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Tennessee Woman Arrested for Facebook 'Poke'
Ryan Calo, a residential fellow at the Center for Internet & Society, is quoted on the legal ramifications of a Facebook "poke" in the case of a Tennessee woman violating a protective order:
It's the digital equivalent of waving at someone from across a crowded room.
And yet a Tennessee woman was arrested last month for "poking" another user on Facebook.
According to an affidavit filed with the Sumner County General Sessions Court on Sept. 25, Shannon D. Jackson of Hendersonville, Tenn., allegedly violated a legal order of protection that had been previously filed against her when she sent a virtual "poke" to another woman on Facebook.
Although "poking" is a somewhat passive and new form of technology-enabled correspondence, Ryan Calo, a residential fellow at Stanford Law School's Center for Internet & Society, said it is still a form of communication restricted by a protective order.
"A poke is a very deliberate action," he said. "You have to select the person and say, 'this is what I want to do.'"
Advances in technology have expanded the spectrum of communication, from low-engagement to high-engagement ways of interacting with others, Calo said.
This case involving Facebook "poking" is an example of how the law must recognize new and different forms of communication, he said. The digital environment can create new pitfalls and new threats, he added.
"Protective orders are not always about physical danger, they're often about getting this person out of your attention and getting away from them," he said.
In recent months, Calo said, there have been similar instances in which a person's virtual actions on social media sites have had legal ramifications.
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The dodecahedron is one of the 5 Platonic Solids (convex regular polyhedra). The model is made of 12 regular pentagonal faces.
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I’d encourage you to read Taleb to experience the hero, and anti-hero, directly. Acting on his books saved me from personal bankruptcy. I owe him much of my personal freedom.
Separate from his tips for financial living, what are the lessons that I can bring into my larger life?
Don’t Tinker, Let My Winners Run, As Much Nothing As Possible – I blow at least $10,000 a year forgetting these points. My sin is neglecting the benefit of “no action.” Every year:
- I cost myself money by tinkering with my winners
- I waste emotional energy by getting involved in situations that will work themselves out with my help
- I spend goodwill via over-correcting the people close to me
The tip about letting my winners run is so persistent in my investing errors that I’ve sent myself an email that I see every time I log into gmail. The other email is designed to make me a better man.
Maintain Personal Freedom – Taleb’s style is about freedom. Freedom to do what he wants. Freedom to say what he wants. I get that. I need to be cautious with choices that restrict freedom.
Debt – my family has one loan, a mortgage on a house that I could leave and rent for more than my mortgage/insurance/taxes.
Taleb, and others, challenge conventional wisdom about the use of debt, particularly with regard to College. My wife and I left college debt free and that colors our judgement. Friends of mine, that are doctors, talk about debt-free doctors being able to “do medicine right.” Statements like that, bring home Taleb’s advice to use as little medicine as possible.
Pay For Optionality & Avoid Open Ended Commitments – I’ve made both necessary, and ill-considered, commitments in my life. I pride myself on reliability so feel pain when I’m falling short on a commitment, or need to exit. As a result, I’m willing to pay a premium for flexibility and accept less success to avoid long-term attachment. The pain I feel is an Anglo-Saxon cultural phenomenon, in some Asian cultures, it is expected that relationships will change with circumstances. I smile when I think about Northern Europeans doing business in China and India.
Relationships – Taleb is big on parties, especially ones with lots of different interesting people. My goal at a party, if you can get me to go, is simple. Avoid being the most boring person there! I’m selling myself short. While it would help, the solution isn’t to liven up. The solution is to understand that exposure to many different people is helps create a life with meaning and opportunities to use our skills to help others. Networking is about using volatility to our advantage and the most valuable form of networking is having fun while sharing a mutual interest. I’ll go a far out of my way to share a bike tour with a buddy! I’ve made most of my best friends while exercising!
Toxic People – have you considered the emotional payoff profile of the people that are close to you? Taleb talks about asymmetric outcomes in the financial sphere but far more common is the downside associated with certain individuals. Some people have a poor payoff profile and others consistently make me feel fantastic.
Think about the people you spend time with – how do they make you feel about yourself? Create space for great people by ditching the toxic folks.
By the way, if you’re truly courageous then think about how you make other people feel about themselves – especially people that have no recourse against you. Too often, I come up short here! When I’m tempted to criticize, I ask myself three questions:
- What are my goals here?
- Will criticism serve my goals
- How am I making this person feel?
Taleb rails against bankers and senior management. Speaking as an insider, he is 100% right about how those sectors operate. The deck is stacked, and will remain stacked, in favor of the insiders.
If you find yourself in senior management, or finance, then think back to what was “enough” when you started.
Too often, the compromises associated with success are the seeds that create Black Swans in our personal lives.
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Fayed, Facebook and counterknowledge
We may sneer at Mohammed Fayed's conspiratorial ravings, but how many of you - or your children - believe that the US government planned 9/11? At an education seminar at the weekend I put that question to a group of London teenagers. Nearly every one of them put up their hand.
Mohammed Fayed is not the only one with delusions
Meanwhile, over at Counterknowledge.com my colleague Will Heaven has discovered that there are no fewer than 84 Facebook groups claiming that the CIA invented Facebook as a spying tool.
The kids I spoke to were from tough London estates and from a mixture of ethnic minorities: West African, Somali, East European. They all seemed to agree that Bush planned the September 11 atrocities, having picked up the idea from the internet movie Loose Change. I recommended that they check out a site called Screw Loose Change, which takes apart the film's claims lie by lie.
There was no consensus, however, on the subject of Osama bin Laden: some students thought he was an actor hired by the CIA, while others thought he was a real person but innocent of 9/11. The owner of Harrods would be proud of them.
Still, at least these young people had the excuse of a lousy secondary school education. The Facebook groups which subscribe to the CIA conspiracy theory include students at America's leading universities. As Will Heaven reports:
This claim is made by a Facebook group with 776 members worldwide. There are 84 others with similar claims a combined membership of 7,656.
But, says the group's founder, a US student: "this is not a conspiracy theory, it's a sceptical position taken after carefully gathering extensive knowledge about the CIA's past in domestic surveillance."
Well, the CIA must have a difficult job – Facebook now has over 60 million members. And besides, it only takes a quick Wikipedia search to discover that Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook for student networking whilst at Harvard. The idea has made him millions.
Unlike Zuckerberg's original model, making a new group on Facebook couldn't be easier. No university-based party, pub-crawl, club or fraternity is without its respective Facebook group or event. Anyone can make a group, and they do.
Funnily enough, it was a recruitment drive by US Intelligence, specifically the National Clandestine Service, that started people worrying in the first place. In December 2006 the NCS launched a Facebook group aimed at attracting top students to its graduate scheme.
It was a smart move. In a month the group had 2,100 members, but paranoia spread. The CIA know about Facebook? Surely that means they have access to all our personal information from our taste in music to our political affiliation?
Actually no, replied Facebook's marketing team; "the CIA has no direct access to any user's profile. They adhere to the same rules as all of our advertisers. We do not publish or disseminate our users' information to any advertiser."
In other words, the CIA have got better things to do.
What's most surprising about the groups is their network makeup – by checking the members' networks it is possible to learn where students are studying. Boston. Harvard. Montreal. Manchester. Sydney. Chicago. New York. Washington. These are bright students who, while studying, spend hours analysing and researching information to the highest standards. Yet outside academic work, Facebook is where they trade misinformation where counterknowledge becomes standard currency.
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MOSCOW, February 1. /TASS/. The Chinese capital of Beijing hosted on Thursday Russian-Chinese interdepartmental consultations on space security, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement adding that both sides focused on consolidating efforts to prevent an arms race in space.
"Both sides exchanged opinions regarding the current situation in this sphere," the statement reads. "The sides agreed on the need for further close cooperation and active joint efforts to prevent an arms race in outer space as well as the weaponization of outer space."
Russia and China also pointed out the importance of launching negotiations as soon as possible to form a legal basis that would prevent an arms race in space.
"This meeting was further proof of the unified approach stated by Russia and China toward issues of space security," the ministry added.
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In the previous post, I talked about Tex Owens, the author of the very famous Cattle Call. Here are different versions of the song, in chronological order. Sorry for the wait, it was quite a long post to write and lots of songs to get, even if I’m sure there are other versions out there, but I find the exercice very interesting ! I hope you do too. And on the personal side, I’m quite busy for the moment with other projects and the weather this Easter weekend was so nice, I enjoyed the sun instead of blogging.
This is also a good post to celebrate the one year anniversay of Mademoiselle Montana’s Yodel Heaven !
Tex Owens recorded it in 1934 and again in 1936. He recalls writing the tune while waiting for a radio broadcast. It was snowing and it reminded him of his earlier life as a cowboy. “Watching the snow, my sympathy went out to cattle everywhere, and I just wished I could call them all around me and break some corn over a wagon wheel and feed them. That’s when the words “cattle call” came to my mind. I picked up my guitar, and in thirty minutes I had wrote the music and four verses to the song.” (found in Cattle Call. Early Cowboy Music and its Roots, Rounder, and in Bart Plantenga’s book)
The song is inspired by cowboy life: the cowboys used cattle calls to let the cattle know where the herders where at night time.
Tex Ritter recorded it in 1947. No real yodel but his voice breaks many times. It is a very romantic version with the chorus that prefigures his biggest hit, High Noon.
Carolina Cotton made her version around 1951.
It was Eddy Arnold‘s performance from 1955 that made the song so popular. His version, accompanied by the Hugo Winterhalter Orchestra, is country but with hints towards pop styles. He recorded the song first in 1944, and then again in 1949 and yet again in 1961. It was used in the movie My own private Idaho.
One of the kings of yodel, Slim Whitman recorded the song in 1954. He had been influenced by Eddy Arnold but his falsetto range was a lot better. He made the song more flamboyant and increased the tempo to produce an exciting and wild sound. If I remember good, you can hear the song in Mars Attack, with Indian Love Call.
Sheb Wooley did his best in 1960 but his yodel isn’t so good…
Even Elvis Presley sang it: here‘s just the yodel from Cattle Call at a rehearsal for a documentary, That’s the way it is, and here, with full band and chorus where he shows his ability to yodel. (1970)
And what about a yodel with a Moog ? Gil Trythall recorded Cattle Call in 1971 with his synthesizer and it works very good !
Around 1986 Boxcar Willie made a version with a playful yodel.
Don Edwards recorded a version in 1992, noting in the liner notes of his album that the “original version was more authentic than the later versions that added a silly chorus (I suppose for the sake of records company executives and for radio play).“
Emmylou Harris tells that the first song she remember hearing on the radio was Cattle Call by Eddie Arnold when she was four years old. She made a live version in 1992.
Cowboy singer Skip Gorman has a version on A greener prairie (1994).
The same year, Wylie Gustafson made a version with his Wild West group.
LeAnn Rimes was 14 when she recorded it in 1996, with Eddy Arnold. A very young voice but such a beautiful yodel !
The last version I found is from People Like Us, aka DJ and multimedia artist Vicki Bennett, from Abridged to Far (2004), that you can find for download on UbuWeb. Here’s what they say about this album: “On Abridged Too Far, People Like Us continues its pastiche of impressions of popular music from Europe and America from the 1920s thru to 1990s. Bennett’s work is an examination of the affect of hearing well known tunes and lyrics in fragments, then putting those elements to play– resonating, intermingling and recombining with the listeners own associations and shards of memories.“
And after all this version of the same song, I’m sure you’ll be singing it all the time ! I can’t get it out of my head since weeks…
Tex Owens (I don’t know if it’s the 1934 or 1936 version, sorry !)
Tex Ritter – 1947
Carolina Cotton – 1951
Eddy Arnold – 1949, 1955 (with the Hugo Winterhalter Orchestra), 1961
Slim Whitman – 1954
Sheb Wooley – 1960
Elvis Presley – 1970
Gil Trythall – 1971
Boxcar Willie – 1986
Don Edwards – 1992
Emmylou Harris – 1992
Skip Gorman – 1994
Wylie Gustafson – 1994
LeAnn Rimes – 1996
People Like Us – 2004
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Jessica Nicoll, Director and Chief Curator, Smith College Museum of Art
Ann Musser, Smith College Museum of Art
Excavating the Image is an annual collaboration between the Kahn Liberal Arts Institute and the Smith College Museum of Art (SCMA). Each year, an artwork in the Smith collection will become the centerpiece for a cross-disciplinary discussion involving faculty from a range of departments and experts across various fields. In January 2013, this two-day colloquium will focus on an important recent acquisition by the SCMA—contemporary Chinese artist Cao Fei’s video The Birth of RMB City (2009). For more information about this new acquisition, visit http://www.smith.edu/news/2009-10/rmbcity-SCMApr.php.
The Birth of RMB City is part of a larger project by Cao Fei, which uses new digital technologies to challenge conventional ideas about urban space. RMB City is a virtual city that exists within the online world of Second Life. It was planned and developed by the artist in association with Vitamin Creative Space and officially opened to the public in January 2009. The city, which anyone can virtually visit by creating a Second Life avatar, is an amalgamation of old and new landmarks and cultural references. Fantasy structures, including a giant spoked bike wheel that rotates above the city and a floating panda (the city’s “love center”), exist alongside recognizable buildings like the People’s Palace in Beijing and the “Birds Nest” stadium from the 2008 summer Olympics. This video visualizes the construction of the city, as buildings are layered on top of one another to create an imagined urban center.
The video and the artist’s larger Second Life project raise many potential lines of inquiry that cut across a variety of disciplines-- including art, architecture, urban studies, geography, computer science, film studies, anthropology, and East Asian studies. What does this online virtual city reflect about contemporary China? What does it mean to create an online, publicly accessible art project in a country where internet usage is tightly monitored? What is unique about the platform of Second Life and how does that virtual community’s culture impact this project? What is the aesthetic merit of the work?
The project will combine open-ended, interdisciplinary discussions based on close observation of the video and its imagery with presentations about trends in contemporary Chinese art and the context of the country’s rapid urban expansion. Colloquium participants will have the opportunity to explore the online world of RMB City together, using an avatar created for our project, as well as other contemporary Chinese art in SCMA’s collection. No specific knowledge of China or Asian art is necessary for participating in this broad, cross-disciplinary discussion.
Interested faculty should email Rosetta Cohen (email@example.com), Director of the Kahn Liberal Arts Institute, on or before December 7, 2012. In your email, please include the title of the project and explain why you are interested in it, what you would bring to it, and what you would hope to gain from it.
Thursday, January 10, 2013:
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Friday, January 11, 2013:
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A softening of demand combined with record production of new containers last year has forestalled a container shortage. Despite the significant number of containers held up in North America and Europe, ocean carriers, importers and forwarders said that shippers are not facing difficulties obtaining container equipment in China and other points of origin in Asia.
According to maritime consultancy Drewry, the global pool of ocean shipping containers grew 13% last year to almost 50 million TEU. As many as 6 million TEU of surplus containers exist in the global equipment pool. Container orders surged following shortages that emerged in post-lockdown spending. Triton, the largest container lessor said new container production exceeded 5 million TEU last year, more than double the number produced in 2019 or 2020.
The availability of containers at origin comes as conditions in North America are worsening. The crimp in normal circulatory flow of equipment in North America is so severe that one ocean carrier said it was unable to dispatch a ship from Los Angeles-Long Beach back to Asia because of a shortage of empty containers with which to fully load the ship for seaworthiness. Another carrier confirmed issues with in-gating empty containers onto marine terminals.
Potential containers shortages could emerge in Asia if the backups continue in North America. One ocean carrier executive said a container shortage at origin “could be the next issue to emerge,” due to inconsistencies among carriers in returning empty equipment to Asia and contracting for new equipment.
Source: Journal of Commerce
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The terror attacks on Sept. 11, 2001 left an indelible mark on Americans. But even as the first responders climbed through the rubble in New York, Washington, DC and Pennsylvania, the country embarked on a “War on Terror.” With that war came years of conflict in Afghanistan and Iraq, indefinite detention of terror suspects without charges or trial, enhanced interrogation techniques, extraordinary rendition and the passage of the USA Patriot Act.
Daryl Hannah, who has acted in such films as ‘Splash,’ ‘Wall Street’ and the ‘Kill Bill’ series, was arrested on Tuesday for refusing to abandon a sit-in in front of the White House. Hannah was among more than 100 people detained by US Park Police while protesting the Keystone pipeline project.
“We stand here today to just say no to slavery, to just say no to tar, sands, oil, and no to the Keystone pipeline,” Hannah said.
Hurricane Irene may end up being one of the 10 costliest catastrophes in U.S. history. Industry experts currently put the storm’s damage at $7 billion to $10 billion; however, much of that destruction may not be covered by insurance because it was caused by flooding and not winds. Flooding is often excluded from standard insurance policies.
Cleanup efforts have begun in communities that were devastated by Hurricane Irene over the weekend. Although trucks and supplies from the Federal Emergency Management Agency are en route, access to some areas has been cut off by floodwaters that washed out or damaged roads and bridges.
“Irene was gonna land somewhere. We’re not Manhattan, our small streams quickly became big rivers,” Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin told The Brattleboro (Vt.) Reformer. “We’ve lost churches, homes and historic bridges. But we will rebuild.”
Before weakening to a tropical storm, the first hurricane of the season hit the Eastern seaboard with torrential rains, strong winds and floods.
Hurricane Irene made landfall on Saturday in North Carolina, moved northward along the coast then slammed into Little Egg Inlet, N.J., as a Category 1 storm. Despite predictions, Irene then lost steam as it lumbered toward New England.
The 5.8-magnitude earthquake that unnerved millions of people on the East Coast of the United States on Tuesday forced schools in three states to close and damaged several buildings and federal landmarks.
At least four aftershocks followed the powerful quake, including a 3.4-magnitude tremblor that hit near the nation’s capital overnight.
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While it’s legal in the US to purchase a physical CD or DVD and then resell it to someone else, that’s not the case with digital media. The unauthorized transfer of digital music is considered to be illegal under the Copyright Act of 1976.
And that sentiment was reaffirmed this weekend by US District Court Judge Richard Sullivan, as he ruled in favor of Universal Music Group’s Capitol Records in its lawsuit against digital music reseller ReDigi for copyright violation…
ReDigi, for those who aren’t familiar with it, is an online marketplace for pre-owned digital music. It’s essentially a cloud storage service that gives users a forum to sell their old iTunes songs, and it takes a small percentage of the sale.
The company reportedly sought the advice of a number of legal experts and copyright attorneys before it launched in late 2011. But apparently that wasn’t enough, as Capitol Records filed a lawsuit against ReDigi in January of last year.
And today, AllThingsD reports that Judge Richard Sullivan has finally ruled on the case, siding with Capitol. Sullivan says that unless a copyright owner gives you explicit permission to sell their products, you can’t resell digital media files.
From the ruling:
“Finally, ReDigi feebly argues that the Court’s reading of Section 109(a) would ineffect exclude digital works from the meaning of the statute. (ReDigi Mem. 21.) That is not the case. Section 109(a) still protects a lawful owner’s sale of her “particular” phono record, be it a computer hard disk, iPod, or other memory device onto which the file was originally downloaded. While this limitation clearly presents obstacles to resale that are different from, and perhaps even more onerous than, those involved in the resale of CDs and cassettes, the limitation is hardly absurd – the first sale doctrine was enacted in a world where the ease and speed of data transfer could not have been imagined. “
And that’s the heart of this lawsuit, and probably a number of lawsuits to come: digital media is still very much a grey area for copyright laws—most of which were written in the late 70s. How can you be allowed to resell a CD but not a digital album?
Anyway, this is just a partial judgment. Both parties are to file a joint letter by April 12 regarding how to handle remaining issues like injunction requests and damages. At one time, Capitol Records was asking for ReDigi to pay $150,000 per track sold.
What do you think about reselling digital music? Should it be allowed?
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Rule No. 11: Implement the Matt Meyers balk rule
Who is Matt Meyers, you ask? He's a baseball editor at The Mag, and he's had it up to here with the way balks are called. He's not wrong. It's the most inconsistently applied rule in all of sports, especially when a lefthander is on the mound.
The MLB rule book is clear. "If there is a runner, or runners, it is a balk ... when the pitcher, while touching his plate, fails to step directly toward a base before throwing to that base ... the purpose of the balk rule is to prevent the pitcher from deliberately deceiving the baserunner." Yet, over and over, lefties step halfway toward home before throwing to first. (Yes, Andy Pettitte, we're looking at you.)
So we're backing Meyers and drawing a literal line in the sand -- specifically, a visible one from the middle of the rubber toward the first base dugout at a 45 degree angle. Chalk is messy, so we're advocating for something like the pitching rubber itself. If a lefty touches that line with his front foot on a toss to first, it's a balk.
Don't laugh. This proposal has the support of baseball's most notorious stickler, Orioles manager Buck Showalter. "Anything that makes something more black-and-white for the umpires, I'm in," he says.
In the end, though, this isn't about upholding rules as much as it is about opening up the running game, which hasn't been the same since the steroids era. Some folks say Rickey Henderson's stolen base records are untouchable. Maybe, but shouldn't the next generation have a fair chance to run them down?
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What Cows Prefer: Pasture and Access to the Barn (2010)
UBC Dairy Research Report
Click here for a complete pdf copy of this report: What Cows Prefer: Pasture and Access to the Barn
Lameness is widely regarded as a problem for both dairy cows and dairy producers. Lack of access to pasture has been linked with higher rates of lameness. Pasture is also perceived as providing a more natural environment for cows, so lack of access to pasture is often viewed as a welfare concern and organic standards typically require some pasture access. That said, many producers prefer housing systems based on zero access to pasture as free stall barns are designed to provide a high degree of comfort for cows. To provide access to pasture could be a challenge on many dairy farms. A well-designed barn provides cows with a comfortable place to lie down, protection from the elements, and free access to a well-balanced diet that helps maintain high levels of milk production. If cows can use a well-designed freestall barn do they really prefer or need access to pasture, and what are the advantages and disadvantages of pasture access?
Continuous access to pasture is not an option for many Canadian producers given our climate, but can even temporary access provide benefits? In one study, UBC researchers compared lameness in cows restricted to a freestall barn with cows restricted to pasture for 5 weeks.
Gait scoring was used to assess lameness: cows with a gait score of one were considered healthy and cows scored five were considered severely lame. Seventy-two multiparous dairy cows in mid to late lactation were gait scored and divided into 18 groups of four animals. Nine groups of cows were restricted to each treatment for five continuous weeks sometime during July through October. The average gait scores for the pasture and freestall treatments were both three at the beginning of the trial. Cows on pasture grazed and were fed concentrate after each milking before returning to pasture. Cows kept in the barn were fed a total mixed ration (TMR). All cows were gait scored weekly and lying time was measured using a data logger attached to each cow’s hind leg.
Average gait score improved for cows on pasture, despite reduced lying time, but the scores of cows in freestalls remained stable or worsened. Improvement in gait was most apparent for cows with the highest initial gait scores, suggesting that pasture access is particularly beneficial for the more severely lame cows (see UBC Research Reports Vol 8 No 3 for more details).
This study indicates that cow lameness can be improved by providing even temporary access to pasture, but this might not be true for other aspects of cow welfare. Pasture access is perceived to be more natural than keeping cows inside, but most pasture provides little or no access to shade potentially increasing the risks of heat stress in the summer. Indoor housing provides shelter from direct sunlight and may help cows cope with higher temperatures.
To better understand if and how cows value access to pasture, UBC researchers simply allowed animals to vote with their feet. In this study, 25 late-lactation cows, tested in groups of five, had free access to either a freestall barn or to pasture immediately adjacent to the barn. At the start of the experiment cows were kept inside the barn or outside on pasture for 2 days each, after which cows were given free access to both options for 3 days. Each group of cows was tested three times from May through July under a range of climatic conditions.
When cows had the choice, they spent about 46% of the day indoors, especially on warmer days. They spent the majority of their time outside during the night between afternoon and morning milkings (Figure 2). Cows were most likely to prefer to be indoors on warm days (i.e. more than 20ºC).
This study indicates that cows do not have an overall preference for either a well-designed freestall barn or for pasture; instead preference varies depending on the time of day and environmental conditions. From the cow’s perspective, the best option may be to simply keep the barn doors open, allowing cows to access pasture when they choose.
One potential disadvantage of using pasture is that cows have access to a less energy dense diet, making it difficult to maintain high levels of milk production. However, when cows were allowed free choice between pasture and the freestall barn they continued to eat just as much TMR as when they were kept indoors continuously. These results suggested that cows could spend their nights on pasture and still maintain intake (and production) relative to cows that are not allowed outside. However, the study was designed to measure shorter-term behavioural effects, not the longer-term effects on intake and production.
To provide a better test of the effects of overnight access to pasture on production and intake, a third study was conducted. Fifty cows were assigned to one of two treatments: continuous freestall housing versus freestall housing during the day and pasture from 2000 h in the evening 0800 h the next morning. These treatments were applied from 4 weeks pre-calving to 8 weeks post-calving
Cows were fed TMR in the freestall barn and feed intakes were recorded. Body condition scores, body weights, and milk production were recorded throughout the experiment. None of these measures were affected by pasture access; both groups of cows had high daily intakes of TMR (averaging 11.9 kg/d) and high milk production (averaging 38.3 kg/d).
Previous research has shown that cows kept only on pasture typically show reduced intakes and reduced milk production. However, by keeping cows in the barn during the day and on pasture at night, cows were able to consume their full daily intake of TMR during the day. Cows still graze the pasture at night, but this grass intake did not displace intake of the energy dense TMR or reduce production.
In summary these studies show that:
1) even temporary pasture access can be good for cow health, helping lame cows recover,
2) cow preferences for pasture access depend upon time of day and climatic factors – cows prefer pasture at night and during cool days, and
3) cows with access to pasture can maintain very high levels of TMR intake and milk production.
Together these three studies indicate that partial access to pasture is a practical management option for producers wanting to promote cow health and welfare while maintaining high levels of milk production.
We are grateful to Lindsey Reich for help preparing this report. For further information please Email email@example.com or firstname.lastname@example.org. This report is based on the following UBC papers: Hernandez- Mendo et al., 2007 (J. Dairy Sci. 90:1209-1214), Legrand et al., 2009 (J. Dairy Sci. 92:3651-3658) and Chapinal et al., 2010 (Livest. Sci., 129:104–110). We thank the researchers and staff of the UBC Dairy Education and Research Centre for their hard work on the studies described in this report.
This research was funded by NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Animal Welfare with contributions from the Dairy Farmers of Canada and many others listed at www.landfood.ubc.ca/animalwelfare/.
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A Study of the Relationship between the South Manchurian Railway and Freight Shipments of Soybeans in Manchuria before the 1920s 1
Collective Learning Practice and the Resurgence of Community Teory in Urban Agglomeration Research 23
An Attempt at Complementary Usage of Population and Agricultural Censuses :A Case Study of the Yamagata District of Kuji City 42
Research on Earthquake Disasters and Physical Geography 61
227th Regular Meeting 75
46th Research Seminar of Metropolitan Area Study Group 78
112nd Research Seminar of Geographical Thought Study Group 81
4th Research Seminar of Political Geography Study Group 83
A Study of the Relationship between the South Manchurian Railway and Freight Shipments of Soybeans in Manchuria before the 1920s
Faculty of Letters, Nara University
This paper clarifies that soybeans were produced in Manchuria（Northeast China）and were intensively transported to Dalian using different railways without changing the fare systems based on the relationship between the South Manchurian Railway, the Chinese Eastern Railway, and the regions within or along both using the results from a micro-scale regional analysis. The contents of this paper are summarized as follows :
Tsarist Russia constructed the Chinese Eastern Railway Company. It opened its main line to Vladivostok as an extension of the Trans-Siberian Railway in the early part of the 1900s, and this line bifurcated from Haerpin（Harbin）to Lüshun through Dalian as a southern feeder line within Manchuria. After Tsarist Russia ceded the southern feeder line between Changchun and Lüshun through Dalian to Japan as reparation for the Russo-Japanese War of 1904―05, Japan continued to operate it through the South Manchurian Railway Company. However, trains on the South Manchurian Railway line between Changchun and Lüshun by way of Dalian couldn’t have gone directly to the main or southern feeder lines at Haerpin and Changchun using the Chinese Eastern Railway because Japan had previously changed its track gauge.
Soybeans were one of the most high-volume agricultural products for export from the region in the 1910s. Since more soybeans could be produced in southern Manchuria than in the north during this period, the route to Vladivostok via the Chinese Eastern Railway was less advantageous than that to Dalian using the South Manchurian Railway, which was near the high-volume production areas. Although the Chinese Eastern Railway Company set discounted fare rates, most of the soybeans produced in southern Manchuria were transported to Dalian and little was sent to Vladivostok.
Produce was transported by wagon and then loaded and shipped from particular specified stations, not necessarily the nearest ones from the main farms that produced soybeans, due to the relationship between their locations and the railways. Some stations shipped a high volume of soybeans, and these constructed large consolidating zones for both railways. While they might straddle local hsien boundaries, they rarely straddled those of other provinces. Most of the section west of Haerpin on the Chinese Eastern Railway lines ran across Heilongjiang Province, and the eastern and southern sections across Jilin Province. Since most of the high-volume soybean farms in Jilin Province in the east transported their produce to specific stations on the southern feeder line within this same province, they gradually decreased shipments to Vladivostok after the Russian Revolution.
The author believes that the reason that few consolidation zones straddled provincial boundaries was due to the currency that was circulated within Manchuria in the 1910s. The zones of regional types of money circulation were generally confined to within a given province. Since most of the farmers must have received their payments from the soybean brokers（liangzhan）within their own provinces, few transported their products to brokers at export ports in other provinces.
Key words: Manchuria, soybean, railway, consolidating zone, multiple currency system
Collective Learning Practice and the Resurgence of Community Theory in Urban Agglomeration Research
Urban Research Plaza, Osaka City University
The purpose of this paper is to review the literature on collective learning in urban agglomeration and examine the roles of community and regional identity.
Over the past few decades, a considerable number of studies have been conducted on industrial clustering in the field of economic geography and regional development. It has been recently recognized that collective learning offers the key to an understanding of local competitive advantage in the rise of the knowledge economy. Although studies of urban milieus have been made about collective learning practice, the process is only vaguely understood and there are questions that remain unsettled.
First, classical location theories such as those of Marshall and Hoover are examined to note the position of urban agglomeration research within agglomeration research in general. Second, the literature on urban milieus is reviewed and the growing concern about the collective learning process is pointed out. In particular, this paper highlights the role of associations such as chambers of commerce and industry. Third, the role of community is discussed. Since learning practice is closely related to the process of cognition, the problems of identity sharing and changes in identity are mentioned. Finally, under the influence of a resurgence of community theory, research prospects for collective learning are summarized.
Key words : urban agglomeration, experiences of cross-industry exchange activities, milieu, collective learning, community, regional identity
An Attempt at Complementary Usage of Population and Agricultural Censuses : A Case Study of the Yamagata District of Kuji City
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo
Quantitative analyses of rural areas at the sub-municipal scale are extremely scarce at present. The most important reason for this is a low correspondence between the territories of enumeration districts（chosaku）and basic unit blocks（kihon tan’iku）in the population census and those of agricultural settlements（nogyoshuraku）in the agriculture census.
The author examined the potential complementary use of population and agricultural data at the sub-municipal scale and presented possible uses as developed by statistical analysis of a pilot case study. Sakuno（2011）suggested that territories of enumeration districts, basic unit blocks, and agricultural settlements in Tohoku relatively correspond at the section（oaza）level. Grounded on his suggestion, the author performed a case study based on Yamagata Village（referred to as the Yamagata district of Kuji City, after its amalgamation with Kuji）, a largely depopulated mountain village in the Tohoku region.
First, the degree of territorial correspondence between population and agriculture censuses in Yamagata was examined using a geographical information system（GIS）, and the author concluded that longitudinal analysis at the section scale of data from 1970 was possible. Time-series analysis of the population census at the enumeration district scale is also available using 1960―1985 data.
The author’s quantitative analysis of Yamagata using these sub-municipal statistics allows for more exact and abundant descriptions and analysis than those of existing studies. Specifically, the following conclusions were drawn:
1）This study clarified the quantitative relations between dekasegi seasonal migration, out-migration, and agricultural production conditions in the 1960s when the former two were at their peaks. The results of this study clearly showed that, if agricultural conditions were hard, even the main（key）settlements faced severe depopulation and a drastic increase in dekasegi at that time.
2）In the early 1970s, construction jobs created by the rise in volume of public works spread on a narrower geographical scale than municipalities or sections. At first, their coverage was limited to within enumeration districts containing the contractors’ main office and their managers’ communities.
3）Since the late 1990s, after the amalgamation with Kuji City, depopulation of the central（key）settlement of Kawai, where most of the public facilities are concentrated, accelerated at least as much as in other sections of the district. This was mainly because of the non-replenishment of retiring officials in Yamagata and the fact that officials of amalgamated Kuji tended to live in central Kuji owing to regular job relocations within the entire Kuji territory.
These findings show a great potential for much deeper understanding of rural areas and the need for more systemic studies.
Key words : small area statistics, population census, agriculture census, Yamagata district of Kuji City
Research on Earthquake Disasters and Physical Geography
School of History, Bukkyo University
The Great Tohoku Earthquake of 2011 has posed questions for geographers concerning their awareness of and the contributions they can make to reducing damage in the future and to regional reconstruction in the wake of the gigantic devastation throughout the region caused by the earthquake disaster.
There have been two periods of intense seismic activity in the western Pacific region. The first was during the period of the 1920’s to the 1930’s, and the other is from 1995 up to the present. Severe earthquake damage has occurred in Japan twice in 1925, in 1927, and in 1995 ; in Taiwan in 1935 and 1999 ; and in New Zealand in 1931 and 2011, all caused by inland earthquakes. The author has examined severe earthquake damage in the western Pacific Rim from a geomorphological viewpoint. Based on research of historical earthquake damage that occurred in the region, some important lessons were obtained and can be summarized as follows:
1）Multi-scale analysis is essential for analyzing earthquake damage to buildings and its causes. Such analysis is also necessary for programs to mitigate damage that can be adapted to the appropriate scale.
2）In order to mitigate direct damage by surface faulting we need to legislate land use controls in active fault zones. Additionally, an earthquake memorial museum should not only be for memorializing tragedy but also for education and as a tourist destination, and it needs to have content that is substantial.
3）Governmental organizations for rehabilitation should be set up quickly after a disaster, and a comprehensive plan for reconstruction of a safer and more beautiful town must be presented as quickly as possible.
4）It is necessary to move forward with research that grasps the entire process from the occurrence of an earthquake disaster up until reconstruction and includes an internationally comparative perspective.
Key words : earthquake disaster, geomorphologic environment, multi-scale analysis, fault zone land use control, reconstruction planning2013/05/27
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Essays on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Written by Himself was the first work that influenced the nineteenth-century genre of slave narrative autobiographies. Written and published by Equiano, a former slave, it became a prototype for those that followed.
This edition of Equiano's Narrative places the text in the center of abolitionist activity in the late eighteenth century. Equiano knew many of the leading abolitionist figures of his time, and this edition allows readers to trace the common ideas and cross-influences in the works of the political and literary figures who fought for the end of slavery in
“This new edition of Equiano...will become the text of choice for both scholars and students of the Black Atlantic.” - African American Review
“The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano is the foundational text of African-American autobiography. This welcome edition, ably edited by Angelo Costanzo, provides readers of today a generous introduction to Equiano's life and times in a highly readable and informative format.” - William L. Andrews, University
Angelo Costanzo, Professor Emeritus of English,
Table of Contents: [Back to Top]
Olaudah Equiano: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Written by Himself.
Appendix A: Letters and Reviews
1. Letters and Reviews Added to Other Editions of The Interesting Narrative
2. Reviews of The Interesting Narrative Not Included in Equiano’s Editions
- The Analytical Review, May 1789.
- The Gentleman’s Magazine, June 1789.
- The Oracle,
25 April, 1792.
- The Star,
27 April, 1792.
Appendix B: Writings of the First Abolitionist Movement
1. A Caution to
2. Some Historical Account of
3. An Account of the European Settlements in
4. An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Clarkson
5. "The Negro’s Complaint," Cowper
6. Letters from an American Farmer, de Crevecoeur
7. Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil and Wicked Traffic of the Slavery...., Cugoano
8. An Account of the Slave Trade on the Coast of
9. An Answer to the Rev. Mr. Clarkson’s Essay on Slavery...., Francklyn
10. "On the Slave Trade,"
11. A Narrative of the Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life...., Gronniosaw
12. Scriptural Researches on the Licitness of the Slave-Trade, Harris
13. "Of National Characters," Hume
14. Notes on the State of
15. A Narrative of the Lord’s Wonderful Dealings with John Marrant...., Marrant
16. Thoughts upon the African Slave Trade,
17. Britain’s Commercial Interest Explained and Improved, Postlethwayt
18. An Essay on the Treatment and Conversion of African Slaves...., Ramsay
19. A Vindication of the Address, to the Inhabitants of the British Settlements, on the Slavery of the Negroes in
20. Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho.
21. A Representation of the Injustice and Dangerous Tendency of Tolerating Slavery, Sharp
22. Cursory Remarks upon the Reverend Mr. Ramsay’s Essay...., Tobin
23. An Apology for Negro Slavery, Turnbull
24. Thoughts upon Slavery, Wesley
25. The Speech of William Wilberforce ... on the Question of the Abolition of the Slave Trade
26. "A Poem on the Bill Lately Passed for Regulating the Slave Trade," Williams
27. A Vindication of the Rights of Men, Wollstonecraft
28. Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes, Woolman
Academics teaching relevant courses may request examination copies of titles to consider for text adoption. We ask that you limit your examination copy requests to three or fewer at a time; if you are not confident that you will adopt the book, please help us keep costs down by ordering it instead. If in the future you do decide to assign as a course text a book you have previously ordered personally, Broadview Press will be happy to refund your money.
