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In November, women's rights defenders agreed with Quintana Roo lawmakers to draft a Safe Abortion Law. The initial proposal would have allowed women to end their pregnancy up to 12 weeks of gestation.
On Thursday, after six hours of debate, the legislators reduced that period from 12 to eight weeks. "The father's consent" was also added as a requirement for a woman to end her pregnancy.
This modification was also condemned by GIRE, which stated that "men can't decide over a woman's body."
Abortions are happening whether or not the state or male politicians allow so legally - but there are increased risks when women are not able to undergo the procedure in a safe, medical environment. pic.twitter.com/S7gUeGACpS
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Smart Waste Management Solutions
Smart Waste Management Solutions By Nexusnovus
India faces a colossal waste management crisis due to lack of efficient waste management solutions, and this creates serious social, health, and environmental issues. As cities continue to urbanise and citizens adopt a more western lifestyle, the crisis only grows.
Several issues contribute to this. The current (road) infrastructure cannot handle the logistics, local banks do not finance projects and incineration, the default technology for most of the current or planned projects is not adequate to process typical Indian waste.
10%–20% inert materials like glass, and
a negligible amountof recyclable materials like high-end plastics and metals.
Indian waste has extremely low calorific value due to high levels of organic matter, which includes mostly waterand inert materials like sand. Sand and water do not combust well. Furthermore, the composition of Indian waste fluctuates dramatically on a day-to-day basis, making incineration even harder to control.
Due to this, waste processing plants struggle to run at 60%–70% of their designed thermal output, and often require additional fuels like Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) or Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) to be expended. Incinerating Indian waste is like running a car on unrefined oil.
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The first study to examine the activity of hundreds of individual human brain cells during seizures has found that seizures begin with extremely diverse neuronal activity, contrary to the classic view that they are characterized by massively synchronized activity. The investigation by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Brown University researchers also observed pre-seizure changes in neuronal activity both in the cells where seizures originate and in nearby cells. The report will appear in Nature Neuroscience and is receiving advance online publication.
"Our findings suggest that different groups of neurons play distinct roles at different stages of seizures," says Sydney Cash, MD, PhD, of the MGH Department of Neurology, the paper's senior author. "They also indicate that it may be possible to predict impending seizures, and that clinical interventions to prevent or stop them probably should target those specific groups of neurons."
Epileptic seizures have been reported since ancient times, and today 50 million individuals worldwide are affected; but much remains unknown about how seizures begin, spread and end. Current knowledge about what happens in the brain during seizures largely comes from EEG readings, which reflect the average activity of millions of neurons at a time. This study used a neurotechnology that records the activity of individual brain cells via an implanted sensor the size of a baby aspirin.
The researchers analyzed data gathered from four patients with focal epilepsy seizures that originate in abnormal brain tissues that could not be controlled by medication. The participants had the sensors implanted in the outer layer of brain tissue to localize the abnormal areas prior to surgical removal. The sensors recorded the activity of from dozens to more than a hundred individual neurons over periods of from five to ten days, during which each patient experienced multiple seizures. In some participants, the recordings detected changes in neuronal activity as much as three minutes before a seizure begins and revealed highly diverse neuronal activity as a seizure starts and spreads. The activity becomes more synchronized toward the end of the seizure and almost completely stops when a seizure ends.
"Even though individual patients had different patterns of neural activity leading up to a seizure, in most of them it was possible to detect changes in that activity before the upcoming seizure," says co-lead and corresponding author Wilson Truccolo, PhD, Brown University Department of Neuroscience and an MGH research fellow. "We're still a long way from being able to predict a seizure which could be a crucial advance in treating epilepsy but this paper points a direction forward. For most patients, it is the unpredictable nature of epilepsy that is so debilitating, so just knowing when a seizure is going to happen would improve their quality of life and could someday allow clinicians to stop it before it starts."
Cash adds, "We are using ever more sophisticated methods to handle the large amounts of data we are collecting from patients. Now we are assessing how well we actually can predict seizures using ensembles of single neurons and are continuing to use these advanced recording techniques to unravel the mechanisms that cause human seizures and leveraging this knowledge to make the most of animal models." Cash is an assistant professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, and Truccolo an assistant professor of Neuroscience (Research) at Brown.
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An entire neighbourhood's broadband connection problems have been fixed by BT after it supplied one household with a new TV.
The telecoms provider explains that faulty electronic equipment can have an adverse effect on broadband connections, bringing data transfer rates down considerably.
Ashley Pickering of BT Wholesale's broadband access solutions team told PC Pro: "It's generally the power supply - a slightly faulty power supply in a television can degrade the performance of your line."
Mr Pickering added that it proved difficult convincing the customer that their TV was having an adverse effect on other residents in the area, noting that an area roughly 400 metres in diameter had been experiencing high latency over their broadband connections as a result of the faulty equipment.
However, he concluded by asserting that it would not become common policy to replace faulty TV sets for all customers experiencing slow broadband speeds.
The news follows recent criticism of BT from one member of Scottish parliament who asserted that the company was not doing enough to rectify problems with sluggish connections on the Shetland Islands.
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Lighting conservation is perhaps the low hanging fruit in all of energy conservation targets. It is no secret that the cost of energy is going in one direction, up. Rising energy costs are much more than just a trend; they are a way of life. There is no crystal ball that can predict what our energy costs might be a year from now or five years from now. However, you don‚t need a crystal ball to know that energy costs are on the rise. Global competition for scarce finite resources drives our energy needs and pushes the cost envelope up, up, up. Today‚s facility managers are faced with the daunting task to contain these costs while allowing for the healthy expansion of their management‚s corporate targets. Somewhere, someplace an answer must be found; a simple smart way to conserve energy costs. Perhaps the best place to start is with the low hanging fruit, lighting.
Enter Trillium Energy & Environmental, a group of managers, engineers and planners that provide solutions to reduce energy costs and it all starts with efficient and environmentally friendly lighting design. We have assembled a definitive team of experts that are able to provide energy cost reduction that is often times completely paid for in months instead of years. Our solutions most often provide immediate cash flow directly to your bottom line.
Trillium operates throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico. Our cost saving proposals transcends the boundaries of state and country; ideas that are SO cost effective that they are often times not believed by our potential customers. Nevertheless, the savings are real, immediate and soundly based in smart business decisions.
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6.2 The law
The vast majority (91%) of motorists believe themselves to be law-abiding. But a quarter admit that if they thought there was a greater chance of being caught they would break the law less often. Whilst just over half disagreed with the statement that the benefits of breaking minor driving laws outweighed the risk of getting caught - one in five motorists agreed and three in ten sat on the fence.
6.1 Making money
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Business Finance Assignment Collections – assignmentcollections.com
Organizational Management & Communication in Disasters
Continue your reflective Journal. ( attached )
1) When are you a leader and when are you a follower? How do you use your skills differently in each situation?
2) Are you effective? (This gets to the heart of reflective journal skills – being honest and candid about your success and failures. Remember we learn from what doesn’t work as well as what does.
– APA Style
– Kindly, answer all questions clearly and completely.
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Hackers are always looking for new ways to break into computer systems, and there is a whole world of possibilities when it comes to how one hacked laptop led to an entire
Hackers can easily access your laptop cameras and other devices by exploiting software vulnerabilities in the system. If you want to keep your data safe, avoid exposing sensitive information in unsecured public
A cyberweapon looks nothing like a gun or a tank but it can be just as deadly.
A hard drive If Jeremy Clarkson “drove” a different laptop every week yet kept the same car for six years, he might find that his intuitive feeling for cars but not for
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The European Commission, in preparing a new proposal on an EU energy efficiency target, has adopted somewhat more realistic assumptions than it did last time around, writes Brook Riley of Friends of the Earth Europe. But according to Riley, voices inside the Commission still seem to want to torpedo more ambitious efforts: they are aiming for a simple least-cost scenario, without regard for the many benefits of energy efficiency. “That’s daft!”
The European Commission is studying a range of options for the revision of the 2030 energy efficiency target, from the current 27% target to the European Parliament’s – and our own – preferred goal of 40%. The official proposal is expected after the summer. But sources say the level of ambition may already be decided by mid-July.
On the face of it, there shouldn’t even be a debate. The Commission’s own analysis shows that the higher the target, the better the results for jobs, energy security and economic turnover[i]. The International Energy Agency champions energy efficiency as the ‘first fuel’ and the ‘main arrow in the quiver’ in the fight against climate change. No wonder that two years ago – when the Commission was seriously considering going for just 25% efficiency – President-elect Juncker weighed in with his “for me a binding target of at least 30% is the minimum” statement.
But beneath the surface a whole other debate is raging: what is the EU’s cost-effective energy efficiency potential? How should that potential be assessed? It is a nerdy subject. But it can make or break the case for higher ambition.
Tricks of the trade
Back in 2014, heavyweight Commission players – former President José Manuel Barroso and Secretary-General Catherine Day – wanted 25% – at most 27% – efficiency. This would have meant capping the benefits. But they thought that a low efficiency target would make it easier to sell their proposal for a 2030 greenhouse gas target to the member states (which was perverse, given the importance of efficiency to cut emissions). Having decided on a weak target, it seems they told officials to justify it. The officials came up with this graph[ii]:
It ‘shows’ the EU’s cost effective potential – the cost / savings crossover point – is about 27%. It achieves this by comparing all costs with just one benefit: fossil fuel import savings. It is even more of a swindle than it looks, because energy efficiency costs were calculated with an extremely high interest rate (or ‘discount rate’, in modelling lingo). As a matter of fact, the Commission used a higher rate than oil companies were using at the time for their operations in war-torn Iraq[iii].
Fortunately, enough people in the Commission saw that the wool was being pulled over their eyes, and backed a 30% target. But the damage was done, and sceptical member states used the cost-effectiveness ‘excuse’ to force through the ‘27% target with a view to going to 30%’ compromise in heads of state discussions in October 2014.
Back to the present and the review of the 27% target. This time it seems the Commission’s energy department is determined to take benefits properly into account. It has also managed, with the backing of Commissioner Arias Cañete, to lower the discount rate[iv]. Using the new methodology, the cost / benefit crossover point is around 35%[v]:
To be clear, this is a conservative estimate based on financial investments and savings. It doesn’t take into account the huge benefits of higher ambition on improved living standards, new jobs, energy dependence and emissions cuts. Going for the top end of the range – for 40% efficiency – could cut greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030 and help keep us in line with the Paris Agreement commitments[vi].
Don’t be cheap
The importance of giving equal weight to the costs and benefits of a higher efficiency target seems obvious (and for emissions cuts and renewables too, of course). But critical Commission officials – known as submarines, apparently, because they try to torpedo higher ambition – claim[vii] that the ‘key issue for EU impact assessments is the cost difference between business as usual and new policy scenarios’. In other words, they want to go for the least cost scenario, which is inevitably the least ambitious. It’s daft! Who buys – on a matter of principle – the cheapest possible bicycle, car or apartment? Policymaking has to strike a balance between costs and benefits, between pros and cons.
Cartoon by Pete Dredge
There is so much at stake. As MEP Theresa Griffin forcibly puts it “for every 1% improvement in energy efficiency, 3 million more homes can be properly renovated, 7 million people lifted out of energy poverty”. And climate change: The Economist reports that ‘the current year will almost certainly be the warmest on record, and probably by the largest margin to date’. More ambition on efficiency is the best solution. To its credit, the Commission is already committed to increasing the 2030 target. It should not allow outdated and biased methods to impose an artificial cap on the level of ambition.
by Brook Riley
Brook Riley (@pzbrookriley) is climate and energy campaigner at Friends of the Earth Europe.
[iv] The discount rate for estimating energy efficiency investment costs was previously at 17.5%. It is now – according to our information – 10%. This is still twice as high as the average rate used by national governments.
[vii] In discussions with the author
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Mr. Mackertich J. Mines. Governor of Melloon
Artist: Grant, Colesworthy (1813-1880)
Medium: Watercolour with pen and ink
Watercolour with pen and ink of a portrait of Mr. Mackertich J. Mines the former Governor of Melun from 'A Series of Views in Burmah taken during Major Phayre’s Mission to the Court of Ava in 1855' by Colesworthy Grant. This album consists of 106 landscapes and portraits of Burmese and Europeans and documents the British embassy to the Burmese King, Mindon Min (r.1853-1878). Inscribed with the signature of the sitter.
The mission started at Rangoon (Yangon) and travelled up the Irrawaddy (Ayeyarwady) River to the royal capital of Amarapura in central Burma, founded in 1782. It was despatched by the Governor-General of India Lord Dalhousie and headed by Arthur Phayre. Grant (1813-1880) was sent as official artist of the mission. In recognition of his skill, the Burmese King presented him with a gold cup and ruby ring.
Grant wrote that: 'Mr. Mackertich is an Armenian, but naturalized to Burmah. He was one of the Burmese Embassy to Calcutta in 1854, and on the English mission reaching Melloon, of which place he was then Governor, he formed a Member of the deputation appointed to escort the party from that place to the capital. Mr. Mackertich speaks English well; and is a shrewd and intelligent man. He is repeatedly referred to in the Report.'
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Women are very much family conscious and in a way ignore about themselves. Daily basis indulgement with kids, parents ,and spouse creates a virtual non availability of time to think about self. In the mean time they start developing habits that prove fatal to their health in later stage of life. We can discuss about some of the bad habits and the way to get over it.
Intake of low amount of calcium causes severe problem in bone or weakness in your bone. Strong bones help you in taking physically strenuous tasks . The effect of low calcium is felt the most during old ages. Precaution can be to increase calcium intake through milk , calcium supplements, salmon fish, beans, meat and anything suggested by your personal dietician. Also, intake amount should be in relationship to age as in 20 to 50 years aged women need 1000 mg of calcium per day and 51 years and above need 1200 mg of calcium per day. Poor sitting and standing posture is another form of bad habits which disfigures body posture and personality overall. Bad posture leads to pain in knees, joints, back ache. Women need to be bit conscious about their standing and sitting position. They should always try to sit or stand straight.
Always avoid soft cushion type mattress or flexible back support chairs. They should choose bed with non cushion type mattress and chairs without flexible non extendible back support. Wearing heels also create such aching problem on toe and knees. While providing comfort to oneself , they forget its negative repercussions on the body. Smoking habits are the most worst habits of all of the above for any women. It not only affects women lungs, it also affects child during pregnancy. Child’s brain development become slow due to smoking. Also, there are chances for heart attack to both mother and child. Women skin starts looking dull and face looks bit old aged. Socializing never means smoking or drinking with friends . They can stay happy and socialize even without this habit. Sometimes there is a wrong impression about smoking is that it relieves stress or mental pain. But, if you notice carefully while you smoke you only get relieved for that particular 2 to 3 minutes and then you waste 4 to 5 minutes being guilty of smoking. You can relax and reduce stress through exercise, work out and good surroundings that keeps you happy and not by smoking. 60 to 70% women in United States are over weight and this shows that how women developed another bad habit by not able to check their weight under control.
Easy access to fast food and junk foods and change in life style regarding food and drinks has resulted in such terrible bad habits. Women undergoing pregnancy and post deliver y face the maximum heat for being obese. They face huge challenge in taking care of the baby and all house works . They also carry the risk of high blood pressure, coronary heart issues which become fatal in later stage. Women should eat healthy and maintain their body much earlier before pregnancy. They should use corset weight loss for balancing obesity. If they are wearing this for 14 to 16 hours a day for 4 to 5 months post pregnancy , they can see a drastically reduction in weight. This girdle belt can be used to hold the abdomen firmly thereby burning fats while relaxing. In addition to this women can follow their exercise routine like yoga and gymnasium. Bad eating habits like fries, oily food, burger , cheese, Meat creates bad fat in the body which increases cholesterol. Another bad eating habits is irregularity in eating habits like no fixed time for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Eating whatever and wherever time permits. Other addition to bad habits for women is long time depression from relationship, negative talk or bitching creates negative mindsets and again which is bad. Women should keep a note of these things discussed above and will find themselves overcoming all bad noose.
Worst Health Habits Subconsciously Followed By Women
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Religious Believers Visiting Schools (NATRE, 2007)
There are so many great reason why we should invite religious believers into schools. It provides spiritual and moral development, religious learning is stimulated, it makes religion come to life, it provides engaging teaching and make the children an active part of the learning, it brings an authentic voice to religion, encourages speaking and listening skills and is very informative developing children’s understanding.
However, there are many things that need to be considered when bringing a religious believer into a school, such as the purpose of the visit. It is imperative that the religious believer is not there to make children believe or to make them worship! They must only be there to impart knowledge, experience and personal beliefs whilst respecting that the children are entitled to be a non-believer or believe in something different.
The NATRE, provide a good question to ask the religious believers:
If a member of another religion visited my child’s school and contributed in the same way that I have done, would I, as a parent, be happy with the education given?
Religious believers can contribute in three ways:
- Collective Worship – providing opportunities for spiritual and moral development. Children should be given the choice to be a participant in the prayer of to be an observer. No religion forces prayer upon anyone.
- The Re Curriculum – providing information to develop the children’s understanding. They can also challenge the children to reflect upon their own commitments and beliefs.
- Voluntary Groups – enabling believing children to share their faith in school as part of a group.
|It supports community cohesion across the school||The visitor won’t be trained teachers so they may not be able to control the class||Meet the visitor first so that you can guide them on what you wish them to cover|
|The visitor will have specialist subject knowledge so will be very informative||What they talk about could not be linked to the curriculum so have little relevance to the children||Prepare the children before the visit comes, so that they are ready for it|
|The visitor is a genuine believer, so it brings faith alive for children||Children may ask rude questions, or say something offensive||Get the children to generate some questions before the visitor comes|
|It is fun and engaging for the children as it is someone different to their normal teacher||Some parents may not wish their child to interact with a person of a different faith||Set rules out with the children before the visitor arrives so that they are polite and respectful|
|The visitors knowledge may be too advanced for the children|
It great to get people into schools. Offer them some refreshments, pay their travel expenses and most people will be happy to help. Ensure that you plan the session along side the visitor so that the children get the most out of the visit. It is pointless for a visitor to come in and talk to the children about something that they are not learning about.
Below I have attached a document that is free for you to get online, but I’ve saved you the effort:
Using Places of Worship Cumbria County Council
Majority of the time, there is a suitable place of worship for you and your class to visit in your locality. I have created a plan for what could be done when visiting Exeter Cathedral with a class.
Before the visit –
Children need to look at key Christian celebrations, such as christenings, weddings, funerals and a normal Sunday service consisting of a holy communion.
During the Visit –
Initally, the class will be split into four groups:
|Group 1||Group 2||Group 3||Group 4|
|Outside – look at the grave stones – find the oldest and youngest people.Inside – look at where the coffin is laid down.||Look at the baptismal fontThen group allowed time to explore the cathedral personally||Look at:Prayer matsLiturgy
|Sketch the building|
Throughout the day, the children will also have a visit sheet which encourages them to look for key features in the cathedral and take a photo of them which will be used back at school. Cathedral Visit Sheet
Then, the class will be brought back together to take part in some activities such as brass rubbing, dressing up, painting dragons and building junk cathedrals that will be ran by the cathedral education staff team.
After the visit –
As a class the children can reenact a funeral. The children can write the obituary, the order of service, a prayer if they wish, a poem etc.
This could be linked into Literacy, as the funeral could be of a character from a book that the class is reading.
This is a good way to tackle the idea of death with children. Many children may never have been to a funeral, and those that have would probably not have been concentrating on the individual parts of the service. This way children will learn what makes up a funeral service and allows those who have never been to one to experience it.
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Adolescent Study of Quality of Life, Mobility and Exercise (ASQME Study)
Although it has been suggested that adolescents with cerebral palsy (CP) may experience loss of function following puberty, little research evidence exists to support this claim. The Ontario Motor Growth Study (1996-2001) followed a cohort of over 650 children with CP to create motor development curves; the ASQME Study (2002-2007) followed some of these same young people as adolescents to assess patterns of activity, forms of mobility and factors associated with changes of function specific to adolescence. Over 300 adolescents and their parents participated in annual assessments for four years, providing unique information on maturation in one of the more prevalent developmental disabilities of childhood. While we used mainly standardized questionnaires and assessment protocols to collect data about factors that the researchers felt were relevant, we also included a qualitative component to the study that allowed us to ask (or ASQ!) a subgroup of adolescents for some self-generated feedback about themselves and their goals. This study provides valuable insight into secondary prevention and health promotion in adolescents with CP.
The ASQME study was funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (2002 - 2007) (MOP-53258).
We thank the Ontario Association of Children’s Rehabilitation Services (OACRS), CanChild’s longstanding partner, and the physiotherapists and occupational therapists throughout Ontario who completed the assessments. We extend a special thanks to the youth and families who participated in our research!
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The Museum of Modern Art will close its doors this summer as it prepares what is the institution’s largest rehang and curatorial overhaul in almost 90 years.
From June 15 to October 21, MoMA will shutter to the public in order to complete the final stage of its $400 million renovation, which includes 40,000 square feet of additional space and a new curatorial focus on overlooked artists from Black, Asian, and Latinx backgrounds. The museum also intends to showcase more women than it has ever before.
According to The New York Times, which broke the story, the museum will end the discipline-based display system it has used for decades to separate painting, sculpture, architecture, design, photography, performance, film, paper, and mixed media from each other. There will also be a new two-story studio for live and experimental programming, including performance, dance, music, moving image, and sound.
Designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro in collaboration with Gensler, the MoMA renovation includes space built upon the demolished remains of the American Folk Art Museum. Existing galleries will also expand west through 53W53, the luxury residential skyscraper designed by Jean Nouvel.
“A new generation of curators is discovering the richness of what is in our collection, and there is great work being made around the world that we need to pay attention to,” Glenn D. Lowry, director of the museum, told The New York Times. “It means that the usual gets supplanted now by the unexpected.”
Accordingly, the theme of MoMa’s massive rehang seems to be a reexamination of the permanent collection. Curators will rotate the selection of art in the galleries every six to nine months and the opening exhibitions will also draw from the museum’s holdings.
Rest assured, cornerstones of the collection will still have a prominent position in the galleries, but alongside mainstays like Picasso and Van Gogh will be less familiar names like Okwui Okpokwasili, an Igbo-Nigerian-American artist, performer, and choreographer. Accordingly, the museum will reopen with a survey of Latin American art, along with exhibitions by two prominent African-American artists, Pope L. and Betye Saar.
Today, MoMA also announced a multi-year partnership between itself, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and MoMA PS1. The first in a series of collaborative programs will be an exhibition of new work by current participants in the Studio Museums artist-in-residence program, which opens at MoMA PS1 on June 9. The show will feature works by Allison Janae Hamilton, Tschabalala Self, and Sable Elyse Smith. The first exhibition in the series will feature Michael Armitage and will open in the new MoMA on October 21.
“We don’t want to forget our roots in terms of having the greatest Modernist collection,” the museum’s chairman, Leon Black, told NYT, “but the museum didn’t emphasize female artists, didn’t emphasize what minority artists were doing, and it was limited on geography.” He added, “Where those were always the exceptions, now they really should be part of the reality of the multicultural society we all live in.”
Covering the financial cost of its closure, MoMA has tightened its budget. A $100 million donation from entertainment mogul David Geffen and more than $200 million from the estate of David Rockefeller, who died in 2017, also helped keep the museum buoyant.
The settlement comes after Tate prevented an artist who exposed sexual harassment by one of its largest donors from co-curating an exhibition.
Let’s be honest: On a best bathrooms list, no one wants to be number two.
The Newark Museum of Art Presents Jazz Greats: Classic Photographs from the Bank of America Collection
Photographers Antony Armstrong Jones, Milt Hinton, Chuck Stewart, Barbara Morgan, and more capture a breadth of legendary and local musicians and performance artists. On view through August 21.
Advocacy groups are pushing for a 5% royalty in resales, which would pertain even after the artist dies, in which case the funds would go to their estate.
This week, the Getty Museum is returning ancient terracottas to Italy, parsing an antisemitic mural at Documenta, an ancient gold find in Denmark, a new puritanism, slavery in early Christianity, and much more.
Art and photographs, publications from the 19th and 20th centuries, manuscripts, posters and more are set to cross the auction block on August 18.
The absence of an explicit framing of American art, in all of its diversity, as a visual culture of empire distorts and hampers our ability to understand — and reimagine — our social world.
The gap between the material body and the psychological one, which we all too often take for granted, is one of the underlying themes of Hiro’s exhibition.
David Rios Ferreira and Denae Shanidiin join forces to bring awareness to the plight of Indigenous women and girls, and LGBTQ+ individuals.
Metrograph’s series The Process features films that were either directed by Robert M. Young or made with the help of Irving Young’s postproduction facility.
Memes depicting a sinister, all-powerful Joe Biden alter ego are sweeping the internet, and the Democratic establishment is loving it.
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Gateway Currency: Cross-Border Payment Specialist Compares XRP to USD Dollar
Cross-border payment specialist Faisal Khan has said, that in response to series of questions asked about holding XRP, he can and will never give financial advice on cryptocurrency due to the volatile nature of the market.
However, Khan described XRP as a gateway currency that bridges the gap between two different fiat currencies, comparing the fourth-largest digital asset to the US Dollar.
He said the United States Dollar is an aggregate currency that many countries hold for international transactions, explaining that USD helps bridge the gap between two or more currencies.
“The more liquid a currency is, like the US Dollar, the more cross pairs you can do.”
Speaking further, he mentioned that the one currency in the cryptocurrency industry, that links different cryptos and different fiat currencies is XRP, and that is the exact goal of the digital currency.
He averred that XRP is designed to be a bridge currency that helps people transfer money easily across the border. He said that different currencies that are being used in two countries where transactions take place is a barrier, but XRP helps solves issues like this.
The payment specialist furthered that this is achieved by buying XRP from cryptocurrency exchange with a fiat currency. Meanwhile, banks do not need to pre-fund account and the transaction gets executed in 2 to 3 seconds, Khan noted.
Khan added that as the remittance industry grows, it is unclear if XRP would be the only bridge currencies as there are other cryptocurrencies that can also perform similar activities.
He said the likes of EOS, BNB, Ethereum, Tezos, and IOTA among other cryptocurrencies are also out there to be used as bridge currency as that is one of the basic goals of cryptocurrency as a whole.
Nevertheless, he explained that unlike other cryptocurrencies, the exact mission and vision of XRP is to serve as a bridge currency. This is the real reason why Ripple created XRP.
To enhance the adoption of XRP for cross-border transaction Ripple launched the On-Demand Liquidity product that allows financial institutions to use XRP via Ripple’s blockchain solution.
Khan added that he thinks XRP has the chance of becoming the global gateway currency, as Ripple continues to build the XRP ecosystem to offer customers better experience.
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COMPETING THROUGH PEOPLE
Learning from the best in China
By Professors Katherine Xin and Vladimir Pucik (July, 2006)
Professor Vladimir PucikExcerpt from webcast: HR differentiation as a competitive advantage (2:50)
China today is probably one of the most competitive markets in the world. It is not the low-cost economy it used to be, and many local and foreign companies are facing the challenge how to build and maintain competitive advantage in a rapidly changing environment - with a permanent shortage of talent.
How can HR increase the company capability to compete? The best Chinese companies can provide some useful lessons. How can HR add value?
A good example is Haier Group, a Chinese company that grew aggressively over the last twenty years. Starting in 1984 with 100 employees, Haier today is the world’s third largest home appliance producer. CEO, Zhang Ruimin says, “We must think about talent management and performance management. How can we change the mindset of the employees to get the results we need?”
Holistic HR management
The cornerstone of Haier’s HR system is transparency and fairness. It is a holistic system, aligning every HR activity from recruitment to performance management to the company’s business strategy – relentless focus on growth, quality and innovation.
Foundation of Haier’s people strategy is rigorous performance management; employees are ranked daily on results, managers monthly on performance; quarterly on potential. The system is fully transparent - evaluations of all employees, including managers, are openly displayed. This is fundamentally different from what typical Chinese or foreign firms do in China. Haier’s performance management is linked to employee rewards and development.
