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Volume 139, 20172017 3rd International Conference on Mechanical, Electronic and Information Technology Engineering (ICMITE 2017)
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The research on the influence of kinetic parameters on the vibration of blood pump in viscoelastic implantation environment
1 School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410083, R.P. China
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The implantable axial flow blood pump would be vibrated when in actual use because of the viscoelastic implantation environment, unbalanced driven force, high speed rotor and so on. The blood pump researched in the paper was designed to be implanted in ascending aortic and driven by external magnetic force. The kinetic equation of blood pump worked in viscoelastic implantation environment was built, and then the blood pump’s vibration influenced by viscoelasticity of implantation environment, running speed of blood pump, weight of blood pump were studied. Appropriate damping coefficient of implantation environment, running speed of blood pump and weight of blood pump for blood pump’s more stable working were found in the paper. The paper could provide theoretical basis and research method for blood pump’s structure parameters and work performance improving.
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Description: This report describes the competition requirements currently governing the procurement activities of federal agencies. It addresses several issues, including what contracts are subject to competition requirements, what constitutes full and open competition for government contracts, and the circumstances permitting agencies to award contracts on the basis of other than full and open competition. It also briefly describes the benefits and drawbacks of competition, situates recent reform efforts within their historical context, and discusses how the policy debates surrounding competition in federal contracting can shape legislative responses.
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A man against wrongful convictions
Caitlin Taylor | Collegio Reporter
Rob Warden is an outspoken critic of the death penalty and he was invited to speak at PSU last week in conjunction with the upcoming play, “Dead Man Walking.”
“If you’re asking about my opinion on wrongful convictions and the death penalty,” Warden said. “Then I am completely against it.”
Warden spoke primarily on the phenomenon of false confessions, where someone confesses to a crime he or she did not commit. Warden spoke of stories dating back to the 1800s that had people confessing to crimes they did not commit because they were coerced by prosecutors or officers. Years later, evidence would be presented proving they did not commit those crimes.
“We know that, since 1989, the dawn of the DNA age, 877 wrongful convictions have been overturned,” Warden said. “That’s when a person has been restored to legal innocence by exculpatory evidence not presented at trial.”
Warden says this number didn’t represent people who were possibly innocent, and had their cases overturned because of a possible legal technicality.
Warden says that death penalty supporters claim there have been no wrongful executions in the United States, yet there is documented proof that the first wrongful execution dates back to 1887.
“It was a sad case of a man named William Jackson Marion, who had been a roommate and good friend of John Cameron in Clay County, Kan. in 1872,” Warden said. “The two left Kansas, saying that they were going west to work on the railroad, but a few days later Marion returned without Cameron.”
Warden says a body was found 11 years later wearing clothes witnesses identified as belonging to Cameron. On the basis of this supposed evidence, Marion was indicted, convicted and sentenced to death. He was hanged on March 28, 1887, still trying to prove his innocence.
“Three years later, Cameron was found living in Kansas,” Warden said. “He said he had to run away to avoid a shotgun wedding and had no idea his friend Marion had been accused of his death.”
Warden also spoke of two other cases. One was on the first documented case of a wrongful conviction that happened in 1819 in Vermont. Jesse and Stephen Boorn were convicted in the alleged murder of Russell Colvin.
“Colvin was found alive after the Boorn brothers were convicted of killing him,” Warden said. “He returned to prove the crime had not been convicted in time to save Stephen Boorn from execution.”
The other case was about the first time someone who had been convicted of a crime was exonerated by DNA evidence.
“This case happened in 1989 in Chicago,” Warden said. “Gary Dotson had been convicted of raping a girl on the south side of Chicago. The girl who accused Dotson of rape recanted a few years later out of guilt.”
Warden, who was investigating the case for the Chicago Daily News at the time, had read about DNA testing and suggested the testing to Dotson. Those tests proved that Dotson couldn’t have committed the crime.
Warden has come a long way in his pursuit to abolish the death penalty.
Warden, a former editor and investigative reporter for the Chicago Daily News, published his first death penalty expose in 1982. It was a story that laid out the weak, contradictory evidence against one of the condemned men in a gang of later-exonerated convicts who came to be known as the ‘Ford Heights Four.’
Warden then took up the cause of death row inmates Darby Tillis and Perry Cobb, later freed on grounds of innocence. He followed that up with an examination of the case against Rolando Cruz and Alejandro Hernandez, who were sentenced to death for the murder of Jeanine Nicarico. They too were freed, about a decade later, when the state acknowledged that another man had committed the crime.
Warden spoke passionately about abolishing the death penalty across the nation, and he made a compelling point to those in the audience.
“In the state of Illinois, before we abolished it last year, 305 men and women had been sentenced to death,” Warden said. “20 of those have now been exonerated. That is an error rate in excess of 6 percent. And I don’t think the Illinois criminal justice system is any worse when it comes to convicting innocent people, or any better when it comes to exonerating them, than anyone else. That is the reality of the American death penalty and why we say we need to abolish it.”
Rob Warden is the executive director for the center on wrongful convictions at Northwestern University and Law
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Academic advising for student success: a system of shared responsibility
School of Education and Human Development, George Washington University, Apr 14, 1991 - Business & Economics - 104 pages
Covers the background and current situation in academic advising; examines the effects and use of personal contact, involvement, and persistence; and looks at the student/advisor relationship. Discusses the knowledge on advising a variety of student types in various situations, and offers strategies for future program success.
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Alternative Titles: Cephalanthera damasonium, white helleborine
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...are held erect. The phantom orchid ( C. austiniae), the only species native to the Western Hemisphere, relies entirely on mycorrhizal fungi for nutrition. The most common British species is large white helleborine ( C. damasonium). It has many long thick roots. The petals are borne close together, giving the flower a closed appearance. Large white helleborine is self-pollinating...
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Q 1: What is Hepatite? A: Hepatite is a mineral, a variety of barite.
Q 2: What is the capital of Martinique? A: Fort-de-France is the capital of Martinique.
Q 3: Phalacrophobia is the fear of what? A: Phalacrophobia is the fear of becoming bald.
Q 4: What is a Mustang? A: The Mustang is a breed of American feral horse, developed from horses brought to the Americas by the Spanish during the 16th century.
Q 5: Carcinophobia is the fear of what? A: Carcinophobia is the fear of cancer.
Q 6: Scriptophobia is the fear of what? A: Scriptophobia is the fear of writing in public.
Q 7: In computing, what is a Cache? A: A cache is a region of very fast memory in a computer that is used to temporarily store a block of data retrieved from a mass storage device such as RAM or a disk.
Q 8: Who was Angelica Catalani? A: Angelica Catalani was an Italian singer.
Q 9: Sinophobia is the fear of what? A: Sinophobia is the fear of Chinese people and things.
Q 10: What is the Hora? A: The Hora is a gay, circular dance danced by a chain of people, any of whom may leave whenever they wish.
Q 11: What is the capital of Haiti? A: Port Au Prince is the capital of Haiti.
Q 12: What is Carthamin? A: Carthamin is a red pigment used in silk-dyeing and the preparation of rouge.
Q 13: Numerophobia is the fear of what? A: Numerophobia is the fear of numbers.
Q 14: In classical mythology, who was Abaris? A: Abaris was a priest to the god Apollo.
Q 15: Who invented the diorama? A: Louis Daguerre
Q 16: What is a Millennium? A: A Millennium is a period of measurement being 1000 years.
Q 17: Lyssophobia is the fear of what? A: Lyssophobia (maniphobia) is the fear of insanity.
Q 18: What is an Adze? A: An Adze is a carpenter's instrument consisting of an arched cutting blade mounted on a handle in a transverse arrangement, rather in the parallel arrangement of an axe.
Q 19: What is the Habanera? A: The Habanera is a slow Cuban dance and song in duple time.
Q 20: Who was Alphonse Daudet? A: Alphonse Daudet was a French novelist.
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President Hoover's Views on the Depression
In February 1933, shortly before leaving office, President Hoover wrote a letter to Senator Simeon Fess (R-OH). Senator Fess was the Republican Whip in 1933, but was defeated for re-election in 1934. President Hoover provided a kind of thumbnail history of what he identified as the five phases of the Depression up to that point. The letter also makes clear his continuing disagreements with President-elect Roosevelt and the New Deal. It is interesting to note that Hoover included a separate cover letter to Fess with instructions that his letter not be released unless " . . .at some future time the Democratic leaders should endeavor to mislead the public about the causes of the present situation."
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Cats have been one of humanity’s most beloved companions for centuries, and it’s no wonder why. These independent and mysterious creatures have a way of capturing our hearts with their enchanting personalities and captivating beauty. But did you know that not all cats are created equal? In fact, the world of cat breeds is a diverse and fascinating one, with each breed possessing its own unique characteristics and traits. In this article, we will delve into the world of cat breeds, exploring everything from the most popular and recognizable felines to the rare and exotic beauties that few have ever laid eyes on. We will also discuss the importance of understanding different cat breeds, from their temperament to their grooming needs, and provide helpful tips on how to choose the right breed for your lifestyle. Lastly, we will shed light on the dedicated breeders who work tirelessly to preserve and improve these remarkable feline companions. So, whether you’re a seasoned cat lover or considering adding a feline friend to your family, join us on this journey through the captivating world of cat breeds.
1. "Introduction to Cat Breeds: A Diverse World of Feline Companions"
The world of cat breeds is a fascinating and diverse one, filled with an array of feline companions that have captured the hearts of millions of people around the globe. From the regal and majestic Maine Coon to the unique and exotic Sphynx, each breed possesses its own distinct characteristics, personality traits, and physical attributes.
Cat breeds have been selectively bred by humans for centuries, resulting in the wide variety of breeds we have today. Whether it’s for their striking appearance, specific coat type, or certain behavioral traits, breeders have dedicated their time and expertise to create these unique feline companions.
One of the most popular and well-known cat breeds is the Persian. With their luxurious long hair, expressive eyes, and gentle demeanor, Persians are often considered the epitome of feline beauty. On the other end of the spectrum, the Siamese breed is renowned for its striking blue eyes, sleek body, and vocal nature. These are just two examples of the vast diversity of cat breeds available.
Aside from their physical characteristics, cat breeds also display distinct personality traits. Some breeds, such as the Ragdoll or the British Shorthair, are known for their calm and docile nature, making them ideal companions for those seeking a relaxed and easygoing pet. On the other hand, breeds like the Bengal or Abyssinian are known for their high energy levels and playful nature, making them perfect for active individuals or families.
Furthermore, cat breeds come in various coat types, ranging from long-haired to short-haired, curly-haired to hairless. This allows potential cat owners to choose a breed that suits their preferences and lifestyles. For individuals with allergies, hypoallergenic breeds like the Balinese or the Russian Blue can be a great option as they produce fewer allergenic proteins in their saliva and skin.
In conclusion, the world of cat breeds offers a rich tapestry of options for those seeking a feline companion. From their physical attributes to their personalities, each breed
2. "Popular Cat Breeds: Discover the Most Beloved and Recognizable Felines"
When it comes to popular cat breeds, there are several beloved and recognizable felines that have captured the hearts of cat lovers around the world. These breeds are often sought after for their unique characteristics, striking appearances, and friendly personalities. Let’s delve into some of the most popular cat breeds that are adored by many.
One of the most recognizable cat breeds is the Persian. Known for its long, luxurious coat, adorable flat face, and gentle demeanor, the Persian cat has been a favorite for centuries. With their expressive eyes and calm nature, Persians make excellent companions and are often regarded as one of the most glamorous and elegant breeds.
Another popular cat breed is the Maine Coon. Hailing from the United States, Maine Coons are the largest domesticated cat breed, known for their impressive size and stunning coat. These gentle giants are often described as friendly, sociable, and intelligent. Their tufted ears and bushy tails make them easily recognizable, and their playful nature makes them a joy to have around.
Siamese cats are also highly sought after for their striking appearance and vocal nature. With their distinct blue almond-shaped eyes, short coat, and color-pointed patterns, Siamese cats are instantly recognizable. They are known for being intelligent, social, and curious, often forming strong bonds with their human companions.
The Bengal cat has gained immense popularity in recent years due to its wild and exotic appearance. With a coat that resembles that of a leopard or a jaguar, Bengal cats are known for their muscular build and energetic nature. Despite their wild looks, they are domesticated cats and make affectionate and playful companions.
The Ragdoll breed has also captured the hearts of many cat lovers. Ragdolls are large, gentle cats with striking blue eyes and semi-longhair coats. They are known for their relaxed and docile nature, often going limp like a ragdoll when held, hence their name. Ragdolls are extremely affectionate and enjoy the company
3. "Rare and Exotic Cat Breeds: Unveiling the Unique and Uncommon Feline Beauties"
There is no denying that cats are already beautiful creatures, but some breeds take beauty to a whole new level with their rare and exotic features. These unique and uncommon feline beauties are a true delight for cat enthusiasts who appreciate the extraordinary.
One such rare breed is the Egyptian Mau, known for its stunning coat pattern resembling a wild leopard. Originating from Egypt, this breed is not only visually striking but also possesses an athletic and playful nature. Their captivating green eyes and silver, bronze, or smoke-colored coat make them a sight to behold.
Another rare cat breed that captivates with its distinct appearance is the Peterbald. Originating from Russia, this breed is known for its hairless or partially hairless body. With their slender bodies and elegant features, Peterbalds exude a sense of grace and sophistication. Their velvety skin and large, almond-shaped eyes give them an otherworldly allure.
If you’re looking for a feline companion with an exotic twist, the Bengal cat might be the perfect choice. This breed’s striking coat resembles that of a leopard, with its distinctive rosette patterns and glittery appearance. Bengals are descendants of the Asian leopard cat and exhibit a wild appearance while maintaining the loving and affectionate nature of domestic cats.
The Serengeti breed is another rare gem that combines the grace and beauty of a wild African serval with the loving personality of a domestic cat. With their long legs, striking coat pattern, and large ears, Serengetis are often mistaken for miniature cheetahs. Their playful, curious, and social nature make them a popular choice for those seeking an exotic companion.
Finally, the LaPerm breed stands out with its unique curly coat that resembles a perm. This breed originated in the United States and is known for its affectionate and friendly temperament. LaPerms come in various colors and patterns, but it is their soft and curly fur that truly sets them apart.
While these rare
4. "Understanding Different Cat Breeds: From Temperament to Grooming Needs"
When it comes to cat breeds, there is a wide range of temperaments and grooming needs that vary from one breed to another. Understanding these differences can help potential cat owners choose a breed that aligns with their lifestyle and preferences.
Temperament is an essential aspect to consider when selecting a cat breed. Some breeds are known for their outgoing and social nature, while others are more reserved and independent. For example, the Siamese breed is often described as highly sociable and vocal, seeking attention and interaction with their owners. On the other hand, breeds like the Scottish Fold are known for their laid-back and calm demeanor, making them a good choice for individuals seeking a more relaxed companion.
In addition to temperament, grooming needs should also be taken into account. Some cat breeds require minimal grooming, while others demand regular brushing and maintenance. Long-haired breeds, such as the Persian or Maine Coon, have luxurious coats that require frequent brushing to prevent matting and tangling. These breeds also tend to shed more, necessitating regular grooming sessions to keep their fur in good condition. On the other hand, short-haired breeds like the Bengal or Siamese may only require occasional brushing to remove loose hair.
Understanding the specific grooming needs of different cat breeds is crucial not only for maintaining their appearance but also for their overall health. Neglecting grooming can lead to problems such as furballs, skin irritations, and even behavioral issues. Therefore, it is important for potential cat owners to assess their willingness and ability to dedicate time and effort to grooming before choosing a breed.
In conclusion, when it comes to cat breeds, temperament and grooming needs play a significant role in determining the right fit for prospective owners. By understanding the differences among breeds, individuals can make an informed decision that aligns with their lifestyle and ensures the well-being of their feline companion.
5. "Choosing the Right Cat Breed: Factors to Consider for a Perfect Feline Match"
Choosing the Right Cat Breed: Factors to Consider for a Perfect Feline Match
When deciding to bring a cat into your home, it is important to consider various factors to ensure a perfect feline match. Each cat breed possesses distinct characteristics, temperaments, and care requirements. By understanding these factors, you can select a cat breed that aligns with your lifestyle and preferences. Here are some essential factors to consider when choosing the right cat breed:
1. Activity Level: Cat breeds vary in their energy levels, some being more active and playful, while others prefer a more relaxed and laid-back lifestyle. If you’re an active individual who enjoys interactive play and plenty of exercise, an energetic breed like the Bengal or Abyssinian might be a good fit. On the other hand, if you prefer a calm and low-key companion, breeds such as the British Shorthair or Ragdoll would be more suitable.
2. Space and Environment: Consider the space you have available in your home. Some cat breeds, like the Maine Coon or Norwegian Forest Cat, are larger and require more room to roam around. If you live in an apartment or have limited space, a smaller breed, like the Siamese or Russian Blue, may adapt better to a confined environment. Additionally, some breeds are more adaptable to different climates, while others may have specific temperature or humidity requirements.
3. Allergies: If you or a family member have allergies, it’s essential to choose a hypoallergenic cat breed. While no cat is completely hypoallergenic, certain breeds, such as the Siberian or Balinese, produce fewer allergens, making them a better choice for allergy sufferers.
4. Grooming Needs: Different cat breeds have varying grooming requirements. Long-haired breeds, such as the Persian or Maine Coon, need regular brushing to prevent matting and keep their coats healthy. If you prefer a low-maintenance cat, a short-haired breed like the American Shorthair
6. "Breeding and Preservation Efforts: The Fascinating World of Cat Breeders"
Breeding and Preservation Efforts: The Fascinating World of Cat Breeders
Cat breeding is a captivating field that has been instrumental in developing various cat breeds we know and love today. Cat breeders are dedicated individuals who work tirelessly to preserve and improve specific cat breeds, ensuring their characteristics and qualities are maintained for future generations to enjoy.
One of the primary goals of cat breeders is to produce healthy kittens with desirable traits that conform to the breed standards. This involves carefully selecting parent cats with the desired physical attributes, temperament, and genetic makeup. By selectively breeding cats, breeders can reinforce and enhance specific traits, leading to the creation of new breeds or refining existing ones.
Cat breeders are often passionate about preserving rare and endangered cat breeds, whose numbers have dwindled over time. Through their efforts, they strive to increase the population of these breeds, preventing them from disappearing altogether. Preservation breeding involves careful genetic management to maintain genetic diversity and avoid inbreeding, which can lead to health issues.
In addition to preserving and improving cat breeds, breeders also play a vital role in ensuring the overall health and welfare of their cats. Responsible breeders prioritize the well-being of their animals and take steps to promote healthy breeding practices. They conduct regular health screenings, provide necessary vaccinations, and create suitable living conditions for their cats.
The world of cat breeders is a fascinating one, filled with dedicated individuals who are deeply passionate about these unique creatures. They invest considerable time, effort, and resources to ensure the longevity and betterment of specific cat breeds. Their commitment to preserving and improving cat breeds is essential for maintaining the diverse and beautiful feline population we know today.
It is important to note that not all breeders operate ethically, and there are cases of irresponsible breeding practices that prioritize profit over the welfare of the cats. Therefore, potential cat owners should thoroughly research and choose reputable breeders who prioritize the health and happiness of their cats.
In conclusion, cat breeders are integral to the world
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- A number, derived from the Latin word septua
- 7 is the fourth prime number
- The name of a character on the TV show, Star Trek: Voyager
- The middle name of the fourth child of athlete David Beckham and singer Victoria “Posh Spice” Beckham (Harper Seven, born 2011)
The name Seven
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Many of us have a great idea or a new solution to an everyday challenge lingering in the back of our minds but don't act on it. Having a good idea is great. Acting on it is even better. It takes a leap of faith combined with plenty of legwork.
The reason many us don't move forward is not because of roadblocks that stand in your way. Often it is the emotional barriers we create. Here are five mental hurdles you may have and how to scale them to make your leap:
1. I don't have the time. If not now, when? If you can make time for a weekly mani-pedi, spin class, laundry or posting endlessly on Facebook, why can't you take the same amount of time to work on your new idea? Flexing your mind is as important as flexing your body. Tip: Put the "Do not disturb" sign up and add just one hour in your week for "project development."
2. I can't afford to do it. Hey! You can't afford not to. Taking action costs relatively nothing compared to living with the price of regret for not trying. If money is tight, take baby steps to get started. Start saving in other areas or trading off to give yourself more spending power to spark your idea. I traded dining out for eating in and stopped buying stuff that was simply filling up my drawers and counters, often rarely used.
3. I don't have the skills. Well, you probably do and just don't know it. First, look at what talents you have and think about using them in other ways. I host two radio shows and never took a class called "How to be a radio host." I knew I loved to write, had a gift for gab and an inquisitive mind and just repackaged my communications skills to use them in a fresh new way.Want to learn new skills? Volunteer your time and talent with organization which aligns with your goals to gain hands on experience.
4. I lack the proper education or degree. That didn't seem to stop Bill Gates. You are smarter than you think. Our bodies are designed to give birth which is pretty amazing! But our minds are equally able to give birth to ideas, which is awesome!
Tip: If you feel you need to deposit to your brain trust, there are many online courses and Apps you can download. Just jump in with that extra hour a week you just gave yourself. I am a big fan of free webinars and tele-seminars. Usually there's a no-obligation sales pitch at the end. But you can learn plenty just by listening for one hour free. For some jobs like teaching, an advanced degree is necessary. Many programs offer payment plans for slightly more money or provide professional discounts to certain groups.
5. It seems like everyone is already doing what I want to do. Sometimes I wonder if any idea is truly original anymore. Here's the reality: There is a market for everything if you identify your niche and audience, understand their needs and figure out how to reach them and with a compelling message. Just give your idea a new twist.
Some of the best ideas are better solutions to everyday problems. Do your homework by drawing on your own experiences and by talking to others. There were a ton of breast cancer books written by survivors on the market when I was pitching "Getting Things Off My Chest." I read many of them and knew how I wanted my book to stand apart. I was able to sell this message and my plan to promote it to a publisher who listened and took me on. If I had not done the research and pitched how my book filled a niche for a specific audience and would be different from the other books, my manuscript would still be sitting in my computer.
If you want to pursue something for pure joy (dancing, painting, singing, jewelry making), there are many courses and apps to help you get started without making a huge commitment. I like www.craftsy.com
If your idea is a business, start with a simple outline. Ask yourself these ten questions:
- What is my idea and what is its purpose?
- How does it work?
- What is the need and how will my idea fill it?
- Who is my target audience and what do they like?
- How can I reach them?
- What am I offering them to engage their interest?
- What am I selling to make money and how am I doing it?
- How much money do I need to get started?
- What other services/products like mine exist and how is my concept both similar and different?
- What resources can I draw on (tech support, financial, friends, family, etc) to help me?
Taking the first step with a new project, enterprise or direction requires a leap of faith. You have to believe in yourself, your potential and your possibilities. Do it with an open mind and a willingness to listen to your gut, to advice from people you respect and to the people you want to reach. But ignore the naysayers who discourage rather than encourage you.
I don't know about you, but I'd rather act on my dreams rather than sleepwalk through life. Is it time to schedule your wake up call?
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Saunas have been used throughout the world for health benefits for thousands of years. Sweating has been proven to effectively flush toxins and disease out of the system while maintaining optimum health of the body. According to Net Physician, the benefits of sauna therapy include detoxification of the body, anti-viral activity, weight loss, pain relief, sinus relief, improved circulation, relaxation and skin conditioning. Sweating naturally or through the use of a sauna is a way to help the body keep and restore good health, but there are some contraindications for their use.
Improved Blood Circulation
The sauna increases and enhances circulation while oxygenating the cells, organs and tissues throughout the body. Using a sauna helps increase the body's ability to produce energy, and in turn, start the healing processes within the body. On his website, Dr. John Maher states that the thermal effects of infared sauna within the deeper layers of tissue cause the blood vessels and capillaries to dilate, promoting increased circulation and removing metabolic waste and toxins through sweating. Sauna use makes the blood vessels more flexible increasing circulation and overall health.
A sauna's affect on the body is similar to doing mild exercise. During a sauna session, the heartbeat increases by 50 to 75 percent, which is the same effect caused by a physical workout, states Organic Facts.
Sauna usage might help reduce the appearance of cellulite under the skin, which is thought to be due to toxins trapped inside fat cells. Saunas help release the toxins from the fat cells and flush them out through the pores to help maintain a diminished cellulite appearance. Far-infrared saunas produce heat that travels deeper into the body tissues than conventional saunas and is used more often for those who have weight concerns because of the increased level of sweat production and metabolism.
According to Evolution Health, due to at least twice the depth of heat penetration into cellulite, combined with up to 10 times the level of heating in these tissues, an Infra Therapist System can be significantly more effective on cellulite than any conventional sauna.
Saunas help allow the body and mind to relax and rejuvenate. Stress builds up and creates tension in the body, which can manifest into aches and pains. Use of the sauna in the evening can help relieve tense muscles and dull pains from the day. Sauna also temporarily eases pain associated with arthritis.
According to the National Institutes of Health's Pub Med, contraindications to sauna bathing include unstable angina pectoris, recent myocardial infarction and severe aortic stenosis. For people with coronary heart disease, most of the time sauna bathing is safe. Check with your physician if you have any concerns. Alcohol comsumption during sauna therapy increases the risk for hypertension and arrhythmia. Pregnant women should consult a physician before using any sauna therapy.
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Migration & geographic mobility both refer to the movement of people from one location to another. Whereas migration typically refers to moves that cross a boundary, such as a county or state, mobility includes both short & long-distance movesRead More
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Alpaca Expeditions joins Hero Organization to Help Wakatinku
The village which is home to many of our Inca Trail porters. This was our 4th visit to this village, at the base of Ausangate, the 2nd tallest mountain in Peru (21,000 feet elevation). 204 children from around this agricultural region walk as much as 2 hours each way to get to the school.
We left early on Thursday morning along with Brian Hindman, the Founding Director of HERO, and 9 of his associates. We made the 3.5 hour drive from Cusco to Wakatunku, then set up the computers for the school. Unfortunately, due to amount of rain we have received during this “dry” season, the internet in the village is completely down. They are working on getting this back up for the kids to take full advantage of these computers. But for now, they are all set up and ready to be used and the kids have already started using them for homework.
We also brought along additional school supplies, similar to our previous trip to Wakatinku in August 2014. Each child received notebooks, pencils, erasers, and other assorted hygiene items to encourage them to study and practice good hygiene. And of course everyone needs to have some fun, so we also brought a bunch of sports equipment for them to play with.
Alpaca Expeditions is so proud to be able to support these families in their humble villages, and to offer them the tools to help improve their lives.
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Safe Separation - Especially In Wet Weather
Riders... With wetter weather coming our way, try your best to maintain at least a 2 second safety gap ahead of you, and at least 4 seconds in bad weather. This gives you greater forward visibility, and more time and space to react to situations ahead.
In reality, it's difficult - we know, and for lots of reasons. Here's a good example of how maintaining a safe gap ahead of you can be beneficial.
It's also an example of the potentially dangerous 40km/h emergency vehicle speed limit - be extra alert of other vehicles around you when you see emergency vehicles, they may not be as observant as you. It's interesting to note that the "40km/h emergency vehicle speed limit" was rejected in QLD, including by QLD Police.
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Jamais Vu VIEWS
Real people, fictional world! Jamais inter-vus of all the "real-life guest stars" plus Stewart Brand, Jean Houston, Russell Jacoby, Charles Johnston, Russell Targ, and Robert Theobald. Kindle edition
First published by Harmony Books (Crown) in 1991, The Jamais Vu Papers kept a following over the years. The new edition reproduces the original and includes extras about how the book came to be, an excerpt from "Participatory Storytelling" by Vance Lehmkul, and a bonus story. Paperback only.
Buy The Jamais Vu Papers
The new edition has won recognition for visionary fiction—International Book Awards and Eric Hoffer awards; also shortlisted for Hoffer's Montaigne Medal.
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Links: Over the years since its first publication, discussions and comments on Jamais Vu have cropped up on the Internet and other places with alarming frequency.
Brad Johnson discussed it in his 1998 Amherst College Commencement Speech.
Author Fred Alan Wolf littered his 1995 book The Dreaming Universe with quotes from Jamais Vu. (Fred Alan Wolf.)
On a website devoted to works influenced by Jorge Luis Borges, Greg Carden called Jamais Vu “the best postmodern novel I've read, or at least the most entertaining. … The literary equivalent of an M.C. Escher print on peyote.” (Borges Influence)
Llixgrijb took on a life of his own and may still be found lurking around the internet.
The Jamais Vu Papers
Or, Misadventures in the Worlds of
Science, Myth, and Magic
Once upon a time in Los Angeles, an addled psychiatrist named Hector Glasco was vainly trying to treat a jaded celebrity who was suffering from a chronic and perhaps potentially fatal case of déjà vu—that condition, of course, in which one has the weirdest feeling that one has been here before. The cure, it seemed, was to instill a sense of jamais vu, a mysterious feeling that one has never been here before—not in this world, this life, or the most familiar circumstances. These real-life guest stars agreed to take part in the story:
- cognitive philosopher Daniel C. Dennett, who explains how a fictional character can, indeed, achieve consciousness.
- author Tom Robbins, discussing time, history, and the pizza delivery zone
- physicist Fred Alan Wolf, grappling with an interdimensional entity named Llixgrijb who dreams our world into existence
- Yippie co-founder Paul Krassner, explaining the uses of “preventative journalism”
- literary agent John Brockman, who peremptorily refuses to represent Hector Glasco because he’s “just another psychiatrist with a book idea”
- the famous neuronaut Timothy Leary, who serves as a garrulous tour guide to a distant cybernetic future.
- poet Fred Chappell, whose answer to a question that nobody asks is, “Yes, do”
- the theatrical puppeteer and storyteller María De Cespedes, who turns out to be a puppet herself
- the critic and novelist Jamake Highwater, who warns that “We often end up munching on cardboard when we insist that we are dealing with reality”
Hector's quest leads him to a drug called M—the chemical equivalent of a metaphor, meant to act on the brain’s oxymorphins, the newly-discovered neurotransmitters for paradox. The fictional cast of Jamais Vu includes a bored entity called Llixgrijb, the celebrated neuroscientist, Imogene Savonarola, a secret society known as The Ancient Order of the Brothers and Sisters of Thaumaturgy, a cut-rate Venice Beach shaman, a demented deconstructionist scholar, and the elderly ladies of The Elmblight, Ohio, Book Club and Sewing Circle, who in the course of reading The Jamais Vu Papers manage to become a part of the story, threatening to disrupt the fabric of reality.
Start reading The Jamais Vu Papers with a free download. (pdf file)
Did you ever get the strangest feeling you've NEVER been here before?
That's Jamais Vu!
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State, political Group of society, or the human body politic, or, a lot more narrowly, the institutions of government. The point out is a type of human association distinguished from other social teams by its goal, the establishment of buy and stability; its techniques, the legislation as well as their enforcement; its territory, the area of jurisdiction or geographic boundaries; and finally by its sovereignty. The state is made up, most broadly, in the settlement in the people on the implies whereby disputes are settled in the form of legal guidelines. In these types of nations around the world as The usa, Australia, Nigeria, Mexico, and Brazil, the phrase condition (or a cognate) also refers to political models that are not sovereign themselves but subject matter on the authority of your larger point out, or federal union.
