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Adult Community Mental Health Service
The Adult Community Mental Health Team (CMHT) provides a range of interventions to support treatment, and enable recovery including:
- targeted psychological interventions
- early intervention for younger people presenting with first episode psychosis
- medication clinics
- access to support to enable people to live safely at home
- group based activities to support skills development and recovery
The service works in partnership with third sector organisations to provide longer term care support services and enable people to engage with their local community and access activities and resources that further support recovery.
The Community Mental Health Team includes:
- Social Workers
- Occupational Therapists
- and a range of support staff
The Community Mental Health Team works in tandem with the Primary Care Mental Health Team.
The Community Mental Health team also provides a Community Response Service (CRS), which is an element of the community and inpatient mental health services. This element of the service provides: prompt assessment of individuals with indicative mental disorder/ill health; with the ability to mobilise resources to meet assessed need to provide an alternative to admission to hospital; and where admission is appropriate, facilitate timeous discharge.
Access to the CRS is appropriate for people over the age of 18 years, who consequent to a mental disorder are:
- at risk of self harm, and /or
- may present a risk to others and /or
- that admission to a mental health inpatient unit would otherwise be considered appropriate
The functions of the CRS are to:
- Provide assessment of all urgent referrals to the secondary adult mental health service
- provide safe appropriate alternative to hospital admission
- Support people (known or unknown) assessed as requiring urgent treatment / intervention for a period of up to 21 days
- Support timeous discharge from the Acute Admissions Unit (AAU)
- Provide liaison function for people admitted to AAU
Access to this service is generally via GP referral.
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Getting designs and prototypes made is a foundational step in the advancement of any item. Research and Development departments of companies all over the world are continuously on the lookout for better methods to establish designs based upon their plans and designs. Making designs by hand can be extremely time consuming and, typically, less exact than machine-tooled models. This is why 3D printing is on the increase. A growing number of companies have discovered that sending their designs to a 3D printer and having them manufactured in resin is a great method to get a design of their design made up quickly and precisely.
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Rolling Tools - If your workshop is doubling as something else, like a place to park your automobile during the night, you'll need to be able to move tools and equipment around when you are finished working. Your local home center has all kinds of neat casters and rolling devices that you can install on the bottom of your benches and tools to make them movable when you need to. The wheels can be locked so they will not move during your sessions. While wheels are optional, they are a far better option than trying to by hand raise and move heavy tools and benches.
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Once upon a time there was a little boy;
He was a strange lad,
Half boy, half poney.
But the one thing he knew was to play music.
He play in springtime, helping the seasons come in.
The birds would chirp,
And the forest would sing.
Thrashing through the forest with his lute,
He knew he had little time left to commence the music,
And that it would have to end someday.
So he played to the butterflies, the squirrels, the bears,
And all the animals of the forest,
Miraculously filling them with happiness.
And at sunset, he lay down his lute
And went to sleep.
In the morning when the sun arose,
He would start a new day,
Knowing still the time will come,
When he will have to end his merriment of the forest.
When my time returns,
I will be older,
Yet the strings of my lute will be bolder.
So seasons change and leave me in peace.
I will return in due season.
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TAROS (Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems) is aimed at the presentation and discussion of the latest results and methods in autonomous robotics research and applications. Taros offers a friendly environment for robotics researchers and industry to take stock and plan future progress.
TAROS welcomes senior researchers and research students alike, and specifically provides opportunities for research students and young research scientists to present their work to the scientific community.
TAROS is a platform for robotics researchers with a wide range of interests from the UK, Europe and worldwide. TAROS welcomes paper submissions on a wide range of topics related to the principles and practice of robotics.
TAROS started as TIMR (Towards Intelligent Mobile Robots). From 2004 it became an annual conference with a wider remit "Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems".
Past TAROS conferences:
Please note that TAROS editions for 1997, 1999, 2001 and 2003 were known as TIMR (Towards Intelligent Mobile Robots)
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Column: World record for pole sitting
One of the world’s oldest churches honors a fifth-century ascetic whose record for endurance has remained unbroken. The church itself originated a design that is still emulated.
The person known as Simeon the Stylite was born to a Christian family near the southern border of Turkey in about 388 A.D. At age 13, he heard a sermon about the “Beatitudes” and decided to devote his life to sacrifice and contemplation. Simeon joined a monastery as a teenager, but was asked to leave because of his extreme asceticism, which included tying a rope around his body so tightly that the flesh rotted. After departing the monastery, he went for 40 days during Lent without eating or drinking. On other occasions, he reportedly stood during the entire Lenten period. As Simeon’s reputation for self-denial spread, people flocked to him, seeking prayers and advice. To avoid the crowds, he fled to a remote mountain top near Aleppo, Syria. When admirers followed him, he got away from them vertically by living on a meter-square platform atop a nine-foot-high pillar (Greek stylos). As curious crowds gathered in larger numbers, Simeon extended the pillar until the platform, from which he never descended, was about 50-feet above the ground. He preached daily to the people below and occasionally wrote letters to his followers. Even emperors sought his counsel.
Simeon died in 459, having spent 37 years on his pillar. He was declared a saint and honored with the oldest surviving Byzantine church, enclosing about 53,000 square feet. Four basilicas, oriented in the cardinal directions, formed a cross and surrounded an octagonal court encompassing Simeon’s famous pillar.
Following the example of Simeon, other “stylites” began living on pillars. Alfred, Lord Tennyson memorialized Simeon the Stylite in an 1833 poem and the Guinness Book of World Records gives him the world’s record for pole sitting. The ruins of the Church of St. Simeon the Stylite, with only the base of his famous pillar surviving, are a UNESCO World Heritage site, which have so far survived the fighting in Syria.
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mmTron Inc., a leading provider of mmwave Custom MMICs and integrated transceiver modules, has developed TMC201, a distributed linear amplifier (PA) for commercial, industrial, space and military applications from 2 to 20 GHz.
Based on mmTron linear GaAs technology, the monolithic-microwave integrated-circuit (MMIC) distributed amplifier has 18dB of gain, delivers +26 dBm typical output power at 1-dB compression (P1dB), 2 dB of Noise Figure and 39 dBm OIP3 through 12 GHz and typically +23 dBm through 20 GHz. The TMC201 MMIC features impressive gain and gain flatness over its broad bandwidth across temperature -55 to +85°C, with typical temperature-dependent gain variation of less than 0.03 dB/°C.
The TMC201 is designed for excellent OIP2 making it ideal for applications in Electronic Warfare, Broadband Commercial Wireless and Optical Communications Systems as well as in Military Systems.
The TMC201 distributed amplifier is internally matched to 50 ohms and is unconditionally stable. It has typical input and output return loss of 15dB. It operates with typical drain voltages of +5 VDC and typical supply current of 180 mA.
TMC201 is supplied as a RoHS-compliant die measuring 2 x 1.5 x 0.1 mm. The MMIC amplifier is rated for storage temperatures from -65 to +150°C. It is 100% DC and RF tested and visually inspected to MIL-STD-883, Method 2010 requirements.
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On Tuesday night, President Obama will take to the podium in the chamber of the House of Representatives to address Congress, Supreme Court Justices, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, invited guests, and us, the American public.
In years past, the State of the Union address has been an opportunity for the president to lay out policy priorities and set the tone. Listen for what's mentioned and what's not, and watch for which lines get applause and from whom. It's a big political dance.
Obama's 2013 speech is scheduled for 9 p.m. EST and there is no lack of buzz about what it will, or won't, contain. Expect a focus on the economy, education, infrastructure, and clean energy, wrapped in soaring rhetoric. It will offer a sharp juxtaposition with the Republican and Tea Party rebuttals that are slated for directly after.
The dance doesn't stop in the House. The official Republican rebuttal will be given by Marco Rubio and will likely describe Obama as a big government liberal with the wrong policy prescriptions. Rand Paul will be delivering the Tea Party response, described as a complement to Rubio's, from the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
Weigh in below: What should Obama say in his State of the Union address tonight? More specifically, what does Obama need to include in his speech and do to represent the interests of millennials?
We'll select the most Mic'd comments and feature them in a State of the Union special feature story immediately before the speech.
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The Search for Mary Magdalene
by Pheme Perkins
Pheme Perkins teaches New Testament at Boston College. This article appeared in The Christian Century, May 16, pp. 26-29, 2006. Copyright by the Christian Century Foundation; used by permission. Current articles and subscriptions information can be found at www.christiancentury.org. This material was prepared for Religion Online by Ted and Winnie Brock.
Mary Magdalene, the First Apostle. By Ann Graham Brock. Harvard University Press, 235 pp.’ $25.00.
Mary Magdalene: A Biography. By Bruce Chilton, Doubleday, 206 pp., $23.95.
The Mary Magdalene Tradition. By Holly E. Hearon. Liturgical Press, 236 pp., $24.95.
The Gospel of Mary of Magdala. By Karen L. King. Polebridge Press, 230 pp., $20.00.
The Gospels of Mary. By Marvin Meyer. HarperSanFrancisco, 122 pp.’ $17.95.
In the late second-century text called the Gospel of Mary, the apostle Peter asks regarding Mary Magdalene, "Should we all turn and listen to her?" To judge by the marketing blitz these days, many readers would say yes (though that was not the answer Peter had in mind). Mary Magdalene has become popular enough to merit an Idiot’s Guide and her own shelf at Barnes and Noble.
Amid various modern fantasies about her, one can also find books by scholars. Marvin Meyer’s slim anthology provides readable translations of the basic texts from the New Testament and gnostic writings. Karen King offers a somewhat more erudite translation of the Gospel of Mary, with photographs of the original script, commentary on the work and comparisons to the New Testament texts. Ann Brock and Holly Hearon have turned their dissertations into quite readable discussions of traditions about Mary Magdalene. Brock focuses on disputes over women as leaders; Hearon, on the possibility that the canonical traditions reflect the activity of women story-tellers in the earliest communities.
The marketing money seems to be behind Bruce Chilton’s book. Like his biographies of Jesus and Paul, Chilton’s biography of Mary Magdalene combines idiosyncratic twists with historical reconstruction. He opposes the popular tendency to make Magdalene an "anti-Catholic Mary," and he agrees with the other authors in this group that the sooner the legends of Magdalene as lewd prostitute or as mother of a secret bloodline of Jesus’ descendants are debunked, the better.
But Chilton’s own book takes an odd turn. Rather than begin with Mary as representative of Jesus’ female disciples and first witness to his resurrection (as in John 20), he focuses on Luke’s story about Jesus driving demons out of her (8:2-3). He hypothesizes that Mary Magdalene was responsible for the stories about Jesus as an exorcist, and that the hostility shown toward Magdalene in church tradition was fueled by male clergy’s determination to retain control over exorcism and anointing.
However, it is Mary Magdalene’s visions of the risen Jesus that secured her title "apostle to the apostles" and formed the content of women’s storytelling. Hearon suggests that the opposition to women going from house to house in 1 Timothy 5:13 refers to the activities of such Christian women. The Christian women of the first century who repeated stories about Mary Magdalene in support of their own visions, prophecies and teachings would concur.
Until the late 19th century, historians interested in gnostic writings had to rely on summaries and quotations given by their orthodox Christian opponents. In 1896 a fifth-century Coptic codex was purchased for the Egyptian museum in Berlin. It contained three gnostic writings, which purported to present the teachings of the risen Jesus and part of an apocryphal work about Peter.
The three gnostic writings all take the form of dialogues in which the risen Savior appears to his disciples. The Gospel of Mary is the first work in the codex. However, its opening six pages and several pages in the middle are missing. The codex’s otherwise good condition led its first editor to suspect that its discoverers may have mutilated it. The opening pages must have included a notice about Jesus’ appearance and questions introducing a dialogue on the nature of matter and sin.
In this gospel, Jesus enjoins his followers to spread the "good news about the Kingdom." They are too frightened to do so, but Mary Magdalene steps in to encourage them. Peter asks her to relate to the others the teaching that she alone had received from Jesus. The introduction to that section indicates that she had seen the divine Savior in a vision. Her ability to remain unwavering in his presence would be a common description of spiritual perfection in both philosophical and religious circles at the time, as King notes. When her report of the vision concludes, a soul is ascending past the powers that seek to keep it imprisoned in the material world.
Instead of accepting Mary’s account, Peter and his brother Andrew turn against it, calling it a "strange teaching." Levi steps in to defend her and rebuke Peter, Peter remains in the grasp of anger, which his soul must overcome before it enters the heavenly realm, according to the vision-report.
Whoever compiled the writings in the Berlin Codex followed the Gospel of Mary with two more revelation dialogues, the Wisdom of Jesus Christ and the Secret Book of John. The Wisdom of Jesus Christ opens by describing a group of faithful followers composed of 12 disciples and seven women. Some questions are posed by "the disciples" or "the holy apostles," others by named disciples. One of the disciples named is "Mary," presumably Mary Magdalene.
Like the Gospel of Mary, the Secret Book of John recounts the revelation granted to a single disciple -- in this case, not Mary but John, the son of Zebedee. The concluding sentence asserts that John later conveyed this revelation to his fellow disciples.
In 1946 more Coptic codices appeared on the Cairo antiquities market. Material used in the covers indicates that the volumes were produced in the mid-fourth century. Many of the texts included in these codices contain gnostic teaching. Because they also promote ascetic detachment from bodily pleasures and passions, these writings may have appealed to the monks in the region, whose letters were found along with the texts.
An additional copy of the Wisdom of Jesus Christ and three copies of the Secret Book of John were found in these codices. Nag Hammadi Codex II includes three other works in which Mary Magdalene appears as an enlightened member of Jesus’ circle of disciples -- the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Philip and the Dialogue of the Savior.
Unfortunately, the Nag Hammadi collection did not produce any additional copies of the Gospel of Mary that might have supplied the missing pages. However, the thousands of Greek papyri discovered in the Egyptian town of Oxyrhynchus over a hundred years ago have yielded two selections that parallel the surviving Coptic text. King presents this material in parallel columns. This evidence that two separate Greek versions circulated in the early third century pushes the likely date for the composition of the Gospel of Mary back to the late second century.
The Coptic translation remained very close to its Greek original, but there are some significant differences. The Greek version asserts that Jesus’ love for Mary was "steadfast," while the Coptic insists that Jesus ‘loved her more than us" (King’s translation). The Coptic version modifies the split between Mary and Peter. In that version, Levi’s defense of Mary is more successful, and the whole group of disciples goes out to preach the gospel. The disciples’ display of unity in the Coptic version suggests a recognition of Mary’s superior spiritual status.
Mary’s status among the disciples is also reflected in the reference in the Gospel of Philip to Jesus kissing Mary Magdalene. Despite modem speculation about this reference, it has nothing to do with a sexual relationship.
The Gospel of Philip identifies Mary Magdalene with wisdom. When the disciples ask Jesus, "Why do you love her more than us?" he responds with a parable contrasting sighted and blind people: in the dark, they are the same. When light comes, the sighted can see, but the blind cannot.
The Gospel of Thomas ends with Peter asking Jesus to exclude Mary because "females are not worthy of life."
Jesus refuses. Mary will undergo the same experience of recovering the original image of divine humanity as will the male ascetics in this tradition. Jesus promises to "make her male, so that she too may become a living spirit resembling you males."
A similar phrase in the Gospel of Mary suggests that Jesus had to transform the disciples. Mary reminds the frightened group that "he has prepared us and made us human." Levi exhorts the disciples, "We should be ashamed and put on perfect humanity." The motif of conflict between Peter as spokes-person for male disciples and Mary Magdalene as an enlightened interpreter of Jesus’ teaching continued to be played out in gnostic circles in the fourth century.
Meyer provides a very brief selection from the rambling volumes of a revelation dialogue from the third century, Pistis Sophia ("Faith Wisdom"), in which Mary is quick to interpret the Savior’s words -- evidence of the Spirit working in her. Peter is hostile and jealous after being upstaged by a woman. The Savior mediates. He asks Mary to permit the male disciples to offer their interpretations but also affirms her spiritual perfection.
Meyer concludes the selections in his anthology with a lovely Manichaean hymn based on John 20:11-18: The 11 have dropped their allegiance to Jesus and returned to fishing. The Lord sends Mary to gather these lost sheep, saying, "Use all your skill and knowledge until you bring the sheep to the shepherd." The Manichaean author refers to Peter as a traitor for convincing the others to return to their old occupation. The risen Jesus gives Mary a special message to get Peter to comply with the summons.
These second-and third-century texts which challenged emerging orthodoxy reflected popular imagination. The dramatic story of Mary’s encounter with Jesus outside the tomb in John 20:11-18 probably circulated orally among women, as Hearon suggests. That story is the foundation for her reputation in the second and third centuries as the follower who possessed special insight into the teachings of the Savior. However, the gnostic texts attribute no special content to the revelations to Mary. Comments about the nature of matter and sin as well as Mary’s revelation about the soul’s return to the heavenly realm depend on non-Christian sources. Therefore readers who pick up the Gospel of Mary expecting to read a secret life of the historical Jesus are in for disappointment.
Despite the almost universal tendency to treat the second- and third century materials as evidence that the authors of the canonical Gospels ruthlessly suppressed traditions about Mary Magdalene, the truth may be simpler: the canonical Gospels preserve all the early traditions.
With his superb eye for giving voice to female disciples, such as the Samaritan woman and Martha and Mary, the Fourth Evangelist tells the story of Mary Magdalene’s encounter with Jesus outside the empty tomb. Without that detail, gnostic Christians of the second century would never have cast her as the enlightened companion of the Savior. In short, the later traditions about her reflect a growth in women’s spiritual independence and imagination, not the fact that she was erased from the first-century record.
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New conservation garden for pollinators
STOCKBRIDGE, Mass. — The Lenox Garden Club has created a new conservation garden in Stockbridge at the First Congregational Church. The four raised beds will have native perennials that will encourage pollinators such as bees, butterflies, insects and birds. All of these creatures are vital to the environment.
To support the goal of all community gardeners who wish to create their own pollinator gardens or add pollinators to their existing gardens, the church and library gardens are fully accessible to the community and every plant in the gardens is fully identified. . The Lenox Garden Club’s goal is for these projects to encourage and support similar efforts throughout Berkshire County.
This new project is in line with other similar themed projects undertaken by the Lenox Garden Club in recent years. These include Parsons Marsh in Lenox, Muddy Brook School in Great Barrington and Canoe Meadows in Pittsfield.
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Taraka performs a solo album Welcome to paradise lost
WEST STOCKBRIDGE, Mass. – This Saturday July 30 at 8 p.m. Taraka will perform his new solo album Welcome to paradise lost in the TurnPark amphitheater. A specially curated DJ set will follow by Taraka and Mishmash. Taraka is the former singer of the legendary underground cult duo Prince Rama. A departure from the shimmering dance-pop sound of Prince Rama, Welcome to paradise lost is a primal, electrifying, dirty, and shameless celebration of boredom and disillusionment.
Tickets are available at $15 here. The TurnPark Amphitheater is located at 2 Moscow Road, West Stockbridge.
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Screening of the Holocaust film “Four Winters”
GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — The Berkshire International Film Festival presents a screening of Four Winters Tuesday, August 2 at 4 p.m. at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center. After the screening, there will be a discussion with Jewish supporter Michael Stoll and director Julia Mintz.
From deep in the forests of World War II Belarus and Eastern Europe, more than 25,000 Jewish partisans fought back against the Nazis and their collaborators. Despite extraordinary odds, these determined men and women, many barely in their teens, engaged in treacherous rescue missions and acts of sabotage; blow up trains, burn down power stations and attack armed enemy headquarters. Shattering the myth of Jewish passivity, the last surviving partisans tell their stories of resistance in Four Winters, revealing a breathtaking tale of heroism and resilience.
Tickets are $18, $13 for members, available here https://themahaiwe.secure.force.com/ticket/#/instances/a0F3w00000sYHWUEA4
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Mountain Day Festival music, pleasure and gastronomy at Bousquet Mountain
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Attend Mountain Day at Bousquet Mountain on July 30 from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. organized by the Mill Town Foundation. The festival celebrates outdoor sports, live music, family fun and the Berkshires’ outdoor economy.
Activities begin with the Berkshire County Outdoor Recreation Summit from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. with moderate conservations on Berkshire’s outdoor economy, new mountain biking and cycling projects, and new initiatives celebrating recreation outdoors in the county. The Vendor’s Village, with admission ticket, will open at 1 p.m. with food trucks, beer tastings, outdoor clubs and retailers, equipment demonstrations, outdoor crafts and experiences sports training.
Other activities from 1 p.m. to 10 p.m. include music by Chris Merenda, Billy Keane, Tory Hana, Greg Smith, ending with Session Americana and the headliner Whiskey Treaty Roadshow.
The festival is rain or shine. Bring a blanket and lawn chairs and enjoy! A limited number of seats on the terrace will be available on a first-come, first-served basis. Food and beverage options will be provided by Lift Bistropub for both indoor dining and outdoor snacks, food truck fare by BB’s Hotspot, and special beer tastings by HotPlate Brewing Co and Jack’s Abbey. Each event in the Bousquet Summer Concert Series is family friendly and caters to audiences of all ages. No outside food/drink or pets are allowed. Several free gifts will be distributed throughout the day. Tickets are $30 for adults, $20 for students, free for children 12 and under, visit www.bousquetmountain.com/music.
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DJ Shaki will perform at the Clark Art Institute
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. – On Saturday July 30 at 3:30 p.m. the Clark Art Institute will host live music at the Lunder Center in Stone Hill with DJ Shaki. The Afternoon of Music complements Tauba Auerbach and Yuji Agematsu: Meander and is presented in collaboration with Belltower Records.
After curator Robert Wiesenberger’s keynote lecture for Tauba Auerbach and Yuji Agematsu: Meander at 2 p.m. in the Clark Auditorium, visitors are invited to stroll to the Lunder Center’s Moltz Terrace and join DJ Shaki (Rick Omonte ) for an afternoon of pan-Latin grooves on the terrace. A native of New Haven, Connecticut, Omonte produced the highly acclaimed weekly concert series Shaki Presents at BAR, which ran for eight years and now appears monthly on Bridgeport community radio station WPKN 89.5fm.
Free; no registration is required. Bring your own refreshments and snacks. For more information, visit clarkart.edu/events.
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Premiere of We Are Continuous
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — We Are Continuous premiering at the Williamstown Theater Festival From August 2 at 7:30 p.m. to August 14 on the Nikos stage. We Are Continuous is by Harrison David Rivers and directed by Tyler Thomas. Simon and his mother, Ora, have always been close. She was his champion, his defender and his friend. But when a life-changing secret is revealed, can their bond survive?
Schedule, cast, and COVID-19 protocols are subject to change. Tickets are $65 plus a $5 fee per ticket; One must reserve https://wtfestival.secure.force.com/ticket/?_ga=2.35778848.1891077371.1659013530-1138711561.1656936505#/events/a0S4p00000BPCySEAX
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Hugh Howard will speak at Ventfort Hall
LENOX, Mass. – Hugh Howard, a historian who has written more than a dozen books on American architecture, will speak at Ventfort Hall on Tuesday, August 2 at 4 p.m. A tea will follow his presentation.
Howard shows in Architects of an American Landscape how figures as different as Henry Hobson Richardson and Frederick Law Olmsted became close friends and collaborators. In conversation with local historian Cornelia Brooke Gilder, Howard will discuss Olmstedian landscapes and Richardson’s contribution to the built environment. Their speech will be accompanied by images of notable designs by Richardson and Olmsted.
Tickets are $30 for members and with advance reservation; $35 per day; $22 for students 22 and under. Reservations are required as places are limited. Walk-ins accommodated according to available space. For reservation call us at (413) 637-3206. Please note that all tickets are non-refundable and non-exchangeable. Proof of vaccination and ID are required. The historic mansion is located at 104 Walker Street in Lenox.
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Display of historic clothing at Ventfort Hall
LENOX, Mass. — On display until late summer at Ventfort Hall, an exhibition of women’s fashion includes 14 vintage dresses, ranging from 1850 to 1960, as well as various accessories. The exhibit was produced largely in conjunction with the Berkshire County Historical Society, located at Herman Melville’s Arrowhead in Pittsfield, MA.
Features in this exhibit include a blue and black dress from the 1890s, a cotton and lace wedding dress from 1900, a black velvet evening dress from 1927 embroidered with white flowers and leaves, a pink evening dress from the 1950, etc
The exhibit is on display throughout the mansion and is included in regular admission to the museum. Visiting hours are daily, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Masks, during the presence, are compulsory. The historic mansion is located at 104 Walker Street in Lenox.
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World War One: Family stories uncovered
The World War One centenary means personal war diaries, letters and photos are emerging from dusty attics and drawers across the UK and beyond to offer a different perspective of the conflict.
The National Archives has begun the mammoth task of digitising 1.5 million WW1 diary pages, mainly taken from official war diaries, describing the lives of British soldiers on the front line.
Following the launch of the project, BBC News asked readers to tell us about some of their own treasured documents from the time. A huge number and range of items were sent in, from vivid diaries of life in the trenches and heart-felt letters to photographs of war graves.
This kind of material allows people to "make a direct connection with those who were alive at the time", says Luke Smith from Imperial War Museums. Its own ambitious digital project, Lives of the First World War, will enable anyone to upload and share information of those who served in uniform during the war and worked on the home front.
Even the smallest of artefacts can contain the greatest of memories. In 2001 Moira McPartlin, from Killearn, Stirlingshire, discovered the 1918 diary of her grandfather James McPartlin - whom she had never met - tucked away in an old wallet in a drawer.
Despite being only 1.5in by 3in (4cm x 7.5cm) and containing nine entries, the diary gave "a real connection with this man and I felt his pain", said Moira.
James had been gassed and spent most of a year in hospital. "He told me his whole story in these few words," she says.
The diary is "beginning to fall apart" and must now be handled with care.
'Worse troubles in the firing line'
Anne Warner's great-uncle Reginald Goatham wrote home several times from the front throughout August and September, 1916, only for his family to receive notification of his death in October from AF Stevens, his platoon sergeant.
The memories of Reginald Goatham are held together in a small, brown, leather suitcase. It is now in the possession of his great-niece Anne Warner, who lives in Seattle, in the US. The collection was put together by Reginald's sister Olive, Anne's great-aunt and the "family historian".
It contains medals, images and correspondence from Reginald and others, including the note from his platoon sergeant to advise of Reginald's death in 1916.
The memories and the suitcase have now passed to Anne, and Reginald is commemorated on the Thiepval memorial, among the names of tens of thousands of soldiers who died at the Somme.
"When I first heard the story and looked at the suitcase with Auntie Olive I used to think how difficult it must have been for her to cope with her brother being killed when she was only 11 years old," says Anne.
By the time she came into possession of the suitcase she had children of her own and her thoughts turned to her great-grandmother. How did she feel when hearing of Reginald's death? Was she relieved when the war was over before her second son, Anne's grandfather, could be called up?
"My own son is now almost 22 years old and when I try to imagine what it would be like to see him go off to the trenches it's almost too painful to imagine," she says.
Mike O'Brien, from Sidcup in Kent, says his mother-in-law Germaine Louise Wall, aged 91, was inspired to get out some memorabilia having watched a BBC programme about WW1.
"She came downstairs with armfuls of stuff that had been in her bedroom 60-odd years," he says.
Germaine's father-in-law, John Wall, fought in the battle of Neuve Chapelle. He was wounded but his life was saved by the books and papers he had in his breast pocket. You can see the holes in the documents from the bullets or shrapnel from the battle.
Along with John Wall's own documents was a paybook from another soldier, Stephen Albert Coates.
At the time, John believed Stephen Coates had been killed. However, after some research Mike knows he actually survived and was honourably discharged from the Army, living until the age of 83. Mike now wants to "close the circle" and give back the lifesaving passbook to the family.
Andy Marshall in Fareham, Hampshire, uncovered a similar wealth of documents. A few years ago he began doing work on his family tree and discovered a folder that belonged to his wife's grandmother.
"Inside the folder the documents were all mixed up but as I started to piece it together I began to realise what I had," he says.
The items relate to his wife's great-uncle Robert Maurice Manns, who was in the Army Service Corps (ASC) and later joined the Suffolk Regiment.
Luke Smith, Imperial War Museums
We are launching Lives of First World War, an online platform that seeks to uncover the life stories of around eight million men and women who served the British Empire during the war.
These life stories will be pieced together by members of the public. Together they will form a permanent, digital memorial to all those lives.
We know a little bit about people's contribution to the war from large official datasets, such as the list of the 4.5 million men and women who served overseas in the British army.
People can enrich those life stories with digital images of the precious family mementos they hold at home, such as diaries, letters, photos and postcards.
Those who don't hold that material can make an important contribution by piecing together those life stories from hundreds of millions of historical records available within Lives of the First World War.
They include his photo and an ASC Christmas card to his parents, but also a letter from the Army pay office following his death in 1917 and a photo of his grave.
Andy says he was shocked when he discovered the letter and the document describing the location of Robert's war grave. He began to imagine what it must have been like for the family to receive these items at the time.
Jeremy Gordon-Smith discovered his great-great-uncle Ivan Bawtree was one of those employed to photograph war graves. He has recently been working on a project compiling the diaries, memoirs, various letters and numerous photos taken by Bawtree.
He discovered Ivan worked for Kodak and was headhunted in 1915 by Fabian Ware, founder of the then Graves Registration Commission.
The organisation set about recording and caring for all the graves its staff could find. It received letters from relatives of soldiers who had been killed, asking for photographs of their graves. By April 1917 some 12,000 photographs had been sent to relatives.
Many people have come forward with treasured mementos - from diaries, to letters and maps - of the bloody Western Front, including the battles of Ypres, Verdun and the Somme.
Ian Carman in Buckinghamshire discovered the hand-written diary of his great-uncle Jack Farrell while going through the possessions of his mother when she died four years ago. Farrell was a conscientious objector and was exempted from fighting on the grounds he was a paramedic.
The diary begins in 1915 and covers a period of about six months. After arriving in northern France, Jack was detailed to build a hospital.
"What stands out is the futility of war," says Ian, who lives in Newport Pagnell. The hospital Jack was building was shelled, forcing him to rebuild.
The description is to the point and powerful, as when he describes the events of Tuesday, 20 April. He calls it "the day of days", when the Germans were "shelling the town with 17-inch [shells]".
"We are evacuating into ward now ready - but just begun and news arrives of civilians being wounded and wounded begin to arrive on foot. They continue all through the day and night.
"About 30 outpatients are attended to and about 12 bed cases... 17-inch [shells] are falling at intervals of about quarter of an hour and small shells and shrapnel are falling continually."
Richard Mellor's grandfather Edmund Mellor also served in the trenches but his memory of the time is preserved in a different way - in a spoken-word account of his experiences.
The recording was made by Richard's cousin Andrew Wadsworth, Edmund's grandson, in the late 1970s and stored on cassette tapes for many years.
"It's fascinating hearing his stories told in his thick Oldham accent," says Richard, who lives in Blackburn.
In one section, Edmund talks about the first time he saw "real action", on 31 July 1917. He goes "over the top" after mines are exploded under the German lines.
"They expected it to be without any trouble because they thought everything would have been blown to smithereens but it wasn't so," says Mellor. "They were ready for us with machine-guns and whatnot. But luckily, for me at any rate, I wasn't wounded in any way.
"Eventually I think we had to make our way back to our own lines that we had come from. That was typical of the First World War."
It is very likely that other people will have further information or material related to Edmund Mellor or the other people featured in this story, says Luke Smith.
If you have documents from WW1 you wish to share, you can upload them yourself to the IWM's Lives of the First World War, adding to a "hall of memories" for the 21st Century.
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The ideal family of the past was called the “nuclear family. The original nuclear family dynamic included the primary family consisting of two heads of household. This heads-of-household were the husband and wife and one or more children. (The original nuclear family dynamic consisted of a male husband and a female wife.)
