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UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN River Falls
Following the alleged occurrence of a racist or discriminatory act, the victim of said act(s) has the choice of addressing the situation through a formal or informal complaint process. The degree of formality will be determined on a case-by-case basis in accordance with the expressed wishes of the victim(s), the Chancellor, the Assistant to the Chancellor for Equity, Compliance, and Affirmative Action, and the appropriate hearing body. (See Wisconsin Administrative Code and Collective Bargaining Agreement for Classified Staff.) It is emphasized that an informal process, based on interpersonal conflict resolution and education, is preferred to a formal process with predetermined criteria and formal penalties. However, it is also noted that the formal process will be utilized in those situations warranting this approach.
The investigative process in sexual harassment or discrimination allegations is considered the first phase in complaint resolution. It is important that both the victim and the accused be protected throughout this process. Thus, it is imperative that anyone conducting the investigation be trained to understand all aspects of sexual harassment or discrimination, and that the investigation be conducted in an appropriate manner.
This preliminary phase includes informing the accused that a complaint has been made and an investigation is occurring. The Dean, Unit Head, department chair or immediate supervisor of the accused may also be informed if necessary. In some cases, the Assistant to the Chancellor for Equity, Compliance, and Affirmative Action may act in the role of consultant and provide support and direction to a department chair, Dean, unit head, or administrator who elects to confront the accused person directly. In the case of students, the Associate Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs writes a letter to the accused student and schedules an appointment with him or her in order to discuss the complaint. The Assistant to the Chancellor for Equity, Compliance, and Affirmative Action is included in the meeting. The Assistant to the Chancellor for Equity, Compliance, and Affirmative Action is informed from the beginning and monitors the outcome of all cases handled without his or her direct involvement. Such cases are the exception rather than the rule, however, and most sexual harassment or discrimination incidents handled at the informal level involve the Assistant to the Chancellor for Equity, Compliance, and Affirmative Action in the resolution process. Following the investigation, the alleged victim of the alleged sexual harassment will decide whether to proceed at a formal or informal level.
An informal approach to resolving the complaint is used under the following
The informal resolution of sexual harassment or discrimination involves several approaches. Every effort is made to enlighten the accused individual regarding the effect his or her conduct has had on the alleged victim. If the attitude on the part of the accused seems particularly resistant, then counseling is strongly recommended. The person filing the complaint may elect to be present during a meeting with the accused, but that is not required. If the accused denies the conduct and refuses to comply with recommendations, the alleged victim may choose to file a formal complaint. If the accused party does not dispute the accusation and agrees to cease the conduct and to comply with recommendations, he or she is informed that any future incidents will be handled at the formal level. In those cases where a complainant decides not to reveal his or her name and chooses not to pursue the incident at either the formal or informal level, the accused individual is warned about the allegations without being told the identity of the accusing party. This is done to protect the rights of confidentiality of the accusing person while taking responsible institutional action and addressing the existence of the allegation. The accused person is informed that such an allegation has been made and that if true, all such conduct must stop immediately.
Informal resolution may involve a combination of educational strategies. The goal is to increase understanding and expand awareness of the effects of harassing or discriminatory conduct at a personal and social level. The goal is also to provide a "fair warning" regarding the seriousness of such acts and to inform the harassing individual that any future acts of this nature will be subject to formal sanctions. Basic to this approach is (1) the determination of the seriousness of the complaint; (2) the alleged victim's satisfaction with the resolution; and (3) emphasis on the education of the alleged harasser.
Learning objectives for participants in educational programs (used to address informal complaints of harassing conduct) may include the following:
Educational Programs may involve participation in one or more of the following:
Process: Faculty, Academic Staff, Students, Classified Staff, Officials and Guests:
A formal approach to the resolution of complaints involves the following processes:
A. Faculty: See Handbook Chapter IV: Faculty Personnel Rules: 4.9 and 4.10.
B. Academic Staff. See Handbook Chapter VI: Academic Staff Personnel Rules: 6.11 and 6.12.
C. Students: See the Associate Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs or the Assistant to the Chancellor for Equity, Compliance, and Affirmative Action.
D. Classified Staff. See Classified Handbook: Employment Policies and Procedures.
In the case of a student accused of sexual harassment or discrimination, and depending on the seriousness of the allegation, the Associate Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs works closely with the Assistant to the Chancellor for Equity, Compliance, and Affirmative Action to document the nature of the alleged conduct and recommends action to the Chancellor which may include (a) required counseling and/or (b) temporary or permanent expulsion from the University. All cases involving outside legal action wherein the accused is found guilty of harassment and/or discrimination are handled at the formal level.
All persons who register a complaint of sexual harassment and/or discrimination are informed of the option to pursue legal action outside the University community. The victim of alleged sexual harassment or discrimination acts may file a formal complaint under the following circumstances:
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| Gregory Hansen
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I took several Java programming classes six and seven years ago. When I got a job six+ years ago, they didn't use Java. So, now I am trying to refresh my knowledge of Java using the textbook from seven years ago.|
One of the example programs has the following command:
System.out.printf( "%-8s\t", metaData.getColumnName( i ) );
Now, when I enter this program, I get the following message:
"The method printf(String, Object) in the type PrintStream is not applicable for the arguments (String, Object)"
Even a simple command like "System.out.printf( "%s", "cow" );" returns the above error.
Please help me determine what I'm missing.
[Updated on: Mon, 01 October 2012 00:11]
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Reptiles may be cold-blooded but that doesn’t necessarily mean that they are cold-hearted. Despite popular belief, certain reptile species have the capacity to be an affectionate pet. There are plenty of feel-good stories of reptiles following their owners around or snuggling up on someone’s chest for a nice nap.
Do Reptiles Have Emotions?
There is a debate amongst herpetological enthusiasts whether reptiles can experience love, affection, or pleasure. One thing that all can agree on, however, is that reptiles do have emotions. Reptile emotions, however, are extremely basic and center around survival such as caution, hunger, or defensive behavior.
In comparison to domesticated cats and dogs, reptiles are still relatively standoffish. The cause is less disinterest in their owners but that reptile brains are not developed enough for such emotion. That being said, reptiles do more than think about their next meal. Snakes have been known to show curiosity and excitement, some lizards love being stroked.
Which Reptiles Make Affectionate Pets
The more intelligent reptiles make for the most affectionate pets. Particular species can not only recognize their owners but will react to their owners’ presence.
These medium-sized lizards are told to have a propensity to show affection to their owners. They have been said to snuggle on their owner’s chest or nuzzle in the crooks of arms and necks as they fall asleep. In addition to being very well-tempered, they are so intelligent that they can even be trained to perform tricks like fetch.
One of the most intelligent of all reptiles, tortoises are slow and steady in their displays of affection. These acts may be relatively minute, but they certainly exist. Tortoise displays of affection towards their owners include following them around, nudging them with their head or arm, or following their owner’s motion with their eyes. They also display a full sense of curiosity.
These prehistoric-looking lizards may not be the most social, but they are known to enjoy having their heads rubbed and their backs scratched. To get to this point, however, requires the building of trust. Keep your pet green iguana fed and warm to access their cuddlier side.
Snakes have the most limited capacity for affection, but the larger pythons will show more of it than the smaller colubrid snakes. These snakes enjoy being handled and will instinctively curl around any appendage offered to them. Their behavior is likely due to an instinctive search for warmth, but it’s easy to think that it’s because they like you.
Can a reptile actually be an affectionate pet? The Verdict
Although reptiles may not have the same capacity to love or show affection as mammals, that does not mean they are incapable of bonding with their owners. For those of us who like a less hands on and complicated relationship with a pet, there is now a third option besides cats and dogs. You can find affectionate reptiles for sale at both mainstream and niche pet retailers, online and in-store.
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Autor: Lex Loizides
Category: Integridade & Humildade, Oralidade, Testemunho Pessoal
Evangelistic progress in the West, and its downside
There’s little doubt that recent gains have been made in the Western church in terms of evangelism. While evangelistic growth has been roaring ahead in the Global South, those of us who work with churches in the West have been carefully seeking to engage with local communities.
We are, I hope, doing so respectfully and with increasing fruit. We are creating a context in which objections can be raised and hopefully answered.
The appetite for apologetics in the church has increased. And enquirers are given time rather than exhorted to respond without much information. So far so good.
But, in the midst of our modest gains, there’s a downside. A case might be made that the trend towards apologetics has slowed the evangelistic process so comprehensively that some would be sceptical if a guest were to ask to become a Christian after a single sermon.
Alongside the tremendous success of multi-week evangelistic courses and seeker friendly sermon series in the Western church, we may doubt the possibility of God bringing saving power ‘right now’, as it were! We may also have become unnecessarily nervous of any ‘demonstrations of power’ in the evangelistic arena (cf. 1 Cor 2:4).
Do we still believe that someone’s heart can be ‘strangely warmed’ as they hear the gospel? Can we believe that during a single sermon ‘the Lord opens the heart to believe’? Would we, like Paul, baptise someone after such a short exposure to the Christian message? (see Acts 16:11-15)
We acknowledge that everyone goes through a process of discovery. Jesus Himself spoke about sowing and reaping. This is how the influence of the Kingdom of God expands (Matt 13:1-9, Mark 4:26-29).
But we must never forget that what’s being described is not a natural but a supernatural process.
When things were speeding up for John Wesley in the 18th century; when hundreds were hearing the gospel, experiencing the power of the Spirit and being converted, he was criticised for promoting it. Although he is responding primarily to concern about the power aspects of the meetings, his faith in the suddenness of genuine conversion is refreshing.
His defence, copied into his journal in May 1739, is helpful for us so that, while continuing to carefully instruct inquirers, we might avoid the danger of lowering our expectation of God’s power in the gospel. (Rom 1:16)
John Wesley defends the work
Wesley writes, ‘The question between us turns chiefly, if not wholly, on matter of fact. You deny that God does now work these effects, at least that he works with them in this manner.
‘I affirm both, because I have heard these things with my own ears, and have seen them with my eyes.
‘I have seen (as far as a thing of this kind can be seen) very many persons changed in a moment from the spirit of fear, horror, despair, to the spirit of love, joy, and peace; and from sinful desire, till then reigning over them, to a pure desire of doing the will of God.
‘These are matters of fact, whereof I have been, and almost daily am, an eye or an ear witness.
‘…I know several persons in whom this great change was wrought in a dream, or during a strong representation to the eye of their mind, of Christ either on the cross, or in glory.
‘This is the fact,’ Wesley continued, ‘let any judge of it as they please. And that such a change was then wrought, appears (not from their shedding tears only, or falling into fits, or crying out: these are not the fruits, as you seem to suppose, whereby I judge, but) from the whole tenor of their life, till then, many ways wicked; from that time, holy, just and good.
‘I will show you him that was a lion till then, and is now a lamb; him that was a drunkard, and is now exemplarily sober; the whoremonger that was, who now abhors the very ‘garment spotted by the flesh’.
‘These are my living arguments for what I assert, viz. ‘That God does now, as [in the past], give remission of sins and the gift of the Holy Ghost, even to us and to our children; yea, and that always suddenly, as far as I have known, and often in dreams or in the visions of God.’ (John Wesley Journals, Vol 1, Baker edition, p.195-6)
Examples like this from our history (incidentally, from the West) should help us to become more open and more desirous of the power of the Holy Spirit working in the evangelistic arena and perhaps bring us closer to authentic New Testament evangelistic norms.
Adapted from an article on The Church History Blog http://lexloiz.wordpress.com
Hwa Yung’s original article is here: http://conversation.lausanne.org/en/conversations/detail/11041
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By inequality, I am not just referring to the widening gap between rich and poor, which is the most evident planetary symptom of this imbalance. I am referring to the fundamental energetic flaw in how we as human beings treat our selves, our bodies, our fellow human beings, and our planet. And the fundamental unit at the heart of this inequality is not money, or food, or oil, or power — it is love.
