldwide and SABIC can use them for quality and safety.
In case of fertiliser production, SABIC is concerning the security and safety. Most of the people of the world are looking for foods and people of third world have less chance to check the quality of the food, as they have got almost no food at all. SABIC has gathered different fertiliser and chemical specialists to innovate different safe fertiliser, which has no toxic effect over the food. However, in this case the proper arrangements of chemicals in fertilisers are key issues, which can be maintained by software. Urea, Ammonia, Phosphates, sulphuric acids have different level of chemicals, which are critical as more or less, use can make the plants toxic or harmful. If this has done to a manual manner, there arise some possibilities of mistakes. However, if software is used, the probability of mistakes will reduce (SABIC, 2010).
The entire production of such fertilisers should be kept under the control of sophisticated software. As, the chemicals used in fertilisers have a negative impact on the environment, used of software for accurate level of chemicals will introduce SABIC as an environment friendly firm. Besides, the consumers of the fertilisers will use the fertiliser for the benefit of less harm to the lad, which will produce the brand loyalty in final stage.
There are different software, which is used massively in the field of research and development. Software like Microsoft office excel, Ammos, Management scientists etc are accelerated the research process and smoothen the collection of designated results inn very short time period (Caspi, Mazuet & Paligot, 2001). Like almost all other companies in the world, SABIC has also the need to do research and development. It needs research in case of collecting information about what the customers want, changes in customer mind, assessing new customers, getting information about new customers and target markets, assessing the product types of competitors and collecting information about the changes in industry and many more (Anderson, Sweeny & Williams, 2003).
SABIC is attempting to some ambitious research programs such as accumulate the products, design new products, and collect proper raw materials timely. In case of cost management and pricing of the products along with some audit-works are also experiencing such research activities. In case of patents and licensing, serving the customers, protecting the environment and many other activities are requiring more research works (SABIC, 2008).
To being stable in a competitive environment, SABIC has to adopt creativity and technical innovation, which are vital assets of the organisation. Its business strategies and profit generation capabilities could be affected, if it would fail to develop new technologies according to new products and process in the business continuity. So, technological advancement is needed in both business operations and for different business units, like Research & Technology (R&T) division, which plays a major role in this organisation. It is also seen that, SABIC has a strong commitment to develop itself as international standards and practices in case of radioactive emissions. Therefore, it wants to focus on safety of people first, than to establish successful procedures.
By gone through technology of SABIC, it is seen that, technological development must be needed to become market leader as safety producers and technological advancement in the market. Therefore, if all procedures would be maintained by software, it would be easier to control the procedures of R&T.
Supply Chain Management
With the increased level of competitive global markets, customers’ choices on supply chains make it more complex on the basis of product quality, supply assurance, and different service level (Jasimuddin, 2001). For this reason, SABIC has controlled and delivered supply chain mechanisms according to customers’ value. Like all other products’ supply chain management, this organisation has also maintained supply chain from raw materials to distribution networks, which is called as EMDAD project. This project is followed a way of customers successfully to meet up the need of current and future potential customers (SABIC, 2010).
To maintain fundamental transformation of SABIC’s operations, it should develop software and technological support. The six pillars of fundamental transformation have to be maintained by software support, by which, it can control successful supply chain practices in a more proper and easier way. Therefore, improvement of EMDAD can be possible with the help of different software updates.
Human Resources Management
SABIC has strong workforces, which is source of pride of the company and also to Saudi Arabia. There are 33,000 employees working in this organisation as corporate family, and it will double the employment size within two years. The growth of human resources and geographic reach, both are an opportunity and challenge for this organisation. This is the beginning of the new era of organisation, with learning, growth, integration, and interaction of different cultures in one truly global corporate organisation. For this reason, the organisation has established different learning programmes, which are assigned to work or study around the world for staff. This programme is most helpful to utilise the human capital of SABIC effectively. These programmes are included orientation, culture and language training, securities and other unfamiliar surroundings, which could be faced in different countries by the staffs as international assignments (SABIC, 2008).
To meet up the goal of SABIC within 2020, which is to support its human resources with learning organisations for giving up full support and knowledge on ability to match up in different environments and innovate. So, if these programmes will be formed as software programmes, where all forms of learning have been shown, which would encourages, organises, and sponsors all support for human resources of SABIC.
Corporate Social Responsibilities
Growth in profitable way is aim of SABIC’s business and operations, but this aim is achieved through investment in people and the global community of interests, like families, neighbours, customers, areas, and all over global and stakeholders of the organisation. These are helpful to shape the future of every organisation by reputation and environmental performances that they served to the people (Bontis, 2004). These are called CSR (Corporate Social Responsibilities), which operates in supporting and improving communities with fully aware of obligations. Not only in Saudi Arabia, but also in US, Europe and Asian countries are supported by SABIC in regeneration and renovation. The organisation also encourages employees and people to improve the communities of working and living life. Successful corporate social responsibilities are major corporate values of organisation as integral part of its business operations. The organisation has set core values in business cultures its working environment. For that, it is maintaining different values like honesty, ethnicity, fairness, and truthfulness in all business actions, which is helpful to build relationships of trust in the corporate family.
For maintaining every level of business actions with evidence, SABIC must maintain a developed software system for its organisation. It can also set up different software programmes as CSR to support the communities and other stakeholders. Organisational clearance with proper maintenance programme is another software system to show CSR of the organisation (SABIC, 2010).
Safety, Health and Environment
SABIC has produced different products, which are touched millions of people’s lives all over the world. The business success of this organisation is mainly based on customers and employees handling around the world. Therefore, safety, health and environment (SHE) are major initiatives in the success of its business. This organisation is very serious about environmental responsibilities, which is impacted by production and distribution of business operations. Therefore, it is maintained and controlled by new and technologically advanced and safer applications of machines and equipments in the organisation. For this reason, SHE is achieved as excellence, which is a part of good business practices in maintaining profitable and successful business like SABIC (SABIC, 2010).
For proper maintenance and control on safety, health and environment of people, community, area and around the world, the organisation must be planned for some certain and specific system. Software maintenance is easier and cheaper way to control the organisation, so it should develop software system for safety, health and environment.
The overall performance of SABIC in sense of a multinational organisation is positive. It has experienced a net income of about 22 billion riyal last year along with sales revenue of 151 billion Riyals. It has about 272 billion riyal total assets at hand after the end of the year 2008 but it has affected by the economic recession in late 2008 having some volatility in its financials. However, it is struggling for overcome the situation. If the performance of two years 2008 and 2007 are compared this scenario will become transparent. The total assets of SABIC have increased from 2.5 billion to 2.7 billion but the current assets have decreased in this time period from 0.98 billion to 0.95 billion. Besides, the total liabilities have also increased from 11.9 billion to 12.5 billion. These entire scenarios said that the financial liquidity of SABIC has been deteriorating and also alarming in the sense that increasing in liability means creating more vulnerability (SABIC, 2007).
From the income statement, the alarming financial condition has become clearer. The net income for the year was 0.27 billion riyal for the year 2007 which decreased up to 0.22 in 2008. The earning per share also decreased from 13.99 to 12.57 in between these two years. For this, not only the economic rescission of recent years is liable but also the use of lower quality software and almost no use of technology in many sectors are liable. For example, in its Asia pacific operation, SABIC is going for new innovations, which also need some software incorporation. In case of expanding the market, SABIC must do some research work as different countries have different cultures and different cultures differentiate the norms, values and beliefs from country to country. SABIC is dependent on manual and human sources for this information rather than being set up as effective software.
Emerson’s AMS software
As a solution to the problem of SABIC, the AMS suit of Emerson can be used. This is the forerunner software of “PlantWeb,” one of the most effective software of Emerson (Emmerson, 2010). This software is basically an intelligence providing software, which provides proper guidelines for different manners. It is focusing the customers by increasing the experience of the users through enhancement in usability along with developing predictive intelligence capabilities. Using the digital plant architecture of “Plant Web”, It has expand the wireless HART support for communication systems and added new dimension in this field by introducing a new smart wireless system named THUM which will allow the users to expand the network coverage through standard diagnostics in existing institute. It is the actual solution in case of planning and maintaining networks which is facilitated by wireless communication (Sardar, 1979). By using all these and many other functions, this software can deliver any critical information to any devices. If SABIC will use the software it can be benefited in the following areas in many ways.
As the demands of the customers are changing day by day, SABIC should get the proper anticipation about what might be the demand for the nest modification of products or new products. In addition, this can be done through using the software. As this software is providing information wireless, the information collection and delivery to the centre of the production will become swift. Besides the Emerson project management software, which has some implications in AMS suite, will help SABIC in production, processing, and distribution of products. Different software can be used in different stages of operation. In case of data transfer and preservation, the software will play a vital role, as it is intelligence software. Through this software, the collected data will be examined and assessed and this software can give proper guidelines for what to do with this software. Again, designing the products or packages also needs some consumer attention.
For ensuring the safety and security in production and also in safe effect over the customers or environment, SABIC can use this software. As this software has the capability to anticipate, it can be used to predict what amount of a chemical should be used in a particular product. As this software will give the users, more connectivity and flexibility of different management like asset management and many more, SABIC can manage its resources and inventories in a safety purpose all over the world. Differentiation in many architectural innovations may also be a result of using the software in case of safety and security. As it is software enabling the wireless communication, safer information sharing between the employees can be possible. It can also be used as a creator of benchmark and can assess the performance against the benchmarks. Many other features of this software will show the maximum level of emissions of environmentally harmful elements and thus shape the environmental friendly characteristics of SABIC.
This software will accelerate the information and communication technology of SABIC along with having some significant contribution in the field of human resource, supply chain, corporate social responsibility, and environment (Maxwell, Wasselhove, and Dutta, 1999). Technology and research play a vital role in configuring the business environment of completion. Use of the Emerson software will develop the communication in both inter and intra level through information sharing and data management. All the technological sectors of SABIC will get the benefit, which will result in satisfying the customers. This software will also serve the customer through giving intra communication with the company, which will ensure the consumer satisfaction. In case of research, this software will play the main role by collecting, preserving, analysing different data, and providing solution. As, doing manual research demands more times, using this software will save more time and money. This software will also help to combine different information collected from distinct places and sources and will show the ultimate solution.
The supply chain management of SABIC will also be benefited by the software. Communication is a key part of supply chain management, which is basically the flow of information from one personnel to another. As SABIC’s supply chain is mainly the control and delivery mechanism, this software will help to predict the proper control and delivery systems because has intelligence power (Caspi, Mazuet & Paligot, 2001). It can also be used as the inventory management tool and planning for distribution routes. SABIC’s offerings are based on six key pillars. Firstly, differentiation in customer service which will get the facility to anticipate the idea, which will be appreciated by the customers. Secondly, restructuring the supply chain network will be benefited by prediction about suitable supply chain plans, which can be provided by the software. Thirdly, optimising the business process, which will be lead by the acceleration in communication and production process facilitated by the AMS suite? Fourthly, the organised manner will be maximised, as the software will assist in almost all level of planning. Fifthly, streamlined and integrated IT platform will be earned by the advanced information sharing facility of the software. Finally, continuous performance improvement will be possible, as the software will provide the entire performance monitoring, improvement options and development of positive environments for performance increase.
For SABIC, having a good human resource is not only a challenge but also an opportunity for its global operation. It has a different global mobility program to move and rotate the staffs continuously. The effective use of the human resource is another challenge, which requires the training and other learning process. However, the most important aspect of human resource management is recruiting and placement of employees. All of these aspects can be benefited by the Emerson’s AMS suit. As it has the intelligence capability, it will assist in assessing the candidates in recruitment process. After evaluation of a candidate, the software can set the performance measurement based on the information gathers for the employee. After a time period, the software can measure the performance and also give suggestion for improvement in performance.
Corporate social responsibility
To shape the future of the company and to create a good relationship with the customers, SABIC has to do some work as corporate social responsibility. For example, it has some investment in education sector such as giving scholarship to the brilliant students. Besides this, it is working for betterment of education system and international level scholarship programs along with special programs based on skill and knowledge development. In all these fields, the software can be useful. Using the software for designing such a program or o help the students in automated information sharing for the scholarship will help to establish the company as a good company having high CSR appeals.
Health and environment
As a petrochemical manufacturer, environmental excellence is a challenge for SABIC. It has high investment in eco-friendly production process. Almost all of its product production has toxic emission, which creates harm of the environment. The emission of carbon di-oxide, sulphur, using of sodium chloride and waste management are the basic environmental work done by SABIC. In case of health, the software can be useful in diagnosing the health problems of the employees, workers or customers as it has some diagnosing facilities. In case of the environment, the software can assist to select the optimum level of toxic substance emission.
From the above discussion, the problem of SABIC has been clearly identified as a solution-able dilemma, which can be solved by using good software. In all the steps of operations, SABIC has a need for software like Emerson’s AMS suite, which will give the company some competitive advantage over the competitors. Software application at SABIC has evidenced an incremental boost in the growth of the company and added extremely accomplished jobs to the workforce supporting further application of new software and extended ICT services. Due to rising benefits from software application and accrue to services assurance to the customer and all over the supply chain, SABIC also evidenced to lowering the use of piracy software within its business application and such software anti-piracy delivers would increase its revenue by working business software.
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The regular Tech Talk Tuesdays and eT@Lking sessions will take part in this conference. Below is a list of the sessions that I am involved in either as a presenter or moderator. Please join me! Note these days and times are for Victoria, Australian (gmt+11 time) One of the most exciting sessions, is the connection of two classrooms – Julie Lindsay’s in China and mine from Australia. Here is the schedule for the session.
|3pm||Flat Classroom Project Student Summit: The Asian Connection – Julie Lindsay’s class from Beijing and my yr 11 class from Hawkesdale P12 College join forces to present.||Link for the session|
|4pm||The Blogging Challenge with Sue Wyatt (moderating)||Link to the session|
|8amWednesday||Mary Menne Raise Engagement Raise Hope, Raise Achievement (Moderating)||Link to the session|
|10pm||Global Education is not an option! (presenting)||Link to the Session|
|Wednesday November 17th|
|8am||Moderate Jim Brazell – Keynote speakerThe Future is Here: The Role of Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics||Link to the Session|
|9am||Teaching and Learning Across the GlobePresenting with Lorraine Leo||Link to the Session|
|6pm||Chatting about Global Projects (general discussion)||Link to the Session|
|Thursday November 18th|
|1pm||Classroom2.0LIVE meets the Australia Series With Carole McCulloch, Kim Caise, Lorna Constantini, Peggy George and Anne Mirtschin||Link to the Session|
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What Are The eBusiness Ethical eCommerce, Legal And Regulatory Issues? Importance of Ethics on The Internet Applying good ethical standards to the online world is a direct reflection of your business online.
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One on One: North Carolina’s connection to China’s arms buildup
Published 8:11 am Monday, March 22, 2021
By D.G. Martin
Last week, according to Bloomberg News, China’s top military leaders were using a North Carolina native’s concept to justify their commitment to increasing China’s military budget.
Bloomberg reported that Xu Qiliang, China’s top military officer, said the country needed to brace for a “Thucydides Trap,” which is an inevitable conflict between a rising power and an established one. China is the rising power and the U.S. is the established one.
Xu explained, “Facing the Thucydides Trap and border disturbances, the military must step up its efforts to improve its capabilities.”
He continued, “The most important thing is internal unity and cohesion and improvement of overall capabilities. If you are strong, you will have long-term stability, as well as invincibility.”
What is the ‘Thucydides Trap’ and what is its connection to North Carolina?
Bloomberg explained, “Thucydides Trap refers to ancient Greek historian Thucydides’ explanation of the Peloponnesian War as an inevitable clash between a rising Athens and the established regional power, Sparta. The term was coined by Graham Allison, a professor at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, who argued that China would threaten to displace U.S. influence, possibly resulting in an unhealthy rivalry or armed conflict.”
Allison, the North Carolina connection, grew up in Charlotte, was a star football player at Myers Park High School, and attended Davidson College for two years before transferring to Harvard. Later at Harvard, he became the longtime leader of Harvard’s Kennedy School and more recently has served as director of Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
Allison says his interest in Thucydides was sparked by George Labban, his Greek professor at Davidson. Labban promised his students that if they worked hard on his course, they would be able to read Thucydides in the original Greek. Allison worked hard and read Thucydides’s account of the war, including its origins in the competition between the Athens, the established power, and Sparta, the rising power.
In his 2017 book, “Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?,” Allison argued that the U.S. and China were on a collision course because: (1) China was quickly overtaking us as the world’s dominant economic power, and (2) China’s firm aspirations will put it in direct confrontation with the U.S. Allison pointed out that China expects, over time, to reassert its historic dominance over Taiwan, the South China Sea, and territories claimed by Japan, The Philippines, and other allies to which the U.S. has specific treaty responsibilities for defense.
In his book, Allison carefully explained that war between the U.S. and China was not inevitable. He and his colleagues mapped out 16 other occasions in history when a rising power confronted an established one. In most cases the situation led to war, but in four cases war was averted, including the post-World War II Cold War Soviet challenge to the U.S.
Now that Chinese authorities recognize and cite the Thucydides Trap’s application to the Chinese-U.S. confrontation, does Allison think that war can be avoided?
In a speech last month at Utah Valley University Allison said, “Nature and technology have condemned us to coexist since the only alternative is to co-destruct.”
Allison explained that because the existence of nuclear weapons would bring catastrophic consequences for both countries in the case of war, neither country would logically choose to enter war except in the case of an unintended trigger, or “black swan” event.
Allison also pointed out one compelling reason for the two countries to work together. Both are responsible for significant emission rates of greenhouse gases that could lead to an environment in which neither country could survive. Unless the U.S. and China find ways to work together to constrain emissions. it could be an environmental catastrophe rather than a Thucydides Trap that victimizes them.
D.G. Martin hosts “North Carolina Bookwatch,” Sundays at 3:30 p.m. and Tuesdays at 5 p.m. on PBS North Carolina (formerly UNC-TV). The program also airs on the North Carolina Channel Tuesdays at 8 p.m. and other times. | <urn:uuid:83a57ca7-8103-4a96-ad4d-ea44dbccf9e9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thecoastlandtimes.com/2021/03/22/one-on-one-north-carolinas-connection-to-chinas-arms-buildup/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.965038 | 980 | 1.976563 | 2 |
Accidents in future should be attended by ‘emergency service officer’ with some of the skills of police officers, firefighters and paramedics, the police commissioner for Northamptonshire has said.
In a speech to senior fire and rescue managers in Oxford, Adam Simmonds told of his vision for greater collaboration between emergency services and outlined his plans for closer integration between police and fire services in Northamptonshire.
He said: “Imagine if you were with me two decades from now. I will be 56. I will probably have three hairs left. Imagine that a young man and woman who feel called to public service, who want to make a contribution to their local community see an advert in the paper or online for ‘emergency service officers’.
“The advert asks them to consider saving, protecting and defending lives and communities; it offers a wide range of opportunities for development and growth; it says they’ll be trained in multidisciplinary areas and it guarantees variety, pace and a life less ordinary.
“These young people apply and get accepted and begin a new entry path for your successors...and those of the police and perhaps even the ambulance service.
“You see this hypothetical twenty years from now allows young people to receive basic training covering public service values, core skills of life saving and community protection, the law and what prevention and early intervention is all about. What community leadership is and how it’s made real.
“As these young people are joined by hundreds and thousands of others we begin to train and develop a generation of emergency service officers who have a loyalty to one service but experience and skills and vision across many different areas.
“Who once trained after a comprehensive training programme will be deployed by single control rooms to many different incidents and crises and be able to adapt and respond. Who will rotate specialisms throughout their careers and who will use powers as and when they are needed.
“Am I talking about a police car turning up to a fire with a ladder on the roof and buckets of water in the boot? No. But I am talking about an emergency response team turning up to an incident and deploying the skills they own to the situation they’ve been sent to without thinking which agency is needed because there’s only one agency now.
“This is a hypothetical twenty years hence where some laws have changed and we’ve made a seriously important shift in our thinking about how we deploy, recruit and retain staff and work out a way to pay for the kind of protection our communities need.”
Mr Simmonds said road accidents are a prime example of where it might be possible for 999 services to work better together.
Often a fire engine, ambulance and police are all required to attend a scene of an accident; to cut someone out of a vehicle, secure and survey a crime scene, and give medical treatment as a result of the crash.
Mr Simmonds said: “Back to the future I described earlier, we could perhaps consider sending just one vehicle to the incident, equipped with the relevant cutting equipment and the people trained to use them, equipped with the relevant medical equipment and someone with relevant medical expertise, and someone with the skills to maintain the scene of a potential crime.
“It is my sincere belief that if we are not willing to risk the unusual, we are destined to settle for the ordinary.
“Whilst it may not be the way we work now, it has to be a brighter way of working in the future.
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Contrary to popular belief, most aspies aren't born with amazing reading or mathematics skills. These are reserved for the select few. Most aspies seem to have difficulty at school academically in the early years and socially in the later years.
The Aspie Learning Catch-22
Some of the biggest problems aspies face, particularly in the primary school years, is the ability to concentrate on a topic (motivation). The problem is that the aspie tends to be very focused on his or her special interest and has great difficulty maintaining focus on other things.
In the primary school years particularly, other things cannot become interesting until the aspie overcomes some early hurdles. Reading is a good example of this. While there are undoubtedly a lot of books out there which would satisfy the aspie child's special interest needs, these books aren't accessible until at least rudimentary reading skills are acquired.
It's a Catch-22, the aspie child can't enjoy reading until they already have basic reading skills, but they can't easily develop these skills until they can enjoy reading.
Overcoming the Problem
The crux of the problem is that the aspie has great difficulty developing those rudimentary reading and mathematics skills because they are unable to sustain an interest in their learning materials.
The special interest is absolutely key to learning in Asperger's children and you should use it whenever possible.
This means that parents often need to become writers, rather than simply being readers. If your child comes home with a book, for example; a Dick and Jane book, you may need to rewrite that book to use the names of Transformers, video game characters, Saturday morning cartoon characters or even pets/animals. This rewriting isn't very difficult but will substantially increase your child's chances of learning the work.
Similar liberties need to be taken with speaking and writing and when possible, the child should be encouraged to speak or write about their favorite topics rather than being forced to use school only topics.
Good examples of where this can be achieved include situations where a child is asked to write a sentence with a particular word in it or where they are presenting "News" to the class.
