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Health Literacy Assessment Using Talking Touchscreen Technology (Health LiTT) is a novel approach to measurement of health literacy.
Health LiTT defines health literacy as “the degree to which individuals have the capacity to read and comprehend health-related print material, identify and interpret information presented in graphical format (charts, graphs, tables), and perform arithmetic operations in order to make appropriate health and care decisions” (Yost et al., 2009, p.298) . This definition encompasses an individual’s capacity to process and understand health-related information, and the ability to apply that information in the management of her/his own health. The capacity to obtain information, which is part of previous definitions (Nielsen-Bohlman et al., 2004) is a navigation skill that requires a different measurement tool.
- 14-item short form
- 90 items currently being tested
Why was this developed?
A critical review of existing health literacy instruments found inconsistencies in the definition and measurement of health literacy, limited empirical evidence of construct validity, and weaknesses in their psychometric properties (Jordan et al., 2010).
- Health LiTT was developed to enable more precise and reliable estimation of health literacy.
- Health LiTT is designed as a self-administered multimedia touchscreen test of health literacy.
- Three item types are used to measure a single dimension of health literacy.
- Prose item: a brief text passage of health-related information (approximately 40-60 words) followed by a single-sentence comprehension item with a missing word
- Document item: an image (table, graph, prescription label) is presented and a question asks about information that can be located in the image
- Quantitative item: a question that requires some type of arithmetic computation to determine the correct answer; some quantitative items also have an image
- Each item uses a multiple-choice format with one correct answer.
- Some items have an image.
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Finally, the documentary has been shot, edited and completed. It is called One Size Fits All. It is now in the hands of the printers to be shipped here for December 3. For the last year and a bit Joe has laboured over this documentary traveling across Canada interviewing people at churches that are doing work on the fringes of culture and ministry. There is some great churches and people on this film that have in many ways influenced how we express ourselves here in Sarnia.
I’m proud of Joe for putting this together. It’s quite a large project to tackle for it being your first film. Get yourself a copy of the film pre-ordered here. Every DVD you buy helps cover the expenses of making a film like this. The package also includes a bonus CD with the original soundtrack of the film. All the songs were written and produced by Driving on City Sidewalks, our favourite band to use for all our films, cause their local and amazing and they write us original stuff.
Here is a list of the interviews that made it on to the final cut.
Rob Abbott, theGig – Kitchener, ON
David Brazzeal, Curieux – Montreal, QC
Nick Brotherwood, Emerge – Montreal, QC
Gary Castle, neXt Church – Kingston, ON
Kristen Cato, The Open House – Vancouver, BC
Kate Dewhurst, The Agora – Halifax, NS
Al Doseger, Rustle – Kingston, ON
Cyril Guerette, Freedomize – Toronto, ON
Pernell Goodyear, FRWY – Hamilton, ON
Jamie Howison, St. Benedict’s Table – Winnipeg, MB
David Manafo, The Gathering Café, Montreal, QC
Kyle Martin, The Open House – Vancouver, BC
Paul Moores, Living Room Church – Vancouver, BC
Joseph Moreau, Ecclesiax – Ottawa, ON
Greg Paul, Sanctuary – Toronto, ON
Helen Ramfield, St. Benedict’s Table – Winnipeg, MB
Kim Reid, The Open Door – Montreal, QC
Domenic Ruso, The Embassy – Waterloo, ON
David Sawler, Lighthouse – Glace Bay, NS
Brad Sommers, Pax North – Halifax, NS
Scott Williams, Club 365 – Mission, BC
Anyway, buy the DVD.
What is God doing on the fringes of Canadian culture? Flying under the radar of pop-Christianity, experimental churches are quietly establishing genuine Kingdom outposts in settings both feared and forgotten. ‘One Size Fits All?’ uncovers the obscure story of these Canadian missional communities and its leaders.
For more information, visits www.onesizefitsal.ca
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Join us as we launch the Northern Writers’ Awards 2020 with advice for new and aspiring writers looking for publication opportunities
Hosted by New Writing North in partnership with The Literary Consultancy (TLC); with thanks to Bradford Literature Festival and University of Bradford for their support
New Writing North and The Literary Consultancy (TLC) are delighted to be visiting Bradford as we launch the 2020 Northern Writers’ Awards.
This roadshow will include sessions on the author-agent relationship and finding outlets for new work, as well as offering essential advice for novelists and poets considering applying for the Northern Writers’ Awards and other opportunities.
Confirmed speakers include the novelist, poet and editor Jacob Ross; Aki Schilz from TLC; Northern Writers’ Awards winners Kit Fan and Karen Powell; and Amandeep Singh from the Blair Partnership literary agency.
Independent publisher Dead Ink will be present to tell us more about Test Signal, an exciting opportunity for writers based in the North of England to be considered for a new anthology.
Tea and coffee will be provided.
Tickets cost £5. A limited number of free tickets are available to people for whom this is prohibitive. Please contact Grace Keane firstname.lastname@example.org
One-to-ones with a publishing professional
A limited number of one-to-one sessions are available to request. If you’re interested in a advisory chat with a publishing professional, please complete the form here. You must have booked for the event to be allocated a one-to-one session. On the form, you will be asked to provide:
- A short synopsis of the writing project you’re working on
- A 500 word extract, ideally from the beginning of the manuscript
We will be closing the form on Monday 14 November and will allocate one-to-one sessions by Friday 18 November. If more one-to-ones are requested than there are spaces available, we will try to match the most appropriate work to the expertise of the publishing professionals available.
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According to the U.S. Census Bureau, as of 2016 veterans made up 7.4 percent of our population. Of that number, only 8.6 percent are female (or .6 percent of our entire population).* Talk about a group of rare, and in our opinion elite, individuals.
Since President Truman’s 1948 signing of the Women’s Armed Services Integration Act, which allowed women full military status in both the regular and reserve armed forces, women have contributed significantly to our national defense and more than proved their mettle.
Yet the question remains: do military women face challenges unique to their gender? And if so, do they benefit from associating with same-sex peers? As no two female vets are the same, we believe it depends on who you ask. However, a great amount of the research we did supported Army Reservist Teresa DeLuca’s assertion in her blog, What’s It Really Like to Be a Woman in the Military?
DeLuca asks herself, “So what does it take to join the military as a woman?” Her answer: “It takes other women.”** **Source: hellogiggles.com
If you’re a female vet who subscribes to that notion, this short guide to women-only veterans organizations is for you. We’ll talk about membership criteria, group missions, activities and other factors that make each one special.
Oftentimes when two vets from the same branch of the service meet, they tend to lapse into their own familiar, branch-unique dialect, trading stories about experiences and places only they can truly appreciate.
If can be difficult for vets to share their experiences and ideas, especially when they’re required to explain everything to someone with no military background. So all too often, they don’t get the chance.
That’s why the following organizations (just of few of many) can be such a good fit for female vets who’d enjoy the camaraderie and support of their peers.
- Women Marines Association: Missions include preserving the history of women Marines, providing charitable and educational programs, assisting women Marine veterans in need and promoting patriotism.
- Women’s Army Corps Veterans’ Association - Army Women United: Members are active in volunteer work (especially with the VA Hospital), community service, fundraising and honoring women of service with special awards.
- Air Force Women Officers Associated: Formed in 1975 to preserve friendships, form new ties and promote recognition of military women, this group also offers support to women involved in educational or training programs.
- All Navy Women’s National Alliance: Dedicated to honoring “women of the sea” and their contributions, as well as fostering growth and a sense of community, this group also counts Marines and Coast Guard vets among their numbers.
This category is definitely a redundancy, since all women’s veterans groups are concerned with serving their communities and each other, to some extent. However, the following organizations are tailor-made for both those who could use a hand and those with a hand to lend.
- Grace After Fire: Designed to help female vets make the transition back into civilian life, this organization provides peer-to-peer support, financial assistance and community resource navigation through the volunteer efforts of fellow female vets.
- Women Veteran Social Justice: This group also relies on female veteran volunteers to mentor, empower and support fellow female veterans, while also striving to create a powerful network of members through technology and common interests.
- Women Veterans Rock: A coalition of women’s veterans organizations, this group’s members engage and empower each other through online support and special events like leadership retreats, delegations and rallies.
- Women Veterans Interactive: Founded by a homeless, disabled female veteran, this group tackles issues like homelessness, inadequate medical care and unemployment among women vets through outreach, advocacy and education.
Enjoying the support and companionship of like-minded friends in personal endeavors like writing, public speaking, book clubs, motorcycling or gun clubs make for compelling reasons to join or even start your own special interest veterans group.
- RomVets: This all-woman, all-veteran authors group started when a few friends met up at a 2002 Romantic Times Booklovers Convention and now boasts a roster of over 200 creative writers.
- Women Veterans Alliance and WomenVetsUSA: In addition to many other initiatives, both these organizations connect women vets with volunteer speaking engagements for the purposes of education and advocacy.
- Groups Just Waiting to be Formed: Although we’re not sure any women veterans-only book, motorcycle or gun clubs currently exist; there are scores of women-only book and motorcycle clubs already out there, with women-only shooting leagues starting to follow suit.
As far as the sheer number of women veterans organization there are, we’ve only just scratched the surface here. And as more women veterans join the population (roughly 18,000 per year), the types and missions of the groups they join or form are bound to broaden and proliferate, which will most certainly be a rich and welcome addition to U.S. society.
Proof of Service
Of course, in order to join or form most types of veteran’s groups, it’s important to be able to prove that you are who you say you are. And, as most vets know, an easy, fast way to do that is to provide your DD-214 form.
But if you’re one of the millions of vets who just aren’t sure of your form’s whereabouts, you’re probably missing out on more than club memberships. There’s an abundance of well-earned discounts, benefits, loans, courses, etc., just waiting to be accessed with your DD-214.
It’s no secret that ordering your DD-214 through eVetRecs can be tedious, time consuming and, often, frustrating. The team at veteran-owned DD214Direct.com understands the struggle, but more important, we understand how to retrieve your forms from government storage facilities faster than anyone, anywhere.
- Each state maintains its own records for the National Guard, as well as DC, meaning that there are 51 separate agencies housing NG records.
- The Army does maintain its own repository, but the National Archives CAN access Army records on request. However, they can’t do so for the Air Force, Coast Guard, Marines, Marine Reserves or Merchant Marines.
- Air Force Records are housed by two separate agencies which operate independently of each other.
- On occasion, National Archive-owned records end up in the possession of the VA, which requires a search of one of 50 different VA locations. The ONLY way to find these records is to speak directly to the office in which it’s housed.
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The overthrow of the Yanukovich government through a popular rebellion energised Ukrainian civil society and created expectations that have been hard to live up to. The Russian occupation of Crimea and support of separatists in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions have amplified the political and economic challenges, but the revolutionary fervour still lives on in large parts of Ukrainian society – sometimes propelling further reforms, but sometimes also undermining political consensus and leading to political overreach.
Anne Applebaum (@anneapplebaum) is a Visiting Professor in Practice at the Institute of Global Affairs at LSE and a columnist for the Washington Post.
Olena Bilan is Chief Economist at Dragon Capital.
Mustapha Nayeem (@mefimus) is a Ukrainian journalist, MP and public figure. Formerly he was a reporter for the newspaper Kommersant Ukraine, the TVi channel, and the internet newspaper Ukrayinska Pravda.
Vladyslav Rashkovan is former Deputy Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine.
Erik Berglof (@ErikBerglof) is Director of the Institute of Global Affairs at LSE.
The Institute of Global Affairs (IGA) (@LSEIGA) at LSE creates a dedicated space for research, policy engagement and teaching across multiple disciplines to pioneer locally-rooted responses to global challenges.
Suggested Twitter hashtag for this event: #LSELitFest
This event forms part of the LSE Space for Thought Literary Festival 2017, taking place from Monday 20 - Saturday 25 February 2017, with the theme "Revolutions".
A podcast of this event is available to download from The Maidan Revolution – Lessons Learned and Unlearned
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A SEDATE walk around the headland that rings the entire 18 holes will only make you agree with the late, great Australian golfer Peter Thomson, a five-time winner of the British Open.
Thomson once described Long Reef as the best site of any golf course in Sydney.
You don’t need to convince Ben Russell, the general manager of Long Reef Golf Club.
He already agrees and Russell has been at the helm as the layout has improved even further in recent years with some significant changes.
Besides the condition of the course, which is presented as well as any course in this country, the enduring memory of Long Reef when you play there is the outlook on every hole and no matter where you are you can see the ocean and watch surfers, hang gliders, sunbathers, walkers and even the coffee set enjoying the captivating vistas.
Russell has found a happy home at Long Reef after starting out as a PGA professional not that far away from Long Reef, at North Ryde.
“I realised early on in my career that golf was not going to provide me with a sustainable income and after a 99 in the first round of the 2015 Qantas Classic at Natadola Bay in Fiji I started looking for a new career path,” said Russell.
“I was fortunate that at the time I was teaching at North Ryde Golf Club and they were looking for a business development manager, the club where I grew up playing as a junior and had completed my traineeship in 2012.
“Anthony Dignan was the GM at North Ryde and eight months after employing me, he moved to Long Reef Golf Club.
“Shortly after that, the opportunity presented itself for me to move to the Northern Beaches as the golf operations manager at Long Reef Golf Club.
“Then, in June, 2020 I became the general manager.”
Russell took the helm at just the right time: In 2016 the club had begun construction of a new maintenance depot tucked left of the 12th fairway near the top of the headland.
This was stage one of the ‘Wetlands Project’ which the club would complete over the next three years.
The end result was the removal of the old maintenance shed, which was located in the middle of the course and came into play on two holes.
Constructed in its place was a 13-megalitre wetland which collects all the stormwater from Griffith Park as well as parts of Collaroy; alongside changes to holes 14, 15 and 16 using the fill from the wetland.
No wonder Russell is dealing with a booming membership and a waiting list to join the ‘party’.
“Long Reef membership is very active and most members play regularly in at least one of the seven competitions the club offers each week,” said Russell.
“Over the past five years the club has seen a trend of younger golfers joining too.
“The Covid-19 effect that most golf clubs have experienced certainly hit Long Reef with a wait-list of more than 100 since the pandemic came to Sydney.
“It’s been the club’s priority to ensure it can accommodate the current membership before introducing new members and it was great to see a positive renewal rate at the end of the 2020/21 membership year.”
Russell has also been kept busy with the club’s centenary and the club was lucky enough to host its Centenary Gala Dinner and high tea before entering its third lockdown.
“Moving on to our 101st year at Long Reef Golf Club, we will be striving to continue to improve the presentation of the golf course week-in week-out and also look to improve the clubhouse functionality,” Russell said.
“The clubhouse is in one of the most sought-after locations in Sydney and has only undergone minor renovations over the past 50-60 years.
“It would be great to create a clubhouse that provides an area to its members to come in after a round, enjoy a drink and admire the views, but at the same time be able to host a wedding and have the café operational for members and the public.
“We do a great job of this at the moment but the current set-up of the club makes it difficult to meet the expectations of all stakeholders.
“The ability to be able to generate other revenue streams, outside of golf, enables the club to give back to its members in the way of an immaculately-presented golf course and continuing to improve its facilities while maintaining affordable fees.”
When you look at the overall facility … Long Reef Golf Club is an 18-hole par-71 Group 1 course with a 180-metre practice fairway and chipping green.
The beachside clubhouse operates on its own with a café for members and the public as well as hosting 90-100 weddings each year, plus other various functions and events.
So why has the club never become private?
“This club has a unique set-up where it is located in Griffith Park on Crown Land, which is managed by the Northern Beaches Council and leased to Long Reef Golf Club,” Russell explained.
“The agreement with Northern Beaches Council includes times where the course can be used exclusively for members but outside of those times it must be accessible for green fee-paying public golfers as well.
“Truthfully, it wasn’t until I started working here that I realised how special this club is and how proud the members are of the course.
“The membership is made up of people from all walks of life and everyone mixes and the social aspect of the club is important.
“When members are this proud of their club and look forward to playing and coming in for a drink afterwards, well, it makes everyone’s job that little bit easier.”
No doubt Long Reef is among the busiest clubs in Sydney.
Russell agrees: “There are many great golf courses to choose from, especially on the Northern Beaches, but Long Reef does have the advantage that it sticks out in the Pacific Ocean on the iconic Long Reef headland.
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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — A federal judge this week threw out a New York City transit system rule that allowed police officers to demand identification documents from anyone riding the subway.
The ruling came following a lawsuit filed by two vintage train aficionados, who were stopped by police while taking photographs at the Broad Channel subway station in Queens.
In the Aug. 21, 2010 incident, Steve Barry, the editor of Railfan & Railroad Magazine, and his friend Michael Burkhart, were told by police that taking photographs in the subway system is forbidden – which is not true, according to the New York Civil Liberties Union.
Barry asked the officer to cite the city statute the men were violating, but instead, the officer demanded identification from both men, the NYCLU said. Barry gave his name and address, but did not give the officer any ID. | <urn:uuid:dec7b0d1-5e48-4cc8-bd8a-190106d0d281> | CC-MAIN-2018-09 | http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/03/23/judge-tosses-law-requiring-subway-passengers-to-give-police-their-id/ | 2018-02-19T16:26:45Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-09/segments/1518891812756.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20180219151705-20180219171705-00250.warc.gz | en | 0.978008 | 178 |
The number one missed question is "which political party is generally more supportive of reducing the size and scope of the federal government?" Only 53% of people get this question right. It's supposed to be the Republican Party, but voters could be forgiven for forgetting that. After all, during the George W. Bush years the country experienced one of the largest health care expansions ever in Medicare Part D, a financial bailout that seemingly consisted of a blank check to Hank Paulson, and an auto bailout that is the polar opposite of how a free market should work.
Of course, President Obama has shown even less fealty to the concept of a non-interventionist government, but the GOP has strayed quite a long ways from its Reagan roots in skepticism of big government.
The second-most-missed question is "which political party did Abraham Lincoln belong to?" With the media portrayal of Republicans as inherently racist, evil people, it's not surprising that Americans don't remember that the man who abolished slavery was the original Republican.
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Judge Clark Douglas offers a big hand for the leading ladies in this set, except maybe for Candice Bergen and Jacqueline Bisset.
It's a Woman's World.
In 2006, Warner Brothers released the Leading Ladies Collection. The collection put the spotlight on five films featuring five notable leading ladies: Judy Garland, Grace Kelly, Joan Crawford, Joan Bennett, and Bette Davis. Now Warner Brothers has released Leading Ladies Collection: Volume Two, featuring another handful of notable leading lady performances. What's new about this collection? Well, the original set only featured leading ladies from the Hollywood studio era, while two of the five films here were made in the 1980s. Also, we have different leading ladies this time: Joanne Woodward, Susan Hayward, Jacqueline Bisset, Candice Bergen, Diane Keaton, and Sandy Dennis. Is it worth your $50 to spend some time with this new batch of lovely leading ladies? Let's examine the case.
Facts of the Case
There are five films in Leading Ladies Collection: Volume Two, spread out over five discs. Each film is housed in a standard plastic DVD case.
A Big Hand for the Little Lady: This 1966 gambling comedy stars Henry Fonda and Joanne Woodward as a married couple passing through a small western town in the 1800s. It turns out that this little town plays host to one of the most expensive poker games around, and Fonda's got an itch to get in on it. Things go sour quickly; when Fonda gambles away his family's $4,000 savings, it's up to the noble, poker-despising Woodward (who is clueless about the rules of the game) to win her family's money back. The film also stars Jason Robards and Burgess Meredith in supporting roles.
I'll Cry Tomorrow: Widely regarded as one of the stronger cinematic portraits of alcoholism, it stars Susan Hayward in one of her most memorable performances. She plays singer Lillian Roth, whose successful career was cut short by a descent into alcoholism. Jo Van Fleet plays Lillian's alternately despicable and sympathetic mother, sternly attempting to control her daughter's life and career. Richard Conte plays one of the bad men in Lillian's life, and Eddie Albert plays one of the good ones.
Rich and Famous: The final directorial effort from George Cukor (The Philadelphia Story). We actually get the performances of two leading ladies in this film. Jacqueline Bisset and Candice Bergen play close friends who also both happen to be writers. Bisset writes one truly great novel, wins all kinds of literary awards, and then gets stuck with writer's block. Bergen writes soapy garbage, and wins loads of popularity, if not much critical acclaim. The film follows the story of this friendship over the years, as it goes through the trials of jealousy and bitterness. Meg Ryan also makes her debut film appearance as Bergen's strong-willed teenage daughter.
Shoot the Moon: The story of a troubled marriage, or more accurately, a troubled divorce. Albert Finney plays a despairing married writer who is in love with another woman (Karen Allen). Finney's wife (Diane Keaton) finds out about the affair and throws Finney out of the house. Keaton then seeks solace, or perhaps revenge, in the arms of another man (Peter Weller). Shoot the Moon is an intimate look at the trials and tribulations of splitting apart, as the spouses attempt to work their way through a haze of rage and selfishness.
Up the Down Staircase: Sandy Dennis plays a young teacher in the late 1960s who accepts a job at Calvin Coolidge High School. It's not the worst school in the world, but it's certainly not the best. Students there tend to be apathetic at best, self-destructive at worst, and no one seems to have any particular interest in making life any better than it is. Can the new teacher, fresh out of college, find a way to reach her students and help them grow? Or will she be overwhelmed by her surroundings?
Most of the films in this collection deal with fairly heavy themes, so it's nice to kick things off on a light and pleasant note with A Big Hand for the Little Lady. Though the film is wildly uneven at times in its pacing, it's a good time with some enjoyable performances. Joanne Woodward is obviously having fun playing a clueless but charming character, and Henry Fonda does all kinds of marvelously funny things with his face during the film's first half. Good as this pair is, the film is stolen by Jason Robards as a cantankerous rich gambler. Robards has one scene towards the end of the film that serves as the movie's funniest moment, even if it seems almost completely out of place.
Most of the movie consists of a lot of people sitting around a table playing poker, but the film tries to add some breathing room by showing us wide open spaces whenever it can. There's a wonderful opening sequence, as a group of gamblers ride like the wind towards their annual tournament. Director Fielding Cook manages to make this bit of filler rather exciting by adding in sweeping landscape shots, the sound of galloping hoof beats, frantic motion, and tremendously exciting music from composer David Raskin. Such cinematic moments are few and far between, but they quite effectively manage to make the film feel a lot less small than actually it is. The film's picture is pretty good as a whole, even if a few frames seem damaged, and the mono audio is perfectly acceptable for a 1960s film.
The oldest film of the set is up next, 1955's I'll Cry Tomorrow. Susan Hayward's performance is remarkable, perhaps the very best of her career. Despite the fact that the film follows many of the usual steps of films about alcoholism, Hayward is so believable and convincing that the somewhat formulaic plot works quite effectively. Hayward also performs four songs over the course of the film, and shows off her impressive singing voice (her cover of "Sing, You Sinners" is sensational). While Hayward's portrait of Lillian Roth was ultimately a positive and uplifting one, it's impressive that Roth herself offered an endorsement of the film. When you consider the sheer levels of despair and humiliation that Hayward reaches during the film, you can't help but admire Roth for being willing to share her story with the world (the film was based on Roth's autobiographical book of the same name).
Special mention should also be made of the performance of Jo Van Fleet as Lillian's mother. Van Fleet begins the role as a monstrous control freak, and then slowly begins to add dimensions as the film progresses, making the mother an increasingly sympathetic character. Other players like Eddie Albert and Richard Conte are just fine, but Van Fleet is really the only actor who gets significant screen time aside from Hayward. The movie looks okay, though at times the black-and-white cinematography features a little too much white. Audio is solid, especially during the musical numbers. Composer Alex North's brilliant musical portrait of alcoholism is also rendered with pleasing fidelity.