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
2001 • 331pp • Paperback • 9781551112626 / 1551112620
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The tragedy in The Philippines after Typhoon Yolanda has a familiar ring to people in southeast Louisiana. And that's the topic of this week's Commentary by Eyewitness News Political Analyst and Gambit columnist Clancy DuBos.
Clancy DuBos / Eyewitness News Political Analyst
It's been more than eight years since Hurricane Katrina, but now every time disaster strikes, no matter how far away, it stirs painful memories here in south Louisiana.
That's certainly the case with the massive destruction wrought by Typhoon Yolanda in the Philippines. We who lived through Katrina know what helplessness, and hopelessness, feel like.
But we also know how it feels to have total strangers come to our aid. That's why it's so important for us to respond in any way we can to the cries for help from Filipino communities.
Locally, Capital One Bank is collecting donations for the New Orleans Filipino-American Lions Club Disaster Relief Fund. Nationally, the American Red Cross and other charities are raising funds to help the millions affected by Yolanda.
We know all too well that help cannot arrive soon enough, or stay long enough, when a catastrophe like this strikes.
The only thing comparable to a disaster this epic, is the human capacity for compassion. It's the one thing that brings hope in the face of so much loss.
Share your opinion on this Clancy DuBos commentary by emailing email@example.com.
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Water Safety Tips for Lake Life and Tubing the Poudre
Colorado may be land-locked, but with lakes like Boyd, reservoirs like Horsetooth, and waterslides like the Poudre River, there’s no shortage of options for water recreation in Northern Colorado. Staying safe is always the best way to have fun on the water this summer.
With the season of the sun finally in full swing, some of us are beating the heat at a local lake, while the more daring among us are taking to the river.
As a family medical practice committed to the health and wellbeing of those in our community, we wouldn’t be doing our jobs if we didn’t share some key water safety advice for your summer fun. So whether you’re soaking up the lake life or tubing the Poudre, have a good time and stay safe with these expert water safety tips.
Stay safe on the lake
As a competitive skier and water safety expert with USA Water Ski, AFM’s own Dr. Angela Walter spends her fair share of time on lakes. We asked her for a handful of top water safety tips when it comes to taking a dip or riding the wake. Here’s what she has to say:
- Never swim alone
“Freak things happen,” Dr. Walter says. “Whether you’re a novice swimmer or a pro in the water, always go with a friend.”
- Be mindful of lightning safety
Coloradoans are known to be outdoorsy. And it’s this nature-loving mentality that puts us at a greater risk when lightning strikes. In fact, lightning is the leading cause of weather-related deaths in Colorado. Dr. Walter’s advice? “Watch the sky and listen. If thunder roars, get out of the water and seek shelter in a building or covered vehicle.”
- Wear sun protection
Sunbathing is nice. Sunburns… not so much. “I’m a big fan of sunscreen, wide-brim hats, and sunglasses,” Dr. Walter says. “You can look good and protect your skin at the same time.”
- Stay hydrated
“Being in the water isn’t enough,” says Dr. Walter. “On the hottest days of summer, we need to fill our bodies with more water than usual to replenish what we lose.”
- Watch for hazards
“Freak things happen,” Dr. Walter says. “Before our ski tournaments,” Dr. Walter says, “I always scan the lake for debris or other onsite hazards.” Whether you’re boating, skiing, or boarding, take in your surroundings and take the proper precautions.
- Have a first aid kit on hand
Be prepared for the unexpected. “It’s always a good idea to have a first aid kit nearby,” said Dr. Walter. (And when it’s more than a bump or bruise, count on our convenient urgent care locations to get you back on the water.)
Water Safety Tips for Tubing the Poudre
While NoCo might boast a decent number of lakes, we’re admittedly no Michigan. The Cache la Poudre River, Colorado’s only nationally recognized Wild and Scenic river, is an iconic part of our community and history – one that attracts thousands of people every year. While you can hike, bike, fish, and camp along the river, a Fort Collins go-to summer experience is tubing the Poudre.
But before you grab a tube and plop in, it’s important to understand the potential dangers of this popular pastime.
From submerged tree branches and freezing waters to deceptively fast currents and seemingly tame low-head dams, the hazards are real and sometimes deadly. In response to recent tragedies on the river, the Poudre Fire Authority and Poudre Heritage Alliance have teamed with a number of other local agencies to head up the “Play it Safe on the Poudre” initiative. We talked to Robert Overstreet, a Poudre River ranger with the USDA Forest Service, to gather his expert insights on the “Play it Safe” principles. To prep for your own tubing adventure that doesn’t end in disaster, follow these tips from a seasoned river pro:
- Wear a Life Jacket.
“Any time you’re on the river, wear a life jacket,” says Overstreet. “Under state law, life vests aren’t required when inner tubing because a tube isn’t considered a boat. But I would always suggest wearing one.”Ideally, go with a Personal Flotation Device (PFD) that’s river rated. But any life vest is better than none when it comes to tubing the Poudre.
- Confirm Temperatures, Timing, and Flows.
The Poudre River is cold. It’s melted snow, after all. Understanding when it’s too cold to tube is critical to avoiding hypothermia. “If the combined temperature of the water and the air is under 100 degrees, you’re at a much greater risk for hypothermia,” Overstreet says.
Temperature and weather conditions are just a couple things to consider when planning a tubing adventure. Water flow is another. “Know what you’re getting into,” Overstreet warns. “I would caution against anything above a Class II rapid, an easy rapid with regular waves and clear passages. It’s important to look at the water flows. Wait until when the river gets down to about two feet or under and around 550 CFS.” Flow information for the Poudre in FoCo can be found here, while data for the canyon mouth is here.
As a general rule of thumb, prime tubing time is from mid-July through August, since temps are typically warmer and river flows are calmer. It’s always better to be safe than sorry and check the data before you dive in
- Plan your course.
Use a river access map like this one to plan your course. Be especially careful of hazards like low-head dams, which pose significant dangers.
“To the average eye, it looks like this fun little waterfall that you can just cascade over,” Poudre Fire Authority’s Noblett told the Coloradoan. “In reality, what people can’t see is hydraulic function and the way that those were set up, they churn water in such a way that they become … a washing machine of sorts.
“For extra precautions against unexpected hazards, walk the area you’re planning to tube beforehand to spot any visible threats to a fun, safe float.
- Don’t Drink and Tube.
The river is unpredictable, and you need to be alert. Don’t dull your senses. Enjoy that craft brew once your tubing trip is done
- Use Your Words.
Always let someone back at home know when and where you’re going. And be sure to notify them of any last-minute changes to the plan.
- If You Go Overboard…
If you do end up in the river rather than on your tube, follow a few simple steps.
- Turn onto your back and point your feet downstream.
- Never stand up or attempt to walk out.
- Make your way as close to shore as you can.
- Crawl or scoot your way out to keep from getting caught on rocks or other obstacles.
- Don’t Be a Hero.
Bottom line: Don’t jump in to save someone in rushing waters or rapids. Instead, throw them a rope so they can be pulled to safety.
- Call 911.
Since the unexpected can happen, it’s always a good idea for someone in your party to carry a phone – one that’s either waterproof or in a water-safe bag. In any emergency, call 911 right away. Make sure to share all the necessary details about what’s going on and where you are.
- No Strings Attached.
“Never tie anything to yourself or your tube,” Overstreet urges. “You don’t want anything that could potentially trap you in the water.” Bring a rope in case of emergency, but keep it stashed until there’s an urgent need for it.
Summing things up
Water activities are always a thrill, so before cooling off in the refreshing waters that flow through our community, remind yourself of this life-saving info and pass it on!
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Protect Mobile Devices, Protect Your Network
Reduce the risk of compromised company data by securing users’ smartphones
Once upon a time, a mobile phone was just a phone—you made and received calls on it, and that’s all. It posed zero risk to the security of your network or your business. Now, a mobile phone is so much more than just a phone. It’s a personal assistant, a portable game player, a digital camera, and most importantly, a full-fledged computer—and these smartphones definitely pose a security risk. Just like a laptop, smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices can connect to your network, which means they could compromise your company’s data or leave your network vulnerable to attack from a hacker. You wouldn’t leave employees’ laptops unsecured, so why would you take chances with their mobile devices?
For the most part, the same security measures you ascribe to the computers on your network in the office should also be applied to mobile devices that have access to your LAN. Just like desktop PCs and laptops, all mobile devices need software protection to guard against malware and other attacks. Smartphones and tablets should have a firewall as well as antispam and antivirus software installed, such as the Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Solution and Norton Smartphone Security offering.
Look for a mobile security product that also provides safe web browsing, such as Lookout Mobile Security, which offers a free, basic version for iPhones and Android devices. With safe web browsing, each URL a user clicks on is checked for malware and phishing scams. Also, as with laptops and desktop computers, employees’ mobile devices should also be locked down with strong passwords.
Special to smartphones
In some ways, a smartphone is even more than a laptop, and there are a few risks inherent to carrying one: Smartphones are easier to steal than laptops, extremely easy to lose, and can connect to public hotspots without the user knowing it.
Because a smartphone is so easily stolen or lost—left in a taxi, forgotten at the gym, or dropped out of a purse—it needs to be protected from prying eyes. A passcode is important, but a four-digit code isn’t too difficult for a skilled hacker to bypass. So, any mobile security solution you choose should also include a remote self-destruct feature that lets a user wipe the data from the smartphone if it gets lost. Less drastic is a locate function, which allows users to use a different computer to find his or her lost smartphone by displaying it on a map.
Also, smartphones often connect to local Wi-Fi networks automatically and unbeknownst to the user. If employees are connecting to the Internet using their mobile devices, they could also be connecting to your company network and giving hackers accidental access to business resources and data. Ask your employees to keep Wi-Fi turned off and connect to hotspots intentionally and only if they believe them to be secure. Also be mindful of automatic Bluetooth connections that could compromise the mobile device.
Best practices for mobile security
Guarding against malware and other attacks isn’t a sure thing, but these best practices make it easier. If your employees want to use their personal smartphones to connect to your small company’s network, make the following suggestions a condition for access.
Every smartphone must:
- Automatically lock to the login screen after a couple of minutes of being idle
- Be configured to use a PIN or passcode for access
- Connect to Wi-Fi hotspots manually
- Have a mobile security suite installed
Security for all mobile devices should be one part of your overall security policy, and it should dovetail with the requirements you’ve established for laptops. Even if users don’t consider their smartphones to be computers, you should. After all, these remarkable devices can give hackers easy access to your network and all of its resources with just a few swipes of an evil finger.
Have you established security requirements for employees using their personal mobile devices to access the company network?Tags:
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Many avid skateboarders want to know how to skateboard in the winter. There are certain difficulties that arise when it comes to learning how to skateboard in the winter, but it can be a very rewarding endeavor. Before you start learning how to ride a skateboard in the winter, you will need to gather these items:
- Warm clothes
Once you have these materials, it is time to start learning how to skateboard in the winter.
- Wear layers. Chances are it is going to be pretty cold during the winter, so make sure to bundle up. When it comes to learning how to skateboard in the winter, try to wear layers. This will keep you warm when you start skateboarding, and after you have built up a sweat you can remove some layers to cool down. Just make sure you don't remove too many layers; skateboarding naked is a dangerous hobby.
- Find spots without snow. The second step in learning how to skateboard in the winter is finding spots without snow. Many places, such as parking lots and in front of stores, are cleared of snow each day. That means that these spots can be good to skate when the selection of spots is low. Snow will melt faster any place that gets plowed, making a more viable skating spot.
- Skate at an indoor skate park. Indoor skate parks are open year-round and a great option when you want to skateboard in the winter. The only drawback here is that these places can get pretty crowded—you aren't the only person who wants to know how to skateboard in the winter after all. Another similar choice is to find buildings you can skate in. Just make sure you are actually allowed to skate in them before you start skating.
- Visit a warmer climate. A good winter vacation is the last step in learning how to skateboard in the winter. Go to a warmer climate with no snowfall and marvel at the skating spots that are opened up to you. It's always summer somewhere, and you can take advantage of that to not only skateboard in the winter, but find some great new spots.
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Paul Robert Magocsi was born, raised and educated in the state of New Jersey. After completing undergraduate studies at Rutgers University (1966), he was awarded a Ph.D. from Princeton University (1972). He then went on to Harvard University, where for close to a decade he was a member of the prestigious Society of Fellows (1973-76), a senior research fellow, and a lecturer in the Government Department.
A professor of history and political science at the University of Toronto since 1980, Dr. Magocsi was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1996.
He is the author of over 450 publications in history, ethnic studies, political science, language, cartography and bibliography.
The works of Dr. Magocsi have been invaluable to us in the preparation of this web site and in our genealogical research. We extend our deepest appreciation for his generosity in allowing us use of his materials.
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Arcosanti staff and workshop participants visited the studio and sculpture garden of world famous sculptor John Waddell in Cornville, AZ. Mr. Waddell gave an extensive tour of the grounds and explained his technique and inspiration, talked about his life and experiences. Arcosanti staff and workshop participants visited the studio and sculpture garden of world famous sculptor John Waddell in Cornville, AZ. Mr. Waddell gave an extensive tour of the grounds and explained his technique and inspiration, talked about his life and experiences.
The purpose of the visit was to transport one of the sculptures to Arcosanti for display in the Colly Soleri Memorial Garden infront of the Vaults.
It took finesse and coordination to move this extremely heavy piece into a truck at the studio, then from the truck through the Vaults, down a ramp, into its present location in the Colly Garden.
The Sculpture is called THREE FRIENDS, or TRILOGY, a Bronze group on a single base • 87″ x 52″ x 26″ (221cm x 132cm x 66cm) • It is for sale at $350,000.
Cosanti Foundation Board of Directors member Michel Sarda organized a picnic with a formal dedication ceremony, that included a traditional Navajo blessing of the sculpture and participants.
John Waddell (b.1921) was raised in the Midwest and studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and had his first solo show in Peoria, Illinois at age 21.
He was in the military and the G.I. Bill financed the remainder of his formal education, which was two M.F.A.’s in Fine Arts and Art Education.
He and his wife, Ruth, a close partner in his professional as well as his personal life, moved to Arizona in 1957. Here he headed the art education department at Arizona State University (then Arizona State College) for several years. During this time Waddell made sculpture his primary art form.
The 1963 church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, in which four young girls died, became a pivotal event in his development as an artist. The monument he created in response to that tragedy, That Which Might Have Been, Birmingham, 1963, resides in the garden he designed for it at the Unitarian Universalist Church on Lincoln Drive in Phoenix.
His sculptures are exhibited in many places in Phoenix, including Civic Plaza and the Phoenix Art Museum. The Waddells have lived in the Verde Valley since 1970 and make frequent visits to Grand Canyon, where they sketch and paint.
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Gone are the days when men used to rule the business world. In the previous years, women have made great progress in terms of making their mark in industries previously considered as the man’s sphere. It seems that there is no better time to be a woman entrepreneur than now.
Statistics on Female Entrepreneurs
Women are flexing entrepreneurial girl power by owning over 12 million businesses in America, a recent SBA statistic cited by Fortune. On top of this, women have a more positive outlook on their work and the economy.
According to a study from a financial advice site, 21% of female entrepreneurs are eyeing to hire more workers in 2019, while 56% plan to expand their businesses in the next five years. What’s more, approximately 49% are optimistic that the local economy will improve, while 48% believe that the nation’s financial system will look good too.
Women also have experienced improvement in terms of funding, with lots of opportunities specifically designed for their business needs. So women are investing more and taking charge of their financial health better.
Being a Woman Entrepreneur
Now is the ideal time to become a woman entrepreneur. If you want to exercise entrepreneurial girl power yourself, start with what you’re passionate about.
Most female entrepreneurs initially do what they want, say, sew clothes or bake cookies, and later on, finding themselves making money out of it. Some women are passionate about healthy, grab-and-go meals, so they break into organic food businesses, the frozen yogurt industry, or diet food delivery services. It’s easier to sustain a business if you love what you’re doing, so know your passion and follow through it.
It’s also important to surround yourself with people who have the business understanding and experience. A lot of women become insecure about jumping into a certain industry because they know little to nothing about it. The cure to this is to go to experts who can provide business advice and knowledge. Some go to franchisors since they are experts who already established their brands and at the same time, they benefit from the fact that they wouldn’t have to start a business from scratch.
Who run the business world? Women do. Join the growing movement of female entrepreneurs. Take the plunge.
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The milk crate's days are numbered. Record collectors, bodega-haunting codgers, and playroom shelf-building dads of the future will curse the name of Greg Soehnlen, the Robert Oppenheimer of milk packaging design, whose square milk jug stacks tighter and four high on pallets--without crates.
According to the NY Times, Sam's Club can fit 224 gallons of milk in the space that previously held 80. They pack tighter in the truck, too, and with no empty, dirty crates to retrieve and wash, the dairy's cut truck trips, fuel costs, labor, and water usage by 60-70%.
The utilitarian-seeming milk crates turn out, in these energy- and environmentally sensitive times, to be the packaging equivalent of a Hummer. But unlike SUVs, whose shiny carcasses will litter the sides of the highway, clogging the lots of increasingly desperate used car dealers, the obsolete milk crates could have a repurposed future. Did Mr. Soehnlen actually just liberate the world's milk crates a higher calling? Soon, you'll be able to put milk crate end tables next to your reclaimed Cadillac Escalade 60/40 split sofa and captain's chair set.
Solution, or Mess? A Milk Jug for a Green Earth [nyt, images: from the audio slideshow, david maxwell for nyt]
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The site of Vranas is located at the SW edge of the Marathon plain (Fig. 1a), on a prominence in the northern slope of the Agriliki hill, which is part of Mount Penteli. The prominence where the burial mounds were built is bounded on the north by the torrent ‘Skorpio Potami’ (the Wandering River), the bed of which has never been stable (Fig. 1b). From prehistoric times the floods of the torrent have fertilized the plain, but at the same time have caused soil erosion.
The tumuli cemetery excavated at Vranas is part of a wider archaeological landscape of the Bronze Age (3000-1100 BC) in the area: other very important sites exist, such as the large and well-organized cemetery at Tsepi dated from the end of the Final Neolithic to the very beginning of the Early Helladic II (ca. 3500-2700 BC), the impressive Mycenaean tholos tomb at Arnos dating to around 1400 BC, and the coastal settlement of Plasi sited approximately at the middle of the Marathon coastline. This prominent settlement, which is currently being excavated by the University of Athens, was inhabited throughout the Bronze Age, but the most important buildings (“mansions”) date to the Middle Helladic (MH) period (2000-1700 BC).
The large-scale exploitation of the area throughout the Bronze Age is due on the one hand to its fertile lands, and on the other hand to the pivotal location of Marathon on the sea trade route that connects the Cyclades and Aegina with the Euboean Gulf, and thence to the basin of Athens (Fig. 2). Vranas, judging by its finds, also had from the beginning of the Middle Bronze Age communication links with the eastern coasts of Attica, as well as with NE Attica (Aphidnai) and to the NW with Boeotia.
In 1970, Professor Sp. Marinatos excavated at Vranas four burial mounds (I-IV) surrounded by well-constructed circular enclosures (Fig. 3). According to the excavator, three more mounds (V-VII) were identified in the same area, but were not excavated. The excavation was supervised by the then curator of antiquities of Attica, Professor P. Themelis (Fig. 4). Most of the excavation photographs, which today belong to the photographic archive of Mrs Pantelidou Gofa, were taken by Sp. Marinatos himself. However, some of them were shot by the famous photographer Sp. Meletzis (Fig. 5), known as the “photographer of the Resistance” because in the war of 1940 he photographed guerrillas in the mountains of Greece. It should also be noted that before the start of the excavations in Vranas there existed a settlement of the Sarakatsani whose straw huts and livestock facilities were gradually removed.
The monumental tumuli of Vranas constitute one of the most important burial complexes in Attica and indeed in Greece as a whole during the Middle and Late Bronze Ages, mainly due to their good preservation and long-term use, which covers almost the entire 2nd millennium BC, i.e. from about 2000 to 1100 BC. Unfortunately, the excavator did not manage to complete the study of the cemetery. Thus, the prehistoric tumuli of Vranas remained until recently known in the literature only through preliminary excavation reports.
The New Program
In 2014, a new 5-year program for the study of the Vranas burial mounds was launched, under the auspices of the Athens Archaeological Society: the main goal was a detailed review and final publication of Marinatos’ excavations and finds. The project is managed by the Emerita Professor of the University of Athens and Member of the Archaeological Society, M. Pantelidou Gofa, in collaboration with archaeologists G. Touchais, A. Philippa-Touchais and N. Papadimitriou. A number of researchers have undertaken studies on specific topics (e.g. Human and animal osteological material, Ceramic technology, Textiles and Stone tools, etc.), as well as laboratory analyses (of bone, ceramics and metal objects).
In the context of the new program, detailed architectural drawings of the monuments were made with a three-dimensional digital scanning technique (Fig. 6), by the architects N. Michaelidis and D. Bartzis. In addition, a geophysical survey of the burial monuments and the surrounding archaeological site was conducted (2016) by the Laboratory of Geophysical – Satellite Remote Sensing and Archaeoenvironment of the Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas, under the direction of Dr. A. Sarris (Fig. 7).
The Burial Mounds and their Findings
Tumuli I and II are currently preserved in very good condition inside a modern shelter. They both have similar architectural features (Fig. 8) in size (diameter ca. 17m), orientation and, mainly, construction method. Stone slabs have been used for the construction of the circular enclosures and the tombs themselves (Fig. 9, 11), while river pebbles have been used to compose the mounds (Fig. 9). Tumulus III, although constructed in the same way, is smaller (diameter ca. 7.40m) and much more damaged (Fig. 8), while Tumulus IV also has close analogies with I and II, but today it is covered with soil. All mounds include large, built tombs covered with large slabs.
Tumulus I has two enclosing boundaries that are not contemporary (Fig. 9). The smaller, interior circle is the older and encompasses one tomb. Six more graves were found within the outer circle. Only three of them (1, 2, 4) contained grave goods, mainly vessels (Figs. 10-11), all Middle Helladic, a few clay spindle whorls, two bronze objects, and two silver rings which are particularly rare and valuable items for the early MΗ period. Two tombs (5, 7) contained only bones, while in Tomb 3 the burial had been removed and a horse was buried within a deep pit, at a much later period (Fig. 12). Finally, Tomb 6 contained a MH pithos probably of funerary purpose, as well as a Roman burial next to it. The skeletal material of all tombs, coming from primary and secondary burials, remains in situ (Fig. 11).
Tumulus II has a double outer enclosure that suggests two phases of construction (Fig. 8). A large, central tomb was created within the mound, consisting of three compartments (two burial chambers and a paved entrance (Fig. 13). The tomb was constructed in at least two phases: the innermost compartment was structurally independent and apparently belongs to the initial construction phase of the tomb. Both burial compartments were found disturbed: only a few bones and grave goods from the Mycenaean period were collected on the floor. However, some interesting finds were recovered from the innermost compartment: 17 arrowheads (16 of stone and one of bronze) that should represent a single act of deposition (Fig. 14), and a small bronze knife of rare type in the Aegean (two-edged blade, twisted handle, and suspension ring) probably for cosmetic use (Fig. 15). It is possible that more tombs remain unexcavated in the north part of the tumulus, as suggested by the geophysical study.
The west part of Tumulus IV was partly destroyed by the Sarakatsani constructions (Fig. 5, 19) and more so by Italian military installations during World War II. Three tombs have been excavated in the east part of the tumulus: an original, elongated burial construction with three communicating compartments, as well as two large tombs, each of two-compartments, but empty of bones and grave goods (Fig. 16). In contrast, in the tripartite tomb, very rich skeletal material was found, coming from at least 40 secondary burials. These burials were accompanied by a number of simple grave goods, of the Mycenaean period: several vases (Fig. 17-18), stone buttons and clay spindle whorls, some beads made of semi-precious stones, and a very few bronze items.
Questions and Ways Forward
An intriguing matter, but one difficult to interpret, that emerges from the study of the tumuli is the contradiction between the obvious structural similarities that characterise them, and the chronological difference between Tumulus I and the other mounds, as suggested by the finds. According to the data, mainly derived from the pottery, Tumulus I dates to the early Middle Helladic period (MH I-II, 2000-1800 BC), while Tumuli II, III and IV date to a somewhat advanced stage of the Mycenaean period (LH IIIA1-IIIC, 1400-1100 BC). Various suggestions can be made to account for the significant time gap between the monuments but a substantiated answer can only be reached through new, targeted excavation at specific points of the site.
There are other interesting and challenging concerns that have emerged from the study of the tumuli and require answering:
- the clarification of the successive, construction phases of the burial mounds and certain tombs,
- the relations of the mounds with the pre-existing Early Helladic tombs, which were found in the same area during the installation of the new shelter, in 2004,
- the complex burial practices and their significance for the symbolic expression and ideological formation of the local community,
- the social and symbolic significance of the construction of monumental burial buildings; if they are thought to be elite burials, how can this be proven?
All these issues, and many others, will be discussed in the collective volume under preparation that will soon be published in the series of the Archaeological Society.
The Diachronic Use of Vranas
Activity in the post-Bronze Age eras is also part of the process of review and discussion. The Vranas excavations and present studies have provided some evidence for the later use of the site. The tumuli were employed for burials in Roman times: in Tumulus I an undisturbed female burial was found, while in Tumulus IV the C14 (AMS) analysis of bones showed that there were probably other burials of this period. Moreover, next to Tomb II, residential architectural remains and pottery of the Middle Byzantine period (11th-13th centuries) were found, while the horse thrown into tomb 3 of Tumulus I is dated to the Late Byzantine period (15th century).
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10 Bible Verses about Paths Of Life
Most Relevant Verses
Joy And HappinessjoyfulnessjoyfulThe Presence Of GodBeing Happy And Enjoying LifePaths Of BelieversFulness Of JoyAbundant LifeSpiritual Famine, Relief OfPromised JoyWhat Heaven Will Be LikeLearning The Right WayPleasureExperience, of lifePaths Of RighteousnessJoy, And Human Experience
Thou wilt show me the path of life: in thy presence is fullness of joy; in thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
But the path of the just is as the light of the morning star, that shines more and more until the day is perfect.
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Unwilling to leave his dog Darwin home alone while he was at work, Microsoft Robotics Team developer Jordan Correa came up with an unusual solution: building a remote-controlled robot doppelganger that could dispense treats, throw and retrieve a ball, and video "chat" with the dog on Skype. DarwinBot was created using the Parallax EDDIE hardware platform, its features implemented with Microsoft's Robotics Developer Studio 4. As you can see in the video below, it's essentially a mobile table with a Kinect for navigation, a tablet and camera for video connection, and some special hardware like a ball-launching robotic arm.
Correa isn't the only person to come up with ways to connect with a pet through telepresence. Earlier this year, we saw a robot that would let you remotely groom your cat. Besides the possibilities for virtual interaction with the real world that these robots demonstrate, what we're really impressed with is the extent to which the pets accept them. Sure, Darwin seems a little nonplussed, but he's a lot more sanguine than we would be about being approached by a claw-equipped robotic creature with a loved one's face and voice.
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Russian lawmakers to debate Putin's constitution reform
Russia's State Duma on Thursday was set to discuss the constitutional amendment bill submitted by President Vladimir Putin, a reform plan unlikely to meet any serious criticism in parliament.
The bill is on the agenda to be debated in the first of three readings just a week after Putin's call for reforms -- followed in quick succession by the dismissal of parliament and the appointment of a new premier and cabinet.
The breakneck speed of the changes have fuelled speculation about Putin's plans, but the overwhelmingly Kremlin-loyal parliament is likely to fully back Putin on the proposed constitutional amendments before some form of a public vote on the issue.
The bill outlining constitutional changes was submitted to parliament on Monday, just five days after Putin formed a "working group" of 75 people, including athletes and celebrities, to work on the amendments.
The group only met twice, however, and one of its members said it was clear that the bill had been written far in advance, without the hastily formed group's input.
"I didn't work (on the amendments)," Yelena Alshanskaya, who heads a major orphan charity, wrote on Facebook Tuesday. "Clearly our role is merely representative."
The State Duma has to vote for the bill in three readings, possibly introducing its own changes, before the bill is approved in the upper house Federation Council and given a final green light by the Kremlin.
- Russia needs 'strong presidency' -
In his state of the nation speech last week, Putin suggested tweaking the constitution because "things have changed dramatically" since it was adopted in 1993. Reforms could be "important for Russia's continued development", he added.
He outlined some proposals, including boosting the role of the State Council, currently an advisory body, giving more responsibilities to parliament, and introducing more stringent requirements for public officials.
The text of the bill on the parliament's website includes some of these changes: instead of the president, parliament confirms the prime minister, though the president can still sack any candidate.
Public posts at the federal level would be closed to Russians under 30 or who hold citizenship or permanent residency in any other countries.
The president also seems to be getting additional powers to overrule a bill adopted by a two-thirds parliamentary majority: instead of being forced to sign such a bill, the president would now filter it through the constitutional court, where he can dismiss any judge.
Speaking on Wednesday in the Russian city of Lipetsk, Putin reiterated that he believed Russia needed a strong presidency. Parliamentary republics in European countries have been "malfunctioning", he argued.
"They can't form a government for six months: imagine if Russia lived with no government for six months, (it would be) a catastrophe!" he said, in what appeared to be a reference to the Belgian experience.
"Russia... needs strong presidential authority."
Some observers and media said the bill would mean Russia was even more dominated by the presidency. Others said the amendments would merely codify the existing order.
Political analyst Gleb Pavlovsky dismissed speculation that Putin was planning to step down. "He is creating an even more complicated system of authority," he told AFP.
© 2020 AFP
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George H. Pace was born on November 21, 1916. He served as a Democrat in the Missouri House of Representatives for three terms (six years), beginning with his 1960 election. For his most recent biographic entry, see the Official Manual of the State of Missouri, 1965-1966. I met Mr. Pace in the historic and appealing town of Hannibal, where we sat in his garden to enjoy an unusually pleasurable atmosphere for an oral history interview. The partly sunny morning turned overcast during the session, and remained cool and pleasant throughout.
The State Historical Society of Missouri
This material is protected by copyright law (Title 17, U.S. Code). It may not be cited without acknowledgement to The Oral History Program of the State Historical Society of Missouri and the Western Historical Manuscript Collection, a Joint Collection of the University of Missouri and the State Historical Society of Missouri.
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Attaching Ribbon To A Cake
by Rhonda Adams
An example of ribbon around a fondant cake.
What is the best way to attach ribbon to cake?
To attach a ribbon to a cake, fondant or buttercream, use a double-sided satin ribbon, that has been backed with a non absorbent paper such as waxed or contact paper. Or try a textured ribbon as in the photo above.(The snowflake cake in the photo above did not need the waxed paper. The textured ribbon did not show any signs of absorbing moisture or grease and was much easier to work with.)
For satin ribbon-Iron the back with waxed paper before attaching. To glue the ribbon use small dabs of royal icing (for a fondant cake). You may need to attach the ribbon a few inches at a time.
For buttercream icing it is a little trickier as the frosting is greasy. You will have to make sure that you don't get any on the outside surface of the ribbon. Use the same method of ironing waxed paper onto the back of the ribbon before applying it to the cake. Put the seam at the back and attach the ends with royal icing. You may have to cover that spot with a flower or decoration of some kind.
The example above is a fondant cake with a textured weaved ribbon that I purchased at Joannes Fabrics sewing store.
Another option is a fondant ribbon. The fondant ribbon is easier to use then a fabric one. You can use it with BC or a fondant cake and it will mold a little to the cake as well.
Hope that answers your "attaching ribbon to a cake" question.
What kind of ribbon to you put around a cake?
I need to put a ribbon around the base of a cake, however, I would think that it would get grease spots on it rather quickly. 1. What kind of ribbon do you use? 2. Does the icing have to be fondant? 3. Do you put the ribbon on after delivering the cake to the reception.
Here are two posts that answers your question attaching ribbon to a cake and attaching a ribbon to buttercream.
The first post is more detailed and talks about ribbon on fondant and buttercream. The second one deals more with buttercream. If using buttercream put your ribbon on when the cake is cold. You don't have to wait until you get to the reception.
Hope that helps you out..
Attaching a ribbon to buttercream.
by Michele Owen
I saw a discussion about attaching ribbon to a cake using a wax paper backing so it doesn't
bleed onto the buttercream. Should I place a towel on the ribbon before ironing it to the wax paper and will the wax alone adhere to it? could I back it with wafer paper and piping gel instead?
Yes you can use a thin towel between the iron and the ribbon if you are worried about the iron ruining the ribbon, but I don't think it's necessary. The waxed paper will stick to the ribbon and acts as a waterproofing and grease resistance from the oil in the butter cream. The oils will bleed through the ribbon and make it look blotchy otherwise.
I have not tried wafer paper, but i think even piping gel is too risky to use as a glue between the wafer paper and the ribbon. Hope that helps you out.
Thank you Lorelie,
I am so pleased I found your site!
You are so welcome. I am glad you found my site too. :-) Good luck and happy baking and cake decorating.
Ribbon on Cakes
Very useful advice as I would luv to use more ribbon on my cakes and didn't want to risk the greasy look effect..thank you Lorelie & fellow cake decorators*
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What if you forgot administrator password?
Under certain circumstances, you may find yourself without the ability to log in as an administrator. Some situations include:
- You upgraded from Windows XP, and your administrator account is gone or disabled
- You demoted all administrator accounts to standard users
- Your administrator account was somehow disabled
- Your administrator account was hidden from the welcome screen, and you
are now unable to use it from inside of your standard user account(s)
- When attempting to run an administrative utility, you are required to enter the password for a hidden account called "ASP.NET Machine Account"
- You receive an error when trying to run an administrative program, preventing you from changing system settings and running many programs
In order to fix this problem, you will need to log in to the hidden "Administrator" account that is on your computer. This account will allow you to run administrative programs and change system settings so that you can fix your computer. This will require restarting your computer, so you may wish to print these instructions for your convienence.
Option 1: Try safe mode
- Restart your computer
- Press F8 before you see the Windows progress bar
- When the boot menu appears, choose safe mode
- If you are presented with the option to log in to the account named "Administrator", do so. Use this emergency Administrator account to fix your normal administrator account by using the user accounts control panel
If you are not given the option to log in to the hidden "Administrator" account, you will need to use Option 2.
Option 2: The really hard way
CAUTION: Improperly modifying the registry can harm your system.
- Click on the start orb. Write down your username (the name listed right below your picture on the start menu).
- Place your Windows Installation DVD into your DVD drive
- Restart your computer
- When prompted, press a key on your keyboard to boot from the DVD
- Select your language options and click Next
- Select the option at the bottom to repair your computer
- Select your Windows installation from the list. Make sure you notate what drive letter it is installed on.
- Select the last option from the list to open a Command Prompt
- Type the following command, and press enter:
- On the left, click on HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
- Click the File menu at the top, and then click Load Hive
- Click the option on the left to go to "computer"
- Double-click on the drive that Windows is installed on (you wrote this drive letter down in step 7)
- Double-click on the folder called Windows
- Double-click on the folder called System32
- Double-click on the folder called Config
- Click on the file called SAM and click Open
- Type "Target SAM" into the box and click OK
- Expand the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE folder by clicking on the triangle next to it
- Expand the Target SAM folder by clicking on the triangle next to it
- Expand the SAM folder by clicking on the triangle next to it
- Expand the Domains folder by clicking on the triangle next to it
- Expand the Accounts folder by clicking on the triangle next to it
- Expand the Users folder by clicking on the triangle next to it
- Click on the folder named 000001F4
- Double-click the item in the right called "F"
- You are now presented with an editor. You will see two columns: a list of letters and numbers grouped in pairs on the left, with a list of symbols on the right. We will only be using the list of letters and numbers on the left.
- Find the spot in the left column that says "11".
- Click to the immediate right of the 11, so that the flashing insertion line is to the immediate right of 11
- Press backspace to make the 11 disappear
- Using the keyboard, type the number 10
This should change the information in the left column from
02,00,01,00,00,00,00,00,80,8c,d7,b2,e9,97,c7,01,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,1f,ea,fd,ad,e9,97,c7,01,00,0 0,00,00,00,00,00,00,de,ad,60,9b,e9,97,c7,01,f4,01,00,00,01,02,00,00,11, ...
02,00,01,00,00,00,00,00,80,8c,d7,b2,e9,97,c7,01,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,1f,ea,fd,ad,e9,97,c7,01,00,0 0,00,00,00,00,00,00,de,ad,60,9b,e9,97,c7,01,f4,01,00,00,01,02,00,00,10, ...
- Click OK
- Close regedit
- Close the command prompt window and click on the 'Restart' button on the window that gives you the list of options.
- When your computer restarts, log in with the account named 'Administrator'. Use this emergency Administrator account to fix your normal administrator account by using the user accounts control panel.
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A Kids' Wings Award Winner for 2007
If you were born to a poor family in 1805, do you think you would grow up to be wealthy?
If your mother told lies and you turned lies into fairy tales, would you think anyone would think you a genius?
If people said your grandfather was "mad" and then children called you "crazy," too, would you want to keep writing stories for them?
If people called you "ugly," would you want to appear on the stage?
If you didn't know a soul in a strange big city, would you go there to live completely on your own when you were fourteen-years old?
If you didn't get to go to school, would you start going to school when you were seventeen?
If people didn't like the stories you wrote, would you persevere and even pay to get them published in a book?
Hans Christian Andersen did all of these things and more! How could someone who experienced so much suffering and humiliation in his lifetime, bring happiness to others?
