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Did you hear about the bishop?
The bishop used to make his mother cry all the time.
People also remembered the bishop saying pretty contemptuous things about the Church, its leaders, and its theology.
All that happened before he had heard the Archbishop of Milan. Soon after that, he started getting his life together, his girlfriend left him to pursue the religious life on her own, and eventually he and his 15-year-old son entered the Church to the great joy of the man's mother.
He settled into a quiet life of prayer and of writing in monasteries that he himself established, but he was not to be allowed a quiet life. He was practically drafted into the priesthood and to be a prominent spokesperson for the Catholic faith.
Then when the local bishop became feeble, he was again drafted into being made coadjutor bishop. After the old bishop died, he would continue as bishop of the diocese for 34 years, all the time writing and preaching about the Catholic faith.
Saint Augustine, bishop of the north African city of Hippo, Doctor of the Church, one of the greatest intellects of the Western world, died at the age of 75 on this very day in the year 430.
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There is one reality for bankers, another for the rest of us. That is the lesson most easily drawn from the Jan. 10 press conference of the European Central Bank (ECB). Just hours earlier, Greece had released its latest labor statistics: a steep overall jobless rate of 26.8% masking even worse news for young Greeks, with over half of them — an astonishing 56.6% — out of work. The human toll of the country’s struggle to avoid a ragged departure from the European single currency could scarcely be starker. In 2012 the 17-nation euro zone lost more than 2 million jobs as it grappled with its fierce debt crisis.
Yet the mood at the ECB, and especially of its president Mario Draghi, appeared chipper, at least by the sobersided standards of the institution and the office holder. “We spoke a lot about contagion when things go poorly, but I believe there is a positive contagion when things go well,” he said. “And I think that’s also what is in play now. There is a positive contagion.”
Superimpose Draghi’s optimistic picture on the harsh experiences of Greece and Spain, where unemployment is also hovering around 25%, and you get something akin to a drawing by Dutch graphic artist M.C. Escher: a mind-bending construct with stairs that lead nowhere and architecture ignoring the laws of physics and common sense. That is a pretty accurate portrait of the euro zone and the wider E.U. How you see it depends on your viewing angle, but from no perspective does it make complete sense. Small wonder that increasing numbers of people, especially in debt-blighted European countries, are coming to believe the only solution is to raze the crazy structures and start afresh.
But that won’t happen if Draghi has anything to do with it. Last year the 65-year-old Italian economist found himself — to the slow-dawning appreciation of governments and bankers from Beijing to Washington — the most prominent and powerful defender of European integration. “Super Mario” saved the euro, literally, at least in the short term. His heroics won him plaudits, but his fellow delegates among the world’s financial elite, gathering from Jan. 22 at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, will clamor to know how he believes the currency can overcome the huge existential challenges it still faces.
To understand how pivotal this question is — and by no means just in Europe — it’s worth remembering the size of the euro zone, often overlooked amid excitement at the bulging muscle of China and India and concern over the health of world’s biggest economy, the U.S. The 17 members of the single currency make up the planet’s second largest economy, with a combined annual economic output of $12 trillion. The global recovery, weak and patchy, cannot progress if the euro zone falters and fails. If just one member were to plummet out of the system, markets would exact retribution on people and institutions in distant countries that until that moment had no idea their fates were linked to a continent that has sparked more global conflagrations than any other.
“The European project is a project of peace. Let’s not forget that at the beginning that was the main purpose that our founding fathers had,” says Draghi. His 35th-floor office in the ECB headquarters looks out over Frankfurt, a city nearly destroyed by European conflict and now resurgent as the euro zone’s financial hub. Europe’s is a history of wars, hot and cold, and those experiences inspired the European project toward union and integration. Draghi, born just two years after World War II into a fractured country that had been on the losing side, like many Europeans instinctively grasps that the hardships caused by rocketing unemployment and rampant inflation can imperil even deep-rooted democracies. Sure enough, in Greece, the cradle of democracy — albeit one at times rocked by invaders and in 1967 hijacked by its own military — the despair and rage of its jobless are speeding the rise of the populist far right. Ironically, the phenomenon is stoked by the very budget-cutting reforms demanded by the ECB and the country’s other creditors. As Draghi helps spearhead Europe’s struggle to quell the debt crisis, there are troubling issues to address about the failures of politics that have left so many voters alienated and a central banker wielding a greater global influence than most elected leaders.
Last year, when those failures came close to ripping apart the euro, Draghi stepped into the breach. Just 20 words from him were enough to simultaneously shock and soothe the markets threatening the currency’s destruction. “The ECB is ready to do whatever it takes to preserve the euro,” he told delegates at a London investors’ conference. “And believe me, it will be enough.”
His dramatic intervention, on July 26, bought time, but that commodity is again running low. Even Germany, the euro zone’s biggest and most robust economy, is sputtering, with growth of only 0.7% in 2012. Draghi’s influence, and all the tools of the ECB, may not be enough to steer Europe’s single currency out of danger if politicians squander the temporary stay of execution he has given them.
Words Are Cheap He describes himself as European first, Italian second, but alarms sounded in Germany in November 2011 when Draghi succeeded the cautious, conservative Frenchman Jean-Claude Trichet as the ECB’s top dog. The ECB’s governing council includes representatives from each central bank of the euro-zone nations. Successive Bundesbank governors, haunted by the specter of hyperinflation that sank the Weimar Republic, have remained wedded to a narrow interpretation of the ECB’s remit, to ensure price stability in Europe. Their angst finds echoes among German taxpayers, resentful that they are being asked to fund what they see as the profligacies of southern Europeans. “Mamma mia!” the German daily tabloid Bild protested when Draghi emerged as a front runner for the ECB job. “With Italians, inflation is a part of life, just like tomato sauce goes with pasta.” | <urn:uuid:e07b612d-afda-469a-a355-ba9c3653a1a8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://business.time.com/2013/01/17/mario-draghi-the-man-who-would-save-europe/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.953895 | 1,316 | 1.726563 | 2 |
Fostering the future
Arturo Parham Bey | 7/14/2010, 5 p.m.
Many issues and hardships face our youth today during a period when they should be spent learning and growing; should be full of life and joyous light.
Upon arrival into this new and foreign world, our children are entitled to all the love and protection that we as parents and as a society are obligated to give them. Unfortunately, this is not the reality for many of our children. Too many of them are born into situations that even the strongest adults would have trouble dealing with.
Our youth today are up against what seem to be insurmountable odds--issues ranging from single parent homes, drugs, gangs, violence, poverty, poor education, and the list goes on.
Perhaps one of the most overlooked and troubling issues is the number of our youth in the foster care system. According to the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS), there are approximately 523,000 children in foster care. A staggering number for a so-called civilized nation. "African-Americans" make up roughly 15 percent of the U.S. population of people who are under 18 years of age, but this group makes up about 40 percent of the children in the foster care system. Have we abandoned our children, our future ... ourselves?
What does it mean to "foster"?
Foster is a verb that means to promote the growth or development of; further; encourage. So, who is it that should be held responsible for fostering? Should it be left up to social workers and group homes to foster our children?
I know firsthand the impact that a good home has on orphaned children. I have had three foster brothers and their transformation and growth has been remarkable. From this experience, I have gathered one clear truth--that is, the most invaluable investment we can make as a race is not in any stock or bond. The greatest investment we can make is in our youth. Our children are full of so much potential and creativity.
It's unbelievable to me how something so simple as nurturing and loving our children could solve the problems we face as a nation in less than a generation's time. The power and potential that our children hold within them is immense. We, as the adults, need to foster the future. As it is in nature, seeds need nourishment to grow strong and be healthy. Our seeds require the same. Throughout the majority of my life, foster care never factored into my mind as an issue we had to face. However, by witnessing my mother and sister open their hearts and homes to children who needed them, it became quite clear to me that our youth hold the solution to our problems. What we instill in them is what will be returned unto us. They are truly our voice. I commend anyone who takes up the challenging and noble task of being a foster parent. The rewards are limitless. Foster the Future. | <urn:uuid:60d8f975-f7ed-4a40-93a7-10565bd4041e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://ourweekly.com/news/2010/jul/14/fostering-the-future/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279189.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00064-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971828 | 607 | 2.03125 | 2 |
Metacognition is the process of thinking about thinking. Flavell (1976) describes it as follows: "Metacognition refers to one's knowledge concerning one's own cognitive processes or anything related to them, e.g., the learning-relevant properties of information or data. For example, I am engaging in metacognition if I notice that I am having more trouble learning A than B; if it strikes me that I should double check C before accepting it as fact." (p 232).
Flavell argued that metacognition explains why children of different ages deal with learning tasks in different ways, i.e., they have developed new strategies for thinking. Research studies (see Duell, 1986) seem to confirm this conclusion; as children get older they demonstrate more awareness of their thinking processes.
Metacognition has to do with the active monitoring and regulation of cognitive processes. It represents the "executive control" system that many cognitive theorists have included in their theories (e.g., Miller, Newell & Simon, Schoenfeld). Metacognitive processes are central to planning, problem-solving, evaluation and many aspects of language learning.
Metacognition is relevant to work on cognitive styles and learning strategies in so far as the individual has some awareness of their thinking or learning processes. The work of Piaget is also relevant to research on metacognition since it deals with the development of cognition in children.
For further discussion of Metacognition, see http://coe.sdsu.edu/eet/Articles/metacognition/start.htm or http://www.gse.buffalo.edu/fas/shuell/cep564/Metacog.htm
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Flavell, J. (1976). Metacognitive aspects of problem-solving. In L.
Resnick (Ed.), The Nature of Intelligence. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum Assoc.
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Garner, R. (1987). Metacognition and Reading Comprehension. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.
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A solo exhibition by Iranian artist Mahmoud Bakhshi was opened at YAY Gallery in Baku on May 30.
"Talk Cloud" exhibition located in the historical area of the city will run until June 30.
The exhibition is curated by art historian theorist Daria Kirsanova, who previously worked for several art-institutions such as Serpentine Gallery and Victoria Miro Gallery in London.
Mahmoud Bakhshi's practice deals with a visual aesthetics that developed in Iran in the aftermath of the Islamic Revolution in 1979.
He reflects on the recent history of Iran through a recontextualisation of the official symbolism of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and uses deeper historical and traditional formal references to ground this recent history in the larger context of Iranian identity.
Talk Cloud is a cross-disciplinary project that includes lightbox sculptures, drawings, and video.
The project was exhibited earlier this year at the Niavaran Cultural Centre in Tehran and Narrative Gallery in London. The conceptual core of the project is the multifaceted and multilayered relationship between art and power-holding systems in Iran and elsewhere. This relationship has been a longstanding subject of artistic enquiry for Bakhshi.
In this new body of work, Bakhshi is looking into the very origins of the notion of so-called 'political engagement' in art. However, Bakhshi is not only interested in political power. He is equally concerned with the interaction between art and capital, another stakeholder in this rivalry for authority.
The lightbox sculptures formally recall traditional Persian calligraphy to mind, but instead of famous verses of poetry, they refer to well-known phrases that comment on the social role of art.
The quotes include expressions by the leaders of the Iranian Islamic and Russian Bolshevik revolutions - Khomeini and Lenin - alongside those by the current Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, and the ideologue of 'artistic engagement' and Social Realism, Anatoliy Lunacharsky, as well as Andy Warhol.
The contrast between the content of the phrases, which call attention to a social role of art, and their presentation in the shape of embellished ornament creates a conceptually charged paradox. At the same time, the diverse industrial materials used to produce the works underline Bakhshi's fascination with the brutal aesthetics and materiality of Arte Povera.
The eight-panel installation "My Land, Meridian ...° - ...°, orbit ...° - ...°", a reference to "Yasna, Hat 46" was shown for the first time in 2004. It was subsequently reworked in 2013, when an iron frame with the inscribed quote from Yasna and the exact geographical coordinates were added to each panel.
The eight panels represent eight parts of the current border of Iran and refer to the areas where important battles and significant conflicts took place throughout its history; the events that transformed the country and divided the perception of history to 'before' and 'after'.
The quote from Zarathustra, in this context, points out to another layer of meaning. It refers to the nostalgic and sentimental relationship one has with the past and one's homeland. The work puts the discussion around the social role of art into a wider, historical, and philosophical perspective.
The drawing series "Hard Copy" is an ongoing project that the artist started in 2012. These digital drawings, made by colored ink, reference familiar propaganda iconography that glorifies martyrs in the Iran-Iraq war.
Using formal alterations to trigger conceptual metamorphoses, Bakhshi transforms them into simple, childlike drawings. He takes these images out of their charged context, the detached realm of 'heroic propaganda', and turns them into schematic, nearly abstract graphic symbols.
This play with the visual iconography and ideological framework of the official Islam becomes more pronounced in the Halal sculpture. The work refers to an ongoing debate among the Iranian ruling elite about whether or not the sculpture is allowed in the Islamic society as a medium or if it should be removed from public life as 'haram' (forbidden). Bakhshi offers a witty solution by creating the first 'halal' public sculpture.
Yay Gallery, the exhibition's host, was established in September 2012 as an addition to the broader initiative conceived by YARAT Contemporary Art Organization in order to support and promote the development of Azerbaijani contemporary art both on a national and international level.
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State the place value of the underlined digit in 6 953 742. A Hundreds C Ten thousands B Thousands D Hundred thousands ( 3. Round off 5 987 341 to the nearest hundred thousand. A 5.8 million C 6.0 million ( B 5.9 million D 6.1 million 4. Which of the following numbers, when rounded off to the nearest thousand, becomes 7 541 000?
2) Define weighted average- An average that takes into account the proportional relevance of each component, rather than treating each component equally. 3) Place one atom of each isotope on the scale. Divide the mass by 3 to fine the straight average. How is this number different from your average atomic mass? Number – 19g average mass 1.7g 4) If a 4th isotope of beanium, D (green), were added to the pool, how would the average atomic mass change?
According to Bender oxygen and hydrogen are elements other than carbon used to define mole. A mole is the quantity of an element that weighs out in grams the amount of an element specified by the atomic weight. Work Cited Bodner , George M. "How was Avogadro's number determined?." scientific american. © 2013 Scientific American, a Division of Nature America, Inc., 16 Feb 2004.
What element in Period 5 of the periodic table is a member of Group 14? (1 point) Answer: The element that is in Period 5 as well as Group 14 is tin or Sn. 4. The word interpolate means to use a given line graph to find unknown points between the plotted points of the graph. Use your line graph from Part II to interpolate, or estimate, atomic radius of Tin (Sn). (1 point) Answer: By using the given line to interpolate the atomic radius of tin, it can be found that its radius is around 149pm.
I. Bean Bag Isotope II. The purpose of this experiment is to investigate the mass properties and relative abundance of isotopes for the “bean bag” element and to calculate the atomic mass of this element. III. Pre-Lab Questions A. The first possible property of electrons and protons that led to their discovery was their “positive rays,” positively charged streams of atoms generated in gas discharge tubes from J.J. Thomson’s experiment.
Number of moles of CuCl2 used = [pic] =[pic] = 0.127 moles Therefore, Molarity of CuCl2 = [pic] = [pic] = 0.063 mol/dm3 Number of moles of ethylenediamine used = [pic] =[pic] = [pic] = 0.1 mole Therefore, Molarity of ethylenediamine = [pic] = [pic] = 0.05 mol/dm3 2. Plot a graph of absorbance versus mole fraction of ligand. 3. From the graph, look for the maxima and from the corresponding mole fraction, determine the formula of the complex. Maximum absorbance occur when mole fraction of ligand is 0.65.
Each color had the following number of pieces: Green 16, Orange 10, Brown 6, Yellow 9, Red 6, and Blue 9. Bag number 2 had 58 pieces, and bag number 3 contained 57 pieces. Each column was added up and the sample proportion of each candy was given by taking the total number of candies from all bags and dividing the sum by the total number of candies. Step three: In step three of the project a confidence interval was constructed for the proportion of each color along with the mean number of candies per bag. A confidence
The first class in a relative frequency table is 50–59 and the corresponding relative frequency is 0.2. What does the 0.2 value indicate? Answer: 0.2 is equal to 1/5 or 20%, 0.2 indicates 20% of the data values are in this particular interval. 3. When you add the values 3, 5, 8, 12, and 20 and then divide by the number of values, the result is 9.6. | <urn:uuid:e0d0904f-1f64-45c7-a38f-7901a2443868> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.antiessays.com/free-essays/Candium-Lab-19254.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00069.warc.gz | en | 0.911332 | 856 | 3.609375 | 4 |
Geographically, historically and architecturally, Astypálea really belongs to the Cyclades – on a clear day you can see Anáfi or Amorgós far more easily than any of the other Dodecanese. Its inhabitants are descended from colonists brought from the Cyclades during the fifteenth century, after pirate raids had left the island depopulated, and supposedly Astypálea was only reassigned to the Ottomans after the Greek Revolution because the Great Powers had such a poor map at the 1830 and 1832 peace conferences.
Astypálea’s main visitor attractions include a beautiful old citadel – not just the castle itself, but also the whitewashed village of Hóra beneath it – as well as several good, easily accessible beaches. The island may not immediately strike you as especially beautiful: many beaches along its heavily indented coastline have reef underfoot and periodic seaweed, while the windswept heights are covered in thornbush or dwarf juniper. Hundreds of sheep and goats manage to survive, while citrus groves and vegetable patches in the valleys signal a relative abundance of water. Besides the excellent local cheese, Astypálea is renowned for its honey, fish and lobster.
There is no package tourism on Astypálea, and its remoteness discourages casual trade. During the short, intense midsummer season (mid-July to early Sept), however, visitors vastly outnumber the 1500 permanent inhabitants. The one real drawback is that transport connections are so poor. | <urn:uuid:4050129b-e7a7-48d1-843b-b4fa7cd9ed1f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.roughguides.com/destinations/europe/greece/the-dodecanese/astypalea/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285001.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00301-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952948 | 316 | 2.359375 | 2 |
"Infatuated with herself, always classically draped, her magnificent hair her only coiffure, she was strange in her personality and her ways. She would appear at gatherings like a goddess descending from the clouds. At her request, her husband would lead her to a quiet corner of the room where she would allow people to admire her as if she were a shrine; absent amid the crowd, she would meet with glacial calm the indiscreet stares of her admirers. She almost never spoke to women. A few- a very few- men were favored with a smile, a word, or a greeting. Like a great singer who has just performed in an unfamiliar world, she would wait, patient and indifferent, for her hosts to pay their compliments. But as soon as the Emperor or the Empress approached her, her face would be transformed; her mouth until that moment disdainful, would part to show her admirable teeth, her eyes would shine betraying her triumph, her gratified vanity; she seemed to be saying to all: I am not here for you. I am of a different essence. I know only the sovereign and his court."
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Mutual aid and autonomous organization have been activated throughout Latin America in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.
In the context of the uprising in Chile, Mapuche people debate between participation in elections and maintaining autonomy.
Mapuche and feminist organizations are leading resistance to President Sebastián Piñeda's plan for "social peace" and a new Constitution in Chile.
Between efforts towards restoration and the advance of a coup, the Bolivian people are preparing, again, to resist.
Silence and candles. Sitting at a table, in a kitchen that opens onto a spacious patio decorated with plants and trees, women of all ages and very young men are placing herbs in little packets that are sealed with the heat of the flame. Murmurs, laughter and candles; an atmosphere of mysticism and spirituality for a collective task that celebrates life. The headquarters of CONAMURI is a gentle place that combines work with intimacy, like the campesino life that in some way it reproduces.
Source: Americas Program
A decision of the Chilean Supreme Court has suspended operations at Barrick Gold’s gold mine, Pascula Lama. Monsanto had to halt construction of a seed plant in Cordoba because of widespread opposition from the population. Large extractive companies begin to reap a harvest of defeats.
“Under democracy, it’s the peoples that are the disappeared,” stated Mercedes Maidana, who defines herself as a ‘nomadic colla‘ that still works the land despite living in a city in northern Argentina. With that phrase, she established a thread between past dictatorships and current political regimes at the conference “From extractivism to re-building alternatives”, held in Buenos Aires in late August. | <urn:uuid:9caf0eb0-9b6a-45dc-8bae-d7748d5bff6d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://towardfreedom.org/author/raul-zibechi/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00074.warc.gz | en | 0.94464 | 365 | 1.90625 | 2 |
Leeds Actors in Training
Leeds Actors in Training (LAIT) is a studio-based vocational programme for young people, aged 18-25 years, to challenge and develop their performance skills alongside industry-leading professionals.
Founded in 2018, LAIT was developed in response to a call from young people interested in an acting career, looking for alternative high-quality training and skills development opportunities to the traditional (and prohibitively expensive) drama school route.
The year-long course, run by Lizi Patch, Artistic Director Young Peoples Theatre, plus professional working artists, is designed to develop participants vocally, physically, and imaginatively, encouraging an independent and in-depth approach to a career within the theatre industry.
With a focus on performance skills, including improvisation, clowning, scene work and audition prep, the programme is a perfect training ground for those taking their first steps in the industry.
In previous years, LAIT has performed in the Studio at Leeds Grand Theatre and Seven Arts in Chapel Allerton.
“LAIT has been fundamental in my acting training this year; it has allowed me to balance essential training with work and auditions. There is very little else out there for young actors trying to make their first step into the industry. LAIT is one of a kind.” Niamh Hendron
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LONDON.- Tate Britain
today unveiled dock 2014, the largest and most ambitious work to date by sculptor Phyllida Barlow (b. 1944). The work has been created for the annual Tate Britain Commission 2014, supported by Sothebys. The commission invites artists to make new work in response to Tates collection of British and international art and to the grand spaces of the Duveen Galleries at the heart of Tate Britain.
Inspired by Tate Britains location beside the River Thames, dock 2014is colossal in scale and physically intrusive. Visitors are encouraged to negotiate their own path through the work, looking up, down, across and around a network of components that hang from wooden structures or rest on the floor. dock is comprised ofseven interrelated and individually named sculptures that fill the 100 metre-long Duveen Galleries and impede a natural passage through the galleries.
Phyllida Barlow has worked for over four decades with inexpensive, everyday materials to create large sculptural installations. dock is comprised of lightweight materials such as timber, metal, polystyrene, canvas, cardboard and rope. The materials and structures contrast with the smooth curves of the grand neoclassical architecture in which the work is installed.
The first part of dock, untitled: dock 5hungblocks, is made of five rectangular forms suspended on wooden frames that take inspiration from the shipping containers that are carried by boat along the river past Tate Britain. Next to the grand stone pillars of the Duveen Galleries stands untitled: dock: crushedtower, a functionless wooden tower and a pastiche of the monumental sculptures that Barlows work often reacts to. In the Octagon, the nine-metre high timber-framed untitled: dock: emptystaircasehoarding rises up to the gallery cornice forming an unruly barrier. Untitled: dock: 5stockadecrates comprises a series of timber frames of various heights loaded with piles of debris brought into the gallery from the artists studio.
Phyllida Barlow said: In my response to the Tate Britain Commission, I was conscious of the architecture of the building, and how the outside appearance of the gallery seems to defy the scale on the inside. I wanted to explore two contradictory aspects: the enclosed gallery interiors against the ever-present aspect of the river beyond. dock brings in elements of both of these environments and also speaks to the heritage of the Duveens as a sculpture gallery.
Penelope Curtis, Director, Tate Britain, said: When we invited Phyllida Barlow to make work for the Tate Britain Commission we knew it would be exciting and challenging. dock 2014has exceeded our expectations. The scale and energy of Barlows work is immense and it is wonderful to know that the work stems from a deep love and familiarity with Tates sculpture collection.
Cheyenne Westphal, Co-Head of Contemporary Art Worldwide, said: Every year, the Tate Britain Commission provides an enormously important platform for British artists, bringing them into the global spotlight and allowing for a celebration of todays extraordinarily vibrant British art scene. We have already provided support for this important commission for six years and are now thrilled to be able to announce our continued commitment to the commission for the next three years.
Phyllida Barlow (b. 1944) studied at Chelsea School of Art, London (1960-63) and then the Slade School of Fine Art, London (1963-66) where she later became a Professor. Recent international major exhibitions include Venice Biennale (2013), Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (2013), Des Moines Art Centre, Des Moines (2013), Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach (2013), New Museum, New York (2012), Ludwig Forum Aachen, Germany (2012), Kunstverein Nurnberg, Germany (2011), BAWAG Contemporary Vienna, Austria (2010), and Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art (2004). She became a Royal Academician in 2011 and lives and works in London. | <urn:uuid:27dd28f3-8e20-4fdf-bfa8-8dede7445c18> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://artdaily.com/news/69144/Largest-and-most-ambitious-work-to-date-by-sculptor-Phyllida-Barlow-on-view-at-Tate-Britain | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281069.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00269-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932422 | 820 | 1.820313 | 2 |
Faculty Fellow History
Faculty Fellows began before President Perry introduced Integrated Learning to EIU. Back in 2006 as a result of Learning Reconsidered by ACPA/NASPA, Residential Life identified the importance of out of the classroom interactions between Faculty and Students and wanted to develop a program that would enhance faculty-student engagement. We shared our plan with Faculty Senate and Faculty Senate took the lead on initiating the program with Dr. Bud Fischer, Professor of Biological Sciences and Jody Stone, Assistant Director of Housing, working together as coordinators. Dr. Fischer served in this role from 2006-2009, Dr. Hank Davis in 2009-2010, and now Dr. William R. Benedict since Fall 2010.
Student interaction with faculty has rather consistent positive effects on student self-reported learning.”
“Student contact with faculty members outside the classroom appearsconsistently to promote student persistence, educational aspirations, and degree completion.”
“Studies of more formal, non-classroom interactions between students and faculty members provide additional evidence of the positive benefits of such contacts on student persistence and degree completion.”
“Students’ self-reported growth in job skills was significantly enhancedthrough informal conversations with faculty.”
“Across these investigations, career choices in college teaching, science, and scientific research were significantly enhanced by such factors as receiving encouragement from a faculty member, having informal conversations with faculty, having a faculty member as a role model, working with a faculty member on his or her research, and a composite index of faculty-student interaction.”
Pascarella, E.T., & Terenzini, P.T. (2005). How College Affects Students, Volume 2, A Third Decade of Research. San Francisco: Jossey – Bass.
-We all share in the responsibility of recruiting faculty to the program. The Faculty Fellow Coordinator (Dr. William Benedict) & the Residential Life Associate Director works with Faculty Senate and the Faculty Development Office.
-The best practice for residential life staff to recruit is to have student staff identify Faculty they would like to have serve as Faculty Fellows members and to have the student staff approach them about joining the program. | <urn:uuid:1dd0133b-986f-4530-8c76-e4c6f56c6347> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.eiu.edu/housing/facultyfellowhistory.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280929.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00431-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965325 | 452 | 1.648438 | 2 |
The Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) grants constitute a discretionary federal grants program funded by Congress and administered by the Department of Transportation (DOT). TIGER I grants are a part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, better known as The Stimulus, while TIGER II and TIGER III grants are separate discretionary funding awards dispersed in November 2010 and December 2011 respectively.
This brief explains the purpose and history of the program, evaluates the program and concludes with ten ways that DOT could improve the program’s processes in order to reduce these problems. It evaluates the program’s strengths and weaknesses against eight measures:
- Review Process
- The Quality of Supporting Documentation
- Geographic Dispersions
- Public Information
- Political Equality
- The Quality of Economic Analysis
- The Rural/Urban Bias
The following is a selection of the more serious problems with the TIGER grants:
- The metrics that DOT used to evaluate the applications lacked quantitative components.
- Certain funding applications contained incorrect information that the DOT used in press releases to justify the funding of those applications. DOT provided limited information to the public explaining the process.
- Grant funding was not determined by rigorous application of DOT’s own evaluation: DOT funded almost as many Recommended projects (25) as Highly Recommended projects (26). Meanwhile, only 23% of the 110 projects ranked Highly Recommended were funded. The Review Team offered no official written explanation of its selections. The Team offered notes in draft form and a memo; these only created more questions by explaining that in many cases the projects selected were no better than the projects not selected.
- A disproportionately large number of projects were funded in Democratic districts. In TIGER I, TIGER II Capital, TIGER II Planning and TIGER III, Democratic districts were awarded a higher percentage of grants than their overall proportional representation. In TIGER III, districts represented by Democrats received 69% of the funding despite Democrats holding only 47% of the total congressional seats.
The TIGER program of continuous stimulus funding has too many flaws. The program in its current form should be abolished. Since the DOT plans to award another round of TIGER grants in 2012 using the same flawed process as the previous grants, Congress should force DOT to award these projects on a merit basis or eliminate this funding from its budget.
Although grant projects seldom work, if the DOT and Congress insist on creating a grant program, this new program should fund only nationally important transportation projects with proven economic benefits. Whether DOT could implement a program in a political environment is questionable. While infrastructure investments are critical for economic growth, the source of the funding and the choice of the project matter. Spending money indiscriminately on politically popular projects increases the deficit, requires localities to maintain questionable projects, and provides very little economic benefit. | <urn:uuid:fd92ee81-bfe3-4c6c-a2fc-a33dbe9459b5> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.reason.org/news/printer/tiger-grants-transportation-improve | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279933.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00124-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940395 | 585 | 2.28125 | 2 |
Republican crazer and presidential candidate Newt Gingrich was campaigning on Florida’s Space Coast this week and in what has to be the most obvious political pandering moments of all time, told the adoring crowds that by his second term, he’d build a “permanent base on the moon and it will be American.”
“I come at space from a standpoint of a romantic belief that it really is part of our destiny, and it has been tragic to see what has happened to our space program over the last 30 years,” said Gingrich who is running neck and neck with wealthy tax evader Mitt Romney.
This is a markedly different tone from when he was Speaker of the House in 1995 and teaching a class at Georgia’s Reinhardt College, where he infamously told students “that they’d be better off” if NASA had “disbanded” after the Apollo moon landings. His press flack quickly retreated on the statement and said Gingrich was just being a “college professor talking about his ideas of the way things should work,” and not advocating for the dismantling of the space agency. It should also be noted, that under his leadership (and President Clinton’s), the budget for NASA was slashed by $715 million during his first year as speaker. Not surprisingly, he likes to lie about other things as well. | <urn:uuid:dfd57df7-d128-4855-9e31-3f71d6eb2ddd> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://animalnewyork.com/2012/newt-gingrich-once-said-nasa-should-be-disbanded-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719041.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00167-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.985424 | 289 | 1.5 | 2 |
2006 USENIX Annual Technical Conference Abstract
Pp. 157170 of the Proceedings
Reval: A Tool for Real-time Evaluation of DDoS Mitigation Strategies
Rangarajan Vasudevan and Z. Morley Mao, University of Michigan; Oliver Spatscheck and Jacobus van der Merwe, AT&T LabsResearch
There is a growing number of DDoS attacks on the Internet,
resulting in significant impact on
users. Network operators today have little access to scientific means to effectively deal
with these attacks in real time. The need of the hour is a tool to accurately
assess the impact of attacks and more importantly identify feasible
mitigation responses enabling real-time decision making.
We designed and implemented Reval, a tool that reports DDoS
attack impact in real time, scaling to large networks. This is
achieved by modeling resource constraints of network elements and
incorporating routing information.
We demonstrate the usefulness of the tool on two real network
topologies using empirical traffic data and examining real attack
scenarios. Using data from a tier-1 ISP network (core, access and customer
router network) of size in excess of 60000 nodes, Reval models
network conditions with close
to 0.4 million traffic flows in about 11 seconds, and evaluates a
given mitigation deployment chosen from a sample set in about 35
seconds. Besides real-time decision support, we show how the
simulator can also be used in longer term network planning to identify
where and how to upgrade the network to improve network
resilience. The tool is applicable for networks of any size
and can be used to analyze other network anomalies like flash
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Is the Bell V-280 Valor the future choice of the of US military instead of traditional helicopters? At twice the speed and twice the range, Bell Helicopter is pitching their new V-280 Valor to US military services.
Bell Helicopter’s newest tilt-rotor is almost ready for its first flight. The company said it expects the V-280 Valor prototype to have its first flight in September.
Unlike the V-22 tilt-rotor that is also manufactured in Amarillo, the V-280 is much smaller and allows passengers to exit from side doors instead of the back door on the V-22. Another critical difference is how the V-280 transitions from vertical to horizontal flight as only its gearboxes rotate on the aircraft. On the V-22, the entire engine rotates.
“We’re taking all the lessons learned [from the V-22] and [moving them] into the V-280,” Bell’s chief executive Mitch Snyder told reporters during a media session last week. – Star Telegram
The Valor can fly at 280 KTAS and has a combat range of 500 to 800 nautical miles carrying a crew of four and up to 14 troops.
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Scampi: I’ll draw it for you.
Peter: That really is not necessary.
Scampi: Let me make you this diagram.
Peter: To what end?
Scampi: I want to draw it out for you. To make things clearer.
Peter: Are we in great need of clarity, all of a sudden?
Scampi: No, no. It has come up on us, bit by bit.
Peter: I see.
Scampi: You are like a rock on the seashore.
Peter: In what sense?
Scampi: In the sense that I said so.
Peter: Ah. Right.
Scampi: Baking in the sunshine like a loaf of wheat.
Peter: Loaf of wheat? What?
Scampi: Why are you so critical today?
Peter: Was I being critical?
Scampi: Yes. Very picky. For some reason. Which I do not know what it is.
Peter: Perhaps you are misinterpreting my words.
Scampi: Have you ever seen a cactus?
Scampi: What, really?
Scampi: I mean, not in a plant shop. Or at the zoo.
Peter: They have cactuses at the zoo?
Scampi: Why shouldn’t they? People can have a cactus if they want.
Scampi: So, what? You’ve been to the desert, is that what you’re saying?
Peter: That is not what I am saying.
Scampi: Where did you see a cactus then?
Peter: I cannot recall.
Scampi: Humph. This all smacks of trickery.
Peter: Excuse me?
Scampi: Perhaps you were driving along one day in your little Volkswagen.
Peter: I do not own a Volkswagen.
Scampi: Oh look! sez you to yourself. It be a cactoos yonder.
Peter: I do not speak this way.
Scampi: You’re in a very disagreeable mood today.
Peter: I –
Scampi: What? Do you disagree? Ho, ho!
Scampi: And truly. Furthermore, I’d like to know where this boat is going.
Peter: Yes, wouldn’t we all.
Scampi: [craftily] So you admit we’re in a boat.
Peter: What was that?
Scampi: Please pay attention to the map. Do you have anything against maps?
Peter: Certainly not.
Scampi: That’s what I’m saying. We don’t want to end up on a shoal.
Scampi: What does the chart say?
Peter: [irritably] You haven’t given me a chart.
Scampi: Says you.
