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Briefings, Checklists, Geese, and Surgical Safety
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The successful landing in the Hudson River by a commercial jetliner after both engines were rendered inoperative by striking a flock of Canada geese commandeered the news cycle worldwide. Two weeks later, a report appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine demonstrating that the use of a simple surgical safety checklist could decrease mortality and morbidity after surgical procedures in a global population.
These two seemingly unrelated events occurring in January 2009 make clear the differences in regards to safety when medicine in general, and surgery in particular, are compared with commercial aviation. Reports published after the airplane incident, in which all 155 passengers and crew survived, make it clear that the crew members of US Airways followed prescribed procedures and communication techniques as they guided the powerless aircraft to a safe outcome. Though both pilots were highly experienced and though the copilot was flying the airplane when the bird strike occurred, they followed the standard practice of returning aircraft control to the captain in an emergency. “My aircraft,” said Captain Chesley Sullenberger. “Your aircraft,” replied first officer Jeff Skiles.1 Both had practiced this transfer of command in the company’s simulator training center in Charlotte, NC, many, many times.
As the airliner, now a glider, fell from the sky, Captain Sullenberger maintained airspeed and situational awareness, and called for the dual engine flameout checklist. As first officer Skiles worked his way through the engine restart checklist (designed for use at higher, much higher altitudes), Sullenberger broke a conventional rule by doing the radio work while flying the airplane. His calm voice has been heard around the world; the only hint to the immediacy of the problem of trying to save 155 lives, including his own, was his use of an incorrect flight number.
What is so surprising is the disparity between aviation’s routine use of simulator training, line-oriented safety audits, check airmen, crew resource management, proficiency checks, callouts, read-backs, briefings, and checklists and surgery’s inexplicably slow efforts to embrace these useful safety tools. The fact that an elementary checklist’s efficacy would warrant publication in one of our most prestigious journals signals how far we have to go to match the kinds of safety techniques viewed as commonplace and unremarkable in nuclear power, navy carrier, and submarine operations and in commercial aviation.
Though we in surgery have been slow to adopt many of the safety techniques characteristic of high-reliability industries, evidence is now beginning to appear that what we have borrowed has worked. The checklist program mentioned above introduced a 19-item checklist designed to improve team communication in eight hospitals around the world. As part of the World Health Organization’s Safe Surgery Saves Lives Program, the authors found that the use of checklists resulted in a significant decrease in mortality (1.5% before institution of the checklist, 0.8% afterwards, p = 0.003) and morbidity (11.0% before, 7.0% after, p < 0.001).2
Investigators using checklists as prompts for preoperative briefings measured communication failures in a large Canadian tertiary care hospital. The found that the mean number of communication failures per procedure decreased from 3.95 to 1.31 after initiating briefings and checklists.3 Thirty-four percent of briefings demonstrated effectiveness in identifying problems, resolution of critical knowledge gaps, and decision-making.
Checklists are used routinely and habitually by airline personnel and sporadically by surgical workers. In the airlines and military, checklists are viewed as another member of the crew. They are living, evolving instruments. Checklists are not “to do” lists. They are methodical reminders to be sure that important procedures have been successfully carried out. “Challenge, verify, and response” is the critical construction format to aviation checklists, but is not routinely or even often used in medicine.
Briefings are central to safe airline flight. Several, not just one, are routinely done prior to, during, and after a flight. There are first flight of the day briefings, pre-start briefings, taxi briefings, pre-takeoff briefing, approach and landing briefings, and post-flight debriefings. These multiple communication events are short, patterned, and expected.
In surgery, we have a brief moment referred to as “timeout.” This word sounds like a break in the action, as if we are unsafe most of the time and take a break to be safe. In aviation, safety is woven into the fabric of flight. A study from Johns Hopkins in which standardized preoperative briefings were instituted found a 36% decrease in unexpected delays (p < 0.04). Among surgeons alone, an 82% decrease in delays was found (<0.01).4 The authors concluded that this safety initiative has the potential to increase safety, decrease delays, and improve hospital profitability. In another publication from the same institution, the briefings program significantly reduced the perceived risk for wrong-site surgery and improved collaboration among operating room personnel.5
High-reliability organizations typically seek workers with emotional intelligence in addition to task-specific abilities, a factor not often considered when selecting surgical personnel. Nonetheless, studies of surgical team behaviors are starting to appear. In one study behavioral markers of team behavior (information sharing, inquiry, vigilance, awareness, assertion, and contingency management) were assessed by observers and compared with patient outcomes. In univariate analysis, patients had increased odds of complications or death when the following behaviors were exhibited less frequently: information sharing during intraoperative phases and handoffs, and briefing during handoffs. Composite measures of teamwork across all operative phases were significantly associated with complication or death after adjusting for American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) scores (odds ratio 4.82, 95% confidence interval).6
A similar conclusion was reported in a study based in a large Veterans Affairs (VA) hospital and academic medical center. Surgical teams whose members reported higher levels of communication and collaboration with the attending and resident doctors had decreased risk-adjusted morbidity.7 The authors found this fact not surprising in light of the fact that poor communications have been cited most frequently as a root cause of sentinel events reported to the Joint Commission for the Accreditation of Health Care Organization.8
Though checklists and briefings appear to be effective in surgical settings, other safety techniques used in aviation, nuclear power, and the navy have been marginally effective. Many other techniques have not been evaluated at all.9
Crew resource management programs, often invoked by health care institutions intent on improving safety, have had mixed success when implemented as a standalone intervention. At one institution a team training program resulted in “moderate compliance” by operative teams. No changes in hospital metrics were observed.10 At another, an ambitious crew resource management program modeled after aviation produced low compliance rates with simple tasks such as site marking and an adequate “timeout.”11
The paucity of literature about surgical safety and the modest achievements of early attempts to apply techniques that are very successful in other high-reliability professions provoke this question: “What do we need to do to become safe?”
The answer lies in a quote from human factors expert James Reason, who, while addressing the Royal College of Surgeons, said, “Aviation is predicated on the assumption that people screw up. You (healthcare professionals) on the other hand, are extensively educated to get it right and so you don’t have a culture where you share readily the notion of error. So, it is something of a big sea change.”12
Cultural change, it appears, is more difficult than team training and takes longer than checklist implementation to become effective.13 The good news is that it does not require the discovery of a gene or the investment of large sums of money in computer hardware and software. A variety of hiring, training, and recurrent assessment techniques used in aviation may be useful in surgery if the entire package is implemented rather than in fragments. What follows are aviation programs that are not, as yet, mirrored in our surgical world.
New Hires and Orientation
Hiring of pilots at major airlines is done in a codified fashion and often includes a scenario in a “cockpit trainer” to evaluate leadership skills of the potential hire. In surgery, letters of recommendation, an unstructured interview, and a dinner at a local restaurant are the commonplace methods of assessing the suitability of new faculty. Once hired, airline pilots undergo a lengthy (6–8 weeks) orientation to the airline’s procedures, policies, culture, and history. In medicine, our orientation programs tend to be more formulaic and short. Once the 401 k is established and the doctor is credentialed, little effort is made to ensure a culture of safety and quality.9
Initial Operating Experience
Newly hired pilots or pilots upgrading to captain undergo 25 h of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) mandated initial operating experience (IOE) or upgrade operating experience (UOE). During this period of time the pilot is tutored and evaluated by a “check airman,” who has been trained to fly with the pilot, provide nuanced useful operating information, and evaluate the pilot in his or her new role. In most surgical departments fully trained board-eligible newly hired surgeons are given operative privileges and left unsupervised. They are not evaluated for skill, adherence to hospital policies, or commitment to safety. We do not often make an effort to instruct the new physician as to how we do it here and why we do it this way. Our cultures are confusing and often at cross purposes. Is my job to generate revenue, get grants, teach or be safe?
The Role of Simulators and Recurrent Training
Recurrent simulator training and ground school are an integral part of commercial aviation. Captains return to training centers every 6 months, where they are informed of new policies and the collective experience of others flying the same routes, and are evaluated for their flying skills. In surgery, new maintenance of competency policies are on the horizon, but not yet implemented in a way that reflects the level of commitment seen in commercial aviation.
Being Safe versus Documenting Safety
A major cultural difference between aviation and medicine is our emphasis on documentation rather than safe performance of a task. Thus, a nurse is frequently typing during the “timeout” rather than ensuring that information is accurate. No pilot is asked to fill out a form proving that she checked the landing gear position prior to landing. The checklist is there to be certain the wheels are down, not documented to be down.
Surgeons are expected to deal with various emergencies by memory, whereas most in-flight emergencies are handled by reference to a “quick reference handbook.” In this book, one finds the appropriate algorithms to follow for dual engine failure, engine fire, sudden depressurization, etc. Most operating rooms have no handy reference materials to guide surgeons, nurses, technologists, and anesthesia personnel when something unexpected occurs. Treatments for bradycardia, for example, are highly individualized based on staff experience and knowledge.
Airlines are designed to function when some equipment is inoperative. A “minimum equipment list” contains the rules for deciding whether a flight can continue or begin with, say, an auxiliary power unit generator malfunctioning. In surgery, most equipment, supply, and environment decisions are left to the discretion of the surgeon, who may never have contemplated the consequences of starting an operation without blood available until an unusual antibody is detected and the consequences become all too clear.
Fatigue, Drugs, and Alcohol
Duty hours for airline pilots are 14 h on duty and 8 h of flying per day. Rest periods between duty hours are strictly prescribed. Random drug and alcohol testing is an industry standard. In surgery, with the exception of the 80-h work week for resident staff, no mandatory rest periods or routine screening for performance-impairing substances are in effect. However, there is ample evidence that sleep deprivation has a similar effect on cognitive and motor function to that of intoxication by alcohol.14
Safety Reporting Systems
No-fault reporting systems are frequently used in aviation. The aviation safety action program (ASAP) is widely held to be successful. Interestingly, it is administered by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), not by the FAA, and has the mechanisms to preserve reporter anonymity. Though many hospitals have some type of reporting system, most clinicians are unaware of them and infrequently contribute near-miss information. There is no national/government body that administers a no-fault program. For that matter, there is no national equivalent of the Federal Aviation Administration.
Below 10,000 ft, all airline operations are under “sterile cockpit rules.” No discussion other than that pertinent to the safe conduct of the flight is permitted. Compare this to most operation rooms, where irrelevant discussions and distractions are frequently entertained even during the most critical portion of the procedure. I know from unhappy personal experience that it is during these times that inadvertent mistakes can be committed, sometimes with disastrous consequences.9
Though by no means exhaustive, these examples of disparity between aviation and surgery make clear that, as surgeons, we have just begun to understand the causes of error and to make progress in our ability to prevent and mitigate error. Recently, Pronovost et al. suggested that, given the slow progress of patient safety, a public–private partnership be established to move quality and safety forward in medicine. The model proposed is similar to the Commercial Aviation Safety Team (CAST) established in the wake of aircraft accidents in the 1990 s. In these accidents, fully functioning airplanes were lost due to factors such as loss of situational awareness, poor crew communication, and failure of some crew members to be assertive to imperious captains. CAST brought the entire aviation industry together; major manufacturers, airlines, unions, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), the FAA, the Department of Defense (DoD), and NASA. From 1994 to 2006, the average rate of fatal accidents decreased from 0.05 to 0.022 per 100,000 departures.15
The challenge now is to recognize that medical error costs lives and to do something about it. The Institute of Medicine concludes that we kill as many as 100,000 patients a year in the USA alone.16 The Institute for Healthcare Improvement calculates that 15 million “incidents of harm” occur in our health care system each year.17 These wrong-site operations and retained surgical items, among other things, are avoidable events. When they occur they harm not only the patient and the reputation of our profession, but they harm us, as surgeons, as well; no surgeon gets up in the morning with the intent of hurting another human being in the course of trying to set right what nature has made wrong. We now need to adopt and develop systems to curtail error and to protect ourselves and our patients. | <urn:uuid:59b50436-de4c-453e-bd9c-3014459e3c42> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1245%2Fs10434-009-0794-9 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718423.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00270-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951942 | 3,140 | 2.265625 | 2 |
Iranian naval boats have been harassing American warships this week in what Washington describes as maneuvers that could escalate tensions. On Tuesday, a U.S Navy warship, USS Squall, fired warning shots at Iranian vessels when they veered too close to American ships in the Persian Gulf. This came in the wake of another incident on Tuesday when Iranian naval vessels made provocative maneuvers around USS Nitze, an American destroyer in the Strait of Hormuz.
Iranian vessels ignore warnings
During the Tuesday incident, 4 Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) vessels engaged in a high speed intercept .The Iranian vessels passed close to the Nitze as it transited international waters.
William Urban, spokesman for the 5th fleet said that in spite of repeated radio, flare and whistle warnings from Nitze, an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, the IRGC vessels continued approaching the destroyer. They only slowed down when they got within 300 yards of the U.S naval ship. During the Tuesday intercept, Nitze was flanked by the USS Mason, a destroyer armed with guided missiles.
Iran engaging in risky behavior
According to Peter Cook, Pentagon’s spokesman, these incidences are unsafe and carry the risk of escalating of tensions. Cook says that the U.S does not desire to engage in any activity that could escalate tensions in that part of the world.
Similar incidences occurred on Wednesday when 3 Iranian ships veered close to USS Tempest and Squall in the Persian Gulf. Tempest shot flares while Squall fired 3 warning shots from the vessel’s .50-caliber gun .At this juncture, the IRGC vessel left. Later in the day, the same ship engaged in dangerous moves by crossing the bow of the USS Stout, a guided-missile destroyer on 3 different incidences.
Iran’s capture of U.S sailors embarrasses the Obama administration
The warship intercepts are the latest among several incidences indicating the friction between Iran and the U.S. In January, the Obama administration found itself in an awkward situation when a group of U.S sailors were held overnight by Iranian personnel when their boats strayed into Iranian waters. The Navy claimed that the sailors were unprepared and poorly led which led them to make many errors. #Conflict | <urn:uuid:cf0cd205-1532-4c39-80fc-f52b86dd573c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://uk.blastingnews.com/politics/2016/08/iranian-vessels-harassing-american-warships-001084597.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281424.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00329-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948128 | 463 | 1.835938 | 2 |
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | 2020 Africa Food Prize winner Dr Catherine Nakalembe has decided to donate her prize money for setting up a library to help decision-makers access data to predict and direct resources where they are most needed in the field of agriculture.
The Assistant Research Professor at the University of Maryland in the US told URN in an interview on Tuesday that the Friday announcement came off as a surprise through a call from Nigerian former president Olusegun Obasanjo.
When she saw the call for nominations early this year, Nakalembe says she hardly anticipated that she would win having understood it to be targeting innovators who develop solutions that directly impact the farmer or agriculture. Her co-winner Dr André Bationo from Burkina Faso developed a method of micro-dosing that involves using very little environmental friendly fertilizers to boost crop yields.
Nakalembe collects data through satellite technology which is used to guide agriculture decision making.
Applying this data initially in 2015 when she was pursuing her PhD research at the University of Maryland in the US, Nakalembe is now using her ability to map using GPS and predict the occurrence of natural disasters and likely performance of crops in different terrains and seasons.
As a result of this, she has trained government officials and scientists in different countries including Mali, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda and Tanzania among others in Africa. In Uganda, she has seen her data being applied by the government to make a decision about tackling hunger in Karamoja.
She says with data and evidence-based interventions, government programmes like Operation Wealth Creation (OWC) would put resources where they are most needed by comparing what’s happening in different areas. This way, she says there will be efficiency in agriculture which is the agenda of the prize.
However, Nakalembe only became an environmental scientist by chance having missed her first preference sports science course when she was enrolling for her undergraduate programme at Makerere University early in 2002.
Being unable to afford self-sponsorship at the university, she resolved to settle for a new course at the time of environmental science which she blended with a number of short courses in ICT that formed her first knowledge of using the computer to do the mapping.
A few months after graduation and conducting her undergraduate research in remote sensing of the environment, Nakalembe would apply and win a partial scholarship for a master’s degree in Geography and Environmental engineering at the Johns Hopkins University.
Apart from agriculture, she has used her mapping technology with drones to guide the establishment of Bidi Bidi refugee settlement camp in Yumbe district which is among the biggest refugee sites in the world.
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Bishops may have sealed their fate with Equality Bill vote
When I worked in the House of Commons there was a joke that used to be told during the obligatory tours for family and friends around the Palace of Westminster.
The guide would stand in Central Lobby and point to the four patron saints above the four arches that led away from it.
Over the way to the Lords stands St George, as, the guide would say, every Englishman wants to be a Lord. Over the way to the Commons was St David for the Welsh, which was just as appropriate. St Patrick stood over the exit, as the Irish were always the most keen to leave the Union. St Andrew for Scotland stood over the way to the bar.
Tonight, the bishops have positioned themselves firmly alongside St Patrick.
There are very few votes in the House of Lords where the bishops make the difference between winning and losing. However, in the Government defeat tonight (Monday) on Amendment 100 to the Equality Bill (moved by Baroness O'Cathain) the bishops made the difference between victory and defeat.
After a concerted campaign by bishops and some other Christian groups, the amendment was carried by just 5 votes - 177 to 172. Eight bishops voted for the amendment. Several of their number were also instrumental in bringing it forward in the first place.
This will quite rightly increase pressure, and the strength of the case, for bishops to be removed from the Second Chamber.
The Church of England website makes the claim that the bishops in the Lords “are a voice for all people of faith”. Well I am a person of faith and they don’t speak for me. They weren't speaking for gay people of faith tonight either, who will now legally not be considered for many church jobs or employment with many Christian organisations. Nor were they speaking for the Quakers, who recently backed civil partnerships, the Unitarians or some Jews, who all wanted the Equality Bill amended to permit religious symbols to be used in civil partnership ceremonies. They weren't speaking for the religious groups involved in the Cutting Edge Consortium set up around the Equality Bill. In fact, one might fairly suggest that whilst they are prominent members of the Church of England, they weren't speaking for any Christian who believes that the message of the Jesus means a warm welcome for all to join in and be included in the community of God.
So just who do bishops represent? Bishops must be male, from one part of the UK (not Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland) – a strange thing that even predates Tam Dalyell’s West Lothian Question. They must be from just one denomination, within just one faith.
On many issues they are divided and can not invariably be found voting as both 'content' and 'not content' on the same issues. It is often only when it comes to the interests of the institutional church that they suddenly seem to join together with one voice.
Many politicians of course will represent specific sectional interests. But the bishops are in many respects the least qualified to do so - at least when compared to their colleagues in the second chamber. They are after all, parachuted in by an external institution, with next to no political accountability.
Bishops are unlike other life peers in two important respects. Firstly, they are not appointed on merit. The Church of England may have decided that they would make good bishops. But that is certainly not the criteria the Appointments Commission will apply to decide whether someone is suited for the Lords.
Secondly, when life peers die, others are not automatically appointed to the place that they have vacated. There is no reserved space to fill as such as there is with the places for the 26 Bishops. Bishops are in fact far more like the hereditaries in this respect. When one moves on, another must come in their place.
But at least with hereditaries, there is a small element of democracy. There was an election amongst peers to determine the remaining 92. When one dies, the next in line takes their place. There has never been a Parliamentary vote whatsoever to appoint bishops.
Until now it has often been conceded that such unaccountability is pretty innocuous and inconsequential. That argument will no longer hold water. And with reform of the Lords on the agenda, the will now be feeling the chill wind of Parliament Square whistling towards them, as the door begins to open.
Under current proposals, they would go if a reformed Lords is entirely elected. Should 20% remain appointed, they will certainly be scaled down, but that number is yet to be determined. Their voting on the Equality Bill has done their case no favours. There will it seems, be still more religious people who will lose their jobs in the future as a result of tonight's vote.
[Jonathan Bartley will be debating the place of bishops in the House of Lords, in Parliament this Wednesday 27th Jan, with the Bishop of Leicester, Polly Toynbee and Baroness Butler-Sloss. David Aaronovitch will be chairing. More info: www.evict-the-bishops.com ]
The eight bishops who voted were:
Bishop of Chichester
Bishop of Durham
Bishop of Exeter
Bishop of Hereford
Bishop of Liverpool
Bishop of London
Bishop of Winchester
Archbishop of York
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Out of the 2,002 Americans that were surveyed, 92% of these individuals were under the impression that they should be in fear of losing their rights.
“When you frame something as a threat, it creates a bit of a political response, and it creates division and encampments of special interest,” said John Gerzema, CEO of Harris Poll.
That’s why political parties and lobbying groups warn supporters with strident language, he said: It’s easier to drum up backing for a political cause by talking about an issue in terms of “threats.”
When questioned further as to which freedoms the person would miss if suddenly taken away, the poll numbers above rapidly shoot up.
The top three ended up being sixty-three percent freedom of speech forty-six percent freedom of expression and forty-five percent for the right to equal justice.
“When you look at the things we really value, what makes America so special is these core tenets of our Constitution,” Gerzema said. “I just find it interesting to note how much Americans really value this.”
With more Americans in friction with opposing political ideologies, in a Public Agenda/USA TODAY/Ipsos poll, their results demonstrate that nine out of 10 individuals surveyed agree that it is crucial to the U.S. for us to reduce the levels of partisanship and divisiveness.
The Harris Poll further demonstrates over half of the participants, fifty-five percent, desperately crave that availability of more meaningful conversations between the parties.
Despite Americans arguably being divided at rates higher than on average in the nation’s history, these poll numbers demonstrate that overall we share the same core values that this country was founded upon and that many take for granted.
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Standard newborn screening consists of a small sample of blood being taken from your baby before being discharged from the hospital. The heel used to be the most common place to take the sample, so it is often called a “heel stick,” but the blood may also be drawn from the inside of the elbow. The blood should be taken around 48 hours after birth. Some tests, such as the one for PKU, may not give accurate results if it is performed too early. Because many babies are discharged early from the hospital, some babies are tested within the first 24 hours and then must be retested 1 to 2 weeks later. The blood is placed on a piece of filter paper, allowed to dry for 4 to 6 hours, and is then sent to a laboratory for analysis. The results of the screening usually take a few weeks to come back. Many labs will call the physician in the case of abnormal results, while normal results will be sent in the mail.
Newborn screening tests for disorders that can cause mental retardation, severe illness, and premature death if not detected at birth. For example, hypothyroidism is the most common disorder identified by routine screening, affecting 1 baby in 3,000. Congenital hypothyroidism is a thyroid hormone deficiency that retards growth and brain development; but if it is detected in time, the baby can be treated with oral doses of thyroid hormone to permit normal development.
If your baby’s test results come back as abnormal, try not to be overly alarmed; the initial screening tests give only preliminary information that must be followed up by more precise testing. False-positive results are possible with newborn screening and most babies turn out to be normal after further testing.
There is currently no federal standard for which disorders newborns are tested, and as a result, screening varies widely from state to state. However, all states screen for at least two disorders: phenylketonuria (PKU) and hypothyroidism, and many states include sickle cell anemia, galactosemia, and homocystinuria.
Expanded newborn screening (ENBS) is available through private companies and laboratories for an additional charge and uses Tandem Mass Spectrometry (MS/MS) to test for up to 40 rare disorders. ENBS is expensive and most states don’t have the highly-trained experts required to run the very specialized screenings and then effectively and accurately interpret the results; therefore, it is not available in all areas. In addition, there are no cures or known treatments for many of the disorders for which ENBS screens.
However, you can request ENBS if you feel you are at a higher risk for a disorder. If you answer yes to any of the following questions, you may want to discuss ENBS with your doctor:
- Do you have a family history of an inherited disorder?
- Have you previously given birth to a child who’s affected by a disorder?
- Did an infant in your family die because of a suspected metabolic disorder?
- Do you have another reason to believe that your child may be at risk for a certain condition?
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Having a sibling with special needs is a reality many children are born into, including my three typically developing children. Of all the things my children experience that I never did, their experience of growing up with a sister with significant disabilities is something I struggle to understand, even as I watch it unfold daily.
The advantages to having a brother or sister with special needs are numerous and include being more empathetic, more responsible and more resilient. However, these typically developing siblings also shoulder tremendous burdens that are not often or easily discussed.
Documentary filmmaker Rachel Feichter has a typically developing 11-year-old and a 7-year-old, Talia, who has special needs as a result of a neurological autoimmune disease, Hashimoto's encephalitis.
She wanted to better understand the needs of her typically developing daughter, as well as help her daughter connect with other siblings with the same struggles, so Feichter began interviewing siblings of individuals with special needs for her in-progress documentary, which has the working title "Not Typical."
While every sibling - and every family - is different, Feichter found some common experiences, many of which my children are having.
1. Feeling like they need to be perfect
Siblings of individuals with special needs know how hard their parents work to ensure all of their sibling's needs are met, and often see their parents struggle to meet these needs. Many feel like they can't make mistakes because that would add to their parents' burden, so they believe they must be perfect at all times.
This is an impossible standard to meet, and can lead to stress and feelings of inadequacy. One girl said she felt like she "had to be Ms Perfect and not have any problems for [her] parents to deal with." Another said that she felt as though she could never be "enough."
2. Feeling like they can't express their feelings
Most typically developing children love their sibling with special needs. Yet they may also resent how much of their parents' time is taken up by caring for their sibling or feel embarrassed about their sibling's behaviour.
One girl said she "was never allowed to mourn openly or to be mad or sad about [her] brother" and another said her friends thought she was being mean if she said anything bad about her sister, even though friends with typically developing siblings often complain.
3. Having a different idea of family and home
For most children the concept of family is based in togetherness. But when a sibling has special needs, family quality time may look different.
One girl recalled that her mother was "assigned" to her sister with special needs and her father was "assigned" to her. The family often spent time apart, especially when it involved leaving the house.
In many families, the sibling with special needs may not be able to attend certain events or go certain places for a variety of reasons, including therapy and medical appointments, physical barriers to access, or sensory issues.
In some cases, the presence of caregivers and therapists may redefine what a family home is for children. In my home, for example, our child with special needs is normally fed by a personal care attendant. A therapist is often present at our family meals as well. Non-family members are typically also present even during lazy weekends at home.
Some siblings said that places outside the home, such as school or a relative's house, are more of a refuge for them than their home.
4. Feeling as though their problems are minimised
Sometimes a sibling with special needs has complex and even life-threatening problems. An issue faced by a typically developing sibling, whether it is a problem with a friend or an academic struggle, may seem small compared to having limited mobility, learning difficulties or sensory issues that require intensive care or prevent a child from attending the neighbourhood school.
One girl said her parents rarely dealt with her problems, instead telling her to be "strong." Another felt her parents never took her problems seriously because they considered her the "lucky one" for not having a disability.
5. Feeling isolated
Typically developing siblings may be lonely because they don't have peers who have siblings with special needs. So they feel different when their friends ask "what's wrong with your sister?"
Some children also feel self-conscious about their sibling with special needs, and aren't sure when or how to tell their friends about him. Others feel uncomfortable inviting friends over because they are unsure of how their friend or sibling will react.
6. Dealing with intolerance early and often
Children learn early that there is not universal acceptance for individuals with special needs, and that their sibling is not welcome everywhere that typically developing children are. This can be deeply disappointing to typically developing children who want to have shared experiences with their sibling.
They regularly encounter individuals who refuse to move from seats designated for individuals with disabilities, and those who make unkind comments about other accommodations their sister needs.
These early lessons in intolerance, and even hate, can affect their world view and make them cynical or resentful of the limitations placed on their sibling and themselves as a result.
7. Feeling like they are asked to help too much
Some typically developing children are expected to help care for their sibling with special needs from a young age, even if that sibling is older. One girl said that she felt like the "attention police" at home since her mother was constantly telling her that she had to pay attention to her sibling with special needs.
Others are expected to push wheelchairs, participate in therapy sessions, or attend to their sibling's personal care needs by feeding them or helping to get them dressed.
Many are told early on that they will be expected to care for their sibling when their parents are no longer able to do so. This puts enormous pressure on them.
8. Feeling like they must grow up quickly
Because of the sum of their experiences, from feeling as though they are on their own to handle their problems to feeling pressure to be perfect to being given responsibility for their brother or sister, some siblings of children with special needs feel as though they are forced to grow up too quickly.
Most typically developing children love their siblings with special needs beyond measure and are close to them. But to better understand and support them, it's important to acknowledge their struggles.
There is a need for more information about the experience of growing up with a sibling with special needs. While there are a few places the stories of these siblings are told, such as the fictional book "Wonder" by RJ Palacio, hearing from the siblings themselves in "Not Typical" will help many feel less alone and better understood. | <urn:uuid:3dfca273-80d7-4e07-bbde-fe6c8fa317ed> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.essentialkids.com.au/development-advice/special-needs/eight-things-siblings-of-children-with-special-needs-struggle-with-20161221-gtfm56 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281746.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00283-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.984788 | 1,356 | 2.375 | 2 |
Our early efforts with nuclear technology are justifiably judged quite harshly. We should expect nothing less than a nuclear technology in the future that is no more dangerous than a DVD player. For now it does seem foolish to toy with nuclear technology that is extremely hazardous.
A comparison with the thousands of years history of our so-called "mastery" of fire illustrates this view:
"The early matches, including the noiseless match, were dangerous to both end users and the workers that made them.
An agreement, the Berne Convention, was reached at Bern, Switzerland, in 1906 to prohibit the use of white phosphorus in matches. This required each country to pass laws prohibiting the use of white phosphorus in matches. Great Britain passed a law in 1908 prohibiting its use in matches after 31 December 1910."
Over 80% of Americans don’t realize that home fires are the most common disaster in the U.S. today - and all avoidable. (See Fires in Homes are Most Common Disaster in U.S. - Stay Warm and Safe )
"Marie drew the conclusion that the ability to radiate did not depend on the arrangement of the atoms in a molecule, it must be linked to the interior of the atom itself. This discovery was absolutely revolutionary."And:
"For the first time in history it could be shown that an element could be transmuted into another element, revolutionizing chemistry and signifying a new epoch."
The minimum criteria for nuclear technology that is safe should read something like this:
"Driven Nuclear Reactors; these do not rely on spontaneous fission, they produce no radioactive waste, and they do not create any weapons capability."
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The klipspringer is a small antelope found in eastern and southern Africa.
They are restricted to rocky habitat including rocky hills or outcrops, koppies, and gorges with rocky sides.
Klipspringers can be found on rocky mountains as high as 4,500 meters (14,800 feet) tall.
The lifespan of the klipspringer is up to 15 years in the wild and up to 17 years and 10 months in captivity.
This small antelope reaches from 43 to 60 centimeters (17 to 24 in) at the shoulder and weighs from 8 to 18 kilograms (18 to 40 lb).
Adaptations for its specialized niche include a stocky build with massive hindquarters, a short neck, a vestigial tail, a dense undercoat with brittle, air-filled guard hairs, and the ability to stand on tiptoes of its truncated hoofs.
Its coloring—shades of grizzled tan, gray, and brown, which vary with location—conceals the klipspringer from predators; it has no contrasting markings except its large, rounded ears, which are white inside and have black margins.
The horns, short and spiky, typically measure 7.5 to 9 centimeters (3 to 3.5 in).
Like other African antelope, the hairs of the klipspringer are hollow and smoothed flat. Their hair assists with the reflection of radiant heat, provides insulation from thermal extremes, reduces moisture loss, and protects them from injuries.
Klipspringers are active both during the day and the night, but are considered most active early in the morning and late in the afternoon. They will spend between 15 and 40 percent of their day feeding.
They will travel up to 10 km (6 mi) along flat land between isolated koppies.
Klipspringers communicate with whistles when alarmed. They stand still and erect for long periods of time, presumably watching out for predators. They use scent to communicate with outsiders, marking territory with dung piles and excretions from a preorbital gland, a dark, slit-like area beneath each eye.
Klipspringers are found solitary, in monogamous pairs, or as a family group with a male, female, and their offspring.
After breeding, the female gives birth to a single offspring about six months later. Births occur at any time of the year, with peaks during the rainy season. The newborn is carefully hidden for up to three months to protect it from the view of predators. The calf is weaned at four to five months, and leaves its mother when it turns a year old.
While it has been oft repeated that the klipspringer can jump 7.6 meters (25 feet) straight up in the air, it is now thought that is an exaggeration—3 to 3.6 meters (10 to 12 feet) is more accurate. But the name klipspringer is Dutch for “rock jumper.”
Its Kiswahili name “goat of the rocks” is apt, although it more closely resembles Eurasian goat antelopes such as the chamois and is radically different from other dwarf antelopes of its tribe, Neotragini, of the family Bovidae.
According to The Handbook of the Mammals of the World, there are 11 different species of klipspringer, based on where they live in Africa.
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) classifies the klipspringer as Least Concern.
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Kaladharan, P and Gopinathan, C P and Sridhar, N (1996) Basic Biochemical constituents in the laboratory culture of six species of Micro Algae. In: The Fourth Indian Fisheries Forum, Proceedings, 24-28 November, 1996, Kochi.
Among live feeds, micro algae constitute the primary food of almost all aquatic organisms. Motility, cell size and cell constituents are the main criteria in selecting suitable live feed to various culture organisms at different stages of their growth. Levels of assimilates such as solublc protein, free aminoacids, total soluble sugars and lipids were estimated from six cultures of microalgal feed to compare the nutritive eficiency of these live feeds. The phytoflagellate Isochrysis and the diatom Chaetoceros were found to contain all the basic assimilates in satisfactory levels, although the species of Chlorella. Tetraselmis. Dunaliella and Nannochlorop contained more levels of protein (45 mg/g dry wt). The results of investigation were compared and discussed in the light of manipulating the dietary requirement of cultivable molluscs and crustaceans at their different growth stages.
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With American children heading back to school, Thursday’s Glenn Beck Program focused on the latest developments related to the Common Core standards and how it impacts the future of education in this country. Dana Loesch spoke to Kyle Olson, co-author of Conform: Exposing the Truth About Common Core and Public Education, about a disturbing trend in classrooms: Social justice-inspired math.
As Dana explained, because of the way Common Core has been implemented, not all private school or homeschool curriculums are safe. Furthermore, as Kyle pointed out, college entrance exams like the SAT and ACT are going to be reformatted in the coming years to be “Common Core aligned,” which means children who do not receive a Common Core curriculum will be at a disadvantage.
“Just because you homeschool or go to a charter school or private school or whatever the case may be, it is critical parents are engaged in that process, aligned with the teachers and school leaders to make sure their child is getting a proper education and one they expect for their kids,” Olson explained.
Perhaps most disturbing, however, is a trend Olson described among math materials that seeks to recalibrate the economic principles from which concepts are taught.
“There is a huge movement to push what is known as ‘social justice math,'” he said. “Proponents of social justice math don’t like how much consumerism is in math.”
If you think back to your elementary school years, your math equations probably centered around going to the store and making a purchase or having to make change in some way. Not anymore. Now, progressives are pushing to have themes like climate change and casualties of war worked into these problems.
“A typical math problem would be you have 13 cents and a green pencil is 3 cents – you know, that sort of problem. They want to get rid of those sorts of problems,” Olson said. “Instead, they want to calculate war deaths, or they want to calculate the number of liquor stores within a particular radius of the school, or problems related to global warming – those sorts of things.”
Ultimately, there is a push to insert a political and ideological bias into areas of the curriculum that should be straightforward and fact-based.
“They want to put an emphasis on those things and drill the political issues to make a political point versus just simply educating and teaching kids math,” Olson concluded. “They have long said math has been an area where they have not been really penetrating and pushing those sorts of issues. But this is making headway.” | <urn:uuid:28bbcee4-7b36-4c03-8ae2-92743f56dc33> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.glennbeck.com/2014/08/28/is-social-justice-math-creeping-into-your-childs-curriculum/ | 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 | 0.969551 | 543 | 2.46875 | 2 |
West would ‘screw itself’ by cutting Russia off from SWIFT – Moscow
The effects of shutting the country out of the banking network would be felt throughout Europe, Moscow says
If the West follows through with its threats to shut Moscow out of the SWIFT financial transaction system, other states will feel the consequences, Russia’s finance minister has cautioned.
Speaking as part of an interview with Rossiya 24 TV channel on Thursday, Anton Siluanov warned, “who benefits from the disconnection from SWIFT? No one.”
“They only screw themselves over, as they say,” the minister said, pointing out that “Russia is a participant in the global market.”
According to Siluanov, such a move would hinder European companies that actively trade with Moscow.
“What will happen to European consumers of hydrocarbons [if SWIFT is cut off in Russia]? How will they pay us? Or will they refuse our exports? No, of course not. Will they have to settle the payment? Yes,” he explained.
His remarks come amid threats from the West to punish Russia if its troops were to invade Ukraine. On Tuesday, the head of the ministry’s economic cooperation department, Dmitry Birichevsky, cast doubts on the prospect of Moscow being disconnected from SWIFT due to the fact the system is run by an international private company, headquartered in Belgium, and there is no clear mechanism for American officials to persuade it to do so.
The European Parliament adopted a resolution on December 16, which said any new sanctions package should entail “the exclusion of Russia from the SWIFT payment system,” as well as the targeting of vital sectors of the country’s economy.
Earlier this month, US Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland said that Washington, alongside a number of its partners in Western Europe, is mulling isolating Moscow from the global financial system in the event of a full-blown offensive against its neighbor.
Just a day before Nuland's threat, US news agency Bloomberg published a report which suggested that Washington could target major Russian banks and could even disconnect Moscow from SWIFT. The Kremlin, however, has repeatedly rejected the accusations that it is planning an incursion into Ukraine. | <urn:uuid:9f184bfa-34b4-4742-aef4-8bb83e9fd285> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cnnbc.com/west-would-screw-itself-by-cutting-russia-off-from-swift-moscow | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00267.warc.gz | en | 0.966407 | 472 | 1.78125 | 2 |
Multinskiye lake in Altai
At the moment, the Altai, a republic, which is part of the Russian Federation. And the history of Altai has always been interesting, I can even say exciting. Nature is here – it’s just a storehouse of health …
When archaeologists and other scientists have studied the Altai, they learned that the first people settled in this area to 1.5 million years ago. They lived in harmony with nature, by supporting its edge clean. This is the place where adherents are constantly coming and make pilgrimages. They do so in order to constantly improve their skills in spiritual practice. In addition, they are meditating and energizes, as this place is one of the cleanest on earth.
There are quite a lot of places, and the main point of this place is that it is a wild and remote from the people. In Altai, this place is Multinskiye lake. If so see the Altai, it is not just a great place, it is «gold», which rightfully belongs to Russia. In addition, Altai, an object that is under UNESCO protection.
For geologists and archaeologists in the Altai, of great value are the mountains. And all because it is here that it was found petroglyphs, whose age dates back more than four thousand years. In these drawings depict animals, which at the moment is not in nature. Multinskiye lake, cascade down the slope of Katun ridge. Some of them are located in the territory of the biosphere reserve, and perhaps precisely because of this nature, there are growing unique plants. For example, such a plant as radiograms pink, which is called Siberian ginseng. This plant routinely used in medicine.
One of the lakes is at high altitude, about 1778 meters, it is called Verhnemultinskoe lake. Below is Srednemultinskoe lake, at an altitude of 1634 meters. And, below 250 meters, is located Nizhnemultinskoe lake. Tourists are not many, since it is very difficult to reach, and the area is protected. | <urn:uuid:20f9fc39-5221-4096-aca7-0f85ef5aa95c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://set-travel.com/ru/asia/en_asia_interesting-places/9267-multinskiye-lake-in-altai | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00478.warc.gz | en | 0.973582 | 443 | 2.609375 | 3 |
Recheck the output shaft seal between the booster and master cylinder. If it may have been compromised when you replaced the MC.
Bleed the brake system starting with the shortest link and working outward progressively to the longest. Bleeding the longest path first may leave bubbles in the system.
Pressure bleeding the system is prefered to prevent sucking air into the system.
A very good and inexpensive way to bleed brakes is this: Get a 20-foot length of 3/16" tygon tubing and an adapter for one end of the tubing that will fit onto a bleeder port. Connect the adapter to a bleeder port and open the port about 1/2 turn. Run the tygon tubing around the truck and past the driver's door so the fluid running through the tubing can be seen. Run the open end of the tubing into a suitable can to catch the fluid. Fill the master cylinder reservoir with new fluid, leave the cap off then begin pumping the brake pedal slowly and firmly about three-quarters of its stroke. The brake fluid will be pumped out of the bleeder port, down the tubing and the run-off collected in the can. Keep pumping slowly but firmly until all the bubbles in the tubing are cleared and all the old fluid pumped out. Keep the master cylinder reservoir full as you go along. Close the bleeder port and proceed to the next one. | <urn:uuid:a81728df-c399-4170-873d-bb4e87f54796> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.f150forum.com/f12/soft-brake-pedal-120260/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281069.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00263-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.909689 | 280 | 1.726563 | 2 |
Living with Type 2 Diabetes
It seems as though from the moment that you are diagnosed with diabetes, your world turns upside down. You may feel like the doctor is bombarding you with more information than your brain can process and once you tell your family, the real fun begins. All of a sudden, everyone wants to know your every move and they may even become the “food police.” They start to do research on the disease for more information and, although they may think that they are helping you, the only thing they are accomplishing is to drive you crazy. This is the time that you need to stay calm and try to direct traffic with your loved ones.
There are many things in your life that are going to change. One of the biggest concerns you may have is to re-train your way of thinking when it comes to food. A proper diet is crucial to keeping your blood sugar levels where they need to be in order to manage the disease. You may find that you are already eating many of the foods that are on a diabetic menu, so there may not be that much of an adjustment. There is no special diet; you just need to watch the amounts of certain foods that you eat.
Becoming educated on diabetes can be a real lifesaver in helping you to live with type 2 diabetes. Everyone is going to have ideas and advice on how you can live better with the disease but, when you get the knowledge first-hand, you will have the power to control your life and the diabetes. Although doctors mean well, they do not have the time to sit down and give you all the details that you should have. A class on diabetes is the perfect way to get every answer to all of your questions.
A problem that many run into is that their insurance does not cover everything they need to take care of themselves. It may suddenly seem as though the cost of taking care of your health just went through the roof and that can cause a lot of stress. Of course, the idea of sticking yourself several times a day to check your blood glucose levels is not very exciting and the fact that you need to get up off the couch and get that much needed exercise is most likely not a thrilling thought either.