Greek and Roman precedents
The heritage in the Western point out starts in historic Greece. Plato and Aristotle wrote of your polis, or metropolis-condition, as a great type of association, in which The full Local community’s spiritual, cultural, political, and economic wants may be pleased. This city-state, characterized mainly by its self-sufficiency, was noticed by Aristotle because the implies of developing morality from the human character. The Greek notion corresponds a lot more correctly to the modern thought of your nation—i.e., a inhabitants of a set space that shares a typical language, lifestyle, and history—Whilst the Roman res publica, or commonwealth, is more similar to the modern thought on the point out. The res publica was a legal method whose jurisdiction prolonged to all Roman citizens, securing their legal rights and identifying their tasks. Using the fragmentation with the Roman method, the query of authority and the necessity for get and stability brought about a long period of battle among the warring feudal lords of Europe.
Machiavelli and Bodin
It wasn’t until the 16th century that the modern strategy in the state emerged, in the writings of Niccolò Machiavelli (Italy) and Jean Bodin (France), given that the centralizing force whereby balance could possibly be regained. From the Prince, Machiavelli gave primary significance to the sturdiness of presidency, sweeping apart all ethical things to consider and focusing instead over the energy—the vitality, braveness, and independence—on the ruler. For Bodin, his contemporary, ability wasn’t adequate in itself to make a sovereign; rule ought to comply with morality to be strong, and it needs to have continuity—i.e., a method of creating succession. Bodin’s idea was the forerunner of the seventeenth-century doctrine often called the divine correct of kings, whereby monarchy turned the predominate sort of government in Europe. It produced a local weather for your Tips from the 17th-century reformers like John Locke in England and Jean-Jacques Rousseau in France, who began to reexamine the origins and uses of the point out.Original pakistani suits
Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau
For Locke and Rousseau, and for Locke’s English predecessor Thomas Hobbes, the state mirrored the character of the human beings who made it. The “purely natural condition” of person, said Hobbes, is self-trying to get and aggressive. Man subjects himself to the rule on the condition as the only indicates of self-preservation whereby he can escape the brutish cycle of mutual destruction which is usually the result of his contact with others.
For Locke, the human affliction is not really so gloomy, even so the point out yet again springs from the necessity for defense—In such cases, of inherent legal rights. Locke reported that the point out may be the social deal by which people today agree never to infringe on one another’s “purely natural rights” to daily life, liberty, and residence, in Trade for which each male secures his possess “sphere of liberty.”
Rousseau’s Tips mirror an attitude far more favourable in respect of human mother nature than both Hobbes or Locke. In lieu of the ideal of the monarch to rule, Rousseau proposed that the point out owed its authority to the overall will of your governed. For him, the country alone is sovereign, as well as the regulation is none other than the will from the people as a whole. Motivated by Plato, Rousseau identified the point out because the surroundings for the moral progress of humanity. Man, although corrupted by his civilization, remained generally good and thus capable of assuming the moral situation of aiming at the final welfare. For the reason that the result of aiming at particular person uses is disagreement, a healthful (noncorrupting) point out can exist only once the widespread very good is recognized as being the target.
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Gardening Articles: Edibles :: Fruit & Nut Trees
Apple Tree Care
by National Gardening Association Editors
Water young trees regularly, especially those on semidwarfing or dwarfing rootstocks, to ensure that the root system becomes well established. Renew mulch periodically, but pull it away from the tree in the fall so mice don't nest over the winter and eat the bark.
Training Young Trees
Train dwarf apple trees to the central leader system. In the early years of growth, it's important to create a strong framework of scaffold branches because apples can bear heavy crops year after year. Semidwarfing trees can be trained to a central leader shape, but are more easily trained to a modified leader system. Standard trees should also be trained to a modified leader. Prune bearing trees annually. Larger trees need more pruning and you'll eventually have to use a ladder to get the job done. Spur-type apples require less pruning than other trees because they produce more fruiting spurs and less vegetative growth. Apples are often grown without any thinning other than what nature provides in the annual spring drop. However, to avoid potential disease and insect problems, you might want to thin after the natural fruit drop (about 4 to 6 weeks after bloom) to one fruit per cluster, or about 6 to 8 inches between fruit.
Home gardeners who wouldn't dream of using pesticides on other crops may have to consider this option with apples. The fruit are subject to many insect and disease attacks that twist, perforate, and mangle them; most caretakers must spray to get an acceptable crop. But there are alternatives. You can avoid using fungicides by selecting disease-resistant varieties such as 'Prima', 'Priscilla', 'Liberty', and 'Freedom'. These have been field tested for many years and require no spraying for apple scab, cedar-apple rust, and other common diseases, while most other varieties require periodic spraying every spring and summer after planting.
Apple maggots, plum curculios, green fruitworms, and codling moths are pests that can trouble a crop. Annual spray programs are usually necessary. Check with your extension service to find approved pest prevention programs for your area. Other pests such as scales, mites, and aphids should be controlled by natural parasite and predator populations if you haven't used a lot of sprays. For problem areas, you can try an anti-insect oil, usually available where pesticides are sold. Spray it in the spring when your apple trees are in the tight cluster stage: after the leaves have unfolded from the fruiting cluster, but before the buds begin to show pink.
Most apples are ready to pick when they separate easily from the tree. With some varieties, you may notice the fruit softening a bit or apples may start dropping. Another indicator is the color of seeds in the core -- when they turn dark brown, the apples are ready. Don't yank on the apple to pick it; instead, twist the fruit upward with a rotating motion. Early-season apples tend to start bearing at a younger age; but they generally don't keep long after harvesting them. Many late-season types have good keeping qualities -- they'll keep for a few weeks in a cool place. In a good root cellar, storage apples can keep 5 months or so.
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Pakistan cannot afford F-16s from the US
April 23, 2008 17:31 IST
Last Updated: April 23, 2008 17:38 IST
Pakistan has reduced the number of nuclear-capable F-16 fighter jets it planned to buy from the United States, from 36 to 18, due to financial constraints.
The original plan envisaged Pakistan acquiring 36 jets under a 5.1 billion-dollar package that would have included weapon systems and spares as well as upgrading the earlier fleet of F-16s bought in the 1980s.
The 36 new F-16 block 50/52 jets were to have cost Pakistan three billion dollars and the weapon systems an additional 650 million dollars.
The decision to reduce the order by half would also halve the cost of the proposal to buy new F-16s and weapon systems, Dawn newspaper quoted diplomatic sources as saying on Wednesday.
Pakistan, however, will still have to spend 1.3 billion dollars on the mid-life upgrade and modification of its older F-16 A/B jets. Engine modification and the purchase of some new equipment for the old fleet will cost an additional 151 million dollars.
The new Pakistan government is currently facing a major financial crunch due to rising global oil prices and inflation. Leaders of the ruling coalition have hinted at a cut in the defence budget due to the financial crisis.
The sources said that the new jets will be fully equipped with the weapons and equipment that come with an F-16 Block 50/52 jet. These aircraft will be capable of carrying nuclear and non-nuclear weapons.
"The media stories that the new aircraft will not have the facility to carry a nuclear weapon do not make sense," said a defence expert.
He pointed out that the French Mirage jets operated by the Pakistan Air Force did not have such facilities when they were purchased. Pakistan modified the jets to make them nuclear-capable, he added.
The US will have the right to conduct frequent inspections and inventory checking of the new jets, the diplomatic sources said.
Pakistan's request for new F-16s and for the modification for its older fleet was put on hold after the October 2005 earthquake.
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As a foodie, eating is a pleasure for me but for millions of people this vital necessity can be converted into unhealthy disorders with overeating, binge eating or the contrary literally, starving. The most commons are the anorexia and bulimia, but lately specialists have found more classifications and alas, they are increasing due to bad lifestyle and unhealthy eating habits.
Last weekend I was chatting with a nutritionist friend at lunch in a parrillada about these themes and we agree that the causes of this eating disorder is not the food itself, but the way that you see it, frequently like your inevitable enemy. Body image-conscience, the permanent issue about your weight and dangerous yo-yo diets can get worse with extreme complications.
The majority that suffer these eating disorders are women and teens are the principal victims; there are also male eating disorder, but in lower proportion.
The best treatment for eating disorders is a rapid diagnosis with multidisciplinary teams e.g. psychologists, nutritionists, doctors, and so on.
Is it possible to achieve a rehabilitation of these eating disorders? Yes with persistence and effort you can have a normal balanced normal life like Sophia of Burp and Slurp~; she has passed through ED (eating disorder) and she tells us her experience at her wonderful blog between other delicious things.
Let’s see some of these compulsive eating disorders.
Persons are obsessed with food and with a body image distortion more a compulsive fear of gaining weight. In general, it describes a personality of low self-esteem more the high pressure of the media to be fit, for them is literally starvation.
Excessive weight loss can become very dangerous because the body don’t receive the necessary nutrients.
Symptoms of anorexia are: looking extremely thin, tiredness, dizziness, faints, dry skin, etc. More warning signs of anorexia are deleting some meals, rejecting to eat permanently, only eating food low calories and excessive workouts.
The bulimia is characterized for recurrent episodes of binge eating (a pattern of uncontrollable eating of excessive food) followed by called compensatory behaviors. These compensatory conducts are self-induced vomiting, purging using diuretics and laxatives trying to compensate the overeating just done.
Often this type of conduct is consequence of feeling ashamed about being fat. Some cases can be accompanied with excessive exercises to try to burn the unnecessary calories eaten.
These symptoms may occur daily or sporadically, being the triggers stress or problems with body weight among others.
Signs of bulimia are harder to recognize if we compare with the anorexia, because bulimics have a relative normal average weight. That’s why if you suspect that a friend or a loved one is suffering from the disorder, we recommend that you learn what you can about it, and learn how to find the best bulimia rehab centers as well.
Night Eating Syndrome (NES)
Generally speaking this night eating disorder begins skipping meals during the day or only eating very few calories, hence the hunger increase at night.
They can have abundant nocturnal meals in a binge eating pattern and of course after this disproportionate emotional eating, it can induce insomnia or sleeping issues based on anxiety or depression along the day. More than half of the necessary calories for the journey are eaten during the night.
It’s very common this emotional eating disorder where the person eats thousands and thousands of calories in one go. Opposite to the bulimia, the food isn’t purged so you can imagine that these over-eaters will become obese very soon.
Causes are various like different unsuccessful diets, stress, depression, etc. This is a food addiction where they can eat huge amounts of food but they aren’t hungry.
The symptoms of the compulsive overeating disorder are persons who tend to eat extremely rapid and very little in public to avoid guilt or shame in front of others.
It’s other eating disorder suffered with persons with type 1 diabetes. With an extreme obsession of weight loss, they inject themselves less insulin than necessary. This behavior tends to increase the sugar in blood (hyperglycemia), the body is unable to process sugars so it’s eliminated in the urine instead of being used for the muscles or stored as fat. They can have important weight loss but with long-term complications.
The change of habits of a person of healthy eating can become to an uncontrollable obsession for only “healthy” food. They put aside food with additives, colorants, pre-prepared meals and with excess of salt, sugar or fat.
They stop visiting friends, relatives and restaurants – because they don’t know how the meals were prepared! They tend to isolate of others and can lead to harsh malnutrition or worst problems. Unlike the anorexic that want to lose weight, the motive of the orthorexic is to stay healthy but of course they cross, in excess, the healthy-line.
Selective Eating Disorder (SED)
This eating disorder appears with kids avoiding certain type of foods. The problem is when this picky or fussy eating is transferred to middle childhood and adolescence, or worst to adult life. The impossibility of trying new foods based in textures, aromas and the very high limited range of foods can derive in malnutrition and social problems in adult lives.
They can be restricted only to a certain brand or avoiding a complete gamma of foods like vegetables or fruits. The consequence is obvious, with the lack of minerals, vitamins and other nutrients.
Permarexia is an eating disorder where the person (habitually female) is in a constant and permanent diet. The cause for them is that “everything I eat makes me gain weight”
They try to maintain a very low weight level and the meals are just only strictly the necessary for survive. Permarexics have extreme concepts about their body image.
It’s impossible that you can maintain your vitality only with some vegs and diet sodas. We’ve had a dead of a fashion model in my country Uruguay apparently for this cause.
Some specialists call drunkorexia as an eating disorder. But, what is drunkorexia? A simple equation: you avoid some meals anticipating drinking sessions later to not increase your weight. The food kcals not eaten are replaced by the alcohol-calories, a typical compensatory behavior.
The fear to gain weight can decide even that alcohol is more important than food avoiding eating practically all the day. It’s certainly a dangerous conduct.
Extra Eating Disorder Information, Help and Links
Have you recognized the ED symptoms in relative / friend? Have you assisted or accompanied to eating disorder treatment centers? The help/therapy has been successful? I’m interested in hearing from you!
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In computing, XFixes is an X Window System extension which makes useful additions to the X11 protocol. It was started in 2003 by Keith Packard. It first appeared in the KDrive X server and later in X.Org Server version 6.8.0.
The extension implements a collection of unrelated additions to the protocol. The theme of the collection is small additions to remove important defects in the protocol that can't be worked around using the pure X11 protocol.
The point of implementing these additions in an extension is to leave the core server code, and a server that does not include the XFixes extension, implementing the original pure X11 protocol. However, as the additions are designed in a backward compatible way, there is no practical reason for a server not to implement them. The client and server can always negotiate down to the additions that both understand.
Version 1 of the extension included Save Set processing changes (to make embedding applications more reliable), selection notification events (add events sent when selection ownership is asserted) and cursor tracking (requests allowing the image to be tracked reliably).
Version 2 of the extension adds region objects and cursor names.
Version 3 allows existing region objects to be enlarged.
Version 4 allows the mouse cursor to be hidden over specific windows.
- X Fixes extension (freedesktop.org)
- The X Fixes Extension, Latest Official Specifications
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GERCHUNOFF, ALBERTO (1884–1950), Argentine author, essayist, and journalist born in Proskurov, Russia. Gerchunoff arrived in Argentina as a child when his father became a pioneer settler of Moisés Ville, one of the JCA agricultural colonies financed by Baron Maurice de *Hirsch. Young Gerchunoff settled in Buenos Aires, where he became a journalist. In 1908 he joined the staff of La Nación, a leading daily, with which he was associated for over 40 years, part of the time as chief editor. Gerchunoff's first, and most famous, book was Los Gauchos Judíos (1910; The Jewish Gauchos of the Pampas, 1955), a collection of stories describing the life of Jewish colonists in Entre Ríos conceived by him as "a new Zion." This first Spanish account of immigration to the New World remains as the founding work of Jewish Latin American writing, though his intent to show that the return to agriculture was creating a new harmonious Jew who would enjoy full acceptance in Argentina has been strongly criticized by later generations. Gerchunoff also published books of stories such as Cuentos de ayer ("Stories of Yesterday," 1919) and Historias y proezas de amor ("Stories and Feats of Love," 1926); the autobiographical Entre Ríos, mi país ("Entre Ríos, My Country," 1950); and collections of essays such as El pino y la palmera ("The Pine and the Palm," 1952) and La jofaina maravillosa ("The Wondrous Washbasin," 1923). Gerchunoff was the founder and first president of the Argentine Writers' Association and was an active politician. He was detached from Jewish life for many years. Following the rise of Hitler, however, he became involved in activities against world and local antisemitism and a convinced Zionist. From 1945 onward he canvassed the support of Latin-American statesmen and politicians for the establishment of a Jewish state and was instrumental in securing their aid at the United Nations in 1947–48.
S. Jaroslasky de Lowy, Alberto Gerchunoff: Vida y Obra, Bibliografía-Antología (1957), offprint from Revista Hispánica Moderna, 23:3–4 (1957); M. Kantor, Sobre la obra y el anecdotario de Alberto Gerchunoff (1960), lists all his published and unpublished work (3,000 articles and essays), offprint from El hombre importante (1934); Davar, 31–33 (Buenos Aires, 1951), special issue. ADD. BIBLIOGRAPHY: E. Aizenberg, Parricide on the Pampa? A New Study and Translation of Alberto Gerchunoff's Los gauchos judíos (2000); E. Aizenberg, Books and Bombs in Buenos Aires. Borges, Gerchunoff and Argentine-Jewish Writing (2002); M. Kantor, Sobre la obra y el anecdotario de Alberto Gerchunoff (1960); N. Lindstrom, Jewish Issues in Argentine Literature (1989); D.B. Lockhart, Jewish Writers of Latin America. A Dictionary (1997); L. Senkman, La identidad judía en la literatura argentina (1983).
[Florinda F. Goldbeg (2nd ed.)]
Source: Encyclopaedia Judaica. © 2008 The Gale Group. All Rights Reserved.
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Kindness and assistance can be rare commodities because the world is never always amiable to us. Hence, it is of utmost importance to let others know that we are grateful and express gratitude whenever someone offer us assistance in any form.
The thing, however, is that sometimes dependency on others, can give rise to relations based on obligation.
I know for some people, obligation and help do not have any correlation. On the contrary, there are situations in which people allow those who they have helped to feel as though they are forever indebted to them- this is the type of obligation I speak of.
Being raised in the Caribbean, obligation is sometimes evident within some parental relations.
It is the norm for mothers and fathers to take care of their children. However, when you have reached a certain age and start to earn income there may be certain indicators, which suggest that it is the children’s turn to start taking care of their parents.
The obligated riddled parental relationship is usually expressed through reverse psychology, guilt trips and blatantly telling the child/ children how many sacrifices were made so that they could be in the position they are today.
There is also another form of obligation that comes with being helped in our social relationships.
Yes! Our friends may very well be there for us in our times of need. But not every friend will let your thank you be enough. You may get a reminder in the form of jokes, in private whispers behind your back or even blatantly to your face.
However, there is a deeper issue that comes with the whole notion of obligation and help.
The person who feels obligated is oftentimes overwhelmed, stressed, anxious and even depressed. There is a heavy burden as one person is trapped in the idea that he/she always has to say yes or be there because he/she was given help.
As such, the onus is upon the obligated person to channel his/her captive emotions to freedom. There has to be a point in which you, as the obligated person, realize that you are grateful (hopefully) for whatever was offered to you or for whatever was done on your behalf.
This will be your first step towards breaking the ties of your parasitic relationships.
You have to know that it is acceptable to say no or not to show up if it is literally not possible. Do not inconvenient yourself solely because you feel as though you have no choice.
There is always a choice.
And the best part is, the moment you detach yourself from the feelings of obligation begotten through help, you will have your peace of mind. The burden you once feel will be irrevocably removed from your life.
I also know that sometimes when you make the decision to stop feeling and acting obligated it may start an inner fight. But always remember that:
“Detachment, sometimes it’s necessary in order to restore your sanity. [And] Your peace of mind.” – Anonymous
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Random gallery full of street art from the streets and forrests of Prague, Czech Republic.
The first mural depicts various childhood characters from Czech as well as international children’s TV bedtime stories. You will most likely recognize Tom & Jerry, The Smurfs and Mickey Mouse. On the very right are two popular Czech rabbits called Bob and Bobek or “The Rabbits Out Of The Hat” and on the left is my favourite mole “Krteček”.
Unfortunately this unique building has been demolished in November 2016. It was an old telephone exchange in Dejvice that has been standing there for around 40 years.
Little broken car left alone in the forrest…
The following murals can be found at the railway station in Sokolov, Czech Republic.
A little something to think about today: “If we could see the world through the eyes of a child, we could see the magic in everything…”
Have a magical day!
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For I dip't into the future,
Far as human eye could see.
Saw the vision of the world,
And all the wonder that would be,
Saw the Heavens fill with commerce,
Argosies of magic sails,
Pilots of the purple twilight,
Dropping down with costly bales.
President Coolidge recited those lines, written by Tennyson in 1842, to the first International Conference on Aeronautics at Washington last week. They were part of his résumé of aviation's 25-year accomplishments. Flyers and aeronautics authorities from 40 nations heard him.
But Orville Wright, whom the President extolled, was not present. A train derailment had delayed him. When he arrived and unobstrusively entered the conference hall...
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I haven’t read any of Debra Adelaide’s books, but I was taken by an interview with her in this week’s Spectrum, where she talks about the process of writing her latest book, The Household Guide to Dying. This seems to underline the point I made at last year’s Faithful Writer* about how important time, space and support are to creativity and writing.
…The Household Guide To Dying must have been forming unconsciously for years. By the time she embarked on the novel in 2003, her marriage had ended and she was raising three children – Joe, now 18, Ellen, 15, and Callan, 10 – in south-west Sydney while working as a book reviewer and part-time creative writing teacher. That year she scored a full-time lecturer’s position at the University of Technology, Sydney. Then Callan developed leukemia.
Again Adelaide is adamant that her novel is not about her son’s illness. However, two years of treatment, worry and work left her little time to write. Callan recovered but Adelaide was not sure if her novel would. “I was afraid to look at it because I thought, how can I continue writing a flippant novel about dying when my own son’s been suffering with leukemia? I had to make a decision. So I forced myself to open it one day and I found I could go on with it.”
A small research grant enabled Adelaide to offload some of her teaching last year and meet a self-imposed deadline. “I felt convinced that a book I’d written to amuse myself in snatched time in a little corner of my bedroom – a novel I had to fit into the cracks of my life – couldn’t possibly work.” When she handed it over to her agent, Lyn Tranter, she said, “You’ll probably tell me to go away and give it a decent burial.” Tranter, however, decided to auction the book.
I love that phrase “a novel I had to fit into the cracks of my life”; that’s exactly what it feels like writing my book Undragon Stories. I want to give it more time and space, but feel like my life is so stretched most of the time, there’s nowhere to put it.
Yet every so often I get a little burst of enthusiasm about the book, like yesterday when I workshopped a very small scene I wrote a few weeks ago and felt greatly encouraged by my fellow Word-By-Word writers. I’ve checked out a few grants here and there, because it would be so wonderful to be able to buy a slab of time that I could use to finish the book. But most of the big ones, even if you’re applying for the new or ’emerging’ writers grants, you have to have a certain number of things already published. I’ve had a few things published, but not nearly enough. So how do you prioritise? Is it more important to work hard on a book to get it finished, or to work on shorter pieces you can get published in journals so you can apply for the money to allow you to work hard on the book to get it finished?
At this point, just writing at all is a victory, and I’m happy to claim it.
* by the way, this year’s Faithful Writer conference is coming up on August 2. The keynote speaker is Mark Tredinnick, he of The Little Red Writing Book fame. There will be writing time, workshop time, and some great seminars (Karen and I are running a seminar on Writers and Editors, but we both want to go and hear the others too!). Along with Mark Tredinnick and Greg Clarke, I’ll be reading some of my work at the end of the day. You should come along – register now if you haven’t already!
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Daughters of the American Revolution
Ondawa-Cambridge Chapter was formed on November 8, 1894, the 12th in New York State and 125th in the nation, when 12 women met at the home of Minerva Buck McKie. In 1895 the chapter sent its first delegate to Continental Congress. Lucinda Fowler Fish, a “real daughter” whose father was a minute man, was a member of the chapter as was Mary Robertson Moses (“Grandma Moses”) who memorialized our battlefields and countryside in her famous artwork.
Our members represent a wide area, including parts of Washington and Rensselaer Counties and Bennington, Vermont. Many are active volunteers in their communities. The chapter works closely with the Cambridge Historical Society and Museum. We meet the first Friday of the month at 1 p.m., March through June and September through December.
Regent: Jeanne Massey
Vice Regent: Lois Sheaff
Chaplain: Eleanor Calhoun
Secretary: Mary Smith
Treasurer: M. J. Root
Registrar: JoAnn Trinkle
Contact person: Martha Jane Root, Treasurer
We Hope You’ll Join Us!
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What is Lexica?
You may have found this page since Lexica started appearing in The Times newspaper. On this site you will find instructions for the puzzle and also a tutorial to give you a few hints on how to solve them. There are no new Lexica puzzles here but if you like the puzzle then please let The Times know what you think and you may see more of them in the future.
Take a look at the Lexica puzzle on the right hand side.
You can see an empty grid with letters around the outside.
The aim is to slide letters back into the grid either horizontally or vertically. Letters can slide over eachother but must stay in their original row or column.
It is as simple as that. Lexica puzzles can be solved by using logic and your knowledge of how words are built. Hover over the grid to see the completed puzzle.
Please take a look at some examples of Lexica to try this puzzle for yourself. If you need more help then feel free to take a look at this tutorial.
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International Jewish Cemetery Project - England
For Community Information, see Liverpool on JCR-UK.
"There is evidence of of an organised community before 1750. It appears to have had a burial ground attached. Little is known of this early community. It declined but in 1770 was reinforced by a new wave of settlers chiefly from Europe, who worshipped in a house in Upper Frederick Street, near the river, with a mikve and cemetery." [Source Jewish Year Book 2005]
Liverpool Jewish Archives are at the International Jewish Cemetery Project - England Liverpool Record Office, within in the Central Library on William Brown Street. The Jewish archives go back to 1780. In these archives are booklets and listings of almost all of the Jewish cemeteries and who was buried there. They typically detail date of burial, name, address of person at death, age and plot number. The problem is that almost all of it is in written form and in English and/or Yiddish. Although almost entirely in English, it is handwritten in script form. One has to look at the details very carefully to get spellings correctly. One of the problems is that these documents (and there are many), which cover almost all of the Jewish cemeteries from early 18th century to current date are not allowed to be taken from the Library archives. They can only be viewed on location and only with special permission and only via appointment.
Broad Green Cemetery: 1904 to date. Cemetery of the Liverpool Old Hebrew Congregation: Tel: +44 151 709 3431; Web: www.princesroad.org
Deane Road Cemetery: 1837-1904 (+44 151 486 7549); www.deaneroadcemetery.com).Cemetery of the Liverpool Old Hebrew Congregation: Tel: +44 151 709 3431; Web: www.princesroad.org
Green Lane Cemetery: 1839-1921. 2009: totally overgrown & sealed. Entry physically impossible) Cemetery of the Liverpool New Hebrew Congregation (now defunct)
Long Lane Cemetery: 1921-2008 (+44 151 733 2292 - community administrative centre holds records) Cemetery of the Liverpool New Hebrew Congregation (now defunct)
Lowerhouse Lane Cemetery: +44 151 733 2297. Cemetery not affiliated to one congregation alone
Oakes Street Cemetery: 1802-1837 (burials all removed to Broad Green). Cemetery of the Liverpool Old Hebrew Congregation: Tel: +44 151 709 3431; Web: www.princesroad.org
Rice Lane Cemetery: 1896-1983 (+44 733 2292 - community administrative centre holds records. Cemetery not affiliated to one congregation alone
Springwood Cemetery: active. +44 151 733 5871. Cemetery of Childwall & Allerton Hebrew Congregations
Upper Frederick Street Cemetery: 1789-1802 burials in back garden of converted house were all removed to Broad Green. Cemetery of the Liverpool Old Hebrew Congregation: Tel: +44 151 709 3431; Web: www.princesroad.org
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1.000 AU – August 3
0.900 AU – August 8
0.800 AU – August 13
0.728 AU – August 18 (aphelion of the orbit of Venus)
0.700 AU – August 19
0.600AU – August 27
0.500 AU – September 5
0.482 AU – September 10
Jenny, this is rumors from trash sites.
In photograph, on September 26, 2o11, what does the star symbol and the term ” Min Elong” mean? Excuse my arrogance, I don’t know anything about it.
This mean minimal elongation, i.e. minimal angular distance from comet to the Sun.
Where can I look to see it with the naked eye? Or is that going to be a possibility? I live in south central Kansas, will it be visible to the naked eye at all? Thank you.
Congratulations on yours great discovery, you must be proud on yourself can you tell me what telescope will you use to observe comet in September/October?
Thank Brane, you just need small telescope or binoculars.
Hi, Leonid. is there any chance for mistake about point of perihelion – cause I’ve heard lots of information, that it can changs size speed and direction. Excuse me for disturbing you – I’m complete zero in astgronomy, but I prefer to get info from first hands. Thank you.
No the perihelion point will not change and has been well known since February.
Elenin Dear Sir,
I’m having trouble finding where the error of this video and document on the comet!
Please … can you help me find the error for me to end my story?Thank you!
Congratulations for your work!
This video just another bullshit. You can find information on my blog about observation of gamma-ray bursts. This link just circular about one of these observation. Nothing else,
Can you tell us the current coordinates in which we can use our own telescopes to observe the comet? That would be greatly appreciated!
Why is canot viewied from stereo b right now. It is about right from the sun???
Comet Elenin in STEREO H1B (August14)
I think no, comet have short dust tail and will be too far from us.
We will not pass through the coma of the comet.
Hi Susan, perhaps I will post information about this soon. This comet consist more “gas” than “dust” and now we have short tail, but with well developed gas coma.
when you say we may pass through the tail does this pose any threat at all to earth?
The comet will be too far from us to pose any threat.
A question!The Arecibo radio telescope will measure the comet elenin whether, ?if the observation is made.?
Hello friend Leonid … why now the object is closer, it’s at least give information about it?Stereo are supposed to make it up but we provide more images … Why?a hug
Hi. Can you tell me what the chances are that the comet will ignite into a fireball when it is closest to the sun?
No, it can just disintegrate. But I think what chances of this scenario is small.
On 1910 May 19, Halley’s Comet passed directly between the Sun and Earth (Ian Ridpath)
Comet Halley: Harbinger of Death?
“End of the World!”: The Day the Earth Passed Through Halleys’ Comet 24-Million-Mile Tail
This Week in Science History: Halley’s Comet
Did you know that if you condensed the entire 100 thousand mile long tail of a comet such as Hale-Bopp to the density of water, it would not even fill a swimming pool?
In the hypothesis of this comet be really a cluster how Nasa said weeks ago, there is the possibility of the Earth still be hit by a meteor shower in its closest approach?
Elenin is NOT a cluster. That claim is unscientific fear mongering put out by unreliable sources. Yes, some photos do show main-belt asteroids moving in the background, but that has nothing to do with the comet.
We are unlikely to see a meteor shower from this average comet.
Any chance of a meteor shower or storm from debris shed by Elenin at perihelion (Tony Dunn 28-April-2011)
to kevin heider: please could you comment on 2005 yu55. NASA jpl has this at just 200,000 miles from earth on 9 Nov 2011 and 150,000 from our moon. maybe the whole elenin scenario is being escalated to hide the fact that 2005 yu55 is posing a much larger threat to us. coincidence that the American emergency broadcast is also planned for that very day. Looking on NASA jpl orbital diagram at this is quite frightening.your professional view in a little detail would really be most appreciated.
On 19 April 2010, highly accurate radar targeting by the Arecibo radio telescope reduced uncertainties about the orbit of 2005 YU55 by 50 percent. This improvement eliminated any possibility of an impact with the Earth for the next 100 years.
Only one question.
What object this?Venus?
09 47 57.3 13 16 44
Only see infrared.
That is CW LEO (again).
Elenin is not Nibiru or CW Leonis (August 26, 2009)
Hi..about the comets…we ?ll can see from Sudamerica? On day or nigth?
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Big Brothers Big Sisters Gardening at SATG
Simi at the Garden has partnered with Big Brothers Big Sisters Ventura County to provide an after school space for Simi Valley youth to learn how to organic garden as well as learning beneficial life skills.
The gardens have created an outdoor classroom surrounded by a gardening shed, compost bin, eight raised garden beds, log seating, two sets of patio seating, and a beautiful orchard. The orchard includes an avocado tree, kumquat, pineapple guava, lime, Spanish & French Lavender, yarrow, ceanothus, and other native shrubs.