Directly in the middle of this collection of films is the stinker of the set, George Cukor's Rich and Famous. This is one of those terrible films that's so mind-blowingly awful at times that it's actually kind of compelling…for a while, anyway. Candice Bergen's shrill performance (complete with ridiculous southern accent) is quite possibly the worst thing she's ever done. Jacqueline Bisset fares a little bit better in terms of acting, but she is given the burden of participating in the film's least believable plot strands. Consider the scene where Bisset is being interviewed by a 22-year-old reporter from Rolling Stone. She grows irritated with the reporter, and walks out, saying she'll do it another time. While Bisset is walking down the street, she's approached by a creepy 18-year-old gigolo. For no reason in particular, Bisset decides that she's going to take this young thing back to her apartment and have her way with him. After this brief one-afternoon-stand, Bisset determines that she now likes young men, so she goes back to the Rolling Stone reporter and begins an affair with him. It's very difficult for any actress to make this contrived situation work, and despite Bisset's efforts, the whole sequence seems very silly.
There are few things more painful than watching a dumb movie about people who are supposed to be smart. It's quite difficult to accept Bisset's character as an award-winning writer of supreme intelligence when her dialogue is so terribly clichéd and strained. The film pretends to offer messages of insight about jealousy and friendship, but the whole thing is a pretentious excuse to set up some ludicrous and outlandish situations that will only please the most easily manipulated viewer. Also, the film takes place over a span of more than two decades, but Bergen and Bisset don't seem to age one bit as the years pass. Was the makeup department simply hoping we wouldn't notice? Aside from the bad hair and pants that show up on a regular basis, the film looks good (though far from great), and as with the rest of the films in the collection, the mono sound is perfectly fine. Perhaps the most noteworthy aspect of the film is the overqualified score by Georges Delerue, which is downright sumptuous at times.
The pains of having to sit through Rich and Famous were completely forgotten when I moved on to Shoot the Moon, starring Diane Keaton and Albert Finney. Without question, it's the finest film of this set, a hidden gem of immense power and fury. Shoot the Moon lands somewhere in tone between a Bergman relationship drama and The Squid and the Whale. It's painful, savagely funny from time to time, and unrelentingly honest in its portrait of a crumbling marriage. There are scenes so emotionally intense in Shoot the Moon that I flinched.
The movie is directed by Alan Parker, a curious director whose diverse resume runs the gamut from the tremendous to the terrible. He is by all means a risk-taker, and he's fallen flat on his face several times with films like The Life of David Gale and The Road to Wellville. However, I've always admired his courage, and it pays off in Shoot the Moon. Emotions run so hot in this film that it could have easily been a laughable piece of hysteria. Thanks to the sublime performances of Albert Finney and Diane Keaton, we're given a near-masterpiece.
Finney's performance is one of controlled rage: fits of angry violence followed by heartbroken apologies and desperate attempts at redemption. Keaton's neurotic and confused character nervously wanders between bitter revenge and curious hope, teetering back and forth between attempting to salvage the relationship and willingly tearing it apart. Their scenes together have a nervous tension; the moments of calm and warmth always feel like deceptive preludes to a thunderstorm. When the storms break out, the effect is shattering. The scene where Finney attempts to get inside his house to give his daughter a birthday present is one that I'm never going to forget. The film has a way of sticking with you, and I felt emotionally drained when it was over. The picture and audio are both acceptable, but hardly ideal. Shoot the Moon isn't exactly a film that begs for impressive visual treatment, but like a lot of films from the early '80s, the video looks a little softer than it ought to.
Everything wraps up on a positive note with Up the Down Staircase, an above-average teacher-helps-troubled-students film. If the plot I described while presenting the facts of the case sounded familiar, then you've probably seen Stand and Deliver, Take the Lead, Freedom Writers, or a number of other films with the same setup. What sets Up the Down Staircase apart is its refusal to deal with these problems in a typical or predictably easy manner. Yes, Dennis makes progress as she attempts to cope with these students. But it's not 100 percent effective, and some students continue to struggle and ruin their lives despite the teacher's best efforts. For every step forward, there's another step back.
Up the Down Staircase is a positive and uplifting film, but it's not a sentimental one, and it's aged surprisingly well over the past forty years. The film's second half, which contains a great deal of thoughtful dialogue about education and learning, stands as a model of how this sort of motion picture should be made. The first half, while a bit more familiar and typical, is nonetheless effective. The picture isn't great on this one, but pristine images might not do any favors to this modestly gritty setting. Audio is a little bit muffled at times, and the groovy '60s score by Fred Karlin is alternately effective and distracting.
The Rebuttal Witnesses
Despite the .800 batting average this set is hitting when it comes to providing good films, it really struggles when it comes to delivering extras. Special features are few and far between, and what's here is pretty inconsequential. A brief featurette of no real substance is provided for Rich and Famous. I'll Cry Tomorrow has some brief, modestly interesting newsreel material and a cute 20-minute short film starring Lillian Roth. Shoot the Moon contains a mundane and generally uninformative commentary from Alan Parker and screenwriter Bo Goldman. Up the Down Staircase only has a trailer, and A Big Hand for the Little Lady doesn't even have that!
Also, some might complain that A Big Hand for the Little Lady and Shoot the Moon shouldn't qualify for the collection, as we spend more time with the leading men of those films than the leading ladies.
You get four good films for a reasonable price, and one really bad one as a bonus. This really is a worthwhile collection of films, particularly for the superb Shoot the Moon. With the exception of Bisset and Bergen, the leading ladies featured in this collection are all represented reasonably well. Just be sure to spare yourself the two hours of torture known as Rich and Famous. You might not want to throw it away, just for the sake of keeping your box set full, but please don't ever give into the temptation to actually watch it. Just pretend it's not there, and you'll enjoy Leading Ladies Collection: Volume Two.
Rich and Famous is guilty of being a piece of melodramatic tripe posing as a serious drama, and the Brothers Warner are found guilty of failing to put much effort into adding interesting bonus features to these releases. Leading Ladies Collection: Volume Two as a whole is free to go, due to the substance and quality of the majority of the films it contains.
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I've been confined at home recently due to a rather unfortunate, but no less spectacular accident. I fell. And I caused more damage to myself than if I'd been hoisted onto a 10-storey building, swung around and thrown back down, bouncing off every single balcony on the way.
Consequently, I'm making easy work of the pile of books I've acquired over the past couple of years, books that haven't as yet had even the smallest crease deface their covers. Not that I crease my books. But that's another story.
When you're suffering, you really don't want to work hard wading through words. You need something to soothe your aching limbs, to ease your cares and to give you something to laugh and cry about other than yourself. These did just that:
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Planning on booking a family ski trip? Unsure what you should pack or which ski school to book? It can be quite a daunting task preparing yourself to go skiing with the family, but with a fair few ski seasons under my belt (I might sound like a pro, I’m really more ‘all the gear no idea’) I’ve put together my top tips for skiing with the family and making it run as smoothly as possible.
What to pack
I’ve put together a separate blog post on what I pack for myself, you can find that here, but here’s a quick run down of what I pack for each child (mine are aged 11 and 4).
- Thermal baselayers
- Mid layers (fleece zip up, hoody) You can vary the layers depending on the weather each day.
- Ski jacket (if your children are younger it might be better to consider an all in one ski suit rather than separates to keep them warm)
- Ski gloves or mittens
- Warm wooly hat
- Snood (I find these work better than scarfs if you get a particularly cold day)
- Ski helmet & goggles (don’t worry if you don’t have a helmet, you can hire these in resort along with your ski equipment)
- Ski socks
- Snow boots (make sure these are warm and waterproof)
- Sun Cream
Other than that just the usual items you would pack for a holiday, pj’s, tops, bottoms etc. Less is more, ski trips tend to be pretty casual including what you wear in the evening for dinner. It’s always worth packing an extra pair of gloves and hat if you are planning venturing out after your day of skiing encase any items are damp.
Make it fun
Be prepared that your child may not take to skiing straight away. We’ve loved skiing since the moment our feet stepped on the slopes, as did our eldest. This was not the case with our youngest, even though we’d been taking him along with us on ski trips from 9 months old. He found the whole process extremely tiring, from wearing all the layers everyday, to getting back up when he fell. In this case we decided to put no pressure on him to love skiing, we knew this would come with time. Instead we concentrated on making the trip fun for him, adding in lots of sledging, horse and cart rides, trips to the swimming pool and anything else the resort had to offer. A great tip is to bring some small toys up to the slopes with you, something that will fit into pockets so they can play with in the snow if you are having a coffee. Hot wheels cars tend to work for us.
Book a smaller resort
If your children are young, or this is their first time skiing I would research a smaller ski resort to start off with. Smaller resorts tend to be less busy, so a little less daunting when trying to get on and off lifts and manoeuvring your way down the nursery slopes.
Ski School or Private Lessons?
This is a personal preference depending on the confidence level of your child. For instance our eldest is quite social and good at making new friends, so we opted for an ESF ski school for him (Usually 3 hours every morning), our youngest is a lot quieter and we knew he wouldn’t enjoy this, so for him we chose an English speaking private instructor. If your child is younger then most family resorts have good childcare facilities on the slopes. We tend to go to France and have previously used both the ESF creche and the younger ski school club Piou Piou.
Rent your equipment
Unless you are planning to ski a lot, renting your skis, boots and poles is probably the best way forward. Most ski resorts have great equipment and are happy to help find the right choice for you. The only equipment we invest in for our children apart from their clothes is a good quality ski helmet and pair of goggles. It’s always worth asking if you can rent a locker within the rental shop so you can leave your equipment there each day instead of lugging it around. Trust me, trying to carry a child who’s legs hurt and a couple of pairs of skis all the way back to the chalet is not the one!
Chocolate bars and snacks upon the mountain are expensive!!! Unless you’re in the minority that is happy to pay €3 for a mars bar to keep the kids happy while you indulge in a coffee with a view, its a good idea to pop a couple of snacks in a backpack or your pockets.
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The North Carolina State Board of Elections has issued a summary memorandum regarding the placement and treatment of political signs. Please be familiar with this guidance if you are producing yard signs.
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Opening the Engineering Door
New Thayer School Dean Joseph Helble on why the future depends on engineers.
By Tamara Steinert
Photographs by John Sherman
After a decade on the faculty at the University of Connecticut, Joseph Helble is familiar with the rhythms of academia, including the autumn “busy season.” But as fall approached this year, there were more demands on Helble’s time than usual. The 45-year-old chemical engineer was just finishing a year-long fellowship in Senator Joseph Lieberman’s Washington, D.C., office when it was time to turn his attention to the school year — and to his new duties as Dean of Dartmouth’s Thayer School.
As he completed an analysis of the environmental impacts of nanotechnology for Lieberman, there were loose ends to tie up at UConn as well. Add to this the challenge of packing to move with his wife, Becky Dabora, and their three school-aged children to Norwich, Vermont, and it’s a safe guess that this might not have been the most convenient time for Helble to sit down for an interview.
But, if he felt any impatience to get back to the tasks pressing upon him, there was nothing about Helble’s cordial greeting in the front office of Lieberman’s suite that revealed it. After all, working on Capitol Hill requires the ability to shift gears quickly as issues demanding immediate attention arise. As the Roger Revelle Fellow in Global Stewardship sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Helble spent the year advising Lieberman and his staff on a variety of environmental science and technology issues. Some, like President Bush’s Clear Skies Initiative, have been closely tied to Helble’s research interests. Other topics, like the feasibility of creating an early detection system for tsunamis, have been new to him.
Helble listens closely to questions before answering, often taking a moment to think before speaking. But when he does start talking, the words come quickly. The topic of conversation is the future of engineering and engineering education, a subject which Helble admits with a wry smile is “dinner and hallway conversation” for him and his engineering colleagues. “Are our students getting it? Are we teaching them what we need them to get? Should we be doing it differently?” asks Helble, echoing the concerns of engineering educators across the country. And, of course, THE question: “Why aren’t there more engineers?”
It’s a question that lawmakers and business leaders, concerned about U.S. competitiveness in a global economy, are beginning to ask as well. Technological innovation has been at the heart of economic growth in recent decades, and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that jobs in science and engineering will increase at about three times the rate for other occupations in the near future. However, the United States isn’t producing enough engineers to fill these jobs. On a per capita basis, the number of engineering degrees earned each year in the United States has steadily declined, “even through the ’90s, when the economic boom was driven by high tech,” notes Helble. And with the National Science Foundation reporting in the 2004 edition of Science and Engineering Indicators that more than half of the nation’s engineers are age 40 or older, that could mean too few trained engineers prepared to meet the technological challenges of the future.
Developing countries such as China and India, however, are taking up the slack left by too few engineers here. The United States will graduate approximately 70,000 new engineers this year, while China reportedly will graduate about 600,000, and India will give diplomas to 350,000.
“That’s not a recipe for future success” in an economy increasingly dependent on technology, Helble says. However, he believes economic competitiveness is not the only reason why Americans should be concerned about the declining interest in engineering.
“The U.S. is in a leadership position in the globe. There is a tremendous opportunity for us to do the right thing, to do good for the rest of the world through engineering,” he says.
Helble cites global climate change as one issue among many where the United States could provide guidance. “I’m talking about how that affects developing countries, not the impact of a 2-degree increase in temperature in Hanover, N.H., and what that might do to the maple sugar industry. I’m talking about huge percentages of the global population living in low-lying coastal areas as subsistence farmers. How are those people going to be affected by global climate change and what’s that going to do in terms of creating refugee problems, starvation, poverty, and mass movement of people? These are problems that should concern us as Americans as well. These are problems engineering can tackle,” he says.
Educators and other experts have identified a variety of reasons for the declining interest in engineering. A generation or two ago, people in the United States saw engineering as a way “to apply yourself and improve your circumstances,” says Helble.
“I think we’ve reached a point where, for a large number of Americans, perhaps the motivation isn’t the same. You can go to Wall Street. There are other opportunities in business where you can perhaps do better economically” without having to take the rigorous math and science curriculum required for engineering, he notes. “In places like India and China, they’re where we were 40 or 50 years ago in terms of this being a good, solid opportunity to advance yourself.”
Engineers in these developing countries typically work more cheaply than American engineers. McKinsey Global Institute estimates that as many as 52 percent of engineering jobs might be vulnerable to “offshoring.”
As Helble sees it, however, these changing circumstances and attitudes are not the cause of plummeting numbers in engineering. In his view, these are symptoms of a bigger problem: an outdated mindset that sees engineering education as nothing more than vocational training.
“We need to stop thinking about engineering education as being training just to produce engineers who will go off and work at engineering jobs and solve engineering problems,” he says. “That’s clearly a very, very, very important part of what we do. It’s our core mission and that won’t change,” but “engineering education is useful apart from producing engineers.”
Engineering education is really about teaching a set of skills — to analyze, create, innovate, and communicate — that are increasingly necessary across many occupations and fields as technology continues to evolve.
“Let’s look at medicine. So much of health care in this county is technology based. Wouldn’t our health care system be better if people who go to medical school had undergraduate training in engineering rather than all studying biology?” Helble says. He also suggests that young entrepreneurs consider engineering rather than business school since economic development is driven by technological development.
“Whenever we as educators have the opportunity for a public platform — including talking to 17- and 18-year-olds at high school events — we need to say, ‘look, this is not vocational training. This is analytical training that helps you develop the skills to analyze a problem, to be innovative, to be creative, to be entrepreneurial,’ ” he says.
One of the ways to convey this message is by highlighting the myriad ways our lives are touched by technology and science every day.
“The technological training we get in engineering puts us in a position — even if we’re not practicing engineers — to make informed decisions in our local communities and as citizens when we go to the voting booth,” he says. It happens in the grocery store when people decide whether or not to buy genetically modified foods, at the doctor’s office when they’re selecting from treatment options, and when they’re choosing political candidates who best reflect their views on issues like stem cell research and space exploration. Often the information consumers have about these issues is incomplete, or presented in ways that elicit emotional reactions without scientific context.
“There’s a real need for a significant component of society to have the analytical skills to understand these problems and the skills to communicate effectively to people who don’t have this training about why these issues are important to them,” he says.
“One of the things that’s got me excited about going to Thayer is you’re starting with a body of students and faculty who think more broadly, who don’t think about engineering as strictly a vocational training. People are looking at this as an education to help them attack a much broader range of problems,” he adds.
THE ELDEST OF THREE CHILDREN raised in a suburb of Paterson, N.J., Helble says the immediacy of the OPEC oil crisis — made concrete for him by sitting in gas lines as a teenager with his father — started him on the path to engineering. He’d always been good in math and science, and his father was also an engineer, so it was a “natural” choice, he says.
Helble’s undergraduate experience at Lehigh University was four years of a “complete and total emphasis on science, math and engineering.” It was a solid education, but in some ways he felt restricted because he wanted to explore the bigger picture of technology in the world.
“What I see of the program at Thayer is it provides students exactly the kind of flexibility I think is important and that I would have wanted,” he says, noting that even during graduate school he tried to keep a broader focus by completing a minor in Spanish.
Helble entered graduate school at MIT in 1982. A runner and bicyclist who grew up during the early years of the American environmental movement, he had a natural interest in protecting the environment, and so pursued research on air pollution and aerosol science. After completing his Ph.D. in 1987, he took a job as a research scientist at Physical Sciences Inc., a small research firm near Boston, then returned to academia as a faculty member at the University of Connecticut in 1995.
Over the years, his research interests have expanded to include nanoparticle technology. It’s a field with potential uses in many industries, from manufacturing to medicine, but in his role as a legislative fellow, Helble focused on investigating the potential impact of the technology on people and the environment, rather than on developing new applications. “We’re talking about a new class of materials where, in many cases, we don’t have a complete understanding of how they would operate in the environment. We don’t know what happens if they’re released into the environment, either purposely or not. There are broad legislative questions that need to be answered about how we continue responsible development while putting in place appropriate controls to protect people and the environment. What should that balance be? Does the EPA have the authority and resources to do this?” he asks.
THAYER SCHOOL’S ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT PROGRAM and its close links to the Tuck School of Business put the program at the head of the next wave of engineering education, Helble says. Companies expect engineers to know their way around a spreadsheet and value employees with entrepreneurial instincts. In recent years, industry has also come to expect engineers to design with the “triple bottom line” in mind. This term means giving equal regard to the environmental and societal impact of a project along with profitability, says Helble. As the population ages, medicine and engineering are also becoming more entwined, presenting another area of growth for the occupation.
He is concerned about the fact that engineering school enrollments don’t reflect the diversity found in the college graduate pool. “We’re not doing a very effective job as a profession and as educators of getting the message out that engineers solve applied problems that are important to society,” he says. “If we made that connection — that you’re solving problems that are important to society — we’d be doing a much better job drawing students from a much broader range of society.”
Helble also worries that “the idea that engineering is just the province of those who absolutely love math and science” discourages many potentially talented engineers from exploring the field. “There’s got to be room for people who are creative — people who may not have the mathematical skills to immediately analyze and model a problem, but have the engineering creativity to think about technological development from a more entrepreneurial standpoint,” he says.
That’s not to suggest that engineering students don’t need basic math. “We just don’t want the first couple of years of engineering education to be a hazing ritual,” he adds. “Not everyone is going to go off, get a Ph.D., become a professor or a research group leader at a large corporation, and do computer modeling. What we’re trying to teach is a framework for analyzing problems and then applying that framework to unknown situations.”
Some observers have suggested that the United States needs a major technological challenge to inspire young people — much like the race to the moon did in the 1960s. However, Helble thinks the problem won’t be resolved so simply. “There’s no silver bullet here,” he says. “I think this is a slow process; it’s going to take a lot of engineering and technological leaders across the country to stand on their respective soapboxes and remind people that this is important.”
A MAJOR CHALLENGE FACING ENGINEERING programs is how to deal with the rapid pace of technology development. With so many new fields of inquiry, schools are struggling with the question of what to include — and exclude — from the curriculum.
Helble cautions against jumping on the bandwagon of every new technology. Instead, he advocates focusing on fundamental math and science and developing what he calls “the tools for engineering thought.”
“We can’t teach everything to every student and graduate them in a reasonable period of time. We could keep them forever, but then they would have no impact on the world at large,” he says. However, electives and survey courses offer an opportunity to discuss the science behind new technology, as well as its societal context. A good example, he says, is a survey course on nanotechnology currently being offered at Thayer School that requires students to read a novel about the technology in addition to exploring its technical underpinnings. “This is great. This is helping 18- and 19- and 20-year-olds understand the relevance of technology to the broader society,” Helble says.
Graduate and faculty research also helps keep the undergraduate program fresh by giving students the opportunity to participate in research projects in evolving fields, according to Helble. One of his goals is to help enhance Thayer’s existing research program.
“I think there’s a real opportunity to build upon a strong research program at Thayer and make it even better,” he says. “Thayer has got an outstanding reputation as a place that produces first-rate undergraduates. The graduate program isn’t as well known. That doesn’t mean graduate students haven’t gone out and done great things. It just means it’s not as well known.”
He realizes that some people are concerned that a greater emphasis on research will detract from Dartmouth’s and Thayer’s teaching missions. However, research “does not diminish or denigrate” teaching, but should “enhance it” as faculty bring their work into the classroom, he says.
One reason people sometimes fear an increased emphasis on research is that they think it means the College will try to fit the mold of other, larger institutions.“I have no thoughts whatsoever of Dartmouth being Harvard or Thayer being MIT. It’s not. It is a fairly unique entity, and that’s one of the things I’m excited about,” Helble says. In fact, he would like to see the graduate program incorporate some of the “things that work so well at the undergraduate level.”
“I would like to see our Ph.D. students, even those who come in to work in high-powered research labs for the high-powered research faculty, also be thinking about taking a class in the business school or taking a class in liberal arts so they think about how what they do applies more broadly,” he says.
“A strong research program is a win/win situation for undergraduate and graduate students. Plus it gets 18-year-olds and their parents excited about the school.”
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We live in a constantly on the go society. For better or for worse, this mentality often carries over to how we approach tasks in the workplace. Three memos, five meetings and a working lunch with your boss all in one day? No problem. Taking a moment to breath and re-center yourself before you dive into your next task? No way.
That moment of pause and awareness that many people don’t seem to have time for is called mindfulness. And as it turns out, practicing it often can help you become a better employee and leader. Cheryl Jones, Aetna’s Director of Mindfulness explained how at the Next Generation of Government Training Summit.
Jones defined mindfulness as paying attention or noting whatever is happening in the moment with a gentle and open mind, as well as awareness of breathing, thoughts, feelings and surroundings. “Mindfulness is not a ‘woo’ thing, rather it is innate in all of us and we are all capable of cultivating awareness and bringing our attention to the present moment,” she said. In order to do this, you have to be willing to pause and stop and be with yourself without judgement.
Life and work are stressful and at the end of the day there’s not much we can do to stop stressors from popping up. However, through mindfulness you can manage how you handle stressors and build resilience to learn how to deal with them. “Mindfulness is useful to manage stress because when we see our minds going down a path of stress we can breathe, be in the moment, and clear our minds to solve the problem and address the stressor,” Jones explained.
This is especially important to practice at the workplace. “Practicing mindfulness can allow us to de-stress and be present in our current relationships at work instead of simply zoning out,” Jones said. “This allows us to build better relationships and work more effectively.”
Another benefit of mindfulness is that it can help you build your emotional intelligence, which is necessary for leaders to lead and connect with their employees. Practicing mindfulness allows you to better connect with your own self and feelings so you can be more in tune with others.
So, are you ready to start implementing mindfulness at your agency? Jones recommended four steps:
- Build a foundation and develop a mindfulness practice.
- Develop a presence and determine how you want to be intentional about your presence.
- Learn to trust yourself and others.
- Foster connections with your coworkers and employees and build strong, compassionate relationships.
When you walk into the office tomorrow morning, take a breath and be in the moment. For more mindfulness tips, check out Aetna’s site.
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This Samsung video shows some of the craftsmanship behind the Galaxy S6 Edge
Want a peek at how Samsung crafts the Galaxy S6 Edge? This video gives you a behind the scenes look.
Smartphone ads are kind of getting ridiculous these days. For example, take this new Galaxy S6 Edge commercial Samsung recently published on YouTube. Instead of making me want to go out and buy the god damn phone, I get the sense that I’m watching a trailer for some summer blockbuster thriller.