I am not suggesting that the child should be allowed to follow his own particular agenda based entirely around the special interest for the majority of the school year. Schools cover a variety of subjects including history, science and religion which obviously cannot be based around the special interest (unless there is direct relevance).
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Safe Schools Declaration and Guidelines for Protecting Schools and Universities from Military Use during Armed Conflict
Around the world, in places experiencing armed conflict, schools and universities are becoming part of the battlefield. The use of schools and universities as bases, barracks, firing positions, and armories may transform places of learning into legitimate military objectives under international law, thus endangering students and teachers, and rendering their educational infrastructure and materials vulnerable to attack.
The presence of fighting forces in schools and universities also often leads to students dropping out, reduced enrollment, lower rates of transition to higher levels of education, and overall poorer educational attainment. Girls are often disproportionately affected.
The Guidelines have been drawn up with the aim of better protecting schools and universities from use by armed groups for military purposes, and to minimize the negative impact that armed conflict has on students’ safety and education. They provide concrete guidance to states and non-state armed groups for the planning and execution of military operations. They may also serve as a tool for organizations engaged in monitoring, programming, and advocacy related to the conduct of armed conflicts.
States and intergovernmental bodies are urged to encourage all parties to armed conflicts to act in accordance with these Guidelines, and to help enable them to do so.
DOWNLOAD THE GUIDELINES AND OTHER KEY DOCUMENTS:
- Safe Schools Declaration
Also available in: Français, Español, Arabic, Burmese, Dari, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Somali and Ukrainian
- GCPEA's Commentary on the "Guidelines for Protecting Schools and Universities from Military Use during Armed Conflict"
Also available in: Arabic, French, Russian, Spanish and Ukrainian
- Applicable International Legal Framework
Also available in: Arabic, French, and Spanish
- Examples of Domestic Law, Guidance, and Practice
Also available in: Arabic, French, and Spanish
The Guidelines for Protecting Schools and Universities from Military Use during Armed Conflict were finalized in December 2014, under the leadership of Norway and Argentina. A Safe Schools Declaration has been developed through state consultations in Geneva. This Declaration is the instrument through which states can express broad political support for the protection and continuation of education in armed conflict, and endorse and commit to implement the Guidelines. A first group of 37 states endorsed the Safe Schools Declaration at an international conference convened by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on May 29, 2015 in Oslo and that number has since been growing. States can announce their endorsement at any time by making a public statement and/or sending an endorsement letter (sample letter available here) to the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs via its embassies or permanent missions or directly at Seksjon.firstname.lastname@example.org and email@example.com.
GCPEA is currently encouraging states to champion the Guidelines by:
- Endorsing the Safe Schools Declaration, thereby committing to implement the Guidelines; and encouraging other states to do the same.
- Implementing the Guidelines by strengthening relevant elements and provisions, for instance, in their own legislation and military doctrine, and by encouraging appropriate practice throughout the chain of command.
GCPEA is also seeking ways to include non-state armed groups in endorsing and implementing the Guidelines.
DEVELOPMENT OF THE GUIDELINES
The Guidelines were developed through an extensive consultation process:
- In May 2012, in Geneva, GCPEA convened a roundtable with experts from governments, militaries, UN agencies, and international and human rights organizations.
- Based on recommendations from that meeting, GCPEA commissioned a former British military officer to prepare the first draft of the Guidelines.
- In November 2012, GCPEA convened a larger expert consultation in Lucens, Switzerland, with representatives from 12 states, as well as the human rights and humanitarian law community.
- A drafting committee, including state representatives and other experts, was then formed to further refine the Guidelines.
- In June 2013, the Draft Lucens Guidelines for Protecting Schools and Universities from Military Use during Armed Conflict were released.
- In June 2014, Norway announced that it would lead the process of finalizing the Guidelines and developing a means by which states could commit to implementing the Guidelines. Read additional public statements issued by states, which reference the importance of the Guidelines.
- The Guidelines for Protecting Schools and Universities from Military Use during Armed Conflict were finalized through a state-led process headed by Norway and Argentina in December, 2014 and unveiled at the UN in Geneva, Switzerland.
- A Safe Schools Declaration was developed through state consultations led by Norway and Argentina throughout the first half of 2015. The Declaration provides states the opportunity to express broad political support for the protection and continuation of education in armed conflict, and for the implementation of the Guidelines. The Declaration, was endorsed by a first group of 37 states at the Safe Schools Conference in Oslo on May 29, 2015. Check the current status of endorsement here.
Read Lessons in War 2015: Military Use of Schools and Universities during Armed Conflict, a GCPEA study that identifies cases of military use in 26 countries spread across four continents between 2005 and 2015. Full report available also in Arabic, French, and Spanish. Executive summary available in French, Spanish.
Read the thematic essay, "Military use of schools and universities: changing behaviour", from Education under Attack 2014.
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“It’s not the information, but our ability to use or apply the information, that truly counts,” writes Elliott Masie, internationally-recognized training and elearning futurist and analyst.
When I read this, it made me think of something an association education consultant recently told me about a misconception about the distinction between “information” and what I’ll call “informational content.”
It’s easy to see why it’s confusing.
Let’s say your organization represents owners and managers of campgrounds across the country — ACOM, we’ll call it (Association of Campground Owners and Managers) [Hopefully there isn’t a group like this out there…. if so, note that the example here is completely fictional and separate from any true entity by this name.]
Over the years, ACOM has compiled what they consider to be the best practices for campground operations. In its bound format, members and staffers have come to call it a manual.
ACOM sells dozens of copies of the book each year and it’s become one of the jewels of membership.
The executive leadership considers this book an educational product because they believe members learn from reading it.
Well, maybe the get some ideas from reading it, but despite being called a “manual,” it doesn’t provide any specific, step-by-step instructions or procedures or guidelines for implementing any of the best practices.
Instead, the book is a compilation of “what” various ACOM members have implmented that led to success in one area or another.
Inside the Manual
Let’s take this a little deeper. Here’s a made-up example of one of the best practices:
“Make sure the largest RVs you want to attract can navigate your roads and sites. You won’t want your visitors to get into a site that they can’t get out of.”
Okay, that’s a great bit of advice, and there might be someone who might not have thought to do this without reading it. What it doesn’t say is how to do this. So someone might try to implement this but end up disappointed with the results.
What would “training” be instead?
If you said, “A Webinar that shows good and bad examples of campground roads for big RVs,” you’re only partly correct. Good and bad examples are a part of training, but on their own are *not* training. It’s just more information.
What if you re-wrote the manual so it said something like this?
“When designing the roads within the campground, make sure any corners are well-rounded and wide so the largest RVs you want to attract can easily navigate the turn.
1. Remove any overhanging tree branches, decorations that line the roads, and other obstacles that could impede the largest rigs along the roads, curves, and within each site.
2. Measure each campsite for length and width. Allow for slide-outs in the width and, if desired, towed vehicles in the length (or provide for a separate hitching/unhitching area — see separate guideline on this).
3. Measure the clearance width between the site and the electrical/cable pedestal, water hook-up, and sewer drain opening.
4. Measure the clearance width between the site and any other fixtures on the site: fire ring, picnic tables, fixed barbeque stands, etc.
5. Grade the sites so they will be as level as you can make them. If possible, pave the sites, especially those designated for Class A motorhomes, making sure the paved surface is level.
6. Test the roads and sites by driving them in the largest sized rig you want to host. If you’re reluctant to do this, you’re probably not ready to send a guest down the road or into the site!”
Is that more of an educational product? After all, it isn’t just information, right?
Well, this is where things get fuzzy. You are providing instructions. And you could say we’ve helped the learner “to use or apply the information” as Masie suggests in the opening quote.
But purists would say that still isn’t enough. We need to set up an environment where learners can see these skills (that’s what they’re learning after all — how to do certain things) demonstrated and then actually practice them.
Of course, that’s not always possible. So what do we do instead?
Lots of things! In no particular order:
- Create and offer an asynchronous, online simulation that starts learners with a graphic of a campsite where they can see some roads and sites have been widened and others have not. A demo shows them the steps described, then they’re provided embedded tools for measuring and adjusting the sites and roads on the graphic. This would cost some money, but would be available in perpetuity to all members, regardless of their location. (If you charge a small fee to access it, you could earn back your investment.)
- Because of your membership profile, you could offer an in-person workshop on this (and other aspects of the best practices) at a campground. The benefit to the host campground is a free review of their sites and roads, not to mention the free labor in making any needed corrections. The limitation, of course, is that only those who can actually attend the event would benefit from this training.
- Least expensive, and the option you’re least able to measure in terms of successful learning, is to offer a blended, online experience. YouTube videos capturing those good and bad examples, followed by an instructional video showing the steps mentioned earlier. These could be supplemented with a live chat with a designated “expert” who can answer questions, provide specifics not covered in the videos, and generally add context around the videos. If a Webinar is used for follow-up, learners who’ve run into weird issues not covered in the basic videos could e-mail photos or uplink their own videos so their situations can be discussed.
All of these should include checklists for each step. (Instructions, remember, are not checklists. Each of the items in the list above must be broken down into several separate items to be an effective checklist.)
And *now* the difference between “information” and “training”/”instruction”/education should be clear.
Information is information. It serves as a foundation for the content of effective education and training. But information without providing the ways and means for using or applying will not give learners what they need to incorporate that information into their frame of reference, much less be able to implement it.
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You can find different varieties of MBA courses in the us. For every movement has its own eligibility conditions and you may application procedure. The price design in addition to varies with assorted programs. Why don’t we know more about them:
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A full-go out MBA is actually a two-season full-day program that’s offered at an enthusiastic institute. It is a certain MBA course in the usa that enables you to get a knowledge and you will simultaneously plan your job.
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A part-big date MBA is also also known as an evening otherwise sunday MBA in the usa, which children try taught shortly after its typical workplace timings. This makes it easier for youngsters that to cope with their functions employing degree.
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An internet MBA means that you can study from your home or somewhere else online. There are numerous colleges offering on line courses and you can degrees of MBA in america. You don’t need to visit and you will attend categories and can study considering your own plan and you can schedule.
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Administrator MBA software in the us are especially readily available for managers who would like to enhance their government capabilities and get an edge more than their competition.
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NASA chief: Space plan driven by need to explore
NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe
|ON CNN TV|
Watch CNN's special report and coverage of the White House announcement, "Mission: Moon and Mars," with Miles O'Brien at 3 p.m. ET Wednesday.
CNN's Bill Hemmer talks to NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe about expansion plans for the space program.
CNN's Miles O'Brien on NASA plans to ask for an incremental budget increase.
President Bush's space proposal includes a permanent presence on the moon.
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush is expected to ask Congress for billions of dollars for NASA to fund missions to the moon and eventually to send astronauts to Mars.
NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe discussed the plan Wednesday in an interview with CNN anchor Bill Hemmer.
HEMMER: This program is going to cost billions and billions of dollars ultimately. Why is it worth it?
O'KEEFE: Well, it's not billions of billions in that context. We are talking about every taxpayer contributes, on average, about 15 cents a day. The price of a monthly cable television bill is what's being contributed by the average taxpayer. Less than 1 percent of the federal budget goes toward this, and that's not going to change.
What is different is the president is going to outline very specific exploration direction and objectives of what we should be targeting ourselves to, developing the technologies in order to achieve that, and that in his estimation -- what he will say today -- that is worth that.
HEMMER: The polls show an even split in terms of support for this. Are you going to have a tough time selling this idea to Americans?
O'KEEFE: I think every year, every year, there ought to be a spirited public debate over what the taxpayers' money, the people's money, is dedicated toward paying for. And that won't be any different this year.
What's going to be different I think in that respect is a new direction, a specific kind of focus that the president is going to enunciate today.
HEMMER: Sen. Bill Nelson out of Florida has flown on a shuttle mission before and says the 5 percent increase will not get us to the moon. Is this in the end going to be a higher price tag?
O'KEEFE: Well, the budget comes out in two weeks, and we believe the resources necessary to carry out the objectives the president will enunciate today are going to be included in this budget and forecast in the future. Let's wait to see the details before we make judgments.
HEMMER: How important is it for NASA and how important for the White House to give the impression and let Americans know that they are -- let's say -- big thinkers?
O'KEEFE: Again, it's about exploration. It's in the human heart. It's what we are all about as human beings, to want to see the other side of that hill, to explore and discover. It's what got us out of the caves in the first place. So much of what this is about is not the politics of it; it's about human nature, and that's what the president is really focusing on.
HEMMER: So if you are able to get a permanent base on the moon at some point within five or 10 years from now, what will that do for space exploration?
O'KEEFE: Well, having the capacity to use the moon as a staging area to get to anywhere else in the solar system is a huge advantage. Really, the biggest challenge we always have is getting off this planet, and that's what poses the most aggressive technological challenge. The moon is an easier basing structure for that purpose, but we'll see there are a lot of different alternatives we have to explore and look at to consider how we do that -- using robotic capabilities as well as human capabilities.
HEMMER: Critics will say that robots can do the job that humans cannot, and they can do it cheaper and with greater safety and security. Your response?
O'KEEFE: Well, look at the Mars rover on the planet now. Spirit is a remarkable piece of machinery. It's taken 10 days to move it off of this lander because you've got to do it very meticulously.
There's nothing like the cognitive skills of human beings presently, to make judgments at the time in order to really explore and do things that are necessary. So I think a combination of both is the focus the president will enunciate today, and that's exactly the direction we're going to go in.
HEMMER: The past year has been tough. You go back to February and the shuttle explosion over the state of Texas -- how are you addressing the risks involved going forward?
O'KEEFE: The risk of exploration throughout the course of human history has always been high. Our challenge is to mitigate, to minimize that risk as much as humanly possible. But to ignore that human instinct to want to go and explore and see the other side of that hill would be to deny our human nature. | <urn:uuid:4a77fae0-8ec8-4f36-93a4-fcea8fdb38c1> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://edition.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/01/14/cnna.okeefe/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279189.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00062-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96391 | 1,061 | 1.78125 | 2 |
Rabbits are Lagomorphs, which has the following definition: plant-eating mammals with two pairs of incisors in the upper jaw specifically adapted for gnawing. Domesticated rabbits weigh typically from 5 to 25 lbs depending on the breed. The male is called a buck and the female is a doe; a young rabbit is a kitten or kit.
Rabbits are hind-gut digesters. This means that most of their digestion takes place in their large intestine and cecum. A rabbit’s cecum is about 10 times bigger than the stomach and it along with the large intestine makes up roughly 40% of the rabbit’s digestive tract. The unique musculature of the cecum allows the intestinal tract of the rabbit to separate fibrous material from more digestible material. The fibrous material is then passed as feces, while the more nutritious material is encased in a mucous lining as a cecotrope. Cecotropes are high in minerals, vitamins and proteins that are necessary to the rabbit’s health. Rabbits eat these to meet their nutritional requirements; the mucous coating allows the nutrients to pass through the acidic stomach for digestion in the intestines. This process allows rabbits to extract the necessary nutrients from their food. Basically, since rabbits are not able to regurgitate their food and chew their cud like other herbivores, they have to process their food stuffs twice by eating their “good” feces.
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Research Case Studies
FASS researchers are urging New Zealanders to view homelessness as an issue about relationships and our responses to poverty.
Māori Men's Wellness
The importance of supportive relationships and their impact on Māori men will plug a crucial research gap into what keeps Māori men well.
Learning, Behaviour, and Welfare
Psychology researchers are working to identify behavioural methodologies and treatments with potential human and non-human animal applications.
Drive to the Conditions
Realistic video simulators enable drivers to be tested in a range of road conditions in this innovative research.
Rena Disaster Research
For the volunteers who helped clean up the coastline after the Rena disaster in 2011, a sense of community spirit offered a positive experience.
Mental Health and Migration
Looking to the past for answers; what 19th century mental health records of migrants can teach us about our current systems.
Space, Place, and Sex
Statues, cyber-sex, and mail-order brides feature in the nuanced argument of FASS geographers that space and place matter to sex.
Sustainable citizenship research centres on citizens' methods for impacting policy decisions, particularly around novel technology.
Automated Knowledge Discovery
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John McCallum’s new history explores the relationship between 20th century Australian drama and a developing concept of nation. The book focuses on the creative tension sparked by dueling impulses between nationalism and cosmopolitanism; and between artistic seriousness and larrikin populism. It explores issues such as the domineering influence of European high culture, the ongoing popularity of representational realism, the influence of popular theatrical forms, the ambivalence (between affection and aggression) of much Australian humour and satire, and the interaction between the personal and the political in drama.
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Cable grommet type PKC and PKG
Cable grommets type PKare used in the connection of electrical circuits between the chambers of covers of flameproof electrical devices of group I. Two sub-types are provided – with a threaded flameproof joint PKG.. and with a flameproof cylindrical joint PKC.. .
Technical parameters of the cable grommets type PKG.. i PKC..:
|Only applicable for unshielded cables and wires|
|The size of the culvert:|
|Screw (tabela1):||M20x1,5 ÷ M50x1,5|
|Cylindrical (tabela2):||Ø20 ÷ Ø50|
|Working temperature range:||-10oC do +80oC|
|Relative humidity:||do 95%|
Table 1 – Threaded cable grommets PKG.. :
|Type of grommet||Flameproof joint thread||The minimum outer diameter of the cable or wire[mm]||Maximum outer diameter of the cable or wire[mm]|
Table 2 – Tubular cable grommets PKC.. :
|Type of grommet||Diameter of the cylindrical joint||The minimum outer diameter of the cable or wire[mm]||Maximum outer diameter of the cable or wire[mm]|
Cable grommets type PKC.. i PKG..have an WE type examination certificate: OBAC 13 ATEX 0054U from 16.09.2013r.
Issued by the Center for Testing, Attestation and Certification OBAC Sp. z oo, Notified Body No. 1461 in accordance with Article 9 of Council Directive 94/9 / EC of March 23, 1994, certifies that the above-mentioned device or protection system has been checked for compliance with the basic safety and health requirements regarding the design, construction of the device and a protective system intended for use in potentially explosive atmospheres, which are listed in Annex 2 to Directive 94/9 / EC (Chapter 2 of the Ordinance of the Ministry of Economy of December 22, 2005, Journal of Laws No. 263, item 2203)
Cable grommets type PKC.. i PKG.. smeet the requirements for explosion-proof devices and can be used as group I category M2 devices.
The basic requirements of safety and health protection were implemented by meeting the requirements of the following standards:
- PN-EN 60079-0:2009
- PN-EN 60079-1:2010
Cable grommets type PKC.. i PKG.. are marked with:
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WHITEHOUSE STATION, N.J. & SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Vaccination in a phase II clinical trial of Merck & Co., Inc.'s investigational HIV vaccine (V520) is being discontinued because the vaccine was not effective. The announcement was made today by the co-sponsors of this clinical trial, Merck & Co., Inc., and the HIV Vaccine Trials Network (HVTN), which is funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health.
The trial, called STEP, was an international phase II "test of concept" trial in uninfected volunteers at high risk for acquiring HIV infection. The independent Data Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB) for STEP reviewed safety data and results of an interim efficacy analysis of the study, and recommended that vaccination be discontinued because the STEP trial will not meet its efficacy endpoints. Study investigators have been instructed to discontinue vaccinating volunteers in this study and to monitor them in accordance with the study protocol. Enrollment and vaccination in a second Phase II trial of this vaccine being conducted by the HVTN in South Africa called Phambili, and two additional Phase I trials, have been discontinued. The DSMB for the Phambili trial will evaluate the available data.
The Merck vaccine candidate is a mixture of three components, each made with a weakened version of a common virus (adenovirus type 5), that serves as a carrier, or delivery vector, along with three synthetically produced HIV genes known as gag, pol and nef.
The STEP study (HVTN 502, Merck V520 Protocol 023) was a multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled phase II test-of-concept clinical trial. The trial enrolled 3,000 HIV-negative volunteers from diverse backgrounds between 18 and 45 years of age at high risk of HIV infection.
The study evaluated two primary efficacy endpoints: whether the vaccine prevented HIV infection and whether the vaccine reduced the amount of virus in those who developed infection. As planned, an interim efficacy analysis was conducted in the approximately 1,500 volunteers expected to have the best response to the vaccine because they had low levels of pre-existing immunity to adenovirus 5.
The vaccine did not prevent infection: in volunteers who received at least one dose of the three-dose vaccine series, 24 cases of HIV infection were observed in the 741 volunteers who received vaccine and 21 cases of HIV infection were observed in the 762 participants in the placebo group. In the subgroup who had received at least two vaccinations and who were HIV negative for at least the first 12 weeks of the trial, 19 cases of HIV infection were observed in the 672 volunteers who received vaccine and 11 cases were observed in the 691 volunteers who received placebo. In addition, the vaccine did not reduce the amount of virus in the bloodstream of those who became infected; HIV RNA levels approximately 8 to 12 weeks after diagnosis of infection were similar in the vaccine and the placebo arms. The geometric means of the HIV RNA levels in the blood of infected individuals, the standard measure of ongoing HIV replication, were approximately 40,000 copies/mL in the vaccine group and approximately 37,000 copies/mL in the placebo group. Additional analyses will be conducted on the entire study population and will be shared with the scientific community.
Study volunteers were followed for approximately 13 months. Overall adverse event rates were generally similar among the two groups, except for a higher rate of local injection-site related reactions in the vaccine group.
"We share in the disappointment of the research and HIV communities today. Sadly, developing an effective AIDS vaccine remains one of the most challenging tasks facing modern medicine," said Peter S. Kim, Ph.D., president, Merck Research Laboratories. "Merck's 20-year HIV research program has led to improved scientific understanding of HIV and to true breakthrough medicines. We are committed to studying the data closely and sharing it with the scientific community to inform the on-going search for an effective HIV vaccine."
"HVTN is a global network of scientists, staff and community members whose mission is to speed the rapid development of a safe and effective preventative HIV vaccine," said Larry Corey, M.D., principal investigator of the HVTN. "This trial was the first test of concept trial that provided us information on this vaccine more quickly and efficiently than with a traditional Phase III design. While we are very disappointed that this vaccine candidate did not demonstrate protection, the data from this trial will provide critical insights into this disease and future vaccine development."
"This is a huge disappointment for all of us who have been involved in the search for an HIV vaccine," said Glenda Gray, M.D., principal investigator of the HVTN sponsored Phambili trial. "HIV is ravaging our communities, and all the scientists, participants and communities involved in HIV vaccine studies have been affected by this epidemic. The scientific community must continue the race to find a vaccine to help secure an HIV free generation for the future."