We hope to help educate youth on the importance of a healthy organic diet, growing your own food, cooking your own food, as well as learning about habitats of local fauna and flora.
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The advantage with TV and radio is that they can give spot news earlier than newspapers. Normally, what one sees in the night TV bulletin is read in newspapers in the morning. But why does one reward newspaper even after listening to the news in the night? Those who have a TV set have not stopped buying newspapers. In many cases the television news stimulates desire to read a newspaper. It generates in the listener a desire to know more about some news item which has appeared on TV screen and has vanished in a few seconds. It is another matter that the reader may be disappointed if he get enough information about the event which he comes to know through TV.
From his newspaper a TV listener expects more information and thorough coverage. A good newspaper that wants to cater to the enlightened readership should keep this expectation in mind. The coverage should not be superficial. Newspaper reporter should go deep into the subject. He should take care to give relevant details. Then only can his paper retain its readership. Thus, radio and television have added more responsibility on the shoulders of a newspaper reporter. Superficial coverage will not do now.
The reporter will have to go deep into the subject and give as comprehensive coverage as possible. The basic concept of news in radio and television is the same as in the case of newspaper. What is news for newspaper is news for television and radio also. But because of limitations of time available, a radio bulletin will carry what is more important and must be accommodated. On these most important events radio or television correspondent will be able to give only the most essential information. All important items will be competing for the time in the bulletin and therefore it will not be possible to give as much detail as is possible in a newspaper.
A newspaper reader can read back a sentence if he fails to understand one in the first reading. This is not the case in radio and television news. The news reader will read a sentence just once and if it is not clear to the listener, he will not be able to hear it again. Thus a radio and television reporter and the news editor will have to ensure clarity of each sentence. The language has to be very simple and meaning should be clear.
The news reader has to read it at conversational speed and with right tone pauses to ensure correct meaning and respectability. Radio and TV both use spoken language. When one listens to radio or television if the message that one gets is in the language one is used it listening in conversation then one is more receptive. If the language is heavy, the speed high or low a person listening to it gets tired or irritated quickly. For example, in conversation while quoting somebody we do not change tense as is done in written English. The use of quotation marks is grammatically correct and while reading the quotation marks, is not supposed to be read. This is what is meant by spoken language. In spoken language long and difficult words are avoided.
Sometimes certain words are changed to suit the newsreader’s pronouncing capability. In the general news room of All India Radio (AIR) editors select the news items which can be used and turned into broadcast language. The copy testing is done by the editor-in- charge and he passes on the selected items to other editors who turn it into what is called ‘pool’ copy. This ‘pool’ is circulated to all bulletin editors who select items according to the importance and the target audience.
The ‘pool’ copy is prepared in English and it is translated into other language by a group of translator-cum-news readers for that language. When the same person or group of persons translate what they are to read, coordination of reader and news writer is automatically achieved. But in some languages readers are different from translators and editors the copy is passed on the reader who reads it for its readability and if he or she has any problem word, it is changed. Translation of news does not mean literal translation. It is basically rewriting the item in a different language. It, therefore, requires command over both the languages. In news translation care has to be taken that the meaning of the item does not change but the syntax should be changed according to the usage of the language in which the item is translated.
Language should also be checked for readability and clarity. These are the general principles and apply to translation in newspapers, radio and television. Television news casting, because of visual element in it, is a little more complicated. With the proper and clear language of the news and voice of the news reader one has to ensure that the newscaster is presentable.
Dry stories (stories without visuals) are like radio news items with newscaster in view. Newscaster should not smile while giving sad news. If the bulletin ends with sad news the natural smile of relief that comes at the end on the lips of a news reader looks odd. Normally the editor should avoid putting sad news at the tail of the bulletin.
The visual when it is there should match with the words. Matching of words with visuals sheds careful calculation of time and words and overall synchronization. This requires maximum care while giving news of an award winning ceremony. Care with the use of photographs cannot be emphasised. There have been instances when wrong visuals have been shown with a death story and the persons involved were members of Parliament.
Another major difference is in headlines. While in newspapers headlines are on the top of every story, in radio and television news headlines come in the beginning of the news bulletin. They are just three or four sentences. Each sentence dealing with a separate story. In radio news bulletins headlines are sometimes repeated at the end.
This practice is used also in television news bulletins. Thus, there is no difference in the basic concept of news whether it is on radio, television or in a newspaper. The differences arise due to the characteristics of the medium.
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SPORTS SUMMIT FOR THE ENVIRONMENT (SSE) 2005
Name: Sports Summit for the Environment in EXPO 2005 AICHI, JAPAN
Time: 30 July (Saturday)-31 July (Sunday) 2005
Location: Nagoya Norakudo and the EXPO Dome, Aichi-prefecture
The United Nations has determined that 2005 will be the "International Year of Sport and Physical Education", while at the same time serve as the first year of the "Decade of Education for Sustainable Development." The year 2005 is also the year in which the first international exposition is held in the 21st century:"EXPO2005, AICHI" under the theme of "Nature's Wisdom."
The United Nations is using various methods to solve issues on a global scale and there is much expectation on the role of sports in achieving this. To this end, groups including the Japan Association for the 2005 World Exposition, the Chunichi Shimbun, NPO Global Sports Alliance (GSA) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) have made plans to use the opportunity of the World Exposition in Aichi, Japan to promote environmental awareness and action among sports enthusiasts worldwide. This is the foundation for the "Sports Summit for the Environment 2005".
Sports Summit for the Environment Executive Committee
-Japan Association for the 2005 World Exposition
-NPO Global Sports Alliance (GSA)
-United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), UNICEF Japan, Japan Sports Association (JASA), Japan Olympic Committee (JOC), Japan Olympians Association, Japan Volleyball Association, Ski Association of Japan, Japan Sailing Federation, Japan Golf Federation, Japan Tennis Federation
Saturday, 30 July
SSE 2005 Presentations
Place: Nagoya Norakudo, 1-1-1 San No Maru, Naka-ku, Nagoya
1. Opening welcome
Klaus Toepfer, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Executive Director
Seiichi Kanise, NPO Global Sports Alliance (GSA)
2. Opening presentation
The United Nations' Decade of Education for Sustainable Development
Mr. Wataru Iwamoto, Division of Secondary, Technical and Vocational Education, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Director
1. International Year of Sport and Physical Education (ITSPE 2005)
Michael Kleiner, Director of Physical Education, UNESCO, Head of UN Office IYSPE 2005
2. The Influence of Sport on the Environment
Eric Falt, Director of Communications and Public Information, UNEP
3. The Role of International Sports Organizations
Masato Mizuno, IOC Sports and Environment Commission, Chairman of the Japan Olympic Committee Sports and Environment Commission
4. The Role of Sports and NPOs
Tatsuo Okada, NPO Global Sports Alliance (GSA) Executive Director
5. Sporting Goods Productions and Consumption
World Federation for the Sporting Goods Industry
6. The Role of Sporting Events in Developing Countries
Theodore Oben, Head of Youth and Sport Programs, UNEP
7. A Future Where We Can Play Sport
Kenji Ogiwara, Nordic combined skier, Olympic gold medallist
Tsugiharu Ogiwara, Nordic combined skier, sportscaster
Sunday, 31 July 2005
RECYCL'art-Master Exhibition and Final Judging
Place: EXPO Dome, Aichi Expo 2005
Sports Summit 2005
Place: EXPO Dome, Aichi Expo 2005
Participants: Klaus Toepfer (Executive Director, UNEP), Kenji Ogiwara (Nordic combined skiing, Olympic gold medallist), Tsugiharu Ogiwara (Nordic combined skiing, sportscaster), Toru Kikuchi (Sailing), Greg LeMond (Cycling, '86, '89, '90 Tour de France winner), Mikako Kotani (Synchronized swimming, Olympic bronze medallist), Hirofumi Konishi (Climbing), Takuji Araki (Lifesaving), Takashi Saiki (Skiing), Junji Sakata (Ice hockey), Takahiro Sema (Bobsleigh), Tsuyoshi Takahashi (Motor racing), Susumu Teramoto (Sepak Takraw), Yuichiro Miura (skiing), Morgan Foster (Beach flags), MOTOKO (Windsurfing), Hiroshi Yamamoto (Archery, Olympic silver medallist), Masami Yusa (Lifesaving), Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble
1. Presentation by the UN Agencies and International Sports Organizations
2. Athlete's Messages: Japanese and international athletes share their thoughts on the global environment and their hopes for the future of sport.
3. Special Concert by Yo-Yo Ma: A collaboration between SSE 2005 and the world-renowned cellist. Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble give a special performance.
4. RECYCL'art Award Ceremony
RECYCL'art is art created from old or unused sports equipment. Contributions from the general public will be displayed at the Summit, and an award ceremony held to acknowledge the best examples. RECYCL'art contributed by art students from Aichi prefecture will also be on display.
5. Announcement of the Sports and the Environment Joint Declaration
Including the individual declarations collected from individuals and sports organizations worldwide, the joint declaration will indicate to the world the commitment of sports to tackling environmental problems and developing a sustainable society.
6. Passing on the Message
The message of the Sports Summit is passed on to the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany, the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino and the 2008 Beijing Olympics in a special Ecoflag presentation ceremony.
For more information on the Sports Summit for the Environment (SSE) 2005, contact firstname.lastname@example.org
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When you first open DraftSight, you may see that it doesn't look the way you expect, or want it, to look. This article will help you fix that.
1Open up DraftSight and get a feel for the current layout.Ad
2Click on Tools >> Options >> System Options >> Display >> Element Colors >> Model Background. Change it to the color you want.
3Change up your pointer. Since a CAD program is a pretty precise type of software, try changing it to crosshairs. Go to Tools >> Options >> Graphic Display and click on 'Display cursor as crosshair'. To make it fill your screen, change the pointer size to 100 as in the screenshot.
4Change the Selection box size. This will help those whose vision isn't what it used to be to continue working. Click on Tools >> Options >> User Preferences >> Drafting Options >> Entity Selection >> Selection Settings >> SelectionBox size and change the size of your selection box.
5Change your default Command Prompt (a colon) that is at the bottom of your screen. Go to Tools >> Options >> System Options >> Display >> Command window text and make the changes. Here, the font is changed, a bit larger and the text 'wikiHow' will be displayed. Look at the Command window to see the difference.Ad
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Climate change takes wing
Associate Professor of Biology Ravinder Sehgal was interviewed for a Sept. 25 Sacramento Bee article about the detection of avian malaria in Alaskan birds. "Right now, there's no avian malaria above latitude 64 degrees. But in the future, with global warming, that will certainly change." Sehgal said. "The parasite can affect the fitness of the birds, meaning how many eggs the birds may lay… it can kill many birds, too, such as penguins, and many birds in Hawaii went extinct in large part because of avian malaria."
Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice Alex Gerould discussed strategies to reduce crime in the city of San Jose despite a shrinking police force, for a Sept. 24 San Jose Mercury News report. "If they've had to cut back on a gang suppression unit, well, that's one of the last things that you should cut because that's an area involving the most serious violent crimes. You cut back in that area, and the crime rate really will go up," Gerould said, adding that an overall drop in national crime rates is credited to that kind of targeted policing.
KCAW Radio Alaska on Sept. 24 discussed with Associate Professor of Biology Sarah Cohen her efforts to find a way to eradicate an invasive species of sea squirt in Alaska, dubbed "Sea Vomit" by locals. "The first thing we faced after brainstorming about different things to try for killing them was, 'Gee, how do we assess if they’re dead or not?'" Cohen said. "If you are used to studying fish, that’s just not something you get challenged by."
For more media coverage of faculty, staff, students, alumni and programs,
see SF State in the News.
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June 20th, 2011
06:29 AM ET
By Richard Allen Greene, CNN
The Church of England cannot refuse to appoint bishops simply because they are gay, but it can insist that they remain celibate, the denomination's lawyers have told it.
It would be wrong for boards appointing bishops to take account "of the fact that a candidate had identified himself as of gay sexual orientation," says the legal advice, which the Church of England published Monday.
But church rules do bar anyone in a sexual relationship outside marriage from becoming a bishop - which implies that a gay man can become a bishop only if he is celibate.
The compromise is unlikely to satisfy either conservatives or liberals in the global church, which is deeply torn over the role of women and gay men in church leadership.
Canon Chris Sugden, a leading voice in the conservative group Anglican Mainstream, told CNN that the insistence on celibacy made sense, drawing a distinction between orientation and practice.
"There's no discrimination on the basis of orientation, nor should there be," he said, arguing that it was behavior that mattered.
"This applies in many areas - gambling, drink, marital infidelity," he said. "One wouldn't condone the promotion of someone who advocates adultery."
He said gay candidates for bishop posts would have to be honest about whether they were celibate.
"The whole issue is, are the clergy giving honest answers to their bishops in this? Some clergy have said they won't answer that, which raises a question of honesty," he said.
He argued it was reasonable to ask candidates for posts as bishops whether they were having gay sex, adding: "It's just as appropriate as to ask them whether they have a mistress."
The Anglican Communion - of which the Church of England is the English member - is the world's third-largest Christian denomination, with between 75 million and 80 million members in the United States, Canada, England, Australia, Africa and elsewhere.
The legal advice, dated December 2010, comes in response to Britain's Equality Act, parts of which came into force in October. It was published ahead of the meeting of the church's governing body, the General Synod, next week.
About this blog
The CNN Belief Blog covers the faith angles of the day's biggest stories, from breaking news to politics to entertainment, fostering a global conversation about the role of religion and belief in readers' lives. It's edited by CNN's Daniel Burke with contributions from Eric Marrapodi and CNN's worldwide news gathering team.
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In May, we had a table tennis skills tournament at the premises of the National Federation of Table Tennis with the coaches of the new Young Athlete Program whose workouts are held every Thursday. Among the institutions that participated include: EEA Santa Tecla E.E.E. La Union, San Salvador Sub Program and several other institutions and foundations. Reaching an attendance of more than 40 people, including athletes, coaches, volunteers and family, the purpose of the tournament is to encourage and motivate our athletes to promote health, discipline and a comprehensive approach to training. Likewise, the Special Olympics Young Athletes program focuses on early stimulation of children with intellectual disabilities from ages 2 to 7 years old, encouraging fine and gross motor skills needed to participate in sports.
About Johamy Alabi: I am the CEO of Special Olympics El Salvador
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Last week, reps from Al Jazeera English’s The Stream contacted GeekMom, asking if any of our writers would be interested in participating in a segment on violence in video games. I agreed to participate and spent part of an afternoon watching segments of the show in preparation.
The Stream is an interesting concept. The program is filmed in a studio where a host and featured guest (often a college professor) begin discussion on a topic before the conversation is taken out into the broader community. At that point, an in-studio social media editor reads comments from Twitter, peppers the conversation with pertinent video clips, and questions a second group of guests who participate via Google Hangout and are also encouraged to live-chat their responses to the emerging story. The program is available online but then also broadcast on Al Jazeera English TV.
Despite the fact that The Stream won both a Peabody and a Webby (among other awards) for journalism and innovation earlier this year, I admit that I had some lingering concerns about the possibility of an anti-American bias to the show (my own bias), particularly when, in reading promotional material on the site the day prior to my segment, I realized that the primary focus of the ” violent video games” argument would be first-person shooter Call of Duty: Black Ops II. While my teenaged sons do play some M-rated games (currently, Halo 4 and Dishonored are in heavy weekend rotation), I wasn’t familiar with the Call of Duty franchise. After watching some YouTube clips of the game online, I wondered, “Is this how foreign countries think American children spend all of their free time?”
And yet, as the host of The Stream pointed out, the truth is, the game sold $500 million in its’ first 24 hours, was a trending topic on Twitter, and is played by children. If you look at the incarceration rates in America, it seems a legitimate question: does the ubiquity of video game violence beget real-life violence? And if it does, I also wondered: is there a difference between the human-on-human violence depicted in Call of Duty and the human-on-aliens violence my son and his friends rabidly look forward to each weekend when they’re allowed to turn on their consoles and play Halo 4?
Douglas Gentile, a psychology professor at Iowa State University claimed that research says:
Aggression is multicausal. There are over 100 known risk factors for aggression; media violence is just one of them — not the biggest but not the smallest. The only way that anyone does something seriously violent is if they have multiple risk factors and limited protective factors for violent behavior, and thankfully most of our children have a great many protective factors, can consume a lot of violent video games, and still never do anything violent.
A second professor, Christopher Ferguson, from Texas A&M International University, put the argument in context for me at the end of the show when he said:
Whenever new media comes out, we tend to go through a same pattern. 50 years ago with comic books, we had psychiatrists going up before Congress and saying that comic books were the cause of not only juvenile delinquency but homosexuality (because apparently Batman and Robin were secretly gay). At the time period when you have older adults who are not using the new media you oftentimes see these types of panics evolve around them and it’s usually after two or three decades [that you see attitudes change].
Ferguson went on to encourage parents to make informed decisions. I’d take that a step further and suggest that parents who aren’t gamers themselves familiarize themselves with the ESRB (Entertainment Software Ratings Board) website and use the mobile app when shopping for games for their kids. Though I’d love if the website linked to actual video clips of content descriptors like “strong language,” “blood and gore,” “violence,” or “sexual themes” within each game so that I had a concrete idea of exactly what my children would be exposed to, these descriptors can be a good first look at games and are certainly better than nothing at all.
I find that this can be a challenging gulf to traverse. My kids look forward to gaming with their friends and seem to love the challenge and the planning these more mature games require. Last weekend, the cheers, groans, laughter, and teasing from the livingroom while the boys and their friends were playing Halo 4 together sounded exactly like a group of guys watching a football game together. I wonder sometimes as I read the warnings on the back of these video games, “Am I concerned about the content in this game or am I just uncomfortable that my kids are growing up and grappling with more complex questions, even in play?”
What’s your take?
Al Jazeera’s The Stream: “When Killing Becomes a Game”
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Shale gas is the great hope of George Osborne and his fellow Conservatives who detest what they see in the renewable energy sector: subsidy junkies and woolly minded greens. But in a brief section of his speech to his party conference on Monday, he managed to give comfort to both. "An enterprise strategy means investing in renewable energy," he said, a far warmer phrase than in previous speeches and presumably wrung out of him by the Lib Dems. But then he completed the sentence: "... and opening up the newly discovered shale gas reserves beneath our land."
"We are today consulting on a generous new tax regime for shale so that Britain is not left behind as gas prices tumble on the other side of the Atlantic," said Osborne. It's certainly true that the shale gas industry in the UK needs all the help it can get, having drilled only a handful of wells, far short of the hundreds or thousands needed to really know how much gas could be released by fracking. Furthermore, the CBI and Deutsche Bank among others have said there can be no repetition of the US gas miracle, given differences in mineral rights, population density and environmental regulations.
The Lib Dem energy and climate change secretary, Ed Davey, illustrated the tension with the chancellor by giving a speech on gas on Monday, in which he said: "I know that industry analysts do see shale as a rather different proposition here than in the US. Questions about regulatory oversight and the involvement of local communities need to be answered rather than simply dismissed. And, of course, the deployment of any new energy source must be consistent with our carbon plan and carbon budgets."
The government's dilemma on gas, courting investors for a 50% increase in the number of gas-fired power stations on the grid while insisting that carbon reduction targets can still be met, was neatly illustrated by Ed Davey's morning. After delivering a speech at the Gastech conference in east London, in which he promised a golden future for gas-fired power generation in the UK as many as 20 new power stations to be built, he was whisked across the river to City Hall to extol the government's climate change policy, which he said included tougher carbon reduction targets for the EU.
It left his audience wondering how the two – a massive expansion of fossil-fuelled power while cutting greenhouse gases – could be compatible.
Connie Hedegaard, the European commissioner for climate change, who shared his platform at the second event, said: "Gas can be part of the solution, but it definitely can't be the whole solution. It's clear that with renewable energy you get a much more longer term and sustainable solution. That's why we need CO2 targets and renewable targets."
The UK opposes setting a European renewable energy target beyond 2020, when the current one expires.
The reaction to Osborne's announcement ranged from lukewarm praise to fiery opposition. One government source said: "It will make no difference to the pace of the decision [on whether shale gas gets the go-ahead]. But its not totally ridiculous as preparation for the decision."
Some sections of the energy industry were unimpressed. Volker Beckers, chief executive of RWE npower, one of the UK's big six energy company, told me: "There will be very little volumes of shale gas in the UK. We have more major [energy] problems to solve."
Laura Sandys, Conservative MP and part of the ministerial team at the Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc), highlighted the problem of public opposition shale gas is likely to face: "Onshore wind is a walk in the park, by comparison."
Mild praise came from CBI director-general, John Cridland, who said: "It makes sense to maximise the amount of energy we can produce at home at reasonable cost. [This] sits alongside investment in renewables. I don't want all my eggs in one energy basket."
But Friends of the Earth's Craig Bennett said: "The chancellor clearly isn't listening to the increasingly vociferous warnings from leading politicians, businesses and climate experts about his reckless dash for gas. With a fossil-fuelled economic strategy firmly rooted in the 1970s, George Osborne is looking increasingly incapable of dealing with the challenges and opportunities of the 21st century."
Campaigners also doubted that the government could square the circle of more gas while cutting carbon drastically overall. WWF-UK pointed to a set of scenarios it commisioned last year showing that to decarbonise the electricity sector by 2030, as Mr Davey has proposed, gas plants would only be able to run infrequently as back up to renewables. That is unlikely to appeal to investors, who expect to receive a return for the 25 year life of their power stations.
The consultation on shale gas will not be a formal one, but rather an "engagement with industry". A statement from the Treasury said: "With the shale gas industry at an early stage of development, the government believes that a targeted tax regime will help unlock investment. The use of field allowances to encourage investment in the North Sea has demonstrated the effectiveness of a targeted tax regime in stimulating investment and production that would not otherwise have gone ahead. The government will engage with companies to ensure that the final structure of the regime is appropriately targeted while maintaining a fair return for the exchequer."
Osborne's speech also comes against the background of two key letters today. One from companies including Asda, Microsoft and EDF calling for a 2030 target for carbon emissions from power stations, and a second from nuclear and wind energy companies including Areva, Siemens and Vestas calling on the government to firm up its green commitment or lose hundreds of millions of pounds of investment.
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“I’m raising my daughter bilingually in Spanish and English. Her father is a native Mexican whose first language is Spanish. I speak to her in English. The problem I’m facing is that her father doesn’t really speak to her in Spanish. Instead, I have a nanny that only speaks Spanish to her. My daughter understands both languages equally, but she will only speak the tiniest bits of Spanish, and even insists on speaking English to her non-English speaking nanny. It’s as though she just doesn’t see the need to speak Spanish. How can I encourage my daughter to speak more Spanish? Also, where can I find a list of Dual Language Immersion schools? She’s going to be ready for preschool soon and I don’t want her Spanish to backtrack. Any advice is appreciated!
Hi Rebekah. I have a very similar problem! My husband is Colombian and we are raising our son bilingually. Unfortunately, since my husband is perfectly comfortable in English as well as Spanish (and I suppose the same is true for your husband), it is very easy for him to slip into English when speaking with our son – especially since our son is more fluent in English and tends to want to speak more English than Spanish. Unfortunately, one of the best solutions for your problem is mainly in the hands of your husband. If you can get him to speak Spanish exclusively to your daughter, you would see her proficiency improve and she might feel more comfortable speaking the language. You don’t say how old your daughter is, but I would guess that her reluctance to speak Spanish doesn’t really have much to do with not seeing the need to speak it. She is most likely just more comfortable/proficient in English. You can also buy books, videos, toys and other materials for her in Spanish as a means of “sweetening the pot!” We offer our son “free screen time” (i.e., extra time on the computer) if he plays games or views videos in Spanish. Some of his favorite sites are:
Club Penguin (in Spanish only!): http://www.clubpenguin.com/es/
Isla Megatrix: http://www.antena3.com/islamegatrix/
BrainPOP Español: http://esp.brainpop.com/
As for Dual Language Immersion schools, I don’t know what area you live in, but you can research that for yourself with an excellent database from CAL – the Center for Applied Linguistics. The searchable database is called the “Directory of Foreign Language Immersion Programs: and it can be accessed online at: http://www.cal.org/resources/immersion/. Good luck!
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You may not have been aware of it, but there is still one state where in order to get a divorce, it's not enough to want one; couples have to go to court and claim that one partner abused, abandoned, or otherwise mistreated the other. So which state is this - Alabama? Mississippi? Nope. It's New York:
The State Senate on Tuesday, clearing aside decades of opposition, put New York on a course to adopt no-fault divorce — the last state to do so. It approved legislation that would permit couples to separate by mutual consent, a major shift with sweeping implications for families and lawyers.
One of the things immigration advocates always say these days when talking about comprehensive reform is that as part of a path to citizenship, we should "make them learn English." This is pretty good as a policy matter, since knowing English is only going to be a help to any immigrant, and the more smoothly immigrants can be woven into the economic and social fabric of the country, the better. But it's also driven by a political calculation -- "make them learn English" polls very well, and the reason is that a lot of the unease people have about immigrants comes from language differences (the tone of it also makes it seem like we're being punitive, or at least kicking them in the butt a little, which people like).
In the latest issue of Democracy, former TAP editor Michael Tomaskytakes to task what he calls the "professional disgruntleists" -- progressives who work hard to find the downside of every Barack Obama initiative and use every available opportunity to cry, "See? I told you he'd sell us out!" Tomasky reminds us that even the great liberal hero Franklin Roosevelt was subject to similar criticism during his time:
Meg Whitman, the Republican candidate for California governor, speaks in San Jose, Calif., on Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2009. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
"U.S. businessmen," lamentedTime magazine in August 1956, "whether Democrats or Republicans, have a deep-seated aversion to political activity." These days, however, every election brings a new spate of CEO candidates, arguing that their know-how in the ways of commerce makes them far better suited for government service than people who actually have some experience at government service.
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Metastasis is the stage of cancer progression in which the disease becomes lethal, and clinicians are unable to determine when metastases have occurred until the cells have colonized one or more distal sites and subsequently affected the functioning of that tissue. The sampling of blood for circulating tumor cells or for the presence biomarkers for metastasis has many challenges for effectively detecting metastases. We propose a transformative approach in which a site is defined using a biomaterial implant that will induce homing and colonization of circulating metastatic cells. Furthermore, we hypothesize that optical imaging techniques can be employed that would enable non-invasive detection of colonization. This system would provide a step toward initiating therapies at early stages of metastatic disease, and the implant could be retrieved for cellular analysis and determination of a therapy based on the biology of the metastatic cells. The first step in these studies is to identify the signals within the pre-metastatic niche that promotes metastatic cell homing and colonization. The factors secreted by the "niche" cells will be identified through the combination of a cellular array for the high throughput analysis of TF activity, and proteomics analysis of culture media. The cell array will identify the key pathways within metastatic cells responsible fo homing and colonization, and the proteomics analysis will identify the numerous factors secreted by the niche cells. This combination of activated pathways and available factors is anticipated to identify the key factors driving the phenotype, which can be employed in Aim 2 that aims to design biomaterial implants to promote in vivo homing and colonization of metastatic cancer cells. These implants, which building upon techniques from regenerative medicine, will deliver cells associated with the pre-metastatic niche and/or deliver gene therapy vectors encoding for factors that either recruit cells associated with the pre-metastatic niche, which can locally produce factors that recruit metastatic cells. Additionally, vectors encoding for factors that directly recruit metastatic cells can be delivered. Taken together, these studies will identify environments that promote metastatic cell homing and colonization in vivo, which may provide targets for therapeutic intervention. Finally, non-invasive optical imaging techniques will be developed to detect colonization of the implant by metastatic cells, using techniques that could be readily translated to the clinic. Taken together, these implants have the potential to revolutionize cancer treatment by providing for early detection of metastatic disease, thereby allowing for early interventions.
Cancer is the second leading cause of death worldwide, with most cancer-related deaths resulting from metastasis of cells from the primary tumor. Our transformative proposal is aimed at detecting metastasis at the earliest stages, which could allow for life-preserving interventions. For this early detection, we propose to develop an implant that would recruit metastatic cancer cells and a sensor to identify when cancer cells have colonized the implant.
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Ki Tisa(Exodus 30:11-34:35)
Taking the Blame
Greetings from the holy city of Jerusalem!
This week's Torah portion describes the infamous Golden Calf. When Moses prays to God to forgive the Jewish people for this incident, he pleads, "Blot me out of Your Book" (Exodus 32:32). The implication of this statement is that Moses's erasure from the Torah would somehow atone for the Jewish people's sin. We know that Moses was the humblest man who ever lived, which makes this statement seem quite surprising. The Golden Calf was a major offense. How could Moses be so presumptuous to think that removing his name from the Torah could atone for the entire fiasco?
According to the Baal Shem Tov (9), whenever Moses saw the Jewish people behaving inappropriately, he blamed himself. He assumed that his own failings were the most probable cause of the people's misbehavior. This attitude can be understood on two levels. On a Kabbalistic level, if the leader of a generation makes even a slight mistake, it can cause a ripple effect. A leader's small error in thought, speech or action may result in the people's committing major crimes.
The Mekor Mayim Chaim (6) writes that this effect can be compared to a person holding a long piece of string, with the top end between his fingers and the bottom lying on the ground. If the person moves the top of the string even slightly, the bottom will move as well. The top of the string - the "head" - symbolizes the head of the generation. Just as the head of the string causes the bottom to move, so too does the head of the generation impact those lower down.
On a practical level, we can understand Moses's behavior as covering for the Jewish people. He took responsibility for their mistake because of his intense commitment to leading them. It is as if Moses said, "Had I been a better leader, they would have been better people." He saw their mistake as a reflection on his failure to guide them properly.
In fact, this was not the case, as we see in God's subsequent statement, "The one who really sinned to me I will blot out of My Book" (Exodus 32:33). Moses was completely guiltless in this situation. Yet we see that Moses was nevertheless prepared to cover for the people by taking the blame himself.
Now we can understand Moses's plea to be taken out of the Torah. Moses was not being presumptuous by claiming that his erasure from the Torah would atone for the people's sin; rather, he was begging, "Punish me instead of them!" A willingness to cover for other people - deflecting the accusations against them and accepting the blame ourselves - is one of the greatest ways to demonstrate love.
May we learn to love each other to the degree where we can point the accusatory finger at ourselves instead of at others. In this way, may we be able to rectify our old mistake of baseless hatred, and replace it with baseless love, that we may merit our full and final redemption.
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Cobbled streets, houseboats lining the canals, and a spire twisting the wrong way. Christianshavn is one of the most charming neighbourhoods in Copenhagen. And should you be passing through one day, you'll understand why. On a sunny day, the wharf along the canal is packed with people enjoying a cup of coffee, whilst on rainy days people of all ages head to the neighbourhood's many cafés and restaurants. Christianshavn is of course also home to Christiania, one of Copenhagen's most visited areas.
Christianshavn - Amsterdam in Copenhagen
Christianshavn was built by Christian IV in the early 17th century, inspired by architecture from Amsterdam. This is especially evident in the canals, the heart of Christianshavn, but also in the many old warehouses. At one time, Christianshavn was a poor working class district and has faced threats of demolition over the years. Since the 1970s though, plans for restoring the area have ensured the preservation of the historic buildings in the neighbourhood. Over the past 30 years, Christianshavn has been transformed into one of the most popular residential districts in Copenhagen.