The results of this energetic imbalance, this basic inequality in how we treat ourselves and others, can be seen in all aspects of our modern world — in the diseases that claim our lives, in our splintered families and high divorce rates, in the opposing epidemics of obesity and starvation that grip much of the human population, in the environmental crisis we are now facing. It is clear that we have forgotten — or never learned in the first place — how to receive and share evenly. We hoard, even as we spend beyond our limit. Some dote on others, even as they neglect themselves. Others act in selfishness, at the expense of other people. Too often, the stories of the waters of our lives are stories of stagnant swamps of excess, or of dry riverbeds of lack.
Solutions to the various symptoms of this planetary and individual imbalance have been proposed by scientists who work for environmental change and by spiritual teachers who work for individual transformation, and the nature of this imbalance has been the spark that fuels social movements and drives political change. Yet the simplest, most profound equation that addresses this crisis of human existence, perhaps the greatest expression of spiritual alchemy ever revealed through a human being, was put forth as law and as solution over 2,000 years ago.
Love the other as you love yourself.
On the page, it is almost absurdly simple. So simple, that its profound and wondrous mysteries are easily — and chronically — missed. At the root of it is the reality that contained within the receiving and sharing of love between human beings lies the direct healing of fundamental inequality on all levels.
I have little background in Christianity or Christian thought, so it may be presumptuous of me to write an article based on a teaching of one whose teachings and mysteries I’m just beginning to study, but part of the profound beauty of Jesus is the simplicity and directness with which He spoke of love, and in that simplicity there is great depth. And there are many parallels between his teaching and the bhakti traditions of India with which I am more familiar. So I will do my best to share for others what I have just begun to explore in this simple phrase.
“Love the other…” or “neighbor” (which was then clarified to mean all others) is the second part of what is referred to in Christian scripture as the highest command, or the highest law. When we take it simply as an instruction, it is very easy to over-reduce it to a basic reminder to be nice to other people. Yet when we start to examine “love the other…” not in the sense of being an instruction, but as a law in the same way gravity is a law, a whole different depth reveals itself, which all starts with the word “as.” In most romance language translations, it is not “as” you love yourself – as in, “love the other as much as you love yourself” but love the other how you love yourself. Comme, in French, como in Spanish and Portuguese.
The law of human existence that this puts forth – which is as much a reality as the law of gravity — is that the way you love the other is exactly the way you love yourself. The way you love yourself is exactly the way you love others. As we live in an interconnected field and are ourselves an inextricable part of the whole of creation, how we treat ourselves is how we treat others is how we treat the whole. “Whatever he does to the web [of life], he does to himself,” in the oft-quoted words of Chief Seattle.
As this immutable law turns to practice, it becomes far deeper than just remembering to be nice to other people. It becomes a deep and thorough examination of the most beautiful force in all creation — love — what love is, how we begin to build a foundation of love in our lives, and how we can use that foundation to practice the equal exchange of love between ourselves and others. Having studied a good amount of spiritual practices over the course of my lifetime, I have come to feel that this is the deepest practice there is. It is a lifelong practice — one that we can do every day, in every interaction we have, in every word we speak, in every breath we take.
The alchemical truth recognized by Paracelcus — as above, so below— is that spiritual reality is reflected across all levels of the universe — macrocosm to microcosm. So we start the practice of loving the other how we love ourselves in seemingly small and simple ways.
In Yoga, the spiritual tradition in which I have the most experience, we start with the fundamental building block of our lives, the breath. Just as we want an even exchange of love between ourselves and others, we want an even exchange of breath. We want balance between the inhale and the exhale. We see through the example of the breath that the natural state of the human being is in fact, even exchange. We do not keep too much breath, we do not let too much breath go. We take, and we release. Every living cell in this universe that we know of follows this exact same pattern. The ones that don’t, the ones that have an imbalance in this basic law of exchange, become sick. So the first practice of developing an even and equal exchange in our lives can be found in the practice of breathing more evenly and more consciously, and setting a physical and spiritual rhythm along which we can begin the practice of love. All the qualities we seek for ourselves in our lives — depth, equality, serenity, peace, love — we foster first through the breath.
Then we move to the Center Line, our place of True Alignment. There is one point where the physical organism of the human being is in a state of absolute equality, erect, free standing, where there is no extraneous weight on our frame. For every inch we are forward or back of that point of absolute equality, we add another ten pounds of weight to the burden of our lives. When we begin, through awareness and practice, through treating our bodies with a little more love, to develop our alignment to center, we realize that the natural state of the human being according to the great design is one of absolute equality — equal balance of weight on our frame, equal exchange of energy between self and other, equal giving and receiving of love.
We do not lean too far forward of our center or withdraw too far back, physically or energetically. We do not emotionally over-attend to others at the expense of ourselves, and we do not energetically shrink back and become a drain on those around us. We do not hurl ourselves forward “in love” at the expense of our own hearts, nor do we close ourselves off from receiving love from other people. The place where we are doing none of these things, where we stand tall and open, where the waters of our heart are still and clear, this place is love.
In the West, we have a long tradition of equating love with turbulent waters, with being blown wildly off center. We glamorize “falling” in love. And while there is great beauty in the initial feeling of being “swept away” by someone or some thing, the love that sustains a relationship, that sustains a friendship, that sustains a community and a nation and a world, must come from a place of peace, and center, and alignment.
In yogic physical cosmology, the pranic center of the heart, the place that receives and stores and gives and exchanges love, is called anahata, the unstruck, the undisturbed, the place of where the waters of our being are as still and clear and reflective and free of turbulence as a mountain lake at dawn. If we are going to have healthy relationships with ourselves, with our loved ones, with our world, we have to approach love from a place of center. It is here that we find the delicate balance of equal giving and receiving.
As we examine this equal exchange of energy from a place of true center, we quickly encounter the nature of the great imbalance we are facing on this planet today.
In the West, we generally live our lives as though the purpose of existence is to get as much as we can. Disregarding the fact that in nature the healthy, full existence of each living unit is based upon an equal balance of giving and receiving, we tip our intent, our thirst, our hunger, our obsession drastically towards the receiving end of the equation. And when the foundation of the global society in which we live centers around accumulation, this fundamental balance becomes — to put it mildly — off.
Among the top causes of death on this planet are illnesses related to the poor health of the heart and illnesses related to lack of clean water. In the “developed” world, the state of our physical hearts is a direct reflection of a culture of individual indulgence at the expense of the even exchange that our organisms truly want; the waterborne disease in the third world is a symptom of the lack of access to the fundamental building block of life that is meant to be available absolutely freely to everyone, everywhere. One side of the world suffers from receiving too much of the wrong things, the other side suffers from not receiving the very fundamentals of existence.
Central to the understanding of what is wrong with our physical and spiritual hearts is the understanding of what it truly means to love ourselves as human beings. The assumption we generally make on reading Christ’s equation is that, of course, we love ourselves a lot. So we just have to love other people a lot too, just like we love ourselves. Nothing could be further from the truth. The disease that afflicts humanity is at its root a complete misunderstanding of what it means to love ourselves. And the heart of this great misunderstanding is the idea that to love ourselves we need to receive more of everything, and that the things which we need to receive are other than the things that we have right in front of our eyes.
So we rush around in our lives, fervently seeking to capture the shiny objects that this world has to offer. Yet when we rush, we are energetically leaning forward, off of center, in a way that focuses us too far outward and therefore adds to our energetic burden and depletes us physically, mentally, and spiritually. When we fail to capture enough gold to satiate the great misunderstanding within us, we feel cheated, exhausted, and burnt out. We are tired because we feel like we give so much. We work, we support our families, we raise our children, and we constantly participate in what we call “thankless tasks.”
It is easy to look at these situations and feel like we are giving too much, or not receiving enough. But we are natural conduits that need only to be properly aligned. The reality is not that we’re giving too much or not receiving enough, but rather that we haven’t structured our lives from a place of foundation so that we can properly give and receive love in balance. We have built the wrong framework in our lives, and from that place the equal exchange of love is not possible.
This condition is summarized in the Old Testament, in one of countless hidden teachings on how human beings exchange spiritual energy, which come generally – and not coincidentally — in the form of parables about water.
They have forsaken the spring of living water,
and have dug their own cisterns,
broken cisterns that cannot hold water.
The spring of living water that is right before us is the fountain of gifts that this provident universe has to offer us every day. The community we live in, the friends with whom we spend our time, the fulfillment we get from good, honest work, the time we spend in gardens or parks or in nature or in wilderness, the time we spend cooking and sharing meals, the time we spend with the elderly and with children, the time we spend participating in what – for 99.999% of our history on this planet – it actually means to be a human being.
If we are feeling isolated, or alone, or depleted, or broken, or like we need something to fill us, or if we find ourselves turning to harmful substances — it is often because one or more of the stones in our cistern is loose, or missing, or was never there at all. And it is our life work, if we want to build a strong foundation, to repair it. Sometimes we know all this mentally. We skim over it all and think: “Yes, yes, right. Gotta have more friend time.” It’s more than that. It is our responsibility to our selves and our children to create a healthy foundation for our lives. Many of us speak often about change on this planet. And the fountain of goodness that all of us want for this world will not come from a nation, or a city, or a house, or a family, or a heart… of broken cisterns. To establish this foundation, this house for light, this well for love, can, and should, be our life work. And it is very, very good work. It is the greatest work of all.
So we start with the breath. We work to become physically centered. We use our bodies like they want to be used. We drink clean, pure water. We eat healthy food. We surround ourselves with others who are working towards some degree of health themselves. We align ourselves to a regular practice. The very basic things we receive in this life are actually what fill us and sustain us, and the first part of loving ourselves means to build a foundation in the fundamentals of life that are available to us.
It does not hold water to build a foundation of relentless accumulation. Neither does it hold water to expect one person in this world to be the source of all our happiness and fulfill all of our emotional needs. It doesn’t hold water to give and give and give with no foundation until we deplete ourselves. It certainly does not hold water to seek happiness at the expense of others – wielding some type of fleeting power over other people, or pursuing a constant parade of new sex partners, or benefiting from the subjugation of the poor.
What in reality gives us far more peace, far more foundation, and far more joy than any of this is… giving.
In giving love is the healing of all of our hurts. Contained deep in the act of freely giving is the medicine that becomes the salve that soothes our hearts – and the understanding of this spiritual reality is why many of the early Christian saints were physicians and healers who treated people freely, for no money. In our journey to be made whole, there is no greater remedy than giving freely to others.
The alchemy of how this works is simple – it is the alchemy of the free movement of water, the reality that when we are holding on to trauma, when we are holding on to hurt, when we are stressed – the waters of our being are choked and stagnant from so much holding. The cure that is most commonly prescribed – by us or by others — is to add something more to an already drowning cup — a pill, or a drink, or some form of “blowing off steam” or passive consumption of media, or some new regimen or cure that involves a lot of time alone with ourselves and our problems. In reality, what the cup of our hearts wants is to be cleared, to give love so that it can receive love so that it can give more love so that it can receive more love. We are water – literally — and that water wants to flow freely, and that water wants to give.
I know personally, at a time when I was in a very dark place in my life and time alone with myself meant stirring up a whirlpool of countless thoughts of despair and doubt, what helped me most was the sharing of time, and play, and love with my friends’ beautiful children. In the simple act of turning my attention to others – to those who were open to receive love from me — was the healing I sought.
In the western model, it’s generally all on us to heal ourselves, and rarely is it recognized that much of the intensity of our own process and pain can be dissolved by taking the focus off of our own minds, our own problems, our own burdens and focusing instead on other people. The simple truth is that when we have a burden that is too much to carry, and we distribute it among a community, it is no longer a burden. It is not our sole responsibility to carry these burdens. It is our responsibility to set up our lives so we don’t have to do it alone.
