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The resorts of Armenia are a combination of beautiful mountains, mineral springs, and delicious traditional cuisine. Armenia is rich in amazing nature, architectural and historical sightseeing. In Armenia, everyone will find what they like from ancient cities with beautiful temples and monasteries, feudal fortresses and castles to resorts with healing mineral springs and the purest mountain air.
Here are some resorts in Armenia for a perfect vacation.
Arzni resort is located at an altitude of 1250 meters above sea level in the Armenian highlands. This city is located in the gorge of the Hrazdan River, quite close to Yerevan, only 23 kilometers away. The mineral water from these places, Arzni, was famous for its healing properties as early as the 5th century BC. The sanatorium with the name of the resort “Arzni” was built here in 1969. Later in 2008, it was rebuilt. Having received a second life, it was also equipped with modern equipment, expanding the range of medical procedures.This area has a very warm climate, due to its geographical location, winter here is mild, the average temperature in January is −5 ° С , the summer is not hot but warm, the average temperature in July +22 ° С. So the resort welcomes guests all year round
Mineral water is one of the main advantages of the resort, its medicinal properties are widely known not only in the Caucasus region but also beyond its borders. The composition of the water can be characterized as carbonic-chloride-hydrocarbonate-sodium. The mineral waters of Arzni are rich in carbon dioxide (1.25-2.0 g / l) and mineral elements (8-10 g / l).
Goris is a small cozy town with a population of only twenty-five thousand inhabitants. But, despite this, the climate here is mild, with warm winters and summers, and abundant rainfall per year. It is located on both sides of the Vararakn River, which is sometimes called after the city, at an altitude of about one and a half thousand meters above sea level.Goris is known for its sightseeings such as the Stone forest, the Cave city of Khndzoresk, the Sisavan monastery with the Shaki waterfall, the alpine lake Karagel and Karakhundzh are an analog of Stonehenge.
Together with the Pambak River, the Dzoraget River in the territory of Armenia forms the Debed River. Its waters are located in the northern part of Armenia and pass through the northwestern part of the Lori region, in particular, bypassing the city of Stepanavan. In Armenian, the word Dzoraget means – River-gorge. The starting point from where the rafting begins is a bridge over the river in the city of Stepanavan. The entire section of the rafting is located in the river canyon, it is quite deep, from 100 to 300 meters, the walls are very high and steep. Leaning in the rafting is on the left bank. The Dzorogetskaya HPP is located downstream.
The city of Stepanavan is located in the central part of the Lori region of Armenia. On the territory of the city there is a house-museum and a monument in honor of the Bolshevik Stepan Shaumyan, in honor of him the city was renamed from Jalaloglu. At a distance of 36 km from Stepanovan is Vanadzor, this path passes through the forest area of the Bzovdal ridge. The city is located on the Dzoraget river, north of the Basum ridge, this is the Lori plateau.
The Lake Sevan
The city of Sevan is named after the famous lake in the high mountains of Armenia. If you believe the legend, then in ancient times Gods and holy bright stars drew water from it. It is the largest lake in the Caucasus.There is a legend about the origin of the lake. Once upon a time in its place, fertile gardens bloomed, irrigated with spring water. The spring was small, but the pressure of the water was strong, so the hole from which the water flowed was closed with a large stone. Once a frivolous beauty took a jug of water and forgot to close the spring, going home to sleep. At night the water from the spring poured out and became a small river. While the girl was sleeping, the water kept rising higher and higher and people started to climb the trees from the disaster. Finally, one of the old men cried out: “Let the one who did this turn to stone!” The girl jumped out on the threshold of her house and immediately turned to stone. The powerful waters were still rising and eventually, they formed a lake with a rocky island. Today this rocky island still dominates the blue surface of Lake Sevan, looking like the head of a neglectful girl. And the water formed a lake with a stone island towering over Sevan, like the head of that careless beauty. Besides the beautiful legend, Lake Sevan is famous for its special and local fish. In Sevan, you must try the trout which is delicious and served in every restaurant
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Fundamental shifts in consumer behaviour, the emergence of new technologies and an evolving regulatory landscape means the payments ecosystem is poised for unprecedented transformation in 2018. The demand for safer data, faster payments and better experiences presents great opportunity, but also significant challenges, writes André Stoorvogel
The way we pay is changing. As shopping habits evolve, e-commerce and m-commerce methods such as in-app and one-click ordering are becoming increasingly popular. In addition, the exponential growth of the IoT is introducing a wealth of new payment use-cases, such as connected cars.
Issuers and merchants, however, must deliver enhanced and varied payment experiences in an exceptionally challenging security landscape. The success of the EMV Chip Specifications in securing the physical point-of-sale means increasingly sophisticated criminals have shifted their attention towards the more vulnerable e-commerce and m-commerce channels.
In addition, there must now be an assumption that the personally identifiable information of any consumer can be accessed and deployed by fraudsters, following the various massive data breaches over the years.
Not only are the challenges greater than ever, so too are the consequences. The average consolidated cost of a breach is $4m and this will undoubtedly increase when GDPR comes into force across Europe in 2018, where fines can total up to €20m or 4% of total annual turnover.
EMV payment tokenisation and the emergence of ‘omnichannel tokenisation’
will be key to addressing these challenges in 2018 and beyond. The technology is already widely used to protect certain in-store payment methods, most notably mobile NFC.
EMVCo’s updated tokenisation framework, however, extends these benefits to emerging channels including e-commerce, recurring one-click ordering and in-app payments. This is a hugely important step in creating a truly secure payment ecosystem.
As tokens are unique and restricted in their usage to a specific device, merchant, transaction type or domain, payment tokenisation enables issuers and merchants to react and isolate emerging threats, mitigating fraud across all channels. As payment technologies continue to diversify, this ability to ‘constrain the domain’ will become increasingly important.
Given the clear benefits, EMV payment tokenisation is becoming ubiquitous across issuers and merchants. Mandates are the next logical step and something to look out for in 2018. But as tokenisation use-cases continue to grow, issuing and managing these tokens will become increasing complex.
Specialised Token Service Providers therefore have a critical role to play in simplifying the tokenisation web and helping issuers and merchants stay up to date with evolving requirements.
Making faster work better
It is not only card-based payments that are changing. Account-to-account transactions such as salaries, utility bills and subscriptions can still take several days to clear and settle. In today’s on-demand world, this is something of a throwback. Real-time transactions, where funds are transferred in seconds, offer significant flexibility and convenience to both banks and consumers. And with PSD2 on the horizon, the potential use-cases and business models for instant account-based payments will increase exponentially in 2018.
Instant payments, however, do present challenges for banks. Most notably, banks have only milliseconds to assess risk and identify potential suspicious activity. Perhaps unsurprisingly, previous implementations of faster payments have coincided with notable spikes in fraud.
As more and more countries look to implement instant payments, mitigating fraud is a key consideration for banks. Again, tokenization has a hugely important role play. By tokenising account numbers, banks can significantly reduce the risk and impact of account-based fraud to support the development of a safe and secure instant payments framework.
The rise of ‘Merchant Pay’
Initial forays by retailers into the mobile wallet space received mixed results. High-profile projects such as CurrentC failed to gain traction, and there was a sense that the technology giants and banks were set to dominate the space.
Fast forward to 2017. Mobile order and pay accounts for 10% of Starbucks’ in-store sales in the US and Walmart Pay could shortly become the country’s most used mobile payment platform.
Emboldened by this success, we have seen the launch of various retail wallet solutions across the globe, such as Tesco Pay+ in the U.K. and Decat Pay in France. This is a trend that will undoubtedly continue into 2018 and beyond.
Resurgent demand for digital retail wallets is testament to the huge benefits they can deliver to retailers and their consumers. 51% of consumers want to use a retailer’s app for faster purchases while in a brick-and-mortar store.
Wallets incorporating in-aisle, scan-and-go technology enable shoppers to simply scan items with their smartphones, checkout in-app and walk out of the store, completely removing the frustration of waiting in line. If checkouts are still in place, however, wallets can support various payment technologies including NFC, QR Codes and Bluetooth for maximum convenience.
Digital retail wallets also offer the ability for retailers to get closer to customers than ever before. The future of marketing is in leveraging advanced artificial intelligence (AI) solutions to deliver unique, one-to-one interactions with consumers.
Device makers, social platforms and retailers are all converging in a bid to control these interactions. With a wallet offering, however, it is the retailers who are in prime position to collate and leverage consumer data and trends to provide personalised experiences.
Retailers can also utilise digital wallets as a platform to deliver meaningful value-added services (VAS) that consumers can easily use. Consumers are motivated by VAS, but the complexities involved in activating coupons or redeeming points means that some $160bn of reward currency lies dormant. By simplifying its VAS offering within a retail wallet, retailers can boost consumer loyalty, drive sales and get ahead of the competition.
André Stoorvogel, Director, Product Marketing in the Payments Group at Rambus
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CROSS Harmonization & HPC modelization of FOREST Datasets
Cross-Forest is working on establishing key collaboration with some of the other projects funded by CEF-Telecom which are more related with the Cross-Forest issues, namely:
SUDOE needs healthy and functional forests that guarantee the provision of goods and services for rural and urban society. COMFOR-SUDOE seeks to promote complex (mixed and irregular) forests and multi-species plantations as a resilient and adaptive alternative to threats such as global change and biodiversity decline. These types of forests can increase, and in many cases, improve the potential quality of ecosystem services compared to other more simplified forest systems. Research in the SUDOE domain should help inform policies and intelligent management measures that promote the diversification of forest structures, ensuring knowledge transfer and support for transnational research, development and innovation.
Southwest Europe is highly affected by forest fires, suffering from their consequences, including water pollution, damage to infrastructure or loss of crops. EPyRIS provides a management strategy agreed between actors involved in fire management at different territorial levels. Thus, it allows anticipating critical situations through the vulnerability analysis of areas, optimizing post-fire emergency procedures and disseminating methodologies developed based on previous experiences.
Develop procedures and instruments to minimize the risks of dragging, loss of soil and damage derived from the occurrence of large fires.
– Include introductory text below about the item Networking:
The Action developed two digital service endpoints focused on nature and biodiversity datasets. The endpoints enable the intelligent querying and sharing of knowledge from nature datasets of key importance in the fields of alien invasive species control and biodiversity protection. It did this by collecting and harmonising nature and biodiversity datasets owned and produced by Portuguese and Spanish public administrations and converting them into smart Linked Open Data (LOD)-oriented Resource Description Framework (RDF)-based formats. Some of the key goals achieved by the Action include:
– The harmonisation of Portuguese and Spanish in accordance with the INSPIRE directive standards;
– The publication of the converted data through the European Data web Portal;
– The transformation of the shared data into the Plinian core metamodel
– The transformation of the datasets into RDF format;
– The development of web interfaces to facilitate access to the datasets.
In summary, the Action has created tools for national administrations that will help to improve the economic and social impact brought about by the re-use of nature information in the South Europe.
The main objectives of this action is to promote the use of existing open data, HPC and data infrastructures by creating a predictive model based on Machine Learning techniques to improve the prevention and control of mildew and other grape wine diseases in the wine cultivation sector. Better monitoring and early reactions against highly destructive diseases will enable a decrease in the amount of fungicide and the number of protective treatments. This will help to introduce sustainability criteria in agricultural production by offering consumers higher quality and safer agricultural products. In addition, the established approach has potential to be reused for monitoring and eliminating other fruit crop pests in the future. The created model for controlling mildew and other grapevine diseases will:
– promote the use of existing open data, HPC and data infrastructures to enhance the existing processes to face challenges in the agricultural sector;
– provide open information to farmers potentially affected by the mildew disease to apply more effective treatments based on the data produced by advanced technologies;
The Action will deliver a service (the «Open Forecast service») that will take data from different sources, process it using supercomputers resources to generate open and public data products. The function of the service will be exemplified through the implementation of two use cases:
– Matter Forecast Service (PMFS): its goal is to provide a detailed forecast for the concentration of particulate matter in the Stuttgart metropolitan area. The resulting open data products will be Particulate matter forecasts.
– Satellite Data Service for Agriculture (AgriCOpen): AgriCOpen’s aim is to provide services and products for agricultural smart farming practices based on open satellite imagery data. It will use public open spatial data from the Sentinel-2 satellite mission.
The resulting open data products will be agricultural forecast data (crop parameters, yields, productivity stability measures) which will be integrated into smart farming applications in the field (e.g. fertilisation or precision farming) and will be compared to ground truth data like nitrogen sensor data, yield maps, or soil maps to evaluate their applicability. The service portal will be designed and built to be harvested by the German Open data portal (https://www.govdata.de), which is harvested by the European Data Portal.
The overall objective of the Action is to foster data use and reuse in the context of the European Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), and to improve its accessibility and usability by farmers, policy makers and third parties such as SMEs. The main technical goal of the Action is to enrich HPC European capabilities through the creation of a common infrastructure for agri-environmental governance of the CAP. In doing so, the action will provide an open community platform for sharing solutions in the Integrated Administration and Control System (IACS) domain for the CAP through the Linked Open Data paradigm. This will include generic services to facilitate end-user access to HPC capabilities by managing different HPC providers via a technological architecture that processes service level agreements to seamlessly assign jobs to the different providers involved in Open IACS infrastructure. More specifically, the Action will:
– Design a network of interoperable Linked Open Data (LOD) End-points considering information for Agri-environmental management of IACS policies;
– Implement the common agri-environmental LOD infrastructure for IACS policy management by means of increasing HPC capabilities;
– Demonstrate the usefulness of this infrastructure through its application in different scenarios.
The ‘OASIS’ Action created a number of applications to show how European citizen can freely make use of public open data throughout the Union. The Action lead to the publication of a set of highly interoperable datasets, formatted as ‘Linked Data’, and provided tools to generate such datasets easily from existing data sources. The datasets created in the project were gathered into their corresponding regional, national, and pan-European open data portals in order to demonstrate that the data can easily be harvested to create new innovative applications and services that work across borders and sectors. More specifically, the Action sourced public open data from Spain and Belgium in the domains of public transport (train, bus, metro), and accessibility to local public services, and developed a number of mobile applications to consume this data. These tools prove in practice that applications using Linked Open Data can be used across borders and across sectors.The ‘OASIS’ Action created a number of applications to show how European citizen can freely make use of public open data throughout the Union.
The Action’s objective is to support the re-use of Road Traffic Data in and across the Czech Republic and Spain, making this data accessible, searchable, interoperable, and reusable via the European Data portal, and enabling it to be connected to data from other sectors by using Linked Open Data (LOD). Specifically, the Action will:
– Use the LOD DATEX II model as a complement to DATEX II XML, in order to facilitate accessibility to European traffic data and services;
– Create a specific common metadata model and validation tools to represent this type of information and making it accessible through NAPs to increase interoperability by homogenising the descriptors of data catalogues;
– Develop a LOD enhanced Traffic Information System with semantic capabilities, which includes the use of LOD DATEX II and a common metadata model which would allow the incorporation of new publishers, datasets, data description and discovery services.The Action’s objective is to support the re-use of Road Traffic Data in and across the Czech Republic and Spain, making this data accessible, searchable, interoperable, and reusable via the European Data portal, and enabling it to be connected to data from other sectors by using Linked Open Data (LOD).
The Action will develop a service that combines data on air quality, weather conditions, and traffic flows in order to allow citizens and municipalities to estimate the level of pollution resulting from varying traffic flow conditions. The service will be deployed in several European cities. Related datasets (including metadata) will be published on portals harvested by the European Data Portal. Specifically, the Action will:
– Define a standard set of metadata representing urban air quality maps;
– Provide citizens and public administrations with a real-time map of the estimated levels of pollution in the urban areas based on data from air quality sensors, and measurements of standard air quality stations;
– Develop of a service to predict urban air quality based on the data collected, weather forecasts and traffic flows. This service will make use of High-Performance Computing (HPC) technologies to estimate the diffusion of pollutants in the urban areas. New hypothesis of circulation, such as changes in the urban fleet of vehicles, increase of low emission vehicles, and impacts on air quality will be simulated as well;
– Publish an open dataset describing the urban air quality maps and the prediction maps of the 6 cities in which the service will run for the duration of the Action;
The project harnesses digital solutions and boosts knowledge transfer to connect multiple actors along the forest value chain to reinforce the sustainability of wood mobilisation in Europe. Builds on the ROSEWOOD network of regional hubs, extending this well-established network both in geographical reach and the breadth of tools and solutions shared with stakeholders across Europe. Focuses on digitalisation and digital tools for knowledge transfer, training and coaching, enabling practitioners to share knowhow with much wider impact. Gives actors in the wood mobilisation value chain increased opportunities for sharing good practices in the field and provides access to a wider range of technological and non-technological innovations.
The project works to four main objectives to achieve its aims:
– REGIONAL HUBS: Enhancing and sustaining Wood Mobilisation Hubs as cooperation platforms and innovation networks in five main European regions.
– INFORMATION & KNOWLEDGE: Transferring and communicating information and knowledge on best practices, innovations and research findings related to wood mobilisation and competitiveness.
– COOPERATION & INNOVATION: Identifying and developing cooperation and innovation between all actors and supporting the uptake and exploitation of existing best practices and innovations.
– BUSINESS SUPPORT: Supporting the design of new business opportunities for sustainable wood mobilisation through capacity building, training and development of knowledge resources.
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By Claudia Assis
Big Oil is straying from conservative orthodoxy and making long-term financial plans under the assumption the government will force them to pay a price for carbon pollution as a way to control global warming — and Exxon Mobil Corp. is better prepared than others to face the new expense.
Exxon /quotes/zigman/203975/delayed /quotes/nls/xom XOM , ConocoPhillips /quotes/zigman/294662/delayed /quotes/nls/cop COP , Chevron Corp. /quotes/zigman/289939/delayed /quotes/nls/cvx CVX , BP PLC /quotes/zigman/247026/delayed /quotes/nls/bp BP and Royal Dutch Shell PLC /quotes/zigman/379078/delayed /quotes/nls/rds.a RDSA , all major contributors to the Republican Party, are among the large companies making a practical business decision as they see some type of tax or carbon price is almost inevitable, according to a New York Times article on Thursday.
Exxon, through its 2010 acquisition of XTO Energy, is the U.S.’s largest natural gas producer, and natural gas creates less carbon pollution than oil or coal. It would “stand to profit in a future in which a price is placed on carbon emissions,” the newspaper said.
On the other side of the political divide, conglomerate Koch Industries is ramping up an already aggressive campaign against any tax or price on carbon, intent on fighting against government regulation.
That touches on the deeper rift among Republicans, the clash between the party’s business-friendly establishment and the Tea Party, the newspaper said.
Sparring aside, it would be an interesting twist for Exxon, as its $41 billion XTO acquisition has been long subject to Monday-morning quarterbacking on price and timing.
Exxon’s Chief Executive Rex Tillerson has admitted the company’s timing was a bit off. Not too long after, natural-gas prices hit decade lows, trading under $2 per million British thermal units as plenty of supplies hit markets even as prices slid.
Prices of natural gas have since recovered, and recently traded around $4 per million Btu, and Exxon went from being a third-rate natural-gas player before the acquisition to being in the major leagues.
Exxon is working with the assumption carbon pollution will be priced around $60 a ton, and The New York Times quoted a company spokesman as saying Exxon will say and do what’s in the best interest of its shareholders and “won’t always be on the same page” as the Republican Party.
The company sponsors the view that, if a carbon legislation is forthcoming, it will have to be paired with a cut somewhere else in the tax code. Opponents of the legislation fear its effect on jobs and have doubts it would work as a way to fight global warming. For some, however, putting a price tag on carbon pollution is the most effective way to curb emissions and would spur investment in renewables.
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Statistics + Beer = Comprehension –
A goodness of fit test are a collection of statistical techniques used to summarize the differences between observed values and expected values. These tests can be used be used for hypothesis testing, testing residual normality, distribution comparisons, and outcome frequency distribution comparisons.
It can be difficult to know which statistical test to select given a problem domain and often the results won’t point you to any mistakes if the wrong assumptions are made. In this post, I have detailed three common goodness of fit tests, the
R code to perform the tests, interpretation of the results while using beer (analytics) in the examples.
Chi-squared tests compare observed frequencies to expected frequencies given independent normally distributed data.
For example, is the distribution of beer style and production volume by year occur by random chance or is there a difference between beer style and how much is produced as a condition of year (either higher, lower, or the same form year to year)?
The beer style and production volume attributes are independent if the probability distribution of one attribute is not affected by the presence of the other. So, let’s test the (null) hypothesis that there is no difference between beer style from each of production volume figures by year at the 0.05 (5%) significance level. At this level we are accepting the 5% risk of saying that there is a difference between beer styles and production volume count when there is no actual difference.
set.seed(20170103) production = matrix( data = floor(runif(12, min=10000, max=20000)), nrow = 4, ncol = 3, dimnames = list(c("red_ale", "stout", "lager", "ipa"), c(2016, 2015, 2014)) ) production
# 2016 2015 2014 # red_ale 18421 17138 14157 # stout 18753 14833 13701 # lager 11035 16021 17017 # ipa 19180 14607 18113
chisq.test(production) # Pearson's Chi-squared test # # data: production # X-squared = 3267.2, df = 6, p-value < 2.2e-16
As the p-value is less than our significance level of 0.05 at 2.2e-16 (there is a really low probability that this occurred just by chance), we fail to reject the null hypothesis that there is no difference in beer style and production volume by year and can state that the alternative hypothesis that there is a difference between beer style and production volume fro year to year. As the values were randomly generated, this analysis can be furthered by exploring the potential popularity of certain styles increasing or decreasing the demand for production over the years.
t-tests can be used to determine if two sets of data are significantly different from each other.
For example, do brewery tour attendance differ on different weekend days – Do the amount of visitors on Saturday differ than on Sunday? let’s pose the question of interest by hypothesizing that there is no difference between attendance counts for Saturday or Sunday at the 0.05 significance level.
tours = data.frame("attendance_count" = floor(runif(105, min = 3, max = 35)), "day" = rep(c("Saturday", "Sunday"))) head(tours)
# attendance_count day # 1 21 Saturday # 2 17 Sunday # 3 16 Saturday # 4 10 Sunday # 5 7 Saturday # 6 11 Sunday
t.test(attendance_count ~ day, data = tours, var.equal = TRUE) # Two Sample t-test # # data: attendance_count by day # t = 0, df = 104, p-value = 1 # alternative hypothesis: true difference in means is not equal to 0 # 95 percent confidence interval: # -3.43306 3.43306 # sample estimates: # mean in group Saturday mean in group Sunday # 19 19
As the p-value is larger than our 0.05 significance level, we can fail to reject the null hypothesis that there is no difference in the attendance count for each weekend day. Tis type of statistical test could be useful for breweries to determine if having tours on either day of the weekend resulted in a statistical difference in attendance.
ANOVA, or Analysis of Variance tests the significance of group differences between two or more groups. This tests that there is a difference between groups but not which ones are different.
For example, do beer ratings differ between age groups, 21-25, 26-30, 31+? As a hypothesis we can state that beer ratings will be no different among age groups – Beer drinkers of all ages give the same ratings for some beer that they are surveyed on.
ratings = data.frame("age_group" = c(rep("21-25", 9), rep("26-30", 9), rep("31+", 9)), "rating" = floor(runif(27, min = 1, max = 5))) head(ratings)
# age_group rating # 1 21-25 1 # 2 21-25 1 # 3 21-25 4 # 4 21-25 4 # 5 21-25 1 # 6 21-25 2
fit_anova <- aov(rating ~ age_group, data = ratings) summary(fit_anova) # Df Sum Sq Mean Sq F value Pr(>F) # age_group 2 0.22 0.1111 0.073 0.93 # Residuals 24 36.44 1.5185
As the p-value is higher than our significance level, we can fail to reject the hypothesis that beer ratings are no different between age groups. We can accept the alternative hypothesis that different age groups rate beer differently. In a real world analysis, you can determine beer ratings by gathering more data between age groups or ratings from a given platform, such as untapped or Beer Advocate.
I hope this post is helpful to those interested in selecting the right statistical test for the appropriate questions!
- When to Use a Particular Statistical Test (PDF)
- Fitting & Interpreting Linear Models in R
- Independent t-test for two samples
- WHAT A P-VALUE TELLS YOU ABOUT STATISTICAL DATA
- Example of Kolmogorov-Smirnov test
- Hypothesis Testing – Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)
- Five 2016 beer statistics and why they matter
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Today Adam Baker from Man Vs Debt is releasing his first financial guide, Unautomate Your Finances. I've had the pleasure of reading the guide and wanted to share and review some of my thoughts on the book.
Unautomate Your Finances Overview
Unautomate Your Finances is packed with a lot of information. It flows from motivation on getting your finances organized and educating you on having a system to teaching doable actions that can get your finances in line with your values. Here's how it's broken down:
- Theory: Baker introduces the core concepts of his book and gives his personal results.
- Science: Moving from Theory, Baker uses exercises to help you personalize the plan with your ideal life. he also shows you how to figure out what next step to take.
- Application: The last section has tactics for you to get your financial house in order.
Automation – Good or Bad?
First off, this a great guide and Baker goes into depth with finances and getting to a point of where you are working towards your goals and ideal life. Many people equate automating finances as a solution, but Baker points out it may be only a quick fix.
As someone who automates much our finances, I found this notion intriguing. After all automation helped me pay off my credit cards, helped us pay off the car loan, and was a big part of having a down payment for our place. I'm couldn't believe Baker was going in that direction, but I trust him and I read the guide with an open mind.
I found that Baker addresses this issue head on in the first section and he explains how automation is merely a tool and not the solution. He gets into the core of his unautomation principles (consciousness, sustainability, and focus) and shows how it's much better than just automating.
Reading through I saw how working through this concepts with specific actions leads to a simplified and effective way of handling your money. I love his action plans and I think many people will be like me and trying out to see what works best.
Unautomate Your Finances Bonus Stuff
Unautomate Your Finances includes more than just the 80+ paged guide. Baker has really put together some great bonuses for those who want the guide.
- A 27 minute interview with Leo Babauta (ZenHabits)
- An audio interview with J.D. Roth (Getrichslowly.org )
- He includes a 2-page printable PDF budgeting template
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- Baker plans on updating the guide with case studies, more interviews, etc...
Who is This Guide For?
If you are struggling with finances or you want to optimize your system, this guide is a must read. I'm reviewing and using the Application section of the guide to clean our financial system. I think we've automated our finances well, but we could do a better job on being more aware of our miscellaneous spending.
If you grabbed a copy of the guide, please share your thoughts on it in the comments!
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Doug English, ISU Chemistry, (515) 294-7701
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SCIENTISTS STUDY HOW LIGHT ACTIVATES ST. JOHN'S WORT CHEMICAL
AMES, Iowa -- A team of scientists has made progress in determining how hypericin, a chemical found naturally in the herbal remedy plant St. John's wort, becomes super-toxic to viruses and cancer cells when exposed to light.
The results were published today (Dec. 3) in the Journal of the American Chemical Society by chemists from Iowa State University and the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, N.Y.
The research shows that when light strikes the hypericin molecule, it triggers a chemical reaction called a double proton transfer. This discovery raises the possibility that hypericin -- and similar light-activated molecules -- could be used in therapies to treat AIDS, hepatitis, brain tumors and other diseases.
Hypericin's disease-fighting properties are not yet clinically proven, but are now being evaluated in clinical trials. Work at Iowa State includes development of the "molecular flashlight," a method of turning on the disease fighting characteristics of certain compounds once they are deep inside the body.
"We are studying the excited state of the hypericin molecule and working out its mechanics," said Iowa State graduate student Doug English. The Iowa State team was led by Jacob Petrich, associate professor of chemistry, and included English, ISU postdoctoral fellow Kaustav Das, and scientists Kyle Ashby and Jaehun Park. They were joined by Edward Castner, a chemist at Brookhaven.
"The Iowa State team has long been investigating how hypericin and related chemicals kill viruses when exposed to light," said Brookhaven's Castner. "Through our collaboration with them, we now have verified their hypothesis about the mechanism for that effect. Knowing this may be an important step toward harnessing hypericin's power for more effective disease treatment."
The study of hypericin traces its roots back to the mystery of cows that became sick after grazing on the yellow-flowered plant on sunny days, but recovered when moved to a dark barn. The animals were suffering from hypericism, or extreme sensitivity to light, caused by the hypericin in the St. John's wort.
In 1991, Iowa State scientists demonstrated that hypericin must be exposed to light in order to kill viruses. The ISU experiments showed that hypericin was effective in killing many kinds of lentiviruses, especially the equine infectious anemia virus (EIAV), a retrovirus genetically related to the human AIDS virus, HIV. These Iowa State studies -- which included Petrich, ISU chemistry department chair George Kraus and Susan Carpenter, an ISU professor of microbiology, immunology and preventive medicine -- led to early interest in hypericin as an anti-AIDS drug.
Even as more clinical trials began, Iowa State chemists tried to find out how hypericin works. Early results showed that light exposure caused hypericin to transfer energy to nearby oxygen molecules, producing a damaging product called singlet oxygen that is highly toxic to viruses and bacteria. But later experiments showed that hypericin was still toxic even when no nearby oxygen was available.
Continued work suggested that another light-driven chemical process, called a proton transfer reaction, might be responsible for the toxic effect. In hypericin, proton transfer reactions occur when a proton, or positively charged hydrogen atom, moves a short distance of less than 2 angstroms (8 billionths of an inch) between neighboring oxygen atoms on a molecule.
Using very short bursts of laser light, the Iowa State group led by Petrich developed a theory in which light causes hypericin to undergo two of the proton transfer reactions at the same time, one on either side of a molecule. To arrive at that hypothesis, Petrich and the Iowa State team had to capture the fleeting light emission given off by hypericin after it absorbed a light pulse lasting less than 100 femtoseconds (quadrillionths of a second). They were able to observe the signal caused by the proton-transfer reaction as it occurred -- lasting only 7 picoseconds (trillionths of a second).
"Sometimes the proton completely leaves the molecule and is absorbed in the water surrounding the hypericin," English said. "This proton ejection, which causes the surrounding area to become more acidic, may be important to hypericin's toxicity to viruses."
A control experiment showed that the process didn't occur in a chemically modified form of hypericin in which all the protons that would have transferred had been replaced by methyl groups.
The Brookhaven experiment that confirmed the theory is called fluorescence upconversion spectroscopy. It uses a laser to produce the light pulses and "turn on" the chemical reaction. The apparatus allows the scientists to "watch" this proton transfer evolve by carefully recording the intensity and color of the light emitted from the hypericin over time after the light burst. The apparatus is now being duplicated at Iowa State.
Related work at Iowa State is focusing on the "molecular flashlight," a technique to combat diseases such as AIDS. The molecular flashlight is a method in which molecules are "turned on" deep inside the body where they combat disease. This work is headed by George Kraus and Susan Carpenter.
"The new hypericin research is one more step along the pathway to developing this promising technique," Kraus said. "There still are several things that have to be worked out as we move forward."
Other tests on hypericin include work by a Delaware-based biotechnology firm VIMRX which is testing a synthetic form of hypericin in clinical trials for use against HIV, hepatitis C, and glioblastoma, a highly malignant brain tumor. In October, the University of Pennsylvania began a VIMRX- sponsored trial of topically-applied hypericin for skin diseases including psoriasis, cutaneous T-cell lymphoma and warts.
The research at Iowa State was supported by the National Science Foundation. Brookhaven's research was funded by DOE.
Brookhaven National Laboratory carries out basic and applied research in the physical, biomedical and environmental sciences and in selected energy technologies. Brookhaven is operated by Associated Universities Inc., a nonprofit research management organization, under contract with the U.S. Department of Energy.
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# The Gemara notes that there is an apparent contradiction between two pesukim in Tehillim. On one hand, the pasuk says that Hashem owns the world, yet, the other pasuk describes how the land was given to manking. Chazal explain that indeed, everything belongs to Hashem, but once a person recites a bracha over a certain worldly pleasure, he acquires it. <ref> Gemara [[Brachot]] 35a</ref> Chazal, therefore, instituted a series of [[brachot]] to be recited every morning, each blessing corresponding to another of the various worldly benefits and pleasures.
# Many poskim rule that while reciting [[Birkhot HaShachar]], the morning [[Berachos]], and while reciting blessing of praise or thanks, one does not need to stand. Others recommend standing. Some say that this only applies if it will not detract from one's concentration. <ref>Pri Megadim (Peticha LeHilchot [[Brachot]] #18 and M"Z 432:3, Halichot Shlomo ch. 20, Teshuvot VeHanhagot 2:37</ref>
# In Talmudic times each of the [[Birkhot HaShachar]] were recited when the particular benefit for which it was composed occurred: One would open his eyes and recite the blessing Poke'ach Ivrim; when one would sit up he would say, [[Matir]] Asurim; etc. Nowadays, because of a concern of unclean hands when reciting the [[blessings]], as well as the prevalence of those without sufficient knowledge of Halacha, we recite all the [[Brachot]] at one time, after preparing oneself for Teffilah. <ref>
S"A 46:1-2, Aruch HaShulchan 46:9</ref># In three of the [[Birkhot HaShachar]], we thank Hashem for not making us a non-Jew, who isn't obligated in any mitzvot or a slave who is limited in the mitzvot he is obligated in. Men also recite a bracha thanking Hashem for not being created a woman who is not as obligated as men in certain mitzvot. At this time, women also affirm their unique status in Judaism and recite SheAsani Kirsono.<ref>Tur and S"A 46:4</ref>
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23rd Dec was Gita – Jyanti, the day when Krishna spoke Bhagavad – Gita to Arjuna around 5000 years ago. The sublime message of the Gita was spoken by Krishna for 45 minutes at a place called Jyotisar in Haryana just before the beginning of the war.
The Gita is called Raja Vidya - the king of all knowledge. If all the Vedic literatures are cows then Bhagavad – Gita is the milk of the cow i.e. it is the essence of all the Vedic literatures. Krishna is the milkman, Arjuna is the calf who drinks the milk, and the same milk has been made available to us in the written form by the great sage, Vyasa – Dev.
This beautiful literature has impacted the conscience of humankind for ages. The glories of the Gita stems from the fact that it transcends all the artificial boundaries of caste, creed, religions, race, nation, gender etc. Bhagavad – Gita is not just 5000 years old. It has been in existence since the dawn of creation. Krishna informs Arjuna that “I instructed this imperishable science of yoga to the sun-god, Vivasvan, and Vivasvan instructed it to Manu, the father of mankind, and Manu in turn instructed it to Iksvaku” B.G. 4.1.
The Gita very vividly talks about Isavara (God), Jivatma (Soul), Kala (Time), Karma (actions) and Prakriti (Nature). It gives us spiritual intelligence to march towards the righteous path. The fundamental question of who am I, who is God, what is my relationship with Him and what is the purpose of this human life is very systematically, logically and pragmatically espoused.
The Gita wasn’t spoken for Hindus or Indians. In fact it is for the entire humanity. Great scholars throughout the ages have sought refuge of this pearl of wisdom when confronted with challenges. It has inspired the world fame leaders like Gandhi, Churchill, Einstein, Newton and several others. After reading Bhagavad – Gita a Hindu will become a better Hindu, a Muslim a better Muslim, a Christian a better Christian and a Jew a better Jew.