This article provides an overview of the nuclear family, blended families, and other non-traditional family types. We talk about bringing blended family types into harmony and what to do when family conflict becomes toxic. Let’s begin by looking at single-parent families.
Single-Parent And Non-Traditional Family Dynamics
Today’s non-traditional family dynamics include single-parent family types. Other non-traditional families include extended family members like grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins into their family dynamic. Single-parent families with a one-parent family dynamic are also on the rise. More people are deciding to raise children on their own, either by choice or circumstance. Men and women alike make up this growing family dynamic.
The single-parent family consists of one-parent household single-parent families, including one or more children raised solely by one parent.
The head-of-household for a single-parent family can often feel overwhelmed without having the support of a secondary partner to help them carry the weight of raising a family alone. This family type relies on the support of extended family and friends. As this family dynamic becomes more common, nuclear families consisting of single-parent households join together to form extended families and community support groups to help raise their children.
As a result of having the help of extended families, many children from a single-parent family report no issues or concerns with their upbringing and may even go on to create this new family dynamic themselves.
The Extended Family Type
Today’s non-traditional family types look a lot different than the nuclear families of the past. The new family dynamic family consists of same-sex couples, parents, grandparents, and even extended family members who all live in the same household. Some extended families have chosen to live together to reduce financial burdens, honor family traditions, and band together to care for elderly family members. The latter can no longer care for themselves.
Other extended families are created as a result of circumstances. Extended families who share the same household and financial responsibilities daily are a new type of nuclear family.
In the past few years, a new family structure is taking shape: grandparents raising their grandchildren. There are more than a few grandparents who have taken on the role of raising their grandchildren. Grandparents take on caring for their grandchildren when their parents aren’t available to care for them.
In some cases, there are mental health issues, substance abuse issues, and medical health issues that keep parents from caring for their children. The childless family dynamic, where only one or two adults in the household, is also becoming another common family type.
People with the childless family dynamic type often substitute having pets for raising children. This family dynamic is becoming more prevalent among millennials who are putting off starting families until they achieve financial stability.
The term “blended families” refers to a family dynamic made up of more than one family. One of the most familiar types of a blended family of our time is one from the popular television sitcom “The Brady Bunch.” This show was one of the first to bring the topic of a blended family into the spotlight as Mike and Carol Brady married and combined families by bringing three of their own children from previous marriages into one household.
The Brady Bunch portrayal of blended family life highlighted some of the issues that today’s blended family types still face today. Blended family life involves members from more than one family sharing a household, chores, and financial responsibility daily.
Many people shy away from creating or entering into blended family types because of the hard work and dedication required to bring a group of strangers into harmony. The blended family dynamic can be one of the most difficult nuclear families to bring into harmony as personality traits and emotions collide. While the task of bringing blended family types into harmony may seem daunting, those who have successfully blended families believe that the rewards far outweigh the effort.
Managing the everyday emotions and duties of extended families can be difficult without professional support and guidance. Everyone that is a member of a blended family brings their own thoughts, behaviors, and traditions from their original family. When people cannot come to a peaceful resolution on important issues that affect all members of the blended family — this can cause conflict when deciding on the best course of action for the entire family to take.
Anyone who has successfully created a blended family knows that bringing this family dynamic into harmony is not an easy task to accomplish. The blended family dynamic can thrive with the right amount of time, effort, and support from outside resources like counselors and community services organizations that offer additional support for families in crisis.
When these family types are initially formed, blended families often have difficulty learning how to understand each other’s perspectives. Family life may be tense, and there may be trouble bringing the “new” family members together for the first time. Another aspect of managing blended nuclear families involves integrated extended family members into this dynamic. Extended families add another layer of emotion to the blended nuclear family dynamic. Without professional support, managing blended nuclear families can quickly become overwhelming. If you feel overwhelmed in your blended family, talking to a licensed marriage and family therapist can help.
When understanding the challenges of blended family types, It’s important to recognize that each family member brings their own set of values to the new family and that each member is likely to feel that their idea is “the best idea.”
Enlisting neutral third-party support like a family counselor can help resolve serious family conflicts with blended families and extended families. A family counselor can teach these family types of new communication strategies to handle and prevent serious family conflicts inside nuclear families (and with the extended family) in the future.
What To Do When Family Conflicts Becomes Toxic
People struggling as head-of-household for blended family types can benefit from individual counseling sessions with a licensed therapy provider. A licensed therapist can help you overcome your individual challenges and teach you how to cope with managing the challenges of blended families.
Creating blended family types can take a serious toll on nuclear families, marriages, and relationships. Both partners try to mitigate the damage and please everyone (including members of the extended family) — which is impossible.
Sessions with a couples therapist or licensed marriage counselor can equip you and your partner with the tools to set boundaries and standards for fair communication within nuclear families and blended households. Your couples therapist can help you learn how to resolve family issues when they arise and your partner relationship issues.
Family therapy sessions are designed to bring all of the nuclear family members together and give each family member a platform to voice their concerns. A licensed family therapist can walk nuclear families through resolving the inevitable family conflicts that arise effectively. Family therapy sessions allow each member of the family to be heard.
Your therapist will provide professional insights and suggestions to help you improve the quality of engagements in nuclear families to begin restoring peace within your home.
ReGain offers solutions for individuals, couples, and families in crisis or nuclear families that want to learn how to communicate more effectively with their loved ones. The ReGain therapy platform allows you and your family members to connect with a licensed mental health provider like licensed marriage and family therapists (LMFTs), licensed clinical social workers (LCSWs), and other board-certified mental health professionals online.
What makes the ReGain platform stand out is our 24-hour availability online. Individuals, couples, and families can log in to access counseling and therapy services any time of the day or night from the comfort and privacy of their own homes and offices.
With the rise of the COVID- 19 pandemic, teletherapy and other telemental health options are becoming popular ways to maintain your mental health while under stay-at-home orders or other local restrictions. These services can help nuclear families resolve issues while under stay-at-home and lockdown orders.
Getting Started With Family Therapy Online
Getting started with ReGain counseling and therapy services for you and your family online is easy. The process requires registering for a free account on the ReGain platform by downloading the App Store or Google Play app. Once you’ve established your account and provided a good contact email, the next step is to get matched with a therapist.
After completing a short questionnaire, the platform is designed to match you with a licensed therapy provider in your state of residence to coordinate ongoing or offline care.
After choosing your therapist and setting up your first appointment, attending your virtual therapy session is the next thing to do. Logging in to get virtual therapy is simple. If you already use social media platforms and apps on your smartphone, then you’re already halfway there. Sessions with your licensed therapist are conducted on the ReGain platform via phone, video, and SMS chat. The SMS chat feature is a popular feature that our clients enjoy as they can communicate questions and get answers from their therapist in real-time.
Online Therapy Vs. In-Person Therapy
The main difference between getting therapy online and getting therapy in an in-office environment — is distance. ReGain online therapy providers are licensed to practice and provide clinical psychotherapy services, just like their offline counterparts. Sessions with your therapist will include a series of interview-style questions about your and your family’s life to learn more about you and identify the issues that disrupt your family harmony.
Online therapy services tend to be much less expensive than offline therapy services, ranging between $65.00 to as much as $200.00 an hour.
Therapy services at ReGain are convenient, discreet, effective, and affordable. Online therapy subscriptions start as low as $40.00 per week. When you consider how much time you save in travel, not having to fill your gas tank, and the amount of frustration you save by getting therapy online, you begin to feel relief immediately as you realize that you now have access to an “always-on” support platform in the palm of your hands.
If you’re ready to take the next step and heal your blended family and resolve toxic family conflicts, reach out to a ReGain therapy expert online.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
What is the success rate of blended families?
Statistics say that the divorce rate for blended families is 60% to 70%, so the success rate is roughly 30% to 40% for blended families that include children from a previous relationship.
Why do blended families fail?
The divorce rate is almost twice as likely for blended families. Some potential reasons include facing difficulties as a step-parent, sibling rivalry or trouble getting along with new family members, trouble with a child adjusting to a new step-parent, and difficulty adjusting to a new family dynamic among family members. There may also be legal issues, financial issues, jealousy, and other concerns. However, your relationship doesn't have to fail, and failure is not the case for every blended family. Remember, all families have family issues, and family issues come in all different shapes and sizes, just like families. It's vital to prioritize your relationship and marriage if you have a blended family because it makes things more likely to go smoothly. If you're preparing to have a newly blended family and are about to get married, consider premarital counseling. If you're already wed or plan to live together but do not wish to be legally wed, consider marriage counseling or couples counseling.
What is the difference between a blended family and a stepfamily?
Typically, people and sources of information for stepfamilies or blended families use these terms interchangeably. The dictionary definition of a blended family is "a family that includes children of a previous marriage of one spouse or both." A blended family or stepfamily will have at least one stepparent or step-parent. You can use either term to describe a blended family.
How do you survive a blended family?
Every blended family is different. For example, some blended families will include teenage children, where others will include toddlers. The way that you navigate a blended family will vary based on factors such as the age of your or your partner's kids, if both of you have a child or if it is just one of you if you've talked about how to be a step-parent or step-parents, if the parent outside of your relationship is involved in the life of your children or stepchildren, and so on. For a successful blended family, you must communicate. Communication between you and your spouse will be one of the most important things when navigating a blended family. You and your spouse must:
All family members must know that they are loved, valued, and recognized within your new family dynamic or new blended family. New step-siblings or stepsiblings may face jealousy, or children may struggle with a new stepparent or new step-parent. Holding family meetings can be beneficial. Adding onto family meetings, you want to make sure to set aside family time in general. In addition to family meetings and family time, you want to ensure that each child is getting adequate care and attention, no matter how old they are. Depending on your kids' age and the unique need of family members within your new blended family, blending families might come with different challenges. The same is true for kids of your children's stepparent, if applicable. When it comes to a new blended family or creating a new family dynamic, every family is different. Even among all of the blending families out there, no two blending families are the same. The temperament and past experiences of family members, new stepsiblings or step-siblings, individual children, and so on will all come into play, so make sure to take that into account as a parent or step-parent.
Who comes first in a blended family?
You must focus on tending to the needs of your children and your marriage. Working on your bond with your children and adolescents is a potential factor that can help blended families succeed. In any family, including a blended family, your kids depend on you. It goes without saying that your children's safety, wellbeing, and emotional needs are of the utmost importance. If you have a new blended family, it's likely that your spouse agrees with this and wants to work together with you to ensure that this transition is as positive as possible. Additionally, it is important to keep the love alive in any marriage, so make sure that you have regular date nights and other times reserved for you and your new spouse or partner. It is possible to tend to your marriage and your children and ensure that both of these aspects of your family life have the necessary attention. Your relationship's health is important, and you want your kids to see you in a healthy relationship. Kids are intuitive, and often, if something's wrong, they'll be able to pick up on it. Every family (and every person) faces unique challenges in life, and specific needs and priorities will depend partially on that fact. If you have trouble navigating a balance between tending to your relationship and your children and stepchildren, consider seeing a couples counselor who can help. In some cases, family counseling may be beneficial. Work together to move through any concerns related to step parenting when you are together with your spouse alone. Should there be a disparity or argument, it is something to navigate in an adults-only environment instead of in front of the kids. If you are a step-parent or new stepparent, it can be challenging, and communication is essential for working through your concerns. A new stepparent or step-parent may worry about stepparenting and have concerns about step-parenting, such as doing something "wrong" during the step-parenting process. It is very normal for step-parents or a new stepparent to feel this way and have concerns about step-parenting or being a step-parent. Still, things will feel easier in time, particularly if you face any potential issues that do come up. Again, don't be afraid to get support. Blended families are beautiful, and yours deserves to thrive!
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To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what is the sum of money owed to the Hong Kong Government, and by whom, for the cost of keeping the Vietnamese boat people.
The office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) currently owes the Hong Kong Government approximately 90 million United States dollars for the care and maintenance of refugees in the territory.
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If the 1993 rates of voluntary repatriation and refugee resettlement can be maintained, and there are no more new arrivals, the Hong Kong camps could be empty within three years.
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This was a clincher—assorted worthies sent their own medals back in protest but everyone else was delighted.
Conclusive as this argument is, there is yet another in reserve, which is a clincher.
Late in 1813, appeared the “Book of Wonders,” “in five parts,” and it was a clincher.
This was a clincher, and the sceptic joined in the laugh at his own expense.
The last remark was intended as a clincher to settle the affair.
This last sentiment impressed these beardless youths as a clincher, and there was a pause.
The movie-maker was in his element now, delivering the clincher in an argument.
It is a clincher which no sophistry can set aside, no reasoning can grapple with, and no logic overthrow.
This proved a clincher, and the lumbermen changed the subject.
"You're a convoluted mule," returned the ghost, tapping the enameled wall with his knuckle, as a clincher to his assertion.
early 14c., "person or thing that clinches" (i.e., secures nails by bending down or riveting the pointed end), late 15c. as a class of shipyard worker; agent noun from clinch (v.). As a type of nail, from 1735; as a conclusive statement, argument, etc., 1737.
The deciding or conclusive element; the BOTTOM LINE: One smudged fingerprint was the clincher (1830s+)
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On their own hook.
Life and tools of the Western Maryland colonist in the Mid 18th century.
This program is interactive and shares my knowledge of the life and tools used by the 18th century woodsmen and hunters of our region.
My program can be presented to Civic Groups, Cub Scout Packs, Boy Scout Troops, Venturing Crews, and Middle or High School classes. I also adjust the amount time spent during a presentation on an age specific level. I'm also available to set up an 18th century camp display at local weekend events so your scouts and visitors can get a glimpse into the daily life of the woodsman.
When I perform my program for Boy Scout and Venture units, I adjust the information so that it may instill a better view of where the backpacking and camping equipment that is used by today's scouts actually originated. My other aim is hopefully to instill a desire in our youth to take the next step and attempt some primitive skills like flint and steel fire making or the creation of personal gear to use on outings and trips.
So, if you would like to see a glimpse of what life was like over 200 years ago, or would like your Scouts to see from what their equipment and trekking food evolved, please feel free to contact me.
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Among the old adages of traditional education, one that always comes up is: “You don’t tie your dog with sausages”.
Meaning: you don’t buy your dog’s loyalty by bludgeoning him with treats.
Do you know my neighbor Mamie-Gâteau?
I mentioned it in one of my old letters.
Mamie-Gâteau (Myriam, her real first name) is a lady I often meet at the park. His pockets are full of treats. And each time, she gives it to my dogs. 2 candies each.
And believe me: my dogs adore him unconditionally. They can be at the other end of the park, busy sniffing, chasing after a cat or eating poop: it doesn’t matter. When they hear Grandma Gateau’s voice, they rush to greet her.
So if, no offense to some: my dogs, we tie them with sausages. And it is very pleasant for everyone.
Between us, I’d rather tie my dog up with treats than with a choke collar.
Not you ? 😉
Because let’s not forget: our dogs are hedonistic and opportunistic by nature.
Our dogs live to have fun. We cannot expect them to obey us “out of unconditional love”. “Love” is a very human concept.
Of course, our dogs “love” us. But in their own way.
If you want your dog to be loyal, you have to MOTIVATE him.
For some, it will be with games. For others (it’s rarer), with affection. And for the vast majority, it will be with… sausages, cheese, pâté, in short: sweets.
Are we doomed to depend on sweets?
The question is legitimate: if the cooperation of the dog is conditioned by the sausage… What to do on the day when the treat bag is empty?
I assure you: even if the reward is essential in benevolent education, the goal is not to condition the success of the dog on obtaining a treat.
Here are 3 tips for using treats wisely, without becoming addicted to them.
First tip: never show your dog the reward BEFORE he performs the exercise.
This is a fairly common mistake: you ask your dog to “sit”; he does not listen; so we take out the candy to get his attention, and there, Miracle! Here he is attentive and wise as an image.
At the moment, it is very convenient. But in the long run, you condition your dog to obey only when he is guaranteed a visible reward. And the day we don’t have one… good luck getting Fido’s attention.
What to do instead?
Keep, as often as possible, treats on you, not visible. In your pocket or treat pouch.
Above all, wait until your dog has succeeded in the exercise you are asking him to do before taking the treat. Your hand should not even approach your pocket until the exercise is 100% finished.
You can use a marker (like the Clicker for example), to have more precision, and that your dog understands more quickly what you expect from him.
Sara, our dog trainer, shows how to do it in a video demonstration, included in the training “The Toolkit of Positive Education”. You can find it on this link.
In this training, there is also a module with the steps, one by one, to gradually dispense with the treat when an exercise is acquired.
Second Tip: Stop the rewards gradually
You have (for example) succeeded in teaching your dog to recall: congratulations! The exercise is acquired, you can now walk it without your candy bag.
But Medor is not of this opinion. He does not understand why, overnight, he is no longer rewarded for his beautiful reminder. He wonders if he has understood or succeeded in the exercise. And, with a sudden cessation of rewards, he loses his motivation.
A demotivated dog is a dog that will have more difficulty being cooperative. So even when the exercise is acquired, continue to reward, but 2 times out of 3. Then once out of 2. Then a third of the time, etc.
Third tip: Keep rewarding randomly, for fun 😊
Merlin knows the recall exercise. It’s been happening for years. Nevertheless, once in a while, when he comes back to life, I still give him a treat.
After all: even if he knows the drill, it’s a big sacrifice for him to abandon his friends, the track he was following, or this very attractive trash can, just to please me.
If he isn’t fairly rewarded every once in a while, he’ll end up wondering if he shouldn’t just ignore me. After all, what does he gain by having an impeccable recall?
So to maintain his motivation, do not hesitate to reward Médor when you have a treat on you. Even if it is for an easy exercise, which he already masters.
A short parenthesis to conclude: which treats to choose?
First thing: avoid rewarding your dog with kibble. You can do this, for example, if you ask him for an easy exercise, like a “sitting” beast in the middle of the living room.
But the value of the reward must be commensurate with the difficulty of the exercise. And the croquette, it does not have a lot of value. Normal: it’s all dry, and most dogs eat plenty of it at every meal.
So when, for example, I work on the socialization of Maki: I know that I have a lot more chance of diverting him from a fellow creature when I work with sausages, than with stupid croquettes!
Cheese crusts, knackis, pâté, cooked chicken… Don’t be afraid to dirty your pockets.
You will see that the more palatable the treat, the more your dog’s motivation will be palpable.
Health issue: avoid industrial sweets, such as Biscrok. They are very caloric. As in positive education, we reward a lot, you risk ending up with an obese dog.
Choose 100% meat treats, and ideally, moist ones.
For my part, I don’t even buy dog treats, which are often very expensive. I buy knackis, which I cut into tiny pieces (a single sausage makes me about 40 goodies). It’s cheaper, low in calories, but very appetizing (and therefore motivating) for my dogs.
With that, I leave you with a dog who, I hope, will be very motivated during his next education session 😉
Claude Lefevre and my 3 dogs, Penelope, Maki and Merlin
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An estimated 50 million Americans have allergies and anywhere from 35 percent to 50 percent use antihistamines.
In a recent study of 867 U.S. adults, researchers at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, found that prescription antihistamine users were more likely to be overweight or obese than non-users.
Among the 268 antihistamine users, 45 percent were overweight, versus 30 percent of the 599 study participants not on the medications.
Researchers were interested in looking at the relationship between antihistamines and weight because of what's known about medications called atypical antipsychotics. Drugs, such as olanzapine (Zyprexa) and risperidone (Risperdal) are used to treat schizophrenia and other mental illnesses and carry the side effect of weight gain. They also have antihistamine effects.
Histamine is a chemical produced in the body that is best known for its role in promoting the inflammation associated with allergic responses. Blocking histamine is a good thing when it comes to relieving hay fever symptoms.
Cells throughout the brain have receptors for histamine and the chemical appears to play a role in a number of physiological functions. Appetite control and calorie burning are among them.
So in theory, antihistamines could contribute to overeating and slower fat breakdown.
On average, antihistamine users had a higher body mass index (BMI). That compared with a BMI of about 28 among non-users, which correlates to being moderately overweight. BMI is a standard measure of weight in relation to height used to gauge obesity.
When the researchers accounted for participants' age and sex, antihistamine use was linked to a 55 percent increase in the odds of being overweight versus non-use. The medications were not linked to higher odds of elevated blood sugar, insulin or cholesterol, however.
More studies are needed to see whether antihistamines do in fact have an effect on body weight.
Experts recommended that people with allergies talk with their doctors about all the potential side effects of the different treatment options and try to find one that works best for them.
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by Violeta Rubiani, NWJP Program Administrator
Photo by Violeta Rubiani
If you got hurt at work today, would you know what your workers' comp rights are or what you’re supposed to do to file a claim?
If you answered no to that question, you’re not unlike the more than 20,000* Oregon workers who find themselves in that very spot each year. Hurt, scared and staring at real and long-term financial threats, many workers also face retaliation for reporting injuries, are shamed by employers and shunned by co-workers, or are steered to employer-friendly health practitioners who may not have the workers’ best interest at heart.
Even when a claim is accepted, an injury can disrupt a worker’s life in many ways: the worker may be required to attend time-consuming medical appointments and evaluations; she may not receive her full salary while on temporary partial or total disability (TPD or TTD in workers’ comp lingo); or a worker who is undocumented may face termination and may not be entitled to full compensation if his injury is permanently disabling.
For years now, NWJP has borne witness to the ways in which the workers’ compensation system fails the most vulnerable workers in Oregon – immigrants, non-English speakers, and contingent and low-wage workers.
That’s why this year, with $10,000 in seed funding from the Doug Swanson Memorial Fund (named after dedicated workers’ comp leader, Douglas A. Swanson), NWJP is launching the Injured Workers’ Project after many months of investigation, preparation and planning.
The project will be based in the Willamette Valley, and will have four key components:
- In collaboration with the Oregon AFL-CIO, NWJP will organize a Coalition (or Committee) for Occupational Safety and Health (known as COSH) to advocate for enhanced occupational health and safety standards and procedures, particularly those affecting low-wage, immigrant and contingent workers;
- NWJP will develop a pilot program to measure whether culturally appropriate job safety training conducted by low-wage, immigrant and contingent workers to their peers is effective in reducing on-the-job injuries among these workers. The pilot will likely start out in agriculture and construction.
- NWJP will offer Know-Your-Rights training to workers in the areas of workers’ compensation benefits and procedures for accessing and navigating the system;
- NWJP will conduct an in-depth assessment of Oregon’s workers’ compensation system and why it’s currently failing immigrant and contingent workers, and propose solutions that will ensure all workers have access to the system and receive the benefits they deserve and to which they are entitled.
At NWJP, we are beyond excited about this project and are looking forward to joining forces with community partners, unions, and workers to address the many inequities keeping low-wage, contingent, and immigrant workers in physical and financial pain.
* Source: Dept. of Consumer & Business Services
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The government must engage with local charities on the best way to replace European funding after Brexit, a coalition of charities has said.
A new report by the Community Wealth Fund Alliance, which includes the Local Trust, the New Economics Foundation and Social Enterprise UK, warns about the potential damage when funding for areas of the UK is “dropped in from a national level” rather than planned through partnerships between local bodies.
The government has committed to creating a Shared Prosperity Fund (SPF), which will replace the European Structural and Investment Funds, which will no longer be available when the UK leaves the European Union.
The Community Wealth Fund Alliance has been calling for dormant assets from stocks, shares and pension funds to be used to support a new Community Wealth fund that would distribute funds to some of the most deprived parts of the country.
It had compiled the, Sharing in prosperity, as a companion report, intending to publish it as its consultation submission for the UK Shared Prosperity Fund, but the government has not yet begun the consultation.
The report says there are concerns about the design of the Stronger Towns Fund, a different fund announced in March “in particular the extent to which a competitive element to the fund may exclude those communities most in need of support,” and urges the government to make sure it gets the design of both funds right.
The report, says the new fund “will need to encourage and convene partnerships with small, local charities and voluntary organisations, development trusts, social enterprises and locally-rooted businesses committed to their community over the long term.”
It continues: “Harnessing appropriate local partnerships can bring significant benefits which can be missed when funds are dropped in from a national level.”
Other recommendations in Sharing in prosperity include multi-year funding cycles so that charities can develop longer-term strategic plans, investment in stronger social bonds as well as physical infrastructure, and giving communities greater control over their own assets.
In a blog to accompany the report, Matt Leach, chief executive of Local Trust wrote that “new funding must also be seen as an opportunity to develop lasting partnerships – not just between the community, public and private sectors, but also vertically, between the neighbourhood, local, and regional levels.”
The report comes amid growing concerns from some in the charity sector that responsibility for distributing funds from the SPF will fall to Local Enterprise Partnerships, regional bodies which bring together business people, academics and public sector professionals.
A parliamentary committee inquiry into LEPs, published last week, found that the government “has made no effort to evaluate the value for money of nearly £12bn in public funds, nor does it have any robust plans to do so.”
The committee added that LEPs were “dogged by a lack of local accountability.”
Karl Wilding, director of policy and incoming chief executive at NCVO, told Civil Society that "all the signals from government" were that LEPs would distribute funds from the SPF, although no announcement has yet been made.
Charities bring essential "softer" skills and connections to local plans, Wilding added, to complement economic focus.
Wilding added: "Whether it’s social enterprise or cooperatives charities, there's no doubt the sector has an important role to play in local economic development."
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What is the Missouri River Fort Benton Bridge project?
The Montana Department of Transportation’s (MDT) Fort Benton Bridge project will evaluate the existing bridge over the Missouri River to determine if it can be repaired or if it should be replaced. The analysis of alternatives, both pros and cons, to either repair or replace the bridge will focus on solutions to increase its service life, best use of public funds, and impacts to the public during construction.
The project will analyze the following alternatives:
- a deck mill and overlay option,
- a full deck replacement along with a detour bridge and/or partial closures, or
- a full bridge replacement with phased construction to maintain traffic across the river during construction.
What is wrong with the current bridge?
The bridge was constructed in 1962 and is still safe to use, but the bridge deck (the part you drive on) is in poor condition and needs repair. The bridge has other deficiencies, such as a narrow roadway and inadequate shoulder width.
Why is the bridge so important?
Fort Benton is the crossroads for business in Chouteau County. Infrastructure that is in good condition is vital to the local and regional economies, including businesses such as wheat growers, grain processors, trucking, and tourism.
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As a child-focused organization, terre des hommes Germany– India Programme aims to support children, women and their communities, irrespective of gender, caste and religion, by finding them the most suitable ways to improve their lives without separating them from their cultural and social environment. terre des hommes strongly believes in active participation by the children in their communities and in process empower and enable themselves to shape their won future.
terre des hommes Germany – India Programme focuses its endeavours on equal educational and development opportunities for children, youth and their communities regardless of their religion, gender or race and envisions a world in which survival is guaranteed for all children, no child is exploited and where economic and social justice and peace prevail.
terre des hommes Germany-India Programme supports initiatives that promote the socio-economic wellbeing and empowerment of marginalised groups with focus on activities and alliances that mobilize public opinion and create awareness on issues of children’s and women’s rights. We think of these as Springboards. Destination Unknown- Children on the Move looks at the issues surrounding children displaced due to war, poverty, disaster etc). Other springboards are Campaign Against Child Labour (CACL). Our other priorities are ecological and environmental rights of children.
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The goal of physical therapy for treating hip osteoarthritis is to reduce the pressure that causes the pain and inflammation in the hip joints by strengthening and stretching the surrounding muscles. Apart from the changing the biomechanics, a physical therapy program may also include passive modalities that aim toward treating the joint inflammation.
Video presented by Grant Cooper, MD
This video accompanies the article: What Is Hip Osteoarthritis?.
There are two major components to treating hip osteoarthritis. The first is taking away the inflammation from the joint to alleviate the pain; the other is to make sure we address the biomechanics to take the pressure off the hip so that the inflammation does not return. This generally begins with exercise – with physical therapy, with stretching, with strengthening. We’re looking at the entire kinetic chain, making sure that if the person hyperpronates in their feet – if they have flat feet, that gets corrected with either a custom or over-the-counter orthotic.
We’re looking at the entire gait cycle to make sure that the biomechanics are as good as possible. Along the way with physical therapy and exercises, sometimes we give oral medications in order to help with the pain of osteoarthritis. It is not going to fix the hip osteoarthritis, but it can help alleviate the symptoms while we’re going about addressing the biomechanics. Within physical therapy, there are a number of passive modalities like ultrasound, soft tissue massage, and TENS units, which help to alleviate the symptoms in the moment and also ideally help to alleviate some of the inflammation in the joint.
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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton defended her opposition of the Trans-Pacific Partnership in the first Democratic debate of the 2016 race.
Clinton announced last week that she no longer supports the international trade deal, despite supporting it while serving as secretary of state -- once calling it the "gold standard." CNN anchor and debate moderator Anderson Cooper picked up on those words and asked Clinton about her reversal at the Oct. 13 debate in Las Vegas.
[Reposted from Politifact | Lauren Carroll | October 13, 2015]
"I did say, when I was secretary of state, three years ago, that I hoped it would be the gold standard," Clinton said. "It was just finally negotiated last week, and in looking at it, it didn't meet my standards. My standards for more new, good jobs for Americans, for raising wages for Americans. And I want to make sure that I can look into the eyes of any middle-class American and say, ‘this will help raise your wages.’ And I concluded I could not."
Clinton’s phrasing -- that she said she "hoped it would be the gold standard" -- implies that she was undecided on the TPP. But that doesn’t exactly match up to her prior comments. We found that her previous remarks actually gave the impression that she had confidence in the deal as it stood.
In Australia in 2012, Clinton delivered remarks on the general topic of the U.S.-Australia relationship. Here’s everything she said about the TPP in that address, with the "gold standard" comment in bold.
"So it's fair to say that our economies are entwined, and we need to keep upping our game both bilaterally and with partners across the region through agreements like the Trans-Pacific Partnership or TPP. Australia is a critical partner. This TPP sets the gold standard in trade agreements to open free, transparent, fair trade, the kind of environment that has the rule of law and a level playing field. And when negotiated, this agreement will cover 40 percent of the world's total trade and build in strong protections for workers and the environment."
So it seems Clinton is saying the TPP does, definitevely set the gold standard -- as opposed to Clinton hoping it will.
In other addresses around the same time, she expressed similar assuredness that the TPP would meet a high standard. In November 2012 remarks in Singapore, she encouraged all nations "willing to meet 21st century standards as embodied in the TPP" to join the deal.
"The so-called TPP will lower barriers, raise standards, and drive long-term growth across the region. It will cover 40 percent of the world's total trade and establish strong protections for workers and the environment. Better jobs with higher wages and safer working conditions, including for women, migrant workers and others too often in the past excluded from the formal economy will help build Asia's middle class and rebalance the global economy. Canada and Mexico have already joined the original TPP partners. We continue to consult with Japan. And we are offering to assist with capacity building, so that every country in ASEAN can eventually join. We welcome the interest of any nation willing to meet 21st century standards as embodied in the TPP, including China."
Here are some of the other words Clinton used to describe the TPP before she left the State Department in 2013: "exciting," "innovative," "ambitious," "groundbreaking," "cutting-edge," "high-quality" and "high-standard." (To read more of her comments in full, check out our previous article on this subject.)
As a presidential candidate Clinton has used more hedging language, for example saying she has "some concerns," and now she has said she outright doesn’t support the deal as it stands.
"Because TPP negotiations are still ongoing, it makes sense to reserve judgment until we can evaluate the final proposed agreement. It’s safe to say the TPP won’t be perfect -- no deal negotiated among a dozen countries ever will be -- but its higher standards, if implemented and enforced, should benefit American businesses and workers."