The race-track model
Career progression in Haier is based on a race-track model. Promotion is based on performance and internal competition is ongoing. Low-performing employees are retrained, but terminated if there is no improvement – managers can be demoted if they do not succeed at the higher level.
Champions must compete
Each promotion means another race starts. The opportunities and talent pool are open. Whoever has talent and capabilities, and can produce results, will be recognized and rewarded. It is competitive, but perceived as equal and fair. Without competition, anybody can be a champion. It is only when there is a race going on that you can say “I’m number one!”
Global deployment of HR practices
Haier attempts to expand its HR system beyond China. But for a typical American manager, having a performance ranking exposed in the company cafeteria is difficult. “This performance system is too Chinese – this will never work in America”. Haier’s answer? The company wants to stand apart – it doesn’t hire “typical” Chinese or Americans. They hire people whose values are consistent with its management philosophy; aligned with its business strategy. Around the globe, Haier makes sure that it has employees who understand and are aligned with this approach.
Focus on differentiation
What can we learn from Haier? Start with a clear vision of where you want your business to be: the organization capabilities required to support your strategy; behaviors you want your people to exhibit; the kind of HR practice you have to put into place to drive the desired behaviors. Yet this may still not be enough to win the race. What you really need is “differentiation”. Competitive advantage does not come from copying others – be it GE, Microsoft, or Haier! If you want organization capability that keeps you ahead of competitors, you must have courage to differentiate your HR practices. It's a question of HR leadership - be there, on the front line and willing to make that critical choice, in China, and in the rest of the world.
Professor Pucik teaches in the Orchestrating Winning Performance program and Professor Xin in the Program for Executive Development.
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However, forgetting things and doing them half-assed is completely in-character. Which is the reason for today's post being a follow up to the food gathering portion of Tuesday's blog.
OK, so you've got your MRE, your granola bars, and your powdered soups. But eventually food will run out, especially if the disaster in question leaves few survivors or devastates the government. At some point you're going to have to forage for your own food. What will you do?
Assuming you don't want to starve to death, you're going end up foraging and hunting. (If you're still in a city by this point, you're a fool.) Using the knowledge stored in the Survival Manual of your choice, you should know what plants and roots are safe to eat. But twigs and berries are only good for a supplementary diet -- if you really want to live and feel good, you're going to have to get some protein in your diet.
If you lack a hunting rifle or a shotgun, you may feel that your options are limited, but this simply isn't true. You can of course always eat insects...
Oh, don't look at me like that. You do it all the time and don't realize it.
Be that as it may, you're perfectly within your rights to choose not to eat bugs, and I won't fault you for that. But where then does it leave us? The answer, my dear readers, is as simple as it is lazy: fishing and trapping.
If you are anything like me, you have forgotten everything useful you learned at summer camps as a child, have little to no wilderness skills, and no inclination to change either of those. But that's easy, because there are two wonderful devices out there that are cheap, easy to use, and practically idiot-proof. Best of all, as they are automated, you can "set and forget" them.
Device one: The Speedhook
So effective that it's been outlawed for non-survival use in Minnesota and other locales and a key part of U.S. Army, Air Force, and Coast Guard survival kits, the Speedhook is the perfect tool for an idiot fisherman. You don't even need a pole! I recommend pairing it with a Survival Fishing kit Basic (or Advanced) to give you a selection of string, bait, hooks, etc.
Device two: The Yo-yo Fishing Reel
According to the testimonials, you can use this sucker to bring in record amounts of catfish. That's great. But what struck me is that you can also use it to trap birds, squirrels, and other small game. Just combine it with some snare wire and you're all set. The best part? It sells for under three dollars.
So there you go. Two methods of nearly fully-automated food gathering that don't require you to know a damn thing about fishing/trapping, are small and lightweight, and inexpensive without being cheap.
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A femur bone from a human leg that was found by a camper last weekend along the Lake Michigan shoreline at Silver Lake State Park, near Mears, Mich., about 65 miles northwest of Grand Rapids.
MEARS, Mich. — Authorities say a bone from a human leg has been found along the Lake Michigan shoreline in western Michigan.
Radio station WGHN and The Muskegon Chronicle report Oceana County sheriff’s deputies responded Saturday to call from a person staying at a camp in the Mears area, about 65 miles northwest of Grand Rapids.
They say a camper from Hillsdale was walking along the water at Silver Lake State Park when he found what turned out to be a femur bone.
A state police anthropologist has confirmed that the bone was from a human. It’s been sent to the state police forensic lab for testing.
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There have been several pilot projects to teach principals of the faith to German pupils, who are offered the option religious instruction in most state schools. But a vote by the NRW parliament will give it a more permanent foothold until at least 2018, when the effectiveness of the instruction will be comprehensively evaluated.
Although there is demand for the courses – there are about 300,000 Muslim students in the state’s schools – Islamic studies classes have been controversial throughout Germany.
But supporters have argued that offering approved classes at about 130 state schools by vetted teachers could encourage the flourishing of a more moderate version of Islam among German youth.
State Education Minister Sylvia Löhrmann said the parliamentary vote represented a “sign of more integration” adding that North Rhine Westphalia could be “a good example” for other states.
But there appears to be some discomfort among lawmakers about the idea. Although the Greens and the centre-right Christian Democrats and centre-left Social Democrats supported the parliamentary vote, the socialist Left party voted against it, and the pro-business Free Democrats abstained.
Officials have emphasised that the classes are held in German and are offered only by specially trained teachers.
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Master FullStack Web with NodeJS
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Starting from 5th March
The Live Course for Full Stack Web using NodeJS by Coding Blocks was carefully designed to provide young coders all the knowledge they need to create professional and coherent websites & portals. This is a live course in Full Stack Web Development that uses Node JS as a backend. This course will cover HTML, CSS and JS. Next, it will discuss important concepts like version control, databases and Node JS. Finally, the course will move onto advanced topics such security and topics such as security. This course will allow students to improve their professional thinking skills and build websites from scratch.
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The Prosper Valley is a basin of farmland, wetlands and forestlands shared by the four towns of Barnard, Bridgewater, Pomfret and Woodstock. Nestled between the Green Mountain foothills to the west and the Connecticut River Valley to the east, water collects from the hills of the Valley in the Gulf Stream, which then flows out into the Ottaquechee River in Woodstock. Rural route 12 crosses through the Valley, a major travel corridor in the Upper Valley region for both people and wildlife.
The Valley is full of stories. Varying topography, soils and plant communities support a diversity of animal life; the beaver and black bear are two species that are familiar sights in the Valley. Likely originally visited by indigenous people traveling along the Ottaquechee River thousands of years ago, the Prosper Valley was more permanently settled in the late 1700’s by European farmers who came north from Connecticut and Massachusetts and labored on hill farms.
Old stone walls and mills are visible on the landscape, and a lush cover of forests are now growing where once there were agricultural lands. Named for the mill town of Prosper, which once thrived at its center, the Valley is an area rich in cultural and natural history, as well as living legacies. These include a handful of dairy farms that are a testament to the working rural landscape, the Appalachian Trail corridor crossing north-south, some of the country’s first ski hills, and residents in the area who can trace their family origins to some of the first town settlers.
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According to the FEC, a mere 23 wealthy donors have contributed a breathtaking $53 million to the super PACs supporting Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul. Sheldon Adelson has said he is willing to give as much as $100 million to Newt Gingrich’s super PAC. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s infamous willingness to drop everything to take a call from one of the Koch Brothers makes clear that wealthy benefactors have access and influence on elected officials far beyond that which ordinary people could ever dream of.
But while the wealthiest of businesspeople seek to buy influence with presidential and congressional candidates, there is one branch of the government that stands apart from this unseemly activity: the federal judiciary. With a promise of Equal Justice Under the Law, courtrooms offer a forum where justice is not for sale. Judges with lifetime tenures don’t rely on big donors to keep them in office or propel them to a higher court.
Most people don’t have easy access to high-level elected officials. But when an individual walks into the courthouse, she has as much right as the mightiest corporate giant to argue her case before a federal judge. Courts have a special and unique role in our society, one that cannot be replaced.
But without enough judges, that special role is at risk. The Congressional Research Service says the federal judiciary is experiencing the longest sustained vacancy crisis in 35 years. While President Obama is nominating highly qualified people to the federal bench, Senate Republicans are engaged in unprecedented obstruction to keep them from being confirmed – even though they have no objection to the actual nominee.
A courtroom where any American can stand equal with the most powerful plutocrat isn’t worth much if there is no judge available. Senate Republicans should explain why they are keeping our federal judiciary from functioning effectively by keeping qualified nominees off the bench.
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Bunker Hill was established between 1865 and 1870 by Mr. Bunker, who operated a lumber mill on the site. The village population peaked at about 100 people and included a schoolhouse that served as a church on Sundays. In 1900, the last of the residents left leaving the town deserted.
In 1925, a retired newspaper editor and cigar maker from Sedalia, E.T. Behrens began camping at the site after doctors gave him only six months to live. He camped there from 1925 to 1928 and bought the land in 1929. At that time, he created the Bunker Hill Resort. He continued making cigars in Sedalia in the winter and ran Bunker Hill Resort in the summer. Mr. Beherns operated the resort from 1929 to 1947.
He befriended George Wattles, the editor of the Mountain View Standard, the local paper. Mr. Wattles was a former superintendent of schools. In May 1947, Mr. Behrens asked Mr. Wattles to write MSTA about leaving Bunker Hill to the association.
In June 1947, five MSTA employees visited Bunker Hill. At the end of tier visit, E.T. Behrens asked for a copy of MSTA’s constitution and copies of our publications as well as a deed for him to sign.
On July 23, 1947 Mr. Behrens officially signed over Bunker Hill Resort to MSTA and educators from across the state have enjoyed staying in the original cabins on the 2,080 acres on the banks of the Jacks Fork River ever since.
Bunker Hill has been featured numerous times in MSTA’s School and Community magazine, like this issue from 1978 that interviews then caretakers Jack and Betty Clark.
In 2013 the property was transferred to Friends of Bunker Hill, a non-profit organization created to support, protect and improve Bunker Hill Retreat.
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Draw master is puzzle game in which you have to draw path for weapon and kill the enemy. Make sure you hit the enemy right. With more than 20+ unique weapons and 30+ different levels can you complete all levels?.The game is fun and the graphics are visually rich. Enrich your idea and creativity and complete the game.
Game is made using Construct 3 Game Engine.
Controls: Touch the player and draw path towards enemy and defeat the enemy.
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All of us are artists in some way or other (even those of us who don’t have the faintest idea of what to do with crayons and a blank sheet of paper), and we have a natural ability to create things on a daily basis.
But sometimes we do hit speed bumps in our attempts to be ‘creative’, whether it be with regards to artwork, our crafts, or even solving a problem (you need to be creative to do that too). We have all hit dry spells in our creativity and it can be infuriating! Here are some suggestions as to what you can try to do to get those creative juices flowing freely again.
These days when we are so caught up with the busy-ness of our lives, we tend to take shallow, rapid breaths. Just take a moment to observe your breath to see if this is the case. Shallow breathing shortchanges our body’s demand for oxygen which, amongst other things, most definitely affects our ability to think clearly.
So to counter this, make a conscious effort to take deep, calm breaths during the day. Imagine your lungs comfortably filling up to their maximum capacity with life-giving oxygen, and release your breath gently until they’re empty. Repeat this as often as you can. You may choose to set aside a specific time to do this as an exercise, or better yet, decide for yourself several intervals during the day at which you tell yourself you’ll step back from whatever it is that you’re doing, and to take x-number of deep breaths, before continuing whatever it was that needed your attention.
Take a walk or do some form of exercise.
This is also another way to circulate oxygen around your body and to your brain. Plus it’s always a good idea to get yourself out of an enclosed building to let your eyes feast on your surroundings. Who knows – you might find inspiration in a relatively unfamiliar environment.
Write or do everyday tasks with your other hand.
If you are right-handed, try to consciously do stuff with your left hand instead – like opening doors, drawing, or brushing your teeth. Doing new things, or performing familiar tasks in a different manner is said to be an easy way to give your brain a nice workout. Besides, seeing the results of your switching hands for such tasks could possibly let you see things in a slightly different light.
Limit your options
Sometimes having too many options available to you gets you stuck in the I-can’t-decide-which-one-to-use rut. So let’s just say you have an assignment to create a piece of jewelry. That’s pretty broad, right? I’d imagine that there are countless materials to choose from, and ways to get started on that! If you’re stumped by how to start, how about telling yourself that you’ll only use… bottlecaps? This is what happened when two teenage sisters did just that:
Don’t take yourself too seriously
Like it or not, there will be things in life that will blow up in your face at the worst possible times and it’s easy to get caught in the gravity of the situation. I think you’ll agree with me if I were to suggest that these mind-ruts are possibly your worst enemy because they are potentially soul-draining, life-sucking thoughts that can literally stall you from moving forward with anything, let alone being creative.
You always have choices available to you. So it might be a good idea for you to choose to look at the lighter side of things. You’ll make mistakes and muck-ups once in a while–that’s perfectly okay. Just promise yourself that you’ll learn to do better next time, and move on.
So those are my 2 sen worth of ideas on how to get creatively un-stuck. What do YOU do when you need to breathe new life into your creativity? Please share your thoughts with us! :)
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Jeff Beck circa 1970 © Neal Preston/CORBIS
Welcome to the fifth and final part of our special feature showing you how to dramatically increase your rock soloing potential, and boost your fingerboard knowledge at the same time. If it's your first time here, please check out part one for background information and the first 10 licks, part two for licks 11-20, part three for licks 21-30, and part 4 for licks 31-40. If you've already mastered those, let's go...
Playing tips: area five
Listen: licks 41-50
Example 5.1: Phrasing
The only thing that separates many classic rock phrases from their closely related blues cousins is the amount of gain and dynamic attack. This lick is one such example and would be equally at home in either setting.
Example 5.2: Bends
Each position presents new possibilities, with the new fingering placing different notes under string-bending fingers. Here the minor 3rd bend between E and G is easily attainable as it is found under the third finger. To achieve the same sonic result in Area 1 you would either have to use your first finger (not the most desirable digit!) or shift back a position, which effectively puts you in area 5 anyway.
Example 5.3: Repetition
The first bar of this example features a triplet hammer-on pattern that toggles between the use of the major 6th and the flattened 7th intervals, both present in the harmonically appropriate Dorian mode (R 2 b3 4 5 6 b7). Paul Kossoff was particularly fond of using this kind of idea. He also had one of the best vibratos in rock (ask Joe Bonamassa), so we'd urge you to check him out!
Example 5.4: Slides/pedal-tone
Here's a pedal-tone idea that is melodically simple yet retains interest via the use of some crafty slides. It's also got a rather interesting rhythmic shape. Why not keep the rhythm and change the notes to come up with an idea of your own?
Example 5.5: Sequential (Descending)
We can view this pattern as a descending four-note group that has been shifted forward by a single 16th note, or alternatively as a three-note pattern that goes 3 2 1 3, and then descends from each scale degree in turn.
Next: playing tips and example tab for sequential (ascending), triadic/arpeggio, double-stop, scalar and horizontal
Example 5.6: Sequential (Ascending)
And here's the ascending form of the same pattern.
Example 5.7: Triadic
Randy Rhoads was responsible for this one, although Django definitely got there first, and Les Paul wasn't too far behind! We're essentially trilling from the semitone below each chord-tone to the intended target note. Aim to stay in time. You can start with 16th-notes (four notes per click) and aim to work your way up to 16th note triplets (six notes per click).
Example 5.8: Double-stops
We've taken a few liberties here, as strictly speaking numerous notes are out of position. This is to maintain fingering integrity, and it sounds cool. Most of the intervals are a perfect 4th apart, with two major 3rd exceptions in the first and third bars.
Example 5.9: Scalar
Our penultimate example comes to you courtesy of Journey's Neal Schon, and features the popular add-on to the minor pentatonic of the natural 2nd degree, creating a scale with the logical title of minor pentatonic add 2 (R 2 3 4 5 b7). In the second bar we also see a brief appearance of the flattened 5th, giving us effectively the blues scale (R b3 4 b5 5 b7), another hugely used scale in all rock styles.
Example 5.10: Horizontal
You may remember (Area 2, Ex 2.10 to be precise) that there were two main pathways to get you through the minor pentatonic scale just by using tone gaps and slides. Well, here's the second. You can view this as three versions of the same two string pattern in low, middle and high octaves. Any phrase performed in one can be instantly transposed to the next. Simple, but really useful!
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Microsoft Releases Official App For Windows 8.1 To Print 3D Objects
Windows 8.1 was an incremental update to Windows 8, Microsoft’s first attempt at creating an operating system that was a balance between desktop computing and tablet experience. The OS, however, gathered rather unfavorable reviews despite Microsoft’s best efforts, and hence, even though Windows 8.1 was nothing too big, it plugged at the right holes and ticked all the right boxes to make Windows 8, or the whole Modern UI, for that matter, an acceptable affair. Along with feature enhancements also came native support for 3D printing, and to reiterate the fact that it does, indeed, support the new wave of future tech, the Redmond giant has announced an official 3D printing app for Windows 8.1.
The app, dubbed 3D Builder, is designed to be beginner friendly, and aims to help the amateur design 3D products provided that they are running Windows 8.1 and have a compatible 3D printer. It boasts a cataloging feature much akin to Office’s Clip Art, and you can expand your collection of available pieces through your own customizations as well. If you ever played the EA title Spore, or the 1-2-3-D Creature app for iPad, the interface would feel immediately home. It’s easy to work with and even easier to get something out of that you can show to the world, again, provided that you have a 3D printer at hand.
Speaking of 3D printers, Microsoft’s move might make sense, seeing as how the equipment prices have dropped over the last year for consumer grade 3D printers. You can even find retail stores that offer these services now, and even though the market is a niche at the moment, support from popular manufacturers like MakerBot combined with efforts of the likes of Microsoft might become the game changer, making the technology mainstream. The increased exposure to 3D printing thanks to media is also helping, with The Big Bang Theory and Elementary featuring the technology in a couple of their recent episodes. This is the future, and Microsoft is embracing it.
From the company’s own perspective, it didn’t jump onto the smartphone and tablet bandwagon in time, and it paid. There’s only so much that desktop computing alone can do for you, and Microsoft realized that a little too late. This might turn out to be a niche that a head start might help the company, and so, it makes sense that they offer you an app that makes full use of the native 3D printing support that Windows 8.1 offers. Let’s see how the story unfolds in the years to come.
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In the preceding posts I proposed that the key to a successful roll is hidden from plain view below decks of a kayak and that it is located mainly around the torso area. The second post argued that the main goal of the hip snap is to get the boat out of the way so that the upper body could be re-united one on top of the other. Today, it's time for tales of monsters and their evil mothers. Today we meet the archenemy of the bombproof roll. Don't worry, the tale ends well, the dragon turns out to be nothing but a ghost and everybody rolls happily forever and ever.
Ours begins like any other good fairy tale. A long, long time ago, back before we knew how to walk we all learned to sit up. Back then there was only one way—walk the upper body up while pushing off the ground with the hands. The chest and the shoulders with the head on top were rising slowly up off the ground. The little hands were pushing unsteadily down on the solid ground until the weight of the upper body got centered over the bum and the spine defied gravity. One act with two forces at the opposite ends: upper body rising up, little hands pushing down to support the action.
Can you see it in your mind's eye? Can you feel the triumph in your gut!? What a joy that was, that first step toward autonomy, independence, being your own person, exploring the world beyond what you can see from where your mommy dropped you. Ready to get moving!
Dramatic tah-tah-tah … adventurer beware! Close your eyes, visualize the glorious sequence again and this time … can you see the shadow of the monster rising from under the very feat we just celebrated? A good friend on solid ground turns out to be the ultimate saboteur on terra aqua. The dual-action push-and-raise strategy gave birth to an ugly fire-breathing and life-sucking two-headed monster named RaHeaDiPad. If you tried to roll, you may have heard of it as two primary reasons blamed for a failed roll: the Raising of the Head and the Diving Paddle. You may have learned of the two as separate and independent actors you need to conquer before you will roll. In this tale they are one and the same. They are but two ends of the same stick, two faces on the same coin; they are the underlying principle of Newton's famous law; the action that breads equal re-action; they are the two inseparable heads of the Anti-Roll dragon.
Sounds ominous enough? You shouldn't be intimidated. There will come a bright morning after the darkest of the nights. The monster, two heads and all, is not real! The rising head and the diving paddle are but harmless symptoms. They can't possibly hurt your roll! Their sole significance is to reveal what's going on in your head. The monster is only a shadow that points to something in the way of the light. Like the shadow on the wall, you can see it but it does not really exist.
The RaHeaDiPad is decidedly NOT what causes your roll to fail. When you spot it, you are not watching something that is performed incorrectly. What you are seeing is the wrong thing being done in the first place. No corrections to the execution need be attempted. The monster needs to be eliminated, removed out of the way, plain and simple. What you need to worry about is the evil step-mother who created the monster. This gets a bit tricky because the mother is the mental image of the way to get up after you fall that resides deep in the core with your deepest instincts. It's that infant pushing off of the ground with the feeble hands. Except, your hands are strong and confident by now and you know what you are doing. What was a feat back in the day is nothing but a habit with a mind of its own now. When you will convince the mother to get out of the way, the monster will vanish in a puff of pixie dust. And the way you'll do this is by gently nurturing a new and different action schema for the roll. It will gradually displace the evil mother and, with practice, will become just as natural as sitting up.
So what is this monster? Both the rising head and the diving paddle have at least two distinct meanings. Good grace, now we have four!
RaHea: You probably heard the advice 'Keep you head down!' or 'Make sure the head comes out of the water last.' The essence of this common suggestion is not about the head at all. It is aimed at keeping your whole upper body weightless in the water for as long as possible. If only the BoBo Doll could flex at the waist and wind the upper body around its 'hips.' 'Don't lift your upper body (with the head attached),' is closer to what we want.
'Keep the head glued to the bottom shoulder' goes another common phrase in a pool session. Also good advice; however, like its sister 'Keep the body down,' it's a trick and the way it works also has very little to do with the head. Pressing the head down on the shoulder works by engaging the side of the lower body that is responsible for rolling and pulling the boat under the body. That's what you want--the right lower body action! Try doing a quick hip snap in your chair right now. Then do another one, but this time, perform a head dink in the opposite direction—harder than rubbing your belly with one hand and tapping the top of the head with the other, isn't it?
So it seems that both pieces of advice about keeping the head down and glued to your lower shoulder are really useful mnemonics. When we look under the hood, however, they have little to do with the head itself. Harmless shortcuts, you may conclude to yourself; unfortunately, they focus the attention of the roller just about as far away as possible from where the real action takes place—in your torso. If you internalize the principles of pulling the boat under your body and drawing the upper body and the boat towards each other without lifting the latter; when you have a mental image in your head that employs the bottom leg and the stomach (front deck) or back (layback) and lateral torso muscles to do the work, whether or not you keep your head down makes very little real difference. In fact, if you pull body and boat together rather than lift the body out of the water, it becomes very awkward and next to impossible to raise your head at the same time. If you don't believe me, do that hip snap in the chair and dink the head in the opposite direction again.
DiPad: The diving paddle is equally sneaky. It often hides behind a legitimate problem with blade orientation. It's rather common to see the paddle dive under the surface right after the set up stage. This is an undesirable but easily correctable technical mistake. It happens when the leading edge of the blade is below the trailing edge while it slices away from the bow. Let's be clear: this is decidedly not the second head of the RaHeaDiPad. The diving paddle that is the companion to the rising head is the fueling part of the lifting. Bring back the image of the infant trying to sit up. The infant head is the rising head of the myth and the supporting hands of the baby are the diving paddle. Can you see how they are one and the same yet?
There's a dead give-away of the monster diving paddle and it is the stabbing motion of the blade. Not slicing—stabbing. We already saw how during the sweep a simple technical mistake of lowering the leading edge of the slicing paddle can lead to gradual sinking of the blade. When the blade is nearly parallel to the surface at the end of the sweep, it can theoretically support the lifting of the body. It's the wrong thing to do but, if enough energy is available, you can produce a successful roll this way. Many strong paddlers do it all the time!
If you focus on flipping the boat, executing the hip snap, rotating the boat from upside-down to upright the blade will inevitably sink a little and the angle between the blade and surface will be around 45 degrees or more. It is here that the infant strategy of getting up is doomed to total failure. No amount of power and agility can save you now. It happens to be that the body requires propulsion at around the same 45-degree angle in which we left the blade, just in the opposite direction. The final lift of the body requires a stabbing motion of the paddle to sustain it and that's exactly the instinctual move we see when a roll fails at the last second in a dramatic fashion. That's DiPad!
For extra credit, watch the paddle at the very beginning of the hip snap. Quite often you will see a short but distinct stabbing motion one instant before the paddle goes down. What is that? Is it another giveaway of the DiPad wrapped around the sweep?
Consider yourself introduced—the RaHeaDiPad, the monster known in every kayak pool around the world, reduced to an overblown balloon. The smallest pinprick will expose the beast for what it is: nothing but hot air behind the ominous curtain. Then there's the mother and she's real. We got a good look at her when we watched an infant get up off the ground. I'll try some illustrations for the next installment.
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August Long Weekend: Does Canada have more holidays than the US?
It seems that my Canadian friends enjoy more holidays than we do south of the 49th Parallel. Especially those living in Quebec!
I have a calendar that includes both US/Canada holidays. Let's see what they've got listed for O Canada in 2010:
January 1 - New Year's DayThe upcoming Long August Weekend is a civic holiday in all the provinces except Quebec, Newfoundland and Nunavut. It's sort of a dress-rehearsal for Labour Day Weekend, which we also celebrate in the US on the first Monday in September, but we spell it Labor Day Weekend.
February 15 - Family Day (Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario)
April 2 - Good Friday
April 4 - Easter Sunday
April 5 - Easter Monday
May 24 - Victoria Day
June 24 - St. Jean Baptiste Day (Quebec)
July 1 - Canada Day
August 2 - Civic Holiday
September 6 - Labour Day
October 11 - Thanksgiving Day
November 11 - Remembrance Day
December 25 - Christmas Day
December 26 - Boxing Day
At any rate, I'm heading up to Victoria for two days of the Long August Weekend. After spending Friday-Saturday at Jazz Port Townsend, I'll drive to Port Angeles and walk onto the Sunday morning sailing of the Black Ball's M.V. Coho to Victoria's Inner Harbour. No car needed.
Later that evening, I'll be taking in the Victoria Symphony Splash, with a live performance by the Victoria Symphony. The concert concludes with a performance of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, complete with bells, cannons and a fireworks show.
Why not celebrate both US and Canadian holidays, eh?
A flag flies high in Pigeon Lake, Alberta
Photo by Sue Frause
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Group Campaigns for Buffers to Protect Pennsylvania Streams
The Pennsylvania Campaign for Clean Water on June 18 launched its "Buffers 100" initiative, urging the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection to propose new regulations that would require minimum 100-foot buffers on new development on all rivers and streams in the state.
The proposal has been endorsed by 110 organizations, businesses, and municipal organizations from across the state, along with 25 legislators from both parties and both chambers of the General Assembly.
The campaign's proposal would require new developments to preserve a strip of land at least 100 foot wide from the top of the stream bank, keeping that land in its natural state with native vegetation and trees. The proposal would impact new development only and could not affect existing structures within the buffer zone. Buffers would be built and maintained by developers, at no cost to taxpayers.
Myron Arnowitt, state director for Clean Water Action, noted, "12,500 miles of streams in Pennsylvania are already degraded by pollution. Buffers can help restore many of these streams to health and protect the rest from harmful pollution."
"Through a lack of understanding about how important protecting our streams is, we have paved over and otherwise abused our watersheds. We must stop making the same mistakes. One-hundred-foot minimum stream buffers are not a luxury of environmentalists but instead are necessary to protect our health and safety. These buffers protect and clean our water and reduce both flood damage and the cost of stormwater management," explained Tavis Dockwiller, a landscape architect of Viridian Landscape Studio.
Andy Paravis of the Federation of Northern Chester County Municipalities noted that his township, North Coventry, has already adopted a 100-foot buffer requirement and has seen positive benefits from it. But he added, "The state needs to require buffers on all streams since water doesn't respect municipal boundaries and we're all affected by what the municipality upstream does."
