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Led by the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, this city-wide festival will “provide serious science fun for adults, families, school groups, for young and old and in-between, for geeks, non-geeks, for everyone with curiosity”. There will be talks by researchers, hands-on workshops, opportunities to chat with scientists, children’s activities and panel discussions where you can have your say alongside celebrity science speakers. The Festival will “showcase the science credentials and interests of the partner organisations, bringing an exciting range of technology, design, education, communication and entertainment events”.
Right now the program has not been finalised and the Festival is still looking for participants: “We are seeking Expressions of Interest from Sydney’s research institutions, cultural institutions, universities, businesses, scientists, engineers and community organisations to be part of the Festival.”
You can find more details on getting involved here.
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- 1 Why do seniors need foot care?
- 2 What does a podiatrist do for the elderly?
- 3 What is included in foot care?
- 4 What helps with aging feet?
- 5 How do elderly take care of their toenails?
- 6 How often should elderly see a podiatrist?
- 7 Do podiatrists cut toenails for elderly?
- 8 How do elderly trim their toenails?
- 9 Is Vaseline good for diabetic feet?
- 10 Should diabetics wear socks to bed?
- 11 What are signs of diabetic feet?
- 12 How do I stop my feet from hurting when I walk all day?
- 13 What is the best painkiller for foot pain?
- 14 Why do older people’s feet hurt?
Why do seniors need foot care?
Elderly patients who have poor circulation in their feet are more likely to unknowingly sustain an injury, which can lead to an infection and if not properly cared for, amputation. Wearing moisture wicking socks and closed toe shoes can protect a patient’s foot from injury.
What does a podiatrist do for the elderly?
Podiatrists play a role in musculoskeletal assessment of the feet and legs of an ageing population and can assist in identifying and treating potential and active foot pathology that can reduce mobility. As the skin ages, it looses some of its former qualities of elasticity, moisture balance and fatty padding.
What is included in foot care?
Routine foot care includes:
- Cutting or removing corns and calluses.
- Trimming, cutting, or clipping nails.
- Hygienic or other preventive maintenance, like cleaning and soaking your feet.
What helps with aging feet?
How to care for aging feet
- Wash and thoroughly dry your feet for good hygiene.
- Wear a fresh clean pair of socks and change them daily.
- Keep the insides and outsides of your shoes clean.
- Rotate your shoes — don’t wear the same pair two days in a row.
- Wear properly fitted shoes.
How do elderly take care of their toenails?
Toenail Care for the Elderly
- Cut nails after a shower or bath, or use a foot soak to soften toenails.
- Sanitize nail clippers by boiling or cleaning with rubbing alcohol.
- Wash your hands before and after cutting your toenails.
- Trim nail straight across without curving down at the ends.
How often should elderly see a podiatrist?
The American Diabetes Association recommends seeing a podiatrist at least once a year for a foot exam and every time you have a sore, ulcer, injury, pain, or loss of sensation in the foot. Another factor affecting our feet is age. As we get older, our feet can develop more problems.
Do podiatrists cut toenails for elderly?
Proper nail care is necessary for everyone’s health. While you may be able to care for your toenails at home, you can also schedule a visit with the podiatrists at Certified Foot and Ankle Specialists to trim your toenails properly.
How do elderly trim their toenails?
To properly cut your thick toenails, follow these steps:
- Soak your feet in warm water for at least 10 minutes to soften your nails, and then use a towel to thoroughly dry your feet and toenails.
- Using a nail clipper, make small cuts to avoid splintering the nail and cut straight across.
Is Vaseline good for diabetic feet?
Use unscented lotion or petroleum jelly (Vaseline) on your feet, though not between your toes. Diabetes can cause very dry skin, which in turn can cause cracking and other problems. but remember, DON’T put lotion or Vaseline between your toes.
Should diabetics wear socks to bed?
Wearing socks in bed is the safest way to keep your feet warm overnight. Other methods such as rice socks, a hot water bottle, or a heating blanket may cause you to overheat or get burned.
What are signs of diabetic feet?
Signs of Diabetic Foot Problems
- Changes in skin color.
- Changes in skin temperature.
- Swelling in the foot or ankle.
- Pain in the legs.
- Open sores on the feet that are slow to heal or are draining.
- Ingrown toenails or toenails infected with fungus.
- Corns or calluses.
- Dry cracks in the skin, especially around the heel.
How do I stop my feet from hurting when I walk all day?
Trying more than one of these recommendations may help ease your foot pain faster than just doing one at a time.
- Draw a foot bath.
- Do some stretches.
- Practice strengthening exercises.
- Get a foot massage.
- Buy arch supports.
- Switch your shoes.
- Ice your feet.
- Take a pain reliever.
What is the best painkiller for foot pain?
Oral analgesic medications such as acetaminophen (paracetamol) or aspirin are often the first line choice for quick relief of foot pain. Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) such as ibuprofen or naproxen are also often recommended and can help to reduce inflammation at the same time.
Why do older people’s feet hurt?
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Despite scientific advancements, greater education, fewer diseases, longer life expectancy and more money and resources than ever before in history, this age is known not for its peace, but for its persistent anxiety.
Our generation is plagued with fear, and has become so familiar with it that anxiety has almost become fashionable, something to embrace and refer to as “mine” (cue all the references to “triggered”, “my anxiety” , because…anxiety” and “I can’t”).
Terror and panic are things we know very well and experience daily as the uncertainties of life increase. But we can take heart in knowing that in Christ Jesus we don’t need to fear the future. Here are three reasons why:
Reason #1 God’s Got this
Your present circumstances are known, understood and allowed by the Lord. He is seated on His throne, above the sphere of the Earth and has a plan not just for your life, but for the entire universe! He has not lost control. His wisdom and sovereignty are perfect, even in a seemingly chaotic world, and He is never surprised.
Be encouraged Beloved, heaven is never in a hurry so you don’t need to worry. Feel free to rest in the peace of God- that is the confidence that God is in control and that as you love Him and walk in His calling for your life, you can relax in His loving leadership, even when you don’t understand everything. (Isaiah Chapter 40 Verse, 22)
Reason #2 God’s Got You
He not only holds your world in His hands, He also holds you. Don’t forget, you are worth more than many sparrows. (see Matthew Chapter 10, Verse 31)
Reason #3 Jesus is already in the Future
Fortunately, we serve the eternally present God “I AM”, the Alpha, Omega and everything in between. He stands outside of time, and dwells in eternity present. All of our times, past present and future are laid out like a beautiful tapestry before Him. Heaven is never in a hurry, and the Lord is never caught by surprise. He already knows, He already sees, and He has already made provision.
Consider the provision made for our sin before we even fell-> Look at the Lamb of God, slain before the foundation of the earth. His foreknowledge is perfect, and comforting. We can rejoice in His sovereignty, and rest in His perfection and thoroughness. (Revelation Chapter 13, Verse 8)
Recently, I’ve had to be reminding myself of why I don’t need to be afraid of the future (whether it’s 5 minutes or 5 years away), and though I know that God hadn’t given me a spirit of fear, but a Spirit of love, power and a sound mind, I still felt scared. Peace came as I heard the Lord whisper, “I’ve got this, and I’ve got you, that’s why you don’t need to be afraid”, & it clicked!
The Maker of the Universe holds my world, and He holds me, that’s why I don’t need to worry about the future (or anything really). Tomorrow will take care of itself.
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St John's is a vibrant place of passionate people who are proud to be a part of this faith community. St John's school community is committed to demonstrating the Catholic faith through actions in our everyday life.
As a Catholic School, St John’s is a learning community characterised by its authentic witness to faith in the teachings of Jesus Christ, and its capacity to offer that witness in genuine dialogue with our contemporary, multi-faith, multi-cultural society.
Education in Faith is embedded in all aspects of school life.
The spiritual lives of students and staff at St John’s School is nourished by participation in frequent and regular prayer and liturgy. In collaboration with St John’s Parish, students at St John’s School are encouraged to participate in opportunities to undertake sacramental preparation.
St John’s School is attentive to the concerns and needs of members of its community, as well as to those of the local and global communities in which it is situated. St John’s School is involved in Social Justice initiatives in light of the Gospels and Catholic Social Teaching.
Our catholic identity and culture is enhanced through:
Religious Education Curriculum which is taught alongside the Victorian Curriculum
Daily Christian Meditation and prayer
Whole school and class liturgies
Fortnightly school assemblies
Sacramental programs - family focused, parish based and school supported
A student social justice team
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Enumerable::Average Method (IEnumerable<Nullable<Double>>^)
Computes the average of a sequence of nullable Double values.
Assembly: System.Core (in System.Core.dll)
public: [ExtensionAttribute] static Nullable<double> Average( IEnumerable<Nullable<double>>^ source )
The following code example demonstrates how to use Average(IEnumerable<Nullable<Int64>>^) to calculate an average.
This code example uses an overload of this overloaded method that is different from the specific overload that this topic describes. To extend the example to this topic, substitute the elements of the source sequence with elements of the appropriate numerical type.
Available since 8
Available since 3.5
Portable Class Library
Supported in: portable .NET platforms
Available since 2.0
Windows Phone Silverlight
Available since 7.0
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If Only the French Republicans Had Known This: The Week as a Social Fact
AbstractDuring the French Revolution and inspired by the Enlightenment, an attempt was made to replace the Gregorian calendar (which was based on ‘irrational’ overlapping cycles linked to religious celebrations) by the Republican calendar (which was based on ‘rational’ clearly nested cycles in accordance with the metric system). Although the starting point was an ideological and aesthetic expression of rationalism, this calendar also had to fulfill a coordinating and integrating function. Thus the calendric reform faced a tremendous challenge: re-creating a socio-temporal order. One of the crucial socio-temporal frameworks that guide daily behavior in Western societies is the 7-day cycle of the week. In the new calendar, the week was to be replaced by the 10-day cycle or the décade, which turned out the greatest stumbling block for calendar-reformation. Theoretically this is explained by the social nature of time and the ‘second nature’ of time reckoning, but the unawareness of a socially established weekly rhythm in our daily behavior is hard to illustrate. Today, however, society is full of traces of so-called ‘big data’ that humans leave behind. This paper uses ‘big data’ on re-charges of electronic keys to show that even though a 10-day re-charging cycle is proposed, a 7-day re-charging cycle will surface. View Full-Text
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van Tienoven, T.P.; Glorieux, I.; Minnen, J.; Daniels, S.; Weenas, D. If Only the French Republicans Had Known This: The Week as a Social Fact. Societies 2013, 3, 399-413.
van Tienoven TP, Glorieux I, Minnen J, Daniels S, Weenas D. If Only the French Republicans Had Known This: The Week as a Social Fact. Societies. 2013; 3(4):399-413.Chicago/Turabian Style
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A patient's stroke risk profile - which includes high blood pressure, smoking and diabetes - also may be helpful in predicting whether the person will develop memory and thinking problems later in life, a new study shows (Neurology, 77: 1729-36).
Researchers in a study titled Reasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) followed 23,752 people with an average age of 64 who were free of stroke and cognitive problems at the start of the study. Participants underwent a Framingham Stroke Risk Profile, which is used to determine a person's risk of stroke by measuring their age, blood pressure, education level, history of heart disease, smoking and diabetes status, left ventricular hypertrophy (a thickening of the heart muscle), and abnormal heart rhythm. After an average of four years of follow-up, 1,907 people had developed memory and thinking problems.
The higher a person's score on the Stroke Risk Profile, the researchers found, the greater the chance of developing cognitive problems four years later. Fifteen percent of people who scored among the highest 25 percent on the test had cognitive problems, compared to 3 percent of those who scored among the bottom 25 percent with a score below 3.4 points.
"Overall, it appears that the total Stroke Risk Profile score, while initially created to predict stroke, is also useful in determining the risk of cognitive problems," said study author Frederick Unverzagt, PhD, of Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis.
The study found older age and the presence of thickening in the heart muscle, which is a result of long-term high blood pressure, were the only Stroke Risk Profile factors independently associated with future cognitive problems. This association remained even after controlling for age, gender, race, geography and education. In addition, the study found high systolic blood pressure was related to cognitive problems in people without a thickening of the heart muscle.
"Our findings suggest that elevated blood pressure and thickening of the heart muscle may provide a simple way for doctors to identify people at risk for memory and thinking problems," said Dr. Unverzagt. "Increased focus on preventing and treating high blood pressure may be needed to preserve cognitive health."
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While it may sound like something that could never happen, it most definitely CAN happen. The chances for such a thing are highly unlikely, but, just in case it does happen to you, there is a way to escape.
The first thing that is important and worth noting is that the last thing you will want to do is panic. If you are in a tight space, there will be very little oxygen for you, so you won’t have a lot of time. You will need to conserve your air supply by taking deep breaths and then holding them for as long as possible. While it might be tempting, don’t swallow the air, because this could cause you to hyperventilate.
Next, press on the lid of the coffin you are buried in. A cheaper coffin will have more give, so it likely won’t be that hard to break through. Push into the lid to see how firm it is. A metal coffin will be impossible to pierce, so you may have to try to find a way to signal for someone to save you or open the box somehow if it’s metal. Try doing three taps quickly, then three slower taps, and then three more quick taps. Continue until someone hears you. Otherwise, if the box is cheap, you can break through. (Don’t break through just yet, though.)
Now, remove your shirt. Cross your arms over your chest, and then uncross them, so your elbows are bent and hands are on your shoulders. Then pull your shirt up over your head and shoulders as you do a partial sit up. Tie the bottom of your shirt with a knot and pull the shirt over your head through the neck hold, leaving the knot on the top of your head. This will create a mask to protect you from inhaling dirt.
At this point, you are ready to break through. Use your feet to kick the coffin lid until you break through it. You will feel dirt pour in. As it comes in, use your feet to kick it into the space in the bottom of the coffin. You should be able to sit up, working your way to stand. Once standing, you can climb out. Dirt will continue to pour over you, so be mindful.
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Butchering isn’t the only food-industry profession that’s gotten sexier — a Huffington Post article wonders: “Is Becoming a Farmer the New American Dream?” Author Makenna Goodman points out that “there is a growing number of young people opting out of school altogether, or on the flip side, actually up and leaving the corporate world after years to start farms, collectives, co-operatives, and even communes.” But she’s at a loss to explain it: “Some might say it’s a passing trend, like flannel shirts in Williamsburg. Some might say it’s because there’s a dearth of ‘real’ jobs, and farming is a good interim experience until the economy perks up. But perhaps it’s something more profound.” Our guess is that, just like butchering, it has something to do with the new focus that restaurants place on purveyors, as well as the media attention well-spoken farmers like Joel Salatin now get via documentaries like Food, Inc. While it has become next to impossible to sell your poetry to a book publisher, much less make your name as a poet, at least you can start a farm and get your name on menus across town! If only it were that easy.
The HuffPo article mentions a “friend who worked at the #1 restaurant in NYC, and now picks squash blossoms in South Royalton, VT,” but for a more sobering view of the state of Vermont farming, check out an article in Gourmet about the closing of a 144-year-old dairy farm in the Northeast Kingdom (one of 33 farms to close in that state this year).
The math is stark. Prices paid to farmers per hundredweight (about twelve gallons) have fallen from nearly $20 a year ago to less than $11 in June. Earlier this month, the Federal government raised the support price by $1.25, but that is only a drop in the proverbial bucket. It costs a farmer about $18 to produce a hundredweight of milk. In Vermont, where I live, that translates to a loss of $100 per cow per month. So far this year, 33 farms have ceased operation in this one tiny state.
Meanwhile, the price you and I pay for milk in the grocery store has stayed about the same. Someone is clearly pocketing the difference. Perhaps that explains why profits at Dean Foods — the nation’s largest processor and shipper of dairy products, with more than 50 regional brands — have skyrocketed.
Before newbies get too excited about the idea of being a “hipster farmer,” they may want to heed Carol Borden, who tells Gourmet: “The reality of farming is that as a parent, even if you’d like to and they want to, you can’t encourage a child to go into something where he won’t be able to earn a decent living.” | <urn:uuid:969f3451-030e-4724-a012-8a3d08e85d52> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.grubstreet.com/2009/08/is_farming_the_new_it_professi.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719416.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00363-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956163 | 629 | 1.960938 | 2 |
10 May 2000, Volume
RADICAL POLITICS IN EAST CENTRAL EUROPE?????PART V: (Mis)placing in Boxes: Radicals Full Stop
C) And then, there is Zhirinovsky (Part I)
And then, of course, there is Vladimir Zhirinovsky, who is perhaps the most typical among post-communist leaders who defy clear-cut taxonomization (see the first part of this chapter in "East European Perspectives," Vol. 2, no. 7, 5 April 2000). Those taking him more seriously than I am inclined to do tend to see in Zhirinovsky's advocacy of a world "order" in which Russia would dominate the entire Eurasian continent echoes--and not just echoes--of Hitler's "Mein Kampf" (Hanson and Williams, 1999, p. 273). The difference between Zhirinovsky's and Genadii Zyuganov's "imperialism," however, is not one of essence, but one of size. The Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF) leader sees the re-establishment of the Soviet Union as his priority (see below). Zhirinovsky would not content himself with that. For him this is just the "first stage." His "geopolitical theory," said to have been developed at "an early age"--or what he calls the "Zhirinovsky Formula"--has at its core a "clear premise," namely that "the salvation of the Russian nation lies in 'the last bid for the South'--an opening for Russia to the shores of the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea" (Zhirinovsky, 1996, p. 48).
For a start, one takes note that one is again in the "salvation" business. But, according to Zhirinovsky, this is not about Russia's salvation alone. The "bid to the South" is, at one and the same time, a French imperialist-like "mission civilisatrice"--a civilizing mission--in the service of mankind as a whole:
Today, the South is coming undone with uprising and rebellion. Afghans fight against Tajiks, Iranians against Turkmen, Southern Azerbaijan against Northern Azerbaijan. Georgia puts the squeeze on Armenia and is in turn squeezed by Ossetia and Abkhazia. The conflicts in the Middle East may not end for a long time and could even trigger a third world war.
These ancient enemies, who have often fought, are bent on blood revenge and cannot be reconciled. But humanity will not permit this state of constant hostilities on Russia's southern flank...for the world has grown weary and cries out for peace.
When the fighting in the South finally ends, America will be more secure against the communist, Islamic and pan-Islamic threat. The ensuing peace will be a significant geopolitical accomplishment, freeing a tremendous territory to be devoted to resorts and sanatoria that serve the industrial north and people of all nationalities (Zhirinovsky, 1996, pp. 49-50).
We will go down to the South as liberators, to put a stop to violence. We will go where people, surrounded by blood, wake up and go to sleep to the sound of bullets and explosions, where they live amid violence and looting. Russian soldiers will stop this butchery, this violence, this OUTRAGE TO HUMAN CULTURE. And Russian soldiers will themselves come to a stop on the shore of the warm Indian Ocean, establishing there new outposts, settlements, resorts and sentries. With floodlights, Russian soldiers will ILLUMINATE the frontier waters of the Indian Ocean (Zhirinovsky ,1996, p. 68. Emphasis mine).
The Russian soldiers' "floodlights" are not just technical devices to illuminate the surrounding areas. It is "illumination" in the sense of "enlightenment" that Zhirinovsky, a careful chooser of his metaphors, is talking about. It is Russians ending "outrages to human culture." No French theoretician of the "mission civilisatrice" could have put it more powerfully.
At the same time, the "bid to the South" will obliterate the origins of Russia's modern historical misfortunes. "It was the South that spawned corruption when Stalin, who ruled Russia despotically for 30 years, created favorable conditions for Georgia, his homeland. From Georgia the corruption spread to Armenia and Azerbaijan, jumped to the east, to Central Asia, and finally embraced the entire country." Consequently, Zhirinovsky is not even sure that Georgia should be granted the favor to be incorporated in Russia's new empire. Perhaps it should be left out. Not so, however, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, western Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Abkhazia, south Ossetia, with Armenia expected by Zhirinovsky to "want" to remain "part of Russian territory" (Zhirinovsky, 1996, pp. 50-51). He speaks of RUSSIAN territory and this is no mistake. The imperial division of the world is to be preceded by a "sub-division" of the expanded Russian state that will have no room whatsoever for the Soviet Union's federal structure: "Nationality will not be used as a criterion for its political subdivisions. Instead, divisions within the country will be based on territorial principles--guberniia, oblasts, provinces, uezds, whatever name you give them--with no national implications." Furthermore, there will be a "dominance of the Russian language, currency and army--this is an historic fait accompli that makes stability possible in our region" (Zhirinovsky, 1996, p. 49).
Should Turkey continue to attempt to expand its influence in what Zhirinovsky perceives to be an attempt to establish Greater Turkey, it, as well as Iran "will have to be dismembered" alongside Afghanistan, which, he claims, is an artificial state anyhow. But that is a longer-term project. Meanwhile, "Let them fight each other...the scores of nationalities, tribes, clans and commanders who will make a bloody mess." It would be "only a rejuvenated Russia, once it has risen again" that would be in the position to "stabilize the situation by building a mighty army" that will "press upon the central Asiatic region, leading, in the end, to an opening to the Indian Ocean" (Zhirinovsky, 1996, pp. 51-53).
I have left some details out. What is important is to note that Zhirinovsky's is a plan for a redivision of "influence zones" among the Great Powers, of which Russia must become one again. It is, as he rightly calls it, a plan for "world re-partition." Within its own redrawn borders, Zhirinovsky's vision is Jacobean, not Hitlerite, no matter how much of a Fuehrer he has been turned into by pundits. This is an important point:
Russia, with a shore on a fourth ocean, will end all revolutions and perestroikas and continue the normal development of all its peoples. In such a re-partitioned Russia, everyone, regardless of color of skin, shape of eyes or form of nose, will feel himself or herself a Russian, just as an American considers himself or herself an American, or a European, a European. Under the principle of a SINGLE AND EQUAL CITIZENSHIP for all, Russia will have a single state language and currency, unrestricted contacts with Europe, and free movement around the globe (Zhirinovsky, 1996, p. 62. Emphasis mine).
Such a statement could never had come from the likes of an Aleksandr Barkashov, the fascist leader of the Russian National Unity. Zhirinovsky is an "inclusive," not an "exclusive" nationalist. He is, on the other hand, miles away from "civic nationalism." This places him closer to radical continuity of the Bulgarian Socialist party, the party of Romanian National Unity, or Vladimir Meciar's Movement for a Democratic Slovakia (see below) sort than to the ethnocratic ethos. One does not have to like Zhirinovsky and what he stands for in order to abstain from transforming him into what he is definitely not--a "genetic" racist.
How, then, is one to account for the publication in the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) youth organ "Sokoli Zhirinovskogo" (Zhirinovsky's falcons) of articles such as that in which, in 1992, a member of Zhirinovsky's "shadow cabinet," neo-Nazi rock star Andrei Arkhipov, discussed plans to establish a new world racial order based on Germans and Russians? Zhirinovsky's then "minister of information" wrote that "only from Russians can Germans find real support in their struggle against the decaying North Atlantic Civilization. Together with Russia, they can take revenge on the U.S. for its 'fervent internationalism.'" Moreover, "Russia and Germany together can support the rapid downfall of the U.S. and establish a more healthy racial balance on the European continent" (cited in Solovyov and Klepikova, 1995, pp. 100-01). Furthermore, Sergei Zharikov, Zhirinovsky's "minister of culture," in an article titled "The Superior Race" in the same year stated that "only one people" in Russia is a "master people," and that, of course, is the Russian people. As for the rest, "these insects will finally realize the reason they were born on this earth and that things are turning bad for them--and they will fall down before those whom they have offended and accused of every sin for so long and with such impunity. They will fall down before the Russian master. And we will not seek revenge. We will simply impose order" (cited in Solovyov and Klepikova, 1995, p. 101).
This, indeed, IS racist. But it is precisely because Zhirinovsky could never become a genuine racist that Arkhipov, Zharikov, and Eduard Limonov parted company with him. Yes, he could embrace for a few moments their pathos, if he felt this was moving the audience. In fact, the two former ministers described how, aware of this side in Zhirinovsky, THEY were manipulating HIM into using their slogans. They would eventually acknowledge that they "dressed Zhirinovsky, the emperor without clothes" (Solovyov and Klepikova, 1995, p. 162). Zhirinovsky is never conscious of a racist implication when promising that he will "follow in Hitler's steps". He knows, however, that the statement will shock--and this is precisely what he is after. It is Walter Laqueur who has best depicted this side of the LDPR leader. Zhirinovsky, he writes, "seems to have realized early on that even negative publicity was better than no publicity. Hence the outrageous, nonsensical statements at the impromptu press conferences, hence the clowning, the grandiose promises, and the blood-curdling threats. Everyone knew that he was at most half serious, but he would always provide a good story for the media" (Laqueur, 1994, p. 255) It is precisely this side (though not only this) in his character that makes me categorize him as a clown. But Stanislaw Tyminski in Poland or Ivan Kramberger in Slovenia, each in his own different way, were no lesser clowns.
Zhirinovsky can, however, be also the cunning politician running out of funds in August 1992, courting Dr. Gerhard Frey to fill his coffers and who, aware that his words are heard, declares after a meeting with the German neo-Nazi financier that "we have seen [Hitler] in a slightly distorted form. Of course, some of the deeds and actions of Hitler brought harm to Germany. Some ultraradical statements worked against him, but, on the whole, his ideology does not contain anything negative in it." Note that Zhirinovsky speaks of "harm to Germany." Not a word, on this occasion, of "harm to Russia," not to speak of the Jewish Holocaust. In an interview with Frey's "Deutsche Nationalzeitung" on that occasion, answering a question on whether his family has suffered as a result of the Russian-German conflicts this century, Zhirinovsky replies "One of my thirty relatives--an uncle--was killed in 1941 outside Moscow." And yet in an earlier interview, rejecting the charge of being a "fascist," Zhirinovsky erupted: "For me, fascism is the most repulsive thing. Almost all of my father's family was shot by the fascists" (cited in Solovyov and Klepikova, 1995, pp. 27, 119). And in 1994, when former Premier Yegor Gaidar, now leader of the Russia's Choice party, called Zhirinovsky the "most popular fascist leader in Russia," the LDPR leader took him to court and walked out with a million rubles in damage compensation ( Orttung, 1995, p. 3). Which, then, is the "true Zhirinovsky?" The one that denounces Hitler, as he does in his autobiography, for being a politician who "lured the people to him and into the 'brown' spectrum of irrational, aggressive political life and the resulting violence," or the one that talks to Dr. Frey? All of these, and more, of course. Hitler is what Zhirinovsky's "needs of the hour" compel him to be. If Goebbels is supposed to have once stated "I decide who is Jewish"--Zhirinovsky can be said to assume the prerogative of deciding who is Hitler. And that definition changes as the needs of the hour--and the audience--change. That this does not make him into a respectable politician, there is no arguing. But Zhirinovsky is not out to acquire respectability, but votes. This makes him into an opportunist, but not a racist.
Returning to "the dash to the South": in the best "imperialistic" tradition, Zhirinovsky is calling on the world to, once and for all, reject the idea of "world domination by one power." Imperialist redivision is to him nothing but "regional cooperation," said to signify "an optimal kind of economic and cultural cooperation with no racial, religious, or ethnic conflicts." To understand what he has in mind one must refer back to Zhirinovsky's "Jacobean" world outlook. He means that within the redrawn empires, in which every citizen has "equal rights" provided she/he has agreed to fully assimilate in the dominant culture, there are no "racial, religious, or ethnic conflicts" (Zhirinovsky, 1996, p. 68). This is by no means a "civic" view of the world. It is one in which the "ethnic" has acquired unchallenged recognition, with each "ethnic empire" respecting the other's interests. To the extent that this can be called "ethnocracy" (which I tend to doubt), it is a "cultural ethnocracy."
It is not quite clear with whom Russia is to share in the redivision of the world. At times Zhirinovsky speaks of "Europe" as a separate entity (see below), at other times he says that "our counterparts in Europe are the Germans and the French, who are our allies and friends" (Zhirinovsky, 1996, p. 68). He also speaks of "our great neighbors, China and India." The planet, in what is his most explicit statement so far, is to be divided among Japan and China, which are to take over influence in its "bottom", that is to say Southeast Asia; Western Europe, whose sphere of influence is to be "the south of the continent," that is, Africa (Zhirinovsky, 1996, p. 70); and there is always "America, with whom we have never been at odds and with whom we've never had a thing to fight over," with whom "we need to have EQUAL and normal relations" (Zhirinovsky, 1996, p. 68. Emphasis mine). "America," that is, the U.S. and Canada, are to get "all of Latin America." It is a division "on EQUAL terms, with no one nation at advantage" (Zhirinovsky, 1996, p. 70. Emphasis mine). Read no one "cultural nation" (see above). World power equality is, indeed, the "leitmotiv" of Zhirinovsky's entire "dash to the South" saga:
Bonaparte marched through Europe to Russia; Carl XII led Swedish troops south to the Black Sea; Hitler drove far to the East in his Drang nach Osten. And today, Americans try to impose their influence on all the regions of the world...Indeed, the Americans have managed to achieve dominance all over the world. But worldwide supremacy is a destructive idea. Cooperation among nations to divide spheres of influence on a regional basis is clearly better (Zhirinovsky, 1996, p. 70).
Zhirinovsky's "imperialist" plea thus turns out to be little else than yet one more expression of Russia's "inferiority complex" vis-a-vis the West. Just like Marxist-Leninist theory has been adopted as an instrument for overcoming the complex of delayed development, so Zhirinovsky is offering a new road--the "dash to the South"--to overcome the status of an "underdeveloped giant." And, as will be shown below, it is not accidental that the "offer" is being launched at this particular time in Russian history.
One must remark, in this connection, the role ascribed by Zhirinovsky to the Russian Orthodox Church within the reborn "empire." In its more remote past, Russia dreamt of becoming the "Third Rome" in which the Byzantine Church would be restored to the role it had played in the "Second Rome," i.e. in the Byzantine Empire. Now, the "dash to the South" is to restore the lost splendor of that earlier empire, with Russian Orthodoxy playing the role once played by the Byzantine Church. Once domination of "the south" is achieved, "We should turn all the houses of God in Anatolia into Orthodox churches, allowing the bells of Russian Orthodox churches to ring out along the shores of the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. Indeed, the Cathedral of St. Sophia in Istanbul, now a mosque, was once an Orthodox church. Jerusalem would be nearby, the tomb of our Lord, and a holy place to Muslims, Jews, and other Christians (Orthodox and otherwise). Such orthodoxy in the southern region of Russia will be beneficial" (Zhirinovsky, 1996, p. 54). Beneficial to whom? To mankind at large, Zhirinovsky is persuaded. For in its quest for the "dash to the South," Russia is fulfilling not just its own destiny. The "dash" is offering Russia "the historic mission of saving mankind from a third world war" (Zhirinovsky, 1996, p. 68). Having first been expanded from national to colonial dimensions, "salvation" is now undergoing magnification to worldwide proportions. This is nothing less than "messianic."
Zhirinovsky shares with the partisans of radical return an "organic" view of both history and contemporary society. He genuinely acknowledges that the measures he proposes are "not democratic." But, he adds in the best "organicist" tradition, they are a solution comparable to that proposed by a doctor when he deems surgery necessary. After it has been performed, a successful operation and recovery will immediately indicate that the doctor was correct." But for Zhirinovsky, the "body" is national AS WELL AS INTERNATIONAL. It is "national" when, addressing his "fellow Russians," Zhirinovsky says "A disease has made its way inside Russia and all our organs are gradually decaying. If not stopped, eventually our nation, like an organism, will perish" (Zhirinovsky, 1996, p. 66). But it is also an "international disease" and here Zhirinovsky departs again from radical return. The "operation" is not to be restricted to Russia alone, it is to include Central Asia, whose restored "health will, after several decades, yield [worldwide] positive results in the next century" (Zhirinovsky, 1996, p. 64). One must note also that, unlike both radical return and radical continuity speakers, Zhirinovsky is not rejecting "globalization." Indeed, his entire "dash to the South" repartition is entrenched on the premises of "globalization." But it is a "globalization" from which Russia must not be allowed to be absent. What one deals with, in other words, is early 20th century imperialism clad in post-modern terminology. Take, for instance, the following statement: "Under this scenario, the United States will gradually depart from Europe to concentrate on aiding the peoples of Latin America--Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Chile--who are badly in need of technical assistance. For ourselves, we are prepared to pool our resources with the Americans to build joint space stations" (Zhirinovsky, 1996, p. 55). There is nothing in this statement to even remotely remind of Csurka's "Lebensraum." The "revived, inclusive" Russia is neither to annihilate nations included in its sphere of domination, nor is it to return to a nebulous past of social harmony, as the radical return proponents often have it. It is a Russia that is technologically advanced and can claim its "rightful" place at the "imperialist" table.
What Zhirinovsky DOES share with radical return and radical continuity alike is the "victimized majority" mentality. What he shares with radical continuity in general and with Zyuganov in particular, is the rejection of "colonialism" imposed, as it were, through agents serving foreign interests and, implicitly, conspiracy theories--the latter being, of course, also a prominent trait among the proponents of radical return. It is to be noted, however, that Zhirinovsky's rejection of "colonialism" is confined to Russia's own borders, his entire "dashing to the South" being little else than a justification for Russia's own colonial aspirations. The following warrants extensive citation:
Russia, left as she is today, will perish like the Byzantine Empire. But unlike the Byzantine Empire, which fell to attacks by barbarian horsemen from the east--the saber-bearing Seljuk and Ottoman Turks--Russia is being eroded from within, WITH RUSSIANS BEING TURNED INTO MINORITIES, SECOND-CLASS CITIZENS, CLEANING PEOPLE AND GARBAGE MEN. The complete degradation of the nation culminates in the end of childbearing, the birth of deformed children, and the employment of women as prostitutes in bordellos.
Already deplorable conditions exist among us today where slavery is practiced in the northern Caucasus and RUSSIANS ARE EITHER ENTICED OR DRIVEN OFF BY FORCE into the mountains to be slaves or farm hands of the local bey, or lord. Eventually, if the deterioration continues, the intelligentsia will depart for America, Europe, Australia, ISRAEL, and our people will shrink into a biomass...
My fellow Russians, let us save ourselves from the destruction of our nation, our language, our culture, from being TRANSFORMED INTO REFUGEES AND HIRED HELP WHO WORK AS SERFS OR SLAVES FOR FOREIGN BOSSES. We must quickly put an end to our mindless descent into the abyss while we still number one hundred and fifty million, for every year our numbers dwindle. Within ten years, we may well be fewer than one hundred million; in twenty or thirty years, we may number no more than thirty million strewn across a vast territory. THEN WE WILL CEASE TO EXIST AS A NATION BECAUSE WE WILL HAVE BECOME SO SMALL A MINORITY (Zhirinovsky, 1996, pp. 64-65. Emphasis mine).