In fairness to Clinton, the TPP was still under negotiation when Clinton made the "gold standard" comment. The partners only finalized the deal this year. It’s quite possible the deal looks dramatically different than it did at the early stages of negotiations, when Clinton was at the State Department -- something Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill pointed out to us for this fact-check. The negotiations have been conducted in secret, so it’s hard for us to assess that ourselves. Also, as secretary of state, she spoke as a representative of the Obama administration, which was and remains wholeheartedly in favor of the deal.
Clinton said when she was secretary of state, she was reserving judgment but "hoped (the Trans-Pacific Partnership) would be the gold standard."
She’s twisting her 2012 remarks a bit. Clinton said, "This TPP sets the gold standard in trade agreements," which is a more confident claim than if she had said she "hoped" it would meet that standard. This is in contrast to more recent comments where Clinton said she had concerns about the deal and that she ultimately opposes it.
The statement is distorting her previous comments. We rate it Half True.
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Makale özeti ve diğer detaylar.
IT academics need to keep curriculum material up to date in an ever-changing technological universe. Establishing a new subject accounts for just a fraction of the overall investment in time and money. A greater proportion of expense occurs in the maintenance cycle. This is especially true in the IT discipline, where subject content is frequently modified to reflect both academic advances and current industry focus. One cost effective approach is to establish an industry alliance, and to include professional courseware in the curriculum. CSU has adopted this approach by offering programs in conjunction with a corporate partner, IT Masters Pty Ltd (http://www.itmasters.com.au), as well as with vendors such as Cisco and Microsoft. These programs contain both an academic and industry component. Upon completion of the program, graduates receive professional certification such as Microsoft’s MCSE or Cisco’s CCNA, as well as a Bachelor’s or Master’s level degree.
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Harmony Jones received a letter, written in pink, blue and green markers from a friend saying her dad would not let his daughter go because of her race
The birthday party of a 10-year-old was ruined after one of her best friends wrote to say she was unable to attend after her racist father banned her from going as she was black.
Harmony Jones received a letter, written in pink, blue and green markers, which read: "Maby (sic) I will not be able to come to your birthday sleepover, because my dad will not let me go because you are black not trying to be races (sic), but my mom let me no [sic] Happy birthday!'
Both girls attend Highland Oaks Elementary School in Memphis, Tennessee.
Harmony’s father, Christopher Jones said: “It angered me a little bit, it hurt me that my 10-year-old girl had to deal with this and I myself never thought I would have to deal with this.
"I guess us as parents need to be more aware and conscious about what we teach our children.
“You would think in the 21st century people would be judged strictly on their character or their personality, not on the colour of their skin.”
Mr Jones, who has another daughter, said he did not blame the girl for the letter and wanted the incident did not spoil the party.
He added he hoped people “would learn from the situation while describing the school the girls attend as a "multi-racial and friendly environment”.
Highland Oaks PTA president Barbara Davis, who has three children at the school, said the letter as “thankfully” an isolated incident.
“We have a lot wider variety of populations at the school, but, in saying that, we’ve been a very close group,” said Davis.
“I’m calling them ignorant, but it’s their choice to feel that way, right or wrong.”
Civil rights activist Lasimba Gray said the letter was "regrettable".
He said: “Fifty-two years since the Dr King 'I have a dream' speech, you would think that the basis for racism would disappear, but evidently it is being perpetuated by those who teach it.
“Every child has a blank canvas when they come into the world.
“When parents run across racism that’s a good moment to teach tolerance but more than that to teach understanding to appreciate each other and celebrate our diversity.”
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The mythical al Qaeda is a hierarchical organization. After losing its haven in Afghanistan, it cleverly decentralized authority and shifted its headquarters to Pakistan. But central management still dispatches operatives globally and manages affiliates according to a strategy.
The real al Qaeda is a fragmented and unmanageable movement. In the 1990s, it achieved limited success in getting other jihadists to join in attacking the West. It was not managerial innovation but the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan and other governments’ pressures that destroyed the limited hierarchy al Qaeda Central had achieved. Its scattered remnant in Pakistan controls little locally and less abroad. The leaders have cachet but lack the material incentives that real managers distribute to exercise authority. Al Qaeda became bunches of guys with diminished capability.*
The myth is destructive to counterterrorism. Because tightly-run organizations are better at mass violence than disparate movements, the myth creates needless fear that encourages overly ambitious and expensive policies, like the war in Afghanistan. The myth increases the number of enemies we face, taking focus from real ones. Most jihadist militants hate Americans but don’t try to kill us. They fight locally. Attacking them risks making them into what we fear they are and stoking nationalistic resentment that increases their popularity.
My anecdotal sense is that events since 9/11 have increasingly brought commentators around to truth. Even so, the media, for simplicity’s sake, tends towards the myth. And the Obama administration, despite improving upon its predecessors’ absurdly broad definition of our terrorist enemies, still overstates al Qaeda Central’s unity and control of affiliates. More importantly, U.S. policies still pay insufficient attention to the distinction among various al Qaeda entities.
Here are three recent examples of this rhetorical error and its consequences:
(1) Since bin Laden’s death, U.S. officials, analysts, and pundits have claimed that the cache of emails found in his compound contradict recent intelligence reports downplaying his control. The emails, we are told, show that he was still running the show and that al Qaeda Central remained potent.
Last week, however, McClatchy quoted more anonymous officials suggesting that to al Qaeda types in Pakistan and beyond, bin Laden was like a “cranky old uncle” that you respectfully listen to and ignore. The Washington Post reported that the emails show al Qaeda leaders in Pakistan complaining about depleted funds, declining popularity, and CIA drones decimating their ranks.
The White House seems conflicted about which view of al Qaeda to take. It commendably wants to belittle al Qaeda, robbing it of mystique by portraying bin Laden as pathetic and weak. On the other hand, it needs the threat of a powerful al Qaeda to justify the war in Afghanistan and other controversial policies.
(2) Media reports often give the impression that al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) are the core of the militant group (Ansar al-Sharia) revolting in Yemen’s south. The implication is al Qaeda could soon control territory for the first time. Too little attention is given to the uncertain role AQAP plays among Yemen’s militants and its limited ties to al Qaeda Central. Bin Laden apparently asked AQAP’s leader to attack Americans rather than gathering territory locally, suggesting that its commitment to attacking us may be limited.
The point is not that we should ignore al Qaeda terrorists in Yemen. But uncertainty about their role in Yemen and intent cautions against undifferentiated assaults on their leaders, let alone those of Ansar al-Sharia.
(3) Since our recent drone strike in Somalia on leaders of the al-Shabab insurgent group, the administration has claimed that Shabab’s leaders are plotting terrorism against American or western targets. The only evidence given for this assertion is vague claims of Shabab’s ties to Yemeni militants and its claim of responsibility for a 2010 terrorist bombing in Uganda. But that bombing came because Ugandan troops are in the African Union force fighting al-Shabab. While reprehensible, the attack does not show a desire to terrorize Americans.
At the risk of sounding quaint, Congress should make the administration substantiate its claims that Shabab is targeting Americans before we bomb them further. We have enough insurgents to fight these days outside Somalia.
*These positions are roughly those taken by Bruce Hoffman and Marc Sageman, respectively. My aim is not to perfectly state their views, however, but to describe general views in terrorism commentary.
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New research has revealed that entrepreneurship is on the rise, and especially so amongst Black Americans.
Black Entrepreneurship on the Rise
The multi-year Venture Forward study initiated by GoDaddy aimed to measure the local economic impact of online microbusinesses, described as small businesses that often originate as side hustles and typically have less than 10 employees. The researchers discovered that 2.8 million more United States-based microbusinesses were started in 2020 than in 2019, with 26% of those started by Black business owners.
Growth of Black Entrepreneurship
That 26% of all new business start-ups in 2020 is an 11% increase on the number of new Black-owned business start-ups from the previous year. The study also found that Black women’s activity in the microbusiness space contributes massively to the overall rise in Black entrepreneurship. Of all the Black-owned microbusinesses started in 2021, 73.5% were started by Black women, which is a 16.8% increase on the 2020 number.
The most popular sectors for new Black microbusinesses include retail, transport logistics and personal care services, as well as arts and entertainment.
The study also showed that Black microbusiness owners were more likely to view their business as a side hustle, with 46% of Black entrepreneurs describing their business as such. Only 33% of non-Black entrepreneurs considered their business a side hustle, with 50% considering it their full time job. Comparatively, only 41% of Black entrepreneurs considered their microbusiness as a full-time job.
Data ‘Instrumental’ in Understanding Business Policy
The co-founder and president of the Small Business Advocacy Council in Chicago, Elliot Richardson, described how the Venture Forward study’s data could help: “We should be allocating funds to ensure the survival of microbusinesses that started during the pandemic, so they have a chance to scale up. Data is absolutely instrumental in understanding what sort of policies are going to help microbusinesses.
“It’s a chance to re-imagine our economy and grow new businesses and new types of participation.”
Venture Forward Assisting Policy Makers
The Venture Forward research team believe that uncovering this data related to Black entrepreneurship will ultimately assist policy makers in creating more inclusive economies.
The information will also help economic developers and elected officials in supporting this rising community. This is especially important as microbusinesses often don’t receive the acknowledgement their contributions to local economic growth and opportunity deserve.
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I HAD A DREAM THE OTHER NIGHT. I was at a benefit performance of a new Andrew Lloyd Webber extravaganza, called "Stonewall: The Musical." It reminded me of "Les Miserables" (not a Webber musical, but this was, after all, a dream). The central character was a drag queen named Sylvia, and instead of the dramatic high point of the show taking place atop a barricade on a Paris street in a confrontation between government troops and a band of youthful revolutionaries, the climax in "Stonewall: The Musical" was set in Greenwich Village's Sheridan Square. To the beat of "Supermodel," a chorus line of Ru Paul look-alikes high-kicked in from stage left as a phalanx of goose-stepping New York City policemen - actually the 1970s disco group, the Village People, dressed in riot gear - marched in from stage right.
In the moment before the police started beating heads and ripping bodices, I stood up on my seat and started yelling that this wasn't the way it happened. Sylvia, who was at the center of the chorus line, stopped mid-kick, glared down at me from her ten-inch platform shoes (they didn't wear platform shoes in 1969!), dramatically rolled her eyes, and with hands on hips yelled back at me, "Honey, get over it. Everyone likes this story better." My friend John pulled me back into my seat and the show went on without further interruption. I woke up that morning with a splitting headache.
It's only been 25 years since the real riots broke out at the Stonewall Inn on Christopher Street in Greenwich Village, but like a ridiculously long game of telephone, the Stonewall legend that's emerged from the end of the line is only an echo of the original event. It kind of reminds me of the lessons I learned in elementary school about "How The West Was Won." Great story, and even a fun movie starring Debbie Reynolds, but not nearly as interesting or complex as the real thing.
The story of what really happened at Stonewall has yet to be distorted and embellished beyond the point of recognition, but it's well on its way. The myth gets a boost every time someone writes about how "heroic drag queens started a riot at the Stonewall Inn, which marked the beginning of the gay rights movement."
After writing Making History, which is about the gay rights struggle from 1945 to 1990, and interviewing people who were at Stonewall Inn the night of the riot, and having read eyewitness accounts of what actually happened, the much-repeated telescoped myth makes me want to scream. Some of my friends have told me to give it up, that the tide is against me. But on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the riot at the Stonewall Inn, I thought I'd make one last effort to set the record straight about a remarkable event that marked a key turning point in the history of the gay and lesbian rights struggle. It also happens to be a great story. So pull up a chair, because it's a couple of minutes to eight, and the curtain's about to rise.
The Stonewall Inn: a nondescript two-story building at 53 Christopher Street, just off of Sheridan Square in New York's Greenwich Village.
Dawn Hampton, a torch singer and hat check girl, who went to work at the Stonewall when it opened in 1966, recalled that Stonewall Inn was "the biggest after hours gay dance palace in the city at that time. The place there now is much smaller than the original."
When Ms. Hampton first went to work there, you didn't just walk into the Stonewall, you had to be admitted. "You had to be identified by someone at the door who either assumed or knew you were of that life. I had worked at so many of the gay bars as a performer and hat check girl that I was often called to the door and asked, 'Do you know this person?' You see, at that time there was a lot of entrapment going on. Police would come to a gay bar and pretend that they were of that life. They would try to get someone to make sexual advances, arrest the poor fellow and later come back and bust the bar for allowing deviates and undesirables to be there."
As thoroughly documented by Martin Duberman in his book, Stonewall, the Stonewall Inn was opened by "three Mafia figures... who spent less than a thousand dollars in fixing up the club's interior." The late Morty Manford, who was a nineteen-year-old college student in 1969, recalled that the Stonewall was a dive. "It was my favorite place, but it was shabby, and the glasses they served the watered-down drinks in weren't particularly clean."
eyond the front door and past the coat room, where Dawn Hampton presided, the Stonewall had a main bar, a dance floor, and a juke box. There was another bar in back, with tables where people could sit.
The Stonewall Inn attracted an eclectic crowd, from teenage college students like Morty Manford to conservatively dressed young men who stopped in with their dates after the theater or opera. "It was a different mind-set then," recalled Dawn Hampton. "On weekends, men dressed up. A lot of them were dating and they would dress in coat and tie."
There was also a sprinkling of young radicals, people like Ronnie Di Brienza, a twenty-six-year old long-haired musician who didn't consider himself gay or straight. "I must consider myself a freak."
The Stonewall Inn was not a generally welcoming place for drag queens, although as Martin Duberman notes, "...a few favored full-time transvestites, like Tiffany, Spanola Jerry, a hairdresser from Sheepshead Bay, and Tammy Novak... were allowed to enter Stonewall in drag..."
The nightly crowd at the Stonewall Inn did include, however, quite a few men that Dick Leitsch described as the "fluffy sweater" type. "It wasn't drag queens. They were sissies, young effeminate guys, giggle girls." Leitsch, who was then executive director of the Mattachine Society, a gay rights group founded in 1950, said you rarely saw people in full drag because "in those days you got busted for dressing up unless you were on your way to or from a licensed masquerade ball."
Sylvia Rivera recalled that if you were a drag queen, you could get into the Stonewall if they knew you, but he favored the Washington Square Bar at Third Street and Broadway. When he dressed up, Sylvia liked to pretend that he was a white woman. "I always like to say that, but really I'm Puerto Rican and Venezuelan."
If men dressed as women were an uncommon sight, real women at the Stonewall Inn were rarer still. More often than not, when Dawn Hampton worked at the Stonewall, she was the only woman there, yet felt fully accepted. "A lot of the kids called me 'Mommie.'"
June 27, 1969, was not an average Friday night at the Stonewall Inn. Earlier that week, on Tuesday night, the police had raided the Stonewall "to gather evidence of illegal sale of alcohol."
Ronnie Di Brienza later wrote in an article in The East Village Other, "On Wednesday and Thursday nights, grumbling could be heard among the limp-wristed set. Predominantly, the theme was, 'this shit has got to stop!' ...It used to be that a fag was happy to get slapped and chased home, as long as they didn't have to have their names splashed onto a court record. Now, times are a-changin'. Tuesday night was the last night for bullshit."
The late film historian, Vito Russo, didn't know about the Tuesday night raid, but he was in a foul mood on Friday night as he approached the Stonewall on his way home from work, because earlier that day he'd attended Judy Garland's funeral. He recalled, "The day before the funeral thousands of people had waited in the street to view the body. They were lined up all the way down Eighty-First Street and on Fifth Avenue by Central Park. They kept the funeral home open around the clock, and more than twenty thousand people filed through. It was a spectacle to behold."
There also happened to be a full moon on the night of June 27, 1969.
Scene 1: The Raid
Morty Manford was at the Stonewall Inn when several plainclothes officers entered the bar around 2:00 a.m. "Whispers went around that the place was being raided. Suddenly, the lights were turned up, the doors were sealed, and all the patrons were held captive until the police decided what they were going to do. I was anxious, but I wasn't afraid. Everybody was anxious, not knowing whether we were going to be arrested or what was going to happen."
"It may have been ten or fifteen minutes later that we were all told to leave. We had to line up, and our identification was checked before we were freed. People who did not have identification or were under age and all transvestites were detained."
Of the two hundred people ejected from the Stonewall that night, five who were dressed as women were detained. According to Village Voice reporter Howard Smith, as he wrote in an article entitled "Full Moon Over The Stonewall," "...Out of five queens checked, three were men and two were [transsexuals], even though all said they were girls." Smith had coincidentally been accompanying the police on the Stonewall raid that night.
Scene 2: The Riot
After being released from the bar, Morty Manford watched and waited outside. "As some of the gays came out of the bar, they would take a bow, and their friends would cheer." It was a colorful scene, Morty recalled, but the tension began to grow.
Howard Smith observed, "Things were already pretty tense: the gay customers freshly ejected from their hangout, prancing high and jubilant in the street, had been joined by quantities of Friday night tourists hawking around for Village-type excitement... Loud defiances mixed with skittish hilarity made for a more dangerous stage of protest; they were feeling their impunity. This kind of crowd freaks easily." The crowd grew to more than 400 people.
Lucian Truscott IV, who was also at the Stonewall that night reporting for the Village Voice, wrote that the scene was initially festive: "Cheers would go up as favorites would emerge from the door, strike a pose, and swish by the detective with a 'Hello there, fella.' The stars were in their element. Wrists were limp, hair was primped, and reactions to the applause were classic. 'I gave them the gay power bit, and they loved it, girls.' 'Have you seen Maxine? Where is my wife - I told her not to go far.'"
Truscott reported that the mood changed once the paddy wagon arrived and three drag queens, the bartender and the doorman were loaded inside. The crowd showered the police with boos and catcalls and "a cry went up to push the paddy wagon over, but it drove away before anything could happen... The next person to come out was a dyke, and she put up a struggle - from car to door to car again."
At this point Smith reported that the police had trouble keeping "the dyke" in the patrol car. "Three times she slid out and tried to walk away. The last time a cop bodily heaved her in. The crowd shrieked, 'Police brutality!' 'Pigs!'"
Sylvia Rivera was watching the whole scene. "It was inhumane, senseless bullshit. They called us animals. We were the lowest scum of the Earth at that time... Suddenly, the nickels, dimes, pennies, and quarters started flying. I threw quarters and pennies and whatnot. 'You already got the payoff, and here's some more!' To be there was so beautiful. It was so exciting. I said, 'Well great, now it's my time. I'm out here being a revolutionary for everybody else, and now it's time to do my thing for my own people.'"
The tension continued to rise. Truscott writes: "Limp wrists were forgotten. Beer cans and bottles were heaved at the windows." Reporter Howard Smith retreated inside the bar along with Deputy Inspector Seymour Pine, and the police officers who had conducted the raid. Once inside the bar, they bolted the heavy front door.
From his vantage point outside the bar, Morty remembered seeing someone throw a rock, which broke a window on the second floor of the Stonewall Inn building. "With the shattering of the glass, the crowd collectively exclaimed, 'Ooh.' It was a dramatic gesture of defiance. For me, there was a slight lancing of the festering wound of anger that had been building for so long over this kind of unfair harassment and prejudice. It wasn't my fault that many of the bars where I could meet other gay people were run by organized crime."
Inside the Stonewall, Smith heard the shattering of glass, including at least one of the two large plate glass windows on the first floor. The windows, which were painted black from the inside, were backed by plywood panels.
There was pounding at the door and people yelling. Smith writes: "The door crashes open, beer cans and bottles hurtle in... At that point the only uniformed cop among them gets hit with something under his eye. He hollers, and his hand comes away scarlet... They are all suddenly furious. Three run out to see if they can scare the mob from the door. [Inspector Seymour] Pine leaps out into the crowd and drags a protester inside by the hair."
Outside, with the crowd still growing, Truscott observes, "At the height of the action, a bearded figure was plucked from the crowd and dragged inside... the crowd erupted into cobblestone and bottle heaving. The reaction was solid: they were pissed. The trash can I was standing on was nearly yanked out from under me as a kid tried to grab it for use in the window-smashing melee."
Ronnie Di Brienza, the long-haired musician picks up the story here: "A bunch of 'queens' along with a few 'butch' members, grabbed a parking meter, and began battering the entrance until the door swung open."
Inside, Smith and the police duck as more debris is thrown in through the open door. In response, Smith writes, "The detectives locate a fire hose, the idea being to ward off the madding crowd until reinforcements arrive."
Lucian Truscott describes what happens next: "Several kids took the opportunity to cavort in the spray, and their momentary glee served to stave off what was rapidly becoming a full-scale attack."
Smith grows fearful as the tension escalates. He observes, "By now the minds eye had forgotten the character of the mob; the sound filtering in doesn't suggest dancing faggots any more. It sounds like a powerful rage bent on vendetta..."
The crowd then heaves the uprooted parking meter through one of the plate glass windows. The plywood behind the window gives.
Smith writes, "It seems inevitable that the mob will pour in. A kind of tribal adrenaline rush bolsters all of us; they take out and check pistols. I see both policewomen busy doing the same, and the danger becomes even more real. I find a big wrench behind the bar, jam it into my belt like a scimitar... [Inspector] Pine places a few men on each side of the corridor leading away from the entrance. They aim unwavering at the door... I hear, 'We'll shoot the first motherfucker that comes through the door!'"
From outside the bar, Truscott recalls, "I heard several cries of, 'Let's get some gas.'" Smith notices an arm at the window. It belongs to a man whom Ronnie Di Brienza describes as a "small scrawny, hoody-looking cat." He is holding a can of lighter fluid.
A stream of liquid pours in through the broken window. Smith writes, "A flaring match follows. Pine is not more than 10 feet away [from the window]." Pine aims his gun at the shadows framed by the window. But he doesn't fire.
Smith writes, "The sound of sirens coincides with the shoosh of flames where the lighter fluid was thrown. Later, Pine tells me he didn't shoot because he had heard the sirens in time and felt no need to kill someone if help was arriving. It was that close."
Once reinforcements arrived, in the form of New York City's Tactical Police Force, the streets were cleared in coordinated sweeps of the area. According to newspaper accounts in the days that followed, thirteen people were arrested that night and three policemen suffered minor injuries. No mention was made of civilian casualties.
Scene 1: The Aftermath
By the time Vito Russo happened on the scene in front of the Stonewall, the riot was over, although people were still out on the sidewalks yelling at the police. He recalls, "I didn't get to see a lot of the hysteria that's been described in the press because I got there too late. I went to the little triangular park across the street and sat in a tree on a branch. I watched what was going on, but I didn't want to get involved. People were still throwing things, whatever they could find, mostly garbage. Then somebody came along and spray painted a message to the community on the front of Stonewall that this was our neighborhood, and we weren't going to let them take it away from us, that everybody should calm down and go home. But that's not the way it worked out because there were constant confrontations for the next two nights."
Dick Leitsch heard about the melee at the Stonewall on the radio and hurried downtown from his apartment on West 72nd Street. "Considering my position at the time as Executive Director of The Mattachine Society and being in charge of anything gay in New York at that time, I stopped what I was doing and headed down there."
Despite the fact that "things got out of hand," Leitsch remembers the first night as having had a fun and campy atmosphere. "This was uniquely gay. It was much different than the burning of the cities, which happened the year before, and the riots in Chicago at the democratic convention. This was more camp. It was more like satire. I think the funny, campy behavior made more of a point than just the trashing."
The next day, Inspector Pine tried to enlist Mattachine's help in calming the neighborhood. "We'd had a relationship with the police for years," Leitsch recalls. "We'd already gotten them to curtail entrapment and stopped the harassment of licensed bars." (The Stonewall was unlicensed).
Among gay people themselves, both the organized gay community and those who remained on the sidelines, there was intense debate over how to respond to the riot. On one side were those who wanted the riots and mass protests to continue, and on the other were many who wanted an immediate end to the violence and public demonstrations. One fear among those who wanted peace restored was that the police would retaliate with increased bar raids, harassment, and arrests.
Saturday night, the crowds gathered once again in front of the Stonewall, and this time included "onlookers, Eastsiders, and rough street people." Dick Leitsch recalls, "It was all these poor pitiful people who were still thinking that the revolution was going to come because they thought this was it - all the New Left and the tired old 1930s radicals who were waiting for the Communist revolution since 1917. Instead of just defying the cops, they got nasty."
But the majority of the hundreds of people who crowded onto Christopher Street and jammed Sheridan Square were young gay men. And despite some nasty confrontations with the police, there was plenty of humor and camp left over from the previous night. As Lucian Truscott reported: "Friday night's crowd had returned and was being led in 'gay power' cheers by a group of gay cheerleaders. 'We are the Stonewall girls/ We wear our hair in curls/ We have no underwear/ We show our pubic hairs!' ...Hand-holding, kissing, and posing accented each of the cheers with a homosexual liberation that had appeared only fleetingly on the street before."
Not every gay person was thrilled with the very public displays of gay camp and freely expressed same-sex affection. As Truscott observed, "Older boys had strained looks on their faces and talked in concerned whispers as they watched the up-and-coming generation take being gay and flaunt it before the masses."
New York City's Tactical Police Force returned again on Saturday night to clear the hundreds of protesters from the streets. Truscott reported: "The TPF...swept the crowd back to the corner of Waverly Place, where they stopped. A stagnant situation there brought on some gay tomfoolery in the form of a chorus line facing the line of helmeted and club-carrying cops. Just as the line got into a full kick routine, the TPF advanced again and cleared the crowd of screaming gay powerites." By 3:30 a.m. Christopher Street was once again calm, but a new era in the gay rights struggle had already dawned.
Fade to black
Isn't that an inspiring story? So the streets weren't filled with drag queens in sequins and heels. So the Stonewall riot didn't mark the start of the gay and lesbian rights struggle. (It wasn't even the first time that gay people challenged police repression.) But gay people - fluffy sweater boys, dykes, sissies, college students, boys in chinos and penny loafers - did in fact challenge police repression. They were finally pushed to the point where they'd had enough, and they fought back.
We can all relate to the sense of frustration and indignity that the Stonewallers experienced. And we can take pride in the actions of those young people in 1969 who lashed out in a way that plenty of us have fantasized about. The notion of bashing back has great visceral appeal, even if it's rarely the appropriate response.
The violent challenge to police harassment and repression at the Stonewall Inn was more than enough to earn the riot a place in gay history - in American history. But the impact of the Stonewall riot went far beyond the confines of Greenwich Village and Manhattan island. For a variety of reasons, the riot was a key turning point in the gay rights struggle across the country. It led to a virtual explosion of activity and organizing, primarily among young people, in the months and years immediately following.
At the time of the riot there were perhaps four dozen gay organizations across the country. By the early 1970s, there were more than four hundred, ranging from college and university groups to chapters of the Metropolitan Community Church - and, the gay liberation movement erupted on the political scene in cities across the country.
As we honor the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Stonewall riot, there is no harm in celebrating what actually happened at the Stonewall Inn. The Stonewall myth has plenty of appeal, but the true story is far more dramatic, exciting, and inspiring than any tale, even if it's seven feet tall (in platform shoes).
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The Arduino and Raspberry Pi board have been used to create some really cool projects over the years, including teaching kids to code, a DIY GameBoy, a whole host of autonomous vehicles, a DIY camera that prints gifs and enabling the next-generation of Internet of Things (IoT) apps.
Now a developer is merging the micro-computer technology of the Raspberry Pi and Arduino with LEGOs. Leguino is a kit that contains compatible electronics of the Arduino and Raspberry Pi and fits them physically into Lego compatible brick cases.
The kit contains the most common Arduino electronic components to enhance Lego projects, as well as contains the visual software creation tool Visuino and the Rockbotic software to create more. The kit also includes the Leguino Remote Brick that allows for builders to develop RC Lego models.
Leguino also allows for other possibilities include using microphones, infrared data transfer, organic light emitting diode (OLED) displays, humidity sensors and more for crafting Lego-based IoT devices.
Lego bricks in the kit include: The Uno brick with digital I/O pins and its six analog input pins, along with 16MHz ATmega328 CPU and 32KB flash; the Nano brick that contains a mini Mini-B USB cable plug and 22 digital I/O pins, of which are eight analog input pins; leguberry brick for Rasberry Pi creations; LCD display brick for text display; OLED display brick for more graphically enhanced projects; Microservo brick that delivers precise servo mechanical movement; gear motor brick that is a seamless motor to drive the wheels on any Lego® project; and many more.
Leguino has launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds to finish the kit as well as to build brand recognition. The goal has already been achieved but if you are interested in checking out the campaign, click here.
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Title: The readiness of higher education institutions in Nigeria towards the implementation of e-learning
Authors: Auwal Garba; Musa Mohammed Ahmed Abu Tomma
Addresses: Federal College of Education (Technical), School of Business Education, P.M.B. 60, Gombe, Gombe State, Nigeria ' Department of Accounting, Community College, King Khalid University, P.O. Box: 3926, 61961, Khamis Mushait, KSA
Abstract: The paradigm shift from a traditional system of education to e-learning is gaining acceptance worldwide. Thus, the appraisal of its worthiness becomes vital for practical application as an instrument for different environments. This current study examined the institutions' preparedness and perceptions for the effect of electronic learning in institutions of higher education. The descriptive-analytical method was used in addition to the case study method. A survey was conducted to describe and analyse electronic learning components and how ready are the stakeholders and institutions regarding usage, culture, and understanding. A questionnaire was distributed to a sample purposively selected from students of higher education institutes in the state of Gombe in Nigeria, where the sample size was 193 students. The findings show students' high acceptance and believe that e-learning would positively improve the experience in learning. Hence, e-learning may ultimately benefit students to build confidence in enchanting their knowledge by becoming independent learners.
Keywords: e-learning; readiness; higher institution; Nigeria.
International Journal of Higher Education and Sustainability, 2020 Vol.3 No.2, pp.75 - 89
Received: 14 Dec 2019
Accepted: 01 May 2020
Published online: 02 Feb 2021 *
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The Wall Street Journal reported today that Yahoo, Microsoft and Google in combination with a group of human rights and public interest organizations have agreed upon a common set of principles to guide their business in countries that restrict free speech and expression. In the past, the three companies have found themselves criticized by rights groups and the US Congress for putting profit over principles and human rights, particularly with regards to China.
An excerpt from the WSJ article:
Under the new principles, which were crafted over two years, the technology titans promise to protect the personal information of their users wherever they do business and to “narrowly interpret and implement government demands that compromise privacy,” according to the code. They also commit to scrutinizing a country’s track record of jeopardizing personal information and freedom of expression before launching new businesses in a country and to discussing the risks widely with their executives and board members.
The principles are the starting point for a new effort, called the Global Network Initiative (
site is still empty at this point), which commits the companies to “avoid or minimize the impact of government restrictions on freedom of expression,” according to a final draft of documents obtained by The New York Times.
In addition to laying out the code of conduct, the initiative will provide a non-governmental forum for the companies and human rights groups to jointly resist demands for censorship, and will also establish a system of independent auditors to rate the companies’ conduct. Check out the statement on the Google Blog for more information.
Prominent human rights organizations, including the Committee to Protect Journalists, Human Rights Watch and Human Rights in China, have been involved in setting up the guidelines, which was about 18 months in the making. However, the effort is already being criticized by other human rights activists. (Update: also by Amnesty International)
“After two years of effort, they have ended up with so little,” said Morton Sklar, executive director of the World Organization for Human Rights USA. “It is really very little more than a broad statement of support for a general principle without any concrete backup mechanism to ensure that the guidelines will be followed.”
The World Organization for Human Rights USA was the one which sued Yahoo for giving Chinese officials information that led to the arrest of two journalists. The lawsuit has since been settled for an undisclosed amount. Also interesting to note is the relationship between Yahoo and Alibaba, the leading Chinese internet company which controls the Yahoo brand in China and is approximately 40% owned by Yahoo.
The members of the initiave hope to attract more companies to join. Two European telecommunications companies, France Télécom and Vodafone, are already considering signing up in the near future, and presumably many more will consider after the guidelines go public.
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A musical installation that demonstrates how derivative songs can be.