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An anonymous reader writes: PlayingWithWire features an article where they compare two Open Source tools, Joomla! and WordPress when it comes to usability. The article did make a few people upset over at the Joomla! forum, but it does bring up a good point. Many Open Source projects are developed by engineers, for engineers. Should Open Source project focus more on usability? The article makes a bold analogy: "If Joomla! is Linux, then WordPress is Mac OS X. WordPress might offer only 90% of the features of Joomla!, but in most cases WordPress is both easier to use and faster to get up and running."
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A large size wooden world map will become a nice interior detail in any room or office. Especially suitable for kids rooms, as it will make the room cozier, and will help to learn geography. Also, it is perfect for nurseries, schools, or homeschoolers, as it will not just look nice on a wall, but also inspire them to explore the World.
World Map set has around 30 details. It can be easily fixed to a wall with double-stick tape which is included in a set, so you don't have to worry about it. And just to make it more special and unique, we are adding cute models of ships and airplanes as a gift, so you can place them on the map as an extra decoration.
PLEASE NOTE: This World Map has some very small details and is not suitable for kids under 3 years old.
A multi-colored world map will become your room's striking decoration
More than 30 separate details
Hours and hours of handwork
Wood art in its pure form
Stencil to help you fix it to the wall
Birch Plywood (colors of the map: natural wooden, light brown, dark brown, green)
160 x 90 x 0.6 cm / 63 x 35.5 x 0.24"
3 kg / 6.61 lb
EUROPE: 8-15 days
NORTH AMERICA / ELSEWHERE: 10-21 days
AUSTRALIA: 20-35 days
We promise you'll like it!
Made and designed in Lithuania
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Any SIP Protocol compliant VoIP phone, device, or application should be operable with sipgate.
There are setup guides for many popular VoIP phones and devices in our Help Centre:
The four general types of VoIP Phones and devices supported for use with sipgate are:
- VoIP IP Deskphones
- VoIP ATAs (Analogue Telephone Adaptors)
- Softphones installed on Computers and Smartphones
ATA Adaptors will often be the most economical option and will suit most VoIP users' basic needs.
Adaptors and Deskphones used in conjunction with a suitable DSL or cable internet connection will provide the best results.
If you're new to VoIP, before purchasing a VoIP phone, first try out sipgate by using a free VoIP application (softphone/app) before purchasing any hardware or software.
An ATA adaptor connects your fixed line (POTS) telephone handsets to your router so that they can be used for VoIP calls.
Routers with integrated VoIP adaptors are available. Unless you wish to replace your existing router, we'd recommend avoiding combination router-adaptor devices. The set up of these cross functional devices can be much more complex than a standard Adaptor.
Examples of VoIP Adaptors from established manufacturers can be found in our help centre here.
More than one handset can be connected to a multi-line or multi-account adaptor. With a multi-line adaptor, you'll be able to make or receive more than one call at the same time with your sipgate team account.
VoIP IP Deskphones:
IP Deskphones are intended for office environments. As dedicated VoIP phones, they will often have more features and greater reliability (as well as a higher price tag).
We recommend business customers use Deskphones with our sipgate team service. You can find some examples of phone manufacturers and models here.
DECT Cordless VoIP Phones:
Similar to a VoIP adaptor, but for DECT phones. VoIP base stations can be purchased supporting multiple connected DECT cordless handsets and VoIP accounts/lines.
We recommend Gigaset DECT solutions. Some Gigaset devices, like the DX800A for example, combine an IP Deskphone with a DECT base station.
Gigaset VoIP DECT Base Stations and IP Deskphones should have 'IP' in their model name.
Softphones for Computers, Smartphones and Tablets:
VoIP softphone/app applications can be installed on computers, smartphones and tablets.
Softphones installed on a computer and used with a headset will tend to provide a more reliable service, and often better call quality than smartphone VoIP apps.
Like most ITSPs, sipgate uses the UDP Protocol for signalling (not TCP).
We do not provide configuration support for third party IP PBXs when these are being used with sipgate products, examples of these being - Asterisk based PBX's or the 3CX Phone System. The full scope of our support for any 3rd party IP PBX's will be up to device registration with the sipgate system.
Be sure to choose a phone that is currently in production and fully supported by the manufacturer. End of Life or End of Production devices, while often cheaper, will not benefit from ongoing firmware, security updates, etc from the manufacturer.
TIP: Always use the most recent firmware and/or software versions.
It's not possible to provide set up guides for every phone or device currently available. If your device isn't listed please try the General Configuration settings here.
sipgate provides Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) telephony services. We don't supply VoIP phones or hardware.
As a BYOD service provider, any impartial recommendations made by our staff will be based on reliability, build quality, functionality, ease of use, and the manufacturer's support.
Over the last 11 years, sipgate's support teams have tested a lot of production SIP phones, devices and applications and generally found that most SIP phones operate with the sipgate system, though, over this time we have also seen that some VoIP phones and devices can perform more reliably than others.
This doesn't mean that a device or phone from a manufacturer other than those we recommend or that can be found mentioned/shown in our help centre will be inoperable with sipgate.
Due to their being so many VoIP device manufacturers and SIP application developers available, it is not possible for us to be able to provide support for each and every phone and device out on the market. In the end, support for your phone should be primarily provided by the manufacturer or your authorised dealer/vendor.
The best we can offer is that we will try to assist you by recommending quality, reliable VoIP phones and hardware that we believe would best suit you.
Though, in the end, it's up to you to choose the VoIP phone/device that bests suits your needs and budget.
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Our Fish and Fowl Management Efforts
The best resource we have for understanding the fish in Kangaroo Lake is to review the DNR’s fish surveys historically conducted every four years. The latest was done in 2018. You can find all fish surveys in our Learning Center under DNR Fish Surveys.
Special Walleye Bag Limit and Size
It is important to be familiar with Wisconsin’s fishing regulations. Please note: there is a special minimal size of 18 inches and bag limit of three for walleye in Kangaroo Lake, beyond the standard State of Wisconsin size and limits (Administrative code NR 20.20 (15)(d)). This is to help the walleye population through enabling more fish achieve breeding age.
Kangaroo Lake Dam
The Kangaroo Lake Dam on the south end of the lake (map) as built in 1937 by the W.P.A. It is a spillway dam, as excess water overflows into Hein's Creek and flows into Lake Michigan. In 1970, the KLA was instrumental in raising the dam 4 inches and installing a dam (carp) barrier screen that needs to be cleaned off periodically, especially in spring. When the level of the lake is low, there is no water running over the dam. In 1970 KLA was instrumental in raising the dam 4 inches and installing a dam (carp) barrier screen that needs to be cleaned off periodically, especially in spring. See pictures and History of the Lake for more information.
In 2014 we received a grant to help our shorelines - the Shoreline Preservation & Restoration Planning and Action Grant (2014-2017). We have completed our work on our three-year project. Here is the report from that grant: Final Fish Stick Project Report - 2017
Here is some information on the plan we had in 2014 and the work that was done to complete the project: WDNR Scott Van Egeren's Presentation on Shoreline Preservation, July 2014
Tom Schneider produced a Fish Stick Brochure tat was distributed to members that were interested in placing Fish Sticks on their shoreline.
FishSticks: Activities and Education - Here are some good educational and reference links
- YouTube clip on "FishSticks"
- WI DNR Website: Fishsticks
- WI DNR 'Best Practices' for Fishsticks
- Press Coverage of first seven installations on February 14, 2015
- Fish Stick Installation 2016
- Press Release - February 2016
- Press Coverage of the second 15 installation on February 20, 2016: Link to Press Coverage
- FishSticks: 2017 Activities and Education - Click here.
- WI DNR Brochure on Shoreline Preservation - The Water's Edge
In 1966, the Kangaroo Lake Association installed 22 fish cribs in the lake. Between 2002-2007, the KLA with the DNR’s approval, installed 31 more cribs at depths of 9 feet south of the island. See Map, the construction and installation of the fish cribs into Kangaroo Lake links, and KLA Grants and Projects for more information.
Special Challenges for Game Fish ecology
During recent decades, Kangaroo Lake has been undergoing ecological changes. Beneficial aquatic plants have declined in both density and diversity. The bulrush patches of the lake have deteriorated so that a majority of the remaining patches are located in the protected portions of the lake. Two different types of algae are now becoming prevalent on the shores of the south basin. The lake’s water clarity is of concern due to the loss of aquatic plants that normally serve to absorb phosphorus. The lake is moving from a game fish lake to a pan fish lake. Eurasian Water Milfoil has definitely established itself, and the lake has been added to the watch list for Zebra Mussels. VHS (Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia) is a fish disease somewhat recently found in fish of the Great Lakes including Lake Michigan and we must be vigilant in our efforts to prevent this disease from entering Kangaroo Lake.
Kangaroo Lake is being significantly impacted by the swirling thrust of motors and hull wash which are disturbing the lake bottom and uprooting the shallowly-rooted aquatic plants. The disturbed bottom may then be further disturbed by wind and wave activity. These actions are adversely altering the lake’s ability to maintain a healthy homeostasis and support its game fish population. Kangaroo Lake is rapidly losing its fundamental aquatic plants that are the only natural barrier to the Eurasian Water Milfoil.
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E27. The noise emitted from a turbine will generally be well contained by the turbine house and not be heard more than a few metres away. If necessary, limits can be set on noise emissions if the site is close to residential properties, by way of a planning condition.
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A history of Apartheid in South Africa | South African. Apartheid (South African English: / ə ˈ p ɑːr t eɪ d /; Afrikaans: [aˈpartɦɛit], segregation; lit. "aparthood") was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) from until the early s. Apartheid was characterised by an authoritarian political culture based on baasskap (or white supremacy), which ensured that. apartheid (əpärt´hīt) [Afrik.,=apartness], system of racial segregation peculiar to the Republic of South Africa, the legal basis of which was largely repealed in – History Racial segregation and the supremacy of whites had been traditionally accepted in South Africa prior to , but in the general election of that year, Daniel F. Malan officially included the policy of. Nelson Mandela was a most unusual and unusually astute leader, says journalist and author of Playing the Enemy, John Carlin. He chooses the best books to understand Nelson Mandela, who used forgiveness as a political tool, and South Africa, the country he brought peacefully out of .
Bottom line: "Apartheid" is part of a growing scholarly trend to treat Apartheid as history rather than morality play. The book is a pleasure to read and definitely one to keep. I took off one star only because the book assumes a fair amount of knowledge of Cited by: Apartheid was an oppressive and brutal system of racial discrimination that captured and appalled world opinion during the latter half of the twentieth century. South Africa: The Rise and Fall of Apartheid examines the history of South Africa duri. Apartheid officially became a way of life in South Africa in , when the Afrikaner National Party came into power after heavily promoting the racially stratified system. In Afrikaans, "apartheid" means “apartness” or “separateness.” More than laws led Author: Nadra Kareem Nittle. For anyone interested in primary sources and their significance, this is the source to turn to. Primary source accounts of history add an unmatched authenticity to this series. Each book introduces the period and the available sources, justifying why we can rely on them, who produced them, or why they have survived. The text also gives historical background and .
The apartheid era in South African history refers to the time that the National Party led the country’s white minority government, from to Apartheid (Afrikaans: “apartness”) was the name that the party gave to its racial segregation policies, which built upon the country’s history of racial segregation between the ruling. Confronting Apartheid includes: Our themes of identity, membership, and belonging as explored through the stories of individuals, communities, organizations, and institutions Exploration of the human behavior throughout this turbulent history, including examples of conformity, obedience, and perpetration as well as resistance and the human. Not a history book as such, but a fascinating insight into apartheid South Africa by a young Afrikaner who tried to shed his inbuilt racism but found it central to his : Guardian Staff. History after Apartheid book. Read reviews from world’s largest community for readers. The democratic election of Nelson Mandela as president of South Af /5.
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As we always say, BHRS tries to mix fun events with the more serious issues of protection of the Green Belt and challenging the Local Plan. Well we’ve just had a favourite event and that’s for sure!
BHRS was delighted when asked to organise a Market Project for St John’s Primary School again this year. Year 4 took a walk down Queen's Road examining some of the history of the buildings using photographs provided by local historian and our committee member, Lynn Jones. Interviews with nineteen of the businesses were arranged for the children. Many are members of the Society and all were keen to support the learning opportunities for the children.
The next two weeks were then a very industrious period as the classes worked on producing their own stock to sell. From Father’s Day cards to Queen's Road logo designer shopping bags and from cakes decorated to link to their business to thoughtful book marks. Each business was also designed a unique advertising poster!
Then Friday 15th June was the big day. BHRS volunteers set out the stalls and like magic the children, with their super staff and parents, turned Queen's Road into a little Market! Some products really indicated thought about the shops, such as the home made dog biscuits on sale by Dogaholic and the home made cakes with glasses outside the opticians. Others were delightful in sharing the children’s learning like the papier mache Grecian urns and the pottery dishes made.
St John’s elected that the profits go to the charity BHRS is supporting this year, which was very generous. During the afternoon the children told their customers about the Rainbow Trust, a Charity which supports families with a seriously ill child.
On 10th July, BHRS presented Pauline Obee MBE, Patron of the Rainbow Trust, with a cheque for £900.
Photos from the event are here, and on Facebook @bhresidentssociety.
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NOTHING KEEPS YOUR INFANT OR SMALL CHILD SAFER THAN YOUR WATCH FULL EYE!
But, only a split second that you take a phone call, hear a sibling scream in another room, or get involved in an important conversation MAY BE THE INSTANCE THAT YOUR CHILD GETS IN A HARMFUL SITUATION!
You can help prevent an injury by following these safety recommendations. Below are 5 categories of safety recommendations for the safety of your child at home. Learn how to baby proof your home and be prepared for minor & major emergencies. You may print any of the free checklists that you need to make necessary changes.
Safety changes slightly with the age of your child:
Infant: Newborn to 1 year old: Crib safety concerns & choking concerns. Take steps to make the crib safe & the floor that your baby crawls on as safe as possible, free from small items that are tempting to place in the mouth.
Toddler: 1 to 3 years old: standing to walk to running to climbing. Curiosity increases and focus increases. Toddlers want to get into cabinets, drawers & climb. Many injuries can be avoided if child safety locks are used & unsafe items are stored properly.
Pre-K to pre-teen: 4 years old to 12 years old. Some of the ages vary on when to start educating your child in different areas of safety & emergency situations. Depending on the maturity level, attention level, and safe decision-making capabilities of your child you may choose to start early on education or later as you see best.
Across the board for all ages, every adult & caregiver in the home should know medical emergency steps in life-threatening situations. Many medical emergency response steps are age appropriate & training is easy to receive from your local hospital or affiliate of the American Red Cross. Know life-sustaining emergency steps in the event of a medical situation such as choking, a heart condition, unconsciousness, or drowning. Contact your local hospitals for medical emergency classes and visit websites to get to know the steps on how to respond if an event occurs: American Red Cross available at http://www.redcross.org OR American Heart Association at 1-(877) AHA-4-CPR (242-4277) or visit website http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/
Your pediatrician or obstetrician may also know where to can receive training in life-sustaining medical emergencies. Be knowledgeable in major and minor medical emergencies & always have a first aid kit available. Know what steps to take for allergic reactions from the environment, foods or bug bites/stings.
Post poison control hot-line on the fridge & telephones & have programmed in your phone 1-800-222-1222.
TOP 5 SAFETY CATEGORIES FOR YOUR INFANT/CHILD
- EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS: Minor & Major Medical Emergency Preparedness And Missing Child Preparedness
- FIRE SAFETY: Smoke, fire & burn prevention including electrical safety.
- ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY: remove or store out of reach harmful items that may cause choking, strangling, blunt trauma, entrapment, or drowning. Use child safety devices on your cabinets, doors, drawers & baby gaits or bars over all areas where infant/child not allowed.
- WATER SAFETY: Prevent drowning in & outside your home. Prevent burns from hot water.
- TRAVEL SAFETY: Know the safety steps to take while in the car & on a trip.
1. Emergency Preparedness
- Post Medical Emergency “Alert” Information Sheet: Place a sheet of paper on your fridge or in a designated area that contains important medical information on each child. A refrigerator is a good place in the event a caregiver or family member forgets where you have kept your sheet & if an emergency medical technician is in your home they have it ready for their access.
- Post-Poison Control Hot LIne on the fridge & each phone: 1-800-222-1222. You may also program this number in your cell phone. Always call 9-1-1 immediately if you know your child has ingested a poison but do not leave their side, take them with you or have another person call 9-1-1. You should read the label if you know the poison that was ingested & try the recommended steps.
- Take classes to become certified in emergency medical responses such as CPR(cardiopulmonary resuscitation) and Heimlich. Contact your local hospitals or the American Red Cross. All adults & caregivers should be certified in standard first aid, age-appropriate CPR & age-appropriate Heimlich if you have children or babysit/care for an infant or any age child.
- Know the signs of an allergic reaction to foods, animals, bugs, materials or the environment. Know that a serious allergic reaction involves one or more of the following: vomiting, rash/hives, swelling & sometimes difficulty breathing if it is an anaphylactic reaction. An anti-histamine should be given if an allergic reaction is noticed. If swelling &/or difficulty breathing occurs call 9-1-1 immediately. If a child has a known anaphylactic allergy then an EPI pen should be ready to be used at all times. TEach all family members or caregivers that you leave your child with how to use an EPI pen; a Call to Action Plan should be in place and practiced with each adult & younger sibling if they are sometimes alone with their younger sibling that has an anaphylactic reaction.
- Keep emergency medical equipment in a designated area. Sometimes it is difficult to have only one place but if you have more than one place then make sure all adults or older siblings know where these places are so they may retrieve items in an emergency. Place first aid kits in easy to find places such as near a fridge or designated cabinet in the kitchen. Lock cabinets where medicine or unsafe products are kept to keep small children out & away from possible injury.
- Post emergency numbers for a contact of you & your child’s physician(s) & after-hours numbers on your fridge or open area to see.
- Train siblings when they are ready to know how to respond to medical emergencies or security emergencies.
Missing Child Preparedness
- register your child with Amber Alert. www.amberalert.com in the event your child suddenly gets lost from you or is abducted. You may also consider other companies that are affiliated with local police that will give you an identification card to carry with you at all times & some companies offer mobile technology with information of your child that can be distributed readily by your phone to authorities & other contacts. Keep a current picture of your child always.
- consider child alarms or bells to use when traveling with children in crowds. Such safety items for children that keep them close to you are backpacks with a wrist strap that you can attach to your wrist so the child doesn’t stray, body alarms that sound if the child walks a designated length away
- Teach your children at an early age about “stranger danger”. Never to leave in a car with someone they don’t know & even someone they do know. Teach children to not open the door to anyone. Safety steps are to be taken such as code words that you can practice with your child when you think they are ready. Teach your child their full name, address, phone number & parents’ names at an early age in the event they get separated from you.
- Security measures are recommended in the home such as alarm system monitored, alarm devices on doors & windows if the child tries to get out of home then adults will be alerted. Use audio &/or video monitoring on your property.
Disaster emergency preparedness:
Have a disaster kit ready & stocked every 6-12months depending on the age of your child. visit www.nsc.org.
Have a weather alert radio or register with your local weather authorities or television station to receive free phone calls in the event there is a weather emergency in your area.
2. Fire Safety & Burn Safety
There are many fire prevention steps to take. Follow general fire prevention steps by visiting our fire, burn & electrical safety page on our website. Fire safety for children should focus on keeping infant/crawling baby or small child away from any heating source & away from all fire hazard items. Store all unsafe fire hazards high in locked cabinets or areas that are locked from the child. Use gates or bars to keep children away from fireplaces or other heating sources used in & outside of the home. Fire & burn safety includes items such as grills, hot lawn equipment, small appliances such as a toaster, waffle iron, hairdryer, hot flat iron, electrical wiring in & outside the home, etc. that are commonly used items that children may be around every day.
Some tips to follow for fire, burn & electrical safety for children no matter what age:
- use smoke detectors in the home, an alarm system monitored will contact fire department if smoke alarm sounds, carbon monoxide detectors, fire extinguisher(s), fire escape plan in place & practiced and flashlights with extra batteries in each room & in commonly used areas. Go to www.nfpa.org/education for fire safety education.
- keep all wiring in good condition & away from infant & small child’s reach. Repair all needed electrical outlets, switches & any loose parts.
- cover all electrical outlets with child safety devices.
- Have a disaster kit ready in the event a natural disaster occurs or something similar. Visit www.nsc.org or www.sparky.org.
- use fireproof safes that will store your valuables such as important documents & pictures.
- have fire escape ladders on the second level of the home or any floor above ground level.
3. Environmental Safety
The environment that your infant or small child lives in may pose potential dangers that sometimes are not obvious. Many infants & small children want to place almost everything in their mouths at this stage of life. Look around where your baby spends most of the time & make sure there is nothing that may cause choking, strangling or injury from sharp objects or blunt objects. Here is a list of tips to follow to keep them safe in their environment.
- Remove or store out of reach all small objects that is smaller than 1 1/2 inch; any small objects that are smaller than a golf ball or that can fit through a roll of toilet paper.
- Remove any material that is a choking hazard such as cords, wires, games or toys that have long strings or material that is longer than 4inches. Some toys may be played with but at supervision only. Clothing can pose a strangling danger too such as bathrobes with the tie/belt, dress belts, jewelry & scarfs. Use child safety cover on cords or remove from play area.
- Check all furniture, toys & other items for loose pieces & proper working conditions.
- Secure furniture & art or other items to the wall to prevent falling over on child
- Remove all heavy objects or breakable off of shelf & remove from the area if potential injury from those heavy objects.
Other common considerations for small children that are crawling & pulling up are to keep unsafe products out of reach or use safety locks on cabinets or drawers. Cover all furniture that has sharp edges & tops of counters or fireplace flooring. Use gaits to stop a child from entering stairs, areas that are not baby-proofed & fireplaces, or other heating source areas.
4. WATER SAFETY
- Cover all hot water faucets with childproof devices
- Set water temperature on or below recommended medium or 120degrees Fahrenheit
- Use child proof devices on toilets to prevent drowning
- Check water temperature for safety before bathing: warm only & warm the air before, during & after bath
- Never leave a child alone in a tub or bath of water
- Never leave water standing in or outside of the home due to risk of drowning by a small child
- Place at least a 4-foot height fence around any water hazard on the property with locked gait. Fences must be around pools, hot tubs, ponds, water well, or other water-containing devices
- Use pool alarms for the safety of your child.
5. Travel Safety
Use these tips when traveling with your infant or child every day and during road trips
Safety day today is most important when your infant or small child is traveling in a car. Your child must be in age & weight-appropriate car seat. According to the National Highway Traffic Administration, 85% of car seats are not installed properly.
Contact your local children’s hospital to find free classes on installing a car seat for infant & small child. Car seats for infants, toddlers, and small children should be chosen by safety testing ratings and by weight recommendations of your child according to the safety travel laws. Infant car seats should be used rear-facing in the back seat of a vehicle for an infant that is under 1 year old and weighs under 20 pounds. The infant must be both 1 year old and additionally, weigh at least 20 pounds before positioning the car seat forward-facing.
Car seats must be positioned in the middle of the back seat unless the owner’s manual of the vehicle specifies that it is safe to be positioned on the sides near the windows. Many vehicles have tethers for securing & positioning car seats near windows in the back seat. All airbags in vehicles in the backseat should be disengaged for the purpose of child protection in the event of an accident. Many vehicles have airbags that are factory disengaged for the protection of a child in the back seat. Read your owner’s manual of your vehicle & your instructions with your car seat for safety recommendations.
***Register your car seat on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration at www.nhtsa.gov/
***You may receive emails from your manufacturer of the car seat also if you have registered your car seat when you purchased it.
***Stay informed of all rebates on toys & car seats and other items through the Consumer Product Safety Commission at http://www.cpsc.gov
Consumer Reports have tested car seats and have recommended several brands and models of car seats and rated their overall score.
Convertible car seats: those car seats that can be used rear-facing and then be turned forward-facing when a child is an appropriate age and weight. These seats range from up to 40 pounds weight to 80 pounds depending on the make and model. Please compare features due to some that are recommended may not have all the features you are trying to find. These below are recommended and vary in price(varies with location, store & year), features & weight requirements. Please remember these approximate prices may vary from store and from state to state.
- Cosco Scenera: 40# capacity at approximately $60.
- Graco ComfortSport: 40# capacity at approx $90.
- Combi Coccoro: 40# capacity at approx $200
- Evenflo Triumph Advance LX/DLX: good fit for infants although rear-facing only is the best. This is a 40# capacity at approx $135.
- Maxi Cosi Priori: 40# capacity weight at approx $200.
Infant Car Seats
These car seats are rear-facing and for infants up to 1-year-old and additionally 22 pounds. The weight may vary with some seats but it is safer to go by 22 pounds & 1year old requirement before changing seats to a forward-facing car seat.
- Chicco Key Fit 30: infant car seat over 22# capacity at approx $180. Easy to install.
- Chicco Key Fit: infant car sear up to 22# capacity at approx $170. Easy to install.
- Combi Shuttle 33: infant car seat greater than 22# capacity at approx $180. Easy to install.
- Safety 1st OnBoard 35: infant car seat greater than 22# at approx $100. Best Value with excellent crash protection.
Consider using safety alarms when traveling daily with a child that will alarm you when a child is left in the car alone. Alarms are also available that may be placed safely on a child to alarm you when they are separated from you, which specific brands offer the distance you can choose for the alarm to sound. If you are in a crowded area such as a zoo or amusement park or even in a department store you may consider placing locator alarms on your child if you are concerned your child might wander away from your side.
Never leave a child in a car alone. Your local laws may vary slightly with age but it is recommended a child be 12 or older if left in the car & only for a short period of time.
Cars are safer in garage or carport if locked to keep small children out & prevent suffocation. Making a habit of locking your vehicle when you go into your home is safer against theft also. Remember to not have valuables in plain sight left in your car. You should also consider keeping an extra key to your vehicles in the garage in the event you need them immediately for any emergency or if you have misplaced or lost your primary set of keys.
Always travel with an appropriate emergency kit in a car that is seasonal ready. Extra water, snacks, shoes, blanket, flashlights, battery charger, jumper cables, fix a flat & always have a spare tire in good condition & aired, tire pressure gauge, extra batteries for flashlights, ice scraper or de-icer. Always have a communication system when traveling such as two-way radio, cellular phone, On Star or similar emergency contact system. On Star offers many safety services for your vehicle such as unlocking your vehicle if you accidentally leave your keys inside, giving you directions if you are lost, locating your vehicle if it gets stolen, and contacting emergency services if you have an accident or have a health issue and need medical assistance called.
1st STAGE SAFETY FOR YOUR INFANT
Your baby spends a lot of time in the crib or bassinet at this stage and most likely crawling. Take a good look at your baby’s crib and the floor for safety hazards!!!
- Keep baby on the back during sleep
- Keep toys, pillows, and cushions out of the crib to prevent suffocation
- Rails should be no wider than 6inches
- Check parts and maintain crib on a regular basis
- Keep monitor near crib at all times
- Keep knobs or attachable toys off crib to prevent clothing from getting caught to prevent choking
- Keep dangling objects away from such as cords in reach or blind cords
- Keep crib away from windows
- Lower mattress of crib as baby changes stages from rolling to pulling up to standing to prevent falls from crib
Floor, Furniture & Wall Safety
Take a good scan of the floor to the ceiling and check for any choking, straggling or head injury hazard! This means removing all small pieces off the floor (anything that can fit thru a toilet roll hole is too small for the baby.
- Repair any loose flooring where baby plays
- Secure all furniture, especially top-heavy unsteady furniture, art or anything on the wall, shelving, and televisions
- remove any cords or strings longer than 4 inches within a baby’s reach
- cover all electrical outlets
- check all lighting for proper function and stability
- check all toys and any equipment near the baby for small pieces or loose parts and any baby furniture for proper working condition. Cover all sharp corners of furniture, toys, counters and walls.