Even with all of this going on, living with type 2 diabetes is not the end of the world or your life. It may be difficult to keep that positive attitude, but when you learn how to handle the hard parts it makes the easy parts that much simpler. By taking a class and being with others that are learning how to handle diabetes, you will find that there is support even when you were not looking. Getting as much support as possible will help you to focus on what it really important and not just the negative.
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To share a YouTube video in an article / post, follow these steps:
1. Go to Home and click on "Write an Article" in the main Welcome screen.
2. Select the Category applicable to your video. Most videos are categorized under "Fun Videos", "Community News", "Rescue" or "Adoption", but select the Category that best suites your video.
Next, enter your video's title.
Then, click on the filmstrip icon in the Body Text toolbar.
A pop up Embed video box should pop up on your screen.
3. Go to YouTube to get the URL specific to your video from the Browser toolbar. User your keyboard and mouse to Copy the URL.
4. Paste the YouTube URL into the pop-up box for embedding video.
5. When the URL is pasted in, the video should automatically appear in the Preview Box for you with the Dimensions as well. Keep the Type listed as "Flash".
Click the Insert button.
6. You can choose to add text and photos to the body of your article if you like.
Finally, click the Update button to publish your video.
7. If you need to edit your article click on "Articles" under your Dashboard on the Home page. You can then manage your articles from there and make changes to any published or drafted articles.
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it’s there if you need it
Just south of the Glen Canyon Dam in Page, Arizona, there is a scenic overlook that permits visitors to have a fantastic view of the river below, as it has carved its way through the red/peach sandstone that used to be an ocean floor in eons past. One can step past the protective guard rail and approach the literal edge of the earth, cliff-wise, and peer out and into the river’s chasm that is several hundred feet below.
The lines of the handrails and the ridges and scoops of the sandstone caught my eye when I turned to look back…a curious placement of such a thing when viewed out of context, but knowing where and why brings its meaning. For those who are used to walking on uneven terrain, the walk down and back is not difficult, but for others, the railing is…there if you need it. | <urn:uuid:3fa61bd3-c34d-4acd-bc67-3244742504cd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://seekraz.wordpress.com/2015/10/29/its-there-if-you-need-it/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571234.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811042804-20220811072804-00070.warc.gz | en | 0.955381 | 191 | 1.578125 | 2 |
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Most of the earliest literature we have was written by men for men. Although there are notable examples of early women authors, such as the Greek poet Sappho and the medieval writer Christine de Pisan, women have, prior to the 20th century, generally had lower literacy rates and participation in literary activities than men. The first major shift came with two forces -- the rise of the bourgeois in the late Middle Ages, which expanded the class of literate tradespeople, and the rise of Protestantism in which all people of all genders were expected to be literate in order to read the Bible for themselves. With the rise in vernacular literacy, women increasingly were able to read and write literary texts. In the 18th and 19th centuries the novel was an increasingly feminized (in terms of subject and author) literary genre and by the late 20th century women have achieved parity as authors, readers, and subjects of literature to a great degree in most developed countries.
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Books about Churchill continue to lollop out of the publishing houses. Sometimes they are reminiscences, sometimes family studies, sometimes assessments of him as statesman, strategist, historian—we shall soon probably have an assessment of him as a painter. By far the most agreeable reminiscence in Action This Day is by his private secretary Jock Colville, who has a lively sense of comedy. His description of Churchill adding every few months to his set of gadgets and working in bed with sponges attached to his elbows makes one realize that the great man had a touch of eccentricity that one associates with that bizarre Victorian philosopher, Herbert Spencer.
One of the reasons why Colville’s account is so agreeable is that he conveys the bubbles in Churchill’s mind, his delight in play upon words, the schoolboy fun, and at the same time gives in a few pages a better account than any other yet available of Churchill’s role in his last administration and of his last astonishing act of will power in partially recovering from a sizable stroke. Incidentally Colville and Normanbrook in their accounts of these last years of Churchill’s power give Moran, Churchill’s doctor, a working over which admirers of his rash book ought to consult.
The first volume of Ralph Martin’s biography of Churchill’s mother, which is boudoir reading, contains the not too interesting speculation that, as her healthy first son was born “only seven months after marriage” (it was in fact seven-and-a-half months), Churchill was conceived out of wedlock. The trouble about this book is that though it contains a lot of unpublished material it cannot compare with Robert Rhodes James’s biography of Lord Randolph Churchill in its understanding either of the political background or of the peculiar horror, vacuity, and boredom of London Society under the leadership of the Prince of Wales. On the other hand, Martin is a good deal more explicit than James, writing in Churchill’s lifetime, was able to be, about the disease—tertiary syphilis—which killed Lord Randolph Churchill and of the nightmare of his last years.
Brian Gardner has had the interesting idea of showing Churchill during the Second World War in the looking glass of other men’s opinions. He quotes in particular from the speeches of the opposition, both of the right-wing die-hard Chamberlainites and of the left-wing critics of Churchill’s war policy such as Aneurin Bevan and Shinwell. The opposition was important because it worked on Churchill as the same sort of irritant as he himself used upon the Chiefs of Staff. But the criticism also reminds one of how the almost unbroken series of Allied defeats in 1941 and 1942 subjected Churchill’s strategy and plans to pressures which surprisingly made virtually no impact upon his ability to control Cabinet, Coalition, and Parliament. Gardner’s book has the curious effect of making one wonder how Churchill could ever be said to have won the war when his strategic mistakes were so numerous and American domination at the end so absolute. In fact he does not sufficiently stress how ably until the last years of the war Churchill controlled the military—a lesson which President Johnson failed to learn when dealing with the incompetent Westmoreland.
Gardner begins his study of Churchill as a war leader by quoting Isaiah Berlin’s description of him as “a man larger than life…a gigantic historical figure during his own lifetime…a mystical hero who belongs to a legend as much as to reality, the largest human being of our times.” Gardner then announces that the time has come to debunk the legend. Very much the same spirit inspires the authors of Churchill Revised. A.J.P. Taylor and Robert Rhodes James both contribute excellent essays on Churchill as statesman and politician. They go over the long list of pugnacious actions, imprudences, and apparent changes of policy which made men write Churchill off in the Thirties and which also explain some of his mistakes during the war.
There is also an excellent assessment by J. H. Plumb of Churchill as a historian, which is much more severe and much nearer the mark than Maurice Ashley’s assessment. This is perhaps hardly fair to Ashley, who begins by giving an entertaining account of what it was like to be a young radical taken into Churchill’s home to devil for him on his Marlborough book and which is partly descriptive in that it shows how Churchill set about the task of knocking the drafts of his researchers into Churchillian form and shape. Ashley shows how much Churchill’s own experience enabled him to discern how men act in politics and how reciprocally the knowledge he culled from reading history influenced his style of politics when he became Prime Minister. Plumb judges Churchill by looking at him from the standpoint of a professional historian. Ashley looks at Churchill’s historical works as a reflection of his character.
One of the most interesting contributions to Churchill Revised is the assessment by Anthony Storr, a psychiatrist, of Churchill’s mental state: it is refreshingly free from jargon and pretentiousness, and throws a good deal of light on Churchill’s fits of depression (what he called “Black Dog”), his aggressiveness, and his inability to follow for any length of time a reasoned argument submitted to him. For Storr these recurrent fits of depression are the key to Churchill’s character. He conquered them by courage, a courage which enabled him to overcome the handicap of his insignificant physique and left him unbattered by the diatribes of his critics. But the endemic depression, which was hereditary to his family, was intensified by his lonely childhood, in which he yearned for encouragement and affection and found neither in his parents. Even at the height of his fame Churchill could easily convince himself that all he had achieved was worthless. He feared no one but Fortune. Every time she threw him down he believed that the end had come. He had no inner life; everything was part of a grandiloquent public performance, for to look inside himself was the road to despair.
After these books it may be a good deal easier than it was for Americans to see the titanic national leader in perspective. During the first few months after America’s entry into the Second World War, anxious American liaison officers would take their British counterparts aside and tell them that, although British admiration for President Roosevelt was greatly appreciated, it would be wise for them to remember, if they happened to be speaking to American officers about him, that the President was a not entirely uncontroversial figure. At that time, with Churchill’s popularity at its height, there was no need for the British to reciprocate; but it is probably true that around 1910 Churchill was hated by upper-class conservatives almost as much as was Roosevelt in his day, and that only at the very end of his career did he have a strong base of political support from which to operate.
The two characteristics for which Churchill was almost universally condemned in his years in the wilderness were his pugnacity and lack of judgment. His pugnacity was an extension of his gargantuan egoism. Not that his egoism took the form, which egoism often does, of pompous self-importance: even in the days of his glory he had a streak of humility because he saw himself as an historical figure in relation to the tide of events, to his own age, and to the past. But his egoism diminished his capacity for personal relations to simple expressions of loyalty. He was intensely loyal to the Churchill family in true aristocratic style, and also to his small circle of friends, from whom he demanded unquestioning allegiance to whatever cause or policy he was at the time espousing. For the rest he had little consideration: neither for colleagues or party or civil servants, nor for women. His personal relationships were political relationships. “I see you are against me” was the glum response to anyone who challenged the policy which he was momentarily pursuing.
His first fight was against his own metabolism. He was a narrow-chested, short, delicate-skinned creature who by will power turned himself into a slashing polo player and the toughest of political opponents. If the opportunity was lacking for a fight with his country’s enemies, or his immediate political enemies, he would find it among his colleagues or in his ministry. His life was a series of blazing battles. As a young officer he took on Kitchener in the Sudan, the Boers, and then the Conservative party for their line on the pacification of South Africa and on Free Trade when he had just been returned to Parliament in their interest; then (when a Liberal) the aristocracy and the rich over reform of the House of Lords and social welfare; then the militant working-class movement over strikes in South Wales, and the suffragettes over the franchise; next Carson on the Ulster opponents of Home Rule, thus adding to his enemies the top Army brass when he had already infuriated the oak-bottomed admirals of the Royal Navy, who opposed his naval reforms. His opponents seemed finally to have defeated him over the ill-conceived Dardanelles operation, but after a few years in the shadows he emerged as a leading member, with his friend Birkenhead, of the Lloyd George coalition and nearly put a war-weary Britain into an armed conflict with Turkey over the Chanak incident.
Then came the General Strike, which Churchill treated as a declaration of war. So did the rest of his class, but they saw they could win it with the appearance of conciliation, whereas Churchill wanted to smash the whole trade union movement. Whether it was his feud with Baldwin over India or with Chamberlain over Germany or finally with Hitler, the impression that he enjoyed the fight, indeed the war, weakened his ability to convince the nation that the ultimate objects of his policy were just or wise. “I ask for no quarter,” he growled after the war at a young Labour M.P. who diffidently excused himself for having made a biting speech. He asked for none, he gave none, he bore no ill-will to his former foes, some of whom, like Smuts, became his allies. Too many, however, could never forgive him for his devastating, exceedingly funny, and mordant phrases by which they were transfixed like butterflies and by which other men remembered them. Churchill was always knocking men down and was mildly incredulous when, after he picked them up, they failed to shake hands.
All this was part of his famous “bad judgment.” In the Thirties, when men wrote him off, they cited a long list of his impetuous actions from the slightly absurd Sidney Street siege when Churchill called in a detachment of Guards to shoot it out with a few mad anarchists, to his attempt to threaten the flank of the German army in 1914 by landing with a handful of naval troops, to the numerous miscalculations of the Dardanelles operation, to his miscalculation of public opinion over the intervention by British troops at Archangel in 1919 against the Bolshevik government, to his sentimental support for the Indian princes against Baldwin’s policy, which was no more than a faint promise to transfer power at some distant date to Indians, and to his even worse-timed intervention on behalf of Edward VIII. Even when he returned to the Admiralty at the beginning of the war the fiasco of the Norwegian campaign, which was his blind, instinctive riposte to the Nazi initiative, was not such as to persuade discerning judges that if the direction of the war was in his hands it would be for the best. That was why well-informed judicious men hoped that Halifax and not Churchill would succeed Chamberlain.
How few of his strategic initiatives in the war bear examination in the cold light of hindsight! Alanbrooke, by far the ablest British commander in the three armed services, used to complain that the Prime Minister could not keep in his head the overall strategy dictated by logistics, geography, modern weapons, and enemy dispositions, none of which he really comprehended. Off Churchill would go chasing dreams of glory. “Look at the glittering prizes” he said of the Mediterranean when the collapse of Italy threw German plans into confusion. So British troops were sent to capture Greek islands without air support and a few hundred more were put in the bag by the swift German reaction. Looked at piecemeal, his career, surpassed in length only by that of Gladstone, seems to display none of that inner consistency or development which is normally associated with statesmenship.
And yet…is the verdict of well-informed judicious men always to be the measurement of man? “Good judgment” is in most cases the anticipation of the opinions of others. It is, of course, in some degree indispensable for success in any venture, but as a virtue it is grossly overrated. The crucial shifts in policy which remove injustice, or improve conditions of life, or even those which realign alliances, are seldom made by men renowned for their good judgment. Good judgment all too often is the quality discerned in those who oppose change until events have either made the change inevitable, or until, after years of injustice and inefficiency, the older generation of public opinion grudgingly acquiesces in what the younger demands. Churchill was determined to impose his will upon events. The extent to which any man can do so is circumscribed by the impersonal forces of history, but the reason why he fascinates the public imagination is that people still sense that here was a man who was not gray, dim, well-meaning, sound, and prudent, but who delighted in action almost for its own sake.
Such men breed resentment because they disturb other people too much. Churchill might be at times starkly reactionary, he might lack any consistent thread of policy, but he was the enemy of the Establishment, the bien pensants, the apologists for the status quo. He was never in any meaningful sense a liberal, still less a radical, nor was he guided by a philosophic conservatism. He was obviously not a technocrat. But he had many of the instincts of a technocrat: he got hold of ideas, found others to hammer them into shape, reshaped their offerings, and when he was in office forced these policies through by hard work, diligence, and political intuition.
He was not all that inconsistent. In 1909 he opposed naval rearmament. Three years later he was advocating it. In the Twenties, as A.J.P.Taylor is fond of reminding us, it was Churchill who made permanent the instructions to the service chiefs that they need not plan for a major war in the next ten years. He was thus responsible for the British disarmament which he was later to denounce. But is this as inconsistent as it may appear at first sight? For all his bellicosity Churchill rightly put expenditure on welfare before armaments in times when there was no immediate foreign threat to Britain. It was the judicious well-informed men who failed before the Second World War to relate armaments to the international situation. Or indeed after it: for the maniac policy of the British since 1945 of expenditure on armaments and of attempting to act as policemen of the Middle and Far East has more than anything else led the country to its present state of perennial economic debility.
And when the worst is said about Churchill’s impulsiveness and his egoism, which made him ignore the art of acquiring a political following, who was there, in his generation or after, among the men of sound judgment who can be shown to have been much wiser in their analysis of events? The peaceable, lazy Baldwin? The despicable Simon? Either of the mundane Chamberlains? Certainly not Keynes, who was more consistently wrong about political events than Churchill. The only candidate is Lloyd-George. And of Lloyd-George it can only be said that after 1919 and for the rest of his lifetime he was justly discredited as a corrupt, opportunist power-seeker who had lost all touch with the principles in which he had once believed or with the changes in social institutions and structure which had largely made those principles out of date.
The more one reflects on Churchill’s career the more one wonders whether the legend is not more important than the facts. Of course historical analysis will justly destroy the more fanciful parts of the legend. He will hardly qualify as a simple Cincinnatus, recalled from tilling his fields or from bricklaying at Chartwell to save his country. To the economic or the social historian he will be less interesting than a dozen other figures of his generation. But the political historian, or those who attempt from time to time to portray the rise and decline of the English nation, will be unable to neglect him.
The legend will be intertwined with the Churchill family. The English like to think of themselves as rising once again to fame after the defeats of the Hundred Years War under Henry VIII and Elizabeth I. But in fact during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, which absorb so much of the energy of British historians, England was still a peripheral European power, and it was only the victories of John Churchill, the first Duke of Marlborough, with Prince Eugen over the French, that put England among the concert of the Great Powers. Under Chatham—the statesman whom Winston Churchill most resembles—England emerged as the leading imperial nation and a decisive world force. During the nineteenth century she had the most powerful navy, was the first to industrialize, and was the most important commercial power in the world. Even after the disaster of the First World War she still kept the peace in the Indian Ocean and the Middle East, and was one of the few stable powers in Europe. But since the Eighties her economic and industrial strength had been sapped, and also after the slaughter of the First World War had her self-confidence: she no longer was able to act, as she had done at times during the previous century, as the arbiter in world disputes.
In the confusion of appeasement and the defeats of 1940 Britain could have gone the way of other European states. That she did not was in great measure due to Churchill, and he added a noble chapter to Britain’s history as a world power. But it was the last chapter. He was resourceful, adaptable, resilient in adversity, and the great animator of the nation at war. But by nature, by his advanced age, and by conviction he looked back to the past. How could he do otherwise? Not for him the romantic notions of a new structure of European society, not for him the new notion that the working classes were no longer to be objects of charity but were finally incorporated into society not merely politically by franchise but socially through the welfare state. Both A.J.P. Taylor and J. H. Plumb as distinguished historians note that what in a sense misled Churchill was his own passionate devotion to the history of his country. For he was inspired by a vision of history that had long been exploded by professional historians. Nevertheless as long as political history continues to be written, he will symbolize the end of an epoch just as his ancestor, Marlborough, is the symbol of its beginning.
It is just possible that he will be remembered in another way. Perhaps every age is the prisoner of its own conception of history, and our own conception, with its analysis of social forces and emphasis on movements rather than men, diminishes our belief in the value of the individual. To this distrust of individual initiative even historians such as Taylor contribute. For Taylor shows a strong Tolstoyan tendency to discredit the power of ideologies and inexorable historical processes in favor of a blind contingency whereby political action and in particular calculated reforms produce results totally different from what their authors intended. One of the most attractive parts of the Churchill legend is that he did in fact make an impact upon events by his own will power. The stream of minutes, memoranda, speeches, and above all executive action through the Chiefs of Staff gave the appearance of a man setting his stamp on events and not suffering them to dictate to him.
His mind was not only pre-Marxist. It was pre-Freud. Plutarch would have described him admirably because Churchill accepted as virtues those by which Plutarch judged the great men of antiquity. He felt himself bound to follow honor, renown, clemency, and dignity. He drew no distinction between private and public virtue. Plutarch judged Alcibiades, Agis, Aristides, Brutus, or Sulla in relation to Aristotle’s model of Magnanimous Man. Magnanimous Man scorns to take petty revenges or to act dishonorably—though he may have to act sternly—in defense of his country. Magnanimous Man burns with the desire to leave an imperishable name behind him. Plutarch said of one of his heroes: “Ambition and the passion for distinction were implanted in Lysander’s character.” Churchill had a strongly developed moral instinct and, as Baldwin noted years later, was incapable of wily dissimulation or of telling a lie. He could be severe with his staff because he expected them to adhere to the tenets of this straightforward morality. He could be ruthless: Beaverbrook said that when he had the bit between his teeth he was of the stuff that tyrants are made. But Plutarchian virtue and his intense awareness of the verdict of history restrained him.
Hochhuth’s play might have been excused if it had been justified as a variant on Bernard Shaw’s St. Joan. What is inexcusable is the ludicrous libel, supported by rubbishy conjecture and strings of falsehoods, that Churchill actually ordered the murder of Sikorsky. His life is a refutation of the charge. In a curious way Churchill may impose upon historians in the future his own vision of history. They may be able to discern some broad principle which reconciles some of the more startling changes in policy, but apart from his brief spell in the field of social insurance it is hard to associate him with any of the movements of change in his country. But they will never be able to convey the true sense of British politics in the first half of this century without often referring to this astonishing phenomenon who, almost totally ignorant of how the rest of his countrymen lived, exhibited so many of their characteristics in a most memorable form, and was hailed in his old age, after a lifetime of unfulfilled promise, as the savior of his country.
And yet…. The hammers of a new generation are tapping and the chips of marble are beginning to fly. Suppose you extend the line which Taylor took about Poland, where does the argument lead? If the war to “save” Poland ended with her population decimated, her army exiled, her frontiers transformed, and the country chained to Stalinist Russia, was Britain “saved”—and at whose expense, and with what false dreams of glory during the next twenty years? To those who lived through those days and believed in the justice of the war against Hitler, the question seems absurd. But to a new generation which rejects authority and tradition, regards the politics of compromise as equivocation and equates war with world destruction, Churchill will seem to be an anachronistic and hostile figure. As Keynes said when reviewing The Aftermath, one almost became a little envious of Churchill’s sublime certitude that the pursuit of power and the arbitration of war were the most important of the eternal verities.
If Britain during the next fifty years becomes a small nation of very limited power, the sensibility of her people will change and with that her conception of her historical role. What then will become of the reputation of her national heroes, of Chatham and Churchill? In that case it is just possible that Churchill will find his place as the last Plutarchian leader, and in the new national myth the apotheosis will no longer enshrine the statesman exultant in his triumph but will reveal the figures of philosophers, reformers, and dreamers.
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Passports and Visas
You must have a valid passport to study abroad. To account for any potential delays and ensure the visa application process can be completed on time, we recommend you apply for a passport at least 6 months before your program start date, preferably sooner.
- Required to enter or leave the U.S. and the host country.
- Should be valid at least 6 months beyond your program end date.
- Takes 6-8 weeks to obtain (potentially longer during busy times).
- Expedited service is available for an additional fee.
- Filling out forms can be done online, but you need to apply in person if you’re applying for your first U.S. passport, your previous U.S. passport was issued when you were under age 16, or your previous U.S. passport was lost, stolen, or damaged.
- Most locations (post office, library, state or country courthouse) need appointments (they can fill up quick, so call a few weeks in advance).
- Check what you need (passport photos, citizenship evidence, ID, fee, etc.) before your appointment.
For information about applying for or renewing your passport, click here.
The Squires Passport Acceptance Facility also offers its services for fees ranging from $25 to $110 for first-time passport and renewal passport applications. Visit them on the first floor of Squires Student Center.
A visa is an entry permit to a foreign country and is issued in the U.S. Students participating on a semester-long program at the Steger Center are required to obtain a Swiss national visa. Students participating on summer programs are not required to obtain a Swiss national visa. If you are not a U.S. citizen, your visa requirements may be different. Please contact the Global Education Office for more information.
You do not need to apply for your visa on your own. Before departure, the Global Education Office and the Office of International Support Services will work with you to gather the necessary documentation to apply for a visa. We will mail the visa applications and communicate with the Swiss Embassy in D.C. In order to start the visa process on time, you need a valid passport no later than 4 months prior to departure.
If you are traveling independently during your study abroad program, remember that it is your responsibility to determine visa requirements for all countries you plan to visit while abroad. The Department of State International Travel website is a good resource. | <urn:uuid:fdf0f4e2-a899-4dac-bf10-4875c2479568> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://stegercenter.vt.edu/content/stegercenter_vt_edu/en/students/Passports_Visas.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00476.warc.gz | en | 0.92568 | 513 | 1.53125 | 2 |
The Excluded Parties List System (EPLS) is now part of the System for Award Management (SAM), which is maintained by the General Services Administration (GSA). SAM is not user-friendly for health care providers and causes many false hits. These false hits take time and effort to resolve, and also require numerous verifications, as SAM simply has very limited identifying information. However, this problem is not entirely the GSA’s fault since they did not design their system for use by organizations other than federal government agencies or for purposes other than procurement. This is complicated when entities with common sounding names receive far more potential “hits” than they would if screened against the OIG’s List of Excluded Individuals and Entities (LEIE).
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is the only government agency that calls providers and plans to screen SAM. The CMS Medicare Enrollment Application for Institutional Providers requires applicant hospitals to have a compliance plan stating that the hospital checks all managing employees against the exclusion/debarment lists of both the OIG LEIE and the GSA SAM. Additionally, federal regulations prohibit health plans from contracting with any GSA-debarred individuals or entities as a condition to maintaining active enrollment status. CMS also requires managed care plans to screen: (1) prior to hiring or contracting any new employee, temporary employee, volunteer, consultant, governing body member, or First Tier, Downstream or Related Entity (FDR); and (2) on a monthly basis thereafter.
Jillian Bower is an expert on this subject. Bower’s firm performs sanction screening services for health care clients. She explains, “difficulties for health care providers and plans in screening against SAM is not entirely the GSA’s fault, as GSA never designed its system to be used by entities other than federal government agencies for the purposes of selecting qualified contractors. To further complicate matters, SAM includes two types of debarments: statutory debarments, which are often mandatory; and administrative debarments, which are discretionary for government agency contracting officials. There is no information on the level of discretionary authority a non-government party would have regarding debarment issues. Furthermore, it is important to remember that according to the OIG’s position on GSA debarment screening, the OIG will take action only on confirmed LEIE ‘hits,’ and has no interest or authority to impose Civil Monetary Penalties on the employment of a debarred person.”
Best Practices and Tips to Reduce the Burden of Resolving GSA Hits
- Reduce the screening burden by filtering out all vendors and contractors that do not provide medically related services and products, and establish a policy to sanction screen those that do. Such filtering will reduce the GSA screening by up to 90%. There is little reason to screen your local paper vendor, florist, newspaper delivery, etc.
- Submit only full names, as submitting partial or misspelled names will limit your organization’s ability to screen accurately.
- Implement a policy that requires all contractors, vendors, and others engaged by the organization to attest that they have never been the subject of adverse action by a government enforcement agency, including any debarment or exclusion actions. If such an entity has been the subject of an adverse action, require it to explain the situation.
- Ensure that your organization has the key identifiers that the GSA uses, including the Dun & Bradstreet Number, Social Security Number, and/or Tax Identification Number.
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A pair of ponies rescued after being confined to a concrete yard for over a year have been nursed back to health by a Devon charity.
George and Tomahawk had various health issues and their routine worming and lice treatments were long-overdue, meaning they were burdened with internal and external parasites.
Contacted by the owner who had been struggling to provide the level of care these ageing geldings needed due to a change in their personal life, the Mare and Foal Sanctuary’s welfare outreach and advice team found that the bay cob and skewbald Shetland had just a cattle shed for shelter.
The equine welfare charity, which currently has over 600 horses and ponies in its care, agreed with the owner that 27-year-old George and 12-year-old Tomahawk’s needs could not be met under the circumstances, so an emergency intervention was taken.
Now a month since arriving at the Mare and Foal Sanctuary’s welfare and veterinary centre in Newton Abbot, the pair have both recently completed their quarantine period and are settling in well.
Welfare advisor, Leah Brock, was involved in the rescue. She said: “I am pleased the owner had been brave enough to contact us for help and relieved for George and Tomahawk. They have a safe and secure future.”
The Mare and Foal Sanctuary works for all horses and ponies, but has particular experience in managing and training feral or unhandled horses and ponies, and caring for mares in foal and orphaned or abandoned foals.
When rescued, Tomahawk was found to have a history of laminitis and suffering from Equine asthma (RAO). His feet were long and his toes ‘slippered’ and he had thrush in each foot.
Meanwhile George had rubbed his coat where lice had irritated him, but was also showing signs of bilateral hind limb stiffness and poor grazing ability due to worn incisors.
These latest arrivals come as the Mare and Foal Sanctuary introduced a refreshed brand identity to reflect the breadth of its work, which has expanded considerably in recent years, and secure future support for the charity.
Speaking to supporters through the latest newsletter, chief executive Sarah Jane Williamson said: “I hope you feel that our colourful new look reflects the hope and positivity we hold on your behalf for every equine in our care. We remain a place for people who want to make a difference to the lives of foals, horses and ponies.” | <urn:uuid:4011b0e5-2992-4c82-a055-483a0e832623> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/neglected-ponies-kept-concrete-yard-5490980 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.983157 | 522 | 1.671875 | 2 |
UPS recently opened a new ground package sortation and distribution hub in Tacoma, Washington.
The facility at the Port of Tacoma adds 777,000 square feet of automated processing capacity to the company’s global network. The state-of-the-art facility, the largest in the state, increases UPS’s delivery capabilities in the Seattle-Tacoma area.
To increase network efficiency, the facility features several advancements in technology including autonomous tow tractors, or ‘tugs.’ Tugs quickly move packages throughout the facility, assisting UPS Smart Label applicators for packages of all sizes.
The tugs move large and irregularly-shaped packages from one area to another using lasers to navigate the building’s terrain and avoid obstacles.
“We’ve pre-mapped out the building and the machine compares that to what it’s seen in the past to figure out where it is,” said Ben Myers, automation engineer for the hub. “Then it identifies unknown obstacles in its way and slows down or stops depending on the circumstance to make sure it doesn’t hit anything.”
The automation of the tugs helps free up UPS employees to do other things. “Having the autonomous tugs allows us to assign a relatively simple task to a robot and use our personnel in more effective ways,” said Ben Myers, automation engineer for the hub.
The Tacoma hub operates 15 autonomous tugs. Autonomous tugs are used in UPS facilities throughout North America including Louisville, Columbus and Sacramento.
UPS Smart Labels applicators operate within various areas in Tacoma as well. Using compressed air, they place labels on packages at a rate of three per second and are used to assist employees when loading package cars.
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During International Business (IB) Week, the Flagship Program in International Business presents a series of events and lectures on cutting edge topics affecting International Business. The goal of IB Week is to increase international awareness among students in the Coggin College of Business and in the UNF community by highlighting opportunities for global engagement.
During IB Week, Coggin Study Abroad encourages all business students to participate in academic experiences overseas. A series of information sessions, the returned study abroad student panel and the international dinner provide students an in-depth exposure to a variety of options.
Other IB Week events, such as the Table Talk Goes Global networking event and International Business Extravaganza, focus on taking students' international interests beyond the classroom.
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What Is a Certificate of Naturalization?
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What Is Naturalization?
Naturalization is the process through which a foreign national officially obtains U.S. citizenship. After completing the naturalization process, the person takes an oath of allegiance to the United States.
A person who has obtained citizenship through naturalization is granted all the rights and privileges of U.S. born citizens, such as the right to vote, and the right to carry a U.S. passport.
There are various requirements, interviews, and tests that a person must complete in order to obtain naturalization. These may vary according to the applicant’s age and background.
What Is a “Certificate of Naturalization”?
A Certificate of Naturalization is a document which provides proof that a person has successfully obtained U.S. citizenship through the process of naturalization. It is issued when the person is officially granted citizenship.
The Certificate of Naturalization is only granted to naturalized citizens of the U.S. A person must first apply for U.S. citizenship before they can be issued the certificate.
How Do I Apply for a Certificate of Naturalization?
To begin the process of naturalization, you need to complete and submit Form N-400, “Application for Naturalization”. This form is available in downloadable form through the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) website.
There is a $595 filing fee for the Form N-400. In addition, if applicable, there is an $85 biometrics fee, making the total $680 in some cases. The filing fee may be waived for some applicants, such as certain military applicants. Applicants who are over 75 years old do not need to pay the $85 biometric fee.
Once the Form N-400 is submitted, the applicant will be contacted for further instruction. They may be then asked to supply additional documentation, and may need to complete multiple interviews to determine their eligibility. Finally, a naturalization test will be administered before the final oath is taken.
What If I Need to Replace My Certificate of Naturalization?
If needed, you can apply for a replacement Certificate of Naturalization. However, you should only apply for a replacement certificate if your previous certificate was lost, incorrect, destroyed, or mutilated.
You can replace your Certificate of Naturalization by completing and submitting Form N-565, “Application for Replacement Naturalization/Citizenship Document”. There is a $345 filing fee for Form N-565.
Is a Certificate of Naturalization Different from a Certificate of Citizenship?
Yes. The Certificate of U.S. Citizenship is a different document and has different application requirements. While the application process for a Certificate of Naturalization is very similar to that for the Certificate of Citizenship, they are not the same.
Both types of documents grant the holder the same benefits; however, you may wish to consult with an immigration lawyer if you are unsure of which type of certificate to apply for.
Do I Need a Lawyer for Issues Regarding a Certificate of Naturalization?
If you need more information on how to obtain a Certificate of Naturalization, an immigration lawyer can be of great help to you. An experienced immigration attorney can advise you on how to proceed with naturalization requirements. Also, a lawyer can help you if you need a replacement copy of your Certificate of Naturalization, since the replacement process can sometimes be complex.
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Department of the Army Historical Summary: FY 1972
Civil Works and Military Engineering
During fiscal year 1972, the Army continued to execute its congressionally mandated civil role as the primary developer of the nation's water and related land resources. The Corps of Engineers civil works program included projects dealing with navigation, flood control, hydroelectric power production, water supply for municipal, industrial, and agricultural use, shoreline protection, water-based recreation, preservation of fish and wildlife habitat, and emergency disaster relief, as well as the research effort needed to support these activities.
Fiscal year 1972 was a period of challenge and accomplishment for the Army in its new assignment to help clean up the nation's waters. The Corps of Engineers and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in co-operation with other federal, state, and local agencies, completed regional wastewater management feasibility studies covering five areas-Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, San Francisco Bay, and the Merrimack River Basin, including Boston.
The scope of the Chicago feasibility study was enlarged by a special study including cost and performance data and the evaluation of alternative methods and treatment measures. It does not deal with political or social questions, which are considered to be of sufficient importance to merit multidisciplinary studies in the future, in co-operation with other federal, state, and local agencies, and the general public.
Four of the five feasibility studies are now being expanded into detailed studies, as will the Merrimack River Basin study following its revision.
The corps made significant progress during the year in developing an assessment of the nation's environmental resources. Environmental inventories were initiated in Washington, Vermont, North Carolina, and the Charleston district of South Carolina to assist corps districts in mapping valuable environmental resources. The object of this effort is to locate and identify resources and amenities, both natural and manmade, which comprise man's physical, biological, and cultural environment; and to identify further those resources which should be preserved, protected, or approached with careful deliberation in the planning, development, and management of water and related land resources.
Acting under the authority of Section 233, Public Law 91-611, the
Corps of Engineers began a study of the effects of strip mining operations on navigable waters, their tributaries, and water resource projects under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Army Chief of Engineers. Corps division engineers initiated investigations to determine the extent of the problem in their areas. Streams where serious problems exist, and the strip mining sources causing the problems, are being identified.
The 16,000 dead-weight ton (dwt) capacity of the T-2 tanker was the yardstick for determining required depths for major U.S. deepwater ports in the 1940s. Since then, shipyards have been turning out even larger commercial cargo vessels. Some of the newer crude oil tankers, for example, have a capacity of more than 300,000 dwt, and even larger vessels will soon ply the world's sea lanes.
Despite a number of improvements made over the years, U.S. port facilities have not kept pace with the requirements posed by the larger, deep-draft vessels now engaged in world trade. Presently, over 700 of these ships cannot enter any U.S. port because of their great size.
As the United States continues to face the prospect of limited and rapidly diminishing raw materials from domestic sources, notably crude petroleum, the inability of U.S. ports to berth many of the vessels on which these products are transported will have serious consequences in the future. To deal with this problem Congress last year approved funds for two Army Corps of Engineer regional studies that will assess the nation's port development needs on the Gulf and Atlantic coasts. When the studies are completed, the corps, working with other federal and state agencies, will have accumulated the engineering, physical, biological, and social information required to develop viable programs for correcting the nation's deepwater port deficiencies.
Emergency Disaster Relief
In the final days of fiscal year 1972, record-breaking flood waters induced by Hurricane Agnes left a wake of mud-caked debris across six Northeastern states Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. Factories, shops, homes, and businesses were inundated. More than 100 people lost their lives in the flood waters, which cost upwards of $3.1 billion in estimated damages and required the evacuation of some 387,000 people. A total of 233 counties and cities were declared disaster areas. The Director, Office of Emergency Preparedness, assigned the Corps of Engineers major disaster relief missions to alleviate destruction and human suffering in the six storm-ravaged states.
As early as forty-eight hours before the storm hit the Northeast, the Corps of Engineers North Atlantic Division began preparations. A fully staffed emergency operations center was established, which began issuing policy guidance to corps districts in the hurricane's path and handled outside requests for technical information and assistance.
As the hurricane wreaked its havoc and the flood waters rose, corps districts in New York City, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, and Norfolk rushed in pumps, sandbags, and other items to aid the emergency operations. Corps of Engineers rescue and survey teams were mobilized and rushed to disaster areas to provide on-the-spot assistance and technical advice. Flood control dams and reservoirs were closely regulated to reduce flood crests, which were sweeping down rivers and streams.
Corps technical personnel from all sections' of the continental United States flew into the stricken area to assist the hard-pressed North Atlantic Division in its emergency relief effort. One hundred officers assigned to the Army Engineer School joined the corps work force. The Civil Works Directorate, operating out of a 24-hour-a-day command post established at Headquarters, Office of the Chief of Engineers, assessed field damage reports and issued a stream of orders directing priority work. The restoration of public utilities, i.e., power, water and sanitary systems, was given top priority.
The Baltimore District covering the Susquehanna River Basin, which was in the area hardest hit by the floods, established and staffed fifteen area emergency offices at Wilkes-Barre, Harrisburg, Lock Haven, Sunbury, York, Lewiston, and Towanda, all in Pennsylvania; Annapolis, Ellicott City, Frederick, and Havre de Grace, in Maryland; Alexandria, Richmond, and Covington, in Virginia; and Martinsburg, West Virginia.
A complete report on Corps of Engineers emergency activities, which continued into fiscal year 1973, will be presented in next year's Department of the Army Historical Summary.
Boiling grey clouds began to build up over Rapid City, South Dakota, on June 9, 1972, signaling another of the storms which typically hit the area and then move off across the Dakota plains. But this storm did not move, and while it hovered over the area it dumped 4-14 inches of rainfall, with the heaviest concentration over the Rapid Creek Basin, west of the city. A rushing wall of water moved toward Rapid City and the nearby communities of Sturgis, Box Elder, and Keystone; 234 persons lost their lives in the flood. The four communities were inundated, with 515 mobile homes flooded, 363 destroyed; 1,336 homes flooded, 619 totally destroyed; and 284 businesses flooded, of which 48 were destroyed. Drinking water was polluted, phone and electricity service
knocked out, and thousands of people left hungry, homeless, and without adequate clothing. Total estimated damage amounted to $82.5 million.
The Office of Emergency Preparedness assigned the- Corps of Engineers Omaha District important emergency disaster relief tasks. Corps technical personnel set up an emergency operations center in the South Dakota National Guard Armory just west of Rapid City on the morning of June 10. Preliminary damage surveys were completed on the same day so that emergency assistance under Public Law 91-606 could be initiated without delay. Corps estimating teams surveyed the flood-ravaged area in and around Rapid City, and local contractors were alerted to submit bids for emergency cleanup work. Between June 13 and June 28 the corps awarded 34 contracts for removal of 595,157 cubic yards of debris and silt at a cost of $994,119 under authority of Public Law 91-606.
At Sturgis, South Dakota, local authorities requested assistance, to relieve a critical situation at the Fort Meade dam, a water supply source for a Veterans Administration hospital. A 75-foot section of this concrete structure, commercially constructed in 1909 and remodeled in 1936, was eroded and threatened to break and inundate, the community of 4,600 residents. Corps experts arrived on the scene to direct attempts to bolster the weakened dam. National Guardsmen repaired and rebuilt two miles of flood-damaged roads to permit construction equipment to reach the dam. Pumps, manned by the Guardsmen, lowered the reservoir water level and relieved pressure on the dam. Then a team of demolition experts, flown in from the Corp's Engineer Explosive Excavation Research Office, breached a section of the dam to ease the pressure on the weakened structure.
The heaviest snowpack in the Columbia River Basin since 1894 gave warning, early in 1972, of a serious flooding potential during the coming spring, when the snow would begin to melt. The Chief of Engineers authorized Operation Foresight '72, a program of advance preparation for the expected floods. The Seattle District dispatched a six-man reconnaissance team to investigate conditions from Puget Sound to the Rocky Mountains. A total of 52 projects costing $674,000 were completed in preparation for the anticipated floods.
By May 28, 1972, runoff from the melting snowpack presented a real threat. The Seattle District declared a flood emergency and dispatched ten engineers to the Okanogan and Methow Rivers in central Washington. The Okanogan crested on June 3 at 22.54 feet, 8 feet above zero damage level and 4.5 feet above major damage level. This constituted the severest flooding on the Okanogan in this century. Just as the river was dropping, a weather front accompanied by severe
thunderstorms caused the Okanogan to rise to a second crest of 21.7 feet on June 12. The Methow River also overflowed its banks and caused extensive damage.
The Office of the Chief of Engineers authorized a total of $3.1 million in Public Law 84-99 funds to the North Pacific Division for Operation Foresight '72 and related flood fighting activities in the Portland, Seattle, and Walla Walla districts. Precautionary measures prevented an estimated $8.5 million in damage. In addition, reservoir regulation on the Columbia River Basin prevented an estimated $100 million in damages on the lower Columbia River.
In the early morning hours of March 19, 1972, several barges being towed downstream on the Ohio River broke loose from their tug at a point above the Corps of Engineers' McAlpine Lock and Dam. One of the barges, loaded with four tanks of chlorine, partly blocked Gate Number 2, raising concern that a leak might occur that would endanger the population in sections of nearby Louisville, Kentucky.
After careful assessment of the situation by federal and state agencies, the Corps of Engineers retained a salvage contractor to stabilize the barge and remove the chlorine. The Office, Chief of Engineers Emergency Operations Center, and all Divisional Emergency Operating Centers were placed on an around-the-clock alert on March 24. Also, the Office of Emergency Preparedness authorized predisaster assistance by invoking Section 221 of Public Law 91-606. While preparations were under way for the transfer of the chlorine from the disabled barge to an empty chlorine barge, some 4,000 nearby residents were evacuated for a 24-hour period. Removal of the liquid chlorine commenced on April 3 and was completed without incident on April 15. A potential disaster was averted.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers conducted several staff studies and special reviews during the year as part of a continuing program aimed at influencing modernization and improvement of the organizational structure of engineer troop units and the doctrine associated with their employment. These studies gave special attention to the evaluation of combat engineer units in light of recent experience in Vietnam and possible future uses of such units in foreign or domestic missions. Two of the studies were forwarded to the U.S. Army Combat Developments Command for use in the development of more versatile, productive, efficient, and balanced combat engineer units. Specific recommendations included the use of standardized "building block" type combat engineer companies in various configurations in structuring the several different types of combat engineer battalions employed in the Army,
and wider use of airmobile construction equipment to increase unit flexibility in employment and tactical and strategic mobility.