And then there’s the commercials dialogue. Here’s a transcript of it below:
Advanced design meets digital craftsmanship in the Samsung Galaxy S6 edge. Created from only the finest materials, it is innovative at every turn.
To work with the most premium materials requires engineering firsts. The industry’s hardest glass is curved at 800°C. Aerospace-grade aluminum, known for its durability and lightness, is carved from a solid block with diamonds and textured with microscopic ceramic grains.
Together, the unibody design is encased in layers of color, each jewel-inspired tone with its own custom reflection pattern.
It’s a device that is undeniably beautiful and absolutely unique.
Next is now.
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During that visit Atyam began by telling Lukwiya’s mother, “I know you have nothing to do with the war and want your son back.”
“She didn’t find it very easy at first, but then we embraced and wept. We were reconciled,” says Atyam, who felt as if a heavy burden was lifted from her heart and soul. “I could go back, pray, and call upon God for what I wanted from him.”
Energized by their witness of forgiveness, the parents launched the Concerned Parents Association (CPA) to advocate for the release of all the abducted children in Uganda, the peaceful resolution of the armed conflict and forgiveness of the LRA, and increased awareness of the plight of children in war everywhere.
As co-founder and president, Atyam would become a midwife to a vision of a new future of reconciliation and peace for her country. She started by taking CPA’s mission to radio and other media, and to rebel and government leaders, including the Ugandan president. Eventually, she traveled to Europe and the United States, where she petitioned the United Nations to intervene, and in 2002 addressed the United Nations Security Council.
While the publicity raised sympathy for the children’s plight, it also drew the rebels’ ire. In a matter of months, rebel leader Joseph Kony made Atyam an offer: In exchange for ceasing her advocacy work, the LRA would release Charlotte. Atyam agreed to consider the offer if the LRA released all 30 girls from St. Mary’s. The commander refused. And so did Atyam.
“It was as if God had knit the parents together to become one big family,” explains Atyam, who agonized about her decision. She hoped that Charlotte, whom she later learned had sometimes been beaten in response to CPA’s advocacy, would forgive her. Atyam’s own family was appalled, but for her there was no other choice.
“Somehow all those other children had become one in Charlotte. We could not pull the one away and leave the rest,” says Atyam. That would have betrayed CPA, a group with hope and vision that they could not afford to lose for the sake of thousands of missing children, she explains. “All those children had become my children.”
As years passed, Atyam continued to lead CPA’s efforts and to wrestle with God over her daughter’s captivity.
“You are mighty, you are ever present, you can do anything,” she cried out one night in 2004 as she sat on her bedroom floor. “It is written in the Bible that the seventh year is the year of freedom … the year of all good things. Lord, we know you don’t change, but have you changed today—because seven years have elapsed, and my daughter and the other children are still missing.” | <urn:uuid:d9776ce5-3acf-4c68-9c54-2e77e94c3a52> | CC-MAIN-2014-23 | http://divinity.duke.edu/publications/2010.01/features/feature2/4.htm | 2014-07-25T03:40:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-23/segments/1405997892806.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20140722025812-00164-ip-10-33-131-23.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981135 | 636 |
Statement Calls for Global Action to Reduce Burden of Cardiovascular Disease
In September, the Global Cardiovascular Disease Taskforce — representing the ACC, World Heart Federation, American Heart Association, European Heart Network, European Society of Cardiology, and other global cardiovascular disease experts — released a statement calling for the implementation of plans to help meet the global target of reducing premature non-communicable disease (NCD) mortality 25 percent by 2025.
The statement, which coincides with the two-year anniversary of the first-ever United Nations’ (UN) meeting on NCDs, challenges the global community to move beyond simply endorsing the global “25by25” target to action. According to John Gordon Harold, MD, MACC, president of the ACC, and a co-author of the statement, “now that the ‘25by25’ target has been set in place, the next step is to ensure that we work with governments on plans that help us meet this target that will ultimately improve global health.” He explains that this will require accountability by governments, and involves an approach that is inclusive of nongovernment organizations, local communities, and industry as appropriate.
The cardiovascular disease civil society community of heart and stroke foundations and societies across the globe must have a leading role in the implementation of national NCD plans and ensure a focus on cardiovascular disease primordial, primary, and secondary prevention and rehabilitation,” the authors said. “Sharing best practices, aligning measurements, fostering experience, advancing implementation strategies, and providing leadership are critical and feasible measures to ensure that we achieve the ‘25by25’ target, not only for NCDs but for cardiovascular disease as well.”
Specifically, the ACC and other members of the Global Cardiovascular Disease Taskforce have committed to:
Developing and publishing metrics around the “25by25” target that are specific to cardiovascular disease and tailored by geography by 2014.
Shaping and supporting the inclusion of cardiovascular disease language in national plans.
“Coordinating and aligning efforts around implementation of the cardiovascular disease-related targets under the ‘25by25’ global target, with a particular focus on reducing tobacco use and hypertension and improving secondary prevention and rehabilitation of cardiovascular disease.”
“The adoption of the ‘25by25’ target, along with eight additional targets addressing modifiable risk factors and committing to the use of essential medicines, technologies, and drug therapies for heart attacks and stroke have been a hard fought victory over the past two years,” said William Zoghbi, MD, MACC, immediate past president of the ACC and a co-chair of the statement.
Following the initial UN declaration in 2011, the NCD Alliance (of which the ACC is a member) lobbied for the establishment of a concrete goal addressing the worldwide NCD pandemic. Last year, on the one-year anniversary of the UN Summit, the ACC jointly published an official statement with World Heart Federation, the European Society of Cardiology and the American Heart Association urging concrete targets to curb preventable death from cardiovascular diseases. Two months after this call to action, the targets were finally agreed upon under the NCD Alliance’s tireless guidance.
“Moving forward, the College will continue to work with its International Chapters and its counterparts around the globe to make sure that this issue continues to be a strategic priority as part of efforts to improve population health around the world,” adds Zoghbi.
“The ACC has developed into a global organization including 29 national chapters,” said Christoph Bode, MD, PhD, FACC, chair of the ACC’s Assembly of International Governors. “As such, ACC is uniquely positioned to play a major role in translating the Global Cardiovascular Disease Taskforce’s aims into clinical reality.”
Keywords: Myocardial Infarction, Stroke, Secondary Prevention, Global Health, Cardiology, Cardiovascular Diseases, Risk Factors, Tobacco Use, United Nations, Hypertension, United States
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A hub of history and culture
For those looking for an out-of-this-world experience, the city is home to the National Space Centre. With six interactive galleries and the UK’s largest planetarium, this award-winning museum is definitely worth a visit.
Once you’ve finished exploring the cities vast array of museums make sure you leave time for a spot of shopping and a bite to eat. St Martin’s Square and the Lanes are areas not to miss for those wanting to discover a wealth of independent shops and cafes.
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Pick of the Parks – Bowleaze Cove Holiday Park & Spa
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Representing the State of Delaware in two cases before the U.S. Supreme Court regarding the ownership of intangible unclaimed property.
Loeb & Loeb represents the State of Delaware in two cases brought pursuant to the U.S. Supreme Court’s original jurisdiction for the resolution of disputes between States. One case represents a complaint brought by the State of Delaware against the States of Pennsylvania and Wisconsin and the second case represents a complaint brought by a number of other States against the State of Delaware. Both cases involve the question of which state has the right to take custody of the proceeds of certain financial instruments. The cases require the interpretation and application of a federal statute, the 1974 Disposition of Abandoned Money Orders and Travelers Check Act. Two prior cases, involving the same legal issues had been filed by Pennsylvania and Wisconsin against Delaware in federal district courts in each state. The Loeb team successfully brought the issue to the Supreme Court after convincing those states that their cases could only be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court. The cases will resolve the disposition of hundreds of millions of dollars of unclaimed property. | <urn:uuid:b9d0ef07-6bb2-4db4-92b5-b9c778a00fe1> | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | https://www.loeb.com/en/experience/state-of-delaware-escheat-matter-delaware-v-penn__ | 2023-03-27T16:15:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296948673.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20230327154814-20230327184814-00406.warc.gz | en | 0.948473 | 225 |
Surveys say the Catholic Church in the United States is losing a generation of leaders. Young people — in particular the millennial generation born between roughly the early 1980s to the late 1990s — are walking away from their faith in droves.
Fully 41 percent of American adults of all ages who say they were raised Catholic now no longer identify themselves as such, according to a 2014 Pew Research Center survey.
The most alarming indicator for Jacob King is that among the group that has left the church, 79 percent have done so by the age of 23.
King was among them at one time as a teenager, but today he is a young man of 32 on a mission to reconnect young adults and youth with the Catholic faith of their heritage by proposing it in a whole new way.
He is the director of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia’s initiative in this area, which formerly was called the Office for Youth and Young Adults until it closed in 2012. The new name for the office he leads, Anthem, reflects in one word a shift in outlook and in strategy for the church.
“We have to present (the Catholic faith) in a whole new way,” King said. “We have to start with new directions, things (young people) haven’t heard, and present the church in a different way, hoping they’ll give it a second thought.”
The name Anthem, chosen through a planning process facilitated by the Canadian consulting firm Glass Canvas, has a universal appeal because while it has a secular connotation it also has a religious meaning related to biblically rooted sacred music. “It has a Christian undertone but it’s not something that would sound like church,” King said.
He and his team, which includes assistant director Meghan Mastroianni and events coordinator Abby Gutowski, identified characteristics of the church including authority and teaching, and that of secular culture, which emphasizes friendships. They noticed that young people tend to strongly desire friendly relationships, so they developed their Anthem “brand name” and its focus in that direction.
“We realized we need to be more toward the secular and friend (view), and invite people into a relationship,” King said. “It’s a new way of looking at the church (as) a relationship with Jesus.”
That orientation might be new to young people who for whatever reasons have developed an unfavorable view of the church, and because of that, have not explored developing a relationship with Christ.
Gutowski, the 24-year-old staff member, explained how many young people perceive the church and their role in it: You first learn about behavior and moral living, then about Jesus, and only then are you invited into the church community — if you have demonstrated the first two.
“Truthfully, it’s a little bit backwards,” Gutowski said. “To appeal to (young people), you can’t start out with behavior. That comes (later, when) you’re not even looking at them as rules. Those are things you are going to desire to do because you already have that relationship with Jesus.”
Emphasizing the invitation to a welcoming community based on relationship with Jesus, then exploring moral teachings, flips the church perception on its head, and is most likely to attract young people, the Anthem staff believe.
“First, you belong,” said Gutowski. “It doesn’t matter where you are in life; whether you are a beginner, a cradle Catholic, still unsure why we do the things we do. No matter who you are, you belong. And once you belong, you’re going to desire to know more. Once you have that from the start and you age in that relationship, the behavior will come.”
Only when young people feel they belong to a church that welcomes them and in which they experience their relationship with God can Anthem begin to address hot-button issues and form youths in the faith.
Popular misconceptions on what the church teaches on moral issues “is what pushes young people away from the church,” Gutowski said. “They think Catholics hate those who are different, those who don’t fit in. We’re actually all about love and mercy.”
Getting the attention of millennials who are no longer in a Catholic school setting and who are pulled by so many secular forces will be challenging.
That is why Anthem is planning to host an annual large-scale regional concert event with big-name secular artists to attract young people who otherwise are not inclined to give the Catholic Church a second look.
They are drawn to big parties and festivals because they are fun, “and if we’re not offering something of that caliber, they’re not going to want to come,” Gutowski said. “We have to bring that entertainment value to the events that we do.”
Also in the planning are numerous smaller events with speakers and service activities hosted in more intimate settings throughout the archdiocese. Some events would be geared for young adults, others for teenagers and youths, with respect to the differences in age and interests.
Another goal for Anthem, besides hosting events, is to support and train parish youth ministers and leaders of parish-based young adult groups. Such programmatic support and training from the archdiocese, King believes, will free those youth leaders to get out from behind their desks and into the community where they can entice more young people to belong.
Just as St. Augustine sought God with a restless heart more than 15 centuries ago and proclaimed “our hearts are restless until they rest in thee,” King believes the apparent drifting from faith by today’s young people is itself an opportunity for a new evangelization.
“The Catholic Church has that fullness of relationship with Christ,” King said, calling it “a love affair where you can fall the most in love with Christ and the sacraments that really draw (people) into Christ.”
For the Anthem ministry, “the goal is walking with someone all the way from having no faith up to discipleship and to wanting to give my life to God,” he said.
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Josephine and I have been going to London for over 45 years and frequently visit Chinatown and Sunday night (21-11-21) we were in town with friends watching Jersey boys for the fourth time and while walking down Wardour Street were surprised to see a very commanding Feng Shui Dragon mounted on the wall.
I have never noticed this before and cannot seem to find any information online to see when it was erected. It looks like it has been positioned for Feng Shui purposes in the way that it faces the end of the street. Either way, it looks very impressive! Can anyone tell me if this has always been here or a recent addition?
This was the fourth time we have watched Jersey Boys, twice in London, once in Oxford and once in Aylesbury town but this last one at Trafalgar theatre was the best production yet…Oh what a Night!
I love walking around Chinatown and am constantly looking out for Ba Gua mirrors or a carefully placed Feng Shui countermeasure cannon that faces their competitors, it gets very competitive in this part of the town and these type of Feng Shui cures I do not subscribe to as they are more destructive than protective and I would never advise a client uses these types of attack on a Feng Shui consultation.
I have posted some photos below of our day in London, I hope you enjoy them as much as we enjoyed our day, it was so good to be back in London and I have to say it all felt very normal with no sign of there being a Covid scare, I think this is good and we are over the worst. | <urn:uuid:2fff27cc-7503-4e81-b57b-e9d411dd86f5> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://feng-shui.co.uk/index.php/2021/11/24/dragon-in-china-town-london/ | 2022-01-22T12:39:03Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320303845.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220122103819-20220122133819-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.982205 | 327 |
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In this quick changing world of competitors and advancement, it has been a undeniable fact that individuals barely get enough time to spend in their houses, taking care of on their own. It is obligatory for us that people spend the vast majority of the times amount of time in office, performing our job. If the workplace lacks in correct equipments and facilities for that workers, the employees get severe health problems. Likewise, the decorum and also the tools from the offices are supplied enormous importance. Nowadays, almost all the tools are chosen inside a cautious manner in order to make sure the workers comfort and ease. One such essential product in the office may be the ergonomic workplace chairs. As most of the offices have turned out to be smart, meaning they depend more on device than hard physical work, ergonomic office seats are especially created for this kind of offices. They are the seats used for the use of the workplaces having pc work stations. These have been developed specifically seats which help in the decrease in pressures around the several anxiety from the spinal cords, therefore limiting the chance of muscle and neural illnesses. Also they help to maintain the right body posture. It lines up the forearms, arms, back, neck and also the head in the appropriate positions, thereby decreasing back pain, work related bone and joint disorders along with other such diseases. And when you simply looking for a seat to relax, then think about one of the reclining chair from our list. In this article we'll talk about the very best fifteen greatest ergonomic seats to be able to provide the visitors with the accurate knowledge so that when they purchase this kind of chairs, it becomes easy for them to select the most appropriate one.
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This fits you if all you need is a beautiful coach. It's made with a flared body and cushion top amrests inside a awesome cobblestone grey. Now, it's resilient froth soft cushions which are obsessed with inside a rayon upholstery to create the desired comfort and ease. It features a sturdy part blocked body that adds to the toughness. Also, feet are in a faux wood complete. It has an impressive grey color that suits with any decoration. Its dimensions are 89 W by 39 Deb x 40 They would thus big enough to support you together with your loved ones/buddies. More importantly, it arrives completely assembled. This protects the pain of having to put together the established.
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3.Beirut Stacking Patio Dining Chair (Set of 2) By Ivy Bronx
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Puffy, overstuffed loveseat soft cushions are not your thing? This lying loveseat from GDF has crisper, solution outlines than your conventional lying loveseat, which makes it a stylish addition to a mid-century contemporary, modern, modern or contemporary style of home. And, at only 46.46 inches in width, its easy to squeeze into a smaller room, like flats, dog dens or offices. Available in a number of colour and material choices, such as charcoal material, navy blue material and slate micro-fiber, its simple to find the right complement for your house dcor, and the durability your loved ones needs for everyday use. The days are gone of excellent-searching, but uncomfortable Beirut Stacking Patio Dining Chair (Set of 2) you will no longer have to sacrifice comfort for design. This lying loveseat features an oversized, gentle, plush-stuffed chair cushion with sufficient room for 2 or enough space for one to spread out and unwind.
4.Waterbury Armless Sectional Chair with Cushions By Sol 72 Outdoor
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6.Ayleen Patio Dining Chair (Set of 2) By August Grove
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7.Haines Poly Lumber Plastic Folding Adirondack Chair By August Grove
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8.Shadai Cabana Reclining Beach Chair By Bayou Breeze
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9.Paulsen 3 Piece Conversation Set By Wrought Studio
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The Bridgewater is really a sofa design that's mainly informal and definitely comfy. This design is the beloved of many an artist because you can use it to create a casual, pleasant space. Bridgewater sofas are flexible, with respect to the upholstery you choose. Done in an unbiased material, this kind of couch does not compete with other elements in the room that may be more remarkable, for example artwork or other big functions. Much more formal material will produce a more grand type of couch. A number of qualities differentiate Bridgewater couches: Usually they have reduced hands and a high back, which contributes to the sporadic look. Most also have a tailored dress that hides the thighs and free soft cushions for that seat and back again. This particular design was created to support slipcovers, that also lend a casual atmosphere towards the couch.
10.Terrio Wagon Wheel Couple Solid Wood Adirondack Chair By Millwood Pines
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Using the recent boost in popularity of the Middle-Century Modern design genre, this couch style is a warm item. Regardless of whether accurate vintage pieces, reproductions or new styles that incorporate Middle-Hundred years Contemporary elements, they are very versatile sofas. Usually used in a minimalist or middle-hundred years style scheme, they are wonderful for adding a vintage feel to some space. The distinguishing components range from the exposed thighs and linear structure. Most middle-century sofas but not all of them may have some tufting around the back again. | <urn:uuid:5d2b8633-087e-4195-b986-213e038b9849> | CC-MAIN-2019-26 | http://www.bizchatapp.co/Adirondack-Chairs/stephaine+stacking+patio+dining+chair-172.cfml | 2019-06-26T22:57:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-26/segments/1560628000575.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20190626214837-20190627000837-00178.warc.gz | en | 0.945926 | 2,531 |
I've seen first-hand the positive effects that natural gas fracking has had on my wallet. My heating and electric bills have been heading lower for years. One study that I read said that the average American household was saving $425 to $725 per year all because of fracking. That same study suggested that total cost savings could reach an average of more than $1,200 per household by 2020 as natural gas replaces more coal and oil. This personal impact on my wallet is one reason why I've long been a supporter of the controversial process.
On the other hand, I'm not personally a fan of Obamacare. Sure, like fracking it has done some good. But my problem is that its implementation is costing me nearly as much money as fracking has saved. The controversial law had a direct and personal impact on my health insurance plan. It was nearly dropped and although I now get to keep a plan my wife and I struggled to obtain in the first place we have to pay extra $467.40 a year for it.
The math is pretty simple so in my mind, Obamacare has just taken away the money that fracking had saved me. That gives me a pretty compelling rationale to support one controversial topic while opposing the other.
The plot thickens
Therein lies the problem for most Americans. Our opinion on a matter, more often than not, is based on how it personally affects us or someone we know. The quote that led off the article by Robert Cialdini in his book Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion really does sum up how we make decisions. It is so true that, "Very often in making a decision about someone or something, we don't use all of the relevant available information; we use, instead, only a single highly representative piece of the total."
What's just as true is the sentence that followed in his book. He noted that, "and an isolated piece of information, even though it normally councils us correctly, can lead us to make clearly stupid mistakes – mistakes that, when exploited by clever others, leave us looking silly or worse."
Think about that one for a moment.
Get to know the whole story
All too often we make judgment calls about a controversial subject or a person based upon once piece of data. More often than not we fail to learn the rest of the story. Take fracking for example, few people know its history, that the process was developed in the late 1940s and has already been used on more than a million wells. Instead, what we hear about are the worries about water, chemicals, earthquakes and the noise. All of which are valid worries, don't get me wrong, though there are plenty of misconceptions about the process.
That said, it is a whole lot easier for me to be pro-fracking. No one is drilling in my backyard. My water is fine. Not only that, but I know a lot more about the industry than most Americans. I've spend much time learning about how companies like Chesapeake Energy (NYSE: CHK) are recycling an increasing amount of the water used in fracking. Not only that, but the company is reducing its use of harmful chemicals in the process.
I know all about Halliburton's (NYSE:HAL) drive to recycle 25% of the water used in fracking by the end of this year. I've taken a closer look at its CleanStim fracking fluid and know that 100% of its ingredients are sourced from the food industry. I even read the story that its executives drank some of the fluid at a conference to prove that it wasn't harmful.
At the same time, I have also taken the time to watch Gasland, Promise Land and other films. I've read countless articles that are negative on the process. I've done all of this in an effort to not allow an isolated piece of information, in this case the money I've saved, be the sole reason I have a stance on a subject.
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Today we live in a nation that's becoming divided on every subject. All too often those divisions are based upon one isolated piece of information that we use to fuel that division. Because of this we really do look silly yelling and interrupting each other on the TV each day. The challenge, then, is to take a step back this year and simply get to know the other side of the story. That way we as a nation might actually begin to work together to find areas of agreement instead of focusing in on the one area where we disagree.
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Avokia Claims Most Farflung Database Cluster Ever
Avokia is claiming to have strung out the most farflung database cluster ever, between Toronto and San Francisco, or 2,266 miles.
Espressocode, maker of software for the freight and customs industries, is using ApLive technology, which Avokia rolled out at Demo in February, to pull IBM DB2 databases together in an active and load-balanced cluster in the multisite environment.
ApLive is a technology that provides redundancy and backup to mission-critical applications by clustering, replicating and load balancing virtualized databases.
The databases can be geographically dispersed. Oracles RAC (Real Application Clusters) can do similar work, but only on LANs. To cover geographically dispersed locations, RAC needs a helping hand from Oracles other software products, Stream and Data Guard, which provide active or passive failover between sites in a WAN.
IBM also offers a product, HADR (High Availability Disaster Recovery), that provides a high level of availability if a second node is located in the same site. It offers disaster recovery if the second node is located in a remote site. According to Alan Kriss, Avokia director of marketing, that doesnt help Espressocode with its scalability needs, since HADR is limited to two nodes and the backup node is not available for reporting purposes. "More standard replication products are also available with DB2," he said. "Those would provide offline copies of the production database useful for reporting but not for high availability or load balancing by [Espressocodes] online or production application, Exdocs."
Alan McMillan, CEO of the Toronto-based Avokia, told eWEEK that Avokia works with Espressocode to provide the middleware software, which fits in at the application layer to virtualize the database layer.
McMillan claimed that this provides 24x7 support to Espressocodes user customers.
Regarding the difference between RAC and ApLive, McMillan said that with RAC "Youll be down while Data Guard recovers."
Thats because ApLive replicates at the SQL statement level, McMillan said. "Its the write statement," he said. "When youre accessing data out of the database, youre grabbing it in the read state. Our technologys smart enough to know it only needs to replicate changes to remote databases. Its 1/1000 of the size [with which] typical replication technology works. Because its so much smaller, it can fly faster through the Internet."
This SQL statement activity compares with other replication technology that replicate the database log file between data centers that are typically located about 30 miles apart, he said.
"Disasters are often greater than 30 miles, when were talking about hurricanes, the power outage in California, or terrorist actions," McMillan said. "Now you can have live-live data centers across the country."
Active instead of passive backup data centers also means that users, in effect, get twice the work out of their data center infrastructure, McMillan said.
"Instead of having a second data center on standby, waiting to be used, ours can be used [at any time]. Its not just insurance gear waiting to be used."
Andreas Antonopoulos, senior vice president of the Nemertes Group, an analyst firm in Frankfort, Ill., said that virtualizing and load-balancing the database provides the performance benefits of clusters and the large distances and centralized load balancing of virtualized databases.