Scampi: I suppose we could ease up. Drift awhile, fish for smelt in the noonday sun.
Peter: I shall simply tip my chapeau over my eyes like so, and avail myself of a siesta.
Scampi: La-de-da. For my part, I shall read aloud from the book of Deuteronomy.
Peter: I would really rather you did not.
Peter: Please. There is no need to shriek like a mynah bird.
Scampi: And why not?
Peter: I am right here.
Scampi: Oh. Well, why didn’t you say so in the first place?
Scampi: Would you like a cushion?
Peter: What was that?
Scampi: The book of Deuteronomy is full of stiff necks, you know.
Peter: I am fine, thank you.
Scampi: Suit yourself.
Scampi: You know what?
Scampi: The shore is so beautiful this afternoon. I feel like a plover.
Scampi: Yes. Are you listening to me?
Peter: Mm. Certainly.
Scampi: Okay. What did I just say?
Scampi: Just checking.
Scampi: Will I wake you if I catch a fish?
Peter: No thank you.
Scampi: Have you ever been in love?
Peter: I think so.
Scampi: Oh. Shall I wake you in case something exciting happens?
Peter: Such as?
Scampi: Uh, dragonflies.
Peter: No, thank you.
Scampi: Will you fall in love again, do you think?
Scampi: How do you know?
Peter: I am taking a nap.
Scampi: Yes, yes.
Scampi: Have I ever been in love?
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Ybyrai (Ibrahim) Altynsarin (Kazakh: ЫбырайАлтынсарин; Russian: ИбрайАлтынсарин) (1841 – 1889) was a major figure in pre-Soviet Kazakh history. He was the most prominent Kazakh educator of the late 19th century, during the period of Russian colonization of and cultural influence in Kazakhstan.
Altynsarin was born in the Araqaraghai region of Torghai oblast (now Kostanay Province), and in his early career was an inspector of Torghai schools.
He is best known for introducing a Cyrillic alphabet for the Kazakh language, and was a proponent of teaching in the Western style. However, he opposed the teaching of Orthodox Christian doctrines to non-Russian Kazakhs, but at the same time urged resistance to Tatar language and culture, in favor of Russian and Western influences. As an educator, he opened numerous Kazakh-Russian boarding schools, technical schools and schools for girls.
Altynsarin is also credited with authoring the first Kazakh grammar book, the first Kazakh-Russian newspaper, and with translation of a large number of textbooks and reference works. He was honored by the Imperial Russian government with numerous awards, including the title statski sovetnik (State Councillor).
A number of Kazakh institutions, including the Kazakh Academy of Education, Arkalyk State Pedagogical Institute and some streets, schools, and academic awards, are named after Altynsarin. There is an Altynsarin museum in Kostanay.source: wikipedia. | <urn:uuid:0370f3f9-3f50-439e-8811-8988e0e35c56> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://e-history.kz/en/biography/view/19 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279650.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00431-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962673 | 355 | 2.65625 | 3 |
The do’s and don’ts of social dancing are a must know if you haven’t experiment that universe. You don’t want to feel uncomfortable, embarrassed the first time you go out.
So that’s why, it might be useful to be aware of some rules before going.
And if social dancing is not new for you, it might also be interesting to have a quick review of social dancing etiquette ! It doesn’t hurt anyone 😉
In this article, i will mention both parts : leaders and followers. But if you want to know more, as a follower, I’ve written an article about the 7 common mistakes followers make. I would highly recommend you to read it.
And now lets’ start !
Do’s and Don’ts before social dancing
First of all, if you don’t know where to dance :– Check on Facebook the events near you, subscribe to Facebook groups.
– You can also go to go and dance and see what’s on.
1. Have a good hygiene
It might be obvious but maybe not for everyone unfortunately, so quick reminder :
- Have a shower before going, have clean hair,
- Use deodorant and bring it to the party if you sweat a lot,
- Wear perfume in moderation, you don’t want to warn everyone you’re in the room 🙂 or maybe yes 😛,
- Plan to have a second shirt in case you sweat too much,
- Brush your teeth and use mints if needing but not while dancing.
2. Wear comfortable and appropriate clothes
You might be dancing all night so you want to be able to execute any moves. And for the girls, if you wear a short tight dress, be conscious, you will have to pull it down all night. I made that mistake once 🙂.
3. Bring clean spare shoes
If you have a pair of dance shoes, that’s ideal but if not, bring a pair of clean spare shoes because sometimes, street shoes are not allowed on the dance floor.
4. Don’t be intimidated
If it’s your first time, if you feel stressed out, that’s normal. But you will see, later on, you will be proud and feeling relieved 😉. Trust me, we all passed there !
If you haven’t been in social dancing and you feel anxious, watch this video, you will feel better 🙂.
5. Don’t drink too much
You want to be able to control the situation and dance properly. Don’t get drunk, this is not safe for you, who you dance with and for the others around 🙂.
6. Don’t bring too much stuff
You never know what could happen, it depends on where you are. You don’t want to get robbed. Plan to have some money for the locker room if necessary.
Do’s and Don’ts during social dancing
7. Be polite, respectful when you ask or refuse someone for a dance
There are nice ways to ask someone to dance. But don’t grab your partner and pull him/her to the dance floor. A simple, “would you like to dance” is perfect. And yes, it’s fine to refuse a dance as long as you answer nicely, apologize and say why eventually 😉.
8. Adapt the dance to your partner’s level
You might be dancing with a total beginner so don’t do advanced moves right at the beginning. Try to gauge your partner’s level and if you see that he/she can’t cope, go back to basics moves.
9. Be aware of your space
For the leaders, try to evaluate and anticipate if you can do certain moves. For the followers, respond to the moves being aware of the space around. And for both, same advice when you’re dancing on your own, styling, shining.
10. Apologize if you bump into someone
And in spite of all this just below, do apologize when you bump into someone whether it’s your partner’s fault or yours.
11. Thank your partner for the dance
It’s always nicer to thank your partner after a dance. Because it means you value the time spent with that person whether it has been the best moment in your life or not 🙂. You give an interest to that person and it’s so much appreciated.
12. Respect personal space
Some people don’t like to be too close while dancing. If you notice your partner feel uncomfortable, adapt your moves. For example, in bachata use more modern, traditional moves rather sensual moves (avoid isolations, body waves in close position…). Or keep dancing like the music tells you but attempt to use more open position than close position.
Of course, if the music is sad, you’re not gonna smile all song but try to find that complicity with your partner. Let him/her know you have a good moment with a smile, eye contact or whatever in your attitude. Be positive whether you’re a beginner and you dance with an advanced dancer and the other way around. Don’t be stressed out or don’t look bored. You can, both of you, definitely find a way to enjoy the moment.
14. Don’t talk
Please don’t try to make a whole conversation while dancing. It’s fine to ask “How are you?”, “What’s your name?”. But don’t try to ask for your partner’s resume unless you both want it 😉. I’m sure you will find the opportunity later, on the side of the dance floor.
15. Don’t teach/ correct
Please again, don’t teach or try to fix your partner’s mistakes unless he/she asks for it. Don’t do it especially if you don’t know that person. It could be offending, embarrassing. Social dancing shouldn’t be the place for that, classes room definitely yes ! But if you dance with your friend, of course that’s another story 😉
16. Don’t be too picky
Of course, it’s fine to refuse a dance for many personal reasons (you’re tired, you don’t want to dance with that particular person because you feel uncomfortable, it’s painful… But don’t be too picky, trying to dance with only the best dancers, refusing dancing with a beginner for example. We all started once and we all know that is not easy so let’s try to be generous, helpful.
17. Don’t be intimidated to ask advanced dancers
Advanced dancers doesn’t mean necessarily they are snobbish. You can find excellent dancers very humble who enjoy dancing with beginners. So don’t be afraid to ask if you’re in this case (whether a leader or follower 😉).
18. Don’t do crazy moves
Social dancing is not the space to do acrobatics moves. It could be dangerous for you and for others if you don’t control enough. It could be scary for your partner too if he/she doesn’t expect that. And if you’re both agree, maybe practice out of the social dancing floor.
19. Don’t be selfish
Social dancing is meant to be sharing the moment with your partner and not showing off. If you want to highlight your talent, do a solo performance. Of course, people are watching you when you dance but before that, what matters first is who you dance with.
20. Don’t confuse dancing and flirting
The purpose of social dancing is dancing right? Don’t try to be close to your partner to grope him/her or try to take advantage of the situation. And if you’re both attracted to each other, maybe you should keep certain things for outside the dance floor 😉
This is a fun video below to give you some practical examples of the don’ts in salsa social dancing. It can applies in bachata and for followers too sometimes.
I hope you had a quick overview of the do’s and don’ts in social dancing. You probably know more but i tried to list you the most common and important. Anyway, if you’d like to share more social dancing etiquette or your experience, i would love to read your comments.
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Los Gatos, CA 95033-8291
- In the mountains west of San Jose in the San Francisco Bay Area.
- State Parks
DescriptionAlong the crest of the Santa Cruz Mountains, Castle Rock State Park embraces 3,600 acres of coast redwood, Douglas-fir, and madrone forest, most of which has been left in its wild, natural state. Steep canyons are sprinkled with unusual rock formations that are popular with rock climbers.
The forest here is lush and mossy, crisscrossed by 32 miles of hiking and horseback riding trails. These trails are part of an even more extensive trail system that links the Santa Clara and San Lorenzo valleys with Castle Rock State Park, Big Basin Redwoods State Park, and the Pacific Coast. | <urn:uuid:21d10ee0-5713-4ae0-9813-928c7fef3a68> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.go-california.com/Castle-Rock-State-Park/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279489.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00018-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.882762 | 159 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Some scholars have formed a more expansive view of knowledge that moves beyond the cognitive notion of intellect. For example, emotional intelligence theory posits that human intelligence encompasses both cognitive and emotional competencies, providing a framework for a relatively new concept known as contemplative practice. The purposes of this study were: (a) to develop a self-report measure, the Scale of Contemplative Practice in Higher Education (SCOPE), and (b) to explore issues of validity and reliability related to the SCOPE. An extensive review of the literature, reference to personal experiences, and consultation with an expert panel were used to generate scale items. The participants were 253 educator preparation graduate students. An orthogonal exploratory factor analysis resulted in a seven-factor scale that accounted for 54.48% of the variance, although four factors evidenced low reliability. The 27-item full-scale SCOPE exhibited good internal reliability (α= .857) and test-retest reliability (r = .879). Future exploration is recommended regarding content and construct validation as to whether contemplative practice is best viewed as a single- or multiple-factor construct.
Krikorian, M., & Busse, R. T. (2019). Construction of a Scale of Contemplative Practice in Higher Education: An Exploratory Study. Journal of Contemplative Inquiry, 6(1), 145-174. | <urn:uuid:9b0ea780-b898-426d-85ed-f4a59e7b1980> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/education_fac/114/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00474.warc.gz | en | 0.897059 | 297 | 2.28125 | 2 |
Recent links of note:
“Academic Activists Send a Published Paper Down the Memory Hole”
Theodore P. Hill, Quillette
Although its topic was controversial, the mathematics professor and scholar Theodore Hill knew his research was well founded. His project focused on the logical viability of the “Greater Male Variability Hypothesis,” an area of evolutionary research that suggests males are more likely than females to be extraordinary, in both the positive and negative sense (more Nobel laureates and more prison inmates). Don’t shoot the mathematician; that’s just science for you, Hill thought. But he didn’t expect his paper to be spiked in such unceremonious fashion—not once, but twice, after some colleagues found it challenged their beliefs about women’s success rates in the hard-sciences workforce. In his essay for Quillette, Hill reports unprecedented levels of unprofessionalism by those who found scientific research threatening their views about gender.
“The Village Voice Goes Silent, Finally”
Telly Davidson, The American Conservative
The Village Voice gave its last gasp on August 31, after struggling along on online life support for the past year. Once considered the gadfly of the New York news establishment, the Village Voice covered the stories that the more “respectable” publications—The New York Times, The New Yorker—wouldn’t. In its prime, the alt-weekly was unashamedly (and sometimes shamefully) radical and nonconformist, but it found itself in a downward spiral as the paper’s views were adopted by the mainstream. Tom Carsion, a Voice veteran, in his Baffler eulogy for the paper, goes so far as to say that the paper “folded simply because its work here was done.” Depending on one’s opinion of the Voice’s influence on the Times, Carson’s claim could be an epitaph that lives on in fame—or in ignominy.
“A Personal Tribute to Richard Timperio, a Beloved Figure of the Brooklyn Art Scene”
James Kalm, Hyperallergic
Brooklyn’s Williamsburg was a rising New York art hub when the artist and dealer Richard Timperio opened the Sideshow Gallery there in 1999. In the years following, his patronage helped make the neighborhood and many of its artists major players in the New York art scene, especially through his famous, and ever more inclusive, Christmas and New Year’s exhibitions. James Kalm writes about the ’Burg’s debt to Timperio, who died on Sunday. Read more on the annual exhibition at Sideshow here and here in reviews by our own James Panero.
Andrew Motion, The Times Literary Supplement
A new edition of Philip Larkin’s biography was released last week. In this excerpt, Andrew Motion unearths the roots of the poet’s famous grimness as not “grumpiness,” but as a fearless honesty about life coupled with a gripping terror of death. Read to the end for a visit from Larkin beyond the grave, then read some New Criterion criticism of his work in Christopher Carduff’s blistering review of the first edition of Motion’s biography, along with essays on Larkin by the late U.S. Poet Laureate Donald Hall and William Logan.
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- Chicago is as prepared for a terrorist attack as any big city can possibly be, Mayor Daley maintained today. Then he showcased the technology to prove it on the eighth anniversary of 9/11.
We are remembering the Mobile Communications Van that Shortshanks rolled out to great fanfare a few years back. It was pretty much an empty shell that parked behind OEMC and was unlicensed to operate any of the millions of dollars of equipment supposedly installed. We don't even think it was hardened against EMP while it was parked behind on of the largest targets in Chicago. They had to spend hundreds of thousands to ship it back to Virginia or somewhere for modifications. Does anyone know if it ever came back?
At O’Hare Airport, the city is testing a high-resolution camera capable of detecting debris on the airfield that may be invisible to the naked eye.
“This is able to pick up screws, metal objects, other objects that may cause or could impact damage in aircraft. It allows for a cleaner airfield using technology on top of human inspection,” said Aviation Commissioner Rosemarie Andolino.
You know, we are forcibly reminded of a story we read regarding the Space Race of the 1960's. When NASA found out pens wouldn't work reliably in outer space, they spent a few million dollars inventing a "space pen" that used pressurized gases to ensure a steady flow of ink in zero gravity. The pen was rolled out to enormous fanfare. It could write in outer space, under water, upside-down. It was truly a marvel of engineering and American know how.
The USSR sent their cosmonauts into orbit with pencils.
So "silent" Vic's partner is spending millions on a camera system to detect debris on runways? Debris that will still have to be picked up by human hands? How about we just attach a few magnets to the street sweepers already clearing the runways daily? Or improve the brushes to clean a bit more efficiently? Too easy?
And thanks to an “exciting partnership” with Columbia College, the city is developing “virtual reality software that simulates a high-rise fire.”
“It’s an interactive learning tool that…will train you and educate you as far as what needs to be done if there’s an evacuation of your building,” said Ray Orozco, executive director of the city’s Office of Emergency Management and Communications.
We used to have something like this back in grade school...it was called a "fire drill," and the Fire Department would come by, sound the buzzers and the nuns would line everyone up and evacuate the building. God help you if you talked in line, too. What is an "exciting partnership" with a "virtual reality" simulation going to teach us that Sister Mary Margaret didn't?
- Find the exits, find the stairwells, find an alternate or two and get the hell out if the shit hits the fan.
The last time the City held a "drill," it was on a Friday afternoon, maybe 10 or 20 buildings participated, the employees all got to go home early and the building engineers were propping doors open and handing out bottled water to "evacuees." When it happens for real, it's going to be mass chaos. And unfortunately, quite a few shortcomings are going to be exposed in the worst way and at the worst time possible.
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Egypt, Libya and Tunisia Consider Visa-Free Zone to Boost Trade
Egypt, Tunisia and Libya are considering changes to allow for visa-free travel in a bid to bolster trade and economic cooperation, the state-run Middle East News Agency reported, citing Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr.
The three countries agreed to put into effect a so-called Cairo Declaration that was announced yesterday, the agency said. The declaration aims to facilitate commerce, encourage investment, and fight terrorism, drug smuggling and illegal migration.
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Your garden can be your personal piece of heaven. It just needs love, attention, and careful curation of plants. Thankfully, West Virginia has fantastic weather most of the year to help you plant your own garden. Now, it’s just down to which plants you want in your garden.
So, what flowers grow well in West Virginia?
There’s a range of flowers that grow well in West Virginia, including the Rhododendron Maximum, Tall Thimbleweeds, Butterfly weed, Trumpet Vine, and Spring Beauties. Take your pick and enjoy the beauty these flowers bring.
West Virginia, also known as the Mountain State, has a lot to offer; you just have to get an idea of which flowers to look for. If you’re feeling overwhelmed with options, read on. This guide will help you find the perfect flowers for you!
7 Gorgeous Flowers That Grow Well in West Virginia
There are a lot of flowers out there. Some will work fine in West Virginia, while others won’t. This guide is here to help you cut through all the options and shed light on seven flowers that’ll most likely work with any garden in West Virginia.
This set of diverse flowers will offer different colors, shapes, and sizes, essentially having something for everybody looking to exercise their green thumb. So check them out and find out which one fits your garden best.
1. Tall Thimbleweed
Tall Thimbleweeds are a welcome sight in West Virginia because they’re so simple, easy to care for, and elegant, making great additions to any garden.
Able to grow in average to dry soils, you can have them planted in the sun or in partly shaded areas. Their simplicity comes from the little maintenance needed to care for them since they’re virtually pest and disease-free. They’re also drought and deer-resistant.
Thimbleweed flowers have a star shape to them, with white petals and greenish thimble-like mounds with extruding stamens.
The flowers tend to bloom in late spring and continue to do so midsummer, with reports saying they can stay blooming until early fall.
Something to be careful of when handling thimbleweed is that the plant is poisonous, so please be careful not to eat it. Its sap can cause skin irritation, especially when fresh.
2. Rhododendron Maximum
You must have known that we’d add the state flower to the list; it’s a no-brainer. The Rhododendron Maximum is a large evergreen shrub with clusters of purple-pink bell-shaped flowers bursting out of it, making them perfect as a centerpiece for your garden.
They’re also known as the Great Laurel thanks to their large size. They’re unique and will definitely get a few looks from a passer-by or garden guests.
Native to the east coast, the shrub’s flowers bloom from late spring to midsummer and thrive growing up in a part shade environment.
While it’s low maintenance, please remember that the shrub and its flowers are toxic to humans and animals, so keep your pets away from it if you have any.
3. Butterfly Weed
Adding a dash of color to your garden is always a sign of a keen-eyed gardener. The Butterfly weed supplies that required color in droves, thanks to its bushy perennials that have yellowy-orange flowers that pop.
The Butterfly weed’s flowers tend to bloom throughout the entire summer, offering a nice contrast to other flowers that fall on the other side of the color spectrum.
Drought resistant, the Butterfly weed can grow well in dry soil that’s well-drained. It’s generally both pest and disease-resistant. Just make sure you plant it in the sun for it to thrive.
While it’s deer-resistant due to it being toxic to animals, the flowers’ nectar still invites other guests, including bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds.
4. Spring Beauty
The Spring Beauty is a charmingly small flower that’s best admired when in groups, so try and plant several of them next to each other.
The tiny flowers have pale petals with dashes of pink on them. They bloom throughout the spring, with little to no pest or disease issues to speak of.
Their size makes them perfect for meadows and garden beds, as they can bring the bottom of trees to life. Make sure you grow them in fertile or moist well-drained soils in the sun or part shade to get the best results.
5. Trumpet Vine
These woody climbers are perfect if you want to have some vines up or down some kind of wall, fence, or post in your garden, and what makes them beautiful is their trumpet-like flowers.
Trumpet Vine flowers are captivating thanks to their unique tubular look and stunning orange or red color, which bloom all summer long.
While there are no disease or insect issues to garner attention, the vines need maintenance on a regular basis. The vines will need to be pruned before or after blooming months to keep them in check, or else they’re going to overgrow.
The flowers grow best while in the sun or partial shade, and due to their shape, they attract none other than hummingbirds who will visit to have a sip of their nectar.
6. Shooting Star
Shooting Stars are very unique when it comes to their looks. Their name comes from the look of their flowers, which appear like falling stars hanging in the air thanks to their stems. Others have described them as purple wind-blown umbrellas floating, which is also an apt description.
The flowers actually have five pinkish-purple swept-back petals with yellowish-brown stamens pointing downward, which gives the illusion of small stars shooting to the ground.
These gorgeous flowers bloom from late spring to early summer and grow best in part shade with moist, well-drained soil.
They’re also virtually disease-free, which is great, but you still need to keep an eye out for snails and slugs that might ruin them. You’ll be able to spot them in the early hours of the morning or at night.
7. Dwarf Larkspur
It’s time for something different! We mentioned purple, red, orange, pink, and white-colored flowers so far; this one is more distinct thanks to its deep blue star-shaped petals.
The Dwarf Larkspurs are the kind of flowers that will stand out, grabbing the attention of anyone who’ll take a look into your garden.
Thriving in fertile and moist, well-drained soils, these flowers grow best in sunny areas or with partial shade, under trees, or next to bushes. If cared for correctly, you can expect these blue stunners to bloom in mid to late spring, lasting into early summer.
Even though it’s toxic to dogs, cats, and humans, you will see hummingbirds and butterflies regularly feeding off this flower’s nectar. Deer and rabbits will tend to avoid it as best they can.
Another variation for the Dwarf Larkspur is the Blue Mirror. Its mesmerizing colorway will make you feel like you’re seeing three colors: pale blue, purple, and a hint of pink. They’re truly unique, and if you see them in person, you’ll want to add them to your garden immediately, and we can’t blame you.
Final Words On What Flowers Grow Well in West Virginia
In closing, you need to be aware that any plant you choose will need your love and care in order to thrive. That being said, experts recommend going out and seeing the plants in person before making your final choice, as you might feel differently about them once you see them in real life.
Another thing that you need to consider is doing some research on your garden before taking on any project. You need to figure out what type of soil you have, water capabilities, and the budget you’re willing to spend to grow these flowers there.
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Are you wondering how long does it take to buy a home? Well, when you’re ready to buy a home, it’s important to understand how the process works and how long it will take. This guide offers an honest look at the timeline for buying a house, from start to finish.
Keep in mind that everyone’s experience is different, so your home buying timeline may vary depending on your situation. However, this information should give you a good idea of what to expect. Ready to get started? Let’s go!
How Long Does It Take To Buy a Home?
It can take anywhere from a couple of months to over a year to purchase a home. It all depends on the type of property you want to buy, and how much time there is left before you need it. A few things factor into the length of the process:
1. Your Situation
If you’re buying with someone else or if you have a good credit score, your application is more likely to get processed quickly. If you’re an international buyer, it takes longer to process the paperwork. Unfortunately, those who have poor credit or previous foreclosures may have a harder time getting approval.
Buying in some locations takes more time than others. That’s because of limited housing availability and competition for homes that become available on the market. Areas with limited housing include cities with high demand and low supply.
For example, New York City. Many buyers compete for homes in such an environment, which means that there’s a lot of demand. It also means that not many people are selling their homes, so the process takes longer to complete.
The Number of Days to Buy a Home
Speaking in general terms, it typically takes around 53 days to buy a home. However, in some areas, it can take more than 50 days. Thankfully, there are a few things you can do to expedite the process, which includes the following:
- Make sure that you put down at least 20% of the purchase price.
- Be prepared with documentation like bank statements, W-2 forms, and tax returns.
- Review your credit report for mistakes or discrepancies that may require follow-up with the bureaus.
- Ensure you understand the home buying process fully before meeting with a lender.
In addition to these things, it’s also helpful to hire the best realtor you can find!
Understanding the Home Buying Process
Buying a house is not something that happens overnight. While it may take time, buying your dream home is worth the wait. Beyond these basics, there are additional things you should know about the purchasing process.
For instance, you should know the answer to the question of “How long does it take to buy a home?”
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WisDOT begins issuing new eagle license plate
Orders for new Endangered Resources license plate now being filled
The Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV) is now issuing a new Endangered Resources license plate that features a photo rendition of an American Bald Eagle. The eagle plate is the third in the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Endangered Resources series.
“This Endangered Resources series of license plates is popular, having issued more than 23,000 plates since the wolf license plate was released 20 years ago (in 1995),” explained Shaun Peterson, DMV Special Plates Unit supervisor. “Preorders of this eagle plate have been strong.”
The plates can be ordered online at wisconsindot.gov, keyword search Endangered Resources license plate; or view here: http://wisconsindot.gov/Pages/dmv/vehicles/title-plates/endanger.aspx.
The eagle design highlights the eagle’s recovery in Wisconsin. The eagle plate replaces the limited-edition badger plate that was added in 2010 and ended August 17. A total of 3,490 badger plates were issued.
When you purchase a special Endangered Resources license plate the fee includes an annual $25 donation to the DNR’s Endangered Resources Fund. The Fund supports the work of the DNR’s Natural Heritage Conservation Program to identify, protect and manage native plants, animals and Wisconsin’s natural communities from the common to the critically endangered. The annual donation supports work to:
- Enhance the quality of life in Wisconsin by bringing back endangered and threatened species.
- Prevent rare species from becoming endangered.
- Preserve and manage the best examples of native ecosystems in our state natural areas for public use, education and research.
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To the north, the voters defy history
So far, Indonesia and East Timor are beating the odds and pursuing democracy, writes Peter Hartcher.
In the hot tropical night this week, in the East Timor town of Maliana, where Indonesia is so close you can see it, a deep rhythmic singing rises and falls, hour after hour. In the same town five years ago the night was rent with screams as the Indonesian-sponsored militias butchered about 250 of the town's people, their goodbye present for a population who dared to vote to be free after 24 years of Indonesian occupation.
But now there is the singing of the local men as they rehearse for the celebrations of the second anniversary yesterday of formal independence in the world's newest nation. When the town's electricity is switched off at midnight, as it is every night to conserve precious energy, the men are not deterred. They raise their voices in an ironic cheer before they resume singing.
Independence and democracy have not solved East Timor's many serious problems. East Timor, colonised by the Portuguese and then seized by Indonesia, spent 400 years in a labour camp and a quarter-century in a concentration camp.
Nor have independence and democracy solved the problems of Indonesia. To use another oversimplification, Indonesia, colonised by the Dutch and then seized by Soeharto, spent three centuries in a plantation and 30 years in a police state.
Democratic self-rule in Indonesia and East Timor is built on these politically repressive and socially ruinous foundations. It was abruptly available to both countries because of the same event - the fall of Soeharto.
Yet as the US-led effort to impose democracy in Iraq continues amid bloodshed and hatred, the experience in East Timor and Indonesia is a fascinating counterpoint in experimental democracy and nation-building.
What is the state of democratic development in these two countries, neighbours of Australia and countries where Australia has deep national interests? It's an opportune moment to ask: Indonesia holds the first round of its presidential elections on July 5 and East Timor celebrated two years of independence yesterday.
In Indonesia's case, the repository of the darkest fears and suspicions of the Australian psyche, many have long argued that democracy cannot work. And they may yet be vindicated.
The two most common scenarios for the failure of democracy in Indonesia are that the generals will grab power once more, or that a strident new Islamism will take hold and Indonesia will become an Islamic state. But five years after the country's first fair and free election since its brief skirmish with democracy in the 1950s, there is good news.
First, consider the evidence of the parliamentary elections on April 5, a precursor to the presidential elections. Indonesians seemed to appreciate the opportunity to exercise their new-won right - 87 per cent of voters turned out, a much higher ratio than in most countries with optional voting. Voter turnout in the country most aggressively insisting on democracy in other countries, the US, was 50 per cent.
Some Indonesian voters turned out because they were paid to do so by political parties, but with 128 million people showing up it was overwhelmingly an indication of public interest and civic responsibility.
The patterns of voting, too, were revealing. There is widespread disappointment in Indonesia with the country's vacuous do-nothing President, Megawati Soekarnoputri. Her party was punished, and lost about 40 per cent of the support it had won at the previous election. These disenchanted voters were expected to revert to Soeharto's party in a fit of nostalgia. After all, the disenchanted in post-Communist countries of Eastern Europe have commonly flocked back to the Communist Party.
But voters were more discerning and more adventurous. Most of the vote that deserted Megawati went to two new parties, one a moderate Islamic party and the other the party of the former general who now leads the race for the presidency, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, or SBY.
Second, look at the presidential candidates. There are six, each with a vice-president on his or her ticket, a total of 12 on the slate. Of these, three are former generals. Another six are former or present leaders of one of the two big Islamic groups in Indonesia.
This is a deeply important development. The generals are not waiting for democracy to fail so that they can stage a coup, but are openly competing in the democratic process. The Islamic leaders are not repudiating the secular state, but actively competing in a democratic process for the power to run it.
All the competitors, in short, acknowledge the national consensus that there is only one legitimate route to power - through the ballot box.
The third fascinating facet of Indonesian democracy is that after five years, the country recognises that democracy is not enough. The consensus is that Indonesia also needs good governance. The campaign platforms of all six candidates are heavily dependent on the twin planks of fighting corruption, and generating economic growth. Listen to the Bush Administration's aspirations for Iraq and you will hear democracy and liberty cited. You will almost never hear a wish for good governance. Yet the Indonesian political system explicitly recognises it is indispensable to a functional state.
East Timor has started its democratic experiment with far less experience of politics and with far fewer resources than even hard-scrabble Indonesia. East Timorese subsist with an average income equal to the international poverty line of one dollar a day, with a fifth of the people living on even less.
Yet after just two years of independence, it has an elected parliament, a functional executive branch, a bureaucracy of sorts, and has legislated for all the institutions necessary to run the country. It has now to give those institutions form and real function. Again, good governance is a phrase much in use in Dili these days.
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An ultrasound is a safe and painless test that uses sound waves to make images of the internal structures of the body. The study will take approximately 30 minutes.
What to expect during the procedure:
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- The sonohysterogram consists of two parts.
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- The radiologist will then place a small catheter in the cervical canal. The technician will again take ultrasound images with a transvaginal probe while the radiologist injects sterile saline into the uterus.
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Scientists aren’t messing around with this Man on Mars thing. They’ve been shooting spacecraft at the Red Planet since the mid-1960s. These days, the place is a veritable space parking lot.
With the recent revelation of the discovery of fluid water (we already knew there was ice on Mars), the pull of the planet becomes even stronger. And the questions — Is there life on Mars? Has there ever been? Can we live there? — become even more pressing.
How are scientists going to answer them? A stroll through that parking lot of information-gathering spacecraft may tell:
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
OK, so this isn’t actually parked. Orbiter, launched in August 2005, is the satellite that has done the real work of mapping the planet.
On the scene since November 2006 (Mars, remember, is 140 million miles away; it takes some time to get there), Orbiter has returned more data than all the other probes to the planet combined, according to NASA. Its mission is to examine the surface, the subsurface and the atmosphere with high-resolution cameras and a spectrometer. In effect, the data that Orbiter gathers informs the folks back home exactly where to send the probes and — someday — men and women.
Mars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity
Launched in November 2011, this car-sized vehicle is NASA's boots-on-the-ground. It’s part of the Mars Science Laboratory, which landed in Gale Crater in August 2012. Its mission: To evaluate whether that area of the planet could once have supported life.
Curiosity can analyze samples of atmosphere and surface, and has already found things in the surface like oxygen, nitrogen, carbon and hydrogen, “all essential chemical foundations for life.” With its on-board spectrometer, Curiosity captured evidence that dark streaks found on certain ridges are signs of a flow of salty water.
Artist's conception of an exploration rover on Mars. (Photo: NASA/JPL/Cornell University)
Mars Exploration rover Opportunity
This rover has been tooling around on the surface of the Red Planet for more than a decade. Launched in July 2003, it landed in a crater in January 2004, checked out some bedrock and immediately settled the debate on whether Mars ever had water.
Opportunity, which takes breathtaking images, has put in more miles than any other land vehicle ever (off-Earth vehicle, that is). Its original mission was to last three months, but it’s still going, preparing for its eighth Mars winter. It had a twin, the rover Spirit, that worked until March of 2010 before it got stuck and lost power.
Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN satellite (MAVEN)
The youngest member of the Mars team, MAVEN just celebrated its one-year anniversary on the scene. Launched in November 2013, it arrived in September 2014.
MAVEN is measuring the Martian atmosphere — it’s the first spacecraft to directly do so — and how quickly it’s being lost to space. If scientists can figure out how fast gasses are escaping the atmosphere, the theory goes, they may be able to get an understanding of what the atmosphere once looked like and whether it could have, at one time, sustained life.
Launched in April 2001, this orbiter arrived in March 2002 and is still mapping and providing imaging through cameras and a spectrometer. It’s the longest-working Mars orbiter ever. One of its key jobs now is to act as a communications relay for the craft on the surface.
These dark, narrow streaks called recurring slope lineae, which flow downhill on Mars, may have been formed by flowing water. The blue color seen upslope of the dark streaks is not believed to be related to their formation, but instead caused by the presence of the mineral pyroxene. (Photo: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona)
Express is a European Space Agency orbiter; the Italian Space Agency and NASA are bumming rides to run some experiments. Launched in June 2003, it started relaying images in 2004. It includes a radar that can penetrate the surface — looking for sub-surface water — and a tool for studying solar winds.
On to the future ... and beyond
NASA has plans to launch a couple more craft next year, one a lander that aims to better “understand the processes of planet formation and evolution in the inner solar system.” The other launch, in conjunction with the European Space Agency and the Russian agency, Roscosmos, will be of an orbiter, designed to survey “trace gases in the planet’s atmosphere that may indicate active geological or biological processes.” The second mission also will test a new entry, descent and landing module. If all goes well, both should be up and running by late 2016 or early 2017.
And in 2020, a new mission is expected to be launched which hopes to sample Mars' surface and bring the samples back to Earth.
"It's very likely, I think," Alfred McEwen, a scientist at the University of Arizona who is in charge of the high-resolution camera on Orbiter, said during Monday’s announcement, "that there's life somewhere in the crust of Mars."
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Taylor began her naval career with the Atlantic Fleet. Assigned to Destroyer Squadron (DesRon) 20, the destroyer trained at Casco Bay, ME, and made her shakedown cruise in the northern Atlantic before beginning duty as a coastwise convoy escort. The latter duty lasted until mid-November when she escorted a transatlantic convoy to a point just off Casablanca. The transit was uneventful, save for the interception of a Spanish merchantman, SS Darro. A boarding party from Taylor sent the neutral ship off to Gibraltar to prevent her from transmitting information about the convoy to the enemy. Taylor returned to the United States at Norfolk early in December and remained there until mid-month.
