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Non-Medical Exemptions One Factor in Pertussis Resurgence
Spatial clustering of NMEs seen in California in 2010; linked with clusters of pertussis cases
MONDAY, Sept. 30 (HealthDay News) -- Non-medical exemptions (NMEs) are likely to have been one of the factors that contributed to the resurgence of pertussis in California in 2010, according to a study published online Sept. 30 in Pediatrics.
Jessica E. Atwell, M.P.H., from the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, and colleagues analyzed NMEs for children entering kindergarten from 2005 to 2010 and pertussis cases with onset in 2010 in California. The authors sought to examine whether clustering of unvaccinated individuals played a role in the resurgence of pertussis cases in California in 2010.
Based on Kulldorff's scan statistics, the researchers identified 39 significant clusters of high NME rates and two clusters of pertussis cases. The likelihood of being in a pertussis cluster was significantly increased for census tracts within an exemption cluster (odds ratio, 2.47). More cases occurred within versus outside exemption clusters (incident odds ratio, 1.20). After adjustment for demographic factors, the correlation was still significant. Spatial clustering of NMEs was observed and these correlated with clusters of pertussis cases.
"Our findings suggest that communities with large numbers of intentionally unvaccinated or undervaccinated persons can lead to pertussis outbreaks," the authors write. "In the presence of limited vaccine effectiveness and waning immunity, sustained community-level transmission can occur, putting those who are most susceptible to communicable diseases, such as young infants, at increased risk."
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The CRTC has issued its annual Communications Monitoring Report – its missive on the state of the communications industry – and, as expected, it’s a mixed bag.
According to the report, which is based on 2009 data, the communications industry accounted for 4.6% of Canada’s GDP, with overall revenues up 2.1% to $55.4 billion.
That might be an impressive number, but the news was more mixed for broadcasters where the rubber meets the road. Revenues for broadcast grew 3% to $14.4 billion, with specialty, pay and VOD leading the way. Those categories demonstrated a 5.8% growth to $3.1 billion.
However, those gains were offset by ground ceded in other areas. Overall revenues for commercial casters were flat year-over-year, remaining steady at $5.47 billion.
Private conventional rang up $1.97 billion in revenues in 2009, down 7.8% from $2.14 billion the previous year. The CBC experienced a slightly less drastic drop, with income down 5% from 2008 to $392 million in advertising and other commercial revenues.
Revenues generated from the distribution of television programming jumped from $6.9 billion in 2008 to $7.5 billion in 2009, an increase of 7.4%.
Spending on Cancon by broadcasters remained relatively unchanged annually, with private conventional investing $599.4 million ($20.2 million less than the previous year) and specialty and pay ringing up $1 billion in spending, unchanged from the previous year.
In 2009, 8.5 million households subscribed to cable or IPTV, while an additional 2.8 million households subscribed to satellite services. Subscribers to digital services grew to 7.6 million in 2009, up 11.9% from the year before.
Canadians watched an average of 26.5 hours of television per week, which was slightly below the 2008 average of 26.6 hours.
For the full report, visit
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Definition from Wiktionary, the free dictionary
This character has two indices in kRSUnicode: <卜+5> and <卤+0>. Unihan 8.0.0 allows 卤 to be the simplified radical of 鹵. However, only 9 characters are grouped in.
- KangXi: page 158, character 10
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2794
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4609, character 2
- Unihan data for U+5364
|For pronunciation and definitions of 卤 – see 鹵.
(This character, 卤, is the simplified form of 鹵.)
|For pronunciation and definitions of 卤 – see 滷.
(This character, 卤, is the simplified form of 滷.)
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By Salma Abdelaziz and Jim Sciutto
Syria has shipped out 11% of its chemical weapons stockpile - falling far short of the February 5 deadline to have all such arms removed from the country, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons told CNN Wednesday.
The slow pace of removal prompted U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to warn last month that all options remain available to force compliance.
The OPCW is now in touch with senior Syrian officials to discuss a new schedule going forward.
The aim is ambitious, but the expectations are low.
As top diplomats gathered in Switzerland for international talks aimed at ending Syria's protracted civil war, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged the opposing sides in the conflict to seize the opportunity for peace.
"After nearly three painful years of conflict and suffering in Syria, today is a day of fragile but real hope," he said at the start of the conference in the Swiss town of Montreux.
But the obstacles to finding a solution to a conflict that threatens to destabilize the Middle East quickly became apparent at the conference, which was beset by squabbles before it even began.FULL STORY
By Elise Labott
It was unusually positive language for a top U.S. official speaking about the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, but there was Secretary of State John Kerry giving the Syrian leader a pat on the back.
Speaking to reporters in Bali on Monday, Kerry hailed the quick pace at which inspectors from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons have been able to get on the ground in Syria and begin their work to destroy its vast chemical weapons arsenal, as called for in a recent U.N. Security Council resolution.
By Catherine E. Shoichet and Jamie Crawford
A new possibility for a diplomatic solution in the standoff between Syria and the United States surfaced unexpectedly Monday as the war-torn country said it supported a proposal to hand over control of its chemical weapons.
But a key question loomed: Is that a viable option or simply a stall tactic as President Bashar al-Assad's government tries to stave off U.S. military action?
"It's certainly a positive development when the Russians and Syrians both make gestures towards dealing with these chemical weapons," President Barack Obama told CNN's Wolf Blitzer Monday.
By Jamie Crawford
Russia urged Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Monday to put his nation's chemical weapons stockpile under international control as part of an effort to head off a possible military strike from the United States.
Sergey Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, said his country would urge Syria to take the action if it would avert a military response from the United States. There was no immediate reaction from the Syrian government.
Lavrov's comments came the same day Secretary of State John Kerry seemed to endorse a similar course of action.
Assad "could turn over every single bit of his chemical weapons to the international community in the next week," Kerry said during a news conference with British Foreign Secretary William Hague. "But he isn't about to do it and it can't be done obviously."
The Russian ambassador to the United States said any use of American military force against war-wracked Syria could carry serious consequences and hoped such an outcome would not ruin already tense relations.
While things are difficult between Washington and Moscow, Sergey Kislyak said in Washington that ties have not plunged to Cold War depths – yet.
“They’re not in good shape,” Kislyak said at an appearance in Washington for the Center for the National Interest.
By Elise Labott
CNN Foreign Affairs Reporter
An Israeli web site only has one question: Has the attack happened yet? The one-word answer: No. The joke in Israel is that everyone keeps turning to the site, which has more than 17,000 likes on Facebook, to see if the answer has changed to "yes."
An Israeli dental clinic has also gotten into the game with a full-page ad for dental implants. Under a picture of President Obama, the question: "Got teeth?"
As it tries to build international support for action against the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for its alleged chemical attack, the Obama administration must confront an increasing lack of confidence among its allies. While billed as an effort to strengthen U.S. resolve, diplomats say President Barack Obama's decision to seek authorization from Congress is playing out as weakness in a region concerned that Obama would show similar indecisiveness if faced with a nuclear Iran.
By CNN's Barbara Starr and Jennifer Rizzo
The U.S. military could execute a strike against Syria very quickly, if it's ordered to, according to Pentagon sources.
President Barack Obama is still debating a limited strike after Syrian regime forces allegedly unleashed a brutal chemical attack against civilians and rebel forces earlier this month, killing at least 1,429 people, according to Secretary of State John Kerry.
Before any missiles start flying, the president would issue an "execute" order for operations to begin.
Aaron David Miller, vice president and distinguished scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, says Obama apparently has chosen the middle option on Syria (between doing nothing and the McCain option of pushing for regime change). The result is one of the most widely telegraphed military assaults ever by Washington and a situation in which the president seems to be in a corner, forced to take action or risk being considered ineffective. It’s the least bad option, Miller says.FULL STORY
By Jim Acosta and Brianna Keilar
A senior administration official stressed U.S. President Barack Obama is on an “abbreviated timeline” for making a decision on whether to launch a military strike against Syria over its suspected use of chemical weapons.
“We see this with some urgency,” the official said.
After U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told reporters that chemical weapon use by the Syrian regime was “undeniable,” the senior administration official said the United States no longer requires confirmation from United Nations weapons inspectors.
“This one is a lot easier to figure out,” the official said. “This is really obvious.” FULL POST | <urn:uuid:0e386840-e1f2-4ccb-a71a-9aa4116d20b2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://security.blogs.cnn.com/category/middle-east/syria/assad/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573908.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820043108-20220820073108-00269.warc.gz | en | 0.959391 | 1,303 | 1.789063 | 2 |
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Scopus [via Elsevier]
Large interdisciplinary abstract and citation database to academic journal literature, conference proceedings and books with broad coverage across the sciences and social sciences, includes citation tracking tools.
Sociological Abstracts [via ProQuest]
Provides abstracts to sociology articles and the literature of related disciplines in the social, behavioral, and cultural studies. Covers over 1,800 journals, and book reviews. Mainly in English, but Includes materials in 30 languages. | <urn:uuid:2293c47d-7cf2-449c-a99d-06590aea9954> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.library.ucdavis.edu/database/?az=s&dbmaterial=book-reviews | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00271.warc.gz | en | 0.782944 | 126 | 1.601563 | 2 |
Botox, Jeuveau, Dysport and Xeomin make up the quartet of neuromodulators. All are used to smooth wrinkles and etched lines caused by repeated muscle movement.
Neuromodulators block nerve impulses to injected muscle groups, preventing them from repeatedly creasing skin in the same place. When frequency or intensity of these targeted muscles are reduced, the etched lines and wrinkles in these areas soften and smooth.
To illustrate, picture yourself folding a smooth sheet of paper in half. Opening the folded paper, you can see a crease is formed. Repeat folding this paper along the same line. Notice how the crease becomes deeper and more pronounced each time the sheet of paper is folded. Repeated muscle contractions in an area basically do the same to skin.
Further, facial expressions and muscle movements are not only unique to each of us, but they also are mostly unconsciously made. Only Botox and other neuromodulators can prevent muscle contractions from creasing skin. Regular use of Botox before lines become visibly etched into skin is considered preventative, as it potentially decreases the depth of future wrinkles.
Facial areas most visibly affected by repeated muscle movement include forehead lines, lines between the brows (glabella), crow’s feet, “bunny” lines on the upper nose bridge, and lip lines (aka. smoker’s lines).
There also are many other uses for Botox. It can be used to lift brows and the nose tip, erase necklines and flatten platysmal bands, smoothing the neck and restoring its youthful appearance. Botox can be used in the masseter muscles to narrow the jawline, in the chin to eliminate chin dimples, and in the Depressor Anguli Oris (DAO) muscles to turn up frowning mouth corners. When injected in the proper amounts and areas, Botox can reduce excessive sweating from underarms and on palms.
The main differences between Botox, Jeuveau, Dysport, Xeomin, are dilution, diffusion and the slight variations in duration. Factors affecting the duration of the different neuromodulators are metabolism, some vitamin deficiencies, and decline of skin elasticity from bad habits and sun exposure. Perhaps most important to its duration, however, is adequate dosages in the correct areas.
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George W. Bush's first year
1. Significantly eased field-testing controls
of genetically engineered crops.
2. Cut federal spending on libraries by
3. Cut $35 million in funding for doctors
to get advanced pediatric training.
4. Cut funding for research into renewable
energy sources by 50%.
5. Revoked rules that reduced the acceptable
levels of arsenic in drinking water.
6. Blocked rules that would require federal
agencies to offer bilingual assistance to non-English speaking
persons. This, from a candidate who would readily fire-up his
Spanish-speaking skills in front of would-be Hispanic voters.
7. Proposed to eliminate new marine protections
for the Channel Islands and the coral reefs of northwest Hawaii
(please see San Francisco Chronicle, April 6, 2001).
8. Cut funding for research into cleaner,
more efficient cars and trucks by 28%
9. Suspended rules that would have strengthened
the government's ability to deny contracts to companies that violated
workplace safety, environmental and other federal laws.
10. Approved the sending of letters by
Interior Department appointee Gale Norton to state officials soliciting
suggestions for opening up national monuments for oil and gas
drilling, coal mining, and foresting.
11. Appointed John Negroponte -- an unindicted
high-level Iran Contra figure to the post of United Nations Ambassador.
12. Abandoned a campaign pledge to invest
$100 million for rainforest conservation.
13. Reduced by 86% the Community Access
Program for public hospitals, clinics and providers of
care for people without insurance.
14. Rescinded a proposal to increase public
access to information about the potential consequences resulting
from chemical plant accidents.
15. Suspended rules that would require
hardrock miners to clean up sites on public lands.
16. Cut $60 million from a Boy's and Girl's
Clubs of America program for public housing.
17. Proposed to eliminate a federal program,
designed and successfully used in Seattle, to help communities
prepare for natural disasters.
18. Pulled out of the 1997 Kyoto Treaty
global warming agreement.
19. Cut $200 million of work force training
for dislocated workers.
20. Eliminated funding for the Wetlands
Reserve Program, which encourages farmers to maintain wetlands
habitat on their property.
21. Cut program to provide childcare to
low-income families as they move from welfare to work.
22. Cut a program that provided prescription
contraceptive coverage to federal employees (though it still pays
23. Cut $700 million in capital funds
for repairs in public housing.
24. Appointed Otto Reich -- an un-indicted
high-level Iran Contra figure -- to Assistant Secretary of State
for Inter-American Affairs.
25. Cut the budget of the Environmental
Protection Agency by $500 million.
26. Proposed to curtail the ability of
groups to sue in order to get an animal placed on the Endangered
27. Rescinded the rule that mandated increased
energy-saving efficiency regulations for central air conditioners
and heat pumps.
28. Repealed workplace ergonomic rules
designed to improve worker health and safety.
29. Abandoned campaign pledge to regulate
carbon dioxide, the waste gas that contributes to global warming.
30. Banned federal aid to international
family planning programs that offer abortion counseling with other
31. Closed the White House Office for
Women's Health Initiatives and Outreach.
32. Nominated David Lauriski -- an ex-mining
company executive --- to post of Assistant Secretary of Labor
for Mine Safety and Health.
33. Approved a controversial plan by Interior
Secretary Gale Norton to auction oil and gas development tracts
off the coast of eastern Florida.
34. Announced intention to open up Montana's
Lewis and Clark National Forest to oil and drilling.
35. Proposes to re-draw boundaries of
nation's monuments, which would technically allow oil and gas
drilling outside of national monuments.
36. Gutted the White House AIDS Office.
37. Renegotiated a free trade agreement
with Jordan to eliminate workers' rights and safeguards for the
38. Will no longer seek guidance from
The American Bar Association in recommendations for the federal
39. Appointed recycling foe Lynn Scarlett
as Undersecretary of the Interior..
40. Took steps to abolish the White House
Council on Environmental Quality.
41. Cut the Community Oriented Policing
42. Allowed Interior Secretary Gale Norton
to shelve citizen-led grizzly bear re-introduction plan scheduled
for Idaho and Montana wilderness.
43. Continues to hold up federal funding
for stem cell research projects.
44. Makes sure convicted misdemeanor drug
users cannot get financial aid for college, though convicted murderers
45. Refused to fund continued cleanup
of uranium-slag heap in Utah.
46. Refused to fund continued litigation
of the government's tobacco company lawsuit.
47. Proposed a $2 trillion tax cut, 43%
of which will go to the wealthiest 1 % of Americans.
48. Signed a bill making it harder for
poor and middle-class Americans to file for bankruptcy, even in
the case of daunting medical bills.
49. Appointed a Vice President quoted
as saying, lf you want to do something about carbon dioxide emissions,
then you ought to build nuclear power plants (Meet the Press)
50. Appointed Diana Roth to the Council
of Economic Advisers. (There is no gender gap in pay, Boston Globe,
March 28, 2001.)
51. Appointed Kay Cole James, an opponent
of affirmative action, to direct the Office of Personnel Management.
52. Cut $15.7 million earmarked for states
to investigate cases of child abuse and neglect.
53. Helped kill a law designed to make
it tougher for teenagers to get credit cards.
54. Proposed elimination of the Reading
is Fundamental program that gives free books to poor children.
55.1s pushing for development of small
nuclear arms to attack deeply buried targets and weapons. This
would violate the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.
56. Proposes to nominate Jeffrey Sutton,
the attorney responsible for a recent case weakening the Americans
with Disabilities Act, to federal appeals court judgeship.
57. Proposes to reverse regulation protecting
60 million acres of national forest from logging and road building.
58. Eliminated funding for the We the
People education program which taught school children about the
Constitution, the Bill of Rights and citizenship.
59. Appointed John Bolton, who opposes
nonproliferation treaties and the UN, to Undersecretary of State
for Arms Control and International Security.
60. Nominated Linda Fisher, an executive
with Monsanto, for the number-two job at the Environmental Protection
61. Nominated Michael McConnell, leading
critic of the separation of church and state, to a federal judgeship.
62. Nominated Terrence Boyle, an ardent
opponent of civil rights, to a federal judgeship.
63. Canceled 2004 deadline for automakers
to develop prototype high mileage cars.
64. Nominated Harvey Pitts, a lawyer for
a teen sex video distributor, to head SEC.
65. Nominated John Walters, a strong opponent
of prison drug treatment programs, to be Drug Tsar. (Washington
Post, May 16, 2001.)
66. Nominated J. Steven Giles, an oil
and coal lobbyist, for Deputy Secretary of the Interior.
67. Nominated Bennett Raley, who advocates
repealing the Endangered Species Act, for Assistant Secretary
for Water and Science
68. Is seeking the dismissal of class-action
lawsuit filed in the US against Japan by Asian women forced to
work as sex slaves during WWII.
69. Earmarked $4 million in new federal
grant money for HIV and drug abuse prevention programs to go only
to religious groups and not secular equivalents.
70. Reduced the Low Income Home Assistance
Program by 40%; it aided low-income individuals who need assistance
paying energy bills.
71. Nominated Ted Olson, who has repeatedly
lied about his involvement with the Scaiffe-funded Arkansas Project
to bring down Bill Clinton, for Solicitor General.
72. Nominated Terrance Boyle, a foe of
civil rights, to a federal judgeship..
73. Proposes to ease permit process, including
environmental considerations, for refinery, nuclear and hydroelectric
dam construction. (Washington Post, May 18, 2001.)
74. Proposes to give government the authority
to take private property through eminent domain for power lines.
75. Proposes that $1.2 billion in funding
for alternative renewable energy come from selling oil and gas
lease tracts in the Alaska National Wildlife Reserve.
76. Plans on serving genetically engineered
foods at all official government functions.
77. Forced out Forest Service chief Mike
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Today is Thursday, Feb. 21, the 52nd day of 2013. There are 313 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Feb. 21, 1613, Mikhail Romanov, 16, was unanimously chosen by Russia's national assembly to be czar, beginning a dynasty that would last three centuries.
On this date:
In 1513, Pope Julius II, who had commissioned Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, died nearly four months after the project was completed.
In 1885, the Washington Monument was dedicated.
In 1947, Edwin H. Land publicly demonstrated his Polaroid Land camera, which could produce a black-and-white photograph in 60 seconds.
In 1965, black Muslim leader and civil rights activist Malcolm X, 39, was shot to death inside the Audubon Ballroom in New York by assassins identified as members of the Nation of Islam.
In 1986, Larry Wu-tai Chin, the first American found guilty of spying for China, killed himself in his Virginia jail cell.
Ten years ago: The owners of The Station nightclub in West Warwick, R.I., where 100 people perished in a fast-moving fire the night before, denied giving the rock band Great White permission to use fireworks blamed for setting off the blaze, although the band's singer insisted the use of pyrotechnics had been approved.
Five years ago: President George W. Bush concluded his six-day African tour in Liberia, where he offered help to lift the country from years of ruinous fighting.
One year ago: Greeks were torn between relief and foreboding on the news that their country had received a new massive bailout -- a $170 billion rescue package created by the 17-nation eurozone, with conditions.
Today's Birthdays: Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe is 89. Film/music company executive David Geffen is 70. Actor Alan Rickman is 67. Actress Tyne Daly is 67. Actor Anthony Daniels is 67. Tricia Nixon Cox is 67. Actor Kelsey Grammer is 58. Country singer Mary Chapin Carpenter is 55. Rock musician Michael Ward is 46. Rock musician Eric Wilson is 43. Actress Jennifer Love Hewitt is 34. Singer Charlotte Church is 27. Actress Ashley Greene is 26. Actress Ellen Page is 26. Actor Corbin Bleu is 24.
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California Attorney General Defends Ability of Holocaust Survivors’ Descendants to Recover Nazi-Stolen Art
Files legal brief urging Ninth Circuit to overturn ruling that stalled lawsuit seeking return of painting to California family from Spanish museum
July 7, 2022 – OAKLAND – California Attorney General Rob Bonta today announced the filing of an amicus brief in support of the Cassirer family’s efforts to recover a painting stolen by the Nazis during the Holocaust. The Oil Painting – an 1897 work by French Impressionist Jacob Abraham Camille Pissarro titled Rue Saint-Honoré in the afternoon. Rain Effect — is currently on display at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid, Spain. In the amicus curiae brief, the Attorney General emphasizes the state’s strong interest in helping Holocaust victims and their descendants seek justice and urges the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth circuit to overturn a lower court decision that blocked the family’s lawsuit. seeking the return of painting.
“While nothing can undo the horrors suffered by the Cassirer family and millions of Jews during the Holocaust, simply restoring a family heirloom is the right thing to do – and legally valid,” said Attorney General Bonta. “Finders keepers can work on a playground, but it shouldn’t work in court. My office respectfully urges the Ninth Circuit to enforce our state’s laws and support a California family’s fight to recover a painting wrongfully stolen by the Nazis.
In 1939, Lilly Cassirer Neubauer and her husband sought to flee Nazi Germany in the face of increasing persecution. In order to obtain exit visas, they were forced to “sell” the painting in question to a Nazi art appraiser. Although they later received monetary compensation from the German government, the Cassirer family never waived their right to seek the restitution or return of the lost painting. Unbeknownst to the family, the painting was sold to a Beverly Hills dealer in 1951, then sold to a Missouri art dealer in 1952, resold to a Dutch-born Swiss baron in 1976, and finally purchased by the Kingdom of Spain in 1992. In 2000, a descendant of the Cassirer family who had moved to San Diego in 1980 discovered that the painting was on display at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum and promptly filed a petition with the Kingdom of Spain requesting its restitution. When the petition was denied, the family sued in California in 2005, asserting property claims under California law. Over the years, the case worked its way through the courts and was eventually returned to the Ninth Circuit by the United States Supreme Court on April 21, 2022 for further consideration. Under California law, victims of art theft have the right to pursue claims against museums in possession of stolen artwork for up to six years after discovery.
In the amicus brief, Attorney General Bonta states:
- The District Court misidentified the relevant statutes in arriving at its decision;
- California’s interests will be more substantially impaired by an adverse decision;
- Since many wrongs have occurred in multiple jurisdictions, the current location of the board is not as important;
- Modern California law on the recovery of works of art stolen from museums trumps the old Spanish law on adverse possession; and
- California law enforcement will achieve the maximum achievement of the underlying purpose of all relevant laws based on the expectations of the parties.
A copy of the amicus brief is available here.
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Set immediately after the crucifixion of Christ, this historical novel, written by two old pros, has a lot going for it. The authors explored how the people who were present after the event responded to it. They included all the key characters from Pilate and his wife, to Herod and Caiaphas, to the centurian whose servant was healed, to Lazarus and his sisters, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of Jesus--virtually the entire cast sans the apostles.
Bunn and Oke explored this from a couple of directions: How the event affected the lives, not just of those who believed, but also of those who didn't, and those whose political power demanded the story be false; and how independent investigators (actually a centurian, Alban, and a servant girl, Leah) of the era would go about discovering the truth of the empty tomb.
The authors did some serious research, and Davis Bunn is well-acquainted with the region their novel is set in. And yet, when I glanced through the reviews in Amazon, I discovered it was the authors' research that was called into question most.
Of all the lessons I imagine Bunn and Oke would want drawn from their novel, the last would be one in faulty research. But I'm writing this not just to emphasize how important research is, but to point out the self-proclaimed experts who bring an author's research into question.
One person in Amazon's reviews pointed out the frequency with which the characters drank tea. She wasn't sure, she said, but was tea even around west of China two thousand years ago? Well, yes. I found a treatise that tracked the tea trade along with the silk trade, truly indicating its antiquity. Whether Romans or Jews drank tea, I don't know. It was available to them. Tea is made with water, and both societies of the time were careful with their water supplies, so it's possible.
Another person wasn't happy about Leah and her backstory. Leah had been a young woman of society in Rome, but once her father fell into ruin, she was sold to Pilate to serve his wife. Pilate and Herod used Alban the centurion's attraction to Leah to purchase his services to investigate the empty tomb. Since Leah was part Judean, her betrothal to Alban would give him access to information he may not otherwise have. To say Leah wasn't happy about the situation would be an understatement--and that's where our self-avowed historian's review comes to play. She believed Leah's frequent complaints about being betrothed were unwarranted.
According to her, Leah, having once been a lady of Roman society, would be accustomed to the practice of women being "married off" without having a say-so. Such trades were made to advance political goals or alliances between nations. Perhaps. But nowhere did the authors indicate Leah's father was political. If he were a merchant, for instance, trading Leah off may not benefit him. I was of the impression most Roman women were free to choose. But I could be wrong.
Now if the reviewer had indicated that selling or marrying off a servant was common, and Leah had no real expectation of remaining unwed because of this, she may have had a point. Either way, it's moot. Leah didn't want to get married at all, and expecting that fate wouldn't have changed her mind.
In my opinion, the authors did an excellent job. I admit, I balked at the word "cronies" found in the text and stopped reading to look it up. (The word was popularized by college kids back in the seventeenth century, a bit late to be written into a centurion's POV.) But the discovery certainly wasn't enough to change my opinion of the novel. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Perhaps the reviewers really are experts on the Roman era, I don't know. But I have no doubt of Oke and Bunn's research into their subject matter primarily because neither author would've risen in their careers if they had shoddy research practices. Because I'm more familiar with these writers than I am the reviewers, I trust the writers.
The lessons from these pros are 1) thorough research is mandatory, 2) you're not going to catch every mistake, and 3) criticism, like opinions, is free--and not always worth the price.
The Bucket List Dare is Live!
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Photoshop offers many different techniques to remove an unwanted background from an image. For simple backgrounds, using the standard Magic Wand tool to select and delete the background may well be more than adequate.
For more complicated backgrounds, you might use the Background Eraser tool. This tool samples the color at the center of the brush and then deletes pixels of a similar color as you “paint.” It feels like painting with acid. Let me show you how it works.
1. Open your image
Start by grabbing an image that you want to remove the background from. I’ll be using this image as it features areas that range from easy removal through to more challenging spots.
2. Select Background Eraser
Select the Background Eraser tool from the Photoshop toolbox. It may be hidden beneath the Eraser tool. If it is, simply click and hold the Eraser tool to reveal it.
3. Tune your tool settings
On the tool options bar at the top of the screen select a round, hard brush. The most appropriate brush size will vary depending on the image you’re working on. Use the square bracket key (
]) for quickly scaling your brush size.
Next, on the tool options bar, set the Sampling to
Continuous, the Limits to
Find Edges and a Tolerance of somewhere between
20-25% is a good starting place.
Note: A low tolerance limits your eraser to areas that are very similar to your sampled color. A higher tolerance expands the range of colors your eraser will select.
4. Begin erasing
Bring your brush over your background and begin to erase. You should see a brush-sized circle with small crosshairs in the center. The crosshairs show the “hotspot” and delete that color wherever it appears inside the brush area. It also performs smart color extraction at the edges of any foreground objects to remove ‘color halos’ that might otherwise be visible if the foreground object is overlayed onto another background.
Note: For the example image, I actually used a rather high Tolerance than the 20-25% recommended above due to the wide range of blues behind this subject.
When erasing, zoom up your work area and try to keep the crosshairs from overlapping on the edge of your foreground. It’s likely that you will need to reduce the size of the brush in some places to ensure that you don’t accidentally erase part of your foreground subject.
5. Choosing effective limit and sampling settings
Even though I have used a smaller brush to work around the hair and neck area, the Background Eraser has still managed to gouge a few chunks out of the hair and shirt.
For foreground image areas that share colors with the background (like this one), you may need to adjust the Sampling andLimits. In this picture, I switched over to the Sampling: Once option, set my Limits to
Discontinguous and set my Toleranceto
The Sampling: Once option samples the color under the crosshair only the moment you click and it doesn’t resample as you move your brush along. The Discontiguous Limit option allows you to erase all pixels that match the sampled color that you’re erasing. This allowed me to get in between the hair strands without erasing them.
There’s a good chance the Background Removal Tool may be all you need to complete your task.
But if not, read on.
6. Quick Mask or Pen Tool
While removing the background on our example image is mostly straight-forward due to the fairly solid background, there are inevitably areas of our foreground subject that get wrongly erased as we work close to foreground’s edges.
In our example, the foreground and background share similar colors due to the lighting. This will be easiest to repair using Photoshop’s Pen tool. I only have a small section I need to touch up, so I’ll use the Pen to create a clean selection and delete the unwanted background.
If you are working with a basic image with ample visual contrast between the subject and background, you can most likely get away with using only the Background Eraser Tool.
More complex images will likely require a mix of tools, samplings, and tolerances along with occasional manual touch-ups. There will be times when there is no visual difference between the foreground and background. We have to manually impose that distinction.
And don’t forget that if you are saving your image without adding a new background, you need to save it as a PNG to maintain the transparency.
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Tai Chi is an ancient Chinese form of exercise which is practiced every day for relaxation, health, harmony, flexibility, and personal renewal. Grounded in Chinese philosophy and culture, it is at once a spiritual practice and a way of life designed to achieve balance in mind, body and spirit.
In this enlightening documentary by Barry Strugatz, the focus is on Cheng Man-Ching (1902 - 1975), a Tai Chi master who brought this path of human growth to America in 1962 when he was 60. He set up a Tai Chi school in New York City's Chinatown and taught practitioners the slow, controlled movements to improve the flow of "chi" — the life energy which is the source of movement and vitality. Among the students who sing his praises and talk about the importance of Tai Chi in their lives are Ed Young, an award-winning illustrator; Maggie Newman, a modern dancer; Stanley Israel, a prison guard and union president; Ken Van Sickle, a photographer and filmmaker; and Robert Chuckrow, a physicist. Many of them had been hippies and countercultural American youth during the 1960s.
Called "The Professor" by those drawn to this disciplined community,
Cheng Man-Ching taught a nine-month program which shortened Tai Chi practice from 108 to 37 essential postures. His students were always amazed when they witnessed their spiritual teacher's effortless ability to apply tai chi to calligraphy, brushwork, relationships, and the seasons.
Although members of New York's Chinese community criticized Cheng Man-Ching for teaching the "secrets" of Tai Chi to Americans, he kept on sharing this practice until returning to Taiwan and working on a book. He died there in 1975 after teaching in the United States for 12 years.
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Characterizing the battery life of an IoT device using the Otii Arc and Nutaq PicoLTE
The article was written by Altus Technologies, a Canadian manufacturer of cold chain monitoring and other IoT solutions.
Are you designing a battery powered IoT device? You should know the challenge with accurately estimating the battery life. The power consumption of devices relying on low power radios to communicate (eg : NB-IoT, ĿTE-M) varies greatly according to the network conditions. While the wireless network coverage is poor or temporarily out of reach, the device will consume more power. Not to mention the numerous configurable features of the radio itself (eg: PSM, e-DRX) which are not supported the same way on all networks but have a great impact on power consumption when they are. With all the factors impacting power consumption, how can the designer meet a battery life specification? One needs a testbed where network and device settings as well as network conditions are controllable and accurate power measurements can be conducted.
This article describes how Altus Technologies uses the Otii Arc and Nutaq PicoLTE to characterize the battery life of IoT devices. To characterize the battery life of an IoT device, we need two key measurements: the current consumption profile of the device over time, and the amount of charge available in the device’s battery. We can then combine these two measurements to calculate how long it will take for our battery to become discharged to the point where our device no longer works. The Otii Arc is instrumental for us in implementing both halves of our method. To characterize the current profile and voltage requirement of our IoT device, we use the Arc as a controllable power supply with integrated current consumption profiling. Then, we use the Arc software’s battery profiling toolbox to measure our battery’s discharge capacity specific to the device’s electrical characteristics.
Part 1: Setting up the PicoLTE LTE-M/NB-IoT network in a box
The PicoLTE is used to provide NB-IoT connectivity (both eNodeB and EPC) while Sierra Wireless’ HL78xx CAT-M is used in to exchange data with our remote application servers. HL78xx is connected to PicoLTE over-the-air (Figure 1).
Figure 1: PicoLTE and HL78xx setup to test PSM and eDRX
PicoLTE is running multiple LTE-M and NB-IoT cells concurrently. The eNodeB is connected to the EPC and supports different PSM cycle settings and eDRX paging window lengths.
Figure 2: Spectrum of an NB-IoT cell at 801 MHz (LTE Band 20).
Part 2: Characterizing the peak current profile and min voltage
To characterize the current profile and voltage requirement, we set up the Otii Arc as a power supply. We remove the battery from the IoT device, and instead connect its power input to the Otii Arc’s output. Meanwhile, in the Otii software, we select “Power box” as Supply and set the main voltage to the nominal voltage of the device’s battery. Still within the software, we start plotting the Main Current and turn on the Arc’s power.
While the power supply is running at nominal voltage, we inspect the Main Current plot to identify 1 duty cycle of the IoT device (Figure 3). We find the largest current peak within a duty cycle and measure its duration and peak current. The Arc software lets us hone in on any small section of the current plot which helps us take these measurements with precision (Figure 4). Then, we measure the duration and average current of the rest of the duty cycle (the rest of the duty cycle should be primarily idle time).
After measuring the current profile, we decrease the Arc’s output voltage by a small step (e.g. 0.2V) and monitor the IoT device’s key metrics (sensor accuracy, wireless signal strength, etc.) to determine whether the device is still operating adequately. If it is, we measure the current profile again, decrease the Arc’s output voltage one step further, and rinse and repeat until finding the voltage where the device stops operating correctly. At that point, we define the previous step’s voltage as the IoT device’s minimum voltage requirement.