Contracts were awarded late in the fiscal year for the procurement of commercial 20-ton capacity dump trucks and 1,500 gallon asphalt distributors for equipping Army engineer construction battalions and other engineer units. The action met a major objective in implementing the Army's Commercial Construction Equipment System Plan. Approved in concept by the Secretary of the Army earlier in the year, following a two-year test, the plan is designed to equip Army engineer units with modern, commercially available construction equipment. Currently used military design and modified commercial equipment will be progressively replaced with proven "off-the-shelf" equipment in order to take advantage of the construction machinery industry's highly competitive research, development, and testing effort. Since military construction requirements closely approximate those of civilian construction contractors, the use of the civilian equipment manufacturer's test data and contractor's performance data should reduce or eliminate the need for military testing. The plan encompasses virtually all major items of construction equipment, including crawler and wheeled tractors, earthmoving scrapers, motorized graders, compaction equipment, and crane-shovels.
A pilot-item program has been designed to develop and refine administrative procedures for defining commercial construction equipment item requirements and the selection, evaluation, and adoption of the best qualified items. Experience gained in the pilot-item program during fiscal year 1972 resulted in timely action to purge or modify procedural steps that were proving burdensome and that would cause unnecessary delays between the time an item requirement was established and the date of its delivery.
Mapping and Geodesy
The U.S. Army Topographic Command (TOPOCOM) turned out 664 new large scale maps covering 149,000 square miles, 392 medium scale maps covering 2,116,800 square miles, and 184 city maps during the year. Initiation of a computerized program to consolidate the management of map distribution activities has simplified and improved stock management procedures in the overseas theaters.
TOPOCOM produced digitized terrain data (DTD) of 135 map sheets. The Electromagnetic Compatibility Analysis Center continues to be the primary user of digital terrain data. During October 1971, Army topographers produced a special block of DTD covering an area adjoining Fort Riley, Kansas, for use by the Weapons Systems Evalua-
tion Group of Defense Research Engineering in a joint operations test evaluation.
The sale and production of 1:250,000 scale plastic relief maps of the fifty states was discontinued in August 1971 due to budgetary restraints. The T. N. Hubbard Scientific Company received a contract to produce and sell these maps.
TOPOCOM made significant contributions to the Apollo manned lunar landing program. Apollo landmark graphics and lunar surface exploration data packages were prepared for use in the Apollo 15 and 16 missions. Army topographers prepared a 16 by 25-foot three-dimensional relief model of the Taurus Littrow landing area for use in astronaut training at Cape Kennedy for the forthcoming Apollo 17 mission. This is the eighth such model prepared by TOPOCOM in support of the Apollo program. Technical proposals for the development of a lunar control network and the production of photomaps at 1:250,000 scale were formulated and presented to the National Aeronautics and Space Agency.
TOPOCOM continued to support the Mobile Army Sensor System Test Evaluation and Review (MASSTER) test facility. An experimental air movement map to support extremely low-level flying was completed, and 300 35-mm. slides of the Fort Hood, Texas, area were provided in support of MASSTER's Position Reporting and Recording System.
Major ground survey activities undertaken during the year, using conventional optical and electronic distance measuring equipment, involved establishing precise traverses at both the White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, and the Arizona Test Range; establishing astronomic positions at missile sites; and providing control for the Launch Region Gravity Model gravity surveys. Other projects included surveys at military bases, surveys in support of civil works programs, and training support to the Iranian Mapping Project.
Gravity surveys are currently being conducted under contract or co-operative agreements in a number of foreign countries including Norway (land and marine), Iceland (marine), and Finland (land). Negotiations to establish agreements for conducting gravity surveys in certain areas bordering the Mediterranean were initiated during fiscal year 1972.
The 30th Engineer Battalion (Base Topographic) was relieved from attachment to TOPOCOM and placed under command and operational control of the Commanding General, Fort Belvoir, Virginia, on April 1, 1972. This action was taken in consonance with the pending realignment of worldwide topographic assets, which is scheduled for completion in fiscal year 1973. The reconstitution of topographic units
will provide the theaters with an organic mobile topographic capability to support theater tactical planning and operations through the production of surveys, maps, map substitutes, and related terrain information. The mission of oversea topographic units has been modified to conform with the anticipated establishment of the Defense Mapping Agency.
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Image: Cast of an Oldowan chopper
Chopper tool from Oldowan or Mode 1 technology. It is uncertain who the makers of these stone tools were. The tool makers may have been early populations of Homo habilis or they may have been made by another species.
This artefact is a round, worn stone from which flakes have been removed on one side, ie it is unifacial. These tools were used for chopping or were left over after stone flakes have been taken off for other purposes.
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The John Coltrane Memorial Concert Educational Outreach Program Has Reached More Than 10,000 Students Over the Past 14 Years
The John Coltrane Memorial Concert Educational Outreach Program (JCMCEOP) uses music as the context to initiate a unique exchange between generations of students, teachers and musicians.
Under the leadership of Dr. Leonard Brown and Dr. Emmett Price of Northeastern University’s Departments of African American Studies and Music, the JCMCEOP collaborates with eight Boston and Cambridge inner-city schools to bring live performances of African-American creative improvisational music to predominantly minority student populations.
Brown said music is an integral, though often forgotten piece of a child’s education. He believes the outreach program can spur teachers to use music to develop innovative ways of teaching math, geography and even history.
“Music is now secondary,” Brown said. “But with proper exposure to live music, we help children develop to their full capacities.”
Indeed, the program’s ultimate goal is to expose students to qualities such as pursuance, focus, positive self-image and the willingness to learn, and has reached more than 10,000 students since its inception in 1992.
Using the John Coltrane Memorial Concert (JCMC) as its point of departure, the outreach program brings experienced professional jazz musician/educators into classrooms to engage students in performance lectures and introduce them to the music and underlying artistry of jazz legend John Coltrane.
During the sessions, students typically break into scat choirs, sing along to renditions of Coltrane songs and gain exposure to musical instruments. The feedback after performances, which typically last 75-90 minutes, includes drawings from elementary school students praising the musicians, Brown and Price; thank you letters from high school students and letters of gratitude from parents.
“That’s life-changing stuff right there,” Price said. “That confirms the passion that we already have for these young kids and it confirms we are heading in the right direction.”
This year, the JCMC, the world’s oldest annual performance tribute to the legend that is Coltrane, celebrates its 30th anniversary. For the 22nd consecutive year, it will be held at Northeastern on September 21-22. 25 students and chaperones from each of the eight participating schools are provided free admission to the concert on Sept. 21.
“With all the attention toward the arts being removed from the school curriculum,” Price said, “this is an opportunity for Northeastern, a university that is interested in the urban mission, to help be part of the solution.
“The outreach program is a resource and a solution to the fact that young people need to be introduced to music,” Price said. “We hope we can start a trend that can make children a priority academically and creatively.”
For more information about the 30th anniversary of the John Coltrane Memorial Concert and the JCMCEOP, please visit www.jcmc.neu.edu or contact Jason Kornwitz at 617-373-5471 or firstname.lastname@example.org.
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An exciting opportunity to develop conceptually new reagents and revolutionise the organic synthesis into a sustainable future, in this PhD programme, you will push the boundary of inorganic chemistry by developing a rare type of reagents, electrides, and utilise them to achieve the holy grail of sustainable organic synthesis: eliminating bulk solvents, hazardous reagents and carbon-/energy-intense conditions.
Electrides feature free electrons as anions, which endow them with unique physical properties. However, electrides have few applications in organic synthesis due to their poor stability and accessibility. Recently, we have developed the first stable and easily accessible electride. The potential of the electride reagent was demonstrated on a notoriously unamiable organic reaction, the Birch reduction, by removing the need of Na-NH3(l), low-temperature conditions and bulk solvents (manuscript submitted to Science).
Built on this breakthrough, this project will fully develop the electride reagents and exploit their potential in sustainable organic synthesis. Under the supervision of an eminent cross-disciplinary group of chemists, this project will provide multidisciplinary training in experimental/computational skills in inorganic and organic chemistry, including:
· Solvent-free synthesis (Dr Erli Lu): Mechanochemistry (ball mill).
· Experimental inorganic chemistry (Dr Erli Lu): Anaerobic synthesis (Schlenk line, glovebox) and characterisations (single-crystal & powder XRD, NMR, UV/Vis, IR, EPR, magnetism).
· Experimental organic chemistry (Dr Erli Lu and Prof. Michael Waring): Complex pharmaceutical intermediate design and synthesis; Organic compound characterisation.
· Computational chemistry (Dr James Dawson): DFT calculations.
In addition to the team in Newcastle, the project will collaborate closely with the University of Manchester and Diamond Light Source.
Sustainable organic synthesis has received upsurge of academic and industrial research interest. These training opportunities suit ideally for students wishing to pursue a future career in many aspects of chemical research. In addition to the research programme, as part of the PhD you will participate in a comprehensive training programme in transferable skills, along with opportunities to present your work externally, including at international conferences.
Number Of Awards
September 2022 or January 2023.
Primary: Dr Erli Lu
Secondary: Dr James A. Dawson and Professor Michael Waring
Chemistry – School of Natural and Environmental Sciences
· An undergraduate degree in Chemistry (2:1 integrated Master’s or outstanding Bachelor’s) or a Master’s (Merit or above preferable).
· If English is not your first language, you must have IELTS 6.5 overall (min 5.5 in all sub-skills)
The award is available to applicants with a Home fee status only
How To Apply
You must apply through the University’s online postgraduate application system.
You will need to:
Insert the programme code 8100F in the programme of study section
- Select ‘PhD in Chemistry (full-time) - Chemistry’ as the programme of study
- Insert the studentship code snes224 in the studentship/partnership reference field
- Attach a covering letter, a CV and a 2-page research proposal. The covering letter must state the title of the studentship, quote reference code snes224 and state how your interests and experience relate to the project. The research proposal must show basic understanding of electride chemistry and mechanochemistry.
- Attach degree transcripts and certificates and, if English is not your first language, a copy of your English language qualifications.
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Gearing up for Kindergarten
April 27, 2015
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The preschool years go by fast, don’t they? If your child’s preschool years are coming to an end, your thoughts are probably turning toward kindergarten. With that comes many mixed emotions, for both you and your child.
Kindergarten can set the stage for a child’s entire school career, which is both exciting and daunting. To help prepare your child for the next stage in life, it’s important to know what teachers will look for in kindergarten readiness. Richard Peterson, vice president of education at Kiddie Academy, has put together a list to help guide you and your child. Soon they will be on their way!
- Is your child enthusiastic or take initiative when it comes to learning? Often times children at this age like to explore their environment and welcome new experiences. Look for actions in your child that indicate an ability to problem solve and ask questions.
- With kindergarten comes many new adventures so your child will need to adjust and adapt to new settings. Part of this adjustment relies on their social development. Some things to look for include playing well with others and using socially-acceptable ways to express emotions.
- Gross and fine motor skills play a role in the physical development a child goes through when entering kindergarten. Having control when kicking a ball, writing with a pencil and basic eye and hand movement are good places to start.
- Recognition of simple mathematics and language arts is also an important component. Your child should know basic letter and number recognition, which includes counting, participating in conversations and recognizing common types of texts and designs.
Kiddie Academy’s On My Way curriculum helps prepare children that are entering kindergarten using a literacy-based program of units, further organized into weekly themes, which are explored throughout all subject areas and activity learning centers. School days are filled with fun, challenging activities designed to inspire children to create, move and interact. The five year old program is designed to provide the learning and social activities to meet your child’s needs. For more information on kindergarten readiness, visit kiddieacademy.com.
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If you’re unlucky, you already know that humans possess a skin microbiome. It sounds gross, but it’s simply an entire ecosystem of microbes like bacteria living on our skin (maybe it is gross). Some of them help us, others might make us sick, for example when they enter open wounds. Plants have a similar set-up, hosting different ecosystems of bacteria on their leaves.
Hopefully, at this point I’ve made your skin crawl (because as you now know, it is literally crawling). But that microbiome can actually tell us some fascinating things about the animal or plant we’re looking at. So today, I’ll go through exactly what metagenomics is, and some of the information we can glean from a plant’s surface (I am a botanist after all). | <urn:uuid:925a9af3-568c-459d-9682-8165b51b501a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ecologyforthemasses.com/tag/contamination/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00078.warc.gz | en | 0.910935 | 194 | 3.171875 | 3 |
To discuss about the country, go to the forum discussion thread.
This is the main page for reference on collaborative guidelines towards the territory of.
Castellán is the motherland of the Castellanese Language, which corresponds to real life Spanish. All mapping (taking away certain place names that might have foreign etymologies), is going to be made in Spanish, in all the territory of Castellán. Think about it more like the birthplace of the Spanish language rather than 'OGF:Spain'.
This territory was previously an owned territory by a single user, which means the country won't start anew. Despite that, the first stage of the collaboration will involve cleanup of the country, given many places are too similar to their counterparts in Spain. The goal of Castellán is to bring an original, but representative motherland for all Spanish-speaking cultures in the map, that represents the culture of the Spanish-speaking region, allowing for significant creativity from the contributors.
The first stage of the collaboration will be cleanup and planning, where cleanup will be done and a draft for Castellán will be made. First stages will involve discussions about the coastline of the country (specially the eastern coast, that needs remodeling), its topology, hydrography, biogeography, and settlement structure (including main roads and cities). Any proposals will be welcome in that regard by any user interested in the project, that will end up in a vote to decide the final general shape of the country.
Cleanup is basically the deletion of all features of the current map, to reset it and allow the redevelopement of the country.
Currently, any user that qualifies can request to help in the cleanup on this section of the wiki, by indicating which province they want to cleanup.
Relation of cleaned-up regions and provinces
Provinces in cleanup
- Murica - User: Martinawa
Provinces and regions available for cleanup
- Astura (single-province region)
- Maguériz (single-province region)
Any discussion on the territory will be held on the wiki forum thread for Castellán.
The main theme of the physical geography of the country will be Mediterranean. Coastlines, climate and biomes will work according to this general guideline.
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STEAM Workgroup is a cultural arts research and evaluation consulting company based in Indianapolis, Indiana that helps organizations nationwide with data collection, analysis, and interpretation as well as program design. STEAM Workgroup draws upon research in STEM fields as well as education, ethnomusicology, sociology, and anthropology to help groups find the right questions as well as answers.
STEAM stands for using science, technology, engineering, arts, and math together to learn in a more holistic way. Working across subjects and content areas, we help design and evaluate programs and exhibits. In true STEAM fashion, we bring a multidisciplinary toolkit to the job to help you in your work.
With varied backgrounds and skills, we specialize in contextual description and analysis of complex issues and systems. This means we can go beyond basic surveys and interviews, using methods that can uncover those hard-to-find, "hidden" variables that other researchers and evaluators may miss.
STEAM Workgroup engages in the practice of the Equitable Evaluation Framework™ (EEF), which "seeks to reimagine the purpose and practice of evaluation by seeding and growing a field to advance equity and expand notions of validity, objectivity, rigor, and embrace complexity." As a partner in this work, we invite you to learn directly from the Equitable Evaluation Initiative.
It all flows from collaboration. We listen. We ask a lot of questions. We work through and from the goals, outcomes, and needs - all of which come from you and the communities involved.
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The Vernon Hills, Ill.-based carton council said in a news release the latest additions brought the total number of U.S. households with access to carton recycling to almost 57 million.
“This tremendous momentum we are seeing is indicative of the growing demand and need for carton recycling across the entire country,” said Jason Pelz, vice president of recycling projects for the Carton Council and vice president, environment, Tetra Pak North America.
The council cited several achievements that helped the United States increase carton recycling by one million homes this year. South Dakota became the 46th state to offer carton recycling. New York and Ohio had the largest household gains, with New York adding access for 180,000 households for 72 percent total access, while Ohio added 174,000 households and increased access to 63 percent.
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Drivers daunted by the task of reversing into a space may soon find a solution to the problem – an app that parks their car for them.
All they have to do is swipe a virtual image on their smartphone and the app does the rest.
A dozen sensors on the car scan the available space then take control to either reverse into a bay or parallel park.
The app’s makers, Bosch, believes the device is another ‘stepping stone’ towards driverless cars.
Unveiling the Driverless Car Experience app at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Tuesday, Fred Sejalon, engineering manager for the German technology company, said: ‘The driver can stay in the vehicle or step out and, using their smartphone, let the vehicle do the rest.
‘This is good news for anybody who doesn’t feel comfortable parallel parking.’
The app, which will be available from next year, can also be used to make sure drivers stay in the correct lane on motorways.
Bosch is also developing technology to stop a car – using a windscreen-mounted camera – if it detects a pedestrian or obstacle in the road.
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The “SonntagsBlick” has reported: The Swiss Life pays for a building plot on the outskirts of Zurich, 12’718 francs per square meter. The is no Sensation, because the SRG requires, ultimately, only the now usual market price and has received.
But exactly this is the scandal that should force us to carefully think about what is meant by such prices, not only for the buyer and the seller, but for the whole economy and society.
we Expect: In the Area of Leutschenbach 1.7 square meters floor area may be built per square meter of Land. This means in the best case scenario of 1.4 square meters of rentable floor space. A square metre price of 9,000 francs alone for the plot. According to the real estate consultants Wüest Partner Swiss real estate investments shed 3.6 percent net return. 3 percent of the needs of the Swiss Life at least, to be able to get the promised pensions Fund.
For the tenant this means that you j��per square meter of living space in addition to the actual rental costs (for maintenance, repair, administration, heating, etc.) annually 270 francs pure “will have to pay ground-tax”. The are for an apartment of 100 square meters 2250 francs a month, or 20 percent of gross income or twice the amount the average household pays direct taxes. However, for this we receive a counter – power- i.e. schools, police, roads, swimming pools.
The 2250 Swiss francs, a performance wireless Transfer of tenants to the floor owners or the sellers of the expensive plots of land.
We pay for a high station, rent
But we are paying not only as a tenant, but also as consumers. An example: The SBB return siert their stations, and collected in the Zurich main train station to Rent from 3000 to 5000 francs per square meter, with a turnover of CHF 25’000 per square meter. This means that we must pay on each franc, of the we Ville to spend in the Shop 10 to 15 cents land tax.
Clearly, not everyone is 20 percent on income and 10 per cent of the consumer spending must give to the floor owners. Some are also drawn in the suburbs, living in cooperatives, or in an inherited house. But since the real estate property is distributed very one-sided, mean rising land prices, on balance, but a huge redistribution from the bottom to the top. At the same time it is a vicious circle.
difference is greater
How? In accordance with the AHV statistics, the labour income of the poorest tenth since 1982, in real terms, 51 per cent that of the richest tenth, but by 218 percent, and the richest Hundredth of 293 percent – almost three times! – 296’000 Swiss francs a year increased.
the more one-sided distributed capital income. These do not come last out of the possession of real estate whose value has doubled, according to the SNB since 2004, to more than 2000 billion Swiss francs, more than. In the absence of Alternatives, this additional income and assets to be invested in real estate, which in turn increases the prices of land and Rents. And so on.
This distribution mechanism is not yet been researched and discussed. Wrongly, because he not only threatened the social peace. If we spend money for food, entertainment, cars, construction work etc., we will provide employment. Expenditure for land-tax, by contrast, are pure redistribution. They could destroy not only no Jobs, when – simply put – the richest one percent still consumed more. However, the more Golf would then be the courts, third residences, luxury yachts, and the like. Nothing, what is our life more beautiful.
so Far, we can demand for this failure is still due to record high export surpluses and the net immigration of the necessary investments to some extent compensate. However, we need to put the Problem of “land tax” is finally on the political Agenda.
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All about Bacillus thuringiensis
Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) are bacteria found naturally in the environments of every continent of the world. Some of the Bt strains are natural antagonists of some pests. A few Bt strains have been selected and commercialized as biological pest control products. These commercialized Bt strains are valuable to agriculture and public health because of their unique ability to naturally control certain destructive and disease-carrying insect pests while avoiding harm to non-target organisms (such as beneficial insects, people, other mammals, and fish). Biological insect control products based on Bt strains have been used safely and effectively in practical field conditions for more than 50 years, since its first commercial use in France in 1938.
The increasing use of biological pest control is reflective of a greater need for sustainable crop protection solutions, that meet the demands of consumers for food and environmental safety. Bt insect pest management is vital to producers of food, fiber and timber and in public health protection around the globe. Bt-based products are used widely in organic and conventional agriculture as well as forestry and public health, because they deliver consistent pest control while avoiding harm to beneficial insects, without negative impacts on the environment or people. Bt is a sustainable crop protection solution when used as part of effective integrated pest management and insecticide resistance management programs.
Bt safety and effectiveness are vital to ensure a sustainable food production and control of diseases in public health programs.
Commercial insect control products, based on specific Bt strains, are eaten by target pest insects. This prevents them from digesting food, causing them to die. The component of commercial Bt products that affects pest insects is a group of naturally produced proteins that have evolved to impact only the target insect’s gut. For example: caterpillar control products based on Bt can only be activated in the caterpillar gut. This specificity is why they have little to no negative effects on non-target organisms such as other insects (e.g. pollinators like bees), animals, people, or fish.
People have been eating fresh food treated with commercial Bt products for more than 50 years without any evidence of adverse effects. Bt strains used in pest control have evolved to survive best in the specific condition of the pests they target. These conditions are so dramatically different from the human gut that Bt do not grow like they would in the targeted pest insects in the field.
Bacillus cereus (Bc) are members of the Bacillus bacteria family and found naturally in the environment. Some Bc strains produce certain toxins, like the emetic toxin and enterotoxins, which can be harmful to people. The emetic toxin is particularly of concern because it is not destroyed by cooking and causes vomiting. Although related to Bc it has been proven that commercial Bt strains do not have the ability to produce this toxin.
In addition to the emetic toxin, some Bc strains can produce large amounts of enterotoxins which can cause diarrhea. Research has shown that commercial Bt strains are unlikely to produce any of these toxins in the human digestive system.
Bacillus cereus (Bc) are natural, common ubiquitous soil bacteria, so it is not unlikely to find them in food. The types of Bc that are most likely to adversely affect people are found in meats and starchy processed foods. Fresh vegetables and fruits are highly unlikely sources of pathogenic Bc strains.
There is no evidence of a link between pathogenic Bc presence in food and the application of commercial Bt products. The Bt products do not contain pathogenic Bc.
Enterotoxins can only be produced when a microbe is actively growing. Commercial Bt strains have been shown to have little to no growth on fruits and vegetables or in the human digestive system.
Current methods to differentiate Bt products from potentially pathogenic Bacillus cereus (Bc) are generally based on the presence of insecticidal protein crystals or through whole genome sequencing.
Research organizations are developing new methods using PCR technology (a technology used to amplify unique segments of the genetic code of the bacteria) or other modern tools to make this easier and faster.
There is a need for methods to rapidly differentiate Bt from Bc in food. Bt is necessary for sustainable food production because of its positive worker-safety profile, low impact on the environment and compatibility with beneficial insects; whereas Bc is not used in agriculture but is natural occurring.
IBMA is open to opportunities for collaboration to fulfill this pressing need.
Commercial Bt are produced through fermentation in controlled, clean, conditions in fermenters, similar to those used to produce beer. Beginning with highly purified cultures, conditions are carefully controlled to favor the growth of only one organism: B. thuringiensis. Because each bacterial strain can have slight variations in their optimal growth parameters, commercial Bt fermentation is carefully controlled to cover the specific needs of the single commercial strain being grown. Commercial Bt products must conform to strict international guidelines of the OECD for microbial contamination, which is stricter than food safety requirements in some cases. Commercial Bt strains themselves are identity-preserved through carefully maintained seed stock from the original isolates found in nature. This careful process makes sure it is the same pure strain every time a product is produced. Commercially produced Bt strains have been used effectively and safely for more than 50 years.
To ensure the safety and effectiveness of products used in agriculture, the European Union has the most extensive and strict pesticide regulations in the world. Producers of Bt must submit detailed dossiers that include specific studies on human, animal, and non-target insect toxicology, long- and short-term environmental impact, and detailed assessments of the microorganism, among other requirements. These dossiers and studies are reviewed by regulators in all member states and by the European Food Safety Authority before the Bt products can be registered for use. Bt products are currently registered in all European countries. Regulatory agencies around the world, including the World Health Organization, have confirmed the value and safety of Bt products. An outline of the extensive review process is available on the website of the European Food Safety Authority : https://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/interactive-pages/pesticides-authorisation/PesticidesAuthorisation
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USE (urban sustainability exchange) is an online learning tool and open knowledge exchange platform dedicated to sustainable city making. use connects citymakers and encourages the exchange of ideas and experiences to effect positive sustainable change.
You can find more information at www.use.metropolois.org.
What does the platform offer?
- A continuously growing database of international case studies with practical and innovative approaches to sustainable urban development.
- Comprehensive search and filter options (e.g. according to cities, topics, individual SDGs).
- Access to an active community of citymakers, including politicians, administrators, academics and urban practitioners worldwide.
- Interviews and news about events, awards and much more in the field of international urban development.
Learning tool: USE.cases
- Currently nearly 400 case studies, editorially processed and regularly updated.
- Comprehensive: wide-ranging background information and direct contact to initiators and people directly involved in case studies.
- Award-winning: regular supply of case studies by leading urban awards and by institutional partners like EUROCITIES, UCLG Learning, URBACT and Guangzhou Award.
- From citymakers for citymakers: exclusive case studies by members of the use community.
Platform for exchange: use.community
- Profiles of currently nearly 500 citymakers, including politicians, administrators, academics and urban Practitioners.
- Registered users are given case study alerts about new case studies, and the option of making direct contact with all community members. They can also publish case studies of their own.
Registration and contribution
- The database of case studies is freely accessible and can be used free of charge.
- To create a profile in the use community, to network directly with other citymakers and to submit case studies of one’s own, anyone who is interested can register on the platform in a few simple steps and activate their profile:
Governing Mayor of Berlin
– Senate Chancellery –
- Tel.: +49 30 9026-0
- Fax: +49 30 9026-2013
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Isothermal extrusion is a very much desired technology. However, its implementation in the light-metal extrusion practice has, up till now, been technologically constrained. In an attempt to realise isothermal extrusion, a simulation model based on the PID control algorithms was developed to establish ram speed profiles that could prevent extrudate temperature from further increase after an initial rise during an extrusion cycle. With this simulation model, extrusion ram speed could be adjusted in real time according to the simulated exit temperature. A case study was conducted on the simulated extrusion of a magnesium alloy AZ31B into a hollow profile. The results showed significantly improved temperature homogeneity not only along the extrudate length but also on its cross section in the case of extrusion in the isothermal mode with a designed ram speed profile. In addition, die temperature varied over a narrower range and the force acting on the die face was more stable over the process cycle, in comparison with extrusion in the conventional iso-speed mode. | <urn:uuid:b0eddcbb-8010-4bd8-bf10-6bca3032a7e4> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.scientific.net/KEM.367.153 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280929.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00421-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944445 | 202 | 2.34375 | 2 |
Jason Wittenberg. Crucibles of Political Loyalty: Church Institutions and Electoral Continuity in Hungary. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 314 pp. $88.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-521-84912-8.
Reviewed by James Bjork
Published on HABSBURG (January, 2010)
Commissioned by John C. Swanson
Passing It On: Religious Community and Partisan Continuity
Jason Wittenberg’s study of the relationship between religiosity and voting practices in Hungary since the Second World War is an impressive attempt to bridge the methodological divide in the social sciences between number-crunching and narration. The book starts with a puzzle familiar to students of electoral history across many national contexts: the persistence of local voting preferences (for right- or left-wing party “families,” if not for particular parties) over many years, even over many generations. In Hungary, as elsewhere in post-Communist eastern Europe, the emergence of such patterns in the 1990s was even more striking because direct forms of institutional and behavioral continuity were absent: there had been no independent right-wing parties and no free multiparty elections for over forty years. So how, Wittenberg asks, was the tendency to vote conservative sustained? The connective tissue, he concludes, was provided by the Christian churches, especially the more ritually demanding Roman Catholic Church, which had considerable--albeit limited--success in maintaining contact with its core constituency through the Communist period.
The argument is based in part on statistical analysis, laid out systematically in the final chapter but with key findings foreshadowed earlier. Using a series of multivariate regressions, the author demonstrates that both levels of support for right-wing parties in the mid-1940s (before the Communist seizure of power) and levels of enrollment in school-based religious instruction in the late 1950s and 1960s (used here as an index of “church community”) provide good predictors of support for right-leaning political parties in the 1990s. But if these statistical correlations form the skeleton of Wittenberg’s argument, he tries to put flesh on the bone with a narrative account of the struggles between the churches and the regime during the Communist era. This constitutes about half of the book and draws on both a survey of secondary (sociological and anthropological) literature and extensive research in state and (to a lesser extent) church archives. These sections show that the requirements of statistical modeling can sometimes dovetail with keen ethnographic observation. Constructing a “large N” database, consisting of religious education enrollment figures from 3000 villages and municipalities, revealed both considerable fluctuation and extraordinary local variation in levels of enrollment in religious instruction: in one village, registration doubled between 1958 and 1959, while within a single district, the percentage of children enrolled in religious education in 1958 varied from 0 to 92 (p. 189). Wittenberg rightly sees this as a crucial piece of the puzzle, and he plausibly suggests that fluctuation and variation demonstrate the importance of efforts by local actors--parish priests and local party cadres--in determining who would win the battle over religious education in any particular place at any particular moment.
It is important to keep such descriptions of on-the-ground contestation in mind when evaluating the author’s overarching claim that “institutions” and “structures” were more important than “ideas” and “cultures” in shaping continuities in behavior (p. 239). For Wittenberg, “institutions” are connected to contingent, embodied action by human actors, while “culture” easily dissolves into mystifying assertions about timeless collectivities. This interest in concrete human activity--buttressed by citations of James Scott and Michel de Certeau--is commendable. But while Wittenberg’s institutional account does effectively rescue the agency of local elites, it comes close to eviscerating the agency of local laypeople, reducing popular religiosity to a product of the relative mobilizing skills of priests and cadres. Consider the book’s discussion of the correlation between rates of enrollment in religious education and the enrollment of children of party or local council members. Wittenberg suggests that elite behavior helped determine mass behavior, as the churches accrued advantages from “turning” a party functionary (p. 190). But is it not at least as plausible that the causal arrow points the other way--that the registration for religious instruction of party or council members’ children reflected pressure from below, an effort to comply with perceived local norms? This alternative story is not really considered, even though, as the author notes, many game theorists assume that it is individual calculations about the behavior of the many, not signaling by an allegedly influential few, that produce “tipping points” and result in cascades toward local conformity (p. 46).
Perhaps the most unsatisfying feature of the book is the persistent conflation of one very specific activity--registration of children for school-based religious instruction--with the far more complex and multifaceted phenomenon of creating and sustaining “church community.” Wittenberg concedes that religious instruction is “only one of the many possible indicators of religiosity,” but it is nonetheless the only one that he scrutinizes (p. 198). Other practices (baptisms, weddings, funerals, church attendance) and survey data on religious belief are only mentioned in passing, with the longest treatment a one-and-a-half-page subsection titled “Beyond Religious Instruction” (pp. 198-199). Disappointingly, measurements that have served as standard indicators of religiosity across Catholic Europe for more than a century, such as rates of Easter communion, annual communions per parishioner, or clerical vocations, are not mentioned at all--a lamentable absence for any scholars interested in using a familiar yardstick to compare the Hungarian case to others. Even statistics on church-based religious instruction, which apparently was much more resilient than school-based religious instruction and had largely replaced it after the mid-1970s, are only referenced fleetingly (p. 185). Pushing to the side all of these other potentially rich clues to the many dimensions of “church community” seems a high price to pay for focusing on the production of impeccably precise mathematical correlations, correlations that (as Wittenberg concedes in his concluding paragraphs) correspond to well-known patterns across Europe and are thus “less than puzzling” (p. 244).
The author rightly goes on to emphasize that the real trick is in “specifying the mechanism of partisan reproduction over time” (p. 244). But here again, conflating school-based religious education with “religious community” tends to obscure rather than clarify the “mechanisms” involved. Indeed, in treating school-based religious education simply as a proxy for some broader and more abstract phenomenon, Wittenberg ironically fails to unpack the specific dynamics of religious education and how it might have worked as a means of ideological transmission. He implicitly treats registration figures as a kind of rolling plebiscite on allegiance to church vs. party, a snapshot indicator of parents’ relationship to the church at that particular moment. This is entirely plausible as far as it goes. But surely one reason that religious education was a particularly fierce arena of contestation is its presumed formative impact on the children involved. Priests hoped and party officials feared that those who received religious instruction would internalize a worldview that would shape their thinking and behavior (potentially including voting behavior) many decades later. This understanding of the function of religious instruction would seem to fit rather nicely into Wittenberg’s overall findings and argument. He is, after all, trying to explain the link between the education of schoolchildren in the 1960s and the behavior of voters in the 1990s; would it not be worth noting that many middle-aged voters in the 1990s had been schoolchildren precisely in the 1960s? Yet Wittenberg seems oddly resistant to considering such generational analyses, even when they might seem the most economical way to explain certain patterns. He notes, for example, that baptisms and church weddings declined sharply between 1951 and 1984, while religious burials declined much more modestly (p. 199). Might this not be further prima facie evidence that Hungarians who did not receive religious education in schools (most of those getting married and having children by 1984) were less attached to the church than those who had received such education (the vast majority of those getting buried in 1984)?
Such missed opportunities to connect the dots make it difficult to accept Wittenberg’s concluding claim to “have transformed the empirical relationship between religiosity and rightist attachments from the realm of association into that of causation” (p. 244). Too much of the human story here--about what school-based religious instruction was transmitting and how it was being transmitted, let alone how “church community” as a whole was constituted and sustained--remains stubbornly elusive here. But this book is, nonetheless, a formidable piece of scholarship and a highly stimulating spur to further research. It asks probing questions and includes keen observations, and it is to be hoped that political scientists as well as other scholars will continue to deploy a broad methodological arsenal to follow up on them.
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James Bjork. Review of Wittenberg, Jason, Crucibles of Political Loyalty: Church Institutions and Electoral Continuity in Hungary.
HABSBURG, H-Net Reviews.
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Monadnock Paper Mills Joins Climate Leaders Program
Aug. 8, 2008 - Monadnock Paper Mills today said that it has become one of the first small businesses to join the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Climate Leaders program.
By participating in the Climate Leaders program, Monadnock has pledged to reduce its corporate-wide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. "The goals of the Climate Leaders program are very much in line with Monadnock's core beliefs," said Richard Verney, Monadnock chairman and CEO. "Monadnock has a long history of using clean, renewable energy and of continuously improving our environmental footprint. Joining the Climate Leaders program is a natural extension of our commitment to the environment."
The Climate Leaders program is an EPA industry-government partnership that works with companies to develop comprehensive climate change strategies. Partner companies commit to reducing their impact on the global environment by completing a corporate-wide inventory of their GHG emissions based on a third-party audited environmental management system, setting aggressive reduction goals, and annually reporting their progress to the EPA. Through program participation, companies create a credible record of their accomplishments and receive EPA recognition as corporate environmental leaders.
Family-owned Monadnock Paper Mills generates renewable energy through its on-site, low-impact hydroelectric facilities and has received numerous certificates of recognition for environmental initiatives advocating sustainability. Monadnock was the first paper mill to receive Forest Stewardship Council chain-of-custody certification (ensuring responsible use of forest resources SW-COC-001160) for its Astrolite PC 100® recycled printing paper. It has also earned ISO 14001:2004 Certification for its comprehensive Environmental Management System.
Over the last decade Monadnock has reduced its water usage by half and currently manufactures all of its printing and packaging papers carbon neutral using 100% renewable electricity.
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Throughout the lockdown period, Booth Engineers have been fully equipped with technology that allows them to record risks relating to COVID-19. They have been supplied with a stock of hand sanitiser, disposable gloves and also extra uniforms to allow a complete change of clothes each day. Equally important, they all are equipped with commercial-grade surface wipes. These wipes are used to clean any surface they touch as they move around our client’s place of work.
Now, as the lockdown begins to ease, we can reflect on record breaking weather conditions in April and May. We can also ask, are they a precursor for a long hot Summer ahead? And, is your air conditioning appropriately clean, sanitised and functioning correctly? It is very important to be aware – particularly at this time – maintenance and repair on the internal workings of your air conditioning system needs a qualified air conditioning engineer.
However, you can do many cleaning and minor maintenance tasks to keep your system functioning as well as it can. Also, these jobs can keep the professional service charges lower. Here are a few things you can do to help reduce your air conditioner expenses during the rest of 2020.
Clean or Replace All Filters
Dirty filters cause the air conditioner to work harder as it moves the air in and out of your building. If the filters become too dirty, they can cause the system to malfunction, increase energy consumption and perhaps freeze up. Dirty filters also can reduce the air quality and aggravate allergies. Subject to air conditions around the premises, air filters should be cleaned or replaced every three to six months dependent upon usage. They are inexpensive, and many people find it convenient to buy a buffer stock, so they have them on hand when they need to be replaced.
Trim Any Trees and Bushes That Have Grown Too Close to the Outdoor Condenser Unit
Plants that become overgrown near the condenser unit can interfere with the air flow it needs to function efficiently. Also, plants that hang over or brush against the condenser will shed leaves and debris, which accumulate in the unit and interfere with its operation. They also make it difficult for an engineer to access the mechanism to inspect and service it.
Clean Debris from The Outdoor Condenser Unit
Keep air conditioning units free of debris. The outdoor condenser can often become covered with leaves, its base surrounded by windblown debris. You should clean all of that away. First, turn off the power to the air conditioning system and turn off the circuit breaker that operates it. Once you are certain the power is off, clear debris from on top and around the base of the condenser. After clearing, take a hose and spray the fan blades inside of the condenser. Hold the hose about four inches from the sides of the condenser and spray it off using up and down motions. Keep spraying until the water running out of the bottom of the unit becomes free of large particles and runs clear. Let it dry before powering the system on.
Replace Any Deteriorated Insulation on The Refrigerant Pipes
Check the pipes going from the outdoor unit into the building. If any of the insulated sleeves are deteriorating or frayed, replace them with new insulation sleeves that can be purchased at most of the well-known DIY stores.
Learn the Signs That Your Air Conditioner Needs Servicing
Ideally, switch your system on in good time before your return. Is it cooling adequately? If not, turn the unit off for an hour. Set the thermostat at the ambient temperature, and then lower it in increments of four degrees each hour. If that fails to return the building to a comfortable temperature, you need to call an air conditioning engineer. If it does not work at all, yet you have ensured that the power is on, you will likely need a professional engineer to inspect and repair it. By catching the problem before the really warm days set in, you can avoid the cost of an emergency repair.
Call Booth Air Conditioning
Doing these minor maintenance tasks yourself prevents many small problems from becoming big ones and can save you time and money organising and paying for emergency service calls. High quality and appropriate maintenance of your system requires a professionally trained engineer. Here at Booth, we do not advocate untrained personnel trying to ‘fix’ air conditioning systems beyond these ‘do it yourself’ tips.
A reputable, qualified contractor, such as Booth, will inspect and service the inner workings of the system. In most cases, we recommended you contract for a bi-annual service, as a minimum. Regular professional servicing will prolong the life of your system. It is also important to be aware that during what will almost certainly be a large-scale return to work, most air conditioning companies will give their service clients priority for emergency calls and at reduced fees.
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<< Does anyone know exactly how any portion of this DNA code actually causes
something biological (step by step) to happen? Or is all that still in the
The question you ask is simple(direct) and very complexx. Yet it must be taken
on a case by case basis and some if it is now known and molecular biologists
are working on answers for the future.
For example hemoglobin (HbA) is a well studied molecule and the base sequence
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mature form, what it does, how it does it. but not oll molecular mechanisms
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its expression. Then there are the other hemoglobins and their controls which
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Gujarat offers much more that being the birthplace of Ghandi, including hilltop temples, untouched villages and windswept beaches.
Gujarat is located on India's western coast, on the Arabian Sea. The state is most famous for being the birthplace of Mahatma Ghandi, whose legacy can be seen in many places.
But there is a lot more to explore and enjoy in Gujarat. The state capital of Ahmedabad has some stunning architecture that has made it a UNESCO Heritage city. Explore many ancient mosques and temples, Ghandi's former headquarters at Sabarmati Ashram, the excellent Calico Museum of Textiles or perhaps enjoy some street food at Ratri Bazaar.
Gir National Park is a major attraction due to it being one of the few places you can observe the Asiatic Lion. The best time to visit is between December and April in the dry season. Located between Veraval and Junagadh, the park is a total of over 1400 square kilomotres in size. The access is strictly controlled through authorised safaris.
The spectacular temple at Shatrunjaya is also worth visiting, if you are able to climb the 3000 odd steps to this hilltop pilgrimage site, one of the holiest of Jainism. Champaner and Pavagadh are the locations for similar hilltop pilgrimage sites, offering stunning views and an insight into the history of Gujarat - Champaner was Gujarat's ancient capital.
Gujarat also offers many unspoilt coastal resorts to relax. Perhaps the most inviting being the island of Diu, a former Portuguese colony. Here, white sandy beaches await with swaying palms and a relaxed, chilled atmosphere.
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So what are you gonna be when you grow up–if you ever do grow up, and don’t just stay in collidge pounding Play-Doh for the rest of your life?
Well, hey-hey! Become a robot psychologist! That would be someone who tries to understand what computers and other “Artificial Intelligences” are thinking, presuming they think at all (https://www.wsj.com/articles/career-of-the-future-robot-psychologist-1499605203).
The Wall Street Journal reports that engineers designing AI seem to be losing their handle on it. Could it be that no one remembers that “Artificial Intelligence” is only a simulation of intelligence, and not the real thing? You know–like Strat-O-Matic is a nice simulation of baseball, minus the pine tar. But it’s not really baseball. You should be able to figure that out when Babe Ruth comes up to bat.