Our Saviour's Church - a spire that twists the wrong way
Our Saviour's Church is located in the middle of Christianshavn. The vast majority of the church's visitors come to climb the 400 steps that wind their way up to the top of the church spire. From here you have a spectacular view of Christianshavn, Amager and the city centre. It is said that the architect of the spire had intended for the spire to twist clockwise. But something went wrong during construction and the spire ended up twisting anticlockwise. Apparently the architect became so distressed that he threw himself off the top of the spire. Our Saviour's Church is one of the most popular attractions in Christianshavn.
How about a bottle of beer?
There's not many metres between the cafés in Christianshavn. Nor is there a shortage of restaurants in this neighbourhood, including noma, rated the world's best restaurant on many occasions. But if you're looking for a genuine Christianshavn experience, drop by a local tavern. Stop by the Eiffel Bar: its 279 years in existence makes it the oldest pub in the neighbourhood. Across the street you'll find Fingerbollet, where you can show off your skills at the billiard table. Kanalbodega, Stærkodder and Café Falken also serve cheap bottled beer.
You can't miss the canal when you visit Christianshavn. The canal, which meanders through the entire neighbourhood, is always crowded with both visitors and locals. If you want to see Christianshavn from another angle whilst learning about its history, take a tour on one of the many canal boat tours. Along the waterfront you'll see old warehouses along with colourfully painted houses.
Opera on Holmen
The Copenhagen Opera House sits commandingly along the canal on Holmen. The magnificent building was designed by world-famous architect Henning Larsen, and donated to the Danish people by Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller. The architecture of the Opera House is unique, and tours of the building run several times a week.
Papiroen and Copenhagen Street Food
Just before you reach Holmen is Papiroen, home to Copenhagen's Street Food. The range of small food trucks you'll find there offer everything from Thai food to gourmet hot dogs. When the weather is nice, you can take your food to the quay and enjoy views of Nyhavn and the Royal Danish Playhouse.
Christiania, Freetown or simply the 'Town' - a cherished child has many names. Christiania is a green, car-free area, home to about 1,000 residents. Christiania was originally made up of military barracks. In 1971, a group of squatters cut a hole in the fence and occupied the area which hadn't been used for years. Ever since, Christiania residents have struggled with Denmark's government about the right to use the area, which resulted in the formation of the Freetown Christiania Fund in 2012. Today, the association owns a large part of the Freetown. Christiania has always been home to quirky characters who could not find a place or sanctuary elsewhere in the capital. You'll find plenty of fun and creative houses, natural surroundings, galleries and places to eat in Christiania. Christiania is also known for its cannabis trade on Pusher Street, despite the efforts of politicians to put a stop to it.
Hotels close to Christianshavn
In recent years, several bridges have been built that connect Copenhagen's neighbourhoods in a new way. There is a bridge from Christianshavn to Nyhavn, making it a short walk or bike ride from Scandic Front. Our hotel offers you a view of the Copenhagen Opera House on Holmen and Papiroen street food market.
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I'm trying to setup a server for the first time. I'm running CentOS 5.5. In the book that I'm going through called "The definitive Guide to CentOS", it says in the chapter about setting up the Apache Httpd webserver that in order to configure the firewall, I should run the 'setuptool' utility which gives a nice-ish GUI for configuring various things.
Only thing is that my setuptool is only showing one option - Authentication Configuration, whereas the one in the book has lots of options, including the one that I want which is Firewall configuration. this is what I see onmy computer:
and this is what the book says that I should see:
Can anyone tell me what I'd need to do to get setuptool to have all the options I need?
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Findmypast Australia’s blurb tells the researcher that electoral rolls are the nearest record Australians have to census listings and hence are extremely important to local, social and family historians…. Compulsory enrolment was introduced for all federal rolls from 1911 so the 1959 should reflect the adult population (over 21 years) excluding the foreign and indigenous population. Voting in Federal elections was compulsory from 1925.
Pre-internet researchers are familiar with plying the paper or microfilm records of state and federal electoral rolls but current-day researchers are accustomed to simply searching one of Ancestry, Findmypast (Australia) or World Vital Records (WVR).
Online searching allows for plug-and-play solutions which make life so much easier, usually quickly identifying the person you’re searching for and where they’re living. But they can also do much more than that and provide additional information, beyond a simple name search, that’s not readily available via a traditional paper-based search.
Yesterday I decided to have a play and see if I could reconstitute the residents of my home street in Brisbane and it was certainly an interesting exercise. I personally found Ancestry relatively useless for a non-person-specific street search, however the story was quite different with Findmypast Australia. I plugged the address into the Keyword search, with no personal name specified. This provided me with results for different electoral roll years which reflected the sub-division of an old property and the development of the suburb. I also tried the same thing with World Vital Records (WVR) and the results are shown here:
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As can be seen there are slight differences between FMP and WVR but FMP also offers another very useful record, the 1959 electoral roll. I used FMP first and found it initially excellent. It should be noted though that if people don’t update their electoral information it will not be correct eg my parents are listed at the same address in 1959 as they were in 1949 even though shortly after the latter date they’d moved into their own house next door. Similarly the name of my grandparents’ house is mis-spelled on a couple of the records. I also subsequently found another elector who’d given the street an additional vowel. The records for 1915 were also somewhat unreliable – some names appear more than once due to late registration etc and in other cases one spouse would be in the listing but the other was not, although found when the page is reviewed. It’s possible that there may be people missing altogether I suppose. Be aware of these problems but it will still provide you with lots of information.
What else did I learn?
- It gave me the opportunity to look at the development of the street over time.
- It provided insights into the socio-economic category of the area: as anticipated, largely working class with a minor scattering of middle class occupations.
- The majority of the women were homemakers.
- Some families lived in the area for at least 40 years based on this electoral data, though through personal knowledge many lived there for much longer.
- The 1959 roll can be very useful as the change in ethnic names reflects some of the post-war migration, less so for this street.
- The 1959 roll also provides the street number where earlier records only provide the street name and sometimes the house, but knowing the house name is interesting too.
- It reminded me that there were a couple of houses which provided rental accommodation for mainly single people, apart from one which continues to this day.
- The convenient proximity to the hospital is already clear quite early with a smattering of nurses renting in the street
- Knowing certain families were definitely living nearby meant I could go looking for their names, highlighting some anomalies in indexing.
- My memory is really bad about which house some people lived in: using Google Maps (with street numbers) and Google maps street view enabled me to jog my memory about the house number combined with the image of the house: mostly they’ve remained similar with some additional houses on easements.
- I could confirm the names and locations of people I remembered from the neighbourhood.
- I can’t yet confirm the details put forward in the local history, some of which I now know to be incorrect (mainly through Trove searches) and some I’d like to learn more about.
- I’m still not confident when my grandfather bought the land, moved to the street and built his house: part of my future research plan.
- Why was there almost always a cabinet maker/carpenter living in the street?
Buoyed by my discoveries with FMP regarding the street where I grew up, I tried the street immediately behind us where my childhood friends lived. Well, at that point my bubble burst. FMP let me down with a vengeance: I could find some people with one (older) spelling of the street name and some with the newer spelling of the street. But nowhere could I find the parents of my childhood friends, no matter how I searched: name/street etc. I eventually came to the conclusion they simply aren’t there: misindexed or whatever, they’ve fallen off the research log.
The Post Office directories on FMP, where available, were helpful to indicate which side of the street a family lived on, but they did require a bit of fiddling to get to the street directory section.
I turned my attention to World Vital Records (WVR) which also let me search by place. A bit more clunky but nonetheless it eventually gave me results and it gave me the family (plus others) which had been omitted from FMP without any problems whatsoever. As you can see from the table above, there are some names missing from WVR compared to FMP in one street, but plainly for the next street WVR is the leader. It proves the point that as researchers we should never put all our eggs in one basket and it kind of justifies my usual practice of “testing” a record by searching for something I know should be there. If it’s not, there’s a problem, either with my search terms or the records. Unfortunately WVR doesn’t provide the 1959 roll so on the second street I was left in limbo.
Not much liking having two quite different outcomes, I tried FMP again with a different street and got a satisfactory outcome. So part of the problem appears to have been the various ways this problematic street’s name could be searched.
Going back to FMP’s original blurb: can the electoral roll be a substitute for the census in Australia? Well it surely won’t give you the names of all family members irrespective of age, or their relationships, but thanks to our early women’s suffrage and compulsory registration, it will usually give you the adults living in the area. It will also go a long way to tell you more about the social demographic of a particular area and its changes over time: something I routinely use the census for, and one of the benefits of the FreeCen search where it’s available for the UK.
I had great fun with this search process, now all that remains is to put it all into a spreadsheet for future reference.
Online searching is heaven-sent for this purpose and I could have only done this type of search the traditional way with some tedious page-turning. However if you’re looking for family members and the actual image hasn’t been digitised it can still be worthwhile looking at the “original” paper or microfilm versions. Once an address is known and the electorate is identified, original records can tell you when someone leaves the electorate (or dies) and to which electorate they move. Queensland State Archives microfilm copies of electoral rolls give you these extra snippets. Commonwealth rolls can also give you slightly different information re occupations, house names etc, and have the added benefit of being easier to search because there are fewer of them.
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|What is Poetry?
Haiku & the Lyric Poem
Tobias Hill, UK
One of the questions addressed by this [WHF2000] Conference is whether and to what degree haiku can be regarded as poetry. I would like to approach this problem by explaining what I value in poetry, and then considering how and whether haiku embody these characteristics. However, I would also like to put my own values in context, to show how I have come to my personal evaluations, and to this end I will say a little about how I became a poet.
Some poets come early to their calling. There are hints of their talent at an early age. George Szirtes, for example, began to read before he was two years old. He tells the story of his parents’ dismay when they found him obsessively staring into the cutlery drawer in their Hungarian kitchen: it took the local doctor to realize he was reading the newspaper under the fish forks. It may be that such people are born writers. This was not the case with me. I entered the world with no distinguishing features except an all-encompassing allergic rash, and in this less than perfect state, I continued for many years without showing any interest in words at all. Until I was seven, reading and mathematics went together in my head as trials by paper. The only thing language had over numbers was that stories tended to have better endings than sums, although in some cases, what Peter did with Jane was only marginally more engaging than what 2 could do with 3. Nevertheless, stories had pictures, clues to their solutions, and I suspect it was this, rather than any pleasure or skill, that turned me away from the career of a physicist and toward the vocation of poetry.
At that stage, I found that writing meant nothing to me, and less than nothing. I don’t know if others felt the same. I haven’t asked; but I suspect so. Books were hard graft, and their existence seemed opaque, because as children, we possessed the powerful memories of people without script. We had more stories and poems in our heads than we knew what to do with; they mutated and bred, apocryphal, from street to playground to campfire. Poetry was hopscotch, the Lord’s Prayer, shipping news. In retrospect, I see how characteristic this is of poetry: that it is not only in my life that poetry existed before writing, but in the history of poetry and writing themselves. Written poetry is deceptive in this way. It is easy to overestimate the proximity of poetry to other written forms, just as it is too easy to underestimate its relationship to music and rhythm. And this is a point of some relevance to comparisons of haiku and lyric poetry. Not all lyric poets are writers. The lyric came long before the page. But in its indigenous script, the haiku has come to have a strong page presence, stronger and more sophisticated than the alphabeticised lyric poem can achieve. This is something I mean to return to later.
When I think of childhood, it is a time so buried in poetry and rituals that the reality of those years is hard to keep hold of. I believed the poems and stories we told. Once, my best friend and I convinced ourselves that we could fly with nothing more than the aid of bathroom towels and a large wall. Now the memory of the pain has worn off, I am left only with the recollection of the power of that story. Any sense of art or artistry was decidedly secondary. The power of poetry and prose is something I saw again in Japan, where for two years I encouraged Japanese children to colour the dog purple, the chicken green and the cat black. The classes were very large, sometimes reaching 100 students, and the students were very small, sometimes as young as two. It was not the ideal combination of numbers. However, at least some of the children were old enough to be gullible, and anyone who is gullible is also old enough for fiction.
”Why do we have to colour the dog purple?,” the children would ask.
“Because, in England, all the dogs are purple”, I would tell them. Even now, there is an entire generation of people growing up in Aichi province who believe that England is overrun with purple dogs and other excitingly coloured domestic animals and even people and heavenly bodies, from the puce postman to the pink moon. Now, when I hear definitions of terms such as poetry and prose or lyrics and haiku, I am often struck by the emphasis on art and artistry, on technical features. It seems to me that if haiku are poetry, they should qualify or be disqualified in some more fundamental way than this, since I believe poetry itself is more fundamental than its rhythms and meters.
By this time, I had begun to write, first intermittently, then daily: writing is an addictive occupation. I found myself the proud, but secretive owner of lyric and narrative poems, haiku and sonnets, short, short stories and long, short stories and novellas. I also found myself largely indifferent to distinctions of genre. The techniques of different forms seemed like various means of achieving the same end – that being good writing. Only poetry seemed substantially different. More than a genre, it felt like an approach to writing. It seemed a discipline in which every element of language was taken up and consciously used. The language was made to work in more dimensions than seemed possible in prose, as if poetry possessed different rules of physics. It seemed to me that in the best poetry, almost nothing was arbitrary, from the length of a word to the rhythm of its syllables, its shape on the page, its place in the line, its shape in the mouth, its fizz on the tongue. Poetry is language at its most decisive, its most intentional.
In English, my haiku were very formal, and in Japanese, very bad. At parties, my Japanese friends would ask me to recite my kindergarten standard descriptions of red dragonflies resting on high mountains. Then they would laugh until they fell off their chairs. My own response to haiku was a mixture of delight and envy; envy of the physicality of its indigenous language. My instinctual response was to consider the haiku as poetry, and here I am particularly speaking of the haiku written in kanji. I remember once visiting a park, a cycle-ride from town. When we arrived, we found it was not possible to enter the garden by the main gate. A plum tree grew there, very old and bent, and visitors had to use a side entrance. Inside, we found a classic Japanese garden – that is, everything was intentioned and in its place – the pool, the bridge, the trees and stones. Nothing was without intention, except, apparently, the tree in the gateway. We unpacked our picnic and idly considered the unenterable entrance. It was some time before we realised that the tree in the gate was a poem. The character for tranquility, kan, is a tree in a gateway. The gardener had grown his written language. How could any poet not be envious of that?
It seems to me that the tree in the gateway was a poem: A concrete poem, in a way that no alphabetical expression could ever hope to achieve. The tree seems poetry to me because of the rigorousness of the intention behind it and the elegance of its expression. For me, this intentionality is the first characteristic of poetry, and it is a clear characteristic of haiku.
Over time, I have come to an agreement with myself about what I value in poetry. These things are not in any way meant to be rules for writing verse. These are observations prescribed by myself to myself, and formulated from a poet’s point of view, and I give them now in the light of this. I would like to look at how each relates to the haiku, just as I have done with the question of intention and non-arbitrary language.
For me, the second characteristic of poetry is formal evolution. I believe poetry is the cutting edge of language. There are people who ask whether poetry is important today. In this question, I think there is an implicit awareness of the age of poetry. After all, if we compare poetry to other literary methods, we find that it is almost incomparably old. The novel and the short story are young forms – so young that you can count their combined centuries on the fingers of one hand; whereas, poetry is old as language. There has been poetry as long as there has been rhythm –as long as there have been jokes. People question whether poetry is moribund, in part, only because it has been in existence for so long.
In answer to these people, I would examine the three forms again: the novel, the poem and the short story. I would look at how they have technically evolved. I find that the media of fiction have hardly changed at all in their short lives. They are comparatively static. There has been no great advance in their form since Tristam Shandy. The colossal movements of the twentieth century are not greatly reflected in their structure, only in what their structure contains. They are formally stagnant. On the other hand, poetry has changed almost beyond recognition. Poetry responds to history, it revolves to face revolutions, it reacts century by century. In this way, poetry is lighter on its feet than prose, although its steps go deeper. It is the cutting edge of language, the point where most innovation occurs. Fiction moves in its shadow. Inevitably, poetry is the medium which reflects its time and place most intimately, and this, in part, is why it has flourished for so long. The most modern form of writing will always be poetry.
The very fact that we are here today at a world haiku event suggests that the haiku may fulfil this need for formal development. It would be a very dull Conference if all haiku were still haikai. In becoming a global form, the haiku has had to change. To pick on a simple example, there is the question of differences in syllable concepts between Japanese and European languages (where London will count for four beats in one and two in the others). On a broader scale, the haiku has been formally developing for many decades, and will continue to do so. There is no longer a single set of rules for writing haiku: there are only observed strengths. This is a healthy characteristic. The first rule of poetry should be that there are no rules.
For me, the third important characteristic of poetry is emotional honesty. Truth is a word I hesitate over. However, I think good poems ring true, not necessarily in a straight factual sense, but in the emotional truth behind the facts. Not every poem I’ve written happened as it happens in the poem, but I try and get the sense and feel of it right. The best poems don’t spin yarns. They don’t tell tales. These things are wonderful as purple dogs and puce postmen, but for me, they are provinces of prose. The best poems always go deeper than this. It is ironic, of course that the subjects, which involve the most emotional honesty, are also the hardest to write about. Love and death are not as easy to examine squarely, in ways that will reach others. The more intense emotion is in a poem, the harder it is to control the writing, and the harder it is to write for other people. Once you start adjudicating poetry competition, you become intimately familiar with the lyric poem that relies on intensity of emotion to make it valid. Often, these poems are about cats. Sometimes, dead cats, sometimes almost dead cats. A few months after Princess Diana died, I unwisely agreed to judge a poetry competition. One entry compared the princess to the poet’s dead flamingo. Even if I had a dead flamingo of my own, this poem wouldn’t have reached me: it was burning off emotion, using poetry for something personal, not public.
What is so bad about this kind of poetry? Why shouldn’t people use verse for private purposes? There is nothing wrong with it at all. Private poetry is a way of coming to terms with difficulties for millions of people, and in this role, I suspect the haiku is as eminent as the lyric. There are more people writing for an audience of one, for the self, than will ever buy a book of mine or any other contemporary poet. In this sense, private poetry is more successful than public. But there is a difference between the two. The experience of writing private poetry can be powerful: often the writer imagines that it will be powerful for other people, too. It hardly ever is. Public poetry is a gift, written for others before it is written for the self.
From its conception, the haiku has been a public form. It is also characterised by an intense and complex charge of emotion. The best haiku ring absolutely true. In its emotional structure, the haiku bears the same psychological hallmark as traditional Western forms such as the sonnet: that is, there is often a point in the haiku where the image and accompanying emotion twist back on themselves, a volta. It is also worth saying that the weaknesses of lyric poems and haiku are often similar. Both are susceptible to sentimentality. There is nothing worse than a cod haiku except a cod rondeau. Emotional intensity can be the strength and weakness of both lyric poetry and the haiku. On this point, I find no reason to differentiate between them.
The fourth characteristic of poetry is the technical equipment that goes into its construction. By this, I mean — with regard to the Western lyric — rhyme and rhythm, assonance and alliteration, and all the other tools of the lyric tradition. The individual words in poetry can carry more weight than in fiction. They are more like physical things. You can touch them with your tongue, like loose teeth. Poetry is a shaping and carving, and you can line up the methods like a sculptor’s tools. Rifling through the toolbox, it’s striking how powerful these tools are, particularly in comparison to those used in prose. Rhyme and rhythm are power-tools and etching acids. In some bad poetry, they get over-relied upon, just as other bad poems over-rely on emotion.
I want to say something about the techniques used in Western poetry — to pick over the tools (of which I am measuring haiku against): the first one I want to look at is the short line. The Black and Decker short line tool. It comes with batteries included and a lifetime guarantee. It has two settings; line break and stanza break. Both kinds of break do something to language. A good break has something in common with a well-placed comma. A line break in the wrong place is like a full stop. In the middle of a sentence.
Stanzas and line-breaks are also more flexible than the solid ink of standard punctuation. Breaking can emphasize a word, or the space between words. It can back up a rhyme or rhythm, or it can work against rhythm. It can give poem space, or its absence can create density.
Most of all, I think line-breaks let poetry take breath. They are as natural as breathing. They breathe in clear white paper, which becomes part of the poem, and which balances the intensity of lyrical poetic writing. The genius of Shakespeare’s sonnets and the best haiku is that line breaks don’t happen every ten beats or five syllables, but that they happen where they happen where they naturally belong.
Two more tools for the Western box: rhythm and rhyme. These also do specific things to language, and what they do isn’t very different. One of them repeats a beat. The other one repeats a sound. They both set up repeating patterns. Patterns — in writing, in music, in a carpet, in a fern-head — give the onlooker or listener a particular sense. The audience gets to understand something that is going to happen again. They get to predict the future. There is even a certain trickiness to rhyme and rhythm, because they create a sense that, “Ah, this word fits, this is the way the poem should end; this is right”. Rhyme and rhythm are similar as nails and screws. They do the same thing in different ways.
Using too much rhyme and rhythm will carve away a poem until nothing is left except patterns. The patterns clunk into place with the dullness of “the cat on the mat” and “the rain in Spain” — the poem becomes predictable as a bad pun. Good poetry is not about getting the rhyme exactly right. A poet who wants all rhyme and rhythm to be flawless is working on patterns instead of poetry, reducing it to mathematics, a craft, a love for tool-work instead of what the tool-work can express.
In all genres, perfect patterns miss something. The most beautiful art isn’t always perfect in this sense. Michelangelo’s “David” would not be better with perfectly proportioned hands, nor would “The Prisoners” be improved if they were released from their unfinished block of marble. Kurosawa’s films would not be better with Dolby Sound and Technicolour. The desire to turn the painting straight on the wall is not the desire that makes great poems or novels. People may hanker for patterns to be perfect, but perfect symmetry is soulless. The rhyme and rhythm in good poems often have some kind of asymmetry. It makes them more alive. Someone once asked Jean Renoir why he didn’t improve the camera work in his films. He answered that “The perfect product is perfectly dull. You have to give a little humanity”. This is true. You just have to see the latest Hollywood blockbuster, a thing made with the utmost professionalism and often with all the soul of a dead donkey. In good poetry, especially good contemporary poetry, rhyme and rhythm are used in ways that humanise language. Instead of perfect rhyme, there are half-rhymes, vowel rhymes, rhymes and rhythms hidden inside lines like nuggets.
There are people who would say these tools are the poetry in poetry. This is a little like saying the paint is the painting: of course it is, and of course it isn’t. I suspect that often, when people say that the haiku is not poetry, what they mean is that it does not use the same toolbox as the Western lyric poem. But technique is only one characteristic of poetry; it is not the most important, and the haiku comes with its own bag of tricks. In particular, there is the importance of the way the ideogrammatical haiku looks on the page, the physical images of its characters, the way such a haiku will reach the reader first through these things, then, through the more abstract levels of grammatical language. This brings us back to the characteristic intentionality of poetry. Rhyme and rhythm are incidences of intentionality; they are ways of making language lie close alongside the physical world. So, too, are the concrete poetic qualities of the haiku. If the tree in the gateway is intentional, how much moreso is the haiku?
The fifth thing that characterises poetry, for me, now and at the age of four, is musicality. Poetry is as close to music as it is to prose. The music comes out of looking at language, knowing it inside out. It’s a way of showing what you mean without having to tell. More than fiction, poetry makes language work in many ways at the same time. There is the physical sound and rhythm of it, and the abstract, grammatical sense. Poetry is both sense and sensation. It communicates in the musical contact of tongue, teeth and breath; then it communicates again in the grammatical ways that all writing communicates.
Sometimes the music is complex. Onomatopoeia is a term usually applied to a simple kind of echo – “wow wow”, “miauw”, “tick-tock” — the utterances echoing the sound of a dog, or a cat or the rhythm of a pendulum. “Why ‘tick-tock’”?, is a question to start with; why not “tock-tick”? Why not “tock-tock”? Go listen to a grandfather clock. Its it an accident that the smaller, sharper vowel sound comes first? Does the movement of “i” to “o” echo a physical movement? is this kind of onomatopoeia the same as the onomatopoeia of “woof”, or is it more complicated? How much more complex can such echoes become?
There is nothing primitive about the musicality of poetry, except the directness with which it communicates itself. Here are some examples:
“Every streetlight that I pass
Beats like a fatalistic drum”.
“Horse-flies siphon the green dung,
glued to the sweetness of their graft”.
“A cry, a greening hollow undulation
Echoes slapping across the enclosed bathing-pool”.
I chose these extracts by picking three collections of poetry at random from the bookshelf behind my writing desk, and opening each book at random. In the first passage, the rhythm of words echoes the drum, which the words describe (and the footsteps behind the drum). In the second passage, the poet contrasts the smooth sibilance of the first line (which makes it easy to say) with the “stickiness” of the second, where the texture of hard consonants and long vowels on the mouth, lips and palate “echo” the physical texture described by the words (“Glued to”). In the third passage, the word, “echoes” itself is echoed by a line of two-syllable words, in which the vowels begin sharp and fade away into longer, softer vowels, concluding with the single, extended syllable of “pool”.
T. S. Eliot, Geoffrey Hill and William Empson are not poets associated with extensive use of onomatopoeia. Had I set out to find a really obvious example of the echo in poetry, I might have chosen the work of Hopkins, e.e.cummings, Carol Ann Duffy or Seamus Heaney. But the complexity of the passages above is typical. In the first, the heard-rhythm of words, echoes two rhythms heard in nature. In the second, the felt texture of words “echoes” a texture felt in nature. In the third passage, the rhythm and tone of words echo the rhythm and tone of a natural echo.
Most media in art are linked to the five senses in a fairly clear way. Music is aural; painting, visual; sculpture visual and tactile; opera aural and visual. So, there is something ghostly about all language as a medium. It has no texture, no colour, no smell, no taste. It can be sound, but the sounds often seem to be abstract — so that the most beautiful novel in English will sound meaningless to someone who speaks only Japanese.
But this is not the case with poetry. Rhythm and rhyme, assonance and alliteration, repetition and rhyme, assonance and alliteration, repetition and line-breaks — the echo in poetry and the patterns which create it cross the grammatical boundaries of languages. We can pick up some understanding from these things even when we don’t quite understand the languages in which they are expressed:
Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
did gyre and gimble in the wabe
all mimsy were the borogroves
and the mome raths outgrabe.
Matsushima, ah! Matsushima! Matsushima!
How do we understand that? What is it that we understand? Imagine that this morning we were to go on a field trip to look for the musicality of words. We find a churchyard in walking distance of here, sit in the yard and listen to the church bells. Each of us writes down a word to echo the sound of bells. I write “oranges and lemons”. Are my words right? Are my words better than anyone else’s’? Everybody here has an ear for the way language echoes real things. There are many other words, in other languages or in an invented language, which could echo the sound of bells. But negatives are also illuminating: imagine that someone in our church yard lacked an ear for this musicality. Say the word they used to echo the sound of bells was “beep-beep”. Or “Trevor MacDonald” (actually, Trevor MacDonald isn’t so bad). How do we know that “beep-beep” is not a good echo of the sound of church bells? How do we know that “ranges and lemons” is? We know these things because we have a talent for the musicality of languages. In poetry most of all, language is not entirely abstract. It grows from the senses; from the eyes and ears and from the ends of our fingers.
Does the haiku fulfil this characteristic of poetry? Is the haiku an expression of the musicality in language? For me, this is the point of greatest divergence between the Western lyric and the haiku. The acid test is whether any of the poetry in a Japanese haiku will reach a listener who has no knowledge of that language, in the way that an audience will hear the music in Dante while being ignorant Italian. And I think that haiku that achieve this element of poetry are rare. It is as if the emphasis of the haiku’s poetics is different from those of the lyric. The Western lyric still exists as much in the voice as it does on the page. Its native alphabets provide readers concrete expression on the page. On the other hand, the ideogram provides an entirely different environment for the Oriental poem. It allows words to grow in a walled garden. It gives the haiku an extra dimension which alphabeticised verse can only attempt in mawkish “concrete poetry”. I feel that the haiku has adapted to the page to a greater degree than the lyric poem.
What does this mean when the page is altered? What happens when haiku are written in Western languages? This is a question which has been at the edge of my mind throughout the writing of this essay. How great are the differences between haiku in Japanese and haiku in alphabeticised scripts? My feeling is that they are considerable. The haiku in alphabet is like a sonnet that cannot be read aloud: a whole level of meaning has been removed from it. In such circumstances, I think it is entirely natural for new techniques to be applied to the Western haiku. I wonder if there may not come a time when Western and Eastern haiku begin to diverge more noticeably. I wonder whether the development and contemporary techniques of each will become distinct. It seems entirely possible to me that the alphabeticised haiku and the ideogrammatical haiku become as different from one another as the scripts they are written in and the traditions in which they are read. If so, I hope there will still be world haiku conferences, and that I will be able to continue to attempt bad haiku in Japanese. If not, I will have to find other ways to make my Japanese friends fall off their chairs with laughter, and although this is not always difficult, I suspect none of those ways will give me as much satisfaction as the writing of seventeen syllables.
Read at WHF2000, London-Oxford, August 2000
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With LW, I watched on Monday Robert Lepage's Met production of Die Walküre, with James Levine in the conductor stand. My first Wagner music drama. Act One was gripping. Siegmund and Sieglinde, sung affectingly by Jonas Kaufmann and Eva-Maria Westbroek, fell in love as fate decreed for the long-lost brother and sister.
Act Two suffered from too much exposition, exposing Wagner's weakness as a dramatist. Bryn Terfel sang Wotan and Deborah Voigt sang Brünnhilde but neither could save the narrative pace from sagging badly. Stephanie Blythe was a compelling Fricka, Wotan's wife who forced him to keep the sanctity of marriage, and so withdraw his protection from the adulterous (and incestuous) Siegmund when he fought against Sieglinde's husband, Hunding (Hans-Peter König).
Act Three opened with the famous "Flight of the Valkyries." The war goddesses provoked laughter instead of awe, when they rode the cumbersome planks of the rotating platform. The scene looked comically obscene. The scene in which Wotan changed Brünnhilde to human for disobeying him and helping Siegmund was not as moving as it could be. I heard last summer Voigt sing the Countess superbly in Der Rosenkavalier. I find her less compelling as the Valkyrie.
On Watching Die Walküre for the First Time
The earth that wakes one human heart to feeling
Can centre both the worlds of Heaven and Hell.
—Emily Brontë, “Often rebuked, yet always back returning”
I was unmoved by Wotan’s pain,
or by Brünnhilde’s sacrifice.
They’re gods. Who dares to pity gods?
Rather, Sieglinde’s loveless marriage
awakes a fierce and wanton feeling
that beats the sheer walls of the throat
and when her brother, Siegmund, joins
his body to that love-starved thing,
two voices mingling in distress,
you do not wonder why the lovers
open the operatic score,
and lift a victory over the gods.
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Mental exercise is the act of performing a mentally stimulating task that is considered beneficial to warding off Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia. This practice is accepted by many cultures worldwide. Researchers have done studies finding that mental exercise, like reading and doing a puzzle, does not prevent Alzheimer’s, but rather delays the onset of the disease.