Regarding latency concerns, Antonopoulos said that any downsides are "more than compensated by the flexibility and recoverability offered by database virtualization solutions."
However, the change-over to virtualized, load-balanced databases creates a need for solid planning in terms of physical distance and network optimization to reduce latency.
"There are significant difficulties in "extending" or synchronizing databases across great distances," he said. "Distances of more than 50-100km are often reported as the upper limit for synchronous replication of storage and data.
"Greater distances create synchronization and concurrency technology challenges," Antonopoulos added.
"IT executives are struggling to balance high demands for availability, compliance mandates for geographical separation and latency issues. Companies offering solutions that can replicate or virtualize databases over great distances are in a growing market."
One of Avokias competitors in that growing market is Continuent, formerly known as Emic Networks, which started out as a provider of clustering for MySQL databases and Apache Web servers but which now handles PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Sybase and Oracle databases.
Continuent offers what it calls a database-neutral solution, in either open-source or commercial flavor. Like Avokia, Continuent also claims that its solution eliminates single points of failure.
Editors Note: This story was corrected regarding ApLive, which runs on all operating systems. It was also updated to include information on IBM HADR and to correct the vendor of Espressocodes databases.
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A Cambodian court on Feb 1 ruled that Veera Somkwamkid, a coordinator of Thailand’s Patriots Network, and his secretary Ratree Pipattanapaiboon, were guilty of espionage, illegal entry, and trespassing in a military zone.
Mr Veera was sentenced to an eight-year jail term while Ms Ratree was handed a six-year jail term. Their petitions seeking a royal pardon were rejected as the Cambodian government asserted the two must serve two-thirds of their jail terms first.
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Thai government spokeswoman Thitima Chaisaeng confirmed that Thai Defence Minister Gen Yutthasak Sasiprapa had raised the idea of a prisoner transfer with Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen during his recent visit to the neighbouring country.
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How to Use the Parameter Estimation Study Step for Inverse Modeling
When creating a simulation, you usually start by building the forward model, supplying various inputs, and then looking at the results. However, what if you have a set of results and want to find the input values that provide the same outcome? Here, we show how to use the Parameter Estimation study step, which helps you build an inverse model and solve for the optimal values of your model inputs.
Tutorial Video: Performing a Parameter Estimation Study in COMSOL Multiphysics®
Using the Parameter Estimation Study Step for Inverse Modeling
Suppose that you have a set of external data (either from experimental measurements or a collection of reference data) that you want to model your simulation after. In this situation, you can use inverse modeling. As the name implies, inverse modeling is when you take a reverse modeling approach to your problem: Instead of solving for the outcome, you solve for the inputs.
To get the desired simulation results, there are several model inputs that you might want to investigate or experiment with, such as material properties. When solving for the values of these inputs, you are looking for the optimal values that provide you with the closest match between a set of external data and the simulation results. A natural approach is to minimize the sum of the squares of the differences between the data sets. As such, an efficient modeling strategy is to formulate the problem as a least-squares optimization problem. To streamline the process of setting up and solving the problem, you can use the Parameter Estimation study step in the COMSOL Multiphysics® software.
To use the Parameter Estimation study step, the study must be time dependent and a license for the Optimization Module is required. In addition, a set of reference data needs to be included through either an interpolation function or user-defined reference expression. Note that the reference data must either be time dependent or a function of a single argument.
The Settings window for the Parameter Estimation study step.
The Parameter Estimation study step is useful for a variety of inverse modeling problems — mainly parameter estimation. The objective is to estimate values for the desired model inputs (i.e., parameters), which provides insight into the ways that the values (and hence the properties themselves) affect the objective function.
Perhaps one of the most typical uses of this functionality is curve fitting or similar data-fitting applications. This process involves fitting a function to a series of data points. The fitting of the function is done by estimating the values for the coefficients used in the function, essentially fitting a parameterized analytic function to a collection of data. By fitting a curve to a set of data points, we can interpolate values from the function to areas where data isn’t explicitly available.
In the tutorial video at the top of this blog post, we demonstrate a parameter estimation via a modified version of the elbow bracket tutorial model. Before computing this study, we need to properly define the problem…
Performing a Parameter Estimation Study in COMSOL Multiphysics®
Performing a parameter estimation study generally involves three major steps:
- Prestudy: preparing the definitions, such as the parameters, variables, and functions
- Study setup: customizing various aspects of the study and computing it
- Poststudy: postprocessing to visualize and compare the simulation and experimental results, as well as extracting the optimal values for the estimated model inputs
Let’s look at how to complete these steps and the important factors to consider when setting up the Parameter Estimation study step in a model.
Step 1: Preparing Definitions for a Parameter Estimation
Before we perform a parameter estimation study, we must create the definitions needed to formulate the problem. This typically involves creating a combination of parameters, functions, and variables. First, we define the parameters of the model inputs for which we want an estimated value. Next, we include the external data by defining either a reference function or expression. Lastly, we define a variable that pulls and evaluates the output quantity from the simulation results, which are compared to the measured output data.
In the video above, we perform a time-dependent heat transfer analysis on the elbow bracket. The model data from the heat transfer simulation is then compared to the experimental data, which is used to estimate the value for the thermal conductivity of the material.
In the Heat Transfer in Solids node, the thermal conductivity is represented by k. Hence, we create a parameter named k, enter a rough estimate of its value, and use it in the appropriate node to define the thermal conductivity.
Left: The parameters used in the parameter estimation study, including the parameter k for estimating the thermal conductivity. Right: The node (named Solid 1) in which we use the parameter k to define the material property to be estimated.
Next, we create a definition so that we can implement the data from our external file into the COMSOL® software. In this case, the reference data is a collection of time-dependent temperature measurements contained in a comma-separated values (CSV) file. This data can be quickly and easily entered into COMSOL Multiphysics by adding an Interpolation function to our model component and then using the Load from File button. The data is automatically imported in a tabular format, with the first column containing the times and the second column containing the temperature measurements.
Under the Units section, we simply enter the respective units for the argument (time) and function (temperature). We do not need to be concerned with the options selected for the Interpolation and Extrapolation settings of the function, since the study only computes the differences at the times explicitly stated in the argument or t column of the function. Thus, the smoothing between data points and the behavior of the function outside of the range of the data is not relevant.
We now need to define an expression to extract the temperature quantity from the simulation results. (This quantity is later compared to the temperature measurements in the interpolation function.) The quantity we want to extract and use for comparison is the average temperature of the surface on the top-right end of the bracket.
Since we want to obtain the average of a quantity (temperature), we first add an Average component coupling under the Definitions node. We then select the geometry we want to obtain the average temperature for (i.e., the boundary on the top-right end of the elbow bracket). Note the tag in parentheses to the right of the Average component coupling, aveop1, as this will be used in the expression for defining our variable.
The Average component coupling (highlighted in blue) helps us obtain the average value of a quantity on the selected geometry.
To compare the computational and experimental results, we must define a variable to extract the quantity, and thus its value when computed, from the simulation results. Since we are looking at a specific part of the geometry, we define a local variable under the Definitions node or the Definitions ribbon tab. (A global variable is not suitable for our study, as the Global Definitions node is global in scope and defines, applies, or evaluates an expression over the entire model geometry.)
When defining the variable, we name it Tave, since we are looking to obtain the average (ave) temperature (T). For the expression, we can call out to the Average component coupling created earlier by entering aveop1. We then specify the quantity that we want the average of by entering the variable T (for temperature) in parentheses.
The defined variable, which is later used in the Parameter Estimation study step.
Step 2: Setting Up and Computing the Study
Now we can add and set up the Parameter Estimation study step, for which several settings have already been handled. The reference data and study step selections are automatically linked to the interpolation function that contains the external data and the time-dependent study.
The expression entered in the Model expression field is evaluated and then compared to the external data at each time step specified in the reference function; i.e., each time in the argument column of the interpolation function. As such, this field is where we enter our local variable, Tave.
Notice that in the syntax of the Model expression field in the images below, we specify the location of our local variable, component 1, by including it before the variable name. The reason is that the scope of the Parameter Estimation study step is global. As a result, the study step does not “see” variables defined locally within a component unless we indicate their scope in the expression. For a global variable, we simply enter its name in the Model expression field. To enter the variable with its scope specified automatically, you can use the Auto Completion feature to select and enter the variable from the list of definitions.
Left: Using the Auto Completion feature to select the local variable defined earlier. Right: A screenshot of the completed setup for the Parameter Estimation study step.
Now we just need to identify the parameters we want to estimate and select the optimization method. We provide a rough estimate for the parameter under the Initial value column, add an upper and lower bound for the values that the parameter can take, and set the Scale value. Applying the appropriate scale is important, as it can significantly slow down the convergence of the optimization solver or stop it from converging altogether. Using the default value works for the elbow bracket example, but it might not always be suitable. (For more information, read the chapter on parameter estimation in the Optimization Module User’s Guide.)
Next, we want to select the appropriate optimization algorithm and compute it. The different methods apply to certain use cases, which are discussed in further detail in the video. Since the parameter we want to estimate controls the value of a material property — and we want to impose an upper and lower bound on the value — we use the SNOPT method.
Step 3: Comparing Results and Extracting Input Values
Once the model finishes solving, we need to perform some additional postprocessing. We can visualize and compare the two sets of data by plotting the results, and then we can extract the optimal values for the estimated model inputs. To see and compare both sets of data on a single plot, we add a new 1D Plot Group and include two Global plots under it. One Global plot displays the simulation results, while the other displays the reference data.
Since our interpolation function is a collection of data points, we want it to appear as a point graph. To do so, we change the time selection of the data points so that they are only plotted at the times specified by the argument column of the function. Additionally, we adjust several of the settings in the Coloring and Style section to further distinguish the two sets of data.
This plot shows that the model results closely match the experimental data. We can now extract the optimal value for the thermal conductivity of the elbow bracket material. To do so, we add a Global Evaluation node under the Results tab (or under the Derived Values node). In the Settings window, all we need to do is update the Time selection option to Last so that we can evaluate the value in the last time step, since the thermal conductivity is independent of time.
The Settings window for the Global Evaluation node.
After entering the parameter k in the Expression field, we click Evaluate and are provided with the optimal value for that parameter.
The optimal value for the thermal conductivity.
As shown above, a thermal conductivity of ~0.27 W/(m*K) provides the simulation temperature results that best match measurements from experimental data.
Modeling in Reverse via the Parameter Estimation Study Step
In COMSOL Multiphysics, the Parameter Estimation study step helps estimate the optimal values for the inputs of a simulation. By estimating the values that define various aspects of a model, you can investigate the parts of the problem that either hinder or help in best matching the computed results with a data set from an external file.
This functionality also enables you to solve other types of inverse modeling problems by streamlining and expediting the process of defining, setting up, and solving a least-squares optimization problem. For more details about this useful study step, watch the tutorial video at the top of this post, which provides guidance on how to use this functionality with a simple example.
To learn more about parameter estimation in COMSOL Multiphysics, its use cases, and the various study step settings, read the chapters on parameter estimation in both the Introduction to the Optimization Module and Optimization Module User’s Guide documentation.
An archived webinar on parameter estimation is also available. (Note that the archived webinar uses the Optimization interface instead of the Parameter Estimation study step.)
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GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 3 VILLAIN TO BE SINGLE USE PLASTIC
The new Guardians of the Galaxy film will feature Single Use Plastic as its villain.
James Gunn might not be directing the next Guardians of the Galaxy but Star Lord and his faithful band Groot, Rocket Racoon, Avatar girl and Drax will be back. And they are fighting a threat to the Planet Earth this time round.
A source inside Disney spoke with the Studio Exec EXCLUSIVELY Tuesday night:
It’s fantastic. With Gunn gone, we can rethink the whole project. Instead of it being an irreverent space opera we’ve decided to go for something more socially committed. See if we can ‘Pay it Forward’, as Kevin Spacey insisted we do all those years ago. And what Kevin says, we do.
So in terms of story how is this going to change things?
Well, we wanted something socially conscious and we thought what is actually threatening the world at the moment? Aliens? No, not really. Thanos? Done that. So then it occurred to us, well Jessie, but I’m claiming it for the group, why not Single Use Plastic. That poses more of an existential threat than all the other mystical bullshit. I mean that stuff really is for comic books.
But you’re making a comic book movie?
You’re making a comic book movie.
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Inside his mind is a Palace.
Inside the Palace are many rooms.
Within the largest room is the Throne.
Upon the Throne sits the King.
From time to time, the Throne Room changes. Sometimes it gets redecorated, sometimes it moves to a new "largest room" entirely, and sometimes—a very rare sometimes—he demolishes the room himself and builds it anew. But when the Throne Room changes, so, usually, does the King.
He begins to build the Mind Palace when he is a child of five. It is more of a Mind Flat at that point, albeit a relatively spacious one. The living room is the Throne Room, and it is furnished with oak promises and velvet stories and bright blue wallpaper made of whispered secrets and deductions.
And on the carved-wood Throne sits twelve-year-old Mycroft, the elder brother he adores beyond compare.
And then Mycroft lies, and he gets older, and he goes to school far away, and Sherlock tries his hardest to tear apart the Throne Room.
In time, he forgives Mycroft, but never again does his brother sit upon the Throne.
When he is seven, the Mind Palace is not a Palace or a Flat but a Fleet. He builds a pirate fleet in his head and lets it sail on an ocean of language, of tempestuous words in four different tongues. He has two cutters, two trysails, three raffees, a schooner, and a merchant brig. The brig is much slower than the other ships, but Sherlock needs it because it holds more, and he needs somewhere to store the things he ought to know but doesn't particularly want to.
This time, the Throne Room is located in the hold of the Death, the largest of the raffees and Sherlock's flagship. The hold is dark and just a little spooky, stocked with barrels overflowing with fact-jewels. Gold pieces stamped with the names and profiles of pirate captains glint in the swinging candlelight, spilling out of treasure chests made of ship terms.
A pirate King with wicked-looking facial scars smiles down at Sherlock from a Throne of stolen riches. Sherlock smiles back.
After the Fleet comes the Mansion, which he mostly deletes afterwards, and after that comes the Museum.
He likes the Museum. There are so many interesting things there, not least of which is the Throne Room.
This time, the Throne Room is located by the exhibit on the human body, and the Throne itself is made of bones.
Upon the Throne sits a brain, which Sherlock sometimes takes in his hands and examines. It's brilliant.
Little by little, the Museum shifts, grows, builds upon itself, until the day comes when it is no longer a Museum but a true Palace. Sherlock doesn't mind it, really; there is so much more space here, and he thinks that "Mind Palace" sounds much better than "Mind Museum".
The Throne Room shifts minutely with each new addition, but the King does not change for many long years after.
When Sherlock is twenty-two, he discovers cocaine.
The Throne is relocated to a brightly-lit room with walls of observation-pills and insult-tablets, and for the first time, a Queen sits upon the Throne.
She is white, so blindingly white it hurts to look at her with her nails like razors and her teeth like needles but Sherlock doesn't care, he doesn't care because she's so good to him, god she's so good.
She's so good he wants to die in her arms.
Mycroft attempts to usurp the White Queen, but it doesn't work. He had his chance to reign, long ago.
Sherlock is twenty-seven when he forces himself to delete the doors to the old Throne Room and shove it down to the deepest sub-basement dungeons.
The new Throne Room is comfortable, if a little dark in the corners, and is wallpapered with yellow chemistry and grey news articles and indigo history. The Throne he painstakingly crafts out of steel resolve and elastic obsession, and decorates it with nicotine patches and musical notes.
It isn't perfect, but it's a match for his new Queen, with her bloodstained dress and her motive-coloured nail lacquer and her crown of beautiful horrors.
She is the Work, and when she settles onto the Throne, Sherlock decides that this is the last one. He will never have another monarch aside from her.
And for six years, he doesn't.
He meets John Watson and stores the information in the little room where he keeps facts about people he doesn't particularly dislike.
After John moves into Baker Street—after John tells him he's fantastic, after John runs across London with him, after John shoots a man for him, after John laughs and frowns and tells him he's an idiot—Sherlock builds a little room inside his Mind Palace and allows John's facts to move, too.
John's Mind Palace room is bright and dark at the same time. The ceiling is decorated with glow-in-the-dark solar system decals against a black abyss of nightmare ramblings. His morals are tacked up on a cork bulletin board side-by-side photographs of a Browning and the bullet hole in the shoulder of a not-very-nice cabbie. His facial expressions are hung up between his jumpers and his favourite swear words.
It's a cosy room, really, and sometimes Sherlock can even bring himself to sleep between the Army-canvas bedsheets, his head on a soft pillow of complaints and praises.
There is the Pool; the aftermath; the return to normalcy. There are cases and clients.
The Throne Room expands to accommodate the work-related things he wants to remember, and the Queen watches over it all with benevolent malevolence.
Then there is Irene, who gets her own room. It is smaller than John's, but that's more than most people get with Sherlock. She is The Woman. She is interesting and intelligent and...
And then she dies.
Except she doesn't.
He follows John—he has to follow John, he always follows John, especially when John is idiotic enough to get into an unmarked car that is most definitely not one of Mycroft's—and she's there, and he hears something about couples and being gay and then there's his text alert noise, and he leaves.
And later, much later, after he takes his revenge on the American for hurting Mrs Hudson, after John tries to talk to him, after he has holed himself up in his room, he goes back into his Mind Palace and sits in Irene's space and wonders if he ought to tear it down or not.
He decides not.
It's only when he's trying to find the connection between Liberty and In and hound and Baskerville that he realises something is off in his Mind Palace.
But he's on a case, and that matters most. He can investigate the anomaly later.
"Later" turns out to be when he is sitting on the floor of the lab at Bart's. The lab where they first met.
He goes into his Mind Palace and stalks down halls, through closets, examining anything that strikes his fancy as he makes his way to the Throne Room.
Which has somehow, without his realising, changed, morphed, shifted—
No, it's merged.
The wallpaper is the same yellow-grey-indigo, and the shadows in the corners are still there, though now they stretch to the ceiling, which is nightmare-black and starry. Memory-photographs and case-clippings alike are tacked to the cork board affixed to one wall. Jumpers knitted out of autopsy reports hang in a battered wardrobe of broken promises and stolen files.
It's as if John's room has melded into the Throne Room, leaving Sherlock with this strange... amalgamation.
It frightens him more than anything. More than the Hound. More than this final confrontation.
He doesn't want to look at the Throne itself, doesn't want to see who sits there, who rules over this nowhereland inside his head because he'd sworn to himself six, seven years ago that he'd only have one Queen, and he can't have this happen. He just can't. Not now.
But he is Sherlock Holmes, and he doesn't handle suspense well.
And when he looks, what he sees takes his breath away.
He stands on the ledge, stares down at John, at the end of this (whatever this is). Maybe, when it's all over, he'll come back and they'll be just as they were.
He doubts it.
He takes a breath, retreats into his Mind Palace, and jumps.
Inside his mind is a Palace.
Inside the Palace are many rooms.
Within the largest room are the two Thrones.
The first Throne is made of steel resolve and elastic obsession, and its Maker has decorated it with nicotine patches and musical notes.
Upon this Throne sits a Queen with a bloodstained dress and a crown of beautiful horrors. Her nails are lacquered the colour of motives and her hair is dyed the colour of deceit. One eye is guilt, the other innocence, and her lips are parted in a smile like adrenaline.
She is the Work. She is the Head.
The second Throne is more homely. It is made of honeycomb structure and rowan safety, and its Maker has adorned it with bullet casings and medals and tea.
Upon this Throne sits a King in a worn-out jumper and jeans and a crown of amber honey. He is compact, but terribly quick and strong. His hair is the gleaming brown-gold-silver of bravery, and his smile is comforting as a nest of blankets. One eye is temper, the other patience, and they are both a lovely bright blue.
He is John. He is the Heart.
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I'm unsure if this qualifies as a bug, but at least on my display, part of the bronze badge gets cut off.
Although just an aesthetic issue, it's bothering nonetheless.
As pictured, the right hand side of the circle gets cut off:
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I don't seem to have the problem with a single digit bronze badge count:
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How to Survive 30 knots: class outline (this class was given in CSC Advanced Dinghy several times). The student executes the following nine steps, which are those recommended under the conditions in the title. Under mild conditions, please try to imagine waves over three feet and rain in the face like shotgun pellets.
- Sail to upwind Junior line.
- Deploy anchor
- Lower mainsail
- Right boat
- Furl mainsail
- Raise anchor
- Jibe jib only at least twice (for practice)
- Sail back to dock
- Before launching in exciting conditions, it is wise to carry a radio and to notify the Day Leader they may be needed.
- When deploying the anchor, the rode must go out the front of the boat (to keep the bow pointed into the wind) or this maneuver will not work.
- Before the drill capsize, please get at least 90% of the way from the rocks to the upwind line. If you capsize too much before you get there, try sailing main only.
- It is hard to point very high sailing jib only, and nearly impossible to tack, so to go upwind you need to jibe quickly so as not to lose much ground during the turn. Use this opportunity to practice pointing as high as possible and making quick jibes. Make sure centerboard is fully down, and do not oversheet as this would make it hard to point very high.
- If you have an unconscious sailor, particularly one with a head injury, contact the Coast Guard immediately on channel 16.
- The Coast Guard will only pick up sailors, not boats. (If you have to go, leave it anchored and maybe the Club can get it back.)
- If you need help but can’t reach the Dayleader on 69 (might happen if you’re north of the Berkeley Pier), you might try contacting the Berkeley Marina harbormaster on 68 and asking her to pass a message to the DL.
Supplement: How to survive 40 knots
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The thyroid gland is situated in the front portion of the neck and performs the function of producing the thyroid hormone which regulates the metabolism in the body. The thyroid gland is shaped like a butterfly and has two lobes, the right and the left which are joined by a fibrous bridge which is known as the isthmus. Cells known as the parafollicular cells present in the thyroid gland are responsible for producing the thyroid hormone. Excessive production of thyroid hormone results in hyperthyroidism which can cause sweating, weight loss, rapid heartbeats, anxiety and palpitations. Little production of the hormone known as hypothyroidism can result in thinning of hair, weight gain, lethargy, cold intolerance etc. Thyroid stimulating hormone which is secreted by the pituitary gland located in the brain regulates the amount of thyroid hormone in the body. Other cells present in the thyroid gland like C cells regulate the number of calcium levels in the body, lymphocytes are a part of the immune system of the body and stromal cells help the structure of the thyroid gland.
Thyroid cancer arises from the tissues present in the thyroid gland. There is abnormal growth of the cells which might spread to other parts of the body as well. If cancer occurs due to spread from other locations, it is not classified as thyroid cancer. Thyroid cancer occurs when there is change or genetic mutation in the cells. The number of abnormal cells multiplies in the thyroid and on reaching a large quantity, these cells form a tumour. In case thyroid cancer is diagnosed early, it is one of the most easily treatable types of cancer.
Thyroid cancer is one of the most common types of endocrine cancer. Cancer differs from goitre in which there is an enlargement of the thyroid gland which happens because of hyper or hypothyroidism. Goitre is caused mainly due to deficiency of iodine in the body. Graves’ disease can also be associated with enlargement of the thyroid gland. In areas where iodinated table salt is used, Hashimoto’s thyroiditis an autoimmune disease is the most common cause of goitre.
It is believed that around 3.2 million people suffer from thyroid cancer globally. This disease generally occurs between the age of 35 and 65 years. Women are more prone to get affected than men. Asian origin people are more likely to develop this disease. While the number of cases of thyroid cancer has increased in the last 30 years, the rate of death has not changed. This suggests that medical care professionals and doctors have become better at detecting lumps in thyroid glands and making a proper diagnosis.
The different classifications of thyroid cancer include:
- Papillary thyroid carcinoma: This type is the most commonly found type of thyroid cancer. It occurs in almost 75-85% of the cases. Often found in young females, this type has a good prognosis. It grows slowly but might spread to the lymph nodes in the neck.
- Follicular thyroid carcinoma: It is the next most common type of thyroid cancer. It is found in almost 10-20% of the cases. It might occur in people with Cowden syndrome.