From the outside looking in, it looks like computers even now are not as good as they used to be. Can an Artificial Intelligence go mad? Or will it only simulate madness? And just how badly do we want these machines, these robots, driving our cars and prescribing medical treatments for us?
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The following blog post was written by Stephanie Schorow, author of Drinking Boston: A History of the City and Its Spirits, in celebration of Black History Month.
Many jazz clubs, which catered to Boston’s African-American community, flourished in Boston in the 1940s to the 1960s. Perhaps one of the most popular was the Pioneer Club. That is, popular to those who knew the secrets for getting into this afterhours bar and restaurant. Located near the Roxbury/South End line on an alleyway near Tremont and Northampton Streets, the Richard Earle Pioneer Club dated back to 1903, managing to survive as a speakeasy during Prohibition.
Richard Earle was a black train porter and established a place where porters, waiters and chefs could gather between runs. It became a hangout for both blacks and whites, with live music and, more importantly, impromptu concerts for famous musicians who would drop in at 2 a.m. after their gigs to jam with friends until dawn. Musicians like Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Louis Armstrong, Dinah Washington, even Billie Holliday, would drop by.
But you had to know someone to get in. Lincoln Pope Jr., a former state representative from Roxbury, political leader and legislative assistant to the commonwealth’s sergeant-at-arms, became associated with the club and a word from him could get you through the door.
Veteran Boston Globe reporter Bill Buchanan described the procedure: “You rang the bell and waited for the doorman to move back a sliding wooden cover to the glass peephole. It was dark as a pocket in the doorway, but in most cases, you were recognized.”
Everyone hung out there—politicians, lawyers, reporters, musicians, music lovers, even gangsters. Buchanan described bumping into the notorious hitman Joe Barboza there (the two exchanged pleasantries) as well as gleefully drinking $1.25 beer at 3 a.m. More significantly, although most of the clientele was black, different races mingled there freely—as they did at other jazz clubs—even when so many other Boston institutions and neighborhoods were segregated. Afterhours bars were nothing new in Boston but, as Buchanan put it, “no one ever seemed ashamed to be seen at 3 or 4 a.m. at the Pioneer.”
Unfortunately, progress, under the guise of the Boston Redevelopment Authority, doomed the Pioneer Club. Its hours were curtailed, and in July of 1974, the building was demolished for new development. Bill Buchanan was among its mourners, writing that “a very special part of Boston night life that now has passed.” Lincoln Pope died in 1979, much lauded as an activist who encouraged many blacks to register to vote under the slogan, “A Voteless People are Hopeless People.” And of all the jazz clubs that once flourished in Boston, only Wally’s Café still remains.
Yet the Pioneer Club was a significant part of Boston’s drinking history, remembered with great affection by those who went there. Richard Vacca, in his comprehensive book, The Boston Jazz Chronicles, quotes a jazz fan as saying, “I only went there once, and I felt I had finally reached this ultimate place in Boston, the place where everybody’s hip.”
For more on the Pioneer Club, pick up a copy of Drinking Boston. The book introduces readers to the cast of characters who championed or vilified drinking and the places where they imbibed—legally and otherwise. Bringing us to present day, this literary pub crawl visits some of Boston’s most beloved and enduring neighborhood barrooms, ending with an examination of Boston’s very own recipe for the current cocktail renaissance sweeping the nation—the innovators, the hotspots, and the uncompromising dedication to craft. The book is available through our website; online through Amazon or Barnes & Noble; or pick up a copy at your favorite local bookstore. If your favorite shop doesn’t have it in stock, just ask—they’ll be happy to order it for you!
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- s containing or implying a slight or showing prejudice
- Well, it would be lovely if the political dialogue could be conducted totally in terms of the general welfare, with no invidious arguments that seek to divide us from one another.
- He brings the hollow, driven, tyrannical character of Captain Queeg to full and invidious life, yet seldom fails to maintain a bond of sympathy with his audience.
- Instead of the neutral "What is your height?", the question is always the invidious "How tall are you?"
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For those of us old enough to remember the allegations and facts of the Richard Nixon Administration’s abuse of our personal liberties, we can only watch in astonishment as the administration of President Obama unveils itself daily as more egregious, more corrupt and more invidious than Nixon’s when it comes to our personal liberties.
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It will be up to (Opposition Leader) Brendan Nelson to decide whether he'll support what wheatgrowers in Australia actually want,Mr Windsor said. "I think the position that Brendan Nelson has painted himself into is an invidious position...
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I believe that we should not put European companies in an invidious position where their choice appears to be to break the law or leave the market to more unscrupulous operators,Reding said.
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'There seems no denying the widespread opinion that photos of an orchestra performing are visually very dull. In the days when LPs were a wonderful canvas for art directors, except for putting the conductor on the cover, a classical music album with an image of orchestra on the cover was much rarer than one with something else more contrived'- is the opening of a well-researched piece on the use of photos of orchestras by newspapers.
The article appears on the personal blog of Nat Bocking whose day job is with the estimable Aldeburgh Music. Nat's well-researched piece agrees with Julian Bream that novelty and transient fashion are the preferred currency of today's media and he concludes that if you want the newspapers to cover your music story with a picture you need a visual stunt as bait, like the one above which is linked from his article.
Now take this path to another classic misunderstanding from the conductor of those visually contrived Planets.
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Most companies go to great lengths to keep unauthorised users off their networks, but Wi-Fi access points can provide hackers with a convenient way in. That's because Wi-Fi signals are often broadcast beyond the walls of the company and out into the streets - an enticing invitation for hackers.
Since many companies allow or even actively encourage employees to connect to the network using their own mobile devices - tablets and smartphones as well as laptops - it's not practical for most companies to switch off Wi-Fi access. Instead, here are five tips to make your wireless network more secure
Some Wi-Fi access points still offer the older WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) standard of protection, but it is fundamentally broken. That means that hackers can break in to a WEP-protected network using a hacking suite like Aircrack-ng in a matter of minutes.
So to keep out intruders, it's essential to use some variant of WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) protection, either WPA or the newer WPA2 standard.
For smaller companies it may be practical to use WPA with a pre-shared key. That means that all employees use the same password to connect, and network security depends on them not sharing the password with outsiders. It also means that the password should be changed every time an employee leaves the company.
Some Wi-Fi routers offer a feature called Wireless Protect Setup (WPS) which provided an easy way to connect devices to a WPA protected wireless network. However, this can be exploited by hackers to retrieve your WPA password, so it is important to disable WPS in the router's settings.
In larger organisations it makes more sense to use WPA in enterprise mode, which allows each user to have their own username and password to connect to the Wi-Fi network. This makes it much easier to manage when employees are leaving regularly, as you can simply disable ex-employees' accounts; but to use WPA in enterprise mode you have to run a server (known as a RADIUS server) which stores the login information for each employee.
2.Use a secure WPA password
Make sure that any password (or passphrase) that protects your Wi-Fi network is long and random so it can't be cracked by a determined hacker.
You can test the security of your WPA protected network (without revealing your password or passphrase) by using the CloudCracker service. You'll be asked to provide some data (the same data that a hacker could capture or "sniff" out of the air with a laptop from anywhere in range of your network) and the service will attempt to extract your password.
If the service is unsuccessful then a hacker is unlikely to be successful either. But if the service finds your password then you know that you need to choose a longer, more secure one.
3.Check for rogue Wi-Fi access points
Rogue access points present a huge security risk. These aren't your company's "official" Wi-Fi access points, but ones that have been brought in by employees (perhaps because they can't get a good Wi-Fi signal in their office,) or conceivably by hackers who have entered your building and surreptitiously connected one to an Ethernet point and hidden it.
In either case, rogue access points present a risk because you have no control over them or how they are configured: for example, one could be set up to broadcast your SSID (the 32 character identifier for a wireless network) and allow anyone to connect without providing a password.
To detect rogue access points you need to scan your offices and the area around it on a regular basis using a laptop of mobile device equipped with suitable software such as Vistumbler or airodump-ng. These programs allow the laptop to "sniff" the airwaves to detect any wireless traffic travelling to or from a rogue access point, and help you identify where they are located. | <urn:uuid:204222a1-245c-41b0-9809-d5dd56f93431> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.techradar.com/news/networking/wi-fi/five-tips-for-a-secure-wireless-network-1161225 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280791.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00358-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944835 | 812 | 1.921875 | 2 |
We talk about them [the charities] quite often you know. Say for example it’s about a project to help children being abused. So…one member…a teacher will say, yeah, you know I have problems with that with my kids in class, they bring problems in from home…or somebody else will talk about a third world health initiative and somebody will say well I know a bit about that. […] You know, we think about clean water or good eyesight or famine or…so we give some thought to all of these issues.
This is Jennifer, speaking about the workings of a small “giving circle” in the United Kingdom. Giving circles are voluntary groups that enable individuals to pool their money (and sometimes their time as volunteers) to support organizations of mutual interest. They also provide opportunities for education and engagement among participants about philanthropy and social change, connecting them to charities, their communities, and each other.
While giving circles come in many shapes and sizes, their key attribute is that members decide on which organizations they want to support collectively, engaging each other in discussions and decision-making and taking direct responsibility for grant making and running the group. In this sense, they form a more democratic, grassroots-based, bottom-up alternative to conventional top-down philanthropy such as a foundation or an NGO.
At a time when conventional philanthropy is being criticized for being distant, overly hierarchical, and out of touch with grassroots realities, giving circles might provide some of the building blocks of a healthier and more effective system of funding for social change. But is this really true? That’s one of the questions I’ve been researching in the UK and the USA for the past ten years.
In theory, giving circles represent a promising avenue for grassroots philanthropy in environments where public provision of social welfare is declining, services are being marketized, and societies are increasingly individualized overall. They emphasize collaboration across groups and sectors, close relationships between funders and partners, and hands-on, unconventional modes of giving and volunteering. Giving circles accommodate people who want to do something more active than simply writing a check, and who want more of a say in their giving in the context of busy and hectic lives.
In the U.S., for example, Washington Womenade raises money by holding potluck dinners at which people donate about $35 to a fund that provides financial assistance to individuals who need help in paying for their prescriptions, utility bills, rent, food and other priorities. Another network of circles called Dining for Women was inspired by Washington Womenade and now has more than 400 chapters across the country in which women eat together monthly and pool the funds they would have spent dining out to support programs that help women around the world. They raised more than $4.1 million between 2003 and 2014.
BeyondMe is a network of circles made up of young professionals working at major corporations in the UK. Each one selects a charity or social enterprise to support for one year, on average donating £4,000 and 150 volunteer hours to the organization of their choice, whose remit has included jobless young offenders, homeless youth, and women who have experienced abuse and sexual exploitation. Since its inception in 2011, BeyondMe has generated over £200,000 and 12,000 hours of volunteer time.
Globally, one of the largest international networks of giving circles is The Funding Network, which has affiliates across Europe and North America that have raised over £8 million since 2002. The Network specializes in hosting live crowdfunding events that bring donors together to support small charities that address poverty and injustice. A selection committee chooses three to five organizations or projects for each event, with members pledging donations during a fast-paced session almost like an auction.
What are the broader implications of these new forms of engagement for philanthropy and social change?
The first issue is diversity. As these three examples show (out of a much larger universe), giving circles may share certain operational characteristics but not a common social or political background in their membership or agenda in their giving. Instead, they attract people from diverse professional backgrounds; include experienced givers as well as those who are new to philanthropy; and come from a wide range of income levels, racial and ethnic identities—although in my sample and seemingly in the larger population of giving circle members, women (in the U.S.) and young professionals (in the UK) tend to predominate.
Due in part to this diversity, giving circle members are significantly more likely to support women and ethnic and minority groups than other donors. Giving circles also provide opportunities for democratic participation through agenda setting, decision-making and face-to-face debates and deliberation, and they build the capacities of their members through education about issues, organizations, and the skills of grantmaking.
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Given these democratizing effects, one might expect that participation in giving circles will lead to greater civic and political action among their members, thereby feeding indirectly into processes of social change including efforts to change government policy. However, the evidence on this point is not conclusive.
My surveys show that giving circles encourage their members to give more (and maybe to give more strategically by considering the effectiveness of different organizations), but not that they necessarily promote greater participation in politics. In the UK groups I studied, members gave significantly more per month than similar donors who were not in a giving circle, and more than three-quarters said that their giving had increased. In addition, about half the members surveyed in both the U.S. and the UK said that they had increased their volunteering as a result of participation in a giving circle, especially over time.
About two-thirds of the members I spoke to in the U.S. also said that they had increased their efforts to address problems in their communities; about half said the same thing in the UK. However, only one in three members in the U.S. said that participation in a giving circle had led them to expand their efforts to change government policy; in the UK the figure was less than one in six. And while participation in activities such as voting and signing petitions was higher for giving circle members than non-members in the U.S., there was little difference between the two groups in the UK.
This may be because members were already politically active before joining a giving circle, but overall the research suggests that there is no or little “political talk” in meetings. As Nigel, a member of a young professionals’ giving circle in the UK told me:
A debate might come up during an initial discussion session when you’re trying to think about different interests and…what…part of the NGO sector needs funding. Maybe that might lead to politics. Otherwise, I don’t think so…it’s not really…into political discussion basically.
These findings raise questions about the degree to which groups like giving circles can contribute to larger social change or the transformation of philanthropy. They might help to democratize giving and serve as small-scale “schools for democracy,” but they seem unlikely to challenge the problems and processes that lead to the need for philanthropy in the first place.
More radical models of giving such as The Edge Fund or the Red Umbrella Fund aim to acknowledge and address issues of power and privilege explicitly, thereby increasing the contribution that funding can make to social and political change. However, these models constitute only a small minority in philanthropy more broadly.
The challenge is to move beyond encouraging more giving (even if it’s channeled to marginalized groups and decided by democratic processes), to enhancing the ability and willingness of donors to engage in deeper efforts to change themselves and the structures that perpetuate poverty, inequality, violence and discrimination.
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Pay, jobs data might hurt stocks -- but not everyone trusts the numbers
NEW YORK » In the good-news-can-be-bad-news world of Wall Street, recent data showing growth in employment and wages have worried some investors. Their fear: More jobs and higher wages could spark inflation and prompt the Federal Reserve to continue its march of short-term interest rate hikes.
But the strong employment and pay numbers have become a source of contention on the Street. Some economists and strategists believe the employment and pay picture is less inflationary than the data would suggest.
One of their arguments is that employment figures have more to do with unseasonably warm weather than economic strength, since more construction workers are on the job now than they would be during a colder winter.
Among the data at issue is January's unemployment figure, which sank to 4.7 percent, its lowest level since July 2001. The four-week average of jobless claims on Thursday fell to its lowest level in six years, according to the Labor Department. Then, there are employees' average hourly earnings, which trailed inflation for most workers last year, but rose to $16.41 in January, up 3.3 percent from a year ago.
These were some of the reasons Prudential Equity Group chief investment officer Edward Keon mentioned Monday when he dropped his recommendation that investors keep 100 percent of their portfolios in equities. He now recommends investors keep 55 percent of their portfolios in equities.
The January employment report "began to rattle the cozy consensus that has been expecting just one or two more rate hikes from the Federal Reserve in 2006," Bank of America strategist Thomas McManus wrote, saying the drop in the unemployment rate and indications of wage pressure were "particularly troubling."
The "potentially negative impact" of surprise rate hikes spurred by the data "cannot be overlooked," he wrote.
Others on the Street are looking at the data, then switching to the Weather Channel.
UBS economist Maury N. Harris wrote before Thursday's release of unemployment claims, "Mild weather probably continued to hold down claims." The bank's economic note had a graph with a fever chart showing the temperature's deviation from normal between January 2004 and January 2006.
"Some of the conditions that have ripened the growth outlook at the start of 2006 are unlikely to last into spring," wrote Citigroup's U.S. economist Steven Wieting. "Abnormally warm weather boosted construction activity in December. ... Judging by a 46,000 gain in construction employment in January, the winter 2006 will go down as an unusually early and strong period for building activity."
But increased inventories of residential housing could mean slower construction come spring, Wieting wrote.
Merrill Lynch North American economist David Rosenberg called jobs figures "weather distorted."
"As for the employment report, I think there's a danger of overreacting over the message from it because this was the third warmest January in the past 112 years," Rosenberg wrote.
Ian Shepherdson, chief U.S. economist at High Frequency Economics said he had "lingering suspicions that something is not quite right with the sudden plunge in (unemployment) claims over the past month or so." But Thursday's numbers convinced him the data "looks to be the real deal."
If claims stay this low, the labor market could "become almost as tight as at the peak of the '90s boom," he wrote.
The signs of higher wages, which you'd expect to see in a tight labor market, are already popping up in the data. But Merrill's Rosenberg said they don't bear scrutiny.
"For those claiming that we have a humdinger of a tight labor market ... and this is reflected in the average hourly earnings data -- think again," he wrote. He pinned most of the increase to jobs in information technology, where average hourly earnings went from a 2.5 percent increase a year ago to 6.1 percent now. Wages in the financial sector also jumped.
For every industry seeing wage acceleration, such as education, health and construction, another industry is seeing wages fall, as is the case in manufacturing, leisure, hospitality, transportation and utilities, he wrote.
The unseasonable increase in construction jobs is skewing pay statistics, too, he argued, pointing out that construction pay is 17 percent above the average for all industries.
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TED 2012: Will Technology Save Us All, or Will It Tear Us Apart?open original article
Op-Ed: Why YouTube Matters to the Science of Depressionopen original article
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Education in the Cloud: Exploring Opportunitiesopen original article
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Facebook and Others Aim to Make the Mobile Web a Competitive App Platformopen original article
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1 in 8 Chance of Catastrophic Solar Megastorm by 2020open original article
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Pentagon Helps New Stealth Fighter Cheat on Key Performance Testopen original article
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The Air Force Still Doesn't Know What's Choking Its Stealth Fighter Pilotsopen original article
Tue Feb 28, 2012 13:16 from Wired Top StoriesAmerica's newest stealth fighters have a major problem: their pilots can't breathe, due to some sort of malfunction in the planes' oxygen-generation systems. For months, the Air Force has been studying the problem, which temporarily grounded the entire fleet of F-22 Raptors and may have contributed to a pilot's death. Today, the Air Force admitted they still don't know exactly what's causing the issue.
Air Force Experimental Drone Uses Computing Power to Smooth High Flightsopen original article
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Feds Move to Extradite Megaupload Founder Kim Dotcomopen original article
Chevrolet Volt Named European Car of the Yearopen original article
Saturn's Largest Moon Seen in Unprecedented Detailopen original article
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10 Years of Gorgeous Images of Earth From Spaceopen original article
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Air Force Set to Shoot Down Its Own Giant Spy Blimpopen original article
Number 1 on Army's Shopping List: Wireless Broadbandopen original article
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Is Antivirus Software a Waste of Money?open original article
A Button That Makes You Forget: On Deleting My Google Web Historyopen original articleIt's not Google that I don't accept; only I most respectfully return to them the ticket.
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Put Some Clothes On: Video Calling Just Got Easieropen original article
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Eagle Cam Update: 3 Eggs in the Nestopen original article
Cloud to Deliver 14M New Jobs (Half in China, India)open original article
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How Red Hat Became A Billion Dollar Businessopen original article
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Bigger Than Facebook! Foreign Sites That Outshine the Web?s U.S. Starsopen original article
Metro-fied Windows Server 8 Goes Big on Cloudopen original article
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The Personal Cloud: The Future's Here, But Unevenly Distributedopen original article
Apple's App Store Reaches 25 Billion Global Downloadsopen original article
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Does Preschool Matter?open original article
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Bookrenter's Rafter Peeks Inside the Complex Education Industryopen original article
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TED and Meta TED: On-Scene Musings From the Wonderdomeopen original article
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Are Emotions Prophetic?open original article
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Europe-Only 'Science Cloud' Aims to Solve Mysteriesopen original article
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Does Cloud Meets OS Equal Mobile-Data Crunch?open original article
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'Cloud' Data Center Closes Because Federal Agencies Prefer Earthopen original article
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Here's Why the Government Thinks It Can Kill You Overseasopen original article
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Torture, Riots, Burnt Korans: One Afghan Jail's Dark Historyopen original article
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Big Sis Can't Quit the Drug Waropen original article
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SUVs of Death: Commandos Want Missiles in Their Trucksopen original article
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Secret Army Bomb Jammers Stolen in Afghanistanopen original article
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New Video Shows Japanese Speech-Jamming Gun in Actionopen original article
Privacy and Civil Liberties in the Digital Ageopen original article
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Angry Birds, Meet Jailbirds: New App Helps You Snitch on Your Friendsopen original article
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Constitutional Showdown Voided: Feds Decrypt Laptop Without Defendant's Helpopen original article
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Darpa Warns: Your iPhone Is a Military Threatopen original article
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U.S. Wants You to Hunt Fugitives With Twitteropen original article
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About 550,000 ethnic Russians now living in Latvia do not have Latvian citizenship. Moscow says Latvia is discriminating against non-citizens. But Latvian officials say that Russian speakers simply have not applied for naturalization and that it is very easy to pass the basic language and history tests required for citizenship.
Riga, 19 October 2001 (RFE/RL) -- Some 700,000 of Latvia's 2.3 million residents -- about 30 percent -- are ethnic Russians. After gaining independence 10 years ago, Latvia granted automatic citizenship only to those who had settled in the country before 1940, the year the republic was forcibly annexed by Soviet leader Josef Stalin. The move excluded thousands of ethnic Russians, who were required to undergo restrictive naturalization procedures that elicited objections from Moscow and criticism from the Council of Europe, whose representatives called for amendments to the procedures to put them in line with international standards.
In 1998, after a nationwide referendum, the Latvian parliament amended the citizenship law in order to ease the naturalization process. Today, to acquire Latvian documents, citizens must pass an exam testing basic knowledge of Latvia's language, history, and constitution. Minorities can use their own language during public meetings, and print posters and store signs in their native tongue.
But according to Leonid Fedoseyev, the editor of the Russian language daily "Chas," the Russian community still does not feel at ease in Latvia, since even ethnic Russians who were born in Latvia before 1991 have to go through the naturalization process. Fedoseyev describes that situation as ambiguous: "The status of [ethnic Russians] is unstable: They don't understand whether they are [Latvians or Russians] or how to behave. The majority of them feel that they belong to Latvia. Those who felt that they were not part of Latvia have already taken Russian citizenship. But most [ethnic Russians] don't want to take Russian citizenship, because they feel that [Latvia] is their country. But at the same time Latvian authorities are pushing them away. [Authorities] make them feel that they are not at home. It seems like they are saying, 'You are not our [citizens].' It's an ambiguous situation."
Antons Seiksts, the chairman of the Saeima (Latvian parliament) Committee for Human Rights, says authorities are behaving in a democratic way, because they give people the right and the opportunity to choose whose citizens they want to be. It's a choice, he points out, that was not extended to Latvians in 1940 when the country was occupied by Soviet troops: "When we are reproached [by foreign governments] with having many people living [in Latvia] without citizenship, we answer that to give people automatic citizenship is repressive, undemocratic, and Stalinist. When the Soviet Union occupied Latvia in 1940, people weren't asked whose citizen they wanted to be. In one hour's time they were given a citizenship, and if they dared to express their point of view, they were just shot or sent to Siberia. We don't want to behave in such a way. On the contrary, everyone can choose [which citizenship they want to have]."
Seiksts says that in 1991, Latvia did not gain new independence, but simply reinstated the independence it had lost. He says the citizenship debate is closely linked to Latvia's restoration to its previous independence: "[In 1991] Latvia brought back its independence. It was not only an independent state from 1918 to 1940, but it was also a member of the League of Nations [in 1921]. In 1991 Latvia didn't become independent, but regained its independence. This is the reason why [automatic] Latvian citizenship is restricted only to those people that are descendants of those Latvians who used to live in the independent Latvia."
Furthermore, Seiksts adds that members of other ethnic groups that moved to Latvia after the Soviet occupation are given the possibility to naturalize, and that the process is now quite simple.
Nevertheless, only some 150,000 Russians out of 700,000 have applied for citizenship. Non-citizens are given a passport, but officially they are not Latvian citizens and cannot vote or work as civil servants.
Fedoseyev of "Chas" newspaper says that up until now only small numbers of Russians have naturalized because they think the process will have little impact on their lives: "The reason why most people don't naturalize is that they don't see the point in doing that. A Russian that has [Latvian] citizenship feels as left out as a Russian without [Latvian] citizenship. The division [in society] is not determined by citizen, non-citizen status but by ethnic principles. [Russians] understand that after they naturalize nothing will change [in their life]. They think: 'Will the government's attitude toward me change? No. Will I get more rights for cultural autonomy? No. Will I get more rights for education? No.'"
Fedoseyev said Russians feel alienated because they have little political representation. Furthermore, many Russians have a poor understanding of their rights because the laws are written in Latvian, a language that few Russians speak or understand well.
In Soviet Latvia, Russian was the dominant language -- Latvians were forced to learn and to speak it. Andreis, a 65-year-old pensioner, said that in the Soviet times if someone spoke Latvian in a public place, he was asked to speak "like an human being." The Latvian language, he said, "was like an inferior language. It was really humiliating."
Native Latvian Paija Uzia spent 16 years in Siberian exile after being accused of supporting the Nazi regime. When she returned home in 1959, she says she was surprised to discover that few spoke Latvian. The dominant language was Russian and all the shop signs were in Russian. She says Russian residents should have learned Latvian a long time ago: "[Russians] should have started to learn our language a long time ago. In 1959, after 16 years in Siberia, I went back to Latvia, where nothing was written in Latvian. All the documents were in Russian. Russians were everywhere. Latvians could only preserve their own culture."
Fedoseyev said the language issue is not a problem for Russians, who he said "have finally understood that to live in Latvia they have to know the language. It is normal that if you live in America you have to speak English to be a member of the American society."
According to the last population census, taken in 2000, 62 percent of Latvian residents named Latvian as their native language, while 36.1 percent indicated Russian. This percentage is even higher than the 29.6 percent of ethnic Russians that make up the total population.
Valentina Pavlova was born in Russia but has lived in Riga for the past 21 years. She says she regrets having started to learn Latvian only a few years ago. During Soviet times, she said, she didn't need to speak anything but Russian.
Now Pavlova says she would be ashamed if she didn't have at least a basic knowledge of Latvian and says she is doing her best to integrate into Latvian society. She plans to take the naturalization exam next year. But she points out that many of her friends don't naturalize because they cannot afford to pay the 30 lats ($43) processing fee: "I'm trying to be part of the [country's] life. You can't live any other way. You have to know the language. It would be shameful for me if I didn't know the language at all. But not everybody lives so well that they can afford to pay for [the documents you need to naturalize]. For that reason, many people have doubts about whether to apply for [naturalization] or not. But in any case, it is necessary to be a full member of the state where you live."
Seiksts agreed that for many Latvians 30 lats is a large sum, and said soon the government would change it.
But at the moment what worries Fedoseyev is that Latvian and Russian communities don't share any contacts. This situation, he says, can be taken advantage of by nationalist groups: "At the moment, a serious problem worries me. It is evident that in the last 10 years both communities have been distancing themselves from each other. The two communities share fewer contacts [than they did 10 years ago]. There is less and less mutual understanding and contact. And this is a problem. Sometimes it is very difficult to discuss [your problems], because the other part is not willing to listen to you. They don't need you, they are self-sufficient. This may prepare the ground for stimulating radicalism in Latvia."
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Improve your woodworking skills and glue joints with these 18 tips to show you how to clamp like a veteran woodworker. Our pro shows you shortcuts that eliminate the need for a stack of expensive or special clamps.
In 30 years as a professional woodworker, Dave Munkittrick has tried just about every clamping technique imaginable. Some of them are his own inventions; some are borrowed from other woodworkers. As for the rest, he’s been doing them for so long that he can’t remember where they came from.
Dave says, “Over the decades, I have amassed a huge collection of clamps—every size and type. But the arsenal of clamps in my shop is no more valuable than the arsenal of clamping tricks I carry around in my head. So even if you’re a beginning woodworker with a modest clamp collection, these tips are for you. I’ll show you how to clamp to get the most from the clamps you have and even a few ways to clamp without clamps.”
Cauls made from 2x4s clamp the faces of edge-glued boards to keep them flat. Arrows indicate the direction of a slight bow in each caul.
As you squeeze boards together with pipe clamps, they sometimes arch or slip out of alignment. Pairs of upper and lower cauls are the solution. I lightly squeeze the cauls with bar clamps, then tighten the pipe clamps, then tighten the cauls a bit more… I continue this back-and-forth process until the boards are joined flush and flat.
My favorite cauls are made from 2x4s. I carefully select ones that have a slight bend or “crown” along the 1-1/2-in. edge, but no twist or warp. The crown is an advantage because it creates extra pressure in the middle of the caul. I label all my cauls with an arrow marking the direction of the crown and the length of the caul.
What’s a caul?
If it’s designed to spread clamping pressure over a wide area, you can call it a caul.
A strip of wax paper separates the clamps and the wood surface and prevents stains.
Moisture in glue triggers a reaction between iron and chemicals in wood (called “tannins”). The result is black stains on the wood, especially with tannin-rich woods like oak or walnut. A strip of wax paper acts as a barrier between the clamp and the wood. I also use wax paper to keep glue off my cauls.
Buckets of water are heavy and spread clamping weight evenly over a wide area.
Some woodworkers keep a stack of bricks in the shop for those times when weight is better than clamps. But I think plastic buckets make the best weights. Filled with water, they provide a lot of weight. When empty, they’re light, easy to store and handy for other jobs.
Make your own handy clamp jacks from scraps of 1/2-in. plywood.
Homemade clamp jacks raise your pipe clamps off the bench so the handles turn freely and there’s plenty of room underneath for alignment cauls and clamps. The jacks also act as pads to keep clamps from denting the wood. My jacks are 8 in. tall and made from 1/2-in. plywood.
Slightly shift one or two clamps and tighten to draw the face frame into a perfect right angle.
To check the squareness of a cabinet frame or box, take diagonal measurements. If the measurements aren’t equal, shift the positions of the clamps. In this photo, I exaggerated the shift for clarity. In most cases, a slight shift will do the trick. Sometimes, shifting just one clamp will pull the assembly into square.
A caul spreads the clamping pressure more evenly over the thin edging.
Thin, flexible parts require lots of clamps to create a consistently tight fit. Or you can use a caul. This solid-wood edging on plywood, for example, would have required a clamp every few inches. But with a stiff caul to spread the clamping force, I was able to use fewer clamps, spaced far apart.
A hot iron activates a thin coat of dried wood glue to "clamp" the veneer.
Gluing down veneer is tough. You have to apply flat, even pressure over every square inch. There are fancy tools for this, but for small veneer jobs, try this nifty trick: Apply a thin coat of wood glue to the substrate and the back of your veneer. Let the glue dry. Then position the veneer and use a hot iron (no steam) to reactivate the glue and press it into place. The bond is almost instant and very strong. I love it.
Not fancy, but this 2x4 clamp from above is effective.
Sometimes, a 2x4 wedged against overhead joists is better than a clamp. When routing a tabletop, for example, I can rout all the way around without stopping and shifting clamps. This trick is also handy when I need to apply pressure where clamps won’t reach: gluing down bubbled veneer in the middle of a large tabletop, for example.
Clamp L-shaped corner blocks to the sides to square-up box corners.
When you’re clamping cabinets together, getting a square assembly is half the battle. These simple blocks, made from three layers of 1/2-in. plywood, pull the cabinet into square and keep it there. After the squaring blocks are in place, I use pipe clamps to squeeze the joints tightly together.
Lengthen hand screw jaws with scrap wood.
Extend the reach of your hand screw clamps with a couple of lengths of scrap wood. Screw the jaw extensions to the side of your hand screw and away you go. Works great and couldn’t be easier.
Magnets mounted in small wood blocks hold the pads on the steel clamp jaws.
Instant on and instant off. You can’t beat the convenience of these wooden clamp pads. Best of all, they don’t leave oily stains like the plastic ones do. To make mine, I drilled shallow holes in 3/8-in.-thick blocks of softwood. Then I dropped in dabs of epoxy and inserted rare earth magnets. My magnets were 1/2 in. diameter and 1/8 in. thick. Make sure the magnet is flush or slightly below the pad surface.
Clamp odd-shaped objects with flexible electrical tape.
Every woodworker I know occasionally uses masking tape in place of clamps. But I prefer electrical tape because it’s stretchy and lets me put the pressure exactly where I need it.
Glue-ups can be a frenzied, nerve-jangling activity. So why not slow things down a bit? Take the edge off your glue-ups with a slow-setting glue such as Titebond’s Extend. The extra 10 minutes of open time can be a real lifesaver and nerve calmer.
Anchor a glue joint to keep it from slipping with a few almost-invisible pin nails or brads.
Wet glue is like grease, allowing parts to slide around while you’re trying to clamp them. But a few strategically placed brads or pins prevent that frustration. I like to use my 23-gauge pinner because the heads are almost invisible. But a standard brad nailer works too.
You can easily lengthen pipe clamps with nipples and additional lengths of pipe.
When you buy pipe for your pipe clamps, also pick up some couplers. That way, you can join pipes to make longer clamps.
Every time I skip this step, I end up regretting my impatience. Don’t make the same mistake. Take the time to rehearse your glue-up. That way you’ll know all the clamps you need are at hand and there won’t be any nasty, unexpected misfits in your joinery to ruin your glue-up and your day.
Make special clamping blocks to tighten miter joints.
A pair of notched “pinch blocks” puts clamp pressure right on the miter joint. This approach is especially good for picture frames because it lets you deal with one joint at a time rather than all four at once. Position the blocks shy of the mitered ends so you can see how the joint lines up.
Pipe clamps: Pipe clamps are the everyday, high-pressure workhorses of woodworking. They cost about $15 per set, plus a few more bucks for pipes. Because you can quickly screw the clamps onto different lengths of pipe, one set of pipe clamps does the same work as several lengths of bar clamps. Buy pipes in 2-, 3- and 4-ft. lengths and you’re ready for most situations.
Bar clamps: Quicker and easier to use than pipe clamps, light-duty bar clamps are perfect when you need a long reach and moderate pressure. They cost about $8 and up depending on length.
Spring clamps: These are the fastest helpers for holding your work in place or doing light-pressure clamping. They’re cheap, too: Most cost less than $5. | <urn:uuid:14634ae9-d78a-4897-adcc-401241efcb13> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.familyhandyman.com/woodworking/how-to-clamp/print | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280900.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00003-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.920549 | 1,992 | 1.890625 | 2 |
More than any other government agency, the CIA has found itself the target of criticism from both the left and the right. Liberals tend to fault the agency for what it’s done – spying on American citizens, conspiring to overthrow legitimate foreign governments, operating secret prisons around the world – while conservatives lament what the CIA hasn’t been able to do – namely, to provide accurate and timely intelligence to the President of the United States. In Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA, Tim Weiner deftly and succinctly shows how the agency has navigated the first sixty years of its existence, from its roots in the old OSS to its present-day pariah status within the Beltway.
Weiner, a reporter for the New York Times, states his thesis in the opening two lines of the Author’s Note that precedes the text: “[Legacy of Ashes] describes how the most powerful country in the history of Western civilization failed to create a first-rate spy service. That failure constitutes a danger to the national security of the United States.” Weiner finds the root of the failure in several places. He blames “a chronic American weakness: secrecy and deception were not our strengths.” As the British empire collapsed following World War II, the United States was left as the sole force able to oppose the spread of Soviet communism. It badly needed a first rate intelligence service to provide it with information on Soviet military capabilities, infrastructure, and intentions. The Central Intelligence Agency was supposed to be that service.
From the start, the agency was ill-conceived. Weak leadership plagued its earliest years. With retired rear admirals and Democratic party bigwigs at the helm, the agency, then called the Central Intelligence Group, languished, suffering from a postwar lack of direction that would be echoed at the end of the Cold War. The old OSS had been dismantled hastily after VJ day, with most European offices losing all of their officers. The talent that the OSS had attracted – the creme de la creme of America’s Ivy League – went back to their jobs as lawyers and bankers, leaving the United States standing naked before the behemoth of the Soviet Union.
As the CIA began to get its feet under the direction of Walter Bedell Smith, an army general and Eisenhower’s hatchet man during WWII, it developed a plan to combat the Soviet Union. And make no mistake, the Soviet Union was its sole target. As George Kennan, the leading Kremlinologist in the American government put it, “We had accustomed ourselves, through our wartime experience, to having a great enemy before us. The enemy must always be a center. He must be totally evil.” Whether it was wise to consider an enemy “evil” appears never to have been in question.
At the dawn of the Cold War, the CIA developed a rift that would never fully heal. The division within the agency between analysis and covert action would prove literally fatal for thousands of people. Under the direction of Allen Dulles, the agency began to focus on covert action – secret overseas missions aimed at undermining Soviet interests – at the expense of obtaining and analyzing intelligence (which was, of course, the stated purpose of the CIA). Weiner is clear about his feelings on Dulles: “Over the next eight years, through his devotion to covert action, his disdain for the details of analysis, and his dangerous practice of deceiving the president of the United States, Allen Dulles did untold damage to the agency he had helped to create.” Under Dulles’ direction, the CIA followed folly with folly, disaster with disaster, and claimed precious few victories.
It would have been one thing to continue with covert operations if they had proven successful, but this was not the case. Nearly every covert operation the US launched against the USSR was met with instant and total failure. The reason for this was simple – the Russians were better at this sort of thing than the Americans were. The Soviets knew of most operations before they were launched, thanks to well-placed spies within the CIA. Indeed, the idea that the Russians knew all, that they had infiltrated the CIA completely would come to be accepted as fact. Jim Angleton, head of counter intelligence for twenty years during the Cold War, was a major reason for this:
Drunk after lunch, his mind an impenetrable maze, his in-box a black hole, he passed judgment on every operation and every officer that the CIA aimed against the Soviets. He came to believe that a Soviet master plot controlled American perceptions of the world, and that he and he alone understood the depths of the deception. He took the CIA’s missions against Moscow down into a dark labyrinth.
Paralysis eventually gripped the Soviet division of the CIA, as Angleton’s paranoia strangled its every move.
Weiner traces the history of the agency through the Eisenhower years, when it launched coups in places like Guatemala (successfully) and Indonesia (unsuccessfully), bought elections in Italy and Japan, and dug a tunnel through Berlin to intercept Soviet communiques (Of course, the Soviets knew of the tunnel and sent nothing but disinformation streaming through it until the operation was eventually killed). One might think Kennedy would have pulled the plug on the covert action wing of the CIA, considering its track record, but unfortunately he followed the advice of Allen Dulles and his own brother, Robert Kennedy, and pressed onward with operations to overthrow Fidel Castro.
Legacy of Ashes sheds new light onto the Kennedy assassination and the government’s reaction to it, the hastily-conceived Warren Commission. Immediately after the assassination, the CIA pulled its dossier on Lee Harvey Oswald. What they found was disturbing indeed. Not only had Oswald defected to the Soviet Union (it was generally accepted that all defectors were interrogated by the KGB), but he had also had contact with the Cuban embassy in Mexico City. “He had met face to face with a man named Valery Kostikov, who was thought to be a member of Department 13 of the KGB – the department responsible for assassination.” None of this found its way to the Warren Commission, thanks to Angleton, who sabotaged efforts to communicate this information to the committee, conduct that Weiner concludes to be an obstruction of justice.
Among the more shocking revelations of the book are the many urban legends that are, in fact, true. The CIA did invent LSD and used it in mind-control experiments codenamed Project Artichoke and Project Ultra. “Under its auspices, seven prisoners at a federal penitentiary in Kentucky were kept high on LSD for seventy-seven consecutive days.” Despite its mandate to spy exclusively abroad, the CIA opened the first class mail of many Americans for years. The CIA did, in fact, hire mafia hit men to kill Fidel Castro; they attempted to poison his food and place explosives in his cigars. The CIA has been operating secret prisons and practicing “rendition” – the act of arresting someone and spiriting them off to an unknown location for an unknown crime – for the past forty years. Indeed, one of the most terrifying aspects of the book is how often the CIA failed to learn from its previous mistakes and transgressions. These facts – and they are facts – are the reason so many liberals view the CIA with such disdain. It’s a shame, as the CIA’s stated mission, to provide intelligence to the United States, is of vital importance.
Of course, it hasn’t done a good job of providing information either. It failed to see the fall of the Soviet Union, the Chinese attack during the Korean War, the Tet offensive, the Iranian revolution, or the attacks on September 11, 2001. It provided what it knew to be unsubstantiated intelligence about Iraqi programs to develop weapons of mass destruction, helping lead America into a protracted and bloody war. The CIA has failed as thoroughly to understand radical Islam as it did to understand the Soviet Union.
Weiner masterfully exposes the incompetence of the agency and the men who’ve led it. Using a relentless narrative style that dispenses with lengthy biographies of even the most important individuals, he pushes through a staggering amount of raw information in relatively short order. His prose is sharp, and never condescends to the reader – there are no background sections on the history of the Korean War, for instance, or the rise of Mao in China. For all its weight, the book has surprising moments of humor, such as the description of Jim Angleton as “the CIA’s champion of alcoholics, a title held against stiff competition.” One can’t help but share Weiner’s frustration about the CIA’s past, as well as his fear for what its failures mean for America’s future. Legacy of Ashes is the rare book that should be read by every American, especially in an election year. Luckily, it’s also a thoroughly enjoyable book, one that’s hardly a chore to read. | <urn:uuid:5797f7f7-c756-4efa-8c5e-7441e1770977> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.themillions.com/2008/02/dangerous-liaisons-review-of-tim-weiner.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281331.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00223-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972675 | 1,861 | 2.390625 | 2 |
This book covers every topic in biology that is asked in various PMTs. It serves as a manual for medical entrance examinations giving you an overview of the complete biology syllabus.
This book is based on my notes which I had prepared myself while preparing for PMTs. You need not study from any other material of any coaching institute to supplement this book. I expect atleast 90-95% questions in biology in the PMTs from this book.