Effects on Alzheimer's disease and dementia
Mental exercise has been very commonly associated with affecting the onset of Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. A study done in 2006 by the Advanced Cognitive Training for Independent and Vital Elderly (ACTIVE) was the first randomized, controlled trial demonstrating beneficial and enduring effects of concise mental training in the elderly. This study showed that the average senior who received cognitive training had fewer declines in specific mental skills than seniors who did not receive any kind of training. The study concluded that the benefits gained by the training were able to roughly counteract the regression in mental performance that is expected in the elderly. Another 2006 study, led by Michael Valenzuela of the University of New South Wales in Australia, found that being mentally active diminishes the risk of Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia by nearly 50% by constructing and maintaining a reserve of cognitive stimulation. This reserve of cognitive stimulation is commonly referred to as either brain reserve or cognitive reserve. Similarly, the cognitive reserve hypothesis states that it is possible to develop the brain’s resistance to neuronal damage and delay the onset of Alzheimer’s. A prior study led by Valenzuela found that after mentally exercising healthy people for five weeks, participants had additional brain chemistry markers in the opposite direction than the markers in Alzheimer’s patients. A study done in 2007 gave tests to approximately 700 elderly people. The results found that no matter which cognitive level the person began at, the people who stimulated their brain more frequently experienced a slower rate of cognitive decline than others. In addition, recent research by Robert Wilson, also of Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, has added more evidence to these older studies. This study encompasses nearly 1200 individuals over the course of almost twelve years. Also, this study agrees with older studies in finding that mental activity may slow the normal declines in memory and thinking that the elderly encounter. However, the new evidence also states that when dementia does hit, its effects attack harder and faster in those who have stimulated the brain more frequently than others. This creates a type of “trade-off” that each person must decide which course of action is best for him or her. This trade-off is that mental exercise may delay the onset of dementia and give an individual more time of capability and individuality, but the price of these advantages will be less time in the hindered and reliant state that coincides with dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. Furthermore, the study found specifically those who read, played games, and went to museums more frequently were less likely to experience mental decline over the course of several years.
Examples of mentally stimulating activities
Although some common examples of mental exercise are doing crossword puzzles and playing chess, stimulation of the brain can occur in a wide variety of ways. Using one’s memory is a form of mental exercise. Attempting to memorize a grocery list before someone goes to the store is easy and beneficial for the brain. A simple way to arouse the brain is by using the opposite, or non-dominant, hand. For tasks such as eating, brushing teeth, dialing the phone, using an iPod, and using the mouse on a computer, most people instinctively use their dominant hand even though using the non-dominant hand would be helpful. Incorporating as many of the five senses as possible into everyday activities can stimulate the brain. Getting dressed with the eyes closed, listening to music while smelling the flowers and the surrounding nature, and watching clouds while playing with modeling clay, are all simple ways to exercise the mind by using many senses at once. Ridding oneself of habits and routines will allow mental stimulation to occur. Driving a different route to work or school on a daily basis are good examples of breaking a comfortable habit. Even shopping at varying pharmacies and grocery stores can help stimulate the brain by breaking habits. Our ancestors are an example of how traveling is another way to exercise the mind. The ancient Homo sapiens were adventurous and constantly on the move. This active lifestyle led to more developed survival skills and a significant amount of brain stimulation that the homebound Neanderthals of the same time did not have, which may have led to their eventual extinction. Even being in an intellectually enriching environment can help compensate for some forms of brain damage. A study done by Jefferson Medical College gave water laced with lead to two groups of rats. One group was in a stimulating environment while the other group was isolated. While lead can potentially cause brain damage, the rats in the stimulating environment showed a better capability to learn than the isolated group. The brain is constantly changing for people of all ages and learning can and should be a continual process. Reading, learning a new language, and playing a musical instrument are all tremendous ways to stimulate the brain. Playing Scrabble and Sudoku are both ways to enhance cognitive ability as well. A study done by Princeton University researchers shows that even playing Bingo is an example of mental exercise for the elderly. On the contrary, watching television sends the brain into a neutral state and is void of thinking; therefore avoiding television is advised for someone wishing to have mental stimulation. Cognitive exercise must occur so that the brain can continue to grow.
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- ((2001, February 1). Bingo 'helps beat memory loss', http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_217474.html)
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Given that, 27x3-8.
We can write this as,
This is in the form of a3-b3 = (a-b)(a2+ab+b2)
here, a = 3x and b = 2, substitute these value in the above equation, we get
Directions: Solve the following problems. Also write at least ten examples of your own.
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International Oil Companies spent over 3.6 billion shillings 1Million for exploration data without approval from government as required by the production sharing agreements. The money is a recoverable cost as per the agreement between government and Oil Companies.The 2016 Auditor Generals report says the failure to monitor and track costs may according to Auditor General result into International Oil Companies incurring costs which may not be approved as recoverable, which may lead to arbitration.
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Most popular from the Voodoo-cult of Haiti in which the dead is reanimated and don't feel pain. Zombies have existed for hundreds, perhaps thousands, of years, in the form/brought of magical or religious ceremonies which raised the dead.
Modern zombology did not take form until about 1912. In 1912, Dr. Otto Standish, known as the Father of Modern Zombology, published "Mechanisms and Characteristics of the Undead", a treatise which raised zombology from the level of folklore and myth to a science. Dr. Otto Standish spent several years in the field studying the Voodoo rituals which produced the undead, and their effects on undead physiology.
Alien Zombies (Zombus Xenus) This species of possessed zombie is typically used by aliens as a means of warfare. The body is either inhabited by an alien intellect, or controlled indirectly.
Biological Zombies (Zombus Biologicus) These zombies are re-animated by some form of chemical. Application of the chemical restores some basic brain functions, and occasionally memories of previous lives. Zombies of this type appear to have suffered some sort of mental defect which pre-disposes them to misanthropy and cannibalism. There is a variant of Biological Zombie where the re-animation is introduced through a disease-bearing pathogen of some sort. In these cases, anyone who has caught the pathogen will become a zombie after they are dead. Sometimes the pathogen affects the living as well, causing them to act aggressively toward noninfected people similiar to the movie, "Night of the Living Dead".
Demon Zombies (Zombus Demonicus) This species of possessed zombie behaves under basically the same principles as the Alien Zombie, except that the intent is usually more malicious and evil in nature, with no clear purpose other than to cause suffering on the living.
Electrical Zombies (Zombus Electricus) This re-animation of this rare species of zombie is brought about by applying a large electrical charge to a corpse. Bolts of lightning provide sufficient charge, but there are further intricacies involved which have prevented this type of zombie from being common. The only persons able to reliably produce Electrical Zombies were Baron Frankenstein and one of his descendants.
Mummified Zombies (Zombus Mummificus) Ancient Egyptians mummified their dead, and then placed curses to take vengeance on those who disturbed the tomb. This combination has been known to produce re-animation in rare cases. Attempts to reproduce the curses have not been successful, so this re-animation is very uncommon and difficult to study. Radioactive
Zombies (Zombus Atomicus) Radiation has also been known to restore basic brain function to corpses. The resulting zombie is very similar to the Biological Zombie. There are those that argue that these two zombie types are the same species, and that the manner of re-animation is irrelevant. This continues to be a divisive issue in zombology today.
Satanic Zombies (Zombus Satanicus) These zombies are re-animated by powers that are satanic in origin, such as from a ritual read from a book of dark magic. They are distinct from Demonic Zombies in that these zombies have self-will, and are not merely possessed shells. They are typically malevolent in nature. Those who cast the spell of re-animation are sometimes in control of the zombies, but more often than not, the zombies merely awaken and begin wreaking havoc.
Voodoo Zombies (i) (Zombus Caribbeanus Mortis) Zombies from this species are closely related to Satanic Zombies. Magic is still used in the re-animation process, but the power stems from a human agent who has much more control over the zombies after they come alive. For those who wish to produce zombies, this has been established as the most effective method, simply because the zombies will almost always do the bidding of their creator.
Voodoo Zombies (ii) (Zombus Caribbeanus Vivus) There is a variant of Voodoo Zombie where the zombie is produced from a living person, usually through the forced consumption of mind-destroying drugs. These zombies are relatively useless in combat, since they are both slow-moving and can be killed like a normal living person. For menial household chores, though, they are quite useful.
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When hedge-fund billionaire Steven A. Cohen bought Jasper Johns’ 48-star Flag recently, tongues in the art world were wagging. The selling price for the 1954 work? An estimated $110 million, The New York Times reported.
As Flag Day and the Fourth of July approach, it’s good to remember that flying the Stars and Stripes doesn’t require a Wall Street salary — just a little respectful protocol. Following are the generally accepted basics of U.S. flag etiquette.
- Display the flag only between sunrise and sunset. It may bedisplayed at night if illuminated.
- Do not fly the flag in inclement weather.
- Whether the flag is hung vertically or horizontally, the stars should be visible on the upper left-hand side.
- Don’t let the flag touch the ground.
- When flags of two or more countries are displayed together, they should be flown from separate staffs of equal height. The flags should be about equal in size.
- Damaged and worn flags should not be shown. They should be destroyed in a dignified way. Most American Legion Posts conducta dignified flag-burning ceremony, often on Flag Day (June 14).
- When not on display, flags should be folded into a triangle, which symbolizes the tricorn hats worn by Colonial soldiers in the Revolutionary War. (Flag-folding instructions: usflag.org/foldflag)
- The flag should never be dipped to any person or thing. It’s flown upside down only as a distress signal.
- The flag should not be used as a drapery or for decoration. Blue, white, and red-striped bunting is available for decorative purposes.
- The blue stripe of the bunting should be on the top.
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Facts about Francis Bergoglio
Pope Francis I Biography
Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina became Pope Francis I on March 13, 2013. He succeeded Pope Benedict XVI, who had stepped down a month earlier.
Jorge Mario Bergoglio was born and raised in Buenos Aires, the son of an Italian immigrant. In the late 1950s Bergoglio joined the Society of Jesus, and in 1969 was ordained as a Jesuit. During the 1970s and ’80s, he taught philosophy and theology in San Miguel, earning a reputation as a moderate scholar with a particular interest in fighting for the poor.
Bergoglio was named Auxiliary Bishop of Buenos Aires in 1992, and six years later was elevated to Archbishop; Pope John Paul II made Bergoglio a cardinal in 2001. According to many sources, in the 2005 conclave that chose Pope Benedict XVI, Bergoglio had been the runner-up. Instead of becoming pope, he became the president of the Buenos Aires Bishop’s Conference, a post he held until 2011.
He was a surprise choice to become the Holy Father after the also-surprising retirement of Benedict XVI in 2013. He became the first pope from Latin America, the first Jesuit to become pope, and the first to take the name Francis.
Papa Francesco I is his name in Italian… Pope Francis I is missing a lung; he had one removed when he was in his 20s as the result of an illness… According to a 2013 profile in The Catholic Herald, “He studied and received a master’s degree in chemistry at the University of Buenos Aires, but later decided to become a Jesuit priest and studied at the Jesuit seminary of Villa Devoto.” He also has a degree in Philosophy from the Catholic University of Buenos Aires, which he earned in 1960.
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Harvesting squash and cucumbers
The weather has heated up, the squash and cucumbers are growing well, and the combination leads to irritation from prickly leaves on sweaty skin. Some people get quite a rash from harvesting these crops, others just get a short-term itchiness that is cured by rinsing arms and hands in cool water. We’ve come up with a few helpful techniques.
The first is fairly obvious: wear long sleeves for this task. Keep a suitable cotton shirt handy (near the harvest knives) to slip on before you start. But sometimes it just feels too hot. Gauntlets are another option. We have two pairs of these white plastic sleeves with elasticated ends. We keep one in the hoophouse, clothes-pinned to the rack by the logbook
I don’t know where we got these. It’s very quick to slip them on and off again, keeping the “enclosed” time to a minimum. They are just tubes, they don’t have gloves attached like the ones I used to wear when I kept bees. They are sold as “protective sleeves”, and they look like these or these (see the photo above).
Probably cutting sleeves off an old shirt and hemming and threading elastic in the top end would work.
For cucumbers, we have introduced the use of a pole to rummage in the vines, seeking mature cukes. This is a surprising improvement over using hands or feet to find the fruits. It does little damage, and you can easily feel when you hit a cucumber. The small amount of time it takes to pop the cucumber off the vine is not long enough for skin to get irritated (for most of us). Also, cucumber vines are closer to the ground than squash vines and leaves, and so your arms don’t get scratched.
Starting Seeds in Hot Weather
My blogpost on this topic has been published on the Mother Earth News Organic Gardening blog. You can see it here. It is based on material in Sustainable Market Farming and in my new book The Year-Round Hoophouse. The post covers germination temperatures, soaking and pre-sprouting seeds.
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Did you realize that the most effective way to change the direction of the ball traveling in air during free soccer drills is by heading the ball. Let me demonstrate to you through some drill the correct approach in properly heading the ball.
Soccer coaching sessions should teach the players to time their head movement with the onset of the ball. The head must be moving forward as it strikes the ball.
1.Head out of hands: One ball and few cones are given to a player during this drill. Initially the players hold the ball in their hands and then proceed to knock the ball out by heading the ball. At no point, the players should move their ball to their head. The ball should be fixed, and they can move their head only.
Then set up the cones and tell the players to head the ball to a specific location. This teaches proper heading techniques and accuracy for using the head to redirect the ball.
2.Heading while standing: One ball and two players are used in this drill. Player A should throw the ball directly to player B. The second player should use the previously learnt technique to pass the ball back to the first player.
During soccer exercises, just make sure that the person heading the ball moves his head back and is going forward when he strikes the ball. The main objective of this drill to teach the player’s the technique to redirect the ball using their head.
3.Life and Head: We require a goal keeper, a goal, players divided into two groups, and many balls to practice this drill. The players are formed into two teams, defending their goal. Only one group has the access to the balls. First player in this group rolls and lifts the ball towards the center of the field in front of the goalkeeper.
A player from the opponent team heads the ball towards the goals by coming forward. The goalkeeper tries to stop the ball from entering the goal. The above activities should be part of the free soccer drills so that the players are trained to run towards the ball while subdued adjustments are made for the location. It also teaches them to head while on the move.
4.Heading with 4 players: For this soccer practice we need 4 players and 1 ball during this drill. On both the sides, the player having the ball is surrounded by two players facing him.
The person having the ball throws the ball to the player on his right side so that he will head to the opposite person. This drill amplifies the movement of the body and develops the timing to redirect the ball at a 90 degree angle.
It will be more effective if we can include free soccer drills that teach the players to head direct and time the players to move and field, catch or knock away the live balls.
If you want more information and knowledge please subscribe to our youth soccer coaching community where a lot of learning resources are available.
Andre Botelho is an expert in How to coach soccer. He influences over 35,000 youth coaches each year with his coaching philosophy, and makes it easy to explode your players' skills and make training fun in record time. Download your free Soccer Coaching guide at: Soccer Drills.
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Type In Use
is a celebration of ultimate communication through the use of letterforms and words
as visual tools. It's not just a training manual. Many books tell you how to do type
on your computer... none of them tell you why. Other books are like eye candy, showing
you lavish examples of beautiful type in award winners from publications and Web
sites. But none of them is able to link the pretty pictures with what really goes
on behind a finely crafted page. Many of the so-called "hot" writers and
designers on the web (you know who they are) spout this and that about fonts and
type, but their yarn quickly runs dry when you ask "how do you know?" You
find that most of the trendy type design books are really more about mechanics than
the real use of type. In fact, if you actually buy Type In Use you're in for a few
surprises. So many writers have propagated their own vague ideas about typography
that most young designers have come to actually take that information as gospel.
Thank God there are still a few like Alex around who will share the truth about where
to put a piece of type on a page.
is not in the violin. I can make an ugly document very easily. I own a computer and
layout software. The problem is, so do many others. Consequently, in the last few
years, the state of publication design has both deteriorated and improved (the hardware
and software can, after all, make magnificent documents in the right hands). The
gap between good and bad design has grown because, after investing fifteen or twenty
grand in a system, the boss puts a visually untrained person at the wheel."
From the Introduction of Type In Use.
THIS MESSAGE SETS THE MOTION of the book toward the goals of helping the reader
become a visually trained craftsperson. The entire book is stacked against succumbing
to the temptation to change sizes, mix faces and alter line spacing purely for the
sake of doing it. Alex takes us (yes, I'm his student too!) through all the steps
of getting our readers to read what we want them to -- crafting ultimately readable
body text, headlines and subheads -- right down to the diminutive details of captions,
callouts and even page numbers! In more than 284 specific visual examples Alex shows
us what really works, why it really works, and how to make the bridge between good
and bad. It's not enough to just see an excellent work. Alex shows you how it was
done and why it's an excellent work.
... I've always maintained that I would rather have
a reader send email and say: "your article really helped me a lot" rather
than "hey, I really like your graphics." Keep in mind that if a reader
says "Wow - what typeface did you use?" they're actually saying "I
didn't read the article but I'd really like to get my hands on that font!" and
therefore you've fallen short on your obligation to the message.
minted visual communicators do not understand that, as designers, we are agents for
the reader. Our job is to compose elements to make them maximally interesting and
comprehensible. 'Maximally interesting' does not mean Hey! Wow! Pop! Zoom! It means
revealing the content of the story instantly and efficiently. "
Alex then shares this quotation by Aaron Burns:
function is of major importance,
form is secondary, and
fashion almost meaningless."
Do you agree? I sure do.
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Dear Barbara: Can you tell me the difference between “all-purpose” flour and cake flour? — Rob from Stockton
Dear Rob: Cake flour is made from soft wheat, and is grown in moderate climates. The flour is ground much finer than all purpose flour. Cake flour is low in gluten protein, so your end product is much lighter. All-purpose flour is from a heartier winter wheat and is used when you need a leavener, such as baking powder, or baking soda. You can use all-purpose flour for everything, hence ‘all purpose,’ but if you want that little edge, use a flour that is specifically made for whatever you are baking.
Dear Barbara: My family is of Slovakian decent. We have a favorite soup just as you do. It is called Lettuce Soup. What I would like to know is if it can be made with cabbage. — Kit from Mundelein
Dear Kit: Certainly you can make it with cabbage, but then you would have cabbage soup. The recipe that I saw had no eggs and no meat. I also found two that used butter lettuce rather than iceberg lettuce. It seems to me that the butter lettuce wouldn’t hold up in the soup, where iceberg lettuce is a bit hardier.
It amazes me that Slovakia is such a small country to have such a large culinary reputation; very simple food, yet very delicious.
Many Americans have family who had roots in Slovakia, such as Paul Newman and Jesse Ventura.
I’m sure your soup would be good whether it is lettuce or cabbage, and I understand that your family loves it. Good for you! I compliment you for keeping a family tradition alive!
Dear Barbara: What is “simple syrup”? — Ruth from Lockeford
Dear Ruth: Simple syrup is nothing more than syrup that is half sugar and half water. Heat it over medium heat until all the sugar is dissolved. You want it to be cool when you use it. In the Southern states, “sweet tea” is very popular. Some make the simple syrup ahead and put it in the refrigerator so that it is ready when they are.
Barbara Spitzer is a Lodi home cook who also develops recipes for specific consumer products. Do you have a cooking question? Send it to Barbara Spitzer at email@example.com. Please include your first name and city.
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Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009
I am a bit of an idiot when it comes to print typography. On the web the choices have historically been limited and knowing the difference between san/serif has been enough. But, the times are slowly changing…
The Classic Resource
A coworker introduced me to this nice little cheat sheet was created in 1992. Although dated, many of the widely used web fonts are listed. In the chart, a number from 1 to 3 appears where each pair intersects. 1 means that the two fonts are compatible, 2 means that with proper implementation the two fonts could work well together, and 3 means that they will clash.
The chart is very useful, but is presented in such a way that would make Tufte cry. Issues include:
- No representation of what the font actually look like
- Numbers 1-3 are not good visual indicators of good-bad
- Very, very hard to figure out what row/column you are on.
- What is Text vs. Display anyway?
- Why does Quorum come before Optima in an ordered list.
Time for an Update
I put together an interactive draft that you can find here (the image below is not interactive). Not all the issues are solved in this 0.1 version, but it is much more useful.
By the way: display (denoted by columns) means headings and text (denoted by rows) means body text, etc…
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The expiration date of the federal wind production tax credit (PTC) is 4 short weeks away. Knowing that it’s carve out is slated to be cut, the wind energy industry is lobbying feverishly for an extension, repeating the same tired arguments and unrealized promises about long-term job creation and energy affordability. Currently there is a growing of support at the grassroots level for ending this misguided handout for the wind industry. When members of Congress went back to their districts during the Thanksgiving recess, they heard from the people who will face higher taxes and electricity bills as a result of this tax credit. They should listen.
This past month, a diverse coalition of over 100 organizations representing millions of Americans sent a letter to Congress, calling on Congress to allow the wind PTC to expire. The organizations that signed onto the letter are not the group of suspects that typically weigh in on Capitol Hill, nor do they have much in common besides their strong opposition to extending tax breaks for the wind industry.
By no means is the 100+ coalition letter an isolated example of the grassroots opposition to extending wind subsidies. Over the past year, over 23,500 Americans for Prosperity activists in all 50 states took action and sent an email to their members of Congress, encouraging them to oppose extending the PTC after its scheduled expiration on December 31, 2013.
With this surge of grassroots support for letting the wind PTC expire, lawmakers on Capitol Hill may be beginning to notice. Two weeks ago, Rep. Pompeo (R-Kan.) released a Dear Colleague letter with the signatures of bipartisan group of 52 of his colleagues, calling on House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Dave Camp (R-Mich.) to let the wind production tax credit (PTC) expire. “The inclusion of the PTC without regard to its individual merit is part of what has produced the overly complicated system that tax reform seeks to address,” the Pompeo letter correctly points out.
When the House Ways and Means Committee engages in comprehensive tax reform, whether it happens this year or next year, it should not include an extension of the PTC and similar tax carve outs. This has a symbolic importance: If Congress isn't willing to get rid of this carve out for one special interest, then how can we expect it to be willing to eliminate it for any others?
This year, Congress should allow the wind production tax credit to expire as scheduled—not phase it down, not extend it. Millions of citizens and over 100 organizations across the country are calling on them to do so.
Hanson is Federal Affairs manager for Americans for Prosperity, a conservative advocacy group.
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Scrabble & Words with Friends Word Unscrambler
Definition of Pussley
1 Definition of Pussley
The definition of pussley, the meaning of word
Is pussley a scrabble word? Yes!
- n.- weedy trailing mat-forming herb with bright yellow flowers cultivated for its edible mildly acid leaves eaten raw or cooked especially in Indian and Greek and Middle Eastern cuisine; cosmopolitan
Pussley is worth 12 points in Words with Friends and 14 points in Words with Friends
There are 7 letters in pussley: E L P S S U Y
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How to Choose the Right Skin Care Products for your Baby
Every mother wants nothing but the best for her baby. It might seem difficult to select the right baby products since you are still figuring out what works best for your baby. Since baby’s requirements keep changing as she grows, even a simple decision such as choosing the right skin care products can be confusing.
In the first few months, since baby’s sensitive skin can lose moisture at a rapid pace, she requires creams and lotions that help lock in this moisture, and shampoos and body cleansers that are gentle on her skin. Caring for your little one means paying attention to the little things. Being well informed is the first step towards making confident choices for your baby.
Some ingredients in baby skin care products can be harsh on your infant’s delicate and sensitive skin. Going natural is the safest and best bet for your little one. The next time you set out to pick a product, here’s a list of natural ingredients you should look for on the label.
- Aloe Vera: A wonder herb with 96% water content and Vitamins A, B, C and E, the gel possesses anti-inflammatory, antifungal, and cooling properties. It is effective in treating eczema and dry skin conditions.
- Sesame Oil: One of the most popular ingredients in baby massage oils, Sesame Oil, with its high absorbency and antibacterial properties, is ideal for baby’s sensitive skin.
- Khus Grass or Vetiver: This cool herb has soothing, antibacterial, antifungal, and antiperspirant properties which cool and refresh the skin.
- Almond Oil: A rich source of Vitamin E that nourishes skin, Almond Oil is a natural emollient and skin moisturizer which can effectively hydrate dry skin.
- Neem: An all-in-one herb, Neem has antibacterial, antiparasitic, antifungal, and anti-inflammatory properties.
The goodness of nature is packed in every Himalaya BabyCare product. Free from Sodium Laurel Sulfate (SLS) and parabens, Himalaya’s soaps and shampoos offer gentle care for baby’s sensitive skin. So, the next time you are evaluating which product to pick for your baby, choose the gentle and healing touch of an herbal product!
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Super Big Wheelchair
Wheelchairs that are considered oversized are generally heavy-duty chairs. They are oversized to allow a higher weight capacity and/or features that are catered towards larger individuals. Oversized chairs have a lower turn radius and maneuverability is also lower than the average wheelchair.
Oversized chairs have a weight capacity up to 500+ pounds, which means that it can handle a wheelchair-bound individual who may be as large as 500 pounds. If a chair is categorized as “oversized” or heavy duty, you’ll more than likely find out that it is also heavier than the average wheelchair.
Heavy-duty chairs weigh more because the frame was designed to be an exceptional weight-bearing device.
Only Oversized For You
Sometimes oversized can mean some thing totally different than heavy duty as well. Meaning that the chair may be too large for your use, but not for someone bigger. Meaning that you probably ordered one seat width size too wide for your body-type.
Oversized Wheelchair for Pediatric Use
Sometimes oversized can mean that an adult wheelchair was purchased for a child, which means that the chair seat width and maybe depth as well would be too large for a tiny individual.
Larger than Average Chairs
“Oversized” means that the chair is wider and taller than most chairs. For this reason, it is imperative to research purchasing one of these chairs before actually going through with it.
Heavy duty usually refers to a chair that has weight bearing capabilities. Sometimes these chairs are referred to as Bariatric wheelchairs because of their large size or weight bearing capabilities.
Fitting Through a Doorway
Wheelchair-bound users who use extra wide wheelchairs may have a problem getting the chair through a doorway or a narrow hallway. Make sure that you have accessible doorways and exit stations where your chair can fit through in case of an emergency.
Weight capacity for oversized chairs can range anywhere from 300 to 500+ pounds. Our wheelchairs usually range from 250 to 400 pounds weight capacity.
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This week Mexico’s top court ruled that all 31 provinces would have to recognize same-sex marriages performed in Mexico City. But our neighbor to the south isn’t the only Latin nation advancing toward marriage equality: Uruguay’s Chamber of Deputies is set to vote on the legalization of gay marriages on December 11.
With the measure likely to pass, it would then go before the senate by the fall of 2013.
Uruguay became the first Latin American country to legalize same-sex civil unions, back in 2007. And eEarlier this year, the government approved recognition of same-sex marriages performed elsewhere.
The Argentina Independent notes there is some dispute about name order for children in same-sex families, but the issue should be resolved by next week.
Marriage equality is also under consideration in Colombia, where a bill legalizing same-sex nuptials passed a preliminary vote on Tuesday. Not surprisingly, there is ample opposition from conservatives there: After the vote, Senator Edgar Espíndola claimed the measure would open the door to bestiality, necrophilia and pedophilia.
Oh c’mon, Sen. Espíndola—can’t you at least be original? It’s always the bestiality with you people.
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A lottery is a type of gambling hongkong pools hari ini that allows a person to win money by betting on a specific set of numbers. Typically, a fixed prize is awarded, such as cash or goods. However, there are also games that let the player select the numbers.
The first known European lotteries were organized during the Roman Empire. During Saturnalian revels, wealthy noblemen would distribute lottery tickets to guests. Although most lotteries were a form of entertainment, they helped raise funds for public projects, such as roads and libraries. Lotteries were also used to finance local militias and fortifications.
While most forms of gambling were illegal in most of Europe by the early twentieth century, some governments still sanctioned them. In the United States, the first state-run lottery was created in 1966. This is the New York lottery, which is a part of the Multi-State Lottery Association (MLSA). It offers a wide variety of games, including Mega Millions, Powerball, and local state games. Those who win a prize will need to pay an extra 3.876 percent and 24 percent in taxes to the State of New York, plus a federal tax of 8.82 percent.
While the New York lottery does not feature an online version, a number of third party sites may influence the state’s decision to offer an online version in the future. Some states already permit the sale of lottery tickets on the Internet, such as North Dakota and Alabama.
Online games, such as the Scratch Card game, allow players to bet as little as $0.05. However, if the prize amount is greater than $500, players must go to a lottery office to claim the prize. These games are different from official lottery operators, but there are legal online lottery courier services that can help players order and pay for official tickets.
There are two types of prizes, one that is payable in a single payment and another that is paid in annuity. The difference is that the payment is less than the advertised jackpot, while the annuity is a fixed amount that is payable for life. Many people choose to buy lottery tickets from retailers that sell winning tickets, but that is superstition.
Several countries, such as Italy and Finland, do not have personal income taxes. In France, the government does not charge any taxes on lottery winnings. Also, the United Kingdom pays out lottery prizes as lump sums, which is not subject to personal income tax. Similarly, Australia and New Zealand do not charge any personal income taxes.
Several states in the United States use lotteries to raise money for local schools and colleges. The New York lottery uses funds to benefit education in the state. Since the state’s establishment, the state has awarded $5 billion to its players. The proceeds of the lottery are distributed to public schools, college scholarships, libraries, parks, and wildlife habitats.
Despite the popularity of lotteries, some people believe that lotteries are a form of fraud. For example, scammers often pretend to have won the lottery and persuade a stranger to put up money as collateral. To avoid disadvantages, winners may establish a blind trust to protect themselves.
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Recovering the Land: Native Americans & the Law
Program #LADW004. Recorded in Boulder, CO on October 11, 1996.Indigenous peoples in the U.S. and around the world are struggling to recover their lands. From the South Pacific to Minnesota to British Columbia in Canada, native activists are mobilizing to reclaim their rights. There are some victories. In March 1997, the government of Argentina returned 300,000 acres to Indians in the northwest region of the country.
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Alex Topp, 11 a sixth-grader in Vacaville, Calif., reacts after properly spelling the final word ? zydeco ? to win the the 2013 Solano County Spelling Bee last month.
For the first time in the 86-year history of the National Spelling Bee, contestants will have to worry about what the words mean as well as how to spell them.
To qualify for the semifinals and championship finals, spellers will be judged on a cumulative score that incorporates live spelling, computer-based spelling questions and computer-based vocabulary questions, organizers of the Scripps National Spelling Bee announced Tuesday.
Vocabulary evaluation will count for 50 percent of a speller's overall score that will determine who advances in the competition May 28-30 in Oxon Hill, Md. ...