Now you can read his biography in a beautiful picture book by Jane Yolen. At the bottom of each page, you can see a snapshot of one of his stories, inspired by his childhood and his struggles. Read about his determination to gain fame and the long road to his genius being discovered. His fairy tales have lived happily ever after in the hearts of children and kings for hundreds of years. He was The Perfect Wizard.
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Multiplicity, instability and sunspots in games
This paper considers games with two players for which it provides a sufficient condition on the responsiveness of the players' best replies around a Nash equilibrium that implies (i) a multiplicity of Nash equilibria; (ii) the non-isolatedness of this Nash equilibrium as rationalizable strategies; and (iii) the existence of non-trivial correlated equilibria arbitrarily close to it. This simultaneity of multiplicity, instability and vulnerability to sunspots parallels the same pattern observed in overlapping generations economies and finite economies with asymmetric information, and hints at some underlying relation between different avatars of the indeterminacy of economies and games that goes beyond the boundaries of any specific framework. Global links between multiplicity, instability and sunspots are also provided.
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"An Exploration of the Eductive Justifications of the Rational Expectations Hypotbesis,"
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89-24, DELTA (Ecole normale supérieure).
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- Guesnerie, Roger, 1993. "Theoretical tests of the rational expectations hypothesis in economic dynamical models," Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Elsevier, vol. 17(5-6), pages 847-864.
- Cass, David & Shell, Karl, 1983. "Do Sunspots Matter?," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 91(2), pages 193-227, April.
- James Peck & Karl Shell, 1991. "Market Uncertainty: Correlated and Sunspot Equilibria in Imperfectly Competitive Economies," Review of Economic Studies, Oxford University Press, vol. 58(5), pages 1011-1029.
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- Maskin, Eric & Tirole, Jean, 1987. "Correlated equilibria and sunspots," Journal of Economic Theory, Elsevier, vol. 43(2), pages 364-373, December.
- Milgrom, Paul & Roberts, John, 1990. "Rationalizability, Learning, and Equilibrium in Games with Strategic Complementarities," Econometrica, Econometric Society, vol. 58(6), pages 1255-77, November.
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Via Panay News :
" SAN JOSE, Antique : Health care personnel in the province of Antique were the first priority in the Influenza A(H1N1) vaccination.
The vaccines for this province were donated by the World Health Organization.
A total of 3,225 frontline responders and health care workers to include doctors, nurses, midwives, nursing attendant, laboratory personnel, ambulance drivers, field health personnel of the Department of Education, barangay nutrition scholars and barangay health workers of both government and private hospitals will be given the vaccine first because they are at high risk of contacting with patients, specimen and other sources of contamination.
This campaign is in response to the Department of Health’s guideline on deployment and use of the pandemic A(H1N1) vaccines donated by the World Health Organization.
Influenza A(H1N1) vaccination is a health system response to reduce the impact of the pandemic spreading through human population across a large region or even worldwide. It will boost immunity against the new influenza virus and help mitigation efforts as the pandemic evolves."
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The Professionals Share Their
Picture yourself staying in a hotel room during your vacation. You appreciate the view and feel relaxed since your anxieties appear to be far away. It's only a fleeting feeling, though - soon, you notice strange bites appearing on your skin that are red, itchy, and cause a burning sensation.
Bed bugs are an awful thing for travelers to experience. Unfortunately, they're fairly common and can be picked up from hotel rooms. These pesky critters leave red bumps and rashes on the skin that itch and burn.
Professional Pest Management stresses how important it is for homeowners to have professional bed bug control services. But when it comes to hotels, you don't have any control over this issue. Thankfully, there are still steps you can take in order to protect yourself against bed bugs.
Bed Bugs a Common Problem with Hotels
The 2015 Bugs Without Borders survey revealed that the amount of bed bug infestations had grown considerably over the past two decades. The survey found that almost all pest management professionals had treated homes and businesses for bed bugs, with 75 percent of exterminators having dealt with them in hotels and motels. The data also suggests that hotels were the third most common place for such infestations, regardless of how clean the room was. Experts explain that bed bugs tend to hide in tight spots, such as mattresses and crevices, which means even luxurious five-star hotel rooms can be affected by them.
Guests Seldom Recognize Bed Bugs
Another university research program revealed that of those surveyed, 50 percent of business owners and 54 percent of leisure travelers had experienced a bed bug infestation in a hotel during their lifetime.
Of those same respondents, over half (54 percent) stated that they had been put off from booking a hotel due to an online review mentioning the presence of bed bugs. Clearly, the presence of these pests is a major deterrent for many people when booking a hotel.
The findings of this research are a strong indication that hotel owners need to increase their efforts to ensure that their premises are free from bed bugs. This means that they must take the necessary steps to prevent an infestation, as well as act swiftly and professionally in the event that an infestation is detected.
This includes bringing in experienced pest control professionals to carry out a thorough inspection and treatment, as well as implementing simple measures to reduce the risk of an infestation, such as regular vacuuming and laundering of sheets and linens.
In addition, hotel owners should ensure that their staff are well-informed about bed bugs, how to identify them, and how to respond in the event that one is spotted.
What to do Upon Arriving and Leaving a Hotel
If your vacation rental has bed bugs, there are a few steps you should take to protect yourself and your belongings.
Firstly, survey the area for signs of an infestation. Look out for small red or brown spots on bed sheets, which could be a result of blood, and black spots, which might indicate the presence of bed bug feces.
Secondly, elevate your belongings and store them away from the bed and the walls. This might mean placing them on a luggage rack, counter, in the bathroom, or even in the car.
Thirdly, examine your luggage before and after you leave to make sure there aren't any stowaway bugs.
Finally, after you get home, unpack all your clothes and wash and dry them on high heat. This will help to kill any remaining bugs.
It's important to take preventative steps if you think your vacation rental has bed bugs. Not only will this help keep the bugs from spreading, but it will also help to ensure that you don't take any creepy crawlies home with you.
Professional Pest Management is a bed bug exterminator in Edmonton, with over two decades of experience in the industry. And have assisted both residential and commercial clients eliminate bed bugs quickly.
Protect yourself and others from bed bug infestations by educating yourself about bed bugs. Read on from these informative articles.
Hanna Lewis and team of dedicated blog writers have been producing different series of articles on many different topics for the public. With collaboration from professionals, they are intending to share insight and information to you, their readers. They hope you enjoy them!
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Like the Apple Watch SOS feature introduced with watchOS 3, iOS 11 gives your iPhone a shortcut that automatically calls the local emergency services (like 911) and your emergency contacts when invoked. Hopefully you will never have to use it, but if you ever find yourself in dire straits it could prove to be a lifesaver. Once you have it set up, Emergency SOS allows you to push the sleep/wake button rapidly five times, at which point it makes the call. This supposedly works in many countries around the world and will call emergency services automatically, without you needing to know the local number. Here's how to set it up:
- Head to Settings -> Emergency SOS.
- Toggle on "Auto Call."
- If you have already set up emergency contacts in the Health app you will see them below. If not you can add or edit them from here.
- The emergency SOS has a three second countdown once you activate it. You can toggle on a countdown sound which will play a siren-like sound as the seconds tick off. Of course this could give away your hiding spot if you're in that kind of a situation...
- Once the countdown has started, you have a few seconds to stop it, in case it was an accident. Hit the stop button, then verify that you want to stop it.
You can use Emergency SOS even when your iPhone is locked. It will also send location data, regardless of whether or not you have Location Services on. After the call has been made, it will ask if you want to notify your emergency contacts with a message that includes your location and says you have contacted emergency services. You can read more of the particulars in the "About Emergency SOS & Privacy" link.
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Google's earthquake alerts system to be made available in more countries
The tech giant announced that the earthquake alerts will now be available in two more locations. Android users in Greece and New Zealand will now receive automatic notifications about earthquakes in the regions.
Washington: American technology conglomerate Google recently announced that its earthquake alerts system will now work in more countries. The safety feature essentially creates a large network of earthquake detectors by utilising sensors in Android phones worldwide.
Android users around the world can take advantage of the system by looking up "earthquakes near me" for "near-instant" updates. According to Mashable initially, notifications for the Android Earthquake Alerts System were only available in select locations in the US, with Oregon being the most recent addition.
The tech giant announced that the earthquake alerts will now be available in two more locations. Android users in Greece and New Zealand will now receive automatic notifications about earthquakes in the regions. Google stated that it chose these countries because they lack early warning system alerts. Users can turn these notifications off if they like.
Google had pushed out an update on Android back in August 2020 where it rolled out a host of new tools and features. That was when the Android Earthquake Alerts System first saw the light of day.
As noted in a report by The Verge though, there are some limitations to Google's alert system. People closest to the quake probably will not get much advance warning since they will be the first ones to detect the quake.
But their phones will help give a heads-up to others farther away, giving them just enough time to act in advance. Provided the earthquake has not wreaked havoc, those close by can also look up for helpful resources on what to do after an earthquake.
Meanwhile, residents of Washington in the US are slated to receive the Android alert update in May. Although no mention has been made of further rolling out the safety notifications to other countries, it is likely that more areas will get them in the future.
"We had sought a firm commitment that the Aditya Birla Group would run the company and bring necessary investments. Birlas have agreed and hence we have agreed to convert. We want India to be a three-player market plus BSNL and ensure healthy competition for consumers,” Telecom Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said.
According to WABetaInfo, the company will bring the new feature to a future update of the app as it is in the developing stage. With this feature, users will be able to transfer chat history to a new device by scanning the QR code.
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Labels often can’t capture the entirety of our experiences.
Jewish. Feminist. Single. Religious. People are so multifaceted that labels often can’t capture the entirety of our experiences. I interviewed my great-aunt Esther about various elements of her complex identity and where they intersect; I mostly came away wondering if labels—namely “Jewish” and “feminist”—can really do our identities justice. As a Jewish, single, working woman in her 70s, I assumed my aunt would have a plethora of stories that fit a single narrative. But life is complex, messy and seldom fits into the boxes we create to try to make sense of it all.
Esther grew up in a religious household, regularly attending Hebrew school, and observing all the Jewish holidays. As the only observant Jew in her school, she had to miss class to fulfill her religious practices. Teachers and peers alike were judgmental of her Jewish identity, and she often felt ostracized as the sole Jew in her school. Nonetheless, Esther braved the judgment and never let go of her Judaism, later becoming a Hebrew school teacher. Judaism remained a key component of her identity, but as she grew up, she found herself as the only Jew in a growing number of spaces.
While I’m excited to expand my social circles, it’s definitely intimidating to transition from being part of a Jewish majority in my high school to a Jewish minority in college.
After teaching Hebrew school, she went on to work in non-Jewish environments and felt isolated. Her Jewish identity was a big part of her, but she felt like she had to “keep it quiet” to avoid becoming the “other.” Though she experienced this isolation years ago, many Jews still feel othered over their religious beliefs. I’ve enjoyed a Jewish education my entire life, and am used to being one in a sea of Jews, so to speak. However, when I venture into college, I’ll find myself in a far more religiously diverse setting. This is a very daunting and unfamiliar prospect, considering the Jewish bubble within which I’ve existed my whole life. I fear that because I wear my Judaism so openly on my sleeve, people will categorize me as “the Jewish girl,” and make assumptions about my life because I observe Shabbat and my mother is a rabbi. While I’m excited to expand my social circles, it’s definitely intimidating to transition from being part of a Jewish majority in my high school to a Jewish minority in college. Forty years later, my aunt’s experience is still deeply resonant.
Esther never identified as a feminist, not because she was against the movement, but because she’d never thought about it. She believed in equality but didn’t grow up with activism as part of her life. In the workplace, Esther was used to men being in charge. Nobody ever outright told her that she was less-than, but nobody ever supported her growth as a professional either. If she had a good idea—of which she had many—she had to brainstorm, research and execute it on her own.
She recalls a particular project in which her male colleagues completely overrode her ideas and opinions despite their clear validity. She went to her supervisor to request a project transfer, but he dismissed her concerns and told her to stick it out. Esther’s story seems like it could have believably happened this year, which makes me wonder how much gender equality has really progressed. In the wake of the “Me Too” movement, I’d hope that women would feel comfortable combating workplace sexism, but it’s clear that while some progress has been made, we still have ways to go.
At the end of our conversation, I asked Esther if she identifies as a feminist today, and she said no. In her eyes, in order to qualify as a feminist, one needs to be outspoken, and a leader. She doesn’t see herself that way, despite wholeheartedly supporting gender equality. But truthfully, there is no right way to be a feminist. Equity is at the heart of the movement, not volume. Sometimes, just by proving yourself as a capable, female equal, as Esther did time and time again, you relay the strongest message about the importance of equality. For some, marching on the street is the most meaningful way to express their feminism, but for others, it may be quietly demonstrating equal ability on a day to day basis. Esther might not identify with the label “feminism,” but she’s certainly a feminist role model to me.
Shira Small is a senior at Gann Academy in Waltham, Mass.
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Stonington boasts many beautiful eighteenth and nineteenth-century buildings and a rich history dating back to the mid-seventeenth century, when it was first settled. One of the most celebrated events in Stonington history occurred in August 1814, when outgunned townspeople repelled an attack by five British warships under the command of Commodore Thomas Hardy during the War of 1812.
The town grew into
a thriving port known for its shipbuilding, sealing, and whaling.
John M. Niles provided a snapshot of Stonington in 1819 in his volume A Gazetteer of the States of Connecticut
and Rhode Island:
There are no rivers within the town deserving notice; the Pawcatuck, which runs upon its eastern border, and separates it from Rhode Island, and the Mystic, that forms its western boundary, and separates it from Groton, are short but considerable streams.
are 1100 tons of shipping owned in this town, which are employed either
in the business of fishing, or in the coasting and West India trade,
and which furnish employment to a portion of the inhabitants. The
maritime situation and interests of the town have given a direction to
the pursuits and habits of its citizens; and Stonington has become
conspicuous as a nursery of seamen, distinguished for their enterprise,
perseverance and courage.
Niles also reported that the town had ten to fifteen vessels engaged in fishing and a number engaged in coastal trade. The first Stonington sealing ship, the brig Frederick, sailed to Antarctic grounds in 1818. Captain Nathaniel B. Palmer of the sealing sloop Hero is credited with discovering the Antarctic continent two years later. Between the 1820s and the 1850s Stonington also had a number of vessels engaged in whaling.
With all this activity, it’s no surprise that in May of 1822,
Congress appropriated $3,500 for a lighthouse at the east side of the
entrance to the harbor. The new light would serve to guide
vessels passing through Fisher’s Island Sound as well as those headed
for the harbor in Stonington. The lighthouse was built during the
following year by contractor Benjamin Chase of Newport at a cost of
$2,916.57, and it was first lit in 1824.
The first keeper was Capt. William Potter at a yearly salary of $300. The 30-foot cylindrical, stone tower's fixed white light was produced by a system of ten whale oil lamps and parabolic reflectors.
An 1838 inspection found the lighthouse in poor condition. Most of the silver coating had been rubbed off the reflectors by too much polishing and the tower's wooden stairway was in danger of collapse. In addition, the lighthouse itself was in danger of being claimed by the sea, which was eating away at the bluff beneath the tower.
The government considered building a wall around the station, but decided instead to build a new lighthouse further back from the eroding shore. The second lighthouse was completed in September 1840 by John Bishop of New London. The rebuilding cost $4,914 in all, including $1,906 for a new cylindrical lantern and lighting equipment consisting of eight lamps and 16-inch reflectors. The new light was exhibited from 62 feet above sea level.
The new lighthouse consisted of a stone tower, 32 1/2 feet high, attached to the keeper's house. A granite spiral stairway led to the lantern room, where an improved system of eight lamps and reflectors was installed. In 1856, the lamps were replaced by a new sixth-order Fresnel lens.
Captain William Potter was keeper of the lighthouse until his death in the mid-1840s. His wife, Patty, became keeper after her husband's death. One inspector found the dwelling at this time to be the "most filthy house" he had ever visited. Perhaps Mrs. Potter's housekeeping skills improved, as she remained keeper for six more years.
Keepers: (This list is a work in progress. If you have any information on the keepers of this lighthouse, I'd love to hear from you. You can email me at firstname.lastname@example.org. Anyone copying this list onto another web site does so at their own risk, as the list is always subject to updates and corrections.)
William Potter (1824-1842), Patty Potter (1842-1854), Luther Ripley (1854-1861), Winthrop Hand (1861), Henry Burgess (1861-1869), C. E. P. Noyes (1869-1872), Benjamin F. Pendleton (1872-189?), Joseph F. Fuller (1898-?), George W. Beckwith (c. 1920s).
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The cyclical city
In April began the planning of the Kumbh Nagri. In October they secured its space and laid down roads in November. InDecember they marked the plots and allocated land. Come January Kumbh Nagri turned into a mega city of tents, tin, and plywood: resplendent in its highly temporal state. Come March it will dismantle and come July its debris and markings will submerge under the powerful waters of the Ganges only to emerge again in smaller form next January.
The dance of regeneration of the city of Kumbh is performed in tandem with the waters of the Ganga. It responds to the cyclical movement of a river flooding and receding and the cyclic movements of a deep historical time: the drops of sacred elixir falling into the confluence of the Yamuna and Ganga and emerging every twelve years. The event reoccurs and reaffirms itself through the performance of ritual, the gathering of people, and through time established modes of production of space.
The production of the Kumbh is remembered and encoded into the lives of those who produce it. There is a complicit agreement on street layouts, area allocations, and internal camp configurations. The pathways of food and goods supply are etched into the local and arriving populations. The techniques and materials of building are known, coded and built at breakneck speed. Labor remembers and makes its way back into the city space when it is time to rebuild it.
And yet the cyclical city evolves. New players insert themselves into its cyclical history and age-old governmental records. Decorations grow psychedelic and mobile phones replace local grocery supply chains. Environmental action groups and mobile libraries change the nature of religious messages. Jeeps, motorcycles, and motorboats create comforts in the spaces of renunciation. The size of the Nagri expands as voyeurs join the pious. The sacred mixes with the secular and the capitalist.
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As reported here on Techlicious, phone scams are on the rise. In the new “One Ring Phone Scam,” crooks create a missed call notification to a premium-rate phone service, hoping to trick you into calling a $9 per minute international chat line with a $19.95 call fee.
The scam works because the scammer’s number isn’t in your smartphone’s contact list. But what if it was? What if your phone already knew the scammers’ phone numbers, crowdsourced from people like you from around the country?
That’s the idea behind Truecaller, a smartphone caller ID app. With Truecaller, when a telemarketer calls you, you’ll be warned before you pick up the phone that it’s a spam call so long as one of the app’s 40 million users have already reported it as such. It’ll also give you info on legit callers, too. And, of course, there is a block feature.
When you first install Truecaller, you’ll be asked to provide your cell phone number and link the app to a Facebook or Twitter account. Given Truecaller’s nature, you’ll want to enter the app’s privacy settings (Settings > Privacy) to limit who can have access to your contact information by searching your phone number – all callers, friends of friends or by request only.
Naturally, the best way to block real telemarketers is to add your phone number to the Federal Trade Commission’s official Do Not Call Registry page. Doing so won’t block scammers, however. Adding an app like Truecaller (or a competing app like PrivacyStar) to your phone helps provide you with that extra protection.
The Truecaller app is available for virtually all mobile platforms, but the live caller ID functionality is limited to Android devices. You can download it by visiting truecaller.com or via the Apple App Store (iOS) and Google Play (Android).
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Ashalota’s arrival in our lives occurred when, trying to rescue ourselves from our fear of snakes, we were stifling in the clutches of our husbands. Who isn’t afraid of snakes? Our husbands assure us. They say, “Why are you afraid of snakes? We’re here!”
Their words make us laugh. “What brave men!” we say. Excited, they rear up and spread their hoods, display forked tongues as they coil around us. Husbands are snakes, not human. Human, not snakes. When we reach the summer-lands after the frisson of winter, they bite our upper bodies, draw in their tongues, and release us. Our snake-games stop midway. The rest of the night we refold our spread-open bodies dreaming snake-dreams. The next day the psychiatrist explains: “Sexual repression.”
“But,” we say, “we’re married. We have husbands.” He closes the file and locks it in the steel cabinet. From him we seek salvation. He opens a drawer with one hand; the other rests on a bell. He rings the bell as he places the money in the drawer, summoning the next patient. We’re forced to rise from our chairs. As we leave his chamber we wonder who is a snake, what sexual repression is, how to survive it. We are too worry-worn to notice Ashalota standing outside the gate.
We hear the vehicles outside, and wonder where all these people are going. We have no hope of deliverance; if only we could go away! The arrival of our husbands occurred only after we were tortured by the fear of snakes; it was only then that we allowed them entrance into our lives. In the measure of our lives the time before their arrival could be, thirty, forty, forty-five years. Gradually our lives grow serpentine, and snake-some. To many, our procurement of husbands is a sign of good fortune. They say we are not the kind of women who become crones in their twenties; we are still in the class of celestial nymphs. We are immersed for a while in this dream of heaven. Then we understand—our husbands are not shamans, they are snakes not human, human not snakes. If no one else knew this, the psychiatrist did. He writes up lengthy case histories. Our files secured in the steel cabinet, we leave his chamber with various pills.
As she stands outside, Ashalota’s legs fall asleep, and her pelvis throbs in pain. She believes that the man on the poster on the wall is the son of the mistress of the Boro-Bari, the Big House in her village. This house must be his. Ashalota tries to enter the house twice, but fails because of the guard. Her eyes look through the gate, across the yard, into the foyer where an aquarium sits. Didima, her grandmother, never told her that city fish even had their own houses, like a tin dochala-hut. In the Boro-Bari, the mistress also kept live fish in pots. People change when they come to the city. The fish swimming in the aquarium-ocean don’t make Ashalota happy, they make her hungry. She wonders, did Didima know that city people didn’t have food? Ashalota’s been drifting with a starving belly for two days now. In the village, her wan face would have prompted the mistress to call her in; here, she has to ask. No one would say, Here, eat. Ashalota doesn’t know how to ask for food. She watches the fish teary-eyed—here, there is only water within water, there is Didima.
Didima came to the city in the year of the famine; a tumor in her belly. What spell had the city cast on her that when she returned to the village two years later to die, she could only roll around on her mat and voice regret. She had no peace of mind in those last days. She said, “Asha, go to the city, I’m telling you, while your youth lasts. The city won’t push you aside, you’ll be valued.” The twisted mat of green bamboo burned to ash with her in the cremation grounds. When alive, she never explained to her granddaughter what market she had assessed to gain her knowledge. The last words on her tongue were, “You’ll know one day.”
But Ashalota hadn’t known what Didima meant before the month of Chaitra last year. In Ashwin, arthritis paralyzed her husband. Everything but his tongue went numb. From one Ashwin to another, a full year; Kartik, Agrahayon, Poush, Magh, Phalgun, Chaitra—in this year and a half the snake-dreams began.
We’re surprised to see Ashalota, a vine of hope, at the psychiatrist’s gate. We glance around and whisper, “Are you sick?”
Ashalota goggles at us. Her eyes mist over. Her dry lips move. “I’ve no disease. But . . .”
“I see snakes at night.”
Now our eyes mist with tears. We grasp her thin, weak wrist. “Want to see a doctor?”
“No!” Ashalota steps back.
We move toward her. “Then why are you here?”
Ashalota moves toward the wall on the left. On it is an election poster, with the picture of a candidate for Municipal Commissioner. She raises her neck like a heron and demands, “I want to go to the Boro-Bari mistress; I’m hungry.”
She’s upset when we’re surprised. If this house doesn’t belong to the Mistress’s son, whose is it? “Doesn’t he live here?” Ashalota touches the poster.
“No,” we say.
She laughs, taken aback. “Same face. The Mistress’s son and this guy.”
Didima once said that there were people who looked the same. But there were differences too. Even both of one’s hands aren’t the same. One breast can be larger or smaller than the other. Nipples can vary in hue. These lessons of the body Ashalota learnt from Didima.
Didima was a midwife. She was also a masseuse. A pregnant woman’s body changes before and after the birth. Her body is no longer her own. Didima would be called for during the pregnancies and deliveries She would light a straw torch, and ask Ashalota, “Want to come?” Ashalota led, Didima followed with the torch. She ran ahead balancing along the narrow earthen borders between the fields, the oil-bottle with twine around its neck swinging from her hand. Didima would call from behind, “Hey, you circus hussy, wait!” She would wait, but only when she was beyond the fields, near the mouth of the graveyard. Where the reign of the spirits began. From that point she needed both Didima and the fire. The rest of the way she walked clasping Didima’s waist, eyes closed, chanting the many names of Rama.
In the flickering flame of the lamp she witnessed a woman’s body tremble and awake. A woman with a belly like a vessel, breasts that were big and liquid. Didima’s oil-slicked fingers do not touch the high, waxen hills, they merely strike and fly off. The warm, close air within the room, the trembling body. Ashalota falls asleep soaring atop the high, waxen hills. She never sees the woman in the light of day. The woman who drags her baby-filled belly from this room to that, the woman who poured into the end of Didima’s sari rice measured out with tins—as if she was a different woman.
Delivery day was hard on Ashalota. Didima would light her torch, shackle the door behind her, and leave her orphaned granddaughter in the house. Ashalota’s body would ache in fear. For many years, Didima’s activities during those times remained a mystery. Complicated cases took upto two or three days. Didima would be deep in thought during those days, her cheeks stuffed with betel-leaf. She would return home periodically to assign chores to Ashalota, then, spitting out the betel-leaf juice, she would leave. Ashalota waited for the moment when she would stand in the yard and call, “Asha, a bright babe’s been born, come see.”
Ashalota would have much to do. She tended the clay-bowl in which Didima lit a smoldering rice-husk fire, and the fire itself. The fire was to heat the compresses that Didima applied to the new mother’s belly When Didima says bring over the tiny baby wrapped in blankets, she does. Unasked, she places rock-sugar water on the baby’s tongue. When the baby cries, the mother places her breast in its mouth. Slack-jawed, Ashalota watches the baby feed. This was work too. It made her thirsty. She cannot recall her mother’s face. She gets up and pumps the tube-well for water. But she can’t stay away. The smoky, sweet smell of the fire, the milk dribbling on the bed from the baby’s lips, the mother’s slack sari-clad body bared—a body which Didima tries to fix by massaging oil, applying heat—all of it pulls her. She lays the baby on her legs. She rocks the baby, and sings, and in the mystery of the birthing-house, Ashalota grows up.
“Will you hire me? I can take care of babies.”
We hear Ashalota’s plea. But answer, “We don’t have babies.”
She looks at our bodies. She seeks bellies like vessels, searches for large breasts. We see her disappointment. She sighs and tries to think about the future. She says, “Won’t you get pregnant? When?” Her eyes grow empty at our silence. What sort of barren land is this? Didima didn’t say that the city was like this! The old woman had grown senile before her death; she who was supposed to die two days later, died early mourning the city. The new mat burned to ashes in the cremation ground. Just as it was then, so it is now, all a waste. This was what the city was, and in the village an immobile husband—Ashalota squirms in her dilemma.
We are silent. Then we say, “We have snake-dreams at night.” We feel unburdened. After the psychiatrist, we hope for salvation from a hungry woman who has snake-dreams herself.
Our confession gives rise to newer thoughts in Ashalota. Gradually it moves from pregnancy and birth-houses to beyond. She looks at us anew and comprehends that a person’s body needs tending for other reasons; reasons not to be dismissed. Didima knew only birthing and massage. The year of the famine, the massages stopped. The arrival of new babies is no longer announced. The lives of mothers and children lost value. But people don’t want to die of starvation. Didima moved—she left the village for the city. Now Ashalota was witnessing the barrenness of the city herself. But what did Didima do here? She searches for the mystery of Didima in the folds of our wombless bodies, and says, “I know how to tend the body, will you hire me?”
We toss our pills into the garbage by the roadside and return home with Ashalota. Our servants sleep in kitchens, or under stairwells, on dirty quilts spread over threadbare carpets. We give Ashalota a nice bed in a tidy room. Her nightstand supports a pale orange lamp. A fan swirls at full speed above a clear mosquito net. We place fresh flowers in the vase on the nightstand every day. The doors of the common bathroom connecting our room and Ashalota’s screech when opened or closed. We massage oil on it, and turn the rusted hinges voiceless. Our husbands are angered. Is she the daughter of some lord that we’ve made her such a soft bed, the kind over which only they have a right! We are annoyed at our husbands’ bluster, and do not respond. They get angrier, and repeat their questions. We say, “Ashalota has the snake-dreams.”
Our concern about the snake-dreams makes our husbands happy. Gleefully they coil around us, neck to toe, flicking forked tongues. Husbands are snakes-not-human. Human-not-snakes. As soon as we reach the summer-lands after the frisson of winter, they bite our upper bodies, fold back their tongues and release us. We writhe from the pain of the venom, and until our husbands start snoring, we have nothing to do in bed. When they fall asleep, we open the door of the bathroom quietly and enter Ashalota’s room.
Ashalota engages in a new game. All this time, apart from her own and those of the women in the birth-houses, the female body was unknown to her. Even then her familiarity was only what she could hold within her own body from Didima’s heat and massage, and the joyous trembling of pregnant women. Knowing another female body through her own had begun there. The addiction had begun then too; with Didima the mediator. The world is a vessel of mystery. She had followed Didima’s footsteps to the city. Ashalota had faith that she was achieving the same things Didima had achieved one score years ago. The past comes to her aid. The flickering flame of the oil lamp, the sweet, smoky smell of the fire takes her by the hand and leads her to the female bodies in the orange light of the soft flower-fragrant bed.
At dawn we wake in Ashalota’s bed. We yawn and smile and think—we didn’t dream the snake-dreams. Ashalota is still asleep. We turn to her and whisper, “Did you see snakes at night?” She moans. We tickle her ears. “Ei, did you see snakes?” Ashalota’s sleep is broken. We turn off the orange lamp, and in the blue light of dawn, engage in another bout of play. By then our husbands awaken. When they don’t find us in their beds, they think we’re in the bathroom. But no one stays in the bathroom this long. They writhe in bed, and their attempts to uncoil their bodies and fall asleep in the cool dawn breeze fail. When we reenter the room through the bathroom, our husbands say, “What were you doing for so long in the bathroom?”
We’re surprised. “In the bathroom?”
They reason: “Where else can you have been?”
We understand—they’re hinting at our age. They think we’re at the age when women can no longer find lovers; when the hour of love arrives no more; when new husbands cannot be found. These husbands are our tokens of good fortune. Even with the snake-dreams through our lifetimes, we will not want divorce. We say, “We weren’t in the bathroom.”
Our husbands stare at us. They stammer, “Wh-wh-where were you?”
“In Ashalota’s room.”
“Because in her bed we don’t dream the snake-dreams.”
“Oh, that’s it!” Our fear of the snake-dreams gives them joy. Their hearts grow playful. We are annoyed. For the first time, we push them away and leave. The husbands hiss behind us. We are oblivious to their serpent-like gaze.
There are many urgent things happening at the office that day. We forget the morning’s quarrel. We send a money order to Ashalota’s husband, and in the evening we return with fresh flowers. Ashalota is ready with her massage equipment. During these extra hours between day and night, she wants to tend to us, and stay true to her contract. We feel unsettled. It is time our husbands returned. We don’t want another fight. We ask Ashalota, “Would you like a stroll in the park?” She drops her bowls of oil and sandalwood, and trills, “I still haven’t seen the city.”
Ashalota watches ducks in the park. She chases dragonflies. She watches people with fishing poles at the lake; she talks about the zillions of fish she caught in the village. She swings on the swings while she eats peanuts. Children play ball in front of her, they play on the swings, they dirty their clothes eating ice cream, they stare goggle-eyed at the lake. On the swings with the children, Ashalota is away from us.
That night a frightened scream erupts from Ashalota’s room. When we try to run there, our husbands stop us. They say, “Let us check it out first; you can follow after.” We ignore them, and break through the barricade. Ashalota writhes on the floor; an enormous black snake rests on her bed. We clutch Ashalota and tremble. A snake is a snake. Still, a snake dreamt of, and one that is live, are different things. Our husbands push us away and bravely move forward to grab the snake by its tail. We smile uncomfortably when we see them laugh, and release Ashalota. The snake is plastic, a toy. But where did it come from? There are no children in our household. Our husbands glare at Ashalota. Her body trembles like a palm leaf. They claim she must have bought it from one of the vendors at the park. Ashalota’s mute eyes seek our help. We say, “No, she didn’t. We were there with her.” But we feel a rift somewhere. At the park, Ashalota spends more time with the children than with us. What if she bought the snake then? We hide that thought from our husbands. They are cobras. They do not lower their hoods. For four or five days, they twist us into traps laid with words. We are forced to reason: “Why would she buy a snake, put it on her bed, and then be frightened?”
“A farce!” Our husbands shout. “It’s all a farce. She just wants to scare us away from this house with that snake.”
“You’re the ones who want to scare her away.” We warn our husbands. “Ashalota has rights in this house, just like you. We all have equal rights. If we live here, we will all live in harmony. If Ashalota cannot live here, no one else can.”
Our husbands waste no time in words and conspire in secret. We never get to warn Ashalota about the snake.
During this time, news arrives of the death of Ashalota’s husband. She is a widow. Hindu Law contains no provision for a wife to divorce and remarry. However, a widow can remarry. A hundred and fifty years ago, Mr. Bidyashagar made a law that opened the door. Our fear is this: how can we stop her if Ashalota wants to remarry and leave!
We do not tell Ashalota that there is a widow remarriage law. We do not find the courage to warn her beforehand about the snake; what if she thinks a live snake is more harmful than one dreamt of, and leaves! To keep her happy, every day after work we take her to the park.
In the park, Ashalota is happy. She plays with the children, pinches their cheeks. We keep our eyes on the anglers, the peanut-sellers, the vendors. If they look at her, or try to come near, no matter how far away we are, we run to Ashalota. We examine her, as if her swaying a hair’s breadth is a matter of life or death. She enjoys our jealousy. She winks and smiles. She doesn’t even look at the men. All her love is for the children. Our hearts break: perhaps one day these children will steal Ashalota from us. We can never give her a child. There is nothing we can do.
At night, beside her, our fears grow. We squirm. Ashalota says, “What’s the matter with you, why are you stiff like a jackfruit leaf?” We cannot voice our anxieties. But one night we gather our courage and blurt out, “Ashalota, will you leave us?”
“Where can I go? Do I have anywhere to go?”
“The world is so big. There are many who want you! And what if you return to your village?”
Ashalota closes her eyes. Didima, the old woman who had been a child-widow, returned before her death. Her regret was she had gone to the city, but not at the right time. The green bamboo mat was twisted out of shape from the pain of her ravaged body. Ashalota, her grandchild, had traveled to the city in her youth. Her breast awash in tears, Ashalota says, “I’ll go to the village to die. The cremation grounds wait with an open mouth. I’ll burn to ashes there.”
Our hearts tremble in fear. Love and death are entwined. Love plays house only with death, not with life. But we are glad thinking Ashalota our companion till death. Marriage, a state fancied, but one that is unable to resist separation. Our childless, unwritten relationship will be able to resist. We shift and resettle ourselves. But can we rest our trust in human promises? Humans change like the seasons. What if Ashalota changed? This fear is strange: it increases the attraction, keeping the fire of desire burning. Our days pass, our nights come, our months turn, our new year arrives, as we burn in our love for Ashalota. We forget about snakes seen in dreams or in life.
One day we return from work to find Ashalota absent. Our husbands have taken the day off sick although they aren’t sick. Their faces bear guilt. We ask, “Where is Ashalota?”
They reply, “Run off.”
“What! What did you say?”
Our husbands roar, “Whore bitch stole everything and ran off.”
We don’t believe them. We run toward her room. The door is padlocked. Our husbands inform us that a messenger’s gone to the police station. They will arrive soon. That room is now out of bounds. We wait for the police. They never come. At midnight our husbands whisper, “What’ll you say if the police come? Will you be able to tell them what Ashalota was to you?” We keep silent. We understand. While we were immersed in our love for Ashalota, our husbands tied up all loose ends. They hatched a perfect plan, our house itself was now in their clutches. Ashalota has not run away. They drove her out.
Every evening we wait for Ashalota on the park bench. If she is too scared of the husbands, she could meet us in the park. In the park, the children play ball, swing on the swings, dirty their clothes eating ice cream. We seek Ashalota among them. We cannot find her. The peanut seller walks past us, the men cast their lines into the lake, the vendors shake their rattles and pass. We search for Ashalota in their functions and their thoughts. We look at the dark masses of water and wonder, is it time for Ashalota to die? Did she return home to die? A funeral pyre is set aflame by the river in an unfamiliar village. We cannot deal with Ashalota’s selfishness in continuing to live without us. At night we return home to stand by the padlocked door. Our husbands place their hands tenderly on our shoulders and say, “Let that room be. Let your hearts heal. You won’t have to tell us. We’ll open the door ourselves. Then you can witness Ashalota’s magic to your hearts’ delight, OK?”
Again we dream the snake-dreams. We lie awake at night, afraid of snakes. When our eyes close in slumber, we scramble awake in bed. One sleepless night, we hear movement from Ashalota’s room. The pulse of life in that room rouses us. After many days, our bodies awaken. We stand straight. We take the key from under our husbands’ pillows, and open the shuttered room. Somebody sighs in the darkness, sits up, stretches, yawns, and moves toward the door.
We wait with bated breath. Our chests are about to explode, when, through the door, across the veranda, down the stairs slithers a huge python. It crosses the gate into the street and disappears. In the mist of midnight, we fail to understand which is more harmful, a snake dreamt of, or a snake alive.