Figure 3: An example of the key portion of an IoT device’s duty cycle
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Giving a boot to muscular dystrophy
Surrey firefighters raised $10,000 this year in their annual fall boot drive. Boot drives were held at various locations around Surrey, including Guildford Town Centre, Costco and Walmart.
Since 1954, Canadian firefighters have been helping Muscular Dystrophy Canada fight the battle against muscular dystrophy, a degenerative muscular illness which has no cure.
The money raised by the Surrey Fire Fighters was presented to Justin Johal and his mother Kal, along with a representative from Muscular Dystrophy Canada. Justin is a 19-year-old Surrey resident who is affected by Duchenne’s muscular dystrophy.
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The following article was written over thirty-five years ago for the first issue of THE SURVIVOR, published January, 1976. People reading it then thought I was insane. Now, overpopulation, dwindling resources, changing weather patterns, etc. are common topics of conversation today.
Moreover, there is nothing in it I would change. As a historian, I knew the past, I knew what was happening thirty-five years ago, and so could predict what would happen a few years in the future.
Alarmists all around the country are promising disasters such as super inflation, famine, foreign invasion, the triumph of communism/fascism, nuclear war, etc. Unfortunately, they all may be right, even though their timing is wrong.
You have only to compare this year's food prices over last year's; this year's rise in the crime rate over last year's, etc. These things affect you directly. The quality of life is going down and the difficulty of maintaining a decent living standard is a greater worry to most Americans.
There are two main reasons for this which no political system can help. One is that the Age of Exploration and Development and the Industrial Revolution are over and the other is that the good crop weather, world-wide, is also over, maybe for centuries.
The Age of Exploration and Development began about 1500 and ended around 1950. From the beginning of that period the Earth was explored, mapped, annexed, developed and exploited. Its resources, animal, vegetable and mineral, were looted with little or no thought for future generations. As national industries grew to take advantage of the in-pouring bounty from the hinterlands, living standards rose, enabling more people to survive and in turn to reproduce their kind Human locusts spread over the Earth; born only to exploit, rape and destroy their own environment.
"Have more babies so we can clear more land." "Have more babies so we can mine more coal and metals." "Have more babies so we can keep the factories running." "Have more babies so we can take more territory from the hated enemy."
And then, about 25 years ago, the overall bounty ran out. Some of the natural resources became scarce a century ago. Some, like coal, may last another century. But in a general sense, the reason for existence for most of the world's population ended about 1950.
More babies are being born but there is no more land to clear. More babies are being born but mining is automated, needing little hand labor. More babies are being born but the world's factories are closing down. More babies are being born but cannon fodder, the uniformed ape, is too quickly a corpse to be worth arming. Automated killing is all the rage.
Human quality is in demand but is becoming harder to find. Human quantity is a drug on the market, a surplus. Governments do not create raw materials. Unions do not create jobs. So the Working Class--push, pull, lift--is increasingly without purpose. As the system breaks down, the erosion of occupations will worsen so that even specialists will be on welfare.
So with literally billions of people made surplus by the lack of easily accessible raw materials, the idea of world-wide institutionalized welfare has set in. "We'll just feed them until technology creates new jobs," say the optimists.
But this is not to be. As the bounty of natural resources has run out, the world's bountiful harvests have also ended. The weather from 1930 to 1960 was excellent for crops. Unfortunately for the human race, this good crop weather was abnormal and had not occurred in the last 1,000 years! Now it is over and there is no reason to believe this freakishly good weather pattern will return in our lifetimes; maybe not for hundreds of years.
Moreover, most of the agribusiness plants now grown were bred for the weather conditions from the 30's through the 60's. Bad seasons wipe them out and it would take years to replace them with the old foul-weather, low yield strains Granddad thrived on. Also, the present good weather, high yield plant strains depend on vast amounts of oil-based fertilizers few nations can afford today.
When bad weather hit Russia's 1973 harvests the ensuing wheat deal wiped out our surplus. Millions of acres here had been lying unused in the Soil Bank. Brought into cultivation, they have put off severe shortages here and made the effects of our own bad weather less noticeable. Without all that acreage to fall back on, Americans would be starving now.
With the world's worsening weather making increasing demands on our crops by other countries and our own weather getting worse, the end is in sight for the majority of humanity.
Of course, I have not written this to upset you. After all, if you were not interested in survival you would not be reading this. So you are not one of the doomed majority. You are already making plans to save yourself and your loved ones from the worst to come.
Let's say you decide to leave your present situation one year from now. You should be ready to leave before then if you have to, but panic makes anyone a refugee. A year will put your survival program in its proper perspective.
If you can look at your program as simply a move to a more rural, less commercial area, you have taken the panic out of it and friends and neighbors will not question your sanity or try to talk members of your family out of the move.
Naturally, this present advice is mainly for people living in major population centers. If you live in a town of 50,000 or more, it is too commercial to have much staying power after a social collapse.
Towns with under 50,000, in rural areas, have more contact with life's basics and can reorganize their populations if necessary. So a small town in a rural area is your best bet. A patch of land and a modest home just outside a village gives the greatest security. It will not cost you an arm and a leg and you will get away from the image of the leather-clad, root grubbing savage some survivalists suggest.
A year's planning will help you find such a town and prepare to provide a service, food, craft or otherwise, which will make you an asset to the community.
You may want to get a few acres and live cut off from everyone. This is fine if you are well armed and a professional woodcrafter already. However, this is too great a change for most people. The inexperienced dreamer simply cannot survive alone.
Regardless of your choice, town, commune or small farm, you must choose an area about 100 miles from any major population center. It must also be several miles off any major highway. Refugees streaming out of New York or Los Angeles will clog the main highways and strip every home for miles each side of their route like irresistible plagues of locusts.
No matter how you might think you can steel yourself against pitiful refugees, you must plan to live as far off their prospective routes as possible. This is not as hard as you might think. More people are clogging the cities and only the intelligent ones are moving back to the land.
In succeeding issues I will concentrate on survival without savagery. You should live well while waiting out the storm. A year or less of practical study and application of a good survival program will help you to come through the worst ahead with strength and dignity.
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Variety used for comparison: 'Ranger Russet'
Summary: The plants of 'Clearwater Russet' are shorter than the plants of 'Ranger Russet'. The midrib on the upper side of the leaf blade of 'Clearwater Russet' has a medium extent of anthocyanin colouration while it is absent or very low for 'Ranger Russet'. The light sprout of 'Clearwater Russet' is ovoid in shape while the light sprout of 'Ranger Russet' is conical. The base of the light sprout of 'Clearwater Russet' has medium anthocyanin colouration while the base of the light sprout of 'Ranger Russet' has weak anthocyanin.
PLANT: upright growth habit, intermediate type foliage structure, mid-season maturity
STEM: absent or very low extent of anthocyanin colouration
LEAVES: small, open silhouette, weak to medium presence of secondary leaflets, light green, medium extent of anthocyanin colouration on midrib of upper side, weak intensity of anthocyanin colouration on midrib of upper side, absent or very low frequency of coalescence of terminal and lateral leaflets
SECOND PAIR OF LATERAL LEAFLETS: small to medium size, narrower than long width in relation to length
LEAFLETS: absent to very weak waviness of margin, shallow to medium depth veins, medium glossiness on upper side, no pubescence on blade at apical rosette
INFLORESCENCE: low to medium frequency of inflorescences per plant, small, absent or very low extent of anthocyanin colouration on peduncle
FLOWER BUD: medium extent of anthocyanin colouration
COROLLA: large, medium anthocyanin colouration on inner side with absent or low proportion of blue, high extent of anthocyanin on inner side
TUBER: long shape, white flesh
TUBER EYES: shallow
TUBER SKIN: reddish brown, yellow at base of eye
LIGHT SPROUT: medium size, ovoid shape, few root tips, short lateral shoots
LIGHT SPROUT BASE: medium anthocyanin colouration, absent or low proportion of blue in anthocyanin colouration, sparse pubescence
LIGHT SPROUT TIP: medium in size in relation to base, closed habit, weak anthocyanin colouration, medium density of pubescence.
Origin & Breeding History: The variety 'Clearwater Russet' originated from a cross between 'Bannock Russet' and A89152-4, made in Aberdeen, Idaho, USA in 1995. The variety was selected in the field as a seedling in 1996 at Aberdeen, Idaho. A phenotypic recurrent selection technique was utilized in its development. The variety was evaluated for 12 years in public and industry trials throughout the western United States. Selection criteria included maturity, yield, disease resistance, processing traits, morphological traits and storage characteristics.
Tests & Trials: Trials for 'Clearwater Russet' were conducted during the summer of 2010 in Drummond, New Brunswick. Plots consisted of one row with a row length of 18.5 meters and a row spacing of 90 cm. Plants were spaced 30 cm apart within the row. There were 60 plants per variety in the trial. Measured characteristics were based on ten measurements.
Comparison table for 'Clearwater Russet' with reference variety 'Ranger Russet'
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Bad Habit: Taking the Same Route With the Vacuum Every Time
You need to shift the rug’s pile back and forth or you’ll miss ground-in dirt.
Good practice: Be sure to come at a carpet from different angles, says Mike Reed, the owner of Austonian Fine Rug and Carpet Care, in Austin, Texas. If you always start vacuuming in a particular spot, begin on the opposite side of the room on alternate weeks. Vacuum top to bottom with long, slow, overlapping strokes. Then, working crosswise, go back over it. In high-traffic areas, such as near a door or in front of the sofa, repeat these crosshatch steps, using short strokes.
Bad Habit: Ignoring Remotes or Video-Game Controls
Because they’re constantly handled, they can harbor the same bacteria and viruses as a kitchen sponge, says Kelly Reynolds, an environmental microbiologist at the University of Arizona, in Tucson.
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Tips for Software Developers Just Starting Out
I brought my 8-year old son Alex to Tampa Code Camp at Keiser University.
Now that Alex is older, I enjoy taking him to these types of events. There's always something for him to learn, and he loves the cool swag! Also, on this particular rainy Saturday, it was a good answer to the weekly question of what to do on the weekend.
In any case, sometime after lunch, we took a break from the sessions, deciding to hang out in the main auditorium. While there, I struck up a conversion with a fellow Software Developer, Jared, and a long-time recruiter friend of mine, Steve Turner. As the three of us were chatting, two nearby attendees, Tatyana and Kelvin, chimed in asking for advice on starting out in the software development industry.
I gave as much advice as I could on the spot, stream-of-consciousness style, while promising to follow-up with a more detailed email response later. As I slowly recaptured and organized my spoken words into an email, I realized this would be better suited as a long blog post.
Several months later, here it is:
- Get a sense for what Code is
- It helps if you are passionate
- Keep learning
- Get comfortable using the Terminal
- Learn Git and GitHub or GitLab
- Learn how to test your code
- Learn how to write resilient, quality code
- Learn Object-Oriented Programming
- Learn the terms and concepts
- Learn about different software design principles
- Learn about anti patterns too
- Google and StackOverflow are your friends
- Become a Polyglot
- Try solving real-world tasks
- Check out the Awesome lists
- Social Media
- Websites / Podcasts / Blogs / Newsletters / Email Lists
- Promote Yourself
- Ignore or minimize imposter syndrome
Get a sense for what Code is
If you haven't done so already, do yourself a favor and read through Paul Ford's 2015 Bloomberg article What is Code?. It's a long, rambling read, but it's full of informative foundational information, and an accurate portrayal of one segment of this industry.
Do not pass Go until you read it.
Okay, now that that's out of the way, on to the rest of my article...
It helps if you are passionate
I've conducted many technical interviews over the years, and each time I've tried to gauge the applicant's passion level. Are they passionate about this vocation? Or, are they more of a 9-to-5'er; where it's just a job to them? I'm not suggesting that they need to work long hours. However, if they were passionate about this, there would be readily identifiable evidence, like: continual learning, attending meetups / user-group meetings / conferences, buying books, reading blogs, watching videos, taking courses, etc.
If you want to be successful at this, it immensely helps if you're also passionate about it. That passion, and a hunger for learning, will keep you engaged and evolving over the years.
Embrace the Japanese concept of Kaizen (改善), or continual self-improvement.
Learning should be a life-long process. Even as a so-called industry veteran, or Senior Software Engineer, there's always more to learn. If you run out of ideas, try learning an ancillary subject, such as: Statistics, Linear Algebra, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Robotics, etc. The options are endless.
"Coding is hard" will discourage some people from attempting it.— April Wensel (@aprilwensel) January 16, 2018
"Coding is easy" will discourage some people who are attempting it and finding it challenging.
Alternative: Learning to code is a neverending journey with a set of challenges and delights unique to each person.
Books are an obvious good way to keep learning. I recommend starting your library of technology books, either physical or electronic. Though understand that most books, especially technology books, will eventually become outdated. This is where ebooks have the advantage since they can be updated. Even so, if you learn one or two things from a book, then the cost of it was worth it, and its obsolescence less of a negative.
Here are two publishers I tend to purchase from frequently:
Be sure to follow Manning on twitter as they will periodically tweet discount codes. PragProg is also on twitter.
My books come from other publishers and sources too though. Books are so inexpensive, that I do not hesitate to buy one if the topic interests me the slightest. I usually get some value out of it. Though there have been a few cases where I bought a dud or two.
Take full advantage of online courses from sources like: Coursera, Udacity, edX, etc. In addition to books, this is probably the best way to continue learning. Free or discounted courses found on sites like YouTube Udemy can be equally as valuable.
Here are some of the courses I've taken and recommend:
- Self-Driving Car Nanodegree at Udacity
- Machine Learning Specialization at Coursera via University of Washington
- Scalable Machine Learning at edX via Berkeley University
- Data Science Specialization at Coursera via John Hopkins University
- Machine Learning at Coursera via Stanford University
When you are first starting out in your career, certifications are a good way to let potential employers know that you know a certain programming language or technology. I also see certifications as tie breakers. If an employer is trying to choose between two mostly similar candidates, the one with the certification will likely have the edge. In a few rare cases, certifications are required for some positions. For example, you would not really be able to get an AWS Solutions Architect position without the corresponding certification. The Networking and Security sub-fields have similar certifications for technologies which are practically required. Project Managers and Scrum Masters have their desired certifications too. Most Microsoft-centric shops look for Microsoft certifications, or at least MVPs.
If you ever take an online course (Coursera, Udacity, edX, etc.) and you are given the option between taking the course for free, or paying and receiving a certification at the end, go ahead and take the certification route. Most of those establishments have the means to display your certification on LinkedIn as well.
I personally started taking certifications early in my career when I grew wearing of taking test after test on interviews. My certifications were a message to interviewers that I knew my stuff. Whenever I take an online course, I always opt for the paid certification version. Why not have something to show for after spending all that time on the course?
Learn Logic and hone your analytical mind. You have to think logically and analytically to do this job.
Try solving real-world tasks
I mentioned this in another blog post. I've never felt that toy examples, like "hello world" et. al., did much to help reinforce learning something new. I recommend trying to accomplish real tasks to help expedite your learning. Maybe you have a computer-based task you perform regularly which could benefit from automation? Try using it in a way which relates to things you know. Many programmers started out by scratching their own itch, so to speak. They wrote their first code trying to avoid doing something the manual, painful way.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Get comfortable using the Terminal
On macOS and Linux it's called the Terminal, on Windows it's the Command Line window. Sometimes it's referred to as the Console.
Try customizing your PS1.
Learn Git and GitHub or GitLab
Git is a distributed, version control system for your source code. GitHub and GitLab are 3rd-party web product around git. These days most technical employers will want to see your public GitHub or GitLab repos. It acts to supplement your resume, and in some cases it is your resume. You should learn these tools and become familiar with their related functions.
If you are being paid to write software for a company, your code needs to be checked into some sort of company version control repository. No excuses. Source code should be treated as a corporate asset. Many companies cannot operate successfully without their custom software. It needs to be saved and protected.
Here are some resources to get you started:
Google and StackOverflow are your friends
Part of being a Software Engineer or Developer is Googling error messages and scouring StackOverflow for solutions to your problems. Get comfortable with these tools and familiarize yourself with their ins-and-outs.
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Sometimes you will run into a dead-end though, where nothing comes up.
The other day I attempted to install a new library I read about, TileDB. During the install, it failed with an error. Sometimes the error message is generic enough that you can Google it and find the solution. Maybe the error is bubbling up from a popular 3rd-party library dependency? Or, maybe the project is so new, or the error message so specific, that nothing comes up via Google or StackOverflow. In that case, I found the project's public GitHub repository and entered an issue. The author later responded, made some change, and closed out the issue. Now I can successfully install it!
Reddit is your friend too
Here are some other sources from reddit:
And useful subject-specific subreddits:
Every popular language or technology should have a corresponding subreddit, just search or browse for it.
Learn how to test your code
Start out by printing variable values to STDOUT) from within your programs. Try using a REPL for the same effect. This is sometimes known as console-based developing or testing.
Later, learn how to use a debugger if your language has one. You can set breakpoints, run your code and inspect the state while paused.
Lastly, learn how to do unit testing at a minimum, and continue on by learning about test-driven development (TDD), Behavior-driven development (BDD), code coverage, test automation.
Each language / framework / sub-domain will likely have their community's preferred tools and techniques for testing.
When traveling down your path of learning how to test software, it's a good idea to keep these points in mind:
- Testing your software should not be more arduous, or time-consuming, than writing the software itself. You shouldn't have more test code than actual code.
- It's okay to make assumptions about system-level code you use but didn't write. For example, you can assume that language-included libraries have already been tested and you don't have to write a test for it. On the other hand, I've written tests to test out how a system library works if I was unfamiliar with it. In order words, to test my assumptions.
- Avoid "mock the world" scenarios where you are creating a mock for everything in your system. Sometimes it's better to test against actual resources if you can.
- Remember that 100% code coverage does not equate to 100% quality software.
- Adhering to testing practices doesn't have to devolve into fanaticism. Test-first (writing tests before writing the code) is just as good as Test-after (writing the code first, then the tests) as long as you test before releasing, or pushing to Production.
Testing can show the presence of errors, but not their absence.
Learn how to write resilient, quality code
Many, many years ago, I stumbled upon Bertrand Meyer's Eiffel) programming language, and his Design by Contract concept of preconditions / postconditions. The idea that each method or function should validate the inputs it requires (preconditions), and the output it returns (postconditions). That concept really stuck with me, and I've strived to use it in every language I write code in. Sometimes a language has built-in support for this, and sometimes you can use a library, or you can write your own code to do this.
Developer: "Here's some water."— Product Hunt (@ProductHunt) May 7, 2018
Learn Object-Oriented Programming
I mentioned this in my previous article. Here are a list of terms and patterns I would encourage looking into:
But then learn Functional Programming too
Learn about different software design principles
- Single responsibility principle
- Open/closed principle
- Liskov substitution principle
- Interface segregation principle
- Dependency inversion principle
Learn about software design patterns
Learn the terms and concepts
There's a lot of terms, concepts, and abbreviations in this industry. Try learning some of them, or look up any you hear but are unfamiliar with. Here's a few to start with:
Become a Polyglot
I've mentioned this in a previous article, over the years I've utilized several programming languages in my software solutions, systems, and deliverables. Here's a snap-shot:
That list grew for several reasons:
- An employer (or instructor) decided upon a language/technology I had no say in
- I learned a new language/technology because I thought it would help my career or marketability
- I learned a new language/technology because I wanted to avoid the pain/tedium of another language/technology
- I learned a new language/technology because I found it to be interesting or fun.
I consider myself a programming language aficionado, and love learning new programming languages. Whatever your reasons end up being, learning more than one language/technology is good for your brain. You'll find that learning a technique in one language will improve your skills with another language. It will round-out your knowledge and make you more desirable to potential employers.
But use what works for you
For your day job, you should strive to work with what makes you the most happy. Life is short. Why waste it working with a language or technology which makes you miserable, or causes you stress. The effects of cortisol are too damaging to your wellbeing and health. Move on to something which gives you satisfaction and less grief.
Checkout the Awesome lists
These are curated lists for various programming languages or technologies, usually found on GitHub. Very useful if you're trying to find out if there's a particular library for the language you're using. You can try starting with GitHub's "awesome" topic, or use this search site AwesomeSearch, or try this site too, Awesome Repos. Here are some I like:
Attend Local Community Meetups
Try attending as many local meetups and events as you can.
The local technology and programming community is thriving here in Tampa. You just have to look around. The Tampa Bay Technology Forum (@TheTBTF) is a big one.
Most communities have a corresponding group on Meetup.com. Meetups are a great way to find user groups and meet new people. Check out the technology meetups here in the Tampa Bay area. Below are the ones I sometimes attend:
- Tampa Hackerspace
- GDG Tampa Bay
- Tampa Bay Data Science Group
- Tampa Bay AWS User Group
- The Tampa Ruby Brigade
- Tampa Bay Tech Events
- Tampa Bay Python
- Suncoast iOS
- Tampa Bay Internet of Things Developer Group
- Barcamp Tampa Bay
- Tampa Bay Hadoop Users Group
- Tampa Bay Apache Spark Meetup
Meetups can come and go over time, so remember to occasionally check the website for new ones. Here are some other good ones:
- Tampa iOS Meetup
- Ignite Tampa Bay
- Pasco Python Meetup
- Tampa Bay UX Group
- Tampa Bay Cocoheads
Tampa is also trying to cultivate a Startup culture. I used to attend a few of the Startup-related meetups.
If you're not from Tampa, check out the meetups and events in your city.
Attend Local Conferences and Events
Lanyrd used to be a great resource for conferences, though I am not sure of it these days. Eventbrite is another good source to find tech events in Tampa. Here are some future events to look out for:
- 2017-Nov-08: Microsoft Power BI: Dashboard in A Day Roadshow
- 2017-Nov-10: 14th Annual Tampa Bay Tech Awards
- 2017-Nov-11: DevFest Florida
- 2017-Nov-12: Visual Studio LIVE!
- 2017-Nov-14: TECH Talk
- 2018-Feb-12: Techstars Startup Week Tampa Bay
- 2018-Feb-24: SQLSaturday
- 2018-Mar-17: Orlando Code Camp 2018
- 2018-Apr-25: Front-End Design Conference
- 2018-Oct-??: BarCamp Tampa Bay 2018
I am always on the look-out for local or nearby conferences and events. Sometimes your favorite programming language may have a nice one-day event nearby. Ruby used to have MagicRuby in Orlando and Ancient City Ruby in St. Augustine. Elixir also hosted ElixirDaze in St. Augustine last year, and ElixirConf in Orlando last year.
Local Job Market
Tampa has many .Net and Java shops. There is also quite a bit of mobile here (iOS / Android). I find it interesting to observe how the local trends change over time. Before Microsoft's .Net hit the scene, Delphi) was very popular in the Bay area. I used to keep track of all of the Delphi shops. Now, they either do not exist, or have transitioned to a different technology.
Sometimes you may feel at odds with the local job market. Especially when you want to get a job in a technology or subfield which is not popular here. Machine Learning for example. You would have to work 100% remote, or move. In any case, that is something to think about when you are deciding what you want to work with.
I recommend you connect with a veteran recruiter or headhunter who knows the local market very well. I have 800+ connections on LinkedIn, and I would wager that 80% of those connections are recruiters or headhunters. Out of that pool, I would say Steve Turner fits the bill; Fritz Eichelberger is another. Send Steve and Fritz a connection invitation and ask them about the local job market. You probably remember Steve from Tampa Code Camp. I frequently see him at other local events all the time.
In the past, I would occasionally meet a recruiter or headhunter for lunch just to hear them talk about the local market and what opportunities were hot at that moment. It is always good to keep in touch.
On a related note, networking is probably one of the most important things you can do for your career. Do not be afraid to introduce yourself, or ask for a business card, or send a LinkedIn connection invitation. Connecting with people is important. In the beginning of my career, I had to force myself out of my comfort zone to do these things. In retrospect though, I recognized that most of my job offers came from people I already knew who I connected with previously. Either they contacted me directly about a job, or they worked at the company I wanted to get a job at.
Treat every technical conference or meetup as an opportunity to expand your network and make new connections. There has been plenty of times I have attended an event where the subject or content was not as valuable to me as the connections I made there. If you make a few connections, then the event was probably worth it!
Here are a few to consider:
Twitter is a fantastic source for developer-centric people or technologies to follow.
Websites / Podcasts / Blogs / Newsletters / Email Lists
Start a blog on WordPress, Medium, Tumblr, or GitHub. I really enjoy following Julia Evan's feed as she learns new things and illustrates her findings. Document your journey as you learn new things. Someone else can learn from you too.
It is also good for potential employers to see. Use social media (twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn) to promote your blog posts.
I started blogging back in 1998. There were a few years where I did not blog at all, and now I regret it. These days, video blogging is very effective too.
Ignore or minimize Imposter Syndrome
I think almost everyone is affected by self-doubt at certain points in their career. This ever fluid industry can seem overwhelming at times.
Try to ignore impostor syndrome, or minimize it as much as possible. Avoid negative people in your life, ignore the online trolls, the "Well, actually..." people. Believe in yourself. Remind yourself that no one knows everything, and everyone had to start from the beginning at some point.
Here are articles which talk about the subject:
- Programmer Imposter Syndrome: 6 Ways to Get Over Yours
- What is Impostor Syndrome? 6 Ways for Designers and Developers to Beat it
- How To Fight The Programmer Impostor Syndrome?
- Overcoming Imposter Syndrome to Become a Software Engineer: Jonas’s Story
- Impostor Syndrome: The One Challenge Developers Don't Talk About
- I'm a phony. Are you?
Also, check out Rob Conery's new book, The Imposter's Handbook.
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Western Area Peninsula National Park
Office of the Minister of Tourism and Cultural Affairs
Sierra Leone, Freetown
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The Western Area Peninsula and the adjacent Banana Islands have lush rainforest, pristine beaches, breath-taking, steep mountains, a unique and long-standing culture and great history. The Western Area Peninsula, which is part of the Upper Guinean Forest Ecosystem, is located on the west coast of the country and is home to roughly 1 to 1. 5 million people (20% of the country’s total population).
The Western Area Peninsula National Park (WAP-NP), occupying the centre of the peninsula, covers about 17,000 hectares of closed forest. The beauty and natural significance of WAP-NP is still well preserved. Hosting a range of hills with a highest peak at 971 meters, the forest vegetation can be described as still 60% pristine and has a manifold wildlife bordering directly to the coastline, making WAP-NP truly unique in West Africa. The Reserve is one of the eight biodiversity hot-spots of the country and hosts 80-90% of Sierra Leone’s terrestrial biodiversity. Being a non-hunting reserve, rare animals are found such as Jenkins duikers and chimpanzees. Furthermore, to its crucial role as a biodiversity hot spot, the peninsula creates an inspiring image as the ocean meets the mountainous forest. Beaches in shining white colour are an attraction for national and international visitors. In addition to the natural significance the Western Area Peninsula has also been host to a dynamic and interesting human history when Freetown, Sierra Leone’s present day capital city, was founded there as a settlement for blackmen freed from slavery in England and America. The Western Area Peninsula holds many tangible and intangible cultural resources around this history.
Justification de la Valeur Universelle Exceptionelle
The Western Area Peninsula has Outstanding Universal Value in culture, nature, and beauty dimensions. In the cultural dimension, the Western Area Peninsula plays host to the history of the ending of slavery.Freetown, the present-day capital city of Sierra Leone was established as a settlement for freed slaves from England in 1787. In 1808 the British stepped-up efforts to halt the trade which was still continuing in between Africa and other nations. The British set up a naval unit off the Sierra Leone coast and a Vice Admiralty court in Freetown to try crew of ceased slave ships; and free their human cargoes. The freed persons were settled in the Western Area. Between 1808 and 1864, about 84, 000 “liberated African” as the freed human cargoes came to be known, were freed this way and settled in the Western Area (Wyse 1989). The bulk of the “Liberated Africans were settled in the Western Area Peninsular hills that today constitute the WAP-NP. These villages still exist today retaining many of their traditional architecture, social and cultural life. The villages carry names adopted from the West such as Kent, York, Leicester, Regent, Charlotte, and Bathurst.
The second dimension of the Outstanding Universal Value of WAN-NP is the beauty the site naturally manifests as a montage of hills, forest, beaches and sea. The centre of the Western Area Peninsula is on mountains which descend directly into the sea. Summits such as Mount Sugar Loaf, Black Johnson and Pickett Hill can be ascended to offer the uniquely aesthetic environments consisting of high canopy forest shrouded in clouds and providing drinkable water, descending into the sea. When viewed from the sea the green hills, white sandy beaches and blue waters of the Atlantic personify the National Flag colours: green, white and blue.
In the third dimension of Outstanding Universal Value the WAP-NP is part of the rainforests of West Africa which have been lauded as one of the world’s most important hotspots for biodiversity. It is a biodiversity hotspot for vegetation and threatened animals as Western Chimpanzees, Red Colobus Monkeys, Black-and-White Colobus Monkeys, Sooty Mangabeys and Diana Monkeys, Leopards, Jentink’s Duikers, Black Duikers and Maxwell Duikers. There are at least 316 bird species present in the WAP-NP including the endangered species such as the Green-tailed Bristlebill and White-breasted Rockfowl (Picathartes Gymnocephalus). The white-breasted Rockfowl was recently rediscovered on the Freetown Peninsula and is considered as one of the most threatened birds in continental Africa. An endemic toad (Cardioglosus aureolli) is also present on the Peninsula. More than 2000 species of plants occur in Sierra Leone, of which about 74 species and one genus are endemic.
Criterion (iii): It is significant as a key turning point in history when freed slaves settled at the Peninsula. In 1787, with the help of British philanthropists, the ‘Province of Freedom’ was established on the Peninsula for around 400 freed slaves from London. A second wave of 1,100 freed slaves from Nova Scotia arrived to the Peninsula in 1792 and joined the original settlers to found the settlement of Freetown which is now Sierra Leone’s capital city and the oldest urban municipality in Africa. The British were later to acquire the Peninsula as one of its colonies in 1808, and used Freetown as a base from which to fight the slave trade for half a century. Numerous slaves were released from captured passing slave ships and settled in Freetown. These freed slaves along with the original settler population gradually amalgamated to create a single ethnic group, the Krio, with its own language (also called Krio). The role of Krio in the acceleration of the modernization process in Africa is severally documented in such works by John Hargreaves (1958), Martin Kilson (1969), J.F.A. Ajayi (1965), Kopytoff (1965) and Wyse (1989).
Criterion (vii): Only in the Western Area of Sierra Leone does the Upper Guinea Forest ecosystem manifest itself on mountains which descend directly into the sea. When viewed from the sea the green hills, white sandy beaches and blue waters of the Atlantic personify the National Flag colours: green, white and blue. Many small granite based islands lie offshore the peninsula and are inhabited with the same rich biodiversity of the mainland. The granite of the Western Area is of high quality black granite which is used in monuments locally and has been exported to the developed world for ornamentation. Despite the rapid expansion of Freetown in the post-war years, the natural beauty and significance of the Western Area Peninsula still very much remains intact. For centuries the beauty of the Peninsula and its mountains has captured the imagination of those visiting the region for many centuries. The Portuguese described the Peninsula as Serra Lyoa (the Lion Mountain), a moniker that would remain throughout British Colonial rule and would subsequently become the name of the country, Sierra Leone. As the lion mountain, the Peninsula is the only place on the West African coast where forested mountains meet the sea. A recent travel guidebook written about Sierra Leone perhaps best summarizes the amazing beauty of the Peninsula: "The Western Peninsula is […] the holiday of happiness of the ocean breeze, glorious rays, pristine beaches and cosy camp fires; rainforest reserves revealing chimps, rare birds, and picnic perfect waterfalls; the legacy of the coastal West African slave trade; and some of the best-preserved examples of the country’s Krio and Sherbro heritage."
Criterion (x): The rainforests of West Africa have been lauded as one of the world’s most important hotspots for biodiversity. These forests extend from Senegal to Togo, and are referred to as the Upper Guinean forest block. These are separated from the rest of the African rainforests by the Dahomey gap: an extension of the woodland savannah of the Sahel to the Gulf of Guinea. Because of its isolated position the Upper Guinean forest zone harbours a large number of endemic animal and plant species. Most of the Western Area Forest is classified as Guineo-Congolian rainforest of the hygrophilous coastal evergreen type. It has a closed canopy at about 30 m or more with emergent trees rising above this canopy. The drier rocky slopes and summits support low shrub forest. The laterite pans are covered by natural grassland, since the soil there is too poor to support shrub or high forest. The areas inland of the Peninsula are a mixture of farm bush and scattered grassland with small remnants of Lophira savannah. Neighbouring coastal areas support mangroves. WAP-NP contains over 50 species of mammals, of which seven are primates (five of these are threatened species: Western Chimpanzees, Red Colobus Monkeys, Black-and-White Colobus Monkeys, Sooty Mangabeys and Diana Monkeys). Other threatened mammals include Leopards, Jentink’s Duikers, Black Duikers and Maxwell Duikers. There are also at least 316 bird species present on the Peninsula including the endangered species: the Green-tailed Bristlebill and White-breasted Rockfowl (Picathartes Gymnocephalus). The white-breasted Rockfowl was recently rediscovered on the Freetown Peninsula and is considered as one of the most threatened birds in continental Africa. An endemic toad (Cardioglosus aureolli) is also present on the Peninsula. More than 2000 species of plants occur in Sierra Leone, of which about 74 species and one genus are endemic. The mangrove swamps of the Western Area are the plushest in the sub-region and declaration of the WAP-NP as a World Heritage Site could promote more interest in conservation of the mangroves as sea barriers. One such site is the Aberdeen Estuary within the city which is an Important Bird Area recognized by the Ramsar Convention, one of only a few globally located in the middle of a capital. Migratory species from Europe are a common site in the WAP-NP. The directness of the Upper Guinea Current also makes the WAP-NP an instinctive landing site for sea turtles in their reproductive cycle. The designation of the Western Area Peninsula as a World Heritage Site would be complementary to the other existing and proposed sites in the region as it would help ensure the survival of endangered, rare and endemic species more efficiently than one protected area alone. The Swedish botanist Adam Afzelius, the first of his profession in Sierra Leone, already in the 1790s recognized the Peninsula’s unique beauty and decried even then for the mechanism to be put in place to ensure the forests would be preserved for future generations. Colonial documents from the British herbaria in Kew, throughout the 1800s describe the Peninsula as having "from a scientific point of view” forests and species of “extraordinary interest.”