Unfortunately many mundane academic – scholars presented their own interpretation of Bhagavad – gita, thus misleading the masses. The most important message of the Gita is to know Krishna and to return back to the spiritual world. Srila Prabhupada was very much concerned about the misinterpretation of Krishna’s original message. He therefore decided to translate the original Sanskrit text into English language and named the book as Bhagavad Gita As It Is. The word “As It Is” stresses the fact that the book is an unadulterated translation of the original Sanskrit text. In his translation there is meaning of each Sanskrit word, translation of entire verse and purport with various scriptural references like Srimad – Bhagavatam, Brahma Samhita, Isopanisad, Puranas etc. At present this is the largest selling translation of the Gita all over the world. The book has been further translated into more than 70 languages. Bhagavad Gita As It Is has transformed the lives of millions of people all over the planet.
The main focus of the Gita is to make us understand that if we want to lead a happy life then we need to connect ourselves to Krishna. Krishna is not imposing his will but is trying to show us the right path. It’s like a father trying to persuade his unruly son to give up suicidal path and return back to his own home where he will get lots of love and care.
Krishna is too accommodative, every living being has different level of consciousness and so He suggests various paths through which one can perfect their life. He speaks about karma – yoga, jnana yoga and dharma yoga. Dharma – Yoga is the topmost but everyone may not be able to adhere to it. So Krishna also recommends Karma – Yoga and Jnana – Yoga
After hearing the topmost knowledge Arjuna reveals, “My dear Krishna, O infallible one, my illusion is now gone. I have regained my memory by Your mercy. I am now firm and free from doubt and am prepared to act according to Your instructions. “B.G. 18.73
Just like Arjuna we too need to promise to Krishna that “I am prepared to act according to Your instructions”. And Krishna guarantees “Abandon all varieties of religion and just surrender unto Me. I shall deliver you from all sinful reactions. Do not fear.” Bhagavad – Gita 18.66
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As youth crime violence is likely to rise more and more in our areas. Alison Cope (AVC) met Kidderminster College staff this week to help raise awareness about the issues of crime in our area and how we can play a significant role in highlighting the problems of these social issues.
Mas Lab renewed focus on this growing problem, Kevyn Gammond wants to channel our support into action with upcoming events in Kidderminster College. He said; "Alison Cope and Leslie Fairclough from 'INSPIRE YOU' have a profound impact on young people and adults across the UK".
He added; "These people achieve results and have a positive impact on all of our students".
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Fever in Children When your child has a fever, the body resets its thermostat at a higher temperature. This helps the body fight off invading microorganisms. When Your Child Refuses to Go to School School avoidance syndrome, as described by doctors, is the most common cause of vague, unverifiable symptoms in school-age children and is triggered by stress, says a clinical professor of pediatrics. Help for a Child with a Cold You want to help a child with cold symptoms feel better, but choosing among countless over-the-counter (OTC) cold medicines can be daunting. Here are some guidelines that can help. Psychological Complications of Chronic Illness Adolescence is a stressful time of life even for physically healthy teens. Chronic illness further complicates adolescent development. Appendicitis: Children and Teens Appendicitis, an infection of the appendix, is the most common reason for a child to need emergency abdominal surgery. Why Children Get Carsick -- and What to Do Carsickness isn't really about the car. It's about the brain's ability to interpret a message based on what it senses. Measuring a Baby's Temperature Most physicians recommend taking a baby's temperature rectally, by placing a thermometer in the baby's anus. This method is accurate and gives a quick reading of the baby's internal temperature. Home Care for Children with Sickle Cell Disease Although a child who has sickle cell disease should be under a doctor’s care, parents can do many things at home to minimize symptoms and maintain the child’s health. School-Based Occupational Therapy School-based occupational therapy is a type of help given to children at school to help them be more successful.
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Barking station was highlighted as a hotspot where women didn’t feel safe (credit: Google Maps)
The Barking and Dagenham Council initiative, which is funded by the MHCLG grant, is an eight-week pilot, launched on Saturday, 6 November, looking to address perceptions of safety and anti-social behaviour in the borough.
It has been launched following the findings of a survey earlier this year, asking women to highlight the areas where they don’t feel safe.
Barking station was highlighted as a hotspot where women didn’t feel safe. The station has also previously been a key area for antisocial behaviour.
The Council said the initiative will involve “increasing engagement through several strands”.
These include creating a platform for busking or arts performances. This will be tested at different times of the day, experimenting with a range of licensing and permission models to create a new sense of vibrancy to the station through shared experience and distraction.
There are also plans to make the station more green through community led methods and models, creating a relaxing, inspired by nature atmosphere.
The Council are also looking at commissioning local artwork for the station to add vibrancy, colour and energy to the space, with the potential to humanise and bring a sense of local connection to the station.
Councillor Margaret Mullane, Cabinet Member for Enforcement and Community Safety said: “Safety of the public, especially women, is a hot topic right now especially following recent events where two women were murdered in London.
“We’re determined to improve safety and people’s perceptions of crime in Barking and Dagenham and we’re willing to look all the options to ensure that we do this.
“The Women’s Safety Survey was just the start and there will be plenty of things going in the borough to improve safety from quick fixes, such as increasing enforcement patrols, lighting and CCTV to wider initiatives, including the Safe Haven scheme.”
A number of aspects have been installed at Barking station so far, including large floor stickers showcasing landmarks in Barking and Dagenham.
Five planters have been placed in front of the station.
33 local volunteers came along to help with the planting.
A huge painting by local artist Emmanual Oreynei which centres around the amalgamation of sounds that surround us in an urban environment and how we can escape through music.
In recent months, Barking and Dagenham Council has also increased patrols and security at Barking station, Barking town centre and London Road car park.
Anyone with concerns regarding crime hotspots can email email@example.com
For more on this story, and the latest on our other local and national news, listen to Time 107.5FM
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Summary: EEG study reveals when we imagine a song, similar brain activity occurs as when we experience moments of silence in music.
Imagining a song triggers similar brain activity as moments of silence in music, according to a pair of studies recently published in Journal of Neuroscience.
The results reveal how the brain continues responding to music, even when none is playing.
When we listen to music, the brain attempts to predict what comes next. A surprise, such as a loud note or disharmonious chord, increases brain activity. Yet it is difficult to isolate the brain’s prediction signal because it also responds to the actual sensory experience.
Di Liberto, Marion, and Shamma used EEG to measure the brain activity of musicians while they listened to or imagined Bach piano melodies. Activity while imagining music had the opposite polarity of activity while listening to music, meaning when one was positive, the other was negative.
The same type of activity occurred in silent moments of the songs when statistically there could have been a note, but there wasn’t. There is no sensory input during silence and imagined music, so this activity comes from the brain’s predictions.
The research team also decoded the brain activity to determine which song someone was imagining.
The researchers find music is more than a sensory experience for the brain. Instead, the brain keeps making predictions even when music is not playing.
About this auditory neuroscience research news
Source: SfN Contact: Calli McMurray – SfN Image: The image is credited to Di Liberto, Marion, and Shamma, JNeurosci 2021
The Music of Silence. Part I: Responses to Musical Imagery Encode Melodic Expectations and Acoustics
Musical imagery is the voluntary internal hearing of music in the mind without the need for physical action or external stimulation. Numerous studies have already revealed brain areas activated during imagery.
However, it remains unclear to what extent imagined music responses preserve the detailed temporal dynamics of the acoustic stimulus envelope and, crucially, whether melodic expectations play any role in modulating responses to imagined music, as they prominently do during listening. These modulations are important as they reflect aspects of the human musical experience, such as its acquisition, engagement, and enjoyment.
This study explored the nature of these modulations in imagined music based on EEG recordings from 21 professional musicians (6 females and 15 males). Regression analyses were conducted to demonstrate that imagined neural signals can be predicted accurately, similarly to the listening task, and were sufficiently robust to allow for accurate identification of the imagined musical piece from the EEG.
In doing so, our results indicate that imagery and listening tasks elicited an overlapping but distinctive topography of neural responses to sound acoustics, which is in line with previous fMRI literature. Melodic expectation, however, evoked very similar frontal spatial activation in both conditions, suggesting that they are supported by the same underlying mechanisms. Finally, neural responses induced by imagery exhibited a specific transformation from the listening condition, which primarily included a relative delay and a polarity inversion of the response.
This transformation demonstrates the top-down predictive nature of the expectation mechanisms arising during both listening and imagery.
It is well known that the human brain is activated during musical imagery – the act of voluntarily hearing music in our mind without external stimulation. It is unclear, however, what the temporal dynamics of this activation are, as well as what musical features are precisely encoded in the neural signals.
This study uses an experimental paradigm with high temporal precision to record and analyze the cortical activity during musical imagery. This study reveals that neural signals encode music acoustics and melodic expectations during both listening and imagery.
Crucially, it is also found that a simple mapping based on a time-shift and a polarity inversion could robustly describe the relationship between listening and imagery signals.
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THE HEART OF OUR PROGRAM
Our Share-A-Haircut program launched in 1999 as a way to engage with our neighbors in our salon communities. The program’s concept is a one-for-one donation allowing our clients to directly support someone less fortunate.
The back-to-school program is held for the first two weeks in August – for every child’s haircut purchased at any Hair Cuttery location, we donate a free haircut certificate to a child in need through local social services agencies. A new haircut symbolizes a new start and new possibilities. We want children to associate feeling good about themselves with getting ready to head back to school. Hair Cuttery believes in making beauty shine from within and a new style is just what children need to start the new school year with confidence!
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To commemorate our 40th anniversary in 2014, we expanded the Share-A-Haircut program to benefit three additional communities throughout the year: the homeless, victims of domestic violence and veterans.
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Have you ordered Shrimp in Lobster Sauce in a Chinese restaurant only to discover when the dish arrives, these is NO lobster in the sauce?
Where is the Lobster?
There really is no lobster in Shrimp in Lobster Sauce. According to one version of the story, the name for this dish came about when a regular patron of a particular Chinese restaurant who always ordered his favorite dish, Lobster Cantonese, arrived at the restaurant short on cash and asked the manager if the chef could prepare the dish using shrimp instead of lobster. The manager replied “no problem” and Shrimp in Lobster Sauce (albeit without lobster) was born.
This dish is at its best made and served at once, which could create logistical problems when entertaining, but since the actual cooking time is only about 10 minutes, it is easy to impress your guests with this delectable dish.
The secret to pulling this off with ease is to prepare all the ingredients ahead of time and keep them refrigerated until you are ready to fire up your wok or frying pan.
SHRIMP IN BLACK BEAN SAUCE aka Shrimp in Lobster Sauce
From “My Students’ Favorite Chinese Recipes updated edition” by Norma Chang
1 pound raw shrimp, shelled, deveined, washed, pat dry with paper towels and toss well with ¾ teaspoon kosher salt. Refrigerate while preparing the other ingredients.
4 ounces lean ground pork
1 tablespoon Chinese fermented (salted) black beans, rinsed and drained (see NOTE 1)
1 – 2 cloves garlic, minced
½ teaspoon sugar
Dash of white pepper or to taste
1 tablespoon ginger wine
2 – 3 slices ginger from ginger wine
1 teaspoon soy sauce (see NOTE 2)
1 scallion, thinly sliced, set aside 1 tablespoon for garnish
3 – 4 tablespoons oil
¾ cup chicken broth
2 large eggs, lightly beaten
1 tablespoon cornstarch combined with 2 tablespoons water
1. Heat wok or frying pan. Add 2 – 3 tablespoons oil. Swirl to coat cooking surface. Add ginger slices, let steep until lightly browned and oil reaches smoking point. Add shrimp, stir-fry over high heat until shrimp changes color. Remove to a clean platter. Discard ginger slices.
2. Add 1 tablespoon oil to wok, if needed. Add fermented black beans and garlic, stir-fry over medium-heat until fragrant, 1- 2 minutes. Add pork, stir-fry until pork changes color. Sir in sugar, white pepper, ginger wine, soy sauce and scallion. Mix thoroughly. Add shrimp and mix well. Add broth. Cover, bring to a boil. Simmer until shrimp is cooked.
3. Thicken with cornstarch mixture. Slowly stir-in beaten eggs. Remove to a serving platter as soon as eggs are cooked. Garnish with reserved scallion and serve at once.
NOTE 1: Fermented black beans also known as salted black beans or preserved beans are made from soy beans. They are dry to the touch and have a soft texture. Quite salty and taste like dried cured olives. Available at Asian market, specialty food markets and the international section of some supermarkets.
Substitute: 1 – 2 tablespoons black bean garlic sauce for the fermented black bean and garlic.
NOTE 2: Use gluten free soy sauce for a GF version.
Copyright © by Norma Chang
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Online patient safety education programme for junior doctors: is it worthwhile?
BACKGROUND: Increasing demand exists for blended approaches to the development of professionalism. Trainees of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland participated in an online patient safety programme.
AIMS: Study aims were: (1) to determine whether the programme improved junior doctors' knowledge, attitudes and skills relating to error reporting, open communication and care for the second victim and (2) to establish whether the methodology facilitated participants' learning.
METHODS: 208 junior doctors who completed the programme completed a pre-online questionnaire. Measures were "patient safety knowledge and attitudes", "medical safety climate" and "experience of learning". Sixty-two completed the post-questionnaire, representing a 30 % matched response rate.
RESULTS: Participating in the programme resulted in immediate (p < 0.01) improvement in skills such as knowing when and how to complete incident forms and disclosing errors to patients, in self-rated knowledge (p < 0.01) and attitudes towards error reporting (p < 0.01). Sixty-three per cent disagreed that doctors routinely report medical errors and 42 % disagreed that doctors routinely share information about medical errors and what caused them. Participants rated interactive features as the most positive elements of the programme.
CONCLUSIONS: An online training programme on medical error improved self-rated knowledge, attitudes and skills in junior doctors and was deemed an effective learning tool. Perceptions of work issues such as a poor culture of error reporting among doctors may prevent improved attitudes being realised in practice. Online patient safety education has a role in practice-based initiatives aimed at developing professionalism and improving safety.
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An Illinois law approved in 2014 gives school officials the ability to demand social media passwords from students, but principals and others charged with taking action to protect students don’t seem inclined to use their new authority unless absolutely necessary.
The law is intended to give school leaders another avenue to investigate and crack down on bullying, but Plainfield School District 202 spokesman Tom Hernandez told MySuburbanLife.com the district hasn’t had problems dealing with students’ social media activity in the past.
“We’ve had those kind of situations and we have responded in that regard and we’ve had kids suspended and even expelled on things that have happened on social media,” Hernandez said. “That’s not new.”
Brian Schwartz, associate director and legal counsel for the Illinois Principals Association, told the news site he doesn’t believe school officials should seek students’ social media passwords because it would be an invasion of privacy, in most circumstances.
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The National Recreation and Park Association and the American Planning Association awarded 5 Great Urban Parks Grants on August 8, including one to the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy for McKinley Park.
The grants support the development of green infrastructure in urban parks to help reduce flooding, improve water quality, improve wildlife habitat and increase biodiversity while providing access to nature and outdoor recreation in underserved communities.
McKinley Park is a 78.5 acre community park in Beltzhoover; a neighborhood with 1,925 residents located about 1.7 miles from downtown Pittsburgh in an area known as the Hilltop.
The park's steep topography, lack of accessible paths, poorly defined entrances, and deferred maintenance issues discourage neighborhood access, limiting use of the park and its recreational facilities.
Despite continual efforts to manage stormwater in the higher northern portions of the park, runoff negatively impacts community use and the park's ecology.
The proposed project will demonstrate how holistic green infrastructure investment is a vehicle for community revitalization, enabling residents of Pittsburgh's Hilltop neighborhoods to become more active and frequent park users, supporting community development goals, improving access to the restorative benefits of park use, promoting the park as a community asset, and reducing flooding and other negative impacts from deteriorating infrastructure.
Further, this work will positively contribute to improving water quality and the health of the impaired Saw Mill Run Watershed.
Click Here for more on the Great Urban Parks Grant awardees.
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Feature: Parks To The Rescue On Stormwater, Flooding
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The Baby-Led Weaning Cookbook
130 Easy, Nutritious Recipes That Will Help Your Baby Learn to Eat (and Love!) a Variety of Solid Foods—and That the Whole Family Will Enjoy
Forget baby purées and spoon-feeding—there’s an easier, more natural way to introduce your little one to solid foods. By about six months, when babies can sit up unassisted, grab things, and munch on them, they are ready to join the family at the kitchen table and discover real, solid food for themselves.
Baby-led weaning sets the stage for healthy eating habits in the years ahead by helping babies learn to feed themselves, to gauge appetite, and to love a variety of nutritious foods. Now, with The Baby-Led Weaning Cookbook, cooking family meals that your little one can share will be a cinch. Gill Rapley and Tracey Murkett—coauthors of Baby-Led Weaning, the book that started the movement—collect 130 recipes perfectly suited for baby-led weaning, as well as:
• Straightforward advice on which foods to start with
• Essential at-a-glance information on nutrition and food safety
• Healthy ideas for quick snacks, delicious desserts, and meals for the whole family
• Anecdotes and quotes from parents who follow baby-led weaning
• Tips on minimizing the mess, keeping food the right size for little hands, and more!
The Baby-Led Weaning Cookbook will give you the recipes and the confidence to create exciting, enjoyable mealtimes that encourage little ones to develop at their own pace.
Title: The Baby-Led Weaning Cookbook
Author: Tracey Murkett; Gill Rapley
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The continent is currently experiencing an average economic growth of between 5 to 8% a year.
It’s the youngest region in the world, and by 2040, is expected to have the largest workforce in the world at 1.1 billion people.
It is also one of the world’s greatest sources of raw materials, and, in many instances, has leapfrogged the developing world in terms of technological advancements. According to McKinsey 7 Company’s report ‘Lions on the Move: The Progress and Potential of African economies’, Africa’s combined Gross Domestic Product will be $2.6 trillion by 2020.
By the same year, its own consumer spending by 128 million households with discretionary income is expected to be around $1.4 trillion.Click “Continue Reading” to see the fastest-growing economies in Africa
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Information and Communications Technology (ICT)
Definition - What does Information and Communications Technology (ICT) mean?
Information and communications technology (ICT) refers to all the technology used to handle telecommunications, broadcast media, intelligent building management systems, audiovisual processing and transmission systems, and network-based control and monitoring functions.
Although ICT is often considered an extended synonym for information technology (IT), its scope is more broad.
ICT has more recently been used to describe the convergence of several technologies and the use of common transmission lines carrying very diverse data and communication types and formats.
Techopedia explains Information and Communications Technology (ICT)
Converging technologies that exemplify ICT include the merging of audiovisual, telephone and computer networks through a common cabling system. Internet service providers (ISP) commonly provide internet, phone and television services to homes and businesses through a single optical cable. The elimination of the telephone networks has provided huge economic incentives to implement this convergence, which eliminates many of the costs associated with cabling, signal distribution, user installation, servicing and maintenance costs.
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California’s Devil’s Slide Tunnel Motorway Nears Completion Melissa Hennessey February 27, 2013 California, News, San Francisco Just two extra years and $19 million dollars over budget, the Devil’s Slide tunnels south of San Francisco are nearing completion. While the descriptions vary from “sleek” and “European”, to “claustrophobic” and “terrifying”, only time will tell the longevity of the precarious new roadway. Devil’s Slide Tunnel © jitze After a contentious vote seven years ago to provide an alternative route through southern California’s “Devil’s Slide”, the two new 1-mile long tunnels are the first to be built in the state in nearly 50 years. The stretch of road along the coast has had its share of troubles, repeatedly falling apart and into the crashing Pacific below. The tunnels burrowed to avoid this course are designed with an Austrian technique and outfitted with exhaust fans and fire proof shelters at intervals along the way. Motorists in the area are a bit apprehensive at the thought of being in a line of cars moving in a tunnel through the rocky hillside with the San Andreas fault line so close beneath them … and who can blame them? Leave a Reply Cancel Reply Your email address will not be published. Name* Email* Website Let\'s Make Sure You\'re Human ... *Time limit is exhausted. Please reload CAPTCHA. − six = 3 Comment Notify me of followup comments via e-mail. You can also subscribe without commenting.
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I appreciate the honesty with which so many Christian writers have shared their lives…
From the perspective of history, though, it may seem like these folks were always holy, always passionate in their pursuit of Christ. But they, like us, had days when it seemed they would never achieve the surrender they desired.
One of my heroes in the faith is Amy Carmichael, a missionary who gave her life to the children of India. Though she struggled with illness throughout most of her ministry, she saved more than a thousand children from temple prostitution.
Despite being bedridden for the last twenty years of her life, Amy wrote thirty-five books, many of which still touch lives today.
The children she rescued called her Amma—“mother.” Because of her passionate pursuit of Christ, Amy was a spiritual mother to many more, including her biographer Elisabeth Elliot, who writes:
“Amy Carmichael became for me what now some call a role model. But she was far more than that.… She showed me the shape of godliness.”
But that doesn’t mean Amy Carmichael always felt totally consecrated and utterly committed to God. From a page in her journal, we get a peek into a heart that struggled just as we do:
Sometimes when we read the words of those who have been more than conquerors, we feel almost despondent. I feel that I shall never be like that. But they won through step by step.
By little bits of wills
Little denials of self
Little inward victories
By faithfulness in very little things.
They became what they are. No one sees these little hidden steps. They only see the accomplishment, but even so, those small steps were taken.
There is no sudden triumph no [sudden] spiritual maturity.
That is the work of the moment.
One Step At a Time
Are we willing to dedicate ourselves to little steps? To the hidden work God wants to do in each of us?
Realizing that God is more interested in the process than the product has transformed my walk with Christ because it allows me to concentrate on obedience, not perfection. The goal of perfection only points out how far I have to go, but obedience marks how far I have already come. Perfection frustrates and torments. Obedience releases and makes whole.
I can’t become everything I ought to be overnight. But I can proceed step by step if I’m obedient to what God asks of me today.
Charlie Shedd once wrote:“Lord, help me understand what you had in mind when you made the original me.” Click To Tweet
That prayer speaks to my heart. For as I glimpse what God sees and respond in obedience to that understanding, God will not only show me more. He will enable me to live in the light I have.
Baby steps, perhaps. But steps all the same.
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I’d love to hear from you…What “baby steps” have helped you grow in your walk with God?
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Latest update: January 10th, 2013
The traditionally revered Western Canon of literature and art has been replaced by emphases on so-called “sports,” quantitative institutional “rankings,” and “Dancing with the Stars.” Apart from their pervasive drunkenness and generally tasteless entertainments, our once-sacred spaces of “higher education” have mainly become a pipeline for filling nonsensical and deeply unsatisfying jobs.
For most of our young people, learning has become a stunningly inconvenient commodity, nothing more. At the same time, as everyone already understands, commodities exist for only one purpose. They are there, like the newly minted college graduates themselves, to be bought and sold.
Though faced with genuine threats of war, illness, impoverishment and terror, millions of Americans still choose to amuse themselves to death with assorted forms of morbid excitement, grossly inedible foods, and the inane repetitions of an illiterate political discourse. Not a day goes by that we don’t notice some premonitory sign of impending catastrophe. Yet our anesthetized country continues to impose upon its exhausted and manipulated people an open devaluation of genuine thought, and a breakneck pace of unrelieved and unrewarded work.
It is small wonder that “No Vacancy” signs now hang securely outside our psychiatric hospitals, childcare centers, and prisons.
Soon, even if we should somehow manage to avoid nuclear war, further economic dislocation and mega-terrorism, the swaying of the American ship will become so violent that even the hardiest lamps will be overturned. Then, the phantoms of great ships of state, once laden with silver and gold, may no longer lie forgotten. Perhaps instead we will finally understand that the circumstances which once sent the compositions of Homer, Maimonides, Goethe, Milton, Shakespeare, Freud and Kafka to join the disintegrating works of forgotten poets were neither unique nor transient.
In an 1897 essay titled “On Being Human,” Woodrow Wilson inquired coyly about the authenticity of America. “Is it even open to us to choose to be genuine?” he asked. This president answered “yes,” but only if we first refused to stoop to join the injurious and synthetic “herds” of mass society. Otherwise, Wilson had already understood, our entire society would be left bloodless – a skeleton, dead also with that rusty corrosion of broken machinery, more hideous even than the inevitable decompositions of an individual person.
In all societies, individual souls are fundamentally important. There can be a better American Soul, but not until we first acknowledge a prior obligation to shun the unsustainable seductions of public scandals, crowd culture, shallow thinking, organized mediocrity, and a manifestly predatory politics of emptiness.
Louis René Beres, strategic and military affairs columnist for The Jewish Press, is professor of political science at Purdue University. Educated at Princeton (Ph.D., 1971), he lectures and publishes widely on international relations and international law and is the author of ten major books in the field. In Israel, Professor Beres was chair of Project Daniel.Louis Rene Beres
About the Author: Louis René Beres (Ph.D., Princeton, 1971) is professor of political science and international law at Purdue University and the author of many books and articles dealing with international relations and strategic studies.
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On the translation side of this blog, I’m currently working through Beowulf’s fight with Grendel’s mother. Out of the three monsters, she somehow seems the one most shrouded in darkness.
For starters, we never really get a good description of her. We’re only told on lines 1349-1351 that she has a woman’s likeness. Beowulf encounters her in the depths of a strange lake, and fights her in an underwater cave. And, although she’s a monster, some sort of creature like Grendel, she pulls out a dagger at one point in their fight and tries to stab Beowulf.
So she’s definitely mysterious, but entirely monstrous? That’s left quite unclear.
Especially if you focus in on her motivation for attacking Heorot and killing Æschere.
Grendel’s mother only kicks into action once she learns that her son has been killed. So she’s plainly motivated by revenge and the sort of anguished sorrow that only a parent who loses a child can really know.
This mysterious figure whose motivations are not only clear but also relatable has inspired comics fan and writer Michael Hale to identify a new trope.
Writing for Comicosity, Hale jumps from Grendel’s mother’s motivation to the presence of other female characters stepping up when their children are in danger. He calls this trope the “Ripley Twist,” based on Ripley’s fighting the alien at the end of Aliens to protect her ward Newt. You can read Michael’s full article here.
Finding the connection that Hale makes with Beowulf reminds me of how relevant the poem remains. As he points out in his first sentence, the poem isn’t too well known anymore. And, sometimes it seems like people groan and bemoan its existence in favour of things wittier and more polite (Victorian lit, I’m looking at you).
And why not?
In Victorian literature the gruesome brutality of human nature is tucked away in things like My Secret Life.
Beowulf, on the other hand, makes no excuses for the brutality of life. Its brutality is much more physical and visceral, but that makes its violence a potent analogy to the to the social, psychological, and emotional brutality that people experience today.
As brutal as it can be, Beowulf is something that allows us to look back at ourselves in a very different context. That people like Hale can bring ideas like the “Ripley Twist” out of it, then I’d say Beowulf‘s definitely worth reading. Who knows what you’ll find within its wordhoard?
What’s your favourite era of stories and why?
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What happens if dog gets bit by spider?
The body is shaped like a violin, says the Pet Poison Helpline. The venom causes tissue damage at the bite location. Animals bitten may experience vomiting, fever, bleeding, bruising, skin lesions and lethargy.
What can you do for a spider bite on a dog?
Below are some important steps for caring for an insect bite on a dog:
- Check for a Stinger in the Wound.
- Use a Cold Compress to Help with Swelling.
- Apply Paste of Baking Soda and Water to the Wound.
- Give Your Dog an Oatmeal Bath.
- Apply Aloe Vera Gel to the Bite.
- If Safe, Give Your Dog Benadryl.
Can a spider bite paralyze a dog?
Toxicity to pets These spiders carry a potent venom which is a neurotoxin (a-latrotoxin). Dogs and cats bitten by black widow spiders may show clinical signs of severe muscle pain, cramping, walking drunk, tremors, paralysis, blood pressure changes, drooling, vomiting, diarrhea, and death.
What happens if your dog gets bit by a brown recluse?
Reaction typically occurs at the site of the bite, with an ulcerated necrotic wound that results in the death of the surrounding soft tissue. The wound is slow to heal, leaving an open wound that is at risk of further infection.
How long does a dog spider bite take to heal?
Wounds are treated with regular wound cleaning, cool compresses, and immobilization using bandages. Antibiotics may also be needed for infected bites. Most bites heal within one to three weeks and systemic complications or death are very rare.
What do spider bites look like on dogs?
Spider bites are the red, itchy spots on the skin that we as humans are all too familiar with. It may sound obvious, but the first sign of a bite might be a sudden yelp from your dog. Look for any swelling or tenderness around the affected area or site of the bite.
How do you treat a brown recluse spider bite on a dog?
Brown recluse spider bites are treated with supportive care, as there is no available antivenin in the United States. Wounds are treated with regular wound cleaning, cool compresses, and immobilization using bandages. Antibiotics may also be needed for infected bites.
Do spider bites heal on their own?
Spider Bites Usually Heal on Their Own.
Can you give a dog Benadryl for a spider bite?
Benadryl, an over-the-counter antihistamine, counters swelling and itching. Keep in mind that this over-the-counter medication also causes drowsiness as a side effect. A safe dose is one milligram for every pound your pet weighs, or a Benadryl ointment can be used directly on the sting.
What happens if a dog gets bit by a spider?
If your curious canine comes across a spider, the scared arachnid may bite him. Depending on the species, the spider’s venom can cause serious and sometimes deadly side effects. Most spiders aren’t powerful enough to bite through Fido’s skin, but a bite from those who can requires a trip to the veterinarian. Spider Bites.
When to go to the vet for a spider bite?
Usually, in not so serious cases, the swelling will die down in about 24 to 48 hours. If the bite seems worse than it was before, it’s probably because of the venom. Go to your vet immediately if the bite and the area don’t get better after two days. Published: 07/20/2020 | Updated: 07/22/2020 by John | Dog Health
What can I give my Dog for a spider bite?
Aloe Vera Known for its skin reviving properties, aloe vera is another option for healing a spider bite on dogs. It can reduce inflammation and itchiness too. Do not use the gel from a direct aloe vera plant as a dog can likely ingest it and get sick.
What kind of spider can kill a dog?
The bite of a venomous spider such as the brown recluse, the black widow and to a lesser extent the brown widow can be deadly to a pup.
How does a spider bite affect a dog?
The release of venoms during spider bites on dogs can also result in similar adverse reactions and symptoms in your pet. Affected dogs may elicit skin inflammation, vomiting, breathing problems, and even fatalities. The severity of symptoms are dependent on the kind of spider that bites your pet.
How do I treat a spider bite on dog?
- try and catch the spider.
- Wash the wound. Washing the wound is often helpful.
- Apply a potato poultice
- Use baking soda paste. You can make a potato poultice by wrapping freshly grated potato in a thin cloth.
- Aloe Vera products. Another healing substance that is commonly found in the home is baking soda.
Can a dog die from a spider bite?
Black Widow Spider Bites on Dogs. It is important to immediately take your dog to a vet if it has been bitten by a black widow spider. This spider’s venom can have a deadly effect on dogs. Small-sized dogs can die, while medium to large dogs can suffer from extreme reactions.
What are the symptoms of spider bite in dogs?
- A lot of pain
- Some swelling and itchiness
- Your skin changing color and becoming red
- A lot of itchiness
- Incidences of nausea and vomiting
- You may feel dizzy
- Rapid increase in pulse rate
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Leptospirosis is a febrile worldwide zoonosis. Routine diagnosis of leptospiral infection is based on demonstration of specific antibodies with serological tests. Performance of the reference serological test, the microscopic agglutination test (MAT), requires significant expertise. The aim of our study was to find out if leptospiral infection can be proven with simple, rapid, commercially available immunochromatographic Leptocheck test in order to introduce it for the first level diagnosis in emergency cases with less specialized laboratory staff.
In all, 590 serum samples of patients with clinical manifestations suggestive of leptospirosis were collected and tested with MAT and Leptocheck test. For confirmation of the results some other diagnostic methods such as polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and Leptospira isolation were performed.
Results of both serological tests were consistent in 576/590 (97.63 %) cases but Leptocheck gave more positive results in comparison to MAT (36 and 12, respectively) at first patient’s testing. Following up the patient, MAT became positive in majority of Leptocheck positive patients at first visit. Leptospiral DNA was detected in nine blood and six urine samples belonging to thirteen different patients while only two samples were culture positive.
In comparison with serological tests, PCR and culture have low sensitivity. According to our findings we conclude that Leptocheck test can prove leptospiral infection and could be used for rapid diagnosis of leptospirosis, later the sample should be confirmed with MAT.
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Accepta 8505 is an innovative chlorine dioxide (ClO2) tablet utilising revolutionary technology that makes available the highly effective sanitising benefits of chlorine dioxide in a simple to use tablet form. Each tablet pack will create 4ppm of ClO2 in 30 litres of clean water.
These Accepta 8505 ClO2 tablets are specially engineered to carefully control and sustain the release of specified concentrations and strengths of chlorine dioxide gas when added to water.
Generating chlorine dioxide gas with these tablets is simple as in their dry form, the tablets are un-reactive only producing chlorine dioxide when exposed to or added to water.
To activate Accepta 8505 simply remove from the packaging, crush the tablets, carefully add to water and stir thoroughly; within minutes the tablets act to produce a solution of activated chlorine dioxide. This generated solution is effective for microbiological and odour control; and pollutant oxidation.
- Highly effective sanitiser, releasing chlorine dioxide only when added to water.
- Convenient tablet form.
- Deliver controlled concentrations and strengths of chlorine dioxide gas on demand.
- Excellent for odour control applications.
|Odour:||Slight odour, of chlorine|
|pH value:||6 - 7(0.01 %(m))|
|Melting point:||Not applicable (120 - 190 °C substance / product decomposes)|
|Flash point:||Not applicable|
|Self-ignition temperature:||Not self-igniting|
|Explosion hazard:||Not explosive|
|Bulk density:||0.8 g/cm3|
|Solubility in water:||Reacts with water|
*Full details of the product properties are available in the Safety Data Sheet. See below.
Application & Dosage Information
Accepta 8505 provides a supply of chlorine dioxide when dissolved in water. Each sachet contains one tablet and in clean water will provide:
- 4ppm of ClO2 in 30 litres of water or,
- 12 ppm of ClO2 in 10 litres of water.
Be aware that “dirty water” may reduce the levels of chlorine dioxide found.
To generate the chlorine dioxide use 1 sachet in the required amount of water, do not store opened sachets as they will react with the air.
Crush tablets and add to a bucket of waterbefore adding to bulk water ensuring complete dissolution. Alternatively crush tablets and scatter around the stored water but make sure that the water is circulated to ensurecomplete mixing.
It is always advisable to carry out a 'Control Of Substances Hazardous to Health' (COSHH) assessment before use.
Safety, Storage & Handling
For full details concerning safety precautions, storage and handling procedures for Accepta 8505 please refer to the latest Safety Data Sheet. To download the latest safety data for this product use the following link:
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posted on May, 10 2011 @ 12:14 PM
With oil companies hitting record profits, there is absolutely NO reason why prices are also hitting record highs...