Using a simple, intuitive interface, this installation will demonstrate how similar some songs are in sets of two. The user can move back and forth between each clips of songs to hear exactly the moment where both songs sound alike. When the fader is in the middle, the user can hear each song overlapping, with a visual of the album covers overlapping as well to emphasize what is being heard.
Introduction to Physical Computing, Introduction to Computational Media
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If an avian influenza pandemic ever hit the United States, there's only one dependable manufacturer in the country capable of making a vaccine, a government watchdog reports.
"The US government may not be able to rely on foreign countries to allow exports of pandemic vaccine because each country will likely prioritize those vaccines for its own population," the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office said in a new report.
These forms of the virus mainly infect birds, but certain strains have mutated to transmit from birds to humans, meaning an outbreak among humans is possible -- and the US may not be ready.
About 90 to 95% of the national stockpile of pandemic influenza vaccines is derived from eggs, the report says, and while the vaccines are supplied by four companies, only one has an egg-based vaccine facility in the US.
"The US government considers the one US-based company as the only dependable manufacturer for producing egg-based vaccines for rapid pandemic mitigation," the report says.
The report comes two months after China began confirming human infections of one avian influenza strain, H7N9.
Health officials are monitoring the cases in China, especially since the number of people infected exceeds previous instances in the nation, Dr. Wenqing Zhang of the World Health Organization told CNN in an earlier report.
In the US, the source of vaccines is at risk, according to the report.
An outbreak of avian influenza could threaten the very same poultry that produce the eggs used in the production of human vaccines, it said.
"Protecting the chickens that lay the eggs needed to produce human pandemic influenza vaccines is an issue for federal agencies because these birds, like others, are susceptible to avian influenza," the report says.
The US Department of Agriculture relies on poultry farmers to ensure security guidelines are in place, and many are not ensuring their flocks are protected, it said.
The report also noted that US agriculture officials reviewed the biosecurity practices of 850 poultry producers and found that less than 60% had a place for employees who work at a poultry site to shower or change, increasing the chances of contamination.
About 50 million birds died or were killed in the outbreak of avian flu in the US in 2014 and 2015. It cost the US economy between $1 billion and $3.3 billion, the report said.
While the US Department of Agriculture took measures to address lessons learned from that outbreak, it has not evaluated their effectiveness, the report noted.
Measures taken included creating a joint biosecurity website with the US Poultry and Egg Association and urging producers to make biosecurity a priority. US officials also provided guidance and training after they found out that some poultry producers had difficulty transporting bird carcasses to landfills due to federal and state rules restricting the movement of such cargo.
The GAO recommended that the department set up a plan to evaluate the effectiveness of its corrective measures.
US officials have a three-year, $42 million contract with the vaccine manufacturing company in the US to protect its egg-supply chain and ensure it has a supply that can be used for vaccines. The contract expires in September, according to the report, which said that Health and Human Services officials are confident the company has a secure biosecurity program.
Symptoms of avian influenza, also known as bird flu, include fever, cough, sore throat and sometimes pneumonia. The infection can be treated with antiviral medications.
The official name for the most common and deadliest form of the virus is Influenza A (H5N1), or the "H5N1 virus."
The strain of bird flu reported to be circulating in humans in China since February -- H7N9 -- was first detected in March 2013, at which point it had previously not been seen in humans.
Hundreds of millions of birds have been killed worldwide in an attempt to control the spread of the avian flu.
There are many different strains of avian flu but only those labeled H5, H7 and H10 are known to have caused deaths in humans to date.
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an extension usually at right angles to one end of a building.
something that is L -shaped.
a former measure of length, varying in different countries: in England equal to 45 inches (114 cm).
an obsolete unit of length equal to approximately 45 inches
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“unit of measure of 45 inches,” Old English eln, originally “forearm, length of the arm” (as a measure, anywhere from a foot and a half to two feet), from PIE *el- (1) “elbow, forearm” (cf. Greek olene “elbow,” Latin ulna, Armenian uln “shoulder,” Sanskrit anih “part of the leg above the knee,” Lithuanian alkune “elbow”).
The exact distance varied, depending on whose arm was used as the base and whether it was measured from the shoulder to the fingertip or the wrist: the Scottish ell was 37.2 inches, the Flemish 27 inches. Latin ulna also was a unit of linear measure, and cf. cubit.
Whereas shee tooke an inche of liberty before, tooke an ell afterwardes [Humfrey Gifford, “A Posie of Gilloflowers,” 1580].
type of building extension, 1773, American English; so called for resemblance to the shape of the alphabet letter.
[el-uh] /ˈɛl ə/ noun 1. a female given name: from a Germanic word meaning “all.”. 1. a suffix used as a formative in taxonomic names, especially genus names of bacteria: chorella; pasteurella; salmonella. fem. proper name, when not a diminutive of Eleanor it is from Old High German Alia, from al “all.” diminutive word-forming element, […]
[uh-laj-ik] /əˈlædʒ ɪk/ noun, Pharmacology. 1. a yellow crystalline substance, C 14 H 6 O 8 , isolated from oak galls and tannins and used as a hemostatic. ellagic acid el·lag·ic acid (ĭ-lāj’ĭk) n. A yellow crystalline compound that is obtained from tannins and used as a hemostatic.
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the oak or heap of Assyria, a territory in Asia of which Arioch was king (Gen. 14:1, 9). It is supposed that the old Chaldean town of Larsa was the metropolis of this kingdom, situated nearly half-way between Ur (now Mugheir) and Erech, on the left bank of the Euphrates. This town is represented by […]
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Global meat, poultry and dairy consumption and trade have been steadily increasing for decades, driven largely by rising incomes and expanding populations as well as productivity growth in animal production. While there are a range of emerging issues in global animal product trade, an enduring issue appears to be the impact on trade of free trade agreements and the influence on technical barriers to trade (TBTs) and sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) barriers. The pillars for success of many bilateral and multilateral free trade agreements are market access, export competition, and domestic support. The object of these trade agreements is to reduce trade barriers, especially tariffs on a range of products, for all participating countries. However, a range of nontariff barriers often associated with SPS or TBT barriers on animal product trade can influence trade negotiations and the capacity for effective free trade agreements. The effects of animal disease, food safety, country of origin labeling legislation, hormone use, and acceptance of GMO crops on free trade agreements and trade levels have been felt by many countries.
This themed set of articles originated from a conference on emerging issues and anticipated trends in global animal product trade hosted by the Economic Research Service (ERS), USDA in partnership with Farm Foundation, NFP, the Larry Combest Endowed Chair for Agricultural Competitiveness, and S-1043 Regional Research Group on Sept. 27-28, 2012 in Washington, DC. For this theme, four articles were selected from presentations made during the first day of the conference. While they by no means exhaust the range of topics covered during the conference, they provide an illustration of some of the key issues discussed. The first article by Brett W. Stuart and Richard G. Fritz of Global AgriTrends looks at the potential impact of China on the U.S. Poultry and Livestock Sectors. The authors contend that the population size of China has long fueled optimism for U.S. poultry and livestock traders. However, the authors argue that the way forward could be challenging given relatively high Chinese prices, their self-reliance ambitions, and the U.S’s. desire for unfettered exports.
The second article by Ted Bilyea of the Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute provides a Canadian perspective on emerging issues of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and competitive liberalization in the global meat trade. The article chronicles the early dependence of the Canadian meat export market on preferential tariff access to the British market and the benefits gained from market openness of the Japanese and the Canada U.S. Free Trade Agreement (CUSTA), which expanded into NAFTA in 1994 with the inclusion of Mexico markets after the loss of British preferential access. The paper outlines some of the challenges faced by the Canadian livestock sector despite the free trade agreements, but argues for continued bilateral free trade agreements, largely providing similar arguments to Manger (2005) as to why more and more industrialized countries join FTAs with emerging markets, and Furtan and van Melle (2004) on the declining border effects for agricultural trade between the United States and Canada and between Mexico and Canada.
The third article by Thad Lively of the U.S. Meat Export Federation outlines lessons learned from past experiences and the ongoing issues surrounding reopening market access for U.S. beef and pork. The author argues that the ongoing efforts to reopen foreign markets for U.S. beef after the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) discovery in 2004 have shown the vulnerability of the domestic industry to sanitary barriers to trade as well as the difficulty of reentering markets after they have been closed due to SPS issues. It provides a commentary on the ongoing technical barriers associated with technologies commonly used in the United States, but which are not as readily accepted in other countries, such as beta agonists and hormones in meat production. The author argues for a joint approach by the leading meat producing countries to assure a safe and abundant food supply for the world’s growing population.
The fourth article by Alfred Breuer of the National Pork Producers Council cites the importance of trade in expanding the U.S. pork industry given the relatively stable domestic demand. The author cites the strong correlation between increases in U.S. trade agreements and increased U.S. pork exports. The impact of NAFTA and the Uruguay Round in creating market access is highlighted. The article chronicles the added market access for the U.S. pork industry created by a series of free trade agreements between 2004 and 2011 and outlines how the future of pork exports could be further enhanced by the elimination of non-science-based SPS barriers on US pork. The potential TPP agreement was cited as one such agreement where, despite the United States having completed FTAs with 6 of the negotiating countries, U.S. pork exports could be enhanced with the elimination and/or reduction in current barriers.
For More Information:
Manger, M. 2005. Competition and Bilateralism in Trade Policy: The Case of Japan's Free TradeAgreements. Review of International Political Economy 12(5): 804-828
W. H. Furtan and Blain M. van Melle. 2004. Canada's Agricultural Trade in North America: Do National Borders Matter? Review of Agricultural Economics 26(3):317-331
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What we must know is that kama, krodha, lobha, moha, matsarya, made are eternal everywhere. In India, the land of seers, we have thought and thought and thought about these problems and found a way out which is why we have the richest spiritual traditions, very genuine spiritual traditions and have not perverted the meaning of spirituality as Americans have. No religion other than the sanatan dharma has understood all this and yet we have the ludicrous sight of seeing the leaders of other religions, which appear more like codes than deep metaphysical understanding of human life and world, wanting to convert Hindus!
The compilation of articles of Guruji, Shri K. N. Rao, is indeed a priceless gift to the world of astrology. The writings of Guruji are like music to ears. His writings reveal great things about Indian political/ social/ spiritual history which students like us cannot understandings but also for the wide canvas it covers.
In this deteriorating strife- torn world, it is India which will rescue us with its spiritual power, is a prediction of Mr. K. N. Rao. He has his reasons and beliefs in place. They are lucidly documented in his articles titled ‘Eternal India’. Can the devastating winds of kaliyuga erode the deeply embedded spirituality and culture of Indians is convincingly answered by Mr. Rao in these articles.
Interestingly, Mr. Rao wrote these divine articles in his dasha of Ketu which is in the twelfth house of moksha with his twelfth lord, exalted Mercury. Most of his writings were in the dasha of Mercury and Ketu.
Blessed by close contact with Mr. K. N. Rao, I find in him a spiritually evolved person. His powers perhaps come from recitation of mantras and an unflinching devotion to the Almightly. His writings in the book Eternal India have many divine flashes that he often gets.
I am sure this book soon will earn the reputation of a book that only the fortunate get to read and will change many lives and lifestyles.
Kotamraju Narayana Rao (Born October 12, 1931) also known as K.N. Rao is a Hindu Astrologer. Born in Machillipatnam village of Andhra Pradesh, K.N. Rao retired from the Indian Audit and Accounts Service as Director General in November 1990. He is the Advisor and founder member of the world’s largest school of astrology, being run in the Bharatiya Vidya Bhawan, New Delhi.
K N Rao, fondly and reverently called ‘Guruji’ by thousands of his students and disciples, is the God sent ‘Messiah of Jyotisha’ to reclaim Astrology from being the vestigial dogma of pseudo pundits and fake practitioners and giving it a new lease of life as a modern and scientific study with greater emphasis on empiricism. The ‘Mission of his soul’ became the ‘Ambition of his Life’ when his mother, late Smt k. Saraswani Devi initiated him into astrology at a tender age of 12. The fructification of God’s will and his soul’s mission through his ambitious ventures, clearly prescribed in his horoscope, was predicted well in advance by his divine Guru and Yogi Shri Bhaskaranandaji and his spiritual guru Swami Parmanand Saraswati..
His contribution in establishing Astrology as a science, a discipline akin to Medicine, which could be studied and practiced, by one and all, has been immense and unparalleled. From founding and spearheading the largest astrological (study) institute in the world, to waging and winning a lone battle in Supreme Court to introduce Astrology as a discipline of study in Indian Universities- it has been a revolutionary and path breaking journey of a Change Agent- a Messiah. With his phenomenal and historic contribution, Jyotish history will be marked as the Pre- Rao and Post- Rao eras.
Believing that sound research and documentation are the keys to promote a subject as vast as astrology, particularly when there was scarcity of good astrological texts, he not only wrote extensively, but also promoted his students and teachers to conduct research and write, resulting in a huge body of work which is a boon to posterity.
Besides voluminous works in astrology, Guruji has dwelled on the spiritual and supernatural, the play of divine forces, revealed to us as mysterious happenings and magical moments by God’s Will. He has brought out a series of articles on intertwining of destinies and divine play.
The present book is a compilation of Guruji’s musings on these spiritual and supernatural happenings, which have been published from time to time on the internet. I have only been instrumental in threading the precious pearls. The book has been long overdue, but I believe nothing happens without God’s will.
Today, as the Institute of Astrology at Bhartiya Vidhya Bhavan celebrates, 25 years of its existence, there cannot be a better occasion to bring out ‘Eternal India’. I have the honour to compile these articles and bring them out in book form, as a tribute to the living legend, on behalf of thousands of his students all over the world.
Rishis have sung about this Truth in many ways, in various distinctive chants, in Brahma sutras full of conviction and sound reason.
How many religious books I have read, how many religious practices I have watched others follow and how I reacted will be difficult to recount. It all began after a very genuine spiritual experience which repeated many times. I have never told anyone anything about it and have not narrated anywhere or will ever do. My agnosticism died that day.
I pursued my professional career as an officer in the government service of Indian government but deep inside me spiritual quest never died. I observed life differently after that genuine experience. I watched life around me, life of people around me, and of those who came into my life and came to consult me astrologically. Most of them have been and are Hindus. Deep inside them I caught glimpses of eternal India throbbing in their bosoms inspite of their crass and even materialist craze. I decided to write about it. I jotted down these pieces, wrote on the website periodically. That is compiled here and presented in a book form by Neelam Gupta, one of my students.
Except Hindus, there is no such thing as deep distrust of fanaticism in the followers of other religions is what becomes noticeable most prominently in contemporary world. Not a day passes without the news of fundamentalist Muslims doing some damage somewhere or the other in the world. Not a month passes without hearing of Christian fathers enticing people into conversions. Fanatical fools as they are, they have no iota of spirituality in them to accept the wisdom of the Vedic prayer that wise men speak of different paths but that Truth is One.
God is a metaphor for the materialist west. Allah is the source of fanaticism for so many terrorists. But Iswhar is that kind, omnipotent, omnipresent force in the life of the Hindu, baffling but true, invisible yet ever present… a belief which is not a nebulous thought, but an experience based on some incident of one’s own or of someone in the family.
It is because of this tradition that attendance in temples keeps increasing in India, Shirdi Sai Baba temples attracts crowds and donations, Tirupati keep growing in popularity, rush in Hindi pilgrimages is controllable, the gathering in Kumbha mela in 2013 was 12,00,00,000 so brilliantly managed that it becomes a lesson for management experts who do not understand the cultured, gentle Hindu.
Compare it with what has been said about England in a survey, “The 2005 Church Survey, assessing the size of congregations in the country’s 37,000 churches, reckoned that only 6.3 percent of people showed up regularly. A thousand people joined a church each week, but 2,500 left one.”
Christianity in the west has moved from cultural position of strength but the dangerous proselytizing church men with their huge funds converting poor Hindus through allurements and money is a menace unchecked in India. Muslims increasing their numbers with uncontrolled population growth, as a policy, are a future menace for a country already partitioned once. Look deeply into all this and you find that spirituality is known only to Hindus and others are only fanatical followers of their religions with no mystical spiritual tradition developed ever in their very brief history. They are young religions and therefore fanatical to make their presence felt and noticed. The eternal message of India is lost on the.
Beneath all these lie the materialism of Hindus also contrasted with the fundamentalism and the misogyny of Muslims who want Sharia to be imposed and stone to death women for alleged sexual transgressions. In the west they roasted women as witches. Compared to that evil of the dowry system appears so innocuous and yet is an evil. Sati, as Mahamahopadhyaya Kane has proved, was practiced only by few in royal families of Rajasthan during Moghul times and in some parts of Bengal. There were very few cases of sati as the Mahamahopadhyaya has proved through his research but it has been made to look like a magnificent law because Raja Rammohan Roy knew that it was practiced in Bengal among the rich who wanted to deprive the widowed Bengali women of her share of property which she was entitled to according to the Hindu law (Dayabhaga school existed in Bengal and Assam only.) then prevalent in Bengal.
Ask a question… have you ever met a level- headed Imam among Muslims? Ask a question have you ever met an honest Christian bishop who says that there is so much to learn from the spiritual practices of Hindus and instead of converting them it will be wiser to emphasize sadhana not a mere ritualistic practice, week end church attendance and the practice of confessions of sins? Six of the eighth limbs of yoga, yama, niyama, pratyahara, dharana, dhyana and Samadhi are an integral part of any genuine spiritual practice and some of these are ever present and practised by ordinary Hindus as a tradition coming down from centuries is what needs noticing and emphasizing.
There are so many thoughts, so many impressions, so many reactions. An impulse to write about them, about Eternal India was and has always been irresistible. Yet, suppressing that urge I wrote these pieces not giving the details of what would have been sensational, revealing and great lessons. Casting pearls before swine in this age of atheists, neo atheists, “rationalists”, those innumerable hypocrites, even some high placed Muslims among them who consulted me astrologically got correct predictions, some of them spectacular and denounced astrology, would be a wasted effort I decided. I wrote still in a more impressionistic style, touching the periphery never going into what I would have if I was sure of a respectful and loving audience of true devotees.
That world has changed. The west dictates fashion and norms- love of glamour and sex. God has been banished and scriptures with their essential spiritual messages thrown into the dustbin.
Write about genuine spiritual experience of those whom I have known intimately? For whom? Why? I keep it suppressed as a sacred memory and hint at it only in these pieces. Read between the lines and think.
Judge these pieces in your own way then.
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It seems to be common sense that having someone to lean on in a time of need would be a good thing. And, not surprisingly, social psychological and clinical psychological research has confirmed that. But, in delving into the scientifically based questions of how, why, when and what kind of social support is most beneficial to people in times of stress, mental illness or well-being, social scientists have identified the truly important role that our relationships with others play in our psychological and physical health. When it comes to health, who we know is just as important, if not more so, than what we know.
When Things Are Good
Researchers have been breaking down the concept of social support into its component parts and exploring how relationships benefit health for over 30 years. They have examined how social ties benefit people when they are in a time of stress and when they are in a time of relative well-being in their lives.
Thoits (2012) outlines the seven ways in which having social ties benefit people overall.
Having a social group (which can include family, friends, community members, coworkers, and neighbors), creates a potential for social influence and comparison. Simply put, if we surround ourselves with people doing positive things, we are more likely to do positive things. Unfortunately, the opposite is also true, having unhealthy people in our surroundings increases the likelihood that we will make poor choices and live an unhealthy life. So, it turns out research supports the old wisdom “be careful who you choose for friends.”
Close members of a social group also offer the potential for positive social control. Meaning, they can actively encourage self-care and good decision making. However, this can also backfire if the person isn’t receptive to the “support”, instead sees it as dominating and intrusive and resists the positive health changes.
Relationships with others typically come with a sense of purpose and mattering to someone else. When we feel that we are meaningful to others, we are more likely to take good care of ourselves and work towards psychological well-being. For instance, when someone’s spouse is involved in the treatment of depression, they are more likely to stay compliant with treatment and work towards getting better (Sher et al, 2005).
Related to having a sense of purpose, self-esteem comes from feeling valued and worthwhile in the eyes of others. In turn, positive self-esteem is associated with lower symptoms of anxiety, depression, and distress while correlating positively with life satisfaction and happiness (Baumeister et al, 2003; Taylor and Stanton, 2007; Thoits, 2003).
When we feel we are successful at maintaining our relationships, we develop a sense of control and mastery. We feel like we can do things well. This confidence in our own abilities translates to confidence in our ability to cope with challenges that arise and reduce our perceived level of anxiety and depression in the face of such challenges (Taylor and Stanton 2007).
Feeling part of a group, either a family or a circle of friends in a community, creates a sense of acceptance and belonging. The absence of feeling a sense of belonging, say loneliness, has been linked to depression, anxiety, poor health habits and poor health (Cacioppio et al, 2002; Uchino 2004).
And, finally, having positive people around us allows us to believe that, if the time should come when we do need someone’s help, that help will be available. The importance of this perceived social support cannot be underestimated and has been found to be more important to well-being in many ways than actual received social support during isolated periods of stress. Feeling that people “have your back” is more important to overall sense of well-being (Lakey & Cronin, 2008).
When Things Are Not So Good
During difficult times, social support takes on the role of Stress-Buffering. Positive, supportive relationships can buffer or protect us from the stress of whatever challenge we are facing. Support during difficult times (major life events, physical illness or mental health illness) can come in the forms of visible and deliberate support or emotional sustenance. Visible support can include taking care of things for someone, providing information that they need, offering advice, or problem-solving. Emotional support can include love, caring, empathy, willingness to listen to venting and validation of feelings and concerns (Thoits, 2012).
The challenge of difficult times is that, while in the middle of a stressful situation or an episode of mental illness, it can be very challenging to explain what you are going through and what kind of help you need. In turn, the people that care about you often experience their own frustration and anxiety in feeling helpless and not knowing how to support you. This can often strain the very relationships that could be helpful and creates another layer of unnecessary stress.
In an effort to outline what kinds of help are most beneficial to people and from whom, Thoit (2012) makes a distinction between the kind of help that is beneficial from family and close friends (what she calls the primary group/significant others) and the kind of help that is beneficial from others who have gone through similar situations (secondary group/similar others). Thoit (2012) suggests that Significant Others are most helpful in reducing perceived stress when they offer love, caring, concern, compassionate presence of “being there” and assistance in actual tasks. She warns against Significant Others offering problem-focused advice and recommendations on how to cope. While these efforts could be well meaning, they can be perceived as being motivated by the Significant Other’s desires for things to be better and can be met with resistance to positive change. Simply put, we want to know that our loved ones understand our struggle and are there for us as we figure out what we need to do; we do not want our loved ones to tell us how to fix it. The role of providing information, advice giving and coping encouragement appears to be more effective when it come from Similar Others, who have been through it themselves and are coming from a place of personal experience.
When It Comes to Mental Illness
When it comes to mental illnesses, such as Major Depression, Anxiety, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Anorexia Nervosa, Bipolar Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder or Schizophrenia, there is significant evidence that family involvement in treatment improved treatment compliance and treatment outcome (Dixon et al, 2001). Providing families with the education they need to understand a diagnosis, effectively support the individual going through it and take care of themselves as they deal with the increased stress that mental illness places on a family unit seems to improve outcome for everyone.
While positive support from family is very important, it seems that the bigger obstacle to successful treatment can lie in negative responses to mental illness from family. Sher et al. (2005) explored the role that a family’s beliefs about mental illness can have in an individual’s compliance with medication treatment for Major Depression. They found that, when a family expresses a negative attitude about medication treatment, a focus on “what will others think” and a belief that the individual is causing their own problems through the things that they do and the ways that they think, the person is more likely to be non-compliant with treatment. They conclude that it is imperative to understand the role that a patient’s social environment plays in their ability to benefit from treatment and discuss “the necessity of educating caregivers about the impact that causal attributions have on patients’ behavior.”
The Take Home Message
When it comes to our everyday lives, positive relationships and diverse relationships with others have significantly positive impact. Different types of relationships offer different kinds of support. So, just as in finance, a “diverse portfolio” is a good way to get all your bases covered.
When it comes to difficult times, it is important to reach out to both Significant Others and to those who have gone through something similar. While your family and friends can try to be helpful, there is definite benefit to seeking support from others who can speak from experience. If you are the Significant Other of someone going through a difficult time, the research supports that you have a very important role to play in showing your love, caring and willingness to help with daily tasks. However, as a Significant Other, it may be wiser to keep the problem-solving advice to a minimum unless asked.
When it comes to the treatment of mental illness, the primary rule of “first do no harm” applies. It is well-established that family psychoeducation can help improve treatment compliance and provide an understanding of the do’s and don’ts of supporting someone through a particular diagnosis (Dixon et al, 2001).
Baumeister, R., Campbell, J., Krueger, J., & Vohs, K. (2003). Does High Self-Esteem Cause Better Performance, Interpersonal Success, Happiness, Or Healthier Lifestyles? Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 4, 1-44.
Cacioppo, J., Hawkley, L., Crawford, L., Ernst, J., Burleson, M., Kowalewski, R., . . . Bernston, G. (2002). Loneliness and Health: Potential Mechanisms. Psychosomatic Medicine, 64, 407-417.
Dixon, L., McFarlane, W., Lefley, H., Lucksted, A., Cohen, M., Falloon, I., . . . Sondheimer, D. (2001). Evidence-Based Practices for Services to Families of People With Psychiatric Disabilities. Psychiatric Services, 52(7), 903-910.
Lakey, B., & Cronin, A. (2008). Low social support and major depression: Research, theory and methodological issues. In Risk Factor for Depression (pp. 385-408). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
Sher, I., McGinn, L., Sirey, J., & Meyers, B. (2005). Effects of Caregiver's Perceived Stigma and Causal Beliefs on Patients' Adherence to Antidepressant Treatment. Psychiatric Services, 56(5), 564-569.
Taylor, S., & Stanton, A. (2007). Coping Resources, Coping Processes, And Mental Health. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 3, 377-401.
Thoits, P. (2003). Personal Agency in the Accumulation of Multiple Role-Identities. In Advances in Identity Theory and Research (pp. 179-194). New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum.
Thoits, P. (2012). Mechanisms Linking Social Ties and Support to Physical and Mental Health. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 52, 145-161.
Uchino, B. (2004). Social support and physical health understanding the health consequences of relationships. New Haven: Yale University Press.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The group that built the African Civil War Memorial in Washington is now raising funds to repair it after the memorial was damaged by gunfire.
Two names inscribed in the memorial were damaged in a Dec. 26 shooting. The damage was minor, but organizers want to repair it along with damage from skateboarders.
Organizers announced an effort Friday to raise at least $575,000 to make repairs, restore the grounds and replace the monument’s lighting. The gunfire damage is estimated at $125,000.
The African American Civil War Memorial Freedom Foundation raised money to build the memorial on U Street. It was turned over to the National Park Service in 2003. The monument honors 209,145 black soldiers and their white officers who joined the Union in the Civil War.
(Copyright 2013 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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For many years people have associated a sun kissed glowing tan with health and vitality. Millions of people have utilized tanning beds aka “Fake Bake” to achieve this look.
Tanning Beds are not safe! As we know UVA & UBA rays cause cancer. Tanning beds often exceed “safe” UV limits.
Teens are especially at risk because their bodies are undergoing such accelerated growth rates that their cells are more prone to the damage from UV radiation says Susan Evans MD.
The FDA and the CDC both suggest that you avoid using tanning beds in order to prevent skin cancer. There really is no such thing as a safe tan from a tanning bed. In addition to the risk of developing skin cancer, exposure to UV rays causes your skin to age prematurely. This I know first hand, I utilized tanning beds for many years from ages 16 – 30. BTW, nobody asked me for my parents consent.
On October 9th, Governor Jerry Brown signed into law a bill that prevents minors from utilizing tanning beds. (backed by health-care groups) California is the 1st state to adopt this legislation, and will go into effect January 1.
Under current law, children 14 and younger cannot use the beds, however those ages 15 – 17 can do so with permission from their parents.
Teenager or Adult we are all taking the risk when using a tanning bed or trying to get a tan at the beach or pool side. Protect your health and your skin, you owe it to yourself.
You may ask yourself, what is the alternative? Well I have the answer. Spray Tan California
Spray Tan California is a mobile spray tanning service that utilizes a combination of HPLV (High Pressure Low Volume) and Airbrush spray tanning. This system is 100% UV free, giving you a rich bronze look without exposure to harmful UV rays that could damage your skin and cause skin cancer. Spray Tanning is recommended by dermatologist and is FDA approved.
Our products contain only the highest quality ingredients including Eco-friendly DHA, Organic Aloe, Organic essential oils, Hyaluronic acid, Organic Coffee bean extract, Organic green tea, Organic Jojoba seed oil, Organic Macadamia seed oil and an Australian Cehami plant that has anti-inflammatory properties and Anti-aging qualities.
Regardless of the weather outside, you can have a safe sun kissed glow year round, by getting a spray tan.
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Given Mitt Romney's new round of shallow, scattershot attacks against President Obama's disciplined foreign policies, it's reasonable to assume that Romney thinks his first-debate bounce frees him from detailing his own foreign policy ideas. It doesn't. Romney's experience in international foreign relations, moreover, is mainly limited to his scores of off-shore banking accounts, and the fiscal tactics he has long used to avoid U.S. taxes in ways that typically benefit only the super-rich.
Romney clearly wants to avoid drawing attention to his narrow but genuine expertise in off-shore banking in tax havens in the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Switzerland and Luxembourg, among others. Indeed, he has staunchly refused to reveal his tax records prior to the last two years. And while those records confirmed that he paid barely a 14 percent tax rate, they were essentially sanitized to avoid heavier criticism in his presidential campaign.
Regardless, aggressive media scrutiny of Romney's use of off-shore banks to route investments by Bain Capital, the private equity firm that Romney founded and headed for 15 years and still continues to draw income from, has tracked a range of prospectuses and foreign regulatory filings involving many of the 137 entities known to have been established in the Caymans by Bain and its affiliate, Sankaty Advisors. As analyzed by experts on complex tax-avoidance investments and shell corporations, these documents sketch how Romney maneuvered capital and attracted additional investments to avoid taxes and build his $250 million fortune.
Romney has responded that his financial dealing through Bain did not provide him "one dollar of reduction in taxes." That, of course, is a term of art. If he and his platoon of lawyers and accountants manipulated investments and arranged deals in a way that avoids a tax liability, there's no tax to reduce.
Romney is deceptively clever in this regard. After falsely claiming in the presidential debate last week that his tax plan would not cost $5 trillion over 10 years, for example, he went on to say that if he lowered taxes for everyone by 20 percent, his tax plan "would not reduce the share of taxes" owed by the super-wealthy. In this context, his flat-rate "share" is hugely deceptive. The actual dollar differences for a new 20 percent cut on billionaires' taxes would be astronomical for the super wealthy, but just a few hundred for ordinary workers.
His foreign banking stratagem is just as deceptive. That's why his word can't be trusted on tax avoidance, his proposed tax cut plan, and his conveniently empty-handed approach to complex foreign policy issues.
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Tolerance Week event changes announced as work on the Railcar Holocaust Exhibit continues
During this important transition year for Tolerance Week, the schedule will look a little different from past years. Unfortunately, Terezin Camp Survivor Inge Auerbacher is currently unable to travel due to persistent back and leg pain. Please keep her in your prayers. Ms. Auerbacher was scheduled to talk to eighth-grade students and be the evening speaker for a public event on Wednesday, May 4th.
Instead, eighth-grade students from Sioux City Community Schools, Vermillion Middle School, St. Augustine, Holy Cross, Hinton Middle School, Siouxland Christian, and Sergeant Bluff will travel to the Sioux City Orpheum Theatre on Wednesday, May 4th to see the film Nicky’s Family.
Winners of the Tolerance Week essay contest and Ella Holtzen Memorial Art Contest, their teachers, and families will attend an awards dinner.