I have written this book with a view to prevent students from being misguided by surplus, irrelevant information provided by books currently available in the market or by various PMT coaching institutions.
– RAHUL CHAWLA
ALL INDIA TOPPER OF BHU-PMT 2008
Salient Features :
1. This book contains all very important and frequently asked questions from biology in factual form derived from the previous years’ question papers of all medical entrance
2. A collection of 100+ mnemonics; some of which have been collected from the study materials
of various PMT coaching centres and the internet while the majority of them have been prepared by author himself. Such a collection is not to be found elsewhere.
3. It also contains tips for solving questions, FAQs regarding preparation methods, study techniques, suggestions and advice regarding the entire preparation as well as last minute
4. Flow charts, tables, cycles have been incorporated in a notes wise format for better comprehension and easy learning.
5. Well labelled diagrams (NCERT based) for AIIMS, CBSE-Mains, Karnataka CET, and Manipal etc. have been included.
6. All the important terms and facts have been highlighted by using italics or bold fonts and the lesser important ones have been written in smaller fonts while the necessary superfluous
information has been omitted.
7. Also covers additional topics asked in different state-level examinations.
8. At least 90-95% questions in biology in PMTs are expected from this book.
9. Even a below average student can crack the exam after reading this book.
10. This book also covers additional topics asked in different state-level examinations.
11. Questions from the current editions of NCERT biology are asked in various exams including AIIMS, AIPMT, DPMT; while AMU and DPMT draw questions even from very old editions of NCERT biology; keeping this in mind, I have compiled chapter-wise points from three editions of NCERT biology (1999, 2006, 2008).
12. Atleast 90-95% questions in biology in the PMTs are expected to come from this book.
I am currently pursuing MBBS from Vardhman Mahavir Medical College and Safdarjang Hospital, New Delhi. I had topped BHU-PMT-2008 all over India and was the 2nd ranker in VMMC as well as MP-PMT. I have authored two books titled Handbook of Biology -a last minute revision guide for medical entrance examinations and Biology @ your fingertips – a complete guide for medical entrance examinations, which are going to be released soon by Galgotia publications. I have also launched a website http://www.pmtgurumantra.com to guide the students preparing for the medical entrance examinations, to clear their doubts and to provide them all necessary information, examination details, previous papers etc. at the click of a button | <urn:uuid:03f35bdd-fdd5-41cc-96ca-e45097223a6f> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://pmtgurumantra.wordpress.com/2011/06/05/biology-your-fingertips-a-complete-guide-for-the-medical-entrance-examinations/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721027.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00549-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94869 | 701 | 2.484375 | 2 |
Thursday, February 11, 2016
For Your Heart
With Valentine's Day upon us, I figured I'd offer a post centered on ways to help your heart... with or without a valentine. As my father stated in Second Attempts, being the member of a social unit, be it a relationship, family or friendship can keep us in good mental health which can lead, by proxy, to physical benefits. But solitude has its own place in the world (as expressed nicely by Idalia Candela's illustrations for Bored Panda: seen here) and we can do things on our own every day to keep our hearts in good shape.
My stepmother, Janet Long, served as a Cardiology Nurse Practitioner and Clinical Lipid Specialist for around twenty-five years before her retirement. During her tenure, she saw a lot of patients in a lot of scenarios and learned a lot of things, particularly regarding a healthy diet. Herein she writes about the Mediterranean diet, a form of eating very close to my own heart and something I've been meaning to write about for awhile. Enjoy!
The Mediterranean Diet was first introduced in the late 1950’s when it was observed that people living in southern Europe had less coronary heart disease mortality. Since that time, there have been numerous studies that support the cardiovascular benefits of this diet including current guidelines for the primary prevention of stroke. (1)
February is “Heart Month” and a good time to look at the benefits of diet on the cardiovascular system. Numerous trials including two landmark studies, Prevención con Dieta Mediterránea (PREDIMED) trial (2) and the Lyon Diet Heart Study (3) have shown significant benefits. The PREDIMED trial was a primary prevention (those without any known history of cardiovascular disease) trial that showed a 30% reduction in vascular events in those participants following the Mediterranean style diet. The Lyon Diet Heart Study was a secondary prevention study (those with known cardiovascular disease) that showed a 72% reduction in cardiovascular events in the Mediterranean style diet group compared with the control group who followed a Western style diet.
The Mediterranean Diet consists of:
o Cheese, yogurt, olive oil, fruits, beans, legumes, nuts, vegetables, whole grain bread, pasta, rice, couscous, barley, other whole grains and potatoes. Drink large amounts of water. Wine in moderation.
o Sweets, eggs, poultry, fish
o Red meat in small portions
The Mediterranean Diet is not a homogenous nutritional model. There are varied cultures in the Mediterranean basin with different traditions and dietary habits that result in a wide variation of dietary patterns. The benefits of the Mediterranean Diet are thought to come from a high consumption of plant based foods and olive oil. Additionally the benefit of omega-3 polyunsaturated fat from fish and green leafy vegetables and legumes is important. (3) High amounts of vitamin C, vitamin E, beta carotene, glutathione, phytoestrogens, and phytochemicals from green leafy vegetables, phenolic compounds from wine and olive oil all contribute to the antioxidant and anti-inflammatory benefits and thus a reduction in the coronary vascular disease. (4)
Inflammation is an enemy to the vascular system, specifically the endothelium, the lining of the arteries throughout the body. When the endothelium becomes inflamed, it does not dilate or relax normally, and it becomes porous and fatty deposits are able to invade the endothelium. In simplistic terms, this begins the process of cardiovascular disease. So a diet that is low in saturated fat, high in omega-3 fatty acids, rich in antioxidants fiber and vitamins, has been shown over decades to decrease the inflammatory process and protect the blood vessels.
1. Meschia JF, Bushness C, Boden-Albala B, et al. on behalf of the American Heart Association Stroke Council, Council on Cardiovascular and Stroke Nursing, Council on Clinical Cardiology, Council on Functional Genomics and Translational Biology and Council on Hypertention. Guidelines for the Primary Prevention of Stroke: A Statement for Healthcare Professionals From the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association. Stroke. 2014; 45:3754–3832
2. Estruch R, Ros E, Salas-Salvadό J, et al; on behalf of the PREDIMED Study Investigators. Primary prevention of cardiovascular disease with a Mediterranean diet. N Engl J Med 2013; 368: 1279-90.
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Quentin Makepeace Coldwater Mar 7, 2015 - Dis is Brennus. This section is in need of major improvement. When Quentin, dead, is taken to witness his funeral, he sees Eliot, alive. There, they're tasked with illustrating the "beauty of all life" on a mosaic. orientation bisexual, semi-closeted. He was at a mental hospital at the beginning of the series and was said to be on medication. Fitted and Flat masks should only be worn by people ages 13 and up. These Quentin Coldwater cloth face masks are not designed for medical use, or as personal protective equipment against coronavirus (COVID-19). full name quentin clearwater. also known as q, curly q, the fool. Quentin Coldwater was born in 1993 to his mother and Ted Coldwater in Montclair, New Jersey. home inbox rules about MAP VERSES. 1 Character 2 Ships 2.1 Het 2.2 Slash 2.3 Friendship 2.4 Poly 3 Canon 4 Fanon 5 Fandom 6 Lists 7 Navigation Quentin Coldwater grew up being obsessed with the magical world of Fillory. 1 History 2 Appearances 2.1 Season 1 3 References This article needs your … 21pt. hometown montclair, new jersey. They ended up getting stranded out in the cold and turn to foxes to keep warm. The two become friends fast and Quentin started to include him more and more in his and Alice's quest to hunt the beast. He declared, "Peaches and plums, motherfucker," and Quentin understood. However, after eating a basket of peaches and plums and reading a letter sent from Mosaic!Quentin, the pair remembered bits of their lost lives. Emily and Quentin ended up running into each other at Quentin's job after he quit magic. Quentin Coldwater is on Facebook. Beware, beware the forest of sin. Quentin had a crush on Julia from childhood. Quentin's bravery is a trait named by many characters. Quentin Coldwater's Canonical Oral Fixation; Words: 33,250 Works: 2 Bookmarks: 13. This cements Quentin as bisexual, as he's had relationships with women and interest in men throughout the series. Go to the party. He struggled with depression his whole life. Please help improve this article by editing it. Open in app; Facebook; Tweet; Reddit; Mail; Embed; Permalink ; Blaise being transgender confirmed! This fic isn’t about Quentin’s autism, but it felt disingenuous for me not to touch on it in a fic about mental health. Jason Ralph was born on April 7, 1986 in McKinney, Texas, USA. They stayed best friends. Human Quentin Coldwater's Blog | The Official NeoLatino Internet Television Channel When the elderly Eliot died, Quentin took care to bury his body. The Magicians loves to test its fanbase’s endurance with an endless deluge of plot twists both silly and heart-wrenching. My heart went out to Caitlyn because her older brother was gone and she had many struggles to overcome. Amy tinks dat I need to learn about love, so she asked me ta run her Valentine's Day contest for her. 26 (main timeline); 75+ (mosaic timeline) LAYER ONE / IDENTITY. Birthdate They become friends after working together, and bonded as they found ways to fight The Beast. White or transparent. Quentin has some internalised ableism and uses some ableist language here. Quentin Coldwater is dead on the show, and the story moving forward is about the aftermath of that. Occupation Male Quentin Coldwater is a character on SyFy's The Magicians. While there he learns magic, and discovers that Fillory is real. The heightened depth in their emotional bond lead to increased intimacy and protectiveness. Status One of the prime reasons he sacrificed himself was to save Eliot. He also said Quentin was his love. Het voortbestaan van magie werd in seizoen vier van 'The Magicians' op het nippertje gered, maar met tragische gevolgen: de dood van Quentin Coldwater. They hook up, but Quentin decides not to continue anything since he felt guilty afterwards. 206 notes Feb 5th, 2018. Eliot, afraid of love, turned him down. primary id. try guys trump joe biden vote election politics blm lgbtq rights Youtube. Similarly, in the fantasy series The Magicians (USA, SyFy, 2015-), the protagonist Quentin Coldwater (Jason Ralph) has been diagnosed with clinical depression and begins the series in a residential mental health facility. I know autism as a term didn’t exist yet, but do you think newt knews there was something wrong with him? The creator and director of such classics as “Pulp Fiction”, “Kill Bill” and has been known as a rebel throughout his film career. Age Relationships In the series’ first episode, Quentin learns that he is a magician, and that “you haven’t been depressed…Everyone medicates. Quentin's entire storyline in season 4 revolved around keeping Eliot's body safe and finding a way to defeat the Monster. December 12th 1993 Get up to 50% off. I am looking into getting a masters in math and been tutoring a college student in elementary algebra. I currently teach 7th and 8th grade math at a local school. In season 4, his alternate persona cut his hair to a short-medium length. LAYER TWO / PHYSICAL. Find books like Plants Are Magic Magazine - Volume 4: For makers, dreamers & plant lovers from the world’s largest community of readers. He has been an actor, director and writer during his run and is known as someone who pushes boundaries. They ended up hooking up again and continue their relationship. Both of these resources were dropped, which worsened Quentin's depression at times. New Comics. A high school math genius, he's secretly fascinated with a series of children's fantasy novels set in a magical land called Fillory, and real life is disappointing by comparison. Gender Age Rob The Robot Rob The Robot by IMDA Singapore 8 years ago 11 minutes 4,831,407 views Robots 2005 - End sequence - Get up off of that thing Robots 2005 - End sequence - Get up off of that thing by Edina Kahrimanovic 7 years ago 2 minutes, 23 seconds 2,452,273 views Favorite scene from the movie. Family Forums. After living a whole lifetime together, Quentin asks Eliot to be together in their own timeline. She came back later in the season, and after some time-travel shenanigans that reminded Q of his past love with Alice, they got back together. Alive See more ideas about Words, The magicians, Aesthetic. The first explicit hint that Quentin was queer was in episode 1x11 "Remedial Battle Magic", when he drunkenly joined a threesome with his equally-drunk friends, Eliot and Margo. Gender Identity Quentin crowned Eliot as High King of Fillory, apologizing and forgiving Eliot in one gesture. A year after their arrival, the two shared a kiss and decided "not to overthink it". The first book in the trilogy is also called The Magicians and it features a late teen boy (17-18) named Quentin Coldwater who lives in Brooklyn and is insanely smart. The task was impossible but they were committed to solving it for their friends and their goal. In 4x05, there's a continuation to the final scene from 3x05, which abruptly ended just when the two characters regained their mosaic memories. >>...I have taught kindergarten to 8th grade. Quentin was extremely nerdy and shy growing up. Translations of the phrase QUENTIN COLDWATER from german to english and examples of the use of "QUENTIN COLDWATER" in a sentence with their translations: Quentin coldwater ! 11th, 2019 01:21 pm. 27pt. In season 3 episode 5, the pair were sent on a quest to travel back in time to Old Fillory. This resulted in tense antagonism between the two throughout season 3 until the finale, when Alice confessed she still loved him and they shared a final kiss before Q got locked away forever. I could not put it in better words. 12pt. Most fans wanted Quentin to be confirmed as bi after his threesome with Margo and Eliot. Just finished a re-read and while there are a few points near the end where he's not at his best (he wrote euphemistically) he's still a character I could, at least in part, relate to. Quentin Coldwater is a character on SyFy's The Magicians. Flesh and blood. Ted Coldwater (father) Hair color He is an actor, known for A Most Violent Year (2014), I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020) and The Magicians (2015). John McNamara is the co-creator, co-showrunner, and an executive producer and writer for The Magicians. Jan 7, 2017 - Previous years guessing papers for the preparation of HSC Board Exam in 12th Electronics. Find someone to bang. Quentin Coldwater Fight me about this The Quentin Coldwater Protection League. The Magicians (TV Series 2015–2020) Jason Ralph as Quentin Coldwater, Quentin During the Brakebills trials they got to the arctic and kiss after the first lesson. He is of average height. You will need to register to get access to the following site features: Reply to discussions and create your own threads. Join Facebook to connect with Quentin Coldwater and others you may know. 36pt. Anders dan bij de klassieke autistische stoornis is er geen sprake … Quentin Coldwater VS Harry Potter is a What-If? The show has definitely lost a chunk of its viewership with this twist in the plot, but Syfy has renewed 'The Magicians' for season 5 and we are curious to know what a post-Quentin Coldwater world would look like on the show. Quentin Coldwater is a bisexual character from The Magicians. Alice and Quentin got off to a rocky start when they began at Brakebills together. This angered fans for a few reasons, but the ones most pertaining to his sexuality were that 1. you will be alone always and then you will die. This lead to season 4's main conflict: the Monster's possession of Eliot. #ffffff. 24pt. gender cis man; he/him. 1 Description 2 Interlude 3 Quentin Coldwater 4 Harry Potter 5 Intermission 6 Battle 7 Results 8 The Next Time... 9 Trivia 2 teenage chosen boys of legend who attend schools that teach … Eliot takes him to his exam, and when he passes, shows him around campus. It's revealed that the long life Quentin and Eliot shared was itself the "beauty of all life". Character Information Tags: fandom: the magicians; Link; 0 comments; Reply [FIC] "Measure by Measure" (~5.2k), The Magicians, Eliot/Quentin, Explicit May. He/Him 15pt. Quentin Coldwater from "The Magicians". and a few years after the monster debacle their kitchen table is full of the paperwork they need to do to be able to adopt the children they want to raise together. 33pt. They get back together, fight, then break up multiple times throughout season 2. I get what you mean, but I wouldn’t say that there is anything “wrong with” Newt. One day he is taken away to Brakebills, a school for magic. He wears his heart on his sleeve, which leads him to a lot of heartbreak. Follow . Jun 11, 2016 - shmazarov: “Quentin Coldwater // The Magicians “He’d spent too long being disappointed by the world - he’d spent so many years pining for something … Quentin Coldwater Quentin Coldwater grew up being obsessed with the magical world of Fillory. Quentin was depicted as straight for most of the first season. First appeared Unique Penny Stickers designed and sold by artists. Nov 11, 2019 - This blog is a description of Marcus Clark's fiction books. QUENTIN MAKEPEACE COLDWATER (+ coldwicker), the magicians aesthetic. Aliases Quentin's death while Eliot was paying him a tribute with their iconic peach has shattered fans' hearts. Following Q's death, several fans got together and created a fundraiser for the Trevor Project in Q's name. Quentin Coldwater, played by Jason Ralph, appears at first to be your standard-issue Angsty White Dude — but, it turned out, is bisexual and a longtime sufferer of … Before discovering Brakebills, Quentin graduated from Columbia University with a degree in Literature. Quentin Coldwater upholds the hero archetype of sacrifice, giving it all to save others. The viewer never knows how their relationship changed. He was a skilled magician, specializing in "Minor Mendings". Quentin Coldwater se înscrie la Universitatea Brakebills la cursul de pedagogie magică pentru a studia magia, dar descoperă că lumea fantastică din cărțile sale preferate din copilărie este reală și reprezintă un pericol pentru umanitate. Still, Quentin slowly lost hope and his sense of self throughout the season. Species Find a Coldwater, MO Tutor. Tags. Sep 16, 2020 - another chapter where the hero shifts from foot to foot, the same words all spelling out desire. All orders are custom made and most ship worldwide within 24 hours. Quentin Coldwater je přijat na Brakebills, exkluzivní školu kouzel, kde zjistí, že magická země z jeho oblíbených knížek z dětství je ve skutečnosti mnohem temnější a … Nothing ever happened between the two and Quentin eventually got over her. I can definitely see him knowing that he’s different. The good news is that Magicians fans were recently given a sense of closure to beloved character Quentin Coldwater (played by Jason Ralph), who heroically died in the Season 4 finale.Season 5, Episode 3, "The Mountain of Ghosts," squashed any hope of bringing him back. Sexual Identity Death Battle by PlozAlcachaz featuring Quentin Coldwater from The Magicians against Harry Potter from the Harry Potter novel series. 23 Feb 29, 2012 - Reading Mockingbird by Kathryn Erskine gave me a new perspective on life from someone who sees the world differently than me. Discussion; Bug Reporting; Delete/Combine Pages Posts about Quentin Coldwater written by crookedreviews. Before the season ends, however, Eliot shot the Monster, an evil, destructive creature, when he wasn't supposed to in order to save Quentin. In the same episode, Eliot said that they "loved each other for a very, very long time" in the mosaic timeline. Quentin asked Eliot to be a couple again, but in their timeline. Alice then betrayed him and her friends. Deceased Syfy’s The Magicians has always been far from the straightest show in television. Eye color im waiting on mine & q's emotional catharsis please deliver s4 #the magicians #quentin coldwater #queliot #unpopular thoughts More you might like “The Try Guys Endorse Joe Biden For President” on YouTube . But even so, that Season 4 finale was rough. In the aftermath of the season 1 threesome, Alice and Quentin broke up muddily. As foxes, they ended up having sex, and when they turned back to humans, they had sex more. He emphasized, "Who gets proof of concept like that?" In season 5, Alice reflected on her relationship with Quentin, embracing their faults and messiness. He first appears in the first episode of the first season. No add-ons or extensions required, just login and start chatting! "Unauthorized Magic". Quentin Coldwater je přijat na Brakebills, exkluzivní školu kouzel, kde zjistí, že magická země z jeho oblíbených knížek z dětství je ve skutečnosti mnohem temnější a … Before discovering Brakebills, Quentin graduated from Columbia University with … The TV series steers away from the books in season 3. hope's hard of hearing, so i'm waiting for the teethtw for depression, suicide (it is q, after all)if someone doesn't hug my boy soon i am going to die. and quentin and eliot live in a cozy, beautiful flat somewhere in new york. In 4x05, Quentin closed the book on Alice and sent her away. The Magicians Wikia is a FANDOM TV Community. He ends up being led to Brakebills where he met Elliot lounging on the front. One day he is taken away to Brakebills, a school for magic. quentin coldwater. Show Most Recent Bookmarks; Bookmarked by highkingfox (sovietboyfriend) 09 Dec 2020. They're forced to continue to work together, and end up having sex. Lev Grossman confirmed that Quentin was bisexual in the novels by placing him in a threesome including Eliot, his best friend from Brakebills. Your voice is missing! 3 Subjects: including Algebra 2, Elementary Math, Prealgebra. Both of these resources were dropped, which worsened Quentin's depression at times. He is portrayed by starring cast member Jason Ralph. Quentin has straight, long hair for the majority of the TV series. He suppresses tears then lets go of the living world when the funeral is over. Quentin Coldwater https: ... A large number of gamers fall into the functional spectrum of autism.
And there is not a thing wrong with that!From a non-clinical, non-professional opinion from years of observation; A large number of gamers fall into the functional spectrum of autism. Brown Quentin Coldwater Our modern chat room. Starla F. - $25.00/hr - Park Hills, MO - View Starla F. Spoilers ahead for The Magicians, up through Season 4's "Escape From the Happy Place.". Inspired designs on t-shirts, posters, stickers, home decor, and more by independent artists and designers from around the world. and alice helped them with a spell to find a child with magical aptitude in the system because they might be able to raise and support a child with … 42pt. High quality Quentin Coldwater gifts and merchandise. Their relationship in this timeline is vague. He has been … I mean this in a good way, but does Quentin Tarrantino have Aspergers? In the same episode, Eliot broke through the Monster's possession to talk to Quentin quickly. Download and prepare to achieve best success! Brown species human; magician. His shyness began to shed during his time at Brakebills, though his nerdiness only intensified. Alice started to willingly hanging out with Quentin after he showed her the symbol burned onto his hand. Park Hills, MO. Because, otherwise, you're literally torturing yourself over a fairy tale. face claim jason ralph. 30pt. 18pt. Bisexual Quentin was a big fan of the Fillory books from a young age, and used them as a form of escapism. date of birth 1993. ethnicity white. The Magicians Check out our quentin coldwater selection for the very best in unique or custom, handmade pieces from our prints shops. 57pt. He was applying for a Masters program at Yale. 206 notes. That's the last time Quentin and Eliot interact in the show. Decorate your laptops, water bottles, helmets, and cars. 62pt. You won’t enjoy it here You won’t enjoy it here doubles please let me know before following :) Some viewers can interpret this declaration as one of requited love.. Male This changed their relationship forever, though it isn't thoroughly explored until season 4. Welcome to Autism Forums, a friendly forum to discuss Aspergers Syndrome, Autism, High Functioning Autism and related conditions. Romances 6 notes. quentin-coldwater -11 points-10 points-9 points 7 days ago Honestly the gaming industry as a whole treats their programmers like shit. est 2019. by bard. Atteint du syndrome d'Asperger ainsi que de celui du savant, le chirurgien Shaun Murphy, fraîchement diplômé, rejoint un prestigieux hôpital de San Jo... Réalisateur: David Shore Stars: Freddie Highmore, Nicholas Gonzalez, Antonia Thomas, Hill Harper He grew it out to hide behind. When Alice died and Quentin placed her niffin within him to keep her safe, the corrupted version of Alice tormented Quentin with deals he didn't want to fulfill and constant harassment. Out there. She couldn't describe their relationship status at the time of his death. So SyFy has this fun new show called the Magicians that is based on a trilogy of the same name by Lev Grossman. 47pt. Media Quentin was ultimately killed off in the season 4 finale episode, "No Better to Be Safe Than Sorry". Jason Ralph. ‘The Magicians’ Revisited Its Most Traumatic Episode, and Redefined Drama in the Process, https://lgbtqia-characters.fandom.com/wiki/Quentin_Coldwater?oldid=21624. Margo Hanson : [Wearing robe and mask] Oh, Manon! Quentin was a big fan of the Fillory books from a young age, and used them as a form of escapism. The drama series chronicled his first steps toward becoming a real magician, zooming in on the various struggles he faced during his time at the Brakebills University. Portrayed by He was at a mental hospital at the beginning of the series and was said to be on medication. This disturbed Quentin and Eliot's relationship but it recovered quickly when they entered Fillory. Full name In the episode, Alice and Eliot mourn Quentin's death and Eliot admits he loved him. New titles, recently rated, and recently tagged by the library community. Quentin Coldwater upholds the hero archetype of sacrifice, giving it all to save others. Ted Coldwater † (father)Unnamed (mother)Ted Coldwater-Waugh (son) Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. Re: Quentin Coldwater in "The Magicians" I never really got the hate for him. I mean, most non diagnosed autistic people recognize the differences in themselves to neurotypicals. Eliot kisses Quentin later in the series but they never become a couple canonically or even discuss the possibility. don’t follow if you’re racist, transphobic, aphobic, homophobic, or support autism speaks. In the season 4 finale, he died in a show of sacrifice - for Eliot, for his friends, for the world - before he could speak to the now Monster-free Eliot. The Magicians (Syfy) NY Comic Con Trailer HD, THE MAGICIANS Inside The Magicians Episode 2 Syfy, The Magicians Episode 3 Promo "Consequenes of Advanced Spellcasting" HD, THE MAGICIANS Inside The Magicians Episode 3 Syfy, http://www.brakebillsu.com/student/quentin-coldwater, https://magicians-syfi.fandom.com/wiki/Quentin_Coldwater?oldid=211. I loved the book series and I love the show, but I never realised why I liked the main character so much until today when I started to rewatch it and am now aware of my autism and how much I have in common with Quentin! To let him know it was the real Eliot, he parotted Quentin's words of courtship. Q, Fanboy, King Quentin the Moderately Socially Maladjusted, Sad Little Nerd King mixed media. Jason Ralph Explore Cheboygan Area Public Library. Margo Hanson : Really. You live to fight another day. Poppy was lying on a raft when Quentin's boat came across her. Despite the threesome having major consequences for other relationships in the series, it was never seriously brought up in terms of Quentin's sexuality. Het is aan Julia, Alice, Eliot, Margo, Penny en hun vrienden om te leren leven in een wereld zonder Quentin. Reason’s Quentin Coldwater is autistic. Is Quentin Coldwater from the Magicians autistic? Quentin Coldwater is brilliant but miserable. undiagnosed-autism-things. Facebook gives people the power to … greywash. Brakebills University Student I mean this guy is super intelligent, and has stuff that is just against the mainstream, kinda like Kurt Cobain (who for sure had autism). Quentin, Eliot, and Margo's threesome happened near the end of season 1. #the magicians #Quentin #quentin coldwater #autistic #is this character autistic #autistic characters #autistic character #autism #asd #aspergers #debate #ask #anon #anonymous #quentin from the magicians #autism? He first appears in the first episode of the first season. On the one year anniversary of their arrival, Quentin initiates a kiss with Eliot. Het syndroom van Asperger, ook wel aspergersyndroom of stoornis van Asperger, is een pervasieve ontwikkelingsstoornis vernoemd naar de Weense kinderarts dr. Hans Asperger.Het syndroom kenmerkt zich door beperkingen in de sociale interacties en een beperkt repertoire aan interesses en activiteiten. Starla F. $25.00/hr. Quentin worked tirelessly to get back Alice: from condoning her mental abuse, to finding a way to combine her niffin with her shade, to nursing her back to health when she is resurrected. 40 notes. Coldwater learned sleight-of-water magic and card tricks to match Wicker's interest, and at the age of 10 the two made a map of Fillory on the underside of a table, promising to explore the world … 52pt. When Quentin is unexpectedly admitted to an elite, secret college of magic, it looks like his wildest dreams have come true. 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Building the first phase of a floating wind-power project off Maine’s coast would create as many as 341 jobs and trigger at least $120 million in investment, with half of it going to Maine-based companies, according to a draft power-purchase contract to be filed Wednesday with the state.
The investment would add a small charge for 20 years to Central Maine Power Co. bills. An average home customer would pay an additional 73 cents a month at the start, $8.70 in the first year.
Advocates hope the pilot project will set the stage for a deep-water wind power industry in Maine that could create thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in spending over time.
“It’s really an overall investment in the future,” said Jake Ward, vice president for innovation and economic development at the University of Maine, which is a partner in the Maine Aqua Ventus project.
The state Public Utilities Commission will have to decide whether the project is a good deal, during deliberations expected next month. A period for written public comment will be set before then.
Next spring, the federal Department of Energy will decide whether the technology behind Maine Aqua Ventus is innovative enough to receive a $46 million grant aimed at creating large wind farms, far out at sea, that can produce power at competitive rates.
At first glance, the project apparently would have a similar impact on ratepayers as the now-defunct project proposed by the Norwegian energy company Statoil, while offering more economic benefits.
TEST MODEL WORKING AS EXPECTED
Maine Aqua Ventus is being proposed by Maine Prime Technologies, a for-profit spinoff that represents the university and two general partners, Maine-based Cianbro Corp. and Emera Inc. of Nova Scotia.
In May, the partners launched a one-eighth-scale model of a floating turbine off Castine. The unit is made of advanced composite materials designed to fight corrosion and reduce weight. Its hull is made of concrete, which can be produced in Maine and has a longer life span in the ocean than steel.
The prototype is now generating a small amount of power and collecting information. It already has endured extreme sea and wind conditions and is performing as expected, Ward said.
The partnership plans to develop a full-scale pilot wind farm off Monhegan Island by 2016. It would consist of two turbines, each with a capacity of six megawatts. Based on the availability of wind, the project is expected to generate 43,000 megawatt-hours a year, enough to power 6,000 average homes.
Beyond an investment of $120 million to $166 million, the full-scale project would have other benefits, according to the draft term sheet to be presented to the PUC:
• Half of the money would be spent with companies and workers in Maine. At least $7 million would be spent on services provided by UMaine.
• A science, math and technology curriculum linked to the project would be provided to Maine high schools, as well as collaboration with public colleges for training and education programs.
• Monhegan Island, which has some of the country’s highest electricity rates, would get some free power from the project. The island also would be connected to the mainland with fiber-optic cable, to boost Internet access speed.
COMPARISON TO PREVIOUS PROPOSAL
The partners say the cost-saving technologies of Maine Aqua Ventus put the project in a good position to win the critical federal funding for a giant, floating wind farm off the coast of Maine that could generate 100 to 500 megawatts. And the expertise developed by the venture could form a research and development cluster that helps build and supply a global, emerging energy sector.
An economic impact report done for the project estimates that a second, larger phase could generate $330 million and 3,077 jobs over five years – and even more spending and jobs if the power output is increased.
Until October, the best hope for fulfilling those lofty ambitions appeared to rest with Statoil. The company had already put a steel, floating turbine in the North Sea. In 2011, it proposed a next-stage, 12-megawatt wind farm off Boothbay Harbor, called Hywind Maine.
Maine law caps the amount of money that electricity customers can pay to help subsidize ocean energy projects. Statoil initially proposed a rate of 29 cents per kilowatt hour, more than three times what a Maine household now pays for energy. The PUC balked at that, and Statoil trimmed it to 27 cents. The additional charge would have added up to $186 million over the 20-year contract. Spread among CMP’s customers, it worked out to about 75 cents a month.
Statoil also made commitments to enhance the project’s economic benefits, including spending at least $100 million to hire local suppliers and contractors for future commercial ventures.
Comparing the costs and benefits of the two projects is a bit tricky because Maine Aqua Ventus’ total impact on ratepayers hasn’t been made available. But in general, the 23 cents per kilowatt hour proposed by Maine Aqua Ventus is not much different. It also includes a 2.25 percent annual increase, to account for inflation.
APPEAL FOR SUPPORT FROM MAINERS
It’s common for pilot energy projects to have above-market rates, because of research and development and economies of scale, such as the expense of running undersea cables from the mainland to only two turbines, rather than several.
But the economic benefits promised by Maine Aqua Ventus appear to exceed what Statoil was offering, in terms of total spending and local hiring and procurement commitments. The concept of building the units onshore with Maine concrete and composite materials, rather than foreign-sourced steel, sets the Maine proposal apart from Statoil’s, Ward said.
“The more money you spend here, the greater the economic impact for Maine,” he said.
Those details will get a fresh look by the PUC, which until last summer had only the Statoil project to consider.
In January, the PUC voted 2-1 to award Statoil a power-purchase contract. Gov. Paul LePage said the potential economic benefits weren’t worth saddling ratepayers with millions of dollars in new electricity costs.
LePage’s distaste for the deal came to a head in June, when he pressured the Legislature into passing a law that had the effect of reopening the PUC’s bidding process. Maine Aqua Ventus responded by submitting its proposal in late August.
Statoil responded to LePage’s political maneuver by putting its $120 million project on hold. In mid-October, the company announced that it was pulling out of Maine. It blamed shifting state policies and said it would redirect investment to a site off Scotland.
In releasing its proposal Wednesday, Maine Aqua Ventus appealed to Maine residents to support the project, saying it is the state’s best chance to develop a new, clean and renewable energy source.
If the PUC approves the power-purchase agreement, Maine Aqua Ventus will face off against projects in New Jersey, Virginia, Texas, Ohio and Oregon for the federal money. Only three projects will be selected.
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Similarly, What does the term good news mean?
: fresh information that will be beneficial to (someone)
Also, it is asked, What was Jesus good news?
The four gospels provide an account of the Christian message of good news. It has to do with God’s rescuing deeds brought about by Jesus’ labor on the cross and resurrection from the dead, which leads to peace between humanity and God.
Secondly, Why is the Bible referred to as good news?
Then, in the second section of the Bible known as the New Testament, Jesus makes an appearance. He was proclaiming the arrival of the Kingdom of God and the restoration of God’s rule over Israel. And he would be the one to do it. The “Good News” was this.
Also, What does sharing the good news mean?
Every Christian has a responsibility to spread the gospel. It tells the tale of how God provided Salvation as a gift via the dying, burial, and rising of His Son.
People also ask, What do you say when you hear good news?
How to react to positive news That makes me so happy to hear! Wonderful ! I appreciate you telling me that! We are overjoyed for you. I love that! Congratulations! That’s excellent news.
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How do you use good news in a sentence?
Example of a good news sentence During our darkness, we got one piece of good news. Fortunately, I believe we are still in the donkey stage. I hope the news is positive. The good news is that you can develop your persuasiveness.
Why are Jesus miracles good news?
Jesus’ miracles provide a preview of what God will achieve on a huge, global scale when He returns to build the New Heaven and the New Earth. Jesus’ miracles provide us a glimpse of that great day. A glimpse of heaven on earth may be seen in the miracles.
Who is referred to as the good news?
The gospel, often known as the good news, is the message that the Kingdom of God will soon arrive. The four canonical gospels elaborate on this message as a narrative, and several of the New Testament epistles discuss it theologically. As theology, it is developed and connected to Jesus’ crucifixion death.
How beautiful are the feet that bring good news Bible verse?
in Romans 10:15. And without being sent, how can they preach? How lovely are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace and deliver good news, as it is written!
What a good news or what good news?
The phrase “What excellent news” is exclaimed. “Such wonderful news!” indicates “That is such good news!” when used as an exclamation. However, you may also use phrases like “Where did you hear such wonderful news?” or “You usually have such fantastic news.” What excellent news! is a whole phrase on its own.
How do you determine good news?
InformalWow! That’s fantastic! Fantastic/great/awesome! That is fantastic! I’m really happy for you! I’m overjoyed for you! Congratulations! The news IS excellent. It’s really unbelievable! I love that!
How do you thank someone for a good news?
“Many thanks for the wonderful news!” “Many thanks for the wonderful news!”
How do you say good news in an email?
Telling your recipient that you are writing with excellent news immediately sets the tone for the rest of your email. The expressions “pleased,” “glad,” and “delighted” are appropriate. Include them in statements like “I’m/We’re happy to tell you that.” “I’m glad to inform you,” You’ll be pleased to hear that, I’m sure.
How do you share the good news from God’s love?
How to Demonstrate God’s Love in Five Easy Ways Listening demonstrates God’s love. Generosity is an expression of God’s love. Demonstrate God’s Love through Advising. Kindness is a way to demonstrate God’s love. Pray for others to demonstrate the love of God. God’s Love Can Be Demonstrated to Everyone.
What does Jesus say about spreading the good news?
Mark 16:15. 15 “Go throughout all the globe and preach the gospel to all creation,” Jesus then commanded them.
Why should we spread the word of God?
We must disseminate the Word of God for the following additional reasons: It is a request made by Jesus. God desires that everyone be saved. The act of giving to others strengthens our own faith.
What do the miracles of Jesus teach us?
A significant part of Jesus Christ’s mission included miracles. They serve as both heavenly actions and a means of instruction. We may discover divine truths via miracles, such as the consequences of sin and its remedy, the need of faith, the curse of impurity, and the rule of love.
Do miracles still happen today?
According to the Bible Dictionary, “Miracles,” the Savior’s miracles were both “divine deeds” and “part of the divine message.” Even if they aren’t always spectacular and aren’t usually made public because individuals who encounter them keep them holy, healing and other miracles do occur in the Church today.
What is the full meaning of Jesus miracles?
The supposed miracles ascribed to Jesus in Christian and Islamic writings are known as the miracles of Jesus. The majority include exorcisms, resurrections, faith healings, and power over the natural world.
Who is Satan’s wife?
Who was God’s daughter?
In medieval Catholic religious literature, the qualities of Truth, Righteousness/Justice, Mercy, and Peace are personified as The Four Daughters of God.
What does the word Euangelion mean?
a bonus for spreading positive news
What is the simple gospel message?
Our belief in the Good News of God’s grace serves as the cornerstone of the Christian life. Justice and compassion are attributes of the Living and True God. Every individual has at some point been guilty of sinful disobedience against God and has been cut off from a connection with Him as a result.
How can they believe unless they hear?
Because whomever invokes the Lord’s name will be rescued. How then are they to pray to the One in whom they have no faith? And how are they supposed to believe in someone they haven’t heard of? Without a preacher, how will they be able to hear?
What is the significance of anointing the feet?
In this essay, I contend that John’s author specifically mentioned Jesus’ feet in his account of the anointing because he wanted to portray Jesus as a serving, suffering, and dying Anointed One of the Lord and to emphasize the idea that the lowly members of God’s people would also be anointed with.
What does it mean to have your feet shod?
We may always be prepared to share God with people by having our feet fitted with the shoes of the gospel of peace. As Christians, we need to be ready at all times because we never know when an opportunity can present itself to spread the gospel to someone else.
How can you share with others the good news that Jesus is your friend?
When someone inquires about Jesus, you might inform them about Him and provide an invitation for them to receive Him into their life. An excellent strategy to preach the message with people in a non-threatening manner is to have goods with Bible passages.
Have you heard the good news Jehovah’s Witness? This is a question that many people might be asking themselves. The answer to this question is “yes”.
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Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. Behold I shew you a mystery; we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed in a moment .... for this corruptible must put on incorruption and this mortal must put on immortality .... then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory." - 1 Corinthians, XV, 50-4.
It is a somewhat saddening reflection that in spite of the presumable millions of years of human life on this planet, there is no general belief as to whence we come and whither we go, or indeed as to why there is any coming or going at all. The meaning and purpose of life are still beyond the scope of physical science; they are matters of faith at best and not infrequently of despair. The pain of the world, the transparent ruthlessness of Nature, the amazing inequalities of human existence, the seeming gr ave injustices in the lives of the majority, are, as far as our reason goes, as great enigmas to us today in the twentieth century as they have ever been so long as we have any trace of human history. In such a state of affairs we cannot afford to cast aside without hearing any theory that attempts seriously to throw light on the darkness.
The general hypothesis of pre-existence (under which the special doctrine of reincarnation falls) does not, it is true, solve the fundamental problems but it pushes back some of the initial difficulties. It furnishes an ampler ground for the development of the individual than the cribbed, cabined, and confined area of one short earth-life, and by providing a stage or series of stages for the acts and scenes of the age-long drama of the man-soul prior to the present existence, permits us to entertain the no tion of a law of moral causation conditioning our present relation to circumstances in a way that does not clash with our innate sense of justice.
As a fact susceptible of scientific demonstration reincarnation is incapable either of proof or disproof. Such evidence of it as exists is but circumstantial and tending to a probability. However, if we care to accept - what it is imprudent to ignore - the authority of the past, we find the Scriptures and traditions of Oriental races with a great spiritual and philosophic record emphatic in their inculcation of the doctrine. So, too, are the Pythagorean and Platonist systems. Outside the Greek philosophi cal and mystical schools the European mind has been unacquainted with the dogma, but nothing hangs upon the ignorance of it by the peoples of a continent whose civilisation is of quite recent growth and whose populace was barbarian long after Egypt and the Far and Middle East had declined from their high positions as centres of religious and philosophic wisdom. The history of civilised Europe synchronises virtually with that of the Christian Church, which has held (or withheld) the keys of information upon arcane matters, and since that Church was silent upon reincarnation, no means existed by which the idea could be propagated in the West until it became introduced by the "Theosophical" movement towards the close of the nineteenth century. Its acceptance was then facilitated by two causes; first, by the translation and popularisation among us of the sacred and philosophic literature of the East, where the doctrine is universal; and secondly, by the recognitio n by Western science of an evolutionary process at work in Nature, a process suggesting that all life advances by gradations and through a succession of ascending morphological changes. The mind can hardly be otherwise than gratified at observing a gradual perfecting process involving a sequence of births and deaths, and at contemplating life sleeping in the mineral, dreaming in the plant, waking in the animal, attaining self-consciousness and freedom of action in man, with the added prospect of further spiritualisation and advancement as time goes on. W hat the mystical mind of the East has intuitively discerned and ever held as true, the practical intellect of the West has at last hit upon by scientific inductive research, the results of which suggest that all life advances to more and more perfect consciousness, by slow patient gradation and through countless modes and forms. That one of the most powerful arguments in favour of preexistence and reincarnation is furnished by our general conception of Divine Creative Pow er, and by the analogy between psyc hological and biological evolution. If higher biological types have appeared successively and not simultaneously with the lower species - if God, refraining from supernatural intervention, derives the species from each other in a natural succession, then it seems also likely that higher psychological types within the same biological species should not be suddenly created, but produced as the result of a natural development of lower types. The true conception of Divine Creative Power, su ch as we know it from biology, leads to the conclusion that what strikes us as genius or sanctity must have been prepared by conscious endeavours of a free human will, and not suddenly created by God without any connection with the general evolution of spiritual life. Indeed, such a sudden creation of higher types who have done nothing to deserve that higher level would be unfair towards those who rise slowly to higher levels by conscious endeavour and effort. Why should others surpass us immediately from the beginning withou t having done anything to attain the goal of our own aspirations? Though every striving spirit knows the wonderful action of Divine grace within, even this experience shows us God as acting upon a living soul, lifting that already existing soul to higher levels, and not as suddenly introducing into human life angelic perfection without spontaneous effort or previous experience. We know this working of our Creator in us always as an addition to something that depends upon our own free will, and this is at l east one meaning of the Gospel saying: "To him that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance". God acts according to His general laws, which man is able to discover and to apply. These laws do not limit Divine omnipotence; they are only a reflection of that omnipotence in human minds. To perceive a Divine law is simply to give human expression (according to the capacities of human intelligence) to a Divine reality which in God has not the shape of any human formula. With that restriction we may tre at clearly conceived formulas as laws of existence and of life, and as there is a law of gravity which explains the fall of a stone, and a law of movement which explains the flight of a bird - so we gather from experience an equally universal law of the spirit, according to which within our earthly experience higher stages of intellectual or moral power are attained by effort, training, renunciation, and voluntary mortification. The mere existence of a hi gher stage implies, therefore, preceding efforts, an d if in our actual life there has been no room for them, we are justified in admitting that the necessary efforts were made in the forgotten past of each higher spirit, and, in the case of human spirits, they could have been made only in past human incarnations, implying, as they do, a knowledge and an experience of human conditions which could be acquired in that way alone. The efforts of each individual spirit are supported by Divine grace, but only those who hav e attained something by themselves can exp ect Divine help to achieve more beyond their own deserving. The analogy between the evolution of organisms and the growth of a soul shows the necessity of many human incarnations for each individual spirit, so that the greatness manifested in a brief lifetime may be considered as having developed in the course of numerous preceding lifetimes.