Here's a thought on how to drive prices down maybe:
This method will force us to go to the gas-station more often, but it will hurt the gas companies profit margin in the long run.
A little bit of background first.
Oil is typically refined into gasoline and then shipped out to regional storage facilities, from these facilitites, a tanker comes and fills up to
distribute gasoline to the different stations, this is done either daily or every other day, depending on the demand.
There IS a way to reduce demand. Simply buy gas 1/2 tank at a time.
Assuming we all fill up at every visit to the gas bar, most of us will purchase less gas than normal if we cap it off at 1/2 a tank, therefore there
is more gas left at the station that we could've bought, but didn't.
The next time the tanker comes to fill the station up, it does not unload as much gas.
If every station has gas left over in their reserves, then the tanker must return to the storage facilities still carrying gas in it's tank.
The gas company will notice this and interpret it as a drop in demand. If enough people do this (and sadly, it would have to be in the millions) we
would see gas prices drop, but we would have to keep doing it until they go below $0.99/litre (sorry, I'm in Canada, we do it by litres here). I know
way too many people who now believe gas @ $1.30/litre is cheap and will horde and fill up all their vehicles, this urge will need to be resisted.
So, to summarize: More gas left over at the station = more gas left over at the tanker = more gas left over at the regional storage facility = less
gasoline needed to be shipped in from the refinery, and ultimately hurting the bottom line of the oil companies.
Just my 2 cents worth.
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Murder case reopened after more than three decades
Published 9:59 am Wednesday, January 7, 2015
OKLAHOMA CITY — Cold cases are called that for a reason. After a period of time, all leads dry up and investigators are left with no direction to go.
That is what took place in the murder of University of Oklahoma student Tracey Neilson, who was found stabbed to death on her 21st birthday in her Moore, Oklahoma apartment Jan. 5, 1981.
The case had been filed away in the cold case file until this week when the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation (OSBI) presented evidence to the public in hopes of solving the 34-year old mystery.
“We’ve been working 34 years to solve this homicide and, with your help, we can do it,” said Jessica Brown, OSBI public information officer. “The person who brutally killed Tracey is still out there. He doesn’t need one more day of freedom, and together we can do this.”
According to the OSBI, several eyewitnesses put Neilson home just before noon after running several errands in Moore that Jan. 5th morning in 1981. After noon, friends and family called to wish her a happy birthday, but Neilson never answered the phone.
Her husband, Jeff, of five months, found her when he returned home around 5 p.m. at Jamestown Square Apartments, OSBI officials said.
Evidence presented by the agency Monday shows that an employee from a cable company could have been the last to see her alive. A cable trouble assignment ticket book shows that the last ticket in the book is for work at Neilson’s home at 11:51 a.m. the day she was murdered.
“It’s a piece of crucial evidence that could perhaps bring new life to this case,” OSBI Director Stan Florence said.
The director said for decades, agents have been working to identify the owner of the book, which does not show a company name. On the bottom left corner is a box for the employee’s name with three initials they’re asking the public to help them identify.
“We’d like to talk to that person and we’ll see where that leads us,” Florence said.
Many times, companies change records, take over or buy out other companies, so investigators are exploring and trying to find archives of information on employees from 1981.
Florence said the last information they had was that some of those companies, if they exist, may have been out of state.
“We’re exploring that, but honestly, I don’t know if we have a lot of hope that that will produce a lot of results,” he said. “But we think that anyone who did know somebody that worked in that field, especially in the Moore area in that time frame, they may look at those initials and be able to identify who that person was.”
Florence said they’ve actually had the ticket book for some time but did not release the information due to a confidentiality law. In 2011, the law was amended, permitting the OSBI director to authorize the release of information “to help develop leads that might be necessary to bring a case to a conclusion.”
“Once 2011 came around, we began to explore the idea of doing things of this nature,” he said. “We think we’ve pretty much exhausted our efforts there, so this is the time for the public to help us with this.”
Investigators have followed up on approximately 1,500 leads on the case, he said. Boxes of evidence sat on a table in front of a podium at OSBI on Monday showing the volume of work that has taken place over the past 34 years.
One of the best pieces of evidence in the case is a latent fingerprint that remains unidentified. Florence said in the 1980s, matching latent prints was a time consuming and exhaustive effort, especially if you had a known print but an unknown suspect.
The Neilson family helped OSBI convince legislators to pass a law to fund the state’s first Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) in 1994. The system scans a database full of latent prints, searching for matching characteristics.
“We all had great hopes that this new fingerprint technology would identify that particular print,” Florence said. “Unfortunately, to this day anyway, no print, no match has been made for that print, but the AFIS system itself has helped solve hundreds of violent crimes.”
Neilson’s sister, Cindy Young, also spoke at the OSBI press conference Monday, pleading for anyone who had any information to come forward. Every day since Neilson’s death, the family has had to live with the fact that they may never know who took her life that day, Young said.
If the family finds out, Young said they know it won’t bring her back, but it will give them some peace and closure.
“I truly feel that whoever it was could feel almost a sense of relief maybe to come and to finally admit it to us because we’re Christians and we can forgive,” Young said. “So I’m begging you, please come forward, please just do the right thing. It’s time. It’s time to do the right thing and it’s time for us to finally be set free from the agony of not knowing.”
The OSBI is offering up to a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person who killed Neilson. The Moore Police Department is putting in another $1,000 and Neilson’s family is offering an additional $5,000, for a total reward of up to $11,000.
If anyone has any information relevant to the case, call the OSBI hotline at 800-522-8017 or the Moore Police Department.
According to Brown, the OSBI has already received numerous calls with information.
“I think we’re making progress,” Brown stated.
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Large scale architecture & design: Probably some kind of training course
Cloud Computing: Microsoft have a beta product called Asure which could offer us the ability to produce some very innovative and scalable solutions.
Microsoft enterprise library application blocks: these include code to make the following easier (and best practice): Caching, Cryptography, data access, logging and security.
Code generation: Learn more about the code generation techniques we are using
Sql: My sql skills are purely self taught and there are loads of advanced techniques I just don’t know (not really sure how I would self learn this, I do know I have very little knowledge in SSIS).
Visual Studio 2010 & .net 4.0: This will be with us soon and I couldn’t really tell you what we will be getting (the beta is out now)
ADO.Net data services: a colleague sent an email around about these – I think they could be quite a different way for us to consume sql information.
BI tools: I know the theory behind BI but not the tools
Test Driven Development: The tools could be useful, but I’m really not sold on this
ASP.Net Routing: This technology allows us to create .net web sites which are search engine optimised (SEO)
ASP.NET MVC: This is a different way of developing web applications that is gaining a lot of momentum – could easily become industry standard and Microsoft are putting a lot of money and resources into it.
ASP.Net data driven websites: Creates the scaffolding for data driven sites – should do things like code generation but this is from Microsoft
FX Cop/StyleCop: These tools perform analysis on source code to identify potential coding issues
It's really interesting to write a list like this - it defiantly helps organise your (lack of!) free time a bit better - what would be on your list?
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A Typical Day’s Schedule
Learning Centers After students complete their morning jobs, they engage in an assigned center activity that reviews previously taught skills and concepts. Center activities include math, literacy, handwriting and theme explorations.
Morning Meeting To build classroom community and prepare students for a successful school day, children come together for a Responsive Classroom based meeting. During this time students greet each other warmly, engage in a sharing activity, enjoy a community building game and read a morning message composed by the teacher. During the work with the morning message, students build their knowledge of print, identify sight words, and review the mechanics of writing.
Literacy Kindergarteners engage in a multitude of balanced literacy activities that are designed to build their reading and writing skills. To build their phonemic awareness, students participate in Words Their Way: Word Study for Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling Instruction. Through shared reading, children build their knowledge of print and story structure and practice essential literacy skills including sequencing, rhyming, punctuation, alliteration, sight words, and comprehension. As the year progresses, Kindergarten students engage in small-group, guided reading lessons with their teachers.
Snack Even this time of the day is an essential part of our curriculum! During snack, Kindergarteners count and sort portions, have community jobs, and build their conversational skills.
Special Area Class To enrich their day and build specialized skills, students attend many special classes including visual arts, Coding, music, science, computers, Quaker Education, library, and physical education. To learn more about Coding in the Lower School, view video on the left.
Writing Workshop Following a model designed by Columbia University’s Teachers College, students build their writing skills through daily writing activities and regular conferences with teachers.
Handwriting Lessons Students perfect their pencil grip and letter formation through the Handwriting Without Tears program.
Playground Time Climbing equipment, swings, slides, the sandbox, jump ropes, and other materials provide opportunities for developing gross motor skills. Social skills and conflict resolution skills are put into practice daily with teacher guidance.
Math Basic facts, as well as conceptual understanding, are developed through the Growing with Mathematics Program. Students learn to describe their mathematical thinking and problem solving strategies. Learning is hands-on with the use of many manipulatives and an interactive discussion book.
Lunch Lunch provides a relaxing social time as well as the opportunity to practice table manners and self-help skills.
Quiet Relaxation Time A chance for students to settle their minds and bodies. Soothing music or a peaceful story can be heard as students rest on mats.
Investigations Various fun learning experiences are chosen by students in the areas of language arts, math, art and science. These activities may be theme related or an extension of the group’s interest.
For children who are 5 years old by September 30.
- Extended Day Options
- Full Day, Five Days a Week
- Small Class Size of about 18
- 1:9 Teacher Student Ratio
- Reading Workshop
- Guided Reading
- Writing Workshop
- Growing With Mathematics
- Handwriting Without Tears
- Quaker Values
- Computer Science
- Physical Education
- Quaker Education
All-School Thanksgiving Happening
Arts & Literature Week
- End-of-Year Family Party
Click here to view more photos of the Lower School (Preschool – Grade 4) at Moorestown Friends.
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Today I knew I wanted to write about something special – something that has my heart.
The #RareBearProject is all about supporting our community. From providing support to our Rare families, to creating jobs and income generating opportunities to the woman of Kya Sands. 100% of our income goes straight back into this project.
For every bear sold for R180, R120 is paid to the creator of the bear, and R60 is placed into improving the marketing platform and distribution of the overall project to ensure sustainability.
The #RareBearProject is a community upliftment program under Rare Diseases South Africa NPC.
Rare Diseases South Africa NPC is a registered NPO and PBO which aims to assist rare disease patients receive access to life-saving treatment and supportive care for improved quality of life.
The #RareBearProject was launched as part of Rare Diseases South Africa’s 2nd birthday. Rare Diseases SA (RDSA) had made the decision to commission bears for their newly registered rare disease patients, which could be gifted to them so that they could have a companion to encourage them in their journey of survival.
BUT, due to the nature of rare diseases, RDSA was looking for unique, handcrafted bears – they wanted BEARS that were RARE.
At the same time a local community project were looking to host a skills clinic for unemployed ladies in the Kya Sands community.
A joint initiative was born, whereby the ladies were taught the skills to crotchet #RareBears, and a platform to generate income was provided.
This project is now able to address 2 needs:
1) It creates a “community of love” for Rare Diseases SA patients whereby #RareBears are donated to a rare disease patient via the #Care4Rare programme.
2) Empowers the ladies of KyaSands and provides them with a skill that enables them to provide for their families.
To date, this project has seen over 70 woman up-skilled in the art of crocheting, and provided them with a sustainable, income generating opportunity by making #RareBears which in turn are either donated to a patient, or sold to the public.
I have seen these ladies grow from having zero confidence in their abilities, to now being able to crochet almost anything – as long as they have a picture of it.
There are 7 animals in the range – lion, zebra, giraffe, bunny, sheep, elephant & unicorns – but they also do special orders should you so wish.
I am also running a GIVEAWAY over on my Instagram, so pop over now to win one of their limited edition teddies! They are so adorable…
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English Grammar 101
Second Edition, by Kitty Nash
Learn more about
the English language
and improve your writing with our online grammar lessons.
Select from any of the modules to start an engaging and easy-to-follow exercise.
"... very impressive and teacher friendly!"- Maryland Teacher
"Love it, love it. LOVE the changes."- DoDEA Teacher
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1) The sector makes a vast array of products
From shampoos and soaps, to industrial products derived from petrochemicals and dyes, the chemicals sector has a hand in almost every aspect of our daily lives, without us often realising.
Indeed, while it does produce a number of consumer facing goods such as cosmetics and detergents, it primarily makes industrial goods used in other sectors supply chains. Think fertilisers used in agriculture, plastics in the automotive sector, rubber in construction…etc etc
2) It has a complex structure…
…and we mean it, just check out our “simplified” diagram below.
This (hopefully) shows that the chemicals sector has a presence across the value chain, from source right up to the final consumer. The sector is unique in this respect given that few others encompass such a wide range of activities.
3) Foreign investors are attracted to the UK's chemicals sector
While the chemicals sector has remained an integral part of UK manufacturing, its diverse demand base, opportunities for scale, and scope for evolution, makes it an attractive proposition for foreign multinationals. As a result the sector has become increasingly foreign owned.
In fact over a tenth (10.7%) of chemicals enterprises are foreign owned, with the US, Germany and Switzerland topping the list of foreign investors. This is a significantly larger share than the 2.7% recorded in the total manufacturing sector, and is perhaps best represented by the break-up of former powerhouse ICI.
4) The sector has strong fundamentals
The sector has strong fundamentals, including higher weekly wages than the manufacturing average - 30% higher in fact - and an impressive slice of R&D expenditure (6.6% of total manufacturing). However it is its productivity performance that catches the eye most. Between 1996 and 2016, the chemicals sector real productivity growth more than doubled (+102.2%), significantly exceeding the UK economy average.
5) It is a big energy consumer
The chemicals sector, and particularly manufacturers at the source of the value chain, are highly energy intensive and in 2015 the sector was the second highest energy consumer amongst manufacturers after the basic metals sector.
Encouragingly, despite retaining its position as one of the most highly energy intensive sectors, the chemicals sector’s energy consumption has actually fallen by around 40% since 2007, while its industrial production has remained broadly stable, illustrating a more efficient use of resources
6) Chemicals is a globalised industry
While not as export intensive as some other sectors, for instance mechanical equipment and automotive, chemicals still derives significant value from exports. In fact the sector is actually one of the most open to trade in manufacturing, boasting the highest proportion of exporting companies of any sector (53.6%) and the second highest proportion of importing companies (52.5%).
7) High energy costs are a risk to the sector...amongst others
A well-known fact but an important one…. High energy costs are a particular concern for energy intensive manufacturers at the source of the value chain, given it is a cost that is ultimately out of their control. Ohh and there is a little thing called Brexit to worry about too.
You can read the full report here.
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School and District Improvement (SDI) Review
SDI uses several processes to examine a
districts's and/or school’s level of implementation in each of the five
systems of Georgia’s Systems of Continuous Improvement (GSCI):
1. Coherent Instruction
2. Effective Leadership
3. Professional Capacity
4. Family and Community Engagement
5. Supportive Learning Environment
Each of these processes is designed to be implemented by a
team from SDI and/or RESA or by a district or school as a self-assessment
tool. SDI provides technical assistance for
a district and/or school to implement each of these review processes, and if
capacity allows, provides an external team to implement the review
processes. Contact the appropriate SDI Area Program Assessment Specialist (APAS) for assistance and information.
Georgia School Assessment of Performance on Systems (GSAPS)
The purpose of the GSAPS review
process is to provide detailed information for a school on its progress toward
full implementation of all five systems of the GSCI by conducting
an in-depth examination of a school’s data to determine areas of opportunity
and support and to guide the school’s improvement plan.
Georgia School Assessment of Performance on Systems Resources:
Georgia District Review Process (GDRP)
The purpose of the GDRP is to determine areas of focus and support for a district
to improve student achievement by conducting an in-depth examination of
a district’s data to determine areas of opportunity and support and to guide
the district’s improvement plan.
This process is currently undergoing
field-testing. Resources and tools will
be made available once the field-testing and any necessary revisions are
Instructional Awareness Walks (IAW)
The purpose of the Instructional Awareness Walks process is to support a school in the process of establishing and sustaining effective Coherent Instructional and Supportive Learning Environment Systems by providing a framework and tools to implement classroom observations.
Instructional Awareness Walks Resources:
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- Notes on … Imposing a duty of care on social network providers (488 words)
social network providers (and networks) are audited
- Notes on … Social networks - analogy with alcohol (475 words)
mopping up afterwards is not very effective
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walking helps, and so does talking; avoid getting stuck in a rut
Inspired by old-school bloggers who’s mantra is that blogging helps them think, and aware that fretting overly much about building up a solid case based on copious evidence might act as a hindrance to writing anything down, and thus the thinking fails to happen, here are some thoughts with the default caveat of “yes, needs evidence”.
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Bentonite clay has been used for centuries by natives and Indians as a health aid. They have used it to help fight diseases and support health. More recently it has been used in homeopathic and alternative medicine, and as a key ingredient in many colon cleanse products. Let's take a closer look at this detox ingredient and how it works.
What is it?
Found in the North Western part of the United States this natural substance bentonite clay is an active mineral. It recently has become noticed and now thought to be highly effective in detoxifying the human body. Why has cleansing and detoxifying become so popular? It is really quite simple. We are exposed to toxins every day. From the food we eat to the air we breathe toxins continually enter our body. Bentonite clay can help our bodies to rid themselves of these unwanted toxins.
How does it work?
Bentonite clay works in our body as a laxative. When consumes it forms into a gel and flushes built up toxins out of our bodies. It is so powerful that it can absorb even the worst toxins including pesticides, harmful bacteria, free radicals and heavy metals. As it passes through your intestines it also works to absorb built up fecal matter from the intestinal walls and remove it from the body.
Benefits of bentonite detox?
There are many benefits you will experience when using bentonite as a colon cleanse. You will have an immediate boost to your immune system and your body will be able to more easily fight off illness. You will experience maximum digestive health. Your body will now be able to break down and digest your food easier. You should also notice an increase in energy as well as an overall feeling of health and wellbeing. Many even report weight loss.
How to use it?
When using bentonite clay in colon cleansing you will want to make sure you are drinking lots of water. At least ½ of your body weight is what is recommended for your daily intake. The clay needs the water to properly form the gel that it makes to be able to flush out the toxins. You will also need to make sure you are taking a fiber supplement along with the clay. Psyllium husk is thought by many to be the best choice. The fiber is needed to help push the clay through your system.
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Any side effects?
There are some other things to be aware of before beginning the bentonite clay cleanse. The clay does contain a trace amount of aluminum. If you are sensitive to aluminum you will want to be careful. The clay can also absorb nutrients as it passes through your system. Therefore, you will want to make sure you take it one hour before or one hour after any meals or other dietary supplements. Also, if you are on any medication you will want to check with your health care provider before starting the cleanse.
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Anthropologie-Inspired Ruffled Scarf
- Approximately 4 skeins of Cascade 220 (100% Peruvian Highland Wool/Worsted/10 ply/220yds/201m per skein)
- One set of 5.5 mm knitting needles
- Cable needle
- One 5.5 mm crochet hook
- A sheet of paper folded over itself width-wise to create a 2.5" strip
- Tapestry needle
Gauge: 25 st and 20 rows = 4" in k1, p1 ribbing
- Scarf without crochet border: 87" x 5"
- Scarf with crochet border: 89" x 9"
C10F = Slip 10 stitches to cable needle, hold cable needle in front, work 10 stitches in (k1, p1) ribbing, work 10 stitches from cable needle in (k1, p1) ribbing
C10B = Slip 10 stitches to cable needle, hold cable needle in back, work 10 stitches in (k1, p1) ribbing, work 10 stitches from cable needle in (k1, p1) ribbing
Main Knitted Scarf Instructions:
The scarf is worked in a 1x1 rib with a garter stitch border on either side. Cables appear every 15 rows. The border is worked in broomstick crochet, without twisting the loops. More detailed information below.
With 5.5 mm needles, cast on 44 stitches (I like a tubular cast on).
Row 1: slip 1, k1, (k1, p1) to last 2 stitches, k2
Repeat this row 9 times more for a total of 10 rows.
*Cable row 1: slip 1, k1, (C10F) twice, k2
Repeat row 1 14 times
Cable row 2: sl1, k1, work 10 stitches in (k1, p1) ribbing, C10B, work 10 stitches in (k1, p1) ribbing, k2
Repeat row 1 14 times.*
Work from * to * 9 times
Repeat Cable Row 1
Repeat Row 1 14 times
Repeat Cable Row 2
Repeat Row 1 10 times
Crochet Ruffle Border Instructions:
If you haven't done broomstick crochet before, I suggest that you check out any of the youtube videos that give a visualisation of how to do it. It is really easy, but not unless someone shows you how it's done first. You may notice that the loops are twisted together in these videos, however in this version, you will not twist the loops. You may also notice that in these videos, crocheters often use something to hold the loops as they go around. I just used a strip of folded paper, described below.
Take a sheet of A4 or letter-sized paper and fold it width-wise to create a 2.5" wide strip - you will use this to place the crochet loops on to create uniform-sized loops as you go around. Don't worry when there isn't enough space on the strip to hold the loops you are creating; once they start falling off the end of the strip, they will stay uniform in size. You just need to keep the most recent loops on the strip so they don't pull and change in size. You could use a ruler or a piece of cardboard of the same size if you like.
With 5.5 mm crochet hook,start at one corner of the scarf (it doesn't matter which side of the scarf you work from, as it is reversible). Insert the hook into a knit border stitch and draw up a loop. Place the loop on the strip (the strip should be turned horizontally now, as in the photo below.
Continue around the scarf, drawing up a loop for each knitted stitch along the short edge of the scarf, and along each row of the long edge of the scarf, placing the loops on the strip, and moving the strip along as you go. Once you have drawn up these loops around the edges of the entire scarf, single crochet at the top of each loop all the way around. Do not twist the loops. This will secure all the loops together around the scarf. Try to lay the scarf out completely flat as you do this, so that the single crochet stitches are all in approximately the same place on each loop. You will also want to watch out that you don't miss any loops as they can sometimes get lost - check both sides of the scarf every now and then to make sure you haven't missed any. Once you have single crocheted around the scarf in each loop, slip stitch to join the last stitch made to the first stitch. Fasten off and weave in ends.
Okay, so I think that's it! If you find any mistakes in the pattern (especially as I wrote it down from memory, rather than as I knit it), please feel free to let me know!
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Fake Security Cameras: Are They All That?
What are fake security cameras?
Fake cameras are exactly what they sound like: inexpensive props that look like real CCTV cameras. They are designed to mimic the appearance of popular models of residential and commercial security cameras, but provide no real protection. They are not working cameras and will not record any footage.
Do Fake Security Cameras Prevent Crime?
The honest answer here is, maybe. A scarecrow might work for a few months, but eventually the birds learn the dummy poses no threat and will flock to a farm again. In the same way, criminals will eventually figure out you have a fake camera. They’ll take advantage of the lack of security and you’ll find yourself paying for a real camera that you probably should have spent money on in the first place, as well as having the cost of loss or damage.
Fake cameras can create a false sense of security, which can get you into trouble in more ways than you may think.
The Liability in Fake Security Cameras
The false sense of security from your fake camera can create disastrous consequences for everyone but the criminal.
While dummy security cameras may provide some degree of deterrence, installing them does expose the company to liability. If there is a known security issue, the company may have a duty (if not legally, what about an ethical duty?) to take reasonable measures to protect the business, employees, and property.
By installing a dummy security camera, particularly if there is a known security issue, the company is representing that there is a security measure in place — one that does not actually exist. If a crime occurs in an area where a person felt secure due to the existence of the camera, the company is at risk for creating the false sense of security. Similarly, there is exposure to liability if a person who was a victim of a crime in an area “monitored” by the dummy camera subpoenas the video and there is none.
There are a growing number of lawsuits finding liability for these dummy cameras. The best way to mitigate this liability is to install real security cameras.
Protecting Yourself Against Falsehoods
Keeping a video record of everything that happens in your building will save you from any false claims. For example, if someone claims they fell in your parking lot, footage for evidence will make a much stronger contest of the fraudulent claim.
Pros and Cons of Fake Security Cameras
-Less Expensive (at least initially)
-Lawsuits from people who thought they were safe
-Can’t catch perpetrators as easily
-Only hold off crime for so long (then the cost of fake security cameras increases because they are in addition to your loss and, potentially, the new install of real cameras)
-No evidence to protect against fraudulent claims
By putting the money forward initially for a real security camera, you’ll be saving yourself from greater expenses later.
Posted on: July 22, 2015
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Civil War Broadsides and Ephemera
From the University of Vermont, Bailey/Howe Library, Special Collections. Contains items from the Wilbur Collection of Vermontiana that were printed and circulated from 1861 to 1865.
Civil War Era Clothing
Fashion plates, fashion 'chit-chats', links to museum originals, resources, definitions, sewing and constructions tips.
Rochester Images - Many Roads to Freedom
Has links to Rochester, New York area Underground Railroad house sites, Civil War soldier data, and searchable scanned newspapers. Useful for researching soldiers and abolitionists.
Copyright © 1996-2017 Cyndi Ingle, CyndisList.com. All Rights Reserved.
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Plants use sunlight for photosynthesis.
- Photosynthesis uses sunlight, carbon dioxide and water to produce oxygen, glucose and water.
- The structure of the leaf allows for carbon dioxide and oxygen to enter and leave the leaf, which is where photosynthesis actually takes place.
- The water from the leaves evaporates through the stomata, and filling its place, entering the stomata from the air, is carbon dioxide. Plants need carbon dioxide to make food.
- The water given off cools a plant on a hot, sunny day, similar to the way human beings cool off when perspiring. A mature house plant can transpire its body weight daily.
- The roots of the plant provide the water that is required for the process to proceed and the chlorophyll in the cells of the leaf absorbs the necessary sunlight.
- Photosynthesis is not limited to green plants, it is also a process that occurs in certain algae, specifically blue-green algae and bacteria.
The definition of photosynthesis is the process through which plants use water and carbon dioxide to create their food, grow and release excess oxygen into the air.
Facts About Photosynthesis
An example of photosynthesis is how plants convert sugar and energy from water, air and sunlight into energy to grow.
- the biological synthesis of chemical compounds in the presence of light
- the production of organic substances, chiefly sugars, from carbon dioxide and water occurring in green plant cells supplied with enough light to allow chlorophyll to aid in the transformation of the radiant energy into a chemical form
Origin of photosynthesisModL: see photo- and amp; synthesis
A. sunlight is absorbed by chlorophyll in a leaf
B. carbon dioxide is taken in from the air
C. water is transported from the roots
D. glucose is synthesized and distributed throughout the plant
E. oxygen is released
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A webhosting server is similar to a difficult drive that is linked online to enable you to shop in the information of your web site. There are various types of webhosting servers and every one provides each benefits and negative aspects. In between shared holding and VPS hosting, there are essential differences that could help you decide which of both will profit your internet site the most.
Internet Hosting Solutions
You have to have a functioning web server to get your internet site up and operating. You have to ensure you have sufficient area to fit all your information and need to additionally have high-speed internet connection. Though this established up might be feasible when you have your own computer system, it might not be practical to have your computer system and net hookup running for twenty-four hrs daily. For this, a web server for webhosting is needed.
Shared Hosting and VPS Hosting
Shared Hosting and VPS Hosting are 2 typical kinds of web organizing web servers and every one has its very own advantages and disadvantages. Both these solutions share typical qualities; for instance, each solutions supply webhosting solutions to a number of individuals from a single server. They additionally have a compartmentalization function which enables a user to have files kept separately from other users. These 2 solutions are also money-saving compared to the much more advanced and costly devoted throwing solutions.
It may be hard to determine which type of organizing will certainly be required for your website yet beginning with contrasting the distinctions in between these 2 throwing solutions can help you make a knowledgeable decision.
Shared Hosting vs VPS Hosting: Allure
Many individuals choose shared hosting because essentially, it is straightforward and effortless to use considering they do not call for experience on Linux system administration compared to VPS organizing, where Linux systems is something acquainted. At this factor, VPS organizing could be a benefit for those who wish to find out more regarding Linux systems.
Shared organizing might be a bargain offer for several individuals that wish to get unrestricted data transfer and even more storage area yet exactly what many people do not understand is that there is always a limitation to it even if it has been showcased as “limitless”. On the other hand, VPS can be a fantastic alternative when internet traffic is obtaining larger and you need to take a step up. Individuals switch over to VPS when they recognize the constraint of components existing in normal shared hosting.
Shared Hosting vs VPS Hosting: Center Qualities
In shared organizing services, the operating system you need to deal with will rely on the provider’s option. The exact same point visits the solutions put up in your solution. On the other hand, VPS hosting certains you the flexibility to pick anything you need to be put up and you could select from over 30 Linux OS templates.
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Shared organizing might be much less safe and secure compared with VPS. In shared holding, there is an opportunity that an individual will certainly make the most of the susceptability of the os and gain access to various other individuals’ information also. VPS nonetheless is much more protected considering VPS represents Virtual Private Web server. There are individual file systems enabling for risk-free information storage space and setup.
The kind of web organizing solution will certainly rely on exactly how huge your site is or if you are simply merely starting on the planet of web organizing. You could discover the appropriate selection of solution by going to http://www.compila.com/ and get the solution suitable for your internet site, and if you are prepared to handle larger website traffic to offer your customers much better, you can choose VPS throwing that is inexpensive provided at http://www.compila.com/virtual-private-servers/vps-hosting.html. Choose the right type of solution provided by a credible host that has actually had substantial encounter in the market so you can relax guaranteed that your internet site will be in great hands.
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The history of the Tube - London's iconic underground network
London has one of the oldest underground railway networks in the world – one which many of our staff and customers use every day. As a leading LUL (London Underground Limited) cable supplier, we take a keen interest in the 'Tube' and this potted history sparks your fascination too.
It started back in the mid-1800s - London had grown considerably with many people travelling into the capital’s seven railway terminals for work, and the streets were becoming increasingly congested with omnibuses, carts and cabs. The concept of an 'underground' railway network linking these hubs had originally been proposed some twenty years earlier by Charles Pearson but had been dismissed by the various railway companies as unviable, yet by 1854 the Metropolitan Railway Company was granted permission to build the first underground line at an estimated cost of £1 million. Raising funds was difficult however - the Crimean War was in full swing - and so construction did not start until 1860. The 6km railway opened on 10 January 1863, carrying some 38,000 passengers on its opening day and 9.5 million passengers by the end of its first year of operation -underground travel had caught on!
Originally the underground ran with steam locomotives and wooden carriages, often borrowed from other networks to meet the demand. The first deep-level electric tunnel was not opened for almost another 30 years. The initial plan to cable-haul the trains (to avoid the often uncomfortable smoke filled carriages of steam power) was discounted and 'new technology' in the shape of electrification was deployed on a small stretch which ran from King William Street (close to what is now Monument Station), under the Thames river to Elephant and Castle (today all forming park of the Northern Line). A third conductor rail of +500 volts DC ran northbound and -500 volts southbound to power this section which, by 1907 had been extended north as far as Euston and south to Clapham Common.
In 1901 work started to electrify the District and Metropolitan lines after the two operating companies formed a joint committee and recommended a Ganz three-phase AC system. Ganz was probably most famous for manufacturing tramcars and the system worked using overhead wires. These plans were however later changed to a DC system similar to that already in use.
The Underground Electric Railway Company(UERL) of London was formed in 1902 but the term 'Underground' didn’t really gain use in relation to stations until 1908. To promote travel using the network, a joint marketing arrangement was agreed that included maps, publicity and ticketing, and so the roundel, the now iconic red disc and blue bar Underground sign, began to appear at stations. In 1912 the UERL took over the London bus and tram companies too, and for the next few years there followed an ongoing battle between UERL and the Metropolitan company with fares being undercut to compete for passengers.
The outbreak of World War I in 1914 delayed the construction of many of the planned extensions to the underground network, and saw many traditionally male dominated roles being taken on my women including: guards, clerks, painters and cleaners. London experienced the first air raid in 1915 and the underground was naturally used as a bomb shelter. This was repeated again during the Second World War (1939-1945) with pictures of women and children camped out awaiting the all-clear now depicted throughout history books. Some 175,000 people a night were seeking refuge in the stations in August 1940 during what became known as some of the worse nights of the blitz. Other parts of the network were commandeered by the war office, with Brompton Road becoming an anti-aircraft control room, Sir Winston Churchill and the War Cabinet using Down Street Station with the Railway Emergency Committee, and the Central Line being converted into a fighter aircraft factory over 2 miles in length.
The work to electrify the Metropolitan Line was only restarted in 1959. Britain’s railway network had been nationalised in 1948 and the British Transport Commission (BTC) formed but the priority had been the reconstruction of main railway lines which led to the delay in some of the reform of the underground system. A 1949 report recommended the creation of the Victoria line and some experimental tunnelling began in 1959, with construction finally commencing in 1963 before the official opening in March 1969. The Jubilee Line, named to mark Queen Elizabeth II's silver jubilee in 1977 was one of the later lines to be finished - only opening officially in 1979.
Today over 1.265 billion passengers use the Tube, and the network is still expanding, with the introduction of the Crossrail programme, officially known as The Elizabeth Line set to open in Autumn 2019. The line will connect 41 stations and is expected to carry some 200 million passengers a year. So when you're next on the tube - whether in London or around the world (there are many) - think about the amazing feats of engineering it takes to create an underground train network including the kilometres of cables which are needed to deliver power, control and monitoring systems.
We'll leave you with a couple of fun facts (with thanks to the Telegraph)
- Every week London Underground escalators travel the equivalent distance of going twice around the world (and there are 167 of them in operation).
- It's the third largest metro system in the world (in miles) behind Beijing and Shanghai, at over 250 miles long, and the third busiest in Europe behind Moscow and Paris.
- The average distance travelled by each tube train annually is c.114,500 miles, at an average speed of 20.5mph including station stops. The highest number of trains operating at peak service on the Northern Line (91)
- You can no longer go around the Circle Line in one long circle. As of 2009 it terminates at Edgware Road and you have to switch trains.
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College Board Report Explores the Challenges Facing Minority Males in School
and Identifies Promising Programs to Accelerate Achievement
NEW YORK — Minority male students continue to face overwhelming barriers in educational attainment, notes a report released by the College Board at a Capitol Hill briefing held in collaboration with the Asian Pacific American, Black and Hispanic Congressional Caucuses. The report highlights some of the undeniable challenges among minority students, including a lack of role models, search for respect outside of education, loss of cultural memory, poverty challenges, language barriers, community pressures and a sense of a failing education system.
In The Educational Crisis Facing Young Men of Color, the College Board gathered the insights and firsthand experiences of more than 60 scholars, practitioners and activists from the African American, Latino, Asian American/Pacific Islanders and Native American communities, based on a series of four one-day seminars called Dialogue Days, in which scholars, advocates and representatives from each community participated in a meaningful discussion to address the education needs of minority males.
“The United States is facing an educational challenge of great significance, with the crisis most acute for minority male students,” said College Board President Gaston Caperton. “The report offers a step in the direction of raising the visibility of a pressing problem in American society. If the United States is to achieve President Barack Obama’s goals, then we will have to do a much more effective job in educating those populations with which we have traditionally failed.”