On 17 December, the warship cleared Hampton Roads in company with TF 13 on her way to duty in the Pacific. After transiting the Panama Canal and stopping at Tutuila in the Samoan Islands, the destroyer reported at Nouméa, New Caledonia, on 20 January 1943 for duty in the Southwest Pacific. From Nouméa, Taylor continued west to Éfaté in the New Hebrides group, entering Havannah Harbor on the 26th. There, she became a unit of DesRon 21, one of two four-destroyer divisions screening Rear Admiral Giffen’s TF 18, comprised of three heavy cruisers, three light cruisers, and two escort carriers.
On 27 January, Taylor cleared Havannah Harbor with the other ships of TF 18, one of several task forces sent out to screen an important reinforcement echelon to Guadalcanal. Admiral Halsey, operating upon intelligence which indicated a major Japanese attempt to reinforce their beleaguered garrison on the island, sent out the large screening force in the hope and expectation of a major naval engagement. That sea battle never materialized because the enemy activities upon which he predicated his actions were actually movements preparatory to a Japanese withdrawal. Instead, the enemy subjected TF 18 to a scathing air attack. On the evening of the 29th, enemy “Betty” bombers attacked TF 18 with torpedoes. The ships brushed off the first attack with antiaircraft fire, suffered negligible damage, and raced on to rendezvous with the other elements of the covering force. After a concerted effort, the Japanese fliers finally scored a crippling torpedo hit on Chicago (CA 29). When Louisville (CA 28) took the stricken cruiser in tow, Taylor helped to screen the retiring ships as they steamed out of range of enemy aircraft. The following day, more enemy planes appeared and attacked. After Chicago took four more torpedo hits, her crew and the warships covering her abandoned the heavy cruiser to her watery fate and returned to Éfaté.
On 4 February, Taylor and the other ships of DesRon 21 were transferred to TF 67, Rear Admiral Ainsworth’s cruiser-destroyer force. Soon thereafter, TF 67 became TF 18, and the former TF 18 became TF 19. In any event, during February and March, Taylor screened Ainsworth’s cruisers St. Louis (CL 49), Honolulu (CL 48), and Helena (CL 50) during operations between Espiritu Santo and Guadalcanal. During the night of 15 and 16 March, she joined Nicholas (DD 449), Radford (DD 446), and Strong (DD 467) in the fourth bombardment of the Vila-Stanmore plantation located on Kolombangara Island in the central Solomons. On 26 March, the destroyer cleared Espiritu Santo to escort Kanawha (AO 1), Aloe (YN 1), and six coastal transports to Guadalcanal. The ships reached Tulagi on the 29th; and, while Kanawha discharged cargo, Taylor resumed operations at sea with Ainsworth’s cruisers
On the nights of 4, 5, and 6 April, she joined them in sweeps up the “Slot” before being ordered back to Tulagi on the 7th to pick up Kanawha. When the destroyer was just about to enter Tulagi, a strong Japanese air raid canceled her mission by severely bombing Kanawha before the old oiler could clear the harbor completely. With Kanawha disabled, Taylor rang up 30 knots and cleared the area via Sealark Channel. During her transit of the channel, the warship claimed the destruction of three enemy planes and hits on two others.
For much of the month, Taylor escorted convoys in the Solomons and between those islands and Espiritu Santo. On 20 April, she rejoined TF 18. After a brief tender overhaul, the destroyer accompanied the cruisers up the “Slot” twice during the 10 days between 4 and 14 May to cover mining operations in Vella Gulf. During the second operation, conducted between the 11th and the 14th, she and the other warships bombarded enemy installations at Vila, Bairoko Harbor, and Enogai Inlet.
Between late May and early July, Taylor performed escort duty. On 25 May, she cleared Espiritu Santo with Munargo (AP 20), escorted the transport to the 180th meridian, and returned to Espiritu Santo on the 30th. During her next assignment escorting a convoy of troop transports to Guadalcanal and back she defended her charges against Japanese planes which jumped the task unit on 10 June south of San Cristobal. After repairs at Espiritu Santo, she served with the antisubmarine screen of escort carrier Sangamon (ACV 26) until 6 July when she headed for Tulagi to report for duty with TF 31.
For the next four months, Taylor supported the invasions of the central Solomons. In July, she supported the New Georgia landings. On the 11th and 12th, the destroyer covered the landing of troops and supplies at Rice Anchorage on Kula Gulf as well as the evacuation of wounded. On the morning of the 12th, she attacked and damaged a Japanese RO-type submarine, but could claim no definite sinking. That afternoon, Taylor was temporarily detached from TF 31 and assigned to TF 18. She headed up the “Slot” with Ainsworth’s cruisers—the same ones with which she had previously served except that HMNZS Leander replaced Helena after the latter cruiser was lost in the Battle of Kula Gulf—to intercept a Japanese surface force. That evening, the two forces collided. Taylor and the other van destroyers launched torpedoes and then joined the remainder of TF 18 in engaging the enemy with their guns. It may well have been one of Taylor’s “fish” that slammed into Jintsu’s hull just abaft her number 2 stack and ripped the Japanese cruiser in half. There is no way of knowing for sure, but the accumulated effect of the destroyers’ torpedoes and the entire task force’s gunfire cost the enemy his flagship and his commander, Rear Admiral Izaki.
Following the Battle of Kolombangara, Taylor reported back to TF 31 and resumed support for the amphibious operations in the central Solomons. On the night of 15 and 16 July, the destroyer took Helena survivors off Vella Lavella Island where they had found refuge after their ship went down. Almost a week later, on the night of 23 and 24 July, the destroyer supported the landings at Enogai Inlet and participated in another bombardment of Bairoko Harbor. The following morning, her main battery joined in a bombardment of the Japanese positions around the Munda area of New Georgia.
On 30 July, Taylor cleared Guadalcanal in company with a troop transport convoy bound for New Caledonia. She was detached en route to Nouméa and ordered to join TF 37 at Éfaté. On 11 August, Nicholas, O’Bannon (DD 450), Chevalier (DD 451), and Taylor were ordered to return to Guadalcanal and rejoin TF 31 for the Vella Lavella phase of the central Solomons operation. First, she covered the landings on 15 August. Two days later, the same four destroyers were ordered out of the anchorage at Purvis Bay to intercept a force of troop-laden barges covered by four destroyers. During the ensuing action off Horaniu, a mad melee of torpedoes and gunfire, neither side lost a destroyer; but the Japanese suffered some damage when American shells set Namakaze ablaze. Later, after the enemy destroyers had made good their escape, the Americans turned their attention to the scattered barges and combat craft, sinking two subchasers, an equal number of torpedo boats, and one barge before retiring. Forty eight hours later, the four American destroyers returned once again to the area northwest of Vella Lavella to seek out enemy barge traffic. They encountered nothing except enemy aircraft and dodged heavy bombing attacks throughout the evening. Over the next nine days, Taylor and her division mates made eight more trips up the “Slot”—one of which was to cover mining operations off the west coast of Kolombangara—but saw little or no action.
Taylor departed Guadalcanal and the Solomons on 28 August to escort Titania (AKA 13 ) to Nouméa. Then—after a ten-day repair, rest, and relaxation period in Sydney, Australia—the destroyer escorted a troop transport convoy from Nouméa to Guadalcanal. She returned to the Tulagi-Purvis Bay area on 30 September and resumed support of the subjugation of Vella Lavella. By this time, the Japanese had already begun to evacuate bypassed Kolombangara and would soon make the decision to do the same at Vella Lavella. Thus, Taylor and other destroyers continued their nocturnal forays up the “Slot” to interdict barge traffic.
On the night of 20 October, she, Terry (DD 513), and Ralph Talbot (DD 390) engaged enemy barges and a surface force in the waters between Choiseul and Kolombangara. Four nights later came the big action of the Vella Lavella and Kolombangara evacuations, the Battle of Vella Lavella. While south of New Georgia escorting a convoy, Taylor, Ralph Talbot, and La Vallette (DD 448) were ordered to join O’Bannon, Chevalier, and Selfridge already embroiled in a slugfest with nine Japanese destroyers covering the Vella Lavella evacuation group. During the ensuing battle, the American and Japanese forces traded torpedo salvoes and gunfire, as well as exchanged destroyer Chevalier for destroyer Yugumo. During the battle, Selfridge and O’Bannon also received torpedo hits, but neither was lost. Taylor went alongside Selfridge in the closing moments of the battle and evacuated most of her crew while a skeleton crew began their successful attempt to save the damaged destroyer. She then screened the two cripples while they limped back down the “Slot” to Purvis Bay.
On 17 October, Taylor departed the southern Solomons with the other members of DesDiv 41. She and her consorts escorted a convoy of troop transports to Éfaté, where they reported for duty with TF 37. Between 23 and 26 October, she made a round-trip voyage between Éfaté and Nouméa, escorting Lassen (AE 3) to Nouméa and Aldebaran to Éfaté. She and her division were reassigned to the Central Pacific Force on 31 October in preparation for the first step in the Navy’s central Pacific thrust, the seizure and occupation of the Gilbert Islands. For that operation, she was assigned to the screen of TG 50.1, built around carriers Lexington (CV 16), Yorktown (CV 10), and Cowpens (CV 25). She screened TG 50.1 during the raids on Jaluit and Mili in the Marshalls conducted during the first half of November in preparation for the Gilberts assault. During the actual landings and occupations, she protected her charges from enemy aircraft and submarines while their planes took off to help those of the escort carriers maintain air supremacy over the islands. Following the Gilberts operation, she steamed with the carriers during raids on the Marshall Islands. Near the end of those forays, she teamed up with La Vallette and San Francisco (CA 38) to splash two of four enemy “Kates” which attacked the task group just after noon on 4 December.
Following those raids, Taylor was ordered back to the United States for extensive yard work, arriving in San Francisco on 16 December. Repairs completed, she put to sea on 1 February 1944 and headed—via Pearl Harbor—back to the western Pacific. She reached Kwajalein in the Marshalls on the 18th. Taylor escorted one convoy to Eniwetok Atoll where she joined the screen of carriers Coral Sea (CVB 43) and Corregidor (CVE 58) on 29 February. The task unit cleared Eniwetok on 29 February and headed for Pearl Harbor, where it arrived on 3 March. After 12 days of training operations and repairs, the destroyer departed Pearl Harbor in the screen of Sangamon (CVE 20), Suwannee (CVE 27), Chenango (CVE 28), and Santee (CVE 29), and arrived in Purvis Bay near Guadalcanal on the 27th. She remained there until 5 April when she left for Milne Bay, New Guinea, for temporary duty with the 7th Fleet.
The warship reached Milne Bay on the 7th and, the following day, headed on to Cape Sudest, where she became a unit of TF 77 for the amphibious assault at Humboldt Bay. During the assault, she screened aircraft carriers and acted as fighter director until 24 April when she departed to escort a convoy back to Cape Sudest. From there she moved to Morobe Bay where she spent the remainder of the month in availability alongside Dobbin (AD 3). During the first week in May, Taylor escorted a convoy from Cape Cretin to the Hollandia invasion area and acted as fighter director ship once more. She returned to Cape Cretin on 7 May and departed again two days later to screen a convoy of LSTs to the Russell Island subgroup in the Solomons. On 13 May, the destroyer reported back to the Third Fleet in the Solomons, dropped off the convoy, and departed again to screen another convoy to New Caledonia.
On the 24th, she stood out of Nouméa in company with DesDiv 41 to return to the Solomons and arrived at her new base of operations, Blanche Harbor, on 27 May. Taylor operated out of that port in the northern Solomons and Bismarcks area until early August. On the night of 28 and 29 May, she patrolled off Medina Plantation on New Ireland while her sister ships bombarded the area to neutralize mobile coastal guns. From 1 to 6 June, she operated with DesDiv 41 conducting antisubmarine operations. During the week from 7 to 14 June, Taylor and the other ships of DesDiv 41 joined TG 30.4 for hunter-killer antisubmarine operations. On the 10th, she depth-charged an enemy submarine, forced it to the surface, and damaged it heavily with 5-inch and 40-millimeter fire. The submarine submerged again, and Taylor made two more depth-charge runs and netted a probable kill. She returned to Blanche Harbor on the 15th and operated in that vicinity until the first week in August.
On 5 August, she changed operational command from the Third Fleet to the Seventh Fleet. She began her duty with that fleet with a practice bombardment of the Aitape area of New Guinea late in August and a practice landing at Moffin Bay conducted on 6 September. Both operations were in preparation for the landings made on the island of Morotai in the Netherlands East Indies on 15 September. For the remainder of the month, she acted as fighter director ship and as a unit of the invasion force’s antisubmarine and antiaircraft screen. The destroyer also escorted convoys to the landing area until mid-October.
Between 18 and 24 October, Taylor was a unit of the screen for the second reinforcement echelon for the Leyte invasion. During a Japanese aerial assault on the 24th, the destroyer laid a smoke screen to protect the convoy. That night, as the Battle of Surigao Strait opened, Taylor and the other destroyers of her division were anchored near the entrance of San Pedro Bay. Though she did not actually join the surface engagement, Taylor joined the support force on the following morning. Following that, she patrolled the vicinity of Dinagat Island with a unit known as the “torpedo attack force.” On 27 and 28 October, the warship screened TG 77.4 the escort carrier group. During that duty, she rescued a downed fighter pilot of Enterprise (CV 6) and a seaman from Petrof Bay (CVE 80). Frequently, she helped fend off Japanese air attacks.
On 29 October, she joined TG 77.2 and departed the area of Leyte Gulf. After visits to Seeadler Harbor Ulithi Atoll, and Kossol Roads, she returned to Leyte Gulf on 16 November. Between 16 and 29 November, the destroyer continued to screen TG 77.2 and to patrol the eastern entrance to the Surigao Strait. Again, she joined her sister ships in beating off heavy enemy air raids, climaxed by a large attack of suicide planes and dive bombers on the 29th. She claimed one sure kill and two assists during those raids. Taylor then cleared Leyte Gulf for almost a month at Seeadler Harbor before returning to Leyte on 28 December to prepare for the invasion of Luzon.
Taylor departed Leyte Gulf on 4 January 1945 in the screen for the cruisers in the covering force. The next day, the destroyer sighted two torpedoes running toward her formation. After giving the submarine alarm, Taylor launched a depth charge attack on the enemy submarine—a midget. Following those attacks, she rammed the small submarine and sent it on its last dive. During the Allied approach to Lingayen Gulf and in the days following the landings, the Japanese subjected Taylor and her sister ships to a series of heavy air raids. Taylor’s antiaircraft gunners assisted in splashing at least two of the attackers. Through the end of January, the warship screened the cruisers and the escort carriers on patrol west of Luzon.
From early February through mid-June 1945, Taylor operated out of Subic Bay in the Philippines. Between 13 and 18 February, she participated in an extensive bombardment of Corregidor and of the Mariveles Bay area of Luzon to support minesweeping operations and to pave the way for an assault by airborne troops. Early in March, she supported the recapture of Zamboanga on Mindanao during which the destroyer’s guns helped reduce enemy shore installations. She also covered the minesweepers while they cleared the way for the invasion force. On 15 March, Taylor returned to Corregidor where she bombarded eaves on the island’s western cliffs. On 26 March, the ship participated in the amphibious assault on Cebu Island, where she joined Boise (CL 47), Phoenix (CL 46), Fletcher (DD 445), Nicholas, Jenkins (DD 447), and Abbot (DD 629) in laying down a heavy pre-landing bombardment.
After a short two-day sightseeing visit to Manila, Taylor cleared the Philippines with Boise, Phoenix, two Australian warships, and four other American destroyers to support the amphibious landings in northeastern Borneo. En route, she captured five Japanese who were attempting to escape from Tawi Tawi on a raft. On 27 April, Taylor and her sister ships reached the vicinity of the invasion—Tarakan, a small island located just off the eastern coast of Borneo and north of Makassar Strait. She operated in that area until 3 May and delivered a preinvasion bombardment and call fire. On 3 May, two days after the actual landings, she departed Tarakan to resume duty in the Philippines, where for the remainder of the month she conducted training operations.
In mid-June, Taylor rejoined the 3d Fleet at Leyte Gulf and, for the remainder of the war, screened various units of that fleet. During the latter part of the month, she screened aircraft carriers operating south of Okinawa which conducted air strikes on Sakishima Gunto. On 25 June she returned to Leyte Gulf and remained there until 8 July, when she departed in the screen of TG 30.8, the logistics group for the fast carriers of TF 38. The destroyer operated with TG 30.8 off Honshu until 3 August when she joined the screen of one of the fast carrier task groups, TG 38.4. On 8 August, she resumed duty with the logistics group for five days. On the 13th, Taylor rejoined TG 38.4 just in time to be a part of the last offensive actions directed at Japan.
Following the cessation of hostilities on 16 August, she patrolled off Honshu with the fast carriers. On 23 August, she joined Nicholas and O’Bannon in the screen of Missouri (BB 63) and as such was one of the first American warships to enter Tokyo Bay, arriving on 29 August. The destroyer was present at the surrender ceremony conducted on board Missouri on 2 September and carried Allied war correspondents to and from the ceremony. She operated in the Far East until 10 October when she departed Tokyo Bay to return to the United States. Taylor arrived in San Francisco on 1 November and began preparations for inactivation. On 31 May 1946, the destroyer was decommissioned and placed in reserve at San Diego.
After four years of inactivity, Taylor moved to the San Francisco Naval Shipyard on 9 May 1950 and, three days later, began an extensive conversion to an escort destroyer. While still completing conversion, she was officially redesignated DDE 468 on 2 January 1951. On 3 December 1951, Taylor was recommissioned at San Francisco, Comdr. Sheldon H. Kinney in command. On 3 February 1952, she put to sea for a two-month shakedown period off San Diego. On 24 March, the escort destroyer headed west to her new home port, Pearl Harbor, and arrived there on the 30th. Following two months in the Hawaiian Islands, Taylor set out to return to the western Pacific for the first time since World War II. She stopped at Midway Island and Yokosuka, Japan, before joining TF 77 on 16 June to screen the carriers during air operations off the Korean coast.
During the five months that she spent in the Far East, Taylor drew several different assignments. Initially, she operated with the fast carriers and conducted bombardments of enemy-held positions along the coasts of Korea. During the second week in July, she returned to Yokosuka for upkeep and then went to sea again for exercises which included several weeks of hunter-killer operations. On 1 August, the escort destroyer rejoined TF 77 and, in September, stood blockade watch off Wonsan for three weeks. Her blockade duty at Wonsan was far from passive for, on numerous occasions, she was called upon to shell enemy shore batteries and lines of transportation and to screen minesweepers during daily sweeps of the harbor. Late that month, Taylor headed south for a tour of duty on the Taiwan Strait Patrol during which she made a weekend port call at Hong Kong. In late October, the escort destroyer returned north to the western coast of Korea where she patrolled with two British warships, the carrier HMS Glory and the cruiser HMS Birmingham. On 21 November, Taylor returned to Yokosuka, completing the first leg of her voyage home.
After conducting patrols in the western Pacific while en route to Hawaii, Taylor entered Pearl Harbor on 8 December. Following a month of leave and upkeep, she entered the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard for a month of repairs. For the next three months, she conducted shakedown training in the Hawaiian Islands in order to integrate her replacements with the rest of the crew. On 2 May 1953, the warship exited Pearl Harbor to deploy to the western Pacific again. She reached Yokosuka on the 12th and, after visiting that port and Sasebo, put to sea to join a carrier task group—built around Bairoko (CVE 115) and HMS Ocean off the western coast of Korea. For the most part, she screened the carriers during air operations, however, on two occasions, she patrolled close to the enemy-held shoreline to discourage the North Koreans from attempting to take offshore islands held by United Nations forces. She returned to Sasebo on 1 June for 11 days of upkeep before heading for Okinawa and two weeks of antisubmarine warfare (ASW) training. On 25 June, Taylor returned to Japan at Yokosuka, but she departed again almost immediately for duty with the Taiwan Strait Patrol. During that assignment, she visited Hong Kong once again as well as Kaohsiung where she trained sailors of the Taiwan Navy. The escort destroyer returned to Yokosuka on 20 July and, after two days of voyage repairs, departed the Far East. She arrived in Pearl Harbor on 31 July and, the following day, entered the naval shipyard there for a three-month overhaul.
Taylor’s return to Pearl Harbor coincided very closely with the formal end to hostilities in Korea. The armistice came on 27 July 1953 when she had just passed the midpoint of her voyage—five days out of Yokosuka and four days from Pearl Harbor. While she saw some action during her two Korean War deployments, they occurred during relatively quiet, final two years of the conflict. Her subsequent deployments, while they included both duty off Korea and on the Taiwan Strait Patrol, were entirely peaceful in nature until the expansion of the American role in the Vietnamese civil war in 1965.
In the five years between 1 March 1954 and 1 March 1959, Taylor completed five more deployments to the western Pacific. During each, she conducted training exercises and made goodwill visits to Far Eastern ports. When not in the Orient, she conducted normal operations out of Pearl Harbor. During her sixth post-Korean War deployment in 1959 and 1960, she visited Australia for the celebration commemorating the victory at the Battle of the Coral Sea in May 1942. Upon her return to Pearl Harbor on 26 May 1960, the escort destroyer conducted normal operations again until December when she entered the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard for a major overhaul before deploying to the western Pacific again in August 1961. In lieu of her annual western Pacific deployment, Taylor spent the spring and summer of 1962 in the mid-Pacific as one of the support units for Operation “Dominic,” nuclear tests conducted in the upper atmosphere. In October, she returned to Hawaii to begin a repair period which saw her through the end of 1962. During that year, she reverted to the classification of destroyer and was redesignated DD 468 on 7 August 1962.
Local operations in the Hawaiian Islands occupied the remainder of 1962 and the first six months of 1963. On 4 June 1963 the destroyer stood out of Pearl Harbor with a hunter/killer group bound for duty with the Seventh Fleet. During this deployment to the Far East, Taylor called at Kobe Japan, Hong Kong, Okinawa, and Kushiro as well as the base ports of Yokosuka, Sasebo, and Subic Bay. The call at Kushiro—a fishing port on Hokkaido, the northernmost of the Japanese home islands—constituted Taylor’s contributions to the People to People Program and aided immeasurably in developing greater understanding between the peoples of the United States and Japan. Other than that, the warship engaged in numerous unilateral and bilateral training exercises through the remainder of the cruise which ended at Pearl Harbor on 29 November. Taylor operated locally in Hawaii until April 1964 when she entered drydock for a three-month overhaul. In July she resumed operations in Hawaiian waters.
Those operations continued throughout most of the fall of 1964. On 23 November, the destroyer cleared Pearl Harbor in company with Yorktown (CVS 10) and John W. Thomason (DD 760) to return to the Orient. The task unit steamed via Midway Island and, on 3 December, made port at Yokosuka, Japan. Four days later, she put to sea for two weeks of combined antiaircraft/antisubmarine warfare exercises conducted with Hancock (CVA 19) and Strauss (DDG 16) near Okinawa. On 19 December, the warship returned to Japan at Sasebo and remained there through the holidays and into the New Year. On 4 January 1965, Taylor cleared Sasebo and rejoined Yorktown and Thomason for a voyage to Hong Kong. The three ships remained in the British Crown Colony for five days before clearing port for a series of special operations conducted in the Philippine Sea. At the conclusion of that duty, she put into Subic Bay on 24 February. After four days in the Philippines, Taylor headed back to Sasebo, where she arrived on 3 March. Exactly two weeks later, the destroyer got underway for the western portion of the South China Sea. She arrived off the coast of Vietnam on 21 March and patrolled there for the following five weeks. On 27 April, Taylor headed back to Yokosuka for a brief stop—from 3 to 6 May—before returning to Hawaii. The destroyer reentered Pearl Harbor on the 13th and conducted local operations in Hawaiian waters. On 6 December, Taylor entered the drydock for another overhaul.
The destroyer left the dock in mid-January 1966 and stood out of Pearl Harbor on 7 February and, with the other ships of DesDiv 111, shaped a course for the western Pacific. The warship reached Yokosuka 10 days later and spent eight days undergoing voyage repairs. On 25 February, she departed Yokosuka to join Task Group 70.4 off the coast of Vietnam the following day. She patrolled Vietnamese waters until the Ides of March, when she headed north to patrol the Taiwan Strait. During her stay in the area around Taiwan, she visited Kaohsiung. Her relief arrived on 12 April, and Taylor steamed off to Hong Kong for a five-day port call. On the 21st, she returned to Yankee Station to resume operations in support of American and South Vietnamese forces ashore. Among other tasks, she brought her main battery to bear on the enemy and rendered naval gunfire support between 28 April and 1 May. She conducted upkeep at Sasebo in May and ASW drills from 26 May to 10 June before resuming patrols in the Taiwan Strait on the 11th. She cleared the area again on 5 July, rejoined TG 70.4 on 7 July, and put into Yokosuka the following day. After a week of preparations, the warship departed Yokosuka to return to Pearl Harbor, where she arrived on 22 July.
On 2 August, Taylor began a tender availability period alongside Prairie (AD 15) which lasted through the end of the month. Following a short cruise for gunnery practice, Taylor commenced a restricted availability which lasted until late in November. During the first two weeks in December, the destroyer made a round trip voyage to Pago Pago, American Samoa. She returned to Pearl Harbor on 16 December for holiday leave and upkeep. During the first three months of 1967, the ship conducted local operations around Hawaii, made repairs, and generally prepared to return to the Far East in late spring.
Following an Operational Readiness Inspection in mid-April, she cleared Pearl Harbor on the 18th to join the Seventh Fleet in the Orient. On the 25th, she changed operational control from the 1st to the Seventh Fleet and, three days later, steamed into Yokosuka. During the first half of June, the destroyer participated in exercises with units of the Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force and ships of the Republic of Korea Navy. After two days in port at Sasebo, she got underway on 19 June for her first line period on Yankee Station. Between 22 May and 25 June, she plied the waters of the Gulf of Tonkin planeguarding for Hornet (CV 12) and providing gunfire support for Allied forces operating ashore. On 27 June, Taylor put into Subic Bay. After a tender availability at Subic Bay and a visit to Manila, she put to sea on 10 July to participate in SEATO exercise “Sea Dog.” Between the 26th and the 28th, she visited Bang Saen on the Gulf of Thailand. After three more days on Yankee Station—from 28 July to 1 August—the destroyer made for Taiwan. She reached Kaohsiung on the 3d and remained until the 15th, when she headed back to the coast of Vietnam. From 19 August to 11 September, she cruised along the Vietnamese coast providing naval gunfire support as needed by the forces operating ashore. She cleared the coast of Indochina on the 12th, and, after a five-day stop at Hong Kong and another tour of duty in the Gulf of Tonkin, she returned to Yokosuka on 11 October. Five days later, she shaped a course back to Hawaii.
Taylor arrived in Pearl Harbor on 23 October. and the destroyer commenced her regular overhaul on 11 December. Repairs and modifications occupied her time through the first three months of 1968. The warship completed overhaul on 22 March and conducted sea trials during the first week in April. Later, engineering problems forced the postponement of further operations until the end of the month. At that time, she began preparations for refresher training. The warship conducted refresher training in May and June, then got underway for San Diego, CA, on 27 June. She conducted operations—primarily gunnery drills at San Clemente Island—from 3 to 11 July. On the latter date, she headed back to Hawaii. En route, Taylor conducted bombardment exercises at Kahoolawe Island and then entered Pearl Harbor on the 17th. Three weeks later, the destroyer cleared Pearl Harbor on 5 August and set course for the Gulf of Tonkin.
After fueling stops at Midway, Guam, and Subic Bay, she arrived on station off Vietnam on 21 August. Taylor did plane guard duty for Intrepid (CVS 11) for a day, then steamed off with the carrier and destroyers Maddox (DD 731) and Preston (DD 795) toward Sasebo. She returned to the Gulf of Tonkin on 5 September and conducted air and surface surveillance as well as antisubmarine warfare exercises in addition to planeguarding for the carriers. On the 19th, the destroyer moved in closer to the coast to provide naval gunfire in support of troops ashore. That duty continued until 6 October when she cleared the combat zone to return to Subic Bay for repairs, supplies, and ammunition. On 20 October, the warship took up where she left off and began a week pounding various targets in Vietnam. That line period was followed by visits to Cebu City and Subic Bay in the Philippines. During late November and early December, she resumed duty on the gunline. On 4 December, she cleared the combat zone and set a course through the Luzon Strait to Yokosuka, where she arrived on the 12th. She spent Christmas in Yokosuka, but returned to Yankee Station by New Year’s Day 1969.
In mid-January, she departed Vietnamese waters for the last time. After stops at Subic Bay, Manus Island Melbourne, Australia; Auckland, New Zealand; and Pago Pago, Samoa, the warship arrived back in Pearl Harbor on 28 February. In May, a board of inspection and survey looked her over and determined that she was unfit for further naval service. Early in June, Taylor was moved to San Diego, CA, and was decommissioned. Her name was struck from the Navy list on 2 July 1969, and she was transferred to Italy at the same time. The former American destroyer served in the Italian Navy as Lanciere (D-560) until January 1971. At that time, she was decommissioned and struck from the Italian Navy list. She was subsequently cannibalized to maintain her sister ships still serving in the Italian Navy.
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An Open Source Column-Store Backend
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Adding a column-store database backend would, transparently, allow Django to become applicable to a wider array of problems. Column-stores are being touted by some leading pioneers in the database community as a solution to some of the prevalent problems in database management specifically exacerbated by row-based storage (i.e. MySQL, postgrs, Oracle, etc.) of large sets.
The shortcomings of column-store backend are both general and specific:
- Column stores are less efficient at inserts and updates due to their aggressive compression and indexing.
- The below implementations are not in the usual palette of database solutions provided by shared web hosts, nor have most web developers paid much attention to the VLDB world.
- Little legacy data is stored in databases of this type, reducing the effectiveness of inspectdb, one of the killer Django hooks. | <urn:uuid:f99c3c59-3d4b-4a6e-baa2-89bfe073c170> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/6848 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282202.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00548-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.829274 | 249 | 1.625 | 2 |
St. Patrick’s Day is a little bit over a month away, but there’s a year-round movement that honors the same color.
Green living seems to have permeated our lives, or has at least entered our consciousness from every angle.
So it’s no surprise that treating the earth well is of prime importance when enjoying its beauties through camping and hiking. Follow these guidelines to ensure you honor best practices when it comes to Mother Nature.
Leave No Trace
The idea behind this principle is to leave the outdoors just like you found it, making as little of an impact as possible. Humans can easily cause soil erosion, harm ecosystems by picking flowers and moving plants, and dirty water sources with trash.
The Leave No Trace rules are:
- Plan ahead and prepare
- Travel and camp on durable surfaces
- Dispose of waste properly
- Leave what you find
- Minimize campfire impacts
- Respect wildlife
- Be considerate of other visitors
The member-driven Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics teaches people how to enjoy the outdoors responsibly. This copyrighted information has been reprinted with permission from the Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics: www.LNT.org.
Use Green Products
Even the most minimalist backpacker takes products with him or her out into the wilderness, so it’s best to make sure they are made from sustainable sources and that they will cause minimal impact on the environment around them.
Some product suggestions include:
- Biodegradable camp soap
- BioLite Camp Stove (see Ardent Camper’s review here)
- Clothes made from earth-friendly fabrics
- Reusable plates and utensils made from biodegradable materials
- DEET-free bug spray
- Kula Cloth for your bio breaks
Use a Tent
If you’re usually a weekend RVer, take the sedan next time and go tent camping instead. You’ll reduce your carbon footprint by using less gasoline, and you can trade fueled items like a refrigerator for a cooler — or for foods that don’t need to be chilled at all.
My tent: Big Agnes Copper Spur UL4
Stay on Designated TRAILS
Unless you’re on a bald piece of granite, always remain on designated paths. You’ll keep the wildlife in pristine condition for the next person while not contributing to erosion.
By donating to or volunteering with parks and wildlife organizations that help raise awareness of these practices and actively preserve precious slivers of our planet for the public’s enjoyment, you are making a difference for generations to come. Pay it forward for everyone to enjoy our beautiful world!
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It’s a deceptively straightforward question, yet akin to the Holy Grail in education: How do you change a school’s culture?
How do you recast its reputation among parents? Supercharge the expectations of students?
An attempt to find answers led a delegation of nine teachers from Portland, plus two students and a principal, to spend a day at Rainier Beach High this week. They had read recent articles and an Op-Ed describing steady change at the oft-maligned South Seattle school, and wanted to see if there were lessons they might bring back to Oregon.
At their home base, Madison High, math and reading scores linger well below the district average, and only 62 percent of freshmen graduate in four years.
Those are problems that teachers at Rainier Beach know well. But their response has been counter-intuitive. At Beach, teachers are now asking more of students, not less. Last September, they began offering the demanding International Baccalaureate program, asking every junior and senior to take at least one of the college-prep classes.More | <urn:uuid:97e04e55-684b-430b-8583-c7b04e1224a1> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://blogs.seattletimes.com/educationlab/topic/colin-pierce/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280900.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00001-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961479 | 222 | 1.601563 | 2 |
KARACHI: President Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI), Mian Nasir Hayat Magoon has expressed his profound concern over the ever-increasing and now unsustainable losses to CNG stations in Sindh due to government policies, RLNG-linked CNG pricing regime, chronic gas load shedding for CNG stations and favouritism in supplying indigenous gas to serve vested interests.
CNG Associations' leadership informed FPCCI Chief that 70-80 favourite CNG stations of the authorities are still getting indigenous gas at Rs1,350/MMBTU and all of the rest at Rs2,040/MMBTU excluding tax. This is a huge discrimination and unfair practice.
FPCCI Chief said that huge investments by CNG stations are in jeopardy and on the verge of closure as the very economic sense of using CNG has been nullified as CNG stations in Sindh are forced to sell CNG upwards of Rs150/Kg and up to Rs165/Kg. It is worrisome that some 70-80 CNG stations are still getting indigenous gas and the rest are being discriminated and rendered uncompetitive.
Mian Nasir Hayat Magoon observed that public transport in the province is already in a dilapidated state and inflated CNG will further make it inaccessible to common man. He added that CNG is an alternate fuel and whole notion becomes irrelevant if it becomes costlier than the conventional petroleum fuels.
Convener FPCCI's Standing Committee on LNG & Natural Resources, Junaid Makda said that the cost-effective and environment-friendly fuel of CNG is in existential crisis and it will result in huge unemployment due to closures of CNG stations. He also said that Sales Tax has been increased from 5 to 17 percent on CNG stations and has added extra burden on the profitability and sustainability of the sector.