Many spiritual traditions emphasize long hours alone, clearing one’s own mind through one’s own concentration and one’s own letting go. And while there is great value and importance in meditative practice and I certainly spend a good amount of solitary time meditating and trail running, there also needs to be an equal amount of time in which we give to others. We need to structure our lives to facilitate giving. The beauty of service – so present in the bhakti tradition in India and the true Christian tradition – is that it heals everyone. Its puts us in the appropriate relationship with the other, and allows us an opportunity to do something that we innately need to do in order to be whole – give.
Giving – in one way or another — is something that most of us value and that people of conscience do with regularity and in many ways. Sometimes we recognize that giving is more than charitable altruism and that it actually makes us feel good inside to give. However, rarely is it recognized that giving is more than this — giving is an absolutely essential ingredient to our happiness as full human beings, and the ratio of the balance we need to strike in giving and receiving love is the most basic mathematical ratio there is.
1 – 1
Love the other as you love yourself.
The giving love side of the equation is a very tricky one for us. It is easy for us in the West to understand that there are a lot of people in this world who want and need more, and we can easily justify giving to them. What is extremely difficult for us to understand is that deep down inside we actually want less.
Our bodies do not want super-sized American portions of food for every meal. We do not want every single variety of cuisine from every country on earth available to us in 250 varieties 24 hours a day. We do not want more and more and more cable channels. We do not want to be continually pampered by aestheticians and manicurists and therapists and assistants. I can say with complete certainty that more is not the recipe for a whole and balanced human being. Having more options, more things, more accessibility to everything at our fingertips while at the same time having less time to focus on giving, on others, on sharing, on love, does not make our systems more relaxed, more whole, more peaceful, more loving or more happy. It makes us, literally, sick.
Just as our bodies are designed for an equal exchange of breath along that one true place we call center, so we are designed for an equal balance of abundance and lack. We are designed to have to exert ourselves to get food and to experience some times in life when there is little to no food at all — this is why many spiritual traditions practice fasting, including the Nazarene tradition that Christ himself was part of. We are designed to have to wait along a seasonal calendar for summer’s sweet fruits and we are designed to tighten our belts in the winter. Contrary to what we are deliberately conditioned to believe, we are designed to feel most whole when this balance of having and not having is in its natural state, not when the temperature control is set for exactly 72 degrees and there are no variables and life is on cruise control.
You often hear people say: “I never felt more alive than when…” and the remainder of the sentence that follows is almost always referencing a time when they were not in total control, when they were at the mercy of greater forces, and when they had to do without something. It is a fundamental truth that has been with us for thousands of years — we want less. And we want to give more. We want an equal exchange.
We want to love the other, as much as we want to love ourselves.
The basic problem when we have no shortages in life and no elements of our existence that are beyond our control and when we build a foundation that is entirely rooted in perceived material stability is that we can create a profoundly false alignment, in which instead of being part of the web, part of the intricate balance of self and other, we assume ourselves to be in a position of control. This assumption of control causes us to not behave with appropriate respect and honor towards things that are greater than us and towards others with whom we should have an equal relationship. It deeply effects our relationship with other people, causing even the most altruistic of us to view those with less material things as “less” than us.
Of all broken cisterns, perhaps the one that holds the least water is the one in which we believe ourselves to be in control. When we put ourselves in the place that should be occupied by something much higher, it makes it impossible for us to give and receive love the way we truly want to.
This brings us to the first part of the divine equation, the first part of the highest law, which I conveniently left for last in this article so that my atheist and agnostic friends would not stop reading too soon.
The first part of the divine equation, worthy of just as much examination and just as much practice as the second, is to love God above all things. To love God with all our hearts, and minds, and souls.
In this day and age of questioning, atheism, agnosticism, skepticism, and negative associations with the structures of organized religion there are many who will balk or flat out laugh at the idea of loving God above all things. Some people might not believe in God. Others might believe in God as some form of higher power but have no idea what it would look like to love it above all things and may not think that it sounds like a very positive thing to do in life. It is easy to read ‘above all things’ and associate it with religious extremism – as if our entire lives are expected to revolve around and be in submission to something abstract and not necessarily beneficent.
The fundamental truth of this law, regardless of whether you believe that the spring of living water is “just” water or if you believe that there is a conscious power in this universe, is that the first and foremost alignment for us to have in this life is towards that which is greater than us, greater than our bodies, greater than our individual will and our immediate wants, needs, and desires — that which was here long before we were here and that which will be here long after we are gone. We align ourselves to the ancestral forces that got us here, to the promise of our descendants, to the mysterious spark that permeates all creation, to death, and the unchanging fact that we will die, and to birth, and the amazing role we have to play in bringing forth life. We align to the sun that is responsible for all life on earth and the moon that rules our waters and the North Star which is our fixed guide through these waters. Our first and truest alignment is to everything – everything – that is larger, and older, and grander than us and without whom we would not be here at all. To creation itself, the vast ocean that the waters of our being are drawn from and will inevitably return to.
This positioning allows for us to open up to a true equality with each other, since when we align first and foremost to the greater we are under no illusion that we are in control. Recognizing and honoring the presence of the greater — or of God — takes the urgency out of our scramble for supremacy. It causes us to question what we can actually “get” in the short time we are here and to question how important it is to get “ahead” at all. And it puts our relationship with others in clear perspective, for all of us, every one, is bound to the same laws of existence, of life and death, of joy and pain, and in this sense there is absolutely no difference between us at all. There is no richer or poorer, there is no better or worse, we are one very small, very distinct family who have all been given the exact same gift — the great gift of this lifetime and the opportunity to share love with one another.
When we start to open up to the greater, we see that there are vast currents at work. There is a sublime order to the movements of galaxies and the unfolding of nautilus shells and the hum of electrons. There are laws that govern creation and those laws permeate our lives — we are in no way, not for one second, removed from them. No matter how advanced our technology becomes, no matter how long we stretch our short lifespans — we are subject to the Divine Order, the architecture, the current of light, the infinite manifestation of Shiva/Shakti, the Great Mystery, the sublime love of Radha/Krishna, the Universe, whatever we name it. The most natural way we can align to the current that drives us, that surrounds us, that permeates us, that is us, is to give and receive love. This is the formula. This is the solution. This is it. This is what Christ spoke of, what the first bhaktins spoke of, what mystical physicists like Erwin Schroedinger spoke of — the current that drives this universe is, at its heart, love. Its our choice. We can spend our lives trying to swim against a current that carries the force of 100 billion galaxies, or we can surrender to the infinite and behave towards one another in the only possible way that makes sense — loving each other.
This universe will go on long after we are gone. Our historic “legacy” if we have one at all, will not last ten generations, an insignificant speck in the scope of time and space. The only true legacy is how much love we are able to give while we are here. That is a legacy that outlasts violence, that outlasts hate, that outlasts money, that outlasts works of genius, that outlasts borders and nations and that outlasts worlds. The only true measure of a human being is the measure of love.
So what we find at the heart of the divine equation, the great command, the eternal law… is a simple triangle — a triangle between self, other, and the Divine, in which self and other form the base of the triangle, existing in an exactly equal harmony and the infinite source, the spring of eternal water, the sublime, God, sits at the top. This is the great and beautifully simple reality of the divine equation in manifest form — a triangle.
As Christ the carpenter no doubt knew through his work building sound structures, the triangle is the strongest load-bearing shape in nature. The triangle distributes force, and stress, and pressure evenly so that no single one of its three points carries too much of a burden. The triangle is found all through creation — in the structural walls of eggs, which in their magnificent design are stronger end to end than steel yet fragile enough to welcome new life into this world. The triangle is also the exact structure of the water molecule, in which two smaller hydrogen atoms are bound to one larger atom of life giving oxygen, and, as we connect spiritually to our source, so we connect physically to our source every time we take a sip of water and the oxygen that is our very life nourishes and sustains us in the same relationship of love between self and the larger world.
Our practice, our lifelong practice, is to create this sound and fortified triangle in our lives, so that we have a free exchange of love between our selves and others and so that what really matters in this life is situated firmly at the top. And we can start the practice of the creation of this divine triangle of self, other, and source in very simple ways.
Very bluntly, we in the west, particularly in America, need to give more love. We are literally dying of over-consumption and isolation. The stress that we have from feeling alone and unsupported is gnawing at us. The culture that we have fostered, the culture of every man for himself, is not a culture remotely in line with Christ’s teachings on love. This relationship, where self and other are at odds, does not allow us to develop a healthy exchange of love in our lives, and it keeps us from being whole. Our disconnection from the heart of Christ’s equation is glaring. To heal this disconnection, we look for fulfillment in all the wrong places, but our key to the mansion of wholeness lies directly in giving.
It is not love to deny anyone on this planet, anywhere, care when they are sick. It is not love to withhold help for the poor. It is not love to fail to give support for the elderly. It is not love to execute another human being. It is not love to consume without limit. It is not love to harm nature. It is not love to put short-term profits before ethical considerations. It is not love to benefit from another’s suffering. It is not love to worship the immediate needs of the self above all other things.
I am new to the teachings of Christ, but from what little I know, it is my strong sense that it is not of Christ to do any of these things. The choice Christians in the western world face is whether to follow the political and nationalistic ideology of the individual at the expense of others, or to actually embrace the words of their spiritual master. It is their choice which flag to fly, but it is clear that the flag being flown by those individuals and churches that preach separation and distrust of the other is not the flag of the sublime love of Christ. Christ was a peasant, and he taught from a place of sublime clarity. His words were of love, plain and simple.
During this holiday season, this time of giving, a sacred time for Christians everywhere and a sacred time for all those who follow the cycles of sunlight and renewal — let us join together and practice love. Let’s give more. Let’s find the true wholeness that comes from giving love to those who need it most.
May we truly love each other. May we mend our broken cisterns and fill our cups on the spring of living water.
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National Open Board 10th Class Time Table 2017, NIOS Board 10th Exam Date Sheet 2017 Download
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National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) conducts Secondary examinations and provides all the information regarding the Admit Card, Date Sheets and results regarding the secondary exams. NIOS Board also conducts Revaluation and Supplementary Exams for the students for all the subjects.
National Open Board 10th Class Date Sheet 2017
Students regular or private who are affiliated to National Open Board of Secondary Education must have a look at this article. Here on this page we are providing information regarding the National Open Board 10th Date Sheet 2017. National Open Board is all set to announce the official Time Table for the final examination of the 10th Class in National Open for every school. Candidates from all the subjects are eagerly waiting for the NIOS Board 10th Exam Date Sheet 2017 because exams are very near. Candidates regular or private who are willing to appear in the final examinations will require National Open Board 10th Exam Schedule 2017 so that they could get to know about the date and time of the 10th class final examination. Students can check the final time table for all the subjects like Mathematics, Science, English, and Hindi etc from the official web portal of National Open Board for the preparation for the final examinations.
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NIOS 10th Exam Time Table 2017
All the candidates are cordially informed that National Open Board 10th Exam Routine will be uploaded on the official website of National Open Board www.nios.ac.in. Students who want to sit in the final examinations and want to check the date and time for the exams of 10th Class National Open Board, can head on to the official website of the board, which is mentioned above, and check the NIOS 10th Exam Schedule 2017 online. Students can also visit our website regularly to check if the Date Sheet has been updated or not. We are here to help all the students who require the National Open Board 10th Date Sheet 2017 so we are providing here a direct link to the Timetable as soon as it will be announced on the official website.