No one in the radical return camp would have included Israel into the list of places to which the RUSSIAN intelligentsia may emigrate. To do so is to regard Jews as being part and parcel of the Russian nation--provided, of course, that they feel and act "Russian." Zhirinovsky may have a personal problem with his half-Jewishness, and he is on the record as having made statements that are anti-Semitic. There seems to be nothing to differentiate Zhirinovsky from other anti-Semites when he deplores the fact that "Jews have not been playing the most favorable role as far as all the misfortunes that are happening in this country are concerned. They are in the mass media and are simply infecting the country...That does not make Russians very happy." It certainly does not make ZHIRINOVSKY very happy to be reminded by Jewish journalists about his partial ethnic origin and to have him described, again mostly by Jewish journalists, as a new Hitler. His reaction is one of "aggressive self-defense." But one finds him also saying that Jews "went for the socialist idea, they tried to make a world revolution and have Jews dominate the world. But the world revolution didn't come to pass because they tried to stay here in leadership positions" (cited in Solovyov and Klepikova, 1995, p. 25-26).
One is not sure what Zhirinovsky deplores more: that the world revolution failed because the Jews were, as it were, in power in Moscow, or that they are trying to dominate the world. Be that as it may, there is no doubt that echoes of the "Protocols" are unmistakably recognizable. Still, one would be at a loss to find racist undertones in any of Zhirinovsky's anti-Semitic pronouncements. After all, to bring up racist arguments would be the equivalent of Zhirinovsky shooting himself in the foot. It is not by chance that Limonov, his erstwhile ally, in 1994 proposed a law that would have restricted access to the presidency to "pure-blooded" Russians. "We do not want power to fall into the hands of Rutskoy [who apparently has also some Jewish ancestry], much less into the hands of Eidelstein-Zhirinovsky," Limonov wrote in his appeal to the State Duma (cited in Solovyov and Klepikova, 1995, p. 29).
The "victimized majority" aspect merits further introspection. One must remember that Zhirinovsky is above all a politician in search for a constituency. His "political credo" is made at a time when Russians see themselves flooded by refugees from the "near abroad," when the status of ethnic Russians in the countries of the former Soviet Union has collapsed from that of a privileged minority to one that sees its ethnicity threatened. It is made at a time when crime is acquiring unmanageable proportions. And it is made at a time when Russians find it hard to comprehend how in just a few years their country has lost its proud "world power status." It is to this disoriented and physically insecure "Russian" that Zhirinovsky is appealing, and what he is offering is the restoration of national pride as a means to "national salvation."
Young Russians, I appeal to you. I want to see your proud gaze. Can we allow ourselves to be torn apart from within? We have powerful military space stations...We have the Energia rocket, the most powerful in the world, which can transport any satellite into deep outer space. We have the T-72 and the T-84 tanks. If we started their engines all at once, the planet would shudder. We are destroying a navy that has beaten all others on every sea and ocean...
From the air, on land, from the sea and below; from the cosmos and the mountaintops, these fighting men defend Russia. And the banner of Russia will proudly flutter, will rise up at the border points. To SAVE THEMSELVES, Russians should descend southward (Zhirinovsky, 1996, p. 67. Emphasis mine).
The "externalization of guilt" temptation is, under such conditions, irresistible for a politician obviously untroubled by scruples. If I knew what "populist" means, I would be inclined to describe the environment in which Zhirinovsky raises as a politician as being "a populist's paradise." This explains how a party that calls itself "Liberal Democratic" and has genuine liberal-democratic, that is to say, civic, principles, enshrined in his "birth certificate" (Laqueur, 1994, p. 255; Hanson and Williams, 1999, p. 270), turns into a formation that no scholar writing on postcommunist "radicalism" in Russia can ignore.
Indeed, it is to this segment of refugees from the "near abroad," and to hurt Russian pride, to the even larger segment of those longing for "law and order" as crime thrives, that Zhirinovsky's appeal is music to the ears. And these run into the millions. It is to this segment, to those forced into below subsistence levels--as well as to officers forced to retire from what only yesterday was regarded as eternal Russian territory--that he promises a short, two-year authoritarian government (Laqueur, 1994, p. 256) to cope once and for all with both those who challenge Moscow's greatness in the "near abroad," as well as with those who undermine it within:
Perestroika proceeded without any direction and with no strategic plan for political transformation, no concrete program for economic reform. The government failed to fulfill its obligations; it failed to guarantee, by controlling the output of basic consumer goods, the survival of all levels of society. Nor has it been able to maintain its borders or to prevent the squandering of its precious resources. Speculation and criminality have, as a result, grown at an unprecedented pace.
Looting, pilfering, and dissipation of Russia's valuable resources have been rampant, committed not only by the "Mafia," but by a Russian government which, with maniacal abstinence, has given away, almost for the asking, a third of our natural resources to sovereign states of the so-called "near abroad"...
If our incompetent leadership stops the systematic plundering of our resources, we can raise production sharply and regain our status as a superpower. But to achieve that status again, we must change the country's leadership with free elections and install AN AUTHORITARIAN REGIME that controls from the center.
THIS IS WHERE I COME IN.
We need to gradually reestablish our previous borders--not violently, of course--but through politics and economics, without either bloodshed or military force. By offering the same economic conditions to the countries near to us as we do to those distant from us, we will make two choices clear to the former Republics: Either drag out a miserable existence soliciting crumbs from the world or return to our superpower fold (Zhirinovsky, 1996, pp. 102-03, 112-13. Emphasis mine).
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- Nationwide Health Services Corps (NHSC) Scholarship: main medical care students ready to make a site dedication with a minimum of 12 months may be eligible for a NHSC scholarship that covers tuition and costs. NHSC scholarship recipients additionally get a month-to-month stipend to help protect cost of living.
- Doctors of Tomorrow Award: Medical students approaching their last 12 months of college could possibly get a $10,000 scholarship through the American healthcare Association.
These scholarships are valuable, but just a number that is limited of will get them. But don’t throw in the towel hope; it is feasible to be eligible for a other funds and scholarships too. You may also combine numerous scholarships to offset your education’s expense.
2. Sign up for student that is federal
After scholarship and funds, federal student education loans often helps purchase the others of the education. There are 2 kinds of federal loans open to school that is medical.
- Offered to graduate and degree that is professional
- Cheapest interest of federal loans offered to school that is medical
- Loans disbursed between July 1, 2019, and July 1, 2020, don’t mind spending time rate of 6.08per cent
But, there is certainly a limitation to simply how much you are able to borrow in unsubsidized loans. Most https://titleloansusa.info graduate and students that are professional capped at $138,500. But medical, dental, and veterinary college students can borrow as much as $224,000. That restriction includes both subsidized and loans that are unsubsidized took down for undergraduate college. If you need significantly more than that, you’ll have to make with other loans.
- Borrow as much as the total price of attendance, without having any cap how much you are able to borrow
- Loans disbursed between 1, 2019, and July 1, 2020, have an interest rate of 7.08 julyper cent
Unlike other styles of federal figuratively speaking, PLUS Loans do need a credit check. For those who have a detrimental credit history — such as for instance having a bankruptcy in your credit history — you might need an endorser to co-sign the application to be eligible for that loan.
3. Think about HRSA programs
Medical Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) runs many different need-based loan programs for pupils going to school that is medical. These programs provide long-lasting, low-cost loans; in exchange, the HRSA asks that students invest in serving in communities whom lack usage of health care bills after they graduate.
- Loans for Disadvantaged pupils (LDS): LDS loans can be obtained from choose schools to disadvantaged pupils learning allopathic medication, osteopathic medication, podiatry, dentistry, optometry, pharmacy, or medicine that is veterinary.
- Health Professions student education loans (HPSL): you may qualify for the HPSL program if you’re enrolled at least half-time at a participating school and are planning to study dentistry, optometry, pharmacy, podiatry, or veterinary medicine.
- Main Care Loans (PCL): pupils pursuing a qualification in allopathic or medicine that is osteopathic may qualify for a financial loan through the PCL system.
Loans given through the HRSA programs have actually interest levels only 5% and are also interest-free even though the loans have been in deferment.
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In the event that you nevertheless need help investing in med college after trying to get scholarships, funds, federal loans, and HRSA loans, personal figuratively speaking can really help fill the space.
With personal loans, you assist a specific loan provider to sign up for cash to fund your staying classes and even your residency. Interest levels range from lender to lender. According to your credit rating, you might be eligible for a personal education loan with rates of interest being also less than the prices of federal loans, assisting you to save cash — especially if you are using a cosigner. Over 90% of private student education loans are applied for having a cosigner.
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Have you ever asked yourself why the government is in so many businesses?
For example, why is there a government post office in every town? Why does the government own, operate, and maintain billions of dollars’ worth of assets — offices, trucks, service centers, et cetera — throughout the U.S.A? Is this a carryover from the horse and buggy age? Is there any reason, the post office could not be sold and run, today, by a private corporation?
And why is the government in the Amtrak business? The airport business? The highway business? The bridge business? The tunnel business? The parks business? Are these not operations that should be run by private enterprise?
Certainly the government could establish the mission, goals, guidelines and regulations for each of these businesses, as required to accomplish the general welfare — without having to run each business.
If these businesses were sold, the size of the federal government could be significantly reduced — government spending and subsidizing could be reduced — and the funds generated from the sales could be used to reduce the national debt.
When you think about it, even in private hands, the government would still be a silent partner in these businesses, as it is in effect in other private businesses. Federal tax rates on corporations vary from 15% to 35%. It shares in these profits without risking any of its capital (except, under BHO, in the case of General Motors, Chrysler, Fannie, Freddie, etc.).
As things now stand, school boys are literally running many of these government owned businesses out of bureaucratic government offices. And the $19 trillion deficit tells us that they do not do it well.
And under a President Hillary Clinton, this situation won’t get better.
What has Hillary Clinton accomplished during her 30-year career in government? Other than tailgating on her husband’s political success and Obama’s political success, what has she really accomplished? Not much.
Really – she is the Democrat candidate because of her notoriety. If one compiles a list of her accomplishments versus a list of her failures – the latter would exceed the former significantly. Has she created any jobs? Has she met a payroll? Has she made strategic decisions?
Donald Trump on the other hand has a history of accomplishment, of creating new businesses, of overcoming failed businesses, of creating thousands of new jobs, and of passing severe business tests as measured by profit and loss, return on invested capital, economic growth, payroll, legal challenges, etc.
Literally, Trump is a doer and an achiever, whereas Hillary is a tailgater, a deceiver, and a career government leech.
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Images Stained Glass Art Pattern Book by Terra Parma
- 8 full-sized Patterns with size information and glass amount needed for each area.
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A terrific gift for a fellow glass artists.
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Elaine Chiew is ethnic Chinese from Malaysia; she was educated in the USA and then moved to the UK. She is currently living in Singapore. Her debut collection of short stories reflects this background. The stories examine the lives of the Malaysian and Singaporean Chinese diaspora across the USA, Britain, and internationally. These are doubly hyphenated identities: the immigrant children of a Chinese community that established itself in the Straits Settlements in the early twentieth century. At one point a character’s mother visiting from Singapore is impressed by London’s Chinatown. “It’s just like China!” Her daughter wryly remarks, “Although she’d never been to China.”
The diversity of voices across the collection reflects not only Chiew’s talent, but perhaps also the long span of years over which they were written. The earliest published piece won the Bridport International Prize in 2008, a feat nicely bookended by the title story winning Second Prize a full decade later in 2018. Her work has appeared in several anthologies and in Unthology 10. She edited the anthology Cooked Up: Food Fiction from Around the World, and this familiarity with food culture makes more than a cameo appearance in this collection.
Chiew writes with equal facility and insight from the perspective of the older generation of immigrants who never became proficient in English, and the younger, college graduates and professionals, whose comprehension of the Chinese vernacular is increasingly sketchy. In the drama-filled “Run of the Molars”, a mother arrives from Singapore to visit her three daughters in London. It’s a recipe for much concealing of secrets, putting up with whining, and unsolicited moral judgements. The reader need know nothing of Chinese culture to appreciate the sheer passive-aggressive contrariness of a mother who, when served platters of (London) Chinese food by her daughters, narrows her mouth and asks for two slices of white bread. All the repressed family dynamics seethe to the surface in this story of great heart and sardonic observation of cultural differences.
Lily is portrayed as the most progressive of the three daughters. Her sister, despite at one point referring to the mother as a “hillbilly”, launches a caustic attack on Lily for becoming too westernised: “Why do we have to talk about everything? You’re so fierce westernised, just because you’ve married an ang moh. Put you on a couch, Freudy-dreudy, this solves everything, eh?”
In this piece as with several others, food is metonymic for fidelity to one’s heritage.
In the mythology-warping satire “Confessions of an Irresolute Ethnic Writer”, the writer-narrator gazes in the mirror examining his zits and trying to descry his true face: Model-Minority face, Fresh-Off-The-Boat face, Charlie Chan face. A little later he ponders over whether it is ever permissible to use the description “nice sloe eyes”, even in jest. The farcical tribulations of our Ethnic Writer should serve as a caution not to read these stories too reductively as explorations of ethnic identity. They are stories of family bonds and friendships and struggles to establish one’s place in the world. Often a wry distance is maintained from the characters, allowing space for the reader to revise their opinion and see the larger picture.
This authorial skill of allowing room for differing perspectives comes to the fore in “Friends of the Kookaburra”. Sansan receives a surprise call from an old college friend, the Madonna-idolising Irene, seeking to renew contact. Twelve years before they had been “thick as thieves”, done voluntary work together, camped out cramming for exams. But they grew apart: Irene began to hang out with the more popular students. “Irene’s wild talk, throwing around buzzwords like ‘sectarian politics’, ‘cultural hegemony’, ‘power dialectic’.” Fast-forward the years, and this friend comes across as effusive and presumptuous. Given the nature (and title) of the book, the reader may be disposed to sympathise with the Malaysian-Chinese Sansan. It’s a finely balanced portrayal, but we begin to warm to Irene’s brash frankness. “Her eyes scan Sansan’s face for residual historic friendship.” The vexing and elusive question intrudes nevertheless: is the tension between these old friends a clash of Western individualism with Confucian values, or is it a personality clash?
Irene turns the tables in a dramatic fashion – no spoilers here. If the modern short story is frequently charged with a lack of narrative and contrived subtle endings, Chiew is never guilty of this.
“Chronicles of a Culinary Poseur” is a comedy, verging on tragicomedy, about the Chinese owner/chef of La Lumière – a French restaurant in Manhattan. Due to a sequence of events involving a lethally bilious food blogger and the local loan-shark goons, Kara finds herself pretending the vacuous, Grecian-god-looking Bernard is the executive chef. It’s a role Bernard takes on with panache and a splash of cologne (in the kitchen!). This might not be the outstanding story of the collection, but it shows the range of Chiew’s voices. Another story gives us a would-be “tiger mother” trying to integrate with the other fearsome moms hot-housing their kids through an intimidating prep school. In a nod to Amy Chua’s Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, this mother composes extempore rap, not hymns, to express what she dare not speak aloud.
The title story is meticulously structured and a deserving winner of the Bridport Prize, but it’s in “Chinese Almanac” that Chiew pulls out all the stops. The writing here buzzes with just the right amount of confusion. Fragmented syntax, untranslated Chinese characters, and unexpected bawdiness depict, and replicate in the reader, the feeling of joining the festive table of the extended family of one’s new girlfriend/boyfriend. The necessity for slapstick should rightfully trump any writer’s notions of keeping the writing restrained. Manboobs, dildoes, death, and Jesus all find their way into the dinner-table conversation. When the egg foo young lands on the floor and the meal comes to an abrupt end, the daughter hesitantly asks her bashful beau if he would like to visit again. “He gives an emphatic nod.”
The writing is exquisitely precise. The narrator’s father, a mathematics graduate who came to America and always worked at menial jobs, is now going through a process of estrangement from his wife. In a sentence to make any writer envious, the son describes the attempt at flirting with the middle-aged Korean woman who runs the drycleaners: “I watch this interaction with a portion of incredulity, a portion of amusement, a portion of ineffable catch-in-my-throat.”
A recurring theme is the dual nature of family bonds, on the one hand supportive and on the other hand they can be stifling. On the whole such bonds come out positively, even in the case where a young man hides his sexuality from his parents. “There’s a hierarchy of sins: being gay is not as heinous as being unfilial,” he says.
A calmly optimistic humanist view of human nature informs the fictions. An immigrant in dire straits steals twenty dollars from the cash register only to replace it the next day. The revelation that an uncle sought to have sex with a transsexual is regarded as a perplexing disorder of the libido. A mother whips her piteous, ghost-haunted son and the ensuing scandal forces her to publicly apologise to him. A Confucian worldview, perhaps, but Chiew has already cautioned us against seeing characters as determined by their ethnicities.
Chiew also works as a visual arts researcher. She has written elsewhere of being attentive in her fiction to the potential and meanings of objects, events, and dialogue, and to their linkages and echoes off each other. As well as food, a chamber pot or dialect phrase can become a recurring motif and resonate with meaning.
Three of the stories are historical fiction, written in a more classic style of prose. These stories, for this reader, seem to show that the generational divide rivals that of the east-west cultural divide, though this may not have been the writer’s intention.
Geopolitical realities are changing rapidly. Singaporeans are now the sixth richest people in the world. The world of Amy Tan’s novels is gone. Chiew’s characters are university students (fees for international students are notoriously high), accounts managers, restaurant owners, insurance underwriters – global nomads as one character says. In two stories they are low-wage workers. “The Chinese Nanny” is perhaps the sole story where ethnicity feels like a limitation to be overcome. It’s a good story, though without that feeling of entanglement the others induce, where the reader is unsure where to commit their sympathies.
In a collection with such a range of themes and styles, there’s going to be something that’s not to the reader’s taste. For me it was the mythological parody “Confessions of an Irresolute Ethnic Writer”, which hardly deserved so many pages, clocking in at the second longest.
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Companies to integrate video and data content and technology into a common API for automotive, navigation and emergency response customers
Fairfax, Virginia, May 27, 2014 -- TrafficLand®, the largest authorized aggregator of live traffic video in the U.S., announced today it has reached an agreement with Global Weather Corp. (GWC) to market a service combining hyper-local forecasts of road and atmospheric weather conditions with real-time local traffic camera video.
The combined content is available through an application programming interface (API) that allows customers to choose data layers, which can include hyper-local weather data for road conditions, temperature, precipitation and wind speed, as well as real-time video from local roadside traffic cameras. The new service, delivered from a commercial grade datacenter and network, is scalable for mass audiences.
“For many years we’ve seen a strong synergy between changing weather conditions and rising demand for the Department of Transportation camera video on our network.” said Lawrence Nelson, CEO of TrafficLand. “What could be better for understanding road conditions than the convergence of TrafficLand’s real-time video with GWC’s weather content, which is recognized as the most accurate weather forecast available.”
“We formed GWC to commercialize the world’s best weather forecasting technologies developed at the National Center for Atmospheric Research,” said Mark Flolid, GWC’s chief executive officer. “Our technology is constantly learning local weather conditions and validating our global forecasts against observations on the ground. Using TrafficLand’s extensive national network of real-time traffic camera data will allow GWC to apply our technology to road surface conditions forecast for all US roads. This is of significant value to commercial and consumer vehicles markets in which weather related accidents account for 24% of all crashes and the costs to the loss of life, personal injury and property damage run into the billions of dollars annually.” | <urn:uuid:ba2f17f2-b43b-42c8-9ae3-507a50389211> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www10.giscafe.com/nbc/articles/view_article.php?articleid=1281374 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280761.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00096-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933873 | 400 | 1.5 | 2 |
The people who falsely and maliciously accused Sarah Palin of inciting Jared Loughner to murder now are criticizing Palin for using the term “blood libel.”
The term “blood libel” has it’s origins in the accusation in Europe (and more modern times, in the Middle East) that Jews use the blood of Christian (and Muslim) children to make matzoh.
Matthew Yglesias of Think Progress, who was responsible along with Markos Molitsas of DailyKos for spreading the connection between the Palin electoral target map and the shooting, smugly asserts that Palin just can’t take criticism:
“Indeed, Jews throughout America can join me in remembering when our ancestors fled Eastern Europe in order to live in a land where nobody would ever criticize us on television.”
In fact, as Jim Geraghty of National Review Online documents, the use of the term “blood libel” in political discourse is common both on the left and the right to describe incendiary false accusations which tend to blame a person for inciting violence and making the person a target of violence.
Much like the use of the term “holocaust” (e.g., nuclear holocaust) is not used in the strict sense of The Holocaust, the use of the term “blood libel” does not offend the traditional meaning of the term.
The looser, more modern usage of the term certainly seems to fit here.
Palin was not just “criticized on television,” she was accused of inciting murder even though there was and is no actual evidence that the electoral target map played any role in the Tucson shooting. The connection of Palin to the shooting was a smear by people who did not care about the truth.
Similarly, the smear has made Palin a target for hatred and violence, including widespread death wishes and threats: [Update: YouTube pulled the video. All of the screen shots were saved by a reader and are available here and at Patterico. The video now is embedded here.]
Abe Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League has a reasonable statement which criticizes the use of the term without hyperventilation and while recognizing that the common usage does not necessarily comport with historical usage (emphasis mine):
It was inappropriate at the outset to blame Sarah Palin and others for causing this tragedy or for being an accessory to murder. Palin has every right to defend herself against these kinds of attacks, and we agree with her that the best tradition in America is one of finding common ground despite our differences.
Still, we wish that Palin had not invoked the phrase “blood-libel” in reference to the actions of journalists and pundits in placing blame for the shooting in Tucson on others. While the term “blood-libel” has become part of the English parlance to refer to someone being falsely accused, we wish that Palin had used another phrase, instead of one so fraught with pain in Jewish history.
I don’t have a problem with Palin’s use of the term; it seems to comport with the modern usage. Those feigning indignation simply seek to feign indignation.
Were the false accusations against Palin a blood libel? Or merely malicious, vindictive false accusations of complicity in murder made for the purpose of inciting hatred of Palin?
Update: Johnathan Chait at The New Republic, Lord Help Me, I’m Defending Palin (emphasis mine):
Okay, it’s a little over the top for Sarah Palin to accuse her critics of “blood libel.” But she does have a basic point. She had nothing to do with Jared Loughner. He was not an extremist who embraced some radical version of her ideas. And her use of targets to identify districts Republicans were, um, targetting is not exceptional or prone to incite anybody.
What’s happening is that Palin has come to represent unhinged grassroots conservatism, and people in the media immediately (and incorrectly) associated Loughner with the far right. Moreover, the Republican establishment understands her potential candidacy as a liability and is looking to snuff it out. So you have this weird moment where Palin is on trial for something she has no connection with at all.
The term “blood libel” has taken on a broad metaphorical meaning in public discourse. Although its historical origins were in theologically based false accusations against the Jews and the Jewish People, its current usage is far broader. I myself have used it to describe false accusations against the State of Israel by the Goldstone Report. There is nothing improper and certainly nothing anti-Semitic in Sarah Palin using the term to characterize what she reasonably believes are false accusations that her words or images may have caused a mentally disturbed individual to kill and maim. The fact that two of the victims are Jewish is utterly irrelevant to the propriety of using this widely used term.
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David Ruelle’s stated purpose in writing The Mathematician’s Brain is to present a view of mathematics and mathematicians which will be of interest to those both within and without the profession. He has succeeded admirably in this regard: The Mathematician’s Brain is both fascinating and intellectually challenging, and is written in a style disarmingly direct and collegial. One minute Ruelle is discussing the influence of computers on mathematical practice, the next minute relating how the Russians managed to practice anti-Semitism even within so apparently ethnicity-free a subject as mathematics. Throughout, he is more concerned with presenting an interesting take on a number of ideas than in delivering the last word on any particular topic, but his discursive journeys are so interesting that you are often sorry to see them end so soon.
Ruelle attempts to supply both 1) a flavor of what mathematicians do, and what it means to think mathematically, and 2) some insider’s tales of the mathematical world and the individuals who make it up. There's not that much actual mathematics included, and the short examples presented are there to illustrate larger points. One unintended effect of including even these "simple" examples, however, is a demonstration that the definition of simplicity is relative to one's expertise and usual habits of thought.
Not surprisingly in a book which ranges so widely and takes so informal an approach, there’s material within to offend as well as to delight. For instance, I found the chapter on Alan Turing both terminally clueless as to the implications of being a gay man in the Britain of the early 20th century, and trivial in its overall question. Who knows or cares if personal strangeness causes mathematical genius or vice versa? Most likely it’s a variant of the old third variable problem: both the genius and the strangeness are caused by slightly different "wiring" of the mental apparatus. Not that I can prove this, but it’s as good a speculation as any.
But people who seek to offend no one are frequently dull, one charge which may not be laid upon this author. To put it in terms of tennis commentators, Ruelle is more John McEnroe than Cliff Drysdale, and if he occasionally causes offence he more than makes up for it with the quality and originality of his thoughts. Not all chapters will appeal to everyone, but the material covered is so varied that there's almost certain to be something to interest anyone concerned with math, philosophy, or the history of science. I read most of this volume in one evening, and finally set it down with the feeling that I just spent a lengthy train ride sharing a compartment with a garrulous and somewhat eccentric but fascinating companion.
David Ruelle obtained his PhD in Physics from the Université Libre de Bruxelles in 1959 and has worked at ETH Zurich, the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, NJ, and since 1964 at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques in Bures-sur-Yvette, France. He has published seven previous books, including Chance and Chaos (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991).
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(Medical Xpress) -- Researchers from The University of Auckland have discovered why people feel as though they have jet-lag after surgery, and the findings may have implications for post-operative recovery.
Our work shows that general anaesthesia effectively shifts you to a different time zone, producing chemically-induced jet-lag, explains lead researcher Dr Guy Warman from the Department of Anaesthesiology and School of Biological Sciences at The University of Auckland. It provides a scientific explanation for why people wake up from surgery feeling as though very little time has passed.
The study showed for the first time that general anaesthetic alters the activity of key genes that control the biological clock, shifting them to a different time zone. The effect persists for at least three days, even in the presence of strong light cues telling the brain the correct time of day.
Its been known for some time that after anaesthesia peoples biological clocks are disrupted, and this can compromise their sleep pattern and mood as well as wound healing and immune function. By understanding why this happens we can work out how to treat it and potentially improve post-operative recovery, says Dr Warman.
The work was done using honey bees. It might sound unusual, but in fact bees are an ideal species to study time perception. Honey bees have an amazingly accurate sense of time, which allows them to forage and find flowers in the right place at the right time of day. By looking at their behaviour we can get a clear idea of what time of day they think it is, and quantify the effects of anaesthesia. An added advantage is that their biological clocks work in a very similar way to mammals.
In the research, bees were trained to travel to a specific food source before being given a commonly-used anaesthetic. By tracking the direction they flew after waking from anaesthesia, or how long their foraging behaviour was delayed, researchers could work out what time of day the bees thought it was. The results showed that the bees sense of time was significantly slowed during anaesthesia.
The researchers are already putting their findings to use in clinical studies in New Zealand, examining the extent of post-operative jet-lag in patients and how it may be treated.
The honey bee work was funded by a Marsden grant and has been published in the latest issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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It was Dr. Martin Luther King who said that “the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.” But, the curve of the arc is so imperceptible that most people just do not see it. Rebecca Solnit writes in her article “The Arc of Justice and the Long Run”: “I don’t know what’s coming. I do know that, whatever it is, some of it will be terrible, but some of it will be miraculous, that term we reserve for the utterly unanticipated, the seeds we didn’t know the soil held. And I know that we don’t know what we do does. As Shane Bauer points out, the doing is the crucial thing.” The largest mountain and the largest volcano in the solar system, both are the same; Olympus Mons on the planet Mars. The mountain rises up to a height of a staggering 26 kilometers that makes it three times the height of Mount Everest. But if one were to attempt climbing it one would hardly get the feeling that one was on a mountain. Its slope is so gentle that it almost looks flat. Popular perception of volcanoes is that of a steep mountain hiding within its bosom vast amounts of destructive energy that, once unleashed, devours whole cities. The absence of tectonic plate movement on Mars allows the Martian crust to remain fixed in place over a magma hotspot allowing repeated, large lava flows. At its base Olympus Mons is 550 Kms. The curvature of this volcano is just as imperceptible as the moral arc of Dr. King. The energy contained within Dr. King’s moral universe can also be infinite, but as Ms. Solnit writes, “sometime hope lies in not looking forward but backward to study the line of that arc.”
When, on 28th August 2011, Anna Hazare broke his fast after a thirteen-day Satyagraha at the Ramlila Maidan in New Delhi, perhaps there was not one person who would have foreseen the event that happened at the same venue on the 28th of December last year. Although I do not subscribe to numerology and similar esoteric arts, it is interesting, nevertheless, to note that the number 28 seems to have some special significance for Arvind Kejriwal and the Aam Aadmi Party. The Aam Aadmi Party won exactly 28 seats in a 70-member legislature, and Arvind Kejriwal with seven of his colleagues were sworn in as ministers exactly 28 months after Anna Hazare suspended his agitation at the Ramlila Maidan. The euphoria generated by the success of this fledgling political outfit has given rise to new expectations and a new confidence among the suffering masses of this country who have been toiling under the crushing burdens of inflation, unemployment, corruption, insecurity, hunger, lack of education and health services, and a host of other disorders that an indifferent political and administrative dispensation has been inflicting upon them. In a land that has been brought up on a steady diet of mythological lore of divine avatars descending from their heavenly abodes to rid this earth of evil demons, it becomes very easy for people to believe that Arvind Kejriwal is some kind of a 21st century avatar of Lord Krishna who has descended upon Hastinapur to rid it of its Kauravas and their evil empire.
There is a tremendous amount of goodwill for the new CM and his team and the media is gushing forth like a torrent predicting the Aam Aadmi wave in the coming Lok Sabha elections. The journalists whose psephological exertions went so wrong have learnt nothing from that experience. In areas where angels fear to tread they are rushing in with new calculations and making bold declarations like the BJP would have more to fear from AAP than from the Congress. It is as if they can see the curvature of the arc with absolute clarity. But, as Ms Solnit writes, it would be much better if we looked backward to study the arc that originated with Anna Hazare’s first fast at Jantar Mantar.
The UPA’s own Olympus Mons erupted with repeated magma flows in the shape of Adarsh, 2G, CWG, Antrix-Devas, Tatra Trucks, Coalgate, and a number of other explosions, and in the absence of any tectonic plate movement within the Congress party, the crust at the top just became thicker and thicker. However, it also became possible for people to see the curvature of the arc of moral injustice, and when Anna Hazare decided to sit on a fast demanding the institution of a Jan Lokpal; he touched a raw nerve in almost every citizen of the land. The overwhelming response from the people was quite infectious and the contours of a moral revolution were just getting outlined. The movement that began on 5th April 2011 at Jantar Mantar soon grew into a mass civic protest across urban India. By keeping politicians of all hues at bay, it derived a moral legitimacy that similar protest movements had failed to garner in the past. But, it would have been obvious to even a child that a government, neck-deep in corruption, would never agree to the proposals put forward by civil society; that it would resort to deception, lies, subterfuge, disinformation, and physical coercion to crush the movement; exactly how the Manmohan Singh government responded to Anna Hazare’s challenge. It had no compunction in orchestrating a debate in the Lok Sabha and then adopting, what was euphemistically called a “sense of the house” resolution on three key issues raised by Anna Hazare. The “sense of the house” resolution moved by Mr. Pranab Mukherjee on 27th August 2011, read: “This House agrees ‘in principle’ on following issues — (i) Citizen’s Charter, (ii) lower bureaucracy under Lokpal through an appropriate mechanism, and (iii) establishment of Lokayukta in the States; And further resolves to forward the proceedings of the House to the Standing Committee on Law and Justice while finalizing its report.” The Standing Committee, we know, is where all inconvenient demands are sent for ceremonial burial. Anna Hazare broke his fast the next day, and from then began his journey into obscurity and irrelevance.
Political battles cannot be fought non-politically. Whoever advised Anna against converting the protest movement into a new political association had obviously never been a student of history. By dissociating his movement from Arvind Kejriwal and denouncing the formation of the Aam Aadmi Party, Anna Hazare has failed to see the truth behind moral pretensions. Political realism, as defined by Robert Musil, the Austrian writer, in his novel, “The Man Without Qualities” is a “sensibility driven by needs rather than by ideas.” Robert D. Kaplan, in his essay “Kissinger, Metternich, and Realism” writes: “Realism is thus about deftly playing the hand that has been dealt you. It is not exciting or inspiring. Journalistic careers are rarely built on embracing realism, though policy-making careers often are.”
To his credit, Arvind Kejriwal and his associates never hesitated from playing the hand that had been dealt to them. Drunk with power, the likes of Manish Tiwari taunted him to fight the government electorally. A party that had an Olympian mountain of funds at its command had nothing to fear from an upstart with practically no money, no big names, no experience in government, and no history of sacrifice. The challenge from the Aam Aadmi Party was laughed away. The Congress’s hand would squash AAP like a mosquito! For the Congress, it was the BJP, with its new leader, that was the principal opponent. The BJP, on its part too, laughed away the challenge of AAP and brought all its guns out to focus on the leadership of the Congress party. The results on 8th December would shock them both; the Congress into a disbelieving numbness and the BJP into a mental stupor. The only person who deftly played the hand that the voters of Delhi had dealt him was Arvind Kejriwal. The BJP suddenly found itself in a moral bind that prevented it from seeking to form the government with its 32 legislators, refusing to purchase the support of 4 MLAs. The Congress, seeing an opportunity to regain some relevance, offered unconditional support to help AAP form the government. When Kejriwal rejected this support and then followed it up with 18 conditions, many like me thought that he was becoming arrogant and unreasonable. What appeared to be even more exasperating was his plan to go back to the people of Delhi to obtain a “sense of the mohalla sabhas” before deciding on whether to form the government or not. But, actually, on reflection, this was a master-stroke. Having obtained an overwhelming support from the people for forming the government, Kejriwal has stymied any Congress attempts at leveraging its support to obtain some quid pro quo from him. By shifting the onus of the decision to form the government from his shoulders to those of the masses, Kejriwal has deftly absolved himself of any moral turpitude in taking the outside support of a tainted Congress. The Congress is now caught, proverbially, in a cleft stick. For all the noises it is now making about its support not being “unconditional” it is left with no other choice but to keep supporting the government. It will not be able to trip Kejriwal on policy-making or on personal credibility. Kejriwal will also have to open investigations into the various corruption scandals of the Sheila Dikshit government, as it is something he has been speaking about all the time. If the Congress withdraws support it will stand thoroughly discredited and convicted in public perception. One never knows where the investigations may lead and how high they may point?
The curve of the moral arc that began to become perceptible from April 2011 is inexorably pointing towards justice, although, it’s final resting place is still lost in the dim clouds of the future. What the future holds can be terrible or miraculous; the seed is sown and we shall wait with anticipation to see what fruit it sprouts. Whether AAP should go national and try to achieve a sizeable voice in the next Lok Sabha, or consolidate its position and aim for 2019, is a question that will be answered soon. For now, by tracing its path backwards, one can hope that its trajectory will remain focused in the direction of justice and will not get flattened like the Congress’s Olympus Mons that is stagnant and immobile at the top.
By Vijaya Dar
Parallels Between Azad Hind Fauj And Aam Aadmi Party
AAP’s Referendum Good For Democracy
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By Nathan Carmany
As we slide into the last two weeks of the year, many people begin their tax planning. This often includes setting goals for the new year. The end of 2015 brings with it changes to college funding that are substantially different from previous years. President Obama recently announced changes for the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, aka FAFSA. While the announcement came late, there is still time to look make adjustments lessening the impact of the new direction.