Chairman CNG Dealers Association, Abdul Sami Khan said that CNG Stations owners invested billions of rupees to establish this eco-friendly fuel sector in Pakistan to support various government initiatives and now the government has abandoned us.
Shabbir Sulemanjee of the CNG Dealers Association pointed out that we agreed to RLNG Regime with SSGC on the premises that CNG Stations will get uninterrupted gas supply, tax incentives and reduced prices; however, everything has been turned upside down and exact opposite treatment has been meted to CNG Stations.
President FPCCI extended his full support to the leaders of CNG Dealers Association to play a mediatory role from the platform of FPCCI to resolve all outstanding issues with government authorities swiftly and reach a win-win mechanism on fair pricing and uninterrupted supply.
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During our careers working in animal shelters and private training, we found that MANY of the dogs were struggling with behavior issues. We saw dogs who couldn't safely be around other dogs, or bit people when afraid, or couldn't handle their need for attention without jumping and biting. In most cases, these challenges could have been prevented with early behavior support and training, like basic puppy socialization at critical times, and early behavior intervention.
But we also knew that dog training and behavior just wasn't accessible to everyone in our community. Most professional training is expensive (and rightly so- it requires time and expertise). The field is unregulated, so there are unqualified and sometimes unethical trainers who will promise quick fixes and make things worse. Dog training can sometimes be inaccessible and uninviting, and resources for Spanish speakers are highly limited. We knew that to really make dog training available to our whole community, we would have to dig deep to find solutions to these challenges. So we founded Every Dog as a 501c3 nonprofit organization to help overcome these hurdles.
We hope that Every Dog will serve as a hub for dog training and behavior information in Austin. We look forward to providing classes from manners to dog sports, and offering webinars from local and national experts. We hope to use our future paid products to subsidize affordable and free options available for those who need it, and to work with community partners to provide behavior support to people who normally wouldn't reach out to a trainer. We're here to offer science-based, ethical resources for dog owners, and to be a trusted source for referrals and information. We will support local dog trainers who share our ethics in training, and work to amplify their efforts. We're here for you, Austin. | <urn:uuid:f18cbd6c-6a1f-449c-bc4b-2fa881a55cd9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.everydogaustin.org/about | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00470.warc.gz | en | 0.968467 | 356 | 1.820313 | 2 |
Phil Spector, who revolutionized 1960s pop music with his “Wall of Sound” technique but ended up in prison for murder, has died at age 81, authorities said Sunday.
In his heyday, Spector was the undisputed king of rock ‘n’ roll producers, the “Tycoon of Teen” whose music helped define the soaring optimism of a generation.
But the sharp suits and dark sunglasses favored by the diminutive genius gave way to prison clothes after he was convicted of the 2003 shooting death of actress Lana Clarkson.
Spector was pronounced dead on Saturday and his “official cause of death will be determined by the medical examiner,” according to a statement from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
Born in New York to Russian-Jewish parents in 1939, Spector was only eight years old when his father committed suicide, a family tragedy that was to leave lasting scars on the young Spector’s psyche.
In the aftermath of his father’s death, Spector, his mother and his sister moved to Los Angeles for a fresh start.
It was not long before Spector’s musical talents emerged, with the slight teenager showing a flair for song-writing and playing guitar.
Forming his first group, The Teddy Bears, with three high-school friends, Spector soon struck gold with the 1958 single “To Know Him Is to Love Him” — the inscription on his father’s gravestone.
The record went to number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and sold five million copies. The Teddy Bears were unable to repeat the success and they split up the following year.
Badly affected by stage fright, Spector began channeling his energies into producing and song-writing, helping to write Ben E. King’s 1961 hit “Spanish Harlem.”
The creation of his own “Philles” record label signaled the beginning of Spector’s prime, when he almost single-handedly changed the recording industry with the “Wall of Sound.”
Using large numbers of musicians playing individual parts layered upon each other, the technique gave Spector’s productions a distinctive, orchestral quality that he famously described as “a Wagnerian approach to rock & roll: little symphonies for the kids.”
“I knew Beethoven was more important than whoever was playing his music,” he once said. “That’s what I wanted to be.”
“I’m probably relatively insane”
Working with The Crystals, The Ronettes and The Righteous Brothers, Spector became a hit machine, with tracks including “Da Doo Ron Ron,” “Then He Kissed Me,” “Be My Baby,” “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin'” and “Unchained Melody.”
The final act signed to the Philles label was Ike and Tina Turner in 1966, but Spector was dismayed when the extraordinary “River Deep — Mountain High” reached only 88th in the US singles charts.
Marrying Ronettes lead singer “Ronnie” Bennett in 1968, Spector retreated from the public eye a multi-millionaire.
He returned in the early 1970s for a triumphant collaboration with The Beatles on their hit album “Let It Be,” and produced solo albums for John Lennon (“Imagine”) and George Harrison.
As the 1970s progressed, Spector became increasingly reclusive and rumors of his eccentric behavior became legend.
The graphic testimony at his murder trial of repeated gun-toting rages only served to confirm what had been common knowledge within the music world for years.
Ronnie, who divorced him in 1974, chronicled years of abusive behavior in her autobiography, which included the producer threatening to kill her and put her body on display in a golden glass-topped coffin he kept in her basement.
“I can only say that when I left in the early ’70s, I knew that if I didn’t leave at that time, I was going to die there,” Ronnie wrote later.
Spector’s threatening behavior also extended to the artists he worked with. He was alleged to have fired a gun into a studio while working with Lennon during the recording of “Rock ‘n’ Roll” and once held a gun to Leonard Cohen’s head during sessions for “Death of a Ladies’ Man.”
In another incident, he held punk band The Ramones hostage at gunpoint during recording of their album “End of the Century.”
Clues to Spector’s troubled state of mind were evident in a rare and wide-ranging interview he gave to British newspaper The Daily Telegraph, just weeks before Lana Clarkson was shot dead at his home in February 2003.
“I would say I’m probably relatively insane, to an extent,” he said. “I’m my own worst enemy. I have devils inside that fight me.
“People idolize me, want to be like me, but I tell them, ‘Trust me, you don’t want my life.’ Because it hasn’t been a very pleasant life.
“I’ve been a very tortured soul. I have not been at peace with myself. I have not been happy.”
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The number of foreign visitors to Japan grew 18.1 percent in April from a year earlier to reach a record high 923,000, thanks to a weakening yen and the popularity of low-cost carriers, a government body said Wednesday.
The figure eclipsed the previous high of 879,000 set in July 2010, according to the Japan National Tourism Organization.
“The figure is not bad, but more needs to be done” to reach Japan’s goal of having 10 million visitors for the year, Japan Tourism Agency chief Norifumi Ide said.
By country and region, South Koreans accounted for the largest proportion of foreign visitors, at 204,200, up 33.7 percent, followed by Taiwanese at 197,900, up 42.5 percent.
The number of visitors from Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, France and Russia were also the highest for any month.
But those from China dropped 33 percent to 100,200, affected by tensions between Tokyo and Beijing over the Senkaku Islands territorial dispute.
The East China Sea islets are held by Japan but also claimed by China, where they are known as the Diaoyu. | <urn:uuid:70c3dd06-99c0-40cc-bba6-d1e850984df9> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/05/24/national/weak-yen-spurs-record-tourist-tally/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719286.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00497-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954774 | 238 | 1.8125 | 2 |
Substance Use Disorders
- As policies legalizing nonmedical marijuana have increased in states, understanding the implications of marijuana use among adolescents is increasingly important. This study uses nationally representative data to assess behavioral risk factors among students with different patterns of marijuana use.
- With the ongoing opioid overdose epidemic in the U.S., it is important to explore how prescription opioid misuse correlates with health behaviors that increase the risk for adverse health outcomes among adolescents. The objective of this study is to determine if lifetime nonmedical use of prescription opioids is associated with health risk behaviors among adolescents.
- Non-medical use of prescription drugs (NMUPD) has reached epidemic proportions in the U.S. With approximately one in five high school students engaging in NMUPD, it is important to understand behavioral correlates. | <urn:uuid:ddee71d8-b4ac-4960-ac77-d8111fb24776> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ajpmonline.org/content/substance_abuse?startPage=&rel=nofollow&ContribAuthorRaw=Clayton%2C%20Heather%20B | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00273.warc.gz | en | 0.916372 | 159 | 2.9375 | 3 |
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION LAW 2011-84
HOUSE BILL 129
AN ACT to protect jobs and investment by regulating local government competition with private business.
Whereas, certain cities in the State have chosen to compete with private providers of communications services; and
Whereas, these cities have been permitted to enter into competition with private providers as a result of a decision of the North Carolina Court of Appeals rather than legislation enacted by the General Assembly; and
Whereas, the communications industry is an industry of economic growth and job creation; and
Whereas, as expressed in G.S. 66-58, known as the Umstead Act, it is against the public policy of this State for any unit, department, or agency of the State, or any division or subdivision of a unit, department, or agency of the State, to engage directly or indirectly in the sale of goods, wares, or merchandise in competition with citizens of the State; and
Whereas, to protect jobs and to promote investment, it is necessary to ensure that the State does not indirectly subsidize competition with private industry through actions by cities and to ensure that where there is competition between the private sector and the State, directly or through its subdivisions, it exists under a framework that does not discourage private investment and job creation; Now, therefore,
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.(a) Chapter 160A of the General Statutes is amended by adding a new Article to read as follows:
"Provision of Communications Service by Cities.
"§ 160A-340. Definitions.
The following definitions apply in this Article:
(1) City-owned communications service provider. - A city that provides communications service using a communications network, whether directly, indirectly, or through an interlocal agreement or a joint agency.
(2) Communications network. - A wired or wireless network for the provision of communications service.
(3) Communications service. - The provision of cable, video programming, telecommunications, broadband, or high-speed Internet access service to the public, or any sector of the public, for a fee, regardless of the technology used to deliver the service. The terms "cable service," "telecommunications service," and "video programming service" have the same meanings as in G.S. 105-164.3. The following is not considered the provision of communications service:
a. The sharing of data or voice between governmental entities for internal governmental purposes.
b. The remote reading or polling of data from utility or parking meters, or the provisioning of energy demand reduction or smart grid services for an electric, water, or sewer system.
c. The provision of free services to the public or a subset thereof.
(4) High-speed Internet access service. - Internet access service with transmission speeds that are equal to or greater than the requirements for basic broadband tier 1 service as defined by the Federal Communications Commission for broadband data gathering and reporting.
(5) Interlocal agreement. - An agreement between units of local government as authorized by Part 1 of Article 20 of Chapter 160A of the General Statutes.
(6) Joint agency. - A joint agency created under Part 1 of Article 20 of Chapter 160A of the General Statutes.
"§ 160A-340.1. City-owned communications service provider requirements.
(a) A city-owned communications service provider shall meet all of the following requirements:
(1) Comply in its provision of communications service with all local, State, and federal laws, regulations, or other requirements applicable to the provision of the communications service if provided by a private communications service provider.
(2) In accordance with the provisions of Chapter 159 of the General Statutes, the Local Government Finance Act, establish one or more separate enterprise funds for the provision of communications service, use the enterprise funds to separately account for revenues, expenses, property, and source of investment dollars associated with the provision of communications service, and prepare and publish an independent annual report and audit in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles that reflect the fully allocated cost of providing the communications service, including all direct and indirect costs. An annual independent audit conducted under G.S. 159-34 and submitted to the Local Government Commission satisfies the audit requirement of this subdivision.
(3) Limit the provision of communications service to within the corporate limits of the city providing the communications service.
(4) Shall not, directly or indirectly, under the powers of a city, exercise power or authority in any area, including zoning or land-use regulation, or exercise power to withhold or delay the provision of monopoly utility service, to require any person, including residents of a particular development, to use or subscribe to any communications service provided by the city-owned communications service provider.
(5) Shall provide nondiscriminatory access to private communications service providers on a first-come, first-served basis to rights-of-way, poles, or conduits owned, leased, or operated by the city unless the facilities have insufficient capacity for the access and additional capacity cannot reasonably be added to the facilities. For purposes of this subdivision, the term "nondiscriminatory access" means that, at a minimum, access shall be granted on the same terms and conditions as that given to a city-owned communications service provider.
(6) Shall not air advertisements or other promotions for the city-owned communications service on a public, educational, or governmental access channel if the city requires another communications service provider to carry the channel. The city shall not use city resources that are not allocated for cost accounting purposes to the city-owned communications service to promote city-owned communications service in comparison to private services or, directly or indirectly, require city employees, officers, or contractors to purchase city services.
(7) Shall not subsidize the provision of communications service with funds from any other noncommunications service, operation, or other revenue source, including any funds or revenue generated from electric, gas, water, sewer, or garbage services.
(8) Shall not price any communications service below the cost of providing the service, including any direct or indirect subsidies received by the city-owned communications service provider and allocation of costs associated with any shared use of buildings, equipment, vehicles, and personnel with other city departments. The city shall, in calculating the costs of providing the communications service, impute (i) the cost of the capital component that is equivalent to the cost of capital available to private communications service providers in the same locality and (ii) an amount equal to all taxes, including property taxes, licenses, fees, and other assessments that would apply to a private communications service provider, including federal, State, and local taxes; rights-of-way, franchise, consent, or administrative fees; and pole attachment fees. In calculating the costs of the service the city may amortize the capital assets of the communications system over the useful life of the assets in accordance with generally accepted principles of governmental accounting.
(9) The city shall annually remit to the general fund of the city an amount equivalent to all taxes or fees a private communications service provider would be required to pay the city or county in which the city is located, including any applicable tax refunds received by the city-owned communications service provider because of its government status and a sum equal to the amount of property tax that would have been due if the city-owned communications service provider were a private communications service provider.
(b) A city-owned communications service provider shall not be required to obtain voter approval under G.S. 160A-321 prior to the sale or discontinuance of the city's communications network.
"§ 160A-340.2. Exemptions.
(a) The provisions of G.S. 160A-340.1, 160A-340.4, 160A-340.5, and 160A-340.6 do not apply to the purchase, lease, construction, or operation of facilities by a city to provide communications service within the city's corporate limits for the city's internal governmental purposes, including the sharing of data or voice between governmental entities for internal governmental purposes, or within the corporate limits of another unit of local government that is a party with the city to an interlocal agreement under Part 1 of Article 20 of Chapter 160A of the General Statutes for the provision of internal government services.
(b) The provisions of G.S. 160A-340.1, 160A-340.4, and 160A-340.5 do not apply to the provision of communications service in an unserved area. A city seeking to provide communications service in an unserved area shall petition the North Carolina Utilities Commission for a determination that an area is unserved. The petition shall identify with specificity the geographic area for which the designation is sought. Any private communications service provider, or any other interested party, may, within a time established by order of the Commission, which time shall be no fewer than 30 days, file with the Commission an objection to the designation on the grounds that one or more areas designated in the petition is not an unserved area or that the city is not otherwise eligible to provide the service. For purposes of this subsection, the term "unserved area" means a census block, as designated by the most recent census of the U.S. Census Bureau, in which at least fifty percent (50%) of households either have no access to high-speed Internet service or have access to high-speed Internet service only from a satellite provider. A city may petition the Commission to serve multiple contiguous unserved areas in the same proceeding.
(c) The provisions of G.S. 160A-340.1, 160A-340.3, 160A-340.4, 160A-340.5, and 160A-340.6 do not apply to a city or joint agency providing communications service as of January 1, 2011, provided the city or joint agency limits the provision of communications service to any one or more of the following:
(1) Persons within the corporate limits of the city providing the communications service. For the purposes of this subsection, corporate limits shall mean the corporate limits of the city as of April 1, 2011, or as expanded through annexation.
(2) Existing customers of the communications service as of April 1, 2011. Service to a customer outside the service area of the city or joint agency who is also a public entity must comply with the open bidding procedures of G.S. 143-129.8 upon the expiration or termination of the existing service contract.
(3) The following service areas:
a. For the joint agency operated by the cities of Davidson and Mooresville, the service area is the combined areas of the city of Cornelius; the town of Troutman; the town of Huntersville; the unincorporated areas of Mecklenburg County north of a line beginning at Highway 16 along the west boundary of the county, extending eastward along Highway 16, continuing east along Interstate 485, and continuing eastward to the eastern boundary of the county along Eastfield Road; and the unincorporated areas of Iredell County south of Interstate 40, excluding Statesville and the extraterritorial jurisdiction of Statesville.
b. For the city of Salisbury, the service area is the municipalities of Salisbury, Spencer, East Spencer, Granite Quarry, Rockwell, Faith, Cleveland, China Grove, Landis and the corridors between those cities. The service area also includes the economic development sites, public safety facilities, governmental facilities, and educational schools and colleges located outside the municipalities and the corridors between the municipalities and these sites, facilities, schools, and colleges. The corridors between Salisbury and these municipalities and these sites, facilities, schools, and colleges includes only the area necessary to provide service to these municipalities and these sites, facilities, schools, and colleges and shall not be wider than 300 feet. The elected bodies of Spencer, East Spencer, Granite Quarry, Rockwell, Faith, Cleveland, China Grove, and Landis shall vote to approve the service extension into each respective municipality before Salisbury can provide service to that municipality. The Rowan County Board of County Commissioners shall vote to approve service extension to any governmental economic development site, governmental facility, school, or college owned by Rowan County. The Rowan Salisbury School Board shall also vote to approve service extension to schools.
c. For the city of Wilson, the service area is the county limits of Wilson County, including the incorporated areas within the County.
d. For all other cities or joint agencies offering communications service, the service area is the area designated in the map filed as part of the initial notice of franchise with the Secretary of State as of January 1, 2011.
(d) The exemptions provided in this section do not exempt a city or joint agency from laws and rules of general applicability to governmental services, including nondiscriminatory obligations.
(e) In the event a city subject to the exemption set forth in subsection (c) of this section provides communications service to a customer outside the limits set forth in that subsection, the city shall have 30 days from the date of notice or discovery to cease providing service to the customer without loss of the exemption.
"§ 160A-340.3. Notice; public hearing.
A city or joint agency that proposes to provide communications service shall hold not fewer than two public hearings, which shall be held not less than 30 days apart, for the purpose of gathering information and comment. Notice of the hearings shall be published at least once a week for four consecutive weeks in the predominant newspaper of general circulation in the area in which the city is located. The notice shall also be provided to the North Carolina Utilities Commission, which shall post the notice on its Web site, and to all companies that have requested service of the notices from the city clerk. The city shall deposit the notice in the U.S. mail to companies that have requested notice at least 45 days prior to the hearing subject to the notice. Private communications service providers shall be permitted to participate fully in the public hearings by presenting testimony and documentation relevant to their service offerings and the city's plans. Any feasibility study, business plan, or public survey conducted or prepared by the city in connection with the proposed communications service project is a public record as defined by G.S. 132-1 and shall be made available to the public prior to the public hearings required by this section. This section does not apply to the repair, rebuilding, replacement, or improvement of an existing communications network, or equipment relating thereto.
"§ 160A-340.4. Financing.
(a) A city or joint agency subject to the provisions of G.S. 160A-340.1 shall not enter into a contract under G.S. 160A-19 or G.S. 160A-20 to purchase or to finance the purchase of property for use in a communications network or to finance the construction of fixtures or improvements for use in a communications network unless it complies with subsection (b) of this section. The provisions of this section shall not apply to the repair, rebuilding, replacement, or improvement of an existing communications network, or equipment relating thereto.
(b) A city shall not incur debt for the purpose of constructing a communications system without first holding a special election under G.S. 163-287 on the question of whether the city may provide communications service. If a majority of the votes cast in the special election are for the city providing communications service, the city may incur the debt for the service. If a majority of the votes cast in the special election are against the city providing communications service, the city shall not incur the debt. However, nothing in this section shall prohibit a city from revising its plan to offer communications service and calling another special election on the question prior to providing or offering to provide the service. A special election required under Chapter 159 of the General Statutes as a condition to the issuance of bonds shall satisfy the requirements of this section.
"§ 160A-340.5. Taxes; payments in lieu of taxes.
(a) A communications network owned or operated by a city or joint agency shall be exempt from property taxes. However, each city possessing an ownership share of a communications network and a joint agency owning a communications network shall, in lieu of property taxes, pay to any county authorized to levy property taxes the amount which would be assessed as taxes on real and personal property if the communications network were otherwise subject to valuation and assessment. Any payments in lieu of taxes shall be due and shall bear interest, if unpaid, as in the case of taxes on other property.
(b) A city-owned communications service provider shall pay to the State, on an annual basis, an amount in lieu of taxes that would otherwise be due the State if the communications service was provided by a private communications service provider, including State income, franchise, vehicle, motor fuel, and other similar taxes. The amount of the payment in lieu of taxes shall be set annually by the Department of Revenue and shall approximate the taxes that would be due if the communications service was undertaken by a private communications service provider. A city-owned communications service provider must provide information requested by the Secretary of Revenue necessary for calculation of the assessment. The Department must inform each city-owned communications service provider of the amount of the assessment by January 1 of each year. The assessment is due by March 15 of each year. If the assessment is unpaid, the State may withhold the amount due, including interest on late payments, from distributions otherwise due the city under G.S. 105-164.44I.
(c) A city-owned communications service provider or a joint agency that provides communications service shall not be eligible for a refund under G.S. 105-164.14(c) for sales and use taxes paid on purchases of tangible personal property and services related to the provision of communications service, except to the extent a private communications service provider would be exempt from taxation.
"§ 160A-340.6. Public-private partnerships for communications service.
(a) Prior to undertaking to construct a communications network for the provision of communications service, a city shall first solicit proposals from private business in accordance with the procedures of this section.
(b) The city shall issue requests for proposals that specify the nature and scope of the requested communications service, the area in which it is to be provided, any specifications and performance standards, and information as to the city's proposed participation in providing equipment, infrastructure, or other aspects of the service. The city may prescribe the form and content of proposals and may require that proposals contain sufficiently detailed information to allow for an objective evaluation of proposals using the factors stated in subsection (d) of this section. Each proposal shall at minimum contain all of the following:
(1) Information regarding the proposer's experience and qualifications to perform the requirements of the proposal.
(2) Information demonstrating the proposer's ability to secure financing needed to perform the requirements of the proposal.
(3) Information demonstrating the proposer's ability to provide staffing, implement work tasks, and carry out all other responsibilities necessary to perform the requirements of the proposal.
(4) Information clearly identifying and specifying all elements of cost of the proposal for the term of the proposed contract, including the cost of the purchase or lease of equipment and supplies, design, installation, operation, management, and maintenance of any system, and any proposed services.
(5) Any other information the city determines has a material bearing on its ability to evaluate the proposal.
(c) The city shall provide notice that it is requesting proposals in accordance with this subsection. The notice shall state the time and place where plans and specifications for the proposed service may be obtained and the time and place for opening proposals. Any notice given under this subsection shall reserve to the city the right to reject any or all proposals. Notice of request for proposals shall be given by all of the following methods:
(1) By mailing a notice of request for proposals to each firm that has obtained a license or permit to use the public rights-of-way in the city to provide a communications service within the city by depositing such notices in the U.S. mail at least 30 days prior to the date specified for the opening of proposals. In identifying firms, the city may rely upon lists provided by the Office of the Secretary of State and the North Carolina Utilities Commission.
(2) By posting a notice of request for proposals on the city's Web site at least 30 days before the time specified for the opening of proposals.
(3) By publishing a notice of request for proposals in a newspaper of general circulation in the county in which the city is predominantly located at least 30 days before the time specified for the opening of proposals.
(d) In evaluating proposals, the city may consider any relevant factors, including system design, system reliability, operational experience, operational costs, compatibility with existing systems and equipment, and emerging technology. The city may negotiate aspects of any proposal with any responsible proposer with regard to these factors to determine which proposal is the most responsive. A determination of most responsive proposer by the city shall be final.
(e) The city may negotiate a contract with the most responsive proposer for the performance of communications service specified in the request for proposals. All contracts entered into pursuant to this section shall be approved and awarded by the governing body of the city.
(f) If the city is unable to successfully negotiate the terms of a contract with the most responsive proposer within 60 days of the opening of the proposals, the city may proceed to negotiate with the firm determined to be the next most responsive proposer if such a proposer exists. If the city is unable to successfully negotiate the terms of a contract with the next most responsive proposer within 60 days, it may proceed under this Article to provide communications service.
(g) All proposals shall be sealed and shall be opened in public. Provided, that trade secrets shall remain confidential as provided under G.S. 132-1.2."
SECTION 1.(b) G.S. 105-164.14 is amended by adding a new subsection to read:
"(d2) A city subject to the provisions of G.S. 160A-340.5 is not allowed a refund of sales and use taxes paid by it under this Article for purchases related to the provision of communications service as defined in Article 16A of Chapter 160A of the General Statutes."
SECTION 1.(c) Subsection (b) of this section is effective when it becomes law and applies to sales made on or after that date.
SECTION 2.(a) G.S. 62-3(23) is amended by adding the following new sub-subdivision to read:
"l. The term "public utility" shall include a city or a joint agency under Part 1 of Article 20 of Chapter 160A of the General Statutes that provides service as defined in G.S. 62-3(23)a.6. and is subject to the provisions of G.S. 160A-340.1."
SECTION 2.(b) This section shall not be construed to change the regulatory nature of or requirements applicable to any particular service currently regulated by the Commission under Chapter 62 of the General Statutes.
SECTION 3. Subchapter IV of Chapter 159 of the General Statutes is amended by adding a new Article to read as follows:
"Borrowing by Cities for Competitive Purposes.
"§ 159-175.10. Additional requirements for review of city financing application; communications service.
The Commission shall apply additional requirements to an application for financing by a city or a joint agency under Part 1 of Article 20 of Chapter 160A of the General Statutes for the construction, operation, expansion, or repair of a communications system or other infrastructure for the purpose of offering communications service, as that term is defined in G.S. 160A-340(2), that is or will be competitive with communications service offered by a private communications service provider. This section does not apply to the repair, rebuilding, replacement, or improvement of an existing communications network, or equipment relating thereto, but does apply to the expansion of such existing network. The additional requirements are the following:
(1) Prior to submitting an application to the Commission, a city or joint agency shall comply with the provisions of G.S. 160A-340.3 requiring at least two public hearings on the proposed communications service project and notice of the hearings to private communications service providers who have requested notice.
(2) At the same time the application is submitted to the Commission, the city or joint agency shall serve a copy of the application on each person that provides competitive communications service within the city's jurisdictional boundaries or in areas adjacent to the city. No hearing on the application shall be heard by the Commission until at least 60 days after the application is submitted to the Commission.
(3) Upon the request of a communications service provider, the Commission shall accept written and oral comments from competitive private communications service providers in connection with any hearing or other review of the application.
(4) In considering the probable net revenues of the proposed communications service project, the Commission shall consider and make written findings on the reasonableness of the city or joint agency's revenue projections in light of the current and projected competitive environment for the services to be provided, taking into consideration the potential impact of technological innovation and change on the proposed service offerings and the level of demonstrated community support for the project.
(5) The city or joint agency making the application to the Commission shall bear the burden of persuasion with respect to subdivisions (1) through (4) of this section."
SECTION 4. G.S. 159-81(3) is amended by adding a new sub-subdivision to read:
"q. Cable television systems."
SECTION 5. Sections 2, 3, and 4 of this act do not apply to a city or joint agency providing communications service as of January 1, 2011, provided the city or joint agency limits the provision of communications service as provided in G.S. 160A-340.2(c). In the event a city subject to the exemption set forth in this section provides communications service to a customer outside the limits set forth in G.S. 160A-340(c), the city shall have 30 days from the date of notice or discovery to cease providing service to the customer without loss of the exemption.
SECTION 6. Any city that is designated as a public utility under Chapter 62 of the General Statutes when this act becomes law shall not be subject to the provisions of this act with respect to any of its operations that are authorized by that Chapter.
SECTION 7. If any provision of this act or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of this act which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to that end the provisions of this act are declared to be severable.
SECTION 8. Except as otherwise provided, this act is effective when it becomes law and applies to the provision of communications service by a city or joint agency under Part 1 of Article 20 of Chapter 160A of the General Statutes on and after that date.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 9th day of May, 2011.
s/ Philip E. Berger
President Pro Tempore of the Senate
s/ Dale R. Folwell
Speaker Pro Tempore of the House of Representatives
This bill having been presented to the Governor for signature on the 10th day of May, 2011 and the Governor having failed to approve it within the time prescribed by law, the same is hereby declared to have become a law. This 21st day of May, 2011.
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Insurer-Provider Networks in the Medical Care Market
NBER Working Paper No. 11822
Managed care health insurers in the US restrict their enrollees' choice of hospitals to specific networks. This paper investigates the causes and welfare effects of the observed hospital networks. A simple profit maximization model explains roughly 63 per cent of the observed contracts between insurers and hospitals. I estimate a model that includes an additional effect: hospitals that do not need to contract with all insurance plans to secure demand (for example, providers that are capacity constrained under a limited or selective network) may demand high prices that not all insurers are willing to pay. Hospitals can merge to form "systems" which may also affect bargaining between hospitals and insurance plans. The analysis estimates the expected division of profits between insurance plans and different types of hospitals using data on insurers' choices of network. Hospitals in systems are found to capture markups of approximately 19 per cent of revenues, in contrast to non-system, non-capacity constrained providers, whose markups are assumed to be about zero. System members also impose high penalties on plans that exclude their partners. Providers that are expected to be capacity constrained capture markups of about 14 per cent of revenues. I show that these high markups imply an incentive for hospitals to under-invest in capacity despite a median benefit to consumers of over $330,000 per new bed per year.
Document Object Identifier (DOI): 10.3386/w11822
Published: Katherine Ho, 2009. "Insurer-Provider Networks in the Medical Care Market," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 99(1), pages 393-430, March. citation courtesy of
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Unbelievable sight and you can get quite close, but if they are diverting all of the water through the power generation plant there is barely a trickle coming over the falls.
We live close by and have walked here many times at different times of the year (except winter as it is closed then). We have children all above age 10 and they have all enjoyed being here. It is never very crowded even when special events are going on. Our one child is special needs and even he enjoys it.... 更多
This is a waterfall that's a 15 mile ride from Albany and has a waterfront path. There is a sign in front indicating how it is used for hydroelectric power.
Especially in the Spring this is a gorgeous site, with rushing waters tumbling over the rocks. A short drive from almost anywhere, it is nature at Her best! It is steeped in history, just check out the description at Wikipedia. The falls are at the confluence of the Hudson and Mohawk Rivers. AND, there is a plaque nearby noting the... 更多
Very pleased to see what has been done with this area to bring the people of Cohoes back to the falls and River that helped make it the once bustling Mill city that it was...
Without rain you see the boulders. After a heavy storm, the water comes cascading down. Several places to view the falls and a cice parking lot and walking trail. Bring your camera.
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Content warning: this article references sexual assault and rape
During tough times, when everyone is discussing politics, lockdowns and the Delta strain, it can be easy to lose sight of the wonderful things that are happening and the individuals that are making them happen.
This blog reports on five incredible young women from around Australia that are fighting for gender equality, winning medals and pursuing social justice. We hope that you can draw inspiration from their stories!
“If you are persistent, you will get it. If you are consistent, you will keep it”
20-year-old Isis Holt is a Paralympic sprinter and medallist from Melbourne, Australia.
Isis recalls having little interest in sport throughout primary school, but once she tried out for athletics later in high school, there was no going back.
In 2015, after only two years of training, Isis went to compete internationally and became a world champion after winning the 100 and 200 metre sprint. This year, at the Tokyo Olympics, ‘Lightning Bolt Holt’ stunned Australia when she won silver in both her events and smashed her personal best.
Isis has spoken candidly about her mental health and the struggle of balancing study, life and elite athletics, reminding herself and others that no matter where you are in life, it is always acceptable to ask for help.
You can watch Isis bolt for gold here.
“I have lived in three different countries and I have never spoken to anyone who has experienced rape culture the way me and my friends had growing up in Sydney amongst private schools”
Chanel is a 23-year-old working hard to tear down rape culture within Australia. She is a former student of a private girl’s school in Sydney’s north-eastern suburbs and during her time in there, she remembers feeling sick and tired of constantly hearing her friends’ accounts of sexual assault. Something had to be done. In February this year, Chanel posted a poll on her Instagram asking Sydneysiders if they had ever experienced sexual assault from someone who went to an all-boys school. The response was 73% yes to 27% no.
In the days following, Chanel began receiving messages from hundreds of different people who were coming forward to bravely tell their stories of sexual abuse.
Due to the overwhelming public response, Chanel launched a nationwide petition calling for schools to put sexual consent at the forefront of their educational issues from a young age.
This petition now has over 43,800 signatures and 6,600 testimonies. You can read more about Chanel’s work and sign the petition here.
“It’s time for white Australia to sit down and just listen… to what we have to say,”
Aretha is a proud Gumbaynggirr artist and comedian who is using her voice and art as a force for monumental change. She has been advocating for the rights of First Nations people by fighting to change the date of so-called Australia’s national holiday and ensure that Indigenous history is taught, to a high standard, in all schools.
Aretha has used her creative talent to light up the City of Melbourne with her murals, publish a guide to reflect on one’s relationship with colonisation and more recently, design screen printed jumpers and t-shirts that read ‘Teach Blak History’.
You can check out Aretha’s awesome work here.
“Don’t let anyone tell you that your age matters, don’t let anyone tell you that your gender matters. Anyone can find simple solutions to global problems!”
Scientist and inventor Macinley Butson is paving the way for young inventors by showing how a small interest can become a lifesaving creation. Macinley has always had a curious and imaginative outlook on the world and recalls creating her own little science experiments, such as her very own pair of sunglasses, from the age of 6.
Macinley has taken inspiration from the John Lewis quote, ‘if not me, then who? If not now, then when?’ Pushing her to take her inventions from the garage to a global stage.
Macinley is the first Australian to ever win the INTEL International Science and Engineering Fair and her most well-known invention, SMART Armour, is being worn by breast cancer patients receiving radiation therapy to reduce the risk of them developing breast cancer later in their life.
If you would like to hear more about Macinley’s inventing journey, watch her video here.
“Hear me now, using my voice amongst a growing chorus of voices that will not be silenced. Let’s make some noise, Australia!”
Grace is the 2021 Australian of the year and an influential advocate for survivors of sexual assault.
The 26 year old often appears as a guest on television programs or at public engagements where she speaks eloquently and courageously about her own experiences of child sexual abuse and what must be done to prevent such things from happening in the future. Grace is actively pushing for law reform and increased awareness raising.