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In 1964: L-R Katherine Anderson, Juanita Cowart, Gladys Horton (centre), Wanda Young (Rogers), and Georgeanna Tillman (Gordon)
The Marvelettes were formed in the late 50's by five students at Inkster High School in Michigan, U.S.A.
The Marvelettes line-up featured (at various times between 1960 and 1972):
Gladys Catherine Horton (b. 30th May 1944, Gainesville, Florida, U.S.A., d. 26th January 2011, Sherman Oaks, California, U.S.A.)
Georgeanna Marie Tillman (b. 5th February 1944, Inkster, Michigan, U.S.A. d. 6th January 1980, U.S.A.)
Wanda Young Rogers (b. 1944, Inkster, Michigan, U.S.A.)
Katherine Elaine Anderson Schaffner (16th January 1944, Ann Arbor Michigan, U.S.A.)
Wyanttea (Juanita) Cowart
The Marvelettes were one of the finest all female groups to feature on the Tamla Motown label during the Sixties.
'Please Mr. Postman' has been covered by many artists, with, probably, the best remembered version by the Beatles on their 'With The Beatles' album, which featured mainly cover versions of the songs around at that time.
At the outset, Gladys Horton and Georgia Dobbins formed the group the Casinyets (play on words, 'Can't Sing Yets') in Inkster, Michigan (Inkster is a suburb of Detroit).
The group featured Georgeanna Tillman, Juanita Cowart, and Katherine Anderson on backing vocals.
The group changed their name to The Del-Rhythmetts in 1958, (whose line-up featured Gladys Horton, Jeanette McClafin, Juanita McClafin and Rosemary Wells).
Signing to the JVB (Joe Von Battle owned) imprint, the group released the 45 'Chic-A-Boomer' b/w 'I Need Your Love' that year.
Two years later saw another name change, this time to the 'Marvels' (featuring five vocalists, namely, Gladys Horton, Georgeanna Marie Tillman, Wanda Young, Katherine Anderson and Juanita Cowart.
They attended Inkster High School, entering talent shows within the facility, one of which saw them coming in in fourth place.
Although only three were supposed to win the audition prize at Motown Records, the girls were allowed to enter additionally.
A further audition was scheduled, and Georgia recruited the keyboards player William Garrett, who suggested the group sing an unfinished song called 'Please Mr. Postman'.
The pair worked on the song, and returned to Motown, after further recruiting the singer Wanda Young to their growing ranks.
Motown signed the group, renaming them 'the Marvelettes', releasing 'Please Mr Postman' b/w 'So Long Baby' in 1961.
The song reached number one on the Pop Charts, and charted in the same position on the Billboard charts, where it remained for nearly two months.
please mr postman - 1961 / the marvelettes sing - 1962 / playboy - 1962 / marvelous marvelettes - 1963
A parent album was released to capitalise on the singles success, however, the album did not make the charts.
Motown released a follow up 'Postman' based 45, entitled 'Twistin' Postman' b/w 'I Want A Guy' in 1962, which reached number 34 on the Pop Chart (number 13 R&B).
The group began a touring schedule, releasing a second album 'The Marvelettes Sing (a.k.a. Smash Hits of '62)' , which featured several cover versions of contemporary songs.
The 45's 'Playboy' b/w 'All The Love I've Got' reached number 4 R&B and number 7 Pop), which was followed by 'Beechwood 4-5789' b/w 'Someday, Someway' (number 7 R&B, number 17 Pop) and 'Strange I Know' b/w 'Too Strong To Be Strung Along' (number 10 R&B, number 49 Pop).
Group member Juanita Cowart began suffering from depression, which led to her departing the group.
A fourth album was released entitled 'The Marvelous Marvelettes'', which featured 'Forever' b/w 'Locking Up My Heart' in 1963, which reached number 25 R&B and number 44 Pop.
Other singles included 'Tie A String Around My Finger' b/w 'My Daddy Knows Best' which reached number 67 Pop.
They turned down the opportunity to record 'Where Did Our Love Go', opting for the Whitfield/Holland composition 'Too Many Fish in the Sea' b/w 'A Need For Love'.
Whilst the song was successful, 'Where Did Our Love Go' hit the number one spot for the Supremes on both the R&B and Pop charts.
In 1965 Marie Tillman And Juanita Cowart departed the group, whilst Georgeanna Tillman was battling the debilitating illness, lupus.
She was forced to leave the group as a result, but remained at Motown in a secretarial role, marrying Billy Gordon (of the Contours).
Georgeanna died in 1980 from the complications of sickle-cell anemia, leaving the Marvelettes as a threesome.
The Marvelettes continued to release singles (including 'I'll Keep Holding On' b/w 'No Time For Tears' in 1965 - number 34 Pop and number 11 R&B, 'Danger, Heartbreak Dead Ahead' b/w 'Your Cheating Ways' in 1965 - number 61 Pop and number 11 R&B, and the Smokey Robinson penned, 'Don't Mess With Bill' b/w 'Anything You Wanna Do').
the marvelettes on stage - 1963 / the marvelettes greatest hits - 1966 / the marvelettes - 1967 / sophisticated soul - 1968
They also released a live album 'The Marvelettes Recorded Live On Stage', and released a greatest hits album.
Smokey Robinson also worked with the group on their album 'The Marvelettes (Pink Album)', which was released in 1967.
The album featured the hit 'The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game' b/w 'I Think I Can Change You' which reached number 2 R&B and number 13 Pop.
A follow up song featured a reworking of the Ruby & the Romantics song, 'When You're Young and in Love' b/w 'The Day You Take One, You Have To Take The Other', penned by Van McCoy, (reaching number 9 R&B and number 23 Pop).
In 1967, Gladys Horton left the group to get married and was replaced by Anne Bogan.
They released an eighth album in 1968, entitled 'Sophisticated Soul', which featured Wanda Young taking lead vocal chores.
Several 45's were released from the album, including 'You're The One' b/w 'Paper Boy' (number 20 R&B, number 48 Pop), 'My Baby Must Be a Magician' b/w 'I Need Someone' (number 8 R&B, number 17 Pop, featuring Melvin Franklin of the Temptations), the Ashford and Simpson penned 'Destination: Anywhere' b/w 'What's So Easy For Two Is So Hard For One' (number 28 R&B, number 63 Pop), and 'Here I Am Baby' b/w 'Keep Off, No Trespassing' (number 14 R&B, number 44 Pop).
in full bloom - 1969 / the return of the marvelettes - 1970
In 1969, a further album (their ninth) entitled 'In Full Bloom' was released, which saw only one single release, a reworking of Justine Washington's 'That's How Heartaches Are Made', b/w 'Rainy Mourning' (reaching number 97 Pop).
By this time, the group were fragmenting, with Wanda coping with personal issues, however, Motown felt there may have been some mileage in furthering her career as a solo performer, enlisting her for a time as the lead singer in the group the Andantes.
Motown released the album under the title of 'The Return Of The Marvelettes', however, Wanda was about to give birth, coupled with a lack of publicity and Motown's relocation to Los Angeles, the album did not fare well.
Two singles were released at the start of the Seventies from the album, namely 'Marionette' b/w 'After All' in 1970, and 'A Breath Taking Guy' b/w 'You're The One For Me Baby' in 1972 .
Anne Bogan later joined the group Love, Peace & Happiness which later became the group New Birth.
There were several Marvelettes 'imitator' ensembles during the following years, which resulted in legislation enabling Gladys Horton to be the sole owner of the groups performing name.
georgeanna tillman and gladys horton
In 2006 she made an appearance with two background singers on a Motown revue show, but sadly passed away in 2011.
Georgeanna Tillman passed way from complications of lupus in 1980.
now! - 1990
An album, recorded on Ian Levine's Motorcity imprint, was released in 1990, entitled 'Marvelettes Now'.
Wanda Young Rogers, Katherine Anderson, Juanita Cowart and Ann Bogan have all retired from the music business.
In 2007, the Marvelettes were inducted into the Michigan Rock and Roll Legends Hall of Fame.
Please Mr. Postman (Tamla Records 1961)
The Marvelettes Sing Smash Hits Of 1962 (Tamla Records 1962)
Playboy (Tamla Records 1962)
The Marvelous Marvelettes (Tamla Records 1963)
Recorded Live: On Stage (TamIa Records 1963)
Marvellettes Greatest Hits (TamIa Records 1966)
The Marvelettes (Tamla Records 1967)
Sophisticated Soul (Tamla Records 1968)
In Full Bloom (Motown Records 1969)
The Return Of The Marvelettes (Motown Records 1970)
Marvellettes Now (Motor City Records 1990)
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Durkheim’s “Suicide” is one of the classics of sociology. It is not only the historical value because it helped locate the object of study of sociology in its infancy, but also because of Durkheim’s ideas about the influence of social forces on behaviours of people. The perspective is still one of the pillars and makes up the uniqueness of contemporary sociological theory. Even so, for almost 100 years, Durkheim’s statements about the four types of suicide have always faced the test of sociologists. In spite of these unrelenting challenges, Durkheim’s perspective on types of suicide stands still and exhibits a huge potential for application and development. The aim of the article is the review of the studies by several previous authors in the United States, in France, the European Union, Iran and Vietnam who evaluated the reliability of Durkheim’s statements.
How to Cite:
Trần Ngọc Hồng, ,2023, Một vài suy nghĩ về tác phẩm tự tử của Durkheim trong bối cảnh văn hóa - xã hội hiện đại qua những dữ liệu thực nghiệm, Tạp chí khoa học phụ nữ, 36-45, 22, (http://tapchikhoahoc.hvpnvn.edu.vn/mot-vai-suy-nghi-ve-tac-pham-tu-tu-cua-durkheim-trong-boi-canh-van-hoa-xa-hoi-hien-dai-qua-nhung-0)
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Photo: (l to r) Community Project Leader Rachel Peacock, Cllr Dennis Morgan, Sue Underwood and Cllr Alex Cunningham, Chair of NEMLAC. Photo courtesy NEMLAC.
A £600,000 online project showcasing the unique history of the North East of England has been completed and launched in Durham.
Entitled Tomorrow’s History, the new website provides a digital record of the region’s rich and colourful industrial, social and cultural past.
Created by a partnership of museums, heritage organisations and 116 community groups, the project was co-ordinated by the North East Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (NEMLAC).
Speaking at the launch at Durham County Hall, the Chair of NEMLAC, Councillor Alex Cunningham explained how much hard work had gone into creating the site.
"The Tomorrow’s History website is an ambitious and groundbreaking project," said the Councillor.
Photo: www.tomorrows-history.com is a huge collection of digitised photographs, documents, sound recordings, film, TV and video from every corner of the North East. Photo courtesy NEMLAC.
"It created many technical and organisational challenges and is the result of an enormous amount of hard work by a very large number of people and organisations - from planning in the early stages, through the project as it was created and in delivering a very exciting and innovative new resource for the Region. This launch is to celebrate your achievements."
A key feature of Tomorrow’s History is the role played in its creation by 116 community projects.
Funded by NEMLAC and guided by four full-time Community Project Leaders, the groups carried out their own research, prepared their material and converted it for loading on to the site.
The result is a hugely diverse range of content, from the story of the 7th Newcastle Company of the Boys Brigade to memories of sheltered housing units in Blyth Valley. There’s also a history of Shotton Colliery as well as reminiscences from South Shields’ Asian Community.
"The enthusiasm and commitment shown by the community groups in the region cannot be overstated, and the work produced has been of excellent quality," said Community Project Leader Rachel Peacock.
"There has been a great sense of partnership from the community groups which have taken real pride in the scheme."
Photo: test driving Tomorrow’s History at County Hall – community groups at the launch review their handiwork. Photo Courtesy NEMLAC.
With over 20,000 web pages, Tomorrow’s History offers a huge online journey through digitised material taken from 175 collections in the region.
Contributing partners include public libraries, universities, county record offices and a number of museums; ranging from Beamish, the North of England Open Air Museum and Darlington Railway Museum to Hartlepool Museums.
There was also a contribution from the Northern Region Film and Television Archive on Teesside and the site boasts 30,000 photographs, as well as video, audio and 3,500 maps.
However, Tomorrow’s History is an ongoing project with more collections to be added in order to ensure the site grows to reflect changing interests.
The project was made possible by a £400,000 grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund, with the other £200,000 supplied by the contributing partners.
To visit Tomorrow's History, click on this link.
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Rapid, sensitive, and specific lateral-flow immunochromatographic device to measure anti-anthrax protective antigen immunoglobulin G in serum and whole blood.
Biagini-RE; Sammons-DL; Smith-JP; MacKenzie-BA; Striley-CAF; Snawder-JE; Robertson-SR; Quinn-CP
Clin Vaccin Immunol 2006 May; 13(5):541-546
Evidence from animals suggests that anti-anthrax protective antigen (PA) immunoglobulin G (IgG) from vaccination with anthrax vaccine adsorbed (AVA) is protective against Bacillus anthracis infection. Measurement of anti-PA IgG in human sera can be performed using either enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay or fluorescent covalent microsphere immunoassay (ELISA) (R. E. Biagini, D. L. Sammons, J. P. Smith, B. A. MacKenzie, C. A. Striley, V. Semenova, E. Steward-Clark, K. Stamey, A. E. Freeman, C. P. Quinn, and J. E. Snawder, Clin. Diagn. Lab. Immunol. 11:50-55, 2004). Both these methods are laboratory based. We describe the development of a rapid lateral-flow immunochromatographic assay (LFIA) test kit for the measurement of anti-PA IgG in serum or whole-blood samples (30-µl samples) using colloidal gold nanoparticles as the detection reagent and an internal control. Using sera from 19 anthrax AVA vaccinees (anti-PA IgG range, 2.4 to 340 µg/ml) and 10 controls and PA-supplemented whole-blood samples, we demonstrated that the LFIA had a sensitivity of approximately 3 µg/ml anti-PA IgG in serum and 14 µg/ml anti-PA IgG in whole blood. Preabsorption of sera with PA yielded negative anti-PA LFIAs. The diagnostic sensitivity and specificity of the assay were 100% using ELISA-measured anti-PA IgG as the standard. This kit has utility in determining anti-PA antibody reactivity in the sera of individuals vaccinated with AVA or individuals with clinical anthrax.
Toxicology; Risk-analysis; Biological-warfare-agents; Biological-weapons; Decontamination; Analytical-processes; Analytical-chemistry; Nanotechnology
Division of Applied Research and Technology, Biomonitoring and Health Assessment Branch, Biological Monitoring Research Team, CDC/NIOSH MS C-26, Robert A. Taft Laboratories, 4676 Columbia Parkway, Cincinnati, OH 45226
Interagency Agreement; Journal Article
Clinical and Vaccine Immunology
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A large welfare state with a heavy hand in the economy is often expounded by the American Left, Christian or otherwise, as the necessary fruits of compassion for the poor. For example, Jim Wallis argues that a high minimum wage is the necessary conclusion from the prophetic witness in the Old Testament (He goes so far to say that a Christian’s theological foundation is that “God hates inequality.” Whether this extends to all natural difference or merely economic is unsurprisingly not elucidated). In the eyes of Wallis and his ilk, secular or religious, if someone is not pushing for a large Federal government brimming with social programs they are accused of not caring for the poor. However, I am skeptical of those advocating for the aforementioned to tackle poverty. Let me offer a thought experiment to illustrate my point.
Let us divide humanity at large into the favorite categories of the Left: the 99 percent and 1 percent. For the sake of the argument, let’s say that the 99 percent struggle to meet basic needs, such as food and shelter, while the 1 percent easily obtain those and other luxuries. Now, let’s say that the 99 percent now makes as much as the 1 percent, but the cost of this is that the 1 percent makes even more than they previously did. So both the 99 percent and the 1 percent have all their necessities met, but the 1 percent still is able to afford the things the 99 percent are not able to.
I say the person satisfied with the above scenario can be said to have genuine compassion for the poor. He does not care what the rich man does with wealth so long as the needs of the poor have been met. He leaves the specks alone and is content that the log is removed.
However, if a person objects to the above scenario, I don’t see how he is motivated by compassion for the poor. Instead, he seems to be motivated by equality. The reason for the expansive state is not so much to help the poor as it is to make everyone equal. Helping the poor becomes a means to the end of equality, the good in mind for the proponent of the Left.
I also don’t see why equality in and of itself would be a good. After all we could just as easily be equal in poverty, a “sour grapes” solution if you will, as riches. One could even go to the other Hobbesian extreme and make sure everyone has nothing at all, insuring equality that way. Equality in and of itself is merely contingent. In other words, equality is a good for the sake of something else.
Let’s return to the person who objects to anyone having more than anyone else. Forgive my cynicism, but I can think of no other reason than avarice motivating him. If such a person would object to everyone’s mouth being fed and having a roof over their head even if that meant there would be people who always had more than other people, how could he not? The person who possesses more is not a criminal for keeping for him the coat which could clothe the naked, as St. Basil thoroughly condemns, but merely because he has more. The rich man becomes a criminal solely for having something the other person wishes he had, as opposed to neglecting others. For if the rich man was able to clothe everyone, yet still had more coats than all those clothed, he would still be a criminal.
As we examine arguments supposedly grounded in compassion, let’s make sure that we are not sinning so that grace may abound. As Christians, we are commanded to fight poverty not out of envy of another man’s riches, but from the love of our fellow man.Google+
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If you are overweight, even slightly, one of the best preventative measures for averting pain in your back, neck, legs, and other areas of the body, is a rigorous and well-planned weight loss program. By working closely with a healthcare professional, a thorough assessment can be conducted to help tailor an individualized weight loss plan.
Weight Gain and Back Pain -
The more weight you gain, the greater the stress that is placed on your back muscles and other soft tissue. The human body is designed to remain upright and to achieve this, muscles work together to distribute their workload. As you put on weight, especially in the waist and abdomen, the body becomes out of balance because the pelvis thrusts forward, and back muscles have to work harder to keep you upright. Because they need to work harder, they fatigue more quickly, spasm, and pull the vertebrae out of alignment, opening the door for a number of problems.
Problems Resulting From Weight Gain -
Being overweight, especially being obese, has a direct impact on many back health issues. Among these are:
" Herniated discs - As time passes, extra weight increases the pressure placed on the components of the spine, particularly the discs. Research supports that added weight contributes to the wearing away of the fibers of the outer rim of the inter-vertebral discs that cushion the vertebrae. As the discs become worn down, the chances of suffering from the pain symptomatic of sciatica increase and the probability of healing decreases.
" Osteoarthritis of the spine - Osteoarthritis (OA) of the spine is a type of arthritis in which the cushioning cartilage between the bones deteriorates and the bones rest on each other; with little or no padding, pain and bone damage ensue. While it has been known for some time that being overweight directly contributes to osteoarthritis in the spine, studies show that weight loss relieves and diminishes pain brought on by OA. Overweight and obese children are at an increased risk for early onset of OA.
" Back strain - As stated above, excess body weight puts additional stress on the soft tissue in the back, which in turn affects the spinal column. This contributes to sciatica (a series of symptoms associated with herniated discs), and stenosis, a narrowing of the space in the spelling column. Osteoarthritis is also known to contribute to stenosis.
" Other Degenerative disc diseases - Obesity also contributes to spondylolysis, cervical disc deterioration, and thoracic disc degeneration.
Why Weight Loss Helps -
In addition to reducing the chances of heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and innumerable other weight related diseases, losing excess weight helps relieve back pain. Weight loss, coupled this website with a good stretching and exercise program, reduces the strain placed on back muscles and the ligaments and tendons of the spinal column. A healthcare professional can evaluate your need and design a personalized program to help you lose weight and maintain the weight loss (many recommend being no more than ten pounds over standard height to weight ratio guidelines).
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A collective gasp and hushed murmurs rippled through the LDS Conference Center, but for Pietra Wall and Salvatore "Sal" Velluto, the reaction to LDS Church President Thomas S. Monson's announcement last Saturday was less contained and more personal. The two Italian immigrants and converts to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints heard the news of a planned Rome temple as an answer to their prayers.
Even though she doesn't play the lottery, Wall, 46, said listening in her Layton living room to Monson name the five new temple locations was like waiting for the right number to be called. She held her breath and then, finally, with Rome being mentioned last, her tears began to fall. For Velluto and his family, sitting in West Jordan around their television, the response was more of an eruption.
"We screamed," Velluto, 52, said, still sounding giddy several days later. "It looked like someone scored a goal at a soccer game," an image that's easy to imagine, "especially if you know how passionate Italians are about soccer."
The Rome temple will be the 12th in Europe and the first in the Mediterranean region. The location choice, even though long-prayed for by some, surprised others.
"I'm not too surprised in the sense that there seems to be a trend toward temple building. But one of the things that struck me is that from a historical perspective, Italy has been one of the least successful missions," said Michael Homer, a Salt Lake City attorney who in the early 1970s served his LDS Church mission in Italy and has done extensive research on and writing about the country.
Brigham Young sent a small band of missionaries in 1849 to Italy, where they worked under the direction of Lorenzo Snow - then a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and later the LDS Church's fifth president, according to a 2006 article Homer wrote for Nova Religio:
The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions. There Snow and the others were free to proselytize to Waldensians, a minority group of Protestants who broke off from the Catholic church in the 12th century, but were considered personae non gratae in Catholic cities. Only one Italian Catholic converted to Mormonism in the 19th century, and the 171 converts the church did get were all Waldensians, wrote Homer, who is a descendent of Waldensian converts.
By 1867, he wrote, Brigham Young stopped dispatching missionaries to Italy, and over the next 100 years, efforts there were sporadic at best and initially focused on those living in the Waldensian valleys.
Rumors about a potential LDS temple in Italy are nothing new, Homer added. They date back to the mid-1800s, he wrote, when Catholic journalists began issuing warnings in L'Armonia, the Torino newspaper.
Today, in the aftermath of World War II and the 1960s Vatican II - which both helped throw doors open for dialogue and increased religious liberties - there are three LDS missions in Italy and more than 22,000 practicing Mormons. Those numbers pale compared with other conversion efforts that leave Italian Catholics "more concerned," said Homer, who estimates there are as many as half-a-million Jehovah's Witnesses and a comparable number of Pentecostals in Italy today.
In September 2000, The Salt Lake Tribune reported on LDS Church efforts to become a state-sponsored church, or "concordate," which would give the church a slice of taxpayer dollars - a luxury already afforded to minority groups including Lutherans, Seventh-day Adventists, Jews, Baptists, Waldensians and others. The process, however, is a slow one, and it wasn't until April 2007 that the then-prime minister signed off on this for the LDS Church, explained Massimo Introvigne, the director of the Center for Studies on New Religions in Torino.
But a prime minister's signature isn't the last step; such efforts require ratification by the parliament. So just as the LDS Church waits, so do plenty of other religious groups, including Jehovah's Witnesses, The Apostolic Church, Hindus and Eastern Orthodox churches. The reason for the hold-up, he added, is Islam. While all religious groups are entitled to liberties and tax exemption, Introvigne said ratification discussions for all faiths haven't been scheduled due to religious bigotry by voters, in a country that now has 1 million Muslims, and an "unwillingness of politicians to settle the question of Islam."
When it comes to prejudice against Mormons, Introvigne said an LDS temple in Italy may increase understanding of the faith, which is important given that "most Italians have never met a real live Mormon." The country's media coverage of Mitt Romney's run for the Republican presidential nomination revealed that Italians have a long way to go, he explained in a phone interview. In 47.3 percent of the articles, polygamy was mentioned, and in only 11.5 percent of the stories did writers make clear that the practice is prohibited in the church.
By building in Italy, exposure will increase, as will opportunities for people to learn and ask questions. And for the Mormons living in Italy, who've had to travel to Bern, Switzerland, to perform temple sacraments, the construction will increase their ability to do temple work and make them feel more recognized by their Salt Lake City brethren, he said.
"I don't have the words to express the amazing difference it's going to make," offered Layton's Wall, who said she and her husband had to travel to the Swiss temple to get sealed for eternity.
In a place such as Rome, where ancient architecture, as well as historical and artistic magnificence, dots the landscape, plenty of people wonder how a LDS temple can possibly fit in without offending. "That's going to be quite a challenge," West Jordan's Velluto said with a laugh, before pointing out that the architecture of the Salt Lake City temple is somewhat inspired by the Milan Cathedral.
So in a way, he suggested, this is a case of matters coming full circle. That sentiment also resonated with Monsignor M. Francis Mannion of Holladay's St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Parish.
"In the 1870s, the Catholic church built a cathedral in Salt Lake City, which is the Vatican of Mormonism. So it seems fair enough, at this point in history, that the Mormon church would build a temple in Rome."
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The half-hour video goes on to outline several tenets of the ex-gay ministry, namely that there is no "gay gene" and that homosexuality is a treatable disorder, no different from alcoholism or depression.
Soon after that first meeting, Don signed onto Venice's regimen for sexual redemption, a process the pastor calls "filling your bowl."
The theory, which Venice says he concocted following his own conversion, maintains that before developing an attraction to the opposite sex, people must become comfortable with their God-given gender. Most people, Venice asserts, achieve this before adolescence through relationships with their parents and same-sex playmates. Those who don't have a good chance of becoming gay.
"At age five or six, a boy will tell himself, 'My pee-pee is not like her pee-pee, and my pee-pee is like Daddy's pee-pee, so I must be like Daddy," Venice explains. "At this time boys start learning from Dad what it means to be a man, how to be masculine and do boy things like play in the dirt, roughhouse and catch frogs, et cetera.
"For girls it's the opposite," Venice continues. "They're filling their bowl with femininity and things that are soft and pink and pretty and pajama parties and hopscotch and jump rope and Barbies and tea parties."
At each meeting, Venice asks his clients what they've done to "fill their bowl." For a man, that might be weight-lifting, fishing or catching a Cardinals game with a male friend (provided he's heterosexual).
The goal, adds Venice, is for his clients to participate in activities with heterosexual males that will reaffirm their masculinity. He calls it "buddy time," the type of child's play most people enjoyed as kids.
During his treatment, Don dropped all contacts with his gay friends, even going so far as to move from place to place to further distance himself from temptation. He also completed a twenty-week course offered through the ministry. The class, titled "Living Waters," required Bible readings, homework and weekly meetings that incorporated hymns, worship and group therapy, akin to Alcoholic Anonymous meetings.
Including his one-on-one counseling sessions, Don spent as many as twelve hours each week focused on ridding himself of homosexuality.
During each visit, Venice asks for a donation to the ministry based on 1/1,000th of the client's income. A client earning $30,000 per year, for example, pays $30 per session. Venice accepts all major credit cards.
"I want the weight of the gift to be the same across the board," the pastor explains.
The ministry took in a modest $46,000 in donations last year, according to audit records, but Venice maintains he's doubled the incoming largesse each year.
The time it takes to complete the program, Venice says, depends on how far the person has fallen. For teenagers Jim has counseled children as young as twelve it may be just a matter of weeks. For one of Venice's clients, a 67-year-old retiree who often services men in the stalls of an adult bookstore, it might take years.
Three years after beginning his journey away from homosexuality, Don says he's happier with himself but readily confesses to having an impure thought every now and again.
"My attraction level went down, but it didn't go away," he says. "It's a daily thing. It's not like you're going to go to a class and you're healed instantly. I'm not going to tell you that."
For Venice, though, Don represents another success story and boasts that 75 to 80 percent of people who adhere to his program eventually cleanse themselves of homosexuality.
"Let me ask you," Venice begins. "What if over the course of the year someone's attraction level went from a ten to a one or a two? Would you say that's successful? I would, and most people who continue with the program will see their attraction level eventually go down to zero."
Jim Venice was born in St. Louis to teenaged parents. He was just four years old when his father went to prison purportedly for a crime so distressing that Venice still won't talk about it. With three baby boys to feed, Venice says, his mother worked two jobs, often leaving little Jim and his brothers with female babysitters. Twice, he claims, the sitters molested him. He declines to elaborate.
"What does it matter," he asks brusquely, "if I was molested or raped? Molestation is traumatic no matter how it's performed."
More important, says Venice, is that people understand the roots of homosexuality which, in his mind, can be largely attributed to sexual abuse during childhood and the lack of a strong father figure.
Suffering both, Venice says he quickly became a "mama's boy" and a "sissy," traits that lingered like his inability to throw a ball "like a guy" long after his mother remarried.
"I never bonded with my step-/adoptive father," the pastor writes in his online testimony. "You see, the damage was already done. I didn't like men. Men were bad. I was never affirmed in my masculinity. I didn't want to be mean, rough and tough. I didn't know anything about sports."
Adolescence brought further trauma, watching girls he trusted as friends develop crushes on male classmates. Without realizing it, Venice says, he began to envy these boys, seeing them as somehow more masculine. Alone in his thoughts, he wondered: What would it be like to be one of those "cute" boys?
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Leading residential solar installer SolarCity has launched a new service called GridLogic to protect communities from blackouts in the event of a natural disaster. GridLogic is a microgrid that communities can tap when the utility grid goes down. Rather than building giant utility-scale plants, the San Mateo-based company plans to build a distributed system of smaller grids that might serve local communities, with or without a connection to the utility grid.
SolarCity joins the utility industry
SolarCity has long accused utilities of standing in the way of change as more customers move to renewable energy. Now the company is entering the utility-style energy distribution business itself. Its GridLogic system will add software and generators to manage the power. SolarCity said in a statement that it will use Tesla batteries to store the energy generated.
Though owners can tap the solar energy for daily use, the primary purpose is to store electricity in the event of a natural disaster such as a hurricane or earthquake. SolarCity spokesman Jonathan Bass said there has been a significant increase in severe weather events. It has led to more grid outages. For GridLogic, the solar installer is targeting regions that are vulnerable to such catastrophic events.
SolarCity to offer microgrids worldwide
Daidipya Patwa, chief of SolarCity’s microgrid operations, said the company’s primary target is communities, municipalities and areas with a weak grid or no grid at all. SolarCity’s microgrids will be available worldwide as the company looks to take microgrids to island nations with poor utility grids. SolarCity CTO Peter Rive said that the microgrids are “a template that can be scaled up to basically be the next-generation grid.”
Tesla is building a massive Gigafactory that will produce lithium-ion batteries at a scale not seen anywhere else. The microgrids will use batteries produced by the Gigafactory. Though SolarCity may have a clear roadmap to build microgrids, it would be interesting to see how many communities are willing to take the plunge.
SolarCity shares fell 2.03% to $47.41 at 10:57 AM EDT on Monday.
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United Airlines Near Mid-Air At SFO
According to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), the agency has launched an investigation into a near mid-air collision between a United Airlines B-777 bound for Beijing, China, and a light airplane.
The NTSB says the two planes came within an estimated 300 feet of colliding over San Francisco. At about 11:15 a.m. PDT on 27 March 2010, the crew of United Airlines Flight 889, a B777-222 (N216UA) carrying 251 passengers and a crew of 17, was cleared to takeoff from San Francisco International Airport (SFO) on runway 28L and climb to an initial altitude of 3,000 feet.
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The flying pilot was the first officer, who reported that after the landing gear was retracted and the jet was at an altitude of about 1,100 feet, the tower controller called traffic at his 1 o'clock position. Immediately following the controller's advisory, the airplane's traffic collision avoidance system (TCAS) issued an audible alert of "TRAFFIC TRAFFIC."
According to the NTSB, the pilots saw a light high wing airplane, an Aeronca 11AC (N9270E), in a hard left turn traveling from their 1 o'clock to 3 o'clock position. The first officer pushed the control column forward to level the airplane. Both crew members reported seeing only the underside of the Aeronca as it passed to within an estimated 200-300 feet of the 777. TCAS then issued an "ADJUST VERTICAL SPEED" alert, followed by a "DESCEND, DESCEND" alert.
The first officer complied and the flight continued to Beijing without further incident.
UPDATE: The original media advisory indicated that the light high wing airplane was an Aeronca 11AC with the registration number of N9270E. Subsequent information received by the NTSB clarified that the aircraft involved was a Cessna 182 with a registration number of N9870E.
The source for this news item is the NTSB.
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During dire times, we find ourselves losing motivation. We struggle getting up in the morning, doing simple tasks, or doing work. However, this is all normal, we just have to find our motivation to start our day. Although finding a way to motivate yourself can be harder for some people, it’s not entirely impossible. So, what are great ways to motivate yourself every day?
Always manage your time according to what you need to accomplish for the day. By setting up and properly managing your time, you get a lot more work done because you have allotted time for different tasks. For example, if you have a paper due the day after tomorrow, you must try to motivate yourself, manage your time, and try to do it today so that you’ll have extra time to do it tomorrow in case you don’t finish it today. Plus, if you finish it today, you’d have more time to do more tasks or relax tomorrow.
Set Your Goals
Setting your goals will help you accomplish a lot more work. Why? This is because you have a clear objective that you want to accomplish. If you don’t have your goals set and defined, you’ll have a lot more trouble in finding the motivation to do it.
Try separating your goals into sub-categories like set goals for the day, for tomorrow, for the next week, for the next months, etc. This will help you stay motivated to keep achieving your goals and feel much more accomplished.
Just like setting up goals, you must break them down to what is much more important to do and finish first. By breaking down your bigger tasks and turning them into smaller ones will help you divide the work so that you won’t think that it is one big workload. Having many small tasks is a lot easier to do rather than one big task according to a few people. This is because having a big task will make you much more unmotivated because you’ll be too lazy to do it, however, if they are broken down to smaller tasks, then it will trick your mind that you don’t really have a big task.
An example of this is when you need to clean the house. Looking at it as a whole like “cleaning the whole house” seems such a big task, but if you break down the cleaning to smaller tasks, you’ll be much more motivated to do it. So you can start by washing the dishes, then take a short rest, then proceed to do the next chore.
Take Small Steps and Celebrate Little Accomplishments
Taking small steps is related to prioritizing. Taking small steps at a time will be less hard to do, especially with people who experience mental health disorders such as depression. So, by taking small steps in reaching your goal or finishing a task, as long as you finish it, then you should still be proud of yourself.
As long as you’re able to finish what you need to do, no matter how small or big steps you take, it will still be an accomplishment.
Not everyone can have the same amount of motivation. Some experience physical and/or mental health issues which hinders them and become unmotivated. And admittedly, sometimes, it’s not easy to be motivated. However, with a few nudges, it is possible. So, do try the tips mentioned above to try and motivate yourself.
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-Re: INSERT INTO table with STRUCT, SELECT FROM
Michael Malak 2013-02-13, 20:09
Figured it out fromhttps://cwiki.apache.org/Hive/languagemanual-udf.html#LanguageManualUDF-ComplexTypeConstructors
It should beINSERT INTO TABLE oc SELECT named_struct('a', x, 'b', y) FROM tc;
--- On Wed, 2/13/13, Dean Wampler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: Dean Wampler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: INSERT INTO table with STRUCT, SELECT FROM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wednesday, February 13, 2013, 12:47 PM
Hmm. I tried the following hacks, but all wouldn't parse. Ideas?
... select struct(x,y) ...
... select struct(x,y) as struct<a:int,b:int> ...
... select cast(struct(x,y) as struct<a:int,b:int>) ... ... select struct(x as a,y as b) ...
Okay, but there is a hack that does work; By pass INSERT INTO and just write to the directory:
INSERT DIRECTORY '/path/to/table/directory' SELECT ...;
Just be careful it doesn't clobber any files already there. I'm paranoid, so I would write to a different directory and then move the files over...
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Michael Malak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Is it possible to INSERT INTO TABLE t SELECT FROM where t has a column with a STRUCT?
I thought perhaps the following would work:
echo 1,2 >twovalues.csv
CREATE TABLE tc (x INT, y INT) ROW FORMAT DELIMITED FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',';
LOAD DATA LOCAL INPATH 'twovalues.csv' INTO TABLE tc;
CREATE TABLE oc (z STRUCT<a: int, b: int>);
INSERT INTO TABLE oc SELECT struct(x,y) FROM tc;
but when I do the above I get:
FAILED: SemanticException [Error 10044]: Line 1:18 Cannot insert into target table because column number/types are different 'oc': Cannot convert column 0 from struct<col1:int,col2:int> to struct<a:int,b:int>.
Dean Wampler, Ph.D.thinkbiganalytics.com+1-312-339-1330
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Content marketing is arguably the most dynamic field in marketing. It changes faster than any strategy available online as it is entirely dependent on the evolution of the internet, innovations in web-based platforms, and changes in other online marketing strategies.
Content creation changes when Google updates its algorithms, affecting search engine optimization and search engine marketing. Content presentation and relevant media change as new trends and technologies upgrade the entire social media hemisphere. No single content marketing tactic works within an extended period of time because all the platforms used with it also develop faster than humans can keep up.
Content marketing in 2016 will be no different. You can expect a lot of innovations, forced updates and upgrades, more compelling ideas, and more effective tactics.
Learn what to expect for the entire year so you can create more effective data-driven marketing tactics.
- Video marketing becomes an integral part of content marketing, even for B2B marketing.
This is the year when video starts to dominate the content-as-product and product-as-content types of websites. Internet users seem to get lazier every year, so the demand for instant transfer of message is rising uncontrollably. Even videos crammed within six seconds turned out to be a big hit in 2015. You can expect more of that this year.
YouTube no longer monopolizes this segment when it comes to content marketing using social media platforms. Websites now have video on Twitter, Instagram, Periscope, Facebook Live, Blab, and the immensely successful Vine to choose from. Even the B2B industry is expected to use video as content for brand marketing and presentations.
- Content marketing points towards quality over quantity.
This has been the case for some years now, but the importance of personalized content cannot be overemphasized. Internet users want more specific data delivered straight to their channel of choice, whether it is email, social media or mobile. That means that websites have to narrow down their market even further, from their industry niches down to more specific demographic- and geographic-centric data.
- Sender-to-receiver data actions become more relevant like when email marketing was still taking off.