National Open Board 10th Exam Time Table 2017
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garymortimer tips more news about the rise of our robotic overlords. DARPA is now investigating military drone submarines as launch platforms for UAVs. Quoting John Keller at Military & Aerospace Electronics: "The Hydra program will develop and demonstrate an unmanned undersea system with a new kind of unmanned-vehicle delivery system that inserts UAVs and UUVs stealthily into operational environments to respond quickly to situations around the world without putting U.S. military personnel at risk. The Hydra large UUV is to use modular payloads inside a standardized enclosure to deploy a mix of UAVs and UUVs, depending on the military situation. Hydra will integrate existing and emerging technologies in new ways to create an alternate means of delivering a variety of payloads close to where they're needed, DARPA officials say."
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The Garden Club of Georgia and the Georgia Water Coalition joined several other environmental groups in Atlanta on Feb. 18, for Capitol Conservation Day. Some 150 gathered at the Capitol after a breakfast briefing on environmental issues at Central Presbyterian Church, across the street from the Statehouse.
The current legislative session includes a mixed bag of environmental policy in the works. Senate Bill 101 would clarify and sustain Georgia’s buffer rules for rivers and streams, but some groups are concerned the bill has too many loopholes in its current state. Clarification of Georgia’s buffer rules have been sorely needed for years, but not if a compromised version makes it difficult to enforce them.
Senate Bill 139 would ban local governments from regulating plastic bags in their communities. This issue is especially relevant to Georgia’s coast – economically and otherwise. Marine life often mistakes ubiquitous plastic-bag pollution for food, and some 100,000 creatures die each year from eating or becoming entangled in the toxic stuff, which sticks around for hundreds of years.
Meanwhile, in the House, the transportation funding bill, HB 170, has been amended to remove the alternative fuel/electric vehicle annual registration fee (see this month’s Sustainable Georgia), but another bill, HB 122, has been passed that eliminates tax credits for low emission vehicles. These and other environmental issues bear watching as they make their way to the Senate.
Another fun time was had at the Capitol Feb. 24 when Columbus State University’s Coca-Cola Space Science Center set up rockets in the foyer to highlight a successful collaboration with the Muscogee County School District to boost STEM education initiatives.
A new district-wide contract will give every elementary school student – more than 17,000 from K-5 – a chance to interact annually with the center. Jonah Cohen, chair of the National Education Outreach Network, called the program “one of the most extensive science center-school partnerships for outreach in the country,” according to CSU.
– Ben Young
Pictured Above: Coca-Cola Space Science Center staff, from left, Shawn Cruzen, director; Lance Tankersley, Omnisphere Theatre director; Mary Johnson, assistant director; John Hood, student assistant; Matt Bartow, educational services and outreach.
Image Credit: Ben Young
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The helicopter, which was carrying five military personnel, four civilians and four crew members, disappeared during poor weather last Friday.
Venezuela's El Nacional paper reports that the Russian-made Mi-17 was discovered on Thursday, with the five military crew on board all found alive.
It is not yet clear whether the helicopter crew or civilian passengers have been found.
Survivors were due to be taken to Puerto Ayacucho, the capital of Venezuela's Amazonas state, in the early hours of Friday morning.
Details of their conditions are yet to be confirmed.
Liborio Guarulla, Governor of Amazonas state, posted a tweet on Wednesday unofficially reporting the helicopter had been seen on the edge of the Cerro Duida mountain.
He later followed up his tweet confirming that it had been found by the Yecuana indigenous tribe.
Mr Guarulla had previously criticised the lack of government resources made available to the search, which had been hampered by poor weather conditions.
In response, defence minister Vladimir Padrino López and Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro said they were intensifying the search of the dense forest region.
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("UPDATE: Japan Economy Minister Voices Concern About Strong Yen," at 0109 GMT, misstated dollar fresh low agains the yen in the 3rd paragraph. The correct version follows:)
-Japan's economy minister Kaoru Yosano says large movements in the yen are undesirable
-Yosano says the currency's recent strength isn't due to domestic factors
-Yosano says a U.S. default is unlikely, but such an event could lead to "Lehman-like" problems
TOKYO (MarketWatch) -- Japan's economy minister Kaoru Yosano said Tuesday that sudden, excessive surges in the yen have negative consequences for the country's economy, in the latest sign of concern over the currency's recent rises.
The yen's renewed gains are compounding government efforts to get the economy back on track following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. Yosano's remarks echo recent comments from Bank of Japan Gov. Masaaki Shirakawa and Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda.
The dollar fell to a fresh four-month low of Y78.05 Monday, and to Y77.95 early Tuesday in Asia after U.S. President Barack Obama began a speech on the U.S.'s troubled attempt to raise the country's debt ceiling.
"Large movements in foreign exchange levels aren't desirable," Yosano said, adding that an overly strong yen interferes with the planning of Japan's key export sector.
He said, however, "we must be careful to note" that recent yen strength "is not a result of domestic factors."
Yosano acknowledged that the currency's strength is due to the perception it offers a stable, safe-haven amid uncertainty about the euro and dollar. But he said Japan's low interest rates mean the yen isn't attractive from a fundamental perspective.
Speaking shortly before Obama's speech, Yosano expressed confidence that the U.S. will continue to meet its debt obligations. Japan and China are the two biggest creditors of the U.S.
Yosano warned that should the U.S. default, it would have severe consequences, including a contraction of global credit markets, and "distrust in government debt around the world."
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I am trying to install an init.d script, to run celery for scheduling tasks. Here is the steps I followed:
- copied the file celeryd and pasted it in folder /etc/init.d/
- created a configuration file celeryd in folder /etc/default/
now when I tried to start it by
sudo /etc/init.d/celeryd start, it throws error
sudo: /etc/init.d/celeryd: command not found
I googled about how to install init.d, I got this SO-question.
it says to issue a
uname -a and when I does I get this:
Linux capsonesystem8-desktop 3.2.0-43-generic-pae #68-Ubuntu SMP Wed May 15 03:55:10 UTC 2013 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
and also it says use utils like
insserv to enable init.d script
insserv /etc/init.d/celeryd but it throws error
insserv: command not found
so I tried to install insserv
sudo apt-get install insserv. but it say aleady installed:
insserv is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 222 not upgraded.
So how to install init.d script?? Any help will be appreciated.
when I tried:
$ sh -x /etc/init.d/celeryd start
it reveal some
errors. may be that is why the service won’t start.
I cleared all the errors when I run
$ sh -x /etc/init.d/celeryd start but still
sudo /etc/init.d/celeryd start throws
command not found error
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Iraq sees robust return to oil growth in 2014
Baghdad, October 25, 2013
Iraq, Opec's second biggest oil producer, expects a robust return to growth next year as foreign companies at work in its southern oilfields push output towards the highest level ever, a senior Iraqi oil official said.
Thamir Ghadhban, chairman of the advisory commission to Iraq's Council of Ministers, said flows are set to rise by at least 500,000 barrels per day (bpd) to an average 3.5 million bpd - as Majnoon - run by Royal Dutch Shell, Garraf - led by Malaysia's Petronas - and Halfaya, operated by PetroChina , ramp up.
Farther north, the Badra oilfield, run by Russia's Gazprom Neft, the oil arm of Gazprom, is also set to come on line.
"We expect a significant rise in production next year," said the senior oil technocrat. "And if we have an increment of 500,000 barrels a day sustained over 2014, with the same level of oil price (above $100 a barrel) it will be positive compared with this year."
Production this year is likely to average more than 3 million bpd, a touch up on 2012, but by the end of the year rates are likely to reach a level of 3.5 million bpd, said the former oil minister.
After flatlining for decades due to wars and sanctions, Iraq's output began to expand in 2010 after it secured service contracts with oil titans such as BP, Shell, Eni and Exxon Mobil.
Since then, output has risen by 600,000 bpd to 3 million bpd courtesy of higher flows from the core oilfields of Rumaila- operated by BP, West Qurna-1 - run by Exxon - and Zubair, where Eni is leading development.
These vital southern oilfields, along with Majnoon and West Qurna-2 - led by Russia's Lukoil - are the main drivers of Baghdad's oil expansion.
The swift increases have helped cushion oil markets from price swings after shipments from neighbour Iran were halved due to Western sanctions and output from exporters such as Libya and Sudan proved unstable.
But Iraq's production revival has slowed this year due to infrastructure and security problems on top of an ongoing row between Baghdad and autonomous Kurdistan, keeping output far below projected targets.
The obstacles led Iraq to backtrack on an initial 2013 target of 3.7 million bpd, which - with projected growth of 700,000 bpd - unnerved regional rivals, including OPEC heavyweight Saudi Arabia. The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) was due to contribute 250,000 bpd.
"If you take all this together: losses in the south, losses due to sabotage on the export pipeline, plus the KRG's non-fulfillment of its obligation, you can see why the planned production and export levels for 2013 were not reached," said the Iraqi oil official.
Oil is at the heart of a dispute between the federal government and Iraqi Kurdistan over control of oilfields, territory and crude revenues.
Baghdad says it has the sole right to explore, develop and market the country's oil with regional participation in accordance with the constitution.
Sales of oil produced in Iraq's Kurdish region via the federal pipeline system have been blocked in the dispute.
Kurdistan has since been making strides towards energy independence and is due to start up its own pipeline via Turkey by the end of the year, in defiance of Baghdad.
"The federal government is opposed to this. They have declared it officially and they have conveyed their opposition to the Turkish government officially," said the Iraqi oil official.
Iraq has provided the world oil market with crucial supplies, giving consumers another option besides Saudi Arabia as the main alternative exporter.
Exports have been running at 2.4 million bpd this year, but fell to 2 million bpd last month, the lowest in 19 months. Repairs and expansion work at the strategic Basra Oil Terminal cut shipments of Basra Light crude, which accounts for most of Baghdad's export revenue.
"This is now over and exports are picking up," said Ghadhban. When completed by mid-2014, the port expansion will provide Iraq with offshore export capacity of 4 million bpd.
And if myriad infrastructure and political hurdles were to be removed, Ghadhban said output next year could soar towards 4 million bpd - overtaking Iraq's all-time high of 3.8 million, hit in 1979. But this is unlikely, said the Iraqi oil official.
"Four million would be a challenging target - a sustained average over the year of 3.5 million would be more realistic," he said.
It would also provide ample oil revenue, which accounts for the lion's share of Iraq's government revenues and foreign exchange earnings.
Production of nearly 3 million bpd earned Baghdad $94 billion in 2012 and netted $61 billion in the first eight months of this year.
"There is so much pressure on the government to provide more revenue to improve the standard of living and for services - especially in the energy and security sectors," said Ghadhban. - Reuters
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Jersey Zoological Park, zoo on the island of Jersey, in the British Isles, primarily devoted to keeping and breeding endangered species, especially island forms and small mammals and reptiles. The zoo, situated on 14 hectares (35 acres) of rolling hills, was founded in 1959 by the British author Gerald Durrell. Its management was turned over to the Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust in 1963. More than two-thirds of the zoo’s 1,500 specimens, which represent about 100 species, were bred on the park grounds. The zoo does not maintain a monopoly of any rare species it breeds; all surplus animals are sent to other institutions to provide breeding stock if illness or disaster strikes a particular colony.
The Jersey Zoological Park breeds many rare primates, including seven species of marmosets, Mayotte brown lemurs, colobus monkeys, and gorillas. Other rare mammals bred there are spectacled bears, tenrecs, and Rodrigues fruit bats, the rarest species of bat in the world.
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In 1822, a Turkish unit of soldiers arrived at the Vatopedi Monastery gates in order to rob the Monastery of its riches and destroy as much as they could. One soldier, who also happened to be the nephew of the officer leading the unit, dared to fire a shot at the Icon of Panagia which is painted on the wall directly above the entrance of the Holy Monastery. The shot hit the right hand of the Theotokos, the bullet mark is still visible to this day.
Immediately after he fired the shot, something came over him and he went insane. He hung himself on an olive tree opposite the Monastery gates. The officer of the Turkish unit, witnessing these events, was overcome with fear and concluded that what had happened was due to his nephew’s sacrilege. He ordered his body to be thrown away without a proper burial.