While she recognises that speaking about sexual assault can be extremely uncomfortable, Grace continues to reminds us of the power our voices hold.
You can watch Grace’s acceptance speech here.
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Imagine, if you will, an overflowing toilet in your bathroom. You’ve just flushed the toilet, and unlike the hundreds of times before it, this time, the water continues to rise.
Higher and higher the water rises, until it reaches the very top of the bowl.
Your heart stops, but, thankfully, at the very last moment, the water slowly begins to drain.
Relief washes over you as the water level continues to fall and eventually returns to normal. Phew – you were lucky this time around. But what about the next time you flush?
There are some things that just aren’t designed to be flushed down the toilet. Most of the time, the following objects are perceived as flushable because of the similarity in look and texture to toilet paper, or because we have been misled into thinking it is flushable (we’re looking at you, “flushable” wipes.)
Cotton balls, cotton buds, paper towels
They’re just cotton, right?
Right, but they’re not designed to dissolve in water the way toilet paper does.
They main feel pretty flimsy in your hand, and you can easily rip apart a cotton ball, but they do not decompose in water. (Further, some cotton balls from certain brands are not actually made from cotton; instead, they are made up of bleached synthetic fibres.)
Over time, they’ll clump together, trapping other materials along the way, and can lead to a pretty nasty blockage.
Paper towels they look and feel pretty similar to toilet paper, however, they do not dissolve the same way toilet paper does. Even if you do flush it and you can no longer see it in your bowl, it’s likely to get stuck somewhere further down where you can’t see.
Next time you’re tempted to make your paper towel disappear, toss it in the bin instead.
These are the absolute worst, mainly because when they first gained popularity, they were marketed as “flushable”. People loved the concept – they offered a convenient way to remove makeup, clean up messy toddlers, or even freshen up the… ahem… bathroom “experience”.
Rather than disposing of these in the bin, we now believed we had the option to flush them down the toilet, just like you would toilet paper.
It’s not your fault really – if the packet calls them flushable, you should expect to flush them without issue. However, we soon learnt that “flushable” was a term used lightly on these packs.
Removing the wet wipes is a labour-intensive process, as Sydney Water production officer Fiona Copeman says. She also highlights the environmental damage these wipes are causing: if the wipes are not manually removed in treatment plants, she explains, “they end up in our oceans”.
Before you know it, sea creatures are ingesting them, and now, the polyester material has entered the food chain.
The bottom line on those “flushable” wipes
Just because they’re labelled “flushable”, it doesn’t mean they will properly dissolve like toilet paper does. But that’s what we reasonably assume when we buy these products.
Buzzwords like “biodegradable” and “dispersible” are misleading customers, and they understandably buy these products under the assumption that they are safe to flush. In fact, some people are using them as a toilet paper replacement.
Meanwhile, plumbers and others associated with the industry are urging users to keep these wipes out of the pipes!
Not convinced of the damage wet wipes can cause? Check out these images of wet wipe clusters that have been pulled from Sydney sewers! They’re quite astounding.
Many nappies are made from plastics that are designed to expand when they come into contact with liquid – exactly how a nappy expands when a baby has filled it!
Flushing disposable nappies is a big no-no – in the chance that it will even flush properly, it will quickly be caught in the bend and cause a horrible blockage.
Don’t flush these things down the toilet, either!
Blockages are also caused by flushing the following down the toilet:
- Kitty litter (yep, some people really do this, which can lead to not only blockages but also public infection – yuck!)
- Medication (more contamination issues!)
- Facial tissues (while they feel and look pretty much identical toilet paper, they do not dissolve the same way)
Not only are blocked toilets unpleasant, it can also be very inconvenient.
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When it comes to criminal justice in the United States, it is comforting to believe that “poverty is not a crime” and we are all “innocent until proven guilty.” But these are platitudes, mere empty words. Nobody knows this better than those who sit in jail awaiting trial, often for months, only because they are too poor to afford bail. The 8th Amendment to our Constitution recognizes the use of bail. In a frontier society, bail might have been necessary to ensure that the accused did not skip town to avoid trial. Today, however, this is not an option for most of the poor in our crowded cities. Instead, money bail has become one of our many techniques to ensure that large numbers of poor people, mostly Black and Brown, end up in prison. In 2016, the jail population was over 730,000 on any given day in the United States. Of this number, approximately two-thirds were detained solely because they could not post bond. Most were being held for non-violent offenses. In the last few years, the use of money as bail, or “bond,” has been challenged in Washington D.C., New York, California, and perhaps most successfully, in New Jersey. In Illinois, legislation was filed yesterday – The Pretrial Fairness Act – that would reform the pretrial process in ways that are fundamental and long overdue. This legislation deserves our strongest possible support. Why is the Pretrial Fairness Act so important? Most fundamentally, it would end money bail. It is simply immoral for personal wealth to determine whether someone will be detained in jail or permitted to go free. More broadly, the use of money as bond is wrong because it creates two separate systems of justice. How does this happen? In Cook County, Illinois, individuals await trial for an average of three months. Sitting in jail even for a few days, defendants can lose housing, jobs, participation in education and training programs, and may have to pay larcenous fines to recover an impounded car. When people are not able to meet bail, they lose the chance to arrange a defense while awaiting trial. This is not true for the wealthy. Of greatest long-term consequence is the likelihood that those who have been detained often plead guilty rather than going to trial, especially when prosecutors pressure them to do so. (Shockingly, 95% of all cases in the Cook County system are settled through plea bargaining.) Upon leaving prison, those individuals are burdened with a criminal conviction for the rest of their lives. So much for another platitude: “you’ve paid your debt to society.” Since SB 4025 will end money bail, some will ask how we can ensure that the public will be protected from the release of potentially violent individuals. The answer is clear. Judges already have the ability, indeed the responsibility, to make such judgments. Wealth of the defendant should have no relevance. In fact, when bail is a choice, those who are dangerous but can afford it become a threat. One of the very important things the Pretrial Fairness Act would do is require judges to do a much better job of determining who should sit in jail and who should be released. Right now, in too many cases, bewildered defendants, accompanied by public defenders who barely know them, appear before a judge for an average of about 40 seconds. The bill includes many other sensible reforms. It will, in effect, “deputize police,” thereby expanding their ability to release those arrested without requiring a pretrial appearance before a judge. Of special relevance to Clergy for a New Drug Policy, it does not permit the pretrial incarceration of people accused of low-level drug possession. In short, there are many important policy reasons why those of us in Illinois should support the Pretrial Fairness Act, and those of you across the country should insist upon similar legislation for your state. But at the end of the day, the words of Sharone Mitchell, Director of the Illinois Justice Project, capture what matters most: “What we talking about is punishing people pretrial, not because a judge is saying that they’re too risky to be released or anything, but just because they are poor, and that’s just not right.”
“We read the Bible how we want to read it,” explains Gifty, the protagonist and narrator of Yaa Gyasi’s Transcendent Kingdom. “It doesn’t change, but we do.” If there is one idea at the core of Gyasi’s brilliant and heartbreaking new novel, it is about how people change, whether they want to or not, and what happens when they no longer recognize who they used to be, or when the people they love don’t recognize who they’ve become. Transcendent Kingdom is about contradictions, whether between religion and science, community and isolation, or what we choose and what is beyond our control. It is about the struggle that we all experience when faced with absolute confrontations, when there are no sides to be picked, clear right or wrong choices, or tidy resolutions. Sometimes the only answer to an impossible question is to accept that there is no answer, a conclusion that can be equally challenging to people looking to either a church or a laboratory for resolution. Gifty has lived in both places. The daughter of Ghanaian immigrants, Gifty grew up in the deeply religious and almost entirely white town of Huntsville, Alabama. Her life is a series of tragedies outside of her control: Her father moves back to Ghana, abandoning her family; her older brother dies of a heroin overdose; her mother develops depression and attempts suicide. Gifty feels like an outsider in Huntsville, but when she spends a summer in Ghana, she feels alienated from that culture as well. These are the contradictions that plague Gifty: she is a foreigner wherever she goes, and the comfort she finds in religion is crushed by the losses she experiences. She decides to put her faith in science, to pursue her PhD in Neuroscience at Stanford. Gifty studies neuroscience because she wants to understand what went wrong in the brains of her mother and brother. She grapples with her own internal contradictions, knowing she shouldn’t blame either of them for their circumstances, but still feeling anger and resentment. “This science was a way for me to challenge myself,” she says, “to do something truly hard, and in so doing to work through all of my misunderstandings about [my brother’s] addiction and all of my shame. Because I still have so much shame. I’m full to the brim with it; I’m spilling over.” But even as she pursues knowledge through the scientific process, she cannot completely abandon her religious upbringing. “I have never, will never, tell anyone that I sometimes think this way,” she confesses, “but the more I do this work the more I believe in a kind of holiness in our connection to everything on Earth.” There are some questions, she knows, that science might never be able to answer. Transcendent Kingdom is Yaa Gyasi’s second novel, after her acclaimed debut Homegoing. Her writing is poetic in its bluntness, moving briskly while still allowing the reader to sit with its heaviest moments, and few novels have tackled the opioid epidemic with such ferocious honesty. Gifty’s response to her brother’s substance use disorder, and his death, reflect the pain and helplessness that so many people experience in the face of a loved one’s struggles: “In just that short amount of time, Nana’s addiction had become the sun around which all of our lives revolved. I didn’t want to stare directly at it.” But she is also willing to challenge her own assumptions and beliefs about this illness. “It’s true that for years before he died, I would look at his face and think, What a pity, what a waste. But the waste was my own. The waste was what I missed out on whenever I looked at him and saw just his addiction.” Gifty’s narration twists and weaves through time, from childhood to college to life as a PhD student in the space of paragraphs. There is no arc to the story because there is no arc to Gifty’s life. But Transcendent Kingdom is transfixing not in its tidiness, but in its messiness. It wrestles with questions not to give us answers, but to force us to ask them of ourselves. “The hard part,” Gifty explains about scientific experimentation, “is trying to figure out what the question is.” It can be hard to find the right questions to ask, especially when we might not want to know the answer. Everyone is full of contradictions, but Transcendent Kingdom is about loving someone, be it family, friends, ourselves, or God, in spite of those contradictions. It isn’t easy, but the struggle is intrinsic to the process. For Gifty, as for so many of us, it’s not about the answers. It’s about being willing to keep asking questions. Tom Houseman was the Policy Director of Clergy for a New Drug Policy for two years. He is currently seeking representation for his first novel. You can find him at www.tomhousemanwrites.com.
Even in the best of times, but especially now, we must take great care not to put in jail those who do not belong there. That is why on March 26, Clergy for a New Drug Policy was pleased to sign on to an open letter drafted by The Marijuana Policy Project: “Law Enforcement Officials, Medical Professionals, Clergy, and Cannabis Advocates Call for the Cease of Cannabis Arrests and Release of Incarcerated Cannabis Offenders in Light of COVID-19.” The letter notes that “prisons and jails are breeding grounds for infections and diseases due to close quarters and lack of ability to practice social distancing…all prisoners, whether young or old, are increasingly vulnerable to being infected with the novel coronavirus.” We believe this letter has relevance to all of you, regardless of where you live. In my community of Chicago, Cook County Jail has been cited nationally as a “death trap.” Close to 300 inmates are now infected, and 6 have died due to the virus. In response, the mission committee of my church assisted each member of the congregation in contacting our county commissioner. We asked that he urge the county board to “(1) release as many prisoners as possible immediately to prevent the spread of COVID-19, (2) create safer and more sanitary conditions inside the jail for the prisoners and guards who remain, and (3) provide adequate health care for those who become ill.” We also invited the members of our congregation to sign on to a petition urging Kim Foxx, our States Attorney, as the lead law enforcement officer for Cook County, to take additional steps to dramatically lower the number of people in the jail in response to COVID-19. Specifically we asked that she: (1) “Decline to file new charges in cases that do not involve danger to a specific person; (2) Agree to release most people seeking bond reviews from custody without payment of money; (3) Immediately dismiss all pending misdemeanors and class 4 felony cases not involving danger to a specific person, starting with cases in which people are in jail; and, (4) Cease filing violations of probation and violations of bail bonds for technical violations or reasons not involving danger to a specific person.” The MPP letter notes that “many localities – including Baltimore, Suffolk County, Massachusetts; Cuyahoga County, Ohio; New Jersey; Los Angeles; and New York City – and the Federal Bureau of Prisons have already begun to release inmates incarcerated for non-violent, drug-related offenses with the understanding that infections in prisons and jails are rampant, and releasing inmate could save the lives of not only inmates but also the custodial, medical, and safety staff that serve them.” It is my experience that individuals in churches often want to raise their voices in ways that will make a difference, but are not quite sure how. Contacting elected officials to urge them to take steps to prevent the spread of coronavirus among people being jailed for minor offenses, and those who work among them, is one important way we can protect the most vulnerable. Your local elected officials—including states attorneys, county commissioners, and sheriffs–will pay attention to you on this issue. Call and write to them now.
Kassandra Frederique: “The Drug War is a manifestation of the things that we have failed at. How do we have a conversation about alternatives? How do we build the capacity for our communities to care for each other? “People create hospitals and churches. But sadly, what we also recognize is that both those institutions have failed us miserably. If those institutions don’t see that they have helped to create the conditions in this moment, then we’re not actually having a conversation about what their true role is. “For some people, faith and spirituality fill a spiritual void. But if their institutions still traffic in stigma, miseducation, racism, sexism, a prosperity gospel… [AUDIENCE LAUGHTER]” Monique Tula:“I can’t get away from the fact that the War on Drugs is as much driven by capitalism as it is by racism. Today’s governing bodies and corporate CEOs are overwhelmingly white, wealthy, cis men. Although we’re seeing countries like China and India changing some of those demographics, the endgame looks like colonization and domination of the earth’s resources. This keeps the oppressed in a constant state of struggle: constantly distraught, constantly distracted, constantly divided. All we see is ‘other.’ “ Frederique: “You list the Fortune 500 companies. What about the faith community? The faith communities often have the same kind of leadership, the same kind of investment, the same commitment to upholding the status quo of the people that benefit most from capitalism.” Tula:“Or to upholding those Victorian values and religious dogma—the idea that abstinence and chastity will keep you off of the road to perdition.” Frederique:“I’m excited for anyone that wants to help us end the overdose crisis. But what I ask about is the purpose of the faith institutions. Is it for control or as an ally towards freedom? Are you trying to control people or are you trying to give people strategies to take down the structure that created the circumstances we are navigating through right now? We can’t save anybody. We’re not going to fix anybody. We have to give folks the resources to do that healing within themselves.” Tula:“I had this spiritual awakening sometime after the last Harm Reduction Conference in New Orleans, and I’ve been chasing that high ever since. I started listening to Eckhart Tolle. His latest book is called A New Earth. He writes about global transformations. One is the global market economy, driven by capitalism. Another is the reality that people around the world are awakening to a new state of consciousness. Although we exist in separate bodies in separate forms, the energy that flows through us is the same. At our core we’re actually connected. “Tolle talks about how many of us are awakening to the primacy of unconditional love. He says that people are gaining this greater self-awareness. We’re beginning to understand our symbiotic relationship with the planet which cannot be sustained if we continue to exploit its resources with no regard for the future, for our children. If we’re all connected, then harm to one is harm to us all. “Have you noticed that there is a shift away from top-down decision making, from those values that are rooted in the patriarchy and in white supremacy? “The reality is that there are enough resources on this planet for all of us. It is just a matter of how they’re distributed. Policies that formed the foundation of the War on Drugs are rooted in a dying paradigm fueled by capitalism and criminalization. “Let us remember Audre Lorde’s classic quote, ‘The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House.’ Problems can’t be solved with the same level of consciousness that gave rise into them in the first place. We need a shift—a complete shift—a new way of thinking. Deconstruction of the old world needs to happen in order to make space for this new consciousness to emerge. “Those of us who practice and believe in the power of harm reduction, we’re the culture makers. We’ve been on the edge, we’ve been on the fringe. I want to point to my dear colleague Allan Clear, who was one of the founders of harm reduction in this country, the first executive director of the Harm Reduction Coalition 26 years ago. “We were not in churches very much. But I will say that there have been faith leaders and faith communities that low-key supported harm reduction since the very beginning. The first needle exchange program that I worked in was housed in a church in Cambridge, Massachusetts. “Harm reduction is often limited to describing public health strategies and interventions to prevent people from contracting infectious diseases like HIV and hepatitis or fatal overdoses. But harm reduction is more than a public intervention. Think of these interventions as harm reduction with ‘lowercase HR.’ “Harm Reduction with ‘uppercase HR’ is a local grassroots advocacy effort that bridges public health with civil rights and community mobilization. Our aim is to shift power and resources to people most vulnerable to structural violence. We are challenging the prevailing notion that people who use drugs are bad and that they’re broken.” Frederique:“I struggle with ‘lowercase harm reduction.’ We think that the goal is syringe exchange or an overdose prevention center. We see Naloxone as harm reduction. Then abstinence-based organizations say, ‘We’re harm reductionists because we use Naloxone.’ That’s not what it is. “Harm reduction is a beautiful thing. I consider it a part of my ministry because of the church I belong to. But we operate in the framework of capitalism. This causes us to violate the integrity of our framework. “We are allowing other institutions to judge our spirituality in a way that we never would. The fact that the academy can take something like syringe exchange or Naloxone and then talk about moral hazards shows that they are claiming the high ground. “We have to be clear about who the moral compass is because those institutions are not without sin. They are so ready to tell us that we are the sinful ones. Why is it that we bow our heads down to false prophets? The economy is a false prophet, organized religion is a false prophet, the medical system is a false prophet. “We are the moral ground, high and low. There are no hierarchies in our morality. And that is why when we have a conversation about what the role of faith groups are in the overdose crisis, in the drug war, if you believe that you are the moral leader, that you will dictate what morality looks like, then keep it. I don’t want to come to your church. I don’t want to come to your temple. I don’t want to come to your synagogue. I don’t want it to come to your circle. I want you to come to ours.” (This dialogue has been edited for clarity and length.)
“Recovery Dharma is a non-profit organization that uses traditional Buddhist teachings, which we know as Dharma, to overcome addiction through meditation, self-inquiry, wisdom, and compassion. Recovery Dharma encourages full abstinence and renunciation from all recreational mind and mood-altering substances. For those with process addictions such as food, technology, gambling, sex, pornography, of course, complete abstinence may not be possible. “Support in navigating the program of Recovery Dharma is available through mentors who have experience in the program, who have a period of renunciation or sobriety under their belt. They are matched specifically with newcomers who are struggling with any specific addiction. “It is important to take a look at what substance abuse treatment opportunities are available. For many individuals, there is detoxification, which of course is limited to several days. There are inpatient rehabilitation centers, outpatient rehabilitation centers, halfway houses, and medication-assisted treatment. It is critical to focus on aftercare. In general, about 75%-80% of individuals who do not remain connected to a sober support community will tend to relapse and struggle greatly with maintaining long-term recovery. “Recovery Dharma is based and centered on the idea that meditation on the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path—most importantly, the support of sangha (community) in our meetings—can foster a journey towards long-term recovery. “The Four Noble Truths tell us that in life there is suffering. The cause of suffering is craving. The cessation of suffering comes with the cessation of craving. The Eightfold Path leads from such suffering. This includes: wise understanding, wise intention, wise speech, wise action, wise livelihood, wise effort, wise concentration, and wise mindfulness. “Why meditation? To pray is to ask and give thanks. To meditate is to listen. It is quieting the mind and calming the body long enough to receive the guidance for which we pray. There are numerous meditations that focus on gratitude, compassion, and loving kindness. “Meditation is also an excellent tool for down-regulating the nervous system, especially for those who have survived trauma. Meditation has been proven to be helpful with various medical conditions, stress, burnout, anxiety and depression, chronic pain, sleep disturbance, improved focus, emotional regulation, and perspective. “The prevalence of trauma in addiction is astounding. The co-occurring ranks as high as 90%. As a result, trauma-informed care is critical in combating substance abuse disorder. This is one of the greatest differences between Recovery Dharma and many other community sober support programs. Our literature is trauma-informed because we understand the prevalence between trauma and addiction. “Non-identification as an addict or alcoholic is something we practice in order to reduce shame and stigma. In our meetings, it does not matter if you have a substance abuse disorder. It does not matter if you have a process addiction. It does not matter if you show up with a codependency issue. We simply introduce ourselves by our name and our preferred gender pronoun. “We also provide regular overdose prevention and Naloxone training. We have regularly planned social leisure programming for our in-person and online meetings. And most critically, we are open to people of all faiths and walks of life. Our program does not require belief in a God or higher power. A spiritual program has to be developed by the individual. No one should be stressed into believing something that they are not open to at a particular time. “We do not ask anybody to give up participation in any other meeting, recovery program, or spiritual practice. Many of us actually combine traditional 12-step or other recovery programs with our Recovery Dharma program. “We are easily found on RecoveryDharma.org. This will take you to our major website, which covers national and international programs. We are an international program with an international board and founder that provides us with the support that we need and the resources that we need, whether you’re in the United States or not. Faith and spirituality are complicated. As a survivor of religious abuse, it was extremely difficult for me to conform to a 12-step program for quite some time. Eventually it saved my life, but mindfulness and meditation and turning more towards Buddhist practices was critical. Without this option, I do not believe I would still be standing here today.” (This presentation has been edited for length.) | <urn:uuid:c86a76b9-ef09-4c7d-b174-d6714ece7311> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://newdrugpolicy.org/category/harm-reduction/page/2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573623.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819035957-20220819065957-00674.warc.gz | en | 0.963292 | 5,045 | 2.828125 | 3 |
Diamond Exploration Bunder Project Will Consume 25 Million Dollars
2008: Diamond Exploration Bunder Project is started by Rio Tinto
Rio Tinto announced that it has lodged mining lease applications for its Bunder diamond project in the Bundelkhand region of Madhya Pradesh, India.
Nik Senapati, managing director of Rio Tinto in India, said the company has spent more than $25 million over the last six years on diamond exploration and evaluation in India, and the company is excited about the prospects for the Bunder project.
"Diamonds are a significant part of the history of India and an important product for Rio Tinto," he said. "The application for mining leases is confirmation of our commitment to both mining in India and the global diamond industry."
Rio Tinto has diamond-exploration activities on six continents, including projects in Canada, India, southern and western Africa, Brazil, Russia and Australia.
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In Windows XP, I have successfully created a 29Gb disc image, including MBR. I restored this image to a 112Gb drive to gain the additional space, but the option never appeared to resize the partition. I now have the 29Gb image properly restored to the 112Gb drive, with the remaining space showing as unallocated. User Guide section on pp 42-3 explains the possibility "Changing the restored partition size and location," but when following the restore process, this screen does not appear: trying again to follow the steps, I select the 112Gb drive, choose the option to delete all partitions on the destination drive, then get a screen that asks if I wish to restore another partition from the archive to this drive. I click "No." Next screen is "Restore Options:" I choose default options. Next I get the "Summary page:" Disk Partition Recovery from Archive From:file: \_AcronisBackups\2007_06_19_18_47_59_140D1.TIB Operation 1 of 3 Carrying out user command (Execute user command that is set as default) Command :"*before- process" Operation 1 of 2 (Reboot required) Restoring partition Hard disk:4 Drive letter:H: -> N: File system:NTFS Volume label: Size:27.95 GB Operation 2 of 2 Restoring partition structure Hard disk:4 Operation 2 of 3 Carrying out user command (Execute user command that is set as default) Command :"*after- process" and Proceed option. This appears to repeat the previous process. How can I resize the partition to make use of the unallocated space? | <urn:uuid:f1b4cb75-8914-4398-93e5-d423dcb12a9a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/changing-the-restored-partition-size-and-location-screen-does-not-appear.178226/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280929.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00424-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.914749 | 344 | 1.601563 | 2 |
All Saints, Dorval
January 19, 2020
Michelangelo, “Leah and Rachel representing the Active and Contemplative Life”
Today’s readings ask the question: What happens after you come and see?
In John’s gospel, several of Jesus’ first disciples start out as followers of John the Baptist. After Jesus’ baptism, John is deeply impressed by Jesus and tells his listeners that Jesus is the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. Andrew and his brother (and possibly another disciple – it’s not clear from the text) are intrigued and follow Jesus to see what he’s all about. They stay with him that day, and apparently become his disciples from then on. Their response to Jesus’ “Come and see” transformed their lives.
What happens after we see Christ revealed? What happens after we are baptized? What happens after we are invited to come and see God, present and working in the world?
These are the questions that this season after Epiphany asks.
And there are many possible answers to the question “What happens after you come and see?” But I think they fall broadly into two categories, which could be described as reflection and participation.
When we have experienced something that deeply affects, moves or changes us, we can respond in one of two ways. We can either go quiet, letting this new thing sink in to our reality, giving ourselves time to be still and absorb it and reflect on how things will be different from now on. Or we can spring into action, diving in at the deep end, running after the new promise that calls us to do everything differently.
Both these approaches are valid, and indeed they complement each other. Rarely do we see a response that consists of nothing but reflection or nothing but participation.
And indeed, drawing a distinction between these two responses has a long history in the Christian tradition. From very early on, some Christians felt called to withdraw from the world and create communities dedicated to prayer, while others worked actively to help the needy and make the world a better place. The imagery of Christian art has often included symbolic depictions of the “active life” and the “contemplative life”, and they have been seen as represented by, for example, Mary and Martha of Bethany, in the story where Martha complains of Mary not helping her with her work.
So what happens after we come and see?
In the reading from Isaiah, we hear about the mysterious figure of the servant, whom God has called to glorify him by protecting and building up God’s people. The servant has heard God’s call and has been active; he says, “I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity.” So in this passage he is taking a bit of a pause, gathering his resources, and tuning back into God’s voice so as to be reminded of his mission and his gifts. It is a model of action-reflection-action, in which the two responses alternate to allow the servant both to stay close to God in prayer and to respond to God’s call in deed.
Likewise, in the Psalm, we see evidence both of faithful waiting on God’s voice and of active response to it. It begins and ends with patient reflection: “I waited patiently upon the Lord,” and “let your love and your faithfulness keep me safe forever.” But in between, the writer raises their voice in a joyful hymn of praise, citing all the great things that God has done for them, and promises to continue to sing of God’s faithfulness and deliverance in the great congregation. Again, action and contemplation meet and alternate, enriching each other and the life of faith.
The next reading is from I Corinthians, and one could say that all of Paul’s letters to his many correspondents are an invitation both to the active life of faith as expressed in good works, and to reflection and joyful contemplation of the free gift of God’s grace which we have done nothing at all to deserve. Paul sees holiness as being dedicated to a purpose, being a witness in word and action; and while a lot of his writing may seem to be abstract reflections on ideas, all of it is in fact deeply rooted in his own experience of the presence and calling of God.
What happens after we come and see? We do both. We reflect and absorb and contemplate; and we dive in, participate, and act.
In the gospel reading from John, after Jesus has literally invited Andrew and the others to “come and see,” they go and stay with him, and one has to conclude that there was a lot of serious thought, conversation, and reflection as they got to know each other that afternoon and evening. There is a great deal of emphasis on names; two different titles for Jesus (Rabbi and Messiah) are mentioned and helpfully translated, and then Simon son of John is given his new name Cephas, again with translation provided (Peter). The deep change into which these new disciples are being invited begins with what things are called.
But they do not stay hidden away in contemplation. As soon as the next day dawns, they are off telling their friends that they have found the Messiah; and in the coming weeks we will hear about the explosion of activity that follows, including the water becoming wine at the wedding at Cana, Jesus throwing the moneychangers out of the Temple, and numerous healings and other miracles.
What happens after we come and see? We let it all sink in; hear God’s voice, we sing God’s praise, we are named anew, and astonishing things begin to happen.
And that is what happens here, in this space, week in, week out, as the body of Christ gathers for worship and prayer.
This Sunday and the next two Sundays, we will be gathering after coffee hour for talkback sessions about worship. The worship committee realized after we sent out the survey in the fall that there was room for some learning about the nuts and bolts of worship in the Anglican tradition and why we do what we do. One of the things we saw in the survey was that there were requests both for more space for reflection as part of our worship service and for more participation. These seem like contradictory goals, but as I’ve discovered while thinking about these themes this past week, they are really complementary, and deeply connected. In all our readings today, in our worship, and in our life as Christians, both reflective contemplation of our faith, and active participation in God’s praise and work, are essential. So the question is, how can we make room for both?
What do we do after we come and see?
We gather and we worship. Praise and prayer, song and silence. We assemble as the gathered body of Christ, and we bless the bread and, as St. Augustine said, behold what we are, in order to become what we receive. We are transformed by God’s presence in both reflection and participation. We are called, and named, and sent forth.
Are you seeking more space for contemplation? Or do you long to take action to bring about God’s will in the world?
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I've been wondering: five precepts shouldn't be that hard to remember. Compare that to the patimokkha containing 227 (or respectively 331) rules, including some really arcane, such as the ones about travelling with a bikkhuni on a boat: ok when crossing, bad when going downstream, but ok without appointment. Unlike the patimokkha, the difficulty with the five precepts, or rather their traditional phrasing, is that they are somewhat compendious which - although good for easy memorisation- leaves some room for interpretation. This is probably intended, since an overly meticulous phrasing might lead to lengthy text involving paragraphs about bikkhunis on boats, which would be self-defeating. Still, some people such as myself who are a little bit thick, occasionally wish for a more fleshed out version, especially an interprtation that has direct relevance to modern life.
Thich Nath Hanh has attempted this by phrasing the so-called "five mindfulness trainings" that are patterned after the first five precepts. I have reproduced them below. I found Thich Nath Hanh's phrasing immensely helpful, as it provides not only concrete guidelines, but also offers some reflection on the larger ethical context of the precepts. I haven't come across any comparable "exegesis" within the Theravada until now, which may well be due to not looking hard enough. So my question is: did you? Are there any adaptations of the five precepts to modern life that contemporary Theravada schools teach? Comments and suggestions by recognised teachers? I'd be interested in hearing them. Perhaps we can collect them here. Thank you.
The Five Mindfulness Trainings according to Thich Nath Hanh wrote:-First Training-
Aware of the suffering caused by the destruction of life, I am committed to cultivating compassion and learning ways to protect the lives of people, animals, plants, and minerals. I am determined not to kill, not to let others kill, and not to condone any act of killing in the world, in my thinking, and in my way of life.
Aware of the suffering caused by exploitation, social injustice, stealing, and oppression, I am committed to cultivate loving kindness and learn ways to work for the well-being of people, animals, plants, and minerals. I am committed to practice generosity by sharing my time, energy, and material resources with those who are in real need. I am determined not to steal and not to possess anything that should belong to others. I will respect the property of others, but I will prevent others from profiting from human suffering or the suffering of other species on Earth.
Aware of the suffering caused by sexual misconduct, I am committed to cultivate responsibility and learn ways to protect the safety and integrity of individuals, couples, families, and society. I am determined not to engage in sexual relations without love and a long-term commitment. To preserve the happiness of myself and others, I am determined to respect my commitments and the commitments of others. I will do everything in my power to protect children from sexual abuse and to prevent couples and families from being broken by sexual misconduct.
Aware of the suffering caused by unmindful speech and the inability to listen to others, I am committed to cultivate loving speech and deep listening in order to bring joy and happiness to others and relieve others of their suffering. Knowing that words can create happiness or suffering, I am committed to learn to speak truthfully, with words that inspire self-confidence, joy, and hope. I am determined not to spread news that I do not know to be certain and not to criticise or condemn things of which I am not sure. I will refrain from uttering words that can cause division or discord, or that can cause the family or the community to break. I will make all efforts to reconcile and resolve all conflicts, however small.
Aware of the suffering caused by unmindful consumption, I am committed to cultivate good health, both physical and mental, for myself, my family, and my society by practising mindful eating, drinking, and consuming. I am committed to ingest only items that preserve peace, well-being, and joy in my body, in my consciousness, and in the collective body and consciousness of my family and society. I am determined not to use alcohol or any other intoxicant or to ingest foods or other items that contain toxins, such as certain TV programs, magazines, books, films, and conversations. I am aware that to damage my body or my consciousness with these poisons is to betray my ancestors, my parents, my society, and future generations. I will work to transform violence, fear, anger, and confusion in myself and in society by practising a diet for myself and for society. I understand that a proper diet is crucial for self-transformation and for the transformation of society. | <urn:uuid:bd40d837-e091-43d2-8445-989272659fcb> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.dhammawheel.com/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=4431&start=0 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721278.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00149-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957416 | 1,006 | 2.296875 | 2 |
One day an individual will realize what is significant and the choices they regret. Life is about learning from one’s mistakes. I have learned through hard times that love means acceptance. I believe in the unconditional love between a mother and a daughter.
I was raised in a happy home, but little did I know it would be interrupted by my sixteenth birthday, because then I became my mother’s party ticket. My mother started to go out with my friends and me to parties and would partake in adolescent activities. This was a shock because I am the child. I started to feel like my popularity was stemmed from the fact that my friends could use my mother as a ticket away from their parents’ supervision. For a while I was okay with my mother being my friend because I saw it as an opportunity to do whatever I wanted, which is a shame because I was using my mother.
I realized that this mother-daughter relationship was unhealthy, on New Year’s Eve 2005. My night became disappointing after midnight when I had to beg my mother to take me home, but she refused. Her reply was, “I am having too much fun with my friends,” as she put me to sleep in a friend’s room. I woke up a few hours later to find my mother still drinking and “partying,” so I called a friend to take me home. The next morning I woke up and wondered what time my mother had poured herself into bed, why she came into my circle of friends, and how her lifestyle would affect my family. I went to bed on December 31, 2005 as a daughter, and awoke January 1, 2006 having to act like a mother to my own. This cycle continued for a few more months until I gathered up the courage to confront her about my feelings. She was hurt that I did not feel like we could be “friends,” and I tried to tell her all I wanted was her to act like a mother. Our conversation gave little change to her actions, but much change in my attitude. I knew I could not change her, but instead I needed to focus on improving our relationship. I do not condone her lifestyle. But, she is my other and I love her unconditionally. I have learned to pick my battles and to not sweat the small stuff.
It is not anyone’s job to make everyone happy; you can not make others happy unless you are happy within yourself. To love someone is to accept them, which is the bond of unconditional love. How a person deals with set-backs or unhappiness will shape their character, and learning to deal with these negatives by applying positive outlooks will create a happier individual. “God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; the courage to change the things I can; and the wisdom to know the difference.”