Imagine a seller-to-buyer conversation done online. That is exactly the face of content marketing for 2016. It is no longer about saying something. It is all about convincing someone to believe something based on his own feedbacks. Feedbacks are not necessarily given voluntarily of course, so cookies and web tracking services will become more useful this year.
- Advertisements become contents and contents become advertisements.
Most internet users seemed to have developed an instinct to automatically ignore unsolicited online ads popping on their sidebars and within web contents. At the same time, more people rely on ads in terms of brand acknowledgment to reduce researching whenever possible. They are indeed contradicting, but it only shows how open a new window is for online marketers.
People are becoming more conscious of the “why” than the “what,” regardless if what they are reading is straight information or half advertisement. Internet users want to be persuaded, not merely informed. Advertorials, reviews, inforgraphics and product intrusion will have more places in content marketing in 2016. They will not hurt as long as they stay straightforward and honest.
- Media acquisitions by big brands dominate the acquisitions race to single out more lucrative niches for content marketing.
Experts predict that media acquisition is bound to become a trend for content marketing this year. Large local and multinational brands will start resorting to buying startup social media sites and niche websites to increase brand awareness and widen their reach without boarding outside of their niches. Review websites, in particular, will have more value due to the increased demand.
- Mobile-specific websites start to flourish in 2016.
Google penalizes websites that are still not optimized for mobile use. This is to ensure that all websites become user-friendly regardless of the platform used. However, 2016 will start to see slight changes by mid-year in response to the growing demand for mobile internet access. Many websites will start to focus on the mobile platform to tap a bigger market without the hefty cost.
- Native advertising becomes the new face of credibility, or close to it.
More media companies will start to embrace native advertising or sponsored content as part of their revenue stream. It is for a lot, but companies in the big league are still understandably reluctant about it. After all, content sponsorship is not frequently taken as honest and reliable content.
However, as product-as-content type of websites start to flourish and people start demanding for more specific answers, native advertising also becomes a great way to answer the “why” and “how” of people. Remember that persuading is the new way of informing.
The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal start to show signs of more aggressive native advertising while Huffington Post, Daily Mail and Newsweek have already integrated this tactic to their content marketing plans.
- The importance of having your own website slightly downgrades.
The importance of a business having its own website is still undeniably immense. However, as content marketing becomes more dynamic and it gets more reliant on other online marketing strategies, it also becomes less dependent on a single website.
As aforementioned, internet users will start looking to other media for more elaborate but concise information, such as review sites and others featuring sponsored contents. This will ultimately lead to the acquisition of media by large brands.
It is important for businesses to start investing on other media as well, be it through an acquisition or partnership.
- Content marketing continues to look for a live medium for dissemination.
Content marketing can no longer be sustained simply by staying organic. Different types of live media are bound to become more important this year, and by that, it means live human media, mostly in the form of social media superstars.
Many online marketers did not expect the rise of sponsored content on Snapchat and Vine last year. Now they know that people do not simply want to watch content. They want to watch someone they follow to share content.
Vine superstars benefit from it the most. Creating a video six seconds long to earn hundreds of thousands is unprecedented even as some YouTube channels start earning more than $5 million a couple of years ago. The ongoing rate is 1,000 for every 100,000 followers. So with the most-followed Vine channel having more than 8,000,000 followers, the income acquired by sharing content through video is not less than $80,000 or $13,333 per second.
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Direct imaging becomes important when the knowledge at few/single molecule level is requested and where the diffraction does not allow to get structural and functional information. Here we report on the direct imaging of double stranded (ds) λ-DNA in the A conformation, obtained by combining a novel sample preparation method based on super hydrophobic DNA molecules self-aggregation process with transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The experimental breakthrough is the production of robust and highly ordered paired DNA nanofibers that allowed its direct TEM imaging and the double helix structure revealing.
X-ray crystallography, where patterns of dots are converted into an overarching image using mathematics. But now, for the first time ever, scientists have actually snapped a real image of DNA using an electron microscope — spiraling corkscrew and all.
The image was taken by Enzo di Fabrizio from the University of Genoa, Italy. He choreographed the scene by pulling a small strand of DNA from a diluted solution and then propping it up like a clothesline between two nanoscopic silicon pillars.
The trick to the technique was in acquiring a discrete strand of DNA that could be stretched out and ready to view with an electron microscope. Di Fabrizio managed this by creating a pattern of pillars that repelled water — which resulted in quick moisture evaporation and a residual strand of DNA all ready to go.
Then, in order to create a high-resolution image, di Fabrizio drilled tiny holes in the base of the nanopillar bed and shone beams of electrons.
Aside from creating a cool image, the technique will allow the researchers to investigate DNA in greater detail, as well as seeing how it interacts with proteins and RNA.
Awesome. That little white line is stretched out DNA. The double helix cork screw spiral can be seen in the lower right image.
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To Feb 29 | Mel da Senhora do Labirinto by André Sier | São Bento | FREE-3,50
It’s unclear what to expect from any art show but this one, in particular, has piqued our curiosity with its description: labyrinths, honey, ladies, archeology, games, engineered yarn, and digital spaces? Oh yes. All that and more await at this wacky show by Lisboeta artist André Sier in São Bento. We think.
“Lady of the Labyrinth’s Honey” is first expression, archaeological, that guards the entrance of the first human labyrinths, before which are performed offerings of eusocial nectar, to the lady of the labyrinth, craving for safe passage before the first lethal device of serious and spacial games, in times where non-human aspects guide the sphere of human cosmos. This exhibition accounts for electronic and digital explorations in the footpath of the environment which braces the mythical engineered yarn: it proposes artifacts under the form of machinic drawings originating from non-human sources, abstract sculptures of the players, photographs and devices of bio-electronic aggregates, vegetable paintings with maps of played games, interactive visualizations of animal spaces, and a videogame, for two players. Daedalus, Ariadne, Minos, Theseus, Pasiphae, Asterion, and many others, dance and play, cyclically, in the virtual gardens of the lady of the labyrinth.
André Sier works artistically with code, electronic, interactive, digital and conventional media, where he combines video games, installations, painting, sculpture, music, mathematics and computation in objects and electronic arts experiments, in which he fuses mythology, interfaces, spatiotemporal continuums. generative, human-nonhuman art-science constructs. Award-winning artist at New Art Fest (2017), three times at Lisbon Maker Faire (2014, 15, 16), Cerveira Biennial (2009) and Jovens Criadores (2006). For the last 22 years, he has been producing objects and serial interactive work, which playfully unveil spatial-temporal relationships synthesized in electronic substrates, shown in more than 27 national and international solo exhibitions, over 100 exhibitions and collective events. He has exhibited works at the MNAC (2017, 2016), São Roque Museum (2011), MEIAC (2006). André Sier is an electronic artist with a degree in science, arts, computing, a philosophy degree, a digital arts educator and he currently teaches at the University of Évora, and he is a Ph.D. student in techno-arts at Planetary Collegium.
Thursday to Sunday, 16h – 20h, Free entry with
Guided Tour: 8 Feb at 18h
Project supported by DGArtes – Secretaria de Estado da Cultura
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1) Occasional member: Pays a 3,50€ daily fee to attend specific events.
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On our BA Mass Communications degree you will study the latest global trends in media communications, and have the opportunity to do a work placement at a leading UK company or organisation. Recent students have worked at the BBC, MTV, Absolute Radio and Vogue.
Mass communications shape the world we live in – from accessing information and taking part in social and political change, to impacting on our personal everyday relationships.
On this course you'll develop an understanding of the relationship between mass media and society and drawing on other disciplines such as sociology, political science and cultural studies, you'll be introduced to some of the key approaches to analysing the media-society relationship.
You'll explore the ways in which meaning is produced in the media as well as how issues of representation such as gender, sexuality and stereotyping are examined in relation to theories of discourse. Plus, you'll study key developments in the media, how media texts are produced, distributed, regulated and consumed, and the ways in which the media can influence society.
You will also gain an in depth understanding of the issues and institutions of news media in Britain, focusing on traditional forms of news and current affairs such as newspapers; television and radio broadcast news as well as the emerging forms of news production and distribution such as blogs and citizen journalism.
Developing the skills employers will value is an important part of the course as well. We currently offer a module specifically designed to prepare you for the world of work - you'll learn to understand and speak employers' language and develop your confidence to put your career plan into effect. There are also opportunities to put these skills into action by undertaking a work placement in many areas of the creative industries.
In your first year you'll be introduced to key aspects of theory within the field of media and cultural studies, focusing on different concepts relating to the notion of identity. You'll gain an in-depth understanding of development of the mass media, with a particular focus on the British context, and the recent appearance of multimedia forms. You may also examine the relationship between photography and culture.
In your second year you'll explore the ways in which media engages with social changes and presents them to its public and examine the range of different types of language use in contemporary British media - press, television and radio. You will have the chance to focus on specific areas of the media, such as radio podcasting, and learn important skills, including how to undertake quantitative and qualitative research.
In your third year you'll explore the key issues in the history, development and future of popular journalism and tabloid culture. You may study big 'media events' such as 9/11, undertake a work placement and research a topic of interest to you for your dissertation. Other modules currently offered include Understanding Globalisation, Media and the Public Sphere, Reporting Africa and Cult Film and TV.
Here is some of the varied range of modules we currently offer:
Politics and the Media
Media in Contemporary Society
Media and Social Change: Class, Race and Ethnicity
Language in the Media
Thinking about Film
Doing Visual Research in Media and Culture
Popular Journalism and Tabloid Culture
Media and the Public Sphere
Madness and Metaphor: Culture on the Edge
Screen Women: from Pin-ups to Postfeminism
Contemporary Hollywood Cinema
Cult Film and TV
East and West: Terror, Power and New Journalism
North and South: Reporting Africa
2017 entry: 96 points
3 years (full-time)
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Need to get more fiber and not sure how?
Some foods that can increase your fiber intake are beans (legumes), oats, brown rice, quinoa, whole grain pasta, fruits and vegetables and nuts. Make sure bread is 100% whole wheat.
Some cereal choices that really pack a punch are All-Bran, Grape-Nuts (No grapes, no nuts!), Raisin Bran, and shredded wheat. In addition Cheerios and Wheaties are some cereals with fiber and low amounts of sugar.
Just remember if you are adding fiber products you have to increase your water intake. This is extremely important for digesting the additional fiber.
Why add fiber? Helps prevent constipation, adds to feelings of fullness, helps to increase your gut microbiome (which may help prevent many diseases), helps prevent high cholesterol.
Ways to add fiber? Start by having higher fiber cereal. Then switch your bread to 100% whole wheat. Have fruit with breakfast and lunch. Make sure you have a whole grain with dinner, along with 1 or 2 vegetables. You can always add beans to soup or salads to increase the fiber. Baked goods can be made using whole wheat flour. Flaxseeds or chia seeds can be added to baked goods or smoothies.
I recommend adding fiber gradually into the diet to prevent stomach upset.
It’s worth it for all the benefits of having more fiber!
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Risk Analyses in Operational Planning
Risk analysis is assessing the probability of something going wrong, whilst at the same time also assessing the possible negative consequences if it does. Risk analysis can help reduce negative effects on an organisation is not completely eradicate them. Failure to conduct risk management can result in a lost of time, money, and status of managers. In more serious cases it can even lead to complete failure of a business.
When analysing risk, we may have to look at one or more factors which can affect the outcome. These might include (but are not limited to):
- Human – Illness, death, injury, or other loss of a key individual.
- Operational – Disruption to supplies and operations, loss of access to essential assets, or failures in distribution.
- Reputational – Loss of customer or employee confidence, or damage to market reputation.
- Procedural – Failures of accountability, internal systems, or controls, or from fraud.
- Project – Going over budget, taking too long on key tasks, or experiencing issues with product or service quality.
- Financial – Business failure, stock market fluctuations, interest rate changes, or non-availability of funding.
- Technical – Advances in technology, or from technical failure.
- Natural – Weather, natural disasters, or disease.
- Political – Changes in tax, public opinion, government policy, or foreign influence.
- Structural – Dangerous chemicals, poor lighting, falling boxes, or any situation where staff, products, or technology can be harmed.
Risk Management in Operational Planning
Once we have analysed and understand possible risks to our operation plan, we can set about managing risks and if possible completely eradicating risk altogether. One example of this is health and safety Risk Assessments which are discussed in more detail in the next section but risk can manifest in many other areas of an organisation including fiscal, reputational, and operational.
Managers should continually monitor and suspected risks on a regular basis to insure that the risk is being controlled as much as reasonably practicable. Controls can be implemented or changes made to keep any risk to a minimum. If possible, training or retraining can be provided. In my own organisation, we regularly train and retrain employers to ensure that any risk to them of exposure to asbestos fibres is minimised.
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THIS DAY April 22
Posted by Shiva on April 22, 2009
We also (sent) Lut: he said to his people: “Do ye commit lewdness such as no people in creation (ever) committed before you?
“For ye practice your lusts on men in preference to women: ye are indeed a people transgressing beyond bounds.”
And his people gave no answer but this: they said, “Drive them out of your city: these are indeed men who want to be clean and pure!”
The Quran forbids any sexual relationship other than in a marriage between a man and a woman. Many homosexual men and women claim that they are born with their sexual preferences and that they have no choice. Although this point is very much in dispute in the medical world, it has no support in the Quran. Even then, irrespective of the nature of homosexuality, this matter would not affect the laws spelled out clearly in the Quran .
We know that this life is a test. Everyone of us has his/her own test. For example someone may be born blind, but that person is expected to live his/her life according to God’s law. Others are born poor, short, tall, weak, missing fingers, having big nose…etc but all of them are expected to follow God’s law. Some men or women may never marry in their life, or spend part of their life without a spouse. As per the Quran they still have to live a chaste life and avoid any sexual contacts outside a marriage. They have to suppress their sexual feelings to follow God’s law. It is a major test and not an easy one for many. Only those who submit to God will do everything they can to follow His law. They know that their salvation and eternal happiness rests in doing so.
Since God condemns homosexuality, then we have to believe that a man or a woman with homosexual feelings is expected to behave like any other human being and follows God’s laws if he/she truely believes in them. He/she shall resist his/her feelings , maintains abstinence , use all available resources of help including medical, social and behavioral therapies to overcome their behavior and feelings. They should pray to God to help them getting over it and submit to God’s law that sees homosexuality as gross sin
The end result for not giving up homosexuality was the destruction of entire cities
When Our decree issued, We turned (the cities) upside down, and rained down on them brimstone’s hard as baked clay, spread, layer on layer.
Marked as from thy Lord: nor are they ever far from those who do wrong!
A prominent Iraqi human rights activist says that Iraqi militia have deployed a painful form of torture against homosexuals by closing their anuses using ‘Iranian gum.’ … Yina Mohammad told Alarabiya.net that, ‘Iraqi militias have deployed an unprecedented form of torture against homosexuals by using a very strong glue that will close their anus.’
According to her, the new substance ‘is known as the American hum, which is an Iranian-manufactured glue that if applied to the skin, sticks to it and can only be removed by surgery. After they glue the anuses of homosexuals, they give them a drink that causes diarrhea. Since the anus is closed, the diarrhea causes death.
Videos of this form of torture are being distributed on mobile cellphones in Iraq.’ According to this human rights activist, for the past 3 weeks a crackdown on homosexuals has been going on based on a religious decree that demands their death; dozens have been targeted. She says that the persecution of homosexuals is not confined to the Shiite clerics.
Victim Aasia Bibi, 37, a resident of Bhalla, Liaqatabad, was married off to her cousin Umar, a resident of Islamnagar, Walton Road, some 15 years back. The couple had two dumb daughters. The accused worried for not having a son and he used to fight with his wife over the issue. On Monday, Umar found his Aasia alone at home and killed her with consecutive strokes of a broken glass bottle to her chest. As a result, the victim received serious wounds which resulted into her instant death.
The accused managed to escape from the crime scene. The accused’s family informed police when they came home and found Aasia dead. Police reached the spot and shifted the body to morgue.
Two of her kids attended her execution and they refused to pardon her despite the prosecutor’s efforts and some other tribal mediation. Eyewitness reported that she tried to hug her children but they pushed her before getting executed with four bullets.
The other kids were inside the car upon shooting, and the girls put their finger in their ears not to heat the shooting.
They insisted on her death because she ruined their reputation when she claimed that their father is abuser.
In her will, she donated quarter of her wealth for charitable acts, and some cash to her cousins because they helped her in her case.
Her seven children are the plaintiffs, who refused to drop the case or to pardon their mother. The mother Aisha alleged that her murder was self-defence whereas her children and her husband’s family claimed that she killed their father because he intended to marry another woman.
Her daughter confessed of being abused by her father, according to the preliminary investigation. But, she withdrew her statements.
Aisha claimed that the upon the crime scene, the father was abusing the daughter. Helplessly, Aisha said that she picked up the rifle, which was ready to shoot, and killed the father. “According to the defence team, the legal procedures cast doubt that there was insufficient legal defence at the beginning of the case; the dead body was buried immediately the next day without being subjected to autopsy to verify Aishas allegations.
Furthermore, she received poor defence, as the lawyer was appointed by the court at the primary stage and reported to be absent during the court sessions.
Abdul-Rahman Barman, one of her defence lawyers , said that Aishas case is not the first of its kind to be claimed to death by her own kids.
He knew four similar cases in which the kids claiming the death of their mother.
In Islamic Sharia, a murderer should be killed when the relatives of the murdered claimed that. However, it is urged and preferable to seek pardon. The people who are entitled to seek death penality are the kids and the parents of the murderer, and it is enough of one of these pardoned the killer to drop the death sentence. Barman said there is a sexist discrimination towards claiming death penalty.
He happened to witness lots of cases that the family forced the kids to ask for their mother’s death, when it will be totally the opposite when it comes to father. Tribal pressure on seeking death for women can affect the easiness of getting pardon. Barman added that “I am sure if Aisha were the father, she would be pardoned.”
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(Today’s Islamic Trivia Special)
Effective New Long-Term Weapon Against Terror
I ran across this picture of a Palestinian “militant” taking a carcinogen break:
A Palestinian militant from the Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades smokes during a demonstration against the speech of Khaled Mashall, head of Hamas’ political bureau in Syria, in the West Bank town of Ramallah, Saturday April 22, 2006. In their sharpest power dispute yet, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday blocked Hamas’ plans to set up a shadow security force, which was to be made up of militants and to be headed by the No. 2 on Israel ‘s wanted list
And I was struck by the fact that these guys may not be fully aware of the scope and severity of the Surgeon General’s warnings about tobacco products. Of course in America and much of the West even the Marlboro Man knows better these days:
But wait! It suddenly dawned on me. How much could billboard space in Gaza and the West Bank cost? They’re probably giving it away.
So here is my revolutionary proposal.
We pursue a low-intensity, long-term strategy of ultimate victory in which every Palestinian militant will slowly but surely be killed. The trick is to couple low-tariff tobacco imports with a perpetual advertising campaign in all major Palestinian terror centers for the next 20 to 30 years:
If the IDF doesn’t get them, the lung cancer will.
April 22, 1915: 1st military use of poison gas (chlorine, by Germany) in WWI
Gas was invented (and very successfully used) as a terror weapon meant to instill confusion and panic among the enemy prior to an offensive. It was a sort of physiological weapon with the non-lethal tearing agents inflicting as much panic as the dreaded mustard gas.
British soldiers blinded by gas, April 1918
Gas was available in three basic varieties:
Lachrymator (tearing agent)
Much like today’s tear gas and mace, this gas caused temporary blindness and greatly inflamed the nose and throat of the victim. A gas mask offered very good protection from this type of gas. xylyl bromide was a popular tearing agent since it was easily brewed.
These are the poisonous gases. This class includes chlorine, phosgene and diphosgene. Chlorine inflicts damage by forming hydrochloric acid when coming in contact with moisture such as found in the lungs and eyes. It is lethal at a mix of 1:5000 (gas/air) whereas phosgene is deadly at 1:10,000 (gas/air) – twice as toxic! Diphosgene, first used by the Germans at Verdun on 22-Jun-1916, was deadlier still and could not be effectively filtered by standard issue gas masks.
Chlorine has been used just recently by muslim terrorists in Iraq
the most dreaded of all chemical weapons in World War I – mustard gas. Unlike the other gases which attack the respiratory system, this gas acts on any exposed, moist skin. This includes, but is not limited to, the eyes, lungs, armpits and groin. A gas mask could offer very little protection. The oily agent would produce large burn-like blisters wherever it came in contact with skin. It also had a nasty way of hanging about in low areas for hours, even days, after being dispersed. A soldier jumping into a shell crater to seek cover could find himself blinded, with skin blistering and lungs bleeding.
Massive burns to the arms, hands and crotch area of a soldier in WW1 when the mustard gas/liquid has burned through the clothing.
Mustard agents, also known as “blistering agents” or “mustard gas,” produce wounds resembling burns or blisters when they come into contact with the skin. These agents may also cause severe damage to other organs such as the eyes, the respiratory system, and internal organs. They got the name “mustard agents” from an early production method that yielded a mustard-smelling agent.
Mustard gas was produced in 1822 and was first used as a chemical warfare agent in WWI.
The Geneva Protocol of 1925, bans poison gas as a means of warfare.
Iraq used large amounts of mustard gas in the war against Iran from 1979-1988.On This Day Since 9/11
April 22, 2008:
Iraq, Jalawla. – A female suicide bomber murders eight Iraqis.
Iraq, Baghdad – Jihadis rain down rockets on a residential neighborhood, leaving six dead.
Iraq, Ramadi – Iraqi children are among the casualties when a suicide bomber targets a group of Marines.
Thailand, Yala – A villager is shot three times in the head by Islamists
April 22, 2007:
Iraq, Bashika – Twenty-three members of a minority religious sect are kidnapped on a bus, taken to a wall and shot to death by the Religion of Peace.
Afghanistan, Khost. – Ten civilians are murdered by a suicide bomber at a market.
Iraq, Baghdad. – Fedayeen suicide bombers kill 13 people, mostly civilians.
Iraq, Saidiya. – Jihadis blast seven Iraqi civilians to Allah with a car bomb.
Thailand, Pattani. – Radical Muslims gun down a husband and injure his wife.
Afghanistan, Zabul. – Religious extremists bomb a vehicle, killing two Afghan police.
India, Doda. – Lashkar-e-Toiba militants attack and kill three Hizb-ul-Mujahideen who were planning to surrender.
Pakistan, Mastung. – Three children, ages 2, 5 and 12, are killed when Muslim terrorists throw explosives into a home.
Afghanistan, Ghazni - An Afghan intelligence officer is invited into a home, then kidnapped and beheaded by Islamic extremists.
Iraq, Iskandariya – A young girl is among two targets taken out by Islamic gunmen.
April 22, 2006:
Iraq, Muqdadiya – Two people are killed in a market bombing, as eleven bodies are found in the capital.
Afghanistan, Laghman – Six Afghans are killed in a Taliban bomb attack.
Afghanistan, Gumbad – Four Canadian troops are killed by religious extremists, who detonated a bomb under their vehicle.
Iraq, Hawija – Two civilians are gunned down by Sunni extremists. April 22, 2005:
Iraq, Baghdad – Twelve people, including a 10-year-old boy, are killed when religious extremists bomb a Shia mosque. Twenty-six others are badly injured.
India, Baramulla – Two youths are killed in separate attacks by the Mujahideen. One has his throat slit.
Algeria, Bir El Ater - Two Algerian civilians die in a bomb attack by Islamic fundamentalists.
Iraq, Baqubah – Radical Sunnis murder a 7-year-old girl with a roadside bomb.
Afghanistan, Maywand – A government employee is murdered by the Taliban.
Dagestan Makhachkala – Muslim militants kill a civilian with a bomb hidden in a garbage can. April 22, 2004:
Afghanistan , Sperah – Taliban ambush kills an Afghan.
India Srinagar – Two people are killed and six injured in grenade attacks by Islamists attempting to disrupt the elections.
Thailand, Rayang - Muslim separatists set fire to fifty government buildings, then kill two firefighters trying to put out the blazes. The next day they shoot an army officer dead in his driveway while he is washing his car.
Iraq, Baghdad – South African civilian is shot twice in the head and back while on his way to buy meat for a barbecue.
April 22, 2003:
Afghanistan, Khost – Taliban rocket attack on an airport kills three and leave two injured.
India, Tral – Terrorist bombing attack by Muslim separatists kills six and injures more than a dozen.
Nigeria, Kano – Muslims set fire to a house, killing a Christian pastor and six other members of his family, including his wife and three children. April 22, 2002:
India, Kashmir – In separate attacks, two people are abducted and killed, and a woman is killed inside her home by Islamic militants.
India, Nagam – Two laborers are shot to death by Islamic terrorists.
April 22, 2001: A HAMAS suicide bomber detonated the explosive device he was carrying near a bus stop in Kfar Siva, Israel, north of Tel Aviv, killing one person (the bomber doesn’t count) and injuring 61 more people. Rewarding these savages with a state ranks among the most immoral propositions advanced by man.-
April 22, 2001: Hours after the suicide bombing in Kfar Saba, another explosive device detonated in Haifa. A local police officer examining the bomb was injured.- April 22, 2001: In Ramallah, a Jewish man was found dead in the trunk of an abandoned car. Israeli police claim it was a terrorist attack.-
April 22, 2001: A bomb in a push-cart detonated near a police station in India-controlled Kashmir, killing one, injuring twenty-five and causing property damage to surrounding houses and cars. While they weren’t blamed, these deaths could rightly be attributed to Osama bin Laden because training Kashmiri killers was the primary purpose of his Afghani terrorist training camps.April 22, 1996: Two bombs were thrown into the US Information Service center in Lahore, Pakistan.April 22, 1995: Two Turkish men were shot and wounded in a Turkish coffee house in The Hague by Kurdish militants. The gunmen warned against attending a planned demonstration the next day. He was opposed to the establishment of a Kurdish parliament in exile in the Netherlands.April 22, 1992: In Afghanistan, an Icelandic nurse with the International Committee of the Red Cross was killed by a fundamentalist Muslim in a village south of Kabul.
The victim’s medical team had gone there with the intention of evacuating two wounded Afghanis to the ICRC hospital in Kabul when they were attacked.
The jihadist claimed he did not want “any infidels in Afghanistan.” America would learn the hard way that he held the majority opinion among Muslims in the region.April 22, 1983: Ethiopian jihadists in league with the Sudanese Islamic regime, kidnapped ten foreign relief workers, including an American. They said the foreigners, seven of whom were women, were taken in a raid on Thursday by the Tigre People’s Liberation Front.
The hostages included four Brits, an Indian, two Irish nurses, an American priest and Catholic nuns from Italy and Ethiopia.
On June 9th, the ten foreign aid workers were set free in Khartoum, in the Sudan.April 22, 1982: At 9:02 a.m. on April 22, as PFLP terrorists, Kopp and Breguet, were led into court, a massive car bomb exploded outside the offices of the Lebanese Islamic weekly, Al Watan al Arabi.
By the time the smoke had cleared, one woman was dead and 63 people were injured, ten seriously.
The same afternoon Magdelana Kopp was sentenced to four years in prison while Breguet was given five years.
Within hours of the verdict, France announced the expulsion of two Syrian diplomats and explained to the media that the expulsions were in relation to previous spying offences.
The French government blamed Syria for the actions of the PFLP because Syria was active in undermining France’s power-sharing government in Lebanon.
Within three hours after the blast, the two highest-ranking Syrian diplomats were ordered from the country and the French ambassador to Damascus was recalled to Paris.French Interior Minister Gaston Defferre declared: “The method of the bombing was indicative of the mentality of the perpetrators of this type of attack, who do not hesitate to spill blood on French territory to settle accounts in which France has no involvement.”.Several weeks later, a rocket-propelled grenade was fired at the French Consulate building in Beirut in retaliation.
Two weeks after that, a large bomb exploded inside the French Embassy in Beirut killing eleven and wounding twenty-seven.
In June, Christa-Margot Froelich, the woman who had carried the letter of demand to The Hague and was suspected of driving the car containing the bomb that exploded on the day Kopp was tried, was arrested at Leonardo da Vinci airport in Rome.
Froelich was carrying a suitcase that contained over three kilos of explosive, detonators and an alarm clock.
In a related incident, a group of gunmen sent by Abu Nidal, attacked the patrons of Jo Goldberg’s restaurant in a Jewish neighborhood in the heart of Paris. After throwing a grenade through the window, the gunmen opened fire with automatic weapons killing four and wounding another thirty, many of them seriously.April 22, 1980: In Belgrade, Yugoslavia, a bombing attack was made on the PLO liaison office.- April 22, 1980: In Israel, a grenade was thrown at a bus outside Jerusalem, Arafat’s Fatah was responsible.April 22, 1979: Four Palestinian terrorists from Lebanon raided the resort town of Nahariya from the sea. Four Israeli civilians and two of the Islamic jihadists were killed in the raid. Four additional Israelis were wounded. Israeli ships shelled suspected Palestinian terrorist bases in Lebanon in reprisal.- April 22, 1979: Explosives were detonated at a Jewish center in Vienna, Austria. A group calling itself the Eagles of the Palestinian Revolution claimed credit.April 22, 1971: A bomb damaged the New York City offices of AMTORG, the Soviet Trading Corporation. Twenty minutes earlier a group using JDL slogans had phoned UPI to warn of the bombing. JDL denied responsibility.
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The water represents the electrons in the circuit. The height represents the voltage. The wheel represents the resistor. As the electrons fall from high to low, energy is available to do work.
Note the electrons are just like the water and are not consumed as they fall from high to low voltage.
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Sarah’s Slice of Life – Such spirit through the year
Depending on whom you ask, many things signal the approach of Christmas — the fresh smell of pine, the glow of blurry Christmas lights strung around porch railings or the jazzy notes of “The Christmas Song.”
However, for me, the Christmas season can’t really begin without first taking a trip to a cartoon wood where a few children skate on an iced pond, surrounded by trees covered with freshly fallen snow.
Of course, I’m talking about the 1965 Christmas classic “A Charlie Brown Christmas.” The animated TV special perfectly captures the Christmas spirit with its emphasis on cheer and faith, telling a story about puny Christmas trees, holiday plays and the true meaning behind the Christmas season.
Actually, it’s the special’s signature song “Christmas Time is Here” that really makes it feel like the Christmas season. It harkens back to timeless memories of past Decembers with every piano note and every lyric sung by a choir of children.
However, there’s one lyric in that song that I find particularly interesting. In between lyrics about sleigh bells in the air, yuletide by the fireside, olden times and ancient rhymes, the song underlines the wish that “we could always see such spirit through the year.”
This wish highlights an important part about this festive time of year. Christmas is a time centered around ordinary things and simple occasions. Trees, lights, snow, songs, family, cookies and memories — the holiday season spotlights the ordinary and makes it sacred.
Ultimately, this power often fosters a sense of appreciation for ordinary moments — those simple times of drinking hot chocolate with your family, walking down a street bathed in Christmas lights or listening to carols in the car.
At all other times, these simple moments are just that — simple. But during Christmas, they carry a sacred weight, and they have the ability to become some of life’s
Because it’s Christmas, we remember icing cookies with grandma, taking a walk in the snow and watching a movie by firelight. Because it’s Christmas, every moment is infused with cheer, holly and glowing lights, which imbues simplicity with a heavenly significance.
Although, perhaps it’s not the season itself that creates sacredness from this normality. After all, every day presents ordinary things worth noticing and remembering. Why do we seem to only appreciate them during Christmas?
It all begins with our willingness to see them. During Christmas, we possess a higher degree of determination to notice the little things that we might otherwise miss. We’re slightly more aware of ordinary things, of how those quiet, simple moments shape the crux of
In her poem “I wish I could remember that first day,” Christina Rossetti says that a moment which “seemed to mean so little, meant so much.” Her words perfectly emphasize the significance of ordinary moments and ordinary things. These things exist every day, but we only seem to notice and treasure them during the Christmas season.
Of course, none of this should negate the wonder of Christmas. We should remember our Christmas pasts when we hang the wreath on the front door and the lights on the porch railing. We should cherish every Christmas cookie, mug of hot chocolate, rewatching of “Elf” and reading of Luke 2.
Christmas is a special time filled with beauty and childlike wonder, and we should never take it for granted. Truly, during Christmas, every little moment means so much.
However, we should also take to heart the wish that we could always see such spirit through the year. These moments hailed around Christmastime occur every day. Such a spirit exists all year long, but only if we’re aware of how it fills each day with the same measure of joy and gratitude that
For now, though, Christmas time is here, bringing happiness and cheer.
Let’s enjoy every second of the season with the same joy and gratitude Linus had on that stage when he told Charlie Brown what Christmas is all about: “I bring you tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord.”
Tate is the Editor-in-Chief for the Liberty Champion. Follow her on Twitter
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It took less than an hour for Dan Frederick, of Renton, Washington, and his daughter Lauren to spot a 2.03-carat white diamond on the side of a plowed furrow at Arkansas’s Crater of Diamonds State Park. The Fredericks arrived at Arkansas’s diamond site at 8 a.m. on Monday, October 3, 2016 and by 9 a.m. they were holding “The Lucky Diamond.”
The first time was the charm for the Fredericks. They’d never been to Crater of Diamonds State Park before. In fact, they traveled all the way from the West Coast based on what they found when they searched the Internet for “places to find gems.”
They found their gem near the Star of Arkansas diamond marker on the north end of the park’s 37.5-acre diamond search area. Dan Frederick noted that he spotted the diamond’s metallic shine on top of the ground about three feet away from where he was standing.
Park Interpreter Betty Coors noted, “Dan Frederick has proven, once again, that it is possible to find large, beautiful diamonds while surface searching. This is an example of a diamond that all park visitors dream of taking home.”
Larger diamonds are occasionally found on top of the search area by park visitors. Diamonds are a bit heavy for their size, and when rain washes dirt away, they are sometimes exposed to the surface. When the sun comes out, they sparkle and are easier to spot.
Dan and Lauren Frederick say they plan to keep their diamond. However, they haven’t said what they will do with it.
“My dad and I have always loved to hunt for gems; we’ve dug for sapphires and garnets and always search for agates when we’re on the Washington coast. Naturally, we had always wanted to go to Arkansas to dig for diamonds,” Lauren said.
“As much as we have talked about the trip and planned it out, I think we’re still kind of in shock that we found something as big and beautiful as our ‘Lucky Diamond.’ When we first found the diamond we kept looking up pictures on the Internet to make sure it was real and kept guessing what the weight would be (my guess was closest!). We were so excited with our find that we actually walked around the park for another seven hours with the diamond in my dad’s pocket, trying to find another one. It really was the cherry on top of a fun and special trip with my dad. Finding the diamond will be one of my favorite memories, especially since my dad and I found it together.”
Coors noted, “The Lucky Diamond is pearly white in color. It appears to be a macle gem, a distinct triangular shape that results
when two diamond crystals share part of the same structure during formation deep within the earth.”
Most recent significant precipitation: September 23, 2016
Diamond finds for the weeks of September 18 & 25, 2016 (100 points = 1 carat):
September 18 – Kyle Sisson, Spearville, KS, 3 pt. white
September 19 – Mike Ellison, Kings Mountain, NC, 9 pt. white
September 21 – Colt Young, Mena, AR, 8 pt. brown
September 25 – T.J. Richardson, Greenwood, AR, 3 pt. yellow
September 26 – Roy King, Alvin, TX, 4 pt. white; Connie & Rusty Gray, Lesage, WV, 4 pt. white
September 27 – Connie & Rusty Gray, Lesage, WV, 23 pt. yellow
September 28 – Steve Allender, Vinton, IA, 3 pt. white
October 1 – Sarah Coleman, Atlanta, GA, 67 pt. white; Joey Barnett, Crossett, AR, 9 pt. yellow; Amber McCartney, Cypress, TX, 16 pt. white
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Who (or What) Did Your Fetus Look Like?
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Surely, however, there have been other things spotted in an ultrasound besides gods and goddesses, yes? Why, yes, there have been. How about a Amy Winehouse or Edvard Munsch's painting, The Scream? Sure enough, they've shown up in ultrasounds one time or another. And then there's the fan and a pair of beanbags.
Has anyone else spotted anything in their ultrasound that didn't look like a baby-to-be? I don't think we ever had anything like that show up, although my mother-in-law is convinced my oldest son wave at her while she was watching an ultrasound. What did you see on the screen?
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- At the internal revenue service it is not difficult to identify the inventor of a product or service that"s what create's the agency
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Autonomous Desalination Units based on Renewable Energy Systems
- ADU-RES is a Coordination Action aiming to bridge the gap between successful Research and Development work and commercialisation of renewable energy powered desalination systems. The work is focused on stand alone systems, which will cover part of the pressing water needs of arid rural areas in the Mediterranean region.
|Subject(s)||DRINKING WATER AND SANITATION : COMMON PROCESSES OF PURIFICATION AND TREATMENT|
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The international consortium has focused its work to the following two main objectives:
1. Many pilot autonomous desalination units powered by renewable energy, with outputs of a few cubic meters per day are operating successfully under the supervision of water and research institutes.
Still, commercial applications remain rare. Now is the time to strengthen and unite research work for the design of robust and cost-effective desalination plants that operate autonomously on RES.
- Some of the remaining scientific and technical challenges are:
• Radical cost reduction
2. Wide-scale implementation of autonomous desalination units require favourable legislative and institutional framework conditions. ADU-RES will examine the relevant legislation in the EU and in various Mediterranean countries and elaborate a policy initiative for boosting renewable energy based desalination. Concrete suggestions for how to improve existing EU legislation, such as the EU Water Framework Directive, will be formulated.
- ADU-RES will reach policy makers and think tanks, providing them with
expert analysis and recommendations for the promotion of desalination units.