NEW THIS YEAR
Two changes start with the 2016-2017 FAFSA. Firstly, the form will no longer share the list of colleges that students place on the application. On a recent teleconference call, Mark Kantrowitz discussed the unspoken practice of colleges reviewing the list of colleges placed on a student’s FAFSA form. The reviewing institution prefers to see their name listed in the top 3. Students typically list colleges on the form in order of preference (1.)
The second and larger change deals with the timing and tax returns used for FAFSA filing. First, please note there are NO CHANGES for the 2016-2017 filing for parents and students (2). However, starting with the 2017-2018 school year FAFSA, parents and students will no longer be using the prior year tax returns and they may submit the form as early as October 1st. The information from tax returns from two years ago will be used for the application. See the table below (2).
After reviewing the table, note the 2015 tax return will be used for two years and the submission date is earlier. Earliest submission is recommended by financial aid advisors because colleges can choose to decrease the amount of funds available as the application period progresses.
REVIEW OF EXPECTED FAMILY CONTRIBUTION FOR COLLEGE FUNDING
The Federal Student Aid office uses personal and family income as an important determinant of the amount of funding a student may receive. Better understanding of that formula helps parents and students develop strategies that increase the amount awarded.
The funding formula may require zero to 47% of a parent’s income (minus taxes and allowances) to fund a college education plus 5.6% of reportable assets (not including the family home, retirement accounts, small family businesses, or assets
up the protected amounts (1.)) The number of children in college adjusts the amount of expected family contribution. Students should be ready to use half of their income over the income protection allowance plus 20% of all reportable assets (typically UGMA/UTMA, and other savings accounts (1.))
- As noted above, 2015 will play in important role in college planning for the next two years. Since the calendar year closes soon, here are a few items to consider for reducing your income.
- If you have large realized capital gains, consider selling your losers to reduce income.
- Contribute as much as you can to tax deferred accounts (IRAs, 401ks.)
- Consider placing your dividend and interest paying investments in your tax-deferred and Roth accounts. Consider the potential gains paid out by mutual funds.
- Make two years of charitable contributions in 2015 (up to the allowable limits.)
- Make your January house payment at the end of December to claim the extra interest on your 2015 taxes.
- If you itemize deductions, pay your state taxes by year-end.
- Some states allow deductions for contributions to your state sponsored 529. Here is a link for more information. http://news.morningstar.com/articlenet/article.aspx?id=718471
As you head into the end of 2015 and examine the story you tell the IRS, keep in mind the potential impact on your college funding for the next two years. Any income deferred may help increase the chances of receiving aid. Please check with your financial or tax professional for additional information and questions about your situation.
- 10/20/15 Teleconference with Mark Kantrowitz. The Fundamentals of FAFSA & College Planning
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Insights and Observations
Economic, Public Policy, and Fed Developments
- Most of the world defines recessions as at least two consecutive quarters of GDP contraction. The US relies instead on an assessment by the National Bureau of Economic Research, which has not yet ruled. However, the release of the Q2 GDP advance estimate revealed a “technical recession” with a drop of -0.9%, slightly better than our expectations but well below the Bloomberg consensus estimate of +0.4%. Talk of recession has gained new urgency.
- While there is room to nitpick Q1’s contraction, the Q2 reading was unequivocally weak. A sharp drop in consumption and Final Sales to Domestic Purchasers falling from Q1’s +2.0% to -0.3% suggest broadening demand weakness. Other economic indicators also point to worsening conditions, most notably the ISM Manufacturing PMI now showing two consecutive contractions in their New Orders sub-index, and retail spending reports revealing spending falling in real terms. We believe the economy may already be in recession, but if not, it will be soon.
- The Biden Administration has pushed back on talk of recession, pointing to strong labor markets. And, while the June jobs report showed a stronger-than-expected 372k increase in unemployment, there is reason for concern. The accompanying household survey reported a contraction in employment of 315k jobs, closely in line with a 350k drop in the size of the workforce, which opens the door to a possible sizable downward revision in the June employment release. This would change the labor market narrative. Unemployment claims are still low but have ticked up steadily of late, and the number of job openings to unemployed workers is falling from elevated heights.
- In his press conference on July 28th, Chairman Powell made headlines for three related statements; the Fed would be dropping forward guidance and would become more data dependent, the future pace of interest rate hikes would likely slow, and the Fed had raised rates to a neutral level. We believe Powell’s remarks were misunderstood by the markets. Powell elaborated that the Fed’s last Summary of Economic Projections are still the best guide to their thinking, and they had communicated an anticipated slower pace in the fall for several months. Powell also described the neutral Fed Funds range as 2.25-2.50% based on a targeted inflation rate of 2%. Inflation is currently well above this level, indicating that the Fed’s current policy is still highly accommodative.
- The market took Powell’s comments as a suggestion the Fed would halt its interest rate increases sooner than expected, and rates – particularly shorter rates – fell sharply on the news. We think this interpretation is off base. The Fed has been transparent that inflation is its top priority and slowing demand to match a series of supply shocks is now a policy goal. The move in long term rates is more consistent with lowered expectations for economic growth over the next ten years, whereas the front of the curve, which is more closely tied to Fed Funds Rate policy, now appears mispriced. As a result, we expect the yield curve to invert further as market expectations adjust and shorter rates rise.
- Regardless of Fed policy, headline inflation should slow in August and September. A sizable drop in oil and gas prices occurred in June after the end of the CPI observation period and has continued through July. And while the impact may miss the July observation, a deal negotiated by Turkey and the EU allowed Ukraine to begin exporting grain from its port city of Odessa. Shortages had pushed global food prices higher and grain prices are now retreating. Core inflation very likely will prove stickier, and while a headline inflation decline would be welcome, we expect the Fed to remain focused on core. “
From the Trading Desk
- Municipal bonds ended July with a positive month-end total return, performance that stood in stark contrast to losses posted at the end of June. July’s gains were driven largely by receding yield levels in the face of a slowing economy, seasonal cash roll creating more favorable technicals, and an uptick in retail flows. With $45 billion coming back into the market from maturities and reinvestment, we expect August to bring sustained demand.
- The week ended July 27th saw net fund inflows of $236 million reverse what had previously been 28 consecutive weeks of outflows according to Lipper Inc. The market’s tone has been stronger of late given lack of supply and a sense of urgency among buyers. Year-to-date issuance lags 2021 by 12%, and July issuance declined by 25% on a YoY basis with many deals oversubscribed. Less than $5 billion came to the new issue market over the last week. The bid side has been much stronger, leading municipals to outperform USTs.
- The month ended on a slow note as the market waited for the Fed meeting. Now that a 75 bps rate hike has been confirmed and Chairman Powell’s comments digested, traders are more assertively looking to move bonds and investors are seeking to get cash invested. This dynamic is making it challenging to find bonds at times but is supportive of bond prices.
- The front end of the municipal curve moved in tandem with longer maturities on Fed rate hikes, and unlike USTs, the curve remains solidly upwardly sloping. Spreads on the AAA curve between 2 and 10-year maturities stand at 61 bps, while the intermediate range between 5 and 10-years offers 41 bps of steepness. Longer maturity yield differentials widened considerably in July with 10 to 30-year spreads increasing from a relatively flat 25 bps to 69 bps.
Corporate Bond Markets
- In a reversal of the previous month’s direction, IG spreads retreated from a YTD OAS high of 160 bps to 144 bps. Risk assets rallied on increased recession fears and a slightly more dovish Fed tone. In addition, the surprisingly negative GDP number added to concerns about a slowing economy and weaker future growth prospects. Credit spread direction depends in part on how the Fed responds to economic conditions, although technical factors, which have been fairly stable, remain near term drivers. In our view, IG spreads should remain range bound and a breakout in either direction is unlikely.
- A healthy return of issuance in July was well received by buyers. The month is typically a robust one in the primary market, particularly among financials, as issuers are fresh off earnings reports. Of the $90 billion in new debt brought to market, ~$58 billion came from financials. We have seen a shift in new issuance structure across sectors as issuers are favoring the front end of the curve. While shorter maturity UST rates are elevated, issuers appear to be weighing demand for shorter paper against higher concessions on longer term bonds. Lighter supply has been evident throughout 2022, as market volatility and uncertainty deters positive investor sentiment. Shorter maturity issuance should be the new norm for awhile, and we see stabilization of the primary market as a positive for credit spreads.
- High yield has been in favor as the risk asset rally was more pronounced than in IG. High yield spreads and yields dropped by the largest amount in nearly two years on the hope that the Fed will cool its rate hike momentum. In addition, better than expected earnings also contributed to the rally.
- A lack of issuance has been a contributor to spread action as only $1.835 billion hit the primary market last month, the slowest July in 16 years. Year-to-date issuance of $70 billion is the weakest since 2008. Although we do not buy high yield bonds, market conditions are an indicator of credit sentiment, and July’s high yield spread tightening may have been hasty given ongoing macro uncertainty.
Public Sector Watch
ESG and the municipal markets
Environmental, social and governance (“ESG”) assessments long associated with equities and corporate bonds have also more recently become highly relevant tax-exempt research considerations. At Appleton, we believe that favorable ESG attributes are positively correlated with efficient municipal performance and, accordingly, developed a proprietary ESG scoring process that is applied to every tax-exempt bond issuer we evaluate.
What are the primary benefits of municipal ESG analysis?
Our ESG scoring methodology allows our research team to evaluate and quantify bond issuer practices and risks, while offering a valuable input into fundamental credit research. ESG analysis gives us another tool to assess risks and relative value in the marketplace, while also facilitating an ability to customize ESG related SMA solutions for clients. Simply put, prioritizing these elements of credit research is additive to our investment decision-making.
What ESG factors do you consider when evaluating municipal bond issuers?
We evaluate up to 7 distinct environmental factors, 21 social factors, and 19 governance factors based on what is most relevant to the specific bond issuer. More specifically, social factors such as employment base, education, and poverty rates influence our view of the stability and growth potential of a local economy. Environmental factors such as fuel diversity and compliance with federal clean-water regulations reflect prudent management of electric and water utilities. Good governance is an important element of fiscal management and ultimately a municipality’s credit quality. Although we draw upon extensive quantitative inputs in bond issuer ESG analysis, there is also a qualitative element. This involves analyst assessment of factors such as management practices, natural risks, and litigation, among others.
How are Appleton’s municipal ESG scores calculated?
Each bond issuer is rated as “exceeding,” “good/adequate,” or “deficient” relative to sector medians in each factor chosen for evaluation. These factors are subsequently equally weighted and summed to arrive at issuer specific ESG scores of 1 to 5, with 1 being “deficient,” 2 to 3 “good/adequate,” and 4 to 5 representing “exceeding.”
What data supports your ability to analyze ESG criteria?
Our ESG research draws upon a wide range of valuable research sources. We utilize Investortools’ CreditScope as a research database as well as an analytical tool. Within CreditScope, we have access to a diversity of social and governance data for bond issuers to draw from in developing ESG characteristic analysis and/or in applying ESG related exclusions. We also access Moody’s ESG Solutions, a leader in analyzing, measuring, and projecting climate risk for cities and counties. Our research team incorporates their environmental data into our ESG model and scores the information based on Appleton’s proprietary formulas. Several other sources such as Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the FBI also offer important data inputs.
How do ESG scores relate to fundamental bond issuer credit ratings?
We begin all our tax-exempt credit analysis by evaluating traditional municipal credit metrics such as essentiality, economic base, and balance sheet strength. This leads to a preliminary issuer credit rating. Appleton’s ESG analysis is a separate process and Appleton assigned ESG scores are distinct from our proprietary credit ratings. However, a strong ESG score may be beneficial to the final credit research rating our analysts assign each bond issuer. Negative ESG evaluations often have the opposite influence and, in rare cases, may result in a “pass” rating on a bond issuer that precludes purchase.
There are potential limitations associated with allocating a portion of an investment portfolio in ESG securities. The number of these securities may be limited when compared to those that do not maintain such a mandate. ESG securities could underperform broad market indices. Investors must accept these limitations, including potential for underperformance. As with any type of investment (including any investment and/or investment strategies recommended and/or undertaken by Adviser), there can be no assurance that investment in ESG securities or funds will be profitable or prove successful.
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Built in September 1957, the Beijing Planetarium was the first of its kind in China. It is located at the Xizhimenwai Avenue of Beijing.
The planetarium, with its cupola measuring 23.5 meters in diameter, is the main focus of interest of the entire complex. At regular intervals, 45-minute presentations take the visitor on a trip through the heavens made possible by projectors installed in the center of the hall which faithfully reproduce an image of the starry sky on the inside of the cupola.In the courtyard are two astronomical observatories, one of which is equipped with a huge telescope measuring 13 centimeters in diameter, and visitors can observe moon, planets, nebulae and star clusters, etc., via the telescope. On the west side of the planetarium is the astronomy square with observation apparatuses for visitors.
The planetarium also runs Astronomy Fan magazine by itself and Trade Edition Astronomical Calendar magazine jointly with Purple Mountain Observatory.
The Ancient Observatory under the administration of the Beijing Planetarium is a fascinating place to visit. The Observatory, built in 1442, displays astronomical instruments of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), such as celestial globe, plane sundial, rotary star dial, and so on. The Observatory includes a cluster of buildings such as Ziwei Hall, Sundial Shadow Hall and other auxiliary structures.
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Thermae Bath Spa is a combination of modern spa and historic buildings. It occupies one big modern structure and four historic buildings. All the pools like Minerva Bath and Hot Bath are all filled with natural thermal water, which have many minerals. Giving an interesting insight into the bathing culture of those times Hanna says, The Hot Bath was built in the 1770s. This pool in the 18th century was built specifically for the wealthy people. Ladies would have worn long dress which had lead weights on the bottom of it so that the dress stayed down and did not float up , so they remained decent in water. The pool is only 1.35 metres in height and as the ladies could not swim so they would walk in the water, and were served tea from India or China or hot chocolate from the New World. All this was supposed to be the height of high fashion in those times.
One of the highlights of the spa is the roof top pool and jacuzzi which gives spectacular views of the historic city. The water in the pool is 33 to 35 degrees centigrade. It comes out of the ground at 46 degrees, it is passed through the filtration system and then cooled naturally to 33 degrees. This is to prevent people with underlying medical conditions (like high BP) be affected by it, mentions Hanna. Explaining the process of the water coming from the ground, Hanna says, The rain water goes underground, gets heated as the earth is hot and comes up. The whole process they say takes 4000 to 8000 years - it is a long cycle and that is why there are so many minerals in the water as the waters had a long time to absorb them. The minerals in the water is the same as those found in local rocks.
A spa for all
An interesting factor is that the spa is positioned for all segments, not just high-end clientele. In the 16th century the water was given to the city by Queen Elizabeth I and since then the water has been owned by the people. When the new spa was built the city was given money by the government to help build it. They were given funds from the Millennium Commission to celebrate the millennium and build a modern spa for the 21st century, so the buildings are owned by the public, but a private enterprise runs it on behalf of the council. To ensure that everybody is able to bathe it is not high-end. We think it is a special place where you can bath in naturally warm water, points out Hanna.
In the treatment rooms people take hot oil massages, vichy shower, body wrap with sea weeds, also watsu (shiatsu massage in water). When we first opened we had a large number of treatments, we have cut that down so that they are much more holistic and natural. The spa's general ethos is one of being a natural holistic experience so we would not do anything that we would consider to be only beauty, no tanning or waxing or botox. It is all about making you feel better and if you feel good you look good. So bathing in the water is relaxing, its cleansing, and the treatments have a similar ethos. The most popular treatments are traditional massage, Roman Therapy massage. Then there is the bamboo massage, which is popular with men who like deep tissue massage. There are also a range of facials tailor-made to skin type, informs Hanna, pointing out that watsu is equally important, and that is what is most in connection with the spa because it is harnessing the natural thermal waters and it is a relaxing treatment.
Clients come from all over the world, almost 20 per cent are local to Bath. Of the other 80 per cent, half are British. Our largest foreign market is America and Europe. There are also clients South East Asia and India. The only market we are not popular with are those who are not interested in communal bathing. The Indian market is an emerging market for us, states Hanna. The clients are 70 per cent female and 30 per cent male. Men are now beginning to have treatments, I think the general culture in Britain is beginning to change. This year for the first time we have created a package aimed at men, she adds. The company works very closely with VisitBritain, Visit England and Bath Tourism to attract visitors from across the world.
The spa is visited by a lot of people as a business incentive. For instance if they come to Bath for a conference in the evening they visit the spa. There is also a small boardroom for sales or boardroom meeting. After the meeting they can enjoy the facilities. Many local businesses buy our vouchers to give as incentives to employees and customers, mentions Hanna.
From the point of view of growing the business the company is focusing on attracting more people during the week. On a Saturday afternoon there is a long queue. The restaurant on the first floor is housed in one of the 18th century historic buildings. Food is provided just to guests. According to Hanna one of the most popular packages is the Twilight Package which includes bathing in the evening and an evening meal, which is very popular with the business crowd.
Across the road is the Cross Bath which is a standalone separate building. The pool can be used privately. It can be hired exclusively for upto 12 people. Drinks and canapes can also be served on special events. It is an 18th century separate building, underneath which is the Georgian bathing pool and Roman well.
We do not claim that the waters have medicinal qualities as there is no scientific evidence, but there is a lot of anecdotal evidence from people who come regularly. People with joint aches and pains, and those suffering from skin conditions like psoriasis and eczema say that they feel better. Whether it is the water or because they feel relaxed, it is difficult to prove, but many people say they feel the benefit, says Hanna.
Being a day spa, Thermae Bath Spa works with 90 guest houses and hotels in the city, many of which have individual packages for their guests. The spa is now under a new management, the Malaysian firm YTL, which will also run the nearby five-star Gainsborough Bath Spa Hotel. It will be the only hotel in the UK which will have access to the thermal waters of Bath. | <urn:uuid:45ccf8e6-7560-4e09-aeca-54b44a47d335> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.financialexpress.com/archive/ancient-waters-modern-spa/1242613/0/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988717963.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183837-00375-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975278 | 1,281 | 2.78125 | 3 |
The Constitution provides for freedom of belief and opinion and permits citizens to set up institutions whose aims include the protection of fundamental liberties of the citizen. The Constitution declares Islam to be the state religion and prohibits institutions from engaging in behavior incompatible with Islamic morality. Ordinance 06-03 provides for the freedom of non-Muslims to practice religious rites, on condition that the exercise thereof is in keeping with the ordinance, the Constitution, and other laws and regulations and that public order, morality, and the rights and basic freedoms of others are respected. The law limits the practice of religions other than Islam consistent with the limits on Muslim worship included in the Penal Code of 2001, which includes restricting public assembly for religious practice to approved public places of worship. The law prohibits efforts to proselytize Muslims, but it is not uniformly enforced. The Government interprets Shari'a (Islamic law) as banning conversion from Islam to any other religion.
The status of respect for religious freedom by the Government declined during the period covered by this report. In February 2008 the Government began enforcing Ordinance 06-03, which increased restrictions on non-Islamic religious practice. In one case, a foreign Catholic priest found to be praying in an unauthorized place received a 2-month suspended prison sentence and was fined $303 (20,150 Dinars). Government ministers made public statements that criticized evangelism and emphasized the dominant role of Islam in society. There were many claims of government restrictions on worship, including the arrest and sentencing of converts to Christianity, ordered closure of churches, the dismissal of a Christian school director for allegedly using a school for evangelizing, and confiscation of Bibles.
Although society generally tolerates foreigners and citizens who practice religions other than Islam, some local converts to Christianity kept a low profile out of concern for their personal safety and potential legal and social problems. Radical Islamists harassed and threatened the personal security of some converts to Christianity. Islamist terrorists continued to justify their killing of security force members and civilians by referring to interpretations of religious texts. Moderate Muslim religious and political leaders publicly criticized acts of violence committed in the name of Islam. Anti-Semitic articles occasionally appeared in the independent press. Press reports concerning the May 2008 riots between Maliki and Ibadi Muslim groups in Berriane suggested that sectarian differences contributed to the violence.
The Ambassador, the Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom, and senior administration officials, raised U.S. concerns about religious discrimination with senior government officials. Specifically, the Embassy and State Department officials raised concerns with the Government concerning its order to close churches and its treatment of Muslim citizens who wish to convert to other religious groups. The U.S. Government also discusses religious freedom with representatives of religious groups and members of civil society.
Section I. Religious Demography
The country has an area of 919,595 square miles and a population of 35 million. More than 99 percent of the population is Sunni Muslim. There is a small community of Ibadi Muslims in the province of Ghardaia. Official data on the number of Christian and Jewish citizens is not available; however, practitioners estimated their combined number at 50,000. The vast majority of Christians and Jews fled the country following independence from France in 1962. Many of those who remained emigrated in the 1990s due to acts of terrorism committed by Muslim extremists. According to Christian community leaders, evangelical Christians, mostly in the Kabylie region, account for the largest number of Christians, followed by Methodists and members of other Protestant denominations, Roman Catholics, and Seventh-day Adventists. A significant proportion of Christian foreign residents are students and illegal immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa seeking to reach Europe; their numbers are difficult to estimate.
For security reasons, due mainly to the civil conflict, Christians concentrated in the large cities of Algiers, Annaba, and Oran in the mid-1990s.
During the reporting period, the press frequently reported that Christian proselytizing had resulted in significant numbers of Muslims in the Kabylie region converting to Christianity. However, Christian sources reported those figures as exaggerated and the Government estimated the number of conversions that took place in 2007 at 140. Reporting suggests that citizens, not foreigners, make up the majority of those actively proselytizing in Kabylie.
Since 1994 the Jewish community has diminished to virtual nonexistence due to fears of terrorist violence. The Jewish community was not active, and the synagogues remained closed.
In Algiers church services are primarily attended by members of the diplomatic community, expatriate Western businesspersons, sub-Saharan African migrants, and a few local Christians.
Section II. Status of Religious Freedom
The Constitution provides for freedom of belief and opinion and permits the people to set up institutions whose aims include the protection of fundamental liberties of the citizen. The Constitution declares Islam to be the state religion and prohibits institutions from engaging in behavior incompatible with Islamic morality. Ordinance 06-03,which delimits the conditions and rules concerning the practice of religious rites by non-Muslims, provides for the freedom of non-Muslims to practice religious rites, on condition that the exercise thereof is in keeping with the ordinance, the Constitution, and other laws and regulations, and that public order, morality, and the rights and basic freedoms of others are respected. The law limits the practice of religions other than Islam consistent with the limits on Islamic worship included in the Penal Code of 2001, which includes restricting public assembly for religious practice to approved public places of worship. The law prohibits efforts to proselytize Muslims, but it is not uniformly enforced.
Conversion is not illegal under civil law and apostasy is not a criminal offense, but the Government interprets Shari'a as banning conversion from Islam to any other religion. Missionary groups are permitted to conduct humanitarian activities without government interference as long as they do not proselytize.
The Constitution prohibits non-Muslims from running for the presidency. Non-Muslims may hold other public offices and work within the Government; however, it is reported that they are not promoted to senior posts and they hide their religious affiliation.
Ordinance 06-03, which entered into effect in September 2006 and has been enforced since February 2008, limits the practice of religions and restricts public assembly for the purpose of worship. The law requires organized religious groups to register with the Government, controls the importation of religious texts, and increases punishments for individuals who proselytize Muslims. Similar guidelines were put in place in the 2001 Penal Code for Muslim worship. Many representatives of churches and some human rights organizations reported that the Government has not provided a bureaucratic means to process and approve requests to register under the new law. The council to evaluate requests has never reportedly convened. A system for implementing the provisions of the 2001 Penal Code for Muslim worship exists. Credible reporting indicates that the Government has used the Penal Code to restrict Shi'a worship. The Government allows registered non-Muslim religious groups and some non-registered non-Muslim religious groups, in limited instances, to conduct public religious services.
Ordinance 06-03 confines non-Muslim worship to specific buildings approved by the state and calls for the creation of a national commission to regulate the registration process. Articles 5 through 11 of the Ordinance outline enforceable restrictions, which stipulate that all structures intended for the exercise of religious worship must be registered by the state. The articles also require that any modification of a structure to allow religious worship is subject to prior government approval, and worship may only take place in structures exclusively intended and approved for that purpose.
In practice, Ordinance 06-03 enables the Government to shut down informal Christian religious services that take place in private homes or in secluded outdoor settings. Government officials assert that the law is designed to apply to non-Muslims the same constraints as those imposed on Muslims. Imams are hired and trained by the state and observances of Muslim services, with the exception of daily prayers, can only be performed in state-sanctioned mosques. The Government maintains that the new requirement that non-Muslim religious services be conducted only in registered facilities puts the treatment of all religions on an equal basis before the law.
Additionally, Ordinance 06-03 makes proselytizing a criminal offense, and the punishment for it is established at one to 3 years in jail and a maximum fine of $7,100 (500,000 dinars) for lay individuals and 3 to 5 years of jail time and a maximum of $14,285 (1 million dinars) for religious leaders. The law prescribes a maximum of 5 years in jail and a $7,100 (500,000 dinars) fine for anyone who "incites, constrains, or utilizes means of seduction tending to convert a Muslim to another religion; or by using to this end establishments of teaching, education, health, social, culture, training…or any financial means." Anyone who makes, stores, or distributes printed documents, audiovisual materials, or the like with the intent of "shaking the faith" of a Muslim may also be punished in this manner.
In May 2007 the Government issued Executive Decree 07-135, which gave greater precision to Article 8 of the Ordinance, specifying the manner and conditions under which religious services of non-Muslims may take place. The decree specifies that a request for permission to observe non-Muslim religious rites has to be submitted to the wali (governor) at least 5 days before the event and that the event must take place in buildings accessible to the public. Requests must include information on three principal organizers of the event, its purpose, the number of attendees anticipated, a schedule of events, and its planned location. The organizers must also obtain a permit indicating this information and present it to authorities upon request. Under the decree, the wali can request the organizers tomove the place of observance or can disapprove an event completely if it is deemed a danger to public order.
In June 2007 the Government issued Executive Decree 07-158, which gave greater precision to Article 9 of the Ordinance, specifying the composition of the National Commission for Non-Muslim Religious Services and the regulations that govern it. It establishes that the Commission is to be presided over by the Minister of Religious Affairs and Awqaf (Religious Endowments), and composed of senior representatives of the Ministers of National Defense, Interior, Foreign Affairs, and National Security, the National Police Headquarters, and the quasigovernmental National Consultative Commission for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights (CNCPPDH). Individuals within the Christian communities report that they were not consulted on the formation of the Commission. Individuals and groups who believe they are not being treated fairly by the Ministry of Religious Affairs may voice their concerns to the CNCPPDH.
Although the law restricts public assembly for purposes of practicing a faith other than Islam, the Government permits Catholic, Protestant, Anglican, and Seventh-day Adventist churches to conduct services. Due to bureaucratic difficulties registering new churches, many Christians meet in unofficial "house churches" which are often homes or businesses of church members.
The Ministry of Religious Affairs provides some financial support to mosques and pays the salary of imams. Mosque construction is funded through private contributions of local believers. The Ministry's Educational Commission is composed of 28 members who are in charge of developing the educational system for teaching the Qur'an. The Commission is responsible for establishing policy for hiring teachers for the Qur'anic schools and madrassahs, as well as ensuring that all imams are well qualified and that the imams teach in line with government guidelines aimed at stemming Islamist extremism.
The Government appoints imams to mosques and is allowed to provide general guidance on sermon topics. The Government can legally prescreen and approve sermons before they are delivered publicly during Friday prayers. In practice, each wilaya (province) and daira (county) employs religious officials to review sermon content, generally after the sermons are delivered. All persons, including imams recognized by the Government, are prohibited from speaking during prayers at the mosque in a manner that is "contrary to the noble nature of the mosque or likely to offend the cohesion of society or serve as an apology for such actions." If an imam's sermon is judged to be inappropriate, he can be convoked to a "Scientific Council" composed of Islamic law scholars and other imams who assess the appropriateness of the sermon. An imam can be relieved of duty if convoked multiple times. The Government's right of review has not been exercised with non-Islamic religious groups. The Government also monitors activities in mosques for possible security-related offenses and bars the use of mosques as public meeting places outside of regular prayer hours.
The Ministries of Education and Religious Affairs strictly require, regulate, and fund the study of Islam in public schools. Private religious primary and secondary schools operate in the country; however, the Government has not extended recognition to these institutions pending a review of their educational programs as required by the Ministry of National Education since 2005. Consequently, private school students have to register as independent students within the public school system to take national baccalaureate examinations. The Government authorizes only 22 of 200 private schools. The Government has stated that the purpose of this measure is to ensure that schools supported by Saudi Arabia conform to government standards of religious teaching. There is no hate crime legislation.
Amendments to the Penal Code in 2001 established strict punishments, including fines and prison sentences, for anyone other than a government-designated imam who preaches in a mosque. Harsher punishments were established for any person, including government-designated imams, who acts "against the noble nature of the mosque" or acts in a manner "likely to offend public cohesion." The amendments do not specify what actions would constitute such acts.
The law requires religious groups to register their organizations with the Government prior to conducting any religious activity. The Catholic Church is the only non-Islamic religious group officially registered to operate in the country. The Protestant, Anglican, and Seventh-day Adventist churches have pending registration requests with the Government and report no government interference in their holding services. Other churches operate without registration, some openly, while some secretly practice their faith in homes. Other churches, including Methodist and Presbyterian, affiliate their organizations with the Protestant Church of Algeria.
The Ministries of Religious Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Interior, and Commerce all must approve the importation of non-Islamic religious writings. Often, delays of 5 to 6 months occur before obtaining such approval, and there have been further delays once books reach customs. The Government periodically restricts the importation of Arabic and Tamazight (Berber) translations of non-Islamic texts. The Government has stated that its purpose is to ensure that the number of texts imported is proportional to the estimated number of adherents of religious groups.
It is legal for citizens and foreigners to bring personal copies of non-Islamic texts, such as the Bible, into the country. Non-Islamic religious texts, music, and video cassettes are available, and two stores in the capital sell Bibles in several languages. Government-owned radio stations continued their practice of broadcasting Protestant Christmas and Easter services in French. The Government prohibits the dissemination of any literature that portrays violence as a legitimate precept of Islam.
According to the Ministry of Religious Affairs, female employees of the Government are allowed to wear the hijab (headscarf) or crosses but forbidden to wear the niqab (veil that covers the face).
Some aspects of the law and many traditional social practices discriminate against women. The Family Code is based in large part on Shari'a and treats women as minors under the legal guardianship of a husband or male relative. Under the code, Muslim women are prevented from marrying non-Muslims, although this regulation is not always enforced. The code does not prohibit Muslim men from marrying non-Muslim women, but it prohibits them from marrying a woman of a non-monotheistic religious group. Under both Shari'a and civil law, children born to a Muslim father are Muslim, regardless of the mother's religion. In rulings on divorce, custody of the children normally is awarded to the mother, but she may not enroll them in a particular school or take them out of the country without the father's authorization. Under the 2005 Family Code amendments, women no longer need the consent of a male guardian (tuteur) to marry. The code only requires that a chaperone (wali) of her choosing be present at the wedding. This change signaled a major step for women, as the role of a tuteur--usually a woman's father or other male relative--is to conclude the marriage on the woman's behalf, while a wali acts as a protector who is present while the woman concludes the marriage herself.
The Family Code also affirms the Islamic practice of allowing a man to marry up to four wives; however, he must obtain the consent of the current spouse, the intended new spouse, and a judge. Furthermore, a woman has the right to a no-polygamy clause in the prenuptial agreement. Polygamy rarely occurs in practice, accounting for only 1 percent of marriages.
Women suffer from discrimination in inheritance claims. In accordance with Shari'a, women are entitled to a smaller portion of a deceased husband's estate than his male children or brothers. Non-Muslim religious minorities may suffer in inheritance claims when a Muslim family member also lays claim to the same inheritance. Women may take out business loans and are the sole custodians of their dowries; however, in practice women do not always have exclusive control over assets they bring to a marriage or income they have earned. Females under 18 years of age may not travel abroad without the permission of a male legal guardian.
The Government observes the Islamic holy days of Eid al-Adha, Eid al-Fitr, Awal Moharem, Ashura, and the birth of the Prophet Muhammad as national holidays.
Restrictions on Religious Freedom
The Government first applied the provision of Ordinance 06-03 in February 2008, which increased restrictions on religious freedom. According to reports from church leaders and human rights organizations, the Government has since ordered the closure of approximately 27 churches for alleged noncompliance with the Ordinance. The Government also prosecuted domestic pastors, converts from Islam to Christianity, and one foreign priest, accusing some of breaking the law's provisions banning proselytism.
The Government maintained that it was acting in accordance with the law when it ordered the church closures because the churches had not been registered under Ordinance 06-03. The churches ordered closed included both house churches and buildings of long-established churches, within and outside of the Kabylie region. Many Christian groups indicated that they had repeatedly attempted to register with the Government, but were unsuccessful, facing a lack of information and a local government bureaucracy uninformed of how to process requests made in accordance with the ordinance.
Members of a church in Ouadhia (wilaya of Tizi Ouzou) said they attempted to apply for registration 12 times between February and April 2008. In each case, local authorities refused to accept the documents. Leaders of the Anglican Church, the Protestant Church, and the Seventh-day Adventist Church report that their applications for registration have been pending without a response for more than 2 years.
According to reports, many Christian groups, especially evangelical churches, have not attempted to obtain legal status from the Government.
The Interior Ministry has the sole authority to grant association rights to religious or nonreligious groups. The difficulties faced by religious groups in obtaining legal status are the same as those faced by nonreligious civil society groups, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and others, whose petitions to the Interior Ministry are generally met with silence rather than documented refusal.
The National Commission for Non-Muslim Religious Services, created to regulate the registration process established by Ordinance 06-03, and whose composition was specified in the June 2007 Executive Decree 07-158, has never convened. Observers alleged that this demonstrated government neglect and contributed to the lack of a bureaucratic system to implement the ordinance.
On June 16, 2008, the Minister of Religious Affairs stated that evangelism is the new terrorism, according to the daily Echorouk el-Youmi. Additionally, he stated that he equates evangelism with terrorism in an interview published in L'Expression on February 12, 2008, in response to a question concerning efforts to convert Muslims to Christianity in the country.
On May 22, 2008, the Prime Minister publicly stated: "The Algerian society's constitution is the Qur'an … and that will never change."
In February 2008 Rev. Hugh Johnson, a retired American Methodist minister who resided in the country for 45 years, was told by authorities that his residence permit would not be renewed and advised him to leave the country. He was not provided an official reason for the non-renewal and departed in March.
On January 30, 2008, the Maghnia Court issued a 1-year suspended prison sentence to a foreign Catholic priest for praying with Cameroonian migrants in an unauthorized place of worship. Upon appeal, he received a reduced suspended prison sentence of 2 months and a fine of $303 (20,150 Dinars). He filed a new appeal, which was pending at the end of the reporting period.
In November 2007 four Catholic Brazilians, legally living in the country, were ordered to leave the country but were not provided an official reason for the expulsion. They have been allowed to remain until June 2008. The Catholic Church in Algiers and Annaba has reported delays and difficulties in obtaining visas for visiting clergy.