The Merck adenovirus-based vaccine used a cell-mediated immune response approach; it was hypothesized that the HIV genes in the vaccine would stimulate the body to generate an HIV-specific immune response through the body's own CD8 T-cells, which become programmed to recognize and kill HIV infected cells.
Adenoviruses are among the causes of common cold; the type 5 adenovirus used in this investigational vaccine had been modified so that it was unable to replicate and could not cause a cold. Also, because the vaccine did not contain live HIV and contained only three HIV genes, volunteers could not become infected with HIV from the vaccination. This vaccine had previously been tested in several smaller clinical trials and was found to be generally well tolerated and capable of inducing significant levels of HIV-specific cell-mediated immune responses.
STEP included multiple clinical trial sites in North and South America, the Caribbean and Australia, where HIV subtype B, the subtype of HIV from which the HIV genes included in the vaccine, is predominant. Half the study participants received three doses of the vaccine over six months, while the other half were given three doses of a placebo. The first volunteer enrolled in the study in December 2004, and enrollment was completed in March 2007.
The second phase II trial of this vaccine candidate, the Phambili trial, (HVTN 503, Merck V 520 Protocol 026) was begun in 2007 in South Africa by the HVTN to explore whether Merck's vaccine would be effective at preventing infection, reducing viral levels, or both, from HIV subtype C, which is more common in southern Africa.
About Merck and Merck's HIV research program
Merck's efforts to develop investigational treatments and a vaccine against HIV/AIDS have been under way for more than 20 years and continue today; our HIV research program began in 1986. Merck scientists were the first to characterize the role of HIV protease in the HIV life cycle and to publish the crystal structure of the HIV protease enzyme, which helped the research community design protease inhibitors to block HIV infection by this mechanism. In the 1990s, Merck scientists discovered the protease inhibitor, CRIXIVAN® (indinavir sulfate), and the non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor, STOCRIN® (efavirenz). In addition, on September 5, 2007, an advisory committee to the Food and Drug Administration unanimously recommended approval of ISENTRESS(TM) (raltegravir), Merck's investigational integrase inhibitor for the treatment of HIV infection. The FDA is not bound by the committee's recommendation but takes its advice into consideration when reviewing investigational medicines and vaccines.
Merck & Co., Inc. is a global research-driven pharmaceutical company dedicated to putting patients first. Established in 1891, Merck currently discovers, develops, manufactures and markets vaccines and medicines to address unmet medical needs. The Company devotes extensive efforts to increase access to medicines through far-reaching programs that not only donate Merck medicines but help deliver them to the people who need them. Merck also publishes unbiased health information as a not-for-profit service. For more information, visit www.merck.com.
About the HIV Vaccine Trials Network
The HVTN is an international collaboration of scientists and institutions whose goal is to accelerate the search for an HIV vaccine by sharing trial results and facilitating parallel, concurrent testing. The HVTN is a unique hybrid that combines the depth and diversity of the academic community and the flexibility of a commercial drug company. Working with industry and government, the HVTN seeks to expedite and coordinate the trial process, advancing vaccine candidates and building a body of knowledge about HIV vaccine trials.
The HIV Vaccine Trials Network is supported through a cooperative agreement with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), which is a component of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). The Network and NIAID have a close, cooperative working relationship, with shared attention to the intellectual and scientific issues. The Network's headquarters are at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington.
Merck forward-looking statement
This press release contains "forward-looking statements" as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements are based on management's current expectations and involve risks and uncertainties, which may cause results to differ materially from those set forth in the statements. The forward-looking statements may include statements regarding product development, product potential or financial performance. No forward-looking statement can be guaranteed, and actual results may differ materially from those projected. Merck undertakes no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise. Forward-looking statements in this press release should be evaluated together with the many uncertainties that affect Merck's business, particularly those mentioned in the risk factors and cautionary statements in Item 1A of Merck's Form 10-K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2006, and in its periodic reports on Form 10-Q and Form 8-K, which the company incorporates by reference.
CRIXIVAN® is a registered trademark of Merck & Co., Inc.
STOCRIN® is a registered trademark of Merck & Co., Inc.
ISENTRESS® is a trademark of Merck & Co., Inc.
Merck & Co., Inc.
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Merck & Co., Inc.
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The Motor Systems Market Assessment (MSMA) is a study that delves into significant detail on the number, disposition, and operating characteristics of electric motor-driven systems in US industrial and commercial facilities. The study’s in-depth details will inform numerous activities and industries, assisting in planning and decision-making. This NEMA analysis focuses on the regulatory impacts of the MSMA and how NEMA (and other entities) may use it to inform and influence US Department of Energy rulemakings for minimum energy conservation Standards for electric motors.
Study Examines Operating Characteristics of Electric Motors
The Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBNL) MSMA is the first of three research papers that examine the installed base of electric motors in the US and their operating characteristics. This study is an update to a similar investigation published in 2002. This paper aims to examine the study results and findings with respect to their potential use in and influence on US Department of Energy (DOE) rulemakings for minimum energy conservation Standards. Electric motors themselves are a regulated product class , and electric motors appear as components in dozens of other regulated product classes as well.
LBNL authors describe the scope of the study as follows:
The MSMA covered all three-phase AC and DC motors greater than and including one horsepower (hp). Advanced motor technologies, such as synchronous reluctance and permanent magnet, were also included (as AC motors). Fractional horsepower motors (motors < one hp) were excluded because they are often embedded within components, and it would be difficult to assess their installed base comprehensively. Further, excluding these motors aligns with the scope of the previous assessment. The assessments encompassed the drive, motor, transmission, end-use equipment, and distribution system (e.g., compressed air lines, water pipes). The types of end-use equipment evaluated included: pumps, fans/blowers, air compressors, refrigeration compressors, materials handling, and materials conveying. Motor systems that utilize non-electric energy sources (e.g., fossil fuels) were not part of the assessment scope.
Electric Motors in the Industrial and Commercial Sector
In terms of overall national electricity consumption, the study notes industrial and commercial three-phase motor systems greater than or equal to one hp consume ~1,079 terawatt-hours (TWh)/year, about 29 percent of the total electric grid load.
- In the industrial space, in 1994, electric motor systems were responsible for 679 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) of yearly electricity consumption, but by 2020 this decreased to 547 billion kilowatt-hours. The study notes various potential reasons for this, the most prominent being offshoring of industrial production and gains in energy efficiency. This 547 B kWh represents 69 percent of all electricity consumption in this space.
- In the commercial space, in 1995, electric motor systems were responsible for 343 billion kWh of yearly electricity consumption, but by 2020 this figure grew to 532 billion kWh.This 532 b kWh represents about 43 percent of all electricity consumption in this space.
Reading the study’s executive summary, proponents of increased Federal regulation of electric motors might start typing excited demands for more DOE rulemakings, but their enthusiasm would be premature and misplaced. The study notes 48 percent of all commercial sector motor system electricity consumption is for refrigeration compressors (e.g., chillers, air conditioners), and refrigeration compressor use accounts for 94 percent of the commercial sector’s motor system electricity consumption. The aforementioned products are all regulated by the DOE. The situation is less imbalanced in the industrial sector where 29 percent of all motor system electricity consumption is for materials processing, followed by 21 percent for pumps and fans/blowers each. Pumps and fans/blowers are also regulated systems.
The study notes that there are 52.5 million motor systems greater than or equal to one hp in the industrial and commercial sectors, with 10.8 million in industrial and 41.7 million in commercial facilities. The average connected motor system horsepower at an industrial facility is 1,595 hp and 89 hp for the commercial sector. The average motor size is 27 hp for industrial and eight hp for commercial. So, while commercial facilities use more motors and industrial facilities use more horsepower, they both consume similar amounts of electricity (547 B kWh industrial and 532 B kWh commercial).
A quick note about DC motors: “It is estimated that there are 806,000 DC motor systems greater than or equal to 1 hp consuming 31,000 GWh annually in the industrial and commercial sectors. This represents 2 percent of all motors and 3 percent of total annual motor system electricity consumption in the industrial and commercial sectors.” This sounds small, but three percent of over one trillion kWh (the preceding two electricity consumption figures) cannot be dismissed.
Regarding the horsepower ratings of motors in studied facilities: Ninety-nine percent of the motor system units in the industrial sector are in the one to 500 hp range, with 49 percent in the one to five hp range. Ninety-nine percent of the motor system units in the commercial sector are in the one to 50 hp size range. This begs the question of whether there is any worthwhile benefit to raising the upper bound of regulations, as some have proposed in the past.
Concerning expansion or increased stringency of existing DOE electric motor regulations, NEMA has commented more than once to DOE that there is no guarantee that improving the efficiency of any given component—in this case the electric motor—of a regulated product will make that product more efficient. A more efficient motor spins faster for a given input (design horsepower does not change since the work the motor is needed to perform does not bow to efficiency demands). Also, many efficiency improvement options add mass or increase the physical size of motors. Changes to the disposition and performance of any component factor into overall system/appliance design, and during design development, tradeoffs often occur. In the end, these regulated products and systems are not guaranteed to become more efficient if their electric motors become so. Rather, designers will naturally perform technical and cost engineering trade-offs with only the final overall efficiency requirements and regulations in mind.
NEMA has also commented in past DOE rulemakings that how motor systems are loaded in end-use applications factors heavily into whether a more efficient motor will yield any practical reductions in electricity consumption. Since electricity consumption is application-dependent, NEMA has encouraged DOE to pursue systems efficiency regulations and support programs to encourage better application of these systems. With regard to loading: In the industrial space, 27 percent of industrial sector motor system electricity consumption operates at variable load, with load factors between 40 percent and 75 percent, while 42 percent of industrial sector motor system units operate at constant loads greater than 75 percent of full load. In the commercial space, 35 percent of commercial sector motor system electricity consumption operates at variable load, with load factors between 40 percent and 75 percent. At the same time, 30 percent of commercial sector motor system units operate at variable loads, with load factors between 40 percent and 75 percent.
Very little motor system electricity consumption takes place at load factors under 40 percent load. The study notes only six percent of industrial sector motor system electricity consumption, and eight percent of the industrial motor systems operate under 40 percent load factor. Additionally, across all driven equipment types in the industrial sector, the most common operating condition is estimated to be constant motor load systems operating at 0.75 load factor. For the commercial sector, the most common operating conditions are very different, with 60 percent of commercial motor system electricity consumption attributable to variably loaded motors, and 35 percent is attributable to constantly loaded motors. It is worth recalling the above observation that many of these variable load conditions involve HVAC, compressors, pumps, fans/blowers, and other DOE-regulated systems.
Concerning load control: on average, 16 percent of motor system capacity at an industrial facility use variable frequency drives (VFDs), and 74 percent have no load control technology/equipment. Further, the rate of installation of VFDs and other load control technologies in the industrial and commercial sectors increases with motor system size. On average, four percent of motor system capacity at a commercial facility use VFDs, and 91 percent have no load control technology/equipment.
The study notes the uptake of VFDs by driven equipment type in the industrial sector is nearly uniform, at about 23 percent of electricity consumption for each equipment type, with most operating using temperature or pressure setpoints as the control mechanism. While the uptake of VFDs by driven equipment type in the commercial sector varies but is highest for fan/blower systems with the most common metric for VFD control being pressure setpoint.
The above numbers raise suspicion that increased application of VFDs could benefit the commercial sector and even more the industrial sector. Likewise, there are some entities who believe energy efficiency requirements for the drives themselves are appropriate, for instance, the IEC. However, one must bear in mind that the addition of a VFD does not guarantee overall efficiency gains depending on the system and how it is used (i.e., near or at full-load would not benefit from a VFD). Efficiency gains from incorporation of VFDs do sound possible, but they will be application- and load-dependent.
Considering justification or opportunity for further DOE component regulations, it is important to revisit the preceding reference to pressure and temperature setpoints being the most common control metrics. These types of metrics are most commonly associated with air, water, and HVAC systems—systems that are already regulated for overall efficiency by the DOE. It is not clear from the initial study results in the US Industrial and Commercial Motor System Market Assessment Report Volume 1 (the subject of this paper) whether notable gains are feasible in the remaining portions of these system loads. Follow-up papers (two more are in progress) will more fully investigate this question.
Rather than interpret the above data points as justification for mandatory incorporation of drives on motors, or that VFD Standards should be written, one must respect the variety of applications. Instead, efforts should be made to accelerate and incent programs to educate and equip industrial and commercial facilities with VFDs where they are appropriate. A point-of-sale regulation from the DOE cannot accomplish this, but the DOE has other programs, and it can and should add VFD options to them. One example of a better approach for in-the-field energy efficiency improvements is the joint program founded by NEMA and the American Council for an Energy-Efficienct Economy (ACEEE) known as the Extended Motor Products (XMP) program. The DOE Building Technologies Office (BTO) could help promote XMP nationwide. NEMA and its Motor and Generator Section Members invested several years’ effort with other interested parties to launch the XMP and more can and should be done to expand participation nationwide.
The study makes these observations about its own results: “Further, since these [initial 1990s] results were published, the US manufacturing sector has undergone a massive transformation. Due to global competition, some sectors have relocated operations overseas. Others have brought operations onshore to avail low cost and abundant natural gas. Additionally, automation and robotics have pervaded the entire sector.”
The study continues:
“Consequently, these two reports likely do not represent the current state of motor-driven systems in US industrial and commercial facilities. […] Specifically, the lack of information affects a range of stakeholders:
- Governments must rely on outdated information when setting research agendas, developing policies, and designing energy efficiency programs and offerings.
- Utilities and energy efficiency programs cannot identify the current market needs or potential impact when designing rebate and energy efficiency programs.
- Electric grid planners cannot identify motor system usage characteristics when developing plans to support the resilience of the electric grid.
- Manufacturers of motors, motor-driven equipment, and drives are hampered when developing technologies to meet the needs of their market.
- Motor system end users are limited in their ability to identify energy-saving opportunities within their own facilities because they do not have reliable benchmark information.”
The lack of information or freedom of choice implied in any regulatory outcomes from the preceding five impact statements begs the question of whether further DOE regulations can improve outcomes. DOE regulatory reach can only impact reported efficiency of a product or appliance at its entry point into the market, whether manufactured domestically or imported. DOE regulatory effect ends well before the end-use application of motor-driven systems. Since efficiency gains are more likely, and more beneficial, at the end-use, programs like the XMP program would seem more appropriate than other regulatory actions . This approach would further build on the excellent energy savings already made by electric motor product class energy efficiency Standards. DOE has other programs that encourage better buildings, retrofits, and other improvements, but these are independent of its regulatory offices, and regulators often feel obliged to produce regulations even if they are not completely justified or may not be very effective.
As to what is already being practiced with respect to reducing electricity consumption, the study notes the following findings from a survey of facility contacts: 59 percent of industrial facilities use an external energy assessor. Peer-to-peer knowledge sharing is used by 27 percent of all industrial facilities, and it is the most common method for large facilities (66 percent). Similarly, utility resources are used by 33 percent of all industrial facilities, but more often by large facilities than small facilities. Across all commercial facilities, peer-to-peer knowledge sharing is the most common method for identifying energy-efficiency measures
The study provides excellent detailed reviews of motors and their disposition in the field by sector, by facility type, facility size, loading, disposition, and so on. This substantial amount of information (the report is 252 pages) cannot all be captured here. But NEMA staff has reviewed the report in detail and made extensive notes for future reference during DOE rulemaking proceedings.
Concerning DOE rulemakings, the MSMA will be very useful to all interested participants in the currently open rulemaking for electric motor energy conservation Standards. This rulemaking is a mandatory six-year review of Standards, and the three MSMA reports and findings about the status of the market and how the market has changed will help inform the DOE and other rulemaking participants whether and where additional opportunities may exist for further investigation by DOE and others.
Study Helps NEMA Members
The MSMA provides a detailed look into the population, electricity consumption and applications of electric motors in the US as well as insight into the facilities that employ these motors. Besides the regulatory applications this paper focuses on, the data and insights provided can aid NEMA Members in making business and planning decisions. The apparent low VFD deployment identifies opportunities for sales and upgrades outreach. The low rates of investment in facility energy efficiency programs and practices identifies opportunities for energy savings contracts and other improvement programs, whether private or government-sponsored. For NEMA Staff the MSMA provides useful insight into where Standards and other technical activities may be needed. Lastly, the study will provide rich context and useful data to contribute to better-informed and more effective consensus comments to DOE rulemakings on behalf of Members.
For the MSMA, “variable” load is defined as a load that modulates during operation. “Constant” load is defined as a load that remains constant during operation.
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Democratic party,American political party; the oldest continuous political party in the United States.
Origins in Jeffersonian Democracy
When political alignments first emerged in George Washington's administration, opposing factions were led by Alexander HamiltonHamilton, Alexander,
1755–1804, American statesman, b. Nevis, in the West Indies. Early Career
He was the illegitimate son of James Hamilton (of a prominent Scottish family) and Rachel Faucett Lavien (daughter of a doctor-planter on Nevis and the estranged
..... Click the link for more information. and Thomas JeffersonJefferson, Thomas,
1743–1826, 3d President of the United States (1801–9), author of the Declaration of Independence, and apostle of agrarian democracy. Early Life
Jefferson was born on Apr. 13, 1743, at "Shadwell," in Goochland (now in Albemarle) co.
..... Click the link for more information. . In the basic disagreement over the nature and functions of government and of society, the Jeffersonians advocated a society based on the small farmer; they opposed strong centralized government and were suspicious of urban commercial interests. Their ideals—opposed to those of the Federalist partyFederalist party,
in U.S. history, the political faction that favored a strong federal government. Origins and Members
In the later years of the Articles of Confederation there was much agitation for a stronger federal union, which was crowned with success when the
..... Click the link for more information. —came to be known as Jeffersonian democracy, based in large part on faith in the virtue and ability of the common man and the limitation of the powers of the federal government. This group of Anti-Federalists, who called themselves Republicans or Democratic Republicans (the name was not fixed as Democratic until 1828), supported many of the ideals of the French Revolution and opposed close relations with Great Britain.
Led by Jefferson and his ally James MadisonMadison, James,
1751–1836, 4th President of the United States (1809–17), b. Port Conway, Va. Early Career
A member of the Virginia planter class, he attended the College of New Jersey (now Princeton), graduating in 1771.
..... Click the link for more information. , the group had become a nationwide party by 1800, winning the support of Aaron BurrBurr, Aaron,
1756–1836, American political leader, b. Newark, N.J., grad. College of New Jersey (now Princeton). Political Career
A brilliant law student, Burr interrupted his study to serve in the American Revolution and proved himself a valiant soldier in
..... Click the link for more information. and George ClintonClinton, George,
1739–1812, American statesman, vice president of the United States (1805–1812), b. Little Britain, N.Y. Before he was 20 he served on a privateer and, in the French and Indian War, accompanied the regiment of his father, Charles Clinton, in the
..... Click the link for more information. in New York, of Benjamin RushRush, Benjamin,
1745?–1813, American physician, signer of the Declaration of Independence, b. Byberry (now part of Philadelphia), Pa., grad. College of New Jersey (now Princeton), 1760, M.D. Univ. of Edinburgh, 1768.
..... Click the link for more information. and Albert GallatinGallatin, Albert
, 1761–1849, American financier and public official, b. Geneva, Switzerland. Left an orphan at nine, Gallatin was reared by his patrician relatives and had an excellent education.
..... Click the link for more information. in Pennsylvania, and of most influential politicians in the South. Jefferson became President in 1800 in an election that has often been called a turning point in American history. With this election emerged an alliance between Southern agrarians and Northern city dwellers, an alliance that grew to be the dominating coalition of the party. With Madison and James MonroeMonroe, James,
1758–1831, 5th President of the United States (1817–25), b. Westmoreland co., Va. Early Life
Leaving the College of William and Mary in 1776 to fight in the American Revolution, he served in several campaigns and was wounded (Dec.
..... Click the link for more information. succeeding Jefferson, the party's "Virginia dynasty" held the presidency until 1824.
The Dominant Party
As the Federalist party waned, politics came to consist mainly of feuds within the Democratic Republican organization, such as the opposition of the QuidsQuids,
in U.S. political history, an extreme states' rights group of Jeffersonian Republicans led by John Randolph of Virginia. Feeling that Thomas Jefferson and James Madison had retreated from the states' rights position they had taken in the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions
..... Click the link for more information. to Madison's election (1808) and the peace ticket led by De Witt ClintonClinton, De Witt
, 1769–1828, American statesman, b. New Windsor, N.Y.; son of James Clinton. He was admitted (1790) to the New York bar but soon became secretary to his uncle, George Clinton, first governor of the state, and in that position (1790–95) gained
..... Click the link for more information. (1812). By 1820 the party dominated the nation so completely that Monroe was reelected without opposition. But the foundations for political regrouping were being laid.
In 1824 the electoral vote was split between Andrew JacksonJackson, Andrew,
1767–1845, 7th President of the United States (1829–37), b. Waxhaw settlement on the border of South Carolina and North Carolina (both states claim him). Early Career
A child of the backwoods, he was left an orphan at 14.
..... Click the link for more information. , John Quincy AdamsAdams, John Quincy,
1767–1848, 6th President of the United States (1825–29), b. Quincy (then in Braintree), Mass.; son of John Adams and Abigail Adams and father of Charles Francis Adams (1807–86).
..... Click the link for more information. , William H. CrawfordCrawford, William Harris,
1772–1834, American statesman, b. Amherst co., Va. (his birthplace is now in Nelson co.). He moved with his parents to South Carolina and later to Georgia. After studying law he practiced at Lexington, Va.
..... Click the link for more information. , and Henry ClayClay, Henry,
1777–1852, American statesman, b. Hanover co., Va. Early Career
His father died when he was four years old, and Clay's formal schooling was limited to three years.
..... Click the link for more information. ; when the election went into the House of Representatives, Clay threw his support to Adams, who won. Jackson was elected in 1828 and in 1832 (when his followers held the first national conventionconvention,
in U.S. politics, a gathering of delegates to nominate candidates for elective office and to formulate party policy. They are held at the national, state, and local levels.
..... Click the link for more information. of the Democratic party). In the debates of his administrations, especially over his dissolution of the Bank of the United States and the nullificationnullification,
in U.S. history, a doctrine expounded by the advocates of extreme states' rights. It held that states have the right to declare null and void any federal law that they deem unconstitutional.