Déclarations d’authenticité et/ou d’intégrité
The management of the forest reserve is responsibility of the Forestry Division of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food Security (MAFFS). The reserve was declared in 1916 and gazetted a non-hunting forest reserve in 1973. Due to the expansion of Freetown after the civil war and the subsequent encroachment into the Northern part of the Forest Reserve, and the significance of WAP-NP as a freshwater reserve for Freetown, the conservation of WAP-NP has been identified as an issue of National Security by His Excellency the President of Sierra Leone. In 2011 Government approved a revised demarcation line and protection mechanism and in February 2012 the former forest reserve was upgraded as the Western Area Peninsula National Park. Government has recently ordered the establishment of a Presidential Task Force to ensure to longer-term environmental protection of the Reserve. The Task Force consists of the Ministry of Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries (MAFFS), Ministry of Lands, Country Planning and Environment (MLPCE), Environmental Protection Agency-Sierra Leone (EPA-SL), Ministry of Electricity and Power (MEP), Ministry of Culture and Tourism, and the Office of National Security (ONS). Current debates about the establishment of a Protected Area Authority will also enhance the management of the reserve including biodiversity and wildlife research and law enforcement.
The touristic assets of the Western Area Peninsula are managed by the department of culture and the National Tourist Board of the Ministry of Tourism and Culture and the hosting communities. The cultural assets are managed by the hosting communities. Contributions are also made by local tour companies, communities, Non-Governmental Organizations, and individuals. The present system is working well as long as the political will is available, while still leaving room for ample improvements.
The recognition WAP-NP as an UNESCO World Heritage Site will significantly contribute to the conservation and protection of the forest reserve, the wildlife and its human history heritage. As one of the least developed countries in this world, internal means for conservation and management of its natural beauty is difficult to be leveraged by government in Sierra Leone. Therefore external resources have to serve in support of conservation and management duties. The recognition as UNESCO World Heritage would boost international awareness and increase opportunities for sourcing funding for government and supporting actors of civil society. Such funding could potentially derive from; the World Heritage Fund, the African World Heritage Fund, IUCN and carbon-financing through REDD+. Furthermore it will help expand the tourism industry on the Peninsula and contribute to conservation in the form of eco-tourism or as climate-friendly tourism. Increased tourism flows will have positive impacts on job creation.
Comparaison avec d’autres biens similaires
There are currently no designated World Heritage Sites in Sierra Leone. There is one in the neighbouring country of Guinea, and none in Liberia. The WAP-NP is similar to Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve in Guinea and Côte d.’Ivoire, and Taï National Park in Côte d.’Ivoire; which are existing World Heritage Sites. All three parks are home to populations of pygmy elephants, chimpanzees, and Diana monkeys, and are part of what was once contiguous primary forest across West Africa. As they are all in the same eco-region, the three parks have many species in common, but as they are located in areas of different weather patterns and topography, they each support a different assemblage of species. It is critically important to protect multiple populations of species in order to preserve genetic diversity and account for potential natural disaster or population collapse. The uniqueness of the Western Area Peninsula is the interaction of natural and aesthetic beauty with cultural heritage. There are parks where culture and nature are closely linked: e.g. Huanglong Scenic and Historic Interest Area. It is difficult however to compared it with WAP-NP in its complexities. | <urn:uuid:0534a821-b6fe-43bc-840d-dcd42c9f3a35> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://whc.unesco.org/fr/listesindicatives/5741/www.unesco.org/fr/prospective | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279933.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00122-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.921957 | 3,374 | 2.15625 | 2 |
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For the first mile we had the most horrible travelling over stony ridges, when we crossed a large Creek coming in from the S α Westward having steep banks, and sandy bed the banks thickly clothed with Casuarina, a few Tea trees, and Flooded Gum. very soon after crossing this creek we again came upon stony ridges, but to our surprise of Whinstone formation, or Phonolite, this rock continued for about two miles in an uninterrupted ridge parrallel with the river and the Creek we crossed when we again came upon fine flats, and the Creek turned off to the Southward497. at 8 miles we again crossed another fine creek, with Casuarina banks, and sandy bed coming in from the S α Westward, soon after crossing this and travelling over a very fine country we came upon Limestone, and not half a mile distant from this again upon Granite, and camped upon a ridge of Whinstone on the right bank of the river, while singularly enough directly opposite on the left bank was Limestone498 in irregular strata forming almost cliffs; while in the bed of the river be=tween the two was Sionite. here the river was very much narrowed between the two rocky banks, but having a great depth of water, extending several hundred yards in length, much finer Timber was remarked during to days stage, but still nothing very large, consisting principally of the narrow leaved Iron bark - Box - new Gum αc - it is singular too how intimate is the connection of certain characters of vegetation with the Geological Formation of a country, during the whole time and distance of the Whinstone ridges, the Brigalo Scrub again made its appearance, and as soon as we again emerged upon Granitic soil it left us. The river to day turned about a good deal sometimes going for a mile to the Westward, then again turn=ing suddenly up to the Northward, then back again to the Westward, but I believe our medium course may be taken at about N.W. by W. Night Cloudy.
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A further distance of nine miles up the Burdikin was accomplished to day, the first five miles between the river, and the last Creek499 we crossed yesterday, which for this distance ran parrallel with the river in about a N W course, and about half to a mile back. our route lay for the most part between the Creek, and a narrow strip of Whinstone which sometimes cross[es] us, and was horrible travelling for both Horses α Bullocks when at 5 miles we crossed it and travelled along the bank of the Burdikin
Leichhardt’s “Camp of the 3 rocks”. McLaren placed this on Lolworth Creek at GR 155 020 on the Dotswood 1: 100,000 map 8158. However, the watercourses in the area of their campsite – Lolworth Creek, Hann Creek and the Burdekin River - are complicated by basalt dykes and other outcrops. McLaren was therefore not sure of the exact site of their camp of 12th April, although from Gilbert and Murphy’s accounts it seems more likely they had actually camped on the south bank of the Burdekin. Murphy (Sprod 2006: 50) recorded that they had camped “at a beautiful spot on the river bank. The Burdekin here presents to our view an immense reach of water which to the right of our camp forms a cascade and rushes furiously over the majestic piles of granite. To our left and opposite view the strata of Limestone formed like an ancient amphitheatre covered with various fossil impressions”.
They had crossed Little Sandy Creek shortly after leaving New Gum Camp; this must have been the watercourse that “turned off to the Southward”.
This limestone was full of fossils. Leichhardt must have taken samples, some which survived the expedition, as one of these (a coral) was described as a new species (Cyathophyllum Leichhardti) by the Reverend W.B Clarke of Paramatta, Sydney (Leichhardt 1847: 212). Murphy described the limestone strata as being “formed like an ancient amphitheatre” (Sprod 2006: 51). | <urn:uuid:089f254a-27c2-40fa-abee-ed7137f459ef> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/wml/collections/zoology/john-gilbert/diary/diary-page.aspx?itemnumber=141 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280266.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00498-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964518 | 927 | 2.125 | 2 |
“I’m sorry. But that is simply not enough money. The boat is worth more than that.”
“It is all that we have. And more than we offered the last time.”
“It is not enough,” the man repeated stubbornly.
Cassandra was getting irritated. This man was denying them the boat for the second time in a row. She could tell that Charlotte was getting restless and the tensions were growing between them by the second. Without noticing it, her hand had tightened on the hilt of her sword.
“Since the money is not enough,” Charlotte stepped in, “how about we offer you our horses and the money in trade for the boat?” When the dock master remained silent, eyeing her, she continued. “The horses would be worth a good price at the market. They are fast, strong and in very good health.” She was trying to persuade him before her sister got out of hand.
At this, the dock master lifted his head a little, seeming more interested in the offer. “What would two young women such as yourselves want to do, sailing off into the dangerous waters?” There was suspicion in his tone of voice. “You’re not from around here, are you?”
“The fact that we are women should not affect what we can and cannot do,” Cassandra said simply. “All we are interested in is the boat. There is no rule that states that a woman cannot control a boat.”
“What is your business in sailing off? Why is this so important to you? Very seldom do people offer up such a great price for one boat,” the dock master said.
“Indeed. And very seldom does a dock master question other people’s business. I do believe it is not in your job description. Our business is our own and I would appreciate it if you keep your nose out of it,” Cassandra replied, her temper rising.
The dock master eyed Cassandra and Charlotte with suspicion. He leaned down to his apprentice, who was standing beside him quietly, and whispered something in his ear. The boy nodded and ran off out of sight. The dock master straitened up and looked to the two sisters with a smug look on his face.
Cassandra didn't let up her grip on the hilt of her sword. She knew he was up to something. On her right, Charlotte shifted a little, looking from her sister to the dock master and back again. “So how about it?” Cassandra said. “The money and our horses in exchange for the boat.”
The dock master looked around. “Just one moment,” he said. He seemed amused by something but it was difficult to figure out just what it was. Cassandra was about to speak when the dock master’s apprentice came trotting into view. Behind him were two guards. One of the guards was portly. He looked to be the moronic one of the two. He seemed to follow in the other one’s footsteps somewhat, and was looking to the two sisters with a confused look on his face. The other guard, thinner than the first, looked as if he had something smelly underneath his nose. He seemed to be boss of the other, yet stupid in his own way. He glanced over at his partner as they came into view before turning to the sisters on the dock. The dock master looked at the two sisters with a satisfied look as his apprentice approached with the guards right behind him. He looked to the guards before turning to Cassandra. “Now perhaps you would like to tell me, what is your business in sailing off into the dangerous waters all on your own?”
Again, Cassandra repeated that it was none of his business. She could see that the two guards were starting to catch on to the situation and were shifting a little. They were watching her intently and it did not help the situation one bit.
Charlotte looked to her sister. She was starting to get a little scared of what Cassandra might do. She knew very well that when her sister felt cornered, she was capable of doing anything, and would not think twice before unsheathing her sword on the two guards and the dock master.
Cassandra didn't move from her position and stood her ground. The dock master shifted a little and sighed. “Alright, are you going to tell us, or should I ask you? Are you two pirates?” his voice was rising somewhat. He was as stubborn as a mule.
At this, the two guards exchanged glances before looking expectantly at the sisters. Charlotte had realized that the very thing that she didn't want to happen was happening...and she was starting to doubt that she and Cassandra would get out of this.
Cassandra knew that this wasn't going to get them anywhere. Whether she admitted to being a pirate or not, it would end the same way. She was aware of the fact that she had to loosen her grip on her sword, but her anger wouldn't let her. “We are not pirates,” she said, not taking her eyes off of the dock master. She did not like lying, but she had to. There was no other way.
“With all due respect, miss. I was not born yesterday. Now, I am going to ask you one more time, and this time I would like an honest answer. Are you two pirates or are you not?” the dock master demanded his voice more harsh than before.
“You can ask that question a hundred times and the answer is going to remain the same,” Charlotte stepped in. She was getting into her defensive mode as well. “Whether you believe us or not, the answer will not change.”
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Michael D. Miller / Kevin Clarke
Operetta Foundation / Operetta Research Center
24 July, 2020
A performance of Lehár’s Clo-Clo from the Ohio Light Opera – filmed live at the theater in Wooster – has been released on DVD by the Operetta Foundation. It’s a production by Steven A. Daigle in English (based on a new translation by Mr. Daigle), and it’s conducted by Steven Byess, i.e. the OLO standard team. The title role is taken by Caitlin Ruddy, Benjamin Dutton sings Maxime de la Vallé. Michael D. Miller has summed up what makes Cloclo unique. He allowed the Operetta Research Center to re-print his account.
With the deaths, in the final years of the nineteenth century, of the four leading composers of the “golden age of Viennese operetta”—Johann Strauss, Franz von Suppé, Karl Millöcker, and Karl Zeller—it looked as if operetta in Vienna had run its course. When, in 1905, Hungarian-born Franz Lehár submitted his score for Die lustige Witwe to the Theater an der Wien, it was accepted, but with the expectation that it would be nothing more than a temporary schedule filler following the unexpected early closing of Leo Fall’s opera Der Rebell. The unparalleled success of The Merry Widow across the globe jump-started the so-called “silver age of Viennese operetta” and placed Lehár in the forefront of the city’s purveyors of operetta.
Over the next two decades, he penned more than two dozen works for Vienna, including titles still well known—Der Graf von Luxemburg, Zigeunerliebe, and Eva—and some all but forgotten: Der Mann mit den drei Frauen, Der Sterngucker, and Die blaue Mazur.
Toward the end of the teen decade, facing strong competition from Emmerich Kálmán, Leo Fall, and Oscar Straus, Lehár’s star had begun to fade. But, as fate would have it, star operatic tenor Richard Tauber had a love for operetta and, in 1920-21, essayed the role of Józsi in Lehár’s 1910 operetta Zigeunerliebe.
In 1922, at the Theater an der Wien, he took over the lead tenor role in the initial production of Lehár’s Frasquita. Singer and composer began a friendship that would last until their deaths in 1948. Lehár, at the beginning of his career, had set his sights on opera composition and longed, throughout his operetta years, to take the genre to loftier heights.
Tauber’s rich voice was the perfect vehicle. Beginning with Paganini in 1925, and with the tenor always in mind, Lehár composed six lushly romantic operettas, all but one with unhappy endings: Der Zarewitsch, Friederike, Das Land des Lächelns, Schön ist die Welt, and Giuditta. But … before embarking on this decade-long journey, he took one last fling at the lighthearted, pre-war stylings of Die lustige Witwe.
This was the time at which George Gershwin was starting to jazz-up Broadway, and Maurice Yvain was doing the same for Paris. Lehár biographer Stefan Frey reports of a 1923 interview of the composer by Cleveland Plain Dealer drama critic William F. McDermott, who asked Lehár for his opinion on jazz. “Good! Good! Very good! … As a matter of fact, I am writing some jazz myself … a new operetta, especially for America. The world will be astonished.”
Lehár, obviously with an eye on the international market, infused the score of Cloclo with a panoply of 20th-century dance rhythms—foxtrot, shimmy, blues, java, tango, onestep—that played out side-by-side with the more traditional waltzes and marches.
The show opened on March 8, 1924 at Vienna’s Bürgertheater for a 12-week run. A year and a half later, the Johann Strauss-Theater mounted a new production of the work, retitled CloClo, in which the composer, doubling down on his commitment to jazz, replaced the glorious waltz duet for the leading couple with a sultry foxtrot, “Come, the Night Belongs to Sin.” (To read Kurt Gänzl’s essay on Clo-Clo click here.)
London welcomed Clo-Clo for a 95-performance run in 1925, but America did not see the work until a production by the Chicago Folks Operetta in 2009 and Ohio Light Opera’s full staging in 2018. The 1935 Austrian film Die ganze Welt dreht sich um Liebe (The World’s in Love), starring Marta Eggerth, made use of several tunes from the operetta. | <urn:uuid:fc97a318-c6c3-4052-83ff-bba9e68ee51f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://operetta-research-center.org/lehars-cloclo-dvd-live-ohio-light-opera/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00466.warc.gz | en | 0.904905 | 1,134 | 1.578125 | 2 |
Religion and society are the integral themes of Colonial Spanish America. Religion becomes the nexus for much of what has been treated as political, social, economic, and cultural history during this period. Society is just as inclusive, allowing the reader to meet a variety of individuals-not faceless social groups. While some familiar faces and voices are included-namely those of Spanish conquerors, chroniclers, and missionaries-other, less familiar points of view complement and complicate the better-known narratives of this history. In treating Iberia and America, before as well as after their meeting, apparent contradictions emerge as opportunities for understanding; different perspectives become prompts for wider discussion. Other themes include exploration; military and spiritual conquest; and the formation, consolidation, reform, and collapse of colonial institutions of government and the Church, and the accompanying changes in the economy and labor.
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At least 70 endangered steelhead trout were killed last Sunday when backup generators failed to restart Lake Cachuma water pumps affected by a widespread PG&E power outage across the Central Coast. The two electric pumps operated by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation feed water into Hilton Creek — a tributary of the Santa Ynez River — when lake levels are low, as they are right now. They were activated for the first time last year when the creek was similarly dry.
Of the 70 young fish that died, 60 were less than three inches long and 10 were between three and 12 inches. Adult steelhead reach up to 36 inches in length. One of six Pacific trout species, steelhead spend most of their lives out at sea but return to fresh water to spawn. Their offspring, called smolts, typically remain in fresh water for about a year before heading to the ocean.
Steelhead were listed as an endangered species in 1997 and have been the subject of many multimillion-dollar recovery efforts throughout Southern California in recent years. Before Bradbury Dam was built across the Santa Ynez River in 1953 to create Lake Cachuma, it wasn’t unusual to see some 20,000 mature fish running up and down the river to spawn. Nowadays, according NOAA Fisheries officials, the number of observed steelhead has dropped to 0-20 adults per year.
Power to the Hilton Creek pumps — and approximately 150,000 other PG&E customers — was cut at around 9:30 p.m. due to a “flash” at a Morro Bay substation. According to Lynnette Wirth with the Bureau of Reclamation, backup generators activated as expected but the pumps failed to restart. Reclamation and Cachuma Operations and Maintenance Board (COMB) staff restored water to the creek around seven hours later and notified the appropriate agencies about the incident, Wirth said.
Pete Lucero, a spokesperson for the Bureau of Reclamation, said the pumps are designed to funnel 6-8 cubic feet of water into Hilton Creek every second. “When the pumps are running, they are greased, oiled, and adjusting weekly,” he said. “Otherwise, they are checked annually.” It’s not clear how long they had been on before the outage took place.
Janet Gingras, COMB’s interim general manager, said in an emailed statement, “If the Bureau’s facility disruption caused harm to any fish, we at the Cachuma Operation and Maintenance Board (COMB) are devastated. We have spoken with representatives of the Bureau of Reclamation and are confident that the Bureau will be making every effort to reduce the likelihood of this type of incident in the future.”
For its part, the law enforcement arm of NOAA issued this statement through spokesperson John Thibodeau: “We appreciate [the Bureau of Reclamation] notifying us about the power interruption that caused a loss of fish. Our Fisheries enforcement office is investigating the incident, which is normal protocol when threatened or endangered fish are taken,” he said. “I can’t go into more detail at this time.” | <urn:uuid:9320b70b-c377-4d76-b13e-5794bb98ce1d> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.independent.com/news/2013/jun/28/70-endangered-steelhead-killed-during-power-outage/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279189.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00054-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96842 | 659 | 2.640625 | 3 |
We are indoors a lot. In fact, the EPA has found the majority of people spend 90% of their lives indoors a building, where air quality can be 2–5 times poorer than outside.
Bad indoor air quality can have an adverse impact on your well-being. That’s why it’s important to identify the signs of poor air quality in your house, what leads to it and how to fix it.
If you’re looking for ways to tell if your Cottonwood home’s air quality is bad, our team of heating and cooling pros at Connolly Electric & Mechanical can help. We’ll review the troubles you’re having and provide plans to make your home’s air cleaner.
What Causes Indoor Air Pollution?
When you picture pollution, you generally think of smog. But ordinary items in your residence can make pollution by the gases or particles they leak into the air.
These origins include:
- Carbon monoxide
- Cleaning, personal care and hobby products
- Combustion appliances, like a furnace or stove that uses gas
- Dust, animal dander and pollen
- Excessive moisture
- HVAC equipment
- Recently placed flooring or carpeting
- Secondhand smoke
- Man-made building materials, like furniture made from pressed wood
Indoor air pollution can be intensified by not enough ventilation in your house, as well as hot temperatures and humidity. Modern homes are firmly sealed for energy savings, which is a plus for your heating and cooling costs but not so great when you have to have additional fresh air in your home.
Can Poor Indoor Air Quality Make You Sick?
Because people are affected differently by indoor air pollutants, you might have symptoms now or later on. Your symptoms could alleviate when you leave your residence but worsen when you return.
Some of the most regular immediate issues involve:
- Scratchy eyes, nose or throat
If someone in your home deals with allergies or asthma, their symptoms might be worse.
Repeated or prolonged exposure may lead to respiratory diseases, heart disease or even cancer, the EPA warns.
Other Signs of Low Indoor Air Quality and How to Improve It
Your residence will also signal that its air isn’t as clean as it could be.
- Your residence is very dusty, notably near the vents. It’s common for your house to get dusty during the week, but a lot of dust around your air registers should be troubling. There are other particles within dust, like dust mites, pollen and pet dander, that can impact your health, especially if you have allergies or asthma. A premium air filter or whole-home air filtration system can help cut down on dust and other aggravating pollutants.
- Your home has hot and cold spots. Your HVAC system could be failing to maintain correct temperature and humidity percentages. Or there could be air distribution troubles as a result of your home comfort unit or ductwork. Our Connolly Electric & Mechanical specialists can pinpoint the trouble and recommend repairs or replacement.
- Your home’s air appears too dry or too wet. We recommend keeping your house’s humidity levels around 30–40% for optimal comfort. If your home isn’t humid enough during cold temperatures, your skin and throat might feel scratchy. You might also experience colds and other respiratory illnesses more regularly. If your home is too humid during the summer, you might have higher mold and mildew growth, both of which are harmful to your health. You can fight these issues with a whole-home humidifier or dehumidifier, which partners your home comfort unit to provide balanced humidity throughout your home.
- Your residence has lingering odors. You could detect a musty scent when you come home. Or a cooking smell that just won’t go away. Since it’s not possible to keep your windows open 24/7, a whole-home ventilation system can get your home smelling good again. It substitutes musty inside air with fresh outdoor air.
Other strategies the EPA advises doing include keeping your house smoke-free, adding carbon monoxide alarms and servicing your home comfort equipment. Routine furnace maintenance and AC maintenance helps keep your equipment clean and efficient and may even help them last for a longer amount of time.
We Can Help Boost Your House’s Indoor Air Quality
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JACKSON, Miss. — Mississippi’s top health official says he has received threats from people who are spreading lies accusing his family of receiving payments for him urging the public to get vaccinated against the coronavirus.
Mississippi has seen a rapid increase in cases since early July, driven by the highly contagious delta variant of the virus and the state’s low vaccination rate. State health officer Dr. Thomas Dobbs has been imploring people for months to get vaccinated.
On Tuesday, Dobbs wrote on Twitter that he has gotten threatening phone calls from people repeating unfounded “conspiracy theories” involving him and his family.
Dobbs says one lie is that his son, who is also a physician, receives a World Bank-funded kickback whenever Dobbs urges people to get vaccinated. In Dobbs’ words: “I get zero $ from promoting vaccination.”
MORE ON THE PANDEMIC:
— Georgia Gov. Kemp orders National Guard to overwhelmed hospitals
— US outbreaks force early reversals on in-person learning at schools
— ACLU sues over South Carolina ban on school mask mandates
— Dr. Fauci recommends hospitals, doctors use more antibody treatments
HERE’S WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING:
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — A poison control hotline in Alabama is fielding increasing calls about possible poisoning with ivermectin poisoning, an animal de-wormer that doctors are warning people not to try as a home remedy for COVID-19.
The Alabama Poison Information Center at Children’s of Alabama has fielded 24 ivermectin exposure cases so far this year, of which 15 were related to COVID-19 prevention and treatment. It says there have been five other calls seeking information about ivermectin.
By comparison, the center had six total calls involving the de-wormer in 2019 and 12 in 2020.
Federal regulators have approved ivermectin to treat people and animals for some parasitic worms and for head lice and skin conditions, but the drug is not approved for COVID-19. The human and animal formulations are not the same, and doctors say it is dangerous for people to self-dose, particularly with the large quantities given to animals.
JACKSON, Miss. — More than 1,000 out-of-state medical workers are starting to deploy to 50 Mississippi hospitals to help with staffing shortages as the state deals with a surge of COVID-19 cases.
Gov. Tate Reeves said Tuesday that 808 nurses, three certified nurse anesthetists, 22 nurse practitioners, 193 respiratory therapists and 20 paramedics have been hired under 60-day contracts that could be extended if needed.
The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency awarded contracts to four companies of the 19 that submitted proposals when the state sought medical workers earlier this month.
Mississippi will pay $80 million for the contracts, and Reeves says he expects the federal government to reimburse the state for the entire expense.
DALLAS — Texas hospital systems are increasingly closing off-site emergency rooms and moving their staff to hospitals to help with a flood of COVID-19 cases.
Memorial Hermann Health System in Houston closed three suburban emergency rooms in Kingwood, Spring and Sienna to help ease the burden on its hospital staffs. St. Luke’s Health in Houston closed its Conroe ER to help meet surging admissions at its hospital in nearby The Woodlands.
Texas Health Hospital Rockwall near Dallas has moved the staff at its satellite ER to the hospital’s ER, and it also put up an air-conditioned tent outside to accommodate 10 to 15 overflow patients.
Of the 7,258 ICU beds in Texas hospitals, 6,746 were filled Wednesday. Of those, 3,592 were COVID-19 cases.
HOUSTON — The National Rifle Association has canceled its annual meeting, which had been set to be held next month in Houston, due to concerns over the pandemic.
The NRA’s meeting had been set for Sept. 3 through Sept. 5 and would have been attended by thousands of people taking part in social gatherings and other events on acres of exhibit space.
The organization said Tuesday it made the decision after analyzing relevant data regarding COVID-19 in Harris County, where Houston is. Houston, like other Texas cities and communities, has seen a jump in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations due to the highly contagious delta variant of the coronavirus.
The NRA says impacts from the virus “could have broader implications” for those attending if the event went forward.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A summer coronavirus surge driven by the delta variant is again straining some California hospitals, particularly in rural areas, but the trend shows signs of moderating and experts predict improvement in coming weeks.
The pattern is similar to the infection spikes California experienced last summer and much more severely over the winter, when intensive care units were overflowing. But this time the surge has come without the shutdown orders that previously hobbled California’s economy, businesses and schools.
The state epidemiologist Dr. Erica Pan said Tuesday that “we’re hopeful, definitely.” Pan says the state’s latest projection “does look encouraging that we are plateauing and or peaking.”
More than 8,200 people are hospitalized for COVID-19 across California, with nearly 2,000 in intensive care. Deaths have begun increasing and state models project nearly 2,000 people will die within the next three weeks.
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio State University will require all students, faculty and staff to complete the full coronavirus vaccination process by Nov. 15.
School President Kristina Johnson said Tuesday that the requirement is based on the decision by the Food and Drug Administration’s decision to grant full approval to the Pfizer vaccine.
Ohio State is one of the country’s largest universities and a major employer in the state capital, Columbus.
Johnson says the vaccination requirement coupled with Ohio State’s mask mandate provides “the best chance of continuing to enjoy the traditions that we love throughout the academic year with higher vaccination rates in our campus community.”
O’FALLON, Mo. — Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt has filed a lawsuit seeking to stop school districts from enforcing mask mandates, requirements aimed at slowing the spread of the coronavirus.
A spokesman said Tuesday that the lawsuit names Columbia Public Schools along with the district’s Board of Education and board members, but is a class action lawsuit that “would apply to school districts across the state that have a mask mandate for schoolchildren.”
The new school year began Monday in several districts across the state, and with the delta variant causing a big spike in cases, hospitalizations and deaths, more than four dozen districts are requiring students, teachers and staff to wear face coverings.
The lawsuit cites the low death rate among school aged children.
SALEM, Ore. — People in Oregon, regardless of vaccination status, will once again be required wear masks in most public outdoor settings — including large outdoor events where physical distancing is not possible — beginning on Friday.
The outdoor mask mandate, which was announced Tuesday by Gov. Kate Brown, is part of a growing list of statewide measures implemented in Oregon in an attempt to slow the rapid spread of COVID-19. There was already an indoor mask mandate.
Over the past month coronavirus cases, fueled by the highly transmissible delta variant, have overwhelmed hospitals in the Pacific Northwest state.
Health officials say part of the reasoning for the new mandate is because they are seeing instances where cases are clustering around outdoor events, such as music festivals.
On Monday there were just 47 adult intensive care unit beds available in the state, with 937 COVID-19 patients hospitalized. Currently more than 90% of the state’s ICU and hospital beds are full.
MILWAUKEE — Milwaukee’s mayor has ordered mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations for city employees. Mayor Tom Barrett made the announcement Tuesday afternoon. The requirement applies to general city employees as well as temporary employees and interns.
“We have an obligation to provide a safe workplace for all employees, and a vaccinated workforce is part of that,” Barrett, a Democrat, said in a news release.
The mandate will go into effect Sept. 1. Unvaccinated employees will receive up to two hours of paid leave to get vaccinated and will have until Oct. 29 to produce proof of vaccination. Workers who won’t comply will face 30-day unpaid suspensions. Workers who continue to refuse to get the shots will be fired. The city will provide exemptions from the shots based on medical or religious reasons.
The mandate doesn’t apply to unionized city workers. The mayor’s office says the city is negotiating with the unions on how the requirement will apply to members.
OMAHA, Neb. — The health department for Nebraska’s most populous county has asked the state for approval to issue a countywide mandate requiring people to wear face masks indoors.
If approved, the order would apply not only to businesses, but to schools within the county’s borders, as well.
Douglas County Health Director Lindsay Huse told the County Board on Tuesday that she had sought the approval for the mask order from the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services.
Huse said the order, if approved, would require masking until community transmission drops below the substantial category and until eight weeks past the time a COVID vaccine is approved for children between the ages of 5 and 11.
WASHINGTON — Dr. Anthony Fauci is urging hospitals and doctors to make greater use of antibody treatments for people infected with COVID-19 as hospitalizations and deaths rise due to the spread of the delta variant.
Infusions of antibody drugs can keep patients who are experiencing mild-to-moderate symptoms from getting so sick they need hospitalization, the government’s top infectious disease specialist said at Tuesday’s White House coronavirus briefing. They also can serve as a preventive treatment for people exposed to someone with a documented infection.
Three antibody products are available under emergency use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration, and they’re free thanks to taxpayer support. But Fauci says they remain “a much-underutilized intervention.”
However, demand for the drugs increased five-fold last month to nearly 110,000 doses, with the majority going to states with low vaccination rates. Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has been among the patients treated with antibodies.
NEW ORLEANS — Louisiana’s largest hospital system, Ochsner Health, says it’s requiring all employees to get vaccinated against COVID-19 by Oct. 29.
The announcement came a day after the Pfizer vaccine received full approval from the Food and Drug Administration. The state health department announced 3,814 new coronavirus cases statewide.
There were also 121 confirmed deaths reported Tuesday, along with 18 listed as “probable.” Hospitalizations ticked up again, increasing by 18 to 2,856.
“This policy is the right thing to do to protect our employees, their families, and our patients,” Ochsner CEO Warner Thomas said.
Ochsner Health, based in suburban New Orleans, say 69% of its employees are already vaccinated.
JERUSALEM — Palestinian health officials say they have received 500,000 doses of coronavirus vaccine donated by the United States through the COVAX initiative, a global vaccine-sharing initiative distributing vaccines to poorer nations.
The Moderna vaccines arrived Tuesday at a Palestinian health ministry facility in the city of Nablus; 300,000 were kept for vaccinating Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, while 200,000 were sent to the Gaza Strip.
At least 729,000 Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip have received a single dose of coronavirus vaccine, and more than 442,000 people have received two doses, according to health ministry figures.
The Palestinian Authority has been working to secure its own vaccine supplies, in large part through the U.N.-backed COVAX program. Vaccinations lag considerably compared to neighboring Israel, which has fully vaccinated more than 5.5 million of its 9.3 million people.
LANSING, Mich. — A Catholic school in Lansing has lost an appeal over a Michigan policy that required masks on young kids earlier in the pandemic.
Although the statewide mandate ended, some counties are stepping in and requiring masks in schools when the 2021-22 year starts.
Resurrection School and some parents sued in 2020, saying a state mask order violated the free exercise of religion, among other objections. A judge, however, refused to intervene and issue an injunction.
The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed that decision Monday.
U.S. District Judge Paul Maloney “correctly concluded that because the requirement to wear a facial covering applied to students in grades K–5 at both religious and non-religious schools, it was neutral and of general applicability,” the court said.
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Traveling is a great way to escape the monotony of everyday life. But it can also be an expensive endeavor. With so many costs involved in traveling, you might want to consider specific ways to save money on your next trip.
On top of that, there is no denying that traveling can be stressful. But it doesn’t have to be if you’re well-prepared. To help you get started, here are nine things to do before you go on a long trip.
Check your contact information
Ensure that you have all the details for everyone you plan on meeting while staying at your destination. First and last names, phone numbers, and email addresses should all be written down in a convenient place where they can be accessed at any time (like in your smartphone’s notepad). This includes travel companions or colleagues; while some people may prefer to keep their personal life separate from work, having this information readily available ensures you won’t get separated during busy terminals or trains (or worse yet, get stranded somewhere).
Pack your travel essentials
Part of minimizing stress is to anticipate things that can go wrong. If you’re packing light, make sure to include the following in your luggage: a book or kindle (besides your phone and laptop), universal adapter (if necessary), eye mask (for sleeping on planes/trains), earplugs (again for sleeping on said transportation), tissues for when nature calls, hand sanitizer, lip balm, and snacks. This way, you won’t have to worry about being uncomfortable while you wait around for your next flight or train.
Check the weather forecast
Nothing is more disappointing than having an epic wardrobe planned out only to discover it is unbearably hot or cold where you’re going. Make sure to check the weather forecast in your destination ahead of time and confirm that your clothing choices will be appropriate (and comfortable).
It’s recommended that you receive a vaccination checklist at least two weeks before traveling internationally, especially with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provides updated information and travel guidance on its website for people planning to travel during the global pandemic. If you are feeling sick, CDC recommends not traveling at all. And you should take precautions like wearing a face mask and washing your hands frequently.
Go for a checkup
Going for a checkup before a long vacation is important because it can help to ensure that you’re healthy and safe while you’re away. By catching any potential health issues early on, you can reduce the chances of getting worse while you’re on your trip. Additionally, many travel insurance policies require proof of a recent checkup to be covered. Thus, if you’re planning on traveling soon, make sure to visit your dentist or doctor for a checkup. You’ll be glad you did!