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William Alexander MacCorkle (May 7, 1857 – September 24, 1930), was a United States teacher, lawyer, prosecutor, the ninth Governor of West Virginia and state legislator of West Virginia, and financier.
Compiled by the West Virginia State Archives
May 7, 1857 – September 24, 1930
(D) Kanawha County
Elected governor in 1892
William Alexander MacCorkle was born near Lexington, Virginia. After briefly teaching school in Pocahontas County, he attended Washington and Lee University. In 1879, he established a law practice in Charleston and also taught school. From 1880 to 1889, he served as the Kanawha County prosecuting attorney.
As governor, MacCorkle advocated increased funding for state institutions and improved transportation. Through an advertising program, he actively promoted the state’s natural resources to attract industry. MacCorkle opposed the growing labor movement among coal miners and dispatched the state militia to break a strike.
After leaving office, MacCorkle returned to his Charleston law practice. In his numerous travels, he continued to publicize the state’s resources. In 1910, he was elected to the West Virginia Senate. MacCorkle was also a founder and president of the Citizens National Bank, which later merged with the Charleston National Bank. He died at his home, Sunrise, in 1930.
In 1884 he married Belle Goshorn.
Source: West Virginia Archives
Inaugural Address of Gov William A MacCorkle
March 4, 1893
My Fellow Countrymen:
In obedience to the time honored custom followed by those whom the people have called to the office of chief executive of the State, I have the pleasure of outlining to you my policy and giving my views upon the matters pertinent to the State during my term of official life.
The vast progress of our country in commercial and material development, its splendid intelligence and unparalleled civilization, its high culture in the arts and sciences, its grand internal improvements by citizen and government, and, above all, its perfect governmental and individual liberty, fill the mind with wonder and naturally lead us to consider briefly those fundamental and cardinal principles which have wrought this great result. This is especially important, for whilst the cardinal principles of the Republic have produced these great results, still, it is patent to every lover of his country that even now in the midst of this unexampled, abounding, political, and commercial prosperity, such tendencies and principles have already shown themselves as naturally lead to decay and excite the fears of those who love the Republic.
The preservation of the integrity of the power of the Union for the common good, and of the States for local self-government and liberty; the placing by the government of every person, enterprise and section, upon its own merits and resources, allowing each to work out for itself its own salvation; the distinct guarantee by the constitution of the largest liberty to the individual citizen compatible with the rights of others; and the strict adherence to the written constitution, have been the most potent factors in our material progress and unexampled liberty. Above all others, to these principles have been due the glory and prosperity and liberty of our country, and it is only by the strict preservation of the original and cardinal principles of our fathers, that the good citizen can perpetuate this glory and this liberty.
My oath to-day to support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State, and my peculiar obligations ‘to the State as an official, call most earnestly to my mind, that by reason of the growing centralizing tendency of the general government, its efficiency in execution, its appalling and growing paternalism, and the alarming looseness of the construction of the constitution, that the guaranteed rights of the States designed by the fathers, and embodied in the fundamental principles of the written constitution to hold in check those tendencies of the central government, may be lost sight of, and the government become in time a purely centralized power, or the subject of the caprice of an unregulated and vacillating public. This proposition is already apparent to the good citizen. No longer do we hold to our hearts, as of the first importance, those principles which constitute the frame-work of the government. Such doctrine is considered, as old-fashioned, and already out of date. But, instead, immediate and material results and utilitarianism is arrived at and desired, without regard to the question as to whether, in the attainment of the object sought, the constitution is wrenched and the continual tenure of liberty is made less secure. I do not mean to say for one moment that popular government is a failure. I believe that down in the hearts of the people there is a perfect love of the country and its liberties, but the people, receiving from their father this liberty, and knowing no other, together with the continued success of our government, are without any feeling of danger of loss of this priceless blessing and, necessarily, give little attention to the tenure of its liberties. This easy condition brings about great danger to our institutions. In this country where there is nothing but the controling power of the principle of the strict observance of the written constitution, to keep the government within its limitations, and to secure known and uniform action by the government, the absence of this principle leads to the abandonment of the government to mere chance or caprice. The effect of this proposition is already seen in multitudinous ways in the formation of parties and interests looking not to the good of the whole people, but only regarding the selfish interests of a particular class or section; in the general looseness of opinion as to the power and policy of the government, appropriating its powers to the carrying out of any scheme of personal interest, and recklessly using it for any design which desire of personal aggrandizement or political power or political change may demand in new and untried extensions of the power of the general government over the electoral franchise and business interests of the people, and in absolute disregard of the underlying principles of free government. Still further is it seen in the growing unpopularity of all reference to, and treatment of, the constitution and its relations, growing out of its hampering and restraining influences, and a carelessness of effect of any action, whether political or otherwise, upon that instrument. It is true that we are still liberty loving, and in any contest where our liberties are openly involved, the people would defend them to the last, but the danger is, that through this recklessness of its tenure of liberty, and the increasing tendency to its abuse, that the government may be wrenched from its true position to such an extent that vast sacrifices may have to be made for its recovery. There must be, necessarily, strong influences growing out of the various causes already stated and out of the contrariety of the various sectional interests, tending to disregard the fundamental principles of our government, yet the relations of the States to the general government controlled by the written constitution, will, if observed, prevent many evils tending to destroy the perpetuity of the government. Under the constitution, the sphere of the general government is so restricted that it cannot ever legally interfere with, or invade, the rights of particular sections or classes, while the powers of the State government, having a local bearing, leave no interest without ample protection.
I do not seek the criticism of partisanship by these expressions concerning the fundamental principles of our government, but believe that if we would perpetuate the glories of this government, that it will be by a return to, and strict observance of, those fundamental principles which our fathers bequeathed to us as our most valuable heritage, and which, amidst the fierce material struggle of to-day, seems to be out of date and disregarded. Believing as I do, in the honesty and patriotism of the people when their attention is aroused to the subject, even in this era of transition, I do not apologize for the expression of these general principles upon this day and occasion and say that they are the principles which will animate me in discharge of the duties of the high office to which you have called me by your votes.
I am aware of the great responsibility of the executive office, and appreciate the broad range of its duties, and will try not to fall below the standard of the distinguished men who have preceded me as Governors of the State. The duties and responsibilities are, indeed, great; the calling out of the militia; the preservation of peace; the passing upon the question of life and death by the pardoning power; the power of putting life into the acts of the Legislature, or of rendering them null and void by the exercise of the veto power; the right to call into extra session the Legislature and prescribe the scope of its duties; the practical administration of the Normal schools, asylums, reform schools, university, penitentiary and other State institutions by the appointment of the boards; and the appointment and removal of the various boards and their officers. To the people I promise my best efforts to administer these duties according to the letter of the law, without regard to the clamor of the public or the opposition of any combined influences, and knowing the people as I do, am aware that in that effort I shall have the assistance of all those who love the State and its good name.
There are several matters, however, of great importance to the State and to the people, upon which is due the information as to the policy of this administration for the next four years.
First among these questions of interest to the State, is the question of the ownership of lands.
The State is rapidly passing under the control of large foreign and non-resident land owners. We welcome into our State the immigrant who comes to us with the idea of home seeking and home building with all its profits to the State, with its family ties, with its clearing of the forests, its building of church and school house, its expenditure of all that is made in our State, and its exercise of citizenship. But the men who today are purchasing the immense areas of the most valuable lands in the State, are not citizens and have only purchased in order that they may carry to their distant homes in the North, the usufruct of the lands of West Virginia, thus depleting the State of its wealth to build grandeur and splendor in other States. In a few years at the present rate of progress, we will occupy the same position of vassalage to the North and East that Ireland does to England, and to some extent, for the same reasons. I do not in any way wish to be understood as decrying incoming wealth or offering obstruction to its advent in our midst, but believe that West Virginia, the South and South-west, should take steps to bring into their borders the small immigrant or home builder, and thus, by the actual settlers’ efforts, our lands will be developed, those living upon them and spending in our State the fruits of our mines, forests and fields. The effort should be made by us to bring the small settler as well as the large land owner, but not one to the exclusion of the other. At this time, the reflex tide of immigration is again directed to the South and South- west and away from the North-west. Whilst we welcome the incoming of the wealthy land owner, still in my opinion, he should not be welcome alone, but every intelligent effort should be made by the State to induce the small land owner and actual settler to come amongst us. I believe that this is the best corrective of the influence of large non-resident ownership of lands in this State, the burden of which we shall in a short time feel. I shall offer any assistance in my power to legislative or other action, looking to the inducement of actual settlers to come to our State. To this end, I am in hearty co-operation with the Governors of the Southern States, and it is proposed at a very early date to have a convention of the Southern Governors looking to the question of immigration to the South and of actual development of the South. I shall do all in my power to make this convention a success, and to unite in whatever plan is agreed upon to attract to the South and South-west this class of immigration. The great area and richness of our coal and hard wood timber, in both of which we are first in this great-country, the great production of coke in which we are second, and soon will be first, the great development of railroads, in which last year we were first in the United States, our splendid soil, equitable climate and good school system, all offer unparalleled inducements to the incoming citizen and actual settler.
Upon another question of great moment to our State, and one just now exciting much discussion and action in various parts of the country, I wish frankly to avow my policy. I refer to the question of railroad legislation. In several States, particularly in the South, and in some sections of our State, there is just now a sentiment in opposition to railroads, and people not having at heart the welfare of our State, in order to make cheap popularity for themselves, are insisting on legislation antagonistic to railroad operation and development, and this without regard to the injury or the welfare of the State. As an official, I hold the same views on this question as I did when a private citizen, and freely state my policy as to railroad legislation. Never have we needed railroad development as we do now. With all our vast resources lying virtually dormant, engaged in a fierce hand to hand conflict with Pennsylvania for the coal trade of the South, and West, and Northwest, we need all the development possible. At the same time, in a question between the people and the railroads, I am for the people and in favor of all legislation which will curb and restrain corporate influences from interfering with the right of the people; but seeing that the great wealth of the State can only be unlocked by the breath of the locomotive, I believe that if laws are found necessary for restricting railroads, that they should be the product of wisdom and business experience, and not the result of the demagogueism appealing to the populace for official place. The narrow agrarianism or political exigency demanding undue restrictions on railroad construction and operation, is more hurtful to the interests of the State in its present condition, than the supposed oppression of the railroads. In the South, especially, there have been adopted measures tending to provoke bitter antagonism between the railroads and the people, and these measures in a majority of cases, have been the outcome either of want of intelligence on the subject or emanate from those desiring to make political standing with the people. Seeing around us day by day the marvelous development of our virgin territory by the opening of new railroads, I hope that the Legislature of our State will hesitate before it will adopt any but well considered and conservative measures towards railroads. Believing that this is the best policy of the State, I express my views on this important question without regard to the popularity of those views.
As to the public institutions :
I shall do all in my power to render the public institutions of the State as efficient as possible. I regret to say that there has grown a sentiment in this State, that the public institutions should be managed in the interest of certain firms, officials and associations, and many applications have been made to me to place persons on the different boards, not on account of their efficiency, but in order that certain interests may be subserved, and in order that they may appoint connections, relations or friends to these places in the institutions. It is needless to say that all such applications for office will be refused, and that I shall, without fear or favor, remove any member of any board under my control, who is either directly or indirectly engaged in dealing with any institution with which he is connected, or who is connected with any institution from any other reason than a disinterested desire to serve the State. Believing as I do, that no personal interest should be considered, and that the public institutions of the State are its most sacred trusts and not personal perquisites of any business or other interests, I shall appoint only persons to those places whose business experience and judgment will guarantee to the State, the most efficient management of the institutions with which they are connected. I am well aware that this course will render the administration unpopular for the time being, but believe that an honest effort to administer the affairs of this State with an eye solely directed to the good of the State, will ultimately meet the approbation of all disinterested and fair minded citizens. To this end, at the assembling of the Legislature, I shall propose a number of changes in the administration of the institutions of this State.