- Medullary thyroid carcinoma: This makes up about 5-8% of the cases. This type is associated with problems in other glands and is likely to run in the family. This type is generally detected early on in blood tests because of the production of a hormone known as calcitonin.
- Anaplastic thyroid cancer: This is the most severe type of thyroid cancer as it is very advanced. This is a very rare form of thyroid cancer and is hard to treat.
Thyroid cancer occurs in women more than men. Women generally develop thyroid cancer in their 40’s and 50’s while men tend to get it between the ages of 60-70 years. Some kinds of inherited genetic syndromes like multiple endocrine neoplasias and familial medullary thyroid cancer increase the risk of thyroid cancer. People with low intake of iodine in their diets are more prone to thyroid cancer. There can also be a relationship between not well-controlled diabetes and increased risk of thyroid cancer.
Thyroid cancer is mostly detected when the individual or the doctor feels a lump in the area where the thyroid gland is located in the lower front of the neck. It is mostly found incidentally and is painless. Most of the people have a normal functioning thyroid gland when a tumour is detected and have no signs of hyper or hypothyroidism. In case the tumour is large, it might cause signs such as difficulty in swallowing food which is rare. In case the recurrent laryngeal nerve is involved, hoarseness might be experienced.
There are very few symptoms at the beginning of the disease. As a tumour grows in size, other symptoms like pain in the neck and throat, lumps in the neck, cough, difficulty in swallowing, swollen lymph nodes and enlarged thyroid gland, vocal changes like hoarseness might be experienced. A tumour may compress the oesophagus that may cause a problem in the vocal chords. But the chances of such a thing happening are very low. Thyroid cancer can spread to the local lymph nodes and further.
There is no clear cause for the occurrence of thyroid cancer, though there are some factors that are associated with a greater risk of developing thyroid cancer. Patients without exposure to any risk factor can also develop thyroid cancer. Some causes are:
- Iodine deficiency: If inadequate amounts of iodine intake are there in the diet, the individual has a risk of developing thyroid cancer. But this rare as iodine is normally added to salt and other foods.
- Inherited genetic syndromes: This is mostly a genetic disease which is inherited from the parents. In most of the cases of medullary thyroid cancer, a genetic factor is present. It is most often due to the inheritance of an abnormal gene. The mutations in the cells make the cells to grow and multiply. This accumulation of cells results in the formation of a tumour.
- Radiation Exposure: In case there has been too much radiation exposure as a child, an example too many x-rays, there is a higher chance of getting thyroid cancer.
The doctor will identify thyroid cancer symptoms during physical examinations. They will then refer the patient to a thyroidologist or an endocrinologist. The diagnosis of thyroid cancer begins before the development of symptoms. A lump in the thyroid gland can be discovered during the routine physical examination of the neck by the doctors or even by the patients themselves. Once a lump is found in the thyroid gland, it is important to find out if the lump is malignant or benign. An ultrasound will be performed to find out if there are multiple nodules or just a single nodule present. Ultrasound also helps in determining if the lump is filled with fluid or if it is solid. Ultrasound can also help the doctor in determining the appearance of the thyroid gland and look for any irregularities and inflammation and also for the presence of enlarged nymph nodes nearby which might indicate metastatic cancer.
The next step performed by the doctor usually is a fine needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB). Fine needle aspiration biopsy is a procedure performed to obtain samples of the cells from the nodule in the thyroid gland to determine if it is malignant or cancerous. A thin needle is put into the nodule using an ultrasound to obtain cells from the nodules. These cells are then examined by a pathologist to find out if the nodule is cancerous. If the cells are cancerous then the pathologist will also find out what type of cancer it is. In some cases, the results of the biopsy may be uncertain or unclear, to clear out any doubt the biopsy will be conducted again to get a more cell and a better sample to study on.
Radio-iodine testing can also be done if the results from the fine needle aspiration biopsy are still unclear or indefinite. The patient will be given some radioactive iodine to swallow which will be then taken up by the thyroid gland. The gland will then be scanned using a Geiger counter-type apparatus to check how much radioactive iodine did the thyroid gland take up. If the thyroid gland nodules take up a lot of radioactive iodine it will be classified as a “hot nodule”. There are very rare cases of hot nodules being cancerous. The thyroid gland nodules that take up no radioactive iodine or very little radioactive iodine are classified as “cold nodules”. Although most cold nodules are not cancerous and only 5% of the cold nodules turn out to be malignant. Thyroid scans and tests can be helpful but they are not the first-line tests and fine needle aspiration biopsy is a much better and useful test for the thyroid gland. Blood tests may also be conducted to know the function of the thyroid gland. Measuring the levels of blood in thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) can be useful in determining the functions of the thyroid. Calcitonin levels increase in medullary thyroid cancer. But medullary thyroid cancer is a very rare type and a test is usually not recommended for screening for cancer.
MTC, MEN and FMTC are hereditary in nature. Genetic tests of family members may also be done. Test for other types of tumours such as pheochromocytoma may also be done.
There are many ways to treat a thyroid cancer. The choice of treatment depends on the type and stage of the thyroid cancer. It also depends on the age and health of the patient. The options available for the treatment are as follows:
- Lobectomy: There are two lobes in the thyroid which are joined by the isthmus which is a fibrous tissue bridge. If the cancerous tumours affect only a confined area, the doctors will remove the affected lobe.
Lymph nodes removal: During the surgery, the doctors may notice the spread of thyroid cancer to the local lymph nodes. These nodes will be removed by the doctors. Thyroid cancer can spread further from the local lymph nodes.
- Open biopsy: In some cases, the cancerous nature of the thyroid gland nodule is still unclear, even after conducting the fine needle aspiration. In that cases, the surgeon will remove the nodule and send all the tissues forward to be evaluated by a pathologist for further diagnosis.
- Total Thyroidectomy: In this procedure, all parts of the thyroid gland of the patient are removed. This is the most common type of surgery conducted in the case of thyroid cancer.
- Chemotherapy: Chemotherapy is rarely required for any type of thyroid cancer. Chemotherapy may be used in some situations where the thyroid cancer does not react to other forms of treatment.
Radiotherapy: If the thyroid nodules don’t take up any radioactive iodine, radiation therapy might be required. Radioactive iodine tests are done before considering for radiation therapy. Radiations are used to remove the lumps or tumours in this type of surgery.
- Targeted therapy: A new form of treatment that only targets certain parts of cancerous cells. It slows or stops the growth of these cells. This procedure is usually done in forms of pills. There are fewer side effects from this therapy than from chemotherapy.
Thyroid cancer can recur in the lymph nodes in the neck even after the surgery is done. Thyroid cancer can also recur in the small pieces of tissues that may be left behind during the surgery. It also may recur in the other parts of the body. Thyroid cancer can spread through the lobes to the lymph nodes and then further. Radiation treatments to the neck and the head of the patient may also worsen cancer if not done correctly. Thyroid cancer may also result in difficulty in swallowing the food. A tumour may compress the oesophagus that may cause a problem in the vocal chords. But the chances of such a thing happening are very low.
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“The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him. And he must have a strong sense of the sardonic. This is what uncouples him from belief in his own pretensions. The sardonic is all that permits him to move within himself. Without this quality, even occasional greatness will destroy a man”
– Frank Herbert, Dune
“Ghetto children, do your thing
Hold your head up, little man, you’re a king”
– Nas, “I Can”
If you haven’t noticed, I’m fascinated by Kanye West’s “Power.”
And that’s just a preview. Here’s the entire song.
It’s a fantastically produced song. The lyrics are rich with imagery and irony. It’s accompanied by a video that you could write a thesis on. And it made headlines when Kanye performed it on Saturday Night Live earlier this month.
Why? Because the second verse begins: “Fuck SNL and the whole cast.”
Want to know how it turned out when he performed it live?
First, here are the original lyrics to the second verse:
Fuck SNL and the whole cast
Tell ‘em Yeezy said they can kiss my whole ass
More specifically, they can kiss my asshole
I’m an asshole? You niggas got jokes!
You short-minded niggas’ thoughts is Napoleon
My furs is Mongolian; my ice brought the goalies in
Now I embody every characteristic of the egotistic
He knows: he’s so fucking gifted
I just needed time alone with my own thoughts
Got treasures in my mind but couldn’t open up my own vault
My childlike creativity, purity and honesty
Is honestly being produced by these grown thoughts
Reality is catching up with me
Taking my inner child, fighting for it, custody
With these responsibilities that they entrusted me
As I look down at my diamond-encrusted piece
Aside from that weird line about Napoleon – dude was short, but he got shit done – this isn’t hard to interpret.
First: Kanye’s calling out Saturday Night Live for having made fun of him in the past. He is bringing complex lyrics, high production values and an army of fans to the battlefield. All SNL has in response are “jokes.” As far as rap songs go, devoting a few lines to dissing your haters isn’t too surprising.
Second: Kanye is talking up his own greatness. He owns imported furs and lots of diamonds (“ice”). Again, par for the course in rap music. We’re almost running down a checklist here.
Third: Kanye is questioning his own greatness. For everything you might criticize, Kanye has always had a great sense of irony. He talks up his own merits, then downplays them with ironic comparison in the same verse. He pairs boasts against takedowns, humility against vanity. He calls himself “egotistic” and “gifted” in the same breath. He talks about “responsibility” (a grown-up virtue) and a diamond-encrusted watch (a sign of immature ostentatiousness) in the same sentence.
The entire song walks that razor’s edge of irony. The production is bombastic: sharp beats, women chanting, heavy bass synths and a catchy rhythm. The official video overflows with arcane imagery: Tarot symbols, the Sword of Damocles, Kanye made up like a pharoah with the eyes of a god. The song itself is a triumphant anthem. It fires up the blood.
And yet how does the chorus begin?
“No one man should have all that power.”
Wow. Kind of a buzzkill, Kanye. Say, where does that line come from?
Spike Lee’s Malcolm X examines the nature of power with both a covetous and a cautious eye. In the movie, Malcolm X preaches a gospel of black nationalism, bringing a message of hope and unity to a beleaguered black America. But as Malcolm X gets further embroiled in the Nation of Islam, he clashes with its leader, the Rev. Elijah Muhammad, and comes under threat of violence. He learns that power can only be used as a platform to preach the truth for so long. Then, power starts becoming an end in itself. He distances himself from the isolationism and rhetoric of the past, but not in time to keep his former allies from feeling threatened.
(Note: the above is meant to be a high-level summary of the Spike Lee movie, not an evaluation of the Civil Rights movement or the meaning of Malcolm X’s life and death)
Kanye feels the same way. He recognizes the power that has been thrust upon him: a Twitter feed with one million followers, multiple #1 albums, a career producing some of the biggest names in hip-hop. He wants to use this power for good. But he also recognizes the tendency within himself to revel in power for its own sake – a recognizable urge. He bounces between dissing his haters (“Fuck SNL and the whole cast”) to talking up his own talent (“so fucking gifted”, “treasures in my mind”, “childlike creativity”) to questioning his success (“reality is catching up with me”).
He’s all over the place. He is in fact a 21st-century Schizoid Man.
On October 2, 2010, Kanye performed “Power” on Saturday Night Live.
It would have been relatively trivial for Kanye to change a few words in the second verse to make it palatable. He already showed himself willing to edit himself for broadcast play (replacing “mothafucka, we rolling” with “everybody, we rolling”). So he’d only need to change one line to avoid offending his hosts.
Here, I’ll show you:
“To all my haters and their broke ass
Tell ‘em Yeezy said they can kiss my whole ass …”
Ta-da! Someone give me a Grammy.
That’s option one. Option two: Kanye sings the verses as-is. This would be more than a little daring, telling the whole cast of the show you’re on to kiss your asshole. But we’re talking about the same man who’s thrown a temper tantrum at two separate MTV Video Music Awards (once in 2007, once in 2009). Playing the court jester isn’t beyond him.
Option three: change up the first four lines. Given that the rest of the verse takes a more introverted tone, there wouldn’t be much loss in lyrical integrity.
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Colleagues of Usatîi's party accuse the Iargara church's priest of having filed false testimony against local authorities.
Two days ago, father Valeriu Pistrui was attacked on the street and his head was hit seriously.
The mayor of city, Eugeniu Mustaf, claims that the criminal file opened on his name did not have substantive reason.
"It is a pity someone with more authority is trying to drag my name through the mud by using the church, the priest," said Iargara Mayor Eugene Mustaf.
The vice-president of Partidul Nostru (Our Party), Dmitri Ciubaşenco, threatened to request actions against the priest.
"This priest does not believe in God. I want to ask Metropolitan Vladimir and Bishop Anatoly to pay attention to such priests who shame and compromise the Orthodox Church."
Contacted by Publika TV, priest Valeriu Pistrui said he did not know who hit him, but he suspected his problems were triggered after he had refused to sign some acts to confirm Renato Usatii's Foundation donated 100,000 lei to the church .
Iargara people remain in the priest's side.
"The Father is a very good man. He's smart and knowledgeable, he has not never quarreled with anyone."
In November 2016, the day when the city of Iargara celebrated the feast, the representatives of the Foundation of fugitive Usatîi publicly announced that they offered 100,000 lei to raise the church.
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IPC Analysis Shows Leading Companies Are Intentional About Tracking Environmental and Social Risks
By Suhani Chitalia, Manager, Environmental Regulatory Affairs and Kelly Scanlon, Director, Environmental Policy & Research, IPC
Leading companies in the electronics manufacturing industry are highly intentional about their environmental, social and governance (ESG) priorities, with climate change and energy use among the most closely scrutinized issues, an IPC analysis shows.
ESG reporting has gained significant momentum over the past few decades, ever since “sustainable development” became a global buzzword around the time of the 1992 Earth Summit. ESG reports, sometimes also identified as “Sustainability Reports,” are published by many companies and other kinds of organizations to share their priorities, metrics, and performance data with the public. ESG ratings can influence the financial services industry’s investment decisions about a company based on evidence that high-performing companies are safer long-term bets.
As the broad topic of sustainability continues to receive attention across the electronics industry, it will be important to know what aspects of sustainability are being prioritized by companies in the electronics value chain and why.
As part of IPC’s ESG for Electronics initiative, IPC is interested in developing resources for members on the most common ESG methods and priorities of leading companies across the electronics value chain. In support of this, IPC has preliminarily analyzed the ESG reports of approximately a dozen companies in selected portions of the industry.
IPC first wanted to understand whether ESG reporting is common within electronic companies and what priority areas electronics companies are being focused on. We selected just over a dozen companies for our initial, preliminary survey based on those with the highest revenues. The survey included companies in the wire/cable, EMS, OEM, and PCB sub-sectors. Our three main questions when surveying companies’ initiatives were:
- Whether the company had a sustainability or ESG report;
- What methodologies are used in determining which priorities are most “material” to the companies; and
- What are the most common company priorities?
Most companies in our preliminary survey were found to have published an ESG report on an annual or regular basis. Many companies used a materiality assessment to determine what priorities the company should focus in on in their ESG goals and reporting. Priority initiatives varied from company to company.
The methodology most used for determining a company’s ESG priorities is a materiality assessment, although the details of such assessments vary. A materiality assessment is designed to help companies identify and understand the relative importance of specific ESG and sustainability topics. All the electronics companies surveyed were very intentional with their priorities, as reflected by the ambitious processes involved.
Generally, the processes used included:
- Peer Analysis
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Evaluation and Determination
Baselining to Start
Zeroing in on baselining, this part of the process helps companies understand their status and what standards exist in the industry. Within baselining, we noticed two trends:
- Many companies hire consulting firms that have a specialty in ESG to conduct a materiality assessment. The consulting firm will engage with stakeholders, determine what issues are relevant to the company, and decide which issues should be prioritized for the companies and shareholders benefit most.
- Baselining can stem from existing standards created by national and global organizations. From our limited survey of electronics industry companies, most of them referred to the ESG standards from the following organizations:
Material issues are those that are likely to have the most “material impact” on the company’s revenues, profitability, and sustainability. Material issues are often determined in terms of the expectations and concerns of stakeholders, key financial risks, and legislative and regulatory frameworks. Across the electronics industry, we noticed several broad, overarching material issues including:
- Climate Change and Sustainable Development
- Financial Performance
- Occupational Health and Safety
- Diversity and Inclusion
- Supply Chain and Labor Standards/ Social Human Rights
- Ethical Governance
Climate Change a Common Focus
While many material issues identified by companies are broadly defined, some of the sub-categories are more closely scrutinized, especially greenhouse gas emission reduction, energy use, and water use.
For example, under the broad heading of climate change, several companies focused on greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction. GHG reduction goals have generally resulted in a focus on high-efficiency technologies; carbon-neutral production; an increased use of renewable energy sources; and working towards a circular economy. One company conducted a baseline analysis to understand where GHG emissions are high in their supply chain, and what measures are feasible to reduce them. Data showed that mechanical systems like air conditioning, air compression, and manufacturing utilized the highest rates of energy and were the areas offering the highest potential energy savings.
In addition to GHG reduction and climate change actions, many companies are also focusing on waste management and sustainable water management. For example, across this initial survey, many companies have prioritized reducing water usage and encouraging water recycling. One company used a Water Stress Index, which analyzes the water stress indicators of its global operations. With this data, the company can evaluate the risk ratings of various water resources and set up more efficient water management and water recycling equipment.
While the electronic industry continues to put in great efforts towards ESG accounting and disclosure, IPC wants to know where we can support our members on their ESG journey. ESG is becoming more prevalent in business practices, and as the association representing more than 3,000 electronics-related companies around the globe, we want to ensure that our members are up to speed on ESG policies and what others in the field are doing. Please contact either of us to discuss the types of resources that IPC can develop to benefit your company. | <urn:uuid:88df44c5-9768-4600-807e-6f96cdb84614> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.emsnow.com/ipc-analysis-shows-leading-companies-are-intentional-about-tracking-environmental-and-social-risks/ | 2023-09-23T22:21:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923194908-20230923224908-00677.warc.gz | en | 0.954471 | 1,217 |
Summer is here, as is the burning desire to cool down with an ice-cold frozen treat. We previously rounded up some of our favorite ice cream parlors in Westchester, and now we're turning to frozen yogurt. But what adults crave in a frozen-yogurt shop isn’t necessarily what kids want (gummy worms on top of cabernet-pomegranate twist?).
Choosing where to go for fro-yo is fraught with numerous options—partly because there are often new shops opening and others closing (Eastchester lost Nuts About Yogurt, while Pure Bliss recently closed in Pelham and Larchmont). Sure, there are many national chains to choose from, but our interest lies more in the local operations. To help guide our readers, my family made the ultimate sacrifice in visiting a bunch of fro-yo shops in Lower Westchester—strictly for our readers’ benefit, of course. A few calories later, we’ve whittled these down to a choice few and have offered the inside scoop.
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Outstanding Alumni Award Winner 1992
Charlotte Roederer graduated summa cum laude from North Central College in 1965 with majors in music and mathematics. She received both a master’s and Ph.D. degree with honors in music history from Yale University and a law degree with high honors from New York State University at Buffalo. She has been a board member and president of the Youth Orchestra Foundation of Buffalo and a music director and organist at Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church. She is the author of medieval sections of a music history textbook that has been used on many college campuses. Currently, Roederer is a vice president in the legal division at Citibank in Amherst, N.Y. | <urn:uuid:0350d161-b6be-4f97-9ae0-792f8709f62c> | CC-MAIN-2014-10 | http://northcentralcollege.edu/feature/charlotte-roederer | 2014-03-12T21:02:00Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-10/segments/1394024787620/warc/CC-MAIN-20140305130627-00041-ip-10-183-142-35.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956811 | 144 |
时间: 07 月 25 日 周四 14:30-16:00
地点: 广州 天河区 美国驻广州总领事馆 U.S. Consulate General, Guangzhou
Located in the western United States, Wyoming has the lowest population of any state with around 550,000 people. The “Equality State” is home to Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks, has famous bull riding rodeos, and is well-known for its cowboys and wide open spaces. Come and learn about its history, culture, society, spots for tourism, and entertainment on July 25th from 2:30-4:00pm in the American Center and have a conversation with American college student.
怀俄明州位于美国西部，是美国各州中人口最少的州， 人口大约为 55 万。著名的黄石公园和大提顿国家公园就处在怀俄明，还有著名的骑牛骑术、牛仔和开阔的空地。欢迎大家在 7 月 25 日下午 2:30-4:00 来美国中心听美国在校大学生讲解怀俄明州的历史、文化、社会、旅游和娱乐场所等， 并与美国大学生交谈。
In accordance with new security regulations, any individual who is visiting the U.S. Embassy or Consulates General in China is not permitted to bring a laptop into the Embassy or Consulate General. Individuals, who attend our public events, should be prepared to adhere to this requirement by not bringing a laptop with them. Please note, the Consulate General security guards will not store the items for you. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and thank you for your understanding and cooperation.
Note: This event is conducted in English and free of charge. You will be asked to show your ID card or passport for admission. Children must be accompanied by an adult. No cameras will be allowed and there is no place to check them, so please don’t bring any cameras or laptop with you. Thank you for your cooperation.
Please note that attendees of this event grant permission to the U.S. Department of State to photograph and video record their image and/or voice. Permission is granted for the U.S. Department of State to release, publish, broadcast or quote this material in public information programs and activities. Content procured may be included in future speeches, on the Internet, through multiple broadcast channels and print media. Use of content (image, audio or ideas) will not be used for commercial purposes. Thank you very much. | <urn:uuid:f6ecb397-c19f-477d-9b7b-89396219cacb> | CC-MAIN-2019-35 | http://www.mglxw.cn/archives/3271 | 2019-08-19T06:50:04Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-35/segments/1566027314667.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20190819052133-20190819074133-00392.warc.gz | en | 0.667793 | 737 |
Town centre "pasty protest"
- Published 14/04/12 6:00 am
They are backing bakeries who say they will be badly hit by the Coalition's "pasty tax".
Placard-carrying protesters, wearing George Osborne masks, will descend on Golden Square in Warrington on Wednesday, to hand out leaflets.
The demonstration, which will be supported by the Bakers Union, is part of the North West TUC's campaign for an alternative to the Coalition's austerity measures.
NW TUC Regional Secretary Alan Manning said: "It's unfair for this Conservative-led Government to increase VAT on hot food.
"It hits Warrington people on low incomes, because they especially spend more of their hard-earned money at the local bakers.
"We will be putting the alternative - a tax on bankers bonuses, a crackdown on tax avoidance, and VAT on posh schools like Eton, rather than 'bread and butter' items like food." | <urn:uuid:21eb1d72-ba2b-406e-b6da-b742e9d371ec> | CC-MAIN-2015-11 | http://www.warrington-worldwide.co.uk/articles/12985/1/Town-centre-pasty-protest/Page1.html | 2015-02-27T00:25:59Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-11/segments/1424936459513.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20150226074059-00166-ip-10-28-5-156.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.923466 | 202 |
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Professor emeritas, University of North Carolina. Author: “The Vanishing Newspaper”
Philip Meyer noticed the decline of newspapers in the 1970s when he was a Knight Ridder Washington correspondent specializing in public opinion measurement. He spent part of his Washington time on newspaper research, and was posted in 1978 to company headquarters in Miami to attack the problem with a centralized study of news and circulation issues.
Three years later, he moved his inquiry to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and collected his Knight-Ridder work in “The Newspaper Survival Book”(Indiana, 1985). Still on the case, he analyzed the causes and effects of newspaper decline in “The Vanishing Newspaper” (Missouri, 2004, 2009).
Meyer holds degrees from Kansas State (B.S. 1952), Chapel Hill (M.A. 1963) and was a Harvard Nieman fellow (1967). He is a past president of the World Association for Public Opinion Research, and, in retirement, lectures in the USA and abroad on journalism’s prospects.
[Bonus 0401] - Part 1: Quality’s Role In Newspaper Success (9:07)
Philip Meyer, author: “The Vanishing Newspaper,” says that he did not predict that newspapers would die in 2040, as some have deduced from a casual reading of his book. He sees a more complex future for newspapers, depending on their ability to innovate and earn income from digital news products.