Choose a travel-friendly bag
With so many options available these days, it can be hard choosing the right one. You may want to go with something light or medium-sized with multiple compartments. Other suggestions include having a padded laptop sleeve (for an airplane or train ride) and anti-theft technology (like slash-proof straps, RFID blocking card slots, etc.).
Taking along a smaller bag with the essentials is always helpful when you’re out exploring or simply wandering around. You can find bags designed for this purpose, but don’t forget to include something comfortable to wear if it’s hot outside—like flats or sandals.
Check visa requirements and have your documents handy
Visa requirements are often country-specific, so make sure to check whether you need one before showing up at your destination. Keep in mind; visas expire, so if it’s been more than six months since you received yours, it’s best to apply for a new one.
Make sure to have a copy of all your travel documents (in case you misplace the originals). These should include flight itineraries, passport information, hotel reservations, and more. If you’re traveling with someone else, it is also recommended that both parties have a copy of each other’s personal document just in case. You never know what might happen during your travels so being prepared is vital.
Pack travel guides
The best way to avoid getting lost or missing out on important landmarks, restaurants, and bars is by packing something like Rick Steves’ guide books before leaving for your destination! Often, these can be found at major bookstores and airports, and they contain everything you need to know about exploring a city—including where to eat, sleep, play, and go sightseeing.
Prepare your medication and first aid kit
Accidents do happen no matter how careful you are, so it’s always better to be safe than sorry when visiting new areas of the world. That means bringing enough sunscreen as well as any medications you take regularly or might forget at home (like those little orange allergy pills, for instance) as well as a first-aid kit to deal with minor scrapes and cuts.
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PVC Roofing - Flat Roof Replacement
What is PVC Roofing?
PVC Roofing is a flexible single ply roofing membrane made using special UV inhibitors to provide a proven long-term roofing solution. The permanent, watertight heat-welded bonds are stronger than the material itself, which feature woven fiberglass scrim reinforcement. PVC Roofing membranes provide high performance advantages and exceptional resistance to harsh environments at a lower life cycle cost.
PVC roofing systems provide a clean, quick and economical installation with high resistance to fractures, weather elements, extreme temperature ranges and many contaminants. This system provides high strength against breaking and tearing, and resists excessive elongation and sheet deformation during pvc flat roof replacement, installation or recovery. Used successfully for over 45 years in the industry, PVC Single Ply Membranes hold the longest track record of successful installations among all types of thermoplastic single ply roofing membranes.
This type of roof is available in different colours like white grey or black and it can be manufactured in wide rolls to minimize the number of seams. The colour options are not for aesthetics but reflectivity. A white reflective roof easily exceeds the energy star reflectivity rating performance requirements.
PVC Roofing - The Eco-Friendly Choice
PVC is one of the most durable waterproofing options. It is a product that has proven it can serve its purpose for a longer period of time without need for replacement. This type of roofing also has an established end-of-life recycling program that converts the old membrane back into roofing membrane products. More in the way of environmentally friendliness, 47% of the PVC resins raw materials are derived from petroleum, less than any other single ply membrane. The remaining 53% are derived from salt. As with most roofing materials, it is naturally fire retardant and will self extinguish with the removal of the flame source.
Pros and Cons of PVC Roofing Systems
- Strength – PVC roofs are very strong.
- Resistant to chemical damage. Animal fat from grease vents on restaurants can damage an asphalt-based roof and some other single-ply roofs, but it won’t hurt a PVC roof.
- Fire resistance – PVC roofs have a good fire-resistance rating. This can be intensified by using different types of roof insulation under the PVC.
- Great wind uplift resistance. This is important if you live a high wind area or have a high-rise building.
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SECTION 4.- Articles paying 25 per cent.
Art. 17. The following articles shall pay 25 per cent. on their appraisement:
Steel in bars or plates, un worked, gross weight
..each.. Ilarness: For two horses, with silver ornaments.
..pair.. For one horse, with silver ornaments..
..(1).. For two horses, with or without ornaments of ordinary metal. ..pair.. For one horse, with or without ornaments of ordinary metal..
.: l.. For wagons, carts and plows
do... Closed carriages with four wheels, elevated seat for driver, and lined with silk in. side
...ch.. Same, not lined with silk
do.... Open carriages : Four wheels, silk lining.
.do.. Four wheels, not lined with silk.
.do.. Two wheels, all classes ...
ulo. Four wheels, ordinary, wooden bed, for passengers
.do. Varnished leather for shoes, holsters, carriage ornaments, and other uses, with paper packings..
-pound.. Call skin leather for shoes or carriage awnings, paper packings. Leather of sheepskin, goat, chamois, morocco, buttalo, sole leather, upper leather,
and other hides, without hair and without varnislı, not specitied in this code, with paper packing.
.... pound.. Carriage axles and springs, net weight..
.do. Elastic of all kinds, for shoes
...yard. Tin, in bars or plates, gross weight
...wt. Thread of wool, for embroidery or wearing, including weight of packinus.. poud.. Thread, yarn, or wicking of cotton, crudo or bleached, for wearing, gross weight...
- pound.. Thread, yarn, of red cotton, gross weight.
..do... Thread, yarn, of other colors, gross weight
.do. Sheet tin, gross weight..
..do.... Pianos: Grand.
.each.. Half grand...
do.. Upright, all classes..
.do Square, triple stringed
.do.. Sonare, double stringed
do... Square, single stringed or monochord.
do. Empty sacks, for exporting fruits of the country.
SECTION 5.- Articles paying 70 per cent.
Art. 18. The following articles shall pay 70 per cent. on their principal value according to original invoices: Empty boxes, work-boxes, anel card-cases of all classes; music-boxes; belts of classes not specitied; pencil drawings and prints of all classes, with or without frames; small statues, of whatever material, for ornaments; flasks, or liquor-cases of all kinds; musical instruments, not specified in the second part of this section; llat tombstones; picture frames of all sizes; false jewelry, not specified in the second part of this section; clocks, for wall or table, or watches of metal or of false gold or silver.
Art. 19. The following articles shall pay 70 per cent. on their appraisement:
Peads, bngles, garnets, &c., of glass or metal, including weight of packing.. pound..
.do. Other materials Comforters of knit wool, pure or mixed, with or without ornaments for women and children, with weight of packings (card board)
-pound Olive oil: In bottles, gross weight..
...cwt.. In any other packing.
-gallon.. Linseed oil
do... Animal oils, for machinery
..do... Naphtha, petroleum, gasoline, and kerosene, gross weight.
..cwt.. Accordions : Of more than ten keys, with bells or other accessories
each.. The same, without bells
do.. Up to len keys, with bells or other accessories
do... The same, without accessories. Cotton ornaments for clothes, with weight of packing.
-pound.. Woolen or mixed goods for clothes
.do... Puro or mixed silk for clothes.
do.. Brandy of all classes and in whatever packing, up to 20° Beaumo
.bottle.. Straight or curved needles for sacks, & c..
M.. Cloak neodles
do... Steel needles of all numbers and classes for dressmakers and tailors.
..do.... Alembics (stills) of all kinds, net weight...
pound.. Wire: Bronze or copper, of all sizes, gross weight.
cwt.. Iron, ordinary, for lattice work, gross weight.....
.do... Iron, finer, for sieves, cards, and other uses, gross weight
do.. Iron, for flowers.
..do... Iron, steel, all sizes.
do.. Gilt or platei, in small boxes or reels, for cords and other uses, gross weight,
pound Cotton covered, for dressmakers or florists, gross weight
.. pound.. Silk covered.
do.. Priests' white gowns, worked or embroidered
.each.. Priests' whito gowns, of muslin or cotton lawn, or linen, with or without ornaments,
each Pins, gross weight..
.pound.. Brussels carpets, rough or felted, gross weight.
.do. Imitation Brussels carpets, stamped, gross weight.
.do.. Imitation Brussels carpets, rough or woven, gross weight..
.do.. Cotton prepared for lining of clothes or other uses...
do.... Almonds : With shell, gross weight.
do.... Without, gross weight.....
.do. Mortars of marblo, stone, or glass, up to 15 inches diameter
.each.. The same, of larger diameter.
..do... Pillows: Feathers
.. pound.. Hair or wool.
..o... Curry.combs, iron...
Of wool, or mixed with cotton, plain, worked, black or colored, ordinary up to 36 inches wide
- yard.. Same, medium and fino
.do. Of wool and silk, black or colorod, up to 36 inches wide.
.do... Canary seed, gross weight...
......cwt.. Cruet stands :
Of German silver, copper, bronze, or other metals, plain, of from four to seven cruets..
......cach.. Same, worked
...do... Of wood or papier-maché, of from two to four cruets
.do.... Same, from five to seven cruets..
.do.... Rings: Metal or composition, with or without stones..
..gross.. Of double, plaqué, or other kind, medium tine..
do... Of wood, bone, or gutta-percha, for napkins
.dozen.. Of metal or ivory, for napkins...
..do.... Spectacles: Withont mountings or springs, most ordinary kind
do.... Without mountings, with or without springs, with handles of deer hori or buf. falo
..dozen.. The same, with handles of tortoise-shell, pearl, or metal, gilt or plated ...do... Or little mirrors, with mountings of iron, white or yellow ructal, deer or buffalo horn, or steel, of two glasses, ordinary
..dozen.. Same, tine
.do.... Same, of four glasses, ordinary
..do.... Same, of four glasses, fine
.do. Of wire gauze, for the road
do. Or monocular lenses, with handles of buffalo horn
each.. Double, ordinary
..do.. Double, tine
..do Field and marine glasses, all sizes.
do... Fish-hooks, all sizes, gross weight.
- pound.. Candle extinguishers : With springs ...
-pound.. Glass or crystal
..do.. Aerometers or alcoholometers: Of glass...
dozen.. Of metal.
.do... Stirrup leathers
-- pair.. Ear drops :
Of metal, paste, glass, rubber, or other materials, ordinary. gross of pairs..
..do... Of double or other metal, medium
do.. Packing cloth, ordinary, for bales up to 40 inches wide.
- yard.. Razor-straps: Of one or two faces.
dozen.. Up to four faces ...
.do... Mats : Of oilcloth, for decanters or other uses, assorted sizes
.o., Same, stamped or printed..
do.. Of wood, tin, carul-board, or matting, painted, assorted sizes, for decanters or bottles
dozen. Waitera or trays of papier-maché, wood, or other materials except metals and por. celain, gross weight.
- pound.. Satfron, dry or in oil, with weight of packing
.do... Sugar: Refined, gross weight.
....cwt.. Other classes, inferior Or Pancla (crude sugar).
Balances of one plate:
.each.. Same, weighing more than 50 pounds
..do.. Or platform scales, weighing to 500 pounds..
.do... Same, weighing up to 1,000 pounds
.do.... Same, weighing up to 2,000 pounds.
.do.. Same, weighing up to 3.000 pounds
.do. Same, weighing up to 5,000 pounds.
lo.... Common, of two plates, all sizes, gross weight
pound.. Or steel yards....
..each.. Buckets: Of painted wood
dozen.. Of tin or zinc.
.do... Iron, of all classes..
.do. Bandanas of cotton, gross weight..
-pound.. Bathing tubs: Of tin or zinc, painted or varnished.
.each.. Hip baths.
.do. Whalebone, or imitation
-ponnd.. Varnish, all kinds, gross weight..
..do... Cancs: Wooden....
dozen.. Other materials
..do... With sword
do.... Dressing gowns: Of any kind of cotton
.cich.. Wool, or mixed with silk or cotton
do.... Same, covered with leather or zinc
.do... Or valises of leather, up to 24 inches long
do.. Same, larger...
..do. Of other materials, up to 24 inches long.
.. yard.. Coarse (coating), all colors, to 70 inches wide
.do. Wax ("Betun"), paste or liquid for shoes, gross weight
pound.. Street door keys, not of iron, brass, or copper....
kr088.. Balls : Marlile, billiard.
pound.. (Marbles), of stone, wood, glass, or composition, small, for children's games. M.. Pumps or piping of iron, zinc, or tin, for pipes or barrels
..each.. Same, ot wood.
dozen.. Same, of glass, grogs weight
pound.. Tassels, fringe, cords, and braid of silk, pareor mixed with weight of packing.do.... Same, of wool, pure or mixed, with weight of packing
...do.... Same, of cotton, with weight of packing
..do.... Boots : For men, calf or patent leather..
. pair.. Riding, of all classes...
10 3 50
-pair.. Same, without elastic.
.do. Of silk, with or without elastic, for women..
.do.. Of cloth or leather, for women
do... And shoes, low, all kinds, for childreu, 1p to 17 centimeters inside .do. Same, for inisses, to 22 centimeters inside
dozen.. Glass or metal, covered or not, for travelers
.do.. Glass, ordinary, for wines or liquors..
.do.. Demijohns, glass, all sizes, covered or not..
.do. Buttons: Porcelain, including weight of cards.
do.. Pearl shell.
do.. Other materials.
.do. Pitch or tar, common, gross weight..
.cwt.. Brushes, all kinds, painting, gross weight..
-pound.. Brooches (hooks), assorted, for clocks.
gross. Brooches, hooks and oyes, all kinds, with weight of cards.
pound.. Crape (Burato), of silk, up to 26 inches wide.
..pound.. Same, or imitation, manufactured with weight of packings
.do.... Bridles : Of ordinary leather, single reins
(lozen. Same, double roing..
do. Same, with bosses or other ornaments of metal, single reins Sanie, with donble reins.
.do. Cacao (cocoa), gross weight
.cwt.. Chains : Bronze, gross weight..
. pound.. Iron, gross weight...
. (wt. Chests or coflers, iron, strong, all kinds, gross weight
pomnd.. Socks: Cotton, ordinary, for men.
dozen.. Same, medium and tine.
do.. Cotton, for children, to 5 incies foot
lo. Cotton, youths, to 8 inches in the foot..
do.. Wool, for children, to 5 inches foot
do.. Wool, boys, to 8 inches in the foot.
.co. Wool or linen, puro or mixed, ordinary, for men.
.co. Same, medium and tine....
do. Silk, pure or mixed, for men..
do.. Same, for children, to 5 inches foot
..do. Same, for youths, to 8 inches foot..
..do.. Calico, cotton, gross weight ....
pouvai.. Shoe horng, of deer horn, bone, or metal.
..duzen.. Drawers: Cloth or cotton, knit.
.do.... Cloth or half wool, knit
rlo. Linen, pure or mixed..
.do. Silk, pure or mixed
.co. Cotton, white, with or without linen bosom.
do. Same, of ordinary linen
lo.. Same, superior.
lo. Flaunel or other woolen stufl.
do.... Woolen, knit, pure or cotton mixed
.do. Silk, pure or mixed
do. For youths, half the duties specified, according to the class. Bells, gross weight.......
..pound.. Candlesticks :
Of gilt or plated metal, or plaqué, plain or worked, up to 8 inches high, ordinary, for one light.....
28 11 20
..dozeu.. Same, up to 12 inches high.
do.. Same, up to 18 inches high..
5 00 10 00 20 00
3 50 7 00 14 00
dozen. Sanie, up to 12 inches for two lights.
co.... Same, up to 18 inches for two lights
.lo... Same materials, fine class, for one light, up to 8 inches high.
do... Same, up to 12 inches high
... Samne, up to 18 inches high
.do.. Same, up to 8 inches for two lights
.do... Same, aj to 12 inches for two lights
..do.. Same, up to 18 inches for two lights
.do.. Same material for more than two lights. These will be appraised, adding one
third of the preceding appraisement for each light more than two, according
to class. More than 18 inches high for one light..
--pair. More than 18 inches for two lights
..do... More than 18 inches for three or five lights. With porcelain, crystal, stone, or metal bottoms, two lights..
..lo. Same, for three or five lights
co.... Same, for more than five lights...
..do... Cinnamon : With weight of bag,
-pound.. Ordinary, with weight of bag
.do... Spangles, embroidery, &c., false, gilt or plated, with weight of packing. .do.... Canvas of cotton or linen for embroidery, up to 36 inches wide.
Cloth, with or without capes, with or without woolen or cotton lining....each..
.do.. Or ponchos, waterproof, with or without hoods or leggins, ordinary quality,
each Same, superior quality
..each.. Of any silk stuff, for women..
.do.. Crayons, black or of colors, for painting.
gross.. Masks, wire, for fencers
dozen.. Tortoise shell, in shell or leaf
.. pound.. Tablecloths: Of damask or other silk..
.square yard.. Of woolen stuff, shag or felt
.do... Of any kind of cotton..
..do.... Cardboard: Ordinary
.cwt.. Varnished, or parchment, for visiting cards, diplomas, &c.
-pound.. Coats : Cloth or cassimere, without embroidery, for military
..each.. Same, embroidery, with gold or silver..
Of wool, pure or mixed with cotton, ordinary, up to 30 inches wide. ..yard..
..do.. Sarne, medium fine, up to 30 inches wide
.do... Same, medium fine, up to 70 inches wide
co... Of wool, fine, up to 30 inches wide..
do... Of wool, fine, up to 70 inches wide..
..do... Of wool, supertino, up to 30 inches wide.
..do.... Of wool, supertine, up to 70 inches wide.
do.... Cassinette and inixtures: Of wool aud cotton, simple, up to 30 inches wide
do.... Same, up to 70 inches wide
.do. Covers of lead, for bottle corks Chasubles :
of any silk stuff, puro or mixed, without embroidery or jewels, with ordinary lace (galones)
..ench.. Of lasting or brocade, without embroidery or jewels, with false lace......do.... Same, with embroidery, jewels, fine or false, and fine laco..
..do.... Beilsteads: Bronze, gross weight.
-pound.. Iron, with metal or bronze ornaments.
..do. Iron, ordinary, gross weight.
..cwt.... Brushes: Tooth, bone handle, ordinary
dozen.. Tooth, ivory or pearl handles
..do.... Planes, for carpenters
-pound.. White wax : Pure or mixed, not manufactured, gross weight...
..do.... In candles.. In flowers, images, &c., gross weight..
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By Jamie Johnson
What is securitisation?
Securitisation is where a collection of assets are put into a tradeable asset (a security). The underlying assets in the tradeable asset usually provide some flow of income (receivables). The main example of securitisation is the securitisation of mortgages, where mortgages are bundled together to create mortgage-backed securities.
Who is involved in securitisation?
There are four main actors involved in securitisation: the originator, the issuer, investors and the arranger.
The originator is the actor who creates the initial assets. For example, the originator may be the bank who offers mortgages that then undergo securitisation.
The issuer is a special purpose vehicle (SPV). This entity will have a different legal identity to the originator and will isolate the receivables that then provide payments.
Investors are actors who actually purchase the security from the issuer so that they can get the receivables. These investors might be financial institutions, insurance companies, pension funds, hedge funds and so on.
The arranger is the actor who ensures that the securitisation is structured in the most efficient way for the originator. They will also mitigate any risks involved from the security.
How is securitisation structured?
Typically, securitisation uses a SPV, as mentioned above. This SPV will issue bonds for the company to investors. The SPV will use the money raised from this bond issuance to buy the assets from the original owner of the assets to be securitised. The SPV will then pay the purchase price for these assets. Then the SPV will use the income from the assets they have bought to repay investors who bought bonds in the SPV.
How are the risks of securitisation mitigated?
From the originator’s perspective the main risk is that there will not be much demand for their securities whereas from the investors’ perspective there is a risk that the security is not worth purchasing. Consequently, there is a need for the arranger to reduce the risks for both parties. There are four main ways that the arranger mitigates the risks involved in securitisation: they conduct tranching, they do credit enhancement, they take out liquidity support and they hedge.
Tranching is where the securities are divided into different categories depending on their risk profile. More senior tranches will have a lower interest rate attached but will also have a greater priority of payment.
Credit enhancement is where the credit rating of the securities involved is improved so that investors who have a low risk tolerance (such as pension funds) are willing to purchase the security.
Liquidity support is where the originator or a third party will create a loan facility to the SPV. This is to avoid any liquidity risks for the SPV. These risks could arise because, for example, the receivables that the SPV is expecting are paid late. In order to meet the SPV’s payment schedule, it could then take out debt to ensure that investors are paid what they are owed.
Hedging is necessary because the receivables may be denominated in one currency. If this currency depreciates relative to the currency that investors want, they may risk losing money. Thus, the SPV will normally hedge using derivatives.
What are the advantages of securitisation?
There are three advantages of securitisation: it provides lenders with more liquidity, it allows the original creator of the assets to remove them off their balance sheet and it can provide investors with a less risky source of income.
Securitisation provides lenders with more income because it allows them to make previously non-tradable assets into tradable ones. Thus, they are able to raise capital from a greater range of investors. Importantly, this means that lenders have a greater capacity to make loans. In practice, this means that everyday borrowers will experience lower interest rates, as banks are more willing to lend out more capital.
The fact that original assets can be removed from the balance sheet also means that lenders avoid having a significant amount of exposure to the assets in question. Thus, they take on less risk and can potentially underwrite more loans.
Securitisation also may be less risky for investors because of the nature of the assets to be securitised. Generally speaking, mortgage repayments provide a more reliable source of income than things such as dividends.
What are the disadvantages of securitisation?
There are three main disadvantages of securitisation: there is a risk of a default on any underlying loans associated with the security, there can be a lack of transparency around the assets and it can be an expensive way of raising capital.
There can be a risk on defaults on the underlying loans associated with a security if there is a general economic downturn. A downturn may mean that, for example, people default on their loans and so the SPV will be unable to repay investors.
There can also be a lack of transparency around the quality of the underlying assets, as the investors in the SPV will not have made the original loans underlying their investment. Importantly, this means that they might be exposed to an extremely risky investment. This is particularly the case because banks making the loan may have an incentive to make riskier loans, as they are not as exposed to the risk of those loans once they have securitised them.
Securitisation may be an expensive way of raising capital if the assets involved are particularly complex. This is because there could be particularly high legal fees involved in setting up the SPV.
Before the global financial crisis, banks actively securitised mortgages which had poor (subprime) credit ratings. This meant that there was a great deal of exposure for investors who purchased the bonds of SPVs. Once the default rate in the US increased, the receivables for investors declined. Ultimately, this helped to reduce the amount of liquidity for banks, as they had taken on a great deal of exposure to the mortgage market (Lehman Brothers for example had purchased over $100 billion in mortgage-backed securities in 2007). The resulting loss of liquidity for financial institutions was part of the cause of the global financial crisis. | <urn:uuid:eaa5b8c3-27c8-46ea-9226-91032d135c36> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.commerciallawguides.com/post/securitisation | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00269.warc.gz | en | 0.955805 | 1,308 | 2.84375 | 3 |
An end-to-end digital transformation strategy creates a path to deliver a truly student-centric learning experience in all aspects of campus life.
I’ve worked in tech for a long time, in particular in the education industry, and there is no doubt in my mind that to deliver a successful student experience in today’s rapidly evolving technology landscape, education institutions must embrace a comprehensive digital transformation strategy. A step-by-step approach to developing a digital transformation strategy can help ensure each aspect of the student experience is fully understood and from there, the best options from a world of digital possibilities can be selected.
Placing students at the top of the priority list
It’s imperative that the needs of students and their education, rather than those of the institution, be given top consideration. An end-to-end digital transformation strategy must take into account the student experience before, during, and after their time at the school.
To assist educational institutions in developing their digital transformation strategy, we’ve identified six key steps we believe can help create a path to success for both students and educational institutions.
Step 1: Make recruiting interactive and engaging
Your website is the face of your school. A robust website is a powerful recruiting tool to help potential applicants get a real sense of what it’s like to attend classes, live on campus, interact with students and professors, and engage in activities at the school. However, to optimise the opportunity, webpages must be easy to find, easy to navigate, and provide clear descriptions of university programs and life on campus. They must be engaging, interactive, and enable personalised experiences.
Technologies that support chat sessions, and provide opportunities for voice, text, and email exchanges with recruiting staff, professors, and current students, can also help. Easy access to campus experts to answer questions and provide insights to prospective recruits can help them better imagine a successful life on campus.
Step 2: Proactively improve student retention
Every college and university is challenged with reducing dropout and failure rates. Identifying struggling students so they can be offered academic, emotional, psychological, and other support services before they reach the point of no return is key. Data analytics can help identify which students need help. Analytics software uses a baseline of successful students to pinpoint those who are experiencing difficulties. In cases where it makes sense, nudge technologies, such as personalised text reminders and chatbots can then be used to encourage better academic performance.
Step 3: Create a true campus community
A student-centric technology platform that supports social learning is a good way to build a campus-wide community and help students feel they are supported in their environment. Students can use the platform to:
• Interact with one another and collaborate on class projects
• Exchange ideas and information with professors
• Get the latest department and school news
• Access information about campus resources, clubs, groups, and activities
The ability to connect, communicate, and collaborate through the channels available in the central platform helps nurture students’ sense of emotional safety and reduce feelings of isolation. Additional applications can also be integrated into the platform to broaden its capabilities, for example students can:
• Chat during audio and video conferences
• Reserve resources, such as a study room or library book
• Explore on-campus dining options and menus
• Receive updates and personal assistance for help desk tickets they’ve opened
Step 4: Support flex learning styles and locations
Traditionally most college and university students attended in-person classes ― for the most part. Now, every school must ensure it can support students’ preferred ways of learning. In our post-pandemic reality, some student will want to return to in-person learning. However, some will want to continue learning from their apartments, their dorm rooms, a library, or another location, with the flexibility to watch a recorded lecture when it fits their schedule. Others will want to take advantage of hybrid in- person and remote learning.
Today’s institutions’ digital transformation strategy must support all these options and include technologies that allow the school to be as agile and responsive as possible to evolving student preferences as well as unexpected circumstances, such as severe weather events, and on campus emergencies.
Step 5: Safety and security first
There is no doubt that creating a safe and secure environment for students and staff is a formidable task. The good news is technologies can be used to keep everyone physically safe and their information digitally secure.
When evaluating the best ways to protect individuals on campus, technologies such as panic buttons, safety hotlines, mass notification systems, and alarms monitored through a campus-wide safety dashboard are good options. Technologies can be implemented indoors and outdoors, so everyone on campus always has fast and easy access to at least one alert mechanism.
From a cybersecurity perspective, it’s important to develop a multi-dimensional plan that protects networks and data from cyberattacks. A good cybersecurity plan includes authentication, authorisation, auditing, and administration. The network must also safeguard personally identifiable information in a way that meets privacy regulations, such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) in the U.S., or the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the European Union.
Step 6: Staying connected
The final step is to determine how technologies can be used to help students stay connected with the school, and with each other, after they’ve graduated.
Staying connected with the alumni is a great way to help ensure former students remain ambassadors for the school and its programs, long-term. Helping alumni stay in touch with one another allows former students to benefit from networking opportunities and friendships for years to come. It also extends and strengthens their view of the value the school played in their life.
A win/win digital transformation strategy
As educational institutions embark on their digital transformation strategy it’s important to evaluate technologies that stimulate student success as well as provide educational institutions with a foundation for growth and security into the future. I am confident the six key steps outlined above offer a holistic approach to creating a digital transformation strategy that sets the stage for a win/win for students and educational institutions alike. To find out more about how we are helping educational institutions develop their digital transformation strategies, check out our comprehensive Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise solutions for the education industry. | <urn:uuid:d2713486-e8a4-48d1-a169-5dd956cbcf3c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.al-enterprise.com/en/blog/education-digital-transformation | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00074.warc.gz | en | 0.935487 | 1,301 | 2.046875 | 2 |
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In some specific cases, the Nuclear and Radiological Emergency Plan for the Belgian Territory provides for the implementation of direct protective measures for the population. In case that an emergency situation is quickly developing (fast kinetics) and might lead within 4 hours to an exposure above the an intervention guidance level, the reflex phase is put into operation.
During such a reflex phase, the warning, the sheltering and the listening are put in place in a predefined reflex perimeter, under the competence of the Provincial Governor, pending the implementation of the federal and provincial cells and committees. The protective measures for the population are taken without awaiting the CELEVAL evaluation or the decisions by COFECO. Once the crisis cells and committees are installed and operational, the Emergency Director of the authorities will decide to cancel the reflex phase and to replace it by the proper alert level; hence, the above described organisation becomes operative.
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The simple act of swallowing a pill, even if that pill contains no active ingredients, has the power to affect a patient’s symptoms – especially when it comes to depression and pain management. This is known as the placebo effect, and it’s the reason clinical trials must compare new treatments with ‘fake’ treatments in order to demonstrate that they actually work. There’s also the less well known nocebo effect, in which a person experiences negative effects that are unrelated to any active ingredient in their treatment.
The exact mechanisms behind the placebo and the nocebo aren’t well understood, but it’s clear that the expectations of the recipient are important. Tell someone that a pill will cure their back pain, and they may experience pain relief, even if that pill was full of sugar. Tell the same person that the pill will give them headaches, and they are more likely to report headaches than if you had said nothing.
Analyses suggest that the placebo effect may be becoming more powerful. One study looked at 84 placebo-controlled trials of painkillers that took place between 1990 and 2013. They found that at the start of those trials, the real painkillers outperformed the painkillers by about 27%. Yet by 2013, they only outperformed the placebo treatments by about 9%. The absolute effectiveness of the real treatments didn’t change much over this time period, so this effect couldn’t be explained solely by painkillers becoming less effective. Rather, the placebo effect seemed to grow in strength. However, this isn’t the only interpretation possible.
Though the placebo effect seemed to grow in size, the effectiveness of the painkillers did not. The benefits of a placebo effect should apply even when taking the active compound. However, the data shows the placebo effect ‘stealing’ effect size from the real drug. This has made some people sceptical, as they argue that the effects should be additive or synergistic – that is to say, if the placebo effect was really becoming more powerful, then the absolute effect of the painkillers should also be becoming more powerful.
As a counterpoint, not all drugs work synergistically. In clinical trials, it is generally assumed that the placebo effect and the effect of the drug add up, meaning that the drug effect minus placebo effect equals true drug effectiveness. However, this isn’t necessarily true, especially when the placebo effect and a drug are both tapping into the same biological mechanism – the release of natural painkillers (endorphins) for example.
Assuming the placebo effect is getting stronger, what could be the cause? The researchers conducting the aforementioned analysis found an interesting clue: the placebo effect only seemed to be growing in the United States, not in other countries. This could be because the US is one of the few countries where drugs may be advertised directly to consumers. This means that improvements in drug marketing over the years could more directly impact expectations of consumers and thereby boost the placebo effect. Another suggested explanation is that drug trials conducted in the US tend to be larger, longer and more expensive. The ‘glamour’ of such trials might provide another route by which the strength of the placebo effect could be enhanced. Indeed, there is data suggesting that larger and longer trials produce stronger placebo effects.
Can you fool your brain? More or Less Podcast: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0bm79m2
Increasing placebo responses over time in U.S. clinical trials of neuropathic pain: https://doi.org/10.1097/j.pain.0000000000000333
Placebo Effect Grows in U.S., Thwarting Development of Painkillers: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/placebo-effect-grows-in-u-s-thwarting-development-of-painkillers
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[Twisted-Python] Control the number of parallel system calls
miles.chris at gmail.com
Wed Sep 19 07:44:50 EDT 2007
In fact the code I use to perform concurrent processing from a disk-
based request queue is available here,
On 19 Sep 2007, at 11:57, Chris Miles wrote:
> I've done something very similar. I control the number of
> concurrent child processes by simply keeping a counter of how many
> are active at any one time. The main loop that polls a queue will
> only accept new jobs if the counter is less than the configuration-
> defined limit.
> I didn't find anything Twisted-specific to limit the number of
> forked processes, but it was easy to implement in my own logic.
> On 19 Sep 2007, at 11:26, Daniel de la Cuesta wrote:
>> I am developing a video conversion server. To process the video
>> conversion I use the method "getProcessOutput" to call "ffmpeg".
>> The user upload the video using a HTTP POST and each video must be
>> converted to 8 or 10 output formats.
>> Currently, all the conversions for each video are processed in
>> parallel, what I want to do is to control the number of parallel
>> system calls to "ffmpeg". For example I only want 2 processes at
>> the same time and when one of them finishes the next process start.
>> How can I do that?
>> Is there any function in Twisted that implements that?
>> Thank you
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Traditional South African Milk Tart (also known as Melktert) has a soft buttery sweet crust pastry that is filled with creamy custard and sprinkled with cinnamon. For this version the crust is pre-baked and the filling is cooked separately on the stove before being poured into the pie crust and left to set in the refrigerator.
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What is Milk Tart?
A traditional South African Milk Tart (Melktert) is a South African dessert very similar to an English custard tart but made with more milk and fewer eggs.
It originated from the Dutch settlers who arrived in Cape Town in the mid 17th Century, and has become firmly entrenched in every South African household. You will find homemade milk tarts for sale at every School Bazaar or Church Fete. And whilst the basic recipe remains the same you will find every household has its own favourite version
This particular version of a milk tart calls for the pastry to be baked in the oven. The filling is made on the stovetop and poured into the baked pastry shells. It is then placed in the fridge to set, so there is no need to bake the filling in the oven.
The pastry is soft and buttery. In fact, it’s so soft you have to press it into the tin rather than roll it out. It has the perfect melt-in-the-mouth texture. The filling is creamy but not too sweet and is further enhanced with the light dusting of cinnamon. This version of milk tart should be always eaten ice-cold out of the refrigerator.
Some recipes (like this one) call for the cinnamon to be sprinkled on top. Other recipes call for the cinnamon to be infused into the milk. You can use different types of pastry – puff pastry, shortcrust, sweet crust. There are variations in how the filling is prepared – either on the stovetop or baked in the pastry shell in the oven. The variations are endless.
But however you make it, it is the most delicious tea-time treat and you will find it impossible to stop at ‘just one slice’.
What you will need
You will need a couple of mixing bowls for making the pastry and custard, as well as a balloon whisk. You will also need a saucepan for the custard and a 9″ loose-bottomed pie dish for baking the pastry.
This recipe will make one 9″ round milk tart.