While this is neither the time nor the place for discussion or particularization of these questions, they are of sufficient importance to be outlined; the passage of a law prescribing a penalty for, and prohibiting in express words, the furnishing directly or indirectly, of anything, whatsoever, by any official, to any institution with which he is connected, or from receiving any compensation otherwise than that expressly provided by law; the purchasing of supplies by public competitive contract; auditing of all accounts of boards by the Board of Public Works; the divorcing of the executive management of the institutions from the corrective, teaching, or curative, departments.
Under the wise and able administration of my distinguished predecessor, Governor Fleming, I find that the finances of the State are in good condition, but this year the appropriations have been much larger than usual, and it will require the greatest care and economy on the part of the incoming administration, to so conserve the finances as to save the State from a deficit during my term of office. These increased appropriations on the part of the legislature, have been brought about in a large measure by the furnishing and equipment of the Second Hospital for the Insane, and by the demands of the normal schools for larger facilities for carrying on their work. I give particular mention to the matter of finances, in order to correct the popular and erroneous impression, that there is nearly a million dollars in the treasury subject to the appropriation made by the legislature, for while the finances of the State are in a healthy condition, the expenditures of the State must be met, not by the money in the treasury which is not all subject to appropriation, but by the income during the next two years.
This administration promises a careful and economical management of the financial affairs of the State.
In conclusion, I wish to say to the people of the State that whilst I have always been a vigorous partisan, and while I believe the good citizen, whether official or private, should hold pronounced views on the political affairs of the State and the Republic, yet in all matters concerning the office of Governor, I shall try to so administer affairs that the partisan shall be sunk in the lover of my State, meting out even banded justice without regard to party or color. Above mere partisanship rises the vision of our valleys filled with workmen at their contented labor, sending out to the world the products of the marvelous natural advantages of the State, making her rich, happy, and contented, as she deserves to be. With true patriotism animating us, with honesty and energy and good judgment, attending the people and the administration of the affairs of the State, with our mountains of coal and mighty forests and fertile valleys and intelligent and happy people, I believe that our children will see the fructification of our hopes, that among the sisterhood of grand States of this Union, West Virginia shall occupy a proud position. With these hopes animating me and relying upon the support of the people, I now assume the duties of the office of Governor of this State.
He wrote an autobiography, The Recollections of Fifty Years, which was published in 1928.
Maccorkle’s mansion, Sunrise, became home to a children’s museum in the early 1960s. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. In Charleston, a major arterial road, Maccorkle Avenue, was named for him and carries U.S. Route 60 through the area. His papers form a valuable research resource at the MacCorkle Collection of the West Virginia State History and Archives website.
The children’s museum (now called Avampato Discovery Museum) was relocated to The Clay Center about two miles away in downtown Charleston in 2003. The Sunrise estate currently houses the law firm of Farmer Cline & Campbell PLLC.
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Posted April 20, 2007
The Associated Press
Thursday, April 19, 2007
WASHINGTON - Efforts to remove religion's influence from the public square will fail, in large part because faith plays such a major role in most Americans' lives, the recently appointed Roman Catholic archbishop of Washington said.
Archbishop Donald Wuerl's comments came at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast on April 13. President Bush was the headline speaker.
Wuerl said the church's moral theology has helped frame debates over the Iraq war, abortion, embryonic stem cell research, physician-assisted suicide and immigration. Religious faith, Wuerl said, continues to play a significant role in both promoting social justice issues as well as "defending all innocent human life."
In his address, Wuerl echoed Pope Benedict XVI's frequent warnings about the threat of secularism.
Posted April 17, 2007
At the National Catholic Prayer breakfast last Friday, President Bush preached to the choir on issues of life and dignity. A number of conservative powerbrokers were on hand, including several cabinet members and former Sen. Fred Thompson, a possible Republican presidential candidate. According to Joe Cella, the breakfast's founder, the breakfast is a forum for Catholics to "gather together in prayer and fellowship."
But some Catholics say the annual event is more about Republican politics than the church. "Let's be honest, this event would be more accurately labled the 'Republican Catholic Strategy Breakfast,'" said Chris Korzen of Catholics United for the Common Good. "Its organizers have a clear track-record of putting partisanship above church teaching. My concern is that the general public is looking at this and thinking that its affiliated the Catholic Church," he said. "It's not."
Posted April 17, 2007
By Daniel Burke
Religion News Service
April 13, 2007
WASHINGTON — President Bush preached to the choir at the National Catholic Prayer breakfast Friday, promoting the "dignity of life," and stressing his opposition to easing restrictions on federally funded embryonic stem cell research — a reference to a bill he's threatened to veto.
"In our day there is a temptation to manipulate life in ways that do not respect the humanity of the person," Bush said Friday. "When that happens, the most vulnerable among us can be valued for their utility to others instead of their own inherent worth."
The Senate on Wednesday voted 63-34 to pass the measure that it hopes will lead to new medical treatments. The vote, however, fell short of a veto-proof margin needed to enact the law over Bush's objections. The House, which passed similar legislation earlier in the year, is expected to adopt the Senate's version in the weeks ahead.
"We must continue to work for a culture of life where the strong protect the weak and where we recognize in every human life the image of our creator," Bush said.
Posted April 11, 2007
Catholics United for the Common Good is expressing grave concerns today over the partisan nature of the annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast, to be held in Washington, D.C. on Friday, April 13.
The Prayer Breakfast’s entire board of directors has ties to Republican candidates, party apparatus, and affiliated organizations, and its partisan agenda is underscored by President George W. Bush's perennial appearance at the event.
Catholics United is also asking keynote speaker Archbishop Donald Wuerl to use his remarks to dispel any attempt by political operatives to suggest his participation indicates a close alliance between the Church and the Republican Party.
Posted April 11, 2007
For Immediate Release
Catholics United Questions Partisanship of
Urges D.C. Archbishop Wuerl to use Keynote Speech to Draw Clear Lines Between
National Catholic Prayer Breakfast
the Catholic Church and the GOP
Washington D.C. - Catholics United expressed grave concerns today over the partisan nature of the annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast, to be held in Washington, D.C. on Friday, April 13. The Prayer Breakfast’s entire board of directors has ties to Republican candidates, party apparatus, and affiliated organizations, and its partisan agenda is underscored by President George W. Bush's perennial appearance at the event. Catholics United is also asking keynote speaker Archbishop Donald Wuerl to use his remarks to dispel any attempt by political operatives to suggest his participation indicates a close alliance between the Church and the Republican Party.
Posted April 09, 2007
Sign this Petition to End the War
Nearly 3,300 U.S. troops dead and counting, untold tens of thousands of civilian casualties, some 2 million refugees fleeing for their lives. In his annual Easter message, Pope Benedict XVI had the courage to say something that's been on many Catholics' minds these days: that "nothing positive comes from Iraq," a country "torn apart by continual slaughter." It's time for American Catholics to stand and be counted. Do we allow our leaders to keep escalating a worsening situation, or do we accept the fact that our nation's military might has now done all it can?
By Catholic standards, the conflict in Iraq is quickly becoming a moral failure, marked by continuing violence and the emergence of a serious refugee and humanitarian crisis. And most now agree that deteriorating security in the region is only made worse by an ongoing U.S. military presence. This week President Bush followed through on his threat to keep our fighting forces in Iraq indefinitely by vetoing a war spending bill that includes a timetable for U.S. troopdrawal. For Catholics and Americans who seek an end to the conflict, the president's move represents a step in the wrong direction. Our Catholic community can send a strong message if we join together and call on the president to work Congress and do the right thing for our troops and for the people of Iraq. Click the link below to add your voice to the Justice in Iraq Now petition.
Posted April 05, 2007
In his new book, Jesus of Nazareth, Pope Benedict condemns the effects colonialism has had on Third-World countries, and especially throughout Africa. For the illusory benefits of power and profit, the pope writes, the world's rich nations have "plundered and sacked" Africa and other poor regions, equating the current situation to the parable of the Good Samaritan.
According to Reuters, the pope is calling wealthy nations to task for the current disparity between rich and poor, and says that they must work to rectify the situation and promote the justice and equality of all.
Posted March 28, 2007
Sign this petition and join Catholics United and Oxfam in urging Congress to help the world's small and struggling farmers. This year, Congress will debate a new Farm Bill, which for the next five years will either set policies that could either help small farmers at home and abroad - or keep them struggling.
Currently, the Farm Bill represents a broken promise to America's farmers and rural communities. It falls well short of meeting its obligations to families that depend on food stamps and conservation programs that protect rivers and streams. And to make matters worse, the current Farm Bill actually hurts poor farmers in developing countries. As Catholics, we are called to work towards the common good, one that makes sure everyone benefits from the increasingly global agricultural market - not just the multi-nationals and corporate conglomerate farmers.
Posted March 22, 2007
SILVER SPRING, MD - Sister Mary Waskowiak, president of the Institute of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas, was arrested early Saturday morning when she joined more than 200 persons in an act of civil disobedience at the White House as part of a Christian Peace Witness against the War in Iraq. Sister Mary was fined $100 and released after six hours.
The Sisters of Mercy worked interdenominational groups to plan the public prayer service and march from the National Cathedral to the White House in Washington, D.C., on March 16. More than 3,000 persons attended, Sister Mary representing the Sisters of Mercy during the prayer service and approximately 25 Sisters of Mercy and Mercy Associates participating.
Posted March 19, 2007
Catholics United's own James Salt - one of the organization's founding members - was on hand last Friday night to bear witness at the Christian Peace Witness for Iraq protest in Washington, D.C. Here, he shares us what it was like to be in the middle of the protest:
"On Friday evening, March 16, more than 3,000 people of faith from across the country fought blustery winds and sleet in Washington, D.C. to gather in prayer for an end to the war in Iraq."
"Organized by faith-based groups including Sojourners/Call to Renewal, the Presbyterian Peace Fellowship, the Mennonite Church USA, and the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns, the Christian Peace Witness for Iraq was an ecumenical prayer service that brought together various Christian traditions in a single voice of opposition."
"The protest began a service at Washington's National Cathedral, the "overflow" crowd watching via video feed from the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church down the street. During the service, Celeste Zappala gave a moving testimony on losing her son, Sherwood Baker, a Pennsylvania National Guardsman, to the war."
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Transport megaprojects in Italy. A comparative analysis of economic feasibility studies into EIAs
AbstractThe paper presents a survey conducted on the environmental impact assessments and the feasibility studies for fifteen selected infrastructural transport projects all over the Italian territory and approved under the so called ‘Objective Law’. The survey collects data concerning the demand forecasts, the definition of alternatives and the cost benefit analysis, with their level of detail. The aim of such work is to derive some general considerations about the quality, the transparency and the contents of the assessment, in the context of the Italian normative framework. For the analysed projects, it is possible to recognise a lack of con Templation to the definition and in the construction of the demand forecast model, the use of extremely standardised schemes of comparison, the presence of double counting and some theoretical errors concerning costs evaluation. Moreover, the parallel analysis of different projects on the same study-area shows, in some cases, the absence of any coordination among projects, as well as different outputs from the transport demand forecast model; this creates problems in validating and comparing the results of each analysis. After an introduction to the normative framework, the adopted methodology is presented. After that, the paper reflecting study objectives includes first, an analysis of alternatives definition and tools used for the decision support system; second, the discussion and comparison of the demand forecasts quality; third, the approach used for the quantitative economic assessment. Then, as example, the standardised railways operator procedure has been analysed and commented. Finally some conclusions will be drawn.