Widespread circulation of reports, methodology and guidelines amongst the
research and industry communities will initiate and maintain a fruitful
interdisciplinary dialogue on the issue
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Generation Vegan’s WhatsApp group, where colleagues traditionally share funny memes and heartfelt solidarity, has taken on a much more serious tone of late. Jack Lekishon, our Kenya Country Manager, has been sharing with us the desperate situation both in his country and across the Horn of Africa, as the longest drought in decades takes a hold.
The Worst Drought in 40 Years
“No water! No life!” Jack wrote as he shared with us a photo of two children lying on the ground drinking water from a muddy hole. For those of us who can rely on getting fresh water at the turn of a faucet, it is a truly shocking image.
And it’s not just people suffering. Large areas of Kenya are pastoral but cows require huge amounts of water to survive. Already 1.5 million farmed animals have died through lack of water, while hundreds of elephants, buffaloes, zebras and wildebeest have also succumbed in wildlife preserves.
“Experts say we are suffering because people in rich countries have polluted the atmosphere,” says farmer Francis Mutuku. It is true that those most badly affected by climate breakdown are not those who caused the crisis.
Food Shortages in Kenya
With a lack of water inevitably comes crop failure and the need for farmers to change what and when they plant. But wild animals are desperate for food too, and Mutuku, told The Guardian that they eat what he grows and have even destroyed his water storage unit in their desperation to drink. He’d never had trouble with elephants before because there was enough food for people and animals but today, there is no food security. Animals are dying, 3.1 million people face food shortage, and malnutrition is rising.
High Cost of Living
The drought and the war in Ukraine have driven up food prices in Kenya by 15 percent. The cost of maize flour, which is used to prepare ugali, a staple food, has more than doubled in the last five years, putting it out of reach for many families. The President is urging the public to give him more time to tackle the cost-of-living crisis, but in the meantime he is calling for humanitarian support to help people survive this critical time.
Jack Lekishon, Maasai Leader
Jack Lekishon is a Maasai community leader who coordinates vegan food relief for Generation Vegan in Kenya. “I teach my people that animal agriculture is a primary cause of climate change, and the world’s leading driver of deforestation and habitat loss,” he says. “I tell them that our disrespectful treatment of animals and nature puts our lives and the lives of our loved ones at great risk.”
Throughout the pandemic, Jack coordinated meals for three schools in Maasai Mara, which now serve exclusively plant-based foods and are still supported by Generation Vegan. He also supported Maasai villages who lost their livelihood when tourists stopped visiting the region almost overnight. Today, he is working to fund and distribute food to those affected by drought and hunger in areas like Marsabit County.
Marsabit, in the north of Kenya, is an area that has been hit hard by the drought with 370,772 families facing serious hunger and malnutrition. Jack tells us that there are already reports of children dying.
Through his GoFundMe page, he has raised enough to be able to deliver 2,531 meals to the community in Marsabit, but the funds he has raised so far – a little over $2,000 – can only go so far. Jack shared photos with us of families being given half cabbage as there was not enough money to buy a whole cabbage for each.
Can You Support Jack’s Humanitarian Work?
Jack is a vegan for animals, for the planet, and for people, and he is a tireless humanitarian campaigner. He is the expert at getting food to where it needs to be but he needs funds to do that.
Can you donate even a little to help provide plant-based foods to people experiencing the harshest impact of the drought in Kenya?
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The Central Office Of Information (COI) is being scrapped in a multimillion pound cost saving redevelopment, being replaced by the new Government Communications Centre (GCC).
The COI always had benefit in the past because it could collectively buy media in bulk at a preferential rate, giving Government departments net savings when advertising. However, that doesn't work in a digital environment as bulk offerings rarely offer additional savings. So what can the new GCC do to add value to the digital operations?
There are many organisations that have gone through the process of redistribution of offline to online recently. As organisations have struggled to cope with this process, it has resulted in many offline marketers being made redundant, whilst those that convert to online marketing tend to do much better.
Online marketing tends to be a little cheaper than offline and is much more measureable. The Government is going to have to move through this process too.
Last year's COI annual report (2009/2010) contains some interesting information. In it there is some detail about the various different areas that the government spent marketing money (although it should be pointed out that not all marketing spend made went through the COI).
In 2009/10, £44m was spent on digital marketing. It's a shame that there isn't a breakdown of what is included in this. It should be noted however that costs related to direct.gov are not included. Moreover these costs weren't included either when the Government released their accounts last year of how much Government websites cost.
So is it more galling that the £44m doesn't have a breakdown? That it wasn't included in the £99m it cost to run all the websites? The fact that is less than 10% of all marketing? Or that it accounts for less spend that direct marketing?
Personally, I think the government should come up with a new plan for Digital Marketing, led by the GCC.
The money should be given to the GCC directly, rather than through departments and it should be increased from its current levels. These are the things that the GCC can do to provide a cost saving over each department or website doing it themselves:
1. Become a centre of SEO excellence
One area that cost savings can be made in a large organisation with many websites is in SEO. Is it important? Yes, it is very important in what is essentially a series of content heavy websites. DirectGov, BusinessLink and NHS (supposedly the only three remaining websites) generate huge percentages of their visits through search engines.
However, just having a centre of excellence isn't enough. The GCC should have the power to create standards that the websites have to implement as soon as possible:
- Technical standards: Friendly URLs (something DirectGov are OK at, but BusinessLink certainly isn't); h1 tags; Unique page titles, descriptions, etc.
- Technical offsite stuff: Site Map creation (and best practice); Use of Webmaster tools; Removal of duplicate content (and one of the big things they should do is force all the other websites that have given DirectGov and BusinessLink content to turn their websites off - having the same content on two websites is a waste of time and money).
- Keyword strategies: Making sure that pages use the keywords that users use in the real world; putting them in context; Getting websites with appropriate content to link to them; making sure internal links have the correct anchor text; training editors, and so on.
2. Run all the PPC campaigns for Government
Ignoring for a moment the question of whether paid search marketing is necessary on a website that doesn't make any money back, an area of cost saving across multiple websites is often seen as paid search advertising.
In reality the base cost of running a PPC campaign is the cost of hiring an agency. The agency will frequently have a small base price, plus a percentage of the spend, meaning the additional cost of hiring more than one agency is small.
The big cost can come when more than one department is bidding on the same set of keywords, not only doubling the cost, but effectively competing against itself and pushing up the price of keywords. If all paid search was managed through one organisation this is much less likely to happen.
Plus, if there is enough demand, the GCC could create their own 'agency' to manage keywords. This is unlikely to be cost effective however, as the cost of a bidding tool probably outweighs the benefits of bringing in house.
This also has the added benefit of being able to bring any learning from paid search into the SEO strategies.
3. Move some of the money from offline brand advertising for display advertising
Display advertising generally doesn't have very many click throughs. But it has more click throughs than TV does. Not only that, but display advertising can be a cost effective way of doing brand advertising if you do it in the right places.
Display advertising doesn't work if you put it in the wrong places with the wrong audiences. A central team will have much more knowledge about where those places are than a team who does display advertising infrequently and will be able to enlist the help of the specialist departments for help.
4. Run all CRM and email marketing
The government has a huge volume of data about how people use websites. They need to make use of that information in a way that means that users don't get spammed. The only way of doing this is bringing all the data in house and cleaning it.
The Government has grown in the ways that you interact with it very quickly in the last 20 years. In an offline world it didn't matter if you had several marketing databases of existing 'customers', because you were unlikely to be able to contact them all.
In the online world where you may contact the government through many different departments many times, it makes sense to have a single customer view.
A single customer view means that I can get one email telling me to do the most important government interactions all at once. In the current world you don't get any because they are too worried about spamming you with emails. Clearly something needs to change.
5. Become the team that measures success
Online measurement is critical and should be done by everyone who works on websites. I've written about how BusinessLink and DirectGov should do their measuring on this blog before. These measures aren't the same across all websites.
The GCC should be the team that tells the websites how to measure their success. It should decide which tools to use. It should also be the main source of measurement against KPIs. Taking this outside of the control of the websites themselves means that the GCC can create sensible targets for them to aim for and provide remuneration where necessary.
Having the measurement of the websites held internally creates a false dichotomy that they can effectively decide themselves whether they are successful or not.
6. Break the Civil Service pay scale
Unfortunately the only way that the GCC is going to be able to do all of the above is if they break the current hierarchy and pay scale for Government departments. Teams need to be made up of experts in their field in a relatively flat structure.
The remuneration needs to be on whether they do a good job, not whether George Osbourne is in a good mood or not. If you pay peanuts, in an industry with a severe shortage of talents, you aren't even going to get monkeys.
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I have a book about walking meditation given to me by a buddhist monk. In it they suggest as you inhale you count how many steps you take then as you exhale you count how many steps you take.
The goal is to lengthen the number of steps on the exhale so that the exhale is longer than the inhale. For example; it takes four steps for a complete inhale and eight steps for a complete exhale. But you start out with the inhale steps and exhale steps being the same and gradually increase the exhale steps.
Very interesting, thanks.
I wonder is there a difference in breathing for meditation versus breathing for energy/stamina or are they one and the same.
Also I wonder what would be considered appropriate inhale/exhale counts during vigorous walking. I've tried inhaling/exhaling for as long as possible during my walks but I don't seem to be getting enough air in to keep up with my pace.
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Local rules of the road
Don’t worry, you’re not alone. Since such a large segment of the population was neither born nor raised here, many residents drive without knowledge of local traffic rules. In addition to the usual big-city problems, you’ll encounter some uniquely local driving issues, such as drivers who change lanes without signaling, stop suddenly at the top of freeway on-ramps in merging lanes and/or ignore stop signs. Then there are the many elderly drivers who drive in a kind of panic but at a snail’s pace, always refusing to give way. Not to mention those with their mobile phones clamped to their ears. Don’t forget, too, that several major highways change names with mysterious frequency.
If you find yourself lost and in need of directions, stay calm. Always stop at well-lit commercial outlets for directions, and take into account who’s around. Another option is to call your hotel or your destination for directions. Don’t leave valuable items visible in your car, even while you’re in motion, as "smash-and-grab" robbers approach idling cars at traffic lights.
If you break down, use your judgement about whether to leave the car and phone for help. The AAA recommends you wait until a police car passes and flag it down. If you’re a member of the AAA or have affiliated membership through a similar foreign group, always call the organization rather than a towing service, as rates for the latter can be extortionate. Emergency phones are provided on freeways. If you have a mobile phone, dial *FHP for the highway patrol.
Two last points: during rush hours (7–9am, 4–6pm Mon–Fri), only vehicles carrying at least two people including the driver can travel in lanes marked "HOV" ("high-occupancy vehicles"); and Florida law allows you to turn right on a red light if the road is clear, unless a sign says otherwise.
There are many car rental companies to choose from as long as you have a major credit card and are over 25 years of age. (Some local car rental agencies will rent to people without credit cards if they are over 25, produce a licence and a round-trip air ticket, and pay a deposit of several hundred dollars, or to persons aged 21-25 with a major credit card.) Remember that the prices companies quote you do not include state sales tax or either collision damage or liability insurance. If your home policy or credit card doesn’t cover you, grit your teeth and hand over the cash, even though it may almost double the rental bill. Driving without coverage can prove to be financially ruinous should the unlikely happen.
Parking on South Beach is an ordeal, and an expensive one at that. Invariably, you will have to use meters, parking lots (many of which have meters), garages or valet parking. For meters, you’ll need tons of quarters (they cost $1.75 per hour but are free from 3am to 9am). For garages and valet services, you’ll need tons of money, full stop. Additionally, there are 64 municipal lots scattered throughout the Miami Beach area. Rates are generally about $1–$2 per hour.
Cycling is a great way to get around; so is in-line skating. For spectacular views and a bit of uphill biking, try the Rickenbacker Causeway, an elevated bridge that links Virginia Key and Key Biscayne to the mainland. Ensure you have a good lock, as bikes often disappear in Miami.
Stores and rental companies
Car rental companies
Global Rent a Car305-635-3060, globalrac.com
Bike, scooter & skate stores
Beach Scooter Sales & Rentals
1341 Washington Ave (305-532-0977); 213 6th St, Miami Beach (305-604-1718, beachscooter.com). Open 10am–8pm daily. Credit AmEx, DC, MC, V.
Fritz’s Skate, Bike & Surf Shop
1620 Washington Ave, between Lincoln Rd & 16th St, South Beach (305-532-1954). Bus C, L, M, S, South Beach Local. Open 10am–9pm Mon–Sat; 10am–8pm Sun. Credit AmEx, DC, Disc, MC, V.
Miami Beach Bicycle Center
601 5th St, at Washington Ave, South Beach (305-674-0150). Bus C, H, K, W, South Beach Local. Open 10am–7pm Mon–Sat; 10am–5pm Sun. Credit AmEx, DC, MC, V.
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Christel Swasey wrote this fact-check post on her site. I have included Judy Park’s full email below for reference, as well as comments from 2 of the 15 parent assessment review panel members which seem to contradict Judy Park’s claims.
From Christel Swasey
Once again it seems necessary, unfortunately, to provide a fact-checking rebuttal to statements made by Utah’s Associate Superintendent Judy Park about student data privacy.
In a letter given out to parents of children attending a St. George charter school recently, Judy Park was quoted at length. Park, the Associate Superintendent of Utah, made the following statements that will be scrutinized here with links to opposing evidence.
In that letter, Ms. Park wrote:
“The advocates of anti-common core are falsely accusing USOE and schools and districts of collecting and storing data that is “behavioral data and non-academic personal information”. They have no real evidence or examples to support this claim. The only data that is collected and maintained is the specific data required by state and federal law.”
Here’s evidence to the contrary, Ms. Park.
1. First, there is a Utah law about Common Core standardized tests. This law, HB15, created in 2012, requires the collection of behavior indicators. It calls for “ the use of student behavior indicators in assessing student performance” as part of the testing. This is Utah’s S.A.G.E. –aka Common Core or A.I.R.– test.
2. There is a company that Utah has paid at least $39 million to write its Common Core-aligned standardized tests: American Institutes for Research. Its mission: “AIR’s mission is to conduct and apply the best behavioral and social science research and evaluation…“
Are we to believe that although AIR’s purpose is to test behavioral and social indicators, and although Utah law says that the test must test behavioral indicators, the test still won’t?
3. Utah’s SLDS grant application talks about authorizing de-identification of data for research and says that individuals will be authorized to access personal student information in the various Utah agencies that belong to UDA. (Who are these individuals? Why does the UDA trust them with information that parents weren’t even told was being gathered on our children?)
Starting at page 87 on that same SLDS federal application, we read how non-cognitive behaviors that have nothing to do with academics, will be collected and studied by school systems. These include “social comfort and integration, academic conscientiousness, resiliency, etc.” to be evaluated through the psychometric census known as the “Student Strengths Inventory. (SSI)” That SSI inventory –my child’s psychological information– will be integrated into the system (SLDS). Nonacademic demographic and other personal information is also captured while administering the test. SSI data will be given to whomever it is assumed, by the so-called leadership, that needs to see it. (This should be a parental decision but has become a state decision.)
The SLDS grant promises to integrate psychological data into the state database. “Utah’s Comprehensive Counseling and Guidance programs have substantial Student Education Occupation Plan, (SEOP) data, but they are not well integrated with other student data. With the introduction of UtahFutures and the Student Strengths Inventory (SSI) and its focus on noncognitive data, combining such data with other longitudinal student level data to the USOE Data Warehouse the UDA.” It also says:
“… psychosocial or noncognitive factors… include, but are not limited to educational commitment, academic engagement and conscientiousness, social comfort and social integration, academic self-efficacy, resiliency… Until recently, institutions had to rely on standardized cognitive measures to identify student needs. … We propose to census test all current student in grades 11 and 12 and then test students in grade 11 in subsequent years using the Student Strengths Inventory (SSI) – a measure of noncognitive attitudes and behaviors.” So the Student Strengths Inventory (SSI) is a “psychometric census” to be taken by every 11th and 12th grade student in Utah. That’s one way they’re gathering the psychological data.
4. Ms. Park herself is a key player and even a writer for the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) –the organization that co-created and co-copyrighted Common Core. This makes me fairly confident that you are aware of what the CCSSO stands for and what its goals are. On the CCSSO website, it states that one of its main goals is “Continued Commitment to Disaggregation” of student data. Disaggregation means that academic bundles of students’ information will be separated into groups that are increasingly easy to identify individually.
Lastly, there is this issue: Ms. Park wrote, “The only data that is collected and maintained is the specific data required by state and federal law.” This is a big problem since the state and the federal requirements do not match anymore. The state is much more protective of students’ rights. Federal FERPA regulations have been altered –not by Congress but by the sneaky Department of Education (DOE). The DOE changed the definitions of terms. They reduced from a requirement to only a “best practice” the previously protective rule that parental consent had to be obtained (prior to sharing private student data). They redefined personally identifiable information. So, no more parental consent needed and whatever they can con states into sharing, will be shared. Is this the kind of federal rule that Ms. Park is content to have us obey?
Because Utah agreed in that same SLDS federal grant application to use PESC standards and SIF interoperability frameworks, Utah’s children’s private data can be accessed by other states and federal agencies very easily as long as current Utah policy permits it.
Unless bills like Jake Anderegg’s current HB169 student data privacy bill and others like it will pass, we have very few protections and a wide open policy of quite promiscuous data sharing here in Utah.
Sad but true.
Another article on this site which is related to this topic contains this information:
The Utah State Office of Education has an official document actively endorsing the collection of behavioral and non-academic data, “Utah’s Model for Comprehensive Counseling and Guidance”
“Perception data: Perception data answer the question, “What do people think they know, believe or can do?” These data measure what students and others observe or perceive, knowledge gained, attitudes and beliefs held and competencies achieved. These data are often collected through pre- and post-surveys, tests or skill demonstration opportunities such as presentations or role play, data, competency achievement, surveys or evaluation forms.” (pgs. 58-59″)
This list of CCGP Student Outcomes (which will be tracked by computers according to the document) is full of non-academic outcomes.
MG:A1 Demonstrate a deep regard for self and others
MG:A2 Demonstrate a Personal Commitment to basic democratic principles
MG:A3 Demonstrate a civil and considerate spirit while participating in society
Judy Park’s Original Email
The advocates of “anti-common core” are falsely accusing USOE and schools and districts of collecting and storing data that is “behavioral data and non-academic personal information”. They have no real evidence or examples to support this claim. The only data that is collected and maintained is the specific data required by state and federal law. The url below, is a document that provides specific information about data collection and use in Utah. This document also provides links to other documents that lists each data field that is collected. It is unfortunate that due to the misinformation that is being freely shared through emails, etc., parents who choose to not have their students participate in the academic testing this year, will not receive the assessment results that can provide good information for students and parents and be used to inform instruction for their classroom next fall. http://schools.utah.gov/assessment/Testing-Director-Resources/StateLong-DataSys-5.aspx
There are also claims that the company, AIR that will be scoring the assessment, will use student data in an inappropriate way. The original contract with AIR as well as federal law prohibits AIR or any other assessment company from using data for purposes not approved by the entity (state) that holds the contract. Due to the many concerns, an amendment was made to the contract to strengthen the language. The url for this amendment is below.
There are also concerns that the test questions contain inappropriate content of a social or political nature. Every question on the SAGE assessment has been reviewed by the 15 member parent committee last fall. Every parent on the panel (including the parents that do not support the common core) agreed that there was nothing in the questions that was inappropriate. The media did some stories as a follow up to the parent panel. This information can be found at the url below.
As an additional support to parents, USOE/AIR has produced a SAGE brochure for families. There are three brochures; Policy makers, Educators, Families. These are brand new and will be placed on the website today. I have attached them for your use.
I hope these documents and information is helpful to you. Please let me know if there are other questions, or if I can provide additional information.
Judy W. Park, Ed.D.
Utah State Office of Education
Student Services and Federal Programs
Comments from 2 members of the 15 parent panel
Quoted from Judy Park: “Every question on the SAGE assessment has been reviewed by the 15 member parent committee last fall. Every parent on the panel (including the parents that do not support the common core) agreed that there was nothing in the questions that was inappropriate.”
I served on that 15 parent committee, and I will tell you that is not true. And if Dr. Park says that, she must have been sleeping during the meeting we had altogether at the end of our week at the USOE office last November (a private meeting, without the media, where everyone there had to sign Non-Disclosure Agreements, which is why I can’t give specific examples). Yes, there were questions flagged for ridiculous reasons like grammatical errors, incorrect answers (seriously? I didn’t realize it was our job to check if the answers were correct!), or malfunctioning technology. But I know I wasn’t the only one to flag items because of subjective, inappropriate, or misleading content. Sometimes it was for individual questions, sometimes it was every question related to a certain passage, because the passage was inappropriate/biased. We were told that everything flagged would be reviewed again, and a decision regarding revision/complete removal/no change would be made between USOE and AIR. As part of the committee, we will not see the end result of those until we reconvene this fall. Everyone in the committee agreed that the majority of the questions seemed fine, however I don’t like it repeated that this equates to approval of the entire test.
“Every parent on the panel (including the parents that do not support the common core) agreed that there was nothing in the questions that was inappropriate.” –Judy Park (above)
I am a parent on the SAGE assessment review panel and this statement is not accurate. There were questions that parents flagged as inappropriate, subjective or biased. We were promised that these test items would be reviewed and addressed and that we would get to see how they were addressed when we convene again this fall. (Which is long after this Spring’s pilot unfortunately, so I can give you no assurance whether those items have been satisfactorily addressed or not.) I participated in this panel in good faith, wanting to be a contributor to making improvements and not just a critic and I feel it is a manipulation of my cooperation to characterize it as unreserved approval of these assessments.
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Establishing a national coordinating center to advance the use of health impact assessments
The purpose of this project is to launch a national initiative to promote the use of health impact assessments (HIAs) to inform policy-makers on the health effects of their decisions. HIAs provide scientific predictions of the health effects of specific policy choices in sectors that do not traditionally consider health outcomes, such as city planning, transportation, education and housing. The Pew Charitable Trusts will establish and house a national coordinating center to manage the initiative. The center will: (1) coordinate and promote efforts to increase the use of HIAs; (2) support up to 15 HIA demonstration projects at the local, state, and tribal and levels in the first phase of funding; (3) develop and manage a training and technical assistance network; (4) complete HIAs of two federal policies that affect health; and (5) conduct and disseminate a comprehensive review of laws and regulations to identify opportunities to use HIAs to influence decisions.
Amount Awarded $7,247,562.00
Awarded on: 7/13/2009
Time frame: 8/1/2009 - 3/31/2014
Grant Number: 66479
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PRLog - Nov. 29, 2010 - New West Technologies, LLC (NWT) was one of the many businesses who sponsored the 7th Annual American Indian Scholars Gala on November 4, 2010. The event was hosted by the Rocky Mountain Indian Chamber of Commerce, a not-for-profit organization which helps provide business development, training, and education to its members, and was held in Denver, Colorado with over 500 people in attendance. At this year’s event, the Colorado Indian Education Foundation and the Denver Museum of Nature and Science awarded 13 scholarships to American Indian students residing in Colorado.
NWT CEO James S. Williamson explained, “Sponsoring the event was a great opportunity for NWT to give back to the community. The education of American Indian students is something that is very important to me and I am proud to be a part of this excellent event.”
The gala is held every year, thanks to help from business donations and fundraising events, such as American Indian Scholar license plates and The Colorado Indian Education Foundation golf tournament. During the gala, a silent auction was also held, in which over $8,000 was raised for 2011 scholarships.
"Without the help of the various businesses and people who donated to the Colorado Indian Education Foundation we would not be able to make this possible. We have to support our Native American students for they are the voice of our future,” said Josh Running Wolf, President of the Rocky Mountain Indian Chamber of Commerce.
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New West Technologies, LLC (NWT) is a national leader in delivering high-quality, innovative technical and management services by providing excellent customer service solutions in a timely, effective and cost efficient manner, leading to lasting relationships with our clients and specialized opportunities in diverse industries. NWT is an American Indian-owned 8(a) small business that provides technical and management services for federal and private sector clients. NWT delivers quality, innovative, and efficient services in the areas of transportation, buildings/facilities, and stationary power. NWT has offices in Denver, Colorado; Washington, D.C.; Landover, Maryland; and Utica, New York, with a growing staff of technical experts.
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President Barack Obama and his Republican rival Mitt Romney exchanged fire on foreign policy and national security Monday in their last debate before Election Day. With tension in the air and undecided voters at stake, each candidate challenged the other's claims and positions. CNN conducted fact checks on each politician’s assertions. Click on the headlines for more.
President Barack Obama asserted during Monday's presidential debate that it cost the United States less to help oust Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi than it did to run two weeks of the 2003-2011 war in Iraq.
We can attempt a comparison by examining the Defense Department's spending on the two operations.
Although it has been over for nearly a year now, the war in Iraq continued to be a flash point in Monday night's debate between President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.
"You say that you're not interested in duplicating what happened in Iraq," said Obama, a Democrat who opposed the U.S.-led invasion in 2003. "But just a few weeks ago, you said you think we should have more troops in Iraq right now. ... You said that we should still have troops in Iraq to this day."
But Romney, who supported the invasion, said Obama wanted to keep U.S. troops there longer - he just couldn't get the Iraqis to go along.
Monday’s debate focuses on foreign policy and national security. The debate commission announced that the main topics will be: Afghanistan and Pakistan, Israel and Iran, "The Changing Middle East and the New Face of Terrorism," and "The Rise of China and Tomorrow's World.
Ahead of the debate, here’s a look at some campaign claims about foreign policy that we've looked at:
By Brian Katulis, Special to CNN
EDITOR’S NOTE: Brian Katulis is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress Action Fund, where his work focuses on U.S. national security policy in the Middle East and South Asia. The views expressed are his own.
If we've learned one thing about Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney's foreign policy views during this campaign, it's that he's heavy on rhetoric and ideology but light on details.
For the past year, Romney has consistently failed to provide a clear alternative to President Obama's foreign policy program that goes beyond vague speechifying about "strength" and "leadership." Throughout the campaign, it became increasingly clear that Romney's rhetoric isn't an attempt to cover up an empty foreign policy agenda - it is the policy agenda.
There is a similarity between Romney's foreign and economic policy packages on this score. As economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman wrote this past week, "the true plan is to provide an economic stimulus in the form of Romney's awesome awesomeness; the cover story is the pretense of having an actual program."
But relying on rhetoric in a debate format is harder to do. That's why I'll be watching closely and keeping track of how much Romney tries to stick to his playbook. Here is a list of catchphrases and buzzwords I'll be looking out for in Monday's debate. The more he uses these phrases, the less likely we'll hear concrete ideas. FULL POST
By Danielle Pletka, Special to CNN
EDITOR’S NOTE: Danielle Pletka is Vice President of Foreign and Defense Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute. The views expressed are her own.
Fewer and fewer voters rate national security as their top priority in considering how to vote, which begs the question of who will be watching this last presidential debate, since the focus is foreign policy and national security.
Not to worry, the wonks will be out in force, and we'll be looking for a few key things from each candidate.
First, from Mitt Romney:
That vision thing: Romney needs to do more than simply be the un-Obama. We'll be looking for a positive vision that puts some meat on the bones of his call for a new era of American leadership and exceptionalism. Both are fine sentiments, but essentially meaningless without policy to go with them. And in straitened economic times, with a public weary of spending and war, he'll need to make clear that his priorities will keep America safe and strong without breaking the bank or putting more lives on the line. FULL POST
An Obama administration official whose now controversial comment that the attack on the U.S. mission in Libya was "spontaneous" relied on talking points provided by the CIA based on its assessment that an intelligence official said on Friday was updated days later with new information.
The disclosure to CNN appears to offer some clarity around the Obama administration's early stage explanation of the September 11 attack by armed militants that killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans.
But CNN National Security Contributor Fran Townsend injected a new element into the crucial time line on Friday night, reporting on Anderson Cooper 360 that senior intelligence officials had multiple conversations with senior White House officials in the first 24 hours after the attack.
Townsend, a former homeland security and counterterrorism adviser to President George W. Bush, added that "we don't know" what was said.
"But I can tell you from having lived through these crises, you're getting a constant feed of what the intelligence community understands about what is currently going on and what has happened on the ground," Townsend said.
She added that "they will caveat the information" because in the first hours there "will be all sorts of information, some of it which will turn out not to have been true."
By Ashley Killough
President Barack Obama on Thursday defended his administration's handling of the Libya consulate attack, telling Jon Stewart on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" that he will ultimately fix any problems involving security for diplomatic posts.
"The government is a big operation and any given time, something screws up," he said in the interview to air Thursday night. "And you make sure that you find out what's broken and you fix it."
Stewart pressed the president on the aftermath of the terror attack that killed four Americans at a U.S. consulate in Benghazi last month. The administration has faced scrutiny over why the post was not more robustly staffed with security.
The comedian said the administration's response did not play out in an "optimal" way.
"I would say, even you would admit, it was not the optimal response, at least to the American people, as far as all of us being on the same page," Stewart said.
The president replied: "When four Americans get killed, it's not optimal. We're going to fix it. All of it."FULL STORY
By Ashley Kilough
Sen. John McCain on Wednesday said Mitt Romney missed an opportunity to go after the president over Libya in the second presidential debate.
Asked whether Romney failed to press President Barack Obama on the administration's handling of last month's consulate attack, the Arizona senator said "in a way, he did" on CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360."
During the debate, Obama said he referred to the Libya attack as an "act of terror" the day after the violence last month. Romney disputed the claim, sparking a fiery exchange over whether the president used the term.
On Wednesday, some political observers noted Romney spent too much time over the semantics, rather than moving on and asking more questions about the security of the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed in the attack on the U.S. facility on September 11, 2012.FULL STORY
By Dan Lothian, reporting from Athens Ohio
A standard line in the president's stump speech that touts his administration's efforts to target al Qaeda has been missing from recent stops, in the wake of the Libya terror attacks.
"I said we'd refocus on the people who actually attacked us on 9/11, and today al Qaeda is on the run and Osama bin Laden is dead," the president has said.Click here for the FULL STORY
By Jennifer Rizzo
President Barack Obama's campaign has received almost double the amount of military donations that Mitt Romney's campaign has, according to data collected by a research group that tracks money and lobbying in U.S. politics.
It's a clue, perhaps, into who the military is rooting for in this presidential election. Obama has received more than $530,000 in campaign contributions from individual military donors, while Romney has taken in more than $280,000 in donations from individuals involved with the military.
Obama's lead in military donations comes despite hundreds of billions in cuts to the Defense Department and the Republican ticket blaming him for a potential half-trillion dollars more in cuts if Congress can't agree on a deficit deal.
The Center for Responsive Politics compiled the information using data reported to the Federal Election Commission and includes donations greater than $200 from both military and civilian employees of the nation's defense sector.
The group also looked at military donations given to former Republican candidate Ron Paul, who has advocated for a smaller military and bringing troops home from bases in countries like Germany and South Korea. Paul, too, received more military donations than Romney, totaling almost $400,000.
By Jamie Crawford
President Barack Obama took ultimate responsibility on Tuesday for issues around last month's terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
"I am ultimately responsible for what's taking place there because these are my folks, and I'm the one who has to greet those coffins when they come home," Obama said during a debate with Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney in New York.
"These are just representatives of the United States, they are my representatives. I send them there, often times into harms way," Obama said.
Obama's remarks came a day after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told CNN's Elise Labott that she took responsibility for the security in Benghazi. That's where the U.S. mission was overrun on September 11, killing Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans.
"Secretary Clinton has done an extraordinary job," Obama said in response to a follow-up question from CNN's Candy Crowley who served as the debate moderator. "But she works for me. I'm the president and I am always responsible."
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In the latest challenge to the so-called, ‘special relationship’ between the UK and the US, the wife of a US diplomat has fled the UK after being implicated in the tragic death of 19-year-old Harry Dunn.
Anna Sacoolas was named as a suspect in the fatal collision between Dunn’s motorbike and a car in Northamptonshire in August of this year. Originally, the chief constable in charge of the case had assured that Sacoolas had ‘engaged fully’ and ‘had no plans to leave the country in the near future’. However, the story has taken a sour turn after Sacoolas did, in fact, return to the US, despite her promises not to do so.
The main point of contention that surrounds the case is the US’s refusal to waive Sacoolas’s diplomatic immunity. This is the process which allows diplomats and their family members to be immune from prosecution in the country in which they are working. They can be forcibly expelled from the country but cannot be prosecuted, unless their home country opts to waive diplomatic immunity.
PM Boris Johnson and the Northamptonshire police have urged the Trump administration ‘in the strongest terms’ to consider waiving immunity, in order for them to proceed with the Dunn case. However, they have so far been refused. As long as the US continues to take this stance, the case will remain unresolved and Harry Dunn’s family and friends will not be able to obtain the closure they so desperately need.
As it stands, the outlook for the British side looks decidedly bleak. Hardly famed for his capacity to reason and negotiate; Donald Trump recently expressed his sympathies for Sacoolas – after all, who hasn’t found themselves accidentally driving on the wrong side of the road in the country they’ve lived and worked in for years.
“The woman was driving on the wrong side of the road, and that can happen. You know those are the opposite roads, that happens. I won’t say it ever happened to me, but it did”, Mr Trump said in a press conference on Wednesday.
If this compelling argument does not convince you that the US’s decision to protect Sacoolas is the right one, then perhaps appealing diplomatic immunity would. Historically, it is something that has very rarely been waived, amidst fears that to do so may carry much larger implications for foreign relations between countries.
Conversely, for a country not to waive immunity can be just as problematic. One famous example of this occurred in 1984, when a Metropolitan policewoman was fatally shot from the Libyan embassy. Following an 11-day lock-in, everyone in the building was released with their diplomatic immunity intact. The incident put a massive dent in US-Libyan relations from then onwards.
The case for upholding diplomatic immunity in any situation where criminal proceedings are held up – or, indeed, halted entirely – seems to have little going for it. Personally, I fail to see any case where the mere fact of being employed as a diplomat should exclude someone from receiving the same treatment as anyone else implicated in a crime. Last year, the Foreign Office expelled a diplomat accused of two rape offences after diplomatic immunity prevented them from being able to actually convict him.
Tragically, the current Dunn case is looking set to become another addition to the long list of instances where diplomatic immunity has prevented cases from being closed; much to the detriment of everyone involved on the side of the victim. It is my belief that the continued relevance of diplomatic immunity is questionable – particularly in (largely) clean court systems like ours here in the UK. Hopefully, the legacy of Harry Dunn might start moving more people towards the same feeling.
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Maths for mums and dads
by Rob Eastaway and Mike Askew
This book is an absolute triumph. Given the authors' reputations, I would expect nothing less, so it is something of a relief to be able to write that first sentence.
The book is written for parents of primary-aged children. It aims to "re-engage" them with mathematics, to gain a greater understanding of the way mathematics is now taught, and to encourage them to inject some enjoyment into mathematics at home. The contents and structure are well thought-out, beginning with a discussion of four big questions that parents often ask:
- Why do they do it differently these days?
- How can I overcome my own fear of maths?
- How can I get my child to enjoy maths and be better at it than I was?
- Why do they (or I) need to know this?
The body of the book addresses mathematical topics in turn, from the number system to calculation, fractions, shape, measuring, and finally to data handling. Also included is a chapter on the use of calculators and one on mathematical ideas just beyond the primary curriculum. The authors offer explanations and discussions of the concepts and methods in a straightforward style, laced with humour. Examples are clear and difficulties are not glossed over, rather children's common misconceptions are made explicit. Opportunities are given for the reader to test their own understanding with answers to the questions given at the back. In addition to helping parents understand the mathematics themselves, the book is full of games and other activities to try with their children. Sausage fractions, anyone? String Venn diagrams? Polygon I-spy? These ideas are invaluable. They give parents a way of encouraging mathematical talk in engaging and non-threatening ways at home.
Following a section which gives a flavour of the questions our eleven year-olds currently face in SATs, the book concludes with a list of dos and don'ts. The latter consists of just two items:
- Don't expect children to "get it" after you've explained it once;
- Don't tell them you're hopeless at maths.
How good to be reminded of these two powerful pieces of advice.
Reading this book felt like being in conversation with the authors, rather than being poured full of information. I can imagine it being on the shelf in the kitchen and being pulled down from time to time. It would get well thumbed — perhaps there would be splashes of pasta sauce on some pages and other pages may be turned down at the corners to make it easier to find them.
Just one last thing — please do not judge this book by its cover, which in my opinion conveys some stereotypical messages about school mathematics. Once you begin to read however, you will realise that primary mathematics can be creative, empowering and enjoyable — definitely something you will want to do with your children.
- Book details:
- Maths for mums and dads
- Rob Eastaway, Mike Askew
- hardback — 368 pages (2010)
- Square Peg
- ISBN: 978-0224086356
About this article
Liz Woodham is the NRICH Primary Coordinator, which involves working as part of a team to develop primary-level materials for the NRICH website and to run associated teacher professional development. Liz is a member of the joint MA ATM primary subcommittee and is on ATM General Council.
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/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Four new members have been appointed to the Advisory Committee on Women Veterans for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), an expert panel that advises VA on issues and programs affecting women veterans.
"I am pleased to welcome the newest members of this committee to the important job of serving America's women veterans," said Secretary of Veterans Affairs Dr. James B. Peake. "Members of this committee work tirelessly on behalf of women veterans to improve outreach, ensure access to VA benefits and recommend ways in which VA can better meet their needs."
Established in 1983, the advisory committee makes recommendations for administrative and legislative changes. The committee members are appointed to one, two, or three-year terms. The new committee members are:
-- Davy Coke of Poway, Calif., a retired Navy second class petty officer
who served in Vietnam. He currently is a trainer and mentor for new
service members in the aerospace field.