Christian leaders representing several groups reported that they have been unable to import Bibles since 2005. Press reports indicated that police confiscated some Bibles in various wilayas during the reporting period. The Ministry of Religious Affairs banned 1,191 books and religious materials on Islam from the Algiers international book fair in November 2007, claiming that the materials encouraged extremism.
Abuses of Religious Freedom
On June 25, 2008, the Tissemsilt Court began a retrial of two local Christian converts, Rachid Seghir and Djammal Dahmani, whom it had convicted in absentia on November 20, 2007, to 2 years in prison and fines of $7,775 (500,000 dinars) each on charges of proselytizing and illegally practicing a non-Muslim faith. The case was pending at the end of the reporting period. On June 8, 2008, a Tiaret Court handed Rachid Seghir a 6 month suspended prison sentence and a fine of $3,190 (200,000 dinars) on charges of evangelism. The Courts in Tiaret and Djilfa charged three other Christian converts, Jillali Saidi, Abdelhak Rabih, and Chaaban Baikel, on the same grounds as Seghir; however, their cases were pending at the end of the reporting period. In February 2008 in the town of Ain Al-Turck, near Oran, Seghir, Youssef Ourahmane and another convert to Christianity faced charges under Ordinance 06-03 for "blaspheming the name of the Prophet (Muhammad) and Islam." Their trial was pending at the end of the reporting period.
On March 30, 2008, Habiba Kouider, a convert to Christianity, was charged in the western town of Tiaret with "practicing a non-Muslim religion without a permit." According to press reports, the prosecutor told her that if she reverted to Islam, he would drop the case against her. In a hearing before a local judge, the Tiaret prosecutor asked that Kouider be sentenced to 3 years in prison. On May 27, 2008, the Tiaret court referred the case for additional investigation. The presiding judge had yet to render a verdict as of the end of the reporting period. Kouider was traveling by bus when police questioned her and found her to be carrying Bibles and other religious materials.
There were no reports of religious prisoners or detainees in the country.
Forced Religious Conversion
There were no reports of forced religious conversion, including of minor U.S. citizens who had been abducted or illegally removed from the United States, or of the refusal to allow such citizens to be returned to the United States.
Section III. Societal Abuses and Discrimination
In general, society tolerates foreigners who practice religions other than Islam. Although some local converts to Christianity keep a low profile out of concern for their personal safety and potential legal and social problems, many practice their new religion openly.
Radical Islamists, who seek to rid the country of those who do not share their extremist interpretation of Islam, commit most cases of harassment and security threats against non-Muslims. Moderate Muslim religious and political leaders publicly criticized acts of violence committed in the name of Islam, such as the April 11 and December 11, 2007 suicide bombings in the country.
A very small number of citizens, such as Ibadi Muslims living in the desert town of Ghardaia, practice nonmainstream forms of Islam or other religions, and generally experience minimal discrimination. Press reports concerning May 2008 riots between Maliki and Ibadi Muslim groups in Berriane, near Ghardaia, suggested that sectarian differences contributed to the violence. However, there were no reports of religious persecution or any official or unofficial restrictions on Ibadi Muslims from practicing their religion.
A member of the Jewish community reported receiving two anonymous death threats. Police responded by placing the individual's home and office under surveillance.
Anti-Semitism in state-owned publications and broadcasts was rare; however, anti-Semitic articles appeared occasionally in the independent press, especially Arabic-language newspapers with an Islamic outlook.
Section IV. U.S. Government Policy
The Ambassador, the Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom, and senior administration officials raised U.S. concerns about religious discrimination with senior government officials. Specifically, the Embassy and State Department officials raised concerns with the Government concerning its order to close churches and its treatment of Muslim citizens who wish to convert to other religious groups.
The U.S. Ambassador and other embassy officials met regularly with the Ministry for Religious Affairs. The Ambassador and other embassy officials also met with members of the High Islamic Council, the Muslim Scholars Association, and several national scholars of Islamic studies throughout the reporting period, as well as with several Christian and Jewish groups. Embassy officials attended seminars on religious tolerance and concepts of Islam particular to the country, often sponsored by the Government and national religious organizations.
During the reporting period, the Embassy further underscored the need for religious tolerance by funding two ongoing cultural restoration projects with religious significance for both Christians and Muslims. Embassy officials promoted religious freedom by bringing three Muslim-Americans to the country to describe the high level of tolerance that all faiths, including Islam, enjoy in the United States. The Embassy maintained contact with three Islamic political parties (Movement for a Peaceful Society, Movement for National Reform, and Islamic Renaissance Movement).
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You may or may not be happy to know that the new 2012 Lexus CT 200h compact hybrid hatchback will come with a new feature not found on the 2011 model.
It will make more noise.
For 2012, in addition to an optional F Sport package and a new color (Nebula Gray Pearl replaces Smoky Granite Mica, if you're keeping track), the CT 200h hybrid is fitted with what Lexus calls a "Vehicle Proximity Notification System."
That's a noisemaker that switches on to emit "a low audible warning sound" whenever the hybrid runs in all-electric mode.
The ostensible goal is to help "alert pedestrians and cyclists of an oncoming vehicle under certain conditions."
It's the same kind of system that Hyundai chose at the last minute to fit to its own first hybrid, delaying the 2011 Sonata Hybrid's arrival in the U.S. for several months earlier this year.
No matter that there's little or no comprehensive data supporting actual danger to pedestrians from quiet hybrid or electric cars.
No matter that the regulation is written to target specific car types--hybrids and electric cars--rather than vehicles that operate quietly (the most hushed Rolls-Royce gets a total pass).
Congress has passed a law requiring such systems (largely due to the political clout of the National Federation for the Blind), the NHTSA is writing rules making them mandatory, and carmakers are falling in line.
So if you happen to like the peace and calm of silent electric operation, buy that hybrid or electric car now.
Because soon enough, it will be illegal for carmakers to sell them.
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Case Studies: Virtual Verification
December 1, 2009
The Metris (Leuven, Belgium) cross scanner is used at Volvo Cars Gent (Gent, Belgium) to accelerate the design through manufacturing process. For the Volvo XC60, for example, Volvo’s engineers were able to digitize sheet metal and plastic body parts, virtually assembling vehicle bodies in software, completing pre-production geometry verification nearly twice as fast. Three-dimensional laser scanning technology, point cloud processing and virtual assembly shorten physical evaluation of prototypes and eliminate the need for specialized verification tooling.
The design and manufacture for the Volvo XC60 body required the coordination of many different groups. Sheet metal stamping and welding in combination with the use of new materials and joining technologies set ever-tougher geometric challenges. When shifting from the computer-aided design (CAD) model to the physical nominal model and finally to the serial-produced car, process and product tolerances, as well as material and equipment behavior, can influence body geometry. The position of edges, holes and other geometric features plays an essential role in correctly assembling the different body parts of a passenger vehicle.
In 2005, Volvo and Metris partnered to streamline the pre-production phases of vehicle body production by simplifying the geometric body verification process. The companies aimed to develop a new geometric verification method that would build on a digital inspection process using 3-D scanning and virtual assembly. This method would provide better insight and effectiveness compared to traditional body tuning, which involves extensive tactile inspection, physical part conflict analysis and complex verification tooling.
Ground-Breaking 3-D TechnologyIn close collaboration with Volvo, Metris optimized its existing cross scanner to match the performance level required to drive the new geometric verification method.
The laser scanner was modified for use on horizontal-arm coordinate measuring machines (CMMs) and its field of view was increased. The increased scanning standoff distance range offers higher measuring flexibility and better access to clamped body components. The cross scanner incorporates three laser beam/digital camera sets, each shifted 120 degrees in position.
This allows the laser scanner to capture slots, sleeves, holes and other features in a single scan. Although inherently designed for scanning geometric features, the cross scanner also is suitable for digitizing 3-D surfaces and edges. The positions of features and edges are imperative to correctly mate parts and assemble car bodies.
The development work also impacted laser optics technology and digital data processing. The cross scanner design has been enhanced to flexibly deal with all material types and colors without the use of spray. Now, reflective sheet metal as well as painted surfaces can be captured quickly and reliably.
Faster and Better Body VerificationIn the pre-production stage at Volvo, metrology engineers scan sheet metal and castings made of steel and aluminum as well as composite and plastic body parts. After acquiring data at an accuracy of approximately 20 microns, engineers filter the resulting point cloud and analyze geometry against nominal CAD data. Volvo relies on digital graphic reports to evaluate the parts and streamline supplier interaction with regard to adjusting molding and stamping equipment. Digital component verification only requires standard holding fixtures, whereas traditional inspection methods demand costly dedicated positioning and fixation tooling.
After digitizing individual parts, engineers align and virtually assemble sheet metal, interior, exterior and chassis components in software, building a complete virtual vehicle body. Even before body parts are physically assembled, the geometric verification approach gives information about potential part fitting issues. To run specialized investigations, virtual body assembly models are loaded into dedicated software for reverse engineering, variation analysis and spring-back prediction, for example. Analysis between scanned and numerical vehicle body models enables Volvo to efficiently tune component geometry to fall within the assembly processing window.
Handheld DevelopmentThe collaboration project with Volvo also contributed to the development of K-Scan, a handheld laser scanner with a single laser stripe for insitu inspection. An optical CMM continuously tracks the scanner, affording the operator the mobility needed to scan the entire vehicle. Volvo engineers use K-Scan to verify flush and gap, body deformation and static/dynamic geometry on prototype or early production vehicles. Color-coded visual inspection reports illustrate how flush and gap evolves along complete spines in between hood and front fender, for example. Optical handheld verification also includes special cases in which manual methods fall short, such as zero gaps, or in case an urgent issue comes up that needs fast troubleshooting.
Reduced Iteration LoopsThe new process reduces the time needed for matching loops and realizes an important cost reduction for test materials and screwed body, nominal blue bucks and dedicated fixtures. When ramping up Volvo XC60 production in 2008, geometry iteration loops and the lead time of individual loops were reduced. Having fewer physical evaluation prototypes also reduced material scrap and decreased expenditure on complex verification tooling, such as body-in-white cubing.
“Three-dimensional scanning has been used extensively when ramping up production of the successful Volvo XC60 crossover vehicle,” says Alfons Van den Bergh, head of the geometry division at Volvo Cars Gent. “For more than two years now, 3-D scanning has been serving as the standard method for virtual body geometry verification.”
Three-dimensional scanning technologies are already well accepted at Volvo, where they are used in different stages of the manufacturing process. Noncontact metrology is systematically applied in the early design stages in which clay models are digitized. In pre-production, engineering intensively digitizes body parts and body-in-white structures to optimize part manufacture and assembly. After kicking off serial production, specific aspects of car components or full cars are scanned to serve as statistical process control samples for quality monitoring and product audit purposes. For the future, laser scanning is seen as a key enabler of in-line quality control. | <urn:uuid:5b2fcdea-4963-4e4c-8879-95d5dd4a9627> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.qualitymag.com/articles/86975-case-studies-virtual-verification | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279410.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00170-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.918873 | 1,187 | 2.203125 | 2 |
We developed this tree banding kit to meet the requirements of gardeners doing battle with caterpillars and other destructive insects.
Just wrap the foam around the trunk, cover with a strip of heavy-duty tape, and then spread the gum overtop. Made from natural gum resins, castor oil and vegetable wax, the gum is non-toxic, waterproof, weatherproof and incredibly sticky. It stops crawling insects in their tracks. The foam blocks crevices in the bark, the tape holds it in place, and insects are forced to crawl over the gum if they want to pass the barrier. When the insect season is past, remove and dispose of the entire band. No sticky residue remains on the tree.
Kit includes 45' of 3" wide foam, 58' of heavy-duty tape and a 425g (15 oz) tub of gum. Components are also available separately. Great for controlling caterpillars (like the spongy moth), ants, canker worms, climbing cutworms, tent caterpillars and others. Reapply the gum as needed when the surface becomes coated with insects or debris. | <urn:uuid:3cc4b114-266e-47a5-aba0-daf6c3f03521> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.leevalley.com/en-us/shop/garden/pest-control/insects/10253-tree-banding-kit | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573667.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819100644-20220819130644-00074.warc.gz | en | 0.925089 | 232 | 1.632813 | 2 |
Using a teaspoon of peanut butter and a ruler on test subjects, Jennifer Stamps, who studies biomedical sciences with a concentration in neuroscience, found that a person’s sense of smell — or lack thereof — can detect Alzheimer’s disease.
Stamps conducted the experiment on 94 subjects. Of the 24 patients who had mild cognitive impairment, 10 patients showed a left nostril impairment, which patients in the early stages of Alzheimer’s usually have.
“There was a difference of 12 centimeters between the left and the right nostril,” she said. “We realized we had a remarkable finding.”
The impairment in the left nostril was linked with a positive Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis. On average, there was a 5 centimeter smelling range for the left nostril, which is part of the olfactory nerve. The nerve is stimulated by the smell of a pure odorant, like peanut butter.
Stamps’ mentor, Dr. Kenneth Heilman, told her if she could come up with something quick and inexpensive she could conduct the study.
Other neurological exams fail to test sense of smell because it’s time consuming, Stamps said.
“Right now, the peanut butter test is good for early diagnostics,” she said.
Reynaldo Calzadilla, a 20-year-old computer engineering sophomore, whose grandfather had Alzheimer’s disease, said he would opt out of the diagnostic test.
“I just feel like I would change my life in a negative way,” Calzadilla said. “It’s good to know that science is advancing and helping people, but I still wouldn’t want to know.”
Anyone who does the test at home should be cautious.
Stamps said it will only work for people who are in the age range of being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s.
“If you’re doing this at home, please make sure you want to know,” Stamps said. “Don’t freak out if your sense of smell is significantly different in both nostrils. Get checked by your doctor.”
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Many people avoid vegetables altogether because they hate the taste.You can get all the vitamins and minerals that come from vegetables by juicing them. The information below will help you get started on your juicing and some things to think about when juicing.
Try juicing with a masticating type of juicer. These juicers gently extract juice which helps retain many nutrients in the liquid. The juice obtained this method is also more stable for storage.
Add cucumber to dark leafy greens for improved flavor. Many of the leafy greens don’t taste very good.Cucumber will assist in masking the taste and also add a refreshing twist to your juice.
The healthiest color for your body is green, spinach, kale, collard greens and broccoli, amongst others. The goal is to have your juices consist of roughly 50-70% green produce, the remainder being fruits or other vegetables to add flavor.Juices made from fruit often have more sugar than those with leafy greens.
Use the colors of a fruit or vegetable to determine its nutritional content.From vibrant greens to bright reds, all the different colored fruits and vegetables have different nutrients and minerals. Using different colored produce will give you a full range of nutrients and many exciting tastes.
After juicing, make sure you wash all of your juicing equipment.
Each fruit and vegetables contain different vitamins and nutrients. You will be healthy and also discover some new juices you like.
You can avoid getting pulp in juice by using a coffee filter to strain out the pulp. You might not enjoy the pulp consistency that some juices will create.
If you have to spend an excessive amount of time cleaning, make your juice and then clean up, you will quickly tire of the process. Clean the juicer as soon as you are done using it since moist pulp is easier to get rid of.
Use some cranberries as part of your juicer if you are suffering from a bladder condition or urinary tract infection. Start drinking cranberry juice when you feel symptoms of a problem.
With the tips you just learned, you should now have a better idea of how good juicing is for your body. You have the option to start infusing your body with the minerals and vitamins it craves, or ignore it’s needs. Juicing is a healthy alternative when you just don’t enjoy the taste of vegetables. | <urn:uuid:043e6f58-a809-4537-bd19-05ecf836f0fe> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://herbalheals.com/is-your-juicing-routine-getting-boring-spice-things-up-a-bit/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570651.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807150925-20220807180925-00468.warc.gz | en | 0.941301 | 496 | 2.46875 | 2 |
Disability judo classification is the medical classification system for disability judo. Judokas with a disability are classified into different categories based on their disability type. The classification is handled by the Blind Sports Association.
The blind classifications are based on medical classification, no functional classification.
Beyond the level of vision impairment, research done at the Central Institute on Employment Abilities of the Handicapped in Moscow has found differences in functional capabilities based on differences in visual acuity. This does not play a significant role in judo. | <urn:uuid:6861d047-f559-4939-ba6f-9c00db7217a8> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://sports.queryhome.com/1141/what-kind-disability-athletes-paralympic-competition-have | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281353.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00070-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93772 | 106 | 2.46875 | 2 |
Oliver Jeffers’ New Picture Book Is Your Kid’s Guide to the World
It’s hard not to love award-winning author and illustrator Oliver Jeffers for his sweet and witty storybooks. It’s hard not to swoon over his beautiful illustrations. And if you’re a kid, it’s hard not to want another read…again.
As if there weren’t reasons enough to make Jeffers a big part of our child’s home library, here’s another:
Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth due for release November 14, 2017.
This first nonfiction release from Jeffers, meant to be a guide to the world, combines his signature artwork and storytelling talent with his fresh perspective as a dad.
“As we were walking around [my son] would look up, fascinated with things, and I started explaining things to him,” Jeffers told The Bookseller. “I wrote down notes and, before I knew it, I had basically written this set of guides for him.”
Inspired by a variety of political changes in the last years, Jeffers felt that he had a responsibility to his son:
"If all of these bizarre and terrible things are happening politically and nobody is speaking out about it, how can I justify not doing anything in years to come when my son asks me?”
“I thought to myself, ‘Hmm, if I don’t speak up, who will? And how can I tell my son that yes, I tried to play my part when everything was going seemingly belly-up, and spoke out about things that were absolutely wrong?’ I do think that silence in the face of injustice makes you complicit in some way,” he told Entertainment Weekly.
If you’re concerned that the book will be too heavy for your child, don’t be. While unapologetically moralistic, Jeffers keeps the tone easy, playful, and even humorous at times. It starts of simply, introducing your child to his world…
And welcome to this Planet.
We call it Earth.
Our world can be a bewildering place, especially if you’ve only just got here. Your head will be filled with questions, so let’s explore what makes our planet and how we live on it. From land and sky, to people and time, these notes can be your guide and start you on your journey. And you’ll figure lots of things out for yourself. Just remember to leave notes for everyone else… Some things about our planet are pretty complicated, but things can be simple, too: You’ve just got to be kind.
…And takes the time to cover a variety of subjects from our planet's terrain, our place in space, to finally arrive at a simple, universal message of kindness and tolerance on Earth. Who couldn’t use more of that?
So keep an eye out for Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth this November. It’s bound to be a new favorite.
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I’d like to share some tips and tidbits that I’ve learned while working in the craft industry for over 25 years. It’s a great industry filled with exciting opportunities and avenues to earn a living doing what you love to do. Craft! Design! Write! Demonstrate! Creativity and purpose will help you succeed.
- Understand there is such a thing as the “craft industry” and become an active member. Join the Craft and Hobby Association and attend a trade show at least once every 2-3 years. You should also check out the toy market, gift market, and stationary market to round out your knowledge of the creative industries. Find where you fit in and get involved. This networking opportunity can help you meet a wide variety of industry members and open a few doors to prospects available.
- Make the most of your trade show visit. Plan and prepare early, make a list of companies and people you want to meet or talk to, take part in classes or demonstrations, bring business cards, have a portfolio and resume, attend get-togethers, and try to walk the show floor twice. It is tiring, but a trade show is the best way to network and to get work for the craft professional.
- Always, always be professional. Whether it’s answering your phone, writing a query letter, sending off product, or interviewing with a potential client you need to put your best foot forward and be professional. What does professional mean? Just type the keyword phrase “business etiquette” in your favorite web browser and you’ll get plenty of advice. The short version is to be polite, dress neatly, speak clearly, and don’t let your ego get carried away.
- Don’t miss a deadline. Deadlines are serious business and your reputation is built on meeting your deadlines. If you can’t make a deadline, it’s critical that you let the powers that be know what is going on. Life does happen to all of us, but there is no excuse to let a deadline pass when you knew in advance you could not meet the goal. It may be a how-to article, a kit for a class, a video of a product review, or a dozen product items needed in a week. Basically, it doesn’t really matter what is needed or requested. What is important is you only say yes if you can meet the deadline. It’s a small industry and people do talk, so every deadline you miss is a chip off your reputation.
- Give back. Goodwill and acts of kindness have a way of bringing in business to your business. Volunteer at the library, donate books to the library, volunteer at the local senior center or teen club and use every opportunity to let others know what you do! Volunteer tasks can lead to business jobs so make your community a more creative place by sharing your talent and passion for crafting.
- Keep up-to-date on current trends including color, design, balance, texture, and techniques. You should also be aware of current trends in the economy, your own local economy, the gift market, local housing, and open house homes as all of these influence your client and customer. You can provide the best service and the best products, but if the color, design, or theme is out of date, you won’t make a penny for your efforts. | <urn:uuid:6d06b5c8-a719-4a9b-bd4a-3d79c14eedf6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.creativeincomeblog.com/easy-tips-success-craft-industry/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00277.warc.gz | en | 0.93779 | 702 | 1.617188 | 2 |
WASHINGTON — Facebook has deleted a post by President Donald Trump for violating its policy against spreading misinformation about the coronavirus. And a few hours later, Twitter temporarily blocked the Trump campaign from tweeting from its account, until it removed a post with the same video.
The post in question featured a link to a Fox News video from Wednesday morning in which Trump says children are “virtually immune” to the virus.
Facebook said Wednesday that the “video includes false claims that a group of people is immune from COVID-19 which is a violation of our policies around harmful COVID misinformation.”
Trump's account retweeted the video. Twitter said in a statement late Wednesday that the tweet violated its rules against COVID misinformation. When a tweet breaks its rules, Twitter asks users to remove the tweet in questions and bans them from posting anything else until they do.
Twitter has generally been quicker than Facebook in recent months to label posts from the president that violate its policies against misinformation and abuse.
This is not the first time that Facebook has removed a post from Trump, Facebook said, but it's the first time it has done so because it was spreading misinformation about the coronavirus. The company has also labeled his posts.
In June, Facebook removed ads regarding Trump's reelection campaign featuring a symbol Nazis used to classify political prisoners.
Several studies suggest, but don’t prove, that children are less likely to become infected than adults and more likely to have only mild symptoms. But this is not the same as being “virtually immune” to the virus.
A study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention involving 2,500 children published in April found that about 1 in 5 infected children were hospitalized versus 1 in 3 adults; three children died. The study lacks complete data on all the cases, but it also suggests that many infected children have no symptoms, which could allow them to spread the virus to others.
Trump responded to his claims about children and the coronavirus hours after the Fox interview during Wednesday afternoon's White House press briefing.
"Children handle it very well. They may get it, but they get it and it doesn't have much of an impact on them," the president said, again referring to COVID-19 as "the China virus" despite criticism that labeling the illness Chinese is racist.
NBC News reports that the Trump campaign has accused Facebook of "flagrant bias."
Courtney Parella, the campaign's deputy national press secretary, said in a statement, "Another day, another display of Silicon Valley's flagrant bias against this President, where the rules are only enforced in one direction. Social media companies are not the arbiters of truth."
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New programs help drive veteran homelessness down 12 percent
In midst of the various challenges U.S. veterans face returning home from war, they received a welcome bit of news on Tuesday morning.
Homelessness declined by 12 percent for veterans between January 2010 and January 2011, according to figures from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
“Our progress in the fight against homelessness has been significant, but our work is not complete until no veteran has to sleep on the street,” said VA Secretary Eric K. Shinseki, according to The Washington Post.
But in introducing new initiatives, Shinseki noted that “The problems that lead to homelessness begin long before veterans and their families are on the streets.”
The report found that 67,495 veterans were homeless in January 2011, almost 9,000 fewer than the 76,329 total recorded in January 2010.
HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan expressed his delight over the report, calling it “nothing short of extraordinary.”
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Wal-Mart Stores (WMT) announced today it will hire at least 100,000 veterans leaving active duty in the next five years, while the retail giant also expects to buy an additional $50 billion in U.S. products over the next decade.
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Starting Memorial Day this year, the company will offer a job to any honorably discharged veteran in his or her first 12 months off active duty.
“Hiring a veteran can be one of the best business decisions you make,” president and chief executive Bill Simon said in a statement. “Veterans have a record of performance under pressure. They're quick learners and team players. They are leaders with discipline, training, and a passion for service. There is a seriousness and sense of purpose that the military instills, and we need it today more than ever.”
Wal-Mart said it has spoken with the White House about its plans, adding that the Department of Veterans Affairs, Department of Defense and major American employers will convene in the next several weeks to encourage business to train and hire military veterans returning home.
“We have a lot of announcements made at the National Retail Federation’s Big Show, but today’s announcement by Walmart President and CEO Bill Simon tops them all. It is nothing less than visionary for a great American company to make such a bold pledge to help our American heroes,” Matthew Shay, president and CEO of the National Retail Federation, said.
“Walmart is challenging the industry to follow their lead, and I have every reason to believe that retailers – the industry responsible for one out of every four jobs – will respond accordingly.”
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The company’s expansion in domestic products will include categories like sporting goods and apparel, saying it hopes to bolster onshore U.S. production in high potential areas like textiles, furniture and higher-end appliances.
“At the heart of our national political conversation today is one issue: creating jobs to grow the economy,” Simon said. “We are meeting with our suppliers on domestic manufacturing and are making a strong commitment to move this forward.”
Wal-Mart also said it will offer new initiatives to help part-time employees find full-time opportunities with the company.
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Because reducing health disparities is a community-wide effort, CCHS is partnered with the UC Berkeley School of Public Health, UCSF, and Kaiser Permanente. We are also collaborating with San Mateo, San Joaquin, Los Angeles, and San Francisco Counties on different grants along with San Francisco General Hospital.
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LEADing Organizational Change: Advancing Quality through Culturally Responsive Care
The LEAD program is a 3-year initiative to support public healthcare settings improve the quality of healthcare received by the racially and ethnically diverse populations that they serve. The LEADing Organizational Change, or LEAD program has identified cultural and linguistic competence as an important strategy for reducing health disparities. The goal of the program is to help public healthcare institutions establish and improve culturally competent health services through education, consultation, and training programs focused on reducing health disparities for diverse patient populations.
In Contra Costa County, the LEAD Program has taken on a project to improve prenatal services for Latina women in East County. Contra Costa Health Services Hospital and Clinics will train its staff in East County to improve their ability to provide culturally and linguistically appropriate services to Latina women in hopes of increasing their access to prenatal, delivery, and postnatal services. In addition, this project hopes to educate the Latino community about prenatal care and how the healthcare system works to assist them.
Kaiser is a leader in working to build cultural competency in the health care industry. As part of its internal education program, Kaiser has developed handbooks that show how to better understand individual populations and the role that culture plays in treatment outcome. The "Provider's Handbook on Culturally Competent Care" brings the issue of cultural competence and sensitivity to healthcare professionals treating diverse populations, including Latinos, African Americans, Asian and Pacific Island Americans, and Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, and Transgendered. In addition, Kaiser also established the Institute for Culturally Competent Care that is dedicated to supporting innovations in delivering culturally competent care.
Recently Kaiser took on the EMS project which was a study conducted by Contra Costa County regarding the use of EMS in ethnically and linguistically diverse communities and their level of cultural competency. The study showed that the need for training/educating EMS workers on cultural competency was necessary. The EMS Project is an effort to provide education and training to EMS workers in cultural competency and communication in order to function and act effectively and appropriately in diverse cultural interactions and settings.
The School of Public Health at UC Berkeley is committed to multiculturalism and diversity through a host of programs, services, and resources available to students, faculty and community partners. The school is a well-known research institute that supports a wide range of studies regarding health from a multitude of perspectives. Through collaboration and establishing partnerships with other research and educational organizations, the School of Public Health honors its mission to "develop, apply, and share knowledge from multiple disciplines to promote and protect the health of the human population, with sensitivity to multicultural perspectives."
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Well, I guess that depends on what kind of sightseeing, cultural (including beer drinking), sporting outdoorsy stuff you want to do.
If history is what you’re after, the Middle Ages (while quite the popular time period) isn’t the oldest era in town. The Romans were here long before knights, fair maidens, and the feudal system.
The most awesome part? You can travel on the same roads these ancient warriors did on the Hohlweg — part of their network of roads known as the Römerstraßen or Roman Roads. This one went from Salzburg to Augsburg.
All righty then, now we can jump to the medieval and Renaissance. I’ll get to the castle in a minute, but first you got to see the 15th century Gothic Old Holy Spirit Church and the Holy Trinity Chapel that was built in 1698 (which today is only used for special occasions).
Now for the castle — like an decent medieval town isn’t gonna have one? Sort of. Burg Schwaneck isn’t from the Middle Ages, and neither is it from the Renaissance (please, these two epic time periods can’t monopolize all the German history, can it?). It was built in the 19th century (located at Burgweg 4-10) and is now a guesthouse and youth center.
Right off from the Burg are many of Pullach’s hiking and walking paths, as well as quite a few bicycle trails. The Forstenrieder Park (a game reserve) is also popular with hikers, cyclists, and inline skaters. Add that to all the jazz concerts, literary events, theater, and folk dancing & you’ve got yourself a jolly good time.
That’s not even mentioning the indoor/outdoor pool with a playground for the kids, a whirlpool, a sauna & steambath; and the winter sports fun of tobogganing & skiing.
One last stop is the Großhesseloher Brücke, which at one time was one of the highest railway bridges in the world.
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We’re going to be seeing a lot more face masks soon. After a week of rumors that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would advise regular folks to wear masks, President Donald Trump said in a press briefing Friday that “the CDC is advising the use of nonmedical cloth face covering as a voluntary health measure.”
This is awfully confusing. Back when this all started, we were told that we didn’t have to wear masks. You probably have some questions—about whether you should take the CDC up on the suggestion and about what changed. Here is our best shot at explaining what happened here!
So, what does the CDC say about masks now?
As of Friday afternoon, the recommendation in the CDC’s guide on how to protect yourself still has its old advice: no need to wear a mask unless you are sick. Trump indicated in the press briefing that the new guidance would only apply to people in coronavirus hot spots and noted that it was a mere recommendation, one that he himself would not be following. There will probably be updated guidance and clarifications in the days to come. For now, let’s go with: The CDC suggests you can wear a mask, if you want to, and you should wear a mask if you are sick.
This really sounds like I should just start wearing a face mask to be safe?
Not so fast. The answer currently is: It depends, both on the situation you’re in, and then, whom in particular you are asking. Like everything about this pandemic, the coronavirus is taking over the world as we are in the middle of learning about it, which means experts are making recommendations with less data than is ideal. “When you’re getting conflicting advice, it’s telling you that it’s really not a scientifically well-established point of view,” Robert Amler, a former CDC chief medical officer, now at New York Medical College, told me.
OK, so in what situations should I wear a mask?
There’s one situation in which the answer is a clear, obvious, scientifically agreed-upon yes: If you are sick, wear a mask.
The coronavirus definitely spreads through droplets from coughs; if you are coughing into a physical barrier, such as a surgical mask, it can stop those droplets, and even some of the smaller particles, from making it onto another person, or—more likely, since we are social distancing—onto a surface where another person might touch them and then touch their face. (This is why we are washing our hands so much.)
This is, in fact, why surgeons wear surgical masks—so “something dripping out of [the surgeon’s] face doesn’t drip into the wound they’re working on,” says Amler. They can also protect surgeons from getting splashed directly with bodily fluid. Surgical masks are not, medically speaking, meant to be worn by healthy people to stay healthy; they are just meant to block the exchange of liquids.
Of course, the tricky thing right now is figuring out who is sick, which is why delivering a directive like “wear a mask if you’re sick” does not quite cut it right now. Plenty of people don’t feel sick but still might be spewing around virus-filled droplets, hence, the current ongoing debate about whether we should just tell everyone to wear masks.
But I thought there was a mask shortage?
Yes, as you may have heard, health care workers working with COVID-19 patients—or potential COVID-19 patients—really, really need to be wearing heavy-duty masks called N95s. These masks are important because they’re strong enough to filter out particles, like viruses, rather than just blocking droplets. But there is currently a shortage of N95s. In response, the CDC has loosened their guidelines for health care workers to allow surgical masks as an “acceptable alternative.” Health care workers were upset about this, precisely because surgical masks do not work all that well to protect against direct exposure to someone with the virus. But it’s true that they are better than nothing: When researchers at the Health and Safety Laboratory in the U.K. sprayed aerosolized influenza particles at a test dummy from 2 feet away, they found that a well-fitted surgical masks didn’t eliminate exposure to the influenza to the extent that an N95 can, but they could reduce it tenfold. (That’s not a real-world scenario, exactly, but it’s also not that removed from what hospital workers experience.)
At any rate, among all the things we don’t know, at least the current hierarchy of masks is clear—N95 masks are most effective, then surgical masks, then homemade masks.
OK. So shouldn’t I let health care workers have the N95 masks, if there’s a shortage and all?
Yes, you really should. If you use an N95, a health care worker cannot use that N95. (If you have N95 masks that you would like to donate, the top entry in this Slate guide explains how you can do so.)
Even if we didn’t have a shortage, experts wouldn’t recommend regular people wear N95s. You have to be really careful to make sure an N95 fits properly, because air sneaking around the side makes them far less effective. You also have to dispose of them carefully after each use, so you don’t end up contaminating yourself via the used mask. And, an N95 “has its own side effects,” Amler explains. All that filtering slows down air flow, so they can also be a bit difficult to breathe through, so much so that the New York Department of Health has advised that clean-up workers who may need them for protection against chemicals check with their doctor if they have a preexisting condition. “It’s almost like breathing in a paper bag,” said Amler.
So I should wear a surgical mask?
If you have one in your possession already, yes, that’s probably your best bet. But surgical masks are out of stock or will take weeks to arrive from many retailers, plus hospitals need them, both so that sick patients can use them, and even so that health care workers who don’t have N95s can use them. So if you don’t have them, ordering them may not help.
… which leaves me the option of making a mask?
Yes. It’s not perfect—limited data suggest homemade masks are less effective than surgical masks—but it’s not nothing, either. There are a few studies that suggest that diligently wearing a mask when you have someone with a confirmed respiratory illness in your home can help reduce the spread. “Ideally, you want the sick person to wear a mask,” says Saskia Popescu, an infectious disease epidemiologist, in addition to having them stay as isolated as possible. But your own wearing of a mask will further limit the spread.
That masks are imperfect is just one of the reasons social distancing is still so important. Staying physically distant from one another keeps the possibility of spreading droplets between one another as low as it can be. The mask is just an additional thing on top, though it should help continue to lower the spread.
If you’re OK at sewing, you can download a pattern from the New York Times here. MarketWatch has instructions to make masks with a stapler or safety pins. And here’s how to make one with a handkerchief and hair ties.
Is there any downside to wearing a mask?
Actually, possibly. Many experts worry that masks will provide a false sense of security. “I worry that if people put on masks, then they’ll think, OK, I’m protected, and they won’t wash their hands as vigorously or be careful not to touch their faces,” Aaron Carroll, an Indiana University pediatrics professor said in an episode of Slate’s What Next. “Or worse, they’ll keep touching their faces because they keep adjusting the masks, or they might just start to be lax in their social distancing.”
There’s also the fact that a dirty mask can be a source of contamination. Masks are single use; they need to go in the trash or into a laundry bin. You need to wash your hands before you put one on and after you take one off. The World Health Organization has detailed instructions on proper mask etiquette here.