Now evolution, although today freely admitted to be a universal process in Nature, is still generally supposed to be a modern discovery. This view however, is incorrect because the Ancient Wisdom, which forms the philosophical background of our modern Freemasonry, knew and acted upon it ages before scientists accepted the theory in the nineteenth century. The Ancient Wisdom teaching recognised that in all the Universe there is but One Life broken up and differentiated into innumerable forms, and evolving t hrough these forms from less to greater degrees of perfection. In Masonic metaphor, Nature was seen to be the vast general quarry and forest out of which individual lives have been hewn like so many stones and timber, which when duly perfected are destined to be fitted together and built into a new and higher synthesis, a majestic Temple worthy of the Divine indwelling, and of which the Temple of Solomon was a type. The Ancient Wisdom affirmed that all life has issued from out of the "East" (the Great Worl d of infinite Spirit), and has journeyed to the "West" (the Little World of finite form and embodiment), whence, when finally perfected by experience in restricted conditions, it is ordained to return to the "East". Life, then, was seen to be broken up and distributed into innumerable individualised lives or souls, and to be passing from one bodily form to another in a perpetual progression. These individualised souls were called "stones", and all down the stre am of history is to be found this similitude o f the human soul to a stone, together with directions for working it from a crude to a perfect state. Expressed in the language of modern Freemasonry, the lineal descendant of the Ancient Wisdom, these "stones" are designated "rough ashlars" or "perfect ashlars", accordingly as they exist in the rough or have been squared, worked upon, and polished. The bodily form with which the soul becomes invested upon entering this world, was seen to be transient, variable, p erishable, and of small moment when compared with the life or soul animating it; yet it has regarded as being of the greatest importance in another way, since it provided a fulcrum or point of resistance for the soul's education and development. For this reason it was known as, and in Freemasonry we still term it so, "the tomb of transgression"; the "grave" into which the soul has descended for the purpose of working out its own salvation, for transforming and improving itself, and out of which it ascends the stronger and wiser for the experience. To enable us to grasp clearly the Ancient Wisdom teaching, it is essential to bear in mind the distinction which is made between the individuality and the personality, between life and form, spirit and body. The Secret Doctrine presupposes that man is a spiritual Being or Ego, with the triple powers of WILL, WISDOM and CREATIVE INTELLIGENCE, and that he enters into relationship with matter in order to shape for himself a succession of bodies which constitute his succe ssive personalities, and by means of which he gains the experiences that are essential for mental, moral and spiritual growth, until gradually his real nature shines out in all its Wisdom, Strength and Beauty. Accordingly, the personality is deemed to include the soul (as this is understood in our modern terminology) as well as the body, or, stated alternatively; the personality embraces expression as well as the form. The soul, then, being the reflection of the three-fold nature of the Spirit necessarily has al so three attributes (modes of express ion), and these are the familiar thoughts, feelings and actions of the human personal consciousness. Hence, the soul requires, for the full expression of its triple nature, three bodies or vehicles:-
1..MENTAL BODY - vehicle for thought. 2..EMOTIONAL BODY - vehicle for sensation and emotion. 3..PHYSICAL BODY - vehicle for action.
Finally, the Ancient Wisdom proclaims that the "centre" of Being is the Spiritual Intelligence, which is the Higher or real Self of man, and the doctrine teaches that if man would find that Self, he must learn how to retreat inwards beyond the soul consciousness.
An important part of the curriculum of the Ancient Mysteries was instruction in Cosmology, or the science of the Universe, and the intention of this instruction was to disclose to Candidates the physical and the metaphysical constitution of the world, together with the place and destiny of man in it. By this means Candidates learned of the continual flux of matter, of the transiency of bodily forms, and of the abiding permanence of the One Lift or Spirit which has descended and embodied itself in matter. T here was also demonstrated to them the dual cosmic method of Involution and Evolution, by which the universally diffused Life-force involves and circumscribes itself within material limitations and physical conditions, and thence evolves and arises out of them, enriched by the experience. They were further given instruction concerning the different levels and graduations of the Universe, some of them material and some ethereal, the planes and sub -planes, upon which the great scheme is being carried out; wh ich levels and planes, all progressively linked together, constitute one vast ladder of many rounds, staves, or rungs, a veritable "Ladder of Life". Candidates thus came to understand that the Universe consists of embodied consciousness, and that these embodied consciousness exist in a practically infinite gradation of varying degrees of perfection - a real "Ladder of Life" or "Stair of Life", stretching endlessly in either direction, for our imagination can conceive no limits except a hierarchical one; and such hierarchical limitation is but spacial, and not actual, qualitative and formal. They were shown that the "Ladder of Life" is marked at certain intervals by landing places, so to speak, which the Mysteries called "planes of being" (different spheres of consciousness, to express the idea in alternative terms). Can didates in the old systems were gi ven instruction in these matters before being admitted to. Initiation, and the knowledge gained served to explain to them their own nature and constitution, and their place in the World-system. Today, Freemasonry, perpetuating the ancient teaching, exhibits to the Brethren a simple ladder, a symbol which when properly interpreted is calculated to open widely the eyes of their imagination. It is true that the ladder portrayed on the T.B. of the First Degree is given a mora l significance in the Instruction l ecture, but, as students of Hebrew mysticism are well aware, "Jacob's Ladder" is also a symbol of the Universe with its succession of step-like planes reaching from the heights to the depths. Indeed, we learn from the V. of the S.L., that the Fathers House has many mansions, many levels and resting places for His creatures in their different conditions and degrees of progress; and it is these levels, these planes and sub-planes, that are denoted by the rungs and staves of the symbolic ladd er. Of these plane s there are, for us in our present state of evolutionary unfoldment, three principal ones: -
1 .. PHYSICAL PLANE 2 .. PLANE OF DESIRE AND EMOTION 3 .. MENTAL PLANE.
These three levels of the world are reproduced in man; the first (physical plane) corresponds with his material physique, his sense-body; the second (plane of desire and emotion) with his desire and emotional nature; and the third (mental plane), with his mentality, which forms the link between his physical nature and his spiritual being. The Universe and man himself are therefore constructed ladder-wiser and the ladder with its three principal staves may be seen everywhere in Nature. It appears in the sept enary scale of musical sound with its three dominants; in the prismatic scale of light with its three primary colours; in the septenary physiological changes in our bodily organism, and in the similar periodicities known to physics and every branch of science. The Ancient Wisdom teaches that the one universal substance composing the differentiated parts the Universe "descends" from a state of the utmost etheriality, by successive steps of incr easing densification, until gross materialisation is reached, an d thence, "ascends" through a similarly ordered gradation of planes to its original place, but enriched by the experience gained by its activities during the process. In like manner, we ourselves, have each descended into this world (the nadir of materiality), and we have each to ascend from it by the same steps of "Jacob's Ladder", "which reaches to the heavens" (the zenith - "an etheral mansion veiled from mortal eyes by the stary firmament"). In some Masonic diagrams and Tracing Boards there is exhibite d upon the ladder a small cross, in a tilted unstable position, as if ascending it; that cross represents all who are engaged in mounting the ladder to the heights, and who, ln the words of the poem:-
"Rise by stepping-stones From their dead selves to higher things".
Indeed, each of us carries his own cross (cruciform body) as he ascends; the material vesture whose tendencies are ever at cross-purposes with the desire of his spirit and militate against the ascent. Nevertheless, thus weighted, each must climb, and climb alone; yet reaching out (as the secret tradition teaches and the arms of the tilted cross signify) one hand to invisible helpers above, and the other to assist the ascent of feebler brethren below, for as the sides and the separate rungs of the ladder con stitute a unity, so all life and all lives are fundamentally one, and none lives to himself alone. Masonic students who recognise that every reference in Speculative Freemasonry is figurative and carries a symbolic significance behind the literal sense of the words, will dismiss from their minds any suggestion that the allusion to the familiar biblical episode in the Fourth Section of the First Lecture (see Genesis, Chapter 28), was intended by the compilers of our system to indicate a subject capable only of a moral interpretation. We may be well assured that the Founders of our Order had a much deeper purpose in view than that of merely reminding us of the Pauline triad of theological virtues (Faith, Hope and Charity), excellent as these may be. Admittedly, the moral interpretation is both warranted and salutary, but none the less it is far from being exhaustive, while it also conceals rather than reveals the meaning of the Scriptural reference an d what the symbol of the Ladder is meant to convey to disce rning minds. Now, if we would correctly interpret the Scriptural account of "Jacob's Ladder" as given in the Instruction-lecture, we must of necessity have recourse to an ancient Hebrew mystical doctrine with which Freemasonry is closely allied - the KABBALAH. The Kabbalah accords a prominent place to what are called the seven kings of EDOM, and the student will find that these kings are represented in the Book of Genesis as seven ancient royalties preceding the establishment of the Kingdom of Israel; but the Kabbalah further explains that they are descriptive images of seven worlds created prior to that inhabited by man, worlds which are incapable of permanent endurance as the Divine Image is not assumed in them. The humanity which assumes the Divine Image (i.e. man perfected) is termed Israel, and the seven kings or kingdoms of Edom are shown to be seven stations or planetary worlds through which the soul must pass in order to attain perfection. Such a state of perfection is a ttained only when by the full restoration and exaltation of the soul to oneness with the Spirit, the masculine and feminine principles are in perfect balance with each other. These principles (masculine and feminine) are called the King and Queen, and are respectively the Archetypal Idea (Adam Kadmon), who subsists prior to creation, and this Idea realised in creation. And, as declared in the Kabbalistic "Book of Occultations":
"Until the balance is established, and while yet the King and Queen look not face to face upon each other, the seven worlds of Edom have no continuance. But when the Queen appears upon her throne, then all the seven kingdoms of Edom shall be resumed in Israel and re-born under other names, For all that is not, all that is, and that shall be; are borne on the balance of the King and Queen looking face to face upon each other."
A careful perusal of this passage from the "Book of Occultations" discloses that the condition signified is precisely that also described by St. Paul in his Epistle to the Corinthians, when he says "But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away; for now we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face.". (1, Corinthians, 13, 10 - 12). It is, then, apparent that the kings of Edom (i.e. Adam or earth), are an occult figure of the seven progressive dominions, spheres , planets or stages, through which the soul passes on the way to the heavenly royalty within and beyond the earthly plane, to where man perfected becomes "a Prince and Ruler in Israel". Hence, the evanescence of the seven kingdoms of Edom; they represent rudimentary and embryonic stages in the "making" (perfecting) of man. Hence also the Apocalyptic declaration: "And the seventh angel sounded, and there were great voices in heaven, saying, the kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, an d of his Christ, and he shall reign for ever and ever", (Revelation, 11, 15). Further, it is important, to enable the student to comprehend the meaning of the cryptic reference to Esau in the Instruction-lecture, to keep in mind that the V. of the S.L., informs us that, "Essau is Edom, and the father of the kings thereof" (Genesis, chapter 36). Now, Esau is the brother of Jacob, and as it is the dynasty of Jacob which succeeds that of Edom, it follows that Esau is a figure of corporeal nature, while Jacob is a figure of spiritual life. Here is the link with our symbol of "Jacob's Ladder", for we can discern that the seven staves of the ladder are also the seven temporary kingdoms of Esau, whose dominion Jacob is destined, by surmounting the ladder, to supplant and supersede; doing this, and attaining the summit (t he place of the Lord), Jacob becomes ISRAEL, or "Prince with God". Attention is particularly directed to Genesis, 28, verse 12: "And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it." Interpreting this passage, the Kabbalah explains that the angels on the Ladder denote souls descending into incarnation, to the lowest degree of the Universe (matter at its nethermost point), and ascending again into Heaven. At the foot of the Ladder at hight Jacob (the pilgrim soul) lies asleep, having for pillow a stone, and as the material world is the place of the greatest darkness and division from God, the place of the vision is called Luz.(or Luza), signifying "separation". Nevertheless, the soul knows that the nethermost point is also the turning-point of the pilgrimage, and that hence forth the journey is upwards and "eastwards". This is the stage in which the soul perceives that even in the lowest abyss of matter th ere is no real separation from the Divine presence and life; and that in the very Valley of the Shadow of Death, the "Rod and Staff" (i.e. the Trees of Life and of Knowledge - symbolised in the Craft by the Square, a variant of the Cross) comfort it - see Psalm 23, verse 4, "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff comfort me". Hence, the exclamation of Jacob on awaking , "Surely the Lord is in this place; and I know it no t," (Genesis 28, 16), and the consequent re-naming of the place, BETH-EL (i.e. House of God) - verse 18. The Kabbalistic version of Jacob's dream is the Hebrew expression of the Secret Doctrine upon which, from the beginning, all the great religions of East and West have been built, namely the doctrine of the "Gilgal Neschamoth", or the transmigration and progression of souls.
In many of the Ancient Mystery systems a Ladder, having seven steps or gates, was used in order to demonstrate the seven stages of the soul's progress through the world of materiality. The Greek Mysteries, for instance, represented existence by the river Styx, the "daughter" of Oceanus (water of eternity), and by some called "mother" of Persephone (the soul), as the vehicle whereby she is borne down into the under-world and carried from mansion to mansion of the dark abodes. Seven circuits are made by the Styx, each of which includes and forms a world or station. During these rounds of planetary evolution, Styx becomes the mother of four Children, who denote respectively the four divisions of man's nature the emotional, the volitional, the intellectual, and the-psychic. These children have for father the giant Pallas (elemental force), for her victory over whom the goddess Athene was called Pallas (i.e. Pallas Athone). The word Styx means literally "hatef ul", and signifies the imperfect nature of existence as compared with pure being; this "River of Existence" is also variously called the "Astral Fluid", the "Serpent", and "Lucifer". The seven stages of existence constitute what is known as a planetary chain, the term "planetary" denoting "wandering" (i.e. pilgrimage), and they are classified as follow:-
1.. ETHEREAL. 2.. ELEMENTAL 3.. GASEOUS. 4.. MINERAL. 5.. VEGETABLE. 6.. ANIMAL 7.. HUMAN
It must be borne in mind that those stages are not localities, but conditions, and that in the soul's passage none is left behind, all are taken up into man, one being put on (as it were) after another, and the whole being comprised in the perfected individual. Each of the seven stages has a part in the evolution of the consciousness, which, it should be noted is single until the lowest stage (the mineral) is reached; the mineral stage is the "nethermost" point and lies at the foot of the "Ladder of Life". Here occurs the "deep sleep" of Adam (as also of Jacob), the consciousness single and not involving self-consciousness, having in this the grossest mode of matter attained its minimum. From this point there commences the process of re-duplication, or reflection of the consciousness, by means of which the soul gradually passes into the consciousness of Self and of God. The consciousness being single until the fourth or lowest stage of existence is reached (the w orld of mineral nature), the commencement of r eduplication takes place in the fifth station (the world of vegetable nature), and it is at this stage that the soul becomes gathered up and formulated into a distant individuality. In the sixth station the capacity for "sin" originates through the awakening of a sympathetic consciousness; at this stage, "sin" first becomes possible, because so long as the individual has only the simple consciousness of rudimentary nature, he knows no will but the Divine Will expressed in nat ural law, and there is for him no better or worse - all is "good". Stated in alternative terms: Adam while yet alone, cannot be tempted, cannot sin, for mere mind cannot sin; only the soul can win. It is by the advent or manifestation of "EVE" (the soul, "the woman") that there comes the "knowledge of good and evil"; and it is to her, not Adam, that the tempter, when at length he makes his appearance, addresses his beguilements. The "sin" of Eve is not in the eating of "the fruit of the tree" herself, but in the giving of it to Adam (se e Genesis 3, 12), since this constitutes a retrogression on the path of evolution, in that it refers the polaric point (i.e. the One Life which is centred in the soul), backward and downward to the lower reason; for "sin" consists in a voluntary retrogression from the higher to the lower. The "serpent" which tempts to "sin" is the astral or magnetia self, which, recognising matter only, mistakes the illusory for the substantial. Yielding to the "tempter", the soul falls under the power of the lower nature ( "Adam") see Genesis 4, 16 - "and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee"; like Lot's wife she (Eve; - the soul) has looked back, and forthwith becomes a "Pillar of salt" the Alchemic synonym for matter. In this subjection of the "woman" to the "man", and the dire results engendered of it, consists the "Fall", and the fact that it entails these results demonstrates that such subjection is not according to the Divine order, but is an in version of that order. The soul should ever seek upwards to the Divine Will (of the Spirit); and instead of seeking downwards to the mind, should draw the mind up with her. Thus it comes to be that in the sixth station (the world of animal nature), which corresponds to the sixth creative "day" of Genesis, man is still in the making, and in order to attain to the "measure stature of the Christ", and from man potential become man actual and perfect, he must enter upon the seventh and last world of Kabbalistic evolution, the topmost round of the Ladder of Ja cob, which is the vary threshold of the Divine. The seventh station (the world of human nature) is the world of the demigods and heroes of Greek myth, of the Saints of Christendom; and of the Buddhas of the Orient. Here man is no more merely a superior animal, for the nature of the beast is expunged, and new and more subtle senses replace the old; Divine illumination and transcendent knowledge have closed the avenues of passion and sin - this is the first Nir vana, or Resurrection. But one step more, and th e second Nirvana is reached, and "Regina and Rex look face to face upon each other" (the Idea and the Realisation are poised face to face); for the plane of earth and of time is wholly transcended, the indissoluble, a selfhood and life eternal are gained - the manhood is taken into God. Thus is celebrated the mystic marriage of the Immaculate Virgin (the Soul) with her spouse the Holy spirit; the yoke of bondage to Adam is broken, and for ever the curse is r eversed by the Ave Maria of Regeneration. The Gree k Mysteries dealt with two subjects only, the first being the drama of the "rape" and restoration of Persephone, and the second, that of the incarnation, martyrdom, and resuscitation of Dionysos; by Persephone was intended the Soul, and by Dionysos, the Spirit. The myth of Demeter and her daughter Persephone told how the maiden strayed away from Arcadia (heaven) and from her mother, to pluck flowers in the meads of Enna, and how the soil there opened and caused her t o fall through into the lower dark world of Hades, ruled over by Pluto. The despair of her mother at the loss reached Zeus, the chief of the Gods, with the result that he relieved the position by ordaining that, if the girl had not eaten of the fruit of Hades, she should forthwith be restored to her mother for ever, but that if she had so eaten she must abide a third of each year with Pluto and return to Demeter for the other two thirds. It proved that Persephone had unfortunately eaten a Pomegranate in th e lower world, so that her restoration to her mother could not be permanent, but only periodic. This myth, and the importance once attached to it, can be appreciated only upon understanding its interpretation. It is the story of the soul, and is of the same nature as the Mosaic myth of Adam-and Eve; Persephone is the human soul, and her straying from her heavenly home and heavenly mother in quest of flowers (symbol of fresh experiences) in the fields of Enna (signifying darkness and bitterness), corresponds with the same promptines of desire t hat led to Adam's disobedience in Eden and his fall thence to this outer world. The eating of the fruit of Hades, alludes to the further degradation of the soul by lusting after the inferior pleasures of this lower plane, which, as symbolised by the pomegranate, is filled with the seeds of illusion and vanity. Therefore, until these false tendencies are eradicated and the desires of the heart are utterly weaned from external delights, it is decreed that there can be no permanent restoration of the soul to its source, but merely periodic respite and refreshment ("from labour to refreshment") that death brings when it with-draws the soul from the realm of Pluto to the heaven-world; to be followed again and again by periodic descents into material limitations and reascents into discarnate conditions, until the soul becomes finally purged and perfected. By means of this great myth, instruction was imparted concerning the history of the soul, its destiny and prospects, and the doctrine of reincarna tion was also g iven emphasis.
The great drama of the Greek Mysteries enunciates, as well as veils, two cardinal verities: the Fall, and Redemption from that Fall. Thus from the sad and woeful state into which Persophone falls she is finally rescued and restored to the supernal abodes; but not until the coming of the Saviour, represented in the Hermetic parable under the name of Osiris ("the risen from the tomb")- the Man Regenerate. This Redeemer, himself of divine origin; is in other allegories represented under other names, but the i dea is always defined, and the intention obvious. Indeed, Osiris is the Jesus of our Christian doctrine, the supreme Initiate or "Captain of Salvation"; He is the reflection and counterpart in Man of the supreme Lord of the Universe (Greek - Dionysos, Hebrew - Adonai), the ideal type of humanity. He is represented as in all things "instructed" and directed by Hermes; famed as the celestial conductor of souls from the "dark abodes"; the wise and ubiquitous God in whom the student recognises the Genius of th e Understanding, or Divine Reason, the "nous" of Platonic doctrine - and the mystic "Spirit of Christ". As the understanding of holy things and the faculty of their interpretation are the gift of Hermes, the name of this God is given to all science and revelation of an occult and divine nature. Hermes was therefore regarded as the Messenger or Angel of the Gods, descending alike to the depths of the Hadean world to bring up souls from thence, and ascendi ng up beyond all heavens that he might fill all thin gs. Lactantius, (a Christian apologist of the early part of the fourth century), in his "Divine Institutions", says: "Hermes affirms that those who know God are safe from the attacks of the demon, and that they are not even subjected to Fate." Now, the powers of Fate reside in the stars - that is, in the "astral" sphere, whether Cosmic or micro-Cosmic - and the astral power was in Greek fable, typified by Argos (the hundred-eyed genius of the starry zone), " Panoptes", the all-seeing giant, whom it was the g lory of Hermes to have outwitted and slain. The meaning of this allegory is, that they who have the Hermetic secret are not subject to Fate, but have passed beyond the thrall of metempsychosis and have freed themselves from "ceaseless whirling on the wheel" of Destiny. The spheres of delusion, dominated by the sevenfold astral Powers, lie between the soul and God; beyond those spheres are the celestial "Nine Abodes" wherein, say the Mysteries Demeter vainly sought t he lost Persephone. For from these abode s Persephone had lapsed into a mundane and material state, and thereby had fallen under the power of the planetary rulers; that is, of Fate, personified by Hekate. On the tenth day the Divine Drama shews Dometer meeting the Goddess of Doom and Retribution, the terrible Hekate Triformis (personification of "Karma") by whom she is told of Persephone's abduction and detention in the Hadean world; thereafter Hekate becomes the constant attendant upon Persephone. All this i s, of course, pregnant with the deepes t significance; until the Soul falls into Matter, she has no Fate or Karma, for Fate is the appanage and result of Time and Manifestation. In the sevenfold astral spheres the Moon is representative of Fate, and presents two aspects, the benign and the malignant. Under the benign aspect the Moon is Artemis, reflecting to the soul the divine light of Phoebus; under the malignant aspect she is Hekate the Avenger, dark of countenance and three-headed, being swift as a horse, su re as a dog, and as implacable as a lion. The Tree of Good and Evil, says the Kabbalah, has its roots in Malkuth - the Moon. It is sometimes asserted that the doctrine of Karma is peculiar to Hindu theology, but on the contrary it is clearly exhibited alike in the Hebrew, Hellenic, and Christian Mysteries; the Greeks called it Fate, and the Christians know it as Original Sin.
Modern Freemasonry, in the line of succession from the Ancient Mysteries, follows the traditional method of imparting instruction by means of myths, and its canon of teaching in the Craft degrees contains two; one, the building of King Solomon's Temple; the other, the death and burial of Hiram Abiff. The story of the building of the Temple is a myth enshrining philosophic truths, garbed in quasi-historical form, and relating to the structure of the human soul, the Temple of the collective soul of Humanity. This "magnificent structure" has now been destroyed and thrown down from its primitive eminence and grandeur; Humanity instead of being a collective united organic whole, has become shattered into innumerable fragmentary parts, not one stone standing upon another of its ruined building. It has lost consciousness of the genuine secrets of its own origin and nature, and has now to be content with the spurious substituted knowledge it picks up fro m sense-impressions in this outer world. (See Paper, "The Mysti cal Quest in Freemasonry"). The Masonic myth of the martyrdom of Hiram Abiff affords us one of the profoundest mysteries open to contemplation. Students of the mysteries will discern that the true purpose of the central legend of our Craft is not to recount the temporal event of the death-agony of a murdered Master, but to narrate the parable of a cosmic and universal loss. We are here dealing with no tragedy that occurred during the erection of a building in an eastern city, but with a moral disaster to u niversal humanity. Hiram Abiff is slain. The high light and wisdom ordained to guide and enlighten humanity are wanting to us, and the want of plans and designs to regulate the disorders of individual and social life indicates to us all that some heavy calamity has befallen us as a race. Indeed, the absence of clear and guiding principle in the world's life forcibly reminds us of the utter confusion into which the loss of that Supreme Wisdom, per sonified as Hiram, has thrown us all; and causes every refle ctive mind to attribute to some fatal catastrophe his mysterious disappearance. We all long for that light and wisdom which have become lost to us. Like the craftsmen in search of the body, we go our different ways in search of what is lost, and many of us make no discovery of importance throughout the length of our days. We seek it in pleasure, in work, in all the varied occupations and diversions of our lives; we seek it in intellectual pursuit s, in Freemasonry, and those who search farthest and deepest are those who become most conscious of the loss and who are compelled to confess, in the words of the Christian Scriptures: "They have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have laid him". Where is Hiram buried? We are taught that the Wisdom of the Most High - personified as King Solomon - ordered him to be interred in a fitting sepulchre outside the Holy City. He is buried "outside the Holy City", in the same sense that the posterity of Adam have all been placed outside the walls of Paradise, for , "nothing unclean can enter into the holy place" which elsewhere in Scripture is called the Kingdom of Heaven. Our ritual in cryptic terms indicates that the grave of Hiram is ourselves; each of us is the sepulchre in which the smitten Muster is interred. At the centre of ourselves lies buried the "vital and immortal principle" that affiliates us to the Divine Centre of all life, and that is never extinguished however imperfect our lives may be. In other wor ds, Hiram Abiff represents the Christ-principle immanent in every soul; crucified, dead and buried in all who are not alive to its presence, but resident in all as a saving force; to quote St. Paul - "Christ in you, the hope of glory". Thus the temple of the human soul; primordially constituted of the three principles WISDOM, STRENGTH and BEAUTY, in due balance and proportion, and divinely pronounced to be "very good", has deflected from that state. Of the three pillars that should support it, WISDOM (Gnosis ) has fallen and become replaced by a flexib le and shifting prop of speculative opinion; STRENGTH (divine dynamic energy) has become exchanged for the frailty of the perishing flesh; and BEAUTY, the God-like radiant form that should adorn and liken man to his Divine Creator, has become superseded by every ugliness of imperfection. Man, then severed from conscious intercourse with his Vital and Immortal Principle, is now a prisoner in captivity to himself and his lower temporal nature. It remains for him to retra ce his steps and rebuild his temple; to continue no longer a bondsslave to his self-made illusions and the attractions of "worldly possessions", but to become a free man and mason, engaged in shaping himself into a living stone, for the cosmic temple of a regenerate Humanity. Hence, to be installed in the chair of King Solomon, means in its true sense the re-attainment of a Wisdom we have lost and the revival in ourselves of the Divine Life-Essence which is the basis of our being. With the reattainment of that wisdom a ll that is comprised in the terms Strength and Beauty will be re-attained also, for the three pillars stand in eternal association and balance. On the other hand, not to re-attain-it, not to revive the Divine Life-Essence, during our sojourn in this world, is to miss the opportunity which life in physical conditions provides, since the after-death state, as the Ancient Mysteries taught, is not one of labour at this work, but of refreshment and rest, when no real progress, is possible. Labour, understood in the sense here defined, an d Refreshment after it, constitute a rhythm of activity and passivity: a rhythm similar to that which we daily experience in respect of waking and sleeping, working and resting. To speak of Refreshment, however, in the deeper sense implied in Freemasonry is even more difficult than to speak of the philosophic Labour; for it involves a subject to which few devote deep thought - the subjective side of the soul's life as distinct from the objective side which, for most men, is the only one at pres ent known to them. But to the wise, the study of the subjective half of life is as important us that of the objective half, and without it he cannot make the circle of his self-knowledge complete. Even the observant Masonic student is made aware by the formula used at Lodge-closing, that by some great Warden of life and death each soul is called into this objective world to labour upon itself, and is in due course summoned from it to rest from its labours a nd enter into subjective celestial refreshment, until once agai n it is recalled to labour. For each the "day," the opportunity for work at self-perfecting, is duly given; for each the "night" cometh when no man can work at that task; which morning and evening constitute but one creative day of the soul's life, each portion of that day being a necessary complement to the other. Perfect man has to unify these opposites in himself; so that for him, as for his Maker, the darkness and the light become both alike. The world-old secret teaching upon this subject, common to the whole of the East, to Egypt, the Pythagoreans and Platonists, and every College of the Mysteries, is to be found summed up as clearly as one could wish in the "Phaedo" of Plato, to which the student is referred as one of the most instructive of treatises upon the deeper side of the science. It testifies to the great rhythm of life and death above spoken of, and demonstrates how that the soul in the course of its career weaves and wears out many bodies and is continually migrating between objective and subjective conditions, passing from labour to refreshment and back again many times in its great task of self-fulfilment. And if Plato was, as was once truly said of him, but Moses speaking Attic Greek, we shall not be surprised at finding the same initiate-teaching disclosed in the words of Moses himself. Does not the familiar Psalm of Moses declare that man is continually "brought to destruction", that subsequently a voice goes forth saying "Come again, ye children of men !" and that the subjective spiri tual world is his refuge from one objective manifestation to another? What else than a paraphrase of this great word of comfort is the Masonic pronouncement that, in the course of its task of self-perfecting, the soul is periodically summoned to alternating periods of labour and refreshment? It must be labour, and it must rest from its labours; its works will follow it, and in the subjective world every Brother's soul will receive its due for its work in the objective one, until such time a s its work is com pleted and it is made "a pillar in the House of God and no more goes out" as a journeyman-builder into this sublunary workshop.
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New American Scenery printed ceramics by Paul Scott
Paul Scott is internationally known for his provocative ceramics that highlight political and cultural issues. Familiar designs associated with traditional domestic tableware are subversively manipulated to comment on our life and times. The exhibition includes exciting new work inspired by the blue and white ‘American’ transferware-printed earthenware that was made in Staffordshire during the 19th century and decorated with celebratory views of the emergent American republic.
Many of the pieces on display have resulted from periods of travel and research in the USA, where Paul’s activities were, in his words, ‘driven by issues and institutions as much as a desire to experience particular landscapes.’ He studied examples of American transferware in museum collections and visited many of the locations depicted, subsequently producing up-dated views that reflect current events as well as historical, environmental and social change. These ceramics have often involved a high degree of technical wizardry, whereby visual motifs are magically altered and meanings are transformed. The exhibition marks 20 years since Paul Scott first showed his work in the Ceramics Gallery at Aberystwyth Arts Centre.
Research in the USA supported by the Alturas Foundation.
Research in the archives at Wedgwood, Spode and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, supported by Arts Council England.
Main Image: Cumbrian Blue(s), New American Scenery, Residual Waste (Texas) No: 4
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Effect of nitrogen on uptake, remobilization and partitioning of zinc and iron throughout the development of durum wheat
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Deficiencies of zinc (Zn) and iron (Fe) are global nutritional problems and caused most often by their limited dietary intake. Increasing Zn and Fe concentrations of staple food crops such as wheat is therefore an important global challenge. This study investigated the effects of varied nitrogen (N) and Zn supply on the total uptake, remobilization and partitioning of Zn, Fe and N in durum wheat throughout its ontogenesis. Plants were grown under greenhouse conditions with high or low supply of N and Zn, and harvested at 8 different developmental stages for analysis of Zn, Fe and N in leaves, stems, husks and grains. The results obtained showed that the Zn and Fe uptake per plant was enhanced up to 4-fold by high N supply while the increases in plant growth by high N supply were much less. When both the Zn and N supplies were high, approximately 50% of grain Zn and 80% of grain Fe were provided by post-anthesis shoot uptake, indicating that the contribution of remobilization to grain accumulation was higher for Zn than for Fe. At the high N and Zn application, about 60% of Zn, but only 40% of Fe initially stored in vegetative parts were retranslocated to grains, and nearly 80% of total shoot Zn and 60% of total shoot Fe were harvested with grains. All these values were significantly lower at the low N treatment. Results indicate that N nutrition is a critical factor in both the acquisition and grain allocation of Zn and Fe in wheat. | <urn:uuid:58fd2166-b2e8-4fff-b49f-96b41d8ab5c9> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11104-010-0679-5 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280825.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00199-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964185 | 409 | 2.8125 | 3 |
Road study approved to prioritize repairs
WEST BOYLSTON — Roads took a beating this winter.
Director of Public Works Anthony Sylvia is looking at a plan for those repairs and others.
One piece is spending $44,404 in special roadwork funds from the state. That "pothole" money must be spent in a short time frame, he noted. Thus, he was recommending using the funds for road striping, replacing sections of guardrails and beginning a crack sealing program.
Selectman Siobhan Bohnson said "We have a lot of potholes that need huge attention."
Sylvia said the timeline for bidding on road work meant it was better to use the short-term funds for other things that were needed.
State Chapter 90 money with less time constraints would be used for further road repairs that would be ""ongoing through the year."
The board also approved Sylvia's recommended expenditure of $17,750 from the town's Chapter 90 state road funds for a Paving Management Agreement that would analyze town roads.
William Scarpati of Fay, Spofford and Thorndike explained the program ranks roads, allowing funds to be focused on roads at a key point in their useful lives.
By putting money into roads when they reach a certain point, such as crack sealing, they could be improved. If the roads go beyond a certain point, the repairs are much more expensive, Scarpati said. Those roads are better left while limited funds are put into those that are at that key point.
Sylvia said the town will have $1.4 million in road funds in the coming years since money has been collecting. Spending those funds in a planned program could extend the life of the roads, he indicated.
The program is "a tool for deciding how we want to prioritize," Sylvia said.
"It's a tool we use to be a little smarter," Scarpati said. "Timing is the key." The information also could "optimize our current funds."
"The strategy is not to do the worst street first," Scarpati said.
Sylvia said the study could be done in June and he could present results in July with recommendations.
A presentation on the program is on the town website under the administrator's blog.
Trash pact extended
Selectmen approved Guamond's recommendation to extend the town's trash contract with Republic for another five years.
Gaumond said the existing contract is set to expire at the end of the fiscal year but can be extended.
"In general, the experiences we have had with trash have been positive," Gaumond said.
He said the rate appeared to be very good; he noted that when he asked another vendor to look at the numbers, he never heard back, indicating the other vendor could not compete.
The town will be seeking a new financial services firm to replace Michael Daley's FAA. Daley's contract runs through June 30 but he initially agreed to continue an additional six months.
Gaumond said Daley recently said he will not be able to continue that long but will try to continue a little beyond the end of the contract period.
"All of a sudden this became a big priority," Gaumond said. "I'm on it and we're going to do our best."
The options remain the same, Gaumond said, either hire someone or contract with a firm as the town had done in the past.
In two meetings last week, the Board of Selectmen tackled a long list of licenses and appointments.
Selectmen last week approved a request for transient vendor licenses for numerous businesses that will be part of the Pinecroft Farmer's Market.
Jen Baum said she was working with Pinecroft to set up the farmer's market for the community.
"It sounds like a pretty good variety," Selectmen Chairman Kevin McCormick said of the list of vendors.
Baum said more vendors may be added to the market later.
The market is slated to run from June 14 to Oct. 11 outside at Pinecroft, from 9:30 to noon on Sundays.
Town Administrator Leon Gaumond Jr. said the Board of Health is also reviewing the vendors who need food-related licenses.
"It would serve the community well to have it here," Baum said.
"We've been trying to get this into West Boylston for the last 10 years," Selectman John Hadley said.
Baum said the market would also feature entertainment, running from 10 to 11:30 a.m.
She said the objective is for the market to be a destination featuring the farmers' products, artisans and entertainment.
The board approved a transient vendor and common victuallar license for John Mehrak for a food sales cart. Mehrak said he intends to operate a push-style hot dog cart at the Walmart parking lot in Scarlett Brook Marketplace.
A New Yorker who moved to the area after years in Florida, Mehrak described the cart as "a push-cart like you see in New York City with an umbrella," serving precooked foods.
He expects the cart to operate from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on most days.
He said he operated a similar business in Florida but this is his first business here.
The board approved a request for a transient vendor license to sell plants on The Common on May 9, from 8 a.m to 2 p.m., with proceeds going towards Westbest.
The board accepted donations on behalf of the town for the bandstand of $250 each from Susan Meola, Clinton Savings Bank, Oriol Health, Menard's Auto, S&S Farms & Deli, Fay Brothers, Reservoir Garage and A&E Realty Co.
The board also accepted $3689.34 in donations to the Beaman Memorial Library.
In other business, the board approved a request for the Second Annual Pain in the Mass Tour that plans to bicycle through town from Bolton to Mount Greylock on Aug. 22 and 23. | <urn:uuid:f29d061c-b94c-4e84-afc0-9fac0dc3b81a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.telegram.com/story/news/2015/04/29/road-study-approved-to-prioritize/34637228007/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00278.warc.gz | en | 0.969272 | 1,259 | 1.726563 | 2 |
In Surah Nisa, verse 136, Allah says:
Before the first stop (jeem), Allah describes the Qur'an with "nazzala" (نَزَّلَ), while he describes the previous books with "anzala" (أَنزَلَ).
Both of these come from the same root verb, nazala, which means "to descend, to go down." The first is baab two, which is a more severe form, while the second looks like the form used often when you cause something to happen (eg. make something descend).
But my Arabic is rusty. What exactly is the difference of meaning of these two verbs, and what's the implication here? | <urn:uuid:d7b78ded-4438-4db8-ac24-1f6e172f37fd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://islam.stackexchange.com/questions/1809/what-exactly-is-the-difference-of-meaning-of-nazzala-and-anzala-in-quran-verse | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.942428 | 153 | 2.3125 | 2 |
TASK | The last few weeks of this course are devoted to social media techniques. Using the course and other appropriate material, develop a paper to be delivered to the client:
Analyze Planned Parenthoods current social media (SM) use;
then select two other nonprofits from Organizations for Analysis of Strategic Publics list provided in Week 1, and one commercial company or corporation comparing their SM use to that used by our client.
For example, consider what SM software platforms and techniques each use, whether this area of communication is effective, and what and how they could improve the SM as part of their outreach with appropriate stakeholders, such as blogging, and the pros and cons of each SM platform or technique.
Finally, think beyond what each currently uses to include what other platforms might give them more bang for the buck, so to speakand why. (This may require you to research the broad spectrum of social media platforms available!) Caution: Dont be limited to just the most obvious.
PART 1 | Your analysis paper of NO MORE than 10 pages discussing your findings. You may use graphics (such as the Print-Screen feature, on your computer), charts, as you desire to make your paper meaningful and effective. Also, consider using Google Trends or SnagIt, which has a free 30-day trial. See the following for more information on using Google Trends or Snagit or other similar web analytics tools.
Two Nonprofit companies are: Smithsonian Institution & The American Red Cross
Commercial Company is Johnson & Johnson
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Factory encoded ID in secure clocking smart cards cannot be duplicated
A politician north of the border has questioned the wisdom of cutting jobs at an employment agency during these tough economic times. "It simply doesn't make sense that the agency tasked with helping people find alternative employment if they lose their jobs is itself making 125 people redundant in the teeth of a recession," Labour's skills spokesman David Whitton said. The Scottish government responded to the redundancy news by stressing its commitment to the Skills Development Scotland agency arranging 34,500 training places next year.
Contactless smart cards in a Tensor time and attendance network will aid quicker throughput and, along with our time and attendance software, help to protect your workforce with the efficiencies they produce. Our popular smart cards contain no batteries, thus theoretically they can be read an infinite number of times. The factory encoded ID code in a card cannot be duplicated, therefore the scanning entry regime is very secure. Smart cards are the size of a standard credit card so are thin and flexible enough to be carried in your wallet. | <urn:uuid:64b774f8-b9f3-4c1a-87e3-86cc2388dc27> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.tensor.co.uk/blog/news/factory-encoded-id-in-secure-clocking-smart-cards-cannot-be-duplicated | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00470.warc.gz | en | 0.947615 | 212 | 1.953125 | 2 |
The center of the club soccer world resides in England (two teams in Wales) with the Barclay’s Premiere League (BPL). Being the “best” soccer league has allowed the BPL to be televised live here in the States as the sport is showing some growth in participation and in viewership. I have recently found myself watching more matches and even choosing “a side” – as they call it across the pond (it should be noted that soccer it called football everywhere else but here). Through research and general information gathering as I get further into the sport the BPL or other European soccer leagues are not much different in its fandom. Supporters of teams and players are similar to the fanatics that follow football here in America; critical of team play, ownership, players effort and results. One area where the fans and the sport of soccer is well behind, in terms of knowledge, is concussions.