- lock cabinets where baby not allowed
- use certified baby gaits at the area where baby not allowed such as at stairs entrance or to the bathroom or to keep baby in baby controlled environment room
- use audio or video monitoring for safety while baby sleeps and or when you are not in immediate supervision of your baby
- never leave a baby or toddler in or near standing water or in the bath alone
- keep all chemicals and medicine high and in a locked cabinet
- Never leave a baby or small child unattended on a high surface even if in a carrier or other seat device
Additional tips for your infant or small child:
- Attend prenatal classes at your local hospital or were recommended by your physician
- Keep regularly scheduled immunization and baby wellness appointments for your baby
Check with your physician or local hospital for classes on taking care of your baby, proper nutrition and safety and for recommended reading material for caring for your baby.
AGAIN***POISON CONTROL HOT-LINE POSTED ON EVERY PHONE 1-800-222-1222 and CALL 9-1-1.
Additional Recommendations for Baby Safety
- Remove balloons unless monitored playtime
- Check toys for lead content.
- Older homes have lead content in the paint.
- Check cribs for lead and place a plastic cover over crib where teething may start.
- Remove cords from blinds or use safety device to move cord away from reach
Fire safety tips
- Always place natural fire retardant clothing on baby such as cotton and have emergency fire retardant blankets in case of fire. Use free & clear wash detergent for baby clothing.
- Smoke alarms at every room entrance
- emergency preparedness plan
- Flashlights available in every room
- Escape ladder on the second level of home and safety harness for carrying; fire-retardant blanket
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Talbot Car Engines: 1510 engine – Alpine – Simca Horizon
Talbot was originally the British brand name, it was established in 1903. Later, Chrysler Simca became a member, alongside Peugeot and Citroen, of the leading European automotive group PSA, they decided to revive the Talbot name.
The different types of Talbot car engines can be found below, their engines are offered at enginesandgearboxes as used, reconditioned or secondhand and all have a warranty.
The Talbot 1510
This is Known as the new Alpine in the UK, interesting was the 1592 cc engine which was supplied in the top of the range SX model. Four versions of the 1510 were available, at the bottom of the range was the LS with the faithful old Simca 1294 cc engine developing 67 bhp.
Both the GL and GLS models used the 1442 cc power unit, producing 84 bhp. From 1981 the LS model was fitted with the 1442 cc engine. In turn, the GL and GLS were supplied with the 1592cc engine as standard, developing 89 bhp. Talbot 1510 range in Europe did not match those of its predecessor, the Simca 1307/8, and the launch of a booted version of the car, the Talbot Solara, signified a shift in buyer behaviour.
In continental Europe, demand for the traditional “three box” Solara steadily overtook that for the 1510, and Talbot stopped production at Poissy in the summer of 1982.
The Simca Horizon 1100 was development. Initially just two engines were offered; the well known Simca 1118 cc and 1294 cc units, and three models: LS, GL, and GLS. The GLS could only be supplied with the 1294 cc engine, but a choice of engine was available on the LS and GL versions.
A disappointing feature of the new Horizon range at launch was that unlike on the 1100 range, there was no performance model. While the 1294 cc Simca 1100 Special produced 75 bhp and the 1100 TI 82 bhp, the same power unit in the Horizon was detuned to produce only 67 bhp, presumably for economy.
Expansion of the range of Horizons continued with the introduction in late 1979 of the SX, which had a 1442 cc engine developing 82 bhp. Horizon EX, it had a 65 bhp version of the 1442 cc engine. Also launched was the most interesting of all Horizons, the Premium. It was equipped with the Talbot 1592 cc engine and developed an impressive 90 bhp, giving a top speed of around 110 mph.
Work on Project C9 started in 1976, when Chrysler Europe agreed a replacement for the slow selling 180 and 2 Litre models. To be called the Simca 2000, the C9 was to utilise the Chrysler 2 Litre engine. Peugeot’s soon to be released 505 2 litre model would have been in direct competition with the then unnamed Tagora.
To avoid this clash, the new management decided to upgrade the Tagora and to offer the top model with the Douvrin “co-op” V6 engine developed jointly by Peugeot, Renault and Volvo. By using three different engines, a range of Tagoras was available.
There were two models powered by the Simca-derived 2155 cc unit. This was fitted in the GL and GLS models. A single twin-choke carburettor was fitted and the engine developed 115 bhp.
The next engine was the 2304 cc turbocharged diesel fitted to the DT model, which was not imported to the UK. Top of the range was the Douvrin 2664 cc engine fitted to the SX model, which developed 165 bhp.
Being based on the Alpine, there were no mechanical surprises, with the 1294 cc and 1592 cc engines being used on UK built cars, while most European countries started with the 1442 cc engine, and then the 1592 cc unit. Trim levels were the usual LS, GL, GLS and top of the range SX .
Talbot Matra Rancho
Matra selected the 1442 cc engine used in the Chrysler Alpine which developed 80 bhp and provided adequate power for the Rancho.
Some other models including the Simca line:
Vedette and Ariane
1000 & 1100 / 1204 & 1300 / 1500 & 1301 / 1501
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In today’s imagination prudence is mainly associated with careful, considered behavior (for example, driving a car slowly) or with a tendency to be indecisive so as to avoid risks, or worse, with a form of cowardice that prevents someone from taking a stand. These views are largely associated with modern thought.
In antiquity, however, prudence was considered the highest virtue and the guide of all the others (auriga virtutum), because it allowed people to recognize the fundamental objective of life in a specific situation, and above all it identified the appropriate means to achieve it. The Greeks associated it with phronēsis (wisdom), a term that originally referred to the diaphragm (phrēn), the seat of breathing, feeling and the cognitive activity of the soul, the most intimate dimension of the human being. The wise person exercises reason in a state of good health and therefore can govern the self.
For Aristotle, the task of wisdom is to educate for responsiveness, the indispensable energy for doing good (Topics, V, 8; 138 b 2-5): this is the essential task of practical reason (Nicomachean Ethics, VI, 5). For this reason, wisdom is the pivot of the moral life, because the purpose of this discipline, Aristotle adds, is not to know the good, but to be good. Cicero translates phronēsis as prudentia, defining it as “the science of things to be sought or avoided” (De officiis, I, 153).
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Benefits of Medical Weight Loss Program
Medical weight loss programs permit you to eat whatever you like, but with moderate amounts. They also help you become more active and enjoy your life. It can be hard to make such a major change by yourself, therefore it's best to seek the advice of a top weight loss center. Learn what medical weight loss plans will help you shed weight and maintain it.
Programs for weight loss are good deals to stay on track and also motivate your to keep yourself motivated. Trainers share their tips and tricks that can help customers.
It is highly unlikely to shed weight following an extreme diet or trendy diet. Scottsdale weight loss clinic programs offer another advantage in learning how to change your lifestyle to guarantee long-term success. You get more than weight loss tools. You also acquire the knowledge and skills to control your weight.
There's no reason to worry about eating right in the right way, working out regularly, and not spending too much on methods that aren't proven. Each aspect of an effective weight loss program is carefully planned and overseen. The environment is comfortable and welcoming. We're all human and we all make mistakes. This program is designed to help you attain an ideal weight and provide you with ongoing support.
Exercise Techniques That Work
Exercise education is a key component of weight loss programs for medical professionals. It will help you make the most of your exercise and help you avoid injuries. Based on your fitness level and any other health issues, the specialists will give you suggestions.
One of the biggest advantages of weight loss programs that are medically supervised is that they are completely personalized to your needs. Doctors will analyze your weight, activity level, and lifestyle as well as overall well-being to determine the best method to develop a personalized program to meet your needs. That means your goals are tailored to your needs and the adjustments you'll be required to make will have a direct impact on the outcome.
Surgery is not recommended.
It is not uncommon to think of surgical procedures when you hear the words "medical weight loss." Medical weight loss therapy, on the contrary, assists patients to avoid surgery as often as feasible. Although weight loss surgery may be beneficial, it is not without the risk of complications and requires a lengthy recovery period.
Medical weight loss procedures get at the root of the issue by dealing with both psychological and physical issues people face concerning food and their bodies. These programs include an opportunity for change in behavior along with periodic nutritional counseling sessions and weigh-ins with the goal of assisting you to maintain a healthy lifestyle. The team working with you on weight loss will help you to change your attitude regarding healthy eating habits and develop long-term habits.
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Democracy Education & Civic Engagement
Democracy Education & Civic Engagement at Henry Ford College (HFC) strives to provide all students with exposure to an education in democracy. Through curricular and co-curricular initiatives, Democracy Education & Civic Engagement aims to impact
- Student learning that one carries through life;
- Skill development that teaches how to build a stronger civil and more inclusive society;
- Intrinsic analysis; and
- Diversity tolerance and understanding. As a partner of the National Democracy Commitment (NDC), HFC works to actualize the NDC goal of preparing informed, engaged graduates to revitalize and strengthen our democracy.
A democratic education should involve learning that is meaningful, relevant, enjoyable, engaging and empowering. As an extension of HFC’s values and beliefs, Democracy Education & Civic Engagement stands in support of
- Diversity in ideas and beliefs, culture, religion, race, and sexual orientation and gender identity;
- An environment where its members are treated with dignity and respect;
- Our role as a community resource and (that we) seek to address the diverse needs of the communities we serve;
- Providing courses, programs, services and facilities for the social, cultural and personal development of individuals; and
- Preparing students to be compassionate, ethical, and rational citizens in a multicultural, multiracial democracy (cohandbook rev.102802).
The Democracy Education student
- Develops skills of democratic participation;
- Describes his or her own civic and cultural background, including its origins and development, assumptions and predispositions;
- Describes diverse positions, historical and contemporary, on selected democratic values and practices, and presents his or her own position on a specific problem where one or more of these values or practices are involved--this learning is done in an environment of respect and tolerance; and
- Takes an active role in a community context (work, service, co-curricular activities, etc.) and examines the civic issues encountered and the insights gained from the community experience.
Note: outcomes taken from 2012 Lumina Foundation Degree Qualifications Profile and the National Democratic Commitment outcomes of student learning.
College Programs, Activities, and Initiatives
- Arab Cultural Studies/Council of World Cultures Lecture Series
- Community Leadership
- Democracy Institute
- Henry Ford II Honors Program
- National Society for Leadership and Success
- Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society
- Political Issues Conference
- Political Science
- Religious Studies
- Service Learning
- Student Leadership Development/Club Cultural Activities
- Veterans Services
- Volunteerism and Charitable Giving
Building Bridges Conference
Building Bridges is an initiative coordinated by the Department of Religious Studies, The Council of World Cultures and various community and student organizations. An annual lecture series is presented focusing on diversity, cultural, peace, justice, religious and environmental issues and conditions. A weekend conference is coordinated every several years and includes local, regional and national speakers. Students, faculty, staff and community members from HFC and Dearborn are invited, as well as those from surrounding communities, high schools, colleges and universities.
Civic Engagement Initiatives
Voter Registration: The Student Activities Office (SAO) provides on campus Voter’s Registration and conducts Voter’s Registration Drives prior to each election. Forms are available at the Office. SAO provides the service of mailing completed Voter’s Registration forms to respective city election clerks.
Annual Veterans Day Celebration, Nov. 11: The Student Veterans of America, HFC chapter, coordinates a campus wide celebration in honor of veterans and Veterans Day. The event includes a color guard presentation, speakers, and comments by the College President, local officials and members of the Board of Trustees. To participate or attend, contact the Student Activities Office.
The National Census: HFC serves as an official census site and education center to ensure members of the College and Dearborn communities are accurately counted.
Council of World Cultures
The Council of World Cultures shall seek to foster global awareness and understanding throughout the College and greater community through the study of world cultures and issues. The primary focus is to initiate, encourage and support activities, events and educational opportunities that promote a better understanding of cultural, political, economic, environmental, religious, and social issues on our campus, in our communities and around the world.
- Cooperate with groups on campus or in the community to co-sponsor and promote campus events that foster the goals of the committee.
- On-campus groups may include instructional divisions and programs, campus clubs, student government, study abroad programs, and other organizations. Community groups may include community service organizations (e.g., Rotary), museums, religious institutions, fine and performing arts groups, etc. Other organizations may include non-governmental organizations, volunteer associations, colleges, universities, and other educational institutions with programs addressing global studies, world languages and arts, peace and conflict studies, environmental studies, civic action and other related programs. Events may include guest speakers, films, live performances, gallery exhibitions, panels, forums, etc.
- Prepare and request an appropriate annual budget to support its responsibilities.
- Report to College Organization annually regarding activities.
- 10/2/12: Building Bridges Lecture Series: “African American Religious Experiences and Expressions”
- 10/23/12: Building Bridges Lecture Series: “What is Mormonism, Really?”
- 11/15/12: Building Bridges Lecture Series: “Leaving Nothing Out: Zen Practice for Everyday Life”
- 1/31/13: Building Bridges Lecture Series: “An Ancient People in the 21st Century: Who are the Jews?”
- 2/11/13: Council of World Cultures Presents a Chinese New Year Celebration
- 2/12/13: Building Bridges Lecture Series: “Islam in America, Today!”
- 2/28/13: Building Bridges Lecture Series: “Christianity: A Love Story”
- 3/28/13: Building Bridges Lecture Series with Rev. Roger Mohr
- 10/8/13: Building Bridges Lecture Series: “Walking the ‘El Camino,’ the Ultimate Cross Cultural Experience”
- 2/25/14: Building Bridges Lecture Series: “African History as a Tool of Global African Liberation”
- 4/3/14: Building Bridges Lecture Series: “Making Friends: Muslims and Christians Working Together in Dearborn During the 21st Century”
- 4/17/14: Building Bridges Lecture Series: “To the Rock That is Higher Than I: Finding My Primitive Baptist Roots in Alabama”
- 10/7/14: Building Bridges Lecture Series: “A Forum on Faith and War”
- 11/18/14: Building Bridges Lecture Series: “Lifting the Veil: A Gage into Islamic Culture and Fashion in 21st Century Dearborn”
- 11/20/14: International Student Thanksgiving Reception
- 2/17/15: International Students Panel Discussion
- 3/3/15: Building Bridges Lecture Series: “Essential Arrival: Michigan’s Indian Immigrants in the 21st Century” Film Screening and Discussion
Community Connections and Professional Memberships
- Detroit Scholarship Fund
- Gabriel Richard Community
- Global Detroit
- Michigan Campus Compact
- Southwest Solutions
- The National Democracy Commitment
- United Way of Southeast Detroit
- Lisa Copprue, Ph.D., Vice President, Student Affairs
- Cassandra Fluker, M.A., Student Activities Officer
- Eric Rader, Ph.D., Faculty, Political Science
- Anthony Perry, Ph.D., Faculty, Political Science
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In his introduction to the recent publication Russell Lee Photographs, John Szarkowski raised an interesting fact about the nature of a photographer’s ‘appetite as a spectator.’ He raises this issue because a critic of Russell Lee’s once said that Lee had ‘never seen a photograph that he didn’t like.’ Szarkowski continues on in his essay to mention that, although he disagrees with the negative connotation that stemmed from the critic, ‘a generous heart can lead an artist into trouble, just as a mean and calculating one can.’ Meaning that wanting to document everything one sees in order to be ‘helpful’ often runs against ‘artistic standards’ in contrast to, artists that limit themselves for the sake of being ‘neat.’ Russell Lee apparently did not adhere to the idea that a subject could be too insignificant as to not merit some attention.
Lee is mostly known for being one of the FSA photographers who contributed to the vast archive of photographs that documented American life during the Great Depression. He was a documentarian that invested much time and energy to becoming a part of the communities he photographed and his photographs reveal that insider’s link. He was also an early innovator with the use of flash and his influence in that arena can be felt in photographers like Chauncey Hare.
The book Russell Lee Photographs by
One of the more interesting groupings is Lee’s concentration on Ralph Yarborough’s 1954 run at being elected Governor of Texas. A few of the images show Yarborough making stump speeches to small groups of locals. In one, while Yarborough gesticulates with open arms, he seems to be ignored by most of the people gathered on the steps of the courthouse that he is speaking to. Many of Lee’s photographs hint at the differences between the character of politicians and the character of the people who elect them. The best of these photos could be close contenders to another photographer making his way around the political spectrum, Robert Frank.
This is surprising collection and the book treats the material well with decent printing and what amounts to be the last essay from one of photography’s great spokesmen, John Szarkowski. In past publications, Lee’s FSA work has been so much the main focus that one could come away thinking that those were his best works. As good as they are, it is great to see over 100 of this book’s 140 images that have not been published before that relate to his other interests.
I am torn though with partly agreeing with the sentiments of the critic from the beginning although I might direct that notion towards the editors of the book. In this volume, Lee seems diluted slightly by the variety of images. In most, his brilliance as an image maker is so startlingly clear that when the less dynamic are included into the mix, it dulls the overall tone. That being said, Lee is a photographer worthy of more books than he has been the subject of and to have this new volume at hand is an important added study of an often overlooked photographer.Book Available Here (Russell Lee Photographs)
Buy online at University of Texas Press
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Knowledge is power and we believe keeping abreast of news on the research front is imperative. Each month in Highlights we feature a few of the top news stories, which you can read below. In addition, we update our website on a regular basis with the latest breaking news related to pituitary and hormonal disorders by gathering stories we think you'll be interested in from MD Linx, Medscape, MedPage Today, PubMed, Touch Endocrinology, News-Medical.net and WebMD.
Could different treatment approach in acromegaly influence life expectancy? A comparative study between Bulgaria and Campania (Italy)
European Journal of Endocrinology, 06/16/2014
Cushing's syndrome in a morbidly obese patient undergoing evaluation before bariatric surgery
Obesity Facts 06/16/2014
Medical Treatments for Pituitary Disorders
A comparison of low dose acth, glucagon stimulation and insulin tolerance test in patients with pituitary disorders
Clinical Endocrinology 06/24/2014
FDA: Testosterone Carries VTE Risk
Testosterone products can cause venous thromboembolism (VTE) even in patients without polycythemia, the FDA warned amidst ongoing cardiovascular risk assessment.
Estrogen Alone May Not Suppress Testosterone
CHICAGO -- Simply giving estrogen to male-to-female transgender patients won't completely suppress testosterone levels, researchers reported here.
Puberty Hormone Tied to Premature Ovarian Failure
Kisspeptin hormones may play a key role in premature ovarian failure and in the control of oocyte biology, according to results from animal studies.
Pituitary Tumors – General
Gonadotroph adenoma causing ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome in a premenopausal woman.
Halupczok J, Bidzińska-Speichert B, Lenarcik-Kabza A, Zieliński G, Filus A, Maksymowicz M.
Gynecol Endocrinol. 2014 Jun 27:1-4. [Epub ahead of print]
Specific behaviour, mood and personality traits may contribute to obesity in patients with craniopharyngioma (CP)
Clinical Endocrinology 06/17/2014
ASCO: Androgen Blocker Works in Prostate Ca
CHICAGO -- A drug that blocks the androgen receptor can markedly delay chemotherapy in men with progressive prostate cancer despite androgen-deprivation therapy, a researcher said.
ASCO: Exercise Cuts Cytokines in Prostate Ca
CHICAGO -- A structured physical exercise program appears to reduce cytokine production related to depression and inflammatory processes that may impact prostate cancer progression, researchers said here.
ASCO: Combo Hormone Tx Promising in Prostate Cancer
CHICAGO -- A combination attack on androgens in metastatic prostate cancer resistant to initial hormone therapy drove down testosterone levels and appeared safe, according to a proof of concept study.
Soy Okay in Diabetic Men with Low T
CHICAGO -- Soy supplements won't send testosterone levels plummeting in men with type 2 diabetes who already have low levels of the hormone, researchers reported here.
Children's Endocrine Health
Corneal thickness in children with growth hormone deficiency: The effect of GH treatment
Growth Hormone & IGF Research 06/25/2014
Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Osteoporosis: New Findings
A large population-based cohort study in Taiwan demonstrates an elevated risk of osteoporosis among individuals with obstructive sleep apnea.
BPA Alternative May Still Have Endocrine Effects
CHICAGO -- A plasticizer commonly substituted for bisphenol A (BPA) may cause similar endocrine-disrupting effects as the original chemical, researchers reported here.
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While the biomass energy sector has been labeled as green renewable energy, a report released today says burning scrap lumber and wood debris and agricultural waste products to create electricity is producing lots of air pollution and carbon dioxide emissions.
"These facilities are sort of notorious for spouting out a lot of smoke on startup or shutdown," said Mary Booth, director of the group Partnership for Policy Integrity and author of the report, "Trees, Trash, and Toxics: How Biomass Energy Has Become the New Coal." "It's just an inherently polluting technology anyway, and even with sophisticated emission controls, it's still quite polluting."
Booth said her reviews of air permits revealed a pattern: "I was seeing facilities that were escaping regulation."
The biomass industry pushed back strong on the report, calling the science in it neither "factual nor new."
"Biomass is a clean, renewable energy source that our nation relies upon to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels," said Bob Cleaves, president of the Biomass Power Association, in a statement.
"Our industry uses residuals from forest maintenance as well as wood already used for other purposes like construction. These materials have no other use; they would otherwise decompose either in landfills, emitting the harmful methane gas, or on a forest floor where they would provide kindling to wildfires."
The report highlights one comparison that shows a biomass power plant had higher allowable emission rates than a coal or gas plant in carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, filtered particulate matter 10 (PM 10) and volatile organic compounds. Only the coal plant had higher sulfur dioxide emissions.
Booth said that a "loophole" allows biomass plants to emit much more pollution than other energy sources like coal.
The Clean Air Act requires coal plants to go through Prevention of Significant Deterioration permitting if the plant is going to emit 100 tons of each of the major pollutants per year. But Booth said biomass plants have been able to emit 250 tons per year before the same type of permitting applies.
"I think [U.S. EPA] is under tremendous political pressure and ... it's been a really disproportionately powerful industry," she said. "They have a lot of powerful friends in Congress, southern Democrats who are from timber states, and this is what the wood industry says they want. And they're going to give it to them."
The 2009 federal stimulus package funded several measures that have helped the industry, including the Investment Tax Credit and the Production Tax Credit.
There have been some signs that regulations for biomass energy may be tightened. Last July, a three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit said EPA had failed to justify a 2011 decision that gave biomass facilities a three-year exemption from greenhouse gas rules (Greenwire, July, 12, 2013).
One reason biomass energy has been growing is that it's seen by some as less carbon-intensive than fossil fuels, which is partly why 700 megawatts of biomass energy were added to the grid last year.
Some scientists have backed up that position. In a 2010 open letter to senators, dozens of forestry professors wrote that "burning fossil fuels that are mined from millennia-old deposits of carbon produces an addition to carbon in the atmosphere, whereas burning woody biomass recycles renewable plant growth in a sustainable carbon equilibrium producing carbon neutral energy."
But today's report disputes that perception, saying "biomass power plants emit more CO2 than fossil fueled plants because wood and other types of biomass are carbon-rich, but not particularly energy-rich, particularly relative to natural gas."
"This means that burning biomass releases more CO2 per unit energy inherent in the fuel. ... Just as important, however, is that biomass power plants are much less efficient than gas and coal-fueled plants, in part because biomass fuels tend to have relatively high moisture content, and it takes significant energy to boil off excess water before useful energy can be generated."
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"There will be some impact on agriculture (if monsoon is not normal), some impact on GDP," Finance Secretary Ashok Chawla told PTI in an interview.
However, he did not subscribe to the projections of the Indian growth rate by international agencies like the IMF and the World Bank.
The IMF and the World Bank have projected the Indian economy to grow by 5.4 per cent and 5.1 per cent, respectively, for the current calendar year, while projections by organisations in the country pegged the rate to be anywhere between six and eight per cent for the current fiscal.
"Maybe international agencies' mood is depressed because of the international scenario, their numbers have been lower...We don't accept or subscribe to their numbers," Chawla said.
He said these agencies have been frequently raising their projections as well. In its latest update, the IMF had raised India's growth projection to 5.4 per cent for 2009 against 4.5 per cent estimated earlier.
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‘Dark Enlightenment’: Overview by an sympathetic writer worth reading, bookmarking
In the long run, however, capitalism is hard to corral. For one, social democracy doesn’t seem to be a sustainable fix. The golden age of the Western welfare state —roughly 1945 to 1973—looks in retrospect to have been a freak accident of history. It rested, as Thomas Piketty has argued, on a number of special conditions unlikely to be repeated. Moreover, capital is elusive, global, and decentralized, while political sovereignty remains tied to bounded territorial units. Perhaps most deadly of all, capitalism is fast, while democratic deliberation is slow. The market generates new realities before we’ve even had time to agree on what to do about the old, and this trend intensifies exponentially (or hyperbolically) at higher levels of technological development. (…)
If, as labor economists argue, forty-seven percent of American employment could soon be automated, Land’s authoritarianism looks more like a convincing account of what will be needed to preserve capitalism rather than doe-eyed paeans to the sharing economy. (…)
Nick Land, like Moldbug and many other neoreactionaries, typically shuns the term “fascist.” Admittedly, they have some good reasons to do so: despite NRx racism and authoritarianism, its political economy is closer to Lee Kuan Yew’s Singapore than Hitler’s Reich. Yet there’s a problem. Land is an elitist, more loyal to IQ than ethnicity, and with a marked contempt for the “inarticulate proles” of neoreaction’s white nationalist wing. But Land himself notes that it’s precisely these “proles” that make up most of the actual “reactosphere,” and that “if reaction ever became a popular movement, its few slender threads of bourgeois (or perhaps dreamily ‘aristocratic’) civility wouldn’t hold back the beast for long.”
It’s entirely possible that reaction never does become a popular movement—a new economic boom, for one, would do a lot to soothe the disaffection on which it feeds—yet if it were to grow, the proposed alliance of convenience between the tech elite and an intransigent white identity politics begins to look a lot like the Nazi coalition of German industrialists and a downwardly-mobile middle class.
RELATED: Douglas Coupland — “We Are Data: The Future of Machine Intelligence”
The amount of internet freedom we have right now is the most we’re ever going to get.
If our lives are a movie, this is the point where the future audience is shouting at the screen, “For God’s sake, load up on as much porn and gore and medical advice, and blogs and film and TV and everything as you possibly can! It’s not going to last much longer!”
And it isn’t.
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I remember very clearly the first time I heard Renzo Piano describe the new plaza he was planning for the expanded Los Angeles County Museum of Art. It must have been 2005. The Italian architect told me he wanted to create a spacious, classically proportioned space stretching between the museum’s new ticket kiosks and Wilshire Boulevard.
“A piazza,” he called it, with more pride than irony about how such a romantic notion would play in the middle of Los Angeles.
Artist Chris Burden and Michael Govan, who became LACMA director in 2006, came up with a different idea. Burden, who died Sunday at 69, had been collecting cast-iron lampposts from Southern California streets and storing them at his compound in Topanga Canyon. He painted more than 200 of them a uniform gunmetal gray, arranged them in the shape of an abstract, open-air building and called the piece “Urban Light.”
When Govan decided to install the artwork right in the middle of Piano’s completed plaza, the piazza idea was essentially ruined, or at least dramatically undermined. But something else emerged in its place: A public space that no longer tried to ape European precedents but instead seemed entirely home in contemporary Los Angeles. […]
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Size Determination of Vitamin B1 by Dynamic Light Scattering
Dynamic light scattering (DLS) is a physics technique used for characterizing the size of particles and molecules in suspension and solution. The technique is based on the measurement of the time-dependent fluctuations in the intensity of the scattered light signals. The particles are responsible for the scattering of the light, while it is the random motion of the particles that produces the fluctuations in that scattering. By measuring the scattering, the particles' velocity can be derived, and from that velocity the hydrodynamic diameter of the particles can be calculated by using the Stokes–Einstein equation.
An important factor for making good DLS measurements is using the right concentration. The concentration of particles must be high enough to produce a good scattering intensity. On the other hand, if the concentration is too high, then multiple scattering may occur, which can produce an erroneous result.
The detection angle can also influence the results: for example, side scattering (90°) is suitable for weakly scattering samples, including small particles and transparent samples; whereas back scattering (175°) is suitable for strongly scattering samples, including large particles, highly concentrated or turbid samples. A distinct function of the Litesizer™ 500 is its automatic measurement-angle selection, which allows the instrument to choose the optimum measurement angle. Selection is based on the sample's transmission, which is measured continuously for all samples. This function is very helpful for users dealing with unknown or unfamiliar samples.