-- Yanira Gomez of Germantown, Md., a former Army medical specialist who
served in Iraq. She is currently serving as national outreach officer
for the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
-- Gloria Maser of Alexandria, Va., a colonel in the Army Reserves. She
is a former deputy chief of staff for health affairs with the
Multi-National Security Transition Command in Iraq. She currently
works for a strategy and technology organization.
-- Barbara Ward of Sacramento, Calif., a former staff nurse in the Air
Force. She currently serves as the deputy secretary for women and
minority veterans affairs in the California Department of Veterans
Women veterans are one of the fastest growing segments of the veteran population. There are approximately 1.8 million women veterans. They constitute nearly 8 percent of the total veteran population and about 5 percent of all veterans who use VA health care. VA estimates that by 2020 women veterans will make up 10 percent of the veteran population.
VA has women veterans program managers at VA medical centers and women veterans coordinators at VA regional offices to assist women veterans with health and benefits issues.
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Diverse Coalition Responds to EPA Decision on E15
(WASHINGTON, DC) - A coalition of business, environmental, budget watchdog and public interest groups issued the following statements in response to today's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) decision to expand the scope of its October, 2010 decision to allow a 50 percent increase—from 10 percent (E10) to 15 percent (E15)—in the amount of ethanol permitted in gasoline. Today's decision by the EPA broadens its earlier decision to allow E15 gasoline in model year 2007 or newer automobiles. The new higher ethanol-content fuel will now be available for use in millions of cars in model years 2001 to 2006 as well.
“EPA’s decision to increase the ethanol blend to E15 will further increase volatility in the grain markets. This could hasten the reduction in wheat acres and raise Americans’ food bills. U.S. cropland is already stretched to its limit. Increasing the blend has the potential to further impact commodity stocks and ultimately food prices. The grain markets are currently experiencing near record volatility and prices have edged closer to the record levels of 2008.”
-Robb MacKie, President and CEO, American Bakers Association
“Why is the government forcing consumers to use an inefficient fuel that causes the price of food to skyrocket? Corn ethanol gets less miles per gallon, and is less efficient than gasoline. Now that more cars are ‘approved’ to use E15, according to the EPA, then we can expect the price of regular gasoline to increase to encourage use of this inefficient fuel. All subsidies and mandates to use ethanol should be repealed.”
-Bill Wilson, President, Americans for Limited Government
“Increased pressure on the corn supply has again pushed corn above $6.00 a bushel, levels not seen since 2008. This announcement only means that more corn will be diverted from an already thinning supply and increased pressure will be put on the meat and poultry sector which is already facing near record high feed costs. For consumers who are concerned about food prices, this decision will further increase prices at the grocery store. Burning our food and feed as fuel is not a sustainable approach to solving this country’s long-term energy needs.”
-J. Patrick Boyle, President and CEO, American Meat Institute
“With this decision, the Obama administration has just voided car warranties for millions of Americans at the behest of the corn and ethanol lobby. The confusion at the pump will be unimaginable, as will the costly burden placed on taxpayers as cars and small engines not made to burn corn ethanol break down after misfueling. Taxpayers have invested billions in a fuel that does little to reduce our dependence on foreign oil while tearing up the land and polluting fresh water."
-Shelia Karpf, Legislative and Policy Analyst, Environmental Working Group
"The EPA's decision amounts to a New Year's gift to corporate ethanol interests that is bad for consumers and bad for the environment. Corn ethanol is a highly polluting fuel that causes more climate-damaging emissions than regular gasoline, according to the EPA's own scientific analysis. Consumers are bound to get confused at the pump, and using more ethanol in engines not configured to run on ethanol could lead to engine damage and increased emissions of toxic air pollutants."
-Kate McMahon, Biofuels Campaign Coordinator, Friends of the Earth
"Today's decision will divert even more food and feed to fuel, increasing food prices at a time when food prices are already rising. We urge EPA and the Obama Administration to put the needs of ordinary Americans ahead of the needs of the ethanol industry and reverse this decision."
-Geoff Moody, Director, Energy and Environmental Policy, Grocery Manufacturers Association
“Dairy processors and farmers are increasingly aware of the impact that ethanol policies are having on feed costs and ultimately what consumers are paying for dairy products. EPA’s decision is unfortunately another step in the wrong direction. “
-Jerry Slominski, Sr. Vice President, International Dairy Foods Association
“EPA’s decision is another giveaway to the ethanol interests and again demonstrates EPA cannot or will not balance the broad national interests on this issue. E15 may be good for ethanol producers and corn farmers but it is clearly detrimental to all other interested parties. To the extent EPA and the ethanol industry actually manage to force more ethanol into the nation’s motor gasoline, they will put even more pressure on the already very tight supply of corn. When consumers ask why their food costs are higher, it will be difficult for EPA to explain that today’s decision had no impact on the food shopper’s dollar.”
-Bill Roenigk, Senior Vice President and Chief Economist, National Chicken Council.
“This decision literally takes food out of the mouths of American consumers in order to increase the profits of the ethanol industry. When corn and all the food products derived from it are diverted away from the dinner table, that drives up the cost of a meal for every American family whether they are eating in a restaurant or at home. Turning corn into ethanol and burning it as fuel should not take priority over feeding families at an affordable price.”
-Scott Vinson, Vice President, National Council of Chain Restaurants
"This decision to increase the ethanol blend in gasoline is environmentally shortsighted and virtually guaranteed to negatively impact U.S. food security."
- Barry Carpenter, CEO, National Meat Association
“For several decades now, Washington has propped up ethanol through subsidies, sweetheart tax deals, mandates, and other schemes. The EPA shouldn't encourage this dash for cash even further by using its authority to expand E15's usage. Taxpayers are already groaning under the weight of past mistakes with ethanol policy; it's time for government to stop breaking their backs.”
-Pete Sepp, Executive Vice President, National Taxpayers Union
“EPA’s decision completely disregarded significant scientific and economic evidence surrounding E15 and its potentially disastrous impact. It sends a terrible signal to an already volatile market at a time when corn supplies are very tight. The long-term potential for diverting even larger amounts of corn away from food and feed is a recipe for that could result in consumers paying more for food.”
-Joel Brandenberger, President, National Turkey Federation
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In the past few months, nothing has united us all more than COVID-19 and keeping ourselves healthy.
Internet search trends have shown people scouring the internet for any tips on keeping their immune system in fighting shape while we race for the vaccine.
We know that keeping yourself and your loved ones safe is something you care about most, so we would like to welcome you to the EZ Melts family by sharing some brief reminders in maintaining health and wellness during these uncertain times.
1. Sleep – *yawn* You’re tired, even exhausted right now—balancing your children’s schedules and working from home? Or feeling like it’s noon when it’s only 7 am? Does time even exist anymore?
Inadequate sleep reduces the production of protective cytokines, proteins that target infection, and inflammation.
It has also been proven that restless sleep promotes weight gain and increased appetite for junk food, especially when stressed—definitely not a big help in keeping your immune system strong!
Solution: Shut off all electronics at least an hour before bed and consider wearing blue-light blocking glasses! They really help with eye strain and prevent that “buzzy” feeling when you lay down and try to get shut-eye.
Digital light from devices is believed to interfere with your natural melatonin production and might keep you from resting adequately.
(If you are really struggling with sleep after trying this, you might want to take natural melatonin supplements 30 minutes before bedtime.)
2. Manage your Stress – Have you ever been super stressed only to get physically sick days later? There’s a scientific explanation for that— too much anxiety reduces your body’s lymphocytes—the white blood cells that help you fight off infection.
Solution: See Sleep section above – when you don’t get enough shut-eye, you’re crabby and prone to more stress.
Also, live by via negativa – or the art of addition by subtraction. As we work from home, it’s easy for professional and personal life to become too intertwined.
What unnecessary environmental factors or habits can you remove from your daily life that cause you stress?
Take it a step further—what minor positive habits can you add to your schedule to decrease stress?
3. Eat Real Food – this goes without saying, but diet is probably the biggest contributor of all. Keep up your micronutrient intake to keep your immune system on point. This literally feeds the fighter cells that keep your immunity up!
Solution: reduce sugar, preservatives (think packaged foods), and saturated fats. Focus on colorful fruits and leafy greens that you enjoy to get the critical Vitamin C and Zinc we all know keeps the immunity up.
Oh... and get some sunlight for that Vitamin D3.
We all know it’s easier said than done—so work on making tiny changes rather than trying to change your entire life in a day. We promise it will all build up to something great over time!
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Nightly News | June 26, 2010
LESTER HOLT, anchor: In the meantime, BP continues to drill the two relief wells that may be the last and best hope for stopping this catastrophic gush of oil. NBC 's Anne Thompson got a firsthand look today at the push to finish those wells and get them online. She joins us tonight from Houma , Louisiana . Anne :
ANNE THOMPSON reporting: Good evening, Lester . Today I got a chance to go out to the Development Driller II , or DD2 . It's one of two rigs working on the ultimate solution to plug the well that plagues the gulf. It is a ride through the clouds to get to the rig. When you can see the gulf, the current lines stand out in oily relief. As you get closer, the water is marred with tentacles of crude. Around the site there is an armada of aid, and yet a mile below the surface the well still gushes. This is the DD2 . It is where they are drilling the second relief well. Over here, this is the DD3 . That is where they are drilling the first relief well. And it is within 1800 feet of the out-of-control well. The goal? To kill the well that killed 11 men on the Deepwater Horizon , something offshore installation manager Chris Wakowsky never forgets. How's the well going?
Mr. CHRIS WAKOWSKY: Well's going good. We're sticking on our target here for August, and everything's going as planned. The guys are really driven and motivated.
THOMPSON: So far the massive drill has dug 12,000 feet below the water and started the turn towards the well. The casing is stacked, ready to go. Wendell Guidry is the drilling superintendent. What's the job of the casing?
Mr. WENDELL GUIDRY: The casing actually seals the well bore that you drill, seals it off, keeps all the formations on the outside of it.
THOMPSON: So it holds the shape of the hole that you've drilled.
Mr. GUIDRY: That's correct.
THOMPSON: The effort out here is unprecedented. There are 173 workers on the DD2 , 1500 workers in total on the 45 rigs and vessels. It is a constant reminder to those on board that the world is watching.
Mr. MITCHELL BULLOCK (BP Well Site Leader): This is just a high-profile well. I'm a put it this way. This is probably the most important well I've ever been on in my life. How's that?
THOMPSON: This weekend on the DD2 there is a lot of talk about Tropical Storm Alex . If a tropical storm or hurricane threatens this part of the gulf, it will be Matt Makowski 's job to move the platform. He is the captain of the rig. To unhook everything, to pack up the rig, that takes how long?
Mr. MATT MAKOWSKI: It depends where we are. Right now it could take about -- approximately one to two days.
THOMPSON: About two days.
Mr. MAKOWSKI: Yeah.
THOMPSON: And then do you go into shore?
Mr. MAKOWSKI: No, we will stay offshore and we'll try to just get as far as possible from the storm.
THOMPSON: Now, weighing some 46,000 tons, the DD2 does not move fast. It only travels at a speed of about six to seven miles an hour. So it needs a lot of lead time to shut down and get out of the way. Lester :
HOLT: Anne Thompson tonight. Anne , thank
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Massachusetts: AIDS Center's New Labs Debut; U.S. Cuts May Slow Hunt for a Vaccine
March 12, 2013
On March 11, the Ragon Institute, funded by "software magnate" Phillip Terrence Ragon, opened a new $30 million research facility that is designed to facilitate collaboration among physicians, physicists, and engineers in developing HIV vaccines and studying TB. The 75,000-square-foot Cambridge, Mass., building, which now houses 175 staff members, is large enough to allow the staff to double in size and to accommodate visiting scientists as well. Philanthropists Mark and Lisa Schwartz will provide $50,000 grants to outside scientists, which will enable them to participate in the Ragon Institute's research.
03.12.2013; Deborah Kotz
Massachusetts: Steppingstone Showcases New Programs for HIV Sufferers, Recovering Drug-Users at Downtown Open House
This article was provided by CDC National Prevention Information Network. It is a part of the publication CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update.
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Graduate Diploma in Creative Technologies
Graduate Diploma in Creative Technologies
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Think of this programme as the bridge between undergraduate and postgraduate study. In this course you'll refine your craft and the opportunity to focus on your interests, based on your own research project in 3D Animation and Visual Effects, Interactive and Web Design, Graphic Design, Motion Graphics, or Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality (VR/AR).
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Students develop and deepen their skills and understanding in an open studio-based programme where they investigate, propose and produce a project (or series of projects) determined by their own interests within the broader creative technologies domain.
Students can choose to either work within a particular creative technologies discipline, or across disciplines, and can work towards either professional, academic, exploratory or experimental learning outcomes.
The course is student-centered with students being proactive independent learners, responsible both for what they learn and how they learn. The course provides a flexible framework, supportive environment and collaborative learning culture. Faculty guide students through their learning as mentors, with the focus on developing students' critical thinking, problem-solving and research skills. This enables them to become effective life-long learners.
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Students undertake further research and learning. This may include in-class tutorials and discussions, online tutorials, individual research, production exercises, projects and collaborative learning. This is an opportunity for students to complete a production cycle and produce a proof-of-concept or prototype to support their proposal. During this period there will be regular critique sessions where students present their work and findings to their peers.
In parallel with the research and development students develop and complete their proposal for their final project or projects by the end of the semester. The proposal is informed by their research and development and can be supported by any proof-of-concepts or prototypes that have been produced.
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Some say they know the future!
Some say they know the past!
I have seen both the past and the future,
Right before my eyes!
And the ones that do not believe me,
Then they will never know the past!
And the other ones that do not believe me,
They will not know the future that will pass!
The Earth that will be spinning,
Will turn About-Face on the World!
And the ones that say on this Date,
The Earth will stand still!
And what will be given to the Humans,
Is one Gigantic Spill!
Some say the Oceans and the Seas will be turning,
In a very deferent direction in this Wake!
For once was the Land of the Living,
Will become Bottomless Lakes!
And the ones that do the swimming,
They will not get very far away in this Wake!
Some say the Volcanoes will be erupting,
When Tribulation unfolds on this Date!
Some say the Sky will come falling down,
And take millions of lives when It unfolds!
Some say the Moon will turn into blood,
Like Earth’s ground will sooth with It's blood!
And the ones that say on 12/21/12,
Their days are going to end!
And not one Calendar on Earth mentions this Date,
Which does not go past those Days of Sin!
But since I have seen the future,
And I have even seen the very first day in the past!
What came out from out of nowhere,
Was seen before my face!
And the Star that is burning bright,
I saw it form one day!
Along with the Planets that surround it,
Right before my face!
But it was really scary that day,
I had seen the end, end first!
As Angels were flying on Horses,
As they flew away from the Earth!
And some think that I am lying,
Some think that I am insane!
To write what I have seen,
In the past that I did not dream!
Some say you have to be a Scholar,
Before the World will hear your name!
I do not give a damn about others,
And the way they think!
For we have only one life that is given to us,
And if we think in a very different way!
We will see something no one else will ever see,
Except the One who created our Outer Space!
December, 21st, 2012!
What will become of the World?
When it is turning all weird,
As the Sky is falling from Space!
Where will you hide,
And what will you do?
When the Sun turns out the lights!
For once the Sun has exploded,
And there is no protection for the Earth!
Everything will go out in a blink of an eye,
This is what the humans as screaming on Earth!
And as the ones that are dying,
From the tragedies that are to come!
Some say the World is ending,
From what will come from the Sun!
But the past that was shown to me,
And the future for Mankind!
I believed everything that was shown to me,
As the Sky was blue from the Sun!
And the ones that never seen the future,
And the ones that never saw the past!
I was fortunate enough to see what I seen,
While glazing towards the Stars!
And what I say that bright day,
Scared the living hell out of me!
For I could not imagine seeing Horses flying,
With Angles of Large Wings!
And the ones that see death before them,
They will fall to the ground!
And worship What created us,
For It to do us harm!
And the One who has no mercy,
And the One that has no heart!
It somehow created everything that is living,
That does have a beating heart!
And on this Date that Humans will never forget,
Mankind will be forgotten in life!
For what was created in the past,
Will be recreated in the future from the Star!
And the ones that do not believe me,
Your days are far and few!
For what is coming in the future,
Only seconds remain for you….
WRITTEN BY, I, ON, 12/21/2011, 3:33:PM
12/21/12 POEM HAS NO COPYRIGHTS, AND IS HEMP FREE FOR PUBLIC DOMAIN USE. BUT, IF YOU USE THIS POEM, FOR SONG LYRICS, ECT., PLEASE WRITE, "WRITTEN BY; THE ONE WHO CARES, ABOUT YOU...."
12/21/12 - THE DAY THE EARTH
STOOD STILL - THE END OF THE WORLD....
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|Número de publicación||US4140115 A|
|Tipo de publicación||Concesión|
|Número de solicitud||US 05/580,371|
|Fecha de publicación||20 Feb 1979|
|Fecha de presentación||23 May 1975|
|Fecha de prioridad||3 Dic 1973|
|Número de publicación||05580371, 580371, US 4140115 A, US 4140115A, US-A-4140115, US4140115 A, US4140115A|
|Cesionario original||Johnson & Johnson|
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|Citas de patentes (4), Citada por (86), Clasificaciones (13)|
|Enlaces externos: USPTO, Cesión de USPTO, Espacenet|
This application is a continuation-in-part of my copending application, Ser. No. 421,457, filed Dec. 3, 1973, which is a continuation-in-part of my copending application, Ser. No. 277,435, filed Aug. 2, 1972, both now abandoned.
This invention relates to adhesive articles comprising a backing material and a water-insoluble pressure sensitive adhesive composition coated upon at least one surface of the backing material for attaching it by means of the pressure sensitive adhesive coating to human skin. This invention is especially concerned with the reduction of skin damage by providing a backing material, e.g. a plasticized film backing having a water-insoluble pressure sensitive adhesive composition coated thereon which composition includes from about 4 to 20% by weight of an unreacted polyol uniformly dispersed therein.
Backing materials that are intended for attachment to skin by means of a pressure sensitive adhesive coating include the well-known plasticized polyvinyl chloride film backings which have achieved considerable commercial success as adhesive tapes and bandages. Other such backing materials include woven and nonwoven fabrics, paper and metallic foil bodies, as well as foamed materials such as, for example, foamed polyurethane.
When pressure sensitive adhesive backing materials are repeatedly applied, removed and re-applied to the same area of the skin, there occurs some stripping of the cells of the epidermal layer known as the stratum corneum. These skin cells, while occluded, become macerated and, as the adhesive coated article is removed, the macerated cells adhere to the adhesive mass of the article. Stripping away of these cells of the stratum corneum is herein referred to by the term "skin damage". Such skin damage is not serious when a pressure sensitive coated article, e.g., a bandage, is worn only for a relatively short time. But when the bandage is repeatedly applied to and removed from the same area of skin surface, as in changing a dressing, sufficient cells can be stripped away to result in localized erythema.
Although skin damage occurs to some degree with any backing material that is attached to the skin by means of a pressure sensitive adhesive, it is, however, more noticeably a problem with those backing materials that comprise a plasticized plastic film, e.g., a plasticized polyvinyl chloride film.
While such skin damage can be detected by gross observation, it can best be measured quantitatively by determining the amount of transepidermal water loss (TWL) from the skin surface involved. It has been found that the quantitative measure of the TWL correlates very well with skin damage. This is because the erosion of cells from the stratum corneum removes a portion of the protective layer thus permitting increased transpiration of water through the epidermal layers. Such correlation of TWL and skin damage is referred to in Surgical Dressings and Wound Healing, K. J. Harkiss, Editor, Bradford University Press, London (1971) on pages 144 through 146.
The problem of skin damage is well recognized in the art and there have been repeated attempts to alleviate such damage by modification of the compositions of the pressure sensitive adhesives, all without success. In fact, many modified adhesive formulations result in increased skin irritation. Furthermore, any modification of a pressure sensitive adhesive composition must, in order to be regarded as successful in the reduction of skin damage, accomplish that result without detriment to either adhesive strength or some other highly desirable characteristic of the adhesive. An improvement of one property at the expense of some other valued property is in actuality no improvement. For example, a reduction in adhesive strength will consequently reduce skin damage since the adhesive adheres less tenaciously to the skin, and causes fewer cells to be stripped from the area contacted upon removal of the bandage. Because the bandage has a lower level of adhesion, inferior wear properties result which are unacceptable, and there is no net gain in improvement. Still further, in attempting to modify the pressure sensitive adhesive compositions, one must take precaution not to include in such compositions, materials which are known to have adverse effects on the skin, for example, monomeric amines and the like.
Hence, the primary object of this invention is to provide a water-insoluble pressure sensitive adhesive composition which, when utilized to attach an article to human skin, markedly reduces skin damage.
A still further object of this invention is to provide a bandage which incorporates in its adhesive mass an additive physically dispersed therein which achieves a remarkable reduction in skin damage, but not at the expense of other highly desirable properties of such heretofore known adhesive tapes and bandages.
It has now been discovered that the foregoing objects and advantages, as well as other objects and advantages which will become apparent upon further reading of this specification, are met by including an unreacted polyol uniformly dispersed in the water-insoluble pressure sensitive adhesive composition used to coat the article for adherent application to skin. Such water-insoluble pressure sensitive coatings are well known in the art and are collectively referred to by the term "adhesive mass." It is necessary that such pressure sensitive adhesive compositions be water-insoluble in order to prevent their peeling when they come in contact with water. Thus, water-soluble adhesive compositions would not result in effective adhesive bandages and tapes due to such peeling upon contact with water and would therefore not be useful or desirable in the present invention.
A pressure sensitive adhesive sheet for use as tape, bandages, corn pads or the like comprises a backing material such as one of the backing materials heretofore set forth, and a suitable water-insoluble pressure sensitive adhesive which is based either on a rubber or an acrylic composition. Either of these mass compositions can satisfactorily include the polyols in the manner of this invention to achieve the objects of this invention.
Adhesive masses based on rubber elastomers include both natural rubbers such as pale crepe rubber or synthetic rubbers such as polyisobutylene or butyl rubber. The rubber is tackified with a tackifying agent such as polyterpene resin, e.g., poly-β-pinene, a natural resin, or rosin acid esters, such esters being with mono or polyhydric alcohols, as well as similar materials wherein the rosin group has been modified by hydrogenation. These adhesive masses, based on rubber elastomers, can also include inorganic or organic fillers such as zinc oxide, titanium oxide, aluminum oxide, calcium carbonate, starch and like material in finely divided or powdery form. In addition, such masses can also contain mineral oil or lanolin, together with various antioxidants such as, for example, alkylated diphenyl amines. In addition, there can be included a plasticizer such as alkylphthalates, alkyl adipates, and the like where the alkyl group is from C4 to C10 carbon atoms and also alkyl acetyl ricinoleate wherein the alkyl group is from C1 to C10 carbon atoms.
Although the adhesive masses based on rubber elastomers which include a polyol, according to the teachings of this invention, are quite satisfactory insofar as reduction of skin damage is concerned, the preferred adhesive masses are based on acrylic systems. Such acrylate masses are based upon an adhesive polymer of monomers which consists essentially of a major amount of a medium chain length alkyl acrylate monomer and preferably minor amounts of cohesion-inducing short chain monomers, plus a very small amount of an alkoxy silyl cross-linking monomer polymerizable in the acrylate system.
The medium chain length alkyl acrylate monomers of this invention generally are those averaging about 4-12 carbon atoms in the alcohol moiety and include: butyl, hexyl, 2 ethylhexyl, octyl, decyl, and dodecyl acrylates and the like, alone or in combination with one another or with higher and lower alkyl acrylates. The medium chain length acrylate monomer is present in the adhesive copolymer of this invention in a major amount by weight of the total monomers, preferably in the amount of about 55-85 parts by weight of the monomers. When the term "parts" is used above and hereinafter in this application, it shall mean parts per 100 parts by weight of the total monomer solids, unless otherwise indicated.
The cohesion-inducing short chain monomers of this invention generally are selected from vinyl acetate, methyl acrylate, acrylic acid, diacetoneacrylamide, N-t-butylacrylamide, and the like, and preferably are present in the total monomers in the amount of about 10-30 parts, preferably above about 15 parts.
The alkoxy silyl cross-linking monomer of this invention may be prepared as described in U.S. Patent application Ser. No. 399,837 filed Sept. 28, 1964, and comprises an alkoxy silyl alkyl group and an unsaturated functional terminal group copolymerizable with the other monomers. This functional terminal group preferably is an acrylate or substituted acrylate group such as ##STR1## The polymerizable cross-linking alkoxy silyl alkyl groups found to be particularly effective are those having the general formula ##STR2## where R' and R" are either CH3 or CH3 CH2 and R is one of the group consisting of CH3, CH2, CH3 O and CH3 CH2 O and n is a number of 0 through 8. A preferred silyl cross-linking monomer is 3-methacryloxypropyltrimethoxy silane, i.e., ##STR3##
The amount of the silyl cross-linking monomer to be included in the copolymer depends on the exact constituents of the copolymer and the degree of cross-linking desired. Very small amounts are found to be effective. The silyl cross-linking monomer will generally be included in amounts of about 0.005 to 0.1 or 0.2 or more by weight of the total monomers with about 0.01 - 0.05 parts being preferred.
The polyol of this invention is physically incorporated in the adhesive mass in a quantity range from about 4 to 20% by weight based upon the total weight of the adhesive mass, and in preferred embodiments, about 9 to 13% by weight since this amount achieves adequate reduction of skin damage and the use of additional polyol (e.g., 14 to 20%) seems to result in an undesirable though tolerable softening of the adhesive mass. Such softening can lead under certain environmental conditions, such as high heat and humidity, to an undesirably excessive transfer of adhesive mass to the skin upon removal of the adhesive sheet.
The polyol can be blended or dispersed into the rubber or acrylate adhesive mass as a last step during the preparation of the adhesive mass or alternatively, it can be dispersed or blended with a previously prepared mass prior to applying the mass to the backing material. Generally, it is impractical to incorporate the polyol within a mass after the acrylate or rubber adhesive mass has been applied to the backing material.
The preferred procedure for incorporating or dispersing the polyol throughout the adhesive mass is to mix the polyol, at the desired weight percent, with the balance of the components comprising the adhesive mass prior to its being solvent coated, calendered or otherwise applied to the backing material.
In those adhesive masses based upon rubber elastomers which are, for example, conventionally blended in a Banbury mixer, the indicated amount of polyol is most advantageously added after blending of the other components of the adhesive mass has been completed. If a liquid component, such as for example, tricresyl phosphate is used as a softening agent as one component of the adhesive mass, the polyol is preferably dissolved or dispersed in this liquid, which then is added to the blend of the other ingredients of the adhesive mass and mixing continued until a uniform blend is obtained.
In those adhesive mass compositions based on an acrylate resin, it is the usual practice to employ a solvent coating technique in order to apply the adhesive mass to the article to be coated. In well known conventional techniques, an organic solvent, such as cyclohexane, is employed. The polyol is preferably dissolved or dispersed in such solvents and thoroughly blended into the adhesive mass just prior to applying the mass to the backing material.
The inclusion of the polyol in the adhesive mass of either a rubber based mass or an acrylic resin based mass does not alter the conventional techniques well known in the art for applying such masses to an article, such as a sheet material or film. Furthermore, the quantity of adhesive mass expressed in weight/surface area that is applied to the backing material is substantially the same as with presently known masses that do not include the polyol.
As referred to above, the backing material can be a plasticized film and may comprise a plasticized film backing of polyvinyl chloride, a copolymer of polyvinyl chloride and polyvinyl acetate, a copolymer of polyvinyl chloride and acrylonitrile and like self-supporting film materials as well as cloth and paper wherein such paper can be used alone or as carrier for a plasticized organosol.
Polyols which are suitable for inclusion in adhesive masses include the polyoxy-(C2 -C4)-alkylene glycols, the polyoxy-(C2 -C4)-alkylene sugars or sugar alcohols such as sorbitol and the C12 -C18 fatty acid esters of polyoxy (C2 -C4) alkylene sugars or sugar alcohols, such as polyoxy-ethylene sorbitol monolaurate. These polyol compounds preferably have a molecular weight in excess of 200 and can further be characteristic as having the structure ##STR4## wherein x is from about 4 to 20 and where R is H or CH3, R' is H or --CH2 --CH2 --, at least R or R' being H, and R" is H, a six carbon chain sugar or a sugar alcohol or a C12 -C18 fatty acid ester of a six carbon chain sugar or a sugar alcohol. Examples of such polyols include polyoxyethylene glycol; polyoxypropylene sorbitol monolaurate; polyoxypropylene sorbitol; polyoxybutylene glycol; polyoxyethylene sorbitol; polyoxyethylene sorbitol monolaurate; polyoxyethylene sorbitol monostearate; and polyoxypropylene mannose.
The preferred polyol is polyoxyethylene glycol having a number average molecular weight of about 400 (Carbowax 400, Union Carbide Co.)
Now having described the invention, the following examples are set forth by way of illustration.
Eight separate batches, denoted A through H, are prepared each consisting of a mixture of 120 g. of 2-ethylhexyl acrylate, 50 g. of vinyl acetate, 30 g. of N-t-butylacrylamide, 0.07 g. of 3-(trimethoxysilyl)-propyl methacrylate and 200 g. of cyclohexane. Each batch is heated to reflux under nitrogen, 0.6 g. benzoyl peroxide is added, and the reaction mixture refluxed 4 hours. The viscous solution is then diluted by stirring in an additional 100 g. of cyclohexane and the reaction mixture cooled.
To each of the respective batches, A through H, is added 0.1 g. dioctyl tin maleate (Thermolite 813 -- M&T Chemicals Co.) together with the additives set forth below. In order to achieve proper dispersion of the added components, they are premixed with a small quantity (e.g., 30 ml) of isopropanol before adding to the batch.
______________________________________Batch Additive______________________________________A NoneB 50g. polyoxyethylene (20)* sorbitol monolaurate (Tween 20 SD Atlas Chemical Industries)C 50g. polyoxypropylene (12)* sorbitol (G-2451 Atlas Chemical Industries)D 10g. polyoxyethylene (8)* glycol (Carbowax 400 Union Carbide)E 20g. polyoxyethylene (8)* glycol (Carbowax 400 Union Carbide)F 30g. polyoxyethylene (8)* glycol (Carbowax 400 Union Carbide)G 40g. polyoxyethylene (8)* glycol (Carbowax 400 Union Carbide)H 50g. polyoxyethylene (8)* glycol (Carbowax 400 Union Carbide)______________________________________ *the number refers to the number average of ethyleneoxide units.
Each adhesive was then solvent coated in a conventional manner to provide 1 oz/yd2 of adhesive on a film backing material having the following composition:
______________________________________ Parts______________________________________Polyvinyl chloride 100Plasticizer 66Stabilizer 3.3______________________________________
The coated tape is then cured by heating in an oven at 340° F. for 2 minutes.
To ascertain any differences in skin damage, 1×3 inch samples of each of the six tapes were applied to the backs of human volunteer subjects. Each day for 7 days the tapes were removed and reapplied. On days 1, 2, 3, 4 and 7 visual observations of skin damage were noted. The results are tabulated below.
______________________________________ VisualTape Percent DeterminationWith Polyol In Mass Of Skin Damage______________________________________Mass A 0 SevereMass D 4.8 ModerateMass E 9.1 ModerateMass F 13.0 Very littleMass G 16.7 Very littleMass H 20.0 Very little______________________________________
Samples of each of the tapes were placed on the backs of eight subjects and changed daily for 7 days. Transepidermal water loss readings were taken on the tape covered areas and on a normal skin site on days 4 and 7 of the test period. The mean (actual amount of skin damage) figures are reported below.
______________________________________ TWL, mg/cm2 /hourTape With 4th day 7th day______________________________________Mass A 1.82 3.63Mass B 0.32 0.39Mass C 0.25 0.34Mass H 0.20 0.24______________________________________
Three separate batches of an adhesive mass having the composition 120 g. 2-ethylhexyl acrylate, 50 g. vinylacetate, 15 g. t-butylacrylamide, and 0.09 g. 3-(trimethoxysilyl)propyl methacrylate are prepared as in Example I, including the addition of the dioctyl tin maleate. To the first batch no polyoxyethylene glycol is added, to the second batch 20 g. of polyoxyethylene glycol (Carbowax 400) is added and to the third batch 30 g. of polyoxyethylene glycol (Carbowax 400) is added. The adhesive mass is applied in the usual manner to a polyvinyl film plasticized with an intermediate molecular weight polyester plasticizer, tricresyl phosphate, and stabilized with dibutyl tin maleate and Epoxy A-5. The Epoxy A-5 is a monomeric low molecular weight diepoxide formed by condensing epichlorohydrin with bisphenol-A. After application of the adhesive mass, the film is then cured as in Example I.
Bandages produced from this film were sterilized and tested for TWL at 4 and 7 days in the same manner as before, the results being reported below.
______________________________________ Mean TWL (mg/hr/cm2)Bandage 4th day 7th day______________________________________Mass + 0 phr polyoxyethyleneglycol .98 4.03Mass + 10 phr polyoxyethyleneglycol .33 .82Mass + 15 phr polyoxyethyleneglycol .45 .57______________________________________
These bandages were tested for the amount of force required for their removal from the skin of volunteer human subjects and it was found that there was no significant difference between the force required to remove the bandages from these subjects' skin, as set forth below:
______________________________________Mean Removal Force (grams) of Tapes PlacedOn Human SkinTapes Mean Force______________________________________Mass + 0 phr polyoxyethyleneglycol 162.5Mass + 10 phr polyoxyethyleneglycol 160.0Mass + 15 phr polyoxyethyleneglycol 145.0______________________________________
These bandages in actual wear test conditions after 24 hours, have substantially identical wear properties.
Two batches of the adhesive mass of Example II are prepared including 0 and 13% by weight respectively of polyoxyethylene glycol (Carbowax 600) having a number average molecular weight of 600. These separate batches are coated on the film backing set forth in Example II and cured.
Two batches of an adhesive mass having the formula
______________________________________2-ethylhexyl acrylate 70 partsvinyl acetate 30 parts3-(trimethoxysilyl)-propylmethacrylate 0.02 parts______________________________________
are prepared including 0% and 13% by weight polyoxyethylene glycol (Carbowax 400). These masses were likewise coated on the film backing set forth in Example II, and cured.
Two batches of an adhesive mass having the formula
______________________________________2-ethylhexyl acrylate 60 partsvinyl acetate 25 partsdiacetone acrylamide 15 parts3-(trimethoxysilyl)-propylmethacrylate 0.045 parts______________________________________
are prepared, including 0% and 13% polyoxyethylene glycol (Carbowax 400) respectively. These masses were likewise coated on the film backing set forth in Example II and cured.
Two batches of an adhesive composition comprising a blend of natural rubber and polyisobutylene tackified with a polyterpene resin are prepared. The first batch contained no polyoxyethylene glycol. The second batch contained 13% by weight of polyoxyethylene glycol (Carbowax 400). This batch was likewise coated on the film backing of Example II.
The tapes prepared in Examples III through VI are applied to the skin of human volunteer subjects and the TWL recorded after the 4th and 7th days. The results are reported below.
______________________________________ TWL (mg/hr/cm2) DayTape from %Example Polyol 4th 7th______________________________________III 0 1.18 3.29 13 0.81 2.46IV 0 0.96 2.65 13 0.66 2.34V 0 0.70 4.59 13 0.56 2.17VI 0 1.12 3.95 13 0.70 2.90______________________________________
From the foregoing illustrative examples, it will be appreciated that the preferred polyol is polyoxyethylene glycol (Carbowax 400) employed at a concentration of 13% by weight dispersed in an adhesive mass coated upon a backing material.
It further can be appreciated that the inclusion of a polyol substantially reduces the degree of skin damage. The invention is not limited, however, to the specific embodiments set forth in the examples, and modifications or variations thereof, in light of the foregoing disclosure, will be apparent and are intended to be included within the scope of the appended claims.
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For the first time in a while I found something useful on the site of the National Catholic Fishwrap!
Headline: Oldest and most distant object in the universe discovered
No, this isn’t about Richard McBrien or even Joan Chittister.
Fishwrap is referring to a story in The Daily Mail about how astronomers using a big telescope have spotted a galaxy so far away that it has taken 13.1 billion years for its light to reach us. That means that we are now seeing the galaxy as it was 13.1 billion years ago, or when it was only 600 million years old.
After reading about that galaxy far far away…. I also learned about a really cool green comet!
Hmmm… that’s portentous.
I don’t know what effect this will have on The Vortex.
I must have some …
When you’ve had a hard day trying to figure out why people still pay attention to really old liberals, … and when you figure out you’ve just fallen into the trap of caring what they think and could kick yourself for driving traffic to their site … have a nice piping hot mug of Mystic Monk Coffee.
That’s right! With Mystic Monk Coffee, you’ll soon get rid of that nasty metallic taste left after reading that paper and replace it with sumptuous java goodness provided by… you know it… real live monks!
Refresh your supply now!
Mystic Monk Coffee.
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Contemporary dance is a genre of new dance that emerged during the middle of the 20th century. It has taken elements from various other styles of dance (classical ballet, urban dance, country line dancing, folk dancing, ...) and brought them up to date. Not to be confused with Modern dance, Contemporary dance master classes are similar in terms of style and technique but from a slightly different perspective.
Prospective new students should also note that Contemporary dancing is not a form of freestyle showcase dancing; precise placement and technical movements are combined to create strong and controlled legs, feet, arms, torso and hip work. So if you thought this dance program suited you because you could just go in the door and let yourself go, doing what the music tells you to do, you were wrong! That said, the broad and expressive nature of dance moves in Contemporary dance does mean that you can be more liberal and inventive with your dance choreography.