**You can get the complete list of ingredients and full instructions for making your own milk tart on the printable recipe card at the end of this post**
For the sweet crust pastry
- Butter – you can use either salted or unsalted butter. If you use salted butter then don’t add any extra salt to the pastry.
- Sugar – this should be caster sugar if possible as it dissolves more easily into the butter than granulated sugar
- Egg – I used a large egg.
- Plain Flour – you can also use self-raising flour and omit the baking powder
- Baking Powder if using plain flour. I realise that it sounds counter-intuitive to add baking powder to pastry because we don’t want the pastry to rise like a cake. However, this is a very soft pastry and the baking powder adds lightness to it.
- Salt – only if using unsalted butter
This recipe has been created and tested at sea level where the atmospheric pressure is at its highest. If you are making this recipe at a high altitude, you may find that you should use plain flour and omit the baking powder altogether.
For the custard filling
- Milk – I used whole milk, but if you only use semi-skimmed that will be fine too.
- Butter – don’t substitute this with brick margarine – it will make the custard oily. I would also be inclined to use unsalted butter for the custard.
- Flour – used to thicken the custard
- Cornflour – mixed with the flour and used for thickening
- Sugar – caster sugar is preferable, but you can get away with using granulated sugar.
- Vanilla essence – for flavouring
- Cinnamon – for sprinkling on top of the custard.
How to make milk tart
For the pastry
This is a very soft pastry and you won’t be able to roll it. Instead, the pastry is pressed with your fingers into the pie dish before being baked in the oven.
Cream the butter and sugar together until pale yellow in colour and the sugar has dissolved. Add the egg and beat well to combine.
Sift in the flour, salt and baking powder and blend it all together.
I find it easiest to use my hands to do this. I just spread my fingers and stir the dough until it comes together in a very soft ball.
You may find you need to add a small amount of flour at this stage to prevent the dough from sticking to your fingers. Don’t add too much or the pastry will become tough. Likewise, don’t overwork the dough, just mix it sufficiently to bring it all together.
Press the pastry into a greased 9″ flan dish. Don’t try to roll it, the pastry is far too soft for that.
Place the pastry into a pre-heated oven at 190C/350F for 12 to 15 minutes until it just starts to turn golden (keep your eye on it_. Then remove it from the oven and leave it to cool.
My top tip when lining the dish with the dough is to start with the sides. Press an even layer of pastry all around the sides of the dish. Then press the remaining pastry onto the bottom of the pie dish. Doing it this way means that you won’t get a thick rim of pastry where the base of the dish meets the sides.
You will notice the pastry will be quite puffed up when you first take it out of the oven but it will sink as the pastry cools. If you are worried that it is too puffy, place a clean tea towel on top of the cooled pastry and press it gently down.
For the filling
Mix the flour, cornflour and sugar in a bowl and beat in 2 eggs until all the lumps are gone. Set aside.
Heat the milk, vanilla and butter in a large saucepan until it just comes to a boil and the butter has melted. Remove from the heat.
Take about 1/2 a cup of the hot milk and stir it into the egg and flour mixture. Then stir all the egg and flour mixture into the hot milk in the saucepan.
Mixing a little of the hot milk to the flour mixture prevents lumps from forming.
Return the saucepan to the heat, and let it simmer (stirring continuously) until it thickens. When it is thick enough it will start to make ‘blooping’ sounds, and it will look as though air bubbles are escaping.
Pour the mixture into the baked pie shell, and spread it evenly to the edges.
Sprinkle with cinnamon, let it cool, and pop it into the fridge to chill. The filling will thicken when it is cold and you will be able to cut slices with a sharp knife.
To easily remove the milk tart from the baking dish, stand it on an upturned glass or even on a can of food. The base will remain on the upturned glass and the outer rim will drop down.
Some people like to eat milk tart warm, but I find it is still too runny. For me, the only way to eat it is chilled, straight from the fridge.
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Freezing and storage
Unfortunately, a milk tart is not suitable for freezing as the texture of the custard will be affected by freezing and defrosting.
You can store the milk tart in a covered container in the refrigerator for up to 4 days.
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- Peppermint Crisp Fridge Tart. A traditional South African dessert made with condensed milk, biscuits and crunchy mint chocolate.
- Homemade cream puffs. Classic choux pastry cream-filled buns.
- Koeksisters – traditional South African delicacy
- Chelsea Buns
- Blackberry and apple pie
Recipe – Milk Tart
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For the sweetcrust pastry
- 2 ounces / 60 grams butter
- ½ cup / 100 grams caster sugar
- 1 large Egg
- 1 cup / 140 grams plain all-purpose flour or use Self-Raising flour and omit the baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking powder if using plain flour
- ½ teaspoon Salt optional
For the filling
- 2 cups 480 ml milk
- 1 tablespoon / 15g butter
- 1 tablespoon / 10g flour
- 1½ tablespoon / 15g cornflour / cornstarch
- ½ cup /100 grams sugar
- 1 large egg
- ½ teaspoon vanilla essence
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon to sprinkle
For the sweetcrust pastry
- Pre-heat oven to 190°C/375°F
- Cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. The mixture should be a pale yellow colour and all the sugar should be dissolved.2 ounces / 60 grams butter, ½ cup / 100 grams caster sugar
- Add the egg and beat well1 large Egg
- Sift the flour, baking powder and salt and add to the mixture. Mix well to combine. The mixture will be very soft and quite sticky.1 cup / 140 grams plain all-purpose flour, 1 teaspoon baking powder, ½ teaspoon Salt
- Grease a 9" pie dish and press the mixture evenly to cover the sides and base.
- Cover the pie dish with cling film and rest in the fridge for 30 minutes to allow the pastry time to settle, and prevent shrinkage as the pastry cooks
- Bake the shell for 12 to 15 minutes in a pre-heated oven until light golden brown.
- Remove from oven and allow to cool.
For the filling
- Combine the flour, cornflour and sugar together in a bowl. Beat in the egg until you have a smooth runny paste. There shouled be no lumps. Set aside.1 tablespoon / 10g flour, 1½ tablespoon / 15g cornflour / cornstarch, ½ cup /100 grams sugar, 1 large egg
- Pour the milk into a large saucepan2 cups 480 ml milk
- Add the vanilla and butter and bring to the boil until the butter has melted.½ teaspoon vanilla essence, 1 tablespoon / 15g butter
- Remove from the heat.
- Take about 1/2 a cup of hot milk and stir it into the egg and flour mixture. Then stir all the egg and flour mixture into the hot milk in the saucepan.
- Return the saucepan to the heat and cook gently, stirring continuously, until the mixture is thickened.
- Pour into the baked pastry case and sprinkle with cinnamon.½ teaspoon cinnamon
- Allow to cool then place into the fridge to set.
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March is a good month, though there is a tendency to grow lax at the idea of Spring, officially beginning on March 20th...because we forget the cruelty of April is lurking just around the corner.
In this lovely interlude, the counterfeit Time Lords will once again enforce Daylight Savings, next weekend actually. The back and forward changes are so close together now, that really, why do we bother? This is such an archaic thing...right up there with still using Roman numerals, which I totally do not understand. At all.
We will celebrate St Patrick's Day, though our reverence will come, not with religious fervor, but with copious amounts of beer (no accident this oasis of frivolity is in the middle of Lent). Rivers will turn green, and everyone will suddenly become Irish.
[Here's a bit of folklore: St Patrick was actually born in Wales, but was captured by pirates and taken to Ireland as a slave. He eventually escaped but later returned as a missionary...and became a legend.]
Next comes the Spring Equinox, when daylight at last equals the hours of darkness. The early flowers--bluebells and lily-of-the-valley and snowdrops and grape hyacinth and daffodils--begin to brighten the landscape. There's warmth in the sun and a tender hope in the air.
We should revel in the brief joy of March. It's a month of celebration and promise, a month when we realize, deep in our primordial memory, that we've survived another Winter, that better days are coming. We should laugh and be silly and be as mad as the Hare, or the Hatter...
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Following up from my earlier article & illustration “Who is Satoshi Nakamoto?“, here in my latest illustration, I showcase the legendary founder of Bitcoin, in battle against the Big Bad Fiat Wolf, that represents that of Central Banks.
The value of bitcoin has seen notable increases in recent months as interest in the uses and potential of cryptocurrencies spreads like wildfire. However, central banks and other government authorities in some parts of the world are sceptical or unconvinced of the potential that bitcoin holds, with some enacting policies against cryptocurrencies.
In December last year, China’s central bank moved to restrict its banks from using bitcoin as a currency, citing concerns about currency and financial stability, and law enforcement. It stopped short, however, of issuing an outright ban.
In South America, Bolivia’s central bank in June 2014 banned any currency or coins that were not either issued by or regulated through the government, a move essentially made in response to the growing popularity of cryptocurrencies.
That said, it is not all doom and gloom for cryptocurrencies. There are other institutions and individuals in the establishment related to fiat currencies, monetary policymaking and financial governance that see potential in cryptocurrencies. Could this be a shift in balance in the financial world as we know it?
Crisis Begets Opportunity
When financial turmoil hit certain part of Europe this year – the latest in a series of crises which also occurred in 2008 and 2011 – it became clear once again that government monetary policies and regulations were imperfect. For Europeans and the Cypriots in particular, the ongoing financial crisis has been a stark reminder that governments and banks can fail — and that people’s life savings can be placed at great risk and even disappear because of it.
Consequently, as an alternative to withdrawing their money out of the bank and keeping it as cash, it appears that those affected, particularly in Cyprus, may be taking a more radical approach to protecting their money and removing it from the control of financial institutions, both government and corporate.
When an initial bailout package for Cyprus was announced on March 16, all Cypriot bank deposits were at risk. A few days later – and this is likely connected – there was a surge in the value of bitcoin. From the point of the bailout announcement, the price of bitcoin rose from about USD$48 a bitcoin to about USD$75, a 1.6-fold rise. This was accompanied by an overall increase in the volumes of trades in bitcoin as well.
The illustration is a continuum from my previous illustration, Satoshi Nakamoto as a Samurai warrior, wielding the legendary Bitcoin Daishō, (matched pair of traditionally made Japanese swords).
There are observations that the increased interest in bitcoin from the public and media, coupled with the ongoing tarnishing in the reputation of “mainstream” financial institutions, has helped to enhance the credibility of the cryptocurrency. Ultimately, the reputational boost that bitcoins is undergoing reflects the growing public distrust in central political and financial institutions.
It is of great worry that the lessons of the 2008/09 Global Financial Crisis seem to have been conveniently overlooked by those running the finance industry. In this context, the shift towards decentralised instruments of finance and governance – i.e. cryptocurrencies – is an obvious one.
Gaining Expert Recognition
In addition to the masses of people, distinguished experts from the financial world are starting to sit up and pay attention to bitcoin. No less than America’s top central banker has given his cautious blessing to bitcoin, the cryptocurrency that requires no central bank. While US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said in a letter to the US Congress that the Fed “does not necessarily have authority to directly supervise or regulate these innovations or the entities that provide them to the market”, he acknowledged the view that bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies “may hold long-term promise, particularly if the innovations promote a faster, more secure and more efficient payment system.”
Bernanke is not alone in his favourable view of bitcoin. David Andolfatto, an economist and Vice President of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, one of the regional Reserve Banks that makes up the US central bank, called bitcoin “a stroke of genius”. Andolfatto thinks the existence of bitcoin poses a threat to central banks that is very good as it will discipline the Fed and central banks in other parts of the world to continue to formulate responsible policies. Failing which, people could switch to something else, as was the case in Cyprus mentioned above.
Across the Atlantic, experts from European financial institutions also say that bitcoin should not be dismissed. In a speech delivered in March this year, Yves Mersch, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank stressed that virtual currencies are an interesting phenomenon that should not be ignored despite their relatively small impact on the economy at present. He said this in relation to retail payments and interchange fees. Mersch noted that although they are still not close to being described as ‘mainstream’, cryptocurrencies have gained quite a following and are getting popular to the extent that regulators around the world are starting to take notice.
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Is the story of Jesus and the woman caught in adultery relevant to the discussion of same-sex relations?
People have sometimes referred to passages in the Gospels to encourage support for same-sex relations. Sometimes, one is left wondering what status their “argument” has. It seems to be no more than a very subjective experience - "I was reading this about Jesus. God spoke to me about what my attitude to same-sex relations should be." What are we to make of this kind of thing? We must surely ask, “What is the connection between what you read in the Gospels and what you’re saying about same-sex relations?”
This question must be asked of the story of Jesus and the woman caught in adultery. It’s a story about sex. The moment we say this, we are recognizing that this story has some relevance to the discussion concerning same-sex relations. There are, however, significant differences. It’s a story about a man and a woman. It’s not about same-sex relationships. It’s about adultery. It’s not about a committed relationship.
What are we to say about these differences?
The story about the woman caught in adultery is speaking about the kind of sexual activity which has the potential for procreation: “Be fruitful and multiply” (Genesis 1:28). Same-sex relationships do not have the potential for procreation.
Adultery is about the betrayal of trust. A committed same-sex relationship is based on trust. Whatever we may say about the value of trust in every relationship, we must raise an awkward question about same-sex relationships: Should people who accept the authority of Scripture move beyond a close same-sex friendship into same-sex sexual activity?
Here are three reasons why this question needs to be asked.
- First, same-sex relations lie outside of the sexual activity which has the potential for procreation, the potential for fulfilling God’s instruction, “Be fruitful and multiply” (Genesis 1:28).
- Second, in the case of male-female sexual relations, the prohibitions in Leviticus regarding sexual activity are, specifying that certain relationships are inappropriate – “committing adultery with another man’s wife’s … his father’s wife … his daughter-in-law” (Leviticus 20:10-12). In the case of same-sex relations, there is no distinction between appropriate sexual partners and inappropriate sexual partners. We simply have the general statement: “If a man lies with a male as he lies with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination” (Leviticus 20:13). As well as noting the contrast between the statements regarding male-female relationships – some are permitted and others are prohibited – and the same–sex relations - a general prohibition, we may also observe that the general prohibition regarding same-sex relations is followed by another general prohibition: “If a man mates with an animal …” (Leviticus 20:15).
- Third, we come to Paul’s words in Romans 1, looking for some kind of distinction which allows us to distinguish between acceptable and unacceptable same-sex relations, we find that it’s just not there. If we were to make such a distinction, we would have to bring it to Scripture. We do not find it anywhere in Scripture.
Why do I bring up these three points?
The moment we say that we accept the “according to the Scriptures” principle, we are committed to looking at life from a particular point of view – listening to what God’s Word says to us and living in the light of God’s Word. It is difficult to see how, from this starting-point, we can reach the conclusion that, under certain circumstances, living “according to the Scriptures” can include same sex relations. The logic seems to be “God has said this. I disagree with what He has said. I choose to do what I want to do rather than what He says I should do.”
If we accept that there is sufficient similarity between the story of Jesus and the woman caught in adultery and the issues raised by same-sex relations, we may ask the question: Can this story help us obtain a more positive outlook to those who are pulled in the direction of same-sex relations?
Yes! We see Jesus taking a stand against the legalism of the Pharisees. We see Him exposing their hypocrisy. He takes us beyond the idea that those who have fallen into sin should be stoned. The question, “Should those who have fallen into sin be stoned (or treated badly)?” has been answered by Jesus: “Neither do I condemn you” (John 8:11).
There is another question we must ask, “Is there anything in Jesus’ words to the woman which gives us any encouragement to continue in a way of life from which the Word of God calls us to draw back?
No! Jesus doesn’t only say, “Neither do I condemn you.” He also says, “Go and sin no more” (John 8:11). Here, Jesus is not addressing the question, “Should the fallen sinner be stoned (or treated badly)?” He has moved on to the next question, “How are we to live once we have received forgiveness from the Lord?”
The teaching of Jesus finds an echo in Paul’s words in Romans 6. The final verse tells us that “the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 6:23). The first verse gives us this challenge: “Shall we go sinning so that grace may increase? God forbid!” (Romans 6:1).
We may not like the idea that all same-sex relations should be described as sin. If, however, we are to get to the idea that there are some same-sex relations which are not to be described as sinful, we need to bring this idea to the Bible. We don’t find it there.
In the story of Jesus and the woman caught in adultery, we see compassion without compromise. There’s salvation by grace which we must never lose as we lapse into legalism and hypocrisy. We must never forget: “we are not under law” (Romans 6:14). There’s also the call to holiness. As we strive for holiness, we must never forget this: “the law is holy” (Romans 7:12). | <urn:uuid:5914a1b2-4893-441a-b0e6-0deb61649d17> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://soundfaith.com/sermons/121024-according-to-the-scriptures-part-four | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719079.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00033-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959688 | 1,394 | 2.421875 | 2 |
Trigger Point Rundown
By Angie Dubis on Feb 24, 2014
Finding and releasing trigger points has always been one of my favorite parts of practicing massage therapy. There is just something so rewarding about finding just the right spot to press and then feeling the local twitch response as the hyperirritable skeletal muscle fibers begin to release and unwind. The process can be quite uncomfortable to the client, but with patience and deep breaths the discomfort can be minimized and the benefits maximized. Clients who have never experienced Trigger Point Therapy can be shocked at how they can have such intense pain when a point is pressed when prior to the pressure they didn’t even know that spot was there. They can yelp the all familiar cry of “What is THAT?” This reaction is often intertwined with intrigue and confusion if accompanied by a trigger point referral zone!
So, what are Trigger Points (TrPs)? Well, one thing they are not is “Tender Points.” Tender points are points on the body used to help healthcare practitioners diagnose Fibromyalgia. A patient has to demonstrate pain in at least 11 of 18 tender points. These points are found at specific locations and are the same for every patient. Trigger points on the other hand are small extremely irritable knots found in muscle tissue located along a taut band of fibers. Trigger points can refer pain to other parts of the body in a predictable pattern called a referral zones. Dr. Janet Travell was the first to research trigger points back in the 1940’s. She began the process of mapping the referral zones of commonly identifiable TrPs within muscle groups. When a trigger point is found, palpated and released (often accompanied by a local twitch response) the client will tend to feel a reduction of pain in that area.
There are two main types of trigger points, each with their own characteristics.
Active Trigger Point
This type of trigger point is just as it sounds! It is actively sending pain locally or distally to its mapped referral zone. Clients come into the office saying “I have this spot!” They can point to it and show you where it hurts. Untreated trigger points can cause limited range of motion, pain and muscle weakness resulting in postural compensation. Latent Trigger Point: These are the trigger points mentioned above that result in the client’s surprise when pressed. They don’t even know they are there, because they don’t hurt or refer pain unless pressed upon. Latent trigger points can become active if irritated or left untreated.
Active trigger points can be further broken down into 2 sub-groups:
Primary Trigger Point
Primary trigger points are the initial result of a muscle being overloaded. Causes of muscle overload can include injury, heavy lifting, immobility, postural dysfunction, repetitive use, stress and other trigger points. If left untreated a primary trigger point can activate latent trigger points and can result in additional trigger points developing in the same or other muscles (called secondary trigger points).
Secondary Trigger Point
Secondary trigger points that develop in muscle fibers that are overloaded from compensating or doing the work of a dysfunctional muscle with a primary trigger point are called functional secondary trigger points. If a therapist finds and treats a secondary trigger point they may get some small release, but it will be short lived and the trigger point will return because it is resulting from the primary trigger point. Treating the primary trigger point will not resolve the functional secondary trigger point, but it will allow you to effectively release it. Satellite trigger points are secondary trigger points that develop or become active because they lie in referral zone of the primary trigger point and will often become latent or resolve themselves when the primary trigger point is released.
Basic Trigger Point Treatment
- Find the Trigger Point by palpating the tissue until you locate a small area of tightly contracted tissue or isolated spasm.
- Gently press on this area. If you have located a Trigger Point the client will likely experience an intense pain, feel referral pain/sensation somewhere else on their body and/or the tissue may twitch.
- Hold the pressure for several seconds (count of 8).
- Ask the client if the pain is increasing, decreasing or staying the same. If it is increasing or staying the same, back off and return with less pressure. If it is decreasing, continue the hold at the same pressure.
- After each hold perform several slow effleurage movements over the treated area.
- Repeat this cycle of static pressure and effleurage 2 more times. You can apply pressure from different directions if it feels appropriate, but work from origin to insertion.
- Get client feedback throughout the process. Pain scale of treatment should be about a 7 on a scale of 1 to 10.
- If the client experiences referral pain when you press on a Trigger Point, attempt to simultaneously press on the area of referred pain while maintain pressure on the original point.
- Do not over treat an area! Working too many Trigger Points in one session can be overwhelming to the client.
- After releasing trigger point within a muscle have the client contract that muscle against mild resistance followed by a gentle stretch.
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What is this food called?
vichyssoise a cold potatoe and leek soup.
Hey what is this food called?
Kraft Cheese Singles,it's a bit complicated because they are yellow but you can never quite remember the name kraft.they are my favorite on brats!
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What is it called when people sell food outside?
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SNMP is a protocol specification which is standardised in the IETF. SNMPv1 does not support 64 bit counters; 64 bit counters were one of the primary drivers behind the development of SNMPv2 and ultimately SNMPv2c. SNMPv1 was ratified in 1990 with RFC 1155, RFC 1156 and RFC 1157, the MIB definitions were updated in RFC 1213. SNMPv2c was ratified in 1996, which makes 2016 its 20th birthday.
Why are 64 bit counters important?
"As the speed of network media increase, the minimum time in which a 32 bit counter will wrap decreases. For example, a 10Mbs stream of back-to-back, full-size packets causes ifInOctets to wrap in just over 57 minutes; at 100Mbs, the minimum wrap time is 5.7 minutes, and at 1Gbs, the minimum is 34 seconds. Requiring that interfaces be polled frequently enough not to miss a counter wrap is increasingly problematic."
Despite this interesting bit of history, some network device vendors still only support SNMPv1, which isn't a problem unless you have high speed interfaces (for example 1 gigabit per second, which some of these vendors do have). Funnily enough these same vendor companies have only existed for 10-15 years, so are younger than the standards they should be implementing.
In the other corner we have NMIS, which is Open Source and - by the nature of Open Source and of software relying on IETF protocols and specifications - strongly standards-oriented.
Making NMIS work with SNMPv1 using 64-bit counters
NMIS itself is not strongly typed and doesn't have a problem with 64-bit counters; the issue here is the set of SNMP libraries that NMIS uses, which do strictly enforce the standards.
How will I know that I need to change NMIS?
NMIS will be reporting an error for SNMP collection operations; the message will be something like "The Counter64 type is not supported in SNMPv1". This would be seen in the debug output and also in the NMIS Event log. For example:
If you see this, then you have a device that is cheating by using a non-standard protocol-datatype combination.
What do I have to change?
Message.pm(or in Perl terms the module
Net::SNMP::Message);this is the object which manages the SNMP messages.
Message.pmon your system, which will normally be in one of the perl directories under /usr or /usr/local.
findcommand to do the lookup work for you:
The result should be similar to this:
find returns more than one match, run
perl -V and check the
@INC list: the module files are looked up in all
@INC directories in order, and the first match wins. That's the file you want to modify. In the example above, the module in
/usr/local/share wins over the one in
- First, make a backup (as the
cp /usr/local/share/perl5/Net/SNMP/Message.pm /usr/local/share/perl5/Net/SNMP/Message.pm.unpatched
- Next, edit the file
/usr/local/share/perl5/Net/SNMP/Message.pm(again as the
rootuser) and look for '
In version 3.0.1 it is on line 1650 of that file. You want to disable the
ifstatement which generates the error and returns; just comment out the 'problematic' code with '#'.
It is also advisable to add a comment that explains why the change wa made; In the example below, the editor was started with line number display, lines 1655 to 1657 have been commented out,
and line 1654 was amended to describe the change.
- Finally, run an NMIS update on the node in question; this will verify that your modified code still compiles and runs, and that NMIS works around the non-standard device behaviour.
Should you get weird Perl errors, restore your backup and try the edit operation again.
Please note that if the perl library is updated (by
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The New England Assistive Technology (NEAT) Resource and Education Center at Oak Hill is hosting a series of professional development workshops to train educators on the iPad, apps and other assistive technology tools that support students with special needs and disabilities as well as all learners.
"Assistive technology has become an educator's dream," said Assistive Technology Specialist Nicole Feeney with the NEAT Center at Oak Hill. "We have many success stories where the iPad and related apps are increasing independence and breaking down barriers to information access for all students, particularly those with special needs and disabilities."
App-tastic workshops will be held at the NEAT Center at Oak Hill, 33 Coventry Street, Hartford. Registration covers CEUs and lunch: $90 members/ $110 non-members. To register, visit neatmarketplace.org/professional or call Nicole Feeney, NEAT: 860-286-3101. Additional assistive technology workshops and webinars are scheduled through May 2013.
Date: Jan. 24, 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.
"App-tastic Beginnings in Special Education" - This workshop is Oak Hill's introduction to everything iPad for students with special needs. Participants learn basic navigation for the iPad, accessibility features, pre-installed applications and accessories. The workshop explores the potential use of the iPad as a personal learning tool and the third party applications that can enhance a student's learning experience. It teaches basic iPad skills needed for advanced workshops.
Date: Feb. 8, 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.
"App-tastic Ideas for O.T.s and P.T.s" (Note: Basic iPad navigation skills needed) - This Oka Hill workshop focuses on iPad apps that can be used for therapy intervention and services for students of all ages. It will explore many of the ways that the iPad can be utilized to enhance a person's independence with the use of built-in accessibility features and third party applications. Participants will also discover many apps and accessories that can reduce barriers and create opportunities for people with disabilities.
Date: Feb. 20, 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.
"App-tastic Reading and Writing Tools for the iPad" (Note: Basic iPad navigation skills needed) - Oak Hill apps-related workshop shows how to use the iPad to teach a variety of reading and writing skills to enhance student literacy, comprehension, grammar, vocabulary, organization, written expression and presentation skills. Participants explore the use of the iPad as a personal learning tool and/or assistive technology device to support a student's learning needs.
Oak Hill enhances independence and quality of life for people with disabilities, including visual impairments, by setting the standard in providing innovative solutions, program excellence, services and advocacy. To support Oak Hill's mission, contact Oak Hill's Development Office at 860-769-3834. For more information, visit ciboakhill.org. | <urn:uuid:8ff4562b-f948-4572-9017-20fbd2315d1d> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://articles.courant.com/2013-01-15/community/hcrs-69817hc-statewide-20130110_1_ipad-apps-app-tastic-oak-hill-s-development-office | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279410.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00173-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.926109 | 611 | 2.046875 | 2 |
We’ve already got plenty of reasons to like Natural Habitat Adventures, a tour outfitter whose work to offset all of their carbon emissions has made them, according to their claim, the “world’s first carbon neutral travel company.” But we were struck by the amount of effort they put into their mission, even during the off season.
During October and November, the group runs polar bear expeditions to Churchill, Manitoba, a.k.a. the “Polar Bear Capital of the World.” It got its moniker because each year, the bears gather on the ice while the tundra freezes, waiting until they can cross over Hudson Bay. Thousands of travelers visit Manitoba every year, so NHA started looking to extend their green habits to the hotels and other facilities they use in the area. They first decided to donate CFL lightbulbs to the properties to help them cut down on their energy costs. But the idea snowballed, so to speak, and after creating a partnership with Gaiam, a company that produces the bulbs, NHA created a “Bulbs for Bears” program for the entire city. They’re now working with the mayor to distribute over 3,000 lightbulbs to homes and businesses throughout Churchill. They’re also planning to provide the city with a bulb crusher, to ensure that when the bulbs do run out (they last an average of eight to fifteen times longer than regular bulbs) they won’t pollute landfills with harmful chemicals.
“We’ve always been very involved in different initiatives that concern climate change,” said Matt Kareus, spokesperson for NHA. “Since a third of our travelers visit Churchill, we wanted there to be a way to educate [them] and do something that was directly related.”
Kareus also informed us that Churchill is one of the best places in the world to see the northern lights each spring. So we can’t help but think it’s appropriate that they get recognition not only for their natural lighting, but their interior lighting as well.
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ST. JOHN’S, N.L. – There are too many science, technology and risk-assessment gaps to green-light fracking in western Newfoundland, says a panel that studied the contentious oil-extraction process.
In a report released Tuesday, it recommends the province continue its freeze on fracking applications until major questions are answered.
“The science, the studies that have been done, have been somewhat limited — certainly limited compared to what we’d expect to have done in order to plan this kind of operation,” said Ray Gosine, an engineering professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland who led the government-appointed panel.
“There are a number of gaps and deficiencies that are significant,” he said in an interview. “These must be addressed before we feel that conditions could reasonably exist that would allow hydraulic fracturing operations to proceed responsibly.”
Natural Resources Minister Siobhan Coady said in a statement that the province is studying the findings.
“In the meantime, the current policy to not accept applications for hydraulic fracturing will not be changing. Any future decisions regarding the hydraulic fracturing industry will be based on scientific evidence, and most importantly, on a social license from the Newfoundlanders and Labradorians who may be affected.”
It’s believed Newfoundland’s west coast has deep shale formations that hold oil, unlike more shallow coal bed gas deposits in parts of the U.S. and western Canada.
The province has not approved hydraulic fracturing — or fracking — for oil and gas by pumping water, nitrogen, sand and chemical additives at high pressure to split shale rock formations. It’s a process supporters say has been safely used for decades.
Critics blame fracking for groundwater contamination, air pollution and increased earthquakes.
Newfoundland and Labrador blocked any related applications in 2013, pending a review, after a proposal to frack for oil near Gros Morne National Park touched off intense public debate.
“There are concerns that industrial activity around Gros Morne National Park could threaten its designation as a UNESCO world heritage site or could negatively impact the enclave communities around the park that have developed a tourism industry based largely on Gros Morne,” says the panel’s report.
“An appropriate buffer zone around Gros Morne National Park must be established.”
Steps that should be taken before fracking is allowed should also include assessing potential health effects, greenhouse gas emissions and a modern seismic study of the Green Point Shale south of Gros Morne, says the report.
On Friday, Canada was once again urged in a draft decision by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee to act on its 2014 call for a buffer zone around the park’s famous cliffs, fjords and hiking trails.
Simon Jansen of the Newfoundland and Labrador Fracking Awareness Network said there are better, renewable energy options.
“It confirms all the uncertainties that we have been pointing out,” he said of the review panel.
“So many people have created a living around sustainable tourism. Even if fracking can be done in whatever shape or form, is this a good fit for the existing lifestyle with respect to fisheries and tourism?”
The report offers a graduated series of several other recommendations when and if the province lifts its current “pause” on fracking. They include studying how wastewater would be handled, and the extent of existing rural fire and emergency services.
“Risks must be identified, assessed and effectively managed,” it says. “The public must have confidence that an industry will be managed and regulated in a manner that protects the health of people and the environment, and that advances the interests of the communities most affected by development.”
Paul Barnes, Atlantic Canada manager for the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, said the report offers a balanced way forward.
“It represents a prudent approach to shale development on the west coast here based on responsible, fact-based information.”
Barnes believes there’s economic potential for fracking — if public confidence is bolstered with those answers.
The Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board says there’s no activity off the province’s west coast at this time. There are five exploration licences in western Newfoundland, but none adjacent to Gros Morne.
The panel offered a hypothetical “illustrative scenario” of hydraulic fracturing for the Green Point Shale, including 480 production wells to be drilled over six years from about 35 onshore well pads near the coast around Port au Port Bay. It concluded truck traffic would soar and that such a project to produce oil for export wouldn’t be fiscally attractive for the province below a price of about US$85 a barrel.
Moreover, estimated yearly revenues of $84 million to $136 million would not “be a ‘game-changer’ with respect to the fiscal position of Newfoundland and Labrador,” says the report.
Brent crude prices have crashed since 2014, recently trading at just under US$50 a barrel.
New Brunswick announced last week it has no plans to lift its moratorium on hydraulic fracturing. A related commission report last February recommended several conditions — including a single independent regulator — to allow a shale gas industry to grow in the province.
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Sierra Club Announces More Than 200 Million Oil-Free Electric Miles Driven
The second annual National Plug In Day is September 23, 2012, and it marks an exciting milestone: over 200 million oil-free electric miles traveled in the U.S. This translates into 96.5 million pounds of carbon pollution that have not been spewed into the air (even taking into account emissions from electricity to charge EVs). It also means that consumers have avoided purchase of nearly 7.4 million gallons of gasoline and saved nearly $19.5 million dollars in fueling costs (comparing gasoline to electricity fueling costs).
Our 200 million electric miles driven estimate is based on data we compiled on electric miles traveled by the Chevy Volt, and the Nissan Leaf, and Tesla Roadster models, as well as estimates on electric miles traveled by other recent plug-in vehicles, electric vehicle conversions, electric delivery fleets, and factory made electric vehicles prior to 2010 models. (See more on how we got to 200 million miles below.) From there, we determined the approximate avoided gallons of gasoline purchased, the money saved by fueling with electricity, and the pounds of carbon emissions prevented in comparison to a new compact car averaging 27 MPG.
How did we do this? First, let's look at avoided gallons of gasoline purchased.
How much carbon emissions would have resulted from those gallons? Each gallon of gasoline releases about 25 pounds of carbon pollution taking into account the approximately 19 pounds of carbon emissions per gallon from the burning of gasoline and is emitted from the vehicle tailpipe as well as the approximately 6 pounds of carbon emissions per gallon from the upstream emissions that are a result of the oil extraction, refining, and transport processes.
7,407,407.407 gallons X 25 pounds of carbon = 185,185,185.2 pounds of carbon
We're not done with this number yet. Next, we'll calculate the pollution associated with charging EVs and subtract that from the above to get carbon pollution avoided.
Because different parts of the United States have cleaner or dirtier grids, and because EVs are purchased and driven disproportionately in states with cleaner sources of electricity (like California), we wanted to make sure to count EVs, electric miles, and the emissions associated with EV charging based on where people are actually purchasing EVs. The Center for Automotive Research (CAR) report (pdf) for example, estimated that California EV sales would account for 24 percent of EV total EV sales in US in 2012. So, we assumed that 24 percent of the 200 million electric miles were driven in California, and we determined emissions estimates accordingly.