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- Unknown Artist / Maker
- Hilt- France; blade- possibly Germany
- c. 1760
- Steel and gold, etched and gilded
- Length: 92 cm
Length: 73 cm, blade
Width: 3 cm
Weight: 1.02 kg
- European Armoury III
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- Sword with expanding hilt, of the usual military pattern of the 18th century, but with an expanding hilt, working on the same system as A693, composed of a flattened oviform pommel with turned button; steel grip of rectangular section swelling at the centre; knuckle-guard formed of a fixed central bar with a hinged bar on either side, from which issue branches which return to the quillon; these also carry hinged bars (secured by turning-pins), which have pointed ends to engage slots on the bars of the knuckle-guard, the whole being locked in position by another bar, working on a pivot behind the central bar of the knuckle-guard; the whole forms, when open, a guard of basket type. Below the escutcheon an oval collar is designed to fit over the mouth of the scabbard. There is no decoration other than traces of gilding.
The strong blade, of diamond section with slightly hollowed facets, has conventional etched and gilt decoration at the forte, now worn. It appears to have been shortened.
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How To Cure A Yeast Infection In The Mouth
Mouth (mouth) " n. Pl. Mouths 1. A. The body opening through which an animal takes in food. B. The cavity lying at the upper end of the alimentary canal, bounded on the outside by the lips and inside by the oropharynx and containing in higher vertebrates the tongue, gums, and teeth. C. This cavity regarded as the source of sounds and speech. D. The opening to any cavity or canal ...Read more
I am taking dulera, (formoterol and mometasone) if I get a yeast infection in my mouth or throat, can it be cured?
Prevention: You may need a topical antifungal to rid you of the yeast infection. Be sure to gargle after each Dulera (formoterol and mometasone) treatment. Sometimes using an Aerochamber may reduce the amount of inhaled steroid to the throat area. Whenever possible, try to use the minimum dose of steroid under your doctor's supervision. ...Read moreSee 1 more doctor answer
Hydrogen peroxide 3%: Is the usual strength sold in stores. Over time, the 3% medication can change the balance of microbes in your mouth & you can develop an overgrowth inbalance of candida albacans (yeast). Not sure about 1%. Taste buds will not be "killed" either way. Please get counsel from your dentist on the use of peroxide and his or her opinion on yeast overgrowth with 1% rinse. ...Read more
Yes he can.: Infections by 'candida albicans' (more commonly, a yeast infection) can occur anywhere on a person where it is dark and moist, including mouth, vagina, and underneath large areas of sagging skin. While vaginal yeast infections are fairly common, persons with diabetes or with an immune deficiency of some sort are more prone to oral candidiasis. See a doctor for this condition, as it is treatable. ...Read moreSee 1 more doctor answer
Yes: Yeast infection is just another term for fungal infection. In your mouth, bacteria and fungal is balancing each other. When you take antibiotic, you kill of the bacteria, thus exposing your self to the risk of superinfection of fungal. Clean and scrape your tongue, keep the oral cavity clean and the fungal infection will resolve in 1 to 2 weeks as your bacterial/fungal balance reestablished. ...Read moreSee 1 more doctor answer
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Do You Need Motorcycle Insurance In Florida?
The Florida motorcycle insurance law is a bit complex. In Florida, PIP insurance that covers your 4-wheeled vehicle will not “roll over” to provide coverage if you are operating a motorcycle. PIP coverage generally follows you to be covered if you are in another vehicle as a passenger or if you are injured as a pedestrian.
Florida motorcycle insurance requirements make it necessary for the motorcyclist to purchase a separate policy to cover their motorcycle or become bonded as self-insured.
Motorcycle drivers must understand that if they are involved in an accident, and it is not the fault of the other person, they will be responsible for all of their own medical costs and losses as well as the injuries and losses of the other people involved if they do not have coverage.
Do You Need Insurance To Register A Motorcycle?
You do not need to show proof of insurance to register your motorcycle. However, operating a motorcycle without insurance in Florida can lead to you having your license suspended and leave you personally liable for any accidents that you cause. If a police officer pulls you over at any time, you will have to produce proof of insurance or self-insurance.
Do you need insurance for a motorcycle in Florida to operate your vehicle once it is registered? Yes. Even though you do not have insurance to register the motorcycle, you will need it to operate the vehicle.
A Look At Uninsured Motorist Policies
Is motorcycle insurance required in Florida for uninsured motorists? Florida motorcycle insurance laws do not require you to carry underinsured or uninsured motorist policies, but it is something that you may really want to consider.
The statistics for Florida drivers operating a vehicle without insurance are the highest in the nation. As of 2019, over 27 percent of all drivers in Florida operate their vehicles without insurance. That is double the national average.
This means that, on average, one out of every four cars that you pass on the road in Florida does not have insurance. This is something you must take seriously, especially if you are operating a motorcycle.
Motorcycle accidents often lead to catastrophic injuries for the person operating the motorcycle. Motorcyclists do not have the same physical protections as the people in the car, leading to multiple and more severe injuries.
If the vehicle you are involved in an accident with is uninsured or underinsured, you would have a challenging time having your medical coverage and expenses covered while recovering from the injuries.
Motorcycle Insurance In Florida – Other 2-Wheeled Vehicles
Many people do not realize that the size of its engine categorizes a motorcycle. This is why there is an actual distinction between motorcycles, scooters, mopeds, and bicycles, even though they are all two-wheeled vehicles.
Insurance requirements are different for each category of vehicle.
Do you need insurance for a scooter in Florida?
No. Although scooters have increased in popularity in Florida, with some communities even being classified as “scooter communities,” the law does not require insurance on these vehicles unless their engine exceeds 50 cubic centimeters.
Do you need insurance for a moped in Florida?
No. The same laws apply to mopeds as they do scooters. Your moped does not need insurance unless the engine exceeds 50 cubic centimeters.
Both of these vehicles must be registered to operate on the roads, and you must be at least 16 years old to operate either vehicle.
Do you need insurance for a bicycle in Florida?
No. Bicycles are covered under the pedestrian protections of your PIP policy for your vehicle.
Speak With An Injury Attorney
If you have been involved in a car accident, your life will change dramatically. The complex issues surrounding insurance can only add to the headaches of the entire event.
Save yourself a lot of grief when you have been injured in a motorcycle accident by speaking with a motorcycle accident attorney as soon as possible after the event.
Contact the injury lawyers at Landau Law today to schedule a free case consultation.
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Testing in Groups: A "Real" Exercise in Small Group Problem-Solving.
Millar, Dan Pyle
Students in a small group discussion class offered as part of a speech communication curriculum found that testing their knowledge of the theory of the course in small groups was a positive learning experience. Each self-selected test group was made up of three students and was formed at least two class periods prior to the exam. Time was given in class for social interaction, and on the day of the exam, each group received three copies of the test with the instructions that only one copy was to be completed and submitted as the "official exam" of the group. Student reaction to the group testing situation was assessed on an opinionnaire that rated such benefits as learning to work within groups, providing real experiences in group problem solving, studying harder for group tests than for individual tests, and scoring higher on group tests. The group test meets four criteria for effective decision making groups: it fosters the quality of participation to increase available information, it develops a tolerance for conflict, it cancels out individual errors, and it develops an overall positive attitude toward group action. Negative effects are that individually-based graded activities must be incorporated to overcome the effects of high group scores and the impact of the group test decreases with repeated experiences. (AEA)
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Don't you dare make a Cool Whip, frozen pound cake and berry dessert in the shape of an American flag. Don't you dare. Those crap-ass Parade magazine recipes represent everything that is evil in this world. Did your grandmother use Cool Whip? Hell no. Your grandmother made cakes with mayonnaise because she had no butter. She cried herself to sleep every night, because she knew that in the morning she'd have to squirt a packet of yellow dye into a pale white tub of margarine and spread that junk all over her toast, pretending to like it because anything else would seem unpatriotic. Cream in her coffee? What coffee? She boiled chicory root and thought real hard about what coffee tasted like. Your grandma ate the fake stuff because she had to. Times were tough. And you're too lazy to make your own pound cake and whip your own cream? She came up with two dozen recipes for Spam and this is how you show your respect? With whipped topping? You ought to have your ears boxed, you whiny, pathetic sack of ingratitude. Get back into that kitchen and show those old timers what you can do with a pound of sour cherries and a quart of real cream. | <urn:uuid:4060ee82-bef1-41fd-a4e6-9ff665e3b55c> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://alibi.com/di/2004-07-01/issue.html?mobile=y | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719041.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00168-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964007 | 1,406 | 1.515625 | 2 |
This is What You Are Losing by Not Using Data Visualization
Data visualization is a life-saver especially when it comes to business analytics and planning. It makes it possible to find relevance among millions of variables and communicate hypotheses to others. Of course, data visualization requires complete, valid and organized initial data for it to be useful, otherwise the visualization may lead to misconceptions. But here are three critical things that you are missing out on by not using data visualization tools at all.
- Data visualization helps grasp large amounts of information quickly.
In business, data visualization is used to demonstrate trends, gaps and anomalies. Using data visualization instead of dry presentations of numbers makes a report clear and eye-catching. The report becomes comprehensible and replicable. Visualizations are also more persuasive in comparison with textual format, which is so important in the business world and beyond.
- Collaboration is improved by data visualization.
New ideas are born through communication. When a team sees the trends and dynamics presented visually, they can come up with more creative solutions to existing problems together. A study conducted by Mindlab International revealed that employees are 17% more productive when they use visual maps and other illustrative techniques.
- Data visualization assists in the decision-making process.
Once the data is analyzed it provides business leaders with insights on business opportunities. It may demonstrate changes in customers’ behavior. For example, when a bank’s retail loans rise as a result of a successful social media marketing campaign, they can be replicated and aimed at other target groups as a source of growth.
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I have heard that Freud wrote at length on the Grimm Fairy Tale: Little Red Riding Hood, highlighting all the suggestive themes and symbolism and "id-like" interpretations. However, I was not able to find any publications on Amazon. I then tried some basic internet queries and found little bits and pieces, but it all seemed to be alluding to it (mostly fan-fiction / random blogs). At this point I was a bit surprised because I was expecting this book to be more prominent and easy to track down and purchase.
Wenn der Wolf bei meinem Patienten nur der erste Vater-ersatz war, so fragt es sich, ob die Märchen vom Wolf, der die Geißlein auffrißt, und vom Rotkäppchen etwas anderes als die infantile Angst vor dem Vater zum geheimen Inhalt haben. Der Vater meines Patienten hatte übrigens die Eigentümlichkeit des „zärtlichen Schimpfens“, die so viele Personen im Umgang mit ihren Kindern zeigen, und die scherzhafte Drohung: „Ich fress’ dich auf“ mag in den ersten Jahren, als der später strenge Vater mit dem Söhnlein zu spielen und zu kosen pflegte, mehr als einmal geäußert worden sein.
Sigmund Freud (1918). ‘Aus der Geschichte einer infantilen Neurose’. In Sammlung kleiner Schriften, volume 4, pp. 608–609. Leipzig: Hugo Heller.
If in my patient’s case the wolf was merely a first father-surrogate, the question arises whether the hidden content in the fairy tales of the wolf that ate up the little goats and of “Little Red Riding-Hood” may not simply be infantile fear of the father. Moreover, my patient’s father had the characteristic, shown by so many people in relation to their children, of indulging in “affectionate abuse”; and it is possible that during the patient’s earlier years his father (though he grew severe later on) may more than once, as he caressed the little boy or played with him, have threatened in fun to “gobble him up”.
Sigmund Freud (1918). ‘From the History of an Infantile Neurosis’. Translated by Alix & James Strachey (1933). Collected Papers, volume 3, p. 502. London: Hogarth Press.
I found this by starting at Google Books Search and searching for “Sigmund Freud” “Little Red Riding Hood”. The very first snippet said, “The clinical discussion of ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ is on pages 498–515” of Collected Papers, volume 3, which was easy to find via the Internet Archive. It is one of Freud’s most well-known case histories, and remains in print, for example there is a Penguin Classics edition, translated by Louise Adey Huish, under the title The ‘Wolfman’ and Other Cases.
Seems LRRH is spread out across Freud's works:
This site lists some works that appear to be by Freud and may contain reference to LRRH:
- On The Occurrence in Dreams of Material from Fairy Tales
- The Uncanny
- Beyond the Pleasure Principle
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General planting and care
Actinotus helianthi, commonly known as Flannel Flowers, are shallow rooted plants that require good drainage. They have relatively brittle stems and require protection from strong winds to avoid branch breakage. They are gross feeders and have relatively high fertiliser requirements to help maintain vigour and respond well to tip pruning after the flowering period.
Older leaves on lower areas of the stems will naturally yellow then die off while they stay attached to the plant. They can be removed for aesthetic reasons during the cooler months of the year.
Flannel Flowers can be grown in full sun or partial shade and tolerate light frost once established.
For best results when field growing Flannel Flowers, we recommend a pre-prepared well drained site of moderately acid soil with a pH of 5.5 to 6.5. This is achieved by creating a raised garden bed filled with low phosphorus organic compost and coarse sand or native planting mix. The addition of a native fertiliser is desirable.
Some Actinotus helianthi varieties, like ‘Starbright’, make great potted plants and you’ll get the most out of them by using any commercially available premium grade potting mix suitable for natives.
All species of Actinotus are particularly sensitive to root disturbance and this should be avoided during the transplantation process. When planting, we recommended a spacing from 0.5 to 1.0 m.
If watering is required, avoid wetting the foliage to minimise damage to the brittle stems and the possible introduction of fungal problems. While they can withstand long periods of dry warm months, a tell-tale sign of water stress can be recognised by the leaves closing or clasping the stem prior to wilting.
Surprisingly, Flannel Flowers respond well to regular applications of fertiliser. For best results, wesuggestan application of a low phosphorous controlled release fertiliser with micronutrients during planting. Supplemental applications of a complete liquid fertiliser at monthly intervals during the growing season will assist with plant health and vigour.
While mulching is not essential for good growth in Flannel Flowers, we suggest an organic mulch to a depth of 100 mm assists with moisture retention, weed suppression and temperature control in the root zone. Avoid contact with stems to minimise possible fungal problems.
Light pruning after flowering is recommended to help create a bushier plant with increased flowering sites for the following season. Take care when pruning too far back into the ‘woody’ stems, as they do not reshoot. This can be followed by tip pruning in late summer if necessary.
Pests and diseases
Plants in well-structured soils that can develop good root systems are less susceptible to the soil borne fungi, Fusarium. Avoid planting out root-bound plants and minimise root disturbance after planting.
Flannel Flowers are quite susceptible to Botrytis fungus during moist weather and should be monitored and treated with appropriate fungicide, if necessary. Fungal problems can be minimised by avoiding foliage wetting during irrigation and by periodically removing dead leaves from lower areas of the stems to improve air circulation.
Flannel Flowers may also be affected by leaf chewing caterpillars. Monitoring plants for evidence of insect frass should be carried out to avoid major pest infestation. Aphids, scale insects and mealy bug can also become a problem in crowded situations.
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CMRS Ahmanson Conference Treatises discussing the origin, nature, and effects of love are prevalent throughout the European Renaissance. The Neo-Platonic tradition of love treatises has been studied for its philosophical and literary implications and for its influence on sixteenth-century culture; these studies have illuminated how the “ladder of love” model permeates poetry, prose narratives, and […]
From The Collation
“We’re proud to announce the creation of a new fellowship at the Folger Shakespeare Library. In partnership with the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women, the Folger Institute will offer a fellowship to scholars working on studies of women, genders, and/or sexualities in the early modern world, who can demonstrate a clear need to utilize the Folger’s collections. This $2500 award will allow a scholar to spend one month in residence at the Folger.
The Society for the Study of Early Modern Women (SSEMW) is a network of scholars who meet annually, sponsor sessions at national and international conferences across a spectrum of disciplines, and support one another’s work in the field. SSEMW maintains a listserv and website, sponsors a blog series on topics relating to early modern women, gives awards for outstanding scholarship, and fosters intellectual exchange and collaboration. SSEMW welcomes scholars and teachers from any discipline who study women and their contributions to the cultural, political, economic, or social spheres of the early modern period and whose interest in it includes attention to gender, sexuality, and representations of women.”
For more, http://collation.folger.edu/2017/01/announcing-new-folger-fellowship-honor-margaret-hannay/
Seeking a third paper to complete a panel on writing women’s friendships in the early modern period to be presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies at Congress 2017, to be held at Ryerson University in Toronto, Ontario, May 27-29, 2017.
This panel will consider how women’s friendships inspired them to write in the early modern period. How did women describe their friendships in writing? How are women’s friendships written about in the early modern period? How can we identify and document women’s friendships? Papers might consider:
Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be sent to Jantina Ellens at email@example.com by January 12, 2017.
For the general call for papers for this conference, see the link to the Toronto 2017 Congress at this website: http://www.csrs-scer.ca/congress.htm
Please consider coming to UCLA for this CMRS Ahmanson Conference
I will be presenting some of my work in progress on medical representations of women’s love ailments. The draft program promises a wide variety of excellent speakers from across art history, history, and literature.
Their description: “Treatises discussing the origin, nature, and effects of love are prevalent throughout the European Renaissance. The Neo-Platonic tradition of love treatises has been studied for its philosophical and literary implications and for its influence on sixteenth-century culture; these studies have illuminated how the “ladder of love” model permeates poetry, prose narratives, and religious and moral treatises. Less attention has been paid to medical treatises dealing with the somatogenesis of love and its effects, or chapters in books of natural philosophy discussing the workings of erotic passion. While Neo-Platonic treatises focus on how one should love and the moral and spiritual value of love, medical treatises offer insight into the early modern conception of what love is and how the body reacts to it. A coherent discussion of love in the Renaissance must concern itself with both types of treatise because the phenomenon as a whole can only be understood if both aspects are studied together. How was the experience of love conceived of as a bodily phenomenon? How does that inflect our understanding of love as a moral value, a religious experience, or an object of aesthetic representation? In addition to exploring how love was valued in Renaissance culture, this conference also examines how love was constructed and conceived of in physical, medical terms, approaching the two types of love treatises as creating one complex, coherent genre.”
For your Tuesday reading pleasure:
“Welcome to the website for the project ‘Women’s Work in Rural England, 1500-1700: A New Methodological Approach’. Funded by the Leverhulme Trust and based at the University of Exeter, the project started in January 2015 and will run until the summer of 2018.”
Members of the National Women’s Studies Association Early Modern Women Interest Group seek paper proposals for a panel on “Early Modern Nasty Women: Shrews, Scolds, and Whores” for the NWSA annual conference in Baltimore, Maryland, Nov 16-19 2017.
The Early Modern Women Interest group aims to propose a sponsored panel under the conference subtheme of “engaging, questioning, and transcending the state.”
We seek papers that address:
Please send abstracts of 250 words and a list of major primary and secondary sources to firstname.lastname@example.org by January 10, 2017.
The NWSA annual conference regularly draws more than 1,700 attendees and is the only annual meeting exclusively dedicated to showcasing the latest feminist scholarship. The 2017 conference theme is “40 Years After Combahee: Feminist Scholars and Activists Engage the Movement for Black Lives.” For more information about the National Women’s Studies Association visit www.nwsa.org.
Women Writers in Review is a collection of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century reviews, publication notices, literary histories, and other texts responding to works by early women writers. Women Writers in Review is published by the Women Writers Project at Northeastern University and was created as part of the Cultures of Reception initiative, which fosters research into the transatlantic reception and circulation of early women’s texts.
Source: Women Writers in Review
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Most symptoms of oppositional defiant and compulsive disorders, as defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual-IV, can be reliably and validly assessed in preschool children, a new study shows. Researchers hope the results will enable them to better learn how symptoms of ODD and CD manifest in 3- to 5-year-old children.
One hundred children and their mothers participated in the study, held at a child and adolescent psychiatry clinic. The mothers were interviewed about current ODD and CD symptoms, and both mothers and teachers completed measures of impairment.
Twenty-five percent of the interviews were then randomly selected and coded by a second rater to test interrater reliability. A separate sample of 31 children was recruited for a 1-week test-retest study. Overall, the results showed moderate to high reliability of the DSM's descriptions of ODD and CD, regardless of the age or sex of the child.
The results add to the literature on best methods of assessment of preschool psychopathology.
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Understanding space weather, the changing behavior of plasma near Earth, is key to the safe and reliable performance of electronics on board satellites, spacecraft, and space stations. Of particular interest in this plasma are highly relativistic electrons, those with energies reaching millions of electron volts (megaelectron volts, or MeV), in the planet’s radiation belts. During geomagnetic storms, in which surges in the solar wind can greatly perturb Earth’s magnetic environment, the population of these high-energy electrons decreases substantially.
As a storm subsides, the population of MeV electrons rebounds on the timescale of an hour, and the particles are broadly distributed in space. However, NASA’s Van Allen Probes mission has observed a sharp and nearly impenetrable barrier at a distance of about 2.8 Earth radii from the planet, inward of which MeV electrons are not observed. Foster et al. propose a new formation mechanism for this barrier, in which the generation of MeV electrons is suppressed by interaction with terrestrial radio signals.
Prior work has shown that the excitement of MeV electrons after a storm occurs in two phases. First, the motion of electrons with energies on the order of 10 kiloelectron volts generates chorus waves, radio waves in the VLF part of the electromagnetic spectrum. Interaction with these VLF waves then boosts electrons with energies on the order of 100 kiloelectron volts into the MeV range. Chorus wave production grows nonlinearly, which accounts for the rapid replenishment of MeV electrons.
Naval forces use VLF radio signals with frequencies of 20–25 kilohertz to communicate with underwater submarines. These omnidirectional broadcasts propagate from Earth to a distance that corresponds closely with the observed barrier at 2.8 Earth radii. On the basis of data from a 2017 solar storm, the researchers postulate that interference from these naval VLF signals precipitates local electrons in resonance with the transmitters, thus depleting populations of the approximately 10-kiloelectron-volt electrons that would otherwise drive the growth of chorus waves.
Without strong chorus wave growth, there is nothing to accelerate approximately 100-kiloelectron-volt electrons to MeV energies within 2.8 Earth radii of the planet, the researchers say. This effect can persist for days or weeks after the population of MeV electrons beyond this distance has rebounded, giving the perception of an “impenetrable” barrier to these relativistic particles. (Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JA027913, 2020)
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Lisbon Portela Airport
During WWII, Lisbon Portela Airport was a major passenger smuggling hub. Over 60 years later, the more than 14 million passengers who enter Portugal’s capital through the country’s biggest airport do so out in the open. The two main runways can accommodate aircraft as large as a Boeing 747, making this airport among the biggest in southern Europe. US passengers can reach Portugal directly on SATA from Boston, TAP flights from Newark or Miami, United Airlines from Newark or seasonal US Airways routes from Philadelphia. Air Transat and SATA International both offer seasonal flights from Montréal and year-round flights from Toronto. A free shuttle service is available between the original terminal, which handles all international flights, and the newer domestic terminal, which was just opened in 2007. A tourist information center, first aid room and three business lounges can be found in the arrivals area, while the departures area contains the airport’s showers, restaurants, bank, post office, and shops. Both have currency exchange booths and ATMs.
Budget, Avis, Europcar, Hertz, Alamo, and National all have car rental desks and in July 2012 a new metro station made travel between downtown Lisbon and the airport even easier, taking less than half an hour to get the four and a half miles to the main landmark of Castle of São Jorge. Five local buses also have regular service between the airport and central Lisbon, and the CARRIS AeroBus 91 makes regular stops between the airport and Cais do Sodré train station. Taxis are also waiting 24 hours a day to take you wherever you need to go.
Francisco Sa Carneiro Airport
Named after a former Portuguese prime minister who died in a tragic plane crash on his way to the Porto airport, the annual passenger traffic hit the six million mark in 2011, making it Portugal's second busiest air hub. In 2007, Airports Council International designated it the best airport in the world in terms of service. Although TAP Portugal’s flights from Newark are the only direct connection from the US, Canadian passengers can reach the airport on SATA International or Air Transat from Toronto. Seasonal Canadian flights are also offered by Air Transat from Montréal and Sunwing Airlines from Toronto. In 2010, new customer service and shopping areas opened in addition to a post office, currency exchange, pharmacy, bank, travel agency, ATMs, and an information desk. Food options include a delicatessen, grill house, bar, and several coffee shops.
The Francisco Sá Carneiro Airport car rental desk can be found on Level 0 and include reputable dealers like SIXT, Hertz, Budget, Avis, and Europcar. Taxis are waiting outside the arrivals area or regular city buses run the seven mile route between the airport and Porto’s famous Clérigos Tower, while long distance buses regularly travel to Vigo, Spain. The Violet Line of the Metro takes about half an hour to travel between central Porto and the station just outside the terminal. | <urn:uuid:bd50b68f-bfc5-4844-9245-c6afd4547f53> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.iexplore.com/travel-guides/europe/portugal/airports | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281450.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00171-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943748 | 632 | 1.921875 | 2 |
The Creators Wanted campaign was created to recruit new talent, change perceptions about modern manufacturing and inspire the next generation of creators. Starting this week, the Creators Wanted Tour Live began visiting cities around the country to bring that message directly to Americans. The first stop: Columbus, Ohio.
The Tour Live features a series of escape rooms mounted on a mobile unit, with challenges that are intended to show participants how modern manufacturing actually works—and to be fun at the same time. During its four days in Columbus this week, more than 350 students got to participate, from Canal Winchester High School, Horizons Science Academy, Mechanicsburg School (Entertainment Tech), Sunrise Academy, Marysville Early College High School, Southwestern Career Academy and Millennium Community School.
The tour stop in Columbus also featured a number of exhibits and demonstrations, including opportunities to:
- Meet and ask questions of associates at Honda, the tour’s official mobility sponsor, as well as see some of its cutting-edge vehicles;
- Try out augmented reality technology from PTC;
- Explore activations by The Ohio Manufacturers’ Association, the Manufacturing Extension Partnership at Columbus State Community College and diversified metal manufacturer Worthington Industries;
- Take part in a Creators Connect forum with creators at Honda, Abbott and Worthington Industries; and
- Interact with Creators Connect, a new NAM and MI tool in beta testing, which matches people interested in manufacturing careers with pathways to achieve them.
A tour of the tour: The photos and videos from the Columbus events give you a taste of the excitement. Here, a few students begin the experience at the PTC AR demonstration:
Here are some students trying out the escape room and using the sort of creative thinking required for a manufacturing career:
Below, NAM President and CEO Jay Timmons takes a look at one of the Honda automobiles that were on display.
The satisfied “smizing” of some successful manufacturers-in-training:
NAM Vice President of Brand Strategy Chrys Kefalas, and the chief strategist of the campaign, caught up with some students to see what they thought of the experience.
The short answer?
— Chrys Kefalas (@CKefalas) October 6, 2021
The reception: The tour stop in Columbus created a splash, receiving coverage in the press and attention from state and U.S. officials. Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) put in a plug for Creators Wanted, encouraging students and parents to check out the tour.
— Rob Portman (@senrobportman) October 5, 2021
Ohio Lt. Gov. Jon Husted spoke at one of the events, urging students to pursue creative careers:
"You can learn to do anything, and there is a place for you to do that in Ohio where we will help you make sure that you have the skills to live whatever dream you have."
— Lt. Governor Jon Husted (@LtGovHusted) October 6, 2021
Meanwhile, News 5 Cleveland, Cleveland.com (subscription) and ABC 6 Columbus covered the Creators Wanted stop, while Good Morning Columbus (FOX 28) and Good Morning Cleveland (ABC 5) broadcast segments about the events.
The reach: The digital and media campaign around the Columbus tour stop also had a big impact, with more than 404,000 impressions, 4,200 clicks and 111,000 video views. It’s also on its way to more than 10,000 email signups from individuals interested in manufacturing career paths.
The last word: As Manufacturing Institute Executive Director Carolyn Lee said at one of the events, “The challenge is significant: we have nearly 900,000 open jobs in manufacturing today—a new record. The promise is real: there can be many more people earning great livings and creating our future working in manufacturing in the United States.” | <urn:uuid:7245b373-d7ee-45d1-b81b-4a0d990d6ef7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.themanufacturinginstitute.org/creators-wanted-comes-to-columbus-13359/?stream=leaders-turn-out-for-creators-wanted-in-s-carolina&utm_source=link&utm_medium=social | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.940592 | 805 | 1.539063 | 2 |
- Nick Hartley
- BBC News Gales
2 August 2022
Nearly 10 years ago, James Howells tossed out a hard drive during a cleanup, forgetting the bitcoins it contained.
Now, with the estimated value of what it contains standing at $184 million, Howells plans to spend millions digging up a Newport (UK) landfill in an attempt to find the missing hard drive.
If he gets it back, he said will give 10% of profits to turn the city into a cryptocurrency hub.
But local authorities have already said that digging in the dump poses an ecological risk.
Howells, computer engineer, accidentally dropped the hard drive in 2013 having mined 8,000 bitcoins in the early stages of the coin’s development.
The value of bitcoin fluctuates wildly. For example, the value of what Howells owned was around $250 million in January 2021, but with the big drop earlier this year, it is now significantly less.
The Newport City Council, which manages the landfill where Howells believes the hard drive is, has consistently denied him access to the site to dig for environmental and access reasons.
To recover the hard drive an enormous amount of manual excavation work would be required to remove thousands of tons of compacted waste that has been accumulating on the site for decades.
But the computer engineer believes that he now has the funds and knowledge to do this in an effective and environmentally beneficial way for the site.
“Excavating a landfill is a big operation in itself,” he said.
“The funding is secured and we have hired an artificial intelligence specialist. Their technology can easily be trained to search for a hard drive.”
That’s not all: “We also have an environmental team on board. Basically, we have a full team of various expertswith various skills, and by uniting all of us, we will be able to complete this task to a very high standard.”
“Significant ecological risk”
But finding the hard drive is only part of this monumental task. There is no guarantee that, if found, its state is recoverable.
But if so, its owner is more than ready to receive a mega sum of money, although the actual amount will depend on the direction of the highly volatile cryptocurrency.
In any case, it is likely to be many millions of dollars.
That will have to subtract what Howells has promised to give to the community, 10% of the profits. And he already has in mind how he will invest them: “We have a complete list of initiatives,” he added.
“One of the things we’d like to do at the current landfill, once we’ve cleaned up and reclaimed that land, is put a power generation facility, maybe a couple of wind turbines. We would also like to put a community bitcoin mining facility and use that clean electricity from the turbines to create cryptocurrency for the people of Newport,” he explained.
Among his many plans, there is also the proposal of give about 60 dollars in bitcoins for each person of Newport and install cryptocurrency-based terminals in all stores.
But authorities have responded to each Howells request with a denial.
“We have legal duties that we must comply with in the management of the landfill,” said a spokesman. “Part of this is managing the ecological risk to the site and surrounding areas. Mr. Howells’ proposals pose a significant ecological risk that We can not accept and that, in fact, due to the terms of the landfill management permit, they are not even considered”.
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The Holy Trinity Church - Haunted History
A ghostly apparition of a Georgian lady has been reported at Holy Trinity, she's been blamed for turning the church lights on and off. Others claim to have heard disembodied footsteps, some believe these are the spirits of the Suckling family who were an influential part of the Barsham community for centuries.
The churchyard is also said to be haunted by ghostly apparitions of people dressed in medieval clothing, some have speculated that they could be connected with a nearby plague pit.
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I’d have to do a survey, but I’m fairly confident that these sorts of stories show up like clockwork every week in the national news. They fill a certain niche in a newscast: part humor, part social commentary, part visual interest, yet never truly mocking: they are presented in a straightforward manner, as if it were not completely unreasonable that the God of the Universe should choose to communicate a message too opaque to even qualify as “vague” through a utility pole and an invasive creeping vine, or a small man-made lake turned blood-red mud hole in drought-ravaged Texas.
The “Jesus vines” story was on the news last week, and spread like a short-lived wildfire across the nation (and the world, considering the citation in the UK’s Guardian newspaper). This week it was the dying reservoir in drought-stricken West Texas which reached a critical mass that led to a flowering of Chromatiaceae bacteria which, according to this Live Science article, thrive in oxygen-deprived water. It turned the water blood red.
In a television report on the red lake story, a reporter interviewed two teenage Texas girls, one of whom was quick to make the connection between a Bible verse and the putrid pond. (“And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.” Revelation 16:4 KJV).
I guess that means we should ignore the two verses previous to that one state that the first “vial” is to be poured out on land, where it produces boils and sores on every living thing, whereas the second “vial” is then poured out in the oceans, and kills every living thing there, and THEN the third vial is accidentally spilled in a 5,440 acre (when full) reservoir in West Texas, while the other 1.62 million square miles of freshwater lakes on the earth are spared, more or less (okay, I changed that third one around a bit).
This is how our human minds work: the local is the global, and the personal is the universal. We are solipsistic, tribal animals, bred by evolution for survival, not for the comprehension of an entire planet (much less a universe).
I also saw that there was a bit of news about the “cross” at ground zero in New York City. Once again the ease with which our minds go the the deep well of belief is striking. We think “What are the chances of a perfect cross coming to rest standing upright in rubble after the fiery collapse of two massive skyscrapers?” Pretty good, it turns out. Especially considering that a skyscraper is made up of thousands of crosses of steel where sections are riveted together, producing strong points that are likely to be the last parts to be torn apart in a collapse. That one of these (many smaller ones were found surrounding the most famous one) was upright and visible could have been predicted. In reality, the statistical probability of there NOT being an entire crop of steel crosses after such an event would be incredibly small. God apparently works not just in mysterious ways these days, but primarily through very predictable, silly ones as well.
Of course it’s not just Christians who find symbolism and meaning in the perfectly pedestrian surprises of nature and disaster. It is a human condition. As much a part of us as the blind spots in our eyes, our weak primate backs or our inability to not respond to a baby’s cry.
I’ve been as much a believer as anyone else. And maybe that’s part of the problem, and why it took me so long and so many turns to move beyond belief to — as Daniel Dennett says — “break the spell”: I was a believer surrounded by other believers. But I did break the spell. And though the tickle of belief will always be resident in my mammalian brain, it has a greatly-diminished influence on my cognitive life. I have moved to a point where any nagging suggestion of my believing brain, when left to its own, is quietly beaten silly by the more quiet deliberation of my reason.
I get some mild heat about my Atheism. Perhaps it strikes some as presumptuous or overdone. But let’s take just a step or two back and consider this from a different perspective: Given all of the scientific evidence we now have of the world, what is the more difficult response to understand: taking a tangle of an aggressive, invasive vine on a human-built structure as a sign of a universal deity’s personal intervention in our lives, or seeing that tangle as a natural occurrence that strikes our pattern-seeking brains in a predictable way? The former interpretation is a flight of fancy and is, therefore, much more stimulating to us, I think. It’s more fun. The latter is a sort of wet blanket on the pleasure we get from tricking our own brains into thinking wild things. It is also more closely aligned with reality.