No other events are scheduled this year. We look forward to field trips and other events in 2023 at the Holocaust Rails Exhibit at the Sioux City Railroad Museum.
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Philadelphia: City Saves Millions By Ceasing Criminal Marijuana Prosecutions
The city of Philadelphia saved an estimated $2 million last year by ceasing criminal prosecutions for minor marijuana offenses, according to comments made last week by District Attorney Seth Williams to the Philadelphia Daily News.
In April 2010, Williams publicly announced a citywide policy change whereby law enforcement officials would issue a summons rather than arrest and criminally prosecute minor marijuana offenders. Philadelphia NORML had actively lobbied for the policy change after finding that the city punished minor marijuana violations more severely than many neighboring counties. A February 2010 Philly NORML report also found significant racial disparities in the city’s marijuana prosecutions – noting that African American males comprised an estimated 83 percent of all persons in Philadelphia arrested for minor marijuana possession offenses.
The new enforcement policy took effect in June 2010.
Approximately 4,160 defendants were diverted under the program, called the Small Amount of Marijuana (SAM), during its first year, the Philadelphia Daily News reported. Defendants in the program pay a $200 fine to attend a three-hour drug awareness class. Those who complete the class and pay the fine do not have to appear in criminal court and will not have a criminal record.
Previously, minor (under 30 grams) marijuana possession offenders in Philadelphia were criminally prosecuted with a misdemeanor offense punishable by up to 30 days probation or jail time, a $500 fine, and a criminal record.
“There’s no reason to waste tax dollars on harsh prohibition enforcement,” said Chris Goldstein, media coordinator for Philly NORML and publisher of FreedomIsGreen.com. “Removing the criminal penalties for marijuana possession helps to pay for firefighters, ambulances, and other necessary services. It’s that simple.”
July 12, 2011
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According to reports London Underground workers, including drivers, ticketing staff, engineers and station staff have requested bonus payments to work during the London 2012 Olympic Games, in addition to normal pay. Tube workers were offered a five hundred pound bonus for working during the games, however this has been turned down. RMT boss, Bob Crow, was in discussion with Peter Hendy, head of Transport for London, when the breakdown in talks occurred.
District Light Railway workers have been offered a deal worth £2,500 for working overtime during the London 2012 Olympic Games. RMT has stated that tube workers should be offered a similar deal for working during this period. Tube drivers have already been allocated an extra £1,200 for working during the Games. A large number of London Overground staff are also due to receive a £600 bonus.
Transport for London expects increased passenger volume during the London 2012 Olympic Games and commuters are advised to allow extra time for journeys during this period. London office workers are urged to find alternative routes into work and businesses, particularly in the East London and Stratford area where the Olympic Village is situated, have been advised to offer employees flexible work hours or the option to work from home.
Further Reading on Transportation in London
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Interstellar reddening in the southern hemisphere. II. Analysis of the uvby-beta observations.
PERRY C.L. and CHRISTODOULOU D.M.
Abstract (from CDS):
Photometric color excesses and distances plus heliocentric coordinates are calculated for 3,762 southern A and early F stars. The present results, combined with those previously published for the northern hemisphere, complete the coverage of the spatial distribution of interstellar reddening in the entire solar neighborhood. The new reddening maps show that the interstellar matter within 300 pc of the Sun forms a single very large cloud complex that is somewhat asymmetrical with respect to both the galactic center and the galactic plane. This complex is characterized by pronounced local irregularities in both density and spatial extent. The observations further indicat that (1) the cloud complex is not associated with Gould's belt; (2) there exist large regions of the sky devoid of dust; (3) interstellar reddening is negligible at the galactic poles; (4) the role of intercloud dust in the southern hemisphere; (5) the Sun is not located in a dust-free, spherically symmetric bubble as previously thought; and (6) the Sun is, however, located in an elongated dust-free region known as the "local trough".
Interstellar Medium and Nebulae
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The HTTP/1.x protocol served faithfully for almost 20 years. It was replaced by HTTP/2, based on the SPDY protocol, developed in conjunction with Google. HTTP/2 is a major revision of the HTTP protocol that:
- makes page loading and rendering faster;
- speeds up the delivery via HTTPS;
- makes utilization of available network capacity more efficient.
How HTTP/2 increases website load speed
Multiplexing allows multiple requests and response messages between the client and server to be in flight at the same time over a single https connection, instead of multiple connections, which improves page load times.
Header compression reduces the overhead bytes downloaded by the client, helping get the content to the viewer sooner. This is especially useful for mobile clients that are already constrained on bandwidth.
Stream priority, allows for quicker page rendering by enabling the client to control the order in which web assets are delivered, thereby optimizing user experience.
How HTTP/2 improves the performance of SSL
HTTP/2 was designed only for HTTPS (does not work with HTTP)
It works optimally with it, speeding up the work of the protocol. The reasons for choosing TLS-only mode are to take care of the user’s privacy, and early research has shown a high level of success with new protocols when using TLS.
Read why you need to go to https and how to do it correctly, read the article “A complete guide on how to migrate from HTTP to HTTPS the right way without traffic loss”.
How HTTP/2 makes network resources utilization more efficient
HTTP/2 enables a more efficient use of network resources and a reduced perception of latency by introducing header field compression and allowing multiple concurrent exchanges on the same connection. It also allows prioritization of requests, letting more important requests complete more quickly, further improving performance.
The technologies that HTTP/2 uses to significantly improve content delivery
HTTP/2 enables full request and response multiplexing, minimize protocol overhead via efficient compression of HTTP header fields. Plus, it supports request prioritization and server push.
Binary framing layer
At the core of all performance enhancements of HTTP/2 is the new binary framing layer, which dictates how the HTTP messages are encapsulated and transferred between the client and server. Therefore, the protocol is more efficient when parsing, more compact in transmission, prone to fewer errors.
Request and response multiplexing
In HTTP/1.x, browsers use multiple connections to the server to load a web page, and the number of such connections is limited. While HTTP/2 uses multiplexing, which allows the browser to use one TCP connection for all requests.
All files are loaded in parallel. Requests and responses are divided into frames with meta-data that associate requests and responses. So they do not overlap each other and do not cause confusion. In this case, the answers are obtained as they are ready, therefore, heavy requests will not block the processing and issuance of more simple objects.
Along with multiplexing, traffic prioritization appeared. Queries can be prioritized based on importance and dependency. So when loading a web page, the browser will, first of all, receive important data, CSS code, for example, and all the minor will be processed afterward.
HPACK compression format
The HTTP protocol is designed in such a way that when sending requests, headers that contain additional information are also transmitted. The server, in turn, also attaches headers to the responses. And given that web pages consist of many files, all headers can take up a decent amount. HTTP/2 has header compression, which significantly reduces the amount of supporting information so that the browser can send all requests at once.
The HTTP/2 protocol does not require channel encryption. However, all modern browsers work with HTTP/2 only in conjunction with TLS, like Nginx. So the massive implementation of the protocol should contribute to the dissemination of encryption on the web.
If you are already using TLS, then you should use HTTP/2, which reveals the full potential of encryption. When creating an encrypted connection, only one TLS Handshake occurs, which greatly simplifies the entire process and reduces connection time.
Optimizations no longer needed with HTTP/2
The main optimization of HTTP/2 compared to HTTP/1.x is that multiple modifications and optimizations of the previous versions are no longer needed.
Examples of outdated HTTP/1.x optimizations:
- refuse from the domain sharding. This way of distributing multiple files across different domains and CDNs is relevant for HTTP/1.x since it solves the problem of parallel connections. But in the case of the new protocol, this solution degrades performance and negates the prioritization of traffic.
- refuse from sprites or modify them. Combining a multitude of small images into one large image can increase the page loading speed, but if the user opens the page with one small image, the whole sprite will be sent to him anyway. In the case of HTTP/2, such a solution would be less useful because of multiplexing.
- embed images using DataURI. It can also be useful with HTTP/2, but will definitely be less effective than in the case of the previous version.
HTTP/2 protocol is more friendly to the network because competes less with other flows, and longer-lived connections, which in turn leads to better utilization of available network capacity and faster load speed.
If you’re not sure your store is using all benefits of HTTP/2 check it with Website Checker that will tell if it’s configured correctly.
In case you haven’t switched to HTTP/2 but would like to do this and increase your store performance, we will be happy to help you, just email us. To give you some extra motivation to move to HTTP/2: the next version (HTTP/3) is being developed already.
All AWS Cloud Hosting clients have HTTP/2 configured by default.
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Eco City Vehicles PLC (ECV), a developer and supplier of eco-friendly commercial vehicles and the London licensed taxi, launched an all-electric prototype of the London-licensed Mercedes Vito taxi, developed by a consortium of companies including ECV’s manufacturing partner Penso, Mercedes Benz UK and Zytek Automotive.
The eVito Taxi is powered by a 70 kW Zytek electric drive system, driving the front wheels through a custom designed Vocis/Graziano transmission. A 38 kWh Valence Li-Ion battery power pack installed in a weatherproof enclosure beneath the floor allows the internal space of the taxi to remain unaffected by the electric conversion. The vehicle has a top speed of up to 75 mph.
With zero road emissions, it is also expected to be fully compliant with the Mayor of London’s proposed new clean air standards for London taxis, due to be introduced in time for the London Olympics.
The eVito taxi program has been part-funded by a £2.5-million (US$3.9-million) grant from regional development agency Advantage West Midlands (AWM) whose Advantage Niche Vehicle Research & Development Programme (NVRDP) brought together the necessary expertise from Zytek, Penso and fellow consortium members: Vocis/Graziano, Valence Technology and Mercedes Benz UK—which donated the Vito platform that underwent the electric transformation.
The Vito, co-developed by ECV with One80 Ltd and Mercedes Benz, was launched in June 2008 as an alternative to the old-style TX4 taxi. Since then it has captured a more than 30% share of new “black cab” taxi sales in London. The Group has also launched a 3.5 tonne series hybrid Mitsubishi truck in the UK.
One80 Ltd provides its patented rear-wheel steering technology for the eVito as well as the Vito taxi, enabling the vehicle to meet the Public Carriage Office requirement for a minimum turning circle of 25 feet.
Later this year, the consortium plans to conduct controlled trials to confirm eVito’s suitability for road usage as a London licensed taxi.
Penso, based in Coventry, is an advanced engineering and niche manufacturing group of companies, providing products and services to mainstream and low volume OEMs globally. Penso manufactures the Vito Taxi for Eco City Vehicles and has been one of the lead partners responsible for the delivery of the eVito taxi prototype.
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Definition of self-management and horizontal management
When we talk about self-management in companies and organizations, it is common for similar terms to appear , to bring clarity and avoid confusion, we will differentiate:
A set of organizational practices that opposes hierarchical chain of command structure, and hopes to end it without proposing a substitute structure. It would be the equivalent of eliminating managerial positions and the directors in a company, placing everyone in the organization as having the same authority and decision-making power.
A set of organizational practices that seek to distribute authority, giving clarity of responsibilities and maximum autonomy to each member of the organization.
In this scenario, people aren’t required to report to a superior, but instead follow a set of rules and agreements made collectively. These agreements form an organizational structure, which doesn’t require everyone to have the same decision-making power and authority. Instead, it makes it clear how this is done and prevents the boss-subordinate relationship.
Advantages and Disadvantages of Self-Management
We have compiled the principal advantages and disadvantages identified by different researchers and here is what we came up with:
In a study by Ernst and Young, a self-managed organization called Buurtzorg that works in the service of home care was compared with other traditionally managed organizations that work in the same segment and region. The result showed that self-management, in this case, decreases the recovery time of treated patients by an average of 40%, below market cost.
Buurtzorg is continually voted the best organization to work for (organizations with more than 1000 people) in the Netherlands. According to the Harvard Business Review, a Morning Star, a self-managed tomato processing company, makes its temporary employees feel as if they were owners and just as engaged as the actual directors and executives of other companies.
For an organization to adapt to the needs of an ever-changing environment, it needs to make quick decisions. In a survey conducted by the Washington State Department of Technology, the time taken, during a meeting, to resolve a problem and make a decision has dropped 93% after adopting self-management practices.
The Transition isn’t Simple
The biggest disadvantage of self-management is the time and energy needed to promote the transition. People and organizations are used to operating by the chain of command, it takes more than a workshop or application to change things. The larger the organization, the more difficult the transition is.
Examples of Self-Managed Companies
Self-management is not so new, which is great because we have many examples that we can study and be inspired by. See the table below with some examples that show the variety of sectors and sizes of companies, where self-management has proven already to be successful:
Size (# of people)
400 – 2,400*
Nutrition Coaching and Education
Recruitment and Selection
Apparel and Textiles Industry
Nursing and Home Care
*depends on the season
Myths about Self-Management
What comes to your mind when you hear the word self-management, horizontal management or distributed management? Part of our work at Target Teal is to demystify these terms and ward off any phantoms, so that organizations, considering this path, can have more peace of mind initiating the transition processes.
Here we have chosen some phrases that, although are widely used, are far from what we believe to be true about self-management.
There are no leaders in self-management
We stopped associating leadership with a position or function and started seeing that in each situation different leaders can emerge.
This fluid nature of leadership for some may generate insecurity, but it validates what already exists naturally in social groups, leaving aside the hypocrisy of senior management positions, which are presumably occupied by highly trained leaders.
In short, self-management creates the space for everyone to lead and follow, depending on the moment or challenge to be faced.
In self-management decisions take long
Here there is a considerable difference between what exists in people’s imagination and what we practice and teach. Have you ever experienced endless meetings just to be able to get to consensus? Or what about those big assemblies where people vote?
When a group (maximum 15) needs to decide something together, we don’t expect everyone to agree to the proposal, but rather consider it safe enough to try. These are practices that delegate a lot of authority and let real and practical experience be the main judge of the effectiveness of a solution.
In self-management there are no rules, metrics and structure
When working in an hierarchical organization, we know that there is an important rule, if not the only rule. “Do what your boss says!”
In self-management you need to operate following a much greater number of rules and principles, which apply to everyone. Structure and clarity of responsibilities are also two important attributes. Numbers, whether financial or that show a certain result or the efficiency of a process, are also not abolished.
What exists is a reframing and readjustment of metrics that are no longer at the service of “command and control” but instead help everyone understand a complex reality and learn about the impact of decisions made.
Without clear agreements on power, pseudo-egalitarian groups collapse in a swamp of inaction or are commanded by campaigning in the shadows.
A team needs to be mature before being self-managed
When we talk about self-management we are not talking about an egalitarian utopia or equal power for all. We do not argue or defend that all ideas and suggestions have the same value or that one person cannot have the authority to decide something that affects another.
We recognize that people have different skills, experiences, passions and levels of resilience in specific contexts. We advocate equivalence in the definition and application of rules and principles, as well as a balanced and transparent distribution of authority.
People don’t want responsibility or autonomy
Perhaps there is an ounce of truth in the title above. After all, we have been conditioned by our society and culture to transfer a good part of our responsibilities to other people.
“We transfer the responsibility for taking care of our safety and health to the government. We transfer to teachers and parents the responsibility to educate us. We transfer the responsibility of dealing with conflicts and managing our own work to the boss.”
However, people do want autonomy and yearn for more freedom to create work. They also want to reap the rewards of a job well done. As such, we arrived at this triad: Responsibility, autonomy and reward for work.
We cannot offer alone the first two items of this trio and consider it a fair offer. When inviting people to engage in self-management, take this into account, especially when they feel wronged for the way they are being rewarded. Even if for you, this is unfounded.
All of this is still very experimental
In recent years, a lot has happened in this field. Books, frameworks, case studies and practices. And a lot is yet to come, but we must recognize the pioneers, organizations that started their work in the 60s, 70s and 80s. Organizations like WL Gore and Morning Star had to innovate a lot to be pioneers.
Today you can take advantage of what has already been done and copy without doing it blindly. You can take advantage of established standards and practices that may work in your organization. It will always be necessary to experiment and adapt, but the path taken by others makes the process that much easier.
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Source: Symantec The developers of the Flame superspy managed something that had previously only been imagined by experienced security experts in their sketches of catastrophe scenarios: using the integrated Windows Update to infect Windows systems. Symantec's virus researchers have now figured out that Flame managed this feat by using a function in Internet Explorer that automatically detects proxy servers in a local network.
Internet Explorer (IE) uses the Web Proxy Auto-Discovery Protocol (WPAD) to detect any proxy servers that may be in the local network and tries to access the wpad.dat configuration file from a machine called wpad within the same domain. IE first requests wpad's IP address via the DNS server but will use a NetBIOS broadcast if the DNS server doesn't have anything registered.
Snack, a Flame component, lurks on the already infected system waiting for exactly this kind of request, which it then answers, claiming to be the "wpad" computer. Snack then sends the potential victim a wpad.dat file that has the already infected system's IP as the proxy. Munch, the Flame proxy, starts handling the incoming data traffic at this point, simply letting most of it through to minimise suspicion.
The malware does, however, reroute certain queries. Attempts to connect to Windows Update, for example, get sent to the Gadget component, which then makes it appear as though a system update is available. If the victim tries to download the supposed update, Gadget sends the Tumbler infection program to the targeted computer, which executes it without complaint.
The targeted machine believes that Tumbler is a legitimate system update because it has been signed with a valid certificate from Microsoft. The developers of Flame apparently managed to get the certificate thanks to a lapse in Microsoft's security. The company seems to have still been using MD5 hashes – which have been considered insecure for some time now – to sign certificates for a service for corporate clients. The parties behind the virus were most likely able to use a collision attack with this lapse to issue a fake certificate that could be used to sign malicious code.
Tumbler checks whether the system has an anti-virus program before it downloads the actual Flame malware from the computer that was first infected. Pieces of this method were already well-known: in 2009, for instance, a security expert described how a machine could use WPAD and NetBIOS to pass itself off as a proxy to other computers in the network. Collision attacks on SSL certificates are also nothing new.
But it was the developers of Flame who finally managed to put the puzzle together once they discovered the vulnerable algorithm in Microsoft's infrastructure that issued the required certificates. Microsoft's first reaction was to issue an emergency patch that revokes trust in the affected sub-CAs so that Windows no longer falls for the fake updates.
The company also wants to take more precautions in order to continue to expand Windows Update's security. There's not much danger of being infected with malicious code via Windows Update if you're in Europe or the US, since Flame is a spying tool that, as far as we know, was mostly used in the Middle East and only for very specific purposes.
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Andrea Reusing, a James Beard Award–winning chef, had dozens of decisions to make about how to keep her employees and customers safe when she reopened the patio of Lantern, her popular Chapel Hill, North Carolina, restaurant. One item on her worry list: guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that encourages restaurants to use disposable dishes and cutlery to cut down on germ exposure. She cringed at the thought of all those utensils, dishes, napkins, and tablecloths flooding the landfill. Her industry has always faced a “big packaging nightmare,” Reusing says, but now, “it’s painful.”
Just how painful is hard to say—it’s not clear exactly how many restaurants have switched to disposables. But extrapolating from pre-pandemic studies of California restaurants, a midsize restaurant with 30 seats went through 17,800 disposable cups and utensils in a year. Multiply that by 520,000—the number of US restaurants that the consulting firm McKinsey estimates survived the COVID-19 shutdowns—and you get more than 9 billion pieces of trash in one year. And bursting landfills aren’t the only problem: The uptick in plastic restaurant waste, advocates point out, will be especially acute in Black and Brown communities. Eddie Bautista, executive director of the NYC Environmental Justice Alliance, explains that cities tend to route garbage trucks through these neighborhoods, adding more diesel fumes to already high levels of air pollution. “Every ton of waste we’re not recycling or we’re not diverting from landfills and incinerators comes through our communities,” he says.
Plastic companies argue that all the waste and pollution are worth it when you consider the benefits. The industry has spent months claiming its products are a stealth hero of the pandemic. “Single-use plastics can literally be the difference between life and death,” Plastics Industry Association president Tony Radoszewski said in a statement in March. His group has urged the Department of Health and Human Services to issue an official declaration that single-use plastics like grocery bags and coffee cups are safer than their reusable counterparts. The CDC gave that claim a big boost in May, when it published its guidance recommending that restaurants use disposables.
If using throwaway dishes and forks were to reduce the spread of the coronavirus, we could certainly live with a temporary uptick in plastic waste. The problem is, there is absolutely no evidence that disposables are safer. The CDC itself has admitted that surfaces aren’t especially risky—the virus is “thought to spread mainly from person-to-person,” its website says. What’s more, restaurants already must comply with rigorous food safety protocols, including regular handwashing, surface disinfecting, and high-temperature dishwashing.
Donald Schaffner, a Rutgers University food scientist who specializes in microbial risks, says that catching the virus from reusables at a restaurant is theoretically possible but highly unlikely. For someone to face exposure, the silverware or dishes would have to be handled by someone infected, improperly washed, and then passed to another server or a customer—who would then have to touch their eyes, nose, or mouth. “I would encourage people to remember where the virus is really coming from, and it’s coming from other people,” he says. When I asked the CDC for the studies it based its restaurant guidance on, it didn’t respond.
Environmentalists are also bothered by this lack of evidence. In May, a group called the Clean Seas Lobbying Coalition sent a letter to California’s governor asking him to issue clear recommendations that disposables do not provide any greater protection against COVID-19. The letter accused the plastic and petrochemical sector of “trying to influence CDC guidelines for reopening food establishments in their favor.” Gov. Gavin Newsom never responded, but in part because of environmental concerns, California’s Department of Public Health openly defied the CDC recommendations. In May, the agency issued guidelines that said restaurants’ reusable utensils and plates can be safely washed or sanitized.
North Carolina’s health department has kept quiet on the subject, leaving Andrea Reusing worried that restaurants’ embrace of disposables could set a bad precedent. “It probably seems cheaper to get people to eat with a plastic fork, and it feels like maybe people are getting used to food trucks and fast-casual,” she says. But Reusing decided to use Lantern’s regular ceramic dishes and silverware when the restaurant reopened. “It might make people feel better to eat off of something disposable,” she says. “But it’s more for symbolic comfort than anything else.”
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The Eastern Branch of the Monmouth County Library System was designated as a Federal Depository Library in1968.
The Federal Depository Library Program was established by Congress to ensure that the American public has access to its Government’s information. GPO administers the FDLP on behalf of the participating libraries and the public. Information products from the Federal Government are disseminated to these nationwide libraries that, in turn, ensure the American public has free access to the materials, both in print and online.
Some Monmouth County Documents and New Jersey State documents are also assessable at the Eastern Branch. The majority of county and state documents are available online only. They can be found at www.visitmonmouth.com or www.nj.gov.
Please contact Beth Miller at email@example.com for assistance in locating a government document.
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The debate over how to treat water—as a public resource or an investment tool—is escalating as climate change accelerates the water crisis in the West.
May 4, 2010
Farm subsidies are complicated, making them the central front of a heated debate between farmers, politicians and consumers. Farmers don’t like to be dependent on them, but most large-scale producers cannot live without them. Politicians see opportunities for making budget cuts ($245.2 billion was spent on farm payments from 1995-2009 alone, and after all, when subsidies were created during the Great Depression, they were meant to be temporary) and yet these payments are now providing cheap raw materials to the ADMs, Cargills and Monsantos of the world, who give major campaign contributions. Consumers see that the most heavily subsidized crops (corn, soybeans, cotton, wheat, and rice) are producing a lot of things that they no longer want to eat (high fructose corn syrup, processed foods and feedlot meat), but they often misunderstand what is actually needed to transition away from the subsidy system.
Will transparency help to build a more nuanced discussion around changing our farm subsidy system? Today, the Environmental Working Group (EWG) released the latest version of their widely referenced Farm Subsidy Database, with more detailed information on farm payments by individual, county, state and congressional district and including a national summary. In looking at the numbers closely, it becomes apparent that still, the wealthiest farms are receiving the most subsidies. With populist anger over federal spending spilling over, the government searching to get out of debt, and 74% of earnings having gone to the top 10% of farmers from 1995-2009, will farm subsidies finally come under the knife in the 2012 Farm Bill?
EWG’s previous version of the database, launched in 2004, has logged over 200 million searches — a testament to the public interest in the subject — and was responsible for upending the commonly-held beliefs about who is receiving farm payments. In viewing the subsidies by congressional district, you can clearly see why certain politicians are sticking up for farm subsidies. Further, the database shows the public just how much of an underdog fruits and vegetables are in the current system, and that a lot of money that could be spent on conservation programs and healthier school lunches are going to a few wealthy farmers.
The new database also includes analysis of the crop insurance system for the first time, which is essentially an insurance policy for commodity crops made cheaper to the farmer with the infusion of $5.4 billion in tax-payer money in 2009, and that number has been rising. As it currently stands, there is no limit on how much crop insurance can be collected, and only 1% has gone to specialty crops (fruits and vegetables). Crop insurance does benefit individuals, but meanwhile socializes losses — namely, the US government pays half the premium, and actual lost income is paid by the government and not the insurance companies.
House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson (D-MN) has suggested that crop insurance be altered in the next Farm Bill to cover the entire farm, instead of a particular commodity crop. He has also suggested that this could be the future of subsidies, phasing out the current farm payment system in exchange for more insurance coverage. This could make way for more diversity of crops on the farm, decreasing risk and giving rise to vibrant local food systems — and you can bet it will be the a subject of much discussion as the Farm Bill debate gets underway.
But the EWG hopes the system will be simplified to provide a genuine safety net for farmers when things happen that are beyond their control. “There is a need for some sort of safety net to tide people through difficult times, serious crop losses,” said Craig Cox, Senior Vice President at EWG. “Commodity markets much more volatile these days and we need a legitimate risk management tool that helps farmers through a rough patch”
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The Question and Answer section for Everything is Illuminated is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
The story of the dye is an example of how fantasy and reality can become indistinguishable. The world is so colorful, so embellished, that the people lose their keenness of sight when each color is restricted to represent an individual. Every...
Boris the grandfather is an anti-semitic Jew. In the movie he kills himself in the because of his unbearable guilt over denouncing his Jewish heritage and raising his family as non-Jews.He basically hates himself for his hatred of his own people.
Jonathan has only a few maps and a photograph of a woman named Augustine, who is said to have saved his grandfather from the Nazis. She saved Safran in an indirect way by sending him to America to find a home.
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Persuasive Essay Topics 2016
Published on Aug 05, 2016
Top Persuasive Essay Topics 2016
1) Childhood Obesity Prevention Tips
2) The Movie Rating System is Rigged
3) Does Music Affect Plant Growth?
4) How to Prevent School Violence?
5) Emotions as Blocks or Lessons
6) Job Related Stress and Burnout
7) How to Stop Emotional Eating?
8) Effects of Cell Phone Radiation
9) Are There Angels Among Us?
10) Child Abuse Facts for Parents
11) Crime and Poverty Prevention
12) Can You Change Your Habits?
13) Condom - Important to know
14) Is Hinduism Really A Religion?
15) Problems Caused by Obesity
16) Sedentary Lifestyle Effects
17) Nuclear Power Advantages
18) Most Endangered Species
19) FengShui for Your Home
20) Affirmative Action Laws
21) Why is Family Important?
22) Ethical Issues of Cloning
23) Positive Peer Pressure
24) Noise Pollution Effects
25) Unarmed Self Defense
26) Empty Nest Syndrome
27) Healing Bible Verses
28) Teen Revolt and You
29) Pet Euthanasia
30) Gun Safety
2) Creative thinking
3) Vote for me
4) Why there should be a United States of Europe
5) An easy way to give up smoking
6) Why prostitution should be legalized
7) The dangers of taking illegal steroids
8) How we can get more people to vote?
9) Why the death penalty should be abolished in the United States
10) Why we should not consume genetically modified crops?
11) Should religious clothes be banned in schools?
12) The war in Iraq - was it justified?
13) Famous lives
14) The greatest American./ Briton/ French Person/ Scientist/ Discoverer/ Adventurer of all time
15) Scott of the Antarctic - hero or failure?
16) How to pay off your credit card
17) Avoiding drinking or drunk driving
18) Why we should abolish school uniform
19) Global Warming - What we can do about it
20) Students should be required to wear school uniforms.
21) Schools should shift from a nine month school year to year-round schooling.
22) It should be mandatory that no teacher assign homework over the weekend.
23) Video cameras should be put into all classrooms to record student and teacher interactions at all times.
24) School should begin later in the morning and end later in the day.
25) Foreign Language should not be mandatory.
26) Armed police guards and metal detectors should be installed in every school.
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Re: Elevated CA-125 - what to think?
I just had a CA-125 done cause I have had swollen lymph nodes in my back and under my jaw fro months now and I've been on antibiotics for 3 weeks with no improvement.
CA-125 is not just for ovarian cancer. It is best known ovarian cancer, but having it elevated can mean that there are other malignant cancers, like in the endometrium, fallopian tubes, lungs, breast and gastrointestinal tract.
You can have a false positives from normal ovulation, endometriosis, pelvic inflammatory disease, the first trimester of pregnancy, fibroid tumors, and other sources of inflammation in the abdominal and pelvic organs (liver disease, pancreatitis, etc). Also, cervical, endometrial, and other cancers (among them breast, colon, and lung) can inconsistently cause a rise in CA 125.
Since you have fibroids I think that is a good possibility that is why you have an elevated CA-125
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Vol. 2, Issue 9, March 2, 2004
Ethics Conference to Focus on Coffee
The University of Texas at Austin's annual ethics conference is poised to address what is for some a ubiquitous and defining characteristic of modern American society: coffee.
"Our nation has been wracked with far too many serious issues," said William Powers, dean of the School of Law at UT Austin. "We couldn't decide on the most pressing ethical issue in America: war, the economy, the justice system, Enron - the steering committee was deadlocked for days. Finally we decided on coffee as a meta-theme which could encompass many of these problems."
Powers' keynote address, scheduled for April 15, is to be entitled "Wake Up America: The Coffee Conundrum." Fourteen other speakers will be addressing issues ranging from overcaffeinated policy decisions to the choices involved in constructing the average latte.
"Is the milk from cows treated with bovine growth hormone or not?" said Powers. "Quite a dilemma."
Coffee is America's drink of choice, with the average American consuming over 90 gallons per year. It has been periodically touted as a possible health food, with studies hinting that it contains beneficial antioxidants and can reduce the risk of diabetes. However, the fact that it is essentially a mind-altering substance, especially after 4 or 5 cups, raises thorny issues from an ethical standpoint.
"The church has no official position on coffee consumption, which is a cause for concern among some," said Archibishop Gerald Downs. "As a beverage with the potential to alter one's mental faculties, it falls into a similar category with wine, which has both positive and negative references in the Bible." Many are uncomfortable with the notion of any mind-altering substance, a guilty hesitation which some ascribe to the Puritanical roots of American culture that gave rise to Prohibition. Some sects, such as the Mormons, prohibit the use of coffee altogether.
However, the conference organizers point out that while coffee may seem a relatively modern American problem, it has actually been inexplicably intertwined with Western thought and philosophy since the seventeenth century.
"You have to remember that the Enlightenment, the age of reason which gave rise to the philosophical underpinnings of our very Constitution, was created by thinkers hanging out in coffee shops," said Mark Carson, associate professor of philosophy at Marquette University, noting that most European countries consume far more coffee per capita than the U.S. "The eighteenth century was awash with caffeine. Voltaire consumed upwards of seventy cups of coffee a day. Perhaps we must consider that in America today the problem is not too much coffee, but rather too little."
Sessions scheduled at the UT Austin conference include the ethics of using coffee in the workplace, the societal inequities perpetrated by the rise of specialty coffee shops, and the knotty problem of artificial sweeteners.
"One thing we won't cover is decaf," added Powers. "We'd need a lot more than three days to deal with that ethical quandry."