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Questions About School Bus Routes
Last year prior to school termination, this writer was informed that when opening the new school in Wyalusing the school bus would be using Bowling Alley Road from the Turkey Path to Route 6 and then to the school.
Being concerned about the safety of the bus and the kids due to the lack of guide rails on the road and the steep banks close to the edge of the road, I contacted the township supervisor to inquire if they intended to replace the guide rails before the start of the new school year. I was informed that it would be too costly to replace them and there was no schedule to do so. I then contacted the school superintendent and ask that since he was the responsible person for school safety, that he inspect the road to determine if it was safe for a school bus to use this road.
Since main roads that are again as wide and with fewer steep banks have guide rails, it would seem reasonable that this would be a high priority for both the township and the school board. However, it seems that child safety is not on their list of things to take care. For parents with children riding Bus #9, take a ride up Bowling Alley Road and determine for yourselves if your child should be on that bus.
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Given the remarkable growth of technology products and AI, leaders in the field know that there is a massive market for inclusion, that it’s great business and beyond that, it is the right thing to do. Acclaimed designer, Fanny Krivoy facilitates this conversation to explore the current state of intentional/unintentional exclusion in product development, and how to create products with inclusive design methodologies. This panel hosts leaders in design and technology, artificial intelligence and accessibility to explore the big picture when designing products — including practical and cutting edge steps to create inclusion. Panel includes 3 perspectives on the inclusion: Frances West, Nicola Palmarini and Dorrie Rush who participated in Krivoy's interview series, “Project Inclusion”.
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- Inclusive design is an expectation, not an exception.
- Unintended benefits: Inclusive design benefits everyone, not just people with disabilities, but everyone.
- Inclusive design involves a reciprocal exchange: what job does your product do, what do you learn from the user?
- Fanny Krivoy, Founder/Chief Creative Officer, Studio Analogous
- Frances West, Public Speaker & Author, Frances West Co.
- Nicola Palmarini, Ethics AI Lead & Program Manager, MIT-IBM Watson AI LAB
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The US has formally called for Belgium to participate in an operation to safeguard international ships from potential Iranian threats.
Following last week’s Iranian seizure of British-flagged oil tanker Stena Impero, and amid rising tensions between the US and Iran, the US is reaching out to its allies in order to create an international coalition to secure the international waters outside the Persian Gulf from potential Iranian threats.
Having already been contacted informally in June, more formal steps are now being taken, according to a Belga news agency source.
Belgium’s Foreign Minister, Didier Reynders, has informed the government that the Belgian army is currently assessing the request, reports De Morgen.
Belgium’s navy has two frigates at its disposal – The Leopold I and Louise-Marie – which have in the past been deployed outside the Somali coast.
It is not clear if Belgium will participate. “Such an important military deployment must be discussed and voted on in parliament,” Peter Buysrogge, chairman of the Defense commission in the federal parliament told De Morgen.
Meanwhile two British warships have already been sent to the strait. The Netherlands is considering sending one of its own frigates, while Germany and France are offering logistical support.
The President of Iran, Hassan Rohani, has responded saying that “the presence of foreign troops in the Gulf will not make the situation safer but just cause more tensions,” and that “Iran expects all EU states not to support these provocative proposals.”
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Darling helped push the Duck Stamp Act through Congress in 1934, requiring every waterfowl hunter 16 years and over to annually purchase and carry a Federal Duck Stamp. Proceeds from the sale of Duck Stamps were earmarked to buy and lease waterfowl habitat.
In 1935, Salyer used Duck Stamp receipts to purchase three refuges, including Upper Souris National Wildlife Refuge, on the loop of the Souris River. Two groups, the Civilian Conservation Corp and Works Project Administration, provided large labor force which built dikes, roads, fences, and water control structure on these refuges. Men were hired locally as well as from other states. Camp Maurek, a military style camp located on Upper Souris National Refuge, housed as many as 250 men.
Upper Souris National Wildlife Refuge lies in the beautiful Souris River Valley of north western North Dakota and extends for nearly 30 miles along the River. This 32,000 acre Refuge, managed by the US Fish and Wildlife Service, is an important unit in a series of national wildlife refuges in the great waterfowl migration corridor known as the Central Flyway.
Managing for Wildlife
The purpose for establishing the Refuge in 1935 was ... as a refuge and breeding ground for migratory birds and other wildlife ... The Refuge habitat is managed for diversity to provide the life requirements of all wildlife. Grasslands are periodically grazed, hayed, burned, and rested to provide good nesting and escape cover for wildlife and to rejuvenate the vegetation.
Lake Darling, a 10,000 acre lake named in honor of Ding Darling, is the largest of several water impoundment's on the Refuge. Its primary purpose is to furnish a regulated supply of water to smaller marshes downstream and especially to the larger marshes on the J. Clark Salyer Refuge, 110 miles downstream. The lake is designed to hold a two year supply of water to safeguard marshes downstream against the threat of drought. The dam also makes is possible to reduce flooding and to regulate releases during periods of low flow. Both operations benefit people in the valley below the dam.
The proper management of water permits an active fisheries program on the Refuge. This is a cooperative effort between the Refuge and the Missouri River Fish and Wildlife Management Assistance Office. Northern pike, walleye, yellow perch, and smallmouth bass may be caught in the lake and Souris River.
One successful Refuge management program has been the re-establishment of a resident Canada goose flock. These magnificent birds were once common, but they gradually disappeared with loss of habitat due to changes in land use. The first honkers were reintroduced in 1940 and the flock has grown to about 250 birds.
Wildlife and Waterfowl
Waterfowl numbering up to 350,000 can be seen during spring and fall migrations. Tundra swans along with pintail, canvas-backs, redheads, buffleheads, and other waterfowl either nest on the Refuge or use the Refuge during migration. Up to five species of grebes have been seen on the Refuge during the summer.
Several colonies of nesting cormorants and great blue herons use tree groves near the lake. White pelicans also use the Refuge as a loafing area but do not nest here.
Serious birders will also be able to find Baird's, LeConte's, and sharp tailed sparrows, as well as Spraque's pipit.
Whitetaile Deer are common on the Refuge and an occasional antelope can be seen on the hills above the valley. Rare sightings of elk and moose have also been made. Muskrats are common and careful observation will reveal the tracks of raccoons and mink.
The Refuge offers a wide range of activities by which visitors can become better acquainted with wildlife. Opportunities for viewing and studying wildlife and plants, walking, photography, berry picking, and cross country skiing are available along the 3.5 mile Prairie-Marsh Scenic Drive, hiking trails, and other open public use areas. However, for your safety these activities are not permitted during the Refuge rifle deer season. Canoeing can be enjoyed on several designated canoe routes. In the spring, photo blinds provide an opportunity for close up viewing and photographing the extraordinary dance of sharp tailed grouse. Picnic tables and grills are also provided at several locations for your use.
Visiting The Refuge
Upper Souris is a special place for wildlife and people. Yet, as a Wildlife Refuge, it is a place where the needs of wildlife come first. To ensure that this happens, regulations have been established to provide wildlife and their habitats with adequate protection from visitors. Although these regulations may be inconvenient to some or seem overly restrictive, they are necessary to protect wildlife populations and habitat and, in some instances, to safeguard visitors.
Visitors are responsible for knowing the Refuge regulations listed in our brochures and on our signs. By observing these rules, visitors will make the Refuge a better place for themselves and the wildlife they come to enjoy. The Refuge is open daily form 5:00 am to 10:00 pm for your use.
Use of horses are permitted with permission of the Refuge Manager. Dogs may be walked if they are on a leash.
Hunting and Fishing
Hunting and fishing are permitted in certain areas under special Federal and State regulations.
The Pack Your Trash Home program is used on the Refuge; trash cans are not provided.
The following activities are not permitted because they are either unsafe, are not consistent with Refuge goals, or are unlawful:
The Office/Visitor Center and the rest rooms at Landing 3 are wheelchair accessible. The Outlet Fishing area has wheelchair accessible table, grills, and a fishing pier, as well as rest rooms, sidewalks, and parking. The Prairie-marsh Scenic Drive has a wheelchair accessible overlook of the beautiful Souris River Valley.
The US Fish and Wildlife Service seeks to afford persons with disabilities full accessibility or reasonable accommodation. Contact the Office/Visitor Center for information or to address accessibility problems. For the hearing impaired, use your State Relay System for the Deaf.
Administration and Location
The Refuge is administered and managed by the US Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior. The Office/Visitor Center is located southeast of Lake Darling dam and can be reached by traveling on Highway 52 to Foxholm, ND and then north on County Road 11 for 7 miles, or traveling on Highway 83 north of Minot 18 miles and west 1 mile on County Road 6. Office/Visitor Center hours are 8:00 am to 4:30 pm Monday through Friday.
For further information: Write the Refuge Manager, Upper Souris National Wildlife Refuge, RR#1 Box 163, Foxholm, ND 58718. Phone (701) 468-5467, or E-mail us here to request more information.
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Guidelines for Home Energy Professionals Project (Brochure)
The Guidelines for Home Energy Professionals is a collaboration between the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and a wide range of home energy performance industry professionals. The Guidelines project, managed by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) for DOE, addresses the need for a highly-skilled weatherization workforce equipped to complete consistent, high-quality home energy upgrades for single-family homes, multifamily homes, and manufactured housing. In doing so, it helps increase energy efficiency in housing, which can mitigate climate change, one of the major challenges of the 21st century.
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Specifically designed to reach people who normally would not consider themselves activists, "The Better World Handbook" is directed toward those who care about creating a more just, sustainable, and socially responsible world but don't know where to begin. Substantially updated, this revised bestseller now contains more recent information on global problems, more effective actions, and many new resources.
The Better World
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Small Changes That Make a Big Difference
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Master of Science in Psychology
College of Liberal Arts
Ma. Lourdes S. Mendoza
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Roberto E. Javier, Jr.
Maria Carla Mole Ong
This study identified the required and actual competencies of lawyers of the Office of the Ombudsman specifically the Preliminary Investigation, Administrative Adjudication and Monitoring Office (PAMO). Directors and lawyers were taken as respondents. Competencies were measured in terms of eight (8) areas, 1) Technical Skills, 2) Communication, 3) Client Relations, 4) Interpersonal/Working with Others, 5) Case/Workload Management, 6) Professionalism, 7) Personal Initiative, and 8) Supervision/Management. The study identified the competencies by administering two questionnaires on the required and actual competencies. Based on the survey results, directors and lawyers have common perception of the Required and Actual Competencies except for Client Relations and Supervision/Management. The overall scores in the required and actual competencies indicate that most of them fall at the upper end of the rating scale. Most of the competency areas are considered by the directors and lawyers as Highly Required and that they categorically rate their own performance as Highly Competent both at the individual and group levels. It is concluded that Professionalism is the top measure of competency, whereas Client Relations is the least required and observed in practice. It considered is very essential to lawyers as they are expected to render fair judgments, unbiased and impartial resolutions. Strong professionalism drives them to fulfill their duties and uphold the law. On the other hand, Client Relations is ranked least because it is not required and practiced given the nature of cases that lawyers handle.
Archives, The Learning Commons, 12F Henry Sy Sr. Hall
iii, 95 leaves ; 28 cm.
Lawyers -- Rating of; Lawyers; Ombudspersons
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I took one course in statistics. I didn't enjoy it, though the ideas in it could have been interesting, the presentation of them was not.
I came across a video by Cassie Kozyrkov that asks "What if I told you I can show you the difference between Bayesian and Frequentist statistics with one single coin toss?" Cassie is a data scientist and statistician. She founded the field of Decision Intelligence at Google, where she serves as Chief Decision Scientist. She has another one of those jobs that didn't exist in my time of making career decisions.
Most of probably had some math teacher use a coin toss to illustrate simple probability. I'm going to toss this quarter. What are the odd that it is heads-up? 50/50. The simple lesson is that even if it has come up tails 6 times in a row the odds for toss 7 is still 50/50.
But after she tosses it and covers it, she asks what is the probability that the coin in my palm is up heads now? She says that the answer you give in that moment is a strong hint about whether you’re inclined towards Bayesian or Frequentist thinking.
The Frequentist: “There’s no probability about it. I may not know the answer, but that doesn’t change the fact that if the coin is heads-up, the probability is 100%, and if the coin is tails-up, the probability is 0%.”
The Bayesian: “For me, the probability is 50% and for you, it’s whatever it is for you.”
Cassie's video about this goes much deeper - too deep for my current interests. However, I am intrigued by the idea that if the parameter may not be a random variable (Frequentist) you can consider your ability to get the right answer, but if you let the parameter be a random variable (Bayesian), there's no longer any notion of right and wrong. She says, "If there’s no such thing as a fixed right answer, there’s no such thing as getting it wrong."
I'll let that hang in the air here for you to consider.
If you do have an interest to go deeper, try:
Frequentist vs Bayesian fight - your questions answered
An 8 minute statistics intro
Statistical Thinking playlist
Controversy about p-values (p as in probabllity)
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Credit cards may be worse for your credit score than you think
One of the rationales behind using credit cards, or at least using them on a semi-regular basis, is that if you use them occasionally and pay the balance immediately, it boosts your credit score. That may be partially true, but it may not actually be that simple. There are ways, in fact, that credit cards hurt your credit score. The credit card companies don’t always report things exactly the way they happened. Since the CARD Act passed, credit card companies have some new rules, but they may not always play by them.
Credit card reporting can hurt your score
It isn’t that having a credit card or using it will hurt your score. However, what the credit card company reports to the credit bureaus is what can hurt your credit score. Say you get a cash advance from your credit card of $300, about the size of the average payday loan. Let’s assume that you didn’t have a balance on it, and your limit is $3,000. Now, the credit card company should report that you used about 10 percent of your available credit, or the credit utilization ratio.
Reporting is not always accurate
Let’s say the biggest balance you ever carried before that was $600. In the above hypothetical situation, credit card companies can report that you used 50 percent of your available credit, as $300 is half of $600. In other words, they can calculate your credit utilization ratio as current balance to largest balance, not current balance to credit limit. According to US News and World Report, it isn’t that uncommon. You may have been better off getting a short term loan rather than using the credit card. You should regularly check your credit report and dispute anything that doesn’t add up.
They do not always play fair
Credit card companies have been accused of not being upfront with their customers. According to CNN Money, some credit card issuers have been notifying customers of the existence of penalty rate increases, but not how much the rate increase is. There are also plenty of stories out there of payments going missing, and a ding showing up for that. It isn’t that credit card companies aren’t honest, but like any form of credit, they carry risks.
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What is UCITA?
The Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA) was a highly discussed draft proposal in the USA, which was rejected 2003 and so discarded.
When 1999 the proposal of a new regulation for contracts of (computer-) software came up, the world was in turmoil. Not only so called „Shrink-Wrap-Licenses“ should be legal when the law would be approved, but also software producers should have the right to delete software by themselves on a customers PC when the license for the product would run out which would be highly invasive for the customer.
What are Shrink-Wrap-Licenses?
The Shrink-Wrap-License is a special licence term that implies that the purchaser of a product (in that case mostly software, that means DVDs or CDs or alternatively internet downloads like eBooks) as soon as she/he has opened it (when the packaging of a CD is removed or the installation of downloaded software is started) will agree with all license terms and so with the contract which the software company specified.
The problem: the purchaser is not able to look at the license terms and with it at the quasi signed contract before he has opened the packaging or started the installation of a software.
What exactly caused the conflict?
The arguments above, the invasive cut-in for the purchaser and the fact to be forced so sign a contract without even seeing it lead to huge disagreements which the proposal in the USA brought along. Understandable the consumer advocates and also the consumers themselves were indignant because the remittal of such a law would deny the consumer all control over the contract with a producer or a company.
What was the solution to the conflict?
The problems were debated and in the end the new directives were written down in an altered version and formed the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA). That act allowed Shrink-Wrap-Licenses, but only under specific conditions: the consumer must have a possibility to read the contract first and the decide if he wants to agree or not.
But because the law was discussed even after this decree it was only valid in two states of America; Virginia and Maryland. Too many critics were voiced and many consumer advocates tried to get rid of the law. Also experts claimed that there was no real chance for UCITA in the future.
At the end of 2003 the law was definitely denied, anyways the bill and the debate are still existent.
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The last chapter of the Hobbit starts with Bilbo and Gandalf arriving in Rivendell. They hang out with the elves for a bit, and there's a couple of songs. We're told in passing that Gandalf and some of his pals kicked the Necromancer out of Mirkwood, but other than that, Rivendell again serves as a brief pit stop. The hobbit and wizard make their way back toward the Shire, stopping to collect the trolls' gold on the way, and when they spot the Hill of Hobitton in the distance, Bilbo suddenly breaks out in poetry.
His actual homecoming turns out to be anything but poetic, as it turns out he's been declared dead, and arrives in the middle of an auction where his effects are being sold. After some confusion, Bilbo manages to recover most of his things, and settles back in at Bag-End. However, the impeccably respectable middle-class gentlehobbit he left as is long gone; not only has he been away on an adventure and had the gall to return, but now also entertains bizarre visitors like elves and wizards, and writes poetry. As a result, he's shunned by his peers and neighbors as mad - and is quite happy. In the end, the adventure has succeeded in rescuing Bilbo from the bourgeois respectability lampooned in the first chapter, although he conveniently retains its material trappings. In the very last scene, Bilbo is happily entertaining Balin and Gandalf for tea, bringing the whole story to a full circle from its beginning.
So, that was the Hobbit! Let's sum up.
Apart from the memorable dragon, the chief enemies of the story are orcs. When we first meet them, they're quite categorically characterized as evil and wicked, and hardly exist in the narrative at all except to be killed. After the brief dialogue with the Great Goblin, the only interaction anyone has with a goblin is violent. Mostly because of that dialogue, they're not utterly dehumanized into mindless automatons. More importantly, their killing isn't exalted and glorified as a moral good, except by Beorn, who clearly represents a more atavistic morality. So they're slightly more nuanced and interesting villains than zombies. Maybe.
Moving from the goblins to their enemies, Tolkien himself apparently made it clear several times that his dwarves are some kind of extended fantasy allegory of the Jews. I find this fascinating, because it's never once occurred to me. In my mind, the avarice of the dwarves did always have an uncomfortable similarity with antisemitic stereotypes, but other than that, I've always seen Tolkien's dwarves as thoroughly Norse.
I maintain this is because the Jewish allegory Tolkien attempted completely fails. Sure, the dwarves in The Hobbit are wanderers seeking to reclaim their lost homeland. But it's not the divinely ordained eretz khazad of all dwarves; some others seek to reclaim Moria, while most are apparently quite content to live wherever it is they live. Damningly, the theology of the dwarves makes them the complete opposite of the children of Israel: far from being the chosen people of the covenant, the dwarves are descended from a separate creation by one of the lesser divine powers. Worst of all, the professor's philology seems to have completely deserted him when inventing dwarvish, because the few place-names and phrases we get do not, pace Tolkien, succeed in conveying anything remotely Semitic. It's hardly a coincidence that his massive linguistic acumen didn't, as far as I know, extend to any of the Afroasiatic languages. The kh's and z's that one deduces from his interview comments were intended to suggest Semitic all just come off as pseudo-Germanic. With only basic studies in philology behind me, it's impertinent of me to second-guess a professor, but surely if a Semitic air was desired, maybe even a desultory attempt at a definite article might have been made? Or at least one decidedly non-Indo-European vowel sound?
So in my opinion at least, Tolkien's conception of the dwarves as Jewish entirely fails on any level except the vulgar stereotype of greed. This failure is kin to the way in which Tolkien's Christianity and Biblical allusions in general mostly fail to make their way into the text for a modern reader: the allusions are contradicted by the internal logic of Tolkien's Arda, the theology mostly doesn't work, but above all the Scandinavian influence is so overwhelming. With every dwarf name straight out of the Edda, and Norse dwarves being famous above all as miners and craftsmen, there is simply no need to look for a Semitic allegory. Even the avarice of the dwarves can just as easily, and far more charitably, be traced to Fafnir and the Volsunga saga, rather than antisemitic prejudice. I would certainly rather consider Thorin's appalling behavior as King under the Mountain a Fafnir-analogy than a meditation on the Jewish character. Unfortunately, denounciations of Nazi Germany notwithstanding (most prominently Letters, 29), Tolkien's publicly stated preference for the latter suggests that if you want to call him a racist on the basis of his novels, you'd best add antisemite as well.
Tolkien was reportedly annoyed that his work was characterized as "Nordic"; in this case, as in many others, it might have helped if he hadn't made it so thoroughly Scandinavian. It's quite possible that the root of the problem is that Tolkien the Christian wanted his stories to fit into a neat Christian framework, but Tolkien the philologist couldn't bring himself to do such brutal violence to the essentially pagan world of the Norse. The euhemeristic Christianizing prologue of the prose Edda must have rung even more profoundly false to the philologist Tolkien than it does to a more average reader. Personally, I strongly believe that the Nordic dimensions of Tolkien's work are essential to its success; the heroism and worldliness of the Norse sagas is absolutely crucial, and fundamentally incompatible with Christian pathos. Even though Tolkien the Christian might not have liked to admit this, we're lucky that the philologist realized it in writing the stories. One wonders if some inkling of this is behind Tolkien's angry rejection of analogy. It's certainly fascinating that he can effortlessly shift between the modern world and the Norse sagas, and this combination remains immensely popular, but struggles to convey his Christianity - food for thought for those who insist that our culture is somehow especially Christian.
The other glaring question of representation is the complete lack of women in the Hobbit. The entire novel doesn't include one single female character. There's an online list of women in Tolkien's Middle-earth, according to which there's only one named female person in the book: Belladonna Took, Bilbo's mother, in Chapter 1. Like all the other women mentioned in the text, she's defined solely by her relationship to a man - with one exception.
"Dear me!" he went on. "Not the Gandalf who was responsible for so many quiet lads and lasses going off into the Blue for mad adventures? Anything from climbing trees to visiting elves - or sailing in ships, sailing to other shores!"
- The Hobbit, Chapter 1, p. 7; emphasis mine
Given the rest of the book, this is an extraordinary passage. So adventures are something women can go on as well, but when Tolkien sets out to write one, it ends up not including so much as a single female character. This is one reason why I think Tolkien's attitudes to gender are a bit more complex than they're usually treated as. Despite the complete lack of women in the Hobbit, you won't find anything as blindly, categorically misogynist as, say, Ursula Le Guin's insistence in the early Earthsea books that only men can have real power - and yet Le Guin is the exemplary feminist, and Tolkien is a horrible woman-hater. (do read Jo Walton's comments on Le Guin)
By our standards, Tolkien almost certainly was a misogynist, and his inability to actually include a single female presence in the Hobbit is testimony to it. But it is interesting that even though he's a devout Christian, he doesn't actually ever feel the need to preach gender roles at us. Given the passage quoted above, it isn't quite so surprising any more that the man who couldn't conceive of women having any part to play in the Hobbit would go on to create the character of Éowyn. Still, though, the thoroughly masculine exclusivity of the Hobbit is very striking. I'm tempted to suggest that this is another victory of the philologist: Tolkien knows that there are valkyries and shield-maidens in the Norse tradition, and it's they who stop him from making the kind of blanket essentialist declarations of gender that the vast majority of later fantasy seems to find compulsory, but his faith and background still demarcate adventure as an entirely male arena.
So yes, the Hobbit is a somewhat racist, definitely misogynistic Boys' Own adventure, where dwarves and elves and dragons can all be very marvelous and thrilling, but in the end, real life is the serene middle-class peace of the imaginary English countryside. Epic Pooh, as Michael Moorcock had it.
Yet at the same time, it's more than that. Moorcock, for instance, is completely wrong when he claims that unlike epic, Tolkien and his imitators "ignore" death. It's deeply puzzling to read this right after Thorin's death-bed scene, let alone the Lord of the Rings. I also can't help being somewhat jarred by Moorcock interrupting his criticism of Tolkien's reactionary longing for the pseudo-feudal countryside to bestow plaudits on, of all people, J.K. Rowling! Similarly, while David Brin had the right idea in seeing Tolkien's works as a battle of Romanticism against modernity, his caricature of world history is unforgiveably stupid and massively racist in its Eurocentrism: everything was terrible until heroic white men invented liberty. Crucially, his description of Tolkien's stories as "lacking...a role for individual champions" and as a clash of a side that's "100% good" with one that's "100% evil" simply cannot be reconciled with the actual texts. So having said that I fundamentally agree with the view of Tolkien's works as racist, misogynistic and deeply reactionary, the fact remains that the critics' Tolkien isn't quite to be found in the pages of his books, either.
Just last year, Moorcock took on Tolkien again in the New Statesman, and had this to say:
“In Tolkien, everyone’s in their place and happy to be there. We go there and back, to where we started. There’s no escape, nothing will ever change and nobody will ever break out of this well-ordered world.”
As anyone with even a nodding acquaintance with Tolkien's works knows, this is pure nonsense. Neither the end of the Hobbit or the Lord of the Rings can possibly be considered a return to an unchanged beginning, and the idea that Tolkien's Middle-earth is permanent and unchanging is shockingly tone-deaf and completely unsupportable. So sadly, while Tolkien's most vocal critics do make some good points, they also seem to have decided that they're enlightened enough to be exempt from actually bothering to read him.
There are several things going on here, perhaps the most important of which is that Tolkien has come to stand for all modern fantasy, especially at its most racist and misogynistic. There's a strange way in which fantasy has become the imagined history of the worst aspects of our society, clearly seen when "historical accuracy" has replaced verisimilitude. "Historical accuracy" can now be used to demand ridiculous fictions of a racially pure white Middle Ages, or a disgustingly misogynistic prolonged rape fantasy rather than, say, actual history, let alone fantasy. Certainly in producing foundational works of fantasy that were racist and misogynistic, and had pretentions toward being an imaginary history of our times, Tolkien stands on the path that led us here, but especially on returning to the Hobbit after all these years, I strongly believe it's quite unfair to lay all the blame on him. Bigoted though it is, Tolkien's text is still light-years from the leering torture porn and thoroughly racist caricatures of a George R.R. Martin. Again, returning to the text itself is what makes both the heritage and the distance clear.
Another factor in the critical disdain for Tolkien is pure literary snobism, which fairly oozes from Moorcock's essay. His sheer indignation at the commercial success of the Lord of the Rings is just the latest installment in a long, long tradition of bashing Tolkien as "not real literature". I have very little to add to Tom Shippey's treatment of this in the deliberately provocatively titled Tolkien: Author of the Century, except to highly recommend John Carey's seminal The Intellectuals and the Masses. It's hardly without irony that in his deep contempt for Tolkien's popularity, Moorcock begins to edge quite close to the hatred of the "ignorant proles" he sees in Tolkien's works.
Speaking as a fan, I absolutely decry any attempt to explain away the many and deep problems of Tolkien's works. To write an entire novel supposedly set in a world to some extent analogous to our own and not manage to include a single active female character is simply monstrous. To insist on framing individual qualities in terms of race and blood, and even worse, insisting that his dwarves are a meditation on Jewish racial characteristics, is pure racism. My point in bringing up counter-examples, either of the more nuanced treatment of the "evil races" - stop for a moment to consider that in modern fantasy, this is still considered a reasonable phrase - or the lads and lasses who go on adventures, is not to make excuses for him. It's to point out that the actual text of his works is steeped in all these problems, but at the same time more complex than the critics so often make it seem. There is a constant tension in Tolkien's texts between the misogyny and the racism on the one hand, and counter-impulses on the other. Like the tension between the pagan and the Christian elements, this also allows for a subtler reading of the text, or even a subversion of it. Quite simply put, Tolkien is not ideologically dogmatic. To borrow his metaphor of the Beowulf poem as a tower, all the pieces of Tolkien's building don't quite fit together, and if you like, those are the cracks where the light gets in.