Based on the report’s findings, a number of recommendations are made to erase the disparities in educational attainment and to demonstrate new ways of reaching the increasingly diverse U.S. student population. The report calls on policymakers at the federal, state and local levels, as well as foundation and community leaders, to heighten public awareness and explore policy options to improve the plight of young minority men.
Congressman Michael Honda (D-CA) said, “An educator for over 30 years, I know the vital role a high school and college degree serves in impacting the socioeconomic future of a young student. We must remember that education is not only essential for surviving a tough economic climate where unemployment correlates directly with a lack of education, but it is also essential for empowering and mainstreaming minority groups who continue to struggle to break free from decades of marginalization. As chairman of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, I am deeply troubled by the fact that many Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders — over half of all Cambodian, Laotian and Hmong, for example — lack even a high school degree. This is inexcusable, especially for a country like ours that prides itself on providing opportunity for all. We must fix this, which is why the College Board’s efforts to raise awareness on the educational crisis facing young men of color are so necessary and timely.”
Congressman Danny K. Davis (D-IL) said, “In response to the growing educational disparities facing minority males, the College Board, in collaboration with the Tri-Caucus, has conducted a probing and unflinching examination of the underlying issues and has developed a solid and practical response to reduce, and hopefully eliminate, those disparities. This report could not be timelier or more relevant to the future of our educational system.”
Congressman Raúl M. Grijalva (D-AZ) said, “Minorities are disproportionately represented in schools with high dropout rates, and we must work to turn those schools around. All middle school and high school students should have the support they need to graduate, and they should be prepared for college regardless of their circumstances. Any policy that fails students in these respects is a policy that fails the country.”
The report identifies the need for a more coordinated effort of K–12 schools, colleges and universities, and state higher education bodies to forge partnerships to help males of color get ready, get in and get through college. A number of “model” education programs, for replication and expansion, were also identified. These successful programs have multiple commonalities, including more empowered student voices, partnerships at all levels from parent to community action, mentoring programs, male role models and wraparound services.
One program particularly noteworthy in the area of wraparound services is the Harlem Children’s Zone, http://www.hcz.org. This school program offers an innovative community-based approach to learning including education, social services, and community-building services to children and families. It wraps a comprehensive array of child and family services around schools in an entire neighborhood — parenting classes, job training, health clinics, charter schools — convinced that schools reflect what is going on in the communities around them. Students in these school programs show impressive achievement gains.
“We need to be resolved as a nation that the educational crisis facing minority males is not going away any time soon,” said Roy Jones, project director of Call Me MISTER program, Clemson University. “We created the Call Me MISTER initiative about 10 years ago in South Carolina, in collaboration with three historically black colleges, to address the abysmal shortage of primarily African American male elementary teachers. We firmly believe that placing fully certified male teachers of color will not only address a significant shortage but also positively change the very school climate and culture in many of our underserved communities.”
The report, released in conjunction with a Capitol Hill briefing today, will convene educators, policymakers and advocates to discuss the report’s findings and call on leaders and communities to address this national crisis. Distinguished speakers will include:
• Congressman Danny K. Davis (D-IL), Congressional Black Caucus
• Congressman Raúl M. Grijalva (D-AZ), Congressional Hispanic Caucus
• Congressman Mike Honda (D-CA), Chair of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus
• Gaston Caperton, College Board President
• Sidney Ribeau, President, Howard University
• Lee Bitsoi, Assistant Professor, Georgetown University
• Roy Jones, Project Director, Call Me MISTER Program, Clemson University
• Luis Ponjuan, Assistant Professor, University of Florida
• Tom Rudin, Senior Vice President, Advocacy, Government Relations and Development, The College Board
• Hal Smith, Vice President Education & Youth, National Urban League
• Lillian Sparks, Executive Director, National Indian Education Association
• Robert Teranishi, Associate Professor, New York University
• Ronald Williams, Vice President, The College Board
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Kindness is often unspoken. “An eye can threaten like a loaded and leveled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy,” wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. At another time, Emerson wrote, “You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.” “You may be sorry that you spoke, sorry you stayed or went, sorry you won or lost, sorry so much was spent. But as you go through life, you’ll find—you’re never sorry that you were kind,” said Herbert Prochnow. There’s a French proverb on the wall of my study, “Write injuries in sand, kindnesses in marble.”
Authentic and specific praise is an extension of kindness. Want your praise to last forever? Join and expand StoryCorps’ ambitious Great Thanksgiving Listen. Download the free app founder Dave Isay had made from the million dollar TED prize he won and use it to record your praise of someone who helped you in your life. Isay is asking high schoolers to praise their grandparents or other elders this Thanksgiving yet why not spur everyone you know to give thanks this Thanksgiving?
Whatever we praise we encourage to flourish. Whatever we criticize or “simply” snub goes deeper and lasts longer. Each moment we choose our emotional response. We choose where to put our attention, emotion, and intention. Emotions are energy. So, look to someone’s positive intent, especially when it appears she may have none.
Even though after his death his wife probably disagreed with how he displayed some of his “kindness” on the road, Charles Kuralt wrote, “The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.” “Keep what is worth keeping. And with the breath of kindness blow the rest away,” suggests English novelist, Dinah Mulock Craik. Here’s to making more opportunities to play, laugh, celebrate, and act together in cultivating kindness as life’s genuine “keeper.” Life contains few absolutes, and one of those few is that kindness usually cultivates connection, something we yearn for in a time-pressed, ear-to-the- cell-phone, relationship-diminished culture. After all, the heart can be our strongest muscle if we exercise it regularly. Yet being kind is not a guarantee of safety from hurt — nothing offers that fail-safe comfort.
“Kindness and intelligence don’t always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships,” wrote Barbara Grizzuti Harrison in an article for McCall’s magazine way back in 1975. “When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares,” wrote Henri Nouwen in Out of Solitude.
Years ago from my college classmate, Alasi Perdanan, I heard a Persian proverb, “With a sweet tongue of kindness, you can drag an elephant by a hair.”“Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate,” wrote Albert Schweitzer. “He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love,” wrote the Greek religious leader, Saint Basil.
“Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom,” wrote Theodore Isaac Rubin in One to One. “Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness and small obligations win and preserve the heart” said English chemist Humphrey Davy.
“We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop that makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over,” once wrote the Scottish lawyer and biographer, James Boswell.
“We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck . But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness,” wrote columnist Ellen Goodman.
From an artist’s perspective, ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov once said, “The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure. “Willa Cather believed that “When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them, as if their reason has left them.”
“Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution, “Kahlil Gibran reminds us.
Ultimately, “kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not,” noted Dr. Samuel Johnson. Albeit unevenly, this holiday, I am attempting to practice giving what may be the most nourishing and priceless present and by now you can probably guess what that is.
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Grades: PK-8 | 272 students
The school offers a well-rounded Catholic education, with academic and extracurricular program for students in Pre-K through 8th grade.
The school has received full accreditation from the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC).
The quality of our academic program is reflected in the level of success of our students show in standardized tests and our student acceptance rates to elite local high schools.
The average scores of St. Cyril students in these tests consistently place them in the upper quartile of scores nationwide and our students often enter high school with multiple honors and academic scholarships.
In addition to our academics, our students benefit from a wide array of extra-curricular activities, sports, after-school enrichment, and an integrated technology program (iPads, SmartBoards, MacBook lab, MineCraftEdu).
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These activities include opportunities to do Christian service and community outreach by helping less fortunate members of our society.
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Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC)
|Religious Affiliation||Roman Catholic|
|Grades Offered||Grades Prekindergarten-8|
|Learning Difference Programs||Yes|
|Learning Programs Supported||Mild Learning Differences|
|Total Students||272 students|
|Student Body Type||Co-ed|
|% Students of Color||
State avg.: 44%
|Students by Grade|
Academics and Faculty
|Total Classroom Teachers||11 teachers|
|Student : Teacher Ratio||25:1
National avg.: 13:1
|% Faculty w/Advanced Degree||
|Average Class Size||27 students|
|List of Courses Offered||Link to List of Courses|
|Classroom Dress Code||Formal
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Finances and Admission
|Admission Deadline||Feb. 9 / Aug. 1|
|Yearly Tuition Cost||$6,050|
|Tuition Notes||Tuition rate depends on Parish membership ($6,050 in-Parish/$7,900 out of Parish)|
|% on Financial Aid||
|Average Financial Aid Grant||$1,500|
National avg.: 85%
|Admissions Director||Mrs. Angelica Pugliese|
|Admissions Associate||Mr. Ryan Halverosn|
|Total Sports Offered||6 sports|
|Sports||Basketball, Flag Football, Softball, Swimming, Track and Field, VolleyballBasketball, Flag Football,
Track and Field, Volleyball,
|Total ExtracurricularsTotal Extra-curric.||10 extracurriculars|
|ExtracurricularsExtra-curric.||academic decathlon, alter servers, chess club, christian service club, dance class, fine arts, mock trial, science club, theatre arts, vocal ensemble alter servers, chess club, dance class, fine arts, mock trial, science club, theatre arts, vocal ensemble, academic decathlon,
christian service club,
- 1) Students must test for appropriate grade level placement 2) Students may be asked to meet with principal before acceptance 3) All appropraite school records from previous institutions must be provided 4) All children must be vaccinated
- School Location Miles Grades Students
ChatsworthGrades: 6-8 | 682 students
19800 Devonshire St
Chatsworth, CA 91311
Van NuysGrades: PK-8 | 362 students
15700 Sherman Way
Van Nuys, CA 91406
Los AngelesGrades: 1-9 | 342 students
16180 Mulholland Dr
Los Angeles, CA 90049
ChatsworthGrades: PK-12 | 988 students
11052 Independence Ave.
Chatsworth, CA 91311
Woodland HillsGrades: KG-8 | 314 students
6061 Valley Circle Blvd
Woodland Hills, CA 91367
January 11, 2017
Letters of interest and cover letters are frequently used interchangeably even though they have different purposes.
January 03, 2017
When you visit schools, please don't make the following common mistakes. A little thought and preparation will help you make the best impression possible.
December 21, 2016
Bullying has gone electronic. It's called cyberbullying and it is rampant.
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On my arrival at North Villa, I was shown into what I presumed was the drawing-room.
Everything was oppressively new. The brilliantly-varnished door cracked with a report like a pistol when it was opened; the paper on the walls, with its gaudy pattern of birds, trellis-work, and flowers, in gold, red, and green on a white ground, looked hardly dry yet; the showy window-curtains of white and sky-blue, and the still showier carpet of red and yellow, seemed as if they had come out of the shop yesterday; the round rosewood table was in a painfully high state of polish; the morocco-bound picture books that lay on it, looked as if they had never been moved or opened since they had been bought; not one leaf even of the music on the piano was dogs-eared or worn. Never was a richly furnished room more thoroughly comfortless than this — the eye ached at looking round it. There was no repose anywhere. The print of the Queen, hanging lonely on the wall, in its heavy gilt frame, with a large crown at the top, glared on you: the paper, the curtains, the carpet glared on you: the books, the wax-flowers in glass-cases, the chairs in flaring chintz-covers, the china plates on the door, the blue and pink glass vases and cups ranged on the chimney-piece, the over-ornamented chiffoniers with Tonbridge toys and long-necked smelling bottles on their upper shelves — all glared on you. There was no look of shadow, shelter, secrecy, or retirement in any one nook or corner of those four gaudy walls. All surrounding objects seemed startlingly near to the eye; much nearer than they really were. The room would have given a nervous man the headache, before he had been in it a quarter of an hour.
I was not kept waiting long. Another violent crack from the new door, announced the entrance of Mr. Sherwin himself.
He was a tall, thin man: rather round-shouldered; weak at the knees, and trying to conceal the weakness in the breadth of his trowsers. He wore a white cravat, and an absurdly high shirt collar. His complexion was sallow; his eyes were small, black, bright, and incessantly in motion — indeed, all his features were singularly mobile: they were affected by nervous contractions and spasms which were constantly drawing up and down in all directions the brow, the mouth, and the muscles of the cheek. His hair had been black, but was now turning to a sort of iron-grey; it was very dry, wiry, and plentiful, and part of it projected almost horizontally over his forehead. He had a habit of stretching it in this direction, by irritably combing it out, from time to time, with his fingers. His lips were thin and colourless, the lines about them being numerous and strongly marked. Had I seen him under ordinary circumstances, I should have set him down as a little-minded man; a small tyrant in his own way over those dependent on him; a pompous parasite to those above him — a great stickler for the conventional respectabilities of life, and a great believer in his own infallibility. But he was Margaret’s father; and I was determined to be pleased with him.
He made me a low and rather a cringing bow — then looked to the window, and seeing the carriage waiting for me at his door, made another bow, and insisted on relieving me of my hat with his own hand. This done, he coughed, and begged to know what he could do for me.
I felt some difficulty in opening my business to him. It was necessary to speak, however, at once — I began with an apology.
“I am afraid, Mr. Sherwin, that this intrusion on the part of a perfect stranger —”
“Not entirely a stranger, Sir, if I may be allowed to say so.”
“I had the great pleasure, Sir, and profit, and — and, indeed, advantage — of being shown over your town residence last year, when the family were absent from London. A very beautiful house — I happen to be acquainted with the steward of your respected father: he was kind enough to allow me to walk through the rooms. A treat; quite an intellectual treat — the furniture and hangings, and so on, arranged in such a chaste style — and the pictures, some of the finest pieces I ever saw — I was delighted — quite delighted, indeed.”
He spoke in under-tones, laying great stress upon particular words that were evidently favourites with him — such as, “indeed.” Not only his eyes, but his whole face, seemed to be nervously blinking and winking all the time he was addressing me, In the embarrassment and anxiety which I then felt, this peculiarity fidgetted and bewildered me more than I can describe. I would have given the world to have had his back turned, before I spoke to him again.
“I am delighted to hear that my family and my name are not unknown to you, Mr. Sherwin,” I resumed. “Under those circumstances, I shall feel less hesitation and difficulty in making you acquainted with the object of my visit.”
“Just so. May I offer you anything? — a glass of sherry, a —”
“Nothing, thank you. In the first place, Mr. Sherwin, I have reasons for wishing that this interview, whatever results it may lead to, may be considered strictly confidential. I am sure I can depend on your favouring me thus far?”
“Certainly — most certainly — the strictest secrecy of course — pray go on.”
He drew his chair a little nearer to me. Through all his blinking and winking, I could see a latent expression of cunning and curiosity in his eyes. My card was in his hand: he was nervously rolling and unrolling it, without a moment’s cessation, in his anxiety to hear what I had to say.
“I must also beg you to suspend your judgment until you have heard me to the end. You may be disposed to view — to view, I say, unfavourably at first — in short, Mr. Sherwin, without further preface, the object of my visit is connected with your daughter, with Miss Margaret Sherwin —”
“My daughter! Bless my soul — God bless my soul, I really can’t imagine —”
He stopped, half-breathless, bending forward towards me, and crumpling my card between his fingers into the smallest possible dimensions.
“Rather more than a week ago,” I continued, “I accidentally met Miss Sherwin in an omnibus, accompanied by a lady older than herself —”
“My wife; Mrs. Sherwin,” he said, impatiently motioning with his hand, as if “Mrs. Sherwin” were some insignificant obstacle to the conversation, which he wished to clear out of the way as fast as possible.
“You will not probably be surprised to hear that I was struck by Miss Sherwin’s extreme beauty. The impression she made on me was something more, however, than a mere momentary feeling of admiration. To speak candidly, I felt — You have heard of such a thing as love at first sight, Mr. Sherwin?”
“In books, Sir.” He tapped one of the morocco-bound volumes on the table, and smiled — a curious smile, partly deferential and partly sarcastic.
“You would be inclined to laugh, I dare say, if I asked you to believe that there is such a thing as love at first sight, out of books. But, without dwelling further on that, it is my duty to confess to you, in all candour and honesty, that the impression Miss Sherwin produced on me was such as to make me desire the privilege of becoming acquainted with her. In plain words, I discovered her place of residence by following her to this house.”
“Upon my soul this is the most extraordinary proceeding ——!”
“Pray hear me out, Mr. Sherwin: you will not condemn my conduct, I think, if you hear all I have to say.”
He muttered something unintelligible; his complexion turned yellower; he dropped my card, which he had by this time crushed into fragments; and ran his hand rapidly through his hair until he had stretched it out like a penthouse over his forehead — blinking all the time, and regarding me with a lowering, sinister expression of countenance. I saw that it was useless to treat him as I should have treated a gentleman. He had evidently put the meanest and the foulest construction upon my delicacy and hesitation in speaking to him: so I altered my plan, and came to the point abruptly —“came to business,” as he would have called it.
“I ought to have been plainer, Mr. Sherwin; I ought perhaps to have told you at the outset, in so many words, that I came to —” (I was about to say, “to ask your daughter’s hand in marriage;” but a thought of my father moved darkly over my mind at that moment, and the words would not pass my lips).
“Well, Sir! to what?”
The tone in which he said this was harsh enough to rouse me. It gave me back my self-possession immediately.
“To ask your permission to pay my addresses to Miss Sherwin — or, to be plainer still, if you like, to ask of you her hand in marriage.”
The words were spoken. Even if I could have done so, I would not have recalled what I had just said; but still, I trembled in spite of myself as I expressed in plain, blunt words what I had only rapturously thought over, or delicately hinted at to Margaret, up to this time.
“God bless me!” cried Mr. Sherwin, suddenly sitting back bolt upright in his chair, and staring at me in such surprise, that his restless features were actually struck with immobility for the moment —“God bless me, this is quite another story. Most gratifying, most astonishing — highly flattered I am sure; highly indeed, my dear Sir! Don’t suppose, for one moment, I ever doubted your honourable feeling. Young gentlemen in your station of life do sometimes fail in respect towards the wives and daughters of their — in short, of those who are not in their rank exactly. But that’s not the question — quite a misunderstanding — extremely stupid of me, to be sure. Pray let me offer you a glass of wine!”
“No wine, thank you, Mr. Sherwin. I must beg your attention a little longer, while I state to you, in confidence, how I am situated with regard to the proposals I have made. There are certain circumstances —”
“Yes — yes?”
He bent forward again eagerly towards me, as he spoke; looking more inquisitive and more cunning than ever.
“I have acknowledged to you, Mr. Sherwin, that I have found means to speak to your daughter — to speak to her twice. I made my advances honourably. She received them with a modesty and a reluctance worthy of herself, worthy of any lady, the highest lady in the land.” (Mr. Sherwin looked round reverentially to his print of the Queen; then looked back at me, and bowed solemnly.) “Now, although in so many words she directly discouraged me — it is her due that I should say this — still, I think I may without vanity venture to hope that she did so as a matter of duty, more than as a matter of inclination.”
“Ah — yes, yes! I understand. She would do nothing without my authority, of course?”
“No doubt that was one reason why she received me as she did; but she had another, which she communicated to me in the plainest terms — the difference in our rank of life.”
“Ah! she said that, did she? Exactly so — she saw a difficulty there? Yes — yes! high principles, Sir — high principles, thank God!”
“I need hardly tell you, Mr. Sherwin, how deeply I feel the delicate sense of honour which this objection shows on your daughter’s part. You will easily imagine that it is no objection to me, personally. The happiness of my whole life depends on Miss Sherwin; I desire no higher honour, as I can conceive no greater happiness, than to be your daughter’s husband. I told her this: I also told her that I would explain myself on the subject to you. She made no objection; and I am, therefore, I think, justified in considering that if you authorised the removal of scruples which do her honour at present, she would not feel the delicacy she does now at sanctioning my addresses.”
“Very proper — a very proper way of putting it. Practical, if I may be allowed to say so. And now, my dear Sir, the next point is: how about your own honoured family — eh?”
“It is exactly there that the difficulty lies. My father, on whom I am dependent as the younger son, has very strong prejudices — convictions I ought perhaps to call them — on the subject of social inequalities.”
“Quite so — most natural; most becoming, indeed, on the part of your respected father. I honour his convictions, sir. Such estates, such houses, such a family as his — connected, I believe, with the nobility, especially on your late lamented mother’s side. My dear Sir, I emphatically repeat it, your father’s convictions do him honour; I respect them as much as I respect him; I do, indeed.”
“I am glad you can view my father’s ideas on social subjects in so favourable a light, Mr. Sherwin. You will be less surprised to hear how they are likely to affect me in the step I am now taking.”
“He disapproves of it, of course — strongly, perhaps. Well, though my dear girl is worthy of any station; and a man like me, devoted to mercantile interests, may hold his head up anywhere as one of the props of this commercial country,” (he ran his fingers rapidly through his hair, and tried to look independent), “still I am prepared to admit, under all the circumstances — I say under all the circumstances — that his disapproval is very natural, and was very much to be expected — very much indeed.”
“He has expressed no disapproval, Mr. Sherwin.”
“You don’t say so!”
“I have not given him an opportunity. My meeting with your daughter has been kept a profound secret from him, and from every member of my family; and a secret it must remain. I speak from my intimate knowledge of my father, when I say that I hardly know of any means that he would not be capable of employing to frustrate the purpose of this visit, if I had mentioned it to him. He has been the kindest and best of fathers to me; but I firmly believe, that if I waited for his consent, no entreaties of mine, or of any one belonging to me, would induce him to give his sanction to the marriage I have come to you to propose.”
“Bless my soul! this is carrying things rather far, though — dependent as you are on him, and all that. Why, what on earth can we do — eh?”
“We must keep both the courtship and the marriage secret.”
“Secret! Good gracious, I don’t at all see my way —”
“Yes, secret — a profound secret among ourselves, until I can divulge my marriage to my father, with the best chance of —”
“But I tell you, Sir, I can’t see my way through it at all. Chance! what chance would there be, after what you have told me?”
“There might be many chances. For instance, when the marriage was solemnised, I might introduce your daughter to my father’s notice — without disclosing who she was — and leave her, gradually and unsuspectedly, to win his affection and respect (as with her beauty, elegance, and amiability, she could not fail to do), while I waited until the occasion was ripe for confessing everything. Then if I said to him, ‘This young lady, who has so interested and delighted you, is my wife;’ do you think, with that powerful argument in my favour, he could fail to give us his pardon? If, on the other hand, I could only say, ‘This young lady is about to become my wife,’ his prejudices would assuredly induce him to recall his most favourable impressions, and refuse his consent. In short, Mr. Sherwin, before marriage, it would be impossible to move him — after marriage, when opposition could no longer be of any avail, it would be quite a different thing: we might be sure of producing, sooner or later, the most favourable results. This is why it would be absolutely necessary to keep our union secret at first.”
I wondered then — I have since wondered more — how it was that I contrived to speak thus, so smoothly and so unhesitatingly, when my conscience was giving the lie all the while to every word I uttered.
“Yes, yes; I see — oh, yes, I see!” said Mr. Sherwin, rattling a bunch of keys in his pocket, with an expression of considerable perplexity; “but this is a ticklish business, you know — a very queer and ticklish business indeed. To have a gentleman of your birth and breeding for a son-in-law, is of course — but then there is the money question. Suppose you failed with your father after all —my money is out in my speculations —I can do nothing. Upon my word, you have placed me in a position that I never was placed in before.”
“I have influential friends, Mr. Sherwin, in many directions — there are appointments, good appointments, which would be open to me, if I pushed my interests. I might provide in this way against the chance of failure.”
“Ah! — well — yes. There’s something in that, certainly.”
“I can only assure you that my attachment to Miss Sherwin is not of a nature to be overcome by any pecuniary considerations. I speak in all our interests, when I say that a private marriage gives us a chance for the future, as opportunities arise of gradually disclosing it. My offer to you may be made under some disadvantages and difficulties, perhaps; for, with the exception of a very small independence, left me by my mother, I have no certain prospects. But I really think my proposals have some compensating advantages to recommend them —”
“Certainly! most decidedly so! I am not insensible, my dear Sir, to the great advantage, and honour, and so forth. But there is something so unusual about the whole affair. What would be my feelings, if your father should not come round, and my dear girl was disowned by the family? Well, well! that could hardly happen, I think, with her accomplishments and education, and manners too, so distinguished — though perhaps I ought not to say so. Her schooling alone was a hundred a-year, Sir, without including extras —”
“I am sure, Mr. Sherwin —”
“— A school, Sir, where it was a rule to take in no thing lower than the daughter of a professional man — they only waived the rule in my case — the most genteel school, perhaps, in all London! A drawing-room-deportment day once every week — the girls taught how to enter a room and leave a room with dignity and ease — a model of a carriage door and steps, in the back drawing-room, to practise the girls (with the footman of the establishment in attendance) in getting into a carriage and getting out again, in a lady-like manner! No duchess has had a better education than my Margaret! —”
“Permit me to assure you, Mr. Sherwin —”
“And then, her knowledge of languages — her French, and Italian, and German, not discontinued in holidays, or after she left school (she has only just left it); but all kept up and improved every evening, by the kind attention of Mr. Mannion —”
“May I ask who Mr. Mannion is?” The tone in which I put this question, cooled his enthusiasm about his daughter’s education immediately. He answered in his former tones, and with one of his former bows:
“Mr. Mannion is my confidential clerk, Sir — a most superior person, most highly talented, and well read, and all that.”
“Is he a young man?”
“Young! Oh, dear no! Mr. Mannion is forty, or a year or two more, if he’s a day — an admirable man of business, as well as a great scholar. He’s at Lyons now, buying silks for me. When he comes back I shall be delighted to introduce ——”
“I beg your pardon, but I think we are wandering away from the point, a little.”
“I beg yours— so we are. Well, my dear Sir, I must be allowed a day or two — say two days — to ascertain what my daughter’s feelings are, and to consider your proposals, which have taken me very much by surprise, as you may in fact see. But I assure you I am most flattered, most honoured, most anxious —”.
“I hope you will consider my anxieties, Mr. Sherwin, and let me know the result of your deliberations as soon as possible.”
“Without fail, depend upon it. Let me see: shall we say the second day from this, at the same time, if you can favour me with a visit?”
“And between that time and this, you will engage not to hold any communication with my daughter?”
“I promise not, Mr. Sherwin — because I believe that your answer will be favourable.”
“Ah, well — well! lovers, they say, should never despair. A little consideration, and a little talk with my dear girl — really now, won’t you change your mind and have a glass of sherry? (No again?) Very well, then, the day after tomorrow, at five o’clock.”
With a louder crack than ever, the brand-new drawing-room door was opened to let me out. The noise was instantly succeeded by the rustling of a silk dress, and the banging of another door, at the opposite end of the passage. Had anybody been listening? Where was Margaret?
Mr. Sherwin stood at the garden-gate to watch my departure, and to make his farewell bow. Thick as was the atmosphere of illusion in which I now lived, I shuddered involuntarily as I returned his parting salute, and thought of him as my father-in-law!
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Evaluating Organizational Training Success Improves Later Application by Employees
In a recent study appearing in the International Journal of Training and Development, researchers Saks and Burke discovered that the frequencies of behavioral and results-based training evaluation were related to actual transfer of training material. Or in other words, organizations that evaluated behavior changes and monetary benefits resulting from training tended to have better results from that training. In their words:
Overall, the results of this study suggest a training evaluation-transfer of training paradox: organizations are most likely to evaluate trainee reactions and learning, and yet only behavior and results criteria are significantly related to higher rates of training transfer.
The authors investigated this by surveying 150 members of a T&D association in Canada. They asked respondents to identify the extent to which employees actually made good use of organizational training initiatives and respond about the degree to which their organization evaluated their training programs. Kirkpatrick’s 4-level training evaluation model (reactions, learning, behavior, and results) was used as a framework for these questions. On a scale of 1 (never) to 5 (always), consistent with prior studies, the researchers found that evaluation of trainee reactions was by far the most common (M=4.08), followed by learning (M=2.85), behavior (M=2.59) and results (M=2.22).
Frequency of training evaluation predicted immediate transfer and far transfer (6 months and 1 year later). Correlations generally decreased with later evaluations, as would be expected. When looking at specific types of evaluative criteria, only behavior and results were statistically significantly related to transfer variables, with moderate effects (r = .28 to .43). Relationships with reactions and learning were much lower (r = .02 to .18).
This indicates that organizations that evaluate behavior and results tend to have better transfer, at least as rated by those responsible for implementing those training programs. As a survey study, these results do not speak to causation. While the act of evaluating may improve transfer, organizations that evaluate may simply pay more attention to their training programs in general than organizations that do not evaluate. The researcher controlled for organizational age and the size of the firm, but this would not address this issue. More in depth consideration of the source of variance in transfer is needed. This study also relied solely on T&D professionals’ impressions of their organizations, which may not reflect actual transfer. Research with real organizational transfer data is needed to address this limitation.Footnotes:
- Saks, A., & Burke, L. (2012). An investigation into the relationship between training evaluation and the transfer of training International Journal of Training and Development DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2419.2011.00397.x [↩]
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“The dynamic and flexible design for the center that HOK has developed will create the ideal work environment for Ri.MED scientists.”
With more than 600 scientists and staff members, the facility will be a global hub for biomedical research and development. Managed by the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), its focus on translational science will move research quickly from the lab to the marketplace. The campus will be one of the world’s most environmentally responsive research facilities.
The design promotes communication by organizing the research facility as a small, compact village integrated into the landscape. At the heart of the village, a pedestrian street connects all of the buildings and offers spectacular views of the Tyrrhenian Sea to the north and the mountains to the south.
The flexible laboratory space is divided into four wings on three floors. A modular design allows each laboratory neighborhood to be easily subdivided. Floor-to-ceiling glass between laboratory and documentation areas maximizes visibility between teams and provides ample natural light. A mix of formal and informal workspaces encourages collaboration. At the heart of the laboratory space is a central conference center with an auditorium.
A central commons building provides additional conference facilities, a small faculty club café and other amenities. A patient trial clinic and incubator labs are located nearby for easy patient access.
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While privacy advocates applaud Mozilla's proposal to block cookies by default on the Firefox browser, it should be clear that this is yet another initiative that does not show how it protects people from harm. What's more, along with negatively impacting digital advertising, it could have an adverse impact on small publishers and do much to limit consumer choice online.
Why do companies want to track online activity in the first place? Small publishers rely on a host of third parties, such as analytics vendors, to understand the popularity of the content they publish. Third-party advertising technology companies generate the publisher revenues required to pay staff salaries and keep sites running. These third parties aggregate the content created by millions of small publishers and offer media buyers a reach of advertising opportunities that is comparable to that provided by large, vertically integrated publishers. But to be truly competitive, these advertising vendors must track the anonymous activity across their networks to offer frequency capping and other services offered by the largest publishers.
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) tracking protection working group tried to simplify the exchange of free content for tracking with a universal flag. Unfortunately, the proposed rules inadvertently gave the largest publishers an unfair competitive advantage, since they were not required to respect this flag. Absent the ability to track anonymous information, the small independent publishers' service providers could not help them monetize their sites or understand their readership base on equal footing with large publishers.
In fact, new regulations in some countries even require publishers to display annoying pop-ups to inform consumers that anonymous tracking is taking place. Since large publishers that have wide-ranging content need only display this once, but small publishers must each independently display the pop-up,some consumers may find it less annoying to restrict their visits only to large publishers. This inadvertently centralizes consumer activity to just a few players, which according to privacy advocates would help lead to the very "Big Brother" centralized database of consumer activity that they are trying to prevent.
With the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), we have seen debate arise over anonymous identifiers and personal ones. Both privacy advocates and the industry agree that personally identifiable information (PII) can be used to identify, proactively contact or precisely locate a person. Also classified as PII is informationsuch as social security numbers that can help look up information to contact you. Thus, the definition of an anonymous identifier is one that cannot be used to proactively contact a person (e.g., an IP address or a cookie identifier). Unfortunately, the FTC further muddied the waters by declaring that personal information should be defined differently for adults and for children. Thisleads to an important point of clarity: In digital advertising we only need to use anonymous identifiers to help support independent publishers in competing with their larger rivals.
With the Firefox plan, Mozilla is making a unilateral decision without giving consumers a choice, and blocking even the collection of this anonymous data. We are steadfast advocates for consumer rights and hope that as with other anti-competitive actions, this initiative will be rethought in light of the impact it could have on the online advertising industry and on small publishers.
We believe in promoting free access to a diverse set of ideas produced both by millions of individual bloggers and by the world's largest publishers. Everyone enjoys and benefits from free content. Nearly everyone agrees that we each have a right to privacy embedded in our own identity. But each of us is also a consumer of advertising-subsidized content, and that advertising relies on the use of anonymous data. Transparency and choice are two fundamental principles that underlie digital privacy guidelines. But how can usersmake informed choices if they don't understand the implications of their decisions? The personal and even societal value of having free access to nearly unlimited content is hard to overstate, and the loss of it would have profound implications.
We hope through better understanding of the benefits of anonymous uses of information, trade groups, government and our industry peers recognize that the unintended consequences of the proposed changes would institute barriers that disproportionally impact small publishers and limit choices for consumers.
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Kenzaburo Oe is a Japanese writer made famous in 1994 for winning the Nobel Prize in literature for work that “with poetic force creates an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today.”
He is also known as something else: the father of a son with serious disabilities, including autism.
That he could make such critically-acclaimed, universal art inspired by his life experience—a number of his works, like the novel A Personal Matter, confronts the issue of having a seriously disabled child—interests me. Reading his work, learning about his biography, I want to know: How does he fashion a life of meaning from these circumstances? Where does he find the stamina to carry on as a parent every day and to also delve so deeply into these experiences? Apart from his writings, what is his attitude to parenting, and to life? What can others learn from him?
These are big questions for a blog post and you will find only the beginnings of answers here. But I ask these questions because I see committed parents of kids with autism and other special needs struggling with the demands of their devotion. It takes so much time, effort and resources to set up services. Parents need to monitor the quality of those services, track results, and make adjustments. They have to advocate with government agencies and other service providers to obtain more effective, different or additional services as circumstances change. It takes time to manage behavior plans and individualized education plans. And that’s in addition to going to work, paying the bills, managing a household, caring for others in the family. For many (depending on where they are in the autism journey), these considerations can limit thoughts parents may have about other aspects of life, such as participating in community activities and religious life. Or simply making time to have fun.
And yet, given all this, it is natural for parents to ask themselves, time and again: Can’t we be doing more?
The song of the water rail
I was curious to know more about Kenzaburo Oe and when I learned he was speaking at Tufts University on November 3, I went to see him. What I learned was both basic and inspiring. At 74, Oe is a writer, a political activist, as a husband and a father who remains on high alert for moments of meaning. He described his political activism to close nuclear power plants in Japan after the Fukushima disaster, for example.
When it comes to his disabled son Hikari, the moments of meaning he experiences give him both joy and strength. He draws sustenance from his son, both from Hikari’s achievements and his individuality as he has learned to express it.
Oe recounted how his son (Hikari means “light” in Japanese) did not speak until he was six years old. Hikari’s parents provided tapes of song birds, narrated by a radio actor. A bird would sing, and the actor would identify it. Tweet. “This is a sparrow.” Warble. “This is a nightingale.” And more. Hikari would listen to these tapes for hours. And his parents could tell by watching him that he was listening, but his reactions did not involve intelligible speech.