For emissions, we look at the miles per gallon equivalent (MPGe) that a plug-in vehicle has in that state, as the Union of Concerned Scientists shared in their "State of Charge" report (pdf).
We calculate each state's charging emissions and add them up. Let's look at Massachusetts as an example, where CAR estimates that 3.1 percent of total US EV will take place in 2012. According to Union of Concerned Scientists, electric vehicles charged in Massachusetts have an estimated 75 MPGe. This means that if someone charged and drove a Nissan Leaf in Massachusetts, it would be like driving a 75 mpg car in terms of its carbon emissions.
We then did this calculation for all 50 states that total 88,685,066.87 pounds of equivalent carbon pollution emissions.
One caveat is that surveys have shown that a significant portion of EV drivers rely on solar power at their homes. While we didn't have enough data to factor this into our calculations, we know that with more solar in the mix, the amount of carbon emissions prevented is surely significantly higher than what we calculated.
Now we need to calculate the electricity costs associated with fueling EVs. We take the average electricity rates (cents/kWh) for each state and multiply by the efficiency of the vehicle to determine the cost per mile. We’ll use 0.34 kWh/mile as the efficiency. Using Illinois as an example:
9.13 cents/kWh X 0.34 kWh/mile = 3.1042 cents/mile
Now we'll multiply this (3.1042) by the projected EV miles traveled in Illinois (0.038 X 200,000,000) and get 23591920 cents. Divide by 100 and Illinois EV drivers collectively spent a projected $235,919.20 to travel 7.6 million miles.
Add up all the states and together EV fueling for 200 million miles is $7,556,982.80.
So how we did we figure more than 200 million electric miles? Nissan informed us that as of July 31, 2012, Nissan Leaf drivers in the US had driven about 60 million miles. We estimated that an additional 5.9 million would be added by 9/23/12. We were able to obtain from the Chevy Volt web site that Volt drivers had driven 79,898,020 electric miles as of 9/16/12. We estimated that an additional 289,800 miles would be added by 9/23/12. From the Tesla web site, we know that Roadster drivers had driven 26,504,330 miles as of 9/16/12. Given that the vast majority of Tesla sales are in the US, we estimated just over 20 million miles have been driven by US Tesla drivers by 9/23/12. The total estimated electric miles among these three manufacturers were close to 166 million miles as of 9/23/12. We then estimated that among all the other new EV models starting to be sold and driven (plug-in Prius, Mitsubishi iMiEV, Ford Focus EV, BMW ActiveE, etc), all the thousands of vehicles that owners have converted from Internal Combustion Engines to EVs, all the EV delivery fleet vehicles (driven by companies such as Frito-Lay, Staples, FedEx, etc) -the total of this 'other' category is in excess of 34 million miles driven by 9/23/12 bringing us to a total of more than 200 million miles.
It adds up quickly, and this is only the beginning! More EVs are hitting the road, and our nation’s grid is continuing to get cleaner. A switch to EVs is significantly cutting our reliance on oil, our carbon pollution, and our fueling costs.
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Earlier this week, Towson University received a rebate check for nearly $2 million for its participation in the Department of Energy's Better Buildings Challenge. The check was presented to school officials at a ceremony on Thursday, April 17, which was attended by DOE Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency Kathleen Hogan and Baltimore Gas & Electric (BGE) CEO Calvin Butler Jr.
The rebate from BGE was given to Towson through the utility's Smart Energy Savers Program, a program that works with the DOE to offer residents and businesses the chance to earn financial incentives by reducing their overall energy consumption. Towson was recognized for updating 35,000 light fixtures on campus, as well as having 10,000 motion sensors installed. The university reduced its power use by 25 percent, which amounts to annual savings of $1 million.
"Towson is a leader not just here in Maryland, but across the country, and our exciting announcement today is just another example of how this great university is setting the standard for other educational institutions and commercial and business customers around the world," Butler said during a press conference held at Towson's campus.
While speaking to the press, Hogan praised the school's commitment to improving itself for the environment. It has been so successful that it will serve as a model for other schools and businesses in the area that are looking to reduce their own energy use. Those who participate in the Better Buildings Challenge have a goal of reducing power consumption by 20 percent by 2020.
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Survivors are pushing to take Bhopal
The symbol of corporate globalisation in India is Bangalore, the booming centre of the country’s information technology industry –– the supposed pacesetter for a free-market transformation that, Indians are told, will finally alleviate the country’s enormous poverty. But there’s another face of globalisation in India. It belongs to Shakira Ehsan, whose legs are so undeveloped and weak that she has to drag herself forward with her arms.
Then there’s 40-year-old Kanchari Lal, who is unable to work because of chronic pain and shortness of breath. And Jyoti, the 36-year-old woman whose reproductive organs are so damaged that she’s despaired of marriage and the relative economic security that brings for a poor woman in India. These are survivors of the industrial disaster in Bhopal on December 2-3, 1984. A release of poison gas at a Union Carbide pesticide plant killed more than 8,000 people immediately, sent another 15,000 to early graves and left an estimated 100,000 more with chronic and debilitating injuries. As many as 500,000 people have been affected.
Twenty years later, Union Carbide is still killing and maiming. Toxic chemicals from the now-abandoned plant continue to seep into the groundwater, which the shantytowns surrounding the factory have no choice but to use. Babies ingest the poison through their mothers’ breast milk –– all but guaranteeing brain damage, stunted growth and premature deaths.
Survivors are still struggling to make Union Carbide and its current owner, Dow Chemical, pay compensation. But the Indian government long ago agreed to a settlement that excluded the victims themselves, capping damages at $470 million, shielding Union Carbide from further liability and creating a politicised and corrupt bureaucracy to administer a meagre compensation.
Vigorous pursuit of a U.S. transnational corporation wasn’t considered good business at a time when India was seeking more foreign direct investment. That’s why Bhopal isn’t some nightmarish aberration from the free-market “new India,” but its inevitable accompaniment –– the price of India’s insertion into the world economy. That shift began in the 1970s through the transformation of world agriculture known as the “Green Revolution.” While ostensibly aimed at boosting farm output in poor and developing countries, the Green Revolution in fact reflected the increasing corporate-dominated, export-oriented agriculture of the wealthiest countries –– the U.S. and Western European states.
Thanks to massive government subsidies, prices for U.S. and European grains and other agricultural products undercut those of farmers in the Third World, forcing them to cut production and adding to the problem of hunger. The World Bank then stepped in with loans to finance major technological changes in agriculture, such as investments in mechanised farm implements, genetically modified seeds and –– gaining Union Carbide’s attention ––pesticides.
The promised dramatic reduction in Third World hunger never came. As left-wing economist Nigel Harris noted in the early 1980s, the Green Revolution had the effect of “redistributing agrarian inputs away from the production of the foodstuffs consumed by the mass of the population ––millets and pulses in India, for example –– towards wheat and other relatively high-priced products, many of them eminently suitable for export. This is part of the explanation for the coincidence of increased output and increased hunger.
Business Week magazine summed up the situation in India in 1994: “Even though the granaries of India are overflowing now, 5,000 children die each day of malnutrition. One-third of India’s 900 million people are poverty-stricken.” With the poor unable to afford these products, “the government is left trying to store millions of tons of food. Some of it is rotting, and there is concern that rotten grain will find its way to public markets.”
Union Carbide’s Bhopal plant, built in the 1970s, was a speculative investment in the Green Revolution –– and the state-dominated Indian economy’s new openness to foreign investment. Terms of the deal required Union Carbide to establish an Indian-based subsidiary, a fact that the company would later use to deny responsibility for the disaster. In fact, company negotiators were determined that the U.S. firm would retain a controlling interest in the Bhopal plant. “Our specific objective is not to accept any conditions which would reduce our equity below 51 per cent,” stated a 1973 Union Carbide corporate finance plan. The company eventually settled on a 53.5 per cent stake.
The Bhopal factory was designed as a state-of-the-art plant, a twin of another facility in Institute, West Virginia [in the USA]. But from the beginning, the plants were operated on two standards, as a recent report by Amnesty International conclusively shows.
The West Virginia operation had computerised monitors of valves and storage tanks; the Bhopal facility had only manual gauges. Operators in West Virginia had to undergo months of safety training; in Bhopal, such training was minimal. A loud siren at the U.S. plant was designed to warn workers and the community of any leaks of toxic chemicals; the Bhopal operation’s warning system was dismantled and replaced because frequent spills had triggered alarms so often.
The biggest differences between the two plants was supposed to be the way in which they stored the key ingredient used in the pesticide Sevin –– methyl isocyanate (MIC), derived from the phosgene gas used as a chemical weapon in the First World War. Given the inherent dangers of storing MIC, designers of the Bhopal plant had intended to use individual small containers for greater safety. Yet when the Bhopal plant came on line, it used the same huge storage tanks as its West Virginia counterpart.
In the U.S., however, round-the-clock production meant that there was no long-term storage of MIC before it was processed. Bhopal, however, lacked sufficient processing capacity, so MIC was stored for weeks –– or months ––in massive tanks holding 90 tons of gas, guaranteeing that the large spill of December 1984 would be catastrophic.
For the past 20 years, Union Carbide and its current owner, Dow Chemical, have fought to keep claims of Bhopal survivors from reaching U.S. courts.
The reason: “Such abject poverty and the vastly different values, standards and expectations which accompany it are commonplace in India and the Third World,” the company’s lawyers argued in U.S. District Court. “They are incomprehensible to Americans living in the United States.”
In fact, it was Union Carbide’s “values, standards and expectations” that led company managers to systematically cut costs at the Bhopal plant, making a calamity inevitable. According to the Amnesty International investigation, since the plant had never showed a profit, the corporate chain of command pressured plant managers to save money any way they could –– including cutting staff and reducing maintenance.
A team of Union Carbide safety inspectors from the U.S. noted 10 major hazards in 1982, including the potential for an MIC leak. In the summer of 1984, the head of the plant workers’ union wrote to management about the problem of pollution, as did a lawyer representing area residents. Meanwhile, a Bhopal-based journalist wrote an article on the dangers of the plant for a leading newspaper. The headline: “Bhopal: On the brink of a disaster.”
Two decades after the disaster, countless articles have recounted its horrors. Yet they’ve also highlighted the inspiring campaign of Bhopal survivors to push the case into U.S. court –– to force Union Carbide/Dow to pay compensation to victims and pay for the cleanup of the plant site.
There’s also an effort underway to bring Warren Anderson, then the CEO of Union Carbide, to trial in India for homicide. Activists held protests at Dow board members’ houses and offices on the 20th anniversary of the disaster. In April, two Bhopal survivors, Rashida Bee and Champa Devi Shukla, were awarded the prestigious Goldman prize for environmental activism for their work in fighting for compensation and economic opportunities for survivors. In an interview with Socialist Worker published earlier this year, Bee and Devi Shukla described how their struggle has established links with the movement against corporate globalisation.
“We don’t think they will be able to put us off forever,” Devi Shukla said. “You know, more and more people are becoming aware of what is going on. We are trying to wake people up. And once you have a population that is awake and willing to fight, nothing can stop you” (Lee Sustar, Holiday December 20, 2004). | <urn:uuid:3ed77064-3f09-48c2-b724-1009e963a1ce> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://sos-arsenic.net/english/environment/bhopal2.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00470.warc.gz | en | 0.958567 | 1,888 | 2.625 | 3 |
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The Islamic Foundation of Ireland has congratulated all Muslims on the beginning of Ramadan, which it says takes place this evening.
The announcement was made today on the foundation's website following a last-minute decision in Saudi Arabia that because the crescent moon had failed to appear there last night, Ramadan could not begin until tomorrow.
Saudi Arabia is where the world's most important Islamic shrines are located.
The Al-Arabiya newspaper is reporting all other Arab counties bar Yemen supported the Saudi decision.
The paper also reports that what it describes as "other Islamic countries" like Indonesia and Malaysia also followed suit.
Ramadan is sacred to Muslims because they believe that it was during that month that the Quran was revealed to the faith's founder, the Prophet Mohammad.
During the 29-30 day-long season Muslims fast from food from dawn until dusk and strive to become more pious and charitable.
They are also obliged to abstain from drinking liquids, smoking and having sex.
The globe's second most popular religion, Islam has many branches.
Together they are estimated by the US-based Pew Research Centre to have a total of 1.6 billion adherents.
This represents 23% of the world's population.
The 2011 census put the number of Muslims living in the Republic of Ireland at 48,130 and an additional 4,000 or so live in Northern Ireland. | <urn:uuid:140e09d7-7a81-4c02-880f-36e6fa3fcd3d> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.rte.ie/news/2014/0628/627187-muslims/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284411.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00466-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969804 | 280 | 2.265625 | 2 |
Electric Fencing Camelids
Electric Fencing and Camelids
Preventing Tuberculosis cross- infection from Badgers to Alpaca
Bovine Tuberculosis (bTB) has clearly become a major issue amongst camelid breeders coupled with the possibility of valuable livestock contracting the disease from infected Badgers. Many owners are now seeking to exclude the badgers from their property to protect valuable breeding stock from infection.
A large part of the badger’s diet consists of earthworms and grubs which they find in areas of turf such as pastures. Hence it may be necessary to exclude them from these areas.
There are two methods of badger exclusion and both involve fencing. Firstly there is the conventional high tensile mesh fence. It is highly ornate, involves burying the wire in to prevent badgers digging under and very expensive. Whilst very effective, Badgers have been reported to clamber over these fences.
The next solution is to use an appropriate electric fence to give the badgers a sharp, but non-lethal “sting” on the nose if they try to get into a protected area. Electric fencing has been shown to be highly effective in excluding badgers in scientifically sanctioned trials whilst the cost is a fraction of the conventional fence.
There are two types of fencing applicable to excluding Badgers.
- Strained-wire fences consist of a series of electrified parallel conducting wires at varying heights above the ground. The conducting wires of strained-wire fences can be made from either polythene twine interwoven with steel strands (polywire) or galvanised steel. The steel wire is a better conductor, far more durable and is cheaper.
- Electric netting consisting of a woven mesh of poly twines containing electrical filaments. These are very easy to erect and move, very effective but are more intrusive and require larger energisers.
If both fence types are maintained properly they are equally effective. However, galvanised steel fences appear to be more effective than their poly wire counterparts. There is a greater proportion of the wire open to contact and wire will last a lot longer than plastic twine – up to 20 years.
Electric fencing systems are very light and simple to understand so lend themselves comfortably to DIY possibilities. Maintenance of a well constructed fence is not a problem and revolves around a daily test of the voltage in the line and only then is an inspection required if this is seen to be inadequate. New technology high-voltage energisers (HotShock) are very low maintenance and highly effective.
The strained-wire fence system is constructed of electrified parallel conducting wires at heights of 15, 20, 30 and 45cm (6, 8, 12 and 18 inches) above the ground. The wires, which are all live, are held by adjustable plastic insulators supported on wooden stakes. A very viable alternative is to use short 50cm plastic “tread-in” posts similar to those employed in horse yards as they provide both the posts and insulators in one item. The corners and ends are normally more robust wooden posts with insulators applied.
Electric netting varies in height and mesh size, and come in 50m rolls fitted with spiked posts at regular intervals and a clip at each end to join rolls together. These fences are very easy and quick to erect and dismantle but do require stronger energisers and require more maintenance to keep the vegetation away from the bottom strands than a line fence.
The fence needs to be used between dusk and dawn until each visiting badger has had a “sting” on the nose. The best guesstimate is that they will remain effective for at least 98% of badgers who have been stung (as exceedingly few like to receive a second sting).
Electric fences must be powered by a specialised energiser (which gets its power from the mains or from a 12v battery). If you use a 12v battery, you will need two batteries, so you can charge one up on a trickle-charger, whilst the other one of electrifying the fence. When badgers encountered the fences for the first time their initial response is the same as would be expected for any unfamiliar object. In most instances, badgers approach the fences cautiously before investigating, usually with their nose that is poorly insulated and packed with sensitive nerve endings. Any individual touching an electrified fence with their nose will, therefore, receive a sharp shock and subsequently learn to avoid the area. Badgers are normally inquisitive and do not normally require encouragement but should this be necessary then investigatory behaviour may encouraged and a number of approaches have been used to achieve this. These include attaching proprietary bait caps, unfamiliar objects or food items to the fence.
Badgers that have definitely been seen to touch the electrified wires responded by retreating immediately to the nearest harbourage. This response was most marked when the badgers concerned touched the electrified wires with their noses. Badgers do not appear overly stressed by the receipt of an electric shock. They have not been seen to dig under an Electric Fence.
Watership Alpacas have a variety of alpacas for sale and a range of chlothing based on the wool. | <urn:uuid:a8c2fd0b-ccb8-464c-b81f-79c2ce6420e3> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.agrisellex.co.uk/articles/electric-fencing-camelids.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280899.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00577-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960973 | 1,066 | 2.671875 | 3 |
Petrom said it is investing €100 million in the purchase and development of the project, which was acquired from Romanian wind developer Monsson Alma and is expected to be operational in 2011.
Controlled by the Austria-based OMV Group, Petrom has increasingly focused on electricity generation and is currently constructing an 860MW gas-fired plant in Brazi, Romania.
Construction of the wind farm, which may be expanded to 54MW, is set to begin later this year. It will use Vestas V90 3 MW on the project.
"In the medium term, by capitalizing on the gas and power convergence and by developing renewable energy projects, Petrom will make the transition from a pure oil and gas company to an energy player," said Petrom CEO Mariana Gheorghe.
According to Windpower Monthly's Market Status Report for Romania, almost zero MW was added to the country's capacity. However the Romanian Wind Energy Association executive director Dana Duica expected roughly 500MW to come online this year. | <urn:uuid:c2e96458-4126-47f7-9065-d360a512e5ed> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.windpowermonthly.com/article/997382/petrom-expands-wind-%E2%82%AC100m-investment?HAYILC=RELATED | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284405.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00042-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967871 | 208 | 1.5625 | 2 |
A federal judge banned the entry of fresh potatoes from the United States because it poses a risk to national sovereignty and security, as well as to the right to food.
The Seventh District judge in Sinaloa, based in Los Mochis, declared several articles of the Regulation of the Federal Plant Health Law unconstitutional, and considered that the entry of potatoes from the United States posed a risk of food dependency that could lead to the disappearance of the national sector devoted to the cultivation of this tuber.
The articles imply the absence of phytosanitary measures for the import of fresh potatoes from the US to Mexico. The legal recourse alleged that this implied there was an imminent risk of plagues spreading in the country.
In his ruling, the judge considered that the importation of US potatoes without phytosanitary measures posed a risk of contamination, and ordered the responsible authorities to deny the entry of this tuber and to include phytosanitary measures to mitigate the risk of these imports.
“This would affect, not only the third generation legitimate interests of the aggrieved community, but it would also put at risk Chilli, tomato, eggplant, and tobacco crops,” the judge stated.
The judge said there was the possibility of dispersion of quarantine pests coming from abroad that would generate the imminent disappearance of the Mexican primary sector dedicated to the production of potatoes.
He also noted that, since US potato producers had government support that gave them an advantage over Mexican producers, and people falsely believed that it is better to import basic foodstuffs than to encourage production, Mexico could end up having a food dependency from the United States.
“These factors, when interacting with each other, lead to food dependency towards a foreign power. A power that in recent times has institutionalized hostile policies against Mexico and that if, hypothetically, it gained dominance over the national market, it would become the sole supplier of said tuber, and a strategic productive sector of our country would disappear,” he warned.
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The search for German prisoners and persons missing since the Second World War - a chapter in the history of the German Red Cross tracing service
30-06-1999 Article, International Review of the Red Cross, No. 834, by Monika Ampferl
Abstract of the article " La recherche des Allemands prisonniers ou portés disparus au cours de la Seconde Guerre mondiale "
The Second World War was responsible for the death and disappearance of millions of Germans. Soon after the outbreak of hostilities the German Red Cross set up a tracing service in accordance with the 1929 Geneva Convention on prisoners of war. During the war, the tracing activity of the German Red Cross was expanded to include the search for civilian victims of the conflict. This article examines the activities of the tracing service both during the war and after it was over: restoring links between members of families, searching for lost children, establishing contact with prisoners, determining the whereabouts of displaced persons, etc. With the end of the Cold War, German reunification and a new relationship with Russia made it possible for the German Red Cross Society to intensify its search for missing persons. | <urn:uuid:d889ce4a-293b-418c-b6c0-aeba3a215c94> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.icrc.org/eng/resources/documents/article/other/57jpu3.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280266.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00504-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.907873 | 237 | 3.296875 | 3 |
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- Valuing Health: Quality Adjusted Life years and Patient Reported Outcome Measures explores how and why choices about drugs and treatments have been made
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|Health Technology Assessment (November 2013, July 2014)
This 5-week course introduces you to Health Technology Assessment (HTA) as a concept (what it is, what it involves) and then takes you through the key stages in the HTA and decision-making process.
|Health Inequalities (July 2013)
This course explores the issue of health inequalities. It provides an opportunity to examine contemporary interpretations of health inequalities and related concepts like justice, fairness and equity. We discuss how different approaches to measuring, defining and monitoring health inequalities are influenced by social and political factors and how this, in turn, shapes strategies for addressing such inequalities.
|Sustainable Healthy Diets (June 2013)
This course introduces you to sustainable diets as a concept (what might a sustainable diet look like, what does it not look like?) and then takes you through some of the challenges involved in choosing food which is both healthy and sustainable. | <urn:uuid:1bd65eae-bea8-4f8d-9e1d-6cfb5a869b9d> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.shef.ac.uk/scharr/prospective_students/moocs/moocs | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988717963.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183837-00373-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939941 | 330 | 2.59375 | 3 |
A recently completed study by researchers at Colorado State University showed that angler spending supported by the Aquacultural Suppliers of Recreational Fish (ASRF) in the Western region of the United States contributed about $1.9 billion in output and more than 26,000 jobs to the economy of the states in the region. The Western region includes Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, California, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming.
Results showed that every dollar of recreational fish sales can be traced to $36 of economic activity, and every $1 million spent on ASRF products is associated with nearly 500 jobs in the Western region. Locally, this implies that production from Colorado recreational fish producers results in an estimated total economic contribution of more than a quarter-billion dollars and about 3,500 jobs.
The research team collected data from 173 private businesses that raise fish for recreational stocking, as well as a sample of their first point-of-sale customers (fishing clubs, dude ranches, etc.) and anglers. Spending information from these three groups was used with a regional economic model that allowed researchers to trace the economic activity associated with the proportion of recreational angling directly supported by the ASRF industry. The study showed the biggest impacts come from supporting recreational angling in freshwater streams, rivers and lakes across the West.
“The difficult part of the analysis was estimating forward linkages from the suppliers of recreational fish to the anglers,” said Craig Bond, resource economist in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at Colorado State and principal investigator on the project. “We asked the first point-of-sale customers to estimate the share of their revenue directly related to private fish stocking and used this data in conjunction with the angler survey to estimate spending impacts.”
ASRF producers account for $53 million in direct sales in the Western region. However, when accounting for the forward linkages of the industry - expenditures resulting from the use of ASRF products - the numbers grow dramatically. For example, anglers in Colorado spend, on average, $135 to $138 per angler day, a figure that rises to $179 per angler day in California. Combined with an estimated 7 million ASRF-supported angler days in the Western United States per year using the survey data, this results in about $1 billion in annual expenditures from anglers directly attributable to aquacultural stocking activity done by private businesses. Accounting for “ripple effects,” or the downstream effects of angler expenditures on other industries such as hotels, gasoline stations and grocery stores as well as those industries’ suppliers, the total effect is just under $2 billion in total economic activity.
“Many people are likely aware of the production of fish for food,” Bond said, “but less well known is the contribution made by private aquacultural producers in the West to the recreational fishing opportunities so prized by residents and visitors to the region. Those producers have a significant economic presence in the Western region.”
For more information about the study, visit http://dare.colostate.edu/tools/aquaculture.aspx.
The Economic Contributions of the Aquacultural Suppliers of Recreational Fish (ASRF) study was sponsored by the Western Regional Aquaculture Center (WRAC), whose mission is to support aquaculture research, development, demonstration and education to enhance viable and profitable U.S. aquaculture production for the benefit of consumers, producers, service industries and the American economy. | <urn:uuid:d4f85a61-e4e7-4ae6-bf0e-9d0e3cda3dbd> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.westernfarmpress.com/management/western-fish-hatcheries-jobs-billions-income | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280266.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00497-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939784 | 728 | 2.0625 | 2 |
© 2007 Bill Peterman (1 of 18)
In life, the dorsal color of adults ranges from dark gray to blackish brown, with contrasting white to yellowish bands. Ventrally, the color varies from light gray to yellowish, peppered with light-colored spots. There is typically a short, light colored bar between the eyes that may continue below the eyes to point diagonally posterior. Recently metamorphosed juveniles have a drab green to dark gray dorsal surface, and a row of dorsolateral yellowish spots extending from the front limbs to the tip of the tail. Laterally, a broad band runs from the gills two-thirds of the way down the tail, which lacks pigmentation. Bellies are grayish-yellow. Juveniles develop the blotches or rings that characterize this species approximately two months after metamorphosis (Hutcherson et al. 1998). The sexes are monomorphic and it is unknown whether there is any geographic or seasonal variation (Bishop 1962; Johnson 1977; Petranka 1998).
Distribution and Habitat
Country distribution from AmphibiaWeb's database: United States
U.S. state distribution from AmphibiaWeb's database: Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma
Ambystoma annulatum is found in damp forested areas, usually under leaves, rotting logs, or in abandoned ground holes of other organisms, near shallow ponds. This species is highly fossorial (adapted to digging), and adults are often found in subterranean refuges (Petranka 1998).
Life History, Abundance, Activity, and Special Behaviors
This species is secretive and fossorial and is generally not seen except on rainy autumn nights during breeding season. Breeding has been observed by a number of authors (Noble and Marshall 1929; Trapp 1956, 1959; Spotila and Beumer 1970; Hutcherson et al. 1989). Ambystoma annulatum breeds in shallow, fishless water (permanent or temporary ponds) and exhibits a preference for muddy or murky bodies of water. Adults migrate to breeding areas after the first heavy rains of the autumn breeding season (mid-September through November, most commonly in October, though the exact times vary depending on the local habitat). Cool temperatures and heavy rainfall stimulate breeding. This species is an explosive breeder and breeding males may try to reproduce 2-4 times in a season (Petranka 1998).
Breeding occurs at night in breeding ponds, where hundreds of individuals congregate. The males usually arrive first, and can be distinguished from the females by their swollen cloacae (Bishop 1962). Males usually approach the females in shallow water and engage in courtship by nudging the female’s cloaca (Johnson 1977). They then deposit a spermatophore a few centimeters away; a male may deposit nine spermatophores in two minutes. The male may repeat this process several times; however, the female will pick up the spermatophore only after being actively courted. The more males in the pond, the less specifically they court, and they will nudge both males and females before depositing a spermatophore (Petranka 1998). Males deposit spermatophores on rocks, other spermatophores, and even each other. After breeding, the salamanders begin to move away from the pond (Bishop 1962).
Fertilization is internal (Petranka 1998). A day or two after mating (24-48 hours), the female deposits between 5 and 40 eggs (mean of 10), in strings or small masses (Petranka 1998). Generally she lays the egg mass (usually about 150 eggs total) directly on the pond bottom, but she may attach them to submerged vegetation (Petranka 1998). Females may distribute the clutch in several egg masses, resorb some ova, or lay only a portion of the clutch on any given night, since Hutcherson et al. (1989) found that females in captivity had considerably more ovarian eggs than were counted in oviposited masses examined by Trapp (1959). In Missouri, permanent ponds used for breeding had a bottom substrate consisting of a thick layer of leaf litter and manure (Hutcherson et al. 1989). Eggs measure approximately 2 mm in diameter and hatch after 9-16 days (a relatively short embryonic period), again depending on the exact location (Petranka 1998). Eggs can survive temporary dry periods out of the water, with Hutcherson et al. (1989) reporting that eggs were deposited in one pond even though there was no standing water; those deposited within mud cracks or under partial shade from vegetation survived for 14-19 days until the pond refilled and hatching could occur. To get an idea of the maximum survival period out of water, Hutcherson et al. (1989) collected 879 embryos from the pond basin and incubated them at 17°C on moist soil under moist paper towels for 52 days. Twenty embryos survived and all hatched within five minutes of being submerged in water after 52 days out of water.
Mature aquatic larvae are on average 48 mm in length, and have well-developed legs, toes, and a dorsal fin that extends to the head (Petranka 1998). They typically begin metamorphosis the following February through May (Petranka 1998), although Hutcherson et al. (1989) observed larvae leaving one of their Missouri study ponds during June and early July. Newly metamorphosed juveniles measure approximately 34-40 mm in length and soon begin to crawl onto land in search of underground abodes, particularly on rainy days (Hutcherson et al. 1989). Sexual maturity is attained in the second or third year of life (Petranka 1998).
As an adult, this carnivore preys mostly on earthworms, insects, and land snails (Johnson 1977). Hutcherson et al. (1989) found that only 3 of 16 females examined had food in the stomach, and were unable to identify the contents. Trapp (1959) found that only 3 of 23 salamanders had prey items in the stomach (one with unidentifiable stomach contents, two containing earthworms).
Newly transformed salamanders mostly had empty stomachs (24 of 30) when examined by Hutcherson et al. (1989), but some (6 of 30) had fly larvae in the stomach.
Larvae eat a variety of prey, with Hutcherson et al. (1989) finding cladocerans and copepods the main components of the larval diet in autumn, dipteran larvae during winter and spring, and other occasional larval prey items including ostracods, dragonfly and damselfly nymphs, hemipterans and snails. In contrast, Trapp (1959) found that cladocerans and copepods comprised the bulk of the diet in spring (March and April), with minor components including molluscs, eggs, and Chironomus; Trapp (1959) also concluded that cladocerans and copepods were consumed preferentially, based on an analysis of food item abundance in water samples. Larval cannibalism has also been observed, both in the wild and the lab (Hutcherson et al. 1989; Nyman et al. 1993).
Natural predators of adults include owls, snakes, shrews, skunks, raccoons, opossums, and other mammals. When attacked or feeling threatened, A. annulatum coils its body while tucking the head underneath the base of the tail for protection (Petranka 1998).
Young larvae are preyed on by newts (Notophthalmus viridescens louisianensis, among other species) but larger ringed salamander larvae became too big for the Notophthalmus to consume at about a month prior to larval metamorphosis (Wilson 1993). In laboratory experiments comparing larval ringed salamander responses to predator (newt) vs non-predator (tadpole) chemical stimuli, larval Ambystoma annulatum were able to distinguish chemical signals of predatory newts and smaller larvae subsequently decreased activity. Other predators of ringed salamander larvae include aquatic insects, other aquatic salamanders, wading birds, and snakes (Mathis et al. 2003).
Ringed salamanders can harbor a variety of endoparasites. McAllister et al. (1995) found that 83% of the salamanders in their sample (n=41) carried at least one parasite species. Endoparasites included ascarid (Cosmocercoides variabilis, in the rectum and feces), spirurid (species unknown, encysted in the stomach wall) and rhabditid nematodes (Rhabdias ranae, in the lungs and body cavity), and a myxosporean protozoan, Myxidium serotinum (in the gall bladder).
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Johnson, T.R. (1977). The Amphibians of Missouri. University of Kansas Publications, Lawrence, KS.
Mathis, A., Murray, K. L., and Hickman, C. R. (2003). ''Do experience and body size play a role in responses of larval ringed salamanders, Ambystoma annulatum, to predator kairomones? Laboratory and field assays .'' Ethology, 109, 159-170.
McAllister, C. T., Trauth, S. E., and Cochran, B. G. (1995). ''Endoparasites of the ringed salamander, Ambystoma annulatum (Caudata: Ambystomatidae), from Arkansas.'' The Southwestern Naturalist, 40, 327-330.
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Nyman, S., Wilkinson, R. F., and Hutcherson, J. E. (1993). ''Cannibalism and size relations in a cohort of larval ringed salamanders (Ambystoma annulatum).'' Journal of Herpetology, 27, 78-84.
Petranka, J. W. (1998). Salamanders of the United States and Canada. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington and London.
Spotila, J. R., and Beumer, R. J. (1970). ''The breeding habits of the ringed salamander, Ambystoma annulatum (Cope), in northwestern Arkansas.'' American Midlands Naturalist, 84, 77-89.
Trapp, M. M. (1956). ''Range and natural history of the ringed salamander Ambystoma annulatum, Cope (Ambystomatidae), .'' Southwestern Naturalist, 1, 78-82.
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Written by Charles P. McCormick (mccorm AT fas.harvard.edu), Harvard University
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Berliners giggle at Ost oddities in Goodbye Lenin! whilst East German kitsch fetches a good price in retro shops. We're not all laughing. Not when sporting heroes of former East Germany are being sold off cheap.
Doped as children without their knowledge, the GDR's ruined athletes had the chance to apply for compensation by March 31. Out of 10,000 affected only 300 people applied for the measly one time payment of five to ten thousand euros. Victims of medical malpractice in the past have received life-long pensions, but not these Ossies. The German government, already straining to meet reunification costs, set-up an application obstacle course that these crippled former top athletes were unable to cross.
One person who did manage was 44-year-old Olympic silver medallist Katharina Bullin. Now masculine, her bones are like that of an 80-year-old. Sitting and walking are painful. As a young girl she was whisked away to a residential training camp to become a GDR success. Without her knowledge anabolic steroids, testosterone and other drugs were mixed into her food, given to her as "vitamin" pills and injected. This enabled her to perform at levels higher than her formidable talents would have taken her. Up to 50 hours of hard training a week pumped with drugs pounded her young body. By 15 she played in the women's volleyball team as well as with the girls – an "honour".
"There was always the threat of being thrown out in disgrace. We were pushed and punished. One kilo overweight or seconds over time in training meant losing 50 marks off my wages and extra punishment training." Katharina pushed on, unwittingly helped by the "supporting means", the Stasi euphemism for doping.
Everyone's bodies change in puberty, and in this isolation there was no one to question why she and the other girls needed to shave their facial hair, why her hands grew enormous, why her voice became lower, why her periods stopped, why she became so aggressive and moody.