The readers of this blog know quite well that a concussion is simply an event that alters normal brain function. Being primarily subjective it may be hard to distinguish a concussion by simply looking at a player or person. However, the vast majority of sports fans here in America and participants know that there are tell-tale signs of concussion that cannot be disputed. When one of those objective signs is observed it is and should be understood that said player was concussed and requires immediate removal from the game/practice/activity. The reason is simple, concussions are a brain injury and bad. Research has shown that playing through a concussion is very detrimental to short-term and long-term mental health.
Years ago, pre-2004, getting knocked out or displaying signs of a concussion was a mere nuisance and even a “badge of honor” among the top-level sporting participants. It was known back then that something as obvious as someone losing consciousness was not a good thing for the younger participants, however it wasn’t looked upon as it is now. When a sports participant absorbs enough force to effectively “reboot” the body’s central nervous system that is NOT A GOOD thing. As the information about concussion has become more clear through the years if a player is KO’ed that player is removed from play immediately and does not return for the period determined by the medical staff. In the NFL the soonest anyone has returned to practice or game after being knocked out, since 2010 has been six days. Even that may not be enough time for the brain to recover. Heck, in boxing and MMA, fighters that are KO’ed are medically suspended for 90 days.
This leads me to the bloody mess that occurred in Everton, England yesterday.
Late in the match Everton striker Romelu Lukaku inadvertently blasted Tottenham goalie Hugo Lloris with a knee to the head:
What occurred next was mystifying, dumbfounded, idiotic and just plain stupid with what we know about concussions. Lloris pleaded to stay in the match and lo-and-behold – against initial medical advice – team manager Andre Villas-Boas allowed it to be. There are so many disturbing and plain wrong things in this train wreck and aftermath they are hard to catalog. We will do our best;
- Although the governing body, FIFA, and its medical director – Jiri Dvorak – blasted the Spurs and AVB his assertion that, “It’s a 99 per cent probability that losing consciousness in such an event will result in concussion,” is wrong. It is a 100% certainty that losing consciousness indicates someone has sustained a concussion. (For those new to this information it should also be noted that you don’t have to be knocked out to sustain a concussion)
- A concussed individual – the Frenchman Lloris in this case – is not a reliable source of information. They have been “brain-damaged” to an extent and any decisions on continuing play by the player themselves should NEVER be used.
- AVB as a coach is the last line of defense for a player when injured. As we have seen clearly here in the States often coaches use their power as the final decision maker on playing time in an abusive fashion to keep players playing. There is an inherent conflict of interest by allowing a coach to overrule or supersede medical teams.
- The Spurs doctors, although initially reported as being against Lloris continuing, have now come back with a weak sauce support of the manager; “Hugo was cleared to resume playing after examination by the Club’s medical team,” via Twitter.
- The FA in all of its oversight and information to protect players hosted the last meeting of the International Consensus on Concussion in Sport. Yes at their headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland, where Jiri Dvorak was there and partook in the event. They know quite well the current standards of concussions. Why there was not a by-law in place to warrant automatic removal is beyond me.
- What’s more: the player himself admitted that he did not remember the challenge or where exactly he was after the incident. Alarm bell number two, memory loss. This time it is not a sign, rather a symptom, but it confirms what most already knew, Lloris was concussed.
- The current narrative of Lloris being checked out with a precautionary CT scan and him being ‘OK’ is a bit premature. As we should all know, CT scans or any current imaging for that matter, cannot detect a concussion.
The simple net of this post and event is this; no matter the sport or player if someone loses consciousness due to a traumatic force applied to the body or head they have been concussed. Current standards warrant immediate removal from play and CANNOT return in a minimum of 24 hours (although it is our opinion that this should be much longer).
The FA, Spurs, and AVB are all wankers in my opinion for not understanding the gravity of this injury. Their actions are mindful of the mouth-breathing, knuckle-dragging, booger-eating cavemen that once were proud members of sport. Who for the most part have become extinct like the dinosaur.
Do better and learn from this. The FA should fine and suspend AVB, investigate the Spurs medical team and find a way to make this a positive example. Perhaps Lloris and other concussed footballers can do some public education on the matter?
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- 1 Why box dye is bad for your hair?
- 2 Is box dye less damaging?
- 3 How can I use box dye to not damage my hair?
- 4 Why you shouldn’t dye your hair?
- 5 Should you shampoo after dying hair?
- 6 What is the least damaging hair color?
- 7 What is the healthiest hair color to use?
- 8 What is the kindest hair dye?
- 9 Is darker hair dye less damaging?
- 10 Does it damage your hair to dye it?
- 11 Does hair dye ruin your hair?
- 12 At what age should you stop coloring your hair?
- 13 Why you shouldn’t dye your hair at home?
- 14 What should I use instead of box dye?
Why box dye is bad for your hair?
Terrible for your hair They typically contain high amounts of ammonia, PPDs, nitro dyes, metallic salts, and even henna. These are all harsh chemicals that can be extremely damaging to the hair as well as cause reactions to sensitive skin and allergies.
Is box dye less damaging?
When to Use a Box Dye “More specifically, it’s safe if you’re using semi/demi-permanent color at home because they fade away much more softly than permanent color and are also way less damaging as they usually deposit only and don’t alter the natural hair shaft,” she explains.
How can I use box dye to not damage my hair?
How to dye your hair without damaging it
- Semi-permanent hair rinse. A colour hair rinse that isn’t permanent doesn’t penetrate the hair shaft, so is the perfect solution for anyone looking to dye their hair without causing breakage or damage.
- Chalks, crayons, powders and sticks.
- Professional results.
Why you shouldn’t dye your hair?
According to Dermatology Times, hair loss from permanent dyes is technically hair breakage, but can happen in such quantities that it looks more like loss. Harsh chemicals in permanent dyes can make hair brittle and more breakable, especially over time.
Should you shampoo after dying hair?
Shampooing the day after you dye your hair. “After having your hair colored, wait a full 72 hours before shampooing,” says Eva Scrivo, a hairstylist in New York City. “It takes up to three days for the cuticle layer to fully close, which traps the color molecule, allowing for longer lasting hair color.”
What is the least damaging hair color?
The 5 Least-Damaging Box Hair Dyes
- Best Overall, All Things Considered: Revlon Colorsilk Beautiful Color.
- Runner-Up: Garnier Olia Ammonia-Free Permanent Hair Color.
- Best For Natural-Looking Highlights: L’Oréal Paris Feria Multi-Faceted Shimmering Permanent Hair Color.
- Best For Touch-Ups: L’Oréal Paris Magic Root Rescue.
What is the healthiest hair color to use?
The 7 Best Natural At-Home Hair Color Dyes
- ELLE Green Beauty Star Winner 2020.
- 2 Madison Reed Radiant Hair Color Kit.
- 3 Root Touch-up Kit.
- 4 Temporary Color Gel.
- 5 Clairol Natural Instincts Semi-Permanent Hair Color.
- 6 Manic Panic Amplified Semi-Permanent Hair Color.
- 7 Naturtint Permanent Hair Color.
What is the kindest hair dye?
What is the best natural hair dye?
- It’s Pure Organics Herbal Hair Colour Dark Brown.
- Christophe Robin Temporary Colour Gel.
- Herbatint 4N Chestnut Permanent Herbal Hair Colour.
- Saach Organics Natural Hair Colour.
- Naturtint Permanent Hair Colour.
- Lush Henna Hair Colour.
- Schwarzkopf 100% Vegetal Natural Brown Vegan Hair Dye.
Is darker hair dye less damaging?
“Everyone is different and everyone’s hair reacts differently, but going darker is far less damaging than lightening it,” she said. At the same time, remember that your hair might feel dryer at first, since either way, you’re chemically altering it.
Does it damage your hair to dye it?
Truth: When you apply dye to your hair, you’re opening up the cuticle so that color can be deposited, and yes, that causes damage. It has damage-blocking technology* and there are conditioners at every step—even a complimentary tube of CC+ Color Conditioner—to keep your strands hydrated and help block breakage.
Does hair dye ruin your hair?
Hair dyes contain a lot of chemicals right from ammonia to peroxides. This not only damages the natural state of the hair but also removes the moisture from the hair follicles. Moreover, it can further lead to dryness, breakage, and split ends, which can cause hair loss.
At what age should you stop coloring your hair?
As a general rule, Mike Liang, advanced colorist at Julien Farel Restore Salon & Spa in New York suggests going gray when you reach 80 percent non-pigmented or white hair. If your hair starts to feel increasingly dry, brittle, or damaged or you experience scalp irritation, it might be time to ditch the dye.
Why you shouldn’t dye your hair at home?
” You can cause damage to your hair, which could result in a shorter haircut,” says Dorsey. Often times, non-professionals don’t know or realize the proper techniques for coloring their hair, and the process may result in dry, brittle, or damaged hair that may need to be cut off.
What should I use instead of box dye?
Try the following natural hair dyes if you’re looking for alternative ways to color your hair.
- Carrot juice. Try carrot juice if you want to give your hair a reddish-orange tint.
- Beet juice.
- Lemon juice.
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According to the book Bird’s Nests, Business and Ethnicity in Southeast Asia, Thailand can supply 400 tonnes of edible nests annually collected from both natural sources and nest farms. This business generates around US$325 million (10 billion baht) per year. The Kingdom is the third largest producer of bird’s nests in the Southeast Asia, while Indonesia is the biggest producer, exporting around 2,000 tonnes per year, followed by Malaysia with 600 tonnes.
“My family has run this bird’s nest farm for seven years. Previously, we supplied raw bird’s nests to other producers before I decided to establish the brand, SHEWON in 2017 to produce and distribute the bird’s nest instant drink under our brand,” says KCD Intertrade Managing Director, Panchat Dujtipiya, the producer of SHEWON bird’s nests.
According to her, Bangsaphan district in Prachuakirikhan is one of the provinces in Thailand with a suitable climate for having a swallow bird’s nest farm.
“We constructed a building and created the environment with the proper temperature for raising the swallows,” she explains. “Now, we can collect four to five kilograms of raw bird’s nests per month.”
Dujitipiya claims that SHEWON is the first brand to use a freeze drying technique to produce bird’s nest instant drink.
“With this technique, we can maintain the quality of the bird’s nest. Our product has a one-year shelf life. It is easy to make this instant drink. Just put the freeze-dried bird’s nest in a cup, add 80 ml. of hot water and wait for three minutes, the bird’s nest drink is ready to serve,” she explains.
In addition to its dried bird’s nest instant drink with Pandan flavour, SHEWON also offers other products: white bird’s nest and ready-to-eat bird’s nest.
Since the launch of its dried bird’s nest instant drink in August 2018, the brand has received positive feedback from its customers.
“80% of our target customers are tourists, Chinese in particular, while 20% are Thai health-conscious consumers,” she says. “Because of its benefit and light weight, tourists can buy SHEWON bird’s nest instant drink as a souvenir from Thailand and carry it conveniently and easily.”
SHEWON products are available at ICONSIAM in Bangkok, Tops Supermarket in Bangkok and other tourist destinations and souvenir shops. Dujitipiya plans to launch another bird’s nest flavour instant drink in the near future as well as promoting her products in target markets such as China, Taiwan and Singapore, where people love to eat bird’s nest because they believe that it promotes good health.
“We are focusing on processed the bird’s nests collected from our farm, rather than selling them to other producers,” she adds. “Because of the increasing demand for bird’s nest, our supply is normally lower than the demand.”
For more information, visit: www.shewonthaibirdnest.com
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Why does spring always take us by surprise? After what seems to have been a very long winter, the garden is suddenly filled with new life and growth. Whether you’re a keen gardener or someone who prefers low-maintenance options, who can resist the lure of spring sunshine? Now is the time to make the most of your outdoor space!
Get the new season off to a great start with a garden makeover. Be ruthless and get rid of anything that’s past its best or no longer serves its purpose. Repair or replace damaged fences, dangerously cracked paths, and a tumbledown shed. Clean and spruce up your patio and decking. Design a different planting scheme and take a look at new varieties of your favourite plants.
As spring bulbs fade remove dead flowers but allow the leaves to do their job of feeding the bulbs so they’ll produce more flowers next year. If you need to move bulbs to make space for new bedding plants, lift them carefully and re-plant in any vacant sunny spot or in a spare container where they can be left to die down naturally.
Will this summer be a scorcher or a washout? Nobody knows for sure what the weather will be like, but all plants – even drought-resistant ones – will need water. If you haven’t already got a water butt to collect rainwater now is a good time to install one – or more. You’ll be very glad of it if there is a water shortage, but in any case storing and using rainwater saves money if you pay for your water through a meter.
Hanging baskets and window boxes are an easy way to add instant colour, but they can be heavy when filled with damp compost. Check that brackets and fixings haven’t come loose during the winter and are secure and strong enough to take the weight.Â
Even the keenest gardeners need to relax and enjoy the results of their labour sometimes! Add privacy, fragrance and dappled shade to your favourite sitting area with a strategically placed screen of sturdy trellis covered with scented climbers such as jasmine, honeysuckle and, of course, roses.
If you will need some expert help with a landscaping project this year don’t delay in asking a local professional landscape gardener* to visit and give you a free, no obligation consultation. Finalizing plans now will enable the work to begin as soon as possible, giving you the whole summer to enjoy your new garden. | <urn:uuid:4e252396-9a07-41b8-a645-0d6046cac870> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://agriviet.net/591-spring-gardening-tips-round-up/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280900.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00004-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931335 | 518 | 1.625 | 2 |
What Do House Clearance Services Involve?
To make space, prepare a property for sale or rent, or empty the home of a deceased relative, a full or partial house clearance may be required. A house clearance may be a big job, therefore hiring a skilled and dependable company to do it for you can be really beneficial.
In this post, we’ll look at the house clearing procedure in detail, including what it entails and what you may expect.
What is a house clearance service?
A house clearance entails the complete or partial removal of a household’s items. House clearances are commonly employed to prepare a home for new occupants by removing undesired items left behind by previous occupants.
House clearance services are widely used by landlords and leasing agents between leases to ensure that the house, flat, or apartment is ready to be inhabited again. A house clearance may also be required to de-clutter a hoarder’s home, which may be completely stuffed with unneeded objects. House clearance can be especially handy if you’re downsizing and need to get rid of goods you can’t or don’t want to take with you.
House clearing may also be required by bereaved relatives to empty the home of the recently deceased in order to resell the home, return it to a landlord, or simply to assist with the bereavement process. Many individuals find house clearing to be a difficult task, and they would rather put it in the hands of a professional company than go through the process themselves.
What does a house clearance service involve?
If you think you might require a house clearance service, the first step is to identify the correct company. Look through local directories or the internet until you locate one that meets your needs, then give them a call to discuss your needs.
The firm will talk to you about the job. They’ll require information on the size of the property and how much of it you intend to remove. Some companies will survey your home in person to give you a price, while others will give you an estimate over the phone.
The house clearance cost is usually determined by the amount of items to be removed. A four-bedroom house will almost certainly cost more than a one-room apartment, but prices will vary depending on the amount of the objects to be disposed of. It’s a good idea to have a general estimate of this ahead of time so that your chosen provider can give you a more accurate cost estimate right away. | <urn:uuid:d29ffbf9-ce9e-455a-977d-fb0d8d2841c7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.clearthelot.com/what-do-house-clearance-services-involve/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00276.warc.gz | en | 0.949962 | 515 | 1.5 | 2 |
Bioreactors are devices that attempt to mimic a physiological environment in order to achieve better cell and tissue growth and cell and tissue conditioning. Furthermore, bioreactors allow us to combine conventional technology with tissue engineering for the purpose of evaluating and testing the development of tissue engineered constructs.
"Cells are lazy by nature"; it is therefore essential that cells used in the area of tissue engineering are exposed to some form of mechanical stimulation. For this reason we have developed bioreactor systems for a variety of specific applications (e.g. for cultivation of heart valves, vascular grafts, pericardium, cartilage).
Testing and Evaluating
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On a simple narrative level, The Minstrel Boy is the story of a young man who goes off to fight for Irish freedom.
His mission is to defend his country with his sword and sing its praises with his harp.
When he falls in battle, he tears the strings from his harp, preferring to destroy it than let it fall into the hands of the enemy – a fate he regards as tantamount to being subjected to slavery.
However, the song works on a deeper level than the purely narrative.
The Minstrel Boy as the idealistic patriot
The Minstrel Boy was written by Thomas Moore who used the idea of the warrior musician to symbolise a kind of patriot that was to be found again and again in every Irish rebellion spanning more than a hundred years.
The kind of person Moore had in mind was young, idealistic, probably naïve, certainly not well acquainted with warfare and yet, in spite of this, the kind of person who was passionately devoted to defending Ireland and achieving Irish nationalism.
Moore met many idealistic patriots at Trinity CollegeMoore wouldn’t have had to look far to find to find someone on whom to base The Minstrel Boy.
He would have come across several such people during his time as a student at Trinity College Dublin.
It was there that Moore met Robert Emmet, an idealistic patriot who led an unsuccessful rebellion in 1803.
The patriots Moore associated with were often from well to do backgrounds. They were poets, academics and dreamers rather than soldiers.
Minstrel Boy, like many rebels, lacked experience
The Minstrel Boy, like the idealistic Irish rebels he represented, lacked experience of warfare.
Remember, for most of the 19th century, most of Ireland’s military talent was absorbed into the British army and sent off to fight British wars. The men who were left behind to fight for Irish freedom were certainly brave and devoted, but they weren’t really soldiers.
This was true at the time of the 1867 Fenian Rising and1916 Easter Rising, and it was certainly true when Moore was young at the start of the 19th century.
It was largely well meaning but inexperienced idealists who had fought in the 1798 Rebellion, and again a few years later in the abortive Emmet Rebellion in 1803. Emmet was later executed by the British.
Minstrel Boy represents the devoted but amateur rebel
Moore uses The Minstrel Boy to represent these idealist young patriots. The very fact that he is a minstrel alerts us straightaway to the fact that he is not a soldier. He doesn’t even have his own sword, but has to borrow his father’s.
What he lacks in experience, he makes for by his selfless devotion and his readiness to sacrifice everything for his country, Ireland – the land of song as Moore calls it.
As the Minstrel Boy says: “though all the world betrays thee, one sword at least shall guard thy rights, one faithful harp shall praise thee”.
Minstrel Boy suffers same fate as Moore’s friendsThe Minstrel Boy, just like Moore’s friends in the Emmet Rebellion, is overpowered by the might of the enemy.
But just as thousands of Irish patriots throughout history, he maintains a form of victory because the oppressor can not break his spirit.
Before he dies he turns to his harp, a symbol of Ireland, and tears away the strings – preferring to destroy it than to have it abused by the oppressor.
Its “songs were made for the pure and free,
They shall never sound in slavery.”
A subtle expression of Irish nationalist fervour
The Minstrel Boy is very subtle compared to some many other Irish nationalist songs. That subtlety and depth made it popular with more moderate nationalist opinion in Moore’s day and it also helped the song to appeal and be adopted by people in other countries.
It may be about Ireland but Ireland is never actually mentioned. Because there is no precise reference, the song can be applied to other countries where freedom is highly prized. | <urn:uuid:c8b523b2-89d7-4865-aace-11cc7316cacc> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.irishmusicdaily.com/minstrel-boy-song-meaning | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280900.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00006-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.983173 | 866 | 3.546875 | 4 |
The Changing Face of Cookie Law in the UK Posted by: Lynn on 27/02/2013
These statistics are things such as how many people have visited the website, what type of browser/technology they were using, as well as how long they spent on the site. As a business, utilising cookies for your website is usually an incredibly smart move and can improve business analysis, which ultimately can only be a good thing.
At Screenmedia, we’re keen to keep on top of these sorts of things, so we have compiled a list of what you need to know and how things have changed since the cookie law was first introduced:
- The EU cookie law was introduced in 2009, however in 2010 the government took a year-long pause on enforcement after an industry led campaign.
- In 2013 the Information Commissioner’s Office announced that they will stop asking users for permission to set cookies on their own website, and instead for websites to simply tell users cookies are enabled.
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Collateralized Bond Obligation(redirected from Collateralized Bond Obligations)
Collateralized Bond Obligation (CBO)
Investment-grade bonds backed by a collection of junk bonds with different levels of risk, called tiers, that are determined by the quality of junk bond involved. CBOs backed by highly risky junk bonds receive higher interest rates than other CBOs.
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Collateralized Bond Obligation
An asset-backed security backed by the receivables on junk bonds. Issuers of CBOs package and sell their receivables on bonds they hold to investors in order to reduce the risk coming from defaults. Returns on CBOs are lower risk than the individual bonds backing them. This is because it is unlikely that all or even most of the junk bonds will default. This makes the collateralized bond obligation investment grade and therefore banks are allowed to invest in them. See also: Collateralized Loan Obligation, Collateralized Mortgage Obligation.
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collateralized bond obligation
A derivative security collateralized by a pool of high-yield bonds. Several classes of these obligations are issued for a single pool of bonds with different classes offering different yields and a different degree of credit risk. Interest and principal repayments received on the bond portfolio are passed through to owners of the derivative securities. Compare collateralized mortgage obligation.
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What Is the Learning Network Manager?
The Learning Network Manager (LNM) offers a standard way of setting up and configuring computer labs, while reducing support and training requirements. It provides a controllable infrastructure that can be customised to meet the needs of individual
institutions, ensuring that they can build on existing investments.
Implemented as a layer on top of Microsoft Windows Server™2003, Learning Network Manager makes it easy to create and manage end users, computer groups, new PCs, and Internet access. Once installed, it automates many common tasks including software upgrades
and enhances security, stability, and privacy of information.
Learning Network Manager prolongs system life and makes it easier to recycle old machines for reuse in modern, efficient networks. Learning Network Manager also supports the teaching process by supporting e-learning across most network topologies. And because
only basic IT skills are required, busy IT teams or even teachers can set up a network with only a few keystrokes.
When creating desktop profiles to deploy, we have removed native support for a specific OS so you can pick the Windows OS you wish to use. Now, you can choose and install the version to which you have appropriate licenses, be it XP, Vista, Windows98 or other.
The Education Strategy, Products and Solutions (ESPS) team at Microsoft is proud to bring you this release!
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Sasquatch. One of the most sought after and spoken about urban legends may have just been caught on camera, or at least that’s what some conspiracy theorists are believing.
This minute long video begins by panning across the beautiful rolling hills of Indonesia but before long a dark Herculean figure can be clearly seen casually strolling out of a cave.
‘Bigfoot’ proceeds to walk under a waterfall leading many to fear that Bigfoot can now walk on water, reports the Daily Star.
Judging by its surroundings the creature is believed to be about eight foot tall, no matter whether it is Bigfoot or not.
It also appears that the creature is carrying something in their right hand – presumably a bucket.
Despite being described as folklore by scientists and researchers, Bigfoot sightings continue to pop up every few years.
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A cooperative in Spain implemented a quality certification programme for tomato crops, aiming to increase the added value of the product, while being committed to promote safe and sustainable production processes.
Projects & Practice
A company making pork products used RDP support to purchase new equipment that allowed it to increase production capacity and end product quality.
Expanding a water reservoir and installing a solar farm to reduce the energy costs of irrigation.
The project has enabled the living-lab, Josenea which is focused on organic farming, to collect bio-waste from neighbours and transform it into compost to fertilise their crops, with environmental, economic and social benefits.
A dairy farm in Wallonia invested in renewable energy production from manure and produced milk using a more environmental friendly process. | <urn:uuid:88b20663-c8d5-4410-a182-93752422dd17> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://enrd.ec.europa.eu/projects-practice/_en?f%5B0%5D=im_field_enrd_prj_keywords%3A20476&f%5B1%5D=im_field_enrd_prj_keywords%3A20471&f%5B2%5D=im_field_enrd_prj_keywords%3A19759&f%5B3%5D=im_field_enrd_prj_focus_area%3A17117&f%5B4%5D=im_field_enrd_prj_focus_area%3A17122&f%5B5%5D=im_field_enrd_prj_focus_area%3A17124&f%5B6%5D=sm_enrd_eu_countries%3AGermany&f%5B7%5D=im_field_enrd_prj_keywords%3A20469&f%5B8%5D=im_field_enrd_prj_keywords%3A19731&f%5B9%5D=sm_enrd_eu_countries%3ACroatia&f%5B10%5D=im_field_enrd_prj_keywords%3A20467&f%5B11%5D=sm_enrd_eu_countries%3ASpain&f%5B12%5D=im_field_enrd_prj_keywords%3A20474&f%5B13%5D=im_field_enrd_prj_keywords%3A20477&f%5B14%5D=sm_enrd_eu_countries%3ABelgium&%3Bf%5B1%5D=im_field_enrd_prj_keywords%3A19723 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00476.warc.gz | en | 0.930293 | 155 | 1.789063 | 2 |
Easter is a holiday enjoyed by people of all ages. Why not usher in spring with an Easter fundraiser that will get the whole family, church, or community involved? Some fun options include planting tulip bulbs, spring cleaning with a garage sale, an egg hunt, or egg painting.
Fundraising around Easter is a great way to raise money for your church or Christian organization because you can take advantage of the traditions that already surround Easter. Hop on over here for some of our favorite Easter-themed and Christian fundraising ideas:
This is great fun for everyone involved, kids and adults, even though some might not admit it. All you need to do is set up a row of picnic tables. Prepare a few baskets of hardboiled eggs, and use an outdoor grill or stove to boil more if needed. Just be sure to have a way to cool them down quickly before letting the kids handle them. You will also need:
- clean-up supplies
Set the tone with some spring-themed music as the children decorate their eggs. When they finish decorating, let them put their eggs on display for judging. Hand out Easter-themed prizes for the most decorative eggs.
The way to make money with an egg painting fundraiser is to charge a flat fee per egg, $1 or $2 at most. If you are really strapped for funds, you can even ask decorators to bring their own eggs and simply supply the decorating supplies.
This is a good way to use up any leftover, undecorated eggs. Find a hill and set up an egg race. Each contestant stands at the top of the hill, and rolls their egg down. A prize is awarded for the egg that rolls the farthest in the shortest amount of time. Each contestant pays a minimum donation to enter the race.
Egg in Spoon
Again, each racing contestant pays a flat fee to enter this race that has them running from one end of a field to the other with an egg balanced on a spoon. The goal is to reach the finish line without dropping or injuring the egg. For even more excitement, this event can be made into a relay race for teams.
Egg Scavenger Hunt
This hunt takes a bit of preparation, as you must hide chocolate eggs around your neighborhood for contestants to find. The great thing about this event is that the prize is built in—each contestant gets to keep, and eat, the chocolate booty they find. Everyone pays a small entry fee to participate in the hunt.
You can hide a very special prize—a stuffed Easter bunny, a golden egg, or a decorative egg—as a grand prize. If you are planning an egg hunt for children of all ages, be sure to hide the eggs in places easily accessible to smaller children as well. In fact, it might even be wise to divide your course by age group, making an easier portion for younger children, and a more challenging route for tweens.
Easter Bunny Breakfast
What is Easter without an appearance from the bunny himself? Rent an Easter Bunny costume from a local costume shop and host a tea, breakfast, or lunch for kids. This is a fantastic idea for local schools, Sunday school classes, and hospitals in exchange for donations. How surprised will they be when the Easter Bunny shows up with his bag of sweets to meet the children?
Better yet, incorporate a sweet pancake breakfast into the day as a great way to raise funds at a very low cost. Charge a flat fee for three pancakes and a meet and great with the bunny.
Easter Bunny Photo Session
Why should Santas get all the photo glory? Set up a spot at a local mall, school, or church to have pictures taken with the Easter Bunny. The spot should be decorated in a spring and bunny theme. Invite children to have their photo taken with the Easter Bunny in exchange for donations.
Inspirational Candle Sale
Sure, the bunny, the chocolate, and the egg decorating are fun, but don’t forget about the true meaning of the Easter holiday. Get the word out by selling candles that have inspirational messages printed on their labels. Donors can fill their homes with wonderful scents while filling their hearts with messages of peace and hope.
Inspirational T-shirt Sale
What better way to spread the word than by wearing it? Help people share their faith by selling T-shirts printed with inspirational messages and bible verses. Some are serious, some are clever and funny, but they all serve the same purpose—to remind everyone about the origins of the holiday.
Additional sweet Easter fundraising ideas for your church or school are…
- Bake Sales
- Yard/Garage Sales
- Community Clean-ups
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The remarketing is to create custom ad campaigns for users who have previously visited your website or ecommerce, in order to increase ROI. This concept was known in a generic way for any action or type of marketing such as retargeting. But, Google decided to give it its own name: remarketing, and it has become very popular in recent years, so much so that the two concepts are already used generically.
So, being so important, have you already incorporated remarketing into your marketing plan ? And if not, what are you waiting for?
If you want to achieve more conversions and make profitable your efforts to attract users , you cannot miss this opportunity. Here I will tell you everything you need to know about this technique: what it is, how it works, what its advantages are for your company and some tricks to improve your campaigns. Let’s start!
- Do you want to learn more about Remarketing ? Discover the secrets of retargeting according to each type of platform or advertising action. Click here to download the free ebook .
What is remarketing?
The basic concept of remarketing is, therefore, reaching users who already know your brand or your products and therefore have many more opportunities to convert. It is about creating several increasingly personalized impacts, encouraging the user to advance through the conversion funnel.
The most popular remarketing tool on the market today is Google Ads, so I’ll focus on it for this article. Not surprisingly, the basic concepts can be applied to other tools as well.
The process can be summarized in three steps:
- The user visits our website or consumes content from our brand.
- This user is marked with a cookie and added to a remarketing list whose parameters we have previously defined.
- An ad campaign targeting that list is carried out, that is, only users who are part of it will be able to see it.
Depending on how the user is recruited for the list and what type of ads are shown, we can distinguish different types of remarketing:
- Standard : Show display ads to people who have previously visited a page. The ads appear on websites and applications on the display network (in the case of Google Ads, it includes more than two million sites).
- Dynamic : similar to the previous one, but with the feature that it displays personalized ads based on the products and services that users have seen on the website.
- For mobile apps : In this case, the ads are displayed specifically on mobile apps and websites.
- For search network ads : these types of campaigns do not include display ads, but are shown when users who have already visited the web are doing Google searches. In this way, it is possible to refine a lot with the target: people who have already visited our website and who also continue to do searches related to our products and services.
- Video : in video remarketing, the recruitment of users for the list does not occur when visiting a website, but when interacting with videos or a YouTube channel. Ads are displayed on YouTube itself, on websites and in apps.
- By distribution list: here we can show the ads to a previously collected email list, for example, the subscribers of our newsletter.
How does remarketing work?
If you are interested in creating your own remarketing campaigns , you should know that its operation is very simple. You just have to follow these steps:
- Access your Google Ads account (or the corresponding advertising tool) and get your remarketing tag . This tag is HTML code that you will need to insert into all the pages of your website before the </body> tag closes.
- Create one or more remarketing lists . These lists include users who have taken a certain action on your website, so you can configure it based on your goals. For example, you can make a list with all the visitors to your website in the last month or with those who have visited a specific page. You can even segment based on the step in which the user is in the conversion funnel, for example, people who came to put a product in the cart but never completed the purchase. Once the list is set up, you may have to wait a few days or weeks for it to have the minimum number of users required.
- Launch your campaign . Create a new remarketing campaign and choose the desired audience from the lists you have created. You can also configure the usual options: language, geographic area, bid, etc.
- Create one or more variants for your ads . If you are starting, you can experiment with different creatives using A/B tests . In this way, you can optimize your campaign by selecting the options that work best.
- You are now ready to publish your campaign!
Advantages of remarketing for your brand
- Maximum personalization of your audience . Customizing remarketing lists offers endless options that you can take advantage of. Basically, there are two deciding factors you can play with: the action taken by users (for example, visit page X) and the time elapsed since the action. In this way, you can attract users with different interests and at different times of the purchase cycle and thus offer maximum customization.
- Extension of scope . As we have already seen, the Google display network has more than two million web pages and applications. Other retargeting tools, like Facebook Ads, also offer truly impressive reach numbers. In short, you can reach users potentially interested in your brand, wherever they are.
- Reminder of your brand . How many times have we visited a web page and then forgotten about it? With remarketing, you can make sure you stay in the memory of your visitors and potential customers and gradually nurture your relationship with them, always adapting to the phase of the process they are in.
- Adequacy to your marketing objectives. Thanks to different list building options, user engagement sites, and sites where ads are displayed, remarketing allows you to adapt to a wide variety of situations and goals.
- Increased conversions . This model makes it possible to reach users when they are more likely to convert, since they have already shown their interest in the brand. By selecting the sites where the ads are displayed, we can fully personalize the contact points to achieve a greater impact. You will see how your CTRs improve!
How to improve your remarketing campaigns
If you want to get the most out of this tool, don’t lose sight of these tips:
- Limit how often ads are displayed . You want to make sure your message gets through … but not make your potential customers overwhelm. Use the frequency limiting tools and make sure you have the precise number of hits per user.
- Don’t be afraid to create different lists. Remember: personalization is key. Users visit your website for different reasons and are interested in different things, so the more you segment, the more you can hit.
- Create specific lists for users who have already bought you . If you create a special list for users who have seen the end of an order page, you can go directly to your customers. Treat them with discounts and promotions and make them feel special.
- Experiment, measure and repeat : you have a lot of analysis tools for your remarketing campaigns so use them! Establish regular controls, look at the options that give better results and go introducing changes based on them. With a little practice and patience, you are sure to get the ideal remarketing campaign for your goals.
Remarketing in other types of marketing
True, remarketing is associated with Google Ads, but it can also be applied to Facebook . We explain it to you in one of our videos in 5 steps.
Another well-known channel for remarketing is email marketing , also called email retargeting. Here is one of our Youtube videos where we explain it in detail.
And finally, here are 4 examples of remarketing ads to strengthen your e-commerce strategy and recover lost customers or those who have been left with the cart halfway through without purchasing.
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The story of the man who changed people's relationships with their showers forever, thanks to Psycho, this is the classic, Edgar Award-winning biography of the enigmatic and intensely private Alfred Hitchcock. One of America's greatest film directors, his suspenseful subject matter ranged from the dark drama of a man possibly trying to kill his wife, to the humorous problem of disposing of a body, to the ecological underpinnings of an attack by fowl fiends in a sleepy harbor town.
Acclaimed biographer Donald Spoto explores the roots of Hitchcock's obsessions - with food, murder, and idealized love, among others - and traces the origins of his incomparable, bizarre genius, from his childhood and education to the golden years of his career. Based on interviews with his writers, actors, and longtime associates, and on exhaustive research, The Dark Side of Genius is the definitive biography of Alfred Hitchcock.
Donald Spoto is the author of more than 20 books, including best-selling biographies of Alfred Hitchcock, Tennessee Williams, Laurence Olivier, Marlene Dietrich, Ingrid Bergman, and Audrey Hepburn. He lives with his husband, Danish artist and school administrator Ole Flemming Larsen, near Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Open Badges: A Disruptive Technology for Education and Accreditation?
Wednesday, May 9, 2012 from 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM (BST)
"Open Badges and Learning: A Disruptive Technology for Education and Accreditation?"
Dr. Kyle L. Peck, Pennsylvania State University.
Dr. Kyle L. Peck is Principal Investigator for the NASA Aerospace Education Services Project, and Research Fellow, and Professor of Education at Penn State University. He recently served as Director of the Regional Educational Lab for the mid-Atlantic region for the US Department of Education, Co-Director of the Classrooms for the Future Evaluation Project for the Pennsylvania Department of Education, and as Associate Dean for Research, Outreach, and Technology in Penn State’s College of Education. Kyle was also Co-Founder of the innovative "Centre Learning Community Charter School," and recently completed two terms on the Board of Directors of the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE). He is a Past President of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) and its Pennsylvania affiliate, PAECT, and has also served as Head of the Learning and Performance Systems Department, and Professor in Charge of the Instructional Systems Program at Penn State. Before coming to Penn State, Dr. Peck taught middle school for seven years, and was involved in corporate training for five years. He has been on the Penn State faculty since 1987, and is co-author of two books, more than 40 book chapters and journal articles, and four education-related software programs. He is a popular speaker, and has made more than 260 presentations at professional conferences in 10 countries.
According to some, there's a "badging movement" underway that has the potential to change the landscape of education. Learners will be accumulating "digital badges" that are not just icons representing something they have learned or mastered, but active links back to the criteria for earning the badge and perhaps the tool used to make the assessment and the work, project, or performance submitted as evidence. Funded by the MacArthur foundation and developed by Mozilla (the open source folks who brought you Firefox and the Mozilla browser before that), an infrastructure is under construction that will support badge issuers, badge earners and badge displayers, which will likely include FaceBook, Linked In, and other public places where badges can be displayed and "clickable." Will established institutions of higher learning be willing and able to compete with other providers who are showing how solid their assessments are and providing evidence that their badge earners can perform? Will established reputations for quality crumble when criteria and assessments are public? How might this affect accreditation? Will there be standard badges representing important skills and people or organizations accredited to assess and award each? Who knows? The future seems hard to predict, but we should have a lively conversation about the possibilities.
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|Unemployment Falls to 7.7 Percent|
|By SUSANNA KIM (@skimm)||Dec 7, 2012, 7:40 AM|
The economy generated 146,000 new jobs in November and unemployment fell to 7.7 percent, better than economists expected, despite worries that superstorm Sandy and the looming fiscal cliff would dampen hiring.
There are still 12 million people unemployed in the country, but the Labor Department said Sandy did not "substantively impact" employment.
The Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics dialed back job gains for the previous two months. In October, the U.S. economy added 138,000 jobs, not the 171,000 reported before the election. The jobs added in September were also revised downward to 132,000 from 148,000.
Stephen Bronars, chief economist with Welch Consulting in Washington, D.C., said many economists believed Superstorm Sandy would have influenced Friday's jobs report after causing devastation especially in the Caribbean and U.S. Northeast. Many expected an addition of 90,000 jobs causing the unemployment rate to tick up slightly.
Though the job numbers seemed strong, Bronars still said the overall report was "mixed" as many people were giving up their job searches. He said he expects the payroll number for November will be revised downward in the next two months.
"We need to see a few more months of data to see the full impact of both Sandy and expiring unemployment insurance benefits," Bronars said.
Businesses and residents in the tri-state region of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, which produce about one-eighth of U.S. GDP, experienced prolonged power outages and major infrastructure damage.
Bronars said, "Sandy hit the U.S. at a place where it inflicted close to the maximal possible economic damage from a storm that size."
New Jersey and New York were the hardest hit, with at least 120,000 jobs lost, at least temporarily, in those two states, some estimates showed. The Labor Department will release official regional and state unemployment estimates on Dec. 21.
Expiring unemployment insurance benefits for many jobless workers also affected the labor department's household survey as benefits have run out for hundreds of thousands of workers.
A condition for receiving unemployment insurance benefits is an active job search. The employment to population ratio and the labor force participation rates fell, indicating people had stopped looking for work.
"It is not surprising that some of the workers that have been out of work for a year and a half would give up job search, for a while, after their benefits ran out," Bronars said.
The labor force dropped by 350,000 in one month and employment fell by 122,000 according to the household survey.
"Those numbers are weak, even given Hurricane Sandy," Bronars said.
On Wednesday, payroll provider ADP, reported that private companies added 118,000 jobs in November, down from 157,000 in October. However, ADP includes in its figures people as employed if they remain on payroll, whereas the Labor Department's includes workers as employed if they are paid.
Now that election season is over, employers and investors are surrounded by worries from another uncertainty, the fiscal cliff.
"We're really poised for some pretty good growth next year as long as we resolve that fiscal cliff problem," said economist Joel Naroff with Naroff Economic Advisors in Holland, Penn.
Bronars said the November report will not have quite picked up effects of the looming fiscal cliff, as employers prepare for a mix of government spending cuts and tax increases after the end of the year.
He said the effects of the failure thus far to reach a budget deal are more likely to show up in the December jobs report which will be released in early January.
It is not entirely certain whether the payroll tax holiday will be extended. If it's not, it may raise the cost of hiring workers.
"The next most important issue is sequestration which would bring big cuts to certain employers that depend on government contractors and other employers that indirectly provide support to government contractors," Bronars said. "Employers in these industries may well take a wait and see attitude for hiring until the fiscal issues are resolved."
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Hispanic Heritage Month begins today (September 15) and carries on throughout the month until October 15. Americans observe National Hispanic Heritage Month each year by celebrating the histories, cultures, and contributions of American citizens whose ancestors came from across the globe.
The national holiday was first observed in 1968 under President Lyndon Johnson and was later expanded by President Ronald Reagan in 1988 to celebrate throughout the entire month beginning on the 15th. The day of September 15 is particularly significant because it is the anniversary of independence for Latin American countries Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua. Mexico and Chile also celebrate their independence days on September 16 and September 18, respectively. Other holidays such as Columbus Day or Día de la Raza fall within the 30 day period on October 12.
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Today, we honor the Hispanic entertainers who have contributed to the television and film industries in their various roles onscreen. Minorities are still gravely marginalized in entertainment, making up a small percentage of actors in the top U.S. films. According to Bloomberg’s findings, Hispanic or Latino characters make up only 5% in the top U.S. films.
Though Hispanics are one of the largest minority groups in the U.S., somehow the group is one of the most under-represented in Hollywood according to a new study of the 1,300 highest-grossing films in the last 13 years.
An analysis conducted by the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative at the University of Southern California finds that Hispanic and Latino actors were entirely absent from over a third of the best-performing movies that year. Yet, the group makes up more than 18% of the U.S. population according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
It is even more important to celebrate the accomplishments of Hispanic and Latino entertainers in the business as the entertainment industry continues to diversify its talent on and off-screen. As we celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, take a look at a list of our favorite Hispanic and Latino talents, who have been representing in some of the industry’s leading films and television series.