One summer when Hikari was six, Oe and his family spent time at a country cottage. “I was walking with my son on my shoulder,” he said. “Always, he was silent. Then some bird, a water rail, made a sound.
“My son, he says, ‘This is the water rail’ in the accent of the radio announcer.”
Oe continued: “I couldn’t believe that I heard my son speak.” But it soon became clear that his son could name that bird’s song and others. They continued listening to the bird song tapes for one year, then began listening to classical music. Mozart, Chopin, Bach. “He was charmed by the music,” Oe said of his son. “He abandoned listening to the old [bird song] tapes.”
Then when the radio played in their home, Hikari began to identify the composers. He would say, “It’s Bach,” or “It’s Mozart.” Over time, Hikari began to study piano, but his physical disabilities prevented him from manipulating the keys. His study of music continued, however, and he eventually began to create his own compositions which were recorded on CDs.
Encountering Oe from a distance among hundreds of people in a university auditorium, it was clear that Hikari’s disability played a central role in the family’s life together, and in his work as a writer. (Oe chronicles this story in A Healing Family, a collection of essays about his son’s role in his family which includes his wife and Hikari’s two younger siblings.)
Two aspects of Oe’s humanity emerge:
First, Oe celebrates the moments of joy in the life of his son and his family. It’s not that he pushes aside life’s difficulties. If you read A Personal Matter, you witness doctors advising new parents of a child born with brain damage that their infant should be allowed to die—an experience which echoes the author’s own. When you hear Oe in person, it is clear the pride he takes in his son’s achievements in spite of his challenges.
Second, Oe appreciates the person that his son, now 48 years old, has become. Oe recognizes the times when his son has asserted his own identity. Such a moment occurred when Hikari was still a teenager. Oe said there came a day when Hikari told his mother and father to stop using a childhood nickname, Pooh, and to call him by his real name instead. This moment of personal advocacy must have been a memorable event for Oe to recall it three decades later.
Oe’s his alertness to meaningful moments in his son’s life includes not just the happy achievements. As Oe noted in his Nobel lecture, he found his son’s music also captured deep feelings of sorrow:
“My mentally handicapped son Hikari was awakened by the voices of birds to the music of Bach and Mozart, eventually composing his own works. The little pieces that he first composed were full of fresh splendor and delight. They seemed like dew glittering on grass leaves. … As Hikari went on to compose more works, I could not but hear in his music also ‘the voice of a crying and dark soul’. Mentally handicapped as he was, his strenuous effort furnished his act of composing or his ‘habit of life’ with the growth of compositional techniques and a deepening of his conception. That in turn enabled him to discover in the depth of his heart a mass of dark sorrow which he had hitherto been unable to identify with words.”
All of this is to say that parents of kids with disabilities can learn something from Kenzaburo Oe’s family experience: As we continue on our quest to make the best lives we can for our children, we can take stock along the way. Be open to moments of meaning. Be alive to the glimpses of achievement. And be alert to the people that our children become, their personal expressions of individuality. There can be moments of joy in the act of discovering more about these people we love, even when there is sadness in their hearts. We can find sustenance in their meaningful acts of expression.
“Joy” versus “happiness”
On my drive home after the lecture, I heard more about this concept from the Israeli novelist and writer Amos Oz, who was the subject on a recent segment of the public radio show On Point. The interviewer asked Oz whether he believed different cultures around the world have different conceptions of happiness. Oz asserted that human emotions and experiences are universal to the human condition, and added:
“I don’t believe in everlasting happiness. I believe in joy, in passing joy. In Hebrew, we don’t even have a proper word for ‘happiness.’ The Hebrew word asher, which only translates as happiness, means receiving positive feedback from others. There are six Hebrew words for joy because there are so many kinds of joy, whereas happiness is an abstraction. And everlasting happiness is a nonexistent experience. I believe in passing joys, in coming joys, which come and go and come and disappear. I don’t believe in everlasting happiness, in arriving there and leaning back and enjoying yourself forever.”
Hearing Oz’s answer after Oe’s talk had the effect of witnessing two voices in captivating conversation. For me the experience reframes the questions at the beginning of this post. Should we be doing more for our children? Is it ever enough? Yes and no. But we also need to make room for witnessing moments of meaning. The times when we experience joy with our children should feed us, strengthen us. So that, as we carry on in challenging times, we can be ready for the next moment of joy, however fleeting.
(Photo of Kenzaburo Oe, taken in 2005 by Amao via Wikipedia.)
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The Isle of Man Office of Fair Trading wishes to make the public aware of an important safety notice which has been issued in relation to Dimplex Portable 10L Dehumidifiers (model number DXDH10N or DH212).
A safety issue has been identified with a batch of Dimplex portable 10L dehumidifiers.
A component on the printed circuit board may overheat, resulting in the product catching fire.
Affected products have a serial number starting with: 0, 1 or 2. The serial number is located on the product rating plate, which is accessible by removing the water tank.
What to do if you have an affected dehumidifier:
STOP USING IT immediately by switching it off at the mains socket and then unplug the dehumidifier from the socket.
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Since this is my first post in regards to an Answers in Genesis (AiG) article, I want to give a few brief comments on creationist articles that I pick to critique on this blog. In general, I plan to use materials from two main sources – the Institute for Creation Research (ICR) and the Answers in Genesis (AiG). Both try to use astronomy to promote creationism, but they are different in the way they do it. From my observations, ICR radio is fairly preachy, giving quick snippets of just enough astronomy to raise questions and then saying that it supports creation. ICR articles, however, seem much more intent on putting forth half-truths and incomplete stories (like the solar neutrino problem) and then having the reader question the scientific standards on their own.
AiG, on the other hand, is the most extreme. They present the astronomy information, then quickly turn it around saying it either fits or does not fit with a literal interpretation of the Bible, and if it does fit they say it’s real, and if it doesn’t then they say there are problems with it and it must be false because it does not fit with a literal reading of the Bible.
Since I am attempting to keep this blog fairly neutral when it comes to religion, deities, and other related matters, I will not be talking about “God’s plan on Earth,” or whether the biblical worldview is supported by astronomy or not. Only when specific falsehoods, half-truths, misleading statements, or false assumptions are made will I address them in relation to astronomy.
This entry is in specific response to the “More Ice on Mars?” article from Answers in Genesis, written by Peter Galling on June 23, 2008.
This article discusses the recent findings of NASA’s Mars Phoenix lander, a mission to Mars that has been operating since May 2008, analyzing the Mars surface and shallow subsurface (within a meter of the surface). One of the major science goals was to find evidence of water-ice (as opposed to carbon dioxide ice (“dry ice”)). It successfully did that, digging trenches and finding white material that disappeared (sublimated – turning from a solid directly into a gas) within a few days of exposure. For more information on the Phoenix mission, visit the Phoenix Mars Mission Homepage.
What I want to address with this post is the middle of the article, as the first part mainly outlines my previous paragraph:
“If Nasa has indeed found … ice on Mars, it would not be a major surprise for young-earth creationists. … In fact, this particular icy discovery should cause a cold feeling for evolutionists, who would much prefer to find liquid water but instead have found only this scant evidence of subsurface ice.”
Alright, let’s pause here. That first sentence, I have no real comment on – I mainly quoted it for context. The second quoted sentence is very close to a straw man argument, the logical fallacy where you create a claim to argue against, though the claim isn’t actually made by the other side. I say it’s “almost” a straw man because it’s true that it would be an amazing discovery that planetary scientists and astrobiologists would delight over if liquid water were found on Mars. BUT, almost no one actually thinks that liquid water on Mars exists today.
In fact, it is not possible for liquid water to exist on Mars’ surface, as any professional planetary scientist knows. That’s because water requires two things to exist in a liquid form – the right temperature and the right pressure. First, the temperature is too cold, so any water would almost instantly freeze at Mars’ surface temperature. Second, the atmospheric pressure of Mars is very small, and any water that was exposed to the surface would almost instantly sublimate (turn directly into a gas).
What is possible is for liquid water to exist in some form beneath the Mars crust. There, the temperature would be higher and the pressure greater such that liquid water could exist. It could also be mixed with salts which would lower the freezing point, as well.
So yes, while we would “prefer” to find liquid water, no one thought that Mars Phoenix would find it.
Next, I will address this:
“[T]he very idea that liquid or frozen water on Mars is a ‘big thing’ comes straight from the evolutionary faith that where there’s water, life will follow. In fact, that’s the entire premise of today’s Martian landers.”
This is confusing correlation with causation, another logical fallacy (assuming that it’s an honest mistake). NASA – and astronomers – do not think that where there’s water there’s life. That’s a fairly ridiculous assumption that everywhere there’s water you’ll find life. What they do think is that water is a requirement for life. Every single form of life that we know of requires water to live. That is why NASA’s mantra these days is “Follow the Water.” If we want to try to find extraterrestrial life, then we should be looking where there are things that we think life requires … an energy source, water, and physical conditions that can sustain it (such as protection from high levels of radiation).
That is why we are trying to find where water ice is today, where liquid water may be today, and especially where liquid water may have once existed on the surface of Mars (when it was warmer and its atmosphere was heavier). It would be those places that would be most likely to have once harbored life as we know it and we have the greatest chance of finding it. It’s not because we think that wherever there’s water life will magically spring up.
Finally, that’s not the “entire premise” of all of the Mars landers today. Yes, it is the guiding premise, and it may even be the main mission statement. But, missions are generally only selected if they can serve multiple tasks and yield information to answer multiple questions.
For example, the science mission of Phoenix has three stated questions to answer: (1) Can the martian arctic support life? (2) What is the history of water at the landing site? and (3) How is the martian climate affected by polar dynamics. You’ll notice that only one of those deals with life, two of them with water, and the third one is completely different. Phoenix doesn’t even have instruments that could detect life (such as derivatives of the Viking lander experiments).
The last third of the AiG article discusses Noah’s Flood extending to Mars, making statements about biblical worldviews as a framework for understanding astronomy, and other religious statements that really don’t address much astronomy, hence I will not address them.
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Stock scalping refers to the illegal and deceptive practice of recommending that others purchase a security while secretly selling the same security. In recent years, the SEC and Justice Department have brought an increasing number of cases alleging securities violations for stock scalping activity.
Stock Promotion entails the dissemination of information about a publicly traded company intended to increase its stock price and trading volume. The person who publishes this information is called a “ Stock Promoter” or a “stock tout.” Stock Scalping is most often practiced by unsavory Stock Promoters who are engaged to generate price and volume increases in penny stocks so their clients—one or more individuals or entities with very large positions obtained at deep discounts often for services—may liquidate their shares.
Scalping l the OTCMarkets Platform
Over the past decade or so, stock scalping has become an epidemic in stocks traded on the OTCMarkets platform.
Until around 2010, when depositing penny stock certificates became much more difficult than it had been, most promoters were paid in “free trading” shares of the stocks they promoted. Well aware that they were engaging in pump and dump schemes, they needed to dump their own stock before the price crashed. And so they sold into their own exhortations to buy. Nowadays, they’re mostly paid in cash, but that doesn’t mean they don’t frontload in advance of the promo and sell into the volume scalping and price increase they create.
Stock Promoters sometimes call themselves “investor relations” professionals. They rarely are professionals. Real Investors Relations people object strenuously to being lumped in with stock pumpers. The honest ones work for companies, not anonymous “third parties,” and provide normal services with full disclosure to the public about their services and compensation. They disseminate press releases, place favorable articles in industry publications, answer investors’ questions, and so on.
Using Stock Promotion in Stock Scalping Schemes
Stock promoters use a variety of media including email, internet,direct mail newsletters, and their own websites. Some buy mailing lists and send spam to the individuals named, but the CAN-SPAM Act and organizations like Spamhaus can create serious consequences for spammers, so most limit their mailings to recipients who opt to receive them. A very few still use boiler rooms staffed by cold-callers.
Promoters’ communications are generally over-the-top, dealing in absurd exaggeration of the company’s worth, crazy sector comparisons such as, ”Apple’s working on the same thing!”–meaningless charts and graphs, and irrelevant quotes purportedly from the likes of Warren Buffett.
Stock Promotional activities are not illegal. But stock scalping is, along with securities manipulation, and promoters often engage in both, as a recent string of SEC enforcement actions—and a few DOJ criminal prosecutions—attest.
For the most part, scalpers are promoters; sometimes professional, sometimes semi-pro. Any individual or group can buy stock on the cheap, and then create a website to pump it, or use a financial message board for the same investor relations purpose. Though elite touts are paid large sums of cash these days, when possible they no doubt also pick up shares of their own before they get down to work.
The people who hire promoters are less likely to be accused of stock scalping than the promoters themselves. That is probably because they do their very best to conceal their identities, as do the promoters themselves. SEC Rule 17(b) requires stock promoters and paid publishers of information about public companies to disclose the amount and source of their remuneration, but often the “third parties” named are anonymous corporate egos, nonexistent entities or offshore nominee companies.
Those parties—the clients—may have got their stock in the first place as seed shareholders in the public company often a shell eventually used for the pump job. Often just before the stock starts trading and the promo hits, the company does Brenda Hamilton a forward stock split, considerably increasing the amount of stock held by the seed shareholders. In other cases, the clients may have got their stock through a debt conversion or a fraudulent offering under Rule 504 or Rule 144.
If the stock investor relations promoter made the required disclosure fewer investors would purchase the security. A promoter that can’t generate the necessary high volume, will have trouble finding work in the future. Recent SEC enforcement actions suggest that many promoters’ disclosure is often unclear, incomplete, or entirely untrue.
A few should be given credit: they announce in their disclaimer how much cash they’ve been paid. They name the “third party” payer, and disclose how much stock he owns, adding that he intends to sell it all. Such honesty rarely inhibits the pump, in part because most investors don’t bother to read disclaimers.
Anyone who intends to sell during a stock promotional campaign should specifically state that he or she intends to sell during the campaign. Prior sales should also be disclosed in the disclaimer. Disclosure of stock compensation or of the number of shares held is not sufficient if sales will be made during the promotion.
Promoters should remember that the securities laws require stock promotional materials to disclose certain information to investors. In addition, the disclosures provided must be truthful and complete. The SEC has charged stock promoters for disclosing false and misleading information concerning the origin of faxes used in promotional campaigns, who paid for the promotional campaign, and the type or amount of compensation paid. Due to increasing SEC scrutiny, stock promoters should work closely with a securities lawyer in building an SEC defense compliance strategy.
More information about the SEC’s regulation of investor relations activities and a sample disclaimer can be found at these blog posts:
For further information about this article, please contact Brenda Hamilton, Securities Attorney at 101 Plaza Real S, Suite 202 N, Boca Raton Florida,
at 561-416-8956 or visit http:www.securitieslawyer101.com.
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By: Joe Warta
Any book that opens with an allusion to King David’s victory over Goliath being one of superior firepower and not simply a Biblical miracle is sure to get my attention.
But it only gets more interesting from there.
From the ancient history of propulsion weapons, to the history of primitive 16th century firearms, to the modern day, author David Harsanyi provides a detailed and engaging retelling of “America’s enduring history with the gun” in his new book, “First Freedom.” (October 2018)
Harsanyi’s book is rife with historical commentary and is chock-full of exciting tales from our nation’s fundamental relationship with firearms.
It is hard to read “First Freedom” and not see stark similarities between the gun debate hundreds of years ago and today. For example, as Harsanyi points out, in 1727, English elitists asserted that those who used their firearms were “bad Christians… of little or no worth…” and would ultimately resort to using their weapons for criminal acts. And those English aristocrats were able to succeed in pushing their anti-gun agendas by banning many different kinds of hunting in an attempt to keep the population unarmed and untrained. Their anti-gun rhetoric reminded me of talking points that are still drilled into the populous by politicians and media elites today.
In delving into the complicated history of firearms, Harsanyi makes it clear that, from the United States’ founding, American citizens were not going to let anyone disarm them. The Revolutionary War was ignited, in part, by an attempt by the British to disarm New England citizens during the Gunpowder Incident.
The American people, as Harsanyi points out, have always viewed their right to self-defense as fundamental. It is clear that those who sought to disarm colonists never really provided a sound philosophical reason for doing so – meanwhile, Americans cited their natural right and duty to self-defense as their reasons for keeping and bearing arms. Americans, indeed, were unquestionably the most zealous defenders of natural rights in the world.
American gun culture traces its roots to the thousand-year-old English tradition of self-defense. The English people were implored to arm themselves by King Alfred. The semi-modern establishment of militias dates back to English villages, and the natural right to self-defense can be seen in royal proclamations in England hundreds of years ago, which demanded that each male head of household own a weapon to defend himself and his family.
Harsanyi, of course, did not simply write a book about political philosophy. The technical history of the American relationship with firearms, as well as the detailed history of American warfare, provides a fascinating contrast to the philosophy of “First Freedom.”
The technical history of the American relationship with firearms gives an extraordinary, albeit under-reported, history into the American history of marksmanship. With accounts of the self-taught Appalachian marksmen who become one of the most invaluable components of Washington’s army in the American Revolution, to the fabled cowboys of the 1800s, Harsanyi’s reporting of history is sometimes more like an exciting novel than a history book.
“First Freedom” is far-reaching, and tackles the stories of Wild Bill Hickok and Buffalo Bill, the Lewis Gun, Mikhail Kalashnikov, and reaches into the modern infamy of the firearm debate.
I was thoroughly impressed with the depth and clarity with which Harsanyi writes. I started the book as a gun owner and liked to think I knew a thing or two about firearms, but I finished the books much more informed. “First Freedom” covers just about everything a gun owner could hope for: technical explanations of firearms, the political philosophy behind the right to self-defense, and of course, a healthy helping of entertaining history.
Joe Warta is a Regional Director with the National Association for Gun Rights writing from Colorado. Contact him at email@example.com.
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Migration dynamics of modern humans from Africa into Eurasia are sufficient to explain the replacement of Neanderthals by modern humans, suggests a model published in Nature Communications this week. Previously, it had been argued that the extinction of Neanderthals was caused by environmental pressure, out-competition by modern humans, or both.
Oren Kolodny and Marcus Feldman developed a model of Neanderthal replacement based on species drift, in which changes in frequencies of species are driven by random events rather than by a selective advantage. Even under the assumption that Neanderthals and modern humans were equal except in migration pattern and initial population size, they found that modern humans were certain to replace Neanderthals due to the repeated migration of modern humans from Africa into Eurasia. The model suggests that this replacement was gradual: that Neanderthals were replaced by the offspring of one or more small groups of modern humans that migrated out of Africa, established in Eurasia, and increased in numbers until eventually reaching 100% of the hominin population.
Although the extinction of Neanderthals may still have been hastened by environmental factors or an advantage for modern humans, the new model suggests that the replacement of Neanderthals was inevitable. The model also provides a baseline for further testing of the relative roles of other causal factors.
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The two-year M.Sc. in Medical Imaging Technology programme will fulfil the needs for trained manpower in the healthcare sector. The best outcome for the medical professionals will be achieved with the use of this training in medical imaging technology, which will ensure and support better patient care, accurate patient diagnosis, and patient guidance.
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What is maximum heart rate? HRMAX is the largest number of cardiac contractions per minute reached at the limit of the body's capacity during intense training. This is the highest number of beats per minute that your heart can perform under maximum load.
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In 1989, Keenen Ivory Wayans created In Living Color, imagining it as a post-Civil Rights, crossover comedy show. Ironically, the series’ immense popularity reflected the increasing importance of “urban audiences” during the 1990s.
By the late ‘80s, network executives were well aware that black viewers watched 44% more network TV than their non-black counterparts. NBC had already tapped that audience with The Cosby Show, and followed up with A Different World in 1987, and The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air in 1990. In 1986, the upstart Fox started “narrow casting,” announcing a fall schedule that specifically targeted black viewers, and in 1990, it added In Living Coor. By 1995, blacks accounted for one-quarter of Fox’s audience. On the new DVD release of the show’s second season, Wayans offers an insightful explanation for its success: “Fox changed the course of black television unintentionally. They didn’t go out to make black shows. They went out to make alternative programming. And when I came along with In Living Color, they were actually very fearful of what I was doing. But they knew that it was something different.”
In Living Color
US DVD: 28 Sep 2004
One example of this difference is Damon Wayans’ portrayal of Homey the Clown. Part coonish stereotype and part oppositional representation, Homey is a militant derelict. With tattered clothing, slurred speech, and pronounced anger, he mocks middle-class values and ideas. In one episode in this collection, “Homey the Clown: When Homey Meets Sally,” we experience the brilliance and racial sensibilities of the show. It starts with a white Wall Street executive asking Homey if he can go ahead of him at the probation office so that he can get back to the stock exchange. Homey responds swiftly, “Sure, let you go back to embezzle millions of dollars while I struggle to get by on minimum wage. I don’t think so. Homey don’t play that.”
Then again, in “Homey the Clown: Homey the Sellout,” Homey screams at representatives of Mr. Establishment, who solicit his help to sell a kid’s cereal: “You want me to further oppress my people to get them to eat stuff that will make their teeth fall out. I don’t think so.” Accepting their million-dollar offer, Homey becomes a pitch-clown, telling kids to “Do what the man says, buy yourself a box of Homey Wheats, the only cereal made from cookies, marshmallows, sugar cubes and other nutritional pieces of candy. This is a cereal Homey can play.” He starts wearing business suits, drives a Porsche, and adopts a condescending attitude toward the poor. He even dines at Chez Whitey. Appearing during the Reagan revolution’s pronounced backlash against the homeless/poor/people of color, Homey offered a counter-narrative, a hilarious yet poignant satire of U.S. “values.”
In addition to the season’s 26 episodes, the DVD set includes audio commentary on several sketches, featurettes on popular characters, and another titled “Appreciating In Living Color.” Commentaries by writers Kim Bass and Buddy Sheffield are especially instructive, as they link Homey’s decision to “sell out” to hip-hop artists abandoning politics for the sake of financial and cultural acceptance.
The featurette “Appreciating In Living Color” includes interviews with the show’s stars as well as USC Critical Studies Professor Todd Boyd, who explain In Living Color‘s part in pushing hip-hop into the mainstream by providing an alternative to the Cosby vision of “blackness.” If at times the DVD extras over-celebrate the show as “authentic” opposition without contradictions, Boyd, Tommy Davidson, and several writers also make the case for its lasting significance. For one thing, it directly engaged U.S. racism. In “Foundation for Golf Heritage,” series regular Jim Carrey plays a country club manager who announces, “There is always a place for blacks at our club as long as they are not holding one.”
For the most part, though, the featurettes reveal little introspection, balancing celebration and defensiveness. One skit features the Buttmans, who all have robust asses atop their heads; when the daughter dates a white man with a smallish penis as his nose in an episode entitled “The Buttmans: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner,” the Buttman parents wonder how their daughter could date a white man. While the skit is a pointed and hilarious commentary on racial politics and stereotypes, Kim Bass, one of the show’s few black writers, says, it “had nothing to do with race.”
In fact, during the show’s popularity and even today, commentators are unable to see the show’s satire or politics, often focusing on either its humor or its deployment of crude stereotypes. Even those who see its racial text fall into the trap of reducing In Living Color to a promulgator of racial stereotypes without acknowledging its oppositional and progressive orientation. Whether with Tom & Tom, Anton, the Homeboy Shopping Network, or when “Barbara Bush visits the Illiterates,” In Living Color not only repelled “politically correct conventions” by giving voice to “universal social issues,” but provided a space of scathing, yet satirical, critique of America’s racial reality.
Despite its tremendous popularity and its cultural contribution to societal debates on racial issues, the tenure of In Living Color proved to be short-lived. As Fox secured legitimacy as a television network through purchasing the rights to broadcast the NFL, Major League Baseball, and the NHL, it no longer needed or wanted to be associated with black counter-programming found in In Living Color. Once it entered this promised land, Fox systematically canceled its black-oriented shows, including In Living Color, Roc, and South Central. “The only reason FOX, WB, and UPN get involved in black programming,” notes a network vice president in Kristal Brent Zook’s book, Color by Fox: The Fox Network and the Revolution in Black Television, “is so they can temporarily sustain themselves. The minute they can, they pull out.” Still, Fox’s commodification of blackness opened doors for future similar efforts by the WB, UPN, and Comedy Central. Despite the persistent scarcity of black creative power on television, In Living Color paved the way for Dave Chapelle, Chris Rock, and Bernie Mac.
In Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class, Robin D.G. Kelley argues that, “despite the appearances of consent, oppressed groups challenge those in power by constructing a ‘hidden transcript,’ a dissident political culture that manifests itself in daily conversations, folklore, jokes, songs, and other cultural practices” (8). The release of the second season of In Living Color on DVD at the same time of the publication Chrstine Acham’s Revolution Televised: Prime Time and the Struggle for Black Power reminds us that television can empower viewers against the establishment. Challenging both a colorblind paradigm and a middle-class black leadership that emphasized respectability over oppositional politics, In Living Color offered dissidence.
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Lauren Baccall died at 89, after suffering a massive stroke on August 12, at her home in Manhattan, New York. She was borned on 16 September 1924, at Bronx, New York.
When she was a school girl, Lauren originally wanted to be a dancer, but later, she became enthralled with acting, so she switched gears to head into that field. She had studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York after high school, which enabled her to get her feet wet in some off-Broadway productions.
Once out of school, Lauren entered modeling and, because of her beauty, appeared on the cover of Harper's Bazaar, one of the most popular magazines in the US. The wife of famed director Howard Hawks spotted the picture in the publication and arranged with her husband to have Lauren take a screen test. As a result, which was entirely positive, she was given the part of Marie Browning in To have and Have not (1944), a thriller opposite the great Humphrey Bogart, when she was just 19 years old. This not only set the tone for a fabulous career but also one of Hollywood's greatest love stories (she married Bogart in 1945). It was also the first of several Bogie-Bacall films.
After 1945's Confidential Agent (1945), Lauren received second billing in Big Sleep (1946) with Bogart. The mystery, in the role of Vivian Sternwood Rutledge, was a resounding success. Although she was making one film a year, each production would be eagerly awaited by the public. In 1947, again with her husband, Lauren starred in the thriller Dark Passage (1947). The film kept movie patrons on the edge of their seats. The following year, she starred with Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, and Lionel Barrymore in Key Largo (1948). The crime drama was even more of a nail biter than her previous film. In 1950, Lauren starred in Bright Leaf (1950), a drama set in 1894. It was a film of note because she appeared without her husband - her co-star was Gary Cooper. In 1953, Lauren appeared in her first comedy as Schatze Page in How to marry a millonaire (1953). The film, with co-stars Marilyn Monroe and Betty Grable, was a smash hit all across the theaters of America.
After filming Designing Woman (1957), which was released in 1957, Humphrey Bogart died on January 14 from throat cancer. Devastated at being a widow, Lauren returned to the silver screen with The Gift of Love (1958) in 1958 opposite Robert Stack. The production turned out to be a big disappointment. Undaunted, Lauren moved back to New York City and appeared in several Broadway plays to huge critical acclaim. She was enjoying acting before live audiences and the audiences in turn enjoyed her fine performances.
Lauren was away from the big screen for five years, but she returned in 1964 to appear in Shock Treatment (1964) and Sex and the Single Girl (1964). The latter film was a comedy starring Henry Fonda and Tony Curtis. In 1966, Lauren starred in Harper (1966) with Paul Newman and Julie Harris, which was one of former's signature films. Alternating her time between films and the stage, Lauren returned in 1974's Murder on the Orient Express (1974). The film, based on Agatha Christie's best-selling book was a huge hit. It also garnered Ingrid Bergman her third Oscar. Actually, the huge star-studded cast helped to ensure its success. Two years later, in 1976, Lauren co-starred with John Wayne in The shootist (1976). The film was Wayne's last - he died from cancer in 1979.
In 1981, Lauren played an actress being stalked by a crazed admirer in The Fan (1981). The thriller was absolutely fascinating with Lauren in the lead role. After that production, Lauren was away from films again, this time for seven years. In the interim, she again appeared on the stages of Broadway. When she returned, it was for the filming of 1988's Mr. North (1988). After Misery (1990), in 1990, and several made for television films, Lauren appeared in 1996's My Fellow Americans (1996). It was a wonderful comedy romp with Jack Lemmon and James Garner as two ex-presidents and their escapades.
Despite her advanced age and deteriorating health, she made a small-scale comeback in the English-language dub of Hayao Miyazaki's Howl's Moving Castle (2004), based on the young-adult novel by Diana Wynne Jones as the Witch of the Waste.
In 2006 Bacall participated in the celebrated TV series The Soprano´s (Luxury Lounge, Episode 72). She was still active on her last years.
Laureen Baccall died at 89, after suffering a massive stroke at her longtime home in The Dakota, the Upper West Side building overlooking the Central Park in Manhattan, New York.
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Well, that didn’t take long.
Less than six months since Mohamed Morsi became Egypt’s first genuinely democratically elected president, it’s becoming clear he’s not all that interested in governing as a democrat.
Late last month, Morsi, a longtime member of the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood, granted himself sweeping new power preventing any authority, including the judiciary, from revoking his decisions. He said he will give these up after a new constitution is ratified following a referendum on Dec. 15.
But Morsi’s opponents fear the constitution, drafted by Islamists, will irrevocably change Egyptian society and politics, subverting democracy to sharia, or Islamic law. Opposition that had been bubbling for months has exploded.
Clashes between Morsi’s supporters in the Muslim Brotherhood and his opponents — who include secular liberal and leftist revolutionaries, as well as supporters of former president Hosni Mubarak — have resulted in at least five deaths and hundreds injured. The man who came to power on the heels of a democratic revolution now governs from a presidential palace fronted by barbed wire and guarded by tanks.
“Yesterday was really horrible. It was one of the blackest days in Cairo,” says Mozn Hasan, executive director of Nazra for Feminist Studies, an NGO, speaking of the protests. She says Muslim Brothers attacked Morsi’s opponents with tear gas and bullets, while police did nothing to stop them.
“It was hard because — it’s not logical — but maybe you can see the point when it’s a policeman or a military person attacking you. But having another civilian person, it was shocking.”
Morsi’s opponents have also accused his opponents of violence, including the use of Molotov cocktails. Deaths reportedly occurred on both sides of the political divide.
In a televised address tonight, Morsi expressed sorrow for those deaths and called for dialogue with the opposition. But he made no major concessions and claimed that protesters had been paid to foment violence. He said 80 people had been detained for involvement in violent acts.
According to Nadine Sherif of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, this divide is more fundamental than traditional political disputes.
“While the Muslim Brotherhood has tried to portray this as a clash between political foes — the remnants of the old regime, leftover Mubarak-era judges, against the up-and-coming Muslim Brotherhood — that does not hold water on the ground,” she says.
“The issue now isn’t political, it’s existential. It’s about the character of the Egyptian society and culture.”
That character has changed since the revolution of January 2011 that toppled Hosni Mubarak. Egyptians are no longer afraid of their rulers. Morsi might have been counting on Egyptians’ complacency when he sought to eliminate checks on his authority, but he underestimated them.
“People after the revolution are not the same,” says Mohamed Zaree, Egypt program manager for the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies. “They are not going to wait for 30 years of repression to have another revolution.”
The protests says Hasan, are in part to show that Egyptians are diverse, that they are not all political Islamists — either Muslim Brothers or the more fundamentalist Salafists who have also taken leading positions in Egyptian politics since the revolution. “There is something deeper in Egypt, more than this.”
Perhaps because of that diversity, the opposition is still fragmented. There have been some moves to unite behind a body calling itself the National Salvation Front, whose leading members include: Amr Moussa, Mubarak’s last prime minister; and Mohammed ElBaradei, former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
It’s unclear how much support the group has among street level protesters. Moussa, who ran and lost against Morsi in the presidential election, still caries the taint of his association with the Mubarak regime. ElBaradei failed to drum up much popular excitement when he joined the original revolution last year. Mahmoud Salem, a popular blogger and activist, described him as “the ugly chick you take to the dance when you can find no one else.”
But Egypt’s democratic revolution was a grassroots movement that didn’t depend on one leader at its inception. It may struggle forward in the same fashion.
“It’s hard emotionally,” says Hasan. “But at the same time, what’s been happening in Egypt since 1952 will not change in two years. It needs a lot. But what’s hard is that it would [take] the blood of those innocent people. Accepting that is hard for me.”
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The Innocence Project: Science helping innocent people proven guilty
EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE | Mon Aug 20 16:42:03 EDT 2012
The Innocence Project: Science helping innocent people proven guilty
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PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 20, 2012 — Should Lady Justice, that centuries-old personification of truth and fairness in the legal system, cast off her ancient Roman robe, sword and scales and instead embrace 21st century symbols of justice meted out objectively without fear or favor? A scientist’s laboratory jacket, perhaps? And a spiral strand of the genetic material DNA?
An unusual symposium that might beg such a question ― showcasing chemistry’s role in righting some of the highest-profile cases of innocent people proven guilty ― unfolds today at the 244th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS), the world’s largest scientific society. It features presentations by forensic scientists, attorneys and others who used science to right wrongs, freeing innocent people and saving the lives of prisoners on death row.
During Aug. 17-23 the contacts can be reached at 215-418-2086.
Justin J. McShane, J.D., co-chair of the ACS Division of Chemistry and the Law – Forensic Science, noted that the session also will include exonerated people who spent time behind bars for crimes they did not commit.
“This combination of people will make this gathering a unique event, one never before done at such a level,”
said McShane, who is chairman and CEO of the McShane Firm, Harrisburg, Pa. “It showcases chemistry’s critical, but often-hidden role in protecting the innocent through collection and accurate analysis of crime-scene and other evidence.”
Participants in the event, entitled “Forensic Chemistry, Science and the Law Presents: Innocence! The Work of the Innocence Project,” include Fred Whitehurst, the FBI agent who forced reform of the FBI Crime Lab and was almost fired for doing so; John Lentini, a premier fire investigator whose evidence showed that the State of Texas executed an innocent man; Greg Hampikian, one of the DNA test experts who got Amanda Knox freed after she was convicted of murder in Italy; and Barry Scheck from the O. J. Simpson “Dream Team” defense and co-founder of The Innocence Project at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University.
The symposium is among the special presidential events here sponsored by ACS President Bassam Z. Shakhashiri, Ph.D., who has called on the society’s 164,000 members to work as scientist-citizens in solving great global challenges of the 21st century.
“We face challenges such as surging population growth, limited natural resources, malnutrition, disease, climate change, violence and war, and the denial of basic human rights,” Shakhashiri explained. “The speakers in this symposium exemplify forensic chemistry in addressing the denial of basic human rights when people are innocent, yet convicted of crimes.”
The Innocence Project is a national litigation and public policy organization dedicated to exonerating wrongfully convicted people through DNA testing and to reforming the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice. So far, the project has been instrumental in the exoneration of 292 people in the U.S., including 17 who served time on death row. They served an average of 13 years in prison before being released.
The presentations include:
Forensic science: Struggles from the past, in the present and into the future Frederic Whitehurst, Ph.D., J.D., an FBI supervisory agent working in the famed FBI laboratory, asked basic questions concerning the validity of the underlying science the laboratory was performing. He was ostracized and transferred for his whistle-blowing, but ultimately his efforts led to 40 different major reforms within the FBI laboratory.