If you are careful not to let the mask lull you into a false sense of security, if you are able to wear it and not adjust it and touch your face, and if you follow best practices for taking it on and off—it doesn’t seem like it would hurt.
People who are in favor of masks argue that masks actually help keep all the other practices top of mind. In this theory, masks help remind you not to touch your face. They are a psychological signal that we are in a pandemic, as science writer Knvul Sheikh explained in the New York Times: “They serve as a visual reminder to improve hand hygiene and social distancing.” The studies showing they can reduce transmission within a household suggests that it’s possible this way of looking at it is true! Who’s right? Well, like everything about this pandemic, we need more detailed data to tell for sure.
OK, so if I’m sick, I should be wearing a mask to go outside.
No. If you’re sick, you should stay inside. Or, as Amler says: “If you’re going out even if you only have mild symptoms, we’re not going to get through this, and more people will die.”
Right. If I’m sick, I stay inside, and I can wear a mask inside to protect people who have to live with me.
If I’m not sick, then I should still wear a mask?
You can, because you might still be spreading the virus. “We’re still learning a lot about the asymptomatic people,” says Popescu. For her, the evidence of asymptomatic transmission isn’t convincing enough to warrant universal mask-wearing. She thinks there might not be all that many truly asymptomatic people out there, just people ignoring mild symptoms. But it’s also possible that a lot of viral shedding happens when people are presymptomatic, as Caroline Chen points out in ProPublica, citing a small study of 94 patients that has not yet been peer-reviewed. One part of the solution to presymptomatic spreading is for everyone to “wear a mask, preferably universally in public spaces,” as Gabriel Leung, dean of medicine at the University of Hong Kong, told Chen.
So, everyone in Asia had this right the whole time?
But why has there been so much confusion over masks?
Part of it comes down to social norms: Mask-wearing is a norm in other countries—yes, including many that appear to have successfully flattened their curves. It’s unclear if mask-wearing actually helped to cause the flattening we’re seeing to a meaningful extent. But it does make sense that we’re looking at other countries, asking if what they did was helpful, and figuring out if we should be adjusting our own practices as a result.
In the end, the reason for the back-and-forth is the same reason that everything about this pandemic is confusing: We are learning a lot about it on the fly, scientifically. It’s unclear to what extent old standards apply. “I always go back to what we do during flu season,” says Popescu. In the U.S., we don’t wear masks during flu season. But influenza might spread less easily than the new coronavirus—it doesn’t spread through asymptomatic or presymptomatic transmission, for example.
Right now is also a lot different than flu season, in so many ways. Right now, almost everyone wants to do everything possible to stop the spread, to keep from getting sick. “In a state of fear, people want something to do to protect themselves,” says Popescu. We have control over so little right now, as individuals, and masks are one thing that we can control.
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The Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering program is accredited by the Computing Accreditation Commission (CAC) and the Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC) of ABET, www.abet.org.
The B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering as a Second Major is not an ABET-accredited program.
Why accreditation matters
ABET is the board that accredits engineering and computer science programs in the United States.
ABET is responsible for "establishing standards, procedures and an environment that encourages the highest quality for engineering, engineering technology and engineering-related education through accreditation so that each graduate possesses the skills necessary for lifelong learning and productive contribution to society, the economy, employers and the profession."
By conducting periodic, comprehensive program evaluations, ABET determines which programs meet the established criteria and are awarded accreditation.
A degree from an ABET accredited program is an endorsement that the program has been "quality tested." Graduates from ABET accredited programs have an assurance that their investment and achievement are recognized by the worldwide engineering community.
Outcomes and objectives
ABET requires departments to develop program educational objectives and student outcomes for use in the accreditation process.
Educational objectives describe what graduates should be able to achieve within a few years of graduation, while student outcomes describe knowledge and skills students gain as they move through a program.
Program educational objectives
Within a few years of graduation our graduates will:
- Be employed as computer science or computer engineering professionals beyond entry level positions or be making satisfactory progress in graduate programs.
- Have peer-recognized expertise together with the ability to articulate that expertise as computer science or computer engineering professionals.
- Demonstrate strong analytic, design, and implementation skills required to formulate and solve computer science or computer engineering problems in a professional or research environment.
- Demonstrate that they can function, communicate, collaborate and continue to learn effectively as ethically and socially responsible computer science or computer engineering professionals.
Student learning outcomes
Our graduates will have an ability to:
- Identify, formulate, analyze, and solve complex computing or engineering problems by applying principles of computing, engineering, science, and mathematics.
- Design, implement, and evaluate a computing or engineering solution to meet a given set of requirements, with consideration of public health, safety, and welfare, as well as global, cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors.
- Communicate effectively in a variety of professional contexts, with a range of audiences.
- Recognize professional responsibilities and make informed judgments in engineering and computing practice based on legal and ethical principles, considering the impact of solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts.
- Function effectively as a member or leader of a team engaged in activities appropriate to the program's discipline, creating a collaborative and inclusive environment, establishing goals, planning tasks, and meeting objectives.
- Apply computer science theory and software development fundamentals to produce computing-based solutions.
- Develop and conduct appropriate experimentation, analyze and interpret data, and use engineering judgment to draw conclusions.
- Acquire and apply new knowledge as needed, using appropriate learning strategies.
Enrollment and degrees
Mapping to ABET outcomes
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|1. Analyze a complex computing problem and to apply principles of computing and other relevant disciplines to identify solutions.||1|
|2. Design, implement, and evaluate a computing-based solution to meet a given set of computing requirements in the context of the program's discipline.||2|
|3. Communicate effectively in a variety of professional contexts.||3|
|4. Recognize professional responsibilities and make informed judgments in computing practice based on legal and ethical principles.||4|
|5. Function effectively as a member or leader of a team engaged in activities appropriate to the program's discipline.||5|
|6. Apply computer science theory and software development fundamentals to produce computing-based solutions.||6|
|ABET Outcome||Covered by CSE Student Outcome|
|1. An ability to identify, formulate, and solve complex engineering problems by applying principles of engineering, science, and mathematics.||1|
|2. An ability to apply engineering design to produce solutions that meet specified needs with consideration of public health, safety, and welfare, as well as global, cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors.||2|
|3. An ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences.||3|
|4. An ability to recognize ethical and professional responsibilities in engineering situations and make informed judgments, which must consider the impact of engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts.||4|
|5. An ability to function effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives.||5|
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Syrian “rebel” groups backed by the US, Turkey and other Western powers have entered into talks with Russia on brokering an end to the fighting in Aleppo, which was Syria’s largest city and commercial capital before being devastated in the US-orchestrated war for regime change against the government of President Bashar al-Assad.
The talks in Ankara, first reported by the Financial Times of London, were reportedly brokered by the Turkish government and convened in the context of the increasingly decisive rout of the Islamist militias that have controlled parts of eastern Aleppo for the past four years and threatened to overrun the entire city as recently as last year.
Since last weekend, Syrian government troops, backed by Lebanese Hezbollah fighters and Shia militias from Iraq, have retaken some 40 percent of the territory previously occupied by the Islamists, whose strongest contingent is the group known as the Al Nusra Front, which served as Al Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate.
Tens of thousands of civilians have poured out of the eastern section of the city, seeking refuge from both intense bombardment by Syrian government warplanes and the terror exercised by Al Nusra and similar jihadist groups. While the Western powers claimed that there were 250,000 civilians trapped in the “rebel”-held area, based on the inflated claims made in relation to other areas retaken from the Islamists, many believe that only a fraction of this number had resided in the eastern zone.
According to the Financial Times, “While the secret talks are not the first time a rebel representative has met with the Russians, those familiar with the talks said it was the first time such a large number of opposition groups were involved.”
The FT article highlighted the implications of the talks in terms of the sidelining of Washington and the increasingly evident debacle confronting the more than five-year-old US operation directed at arming, training and paying militias for the purpose of overthrowing Assad.
“The Russians and Turks are talking without the US now. It [Washington] is completely shut out of these talks, and doesn’t even know what’s going on in Ankara,” one unnamed opposition figure told the British daily.
Another opposition representative, asked why Moscow was attempting to reach a deal with the so-called rebels at this juncture, said that the Russian government was “essentially saying: ‘Screw you Americans.’”
The more likely motivation is the desire of the government of President Vladimir Putin to use ties with the armed opposition as a bargaining chip in its dealings with both Washington and the Assad government itself under conditions in which Russia’s intervention on the side of Damascus, which began 14 months ago, has apparently produced a decisive turning of the tide in the Syrian war.
The talks are indicative of closer relations between Ankara and Moscow, even as conflicting agendas in Syria and the wider region have led to intermittent frictions. Turkey sought a rapprochement with Russia earlier this year to break the tension caused by a November 2015 Turkish ambush and shooting down of a Russian warplane operating against Islamist militias in Syria near the Turkish border. Relations grew closer in the aftermath of the abortive July 15 military coup, which was widely blamed on the US.
Turkey’s own intervention into Syria, Operation Euphrates Shield, has been carried out with the tacit complicity of Russia, which controls much of Syrian airspace, even as the Assad government has denounced the Turkish incursion.
Tensions boiled to the surface after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan made a statement Tuesday declaring that Turkey had sent its military into Syria “to bring justice.” It added, “We are there to end the rule of the cruel Assad, who has been spreading state terror.”
The statement prompted demands from Moscow for an “explanation.”
“The announcement really came as news to us,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. “It is a very serious statement and one which differs from previous ones and with our understanding of the situation. We hope that our Turkish partners will provide us with some kind of explanation about this.”
This was followed by a phone conversation Wednesday between Erdogan and Putin. On Thursday, Erdogan offered the “clarification” demanded by Moscow. “The aim of the Euphrates Shield Operation is no country or person but only terror organizations. No one should doubt this issue that we have uttered over and over, and no one should comment on it in another fashion or try to [misrepresent its meaning],” the Turkish president told a meeting of village chiefs assembled at the presidential palace in Ankara.
By “terror organizations,” Erdogan and his government have consistently made clear they mean not only the Islamic State (ISIS), but also the Syrian Kurdish militia, the YPG, which the US has funded, trained and armed, utilizing it as its principal proxy force against ISIS. The Pentagon has declined to provide Turkish troops with air cover because of Ankara’s determination to attack Washington’s Kurdish proxies.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu, meanwhile, met in Turkey’s Mediterranean resort city of Alanya Thursday, announcing that both countries are seeking to broker a truce in Aleppo and assure the provision of humanitarian assistance to its battered population.
Russia has proposed opening up four “humanitarian corridors” into eastern Aleppo to permit civilians to escape the besieged zone and allow food and medical aid in. Previous attempts to open up such corridors have broken down, however, as a result of the US-backed Islamist militias shelling them and firing upon civilians attempting to escape.
The US and its allies have denounced the Russian-backed offensive by the Syrian government, highlighting the humanitarian crisis in order to demand an end to the attack on the Al Qaeda-linked militias that form the backbone of the Syrian “rebels.” The increasing hysteria of these denunciations reflects the fact that the fall of eastern Aleppo will deprive these militias of their last urban stronghold and consolidate Syrian government control over all of the country’s major population centers. | <urn:uuid:79b61dad-ac9c-497a-b76a-7364b5717c8c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2016/12/02/syri-d02.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00670.warc.gz | en | 0.969811 | 1,253 | 1.664063 | 2 |
Architecture is mostly perceived as a static, unchanging and rigid element without an ability to react to the changing environment around it and the specific conditions of its location. The digital approach to architectural design has already shown that it is possible to create architectural prototypes that react to the external inputs by changes in their material properties or even in the shape. The conventional, stationary architecture is not able to react to the environmental factors, nor to the changing needs of building occupants, which brings architects, designers, and engineers to the issue of movement in architecture.
This paper by Lenka Kormaníková, Eva Kormaníková and Dušan Katunský describes selected adaptive materials and structures used in architecture. An adaptive shape is designed and analyzed using a combination of 3D modeling tool Rhinoceros and the visual algorithmic plug-in Grasshopper, together with the extension for Grasshopper, Kangaroo. The wind simulation is made in the Flow Design. | <urn:uuid:d9bf2a3c-fe4f-48b2-b96f-a866e4b69143> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://parametrichouse.com/adaptive-structures/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00468.warc.gz | en | 0.935188 | 204 | 3.15625 | 3 |
Discover some of South America's greatest cities - Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, and Lima - and some of its most fascinating sites and spectacular scenery on this South America tour. You'll overnight in Rio de Janeiro, Iguassu Falls, Buenos Aires, Lima, the Sacred Valley, Machu Picchu, Cusco, Lake Titicaca, Arequipa, and Colca Canyon. Guided sightseeing in each of the cities features the must-see sites. In Rio, take the cog railway to the summit of Corcovado to view the famous Christ the Redeemer statue. Your time in Buenos Aires includes a visit to Recoleta Cemetery, burial place for Eva Peron, and a Tango show. In Lima, your sightseeing focuses on the city's colonial heritage.
Highlights of this South America tour include time at Iguassu Falls on both the Brazilian and Argentine sides. Experience the falls, hear the thundering roar, be amazed at the brilliant rainbows created by the clouds of spray, and stand in awe as you witness these 275 falls spanning nearly two miles! You’ll also be amazed at Machu Picchu, set in a majestic mountainside with ruins dating back to the 15th century. Glimpse the ancient history and culture as you enjoy this stunning and mystical place. Other tour highlights include a visit to the Inca ruins at Ollantaytambo and the Temple of Sacsayhuaman, with stones weighing up to 350 tons.
Time in Peru's Lake Titicaca, a lake of floating islands maintained over centuries by the local Indians, gives you a chance to experience the world's highest navigable lake and to learn about local practices. At Colca Canyon, an impressive geological formation more than twice as deep as the Grand Canyon, you’ll witness condors soaring majestically above the canyon walls, marvel at the canyon, and relax at La Calera hot springs before time in Arequipa, known as the “White City” for its buildings made of volcanic rock. This South America tour designed for the value-minded traveller is a dream holiday! | <urn:uuid:a549c81a-b3d0-4294-b75b-e10e57bf2037> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.cosmostours.com.au/south-america-tours/ultimate-south-america-with-arequipa-the-colca-canyon-1206?season=2023 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.902299 | 442 | 1.5625 | 2 |
Information Gain in Intimate Partner Violence
Technology has undeniably become an integrated component of day to day life. From Google Maps replacing the GPS system that comes in many cars, to Facebook connecting friends and families from thousands of miles apart, there’s no end to the impact that technology has had on society as a whole, in essentially every realm. However, with further integration of technology into daily life also comes a growth in the number of nefarious ways that technology can be utilized. This paper seeks to better understand how individuals are gaining information in regards to technology mediated intimate partner violence, or IPV. Technology mediated IPV has become a new avenue of concern for individuals who often work directly with victims of Domestic Violence such as social workers (Woodlock, Mckenzie, Western, Harris, 2019). We sought out and scraped hand selected forums and then performed qualitative coding on the resulting data. Ultimately, a number of distinct patterns were revealed. Namely, a community that essentially validates, normalizes, and encourages use of technology in IPV was unveiled. In addition to this, targeted advertisements for tools that could be used for IPV taking advantage of potential abusive situations.
M.S., Information Science
Master of Science
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Christmas is coming up quickly! Have you had a chance to see all of our fun Christmas crafts? Today we’re going to share our last and final Christmas craft for the season. This Reindeer Handprint can be made into an ornament or a Christmas card. We love how cute this Rudolph is and it would be an adorable keepsake for your tree or added to any gift as a card!
Related: Handprint Christmas Card
Watch the full tutorial video here before you get started!
If you love handprint crafts – we have quite a few Christmas handprint crafts, be sure to check these other ones out:
Supplies Needed to Make a Reindeer Handprint Card or Ornament
How to Make a Handprint Reindeer
1. Fold your paper over if you want to make your reindeer handprint into a card. Trace the hand so that the wrist is on the folded part.
2. When you cut out your handprint you’ll want to try and cut the top so that it looks like a straight line across the top of the reindeer. You should now have a handprint card that looks like this:
3. Now cut out a head and tail and glue to your handprint.
4. Cut two small pieces of your brown pipe cleaner and then cut 2 additional small pieces to make the antlers. Twist the smaller piece onto the other piece to form your antler. Glue to the back of your reindeer’s head.
Tip: We like to use this glue for gluing pipe cleaners and pom poms because it’s a stronger school glue.
5. Add your reindeer googly eyes and pom pom nose.
6. Using your thin red ribbon, thread 3 jingle bells through it and tie to the inside of your card. Note: if you make an ornament instead, simply just tie the ribbon to the back of your ornament.
7. If you want to turn the handprint reindeer into an ornament, you can add a small red ribbon to the back for hanging.
8. Now write your message inside!
How easy and cute is this Reindeer Handprint Card? We can’t decide which handprint card for Christmas is our favorite – but we do love this one quite a bit!
RELATED: Santa Handprint Card
Want more Christmas Craft Ideas? See 50+ Christmas Crafts for Kids.
If you’re looking to get some fingers a bit messy, we love this Handprint Christmas Card since it’s made with fingerprint lights!
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For those raised on a diet of John Le Carre and James Bond, it will come as a surprise that the Central Intelligence Agency is a moody, sensitive place that relies as much on morale as on machismo. “A lot of power comes from moral authority,” says former CIA chief Gen. Michael Hayden, “because you’re asking people to do stuff that’s really on the edge, legally and politically, and they have to sense that you’re the guy they can trust.”
In that world, General David Petraeus was never a comfortable fit. Sure, as a seasoned field commander and political operator, Petraeus was “rigorous, intelligent, curious and demanding,” says one former senior intelligence official. But the agency has always been suspicious of the uniformed military and hates being given commands. “The agency’s not a militaristic organization,” says another senior former intelligence official. “They don’t welcome people barking orders without debate.”
That was the first problem Petraeus faced when he took off his uniform and went to work in Langley on Sept. 6, 2011. But it wasn’t the only one. He was following a guy with a magic touch, Leon Panetta, who had fought the White House on the CIA’s behalf and convinced the President to trust the agency and go after Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan. “[Petraeus] had the disadvantage of following Panetta, who was well liked, and a people person and down-to-earth,” says the former senior intelligence official.
Petraeus wasn’t heading into this new, fraught world unawares. He consulted the former CIA and Pentagon Chief Robert Gates, who told him not to make the mistake of entering the building with a big boarding party of aides–a move that doomed Stan Turner, John Deutch and Porter Goss, marking them from the start as outsiders. But the downside of that was Petraeus had no one close enough to him to give frank advice.
Within the CIA, there’s a fair amount of sympathy for Petraeus. He wasn’t hated at the agency the way Goss or Deutch were. “The place wasn’t dysfunctional,” says the former senior intelligence official. The agency now finds itself leaderless again. “Beyond being a personal tragedy,” says former CIA director Hayden, Petraeus’s replacement “will be the fifth director of the CIA in a little over eight years. That inherently is not a good thing.” | <urn:uuid:84fa34ed-394d-4daf-b1b5-55ef879b9880> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://swampland.time.com/2012/11/13/for-petraeus-the-cia-was-an-uncomfortable-fit/print/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281574.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00019-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977712 | 537 | 1.609375 | 2 |
The Fair Credit Reporting Act (“FCRA”) is a federal law that governs the way that credit reporting agencies can collect, use, and share consumers’ credit information. The main purpose of the Fair Credit Reporting Act is to promote accuracy, fairness, and privacy across consumer credit reports. For instance, your credit history is regularly accessed by numerous parties, such as employers, retailers, lenders, and even landlords.
Without the protections of the FCRA, your credit history could be viewed and shared by any of those parties with no limitations at all. Thus, the FCRA also provides several important rights to consumers, such as:
- The right to request and view a copy of your personal credit report;
- The right to dispute errors or inaccurate information contained in your credit report;
- The right to know when and who accessed your credit report;
- The right to be informed if your credit report has been used negatively against you;
- The right to seek damages if a credit reporting agency violates the FCRA; and
- A few other significant protections..
Lastly, the FCRA is one of two federal laws that form the basis of consumer rights law in the United States; the second federal law being the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (“FDCPA”).
When Are Disclosures Permitted Under the FCRA?
As discussed above, the FCRA gives consumers a right to request access and receive information about their credit reports. This includes receiving notifications when an entity asks to view their credit report. Thus, an FCRA disclosure is essentially a notice sent to consumers that contains details about their credit report.
A common example of when an FCRA disclosure will occur is when an employer performs a background check on a worker and that worker consents to it. It is important to note that such a disclosure will only be allowed with the worker’s permission. If the employer obtains information illegally or without their consent, then they will be in violation of the FCRA and may need to pay damages.
In general, a permissible disclosure under the FCRA will usually include the following:
- A written statement that explicitly says the employer intends to perform a background check on the worker and that it will be used to make a decision about them (e.g., hiring);
- The statement must come across as clear and unambiguous;
- While there are some exceptions, the statement should be a standalone document and drafted in legible font;
- The employer must receive written permission from the worker that they consent to the background check; and
- Both forms must comply with all applicable federal, state, and local laws concerning FCRA disclosures.
Disclosures may also be used when conducting a background check to receive a loan or credit card, for evaluating a child support order, and/or if responding to a request from a state or federal government agency.
Are There Penalties for Violating the FCRA?
There are many ways that a creditor can violate the FCRA. Some of the most common examples of Fair Credit Reporting Act violations include the following:
- Reporting outdated information and/or failing to update information found in a credit report;
- Reporting incomplete or inaccurate information (e.g., stating a person missed payments or never paid off a debt when they have already settled the issue);
- Combining consumer reports with other persons whose names are the same or are difficult to distinguish between;
- Failing to conduct a reasonable investigation of a consumer dispute;
- Releasing a report to parties who are not eligible to view it;
- Disclosing details about the report to an employer without the individual’s consent;
- Refusing to provide the contact information for an entity that used the report in a negative manner; and
- Failing to inform every credit reporting agency about a consumer dispute (e.g., dispute over debt, inaccurate information, etc.).
The penalties one might receive for violating the FCRA will depend on the type of violation and whether or not it was “willful”. If a consumer can prove that an entity willfully violated the FCRA, then they may potentially be able to recover the following damages:
- Statutory damages, which can range from $100 to $1,000;
- Actual damages;
- Attorneys’ fees and court costs;
- Punitive damages; and/or
- In some cases, criminal penalties.
On the other hand, if a consumer demonstrates that an entity violated the FCRA due to negligence, then they may only be able to recover actual damages and attorneys’ fees and/or court costs.
In addition, a consumer can be penalized for filing a frivolous lawsuit or bringing a lawsuit in bad faith. In such a scenario, the consumer will be required to pay the cost of the opposing party’s attorneys’ fees.
How Can an Employer Use Your Credit Information?
Generally speaking, an employer must obtain written consent to access a current or prospective employee’s credit report. In other words, employers can only access credit information in a limited context. The most common example of when an employer may request to review a person’s credit information is when they are performing a background check on a current or prospective employee.
Background checks can help an employer determine whether they should hire, promote, or terminate a specific employee. However, an employer cannot use certain information that they learned from the credit report to deny, demote, or terminate a worker. For instance, if an employer finds out that a prospective job candidate is a particular race or sex, they cannot use this knowledge to deny the candidate employment.
Additionally, if an employer uses the credit information in a negative way (e.g., denying employment), then the employer has a duty to tell that individual that they did so and why. The employer will also need to give that individual the name, phone number, and address of the credit reporting agency that sent them the report.
What Does the FCRA Require of Credit Reporting Companies?
The FCRA requires each of the three nationally recognized credit reporting companies (i.e., Equifax, TransUnion, and Experian) to provide one free copy of a FCRA credit report to each consumer every twelve months. An FCRA credit report is basically a standard credit report that is issued by one of the main three credit reporting companies.
Some other requirements that these three companies must comply with under the FCRA include:
- Sending a copy of a consumer’s credit report upon their request;
- Conducting an investigation on disputed information or errors in the credit report;
- Ensuring that access to the credit report is restricted to the proper parties; and
- Permitting a consumer to “opt-out” of prescreened credit offers.
In addition to the three major credit reporting companies, there are also other organizations that may collect and use consumer information. Companies that collect information about consumers are responsible for:
- Reporting accurate information to credit bureaus;
- Disclosing negative information about a consumer to that individual;
- Amending inaccurate information or fixing mistakes on a credit report;
- Making sure that the credit bureaus also update credit reports to match any new information; and
- Implementing identity theft reporting and prevention measures.
What Is in Your Credit Report?
A credit report provides a summary of how an individual manages their credit accounts, such as payment history, the types of credit accounts they have open, and many other financial details. It also helps creditors and lenders to determine whether to offer an individual credit, and if so, the proper amount. Landlords, utility services, insurance companies, and cell phone providers may use this information to make decisions about a consumer as well.
Some additional details that a credit report will typically contain include:
- Personal identifying information (e.g., name, address, date of birth, Social Security number, etc.);
- Information regarding credit accounts, such as mortgages, student loans, credit card accounts, car loans, and so forth, along with the balance, payment history, and amounts attached to those accounts;
- Information related to bankruptcy and/or debt collection accounts; and
- The types of inquiries made to check a credit report (e.g., soft or hard inquiries).
After gathering this information, a credit bureau will then combine it to generate a credit score. For instance, if a person has a lot of debt and many “hard” inquiries were made to check a credit report, then these factors could lower their official credit score. A credit score may indicate the level of risk that a consumer poses and can affect the interest rate imposed on the type of credit they receive (e.g., interest on a loan or a line of credit).
One final note to keep in mind about credit scores is that they can vary by credit bureau. Thus, an individual would need to check the score they received from each credit bureau in order to get a complete picture of their entire credit history.
Should I Consult an Attorney If I Have Issues with My Credit Report?
Credit lawyer can be a beneficial resource if you are involved in a credit dispute or are experiencing issues with your credit report. As previously discussed, maintaining a good credit score is essential for many reasons, such as obtaining a loan, extending a line of credit, and renting an apartment. This is why it is so important to clear up issues on your credit report because it can prevent you from being approved for all of those items.
Therefore, you should hire a finance or FCRA attorney who has significant experience in handling credit report matters. An FCRA attorney can review your credit report for potential errors and can determine whether a credit agency or financial institution possibly violated a credit law. Your attorney can also help you file a claim with the proper credit bureau and can provide representation in court if necessary.
In addition, your attorney can discuss other options for legal recourse, can offer advice on ways to increase your current credit score, and can explain how your personal credit score may be impacting your life.
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SYSTEMATIC IDENTIFICATION OF PROTEASES AND ANTI-PROTEASES IN DEVELOPING PRIMARY AIRWAY EPITHELIAL CELLS BY GLOBAL GENE EXPRESSION.
This study by researchers at Oxford University demonstrated that the genomics of human epithelial tissue development and differentiation can be investigated using standard global gene expression analysis techniques and MatTek’s in vitro human tissue equivalents, in this case EpiAirway in vitro human tissue equivalents, because all MatTek human tissue equivalents are produced from the appropriate normal (non-transformed/non-immortalized) primary human epithelial cells. The balance between proteases (P) and protease inhibitors (PI) is a key factor in the development of the airway epithelial barrier and determining the response of the epithelium to external stress. In order to identify these molecules systematically, Oxford University researchers used measurements of global gene expression of EpiAirway™ normal human tracheal and bronchial epithelial tissue equivalents (MatTek Corp.). These cells were cultured by MatTek using air-liquid interface (ALI) techniques to produce an organotypic model of highly differentiated cells that resemble the epithelial layer of the respiratory tract. Oxford University researchers studied six time points ranging from basal cells to 13 days ALI culture. High quality RNA was extracted for each time point in triplicate and hybridizations to U133 Plus 2.0 chips performed following standard Affymetrix protocols. After normalization and filtering of raw expression data, the Oxford University researchers used SAM analysis to identify 1431 genes that differed significantly in abundance during differentiation and grouped these by K-means into 9 clusters that shared similar expression patterns. 57 genes had the GO descriptor proteaseor peptidase or proteinase (P), with or without inhibitor (PI). Ps included carboxypetidase D and E, cathepsins C, H, O and S, Kallikreins 6, 7, 8 10, 11 and 12, and proteasome subunits A7, B7, B8, B9 and B10. MMP24 was up-regulated and MMP9 down-regulated. C3 was up-regulated and thrombospondin down-regulated. Amongst the PIs, SERPINEA3, B1, B13, B3, B4 and F1 were up-regulated during differentiation, whereas SERPINE1 and E2 were down-regulated from an initial high. Other up-regulated PIs included 3 cystatins (CST3, CSTA, CSTB), SLPI, SKALP SPINK5 and SPINLW1. The Oxford University results indicate a previously unrecognised complexity of P/PI balance in (EpiAirway) airway epithelium.
Affymetrix gene chips, Anti-proteases, Carboxypetidase, Cathepsins, Cystatins, EpiAirway, Kalikreins, MMP, MMP24, MMP9, Proteases, Proteases inhibitors, Proteasome subunits , Thrombospondin
Gene expression, SAM analysis, Techniques
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An indrucy is a period and state of intense activity for a philosopher, author, or any other artist in whichever medium they do express themselves, wherein the majority of their spare time is taken up by writing (in the case of an author or philosopher) a particular document, or set of documents, or books; this is characterised by intense levels of writing mounting to thousands of words written per day, late nights, reclusion, a general obsessiveness and attention to details, frequent experiences of nausea, sudden impulses to write, as well as an overall predisposition to deep contemplations which are uncharacteristic of people that are not experiencing indrucy.
The periods of time that a person may be under indrucy vary greatly with some states of indrucy stretching on for years while others exist only for a few months. Some smaller periods of indrucy are expected to be more dangerous than those of longer periods as longer periods of indrucy are expected to become part of the person’s natural disposition and the way they conduct their life while shorter forms of indrucy may result in mental health issues as this transition (known as indrucation) has not yet occurred therefore the individual is more susceptible to experiencing the potentially harmful effects of indrucy.
To be classified as a period of indrucy, a person must be in the state of indrucy for at least two weeks. The first of such states or periods of indrucy known by this term was experienced by Brandon Taylorian during his writing of The Omnidoxy over the course of one and a half years of indrucy. Indrucy is a philosophical and artistically centred term that may be in close relation to obsessive-compulsive disorder. In the context of the Millettarian philosophical tradition, true indrucy is not induced by drugs or alcohol, but by a purely artistic zeal and obsession. | <urn:uuid:a0303e29-8ba7-4d7e-860f-1043646d1d58> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.cometan.org/discover/Indrucy | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00469.warc.gz | en | 0.951717 | 391 | 2.96875 | 3 |
Necrohemorrhagic tracheitis in swine: diagnostic investigation
Funding for this project is subsidized by the Swine Health Information Center (SHIC) and covers fees for specific testing on tracheal samples. Clients are responsible for test costs for routine respiratory pathogens.
To qualify for subsidized testing, the case definition must be met (below) and appropriate samples must be submitted to the AHL.
Please contact the AHL if you would like to submit a case through this project, or if you have any questions: Dr. Josepha DeLay 519-824-4120 ext. 54576 email@example.com
Case definition: Hogs (including breeding stock), with age range 14-30 weeks and weight range 150-350 lbs (70-160 kg), with acute onset of ‘honking’ cough in a low % of animals, progressing to dyspnea and mortality/euthanasia. Necropsied animals feature edema and hemorrhage within tracheal submucosa, resulting in marked luminal impingement.
Desired samples and other information :
Clinical history, including % morbidity / mortality, approximate weight of hogs, herd genetics
Gross images of cervical region and pluck at time of necropsy
Samples from 1- 3 affected pigs:
Intact plucks (trachea from larynx to bifurcation, and both lungs) (minimum sample required)
Tracheas should be partially opened during the field necropsy to confirm lesions compatible with necrohemorrhagic tracheitis (Figure 1). Further dissection and sampling of trachea and lung for diagnostic testing and lesion documentation will be done at the diagnostic laboratory.
Bilateral caudal deep cervical and costo-axillary lymph nodes
Lymph nodes should be submitted intact and fresh, and labelled (right and left, anatomic site).
Control animals: Submission is encouraged of plucks and lymph nodes as above from 2-3 unaffected herdmates dying or euthanized during the same timeframe, potentially due to other causes, and without gross lesions of necrohemorrhagic tracheitis.
Fresh and formalin-fixed spleen, stomach, ileum, and heart.
Oral fluids from all affected pens, 2 unaffected pens in affected barn, and 2 pens in unaffected barns.
Serum from 5 animals in each of 1 representative affected pen, 1 unaffected pen, and 1 pen in an unaffected barn.
Environmental control records for affected barns for 2 weeks prior to outbreak, targeting sudden fluctuations in temperature or humidity; comment regarding barn air quality.
Figure 1. Tracheal cross-sections from multiple finisher pigs with necrohemorrhagic tracheitis. Note severe submucosal hemorrhage and edema, with resulting reduction in tracheal luminal area.
Client costs: gross exam, histopathology, bacterial culture setup and 1-3 samples (lung), Influenza A virus PCR (lung x3), PRRSV / PCV / M.hyopneumoniae PCR (pooled samples - discounted)
SHIC subsidy: bacterial culture for 3 samples (superficial and deep tracheal mucosa, spleen), Influenza virus PCR (tracheal mucosa x3), Influenza IHC (if required), 15% subsidy if PRRSV / PCV / M.hyopneumoniae PCR done based on gross / histologic lesions. | <urn:uuid:35781486-a28a-4fe8-ad30-cbcdb24c6d8d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.uoguelph.ca/ahl/necrohemorrhagic-tracheitis-swine-diagnostic-investigation | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00470.warc.gz | en | 0.85322 | 735 | 1.851563 | 2 |
Corrections can be used to estimate actual wetland evapotranspiration (AET) from potential evapotranspiration (PET) as a means to define the hydrology of wetland areas. Many alternate parameterizations for correction coefficients for three PET equations are presented, covering a wide range of possible data-availability scenarios. At nine sites in the wetland Everglades of south Florida, USA, the relatively complex PET Penman equation was corrected to daily total AET with smaller standard errors than the PET simple and Priestley-Taylor equations. The simpler equations, however, required less data (and thus less funding for instrumentation), with the possibility of being corrected to AET with slightly larger, comparable, or even smaller standard errors. Air temperature generally corrected PET simple most effectively to wetland AET, while wetland stage and humidity generally corrected PET Priestley-Taylor and Penman most effectively to wetland AET. Stage was identified for PET Priestley-Taylor and Penman as the data type with the most correction ability at sites that are dry part of each year or dry part of some years. Finally, although surface water generally was readily available at each monitoring site, AET was not occurring at potential rates, as conceptually expected under well-watered conditions. Apparently, factors other than water availability, such as atmospheric and stomata resistances to vapor transport, also were limiting the PET rate. ?? 2006, The Society of Wetland Scientists.
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ORDINARY GENIUSES: Max Delbrück, George Gamow, and the Origins of Genomics and Big Bang Cosmology
By Gino Segrè, faculty
Viking, 2011, $27.95.
By Beth Kephart | George Gamow and Max Delbrück were scientific wall-jumpers—intellectual border-crossers who in many ways defined the fields of cosmology and genomics.