I think this points tp the greater drag on the spread of Atheism and a materialistic view of life: it doesn’t look like much fun from the outside. Worse — it seems to require that all of us kids stop playing pretend. I get that. I also think it’s a load of crap. Don’t get me wrong. It may well be that in the face of actual reality — that we are simply these surprisingly conscious animals let loose in a nature that demands our demise in a very short time — there’s nothing wrong with engaging in all the fantasy we can get our hands on to keep our minds off of death and annihilation. I can’t really argue with that, anymore that I could deny a dying alcoholic a final scotch or a diabetic one last ice cream cone.
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Reconciling with a friend, acquaintance, or loved one is a long and delicate process. If you feel that reconciliation is justified or warranted you need to understand that you may not be able to straighten the situation overnight. You will have to have patience, self control, and diligence. The first thing that you need to do after a falling out or a breakup is to sit back and honestly evaluate the situation. Go ahead and apologize for your part of the problem. You are not taking the blame but if there was a falling out you had to have something to do with it. After you have expressed your regrets leave it alone. Don't try to explain anything or take the situation any farther. Take the time that you need to think about what happened and analyze how you will prevent it from happening again. Were you prone to arguments? Were there financial problems? Was the problem that someone just didn't want to listen? Were you the one who would not listen?
The problem in any situation where there is conflict is that one or both of you didn't want to submit your will to the other. This is always the problem with any conflict no matter what the perceived cause may be. There is always a catalyst to the problem. In other words there is one thing that served as a trigger and got the process rolling. Were you the one who was pushing the buttons or were you getting your buttons pushed? Someone had a motive which could not be met. This was the cause of the problem. You need to be honest with yourself during this time of introspection. You don't have to provide a written report of your problems to anyone else. This is strictly so that you can get a handle on your end of the situation. Even if you were right you should accept the fact that you may not be able to reconcile with the other person.
Sometimes things just won't work out no matter how hard you try. If they don't work out you need to know in your mind that you did the absolute best that you could have done. Maybe you will just have to assume the blame if it will take the other party off of the defensive. You must be careful before you do because this will not work with everybody. Some people will never admit that they are wrong no matter how wrong they are so this tactic is not always good to use. If you can't work it out from here then maybe you have to accept at this point that you may not be able to reconcile. Don't get caught in the act of attempting to justify yourself or what you have said or done to the other person.
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Developing a solution by remote desktop connection to a server can be challenging.
In one case, a recent failure forced the removal and recreation of accounts. When I was able to RDP back in, I found that I had no shortcuts of any kind on my taskbar — not even to Windows Explorer. With no access to Windows Explorer or a desktop Start menu, I couldn’t get to anything else in the OS. So my first order of business was to get to Windows Explorer.
Through an RDP connection, the Windows key doesn’t register… so my Win+E shortcut just brought up the Explorer on my local machine. I needed to try something else.
I was able to access the charms bar from the desktop, though. The Start charm brought me to the tiles interface, where I found…
The tiles interface of a Windows Server
… a Windows PowerShell prompt!
Opening that prompt, I was able to open an instance of Windows Explorer, by simply typing “explorer” at the PS prompt.
Opening Windows Explorer from Windows PowerShell
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HAJJ AND UMRAH IN ISLAM
Muslims perform two types of pilgrims each year, one which is called Umrah. This can be performed at any time during the year whereas Hajj has a specific date under the Islamic calendar. Umrah in Islam is visiting the Ka’bah, Mecca, Saudi Arabia. The government of Saudi Arabia manages the logistics of visitors when perform Umrah, therefore it requires visa and travel management through an authorised Umrah/Hajj service provider. The act of Umrah can take up to 2-4 hours to complete, and is not compulsory in Islam.
RESTRICTIONS FOR WOMEN
There is no restriction when performing Umrah for men however women must be accomplished by a mahram (husband, brother, or father) to perform the ritual. All men performing Umrah have to put white clothes around him known as Ihraam which he ties on himself before he enters Mecca. There is no designated clothing for women, except that they are prohibited from wearing Niqaab, perfume, jewellery, makeup and gloves, symbolizing simple.
ADVICE FOR PILGRIM
When a pilgrim enters al-Masjid Al-Haraam it is advised that he enters with his right foot and recites Bismillah. The main rituals of an Umrah include something called Tawaaf. This is seven circles around the Holy Kaaba; this can be done as closer or as far from the Kaaba. This is performed by both men and women.
The act of Umrah has certain pillar which is required to be completed when performing the pilgrim. Walking between As-Safaa and Al-Marwah is one of them. The two mountains which are not far from the city of Mecca require you to walk 7 times from and to the hills. A walk from Safa to Marwah and back to Safa and Marwah makes 2 rounds.
Umrah is completed by stepping out of the Ihram which was prohibited during the duration of the act. Once the Ihram has been removed, men must shave their heads and women will cut their hair an inch from the tip.
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As a individual person we have individual morals which lead us to our own moral or immoral decisions. Why, if you were treated according to your deserts, no Iris would ever have more justly suffered death.
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When I lived in New York City, I used to get tickled when people assumed I was honest just because I had a slight southern accent. At the same time, the people who thought I was less than intelligent because of that same accent really irritated me.
In the United States, we tend to think of prejudice as always having a negative impression based on someone’s race. Actually, prejudice is pre-judging anyone based on any aspect of them you can see or hear without knowing anything else about them. Often those judgments are negative, but sometimes people can be predisposed to like someone just because the person reminds them of themselves or someone else they like.
Peter learned an important lesson about prejudice in Acts chapter 10. In New Testament times, the Jews hated the Gentiles. They would even walk miles out of their way to avoid going through Samaria where people who were only partly Gentile lived. Yet, God made it clear to Peter (in a vision) God does not have favorites. God created all of us and loves each of us dearly.
Clearly if our children are going to accurately reflect God’s image, we have to raise them to love all people the way God does. Our society tries to make it abundantly clear racial discrimination is wrong, even if the principle is still frequently violated. Yet those very same people who condemn racial prejudice may openly admit hating people because of the region of the country they are from, the amount of higher education the person has had, the political party they support, the amount of money someone possesses or even the school the person attended.
I don’t find anywhere in the New Testament a verse that allows us to hate people or refuse to serve them or share our faith with them because of our prejudices. In fact, God even made sure we understood reverse prejudice is wrong too. In James chapter 2, James says showing partiality is a sin. Period. Showing favoritism to someone because they are wealthy or look like us is just as wrong in God’s eyes as being ugly to those who are different.
You may really want to teach your children to treat everyone equally with God’s love, but struggle with these issues yourself. Unfortunately, many people have heard prejudiced statements for and against people during much of their childhoods. Those tapes can not only make it more difficult to treat everyone impartially yourself, but also confuse you enough to make it difficult to raise your own children so they don’t have the same messages stored in their heads.
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Career and Education Opportunities for Administrative Assistants in Fort Smith, Arkansas
Administrative assistants can find both educational opportunities and jobs in the Fort Smith, Arkansas area. Currently, 7,960 people work as administrative assistants in Arkansas. This is expected to grow 18% to 9,370 people by 2016. This is better than the nation as a whole, where employment opportunities for administrative assistants are expected to grow by about 12.8%. In general, administrative assistants provide high-level administrative support by conducting research, preparing statistical reports, handling information requests, and performing clerical functions such as preparing correspondence, receiving visitors, arranging conference calls, and scheduling meetings.
The income of an administrative assistant is about $15 per hour or $31,950 per year on average in Arkansas. In the U.S. as a whole, their income is about $19 hourly or $40,030 yearly on average. Earnings for administrative assistants are better than earnings in the general category of Secretarial in Arkansas and better than general Secretarial category earnings nationally.
There are nine schools of higher education in the Fort Smith area, including four within twenty-five miles of Fort Smith where you can get a degree to start your career as an administrative assistant. Administrative assistants usually hold some college courses, so it will take a short time to learn to be an administrative assistant if you already have a high school diploma.
CAREER DESCRIPTION: Administrative Assistant
In general, administrative assistants provide high-level administrative support by conducting research, preparing statistical reports, handling information requests, and performing clerical functions such as preparing correspondence, receiving visitors, arranging conference calls, and scheduling meetings. They also may also train and supervise lower-level clerical staff.
Administrative assistants file and retrieve corporate documents and reports. They also ready invoices, reports, memos, letters, financial statements and other documents, using word processing or presentation software. Equally important, administrative assistants have to open and distribute incoming correspondence, including faxes and email. They are often called upon to perform general office duties, such as ordering supplies, maintaining archives management database systems, and performing basic bookkeeping work. They are expected to answer phone calls and direct calls to appropriate parties or take messages. Finally, administrative assistants read and analyze incoming memos and reports to establish their significance and plan their distribution.
Every day, administrative assistants are expected to be able to see details at a very fine level of focus. They need to read and understand documents and reports. It is also important that they articulate ideas and problems.
It is important for administrative assistants to ready agendas and make arrangements, such as coordinating catering for luncheons and other meetings. They are often called upon to schedule and direct office services, such as archives and housekeeping, to assist executives. They also furnish clerical support to other departments. They are sometimes expected to conduct research and ready papers for consideration and presentation by executives, committees and boards of directors. Somewhat less frequently, administrative assistants are also expected to perform general office duties, such as ordering supplies, maintaining archives management database systems, and performing basic bookkeeping work.
Administrative assistants sometimes are asked to make travel arrangements for executives. and oversee and maintain executives' schedules. And finally, they sometimes have to process payroll data.
Like many other jobs, administrative assistants must have exceptional integrity and be thorough and dependable.
Similar jobs with educational opportunities in Fort Smith include:
- Municipal Clerk. Draft agendas and bylaws for town or city council; record minutes of council meetings; answer official correspondence; keep fiscal records and accounts; and prepare reports on civic needs.
- Office Machine Operator. Operate one or more of a variety of office machines, such as photocopying, photographic, and duplicating machines, or other office machines.
- Procurement Clerk. Compile information and records to draw up purchase orders for procurement of materials and services.
- Secretary. Perform routine clerical and administrative functions such as drafting correspondence, scheduling appointments, organizing and maintaining paper and electronic files, or providing information to callers.
EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES: Administrative Assistant Training
Kiamichi Technology Center-Poteau - Poteau, OK
Kiamichi Technology Center-Poteau, 1509 S McKenna, Poteau, OK 74953. Kiamichi Technology Center-Poteau is a small school located in Poteau, Oklahoma. It is a public school with primarily 2-year programs and has 577 students. Kiamichi Technology Center-Poteau has a two to four year program in Administrative Assistant and Secretarial Science which graduated two students in 2008.
University of Arkansas-Fort Smith - Fort Smith, AR
University of Arkansas-Fort Smith, 5210 Grand Ave, Fort Smith, AR 72913-3649. University of Arkansas-Fort Smith is a medium sized university located in Fort Smith, Arkansas. It is a public school with primarily 4-year or above programs. It has 6,846 students and an admission rate of 62%. University of Arkansas-Fort Smith has less than one year, one to two year, and associate's degree programs in Executive Assistant/Executive Secretary which graduated eighteen, seven, and three students respectively in 2008.
Carl Albert State College - Poteau, OK
Carl Albert State College, 1507 S McKenna, Poteau, OK 74953-5208. Carl Albert State College is a small college located in Poteau, Oklahoma. It is a public school with primarily 2-year programs and has 2,454 students. Carl Albert State College has a one to two year program in Administrative Assistant and Secretarial Science which graduated two students in 2008.
Indian Capital Technology Center-Sallisaw - Sallisaw, OK
Indian Capital Technology Center-Sallisaw, 401 Houser, Sallisaw, OK 74955. Indian Capital Technology Center-Sallisaw is a small school located in Sallisaw, Oklahoma. It is a public school with primarily less-than 2-year programs and has 231 students. Indian Capital Technology Center-Sallisaw has a one to two year program in Administrative Assistant and Secretarial Science which graduated sixteen students in 2008.
LOCATION INFORMATION: Fort Smith, Arkansas
Fort Smith is located in Sebastian County, Arkansas. It has a population of over 84,716, which has grown by 5.5% in the past ten years. The cost of living index in Fort Smith, 82, is well below the national average. New single-family homes in Fort Smith are priced at $151,400 on average, which is above the state average. In 2008, two hundred one new homes were constructed in Fort Smith, down from two hundred ninety-four the previous year.
The top three industries for women in Fort Smith are health care, educational services, and accommodation and food services. For men, it is food, construction, and health care. The average travel time to work is about 17 minutes. More than 18.6% of Fort Smith residents have a bachelor's degree, which is lower than the state average. The percentage of residents with a graduate degree, 6.7%, is lower than the state average.
The unemployment rate in Fort Smith is 8.1%, which is greater than Arkansas's average of 6.9%.
The percentage of Fort Smith residents that are affiliated with a religious congregation, 68.8%, is more than both the national and state average. Mallalieu United Methodist Church, Loves Chapel Seventh Day Adventist Church and King Solomon Missionary Baptist Church are among the churches located in Fort Smith. The largest religious groups are the Southern Baptist Convention, the Catholic Church and the United Methodist Church.
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Adopt-a-Village in Guatemala
The Mayan Center, a residential high school being built on a mountaintop in the rainforest of northwest Guatemala, will serve two dozen villages.
Adopt-a-Village in Guatemala partners with Mayan villages in the remote northwest corner of the country, where there are virtually no public services, secondary schools or other aid organizations providing consistent support. At the urging of village leaders, AAV focuses primarily on orphans and the children of widows who have few resources to support their families.
Mission: To empower the Mayan people of northwest Guatemala by providing training and resources so they may develop improved education, health, and economic conditions in their communities.
Past Achievements: AAV has completed more than 60 major projects, including building nine primary schools, and providing support for middle schools serving a dozen villages. AAV also has built water systems and roads and run health programs.
Students learn dental hygiene skills in the village of San Juan Tutlac through one of the Adopt-a-Village vocational programs.
AAV’s current focus is completing the Mayan Center, a unique residential high school that will make advanced education available to the children of two dozen surrounding villages. The school curriculum and schedule have been designed so that students will be able to continue to help support their families while they are in school. Students will learn vocational skills such as animal husbandry, dentistry and carpentry in addition to the traditional academic subjects and Mayan culture.
Wish List: Sponsorships and financial support: Scholarships for Mayan Center students; funds for food, clothing and medical help for widows and orphans.
Other Assistance: Volunteer carpenters, general contractors, and cabinet makers.
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Charles (“Elia”) 1775–1834, English essayist and critic.
Harold A. 1892–1962, U.S. novelist.
Mary Ann, 1764–1847, English author who wrote in collaboration with her brother Charles Lamb.
William, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, 1779–1848, English statesman: prime minister 1834, 1835–41.
Willis E(ugene), Jr. 1913–2008, U.S. physicist: Nobel Prize 1955.
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the young of a sheep
the meat of a young sheep
a person, esp a child, who is innocent, meek, good, etc
a person easily deceived
like a lamb to the slaughter
(intransitive) Also lamb down. (of a ewe) to give birth
(transitive; used in the passive) (of a lamb) to be born
(intransitive) (of a shepherd) to tend the ewes and newborn lambs at lambing time
the Lamb, a title given to Christ in the New Testament
Charles, pen name Elia. 1775–1834, English essayist and critic. He collaborated with his sister Mary on Tales from Shakespeare (1807). His other works include Specimens of English Dramatic Poets (1808) and the largely autobiographical essays collected in Essays of Elia (1823; 1833)
William. See (2nd Viscount) Melbourne2
Willis Eugene. 1913–2008, US physicist. He detected the small difference in energy between two states of the hydrogen atom (Lamb shift). Nobel prize for physics 1955
hanged for a sheep (as a lamb)
in two shakes (of a lamb’s tail)
like a lamb to the slaughter
William, born 1927, U.S. linguist.
William S (Signius Wilhelm Paul Knudsen) 1879–1948, U.S. industrialist, born in Denmark. Contemporary Examples Bill Knudsen’s Business Skills Saved the U.S. at the Dawn of World War II Arthur Herman June 15, 2012 Bill Knudsen’s Business Skills Saved the U.S. at the Dawn of World War II Arthur Herman June 15, 2012 Bill Knudsen’s Business […]
Shirley (Shirley Temple Black) 1928–2014, U.S. film actress, famous for child roles during the 1930s, and diplomat. Sir William, 1628–99, English essayist and diplomat. a city in central Texas. noun a building or place dedicated to the worship of a deity or deities a Mormon church (US) another name for a synagogue any Christian church, […]
William Makepeace [meyk-pees] /ˈmeɪkˌpis/ (Show IPA), 1811–63, English novelist, born in India. Contemporary Examples Hitler’s Strange Afterlife in India Dilip D’Souza November 29, 2012 Hitler’s Strange Afterlife in India Dilip D’Souza November 29, 2012 Mumbai on Edge With Shiv Sena Founder Bal Thackeray Ill Dilip D’Souza November 15, 2012 Mumbai on Edge With Shiv Sena […] | <urn:uuid:254aeeea-0a87-479b-acb5-6dc692b7e3db> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://definithing.com/define-dictionary/charles-lamb/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284411.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00455-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.838604 | 814 | 2.53125 | 3 |
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Scars Of War
It's been centuries we claim 'we are civilized'.
I don't know how? I am surprised.
We have seen Hitler's holocausts and cultural genocide.
And still we talk about war as a matter of pride.
We have seen the death of 'Alan Kurdi' a Syrian boy who don't know why did he die.
We have seen the wounded 'Omar Daqneesh' a child who knows nothing but to cry.
We have seen the tears in the eyes of volunteer who couldn't bear the plight of baby he saved.
Isn't it the result of the way for war that those lunatics have paved?
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Advanced features such as 5G and 4K displays in portable devices drive up power consumption—a lot more than 15W in many cases in devices operated by high-capacity 2S batteries. For these power-hungry gadgets, USB-C Power Delivery (PD) is a boon because it enables fast charging that gets these products back in operation with little downtime (Figure 1). Many applications that previously used AC-DC barrel adapters are migrating to USB-C PD for convenience and standardization. However, for designers, compliance with the USB-C PD standard typically requires complex firmware development and additional hardware components. Given the short distance and high voltage (20V) between pins, if the connector is inserted or disconnected at an angle, there is also a risk of damage. Indeed, both USB-C and USB-C PD specifications require a unique skill set because designing for them is not as straightforward as designing for legacy USB variants.
Consumer devices such as cameras, AR/VR systems, and wireless speakers lead the charge to USB-C and USB-C PD. On the horizon, applications in industrial and medical areas are quickly adopting USB-C and USB PD, as consumers are demanding the same level of convenience in their professional environments. We also see the USB-C standard used in point-of-sale (POS) devices, industrial scanners, and breast pumps. These are products that can ill-afford an extensive development cycle, given time-to-market pressures. In this post, we'll share tips to streamline the design effort for USB-C PD designs.
Figure 1: USB-C and USB-C Power Delivery bring the conveniences of fast data transfer and charging to portable devices. (Source: Golub Oleksii/Shutterstock.com)
USB-C and USB-C PD enable designers to realize the promise of a universal connector, providing the specifications for a reversible 24-pin connector for data transfer and power delivery. USB-C specifies 5V up to 3A (15W), while USB-C PD 3.0 specifies 5V to 20V up to 5A (100W). To design a charging system for USB-C, you'll need to:
Meeting these challenges typically requires complex host-side software development for USB-C negotiation or additional parts such as external field-effect transistors (FETs) and external microcontrollers. However, charging system solutions are available that help minimize these challenges. One key feature is compliance with the protocols, as this will simplify the design implementation. Some solutions are also designed with event-based action scripts that make the customization process easier. Highly integrated circuits will eliminate the need for too many discrete components. Also, consider features that will help maintain reliable operation in harsh environments (varying temperatures or moist conditions, for instance).
Another consideration arises with the use of higher capacity batteries, which the power-hungry end devices need to support longer runtimes. Migrating from a 1S to a 2S battery increases the capacity without increasing the charging current. Because USB-C supports input voltages between 5V and 20V and 2S or 3S battery voltages fall somewhere in between, a buck-boost converter can help bridge the gap. See Figure 2 for a block diagram of a 2S battery-based application.
Figure 2: Block diagram of a 2S battery-based application. (Source: Maxim Integrated)
Maxim Integrated has a new pair of USB-C charging system solutions that provide out-of-the-box compliance with the USB-C PD 3.0 specification, eliminating firmware development and reducing development time by up to three months. Their compact footprint also reduces the solution size by half compared to competitive solutions. The MAX77958 USB-C and USB-C Power Delivery charge controller is responsible for doing away with the firmware step, thanks to its GUI-driven customization script, BC1.2 support, and configuration settings related to Fast Role Swap (FRS), Dual Role Port (DRP), and Try.SNK mode. The standalone device eliminates an external microcontroller, provides out-of-the-box USB-C PD 3.0 compliance, and enables you to customize operation for the end application without firmware development. The device is also designed to withstand harsh environments via features including 28V rating, VBUS short protection to CC pins, an integrated analog-to-digital converter (ADC), and moisture detection/corrosion prevention.
The MAX77962 is a 3.2A USB-C buck-boost charger with integrated FETs for fast charging of high-capacity 2S Li-ion batteries. It provides a wide input voltage range (3.5V to 23V) for USB-C PD charging, requires no discrete FETs, and can be configured with or without an application processor. Peak efficiency is 97 percent at 9VIN, 7.4VOUT, 1.5AOUT.
You can evaluate both parts with the MAX77958EVKIT-2S3, which demonstrates the MAX77958 autonomously controlling the MAX77962 charger with its I2C master feature.
Both devices are part of a broader portfolio of USB-C and USB-C PD devices that includes power-efficient chargers and converters, autonomous and robust controllers, and power path and protection ICs.
The Tips to Achieve Faster Design of USB-C Power Solutions blog was written by Bakul Damle and Sagar Khare and was first published on www.maximintegrated.com.
Bakul Damle is a Business Director at Maxim Integrated, responsible for the battery management product line. His current interests include battery and power management such as fuel gauges, battery safety, protection and authentication, wireless and USB Type-C/Power Delivery battery chargers. He holds a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from California Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Technology in Engineering Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology. Bakul has several patents in the area of test and measurement.
Sagar Khare is an Executive Business Manager with Maxim’s Mobile Power Battery Management group. He has wide-ranging experience in embedded power conversion, renewable energy and battery management. Sagar holds a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Stony Brook University and a Master of Business Administration from Arizona State University.
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"It has been devastating and heartbreaking to hear in the news that the remains of 215 children buried in unmarked graves have been found on the Kamloops Indian Residential School grounds,” say ELCIC National and Synod Bishops in a letter to the church released today.
The letter invites ELCIC members to join in prayer for the families of those children, for the Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation, for the City of Kamloops and for First Nations Communities across Canada as they grieve this loss. Our bishops also call for a renewed call to re-engage in the work of reconciliation. Read the full letter in the file attachment below.
The image is the memorial candle installation in Gloria Dei's courtyard for the 215 children buried in unmarked graves. The installation will be part of the video Worship Service for Indigenous Sunday on June 20 prepared by Cari Klaassen. (Photo credit: Rev. Aneeta Saroop).
If you are looking for further resources, please consider the following:
2011 ELCIC Convention Resolution on Encouraging Right Relationships with Indigenous Peoples 2015 ELCIC Convention Resolution repudiating the Doctrine of Discovery
The Anglican Church of Canada 2019 Apology for Spiritual Harm
Anglican Church of Canada Reconciliation Toolkit
Indigenous Ministries award winning film Doctrine of Discovery: Stolen lands, Strong Hearts
We remember the many, many, Indigenous children who did not return from residential school, including those whose remains were discovered on the grounds of the Kamloops (Tk’emlúps) Residential School. Grant comfort in the midst of grief and trauma. Strengthen the Secwépemc people, Indian Residential School survivors, their families and their communities as they process this tragic loss. Renew our commitment to the journey of truth-telling, mourning and responsibility and guide us in the ways of healing and love. | <urn:uuid:5d901ca2-76db-4d52-8b6b-eb64993ad45d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.gloriadei.ca/news/a-renewed-call-to-reconciliation | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570868.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808152744-20220808182744-00075.warc.gz | en | 0.933866 | 409 | 1.835938 | 2 |
The other day, the topic of conversation in my Japanese class turned to Christmas. Our teacher wanted to know how we celebrated Christmas in our home countries.
We talked about Santa and presents and lights and carols and food and eggnog and tinsel and TV movies and all of the things we think about when we think about Christmas.
"Do you know how we celebrate Christmas in Japan?" the Japanese teacher asked us. "We eat chicken and have sex."
She matter-of-factly explained that Dec. 24 is called "Holy Night" because that's the night young people rent hotel rooms (on their parents' dime) and have sex. She told us her own son is desperately trying to find someone to spend a very unholy night with. He has been going to singles' parties three times a week in order to find a girl he can unwrap on Christmas Eve.
However, the "Sexy Christmas" concept is only for young, single people. Everyone else simply celebrates Christmas by eating chicken. Which probably has less to do with the availability of turkey and more to do with the size of ovens in most Japanese homes.
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French cooking consists of cooking traditions and practices from France. At one time French cuisine was a lot prejudiced by Italian cuisine. It was in the 17th century that some chefs led a group that urbanized France’s possess indigenous style by uneven it away from its foreign influences. Cheese and wine are a major part of the cuisine, playing different roles regionally and nationally, with many variations. French cuisine was codified in the 20th century as the modern haute cuisine. Information of French cooking has contributed considerably to Western cuisines and its criteria are used widely in Western cookery school boards and culinary education. French regional cuisine is characterized by its extreme diversity and style. Conventionally, each district of France has its own distinctive cooking. So here is the recipe of chocolate with Salted Caramel:
- Dark chocolate chopped 200 grams
- Milk 200 millilitres
- Fresh cream 200 millilitres
- Egg yolks 4
- Sugar 40 grams
- Salt 5 grams
- Sugar 60 grams
- Butter 90 grams
- Fresh cream 60 millilitres
- Heat milk in a non-stick pan. Add cream and mix well.
- Mix egg yolks and sugar in a bowl and whisk well.
- Gradually add milk cream mixture to the whisked eggs and sugar while mixing well.
- Pour the mixture back into the pan and simmer for 2-3 minutes, while stirring continuously. Switch off heat. Add chocolate and mix well till chocolate melts.
- Pour the mixture into serving glasses and cool to room temperature. Refrigerate for 2-4 hours.
- To make the salted caramel, melt sugar in a non-stick pan till it caramelizes. Add butter and mix. Add cream and mix well. Switch off heat, add salt and mix well. Allow to cool.
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National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies (NACCRRA): Our nation’s leading voice for child care. They work with more than 800 state and local Child Care Resource & Referral agencies to ensure that families in every local community have access to high-quality, affordable child care. They lead projects that increase the quality and availability of child care, offer comprehensive training to child care professionals, undertake research, and advocate child care policies that positively impact the lives of children and families.
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Early Learning and Development
The Born Learning Campaign: Children are constantly learning, right from birth. Their early years are the foundation for growth and development. Explore ways to turn everyday moments into fun learning experiences.
The Early Years Institute: A catalyst for new ideas, partnerships and resources that ensure all children have what they need to succeed and to expand the public will to increase investments in young children.
The NAMC is a member of the EYI Advisory Council.
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Logan got out of his office a little earlier than his office timings. Today was his mother’s birthday and he had planned to spend the evening with his mother.
Logan rushed to the bakery and ordered her favourite cake there. After picking the cake when he came out of the bakery, Logan saw a little boy selling flowers near the corner.
He knew how much his mother loved flowers. Logan went to the little boy and asked the price of the flowers.
The boy was about ten years old and alone. He looked at Logan, and after thinking for a moment, he replied, “15 bucks for one flower.”
Logan smiled and said, “You know what? I have a deal for you. I will buy all of the flowers for ten bucks each.”
The boy again thought for a moment as if he was doing some calculations in his mind and then said, “Alright. I will give all these for ten bucks each.”
Logan took out his wallet, but before he could give the money to the little boy, little boy’s mother came and interfered. As soon as she discovered that Logan was buying those flowers for ten bucks, she said in a stern voice, “Sir, the price for one flower is 15 bucks. If you want to buy them, you will have to pay the full amount.”
She seemed determined, but Logan knew that the price she was asking for the flowers was a little high. So he replied, “But your son agreed to sell them for ten bucks.”
As she heard it, she looked at her son, and the boy nodded in a yes. To Logan’s surprise, the mother instantly agreed to sell the flowers for ten bucks and replied, “If my son said ten bucks for a flower, then it is ten bucks for a flower. Whatever he says is the right price for the flowers.”
Logan took the flowers and rushed to his car. But to his mother’s home, he thought about the little flower boy and his mother. Logan had been working now for more than five years. He understood the importance of self-esteem and decision making while you deal with the leaders as well as the public. Though it was quite subtle, what the mom did was the first and the most crucial step towards building that self-esteem and empowering her child’s decision-making. Logan was impressed that what he learned at his management school, the mother was teaching her son on the road.
Trust your child. Teach him to negotiate and trust his instincts. Teach him about the consequences of actions and decisions. Once he has adequate knowledge about all this, let him make his decisions. You can not lead him all his life. By letting him know that you trust his intelligence, you are actually empowering him. All this will help him in the later years of his personal and professional life. | <urn:uuid:bf9c1fe9-68ca-4c04-90c3-4accc0e21b44> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.soultouch.in/a-flower-boy-and-his-mother/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00277.warc.gz | en | 0.994312 | 607 | 2.421875 | 2 |
Using Data Analytics and the EHR to Improve Population Health
Managing population health is impossible without two things: good data and good analytics. Novant Health has both of these. As a result, the not-for-profit, integrated system that spans communities in the Carolinas, Virginia, and Georgia is making significant strides in an era of value-based payments and population health management.
Keith Griffin, MD, chief medical information officer, and Ryan Neaves, MHA, director of IT applications, shared their data-driven strategy at Medical Group Management Association’s (MGMA) annual conference held in Boston Sept. 30-Oct 3. In particular, they provided these five tips:
1. Create Dashboards
Novant Health created dashboards that allow physicians to view their own population health metrics, said Neaves. Physicians use these dashboards to focus on specific patients who ‘fall out’ of the measures (e.g., those who haven’t yet had a breast cancer screening). They can send a letter or email from within the dashboard directly to these patients to engage them. “We try to make it interactive so providers can reach out to these populations,” he added. Novant Health also created cost and utilization dashboards that use claims data to measure contract performance. These provider-specific dashboards include metrics such as-as attributed lives, cost per member per month, admissions per thousand, readmission rate, ED visits per thousand, outpatient visits per thousand, out-of-network spending, and more. “Claims data is a mountain of information and really confusing. This report rolls it up into something we can use,” Griffin said. The health system also developed high-level dashboards that measure three important prongs of MIPS for each practice within the system: Quality, improvement activities (using Press Ganey survey results), and cost (using risk-adjusted cost data from claims).
2. Use Registries in all Services Lines
Novant Health uses more than 75 active registries to segregate patients into groups so they can target interventions, Neaves said. “If you can’t identify populations, you can’t measure performance,” he added. Some registry examples include: asthma, care gaps, chronic kidney disease, congestive heart failure, general high risk, HIV, hypertension, obesity, osteoporosis, pre-diabetes, and tobacco.
3. Assign Risk Scores to Each Patient
Novant Health uses an algorithm that assigns one or more of 22 different risk scores that predict re-admissions. A patient outreach group reviews these scores to prioritize care coordination following a discharge. The outreach group also reminds patients of preventive health services for which they’re due (e.g., diabetic eye exam or A1C monitoring).
4. Use Best Practice Advisories (BPA)
BPAs are alerts that allow clinicians to easily see when patients are due for certain tests or services that are directly related to various quality measures. Novant Health has more than 90 BPAs in its EHR. To create these BPAs, Neaves said he reached out to service line leaders for the input—specifically to determine workflow and timing. He said it’s a continuous work in progress to ensure all BPAs remain up-to-date and are in line with governing agencies. Novant Health has had a lot of success with its BPAs. Griffin cited the administration of Tdap vaccines that almost doubled immediately after the related BPA was initiated. He also cited hepatitis C screenings that increased shortly after the related BPA was launched.
5. Focus on Patient Engagement
Novant Health went live with its patient portal in 2011, and approximately 875,000 patients have signed up. Neaves shared these other current statistics:
- 85% of lab/test results are released to portal users
- 6,800 patient history questionnaires are entered monthly
- More than 26,000 patient-initiated updates occur monthly
The health system uses the portal to manage population health by sending annual health reminder letters that Neaves said inspire patients to call for preventive health appointments. These letters begin by stating the following:
In addition to providing remarkable care to help you feel better when you are sick, we also want to prevent illness and injury from occurring in the first place. With that in mind, our system indicates that you have may be due for the following:
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Scrabble word: WHIG
In which Scrabble dictionary does WHIG exist?
Definitions of WHIG in dictionaries:
- noun - a member of the political party that urged social reform in 18th and 19th century England
- noun - a supporter of the American Revolution
- noun - a member of the Whig Party that existed in the United States before the American Civil War
- A member of an 18th- and 19th-century British political party that was opposed to the Tories.
- A supporter of the war against England during the American Revolution.
- A 19th-century American political party formed to oppose the Democratic Party and favoring high tariffs and a loose interpretation of the Constitution.
- noun - one who interprets history as a continuing victory of progress over reactionary forces
There are 4 letters in WHIG: G H I W
Scrabble words that can be created with an extra letter added to WHIG
All anagrams that could be made from letters of word WHIG plus a wildcard: WHIG?
Scrabble words that can be created with letters from word WHIG
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Dead Men Tell No Tales
The Lives and Legends of the Pirate Charles Gibbs
While Charles Gibbs waited in the “living grave” of a death-row jail cell in a New York prison in 1831, he made a shocking confession. Consigned to the gallows for his role in a botched mutiny/piracy attempt off the Atlantic coast, the convict told a police magistrate that his real name was James Jeffers and that he’d once led a gang of Caribbean pirates who captured and looted up to forty ships and murdered hundreds of passengers and crew. His recollections were laden with inconsistencies and contradictions. His claims, for example, that he was a veteran of the War of 1812 and once operated a Boston grocery store would later be largely dismissed. But Gibbs provided many concise details about his activities between 1817—when he participated in a mutiny aboard the schooner Maria—and the day of his arrest for crimes aboard the brig Vineyard in 1830. He revealed the names of captured ships, locations, dates, cargo items, and the fates of victims who were often butchered with cutlasses or set adrift without provisions.