To me, this is why so many of us have managed to read, re-read and thoroughly enjoy his work and not see it as a sexist, racist paean to a quasi-Fascist past. Much of it has been our blindness; I, for instance, had never realized that the Hobbit genuinely cannot bring itself to depict a single female character. But some of it has also been that when these cracks showed up between the clear ideological structures of the text and the subversions and exceptions, we took to the latter rather than the former. I hope to continue my series of posts into the Lord of the Rings, which will hopefully give me the chance to explain why it's been a cornerstone of my personal feminism and anti-racism. The general point I want to stress is that one of the main reasons I wanted to do this close reading was to illustrate how the text is manifestly guilty of the oppressive, othering ideologies it stands accused of, but also that a close reading will display that Tolkien wasn't as consistent with these as his critics imagine. This is a point I will be particularly returning to in the Lord of the Rings posts.
If the Hobbit is no gleeful celebration of rape and slaughter like some of its prominent contemporary descendants, it doesn't shy awy from the darker sides of its story, either. People die so the dwarves can get their dragon-gold: not only some of Thorin's company and Thorin himself, but most notably, many of the Lake-men, who have their homes and livelihoods completely destroyed by the dragon the dwarves have roused. Again, if Middle-earth really was populated by only the 100% good and the 100% bad, it would be impossible to conceive of the squabbling over the dead dragon's hoard, where the Lake-men's reasonable requests are met with violence by the dwarves. It's not really made particularly clear in the narrative if, on the whole, the Lake-men wouldn't have been better off in the end if the dwarves had never showed up at all. In the modern jargon, high adventure and dragon-slaying does considerable collateral damage.
On a more personal level, Bilbo may seem like a happy-go-lucky accidental hero, but he also goes through quite a gamut of emotions and experiences. From the very beginning of the story, the epic romance of songs and tales is contrasted with the physical misery of actual "adventure", from the pouring rain and the trolls to the thunderstorms, orcs and wolves of the mountains, and the bleak near-starvation of the dwarves and Bilbo in Mirkwood. This contrast between the glorious, heroic world of the stories told at second hand and the miserable physical reality in which they happened at the time is present throughout, with the narrator at times remarking on how particular episodes would get re-told later. So not only is the experience of the adventure hardly all fun and games, but the text also shows an awareness and even a mild subversion of the way in which terrible experiences will become heroic epic, stripped of all reality. So to say that the prose of the Hobbit "coddles us" requires, again, very deliberately omitting a large part of the actual text.
A final point on which I don't quite agree with Moorcock is the quality of Tolkien's prose. I like it; I've gained distinct pleasure from reading it out loud. At times it's clunky, at times it's beautiful. On the whole, I find the Hobbit a distinctly enjoyable book, despite its glaring flaws. It deserves to be read on its own, not just as a prequel to the Lord of the Rings. The elements that later come to dominate the whole fictional world - the Ring, the Necromancer - are, respectively, a key prop and a shadow on the horizon of the story, but nothing more. I would urge everyone to read the Hobbit as a story in itself, without the massive weight of epic-to-come weighing it down. So many passages, like the riddle-contest with Gollum, the gradual arrival of the dwarves at Beorn's hall and Bilbo's repartee with Smaug are simply excellent. The dwarves' complete unpreparedness for any part of their great adventure that's at such complete odds with their bombastic songs and poetic declarations that it's irresistably funny to me. This is just a really good story. I honestly can't think of many works of fantasy I'd rank above it.
If someone's actually read through even one of these posts, you have my genuine gratitude. I've had a great time writing them; I hope I've managed to produce something that's been of some kind of value to someone else as well. Next time, I'm moving on to the only fantasy book I'd unhesitatingly say is better than the Hobbit: the Lord of the Rings.
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Paper No. 28
Presentation Time: 1:30 PM-5:30 PM
LANDSLIDE CHARACTERISTICS AND HAZARDS ALONG THE I-70 CORRIDOR NEAR WOLCOTT AND EAGLE, COLORADO
Several types of landslides and associated hazards are present along the Interstate 70 corridor near Wolcott and Eagle in central Colorado. These include rock and debris slides, rock and debris flows, and rock falls, which differ in character and potential hazards they present. For example, I-70 crosses the toe of a landslide complex near Wolcott and traverses run-out regions of debris flows north and northeast of Eagle. The Bellyache Ridge landslide complex occurs on a north-facing slope directly south of Wolcott along I-70 and consists primarily of chaotic deposits of very large to small Cretaceous sandstone clasts in a finer grained matrix. Much of the Bellyache Ridge complex appears to be relatively old and stable, but scarps in some parts of the complex imply younger reactivation and a small area of the complex slides almost yearly. The eastern part of the Bellyache Ridge complex also includes rock-flow landslide deposits derived from Late Cretaceous shale. Persistent buckling and cracking of I-70 indicates ongoing activity in this shaly, eastern part of the complex. The Milk Creek landslide complex is located along north-facing slopes about 2 mi northwest of Wolcott and I-70 and is entirely in Late Cretaceous shale units. Failure of these shales has produced large masses of deformed, but relatively intact, bedded shale within landslides that are similar to shaly landslides of eastern Bellyache Ridge. The intact, but deformed, character of the shale in these landslides suggests a deep-creep failure process. Some scarps and pressure ridges appear to be relatively young features, suggesting that episodic and (or) slow creep may be ongoing beneath parts of the Milk Creek complex. In addition to the landslide complexes mentioned, debris-flow deposits are also present along and near I-70 and they are particularly common along south-facing slopes north and northeast of Eagle. Old debris-flow deposits are deeply incised and cap ridges, whereas younger debris-flow deposits are incised into, and partly derived from, the older deposits. The differing types of landslide features and hazards of this region probably require differing types of remediation and mitigation. Geologic map data, aerial photography, digital elevation models, and Landsat imagery can be used to identify and characterize landslide deposits and hazards along this part of the I-70 corridor.
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This article is from 2006.
'God has chosen certain people to be at the forefront of music, to send out messages, whether they are about sex and drugs and rock and roll, or peace and love.' If you are Matisyahu, a 26-year-old orthodox Jew who tours the world playing dub and reggae music, chances are that a certain few questions will recur every time you're interviewed. It's fair to assume that your unusual marriage of Judaism and deep, dynamic dub will make people question whether it's all just a gimmick, or if what you do is borne of passion for the music. Then, there's the query about how anyone can reconcile the austerity of Jewish orthodoxy with a musical tradition that often provides the backdrop for the repeated ingestion of industrial strength marijuana.
Matisyahu says that there are 'about ten questions that always come up', and yet he remains sanguine in the face of repetition: 'I don't mind discussing my religion. I don't see it as something separate from my life; I have a faith and a history and a belief system and I don't mind discussing the relation of religion to
music.' How does he feel, then, about the argument that his music has garnered special interest precisely because of his religion? 'Certainly some of the excitement centred around my faith when I first started out, although our exposure really depends on me as an artist and the music itself, not on religious background or the mass religion I represent.'
He feels that there is no science to what happens in music. 'You can't think, "I am going to combine two complete opposites like Judaism and reggae and sell a million records." Music is about the human experience, and that kind of interest and success can't really be created, sold and bought.' Speaking to Matisyahu, considering his lyrical content and touring schedule, and hearing those skills as an MC, it's clear that little or nothing that he does is superficial. He twice breaks off from the interview to recant blessings in Hebrew (once after leaving the bathroom and again after imbibing a vitamin cocktail).
His new album Youth is a stark disquisition on the nature of violence and the reasons behind the perennial rebellion of youth. It lays bare a mind in dialogue with itself about some of the tough emotional,
political or philosophical questions that he encounters. 'Some people find it hard to take life seriously. They see someone who looks different from the norm, and they want to tear it apart. This can take the form of ripping it apart or mocking it. Jewish people have had this done to them all through history.' (John Regan)
The Liquid Room, 9c Victoria Street, 0870 169 0100,
22 Aug, 7pm, £15.
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Source – wakingtimes.com
- “…Jung felt that the catastrophic evil that is manifesting in our world today is an archetypical expression of the process of humanity’s transition from one epoch—and state of consciousness—to another. He was of the opinion that the fate of the world literally depended upon the recognition of the shadow elements within us and their assimilation into a more expanded sense of self that includes both our light and dark aspects”
Developing Jung’s “Imagination for Evil” is the Doorway to Our Light – By Paul Levy
- By Paul Levy
We live in a time of the emergence of great darkness in our world. The great doctor of the soul C. G. Jung, who came up with the idea of the existence of the shadow within the human psyche, had deeply valuable insights into the nature of the psychological situation in the world today, particularly the role that the darkness of the shadow plays in our modern world. Jung felt that the catastrophic evil that is manifesting in our world today is an archetypical expression of the process of humanity’s transition from one epoch—and state of consciousness—to another. He was of the opinion that the fate of the world literally depended upon the recognition of the shadow elements within us and their assimilation into a more expanded sense of self that includes both our light and dark aspects.
What we don’t accept in ourselves, but rather, exclude from our self-image and push into the shadows of netherworld of the unconscious—thereby depriving it of light—becomes toxic. These repressed shadowy contents build up a charge in the unconscious, becoming contaminated with archaic archetypal energies from the collective unconscious. It is truly frightening how many of us are so out of touch with our own shadow that we can easily become unconscious instruments through which archetypal evil, which lies hidden within the dark side of the human psyche, can act itself out through us into the world.https://lockerdome.com/lad/13792210441443686?pubid=ld-9661-1728&pubo=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wakingtimes.com&rid=www.wakingtimes.com&width=740
We still go on thinking that we are “simplex and not duplex,” to use Jung’s words. We thus imagine ourselves to be “innocuous, reasonable and humane.” We don’t deny that terrible things are happening, but since we regard ourselves as harmless, Jung points out, “it is always ‘the others’ who do them.” When we are not in touch with the potential evil that dwells within us, we project it outside of ourselves in a futile attempt to disown it, thereby falling prey to and unknowingly acting out in the external world the very evil that we are turning away from within ourselves. Evil thrives on our turning a blind eye towards it.
To quote Jung, “Evil today has become a visible Great Power…. We stand face to face with the terrible question of evil and do not even know what is before us, let alone what to pit against it.” Most ordinary, psychologically and/or spiritually under-developed people have trouble even imagining the utter depravity of the evil that can potentially play itself out through individuals or groups (not to mention through themselves) who are taken over by the will-to-power of the shadow. In order to develop a sense of how to deal with evil, however, we first have to try and understand the nature of the beast with which we are dealing.
The first principle of psychological method is that any phenomenon to be understood must be sympathetically imagined. No syndrome can be truly dislodged from its cursed condition until we first move imagination into its heart. One of the most crucially important steps in dealing with evil is, according to Jung, to develop what he calls an “imagination for evil.” If we can’t imagine the evil that human beings are potentially capable of—and of which we ourselves, under the right circumstances, could also be capable of—in our naivety, we offer ourselves into evil’s hands. If evil escapes the reach of our imagination, it will dictate, enforce and establish dominion over us, both within our imagination and in our concrete lives. Because our imagination can help us get a handle on evil, evil tries to stifle and ultimately destroy the imagination, which is why mobilizing the creative imagination is crucial in dealing with the powers of darkness.
If we don’t develop an imagination for evil, we can lose touch with our shadow and identify with what Jung calls a “fictive personality,” which is to say, in splitting off from our darkness, we conceive of ourselves as being someone who we’re not – a “lite” version of our selves. We all have a darker half, but to the extent we are overly identified with our lighter side at the expense of the darkness within us, we wind up being unable to imagine the depths of darkness of which we are capable. Jung pulls no punches in making this exact point when he writes, “we are always, thanks to our human nature, potential criminals. In reality we merely lacked a suitable opportunity to be drawn into the infernal melee.” We are all inseparably interconnected and partake of the shared collective (darker) unconscious of humanity—the shadow side of being a human being—which is why Jung wrote, “None of us stands outside humanity’s black collective shadow.”
There are impersonal forces that animate and inform the collective shadow that lurks in our unconscious. In Jung’s words, “We are blissfully unconscious of these forces because they never, or almost never, appear in our personal relations or under ordinary circumstances. But if people crowd together and form a mob, then the dynamisms of the collective man are let loose—beasts or demons that lie dormant in every person [are let loose] …. The change of character brought about by the uprush of collective forces is amazing. A gentle and reasonable being can be transformed into a maniac or a savage beast.” The petri dish of the masses is a breeding ground for evil to flourish and propagate itself. We are dealing not just with merely personal forces that have to do with us as individuals, but with impersonal, transpersonal forces – the Bible’s “powers and principalities.”
These collective, impersonal and archetypal forces can be so overwhelming that—when we come together in a larger group—they can take on a seeming life of their own, possessing our egoic identity, turning us into their accessories such that we become the unwitting puppets and marionettes of these forces. Collective possession can then easily turn into a psychic epidemic—a collective psychosis—something that is important for us to be alert to in times such as ours when mob violence is increasing in our world.https://lockerdome.com/lad/10162674340441958?pubid=ld-10162674340441958-653&pubo=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wakingtimes.com&rid=www.wakingtimes.com&width=740
Jung writes, “The gigantic catastrophes that threaten us today are not elemental happenings of a physical or biological order, but psychic events…. At any moment several millions of human beings may be smitten with a new madness, and then we shall have another world war or devastating revolution … modern man is battered by the elemental forces of his own psyche. This is the World Power that vastly exceeds all other powers on earth.” In other words, the great power—and seemingly darker force—that is threatening us today is to be found in the place where it originates, within our psyche. We should no longer underestimate, but rather, recognize the primary role that the psyche is playing in world affairs.
The next step for us to take in dealing with evil—in Jung’s words, “what to pit against it”—is to recognize that the darkness in our world is revealing to us something within ourselves that it greatly behooves us to know. To look for the solution to the world-wide problem of evil outside of ourselves is to distance and distract ourselves from the source of the problem (as well as the potential solution), which as Jung points out again and again, is only to be found within the individual. Although the roots of evil can only be discovered within the individual, this doesn’t mean that the forces of evil that can be encountered within an individual psyche are merely a personal matter. In probing into our own depths, we can potentially come face to face with the vast and formidable forces of the archetypal, collective shadow within ourselves, as we are all, in the deepest recesses of our being, fundamentally connected to the transpersonal psyche, in both its light and dark aspects.
A failure of imagination has been the cause of some of the major calamities in world history. Jung was of the opinion that if we have no imagination for evil, “evil has us in its grip.” Being out of touch with our own potential for evil ensures that we will unknowingly act it out. If we don’t develop a multi-faceted imagination for evil, there is no way for us to know what we are up against. Our lack of imagination for evil is the best way of making us, to use Jung’s words, “an instrument of evil.” Our lack of insight into the evil that any of us are capable of, to quote Jung, “deprives us of the capacity to deal with evil.” We need to be on intimate terms and know the darkness within ourselves if we want to have any hope of effectively dealing with the darkness in the world at large.
It is crucially important for us to cultivate the faculty of the imagination so as to be able to deal with the evil in our world. “Evil,” Jung writes, “can no longer be dismissed from the world by a circumlocution. We must learn to handle it, since it is here to stay.” We can deny this all we want, insisting on staying blind – like ostriches, putting our heads in the sand. There is, however, no getting away from the fact that—as a way of finding and deepening our connection to the light—we are fated to come to terms with the darker side of ourselves and of the universe as a whole, which is only emerging into view because of the proximity and intensity of a great light.
Integrating our shadow is not an intellectual pursuit, but is a moral problem that challenges the whole person. Becoming conscious of the shadow is essential for any degree of self-knowledge. The process of shedding light on the shadow is usually met with strong inner resistance because ignorance has an inertia that must be overcome to make way for the light of self-knowledge.
To quote Jung, “Therefore the individual who wishes to have an answer to the problem of evil, as it is posed today, has need, first and foremost, of self-knowledge, that is, the utmost possible knowledge of his own wholeness.” In our current catastrophic times, knowledge of the innermost foundation of our being—our intrinsic wholeness—is absolutely imperative. Jung concludes, “Individual self-reflection, return of the individual to the ground of human nature, to his own deepest being … here is the beginning of a cure for that blindness which reigns at the present hour.” Whenever we reflect upon ourselves we are bound to encounter the living frontiers of the unconscious itself, which is where the very medicine that heals our blindness is to be found.
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United States Senator Joseph Smith Fowler was born in Steubenville, Ohio, to James and Sarah Atkinson Fowler. After attending Grove Academy in Steubenville, he graduated from Franklin College in New Athens, Ohio, in 1843. He spent a year teaching school in Shelby County, Kentucky, before becoming a professor of mathematics at Franklin College in Davidson County, Tennessee, a position he held from 1845 to 1849. During this time, he began to study law and after admission to the bar, practiced in Tennessee until 1861. He also served as president of Howard Female College in Gallatin from 1856 to 1861.
Fowler strongly opposed slavery and secession, and in 1861 he moved his family to Springfield, Illinois. After military government was established in Tennessee in 1862, he returned to Nashville and was appointed Comptroller of the Treasury by Military Governor Andrew Johnson. He served in this position until 1865, when he was elected U.S. senator from Tennessee as a Union Republican. During his single Senate term (1866-71), Fowler made one of his strongest speeches in support of President Johnson during the impeachment proceedings against him. Despite much pressure to do otherwise, Fowler voted “not guilty” at Johnson's Senate trial. After choosing not to run for reelection, Fowler served as a presidential elector for the Democratic ticket of Greeley and Brown in 1872. He then resumed the practice of law in Washington, D.C., until his death on April 4, 1902. He is buried in Lexington, Kentucky.
Walter T. Durham, “How Say You, Senator Fowler?” Tennessee Historical Quarterly 42 (1983): 39-57
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(1) "Active coal mining property" means a mineable bed of coal on a property or portion of a property involved in a permitted mining operation. Each and every bed of coal being mined in a permitted mining operation is a separate active mining property.
(2) "Industrial property" means the real and personal property integrated as a functioning unit intended for the assembling, processing and manufacturing of finished or partially finished products.
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Technology has advanced so much in recent years that it’s hard to imagine our children relating to our humble roots in VHS players, typewriters and card catalogs. GeekDad recently explored the idea of the generational gap in technology with his post, 100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About.
Here are a few of our favorites:
#1. Inserting a VHS tape into a VCR to watch a movie or to record something.
#19. The scream of a modem connecting.
#21. 5- and 3-inch floppies, Zip Discs and countless other forms of data storage.
#37. Finding out information from an encyclopedia.
#45. Not knowing exactly what all of your friends are doing and thinking at every moment.
#58. Putting film in your camera.
#71. Remembering someone’s phone number.
But we do disagree with #46: Carrying on a correspondence with real letters, especially the handwritten kind. Maybe we are a little biased, but there is no way an email, evite or blog post can replace the special thrill of a real letter, invitation or handwritten note!
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Imagine looking through a window, through glass less than perfect. Through a very few parts, you will see clearly, even a marvellously magnified image that brings out detail you would have lost by merely using the naked eye. In large parts, the view will be completely occluded, leaving you to guess what may have been obscured. But for the most part, the view is distorted and bent beyond recognition, you know that what you see bears some resemblance to reality, but everything is bent out of shape, bearing little resemblance to its true appearance.
Reading "Imperial Ambitions" is like that.
This book is an editted collection of interviews with Noam Chomsky, and is relatively clear and easy to read. A good first approximation to the relentless theme of the piece is that the USA (under whatever Administration) has never done anything except out of purely ulterior motives, that while pretending to be a Democracy it is actually a debased and corrupt Empire, that nothing it has ever done has ever had a good outcome, and that it is bent on oppressing Mankind as a whole. A secondary theme is that a grassroots campaign of a mobilised and politically activated "silent majority" can tie the hands of the System, and render it impotent to work its evil. It harkens back to the good old days, when the US withdrew from SE Asia, and was unable to use its crushing military power, to, well, crush anything.
Chomsky's view is that the US has too much power: and such a thing is inherently dangerous. Not "Power tends to corrupt" but "Power Corrupts", and "Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely". The most jaundiced eye imaginable is cast on any and all US actions that have ever been performed, while only the most charitable view possible is taken of those of America's opponents.
Chomsky is at his best, and most accurate, the further back in time you go (though even there there are exceptions, which I'll note below). He's at his worst, and most inaccurate, the closer you get to the present. As for his predictions for the future, they have already revealed how completely off-beam he was when he made them.
Up until now, officially at least, the United States has been opposed to expansion of the illegal settlement programs that make a political solution impossible. But now Bush is saying the opposite : Go on and settle. We'll keep paying for it, until we decide that somehow the peace process has reached an adequate point. This represents a significant change towards more aggression, undermining of international law, and undermining of the possibilities of peace.It is at best difficult to reconcile this with the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, a withdrawal that was accompanied by extreme US pressure for Israel to go. But it would not surprise me if Noam Chomsky in a new speech blamed the US for encouraging Israel to engage in de-facto Apatheid and ethnic cleansing of their own citizens, and not continuing a constructive engagement with the peaceful Gaza Palestinians who relied on trade with Israel for a workable economy. Because the central thesis is that when the US acts, whatever it does, it cannot help but be wrong. And the wrong is viral, it infects anything or anyone the US supports. To see how viral, there's this:
This Morning's New York Times has an op-ed by Mohamed El-Baradei, the director-general of the International Atomic Agency (IAEA), which begins by noting that weapons proliferation is increasing, which is an extrememly dangerous theat to the world. Yes, it's increasing. Why? There are many reasons, but one of them is that Israel has hundreds of nuclear weapons, as well as chemical and biological weapons, which is not only a threat in itself but encourages others to proliferate in response and in self-defence.Libya's weapons programme? Out of self-defence, as it is fearful that the Israelis will attack them. Iran's? Likewise. Pakistan? Well, Israel might invade them too. North Korea? Those pesky Zionists are everywhere, don't you know. I mean, there are maybe 4 million of them in Israel, vs only 0.6 billion muslims in the middle east, and another 0.6 elsewhere. Trying to find a state suspected or known to have a nuclear weapons program that could conceivably be threatened by an Israeli incursion - with the noted exception of the National Socialist (Ba'athist) Dictatorship of Syria - is basically impossible.
Of course, while anyone not supported by the US is assumed to have nothing but conventional arms, providing there is no absolute proof they don't, well, anyone supported by the US is assumed to have massive stockpiles of genocidal weaponry, providing only that there is a suspicion they might have some, and no denial.
Being fair, Chomsky does not that there are "many reasons" for proliferation. But Israel's alleged stockpile is the only one he adduces, and at some length - because it's the only one that doesn't directly contradict his thesis. There's a lot of that.
Getting back to the proposition that Chomsky is better and more accurate, the further back you go, his exposition of British Propaganda and the "Manufacturing of Consent" to America's involvement in WW I is illuminating and insightful. I own a volume containing selected facsimiles of the front pages of the New York Times for the period 1914-1918, and the shadowy hand of Anglo-American Consent Manufacturers, Inc is visible everywhere. But what Chomsky fails to mention is that the Prussian Military made such an easy target of themselves. Their arrogance, and complete lack of awareness of anything called "Public Opinion" must have had German diplomats in the US tearing their hair out. They didn't go so far as to publish videos of Americans having their heads slowly sawn off by their side (as the Islamofascists have), but they didn't exactly make friends and influence people.
The sequence of events re Nurse Cavell is a typical example of Prussian Military insensitivity at its worst.
- "Of course she won't we shot, who do you think we are, Barbarians?..."
- "Appeals for clemency from Neutrals must go through formal channels..."
- "The point is now moot, we shot her last week, let's move on..."
Moving on to WW II, Chomsky's remarks about the US Navy's Unrestricted Submarine Warfare against Japan, and the judicial murder of Japanese General Yamashita are spot on. Such things deserve far more publicity than they're given. But to equate the Rape of Nanking with Hiroshima... and to completely disregard the concept of "reprisal" for past perfidies, a concept actually written in to the Law of Armed Conflict ever since the Hague Protocols of 1899, that shows either woeful ignorance or deliberate obscuranticism. And then there's this:
The (Nuremberg) tribunal had to decide what would be considered a war crime, and they made the operational definition of a war crime anything the enemy did that the Allies didn't do.Yes, the Nuremberg tribunals were essentially making New Law, and in my opinion, had far too much of "the winner makes the laws" about them - and how could it be otherwise when Stalin's regime (you know, the Russian Front... 25 million dead... did over half of the fighting vs the Nazis...) was a major partner. Though from Chomsky you wouldn't know that. But the law was in the main firmly grounded on violations of the Geneva Protocols and Hague Conventions dating back to half a century earlier, even the St Petersburg declaration before that. And most importantly when it came to the crime of "Waging aggressive ear", a very iffy charge indeed, it was the Kellog-Briand pact that Germany was a signatory to that specifically outlawed this. For Chomsky not to be aware of this is, frankly, unbelievable.
In fact, real commitment to Ideology denies and tries to avoid evidence. But I wasn't trained in the hard sciences. I have some background in the hard sciences - I even worked in Mathematics for a while - but I don't want to exaggerate. As I said, I have almost no formal training in any field, including linguistics. I'm mostly self-educated. But I don't see any particular erason not to study history, society, and economics by essentially the same methods that one uses in the sciences. Empirical evidence is critically important. You're flooded with it. You have to try to select what's significant. You inevitably approach evidence with certain beliefs and principles, which you should keep open to question.From the evidence in this book, Chomsky is committed to an Ideology, that of America as a Giant that cannot help but be corrupted absolutely. Like myself, he is self-taught when it comes to history, society and economics. Unlike Chomsky, I do have some formal qualifications, in Computer Science, Ethics, Philosophy, Mathematics and some other disciplines, but that's neither here nor there. And unlike Chomsky, I know that the Scientific Method does not involve just "keeping an open mind" and discarding facts that seem irrelevant, it involves deliberately trying to find evidence that falsifies your hypothesis, not merely hunting for empirical evidence that confirms what you believe a priori. A positive act of disbelief that your own ideas are Gospel. To do otherwise is to fool yourself into believing you have an "open mind", while subconsciously discarding as irrelevant or unimportant anything that contradicts your own prejudices. Sometimes, when I was reading Chomsky about Yamashita, or Nuremburg, I thought "YES! He has grasped an unpleasant and ill-publicised truth!" But then he gilds the lilly so much that it becomes a gold brick, discarding any evidence not directly supportive of his own case. Even when I agree with him (not often, I am forced to admit), it's on the balance of probabilities, but to Chomsky there's never any contrary evidence to balance.
It is because I constantly try to falsify my own beliefs, to test them, that I read books like this one. I urge everyone to do the same, and not follow Chomsky's path.
Contrary to my own thesis about Chomsky never giving the US the benefit of the doubt, there is one glaring exception where he does - but where a careful researcher might come to a directly opposite conclusion:
Incidentally, one outcome of the 1953 coup (in Iran) was that the United States took over about 40 percent of Britain's share in Iranian oil. This wasn't the goal of the effort - it just happened in the normal course of events - but it was part of the general displacement of British power bu U.S. power in that region, and in fact throughout the world."Just happened in the normal course of events". Sure it did. If you look at the Dramatis Personae involved, you'll see the same old Internationalist gang from the Donovan OSS days.The ones who believed that it was time for Good Old Yankee ingenuity to sweep away all the dusty old European empires, and make the world safe for Good old US Democracy. And what's good for
But the idea that starry-eyed anti-Imperialist idealists in the CIA could possibly exist would be so anathema to Chomsky's central thesis of an American Empire dating back to time immemorial that no wonder he takes a "charitable view" of US Realpolitik and underhanded dealing at the time.
There's so many gems of genuine insight in this book.... the Mexican War as a means of diminishing British power by gaining a cotton monopoly... the analysis of British Realpolitik in the early 20th century... the deterrant effect of massed North Korean artillery holding Seoul hostage... and some genuinely thought-provoking stuff that has sent me scurrying to do further research. Did the US harbour, not Anti-Castro "militants", or "dissidants", or even "insurgents" or "guerillas" but outright Terrorists back in the 60's? Chomsky seems to think so, and given some of the other shenannigans that happened at the time, I can't say that the thesis is unbelievable. I'll have to do research. That's the trouble, the whole work is so one-sided that I can't take anything whatsoever on trust.
Maybe I'm being too harsh. The flaw in any book of this type - an edited selection of brief, impromptu and unprepared answers to questions - is that the answers are neccessarily brief, impromptu and unprepared. There's no time to give all the facts, to state the evidence pro and con, just the "salient" details that won't confuse the issue. Maybe the one-sidedness of the book is inevitable. Maybe.