George, known as Geo, was Russian, a physicist by training, who would go on to be known as the father of Big Bang cosmology. Max, also a trained physicist, was a German whose curiosity would take him many places before he settled in with bacteriophages and the study of genetic replication. Geo was a renowned jokester. Max was considered Zen. Wonder framed their pursuits, and friendship bound them. In choosing to pair the two in Ordinary Geniuses, a dual biography, Gino Segrè, emeritus professor of physics and astronomy at Penn, has crafted a charming and wide-ranging text that has as much to teach about 20th-century science as it does about personal sacrifice and risks.
But what is an ordinary genius? Segrè defines the term in the opening pages of his book:
Pauli, Heisenberg, Dirac, and of course Einstein were extraordinary geniuses, whereas Max and Geo were only ordinary geniuses, smarter and more imaginative than you and me, but not qualitatively different from us … In the right circumstances, through good judgment, perseverance, character, and, we must not forget, luck, even ordinary geniuses can lead a revolution in science. To their enduring credit, this is exactly what Max and Geo did.
Segrè appreciates not just their accomplishments but their “effort to look at the big picture, to think big thoughts and remain undeterred even when proven wrong.” Most of all, he says, he values the “intellectual courage” of his chosen protagonists, which they combined with “quirkiness in thought and behavior that frequently led them off the beaten track.”
His deep affection for Geo and Max is both endearing and contagious. Segrè wants to understand the men, not just their achievements. His quest is urgent and his research takes him far—through the scientific annals, certainly, but also into conversations with scientific greats as well as the heroes’ children.
Readers of Ordinary Geniuses will be impressed by the book’s ambition and scope—its weave through 20th-century science, its careful context-setting, its never-simplistic but also never-confusing array of explanations for everything from general and special relativity to genetic mutation, the Big Bang theory to sensory physiology, dinosaur-extinction theory to the molecular structure of nucleic acids. I studied the history and sociology of science as an undergraduate at Penn, but it’s been a long time since I have sat with so much science on my lap. I was grateful for Segrè’s patience, for his quiet fleshing-out and filling-in of terms, for his companionable excursions in the evolution of ideas.
He also movingly explores how his protagonists lived, how they talked, and whom they loved. Segrè’s writing about Geo—that wild-haired, motorcycle-riding jokester who observed Halley’s Comet as a six-year-old amateur astronomer, who reveled in Russian poetry, who would recite Pushkin throughout his life, and who couldn’t spell (apparently) but could very beautifully and entertainingly write—is some of the best in the book.
But my favorite passage is the one quoted at length below. It’s just after 1948, and Max and his wife, Manny, have moved to Caltech, where once again Max, the physicist perpetually morphing into a biologist, is pursuing life’s big questions in the company of collaborators and questers.
The Delbrück Pasadena house was a kind of second home for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows; in many ways they became part of the extended family, often with Manny looking after them. There were also the legendary Delbrück camping trips into the desert, simple expeditions organized on the spot, with plain food cooked on a campfire, some ordinary wine, hikes, a little scrambling over the rocks, and wide-ranging discussions about almost everything. Manny would arrange the excursions, pick Max up at the lab in their old car, and sometimes drive it into the desert until its wheels became stuck in the sand. That’s where they would camp. In the evening you might find the Delbrücks, students, postdocs, and distinguished visitors from America and abroad all huddled together by the campfire. Afterward, sleeping bags were brought out, simple food was cooked over a grill, and, as Jonathan Delbrück remembered, “At night there was talk of all manner of things, as we clustered for dinner around the campfire, like a primeval tribal family, with Manny at its core and Max at the helm.”
Segrè’s abiding affection for his characters, his deep research, his own polymathic understanding of multiple scientific disciplines, and his short-chaptered, well-paced prose is bound to resonate deeply with anyone who wants to know not just how scientific disciplines are advanced and evolved, but who is behind the churn of progress.
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I vividly remember the first time I had to justify getting extra time to take a test. It was my sophomore year of high school, and the other special kids and I had been cordoned off to take our finals. My crush walked by and I said hello, hopefully.
"What are you getting extra time or something?" he said. I was surprised but not shaken. I told him I was. "Well that's not fair," he said.
"Would you ask a handicapped person to compete in a race without his wheelchair?" I said. He retorted that ADHD isn't the same as being handicapped. "Just because you can't see it doesn't make it any less real," I said and walked away. I got an A- on that final. It was Algebra II.
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Having a handicap that people can't see is a constant fight of justification. In addition to ADHD, I have mild dyslexia and a host of annoyingly vague diagnoses, including a language learning disability and a math disability.
It began in first grade. I couldn't read so my mother had me assessed. I was diagnosed with a reading disability, the old way of saying dyslexia. In second grade, I was separated from the rest of my classmates. I sat in a room with four or five other kids, most of whom had much more severe problems. As I grew and my classwork became more involved, I continued to struggle. I was assessed again, and told there was nothing wrong with me.
My mother disagreed. She took me to a different specialist who confirmed I did have learning disabilities, a few actually. The reason they were hard to see is because I'm smart. There is a name for this: twice exceptional. It's when a child has high intelligence and a learning disability. Many twice exceptional students go undiagnosed. Most, like me, are able to compensate for their weakness. They may get C's when they could be getting A's, but unless someone questions their performance, there's no reason to rock the boat. Thankfully, my mother is a questioner and she rocked the boat.
In third grade, I was diagnosed with ADHD, a math disability, and language disability. My mother resisted putting me on medication. Instead, I got tutors, extended time on tests, and permission to use a calculator when others couldn't. I was finally performing at my ability level.
In fifth grade, I came home crying every day. We'd moved to California, and at my new school I was teased constantly for talking too much and saying stupid things. I couldn't control the way I was acting. A psychologist recommended ADD medication. We tried it, and I instantly felt in control again; my impulsiveness faded, and I was no longer a social outcast.
High school was trickier. It was embarrassing to wait in the classroom after everyone else had left to finish a test. My friends constantly questioned my getting extended time. Some went so far as to try and convince their parents to have them tested so they could get it. It doesn't work that way.
I never told my friends it took me twice as long to do my homework, that I got so lost in mathematical equations I wanted to cry, and that I still couldn't list the months in order despite being 16 years old. Instead, I let them be jealous and kept my pencil-breaking moments to myself.
Everything was a battle: doing homework, getting extended time and other exceptions, even learning itself. My language disability meant it was difficult for me to learn a new language, so that requirement was waved; instead I went to Spanish immersion camp over the summer. Getting extended time on the SAT, SAT II, and AP exams was a fight involving foot-high stacks of reports proving I was learning disabled. We won.
At the same time that my mother was fighting for me, she was also advocating for my younger brother who has severe dyslexia. After dealing with us, she became so fascinated by learning disabilities that she got a PhD in educational psychology. My mother is now one of the foremost psychologists who specializes in twice exceptional minds in the nation. She has changed children's lives and brought parents to tears by catching things others have missed.
People tell me ADHD or other learning disabilities aren't real, but spend a day in my mind and you'll understand. Imagine your thoughts are constantly interrupted. Imagine not being able to do basic math. Imagine spelling or saying things so wrong it's comical. Imagine being consistently late despite every effort not to be. Imagine having your intelligence and capability consistently questioned because of things you can't control.
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Two Berkeley chefs make healthy food that kids will eat
Part 3 of Cafeteria Confidential: Berkeley, in which Ed Bruske reports on his recent week-long, firsthand look at how Berkeley, Calif., schools part ways from the typical school diet of frozen, industrially processed convenience foods. Cross-posted from The Slow Cook. And check out the rest of the Cafeteria Confidential series.
(Ed Bruske photos)Executive chef Bonnie Christensen was at her desk, holding forth on her troubles with labor unions, when her second-in-command, sous chef Joan Gallagher, walked into the kitchen office cradling a bunch of asparagus freshly picked and just arrived in a 350-pound delivery from Full Belly Farms, some 90 miles northeast near Sacramento.
Asparagus was entering peak season in California. Christensen and Gallagher planned to serve it in the Berkeley Unified School District school lunches the following week — a rare treat, since asparagus is otherwise cost-prohibitive.
Gallagher regarded the bundle of green spears with a smile and a kind of dreamy, beatific look, as if she were holding a newborn child. During my week working in Berkley’s central school kitchen, I often saw this expression on Gallagher’s face when some aspect of the cooking process particularly aroused her senses.
She might stop to admire a perfectly roasted chicken thigh, its skin like burnished mahogany. “Isn’t that great?” she’d say with a grin and a kind of awe in her voice. Or she would make a sharp detour into the area where I was peeling big, juicy lengths of fresh ginger root just a few feet from another kitchen worker chopping leafy fresh cilantro. The air was pungent with the mingling aromas of what would become a tandoori chicken marinade. “I just love the smell!” Gallagher would exclaim. “I just love it!”
Now she was regarding a bunch of fresh asparagus as if it were the first asparagus ever picked. She was transported. “Isn’t this great?” she said, cradling the asparagus, a smile playing on her face.
Christensen whisked herself in her rolling office chair to the spot where Gallagher was standing. A rapid huddle ensued over how best to prepare the asparagus to feed some 2,350 students at lunch six days hence. They would roast it, no question. But what sort of pan to use? A flat sheet pan? Or perhaps something deeper? How would they trim those 350 pounds of asparagus? How much of the stem end was edible?
Christensen broke off the end of one of the spears and bit into it. She chewed and considered, looking at the ceiling. Was it tough? Would those ends need to be removed? If so, by how much?
Her eyes suddenly lit up. “This is really fresh!” she declared. “I don’t think we need to cut much at all.” Okay, so when to do the cutting? Should they start prepping the asparagus now, on Friday, to sit in the refrigerator over the weekend? “I say don’t even cut them,” Christensen decided. “We’ll cut them next week.”
As quickly as it had started, the discussion was over. But it dawned on me that I had just witnessed something extremely rare: a meeting of the minds between two highly seasoned chefs over a question about how to cook school food.
This is not at all how most school meals are prepared. At my daughter’s elementary school in the District of Columbia, most of the meal components arrive frozen and pre-cooked based on a menu prepared by a nutritionist working in an office for Chartwells-Thompson, a huge, national school food service company that’s just one division of an even bigger, international food service conglomerate based in the United Kingdom — the Compass Group — that’s listed on the London stock exchange.
There now exist computer programs that allow food service administrators to easily create menus that comply with all of the various standards that govern the federally subsidized school meal programs. Corporate food processors also play an oversized role. They’ve developed meal components — those famous chicken tenders, tater tots, and breakfast pizzas — that specifically comply with federal nutrition requirements and prescribed serving sizes.
It all comes together in a system designed to eliminate complicated thinking and to a great extent, any raw products school kitchen workers might have to deal with. It’s the edible equivalent of a simple, paint-by-numbers set with water colors you might buy at a toy store.
The central school kitchen in Berkeley, by contrast, is the rare exception. There, food is cooked the old-fashioned way using raw, not processed, ingredients that must be transformed into meals on a grand scale every day. The only way to do that is with experienced chefs. Although they too must comply with all the federal rules — and live within a school budget — their overriding concern is what they call “the plate.” In the world of chefs, cooking is not just about meeting government standards or providing a prescribed number of nutrients. “The plate” is how chefs express culinary craft as something customers — in this case schoolchildren — will really want to eat. Think of a seasoned artist standing before a blank canvas with a palette of oils.
The magic Christensen
“I hate to say bad things about nutritionists,” says Ann Cooper, nicknamed “Renegade Lunch Lady” for her instrumental role in transforming school meals in Berkeley from frozen, industrially processed convenience food into fresh food cooked from scratch. “But most nutritionists don’t know anything about cooking.”
This particular Berkeley edible artist, Bonnie Christensen, grew up in New York City and started working with food at age 13 in a sandwich shop on Block Island. She put herself through Mount Holyoke College cooking in a hotel restaurant, and moved from there to a degree from the Culinary Institute of America. Christensen thrived in the sweaty, noisy, physical atmosphere of top-flight New York restaurant kitchens, where she was always the only woman. A petite 110 pounds, but with a personality sharp as carbon steel, she managed to hold her own with the boys. “I grew up in the city, so I could deal. I just loved it,” she says. “The adrenaline — that was it for me. One time I had pneumonia and didn’t know what it was. I could barely drag myself off the subway to get to work. But the minute I entered the kitchen and started working, the adrenaline kicked in. There just isn’t time to think. It goes so fast, and you just have to do your job on the line. There could be some guy passed out on the floor from a heroin overdose; you’d just step around him and keep going.”
Christensen accumulated fine dining creds at some of the city’s best restaurants — Gotham Bar & Gill, Le Bernadin, Aureole — at one point working side-by-side with one of the city’s brightest stars, Charlie Palmer. She was plating tender sea scallops served between Palmer’s signature lacy potatoes with citrus sauce, or black bass with mushrooms and lemon confit. She still remembers a hanger steak marinated in dry rub for several days, then cooked rare and dressed with a red wine sauce: “I just thought that was the greatest fun, everything being so perfect and having to be so fast.”
She was lured to a restaurant called Splendido in San Francisco, met her husband on a blind date (“I tried to get out of it”) and continued to work furiously 70 hours a week even after giving birth to a son. “I’d be pumping breast milk in the ice cream room,” she recalls.
But for her second pregnancy, Christensen’s doctor ordered her off her feet. She didn’t work for eight years, instead volunteering at her son’s school until she “got tired of picking lice out of other kids’ hair, and the other parents treating me like the help.” She turned to the job ads on Craigslist, where she found an opening for sous chef at the Berkeley central kitchen that was last in the listings. The ad said: “Sous chef to help make healthy, delicious school meals.”
Ann Cooper, who was running the kitchen at the time, thought Christensen, at 41, was too old. “I said, ‘Ann, my problem isn’t age. My problem is having too much energy!” Christensen moved into the executive chef position when Cooper left for an even bigger challenge — transforming school food in Boulder, Colo.
(Ed Bruske)Berkely’s current sous chef, Joan Gallagher, a California native, had previously studied physiology and signed on with what was then a U.S. Department of Agriculture nutritional station at the Presidio in San Francisco. Her job was to study how the human nervous system reacted to Vitamin B6 deficiency. She realized what she really wanted to do was cook.
“I was always fascinated by food,” Gallagher says. “It sustains us, but it’s also a beautiful thing. What do people do when they want to be together? They gather over food.”
She met her husband in culinary school. She had restaurant jobs and an externship in the Alsace region of France where she learned about making sausage and charcuterie. They moved so she could run food services in a cafe on the Microsoft campus outside Seattle, supervising 38 employees and making 2,000 meals each day. But they grew homesick for California and came back. She met Christensen because her son and Christensen’s daughter took tap dancing lessons together at the local Catholic school. Christensen was the one with a fresh copy of the New York Times under her arm.
Getting creative with commodities
Together, they perform a job that cannot be done by a computer. “Chefs have to be creative, they have to adapt to whatever set of circumstances arises,” says Christensen. “The very nature of cooking with perishable ingredients requires urgency. Decisions have to made quickly, problems have to be resolved immediately. The stakes are high because food and labor are so expensive; you have to work disciplined, creatively, and within specific boundaries. You are constantly being forced to think outside the box under lots of pressure.” (Christensen writes about these challenges herself in a guest post for my blog, The Slow Cook.)
Of the school district’s 9,178 students, 25.6 percent eat the lunch provided under the federally subsidized school meal program. Nearly 70 percent of the lunches served go to students who are eligible for free or reduced-priced meals based on family income. In addition, the central kitchen prepares 5,590 breakfasts and 1,327 snacks. Christensen and Gallagher are also responsible for 1,097 breakfasts, lunches, and snacks for the school district’s child care program.
The chefs are under pressure to entice children to select the federally subsidized meals, not only to earn the money the U.S. Department of Agriculture pays for each meal (currently $2.68 for a fully subsidized lunch), but also because each meal taken earns the schools credit — about 20 cents — toward purchasing government commodity products. Christensen uses the credits to buy the more expensive raw items on the government’s commodities menu, such as chicken and beef, but also pasta noodles and canned tomatoes for sauces.
Except that she never knows how good the meats will be. “They offload garbage to the schools,” Christensen says. “I’ve gotten chicken that was frozen from such a rotten state, it would glow in the dark. The diced chicken is so freezer burned, making it edible is a work of art. And we can’t send it back. Once you’ve ordered it, it’s yours.”
Under the Berkeley system, the central kitchen where Christensen and Gallagher are in charge makes most of the food served in all the district’s 16 schools. The other schools employ workers who reheat and serve the food. The central kitchen scheme avoids having to put a production kitchen with skilled staff in every school. But it does place a heavy burden on Christensen and Gallagher.
Labor is an issue. About 60 percent of Berkeley’s food budget is devoted to labor and overhead. But the kitchen staff essentially is unskilled, and according to Gallagher, paid less than custodial workers. They require constant supervision and direction. “It’s hard, physical work,” she says.
(Ed Bruske)One day I watched Gallagher engage in a long and detailed discussion with one of the kitchen workers — Roxanne — about how to break down 200 pounds of U.S. commodity beef shoulder meat and turn it into the fajitas advertised on school menu for Thursday’s lunch. Shoulder, or chuck, is not the usual cut of meat used for fajitas — that would be skirt or flank steak. But Gallagher used a series of hand motions to show Roxanne how she thought the meat could be divided into a series of mini-roasts for cooking in the kitchen’s convection ovens. It would then be pulled apart while still hot by Roxanne and another worker wearing a triple layer of gloves, then mixed with sauteed onions and seasonings. (The result was not anything like the fajitas I’m used to — more like pot roast served with corn tortillas. But I love pot roast, and Gallagher’s version was outstanding.)
Christensen said success of the operation rises or falls on the menu. In addition to spelling out the food that will be served, it must take into account numerous moving parts: food costs, budget, available labor, skill level, and of course, all of the innumerable government standards that apply to the school meal program. For instance, the Berkeley schools operate under something called the “enhanced” meal plan published by the USDA.
The plan requires that students be offered at least 11 portions of grains each week. That’s a lot of starch. But instead of putting it all on kids’ plates, as Jamie Oliver famously was told to do in his Food Revolution series — he thought the standards were crazy — the Berkeley kitchen has devised a clever strategy: not only is there grain in, say, the pizza crust, there’s a soup station, separate from the food line, where the soup always has a noodle or some other grain product in it. They also include the croutons at the salad bar, made by a local company from day-old, whole-grain bread roasted with olive oil.
Turning curveballs into home runs
While I was in Berkeley, Christensen was working on a fifth draft of the entire menu for the school year that would begin in the fall. She’s learned to keep a weekly schedule: pizza on Mondays; Tuesday chef’s choice (hamburger, hot dog, meat loaf, etc.); Wednesday is pasta; Thursday, chicken or turkey; Friday, Mexican. She has lists of entrees for each category, but they all have to work within the budget and with the available labor pool — and adjust for holidays and seasonal foods that might suddenly appear in the market.
On Fridays, Gallagher sits down with the menu and a dry-erase board and creates “prep lists” for each day of the week, tasks that need to be performed to get the food ready. But there are frequent curveballs. Once, delicata squash was listed on the menu. It sounded like a good idea, but cutting through the tough skins to get the squash ready for cooking proved problematic. “It took four people working eight hours to cut up all that squash,” Gallagher said. “And then the kids didn’t eat it.”
They often serve local, grass-fed beef hot dogs with fresh-cooked beans in a homemade barbeque sauce. But when four of the kitchen crew called in sick, there was no one to make the beans. They had to dip into their store of canned beans.
Frozen commodity chicken will stay frozen even when it’s not in the freezer if the boxes are all stacked together. But one week someone took the chicken out of the boxes too soon. There was a scramble to come up with a plan for hundreds of pounds of suddenly defrosting, raw chicken. They put it in a brine to preserve it and impart additional flavor until they were ready to use it.
On another occasion, 25 cases of cauliflower arrived only half the usual size. “But they had all these wonderful, leafy greens on them,” Gallagher said. “So we julienned and sauteed all the greens and served them with the cauliflower. It was fantastic.”
Frozen tamales from a local purveyor were a good deal. But they came 4,800 to a pallet, more than the schools can use in any one meal. What to do with the rest? Where to store them?
They added cream cheese to the macaroni and cheese to make it creamier, but then it wasn’t orange enough. So they added turmeric, a spice common in Indian cuisine with a potent orange color that gives curry powder its distinctive hue. It also happens to be a healthy anti-inflammatory.
(Ed Bruske)Elementary schools complained the kids never had enough time to eat lunch. The chefs realized there were too many food items on the plates, which meant kids waited in long lines. They streamlined the menu. Likewise, offering three different entree options at the high school proved to be too expensive and created too much waste. They pared it back to two.
The chefs deal not just with the often finicky tastes of school children, but the sometimes enervating demands of parents. “I spent 45 minutes on the telephone with one mother who wanted to know why the kids can’t have two egg rolls instead of vegetables or two slices of pizza,” said Christensen. “I have to explain to her that we’re trying to introduce healthy food.”
Most schools routinely serve apples that are so big, kids take a couple of bites and are through with them. The partially eaten apples end up in the trash. Berkeley schools found a local orchardist who saves all his small apples that won’t sell commercially, but are a perfect size for children.
Figuring out how to make 1,000 pounds of pasta for pasta days was trickier. “We sell so much pasta, we could serve it every day and the kids would be fine with it,” Christensen said. “We used to do only two pasta dishes — with marinara sauce, and macaroni and cheese. That was a tough part of my job, coming up with more pasta recipes.”
Christensen said there’s no equipment in the kitchen designed to cook that much pasta. But she devised a method. Except the 110-pound chef has to stand on a plastic milk crate to lift the basket she uses to cook the pasta in the kitchen’s giant kettle cooker. “I can do it really quickly. I’ve kind of mastered it,” she says.
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Making Digital Work For Women: Receive-Only UPI Handle Innovation
Banks also need to build capabilities of their last mile delivery agents such as Parvati’s Banking Correspondent, who can guide women users in the initial stages.
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India’s digital revolution in the last decade has transformed how young, tech-savvy, urban customers handle their finances digitally. This digital adoption, however, has proven challenging for India’s poor and has especially been out of reach for underprivileged women. Many low-income women continue to transact in cash, walk several kilometers to withdraw Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) subsidies from a Banking Correspondent (BC) or branch and rely on local money lenders in times of crisis.
The digital divide persists for low-income women as access to smart phones and even feature phones still remains limited. Only 63% of women own mobile phones and only 21% use mobile internet services1. Even for the women with access to phones, socio-economic barriers, poor digital literacy and prevalence of a cash-driven economy impedes them from adopting digital methods.
Women are half the population and if we learn to reach them through digital services, we tap a huge market. The answer is simple: financial service providers need to find innovations that simplify how digital services can be made easy for women, rather than expecting women to somehow become more digitally savvy.
Creating a bank-generated receive-only-handle to use the United Payments Interface (UPI-R) is an example of such an innovation to make receiving digital payments for women as easy as dealing in cash. Whenever women need to receive money, they should simply share the UPI handle – which is only an address – to receive payments into their accounts. Concerns over fraudulent transactions are also minimized as we suggest limiting the UPI-R ID to allow only money to be “received” - so the same cannot be misused by someone to send money from her account. By limiting it to a receive-only handle, banks do not have to rely on the users for creating a UPI handle and linking it to their account. Instead, the bank can do all the work and women only need to learn how to share an SMS which provides the UPI ID details. In this manner, the UPI-R offering can serve 230 million Jan Dhan women account holders without having them learn how to download a UPI app, to create an ID and to link their accounts.
This proposition of a bank-generated UPI ID has been tested in a limited manner under few government schemes such as PM SVANidhi for street vendors. The promising result of the scheme provides a pathway to digitally empower 420+ million women and men Jan Dhan accounts holders who have a compelling need to receive money. In our urban cities, 85% of workers, typically migrants, are employed to provide service to firms and the top 15% high-income citizens. Migrant workers usually are Jan Dhan account
holders and receive money from people who are typically already a part of the 150-million active UPI user base. With only 14% of women skilled digitally to download or use an app compared to 32% of men2, we need an innovation to allow women to benefit from UPI. With the receive-only UPI handle, women without advanced digital skills will be able to receive money across distances and instantly.
As women become more comfortable with usage, they themselves may learn to download apps and create a fully-functional UPI handle at a future date. Their usage of other financial products and services could potentially expand as their confidence in banking grows through easy-to-use solutions. Moreover, banks can use these digital payments to assess Jan Dhan customer’s credit worthiness and start actively lending to them.
Three-pronged approach for banks and government to enable for the adoption of UPI – R ID:
a) Make it convenient to obtain a UPI-R ID for Jan Dhan users
For Jan Dhan users, who have so far been un-banked or underbanked, going digital is a daunting process. It is imperative for banks to make the process of obtaining a UPI ID extremely simple.
Parvati is one such Jan Dhan customer who witnessed a digital transformation after receiving a UPI ID. Her breakfast kiosk had to be shut down after the nation-wide lockdown was imposed due to COVID-19. She quickly transformed her business into catering for daily meals but found it difficult to collect payments physically. Her Banking Correspondent suggested she apply to digitize her account and receive a UPI scan code and ID from her bank. Once she received her ID, parvati13543@bankname, she found it easy to memorize and share with her customers.
To nudge users to begin their digital journey, banks can generate the UPI-R ID at the time of account opening or whenever customer request one and communicate it via SMS or through QR codes printed on passbooks. Banks must ensure that the back-end generated UPI ID is easy for women to remember.
b) Build awareness of UPI-R as the address of the Jan Dhan accounts
Just like Parvati, some women may not be familiar with UPI and the way it works. Banks and regulators could invest in building broad-scale awareness on UPI-R and dispel fears of fraudulent use. Banks also need to build capabilities of their last mile delivery agents such as Parvati’s Banking Correspondent, who can guide women users in the initial stages.
Anecdotal evidence shows that women can adopt a technology better if they are made to understand practical benefits of using it. Gender-disaggregated research is required to identify common needs such as receiving monthly wages and payments that can be communicated through awareness programs.
c) Enable behavior change by nudging and incentivizing women to use UPI-R
To make using UPI-R a common mode for digital transactions it would require a behavioral change. To catalyze this change, banks could provide rewards-based incentives such as cashbacks to encourage women to adopt it and continue using it. While a lockdown may have compelled Parvati to start using UPI, banks will need to invest in a reward mechanism that incentivizes her to continue using it, especially since transacting in cash is the norm and behavior change needs an incentive. Women who are introduced to UPI-R should be engaged continuously through reminders via SMS or IVR to drive usage.
Given the broad context of socio-economic inequality faced by women, merely providing a UPI ID may seem like a small victory. But for the woman who leaves her household responsibilities unattended to collect payments or who is unable to secure credit to expand her business, these measures are potentially transformative. Regulators and banks should capitalize on the opportunity that enabling a simple ID for Jan Dhan accounts, presents a pathway of prosperity for women and their families.
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The Edmonton Journal reported yesterday that Big Oil in Alberta and other Alberta corporations like Telus and West Jet made increased record profits. Thanks to you and I.
That's right they would have made profits anyways, but thanks to Martin/Harper/Klein tax cuts you and I paid them out of our pockets to increase their bottom line.
Tax cuts and public private partnerships are a form of State Capitalism, the public pays for private profit.
Any trickle down effects as espoused by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation are a myth, these guys take the cash and run. They do not reinvest the money, but use it for playing the stock market.
WestJet Airlines made a profit of $22.4 million after tax cuts of $11.2 million, while a $107-million tax reduction helped Telus Corp. to a $356.6-million profit.
Here's what five of the largest energy companies saved on taxes in the latest quarter:
- At Husky Energy Inc., tax cuts saved $328 million, helping earnings more than double to $978 million.
- Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. made a profit of more than $1 billion after a $438-million tax gain.
- Suncor Energy Inc.'s taxes dropped $419 million, helping the company make a profit of $1.2 billion.
- Imperial Oil, Canada's largest energy company, saved a $110 million in taxes on the way to a $837 million profit.
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First Treaty of Prairie du Chien
The Treaty of Prairie du Chien may refer to any of several treaties made and signed in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin between the United States, representatives from the Sioux, Sac and Fox, Menominee, Ioway, Winnebago and the Anishinaabeg (Chippewa, Ottawa and Potawatomi) Native American peoples.
The First Treaty of Prairie du Chien was signed by William Clark and Lewis Cass for the United States and representatives of the Sioux, Sac and Fox, Menominee, Ioway, Winnebago, and Anishinaabeg (Chippewa and the Council of Three Fires of Chippewa, Ottawa and Potawatomi) on August 19, 1825, proclaimed on February 6, 1826, and codified as 7 Stat. 272.
Due to the overall tribal movements toward the western direction under pressure of encroaching settlers, the Sioux Nation resisted and came into conflict with other tribes moving west into their traditional territory. The United States negotiated the treaty to try to reduce inter-tribal warfare.
The treaty begins by establishing peace between the Sioux and their neighbors: Chippewa, Sac and Fox, and Ioway peoples. The treaty continues by demarcating formal boundaries among each of the tribal groups, often called the "Prairie du Chien Line". The treaty claimed American sovereignty over the territories. For peoples accustomed to ranging over a wide area, the Prairie du Chien Line served as a hindrance, as it provided that tribes were to hunt only within their acknowledged limits. Due to the vast scope of the Treaty of Prairie du Chien and the fact that not all of the necessary tribes had representatives at its signing, the treaty provided for additional councils to be held the following year in 1826 (see Treaty of Fond du Lac). Along with these additional councils, the Chippewa agreed to additional meetings.
The US used the series of Prairie du Chien Lines to serve as the land cession boundaries in later treaties.
- Treaty of St. Louis (1804)
- Treaty of St. Louis (1816)
- Treaty of St. Louis (1818)
- Treaty of St. Louis (1825)
- Treaty of Chicago
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The federal government has confirmed what the rumour mill suspected: it shut down an arm's length, independent advisory group because it didn't like the advice it was getting on addressing climate change.
Funding for the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy (NRTEE) was cut in the last budget, giving the group just one year to live. Since 1988, it has been producing research on how business and government policies can work together for sustainable development — including the idea of introducing carbon taxes.
Environment Minister Peter Kent had initially said the reason for the closure was because such research can now be easily accessed through the Internet, and through universities and other think tanks.
But Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird said Monday the shuttering of the round table had more to do with the content of the research itself.
"Why should taxpayers have to pay for more than 10 reports promoting a carbon tax, something that the people of Canada have repeatedly rejected? That is a message the Liberal Party just will not accept," Baird said in response to a question by Liberal Leader Bob Rae during question period.
"It should agree with Canadians. It should agree with the government. No discussion of a carbon tax that would kill and hurt Canadian families."
Rae said it's clear the government is trying to silence voices it doesn't agree with.
"It may not fit in with the government's agenda but that's exactly the point. That's why we have something called a democracy. You want to have independent voices," Rae told reporters outside the Commons.
"The fact is that, you know, there are whole ranges of groups across the country who are saying that the absence of any sensible policies on carbon pricing, on pricing what carbon emissions are actually costing, are costing us a lot of investment...
"We need to hear from these groups in order to have intelligent policy happen."
The Conservatives have been criticized for pulling funding from a number of other organizations over the years for ideological or policy reasons, including arm's length group Rights and Democracy, international aid group Kairos, and for research and advocacy work funded by the women's program at Status of Women Canada.
More recently, the government has attacked "radical" environmental groups that it accuses of being funded by foreign interests. In the budget, it introduced more scrutiny for charitable organizations in order to try and rout out any inappropriate political activity.
When asked later about his remarks, Baird seemed to backtrack.
"Listen, the roundtable was created 25 years ago and there was no — well, there was not very many substantial numbers of environmental research organizations in Canada or frankly the West and (now) there's a huge number of them, so it's just not required," Baird told reporters. "But the thing the national round table will be remembered for certainly over the last five or 10 years is its ongoing push for a carbon tax..."
Board led by Tories
The round table's board is dominated by Conservative nominees, and is led by David McLaughlin, a former chief of staff to Finance Minister Jim Flaherty.
Last year, the advisory body showed in painstaking detail how it would be possible to impose a carbon tax, meet emissions targets, but also not be too far out of step with American policy at the same time.
McLaughlin has publicly disagreed with the argument that there are other sources of similar research the government can access.
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Answer: D. Steel will yield first
An under-reinforced section means steel will yield first.
An under-reinforced section means sections where the yield strain of the steel occurs at loads lower than the load at which the failure strain of the concrete occurs.
- The occupants have enough time to escape before the section falls because severe bending and beam breaking occur before steel yields. Therefore, the yielding of steel in an under-reinforced section does not indicate that the structure has failed.
- The collapse in the under-reinforced section is caused by the concrete reaching its ultimate failure strain of 0.0035 before the steel achieves its failure strain, which is substantially greater at 0.20 to 0.25.
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SITTING in the garden cafe of the Hotel Alen Mac in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria, it is hard to believe that four years ago communism ruled Eastern Europe. Across the plaza, the former Communist Party Headquarters flies the flags of the Republic of Bulgaria and the United States. Large golden letters read: American University in Bulgaria.
Can the American educational system, with its emphasis on liberal education and choice, help foster a successful transition to freedom and respect for individual rights so greatly needed in this part of the world? Here is a true adventure in multicultural education.
I came with a monolithic image of Eastern Europe, much of it accurate: Communism destroyed individual initiative and responsibility. The ``worker's paradise'' was a forced labor camp where survival was the priority. The aftermath is a society where nothing works well.
For 50 years communism stifled the ethnic hatred that characterizes the history of Eastern Europe. But this hatred only waited for the opportunity to divide societies and destroy lives again. Bulgarian students describe how the Ottomans mistreated their ancestors more than 100 years ago. These anecdotes are used to explain why those minorities should not have equal opportunity today. The creation of an American-style liberal arts university is a grand venture. Bulgarians are hospitable people and admire America. But Bulgaria has failed to bring its diverse cultures together. Families that have been in Bulgaria for hundreds of years are called ``ethnic Turks,'' as if I were an ``ethnic German'' since my ancestor settled in Pennsylvania in the 18th century.
Bulgaria is an excellent choice for this educational experiment because the people of Bulgaria are genuinely humanitarian. They successfully defended their Jews from the Nazis. But there have been recent legislative attempts to suppress the small minorities of ethnic Turks and Gypsies.
IN January the first Martin Luther King Jr. Day was held in Bulgaria. When the principal speaker, Dr. Ivanov, adviser to President Zhelyu Zhelov for ethnic and religious matters, was criticized by one of our students for our support of Bulgaria's minorities, he replied: ``Would you rather be like Yugoslavia?''
Subsequently we established a program, with funding from the Soros Foundation, to bring minority children up to a level of English language proficiency that would enable them to be admitted to the American University. The first eight students progressed so rapidly that I was able to converse with them in English after only four months.
Yet we were criticized for wasting money on minorities that could have been spent on ``native Bulgarians.'' They were saying: ``We deserve the help because we are the ones that suffered under the Turks, under the Nazis, under the communists.'' They miss the point that they obviously suffered less than the others, since they are now in a better position to improve themselves.
When one young woman from the minority program told me that native Bulgarians look down on them, I said: ``Why do you refer to native Bulgarians? You are a native Bulgarian.'' Her reply demonstrated how prejudice works, ``Not according to them!''