Fire debris and explosive investigation: Cameron Todd Willingham and other cases of innocence John J. Lentini, Scientific Fire Analysis, Big Pine Key, Fla., is a world-renowned expert in chemistry and forensic science in fire and explosive debris investigations. His most famous case involves Cameron Todd Willingham of Texas. Using modern forensic fire science, Lentini showed that the state of Texas had executed an innocent man.
Amanda Knox, and other cases of innocence Greg Hampikian, Ph.D., Boise State University, Department of Biology, Science/Nursing, is a geneticist and expert in DNA testing, whose analysis was critical in the release of the American student Amanda Knox, who was convicted by an Italian Court of murder. He has been involved in numerous other cases involving wrongful convictions and exonerations across the globe.
Running an innocence project: Selecting, investigating, vetting and litigating claims of actual factual innocence Marissa Boyers Bluestine, J.D., Pennsylvania Innocence Project, Temple University Beasley School of Law, will discuss the workings of the national litigation and policy organization dedicated to exonerating wrongfully accused persons through DNA evidence. She will speak about the process of selecting, investigating, vetting and litigating claims of actual factual innocence.
The Innocence Project and exonerations Barry Scheck, J.D., co-founder of the Innocence Project, New York City, was part of the "dream team" that defended O.J. Simpson in his murder trial, where he exposed the flaws surrounding the collection and interpretation of the DNA evidence. He will discuss how the organization was created and describe some of his most notable cases.
40-minute case study of exoneree Ray Krone Ray Krone, Innocence Project, New York City, was wrongfully convicted of murder and spent 10 years in prison, including two yearson death row. He will talk about how he won a new trial on appeal, but was convicted again. Ultimately, Krone was released from prison after DNA evidence proved that he did not murder the victim.
40-minute case study of exoneree Raymond Santana Raymond Santana, Innocence Project, New York City, was one of five men convicted in New York City’s highly publicized Central Park Jogger Case, which involved an assault and rape. After spending 12 years in prison, he and the others were exonerated when another man claimed to have committed the crime alone and DNA evidence confirmed he committed the rape.
40-minute case study of exoneree Steven Barnes Steven Barnes was convicted and sentenced to 25 to life, spending 19.5 years in prison for a crime that he did not commit. His trial featured some truly bizarre scientific testimony of non-validated science. Eventually, he was freed when the non-validated nature of the science was revealed.
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From The Scratch-Built Hot Rod
Chapter 13: Interior Fittings
A Mr. Gasket "universal" floor shifter was acquired for $9 on eBay. It came surprisingly well-equipped with a large array of brackets and installation pieces, but still required some major modifications for this particular application. The shifter had to be raised and moved to the right to clear the transmission crossmember and speedometer cable. The shifter rods also had to be cut, bent and re-welded to clear the transmission case and properly operate the shift levers. The mounting brackets are a combination of kit parts and handmade pieces (Photo 13-1 to 13-3).
(Note to readers who may question the quality of such an inexpensive shifter: after many months of driving, the unit has proven to be fairly smooth and trouble-free. It is NOT, however, designed for racing or speed shifting - due to its very long "throw" and imprecise lever action. But, for normal cruising and everyday use, it has been quite adequate - especially considering the price tag.)
Floor skeleton and seat installation
|A skeleton made of 1x1 and 1x2 tubing is formed around the transmission and driveshaft to support the flooring sheet metal (Photo 13-4). While the skeleton is still exposed, the bucket seat mounts are positioned, and holes are drilled for bolting the seats to the floor (Photo 13-5 to 13-7).|
Floor sheet metal
Beginning at the front passenger side of the cockpit, patterns are made and then the sheet metal panels are cut and welded to the skeleton (Photo 13-8). Note that the floor sections located under the seats have their sheet metal installed on the underside of the skeleton rather than over the top of the skeleton (Photo 13-9). This is to gain just a little additional headroom in the car. As it turned out, this was not worth the extra work for this particular vehicle, since there was ample headroom once the car was finished. However, this trick can be utilized for heavily chopped or channeled cars.
Many hot rods have fairly tight quarters inside the cockpit, and this can be particularly noticeable with standard transmissions. To gain a bit of leg room to operate the clutch in this car, a "foot box" was created along the driver's side door and kick panel. This is a trick used by many T-bucket builders. The box is designed so that the driver can slip the heel of his or her left foot down into this extra space while driving or shifting ( Photos 13-10 and 13-11). Photo 13-12 shows the box being tried out for size.
Transmission and driveshaft tunnel
|The transmission tunnel is designed to be removable, so a few additional fabrication steps are required beyond normal tunnel construction. To begin, a "lip" is bent to fit around the firewall opening. The lip is 3/4" wide flat stock and is drilled and tapped for 1/4" machine screws (Photo 13-13). The lip is welded to the firewall, and will become the mounting base for the forward section of the transmission tunnel (Photo 13-14).|
|The actual tunnel fabrication begins with measuring and cutting three sheet metal sections and welding them to fit over the transmission tailshaft, and to enclose the shifter mechanism and emergency brake (Photo 13-15). Three more panels are then cut and welded to fit over the gearbox and shifter arms (Photo 13-16). Note also that tabs have been welded to the bottom edge of the panels so that the tunnel can be screwed to the floorboard.|
|A second hoop (arrow) is formed from flat stock to fit over the "lip" already welded to the firewall. This second hoop is marked and drilled so that it can be fastened to the first lip with screws (Photo 13-17). Using posterboard patterns as a guide, the final sections of sheet metal are cut and welded, to bridge from the lower portion of the tunnel to the firewall attachment hoop (Photo 13-18).|
Construction of the driveshaft tunnel begins by fabricating a short "connection box" (arrow "A") as shown in Photo 13-19. This box will be welded to the driveshaft tunnel, but screwed to the transmission tunnel. This will allow the transmission tunnel to be removed and installed as a separate piece from the driveshaft tunnel. The top of the driveshaft tunnel (arrow "B") is then cut, curved and tack welded to the "box".
The sides of the tunnel are then measured, cut, and welded in place along with a mounting strip (arrow), which runs around the perimeter of the tunnel and is screwed to the floor structure to allow for easy removal (Photo 13-20). Photo 13-21 shows the completed driveshaft tunnel.
The emergency brake mechanism from the donor F-100 can be used for the project, but it must be modified to fit. In its stock configuration, this unit is mounted under the dash by the kick panel, and is operated with a foot pedal. To move it between the seats where it will fit our interior much better, the unit must be mounted upside-down and backwards to operate correctly.
To allow the mechanism to fit in this new position, sections of the backing plate need to be cut away, and two new mounting "feet" (arrows) added, so that the unit can be bolted to the chassis (Photo 13-22). Photo 13-23 shows the e-brake unit (arrow "A") now mounted upside-down and backwards. You will also note that the original foot pedal (arrow "B") has been cut off so that it can be hand-operated. A section of 1x1 tubing is welded perpendicular to the "stub" of the foot pedal, so that the new pull handle ("C") can be centered over the transmission tailshaft. The pull handle is an interior door handle from the F-100 donor.
Photo 13-24 provides a driver's side view of the e-brake. The arrow points to the remaining "stub" of the foot pedal, which is now connected to the hand lever for operation.
Seat belt mounting
To mount the center buckles for the three-point retractable seat belts, a hoop is fabricated from 1 1/2" x 1/4" flat stock to loop over the driveshaft tunnel (Photo 13-25). The hoop is bolted to a main 1x2 body framing member and "ears" are welded on the top to attach the seat belts (Photo 13-26). Photo 13-27 shows a center seat belt buckle attached to the hoop bracket.
|The seat belt retractors are mounted to a small tab cut from 1/4" flat stock, and welded to a floor frame member just behind the outside rear corner of the seat. Once we are certain that the retractor will fit properly in this position, a gusset is added to the 1x1 floor frame member to tie it into the main 1x2 framing member shown at the arrow in Photo 13-28. Photo 13-29 shows the retractor being test-fit.|
|The "shoulder" mount for the seat belt is cut from 2x2 angle iron, and is welded to a main member of the body skeleton (Photo 13-30). Photo 13-31 shows the shoulder mount attachment, and the completed seat belt installation.|
|The dashboard is comprised of four pieces, as shown in the illustration at Photo 13-32: the "dash top", a rolled front edge, the dash "face" and a lower edge or "lip" which defines and supports the bottom edge of the dash. Photo 13-33 jumps ahead in the fabrication to show these components as they will look closer to completion, so that the reader can better visualize and identify these parts as they are discussed during these earlier steps of the fabrication. The dash is designed to be removable. Also, it should be noted that the "dash top" also acts as the lower support for the windshield, holding the bottom of the windshield tight against the outer frame of the windshield. This may help explain some of the fabrication steps.|
The dash top
The dash top is a 2" wide length of 1/8" flat stock. It extends horizontally from the windshield into the cockpit. The dash top will house the defroster vents, and will have a curved front edge made from steel pipe.
To begin, eight mounting brackets are cut from 1x1 angle iron, and then drilled and tapped for 1/4" bolts (Photo 13-34). The brackets are welded to the bottom edge of the windshield crossmember (Photo 13-35). Note that each bracket is set into the cockpit 1/4", leaving a "ledge" (arrow) for the windshield to rest on. A short strip of butyl caulk will be laid on top of each "ledge" when the windshield is installed, to protect the glass from potential stress cracks.
Next the "dash top" is cut to length from 2" wide flat stock, and clamped to the top of the windshield crossmember so that it follows the exact same contour (Photo 13-36). Eight "attachment tabs" (Photo 13-37) are cut and drilled with oversize holes, so that they can be bolted to our eight mounting brackets, but will have some slack for upward and downward adjustment. Each of these attachment tabs is then mounted as shown in Photo 13-38, and adjusted upward or downward until snug up against the bottom of the dash top. The 1/4" bolt for each tab is then tightened securely to hold the tab firmly in that position.
Next, the clamps are removed and the dash top is taken away, leaving the eight attachment tabs locked in place. The top edges of these tabs now define the precise contour we want the dash top to follow (Photo 10-39).
Using the defrost "funnels" from our heater kit (Photo 13-40), the dash top is marked, and defrost vents are cut open (Photo 13-41). The dash top is then repositioned on the attachment tabs, only this time the top is slid 1/4" in from the windshield crossmember, and 1/4" spacers (arrows) are inserted between the windshield crossmember and the dash top (13-42). This space between the dash top and the crossmember is to allow for the windshield glass and a thin butyl seal to be fitted in place.
|The eight attachment tabs are then welded to the bottom side of the dash top. With the tabs welded and the clamps removed, the dash top now looks like Photo 13-43. An overhead view (Photo 13-44) shows the space left for the windshield glass (arrow "A") and the two defroster vents (arrows "B").|
Rolled front edge
The rolled front edge of the dash top is created by bending 1" black pipe to the same contour as the dash top (Photo 13-45). The pipe is then clamped to the dash top (Photo 13-46) and welded in place (Photo 13-47). A small filler section is welded inside each end of the pipe, so that the pipe end can be rounded off with a grinder.
The "face" of the dashboard is cut from sheet metal stock and temporarily clamped in place (Photo 13-48). Using paper taped to the face, a number of different gauge arrangements can be tried out (Photo 13-49). Once satisfied with the placement of the gauges and other dash items, the appropriate holes are cut in the sheet metal (Photo 13-50).
Lower supporting lip
|The lower edge of the dash cannot be left as just raw sheet metal. An edging or "lip" must be created to finish off this lower area and provide additional strength. We also want to curve each lower corner of the dash to create a cleaner look. The lower supporting lip is created from three separate sections of 1" x 1/8" flat stock (Photo 13-51). The two corner curves are bent to match each other, and then the curve outlines are traced onto the dash face and cut out (Photo 13-52).|
|The lip is then clamped for welding, (Photo 13-53) and the lip is welded to the face and the beads ground smooth (Photo 13-54).|
|The gauges are installed in the dash to ensure that they fit, (Photo 13-55) but are removed again to provide access behind the dash while other fabrication work inside the car is completed. The lower section of the dash is then re-installed in the car (Photo 13-56). The dash is permanently held in place with a 1/4" bolt inserted through the lip on each end of the dash. These bolts thread into tapped holes in each windshield post. The top edge of the face is held in place between the rolled front top edge and three small, evenly spaced tabs, which are welded on the underside of the dash top. This allows the dash face to be removed by simply unscrewing the two end bolts and gently pulling the face downward.|
The framework for the overhead console is created from flat stock. Note the mounting strip (arrow) running along the top edge of the console, which is flat up against the roof structure (Photo 13-57). This strip is for securing the front edge of the headliner. You will also note that the framework has been pre-drilled and tapped for screws which will mount an upholstered wooden faceplate. This faceplate will hold the CD player.
The bottom of the console will house the stereo speakers, and will also be the mounting point for the rearview mirror. Other views of the console framework are shown in Photos 13-58 and 13-59.
Removable toe board
On the passenger side of the cockpit, the toe board area is being used to house a number of electrical components, as well as plumbing for the heater box and A/C evaporator. The toe board itself acts as a "false front" to hide these components. To gain access to this area, the toe board will be removable.
|Photo 13-60 shows the square-tube framework for the removable toe board. Two bolts (arrows) will run through the floorboard and secure the toe board in place. Photo 13-61 shows the toe board frame installed to check for clearances. This shot also shows the evil maze of plumbing and electrical items, which will be hidden behind the panel.|
Sheet metal sections are welded to the toe board framework (Photo 13-62), and the completed unit is again tested to ensure that it fits (Photo 13-63). Photo 13-64 provides another view of the completed toe board.
Since there are no actual door handles, door pulls will be provided instead. These simple chromed handles were about $7 each at the local hardware store (Photo 13-65).
The handles are made to be held in place by screws from the back side. Since we will not have access to the back side once the upholstered door panels are installed, the first order of business is to drill a mounting hole through each end of the pull. A backing plate is then cut from flat stock, and drilled with holes to match the holes in the door pull. Nuts are welded onto the back side of the plate. The backing plate is then welded to the lower bar of the window frame (Photo 13-66).
Photo 13-67 shows a pull installed on its backing plate. In its final configuration, the pull will be seated on the upholstered interior door panel, and the mounting screws will run through the panel to the backing plate behind it.
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Democratic governors have asked the White House to urge Americans to heed stay-at-home orders amid anti-lockdown protests stoked by the president.
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer said the “phenomenon was nationwide” and asked for “help on the national level”.
President Donald Trump has been accused of inciting insurrection after championing the demonstrators, while telling governors they were in charge.
The plea comes amid 782,159 confirmed US Covid-19 cases and 41,816 deaths.
The protesters – who say the Covid-19 restrictions are draconian – are largely conservative and pro-Trump.
As one militia leader in Illinois put it to the BBC: “Reopen my state or we will reopen it ourselves.”
The demonstrations have taken place in more than a dozen states from coast to coast, varying in size from a few dozen protesters to more than 2,000.
What did the governors say?
Ms Whitmer, a Democrat whose state has seen one of the largest anti-lockdown protests, told the White House during Monday’s call she knew citizens were “frustrated” and called protesting a “wonderful American tradition”.
“But it’s just so dangerous to do that,” she said, noting the fear of Covid-19 cases spiking in less-affected regions of her state, which has the third-highest infection rate in the nation.
Ms Whitmer said having the federal government “reiterate the importance of staying home until we get these numbers down… would be incredibly appreciated”.
North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper, also a Democrat, echoed the same, requesting the Trump administration “let the public know that it is important for us to reach these minimum thresholds, before we began easing restrictions”.
Vice-President Mike Pence, head of the coronavirus task force, promised the governors the administration would do so.
“We will make a point today and going forward to continue to reiterate that,” Mr Pence said.
What has President Trump said?
The Republican president has expressed his support of the protesters in recent days, even as state governors say they are following White House guidance for safely reopening in phases.
Mr Trump – who faces an election in November – last week tweeted in all capital letters for several states to be liberated.
At Sunday’s coronavirus briefing he said those protesting against their governors’ social distancing measures were “great people”.
“Their life was taken away from them,” he said. “These people love our country, they want to get back to work.”
Mr Trump previously insisted the presidency had power over state governors to rule when lockdown restrictions should be lifted.
He backed down after it was widely pointed out that the US Constitution grants states the power over public order and safety.
But as Monday’s development makes clear, the White House can bring considerable political pressure to bear on governors, not to mention the influence of state business lobbies, legislatures and voters.
What states are easing restrictions?
On Monday governors in three southern states – Georgia, Tennessee and South Carolina – became the latest to announce plans to ease their coronavirus lockdowns.
Georgia’s governor said restaurants, hair salons, gyms, bowling alleys and some cinemas would be allowed to reopen on Friday.
Tennessee said by 1 May the “vast majority of businesses” would be allowed to reopen.
South Carolina’s governor has allowed people to return to beaches starting on Tuesday and non-essential retail businesses to reopen.
Other states that are easing lockdown rules include Minnesota, Texas, Vermont, Ohio, Idaho, Florida, North Dakota, Montana, New York, Connecticut and New Jersey.
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Watering down the landing dirt to keep the dust down...NASA Crashes CH-46 Helicopter to Study Safety today in Hampton...NASA researchers dropped this former Marine helicopter airframe with cameras and accelerometers. The 45-foot-long helicopter fuselage from a height of about 30 feet to test improved seat belts and seats and advance experimental techniques and crashworthiness data. ..
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WHILE HE bears the most famous surname in the history of ocean science, Jean-Michel Cousteau doesn’t rest on the laurels of his legendary father, Jacques Cousteau, who passed away in 1997.
Now 77 years old, Jean-Michel has more than established his own legend, both as an intrepid undersea explorer and as a passionate advocate of marine conservation.
While disputes and disagreements meant Jean-Michel would eventually separate from his father’s Cousteau Society, he would go on to found his own organization, Ocean Futures Society, and establish a career as an independent filmmaker.
Cousteau brings an exciting new film, Secret Ocean 3D to the Grays Reef Film Festival, showing this Friday night at that Trustees Theatre. The film uses the latest in slow-motion, high-definition camera technology to bring you things human beings have literally never seen before.
Jean-Michel spoke to us from his headquarters in Santa Barbara, California.
The filmmaking advances used in your new films aren’t only cinematic breakthroughs. They’re also useful for research, aren’t they?
I’ve been diving for 70 years, since my father pushed me overboard with a tank on my back. I’ve never stopped and I never will. I’m amazed thanks to these friends and technicians, who have literally created ways to focus in slow motion on small things, microscopic things.
These are things never seen with the naked eye because they’re either too small or it happens too fast. That to me is absolutely unbelievable.
It’s very important because it emphasizes the fact that small plants and animals are the foundations of all life in the ocean and connect to the largest creatures, like whales, dolphins or sharks. Without these smaller creatures, we—and by “we” I mean all species —wouldn’t be here.
We are totally connected to the ocean and to the foundation of all life. To have a chance to show all this in 3D to the public is fascinating.
When we film underwater with this equipment, we don’t always know what we filmed. We come back to the ship and we see on a big screen if what we’ve shot is good or not. If it’s not good, we go right back down to the same place, sometimes two or three times, before we say “that’s perfect.” It’s a totally new approach.
What are some of the threats you’re most concerned about to this interconnectivity you speak of?
Often because of climate change the temperature of many parts of the ocean has changed, disturbing the life of plants and animals. In addition there is the acidification created by the emission of CO2. Also there is the fact that unfortunately in many places people continue to use the ocean as a garbage can.
All the chemicals we get rid of, all the metals we dispose of, all of of that ends up in streams and river and ultimately all the way to the ocean. It’s impacting our life support system.
Yet you aren’t completely pessimistic about the future.
I’ve been in the ocean all my life. I’m learning a lot of new things, thanks to science and research creating new technologies that can capture all this. There will be new industries, and millions of jobs created all over the planet.
There is this very exciting thing I call the communication revolution. Borders mean less and less.
I had the privilege to be underwater in 1998 and connecting satellite communication with people who could see me underwater. They could ask me questions in Vietnam and Canada at the same time.
To me that’s a way of saying we are not only one ocean, but one world in which our population lives on the 29 percent of the planet which is land. That’s 7.3 billion people, living on only 29 percent of the planet.
We especially need to educate young people because they are the decisionmakers of tomorrow. In the business world, it’s all about profit at the end of one year. In politics, it’s all about getting re-elected. We need to bridge the short and long term.
I get the sense that you see technology as providing a better solution to these problems than politics.
Yes. (laughs) Yes I do.
But when I showed President George W. Bush what we’d found in the Hawaiian Islands and the impact it had, that led him to ultimately declare that part of world the largest protected ocean area under the control of the United States.
[Editor’s Note: The reserve is the Papahnaumokukea Marine National Monument, established in 2006.]
And President Bush was in the oil business! (laughs) So I don’t point the finger.
I think overfishing is one of the most serious, and underreported, environmental threats.
The biggest threat is to people. And it is that we take more than nature can produce. So we're headed into bankruptcy.
What we need is to create protected areas, in places where species reproduce. And then when there are too many in an area, they’ll go out and populate other areas.
We’ve done that in California, where 20 percent of the marine area of the islands is protected. A lot of fishermen were not happy about it! But today they’re thanking us, because their livelihood can continue.
It’s an old story. When people were hunters and gatherers, we went from a few million people on the planet to many millions.
Soon there wasn’t enough left to hunt and gather. So we settled down and started farming—farming plants and farming animals.
Today with salmon, we need between 8-12 pounds of wild fish to make one pound of salmon to sell! That’s absurd.
When you buy fish you don’t buy fish, you buy the service of catching fish, of shipping the fish, of freezing the fish. That’s why it’s so expensive.
I’d like to see all over the world new fish farms built where the demand is, at the size of that demand. A system of fish farms like that would stop the emission of CO2 as transportation.
The price of fish would be low compared to catching fish. There will be huge opportunities.
Have you given up on the idea of a multi-national moratorium on big-net ocean-trawling factory ships?
Depends what it is. You have to be careful about the kinds of nets you use.
For example, near Mexico where they catch shrimp to ship to California—we filmed there, by the way —I realized that to get one pound of shrimp, they are killing 100 pounds of fish. Absurdity!
I asked the fishermen about it, and they say we can’t sell those other fish. We don’t have a market. So they end up just dumping dead fish back overboard.
Here we are, these spoiled brats in California, eating shrimp which contribute to the killing of 100 pounds of fish.
You have an upcoming film, Odyssea 3D, scheduled, using much of the same camera technology as in Secret Ocean 3D. What point are you at with that?
The filming for Odyssea 3D is done. We've been in five different parts of the world ocean: Fiji, Southern California, Baja California, the Bahamas, and the Mediterranean.
What we are struggling for right now is the end of post-production. It has to do with writing, it has to do with narration, it has to do with music, and it has to do with composing all these elements. That’s where we looking for help with crowdfunding.
The crowdfunding campaign for Odyssea 3D begins in early February and you can go to odyssea3d-thefilm.com to help us out with this important project!
Jean-Michel Cousteau’s Secret Ocean 3D AT Gray’s Reef Film FestIVAL
Fri. Jan. 29, 7 p.m., Trustees Theatre
Free and open to the public
Phillip: Hope you read Lebos' article and will come back with a response. This is…
I love the idea, but let's see the city handle my water bill first :-)
Here's another perspective, Phillip:
Another anti-community broadband editorial filled with flawed and inaccurate stories designed to further entrench the…
How many do we need to top 2016????
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Castle Combe is the epitome of a charming, English countryside village. Visiting this town is one of the most popular things to do in the Cotswolds.
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This quaint country spot is rich with history and peppered with historical monuments.
I recently had the chance to visit Castle Combe on a day trip from London to the Cotswolds, so read on to discover some delightful things to do in Castle Combe while you’re on vacation.
If you’ve never been to the Cotswolds before, you’re in for a real treat. Designated an official Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) in 1966, the Cotswolds is a treasured tourist attraction in the United Kingdom.
The area covers parts of Wiltshire, Somerset, Oxfordshire, and Worcestershire. This stunning landscape boasts rolling hills, meadows, and an abundance of natural beauty.
If you’re looking for Castle Combe Village, head to Wiltshire County in the South West area of England. Wiltshire is about eight kilometres outside of Chippenham.
Castle Combe is a historic medieval village named after a 12th-century castle of the same name.
The Castle Combe Castle, which was abandoned in the late 1300s, was situated on a spur north of the village, overlooking the Bybrook River and Bybrook Valley.
If you’re wondering where the name ‘Combe’ comes from, it’s simply a synonym for a valley. The name Castle Combe referred to the old castle’s view of the valley, where the village was later established.
Nothing remains of the Castle Combe’s Castle today, but you can still see some of the earthworks beneath the site, as well as the stonework ruins in the undergrowth.
Castle Combe Walks
Tourists adore taking long Castle Combe walks, marvelling at the ancient buildings, and enjoying the fresh country air.
It’s also a wonderful place to take your kids as they can play around in the lush, green meadows while the adults tour the historical buildings in town.
See The Market Cross
You can visit the historic 14th-century Market Cross, a roofed structure that indicates a village market square.
The square’s surrounding buildings are dripping with old-world charm, and you can take some seriously Instagram-worthy photos here.
Visit St. Andrews Church
Just east of the Market Cross, you’ll find the stunning St. Andrew’s Church. It’s open to the public, so make your way in and take a look around the old church. Inside, you’ll find one of the oldest functioning clocks in Britain!
St. Andrews is also home to a monument of Sir Walter de Dunstanville. Sir Walter was a knight and the Baron of Castle Combe before it went into ruin, who died in the year 1270.
Stroll Around The Village
Take a pleasant stroll as you map the pathways of medieval market-goers, then pop round to the village hall just up the road.
If you’re lucky, the town market will be underway, and you can shop for homemade jams and antiques to take home with you as souvenirs.
Snap Photos Along Water Lane
For another picturesque photo op, head down to the village bridge over the Bybrook. The sunlight playing on the water is utterly beautiful in the warm months.
And in winter, the snow-capped village houses make for a postcard moment you’ll always remember.
Being such a prized tourist attraction, there are some fabulous accommodations in Castle Combe. You can book a beautiful room at any of the options below.
There are some premium hotels to choose from, as well as a few Airbnb rentals you can stay in with friends or family.
The Castle Inn is one of the best hotels in Castle Combe and an excellent place to call your home away from home.
The inn dates all the way back to the 12th century and even still has some of its original features. Each room is decorated tastefully with antique furniture and beautiful fabrics too.
Staying at the Castle Inn means you’ll have easy access to the inn’s restaurant, one of the best in the village.
They have a fabulous conservatory dining room where you can enjoy a candlelit dinner. And on a warm summer evening, you can dine al fresco in the gorgeous garden terrace surrounded by trees.
Welcome to The White Hart, where you can find a traditional English pub and beautiful rooms to rest your eyes in.
Guests receive a homemade welcome basket on arrival, and everything in the restaurant is made from locally sourced ingredients.
Like everything else in Castle Combe, The White Hart is beautifully preserved and even has some of its original stonework. You couldn’t ask for a better place to stay on a vacation in the Cotswolds.
The Manor House Hotel & Golf Club is a five-star country house that any tourist or local will fall in love with. It’s a popular spot to rent out for fairytale weddings, as the manor is truly luxurious and dignified.
If you’re just visiting for the weekend, though, you can book a gorgeous self-catering cottage to stay in.
If you stay near the Main House, you’ll be able to walk right on over to the Bybrook River in the morning. There are lush green gardens behind the manor, perfect for a refreshing morning stroll or an afternoon picnic.
Of course, one of the biggest draws of The Manor House is its on-site golf course. The 18-hole championship course is a great place to take in the scenery while playing a few rounds.
And when you’re done on the greens, head over to The Bybrook, the award-winning hotel restaurant. There are some mouthwatering dishes on the menu.
If the above hotels don’t tickle your fancy, you can book a room at the Airbnb rentals in Castle Combe below.
If you’re looking for a cute cottage rental for you and your family or friends, try the Castle Combe Cottage Airbnb.
It’s a two-bedroom cottage with its own private garden and all the amenities you’ll need for a comfortable stay.
You’ll also be just walking distance from the Bybrook. You can even spot the ducks on the water from the living room window seat!
The Studio is an endearing cottage rental with vaulted ceilings and its own skylight. Nothing could be better than waking up to a clear blue sky-view right from your bedroom.
If that isn’t enough to convince you, take note that the bed is king-sized. You’ll sleep like a baby at the studio.
Another plus with this rental is that it borders the property of The Manor House. So, you can walk on over to the golf course for some entertainment after a delightful breakfast in the cottage.
Nestled in the heart of Castle Combe, The Castle Inn Pub is the perfect spot for a pint. The 12-century pub offers modern pub grub and a relaxed atmosphere.
You can enjoy a hearty steak by the fireplace or clink your glasses outside on the patio.
If you’re staying at The White Hart, there’s a pub you can try on-site. You can’t go wrong with their selection of crafted cocktails, carefully paired wines and delicious dishes.
For more pubs near Castle Combe, you can drive from the centre of Castle Combe to Chippenham in just 15 minutes. Try the Brunel pub in town for some refreshing cold ones.
As delightful as it is in Castle Combe, you may also be intrigued by the other towns and villages in the Cotswolds.
Take a day trip to the nearby village of Lacock for more impressive medieval buildings and small-town vibes.
You can visit the impeccable Fox Talbot Museum while you’re in Lacock. They have fascinating exhibitions on the history of photography.
There are also some lovely boutique stores in town where you can shop for locally made goods and trinkets.
Another option for a day trip from Castle Combe is the village of Sherston. It’s about a 20-minute drive north of the village and well worth the short trip.
Sherston is also part of the Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, so you can take some scenic strolls in the area.
There are ten different walking routes visitors can try out, each of which meander through the stunning English countryside.
If you’re travelling from London, it’s a fairly simple trip to get to Castle Combe. Londoners can take a one-way train from Paddington Station to Chippenham in about 2 hours.
From there, it’s a quick bus ride to Castle Combe from the Chippenham Bus Station. For more details, you can read this post on getting from London to the Cotswolds.
In anticipation of its consistent stream of visitors, Castle Combe has a free parking lot atop a hill at the edge of the village.
There’s limited parking, so try to get there early. And be prepared for a rather tiresome ascent back up the hill when you’re ready to go home.
Unfortunately, most of the roads in Castle Combe have double-yellow lines where you’re not allowed to park.
Be warned, there are loads of traffic wardens about, so don’t take your chances. You’re better off using the free parking lot on top of the hill.
Keep reading for some essential information on Castle Combe before you start planning your trip. Here are some FAQs you may find helpful below before you get on the train.
Besides being in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, Castle Combe is also replete with architectural beauty.
Considering that, and the friendly village vibes of the countryside, this tourist destination is definitely worth a visit.
Even though there are no new houses in Castle Combe, the village is still alive with activity. The local townspeople are up and about enjoying the impressive scenery or running some of the great businesses that keep Castle Combe alive today.
You can stop in at one of the local pubs or restaurants, browse in the Castle Combe shops, or simply enjoy a long walk-in town.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, a few film directors have gleaned onto the breath-taking aesthetic of Castle Combe and taken advantage of it for their film sets.
The 2008 film Stardust was shot in Castle Combe and the Steven Spielberg drama War Horse. You might also recognise some of the village spots from scenes in the 1967 film Doctor Doolittle.
Parts of Castle Combe were also used for sets in the Harry Potter film franchise. You can wander through the village and see exactly which houses appeared in some of these famous films.
There’s one more super famous TV series that features different spots in Castle Combe. If you haven’t guessed by now, it’s Downton Abbey, the immensely popular and award-winning British drama series from BBC.
You guessed it: Castle Combe is commonly known as the prettiest village in England, and frequently graces list of the best English villages to visit in the summer.
It’s been hailed as a must-see by publications like The Telegraph, CN Traveller, and The Culture Trip many years in a row.
Somewhat frozen in time, there hasn’t been a new building in Castle Combe since the 1600s. Every historical building in the village has been impressively and carefully preserved.
One example is the Old Court House Hotel on Market Place Street. Boasting stone mouldings and a Tudor-style fireplace, the 16-century building is one of the most popular in Castle Combe.
Hopefully, you get to experience all of the exciting places outlined on this list. From the historical buildings to the excellent local restaurants, Castle Combe provides an unforgettable setting for any Cotswolds holiday.
You’re bound to fall in love with the village just as scores of other tourists and locals have. Have a fantastic trip to the countryside!
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The Walking Bus
There are many factors that have contributed to the current problem of childhood obesity with lack of exercise being the one most cited. Today’s kids are often driven to many of their activities, when just a generation ago, kids typically walked or rode their bikes to the places that they wanted to go. Concerns about their children’s safety often keep parents from allowing their children to walk to school, but the Walking Bus offers a safe and healthy way for kids to get to and from school.
How Does The Walking Bus Work?The Walking Bus is a simple concept that helps kids to meet their need for daily exercise while offering parents the peace of mind that comes from knowing that their children are well supervised by responsible adults. At least 2 adult volunteers walk along with the children, one leading the group while another is placed last in line. The children, donned in reflective vests, walk along predetermined routes that have been approved by a Road Safety Officer, adding kids at “stations” along the way. Typically, children who participate in the Walking Bus are between five and eleven years of age.
Benefits of the Walking BusIn addition to the obvious exercise benefits, the Walking Bus can provide kids with opportunities to socialise with peers and develop relationships with the parent volunteers. It is beneficial to whole communities when families get to know each other and form friendships, and participation in the Walking Bus gets people out together, helping one another and giving them time to chat. Additionally, beginning the day with a brisk walk outdoors is sure to get kids off to a good start at school, letting them burn up a bit of energy, which research has shown will help them to be calmer, more focused students.
The safety aspect of the Walking Bus cannot be underestimated; parents who might otherwise be reluctant to allow their children to walk to school can relax because the kids are always in groups and supervised by adults. This guidance gives children the chance to learn about road safety rules and safe crosswalk behaviours while under the direction of well trained supervisors. Finally, every less car that is run to transport a child to and from school lessens harmful emissions, benefiting the environment as well.
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The Parliamentary Delegation Of Iran In The USSR.. (1970)
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AnnotationStay in the Soviet Union parliamentary delegation to Iran.
Temporary descriptionCity of Moscow. Admission of Iranian parliamentary delegation headed by A. Riyazi in the Supreme Soviet of the USSR YS Nasriddinov, YI Paleckis, AM Klychev, AP Shitikova; in the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR - JP Neshkova; in Moscow Soviet - VP Isaev. Understanding the Iranian parliamentarians with the sights of the Moscow Kremlin, Moscow. The visit of the delegation of the country. The city of Alma-Ata. Chatting in the Supreme Soviet of the Kazakh SSR from SB Niyazbekova; visit kolkhoz Michurin examination collective farm schools, livestock farms, village shops, the collective garden. The city of Kazan. Members of the delegation at a reception at the SG Batu, at the Kazan University, at the Kazan compressor plant, in animal-breeding sovkhoz "Biryulinskaya; walk Iranian guests on the boat on the river Volga. Vilnius. Chatting with members of the delegation M. Yu Shumauskasom; visit the city, Visit the Vilnius factory computers. The arrival of Iranian parliamentarians in the village Elektrenai (p energy). Inspection of power plant, kindergarten. Return of the delegation to Moscow, departure home.