Glennon's position - which is shared by many other defenders of U.S. aggression - such as Yale University law professor Ruth Wedgwood - is that U.S. actions like the illegal bombing of Serbia have changed the nature of law, because law is a living doctrine, a living system of principles, which is continually modified by international practice. Was it modified by Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait? No. was it modified by Vietnam's invasion of Cambodia, one of the few actions that might properly be called a humanitarian intervention?...Leaving aside the equating of Saddam Husseins "Grand Theft Nation" with any action the US has ever performed... Leaving aside the description of a multinational NATO-led attempt to stop a
Was I Too Harsh? I think not.
Anyway, there's enough gems in here to make worthwhile reading for anyone interested in the US's moral compass, and making sure that it doesn't stray too far from its lofty ideals, as it has all too many times in the past. For those who believe the US is the "Great Satan", it will no doubt re-affirm your belief, as it's pure anti-US propaganda, the best kind, that which contains the germ of truth.
But overall, to use the Australian vernacular, the gems are buried in a great fragrant pile of fresh steaming bullshit. Happy digging.
A recent comment from Noam Chomsky on Gaza
The “Gaza disengagement plan” is, in fact, a US-Israeli West Bank expansion plan, designed to incorporate valuable land and resources of the West Bank into Israel, and leave Palestinians in a few unviable Bantustans which the US and Israel can call a “state”—rather as South Africa called the Bantustans “independent states.”vs my prediction (not having read the above when I wrote it)
...it would not surprise me if Noam Chomsky in a new speech blamed the US for encouraging Israel to engage in de-facto ApatheidScientific analysis involves not just formulating hypotheses about past data, but also using them to make predictions, and testing those for correctness.
Can I call 'em or what?
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As you continue your education at UNLV, there are several resources on campus to help you achieve success. Your advisor can answer many of your questions and can also refer you to a multitude of offices and services across campus. On this page, you can find pertinent and important information for your continued success at UNLV. Additionally, learn about academic policies, print forms, and contact information
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The Academic Success Center (ASC) offers an Academic Peer Mentoring program at no charge to all undergraduate students at UNLV.
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Learn about various UNLV policies from student responsibilities to credit evaluation policies and academic probation.
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CAPS offers individual, couple, family, and group counseling for college-related stresses and more.
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Learn about the note-taking services, test proctoring, ASL/RTC interpreters, and all other necessary accommodations to assist students with the learning process.
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Earned Sick Days Contribute to Safe Workplaces
Apr 24, 2014
By Lauren French
More than 4,000 hard working men and women die on the job every year, and tens of thousands more are injured or become ill from diseases contracted at work. To commemorate these workers and promote safer working conditions, we will observe Workers' Memorial Day on April 28.
This date marks the anniversary of the Occupational Safety and Health Act, the U.S. federal law aimed at assuring safe working conditions. Although we have made great strides in workplace safety in the 43 years since the Act passed, there is still room for significant improvement. And earned sick days advocates have an important role to play in the ongoing fight to improve workers’ health and safety
Research shows a significant correlation between the availability of earned sick days and the occurrence of non-fatal workplace injuries. One study by Abay Aswfaw revealed that workers with earned sick days are 28 percent less likely than those without sick days to be injured on the job. This finding is in line with basic common sense, which tells us that employees who go to work sick are not operating at their best. The authors explain that “sick or stressed workers who continue to work are likely to take medications, experience sleep problems, or be fatigued”—all conditions that can lead to being injured on the job.
When workers can earn sick days to address or prevent illness and injury, it not only protects workers—it makes economic sense too. In one year, workplace illnesses and injuries cost the U.S. economy $250 billion in healthcare services, lost earnings, and home production. Of that total, up to $39 billion is born by low-wage workers, who are also the least likely to have access to earned sick days. Ensuring workers have the right to earn sick days is a common sense way to protect workers’ safety and a “profit-maximizing strategy” for employers that prevents lost productivity, large medical bills, high turnover, and worker's compensation payouts.
On Workers' Memorial Day, it is important that we remember those workers who have been killed or injured while taking steps to prevent future tragedies. Earned sick days advocates can contribute by using these talking points to highlight the important connections between access to this basic labor standard and improved health and safety. This week—and every week—please consider incorporating facts about worker safety into your blogs, newsletters, and other advocacy pieces. Let’s work together to fight for our nation’s workers.
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1pound(450g) cherries(fresh or thawed frozen), pitted
2tablespoonsgranulated white sugar
1tablespoonlime juice(or lemon juice or orange juice)
Remove the pits from the cherries. I use a cherry pitter, but you can use a knife (carefully!) or poke a straw through the centre to push out the pit.
Add the cherries, sugar, and juice (or water) to a pot and cook over medium heat for 10 minutes, stirring often, until the cherries break down.
Remove from heat and allow the cherry compote to cool. It will thicken slightly as it cools.
Transfer to a sanitized jar and keep in the fridge for up to 2 weeks.
Pitting Cherries: There are plenty of ways to remove the pit from cherries. You can purchase a cherry pitter if you use cherries often, or you can poke a straw down the center to remove the pit completely. You can also remove the pit using a sharp paring knife if done carefully.
If you can’t find fresh cherries or they are out of season, frozen cherries can be used to make the compote. Just make sure they are fully thawed in the fridge overnight before adding to the water and sugar mixture.
Don’t worry if the cherry compote seems a bit thin after cooking. The entire mixture will thicken as it cools.
Make sure your jar or container is completely sanitized before adding the cooled cherry compote to prevent any harmful bacteria from forming.
Cherry compote will be VERY hot after it's removed from the heat. Be sure to let it cool before handling it as hot compote can cause serious burns.
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Hierarchical methodology to optimize the design of stand-alone electrification systems for rural communities considering technical and social criteria
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Stand-alone electrification systems based on the use of renewable energies are suitable to electrify isolated rural communities in developing countries. For their design several support tools exist, but they do not cover some of the technical and social existing constraints and they do not consider the project detail. In this context, this research aims to develop a methodology to optimize the design of such systems, combining the wind and solar generation technologies as well as microgrids and individual systems as distribution scheme, and including economical, technical and social considerations. The design methodology is divided in three stages. First, the characteristics of the target community are gathered. Secondly, the design process is realized in three decision levels, ordered according to the importance of the decisions taken. At each level several electrification alternatives are generated and then the most appropriate is selected. Third, the final solution cost can be optionally tried to be improved, maintaining the decisions previously taken. The design methodology has been applied to a community to show its suitability to assist rural electrification promoters to design socially adapted and sustainable projects.
CitacióDomenech, B., Ferrer-Martí, L., Pastor, R. Hierarchical methodology to optimize the design of stand-alone electrification systems for rural communities considering technical and social criteria. "Renewable and sustainable energy reviews", 01 Novembre 2015, vol. 51, p. 182-196.
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Who qualifies for unemployment benefits in Maryland?
The initial factors that determine eligibility for unemployment in Maryland are the monetary and the work qualification requirements. Per state law, unemployment insurance eligibility is only granted to workers with a qualifying reason for work separation who have earned a sufficient amount of wages during a 12-month base period.
Therefore, to be a claimant who qualifies for unemployment coverage, you must have lost your position as a result of:
• A layoff for reasons of work reduction or an unfavorable business climate.
• Being fired because your skills were not a good match for the company's needs.
• Quitting, due to compelling reasons related to your employment.
According to the above qualifications for unemployment, workers who were fired for misconduct or those who left their jobs without good cause do not meet eligibility for EDD in Maryland.
The monetary requirement, on the other hand, determines whether or not the UI applicant is a worker who can earn a sufficient amount of wages. To make that distinction, the department reviews the UI petitioner's earnings from his or her base period, which includes the first 12 months of the 15 months before he or she applied for benefits. Based on the claimant's wages, the department will then decide whether monetary eligibility for unemployment has been met, and it will determine the amount the applicant qualifies for. For instance, full-time employees who worked during all four quarters will be eligible to receive 50 percent of their past weekly wages for 26 consecutive weeks.
What are the requirements to get unemployment payments in Maryland on a regular basis?
Former state employees who meet the main qualifications for unemployment in MD can submit their UI claim as soon as they lose their employment. However, as the goal of the UI program is to assist state workers with their job search, other unemployment insurance eligibility requirements must be met regularly to maintain these benefits.
In order to continue receiving weekly UI payments, claimants must:
• Be able to work.
• Be available for any job that suits their abilities.
• Actively seek new employment.
• Report all earnings for the week during which they are requesting UI payments.
• Report funds received from severance payments, pensions and vacation pays.
• Complete any tasks assigned by the MD Department of Labor.
• Enroll with the state workforce division.
• Accept suitable employment opportunities.
UI beneficiaries will be required to prove that they meet the above MD qualifications for unemployment during their weekly recertification procedure by answering several questions. Note that applicants who provide false information regarding their eligibility for EDD benefits will be prosecuted for unemployment insurance fraud, and their benefits will be discontinued until they requalify.
State workers who fail to meet eligibility for unemployment in Maryland for a certain week will be penalized, and that week's UI payment will not be delivered until they resolve the issue. For instance, if you fail to provide adequate proof of your job search, your weekly payments will be halted until you provide the information during your next recertification procedure.
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Viking Blood 1
- The Assaultaf Marianne Slot
"The Assault" is the first book of five in the Viking Blood series by Marianne Slot. One fateful day the Viking boy Hauge survives a violent attack on his village, meets a young Christian monk, Hannibal, and a lifelong friendship begins. In these five books Norse mythology, Viking feuds, trades, and voyages to Iceland, Shetland and Haithabu, is brought to life in an exciting story of life and death. We follow Hauge as his life evolves around the vital consequences of that dramatic day; through vengeance and love; hardships of hunger and suffering, culminating in a final raid to England.“Run, Hauge! Run!” Suddenly, all Hauge hears is his father’s voice, it drowns out the screams, the clashing of swords, and the roar of the fires from the torched houses. Haakon Gilmarsson and his men have attacked the village. For a split second, Hauge sees the fear in his father’s eyes and understands; this is not a request. …..Later the young Christian monk, Hannibal, tells Hauge that his father, Styrbjorn, has been killed in the bloody attack on their village. This is the beginning of a lifelong friendship, and Hauge wonders about the strange new God that Hannibal talks about.When Hauge’s father is laid to rest, in the manner customary for a Viking Chieftain, the dumb thrall-girl Astrid is chosen to follow her master to Valhalla. Yet Hauge tries to prevent this when Astrid ”tells” him something. During Styrbjorn’s burial ceremony, Aasa, Hauge’s mother, promises her deceased husband that Hauge will avenge him when the time is right.Hannibal and the older, stern monk, Peter, continue on their journey, but Hannibal promises Hauge that they will return. After they have left Hauge finds an unexpected gift.
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From the late colonial period through the Civil War, slavery developed as the most powerful obstacle to the triumph of liberal values in America. In the second quarter of the nineteenth century, the ambiguities of the revolutionary generation's accomodation of slavery gave way to a direct and violent conflict between northern liberalism and southern slavery. The character of the antislavery movement - its relationship to broader discussions of morality, law, political economy, and mass politics - and the expectations it raised for the postemancipation South are central themes of this work. In the past, historians of antislavery reform have distinguished between moral reform and political reform, between the uncompromising zeal of antislavery radicals and temporizing character of mass politics in the mid-nineteenth century. Louis Gerteis focuses on the evolution in antislavery reform of a liberal vision of progress and explores the manner in which moral sentiments against slavery advanced the utilitarian values of American capitalism. Originally published in 1987.
A UNC Press Enduring Edition - UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
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Responding slowly, "going through the motions", to rescucitating a person with severe dementia or a terminal disease goes into cardiac arrest.
The homeless person with severe dementia went into cardiac arrest. The doctor slow coded him.
โดย Teratogen 04 กรกฎาคม 2011
The Urban Dictionary Mug
One side has the word, one side has the definition. Microwave and dishwasher safe. Lotsa space for your liquids.Buy the mug
Can you define these popular missing words?
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Busan, South Korea’s second largest city, launched an identification application that uses a public block chain to verify citizen information.
The application was developed by Coinplug, a Korean startup working within the regulatory environment of the Busan Blockchain Free Zone. The developer used the Metadium block chain and its Decentralized Identifier technology to drive the application.
Through this system, user data is stored on their devices, and only a cryptographic test of the information is sent to the blockchain. This achieves a balance between the privacy of personal data and the need to create tamper-proof records. The latter can usually only be achieved through centralized servers that contain all the data.
Bithumb could invest more than $8 million in South Korea’s regulatory-free zone
The implementation will enable citizens to access a wide range of „non face-to-face“ government services, which due to the COVID-19 pandemic became a much higher priority. Current use cases include the ability to use Busan Citizen ID and other types of government-issued smart cards. The application also features a crypto-currency wallet, which follows Coinplug’s efforts to integrate crypto-payments into South Korean post offices.
Busan’s strong involvement with blockchain
The trend of digitizing government services began long before the popularization of blockchain in some countries, according to a 2018 report.
South Korean mail partners with blockchain firm Coinplug to implement blockchain service
A Coinplug spokesman told Cointelegraph that Busan’s choice of a decentralized platform is part of the city’s drive for technological innovation, where blockchain plays an important role.
Busan’s regulatory environment allowed for the creation of several blockchain-related initiatives. In December 2019, this led to the launch of a local cryptomoney developed in cooperation with KT, one of Korea’s largest telecommunications providers.
This was one of the initial goals of the blockchain, and the city revealed such plans as early as July 2019.
In early Februry 2019, the city partnered with Hyundai Pay to promote fintech development in the city.
South Korea’s second-largest city wants to create a local crypto currency
The country in general also maintains a positive stance towards blockchain, and South Korean President Moon Jae-in said in July 2019 that the country must be at the forefront of effective blockchain regulation, while identifying personal data as one of its key uses.
Korean corporate giant LG has also made several moves in blockchain-based identification, and one representative told Cointelegraph that all login functions could be performed on a blockchain.
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Almost every garden features a shady spot, particularly if your garden includes trees. While some gardeners find this a challenge, others find these areas offer perfect locations for shade-loving plants that thrive on limited sunlight. When deciding what plants work best in your shady garden spots, note how much water the area gets. You need to plan on watering frequently, even after rainstorms, since surrounding trees will likely soak up the water, leaving little for these plants.
Japanese Painted Fern
This showy perennial grows up to 18 inches tall and up to 24 inches wide. Sporting long, greenish-gray fronds with hints of red and blue, this fern requires almost no maintenance except for watering during the driest days of summer. It thrives in almost any climate except the hot desert. Consider planting a few of these ferns under your trees to create a pleasing layered effect. In the spring, divide this fern, and then plant the divisions immediately. The only fertilizer requirements for this plant involve adding some peat moss to each hole before planting since this fern thrives in slightly acidic soil.
Featuring lacy, green foliage similar to a delicate fern, this plant offers plume-like blooms in early to mid-summer in mild climates. Choose from a number of varieties with most growing to about 36 inches tall with the flowers ranging in color from pink and purple to red, peach and cream. It is perfect for adding texture and color to a shady garden as well as attracting butterflies. This plant prefers well-drained soil. Apply a slow-releasing fertilizer every three to four months during warmer months.
With more than 2,500 varieties of hostas available, this plant makes a great choice for shade-loving gardens in mild climates. While most hostas sport large, wide leaves in shades of green, they actually come in all shapes, colors, sizes and textures including some with variegated leaves. While hostas do feature spiky blooms of white, pink or purple flowers, the leaves seem to grab the most attention. To give your garden a rich, varied texture, try planting a variety of hostas in the same shady area. Plant hostas in slightly acidic soil, and water thoroughly as these plants love the moisture. While you can add fertilizer every few months in the summer, many hostas just need a layer of compost applied in the fall to replace nutrients.
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Imaging the Hidden Modes of Ultrathin Plasmonic Strip Antennas by Cathodoluminescence
KAUST Grant NumberKUS-C1-015-21
Permanent link to this recordhttp://hdl.handle.net/10754/598558
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AbstractWe perform spectrally resolved cathodoluminescence (CL) imaging nanoscopy using a 30 keV electron beam to identify the resonant modes of an ultrathin (20 nm), laterally tapered plasmonic Ag nanostrip antenna. We resolve with deep-subwavelength resolution four antenna resonances (resonance orders m = 2-5) that are ascribed to surface plasmon polariton standing waves that are confined on the strip. We map the local density of states on the strip surface and show that it has contributions from symmetric and antisymmetric surface plasmon polariton modes, each with a very different mode index. This work illustrates the power of CL experiments that can visualize hidden modes that for symmetry reasons have been elusive in optical light scattering experiments. © 2011 American Chemical Society.
CitationBarnard ES, Coenen T, Vesseur EJR, Polman A, Brongersma ML (2011) Imaging the Hidden Modes of Ultrathin Plasmonic Strip Antennas by Cathodoluminescence. Nano Lett 11: 4265–4269. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/nl202256k.
SponsorsThe authors would like to thank Ragip A. Pala for assistance in preparation of the samples used in this work. The Stanford part of this work is supported by the Center for Advanced Molecular Photovoltaics (Award No KUS-C1-015-21), made by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). CL experiments were performed at AMOLF and are part of the research program of FOM that is financially supported by NWO. Work at AMOLF is also supported by NanoNextNL, a nanotechnology program of the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs. It is also part of the research program “Microscopy and modification of nanostructures with focused electron and ion beams” that is cofinanced by FEI Company.
PublisherAmerican Chemical Society (ACS)
CollectionsPublications Acknowledging KAUST Support
- Deep subwavelength spatial characterization of angular emission from single-crystal Au plasmonic ridge nanoantennas.
- Authors: Coenen T, Vesseur EJ, Polman A
- Issue date: 2012 Feb 28
- Phase-Resolved Surface Plasmon Scattering Probed by Cathodoluminescence Holography.
- Authors: Schilder NJ, Agrawal H, Garnett EC, Polman A
- Issue date: 2020 Jun 17
- Spatial Resolution of Coherent Cathodoluminescence Super-Resolution Microscopy.
- Authors: Schefold J, Meuret S, Schilder N, Coenen T, Agrawal H, Garnett EC, Polman A
- Issue date: 2019 Apr 17
- Plasmonic whispering gallery cavities as optical nanoantennas.
- Authors: Vesseur EJ, Polman A
- Issue date: 2011 Dec 14
- Plasmonic modes of annular nanoresonators imaged by spectrally resolved cathodoluminescence.
- Authors: Hofmann CE, Vesseur EJ, Sweatlock LA, Lezec HJ, García de Abajo FJ, Polman A, Atwater HA
- Issue date: 2007 Dec
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Roots in the Railway
To see how deep the hotel roots lie in Waverely
Station you have only to stand at Platform 19 where trains leave on the hour for Kings
Cross, London. The journey time has almost halved - from eight hours to four-and-a-half -
steam has given way to electricity and trains now compete with aircraft and the motor car
rather than (as yet anyway) a rival railway service. But in the arches of the station wall
you can still see the place where trains delivered coat to feed the insatiable boilers of
the hotel. In return, from the same standpoint the boilers pumped steam to start the
heaters of the sleeper carriages. The railway brought people and provisions and the hotel
fed and watered the trains in a partnership of mutual dependence which was to last 80
View from North British Hotel from the tower looking North-East
Long before the North British Railway Company
began blasting into the wall of rock behind Waverley Station, however, a warning was
issued to shareholders. "Large hotel traffic does not mean profit", wrote D.
Hill Murray to the Evening News in 1885, "the hotel will be constructed in most
sumptuous manner regardless of cost to shareholders". Besides, he pointed out,
"The Caledonian have a much better site and they will follow suit".
Both statements proved to be prophetic. No
expense was spared in creating the new hotel and it would be a long time before the flow
of 40,000 visitors each year even covered the costs of running a construction which
devoured coal and coke by up to 200 tons a month. But Mr Murray had missed the real point.
The North British Station Hotel was never intended to be merely a hotel, it was to be a
monument to the railway company, the grand eye-catching "station" they had never
been permitted to build above ground. It would be their equivalent of the St Pancras or
York Central Station that the ancient laws of Edinburgh had never allowed them to build in
the sensitive Waverley site within view of the powerful Governor and Directors of the Bank
of Scotland on the Mound. Every time a signal box or office reared its ugly head 30 feet
above ground level the Bank ordered it to be removed.
View from North British Hotel from the tower looking west along
So the hotel, strategically situated out of the
Bank's firing line, was a physical and political achievement. What's more the NBR beat the
Caledonian to it - the rival hotel opened at the other end of Princess Street in 1903 and
even now the sense of rivalry lingers, a legacy of fierce competition between two railway
companies who sometimes literally shoved each other off the line in the determination to
get there first.
George Wieland was the man who saw the potential
of a hotel in Princess Street. An NBR company secretary who "retired" to the
board in 1890, Wieland threw himself into developing what was then called Waverley Station
Hotel - not just for the capital of Scotland but as the centre of a European network.
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The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) reminds hunters that bears are actively foraging at this time of year in preparation for the winter. Louisiana black bear populations throughout the state are growing and their ranges are expanding, as noted in record numbers of trail camera photos capturing activity at deer feeders.
Hunters can still enjoy a safe hunting experience and have success harvesting game species by following a few, simple recommendations.
TO MINIMIZE ATTRACTING BEARS:
- Plant food plots instead of distributing feeding corn, a favorite bear food item. For those hunters who prefer to use feed, it is advisable to switch to soybeans. The switch from corn to soybeans may be enough to drastically decrease the number of bears returning to a site.
- Hang your feeder out of reach of bears. A feeder should be at least 8 feet off of the ground and 4 feet away from the tree or pole used to suspend the feeder.
- Bears are less likely to forage for one grain at a time, as dispersed on the ground from a timed feeder. A corn pile or trough type feeder is more likely to attract bears for repeat feedings.
HOW TO HANDLE BLACK BEAR ENCOUNTERS
It is important for hunters to educate themselves about bears and bear behavior, take the proper precautions and remain aware while in the woods. Younger hunters should be coached on how to respond to a bear’s presence and provided with bear spray and taught how to use it.
- Black bears are extremely inquisitive and will sometimes follow a hunter’s track to the deer stand. It is not uncommon for a black bear to place his front feet on the ladder and peer up into the stand in an attempt to discover what’s there. This situation can usually be resolved by standing and moving about on the stand and speaking to the bear to allow him to see and hear you. Once their curiosity is satisfied, bears will usually move on.
- A hunter moving through thick brush will occasionally come upon a black bear nest. Females readily nest on the ground and produce cubs. This occurs during the den season (late December through April). Ground nests are most often located in slash piles, felled tree tops, blackberry thickets and thick palmetto. This type of encounter will usually cause the female to run away from her nest. The cubs will bawl loudly in protest at being abandoned, but this vocalization will bring the female back quickly as soon as you leave the area.
- If you encounter a black bear in the woods, detour around the bear. If necessary, go back the way you came and access your intended destination from another direction.
- If you encounter a black bear at close range, raise your hands above your head to appear larger than you are, speak in a normal voice to allow the bear to identify you as human, and back away until it is safe to turn and walk away -- DO NOT RUN.
- The best tip for insuring hunter safety and peace of mind is to carry bear spray. It is available at some retail outlets selling camping and hunting merchandise, and via the Internet. Be sure to buy a product labeled “bear spray”; most come with a convenient belt holster.
- If a black bear attacks, DO NOT PLAY DEAD; that is a technique used for grizzly bears. Fight back with anything available, as black bear attacks have often times been stopped when the person fought back violently.
Hunters are also reminded that feral hogs and black bears can look very similar, especially in low light conditions. It is critical to know your target before pulling the trigger. Killing a Louisiana black bear can result in fines and/or jail time, as well as hindering LDWF’s progress toward delisting the black bear.
The goal of LDWF’s black bear program is to restore bear numbers to a sustainable level that will allow a regulated legal harvest of bears in the future.
For more information, contact Maria Davidson at 225-931-3061 or email@example.com.
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Not sure if mustard can last longer than the prescribed date? And what if you have an open bottle in the fridge for a long time? We bring all the answers.
If you are not a big fan of mustard, you probably keep one jar in the fridge for a long time. Ever wondered how long you can stretch that bond? Well, many ask the same. Since it’s not likely to be buying new supplies each month, the question of durability is quite normal. You know it is a bitter, salty compound and not a very desirable place for bacteria. So how long can mustard last then?
Good news for all of you indifferent to this condiment, the shelf life is long enough to consume that little bottle you keep. Although there are different versions of this product, the shelf life is generally around two to three years when unopened and will last a whole year after you open it. It is just essential that you store it properly. If you want to know more about everything, read on.
How Long Does Mustard Last?
Although the decay time will not occur so quickly, it still exists. And yes, mustard can be spoiled. That is, better to say, it loses its flavor and thus its purpose. Here are guidelines you can rely on for unopened and for opened mustard packaging.
Duration of unopened mustard
It is important to note that there are numerous versions of this condiment, and according to their composition, the shelf life also varies. However, it generally lasts for at least a year if it is kept unopened on the shelf. More often, this period is up to 3 years. Manufacturers generally put the best by guidelines because the expiration date does not mean that the product is spoiled immediately, but the quality and taste may decline.
Since the share of other flavors in mustard is becoming more and more diverse, pay special attention if the percentage of mustard is lower in the product. You have versions with honey, chili, pepper, fruit, and everything else. Their shelf life may be somewhat shorter due to the presence of other ingredients.
Duration of opened mustard
Once you have opened the mustard pack, it is advisable to keep it in the fridge. In which case, the durability will probably be a full year. So if you want to add tiny drops of this spice to your food, you have more than enough time to use it completely.
All of these guidelines do not apply to homemade mustard that you make yourself. Its shelf life is concise, and it is advisable to keep it in the refrigerator and consume it within a couple of weeks.
Can Mustard Go Bad?
It is more likely that the product will be left without the taste rather than spoil in the classical sense. But, certain phenomena are dangerous to health, such as mold. Here’s how you can most easily spot that something is wrong with your flavoring.
Sign 1: It looks wrong
Color will be the first indicator that will lead you to buy a new package. It is usual for slightly darker parts to appear on the surface due to oxidation. This is perfectly fine. But if the mustard has changed significantly in color, become darker, or completely pale, bacteria have probably settled in it, and you want to throw such a product in the trash.
Sign 2: It smells or tastes funky
With your nose and tongue, you can’t go wrong. First, smell the product. If it has a sour, unpleasant odor, it is a sign of spoilage. If the scent is okay, but when you put the product in your mouth, it has a strong, rancid taste, the mustard is spoiled.
Sign 3: It has mold on it
Yes, mold can appear on mustard, and it is a sure sign to throw everything in the trash. Some have a habit of just scraping the moldy part and eating the rest. But you must know that if you see mold spores on the surface, there are almost certainly those you don’t see through the rest of the product. Do not risk your health and throw all the contents in the garbage.
Which is the Best Way to Store Mustard?
The usual tips for proper food storage will help you extend the shelf life of mustard long after the label date. Also, it will help to preserve its taste and aroma, which is very important.
Tip 1: Keep it in cool and dry place
Keep mustard in a cool, dark place, away from the sun and possible heat sources, until it is opened. After that, it is best to keep it in the refrigerator to preserve the quality.
Tip 2: Seal well
Every time you use this spice, close it well as soon as possible. Do not keep it open for a long time as this promotes the potential development of bacteria.
Tip 3: Use clean spoon
It is very important to use a clean spoon when scooping the mustard from the jar. What most often causes spoilage is precisely the presence of other foods inside. Especially if you like to put mustard on raw meat, don’t put the same spoon back in the jar a couple of times.
It will usually be perfectly fine to eat mustard after it has expired. However, to be sure, check if all signs are OK. Whether there is mold, does it smell OK, and whether the taste is correct.
The most common signs of spoilage will be a bad smell, certainly awful taste, and the appearance of mold.
In some cases, it may even be a year or two after the recommended shelf life.
It is not mandatory, especially if you intend to use the whole pack in a short time. But with more extended storage, it is advisable to put it in the fridge.