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1. Jennifer “J. Lo” LopezSource:jlo
Lopez has been at it for decades from performing as a “Fly Girl” on In Living Color to singing her own songs in the early 2000’s and now, a megastar in film and television. J Lo puts on for her Puerto Rican heritage.
2. John LeguizamoSource:johnleguizamo
He rose to fame with a co-starring role in Super Mario Bros. as Luigi and a supporting role in the crime drama Carlito’s Way. Leguizamo is an all-around talent representing his mestizo heritage.
3. Eva LongoriaSource:Eva Longoria
Eva Longoria first appeared in many guest roles in several series. She was recognized for her portrayal of Isabella Braña on the CBS daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless. Longoria is a proud Mexican American.
4. Salma HayekSource:salma hayek
The gorgeous Salma Hayek began her career in Mexico starring in the 1989 telenovela Teresa. She has since starred in a number of roles in American film. She was born in Mexico.
5. Benjamin BrattSource:Benjamin bratt
Bratt is best known for his recurring role on TV’s Law and Order and supporting roles in Miss Congeniality and Traffic. Bratt was born in Peru of Quechuan ethnicity.
6. George LopezSource:George Lopez
George Lopez is a comedian and actor who has contributed to the industry for many years. He is is known for starring in his self-produced ABC sitcom. His stand-up comedy examines race and ethnic relations, including Mexican American culture.
7. Oscar IsaacSource:Oscar Isaac
Isaac is a Guatemalan-born American actor. He starred in the tragicomedy Inside Llewyn Davis, for which he received a Golden Globe Award nomination, the crime drama A Most Violent Year, and the science fiction thriller Ex Machina. Most recently, he appeared in The Card Counter.
8. Danny TrejoSource:Danny trejo
Danny Trejo is an American actor and successful businessman who has appeared in numerous Hollywood films, including Heat, Con Air, Bubble Boy, and Desperado. Trejo is Mexican-American.
9. Penélope CruzSource:Penelope cruz
Cruz is a Spanish actress with numerous accomplishments under her belt. She is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award and a British Academy Film Award, in addition to nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award, four Golden Globe Awards, and five Screen Actors Guild Awards.
10. Sofía VergaraSource:Sofia vergara
Vergara is a Colombian-American actress, television producer, presenter, and model. Along with being the highest paid actress in American television from 2013 to 2020, Sofia was also the highest–paid Hollywood actress in 2020.
11. Zoe SaldañaSource:Zoe saldana
She is a Dominican and Puerto Rican actress best known for her roles in Columbiana, Avatar, and Guardians of the Galaxy.
12. Jessica AlbaSource:Jessica alba
Jessica Alba is an American born actress and businesswoman. She began her television and movie appearances at age 13 in Camp Nowhere and The Secret World of Alex Mack, but rose to prominence at age 19 as the lead actress of the television series Dark Angel, for which she received a Golden Globe nomination. Her father is from Mexican-Indiana and Spanish lineage.
13. Selena GomezSource:Selena Gomez
Gomez is a notable singer and actress born and raised in Texas. Gomez began her acting career on the children’s television series Barney & Friends. In her teenage years, she rose to prominence for her role as Alex Russo in the Disney Channel television series Wizards of Waverly Place. Her father is Mexican.
14. Antonio BanderasSource:Antonio banderas
Banderas is a Spanish actor, director and producer. He’s notable for his roles in The Mask of Zorro and Desperado.
15. America FerreraSource:america ferrera
America Georgina Ferrera is an American actress, producer, and director born in Los Angeles to Honduran parents. She is best known for her roles in Ugly Betty and Superstore.
16. Michelle RodriguezSource:Michelle Rodriguez
Rodriguez is best known for her roles in the Fast & Furious series. She is Dominican and Puerto Rican.
17. Rosario DawsonSource:rosario Dawson
Rosario Dawson is an American actress and producer. She made her feature-film debut in the 1995 independent drama Kids. Dawson is of Afro-Cuban and Puerto Rican descent.
18. Eva MendesSource:evamendes.lareinadebelleza
Eva Mendes is a retired actress, model and businesswoman. Her acting career began in the late 1990s. She appeared in classics like Hitch and 2 Fast 2 Furious. Mendes is of Cuban descent.
19. Rosie PerezSource:rosie perez
Rosa Perez is an actress, choreographer and community activist. Her film breakthrough performance was her portrayal of Tina in Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing, which she followed with White Men Can’t Jump. Perez is Puerto Rican.
20. Wilmer ValderramaSource:Wilmer Valderrama
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The body of a minke whale and its calf are dragged onto the whaling ship
The Australian Federal Government says photographs taken by the Customs ship the Oceanic Viking of Japanese whalers killing a whale and its calf will strengthen any legal case against the whalers.
The pictures, released by the Government today, show a slaughtered minke whale and its calf being hauled up the ramp of the Japanese ship, the Yushin Maru.
Customs has also released video of whales being harpooned from the ship.
The Government is extending the duration of its whaling surveillance program and says the Attorney-General is still considering what kind of legal action should be taken and who it should be brought against.
Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett says the pictures released today support Australia’s position.
‘I think it’s explicitly clear from these images that this is indiscriminate killing of whales, where you have a whale and its calf killed in this way,’ he said.
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What do you get when you cross a newly widowed and deeply mourning Queen Victoria with what should be the incredibly joyous occasion of Princess Alice’s wedding to a man that, by all accounts, she really liked?
Well, if you’re Alice, you get the short end of the stick, especially by royal standards. You get a wedding described by your own mother as “more of a funeral,” a wedding so entrenched in grief that the Queen was shrouded by a human wall of her sons and the bride was forced to change into black mourning clothing following the ceremony.
This was a wedding so overwhelmingly sorrowful for a family missing it’s patriarch that it was held in a modest sized dining room in her family’s summer home on the Isle of Wight with the intention of avoiding a large guest list. So somber was the occasion that one of the bride’s brothers openly wept throughout the ceremony – and they weren’t tears of happiness.
A little background, to put things into perspective. Princess Alice Maud Mary was born on April 25th, 1843, the second daughter and third child of Queen Victoria and her beloved Prince Albert. A sensitive and compassionate child, she reveled in comforting those who were suffering both physically and emotionally, including her mother after the death of her grandmother. As she approached her late teen years, the task for finding her a suitable match fell upon her oldest sister, the newly wed German empress, Victoria, Princess Royal. Or, as I like to call her, Vicky II.
Vicky II had a bit of a reputation as a cut throat matchmaker (she once dismissed a possible suitor for her brother Bertie because she had a “disturbing twitch”) and was able to use her connections in the German court to find a suitable partner for her sister that would provide useful to the family and hopefully also result in love and happiness for Alice.
Her first choice, the Dutch prince William of Orange, turned out to be a complete dud that was as uninterested in Alice as she was in him. William went on to live a life of wanton debauchery and died before reaching 40 years old, never having inherited the throne. Next, the Princess Royal selected Prince Albert of Prussia, who was also her husband’s cousin, which would have made the sisters also cousins-in-law, which by European royal standards is ridiculously common. Turned out that old Albie was a dud as well, with his own cousin basically put a kibosh on the whole thing.
Eventually, Queen Victoria’s eyes turned towards Louis and Henry, Hessian princes who, while not of a very wealthy or powerful kingdom, were still the European Protestants that the family was hopeful for. After inviting both to visit England, Alice and Louis were clearly enraptured with each other and a match was made. Their engagement became official in April of 1861, and tensions rose almost immediately. With a promised dowry that would now value almost $3.5 million USD today, it was expected that Alice would be greeted with the kind of pomp and circumstance she’d come to expect as the daughter of the most powerful monarch in the world. Instead, the Hessians refused to change their lifestyles to meet the lavish demands of the Hanovers, and the entire affair made Alice an unpopular figure in her future kingdom.
Eight months into the betrothal, Prince Albert died from typhoid fever. It was an incredible blow to the family, who had miraculously brought nine children into the world, all surviving into adulthood. He had approved of Alice’s future husband, and had even designed the Strawberry Leaf Tiara to give her as a wedding present.
The death of Albert sent Victoria into an absolute tailspin of grief from which she never fully recovered. The Queen’s mourning impacted her relationship with each of her nine children differently. Alice, not only found her bliss and excitement dimmed by the desolate mourning of her family, but also found her happiness the target of Victoria’s jealousy.
The wedding – described by Victoria as “wretched,” marked the first major royal event since Albert’s death. A giant painting of the the royal family in happier times hung behind the altar, a glaring reminder of loss. There would be no exalted guests or lavish ball to celebrate the nuptials – it was over by mid-afternoon and Queen Victoria returned to mourning in private. Compared to the wedding of her older sister, conducted at the Chapel Royal of St. James palace and attended by hundreds, poor Alice’s wedding really did feel more like a prolonged wake.
Princess Alice, now the Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine, lived a life befallen by tragedy. Her relationship with her mother never recovered from the strain of her father’s death, and she found her kingdom at war with Prussia – the very nation her dear sister Victoria ruled with her husband. She became very interested in women’s issues and social reform, dedicating herself to nursing pursuits. She gave birth to seven children, losing her two year old son Prince Friedrich due to complications from hemophilia after he survived a fall from a window.
Diphtheria sickened five of her six remaining children in 1878, killing her four year old daughter, Marie. After comforting her ten year old son, Ernest, Alice kissed him and sealed her fate. She was struck by the highly contagious illness and died quickly, two weeks before Christmas. Sh e was thirty-five years old,
Ernest survived and went on to become the last Grand Duke of Hesse, losing his throne during the Revolution of 1918. Two of her daughters, Elisabeth and Alix, married into the Russian royal family and were murdered by Bolsheviks the same year. Her remaining two daughters, Irene and Victoria, led long and prosperous lives. Victoria became the grandmother of Philip, the current Duke of Edinburgh and husband of Queen Elizabeth II.
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THE Apostles are the most famous band of men in history, and yet
very little is known about their particular characters or how they
looked, except that most of them were fishermen and so would have
been muscular, suntanned, and possibly quite patient.
At this year's Lenten art exhibition at the little medieval
shepherd's church St Michael's, in Presteigne, on the Welsh Border,
Charles MacCarthy, artist and curator, is making sure that each
apostle is portrayed as a unique individual.
He and his fellow organiser David Hiam put the names of the 12
apostles in a hat, and then picked one out for each of the chosen
12 artists to draw or paint.
The altar has been temporarily moved aside to allow MacCarthy's
12-foot-long white plasterboard table to take its place, with
plaster models of plates, cups, bread, and chalice illuminated by a
spotlight. A black backdrop represents sky and space. On the table
stands a globe, and MacCarthy has engraved on the table "That they
may be one". Around the walls hang the contrasting 12 portraits,
and MacCarthy sees this as reaffirming Jesus's prayer for unity,
and as representing the peoples of the world united in Christ.
Bronte Woodruff has taken a traditional approach to Andrew, the
brother of Peter. Using Van Dyck crystals as muted stain for his
face and beard, and delicate aquatint blue for his headdress, she
presents a gentle young middle-aged man, a quieter version of his
elder brother, yet strong and determined.
Tony Hall has also taken a conventional view of Judas Iscariot
rather than struggle with a personal interpretation. The apostle is
instantly recognisable with his head covered in a prayer shawl, as
he places the kiss of betrayal on Jesus's cheek. This is in pencil
and white chalk on grey board.
Since almost nothing is known about Thaddeus, known also as
Jude, Simon Dorrell has portrayed him in light-toned gouache and
ink, in a confrontational but quizzical attitude. "I know who I
am," he seems to say. "Who do you think I am?" Dorrell has used a
special locally produced handmade hypericum paper, which is fragile
and absorbent. The result is full of holes and tears, suggesting
decay, and perhaps that the past can never truly be fully
We do know that James the elder (son of Zebedee) had a fiery
temper and was one of the closer apostles to Jesus, and also one of
the first to be martyred. Susie Cawley's portrait in bright
watercolour and ink shows a man, dark hair and beard closely
cropped, and looking as if he knows exactly where he is going. The
background of sea and foreign lands suggests the journey that he is
to make, and he wears the scallop shell on his cloak, the symbol of
the Santiago de Compostela pilgrimage.
Luckily, Sara Bamford was able to use the many biblical
references to create her Thomas. He is young and beardless with
wiry black hair, and is frowning suspiciously. To get this effect,
she has used wire and solder on paper-covered board. She feels that
he was passionate and impetuous, but once he had proved to himself
that Jesus was alive, his faith became great, intense, and
Although there is no specific description of Philip, he seems to
have been a quiet, patient, and organised man, who attended to the
teachings of John the Baptist, followed Jesus loyally from the
beginning, and brought his friend Bartholomew (also Nathanael) to
meet Jesus. Silvia Pastore has made Philip a friendly,
fresh-complexioned young man with loose grey hair and short beard,
who could fit in anywhere in any age.
Jesus said about Bartholomew "Behold an Israelite indeed in whom
there is no guile." It is also recorded that he was martyred by
being flayed until all the skin was torn off his body. Dan
MacCarthy has made a wood engraving of his father peeling all the
skin off an apple, which, he says, is "bringing religious imagery
into the domain of my own experience and that of the present day".
It will be difficult to peel an apple again without remembering St
Lois Hopwood sees James the Less as a young, beardless man
engrossed in thought; but, as a mature man, he was highly thought
of in the Jerusalem church. Like James, his brother John was known
to be fiery, but very loving, and the only apostle known to have
waited with Mary at the foot of the cross and to whom Jesus
entrusted her care. Alex Ramsay has avoided a young version, and in
a photo of a pigment print has framed John in profile as an older
man setting off on his mission with short greying hair, a red cloak
representing his hot temper, and a net slung over his shoulder.
Matthew (known also as Levi) was not a fisherman, but an
unpopular tax collector working for the Romans, before he followed
Jesus. Julienne Braham shows him with balding head half held in his
hands at the point of realisation of the shame of his sin and the
awakening of his true self, while cleansing light pours down on
him. She has used mixed media with acrylic paint for the sun's
rays, and at the bottom of her moving portrait she has written: "I
came not to call the righteous but sinners to repentance" (Mark
In opposition to the Romans and working for national
independence were the Zealots, and it is thought that Jesus
accepted not only Matthew, but Simon the Zealot, with their
opposing political views, to show his love for all, whatever they
stood for. Nick Bush decided to make Simon the Zealot a jovial sort
of mature man with a short haircut, but, although the eyes are
friendly, there is also a rather determined and ruthless look in
Peter has the best-known character, but Tania Mosse has overlaid
a fine cloth imprinted with a bearded face over Japanese paper
printed with a fishing net to suggest the mists of time and how
things are preserved, changed, forgotten, and lost over the
Even if we know that the apostles' real characters are lost "in
the mists of time", it is good to see them revisualised and
remember how amazing they were.
"The Twelve: A Further Reflection on the Last Supper" is at
St Michael's, Presteigne, Powys LD8 2NW, until 6 April. Open daily
10 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. Phone 01547 560 246.
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Tempted to cheat on a written exam? Artificial intelligence is 90 percent certain to nab you
Combining big data with artificial intelligence has allowed University of Copenhagen researchers to determine whether you wrote your assignment or whether a ghostwriter penned it for you - with nearly 90 percent accuracy.
Several studies have shown that cheating on assignments is widespread and becoming increasingly prevalent among high school students. At the University of Copenhagen’s Department of Computer Science, efforts to detect cheating on assignments through writing analysis by way of artificial intelligence have been underway for a few years. Now, based on analyses of 130,000 written Danish assignments, scientists can, with nearly 90 percent accuracy, detect whether a student has written an assignment on their own or had it composed by a ghostwriter.
Danish high schools currently use the Lectio platform to check if a student has handed in plagiarized work that has passages copied directly from a previously submitted assignment. High schools have a harder time discovering if a student has enlisted someone else to write the assignment for them, something that happens to a more or less systematized degree via online services. The case of the SRP, a major written assignment in the final year of Danish high school, is particularly telling. Because the assignment counts for double, students have gone as far as tendering out their writing assignments on the Danish classified website, Den Blå Avis.
"The problem today is that if someone is hired to write an assignment, Lectio won’t spot it. Our program identifies discrepancies in writing styles by comparing recently submitted writing against a student’s previously submitted work. Among other variables, the program looks at: word length, sentence structure and how words are used. For instance, whether ‘for example’ is written as ‘ex.’ or ‘e.g.’,” explains PhD student Stephan Lorenzen of the Department of Computer Science. He, along with the rest of the DIKU-DABAI research group, recently presented their findings at a major European AI conference.
Prior to setting the trap, an ethical debate
The program, Ghostwriter, is built around machine learning and neural networks – branches of artificial intelligence that are particularly useful for recognizing patterns in images and texts. MaCom, the company that provides Lectio to Danish high schools, has made a dataset of 130,000 written assignments from 10,000 different high school students available to Ghostwriter project researchers at the Department of Computer Science. For now, it is still a research project.
Stephan Lorenzen doesn’t think that it is unrealistic for the program to find its way into high schools in the not too distant future, as schools must constantly stay apace with technological developments to address ‘authorship verification’.
“I think that it is realistic to expect that high schools will begin using it at some point. But before they do, there needs to be an ethical discussion of how the technology ought to be applied. Any result delivered by the program should never stand on its own, but serve to support and substantiate a suspicion of cheating," believes Lorenzen.
Police and fake news
Ghostwriter’s technological foundation can be applied elsewhere in society. For example, the program could be used in police work to supplement forged document analysis, a task carried out by forensic document examiners and others.
"It would be fun to collaborate with the police, who currently deploy forensic document examiners to look for qualitative similarities and differences between the texts they are comparing. We can look at large amounts of data and find patterns. I imagine that this combination would benefit police work," says Lorenzen, who emphasizes that ethical discussions are needed here as well.
The artificial intelligence used by researchers at the Department of Computer Science to detect cheating on assignments has a wide range of applications. It has already been used to analyze Twitter tweets to determine whether they were composed by actual users or penned by paid imposters or robots.
- The ghostwriter program uses what is known as a Siamese neural network to distinguish the writing styles of two texts. The network is trained on large amounts of data to learn from representations of writing styles, which are then compared.
- When a student submits an assignment, the network compares it against their previous assignments. For each previous assignment, the network provides a percentage score for writing style similarity against the new assignment.
- In the end, a weighted average of these scores is calculated using a calculation that also takes other factors, such as delivery time, into account. This final score is presented as a percentage and indicates the similarity between the new assignment and the student's writing style.
- The research group behind the result is DIKU-DABAI (Danish Center for Big Data Analytics driven Innovation). The group is headed by Professor Stephen Alstrup.
- Access the research article "Detecting Ghostwriters in High Schools" that was published at the ESANN 2019 conference.
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Course Catalog Information
Learning, Teaching, & Curriculum (LTC)
Learning, Teaching, & Curriculum
Teaching Middle and Secondary English/Language Arts II - Writing Intensive
Prepares prospective educators with the knowledge, skills, and strategies necessary for integrating and teaching the English/Language Arts, primarily focusing on the teaching of writing and critical thinking.
A-F (allow student to choose S/U option)
Admittance to Phase II.
The Campus Writing Program conducts a two-day faculty workshop to assist with the design and implementation of your writing intensive course. Once your course proposal has been approved by the Campus Writing Program, you will receive information on time, date and location of the workshop.
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Writing Intensive Course Information
Based on an understanding of middle and high school students' cognitive, language, social, and emotional development, this experience integrates an understanding of literacy highlighting writing with content area demands, literature, oracy, and other media texts, evaluation and inquiry within a context of diversity. This course is heavily field-based. It is based on experiential and constructivist theories of learning. Theorists such as Dewey, Bruner, Vygotsky, Freire, Britton, Moffet and Berthoff have influenced the field, and thus our study of it. This writing intensive WI experience will link writing with adolescent literature. I have done this class as WI continuously since 2003.
Because our pre-service teachers are now expected to be able to teach using tablets and I-Pads, I plan to incorporate more activities and assignments using technology. Having their writing notebook be a blog was very successful last spring and I will continue that. I also will continue having them write a cultural memoir, revise that memoir and then radically revise it into a digital essay (movie, powerpoint, etc.) That activity was very generative last year. I also have added another text that will help us approach writing from a culturally proactive stance, so I think that will add to the class.
Should this course be considered for funding?
Large Enrollment Courses:
1) Writer's Notebook - will be online with evidence of ongoing out-of-class writing at least an hour's worth of writing per week - ONE HOUR of writing each week could be broken into about six pages of handwritten text or three pages of typed text. Final third of the semester will be for in-class writing rather than out-of-class. Notebooks are collected three times during the semester--20% of grade, evaluated by Gilles . 2) Responses to Assigned Readings that demonstrate an understanding and inquiry of the topic. I should see that you have read, questioned, connected or disconnected, and considered what the text says about teaching and writing - 10% Evaluated by Gilles. Length varies. 3) Position Paper -- Purpose is to explore some aspect of English Education about which reasonable people might disagree. Length of draft 2-3 pages, Gilles evaluates. 5% 4) Personal/Professional Writing Reflection with two pieces of writing taken to final draft - 15%. Multiple opportunities to draft. Most people select the Memoir, which we do at the beginning of the semester (3-5 pages) and the Multi-genre piece which we do at the end of the semester (5-10 pages), but they don't have to submit those for final grades. 5) Unit - series of lessons using literature, writing, reading, oracy mediacy -- 15%. Can be up to 30 + pages. Although we have several 'check points,' they do not have multiple drafts. Gilles grade 6) Technology Exploration and Implementation: we share writing, provide insights and post lesson materials to share with one another - 5%. Length various, grade is by participation. Gilles grades. Additional Writing: This is a course on how to teach writing at the middle and secondary level. Everything we do in the course is focused toward getting students to be stronger writers themselves, as well as learn how to teach writing. Other ways we use writing include: Writing Marathon not counted above, participating in the Youth Writing Conference, free writing to prompts at the beginning of class, etc.
Length of assignment:
Writing Intensive Teaching
Instructor provided feedback
We will learn about and practice getting ideas, composing,revising, editing, as well as conferring with one another and students. I will also provide feedback.
Issue - There are many issues in literacy on which knowledgeable people do not agree. Choose one from the list given (see below), or create your own (get it okayed by Gilles, please.) The goal of this position paper is to explore more than one acceptable interpretation, explanation, analysis, or evaluation of the area of schools, especially thinking about English/language arts. Based on the Writing Intensive guidelines, we encourage you to accept the burden of proof and to understand what types and amounts of evidence are necessary to prove an assertion in this discipline. Your job is to explain the reasoning you use to justify answers by referring to expert opinion, such as what we have in current course reading assignments. You are also encouraged to look beyond other books, online sources, interviews, etc. Please consider credibility of source. For this one you may also want to interview students, teachers if they have time and also pursue the national news about assessment. Requirements: 1. Research: This paper is in place of your response to the readings for the week the paper is due see schedule. Therefore, it is important to refer to those assigned readings and other related readings from different weeks. 2. Audience: You may create your audience, but a natural fit would be a parent or teacher group in which you need to defend your views on assessment. Please also consider letter to the editor format or a position paper that might be read at one of the NCLB hearings all over the country. 3. Content: Address both theory what you believe and why and practice how assessment is now being done and how you would like to see it change. It is important to try to connect what you do in the classroom day to day to the state-wide writing assessment. Should it be connected? If so, how? 4. Form: this may be written as a letter, essay, speech, professional dialogue, other please check with instructor. Consider placement of your thesis beginning as your guide or ending as your discovery. 5. Length: A general guideline of three-page minimum 12 point, Times, double spaced, 1 inch margin. Reference page consistent citation format would be extra. Title page is optional. Please edit carefully. 6. Scoring Guide: We will develop a 6-trait rubric for this paper. 7. Check out BLACKBOARD for a list of possible topics and places to go to get started: a. Teacher Unions class sizes b. NCLB c. Testing and its affect on students and teachers d. Inquiry learning versus skill and practice e. Technology in the English classroom f. Charter schools/public schools, etc
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Iran considers relations with China strategic
Iran’s minister of economic affairs and finance says the Islamic Republic considers relations with China as strategic and plans to boost economic cooperation with Beijing.
Speaking in a meeting with special envoy of the Chinese government, Zhang Yi, in Tehran on Tuesday, Ali Tayyebnia said, “Relations between Iran and China have been always constructive and we consider these relations as strategic.”
The Iranian minister noted that limitations that exist in economic and trade relations between the two countries will be removed in the near future and the two countries will enter a new phase of economic cooperation, including with regard to bilateral investment.
He added that the visit by the Chinese government’s special envoy and his accompanying delegation proved that both countries are interested in bolstering trade and economic exchanges.
Tayyebnia also stated that territorial expanse, big population, existence of rich oil and gas resources, skilled and educated manpower, strategic geographical position and easy access to markets in neighboring countries, as well as security and stability in Iran have made the country a good choice for foreign investors.
The Iranian minister then mentioned development of Iran’s southeastern Chabahar port and connecting the port city to Central Asia via railroad as a fertile ground for investment by the two countries.
The Chinese official, for his part, noted that his visit was telltale sign that Chinese government is bent on further development of economic and trade relations with Iran.
Zhang Yi, who is also Chairman of the State-Owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council, said development of trade ties with Iran, discussing the latest situation of bilateral cooperation, and exchange of viewpoints with Iranian officials were three objectives of his visit to the Islamic Republic.
The Chinese official arrived in Tehran on September 21 for an official three day visit to Iran. He is accompanied by a delegation comprising managing directors of 18 major Chinese companies, which seek to expand interactions with their Iranian counterparts. | <urn:uuid:e860b945-b9a3-4a05-b14a-cf4dadcf09ac> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.islamicinvitationturkey.com/2015/09/22/iran-considers-relations-with-china-strategic/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719215.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00199-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974429 | 398 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Owners of iPhones and smartphones running Google’s Android operating system may say that they enjoy exploring their neighborhoods and meeting new people because of Pokémon GO, but that’s likely not why they continue to come back day after day. Truly, it’s a safe bet that people play Pokémon GO because they simply enjoy adding the creatures to their collection. Snagging a rare Pokémon in Pokémon GO is the carrot that keeps players exploring and looking for new areas to search.
Built completely for mobile phones, Pokémon GO uses augmented reality features and the sensors built into most smartphones to give players the feeling that the creatures really do walk among them. In the game, players are the character and controller. Exploring areas really does require that players free roam.
It’s still early days, but we’re starting to understand more about the mechanics that govern rare Pokémon in Pokémon GO.
Rare Pokémon Caught in Pokémon GO Creatures So Far
Keep in mind that the term Rare Pokémon is very fluid right now. What may be a rare Pokémon in your area might be a very common Pokémon somewhere else. Niantic designed the game to present players with different types of creatures depending on their location. For example, water-type Pokémon are specific to areas where there’s water. One list of rare Pokémon from one area might not be accurate in another.
As such, this list is more speculation than definitive. It’s based on information compiled by thousands of users around the world by Poke Assistant. They’re listed in order of most rare to least rare.
Tips for Catching Rare Pokémon in Pokémon GO
Because of the nature of Pokémon GO, there’s no way to guarantee that you’ll come across a rare Pokémon that’s not in your collection. There are steps that you can take though, steps that could make it more likely that you’ll find some of the game’s rarely seen creatures and not just another common creatures that you already have too many of.
First, understand where you should be looking for rare Pokémon. According to The Silph Road, an organization of worldwide Trainers that have tested the game since its beta, so-called nests spawn rare Pokémon over and over again in some areas. Players are sharing details of these Nests over social networks, but there’s no master-list of nests available for specific rare Pokémon worldwide. The best that you can do is to keep exploring public spaces and frequently check places where you’ve spotted rare Pokémon previously. Use the radar available in the tab on the right edge of your screen to check for creatures that you don’t recognize.
Also, remember to pay attention to Eggs that you collect from PokeStops. Some of them could have rare Pokémon inside of them. You’ll want to use the Incubator given to you at the start of the game to gestate the Eggs that require more time to hatch. Eggs that take longer to hatch should have Pokemon worth keeping around.
Niantic based the game on the 150 creatures available in the original three versions of the game. As such, Pokémon from newer games aren’t rare; they aren’t in the game at all.
Reportedly, the amount of rare Pokémon that you encounter around the world depends on the level. That’d explain why Trainers just starting out see the same types of creatures for a while.
PokeStops & Gym Locations
A recent question and answer session on the Silph Road confirms that Pokémon Go currently uses 30% to 50% of portals that were present in Niantic’s last game, Ingress. Pokémon Go maps these over real-world landmarks that players have to walk to.
PokeStops and Gyms are real-world locations that players go to pick up items and battle the creatures left behind by other trainers. Police departments are already warning players of the game to stay away from their stations, according to VG247. | <urn:uuid:e5b88988-e17b-41db-b407-f5410e1a18aa> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.gottabemobile.com/all-the-rare-pokemon-in-pokemon-go-and-how-to-find-them/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285289.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00152-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940733 | 822 | 1.960938 | 2 |
According to Minnesota law, sexual harassment is defined as the unwanted conduct that is of a sexual nature, and includes both verbal advances and physical actions Common examples of sexual harassment done by employers include making sexual advances, creating an overtly sexual and offensive work environment, and making demands for sexual favors as a condition to promotion.
How does Minnesota Law Prohibit Sexual Harassment?
First, South St. Paul employers may be required to implement company policies concerning sexual conduct and post them for employees to see. Matters covered by such policies should include contact information used by employees to report incidents, handling procedures for claims, and corrective measures (in the event that a claim turns out to be successful).
There are also agencies which are established by federal and Minnesota law for the specific purpose of handling sexual harassment cases. Such agencies have the authority to investigate work sites to determine if the complaints they receive in South St. Paul are true. Employers are also barred under these laws from taking action in retaliation against an employee who has claimed sexual harassment, such as firing them or denying them a promotion.
How can a Minnesota attorney help?
Investigating and proving a sexual harassment claim might be difficult without consulting someone with expertise in the relevant laws. The federal officers who investigate claims of sexual harassment are, unfortunately, frequently too busy to give much attention to any one claim. Thus, hiring an attorney in South St. Paul can be the safest way to file your claim within the deadlines for sexual harassment claims that Minnesota has defined. | <urn:uuid:a5c5c839-8189-4cd6-8931-8ec9025966d1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://employment-law.legalmatch.com/MN/South-St.-Paul/sexual-harassment-law.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00471.warc.gz | en | 0.960282 | 301 | 1.882813 | 2 |
By Anna Von Reitz
There are exactly three (3) branches that make up the American Government:
1. The United States -- an unincorporated union of soil jurisdiction republican states which are geographically defined and populated by living people. This is our National Jurisdiction. Founded July 1, published July 4, 1776.
2. The United States of America -- an unincorporated federation of land and sea international jurisdiction States which are geographically defined and populated by Lawful Persons on the land and inhabited by Legal Persons on the sea. This is our International Jurisdiction. Founded September 9, 1776.
3. the States of America -- an unincorporated confederation of inchoate, non-physical States of States that operate in the global and municipal realm of commerce inhabited by Legal PERSONS in the Jurisdiction of the Air. This is our Global Jurisdiction. Founded March 1, 1781.
This is our government founded before and apart from any Federal Government.
As we also discussed, the Constitutions impacted only the States of America portion of our government, and had the effect of power-sharing some of the former functions of the States of America with two foreign governments --- Britain and the Holy Roman Empire, acting under solemn trust agreements.
We also learned that the interface between Lawful Persons and Legal Persons is in the International Jurisdiction, and that the boundary between Lawful Persons on the land and Legal Persons on the Sea is an invisible barrier called "the bar" or "the corporate veil". This is in a legal sense, the "veil" between life and death, as Lawful Persons are deemed to be alive, and Legal Persons are deemed to be fictional and dead.
We have dealt at some length with the fact that all Lawful Persons are unincorporated. We have also observed that Lawful Persons can be "corporate" though not "incorporated" ---- for example, an unincorporated Mom and Pop business called "Bill's Bicycle Shop" is "corporate" but not incorporated.
All Lawful Persons everywhere stand on the living side of the corporate veil and on the land and soil of their respective countries.
Now we come to the obverse, the mirror image, of the Lawful Person --- the Legal Persons inhabiting the international jurisdiction of the sea and the airy realms of the global municipal jurisdiction.
Legal Persons can be Corporate or Incorporated, but they are never totally unincorporated. They always derive their "personhood" from some other entity and have no basis to exist on their own.
The prior sentence should be underlined and properly taken note of. Lawful Persons and the people they represent have a quality of independent being that Legal Persons always lack.
A Legal Person does not exist on land, except as a temporary sojourner called an "inhabitant" and they are not considered to be part of the "population" because they are not one of the "people".
The realm in which they operate-- the work they do for the most part-- obligates them to operate in the reduced capacity of a "thing", a dead legal fiction, and it also obligates them to live under either the international jurisdiction of the sea and its laws, or the global jurisdiction of the air and its commercial laws.
Land Law and National Law (Soil Jurisdiction Law) do not apply to Legal Persons.
Statutes, Codes, and Regulations apply to Legal Persons.
A statute is not a law. It is evidence of a law and that law is the "law" of private contract.
One becomes a Legal Person instead of a Lawful Person by subjecting oneself to a foreign sovereign, by enfranchising oneself to a commercial corporation, by registering oneself as property of a commercial corporation, or by other acts creating a presumption of obligation to act in the capacity of a Legal Person.
A Lawful Person can only be "converted" into a Legal Person as a result of such a private contract.
Obviously, this could be an employment contract, as when one accepts a Federal Civil Service job or a job in the US Military. It could be an application for political asylum "in the United States", or an application for unearned Federal Welfare benefits, an application for a Driver License, a US (as opposed to USA) passport, or a voter registration. It could in some instances also be a contractual condition by birth, as when someone is born in Puerto Rico or Washington, DC. Or, such an obligation could arise as the result of incorporating a business as a United States commercial corporation.
For insight into the current situation, we are all born as Lawful Persons on the land and soil of our respective States, and we are supposed to be protected by the most sacred bonds of international trust and treaty and commercial obligation ---- but a ruse and an excuse has been used to "pretend" that you are a Legal Person instead, and resultingly, owed none of the protections of these treaties, trusts, and commercial contracts.
The ruse goes back to the Civil War and the Federal Government' practice of calling "States of States" --- commercial corporations --- "States", as in "Confederate States". They even go so far as to call it "The War Between the States" ---- but no actual States were involved.
All the entities involved in the so-called American Civil War, both North and South, were commercial corporations --- States of States, and whether they knew it or not, all those engaged in that horrific conflict were acting as Legal Persons.
Those who have undertaken this giant fraud against the People of this country have pretended that those long-vanquished commercial corporations were in fact our States, but they were not. They have also pretended that we, a 150 years later, are still combatants acting as Legal Persons and Mercenaries of either the States of America or the Confederate States of America.
Either way, it's total baloney and it's part of what we have to address as actual State Assemblies today.
As a result of the foregoing false presumptions being held against us at birth, the United States Military controlled by the British Territorial United States Government has made sure that a false record of assumed contract has been created for each and every one of us: the Birth Certificate.
This is the first and primary evidence against us, suggesting that we are from birth "United States Citizens" or rather, that we were "volunteered" into that political status by our unwary Mothers. However, in order to make this legal the perpetrators also had to record the actual event of your birth, so that both you actual birthday and the birthdate of the Legal Person they created in your name appear on the same document, giving evidence of an unconscionable contract.
You were only a few days or weeks old when this "unlawful conversion" of your political status from Lawful Person to Legal Person took place. You could not possibly engage in any such assumption of contractual obligation on your own, so your Mother was coerced under conditions of non-disclosure and color of law to do it "for" you.
After that, a number of adhesion contracts were foisted off on you, all under color of law, all without full disclosure.
You were told that you had to sign up for a Social Security Account and get a Social Security Number before you could have a job. (True only if you were seeking Federal Employment.)
You were told that you had to "register" to Vote, but you weren't told that doing so would surrender all your labor and private property rights to the commercial corporation hosting those elections.
You were told that you had to similarly "register" your "vehicle" and get a Driver License, too.
And so on and on. These various applications and registrations -- all induced under color of law and threat of force as adhesion contracts-- are added to the Birth Certificate information to create evidence that you are voluntarily contracting with these commercial corporations and choosing to live your life as a Legal Person instead of as a Lawful Person.
Legal Persons are dead, legal fiction entities. They have no rights or guarantees.
When you, a Lawful American State National or American State Citizen go out and "cross the bar" into the International Jurisdiction of the Sea, the British Monarch is obligated to protect you, but a Legal Person has no such protections.
When you, a Lawful American State National or American State Citizen create a commercial corporation to do business for you in the realm of commerce, the Pope is obligated to protect that, too, but a Legal Person has no such claim upon the Holy Roman Empire.
People and their Lawful Persons are born. Persons are birthed.
People have their genesis in physical actuality, in land and soil and water.
Persons have their genesis in the realm of thought, office, and employment.
People are created by the union of flesh and the mystery of creation.
Persons are created by statutes, which are contracts, by applications, registrations, enfranchisements, and so on.
People live on the land and soil.
Persons sail on the sea and in the air.
If you read the Federal Constitutions you will see the statute (contract) creating Federal Legal Persons known as "United States Citizens" and "Citizens of the United States" in Article 1, Sections 2 and 3, respectively.
These Legal Persons are created when someone accepts employment from the Federal Government, or when one "volunteers" to serve the Federal Government in some capacity --- like "Withholding Agent" or "Voter".
These Legal Persons, like all other Legal Persons, are not Parties to the Federal Constitutions and are not able to access their protections and guarantees.
Rather, they are subject to the Federal Constitutions, meaning that they must honor and obey and fulfill and perform the duties and responsibilities that go along with the right to exercise the delegated Powers of the People of the land jurisdiction States.
You can see now how "redefining" our Lawful Persons as Legal Persons strips us of protections and guarantees and services and assets we are owed and gives us nothing in return.
You can also see that as Lawful Persons operate on the land and soil, and Legal Persons operate in the sea and air, that redefining you as a Legal Person results in kidnapping you from your original birthright jurisdiction on the land and soil and trafficking you into a foreign jurisdiction of the law without your knowledge or consent.
You can also see that this is happening right under the noses of your own employees and the international trustees, both the Queen and the Pope, who are under obligation to protect you, and that they are excusing both their action and inaction by "mistaking on purpose" the difference between the Legal Persons and the Confederation of States of States that took part in the Civil War and the People populating the actual States of this country then and now.
The fraud against us has been institutionalized over the past hundred years and those operating it have grown fat on the theft of our assets, the plundering of our credit, and the sale of our labor. And it all hinges on this unlawful conversion of our Lawful Persons into Legal Persons and this false pretense that Confederation "States of States" --commercial corporations-- are the same as our physical States of the Union.
The Queen, the Pope, the various Presidents, the members of Congress, the US Military and other parties are all guilty of Gross Breach of Trust, conspiracy against the Constitutions, and worse. This has all been practiced against us under color of law and conditions of non-disclosure, fraud, and deceit.
The division between Lawful Persons and Legal Persons also results in the necessity of two court systems and two completely different sets of law.
Our Lawful Persons are owed American Common Law, Public Land Law, and Organic Law. We are now in the process of fully restoring our Courts to provide the services we need for ourselves and to enforce the Public Law, including the Constitutions.
Legal Persons function solely under Statutes, Codes, and Regulations, all forming a type of private law based on private contracts with other Legal Persons, including commercial corporations.
Legal Persons are limited to functioning in the jurisdiction of the sea and the air, with the result that such legal fiction entities can only create more legal fiction entities as franchises owned by the same foreign sovereignty that claims ownership of the Legal Persons.
Lawful Persons can issue charters to both corporate and incorporated entities.
To overcome the legal presumption that you are voluntarily choosing to act and live as a Legal Person and to regain protections owed to your Lawful Person and to assert your identity as one of the People and to operate as such, it is necessary to create superior evidence rebutting their evidence to the contrary.
Creating the superior evidence that you are choosing to act as a Lawful Person is the entire purpose of creating and recording the paperwork which The Living Law Firm has developed.
Although you might choose to work for the Federal Government in some capacity during your lifetime, you should be aware that doing so obligates you to operate as a Legal Person and deprives you of rights and saddles you with duties that you would not have otherwise.
It is also important to know that upon severance or retirement from such duties, it is necessary to give your former employers Notice that you are leaving Federal Service and returning to your permanent home and domicile on the land and soil of your State. This should be done in a formal but simple way, just stating the facts, sent to your former federal employer and to the Social Security Administration or Military Pension Office, etc., via Registered Mail, Return Receipt Requested.
This precludes any possible misunderstanding or pretense on their part that you are continuing to serve as a Legal Person in any quasi-military volunteer status.
There should be no onus for Federal Service or United States Citizenship or Citizenship of the United States. Quite the contrary. It is a largely thankless and subordinate political status of indentured servitude, sometimes amounting to outright slavery, and involving many duties and responsibilities and sacrifices. Some grave injustices have been inflicted on United States Citizens and Citizens of the United States.
This, too, is part of what needs to be redressed.
Not only have we been left uninformed, and deliberately misidentified and defrauded, but our employees have also been left without critical information and abused. Worst of all, our sons and daughters have been sacrificed as cheap mercenaries in wars for profit--- while being led to believe that it was all about defending our country.
All of this needs to stop, and all of this can be stopped once the actual American People stand up, shake off the dust and the lies, and assume their duty posts as American State Nationals and American State Citizens --- Lawful Persons owed every jot of the Constitutions and Treaties.
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Situational Analysis : Grounded Theory After the Postmodern Turn Paperback
This book provides a detailed and comprehensive introduction to situational analysis of qualitative data.
Adele E Clarke personally created the situational analysis approach, no other book currently deals with it.
She carefully situates herself and the situational analysis approach vis-a-vis other current approaches to grounded theory (specifically) and to qualitative data analysis (more generally). "Situational Analysis" is unique in that it both uses and extends grounded theory; it employs established coding and memoing strategies, while extending the method to include three new kinds of maps and analyses of the situation focused upon in one's research.
This is also the first publication about using grounded theory with historical, visual, and discursive materials.
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 408 pages, Illustrations
- Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc
- Publication Date: 26/05/2005
- Category: Social research & statistics
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Comment Éviter De L' Équipement D'amusement De L' Eau À Perte?
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