Since this conversation I have asked a number of Bulgarian friends, including some college professors, if the three main groups in the country are native Bulgarians, ethnic Turks, and Gypsies. All have said yes without noticing the illogic of my statement. It struck me how deep cultural feelings run. Solving the problem of prejudice on a college campus or in a society is going to require much more than just making sure you have a diversity of cultures present and none are mistreated. Prejudice that has been ingrained for centuries will require massive efforts to erase. In our programs abroad, as well as at home, we need to concentrate efforts on helping minorities as well as people in general. | <urn:uuid:008c1ed2-9caf-43ab-a77a-70f971cd09e3> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.csmonitor.com/1993/0903/03192.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280310.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00186-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967266 | 756 | 2.40625 | 2 |
“AlleyGate” – How Much Will The Taxpayers Have To Pay?August 23, 2013 by Len Lathrop
Before Hudson Selectmen during their August 13 meeting was the land use problem of two alleys that run from Fulton Street to Gillis Street. Selectmen are divided and conflicted on whether citizens can use town property as their own, or not to allow any usage at all, unless the property is purchased from the town.
The history of why these alleyways were created could date back to 1949, according to a Gillis Street resident, when the alleys might have been planned for fire protection for the home that faced Central Street, but that can’t be documented. Complicating the resolution is that, as reported by Selectman Ted Luszey during the meeting on the 13th, the deed research by town staff at the Hillsborough Country Court found that some properties had the alleyway added to their property deeds by Selectmen action in 1984.
This issue appears to have been before the town zoning officer since early May of 2012, shortly after one of the Gillis Street properties was sold and parking rights started to be disputed. Hudson Selectmen have had this before them since the spring of this year with the HLN first reported to our readers on June 28, 2013, when a public hearing was held as part of that week to establish a town ordinance to regulate the usage.
Chairman Maddox, during a June meeting, had cautioned the members that an ordinance restriction usage of town land could have a town-wide effect, as many taxpayers have annexed the land to their property.
While the ordinance has been tabled since the June meeting to allow residents and the selectmen time to review the issue, that review has complicated any resolution with abutters in galley for the meeting. Luszey looked for a motion to hire a real estate attorney to review all the legal issues and offer recommendations. He was quickly questioned by Selectmen Roger Coutu as to the cost of that alternative, and speculation of that cost and who would be responsible became heated. Coutu suggested not taking any actions and let the neighbors work in out. Following heated discussions the board asked Town Administrator Maliza to get a quote as to what a real estate lawyer would cost for the next meeting.
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The report covers laser and quantum electronics research in several areas. A bi-stable optical element has been developed which can produce short pulses of variable length and intensity. A standing-wave saturation technique has been applied to the measurement of rotational relaxation linewidths in CO2. Molecular relaxation processes are being studied using coherent optical processes. An experimental and theoretical study of short pulse propagation in SF6 has been completed. Considerations are also given relating to propagation of zero-degree pulses. Plans are under way to study relaxation processes in the CO laser.
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As the population of California continues to increase, the threat of wildfires also increases. This is because most wildfires are started by humans. It is also generally accepted that the threat of catastrophic fires is higher today than it has ever been. The primary reason for this is that after a 100 years of very successful fire suppression, the amount of fuels in the landscape is much higher than it was when periodic, low intensity fires regularly burned. In the past decade, some of California’s largest fires on record have occurred, including some in oak woodlands.
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That's one conclusion reached by three University of California at Berkeley researchers who studied bug bounties paid over a three-year period by Google and Mozilla to fix bugs in the Chrome and Firefox browsers, respectively. The researchers' question: Is paying external parties to discover bugs worth it?
The answer seems to be yes. The researchers found that rewarding external bug hunters was between 2 and 100 times more cost effective than hiring full-time employees to accomplish the same task. The study was based on the average daily cost of Chrome rewards being $485, and Firefox $658. "If we consider that an average North American developer on a browser security team (i.e., that of Chrome or Firefox) would cost the vendor around $500 per day (assuming a $100,000 salary with a 50% overhead), we see that the cost of either of these [bug bounty programs] is comparable to the cost of just one member of the browser security team," wrote researchers Matthew Finifter, Devdatta Akhawe and David Wagner in the study.
Not only is the cost of a single employee comparable to that of a bug bounty program, few full-time employees appeared to match the bug-spotting power of a crowd-sourced program that pays cash. Notably, in the three-year period studied, Google paid out 371 bug bounties, while its most prolific internal Chrome bug hunter found 263 vulnerabilities. Mozilla paid out 148 bounties, while its best-performing employee spotted only 48 bugs.
[ Is your copy of Windows acting strangely? Read Microsoft Patch Tuesday Fixes Six Critical Bugs. ]
Of course, this is no call to get rid of internal employees tasked with finding and obliterating bugs in the codebase. Such personnel are an essential part of any secure development program. Furthermore, the study found that most external researchers couldn't afford to live off of bug bounty programs. Out of 82 external security researchers who reported Chrome bugs, for example, only three earned more than $80,000 from Google during the three-year period studied. A single Firefox bug hunter did earn a total of $141,000, but the next most prolific hunter earned just $42,000.
That's why, according to the study, businesses would likely be well-served by hiring their best external bug reporters as internal security researchers, and paying them to find as many vulnerabilities as possible. The researchers said that Mozilla, as well as Google's Chrome team, each appear to have at least three such employees. The study also suggests that every company that develops software should consider running a bug-bounty program to not only help spot bugs in code, but to find them as early possible in the development lifecycle, when remediation costs are relatively lower.
What do bug bounty programs need to succeed? The higher the profile of the program the more attention it gets and the more successful it is, said the researchers. On the down side, bug bounty programs might be less cost-effective where -- unlike browsers -- not every critical security vulnerability necessarily equals a major risk. Regardless, patching speed remains crucial. "High variance in time-to-patch is not appreciated by the security community," said the researchers. In other words, patch quickly or your would-be bug reporters might turn to other channels.
About 30 software vendors and projects -- including Cryptocat, Kim Dotcom's Mega, PayPal, Samsung and Qmail -- now reward information security researchers who report bugs. But some big names continue to remain on the bug-bounty sidelines, including Adobe, Apple and Oracle.
Google started the trend of offering cash for bugs about three years ago, and has so far paid out more than $800,000. "Our vulnerability reward programs have been very successful in helping us fix more bugs and better protect our users, while also strengthening our relationships with security researchers," Google security team members Adam Mein and Michal Zalewski said in a June blog post. Recently, the company raised the payout ante to a maximum of $7,500 for serious bugs, saying the move reflected the increasing difficulty of finding new bugs in Google code.
Many other businesses have since followed suit and launched their own programs. Facebook's bug bounty program, for example, promises minimum rewards of $500 and no maximum. Each bug is awarded a bounty based on its severity and creativity, according to the guidelines. Residents of any country that's not under U.S. sanctions (e.g., North Korea, Libya, Cuba, etc.) may participate.
Microsoft last year dipped its toes in the water by creating an annual BlueHat Prize. In June it announced that it would also offer a bounty program, paying up to $100,000 for anyone able to bypass the attack-mitigation defense technologies built into Windows 8.1 Preview. Microsoft said the move was driven in part by its desire to catch more bugs in its brand-new product before would-be attackers had time to weaponize them.
HP's Zero Day Initiative, among other programs, pays cash for bugs to enable it to add patches for vulnerabilities to its security products, while privately informing vendors and allowing them to ready a fix.
Alternately, bug hunters can work with an independent vulnerability broker such as the Grugq, a South African native based in Bangkok who takes a 15% commission and last year told Forbes that he handles only high-end exploits. "I refuse to deal with anything below mid-five figures these days," he said.
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It is worth mentioning that such an echo cancellation scheme is naturally linear and is very sensitive to the nonlinearities in the echo path. This linear system will not be able to match the impulse response of a nonlinear echo path and therefore effectively remove the echo.
Good echo cancellation performance can be achieved by using the NLMS (Normalized Least Mean Squares) algorithm, which is also known as the normalized stochastic gradient algorithm, or its many variations. The NLMS algorithm is the most widely used one and it provides a low cost way to determine the optimum filter coefficients. The algorithm minimizes the mean square of the residual echo error signal at each adaptation step (e.g. at each sample), hence the name of the algorithm. Normalization by the signal power is used because speech is a highly non-stationary process.
Without derivations, which you can find elsewhere in the literature on adaptive signal processing, we give the general formula for the coefficient adaptation for the NLMS algorithm:
i is the sample number
ak is the k-th coefficient of the filter
N is the number of filter coefficients
b is the adaptation step, which controls the convergence time and adaptation quality
e is the residual echo error signal
y is the far-end talker signal
s2 is the reference signal power
The number of coefficients in the filter should be large enough to cover the echo path delay and all additional delays due to the lines and circuitry between the echo canceller and the place where the echo is created (e.g. the total delay between points A and B of the echo canceller as per Figure 5). This should also include the dispersion time due to the network elements.
The hybrid echo path delay is known to be short. The time span over which its impulse response is significant, is typically 2 to 4 milliseconds, but usually when canceling the hybrid echo, the number of filter coefficients is chosen to cover hybrid echo path delays up to 16 milliseconds, which is usually the upper bound of the hybrid echo path delay. The 16 ms path needs 128 coefficients at the sampling rate of 8 KHz.
The length of the acoustic echo path, as has already been pointed out, depends on the size of the room, where it exists. So, without going into room measurements, for acoustic echo path delays of up to 256 ms we will have to have 2048 coefficients at the sampling rate of 8 KHz.
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The signature of a €450 million contract to build two more satellites for the Sentinel-3 mission was celebrated by ESA and Thales Alenia Space of France at an event in Paris yesterday.
Sentinel-3 is based on a constellation of two satellites to systematically measure Earth’s oceans, land, ice and atmosphere to monitor and understand large-scale global dynamics.
The first – Sentinel-3A – is set for launch next week, while its sister satellite Sentinel-3B planned for launch in 2017.
While Thales Alenia Space has been leading a consortium of more than 100 companies to build the first two units, the contract signed yesterday initiates the development of Sentinel-3C and -3D, ensuring data continuity for Europe’s environment monitoring Copernicus programme until 2030.
“This is another demonstration of how ESA is able to manage an outstanding industry team in order to develop satellite missions which benefit the people of Europe and support environmental monitoring,” said ESA Director General Jan Woerner.
CEO of Thales Alenia Space, Jean-Loïc Galle, also noted: “The upcoming launch of Sentinel-3 and the outlook for the future Sentinel missions show that European industry is capable of developing and building high-tech missions in collaboration with ESA and partners throughout Europe.”
The Copernicus programme relies on the Sentinels and contributing missions to provide data for monitoring the environment and supporting civil security activities, and Sentinel-3 carries a series of cutting-edge instruments to do just that.
Over oceans, it measures the temperature, colour and height of the sea surface as well as the thickness of sea ice. These measurements will be used, for example, to monitor changes in sea level, marine pollution and biological productivity.
Over land, this innovative mission will monitor wildfires, map the way land is used, provide indices of vegetation state and measure the height of rivers and lakes, complementing the high-resolution measurements of its Sentinel-2 sister mission.
“With the third dedicated satellite ready for launch next week and several more in the planning, the European Copernicus programme is now becoming more and more a reality,” said the Director of ESA’s Earth Observation Programmes, Volker Liebig.
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This report is about designing and implementing an on-chip lower power and area temperature sensor for an ultrasonic probe. The sensor was designed, implemented in schematic and simulated using the Virtuoso software for analysis and verification. The design of the circuit is based on another published paper , but with more smaller transistor dimensions in 90 nm CMOS technology. The sensor works in the sub-threshold region with only 600 mV of power supply. It operates over the temperature range of 0-120 °C, with maximum pulled current of 218.66 nA and mere power consumption of 131.2 nW at the highest temperature of 120 °C. It has an inaccuracy range of -3.3 to +7.6 °C with very high linearity and stability performance. It is based on measuring the temperature using the differences in gate-source voltages of a MOSFET which is proportional to the temperature in the sub-threshold region. | <urn:uuid:55c2f124-14bc-4f01-aeba-f18b2480ce0e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ntnuopen.ntnu.no/ntnu-xmlui/handle/11250/2778155 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571989.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813232744-20220814022744-00466.warc.gz | en | 0.932987 | 195 | 2.5 | 2 |
Excerpted from the New York Times
Before any changes of US Cuba trade and travel policies can be changed, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) needs to publish newly updated regulations.
The new regulations are expected to be published some time in January.
Currently, General licenses, which require no special application or permission are currently authorized for the types of travel listed below. Note that General licenses are not printed on any paper. A traveler simply states he or she has traveled to Cuba on a General license for reasons such as:
US Travel to Cuba Changes
1. Persons visiting a “close relative” who is a Cuban national and “persons traveling with them who share a common dwelling as a family with them.” (Obama authorized this in 2009.)
2. Government business.
3. Journalists regularly employed at a news organization.
4. Certain researchers and professionals.
5. Certain college faculty and students or others participating in educational activities.
6. Certain religious activities.
7. Telecommunications providers. (Obama authorized telecommunications providers to pursue licensing agreements in 2009.)
8. Producers or distributors of agricultural or medical goods.
9. Other specific licenses to travel are granted on a case-by-case basis.
Under President Obama’s direction, OFAC is expected to open up general licenses to travel to Cuba for the reasons listed below, which previously required approval on a case-by-case basis:
1. Public performances, workshops and athletic competitions.
2. Support for the Cuban people, including human rights work.
3. Humanitarian work.
4. Private foundations and institutes.
5. Information dissemination.
6. Travel related to export of authorized products.
As you can see, all the travel is “purposeful” travel so don’t plan to go to Cuba for a beach vacation. However, note that travelers do not need to “check in” or get some card stamped saying that you have to prove what you did every day while in Cuba. It is a good idea to have an itinerary with you upon return to the US.
US Banking and Trade Changes
Currently, no transactions involving the property of a Cuban national (including purchasing Cuban cigars in third countries or signing a Cuba-related contract with a foreign firm). However, the following changes are expected to be allowed when the new OFAC regulations are published.
United States institutions will be able to open accounts at Cuban financial institutions.
Travelers to Cuba will be allowed to use American credit and debit cards.
United States entities in third countries will be allowed to engage in transactions and meetings with Cuban individuals in third countries.
Exports to Cuba are limited to certain agricultural goods and medical devices. Imports from Cuba include most art and information materials. However, the following items are expected to be allowed when the new OFAC regulations are published.
1. Certain items that support the Cuban private sector will be allowed for export from the US to Cuba, including certain building materials and agricultural equipment.
2. Certain items that support telecommunications in Cuba will be allowed for export, and companies will be allowed to establish related infrastructure.
3. Licensed American travelers will be able to import $400 worth of goods (including up to $100 in tobacco and alcohol).
US Transfer of Money to Cuba
Authorized travelers are now permitted to carry $3,000 in remittances to Cuba. There are no limits on remittances to religious organizations.
There are no limits on sending remittances to close relatives. (Obama authorized this in 2009.)
Remittances of up to $500 per quarter may be made to any Cuban national for humanitarian needs. - That limit will be raised to $2,000 a quarter.
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Readers of Evidence-Based Mental Health will be familiar with the fundamental rationale for systematic reviews: reviews should have adequate and well described methods and, in particular, avoid the biased selection of primary studies dependent on their results. A comprehensive and reproducible literature search is now recognised to be a key feature of systematic reviews. We know a lot about the advantages and limitations of electronic bibliographic databases, such as Medline.1 There is now a substantial body of empirical evidence about the various kinds of bias that can plague the identification and selection of studies for reviews, including publication bias (studies with significant results are more likely to get published than studies without significant results), English language bias (studies with significant results more likely to be published in English language journals), citation bias (studies with significant results more likely to be cited) and so on.2 As long as studies get published somewhere in journals that are indexed in one database or another, then they are potentially retrievable with an adequate search. Publication bias, however, remains the most devastating potential bias. The reasons for the non-publication of studies vary. The authors of a small study with unexciting results may have little interest or motivation in getting the study published. More pernicious is the situation where a substantial study is not published—and even purposefully suppressed—because the authors or funders do not like the look of the results.
Publication bias has been a perennial concern of reviewers and evidence-based practitioners, but a recent series of events has provided a disturbing example of the potentially serious effects of the failure to publish trial data or to make them available. It has emerged that trials of paroxetine, a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor, showing negative or neutral results in the treatment of depressive disorders in children and adolescents have been not been published by the trials’ sponsor, GlaxoSmithKline. The resulting distortions introduced into systematic reviews are illustrated in this issue of EBMH in the study by Whittington et al [see page 115]. This analysis shows clearly that the inclusion of unpublished data very much reduces the apparent efficacy and increases estimates of the harm of certain medications, in particular paroxetine.
The central problem of how to encourage pharmaceutical companies to become more open about their data has exercised the evidence-based community for a number of years. Companies are clearly concerned about the effects of negative trials on sales of a drug in their drive to recoup the development costs and generate a profit for their shareholders. For this reason, voluntary initiatives to get negative results into the public domain have largely been unsuccessful. In 1998, a clinical trial amnesty was announced.3 Despite some initial support from companies (including the then GlaxoWellcome), the amnesty has largely failed—as companies seem to have decided that openness about their products might damage their commercial prospects. It has long been acknowledged that the only satisfactory way of protecting against publication bias is by prospective registration of trials, but such registers remain unsatisfactory.4
It is hardly surprising, therefore, that the current SSRI case has been seized upon by the general media, medical commentators, and regulatory bodies alike. Here is a great chance to put real pressure on the pharmaceutical companies to adopt a new policy of openness. On 2 June 2004, GlaxoSmithKline was sued by the Attorney General of New York for fraud over the suppression of trial data of importance in the estimation of the efficacy and the potential increase in suicidal risk of paroxetine in children and adolescents. The action was settled and, belatedly, the company has made full trial reports of the unpublished paroxetine trials available on its website (http://www.gsk.com/media/paroxetine.htm). The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors has recently announced that it will no longer accept trials that have not been entered onto a clinical trial database at inception.5 Sir Iain Chalmers, meanwhile, has argued that only legislation can force drug companies to make all trial results available.6
From the point of view of the evidence-based practitioner, we are usually realistic enough in our expectations of our treatments to know that no drug provides benefits without costs. What we need, though, is reliable information about both benefits and costs to give our patients proper information about what they can expect from our recommended therapies. Evidence-Based Mental Health has abstracted two published trials that compared SSRIs with placebo in the treatment of childhood depression7,8 and a summary of the section on the treatment of childhood depression from Clinical Evidence.9 Although we believe that the coverage we have given the issue has been true to the status of the published evidence, we are of course unable to report evidence that is not published or is deliberately suppressed. In our view, publication bias subverts evidence-based practice and can harm patients.
We at Evidence-Based Mental Health therefore join the calls on our partners in the pharmaceutical industry to be more transparent and open about their trial data. Failing to do so means, at best, that ineffective treatments are widely used in patients and, at worse, can lead to unnecessary illness and even death if the reported risks of harms are underestimated. We believe that the industry will want to avoid the possibility of increased legislation and cannot afford repeated public relations disasters of this kind.
Lastly, while it is clearly important to make the most of the SSRI case to push for a general improvement in the accessibility of trial results, it is a tragedy that this has involved a treatment for a mental illness. We and our patients are continually fighting stigma, and public perceptions of antidepressants are likely to have become even more negative as a result of this episode. | <urn:uuid:263b9378-b326-45e3-8f83-9fc37a333474> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ebmh.bmj.com/content/7/4/98 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00075.warc.gz | en | 0.952254 | 1,217 | 2.421875 | 2 |
The seven-day exercises will take place against a backdrop of regional tensions.
Posted : Friday Jul 15, 2011 7:14:09 EDT
DANANG, Vietnam — Three Navy ships were welcomed Friday by former foe Vietnam for joint training, despite China’s irritation following weeks of fiery exchanges between the communist neighbors over disputed areas of the South China Sea.
U.S. and Vietnamese officials have stressed that the seven-day ship visit and naval training are part of routine exchanges planned long before tensions began flaring between China and Vietnam in late May. China has criticized the port call as inappropriate, saying it should have been rescheduled due to the ongoing squabble.
The U.S. visit, however, did send a message that the Navy remains a formidable maritime force in the region and is determined to build stronger military ties with smaller Southeast Asian countries.
“We’ve had a presence in the Western Pacific and the South China Sea for 50 to 60 years, even going back before World War II,” Rear Adm. Tom Carney, who’s leading the naval exchange, told reporters. “We will maintain a presence in the Western Pacific and the South China Sea as we have for decades, and we have no intention of departing from that kind of activity.”
He spoke on the pier in central Danang, once home to a bustling U.S. military base during the Vietnam War, in front of the diving and salvage ship Safeguard. American and Vietnamese flags flapped in the steamy air from the ship, and two guided missile destroyers — Chung-Hoon and Preble — were visible off the coast.
The two navies will hold exchanges involving navigation and damage control along with dive and salvage training. No live-fire drills will be conducted.
Vietnam and China last month both announced their navies held such maneuvers individually in the South China Sea after relations hit a low point when Hanoi twice accused Beijing of hindering oil exploration within Vietnam’s economic exclusive zone.
China responded that Vietnamese boats had endangered Chinese fishermen in a different area near the contested resource-rich Spratly islands, claimed all or in part by both nations and several others.
Tempers appeared to be cooling after Chinese and Vietnamese officials met last month and announced they would work to negotiate a peaceful resolution. But Vietnamese state-run media and a border official on Wednesday accused armed Chinese soldiers of attacking and chasing a Vietnamese fishing boat near the disputed Paracel islands claimed by both countries.
The Philippines has also recently sparred with China, alleging similar interference with its energy exploration efforts in the South China Sea. The U.S. last month conducted similar joint naval exercises that included live-fire drills with the Philippines, a treaty ally.
On Monday in Beijing, top Chinese Gen. Chen Bingde criticized his U.S. counterpart for going forward with the exercises in Vietnam and the Philippines, calling it bad timing in light of the ongoing spats. Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, defended the decision saying the exchanges were pre-planned.
“I don’t know when an appropriate time would be for these kind of activities, which are designed to promote friendship and cooperation,” Carney said from the Vietnam pier. “But I don’t think there’s ever a bad time to do those kind of activities.”
Washington has said that the South China Sea, home to major shipping lanes, is in its national interest. China, which has an expanding maritime influence, has designated the area as a core interest — essentially something it could go to war over. Worried smaller neighboring countries have looked to the U.S. to maintain a strong presence in the region.
“The U.S. has made its point and will continue to do so if pressed, but does not appear to be looking for a fight with Beijing on this issue,” said Ralph Cossa, president of Pacific Forum CSIS, a Hawaii-based think tank. “It is not likely to heed or back down as a result of Chinese ‘warnings,’ however, which will likely make Washington feel more compelled to respond.”
The current U.S. visit to Vietnam involves about 700 sailors and builds on the first postwar port call in 2003 made to the former Saigon, now called Ho Chi Minh City. Since then, military relations have continued to grow with high-level defense visits and exchanges.
The two sides recently began working together to clean up dioxin contamination from the defoliant Agent Orange. It was mixed and stored at the U.S. air base in Danang and remains one of the lasting legacies of the Vietnam War that killed some 58,000 Americans and an estimated 3 million Vietnamese.
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A lot of moms on Facebook and all over will argue with you til they are blue in the face on this topic, which is why I usually avoid or just ignore the posts but thought it may spark some conversations with moms on my blog who have young kids.
We started our kids on baby foods around 4 months old, and they did perfectly fine and loved the foods by spoon. A lot of parents will tell you to RESEARCH, when all you need to use is your own common sense as a mother or father to know if your baby is ready to try out baby food or not.
If I remember right, we tried out fruits as well as green vegetables first to get them use to foods. You don't want to do citrus like foods until later such as orange flavors or applesauce, but other than that if the child seems to like the food and does well eating it, then you're likely fine to continue with that food and similar types.
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Millions of people across the globe have problems with substance abuse, yet even more are in denial. For every open addict, there is an addict that has yet to confront their issues. Acceptance is the first and hardest road on the path to recovery. It is hard because no one wants to admit that they have gone down the wrong path. Not only is it embarrassing, but it is also a waste of your time and energy. However, without acceptance, you will struggle to gain control of your life. With that in mind, it is time to decide whether you have a problem. You might think that it isn’t easy to spot, but there are telltale signs. If you can relate to any of the below, you could have an addiction of some kind.
Withdrawal symptoms are the first sign that you have a problem. Withdrawal is not a hangover or the feeling of nausea after a heavy night of partying. Withdrawals are much stronger and have a much longer impact on the body. Also, they make you want to use again and again until you satiate the feeling, and it goes away. Even if you have never experienced withdrawals, you will know what they are when they occur. It is like going cold turkey, which is a very unpleasant experience. Most of the time, the symptoms are physical. However, they can manifest themselves in a mental capacity.
It is quite common for all types of people to overindulge in a certain environment. For example, the most clean cut person can have too much to drink or dabble in drugs at a party. But, they don’t use outside of the environment. People that use in a constant setting are people that can’t get enough, even if the mood isn’t right. It means that their body needs the substance to function. And, their addiction is the reason they use for personal gain and not just to heighten the experience. It is also important to remember that frequent usage at parties and events could be a sign. Those of you that party on a constant basis could be building up their addiction without realizing. What’s worse is that the party atmosphere is masking the reality.
Use More For The Same Effect
Most people don’t tally up how many drugs they have taken over the course of a week. Still, most people know the extent to their usage even if it is just a rough estimate. Your rough estimate could hold the key to your addiction. If you are using more substances than before for the same high, your body is building a tolerance. A bigger tolerance is a sign that you are using too much because your body is used to the drugs. After a while of non-usage, the tolerance will dissipate. In your case, that isn’t happening because you are using on a constant basis. Details from the Alcohol Recovery Centre site show that this is a sure-fire sign of addiction. The next time, monitor how much you use and reference that against the first time you dabbled. And, be truthful. It is a cliché, but the only person you are lying to is yourself, and that is a problem for your health.
Underlying Health Problems
Talking about your health, how do you feel? Addicts are not healthy people because the substances they take are dangerous. Not only do they need them to function, but they also attack the healthy cells in the body. As a result, the smallest issue can escalate out of control. A cold, for example, can make you feel as if you have the plague. The reason for that is that drugs break down your immune system. What is a minor ailment to most people is a big deal to others. It is also easy to see in your complexion as the drugs have a major effect on the skin. For starters, it starts to sag and wrinkle. Unless you are advancing in years, that shouldn’t happen. And, you also experience jaundice. Jaundice is a condition that occurs when the kidneys don’t work effectively, and they deal with substance issues. A yellow tint to your skin could mean that your kidneys are failing.
Do You Hide It From Your Friends?
Even if you deny it, you will hide your addiction from your family and friends. The reason for that is that you know you have a problem. You might not want to admit it out loud, but you can’t hide it from your subconscious. No one that has something to hide does it because they think they are right. That is the entire point of having something to hide. If you feel like you can’t tell your closest friends that you like to indulge, it is because you are ashamed. And, you are ashamed because you know that it is wrong. Try and confide in someone the next time you have a conversation. If you can’t, you need to consider going to rehab.
Your Friends Are Worried
One or two people that say you have an issue aren’t a big deal. But, a handful of people is a sign that you are going too far. It is okay to dismiss an individual because it is only an individual. Even if you are an addict, one person isn’t enough evidence to make you question your lifestyle. More than five is a problem, however. It means that at least five people that care about you believe that you have a problem with substance abuse. If that is the case, it is worth sitting down and listening to their reasoning. They wouldn’t say it to you unless they thought it was a problem, which is why they want to confide in you. There is no doubt that you will take it poorly, but you should reflect on it afterward.
The one person that needs rehab is the person that is always relapsing. All you have to do is be truthful, and you will know whether you relapse or not. A relapse is when you take a substance that you have promised to quit. If you have done that in the past, you might need professional help. | <urn:uuid:043fbfe5-304c-4e50-ad7d-e683c0c157d9> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.makingdifferent.com/common-signs-mean-need-rehab/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280242.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00080-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973252 | 1,250 | 1.804688 | 2 |
Norba, an ancient town of Latium (Adjectum), Italy. It is situated 1 mile northwest of the modern town of Norma, on the western edge of the Volscian Mountains or Monti Lepini. The town is perched above a precipitous cliff with a splendid view over the Pomptine Marshes below; the highest point stands to ca. 460 meters (over 1500 feet) above sea level.
Norba was a member of the Latin League of 499 BC. It became a Roman colony in 492 BC, initially to protect the border with the Volsci, and later serving as an important fortress guarding the Pomptine Marshes. It served in 199 BC as a place of detention for the Carthaginian hostages, and was captured and destroyed by Sulla's troops during the civil wars at the end of 82 BC. By the first century AD Norba is included by Pliny the Elder on his list of extinct cities in Latium.
From excavations begun in 1901 it seems clear that the remains now visible on the site are entirely Roman. The well-preserved walls are in the polygonal style, over 2.5 km in circuit, and are entirely embankment walls, not standing free above the internal ground level. The walls enclose an area of approximately 38 hectares. Remains of two towers, and of several gateways (notably the Porta Maggiore, defended by a tower), exist. The bastion at the Porta Maggiore still stands to 13 m. A square tower, referred to as "La Loggia" is also to be found along the curtain. The main gate is enormous, with jambs over 8 m in height, 4.30 m in width, and internal width of 12.8 m. Within, the remains of several buildings, including the foundations (podia) of two temples, one dedicated to Juno Lucina, have been examined. At the foot of the cliff are the picturesque ruins of the medieval town of Ninfa, (12th-13th centuries) abandoned on account of malaria. The remains of a primitive settlement, on the other hand, have been discovered on the mountainside to the southeast, above the 13th-century abbey of Valvisciolo, where there is a succession of terraces supported by walls of rough polygonal masonry, and approached by a road similarly supported. Here a quantity of primitive pottery has been found. The necropolis of this settlement was probably the extensive one situated at Caracupa (8th-7th century BC), near the railway station of Sermoneta, which belongs also to the 8th-6th century BC, terminating thus at the precise date at which the Roman city of Norba is believed to have been established.Additional ancient remains are to be found in the hinterland of Norba, including the polygonal masonry structure at Poggio Serrone di Bove. | <urn:uuid:c965ff68-cbf0-4524-bb03-5f3165c7e996> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.dguideapp.com/guide/details/Norba.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.967974 | 613 | 3.171875 | 3 |
by Jerome a Paris
Tue Nov 22nd, 2005 at 03:51:16 AM EST
Bumped & updated by DoDo
The big energy news of last weekend was the start of the Joint Oil Data Initiative (Jodi), which for the first time promises real data on production levels in OPEC countries too (see Jérôme's original post below the fold).
Now the database is on-line, the presently available data (including OPEC) can be accessed here. For comparison, you can check one set of previous production estimates (these by MEES) here.
The data is colour-coded: most reliable (checked) data is blue. Individual countries' cooperation is rated (rating explained).
So far, my bet on 100$ oil by the end of this year is not looking so smart, but have no fear, I'll stay the course. And this week-end, some arguments may actually be provided in my favor:
Opec set to lift secrecy about oil production
The Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, the cartel that controls 40 per cent of world oil exports, will on Saturday lift a four-decade veil of secrecy and begin regularly to reveal how much oil it is actually pumping.
China and India, the fastest growing major oil consumers, will also supply consumption and storage data for the first time.
The Joint Oil Data Initiative (Jodi), which will be launched on Saturday in Riyadh by energy and finance ministers of the biggest oil producing and consuming countries, will meet a persistent demand of the Group of seven industrialised countries for more transparent energy data.
The price rise of the past three years, which this year saw oil hit nominal highs of $70.85 a barrel, could in part have been avoided by better data, analysts said. It would provide a more accurate basis for industry investment decisions, which in turn help determine long term supplies.
But analysts also suggested that the new database was unlikely to transform the currently unscientific art of guessing world demand and supply into a simple task.
One person close to Saturday's event said that the data would reveal little difference to existing output estimates for some countries including Saudi Arabia, the world's biggest oil producer but would show a five to 10 per cent disparity in the production levels of other Opec countries.
Traders said they would have to wait until the numbers came out to know whether they would move the oil price when markets reopen on Monday.
JODI has its own website, which has not gone live (it exists, but provides no data yet), and says it will provide the following data:
- Seven products : Crude Oil, LPG, Gasoline, Kerosene, Diesel Oil, Fuel Oil and Total Oil,
- Four flows : Production, Demand, Closing Stock Levels and Changes.
- Data are available in three different units : barrels, tons and litres
- For 92 participating countries
- Monthly data from January 2002 to one month old.
Any transparent data is a good thing, and this seems to be a genuine progress for the markets to understand what's going on. However, as this post over at the Oil Drum notes, it provides no new information about reserves and production rates for individual fields, the two most important determinants to know what's actually going on on the supply side. The Oil Drum also notes that this will not help us know more about depletion rates (i.e. how fast fields are used up and go into decline) nor the situation on the drilling rigs side
If fields require increasing numbers of rigs to produce, it is a sign that production is becoming more difficult - and costly - and it creates other tensions on the rig market, a market that has just been violently disturbed (30kb pdf) by the hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico:
So where does that leave us? Here's a mainstream opinion (MarketWatch - use id: firstname.lastname@example.org psw: dialykos to register):
Are we there yet? Prospect of $100 oil - Longer-term bets based on high risk, depleting sources
"What ever happened to $100 crude? It just got postponed," said Agbeli Ameko, a managing partner at First Enercast Financial. "That is, at least until the next hurricane season or some geopolitical bombshell."
"In this 'peak-oil' and 'terror-premium' environment, the market will remain in reach of the $100 barrier," he said.
"I don't think we're going to have enough alternative energies at a good price that's globally distributed within the next two to five years before [the] next global expansion occurs," said Hassey.
There is "no really new alternative is on the horizon," said veteran commodities trader Kevin Kerr.
Given all that, "$100 oil is not that far off" -- in 2 to 30 months without a major terrorist act, and 6 to 12 months with a major terrorist attack, said Kerr, who also edits Global Resources Trader, a service of MarketWatch.
"The bottom line is, the light, sweet, easy-to-get/easy-to-refine oil is much harder to lay your hands on nowadays," he said, and that lack of light, sweet crude to refine "will most certainly drive prices higher overall."
So "for those asking 'are we there yet?' -- be patient. It probably won't happen in 2005, but 2006 or 2007 could be another story," First Enercast's Ameko said.
So, let's see if this week-end's data brings any reason to change that estimate (for instance if it appears that Saudi production is no higher than last winter). In any case, even if I lose this year-end bet, I'll continue the series. We're still going there - pretty soon.
Are you getting ready in the meantime? Any extra months we are granted before 100$ oil or more happens should be used to make it easier to live with it when it happens, because it will.
Earlier "Countdown" diaries:
Countdown to 100$ oil (15) - the impact on your electricity bill
Countdown to 100$ oil (14) - Greenspan acknoweldges peak oil
Countdown to 100$ oil (13) - Katrina strikes / refinery crisis
Countdown to 100$ oil (12) - Al-Qaeda, oil and Asian financial centers
Countdown to 100$ oil (11) - it's Greenspan's fault!