..... Click the link for more information. controversy, opposition ultimately coalesced in the Whig partyWhig party,
one of the two major political parties of the United States in the second quarter of the 19th cent. Origins
As a party it did not exist before 1834, but its nucleus was formed in 1824 when the adherents of John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay joined forces
..... Click the link for more information. .
Until 1860 the Democrats won all the presidential elections except those of 1840 and 1848, electing Martin Van BurenVan Buren, Martin,
1782–1862, 8th President of the United States (1837–41), b. Kinderhook, Columbia co., N.Y. Early Career
He was reared on his father's farm, was educated at local schools, and after reading law was admitted (1803) to the bar.
..... Click the link for more information. , James K. PolkPolk, James Knox
, 1795–1849, 11th President of the United States (1845–49), b. Mecklenburg co., N.C. Early Career
His family moved (1806) to the Duck River valley in Tennessee and there, after graduating from the Univ.
..... Click the link for more information. , Franklin PiercePierce, Franklin,
1804–69, 14th President of the United States (1853–57), b. Hillsboro, N.H., grad. Bowdoin College, 1824. Admitted to the bar in 1827, he entered politics as a Jacksonian Democrat, like his father, Benjamin Pierce, who was twice elected governor of
..... Click the link for more information. , and James BuchananBuchanan, James,
1791–1868, 15th President of the United States (1857–61), b. near Mercersburg, Pa., grad. Dickinson College, 1809. Early Career
Buchanan studied law at Lancaster, Pa.
..... Click the link for more information. . During this period political debate centered more and more on the bitter question of slavery that was dividing North and South. With the demise of the Whig party in the election of 1852 and the emergence of the sectional, antislavery Republican partyRepublican party,
American political party. Origins and Early Years
The name was first used by Thomas Jefferson's party, later called the Democratic Republican party or, simply, the Democratic party.
..... Click the link for more information. in 1854 (succeeding the Free-Soil partyFree-Soil party,
in U.S. history, political party that came into existence in 1847–48 chiefly because of rising opposition to the extension of slavery into any of the territories newly acquired from Mexico.
..... Click the link for more information. ), the Democrats remained the sole national party.
The vital question of the decade between 1850 and 1860 concerned slavery in the territories, and on this issue the Democratic party divided sharply. One group, mainly Northern, led by Stephen A. DouglasDouglas, Stephen Arnold,
1813–61, American statesman, b. Brandon, Vt. Senatorial Career
He was admitted to the bar at Jacksonville, Ill., in 1834. After holding various state and local offices he became a U.S.
..... Click the link for more information. , championed the doctrine of popular sovereigntypopular sovereignty,
in U.S. history, doctrine under which the status of slavery in the territories was to be determined by the settlers themselves. Although the doctrine won wide support as a means of avoiding sectional conflict over the slavery issue, its meaning remained
..... Click the link for more information. , which held that the inhabitants of the territory should decide whether it would be slave or free. Other Northern Democrats (mostly the old BarnburnersBarnburners,
radical element of the Democratic party in New York state from 1842 to 1848, opposed to the conservative Hunkers. The name derives from the fabled Dutchman who burned his barn to rid it of rats; by implication, the Barnburners would destroy corporations and public
..... Click the link for more information. ) swung over to the new antislavery parties. Southern Democrats, led by Robert ToombsToombs, Robert,
1810–85, American statesman, Confederate leader, b. Wilkes co., Ga. A successful lawyer in Georgia, he entered politics as a Whig, serving in the state legislature and in Congress (1845–53).
..... Click the link for more information. and Jefferson DavisDavis, Jefferson,
1808–89, American statesman, President of the Southern Confederacy, b. Fairview, near Elkton, Ky. His birthday was June 3. Early Life
Davis's parents moved to Mississippi when he was a boy.
..... Click the link for more information. among others, and buttressed by the Supreme Court's decision in the Dred Scott CaseDred Scott Case,
argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1856–57. It involved the then bitterly contested issue of the status of slavery in the federal territories. In 1834, Dred Scott, a black slave, personal servant to Dr. John Emerson, a U.S.
..... Click the link for more information. , held that slavery must be protected in the territories. At the Democratic Convention of 1860 the party split, Northern Democrats nominating Douglas, and the Southern Democrats choosing John C. BreckinridgeBreckinridge, John Cabell,
1821–75, Vice President of the United States (1857–61) and Confederate general, b. Lexington, Ky. A lawyer, Breckinridge served in the Kentucky legislature (1849–51) and in the House of Representatives (1851–55).
..... Click the link for more information. , thus facilitating the victory of Abraham Lincoln.
From the Civil War to Bryan
During the Civil War some members of the party were openly sympathetic toward the South (see CopperheadsCopperheads,
in the American Civil War, a reproachful term for those Northerners sympathetic to the South, mostly Democrats outspoken in their opposition to the Lincoln administration. They were especially strong in Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio, where Clement L.
..... Click the link for more information. ), and Republicans in postwar years attempted with some success to depict the Democrats as the party of rebellion. Southern leaders associated the defeat of the South and ReconstructionReconstruction,
1865–77, in U.S. history, the period of readjustment following the Civil War. At the end of the Civil War, the defeated South was a ruined land. The physical destruction wrought by the invading Union forces was enormous, and the old social and economic
..... Click the link for more information. with the Republican party, and the eleven states of the old Confederacy, with few exceptions, voted Democratic until the 1960s, giving rise to the "solid South."
The years from 1860 to 1912 were lean ones for the party on the national level. In 1876 the Democratic candidate, Samuel J. TildenTilden, Samuel Jones,
1814–86, American political figure, Democratic presidential candidate in 1876, b. New Lebanon, N.Y. Admitted to the bar in 1841, Tilden was an eminently successful lawyer, with many railroad companies as clients.
..... Click the link for more information. , won a plurality of the popular vote, but the disputed electoral votes of Florida, South Carolina, and Louisiana (states still under Republican control) were awarded to the Republican Rutherford B. HayesHayes, Rutherford Birchard,
1822–93, 19th President of the United States (1877–81), b. Delaware, Ohio, grad. Kenyon College, 1843, and Harvard law school, 1845. He became a moderately successful lawyer in Cincinnati and was made (1858) city solicitor.
..... Click the link for more information. , who became President. Thus only the victories of Grover ClevelandCleveland, Grover
(Stephen Grover Cleveland), 1837–1908, 22d (1885–89) and 24th (1893–97) President of the United States, b. Caldwell, N.J.; son of a Presbyterian clergyman.
..... Click the link for more information. (1884 and 1892) broke the Republican control of the presidency during this period. Yet the Democrats often controlled one or both houses of Congress in this era and had wide success in the states.
In general policy the two parties differed little from the end of Reconstruction in 1877 until 1896. Traditionally the Democrats were more the party of agrarianism and cheap money and the opponents of protective tariffs, and even the most conservative Democrats were opposed to the control of industry and trade by the trusts and big business. However, radical economic and agrarian schemes were as distasteful to many Democrats as they were to the Republicans.
The problem of how to deal with the agrarian appeal of the Populist partyPopulist party,
in U.S. history, political party formed primarily to express the agrarian protest of the late 19th cent. In some states the party was known as the People's party.
..... Click the link for more information. and with the question of free silverfree silver,
in U.S. history, term designating the political movement for the unlimited coinage of silver. Origins of the Movement
Free silver became a popular issue soon after the Panic of 1873, and it was a major issue in the next quarter century.
..... Click the link for more information. split the Democrats in Cleveland's second administration. In the convention of 1896 a radical group succeeded in nominating William Jennings BryanBryan, William Jennings
, 1860–1925, American political leader, b. Salem, Ill. Although the nation consistently rejected him for the presidency, it eventually adopted many of the reforms he urged—the graduated federal income tax, popular election of senators, woman
..... Click the link for more information. for President on a platform calling for free silver and supporting other Populist demands. In the election the party suffered its worst popular defeat since 1872, and it appeared doomed by the impossibility of reconciling its diverse elements—Southern farmers, Western farmers, urban industrial classes, and a wealthy few.
The New Freedom and New Deal
The Democrats regained the presidency in 1912 under Woodrow WilsonWilson, Woodrow
(Thomas Woodrow Wilson), 1856–1924, 28th President of the United States (1913–21), b. Staunton, Va. Educator
He graduated from Princeton in 1879 and studied law at the Univ. of Virginia.
..... Click the link for more information. , but only because the candidacy of Theodore Roosevelt on the Progressive partyProgressive party,
in U.S. history, the name of three political organizations, active, respectively, in the presidential elections of 1912, 1924, and 1948. Election of 1912
..... Click the link for more information. ticket diminished the Republican vote. Under Wilson's progressive policy, known as the New Freedom, some fruitful reform was enacted, but the idealism he had inspired waned after World War I. Democratic presidential candidates were defeated in the next three elections, but in 1928 urban Democrats made key inroads into important urban voting blocs.
The economic depression that began in 1929 helped to sweep the Democrats and Franklin Delano RooseveltRoosevelt, Franklin Delano
, 1882–1945, 32d President of the United States (1933–45), b. Hyde Park, N.Y. Early Life
Through both his father, James Roosevelt, and his mother, Sara Delano Roosevelt, he came of old, wealthy families.
..... Click the link for more information. into office in 1932, and with his New Deal the Democrats were again identified as the party of reform. Roosevelt was reelected in 1936 with the largest plurality in the nation's history, and in 1940 he became the first U.S. President to be elected to a third term. After leading the country for three years in World War II, he was reelected for a fourth term in 1944.
Upon his death (Apr., 1945) he was succeeded by Harry S. TrumanTruman, Harry S.,
1884–1972, 33d President of the United States, b. Lamar, Mo. Early Life and Political Career
He grew up on a farm near Independence, Mo., worked at various jobs, and tended the family farm.
..... Click the link for more information. . In 1948, despite the withdrawal from the Democratic convention of many Southern Democrats (whose subsequent nominee was J. Strom ThurmondThurmond, Strom
(James Strom Thurmond) , 1902–2003, U.S. senator from South Carolina (1954–2003), b. Edgefield, S.C. He read law while teaching school (1923–29) and was admitted to the bar in 1930.
..... Click the link for more information. ) and despite the candidacy of Henry A. WallaceWallace, Henry Agard,
1888–1965, vice president of the United States (1941–45), b. Adair co., Iowa; grad. Iowa State Univ. He was (1910–24) associate editor of Wallaces' Farmer,
..... Click the link for more information. , Truman narrowly defeated the Republican candidate, Thomas E. Dewey. Adlai E. StevensonStevenson, Adlai Ewing,
1900–1965, American statesman, b. Los Angeles; grandson of Adlai Ewing Stevenson (1835–1914). A graduate (1922) of Princeton, he received his law degree from Northwestern Univ., was admitted (1926) to the bar, and practiced law in Chicago.
..... Click the link for more information. , the Democratic nominee in 1952 and 1956 was easily defeated by Dwight D. Eisenhower.
The 1960s to the Present
In 1960, John F. KennedyKennedy, John Fitzgerald,
1917–63, 35th President of the United States (1961–63), b. Brookline, Mass.; son of Joseph P. Kennedy. Early Life
While an undergraduate at Harvard (1936–40) he served briefly in London as secretary to his father, who was
..... Click the link for more information. narrowly defeated the Republican candidate, Richard M. Nixon, in the presidential race. Upon Kennedy's assassination (1963), Lyndon B. JohnsonJohnson, Lyndon Baines,
1908–73, 36th President of the United States (1963–69), b. near Stonewall, Tex. Early Life
Born into a farm family, he graduated (1930) from Southwest Texas State Teachers College (now Southwest Texas State Univ.), in San Marcos.
..... Click the link for more information. became president and won a landslide victory in 1964 against the conservative Republican Barry Goldwater. His administration was marked by much social welfare and civil-rights legislation but the conduct of the Vietnam War split the party, and when combined with the strong third-party showing of the conservative Southern Democrat George C. WallaceWallace, George Corley,
1919–98, governor of Alabama (1963–67, 1971–79, 1983–87), b. Clio, Ala. Admitted to the bar in 1942, he was active in the Alabama Democratic party, serving in the state assembly (1947–53) and as a district court judge
..... Click the link for more information. , led to the defeat of Hubert H. HumphreyHumphrey, Hubert Horatio,
1911–78, U.S. Vice President (1965–69), b. Wallace, S.Dak. After practicing pharmacy for several years, Humphrey taught political science and became involved in state politics.
..... Click the link for more information. by Richard Nixon in 1968.
The Democratic party of the 1970s and 80s was an uneasy alliance among labor, urban, and ethnic minority groups, intellectuals and middle-class reformers, and increasingly disaffected Southern Democrats. In 1972 the balance in the party was further upset with the nomination of George McGovernMcGovern, George Stanley
, 1922–2012, U.S. senator from South Dakota (1963–81), b. Avon, S.Dak. He was a decorated B-24 bomber pilot during World War II. He later obtained degrees from Dakota Wesleyan Univ. (B.A., 1946) and Northwestern (Ph.D.
..... Click the link for more information. , whose defense and social welfare views proved unacceptable to many labor unions and other groups, while the South continued to swing its support to national Republican candidates. Although the Democrats retained their solid majorities in Congress (except for the Senate in 1980, 1982, and 1984), the victorious national coalition built by Nixon was sustained by Ronald ReaganReagan, Ronald Wilson
, 1911–2004, 40th president of the United States (1981–89), b. Tampico, Ill. In 1932, after graduation from Eureka College, he became a radio announcer and sportscaster.
..... Click the link for more information. in 1980 and 1984 and by George H. W. BushBush, George Herbert Walker,
1924–, 41st President of the United States (1989–93), b. Milton, Mass., B.A., Yale Univ., 1948. Career in Business and Government
..... Click the link for more information. in 1988. Jimmy CarterCarter, Jimmy
(James Earl Carter, Jr.), 1924–, 39th President of the United States (1977–81), b. Plains, Ga, grad. Annapolis, 1946.
Carter served in the navy, where he worked with Admiral Hyman G. Rickover in developing the nuclear submarine program.
..... Click the link for more information. , a Democrat from Georgia, may have won in 1976 because of the political scandals that emerged during the second Nixon administration and by temporarily recalling Southern Democratic voters to the fold.
The Democratic victory of Bill ClintonClinton, Bill
(William Jefferson Clinton), 1946–, 42d President of the United States (1993–2001), b. Hope, Ark. His father died before he was born, and he was originally named William Jefferson Blythe 4th, but after his mother remarried, he assumed the surname of his
..... Click the link for more information. in 1992 was thought by some to have marked the emergence of a new Democratic coalition of labor, women, minorities, moderates, "Reagan Democrats," and the South. In 1994, however, voters expressed their anti-Washington and anti-incumbent sentiments by delivering Republican victories nationwide, with a particularly strong showing in the South, resulting in the loss for the Democrats of their majorities in both houses of Congress as well as the loss of a number of governorships. Clinton's conflicts with the Republican House helped restore much of the stature he had lost in 1994, and with a generally healthy national economy in 1996 he handily defeated Republican Bob DoleDole, Bob
(Robert Joseph Dole), 1923–, American political leader, b. Russell, Kan.; husband of Elizabeth Hanford Dole. While serving in World War II, he was seriously wounded and required several years of convalescence. After obtaining his law degree from Washburn Univ.
..... Click the link for more information. and Reform party candidate Ross PerotPerot, H. Ross
(Henry Ross Perot), 1930–, American business executive and political leader, b. Texarkana, Tex., grad. Annapolis, 1953. In 1957 he resigned his commission and became a salesman for IBM.
..... Click the link for more information. . Other incumbents, however, also benefited from the voters' general contentment, and Republicans retained control of the House of Representatives and the Senate. This situation was largely unchanged by the 1998 congressional elections despite the Lewinsky scandalLewinsky scandal
, sensation that enveloped the presidency of Bill Clinton in 1998–99, leading to his impeachment by the U.S. House of Representatives and acquittal by the Senate.
..... Click the link for more information. , which Democrats feared would benefit Republicans.
In the 2000 elections, the party's presidential nominee, Al GoreGore, Albert Arnold, Jr.,
1948–, Vice President of the United States (1993–2001), b. Washington, D.C., grad. Harvard, 1969. After serving in the army in Vietnam and working as a reporter, he was elected (1976) to the U.S.
..... Click the link for more information. , lost to Republican George W. BushBush, George Walker,
1946–, 43d President of the United States (2001–9), b. New Haven, Conn. The eldest son of President George H. W. Bush, he was was raised in Texas and, like his father, attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass., and Yale, graduating in 1968.
..... Click the link for more information. despite having won a plurality of the popular vote. Gore's candidacy was hurt by the campaign of Green party candidate Ralph NaderNader, Ralph
, 1934–, U.S. consumer advocate and political reformer, b. Winsted, Conn. Admitted to the bar in 1958, he practiced law in Connecticut and was a lecturer (1961–63) in history and government at the Univ. of Hartford.
..... Click the link for more information. , and the extremely narrow loss of Florida's electoral votes, which Gore unsuccessfully challenged in the courts. Despite Gore's electoral-college loss, the party's fortunes clearly seemed to have improved since the Reagan years, and the Democrats made gains in Congress, subsequently (June, 2001) controlling the Senate due to a Republican member's defection. The Nov., 2002, elections, however, returned control of both houses of Congress to the Republicans. Senator John KerryKerry, John Forbes,
1943–, U.S. politician, b. Denver, grad. Yale, 1966, Boston College law school, 1976. A decorated navy veteran who served two tours in Vietnam after graduating from Yale, Kerry won national notice as an outspoken opponent of the war when he returned
..... Click the link for more information. easily won the party's 2004 presidential nomination, but he was soundly defeated in the general election by President Bush. The party also saw the Republicans further solidify their majorities in Congress.
The party's national fortunes reversed with the 2006 congressional elections, in which voter discontent with political scandals, the war in Iraq, and other issues resulted in significant Democratic advances, giving the party control of both houses of Congress. Democrats also made gains in the states, winning control of additional governorships and state legislatures. Some of the gains, however, particularly in the U.S. Senate, were due to narrow victories.
In 2008, aided by the unpopularity of the Bush presidency and a national economic crisis, Democrat Barack ObamaObama, Barack
(Barack Hussein Obama 2d), , 1961–, 44th president of the United States (2009–), b. Honolulu, grad. Columbia (B.A. 1983), Harvard Law School (J.D. 1991).
..... Click the link for more information. defeated Republican John McCainMcCain, John Sidney, 3d,
1936–, U.S. politician, b. Panama Canal Zone. A much decorated navy veteran, he was born into a career naval family and attended the U.S. Naval Academy, graduating in 1958.
..... Click the link for more information. to become the first African American to win the nation's highest office. Obama's win represented the Democrat's biggest presidential victory since Jimmy Carter was elected in 1976, and the party generally added to its gains of 2006, especially in the U.S. Congress. Those gains were in large part reversed in 2010, when an uncertain, lackluster recovery contributed to the Republican party's capturing the U.S. House of Representatives as well as winning many governorships and additional U.S. Senate seats. In 2012, despite an economic recovery that continued to be only gradual, Obama was reelected, defeating Republican Mitt RomneyRomney, Mitt
(Willard Mitt Romney) , 1947–, American politician and business executive, b. Detroit, Mich., grad. Brigham Young Univ. (B.A., 1971), Harvard (M.B.A., 1975, J.D., 1975). Son of George W. Romney, he worked for Bain and Co.
..... Click the link for more information. . The balance of power in the Congress remained largely the same, but in the 2014 elections the Republicans won control of the Senate. In 2016, Hillary ClintonClinton, Hillary Rodham
, 1947–, U.S. senator and secretary of state, wife of President Bill Clinton, b. Chicago, grad. Wellesley College (B.A. 1969), Yale Law School (LL.B., 1973). After law school she served on the House panel that investigated the Watergate affair.
..... Click the link for more information. secured the party's presidential nomination after a primary fight with Sen. Bernie SandersSanders, Bernie
(Bernard Sanders), 1941–, American politician, b. Brooklyn, N.Y. The son of Jewish immigrants from Poland, he spent a year at Brooklyn College and graduated from the Univ. of Chicago (B.A., 1964). He moved to Vermont in 1964.
..... Click the link for more information. .
See C. A. Beard, Economic Origins of Jeffersonian Democracy (1915); A. M. Schlesinger, Jr., The Age of Jackson (1945); H. J. Clancy, The Democratic Party (1962); R. M. Goldman, Search for Consensus (1979) and Dilemma and Destiny (1986); S. E. Frantzich, Political Parties in the Technological Age (1989); D. Sarasohn, Party of Reform: Democrats in the Progressive Era (1989); S. L. Maisel, The Parties Respond: Changes in the American Party System (1990).
(US), one of the two main parties of monopoly capital in the USA (the other is the Republican Party).
The Democratic Party was formed in 1828 (it is often called the successor of the Democratic-Republican Party, founded by T. Jefferson in the 1790’s). Initially, the Democratic Party united the slave-owning Southern planters and that part of the Northern bourgeoisie linked with them, as well as a significant number of farmers and petite bourgeoisie. Toward the middle of the 19th century, the position of the big planter-bourgeoisie coalition in the Democratic Party strengthened. Between 1828 and 1861 it was the ruling party for 24 years: from 1829 to 1841 (Presidents A. Jackson and M. Van Buren), from 1845 to 1849 (President J. K. Polk), and from 1853 to 1861 (Presidents F. Pierce and J. Buchanan). As the contradictions between the North and the South sharpened, particularly on the question of slavery, a split took place in the Democratic Party, which helped the Republican Party strengthen its position. After the Republican candidate A. Lincoln won the election of 1860, the more reactionary group of southern Democrats (called the Dixiecrats) became, during 1860-61, the main organizers of rebellion and of a separatist slave-owning confederation. After the end of the Civil War of 1861-65 the differences between the Democratic Party and the Republican Party began to blur; at the beginning of the 20th century both parties turned into political organizations of big capital. Under the USA’s two-party system, which is used by the ruling class as one means of diverting workers from the struggle for their essential interests, the Democratic and Republican parties periodically replace each other in power. Since 1861 the Democratic Party has held power for 44 years: from 1885 to 1889 and from 1893 to 1897 (President S. G. Cleveland), from 1913 to 1921 (President T. W. Wilson), from 1933 to 1953 (Presidents F. D. Roosevelt and H. Truman), and from 1961 to 1969 (Presidents J. F. Kennedy and L. Johnson).