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The Lane Arts Council’s Design Arts Apprenticeship program has been running in Lane County since its inception but this year will be the first time a location in Cottage Grove will be a part of the program. The Opal Center for Arts and Education will host mentors and students this year as the Cottage Grove expansion gets underway.
The Opal Center was “an accessible and large enough space,” said Michele Rose, executive director of the Opal Center and owner of The Crafty Mercantile.
This year’s program offers multiple opportunities for students in middle and high school to participate with virtual and in-person options. Since students usually gather in groups of 3-4 with a mentor, it’s possible to maintain safe practices while providing in-person activities.
The 10-week apprenticeship lasts from Sept. 22 to Dec. 3, with the final showcase of students’ work on Dec. 3, according to the Lane Arts Council’s website.
Mentors may choose to work in the field and explore the outdoors with students but the Opal Center will be a meeting place, and the window display will be used to showcase final projects, said Rose.
Participants in the program are also encouraged to use a variety of mediums and offered guidance on how to create professional portfolios and correspond with people in certain fields professionally.
One of the featured mentors for Cottage Grove is Heather Greene, who will be focusing on biomimicry, which is the practice of observing wild organisms and emulating their abstract functions in man-made designs.
“I love working with middle and high school students because they’re changemakers... and especially right now they’re so eager to have that tool to make those changes and to really make a difference and I see biomimicry as that tool,” said Greene.
Greene has been making art since middle school. Her art has shifted over the years from metalworking and welding to sculpting to poetry and writing to arts and crafts with her kids. She became more aware of biomimicry after seeing a TED talk by the pioneer of the concept she said, a woman named Janine Beynus. As a strong believer in protecting the environment, Greene saw it as an opportunity to learn more. Now she’s about to graduate with an MS in biomimicry at Arizona State University.
She became involved with the apprenticeship program back in winter of 2021 and is glad to be back working with kids, and empowering them to create.
“That is really what I want to achieve, empowered and informed people [of all ages] that are reconnected and ready to take on an uncertain future that requires innovative, informed thinking to change the paradigm and bring the built and natural world back from the brink of extinction,” said Greene.
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Have you ever noticed the paper- based proof of attendance check lists in public bathrooms across facilities such as airports, hotels or hospitals? Perhaps you’ve wondered how often these are updated and how accurate they are? Today, organisations are making the shift towards introducing digital attendance sheets completed by their cleaning staff via the use of NFC tags. But how does this technology work and how can it help benefit cleaning and facility management organisations?
What does NFC stand for and how does the technology work?
NFC (Near Field Communication) is a wireless technology which allows for the transfer of data such as text or numbers between two NFC enabled devices. NFC tags enable wireless communication between an electronic device and any item with a tag placed on or near it as the name suggests. The tag is usually in the shape of a sticker or label and can also come in the form of an NFC enabled product such as wristbands, key fobs and most recently enabled on mobile devices where customers can scan their phone to pay for items. NFC tags contain a small microchip which holds a small amount of memory for the technology to store and transfer information. There is also a small coil wire which produces magnetic fields which will react with your device.
How are NFC tags encoded?
When adding data onto an NFC tag it is referred to as encoding. There are various forms of data which can be encoded onto the device ranging from contact details such as a phone number to an email or website address. The device will then be enabled to receive and store this information allowing it to remember it in future.
Which mobile phones support them?
Almost all Android phones are NFC enabled and used for encoding, however Apple have recently introduced NFC scanning on iPhone although an app is required to do this whereas Android does not require an app.
How do businesses use NFC tags?
NFC technology plays an important role in businesses today in areas such as manufacturing, logistics and human resources. Obtaining this data gives organisations better insights into the running of their operations. It can be used for a range of purposes including: marketing whereby consumers can receive personalised advertisements, personal use, such as using Apple Pay for paying of services and asset management where NFC tags are placed on an asset to locate it.
Facilities management companies use proof of attendance sheets within public bathroom facilities to record their cleaning activity. This is typically done by completing paper-based attendance sheets which are usually positioned on the back of the facility door. The trouble with these type of attendance sheets is that it can be difficult to tell if staff have actually attended at the time the signature is signed and may not give customers confidence that facilities have been cleaned. However, with the introduction of digital attendance sheets using NFC tags, cleaning staff can scan the tag using their mobile device to prove their attendance. Usually the NFC tag will be attached to the facilities location, such as bathrooms in an airport, hotel or hospital premises. It will have been encoded with a link to a form for the user to complete in relation to items cleaned. Once the user has completed the form, it is then easy to identify which items have been cleaned and what stock needs refilled.
What are the benefits of using NFC technology for proof of attendance?
Implementing NFC technology for proof of attendance introduces a range of benefits for both the customer and organisation. Firstly, employers will be able to identify potential attendance issues helping to reduce absenteeism, as well as identify a reduction on costs by reducing paper usage. It provides a full audit of what responsibilities were carried out and who by, as well as helping employers with invoicing purposes.
Benefits of NFC tags in relation to facilities management:
- Provides evidence that a cleaner has been on site, what they did and how long they spent there. It also improves customer satisfaction as it provides customers with peace of mind that facilities have been cleaned.
- Immediate digital/electronic record of forms instead of having to type up after, reducing the costs of paper usage.
- Instant access to upload photos and record any issues with bathroom facilities as and when they occur such as a broken mirror/window, leak in bathroom.
- Allows you to easily manage stock and identify trends in stock requirements such as how much soap, towels, toilet rolls etc are needed.
- Improves compliance as information is accurately recorded instantly.
- Easy to use solution which employees can use on their own device.
With the introduction of NFC tags and advancements in today’s mobile technology, recording proof of attendance has never been easier. VeriClean from Totalmobile allows your organisation to replace those manual cleaning checklists with NFC tags, simply scan a tag and submit details on the work carried out so you can track and report on work carried out. Cleaning staff can scan the tag to prove their attendance and submit a simple report detailing items cleaned and/or stock refilled. Additionally, should there be any issues with the bathroom that might need someone with specific skills, such as a broken mirror or a water leak, the worker can report the incident. If you’d like further information on VeriClean and how it can benefit your business, please download our brochure.
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Investment Tips: Top Sectors to Consider During the Current Scenario
Peter lynch- “you get a recession, you have stock exchange declines. If you don’t understand that’s going to happen, then you are not ready, &you won’t do well.
Why are we talking about economic and stock market decline? Last year the whole world came across an unpredictable situation where the whole world went in lockdown, coronavirus pandemic was so dangerous that cases were increasing and there was no cure to it. To stop the cases from increasing, the sudden lockdown was imposed.
During lockdown around 4.9 million Demat accounts were opened, 22.5% increase from previous year. The sudden lockdown forces individuals to consider their secondary income and urge them to invest in the stock market, where most accounts are inactive, possibly for knowledge, time, money, etc. Before we talk about this, let’s start with the economy and the sector to make investments taking into account the current situation.
Let’s start with the definition of the economic cycle, which refers to the economic transition from growth to recession and the return to growth again. This is one of the most influential forces in the stock market. The economic cycle is important because it plays an important role in determining the earnings of companies, which may be the single most important factor affecting stock prices.
The stock market is very sensitive to the different stages of the economic cycle. Some industries may outperform the market during economic growth, while other industries may outperform the market during an economic recession.
Coming out of a recession, one of the first sectors in which investors generally move or rotate is finance, which includes companies such as banks, brokers, and insurance companies. Towards the tail end of recession interest rates are usually favorable for businesses such as banks. Investors turn to finance When Recovery Prospects.
Given that healthcare is a key area of focus (post-COVID), not only in India but also around the world, the pharmaceutical industry is expected to grow. Multinational companies provide China with a discount of nearly 50% on the approval of their drugs in the Chinese market, which can create more opportunities for Indian pharmaceutical companies.
It is estimated that 60% to 80% of the world’s population will be vaccinated this year; it provides a huge profit and loss space for pharmaceutical companies, and Indian pharmaceutical companies as suppliers will also get a share.
Therefore, at least in the next few quarters, investment in this industry is expected to gain good momentum. It is recommended to invest in large-cap stocks, while mid-cap stocks are in a transitional period. Mid-cap stocks are also experiencing a boost, but large-cap stocks will be the first choice for the new quarter.
With the increasing popularity of smartphones and high-speed mobile phones, the IT/Technology sector is already on the rise. With the concept of social distancing and working from home, COVID 19 is increasingly arousing consumer demand. Consumers now prefer virtual transactions through apps or online banking, rather than physical transactions.
All these have led to the development of technology in the new era, which is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 16% and will usher in multiple stages of technological transformation. This is also reflected in the performance of the IT stock market. Investors looking for long-term growth and resistance to inflation should consider investing in this industry. The industry will continue to grow and affect the overall performance of the market.
For many years, domestic steel companies have focused on import substitution and export promotion. The expansion of the PLI (production linked incentive) program to specialty steels provides further push to achieve this goal. Under the PLI plan, it includes coated products, high-strength steel, alloy steel rails and bars.
The plan will also help national companies improve manufacturing capabilities and develop new products. Specialty steel is mainly used in automobiles, railways, and other fields, and this year it may offer consumers good investment options.
The nationwide lockdown and supply chain challenges have caused panic among consumers in 2020, especially when it comes to necessities. after the second wave, the third wave does not seem to go away any time soon, consumers can begin to accumulate essential products. The uncertainty surrounding the third wave of the future may lead to higher consumer spending on basic necessities, which will boost the sales of fast-moving consumer goods companies.
As global investors are pulling out of China and seeing India as a potential market, the industry can also offer a very good investment option. India’s global market share in this field has increased, indicating a bright future for the chemical industry. Many large chemical companies are investing in expanding production capacity. In recent years, chemical stocks have also increased considerably, making them one of the most profitable industries.
Warren Buffet is an active investor. He recommends a passive investment method, that is, you buy a stock that represents the wide diversification of the entire market. This is the main idea that appears every year, and then you continue to buy in the market. the pleasure of investment is taken away, you should not choose the right time, you should not choose the right company to buy, but the general marketing they recognize will be in every year It appears over a long period of time, which means you will average the average return of the market.
If you are someone who can not put emotions out of investing, then the passive investing method is for you. It takes the psychological factor out of your investment and eliminates the need for the right temperament, “You don’t have to worry about which stocks to buy, you do have to worry about which day it will come in and out.” give it time, it will still produce good results.
This is the second major successful investment event. You need to set aside enough time for miracles to happen. There will be nowhere to go in the market for a while, but if you give it time, it will bring you big profits.
At this time, investors must continue to invest in good companies, companies with good balance sheets and companies run by market leaders because they are unlikely to survive the storm. In addition, investing in stocks without asset allocation or without maintaining a separate debt portfolio is speeding like no brakes.
Originally published at https://www.selfgrowth.com.
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For our fall photo shoot, we shot in the California wetlands and above the Northern California coast. Although our bags are made in Italy, we chose these locations to demonstrate how crucial the preservation of endangered environments is to the health of California.
The Redwood Shores Wetlands: Home for Endangered Species
California’s wetlands are home to hundreds of different species—some endangered such as the California clapper rail and the salt marsh harvest mouse. Pelicans and avocets fish in this area, and the western snowy plover, a critically endangered species, nests here. Plovers build nests along the coasts. If disturbed by beachgoers, joggers, real estate developments, or unleashed dogs, they will abandon their nests.
Why Else Are the Wetlands Important?
In the past, the wetlands have been used for cattle farming, salt production, and oyster farming. Yet these areas protect against coastal flooding have higher rates of carbon sequestration and storage than tropical rainforests. They also buffer the land from the waterways and filter out chemicals in water that have run off from roads and farms.
To visit the wetlands, please check out Hidden SF. (And please keep your dog on-leash!)
If you're interested in Devil's Slide, have a look at Visiting Devil's Slide Trail.
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John McKinstry Smith
History of Butte County, California
In Two Volumes.
History of California From 1513 to 1850.
By Frank T. Gilbert
The Greatest Fur Companies and their
Trapping Expeditions to California.
Settlement of the Sacramento Valley.
The Discovery of Gold in California.
By Harry L. Wells.
History of Butte County,
From its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time.
By Harry L. Wells and W. L. Chambers
Both Volumes illustrated with views and portraits.
Harry L. Wells, 517 Clary Street, San Francisco.
Transcribed by Arlene Goodwin
John McKinstry Smith was born in Livingston, Columbia
county, New York, June 30, 1816, and was the son of Eleazer and Elizabeth
(Davis) Smith. Before coming to California, Mr. Smith followed merchandising at
Kingston, Rondout, Catskill and East Durham, all in New York.
He came to California via the isthmus, and landed in San Francisco June
23, 1850. He went at once to
Butte county, the thirtieth of June, his birthday, being his first day at
mining. He mined on the east branch
of the middle fork of the Feather river for some time.
In 1852, he camped on the site he now occupies, and from that time to
this it has been his residence. Since
1841, Mr. Smith has been extensively engaged in quartz-mining, being one of
the first to locate and work the celebrated Banner ledge in Oregon gulch.
Mr. Smith’s life in Butte county has been one of assiduous industry and
intense application to business. He
was married to his first wife before coming to California, and she died in 1852.
In 1857, on the thirtieth of June, he was united in marriage to Minerva A.
Jennings, of Greene county, New York. To them have been born four daughters--
Bessie, Mary, Julia J., and Gertrude. Mrs.
Smith’s house is situated on the back of Feather river, in full view of that
noble stream. He has six hundred
and twenty acres of land, well improved. In his vineyard are six thousand vines,
from which he yearly makes three thousand gallons of wine.
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When rolling out changes to your application, it is possible to release production changes to only a portion of your Kubernetes pods as a risk mitigation strategy. By releasing production changes gradually, error rates or performance degradation can be monitored, and if there are no problems, all pods can be updated.
GitLab supports both manually triggered and timed rollouts to a Kubernetes production system using Incremental Rollouts. When using Manual Rollouts, the release of each tranche of pods is manually triggered, while in Timed Rollouts, the release is performed in tranches after a default pause of 5 minutes. Timed rollouts can also be manually triggered before the pause period has expired.
Manual and Timed rollouts are included automatically in projects controlled by
Auto DevOps, but they are also configurable through
GitLab CI/CD in the
.gitlab-ci.yml configuration file.
Manually triggered rollouts can be implemented with your Continuous Delivery methodology, while timed rollouts do not require intervention and can be part of your Continuous Deployment strategy. You can also combine both of them in a way that the app is deployed automatically unless you eventually intervene manually if necessary.
We created sample applications to demonstrate the three options, which you can use as examples to build your own:
It is possible to configure GitLab to do incremental rollouts manually through
.gitlab-ci.yml. Manual configuration
allows more control over the this feature. The steps in an incremental rollout depend on the
number of pods that are defined for the deployment, which are configured when the Kubernetes
cluster is created.
For example, if your application has 10 pods and a 10% rollout job runs, the new instance of the application is deployed to a single pod while the rest of the pods show the previous instance of the application.
First we define the template as manual:
.manual_rollout_template: &manual_rollout_template <<: *rollout_template stage: production when: manual
rollout 10%: <<: *manual_rollout_template variables: ROLLOUT_PERCENTAGE: 10
When the jobs are built, a play button appears next to the job’s name. Click the play button to release each stage of pods. You can also rollback by running a lower percentage job. Once 100% is reached, you cannot roll back using this method. It is still possible to roll back by redeploying the old version using the Rollback button on the environment page.
A deployable application is available, demonstrating manually triggered incremental rollouts.
Timed rollouts behave in the same way as manual rollouts, except that each job is defined with a delay in minutes before it deploys. Clicking the job reveals the countdown.
It is possible to combine this functionality with manual incremental rollouts so that the job counts down and then deploys.
First we define the template as timed:
.timed_rollout_template: &timed_rollout_template <<: *rollout_template when: delayed start_in: 1 minutes
We can define the delay period using the
start_in: 1 minutes
timed rollout 30%: <<: *timed_rollout_template stage: timed rollout 30% variables: ROLLOUT_PERCENTAGE: 30
Also sometimes known as A/B deployment or red-black deployment, this technique is used to reduce downtime and risk during a deployment. When combined with incremental rollouts, you can minimize the impact of a deployment causing an issue.
With this technique there are two deployments (“blue” and “green”, but any naming can be used). Only one of these deployments is live at any given time, except during an incremental rollout.
For example, your blue deployment can be currently active on production, while the green deployment is “live” for testing, but not deployed to production. If issues are found, the green deployment can be updated without affecting the production deployment (currently blue). If testing finds no issues, you switch production to the green deployment, and blue is now available to test the next release.
This process reduces downtime as there is no need to take down the production deployment to switch to a different deployment. Both deployments are running in parallel, and can be switched to at any time.
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Embryo quality, is an important component in the success of an in vitro fertilization (IVF) procedure. Assigning a grade to an embryo is one way doctors and embryologists identify the best quality embryos for transfer.
About embryo grading
Embryos are graded, or evaluated, by their appearance under a microscope in the IVF lab. In the days leading up to your embryo transfer, your embryologist will assign a grade to each of your embryos at their various stages of development to determine which ones are the most likely to result in a healthy pregnancy.
Embryo grading consists of overall grading and stage-dependent grading, such as blastocyst grading. Overall, your embryologist will assign a grade to each embryo by examining embryo characteristics such as:
- Cell symmetry
- Inner cell mass (ICM) quality
- Trophectoderm (outer layer of the blastocyst) quality
They are then labeled as good (little to no imperfections), fair (not outstanding quality but not completely imperfect), or poor (having many imperfections).
Stage-dependent grading involves evaluating these characteristics at each stage of embryo development.
Embryo grading methods differ among IVF labs. How one embryologist goes about grading an embryo may be different from how another does it at another lab.
What are the stages of embryo development?
Embryos go through several stages of development after fertilization before they can be transferred to your uterus. These stages are marked by cleavage, or cell division.
The embryo starts as a single cell, then divides into many cells as follows:
- Zygote: The sperm and egg (also known as the reproductive celles or the gametes) unite during reproduction to form a single-cell zygote.
- Cleavage Stage: Approximately 24 hours after fertilization, the embryo goes through its first cell division (cleavagae) and can have between two and eight blastomeres (cells formed by cleavage).
- Morula: This occurs approximately 96 hours after fertilization. As blastomeres continue to divide, they begin to adhere tightly to each other in a process called compaction.
- Early blastocyst: On the fourth day, a small fluid-filled cavity called a blastocoel forms inside the embryo.
- Blastocyst: The placenta and fetal tissues separate. This is the stage during which the embryo is usually transferred to the uterus in IVF. During natural conception, the blastocyst would normally reach the uterus at the end of the fifth day.
- Hatching blastocyst: Around the sixth day, the embryo will hatch from its zona pellucida, its protective protein shell. This allows the embryo to implant in the uterus. In some IVF procedures, a technique called assisted hatching is used to help the embryo break out of its shell.
In IVF, the early embryo goes through its cleavage stage in an incubator and is generally transferred to your uterus in the blastocyst phase. During natural conception, the embryo goes through its cleavage stages while traveling through the fallopian tube.
How are embryos graded?
Embryo development is evaluated approximately every 24 hours under a microscope. The clinician evaluates the following to determine the viability of the embryo:
- the size and number of the divided cells
- the degree of fragmentation
- cell symmetry, compaction, inner cell mass and trophoblast quality
Fragmentation is a process in which portions of the embryo's cells have broken off. It is preferable to have little or no fragmentation; the more fragmentation seen, the poorer the embryo quality.
Alternative evaluation techniques
Sometimes, embryos may look like they have a high number of cells that are the same size and shape—prime qualities for a transfer—but they are not able to implant into the uterus. That is because at least 60 percent of embryos that appear normal are actually not able to implant.
Some fertility specialists are creating new techniques to better determine embryo quality.
- A new technique out of Britain uses time-lapse imaging that takes thousands of snapshots of the developing embryo that could help doctors select the best embryos.
- Doctors in Texas are hoping to use embryo biomarkers, checmicals secreted into the media in which they are grown, to grade embryos.
Pre-implantation genetic counseling
If you are at risk for passing a genetic disorder to a child, your doctor may recommend pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD). Your lab will perform the procedure about three to four days after fertilization.
During PGD, your embryologist removes a single cell from each embryo and screens it for specific genetic disorders. Embryos that have the gene associated with the disease will not be used. While it does not completely eliminate the risk, PGD does decrease the chances of passing a disorder onto a child.
Updated August 2014
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ERIC Number: ED180231
Record Type: RIE
Publication Date: 1978
Reference Count: 0
Language Syllabus Planning for the Development of Communicative Skills. Occasional Paper 3.
The relation of communicative skills to language syllabus planning is discussed. The most important part of the foreign language syllabus is course content. Foreign language teaching is primarily a matter of starting with the world of everyday knowledge which the learner already possesses. The foreign language syllabus should be designed to take advantage of the learner's native language concepts and experience. Awareness of the different ways in which the target language and culture refer to facts, values, events and communicative situations should be inculcated. The Council of Europe's four types of motivation are defined and illustrated. A communicative syllabus must have both content and purpose, using integrated methods. No one method has been shown to give better results than any other. Different methods must be used as learners themselves differ. Communication between teacher and pupil in the classroom should not be neglected. Foreign language learning is no longer product-oriented, but process-oriented. (Author)
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Communicative Competence (Languages), Curriculum Design, Instruction, Integrated Curriculum, Language Instruction, Language Skills, Second Language Learning, Student Motivation
Institiuid Teangeolaiochta Eireann (Linguistics Institute of Ireland), 31 Fitzwilliam Place, Dublin 2, Ireland (One pound)
Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Teacher
Education Level: N/A
Authoring Institution: Linguistics Inst. of Ireland, Dublin.
Note: Edited version of lecture presented to the Linguistics Institute of Ireland (Dublin, Ireland, May 12, 1978)
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Individual differences |
Methods | Statistics | Clinical | Educational | Industrial | Professional items | World psychology |
Biological: Behavioural genetics · Evolutionary psychology · Neuroanatomy · Neurochemistry · Neuroendocrinology · Neuroscience · Psychoneuroimmunology · Physiological Psychology · Psychopharmacology (Index, Outline)
In neurobiology, an Inhibitory Post-Synaptic Current (IPSC), and its complementary process Excitatory Post-Synaptic Current (EPSC), are thought to be the foundational concepts that underlie the basic features of neurotransmission in mammalian cells.
For example, in elementary neurochemistry an IPSC may inhibit the formation of an action potential by changing the ion content in the cell, thus perturbing the resting potential of the cell so that voltage gated ion channels are less likely activated. That is, a voltage-gated ion channel opens when the membrane potential exceeds or reaches a certian threshold amplitude. The strength of this voltage signal is determined by the gradient of the ions across the membrane, which is really a potential difference over a distance (the width of the plasma membrane). Thus, on the post-synaptic side of the cleft, when a biologically induced current is applied, a flow of ions occurs over the membrane. This flow alters the ion content of the cleft, consequently changing the gradient of ions over the membrane, which in turn either inhibits or excites the nascent response of the voltage gated channel.
Such inhibitory/excitatory responses are highly nuanced and largely based on the particular channel type in the membrane of the neuron and the particular action of the neuron under investigation. See below for some introductory articles.
Dudel J., Voltage dependence of amplitude and time course of inhibitory synaptic current in crayfish muscle. Pflugers Arch. 1977 Oct 19;371(1-2):167-74.
Akasu T, Koketsu K., Electrogenesis of the slow inhibitory postsynaptic potential in bullfrog sympathetic ganglia. Jpn J Physiol. 1983;33(2):279-300.
White RL, Gardner D., Physostigmine prolongs the elementary event underlying decay of inhibitory postsynaptic currents in Aplysia. J Neurosci. 1983 Dec;3(12):2607-13.
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Arek Surveying provides people across the greater New York area, which includes the NYC area and Long Island, with professional geological surveying. A geological survey is a generic term for a survey conducted for the purpose of recording the geologically significant features of the area under investigation. We are a licensed and insured surveying company and provide results that are dependable.
So please, do not hesitate to reach out today for more information about our surveying options. The number for our office is 516-792-6676. When you call, we can provide you with a free consultation and estimate.
Geological surveying takes time and precision to complete successfully. Some of the geological surveying techniques we utilize are traditional walk-over survey, the study of land forms, and machine-driven boreholes. A borehole is a narrow shaft that is vertically or horizontally bored into the ground. We construct boreholes for a few different reasons. It could be for the extraction of water or part of a geotechnical investigation. There are both national examples of geological surveying done, as well as smaller ones that are for individual states and provinces.
Geological surveying is the recording of all geological data of a certain area including geology, topography, and water and mineral deposits. By understanding this data, land developers can determine the safety, trends, and climate of certain areas. For residential and commercial properties, this surveying is necessary for constructing the foundation and structural makeup of a new building. The land conditions will help determine the exact location and appropriate size of the new structure.
An accurate geological survey is a vital tool for land developers. Before construction, they must know the kind of land they will be constructing on inside and out. From where to plant the foundation, to how waste products will be disposed of, to how water will be circulated, a geological survey will provide this important information. It sheds valuable details about the land and its surrounding area. On the flip side, bathymetric surveying deals with water and includes calculating depth contours, how curved a body of water's floor is and the depth of the floor. So many who need a geological survey done may also need a bathymetric survey done in short order.
In the past, there was often no base topographic map available for more remote areas. So the geologist also needs to be a competent surveyor to produce a map of the terrain. Then the geological survey information can be recorded on this map. More recently, satellite imagery or aerial photography is used as a base, where no published map exists. Geological surveying is also specific. For instance focusing primarily on hydro-geological, geo-chemical, or geomagnetic themes.
The ultimate goal for the maps and reports created by geological surveys is to establish continuity and completeness in spatial patterns. These maps may include cross-sections to illustrate the three-dimensional interpretation. Geological surveying organizations do collaborate to share this information, as it leads to more exact results, which is always the key. There are great examples of geological surveying for both national geologic surveys, as
well as ones for individual surveys for states and provinces.
Geological surveys often go hand-in-hand with topographical survey. A topographical survey is a study of the elevation. So you can see how that applies to a geological survey and learn more about mapping and its various techniques. And many who look into our geological surveying also need help with foundation layouts.
For general questions about any type of land surveying, check out our Frequently Asked Questions page. We can also help you with needs that extend beyond a survey, such as with a FEMA flood elevation certificate. For specific information about geological surveying, you can give us a call at 516-792-6676. We will happily provide you with all the information you need about our range of surveys. We are a licensed and insured company and provide results that are dependable.
Arek Surveying has years of experience in the field and has become trusted surveyors for many within the area. We service customers in all New York and New Jersey Counties and the NYC area, including Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens, Manhattan, Westchester, Yonkers, Richmond, Long Island - including Suffolk & Nassau County, Rockland, Bergen, Essex, etc. Geological surveys are one of the many surveys we offer. It is a beneficial survey for many land developers to help them understand the area that is going to build on.
For more information about our geological surveying options, please contact us today. We have years of experience providing trusted and reliable surveys to many in the area and look forward to helping you too. The number for our office is 516-792-6676. When you call, we can provide you with a free estimate.
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Visual Basic Database Tutorial - Part 4
Hold onto your frilly knickers folks, this is where we dive straight in at the deep end, with a tonne of real-world code.
You should find the below code fairly easy to walk through, with comments every step of the way. Add this behind your 'Find It!' command button and give it a test run!
Private Sub cmdFind_Click()Dim db As Database' This is the object that will hold the connection' to our databaseDim rs As Recordset' This is the object that will hold a set of' records coming back from the databaseDim SQLString As String' This is just to temporarily hold the SQL stringSet db = OpenDatabase("c:\Microsoft Visual Studio\Nwind.mdb")' This activates the database object, telling it' to link to the Nwind.mdb database. Note that' you may have to change this path depending on' where Visual Basic has been installed on your PC.SQLString = "SELECT Orders.CustomerID, " & _ "Count(Orders.OrderID) " & _ "AS NoOfOrders From Orders GROUP " & _ "BY Orders.CustomerID " & _ "HAVING (((Orders.CustomerID)='" & _ txtCustID.Text & "'))"' This SQL statement was created in Access. It simply' returns the number of orders for a particular customer' using the 'Count' feature on the 'Total' line. If you'd' like to use Count, but are a little unsure about it -' search Access help -' it's very simple!Set rs = db.OpenRecordset(SQLString)' This ties the recordset object with the database' object. You're telling it to set the recordset object to' whatever the "db.OpenRecordset" function returns. And' that function will return a set of records according to' the SQL statement you pass it.txtTotalNumber.Text = rs.Fields("NoOfOrders")' Simply throws the value in the 'NoOfOrders' field' from the Recordset, direct into the txtTotalNumber' text boxSQLString = "SELECT Orders.CustomerID, " & _ "Last(Orders.OrderDate) " & _ "AS LastOrderDate From Orders GROUP " & _ "BY Orders.CustomerID " & _ "HAVING (((Orders.CustomerID)='" & txtCustID.Text & "'))"' We've already figured out the number of orders - so' this is the SQL statement that finds out the last order' dateSet rs = db.OpenRecordset(SQLString)' This is the second time we've seen this statement. Here,' it says the Recordset object to hold the records' from our new SQLString statementtxtLastDate.Text = rs.Fields("LastOrderDate")' Here, we're taking the information from the 'LastOrderDate'' field and placing it in the txtLastDate text boxtxtLastDate.Text = Format(txtLastDate.Text, "Long Date")' Now we're just formatting to make it look prettyrs.Close' Close the Recordsetdb.Close' Close the DatabaseEnd Sub
Wow, groovy or what! Try looking up the details for QUEDE, GALED, MAGAA or perhaps even ROMEY.
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Hello Students and Parents!
This year, there are many things on the horizon for Edith I. Starke's students. Our media center's theme this year is Elect to Read. We want all students at Edith I. Starke Elementary School to choose to READ! Our 2016 - 2017 Reading Counts goal is 40,000 points. Students will earn rewards for earning Reading Counts points.
Last year, our school earned 3,125 Reading Counts points in October. Starke students love a challenge so here it is! Let's do this! If we reach our goal, our top RC earners will DUCT TAPE Mrs. Ahr to the WALL! Our News Crew will video tape this in action and show it on the news.Won't that be funny!
Sunshine State Young Readers Award REWARDS
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What are you doing in your programming to advertise wellness? First, it’s important to resolve what will wellness mean in your facility. Does your facility have spa facilities, dietitians, supply company wellness applications, bodily therapists/chiropractors or a recycling program? Wellness is extra than just going to the fitness center to work out today. It means getting a sports massage, attending a health seminar or looking for the expertise of a registered dietitian. It’s helping the member to alleviate stress and educate health via other means besides bodily fitness.
In some instances, meals poisoning causes the condition. It takes place when the particular person ingested meals or liquids which can be contaminated by micro organism, parasite or other viruses. The commonest symptoms of this situation might embrace nausea, fever and diarrhea. Identical with the opposite types of diarrhea, it is vitally important to take loads of water or soup to prevent dehydration.
In fact, yoga is not only a health system.
This person on the phone had insurance coverage protection, and I know it coated chiropractic therapy. I know this as a result of I presently see many sufferers together with her similar insurance coverage. When she known as her HMO to “undergo the chain of command” any individual talked her out of getting the care she needed.
4. Exercise Regularly The wage of an CNA nurse can fluctuate as there are numerous totally different roles and different locations you can work. Within 1 to five years you possibly can anticipate to earn upwards of $35,000 a 12 months. Milk and cottage cheese (apart from soy milk). cells. Tea has been linked to being both preventative and combative towards many several types of cancer.
It would not change the opposite individual’s mind.
It is essential to eat all types of greens, not just peas and potatoes. As a rule, recent is healthier than cooked (because vitamins are misplaced in cooking), and frozen is usually better than canned (because manufacturers have a tendency so as to add a variety of salt to canned vegetables).
Understand that your life and your skill to handle issues, change as you acquire expertise. You possibly can achieve experience by really doing things, or you can vividly think about the correct considering and conduct. Your subconscious thoughts doesn’t know the difference between precise experience and what we vividly think about.
Complicating the difficulty is that many obese individual are self programmed to underestimate their capacity for exercise and improvement. One examine discovered that persons who’re technically overweight are far more likely to be self-conscious, petrified of being injured, simply overwhelmed by the hassle required, and to concentrate on minor aches and pains.
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A little less than a week before it's supposed to be unveiled to the public, the iPhone 5C is attracting attention from human rights groups for possible labour violations. While it feels like deja vu after the many Foxconn scandals, there's an important difference this time. The factory is American-owned.
On Thursday, China Labour Watch spoke up about a number of ethical and labour violations by U.S. electronics manufacturer Jabil Circuit who is reportedly building the iPhone 5C. Among other things, the human rights group accused the company of owing workers millions in unpaid overtime wages, forcing workers to stand for 11 hours a day with only a 30 minute lunch break, and failing to provide adequate training. The list goes on: discriminating against applicants for being too old or having tattoos, forcing up eight workers to live together in a cramped dorm room and making overtime mandatory. The situation at Jabil Circuit's factories hasn't quite escalated to the level of Foxconn and its suicide pact scandal, but it's certainly not a good way to kick off a new Apple product.
It's also pretty sad that we've come to expect labour violations from the manufacturing partners that supply Apple as well as its competitors with cheap labour. You would think that the situation would improve after The New York Times summed up Apple's labour woes in frightening detail with its Pulitzer Prize-winning "iEconomy" series, but building iPhones and iPads in China sounds as miserable as ever. Apple's made an effort to address the problems through regular audits and the decision to move Mac manufacturing to the U.S. They even cut ties with a manufacturing partner after there were allegations about underage labour. But the complaints keep rolling in. This is the second situation at factories producing goods for Apple and its competitors that's been flagged in as many months.
Time will whether or not Apple will address this latest outrage. And if you think Apple moving iPhone manufacturing back to the U.S. is the answer, don't hold your breath. That's just not going to happen.
Apple issued a lengthy statement on the matter saying that they're investigating the allegations. Here's a snippet, courtesy of AllThingsD:
As part of our extensive Supplier Responsibility program, Apple has conducted 14 comprehensive audits at Jabil facilities since 2008, including three audits of Jabil Wuxi in the past 36 months. We take any concerns about our suppliers very seriously, and our team of experts is on-site at Jabil Wuxi to look into the new claims about conditions there. Jabil has a proactive auditing program of their own and they have an excellent track record of meeting Apple’s high standards.
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Deep down in the abyss of your engine bay, engine mounts are tasked with the powerful job of holding your engine in place. They typically connect your engine to three or four factors in your vehicle’s frame or subframe. An engine mount’s job description also includes absorbing engine noise and vibration and stopping misalignment between driveline elements under high loads.
As you possibly can see, motor mounts perform some essential tasks, but they rarely get any attention for his or her work.
Till they fail.
Signs of a bad engine mount usually include more noticeable vibration inside the vehicle, increased engine noise, or extreme engine movement. All motor mounts are designed to allow some flex or movement, however an excessive amount of engine movement can lead to strain on your driveline and even forestall regular clutch and transmission operation.