[Bonus 0402] - Part 2: The Future of Newspapers (3:45)
Philip Meyer, author: “The Vanishing Newspaper,” says he is convinced that newspapers that experiment and still maintain high quality stand the best chance of surviving in the new media landscape. | <urn:uuid:ffec8772-fb95-48b7-988d-3e68d50b9fb4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://whoneedsnewspapers.org/np_interviews.php?npId=bonus&ivId=bonus04 | 2013-05-19T21:44:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698090094/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095450-00064-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960278 | 371 |
What is the 16-19 Bursary?
Other students facing financial difficulties may also be able to claim a bursary to help with costs of transport, food, equipment or other course-related costs.
How do I find out more? You have to apply directly to your school, college or training provider for a bursary. In most cases they decide on the amount you could receive, when it is paid, and what conditions they might attach. For advice speak to student support services or your tutor, or go to www.direct.gov.uk/16-19bursary
What if I get EMA at the moment? If you first applied successfully for Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) in 2009/10, you’ll continue to receive the same level of weekly payments while you study in 2011/12. If you first applied successfully for the maximum EMA payment of £30 a week in 2010/11, you’ll receive £20 a week while you study in 2011/12.
If you’re in care, a care leaver, on income support, or receiving both Employment Support Allowance and Disability Living Allowance, your weekly EMA payments will be replaced with a bursary of £1200 a year from September 2011. You’ll receive that bursary directly from your school, college or training provider.
If you get EMA at the moment but are not in one of these groups, you can still apply for a bursary through your school, college or training provider.
From September 2011, young people who need some financial support to help them stay in education or training after 16 can apply to their school, college or training provider for the new 16-19 Bursary Fund.
Those most in need will be eligible for a bursary of £1200 a year. This includes young people in care, care leavers, young people receiving income support and disabled young people receiving both Employment Support Allowance and Disability Living Allowance. Young people eligible for income support will include some teenage parents, young people estranged from their families, and those whose parents have died.
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Olympia, WA -- Federal and state agencies are working in partnership to help Washington residents and businesses following the Nisqually earthquake. The following is a summary of ongoing response and recovery efforts since the Presidential disaster declaration on March 1.
2,742 REGISTERED FOR DISASTER ASSISTANCE
The number of applications made for disaster assistance through FEMA's toll-free registration line totaled 2,742 at the close of business, Monday, March 5. State and federal officials continue to urge disaster victims to call the registration number at 1-800-462-9029 or TTY 1-800-462-7585.
FIRST ASSISTANCE CHECKS ON THE WAY
During the four days since the disaster declaration, $260,856 in disaster temporary housing assistance and minimal repair grants have been issued to assist earthquake victims in the federally declared counties of King, Kitsap, Lewis, Mason, Pierce and Thurston, state and federal officials announced today.
"This early in the recovery process our concern is for people's housing needs, although other program assistance may follow," said Bill Lokey, Federal Coordinating Officer for the Federal Emergency Agency (FEMA).
For some, the temporary housing assistance check is just the first check they will receive.
"In addition to safe and secure housing, we are working together to ensure that all victims receive the disaster recovery assistance to which they may be entitled," added State Coordinating Officer Diane Offord. | <urn:uuid:25b98352-8c3a-4860-9cc9-eaa627c8dbb5> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://www.fema.gov/news-release/2001/03/06/disaster-recovery-news-summary | 2014-12-29T14:33:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1419447563342.152/warc/CC-MAIN-20141224185923-00067-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94606 | 302 |
|Brand:||Daini Seikosha, Seiko|
|Winding:||Automatic, Bi-Directional Automatic Winding|
|Diameter:||25.60 mm (11.5 ligne)|
|© Seiko||Complications:||Bilingual Day Wheel, Date, Day, Hacking Seconds, Hand Winding, Quick Date Correction, Quick Day Correction|
|Hands:||Central Hour Hand, Central Minute Hand, Central Seconds Hand, Date Window at 3:00, Day Window at 3:00|
|Distinguishing Technical Characteristics|
Clockwise Balance Cock
|Production: 1970 – 1972|
Cal. 5206A is an automatic movement with day and date produced by Daini Seikosha for use in Seiko Lord Matic watches from 1970 through 1972. It was superseded by Cal. 5216A, which featured an improved spring-loaded date quickset pawl. The first movement in the Daini Seikosha 52 stream, Cal. 5206A was the foundation for Vanac, Special, and Chronometer movements in the classic period as well as the updated Seiko 4S series that powered most high-end mechanical watches from Seiko in the 1990s.
Some examples of Cal. 5206A feature an outside micro-adjusting device. A screw located between the lugs moves a micro-adjuster plate which repositions the regulator on the balance cock. Models without this feature use a conventional screw or “tadpole” type micro-regulator.
This was a modern movement with bi-directional automatic winding (using a conventional reverser rather than Seiko’s Magic Lever technology), hacking seconds, hand winding capability, quickset day and date using the crown, and a bilingual day wheel. It operated at 8 Hz (28,800 A/h), considered “Hi-Beat” at the time, and was capable of high levels of accuracy. The movement measured 25.60 mm in diameter and was 3.95 mm thick. A “tadpole” style micro adjuster was used, along with Diashock anti-shock and Diafix oil lubrication.
Because it was just the second automatic movement family designed by Daini Seikosha, the 52 stream had some quirks. Notably, the hand winding mechanism remains engaged when setting the date, causing drag on the crown. The date pawl on Cal. 5206A and 5246A was also prone to breakage when the watch was adjusted near midnight. This was fixed in the similar Cal. 5216A and 5256A, which replaced these movements in 1972 and 1973.
Seiko 5206 Operation
The movement can be manually wound with the crown in position 1. Rotate the crown clockwise to wind the mainspring.
The day and date wheels are advanced with the crown in second position (one notch out). Turn the crown clockwise to advance the date wheel by one day. Turn the crown counter-clockwise to advance the day wheel.
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La Roche-Posay Kerium Anti-Dandruff Cream Shampoo 200ml can be used frequently to combat moderate or occasional dandruff. Designed to treat those with dry scalps, the kerium cream shampoo quickly eliminates dandruff and purifies the scalp to prevent it from reappearing.
Directions for use:
- 200ml Bottle.
- For dry scalp and dandruff.
- Nourishes hair.
- Treatment shampoo.
- Cleanses hair.
For frequent use: Massage Kerium shampoo into scalp gently before rinsing.
After first use hair feels light and shiny.
Use regularly to help the scalp recover physiological equilibrium and leave hair dandruff free.
For EXTERNAL use only.
Avoid contact with the eyes, if this occurs rinse thoroughly with water.
Keep out of reach of children.
Aqua (water), sodium laureth sulfate, cocamidopropyl betaine, glycerin, sodium chloride, cocamide mipa, glycol disterate, arginine, capryloyl glycine, capryloyl salicylic acid, carbomer, citric acid, disodium cocoamphodiacetate, disodium ricinoleamido mea sulfosuccinate, glyceryl laurate, hexylene glycol, iodopropynyl butylcarbamate, isopropanolamine,piroctone olamine, polyquarternium-10, salicylic acid, sodium benzoate, sodium hydroxide, parfum (fragrance). | <urn:uuid:be1271ff-bc96-4f63-a5df-65f01ea824a1> | CC-MAIN-2018-13 | http://www.expresschemist.co.uk/la-roche-posay-kerium-anti-dandruff-cream-shampoo-200ml.html | 2018-03-22T21:24:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-13/segments/1521257648003.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20180322205902-20180322225902-00270.warc.gz | en | 0.708557 | 366 |
Last week Dylan woke up screaming three nights in a row and each time I went to get him he was already sitting up in his crib. He was fussy and irritable, one day he even felt as if he had a fever only for it to go away within hours. I was very confused until Friday when Dylan woke up with two teeth in his mouth. Aw!!! Another sure sign he's getting older, my little big boy has two budding white teeth that are as sharp as you can imagine a megalodon's teeth would be. Since then his sleeping schedule has resumed uninterrupted and I am super relieved.
On Saturday Dylan and I accompanied my husband to a work gathering at his boss' house in Newport Beach. The view at the house was all ocean and incredibly breathtaking. Dylan was a big hit amongst co-workers, everyone loved him and they kidnapped him for lengthy amounts of time, passing him around like a piece of meat which didn't bother Dylan one bit. At one point I looked to see who was holding him only to witness Dylan surrounded by a group of five girls who were taking pictures with him. I was cracking up, six months old and he's already a ladies man. Dylan must have known not to embarrass the family with a bad attitude because he was on his best behavior, tricking everyone into thinking he's simply the happiest and sweetest baby of all the lands. Way to represent the family kid!
But the fun didn't stop there. On Sunday we went to my parent's house where two of my sisters (I have four sisters, five of us total) and niece Sofia were gathering for homemade pizza and some good times. My dad made six different pizzas, including bacon BBQ and "zee unzpeakable combination." Lately Dylan has been extremely insistent that he samples the same foods we are enjoying and will stop at nothing to grab a piece for himself. My husband almost always gives in and the pizza was no exception. He let him have a lick which gave Dylan enough time to engulf a mouthful that freaked my mom out and had my husband fishing for cheese he could choke on in his mouth.
Overall the weekend was busier than usual and still quite successful. Dylan makes being a parent feel fun and the work involved feels natural and not like much work at all. | <urn:uuid:b33f0d5f-ad15-41a6-93eb-dce409dd95d3> | CC-MAIN-2017-13 | http://www.dizmommy.com/2013/08/weekend-recap-featuring-dizbaby-grill.html | 2017-03-23T06:16:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218186780.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322212946-00296-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.993167 | 470 |
I have always been fascinated with the fact that Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream was born in Vermont. How could a state so famous for its brutal winters be the birthplace of one of America’s most iconic ice cream companies? Well, for one, ice cream is delicious. I know, at least for me, even the harshest of winters couldn’t compete with the superhuman strength of one of my cravings. My proverbial sweet tooth isn’t so sweet after all. Lucky for us in Athens and Atlanta, when our pangs hit, we have a few creative ice cream options worth bundling up for no matter how cold it is outside.
• Ben and Jerry’s Scoop Shop (105 College Ave.; Sunday-Thursday, noon-11 p.m.; Friday-Saturday, noon-midnight) continues to provide us Athens folk with scrumptious and witty ice cream interpretations of pop culture. My current favorites are Late Night Snack, inspired by the TV show “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” (vanilla bean ice cream with a salty caramel swirl and fudge-covered potato chip clusters), and Bonnaroo Buzz, named after the popular music festival (coffee and malt ice creams with whiskey caramel swirls and English toffee pieces). There are two size options for adults: a small for $4 (two scoops) or a large for $5 (three scoops). If you’re feeling especially daring, or have a school bus of children in tow with you, you should try the Vermonster. Weighing in at a dainty 7.5 lbs and literally served in a bucket, this 20-scoop “monster” of ice cream also includes hot fudge, banana, cookies, brownies and all of your favorite toppings for a pretty $34.50. Good luck with that sugar high!
• Hodgson’s Pharmacy (1260 S. Milledge Ave.; Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-6 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m.) is Athens’ classic stop for ice cream, serving up Edy’s brand. At just $1 for a scoop in either a cone or a cup, it definitely is the best deal in town. Make sure you pop in the next time you’re in Five Points.
• Morelli’s Gourmet Ice Cream (749 Moreland Ave. SE, Ste. B-102, Atlanta; Monday-Sunday, 2 p.m.-10 p.m. and 1220 Caroline St., Atlanta; Sunday-Thursday, noon-10 p.m.; Friday-Saturday, noon-11 p.m.) started as a little walk-up shop in East Atlanta almost four years ago and has, in its short time, become the fourth best ice cream shop in America (Bon Appetit, 2009) and also has been voted the best ice cream shop in Atlanta for the past four years. Now there’s something to be said for that! Flavors at the two Morelli’s locations vary, so be sure to check the website (www.morellisicecream.com) ahead of time if there’s a certain flavor you are looking for. My current favorites are the Baileys Chocolate and the Avocado, both currently found at the Moreland store. Yum!
• Jake’s Ice Cream (at the Irwin Street Market, 660 Irwin St., Atlanta; Tuesday-Sunday, 11 a.m.-9 p.m.) was launched in Atlanta in the late ’90s and started up in the Old Fourth Ward way before it became the hip destination it is now. Using the freshest ingredients possible for an all-natural, wholesome product with no preservatives or additives, Jake’s Ice Cream holds an 18 percent butterfat content — the highest you’ll find in any ice cream — in all of its flavors, resulting in a deliciously satisfying product. I often frequented Jake’s during my days in high school in Atlanta and still love the same flavors: Mexican Hot Chocolate (sweet chocolate Jakescream with a cayenne kick) and Brown Sugah Vanilla (pure vanilla and brown sugar). Jake’s also offers Joyscream and Nicescream for all you dairy-free and vegan folks.
So as the temperature dips, don’t be afraid to go for a scoop, or two. Enjoy your ice cream!
• Vena Kim, owner-operator of Yoguri, is a self-confessed foodie on a mission to spread the word about good food. | <urn:uuid:f69518de-63e9-4454-8d58-e41812c43602> | CC-MAIN-2017-30 | http://onlineathens.com/features-food/2011-12-27/kim-ok-enjoy-ice-cream-cold-months | 2017-07-24T15:59:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-30/segments/1500549424884.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20170724142232-20170724162232-00291.warc.gz | en | 0.924723 | 972 |
Arts Education environments are mostly ableistic, they re-inforce the dichotomy between what it means to be sane and mad, able and disabled. We understand Ableism as a "system of causal relations about the order of life that produces processes and systems of entitlement and exclusion. This causality fosters conditions of microaggression, internalized ableism and, in their jostling, notions of (un) encumbrance. A system of dividing practices, ableism institutes the reification and classification of populations. Ableist systems involve the differentiation, ranking, negation, notification and prioritization of sentient life". (Campbell 2017, 287–288). | <urn:uuid:572de7bc-8ee2-4ae3-9b77-2df1ab70a6a3> | CC-MAIN-2021-49 | https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/659630/659631 | 2021-12-02T04:31:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964361064.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20211202024322-20211202054322-00287.warc.gz | en | 0.917247 | 136 |
“Now is the winter of our discontent!” said every Canadian cable TV customer upon seeing the ugly face of the new “skinny” packages. They are riddled with fees, requirements and consumer loathing.
If you haven’t heard, the CRTC “did” it’s regulatory duty in an attempt to make Canadian cable TV companies offer basic packages allowing consumers to add individual channels to suit their TV habits without pointless filler channels or a hefty bill. It sounded wonderful! The cable TV monopolies were being forced to offer a customer focused service. They in turn would have a defence against the onslaught of Internet streaming services like Netflix. It seemed like a win-win. Sadly, many consumers are disillusioned with the how the companies designed these new “skinny” packages.
Instead of slimming down, companies like Bell have slapped a corset on their packages. On the face of it, the packages are pretty expensive for something that’s supposed to be tailored to people on a tight budget. But with the fees and bundles, will it actually be cheaper? Well, The Globe and Mail has done some convenient research here. They’ve crunched the numbers and analysed the offerings to help consumers discover a pack that’s right for them. They even went so far as to compare the packages of most major cable providers, but the one glaring omission is an alternative to traditional TV.
So the real question is: do these new packages make it worth it to pay for traditional TV instead of cutting the cable and watching TV online? Let me tackle this by looking at the various TV viewer archetypes the Globe used and compare the least expensive of all the packages to what a cable-cutter like me would have to pay for similar service online. I’ll negate the cost of Internet subscription; if you’re reading this, you’re probably already paying for Internet access anyway.
The Sports Fan
First up is a viewer who has one of the better arguments for sticking with standard TV over cable-cutting. With sports channels on the old idiot box you can follow pretty much any team, athlete or pun-loving sportscaster you adore. Seriously, sports reporters love their puns (my kind of people).
TV option: Shaw – $44 per month
At $44 per month you get a good variety of sports channels but, do you really want them?
Cable-Cutter option – $0 + patience
You’re going to have to sacrifice some live sporting events, like a Tuesday Senators game, but you can always check out highlights online after the game and you’ll be able to stream the major sporting events. Most enjoyable sporting events, like the Stanley Cup Playoffs, FIFA World Cup or the Olympics are streamed by different websites. They are easy to find and typically cheap as free.
The Emmy Juror
So you like good quality TV. You’re going to need Netflix anyway, why not just cut the cord? Streaming services are starting to churn out some of the best televisions series. I think one of the greats is Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: a comedy that manages to tell the story of someone who has survived traumatizing abuse without making light of the trauma.
TV option: Shaw – $60 per month
Some of these channels’ shows, especially on HBO, are [SPOILER ALERT] like the seven kingdoms of Westeros and Canadians are like the free-folk (or wildlings). They are blocked from use by a massive wall. If you don’t get this simile, then you don’t need to worry about this option so cut that cable!
Cable cutter option: depends on the shows + $8 per month for Netflix
Most mainstream shows ranging from Modern Family, The Big Bang Theory or Doctor Who are available to stream for free during each season’s run. After an episode is aired, just go to the channel’s site and watch the episode from there. Many other shows are available on streaming sites like Netflix, for merely $8 a month.
As for other shows, with the power of the Internet you can buy the current season of your favourite show on services like Google Play or iTunes and you get the whole thing for one price. Sure they may be expensive, but take Game of Thrones for example. It’s on TV for 10 weeks and is off the air for roughly 9.5 months. That’s 9.5 months of paying for something you aren’t getting to watch. Whereas one season would run you roughly $50 on Google Play. This means you can get your money’s worth if there are about 12 seasons worth of shows you want to pay for each year.
Whether you love to cook or get pleasure from watching other people cook you’re going to want access to all those real life channels with faces like Jamie Oliver, Mike Holmes and … ugh… I dunno, these shows really aren’t my jam (food pun!). If this is you, let me tell you about the Internet. It’s amazing. Just search for whatever DIY project you are into and voila! Or, if you want those British accents on lovely shows, just subscribe to their YouTube channels. You’ll get a notification of when they post a new video and you get to watch the good stuff without waiting through commercial breaks. Gordon Ramsay’s recipe videos are mouth-wateringly seductive and the Behind Bars series is heart-warming and heart-breaking, check it out.
TV option: Cogeco – $45 per month
Cable-cutting option: FREE
Just use YouTube. Seriously, YouTube has more DIY videos and series than all of those channels combined. Every interest, ranging from cooking to computer building to wine making. You want to do it? You can find it on YouTube. Less ads, less cost – it’s kind of a no-brainer.
The Busy Parent
When I was growing up there was a lot of concern about parents not raising their kids but letting TV do the trick. I turned out alright… I think. Just kidding. But if you are a busy parent and need the kids distracted for a few minutes in order to catch your breath, TV isn’t the only place to turn for age appropriate video content.
TV option: Telus – $43 per month
Cable-cutting option: $8 per month
Just get a Netflix subscription. They have a ton of content and you can create a profile for your kids. No accidentally changing the channel to The Walking Dead, or even less child friendly – the local news!
Really? That’s a type of viewer? Huh. It’s too much for me, even the Weather Network can be a downer some times.
TV option: Telus – $39 per month
Why watch CBC, CTV and other news source for free on their websites at your leisure when you can pay money to watch them when they set the schedule?
Cable-cutting option: FREE
Traditionally, the benefit of TV news was that breaking news events would be reported sooner than waiting for the next day’s newspaper. And unlike radio, you get video to boot. But you can get all of that from websites and news apps. I use the CBC News app and I get notifications of any major news event as soon as they publish it, I don’t need to be near a large screen with a remote.
Also, if you are like me and you prefer to get your news from comedians, the Internet’s got you covered. The YouTube channel for the Late Show with Stephen Colbert is my preferred way to stay up on US politics. Last Week Tonight’s YouTube channel is perfect for getting an investigative-y news report on whatever the producers think should be pissing off North Americans. And don’t forget to check out This Hour Has 22 Minutes episodes on the CBC’s website for Canadian news.
The Final Sum
If you add it all up, cable cutting can save you money, unless you are a diehard sports fan of every team. Even if you consider yourself “all of the above”, it’s more cost effective to find your favourite sources on the Internet for a fraction of the cost of paying for all those bundles. Especially given that you can’t pick and choose the cheapest options from multiple providers.
But you hesitate because you have a small laptop and you want to sit back on the couch. Well, chances are your TV has the right input or apps to stream all the content you want and you can even get little dongles or boxes like Apple TV or Google Chromecast and Roku to help you out.
It may take a little work to get used to turning to a computer instead of your TV but the month over month cost savings will be worth it. Plus, cable-cutting sends a more convincing argument to the cable TV companies that they need to offer customer focused services than anything a tired old federal regulator could do. | <urn:uuid:5dd4f165-a4e9-47e0-a569-5f54d15b304d> | CC-MAIN-2020-05 | https://clarkpiller.com/2016/03/08/the-skinny-on-new-canadian-tv-packages/ | 2020-01-20T00:53:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-05/segments/1579250595787.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20200119234426-20200120022426-00221.warc.gz | en | 0.935765 | 1,886 |
Tencent and Ant-backed banks are said to pilot China's digital yuan
February 22, 2021, 4:50AM EST
1 min read
Two more commercial banks, this time backed by fintech giants Tencent and Ant Group, are said to trial China's digital yuan.
Bloomberg reported the news on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter. Tencent-backed WeBank and Ant-backed MYbank will reportedly offer the same features as China's state-owned commercial banks that piloted digital yuan.
In their tests, four state-owned commercial banks — the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, China Construction Bank, Agricultural Bank of China, and Bank of China — offered to activate digital yuan wallets to transfer money and make payments. Users of WeBank and MYbank will also be able to do the same.
WeBank and MYbank's participation would mean the first time China's private sector banks are entering the digital yuan trial space. Previously there were reports that China's central bank would compete with Tencent and Ant's payment apps, but later the central bank clarified that digital yuan wouldn't compete with AliPay or WeChat Pay.
China's increasing trials suggest that the country's digital currency is becoming real by the day. China first began researching digital currencies over six years ago to cut the cost of circulating paper money and increase policymakers' control over the money supply. | <urn:uuid:81708b2f-28b1-4c45-9b8c-f1ea6a114a87> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/95606/tencent-ant-banks-webank-mybank-digital-yuan-pilot-repor | 2022-01-16T09:58:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320299852.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220116093137-20220116123137-00479.warc.gz | en | 0.957858 | 286 |
Just as we suspected, the head of this new group will be Julie Larson-Green, the former Windows Chief. She will now be responsible for overseeing all of Microsoft's gaming, video, and music content.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer shared the following memo, outlining the company's new strategy:
We are rallying behind a single strategy as one company – not a collection of divisional strategies. Although we will deliver multiple devices and services to execute and monetize the strategy, the single core strategy will drive us to set shared goals for everything we do.
Do you think Microsoft is on the right track? Could this corporate reshuffling be just what the Xbox One needs? Sound off with your thoughts in the comments below. | <urn:uuid:14ab8ca1-fd15-4c20-a14a-c385c0816f18> | CC-MAIN-2020-24 | https://www.gamerevolution.com/news/5892-microsoft-restructuring-official-julie-larsongreen-heading-up-xbox-division | 2020-05-31T21:27:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-24/segments/1590347413624.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20200531182830-20200531212830-00123.warc.gz | en | 0.92648 | 147 |
By David Dodd
Here’s the plan—each week, I will blog about a different song, focusing, usually, on the lyrics, but also on some other aspects of the song, including its overall impact—a truly subjective thing. Therefore, the best part, I would hope, would not be anything in particular that I might have to say, but rather, the conversation that may happen via the comments over the course of time—and since all the posts will stay up, you can feel free to weigh in any time on any of the songs! With Grateful Dead lyrics, there’s always a new and different take on what they bring up for each listener, it seems. (I’ll consider requests for particular songs—just private message me!)