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Gaissau, Vorarlberg, municipality in the district of Bregenz, alt. 399 m, pop. 1,160, area 5.32 km2, situated in a bend of the Old Rhine, close to the Swiss border. - Customs post, mission house of the St. Josef Monastery; production of coatings. In the vicinity characteristic reed belt of the Rhine delta (nature preserve and bird sanctuary).
Literature#G. Niederer, Gaissau. aus der Geschichte eines Grenzdorfes, 1962.
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Back to Contents
Some of the functions we have written so far have had a single,
correct answer for each possible argument. For example, there’s no
number we cannot halve. However, when we use more complicated types such
as lists, there are plenty of functions which do not always have an
answer – a list might not have a head or a tail, for example. Our
drop functions were unsatisfactory in
case of invalid arguments. For example,
take 3 [’a’] would
. This is bad practice – we are hiding
errors rather than confronting them.
OCaml has a mechanism for reporting such run-time errors (these are quite different from the type errors OCaml reports when it refuses to accept a program at all). This mechanism is exceptions.
There are some built-in exceptions in OCaml. For example
Division_by_zero, which is raised when a program
tries to divide a number by zero:
# 10 / 0;;
In order to signal bad arguments in functions like
drop, we can rewrite them using the built-in exception
Invalid_argument, which also carries a message written
between double quotation marks. Typically we use this to record the name
of the function which failed. The following program shows
drop rewritten to use the
Invalid_argument exception using
that these functions deal with two problems of our previous versions: a
negative argument, and being asked to take or drop more than the number
of elements in the list.
We can define our own exceptions, using
exception. They can carry information
along with them, of a type we choose:
# exception Problem;;
# exception NotPrime of int;;
exception NotPrime of int
We have defined two exceptions –
NotPrime which carries an integer along with it. Exceptions
must start with a capital letter. The
construct can be used to introduce the type of information which travels
along with an exception. Once they are defined we may use them in our
own functions, using
# exception Problem;;
# let f x = if x < 0 then raise Problem else 100 / x;;
val f : int -> int = <fun>
# f 5
- : int = 20
# f (-1);;
Exceptions can be handled as well as raised. An
exception handler deals with an exception raised by an
expression. Exception handlers are written using the
safe_divide function tries to divide
y, but if the expression
x / y raises the
Division_by_zero, instead we return
zero. Thus, our
safe_divide function succeeds for every
How do the types work here? The expression
x / y has
type int and so the
expression we substitute in case of
have the same type: int, which indeed it does.
And so, our rule that each expression must have one and only one type is
not violated –
safe_divide always returns an int.
Here is another example. The function
last returns the
last element of a list:
The pattern match is incomplete, so whilst OCaml accepts the program
it can fail at run-time. We can tidy up the situation by raising the
The type of a function gives no indication of what exceptions it might raise or handle; it is the responsibility of the programmer to ensure that exceptions which should be handled always are – this is an area in which the type system cannot help us. Later in this book, we will see some alternatives to exceptions for occasions when they are likely to be frequently raised, allowing the type system to make sure we have dealt with each possible circumstance.
Write a function
smallest which returns the smallest
positive element of a list of integers. If there is no positive element,
it should raise the built-in
Write another function
smallest_or_zero which uses
smallest function but if
raised, returns zero.
Write an exception definition and a function which calculates the largest integer smaller than or equal to the square root of a given integer. If the argument is negative, the exception should be raised.
Write another function which uses the previous one, but handles the exception, and simply returns zero when a suitable integer cannot be found.
Comment on the merits and demerits of exceptions as a method for
dealing with exceptional situations, in contrast to returning a special
value to indicate an error (such as
-1 for a function
normally returning a positive number).
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Experts from the authoritative American publication Consumer Reports named ten new models, the purchase of which could be a headache for their owners.
The rating is based on customer reports of problems with their machines, the study includes data of 640,000 car owners.
So, the list got Chevrolet Camaro, in which the most problematic were called transmission, electrician and drive. Next comes the Mercedes-Benz GLC:
under suspicion of an early breakdown, there were brakes, steering and suspension. Jaguar F-Pace takes the next line. Experts called the transmission and
electricians unreliable, and also drew attention to extraneous noises in the cabin.
Offroadster GMC Acadia as sold in the US market can also disappoint the owners: with a high probability, there may be problems with the drive, power plant and electrician.
In a compact hatchback Fiat 500, an electrician, power equipment and brakes are soft spots, and in Ford Focus the soft spots are transmission and a drive.
Probably, Ford Fiesta owners will drive their cars into services with a broken climate system or with a transmission. In Volvo XC90 the electrician and the power equipment
raised doubts, and in Cadillac Escalade it was climate control and gearbox.
Notable, that the electric crossover Tesla Model X was included in the list. The experts had questions about the quality of the electric car assembly, painting and finishing,
and also to the climate control system.
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U.S. museums have clearer guidelines on acquiring ancient art today than just a few years ago. In 2008, both the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) and the American Association of Museums (AAM) recommended that museums acquire no object unless it was exported legally after 1970 or had left before 1970 the country in which it was discovered. That was the year a Unesco accord recognized a nation’s right to control cultural property created or found within its borders. AAM guidelines state that when documentation is unclear, a museum “should be transparent about why this [acquisition] is an appropriate decision.” AAMD guidelines say a museum may use “an informed judgment” but “must carefully balance” the risks and benefits of acquiring the object.
Museums once had “an approach to collecting ancient art which was ‘Don’t buy anything that you know to be stolen,’” says Maxwell L. Anderson, CEO of the Indianapolis Museum of Art and chairman of an AAMD task force on cultural property. “I said we have to flip that to, ‘Don’t buy anything unless you know it’s not stolen.’” AAMD and AAM differ in scope—the former includes some 200 museum directors, the latter some 18,000 museums—but they cooperated to ensure “there was no daylight between their guidelines,” says Erik Ledbetter, chief of staff of the AAM guideline task force.
A policy adopted by the Smithsonian regents in 1973 states that museum officials must determine that an object considered for acquisition was not “unethically acquired from its source, unscientifically excavated, or illegally removed” from the country in which it was found, and, further, that it entered the United States legally. The provenance of acquired objects, the policy says, “shall be a matter of public record.”
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In context: Robocalls are a nuisance at best and a danger to personalized facts and economical security at worst. Whilst telecoms have produced attempts to minimize automatic and scammy telemarketing calls, they are even now a considerable dilemma because of the absence of enforcement to entities outside United States jurisdiction.
To tackle the condition, a consortium of US attorneys typical has fashioned a undertaking force to give latest anti-robocalling and telemarketing legislation and restrictions much more tooth. They suggest heading right after what they phone “gateway suppliers.” These are telecoms that empower or allow for this kind of website traffic on to their networks, commonly mainly because they stand to income from it.
North Carolina AG Josh Stein, Indiana’s Todd Rokita, and Ohio AG Dave Yost head up the recently shaped Anti-Robocall Litigation Activity Power. The team contains AGs from all 50 states. It aims to battle robocalls by suing US gateway vendors, which in theory would be much more helpful than striving to litigate versus fly-by-night international companies that are the supply of the calls.
“I have been foremost the exertion by condition attorneys standard to work with the federal govt and phone providers to combat robocalls,” explained Stein in a push release asserting the undertaking force. “But we are also likely to acquire motion from cell phone businesses that violate state and federal laws.”
Stein points out that he has currently submitted just one lawsuit against a gateway provider from outside the house his state of North Carolina referred to as Articul8. This corporation allegedly routed in excess of 65 million robocalls to telephone numbers in his home point out by itself, resulting in some 50 to 200 calls for each day for NC residents.
The AG also cites reports displaying that of all the automated calls produced to US people, more than 33 million are cons, together with Social Security drawbacks focusing on seniors, bogus Amazon reps, and other fraudulent calls. Analysts estimate that fraud operations stole pretty much $30 billion from US inhabitants in 2021, most of it coming from offshore corporations.
As extended as US suppliers can rake in profits from shady telemarketers and scammers outside the States, they will. So the job pressure aims to strike these vendors in their pocketbooks to discourage them from enabling these troublesome and threatening phone calls.
Will their initiatives be plenty of to stop all automatic calls? Of system not. Some robocalls are reputable. For instance, rings from your kid’s school or faculty district informing you of events, closures, and other college-similar details are legal under all recent laws. Targets are only people that glance to rip people off, which is even now a gray place below the legislation.
For illustration, are providers making an attempt to offer you an extended guarantee on your car or truck cons or legit small business calls? It could go either way. As extensive as the corporation does provide what it states and is not just phishing or having your income even though giving nothing, regulators think about it authorized even though it can be just as annoying as rip-off phone calls.
Nearly anything that shoots to minimize the range of robocalls everyone receives each day really should be welcome. Of study course, time will inform accurately how helpful the Anti-Robocall Litigation Endeavor Pressure is.
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Federal government departments are collecting data on Canadian citizens via their social media accounts for no good reason, Canada's privacy watchdog says.
In a letter to Treasury Board president Tony Clement in February, interim privacy commissioner Chantal Bernier says "we are seeing evidence that personal information is being collected by government institutions from social media sites without regard for accuracy, currency and accountability."
The letter dated Feb. 13 also reads: "Should information culled from these sites be used to make administrative decisions about individuals, it is incumbent upon government institutions to ensure the accuracy of this information."
Clement replied to her letter, promising to ask Treasury Board officials to study the matter and report back to Bernier.
The issue came up in the House of Commons on Thursday. NDP MP Megan Leslie asked how the government sees fit to collect and stockpile more private information on citizens in a time when privacy issues are becoming more critical. "The government scrapped the long-form census because it was too intrusive, but they're fine with private companies intruding on the personal lives of millions of Canadians," she told Clement during question period.
Without explaining what, specifically, was being monitored and collected, Clement justified the practice by saying the government is merely finding new ways of communicating with citizens.
"Whether it's in a letter or a petition or written on the street, this government always wants to listen to Canadians who want to be heard," Clement said. "Of course we must and will operate within the law, within the confines of the Privacy Act, and of course we are always willing to engage with the privacy commissioner to ensure that our oversight and our laws, the oversight of government, is modern."
But "we will continue to communicate with Canadians who want to communicate with us," Clement said.
The letter is just the latest example of how Canada's chief privacy watchdog has raised a red flag about troubling gaps in the security of Canadians' personal information.
Last month, Bernier's office revealed that various government agencies have made almost 1.2 million requests for personal information about Canadians from Canada's major telecom companies, often without a warrant.
Last year, the commissioner's office criticized two federal government departments for improperly collecting data of a personal nature on prominent First Nations activist Cindy Blackstock. Although it said collection of data about Blackstock's employer and human rights campaign were fair game, the data collection veered into information of a personal nature — an obvious violation of "the spirit, if not the letter, of the Privacy Act," the privacy commissioner said at the time.
Bernier sent CBC News her report on Blackstock's case, which states it is a "misconception that people surrender their right to privacy by posting on Facebook."
In an email statement today she also said the more recent intrusions into Canadians' privacy by two government departments underscore the need for guidance in this area.
"It is increasingly important to develop guidelines to clarify privacy protections with respect to the collection of publicly available personal information from social media sites," she wrote.
"In a recent investigation into the collection of information from a First Nations activist’s personal Facebook page, we took the position that this type of information can only be gathered in situations in which a direct connection exists to the institution’s operating programs or activities," she added.
Bernier's office also flagged government snooping on social media in a report to parliamentarians in January, which, much like the letter she sent in February, draws a distinction between the legitimate collection of publicly available data, and that which overreaches into information that the government has no good reason to be collecting or trying to collect.
The Privacy Act does allow for government to collect data from social media, but only when there's a direct relation to a specific program or activity — it's not just a blank cheque to collect data for no specific purpose.
"Even in cases where authority exists, institutions may not be ensuring the accuracy of such information," the letter says.
Privacy lawyer David Fraser agrees, saying he hopes decisions on government programs such as Employment Insurance aren't being made with inaccurate data. "It's not just that they're looking, they're collecting," he told CBC News in an interview. "Transparency is the way to deal with this head-on."
"People using social media [voluntarily] put their information out there … but if it's being collected on a database that really takes it completely out of that realm," he said. "We have doors and curtains in our lives for a reason."
For him, the issue isn't that public information is being stored, but rather why. "Is there a list of people who've shown negative opinions [of the government]? We're left with a lot of questions and no real answers," Fraser said.
"The public availability of personal information on the internet [does not] render personal information non-personal," the privacy commissioner said in the annual report to Parliament last year. "For good or ill, research demonstrates that social media users have a certain expectation of privacy," the letter says.
Bernier calls on government to more clearly define what information from social media can be collected, under what circumstances and for what purpose.
"As there appears to be a lack of clarity around this issue, we would suggest that it would be timely to have the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat develop and issue clear, mandatory guidance to articulate what constitutes 'publically available' personal information, how and when such information can be collected and used [and] what responsibilities must be met to ensure its accuracy and currency," the letter reads.
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The Swindon Spitfire Story
How Swindon played its part in building an aircraft legend
Part of Swindon's history:
the Supermarine Spitfire
It's a sight and sound that's unmistakeable.
And in no small way, Swindon played its part in making the Spitfire the nation's most famous aircraft.
Now 75 years still it first flew, the fighter plane's memory still lives on here through the Supermarine Sports Club that bears the name of the company that manufactured the aircraft in Swindon from 1941-44.
Originally built in Southampton, production moved to a shadow Supermarine factory at South Marston after bombing destroyed their main south coast facility in 1940.
There the planes were constructed and tested on the nearby runway (now the Honda test track) before being flown to bases in the UK and all over the world.
In all 121 Mark 21 Spitfires were built here, with a further 50 modified Spitfires bound for naval action (which the Royal Navy called Seafires) also produced.
On 7 December 1941, a Spitfire on a training mission crashed in Stratton St.Margaret killing the pilot.
Spitfire production was spilt between Castle Bromwich
(pic. above) and Swindon after Supermarine in Southampton
was bombed in 1940
Production of later versions also continued after the war, before South Marston's last Spitfire (actually a Seafire) was completed in January 1949.
In October 1945, Vickers bought the factory and airfield (it cost them £500,000) and the factory's new roles included the modification of planes which had survived the war into trainers.
Spitfires also continued to fly out of South Marston after repairs and modifications, with most of these ending up in foreign air forces.
Walrus and Sea Otter amphibians were also refurbished - the former destined to fly the colours of the Netherlands and Argentinian air forces, and the latter for civil duties.
the Vickers Armstrong building circa. 1950
Very little is left of the South Marston factory that played such a key role in the war effort. Much of the site has now been developed as an industrial estate and part of the extensive Honda plant.
From 1950 until the mid 70s, a Supermarine Spitfire sat at the entrance to the Vickers factory as a proud memorial to the part played by the firm in the aircraft's history.
As previously mentioned, the sport's club once part of Vickers still retains the name.
In 2002, Business Space Services arranged for a Spitfire flyover to celebrate the opening of their new serviced office facility in what was the main building of the Vickers site.
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The Civil War: The Universe Of Battle
Airs Saturday, March 27, 2010 at 2:30 p.m. on KPBS TV
Friday, March 5, 2010
Ken Burns' epic documentary brings to life America's most destructive — and defining — conflict. With digitally enhanced images and new stereo sound, "The Civil War" is the saga of celebrated generals and ordinary soldiers, a heroic and transcendent president and a country that had to divide itself in two in order to become one.
This episode opens with a dramatic account of the turning point of war: the Battle of Gettysburg, the greatest ever fought in the Western Hemisphere. For three days 150,000 men will fight to the death in the Pennsylvania countryside, culminating in Pickett’s legendary charge.
This extended episode then goes on to chronicle the fall of Vicksburg, the New York draft riots, the first use of black troops, and the western battles at Chickamauga, Georgia and Chattanooga, Tennessee. The episode closes with the dedication of a new Union cemetery at Gettysburg in November, where Abraham Lincoln struggles to put into words what is happening to his people.
This program is part of our TV Membership Campaign. Support the quality programs you depend on from KPBS. Join or renew today!
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Is Money Useless to Open Source Projects?
In April I donated $5,000 of the ad revenue from this website to an open source .NET project. It was exciting to be able to inject some of the energy from this blog into the often-neglected .NET open source ecosystem.
As I mentioned at the time, I used a very hands off approach. While I did have some up-front criteria for the award (open source license, public source control, accepts outside source contributions) it's basically a no-strings grant.
The real money is being sent via wire transfer to Dario Solera, the ScrewTurn Wiki project coordinator. What's Dario going to do with this money? You'll have to ask him. That's not for me to decide. There are no strings attached to this money of any kind. I trust the judgment of a fellow programmer to run their project as they see fit.
When I said the project could do whatever they saw fit with the money, I meant it. Buy liquor and cigarettes, throw a huge party, play it on the ponies. I'm not kidding. As long as the project team believes it's a valid way to move their project forward, whatever they say goes. It's their project, and their grant.
I hadn't heard anything from Dario, and I was curious, so I followed up with him via email. He sent back this response:
The grant money is still untouched. It's not easy to use it. Website hosting fees are fully covered by ads and donations, and there are no other direct expenses to cover. I thought it would be cool to launch a small contest with prizes for the best plugins and/or themes, but that is not easy because of some laws we have here in Italy that render the handling of a contest quite complex.
What would you suggest?
I was crushingly disappointed to find out the $5,000 in grant money has been sitting in the bank for the last four months, totally unused. That's painful to hear, possibly the most painful of all outcomes. Why did we bother doing this if nothing changes?
My friend Jon Galloway warned me this might happen. I didn't believe him. But what other conclusion can I draw at this point? He was right:
Open Source is to Traditional Software as Terror Cells are to Large Standing Armies – if you gave a terrorist group a fighter jet, they wouldn't know what to do with it. Open source teams, and culture, have been developed such that they're almost money-agnostic. Open source projects run on time, not money. So, the way to convert that currency is through bounties and funded internships. Unfortunately, setting those up takes time, and since that's the element that's in short supply, we're back to square one.
I had hoped that $5,000 grant money would be converted into something that furthered an open source project – perhaps something involving the community and garnering more code contributions. But apparently that's more difficult than anyone realized.
Jon offered these ideas:
- Can they turn the money over to a company or organization who is familiar with this kind of thing, like the Google Summer of Code, etc.?
- Often times, documentation and marketing are in really short supply. Could they just hire a technical writer and / or marketing expert with the $5k?
- SourceForge has a donations program in which people can make donations to pay developers. Maybe he can run the money through there?
I must admit I'm at a bit of a loss here. Do you have any ideas for how the Screwturn Wiki project can use their $5,000 open source grant effectively? If so, please share them in the comments here, or on the ScrewTurn forum – in the Suggestions and Feature Requests area.
Even I'm not naive enough to suggest that money can solve every open source software problem. But I don't have a lot of time to contribute; I only have advertising revenue. I'm absolutely dumbfounded to learn that contributing money isn't an effective way to advance an open source project. Surely money can't be totally useless to open source projects… can it?
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A student asked me, "How do you say 'Yoroshiku onegaishimasu' in English?" I answered, "There's no such expression in English."
"Yoroshiku onegaishimasu" literally means something like "I humbly ask you to be kind to me", but it has ambiguous yet good connotations. Quite Japanese, but this phrase implies your respect and politeness to the people you meet, your good will and determination. It is frequently used when meeting people for the first time, or joining a group. When you are introduced to a person/persons, and say "Yoroshiku onegaishimasu", it can be "Nice to meet you." If you entered my school (wow) and said so, it could be "I'll do my best, so please give me good teaching." To a new business partner, it means "Looking forward to doing business with you." Depending on the situations, it could mean "Please remember me," "Please take care of it," "I'll leave it to you," "Hope we can get along well," "You'll be sorry,"(?)... "Please say yoroshiku to Jim." is "Please say hello to Jim." ("Yoroshiku" only is a more casual form.) Don't you think it's a very convenient expression? Ambiguity is often the name of the game in Japan. And that could come as a difficulty in learning English.
So, to my dear visitors out there, "Hi, I'm Kiyo. Yoroshiku!"
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Why You Need to Focus on Diversity Before It's Too Late
Failing to prioritize diversity leads to disastrous consequences. Take the recent influx of sexism and discrimination claims at Uber, for example.
Related: What Does Uber Need to Do to Fix Its Battered Reputation?
After multiple former employees came forward to claim that their harassment at work was being mishandled by human resources, a number of the company’s top executives stepped down, including, most recently, Uber’s president Jeff Jones...
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How Do Psychologists Study About the Brain?
The brain is the central focus of a neuroscientist. Being a major organ of the central nervous system, the brain is responsible for monitoring and regulating many of the information coming from our external and internal environment. Studying about the brain therefore sheds important insights about the biological foundations of behavior and mental processes.
Psychologists study the brain in different ways:
Brain Lesioning may be natural or artificial. Artificial brain damages are induced in the laboratory by surgery, laser removal and through the use of drugs; while natural brain damages may be caused by environmental hazards that are naturally occurring or by some unusual and/or common street accidents. Basically this method provides psychologists insights into what aspects of behavior are affected by damage on certain parts of the brain, and up to what extent can the damage significantly alter behavior.
Staining the brain is a technique used by psychologists to pinpoint which neurons are connected and activated by each other. Because neuronal membranes contain ion channels that open and close whenever a neuron is activated, stains like horse dish peroxidase enter these channels and paint the path neurotransmitters take to transmit information to neighboring neurons. Because neurons are generally too small to be seen by the naked eye, psychologists use high-powered microscopes to see through a neuron's activity.
Brain Electrical Recording
Electrical Recording is used to monitor the electrical activity of the brain. This is because neurons communicate with each other via electrochemical transmission. One form of brain electrical recording is through the use of an electroencephalogram wherein surface electrodes are placed on the scalp. The electrical record gathered from this technique is called an electroencephalograph (or EEG), and is used mainly to study about brain disorders, epilepsy and the nature of sleep. Another form of electrical recording is single-unit recording in which the electrical activity of a single neuron is monitored using a thin probe inserted in the brain and near a particular neuron. The electrical information is then amplified to be seen and registered on the screen.
Brain Imaging is done to enable psychologists to "see" what is happening in the brain. Computerized Tomography or CT Scan presents a clear 3-dimensional image of the brain from the assembly of various 2-dimensional x-rays of the brain. Positron-Emission Tomography or PET Scan presents a hazy picture of the brain based on glucose consumption of the different parts of the brain. For example, different parts of the brain "light up" in accordance with the different activities we engage in. Magnetic Resonance Imaging or MRI shows the biochemical activities of the brain by means of magnetic field and radio waves. Among the three (3) techniques for brain imaging, MRI is the most preferred method because it provides the clearest picture of the brain, is non-invasive, and poses no risks for radiation problems.
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July 4th? Arthur moves celebrations to 3rd or 5th
NEW YORK (AP) -- As Americans prepared to celebrate the nation's 238th birthday, Hurricane Arthur forced several East Coast cities to switch the dates of their Fourth of July shows and officials in the drought-stricken West urged caution in setting off fireworks.
Boston officials moved the annual Boston Pops July 4 concert and fireworks from Friday to Thursday because of potential heavy rain. They said they were rescheduling the celebration to the best of two bad weather days.
Augusta, Maine, moved its fireworks display to Aug. 2 while several New Hampshire cities moved their fireworks shows to either Saturday or Sunday. In New Jersey, Atlantic City and Ocean City moved their fireworks to Sunday.
In New York City the annual Macy's fireworks show will be back on the East River after five years on the Hudson River. A spokesman said the show, the largest Fourth of July fireworks display in the nation, will go on no matter Friday's weather.
Another New York tradition is the Nathan's hot dog eating contest at Coney Island, where champion Joey Chestnut, who ate 69 wieners and buns in 10 minutes last year, will defend his title on Friday.
Throughout parts of the drought-stricken West, fire officials are warning residents to take precautions when lighting fireworks. Hot and windy weather can make for dangerous conditions, and fireworks have been banned in large swaths of forested areas over concerns they could spark wildfires.
Some communities had considered canceling community firework displays on Friday but many are taking place as planned. In Philadelphia, where the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776, officials moved a Thursday night pops orchestra concert indoors, but said the annual July 4 concert featuring the Roots and fireworks display would go on regardless of rain.
In Washington, D.C., composer John Williams was set to debut a new arrangement of "The Star-Spangled Banner" featuring choirs, trumpets, an orchestra and cannons on the National Mall on Friday.
This year marks the anthem's 200th anniversary. It was in September 1814 when Francis Scott Key was inspired by the sight of the flag over Baltimore's Fort McHenry after a 25-hour British bombardment.
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A forum for people with knowledge of the Bible in its original languages to discuss its manuscripts and textual history from the perspective of historic evangelical theology.
This is great.
That was awesome
Spectacular and humbling.
Subtitles check: Paul der Sechste (at 2:45 mins) is not Paul XI :)
At the 1:25 mark, is that Barbara Aland front and center?
That is a good question. I think yes. Definitely.
Ten years later: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Aland#/media/File:Barbara_and_Kurt_Aland_%281988%29.png
Peter,A Muslim friend of mine says that in his work "The Problem of Anonymity and Pseudonymity inChristian Literature of the First Two Centuries," written in 1961, Dr. Aland denies the apostolic authorship of the Four Gospels, the Catholic Epistles, the Pastoral Epistles, and Hebrews. And in "The Problem of the New Testament Canon," written in 1962, Dr. Aland expresses his doubts as to the canonicity of several New Testament books. My friend then says that in a later work "A History ofChristianity," published in German in 1980 and in English in 1985, Aland discusses his theories concerning the origins and the evolution of the New Testament text, including the settling of the Canon and the apostolic authorship of the Gospels, the Catholic Epistles, and Hebrews. However, Aland says nothing in that work to renounce his former views. How would you answer this, in light of the video you just shared? Thanks so much, Nick
In that 1961 article Aland says 'Each New Testament scholar has to answer the question of authorship in New Testament literature for himself'. I think in general Aland for himself adopted pretty conventional historical-critical viewpoints on matters of authorship. He thinks of the gospels as "published anonymously" (also Hebrews, possibly; and 1 John). Among pseudonymous writings he includes: 1 & 2 Timothy, Titus, 1 & 2 Peter, James, Jude, 2 & 3 John. If you want a discussion of such matters I would think that D. Guthrie's New Testament Introduction is still perhaps the fullest conservative introduction. Aland's viewpoint looks pretty close to W.G. Kummel. In the video when the interviewer asks (12:20) about whether a pious Bible reader might worry that the Bible text is wrong. He immediately clarifies and categorises this is a text-critical question: is the text of the Bible (text-critically) wrong? But this brackets out other topics on which he might think that the Bible is wrong (e.g. presumably on ascriptions of authorship in 1 Timothy etc.). He is not here addressing those questions at all. I don't think he is changing his views; he is just presumably quite used to addressing text-critical matters separately from other historical-critical matters.
Aland sure seemed pretty confident in the final minute of the video, didn't he.
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Find answers to the top 10 questions parents ask about TI graphing calculators.
Download free 90-day trial versions of the most popular TI software and handheld emulators.
Learn about the math and science behind what students are into, from art to fashion and more.
Get ready for back to school with T³™ Webinars to enhance your teaching and TI technology skills.
Get hundreds of video lessons that show how to graph parent functions and transformations.
Update OS, transfer files andtake screen captures for yourTI-Nspire™ CX II graphing calculator.
Students explore a variety of mathematical functions and real world applications of functions to understand the concepts of domain and range.
In this activity, students find the domain and range of various real-world problems. The first problem involves exploring an equation that models the height of a sunflower plant over time.
There are extra problems at the end of the activity for students to complete either in class or for homework. These problems include sine, logarithmic, quadratic, and square root functions.
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By Shannon Bond
I sit in my share of meetings, and it has been a privilege to sit in on several public meetings at the EPA. Typically, my work involves integrating technology and social media into human workflows. What I have learned over time, however, is that there is no substitute for direct human interaction. Even if we develop incredibly sophisticated virtual reality spaces, we will still have the need to meet face to face.
I admit that I was skeptical at my first large EPA listening session. What possible value could come from so many people sharing their opinions? That’s not to say that each person’s opinion doesn’t count; it does. We all have a voice and a need to be heard. But, my usual mindset is to focus on small productive teams that get things done. I shy away from committees and large working groups. I prefer deadlines and focus with specialized team members serving in meaningful roles.
The listening session had over 200 people in attendance. Each person was given several minutes to talk while a panel of EPA specialists listened. There were note takers, microphones, and sign language interpreters. Everyone in the crowd could hear; nobody was left out. The only rule was that the speakers were restrained to the same issue. The crowd was full of specialists, scientists, mothers, fathers, grandparents, kids and even a politician or two. Each person brought a strong belief or personal experience to the table.
When we watch the media, we are exposed to the simplification of these issues. When we do our own research and listen to the stakeholders involved, we find out that most issues are very complex. Climate change, sustainability, renewable energy and water conservation cannot be boiled down to a “for or against” mindset. There are too many affected parties, with varying if not competing interests. Solutions are complicated.
So how can this meeting possibly be productive, and not dissolve into a shouting match? The staff at the EPA showed me how. They put a lot of time into planning, and focused on listening instead of telling. I put aside my gadgets and focused. No Twitter reports, Facebook updates, news apps or RSS feeds. I simply watched the speakers sit down in front of the microphone, one after another. Through all of the personal stories, belief and scientific testimony given by real people, a complete picture of the issue began to take shape in front of me. I began to believe in the process.
At the end of the meeting, with my skepticism set aside, I had a clear idea of where I stood on the issue. I understood multiple sides, and respected them, even if I didn’t agree. More importantly, I remembered the value of direct experience through human interaction. As public servants, it’s important for us to interact with our stakeholders and the communities we strive to protect. By considering everyone’s point of view, we are better equipped to deal with both the ideological and practical challenges we are faced with. I will always be a technology advocate, but technology can never replace the direct experience of human interaction.
Shannon Bond is a multimedia production specialist with EPA Region 7’s Office of Public Affairs. He has served in a host of roles including military policeman, corrections officer, network operations specialist, photojournalist, broadcast specialist and public affairs superintendant.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The House on Thursday backed election-year legislation that temporarily would halt the transfer of more detainees from the U.S. naval prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
The bill, which passed by a 244-174 vote, would bar the federal government from spending money on any Guantanamo prisoner transfers, even those to a foreign country. The ban would last until the end of the calendar year, or until a bill authorizing defense funding is signed into law.
The White House has threatened a veto, and the measure has no chance of becoming law. But the bill is an opportunity for Republicans to put Democrats on record on the issue in the weeks before the Nov. 8 election and use their votes against them in campaigns.
Within minutes of the vote, the House Republicans’ campaign committee sent out a news release with the headline, “Democrats vote to close GITMO and bring terrorists to U.S. soil (again).”
Republican backers said the transfers could allow some detainees to eventually return to terrorism and could threaten American communities when prisoners are transferred to prisons on U.S. soil.
Rep. Randy Forbes, R-Va., said that when these prisoners are held in a U.S. jail or prison, “you have just put a target on every school, every business, every mall in that community.”
The White House argues Guantanamo weakens national security by draining resources and emboldening violent extremists. About 60 prisoners are being held there, down from hundreds. The administration says transfers occur only after a rigorous review. The Pentagon is still weighing what maximum security facilities could handle the remaining detainees.
According to a report released Wednesday by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, 122 of 693 detainees transferred out of the prison, or 17.6 percent, have returned to fighting. That’s four more than the 118 recorded as having re-engaged in militant activities, in a report issued in March.
The report said an additional 86 detainees are suspected of having returned to fighting.
House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., said the report underscored the need for the legislation.
Democrats said the legislation would strip Obama of his lawful authority over the prison.
“This bill is un-American and extreme,” said Rep. Jerrold Nadler of New York.
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One of Afghanistan's top religious figures has defended a series of religious decrees that observers warn could further erode women's rights in the country.