Defending the interests of monopoly capital, the Democratic Party tries to maintain a base of various social strata and frequently employs sophisticated social demagoguery to that end. At the end of the 1960’s there were three basic groups in the Democratic Party: the center, reflecting primarily the interests of a sector of the major Northeastern monopolies and exercising the greatest influence; the “liberal wing” (radically inclined intelligentsia, some of the trade unions, and students), which in a number of cases called for more flexible domestic and foreign policies; and the Dixiecrats, who united the most reactionary forces of the party, mainly from the southern states, and often formed a coalition with the right wing of the Republican Party. During the electoral campaign of 1968, a group of southern Democrats took an active part in forming the so-called American Independent Party, which held openly racist, profascist positions.
The Democratic Party does not have a permanent membership; membership is defined by voting for its candidates in the elections. The party apparatus, consisting of leaders and officials on various levels who are active in the states, cities, and counties, constitutes the party in the proper sense of the word. Once every four years a party convention is called to choose candidates for the presidency and the vice presidency and to adopt a party program (platform), which does not actually bind the party leaders at all. Between conventions, the Democratic Party’s activity is coordinated by its National Committee; the party factions in both houses of Congress, as well as local party bosses, are very influential. The leader of the party is the president (if the party is in power) or a former president or presidential candidate (if it is out of power). The headquarters of the National Committee is in Washington.
REFERENCESLenin, V. I. “Itogi i znachenie prezidentskikh vyborov v Amerike.” Poln. sobr. soch., 5th ed., vol. 22.
Cherniak, E. B. Gosudarstvennyi stroi i politic he skie partii SShA. Moscow, 1957.
Minor, H. The Story of the Democratic Party. New York, 1928.
Chambers, W. N. The Democrats 1789-1964: A Short History of a Popular Party. Princeton-New York, 1964.
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The Russian composer’s works for solo piano remain the most neglected of his entire oeuvre, although The Seasons—a suite of 12 short pieces actually representing the months of the year, with descriptive subtitles—has gained a wider public as the basis of the score for John Cranko’s Onegin ballet, in Kurt-Heinz Stolze’s stylish orchestrations. Kolesnikov, the Russian-born, London-based winner of the 2012 Honens Competition in Canada (sponsor of this disc), regards these little masterpieces as almost too private for the concert hall, and so ideal for recording. He treats them not as salon music, but in the spirit of Schumann’s many collections of piano pieces, the obvious inspiration for Tchaikovsky’s 1876 set. February’s 'Allegro giusto' is subtitled Carnaval, a clear reference to Schumann’s Op 9. Certainly, Kolesnikov emphasises the delicacy and intimacy of these infrequently played pieces, written for gifted amateurs rather than professional virtuosi—they appeared monthly in the music/theatre journal Nuvellist throughout 1876. They are Tchaikovsky’s 'songs without words', although entirely pianistic, and it is wonderful to hear a young Russian avoiding the barnstorming style of so many contemporaries. He plays the 'Six Pieces' with affection and élan. | <urn:uuid:d8319799-26ed-4e40-aaa5-f92ac3eda327> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/service-getFullReview.asp?id=6637_D_CDA68028 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279650.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00440-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931351 | 301 | 1.523438 | 2 |
Physicians—along with every other healthcare professional—must constantly bolster their existing medical knowledge with Continuing Medical Education (CME), which encompasses the breakthroughs and technological updates that happen every single day within the healthcare world. Choosing the best CME activity for their licensure renewal requirements is pivotal to the continuation of their careers.
As a CME provider, it is essential to know what types of activities physicians generally prefer and why. While a variety of elements come into play, and many of which are specific to the individual physician, the most important overarching factors have to do with topic relevance, time allowance to complete the activity, and content quality.
If you have struck all of those notes yet still notice undesirable registration numbers, then consider these nine criteria and adjust your CME content accordingly.
1. In-Person vs. Online
Whether your activity is live or virtual, physicians need flexibility when it comes to structure and scheduling. From there, however, each method has different requirements that make them more desirable to those looking to earn credits.
- Times & days – Consider the days of the week when planning your event and select convenient times that are not overtly intrusive to either the physician’s practice or their daily schedules.
- Flexibility – It is unlikely that any one physician will be present for the full duration of your event due to their pre-existing obligations. Therefore, you will want to offer flexibility in terms of the dates your event will take place.
- Length – Many physicians will be traveling to your event; bear in mind that they will want to enjoy the location while they are there, and schedule the lengths of your conferences appropriately.
- Adaptability – Because online activities are not locked into a set schedule like in-person events, CME providers have the luxury of being able to offer the most up-to-date information available. Remain adaptive and ensure your content has taken into account all current knowledge on the topic.
- Time allowance – Allocate your physicians enough time to fully understand the material and allow them the ability to go back and review anything they may have misunderstood during their first watch.
- Availability – It is impossible to cater to every single physician’s busy schedule; by making your online content available 24/7 during its lifespan, that is not something you need to worry about. This will also allow physicians to complete your content at their own pace.
For in-person events, physicians will check to see if your chosen venue is local or in a desirable location that they consider worth the trip. However, there are a wide range of preferences to try to manage when selecting your location. Some healthcare professionals enjoy having CME events in multiple cities around the country, in venues that are close to airports. Others prefer a variety of specialty-specific conferences in a single, desirable destination with a schedule that allows for free time.
3. Activity Details
Marketing must be taken into consideration when it comes to advertising the details of your activity to your target healthcare professionals. For in-person events, physicians prefer to know important information well in advance, such as dates, times, and location. For both in-person and online activities, it is crucial to make your topic known, along with what aspects of that topic your content will cover in-depth.
Potential registrants must prioritize the welfare of their careers first; in the interest of that, they will look at CME providers’ credentials as well as the credentials of their speakers. Freely listing your credentials goes hand-in-hand with providing details regarding your activity’s learning objectives and teaching methods.
Furthermore, you must include information on certification and the credits physicians will earn by completing your activity.
5. Alumni Opinion
Word of mouth is a potent tool that can either hurt or help your marketing endeavors. Never outrule the possibility that potential registrants will ask former attendees their opinions on your content. After ensuring the best experience possible during your actual event, it will prove beneficial to reach out to attendees after the fact for detailed feedback, which can help highlight areas of improvement for next time.
It is important to avoid pigeonholing yourself when it comes to your CME content. To optimize your chances of success, offer a range of educational materials for different topics within your chosen specialties or professions. Not only will this provide new registrants an ample opportunity to find something that suits their specific needs, it also increases the chances of drawing former attendees back for more—especially if their previous experience had been a satisfying one.
7. Career Advancement Opportunities
Many physicians seek to advance and optimize their practices, and this reflects in their choice of CME content. Oftentimes, they will opt for activities that they believe will facilitate career advancement opportunities by furnishing them with skills and knowledge that are currently in demand within their respective fields.
Budget constraints must always be taken into consideration when promoting a CME activity. Content with a high price tag must always offer enough value to compensate; this value can come in the form of robust learning objectives, a satisfactory number of credits earned, or other perks such as a discount on hotel bookings.
9. Accreditation Requirements
CME accreditation requirements vary for each organizer, but these requirements determine the manner of content each organizer can provide, such as seminars, tutorials, or web-based assessments. Similarly, physicians are beholden to the licensure requirements of their state medical board, which may dictate the activities they must complete for renewal. For example, a physician may need to complete an activity that follows the Performance Improvement Continuing Medical Education (PI CME) format, which will not be available from every CME provider.
CME serves a dual purpose for most physicians: they are satisfying a career requirement while also developing new knowledge and skills to enhance their level of patient care. However, these are not the only outcomes that can be obtained through CME, with many physicians choosing to pursue a path to lower healthcare costs for themselves and their patients through the new methods and technologies offered by CME.
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After you finish a workout, you could sip a sports drink, but there’s another post-workout drink you may not have considered – tomato juice. According to a new study published in the Nutrition Journal, sipping tomato juice after an intense workout could reduce oxidative stress and help your muscles recover.
Tomato Juice: A Good Exercise Recovery Drink?
Researchers in Stockholm, Sweden asked a group of healthy volunteers to exercise at 80% of their maximal heart rate for 20 minutes on an ergometer. After the exercise session, they tested their blood for a compound called 8-oxodG, a chemical that’s a marker for oxidative damage. Not surprisingly, after exercising intensely, levels of this marker were elevated by 42%. Then they had the participants drink 150 milliliters of tomato juice daily for 5 weeks and repeated the experiment. The results? After sipping tomato juice for 5 weeks, the levels of this marker for oxidative damage didn’t rise after the participants exercises. This suggests that some ingredient in tomato juice may help to reduce oxidative damage after exercise.
Tomatoes Are a Rich Source of Lycopene
Why is tomato juice effective against oxidative damage? Researchers believe it’s the lycopenes in tomato juice. Lycopene is a carotenoid pigment in tomatoes and other red fruits that give them their color. Other good sources of lycopene are apricots, pink grapefruits and watermelon. Lycopene is also a strong antioxidant and natural anti-inflammatory compound. This may explain its ability to block oxidative damage after a workout. Tomato juice contains other antioxidants including vitamin C and vitamin E, but these vitamins are partially destroyed during processing. Processing tomatoes by heating them to make tomato juice, tomato sauce or ketchup actually converts lycopenes into a form the body can more readily use.
Other Benefits of Sipping Tomato Juice
Preliminary studies show that dietary lycopenes may reduce the risk of heart disease, age-related macular degeneration of the eyes and some types of cancer, especially prostate cancer, but more recent research has cast doubt on whether it actually prevents prostate cancer. Most experts recommend getting between 25 and 75 milligrams of lycopene a day. A cup of tomato juice has around 23 milligrams in an easily absorbed form.
Exercise Recovery: Sip Tomato Juice?
A cup of tomato juice has 10 grams of carbs, so enjoy a cup along with a snack that contains protein and carbs to replenish glycogen stores and aid muscle recovery. Ideally, you need between 0.3 to 0.6 grams of carbs per pound of body weight within an hour after an endurance workout to replace glycogen stores. Most commercial tomato juice is relatively high in sodium, which isn’t such a bad thing if you exercised in a hot environment for an hour or more and lost electrolytes through sweating. You can also buy low-sodium tomato juice at many supermarkets. In addition, tomato juice is a good source of potassium, another electrolyte lost through sweat.
Exercise Recovery and Tomato Juice: The Bottom Line?
There are advantages to sipping tomato juice after a workout. It’s a good way to help your muscles recover but whether or not it reduces delayed-onset muscle soreness is unclear. It’s also a good way to get more heart-healthy lycopenes in your diet in a form your body can readily use. If you drink it regularly, not just after a workout, look for a low-sodium version.
Nutraingredients-USA.com. “Tomato Juice Shows Sports Nutrition Potential”
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JULY 28, 2014
“When a crime is not punished, people feel it is safe to do wrong.” This proverb is proving true in Ukraine, where a rising number of Jehovah’s Witnesses are victims of hate crimes. Jehovah’s Witnesses are grateful that the government of Ukraine guarantees freedom of worship, yet they are alarmed that hate crimes against them are increasing and that authorities are allowing perpetrators to act with impunity.
Since 2008, there have been 64 physical assaults in Ukraine against Jehovah’s Witnesses while they were engaged in or had just completed religious activity. Sixteen of these assaults were committed by Orthodox priests.
From 2008 to 2013 there were also 190 acts of vandalism against Kingdom Halls and perpetrators made 13 attempts to destroy the buildings by arson. During 2012 and 2013, acts of vandalism against Kingdom Halls doubled compared to the previous four years.
The severity of the attacks is also increasing. In 2012, two Kingdom Halls in the Donetsk Region were completely destroyed by fire. In 2013, two incidents of physical assault caused injuries so severe that the victims required extended hospitalization.
The Witnesses have turned to the authorities for protection but have found no relief because the authorities have not conducted prompt and effective investigations or acted to appropriately punish the offenders.
Inaction by Authorities
Vandalism. The police fail to respond or are slow to respond when an incident is reported. If a criminal report is filed, authorities often refuse to initiate proceedings or delay in doing so. Even if legal action is instituted, either the prosecutors fail to charge the perpetrator or the courts impose only a token punishment. From 2008 through 2012, authorities brought no criminal charges against the perpetrators in the 111 incidents of vandalism.
Physical attacks. Police often do not investigate the attacks properly or make efforts to identify the perpetrators. When proceedings are instituted, authorities seldom charge or punish the offenders. When courts do punish perpetrators, punishments imposed are not commensurate with the crimes because the attacks are not classified as hate crimes.
This scenario of impunity emboldens the perpetrators to continue the pattern of violence
Beating of Oleksandr Tretiak
A particularly egregious attack occurred on November 26, 2013, against Oleksandr Tretiak, a 41-year-old Witness who was returning home after engaging in religious activity. Three men viciously beat Mr. Tretiak for over 20 minutes. He identified the attackers as Ruslan Ivanov; Anatoliy Dovhan, a retired lieutenant colonel of the police; and Evheniy Ihlinskiy, Dovhan’s son-in-law and a traffic officer. Mr. Tretiak managed to escape and was rushed to the hospital with severe injuries, including multiple cuts and bruises, a craniocerebral injury and a broken nose.
Despite his condition, the investigator characterized the crime as a “minor” bodily injury inflicted by three “unidentified” persons. After two weeks in the hospital, Mr. Tretiak was prematurely released—a longer hospital stay would have compelled authorities to designate the attack as more than a “minor” crime. His severe injuries required that he be readmitted to the hospital the very next day. In total, he spent 23 days in the hospital.
Recently, charges were brought against Ruslan Ivanov, one of the attackers, but only after he fled. Mr. Tretiak fears that the perpetrators may target him again. He states, “I am convinced that the attackers were motivated by religious hatred for Jehovah’s Witnesses and intended to kill me.”
Will Officials Respond?
Ukraine is a country where over 150,000 of Jehovah’s Witnesses have enjoyed freedom of worship for years and where officials have proved helpful with past difficulties. The Witnesses hope that law enforcement officials in Ukraine will properly investigate criminal acts and prosecute the perpetrators so that they no longer act with impunity. | <urn:uuid:ec9c2b5e-5d0e-46b9-96d7-e1c582d2dc1a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.jw.org/en/news/legal/by-region/ukraine/religious-hate-crimes-impunity/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.964767 | 809 | 2.1875 | 2 |
25 Sep 2013: SE ASIA – Floods and Severe Weather
Myanmar - Floods (ECHO)
- The Ayeyarwaddy River continue to overflow and causing flood in the surrounding area.
- The river had overflowed its bank on 16 September in Hinthala Township, Ayeyarwaddy Region and its water level remained above the alarm level since then (report as of 22 September).
- Approximately 960 people are taking shelters in the township. 26 schools have been shut down.
- Local government is conducting necessary emergency response and assessment is ongoing.
Lao - Floods (ECHO)
- Four southern provinces, namely, Champasak, Saravan, Xekong, and Attapeu, are facing further flooding, after a low pressure system brought heavy rain over the weekend.
- Of these provinces, Champasak has been the worst affected area, followed by Saravan.
- In Champasak province, 9,760 families in 200 villages of all 10 districts are affected. More than 10,120 hectares of farmland have been damaged and thousands of livestock have died.
- In Saravan province, Khongxedon, Vapy and saravan districts are the worst affected areas. 68 villages in Khongxedon district have been flooded, with damage to 12,502 hectares of agriculture land and 9,596 families affected.
Indonesia - Floods (ECHO)
- Flood affected several sub-districts in North Mamuju district of West Sulawesi Province. 2,590 people affected.
- Local disaster management agency and other related government agencies provided necessary emergency response.
Vietnam - Floods (ECHO)
- Due to Tropical Depression 18 from South China Sea, several provinces in Vietnam have been flooded. Central and southern Vietnam have been hit by bad weather, inundating fields and villages, with 24 dead and six missing.
Cambodia - Heavy rain and floods (ECHO)
- As an affected of a Tropical Depression 18, heavy rains caused floods in several provinces in Cambodia, including; Ratanakiri, Ouddoy Meanchey and Banteay Meanchey.
- At least 12 people, including six children under six years old, have died in the deluge, according to the National Disaster Management Committee.
Thailand - Floods (ECHO)
- Heavy rain caused Chao Phraya river and Pasak river to overflow and caused flooding in several districts in the provinces of Ayutthaya, Phetchabun, Nakhon Sawan, Phichit, Loei, Phitsanulok, Angthong, Kalasin, Surin, Si Sa Ket and Ubon Ratchathani.
- More than 3,800 families were affected and more than 1,000 houses damaged.
Papua New Guinea - Hail Storm (ECHO)
- On 18 September, Hail Storm struck Tuime Kup and Golo in East mande.
- Agricultural gardens and fish projects were destroyed.
- More than 5,000 people were affected and are in need of food and clean water.
- OCHA and National Disaster Centre are monitoring the situation and waiting for the assessment report from district and provincial officials.
The Philippines - Floods and Landslide (ECHO)
- On Monday 23 September at 06.30 am, continuous rain caused landslide in province of Zambales (northwestern Philippines). At least 20 people reported dead and six houses were buried and nearly 698 people displaced.
- On Tuesday 24 September, the Philippine Government said nearly 70,000 people were displaced by floods caused by typhoon enhanced southwestern monsoon rain. 131 evacuation centers were opened in four northern regions: NCR, Central Luzon, Calabarzon and Mimaropa.
China - Typhoon Usagi (ECHO)
- As of 25 September, the death toll from Typhoon Usagi (that made landfall near Shanwei City in Guangdong Province on Sunday 22 September evening) has increased to 29.
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Matt_TO83 said"The $2.3 million study was conducted by scientists at the University of Texas, with funding provided by nine energy companies, including Exxon Mobil, and one environmental group, the Environmental Defense Fund. A spokesman for the University of Texas said that while the companies contributed money to the study, they had no input on the research or results, which were subject to independent peer review before being published in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science, one the nation's most prestigious scientific journals.
A 2011 study by Cornell University researchers ignited opposition to fracking when it concluded that methane leaks from natural-gas wells actually made natural gas a more climate-unfriendly energy source than coal. Although Obama has championed natural gas as a low-carbon "bridge" fuel to the future, green groups cited the Cornell study as reason that natural gas could become a climate nightmare."
[sarcasm]I'm completely sure that businesses with trillions of dollars worth of money invested in a positive outcome on their behalf would have no affect on a study.[/sarcasm]
I'm not a left winger, in fact, I think the reality is that the more development we do the more damage we cause to the environment. It all started when we chopped down the first tree and burned it for fire. Where it ends, and how much of an impact it will have on our living conditions, only we will decide.
I do think any time you find studies, especially ones that affect business earnings and political decisions, you need to find out who wrote it, who funded it and who they're connected to personally and financially.
For instance, just googling one of Environmental Defense Fund partners finds that Frank E. Loy used to preside over an oil pipeline and oil refinery: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_E._Loy.
While the group may have done good things for the environment in certain circumstance, when so much money is at stake I cannot sincerely trust business men to be the moral and ethical compass. I think there's been a whole new political angle on the rise (see Al Gore) of using the environment as a tool to control and manipulate government policies and public interest.
That's what peer review is for. I simply assume that there's going to be bias in most studies - the important thing is looking at the critiques of things like methodology or conclusions - otherwise the concerns come down to ad hominem attacks.
Yes, it is in fact possible and quite probable that industry funded research will bias industry - but when it comes to academic research and things like pharmaceutical research, industry tends to pull the research rather than attempt to influence results. On the other hand, regardless of how malicious a funder is, it doesn't mean the research is wrong. And most notably: “while the companies contributed money to the study, they had no input on the research or results, which were subject to independent peer review before being published in … one the nation’s most prestigious scientific journals.”
Finally no matter how you feel about fracking, the fact is that if your concerns are about Global Warming and have even the slightest concern about the middle east, then you should be pleased that it is because of these technologies that have made the US the world's leading oil producer, surpassing Saudi Arabia and reducing its overall energy dependence on the despots and dictators in the middle east. | <urn:uuid:8ceb30cd-2c5d-4e37-b7e2-e7ba0f89b096> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.realjock.com/gayforums/3447115 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280763.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00516-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961512 | 696 | 1.953125 | 2 |
If you’re having concerns about the health of your liver, it might be time to kick your nasty sugar habit to the curb. Dr. Mark Hyman explains the dangers of fatty liver, and how sugar, rather than fat, may indeed be the primary culprit. Here’s all you need to know about fatty liver and, to top it off, a customized list of 7 life-changing tips for switching up your diet and lifestyle to heal or prevent this dangerous disease.
“My doctor says I have a fatty liver and I should stay away from fat,” writes this week’s house call.” Is fat really the problem, though? In reality, not so much.
Fatty liver is a dangerous yet misunderstood disease, so your doctor’s concerns are valid. Ninety million Americans (and 17% of children in America) are living with fatty liver. If you’re pigging out on sugar and starch, you’re likely self inflicting fatty liver. Fatty liver literally means your liver fills with fat. This in turn ramps up inflammation, and as a result, vastly increases your risk for developing a multitude of chronic diseases.
However, it’s not fat you need to stay away from-it’s carbohydrates. Interestingly enough, research shows that carbohydrates (and not fat) are to blame for increasing the amount of fat that accumulates in your belly and liver. This may come as a shock to you, but let me explain why this is the case. Sugar is essentially a switch that triggers fat production in your liver (a natural process called lipogenesis). Therefore, our normal response to sugar consumption is liver lipogenesis.
Fructose, the most dangerous sugar that gets directly transported to your liver, actually upregulates lipogenesis. The increased fat production that occurs when we consume copious amounts of sugar explains why these simple carbohydrates, especially fructose, can become the primary cause of liver disease and the leading cause of liver transplants across the nation.
Our children’s diets today, chock full of simple sugars like fructose, are sadly setting the stage for liver transplants, high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease and unhealthy cholesterol levels. To manage these issues, doctors resort to pharmacological measures, which often don’t do the trick. When it comes down to it, it’s not a bright looking future.
How do you know if you have fatty liver?
Unfortunately, most people with fatty liver are completely unaware of their condition. Today we’re even seeing 12-year-olds with fatty liver because they guzzled high-fructose soft drinks for years and now need liver transplants. Fructose, the primary sweetener in sodas, is a key player in the ever-increasing rates of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD).