In his 2000 trial, Martin Ewald, the "mastermind" behind doping, urged coaches not to tell their charges. "They're still so young and don't have to know everything."
In the GDR, sport was so important that for the first time it was included in a country's constitution. With its 17 million people, East Germany hauled in a disproportionate amount of medals. Coaches and doctors couldn't resist the rich financial rewards. When Katharina won, the coaches who were destroying her life profited.
Used as a human guinea pig, the young athlete even underwent experiments at a secret centre. "There were no human control groups to test out the side effects of doping. All athletes at this level were doped. Tests on rats showed liver damage and testicular shrinkage etc..." says Professor Spitzer, the author of Doping in the GDR.
Throughout her training and competing Katharina suffered from incredible pain, sometimes having an electrical device strapped on at night to get a couple of hours sleep.
"My trainers said I was a hypochondriac… that I was weak and sent me to psychotherapy. I began to doubt my own feelings… I knew I felt pain but they were all saying I wasn't feeling it. My foot broke in two places. I now know that they ignored medical advice and put on a flexible plaster so that I could go straight back into training. I was even grateful… a special plaster, from the west, just for me!"
Katharina's shoulder was the main source of pain. Because of the Moscow 1980 Olympics, an operation was postponed. Post Olympics, early 1980s, ready to reach her peak, she was rushed into hospital. The damage to her shoulder was so acute that a bone was taken from her back and grafted in, as well as a prosthesis, a metal plate. "You've let us down," her trainer told her. Now useless she was dropped from the team. It was a normal pattern, confirms Dr. Spitzer.
"Doping started very early, around 11 years old. The GDR won many junior championships but didn't do so well with their seniors. Usually athletes start at 16 and reach their peak at 20-22. In East Germany, by the age of 18-20, they were used up – physically and mentally destroyed."
Addicted to the drugs that she had been given, Katharina couldn't cope without them. "I became an alcoholic, I was addicted to pills, I cut myself, I chain-smoked and suffered from bulimia. In the first months I gained 20 kilos, then lost 25. I had been told what to do every day of my life to the point of being told who to clap for in international games. I didn't know how to function."
It was only this January, 10 years after overcoming her addictions, six years after hearing that doping existed for the first time that she managed to see 90 pages of her surviving notes. The level of deceit by her trainers, her surrogate parents, was revealed. She wept on the phone, like many others, to Birgit Böse, at the doping victim advice centre running since last August. Birgit knows the pain of deception first hand.
As a promising shot-putter, Birgit was doped from age 12. Two and a half years later an injury stopped her career – and her doping. It was already too late. At 24 her sexual organs were like those of an 11-year-old. Despite increasing health problems she later became pregnant. When her sickly son was born with 41percent lung capacity a doctor suspected doping.
"When I finally saw in black and white that my trainer knew what she was giving me, that it was planned, that she knew what the side-effects were, I just broke apart. How could anyone do that? Damaging children in her care… and their children. It was too awful to believe."
According to Dr Spitzer, malformations include everything from clubfoot to blindness. "100 percent of women experience gynaecological problems. Many can't conceive or give birth to stillborn children when they do. The next generation suffers from disability, asthma and other illnesses.’’ As for the athletes themselves: "Women became male, men became female, for example weight lifters developed women's breasts. The liver and heart changed structure and the risk of cancer increased."
Many are puzzled why these unemployed and often unemployable medal holders didn't apply for compensation, however feeble it is. Unfortunately, mentally and physically, many were unable to. Medical problems and addictions stall their efforts. Many are unable to face the unravelling of their self-image. Their whole social status as heroes of the GDR was based on their sporting triumphs.
Others are, bizarrely, still not sure whether they were doped as doctors and trainers destroyed records. Stasi and hospital files need to be searched for scant evidence. And there are risks. If health insurance companies identify someone as a doping victim they refuse to pay out for care.
The coaches and doctors involved with the doping programme, those with the answers, are silent and unhelpful though a few have been fined and even imprisoned. Ewald, GDR minister of sport and president of his country's Olympic committee was given a 22 month suspended sentence. But most like Thomas Kohler, Katharina's trainer, are still getting paid to push German children and adults towards victory… Shush.
What would happen to the German bid to host the 2012 Olympics if the world was reminded that host city Leipzig was the centre of doping in the GDR? That the German Sydney Olympic team was partly in GDR trainer hands?
Birgit Böse huffs and puffs behind her desk perched on bricks. Her spine is too frail to bend down. The phones ring simultaneously, constantly. Her diary is full. "I thought it would have quietened down a bit since the deadline passed but it's got worse! The ball has started rolling, and what we're seeing here is just the beginning."
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"BOWER, a parish in the county of Caithness, Scotland, 10 miles to the N.W. of Wick. It is situated on the coast of the North Sea, near Dunnet Head. The surface is irregular, and partly under cultivation. Its highest point is at Heather Cow Cairn, from which there is a good prospect. There are two small lochs. The living, worth £191, is in the presbytery of Caithness, in the patronage of Sir James Colquhoun, Bart. There is also a Free church. Stone Lude, or Lutt, about 8 feet high, stands on a hill, and is considered a Scandinavian relic. Several cairns exist in the neighbourhood."
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At the MassDOT Visualizing Transportation Hackathon, the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT), in partnership with the Mass Big Data Initiative, will release a series of related data sets on travel in Massachusetts and will open a challenge to the public to collaborate around analyzing this data and visualizing resulting insights to help inform the future of transportation in the Commonwealth. We invite participants to explore a collection of transportation data with a specific focus on travel behavior, road-rail comparisons, and the energy, environmental, and social impacts of transportation mode-choice.
Each day in Massachusetts, travelers throughout the state make individual decisions on how to reach their destinations. Together, the public?s transportation ?mode choice? translates into significant outcomes which impact residents across the Commonwealth in many ways, including through traffic congestion, travel costs, and carbon emissions. To better understand traffic flows throughout the state, MassDOT installed pilot network of roadway sensors to provide real-time traffic management (RTTM) information on three major roadways- 93, I-90, and Rt. 3. Each of these roadway ?corridors? is paralleled by at least one light rail line. Participants are encouraged to show compelling insights from the available data, with a special priority around presenting the differences between driving vs. riding the train through specific corridors. The event is designed to encourage participants to choose their own most compelling ?lens? through which to analyze the data, which may include: travel cost, emissions, time delays, etc.
The event will draw upon several ?core? datasets covering travel behavior. This will provide a foundation from which comparisons can be made within the data and across additional, related regional datasets.
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Real-time Traffic Management (RTTM) data is collected by MassDOT via a pilot network of sensors that monitor traffic speed in three major roadway corridors (the ?three corridors?) in the Boston Metro area: I-90, 93, and Rt. 3. Sensors at regular intervals at the road level recognize and report the signals of bluetooth-enabled mobile devices in cars as they travel along roadways, calculating a the vehicle travel speed associated with travel between specific road-segments. No personally identifiable information is collected. Already successfully tested, this initial pilot network is already in the process of expanding statewide throughout 2014.
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The Miniature Schnauzer originated in 19th-century Germany. Originally intended to keep rats out of barns, they were derived from a mix of Standard Schnauzers, Affenpinschers and possibly Miniature Pinschers. The first Miniature Schnauzer on record appeared in 1888 and their first exhibition came in 1889. They began to be bred in the U.S. in 1925 and in 1933 the American Miniature Schnauzer Club was formed.The Look of a Miniature Schnauzer
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Not only does Mittsy not seem to know his audience very well, he seems completely unaware when he flips, and then right after that he flops.
Emphasis on 'flops.'
See, Mittsy was speaking to the NAACP--whose board of directors passed a same-sex marriage resolution two months ago--and he stressed the fact that he will represent all Americans, of “every race, creed and sexual orientation” if he was elected.
That was his flip.
Then he added that he opposes same-sex marriage.
See what he does? He'll represent all of us, even those with a different sexual orientation that The Great Romney, but he won't budge on the notion of marriage equality: "As president, I will promote strong families and defend traditional marriage.”
Apparently, gay couples don't make for a strong family, and traditional marriage, well, does he mean the traditional marriage of his grandfather who had more than one wife, or does he mean the traditional marriage of no interracial marriage?
Which tradition, Mittsy?
Sharon Lettman-Hicks, executive director of the National Black Justice Coalition said, “It is the president’s duty to protect all Americans and their families under the law. Thousands of LGBT couples are raising children and have marriages rooted in love and lifelong commitment--you don’t get more traditional than that. The U.S. Census shows that these couples are also more likely to be people of color, especially African American. If Romney’s pledge is to represent Americans of ‘every race, creed and sexual orientation,’ that includes loving and committed LGBT couples and the families they are providing for and protecting.”
Except he doesn't mean what he says.
R. Clarke Cooper, executive director of Log Cabin Republicans: “With his opening remarks to the NAACP today, Governor Romney sent a message that he recognizes the importance of an inclusive Republican vision for victory in November. He deserves credit for taking the step to include sexual orientation by name. That said, it is unfortunate that he countered his outreach to gay and lesbian Americans with a gratuitous attack on the freedom to marry. If Governor Romney truly desires to represent all Americans, Log Cabin Republicans encourages him to avoid divisive social issues and focus on jobs and the economy.”
Um, but he won't, because he's pandering to the most conservative faction of the GOP, because that's what Mittsy does, he says what he thinks you want to here, and then he says something else to a different group of people.
Fred Sainz, HRC spokesperson: "Mitt Romney doesn’t seem to think LGBT families deserve the same dignity and respect as the other families he vowed to protect in his remarks today before the NAACP. Romney refuses to recognize civil unions for LGBT couples--an extremist position he doesn’t even share with former President George W. Bush. Despite the NAACP’s historic endorsement of marriage equality and polling that shows nearly 60 percent of African Americans support marriage for their LGBT friends and loved ones, Romney continues to tow the line that LGBT people don’t deserve equal rights, benefits and protections under the law.”
But that's Mittsy. And that's what makes him so non-presidential. That he can stand before a group and say one thing--that he'll represent all of us--and then in the next breath offer the "except" shows that he'll do and say anything to become president. And that means we don't know anything about the man, where he stands on anything because he's too busy trying to stand on both sides at the same time, and even Mittsy isn't that adept. | <urn:uuid:24d5ecd2-8ee7-43ea-a960-cb6d1bc0cf1b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://ishouldbelaughing.blogspot.com/2012/07/next-watch-him-pull-rabbit-out-of-his.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280266.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00503-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97292 | 767 | 1.53125 | 2 |
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Steve Jobs was a kid once. So was Richard Branson. So who’s to say your son or daughter won’t be among the next generation of breakout innovators and entrepreneurs?
A new book called My First Startup, created by Brooklyn, N.Y.-based YourComicStory.com, aims to get kids thinking about business by teaching them lessons in time management, organization and communication. The Kickstarter page for the product launched today with a goal of $10,000.
Company co-founder and chief marketing officer Dave Kieve said the lessons in the book could have been helpful during his own younger years. “As a kid the only thing I did was save my lunch money and bought toys with it,” he says. “I should have learned about investing or something.”
The 32-page comic -- intended for kids between 8 and 12 -- follows the stories of two young entrepreneurs, Tanya and Kevin. Without giving too much away, the story follows both kids as they pursue their entrepreneurial aspirations. Kevin learns the ins and outs of what it takes to get an idea from concept to execution, while Tanya discovers the difficulties of maintaining work-life balance. The lessons are meant to be practical, actionable, and universally applicable, just as the book is meant to be appealing to children of all backgrounds.
The idea for an entrepreneurship-focused comic book came naturally to Kieve, 32, whose company YourComicStory.com creates personalized comics for businesses to use in their marketing or individuals to commemorate special occasions. He and fellow founders Russell Geyushev and Andrey Grubin combined their passion for entrepreneurship and My First Startup was born. It took about six months to go from concept to prototype and, so far, has cost the company $10,000, money spent to pay artists and writers and to create the video on their crowdfunding page.
The final product is the result of discussions from entrepreneurs, an economics professor and child psychologists, culminating in a story that Kieve hopes is not only packed with necessary advice, but also a story that’s fun to read.
“[The story] is not patronizing, not forced on them,” says Kieve. “They’re at the age where they’re dreamers and they have all of these awesome ideas, and then adults come in and tell them, ‘No you can’t do that. You have to be responsible.’ We want to get to them before that happens.”
What’s next for the company depends on the success of the comic, which will retail as an ebook for $5 and in print for $12 to the first 100 backers. Ideally, YourComicStory.com would follow up the Kickstarter campaign by selling My First Startup via traditional retail avenues and then spawn more kid-friendly products with an entrepreneurial focus. “We have some ideas,” says Kieve.
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June 2, 2018
There are currently 10,000 student drug addicts in middle schools and high schools in Iran, according to a recent report by the Ministry of Education. Tehran and Karaj are the only cities in the country that provide drug rehabilitation centers for children under 18.
There are no drug rehabilitation facilities for underage addicts in the northwestern province of Hamadan, according to the Lieutenant Governor Amir Kookaiyan. Mr. Kookaiyan, who heads the Drug Prevention Office of the Hamadan Welfare Organization, said the region was in urgent need of such camps for young addicts, who are mostly middle and high school students.
“Most facilities are for addicts who are between the ages of 18 and 60,” Kookaiyan said. “We didn’t have an alarming number of underage drug addicts last year. Thankfully, Hamadan is not facing a major crisis in this area.”
Over 100,000 underage school students are susceptible to drug addiction, according to an alarming report released on May 14 by Dr. Mansour Kiani, the director of the Ministry of Education’s Office for the Reduction of Social Harm.
Fatemeh Abbasi, the director of the Welfare Department’s Center for the Drug Prevention and Rehabilitation, concurs with Dr. Kiani. “The Ministry of Education, the Welfare Department and the Ministry of Health have started a project entitled ‘symbol’ aimed at addressing drug addiction among underage students,” Ms. Abbasi said. “The scheme also involves social workers, psychologists and other experts providing help to underprivileged students and those without any legal guardians.”
The head of the office for the Social and Cultural Welfare of East Azerbaijan Province, Behrouz Mahdavi, said last month that 35 percent of students in the secondary high school in Tehran had tried hookah, 11 percent had drunk alcohol, and 15 percent had smoked cigarettes.
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Ultra-high density & high temperature / strength stability
- Very high density of 19.3 gm/cc
- Radiopaque to x-rays and other radiation
- High strength at extreme high temperatures (vacuum)
- Excellent corrosion resistance
- Mechanical properties of tungsten pan head screws
- Tungsten material datasheet
- Pan head screw features & benefits
Tungsten pan head screws are known for their extreme high density; because of this unique attribute, they are often used for balancing rotating parts. Tungsten’s high mass also makes these screws radiopaque. This allows tungsten fasteners to block radiation and show up well on x-rays – even better than lead. Another unique attribute of tungsten is its extrmely high melting point of 3420°C. The high temperature stability of tungsten pan head screws make them ideal for some of the hottest vacuum furnace environments. Beyond their high mass and temperature stability, tungsten fasteners are also very corrosion resistant.
Tungsten pan head screws are usually made from tungsten alloys per ASTM B777, and range from 90% to 97% pure tungsten, alloyed with nickel and copper or nickel and iron. Fasteners can also be made from Commercially Pure (CP) Tungsten.
- The aerospace industry depends on the tungsten pan head screws for their combination of high density and mechanical strength which allows them to reduce the physical size of components, offering greater control of weight distribution for propellers, inertial systems and fluid control systems to name a few.
- The heat treating / furnace industry uses tungsten screws in high temperature vacuum furnaces due to tungstens great high temperature strength & stability.
- The oil & gas industry uses tungsten pan head screws for radiation shielding properties to protect equipment used in oil and gas detection, as well as down hole logging for density and ability to withstand intense hydrostatic pressure
- Tungsten screws also play a role in the medical community for their low magnetic properties as well as their radiopaque properties.
Resources: Tungsten Torque Specs
Pan head screws are flat on top and rounded on the sides. Tungsten pan head screws are ideal for:
• Small diameter fasteners – especially when the fastener size needed is too small for a wrench.
• When phillips or slotted drivers are desired. For many high strength specialty alloys, only slotted drives are available.
• Low torque applications because the drivers don’t offer as much force as a wrench.
• Large diameter head provides more clamping area.
How Are They Different from Button Head Screws?
Tungsten pan head and button head screws have very similar profiles however, button head screws allow for a hex socket driver whereas pan head screws do not.
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In his speech Delanoe noted the strong effect that Paris had on Herzl’s battle.Support for zionism can co-exist with "a similar attachment to the Palestinian cause." Help me somebody!
It was in Paris, while reporting on the Dreyfus affair, a Jewish French military captain was falsely convicted of espionage, where that Herzl realised the strength of anti-Semitism.
The Viennese reporter covered the trial in which Alfred Dreyfus was falsely accused of betraying France in favour of Germany and witnessed how Captain Dreyfus was degraded by the army.
The Dreyfus affair made Herzl aware of the situation in Europe. He later wrote his book Der Judenstaat, ‘the State of the Jews’ and devoted his life to the creation of the Jewish state.
“Jews can live outside of Israel but they cannot live without Israel,” [yuk!] said the mayor of Paris who added that this did not exclude a similar attachment to the Palestinian cause.
July 10, 2006
Paris now has a square dedicated to the founder of modern political zionism, Theodor Herzl. The European Jewish Press reports the sheer sycophancy expressed towards Israel and its pro-imperialist founder at the opening of the square.
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10 edition of Practical Thai cooking found in the catalog.
1985 by Kodansha International, Distributed in the U.S. by Kodansha International/USA through Harper & Row in Tokyo, San Francisco, New York, N.Y .
Written in English
|Statement||Puangkram C. Schmitz, Michael J. Worman.|
|Contributions||Worman, Michael J.|
|LC Classifications||TX724.5.T5 S38 1985|
|The Physical Object|
|Pagination||180 p., p. of plates :|
|Number of Pages||180|
|LC Control Number||85040060|
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Tips for studying from home
Due to government guidance on Covid-19, our Schools community have now found themselves studying from home for the coming months.
We know it can be difficult to effectively keep on track with your schoolwork when studying from home for a prolonged period of time, therefore, we’ve put together a series of helpful tips on what you can do to make it easier.
1. Work in a designated ‘Study Area’
It can be incredibly easy to slip into the pattern of choosing to work from your bed, or the sofa, when studying from home and these comfy, reassuring environments only appeal to us even more when we are stressed! However, they aren’t the most effective places to work and can have negative implications down the line.
Choose a place in your house, such as a desk, or the dining room table, where you can set up your workspace and work each day. Make sure that there is plenty of light and space, and that it’s free from distractions, such as the television or games consoles. When you have breaks throughout the day, make sure that you move away from this area, so that you only associate it with focused work.
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2. Follow a routine
If you are having to stay at home for a prolonged period of time, it’s easy to fall out of your routine and lose track of time. We would recommend structuring your day just the same as you would any other school day, just without the bit where you travel to school!
Give yourself study periods in the times when you would usually have lessons, and structure in breaks and lunch to reflect the school day as well.
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3. Get ready for the day
Remember that your personal hygiene and self-care regime should also follow your usual patterns. Avoid choosing to stay in your pyjamas all day, as this will discourage you from working, and instead get dressed and ready for the day. This will help the day feel more normal and encourage you to focus on the tasks you need to do.
4. Avoid distractions
It’s important to maintain a healthy study-life balance and ensure that you still do lots of the activities that you enjoy in your time at home. However, try to not get distracted by your mobile phone, the television or games consoles in the time you have chosen to work – instead, it’s good to structure time in for both activities throughout the day.
5. Take regular breaks
The school day is set up with regular breaks throughout the morning for an important reason, so make sure that you also give yourself that time to rest and recuperate between study sessions. Even though you may feel that you can get more work done and finish your work more quickly if you do not have a break, it will result in you being more tired in the long run and therefore negatively impact the quality of both your work and your recreation time.
It’s important to fuel your body and mind with the nutrients that it needs to thrive. Try to maintain a healthy, balanced diet, drink plenty of water and stay as physically active as you can whilst you are staying at home. You should also try to stick to a regular bedtime, and get up at a similar time each morning.
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Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910:
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody
wants to read.
A flea can be taught everything a congressman can.
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned
out for what he knows.
A man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who
can't read them.
A patriot is mocked, scorned and hated; yet when his cause succeeds, all
men will join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
An ethical man is a Christian holding four aces.
As I slowly grow wise I briskly grow cautious.
Be careless in your dress, if you must; but keep a tidy soul.
Be good and you will be lonesome.
Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any.
Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness,
doubtless the other assures it.
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you
nothing. It was here first.
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist,
but you have ceased to live.
Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly,
don't tell them where they know the fish.
Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
Even popularity can be overdone. In Rome, along at first, you are full
of regrets that Michelangelo died; but by and by you only regret that
you didn't see him do it.
Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
Familiarity breeds contempt- and children.
France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these
drawbacks it is a fine country.
Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and
how little we think of the other person.
Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you
must have somebody to divide it with.
Half of the results of a good intention are evil; half the results of an
evil intention are good.
He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring
He was a sinking ship with no cargo to throw overboard.
Heaven for climate, hell for society.
Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your
dog would go in.
Heaven is for spirituality; Hell is for fellowship.
Honesty is the best policy- when there is money in it.
I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the
I believe that our Heavenly Father created the monkey because he was
disappointed in man.
I can live for two months on a good compliment.
I did not attend his funeral, but I wrote a nice letter saying I
approved of it.
I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have
friends in both places.
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
I have no color prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices.
All I care to know is that a man is a human being, and that is enough
for me; he can't be any worse.
I would like to live in Manchester, England. The transition between
Manchester and death would be unnoticeable.
I'm glad I did it, partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I
shall never have to do it again.
I'm glad the old masters are dead and I only wish they had died sooner.
If a person offends you and you are in doubt as to whether it was
intentional or not, do not resort to extreme measures. Simply watch your
chance and hit him with a brick.
If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but it would
deteriorate the cat.
If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together,
who would escape hanging?
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite
you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate
circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made
Ironically, those people that complain of boredom tend to be incredibly
Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its one sure defense.
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three
unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience,
and the prudence never to practice either of them.
It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to
the heart, the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.
It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful
to miss it.
Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not
Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.
Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not
understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.
Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as
if she had laid an asteroid.
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only
one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it. It is a trait that
is not known to the higher animals.
Oh Death, where is thy sting? It has none. But life has.
One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a
cat has only nine lives.
Principles have no real force except when one is well fed.
Put all your eggs in the one basket and- watch that basket.
Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of
Congress. But I repeat myself.
Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and
carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real
opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for
Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who
are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.
Such is the human race, often it seems a pity that Noah... didn't miss
The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but
the medical practice changes.
The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven, not man's.
The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days
of the year.
The inability to forget is infinitely more devastating than the
inability to remember,
The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink
what you don't like and do what you'd rather not.
The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no
humor in heaven.
The surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.
The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
There are several good precautions against temptation, but the surest is
There are three things which I consider excellent advice. First, don't
smoke to excess. Second, don't drink to excess. Third, don't marry to
There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and
finish the farce.
There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when
he can't afford it, and when he can.
There has never been an intelligent person of the age of sixty who would
consent to live his life over again.
There is no distinctly American criminal class- except Congress.
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower
is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
Truth is stranger than Fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to
stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
Virtue has never been as respectable as money.
We've got so much taxation. I don't know of a single foreign product
that enters this country untaxed except the answer to prayer.
What a man misses mostly in heaven is company.
What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The
taxidermist takes only your skin.
When a boy turns 13, put him in a barrel and feed him through a knot
hole. When he turns 16, plug up the hole.
When I think of the number of disagreeable people that I know who have
gone to a better world, I am sure hell won't be so bad at all.
When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it happened or
When some men discharge an obligation you can hear the report for miles
When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life
Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
You can not depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
You can't reason someone out of something they weren't reasoned into.
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In organizations that are shifting toward higher levels of labor-management collaboration, “joint” communication that includes both management and union perspectives can demonstrate that organizational change is taking place in immediate and very visible ways. When employees see communication processes begin to reflect diverse perspectives– rather than strictly the company line or union messaging– it signals movement to a more open and honest environment and the development of collaborative relationships. Joint work and joint communication go hand and hand, each supporting and strengthening the other.
I have seen many cases in which labor and management relationships mature to the point where the parties agree to serve up information through a communication vehicle produced by a joint team. When they do, surveys consistently show that employees consider the information more balanced and credible. In addition, employees indicate joint communication better reflects perspectives and language they can relate to. These joint communication vehicles also provide people a forum for reading about the collaborative process, the experiences of those involved on joint teams and the positive results achieved.
One example from my work with American Airlines involved a Joint Leadership Team (JLT) at an airport, which was comprised of management leaders from various functions and frontline employees, including some union-represented. As part of their monthly meeting, they dedicated time to canvas airport employees and share important business issues with them. The JLT decided on the key information points to share and agreed on a specific question to ask employees in order to gather input and ideas.
One week they focused on critical flights departing on time. They translated the station’s weekly and monthly goals into meaningful information. For example, they let employees know the airport had consistently missed its flight departure goal by one flight a month. People rallied around this new awareness, seeing that the improvement goal was attainable. As part of this information blitz, the joint team asked employees for their ideas to improve the on-time departure of critical flights. Within an hour, JLT members had gathered a solid list of suggestions and issues that could be addressed to improve their operation’s dependability. The team produced a monthly joint business newsletter, where they published the results of the information blitz, the ideas generated and their status, resulting in increased awareness among all employees.
Collaborative communication that focuses on business education, like de-mystifying on-time departure goals, can go a long way in helping employees understand the business and increasing their trust in the information they receive. This creates an opportunity for more informed dialogue and participation. Just as the airport team experienced, once people better understand business issues and goals, they can generate and support solutions that improve performance. The key is to involve employees in the process, assuring that communication plays a central role.
Where have you seen labor and management leaders work together to create effective communication that improved business understanding and performance?
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Scientists find civilization where it isn't supposed to be
A dig in Syria unearths a 6,000-year-old city, challenging theories about how cities spread.
The cradle of civilization just got rocked.
As school kids everywhere can tell you, humanity's first cities and history - defined as a written record - sprouted in Mesopo-tamia, along the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates, and spread to the rest of the world.
But now, an international archaeological team says it has unearthed a nearly 6,000-year-old city in the northeast corner of Syria that challenges long-cherished notions about the beginnings of civilization.
While researchers are wary of abandoning old theories completely, the site at Hamoukar has yielded evidence that government and industry existed in a place - and time - where few had expected them. As a result, scientists are revising their ideas about when and how cities spread.
"It's actually quite amazing," says Clemens Reichel, a team member from the University of Chicago. "We have to accept that Hamoukar development happened contemporaneously and independently from Mesopotamia."
Scientists define the notion of city and civilization in a number of ways. Most important, they look for specialization of labor and a governmental structure. Among the indicators found at the tell, or mound, at Hamoukar is the outline of a wall and sophisticated potterymaking that shows division of labor. Large ovens hint at industrial cooking and brewing, and seals, which were a precursor to writing and were used for administrative control, point to the development of an elite class and some form of government.
For some time, archaeologists had believed that such sophistication - so long ago - could not have existed in far-flung Syria. Widely accepted theories held that civilization spilled north from what is now Iraq around 3500 BC, following trade routes out of Uruk, the Rome of ancient Mesopotamia.
Situated in southern Iraq, not far from the head of the Persian gulf, Uruk lacked almost all the raw materials needed to fuel a city - timber, stone, and metal. So it established caravan routes that brought raw materials from the north and east. The finished goods were manufactured in the south, then sold or traded back to the outlying areas, principally benefiting Mesopotamia.
But the evidence uncovered at Hamoukar, on an arid plain about five miles from the border with Iraq, shows clear evidence of a city already in existence by at least 3700 BC.
The find, which will be presented at a conference in Denmark this week, has led to widespread speculation. Some researchers have suggested that cities may not have spread from south to north - or even sprung up simultaneously - but rather spread from north to south.
Others, however, are hesitant to drop the old model. "It seems to be an extremely important site for our understanding of the fourth millennium, but they've had [only] one season of excavation, and we're already starting to speculate on how it's going to change our understanding of Mesopotamia," says Richard Zettler, an archaeologist from the University of Pennsylvania, who has done extensive work in the region. "In a sense I think we're jumping the gun."
To help establish fact, researchers are already turning their sights to the previous epoch, which is known as the Ubaid period and stretched from 7500 to 6000 BC. It was during this period that a type of pottery that originated in the south spread across the Middle East, including Hamoukar.
"That suggests to me that clearly the people in the north are emulating the pottery being made in the south," says Mr. Zettler. "So I would not necessarily give up the idea that southern Mesopotamia was the dominant cultural, economic and political entity."
The Chicago teams' finding at Hamoukar didn't come as a complete surprise to archaeologists. "Hamoukar confirms what we recently started to think was happening," says Mitchell Rothman, an anthropologist at Widener University in Chester, Pa.
For the past decade or so, evidence of early city development in the north has been accumulating. Recently, top researchers gathered in Santa Fe, N.M., to meld crumbling old theories about the dawn of civilization with fast developing new ones.
Mr. Rothman says a loose consensus developed around the idea that the period of contact and trade between the north and south, rather than lasting for approximately 200 years around 3500 BC, was much longer, on the order of 500 to 700 years, stretching back further in time.
Most archaeologists still believe cities originated in the south and that further excavation will prove they developed in the Ubaid period. But making that determination is a challenge both physical and political. Although some European teams have reportedly gone back into the territory of ancient Sumeria recently, American archaeologists don't figure to return to Saddam Hussein's Iraq any time soon.
The depth of archaeological evidence at many sites is likewise daunting. In some areas of Mesopotamia, 6,000-year-old proto-cites lie under 90 feet of debris. Digging an exploratory shaft to that depth isn't difficult, but excavating dozens of acres to that level becomes a monumental earth-moving challenge in a discipline largely given over to trowels and dusters.
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One of your primary goals is to ensure that your messages are getting to your target audience. One of the best ways to accomplish that is to comply with ISPs requirements by authenticating your email messages.
What is Email Authentication? Email authentication verifies the identity of the email senders and confirms that the email message is sent from the source that is stated as the sender of the message.
How is this information used by ISPs? Validating the identity of the email sender is important for ISPs to fight fraud and forgery. Email authentication simplifies and automates the process for ISPs to verify the identity of the email senders so they can eliminate fraud. If the email messages are not authenticated then ISPs are likely to reject these messages if they suspect spoofing or phishing.
What methods are used to authenticate email messages?
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Domain Keys and DKIM is a cryptographic based authentication. With this methodology, the sender of the message adds a digital signature (a key) in the header of the message that can only be verified by the ISPs. The ISPs look at the sending domain name and digital signature, and performs a DNS look-up to verify that the digital signature is authentic.
Do I need to authenticate my email messages? Yes. If your messages are not authenticated then ISPs are likely to block connections so you should always authenticate your messages. Some ISPs use Sender ID/SPF and others use Domain Keys/DKIM so it is important to authenticate your messages with both standards.
If I use authentication, does that mean my messages will not be blocked? ISPs use your IP and domain reputation to decide if messages should be accepted or rejected, and if it should be delivered to the inbox or the bulk folder. Authentication helps ISPs determine your identity but it does not improve your reputation. In other words, authentication may or may not improve your deliverability but the absence of authentication will hurt your deliverability even if you maintain a good reputation.
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A Guide to the C. P. Wickmiller Photographs, 1883
C. P. Wickmiller of Wichita, Kansas, settled in Kingfisher, Oklahoma, was a druggist, served as chairman of the Board of Pharmaceutical Association in territorial Oklahoma, and was an early member of the Oklahoma Historical Society, which holds his archives.
Eight photographs document the 1883 incursion of David L. Payne into Oklahoma with a party of white settlers in covered wagons, one of eight invasions of Indian Territory, which eventually resulted, in 1885, in legislation in the U. S. Congress allowing the purchase of unused lands from the Indians and making white settlement of Indian Territory a certainty.
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Recognition of the role of community pharmacists during disasters
29 April, 2020
The Pharmacy Guild of Australia has called for formal recognition of the need for community pharmacists to be involved in disaster recovery and relief efforts, including planning, preparation and response.
In its submission to the Royal Commission into National Natural Disaster Arrangements, the Guild acknowledges those affected by the 2019-20 bushfire season, especially those who lost their homes, livelihoods and lives fighting these bushfires, including State and Territory emergency service personnel.
“The Guild is committed to working with all governments, agencies, stakeholders and community groups through the provision of pharmacy services to work toward a swift recovery for those communities affected by this disaster,” the submission states.
Other recommendations in the submission include:
- The expansion of Continued Dispensing and complementary emergency supply arrangements to be made a permanent feature of Australia’s health system;
- A community pharmacist representative to be included in national natural disaster taskforces or commissions;
- The immediate inclusion of a community pharmacist representative in future national disaster response and recovery working groups, and incident/emergency operations centres as required.
The submission highlights that the Guild is committed to working with other healthcare professionals, stakeholders, community organisations, and all levels of Government in Australia to improve safe and quality healthcare services and health infrastructure that aim to support all Australians, including in times of crisis or disaster.
“The 2019-20 bushfire season caused significant damage and disruption, and the health system was under increased strain,” the submission states.
“Pharmacists, as frontline health professionals, played a vital role in ensuring patients received the medication and advice they needed to get them through the crisis, often under stressful, trying and difficult conditions and circumstances.
“In order to help shape future national natural disaster planning, preparation, response and recovery efforts, we need to better utilise all the features of Australia’s health system, including community pharmacists.”
Read the full submission here.
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He grew up, had a family, and bought property in Stratford, but he worked in London, the center of English theater. As an actor, a playwright, and a partner in a leading acting company, he became both prosperous and well-known.
What did Shakespeare do for a living in London?
From about 1590 to 1613, Shakespeare lived mainly in London and by 1592 was a well-known actor there. He was also a playwright. His play, Henry VI, was performed at the Rose theatre in 1592. … So, for about twenty years, he made money from acting, writing and running a theatre company.
Where did Shakespeare spend most of his time in London?
We can assume that he worked and spent his leisure time in the Bankside area of London, where the Globe Theatre was built. Various records indicate that he lived in St. Helen’s Bishopsgate, near Shoreditch, and subsequently in Bankside near the Globe, before moving back to North London to live near Barbican.