The eight-article fatwa was issued by a local ulema, or religious council, in the district of Deh Salah in the northern province of Baghlan last month. Among the edicts was a ban on women leaving their homes without a male companion and another that banned the sale of cosmetics on the basis that they are "un-Islamic" and promote adultery.
The fatwa, reminiscent of the strict edicts imposed by the Taliban during its rule of Afghanistan, prompted condemnation from rights activists and many of the district's residents. But while only senior clerics have the right to issue such edicts, the country's top religious figures have stayed silent on the issue up to now.
That changed when Mawlawi Enayatullah Baligh, a presidential adviser who serves on Afghanistan's top religious panel, the Ulema Council, staunchly defended the edicts while discussing the closure of cosmetics shops. "There is no way these shops could have stayed open," he told the Reuters news agency on July 20. "Shops are for business, not adultery."
The fatwa also barred women from clinics without a male escort and ordered strict dress codes for women, although it did not elaborate.
The document also threatened unspecified "punishments” for those who did not obey. During its rule, the Taliban's notorious vice and virtue police publicly beat women for breaking rules imposed by the group.
Civil Liberty Concerns
The controversy has cast a spotlight on the state of women's rights ahead of the expected pullout of foreign troops by the end of 2014. As international scrutiny has waned, powerful religious and conservative circles have taken steps to undermine women's civil liberties.
In Afghanistan, a deeply religious and conservative country, religion is often above the law. That has meant that religious figures have frequently been the main obstacle to women winning the rights afforded them under the Afghan Constitution.
Such is the power wielded by the country's religious leaders that even female lawmakers and activists appear resigned
to the fact that cooperation with them is necessary to forge a path for women's rights.
Fawzia Koofi, a lawmaker and outspoken campaigner for women's rights, has warned that, without religious leaders' support, gains made by women could quickly be wiped out once foreign troops withdraw.
"The role of the mullahs is crucial because we're an Islamic nation and the mosques are being used against women," Koofi told Reuters on July 16. "Why not use them for women?"
Many residents of Deh Salah, home to 80,000 people, disagree with the ulema's decrees, saying local religious leaders are flexing their muscles.
One resident, who did not want to be named, told Radio Free Afghanistan that the decrees were just an excuse to crack down on women.
"When these ulema members give their opinions on cosmetic shops, can't they see that outside their homes and mosques there are drugs like hashish and opium?" he asked. "Thousands of people are dying from drugs. [Afghanistan] has a thousand other [pressing] issues. They haven't issued decrees about any of these things."
The clout of local religious council members recently prompted Abdul Rasul, who was the district mayor of Deh Salah, to take steps to shut down cosmetics shops.
Rasul took action after ulema members threatened to burn the shops down if he did not act. He was shot dead
on July 6 by a shopkeeper who refused to close his business.
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Simple PHP Chat Script is an AJAX chatting system which does not require a database. It works with text files saved on the server, so it is fast and requires very few server resources. It can be included in both PHP or HTML files (in blogs, forums), but the server must run PHP. The script can easily be changed to be used in other languages, just by translating the texts in a single file. It can have one or more chat rooms. The user can add smiles in chat, and can format the text with Bold, Italic, an Underline.
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How to maintain and manage Acetylene compressor
(1) First, check whether the pressure gauges, thermometers, ammeters, voltmeters and other measuring instruments of the Acetylene compressor are complete and intact, and whether the calibration time of the acetylene compressor is exceeded.
(2) Check Acetylene compressor safety valve, bursting plate and other safety equipment, adjust and check start interlock device, alarm device, cut-off device (automatic cut-off or automatic switch), automatic start and other protective devices, as well as flow, pressure, Control loops such as temperature regulation.
(3) Check whether the transmission device is connected reliably and whether the safety cover is complete and firm. Clean the site, remove all obstacles that hinder the startup, and check whether there are foreign objects (such as tools, etc.) and residual liquid inside the equipment and piping.
(4) Check whether enough oil is added to the external oil tank, cooling oil tank and internal oil tank of Acetylene compressor; when the weather is cold, the oil temperature drops, and it needs to be heated with steam.
(5) Start the auxiliary oil pump of Acetylene compressor or other oil pumps not connected with the unit (such as external gear oil pump, internal cylinder oil injector and cooling oil pump), inject oil into each oil injection point, and make it under the specified oil pressure and oil temperature run.
Through the above introduction and analysis of how to maintain and manage Acetylene compressor, hope it helps you.
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Twenty-five years of field effect gas sensor research in Linköping
2007 (English)In: Sensors and actuators. B, Chemical, ISSN 0925-4005, Vol. 121, no 1, 247-262 p.Article in journal (Refereed) Published
The present contribution contains an overview of the development of gas sensitive field-effect devices in Linköping during the last 25 years. It is completely centred to the work at the Laboratory of Applied Physics at Linköping University, and is therefore not a proper review of a research field where many important contributions have been made by several other research groups. © 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2007. Vol. 121, no 1, 247-262 p.
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マトリクスコンバータにおける入出力フィルタの最適化 Optimization of Input and Output Filters in Matrix Converter Drive System
This paper presents an AC-AC power converter integrated with techniques that provide environmental harmony. The voltage source PWM inverter has been established as the major motor drive equipment. However, it is associated with issues pertaining to PWM switching as well as issues related to the input harmonics caused by capacitor input type rectification. Hence, there is need for a converter that addresses these problems and provides an environmentally harmonious solution. The matrix converter has a topology that inherently exhibits sinusoidal input current waveforms and less stressful output voltage waveforms. Combining the matrix converter with certain filter topologies is shown to provide an environmentally harmonious solution.
- 電気学会論文誌. D, 産業応用部門誌 = The transactions of the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan. D, A publication of Industry Applications Society
電気学会論文誌. D, 産業応用部門誌 = The transactions of the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan. D, A publication of Industry Applications Society 127(1), 36-43, 2007-01-01
The Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan
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The winner of the Nobel prize for literature will be announced on October 12th in Sweden. Who will it be? Newsweek says Orhan Pamuk. The AP mentions him, as well as Joyce Carol Oates, Philip Roth, Syrian poet Adonis, and Swedish poet Thomas Transtromer. The Guardian's Culture Vulture lists a few others, including Korean poet Ko Un, Amos Oz, and Mario Vargas Llosa. Considering that Americans have so far won all of the other 2006 Nobels, I'm guessing that the lit prize won't go to a Yank.
Meanwhile, Critical Mass, the online voice of the National Book Critics Circle, reminds us that the Booker top prize and the National Book Award finalists will also be announced this week.
Thank you to MoorishGirl for the Newsweek tip and to SignOnSanDiego for the AP story.
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Brexit: Spain will ‘vote against’ Scotland rejoining says expert
Political scientist Tanja Borzel told DW that Scotland should forget about leaving the United Kingdom in order to join the European Union as Spain will not allow it. The Catalonia region in Spain has campaigned for independence from the rest of the nation and held an unofficial referendum in 2017 which was declared illegal by the constitution.
Ms Borzel said: "I do not think that an independent Scotland will become a member of the EU.
"I do not think it will happen.
"It takes one member state to vote against them
"And you can be sure that it will be Spain.
Nicola Sturgeon has been Scotland's First Minister for over half a decade
"So forget about an independent Scotland in the European Union."
The SNP leader was previously warned that Spain would actively discourage a recently independent country from joining the EU by a Scottish Conservative councillor.
Tony Miklinski told Express.co.uk that Spain will want to avoid setting a precedent that independent nations can join the European Union due to their ongoing issue with Catalonia.
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He said: "I think any nation that has an independence issue of its own, such as Spain with Catalonia, there is no way they want a precedent set whereby they encourage independence.
"Nationalism in general across Europe, where has it ever got us moving in the past looking at history?
"Nationalism is a very selfish and introverted creed.
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"Patriotism is fine but nationalism says we are better than you are.
"That is not a healthy way to be looking at life in the 21st century."
Scotland's First Minister has outlined plans to ramp up her bid for Scottish independence in 2021.
Ms Sturgeon has voiced her intention to submit a draft bill setting out the terms and timing of a second Scottish independence referendum before the Parliamentary elections in May 2021.
Boris Johnson has repeatedly ruled out another Scottish independence vote and said one should not be held for another generation after Scotland voted to remain part of the UK in 2014.
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He men of Judea, and all you that dwell at Jerusalem,] whom the writer above described as strangers. Here he directs his discourse to those others, the mockers, and while he seems to reason with those, he sets these right. For indeed it was divinely ordered that
some mocked, that he might have a starting-point for his defence, and by means of that defence, might teach. [
And all you that dwell in Jerusalem.] It seems they accounted it a high encomium to dwell in Jerusalem too.
Be this, says he,
known unto you, and hearken unto my words. In the first instance he made them more disposed to attend to him.
For not as you suppose, says he,
are these drunken. Do you observe the mildness of his defence? Acts 2:15 Although having the greater part of the people on his side, he reasons with those others gently; first he removes the evil surmise, and then he establishes his apology. On this account, therefore, he does not say,
as you mock, or,
as you deride, but,
as you suppose; wishing to make it appear that they had not said this in earnest, and for the present taxing them with ignorance rather than with malice.
For these are not drunken, as you suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day. And why this? Is it not possible at the third hour to be drunken? But he did not insist upon this to the letter; for there was nothing of the kind about them; the others said it only in mockery. Hence we learn that on unessential points one must not spend many words. And besides, the sequel is enough to bear him out on this point: so now the discourse is for all in common. But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel, And it shall come to pass in the last days, says the Lord God. (v. 16, 17. Joel 2:28.) Nowhere as yet the name of Christ, nor His promises but the promise is that of the Father. Observe the wisdom: observe the considerate forbearance: (συγκατάβασιν.) He did not pass on to speak at once of the things relating to Christ; that He had promised this after His Crucifixion; truly that would have been to upset all. And yet, you will say, here was sufficient to prove His divinity. True, it was, if believed (and the very point was that it should be believed); but if not believed, it would have caused them to be stoned.
And I will pour out of My Spirit upon all flesh. He offers even to them excellent hopes, if they would have them. And so far, he does not leave it to be regarded as the exclusive advantage of himself and his company; which would have made them be looked upon with an evil eye; thus cutting off all envious feeling.
And your sons shall prophesy. And yet, he says, not yours this achievement, this distinction; the gift has passed over to your children. Himself and his company he calls their sons, and those [whom he is addressing] he calls his and their fathers.
And your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams; and on My servants and on My handmaidens I will pour out in those days of My Spirit; and they shall prophesy. So far he shows that he and his have found favor, in that they had received (καταξιωθέντας) [the Spirit]; not so they whom he is addressing; for that they had crucified [the Lord]. So Christ also, willing to mitigate their wrath, said,
By whom do your sons cast out devils? Matthew 12:27 He did not say, My disciples; for indeed it seemed a flattering mode of expression. And so Peter also did not say, 'They are not drunk, but speak by the Spirit.' but he takes refuge with the prophet, and under shelter of him, so speaks. As for the accusation [of drunkenness], he cleared himself of that by his own assertion; but for the grace, he fetches the prophet as witness.
I will pour out of My Spirit upon all flesh. [
And your sons, etc.] To some the grace was imparted through dreams, to others it was openly poured forth. For indeed by dreams the prophets saw, and received revelations.
Then he goes on with the prophecy, which has in it also something terrible.
And I will show wonders in heaven above, and signs [
in the earth beneath]. Acts 2:19 In these words he speaks both of the judgment to come, and of the taking of Jerusalem.
Blood and fire, and vapor of smoke. Observe how he describes the capture.
The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood. Acts 2:20 This results from the (διαθέσεως) internal affection of the sufferers. It is said, indeed, that many such phenomena actually did occur in the sky, as Josephus attests. At the same time the Apostle strikes fear into them, by reminding them of the darkness which had lately occurred, and leading them to expect things to come.
Before that great and notable day of the Lord come. For be not confident, he means to say, because at present you sin with impunity. For these things are the prelude of a certain great and dreadful day. Do you see how he made their souls to quake and melt within them, and turned their laughter into pleading for acquittal? For if these things are the prelude of that day, it follows that the extreme of danger is impending. But what next? He again lets them take breath, adding,
And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord, shall be saved. Romans 10:13 This is said concerning Christ, as Paul affirms, but Peter does not venture as yet to reveal this.
Well, let us look over again what has been said. It is well managed, that as against men laughing and mocking, he starts up and begins with,
Be this known unto you all and hearken unto my words. But he begins by saying,
You men of Judea. By the expression ᾿ Ιουδαἵοι, I take him to mean those that lived in Judea.— And, if you please, let us compare those expressions in the Gospel, that you may learn what a sudden change has taken place in Peter.
A damsel, it is written,
came out unto him, saying, Thou also wast with Jesus of Nazareth. And, says he,
I know not the Man. And being again questioned,
he began to curse and to swear. Matthew 26:69-72 But see here his boldness, and his great freedom of speech.— He did not praise those who had said,
We do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God; but by his severity towards those others, he made these more earnest, and at the same time his address is clear from all appearance of adulation. And it is well to remark, on all occasions, however the Apostles may condescend to the level of their hearers (συγκατάβασις), their language is clear from all appearance both of adulation and of insolence: which is a difficult point to manage.
Now that these things should have occurred at
the third hour, was not without cause. For the brightness of this fire is shown at the very time when people are not engaged in their works, nor at dinner; when it is bright day, when all are in the market-place. Do you observe also the freedom which fills his speech?
And hearken to my words. And he added nothing, but,
This, says he,
is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel; And it shall come to pass in the last days. He shows, in fact, that the consummation is near at hand, and the words,
In the last days, have a kind of emphasis. [
I will pour out, etc.] And then, that he may not seem to limit the privilege to the sons only, he subjoins,
And your old men shall dream dreams. Mark the sequence. First sons; just as David said,
Instead of your fathers, were begotten your sons. Psalm 45:17 And again Malachi;
They shall turn the hearts of the fathers to the children. And on my handmaidens, and on my servants. Malachi 4:6 This also is a token of excellence, for we have become His servants, by being freed from sin. And great is the gift, since the grace passes over to the other sex also, not as of old, it was limited to just one or two individuals, as Deborah and Huldah. He did not say that it was the Holy Ghost, neither did he expound the words of the prophet; but he merely brings in the prophecy to fight its own battle. As yet also he has said nothing about Judas; and yet it was known to all what a doom and punishment he had undergone; for nothing was more forcible than to argue with them from prophecy: this was more forcible even than facts. For when Christ performed miracles, they often contradicted Him. But when Christ brought forward the prophet, saying,
The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit on my right hand, they were silent, and
no man, we read,
was able to answer Him a word. Psalm 90:1 And on all occasions He Himself also appealed to the Scriptures; for instance,
If he called them gods to whom the word of God came. John 10:35 And in many places one may find this. On this account here also Peter says,
I will pour out of my spirit upon all flesh; that is, upon the Gentiles also. But he does not yet reveal this, nor give interpretations; indeed, it was better not to do so (as also this obscure saying,
I will show wonders in heaven above, put them the more in fear because it was obscure.) And it would have been more an offense, had it been interpreted from the very first. Then besides, even as plain, he passes over it, wishing to make them regard it as such. But after all, he does interpret to them anon, when he discourses to them upon the resurrection, and after he has paved the way by his discourse. (infra v. 39.) For since the good things were not sufficient to allure them, [it is added,
And I will show wonders, etc.]. Yet this has never been fulfilled. For none escaped then [in that former judgment], but now the faithful did escape, in Vespasian's time. And this it is that the Lord speaks of,
Except those days had been shortened, not all flesh should be saved.— [
Blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke.] Matthew 24:22 The worst to come first; namely, the inhabitants to be taken, and then the city to be razed and burnt. Then he dwelt upon the metaphor, bringing before the eyes of the hearers the overthrow and the taking.
The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood. What means, the moon turned into blood? It denotes the excess of the slaughter. The language is fraught with helpless dismay. (supra p. 32.)
And it shall come to pass, every one who shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Every one, he says: though he be priest (but he does not vet reveal the meaning), though bond, though free. For there is no male nor female in Christ Jesus, no bond, no free. Galatians 3:28 Well may it be so, for all these are but shadow. For if in king's palaces there is no high-born nor low-born, but each appears according to his deeds; and in art, each is shown by his works; much more in that school of wisdom (φιλοσοφια).
Every one who shall invoke. Invoke: not any how, for it is written,
Not every one that says unto Me, Lord, Lord: but with (διαθέσεως) inward earnest affection, with a life more than commonly good, with the confidence which is meet. Thus far, however, he makes the discourse light, by introducing that which relates to faith, and that terrible which relates to the punishment. For in the invocation is the salvation.
What, I pray you, is this you say? Do you talk of salvation for them after the Cross? Bear with me a little. Great is the mercy of God. And this very fact does, no less than the resurrection, prove him to be God, yea, no less than His miracles— the fact that He calls these to Him. For surpassing goodness is, above all things, peculiarly God's own. Therefore also He says,
None is good save one, that is, God. Luke 18:19 Only let us not take this goodness for an occasion of negligence. For He also punishes as God. In fact, the very punishments here spoken of, He brought them to pass, even He who said,
Every one who shall call on the name of the Lord, shall be saved. I speak of the fate of Jerusalem; that intolerable punishment: of which I will tell you some few of the particulars, useful to us in our contest, both with the Marcionites and many other heretics. For, since they distinguish between Christ a good God, and that evil God [of the Old Testament], let us see who it was that effected these things. The evil God, taking vengeance for Christ? Or not so? How then alien to Him? But was it the good God? Nay, but it is demonstrated that both the Father and the Son did these things. The Father in many places; for instance, when He says in the parable of the vineyard, [
He will miserably destroy those wicked husbandmen Matthew 21:41; again in the parable of the marriage feast, the King is said] to send His armies Matthew 22:7: and the Son, when He says,
But those Mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before Me. Luke 19:27 * * *. And they sent, saying, We will not have You to reign over us. Would you like then to hear the things which actually came to pass? Moreover, Christ Himself also speaks of the future tribulations, than which never any thing more dreadful came to pass; never any thing more ruthless, my beloved, than the deeds then done! And He Himself declared it. For what could you wish to see more grievous than these? * * *— probed them with their daggers! — * * * But shall I relate to you the shocking case of the woman, that tragic tale? * * * (Joseph. B. J. vi. 3. 4.) Did not the actual events cast all misery into the shade? But shall I tell you of famines and pestilences? One might speak of horrors without number: nature was unknown; law unknown; they outdid wild beasts in ferocity. True, these miseries came by the fate of wars; but because God, because Christ so willed it to be. These facts will apply both against the Marcionites and against those who do not believe that there is a hell: for they are sufficient to silence their impudence. Are not these calamities more severe than the Babylonian? Are not these sufferings more grievous than the famines of that time? Yes, for [
never was the like from the beginning of the world]
no, nor ever shall be such. Matthew 24:21 And this was Christ's own declaration. In what sense then, think ye, is it said that Christ remitted them their sin? Perhaps it seems a commonplace question: but do ye solve it.— It is not possible to show anywhere, even in fiction, any thing like what the reality was here. And had it been a Christian that wrote this history, the matter might be regarded with suspicion: but if he was a Jew, and a Jewish zealot, and after the Gospel, how can the meaning of the facts be otherwise than palpable to all men? For you will see the man, how, everywhere, he always extols the concerns of the Jews.— There is therefore a hell, O man! And God is good.— Aye, did you shudder at hearing these horrors? But these, which take place here, are nothing in comparison with what shall be in that world. Once more I am compelled to seem harsh, disagreeable, stern. But what can I do? I am set to this: just as a severe schoolmaster is set to be hated by his scholars: so are we. For would it not be strange indeed, that, while those who have a certain post assigned them by kings do that which is appointed them, however disagreeable the task may be, we, for fear of your censure, should leave our appointed task undone? Another has a different work. Of you, many have it for their work, to show mercy, to act humanely, to be pleasant and agreeable to the persons to whom you are benefactors. But to those to whom we do good, we seem stern and severe, troublesome and disagreeable. For we do good, not by the pleasure we give, but by the pain we inflict. So it is also with the physician: though he indeed is not excessively disagreeable, for the benefit afforded by his art is had immediately; ours hereafter. So again the magistrate is odious to the disorderly and seditious; so the legislator is vexatious to them for whom he makes laws. But not so he that invites to enjoyment, not so he that prepares public festivities and entertainments, and puts all the people in garlands: no, these are men that win acceptance, feasting, as they do, whole cities with all sorts of spectacles; contributing largely, bearing all the cost. And therefore those whom they have treated, requite them for these enjoyments with words of welcome and benediction, with hanging (παραπετάσματα) of tapestries, and a blaze of lamps, and with wreaths, and boughs, and brilliant garments. Whereas, at the sight of the physician, the sick become sad and downcast: at sight of the magistrate, the rioters become subdued: no running riot then, no gambolling, except when he also goes over into their ranks. Let us see, then, which render the best service to their cities; those who provide these festivities, and banquetings, and expensive entertainments, and manifold rejoicings; or those who restrain all those doings, bearing before them stocks, scourges, executioners, dreaded soldiers, and a voice fraught with much terror: and issuing orders, and making men hang down their heads, and with the rod dispersing the idlers in the market-place. Let us see, I say; these are the disagreeable, those the beloved: let us see where the gain rests. (λήλει.) What comes then of your pleasure-givers? A kind of frigid enjoyment, lasting till the evening, and tomorrow vanished; mirth ungoverned, words unseemly and dissolute. And what of these? Awe, sobriety, subdued thoughts; reasonableness of mind, an end of idleness; a curb on the passions within; a wall of defence, next to God, against assailants from without. It is by means of these we have each our property but by those ruinous festivities we dissipate it. Robbers indeed have not invaded it, but vainglory together with pleasure acts the part of robber. Each sees the robber carrying off everything before his eyes, and is delighted at it! A new fashion of robbery, this, to induce people to be glad when one is plundering them! On the other part, there is nothing of the kind: but God, as the common Father, has secured us as by a wall against all [depredators], both seen and unseen. For,
Take heed, says He,
that you do not your alms before men. Matthew 6:1 The soul learns from the one, [excess; from the other] to flee injustice. For injustice consists not merely in grasping at more wealth than belongs to us, but in giving to the belly more than its needful sustenance, in carrying mirth beyond its proper bounds, and causing it to run into frantic excesses. From the one, it learns sobriety; from the other, unchastity. For it is unchastity, not merely to have carnal intercourse with women, but even to look upon a woman with unchaste eyes. From the one, it learns modesty; from the other, conceited self-importance. For,
All things, says the Apostle,
are lawful for me, but not all things expedient. 1 Corinthians 6:12 From the one, decent behavior; from the other unseemliness. For, as to the doings in the theatres, I pass these. But to let you see that it is not even a pleasure either, but a grief, show me, but a single day after the festival, both those who spent their money in giving it, and those who were feasted with spectacles: and you shall see them all looking dejected enough, but most of all him, your (ἔ κεἵνον) famous man that has spent his money for it. And this is but fair: for, the day before, he delighted the common man, and the common man indeed was in high good humor and enjoyment, and rejoiced indeed in the splendid garment, but then not having the use of it, and seeing himself stripped of it, he was grieved and annoyed; and wanted to be the great man, seeing even his own enjoyment to be small compared with his. Therefore, the day after, they change places, and now he, the great man, gets the larger share in the dejection.
Now if in worldly matters, amusements are attended with such dissatisfaction, while disagreeable things are so beneficial, much more does this hold in things spiritual. Why is it that no one quarrels with the laws, but on the contrary all account that matter a common benefit? For indeed not strangers from some other quarter, nor enemies of those for whom the laws are made, came and made these orders, but the citizens themselves, their patrons, their benefactors: and this very thing, the making of laws, is a token of beneficence and good-will. And yet the laws are full of punishment and restraint, and there is no such thing as law without penalty and coercion. Then is it not unreasonable, that while the expositors of those laws are called deliverers, benefactors, and patrons, we are considered troublesome and vexatious if we speak of the laws of God? When we discourse about hell, then we bring forward those laws: just as in the affairs of the world, people urge the laws of murder, highway robbery, and the like, so do we the penal laws: laws, which not man enacted, but the Only-Begotten Son of God Himself. Let him that has no mercy, He says, be punished Matthew 18:23; for such is the import of the parable. Let him that remembers injuries, pay the last penalty. Let him that is angry without cause, be cast into the fire. Let him that reviles, receive his due in hell. If you think these laws which you hear strange, be not amazed. For if Christ was not intended to make new laws, why did He come? Those other laws are manifest to us; we know that the murderer and adulterer ought to be punished. If then we were meant only to be told the same things over again, where was the need of a heavenly Teacher? Therefore He does not say, Let the adulterer be punished, but, whoso looks on with unchaste eyes. And where, and when, the man will receive punishment, He there tells us. And not in fine public monuments, nor yet somewhere out of sight, did He deposit His laws; not pillars of brass did He raise up, and engrave letters thereon, but twelve souls raised He up for us, the souls of the Apostles, and in their minds has He by the Spirit inscribed this writing. This cite we to you. If this was authorized to Jews, that none might take refuge in the plea of ignorance, much more is it to us. But should any say,
I do not hear, therefore have no guilt, on this very score he is most liable to punishment. For, were there no teacher, it would be possible to take refuge in this plea; but if there be, it is no longer possible. Thus see how, speaking of Jews, the Lord deprives them of all excuse;
If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: John 15:22: and Paul again,
But I say, have they not heard? Nay, but into all the earth went forth their sound. Romans 10:18 For then there is excuse, when there is none to tell the man; but when the watchman sits there, having this as the business of his life, there is excuse no longer. Nay, rather, it was the will of Christ, not that we should look only upon these written pillars, but that we should ourselves be such. But since we have made ourselves unworthy of the writing, at least let us look to those. For just as the pillars threaten others, but are not themselves obnoxious to punishment, nor yet the laws, even so the blessed Apostles. And observe; not in one place only stands this pillar, but its writing is carried round about in all the world. Whether you go among the Indians, you shall hear this: whether into Spain, or to the very ends of the earth, there is none without the hearing, except it be of his own neglect. Then be not offended, but give heed to the things spoken, that you may be able to lay hold upon the works of virtue, and attain unto the eternal blessings in Christ Jesus our Lord, with Whom to the Father and Holy Ghost together be glory, power, honor, now and ever, world without end. Amen.
Source. Translated by J. Walker, J. Sheppard and H. Browne, and revised by George B. Stevens. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. 11. Edited by Philip Schaff. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1889.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. <http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/210105.htm>.
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Importing food is damaging the Caribbean: Why no action?
It is shameful that golden opportunities to produce more food in the Caribbean and significantly reduce the astronomically high annual food import bill of US$4.75 billion are being woefully neglected. If this misguided trend continues, the economies of many of the countries of the region will be increasingly imperilled.
At a time of very low or no economic growth, extremely high ratios of debt-to-Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and declining foreign exchange earnings in many of the 14 independent nations that comprise the Caribbean Community (Caricom), the majority of them continue to spend huge sums on buying food outside the Caribbean.
In 2013, only four countries were exceptions to those with unsustainably high debt to GDP ratios. They were: Haiti 21.3 per cent, Suriname 29.2 per cent, T&T 30.6 per cent, and Bahamas 56.3 per cent. Of the others, Jamaica 138.9 per cent, Grenada 115 per cent, St Kitts-Nevis 104.9 per cent and Antigua and Barbuda 92.9 per cent have the highest debt-to-GDP ratio.
At the lower end of the unsustainable high debt-to-GDP ratio are Guyana 63.9 per cent, Dominica 74.95, Belize 75.5 per cent, and St Vincent and the Grenadines 76.4 per cent (source IMF and World Bank). It should be noted that in the case of Haiti, while its debt-to-GDP ratio is low, it has the highest rate of poverty at 77 per cent of its population. Other countries with high levels of poverty are: Belize 41.3 per cent, Grenada 37.7 per cent, Guyana 36.1 per cent, and St Vincent and the Grenadines 30.2 per cent.
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THE MOY IS GONE – LONG LIVE THE MOY AS THERE IS NOW A NEW BUILDING AT 12-13 DORSET STREET
Right up to the end it appeared that part the original was being preserved but that does not appear to be the case.
According to Wikipedia Playwright, Westminster Parliament member, and son of Thomas, Richard Brinsley Sheridan was born on this street at number 12 in 1751; Brinsley Sheridan’s works include The Critics and A School for Scandal.
However, nothing in Dublin is ever simple.
Recent research indicates that Richard Brinsley Sheridan was born elsewhere on Dorset Street [the confusion is due to the fact that the house numbering system changed after his birth].
Planning permission was lodged 06/03/2007 was lodged for Demolition of no. 12(a protected structure) and no. 13 Upper Dorset Street and the construction of 6 storey mixed use development comprising retail use and 9 apartments and all ancillary works. Permission was refused 03/09/2007
Plannning permission number: 2906/17 4063/08 Thursday, 25 April, 2019 – Apartment development at 12-13 Upper Dorset St consisting of 1 no. 2 bedroom apartment at basement/ lower ground floor and 1 bedroom & 2 bedroom apartment at ground floor level, 2 no. 2 bedroom apartments at 1st, 2nd and 3rd floor (9 no. apartments in total), including open space to rear at lower ground floor level, balconies to rear at ground floor level and storage space at basement level.
The National Inventory Of Architectural Heritage described No. 12 as follows: “The last surviving example of a Georgian townhouse on this section of Dorset Street, it would have formed part of a terrace of similar buildings. While the group value of the building has been lost, individual significance has subsequently increased. The integrity of the building has been significantly compromised by the partial demolition/collapse of the upper storeys and is further degraded by the blocking of window openings. The solid masonry door-case is an example of quality craftsmanship characteristic of the era but only a proportion of the original ensemble remains. The playwright and Westminster M.P, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, was born here in 1751.”
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Dear College of Science Faculty and Staff,You surely remember your experience as a PhD student, and now, as faculty or staff you may have contact with our College of Science PhD trainees and see how they are doing. I remember being honored to have the opportunity of a place in graduate school, and incredulous that it was sponsored. The research was interesting but difficult, and I worked incredibly hard, sometimes alone in the lab at night and generally lonely. I had no idea what came next. My thesis is on a Richards office bookshelf, and although I’m proud of the work, I would say my PhD training was a mixed experience. The first PhDs were awarded in the 12th Century and aspects of PhD training have not changed since. The path to PhD is often a lonely one, focused on the research project and coursework in the discipline. Moreover, trainees are often unclear what to do after degree completion. These limitations make the PhD pathway, including in the College of Science, unattractive to groups already marginalized across the demographic of society. Furthermore, our 2020/21 College of Science climate survey reveals that many of our PhD trainees do not feel part of a community and perceive their environment as unsupportive or unwelcoming. Other universities face the same challenges, that are a manifestation of a largely archaic landscape of PhD training. These considerations are the reason that ‘Reinventing the PhD’ has been a goal I set for the College from the outset. Because, in fact, the PhD is a vastly useful degree that opens huge career opportunities. The data lead us to understand that reinventing PhD training is an obligation and a leadership opportunity for the College of Science and Northeastern University. What do we mean? Reinvent the PhD in what ways? We propose a transformative Program, the Connected Science Community PhD. The Program is being built as a co-owned enterprise between departments and Dean’s Office that adds to existing disciplinary PhD Programs, where graduate committees play a hugely valuable role. COS trainees will form a cross-disciplinary cohort that moves as a Connected Science Community (Figure below) through skills empowerment, co-mentorship and often cross-disciplinary research projects. The goal is that each trainee becomes an independent thinker capable of performing highest quality research, and a confident, entrepreneurial, problem-solver, with flexible skills that can be applied to any career. Students will engage with the banquet of brilliant careers open to them, including through work experience. The LEADERs program, from the PhD Network prepares students, and work placements will be made by our new graduate COS unit, led by Vanecia Harrison-Sanders.