So how do you know if you have a fatty liver? Blood tests and an ultrasound can both detect fatty liver. If your blood test comes back abnormal, you must take it seriously. Even if your test comes back normal, don’t think you’re off the hook. A liver function test doesn’t always detect a fatty liver. An ultrasound is more sensitive.
Risks of Fatty Liver
You need a healthy liver to combat toxins and chemicals that inevitably become a part of your surroundings. A healthy liver means your body stays healthy, you don’t get sick and you keep up your energy levels. An unhealthy liver, or fatty liver, puts you at risk for increased inflammation, a harmful process which can in turn lead to insulin resistance and a condition known as pre-diabetes, which exponentially increases your chances of developing full blown diabetes if not well controlled. But that’s not all, folks. Excess sugar and starch in the diet can also lead to high triglycerides, low HDL (“good” cholesterol), and high small LDL (“bad” cholesterol). Because of its association with a dangerous triglyceride and cholesterol profile, fatty liver also increases your risk for having a heart attack.
Healthy fats can actually help reverse fatty liver
Earlier I mentioned that sugar, not fat, is fully to blame for fatty liver. Perhaps you thought you’d never hear this, but the truth is, in the case of fatty liver, fat may be our friend. Dietary fat actually turns off liver lipogenesis. Seems crazy, right? Let me break it down for you. Unlike carbohydrates and protein, your body prefers to burn rather than store dietary fat, unless you consume it in combination with carbohydrates. With the right, healthy dietary fat (think coconut oil, a medium chain triglyceride), you actually speed up your metabolism! Fat is burned for energy, and you feel more satiated. To prevent or reverse fatty liver, you’ll want to cut processed carbs and increase healthy fat intake, especially saturated – yes, saturated – fats from healthy foods like coconut and grass-fed beef. The take-home message here is that healthy saturated fats lower inflammation when you eat them as part of a low-carb, high-fiber, omega 3 fatty acid-rich diet.
At the same time that you are increasing your healthy fat intake, you need to be drastically reducing the amount of sugar in your diet. Thankfully, newer government guidelines tell us to limit sugar intake, however, I don’t think the current rules and regulations regarding sugar are stringent enough. In my opinion, these guidelines should also include whole grains (complex carbohydrates), which we digest and absorb in the form of sugar (simple carbohydrates). According to current guidelines, you’re still supposed to get one-quarter of your calories from sugar to be healthy. This just doesn’t seem right to me.
Lifestyle and diet strategies to prevent and reverse fatty liver
1. Cutting sugar and flour from the diet, reducing your carb cravings, and adopting a healthy lifestyle to help you banish some of that stubborn belly fat can help you heal and avoid fatty liver. Here are some additional simple but effective lifestyle and diet strategies to reverse or prevent fatty liver.
2. Get rid of high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) if it’s part of your diet. Even when it comes in so-called “healthy foods” like salad dressings, steer clear. Consider this: one serving of store bought tomato sauce can have more fructose than a serving of Oreo cookies… YIKES! Pay attention to food labels.
3. Eliminate white, processed flour and banish or greatly reduce dietary starch. Even whole grain flours can increase your blood sugar, put undue stress on your liver and increase your blood triglycerides.
4. Introduce healthy fats into your diet. A great way to combat sugar damage is to eat plenty of healthy fats like olive oil, macadamia nut oil, avocados, coconut oil, grass-fed butter and fish oil. You can get my powerful 21-day plan to easily incorporate healthy fats in Eat Fat, Get Thin.
5. Super foods– to detox. Regularly eat cruciferous vegetables like broccoli, cauliflower and Brussels sprouts, as well as leafy veggies like kale, collards, cabbage, arugula, and watercress. At least a cup or two every day can help restore liver health. Garlic and onions are amazing sulfur-rich foods that help detox the body. You’ll find amazing recipes and more ways to incorporate these amazing foods in The Blood Sugar Solution 10-Day Detox Diet.
6. Amp up the protein. The key to balancing blood sugar and insulin, reducing cravings and providing your liver the raw materials it needs for adequate detox is to include protein sources at every meal. Start the day with farm fresh eggs or a protein shake. And make sure to Include nuts, seeds, eggs, fish, chicken or grass-fed meat for protein at every meal. A serving size is four to six ounces, or about the size of your palm.
7. Exercise to enhance your metabolism! Routine, daily physical activity improves insulin resistance and reduces fatty liver. Start out with a simple activity like walking for 30 minutes. At higher levels of fitness, try incorporating high-intensity interval training (or burst training) and weightlifting.
Be wise when it comes to supplements. The right supplements can help promote balance while your body is healing. Herbs like milk thistle do wonders for liver health. I also use nutrients like lipoic acid and N-acetyl-cysteine, which are powerful antioxidants that help to heal and rejuvenate your liver while increasing the powerful antioxidant glutathione. Other liver-healing nutrients include B vitamins and magnesium.
Incorporate my healthy eating and lifestyle tips into your daily life to help keep your liver healthy. And most importantly, remember it’s the sugar, and not the healthy fats, that you need to stay away from!
Do you or someone you know have a fatty liver? What steps are you taking to prevent or reverse this problem? Comment below or on my Facebook page.
Wishing you health and happiness,
Mark Hyman, MD
Learn how to incorporate fat into your diet by reading Dr. Hyman’s Eat Fat, Get Thin Cookbook.
Register for Dr. Hyman’s Fat Summit II, launching on November 7, to hear 34 Experts discuss fat and disease
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The query execution probe is triggered when the actual execution of the query starts, after the parsing and checking the query cache but before any privilege checks or optimization. By comparing the difference between the start and done probes you can monitor the time actually spent servicing the query (instead of just handling the parsing and other elements of the query).
query-exec-start(query, connectionid, database, user, host, exec_type) query-exec-done(status)
The information provided in the arguments for
query-exec-start are almost identical and
designed so that you can choose to monitor either the entire
query process (using
query-start) or only
the execution (using
while exposing the core information about the user, client,
and query being executed.
query-exec-start: Triggered when the execution of a individual query is started. The arguments are:
query: The full text of the submitted query.
connectionid: The connection ID of the client that submitted the query. The connection ID equals the connection ID returned when the client first connects and the
Idvalue in the output from
database: The database name on which the query is being executed.
user: The username used to connect to the server.
host: The hostname of the client.
exec_type: The type of execution. Execution types are determined based on the contents of the query and where it was submitted. The values for each type are shown in the following table.
Value Description 0 Executed query from sql_parse, top-level query. 1 Executed prepared statement 2 Executed cursor statement 3 Executed query in stored procedure
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Athens City is the Historical Capital of Europe,
with a long history,dating from the first settlement in the Neolithic Age.
In the 5th Century BC (the “Golden Age of Pericles”) the Athens City’s values and civilization acquired a universal significance.
Over the years, a multitude of conquerors occupied Athens City, and erected unique, splendid monuments – a rare historical palimpsest.
In 1834, it became the capital of the modern Greek State and in two centuries it has become an attractive Modern Metropolis with unrivaled charm.
The “core” of the Historic Center is Plaka, at the eastern side of the Acropolis. Walking through the narrow labyrinthine streets of Plaka, you will have the impression of traveling with a “time machine”.
You will encounter Ancient Monuments, such as the Lysikrates Monument, the Roman Agora with the famous “Tower of the Winds”, and Hadrian’s Library (132 A.D.) and many others.
There are also some Interesting Museums like:
- Folk Art Museum
- Greek Children’s Art Museum
- Popular Musical Instruments Museum
- Frysira Art Gallery
Lots of picturesque taverns, cafés, bars, as well as souvenirs and traditional Greek products shops are surrounded this area.
The Southern Suburbs of Athens City are located on the coast of the Saronic Gulf. They offer many opportunities to walk along the seaside, while you will also find beautiful beaches, large shopping centers and clubs (especially during the summertime).
Maroussi Suburb, north of Athens City hosts the facilities of the Olympic Athletic Center of Athens, where the majority of the athletic events were held during the 2004 Athens Olympic Games. Also at the north part, Kifissia Suburb, with its Beautiful Villas and Impressive Mansions, is also worth a visit.
Moreover, if you wish to explore other treasures out of the City of Athens, you may visit:
- Piraeus City, Greece’s main port.
- Byzantine Daphni Monastery (12th century)
- Kaisariani Monastery (2nd century)
- Temple of Poseidon (5th century B.C.) at Cape Sounion
- Tomb of Marathon, the area of the battle of Marathon (490 B.C.)
- Eleusina Archaeological Site
- Amphiareion Archaeological Site
- Vravron Archaeological Site
- Mountains that are surrounding Athens, Parnitha, Penteli and Hymettos, all suitable for hiking
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Roland Emmerich’s not the type of director you’d figure to make a Shakespeare movie, what with his penchant for destroying the world over and over and over again. And yet the Independence Day director's next project, Anonymous, is a period film all about Shakespeare — or, more accurately, how Edward de Vere, the seventeenth Earl of Oxford, was actually Shakespeare. To figure out how Emmerich could make such a film, Dana Stevens visited the set and discovered what will surely calm everyone who hates pluots and prefers it when plums taste like plums, apricots taste like apricots, and disaster-movie directors don’t make art pictures. Emmerich “will be doing with literary conspiracy theories in Anonymous what he did with world monuments in 2012," she writes, "taking really big famous ones and slamming them into each other.” In addition to extravagant sets, tons of extras, and we’re sure, somehow, special effects, Anonymous will argue, not only, that de Vere wrote Shakespeare's plays, but that he was Elizabeth I’s illegitimate son, got Oedipal with her, had a child with her, and then wrote many sonnets to the resulting offspring. In short, Anonymous contains the lit-movie equivalent of breaking the Statue of Liberty's face off.
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Contemporary commercial globalization–the kind celebrated by banks, pharmaceutical corporations, Walmart and mining and petroleum corporations–has resulted in an unforseen backlash in the Fourth World. Hoping to scoop up hundreds of millions of indigenous peoples as new consumers of manufactured foods, electricity, artificial chemical compounds in the form of insecticides, fertilizers, seeds, farm equipment, detergents, and pharmaceuticals globalized corporations and their supporters in states’ governments bending to the World Trade Organization advertize and push relentlessly into small communities the world over. Promoting themselves and advocates of sustainable development, the modern-day globalizers are eagerly seeking out more and more people whom they hope will become dependent on their manufactured goods.
This is dangerous and extremely short-sighted for the present and long-term health and life of humanity–indeed, Fourth World peoples.
The modern-day globalizers pressing their “sustainable development” agenda pre-suppose the artificially manufactured seeds insinuated into countries and their small farmers through trade agreements, for example, are widely known to be less nutritious, more expensive and the basis for forced dependence. Farmers and subsistence food producers the world over are pulling back from the so-called “civilized” grains, seeds and other foods introduced into indigenous communities by corporations and state sponsored trade agreements. Small farmers and susbsistence farmers are realizing that dependence on these corporations and using their products not only create a dependence, but the products are expensive and undermine the diversity of native foods.
On every continent, Fourth World peoples are pulling back and reclaiming their native foods, their cultural practices and their own sciences to explain and solve problems. Fourth World peoples are reinventing their own systems that permit them to solve the challenges they face and continue to promote life. The trend is growing world wide.
Mexican government officials have tilted heavily in favor of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)with the United States and Canada. Small farmers and subsistence farmers have seen the subsidies once flowing from the government collapse forcing them to compete with industrial farms that mainly export produce. Small farmers and subsistence farmers must feed themselves and their family. Their best approach to the heavy demands of cost and technical requirements imposed by NAFTA is to retreat into a system of agriculture that has provided the best foods and high nutrition for more than three thousand years. They are reclaiming the milpa and they are trading seeds among themselves. They are producing nutrient rich foods in substantially larger quantities per hectare than the industrial farmers even though they produce small quantities–sufficient for their family and neighbors.
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Essay on family relationships in Swimming-Fiction-Short Story
The book written by Peter Selgin can be regarded as a lively and insightful book that respects its readers' intelligence. Along with that, the book offers a reader a clear and crisp guidance on the family life. The main idea of the book can be summarized as the difference between the imaginary and the real world. The main thesis of this paper is the crisis of family relationships that comes as a result of human inability to understand the interests of its counterpart. The story itself is very deep and philosophical. It shows the crisis of human relationships.
The story is focused on the description of the trivial story of two people: Frank and Dorothy. For a long time these people are staying in marriage. The whole story in described in the following words: “every August for the past twelve years Frank and his wife, Dorothy, had come to the small lake in northern New Jersey, less than an hour’s drive from New York City. Theirs was one of a dozen cabins dotting Lake Juliet’s wrinkled shore.” (p.1) Being long time together the couple started to lose the intimate feelings to each other. In other words, the relations started to lose their romantic nature. “…Frank would swim and she would cook her breakfast. It was one of their many routines in a marriage that often seemed to consist of nothing but routines. Sometimes, standing on the float as he did now, Frank smelled, or imaged that he could smell, bacon frying.” (p.2) From this passage one can see that the main hero of the story grew rather bored with everyday life routine. As a result, he was passionately craving for changes that somehow would have change his life into something that is more interesting than the everyday routine he has to live in. Sometimes Frank even thought that his wife was not a proper choice for him. I would say Frank got very pessimistic of his family life that tuned out to be very grey and not interesting. The everyday routine overwhelmed him. As a result, he lost the very feeling of happiness. In other worlds, his present life brought no satisfaction for him. The feeling of tiredness slowly fell upon him. He wanted his wife to look different but he couldn’t change things are they were. “Dorothy’s arms holding the heavy skillet, the flesh of her triceps pillowy and dropping. She had been a good-looking woman once, her Irish features square ad strong. But she had let herself go. Her once slim waist was gone, and her arms and legs had lost their tone.” (p.5) The lovely smile of Frank’s wife (the only thing that remained) seems to no longer attract her husband. Frank became a different person - a person that was looking for changes. And these changes came when Frank met a young person named Juliet. In the story Juliet is being described with the help of the following words: “She had dark eyes and a round, pleasant face framed by hair just beginning to turn gray in places. She looked at him. She wrote a red sweater.” (p. 6) Slowly, the other woman manages to attract Frank attention. Her strong body and a good figure serve to be a contrast to the Dorothy lumpy body. Moreover, the women seems o have much in common with Frank: she shares his interest in swimming (that is the main reason why the author gives the story name - A swimming story). Juliet (the other women) likes to swim. Also, she is eager to share the interests of Frank, thus making a sharp contrast to his wife, who seems to lose any interest in Frank. As a result, the relationships between Frank and his wife became “old and outdated”. They have nothing to share. In one moment Frank felt that he have been living with a stranger. “Each time Frank looked at his wife he felt increasingly disturbed and unhappy. What after all, did they have to do with each other anymore, he wondered, aside from being husband and wife? Maybe I should let myself go too, he told himself as he nibbled on a strip of bacon. I should have aged with her. Instead, I let her go ahead without me and now look: we’ve lost each other. Haven’t we? ” (p.11)
Perhaps the situation described is a mid-life crisis. The situation is typical for a wide majority of families where the people get used to each other. Not all the people are optimistic about aging. Not many want to hear that they will be grown-up soon. Still, the majority are compelled to face the situations like this. The same story happened to Fred and his wife Dorothy. The behavior of men has suddenly changed. He suddenly started paying more attention to his intimate feeling and to his look. In the case described we are dealing with the story of a very handsome man, who is aging but keeps himself in good shape despite his age. As a contrast we see his wife who is aging and pays no attention to herself.
Frank does not have any incentive to stay with his wife who shows no will no stay with him. The relations came to the point when there is a strong need to introduce changes. These changes must be taken by Frank, who is very eager to change the situation. When he meets the other one who shares his interests in life (swimming) he seems to forget that he has an elderly wife. But it wasn’t only Fred who was guilty of the growing gab in the relationships between two people. Dorothy seemed to show no interest in Fred’s life. “He had told Dorothy the same story several times, but he did not remember her being amazed. He wondered if she was watching the float now. No, she was reading her best-seller, or chucking corn for dinner. Dorothy had long since lost any interest in his swimming. He could have drowned for all she knew.” (p. 13) The disinterest of Dorothy helped the other women, Juliet to win the attention of Fred. Somehow Fred feels that he is being engaged by the charm of the women. Then goes the turning point of the story – Fred tries to save his marriage. He eventually pushes Dorothy into the realm of his life. Finally he brings Dorothy to the beach where he is practicing swimming. While showing the situations like this the author of the story shows how the crisis of marriage.
Style of the story In general I would characterize the style of the writer as both scholarly and playful. Also, one important thing about the author is that he never looses sight of its purpose. In general, the presentation by Selgin can be characterized as obviously respectful and clear. The abundance and variety of his literary references is able to keep things moving what enables to provide a good clip and rather fun journey into the mysterious world of human relationships. The hints within the book are very clear. While reading the book I feel that Selgin shows the reader what does it means “a real life”. It is not a big wonder since Selgin is a very talented and skilled writer. In general, Peter Selgin’s Swimming-Fiction-Short Story offers plenty new information.
The main idea of the story is to show the crisis in the relationships between two people living in marriage. The main idea can be summarized with the help of the following words: "marriage is not like staying together but the ability to share thoughts and interests of the other person.” (p.14) Part of the answer lies in the story itself that shows the crisis of the relationship between to people. The crisis is largely reasoned by the non-wiliness of one person to share the thoughts and interests of the other one. Frank tries to change the situation. For that aim he tries to engage Dorothy in his own activities. The attempt has its reasons: Fred does all possible to save his marriage. But the situation is rather difficult, since Fred seems to have no feelings for his present wife. And it is only when Fred sees his dear person to be close to drawn when he suddenly realizes that he still continues to love his wife. “As he watched his wife struggle an irresistible force gripped and held him frozen – a vibrating electric force that numbed his shoulders and turned his arms and legs to quivering bars of lead. It came from all the way across the water, from where the women from the Ice House stood watching him. ” (p.15)
Finally, when having seen his wife to be close to the death point, Fred is able to understand the deepness of his feeling to her. That fact leaves Fred ashamed of his former intentions to break up with his wife. “With his eyes still closed he felt himself drifting; he felt he could drift like that forever”. (p.16) At this point of the story we can see the refreshment in the relationships between two formerly alien people. The story is really engaging and interesting.
The main idea of "Swimming-Fiction-Short Story" is to show both the crisis and refreshment in the relationships between two people. The story is a kind of a lesson that can be applied to any family. Problems covered by Peter Selgin are typical for the majority of families all over the world. I would go so fact as to call the story a study-guide into the family life.
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Killing and dying for respect
Killing and dying for respect
By Walter Fields NNPA Guest Columnist
There was some disbelief over social media when it was suggested the accused shooter of two Newark, New Jersey youth was promp-ted by the suspect’s feeling disrespected. The suspect, a 15-year-old boy, is reported to have been angry because he believed two other young men had ‘hit’ on a girl he was dating. The boy’s rage resulted in the death of a 13-year-old girl, Zainee Hailey, who was struck by a stray bullet while taking out the trash on Christmas night. Another victim, a target of the shooter and one of the boys the suspect al-leged to have acted disrespectfully toward him, died of his injuries. The third victim was shot in the neck and seriously injured.
While so-called crimes of passion are not rare, many adults can’t fathom how a child could be driven to kill be-cause of being slighted. It seems inconceivable to many people that being “dissed” could trigger such a violent response, let alone the actions of a teenager over youthful romance.
However, to dismiss the importance of “respect” among youth, particularly Black boys, is to miss the larger issue of social disconnection. We can condemn the actions of this young man, and mourn the death of an innocent bystander, but we had better come to terms with the degree to which many young people harbor deep resentment and anger over their nothingness in our nation.
Decades of indifference toward youth, and specifically young Black boys and men, has resulted in generations of young people who internalize any slight as threatening the little shred of humanity they possess. It is why the most innocuous comment can trigger the most extreme reaction. In communities where so little regard is shown for young people, they protect the only thing they have left – their dignity – at any and all cost.
This is not just a street-level reality; it persists in homes and schools. The belligerence of many young people in family environments is the direct result of their feeling belittled and abandoned.
So many of our youth are raising themselves and forced to go it alone, that any suggestion of behavior modification is taken as a personal affront. The same goes on in the classroom. Stories of student rage and violence directed at teachers is often rooted in the young person’s sense of being disrespected by an authority figure; the same tension that often surfaces during interactions with police. It could be the tone that is used by the adult, the body language or words spoken in a way that conveys the message that the young person is viewed as inferior.
It is why youth to youth interactions turn deadly. If you are not being respected by adults who are expected to demonstrate civility, you sure are not going to let a peer put you down. The alternative, perhaps walking away, is viewed as an act of submission, of cowardice that buys you nothing on the street except more abuse. If you can’t protect your personal “space,” you begin to question your very existence. And in a day and age when life is viewed through the shortest lens by many young people, the learning curve is irrelevant since there is no sense of the possibility of a tomorrow or adulthood.
To grasp the magnitude of what took the life of Zainee Hailey in Newark you must first acknowledge the message we have sent to young people. We don’t care if they are living in decent housing or have a place to call home. We herd them in school buildings that reek of indifference and then label them failures when we fail to live up to our moral and legal obligation to provide a quality education. Young people are easy prey for the drug trade when the adults in their lives are permanently severed from economic opportunity. And when our youth are pushed out of school and pushed into the underground and illegal economy, they become prey for an increasingly corporate criminal justice system driven by profit and little concerned with justice or rehabilitation. Respect? There is none shown young people so our youth will claim it by any means necessary.
Elected officials can call for all the police city and state budgets can muster and it will not matter. Preachers can evoke scripture and shout from their pulpits and it will not matter. Hell, at this point the tears of victims’ families don’t even matter much. It seems to me that unless we fundamentally alter our relationship with young people, make children and teenagers our priority, we stand little chance at stopping the bloodshed in our communities. Our only hope is in a radical restructuring of how we engage children from early childhood to young adulthood, and how we simultaneously support families and reform institutions that exist in theory to facilitate the transition to adult life. | <urn:uuid:3c1a9211-ffbb-4707-a786-b4ca664d4180> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://thewestsidegazette.com/killing-and-dying-for-respect/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719646.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00126-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969483 | 997 | 1.796875 | 2 |
Grade 1 Queen Anne Geometrical Staircase
Current project , to make and carve a copy of a Queen Ann staircase dated 1704 in English Oak made to reinstate front of house that was removed in the 70s.