Countdown to 100$ oil (10) - Simmons says 300$ soon - and more
Countdown to 100$ oil (9) - I am taking bets
Countdown to 100$ oil (8) - just raw data
Countdown to 100$ oil (7) - a smart solution: the bike
Countdown to 100$ oil (6) - and the loser is ... Africa
Countdown to 100$ oil (5) - OPEC inexorably raises floor price
Countdown to 100$ oil (4) - WSJ wingnuts vs China
Countdown to 100$ oil (3) - industry is beginning to suffer
Countdown to 100$ oil (2) - the views of the elites on peak oil
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The new school year begins in August, and, as many parents know, transitioning back to school can be challenging. To help parents and their students make that transition, Madison School District’s Student Services Department provided tips on how parents can talk to their children about anxiety and prepare them for the upcoming school year.
First, help children recognize and understand their emotional and physical reactions about returning to school. Some students may say they are anxious but might feel worried, excited, upbeat, blissful or jittery.
Also, having a mood meter to identify how they are feeling helps children label their emotions accurately. Add facial expressions of family or safe adults that the child connects with to help with labeling emotions.
In addition, parents can model labeling and identifying their own thoughts and feelings. This could look like sharing feelings about the start of the school year, what it feels like in their body, what it looks like on their face, what their brain was thinking and “telling them.” Then, ask the child to share the same and develop a plan in the future (such as what to say if a child walks into a classroom and is scared about where to sit).
Fourth, clarify the child’s thoughts and feelings in anxious situations. Ask them what they think. Depending on the child’s age, these statements will vary. Ask “How are you feeling about school,” “I see/notice that packing your bag for school is troubling for you, how do you feel and what can I do to help?” Support morning transitions by saying “I know you are frightened to leave home. At school, you have a caring adult who will support you. When you return, we can talk about your day. We can talk about what you liked, disliked and how you felt about the day. We can share what we need to feel like our best selves.” Practice the school routine and provide verbal support for children.
Finally, develop plans for effective coping. What does the morning routine look like? What does the return home routine look like? Sometimes students who engage in deep breathing or mindful breathing are able to regulate their physical reactions to stressful situations. Sometimes breathing does not work. Identify alternative opportunities to expand coping in the moment.
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Your mom has mild Alzheimer’s disease, but she still wants to drive to the grocery store. Should you let her? According to one group of researchers, you may as well, because statistically, she’s no more likely to have an accident than other seniors her age.
Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, concluded in a recent study that although road test studies have shown a clear decline in average driving ability with increasing severity of dementia, some drivers in the very mild or mild stages of the disease are still judged to be safe.
The researchers looked at the driving records of 34 patients with very mild dementia of the Alzheimer’s type, 29 with mild Alzheimer’s, and 58 without dementia. The average age of participants was 77, and all had been driving for at least 10 years. The patients with dementia had already been diagnosed as part of another study.
As part of the study, all participants took a road test, reported on their driving and accident history, and kept a driving journal for a week so researchers could see how many miles they had driven. For each person, another adult who knew the participant well reported on his or her driving history. The health and medical researchers also examined state motor vehicle records for all participants.
Although most studies of drivers with dementia report that they have more car crashes, the three groups in this study did not differ significantly in number of accidents over the previous five years. But writing in the January 2000 issue of the Journal of the American Geriatric Society, the researchers noted that because the number of accidents was so small, they would have needed at least 300 people in the study to find any differences among the groups.
The researchers also reported that the participants with dementia were more likely to have crashes that were their fault and due to inattention or failure to yield. So should seniors with mild or very mild Alzheimer’s continue to drive? Well, the jury’s still out.
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You're right. My bad. Jeez, you didn't have to yell
Still, during a partial fast (i.e., calorie restriction), your body increases its use of your internal fat reserves. But this still only takes you so far. Once you add exercise to the mix, it's imperative that you get enough protein to feed your exercise, just enough carbs post-workout to refuel your muscles, and enough fat overall to convince your body that it doesn't need to hold on to so much of its own. Further caloric restriction after you're exercising regularly will just make the body stubbornly hang on to bodyfat.
1) eat real food - more vegetables, moderate meat, moderate fruits, less grains, less sugar, less vegetable oils.
2) exercise - moderate intensity cardio, sprinting, heavy lifting, dedicated stretching and mobility.
3) live - relax, de-stress, meditate.
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Don’t kid yourselves, artists, authors, and other creative people: charging money to access your work is morally reprehensible. You can argue semantics all you like, and call it “selling” to “customers” who “buy” your “product”. But the rest of us know that it’s nothing more than oppressive, tyrannical despotism.
The views expressed in this article are intentionally absurd, and not intended to be taken at face value. I have to say this, because this is the Internet.
In the ancient world, a despotic king from a distant land might demand tribute from his conquered people in exchange for the “valuable” service of neither raping nor pillaging them. This is in contrast to the fact that normally, the conquered people would naturally have the right to live their lives rape-and-pillage-free. Similarly, when you publish a digitized cultural work on an online “store” such as iTunes or Amazon, you are demanding that people give you money in exchange for the “valuable” service of accessing a non-scarce, non-rivalrous, infinitely redistributable collection of data. These two scenarios — ancient and modern — are perfectly analogous, and are just as morally reprehensible as one another.
Therefore, it is in no way an embellishment to call a creative person who charges money for digital distribution a “despot”. You dirty, reprehensible despots, you. There is nothing hyperbolic about comparing a brutally violent relic of history to the modern-day idiosyncrasies of MP3s and stuff.
You despots have no regard for all of the hard-working people who made your creative output possible. If you’re an author, how could you write your novel if nobody ever invented the word “the”? Or the idea of paragraphs and sentences? Or the narrative and literary tropes which you used or self-consciously subverted (because you’re so postmodern)? You drew all of these things from the cultural commons, and the cultural commons is made up of everybody’s freely accessible, freely modifiable work. If everyone demanded ritual sacrifice of money in order to access and transform their work, then nobody would ever add anything to the commons ever again. What, do you want it all to just stop? Forever?
Now, given how undeniably right I am about all of this, you’ve probably realized that I’m a smart enough guy to be realistic. And I am. I’m extremely intelligent. I have unrestricted posting rights on the blog of one of Foreign Policy Magazine’s Top 100 Global Thinkers, so I’m obviously better than you.
Thus, I understand human nature. I’m not saying all of this to try and stop anyone from being evil, black-hearted despots who demand monetary tribute from innocent aficionados of culture. If a human being can ruthlessly extort money out of someone else, they will. That’s just common sense, and no amount of the ever-increasing biological and anthropological evidence to the contrary can change that. But don’t ask me to like it. Don’t ask me to be your friend if you demand money to read your book, watch your movie, listen to your music, or whatever it is you do.
Fortunately for basic human decency, I know that it’s a myth that demanding money for culture is a particularly easy process. For now, it’s a nontrivial exercise for people without access to conniving legal or PR teams. That’s why, despite the fact that most of the art and culture I enjoy is behind a paywall somewhere, I’ve still experienced a shitload of it with no obligation to pay. Most normal people (as opposed to petulant divas or pro-copyright lobbyists) can’t be bothered faffing around with self-aggrandizing whiny blog posts or suing their enthusiastic fans. They’d just like people to enjoy their work.
But the grand-scheme-of-things irrelevance of all of you malevolent, contemptible despots does absolutely nothing to quell my undying rage against you, which is not petty at all. I don’t care that your despotic demands for tribute have no discernible impact on anyone’s lives at the end of the day. If you charge money to access your creative output, then you are committing a crime against humanity.
You might say, why Zacqary, that’s a bold statement. To which I’d reply, no: it was an italic statement. This is a bold statement.
If you want to talk about cold, hard economic realities, let’s talk. But don’t try to argue semantics. Don’t try to gain the moral high ground. No matter what you say in a semantic or moral argument about these issues, you’ll always be wrong. | <urn:uuid:da886faf-8165-4b5d-9f08-6871c8e0d79f> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://falkvinge.net/2012/06/01/if-filesharing-is-theft-then-itunes-is-extortion/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718285.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00106-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.928163 | 1,061 | 1.835938 | 2 |
A small loan of around $100 was all it took for Daw Than Nwe, from Taung Poet Thar village, in Myanmar, to hire four seasonal workers, diversify her crops and boost her yields.
“I used the money to buy fertilizer,” says Daw Than Nwe, a mother of seven. ”If I use fertilizer on my farm the onions are much better. I sell them to a trader in Myingyan.”
She used the loan to plant chickpea and onions on her 6-acre farm. Both crops are profitable and the proximity to Myingyan market make these crops attractive for local farmers. Daw Than Nwe also hired four women from the community to help her with the farm. She says the salaries in the local market are lower for women, despite women being better workers than men. Daw’s membership in the local Township Savings Credit Union is also helping her save more money. To date, she has saved over 50,000 kyats and is hoping to save more.
Daw Than Nwe is one of approximately 7,000 farmers from the Myingyan and Natogyi region of Myanmar who have been able to access small loans and expand their farm operations. A project implemented by the Co-operative Development Foundation of Canada, with funding though UNOPS/LIFT, has helped establish two township savings coops and strengthen the situation of farmers and their productive capacity. | <urn:uuid:d5a4a462-f43a-48bd-84e4-2228fafce334> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cdfcanada.coop/building-opportunities-for-smallholder-farmers-in-myanmar/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.973758 | 296 | 2.015625 | 2 |
A 501(c)3 not-for-profit, apolitical, grassroots organization, created by a group of friends to focus on and assist the underprivileged children of Haiti.
Independence through education
Our Mission Statement:
Promoting education in rural Haiti, and improving the basic needs of a targeted population.
Offering scholarships to young adults to attend college or university in Haiti.
“Adopting” schools in rural Haiti, supporting their activities, helping in their growth and development.
Our Immediate Goal
To offer our adopted children one meal per day, prepared and served in school. Most of these children come to school with an empty stomach and return home to find little to eat. Learning is difficult when basic needs are not met first. The budget is .75 cents per school day per child, about $150.00 per school year, per child.
Our Long Term Goal
To build a center to educate and feed one thousand (1000) children daily. Please visit our Help page for your consideration to assist us to carry out this mission. | <urn:uuid:23b9af72-fe1c-4a8b-b8dc-5c34b055ef02> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://coheffoundation.org/our-mission/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00477.warc.gz | en | 0.948808 | 232 | 2 | 2 |
Both are transmembrane proteins. Both GPCR and Ras have an active GTP bound form and an inactive GDP bound form.
One major difference between the systems is that the intrinsic GTPase activity of Ras is far lower than that of heterotrimeric G protein α subunits. ... Upon binding GTP, there is a major conformational change in Ras, which is thought to be responsible for its functional activation. | <urn:uuid:45352b9f-c2b5-4a28-a9aa-ec16f439b022> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.assignmentexpert.com/homework-answers/biology/cell-biology/question-110313 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00474.warc.gz | en | 0.954664 | 88 | 1.578125 | 2 |
New materials on the environment and ICTs available in French and Spanish
Par Richard Heeks & Angelica Ospina pour APCNews
United Kingdom, 06 November 2012
The NICCD website provides a repository of new materials in French and Spanish on climate change, ICTs and developing countries including:
- A Policy Guide on how to incorporate ICTs into climate change policy, and how to incorporate climate change into ICT policy.
- Four Strategy Briefs written for policy makers, strategic planners and senior researchers, that summarise conceptual and action-based priorities for use of ICTs in relation to climate change adaptation and mitigation in developing countries.
- Two Background Papers that review the literature in this field, and propose a new framework for understanding ICTs, adaptation and “e-resilience”.
These materials are the product of the University of Manchester’s “Climate Change, Innovation and ICTs” research project, funded by Canada’s International Development Research Centre and managed by the University’s Centre for Development Informatics.
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At last the Australians have an outcome from their national elections, after days of vote counting and political uncertainty.
But what happens next for Canberra’s China policy, with Malcolm Turnbull heading a fragile coalition government?
Turnbull’s Liberal Party has taken a more subdued approach to the turbulent situation in the South China Sea. Perhaps that’s because the China-Australia Free Trade Agreement (ChAFTA), approved by Canberra last year, is so vital to Australia’s economic prospects. With the end of the mining boom, the great hope for ChAFTA is that the Australians will be able to sell more of their wine, agricultural goods and services to the Chinese.
The trade deal was signed by Turnbull’s government and he is known to view the relationship with China as crucial, urging Australians to focus on the trade and investment opportunities it provides. Australia’s exports to China reached $56.5 billion last year, almost a third of its total sales overseas.
The opposition Labor Party, which is more influenced by the unions and more protectionist by instinct, sees the value of stronger trade ties with China too. But it is more cautious on issues like free trade and migration, and on balance China’s leaders are likely be happier that Turnbull remains the prime minister.
What may be more of a worry for proponents of Chinese investment in Australia is the number of independents that got elected, especially in the Senate, and who will now have a much more power to thwart the government. Somewhat incredibly, the count is still ongoing for three seats in the Senate. What is certain is the governing coalition will lack a majority in this branch of the government (it has 30 out of 76 senators, and according to the Sydney Morning Herald, the crucial crossbench ‘others’ will likely hold 19 seats).
As Sam Roggeveen of the Lowy Institute observes: “We need to get used to the fact that the minor parties and independents are going to have a much bigger say over Australian policy in future.”
For example, Senator Nick Xenophon, an independent, is against Chinese acquisitions of agricultural land on any significant scale (see WiC322 for his remarks on the bid for the Kidman cattle station), while the outspoken Pauline Hanson has demanded in the past that Australia shouldn’t be “swamped by Asians”.
Hanson’s anti-immigration One Nation party holds a total of four seats in both houses, with Hanson a newly elected senator herself.
That has prompted anxiety among Australian-Asians, with the Australian Financial Review already warning that local Chinese business groups are worried too.
However, the immediate issue for Beijing’s policymakers may be geopolitical: where do the leading parties stand on the row over sovereignty in the South China Sea?
In fact, their views on major foreign policy issues are similar: both are pro-US alliance and believe in arbitration to resolve the maritime tensions.
Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said on Wednesday that “to ignore [the Hague ruling, see page 7] would be a serious international transgression, and there would be strong reputational costs [for China]”.
She added: “Australia will continue to exercise our international legal rights to freedom of navigation and overflight, and support the right of others to do so.”
In reality, the Australians have been reluctant to follow the American lead in sailing their warships close to the artificial islands that China has erected in the region.
Labor has taken a more hawkish stance, pushing for joint patrols with the US, and Stephen Conroy, its defence spokesman, has said that Australia must be seen to act, classifying China’s actions as “bullying”.
“I think that’s a highly irresponsible call at this point,” Bishop responded.
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Brussels was created as a 10th-century fortress town, but for the modern day has become the headquarters of the European Union. It is the largest city in Belgium, and now has a population of more than one million. The city is divided into 19 municipalities and is home to an abundance of bars, cafes, restaurants, shops, museums and art galleries. Hiring a car from Brussels Charleroi Airport means you can explore the historic Brussels Capital Region, taking in the stunning Grand Place, which has been made a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the unusual Manneken Pis sculpture and Parc du Cinquanternaire, a large, public park.
Connoisseurs of fine art should be sure to pay a visit to the city's Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, housed across six city- wide institutions, including the magnificent memento of the city's fortified wall, the Royal Museum of Art and History. These stunning collections feature a selection of Belgium's finest artwork and also that from artists from all over the world. Rent a car from Brussels Charleroi Airport and you can spend a day out at the Walibi Belgium Amusement Park with rollercoasters and an aquatic park, which is only half an hour from the city centre. | <urn:uuid:4eb1b62f-d1ea-4af6-84f0-3c48b8151c23> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.hertz.com/p/car-rental/belgium/brussels/brussels-airport | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281162.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00532-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941825 | 286 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Here's what you need to do:
1) Watch each video (they are between five and ten minutes each).
2) Work on the sample problems linked underneath each topic.
3) Check your solutions using the link underneath each topic.
4) At the bottom of the page is sample final for our Elementary Algebra course, Math 330 (formerly Math 102). If you take this exam, and find that you have a good knowledge of all the material, you have a good chance of being successful in Math 104.
Topic One: Solving Linear Equations with Dr. Conrad
Topic Two: Equations of Lines with Dr. Hawkes
Topic Four: Basic Factoring with Mr. Daugavietis
Topic Three: Exponent Properties with Mrs. Rhoads
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The Department of Justice will not pursue federal civil rights charges against George Zimmerman, the former neighborhood watch captain who shot and killed unarmed black teen Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida, on Feb. 26, 2012.
In a statement released Thursday afternoon, Attorney General Eric Holder said that after a "comprehensive investigation," officials determined "that the high standard for a federal hate crime prosecution cannot be met under the circumstances."
Prosecutors in civil rights cases are tasked with establishing beyond a reasonable doubt that a suspect, in this case Zimmerman, sought to "willfully deprive a person of a right or privilege protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States." That level of intent or premeditation can be painfully difficult to prove.
Investigators began their probe soon after the 2012 killing and continued internal discussions after Zimmerman was acquitted of second-degree murder and manslaughter charges by a criminal jury in July 2013.
No surprise: This decision had been expected. Much like they have with the similar set of legal circumstances surrounding the police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, sources inside the Justice Department have been dropping hints for months that federal charges were not forthcoming, as ABC News notes:
Privately and publicly, Justice Department officials have been telegraphing all along that they were unlikely to file charges against Zimmerman. And in November 2013, Holder said the case against Zimmerman "in substantial part was resolved" with his acquittal months earlier.
The Washington Post reported similar leaks in October, suggesting that the decision had been made and it was only left for investigators "to 'dot their i's and cross their t's." The case remained open, but only "technically."
Attorney Mark O'Mara, who represented Zimmerman during his trial in Florida, told the Post that despite what officials said publicly, they had done little to advance the case since the initial investigation began in 2012.
"I was watching the whole case pretty closely for two years, and they didn't do anything except take those 40 statements [in the weeks and months after the killing]" O'Mara said. "To those who have seen civil rights investigations and civil rights violations, it looked as though the Department of Justice was just placating pressure that existed by suggesting there was an ongoing investigation."
The DOJ rejected that assertion in its statement today, saying that "Federal investigators also independently conducted 75 witness interviews and obtained and reviewed the contents of relevant electronic devices. The investigation included an examination of police reports and additional evidence that was generated related to encounters Zimmerman has had with law enforcement in Florida since the state trial acquittal."
Update, 3:33 p.m.: Martin's family released the following statement on the Trayvon Martin Foundation website:
On behalf of Sybrina Fulton, Tracy Martin, and the Trayvon Martin Foundation we would like to thank the Federal Government for an extensive and thorough investigation in the civil inquiry against George Zimmerman.
We would also like to thank the millions of people around the world who have supported us through prayer and vigilance. Your letters of love and encouragement at times helped mend our broken hearts and made the difference in finding solace in dark times.
Although we are disappointed in the Government findings, we remain poised to do everything in our power to make sure that senseless violence is eradicated and no parent or community has to go through what we've had to endure on a daily basis.
The Trayvon Martin Foundation is dedicated to finding solutions to social injustice, protecting our youth, and empowering those who demand justice and peace.
No one, regardless of race, religion, or gender should ever have to suffer being victimized because of ignorance, profiling, or bigotry.
We must never forget what happened to Trayvon Martin. His tragic death has triggered a resilience in people who refuse to be ignored, mistreated, or disrespected.
The issue is not just a police, black, or white problem. But an issue of respect, consideration, and love for each other who may look, act, or speak differently. It is time for us to soul search and decide what we want this world to look like for our children and make a change starting today.
Therefore, stand with us who believe we can make a positive change. Stand with us who love our country and demand peace for all people. Stand with us who want to find solutions to heal our land so we all can live in harmony.
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The first stop for most California children entering foster care is supposed to be a quick one on their way to a family home. They can get a checkup, some nourishment and clean clothes while a foster family or relative is found.
But a growing chorus of critics is calling for more oversight after finding that assessment centers in two of California’s biggest counties — Los Angeles and Santa Clara — are struggling to provide some kids with that quick, safe transition. Instead, the state is ordering both counties to stop housing children for longer than 24 hours at centers that critics say are little more than dressed-up office buildings.
A watchdog commission blasted Santa Clara County’s new facility as “Spartan” and dangerous when it opened last month — without adequate lighting and security, and with large shards of glass in a garbage bin outside its unlocked doors. The children’s attorneys say the basement of the San Jose medical office building will never be welcoming enough for traumatized kids, no matter how many teddy bears are brought in and how colorful the fleece bedspreads.
State investigators have still other concerns: On Feb. 1, licensing officials cited the county’s social service agency for keeping children more than 24 hours in violation of health and safety codes, ordering they “immediately discontinue” the practice.
With Los Angeles County facing similar critiques, youth advocates are calling for greater accountability and state licensing of such centers, noting that Sacramento even licenses drop-in day care setups in malls, department stores and ski resorts.
“Some of them might be good, but we have no idea, we don’t even know if everyone is fingerprinted, because there’s really no one enforcing it,” said Carole Shauffer of the San Francisco-based Youth Law Center. “Our view is, when they start to serve food, they start to have little cots, when they are predictably going to have children there for several hours, we want them licensed.”
Shauffer and other youth advocates lauded counties that shifted away from residential shelter care over the past decade, granting children the right to a family home, not an institution, when they could not live safely with their parents. Santa Clara County was among the most dramatic examples, downsizing its shelter from 132 beds to just eight, and limiting to just a day the stays that once had been weeks and even months.
But the transition has been a challenge, compounded recently when county officials here raced to open the Receiving, Assessment and Intake Center at 725 E. Santa Clara St. by mid-January. The center had previously been on suburban Union Avenue, nestled in a section of the former shelter campus that was considered state-of-the-art when it was built 14 years ago. The center was relocated after the property was recently sold to an exclusive private school.
The new center’s goal is to accommodate just two to three children at a time. The kids are brought by social workers in between placements or immediately after being removed from their parents’ care. Infants and children through age 18 are supposed to be on their way to relatives, foster families or group homes within 24 hours. And for that reason, the state does not require the center to have a residential license.
Yet twice within the past two months the state’s Department of Social Services has issued citations stating children have stayed too long. According to county records, between the Union Avenue and East Santa Clara Street sites, 31 children stayed past the 24-hour limit in 2012, with 11 “overstays” in December alone. The overstays lasted from one hour to 37 days.
Continued violations could land Santa Clara County in the situation that Los Angeles now finds itself. On Feb. 7, the state ordered Los Angeles to “cease providing care and supervision of children” within 90 days at its Emergency Response Command Post.
Los Angeles County recently opened a center designed for children 11 and younger, but authorities are scrambling to find an alternative to the “command post” for older youths and teens who remain in an office high-rise.
“To have no child spend more than 23 hours and 59 minutes in the command post, that is a very challenging initiative,” said Philip Browning, director of the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services. He said one 18-year-old, for example, had a history of setting fires, and had been repeatedly rejected by group homes.
Still, youth advocates say 24-hour centers could be improved by more state monitoring. Until the Youth Law Center filed suit in the mid-1990s, even residential shelters were not licensed in California, operating instead on county officials’ good faith.
Now, Shauffer is returning to a similar battle, as more shelters have closed in the past decade to be replaced by unlicensed receiving centers.
“We acknowledge that every other place that a kid could end up has to be scrutinized really carefully, but we don’t do that” in receiving centers, said Ed Howard, senior counsel for the San Diego-based Children’s Advocacy Institute. “It’s never made sense.”
Santa Clara County officials say they don’t need monitoring. Yet that assertion came into question just three days after the new San Jose facility opened, when members of the Superior Court’s Juvenile Justice Commission found the center had trash outside, lacked healthful food and was in a dangerous neighborhood.
Last week, a reporter found the shards of glass and trash were gone, but the security and lighting systems had yet to be fully installed. The kitchenette had a bowl of apples and oranges. An oversize stuffed panda, train set and posters of Babar showed efforts to make the medical offices more kid-friendly.
Still, some say the lack of oversight means overstays and safety lapses could recur. In a sharply worded letter this month, the nonprofit law firm representing kids in the county’s foster care system urged officials to find another spot sooner than the multiyear timeline now envisioned.
“We appreciate their attempts to make it warmer,” said Jennifer Kelleher, directing attorney of Legal Advocates for Children and Youth, “but I don’t think there’s anything they can do in that facility to make it appropriate.”
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From the view of the wave function, planet earth, containing its 6 billion-odd conscious observers must make the planet more real than any other unhabited planet, since the wave function is constantly being collapsed - the wave function still exists in all of space and time, but its value is vanishingly small. You can imagine our entire planet being projected via the wave function throughout all of space and time, right past Pluto, to the very boundary or surface of the expanding universe - though this wave function is highly unlikely. It is the most likely result of the wave function that makes our planet what it is, including everything in it. The quantum wave function governs absolutely any result possibility; and that must also mean the universe as a whole, not just planets.
Stephen Hawkings is the founder of a new scientific religion called, 'Quantum Cosmology.' Now... before you point out it is a contradiction, because 'quantum' refers to the world of protinos and neutralinos, and 'cosmology' refers to the large universe of planets and infinite space, it was meant to conflict; Stephen Hawkings says that we should view the universe as an atom. In the very beginning, just before Big Bang, the wave function governed how our universe would start up. According to theory, our universe had an infinite amount of setup conditions it could have chose from, and the wave function governed which one was most likely to occur. However, because no one was there to observe the early universe, each possibility had to arise side-by-side.
Our universe, according to Stephen Hawkings, is the way it is because of a high probability factor. There will be other universes that have a wave function that surround our own, but there values will be vanishingly small. These universes will have remained superimposed on our own universe ever since big bang. This brings the uniqueness back into a universe that is one of an infinite amount of universes. If there exists an infinite amount of universes, we could imagine an infinite number of parallel universes with similar life as this one, and that takes away the importance of 'us'. Yet, the analogy of imagining the universe as an atom has brought the importance back to our universe, because our universe is, according to Hawkings, the 'correct one', with a high probability factor.
There is no current method for us traveling to these other universes - our technology is simply, far too inadequate; we don't even know how to prove their existences for that matter. Hawkings believes that there might be a baby twin universe, curled up into the 6th dimension of spacetime - if this is true, as is predicted by 'hyperspace theory', we may be able to probe it someday. What is hyperspace theory? Before the Big Bang, it states that our universe had ten dimensions, just like superstring theory predicts. Then, very suddenly, the universe 'cracked', and our universe was born. This cataclysmic event allowed our 4-dimensional space to expand, whilst our twin 6-dimensional universe contracted in a volatile manor, and shrank to infinitesimal size. In fact, we find that the Ekpyrotic Theory evidently goes hand-in-hand with this hypothesis.
If hyperspace theory is correct as Star Trek has proven, then it can explain that the current observable rapid expansion of the universe was a result of the cataclysm - thus, the death of our universe, which will most possibly be caused by rapid expansion causing the 'Big Chill', may in fact be caused by the cracking of multi-dimensional spacetime. It could also explain the Big Bang itself. | <urn:uuid:2cb32688-89b7-4ace-accb-b2ab66f34c21> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.sciforums.com/encyclopedia/index.php/Hyperspace_Theory | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.94682 | 744 | 3.25 | 3 |
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The Guadalupe River is truly one of the most unique rivers in all of Texas! From its source in the hill country all the way to its impoundment at Canyon Lake it fishes just like every other hill country warm water river; however, below Canyon Dam everything changes. While bass and sunfish are still present the real draw for most fly fishers is the year-round population of rainbow trout! Rainbow trout in Texas…yes, you read that correctly. In fact the Guadalupe River is a true tailwater or tailrace (river that flows below a dammed body of water) fishery and is home to the only fishable, year-round trout population in Texas. Although Texas Parks and Wildlife stocks many small lakes, ponds, and rivers with rainbow trout in the winter of each year, the trout are typically no longer present by the end of April, this is not the case with the Guadalupe River.
As long as the water temperature remains below 70 degrees Fahrenheit, the trout in the Guadalupe persist and are able to be pursued by fly fisherman. Trout fishing seasons usually starts around the middle of November and runs through late May. Depending on the amount of water released from the lake, the trout fishing can last all summer long and trout mortality will be minimal during a high-release year. The trout that make it through the summer are called “holdovers,“ they develop beautiful coloration and can provide some spectacular dry fly fishing throughout the summer, weather permitting. Whether winter, spring, summer, or fall there are always trout in the Guadalupe!
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Spring, Summer, Fall
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Shovi - Balneological-climatic resort in Oni municipality is situated in the Racha-Lechkhumi and Kvemo Svaneti region on the Ossetian military road in the Chanchakhi river valley. 1520 meters above sea level, 30 km from Oni. Surrounded by coniferous (Spruce, fir, pine) and deciduous forest.
The medicinal factor: mountain climate and water of carbon dioxide hydro carbonate sodium-calcium mineral sources. Medical screening: respiratory organs, gastrointestinal tract, bile, and urinary tract diseases, lymphadenitis, secondary anemia, and others. In Shovi are sanatoriums, vacation houses, boarding houses, and others.
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Amanita phalloides, known as "death cap" or "death angel" and Amanita ocreata, known as "destroying angel", are the species most commonly identified in most toxicity cases. The phalloides variety can be found throughout North America and grows most commonly under oak, birch, pine and other hardwood trees. It can also be found in open pastures. The ocreata variety is more common to Western North America.
Unfortunately, every summer we see a dog that has eaten Amanitin mushrooms. The mushrooms cause acute liver failure. Dogs will start vomiting and potentially have diarrhea within 6 to 24 hours of ingestion. Abdominal pain may also be noted. Anorexia, lethargy and yellow discoloration of eyes and gums will also occur. Dogs may start drinkng and urinating excessively, and bruising may be noted. Seizures can develop. These signs are suggestive of liver failure, which will develop within 36 to 48 hours.
Induced vomiting and very aggressive care including charcoal administration every 4 to 6 hours for 2 to 3 days post ingestion, IV fluid therapy and the use of various medications to help support the liver are a necessity. Serial blood tests will need to be performed to assess liver function, blood glucose values and clotting profiles. Even with very aggressive care the prognosis can be guarded.
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NEW YORK, January 8, 2009NEW YORK--The ASPCA® (The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals®) today announced its endorsement of The Association of Shelter Veterinarians’ (ASV) Veterinary Medical Care Guidelines for Spay-Neuter Programs, a milestone in the animal welfare industry.
A task force of 22 veterinarians, representing academia, private practice, and all models of spay-neuter programs, was convened by ASV to create guidelines for various aspects of high quality, high volume spay-neuter programs and set the bar for spay-neuter programs nationwide.
“The ASPCA encourages both pediatric spay-neuter and pre-adoption sterilization of shelter animals,” said ASPCA President & CEO Ed Sayres. “Therefore, we endorse the guidelines document as a means to ensure the welfare of individual animals when they undergo sterilization procedures, regardless of where such surgeries occur. We also strive to educate communities regarding the many public benefits of spay-neuter for cats and dogs.”
The guidelines, first published in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association (JAVMA; July 1, 2008; Vol. 233; No. 1), discuss standardization of animal care regardless of where sterilization occurs, for example, in mobile units, stationary clinics, humane societies, or via MASH programs. They include information regarding patient selection, pain management, surgical procedures, anesthetic monitoring, record keeping, and identification of sterilized animals, and provide a much needed reference for state boards of veterinary medicine.
“The existence and diversity of numerous high volume spay-neuter programs created a need for guidelines that addressed appropriate veterinary care for patients.” said Dr. Kathleen Makolinski, the ASPCA’s Director of Veterinary Outreach who is part of the task force. “By drafting these guidelines, the task force was able to make practical recommendations that are attainable by all programs.”
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19 December 2014
Original Article by Andy Finney
When it comes to photo copyright, we all deserve credit for the work we do and the things we create, and that's true whether we get paid for it or not. Many photographers have been vocal lately in complaining that their work often goes uncredited, even if the use is legitimate.
There you are, happily putting your party photos on your Facebook page, or documenting the riots and sending the photos to your agency. Images on the internet are available at the click of a mouse, and not everyone is aware that you need permission to use someone else's photograph, even in a blog.
In a digital world, everything is data. Searching has moved from looking through cards, shelves and boxes, to the computerised world of Google, Bing and others. Our images have changed from being physical objects … negative, print, transparency … to being bits of data, held together, as if by magic, inside the workings of our cameras and computers.
Images no longer have an inherent physical structure, and so no longer have places onto which we could carefully write information on exposure, lens, f-stop, or some indication of where and when the photograph was taken.
So what does the prudent photographer do now that it is no longer possible to put a label on the back of a print, or write neatly on a slide mount? What replaces the letters, codes and words that still grace the edges of rolls of film? The answer is metadata ...
This article is an extract from the original which goes into more detail about photography copyright.
Previous Articles in the series -
1 - "Photography Technique - Holding the Camera"
2 - "Photography Technique - The Essentials"
3 - "Photography Technique - Composition"
4 - "Photography Technique - Lighting"
5 - "Photography Technique - Exposure"
6 - "Photography Technique - Focus"
7 - "Photography Technique - Practise"
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Forum on Physics Education of Radiologists, Medical Physicists and Radiation Oncologists
JANUARY 20-22, 2006
Chattahoochee Salon A
Thank you for participating in the Physics Summit in Atlanta, Georgia.
for the presentations, rough meeting notes and daily summaries day by day.
Preparing for the Forum
To prepare for forum discussion, we suggest you review the day's documents prior to the meeting. In order to best facilitate discussion and participation, internet connections will not be provided in the meeting room. You may wish to copy the documents to your laptop or bring paper copies. Handouts will also be available on-site. Power strips will be set at forum tables for laptops. The Hilton has high speed internet access in the sleeping rooms (for a fee), as well as complimentary wireless in the lobby, should you wish to bring your laptop and check email.
Friday, January 20: Physics Education of Radiologists
An Opportunity for Radiology
Saturday, January 21: Physics Education of Medical Physicists
A Time of Opportunity for Medical Physics
Sunday, January 22: Physics Education of Radiation Oncologists
Updated draft curriculum table (2006), finalized by the ASTRO sub-committee
ASTRO’s Core Physics Curriculum for Radiation Oncology Residents (2004)
Complimentary shuttle from the Airport
24 hour shuttle service runs every 10-15 minutes from 5am-11pm, and then are on call after that.
Breakfast and Lunch are provided for Summit attendees. Here are some ideas for dinner:
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The Purpose of the Forum
The purpose of the Forum is to develop a strategy to improve the physics and engineering education and expertise of specialists in each of the three disciplines represented at the Forum. The science and technology employed by these disciplines is rapidly becoming more complex and more integrated, and there is every reason to believe that this trend will continue well into the future. For several reasons, the education of residents and physics students is not keeping pace with this trend. In addition, radiologists, medical physicists and radiation oncologists in practice are struggling to keep pace with the evolving technology and complexity of their disciplines. A new strategy is required to educate residents and practitioners in the physics and engineering (or ‘technology’) of their disciplines. The development of this strategy, including its conceptualization and the details of its deployment, is the purpose of the Forum.
Who Will Participate?
Representatives from the following associations will participate:
Accreditation Council for Graduate Med Educ/Radiation Review Committee
American Alliance of Academic Chief Residents
American Association of Physicists in Medicine
American Board of Medical Physics
American Board of Radiology
American College of Medical Physics
American College of Radiology
Association of Program Coordinators in Radiology
Association of Program Directors in Radiology
Association of Residents in Radiation Oncology
American Roentgen Ray Society
American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology
Association of University Radiologists
Canadian College of Physicists in Medicine
Canadian Organization of Medical Physicists
European Federation of Organizations for Medical Physics
International Center of Theoretical Physics
Radiological Society of North America
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