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The First Human To Fly Was A Muslim By Sadhique A.M.I. How many of us know that the first flight by a human being, the first manned Rocket flight and the first recorded Parachute jump were accomplished by Muslims? 265 years before the Wright Brothers flew, a Turkic Muslim by the name Hezarfen Ahmat Celebi made a successful flight of almost 1.5 Km and became the first ever human being to fly on his own. This amazing and important piece of information has been totally blacked out in history. Last year (2004) was celebrated as the centenary year of man's flight, but not a single word was spoken about this foremost aviation achievement, let alone the false claim of the Wright brothers' flight being the man's first ever flight. Man First Flew Successfully In 1638; Not In 1903 Hezarfen Ahmet Celebi (1609-1640) was a Turkish scientist, who lived during the reign of Ottoman Sultan Murat IV and incurably interested in aviation. He had been experimenting with glider flights for sometimes. (Gliders are aerodynamic wings attached to a frame to which the pilot clings onto. In practice gliders are engineless airplanes. Large gliders with fuselages as large the ones in conventional aircraft were used during World War II to land airborne troops). He kept his faith in man's ability to fly and tried several designs of wings. Despite peoples' ridicules, he kept his attempts alive. One day in the year 1638, in front of the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire Murat IV and a huge crowd of onlookers, he succeeded in flying. He flew from the gigantic Galata Tower in one shore of the Bosphorous straight (On the European of Istanbul) to the other shore on the other side of Istanbul, the distance being 1.5 Km. He had a successful landing, which makes it to be the first-ever controlled, sustained and successful flight by a human being. The famous Turkish traveller and historian of the time, Evliya Celebi, in his book Seyahatname (A book of travel) recorded this extraordinary feat. He was an eyewitness to the event. Recordings of this achievement abound in Turkish chronicles and folklores, but precious little to be found in the Western world. This ill treatment or Blackout of a major historical fact is more in line with the West's preoccupation with belittling and denying Muslims' huge contributions towards the advancement of human civilisation. Still history is being written and read, hailing the Wright brothers' flight in 1903 as the "first flight by the mankind". In fact the Wright brother's flight was a historic achievement - no doubt about that. But unfortunately it was not the first flight by Man. Rather it should be categorized as the "First Mechanised Flight" by man. Any way it should be noted that this flight by the Wright brothers opened the way for the mass aviation we experience today. Sultan Murad, being impressed by this accomplishment, gave Hezarfen a reward of 1000 gold coins befitting the adventurer's name. The word Hezarfen means the "Expert in 1000 sciences" in Turkish. But the consequences of the adventure to the adventurer are not that rosy. It is believed that, upon listening to ill advice from envious sources, the Sultan exiled this rare and triumphant scientist to far off Algeria. To honour the first aviator in human history and one of her proud son, Turkey has published a few stamps on suitable occasions. But only a minor airport has been named after him, whereas the main airport has been named after the more earthly Mustapha Kamal "Ataturk". May be the misty West looking eyes of the secular Turkish administration found Hezarfen Ahmet Celebi not secular enough. Previous Attempts By Muslim Adventurers In Flying In 875, A Muslim scientist from the then Muslim Spain. Abbas Ibnu Firnaz, flew from a mountain with a glider, which he innovated through various studies and several attempts. He invited the people of Cordoba to witness his attempt. By all accounts, he succeeded in flying through some distance, but he didn't make a soft landing. He broke his back, the injury which was to hurt him throughout his life. Due to this injury he couldn't correct the failure, which he blamed his oversight in designing the tail. He was a brilliant scientist who produced glass from sand, devised a chain of rings to simulate the motions of celestial bodies and invented a clock. He died in 888 reportedly of his back injury. 23 years before him, another Spanish Muslim scientist, Armen Firmann tried to fly from a tower in Cordoba with wing shaped cloaks attached to his garments. He survived with minor injuries thanks to the air trapped in his "wings". But ultimately he qualifies to be the first human to use "Parachutes". First Manned Rocket Flight Was Achieved By A Muslim As Well A friend of Hezarfen Ahmet Celebi, by the name Lagari Hasan Celebi is the first man to fly on a Rocket. This information may seem amazing, but it is true. May be with a desire to equalize his friend's astounding act or just as another adventure, Lagari Hasan Celebi made a conical shaped cage and filled it with gun powder. On the day of the wedding of Sultan Murat IV's daughter, he climbed into the cone and fired, before an astonished crowd of spectators. He reportedly flew a few hundred feet and fell into the sea (The Bosphorous Straight). But rather strangely he also met the same fate as that of his friend. He may have been rewarded handsomely, but was exiled to Algeria, probably alleged with suspicions over witchcraft. www.islamistan.net Did you know that? Muslims were first in alot of things but most people, especially the muslims aren't aware of it at all. This is due to pure arrogance towards the Islamic History.
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Monty on the Run
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Commodore 64 cover art
Monty on the Run is a computer game created by the software house Gremlin Graphics and released in 1985 for the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and Commodore Plus/4, written by Peter Harrap for the ZX Spectrum with music by Rob Hubbard.
On the run from the authorities after his intervention in the Miners' strike, Monty the mole must escape from his house and head for the English Channel and freedom in Europe. In traditional platform game fashion, along the way he needs to collect various objects and solve puzzles to complete his escape. Before the game, five objects must be chosen to form Monty's Freedom Kit. Choosing the wrong items will leave the player unable to pass certain screens. This also acted as an anti-piracy measure, since the objects were only given numbers onscreen meaning the player had to refer to the accompanying manual. The final screen sees Monty boarding a ferry to France. This was then the starting point for the follow-up Auf Wiedersehen Monty.
The game has a sense of British surrealness similar to Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy - in gameplay it is more similar to the latter. Enemies patrol every screen, water is deadly to the touch and Monty runs the risk of being squashed by the many pistons.
Commodore 64 version
The music for the Commodore 64 version is regarded as one of the best computer game scores for that platform. The main game theme was, according to Hubbard, inspired by "Devil's Galop", the theme tune to the radio serial Dick Barton. It was rated #1 on Skytopia's list of The All-Time Top C64 Game Tunes and was also rated #2 in Hardcore Gaming 101's Top 100 Western Video Game Music of all time.
Family Computer Disk System version
Jaleco's remake of the game bears very little resemblance to the original version, for instance, Monty Mole has been replaced with a human (who bears a striking resemblance to Peter Sutcliffe) on the run from prison and now has to escape through various Aztec-like temples. The only real association the game does have with the original is Gremlin's copyright and the familiar "in-game" theme playing on the title screen.
Like many Famicom Disk System titles, Monty's Great Heart-pounding Escape is little known outside of Japan as the game was never ported to cartridge for a Western NES release.
The game was reviewed in 1990 in Dragon #158 by Hartley, Patricia, and Kirk Lesser in "The Role of Computers" column, as part of the Mastertronic MEGA Pack of 10 games previously released in Europe. The reviewers normally gave a game a rating from 1 to 5 stars, but they gave this game an "X" for "Not recommended", stating "It crashed every time we tried to play it". The game was a bestseller in the UK Spectrum charts.
|UK number-one Spectrum game
- Skytopia : Greatest Commodore 64 games music - Reviews
- Lesser, Hartley; Lesser, Patricia; Lesser, Kirk (June 1990). "The Role of Computers". Dragon (158): 47–54.
- Monty on the Run theme (MP3) [broken link]
- Monty on the Run theme song on Youtube
- TGWTG's Video Retrospective on the series which contains footage of the Famicom version.
- Monty on the Run gameplay video
- Monty on the Run at World of Spectrum
- Monty on the Run longplay in Internet Archive
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Lost Architecture Competition Tirana
The former Museum of Enver Hoxha, one of the most significant architectural monuments in the center of Tirana, is awaiting to face a new chapter. It is a matter of fact that public buildings are changing their purpose over the course of time. The famous Louvre in Paris, for instance, was meant to be the Royal Palace before finally finding its fate as the first public museum in France. Or just like the Berlin Wall, once dividing a whole city for almost thirty years, remains today as one of the most visited touristic sites in Berlin.
Since the city of Tirana was undergoing strong historic transformations, it should be in demand how the Pyramid Museum can react for its part. The original purpose, memorably dedicated for one person, is not suitable any more. A contemporary approach to the building, responding to the needs and beliefs of the modern Albanian society give the building a new lease on life.
In order to both opening the existing and filling its gaps with new contemporary content, the proposed construction sticks apparently for passengers out of the museum, converging at the same time carefully into the hardly inviting inside. The new steel structure is composed of three parts, wedging from three different directions into and out of the building, connected within the inner atrium by a pathway on the 2nd level. Due to the experience that people are still using the roof landscape it should be not only kept up but also extended and improved on its accessibility.
The addition to the museum is proposing a new program, a cultural center with conference and exhibition rooms, not only for art festivals like the Biennale but also for other different local happenings - an open space center of communication to support interconnections between people from different cultural or social backgrounds. From this center of information and communication on, providing ideas, contacts and material, there could be a radial development of satellite points to spread initiatives and enable people to take part in the current change of their city.
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The third part of our series on Kirana gharana, in which
we examine the role played by Pandit Bhimsen Joshi in his
gharana, as well as in the world of Hindustani music at large.
KIRANA, a vast gharana, has had so many musicians in the last one and a half century or so, that it goes to the credit of Pandit Bhimsen Joshi for having left behind one of the strongest stamps of his personality in the name of his school of singing. But this is where the dialectic beginshe left behind a personalized style more than a gharana style, moulding the tenets of gayaki or style to his own needs as a performer, as a result of which he startedinadvertently, of course-- an era that undermined the gharana system itself --for the first time in its two and a half centuries of brilliant history. For, with it, his style has shown the door to the passionate old sense of gharana-consciousness in the new generation of musicians.
Panditji inherited and worked on the style of his guru, Pandit Sawai Gandharva, disciple of Ustad Abdul Karim Khan Saheb, who himself came from a Marathi Natya Sangeet background. His style was a 'madhya laya drut', which means to say that it veered towards the fast tempo in the so-called madhya laya or middle-tempo singing. This is very important, because these are the only musical roots of the Bhimsen style. And yet, with the changing face and form of the khayal in his own timesUstad Amir Khan Saheb of the Indore gharana had sung such a new and brilliant gayaki just before him-- the challenge before Pandit Bhimsen Joshi was to further evolve the gayaki of his guru and grand-guru from the old madhya laya format.
How did this middle-tempo style turn into a vilambit or slow as well as a drut or fast style? The answer is simple. There was heavy borrowing from Ustad Amir Khan Saheb-- in the vilambit singing, to begin with. Being a simple man, Bhimsenji unabashedly acknowledged this, and sang a host of compositions made popular by Ustad Amir Khan, as well. In interview after interview he would say that you must take and sing whatever you liked from whoever you liked, and that he saw no compulsion for restrictions in the matter of gharanas at all.
As his style developed, his Maratha physique, reflected also in the particular musculature of his voice, also projected a highly dramatic way of singing. As he sang, his body language, too, became excessively dramatic; he would locate his swaras in the air, grab them, and throw them back into the air, much to the amusement of the listeners, who 'saw' or could 'visualize' the music as it was being sung as well.More on asiamagazines dot org
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Japanese 101: Kansai Dialect
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- Featured in the July 2009 Issue of Kansai Scene!
- "Hundreds of useful Kansai-ben phrases with quizzes and recorded by a native speaker from that region--Awesome!"
With this application even beginners completely new to Japanese can learn to understand and speak phrases in the Japanese Kansai dialect (Kansai-ben).
Japanese 101: Kansai Dialect is fully functional on the iPhone and iPod Touch. There is no need to be connected to the Internet when using this application.
Japanese 101: Kansai Dialect includes 240+ Japanese Kansai-ben phrases and expressions, including the Japanese text, romaji (Japanese written using English characters), and an English translation for each.
Most phrases also include notes that explain what the expression would be in standard Japanese (標準語 hyoujungo) or give other cultural tidbits of interest.
You can also hear a native Japanese voice actress from Osaka speak each phrase at native speed and additionally at a slower speed to ensure that you catch every syllable.
If you have seen Japanese comedy game shows, movies, or spoken with Japanese people from Osaka, Kobe, Kyoto, or Nara, you’ve probably noticed that they often use phrases and expressions that you cannot find in your textbooks... or even in your dictionary!
These Kansai-jin (people from West Japan, i.e., the Kansai area) are using the colorful and fun expressions from the Kansai dialect. Now you can learn a wealth of key Kansai-ben phrases on your iPhone or iPod Touch.
You can study these Kansai-ben phrases in three different ways with this application.
1) Study Pages: See a list of the phrases and expressions on one convenient, scrollable page organized by category. Touch the phrase of interest to see a page with the Japanese text, the romaji, the English translation, and the notes. Touch again to hear the phrase spoken by a native Japanese voice actress from Osaka at native speed. You can also hear the phrase spoken extra slowly to be sure to catch every syllable.
2) Flash Cards: Select one of the categories; choose to display the Japanese or the English on the front of the flashcard; swipe your finger to flip the card to see the meaning and notes; and tap the sound icon to hear it spoken.
3) Quiz Mode: Select one or more categories and 15 random multiple-choice questions will be generated from those categories. Test your knowledge in a fun and interactive way. After the quiz finishes you can review the phrases you missed.
This application was created in cooperation with the team at TheJapanesePage.com, so those familiar with their "Japanese Phrases" and "Japanese Idioms" iPhone applications will know that this is yet another application that beginners and advanced learners alike will enjoy.
If you're still not convinced, you'll also get one FREE $5 download from TheJapanShop.com's instant download collection of Japanese lessons and readers when you purchase this application.
Looking forward to your feedback!
What's New in Version 1.1
Standardized some punctuation.
Expanded and added some notes.
Added new phrase ようせいへん to Feeling Bad category
Added new phrase まいどあり to Greetings category
Re-recorded やるやん, one of the random audio clips played in response to a correct quiz answer, to give it more "genki."
Checked to ensure 3.0 compatibility.
- USD 2.99
- Category: Education
- Updated: 17 July 2009
- Version: 1.1
- Size: 13.2 MB
- Language: English
- Developer: Harvey Beasley
- © 2009 JapanNewbie.com
Compatibility: Requires iOS 2.2 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
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Student credit cards can be an excellent tool for students to learn about financial responsibility and build credit. Currently, state governments have also introduced student schemes such as West Bengal Student Credit Card Scheme and Bihar Student Credit Card Scheme, under which they provide student loans at subsidized rates to help students graduate without any financial constraints. Since students generally do not make money, student credit cards are not suitable for generating income.
Eligibility Criteria for a Student Credit Card
There are some general criteria that applicants must meet to be eligible. For example, the applicant must be over 18 years of age. Eligibility criteria may vary from bank to bank.
It’s important to note that Indian “student credit cards” offer minimal services. However, banks offer financial aid to students in the form of student loans, secured credit cards, and student currency cards.
To take advantage of these opportunities, you must meet the established criteria. Note. No proof of income is required when applying for a student credit card, accessory card, or secure credit card. However, if you are a student and have an income (with a permanent job), some banks may be interested in offering you a regular credit card. You will need to provide proof of payment such as payroll, ITR, bank statement, etc.
How to Apply for Student Credit Card
The student card application process depends on the type of credit card you are looking for.
Supplementary Card: If you are 18 years of age or older, you can ask your immediate family members to apply for an additional card.
The process is relatively fast, and only essential KYC documents are required. Secured Credit Card: You need to open a fixed deposit account with a bank to get a secured credit card. If you already have a fixed deposit account, ask your bank to provide you with a credit card protected from it.
Credit Cards and Student Loans: You can use a student credit card at banks that offer credit cards for loans. A famous example is the SBI Student Plus Advantage credit card. To provide financial aid to students, banks offer students credit cards for school loans or prepaid cards that work similarly to student credit cards.
Some of these cards are listed below.
The SBI Student Plus Advantage Card is a student-only credit card. You can only use this card if you are a State Bank of India Education Loan client or if you have an FD at any SBI branch.
Annual tax exemption for spending over Rs. The ICICI Bank Student Forex Credit Card is a prepaid card that works like a credit card. The membership fee for the card is Rs.
Card protection plus insurance worth Rs. Liability insurance for forged/lost cards up to Rs. You can quickly get a secure credit card if you have a fixed deposit. A secured credit card is a good option if you are a student looking for a loan and want to earn interest on a fixed deposit.
As a rule, the credit limit for these credit cards is 80 to 90% of the loan amount. However, this may vary between all credit card providers. Some of these credit cards are listed below.
Flexible plans FD Rs. You can also top up your fixed deposit with a total amount of Rs.
Welcome bonus of 500 bonus points when you spend Rs. At an annual cost of Rs. Lost card liability insurance worth Rs. Annual Expenditure Tax Exemption of Rs.
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OTTAWA—Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz offered a bit of encouraging economic news for the Harper government as the Conservatives prepare to deliver the 2014 budget a few weeks from now.
While keeping its trend-setting interest rate steady at 1 per cent, the central bank said Canadian economic growth would improve to 2.5 per cent in 2014 and 2015 from the weak 1.8 per cent recorded in 2013.
But it will be two years before the economy is performing on all cylinders, the bank said in its quarterly forecast Wednesday.
“In Canada, growth improved in the second half of 2013,” the bank said in a statement accompanying the rate-setting announcement.
However, there have been “few signs” that the hoped-for upsurge in exports and business investment is taking place, leaving the economy still dependent on consumers as the main engine of growth, the bank said.
Canadians need not worry about higher borrowing costs any time soon, Poloz indicated. And even lower rates can’t be ruled out.
Former governor Mark Carney warned for years that the central bank would eventually have to use its rate-setting power to drive up commercial bank borrowing rates to head off a burst of consumer price inflation. But Poloz is saying there is so much slack in the economy that he is as likely to opt for lower rates as higher ones.
Since indications of lower interest rates tend to discourage investment in Canada, Poloz’s more “dovish” stance on his future moves added momentum to the downward slide of the Canadian dollar on exchange markets. It lost nearly a cent, closing Wednesday at 90.19 (U.S.) cents — down from 91.14 (U.S.) cents the day before.
In an optimistic note, Poloz said the United States appears ready to shed its persistent economic weakness and lead a rise in global economic expansion over the next two years.
“Stronger U.S. demand, as well as the recent depreciation of the Canadian dollar, should help to boost exports and, in turn, business confidence and investment” in Canada, the bank said.
With the loonie down about 10 per cent in value in just over a year, Canadian exporters should benefit as their products become more price-competitive in the key U.S. market.
Global growth is expected to rise from 2.9 per cent in 2013 to 3.4 per cent in 2014 and 3.7 per cent in 2015, the forecast said.
The central bank has kept its key overnight rate at 1 per cent—well below normal—for more than three years in an attempt to boost the economy. But growth has been so sluggish that inflation is below the central bank’s 2-per cent target.
“Inflation in Canada has moved further below the 2 per cent target, owing largely to significant excess supply in the economy and heightened competition in the retail sector. The path for inflation is now expected to be lower than previously anticipated,” the central bank said.
Inflation will return to the 2-per cent target in about two years, as the effects of retail competition dissipate and excess capacity is absorbed, the bank said.
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, who has been dealing with an uncertain global economic situation ever since the 2008-09 recession, is expected to deliver his 2014 budget in mid-February. He has admitted that unemployment remains too high and the NDP has called for him to use the budget to spend more and stimulate economic growth. But so far Flaherty has said the budget will focus on fiscal restraint so the federal government can wipe out its $17.9-billion budget deficit.
The next scheduled date for announcing the bank’s overnight rate target is March 5.
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The Sisters Weiss, by Naomi Ragen. St. Martin’s Press. 336 pages. Hardback $24.99.
This bestselling novelist has carved an intricate tale out of the lives of two sisters, at one time inseparable, but later living in separate and incompatible worlds. Rose and Pearl Weiss are born into a caring, rule-bound ultra-Orthodox Brooklyn family. Rose, the older by three years, has the kind of curiosity that is dangerous in this kind of community – dangerous because it cannot be satisfied without stepping out of the cocoon and risking ostracism.
Befriended by a girl whose French immigrant family is at the margins of acceptance by this community, Rose finds herself captivated by art photography found in a book in the girl’s father’s library. She is allowed to borrow the book, which she knows she must hide. However, she soon aspires to becoming a photographer – which clearly means she aspires to seeing things in her own way. In several seemingly inevitable steps, Rose finds herself at odds with all that has been built to comfort and protect her. At seventeen, she runs away from an arranged marriage, disgracing her family and cutting herself off from the only world she has known.
Slowly but steadily, she builds a new life, eventually establishing herself as a prominent photographic artist. To her family and community, she is an object of scorn and a source of shame. Pearl is left to be the model daughter, her behavior fitting the mold of her community. The family scandal severely narrowed Pearl’s matrimonial choices, but she has made the best of her situation.
Forty years after Rose’s self-exile, her daughter Hannah, a fledgling graduate school student, receives a barely literate note from a teenager named Rivka. Rivka is Pearl’s daughter, and she is desperate to escape from a future that affords no hope for her individual happiness or growth. Rivka is seeking temporary shelter with cousin Hannah. Weiss family history seems to be repeating itself. When Hannah reveals the note to her mother, Rose warns her not to get involved. No good can come of it. But then Rivka simply shows up!
Somewhat reluctantly, Hannah offers her temporary shelter. She is impressed by Rivka’s gratitude and how she gives the apartment a thorough cleaning without being asked. Still, Rivka acts like an immigrant. It’s as if the community she left behind is a foreign country. She is unprepared for the new world.
Hannah asks her friend Simon to tutor Hannah toward a GED, but before long that relationship becomes a torrid romance. Hannah’s hidden feelings about Simon are wounded by his succumbing to Rivka’s advances. She feels that Rivka betrayed her, though Rivka had no knowledge of Hannah’s supposed claim on Simon.
Rivka disappears and reappears a couple of times in response to the stresses and strains of her situation.
Before long, the inevitable happens. Imagining what Pearl and her husband must have been going through since Rivka’s disappearance, imagining what her own parents had gone through forty years earlier, Rose works to negotiate some kind of communication, if only so that Rivka’s parents can stop worrying and know that their child is okay.
A guarded, fragile rapprochement is set in motion, the distance between the sisters’ lives narrowing and widening as attempts to heal keep running into the decades’ old habits of intolerance and animosity.
Ms. Ragen’s skill at crafting all the emotional nuances of this tentatively wished-for reunification between the sisters, and between child and parents, is convincing and suspenseful. Readers are reminded of the need people have to stand their ground, the ground of values and ingrained behaviors, and how understanding and compassion are always crippled by the need to be the party that is uniquely in the right.
To learn how and to what extent these issues and conflicts are resolved, how Rivka survives the risks she has taken, requires, dear reader, that you take your own journey into this powerful, wise book. I think you will find The Sisters Weiss very much worth your while. You will discover a provocative study of how identity is formed and reformed. You will witness the tug of war between nature and nurture, between loyalty to self and to others, and between sophistry and sincerity. This is a most thoughtful and passionate entertainment.
This review appears in the November 2013 issues of Federation Star (Jewish Federation of Collier County), L’Chayim (Jewish Federation of Lee and Charlotte Counties), and The Jewish News (Jewish Federation of Sarasota/Manatee).
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Wounds located on a horse’s lower (distal) limb can be extremely challenging to treat due to the small amount of “extra” soft tissue in the area (to suture, for example) and the propensity for excessive proud flesh to form, which prolongs rehabilitation. Over the years, veterinarians have tried multiple techniques to improve tissue healing in the lower limbs with limited success, but according to Canadian researchers extracorporeal shock wave therapy (ESWT) looks like a promising tool for treating these difficult wounds.
“ESWT is currently used in equine medicine to treat a wide variety of disorders such as bowed tendons and bucked shins,” said lead author Judith Koenig, DrVetMed, DVSc, from the Department of Clinical Sciences at the Ontario Veterinary College, in Guelph.
Despite being already a common tool, exactly how ESWT works remains a mystery.
“ESWT appears to be capable of altering the expression of growth factors such as transforming growth factor-β1 (TGF-β1), which plays a role in the production of proud flesh,” Koenig added. “If we could determine the role of ESWT in wound healing we would be able to develop treatment protocols and potentially reduce healing time and improve outcomes.”
To help build on previous research in this field, Koenig and colleagues performed ESWT on eight horses with either surgically created skin wounds or on normal intact skin. Researchers created five wounds in each foreleg in six horses; they treated one limb with ESWT while the other limb remained untreated. The other two horses had no wounds. The team subsequently collected biopsy samples from all sites and measured the levels of five different inflammation mediators (cytokines) believed to play a negative role in wound healing. These mediators included fibroblast growth factor-7, TGF-β1, insulinlike growth factor-1, platelet-derived growth factor-A, and vascular endothelial growth factor-A.
“The most impressive finding in this study was that a significant reduction in TGF-β1 was noted in the wounds that had been treated with ESWT compared to untreated wounds over the entire 35-day study period,” Koenig summarized.
No changes in any of the measured mediators occurred in intact skin.
“This study adds additional evidence that ESWT can modulate the expression of various mediators that play a role in wound healing such as TGF-β1,” Koenig concluded. “Additional studies examining a ‘profile’ of cytokine expression in various anatomic locations would be an interesting next study because considerable differences in healing characteristics exist at different sites in the horse.”
According to the study authors, veterinarians can treat wounds prone to developing proud flesh with ESWT weekly with 100 pulses/cm2 of wound area at a medium energy setting, ideally with a unfocused or soft focused shock wave head.
The study, “Effect of unfocused extracorporeal shock wave therapy on growth factor gene expression in wounds and intact skin of horses,” was published in the February 2013 edition of the American Journal of Veterinary Research.
Disclaimer: Seek the advice of a qualified veterinarian before proceeding with any diagnosis, treatment, or therapy.
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The Mystery of 31 New Inn by R. Austin Freeman
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"The Mystery of 31 New Inn" starts with the narrator, Dr. Jervis, being sent for to treat a Mr. Graves, who lives with a Mr. Weiss. There is the strange condition that Dr. Jervis must be transported to the invalid's house in a carriage that has no view to the outside. Feeling that this condition may suggest a criminal motive, Dr. Jervis consults his friend Dr. Thorndyke, who is both a doctor and a lawyer. Dr. Thorndyke advises him to secretly take a light and a compass with him so that he can record the directions and later trace the approximate placement of the house. Dr. Jervis is called upon several more times to treat the very ill Mr. Graves, then hears no more about him. Dr. Jervis believes the man is dying of opium poisoning, although Mr. Weiss denies the possibility.
Soon afterward, for various reasons, Dr. Thorndyke invites Dr. Jervis to become his apprentice. The first case Dr. Jervis works on in his new employment is the case of the late Jeffrey Blackmore's will, which is being contested by the nephew, Stephen Blackmore. As the case unfolds, it becomes apparent that Dr. Jervis' involvement in treating Mr. Graves provides very important evidence which eventually helps solve the mystery of the true identity of Mr. Weiss, Mr. Graves, and the housekeeper, and prove that Jeffrey Blackmore's second will is a forgery.
Enjoyable and recommended reading.
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Explains these C# fundamentals and how to best use these C# types. Excerpt: The ability to invent your own types is tantamount to object-oriented systems. The cool thing is that, since even the built-in types of the language are plain-old CLR objects, the objects you create are on a level playing field with the built-in types. In other words, the built-in types don’t have special powers that you cannot muster. The cornerstone for creating these types is the class definition. Class definitions, using the C# class keyword, define the internal state and the behaviors associated with the objects of that class’s type. The internal state of an object is represented by the fields that you declare within the class, which can consist of references to other objects, or values. Sometimes, but rarely, you will hear people describe this as the "shape" of the object, since the instance field definitions within the class define the memory footprint of the object on the heap.
The objects created from a class encapsulate the data fields that represent the internal state of the objects, and the objects can tightly control access to those fields. The behavior of the objects is defined by implementing methods, which you declare and define within the class definition. By calling one of the methods on an object instance, you initiate a unit of work on the object. That work can possibly modify the internal state of the object, inspect the state of the object, or anything else for that matter.
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DENVER, Jan. 23 (UPI) -- Three protesters have been found guilty in Denver of obstructing a Columbus Day parade in October.
The protesters, the first of more than 80 charged parties to face trial, were each convicted on at least one count of blocking a street, interfering with a lawful assembly and resisting arrest, the Rocky Mountain News reported Wednesday.
University of Colorado political science professor Glenn Morris was sentenced to pay a $200 fine, plus $41 in fees and the $323.53 spent by the city to clean up the fake blood. A Methodist minister, the Rev. Julie Todd, was sentenced to pay $100, with $50 suspended, and Koreena Montoya was ordered to pay $200.
The three were among more than 80 protesters who delayed the parade for more than an hour when they sat down in the parade's path and poured theatrical blood onto the street. They claimed celebrating a day commemorating Christopher Columbus is offensive to American Indians, who consider him to be a major contributor to the near-extinction of their ancestors.
Defense attorney David Lane said his clients might appeal the convictions.
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"Trigeminal Nerve" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The 5th and largest cranial nerve. The trigeminal nerve is a mixed motor and sensory nerve. The larger sensory part forms the ophthalmic, mandibular, and maxillary nerves which carry afferents sensitive to external or internal stimuli from the skin, muscles, and joints of the face and mouth and from the teeth. Most of these fibers originate from cells of the trigeminal ganglion and project to the trigeminal nucleus of the brain stem. The smaller motor part arises from the brain stem trigeminal motor nucleus and innervates the muscles of mastication.
- Trigeminal Nerve
- Nerve, Trigeminal
- Nerves, Trigeminal
- Trigeminal Nerves
- Cranial Nerve V
- Nerve V, Cranial
- V, Cranial Nerve
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Trigeminal Nerve" by people in the URMC Research Network by year, and whether "Trigeminal Nerve" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
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China is reaching out to the world. It doesn’t want tariffs imposed by the US. President Xi Jinping likely feels betrayed by the man who was so kind to him previously, President of the United States Donald Trump. The Western press will of course paint China and Trump as the villains—each in their different sectors—while painting the consumer as the victim.
China’s role is actually one of confusion. $500B one way and $100B another is fair if China is on the favorable end, of course. Why would someone be so cruel, using that as an excuse?
So, China is making its appeal to international bodies, such as the WTO. But, therein will befall another misunderstanding. The International community agrees on twelve nautical miles of ocean ownership, no more, and building islands doesn’t count. China disagrees. So, appealing to International law won’t work in China’s favor, which will also seem unfair to the Chinese.
The Western press will make China out to be the bad guy, the aggressor. At the same time, the Western press will make Trump another bad guy for imposing tariffs. Of course China doesn’t want tariffs, that much is understandable. But, coming to “China’s” defense (actually their own) are the globalist businesses who believe that nationality, borders, and citizenship are a farce—that companies are the actual “nations” of the world. They are at war against both the US and China for not merging into one corporation. This is actually a battle for nationhood itself; from that perspective, both the US and China’s responses make perfect sense.
As for China being the “bully” as portrayed by the Western press, China really doesn’t see itself that way. The Chinese have no clue why the West would do such a thing, they really don’t understand.
As talks between Kim and Trump march forward, China is resigned to the new situation at its eastern border and is focusing on other areas, specifically trade. In truth, China’s main trade opponent is not the US, but Vietnam.
Vietnam’s main edge in trade will be that it is less expensive. Vietnam is, in many ways, less developed, yet more free to be expressive. Hanoi doesn’t sanction the same censorship as Beijing does. Many hard-working Vietnamese are hungry, even desperate for income. A hard-working, uncensored, hungry, less-expensive people will be difficult for China to compete with on many fronts. This is entirely beside any point about political tension between China and Vietnam.
The meeting between Kim and Trump is less-than-satisfactorily explained. Suddenly they want to talk? Some “teamwork” consultant trying to sell a book will likely attribute it all to diplomacy, along with the preemptive speculation that Kim would give up the nukes because he got them. More is going on behind the scenes and if the true story is ever told it may not be told for ten or twenty years.
As for the Western spin about China’s constitutional changes, it is all about the party, not about Xi. The humble pig farm worker, Xi Jinping, did not rise to power by publicly trying to serve himself. He has followed Robert Greene’s 48 Laws of Power to a tee and will continue to do so—that means putting the party first in his public agenda.
Today is Memorial Day, when Americans remember brave men and women in uniform who do the necessary work and take the necessary risks to preserve freedoms for others—freedoms that can never be attained by entitlement. Freedom is neither free nor guaranteed. It must be earned and preserved. Today we pause to honor those who do that for us.