“Can’t Come Down” appears as the first song in The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics. It is entirely possible, given the track record of the readers of this blog, though, that I am about to learn of several earlier originals in the Warlocks repertoire. Any of the four original songs from the November 3, 1965 session for Autumn Records at Golden Gate Recorders in San Francisco—“Mindbender,” “The Only Time is Now,” Caution,” or “Can’t Come Down” would qualify, possibly, for the distinction. But assuming it is the first original song recorded by the band, let’s see where this post goes. And, at the time the demo was recorded, the band had just abandoned the Warlocks moniker for the interim Emergency Crew, before emerging later that same month as The Grateful Dead.
Words by Garcia. Music by the band. Strongly reminiscent of Dylan in some ways, with maybe a Stones-ish feel underneath it all. I’m not sure I would even necessarily know that it was a Dead song if I heard it on the radio. I listened to three different version sof the same recording, and each one had a slightly different mix, emphasizing the treble range (sounded like an AM radio mix...), or featuring more reverb, but all the same recording.
Bob Weir described the origin of the song: "Well, we wrote all the music and Jerry wrote the lyrics. Jerry excused himself for a moment and went off. He came back with a couple of verses and we put together a chorus."
I like that: “excused himself for a moment.”
And I like these lyrics! I always enjoy the kind of verbal riffing you wind up with when you decide that all the lines within a given verse will rhyme, and then make up phrases to fit that bill. At, that, cat, bat, flat, fat, hat. Grip, slip, trip, ship, sip, flip, nip. Seas, trees, sees, me’s, freeze, ease, pleas. David Gans notes in the deadsongs conference on the WELL, that he always thought of “Can’t Come Down” as Garcia’s “Subterranean Homesick Blues.” (A subsequent comment notes that Garcia was no Dylan, and expresses thanks that Hunter came along.)
The song didn’t stay in the repertoire for long—it was played in 1965-1966, then dropped from the repertoire. The Deadlists project shows no known live performances on tapes, while DeadBase X lists a show on January 7, 1966, at the Matrix in San Francisco that included the song.
I was at the opening run of shows in March 2012 at Terrapin Crossroads, when Phil & Friends brought the song back. Very fun! Does anyone happen to know if that was the first breakout of the song since 1966, or had some other post-Dead incarnation performed it?
Even though it’s not a Hunter lyric, the song successfully debuts several recurrent motifs in the band’s llyrics, including the Cheshire Cat, mirrors, a sinking ship, and a general reckless disregard for propriety. “Who you are and what you do don’t make no difference to me.” (That line could also be read as one of general acceptance into the community, regardless of your background or occupation. Two sides of the same coin.)
Eerily, the lyric does, in some ways, presage Garcia’s battles with his own demons, and even captures the swirl of disapproval around him during some of his darker days: “They say I’ve begun to lose my grip, My hold on reality is starting to slip, They tell me to get off this trip, They say it’s like a sinking ship....” But he can’t come down.
All of the early songs showed a common denominator: ambition. The band was taking the best of the music they loved, and making it into something of their own. They performed lots of Stones covers as a bar band, so this song has some of that flavor. Garcia had just gotten into Dylan in a big way, so the lyrics and the delivery owe something to Dylan. But they explore a little bit of new territory with each attempt, and then, within a couple of months, they get to a place from which they reallycan’t come down: as house band for the Acid Tests.
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a Short Story Based on Kindred
How it works:
As students read Kindred, by
Octavia Butler, they become any character except the main character, who is
telling the story. As the character, the students write 13 journals or
letters and tell what is happening in the book. The students post these
journals or letters on the class online discussion forum, where they can
read each other's writing and respond.
Students also go online to explore a list of
links (provided by the teacher) on slavery in the USA. They look at all the
links and choose the ones that interest them most, read these thoroughly,
then summarize at least 5 links and note for which research they recommend
reading these links. Furthermore, they can use historical details from these
links for their own short stories which they will write based on a few
aspects of Kindred.
For the short story, there is a chart with
all the literary terms they must illustrate, such as plot, characters,
conflict, theme, setting. They also include historical details from the
antebellum South and have a modern character who goes back in time. These
stories go through several drafts before they are posted on the school's web
site for all to see.
In order for students to understand and
recognize literary terms, they are discussed in class in relation to the
novel. We discussed in depth themes, characterization, and character
conflicts, as well as searching for historical details in Kindred about the antebellum South and slavery.
Technology: Students will use computer
applications for word processing, publishing
work to a virtual classroom space, and reviewing teacher-developed
materials; navigate the Internet efficiently to locate specified relevant
sites, employ the Internet as a research tool and resource, compile, analyze
and evaluate the data collected while visiting an Internet site, use
critical thinking and established research skills to evaluate the
credibility and appropriateness of web sites and the validity of the
information available at the sites.
Language Arts: Students produce
written work that makes connections to related topics or information. They
critique their own writing and a classmate's writing, revise drafts, and
publish to a wide audience. They provide evidence of critiquing a public
document. They use both primary and secondary sources of information for
research. They recognize a range of literary elements and techniques and use
these elements to interpret the work. They recognize the relevance of
literature to contemporary and/ or personal events and situations. They
write their own imaginative texts using plot, character, setting, dialogue,
conflict to engage the reader. They maintain a consistent point of view,
first or third person.
Social Studies: Understands how
the past affects our private lives and society in general; knows how to
perceive past events with historical empathy; analyzes the effects specific
decisions had on history; understands that the consequences of human
intentions are influenced by the means of carrying them out.
Students used a class discussion forum available
free to teachers at
nicenet.org. Also used was an Internet connection, a browser, and a word
The students were sophomores with a wide
range of ability. Often the more advanced students in computer technology
spontaneously helped those with little previous experience.
The idea of studying slavery may be repugnant
to some teachers and students, but it was quite amazing how most students
became involved in reading the novel even though some of them initially
though it would not interest them. This topic should be studied, especially
in the light of a recent movement to pay the relatives of former slaves
reparations. The hideous facts of this country's history should not be
hidden, but exposed alongside the unfortunate histories of many countries
such as South Africa, Argentina, Serbia, and Sudan.
By becoming different characters and posting
their writing as those characters, students are using their imagination and
sharing their knowledge with each other.
Students are spared several hours of finding
links on slavery by using the teacher's already listed links. But they learn
what the URLs mean and how to use these URLs in the future for further
research on different topics. They also learn more historical details and
background on the topic of slavery, which is the basis for the novel. They
can also use historical details they choose for their own short story.
Writing the short story provides students
with the opportunity to use literary terms they have identified in the
fiction they read as well as use their imagination.
The chart created on the web page for the
students to help them write the short story seemed to allay anxieties about
their ability to write their own story. The novel seems fairly long to some
students to read (264 pages); students who read slowly will need adequate
time to finish reading assignments.
Peggy Maslow has been teaching
English and using technology at Franklin K. Lane High School for 16 years.
At first she used basic TRS 80 computers and gradually she has moved up to
using the Internet and web-authoring tools in her lessons with students.
Estimated Class Periods To Complete: 10
Subject areas: English, Social Studies
Beginning Grade Level: 9
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Thames AppThe Thames App
Discover Thames iPhone App - Visit Thames
The Explore Thames is an iOS app that is designed to be fun and informative for anyone who visits the Thames. The Explore Thames is an iOS app that is designed to be fun and informative for anyone who visits the Thames. Whether you're sailing, angling, walking or biking on or along the Thames, this app is for you! Explore Thames app presents all useful information on an intuitive card - includes the following points:
Practical for receiving information about shutdowns and servicing work there as well.
A must-have app for the Thames
Thames Valley, a local organisation within Marine, is delighted to announce the next stage of its app mobility outreach. In collaboration with the Thames Guide, members can now advertise their business on more than 15,000 of the Thames Guide app, and with online and offline editions for iPhone, iPod touch, Android and Amazon, every water sports enthusiast can take full benefit of the only Thames recreational app.
For downloading the app, go to http://www.riverthamesguide.net/downloads.html and obey the directions for your machine or just browse for "River Thames Guide" in your App store.
The PLA Tide Theme Application
This free app has been designed to help you plan your trip on the Thames. Contains important information, including: warning messages for seafarers containing the latest information on incidents, works and changes that must be known to the user before departure. You' ll be prompted to do so the first time you try to install the app, or you can do so at any time by just selecting the scroll bar at the top right of the home page and selecting:
PLA Tidal Thames App'. Apple - Requires Apple 8.0 or higher operating system. Android - Requires Android 6.0 or higher.
The Port of London Authority starts tide app for the River Thames
Port of London Authority (PLA) has released a free app to give those interested in navigation on the Thames simple means of accessing the latest information on the littoral canal. PLA's first app aims to facilitate the scheduling of travel on the Thames. Must have" information is readily available, which includes real-time tide information from 12 sites along the 95 mile tide flow and an alert system for seafarers to receive the latest information on incidents, works and changes that need to be known to operators before departure.
Robin Mortimer, CEO, said the app unveiled at the last open session of the PLA at the London Rowing Club in Putney: It provides navigators with detail on all berths along the course of the water, plus every amenity at each point such as power, petrol and pump-out equipment, making it easy for guests to select berths according to their needs. | <urn:uuid:cd749fd4-6a9c-4497-81cb-46ec12da9357> | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | http://www.blogdesignsbydani.com/topic/thames-app | 2022-09-25T11:49:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030334528.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220925101046-20220925131046-00292.warc.gz | en | 0.913234 | 568 |
Photo by Erez Avissar
Add another soundtrack to Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood's résumé. A representative from Nonesuch confirms the news (via Red Cigarettes and Red Vines) that he's scoring Paul Thomas Anderson's upcoming film. According to IMDb, the film's called The Master, but that title is still unconfirmed. It stars Amy Adams, Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Laura Dern.
Greenwood also composed the excellent score for Anderson's Oscar-winning 2007 film There Will Be Blood. Below, listen to the score's titular track: | <urn:uuid:f0bf6bda-98f4-4bd2-a030-534a00bbcd5a> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://pitchfork.com/news/44848-jonny-greenwood-confirmed-to-score-new-paul-thomas-anderson-film/ | 2022-01-19T07:48:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320301264.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220119064554-20220119094554-00627.warc.gz | en | 0.890332 | 123 |
Update on Chatsworth Road / Powerscroft Road / Millfields Road works
A new signalised crossing is being built as part of Quietway 2 from Bloomsbury to Walthamstow. The route enters Hackney at the boundary with Islington by Southgate Road and runs eastwards to London Fields and then north-eastwards to Lea Bridge Road and the boundary with Waltham Forest.
To achieve a safer, more pleasant environment for cycling, a number of improvements along the route will be funded by TfL and designed and implemented by Hackney Council.
Millfields Road will be reopened to traffic (including bus route 242) on 19 April, and the works will be progressed under four way temporary traffic lights. Temporary traffic lights are not as efficient in managing traffic as the permanent traffic signals and additional queuing is to be expected until the works are complete. These lights are required until the permanent traffic lights are installed as, due to the kerb build-outs and road narrowing, two large vehicles are unable to pass through the junction at the same time.
Please avoid parking in the area of the works, which will be clearly marked with signs, cones and barriers, as offending vehicles may have to be removed.
The Council apologises for any inconvenience that these works may cause and will endeavour to keep disruption to a minimum.
A public consultation was completed in December 2016.
284 responses were received, with 183 people (64.4%) in favour of the proposal and 93 people (32.7%) not in favour. 8 people (2.9%) neither supported nor opposed the changes.
What are the improvements?
- A signalised crossing on Chatsworth Road, Millfields Road and Powerscroft Road to create a safer crossing facility for pedestrians and cyclists. The new junction will have a green man crossing phase on all arms.
- A new junction table at Chatsworth Road, Millfields Road and Powerscroft Road.
- Paving the existing Millfields Road closure (western arm) to create a pedestrianised area.
- Decluttering street furniture.
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Entrepreneurship in the Public Interest
Donors provide funding to establish a social entrepreneurship initiative on campus and advance purpose-driven careers
Social entrepreneurship in action: Anna Stork ’08 cofounded LuminAID, a company that offers safe, rechargeable lamps for victims of natural disasters.
Dartmouth’s Magnuson Center for Entrepreneurship will soon launch a three-year initiative to support students, faculty, and alumni who want to launch ventures that will generate significant societal benefits—locally, nationally, or even globally.
Announced at the London Global Summit, the project is being funded by a collective of socially conscious entrepreneurs and investors who have pledged more than $1 million to the initiative.
“Dartmouth is uniquely positioned to attract students who wish to devote their talents and skills to solve the most urgent social and environmental problems of our time,” said Katherine Milligan ’98, who led a panel discussion on innovation for social good at the London summit. She is the head of gender-lens investing at the Swiss impact investing firm Bamboo Capital Partners and an adjunct professor of social entrepreneurship at the Graduate Institute in Geneva
“The College has a long history of funding internships and work experiences focused on social impact, and its LSA and FSP programs are the envy of the world. These are enormous assets to capitalize on, as studies demonstrate that leadership experiences at a young age and exposure to different cultures are the two most significant predictors of pursuing a purpose-driven career.”
The project’s objectives include establishing programs that encourage students to discover their ability to create positive change as entrepreneurs; developing a network of leaders who will provide support, connections, and inspiration around social entrepreneurship; and promoting Dartmouth’s role in the larger world of social entrepreneurship. The Magnuson Center will recruit a manager to oversee the initiative’s curricular and cocurricular programming.
Brothers John Pepper ’91, founder of Boloco and Worthee.com, and Doug Pepper ’95, general partner at ICONIQ Capital, are the initiative’s lead donors.
“Doug and I are super excited to help Dartmouth and the Magnuson Center for Entrepreneurship put some additional focus on entrepreneurs and startups who push for greater returns to societal needs alongside profits and shareholder returns,” said John Pepper. “We look forward to seeing Dartmouth take a lead position on demonstrating that the most successful businesses in the 21st century will also be forces for good.”
Multiple Bottom Lines
The Business Roundtable, which represents the chief executives of 192 major corporations, released a statement in August saying business leaders should balance the needs of shareholders with the wellbeing of communities, customers, and employees.
That ethos—to meld business success with societal health—is influencing many young entrepreneurs on the Dartmouth campus, said Jamie Coughlin, director of the Magnuson Center.
“Over the past several years, a large percentage of our students have come to us with socially inspired new ventures,” said Coughlin. “Now is the time to focus more intently on the ambition of these students, bring form to it programmatically, and expose our students to the path of social entrepreneurship. We want our students to be in a position to offer solutions to the challenges of our day. Exposure to and support for building social ventures with multiple bottom lines, above and beyond simply profit, is an experience and know-how that will serve them and our collective future.”
In addition to the Peppers, donors supporting this initiative are:
Julie Clugage ’90 and Richard Hardegree ’90
Hoyoung Huh ’91
Kendall and Duke Rohlen P’22
Jennifer Whalen ’93 and T.J. Whalen ’93 P’22
“As the overwhelming response at the Global Summit in London and the recent Entrepreneurs Forum in San Francisco demonstrate,” said Milligan, “we alumni stand ready to rally around Dartmouth’s leadership and engage the broader Dartmouth community to nurture and mentor students and graduates as they catalyze much-needed change as entrepreneurs in the global public interest.” | <urn:uuid:a67cf6b1-fa5a-49d0-a653-152aaaa040cc> | CC-MAIN-2019-43 | https://calltolead.dartmouth.edu/stories/entrepreneurship-public-interest | 2019-10-15T13:21:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-43/segments/1570986659097.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20191015131723-20191015155223-00266.warc.gz | en | 0.92531 | 874 |
There might be several reasons to write code for AVR microcontrollers using plain assembler source code. Among them are:
Usually, all but the first could probably be done easily using the inline assembler facility of the compiler.
Although avr-libc is primarily targeted to support programming AVR microcontrollers using the C (and C++) language, there's limited support for direct assembler usage as well. The benefits of it are:
For the purpose described in this document, the assembler and linker are usually not invoked manually, but rather using the C compiler frontend (avr-gcc) that in turn will call the assembler and linker as required.
This approach has the following advantages:
Note that the invokation of the C preprocessor will be automatic when the filename provided for the assembler file ends in .S (the capital letter 's'). This would even apply to operating systems that use case-insensitive filesystems since the actual decision is made based on the case of the filename suffix given on the command-line, not based on the actual filename from the file system.
Alternatively, the language can explicitly be specified using the -x assembler-with-cpp option.
The following annotated example features a simple 100 kHz square wave generator using an AT90S1200 clocked with a 10.7 MHz crystal. Pin PD6 will be used for the square wave output.
#include <avr/io.h> ; Note work = 16 ; Note tmp = 17 inttmp = 19 intsav = 0 SQUARE = PD6 ; Note ; Note : tmconst= 10700000 / 200000 ; 100 kHz => 200000 edges/s fuzz= 8 ; # clocks in ISR until TCNT0 is set .section .text .global main ; Note main: rcall ioinit 1: rjmp 1b ; Note .global TIMER0_OVF_vect ; Note TIMER0_OVF_vect: ldi inttmp, 256 - tmconst + fuzz out _SFR_IO_ADDR(TCNT0), inttmp ; Note in intsav, _SFR_IO_ADDR(SREG) ; Note sbic _SFR_IO_ADDR(PORTD), SQUARE rjmp 1f sbi _SFR_IO_ADDR(PORTD), SQUARE rjmp 2f 1: cbi _SFR_IO_ADDR(PORTD), SQUARE 2: out _SFR_IO_ADDR(SREG), intsav reti ioinit: sbi _SFR_IO_ADDR(DDRD), SQUARE ldi work, _BV(TOIE0) out _SFR_IO_ADDR(TIMSK), work ldi work, _BV(CS00) ; tmr0: CK/1 out _SFR_IO_ADDR(TCCR0), work ldi work, 256 - tmconst out _SFR_IO_ADDR(TCNT0), work sei ret .global __vector_default ; Note __vector_default: reti .end
As in C programs, this includes the central processor-specific file containing the IO port definitions for the device. Note that not all include files can be included into assembler sources.
Assignment of registers to symbolic names used locally. Another option would be to use a C preprocessor macro instead:
#define work 16
Our bit number for the square wave output. Note that the right-hand side consists of a CPP macro which will be substituted by its value (6 in this case) before actually being passed to the assembler.
The assembler uses integer operations in the host-defined integer size (32 bits or longer) when evaluating expressions. This is in contrast to the C compiler that uses the C type int by default in order to calculate constant integer expressions.
In order to get a 100 kHz output, we need to toggle the PD6 line 200000 times per second. Since we use timer 0 without any prescaling options in order to get the desired frequency and accuracy, we already run into serious timing considerations: while accepting and processing the timer overflow interrupt, the timer already continues to count. When pre-loading the TCCNT0 register, we therefore have to account for the number of clock cycles required for interrupt acknowledge and for the instructions to reload TCCNT0 (4 clock cycles for interrupt acknowledge, 2 cycles for the jump from the interrupt vector, 2 cycles for the 2 instructions that reload TCCNT0). This is what the constant fuzz is for.
External functions need to be declared to be .global. main is the application entry point that will be jumped to from the ininitalization routine in crts1200.o.
The main loop is just a single jump back to itself. Square wave generation itself is completely handled by the timer 0 overflow interrupt service. A sleep instruction (using idle mode) could be used as well, but probably would not conserve much energy anyway since the interrupt service is executed quite frequently.
Interrupt functions can get the usual names that are also available to C programs. The linker will then put them into the appropriate interrupt vector slots. Note that they must be declared .global in order to be acceptable for this purpose. This will only work if <avr/io.h> has been included. Note that the assembler or linker have no chance to check the correct spelling of an interrupt function, so it should be double-checked. (When analyzing the resulting object file using avr-objdump or avr-nm, a name like __vector_N should appear, with N being a small integer number.)
As explained in the section about special function registers, the actual IO port address should be obtained using the macro _SFR_IO_ADDR. (The AT90S1200 does not have RAM thus the memory-mapped approach to access the IO registers is not available. It would be slower than using in / out instructions anyway.)
Since the operation to reload TCCNT0 is time-critical, it is even performed before saving SREG. Obviously, this requires that the instructions involved would not change any of the flag bits in SREG.
Interrupt routines must not clobber the global CPU state. Thus, it is usually necessary to save at least the state of the flag bits in SREG. (Note that this serves as an example here only since actually, all the following instructions would not modify SREG either, but that's not commonly the case.)
Also, it must be made sure that registers used inside the interrupt routine do not conflict with those used outside. In the case of a RAM-less device like the AT90S1200, this can only be done by agreeing on a set of registers to be used exclusively inside the interrupt routine; there would not be any other chance to 'save' a register anywhere.
If the interrupt routine is to be linked together with C modules, care must be taken to follow the register usage guidelines imposed by the C compiler. Also, any register modified inside the interrupt sevice needs to be saved, usually on the stack.
As explained in Interrupts, a global 'catch-all' interrupt handler that gets all unassigned interrupt vectors can be installed using the name __vector_default. This must be .global, and obviously, should end in a reti instruction. (By default, a jump to location 0 would be implied instead.)
The available pseudo-ops in the assembler are described in the GNU assembler (gas) manual. The manual can be found online as part of the current binutils release under http://sources.redhat.com/binutils/.
As gas comes from a Unix origin, its pseudo-op and overall assembler syntax is slightly different than the one being used by other assemblers. Numeric constants follow the C notation (prefix 0x for hexadecimal constants), expressions use a C-like syntax.
Some common pseudo-ops include:
Note that .org is available in gas as well, but is a fairly pointless pseudo-op in an assembler environment that uses relocatable object files, as it is the linker that determines the final position of some object in ROM or RAM.
Along with the architecture-independent standard operators, there are some AVR-specific operators available which are unfortunately not yet described in the official documentation. The most notable operators are:
ldi r24, lo8(pm(somefunc)) ldi r25, hi8(pm(somefunc)) call something
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A summary of how ESOPs and 401(k) plans can work together to benefit the employee owner and the employer.
Financial managers readily recognize the possible corporate benefits of an ESOP loan; lower interest costs, tax deductibility of principal and interest payments, the use of corporate contributions to repay existing debt, potential use of dividends to retire a loan, etc. In addition, combining an ESOP with a 401(k) plan (KSOP) may result in increased plan benefits to the employees and a lower plan costs to the employer.
The Benefits of KSOPs
From the company’s benefit perspective, there is often an opportunity to provide an increased benefit at minor cost to the company. If even a portion of the tax savings generated by the ESOPs is applied to the benefits program, employees will see an increase in their benefit level. This might take the form of an increase 401(k) matching contribution or an increase or addition in some other area.
If a block of stock is to be purchased thorough the ESOP component of the KSOP (the common term applied to 401(K)/ESOP combinations), then it may be possible to offer a significant increase in the matching contribution. This in turn will create a higher participation level among lower paid employees allowing, in turn, the highly compensated employees to make larger deferrals in the 401(k). Repaying ESOP loans with the company’s matching contribution may boost enthusiasm, because it:
- Gives employees larger equity stake in the company
- Often means an increase in the matching contribution.
From a corporate finance perspective, it becomes very obvious early in the analysis of most situations that KSOP loans are attractive.
Making KSOPs ever more attractive to employers and employees are the positive new tax laws governing the amounts employers and employees may contribute to KSOP arrangements beginning in 2002.
Increased matching may appear to be an increased cost, but if the corporation had planned to make a contribution to the ESOP, a “no cost” match is made possible as long as the match is earmarked for the purchase of employer securities or the repayment of a portion of an ESOP loan. The amount of the 401(k) match is subtracted from the planned contribution, added to the employee accounts and then added back to the ESOP funds.
Since the majority of 401(k) plans already provide employer match, chances are this approach will actually reduce a portion of the corporation’s benefits costs or would allow other benefit levels to be increased at no additional cost. | <urn:uuid:798e4065-4759-4e4d-8525-8966f848a039> | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | https://employeeownershipfoundation.org/articles/the-ksop-esops-and-401k-plans | 2021-10-17T09:13:01Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323585171.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20211017082600-20211017112600-00493.warc.gz | en | 0.940286 | 523 |
T cells (or T lymphocytes) are necessary for normal immune surveillance systems, and their dysfunction leads to development of fatal diseases, such as Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), congenital T cell deficiency and cancer. These diseases are life threatening, because T cells, key effectors eradicating pathogens within the body, are severely reduced and medications (e.g. anti-viral treatment) cannot fully compensate for such fundamental defects. Thus, in these circumstances, providing T cells to the patient, so-called “T cell replacement therapy”, could be the sole therapeutic option to cure the disease. However, such therapy has not been successfully established because of the following reasons: 1) T cells are difficult to expand in culture; 2) even if the patient’s T cells can be expanded in culture, they may not work normally when they are returned to the patient (e.g. T cells will be again infected with HIV virus) and 3) T cells from others (donor) could recognize the patient (recipient) as "foreign" and mount an immunologic attack.