If you watch renowned reality talent shows like Britain's Got Talent, you will no doubt have noticed a rise in popularity in dance acts, many of whom perform Contemporary dances to modern music. If you take the time to listen to their stories, it will be revealed that they show huge amounts of commitment to their art form, spending hours of their day rehearsing and perfecting each and every move in their lyrical dance, no matter how free and uplifting their performance looks on the day.
Contemporary dancers can be solo artists however many choose to perform alongside others and become a resident member of a dance act partnership or group, as it offers more opportunities to impress their audience with lifts and other tricks which rely on other bodies.
History: Where Did Contemporary Dance Come From?
Contemporary dance is particularly popular in Europe and America, with American dancer Merce Cunningham being the first dance choreography expert to become set on developing a modern dance idea.
Moving away from the linear elements and traditions that seemed to confine dancers to certain movements, Cunningham and his followers used everything in the performance - sounds and light as a means of expression and unpredictable changes in speed, rhythm and direction to get the emotional message across - to characterise this newfound dancing style.
Gone were limitations of Western dances, and in were new influences from other extraordinary contemporary dance nations like Africa (which offered a bent knees style) and Japan (which too offered unique movements).
Cunningham set up his own dance company, the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, in the mid-twentieth century and went on to choreograph in excess of 150 works which have been seen performed on stage by ballet dance companies and modern dance troupes, a major achievement for the experimental dancer and a great way to raise continuing awareness of the groundbreaking dance technique.
Other pioneers of what is know today as Contemporary dance are Ruth St. Denis, Doris Humphrey, Mary Wigman, Francois Delsarte, Émile Jaques-Dalcroze, Paul Taylor, Rudolph von Laban, Loie Fuller, Jose Limon and Marie Rambert.
Since the mid-1900s, and more so than ever in the present moment, Contemporary dance has grown in popularity and is being performed in a variety of clubs, venues, nightclubs, stage performances, online videos, talent shows and competitions as well as featuring in many modern dancing films.
Contemporary dance has much in common with rock n' roll dance styles.
Techniques And Principles Of Contemporary Dance
Many could easily be fooled into thinking that Contemporary dance because it doesn't follow as strict a set of rules as some more traditional dances, needs no choreography. However, a choreographer or artistic director dramatically influences the talented members of a Contemporary dance company and makes decisions about the purpose of the piece they are working to reflect (i.e. if it is to be an abstract form of art or if it should narrate a story).
Furthermore, dancers are not just any trained performers; they are carefully selected and awarded a placement on the dance training program based on their skills and abilities along with their previous level of training and its relevance. Contemporary dancers will, therefore, have undergone a lengthy selection path before being chosen as a member of a particular dance academy.
Music plays a very important role in any Contemporary dance demonstration (as the dance is choreographed to relate to it and its message), as do costumes and outfits which are like supporting acts because they can influence the appearance of dancers' movements and thus make the show appear even more innovative.
When it comes to technique, Contemporary dancers use specific modern dancing techniques, along with some traditional elements and a number of non-dance related practices too (for instance, the posture and movements in mime, yoga and Pilates are often drawn on as well as performance attributes like improvisation, the Graham technique, the Humphrey-Weidman technique, the Alexander technique and the Horton technique).
Many successful Contemporary dancers have gone on to open up dance training schools and academies to spread their passion for the genre and help to turn upcoming stars into dynamic professional dancers.
Famous Contemporary Dancers
Just like Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers were masters of the Ballroom and tap dance floors, Contemporary dance has its own collection of megastars who have found fame internationally in the twentieth century or afterwards.
Isadora Duncan (1877-1927) is a great example of one of these strong female figures in Contemporary dance. One of the most recognised dancers in the history of Contemporary dance, Duncan threw out the rule book when it came to classical dance and stood out in her modern approach and innovation to create a new unique style. She was greatly influenced by Greek culture and admired their natural movements and expression from within. Today, she is known as the 'mother of modern dance' and has taught many a beginner to dream big.
Martha Graham (1894-1991) is another important figure in this dancing discipline, A dancer, a choreographer and a teacher of modern Contemporary dance, she created movements based on emotions, using contracting and releasing with sharp and angular movements to portray a feeling. The Martha Graham Dance Academy (also known as the Martha Graham Academy of Dance) is still operating in America today, one of the oldest dance schools of the country.
There were and are, of course, many more dancers who influenced and continue to develop the Contemporary dance tradition, with just some of these contributors being: Martha Clarke, Virginia Tanner, Travis Wall, Dada Masilo, Terence Lewis, Sang Jijia and Tadashi Endo, Dominique Bagouet, Neerav Bavlecha, Jérôme Bel, Sérgio Benvindo Júnior, Charlie Bruce and Claude Brumachon.
Contemporary Dance Classes Near Me
Across the country are many dance studios specialising in the art of dance, with Contemporary dance being one of the branches that offer lessons in. However, London is one of the best places to learn how to dance in this modern way in the United Kingdom. If you are based in the capital, then all you need to do is run a quick Internet search for 'dance classes near me' to find some of the top schools of dance in your area. However, to save you time, we've picked out a few for you below.
London Contemporary Dance School, based in Kings Cross, is one of the most popular and highly-rated dance schools of its type, not only in the capital. It is referred to by Google as a 4.2/5.0 star establishment and forms a parts of the Conservatoire for Dance and Drama. Not a dance studio that encourages drop ins, this top dance college offers higher level dance education, qualifying graduates in the art of dance. Students work on the theory of art, the history of dance and on developing artistic performances.
Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance is also a highly-rated dance academy on Google which, as its name suggests, offers dance tuition in all aspects of ballet, from classical ballet to contemporary ballet, along with other Contemporary dance styles. The Twickenham-based school of dance offers inspirational and life-transforming tuition for students who wish to become a professional dancer or performer and pursue a career in the Contemporary dance world.
However, if it is evening group workshops you are after or private dance lessons you are looking for, then you may be interested to know that many dance clubs or gymnastics centres offer Contemporary dancing classes in their studios, payable weekly or in a block semester by semester. So, you can learn to dance the principal steps and sequences of a Contemporary dance under the instruction of an experienced educator.
What Do You Wear When Starting Contemporary Dance Classes?
As we've discovered, the costumes worn during Contemporary performance ensembles can be just as important as the music you dance to. Costumes accentuate movements and motions and can be used to enhance certain postures and positions or to create emotion (i.e. soft flowing chiffon-style fabrics will be more romantic than tight-fitting clothing).
But if you are more concerned with what to wear on your first day at a your contemporary dance classes near me than telling a story or emphasising a line, then you might like to know that, in the studio for rehearsals, outfits vary from dancer to dancer. Many new students will wear a leotard with leggings or spandex shorts over the top, whilst others will wear yoga pants and a tank top or training bra (for women). You usually have the choice to go barefoot or wear some dancing shoes like jazz shoes or ballet shoes. It is not recommended to wear socks or shoes with no grip as you could cause yourself an injury on the smooth studio floor.
If in any doubt, contact your dance instructor or the leader of the dance workshop you are enrolled on as many studios will have their own set of rules for guidance or at least be able to offer a recommendation.
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Once upon a time, a citizen-created park existed at the busy corner of Voltaire Street and Sunset Cliffs Boulevard. It had been created and then was maintained by folks from the Ocean Beach Grassroots Organization and supporters.
After the departure of the last business at the location – on property owned by World Oil – the lot had become an eye-sore with weeds and trash strewed about. Without authorization from the City or World Oil, OBGO took it over, uprooting the weeds, dealing with the junk, picking up the old asphalt, and planting flowers, trees and bushes. And watering it.
This went on for a couple of years. Over that time, OBGO worked with the City and World Oil to remove more debris and keep up the appearances for the neighborhood. A couple of memorials – one for Stephanie, and another for Danny Woodard – were put in.
Then one day, without warning, bulldozers, workers and a van of police arrived. They quickly threw up a fence, bulldozed everything. And now the lot still stands as an eyesore.
These shots were taken by Marc Snelling.
Here is the May 2203 issue of the OB Rag:
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Mouse monoclonal antibody raised against native CD4.
Native human peripheral blood leukemia T-cells.
Theoretical MW (kDa):
This antibody recognizes an epitope EF loop of D1 domain of CD4 antigen, a 55KDa transmebrane glycoprotein expressed on a subset of T lymphocytes (helper T-cells) and also on monocytes, tissue macrophages and granulocytes.
Flow Cytometry (10 ug/mL) The optimal working dilution should be determined by the end user.
In PBS, pH 7.4 (15 mM sodium azide)
Store at 4°C. Do not freeze.
This product contains sodium azide: a POISONOUS AND HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE which should be handled by trained staff only.
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Houseplants rely on us to supply nutrients needed through the application of fertilizers.
Under-fertilized houseplants often show symptoms of slow growth, weak stems, pale leaves and reduced flowering.
Every plant is different, but most of the plants need to be fertilized from spring through summer, usually once a month.
Wait for a month or longer before fertilizing newly purchased or freshly repotted plants.
Plant’s soil mix already contains fertilizer and before we add more we need to give plants the time to acclimate to their new pot and home.
Be careful not to use too much of fertilizer, even half of suggested dosage is enough for any plant. Please watch the video below to see how to fertilize your plant.
If you have any questions about plants, planters, plant care or delivery, please don’t hesitate to contact us at firstname.lastname@example.org.
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Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations" is not only a great founding text of economics, but a deep well of knowledge about how society functions in its manifold ways. His historical analysis of warfare is a case point.
Traditionally, civilization is divided into three stages: hunter-gatherer, agricultural, and industrial. Smith, however, argues that there's an important intermediate stage that is often overlooked, which has exerted an enormous influence of world history, and deserves to be recognized in its own right. This is the stage of civilization which he calls the nations of shepherds, or the sheepherding society.
Sheepherding societies are nomadic societies that tend huge flocks of animals, whether it be sheep, horses, or cattle. They wander from region to region, letting their herds exhaust a grass-field before moving onto the next. Unlike hunter/gatherer societies, sheepherding societies are masters of their own fate, their survival depending on their ability to maintain their herds.
In terms of pre-industrial warfare, sheep-herding armies are the most lethal. Unlike hunter/gatherer societies, sheepherding societies have the capacity to form war-making juggernauts that easily over-run agricultural civilizations surrounding them. Most members of a sheep-herding society are used to outdoor mobilization. They can handle weapons and the society offers little opportunity but to herd sheep or fight wars. But most importantly, as logistics is the heart of warfare, sheepherding armies have a decided mobilization advantage as they do not have to worry about maintaining a supply-line because their food source – sheep – carry themselves along on the journey .
Smith argues that sheepherding societies are also economically incentivized to form even more strongly hierarchal societies than agricultural societies. The reason is that the limited diversity in production for sheepherding societies means the only outlet for a sheepherding king to accrue wealth can only be expressed in terms of more sheep or more soldiers. There are no pretty trinkets, golden treasures and magnificent buildings that he can spend his wealth on. As such, the economic incentive for a successful king to show his wealth is to increase the size of his herd and soldiers under his tutelage – the perfect ingredients for building an army. Although sheepherding societies are naturally primed for warfare, most of the time, they fritter away their strength in an unending cycle of internal wars.
Smith argues that many of the great empires in history have originated from sheep-herding societies – the Aryans that conquered Assyria, the Mongols, and the early Islamic empire. These are examples where a particular powerful and charismatic leader manages to unite a large group of sheep-herding tribes, thus forging a mobile battle-ram through the agricultural regions around them. It is no accident that these are all sheepherding societies that have embraced the horse. Allegedly the Aryans brought the chariot, whilst the Mongols were masters of the horse. Whilst history books may seem surprised by the humble sheep-herding origins of these empires, Smith argues that it is almost inevitable given the socio-economic advantages of building empires on the back of a sheep.comments powered by Disqus
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I have a friend who is an engineer, and I am an artist. She and I have vastly differering jobs but last night I almost ventured into her world. With paper.
It was a New Zealand Book Month event run by The Wellington Children’s Book Association and featured the wonderful collector of pop-up books (amongst other interesting antiquities) Trevor Morley and myself. Trevor has a fantastic collection of books from rare collector's items by Ernest Nister through to amazing Star Wars pop ups complete with light sabres! The young boys in the audience were entranced by the books and all thoughts of Playstation were gone from their heads as they contemplated the mechanics involved in the engineering before them.
Trevor also had an 'Adult' selection which required a driver’s license and proof of age to view. Much giggling was heard in the corner (oh, was that from me?) as pop ups of all sorts abounded. Trevor was a former vice squad cop, so he was at pains to make sure that no one was accidentally offended or over educated by a mistaken viewing.
I turned my hand to simple engineering and showed how to make words pop up to make simple and effective greeting cards, then went on to a larger project; making a pop up diorama of The Red Poppy; the book that has occupied my illustration career for a few months past. Everyone got to make a smaller black and white version of it too, with the help of the Storylines scissors and glue sticks kit that we use each year for arts and crafts at the festival day.
I promised the enthusiastic audience some links to useful sites that show how to make pop ups.
Here they are:
Extreme Cards: this one has all the different sorts of cards you will ever need- very useful! It also has a pattern for the Volvelle; the disappearing picture- a bit tricky to get right but worth persevering with
Popular Kinetics is another useful site- I particularly like the ‘make your own Occupy tent’ one. This site has lots of card ideas- just click on all the pages and occupy yourself for hours!
And, if you want to make a Red Poppy scenario this is how you do it:
1) Download the pictures below and print out 2 copies of the background image and one of the characters. The line image is a guide for tracing onto the back of one of the backgrounds.
2) Fold and crease the backgrounds images in half one way and then the other so they it fold easily either way.
3) On ONE of the background images, cut along the solid lines (not the dotted ones)
4) Fold and crease along the dotted lines and make sure they bend from either side easily
5) Open it up and push the cut areas out so they form box shapes; this is what you'll glue your other character pieces to. Lay it down flat again for the next bit.
6) Cut out Jim, Nipper and the poppies and glue them to the front of the 'boxes' you have pushed out.
7) Glue the other background to the back of the pop up, making sure you don't glue it to the box parts that pop out!
8) Open it all up and there you go! Jim on the battlefield heading towards the patch of poppies in No Man's Land and Nipper the brave little messenger dog, waiting to rescue him!
Now go to the Children's Bookshop in Kilbirnie and buy a copy- it'll help keep me and David Hill working to produce some more lovely things to look and read :)
Happy NZ Book Month everyone!
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By Aaron Chaze
With its fifth rate rise of the year India's central bank, the Reserve Bank of India, launched another attack on inflation last month. The bank upped its key rate to 6.0% from 5.75% in the face of inflation that, depending on which ministry of commerce inflation measure is employed, is either firmly lodged in double figures or is easing back to just under 10%. The central bank also signaled that it might continue to raise rates depending on the inflation situation in the coming months. Further wage and price inflation could be expected, the bank admitted, as industrial production surged by 13.8% and merchandise exports grew by 22.5% year-on-year in July. India's GDP expanded by 8.8% in the April-June 2010 quarter.
India's cabinet approved a proposal to introduce options on commodities reversing a six-decade old ban on options trading. At present Indian commodity exchanges are allowed to trade only futures contracts, which were introduced in 2003. However, financial institutions and foreign investors are still not allowed to participate in the commodity markets. Before the options are introduced the Indian parliament will need to approve the cabinet decision.
Fighting back: India’s central bank is battling inflation
The Indian government is also pushing ahead with plans to sell its stakes in two major corporations, Coal India and Steel Authority of India. In the case of the Steel Authority of India, the largest steelmaker in India, the company will sell 5.0%, and the Indian government will sell an additional 5.0% of its own holding. The government may raise as much as $3.3 billion from the sale of shares in the Coal India IPO, which would make the sale the nation's largest IPO. The government has a target of nearly $10 billion from its privatization program for the 2010–2011 fiscal year, and it has barely raised $500 million in stake sales so far this year, so expectations will be high from these two pending stake sales before the end of the year.
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Submitted to: Autumn Immunology Conference Proceedings
Publication Type: Abstract Only
Publication Acceptance Date: September 19, 2011
Publication Date: November 18, 2011
Citation: Loving, C.L., Vincent, A.L., Brockmeier, S.L., Henningson, J.N., Braucher, D.R., De Souza Rajao, D. 2011. Host response to secondary bacterial infection associated with antecedent influenza virus infection in pigs - exacerbation associated with vaccination [abstract]. Autumn Immunology Conference. Poster No. 140. Technical Abstract: The increasing number of annual influenza (IAV) cases, coupled with the recent IAV pandemic, has amplified concerns about its impact on human and animal health. It is appreciated that Flu is complicated by bacterial pneumonia. Vaccine-associated enhanced respiratory disease (VAERD) can occur following IAV vaccine/challenge mismatch in pigs, and may explain increased disease severity observed in vaccinated people during the 2009 pandemic. Using a working VAERD model in conjunction with secondary bacterial (bacT) challenge, we evaluated implications of VAERD and bacterial pneumonia. Pigs were challenged with pH1N1 IAV and one day later with a bacT cocktail of Haemophilus, Streptococcus and Actinobacillus. A subset of IAV challenged pigs was vaccinated with a killed-adjuvanted whole-influenza virus vaccine (H1N2). Disease was more severe in coinfected (IAV/bacT) pigs, regardless of vaccination, through day 5 post-IAV challenge. However, IL-1b, IL-6, TNFa, IFNg, IL-10 and IL-2 were significantly increased in the lungs of VAERD/bacT pigs. Pathogen load cannot explain observed differences, but instead, VAERD likely predisposes to exacerbated responses to bacT through aberrant recruitment and activation of cells.
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Northern Ireland’s First Minister Peter Robinson has urged loyalists to back the Good Friday agreement after another night of violence in East Belfast.
Flag protest riots left 29 police officers injured as Robinson appealed for calm.
First Minister Robinson has warned that the present unrest is costing the North’s economy millions of dollars and seriously damaging the tourism industry.
He has also stated that the only way to end violence in Northern Ireland is through the political process.
Robinson condemned those responsible for injuring dozens of police officers but claimed the protesters have become alienated.
Speaking to the BBC, Stormont leader Robinson said: “There are political issues and people that feel disengaged and people that feel if we are trying to build a shared future they are not getting their share.
“We took some difficult decisions, some might say historic decisions to build a shared society in Northern Ireland.
“I think it is important to tell the wider community in Northern Ireland and our friends in the rest of the United Kingdom that we are not giving up on that.
“We are very much of the view that we are determined that we build the kind of society where everybody can have a peaceful and stable existence.”
Robinson and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness are due to meet with the British and Irish governments this week.
He added: “We will make it very clear to both governments the condemnation that exists in the wider Northern Ireland community for the violence.”
Northern Ireland police chief Matt Baggott has praised the courage of his officers injured in another night of violence as riots broke out in east Belfast between republicans and loyalists returning from a protest at Belfast City Hall.
Chief constable Baggott said: “This was a difficult operation dealing with a large number of people determined to cause disorder and violence.
“My colleagues brought the situation under control with exceptional courage and professionalism.
“The vast majority of people are grateful for their efforts as fireworks, bricks and other missiles rained down on officers on duty last night.”
A spokesman for one of the groups behind the protests has said people should avoid demonstrations, if they need to visit places like hospitals.
His statement follows an incident in Rathcoole when a pensioner was blocked from getting to a hospital to visit his seriously ill wife.
Wayne Gilmore from the United Protestant Voice said: “Disruption is inevitable during the street protests and people should bear this in mind.”
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In a time when so much news seems to be bad, it can be difficult to embrace the spirit of Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving for what? Unemployment? A dysfunctional Congress? Continuing recession? Personal health problems? Rising prices on everything?
Fortunately, we have a suggestion. It won’t cure unemployment or inflation, but it can help you focus, for one day at least, on the positives in your life and instill a little thankfulness for blessings great and small.
Before you sit down to dinner today, inform those gathered that they will be asked, when dessert is served, to name something for which they are thankful.
Alerting them in advance gives them time to ponder their answers. It will give parents a moment for a brief discussion with a young child about possible responses. Because nobody — nobody — gets out of this.
When the last piece of pumpkin pie is served, the host announces the time has come to give thanks. He or she will be first to say, “I am thankful for … ” The person next to the host goes next, and so on around the table until everyone has spoken.
The most senior members may give thanks for having those who mean most to them around the table, while a 7-year-old may express thanks for extra whipped cream on his pie. A newly widowed member may express thanks for the years spent with a now-departed spouse, while a mother of adult children might give thanks that all her children made the effort to be here today.
A 12-year-old may say she’s thankful so many of her relatives are present, as she hopes it will increase her chances of getting an iPad Mini for Christmas. A 16-year-old may give thanks for his smartphone so he can text his friends about this dorky tradition his parents have started.
In between will be thanks for the fine food, for the blessings of grandchildren, for landing a job, for passing a math test, for the companionship of a pet, for the victory of one’s favorite team.
Those with a military family member serving abroad may be thankful for the shrinking number of days until his or her return. Someone is bound to express thanks for simply living in America.
The rewards of this exercise are immediate. You may even decide to make it a permanent tradition — the 16-year-old’s tweets notwithstanding.
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One of the most sought-after fish species for home aquariums is the angelfish.
This tropical fish is available in numerous colors and sizes, making it popular among aquarists. Moreover, they can live for several years and reproduce rapidly.
But when it comes to caring for angelfish eggs you’ll have to deal with various factors, providing just the right conditions for them to breed. So, today we’ve highlighted all the essential points related to angelfish and answered some of the most common queries to help you.
Let’s get started, shall we?
Do Angelfish Lay Eggs?
Fish either lay eggs or give birth to their live young ones, and angelfish belong to the former category. Female angelfish lay eggs after they are fully grown, producing 100-1,000 eggs at a time, depending on their size.
Also, if you remove the eggs right away, the female will lay a new set of eggs within two weeks. However, leaving the eggs ensures that the female angelfish won’t reproduce until you relocate the eggs to a new tank.
Angelfish eggs stages
Angelfish undertake a brief yet elaborate breeding process right from laying the eggs to the time they hatch. So, note the following points to be well informed.
Tidying The Breeding Area
Angelfish begin cleaning the fish tank with the intention of breeding. Mating angelfish make it a point to tidy up the spawning site so that the female can lay the eggs.
They are quite meticulous in this process, and it could last for a day. However, that doesn’t mean that the breeding area won’t change in the future.
So, what are some of the egg-laying hotspots for angelfish? Well, any feature like the heater, tank wall, or even removable plants proves suitable for a cozy home.
Many people place a designated breeding slate in the tank, which the angelfish might find convenient for laying eggs. If so, you can safely remove the eggs to a different tank before they hatch.
Laying The Eggs
After the spawning area is spick and span, the female fish springs into action, laying all her eggs vertically. Like a well-oiled machine, the male quickly follows suit, and fertilizes the eggs by brushing them.
You’ll find several translucent eggs, smaller than a needle’s eye, sticking to the spawning area.
The period between laying and hatching is a crucial time, and this is when you can help as the caretaker. You must remember that angelfish breed only when the tank conditions are just right. And they are easily spooked, so it would help to avoid sudden movements or any changes to the tank condition.
Understandably, some people place the fertilized eggs in a smaller tank. After that, it’s important that you conduct a water change for ¼th volume of the tank daily if possible, providing the ideal conditions for hatching.
Moreover, constant monitoring is vital, and you need to remove the unfertilized eggs, thereby protecting the healthy ones.
Sixty hours after laying the eggs, the larva reaches one of its pre-hatching stages. As the larvae start to develop, you’ll find them curling their body around the yolk sac.
Additionally, the eggs’ color changes to a transparent hue, but other developments like blood flow and heartbeat are only visible under microscopes.
Wiggling the Eggs
If all goes according to plan, you’ll find baby angelfish wiggling inside the eggs, meaning fertilization was successful. The babies attach themselves to the egg’s yolk at this stage, which is eaten by them to develop vital organs.
The Fry Are Born
After 3-4 days, the larvae hatch from their eggs and are known as angelfish fry. All you need to do is feed them microorganisms, often found inside the tank, and monitor their growth.
What Do Angelfish Eggs Look Like?
Angelfish eggs are extremely small and look like very tiny pearls, not larger than a needle hole. At the right temperature, the female will give birth to sticky, translucent eggs that slowly turn transparent, thanks to the proper fertilization.
How To Tell If Angelfish Eggs Are Fertilized?
The best way to determine whether the angelfish eggs are fertilized is by looking at their color. It usually varies between amber and brown, which is a clear indication of their health.
However, if the color turns white, it means that there is something wrong. You may still manage to rescue the eggs, but the key is to be proactive. It’s essential to be vigilant and monitor how the color changes so that you can prevent unfertilized eggs from damaging the good ones.
What Does It Mean When Angelfish Eggs Turn White?
If the angelfish eggs turn white, it’s a sign that things have gone downhill. When you find the color changing to opaque white, focus on saving the healthy eggs.
Usually, opaque white eggs are a sign of fungal infections, but there may be other factors as well, which we’ll discuss in the following section. The key is to closely monitor the eggs for signs of infertility.
What Can Cause Angelfish Eggs To Change Color?
Now, let’s discuss why eggs produced by angelfish parents sometimes change color; you can note these points to develop a clear idea.
At times, you may fall victim to a classic case of “mistaken identity” since both male and female angelfish look the same. Female angelfish have the unique ability to lay eggs irrespective of whether there are male fish in the tank.
So, if you fail to have no male fish in the tank, the eggs remain unfertilized. This causes them to turn white and die due to the fast-spreading fungus.
As mentioned, sometimes it’s important to remove angelfish eggs, in community tank to a separate enclosure. However, this is a sensitive process, and you need to follow the correct procedure.
So, try not to keep the eggs out of the water for too long, which is only possible if you keep the new tank ready. If the eggs turn white after relocation, it points to a fungal infection or infertility.
The best way to spot infertility is if the eggs fail to attain the amber color, instead they turn white straight away. It’s a sign that the male is infertile, and the only solution is attempting to breed a different pair of fish.
Negative Water Conditions
Another factor that has nothing to do with the fish but impacts fertilization nonetheless is the water condition. Too much ammonia or nitrates proves detrimental as both the parents and the fry find it challenging to adjust to the water. Hence, the eggs turn white.
It’s vital to regulate water circulation inside the tank, creating the ideal conditions for fertilization. Start by keeping the breeding slate in one corner of the tank, far from the surface pump.
Proceed to ensure that the water circulation doesn’t stagnate, leading to impurities while depriving the fish of oxygen. Similarly, heavy circulation will wash the sperm off the eggs, meaning it’s critical to strike the right balance.
The primary reason for angelfish eggs turning opaque white is a fungal infection. All the above factors could result in fungus attacking the eggs, meaning you need to be watchful. Also, keep the water clean and wash both tanks before transferring the eggs.
If there are more white eggs than healthy eggs, it would help to add a fungicide, such as methylene blue. There’s no guarantee, but you might be able to save some of the eggs.
How Long Does It Take For Angelfish Eggs To Hatch?
Angelfish reproduce fast, and the eggs hatch without any hassle if you provide them with the right temperature conditions. For instance, it would be best to maintain the temperature at 80 degrees Fahrenheit to quicken the process.
Overall, it takes around 60 hours for the eggs to develop, followed by a larval stage where it remains attached to a yolk for nourishment. Once each larva can fend for itself, it takes them 3-5 days to become free-swimming fry.
How To Remove Unfertilized Angelfish Eggs?
You must remove unfertilized angelfish eggs, preventing them from infecting the few good ones. Now, these tiny eggs are extremely delicate, so you need to use tweezers to separate the fertile eggs from the rest.
Take the breeding slate to the new tank and gently remove the fertile eggs with a pair of tweezers, dropping them onto any suitable surface. Then it’s all about providing the right conditions for hatching.
How To Prevent Angelfish From Eating The Eggs?
Aquarists who breed angelfish in community tank need to prevent other angelfish from eating the eggs. It’s usually a sign of stress, and there are even reports of the pregnant fish eating its own eggs.
There might be several reasons for this, such as inexperienced aquarists, too much commotion surrounding the tank, and unfavorable water conditions. Naturally, it would be a good idea to choose a quiet and comfortable corner of your home to place the tank, ensuring that the fish can relax.
Also, like humans, angelfish parents need a couple of tries before they learn the skills of raising the fry. So, if they don’t give birth to fertilized eggs in the first few attempts, you must remain patient.
Furthermore, clean the tank and maintain the ideal water temperature and make the fish feel at home. Not to mention, you need to feed them well to reduce their appetite so that they don’t eat their own eggs.
How To Care For Angelfish Eggs?
To take care of angelfish eggs, you need to follow these steps.
Preparing A Breeding Tank
It would be best to have a separate breeding tank so that you can remove the eggs right away. Doing so increases their chances of survival as parents are the first threat they face.
Then just like the adult angelfish, you need to ensure that fungus, debris, and other impurities don’t harm the eggs. You’ll need to act as the primary caregiver until they hatch.
Acclimatise The Eggs
When moving the eggs to the breeding tank, it’s essential that the conditions don’t change. This entails keeping the new tank ready one day before the transfer so that the conditions are as similar as possible.
Overall, the water temperature should be between 72 and 82 degrees Fahrenheit, while the pH range must lie between 6.8 and 7.8. Also, angelfish eggs dry fast, meaning you need to shift them in a water container.
We suggest installing an active filter, removing the tank of impurities. It speeds up the breeding process, ensuring that the babies will hatch in no time.
Daily maintenance is a must, along with removing damaged eggs to prevent the spread of the fungus. Hence, it would help to add any suitable fungicide to arrest the spread of the disease.
Managing Water Flow
Although you need to install a filter, you must purchase one based on the tank’s size. If the filter is too large, the sperm will wash away while the small filter fails to remove debris. You could also use the air stone, which is part of the air pump, to oxygenate the eggs.
How Many Eggs Do Angelfish Lay at Once?
There are different strands of angelfish that vary in size. So, depending upon these two factors, angelfish can lay anywhere between 100 and 1,000 eggs.
How often do angelfish lay eggs?
Pregnant angelfish can lay eggs every two weeks or even less than that if you remove the eggs right after reproduction. In case you decide to leave them in the tank, the parents won’t breed until you remove the eggs
Where Do Angelfish Lay Their Eggs?
Angelfish lay eggs in any spot that they can clean thoroughly. Be it a removable leaf, the tank heater, breeding slate, or even the tank walls; female angelfish lay eggs in rows on vertical surfaces.
Do Angelfish Lay Eggs Without a Male?
The female angelfish might be able to lay eggs without a male, but without a partner to fertilize them, the eggs may eventually die. It may so happen that you fail to distinguish between the male and female fish or the female chooses the wrong partner.
Other factors like the number of fish in the tank and available space also determine whether angelfish will spawn. Overall if the conditions are right, you can expect to find eggs in the tank.
Why Won’t the Male Angelfish Fertilize the Eggs?
If the male angelfish refuses to fertilize the eggs, it might be because he is a first-time parent. While angelfish spawn very frequently, it takes a pair more than a couple of cycles to figure out what to do.
You don’t need to worry, and it’s essential to give them time because taking care of the eggs is a delicate task. There’s a lot to do, and it’s pretty common for the first few spawning cycles to be unsuccessful.
How Do I Know Which Angelfish Eggs Are Fertile?
Fertilized angelfish eggs have a translucent amber-brown appearance, whereas an unfertilized batch will have an opaque white look. Good angelfish parents prevent the latter from happening by regularly cleaning the eggs of fungus and debris.
Male Angelfish Eating Eggs, What to Do?
There are two primary reasons why a male angelfish will eat its own eggs: stress and inexperience. In terms of the former, several factors may lead to stress, such as a packed community tank, sudden movement, commotion, or changes to the water condition.
It may cause the male to eat the eggs, or he may just be hungry. So, remember to keep both parents well-fed. Other than that, if the male is inexperienced in caring for the eggs, all you can do is give the pair time to figure out the breeding process.
Angelfish Keep Laying Eggs on the Filter, Glass, and Heater. What Should I Do?
Angelfish usually lay eggs on vertical surfaces, so you need to offer them an alternative. Introduce a breeding slate or the Amazon sword, which has vertical leaves, perfect for egg-laying. Additionally, PVC pipes work just as well.
Also, try to cover the filter and heater or simply change their location.
That’s all there is to know about angelfish and their breeding habits.
Hopefully, you now have a clear idea regarding the task at hand. Once they become adults, you can rest easy, as daily nourishment and a clean tank are all that the angelfish need to stay healthy.
But taking care of the babies is a challenging proposition, having its fair share of failures. That said, we believe our detailed guide provides efficient solutions, allowing you to keep this tropical fish happy.
Here’s, wishing you success. Bye!
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For the Common Weal is a study of the rise of the public high school in Victoria over the last 100 years.
This is a history which begins with a fundamental shift in the economic strategies of Australian families. They lowered their fertility in exchange for educational opportunity. Elementary schooling created the foundation on which this change from biological to cultural reproduction was based. The creation of a mass public high school system extended access to the higher forms of knowledge on which Australia's economic and social organization is based.
For the Common Weal breaks new ground in demonstrating the impact that the public high school has made on the Victorian community. It has raised general levels of attainment, reduced inequalities in secondary education, given access to the academic curriculum, increased transition to tertiary education, and reduced social inequalities in higher education.
But this is a history which also explains why inequalities persist. Richard Teese identifies the barriers to greater social progress and the challenges that must be addressed if the mission of the public high school is to be fulfilled.
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The multi-arts Alice Desert Festival celebrates the diversity of the Red Centre.
Artwork by Tamara Burlando. Subject: Narile Nakamarra. Image location: Papunya community.
The Alice Desert Festival, taking place this year from 27 August to 6 September, is Alice Springs’ major Arts festival and Central Australia's largest multi-arts festival. Whether you’re an Alice Springs local ready to celebrate the diversity of your community, or an interstate visitor looking to discover what the Red Centre has to offer, the Alice Desert Festival invites you to take up this ideal opportunity to explore this unique part of our country.
The Festival is organised by Red Hot Arts Central Australia, a non-profit organisation that exists to ignite creativity and foster the development of arts, culture and creative industries in Alice Springs and across Central Australia. As Festival and Events Manager Mary-Jane Reynolds explained, ‘We provide and respond to the needs of local artists in their career development, and the community in their exposure to the arts. We try to be responsive to what is going on in our community and its very dynamic and fluctuating population, which creates quite an energy that we like to tap into and celebrate.’
The Alice Desert Festival, now in its 15th year, began as a community-driven festival and has grown into a multi-arts festival that attracts audiences from all over Australia. Reynolds described the festival’s programming as ‘deliberately very broad, to attract a wide audience but also to reflect the community we exist in and the eclectic and exciting place that Alice Springs is, in terms of different cultures and age groups.’
Visitors can choose to experience events from a huge variety of art forms, including dance, circus, comedy, film, side shows, music, and visual arts. One Festival highlight is Bunna Lawrie & Coloured Stone. The Indigenous band have been touring since 1978, and will perform at a free opening concert at the culmination of a community lantern parade, the centrepiece of which will be a huge glowing caterpillar called The Illuminated Yeperenye, built by members of the local community. ‘Caterpillars are very sacred animals in Alice Springs,’ Reynolds explained. ‘We have consulted with elders to come up with a theme that the whole community can be involved in.’
Another project which will engage local participation is Cypher by Nick Power, a breakdancing project that is coming to Central Australia via the Footscray Community Arts Centre in Melbourne. Reynolds revealed that ‘we’ve extended the experience of that project by going into the local middle school (years seven, eight and nine), where some of the students will be selected to be trained up in breakdancing and perform with the b-boys as part of the festival. We try to engage targeted groups so that they feel invited, and feel some ownership over their town’s art festival.’
Team of Life promises to be another Festival highlight. The large-scale, physical theatre-dance-sport fusion premiered at the Melbourne Festival and will be shown at the Araluen Arts Centre. ‘It is particularly relevant to Alice Springs with its focus on AFL, Indigenous and African cultures, war, trauma and healing,’ Reynolds said.
For a change of pace, festival-goers can relax at the end of a jam-packed day at the Tiki Bar, a Tiki-themed lounge bar featuring all sorts of free local music, from metal to folk, on Thursday to Sunday evenings over the two weekends of the Festival. Reynolds said that ‘each night will feature a different subculture of the region. I’d encourage visitors to pop in during the Festival to witness the juicy variety of artistic talent that is available in Alice Springs.’
The all-ages Festival is bookended by activities for kids and families. The opening will feature an exciting street theatre event at the Night Markets in conjunction with the Alice Springs Town Council. On the following day, Friday 28th August, children and families can join in by making lanterns and being part of the parade. At the other end of the festival, on the last day, is Kids Day, featuring partnerships with the South Australian Museum, Alice Springs Library, a circus troupe, and a palaeontology project. ‘Kids Day is always interesting, with lots of different contributors.’
Relationships like these are an important part of the festival. ‘Most of the events have some kind of partnership relationship with an organisation locally, often non-arts organisations. There’s a strength in Alice Springs from non-arts organisations wanting to partner with an arts organisations,’ Reynolds said.
The community is further connected and strengthened through the other events taking place at this time of year. The Alice Desert Festival has strong relationships with Indigenous events Bush Band Bash and Desert Mob, and together they bring the whole region alive with culture, providing the ideal excuse for your first visit to the Red Centre.
‘Interstate visitors can expect to be surprised by how eclectic and exciting Alice Springs is as an arts community,’ Reynolds enthused. ‘When I moved here a couple of years ago I was overwhelmed by the number and variety of artists there are for a small town.’
If you haven’t yet discovered Alice Springs for yourself, there’s no better time. Tickets are available for ticketed events from the Alice Desert Festival website. Other events are free, with no need to book – check the program for details.
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