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Realistically emulating the characteristics in Figure 2 requires accuracy of 1%, so this is the level of performance demanded of a PCM. This appears to have been achieved by the team at Stanford in a repeatable manner. Figure 3 illustrates how the PCM synapse emulation fits into the more familiar PCM characteristics. The left side of Figure 3 shows the conventional two-state resistance range of the PCM, in this case 500 Ohms to 2 M-Ohms.
To add to the challenge, the required 1% or 100 level discrimination of resistance uses only a fraction of the possible resistance range of the PCM. The two bar graphs alongside the normal PCM characteristics in Figure 3 indicate the resistance values used for the demonstration of the 100 levels of resistance and for the synapse emulation experiments. Ignoring stability, it has always been possible to obtain any value of resistance for a PCM by using an incremental write-read verify-write technique. Outside of this work Ferdinando Bedeschi and team attempt to make multi-bit, 2-bit PCM devices, appear to have fallen by the wayside in terms of the stability required for a commercial PCM array. Although more recently IBM [3 EEtimes] has taken another look at the problems of instability in multi-level 2-bit PCM cell. Compared with those efforts, each PCM in the emulation work of the Stanford group is in effect operating in a repeatable manner as a multi-level > 6 bit memory device albeit, this is under less rigorous conditions than would be required for a commercial device.
The method used by Stanford's team to obtain the 100 levels is shown in Figure 3. As shown, to reset the PCM device a sequence of 100 pulses progressively increasing in value is used, while to set the device a 100 step staircase waveform is used. In the latter case, each individual step of the set pulse consists of 20 pulses. The initial set pulse will consist of 20 pulses of the lowest voltage; the next set pulse will consist of 19 pulses of the lowest voltage and one from the next highest step; then 18 and 2; 17 and 3; and so on for the required 100 pulses. In Figure 3, the two curves of resistance were obtained as the result of successive pulses without reset. The resistance value is, in effect, the integration of the total number of set pulses. The resistance characteristics were proven to be repeatable over many cycles.
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An Overview on Distal Biceps Tears
Elbow injuries are fairly common in athletes and the active population. A distal bicep tear, or distal biceps tendon rupture, can occur to the elbow from a blunt force trauma or excessive loading on the joint. These tears are characterized as either partial or complete. A partial tear does not completely sever the tendon, while a complete tear will sever the tendon into two pieces. In most cases, a distal bicep tear is complete. The biceps muscle is responsible for assisting the elbow in bending and the forearm in rotating. Tendons attach the muscles to the bones of the upper arm. There are two groups of tendons associated with the biceps muscle.
- Upper biceps tendon (proximal): Attaches upper portion of the biceps muscle to the shoulder
- Lower biceps tendon (distal): Attaches lower portion of the biceps muscle to the elbow
If a distal bicep tear occurs, many patients will lose strength in the arm and experience a decrease in arm function. The surrounding arm muscles can bend the elbow without the biceps, but they cannot rotate the forearm from palm down to palm up.
Symptoms of a Distal Bicep Tear
Once a patient experiences a distal biceps tendon rupture, pain, swelling, bruising and weakness will appear almost immediately. Many patients will hear a loud “pop” at the time of the tear. A bulge in the upper arm or a gap in the front of the elbow may also be present. Bruising and swelling in the formearm is commonly seen.
Diagnosis of a Distal Biceps Tendon Rupture
At the patient’s consultation, Dr. Waterman will discuss the symptoms and perform a physical examination. The examination will include looking for a gap in the tendon and rotating the forearm against resistance to test the supination strength. X-rays and an MRI scan may also be performed to detect any bone damage and determine if the distal bicep tear is partial or complete.
Treatment of a Distal Bicep Tear
Non-surgical measures are reserved only for patients who have a partial tear and are involved with low demand activities, typically elderly patients. These measures involve resting the arm, protecting the arm and managing pain. Patients are recommended to discuss non-surgical treatment with Dr. Waterman immediately. Many cases of a distal biceps tendon rupture require surgical repair and must be treated during the first few weeks following the injury.
Many patients will decide to have surgery following a distal bicep tear so full arm strength and function can occur. Dr. Waterman typically performs a minimally invasive procedure right after the tear to reconnect the tendon to its correct location on the bone from where it was torn. A graft may be needed in severe cases where the tendon is severely scarred or retracted.
After surgery, patients are immobilized for four weeks to protect the tendon while it is healing. Next physical therapy is used to re-establish motion and prevent stiffness. Finally strengthening exercises are used to restore normal function, and most patients are able to return to all normal activities by 12-16 weeks following the injury.
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Not sure what type of bug this is but I found it under a small log.
Looks very familiar, however, I was unable to identify it.
Very distinct leaves with black spots on them.
A dry version of the Annual bur-sage.
This plant has several thorns on it's stem. It looks like the invasive Himalayan Blackberry.
I couldn't help but notice how similar black sage and horehound are. Both have rough leaves with those long stems poking out.
Black willow is one of the most common species at the Hahamongna watershed park.
This was the only palo verde tree that i encountered at Hahamongna Park. It took me a while to figure out what it was. This tree looks very dry but they are commonly used as an ornamental.
I found this palm all by its self at the Hahamongna watershed park.
This was the only mushroom that I found throughout the whole park. I was actually pretty excited to see one.
I thought maybe this was some type of lettuce growing out in the wild. Apparently it is curly dock. The seeds can be ground into flour and the plant is edible. The roots also have some medicinal uses.
I found about ten of these larvae under a large log.
A very dry spear thistle.
This small bush had small green fruits all over it. I'm not sure what it is.
You can find these frogs scattered around Hahamongna park.
Love the smell of Eucalyptus.
Found several of these under a large log.
A very dry version of the cocklebur
A very dry black mustard plant.
I always see this plant with the long caterpillar like tips.
Beautiful cactus with fruits.
I had never seen a black cricket until now. I was amazed at how shiny the head is. It almost looks metallic.
Stumbled upon an ant's nest. These ants are very small in size. Not sure if I have the correct scientific name for them.
It was nice to see the flowers of this Baccharis salicifolia.
This plant is very common in the Hahamongna Canyon.
I love the smell of white sage.
There's a whole lot of this stuff on the mountain sides on the way to Echo mountain.
Large bush with long white flowers. I am not 100% positive about my ID.
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The philosophy toward patient care at Illinois Wesleyan’s School of Nursing is reflected in its curriculum, which follows a specific framework called the theory of self-care. This theory sees health care as a collaborative process between nurse and patient and other care givers, including family.
Most students earn a bachelor of science in nursing within four years, without the requirement of summer study.
- (Includes SimMan, SimMom, Gaumard Newborn Hal and Nursing Anne Manikins)
- Who's Who in the Lab
- Meet the Nursing Interventions Lab Coordinator
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Is the solution to Lebanon’s reliance on carbon emitting personal vehicles as simple as a two-wheeler? [image via: mozzoom]
One hundred and fifty cyclists demonstrated how easy it could be to cycle through Beirut on Saturday morning, starting at Biel and going to the Luna Park – Manara and back. The eco-friendly protest, led by Fast Forward, was part of the Darreja Campaign to improve Lebanon’s transportation system and make it more sustainable. Fast Forward is a new advocacy group that is promoting sustainable, alternative forms of transportation (such as public transit, cycling, and walking) in Lebanon.
The event was also organized by IndyACT (who put together a cycling red carpet event last year), the Netherlands Embassy, and Beirut by Bike (who provided free bike rentals for the protest). The name “Darreja” is a play on words that combines the Arabic words for “bicycle” and “trend” – hoping, of course, to make cycling trendy.
The impetus for the protest came from the fact that Lebanon (and particularly Beirut) is highly crowded with private vehicles. Improved public transportation and urban planning would reduce congestion and pollution.
“The transportation sector, in its present state, has become a source of negative impact on both the environmental and social level, and it has become one of the obstacles facing sustainable development in Lebanon today. Based on that it became necessary to develop an integrated national plan for the management of this sector,” said Ali Fakhry, Communications Officer at IndyACT.
Beyond Darreja, the first of Fast Forward’s campaigns, the organization plans on putting together similar events in the future in order to get their green message across and inspire action from the Lebanese authorities.
Lily Abi-Chahine, an organizer activist who participated in the Darreja Campaign, said that “the participation of individuals in this event reflects their desire for a swift and conclusive solution for the traffic and pollution problems. Using bicycles is a first step that we encourage, just like using public transports and carpooling.”
Read more about cycling:
A Quick Guide to Traveling by Bike in the Middle East
Cycling for Peace as Israeli Arabs, Jews and Bedouins Kids Get Free Bikes and Clubs
Israeli Designer Yinnon Lehrer Encourages Urban Biking with Vertical Bike Racks
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The present revision of this text retains the objectives of the first edition: to introduce Maxwell's equations early and to develop them into familiar, useful tools. This is accomplished in the first three chapters through graded exercises with applications to elementary static systems with simple symmetries in free space. Some changes and additions have been incorporated and in its present revised form the text is suitable for either a two-term electromagnetic fields and wave-transmission sequence or a more limited one-term treatment. The book has an ample number of worked-out examples, a few of them new, enabling the student to use this text as a self-study aid. In addition, an expanded set of problems, nearly all new, is included at the end of each chapter.
This is the second edition published in 1988. The paper covers have previously been protected in clear plastic, now removed, therefore remain bright. The corners are slightly bent but this is the only damage to the exterior. Inside the cover is an owner's name in black ink, on the false title page is a small inscription, also in black ink.
Text block edges are moderately foxed and a little toned, otherwise text pages are clean, text clear, as are the numerous b/w diagrams, figures, charts, graphs and fascinating equations.
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At a study session Tuesday, Fort Smith leaders will revisit the sanitation director's proposal to remove commercial trash containers from residential areas.
At a study session Tuesday, Fort Smith leaders will revisit the sanitation director’s proposal to remove commercial trash containers from residential areas.
At a May 14 study session, Sanitation Director Baridi Nkokheli said his department pinpointed 120 multiplex units that are breaking city code by using Dumpsters instead of individual, residential trash carts.
He asked the Fort Smith Board of Directors for permission to replace those Dumpsters with automated carts and reduce rates for customers living in multiplex units of four or less. The board requested a rate chart for future discussion.
Nkokheli’s chart shows a multiplex rate of $12.36 monthly. The residential rate, effective July 1, will be $13.28 per month.
His recommendation is that, “All multiplexes receive residential solid waste collection services provided by the Department of Sanitation with automated carts unless that service delivery method is determined not practical by the department. …”
A multiplex rate of $12.36 per month “eliminates the economic incentive to request a commercial container,” he added.
The non-compliance issue with commercial carts in residential areas dates back to 1976, Nkokheli said.
“A lot of these properties have commercial containers, and they are not commercial properties because they are four units or less,” he said.
Nkokheli said he was waiting for a resolution to citywide automated trash service before addressing the multiplex issue.
In November, Fort Smith voters overwhelmingly backed a ballot measure supporting automated collection as the city standard.
In May, At-Large Director Kevin Settle said he did not agree with a rate change.
“One thing I’m not in favor of is a differential rate,” he said. “If we’re going to change rates for a certain class of customers, we should change rates for everybody in the city.”
At-Large Director Pam Weber said she was concerned about how multiple trash carts may look at multiplex units.
“I’m not sure what’s more unsightly, a Dumpster or eight trash cans,” she said.
Also Tuesday, the board will review procedures of the Neighborhood Services department, which enforces the city’s nuisance ordinances.
In a memo to directors, Planning Director Wally Bailey offers suggestions to streamline the process, including adding a fifth inspector.
Tuesday’s study session begins at noon at the Fort Smith Public Library on Rogers Avenue.
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The Planning Pyramid illustrates the three focal points of impactful and effective financial and estate planning.
- The Book
- The Authors
- Charities & Nonprofits
- Individuals & Families
The foundation of the pyramid is financial independence. Until you have confidence that your plan provides sufficient resource to support you throughout your lifetime, on your terms, it’s difficult to progress beyond this level.