The house has a grade 1 listing and the staircase replacement commission was to please the planners in order to redevelop the remaining property.
Above and below are 3 D moving images, move your mouse over pic and left click
Some of the making
An original bracket dated 1704 being copied to make a control sample for the Architect to show the client.
Stephen carving curved tread brackets
Top case coming outer string together
Apron landing carving
Day two on site, More photos to follow
Still with site conditions but now with first coat of polish.
The treads and risers are cased with plywood for protection purposes until all other trades have finished.
William & Mary staircase and panelling
An English Oak staircase complete with Oak panelling with turned and arched carved balustrade.
A Pair of English Oak Staircases.
A pair of staircases designed and made for a house dated 1440 located in Sussex. The Joinery and complete project was worked on how the craftsmen of yester-year would of tackled the job. The Oak sections needed to be of a large size in order to be considerate to the scale and the building.
Even though the Oak was air dried stock , it still contained a higher moisture content than would normally be supplied for internal joinery.
Single large sections would only be suitable as gluing smaller sections together gives a completely different look to a project which is unsuitable and not traditional, small details make a big difference, especially when carved or mouldings come into play and the end grain glows after the chisel has finished with it.
An English Oak cut-string staircase and spandrel cupboard panels.
A English Oak cut-string staircase with wreath handrails and square section spindles. Picture 2 shows a " Rod" A full size drawing of the staircase that is being made detailing the carved handrail in drawn form.
"Lutyens" style staircase
A Staircase made in English Oak in the "Lutyens" style, The spindles are class as Square Turning and are all hand worked,
picture 3 shows the 5 number raked spindles that are used on the rise of the staircase, the remaining were used on the gallery landings.
Also a close up of the 40 Tudor roses that were carved for the project .
A Staircase Remodel
The main staircase was made by "others" and the case originally had a metal spindles as a newel post but gain movement with use, also the handrail scroll was machine C N C made and it looked it ! The work involved turning a new post which also hides the metal studding used to make the whole post rigid, the studding nut is used to lock the scroll down and is hidden by the glass ball. The old scroll was cut off the staircase while clients were away, in order to give us a true section to match to while carving. Polished to match on site.
Oak Newel post & Barley twists
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The use of security contractors by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in places such as Afghanistan and Iraq is influenced by political, organisational, operational and financial factors.
Diplomatic security encompasses a number of functions, including personal protection of diplomats, static security of diplomatic infrastructure and convoy security. The use of security contractors in the context of diplomatic security is an emerging trend in western states. After relying on the Australian Defence Force (ADF) for eight years in Iraq, Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs (DFAT) has moved towards contractors for the purposes of diplomatic security since 2011.
Security contractors have been an integral aspect of Australia’s diplomatic presence in Afghanistan since it started in 2006. In recent years the provision of one year of contracted diplomatic security in Afghanistan and Iraq has set DFAT back some AUD 50 million. Yet the actual number of contractors is a closely-held secret.
The use of security contractors has political advantages. Using contractors in place of ADF personnel reduces the chance of further ADF casualties in Afghanistan and Iraq, while enabling the Federal Government to earn brownie points with the Australian public through reduced overseas troop commitments. If the reaction to contractor casualties by the US Government and media is assumed to apply in Australia, there is less concern regarding a contractor returning to Australia in a body bag as opposed to an Australian soldier.
This applies ever more if the contractor is not Australian. In reality, Australians are but a portion of the personnel forming contracted diplomatic security teams protecting Australian diplomatic interests overseas. This is not unusual. For example, the US and Canada use non-citizens for diplomatic security. If these contractors are killed or injured, the Federal Government will have received the benefits of their service while being able to ship them back to their country of origin.
Political risks can also be mitigated by DFAT being able to substantiate claims for confidentiality under the Freedom of Information Act, thereby inhibiting transparency surrounding the specifics of a given contract.
On a more positive note, contractors have been seen by diplomats as a way of assisting the diplomatic process. In the case of Iraq, DFAT saw the ongoing use of ADF personnel as hindering the building of a strong relationship between the Australian and Iraqi Governments. It is likely that Australian diplomats shared the view of their US counterparts that seeking normalised relations is challenging when you continue to be surrounded by uniformed troops and armoured vehicles.
There are also organisational factors at play. DFAT wants to control the manner in which diplomatic security is executed: that is, according to its own policies and procedures. Yet using ADF personnel is likely to come with strings attached, with the defence leadership having a say as to how best to execute diplomatic security in exchange for using its personnel. As a result, the ADF personnel protecting diplomats and infrastructure may find themselves in the same position of their US counterparts: being the servant of two masters. Security contractors are seen as way of avoiding these issues. In crude terms, DFAT is the master and the contractor is the servant. The desire for renewal of the contract, in addition to building a satisfied customer base to attract future work, acts as an important incentive to accede to DFAT’s demands. The use of contractors also avoids committing ADF personnel to a function that is not typically seen as a core function in the post-Cold War era.
The operational benefits of using security contractors have been espoused by the industry itself, the governments that use them and in the scholarly literature. For example, there is the appeal of being able to build teams of personnel from a global pool of ex-military and ex-law enforcement personnel that are best suited for the task at hand. DFAT sees contractors as a means of attaining necessary knowledge and experience of operating environments. If a particular dialect is required to function in an environment, contractors with this skill can be recruited. When the US Department of State took over security provision in Iraq following the US troop drawdown, it had to rely on contractors for functions in which its personnel had no experience.
Security contractors have also acted as a means of reducing Australia’s troop commitments in Afghanistan. When Australia’s diplomatic presence commenced in 2006, it consisted of a few officials operating out of a luxury hotel in Kabul protected by contractors. As this diplomatic presence evolved – including the opening of the Australian Embassy in Kabul – contractors continued to be used. Consequently, this has freed the ADF of a lengthy diplomatic security commitment like it experienced in Iraq from 2003 to 2011: its functions were limited to protection of DFAT staff outside safe zones and, in 2014, to assist contractors following concerns about growing instability in the operating environment.
Security contractors allow DFAT to avoid the ongoing financial commitments associated with building and maintaining an in-house diplomatic security capability and the risk that this capability ends up being underutilised or not as effective as using contractors. Access to a global pool of personnel also assists DFAT and the contracting company financially. Downward pressure on diplomatic security expenditure has facilitated the recruitment of numerous ex-military personnel from developing countries that can be obtained for the price of a single former member of a Western force. For example, Chilean nationals have protected the Australian Embassy in Iraq. At the same time, DFAT has faced issues surrounding its efforts to keep costs down, such as contracted security personnel leaving Iraq in 2015 after disputes over cuts in pay and conditions.
Jon Cottam is a PhD candidate at the Department of Security Studies and Criminology in Macquarie University. He holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) and Bachelor of Laws from the University of UNSW and Master of Policing, Intelligence and Counterterrorism from Macquarie University.
This article is adapted from the author’s presentation “Can’t Somebody Else Deal with It? The Outsourcing of Australia’s Diplomatic Security” at the International Political Science Association World Congress on 21-25 July. It was produced with the support of the Macquarie University Research Training Program Scholarship and the Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship.
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Overall: 18.4 x 17.7 x 15.8 cm (7 1/4 x 6 15/16 x 6 1/4 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 2005.6
This vessel depicts a big-eared brown bat.
This bat, perhaps shown opening its wings before taking flight, illustrates Moche artists’ keen interest in realism and in capturing activity at its peak. Moche bat symbolism may be linked to the animal’s paradoxical traits—for instance, bats fly but have fur rather than feathers. Such traits may have caused the Moche to link bats with transitional states, such as the passage between life and death. The vessel depicts a member of the Histiotus mochica species, a big-eared brown bat that researchers described in 2021 and, due to this vessel, named in honor of the Moche, also known as the Mochica.
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Over five action-packed days, you can learn a range of fun circus tricks and show them off in the show on the final day.
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ERIC Number: ED388161
Record Type: RIE
Publication Date: 1995-Jul-18
APPA: Association of Higher Education Facilities Officers Educational Conference and Annual Meeting Proceedings (82nd, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 16-18, 1995).
APPA: Association of Higher Education Facilities Officers, Alexandria, VA.
The 23 papers presented in this Proceedings are grouped into four categories: business management; facilities planning, design, and construction; human resource management; and energy and environment. Papers are: (1) "A Business Approach to the Facility Function" (Alan B. Abramson); (2) "Management by Strategic Planning" (Jerry C. Black); (3) "Physical Plant: Competing in the 21st Century" (R. J. Carter); (4) "Rightsourcing Your Facility Services" (James B. Clayton); (5) "A Rental Model for University Space" (Robert Grant and Alan Neilson); (6) "Strategic Planning as a Tool for Improved Facilities Management" (Donald L. Mackel and Rodney Rose); (7) "Reengineering Caretaking at the University of Toronto" (Jim Stanley); (8) "Preserving 'In-House' Physical Plants" (James O. Roberts); (9) "Integrated Building Commissioning Case Study: University of Washington Chemistry Building" (Richard B. Casault); (10) "HVAC System Commissioning" (Rebecca Thatcher Ellis, James J. Sebesta); (11) "Grounds Improvements for a Safe Campus Environment" (Tom Leback and Jay Klingel); (12) "The Particle Method: A New Approach to Campus Planning" (Brian W. Miller); (13) "'Right-Sizing' in the 1990s--Shaping the Future with Master Planning" (John R. Reeve); (14) "Creating a Picture Perfect Campus: The Successful Campus--Look Good or Look Out!" (Mike Van Yahres and Syd Knight); (15) "Linking Supervision to Organizational Success" (Judith A. Cooper and Michelle Estep); (16) "Practical Employee Recognition Promotes Greater Productivity and Achievement" (Joseph E. Greenawalt); (17)"Creating a Cross-Functional Workforce" (Brian Yeoman and Denise S. Carpenter); (18) "In this Era of Shrinking Budgets, Is Organizational Redesign and Adopting a 'Quality Culture' Worth the Pain?" (Robert S. Hascall et al.); (19) "From Keeper to Partner: Creating a Future through Organization Culture Change" (Van King et al.); (20) "Refrigerant Management Using Ammonia" (Philip G. Rector and William Nelson); (21) "University of Toronto Waste Management System" (Gary P. Nower); (22) "The Social Engineering of Energy Conservation" (Paul D. Ruskin); and (23) "The Greening of Facilities" (Marion B. Smith). (DB)
Descriptors: Business Administration, Contracts, Educational Facilities Planning, Energy Management, Facilities, Facilities Management, Higher Education, Human Resources, Landscaping, Organizational Change, Organizational Climate, Personnel Management, Strategic Planning, Supervision
Association of Higher Education Facilities Officers, 1446 Duke Street, Alexandria, VA 22314-3492 ($25).
Publication Type: Collected Works - Proceedings; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: N/A
Audience: Administrators; Practitioners
Authoring Institution: APPA: Association of Higher Education Facilities Officers, Alexandria, VA.
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Family Mediation Organisation Gosport
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History was never my favorite course in college. It seemed like it just involved memorizing a bunch of irrelevant names and dates and facts so that I could spit them back on the test. What was the point?
But then I took church history at Dallas Seminary with Dr. John Hannah. He was able to take the various men and ideas and events from the past and show how it all explains where we’re at in the present. His courses gave me a lot of understanding not only about where American Christianity is at, but also about the various men and ideas that had shaped my thinking, even though I had not previously known where they were at on the theological spectrum. And, he also helped open my eyes to other great men of God who, since then, have greatly shaped my life as I have studied their lives and writings.
Someone has said that history is actually “His story”--God’s story--because He is sovereignly moving men and nations according to His purposes. Thus it is important to understand history, especially biblical history, because it helps us understand what God is doing and how our lives can fit into His purpose.
I must admit that our text, which traces the genealogy from Shem to Abraham, doesn’t make for the most exciting reading. We may wonder why God takes up the pages of Scripture with this kind of thing. But the point of the text is to show us that God is the God of history who is working out His eternal plan through the lives of His people. His movements sometimes seem slow by our standards. But He is steadily at work. And this God of history is our God. He has called us to Himself and will use us in His eternal plan. Knowing this gives meaning to our lives. So our text shows that ...
God is steadily moving in history to accomplish His plan of salvation.
As I said in our first study, Genesis is divided in the Hebrew text by the word toledot, translated “generations” or “history.” The last section began in 6:9, with the generations of Noah. Genesis 11:10 begins the section dealing with the generations of Shem; 11:27 begins a section which runs through 25:11, dealing with the generations of Terah, the father of Abraham, or Abram, as he was first named.
Abraham is the central figure of Genesis. In fact, apart from Jesus Christ, it could be argued that he is the most important figure in the Bible. While 11 chapters in Genesis cover the period from creation to Abraham (at least 2,000 years), 14 chapters are devoted to the life of Abraham. He is the father of all believers. In several places the New Testament uses Abraham as the prime example to explain the doctrine of salvation by grace through faith apart from works. God often refers to Himself as the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Abraham stands as the father of the Jewish nation, directly in the ancestry of Jesus Christ. He even holds an important place in heaven, which Jesus referred to as “Abraham’s bosom” (Luke 16:22). Our text gives us the lineage from Shem to this important biblical figure, Abraham.
What can we learn from this genealogy? Three factors are seen here in how God is at work in history to accomplish His plan of salvation:
A narrowing process is at work here. Chapter 10 lists the three sons of Noah. God chose Shem as the line through which He would bring blessing to the world. Of Shem’s five sons (10:22), God chose Arpachshad. In each case we read, “he had other sons and daughters,” but only one of those offspring was chosen in the ancestry leading from Noah through Shem to Abraham and eventually to Christ. God’s choice lies behind the history.
You may wonder why God chooses certain individuals. Maybe He looked down through history and saw somebody who would have faith or live a decent life, and said, “There’s My man! I’ll choose him.” But that isn’t the way it works.
We don’t know much about most of Shem’s descendants listed here. But we do know something about Terah, Abraham’s father, and a few generations before him. In Joshua 24:2 the Lord says, “From ancient times your fathers lived beyond the River, namely, Terah, the father of Abraham and the father of Nahor, and they served other gods” (also Josh. 24:14-15). Abraham came from a pagan family, and was probably an idolater himself when God called him. In fact, even three generations later, when Rachel stole her father’s household gods, the family was still into idolatry (Gen. 31:30-35).
God’s sovereign choice never depends on human merit. He didn’t look down from heaven and say, “There’s a good man; I’ll choose him.” Rather, God only chooses and calls sinners to Himself. Abraham was a sinner. God chose him simply because of grace, apart from anything God foresaw in Abraham. If God chose Abraham because He foresaw that Abraham would believe, then Abraham could boast in his faith as the reason God chose him. But salvation, from start to finish, is all from God, not at all from man.
C. H. Spurgeon, the great Baptist preacher of the past century, was once preaching to a Methodist congregation. During the first part of his sermon, the people were nodding in agreement and saying, “Amen!” and “Hallelujah!” Then Spurgeon came to the doctrine of election and noticed a distinct change in the mood of his audience. (Methodists do not accept that doctrine.) So he proceeded to put it to them this way. He asked, “Is there any difference between you and others who have not been converted?” They responded, “Yes, glory to God! There is a difference.” Then Spurgeon asked, “Who has made the difference, yourself or God?” “The Lord,” they said. Spurgeon shot back, “Yes, and that is the doctrine of election; that if there be a difference, the Lord made the difference.” (The New Park Street Pulpit [Baker], 6:138.)
One reason that people don’t like this doctrine is that they think that it’s not fair of God to choose some and not all. But to contend that God is not fair to show mercy to some and not to others is to usurp God’s sovereignty and to impugn His character, as Paul argues in Romans 9. God would be fair if He condemned everyone. All of these men and their descendants had known about God through their ancestor, Noah, and the flood. But, as Paul puts it in Romans 1:18, they had “suppressed the truth in unrighteousness,” rejecting God’s revelation of His attributes and power through creation. Thus they, not God, were responsible for their spiritual condition. Genesis 10 and 11, which shows us the course of the nations going their own way after the flood, is the Old Testament’s way of saying what Paul says, that God gave them up to their sin; He permitted them to go their own ways (Rom. 1:24, 26, 28; Acts 14:16).
The point is, God didn’t choose Abraham because he was a good man. He chose Abraham to demonstrate His grace. He doesn’t choose anyone because they deserve it. He only chooses sinners who deserve His judgment. And while that’s a blow to our sinful pride, it is actually very good news. It means that you cannot do anything to qualify yourself for God’s salvation. You can only come to God confessing your sin and asking for His mercy, and He will grant it because He is a merciful God. God’s plan of salvation involves His choice according to His grace.
The thing which separated Abraham from all his contemporaries was that God chose him. It is God’s hand on a life that matters. If God does not choose, if He does not call a person to Himself, you’ve just got human religion. But when God is in it, you’ve got His power unto salvation.
Some people stumble over the doctrine of election. But the heart of election is that salvation is of God. He originates it, He moves in our lives before we ever seek Him. So we can take no credit for our salvation; it all comes from Him (see 1 Cor. 1:26-31). That humbles your pride, but it’s a source of great joy and blessing when it dawns on you.
Abraham’s life shows us that God has His hand on a life even before the person is aware of it. He places each person in a particular family. Sometimes, even though that family serves idols, God will take one member and use him to turn the family and even whole nations toward God for generations afterward. Every person who has been used of God will testify that it is God’s choice of him that has made all the difference in his life. Jeremiah the prophet said that God knew him, consecrated him, and appointed him before he was formed in the womb (Jer. 1:5). Paul said that God set him apart even from his mother’s womb (Gal. 1:15). By nature they all were sinners. But by God’s grace, they were chosen to know Him and serve Him. That’s what mattered.
The apostle Peter commands us, “Be all the more diligent to make certain about His calling and choosing you” (2 Pet. 1:10). How can we do this? First, have you believed in Christ as Savior and Lord? This is the prime evidence that He has chosen you. You did not believe because of your will (John 1:13). The fallen human will is bound in sin. You believed because God imparted faith to you (Phil 1:29). Then, to your faith, Peter urges you to supply various godly character qualities (2 Pet. 1:5-9). In other words, growth in godliness will help you to be more certain about God’s calling and choosing you (1:11). It is a source of great comfort when God reveals to you that He chose you by His grace and that because of His choice your life can be greatly used by Him in His eternal plan of salvation.
This genealogy shows God’s time, both with the nations and with individuals.
We don’t know exactly how much time elapsed from Shem to Abraham. If you add up the totals here, you get about 350 years from the birth of Arpachshad to the birth of Abraham. But it was common in that day, when tracing ancestry, to be selective and to leave gaps. So when it says that Arpachshad lived 35 years and became the father of Shelah (11:12), it may be a direct link; or it may mean that he became the father of an unnamed man who was the ancestor of Shelah. To the Hebrews and others of that time, this was not misleading. It was just a different way of thinking than we’re used to. In fact, Luke 3:36 adds Cainan between Arpachshad and Shelah.
But at any rate, there was a fair amount of time between Noah and when God chose Abraham and began to call a people unto Himself. Many people were born and died during those years. The nations spread out over the earth. Most of those nations had strayed from the truth about God. And yet, for reasons known only to Him, God waited over 350 years until Abraham to issue His covenant to bless all nations through him.
Again, this bothers some people. What about all those people who never heard? They were not without a witness through creation of God’s goodness and power (Rom. 1:18; Acts 14:17). As we’ve seen, they were not innocent people. They suppressed the truth in unrighteousness. But it ought to make us grateful for the fact that we live in a time and place where God has made known His salvation in a clear and definite way. We have God’s Word in front of us. We have abundant opportunities to hear His truth preached. What if you had been born in America 500 years ago? God was not moving in this land at that time as He is now. Be thankful that you are privileged to know Him!
We read in Genesis 12:4 that Abraham was 75 when he left Haran for Canaan. Even though people were living longer at that time, he was no youth. Why didn’t God call Abraham when he was 20 and give him Isaac when he was 30? I can’t answer that question, except to say that God’s timing is often not in line with ours. Even after God called Abraham, he grew slowly. God had originally called him when he was in Ur. He got as far as Haran and settled there until his father died (Acts 7:2-4). From God’s perspective, that was wasted time. Yet God still used him.
There is a chronological problem I should mention. In 11:32 it says that Terah, Abraham’s father, was 205 when he died. Abraham didn’t leave Haran until then (Acts 7:4), when he was 75. That would make Terah 130 when Abraham was born. But 11:27 says that when Terah was 70 he became the father of Abraham, Nahor and Haran. The most likely answer is that at 70 Terah had his first son. Abraham is mentioned first in 11:27 because he was the most important son in the story. But Abraham wasn’t born until 60 years after his oldest brother. The problem with this solution is that later, Abraham is surprised to learn that he will be a father at 100, which is hard to understand if his own father had been 130 at Abraham’s birth. But perhaps with the shortening life spans, Abraham knew at 100 that he was pushing the limit for fathering a child.
But to return to the point, God worked slowly with Abraham. As we’ll see in future weeks, after he got to Canaan, he didn’t stay, but moved on to Egypt, where he tried to pawn off Sarah as his sister. You know how he later tried to hurry God’s promise by fathering a son through Hagar. But in spite of his rough edges, in spite of the time it took, God used Abraham.
That’s an encouragement to me. It usually seems like it’s taking me so long to learn what God is trying to teach me. I’ve wasted so much time and gone off on so many side trails. I would despair if I thought it was up to me. But seeing how God worked slowly but surely with Abraham encourages me that there is hope even for me.
So these genealogies teach us that God is steadily moving in history to accomplish His plan of salvation, and that His plan involves His choice and time.
Why not Arpachshad or Terah? We don’t know. But we do know that God used Abraham in His plan of salvation in the history of the human race. And Abraham responded to God’s call in faith and obedience. He was only one man out of millions on the earth in his day. But his life, obedient to God, made a difference.
An individual life yielded to God’s purpose can make a tremendous impact on the course of human events. Perhaps none of us will be used to shape history to the extent that Abraham did. But we can know that God is weaving our lives into the tapestry of history if we are obedient to His call. We may not see the final results even in our lifetime. But we can know that our lives are not in vain if we walk with God.
I enjoyed Edith Schaeffer’s, The Tapestry, which tells the story of her and Francis and their life together. The title reflects the point that she makes repeatedly throughout the story, that God is weaving the events of our lives into His divine tapestry. We seldom are aware of how He is working at the time. She says that she and Fran did not sit down and plan out their ministry at L’Abri, and how it would have a worldwide impact. Rather they were faithful in doing what God gave them to do, responding to the opportunities He set before them, and He blessed their ministry.