Human pluripotent stem cells, such as human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) or human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs), have tremendous potential in T cell replacement therapy, as: 1) they are virtually unlimited; 2) patient-specific hiPSCs can overcome immunological barriers between donors and recipients and 3) hESCs/hiPSCs could be safely manipulated for T cells to be functional. While T cells have been successfully derived from mouse embryonic stem cells (mESCs), hESCs demonstrated little lymphoid potential, preventing the use of hESCs for T cell replacement therapy. Considering clinical implications, there is a critical need to better understand the mechanisms underlying hESCs/hiPSCs differentiation toward T cells.
Our goal is to develop a system by which hESCs/hiPSCs efficiently give rise to T cells in culture. The objective of this application is to determine the role of the Leukemia/lymphoma Related Factor (LRF) gene in human T cell differentiation from hESCs/hiPSCs. Guided by our preliminary studies, we hypothesize that LRF inactivation promotes efficient T cell development from hESCs/hiPSCs. We will test this hypothesis employing molecular biological approaches as well as a series of genetically engineered mouse models. We expect that the combination of work proposed will provide further understanding of how hESCs/hiPSCs develop T cells in culture. This contribution is significant because it will lead to the development of new therapeutic strategies for T cell replacement therapy.
T cells are essential for human immune system and the lack of functional T cells results in development of diseases such as AIDS, sever infectious diseases and cancer. These diseases are one of the major health issues in California. It has been estimated that nearly 130,000 people in California live with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, among which 70,000 are diagnosed as AIDS (HIV Prevalence Estimates of California, CDC, 2008). For these patients, providing healthy and functional T cells, so-called T cell replacement therapy, could be a new therapeutic strategy, as current therapies (e.g. anti-viral drag for AIDS, chemotherapy for cancer) cannot cure the disease, and cost of the treatment is high. Human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) are a very promising source for such T cells, as they are virtually unlimited and relatively easy to be manipulated in culture (e.g. gene therapy for AIDS and cancer). However, it is not fully understood how hPSCs differentiate to T cells, preventing their use in the clinic. Our goal is to develop a new way of creating T cells from hPSCs in culture by elucidating the molecular mechanisms of T cell development from hPSCs. If successful, it will provide the people of California with tremendous benefits, potentially leading to new therapeutic strategies for life-threatening diseases such as cancer and AIDS. It may also lead to the significant reduction of therapeutic costs, thus benefiting the State economy. | <urn:uuid:9382fb65-4928-43c7-8ea4-5df82ff965f2> | CC-MAIN-2015-40 | https://www.cirm.ca.gov/our-progress/awards/efficient-t-cell-development-human-pluripotent-stem-cells-lrfpokemon | 2015-10-07T10:26:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-40/segments/1443737833893.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20151001221713-00023-ip-10-137-6-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939546 | 845 |
Equipment is arriving aleady for setting up our various plant stalls and there have been really good articles in the April "Gardening Australia", local "Sunshine Coast Sunday", "Hinterland Times" and the "Range News". We have been told that the Open Garden was mentioned in Gympie and Nambour Newspapers and rated in the article "Ten Best Things to do Over Easter" in Brisbanes weekend Courier Mail.
Lat Sunday we went for a run in our Old Car with the car club which was a loveley day in fine weather. The next day we went to Noosa instead of preparing the Garden.
By this stage......it is , what it is.
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Features: - Ping pong bat set, a very good choice for table tennis players to practise. - Durable design: Superior glue + 2 sides pimples-in elite rubber + 7 layers of poplar wood bottom. - The racket set includes: A pair of table tennis bats, 3 ping pong balls, with a portable racket pouch. - Quick loop drive attacking style, increase the attack force of the bats, serve powerful back spins which is aggressive enough to win your opponent. - High lethality, high speed, and appropriate viscosity. - Soft, lightweight and flexible sponge with powerful stamina. - Ergonomic handle style: Shake-hand grip / long handle and penhold / short handle. - A good tool suitable for table tennis players, beginners, amateurs, and professionals. - Size: Long handle: 255 x 150 x 15mm, short handle: 235 x 150 x 15mm, diameter of the ball: 40mm.
Note: the balls are not for sale and the color of the ball will be sent in randomly. The color of the handle will be sent randomly.
Baseboard Layer Number: 7 Bottom: Poplar Wood Grip Means: Horizontal Grip,Straight Grip Rubber: Pimples In Weight: Center Focus (All-round Methods)
Package weight: 0.457 kg Package Size(L x W x H): 27.50 x 19.50 x 3.50 cm / 10.83 x 7.68 x 1.38 inches
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The Americans in Wartime Museum will focus on educating young visitors about how the courage and sacrifice of millions of Americans have made their own lives possible. Through interactive exhibits and hands-on activities, the Museum will provide an immersive environment for children and student groups. Our educational programs will include tours, vehicle demonstrations, ship and aircraft simulators, reenactments and other living history activities.
The Museum’s exhibits, including the Landscapes of War, will support our educational mission and link to appropriate national and state curricula and “standards of learning.” Children will have the chance to talk with veterans and immerse themselves in a wartime landscape. Teachers will have curriculum materials and opportunities for field trips in a setting that both educates and engages.
The Museum will also emphasize science, technology, engineering and math—or STEM—disciplines by engaging students in real-world applications like bridge building, navigation, communications, robotics, artillery fire, avionics and more. The impact of these lessons will extend far beyond a visit to the Museum.
Whether adults are visiting on their own or as part of a group, the Museum will provide topical programs on a variety of topics from WWI to the present. Adult educational programs will include workshops, lectures and roundtables on diverse topics about the American wartime experience.
The Museum has a formal partnership with George Mason University, ranked in the top five “Up-and-Coming Universities” by U.S. News & World Report. Our partnership will apply the resources of George Mason’s highly regarded Department of History and Art History as well as its Center for History and the New Media. The Museum-University partnership will provide many benefits:
- Expertise in history scholarship and use of digital media to preserve and present history
- Joint appointments of prominent military historians
- Joint public programs conducted by research associates and graduate students
- Oral history interviews and content development for the National Veterans Visitor Center
- Artifact and collections management opportunities for interns and research associates
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Just before Hasbro's video game system NEMO was about to be officially launched alongside Sewer Shark and Night Trap
(1992) at the start of 1989, the worst happened - Hasbro pulled the plug (citing the high cost of the hardware). Tom Zito
, General Manager of Hasbro Interactive's California based unit, then purchased all of the material related to the two abandoned games and founded his own company, called Digital Pictures. See more
Hey, relaaaax. Pretend it's a game. Maybe it'll even be fun.
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"We live in a world of 'I eat you and you eat me'". Susun Weed
Have you ever eaten a transcendent meal? Your body flooded with pleasure from your olfactory and taste senses sending, shivers of bliss through your flesh? Once, in Great Britain after a week of camping in cold rain and eating really tasteless / over salted food (did I mention I was in Great Britain?) I was treated to a dinner made with love and care and fine ingredients. Served on warmed plates in courses. Growing up in a Mennonite community, where simplicity had been central, this was Babette's Feast. The homemade peach ice-cream that was for desert, garnished with mint leaves, held some kind of warmed and melting pie crust.
How much energy had been in that meal? From the life of the salmon and all it fed upon, to the photosynthesis of the asparagus and herbs, the butter, the cream, the peaches, bursting with the flavor only deeply loved fruits offer...these were no tasteless imitators, a salad of baby greens, oils pressed, spices dried and shipped great distances. So much sunlight. So much rain. Then there was the energy of the hostess, who served us in a way that was so foreign to me. Plates warmed. Courses timed and thought out. What a lesson in gratitude and in appreciation. Never had so much energy gone into a meal on my behalf. There was not thanks enough in me. I had done nothing to deserve such treatment. Such extreme pleasure.
As I have eaten, so too, will I be eaten. I will give myself back to those gardens, and peach trees, and salmon runs.
When it is time for me to be food, will I be over-salted, tasteless? Will I hold myself away from the pallet of the soil with chemicals? I want the earth that has swallowed my body to feel joy and quiver with pleasure in return for I have felt such deep joy and pleasure from my life which has been granted and supported in everyway by Her. It is the very least I can do.
Perhaps everything is well in its time. And perhaps our Mother, Lord of All, held us so tenderly that we misunderstood Her singing, and Her grief. We, as toddlers on the planet, have confused our Mother's endless Love as permission to indulge all our lower whims. And we have tried to hold ourselves away from the 'eat and be eaten' truth of the world. We, in this country to the west of the world, hold our bodies away from the earth. We say to Her: "Even now, after a lifetime of eating from you, suckling from you, I will not yield the coarse parts of myself to you. I will hold even my empty shell up, and away from your embrace. I will not be your food. This is how special you have made me feel. This must be what you want" Our small human way of seeing time imagines some victory in this.
Which is, of course, quite laughable. The coffin will be crushed. The embalmed body liquefied. In time.
But for a toddler, perhaps, this is age appropriate thinking. I do not want to create guilt around conventional western funeral practice. Or around anyone else's choices. We do the best we can with what we know. However, if we are a people who long to seek maturity and wholeness, then we can perhaps stretch our thinking. We are capable, I think, of willingly offering our empty bodies up the greater cycle of life.
In "A Will for the Woods" Clark explains how thinking about giving his body back to the earth is an important part of his feeling whole and peaceful as his death approaches. The film is a beautiful song of human paradox as the central subject both seeks treatment, yearns toward Life, and also has his casket made by a friend. Clark's wife shares this beautiful realization about Green Burial: "I thought we were doing it for the Earth, but I am finding it is healing for us" (paraphrase) "It is changing me, opening me, showing me a Love and a Peace beyond all understanding". https://vimeo.com/62452617 <--- I strongly encourage the viewing of this film which follows one individual through his fears and hopes for his death.
I want to be the best meal I can be. I want to be of service and of use to the whole of Creation.
Clark chooses a simple coffin, of untreated wood in a wooded setting, his body protecting the forest he is buried in.
And then there is this, the Infinity Mushroom Suit. http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-mushroom-death-suit-is-the-latest-in-postmortem-ecofriendly-fashion This is a burial shroud that has been infused with mushroom spores specifically chosen from their metabolic propensity toward environmental pollutants. This burial suit will in fact digest and neutralize the toxins accumulated in your body. As top predators in our biomes, your fat cells and mine are the deposits for all the pollutants we have introduced into the environment. We are becoming, literally, the garbage we put into the air and water. How else can it be? These mushroom suits not only decompose the body quickly but they also neutralize toxins which would otherwise leach from your body back into the system.
How can I be the best meal I can be.
By first and foremost living a life of creative medicine. By asking in life, in each moment, to the extent of our abilities, how can I be of service? Our spiritual and emotional lives are being harvested each moment while we are still alive, and these meals to the Unseen are probably much more important than the final meal our bodies offer. Our hearts and our emotions are gardens. Always the Unseen is being fed by our thoughts, creative forces and destructive forces.
"For (wo)man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches the heavens. All (her) movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper worlds". Martin Buber.
Whatever your medicine is, be that. Live that. Love your family. Help your neighbors. Look for ways to build community. Because what really makes a great meal is the warmth and Love gathered into the ingredients. The story on the plate. A good death is one that brings people together, a family, a community, a world. Let us live a Life worthy of celebration. Marinating our spirits and our flesh in Divine Love.
I dream of a culture that feeds the placenta of it's newborns and the bodies of its dead to vast tracts of woodlands. That our stories of dying become stories of renewal. Our bodies the seeds for tomorrows growth. So that we are able to approach death with curiosity and wonder. Ready to cast off our physical bodies and let our energy transform.
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Three plants recovering phosphorus from incinerated sewage sludge are being planned for Germany, Denmark and Sweden.
Danish engineering specialist COWI has been commissioned by EasyMining to develop facilities that will use the latter’s innovative technology, Ash2phos, to retrieve phosphorus from the incineration process of energy-from-waste plants. It is estimated that 25% of waste phosphorus goes to energy recovery. Ash is treated in a wet chemical process to recover phosphorus, aluminium and iron as clean commercial products.
‘The process for recovering phosphorus has been developed over a long period, and our partnership with COWI means that, with their help, we can now exploit our invention on a large scale,’ says Jan Svärd, ceo of EasyMining, which is based in Uppsala Sweden.
The need for such recycling received backing in a 2016 academic report into three primary phosphorus waste streams (human food waste, human excreta, and animal manure) and how they could be applied to corn production. The study found that just 37% of the phosphorus available in existing waste streams could support the annual phosphorus requirements of the entire US corn crop.
The new plants will help reduce the need for phosphorus mining and ease the environmental impact of such mining. The project is seen as a major step towards sustainable food production. The Swedish plant, for example, will have the capacity to supply 25% of the country’s demand for the mineral.
Operational by 2020
‘We are very dependent on phosphorus for our food production. But the Earth’s resources are finite, and the need to recover phosphorus is growing all the time,’ says Anna Berggren, who is head of bioenergy at COWI. ‘Being involved in developing this together with EasyMining while also tackling environmental problems makes this project incredibly exciting.’
COWI and EasyMining, a subsidiary of Ragn-Sells, have been working together on the development phase for two years. The first production facility is scheduled to go into operation in 2020.
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In a wide-ranging interview at Develop, company president Mike Capps reveals that the makers of Gears of War have five new projects underway and that he wants Unreal Engine 4 to hit on day one of the next new consoles.
Capps says the company wants to get better at having the tech used to make hit games like Batman: Arkham City and Mass Effect 2 available to anyone who wants to use it, including indie developers.
I would like to have a vertical solution – for our tech to be useful for mobile projects and triple-A projects. In the past few years I think we've learned a lot about our technology and how it works for indie studios. How our tech works for iPhone games, for high-end triple-A studios and for a couple of guys who make a cool UDK game over the summer.
He also says that they're moving ahead with new game ideas, spearheaded by longtime employees that they want to groom into larger roles.
…the average person at Epic has been in the industry for ten years. That's the average, so we've got some really experienced developers working here. We've got guys who anywhere else they'd be the art director or the lead producer and they just didn't have that opportunity with us. So, basically I'm going to give them a chance. We're taking some really senior folks and say, well, it's your project now, see how you do… It's interesting, we have some people who are fierce lovers of Gears of War, and there are other people that think "ten years of Gears, please god let me do something else". So that's why I think people love it when they get the chance to work on Infinity Blade or BulletStorm.
And while Epic Games may be a major force as a developer of IP and game engine tech, Capps says they can have a hard time getting prospects to relocate to its North Carolina headquarters. The interview by Develop's Rob Crossley is a great read and offers lots of insight on the current and possible future state of the games industry. | <urn:uuid:b7eb14a7-f8f8-4663-b563-9a0abfee395a> | CC-MAIN-2014-35 | http://kotaku.com/5853886/epic-president-mike-capps-talks-infinity-blade-2-unreal-engine-4-and-finding-the-next-cliffyb | 2014-09-02T18:00:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-35/segments/1409535922089.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20140901014522-00290-ip-10-180-136-8.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973268 | 418 |
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Jabal Rum Camp offers a unique experience in traditional Bedouin tents with clear views of the Wadi Rum landscape. This camp offers an authentic desert experience with classic Bedouin meals prepared daily. Guests can enjoy the relaxed and sociable atmosphere at the camp.
Open lunch and dinner buffets consisting of Zarb, traditional Bedouin cooking, are served daily. Outdoor tables and chairs are set up for terrace-style dining. Enjoy our special daily Folklore party during dinner. Jabal Rum Camp offers Desert jeep tours, camel tours, Horses ride, and hiking excursions can be arranged.
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Nick Lopez: The one word that describes him is ‘passionate’
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A neck and back injury robbed Nick Lopez of his life’s passion a few short weeks into his freshman year at Mesa State College. But his devotion to football was soon replaced with something he’d end up loving even more: politics.
“I’m more passionate about this than anything, ever,” the college’s Associated Student Government president said from his office on the second floor of the College Center.
Lopez, 21, came to Mesa State in fall 2007 for two reasons: one, the Longmont High School defensive end was offered a football scholarship; and, two, when he came for a tour he “loved everything about” Grand Junction.
But nearly five hours from home, his dream gone and a football injury that barely allowed him to move, his first semester was hard “emotionally and physically.” That is, until the then-president of Associated Student Government invited him to run for minority leader, a post the freshman won.
“I didn’t have any background as a freshman in business or finance or politics, but I’ve learned how to do that,” he said.
In 2008, Lopez ran a second time, this time for senate majority leader, and again won. He became ASG vice president in 2009 and president in 2010.
“There’s frustrating times but there’s nothing better than standing up for your friends and colleagues,” he said.
His new-found love for politics even inspired him to major in political science. One of his professors, Justin Golleb, said at first he thought Lopez was shy because he sat in the front row in class and rarely said a word. But as Gollob got to know Lopez, he realized his student was just incredibly interested in the subject matter.
He also found Lopez excels at public speaking, asking the right questions, and striving to do what’s best for the student body as their president.
“He has a quiet confidence, almost a humble confidence,” Gollob said. “If he wants to translate that to political ambitions, I think he’d be just as successful in that arena.”
Lopez has those ambitions, although not in the near-term. Someday, he’d like to stand up for the people of Colorado, either at a national, state or local level, “wherever I can do the most good.” But for the next few years, he plans to graduate and head straight to law or graduate school on the Front Range or try his hand in the professional world.
The self-professed “policy wonk” is soaking up his last few months as head of student government, and will leave behind a list of accomplishments when he dons his cap and gown and says good-bye to the college this May. He was responsible for balancing a $1.5 million budget made up of student fees and disbursed to various student clubs and organizations. (“I think everyone got what they wanted,” he said.)
He also helped pen legislation that led to the college’s paper reduction program, which cut down on printing expenses; sponsored successful legislation to use student fees to pay off construction of the College Center, which opened in October; and he spent a year taking on the college’s tobacco policy, asking students for their thoughts on going smokeless. In the end, ASG settled on strengthening the policy but stopped short of going smoke-free.
Lopez said he’ll miss being part of the college’s future decisions, such as whether to rename the college as a university, but he has high hopes campus improvements and enrollment gains will continue.
“I’d just like to see it keep going the way it has been going,” he said. That includes “seeing more students coming here because they’re going to love every aspect of it.”
Gollob said students and staff that shared the campus with Lopez won’t soon forget him.
“In less than 10 years or in the very near future Mesa State is going to be very proud to have their name hanging on his wall,” Gollob said. | <urn:uuid:d13aaf21-f62f-4077-9d62-5df5f72420ed> | CC-MAIN-2015-35 | http://www.gjsentinel.com/portrait/articles/nick-lopez-the-one-word-that-describes-him-is-passionate | 2015-09-04T10:34:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-35/segments/1440645340161.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20150827031540-00152-ip-10-171-96-226.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981797 | 924 |
What arrangements can be made to ensure that cremation is the selected method of disposal following death?
Clear instructions in writing should be given to the person who will be responsible for making the funeral arrangements. Such instructions are not binding in law and it will therefore be necessary to ensure that the person instructed is someone who is likely to carry out the wishes of the deceased. The final decision will rest on the executors.
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If you’ve read (Not) Just For A Mummy for a little while, you’ll probably know that we eat pretty well around these parts. The husband and I quit sugar back in January (you can read about that HERE, HERE and HERE) and have been off the sweet stuff ever since. We also tend to prescribe to holistic style of eating; I make the majority of our food from scratch, we’re big on grass fed and organic produce, all that kind of stuff. I also follow a lot of health and wellness blogs and writers, many of whom are gluten, grain, dairy, caffeine and refined sugar free. Which is awesome but something that doesn’t quite gel with your truly.
I don’t eat a huge amount of gluten or grains, avoid any type of refined sugar and mix things up with nut mylks along with more traditional moo juice, BUT on the whole, I am in a committed relationship with dairy products. I love cheese, yoghurt, butter and cream and would say I eat a combination of them regularly. I also love caffeine. I’m coming right out and saying that I am a dedicated coffee drinker who relishes everything about the ceremonial roasting of beans.
- I love the preparation– Either at home or at my favourite cafe. The way they prepare the beans, the frothing of the milk and watching it all come together. BLISS.
- I love the smell – Funnily enough, I’ve only been a coffee drinker for a relatively short period of time. I started drinking the stuff when I first started working in magazines but before that, I always loved the smell. I had a swimming coach who’d always bring a steaming hot cup of coffee to the pool for our 5am starts. I always loved inhaling that scent, even if the drink itself wasn’t appealing.
- I love wrapping my hands around the mug and inhaling the steam – I do this with tea as well but there’s something about wrapping your hands around a hot mug and just breathing in all that goodness.
- I love the ritual of it – Whether it’s meeting friends or making a coffee at home, I can honestly say that the ritualistic aspects of coffee were my saviour in the early days of motherhood. When I was so tired I could barely see straight and feeling lonely, I’d strap Ollie into his carrier and walk up and road for a takeaway flat white and a chat with lovely cafe owner. In those 15 minutes, I felt human again. These days, I tend to make a cup when I get up with Ollie and sit on the front steps while Ollie and Ari (our puppy) frolic around on the front lawn.
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Offering a lux treatment to their classic 574, New Balance unveil a pair of Black/White joints for the 2009 Holiday season. The kicks receive a rich, premium leather upper with perforated leather panels and tonal details. Topping off the sleek design are White midsoles along with custom tagging and soft leather lining. A retail price tag of $110 USD can be expected, along with a Navy colorway to compliment the set.
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Microsoft’s Facebook ad for new features in Excel highlights the Treemap visualization, but gets it totally wrong.
A treemap is supposed to visualize relative size in a hierarchy. But in the illustration here, the data don’t fit this type of visualization (it’s a time series of one flat variable—without hierarchy).
But it’s even worse than that. The relative sizes don’t make sense! Why would the 31 MPG box for January be so much larger than the 32 MPG box for May?
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I’d recently been wondering whether the archives of the Bourbaki group would be put on-line, and today noticed that there’s a project to do so, with results available here. One can read copies of “La Tribu”, internal reports on the activities of the group, up through 1953. There are a wide variety of interesting mathematical documents, often consisting of attempts to write up one subject or another, efforts that sometimes made it into the published books, often not.
One subject that Bourbaki struggled with over the years was that of how to set out the foundations of differential geometry. My colleague Hervé Jacquet likes to tell about how Chevalley at one point made an effort to do so, with the peculiar starting point of defining things in terms of “cubes”. I wasn’t sure whether to believe him, but here it is. According to Borel, in 1957 Grothendieck presented the group with his own take on the question of manifolds:
Grothendieck lost no time and presented to the next Congress, about three months later, two drafts:
Chap. 0: Preliminaries to the book on manifolds. Categories of manifolds, 98 pages
Chap. I: Differentiable manifolds, The differential formalism, 164 pages
and warned that much more algebra would be needed, e.g., hyperalgebras. As was often the case with Grothendieck’s papers, they were at points discouragingly general, but at others rich in ideas and insights. However, it was rather clear that if we followed that route, we would be bogged down with foundations for many years, with a very uncertain outcome.
I don’t see these documents on the list, perhaps documents from the later years are still to appear.
The documents often start out with some unvarnished comments, here’s an example, from Chevalley’s report on a text about semi-simple Lie algebras:
Au moment d’écrire ces observations, je me demande si ce ramassis des méthodes les plus éculées et les plus pisseuses, ces résultats les moins généraux possibles établis de la manière la plus incompréhensible possible, ne sont pas un canular intrabourbachique monté par le rédacteur. Même s’il en est ainsi, je me laisse prendre au canular et présente les observations suivantes.
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