Should you look at any discussion board discussion on motor mounts, you’ll discover that opinions fluctuate widely on what makes the most effective engine mount materials. That’s because the best alternative can come down to your personal emotions about how a lot vibration is too much…or how a lot power loss on the wheels is just too much. Quite simply, there is a give and take between engine mount materials, and choosing the right mount usually comes down to your meant vehicle use.
Rubber engine mounts, like those provided by the factory, provide the greatest vibration and noise dampening effect. However, there are just a few drawbacks to the old rubber-style mounts. They are often prone to cracking and tearing after a while, and also allow the most movement under load. This means less energy is switchred from the engine by the driveline and into the rear wheels. Rubber mounts are perfect for stock or mildly modified street engines, but as horsepower is elevated, it may be time to upgrade.
Polyurethane will allow more vibration than rubber mounts because of its increased stiffness. Depending in your vehicle, horsepower, and engine mount model, the amount of vibration can vary. Your experience could differ from that of one other individual because of variations within the hardness and flexibility of the polyurethane. Typically, though, polyurethane is harder and more inflexible than rubber, making it best for more highly modified vehicles.
Whether or not you’re changing worn mounts, choosing engine mounts for a brand new engine, or looking for special engine swap motor mounts, you’ll find a dizzying array of choices. Be sincere with your self about your vehicle’s meant use, future modifications, and the significance of a comfortable ride.
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You'll have 3 or 4 leads on your gauge and 2 on your sending unit.
The sending unit has leads that should be labeled S and G for "Sending Unit" and "Ground" The ground should be black and the S might be pink.
The gauge wires will be labeled S, I, G and maybe L. S and G are the same as the sending unit. I is the 12V from the ignition, and L is 12V from the lighting circuit for the bulb in the gauge if it has one.
The first step is to verify that you have 12V between I and G on the back of your gauge when the key is on. If you don't, you have a problem outside the gauge/sending unit.
If you have the 12V between I and G, then short the S lead to the G lead at the tank . Your gauge will go to full if it is good. If the gauge tests good, connect the voltmeter from S to G on the gauge or at the tank and move the sending unit. You should see voltage ranging from 0-8V or 0-12V as you move it.
If you have 12V at the gauge, the gauge pegs when you short the leads and you don't get any voltage change when moving the sending unit, you most likely have a bad sending unit.
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Relative to those with dip in nighttime SBP, nondippers, reverse dippers have higher prevalence of cardiac autonomic neuropathy
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 30, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Increased blood pressure (BP) at night is associated with an increased risk for all-cause mortality in patients with diabetes, according to a study presented at the American Heart Association Hypertension 2021 Scientific Sessions, held virtually from Sept. 27 to 29.
Martina Chiriacò, M.D., from the University of Pisa in Italy, and colleagues examined a cohort of patients with type 2 or type 1 diabetes (284 and 65 patients, respectively) recruited in 1999 and followed for 21 years. All patients had 24-hour ambulatory BP and heart rate variability monitoring available. A â¥10 percent decrease, <10 percent decrease, and â¥0.1 percent increase in average nighttime systolic BP (SBP) compared with average daytime SBP was used to define dipping, nondipping, and reverse-dipping status, respectively.
The researchers found that there were 136 deaths (39 percent) after 6,251 person-years of follow-up. Relative to dippers (166 patients), nondippers (144 patients) and reverse dippers (39 patients) had a progressively higher prevalence of cardiac autonomic neuropathy (11, 16, and 31 percent, respectively), low heart rate variability (45, 53, and 62 percent), 24-hour hypertension (40, 60, and 67 percent), isolated nocturnal hypertension (5, 27, and 49 percent), and postural hypotension (14, 26, and 43 percent), as well as a lower prevalence of white-coat hypertension (31, 17, and 13 percent). Compared with dippers, nondippers and reverse dippers had progressively lower mean overall survival. After adjustment for confounding variables, reverse dippers also had an increased risk for all-cause mortality (hazard ratio, 2.3).
“It is important that health care professionals look for abnormal blood pressure dipping patterns in people with type 1 or type 2 diabetes,” Chiriacò said in a statement.
Copyright © 2021 HealthDay. All rights reserved.
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So you want to break into the video game industry (you want a game biz job). First, you have to know which type of job you want -- if you don't know which you want, you need to read about the game industry and the types of jobs in it. Then you might need to make a decision. Third, you need to be qualified for the job. Fourth, you need to know how to find information and how to ask good questions (you need to not ask bad questions). Finally, we have tips for getting the job.
I've a .NET business progammer background with a hobbyist interest in making my own games - mostly mobile games - but I'm curious to know what a Tools Programmer does and what sort of things I should be working on to aim for a job like that? A lot of the job specs have "plugin development for Maya or 3DS", is there any more to it than that?
I dabbled in tools programming while at Eidos a few years back.
I'd recommend reading up on Managed C++ because you may need to interface directly with game objects which are written in C++, and you can write Managed C++ wrappers around these 'native' classes so that C# code can interact with them.
Also, for the UI, Windows Forms and the Model-View-Presenter pattern is a common choice, but gaining pace is WPF and the Model-View-ViewModel pattern. Could be useful to have knowledge of those two.
I never had to learn third-party scripting, but Unreal Script and Maya plugin development are often listed for tools programmer roles.
"Tools programmer" is a very broad term. It ranges from library over systems to utility programmer. Writing plug-ins, im- and exporters for various other software is also a possibility. It might even refer to build engineer.
Broad programming knowledge is good for any programmer position, as is experience.
If you want to know more details, you could check out job offerings. They usually contain a wish list of skills.
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Ahmed K, Ashrafian H, Hanna GB, et al. Assessment of specialists in cardiovascular practice. Nat Rev Cardiol. 2009;10:659-67.
Asch SM, McGlynn EA, Hogan MM, et al. Comparison of quality of care in the Veterans Health Administration and patients in a national sample. Ann Int Med. 2004;141:938-45.
Balmer DF, Lisby D, Harris MC, Slap GB. Do pediatric fellows recognize the importance and contribution of training to mastery of the general competencies? Med Teach. 2008;30(7):687-92.
Bower EA, Girard DE, Wessel K, et al. Barriers to innovation in Continuing Medical Education. J Contin Educ Health Prof. 2008;28(3):148-56.
Bresolin L, McLoud TC, Becker GJ, Kwakwa F. Education techniques for lifelong learning: international variations in initial certification and maintenance of certification in radiology: a multinational survey. Radiographics. 2008;28(1):13-20.
Brown HJ, Miles PV, Perelman RH, Stockman JA. A continuum of competency assessment: the potential for reciprocal use of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education toolbox and the components of the American Board of Pediatrics Maintenance-of-Certification Program. Pediatrics. 2009;123 Suppl 1:S56-8.
Cambpell EG, Regan S, Gruen RL, et al. Professionalism in medicine: results of a national survey of physicians. Ann Intern Med. 2007;147(11):795-802.
Chen J, Rathore SS, Wang Y, et al. Physician board certification and the care and outcomes of elderly patients with acute myocardial infarction. J Gen Intern Med. 2006;21:238-44.
Collins J. Lifelong learning in the 21st century and beyond. Radiographics. 2009;29(2):613-22.
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In the morning, even with only a little sleep, it is possible to put aside the dark thoughts that have twisted us throughout the night. And so it was; I woke, and the sun was shining, and it was a new age, and I had lived to see it.
And, as the days passed, I found also that for the first time in my life, I was my own master, and I discovered that I liked it. So long had deference been my custom that I had too easily forgotten that I held opinions, and that they were sound, and that people would listen and hold my views worthy of account. And if I thought of the White Lady at this time, it was to wish her, with all my heart, all the health and happiness which, if she had allowed it, I would have gladly given her.
And so April wore away, and we would hear news of the approach of the host and the captains, and I would wake each morning refreshed, and eagerly anticipating the day that was soon to come. A staleness seemed to lift from the White Tower, and I moved from the study which had been my father's into a new room, which caught the morning sun, and in which even the papers that came with my office could not depress me. And then I turned my attention to the house in which I had grown up, and I opened windows and unsealed rooms, and brought out many things that had been put away, and sent away much for burning.
Early one morning, I stood on the steps of the Tower looking eastwards and enjoying the cool sunlight that would later become warm, which I heard my name called, and turned to see the Warden of the Houses of Healing. And he spoke to me of the Lady …owyn, and how it seemed she sickened, and my fragile peace was shattered.
Straightaway I went back with him, and waited for her again in the garden. Not four weeks had passed since I myself had been dwelling here, and yet I felt the world had changed. And when she was brought to me, I saw that she too was changed, but she was sadder, and ill.
She greeted me with a small smile. 'Dear friend. I thought you had forgotten me.'
'You asked me not to come.' I took her arm, and we walked once more again along the walls. 'Surely you must know by now, …owyn, that I could not forget you, even if I wanted to.'
She gave a sigh, soft and sad. 'My friend - ' she began. But I too was changed, and this time I would be heard. And I asked her again why it was she remained in Minas Tirith, and I overcame my fear, and I offered her myself, if she would have me.
Even in the dead of winter, something remains alive, embedded deep below the frost, waiting for the first sun of spring, however faint, to call it forth. Slowly, it puts out tendrils, delicate at first, then more eager, pursuing the sunlight which, although still weak itself, is still warmer than the hiding place below, and holds more promise.
For fear there may be a late frost, which could kill whatever had begun to bud, one protects the new life, nurturing it, keeping it from any cold that might suddenly descend. And then there comes a moment where the roots are strong, and beneath just a gentle breath of warmth, flowers come forth.
To behold such a transformation - and more, to be intrinsic to it, both first cause and final destination - is consummate; an extinction of the self, which is melted in the crucible of the other, and together they are forged, through some exquisite alchemy, into a new self.
What was latent in the other is awoken. What was barren in her I enrich; what was cold in me she warms. She bursts into flower beneath my touch and I; I am on fire. She transforms me, and what had been my deepest terror becomes fundamental to our self, half of the essence of our new being. Our fears become foundations.
The fire of our first kiss as lovers flames through the city. And this our own rebirth reflects and augments the greater renewal - the turning of the year to summer, the regeneration of the land, the restoration of the king.
On a clear day at the start of May we come forth from the city Gate. The man who is to be my king stands before me; the woman who is to be my wife stands behind me. She completes me. I am complete.
The dove descending breaks the air
With flame of incandescent terror
Of which the tongues declare
The one discharge from sin and error.
The only hope, or else despair
Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre -
To be redeemed from fire by fire.
Who then devised the torment? Love.
Love is the unfamiliar Name
Behind the hands that wove
The intolerable shirt of flame
Which human power cannot remove.
We only live, only suspire
Consumed by either fire or fire.
Author's note: All the poetry is from TS Eliot: at the start of chapters 1 and 3 from The Waste Land, chapter 2 from Ash Wednesday, and the big chunk at the end from Little Gidding.
The story continues in A Game of Chess.
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As the days tick down to Hawaii’s May 22 special congressional election, Republican Charles Djou is airing an ad falsely accusing former Democratic Rep. Ed Case of voting to raise “taxes that kill 3,000 local jobs a year.”
The ad, which first ran May 14, makes this claim: “Case said he’s against higher taxes, but in Congress he voted to raise taxes. Taxes that kill 3,000 local jobs a year.” It cites a Jan. 5, 2006, “web memo” from the Heritage Foundation, a conservative Washington think tank, to back up its figure of 3,000 jobs per year. That memo argued that Congress should make permanent the tax cuts signed by President George W. Bush: the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 and the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003. Most of the cuts were due to expire by Dec. 31, 2010, but the Bush administration began campaigning early to make them permanent – starting with the reduced tax rate on investment income that was due to sunset on Dec. 31, 2008. In its web memo, Heritage estimated the average yearly employment growth in each state from fiscal years 2008 through 2014 if all the cuts were left in place. The estimate for Hawaii: 3,426 per year.
We needn’t delve into Heritage’s analysis (with which other prominent economists disagree) to find the main flaw in Djou’s claim: Case, who served in Congress from January 2003 to January 2007, voted on May 10, 2006, for a two-year extension of the tax break on capital gains and dividends. He was one of only 15 Democrats to vote that way – an act for which fellow Democrat Colleen Hanabusa has attacked him in one of her recent TV ads. (Hawaii’s special election in the 1st congressional district is a multi-candidate, winner-take-all election.) The Senate followed suit, and Bush signed the bill into law.
Case also was one of 76 Democrats to vote on July 28, 2006, for the Pension Protection Act of 2006, which made permanent many of the retirement provisions contained in Bush’s 2001 tax law – including higher contribution limits to 401(k) and IRA plans. A majority of House Democrats voted against that bill, which became law.
We asked the Djou campaign if it had any other evidence that Case’s votes on taxes cost Hawaii 3,000 jobs each year. Dylan Nonaka, a spokesman for Djou, said Case had voted for many tax increases. He also said the fact that Case voted to extend the Bush tax cuts in 2006 after voting against them in 2003 only underscores the ad’s larger point that Case can’t be trusted. It is true that Case voted against the Bush tax cuts in 2003, but that’s not the same as raising taxes. And the Heritage memo fails to back up Djou’s claim that Case’s tax votes were draining thousands of jobs from his state.
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Masters of Mercy: Buddha's Amazing Disciples
Navigating the Six Realms
The Six Realms: Demons, Five Hundred Arhats: Scrolls 27 and 28
Humans who led greedy, gluttonous lives are believed to return as hungry ghosts. In the right scroll, a crowd of figures squeezed into a tree trunk represents those who had destroyed trees out of avarice. They are now condemned to live inside one and be eaten by parasitic insects. The greenish figures in the river with indented heads are kappa, water sprites that appear in Japanese folklore. An attendant crouches down to give them fruit to appease their odd appetites.
In the left scroll, inside the packed cave sits Hariti, goddess of childbirth. Originally a cannibalistic demon who abducted village children to feed them to her own, she now receives a rakan's offerings. An attendant stands behind with a basket of pomegranates for her hungry offspring, a symbol of fecundity and substitute for human flesh.
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Thursday, August 13, 2009
Craft and Evidence
It's a great book to argue with, since it's prickly and peculiar and weirdly un-self-aware. I'll admit a temperamental allergy to any argument that smacks of “those manly men with their earthy authenticity,” and the book sometimes shades into that. That said, I have to admit that I laughed out loud, half-guiltily, at his invocation of The Postcard.
(For older or younger readers: in the 90's, before online applications became commonplace, faculty job applicants mailed thick paper applications and waited for paper responses. More often than not, the only response would be The Postcard, which acknowledged receipt – fair enough – and then asked you to check boxes indicating your race and gender. As an unemployed white guy, The Postcard was offensive beyond belief. “Give us an excuse not to hire you.” No, screw you. Then you'd feel like a reactionary prick for being offended, and feel bad for that, but you still needed a job, dammit. So now you get to be unemployed and self-loathing. That's just ducky. Now, with online applications, the demographic questions usually get asked upfront, where they blend in with everything else. Substantively, there's no difference, but at least it feels less insulting. If we can't offer jobs, we can at least recognize applicants' basic human dignity.)
The valuable part of the book for me, though, is its discussion of craft and the sense of individual agency.
Crawford rightly takes issue with the easy equation of 'white collar' with 'intellectually challenging,' and of 'blue collar' with 'mindless.' Anyone who has actually worked in both settings (hi!) can attest that working with recalcitrant materials can require real ingenuity, and that many office jobs are just about as brainless as you can get without actually starting to decompose. (Dilbert and The Office draw their popularity from noticing exactly that.) From that correct observation, Crawford also notes that part of the joy of certain kinds of hands-on work comes from the relative autonomy it affords. When you're trying to diagnose a funny engine behavior, it's just you and the engine. You get the engine to work or you don't. (Of course, it isn't always that simple. But the case is recognizable.) When you're jockeying for position in an office, by contrast, direct measures of performance are scarce, so it often comes down to office politics, which can feel like junior high all over again. Having a sense of control over your own work can free you from that gnawing sense of dissatisfaction when you really can't explain to others just what you do all day.
It struck me that this sense of ownership of craft is part of what's behind resistance to evidence-based policy in higher ed.
Done correctly, evidence-based policy (or what we academics call 'outcomes assessment') shifts the basis for decision-making from 'expert opinion' to actual observed facts, preferably gathered over a large sample size. In deciding whether a given practice makes sense, data counts. The idea is that some facts are counterintuitive, so simply relying on what longtime practitioners say is right and proper will lead to suboptimal results. Rather than deferring to credentials, authority, or seniority, we are supposed to defer to documented outcomes. Solutions that work are better than solutions that don't, regardless of where they come from or whose position they threaten.
What Crawford's book helped me to crystallize was why something as obviously good as data-based decisionmaking is so widely resisted on the ground. It effectively reduces the practitioner's sense of control over his own work. At some level, it threatens to reduce the craftsman to a mere worker.
Take away the sense of ownership of craft, even with the best of intentions (like improving outcomes for students), and the reaction will be/is vicious, heated, and often incoherent. Since there's really no basis for arguing that student results are irrelevant – without students, it's not clear that we need teachers – the arguments will be indirect. The measure is bad; the statistics are misleading; this is an excuse to fire people; this is an excuse to destroy academic freedom; this is about administrative control; this is a fad; blah blah blah.
I draw hope, though, from Crawford's correct observation that the 'white collar mind/blue collar body' split isn't really true. The same can apply here. Outcomes assessment done right is focused on where students end up. How you get them there is where the real craft comes in. How, exactly, do the most successful programs work? (For that matter, without assessing outcomes, how do we even know which programs are the most successful?)
On an individual level, professors do this all the time. We try different ways of explaining things, of posing problems, of structuring simulations, and then judge how well they worked. But student outcomes encompass far more than the sum of individual classes; without some sort of institutional effort, those extra factors go largely unaddressed (or, worse, addressed only according to custom or internal politics).
That could involve some displacement of traditional craft practice, but it hardly eliminates the role of craft. For a while I've been mentally toying with a scheme that looks like this: separate teaching from grading, then reward teaching that results in good grades. The instructor wouldn't grade his own class; he'd trade with someone else, ideally at another institution. (In that scheme, we could also do away with evaluative class observations and most uses of student course evaluations. Replace 'expert opinion' with observable facts. If you manage to succeed with your students using a method I don't personally get, the success is what matters. Likewise, if you consistently fail, the fact that some big muckety-muck somewhere endorses your method means exactly nothing.) That way, you're eliminating the obvious conflict of interest that tempts some scared faculty to resort to grade inflation. The grades won't be theirs to inflate.
Admittedly, this method wouldn't work as cleanly at, say, the graduate level, but I see it working fairly well for most undergrad courses. Your job as the instructor is not to threaten/cajole/judge, but to coach students on how to produce high-quality work. The secret grader is the enemy. Students make use of your help or they don't, and the results speak for themselves. Faculty who get consistently better results get recognition, and those who get consistently poor results are given the chance to improve; those who still fail after a reasonable shot are shown the door.
Getting back to Crawford, though, I was disappointed that he largely reinscribes the white collar/blue collar dualism in his description of two different ways of knowing. In an extended rant against Japanese repair manuals -- seriously, it's in there -- he draws a distinction between inflexible rule-based knowledge and hard-won life wisdom, clearly favoring the latter. The implication seems to be that knowledge is either 'explicit' -- that is, theoretical and absolute -- or 'tacit,' meaning acquired through non-transferable practice. Think 'theoretical physics' versus 'practicing mechanic.'
Well, okay, but there's a much more interesting kind of knowledge that draws on each. It's the kind of knowledge that social scientists deal with every single day. It's the statistical tendency. The rule based on aggregated observations, rather than deductive logic. It's inductive, probabilistic, empirical, and useful as hell. Baseball fans call it sabermetrics. Economists call it heuristics. (Score one for baseball fans.) It's based on real world observation, but real world observation across lots of people.
This is the kind of knowledge that helps us get past the well-documented (though unaddressed by Crawford) observation biases that real people have. Practitioners of sabermetrics, for example, found that some of the longstanding hunches of baseball scouts simply didn't stand up to scrutiny. Individual craft practice falls prey to individual biases, individual blind spots, and individual prejudices. Testing those assumptions against accumulated evidence isn't applying procrustean logic to messy reality. If anything, it's reality-based theorizing.
Done correctly, that's exactly what any outcomes-based or evidence-based system does. And rather than crushing individual craft, it actually gives the thoughtful practitioner useful fodder for improvement.
Though I have my misgivings about Crawford's book, I owe it a real debt. The key in getting outcomes assessment to mean something on the ground is to distinguish it from the false binary choice of craft or theory. It's in between, and yet distinct. It's empirical, but not individual. The fact that a thinker as subtle as Crawford could miss that category completely suggests that the task won't be easy, but it also suggests that doing the task right could make a real contribution.
Mostly, this is because most of them actually did it by email, rather than by online form. Since I was emailing directly to the search committee, and since they're not supposed to be able to ask this information, you couldn't send it to them.
The reason that I oppose the increasing focus on standardized tests is the "high stakes" nature of them. I don't think any given test should be invested with too much significance.
But the idea of having all homework and all tests graded by strangers gets you the benefit of that objectivity without the pressure. Ideally we'd figure out a way to do this while still leaving teachers the freedom to design their own curriculum and respond to the interests and abilities of their individual classes -- that would be the hard part. Still, it's a really appealing idea in some ways.
Of course, the actual task of grading would such even worse if you had to sit down with a bunch of crappy work by students you don't even *know* every night......
In deciding whether a given practice makes sense, data counts.
Relevant data count. [*]
If your goal is retention of students, the relevant data are the ABC rates for the class, which can be improved several different ways. If your goal is retention of knowledge (what used to be called "learning" before Learning College came to mean retention of students), then the relevant data might be the ABC rate in a later class.
For example, if a CC is teaching "critical thinking" (and who isn't these days), the measure isn't how many students pass or even if they get some "critical thinking question" correct on a particular exam, it is whether they do well as juniors in classes where they have to think critically.
The value of standardized tests has to be thought about in the same way. There are some nice ones in physics, and it is clear that some teaching techniques that target the things measured by those tests will improve performance on that test, but I have only seen one study that shows a correlation between that test and later success in a particular field. The counter example in physics is that physics graduate students often do as badly on one test as the undergrads, and that test is supposed to measure skills needed to get to graduate school!
[*] - Data are plural.
And then you'd have to read your own students' work ANYWAY (doubling your workload) so you'd know where and in what interesting ways they were missing the point!
When students draft a paper and I provide feedback, they expect that their responses to the feedback will directly result in a better grade on the final product. But some of those students also hold on to the high school mentality of writing in that they see evaluation as highly subjective, of the sort where if the teacher doesn't "like" you or the way you write, you get a bad grade.
I can see the benefit of separating myself from the grading process, but I wonder if my students would even then write drafts, since in at least some of their minds, they just need to please an unknown grader, and they perceive my feedback on their draft to be just as subjective as the evaluation of the person grading the final product.
Is there any work out there done on how students view this separation of instruction and evaluation?
1. One of the issues faculty have with assessment is that it implies that we are not experts in what we do. I.e., the craftspeople are not respected for their skill in the craft. Am I saying that I advocate not bothering to hook up an oxygen sensor to my engine to make sure the repair was made correctly or not sitting on the stool to test its strength? No, of course not. But assessment needs to be carefully developed to reflect each discipline. Too often, (at least my) administrators seem to think the answer is simple data. In the Humanities, sometimes simple data is difficult to come by. But most faculty would probably welcome an opportunity to sit down and develop reasonable assessments with their administrators, get some training in the skills necessary to administer the assessment instruments agreed upon (too often, it's not as simple as accepting that our tests or other assignments are legitimate), and in the process remind administrators that their discipline has merit. That's too rarely the case, unfortunately. My administrators want data, and they want that data to come from tests, and they want those tests to be administered online with multiple choice, and they want those online multiple-choice tests to be free. OK . . . . How do I assess speaking skills in a foreign language through such a test? Writing skills? Mastery of details of what the US deems a relatively arcane culture?
2. How do you develop the baseline? I could give my beginning language students the final exam for the second term at the beginning of the first semester, then again at the end of the second (i.e., the time it's appropriate). That would be proof that they had learned. However, what affect would it have on my students' motivation to take a test they failed miserably? Help me develop reasonable instruments! They don't teach this stuff in grad school!
3. Mary suggests, "Ideally we'd figure out a way to [uncouple teaching and grading] while still leaving teachers the freedom to design their own curriculum and respond to the interests and abilities of their individual classes -- that would be the hard part." No kidding--does anyone actually believe that faculty will allow the complete end of control over one's course that this would entail? That sets higher ed back about 200 years!
We assume, all along, that the outcomes are the result of good, or bad, teaching/instruction. Of course there is the whole matter of the raw material in the first place.
If we see a wide range of scores on the tests, will we then take the time to correlate the scores of students to their ranking by the admissions office when admitted? Perhaps compare the outcome assessment scores to GPA from HS and to SAT/ACT scores or some other measure of "ability?"
Perhaps it's time we told ourselves that we can't just let anyone in, and expect great outcomes. Sometimes, yes. Anecdotes will be rampant.
Let's hold Admissions accountable. (Sorry, all you open enrollment schools--your faculty I guess will just have to assume "it's all their fault.")
They are not there to change individual grades but to confirm the overall structure and delivery of the course and assessment.
There are a variety of benefits to this system from external checkpoints to sharing of good practice to mentoring and feedback to staff.
This worked well for quite some time but in the last decade has become a fairly contentious area. In many instances these EE appointments are just political rubber-stamping and when choosing one I have often been guided to choose someone that will not really raise any issues or ask too many questions (lord forbid).
DD, I don't fully agree with your discussion of heuristics as a "third way" of knowing. I think they are a formal, intellectual form of the craft knowledge that Crawford is discussing. My opinion may stem from my background in the sciences, where we're taught early on to think heuristically at the bench. Like a mechanic with an engine, we are regularly forced to bang our ideas up against reality and see how well they work. We think about the results in a formal way, but it is still, however, a craft. (Lots of times our ideas don't work, of course. I have a sign over my desk that says "Nature is a mother.")
I do, however, fully agree that much of the resistance to measurement in the academic community is a reaction to loss of "craftmanship" status. (Crawford discusses similar resistance to job standardization in auto manufacture.) However, if what the students actually want is just a freakin' education, rather than something individually crafted, then this is just not going to work out long term. Not all individually crafted education is even as good as what could be mass-produced.
That said, I am not sure that blind grading would work as a measurement tool. If done well, grading is a teaching tool; take it out of the equation, and product suffers. I think I might be inclined to use a statistical sampling system: take a demographically representative sample of students, track them through their college careers, and watch their performance relative to their predicted success based on "incoming quality" (high school grades and SAT scores). With enough students, you should be able to tease out the effectiveness of individual teachers.
Every year I show up with hundreds of other government teachers to grade thousands of essay questions. My wife does the same for English. It requires careful development of exam questions, development of a rubric all follow in grading, and it costs a lot of money to make sure everyone grades every exam question the same. Of course, AP teachers do not know what questions will be asked on the exam or have any influence in choosing them.
I recommend everyone do it at least once. See just what it would take to do what DD suggests. Would DD propose allowing CC teachers know the questions and choose them? Would all agree on what questions to use? What textbooks? What rubrics to use? Who would pay for shipping these exams around? For meetings to develop rubrics and questions?
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It is known for a long time that "classic" heating systems in which boiler rooms and water radiators are used are ineffective for production facilities of large area especially if they have considerable height (usually more than 5–6 meters). It is purposeful to switch to direct-gain systems (infrared heating) for heating factory and industrial workshops of considerable height in conditions of modern technology development.
Works on designing, procurement, installation and commissioning of the decentralized heating energy-saving system using Robert Gordons (USA) gas IR burners were executed in the scope of implementation of the project at the first aisle of Storehouse No. 7, Production Department No. 60, Izhorskie Zavody OJSC. The IR Heating System allowed providing surface temperature at the storehouse not lower than +5 °C. At that the existing system of centralized water heating of the specified aisle should be disconnected and not used.
The heating system based on gas infrared burners is the most economically advantageous as it allows performing zoned heating and reducing heating costs as a whole. In addition infrared heating burners only allow achieving preset temperatures in the existing shop features: large height and therefore volume, enclosing structures with low heat-protective properties, large area of glazing, outer gates without heat insulation etc.
16 infrared gas radiators are used to maintain indoor temperature not lower than +5 °С at the entire area at outside air temperature down to -26 °С.
All instruments are mounted on walls in the room and connected to unified automatic zoned temperature control system. Therefore they are switched on for a time at temperature decrease below required value.
The heating system of total power 800 kW and with heated area 2592 km2 at building height 20 m was created.
Specifications of IR Heating System
at the first aisle of Storehouse No. 7, Production Department No. 60, Izhorskie Zavody OJSC
Aisle length, m___________________________________________________108
Aisle width, m____________________________________________________24
Ceiling height, m_______________________________________________18,795
Total aisle volume, m3__________________________________________48,717
Floor space (including welding area), m2_____________________________2,592
Quantity of IRH-50 kW burners ___________________________________16 pcs.
Total heat power, kW___________________________________________800 kW
The long-term experience of the created IR Heating System operation has shown its high efficiency and usability.Back to the section
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A photography trip to Lake Artemesia where attractions include cycling, running, recreation fishing, bird watching, and walking trails that connect to Anacostia Tributary Trails of Indian Creek. Sealed pathways surround the lake edge where many signs describe the history and animals, especially to walk the colorful Luther Goldman Birding Trail. The 38 acres of lakeland is very close to the Maryland University, National Archives, Greenbelt and College Park of Berwyn Heights.
There are wonderful sealed walkways and other trails to the lake edge and view colorful reflections, especially in the autumn. I have seen many interesting animals such as beavers, turtles, snakes, herons, egrets, woodpeckers, swans, barred owls, and the redhead Waterfowl. There are so many migrating birds to view, especially in winter.
In the coming seasons the challenge will be to photograph the Kingfisher bird feeding as I have viewed trout and bass in the lake. I have seen the water snake and musk-rat coming close to the lake edge where the cattail plants grow covering the embankment.
History; the lake was originally dug as a gravel extraction pit in the 1860s. 1890 inspired Edwin A Newman, a real estate developer, to create an exclusive resort community Lakeland. The man-made Lake now called Artemesia is named in honor of Clara Artemesia Newman. The Dref family originally owned the land and use to farm goldfish.
This exclusive Lakeland residential area attracted employment at the Maryland University. At the turn of the twentieth century, African-Americans began to move into the Lakeland community, although typically along the outer edges of the neighborhood, near the Indian Creek. A review of the census shows that in 1910, Lakeland was predominately a white neighborhood with a few African-American families living in the community. By 1920, more African-American families moved into the neighborhood, but white families were still the majority of property owners. In 1930, only a few white families remained in Lakeland and lived primarily along the Washington-Baltimore Pike, now Baltimore Avenue/Route 1.
Present; Lake Artemesia is now a park in Prince George’s County, where much restoration of housing is in progress. New playground areas are walking distance to the lake, which attract many visitors from DC and the greater Maryland to enjoy this beautiful environment.
My Gallery “Lake Artemesia”, includes a selection images from previous visits to this park.
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The crystal page
Crystals on a string
A variety of fairly common substances can be used to grow crystals, including:
- Epsom salt
- Alum (aluminum potassium sulfate)
- Photographer's hypo
- Bicarbonate of soda (baking soda)
- Laundry soda
- Copper sulfate
In a jar add to very hot water whichever substance you are working with until saturation is reached. Pour the solution off into a clean jar, leaving behind any undissolved substance.
Suspend a thin thread into the center of the jar. The thread can be tied to a pencil, Popsicle stick, or whatever is handy and will span the jar opening. Alternately, you can punch a hole in the lid of the jar, pass the thread through the hole, and then use a nail or pencil to hold the thread in place from the outside.
If you are using the jar lid, screw it on, and stick a piece of masking tape over the hole. If you are not using the jar lid, tape a piece of paper over the mouth of the jar. This is to control the rate of evaporation. Let sit, then after 15 minutes, swish the jar a bit. Swish it again 15 minutes later, then one final time an hour later. Set the jar where it won't be disturbed. Depending on the substance used, the crystals should begin to grow in an hour or so, and continue to grow for from a day to several days.
Old-fashioned rock candy is grown using basically the same setup as above. Sugar is used for the solution, and the crystals are typically grown on a wooden stick rather than a thread.
Growing a single large salt crystal
With a little more effort it is possible to produce a single large symmetrical crystal. First fill a jar with hot water, and stir in as much salt as will dissolve. This is a supersaturated solution. Allow the excess salt to settle out, and pour the mixture into a saucer, leaving all of the undissolved salt behind.
As the water cools, tiny crystals will begin to form on the bottom of the saucer. These are the "seed" crystals. Using a magnifying glass, pick out the largest perfectly formed crystal. Hold on to any well shaped seed crystals in case your first attempt does not go well.
Mix up another batch of hot supersaturated solution. Allow the undissolved salt to settle out as before, and pour off into a clean jar. You can use a coffee filter or clean napkin as a filter. Tie a thin thread to the seed crystal and hang it in the solution. Cover the jar with a piece of paper to slow evaporation.
As the water evaporates over the course of several weeks, the salt will attach to the growing crystal. Remove any other crystals as they form. From time to time, you should add more cooled, supersaturated solution. Don't let the jar get too warm, as this may dissolve the crystal. Crystals formed this way tend to be very fragile, and of course will be dissolved by water.
This can be tried with other substances, such as bicarbonate of soda, alum, copper sulfate, photographer's hypo, borax, laundry soda, etc.
Growing one big alum crystal
Heat one cup (250 ml) of water to boiling. Stir in about 3 tablespoons (45 ml) of alum until it dissolves. Pour the solution into a clean jar. Cover with plastic wrap or wax paper and set in a place where it will not be disturbed for several days. If the solution was pure enough, you should end up with a single large crystal.
Epsom frosted glass
Dissolve Epsom salts (magnesium sulfate) in a pot of boiling water until no more will dissolve. Add a drop or two of white glue (not critical). Brush a small amount of the liquid onto a glass or bottle. The liquid will quickly evaporate, leaving behind a film of delicate crystals.
Stalactites are the long rock columns that grow from the roofs of many caves. Stalagmites are similar columns that grow from the cave's floor. They are made from the minerals in water that drip down through the cave. It is possible to simulate the growth of these formations.
Fill two jars with very warm water. Add as much baking soda or Epsom salts to each jar as will dissolve. Place a saucer between the two jars, which are about a foot apart. Dip one end of a piece of absorbent (cotton, wool - some synthetics won't draw the solution) yarn, thick thread or string into each jar. The ends should be weighted with washers, nails or what have you to keep them in the jars. Let it hang in the middle, over the saucer. Capillary action should draw the baking soda solution up through the yarn, where it will drip onto the saucer. Over the course of several days, the dripping water will deposit the baking soda, forming a tiny stalactite and stalagmite. Eventually these may join to create a single column, as in an actual cave. Epsom salts generally take longer, but yield more variety of shape.
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