At the recent NATO conference, Britain’s Prime Minister May confronted President Trump about leaks from within an administration Congressional Democrats have blocked Trump from replacing. There seems to be no word so far on May’s view of Obama hiring people in the leaky administration or the Democrats for not encouraging leakers to be replaced more quickly.
Montana’s Republican Congressman finally did what many people have wanted to do to news reporters. Greg Gianforte reportedly body-slammed a reporter from the UK Guardian and broke his glasses. And, you know what they say about hitting a guy with glasses. Perhaps the reporter lacked the foresight to see it coming. Or, maybe he didn’t understand the very news he was covering, so he made the news instead. Shoving an uninvited microphone into the face of a Montanan is a bad idea—but Gianforte will have to get used it since he plans on going to Washington. This proved that the new Congressman is not part of the establishment.
It wasn’t the first time that a country-bumpkin good ole’ fashion red-blooded American opened a can on the Britts. It’s not the first time and won’t be the last time Americans feel frustration with the news media. Three newspapers pulled their “endorsement”—even though it was probably too late to matter, albeit the news doesn’t endorse candidates, it reports on them, hopefully not provoking assault in the process.
Gianforte apologized after he won the election, both to the reporter and the Fox News team on the scene for the trouble. Waiting was the right thing to do—staying his apology until it wouldn’t get him more votes. He was sincere, his supporters in the room forgave him, and it did seem to be about personal respectability and leading by example. His support will likely increase, both for being able to make such a “real-human” mistake and for being able to apologize for it. These things could make him a much needed and positive influence on Congress.
There is something symbolic to this. With Gianforte’s victory in Montana, a second “butt-kicker” will soon arrive in Washington. The news industry as a whole is taking a tumble, literally and figuratively. The scripted assault plan from the media playbook is now mounting against Hannity and everyone is responding on cue. Information leaks in Washington continue, all in ways that indicate the previous administration. An obviously predictable change is under way on many levels.
But, “obvious” isn’t obvious to everyone. Mark Zuckerberg wants a “universal basic income” and threw GDP under the bus in favor of the ethereal, non-economic feeling to “find a meaningful role”. If a minimum income can be guaranteed then there is no need to study or “try new ideas” for that matter. Zuckerberg wants a “cushion” so we can try new ideas without feeling economic fear, forgetting—or perhaps never learning—that invention’s mother is necessity. If there is no risk then there is no progress. Dostoyevski’s, and many others’, very inspiration came from not having an economic cushion. If Zuckerberg got his way, innovation would diminish, as it has in every economy every time it has ever been tried on Earth, from the Pilgrims to the Russians. But, kids who don’t study their history tend to repeat it.
Steve Jobs didn’t speak at Stanford until he had gray hair and, when he finally did, he simply told stories from his life. By contrast, the young Harvard dropout speaking at the Harvard graduation this past weekend couldn’t talk about his life story because he hadn’t lived long enough to have one. Mark can’t say that he got fired from Facebook, started a new company, found his spouse, then went back to prove that only his brains could run the company he started. He’s still green. Even though he talked about innovative-economic theory, he made his fame is from success in software, not success in macro-economic planning. It was a kid telling kids what the kids wanted to hear.
The entire generation lacks “independent critical thinking”—the ability to scrutinize one’s own ideas and dispassionately present and welcome arguments, both pro and con, to understand life most accurately. Not knowing what to make of current events, that generation is drunk on the fantasy that Trump only won the election because the Russians rigged it—a leaped-to conclusion no prosecutor has even suggested and an indication that the young voters watch James Bond more than they watch the news.
Trump is as green to politics as Zuckerberg is to economics, except Trump has a life story that includes both failure and rebound. He is a business man who reached out to Director Comey, a man he had the power to fire at any time. A good boss does that in the business world, but in politics that pre-firing courtesy easily comes across as scandal—even when it is not—especially in the eyes of those who are already on a witch hunt. If Trump did something truly wrong, it remains yet to be seen.
These supposed “scandals” in the news about Trump, so far anyway, are mere delusion for the disillusioned, begging the question of whether delusion is all there is to these reported scandals. It would be great if a non-delusion-driven investigation would actually get under way so that there would be something real to report and comment on. And, that day may yet come, even though it is not today.
Many voters—mostly the kids—are still disappointed after the first time an election didn’t turn out how they wanted it. They are in the “denial” stage of that process of grief. If they were as right as they think themselves to be then they would have seen it coming. But, they didn’t. Based on evidence, the world today does not need Zuckerberg’s basic universal income guarantee; we need basic critical thinking.
Some people have that basic thinking, the rest wake up every day surprised and disappointed. In such times, everything is seen for what it truly is and, evidently, that trend won’t stop anytime soon.
The news of news: Roger Ailes, pioneer of the number one ranked news network, died this week at 77. He had his share of scandals, considered by many to be large among his demographic, yet small by the working standards of his industry. He was held to a higher standard as did he hold his organization. He oversaw the original Rush Limbaugh TV show before making Fox News into a household name. In both success and failure, Roger Ailes proved that Conservative opinion hadn’t gone out of style, that agenda-driven news reporting had, and that no establishment is too big to fail, including his own. Those who worked with him have much more to say. He will remain among history’s more remembered.
Now, the entire news industry has it’s eyes on Donald Trump. The vultures and sharks are circling, thinking to get lucky for the first time. In former FBI director Comey’s long list of problems, even after all the opposition from the political Left, the news narrative is that Trump’s only important reason for firing the FBI chief was Trump himself.
Good luck with that.
While the birds and fish swarm around abandoned driftwood, hoping to find something to feast on, the Republicans on Capital Hill do what they always do: nothing. Talk of impeachment, then markets tumble. Lay off on the word “impeachment” and the markets rebound. So, it’s clear what the money wants and why the economy improved. Notoriety for Trump from the markets is the most this vulture cluster will accomplish, second-most being that the political class will have something to keep them distracted. Third-most is the entertainment the Russians are getting out of this. And, hiding somewhere in the back of the room, someone made money last week and someone else lost money last week. But, the money made on market dip days isn’t newsworthy, right?
Speaking of Russian entertainment, Putin may respect Trump more for this whole “investi- gate” jazz, which could lead to peace in other regions, perhaps.
America is divided, but this isn’t news. A political class was evicted. Young, entitled, socialist “Hippies” were denied: They were told to work and give to themselves rather than receive. This Sunday, angry students, who lacked the maturity to accept election results—something Obama dissidents were able to do for eight years—walked out on Pence’s speech at their own graduation ceremony at Notre Dame.
Complaints continue and will continue. The current cloud mounting against Donald Trump can’t be taken seriously because the rage behind it is old and waning. The cat who walked by himself has returned, sits outside the the back door, and cries in the rain. But, this is not a hotel. Once you’re gone, you’re gone, no matter how much of a fuss you make of it.
That’s all this is.
From this storm of headlines, not one vote will swing against Trump. If anything, his support will increase with every “surely this is the end this time” attack against him that fails.
This is a great danger to the remaining political establishment. And, Trump isn’t in political danger, he’s out-smarting the bull once again. Allowing Robert Mueller to return as special prosecutor is outright “Rooseveltian”—keep them distracted while continuing right on schedule. Mueller won’t indite Trump anymore than Snowden couldn’t not defend Comey.
Flynn’s situation is becoming suspicious, but not from digging into his ties with Trump, his problems beg questions of the Obama years. Trump fired Flynn on principle: He gave a dodgy answer to Pence’s direct question. Anything we discover bad about Flynn at this point applauds Trump’s firing principles and smears Obama. But, that won’t stop the angry bull from thinking he’s gonna’ finally kill the blanket this time!
What’s all the confusion about? What’s the real story? The real story is that Washington scrambles to discover the real story while Trump travels overseas to coordinate with Israel, the Vatican, the Saudis, NATO, and G7. There won’t be any coordinated scheme against the president while he is gone.
It seems crazy. It is. The line between brilliance and insanity is too fine for the media’s eye to see. The smokescreen of chaos in the nations’ capital, just in time for the president to travel and create new headlines, is as masterful and understandable as abstract art. It may be good, it may be evil, but it is neither unintended nor unskilled.
So, another bullfighter triumphed against another angry bull this week. So what?
Look to the seas. Venezuela has real trouble, so does North Korea. China and Russia are on the move. China’s execution of CIA spies during the Obama years is just now making headlines. Europe faces a “Muslim” reformation it invited. All the while, the US military just got a $15B injection, thoroughly-opposed by pro-military members of Congress, and is undergoing fat-trimming scrutiny so severe that the over-eaters are whining as tax vultures have found a less crowded sky to circle above the Pentagon. While Capital Hill’s buzzards circle an empty coffin, work continues.
And, whoever bought all that discount stock that sold off on Wednesday stood to make a lot of money selling it back on the Thursday and Friday rebound, just as they will at the next opportunity, and the one after that… especially the dip days that are reported as market “panic”, rather than the “opportunities” they often prove to be.
Of course Snowden objects to his persecutor being fired. James Comey was likely dismissed for incompetence—not only in failing to prosecute “crooked Hillary” after publicly building the case against her at election time, not only because of his “see no evil” attitude toward all Islamic factions, which arguably allowed the shooting in San Bernardino, nor for ignoring Apple’s instructions on how to not lock the San Bernardino terrorist’s iPhone, not only for talking about software security on national TV as if he doesn’t know how to use a mouse, not only for dragging the FBI’s feet while investigating the Orlando night club shooter for 10 months while he killed another 102 people, and not only for working for the previous president under whose “Iraqexit” ISIS became a household name. Trump is also growing tired of leaks to the media—something he won’t tolerate. Counterintelligence and leak-finding are games of trial and permutation, much like Clue—games which Comey is not exempted from. If leaks to the media decrease since his firing, there will be no doubt about Trump’s motives.
But, then there is his career effectiveness. Was Comey a kind of “fifth horseman” working as a media spy in the FBI? Comey, in all of his investigations in Russia, still failed to retrieve Snowden. Yet, were it not for Comey and his valiant-yet-failing efforts, not as many people would read Snowden’s Tweets. Personally sympathetic or otherwise, Snowden can’t not oppose Comey’s firing. But, it’s unclear what Russia thinks about Snowden’s support for the man investigating them.
Remember, Snowden became famous as a 29 year old tech geek for having information that dropped from the bumblings of Baby Boomers who ran the NSA, but apparently learned to use a mouse late in life. Snowden did not become famous for his political commentary.
On the other end of the Peanut Gallery, Julian “Espionage” Assange can’t not comment on who is more effective at finding the truth about a government. Perhaps Comey might have not locked the San Bernardino bomber’s iPhone if he had hired Assange or Snowden. Now, “Espionage” Assange offers “Unemployed” Comey a job while “Wanted” Snowden comes to “Unemployed” Comey’s defense. It’s almost worth a comedy story.
Other opinionated young bloods have their conflicting opinions—mostly Bernie Sanders supporters who didn’t foresee that he had no political chance. They favored Obama having his way with any and every department. They weren’t paying attention during their childhoods in the Bush years. They weren’t alive to see the Clinton years. But, now, all of a sudden, they are conscientious about “abuse of power”. This Hippies’ change of heart is yet another example of how Trump is good for the country.
But, the Hippies still don’t get the picture.
Heads of departments in the Federal Government work at the pleasure of the president. It is customary to dismiss old department heads when new presidents take office. Comey lasted longer than he had any right to expect.
The same would be true if a Democrat had just taken the White House and an FBI director who had served under a Republican were being fired—well, except for the Bush dynasty who wouldn’t oppose a burglar holding a knife to their own family.
The kids complaining about Comey didn’t discover politics until they saw a viral video of street musicians singing about Sanders. Then, they acted like the vicious cycles of history are happening for the first time, even though history isn’t cycling for the first time—not even in their lifetimes. This time, when a new president fired an old department head, they happened to be finally be paying attention. Once today’s Hippies finish growing their chest hair and the now junior high schoolers take up the “Hippie torch” when Trump leaves office, the same “concerns” will recapitulate like a recurring theme in a bad movie score.
The real question is about the gray heads running the news industry: This isn’t the first time a new president fired and old department head. This isn’t the first time political classroom goof-offs acted like “normal” was a surprise. Nothing new or newsworthy happened this week. Headlines should have read, “New President fires Old FBI Chief: Proof the World Still Spins”.
The news industry failed to report what really happened this week: History simply repeated. That’s why news is a dying industry.
But, why feed the Hippies? Why is the news industry quickening its own death on the altar of demagoguery? The best explanation so far is that the news industry is like the Pied Piper—hoping to rally an unwitting populist army of children into a war that they would know they would lose if they were 20 years older. But, the best kept secret about Bernie Sanders, Clinton, Obama, the dying news establishment, and the rest of the political Left is that their goal isn’t to win. Their goal is to lose while making as big of a mess as possible. Once the kids figure that out, it will all backfire and the Left won’t have even one leg to stand on.
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2008 Race: New Hampshire District 01
Most members of Congress get the bulk of their campaign contributions from two main sources: the industries that make up the economic base of their home district and the Washington-based interest groups that pay more attention to the member's committee assignments in Congress. In addition, most Democrats receive substantial sums from labor unions.
From this table, you can get a flavor of which are the top industries giving to the candidates running for Congress in your district. Do the industries match your local economy, or are they more Washington-based? If the latter, the candidate may have divided loyalties on issues where the interests of their cash constituents conflict with those of the voters who elected them.
Carol Shea-Porter (D)
|Building Trade Unions||$67,500|
|Public Sector Unions||$66,250|
|Securities & Investment||$22,300|
|Misc Manufacturing & Distributing||$16,050|
|Foreign & Defense Policy||$15,886|
|Civil Servants/Public Officials||$14,800|
Jeb Bradley (R)
|Misc Manufacturing & Distributing||$24,450|
|Securities & Investment||$23,300|
|Food & Beverage||$11,250|
Peter Bearse (I)
|Printing & Publishing||$300|
Bob Kingsbury (L)
No industry data found.
NOTE: All the numbers on this page are for the 2007-2008 House election cycle and based on Federal Election Commission data available electronically on Monday, March 11, 2013.("Help! The numbers don't add up...")
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By Dr. Andrea Wick
EBS Health Columnist
One of the topics I am most passionate about in my practice is how emotions affect the physical body. Almost everyone agrees that stress can shorten the life span. There is also more awareness that over-working and constant stress can manifest into a health problem. You may know of people who have had a massive heart attack, have chronic stomach issues or suffer from anxiety, due to stress.
I believe that if we don’t manage stress, and learn how to change our lives to decrease it, our physical pain will not subside. For example, suppose someone experiences a traumatic event, such as a car accident, divorce or death in the family. After the traumatic event they develop blood sugar problems or maybe even diabetes.
The brain and the immune system are interconnected. A psychological trauma can directly affect the immune system, specifically by triggering an autoimmune response, a condition where the body attacks itself. Type I diabetes is caused by the immune system attacking insulin-producing cells. Then the body no longer produces insulin, which is important in controlling blood sugar.
From my applied kinesiology training I have learned that every organ correlates with an emotion. The pancreas is related to the emotion of feeling “lack of control over events.” The pancreas “controls” blood sugar. If life suddenly feels out of control it can directly impact the blood sugar.
If someone is complaining of constant indigestion or the formation of ulcers, the stomach is associated with “worry, nervousness and over concern.” The heart is related to “lack of emotion,” and suppressing the emotions—which can literally cause the heart to explode, according to the Journal of Emergencies, Trauma, and Shock.
Many times emotions start to affect the physical body due to programmed belief systems that were ingrained in us as children, or from a past experience that was so stressful the only way we knew how to deal with it was to suppress it.
For example, someone might always be worried about not having enough money—but in actuality may have more than enough—because of an experience they had in the past. It could be that their parents were always concerned about money, or struggled with employment in the past. This rolls over into a belief system that the next generation inherits. It’s an environmental factor that forms our conscious reality.
There are many different ways to clear emotions including adopting a meditation practice, yoga, emotional clearing techniques, homeopathic remedies, counseling, reiki, and countless more. In this country we do not pay enough attention to the health of the emotional and mental body, and in my opinion, it’s the most important! I encourage you to adopt a practice today that works best for you.
Dr. Andrea Wick is a chiropractor and applied kinesiologist. She graduated from Life University in Marietta, Georgia, and now practices in Big Sky. She has a passion for holistic health care and being active in the outdoors. Her practice, Healing Hands Chiropractic, is located in the Meadow Village Center. Visit drandreawick.com to learn more.
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Ultrasoundpaedia is an online educational website aimed to educate students, residents, and technicians in the art of ultrasound.
Originally developed by two sonographers, Ultrasoundpaedia has built quite a comprehensive library of resources focused on none other than sonography.
Ultrasoundpaedia has recently released a series of ultrasound apps on the Android platform, ranging from obstetrics and pediatrics focused apps to abdomen and vascular ultrasound studies.
There aren’t too many competing sonography apps out there on Google Play yet other than the ultrasound apps from “Imago.” For now, let’s dissect Ultrasoundpaedia’s Vascular Ultrasound app as sort of a representation of their overall series.
Some would argue that ultrasound is the best imaging modality that medicine has to offer. Ultrasound is quick, portable, safe, and easily the most cost-effective method of imaging without the risks of radiation exposure. With improvement in ultrasound technology and software algorithms, the resolution and power of ultrasounds have only been improving.
As ultrasounds units continue to decrease in size, proven by GE’s Vscan mobile pocket ultrasound, this imaging modality will only become more ubiquitous and play increasingly important roles in the delivery of quality patient care.
There are well-known downsides to ultrasound, especially it’s infamous “operator dependent” nature. Performing ultrasound requires skill and experience, and because of this, sonographers play a critical part in ultrasound studies. The quality of a study relies heavily on the sonographer. For physicians, especially radiologists, not only is being able to interpret ultrasound images important, being familiar with protocols and technique is just as crucial in formulating a diagnosis and producing a quality report.
Radiologists are usually required to demonstrate ultrasound skill sets with sufficient quality. Only by understanding these different aspects of ultrasound will one truly appreciate the technicality and intricacies of ultrasound. For radiology residents, acquiring the skill sets and experience can be difficult.
Vascular Ultrasound loads up with a menu of different ultrasound studies that will sound familiar to all lot of those who have worked in the clinic or hospital environment. The studies listed are the most common types of studies pertaining to vasculature, including extremity and carotid duplexes.
However, the list is far from being comprehensive and missing are some less frequently ordered studies such as vein mapping and ankle-brachial indices. Also, for some reason the app has omitted renal artery studies despite having it available on Ultrasoundpaedia’s website. In comparison to Ultrasoundpaedia’s website, users will soon notice that the discussions for each topic only consists of “normal” findings. The “pathology” discussions that are available on the website are nowhere to be found on the app.
After selecting the study of interest, users are directed to what appears to be a mobile webpage discussing the topic of interest. Except for some formatting differences, the content and layout is identical to the app’s website counterpart. Although the app seems to be retrieving online content, I was able to load these articles offline in airplane mode, indicating that these articles are still locally stored.
Usually, mobile webpages–or webapps–disguised as actual installable smartphone apps are typically a major disappointment for me, but this time around I found myself not minding as much. Perhaps the webpages are designed friendly enough for mobile use that the overall experience stays consistent and isn’t really affected.
Each study is divided into several sections, touching topics regarding anatomy, normal ultrasound appearances, waveforms, techniques, limitations, and standard protocols. The content is concise and nicely written, supplemented by a host of media including colored diagrams, GIFs, and YouTube videos. At times the articles may be long, and because navigation is mainly through up and down scrolling, the developers have included buttons throughout the each article to return you to the top of the page.
Other than the previously mentioned drawbacks, there are several additional disappointments to the overall design of the app as well. Due to the mobile webpage approach to their articles, navigation tools are essentially absent. Scrolling through the articles generally relies on finger swipes and “back to the top” buttons, which definitely reduces the sophistication and quality of the app.
Even the website counterparts have side menus to assist with navigation. Other than that, some formatting issues exists. For example, under “Venous Incompetence,” the two YouTube video clips embedded in the article are too small to watch due to the limited allocated size. Even though I was able to play the videos, for some reason, I was unable to full screen the videos to watch.
Poor navigation design, formatting issues, and absent content in comparison to the Ultrasoundpaedia website really discourages me from using the app at all. I find myself preferring the website while sitting at a computer most of the time. However, the vasculature content on the website appears to be free and has allowed me to make the previously mentioned comparisons without additional costs.
Accessing the website content for other ultrasound categories requires a membership subscription that could become quite pricey, and isn’t translated through the purchase of the corresponding app. The online website seems to provide much more than articles, too, which is another reason I would opt out of purchasing further Ultrasoundpaedia apps and subscribe for a membership instead. I do not see a benefit for keeping this app on my phone for now and will be removing it soon from my phone.
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Fulton Lodge Through the Ages:
- Fulton Lodge Charter: 1854
- Dedication of New Lodge Temple, June 29 1894
- Centennial Anniversary Program, 1954
In 1833, the first family moved to the present location of the village of Delta. By 1854 there were 200 citizens in the village. On February 22 of that year, a group of Masons residing in the area held a meeting in the home of Octavius Waters for the purpose of petitioning the Grand Lodge for a dispensation to start a Masonic Lodge in Delta.
The dispensation was granted and permission was obtained for Northern Light Lodge in Maumee, and from Superior Lodge in West Unity for the establishment of a new Lodge.
The brethren chose the name 'Fulton Lodge".
Daniel Knowles was elected Fulton Lodge's first Worshipful Master on March 1, 1854. Octavius Waters was elected Senior Warden and Robert Bloomfield, Junior Warden.
The early meetings of Fulton Lodge were held in the upper rooms of the Octavius Waters' residence. On May 17, 1854, the Lodge rented its first Lodge room from Brother J. N. Marsh for $75.00 per year. This room was on the second floor of the store building just west of the former location of the Peoples Bank (corner of Main and Monroe Street).
On October 19, 1854, a charter was granted to Fulton Lodge #248. Brother J. N. March, the Lodge Secretary, was presented the charter during the Grand Lode communication held in Chillicothe.
On December 20, 1854, the first election was held under the new charter. Octavius Waters was elected Worshipful Master. The new officers were installed the following evening.
In 1860 the Lodge purchased a lot and erected a two-story, wooden building at the present location at the corner of Main and Lincoln. The new building was dedicated on September 15, 1860.
Beginning in 1863, Fulton Lodge granted its consent, and gave up some of its members, to help establish new lodges in Wauseon, Lyons, and Swanton. Lyons and Swanton Lodges have since merged with Wauseon Lodge.
On August 18, 1892, a major catastrophe struck the village of Delta. The downtown area, including the Masonic Temple, plus many homes in the residential area, were destroyed by fire.
Fulton Lodge was left without a home. Permission was received from the Grand Master to hold regular meetings in the Odd Fellows Hall and to confer degrees in the Wauseon Masonic Temple.
Out of the ashes of despair arose many fine, new buildings. One of the most outstanding was the brick, three-story Masonic Temple. Those 95 members of the Fulton Lodge have passed down to the Brethren an outstanding memorial to Masonry.
The dedication of the new Temple on June 28, 1894 was an outstanding event. Several Grand Lodge officers and a number of nearby Lodges participated in the ceremonies.
On January 18, 1905 Fulton Lodge celebrated its 50 Anniversary with more then 200 Masons, their ladies and friends in attendance. This historic occasion was observed with special music, installation of Lodge officers, and distinguished speakers.
During and after World War I, the Lodge showed large gains in membership. Then the depression years took their toll. Many members were unable to maintain their affiliation.
The hard work of Worshipful Brothers Joseph Greisinger, Stanley Schrock, and Nelson Delano helped keep the Lodge going. The leasing of the first floor to the Post Office Department helped relieve the financial burden caused by the loss of members.
During the 1960's a Fellowcraft Club was formed. The diligent efforts of this group and the financial support of the Brethren have made possible many Lodge improvements at a fraction of the actual worth.
From 1854 to 1979, the individual members of Fulton Lodge have been leaders in our churches, our schools, and our community. Some have risen to prominence in political and military fields. Several have been chosen by Grand Lodge for positions of responsibility and service.
A tradition of excellence, a record of community involvement, and a firm belief in the value of Masonic teachings are the heritage we pass on to our Brethren of the future.
The members of Fulton Lodge have much to be proud of.
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4 Ways to Secure Your Business With Access Control
Access control systems are very useful for businesses trying to protect certain, specific resources. In its primitive form, these systems were what we called ‘fences or simply ‘doors’. However, as technology matures, so do these systems. Whether you are protecting a room full of servers or a full office building, access control systems work to limit and protect your assets from unauthorized access.
Here are some of the newest and most popular methods.
1. Door Keypads
Keypads are one of the least secure ways to protect an area, but they limit non premeditated theft. If an intruder doesn’t know the code they will not be granted access. Some businesses use keypads to secure areas that aren’t commonly accessed - say, for instance, a storage closet for computers and hardware. A keypad will limit theft, but will also be easy enough to access at any time.
2. Swipe Cards
These cards look and work similar to credit cards. The magnetic strip contains information about the cardholder, however this information isn’t bank account information, it is information to be read by your doorway card reader. The reader is setup on each doorway and grants permissible access to each individual card. This is a very simple solution for small to medium sized businesses in an office building with other companies.
3. Contactless Smart Cards
Not having to swipe a card is sometimes convenient, and is one of the least invasive ways to control access within your business. With contact smart cards, the user must find the card reader opening and place the card in the correct position for a certain amount of time. With contactless cards your employees will be granted access without even pulling out their cards. This technology is a popular form of business security and will slowly begin to overtake contact based cards as the technology improves.
4. Biometric Scanners
If your business is looking to protect it’s most secure access to a distinct grouping of people, biometrics is the best method of security. Biometrics is perhaps one of the most secure forms of business security systems, because it uses unique biological information to grant or deny access.
- Fingerprints - Fingerprint biometrics are more popular than retinal and other biometric scanners because are they are the least expensive and least invasive. This form of access control is a bit less less secure, offering a false rejection rate of around 3% and a false acceptance rate less than .01%.
- Eye Scanners - Eye and Retinal scanners work by scanning a user’s eyes and determining biologically unique features. Retina scanners aren’t as popular as fingerprint technology because business owners see them as invasive; however, they offer superior security to any other biometric. Retina scanners offer a false acceptance rate at around 1 in 1.5 million, making them one of the most secure forms of biometrics.
So whether your business is looking to secure a room full of servers or a commons area, doors just won’t cut it anymore. Before speaking with vendors, determine your project scope, budget and specific requirements are that fits your exact business needs.
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Ravensden, Bedfordshire, England. Geographical and Historical information from 1750.
Geographical and Historical information from the year 1750.
[Transcribed information from Stephen Whatley's Gazetteer of England - 1750]
(unless otherwise stated)
"RAVENSDEN, (Bedfordshire) on the N. E. side of Bedford, where the D. of Marlborough has a seat, as had the late Dr. Pellet."
[Description(s) transcribed by Mel Lockie ©2011]
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In addition to being ocean-y here, it is also pine-y.
There is something so deeply ingrained in my psyche about the combination of pine trees and a rocky shore (really it’s more ‘boulder-y’… Rocky would be different. Like, I was once at Brighton Beach in England and, believe me, that beach is rocky (or maybe it’s more like ‘stone-y’). I dunno.
It’s all igneous to me.
Unless it’s metamorphic or sedentary.
I know, right? I totally missed my geological and petrological callings!
Ya. I looked up ‘petrological’.
No. I’m not gonna tell you what it means.
Because I’m in a mood.
My mood has come on due to Interrupted Maine Time, or IMT.
If you look it up on WebMD – it’s wicked hard to find – IMT is described as a disorder and here are the symptoms:
- Feel sad, grumpy, moody, or anxious.
- Lose interest in your usual activities.
- Eat more and crave crustaceans and/or mollusks, such as lobster, steamers, and clam chowder.
- Gain weight due to the butter and/or creamy broth served with the aforementioned crustaceans and/or mollusks.
- Sleep more but still feel tired.
- Have trouble concentrating.
I know, right? It sounds totally like Seasonal Affective Disorder, or SAD. You might even think I cut and pasted the symptoms for SAD right out of WebMD which, let’s face it, I totally did. But I replaced ‘bread and pasta’ with ‘crustaceans and/or mollusks’ and the gaining weight bit? I attributed that to the associated butter and cream.
Even the other symptoms of SAD don’t totally apply to IMT either, but I put them in there even though really IMT just results in one particular symptom.
Oh, sorry, that doesn’t really qualify as a symptom, which should probably be a noun.
I am experiencing pissy-ness because I keep getting distracted from my Maine time, and often I am even physically removed from Maine to attend to other things.
What is it with the world in summertime, that it doesn’t recognize that I am supposed to be here for weeks on end, allowing relaxation to drape itself across my soul in a place where words are redefined on a daily basis?
For instance, ‘traffic’? ‘Traffic’ is several boats jockeying for position as they pass by my front yard.
I don’t love traffic anywhere else, but I love traffic here.
I am thinking of submitting a bill to congress at the end of this summer.
This bill would decree that the following events are prohibited from the 25th of June through the 31st of August.
Anyone else’s weddings, funerals, birthdays, and any other huge important parties and/or events (this includes my own children. We will choose new birthdays. It will be the law.)
All graduations, sports practices/games/tournaments.
Any moving requiring my interest, attention, or help. No more of that. Not in summer. This is not allowed any more. No matter how much fun it will be for me. I will sacrifice (again, ‘law’).
Any emergencies, specifically at a certain house located in Dunstable, Massachusetts belonging to anyone with the last name of Dingle.
Said emergencies will, henceforth include threats by a certain Old Yankee Man that he will ‘move out’ if he is not cleared to drive… like now.
It’s totally selfish.
I don’t care.
No matter how much fun something else is, my heart wants to be here.
It is a place I prefer to be pissy more than anywhere else, too.
Because… well…. it is nearly impossible for me to be pissy here.
The other day, I finished a seven-hour drive from Connecticut to Maine and, at the very end of the journey (not even a mile from the house), had to sit in traffic – the car kind.
This would normally result in at least some frustration because the previous hours of driving had been filled with stop and go stuff (and the grumpy humans associated with it) on Route 95, and 84, and 90, and 95 (ya, 95 again – just further north that time).
But it was a little hard to be pissy because the traffic I was stuck in, at the very end, was because the bridge to the island was open, and sailboats were gliding through.
And I was able to scoop up my camera from the passenger seat, look over to my right, and snap this just as the crossing gate was being raised, signaling that it was time for me to head onto the island, around the corner, toward home.
I take it back.
IMT be damned.
I’ll take every second here that I can get, interrupted or not.
No pissy-ness allowed.
Thanks for readin’.
As always, you can come on over to Just Ponderin’s Facebook page to comment or just hang out.
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For our August Volunteer Day, a small group of WEBstaurant Store employees traveled to the Central PA Food Bank to volunteer their Saturday morning sorting produce. Despite feeling tired from our early start, we helped sort and box up over 6 pallets of produce in under 3 hours! It was a great team effort. We came away with battle wounds, including sore backs and stinky hands from working with the vegetables, but also with a rewarding feeling knowing we did a small part to help put food on the table for our fellow Central Pennsylvanians.
A "behind the scenes" look at our volunteer day at the Central PA Food Bank:
Before we could sort the vegetables we had to divide all the produce boxes into piles by size. Each type of vegetable had to be placed in the same size box in order to stack them properly on the pallets.