Changing aspects of PhD training will give us opportunity to recruit a more diverse set of candidates, and the ‘lonely road’ of PhD training will be replaced by an 'exhilarating hike’ with a collaborative, collegial group. Please look at the item from Associate Dean Jared Auclair below, announcing the first cohort of the Connected Science Community PhD Program. This will begin over the summer, is fully funded and you are welcome to encourage your new students to enroll. It’s an experience you might have liked for your own PhD training.
Hazel Sive PhD
Dean, College of Science
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High concentrations of boron (B) in the soil, reduces plant growth, crops' yield and quality. Regarding such problem, synergistic and antagonistic relations between the nutrients can be used to ameliorate the B toxicity. Therefore, a greenhouse experiment was conducted to evaluate effects of soil-applied zinc (Zn), nitrogen (N), calcium (Ca), lime (CaCO3), potassium (K), humic acid (HA), and humus on the dry weight and B uptake of maize shoots (Zea mays L.) under high-B containing soil conditions. Increasing doses of B (0, 2.5, 5, and 10 mg kg(-1) B) were applied to soil as borax (Na(2)B(4)O(7)10H(2)O), and boric acid (H3BO3). Positive correlations were found between B doses and the uptake amounts (r = 0.934**; - 0.964**). However, the correlations between the dry weight and B doses (r = -0.314**; - r = -0.495**) and between the dry weight and the uptake amounts (r = -0.294*; - r = -0.497**) were negative. Among the materials, Zn and humus exhibited positive correlations with dry weight values (r = 0.249*; r = 0.525**), and an effective increase (p < 0.01) in the dry weight amounts of maize shoots was observed under toxic B conditions.
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What exactly would turn psychotropic drugs like Prozac and Paxil and Zoloft into a subplot in the subprime mess? It’s the biochemistry. Those drugs are SSRIs — selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors — and they spin their mood magic by elevating levels of serotonin in the brain. And serotonin is a neurotransmitter associated with behaviors that might contribute to the temptation of borrowing $501,000 on a $500,000 house.
When I asked Dr. Helen Fisher, a biological anthropologist who studies brain chemistry, if my hypothesis passes the expert smell test, she replied: “I wouldn’t at all be surprised if people taking drugs that elevate their levels of serotonin — which blunt the emotions — make some dumb financial decisions. Our emotions evolved, at least in part, to help us monitor our actions.”
The implications are vast if millions are truly walking around with a compromised ability to assess risk and perceive threats.
Watch Helen Fisher’s TEDTalk to hear her thoughts about antidepressant abuse (starting at 18:18) and its harmful effect on our ability to love.
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Preferring Our Violence Wholesale
Posted: Monday, June 30, 2003
Race and Destruction in Black and White
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By TIM WISE
I don't know why these things amaze me, but for some reason they always do.
Before the ashes were even cool from the recent riots in Benton Harbor, Michigan, much of white America had decided that it knew what was behind all the mayhem; at least if the white folks who call into talk radio are at all representative.
It wasn't the reason stated by the residents who had engaged in the destruction, of course: namely, a history of police racism, brutality and misconduct, which they saw symbolized most recently by a high-speed police chase from a neighboring township ending in the death of a black motorcyclist.
Of course not. That explanation, though not necessarily justifying mass violence, would still constitute a reason; and having a reason would mean that the rioters were something other than merely insane; and insane is how much of white America prefers to see our black and brown brothers and sisters.
To whites who were calling talk radio in the days following the riots, the violent actions by certain members of the Benton Harbor black community were indicative of cultural depravity, even a biological predisposition to violence: arguments that are never made when whites on college campuses riot, as they have done some three dozen times in the past several years.
In truth, the idea that blacks are more prone to violence and destruction than those of us who are white is so utterly incomprehensible as to boggle the imagination. After all, the people who incessantly wonder why blacks occasionally riot and wreak havoc in their own communities never ask why whites are so quick to wreak havoc in the communities of others.
Indeed, the history of white violence done to non-whites, to say nothing of white violence done to each other--think 1066, think the Holocaust, think Stalin's purges--makes one wonder how anyone could believe persons of European descent were especially peaceful.
It wasn't black people who destroyed one Indian village after another throughout this continent and wiped nearly 100 million people off the face of the planet in the process.
Black folks didn't lynch themselves, or cut off their own ears for souvenirs after burning their own bodies, or hanging themselves from tree limbs.
It wasn't black people who launched a war with Mexico in the name of Manifest Destiny, or conquered Hawaii, or laid siege to the Philippines at the turn of the last century, or planned, authorized, and carried out the terror bombings of Dresden, Tokyo, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, knowing full well that the victims in each case would invariably be innocent civilians. It wasn't black people who created napalm, and then decided to drop it on Southeast Asians.
It wasn't black people who drew up the war plans to bomb Baghdad's electrical grid in the first Gulf War, thereby rendering water treatment facilities inoperable, even though it was acknowledged that doing so would result in widespread disease and death.
And with the exceptions of Colin Powell and Condi Rice--two black people who have long felt more at home in the presence of white elites than anyone who might actually look like them--it wasn't black folks who lied about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction so as to launch another war on that nation, killing several thousand civilians and destroying what economic infrastructure remained after a decade of sanctions.
For that matter, even violence in American cities has been the work of whites far more than blacks. Oh sure, we may not think of it as violence, but the effects of white elite actions vis-A -vis our cities has been every bit as destructive as anything thought up by the residents of Watts, Miami, Cincinnati or Detroit, to say nothing of smaller towns like Benton Harbor.
When white political and corporate elites launched "urban renewa" in the 1960's, the destruction wrought upon black peoples was immense. Hundreds of thousands of homes, representing one-fifth of all black housing in the U.S., were destroyed to make way for office buildings, shopping centers and parking lots. Afterward, only one-tenth of the property destroyed was replaced, so displaced families had to rely on crowded apartments, living with relatives, or run-down public housing projects. Interstates were built through the heart of black communities in city after city, impacting not only housing but economic vitality as well, and leaving a congested, loud, disorganized space in their wake.
It is doubtful that the combined amount of property destroyed by blacks in urban riots comes anywhere near the amount of property destroyed by urban renewal, for the benefit of whites.
When white-run banks redlined black communities, refusing to loan money to any businesses or individuals within the borders of those communities, no matter their individual credit worthiness, the effect was as destructive to neighborhood well-being as any riot.
When banks continue to refuse loans in such places, only to turn around and grant the very same loans through their subsidiaries known as sub-prime lenders, and in the process charge 3-5 times higher interest than would be allowed through the bank itself, the effect on black people is economic violence.
When two-thirds of black children in extreme poverty test positive for elevated levels of lead in their blood, thanks to exposure from lead paint in old, dilapidated buildings built by white folks, this is an act of violence.
In fact, white institutions have intentionally exposed black children to lead paint, as with recent revelations that Baltimore's Kennedy Krieger Institute, with the approval of officials from Johns Hopkins University, essentially used black families as guinea pigs for a study on lead abatement in the 1990's. The study, condemned by a Maryland Appeals Court judge, placed poor families of color in housing with varying levels of lead, without telling them the dangers of such exposure. Researchers used incentives like T-shirts, food stamps and payments of $5 each to encourage families to move into contaminated housing, and then after periodic testing of lead levels in the children's blood, withheld information on the extent of their poisoning until it was too late to prevent serious health effects.
Indeed, if riots result in the burning of lead-infested buildings, or the places where such truly evil studies are concocted, we might more properly view such actions as the ultimate act of intra-racial charity, truth be told.
And it's not only in the inner-city where white violence destroys the lives of people of color. When the government in concert with white-owned businesses strip mines uranium on Native American soil, thereby helping to inflate the cancer rate among Navajo exposed to radiation by 1600 percent above the national average, the result is death and destruction as severe as any low-level retail violence by the oppressed themselves.
When white doctors routinely underdiagnose patients of color with serious illnesses; or fail to recommend the same medical interventions as they do for white patients, even when they present the same symptoms, have the same kind of insurance, and come from the same economic background, black lives are lost in numbers that dwarf those lost in riots.
When companies that pollute in white communities receive fines from the EPA that are 500 percent higher than the fines received for polluting in black communities, the result is violence of an especially pernicious form.
In fact, studies have estimated that because African Americans--particularly those of low-income--have less access to wealth and high quality health care, and are more likely to be exposed to environmental pollutants, as many as 75,000 blacks die each year above the amount that would be expected to die if wealth, health care and pollutant exposure were equal to that of their white counterparts.
That most whites can't conceive of these things as violence is testimony not to the veracity of the charge, but rather our unwillingness to understand systemic racism and the harm it does to people every day.
So in the white imagination, burning down a building out of anger at police brutality is violence, while destroying a building to make way for a mall is progress, as is chopping down old-growth forest, dumping toxic waste in streams and rivers, or burying it in communities of color.
That's the difference between the violence of the powerful and that of the powerless. Those with power have the capacity to work out our existential crises on the bodies and property of others; those without have to make do torching their own stuff, because they know that the moment they turn their frustrations on those who have remained privileged and sheltered, the power of the state will be turned against them full-force.
And if that day ever came, most white folks wouldn't bat an eye, because we have nothing against violence. We love it, in fact; we glorify it; so long as it's being done by John Wayne, Rambo, Clint Eastwood, Tony Soprano, Andrew Jackson, Teddy Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, George Bush or his kid.
Body counts never bother us, and neither does destroying property, so long as the bodies and the properties are not ours.
Tim Wise is an antiracist essayist, activist and father. He can be reached at email@example.com
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Join us for a TADS talk by Matthew Feldwick
Twyford Waterworks is an Edwardian pumping station containing a unique selection of buildings and machinery within a rural downland setting in the heart of Hampshire. The site was given the status of a Scheduled Ancient Monument in 1973 and passed, as such, to the Southern Water Authority on 1st April 1974. In 1985 the Twyford Waterworks Trust was incorporated as a charity to run it. The Trust obtained a lease for the redundant parts of the site in 1992. With the privatisation of the water supply industry, the works passed to Southern Water Services, who are the present owners of the site and who still extract 5 million gallons (25 megalitres) from the original boreholes.
Although built and extended over 30 years, the main buildings present a coherent set of high-quality public works buildings of the early twentieth century when authorities pride their public façade. The older sections have escaped demolition and thus a complete series of steam, diesel, separate d.c. Motors and modern submersible electric pumps are still available for the public to view and, in many cases, see in operation.
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Converting Garbage into Fuel
Waste Management, a large waste company, gives technology for gasifying trash a boost.
Waste gasification, a process for converting garbage into fuel and electricity without incinerating it, may be a step closer to large-scale commercialization. Last week, Houston’s Waste Management, a major garbage-collection and -disposal company, announced a joint venture with InEnTec, a startup based in Richland, WA, to commercialize InEnTec’s plasma-gasification technology.
Waste Management will fund the new venture, which will be called S4 Energy Solutions, as well as provide infrastructure and expertise from its waste-collecting and -processing businesses to make the technology economical. The company, which will operate and market plasma-gasification technologies, will be announcing specific projects to build facilities later this year. The involvement of Waste Management could signal that the technology, which has been more expensive than other waste-disposal options, is finally reaching a stage at which it can be practical. “Up until late last year, it was under the radar,” says James Childress, the executive director of the Gasification Technologies Council. “Now the big players are finally getting involved in this.”
InEnTec’s technology, originally developed at MIT and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, in Richland, WA, uses a multiple high-temperature processes–including subjecting garbage to plasma arcs–to break down organic materials into syngas, a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide. Syngas can either be directly burned in gas turbines to produce electricity, or it can be converted into other fuels, including gasoline and ethanol. Metals and other inorganic materials in garbage can be isolated and recycled. The combination of high temperatures and an oxygen-poor environment that prevents the garbage from catching fire eliminates the production of dioxins and furans, two toxic chemicals produced during incineration.
That core technology has been proved, says Joseph Vaillancourt, managing director at Waste Management and the senior vice president of the new joint venture. What’s kept it from being commercialized, he says, is the need to develop the processes for economically collecting and feeding waste into the system, and on the “back end” pairing the syngas produced with gas turbines for generating electricity, or other chemical processes for converting it into fuels. Vaillancourt says that Waste Management has already developed infrastructure for collecting and processing waste and for using heat from incinerators for generating electricity, and it will employ its “knowledge and wherewithal” to develop an “integrated system” using InEnTec’s technology.
S4 Energy Solutions plans to market the first gasification units in specialized markets such as those concerned with the disposal of automobile shredder residue or medical waste, for which landfills often aren’t an option, hence companies are willing to pay more to dispose of waste. Eventually, they could be used more generally for municipal solid waste, especially in rural towns and small cities that do not produce enough waste for cheaper incinerator technologies to be practical. The technology has the benefit of allowing customers to generate some of their own electricity, which could make it more affordable.
There may still be hurdles to commercial success. Childress notes that waste gasification may still face problems with local regulations. And companies using similar technologies have failed in the past. Nevertheless, some waste-gasification companies are reporting initial success. For example, Enerkem, based in Edmonton, Alberta, has opened a commercial facility to convert used utility poles into methanol and ethanol. It has signed an agreement with the city of Edmonton to process 100,000 tons of municipal solid waste a year for 25 years, although that’s still a relatively small amount compared with other options for disposing of waste.
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Analysis of Mobile Apps
How hackers use LinkedIn to launch attacks
Imagine you want to get your hands on some information about a person in a professional context. What would you do first? Create a profile on LinkedIn perhaps? But it is pretty unlikely that you would use your real name; you would opt to set up a fake profile instead. Hence, several questions may arise: What name would you choose? What would be your gender? And your career path?
Social change and progressive ideas notwithstanding, certain prejudices may persist for a reason. As a test, we created two identical profiles, using the same age, work experience, training and education and interests for both. The only differences were the picture, name and gender. To take advantage of LinkedIn’s full search functionality, you need at least 10 contacts. For this reason, we sent contact requests to various people in the person’s purported career network.
The male profile was able to add a total of 13 contacts in four hours and was already blocked to some extent, only contact requests with email verification were still allowed. Apparently too many recipients had flagged our test profile as unknown. The female profile led to a different outcome: within five minutes, it had already added more than 13 contacts and, by the end of the test, it had even passed the 300 mark. Unknown professional contacts sent direct messages thanking the virtual person for reaching out and offered their professional assistance if needed. Additionally our profile started to appear in search results.
What does your profile benefit from when having multiple contacts? As the total number of contacts increases, a profile is more likely to be seen as authentic and gains credibility. Hence, it will not be questioned as much anymore. Possibly you would be less skeptical of a request with 14 shared contacts, as you may have met the person in the hallway, during a workshop or it might have been a fleeting acquaintance. Having a large number of contacts in your network is a major advantage, as various second or third-degree connections will be displayed with more detailed information. As a result, attackers are able to gather information about you without being directly connected. Particularly for the purpose of company-related social engineering, each name and employee is highly valuable, as they give leads to who makes up a team and they help identifying potential victims. Furthermore, various OSINT tools enable attackers further to single out certain key individuals.
However, carrying out all those searches and creating an Excel sheet of all employees is a lot of effort and who would bother with that? Almost no-one, but it does not matter, because there are a lot of open-source tools to perform these tasks for you. The tool ScrapedIn, for example, takes just seconds to generate an automatic Excel report containing the desired LinkedIn details, such as name, position, location and other details on the search query.
The more information a profile discloses, the bigger the attack surface. Profiles contain plenty of information that an attacker may collect and exploit for their own ends. A person’s educational background can often be especially useful for obtaining private information about them. Employees in leadership roles are generally expected to meet high requirements, with a university degree being a must-have for many employers.
The year of graduation can help an attacker to track down the employee’s master’s thesis or dissertation. ETH Zurich offers its own search feature , precisely for this purpose. The work might include sensitive personal information, such as the author’s full name, date of birth and nationality. In the best-case scenario, the acknowledgements will be publicly available. In addition to professors and fellow students, the authors often express their gratitude to people close to them, offering the attacker more potential victims. In the acknowledgments, the person might thank their significant other, future spouse, best friend or parents.
With Google Dorking a whole range of potentially lucrative search combinations can be tested. The information collected may be used to launch more sophisticated attacks, such as spear phishing or vishing. The more specific and believable a situation appears to be, the more willingly a person to volunteers sensitive information. Not all phishing emails are replete with mistakes and other red flags – the really good ones are not as easy to recognize.
LinkedIn has various settings that help improve the security of your profile. With very little effort, you may drop off the list of potential victims of automated scans, as your last name will be hidden, or you won’t even show up in the results generated by Google, Bing and other search engines.
Here are some settings to help you prevent social engineering attacks:
But one of the most important rules of all to follow is: never add anyone to your network unless you actually know them.
LinkedIn offers a variety of career benefits. Simply having an account is not a risk as long as the profile does not contain any business secrets or obvious infringements of others’ privacy.
An attacker may well be able to collect a lot of information about you, but you still have to actually click on the link in a phishing email. However, attackers with many pieces of information may be more convincing and disguise their attack better. This is why we recommend only making information public when necessary and using the most restrictive settings possible. Most importantly, remind yourself to take your time making decisions and to maintain a healthy level of skepticism and caution, this often promises more happy endings than your account security settings.
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By the DynaSis Team
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)—a cloud computing solution wherein a firm’s data servers and other related resources reside in an offsite data center rather than at the organization’s physical location—is fast becoming a solution of choice among modern businesses. Servers no longer need to be physical boxes, sitting in a server closet at the office. Thanks to virtualization, a server can reside anywhere, with secure access to it provided over a high-speed Internet connection. In most cases, firms can pay to have their own, discrete server hosted at the data center, or they can lease a server allocation carved from a much higher-capacity storage device that is shared by multiple companies yet isolated and secured through software from intrusion.
With IaaS, hosting companies provide, not only the storage space itself, but also the operating system and any necessary hardware to make the server secure and functional. IaaS providers also handle server maintenance and monitoring, as well as backup and sometimes administration. These virtual servers can host not only a firm’s data but also its email systems and most, if not all, of its software and other computing resources.
With IaaS, companies pay for the server space and related operations through an ongoing weekly, monthly or yearly fee. They don’t own the physical hardware, so the cost is an operating expense rather than a capital expense. IaaS platforms are highly scalable, so allocations can be adjusted up or down on demand.
Adopting IaaS offers companies numerous benefits, not the least of which is the elimination of hardware and operating system acquisition, management and maintenance. IaaS also reduces the IT burden associated with owning server hardware and eliminates the possibility of a server outage. (Servers can and do crash in data centers, of course, but hosting providers have built-in redundancy and failover programs that ensure continuity of service even in the event of a server crash.) Most providers guarantee uptime of 99.999% (“five nines”), which is 5.26 minutes of downtime, per year.
Research firms such as Yankee Group report that IaaS brings companies numerous benefits beyond hardware/software savings and capacity management. Other benefits include greater resiliency (disaster recovery/business continuity), more effective resource utilization (firms pay only for the server space they need), and sheer convenience, since business leaders and their workers can access corporate data and applications from any Internet-connected location.
Furthermore, many companies report that IaaS enhances both worker productivity and business innovation, often significantly. IaaS expedites communication and collaboration, even among remote workers. It is a key driver of mobility, which has long been proven to boost employee efficiency and satisfaction.
For the business leader, the time, money and energy not spent on making technology purchase and management decisions, as well as hiring and managing technology staff, can be diverted to business growth. Finally, the ability to expand server capacity on demand lets firms grow their resources quickly for special projects, product development and other needs, making them more competitive and willing to pursue innovative ideas.
In fact, an Oxford Economics survey found that 36 percent of responding firms adopted cloud solutions such as IaaS, not based on the traditional drivers such as cost savings and resiliency, but rather for their innovation benefits. Per the report, the transformation brought about by IaaS and other cloud solutions is “fundamentally altering business processes, [bringing] incredible opportunities, including the ability to build a real-time enterprise where interaction and innovation flourish." We couldn’t agree more.
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TCRA to Collect More From Global Calls After Five Years
(AllAfrica Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) REVENUES from incoming international calls are set to increase in five years' time when the operator of the newly-installed Telecoms Traffic Monitoring System (TTMS), SGC/GVG of Switzerland, transfers the system to the Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority (TCRA).
The Swiss company built the equipment through the Build, Operate and Transfer (BOT) model in which it entered into a five-year contract with the communications regulator.
"Under the agreement, the Swiss company will operate the equipment and transfer it to TCRA after five years," TCRA's Head Corporate Communications Innocent Mungy told the 'Daily News' on Thursday.
Through the agreement, SGC/GVG will be pocketing 20 per cent (US five cents which is about 80/-) of 25 US cents (about 400/-) per second that will be charged on incoming international calls for the next five years and finally hands it to TCRA.
The local mobile operators will receive 52 per cent (13 US cents which is about 208/-) while 28 per cent (7 US cents which is about 112/-) will be remitted to the government coffers.
This means that after five years, part of the 80/- per second (five US cents) will be used to run the system and the remaining amount channeled to the government.
Implementation of the new system that will enable the government collect one million US dollars (about 1.6bn/-) every month will enable the government collect 12 million US dollars (about 19.2bn/-) per annum.
"Before the system local mobile operators were paid by their foreign counterparts just eight US cents (about 128/-) for incoming international calls of which the government did not receive anything," Mr Mungy said in a telephone interview.
He added: "We had to engage the international mobile operators through negotiations and they agreed to increase the amount to 25 US cents of which the government will also receive revenues".
At present, a total of two million US dollars (about 3.2bn/-) has already been remitted to the treasury being revenues for December and November, last year, according to TCRA Director General, Prof John Nkoma.
Launching the equipment last week, President Jakaya Kikwete hailed TCRA for the idea, which he noted will enable the government to collect more revenues from the telecom sector.
The equipment will also be used to monitor transactions made through mobile money transfer services and as a result make it possible for the government to collect requisite taxes.
Apart from monitoring revenues, the TTMS will also be used for fraud management, revaluation of international termination rates and detection of equipment identification details as well as checking quality of services offered by service providers.
Between 2009 and this year, costs of making phone calls locally have decreased by 57 per cent while those for internet have dropped by 75 per cent and this has attracted more users for the services, thanks to the 7,560 km of national fibre optic network that is cheap compared to satellite. Mobile phone operators used to pay about 20,000 US dollars (about 32m/-) while using satellite per month they now use just 160 US dollars (256,000/-) per month through the optic fibre.
Copyright Tanzania Daily News. Distributed by AllAfrica Global Media (allAfrica.com).
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"There are definitely a lot of people interested in developing for this platform," he says, before adding that each platform could benefit from opening up to C or C++ to attract even more developers. "If you want to capture the best programmers, those are the ones that program in C++."
Sitepen CEO Dylan Schiemann agrees that the iPhone SDK would do better if it used a more common programming language than Objective-C, but says that any experienced programmer who really wants to develop applications for the platform won't have any trouble learning it.
"Apple applications developers have been using it for years," he says. "It's not a difficult language to pick up; it's just a matter of actually taking the time to learn it."
But while the iPhone may use a less-common programming language, say some programmers, it also has the advantage of already being widely deployed and uniform on every iPhone device. Android, on the other hand, is expected to be used on a broad array of devices that have different types of keyboards, different screen sizes and different customized features. Thus, programmers for Android devices might have to make different tweaks in their designs for different devices, whereas programmers for the iPhone know that they're programming only for a specific device.
"As an operating system, Android has not really been tried out in the market yet," says Schillings. "If you write some code for Android, it's important that you will have to make a few adjustments for different devices before your application goes to market."
In the final analysis, says Cline, Android's success with third-party developers could hinge on whether Google can make the platform and programming language behave universally on a variety of different devices, thus cutting down the work programmers have to do to get their products to market.
"If Google can somehow make this easier and level the field, then that'll be another thing that makes Android either really easy or really difficult to develop," he says.
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Top confusing words: Thought, though, tough, through, taught, throughout, thorough, although.
The “ough” sound in the English language can be very confusing when seen in the many different words it is used in. In different words it has different ways of being pronounced, which makes it even more confusing! Let’s look at some of these words and their meanings.
TOUGH: Tough means “hard,” “able to endure difficulty or pain,” “difficult,” “strict” or “strong.”
- Susan was very tough for surviving a pandemic with no real income and four children.
- That steak is very tough, you grilled it for too long!
- Our final exam at university was extremely tough.
THOUGH: Though means “despite the fact that,” “however,” “nevertheless” or “but.”
- He is trying to get his residency, though the requirements are quite difficult.
- Though the television was really loud, I could still hear the builders working outside.
- Juliet is currently studying Greek, though she will probably never use it.
THOUGHT: Thought is the past tense form of the verb “think”. Thought is also a noun, meaning “an idea or concept.”
- Bella hadn’t thought of Martin since they broke up two years ago.
- I had a thought about how we can improve the business over the next few months.
- Cara thought that she made a reservation at the restaurant.
THROUGH: Through means that “something or someone moves in one side of something and out on the other side.” Through is also “an ongoing process or period over time” or “by means of.”
- Dave will be studying Spanish in Madrid through the summer.
- A stronger strain of the virus spreads through breathing it in, but not physical contact.
- They ran through the crowd to get to the free samples before anyone else.
THROUGHOUT: Throughout means “in every part of a place or object.” Throughout also means “from the start to the end of an event or process.”
- The chairman was pleased with the board members’ contributions throughout the meeting.
- My new puppy left a path of destruction throughout the apartment.
- Throughout the world more and more people are starting to study a second or third language.
THOROUGH: Thorough means “carefully,” “completely” or “absolute.”
- The detectives did a very thorough investigation of the crime scene.
- Everybody thoroughly enjoyed the dinner party last night.
- Their government is very thorough with background checks for immigrants.
ALTHOUGH: Although means “in spite of the fact of,” “even though”, “however” or “but.”
- Harry said he was at the opening ceremony, although nobody him there.
- Although it’s late, I’m still going to cook dinner now.
- Francis went to the bank, although I told her it won’t be open on Sundays.
TAUGHT: Taught is the past tense form of the verb “teach.” (Even though it is not spelled with “ough,” the pronunciation is similar to the other words mentioned above.)
- Living in different countries taught Billy that people have vastly different viewpoints on the world.
- The same professor taught us for the entire time we were studying at the college.
- Lessons taught in life are usually realized too late.
“Yes, English can be weird. It can be understood through tough thorough thought, though.” – David Burge
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Justice is sweet. When I am driving down the highway and someone cuts me off or blows past me driving erratically with no concern for their speed or safety, it is pretty awesome when, a couple miles down the road, I see them pulled over by law enforcement. We all love justice when it is happening to someone else. We want people to get what they deserve.
When it is us, well, we love mercy. We desire leniency. We want to scoot by and maybe even get a free pass.
In the gospel this Sunday Jesus says, “How hard it is for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God.” Where I work and the community I live in is a place of wealth. Our neighborhoods our comfortable, our schools are excellent, and we have an abundance of natural beauty. Targets and coffee shops on every corner – you get the idea.
When Jesus says it is difficult for those with wealth to go to heaven, he is talking about us.
This statement is radical and, in the first century, was subversive. Jesus was saying those who have wealth aren’t blessed but, in fact, will have trouble being close to God. That is the exact opposite of the first century notion of blessedness. In the first century mind, those with financial, physical, familial health are the blessed. Those who are poor, sick, and broken are cursed. Whether we want to believe it or not, we certainly behave the same way today. The “haves” are blessed, the “have nots” are cursed.
Jesus contradicts this conventional thought. The disciples were shocked and go on to ask if even the most well off struggle to get into heaven, who can make it? This is when Jesus drops truth that is both hard to hear and hopeful. No one can earn heaven. No one is good enough. No one can make it on their own. BUT for God nothing is impossible.
This is what takes this message about justice and makes it a message about mercy. While no one is worthy of salvation, God can overcome the impossible and bring us to heaven with him forever. Wow, this is awesome and radical. You aren’t good enough and God still wants you. You can’t earn heaven, but Jesus would die to get you there.
LIVE IT: While we can’t earn heaven, when we try to get close to Jesus by sacrificing things of this world, Jesus tells us we will be rewarded. Make a small sacrifice this week (one cold shower, no phone use one day, no shopping on Sunday, whatever you want), and ofter that sacrifice up to God.
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Public Trust and the Libor Scandal
Now that Barclays (the second largest bank in Britain) has admitted that it routinely rigged the London InterBank Offered Rate (Libor), the condemnations are starting to pour in. Libor determines the price of $800 trillion in financial instruments, affecting the prices of such common things as adjustable rate mortgages and student loans. Barclays manipulated the rate to increase profits, with (apparently) the tacit approval of regulators, and probably in conjunction with many other large banks.
The comment I like best is the editorial in London’s Financial Times, which notes that few scandals have “shone such an unsparing light on the rotten heart of the financial system” which has enabled “nothing less than a long-running confidence trick played on the public.” Moreover, the editors are shocked—shocked!—at the “casual way in which this con was perpetrated.” They conclude that banking’s culture of recklessness cannot be fixed through regulation (“rule tweaks”). Instead, there needs to be a wholesale change of culture to keep the industry from permanently losing its last ounce of public trust.
It is a little strange, but it seems that Pope Benedict XVI made this same point over three years ago, in his landmark social encyclical Caritas in Veritate:
[T]he social doctrine of the Church has unceasingly highlighted the importance of distributive justice and social justice for the market economy, not only because it belongs within a broader social and political context, but also because of the wider network of relations within which it operates. In fact, if the market is governed solely by the principle of the equivalence in value of exchanged goods, it cannot produce the social cohesion that it requires in order to function well. Without internal forms of solidarity and mutual trust, the market cannot completely fulfil its proper economic function. And today it is this trust which has ceased to exist, and the loss of trust is a grave loss. (#35)
It turns out that the most important ingredient in all human systems is morality.
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Posted by: djpeterson -
Aug. 29, 2012 6:28 PM ET USA
Last Fall, a group Vatican economic scholars issued a very relevant document calling for systematic reform. It speaks of the devastating role of “financial speculation” and “unlimited credit” which wrecked havoc on the “productive” economy. The authors say the world economy is so dominated by avarice and corruption that one can speak of an “ethical breakdown”. Unfortunately too many Catholic journals ignored or panned its wise recommendations.
Posted by: pja -
Aug. 28, 2012 8:44 PM ET USA
The LIBOR "scandal" is more nuanced than this article would indicate. The bigger lie involved the solvency of the banks themselves. Banks had bought upwards of US$1 trillion of so-called AAA bonds issued against subprime home mortgages, and levered them in off-balance-sheet gimmicks by 70 to 1. See http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/NG17Dj02.html, written by an Orthodox Jew who goes by "spengler". He used to head fixed income research at BOA and knows a bit about markets.
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Most times when people think about self-injury, the image that comes to
is the goth teenager who perhaps scratches their wrists for attention.
is a false belief.
Take a look around you. Self injury knows no boundaries. Perhaps someone
"goth" but perhaps too your best friend. Your teacher. Your dad. Your
brother. The mailman. The lawyer. The manager at the store you buy your
clothing from. Self injury has many faces and many names - cutting,
banging, slitting the wrists, slashing - but one thing that is the same
across self injurers is the feeling they get when they hurt themselves
allows them to go on with their lives.
It may seem wrong that hurting yourself would make you feel better - after
all, the human condition seems to require us to step away from anything
may cause us pain - but this, for many people who SI, is the reality.
former SIer and as someone who maintains a support group as well as who
knows many people who do hurt themselves, I can tell you that the reasons
people hurt themselves are not always necessarily the same. Some do it to
feel less numb. Some do it because it gives them a sense of relief and
release from what they're feeling. Some do it as punishment, and some just
do it out of old habit. To many people, these acts are disgusting - but
only seem that way because of the ignorance about SI in our society. It is
estimated that about 1% of the population at any given time SI's. While
seems like a small number, it actually means that there are millions of
people who need to hurt themselves to live. The ignorance about self harm...
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