The confessions of Charles Gibbs, according to his biographer Joseph Gibbs, “appear to provide a firsthand account of Caribbean piracy’s last, inglorious epoch.” Joseph Gibbs has been a reporter and editor with several newspapers in Massachusetts, and he has written two previous histories, Gorbachev’s Glasnost and Three Years in the Bloody Eleventh. Here he scrutinizes the claims of not only his subject, but much of the lore that has accumulated in the almost two centuries since his death, producing a book that will be appreciated by general readers as well as scholars. As he reconstructs Gibbs’ origins and career in piracy, he also includes the necessary context—the wartime privateering that spawned piracy, the conditions aboard seagoing vessels, and profiles of the characters whose stories intersect with that of his subject.
Gibbs claimed to have been appointed captain of the pirated New York-based brig Laura Ann in 1817, at the age of eighteen or nineteen, because of his “coolness and intrepidity.” “Desensitized to cruelty” and fueled by “grog,” a mixture of rum and water, Gibbs and his mates spared no lives in order to eliminate witnesses. His first victims, the crew of the English ship Indispensable, “were immediately destroyed; those who resisted were hewn to pieces; those who offered no resistance were reserved to be shot and thrown overboard.” In another incident in 1821, the USS Enterprise forced Jeffers’ ship aground. The pirate left a pot of poisoned coffee on his galley stove for his pursuers before swimming to shore with his crew. Only a “bloodthirsty prose” can elicit the exploits—whether fact or legend—of the pirate Charles Gibbs.
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Compulsory English Paper (Civil Services Mains) 2009
Q 1. Write an essay in about 300 words on any one of the following: (100 Marks)
(a) Why are our farmers committing suicide?
(b) Ragging: should it be distinguished from brutality or criminality?
(c) “Sweet are the uses of adversity.”
(d) Reforms of sports bodies in our country
(e) Alternative sources of energy for our country
Q 2. Read carefully the passage below and write your answers to the questions that follow, in clear, correct and concise language: (5×15=75 Marks)
The altogether new thing in the world then was the scientific method of research, which in that period of Galileo, Kepler, Descartes, Harvey and Francis Bacon was advancing with enormous strides. All walls, all the limitations, all the certainties of the ages were in dissolution, tottering. In fact this epoch, in which we are participating still, with continually opening vistas, can be compared in magnitude and promise only to that of the 8th to the 4th millenniums B.C. : of the birth of civilization in the Near East, when the inventions of food production, grain agriculture and stockbreeding, released mankind from the primitive condition or foraging and so made possible an establishment of soundly grounded communities: first villages, then towns, then cities, kingdoms, and empires. Leo Frobenius wrote of that age as the Monumental Age, and of the age now dawning as the Global :
“In all previous ages, only restricted portions of the surface of the earth were known. Men looked out from the narrowest, upon a somewhat larger neighbourhood, and beyond that, a great unknown. They were all, so to say, insular: bound in. Whereas our view is confined no longer to a spot of space on the surface of this earth. It surveys the whole of the planet. And this fact, this lack of horizon, is something new.”
“It is chiefly to the scientific method of research that this release of mankind is due, and every developed individual has been freed from the once protective but now dissolved horizons of the local land, local moral code, local modes of group thought and sentiment. Not only in the sciences but in every department of life the will and courage to credit one’s own senses and to honor one’s own decisions, to name one’s own virtues and to claim one’s own vision of truth, have been the generative forces of the new age. There is a growing realization even in the moral field that all Judgments are (to use Nietzsche’s words) “human, all too human,”
1. What is the “epoch in which we are participating still”?
2. In what way is it comparable to the period of the 8th to the 4th millenniums B.C.?
3. What is meant by the new “lack of horizon”?
4. What do you think is implied by “all the certainties of the ages” that were “in dissolution” during the period of Galileo and his fellow scientists?
5. What is the new freedom we have found, and why does it require courage?
Q 3. Make a précis of the following passage in about 235 words. It is not necessary to suggest a title. Failure to write within the word limit may result in deduction of marks. The précis must be written on the separate précis sheets provided, which must then be fastened securely inside the answer book. (75 Marks)
There are, of course, many motivating factors in human behaviour, but we would claim that nationalism is particularly worthy of study. Why is it particularly significant? Its significance lies in its power to arouse passionate loyalties and hatreds that motivate acts of extreme violence and courage; people kill and die for their nations. Of course it is not alone in this: people are driven to similar extremes to protect their families, their extended families or ‘tribes’, their home areas with their populations; and their religious groups and the holy places and symbols of their religions. However, these other loyalties are often rather easier to understand than nationalism. Parents making supreme sacrifices for their children can be seen as obeying a universal imperative in life forms, the instinct to protect one’s own genetic material. This instinct can also be seen at work in the urge to protect one’s extended family; but then the extended family, or on a slightly larger scale the ‘tribe’, can also be seen, in perhaps the majority of circumstances in which human beings have existed, as essential for the survival of the individual and the nuclear family. The nation is not generally essential to survival in this way. Of course, if the entire nation were to be wiped out, the individuals and their families would die, but the disappearance of the nation as a social unit would not in itself pose a threat to individual or family survival: only if it were to be accompanied by ethnic violence or severe economic collapse would it be life-threatening, and such cataclysmic events are not an inevitable consequence of the loss of political independence. Conversely, there is no logical connection between the gaining of political independence by a subject nation and increased life chances for its citizens. In many, perhaps the vast majority, of modern nations there is likewise no evidence that in defending the nation one is defending one’s own genetic material; the notion that the citizens of modem nations are kinsfolk, while the citizens of (potentially) hostile neighbours are aliens, makes no sense in view of the highly varied genetic make-up of most modern populations,’
Devotion to one’s religious group, like support for one’s nation, is much less obviously to the individual’s advantage than is defence of the family, but we would maintain that it can be more comprehensible than nationalism. It can be seen in ideological terms as the defence of a world view and its symbols, against rival world views, which are considered to be fundamentally erroneous and which, if successful, would force the conquered to act in ways abhorrent to their beliefs. While the defence of one’s nation has often been seen as the defence of one’s religion, and while modern hostilities between nations frequently do have a religious dimension, there are many serious national conflicts that have no clear religious element; the two world wars were fought in Europe with Catholic France, Protestant Britain, and Orthodox Russia opposing Germany with its mixed Catholic and Protestant population. Thus, while modern nationalisms may be linked to religion, many cases can be found without any clear religious dimension. Not only do modern nationalisms lack a religious element: there is often (to outsiders) no obvious ideological difference between rival nations. Hence, while defence of one’s religion can be seen as defence of an entire system of beliefs, a world view, it is difficult in many cases to claim that this is true of the defence of one’s nation. There is in fact a good case for seeing nations as ‘imagined communities’, and such would be the view of some commentators.
Such imagined communities could not, of course, exist unless they fulfilled a need. We can postulate that the need to belong to a community of some kind is a fundamental human characteristic, and that nations have arisen to fulfil this need, as earlier more primary communities – local, ‘tribal’, and religious – have lost their significance through economic and social change. But why should this need be fulfilled by nations, rather than some other type of unit? There is strong support in the literature for a view of nations as products of particular social and economic conditions operating from around the mid-eighteenth century, as products of ‘modernization’.
Q 4. Answer as directed: (25 Marks)
(a) Rewrite the following sentences after making necessary corrections: (10 Marks)
1. The bear had a ring on it’s nose.
2. This shirt is too lose for me.
3. This coat looks a bit small – l’d like to try on it.
4. Let’s listen the music.
5. Do you know what is the answer?
6. The weather today is too good.
7. I saw him yesterday only.
8. Who you want to see?
9. The ice cream’s good – may I please have little more?
10. His office is quite opposite to my house.
(b) Supply the missing words: (5 Marks)
1. The shopkeeper refused to bargain————- the customer.
2. He did not be believe ————– bargaining.
3. He had already decided ———–a fair price.
4. The customer was looking ———— a bargain.
5. They argued —————- the price for a long time.
(c) Use the correct form of the verb in brackets: (5 Marks)
1. I do not usually————– an umbrella but today I’m————- one. (CARRY)
2. She never ————- about her children. (WORRY)
3. That child always ————when he has a bath. Listen, he’s———– now. (CRY)
(d) Form the opposites of these words by adding a prefix: (5 Marks)
1. do —————-
2. credible —————-
3. ambiguous —————-
4. lawful —————-
5. legal —————-
Q 5. Answer as directed: (25 Marks)
(a) Combine the following sentences using too——to (5 Marks)
1. The coffee was hot.
We could not drink it.
2. You are now old.
You cannot continue to work.
3. The child was very small.
It could not walk.
4. This book is heavy.
I cannot carry it.
5. She was shocked.
She did not react.
(b) Rewrite these sentences so that they begin with the word it. (5 Marks)
1. To talk like that is silly.
2. To hear your voice was good.
3. To tell the truth is essential.
4. To have friends is better than money.
5. To think for yourself is difficult.
(c) Combine these sentences using one of the words although, but, yet, so or because. Use each word once. (5 Marks)
1. They were tired. They worked late into the night.
2. He slept early. He woke up late.
3. He was on medication. He felt drowsy.
4. She was very angry. She said nothing.
5. The engine stopped. It had heated up.
(d) Combine the following sentences using enough to. (5 Marks)
1. The wind was strong. It could blow people away.
2. The print was clear. We could read it easily.
3. It was hot. We could cook food with the sun’s rays.
4. You are old. You should know better.
5. The essay was good. It earned full marks.
(e) Rewrite these sentences, using a form of the word get and a suitable preposition or prepositions instead of the word(s) underlined. (5 Marks)
1. Has the company recovered from its losses?
2. I’d like to continue with my cooking now, if I may.
3. How do you manage with so little to eat?
4. Did you establish a connection with New York on the telephone?
5. Put the milk away where the cat can’t reach it.
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Is the CIO Obsolete?
It is painfully evident in many of the ads for so-called CIOs we see advertised in most of the on-line job boards or regional newspapers. Requiring in-depth knowledge of specific applications or technologies, mean its obvious these roles have been defined by someone with no clue of the true nature of the CIO. They see the role as technical as opposed to a true business leader and change agent.
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Its not that what they are seeking is wrong, it may be that they really need a technical leader to keep things under control, but dont call it a CIO.
I used to have a simple metric as to whether the role called CIO was in fact strategic, it was a simple question which defined the nature of the role. Tell me where the role reported, and Ill tell you where its focused. If it reported to the CFO, then it was not (in general) strategic, it was a financially focused role, viewed as a cost of doing business within the organization.
I have had CFOs ask me why the head of IT was more important than the head of the Facilities department, explaining: We cant operate without computers, but we also cant operate without the right buildings either.
Ive been increasingly pessimistic about the growth of the role over the past decade, evidenced by a relatively flat percentage of CIOs who report at the highest level being stuck at around 40% and showing no movement for years. This means the bulk (60%) of CIOs are CIOs in title only.
I recently saw some corroboration around my thinking by none other than the famous Jack Welch, former chairman of General Electric in a recent Business Week column titled 'A Twisted Chain of Command,' which I strongly suggest you not only read, but print out and save in a binder
Complaining about the Rasputin-like dominance of the CFO in the organization, Welch says its not going too far to say that chief financial officers, and very often do, wield too much influence within companies. And if its not the CFO, its the so-called chief administrative officer, who has excessive power, overseeing finance itself, human resources and any number of other staff departments.
Welch continues, So why does it happen? With IT, the explanation is easy: Its an historical hangover. Initially, IT was mainly seen as good for lowering costs and increasing efficiency. In those days, decades ago, there was some logic to having IT report to the CFO. Most good companies, however, took IT out of finance when its broad strategic utility became obvious.The question may be more complex than Mr. Welch postulates, because, some, if not all, IT organizations simply have a difficult time rising to the level of what Mr. Welch calls broad strategic utility." This has caused a crisis in the whole view of technology by business, best illustrated by the infamous Nicholas Carr article 'IT Doesnt Matter', and his later book, Does IT Matter?
I think Carr has missed the point in a lot of ways, not the least of which is his use of the false analogy, but theres been enough learned criticism of his work. I do think he has a point however; driven by a number of fundamental problems within organizational structure of many companies, and predicated upon the problem with the role of the CIO in most organizations.
These problems break into really two major classifications: A false or mis-constructed view of the role of the CIO within the organization, and/or the wrong person in the job.
Time for Change
How can we break this cycle? First, we must accept the premise not all IT organizations will be strategic. We dont need to go as far as Nicholas Carr, but many companies, particularly those in manufacturing, commodities and other industries where the focus is primarily on lowering costs, IT will play a major role by creating efficiencies, but will struggle to rise to the level of strategic.
I had indicated in an earlier article Where does your organization fit? that few organizations fall into the strategic category, and every organization should decide where they fit before they structure their management team.
Secondly, we must truly understand the role of the CIO and we must slot it appropriately in the organization. In addition, we need to hire for this position appropriately.
The true CIO is a senior officer of a company, formulating strategy and a core member of the senior management team. As a peer of the CFO and COO, the attributes necessary for the role do not include his understanding of Microsoft server technology.
If we focus on this, we will be able to effectively use IT within the modern corporation. If we dont, we will continue the wasteful policies of the past.
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About the Film:
In the aftermath of the fall of Saddam Hussein, a group of Americans led by Ambassador L. Paul Bremer III, set off to Baghdad to build a new nation and plant democracy in the Arab Middle East. One year later, Bremer was forced to secretly exit what some have called "the most dangerous place on earth," leaving behind lawlessness, insurgency, economic collapse, death, destruction -- and much of his idealism. Three years later, as America continues to look for an exit strategy, the government they helped create and the infrastructure they designed are being tested. FRONTLINE follows the early efforts and ideals of the reconstruction efforts that tried to seize control and disband the Iraqi police, army, and Baathist government -- and how, along the way, those working on the reconstruction became hardened to the realities of postwar Iraq.
Watching the Film:
For classes in social studies, civics and government, language arts, current events and history; Grade Level 9-12
Teachers can either assign the film for viewing as homework or show the film in class. Suggested discussion questions are provided. The lessons and activities in this guide can be used in the classroom without having viewed the film.
A Note to Teachers:
This lesson has students examine three models for postwar reconstruction: the Teller Amendment, the Marshall Plan, and the Bremer Plan. Each was a reflection of its period and addressed issues unique to that time. While there are similarities and lessons to be learned from each, the circumstances, participants and political climates are different in each of these periods, and application of one plan in part or full does not necessarily suit other contexts.
This guide includes a list of questions for students to discuss after viewing The Lost Year in Iraq.
Featured Lesson Plan:
Additional Lesson Ideas:
Democracy and Freedom
Students will explore and debate the U.S. policy of exporting democracy to other countries.
Students will develop a campaign to promote the exportation of democracy to other countries.
Students will create their own political cartoons for publication in a school or community newspaper.
Postwar Reconstruction in Bosnia
Students will research postwar reconstruction in Bosnia and look at similarities and differences to postwar reconstruction efforts in Iraq.
An annotated list of relevant Web sites, articles and/or books.
Purchasing the Film:
The Lost Year in Iraq can be purchased from Shop PBS for Teachers. Also, teachers and students can watch the film streamed in its entirety on FRONTLINE's Web site: http://www.pbs.org/frontline/yeariniraq/
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Toyota to Halve Hybrid Price, Size for Next Prius
Author: Chang-Ran Kim, Asia auto correspondent
"When we went from the first-generation Prius to the second-generation, we did the same thing," Executive Vice President Kazuo Okamoto, in charge of Toyota's research and development, told reporters in Tokyo.
Toyota, the world's biggest automaker, has not publicly disclosed a timeframe for the introduction of the third-generation Prius model. Some media reports have speculated the planned late-2008 launch would be delayed because of concerns over the safety of lithium-ion batteries.
"I can't tell you when it will come to market, but the preparations are making steady progress," Okamoto said. He added that the next Prius would "definitely" use improved nickel-hydride batteries rather than higher-energy lithium-ion.
"Lithium-ion is going to take some time," he said.
Toyota, which pioneered the gasoline-electric hybrid powertrain with the Prius in 1997, has set a goal of selling 1 million hybrid vehicles annually soon after 2010. It hopes to eventually make the system available across its vehicle line-up.
The Prius, an easily recognisable hybrid-only car, has helped Toyota cultivate an image as a maker of fuel-efficient cars, also driving sales of its mainstay cars such as the petrol-engine Camry sedan and RAV4 crossover vehicle.
To give sales of future hybrid models a boost, Okamoto said Toyota would design all of its gasoline-electric cars in a way that would make them instantly recognisable as a hybrid -- for example through a unique front grille.
Toyota offers a hybrid version of the best-selling Camry, but the Prius, with its green cachet, far outpaces it in sales.
Ten years since the launch of the Prius, Toyota has few rivals in the hybrid market, with most Europeans geared towards clean-diesel technology as an alternative to petrol engines for saving fuel and reducing carbon dioxide emissions.
Okamoto conceded that diesel engines were inherently better suited for saving fuel over long-distance cruising than hybrids, which capture energy lost during stop-and-start city driving. But he stressed that Toyota's future hybrids would be just as good -- if not better -- than today's diesels on the highway.
Diesel cars now make up more than half of new car sales in Europe, but are virtually non-existent in Japan.
Some European automakers -- as well as domestic ones such as Nissan Motor Co and Honda Motor Co are looking to change that, but Okamoto said Toyota would not join the fray.
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13 Jun Modern House Designs
Here are the Top 50 Modern House Designs according to Architecture Beast.
Yup, this is the photo-list of top 50 modern house designs ever built. Some of those homes are seriously popular on the internet which is just another proof of how incredible they are and another reason for you to check them out. Take a look!
Of course, all of those modern house designs are chosen according to my personal taste, so you don’t have to agree about being the best part, because, as everybody else of course, you have your own taste in modern houses. But after you see those photos below, I expect you to at least admit that those homes are truly incredible pieces of modern architecture. Btw. you might want to take a look at the 30 modern entrances later as well.
Location and modern house designs
What makes these modern house designs so special and different from others? Well, one of the criteria was location of the house, which often plays important role in the way house is designed. For example, houses designed by SAOTA, are almost always built somewhere on a cliff, high above the ocean, or down on a rocky beach, giving its residents an opportunity to enjoy in breathtaking views or relaxing sounds that ocean waves make while crashing into the rocks below the house. Nature will always have huge impact on the house design.
Next, size of the house. Common opinion among people is that house has to be huge or expensive to be beautiful or amazing. This is really, really far from being true. You will notice I picked some pretty small houses (in comparison to others) for this list. For example, this minimalist house and this creative home. Good architects and their clients who have taste and style will together create gorgeous modern house designs, no matter how big the house is at the end.
Speaking of style, this brings us to the next criteria. Style in architecture. This is another thing strongly related to someone’s personality, but you have to admit, when someone has style, this is obvious to everyone. I think architects and owners of those homes have amazing style in architecture and this is one of the reasons why I put those homes on the list.
“The wow factor” of modern house designs
When we take all criteria described above, we get one and only, “the wow factor”. When you see modern home and its design, you’re either impressed, or not impressed. This can be described as “the wow factor”, and, at the end, this is the main reason why those homes are on this list. All of them attracted my attention, got me all interested and left me impressed, which made me put together this list of top 50 modern house designs at the end.
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The recent viral story about a 16-year old Chandigarh boy landing a high-paying job at Google which turned out to be fake is sadly one more example of journalists falling for fabricated stories of awards, scholarships and jobs with well known institutions in the United States.
This is the third instance where national media was duped by a similar fictitious story of a local boy doing good. (Read BOOM's fact check) National Aeronautics Space Administration (NASA) seems to be a favourite target for such stories because it epitomizes these underdog fantasies. In most cases these stories first originate in regional news outlets and then make their way to mainstream English publications.
In 2005, Saurabh Singh from Uttar Pradesh made headlines claiming to be "the first Indian to top the prestigious examination of the International Scientist Discovery (ISD) conducted by NASA." Read Times of India's story from 2005 which strangely is still visible on the Internet. 'Shooting star: UP boy tops NASA'. It turned out that NASA does not conduct any exam called 'International Scientist Discovery'.
(Screenshot of Times Of India's story)
As recently as May this year, several news outlets reported about 17-year old Jaipur lad -Monark Sharma who allegedly landed a job with the US army’s AH-64E combat fighter helicopter unit. It was reported that Monark began his career as a junior research scientist at NASA in the mass communication wing in 2013.
(Screenshot of Zee New's story )
How someone working in the communications department was chosen to work with a combat helicopter unit was never explained.
(Read FactChecks: Doubts over NASA boy exam triumph - BBC ( 2005 )
In the recent case of Chandigarh's Harshit Sharma; follow-up stories from leading publications make it seem like a story about a boy and a school that got duped by a poorly photoshopped Google job offer letter but what these stories sorely lack is introspection and how journalists got it wrong in the first place.
Sadly, these stories chip away at the already frayed credibility of mainstream news media in India. BOOM lists down the steps journalists and fact checkers should take to avoid falling for such stories.
1. Do your due diligence: At a very basic level, due diligence would involve contacting the source and speaking to all parties concerned. There were three parties to Harshit Sharma's story -Harshit himself, the school and Google. Of these, Google was the most important source that needed to be contacted. A few news organisations spoke to Harshit and his school's principal but seemed to have missed Google in the initial stage of reporting. The story could have been stopped in its tracks if the reporter had sought comment from Google corroborating the supposed appointment. If the reporter did reach out to Google then it should have been clearly stated in the story.
2. Be skeptical: The first red flag that fact checkers at BOOM spotted in Harshit's story was the argument that a 'graphic designing' job was unlikely fetch the fantastic salary that was being quoted. In Jaipur boy Monark Sharma's case, the leap from NASA to the U.S. army seemed too good to be true. The more outlandish the claim, the more robust the due diligence should be. If a reporter can't get hold of the offer letter, ask to see some correspondence between the company supposedly making the offer.
3. Tell your reader what you don't know (Disclaimers): As more newsrooms do away with field reporters and create "web desks" that track and 'curate' or rewrite viral stories reported by their competitors, adding disclaimers will become increasingly important. It is important to clearly spell out what you don't know at the time of writing the story. A good practice is to also detail the steps you have taken to verify details even if you cannot verify all of it.
4. Attribute the source: State the source of the claim in the headline too. Attribution helps news organisations defend themselves in case a story turns out to be false later on. In case of curated stories it also helps the reader understand where the story originated and who reported it first. Attribution is good practice in general even if a story does not turn out to be fake.
5. Wait: 'It is better to be second and right than to be first and wrong' is a saying among journalists at wires news agencies. The stories about Saurabh Singh, Monark Sharma and Harshit Sharma, were neither 'breaking' stories nor were they 'exclusive' stories. News outlets that curated the story from other websites should have waited until they had done their basic due diligence.
Fact checkers cannot replace journalists who in essence are the boots on the ground and the first responders to a story. Currently fact checkers get involved when it's too late and the damage has already been done. Hopefully a reminder of these fundamental steps will save everyone the blushes and draw a line under these fake stories.
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SCC Elementary library to open Monday
The smiles on the faces of Amanda Olson and Connie Mueller were contagious as they unpacked new supplies in the rebuilt St. Croix Central Elementary School library Monday, Nov. 4.
According to Olson, the library media specialist for the district, the library will be ready for students to use Monday, Nov. 11.
“Everyone is excited to get in here and see this awesome new space,” Olson said.
This week workers are finishing touch-ups, installing electrical components and getting the computers set up. The circulation desk went in last week.
The new book collection was due to arrive Tuesday, Nov. 5. The school offices should be open in their new space Thursday, Nov. 7, Olson said.
The library and front offices (including the guidance counselor and nurse’s station) were destroyed in a fire April 30.
Justin W. Nelson, 25, of Roberts, pleaded guilty to the charge of arson in St. Croix County circuit court on Aug. 30, according to court records.
Charges of burglary, criminal damage to property and possession of marijuana were dismissed as part of the plea agreement.
While SCC Elementary students were able to start the new school year in the building, the offices have been housed in a trailer at the front of the school and library classes have been held either in classrooms or at the Hazel Mackin Community Library, Olson said.
Mueller, a library paraprofessional, travelled between classrooms once a week and taught kids basic library knowledge, such as caring for books, parts of a book and fiction versus nonfiction.
Olson said it was hard for Mueller to move every class period and have no home base.
Some teachers took their students to the HMCL once a week for storytime and to check out books, Olson said.
“The public library ladies have been very supportive,” Olson said.
Olson also said it’s been hard not having a library for the kids to use or for staff to support their reading.
“There’s also been construction stress to deal with that goes along with any project, but for the most part it’s been pretty smooth,” Olson said. “Everyone has been pretty patient and willing to help out.”
Olson said staff worked with the insurance companies to get an estimate on the library’s collection, which was valued at roughly $120,000.
According to district business manager Jennifer Kleschold, the total damage to the building was more than $4 million. She also said there’s no way to tell if the project was under or over budget because there was no budget set. It was unknown how much it would cost and was added up as work progressed, Kleschold said.
Kleschold also said more than $18,000 has been donated to the district directly, and there is also an account set up at WESTconsin Credit Union by community members called SCC Strong where people can still donate.
Olson said right after a tragedy there is always an immediate outpouring of support, but it has continued well into the school year.
“I am still getting emails and offers of help,” Olson said.
To celebrate the reopening of the library, author Julie Bowe is coming to see the kids Nov. 19, at the library.
Bowe, who grew up in Luck, is the author of a children’s book series called <I>Friends for Keeps<I>, about elementary-age friendships, Olson said.
Music teacher Jeanne Larson organized the event, which will be sponsored by the Panther Parent Group.
Kids will be able to order copies of her books at the event. Parents are also invited to stop in and see the library during parent/teacher conferences. | <urn:uuid:bb2591a4-1ad4-46ae-9fbd-38d6e2b9840b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.newrichmond-news.com/content/scc-elementary-library-open-monday | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280835.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00464-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977679 | 798 | 1.664063 | 2 |
The Council’s vehicle fleet’s carbon emissions have fallen by 40% since work began on switching to electric and low emission alternatives in April 2019.
The replacement programme is part of the Council’s commitment to becoming carbon neutral by 2030 and has seen 87 replacement vehicles purchased.
Next week Labour councillors on Ipswich Borough Council’s Executive are set to extend the temporary procurement process agreed in March 2019 to allow the Council to continue with the programme with minimum bureaucracy.
Councillor Phillip Smart, Ipswich Borough Council Portfolio Holder for Environment & Climate Change, says: “The more efficient process we have been using to purchase vehicles over the past year has allowed us to both reduce the timeline and cost of replacing our fleet, helping get higher emission vehicles off the road at a much quicker pace.
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Sorption of Cadmium and Lead by Clays from Municipal Incinerator Ash—Water Suspensions
- W. R. Roy *,
- I. G. Krapac and
- J. D. Steele
The effect of Cl complexation in extracts of a flue gas-scrubber incinerator fly ash sample on the sorption of Cd and Pb by kaolinite and illite was investigated using batch-sorption methods. In the pH range of 5 to 9, Cl complexation may reduce sorption and thus increase the mobility of these metals. When an ash—water suspension was acidified to pH 6.85, the dissolution of Cl and Ca essentially eliminated Cd sorption because of complexation and cationic competition. Cadmium would be considered as either mobile or very mobile under these conditions. Lead was not soluble in the pH-6.85 suspension. At pH 12, the approximate pH of water in contact with flue gas-scrubber fly ash, Cd was essentially insoluble and Pb occurred as anionic Pb hydroxide. Anionic Pb was sorbed by the two clays, and the extent of sorption was not influenced by Cl or carbonate complexation. Sorption constants, derived from isotherms, suggested that Pb would be relatively immobile in saturated soil—water systems. The recent concern that highly alkaline, flue gas-scrubber fly ash may release environmentally significant concentrations of mobile Pb when placed in an ash-disposal site with a soil liner should be reevaluated in light of this study.Please view the pdf by using the Full Text (PDF) link under 'View' to the left.
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Arduino - Business Model
Arduino's Open Source Hardware business method
"But today Banzi is all business. He's showing off his operation to a group of potential customers from Arizona. Banzi scoops up one of the boards and points to the tiny map of Italy emblazoned on it. "See? Italian manufacturing quality!" he says, laughing. "That's why everyone likes us!" Indeed, 50,000 Arduino units have been sold worldwide since mass production began two years ago. Those are small numbers by Intel standards but large for a startup outfit in a highly specialized market. What's really remarkable, though, is Arduino's business model: The team has created a company based on giving everything away. On its Web site, it posts all its trade secrets for anyone to take—all the schematics, design files, and software for the Arduino board. Download them and you can manufacture an Arduino yourself; there are no patents. You can send the plans off to a Chinese factory, mass-produce the circuit boards, and sell them yourself — pocketing the profit without paying Banzi a penny in royalties. He won't sue you. Actually, he's sort of hoping you'll do it.
That's because the Arduino board is a piece of open source hardware, free for anyone to use, modify, or sell. Banzi and his team have spent precious billable hours making the thing, and they sell it themselves for a small profit — while allowing anyone else to do the same. They're not alone in this experiment. In a loosely coordinated movement, dozens of hardware inventors around the world have begun to freely publish their specs. There are open source synthesizers, MP3 players, guitar amplifiers, and even high-end voice-over-IP phone routers. You can buy an open source mobile phone to talk on, and a chip company called VIA has just released an open source laptop: Anyone can take its design, fabricate it, and start selling the notebooks."
"So the Arduino inventors decided to start a business, but with a twist: The designs would stay open source. Because copyright law—which governs open source software—doesn't apply to hardware, they decided to use a Creative Commons license called Attribution-Share Alike. It governs the "reference designs" for the Arduino board, the files you'd send to a fabrication plant to have the boards made.
Under the Creative Commons license, anyone is allowed to produce copies of the board, to redesign it, or even to sell boards that copy the design. You don't need to pay a license fee to the Arduino team or even ask permission. However, if you republish the reference design, you have to credit the original Arduino group. And if you tweak or change the board, your new design must use the same or a similar Creative Commons license to ensure that new versions of the Arduino board will be equally free and open.
The only piece of intellectual property the team reserved was the name Arduino, which it trademarked. If anyone wants to sell boards using that name, they have to pay a small fee to Arduino. This, Cuartielles and Banzi say, is to make sure their brand name isn't hurt by low-quality copies.
Members of the team had slightly different motives for opening the design of their device. Cuartielles—who sports a mass of wiry, curly hair and a Che Guevara beard—describes himself as a left-leaning academic who's less interested in making money than in inspiring creativity and having his invention used widely. If other people make copies of it, all the better; it will gain more renown. ("When I spoke in Taiwan recently, I told them, 'Please copy this!'" Cuartielles says with a grin.) Banzi, by contrast, is more of a canny businessman; he has mostly retired from teaching and runs a high tech design firm. But he suspected that if Arduino were open, it would inspire more interest and more free publicity than a piece of proprietary, closed hardware. What's more, excited geeks would hack it and—like Linux fans—contact the Arduino team to offer improvements. They would capitalize on this free work, and every generation of the board would get better.
Sure enough, that's what happened. Within months, geeks suggested wiring changes and improvements to the programming language. One distributor offered to sell the boards. By 2006, Arduino had sold 5,000 units; the next year, it sold 30,000. Hobbyists used them to create robots, to fine-tune their car engines for ultrahigh mileage, and to build unmanned model airplanes. Several quirky companies emerged. A firm called Botanicalls developed an Arduino-powered device that monitors house plants and phones you when they need to be watered.
In one sense, Arduino's timing was perfect. There's a resurgence of DIY among geeks interested in hacking and improving hardware, fueled by ever-cheaper electronics they can buy online, build-it-yourself publications like Make magazine, and Web sites like Instructables. In recent years, hackers have been aggressively cracking consumer devices to improve them—adding battery life to iPhones, installing bigger hard drives on TiVos, and ripping apart Furby toys and reprogramming them to function as motion-sensing alarm bots. Inexpensive chip-reading tools make it possible to reverse-engineer almost anything.
This is the unacknowledged fact underpinning the open hardware movement: Hardware is already open. Even when inventors try to keep the guts of their gadgets secret, they can't. So why not actively open those designs and try to profit from the inevitable?
"Apple never open-sourced the iPod, right? But if you go down to Canal Street in Manhattan, there are copies all over the place." (http://www.wired.com/techbiz/startups/magazine/16-11/ff_openmanufacturing?)
The Arduino Enterpreneurial Coalition
"There are a lot of people creating value around Arduino: e.g. this experimentation kit from oomlout, tons of videos from Make Magazine, various books, etc. When I see all this activity, two questions come to mind, one selfish and one altruistic. The selfish question is: how can I capture more of this value? The altruistic question is: how can I make these things more accessible and useful to the Arduino community?" (http://dam.mellis.org/2009/06/value_and_the_arduino_ecosystem/)
Two Open Source Hardware Business models
"Right now, open design pioneers tend to follow one of two economic models. The first is not to worry about selling much hardware but instead to sell your expertise as the inventor. If anyone can manufacture a device, then the most efficient manufacturer will do so at the best price. Fine, let them. It'll ensure your contraption is widely distributed. Because you're the inventor, though, the community of users will inevitably congregate around you, much as Torvalds was the hub for Linux. You will always be the first to hear about cool improvements or innovative uses for your device. That knowledge becomes your most valuable asset, which you can sell to anyone.
This is precisely how the Arduino team works. It makes little off the sale of each board—only a few dollars of the $35 price, which gets rolled into the next production cycle. But the serious income comes from clients who want to build devices based on the board and who hire the founders as consultants.
"Basically, what we have is the brand," says Tom Igoe, an associate professor at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University, who joined Arduino in 2005. "And brand matters."
What's more, the growing Arduino community performs free labor for the consultants. Clients of Banzi's design firm often want him to create Arduino-powered products. For example, one client wanted to control LED arrays. Poking around online, Banzi found that someone in France had already published Arduino code that did the job. Banzi took the code and was done."
"Then there's the second model for making money off open source hardware: Sell your device but try to keep ahead of the competition. This isn't as hard as it seems. Last year, Arduino noticed that copycat versions of its board made in China and Taiwan were being sold online. Yet sales through the main Arduino store were still increasing dramatically. Why?
Partly because many Asian knockoffs were poor quality, rife with soldering errors and flimsy pin connections. The competition created a larger market but also ensured that the original makers stayed a generation ahead of the cheap imitations. Merely having the specs for a product doesn't mean a copycat will make a quality item. That takes skill, and the Arduino team understood its device better than just about anyone else. "So the copycats can actually turn out to be good for our business," Igoe says." (http://www.wired.com/techbiz/startups/magazine/16-11/ff_openmanufacturing?) | <urn:uuid:381e1223-88ca-4f4f-a8bf-4b64fd95a339> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Arduino_-_Business_Model | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280825.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00210-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959349 | 1,890 | 2.5625 | 3 |
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