Steph is hard at work boxing up our first of three pallets of tomatoes. By the end, we boxed up a total of six pallets of produce!
We worked in an assembly-line to sort the produce. Some people constructed boxes, other filled them, and finally the full boxes were handed off to those constructing the pallets. Here Mark demonstrates the wrong way to construct at box (upside-down!).
Christine is starting on a fresh box of zucchini and squash. The beginning of the box was the easy part. Reaching for the last few stragglers at the bottom was the challenge!
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Each finished pallet was wrapped up and sent on its way to be distributed to the Food Bank's network of community agencies who work to feed the hungry in the local area.
Everyone still smiling after working 3 hours to box up over 6 pallets of produce!
For more than 20 years, the Central PA Food Bank has been committed to ending hunger as well as increasing public awareness and understanding of hunger problems in the area. Through a network of community agencies such as soup kitchens, emergency pantries, shelters, and childcare centers, the Food Bank distributes food to hungry families in Central PA.
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Ford Motor Company is an American multinational corporation and the world's third largest automaker, based on worldwide vehicle sales. Based in Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, the automaker was founded by Henry Ford and incorporated in 1903.
In 2004, the company launched the Ford Escape Hybrid, the world's first gas-electric hybrid SUV. In 2006, Ford launched a campaign starring Kermit the Frog to promote the environmentally friendly vehicle. In a spin on the Muppet's catchphrase, he claimed that it was in fact "easy being green."
Big Bird has appeared in two public service announcements/television commercials for the 1998 Ford Windstar minivan. At the end of the commercials, Big Bird stresses the importance of wearing seat belts and placing children in the back seat. Kellogg's helped funding this public service announcement. Matt Vogel performed Big Bird in these commercials.
Kermit the Frog has appeared in several television commercials for the Ford Escape Hybrid. The first starred Kermit as the main (and only) character and premiered on February 5, 2006 during the second quarter of SuperBowl XL.
|“||Ford and Kermit are a match made in heaven; they’re both American icons, both family-oriented and they’re both green. Kermit the Frog is an absolute celebrity and we’re thrilled to have him on board to tell the Escape Hybrid story.||”|
- - George S. Rogers, Ford President and CEO
A three-minute "making of" video is up on Ford's official site, with Kermit and Steve Whitmire explaining how the commercial was made. The video includes footage of Whitmire and the crew creating the effects for Kermit kayaking and mountain climbing.
The Super Bowl commercial was used to kick off an even bigger ad campaign featuring Kermit. The campaign consisted of television, print, digital, and outdoor advertising. Ford Escape Hybrid ads featuring Kermit appeared throughout 2006 on TV, and print ads appeared in influential automotive-enthusiast magazines, business publications, and newsweeklies.
In May of 2007, he made brief appearances in two new commercials for the Ford Fusion with the cast of American Idol.
In 2007, Kermit appeared in another American Idol commercial, as well as in a banner ad for the 2008 Ford Escape Hybrid, which shows him hiking through a blossoming landscape. The advertisement claims that the automobile is "Good for the environment. Good for you." with Kermit adding "Good for frogs too!"
Clicking on the banner brings you to the new website for the 2008 Ford Escape Hybrid, which features video footage of Reporter Kermit "on location in the Internet." After the initial video ends, you can tickle Kermit by rolling over him, and if you can resist clicking on anything for long enough, he'll start to gently harass you.
Four more videos of Kermit, including one of him dressed in a Ford lab coat, are embedded deeper in the site, through links accessible from the bottom of the front page.
- In the Sesame Street skit "The Monster's Three Wishes," Cookie Monster asks the Genie for a full-size 1973 Ford F-250 pickup truck to hold one million cookies.
- In episode 321, Pilgrim Penguins discover "Ford Rock" along with "Plymouth Rock" and "Chevrolet Rock" during "Alabama Bound."
- ↑ Advertising Age: KELLOGG TEAMING UP WITH BIG BIRD: CEREAL MARKETER TIES TO CHILDREN'S TV WORKSHOP
- ↑ Matt Vogel's puppeteer credits at his official site
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Shape of Nanoparticles Points the Way Toward More Targeted Drugs
Embargo expired: 10-Jun-2013 3:00 PM EDT
Source Newsroom: Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute
Newswise — LA JOLLA, Calif., June 10, 2013 — Conventional treatments for diseases such as cancer can carry harmful side effects—and the primary reason is that such treatments are not targeted specifically to the cells of the body where they’re needed. What if drugs for cancer, cardiovascular disease, and other diseases can be targeted specifically and only to cells that need the medicine, and leave normal tissues untouched?
A new study involving Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute’s Erkki Ruoslahti, M.D., Ph.D., contributing to work by Samir Mitragotri, Ph.D., at the University of California, Santa Barbara, found that the shape of nanoparticles can enhance drug targeting. The study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found that rod-shaped nanoparticles—or nanorods—as opposed to spherical nanoparticles, appear to adhere more effectively to the surface of endothelial cells that line the inside of blood vessels.
“While nanoparticle shape has been shown to impact cellular uptake, the latest study shows that specific tissues can be targeted by controlling the shape of nanoparticles. Keeping the material, volume, and the targeting antibody the same, a simple change in the shape of the nanoparticle enhances its ability to target specific tissues,” said Mitragotri.
“The elongated particles are more effective,” added Ruoslahti. “Presumably the reason is that if you have a spherical particle and it has binding sites on it, the curvature of the sphere allows only so many of those binding sites to interact with membrane receptors on the surface of a cell.”
In contrast, the elongated nanorods have a larger surface area that is in contact with the surface of the endothelial cells. More of the antibodies that coat the nanorod can therefore bind receptors on the surface of endothelial cells, and that leads to more effective cell adhesion and more effective drug delivery.
Testing targeted nanoparticles
Mitragotri’s lab tested the efficacy of rod-shaped nanoparticles in synthesized networks of channels called “synthetic microvascular networks,” or SMNs, that mimic conditions inside blood vessels. The nanoparticles were also tested in vivo in animal models, and separately in mathematical models.
The researchers also found that nanorods targeted to lung tissue in mice accumulated at a rate that was two-fold over nanospheres engineered with the same targeting antibody. Also, enhanced targeting of nanorods was seen in endothelial cells in the brain, which has historically been a challenging organ to target with drugs.
Nanoparticles already used in some cancer drugs
Nanoparticles have been studied as vessels to carry drugs through the body. Once they are engineered with antibodies that bind to specific receptors on the surface of targeted cells, these nanoparticles also can, in principle, become highly specific to the disease they are designed to treat.
Ruoslahti, a pioneer in the field of cell adhesion—how cells bind to their surroundings—has developed small chain molecules called peptides that can be used to target drugs to tumors and atherosclerotic plaques.
“Greater specific attachment exhibited by rod-shaped particles offers several advantages in the field of drug delivery, particularly in the delivery of drugs such as chemotherapeutics, which are highly toxic and necessitate the use of targeted approaches,” the authors wrote in their paper.
The studies demonstrate that nanorods with a high aspect ratio attach more effectively to targeted cells compared with spherical nanoparticles. The findings hold promise for the development of novel targeted therapies with fewer harmful side effects.
We acknowledge support from a California Institute of Regenerative Medicine Fellowship, a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship under Grant DGE-1144085, and the Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers Program of the NSF under Award Division of Materials Research 1121053.
The study was co-authored by Poornima Kolhar, UC Santa Barbara; Aaron C. Anselmo, UC Santa Barbara; Vivek Gupta, UC Santa Barbara; Kapil Pant, UC Santa Barbara; Balabhaskar Prabhakarpandian, UC Santa Barbara; Erkki Ruoslahti, Sanford-Burnham and UC Santa Barbara; and Samir Mitragotri, UC Santa Barbara.
About Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute
Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute is dedicated to discovering the fundamental molecular causes of disease and devising the innovative therapies of tomorrow. Sanford-Burnham takes a collaborative approach to medical research with major programs in cancer, neurodegeneration, diabetes, and infectious, inflammatory, and childhood diseases. The Institute is recognized for its National Cancer Institute-designated Cancer Center and expertise in drug discovery technologies. Sanford-Burnham is a nonprofit, independent institute that employs 1,200 scientists and staff in San Diego (La Jolla), California, and Orlando (Lake Nona), Florida. For more information, visit us at sanfordburnham.org.
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AfriGeneas Genealogy and History Forum
Gainesville, VA Blacks in the Washington Post
In Response To: Need guidance ()
I've never researched in Prince William, so I can't give you advice, but have you seen this article?
Cashing Out Their History
An acre of land in Gainesville wasn't worth much in 1865.
It was worth so little, in fact, that white landowners were willing to rent it to freed slaves who had traveled there in search of land. In a flurry of sales during the 1880s, many of the former slaves bought property for $10 an acre or even less.
They called the land, which lies roughly along Routes 29 and 15, the Settlement. It became one of Northern Virginia's most significant, and most stable, black communities.
The original settlers believed land was power. They held on to it tightly, parting with bits only when they were desperate for cash. They educated their children on the value of a dollar and the greater value of land.
But time and circumstance have altered those lessons.
Pursued by developers offering as much as $300,000 an acre, dozens of families -- many of them descendants of those original pioneers -- are opting to sell their property, and a part of Prince William County's African American history is being transformed into hundreds of luxury houses.
For the sellers, there are regrets, but there is also a conviction that they are being true to their ancestors' original purpose: to provide economic security for their families.
The founders "probably wouldn't be very happy that the land was being sold and great big houses were going on it," said Maxine Thomas, 74, a descendant of an original resident whose family has 15 acres under contract with a $4.5 million price tag.
"What would I tell them? Well, I would just tell them that we have to move on," she said. "We can't hold on to it forever."
Old Homes for New
The land deals that have conveyed more than 160 of the 383 acres of the original Settlement mark the community's death, but residents said its history had already faded. The Shady Inn dance hall, a hot spot that drew people from miles away, is now a small, quiet church. The general store is gone. Many descendants have moved away. They turned the old homes into summer getaways, then stopped visiting altogether.
Still, it wasn't easy to persuade some of the landowners to let go, even for big bucks, said Carmen Amaya, a real estate agent who pulled together a pending deal for Equity Homes to buy 30 acres from seven families. Fifty to 70 houses will be squeezed onto the land, she said. Another development already underway will include 233 houses.
Amaya said she had to do a lot of talking and, in some cases, begging.
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Truth, Fiction and Human Rights
Published: December 20, 1998
To the Editor:
The Nobel committee gave Rigoberta Menchu the peace prize because she supposedly speaks for all the Indians of the American continent (news item, Dec. 18). Nonsense. Ms. Menchu, a Marxist ideologue, not only didn't even speak for most Indians in her own country, as suggested in your Dec. 15 front-page article, she supported the Sandinistas' brutal repression of the Miskito and other Indians of Nicaragua in the early 1980's.
It is no surprise the Nobel committee will not revoke her prize, for much of this was known -- though now in greater detail -- before the prize was awarded. That's because Ms. Menchu fit the committee's political agenda, and it just hoped that no one would ever catch it up in such detail. A touch of justice has prevailed.
Stanford, Calif., Dec. 18, 1998
The writer is a senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution.
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By John Simpson
Old wooden boats, wet canvas and fathoms… a good old boy remembers.
My father’s first boat after the war, a converted Lowestoft fishing smack had a real fire (bogey stove) and an Asbestos covered chimney. The second one was fitted with beautiful Brass Gas lamps complete with mantles. Nowadays it’s almost impossible to imagine a yacht with Asbestos in it or gas piped through the boat.
Who can ever forget both the sticky texture and fishy smell of proper old oilskins? Or the mixed fragrance of a wooden boat’s bilges back in the 50’s and 60’s; a combined mixture of paraffin, petrol and possibly something else slightly less savoury. Having to fight the twists in natural fibre ropes or stiff flogging canvas. Odd tricks like knowing how to stream the log, having to take the navigation lights down below to light them (they still blew out!) and work up a position using D R. All these strange skills and many others are still etched into the minds of many sailors of my generation.
Were we lucky to go sailing back then; and learn them? Are all these different bits of old seamanship totally useless nowadays…yes probably and maybe no! Perhaps we can revert back to some of these earlier skills when things go wrong. If we can still remember!
Its good things have changed; yachting is safer and much easier. Modern items of equipment have had a huge impact. It’s still a debatable issue though; that too much dependence on them might be at the expense of good seamanship.
When I started sailing with my parents. Most of the equipment we take for granted now GPS/Plotters, VHF’s, Radar, echo sounders, wind speed and direction instruments weren’t available. Folks managed with the basic equipment that had been around for hundreds of year’s rope fenders, brass compasses, lead lines, trailing logs etc. combined with careful seamanship.
Indeed sometimes I wonder when alongside other yachts these days. How many modern yachtsmen don’t bother to carry such basics such as; a lead line, manual Fog Horn, even a hand bearing compass and certainly not a sail repair kit. And can they moor alongside a tidal harbour wall for the night safely with their lovely plastic boat? Or navigate if they have a complete electrical failure on their boat. No doubt some would reply ‘that’s easy; I only go into marinas and we carry a spare handheld GPS with plenty of spare batteries’.
Sixty years ago when cruising we used a lead line for the depth. Clever markings meant you could feel what you’d measured even in the dark!
‘Swinging the lead’ (as we know from that colloquial expression!) isn’t difficult. As long as the boat wasn’t moving too fast! The line just needed to be chucked forward as far as possible. Swinging it back and forward as practice; paid off! You needed a few coils of rope well laid out in the other hand. Then it would go out smoothly. Good timing was necessary so that the weight had reached the bottom, by the time it reached you. The line going slack told whether you’d been lucky! Then you pulled it all up. Yelling out what you felt you’d measured! Sounding much over five fathoms (10 metres!) on a small craft was quite difficult! Anyone can do it; it’s not rocket science.
Before our industrial revolution coated the Continental Shelf black around the UK. A professional sailing master or local fisherman would be able to tell where they were just from what they pulled up on the bottom from the tallow on the lead. It’s easy think that these guys didn’t know what they were doing. They did all trade was done under sail.
My father and his friend George Farmer both bought the early rotating neon Seafarer sounders shortly after they became available in the 60’s. Watching them switching the sounder on and dipping in the loose transducer cable. Then tuning the instrument and noting the depth. But still using the lead line to check the depth; must be one of my sister and my most abiding memories.
They both quickly realised reading an echo sounder was quicker and more accurate; especially if you’re shorthanded. I’m certain they would embrace all the new technology but still use old basics, too! Particularly remembering how useful a lead line is for sounding round the boat when you run aground; to find out where the deep water lies.
The major joy of cruising back then was the lack of other yachts and you learnt to be totally self-sufficient.
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Perhaps you've heard of the so-called "Internet of Things," the concept that everyday objects like toothbrushes, glasses, and dishwashers can be controlled over the internet.
Gartner, the technology research firm, says we've reached peak hype when it comes to the Internet of Things.
The company on Tuesday released its annual Hype Cycle, a chart that shows where technologies are in terms of "maturity and adoption."
And along with self-driving cars, the Internet of Things (IoT) is the top of the cycle.
According to Gartner, we're at the "peak of inflated expectations" when it comes to the Internet of Things.
What this means is that there's been a lot of publicity around the IoT, Gartner analysts write. But those successes are "often accompanied by scores of failures. Some companies take action; many do not."
In other words, you may know a handful of people who have connected door locks or air conditioners, but you probably know a lot more people who don't.
According to Gartner, the Internet of Things won't reach mainstream adoption in the next couple of years, but perhaps in five to 10 years.
Check out the 2015 Gartner Hype Cycle:
The position of IoT on the cycle is unchanged from where Gartner placed it in last year's report.
In its annual report, Gartner analysts write that the lower costs of the technologies that enable connected products are allowing many companies to experiment with the IoT. But security concerns, an unclear business model, and no clear standard operating system still limit the rate of adoption of these types of products.
IoT was the dominant theme at this year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas in January. Nearly every device at the show from cars to pill containers to security cameras were network enabled.
Samsung's CEO BK Yoon even said at CES that by 2020, every product the company makes, from ovens to headphones to washing machines, will be "smart" devices.
“Arguably it is the most important topic for our industry right now,” Yoon said.
In addition to Samsung, many of the other large tech companies are dabbling in connected products.
Apple has a platform called HomeKit that can control connected accessories like light bulbs and door locks.
And earlier this year Amazon released the Echo, a connected speaker that waits for you to utter the phrase "Alexa" and then give a command. The speaker can tell you the weather, add products to your shopping list, and search for things on Wikipedia. It can also connect to certain smart home products so you can control them with your voice through the Echo speaker.
Google also announced at its annual developer conference in May that it has created Brillo, an operating system, like Android, to power internet-connected devices.
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T. Stephen Whitman. The Price of Freedom: Slavery and Manumission in Baltimore and Early National Maryland. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1997. 238 pp. $35.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8131-2004-1.
Reviewed by James D. Watkinson (Library of Virginia)
Published on H-SHEAR (August, 1998)
Ever since the early works of Genovese, Blassingame, and Berlin, to name but three historians of the genre, historians of the African American experience in the antebellum era have worked to fashion a better understanding of the relationship(s) between masters and slaves and between whites and free blacks, and, more important, to establish and explore black agency in these relationships. This study has produced many weighty tomes, some of which are excellent, notably Roll, Jordan, Roll; many were less so. Moreover, too often these works, Genovese's included (more than a little ironic now), suffered from being informed by and infused and suffused with twentieth-century political dogmas to try to explain eighteenth- and early-nineteenth century events and consciousness which, to my mind anyway, often rendered theses and conclusions suspect. How nice, then, to read Stephen Whitman's study of class and race--bereft of jargon and political cant--which captures the true subtlety of the relationships between blacks and whites during a time of rapid social, economic, and political change.
Whitman chose to focus his study of slavery and manumission on an urban area, the thriving industrial and port city of Baltimore. Recent debates about the "Southernness" of Baltimore and "the 'failure' of urban or industrial slavery [as] a given," make this study all the more remarkable and timely, for Baltimore, according to the author, appears to have been an anomaly: an urban area in which slavery thrived at the same time manumissions increased. In Whitman's opinion, the spread of slavery, industrial and urban growth, and selective manumission coexisted and reinforced one another, showing that studies which have focussed on the "failure" of urban slavery need to be reexamined.
As industrialization, manufacturing, and port activity increased in Baltimore, factory owners, shipbuilders, and mechanics found it increasingly desirable to have a work force upon which they could count and, conversely, which they could dispose of when not needed. The needs of Baltimore's entrepreneurs coincided almost exactly in time with those of plantation owners and farmers in Baltimore's environs, who wished to maximize profits in their human chattel by shipping their unskilled slaves to city factories during lulls in the rhythms of planting and harvest, or hire out their skilled slaves for profit. The result was an increase in the number of slaves in Baltimore from less than 1000 to well over 4000 by 1810. But, Whitman notes, at almost the same time, the free black population soared from less than 200 to nearly 10,000! Moreover, this occurred at a time when both the courts and the legislature conspired to make manumission very hard indeed for both master and slave. What produced this situation and, more important, what led from it?
Professor Whitman avers that the needs of both rural and urban slavemasters to maximize their profitability led to a new concept, "term slavery," in which "men [and women]...were slaves 'for a term of years,' after which they would be free, as provided for by a manumission by deed of will" (p. 51). Indeed, for many slaveowners, term slavery seemed to offer a cure for many of the "ills" of slavery. Masters, ever worried about runaways, believed they could curb that tendency in their chattel by promising freedom at some later date. Manufacturers whose livelihoods depended upon slaves needed those without Luddite tendencies; slaves given a promise of manumission would presumably work harder with less tendency to industrial sabotage. And, masters with guilty consciences over slavery, but who might be penalized economically by immediate emancipation, could salve their guilt and maintain their economic stability through this system. All such owners had reason to consider term slavery as advantageous to themselves, advantageous to slaves, and in keeping with the republicanism engendered by the Revolution: A man worthy of his freedom worked for it.
Term slavery worked for both "sides" in Baltimore, possibly more so for slaves than for masters. A slave not content with his work arrangement, or the possibility of sale, could and did argue against the terms. If the master ignored his/her views, running away was not only a possibility, but a likelihood. And the runaway slave could blend easily into the growing free black population of Baltimore. This fact alone gave pause to many a slaveholder. Still, according to Whitman, the pause was just that, for many slaveholders who freed their slaves on terms bought others to replace them immediately. Thus was slavery perpetuated while manumissions rose.
The "price of freedom" was costly indeed. Freedmen having bought themselves--and perhaps other family members--had little money left for living, let alone for the acquisition of real property and household goods. The white majority therefore deemed these folks reprobates and vagabonds, or worse, and firmly believed that they could not compete, let alone succeed, in a white society. The "price of freedom," then, was an enhanced, more virulent racism.
Whitman set a reasonable goal with this book, and none should criticize him for that; it IS, after all, a small monograph. Moreover, he has accomplished quite well what he intended. He has made judicious use of the wide array of available records and is willing to concede when the records do not allow for substantive conclusions and judgments to be made. Still, in the give and take of the relations between blacks and whites portrayed by Whitman, all seems to be business; the violence inherent in slavery is missing here, or dismissed as averse to slaveholders' interests. Was there none of the crime and violence in Baltimore that existed in other slaveholding locales? Surely there are court records, criminal and civil, such as the courts of Oyer and Terminer in Virginia, which could shed light on the more volatile aspects of Maryland slavery. Finally, Baltimore may not be unique. For instance, mechanics in Petersburg, Virginia, were acquiring slaves at precisely this same time while the number of slaves in Virginia as a whole was dropping. Other Southern industrial cities may show the same pattern, and they are deserving of further study.
While these are important issues, the lack of attention given them does not detract from an excellent area study. Steven Whitman is to be congratulated for his contribution to the literature of antebellum slavery, manumission, and race and class relations.
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Music has impact on people. It influences their very lifestyle. This proves to be very true. I have been listening to the songs of the 60’s for a quite few days. I noticed that mostly they were either calm or energizing. In either of the cases, it is noticed that the words remain lucid and clearly audible. They carry some message too. Some songs reflect the zenith to which Tamil literature had reached then. Just as the songs were calm, it is noticed that the people of that era also used to be as calm and composed.
Similarly, the so called “kutthu” songs, considered great “in” thing nowadays, showcase the degrading interest of the people in the language. It is often composed of those rubbish insane words and vulgar lyrics, which fail to have any meaning. Most of the lyricist them selves are dissatisfied with what they write. But, they are asked to write lyrics with such words which seldom have any meaning so as to enhance the sale of such “kutthu” songs. Loss of culture misconception of westernization and modernization has called in the songs wherein there’s a loud BGM with words of the singer almost sinking in it.
Such songs are said to cause restlessness and high BP in listeners. And needless to say that’s exactly what is happening today. On the contrary, in a recent research held in the Harvard, it was revealed that people who preferred to listen to those high beat blaring music are the high earning adventurous people! Today it has become very difficult to find good, pleasing music. As known well, music has very good effects on living things. The same music can cause damage too..
In such a dilemma, I am left to say nothing but that music does affect the way of our living, and the way we live also affects the music which is produced. My only caution: One must understand that music is a double edged knife.
HARINI SREERENGARAJAN, Std X, Chettinad Vidyashram
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This is one means by which organisms such as bacteria transmit genes between themselves. In conjugation, two bacteria from the same species come alongside one another and form a temporary cytoplasmic bridge, over which a mutual exchange of DNA takes place.90
Genetic variety in bacteria is increased by means of conjugation. However, since no separate bacterial cell emerges as a result, this mechanism cannot be regarded as sexual reproduction.91 (Bacterial reproduction by way of mutual contact is known as sexual reproduction with conjugation.)
Evolutionists, however, do regard these newly emerging genetic variations as a universal feature of sexual reproduction. Since the initial bacteria have different characteristics from those that emerge subsequently, evolutionists take this as evidence for evolution. In fact, what is happening here is actually variation. The genes from the two bacteria do give rise to further variety, but no new genes or genetic data are added to the genetic pool. As a result, the bacteria remain the same species of bacteria, and no new subspecies emerges.
90 Ozer Bulut, Davut Sagdic, Elim Korkmaz, Lise Biyoloji 3 (“High School Biology 3”), p. 135.
91 Musa Ozet, Osman Arpaci, Ali Uslu, Biology 1, Istanbul: Surat Publishing, 1998, p. 138.
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At McKinley High School, city unknown, some students decided to vent their frustration in a “well-thought out” letter to their English teacher. Fortunately for the students, the teacher was kind enough to show their dedication to the kids’ education by giving them some friendly suggestions on how to improve their insult.
While shortening words for texting and posting on your friends walls may be considered acceptable, it’s probably not a good idea to submit something in writing with this so many errors–especially to an English teacher!
While this took place in a high school, the sentiment (if not the errors) is probably being mirrored by a lot of college students currently, as we near finals week. Is that an excuse to send such an ignorant letter to a professor? Hopefully these kids have learned more than just the errors of their paper, and learned from the error of complaining to a teacher about homework.
As someone who has an intense love for words and grammar, this letter is a straight affront to me. As an English major, it’s been etched in my brain how important correct grammar is to writing a good paper. Beyond papers, the time is upon us to write a good enough résumé to get hired. Good résumés take time, effort, and correct grammar.
This letter may seem amusing, but in reality it’s just a tad depressing as this supposed senior can’t even punctuate correctly. Correct grammar is necessary to every day life–it’s what allows effective communication and understanding between people.
Is this a failure of the education system? Is it perhaps a prank? Add your thoughts in the comments or join the conversation where it originated, over on Reddit.
Lesson for the day: if you’re going to insult someone, utilize your education and do it right! As this teacher advises, “Proofreading takes five minutes and keeps you from looking stupid.”
Hannah Bassett is a senior English Language and Literature/Professional Writing major at the University of Northern Iowa. She’s currently obsessed with video games, books, film, and all things sci-fi/fantasy.
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Have you heard these before? “Not another cat picture!” “Real photographers don’t photograph their cats.” “Social media is just a place to post cat pictures.”
Seems some of the photographic fraternity look down on cats as if they are faux subjects. Today, I am here to tell you, in a somewhat tongue in cheek way, why cats are a vital part of our photographic education. So with apologies to ailurophobics amongst you, here are some very good reasons why you should be using cats in your photographic training.
Action Shots: Ever tried to make a cat sit still? It's like trying to herd jellyfish. So if the cat is not playing ball, or maybe is playing ball, try to shoot some cat action shots. You can learn about continuous focus modes, pre-focusing, shutter speeds to freeze or add motion blur and of course getting into low down positions that only a contortionist would normally use.
Focus, shutter speed and knowledge of exposure have gone into the cat image, by Tambako The Jaguar
Portraiture: Cats sleep up to 20 hours per day. It's a well known fact that the time they spend awake and active usually coincides with you pulling a camera out to take a portrait. Sometimes however, after a long and exhausting sleep, your cat might stay still long enough for you to get some beautiful portrait shots. So what can you learn here?
Well, first of all, setting up your lighting system very quickly and efficiently before the cat wanders off. Making sure you have pre-prepared everything before approaching the chosen feline. Correct lens, shutter speed and aperture preselected and camera prefocused for the split second the cat opens its eyes. Your cat will be one of the most challenging portrait subjects you have ever met.
You need to get your lighting set up quickly. Byhttps://www.flickr.com/photos/nauright/
Depth of Field: Leading on from portraiture, cats can teach us a huge amount about depth of field. We can go for the ultra shallow depth of field, focussing just on the cat's eyes. Increase that a little and the little fella’s ears and nose will become sharp too. Go for a maximum depth of field and we can get the cat in focus all the way from the nose to the tip of the tail. The cat’s fur is a wonderful indicator of what’s in focus and what blurred even if it does stick to camera bags like the proverbial to a blanket.
This cat shot demonstrates shallow depth of field. By Alan Turkus
Low Light: Chances are that by the time you have set your flash gun up or have positioned your lighting, the cat will have wandered off for a bite to eat. Rather than risk this, you can opt to shoot in low light. By keeping the light levels low we not only prolong the cat in its current position but also learn about controlling noise and ISO, holding the camera steady at low shutter speeds, using wide apertures and controlling white balance.
Understand how to work in low light. By Tomi Tapio K
Attitude: If you plan to shoot models in you photographic career, you will inevitably come across one or two with an attitude problem. Cats are remarkably good training for this. They can sucker you into believing they are sweet, then with a quick swipe of the claw and a hiss, let you know you have upset them. Not unlike some human models to be honest.
Cats have legendary attitude. By Wendy
Street Photography: One area where you can really concentrate on getting great cat shots is out on the street. Be it your own domestic moggie, or the local street cat fraternity, there is one guarantee, the cats will be so busy with their environment that they will not notice you. Great opportunities to learn to shoot candid, understanding telephoto lenses and perspective and shooting animals in their natural and for some unnatural environment.
Street photography does not need to be restricted to just humans. By Omer Unlu
So there you are. At least one years worth of photographic education that can be learnt simply by photographing cats. Perhaps the most important thing that you might learn from photographing cats is patience. If you can remain calm, collected and focused when shooting felines, it will stand you in good stead for any other photographic subject.
Pretty funny stuff. Thanks.
I use cat fur to determine the quality of new lens or camera.
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Love the sun? Too bad it doesn’t always heart ya back. In fact, yikes, more teens are being treated for sun-related skin damage than ever before. We’re shining a light on what you need to know about the sun so you can have fun—and keep safe—all summer long.
According to the American Academy of Dermatology, one blistering sunburn during childhood nearly doubles your lifetime risk of melanoma. Dr. Craig Austin, a New York City dermatologist, regularly treats teen patients. “There’s been an increase of melanoma in kids. It used to be very rare, but now, unfortunately, we’re seeing it more than ever before,” he says.
MORE THAN JUST A BURN
While skin cancer is a scary enough thought, the other lasting effects of sun damage aren’t so hot, either—broken blood vessels, skin discoloration, larger pores, and, yup, even wrinkles. “The effects of sun damage can show up earlier than you’ll ever imagine,” warns Dr. Austin. “You may start seeing wrinkles in your 20s.” So. Not. Worth. It.
What’s causing this sudden spike in sun damage? Blame Hollywood, for starters. A ton of today’s stars are perpetuating the idea that you have to have a sun-kissed glow to be beautiful. As a result, teens are laying out all summer and flocking to the tanning beds in the off-season. “So many young girls think it’s safe to go tanning, but just a couple of minutes in a tanning bed can lead to a very bad burn,” says Dr. Austin. And even if you don’t get an ouch-tastic burn, any amount of SPF-free sunshine is damaging your skin. The truth hurts—but not as much as cancer or permanent damage.
So what’s a girl to do? It’s not like holing up in your house all summer is really an option. So protect yourself by slathering on the SPF (Dr. Austin recommends SPF 30 or above). Wear a hat to keep your face shadowed, and sit under an umbrella at the beach. And reapply, reapply, reapply—especially after swimming.
If you do get a little, um, lobster-like? Don’t freak. Try a cool bath (adding a few drops of lavender oil soothes skin) then apply aloe. Taking an aspirin within 24 hours can ease pain and reduce redness. “If you’re worried about too much exposure, see your dermo to check for signs of anything serious,” says Dr. Austin.
And of course, you can always fake a glow. Spray tans, which Dr. Austin calls “totally safe,” are an easy option when you want a little color. Way to be hot and smart on the beach, babe!
BY SARAH WASSNER FLYNN ON 7/29/2010 12:51:00 PM
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