What was Shakespeare’s first job?
Sometime between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part-owner of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlain’s Men, later known as the King’s Men.
When did Shakespeare move to London?
Shakespeare’s ‘lost years’
A seven-year gap in Shakespeare’s biography – between 1585 and 1592 – is another source of frustration to historians. At some point in this period, Shakespeare moved from Stratford-upon-Avon to London, where he emerges, in 1592, as a successful actor and playwright.
What plays did Shakespeare write in London?
Shakespeare’s reputation was established in London by 1592. It was during this time that Shakespeare wrote his earliest plays, including Henry VI Part 1, Henry VI Part 2, Henry VI Part 3, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, and Titus Andronicus, though it is often debated which of these plays was actually the first.
What did Shakespeare do for a living?
We do know that Shakespeare’s life revolved around two locations: Stratford and London. He grew up, had a family, and bought property in Stratford, but he worked in London, the center of English theater. As an actor, a playwright, and a partner in a leading acting company, he became both prosperous and well-known.
What was it like in Shakespeare’s London?
Shakespeare’s London was home to a cross-section of early modern English culture. Its populace of roughly 100,000 people included royalty, nobility, merchants, artisans, laborers, actors, beggars, thieves, and spies, as well as refugees from political and religious persecution on the continent.
Where did Shakespeare live in London?
Evidence suggests the Bard lived at what is now known as 35 Great St Helen’s – a site next to St Helen’s Church occupied by an office block.
What was Shakespeare’s reputation in London?
In his own time, William Shakespeare (1564–1616) was rated as merely one among many talented playwrights and poets, but since the late 17th century has been considered the supreme playwright and poet of the English language.
What’s the name of Shakespeare’s wife?
Who was Shakespeare’s Wife? William Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway in November 1582 and they remained married until Shakespeare’s death. At the time of their marriage William was 18, while Anne was 26—and pregnant with their first child.
What jobs did Shakespeare have?
William Shakespeare was an actor, a playwright, and a poet, and, possibly, a soldier. Born in the country, Shakespeare was the son of a farmer, who was the son of a farmer. Determined to make his way in the world, William Shakespeare found a career in the entertainment business in London, where he was first an actor.
Why did Shakespeare work in London?
Speculation #4: Shakespeare went to London for work in order to provide for his family financially. Shakespeare invested in tithe shares as well as property in Stratford after his move to London. … As the prior answer indicates, there is a period in Shakespeare’s life known as the Lost Years (1578-82 and 1585-92).
What major events happened in Shakespeare’s life?
Timeline of Shakespeare’s Life
- 1564: William Shakespeare born in Stratford-upon-Avon.
- 1582: Shakespeare marries Anne Hathaway.
- 1583: Shakespeare’s first child, Susanna, is born.
- 1585: Shakespeare’s twins, Judith and Hamnet, are born.
- 1592: Shakespeare is first alluded to as a playwright, in Greene’s Groates-worth of Wit.
What is Shakespeare known for?
Many people believe William Shakespeare is the best British writer of all time. His many works are about life, love, death, revenge, grief, jealousy, murder, magic and mystery. He wrote the blockbuster plays of his day – some of his most famous are Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet. | <urn:uuid:c0328cb4-93a3-4ddf-a265-6c46f30ad5a3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://billanglin.com/sightseeing/your-question-what-did-shakespeare-do-for-a-living-while-he-lived-in-london.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00668.warc.gz | en | 0.980773 | 1,115 | 2.78125 | 3 |
1 But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.
2 Early in the morning he came again to the temple; all the people came to him, and he sat down and taught them.
3 Then the scribes and the Pharisees brought to him a woman caught in adultery. And when they had set her in the midst,
4 they said to him, »Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery.
5 Now in the law Moses commanded us to stone such. What do you say?«
6 They said this to test him, that they might have something of which to accuse him. But Jesus bent down and wrote on the ground with his finger.
7 And when they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, »Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.«
8 And again he stooped down and wrote on the ground.
9 Then those who heard it went away one by one, beginning with the oldest even to the last, and Jesus was left alone, with the woman standing before him.
10 Jesus straightened up and said to her, »Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?«
11 She said, »No one, Lord.« And Jesus said, »Neither do I condemn you; go, and sin no more.«
12 Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, »I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.«
13 The Pharisees then said to him, »You are bearing witness of yourself; your testimony is not true.«
14 Jesus answered, »Even if I bear witness of myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from and where I am going; but you do not know where I come from and where I am going.
15 You judge according to the flesh; I judge no one.
16 And yet if I do judge, my judgment is true, for I am not alone, but I am with the Father who sent me.
17 In your own law it is written that the testimony of two men is true.
18 I am One who bears witness of myself, and the Father who sent me bears witness of me.«
19 Then they said to him, »Where is your Father?« Jesus answered, »You know neither me nor my Father; if you knew me, you would know my Father also.«
20 These words he spoke in the treasury, as he taught in the temple; but no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.
21 Then Jesus said to them again, »I am going away, and you will seek me, and will die in your sin. Where I go you cannot come.«
22 Then the Jews said, »Will he kill himself, since he says, Where I go you cannot come?«
23 He said to them, »You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.
24 Therefore I told to you that you would die in your sins; for if you do not believe that I am he, you will die in your sins.«
25 They said to him, »Who are you?« Jesus said to them, »Just what I have been saying to you from the beginning.
26 I have much to say about you and much to judge; but he who sent me is true, and I declare to the world what I have heard from him.«
27 They did not understand that he spoke to them of the Father.
28 So Jesus said, »When you have lifted up the Son of man, then you will know that I am he, and that I do nothing on my own authority but speak just what the Father taught me.
29 And he who sent me is with me; he has not left me alone, for I always do what is pleasing to him.«
30 As he spoke these words, many believed in him.
31 Jesus then said to the Jews who had believed in him, »If you continue in my word, you are truly my disciples.
32 And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.«
33 They answered him, »We are Abraham's descendants, and have never been in bondage to anyone. How can you say, You will be made free?«
34 Jesus answered them, »Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who commits sin is a slave of sin.
35 And a slave does not continue in the house forever, but a son continues forever.
36 So if the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.
37 I know that you are Abraham's descendants, yet you seek to kill me, because my word has no place in you.
38 I speak of what I have seen with my Father, and you do what you have heard from your Father.«
39 They answered him, »Abraham is our father.« Jesus said to them, »If you were Abraham's children, you would do the things Abraham did,
40 but now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth which I heard from God. This is not what Abraham did.
41 You do the deeds of your father.« They said to him, »We were not born of fornication; we have one Father God.«
42 Jesus said to them, »If God were your Father, you would love me, for I proceeded and came forth from God; I have not come of my own accord, but he sent me.
43 Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you are not able to hear my word.
44 You are of your father the devil, and you want to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
45 But because I tell the truth, you do not believe me.
46 Which of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?
47 He who is of God hears the words of God; the reason you do not hear them is that you are not of God.«
48 The Jews answered him, »Are we not right in saying that you are a Samaritan and have a demon?«
49 Jesus answered, »I do not have a demon; but I honor my Father, and you dishonor me.
50 Yet I do not seek my own glory; there is One who seeks it and he will be the judge.
51 Truly, truly, I say to you, if anyone keeps my word he will never see death.«
52 The Jews said to him, »Now we know that you have a demon! Abraham died, as did the prophets; and you say, If anyone keeps my word, he will never taste death.
53 Are you greater than our father Abraham? He died, and so did the prophets. Who do you claim to be?«
54 Jesus answered, »If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say that he is your God.
55 But you have not known him; I know him. If I said, I do not know him, I would be a liar like you; but I do know him and keep his word.
56 Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day; he saw it and was glad.«
57 The Jews then said to him, »You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?«
58 Jesus said to them, »Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.«
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Readers, I made a mistake. In the open to my review of Netherland, I talked of the novel’s declaring its own eulogy “in the grand tradition of Louis XIV.” The facts are right; the wording isn’t. Substitute “epitaph” for “eulogy,” understand that in both cases it was accidental, and perhaps I’ll have a shred of credibility left after this week’s introduction.
It is impossible to read Roberto Bolaño’s massive masterpiece, 2666, and not immediately think of the circumstances surrounding his writing of it. Bolaño penned 2666 during the last five years of his life, suffering from the liver disease that he knew would ultimately kill him, as it did July 15, 2003.
As a result, 2666, an 898-page tome of a novel that Kirkus Reviews called “unquestionably the finest novel of the present century—and we may be saying the same thing 92 years from now,” is nothing short of Bolaño’s preemptive and fully conscious attempt to crash his funeral and deliver a eulogy not looking back on his life, but rather looking forward to his legacy.
Bolaño’s preferred subject has always (and here, I mean in his fiction; I am unfamiliar with his poetry) been the writer. His novels and novellas have, hitherto without exception, been told by writers and about writers. Whereas his other major work, The Savage Detectives, explored the lives of writers, 2666 deals in their deaths. The novel is, quite simply, enamored with death and its (non-corporal) consequences. | <urn:uuid:eaa8dc5b-ba4a-461c-970a-e7241fe49bd9> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://npinopunintended.wordpress.com/2009/07/19/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283301.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00512-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981298 | 361 | 1.507813 | 2 |
It always pays to learn from the mistakes of others! A large clothing retailer recently entered into a settlement agreement with the Department of Justice (DOJ) following an allegation that the company discriminated against a non-US citizen in violation of federal immigration laws, including the Immigration and Nationality Act. What did the employer do wrong? It required the employee to produce a green card as part of the I-9 process. As a reminder, employers are not permitted to ask for a specific form of identification when collecting I-9’s. Employees can choose from the available options suggested on the form, and employers must take what they get.
The DOJ settlement includes a hefty back-pay award and DOJ monitoring of the company’s employment verification practices for the next two years.
So, how might this settlement affect your business? The Immigration and Nationality Act prohibits discrimination based on citizenship status and national origin in hiring, firing and recruitment. Retaliation and intimidation for reporting discrimination also is prohibited. Companies should reevaluate and monitor their I-9 verification and re-verification practices. Avoid asking for specific or additional documents from new hires and when re-verifying an existing employee. Stick to the form – and if you have questions, talk to your lawyer! | <urn:uuid:2c5c9d8b-61ed-45e8-865c-243377a5c374> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=5c322831-b9a9-45e1-bdc9-9a91a1fe6633 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279189.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00055-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955759 | 255 | 1.523438 | 2 |
|Title||Water storage in mountain basins from satellite snow cover monitoring|
|Publication Type||Journal Article|
|Year of Publication||1997|
|Authors||Rango A., Martinec J.|
|Journal||Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems for Design and Operation of Water Resources Systems|
The average areal water equivalent of the seasonal snow cover on 1 April in the basin of the Rio Grande at Del Norte, Colorado (3419 km3, 2432-4215 m a.s.l.) is evaluated from periodical snow cover mapping by Landsat. A dry, near-average and wet hydrological year are examined. Snow reserves in terms of water storage volumes are computed in three elevation zones for actual temperatures and for a projected climate change of +4°C. The decrease of snow accumulation in a warmer climate results in a significant increase of the winter runoff and a corresponding decrease of the summer runoff. The computed winter/summer proportions change from 24/76% to 29/71% in dry year 1977, from 13/87% to 28/72% in the average year 1976, and from 7.5/92.5% to 12/88% the wet year 1979. An assessment of the seasonal recession from winter to summer reveals that the actual climate effect is even greater. | <urn:uuid:6bf00d87-d502-4d52-9400-3095c8769ea1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://jornada.nmsu.edu/biblio/water-storage-mountain-basins-satellite-snow-cover-monitoring | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573908.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820043108-20220820073108-00264.warc.gz | en | 0.84248 | 323 | 2.25 | 2 |
It is well-known that computer has played an extremely significant role in saving data, searching materials and many other aspects. Nevertheless, from another perspective, it seems that our privacy will be easily disclosed by the data and searching history if our computers are used, hacked, or stolen by other people. For the sake of protecting our privacy, clearing search history on computer is highly recommended. Therefore, this article will exclusively introduce how to do it on Windows 8 or 8.1 computers.
Video guide on how to clear search history on Windows 8:
Way 1: Clear all search history in PC settings.
Step 1: Go to PC settings from the Start Menu or Desktop.
Step 2: In PC settings, choose Search in the left menu, and click Delete history on the right, as shown in the following screenshot.
After a while, as you can see from the picture below, the process of deleting search history is done.
Way 2: Clear search history by deleting search items one by one.
Open Computer with the hotkey of Windows key+E, click in the search box on the top right, point at the search item you want to remove and press Delete on the keyboard.
Looking at the following photo, you can see that the selected search item is deleted instantly.
In a word, once the search history on the computer is deleted, no one else can know what have been searched except the computer owner. As a consequence, the privacy is preserved to a large extent.
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Anyone who has ever watched a cop show on TV knows how Miranda rights work. After a suspect is apprehended, the arresting officer alerts that person to his or her rights—specifically, the right to remain silent and the right to legal counsel. The warning protects suspects from incriminating themselves and the state from later introducing inadmissible evidence.
Easy enough, right? Well, it's never been that simple for immigrant noncitizens, whether they're legal permanent residents or undocumented. When noncitizens are arrested by, say, local law enforcement, they are read their rights like anyone else. But when they're picked up by immigration officers (Border Patrol or Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents), there are separate but similar Miranda-like procedures those officials must follow.
At least, there used to be. On August 11, in a surprising and precedent-setting decision (PDF), the country's highest administrative tribunal on immigration decided that noncitizens arrested without a warrant do not need to be read their rights until after entering formal deportation proceedings—that is, until well after questioning by immigration officers. From the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) decision:
Until an alien who is arrested without a warrant is placed in formal proceedings by the filing of a Notice to Appear (Form I-862), the regulation…does not require immigration officers to advise the alien that he or she has a right to counsel and that any statements made during interrogation can subsequently be used against the alien.
The nonprofit American Immigration Council's Legal Action Center was quick to condemn the ruling. "This decision epitomizes the substandard system of justice that's been created and imposed on immigrants in the United States," said Melissa Crow, the center's director, in a statement. "The Board's ruling renders the advisals practically meaningless and makes immigrants less likely to remain silent when questioned and less likely to assert their right to counsel."
The case deals with a legal US resident from Guatemala who was caught by Border Patrol officers in 2004 trying to sneak his nephew into the United States. In the eight hours that passed between his arrest and the initiation of formal proceedings, the man "admitted that he knowingly used his son's birth certificate to try to smuggle his nephew into the United States." The man was ordered removed from the country, and the case was in appeals until the BIA handed down its ruling, deciding that the eight hours of detention did not qualify as the start of formal proceedings.
In a phone interview Wednesday, Crow said that both the timing of the ruling and the decision itself were unexpected. "To give you a criminal-case analogy, it would be like not receiving Miranda rights until indictment," she said, adding that while it was her understanding that the lawyer in the case was planning an appeal, "there's not a lot of wiggle room" at this stage in the process.
Bill Hing, a law professor at the University of San Francisco and a contributor to the ImmigrationProf blog, says that while the ruling is important, it might not change the reality for many noncitizens apprehended by ICE. "The truth is, even before the decision, the vast majority of people the Border Patrol or ICE believed to be deportable never got advisals of right to counsel," he says. "Most of the time it wouldn't make a difference. [Authorities] know the people have a criminal record or that they're undocumented."
But, Hing says, asking for counsel often means fielding fewer questions from immigration authorities. In some cases, then, an advisal at the time of arrest could make the difference between being deported and being released. "If they don't have enough information to prove you're deportable," he says, "they give you information about counsel, or they let you go." Without that advisal, detained immigrants are more likely to reveal incriminating information—and more likely to be deported.
Still, the decision has drawn little attention, and in a way, that makes sense. Few people understand the BIA, and last week was a big one for other immigration-related news: On Thursday, the Obama administration announced that it will review 300,000 pending deportation cases, and earlier in the week a federal judge ordered the release of hundreds of "embarrassing" emails that highlight the Department of Homeland Security's doubts about its controversial Secure Communities program. | <urn:uuid:230447e1-0482-45e5-a3cf-fb4c87b18214> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2011/08/noncitizens-bia-ruling-miranda | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280835.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00470-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975174 | 881 | 2.25 | 2 |
The best way to find out ways to get a good mark is to check at a decisions essay sample, but doing so with no advice can be overwhelming. How do you reveal insight? Do your score affect? What is a good way to keep your article organized?
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A biotic community, also known as a biota or ’biocoenosis’, is the group of organisms that live together and interact with each other within an environment or habitat. Together, the biotic community and the physical landscape or abiotic factors make up an ecosystem.
Communities consist of a group of different species, which partake in direct and indirect biotic interactions, such as predator-prey interactions, herbivory, parasitism, competition and mutualisms. Alternatively, the interrelationships may take a more diffuse route, such as an organism that creates certain necessary climatic conditions, or one that acts as a substrate for another organism.
Types of Community
There are two main types of community.
A major community is the smallest ecological unit which is able to sustain itself and is self-regulating. These communities are usually relatively independent of other communities, for example a pond, a forest, a grassland or lake. Long lasting and mature major communities contain only those organisms, which are successfully adapted to the environment and to the other species within the community.
A major community is an assemblage of a faunal community or ’zoonenosis’, a floral community or ’phytocenosis’, and a microbial community or ’microbiocenosis’.
Minor communities, or merocenoses, which make up major communities, are smaller ecological units that are not individually self-sustaining and rely on interactions with other communities. An example of a minor community is the collection of organisms, which lives within a piece of deadwood on the forest floor.
Characteristics of a Community
The features within communities are highly variable, and there are a number of characteristics that can be used as descriptors to distinguish them.
Each organism within a community can be categorized within a specific trophic level, which relates to the way which it obtains nutrition. These trophic levels can be divided into three main groups: i) primary producers (also known as autotrophs) manufacture their own food using energy from the sun to perform photosynthesis. Primary producers are usually green plants and algae. ii) Consumers, or heterotrophs must obtain their nutrition from other organisms. Primary consumers, or herbivores eat the plant material while secondary and tertiary consumers, carnivores or omnivores, eat the primary consumers. iii) Decomposers (which are also heterotrophs) consume dead plant and animal material, recycling the nutrients back in to the earth.
Communities can be described by the way that the energy is transferred through these trophic levels. For example, in a grassland community, the grass (primary producer) is consumed by a mouse (primary consumer), which is consumed by a snake (secondary consumer), and subsequently an eagle (tertiary consumer). The dead body of the eagle may be consumed by fungus (decomposer).
Each interaction, from the sun’s energy to the decomposers, makes up a link in the food chain. It is usually the case however, that a number of primary producers are eaten by several different primary consumers, which are subsequently eaten by various secondary consumers. This lack of specialization results in various interconnected links within a food chain and so the nutritional relationships take the form of a food web instead.
There is usually one or two species at each trophic level, which exert a more dominant influence over the function and structure of the community than others. This may be due to their physical size, population numbers, or activities that have an impact upon other organisms or the environment. These so called ’ecological dominants’, can have a major effect on the nature of the community.
Plants usually dominate land communities, and so the name of the community is often based on the ecologically dominant vegetation, for example Douglas-fir Woodland or Rocky Mountain Maple Forest. The ecological dominants may be responsible for modifying the abiotic conditions of a habitat, although rare species might be equally as important for the correct functioning of the community. For instance, in a forest, a dominant tree species may control amount of light available to other plants, the temperature in the lower canopy, and the nutrients that are available to other organisms, whilst their reproduction may depend on pollination by a rare insect
Communities are not just a random mixture of plants, animals and microbes; each of the organisms within a community has a fundamental dependence on at least one other, although most organisms will engage in multiple interactions.
There are three main forms of interdependence.
Nutritional interdependence describes the transfer of energy and nutrients through feeding. Certain organisms may be more reliant on the presence of others to fulfill their nutritional requirements, for example insects that can feed only from one species of plant.
Reproductive independence can take several forms. A common example is that of pollination, which is present within most communities. Whilst for the pollinator the interaction provides a food source of nectar, for the plant, the interaction is essential to its reproductive success. Certain species may only be able to reproduce on a particular plant or substrate and are therefore dependent on the presence of this within the community. Other reproductive independences involve parasitic interactions, for example cuckoos, which lay their own eggs in the nests of other birds.
Protective interdependence is the third main interaction. Most organisms require a level of shelter, and may rely on other organisms within the community for this. For example, insects living on a tree are dependent on the leaves and branches to shelter them from predation by birds.
Interactions between community members are not always linear and can involve several highly complex interactions. Many of such interactions may take place only under precise environmental conditions. An example of this is the symbiosis between corals and their the photosynthetic algae which live within their body structures. The interaction supplies the coral with energy and the algae with nutrients; however, the algae only remain within the body under certain temperatures. If the upper limits of the temperature threshold are crossed, the algae are expelled and the coral cannot survive. The complexity of the interactions between species signifies the delicate balance within communities.
Descriptions of the community structure relate to both the species richness, which is the total number of species, and the species diversity, a community complexity measurement which takes in the species richness as well as their relative abundances (i.e. 5 individuals rather than 100 individuals). Communities in which species exhibit higher species richness and evenness (the numbers of individuals in each species present are more equal) are considered to be more diverse.
The structure of a community may be determined by its natural history, i.e. the chance colonization event of a population onto an island, by (non-living) abiotic factors such as the climatic patterns, the geography and the habitat location, or by (living) biotic factors such as the presence of other organisms which exert pressures such as predation or competition.
Communities at tropical latitudes tend to display high species richness and diversity, due to the high productivity of plants, which receive large amounts of solar energy, and have year-round climatic stability. Alternatively, community structure in habitats such as arctic tundra are very different – usually displaying lower species richness as a result of fewer basic resources such as sunlight and nutrients.
As a general rule, communities that have more species diversity are more resilient against ecosystem damage.
Growth Form & Succession
A community can be described by major categories of its growth form. For example mosses, herbaceous plants, shrubs or trees.
Communities may also be characterized by their successional stage. Ecological succession is the progressive and predictable replacement of one type of community by another, over time. Primary succession is the initial colonization of a bare landscape which has not previously been occupied, often following a significant ecological disturbance such as a volcanic eruption. Secondary succession occurs where a community has existed previously but has been removed from a landscape, for example, an area of deforestation or an abandoned cropland. In this case the nutrients within the soil are already present, and conditions for growth are favorable and so secondary succession happens much more rapidly than primary succession.
Pioneer species are the first to make up the community within a bare landscape once their seeds or spores migrate from surrounding areas and successfully germinate. These pioneer communities consist of fast growing, hardy plants with a short lifespan and low biomass, requiring very little nutrients. The roots of pioneer species contain nitrogen-fixing bacteria, which are important for the formation of soil and other organic material.
Seral communities develop in the area after the pioneer community. These transitional communities consist of intermediate sized species such as shrubs and heaths, which have high biomass and high nutritional content. These species further build the soil and nutrients with biogeochemical cycling.
The climax community is the stable, self-regulating biotic community, which establishes after many years. It contains longer-lived and larger species with high niche specialization, complex food webs and mature interdependent relationships. Diversity is highest within climax communities and the community is at equilibrium with the habitat and climate.
Natural climax communities usually exhibit some form of stratification, by which the populations that make up the community are distributed into defined vertical or horizontal strata.
For example, the bottom-up stratification of a forest community could be divided into:
- The subterranean layer
- The forest floor
- The herbaceous vegetation
- The shrub layer
- The canopy layer
Organisms may not occupy only one stratum, moving between the layers often on a diurnal basis. For example, a bird that feeds on the forest floor during the day but roosts within the canopy.
A community may occur along a horizontal stratification where there is transition between successional stages and ecotones.
Communities occur in a range of different sizes, and the boundaries of each are often not well defined. An ecotone is the transitional area between two biomes, where communities meet and may integrate.
Many organisms may be part of several different communities because they have various geographic ranges, and density peaks; if these boundaries are wide, it is known as an open community. A community in which the species all have similar geographic ranges and density peaks, resulting in a discrete unit where the boundaries are well defined, is called a closed community.
Open communities tend to occur where there is a long environmental gradient, such as that of soil moisture content or the altitudinal slope of a mountain. Organisms with different tolerances to the conditions occur at different spatial scales along the gradients.
Closed communities occur where there is a sharp change in the vegetative structure or the physical environment, for example, an area of a beach, which separates the water from the land.
Ecotones are generally very hard to define because within an ecosystem there are usually organisms, which can disperse between both open and closed communities.
Related Biology Terms
- Ecosystem – The biological community of organisms, which interact within an environment.
- Population – The number of individuals from one species, which occupy the same area and in which inbreeding occurs.
- Habitat – The natural home or environment of a species or population.
- Trophic Level – Each of the hierarchal levels within an ecosystem, in which organisms have the same function and nutritional relationship within a food chain.
1. Which of the following is an example of a major community?
A. The Kalahari Desert
B. The Arctic Circle
C. A Townhouse Backyard
2. A climax community is:
A. A community that is found in high latitudes
B. A community in which many new species colonize an area
C. A mature, stable and self-regulating community with high biodiversity
3. The community structure that can be observed in the ecotone from a young forest habitat to mature woodland is likely to be:
A. A closed community
B. An open community
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Mark Nottingham and David Orchard (BEA Systems)
The W3C seems to be standardising two stacks for serialising, modeling and working with data; one based on the Infoset (and its derivatives) as a data model, and one based upon the RDF data model. Although the RDF stack isn't done yet, it's clear that it's going in a similar direction; based upon statements by the Director, facilities like digital signatures for estabilishing trust will eventually standardised (and indeed are already used in demos).
Current Web services specifications focused on the Infoset stack; the Infoset is the basis of communication in SOAP and the default metamodel for describing the message's payload in WDSL. Although other solutions can be used in both cases, there is a clear preference in both the specifications and current implementations for the Infoset.
BEA believes that having two stacks is neither a bad thing, nor an "either/or" choice. The Infoset has the property of being easy to serialise in a human-readable and canonical fashion, and is especially well-suited for markup applications. The RDF Data Model, on the other hand, is simple, scalable, and more capable of representing graph-structured data.
Thus, we encourage the accommodation of more than one data model, particularly in Web services specifications. In the past, we have worked to assure that the specifications actually do this.
There is, however, a difference between accommodating alternate data models and specifying their use. For a variety of reasons -- not least among them, the fact that the set of Web services specifications is considerably complex, and that even the largest Member has limited resources to contribute -- Web services vendors have chosen to concentrate on the Infoset.
Put another way, Web services is a considerable, multi-year undertaking by a large set of companies that only get along some of the time. Introducing a parallel stack that's unfinished and frankly controversial would endanger the entire enterprise, and the damage may not be limited to that effort alone.
This is an important point; in the past, there have been several attempts to force RDF and Semantic Web tecnologies on reluctant Working Groups (e.g., P3P, WSDL). We feel that doing so is not only bound to fail, but it also engenders hostility to the Semantic Web from individuals as well as companies that otherwise might be more neutral.
Thus, while we do not anticipate tying Semantic Web development to Web services development in the immediate future, we do have a few modest suggestions for those who wish to explore and further the use of the Semantic Web in Web services. | <urn:uuid:d010f5b9-5f90-42b3-8e0c-a8399617497a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.w3.org/2005/04/FSWS/Submissions/32/suggestions.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284411.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00458-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950494 | 555 | 1.984375 | 2 |
Donald Trump crossed the line at the last Republican debate — twice: when he blamed President George W. Bush for 9/11, and when he bought into the “Bush lied” lie about the Iraq War.
“The World Trade Center came down during the reign of George Bush,” Trump said, because the president “didn’t listen to the advice of his CIA.”
Sorry: The CIA missed it coming, as did the rest of the US intelligence community. The feds failed to connect the dots and ferret out the terrorists before they struck.
But al Qaeda actually grew — and planned the attack — on President Bill Clinton’s watch. And Clinton-era restrictions on, for example, what the CIA could tell the FBI helped keep those dots unconnected.
On Sunday, Trump tried to backtrack. “I’m not blaming [Bush],” he said. Right.
Thing is, he also went too far on Iraq.
It’s perfectly fair to say, as Trump did, “the war in Iraq was a big, fat mistake.”
At a bare minimum, Bush & Co. made huge mistakes — from toppling Saddam Hussein without a real plan for what came next, to taking far too long to oust Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld (who vehemently opposed the approach that later succeeded with the “surge”).
And, of course, by “selling” the war as being all about weapons of mass destruction that Saddam turned out not to have (except for a very few old chemical stocks).
But Trump went off the rails when he said Bush knew Saddam Hussein had no WMDs.
“They lied,” he huffed. “They said there were weapons of mass destruction . . . And they knew there were none.”
No: Every intel agency in the world thought Iraq had WMDs — because, even as Saddam publicly denied it, he was also bluffing that he did have them, so Iran and other enemies would still fear him.
By seconding the left’s “Bush lied, people died” mantra on Iraq and the “Bush knew” calumny on 9/11, Trump went much too far.
As leader in the GOP race, Trump has spoken movingly about 9/11 and how it affected New York. That makes it all the more essential for him to get his facts straight — and to reject poisonous myths. | <urn:uuid:571bcc05-4ace-4a32-a2cb-9040bba17224> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://nypost.com/2016/02/16/donald-trump-crossed-the-line-twice-on-911-iraq-war/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280364.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00028-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977035 | 521 | 1.609375 | 2 |
40mm Bofors Gun (West Wing)
In the great battles of World War II, the crews of U.S. Navy carriers not only launched airplanes to inflict damage upon the enemy, they had to be ready and able to defend their ship against enemy air attack. A primary weapon in fleet air defense on carriers and other ships was the 40mm Bofors anti-aircraft gun, a twin-mount displayed here. The 40mm Bofors proved highly effective, particularly with the advent of Japanese kamikazes in 1944-45. In fact, between 1 October 1944 and 1 February 1945, half of all aircraft shot down by Navy surface ships were attributed to this weapon. | <urn:uuid:d82497d8-dd82-42eb-abb9-eff91297b5fe> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.navalaviationmuseum.org/attractions/aircraft-exhibits/item/?item=40mm_bofors | 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 | 0.976433 | 141 | 3.03125 | 3 |
The Moorland (Dewar-stone, Dartmoor), by John Brett (1831-1902). 1854. Oil on canvas, 356 x 533 mm. Collection: Tate Britain N01477. Bequeathed by Sir J. Russell Reynolds Bt 1896. Image released under Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-ND (3.0 Unported). Click on image to enlarge it.
Payne, Christiana, and Charles Brett. John Brett: Pre-Raphaelite Landscape Painter. London: Yale University Press, 2010.
Created 9 July 2018 | <urn:uuid:3a36568b-8d47-45aa-b950-e997193f4f35> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.victorianweb.org/victorian/painting/brett/paintings/23.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00064.warc.gz | en | 0.709527 | 124 | 1.773438 | 2 |
Creating, Reading and Saving Projects
Aspose.Tasks for .NET lets you work with Microsoft Project (MPP/XML) files without having Microsoft Project installed, or using Microsoft Office Automation. A powerful and flexible API, Aspose.Tasks saves you time and effort by giving you the tools you need to write efficient code for manipulating project files.
Aspose.Tasks can open existing files, but it can also create new files. This article explains how to create a new and empty project file from the stream using the Project class. as well as open existing files.
Creating an Empty Project File
The Project class is the main class in Aspose.Tasks used to set and get properties associated with a project, as well as behavior. The Save method offered by this class makes it possible to render the Project to various output formats such as XML, MPP, PDF, HTML, etc. with a single API call. This method accepts a file stream or file name, and one of the values provided by the SaveFileFormat enumeration type.
The following lines of code create a simple project file in XML format.
Create an Empty Project And Saving as XML File
The resulting XML project file can be opened in Microsoft Project using the following steps:
- On the File menu, select Open.
- Select the XML format (*.xml) option from the file types and browse to the output XML file.
- On the Project menu, select Project Information
Create an Empty Project and Save to Stream
Create an Empty Project and Save to MPP
Reading a Project File
Aspose.Tasks for .NET lets you read existing project in different formats: XML, MPP, MPT, MPX, XER, Primavera P6 XML, etc and save these back in MPP or another format after updating. The following snippets show how a project file can be read using the Project class’s constructor.
Reading Project Files as a Template
Reading Project File from Stream
Importing Project Data From Microsoft Project Server Database
We plan to retire the importing of project data from Microsoft Project Server Database in a future release. Instead you can use import \ export of project data using Microsoft Project Server’s PWA API.
See documentation for ProjectServerManager class for more details.
// Create connection string SqlConnectionStringBuilder sqlConnectionString = new SqlConnectionStringBuilder(); sqlConnectionString.DataSource = "192.168.56.2,1433"; sqlConnectionString.Encrypt = true; sqlConnectionString.TrustServerCertificate = true; sqlConnectionString.InitialCatalog = "ProjectServer_Published"; sqlConnectionString.NetworkLibrary = "DBMSSOCN"; sqlConnectionString.UserID = "sa"; sqlConnectionString.Password = "*****"; // Use Aspose.Tasks.Connectivity namespace MspDbSettings settings = new MspDbSettings(sqlConnectionString.ConnectionString, new Guid("E6426C44-D6CB-4B9C-AF16-48910ACE0F54")); Project project = new Project(settings);
Import Project Data from MPD (Microsoft Project Database) File
DbSettings settings = new MpdSettings("Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0; Data Source=" + "MpdFileToRead.mpd", 1); Project project = new Project(settings);
Ignoring invalid characters during loading Project
Some files may have invalid characters in the custom fields. Microsoft Project does not allow invalid character so the files have been created or manipulated with automation or some other tools. If these be loaded using the API, they may lead to an exception. In order to ignore such invalid characters, the overloaded constructor of Project class can be used with the delegate method ParseErrorCallBack.
Working With Encodings
Aspose.Tasks for .NET provides support for the encoding of MPX files. The following code example shows the encoding settings. | <urn:uuid:2c6aab61-df8a-479e-baef-df21428ccef3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://docs.aspose.com/tasks/net/creating-reading-and-saving-projects/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573667.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819100644-20220819130644-00068.warc.gz | en | 0.752295 | 829 | 1.898438 | 2 |
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