Mustard is one of the classic and almost inevitable spices when cooking, especially for meat dishes. But if you’re not too much of a fan and don’t spend large amounts, you don’t need to fear. Mustard will be perfectly fine a year or more after you open it. Just keep it in the refrigerator and pay attention to hygiene when handling.
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Rounders England is passionate about diversity in sport and we resolutely believe that Black Lives Matter.
The events surrounding the death of George Floyd have been abhorrent to us. We have spent time this week discussing in our teams the Black Lives Matter movement and what it represents – and while we felt largely unqualified to discuss it publicly, we believe that it is important to have these discussions, however difficult, to educate and challenge beliefs.
At Rounders England, we are proud to represent a sport that is so widely inclusive to communities regardless of race, gender, age or sexual orientation. We coined the hashtag #WeAreAllRounders in 2018 as a nod to that inclusivity.
But as a sport, are we going far enough?
We all now must ask ourselves this question and address the holes in our culture, in our businesses, and in our personal lives and attitudes. At Rounders England we are doing just that. We are starting a process of reviewing our Diversity Action Plan 2018-2021 with our BAME players and coaches, so we can hear directly from their perspective what needs to be done.
One of the most powerful aspects of the Black Lives Matter movement is the conversations and questions it raises, some of which are uncomfortable, around race, legacy and what it means in 21st century Britain.
As an organisation, we have much to be proud of, but we also have plenty to learn, and this review of our Diversity Action Plan, supported by our Board , is the first step in listening and learning. We will be publishing more on our conversations with our BAME community – from players to coaches, colleagues and supporters – over the coming weeks and months to give a greater voice to our BAME community.
Passion for inclusivity in sport is at the very core of who we are at Rounders England, and we will go as far as is necessary to stand up to hatred and discrimination and both embody and amplify those values.
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January 9, 2017
The indigenous Batwa people are conservation refugees, evicted from their ancestral land to make way for natural reserves by the government backed by international environment protection groups. The Batwa Music Club was founded to reclaim their cultural heritage and raise awareness of their plight in the Ugandan capital Kampala.
The following article was published by Intercontinental Cry:
In 1992, as pressure from international conservation groups to protect the great forests of Uganda mounted, the indigenous Batwa tribe was forcefully removed from their ancestral home by the Ugandan government. One of the most ecologically diverse places on earth, the Bwindi impenetrable forest nurtured the Batwa, and in turn the tribe worshipped all that it gave them. Upon eviction, however, the Batwa received nothing in the way of compensation or support, and so fell into poverty.
Nearly 25 years later, a young Batwa named Gad Semejeri is doing everything he can to preserve his culture in the face of social oppression and substance abuse. Along with a group of young Batwa, he founded the Batwa Music Club, a band that strives to reclaim its cultural heritage by performing traditional songs that speak out against the injustices the the tribe has suffered. With Gad’s leadership, the group is rehearsing for its biggest gig to date, a concert in Kampala where they will take centre stage and make the plight of the Batwa known to the whole of Uganda.
Threading together rapturous tales of traditional life from Batwa elders, stories of the Batwa Music Club's daily struggle for survival, and original songs performed by the group, Ipalaki is a vibrant testament to the importance of indigenous knowledge in the globalized world.
Take a look at a video presenting this initiative by clicking here.
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Origins of volleyball
Volleyball is played by two teams, each of six players, separated by a net more than two metres high. Players rotate to each position on the court during a game. Each team scores points by hitting the ball over the net with the hands or arms so that it cannot be returned. The ball may be hit up to three times on one side of the net before it must be hit across the net.
An outdoor variant, beach volleyball, is played on sand with two players per team.
Volleyball was invented as an alternative to basketball by US physical education instructor William Morgan in 1895. Indoor volleyball has been an official Olympic sport since 1964, and beach volleyball since 1996.
Ctirad Benáček represented Czechoslovakia in volleyball before migrating to New Zealand in the early 1950s. Along with other recent immigrants he formed the Sparta club in Panmure, Auckland, in 1954. In 1968 Sparta, with a team comprising Dutch, Australian, Samoan, Russian, Czech and New Zealand players, won the first New Zealand Club Championships.
New Zealand volleyball teams competed in the first Oceania Championships in Sydney in 1973. Three years later the Oceania Championships were held in Nelson.
By 2012 New Zealand’s only Olympic representatives were brothers Reid and Glen Hamilton, who competed at beach volleyball in the 1996 Olympics. However, Hugh McCutcheon of Christchurch coached the US volleyball team which won gold at the 2008 Olympics, and its women’s team which won silver at the 2012 Olympics.
Volleyball New Zealand
The game’s governing body, Volleyball New Zealand, represents 14 regional associations with social and competitive players from primary school to masters level. In 2012 volleyball was one of the top five school sports in New Zealand, and an estimated 250,000 New Zealanders played the game annually.
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There have been so many St. Patrick's Day parades in Manhattan -- 240 in fact -- that in the city's collective memory they tend to blur into one long march of roaring throngs, internal squabbles and bagpipe renditions of ''The Minstrel Boy.'' The 241st, though, will stand apart.
The reasons go beyond the dedication of the parade to the heroes of Sept. 11, living and dead. It has to do with the hundreds of Irish-Americans who died in the World Trade Center, from the financial-service traders who worked on the uppermost floors to the police officers and firefighters who tried to rescue them. It has to do with the strong bond between the parade and the city's uniformed services, whose members swell the march's ranks in great number and with certain municipal pride.
And it has to do with the memories of the dead that Irish music can so easily conjure, from the famine victims and rebels of the past to the immigrant parents and grandparents of more recent times. This year, many memories will be of fresh loss.
In recognition of all that has happened, Cardinal Edward M. Egan, the head of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York and the grand marshal of this year's parade -- on March 16 -- is to stop the march up Fifth Avenue at 12:30, some 90 minutes after it has begun. He is to face south toward Lower Manhattan, where the World Trade Center once stood and where 2,800 people lost their lives. More than 300,000 marchers and 2 million spectators are to turn south as well. Then Cardinal Egan is to lead the city in a minute of silence.Continue reading the main story
''And we're asking everybody in New York, even the people who are not at the parade, to take a minute,'' said James P. Barker, the executive secretary-director of the St. Patrick's Day Parade and Celebration Committee.
Celebration sets the mood of most St. Patrick's Day parades. But this year's event will marry many emotions at once, emotions that are not always in accord: the joy of life, the relief of survival, the grief for the dead, the admiration for the heroic -- and the sympathy for firefighters in particular, who lost 343 of their brothers.
For the most part, the only other public assemblies of uniformed service members since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 have been at funerals, which took place by the hundreds through the fall and into the winter. But at next Saturday's parade, the firefighters, police officers and emergency-service workers will be on full display, often marching to the beat of their own kilt-wearing bagpipers and drummers.
The urge to stand on the sidelines and applaud will be strong, said Niall O'Dowd, the publisher of The Irish Voice weekly newspaper and a longtime critic of how the parade is managed. ''I think it's going to be very emotional,'' he said. ''I don't think I know a single person of my acquaintance who doesn't want to go out and cheer the fire and police. You have to.''
Deputy Fire Commissioner Francis X. Gribbon said that the Fire Department had received several calls from firefighters around the country who want to join in the march as yet another demonstration of solidarity. Many out-of-town firefighters came to New York to pay their respects at funerals and memorial services, and to volunteer in the rescue-and-recovery efforts at the disaster site.
Overall, Mr. Gribbon said, ''We do expect a larger turnout, in numbers that we've probably not seen before.''
For logistical reasons, though, most of the out-of-town firefighters will probably wind up cheering from the sidelines. ''We can't let everyone who wants to come in to march,'' Mr. Barker said. ''It would never end.''
This year's pre-parade activity has maintained the event's rich tradition of behind-the-scenes intrigue. The state attorney general's office, for example, has begun an ''open inquiry'' into questions raised last year about the parade committee's financial records, according to Paul Larrabee, a spokesman for the office. Mr. Barker said he thought the matter had been resolved.
In addition, the parade committee once again is refusing to provide the ''line of march'' -- the list that tells the 186 participating organizations where in Midtown Manhattan to muster their troops -- to The Irish Voice. ''They don't support the teachings of St. Patrick and the Roman Catholic Church,'' said Mr. Barker. To which Mr. O'Dowd wryly responded, ''We're devastated.''
And there is the yearly outrage of the Irish Lesbian and Gay Organization, whose members protest the committee's refusal to let its members march under their own banner. Aine Duggan, a spokeswoman for the organization, said that the group would hold a ''sidelines protest'' during the parade, at which members would hold placards honoring the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender ''heroes of Sept. 11.''
For all this conflict, though, the parade seems as inevitable as the change in seasons. It will take place this year on March 16 rather than on the March 17 holiday itself, because the parade is never held on a Sunday. At 11 o'clock on the morning of the 16th, Cardinal Egan will take his first step north, at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and 44th Street. When he reaches the parade's destination at 86th Street, organizers say, the cardinal will be driven by golf cart back to the reviewing stand at 64th Street to lead everyone in the minute of silence.
Mr. Barker said he had no doubt that the cardinal could walk the three miles up and then return in time for the special moment at 12:30. ''We know what it takes,'' he said. ''It takes 58 minutes.''Continue reading the main story
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Whey protein is a dairy-based nutritional supplement that is used by athletes as a high-protein meal replacement to help stimulate muscle growth, repair, and recovery following exercise. Creatine is a nutritional supplement that may increase muscle strength, growth, and performance during bouts of intense exercise, which is why it is sometimes combined with whey protein powder and marketed to athletes as a performance enhancing growth stimulator. Whey protein and creatine both have potential side effects, therefore it is recommended that you consult your physician before using these two products.
Nitrates in Whey Protein
Whey protein supplementation increases the amount of nitrogen in your body, because the amino acids that make up protein molecules are nitrogen-based. An increase in nitrogen may place excess stress on your liver. High amounts of nitrates over a long period of time may cause liver damage, especially if you have a weak or compromised liver due to illness or disease. High amounts of nitrates circulating throughout your bloodstream may also lower blood pressure, which can cause your blood pressure to drop to potentially dangerous levels if you are taking blood pressure medication, causing fatigue, dizziness and mental confusion.
Whey Protein and Kidneys
Whey protein supplementation increases the amount of substrates and minerals that are filtered through your kidneys and removed from your body through your urine. Calcium, a mineral abundantly found in many whey protein products, may crystallize with other compounds in your kidneys, resulting in kidney stones, which can be exceptionally painful and may require surgery to treat. Whey protein may increase the stress placed on your kidneys and can cause damage if you suffer from weak or diseased kidneys. Staying properly hydrated may reduce the risk of developing kidney stones while taking whey protein.
Creatine and Dehydration
Creatine may cause dehydration, due to its ability to hydrate your skeletal muscles as a result of a process called myofibril hydration. By pulling water into your muscles from the rest of your body, less water is available to other body tissues and cells to perform their normal processes, causing dehydration. Effects of dehydration include dry mouth, fatigue, body cramps, mental confusion, dizziness, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. Severe cases may result in seizures and even death. Drinking plenty of water may reduce the risk of dehydration due to creatine supplementation.
Creatine and Kidneys
Like whey protein, creatine can also place excess stress on your kidneys by forcing them to process a greater number of metabolites. Creatine and whey protein, when taken together, may place significant stress on your kidneys and hinder their ability to effectively filter out potentially harmful toxins and free radicals from your body. Drinking large amounts of water can help maintain normal blood plasma volume, which will make it easier for your kidneys to filter and process your blood.
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Detailed map of North - western China, published by Gizi Map. This map covers China 's Xinjiang Autonomous Region and includes the city of Urumchi. Inset map of Urumchi, detailed terrain mapping and Index of cities included. Bold altitude colouring, with spot heights and names of mountain ranges.
ISBN / EAN : 9789630080514
Publication date: 2015
Scale: 1 : 2,000,000 (1 cm represents 20 km)
Printed side(s): single sided
Unfolded dimensions: 99 x 87 cm / 39 x 34 in
Weight : 110 g
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Teens who know they want a military career can begin to prepare for it while in high school. Boot camp style training programs exist to instill the values and physical endurance necessary for military service. According to USAToday, some teens benefit from the structure, the discipline and the influence of military-trained instructors in a boot camp environment.
The main benefit of boot camp for teens who are curious about a military career seems to be the exposure to structure and discipline. Both appear to help teens focus on their education, according to Gene Bottoms, director of the Southern Regional Education Board’s High Schools That Work program. Teens also gain from the emphasis placed on teamwork and personal accountability in the boot camp, reports the U.S. Army Cadet Corps.
According to the website for U.S. Military Academy, teens should start early in order to compete successfully in the military. The physical training received from boot camp is one component. Other important gains made through the boot camp experience include leadership. It is also imperative that teens maintain academic excellence and a well-rounded academic portfolio, complete with English, math, science, U.S. history and foreign languages.
Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps
Funded by the Pentagon, the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps program, or JROTC, operates through the high school curriculum. Students who enroll in JROTC can choose among Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force specializations. JROTC provides teens with physical and academic training, as well as shooting practice with air rifles, according to a 2009 article in USAToday.
U.S. Army Cadet Corps Annual Training
Teens can participate in basic cadet training through the U.S. Army Cadet’s Corps’ annual Training program. Basic cadet training, or BCT, introduces teens to the fundamentals of military life through intense physical activities such as the obstacle course, water survival, rappelling, and basic marksmanship. BCT represents the most authentic basic training program available to cadets preparing for a future career with the Army, according to the U.S. Army Cadet Corps.
Attending boot camp as a teen does not make future military service compulsory. Teens have the ultimate say over their careers. However, enrolling in the Army ROTC Basic Course once you are in college will require service commitment if you have received a scholarship, according to GoArmy.com.
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Interdisciplinary industrial ecology education: recommendations for an inclusive pedagogical model
Asia Pacific Journal of Education
Industrial ecology education is being developed and delivered predominantly within the domains of engineering and management. Such an approach could prove somewhat limiting to the broader goal of developing industrial ecology as an integrated knowledge base inclusive of diverse disciplines, contributing to sustainable development. This paper hypothesizes that industrial ecology could be optimally delivered across broader disciplines if it were to be delivered as a supplemental knowledge among disciplines that engage with sustainable development education. Based on this hypothesis, a pedagogical experiment was devised and is presented here. This paper is descriptive, reflective and exploratory in approach, highlighting the challenges embedded in an interdisciplinary industrial ecology education, and recommending an inclusive pedagogical model to address the challenges. The intention is binary, to contribute towards the advancement of industrial ecology as an integrated knowledge base, and to introduce the concept of industrial ecology to the discipline of landscape architecture.
Urban Studies and Planning
Sharma, Archana Morgan State University, "Interdisciplinary industrial ecology education: recommendations for an inclusive pedagogical model" (2009). School of Architecture and Planning. 30.
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Statement by Members and Observers of the European Burma Network
With many sanctions against the military-backed government in Burma in the process of being suspended or lifted, there is intense interest from European companies in investing and trading with Burma.
Trade and investment in developing countries can help bring benefits to the local population, both through the provision of employment and through revenue for governments to provide services. However, Burma does not have a democratic and accountable government to ensure that revenue from trade and investment benefits the people, providing services such as schools and hospitals.
The European Burma Network warns companies not to view Burma simply as a country where they can exploit cheap labour and access natural resources cheaply. Several industries in Burma, particularly natural resource extraction and energy projects, are directly linked to human rights violations and environmental destruction. Despite recent reforms, Burma still has one of the worst human rights records in the world.
In his last report in March 2012, the UN Special Rapporteur on Burma listed a series of human rights abuses, all committed in Burma in recent months, which could constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity. They include: ‘…grave violations of international human rights and humanitarian law, including attacks against the civilian population, extrajudicial killings, internal displacement, the use of human shields and forced labour, confiscation and destruction of property, and conflict-related sexual violence…’
The UN Special Rapporteur on Burma also raised the possibility of a shift towards different types of abuses in a changing economy. “Given the wave of privatisations last year and the expected increase in foreign investment, along with the new government’s plans to accelerate economic development, I also fear an increase in land confiscations, development-induced displacement and other violations of economic, social and cultural rights,”
There remains a lack of international law to ensure European companies always operate to the highest standards outside the EU. In addition, Burma lacks laws to regulate companies, to protect workers, and protect the environment. It also lacks an independent judiciary and the rule of law which could enforce such regulations, and is one of the most corrupt countries in the world.
Members and observers of the European Burma Network endorse the ‘Benchmarks for Investment in Energy, Extractive and Land Sectors in Burma’ issued by the Burma Environmental Working Group (BEWG) on 22nd March 2012. (The statement is available online at: http://www.bewg.org/). BEWG is an alliance of grassroots environmental and social organisations.
Five key benchmarks have been established by the BEWG, these are;
- Do No Harm – Investment should not exacerbate natural resource and land-based conflict in Burma.
- Best Practices or No Practices – Investors should respect the widely accepted global standards for environmental and human rights law while following international best practices in human rights, social and environmental impact assessments.
- Act Transparently and with Principles – Investors should have a zero-tolerance policy on corruption and should uphold full revenue and contract transparency.
- Support Civil Society not Impunity – Civil society should be free to fulfil its role without threat of repression or abuse.
- Empower Communities – Community grievances must be fully addressed in existing and proposed investments.
The European Burma Network will work with, and in support of, local communities and workers to monitor the activities of European companies operating in Burma. Companies which do not respect the guidelines from the BEWG, or are linked to any human rights abuses, exploitation of workers or suppliers, and environmental destruction, will be targeted for high profile campaigns by members of the European Burma Network. These could include boycotts, protests, shareholder actions and exposure in the media of their links to any abuses. All national and international legal options will also be pursued.
Austrian Burma Center
Burma Action Ireland
Burma Campaign UK
Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK (BROUK)
Christian Solidarity Worldwide
Forum For Democracy In Burma
International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH)
People In Need
Polish Burma Solidarity
Society for Threatened Peoples
Swedish Burma Committee
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Princeton strengths, compared to Peers (similar size places nationally) or State (other places in Maine):
Affordability of Rents
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|Nearest Medium City||171 miles NE of Portland, Maine (center to center)|
|Nearest Large City||263 miles NE of Boston, Massachusetts|
|Standard Zip Codes||04668|
|Phone Area Codes||207|
|Time Zone||Eastern (-5 hours from GMT)|
|Daylight Savings||The city observes Daylight Saving Time.|
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|Apr Temp||30 to 52 F|
|Jul Temp||55 to 80 F|
|Oct Temp||35 to 58 F|
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Art appreciation is an understanding of the qualities that identify all great art. It involves having a knowledge of art movements, art history, and art styles or techniques.
An art movement is a distinctive style of art typified by a collection of artists practicing or following the same artistic idea, philosophy, objective, style, or method within a specified time frame or region. Each art movement is subtly or distinctly different than another movement of art. However, other art movements have influenced some movements as they show obvious similarities while others seem to defy them. It is interesting to study the differences between the art movements and study the different periods of art.
Art history is a historical study of the development of artworks in painting, sculpture, drawing, architecture, and other visual arts. The history of art spans a time from the earliest cave paintings to today. Art history presents two primary concerns (1) to determine who made a particular work of art and when, and (2) to understand the stylistic approach or school of thought used by artists in creating the work.
Art Styles or Techniques
The style or technique of a particular artist or school, or movement. It is that ‘thing’ that makes you recognize a specific painting as being by a particular artist before you’re close enough to see a signature or to read the image label. A painting style can be how the paint is handled (such as Pollock) or the brush strokes (such as Van Gogh). It can be the way a subject is dealt with or simply the choice of subject(s). It can be the range of colors used or a particular color that’s used in every painting.
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Hearken, friends and foes now hearken,
See Abe Lincoln’s prospects darken;
Though Abe tried the south to frighten,
See our prospects grandly brighten.
Abe swears for Richmond he’ll advance,
We swear to lead him a sweet dance,
Through wood and mire, and marsh and bog,
We’ll drive the untiring Yankee hog.
Before at Richmond he arrives,
There’ll be full many Hessian lives
Strewn all along his track,
Still will the Southrons not turn back.
Kill all their men, and then the night,
(Before the South shall lose one right,)
Of all her women he must meet,
For nobly they’ll each Hessian greet.
Give ear I charge ye now, give ear,
Quick east aside each craven fear,
For “Death for Freedom!” is the cry,
For which we’ll conquer or we’ll die.
Who’er may fall, his honoured name,
Shall fill for age the trump of Fame,
Then forward Freemen to the fight,
Strike home! you’ll find God’s for the right!
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Ionactis linariifolia (L.) Greene
Determiner: Warneke, Christopher (16 November 2021)
Show Determination History
Watson, S.H. s.n.
Verbatim Date: 1861
United States, Wisconsin, Dane, Middleton
Milton College Herbarium. Permanently transferred to WIS in 1982. This collection consisted largely of specimens donated by or purchased from Mr. S. H. Watson, whose collections were made in southern Wisconsin from 1859-1862. The Watson collection contains some specimens received from fellow Wisconsin botanist T. J. Hale and a few other collectors, including I. A. Lapham, D. C. Eaton, S. B. Mead, and M. H. Clark.
Record Id: f8cd1cf2-a2d9-41f2-9524-758fa54b79d5
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Welcome to another Tuesday Tips!
I have a lot of eggs in my fridge right now. My mom has been buying them fresh from a neighbor. When she asked me if I would like to take a few home this weekend, I said sure. I was a little surprised when she brought me 18! Whoa, that’s a lot of eggs. My kids have been in a non-egg mood lately, and I don’t get up early enough to fix some for Mark’s breakfast (althought I should try harder). So what am I going to do with all these eggs?
Devil them of course! I love deviled eggs! Plus these pregnancy hormones make me feel like I need to constantly eat, but I don’t always feel like cooking. So I decided I’m going to make a large batch of deviled eggs to eat as I need (and probably send some to work with Mark).
While I was looking around at what to do with these eggs though, I came across this great article. Did you know you can freeze eggs? Oh yeah! You just can’t freeze them in the shell. So if you want to freeze the whole egg, beat them up until well blended, and seal in an airtight container. If you just want the egg whites, do the same thing, just without the yolks. However, if you just want the yolks (I’m not sure what you would for, but you never know) you need to add a little sugar or salt. It doesn’t matter, except for what you plan on making with them.
Now you can buy your eggs in bulk and not worry about them going bad!! Because we all hate finding bad eggs.
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Administration of ribavirin causes erythrocyte hemolysis to a variable degree in most patients. Therefore, ribavirin is contraindicated in patients with anemia, hemolysis, and hemoglobinopathies. Ribavirin is excreted by the kidneys; thus, patients with renal disease (ie, serum creatinine > 2.0 mg/dL) can develop severe hemolysis. Monotherapy with pegylated interferon alfa is preferred in situations in which therapy with ribavirin is contraindicated.1,2
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This article from a Jacksonville periodical, Jax4Kids, discusses a presentation made at the Florida Association of Science Teacher's statewide convention which was made by PolarTREC teachers Steve Kirsche and Adeena Teres.
Local newspaper, Saint Johns Sun, reprints an article from the St. Augustine Record about PolarTREC teacher Steve Kirsche's upcoming trip.
The Dartmouth Engineer Magazine profile Eric Wagner, the PhD candidate who is a member of the team going to Greenland. PolarTREC teacher Steve Kirsche is also mentioned in the article.
Local news reporter from St. Augustine Record visits PolarTREC teacher Steve Kirsche and discusses his upcoming trip to Summit Station, Greenland.
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Speaker: Madeleine K. Albright, Principal, The Albright Group LLC; Former U.S. Secretary of State
December 9, 2008
Council on Foreign Relations
CFR President Haass argues for an updated global operating system to address challenges from terrorism to climate change. More
Alden provides an enlightening history of the last four decades of U.S. trade policies and a blueprint for how to keep the United States competitive in a globalized economy. More
In this award-winning biography of Alan Greenspan, Mallaby explores Greenspan's life and legacy and tells the story of the making of modern finance. More
The Task Force recommends revising U.S. policy toward North Korea to break the cycle of North Korean provocation and promote stability in Northeast Asia.
India now matters to U.S. interests in virtually every dimension. This Independent Task Force report assesses the current situation in India and the U.S.-India relationship, and suggests a new model for partnership with a rising India.
Rates of heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and other noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) in low- and middle-income countries are increasing faster than in wealthier countries. The report outlines a plan for collective action on this growing epidemic.
This report asserts that elevating and prioritizing the U.S.-Canada-Mexico relationship offers the best opportunity for strengthening the United States and its place in the world.
Knopf argues that the only remaining path for South Sudan is for an international transitional administration to run the country for a finite period.
The U.S. relationship with Israel is in trouble. Blackwill and Gordon offer six core policy proposals to repair, redefine, and invigorate the partnership.
To ensure the success of Myanmar's historic democratic transition, the United States should revise its outdated and counterproductive sanctions policy.
Learn more about CFR’s mission and its work over the past year in the 2016 Annual Report. The Annual Report spotlights new initiatives, high-profile events, and authoritative scholarship from CFR experts, and includes a message from CFR President Richard N. Haass.
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It’s time to start setting priorities for the coming year of war and conflict, states Micah Zenko.
A serious military confrontation between Russia and a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) member state or a severe crisis in North...
The Center for Preventive Action's annual Preventive Priorities Survey (PPS) evaluates ongoing and potential conflicts based on their...
Center for Preventive Action's conflict prevention resources include the Preventive Priorities Survey series, the Global Conflict Tracker,...
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Study Break: 3 Childhood Halloween Movies to Revisit Each Year
Ah, Halloween. The one time of the year when dressing like a Pokemon trainer and attempting to capture children for the purpose of deadly combat is perfectly acceptable. Beyond that, however, the only fun I personally get from Halloween these days is from the wonderful movies from my childhood I revisit each and every year. These amazing films serve as a portal back to my childhood, the days when I was carefree, not socially awkward, and had a general great outlook on life. Despite all those now being dead and gone, I still find pleasure in the little things, specifically the movies listed below.
Without a doubt, Hocus Pocus is my favorite Halloween movie of all time. It’s an over-the-top comedy, but does an incredible job at tugging at your emotions. The story focuses on Max Dennison, the new kid in Salem, Massachusetts, a city famous for its witch history. And this is no different in Hocus Pocus. However, Salem’s witches in the film are the three fictitious Sanderson Sisters (played by Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy, and Sarah Jessica Parker). The Sanderson Sisters were executed 300 years prior and have become a town legend, with their old home used as a museum.
Through a turn of events, Max is forced to take his little sister, Dani, out trick-or-treating, when he accidentally runs into his new crush, Allison. They end up breaking into the now abandoned Sanderson museum where Max, eager to impress Allison, confirms his virginity by lighting the “Black Flame Candle”, which is said to bring the sisters back from the dead when lit by a virgin. From there, Max, Dani, and Allison attempt to defeat the Sandersons with the help of one of their victims named Thackery Binx, who was transformed into an immortal black cat by the sisters 300 years ago.
The Halloween Tree
Based on a novel by Ray Bradbury, The Halloween Tree is an animated film about a group of friends attempting to save the life of their best friend, Pip on Halloween night. Their effort takes them around the world with a mysterious old man named Moundshroud (voiced by Leonard Nimoy). Moundshroud is a grim reaper of sorts and is after Pip, whose ghost escaped with a magical pumpkin to 4,000 years in the past. From there, the adventure to save Pip begins.
The Halloween Tree, while fun at any age, should be shared with as many young people as possible. So gather your younger siblings before mainstream TV reels them in and enjoy this soon-to-be Halloween classic.
Halloween wouldn’t be complete without a visit from everyone’s favorite ghost, Casper. Starring Christina Ricci as Kat, the daughter of a ghost-whispering therapist hired to rid a spooky mansion of its poltergeists, the story revolves around her encounter and friendship with Casper. The lonely little ghost has been searching the mansion for his memories, as he has no recollection of his life. So Kat makes it her job to help Casper while her father attempts to handle the friendly ghost’s three foul uncles.
It’s a fun movie to enjoy around this time of the year with a little bit of something for everyone to appreciate.
What are your favorite Halloween movies? Let us know in the comments below.
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