Even the trials God brings into our lives are part of the tapestry. Often they become the source of His greatest blessings. Verse 30 mentions that Sarah was barren. As you know, that will figure importantly in the story as it unfolds. If you had asked Abraham at this point, he probably would have complained, “I don’t understand why God doesn’t give us any children.” He would especially have complained after God promised to give him more descendants than the sand of the seashore, but he still didn’t have any children. But you know how God turned that trial into the greatest blessing in Abraham’s life. He often does that with us. We don’t understand why He isn’t doing things as we would choose. But like Abraham, we must learn to trust Him even when we don’t understand.
But God’s plan of salvation doesn’t just involve famous individuals like Abraham.
Even as God’s hand was upon Abraham, so His hand is on you. The very fact that you’re hearing this message is proof that God has intersected your life, even if you’re not yet a believer. Like Abraham at the first, you may still be in Ur of the Chaldees. That is to say, you have not yet come to know God in a personal way. Probably, like Abraham at this stage in his life, you are serving idols, gods of your own making. Perhaps you serve the god of money or success or pleasure. You probably serve the god of self. But today you have heard the living and true God calling your name and saying, “I want you to turn from your sin and to follow Me.” If you will say yes to God, like Abraham, your life will never be the same.
Some of you may be at Haran. This was Abraham’s half-way station. He began to follow God’s call when he left Ur and moved to Haran, several hundred miles closer to Canaan. But he got sidetracked. It took another call from God to get him out of Haran. The call in chapter 12 is probably the second call God issued to Abraham.
Thankfully, God often issues second calls to those He uses in His plan of salvation. God called Moses; Moses blew it by killing the Egyptian and fleeing into the wilderness for 40 years. But God called Moses again. God called Jonah; Jonah took off in the opposite direction. But the word of the Lord came unto Jonah a second time. God called Peter; Peter denied the Lord three times. But the Lord restored Peter with the threefold command, “Feed My sheep.” If you’ve begun to follow the Lord, but you’ve gotten side-tracked along the way, today He’s telling you, “Come on, I want you to go on with Me.”
The important thing is, wherever you’re at, to yield yourself to the Lord. A journalist was elected to the world-famous Adventurers’ Club. He didn’t know the amount of the dues, so he sent in a signed blank check. The Adventurers promptly elected him Adventurer of the Year! God wants you to sign your life over as a blank check to Him. Yes, it’s an adventure! But you can trust Him not to take advantage of you. If you will yield your life to Him and walk with Him every day, He will use you in His movement in history to bring about His great plan of salvation for the nations. There is no more significant way to spend your life!
Copyright 1996, Steven J. Cole, All Rights Reserved.
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Wednesday night the DOE’s Office of District Planning (ODP) rolled out their Official Rezoning Proposal for P.S. 8 and P.S. 307 at a densely-packed public meeting held at P.S. 307. The zone lines, previously presented in draft form at two Town Hall meetings on September 16th at P.S. 307 and September 21st at P.S. 8., remain the same. The plan draws the line of demarcation along the Brooklyn Bridge shifting Dumbo and Vinegar Hill from a P.S. 8 to P.S. 307 zone.
The DOE’s rationale for the re-zoning also remains the same. The DOE would like to grow P.S. 307’s zone size to “generate a stable and reliable enrollment.” Conversely, they would like to alleviate the wait-list at P.S. 8 and provide families with “more opportunity to anticipate options.” P.S. 8’s capacity is currently at 143% with a total enrollment of 741 students. While P.S. 307’s building, which houses 372 elementary school students and 81 middle school students, utilizes 58%.
POINTS OF INTEREST:
- The DOE proposed enrollment projections for each school includes sibling grandfathering. (Grandfathering only effects children entering Kindergarten. It enables younger siblings of zoned children enrolled in K-5 to receive top admissions priority at their sibling’s school.). Grandfathering could potentially prolong the full effects of re-zoning for up to five years. CEC members must vote to include sibling grandfathering in the implemented plan.
- This re-zoning plan is a short-term solution for P.S. 8. The presentation’s post re-zoning enrollment stats project for P.S. 8 to operate at 143% capacity once re-zoning reaches full scale.
- The presentation includes a P.S. 307 “Growth Plan” slide that describes how the DOE feels the school would benefit from re-zoning.
- DOE introduced a separate plan that re-sites M.S. 313, aka Satellite West, to the newly built Dock Street School freeing up 360 elementary school seats to District 13 at P.S. 307’s building.
- In addition to scheduled CEC meetings, DOE community engagement will include stakeholder meetings with P.S. 307, P.S. 8 and District 13 communities and the founding of a Re-zoning Implementation Taskforce.
- The 45-day voting “clock” has not started ticking. Superintendent, Barbara Freeman has not officially endorsed the plan yet.
After the presentation, comments were made by the CEC panel, multiple elected officials, community organizers and parents alike. Familiar themes were voiced: the short time frame allotted for discussion and implementation of re-zoning, lack of community engagement, allocation of funding and resources for each school, impacts of widespread residential development and yes, race and class. Mostly, the ire was directed squarely at the DOE.
CEC MEMBERS WEIGH IN:
Maggie Spillane, citing the many requests to postpone the re-zoning vote, did “not think a delay is necessary or helpful” and that “certainty will help provide some motivation for some people to come to the table” for community bridge building. But she shared Rob Underwood’s views on the need for clarity surrounding the M.S. 313/I.S. 611 plan. Underwood proclaimed, “The biggest problem in District 13 is NOT the overcrowding at P.S. 8. Period…The number one issue in District 13 is middle school quality.…I do think there is some merit in the P.S. 8 and P.S. 307 re-zoning, but it is inextricably linked to the I. S. 611 plan and until we have a detailed, concrete, specific plan for I.S. 611, I could not vote yes for the re-zoning. ”
Vascilla Caldeira shared, “We are not just tools for the DOE…we are accountable as parents. We are accountable as a CEC to look at ALL the avenues that are presented to us.” CEC President David Goldsmith added, “I think that it’s clear that we have a big challenge in 307, P.S. 8 and Downtown in general….our history is exacerbated by a history of poor planning by the Dept of Education [and] uneven development in our schools.” Goldsmith, however remained optimistic, “what I see, what I hear is that families are ready to stand together and fight for each other’s children.”
Ed Brown, whose verdict on re-zoning is “still out,” was sympathetic to P.S. 8’s overcrowding but lamented (to loud applause) about “under-served” and “under-utilized schools” in District 13. Adding, “You cannot force parents who have made up their mind that they’re not going to send their children to schools that service a certain segment of the population…that they are not going to go into schools that have leadership of color.”
Renee Burke, a P.S. 133 parent, echoed Ed Brown’s sentiments, “We have to figure out the real method, program, solution for growing 307 in the right way. And that goes for all of our schools in the district because we shouldn’t be fighting among ourselves about who’s going to get what…NYC is suffering and that’s because we’re not spreading [out resources] so that everyone has the same playing field. If the DOE is committed to making our schools better, they have to be committed to getting the resources to the schools.”
Ben Greene, both a long-time CEC member and P.S 307 PTA Co-President, directed his comments toward the ODP, “You made the statement that larger enrollment brings more money. But not always…I want to see the money upfront, I want to see the resources up front. …What will the DOE do to support P.S. 8 if this proposal is voted down?…What are resources that the DOE is going to commit to 307 if this rezoning proposal is voted yes? We need more information on the development. Right now we’re getting very vague information.”
After critiquing the DOE’s approach to rezoning as “terribly flawed,” Amy Shire thoughtfully questioned, “I have a question for all of the people who think that there isn’t enough time…for people who want to postpone this for another year…What kind of conversations need to be had? What kind of concrete plans need to be put into place? What kind of trust needs to be built?”
PTA’S & COMMUNITY ORGANIZERS HAVE THEIR SAY:
Former P.S. 8 PTA Co-President, Ansley Samson spoke on behalf of the school, “We wish this had happened differently. We wish the DOE had presented this information earlier…we want to come together and support a process…that works for the community currently at P. S. 307. We believe this happens better with planning and certainty now.”
Speaking on for the P.S. 307 PTA, Co-President Faraji Hannah-Jones explained, “We would have liked to have been consulted with first to see how and what we want out of this proposal.” He evoked the legacy of “those people that have been here [in the community] and gone through every struggle known to the history of Brooklyn” adding, “we need more time.”
Rev. Dr. Mark V. C. Taylor, Pastor of Church of the Open Door began simply, “This is a bad plan.” He laid out multiple points of opposition and garnered many shout outs from the audience. He crescendoed with “It is perhaps the case that all of the tensions are not based on race. But to say race and class are not issues and that we’re just going to grow and everybody automatically flows together is just naïve at best, dishonest at worst.”
ELECTEDS SOUND OFF:
State Senator Daniel Squadron did not mince words, “The Department has compounded terrible planning-actually no planning-with insufficient public information, a failure to bring together the P. S. 307 and P. S. 8 communities for real dialogue and a disrespectful lack of sensitivity to the inevitable concerns [of] parents…If you feel like DOE has pitted neighbors against neighbors, it’s because it has.” Squadron urged, “DOE must work with stakeholders to have transparent data-driven conversations about new and existing elementary and middle school capacity and the impact on families’ schools and equity BEFORE we get to this point. Not after. We cannot have this conversation again in five years…”
During his remarks, Councilman Steve Levin referenced two meetings held last year. “About a year ago, the engagement with the P.S. 8 community began in fits and starts,” citing the initial Overcrowding Town Hall organized by the P.S. 8 PTA in November 2014 and held at Plymouth Church. The second was a Community Engagement Meeting held at P.S. 287 in May where Executive Director of Space Planning, Thomas Taratko expressed regret for not re-zoning P.S. 8 two years ago, making it apparent to those in attendance that re-zoning would be “likely.” Levin continued, “there was no real effort to reach out to the 307 community [after these meetings] and that should have happened….it is totally reasonable that members of the 307 community feel blindsided and rushed by this whole process.” However, Levin “cautioned against doing nothing” about P.S. 8’s overcrowding saying, “allowing it to continue status quo is not a substitute for proper planning and we have a responsibility for all families and children to have a predictable framework.”
Assemblyman Walter T. Mosely also spoke briefly referencing a joint letter penned with Senator Velmanette Montgomery and Councilmember Laurie Cumbo which requests, “approval of this proposed re-zoning be delayed until adequate time for community participation in the process has been provided.” Other attendees of note included: NY State Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon, Representatives of Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez, Senator Montgomery and Councilwoman Cumbo’s offices, Community Board 2 District Manager Rob Perris, DOE Director of Admissions Gentian Folstrom, District 13 Superintendent Barbara Freeman, P.S. 307 Principal Stephanie Carroll and P.S. 8 Principal Seth Phillips.
PARENTS & RESIDENTS:
Parents and residents from both the 307 and 8 communities alike universally panned the timing, lack of community engagement and scant implementation details offered in the proposal. Confusion surrounding sibling grandfathering persisted and was clarified on at least two occasions during the meeting. Questions about the resources allocated to each school were top of mind.
A father who identified as a Dumbo parent felt the DOE had “taken the right thing to do and completely messed it up.” He pressed, “How are you going to preserve what’s good about …How can what’s good at P.S. 8 be brought down the hill? Stop talking to us like administrators, start talking to us like educators…tell us how our kids will be better off in the new 307 that you are proposing. Tell us what your plan is to bring us together.” Michael Higgins Jr, speaking on behalf of FUREE (Families United for Racial & Economic Equality) inquired, “How will programming be maintained and improved if 307 loses it’s title 1 funding [due to demographic changes in the student body]? Will the school lose it’s free lunch funding?”
Cheryl Goodman, a long-time Farragut resident whose children attended P.S. 307, spoke to several points that concern her community. Among them, the deep seeded fear that both children and funding would be displaced from 307. She placed the blame on the DOE for under- funding the school, allowing Charter schools to pilfer students and not reacting appropriately to rapid residential development. “Somebody [at the DOE] didn’t do their job when the industrial area was re-zoned for residential,” a point that all communities can agree upon. “The Department of education should have immediately considered the amount of families that would be coming in and what that would do to the education of the children that they’re responsible for.”
Ms. Goodman concluded, “ is a viable school. It is an excellent school. It was rebuilt. So NOW it’s attractive? It’s a magnet school. Anybody can come if they want to…if there’s room you can come. So the rezoning is not necessary because you have a choice.” Matt Tartaglia, a Dumbo resident of eight and a half years and the father of a three-year old, is also against the re-zoning at this time. He reiterated that neither Farragut nor Dumbo families have had “a seat at the table” adding, “We [Dumbo parents] all chose a neighborhood to live in, mostly based [on] the public school. Now we’re being told we can’t send our kids to this school. But we all understand what wait lists are. We’re all adults. We all make decisions, we all plan around it. But by telling us that our kids don’t even have an option [of P.S. 8] isn’t fair. I urge all of you to think about this.”
To re-iterate, the plan has not been officially endorsed by Superintendent Barbara Freeman yet. Therefore, the 45-day voting clock has not started ticking. The DOE, CEC and Superintendent Freeman are continuing to receive feedback. The public is encouraged to submit their comments, questions and concerns via the CEC webform. Input will be sent to all parties simultaneously. The next CEC meeting is Tuesday, October 20, 6:30 pm at P.S. 8, 37 Hicks St, Brooklyn, NY.
Full details of the re-zoning timeline, FAQ’s and a schedule of CEC meetings are available on the CEC website. To receive regular updates from the CEC, enter your email address in the left side-bar of the CEC website.
CORRECTION: This post has been edited to reflect the correct spelling of CEC Member, Vascilla Caldeira’s name.
REVISION: This post has been revised to reflect that Councilman Levin was referring two two public community meetings and not the private meeting held in February 2015 between the P.S. 8 PTA and The Office of Space Planning. (ASIDE: Representatives of incoming P.S. 8 parents had asked to be included in the February meeting but were not offered a place at the table at that time. This correspondent referenced this meeting as an additional example of the DOE’s exclusion of key stakeholders).
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If you don’t associate skilled trades with intense competition, you have probably never heard of Skills Canada.
The not-for-profit organization has been promoting technological education and engagement in the trades for more than 10 years, hand-in-glove with keen teachers at the secondary and post-secondary level who encourage and groom students to participate in regional and provincial competitions. These pit students against one another to prove themselves in 50 fields, such as refrigeration and air conditioning, mobile robotics, aircraft maintenance and repair—even service jobs such as cooking and floristry.
This August, Team Canada sent 29 students to São Paulo for the WorldSkills competition, where they competed against teams from 73 other countries. All were winners of provincial and national competitions; five brought home medals—two silver and three bronze—as well as 10 Medallions of Excellence. Here are profiles of four WorldSkills competitors—one alumnus and three of this year’s attendees—to tell you what it’s like to compete, and how it can jump-start a career.
WorldSkills 2015 Mechanical Engineering Design
When asked about competing at WorldSkills in mechanical engineering, 21-year-old Carson Gustafson, from Lloydminster, Alta., is candid. “It was a pretty high-stress environment, but I was able to keep a cool head, and the time just flew by.” On the first day, he was asked to model a series of detailed drawings. “You know when you look at a manual for Ikea furniture, it shows how everything comes together, right?” he asks. “That’s kind of what we do . . . an exploded version of that.” Competitors were also given the outlines for a 1980s-style blender and asked to design a newer model based on instructions an engineer might give to a designer, or “just little scribbles and details of what they want.”
Gustafson has been pursuing drafting and design since junior high school. His father, a teacher, told him, “Well if you like this, you should take the computer drafting course at the high school.” From there, he met his drafting teacher, a staunch supporter of Skills Canada.
Gustafson took the two-year CAD/CAM engineering technology program at Saskatchewan Polytechnic, and now works for engineering firm Integra Engineering Ltd. in Lloydminster. “They had heard about how I had done at this national competition, and they offered me a position in drafting and design at their office,” he says. “They offered to pay for my post-secondary education; in turn, I would work for them after I graduated from that program.”
Silver medallist, WorldSkills 2015 Cooking
Montreal’s Sébastien Rémillard, who is only 19, has long been making a name for himself in the world of cooking. He attended l’École hôtelière de la Capitale in Quebec City and has been involved with Skills Canada since he was 14. Rémillard earned a silver at this year’s WorldSkills, along with the competition’s “Best of Nation” award.
The three-day cooking competition involved a series of menus the competitors had to prepare. “We have the same guidelines and the same ingredients, but we treat them how we want to, as long as the rules are followed,” he explains. One menu item called for a vegetarian soup, with the secret ingredient of Brazilian pumpkin, so Rémillard made an Asian consommé with a stuffed dumpling.
“They say at my school that in about the two years of training we do [for WorldSkills], you learn between five to 10 years of what you would learn in a restaurant, because it’s so intense.It’s really insane and amazing for learning,” he says. Rémillard plans to return to the restaurant scene in Montreal and set that world on fire.
WorldSkills, 2015 Esthetics
Kingston’s 20-year-old Kaitlyn Hoiles, who studies at St. Lawrence College in Brockville, Ont., found the WorldSkills to be a taxing experience. “For me, the language was a huge barrier, because all of our models spoke Portuguese and all of our products were in Portuguese,” she says of trying to communicate the different looks she wanted.
Challenges in the esthetics category included: a “spa day,” with a body cleanse, exfoliation, mud mask, body massage and facial; manicures and pedicures; and evening and fantasy makeup. Hoiles gave her best effort, but did not earn a medal.
“I definitely think it will help me with what I want to do,” she says. “It’s given me a very wide range of different skill levels and [I saw] so many different ways to do the same services. It has definitely helped me figure out what I prefer.”
She plans to move to a bigger city and work for a little while until she decides what to specialize in.
Bronze medallist, WorldSkills 2011 Aircraft maintenance and repair
Ryan Gomes is no stranger to challenges: The Ontario native won bronze in the 2011 WorldSkills competition in London for aircraft maintenance and repair. Now he works as director of Tri City Aero Maintenance Inc. in Waterloo, Ont., and mentored this year’s competitors.
“You know, it was probably the happiest feeling,” he says, describing the moment when his mentee, Ryan Leedham of Nova Scotia, was called up on the WorldSkills stage to claim silver for aircraft maintenance and repair. The experience influenced his decision to pursue teaching.
“I’ve always loved teaching, and I’ve always loved aircraft maintenance. I remember one of the first jobs I had. I used to build homemade airplanes, and a good portion of that was actually holding seminars, where you taught people who wanted to build their own plane how to do it.”
Gomes’s instructor at Centennial College in Toronto suggested he participate in the provincial competition on behalf of the school. When he won WorldSkills, “it was one of the most intense things I’ve ever done,” he says, recalling the moment when he was called to receive his bronze medal. “I bawled, I bawled like a baby—I’d been training for a year-and-a-half.”
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Today we will discuss the problems related to Symphony i32 Flash File and its flash on this page. What are the possible problems of Symphony Smartphone, how to solve them and what equipment to use to solve the problem. So let’s get started, first let’s find out what is a flash file? And what does it do? Why it is necessary.
To Flash Symphony i32 SPD device known about the Flash Tool, Chinese Miracle CM2 and Miracle Thunder or anyone tool, SPD USB Driver and flash guideline. We are provide a easy guide for flash this mobile phone. You can follow this and flash your device successfully. Also, here completely explain all of the flash require installing and using rules. So don’t worry reading carefully this article and flash your Symphonyi32 device and other’s same category mobile device.
What is Flash file or Firmware File?
A flash file is a file that directs a micro processor to perform a task through a stream of electricity. Flash files store design templates, icons, folders, memory, etc. of a phone. One cannot imagine a mobile phone without a flash file. According to Flash File Specialist MD Rezaul Karim – which plays a special role in making a phone work according to the instructions of its user, so Flash file or firmware file.
If you have any problems?
You need to flash your Symphony i32 Firmware File
When we use a mobile phone, we do different things with it. Usually the problem of mobile phone is due to two reasons Unconsciousness in use Software or Stock ROM.
Unconsciousness in usage: There are various problems in the phone due to whimsical or unintentional use. For example:: display burst, Falling into the water, battery damaged, electricity bust at over volts. Casing rupture etc. If all these problems occur, you can go to a mobile repair shop.
Software or Flash Files: Many Problems Using the Phone Trying to switch to another program while a program is running, Visiting a website with bad cookies while using the Internet can cause software problems. For example: Hang Starting Logo, Slow Performance, White Display, monkey virus, imei unknown, pin lock, frp lock, privacy lock, phone lock etc. So if your mobile phone has a software problem, you can download the Symphony i32 Stock ROM and install it on your phone or the phone will be fine. Inshallah.
Use that tool to flash Symphony i32 Flash File
Since this post is related to Symphony i32 flash file, now we will discuss about flashing tools.
Miracle Thunder is a popular flash tool for flashing mobile phones with Spreadtrum chipset. You do not need a payment or box device/dongle to use this tool, you can flash for free with just a USB cable.
Chinese Miracle is a popular flash tool you can also use this tool to flash Winstar W605 phone. It has a few items that is CM2CSR, CM2MTK, CM2_FRP, Infinity CM2 etc. To flash with this tool you need to buy a device and license it every year which is expensive. There is no free version.
Download Symphony i32 Flash File (Stock Firmware) Without Password
Here we have attached a direct download link to download Symphony i32 flash file, through which you can easily download this Flash file to your computer. So click on the link below to download.
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How to Flash
You can flash your Symphony i32 Firmware File using any of the above tools. But yes, before flashing the phone, you must back up your phone, so that if there is any problem like not matching the version after flashing, the fire can be restored to its previous state. Below we are adding a short flash tutorial of SPD Flash Tool of Pac file. But our this firmware file not pac file.
- Download and extract the Symphony i32 Stock ROM zip package on your PC
- Install the SPD USB Driver on your PC
- Lunch SPD Flash tool on your PC screen
- Load the Pac Flash File/Firmware
- Click Start Button
- Connect your device to PC via USB cable
- Insert battery in mobile.
Hopefully this post will take a lot of work to flash this Winter Flash file and you will benefit from it. You can also comment in the comment box if you have any information | <urn:uuid:2bc31545-3a36-4e8d-8844-69e56acabf2b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.gsmbuzz.com/symphony-i32-flash-file/amp/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.879562 | 941 | 1.859375 | 2 |
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