The next level is family legacy. Once you are confident about your financial independence, the next step is to consider why you want to create a family legacy. What values are you hoping to support and what outcomes would you like to promote? How much is enough to accomplish these important results? Simply “maximizing wealth to your heirs” and “minimizing taxes” are not real goals – these are means, not ends. The key question is – for what purpose?
The pinnacle of the pyramid is social capital legacy. Gifts to charitable causes or organizations need not come at the expense of your own financial needs or providing for your family. With the right kind of planning and expertise, you can usually redirect assets otherwise earmarked for taxes to personally chosen causes and organizations that will achieve the kind of social impact you hope to make. This is taking involuntary philanthropy and transforming it into voluntary philanthropy. Your redirected tax liabilities, along with additional wealth not required by you or your family, make up what we refer to as your “excess” wealth. Most people don’t know they have it, but they often do. If you knew you did, might you do some things differently? Live more? Give more?
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EIGHT COMMON MYTHS ABOUT CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE
Few people are aware of the true state of the science on child abuse. Instead, most people's beliefs have been shaped by common misconceptions and popular myths about this hidden crime. Societal acceptance of these myths assists sex offenders by silencing victims and encouraging public denial about the true nature of sexual assaults against children. The Leadership Council prepared this analysis because we believe that society as a whole benefits when the public has access to accurate information regarding child abuse and other forms of interpersonal violence.
Myth 1: Normal-appearing, well educated, middle-class people don't molest children.
One of the public's most dangerous assumptions is the belief that a person who both appears and acts normal could not be a child molester. Sex offenders are well aware of our propensity for making assumptions about private behavior from one's public presentation. In fact, as recent reports of abuse by priests have shown, child molesters rely on our misassumptions to deliberately and carefully set and gain access to child victims.
According to Dr. Anna Salter, Ph.D., a foremost expert in sex offenders, "a double life is prevalent among all types of sex offenders . . . . The front that offenders typically offer to the outside world is usually a 'good person,' someone who the community believes has a good character and would never do such a thing" (Salter, 2003, p. 34).
In her years of work with sex offenders, Dr. Salter has found they commonly employ a variety of tactics which allow them to gain access to children while concealing their activities. For instance, many seek responsible positions that place them in close proximity with children. They also tend to adopt a pattern of socially responsible and caring behavior in public. Many have practiced and perfected their ability to charm, to be likeable and to radiate a facade of sincerity and truthfulness. This causes parents and others to drop their guard, allowing the sex offender easy and recurring access to children.
In fact, Dr. Salter has found that the life a child molester leads in public may be exemplary, almost surreal in its righteousness. In her book, Dr. Salter presents the following description written by a child molester who had used his position as a church choir director to gain access to boys.
Soon after writing this, the author of this confession was released on parole. Upon release, he quickly infiltrated a church where he molested children until he was again caught and returned to prison" (Salter, 2003, pp. 36-37).
Myth 2: People are too quick to believe an abuser is guilty, even if there is no supporting evidence.
In truth, people are too quick to believe that the accused is innocent, even if there is plenty of supporting evidence. According to Dr. Salter, " Normal , healthy people distort reality to create a kinder, gentler world than actually exists" (p. 177). She notes that in order to find meaning and justice in everyday life, most people assign victims too much blame for their assaults and offenders too little. In truth, it is hard for most people to imagine how any person could sexually abuse a child. Because they can't imagine a "normal" person doing such a heinous act, they assume that child molesters must be monsters. If the accused does not fit this stereotype (in other words if he appears to be a normal person), then many people will disbelieve the allegation, believing the accused to be incapable of such act.
Myth 3: Child molesters molest indiscriminately.
Not everyone who comes in contact with a child molester will be abused. Although this finding may seem obvious, some interpret the fact that an abuser didn't molest a particular child in their care to mean that those children who do allege abuse must be lying. In truth, sex offenders tend to carefully pick and set up their victims Thus while sex offenders may feel driven to molest children, they rarely do so indiscriminately or a plan.
Research with sex offenders confirms that they tend to carefully select and "groom" their victims (Conte, Wolf, & Smith, 1989). For instance, Elliott, Browne and Kilcoyne (1995) interviewed with 91 child molesters, the all-male sample reported that they most often chose children who had family problems, were alone, lacked confidence, and were indiscriminate in their trust of others -- especially when the child was also perceived to be pretty, "provocatively" dressed, young, or small.
Rather than being a sudden, initially traumatic occurrence, most sex abuse involves a gradual "grooming" process in which the perpetrator skillfully manipulates the child into participating (Berliner & Conte, 1995). To ensure the child's continuing compliance, sex offenders report using bribes, threats and force (Elliott et al.,1995).
Below, a young pedophile describes the careful planning that went into finding his next victim.
When a person like myself wants to obtain access to a child, you don't just go up and get the child and sexually molest the child. There's a process of obtaining the child's friendship and, in my case, also obtaining the family's friendship and their trust. When you get their trust, that's when the child becomes vulnerable and you can molest the child. (Salter, 2003, p. 42)
Myth 4: Children who are being abused would immediately tell their parents.
The fact victims often fail to disclose their abuse in a timely fashion is frequently used as evidence that an alleged victim's story should be doubted. Research, however, shows that children who have been sexually assaulted often have considerable difficulty in revealing or discussing their abuse.
Estimates suggest that only 3% of all cases of child sexual abuse (Finkelhor & Dziuba-Leatherman, 1994; Timnick, 1985) and only 12% of rapes involving children are ever reported to police (Hanson et al., 1999). A nationally representative survey of over 3,000 women revealed that of those raped during childhood, 47% did not disclose to anyone for over 5 years post-rape. In fact, 28% of the victims reported that they had never told anyone about their childhood rape prior to the research interview. Moreover, the women who never told often suffered the most serious abuse. For instance, younger age at the time of rape, a family relationship with the perpetrator, and experiencing a series of rapes were all associated with delayed disclosure (Smith et al., 2000).
Sex offenders typically seek to make the victim feel as though he or she caused the offender to act inappropriately, and convince the child that they are the guilty party. As a result, children often have great difficulty sorting out who is responsible for the abuse and frequently blame themselves for what happened. In the end, fears of retribution and abandonment, and feelings of complicity, embarrassment, guilt, and shame all conspire to silence children and inhibit their disclosures of abuse (Pipe & Goodman, 1991; Sauzier, 1989).
Boys seem to have a particularly difficult time dealing with sexual abuse and are even less likely to report it than girls. A review of 5 community-based studies revealed that rates of non-disclosure ranged from 42% to 85% in abused men ( Lyons , 2002). Research with abused males has found that the more severe the abuse, the more likely the boy is to blame himself and the less likely he will disclose the abuse (Hunter et al., 1992). In addition to self-blame, reluctance of boys to disclose abuse may be traced to the social stigma attached to victimization, along with fears that they will be disbelieved or labeled homosexual (Watkins & Bentovim, 1992).
Myth 5: Children who are being abused will show physical evidence of abuse.
A lack of physical evidence of sexual assault is often cited as support that an alleged perpetrator must be innocent. However, research shows that abnormal genital findings are rare even in cases where the abuse has been proven. Some acts, like fondling and oral sex, leave no physical traces. Even injuries from penetration heal very quickly in young children and thus abnormal genital findings are not common, especially if the child is examined more than 48 hours after the abuse. In fact, even with proven penetration in up to 95% of cases, genital examinations will be essentially normal.
In one study, case files and colposcopic photographs of 236 children with perpetrator conviction for sexual abuse, were reviewed. The investigators found that genital findings in the abused girls were normal in 28%, nonspecific in 49%, suspicious in 9%, and abnormal in 14% of cases (Adams, Harper, Knudson, & Revilla, 1994).
An even lower rate of abnormal findings was found in a large scale study of the 2384 children referred for medical evaluation of sexual abuse. The investigators found that only 4% of the children had abnormal examinations at the time of evaluation. Even with a history of severe abuse such as vaginal or anal penetration, the rate of abnormal medical findings was only 5.5% (Heger, Ticson, Velasquez, & Bernier, 2002).
This low rate of abnormal findings was confirmed in a case review of children with proven sexual abuse consisting of 36 pregnant adolescent girls who presented for sexual abuse evaluations. Historical information and photograph documentation were reviewed to determine the presence or absence of genital findings that indicate penetrating trauma. Only 2 of the 36 (5.5%) pregnant girls showed definitive evidence of penetration (Kellogg, Menard, & Santos , 2004).
Myth 6: Hundreds of innocent men and women have been falsely accused and sent to prison for molesting children.
Over and over again, the media has raised the question whether America is in the midst of a hysterical overreaction to the perceived threat from pedophiles. Actual research, however, shows that, as a whole, our society continues to under-react and under-estimate the scope of the problem.
Prior to the 1980s, child sexual abuse was largely ignored, both by the law and by society as a whole. In the 1980s, when the scope of the problem began to be acknowledged, the police began to arrest adults accused of child abuse. A backlash quickly formed and police and prosecutors were soon accused of conducting "witchhunts." Although some early cases were handled badly -- mainly because the police had little experience in dealing with very young child witnesses -- there is little evidence to back the assertion that there was widespread targeting of innocent people.
In fact, research has consistently shown that few abusers are ever identified or incarcerated. Estimates suggest that only 3% of all cases of child sexual abuse (Finkelhor & Dziuba-Leatherman, 1994; Timnick, 1985) and only 12% of rapes involving children are ever reported to police (Hanson et al., 1999).
Further research reveals that of the few cases reported to authorities, relatively few accused offenders are ever investigated or charged. For instance, the first National Incidence Study (Finkelhor, 1983) found that criminal action was taken in only 24% of substantiated cases of child sexual abuse -- a finding replicated by Sauzier (1989). After reviewing numerous studies, Bolen (2001) noted that in the end, offenders may be convicted in only 1-2% of cases of suspected abuse known to professionals. And even then, most convicted child molesters spend less than one year in jail.
Based on the high prevalence of sexual crimes against children on our society, it strains credulity to assume that the small number of cases that are actually prosecuted constitute a "witchhunt", or that somehow mostly innocent people are targeted for prosecution. In fact, statistics suggest quite the opposite: child abusers are rarely identified or prosecuted.
Myth 7: If asked about abuse, children tend to exaggerate and are prone to making false accusations.
Contrary to the popular misconception that children are prone to exaggerate sexual abuse, research shows that children often minimize and deny, rather than embellish what has happened to them.
In one study, researchers examined 28 cases in which prepubescent children had tested positive for a sexually transmitted disease by forensically accepted procedures. To be included in the study, the children had to have presented for a physical problem with no prior disclosure or suspicion of sexual abuse and were required to have adequate expressive language capabilities. Each of the 28 children was interviewed by a social worker trained in abuse disclosure techniques and use of anatomically correct dolls. Only 12 of the 28 (43%) of the abused children interviewed gave any verbal confirmation of sexual contact (Lawson, & Chaffin, 1992).
Another study involved a perpetrator who pled guilty after videotapes documenting his abuse of ten children were found by authorities. Because of these detailed video recordings, researchers knew exactly what had happened to these children. They were thus able to compare what the children told investigators when they were interviewed to the videotapes. Despite this abundance of hard physical evidence, the researchers found a significant tendency among the children to deny or minimize their experiences. Some children simply did not want to disclose their experiences, some had difficulties remembering them, and one child lacked adequate concepts to understand and describe them. Even when interviews included leading questions, none of the children embellished their accounts or accused the perpetrator of acts that he hadn't actually committed (Sjoberg & Lindblad, 2002).
Some people believe that recantations are a sure sign that a child lied about the abuse. However, a recent study found that pressure from family members play a significant role in recantations. Mallory et al. (2007) examined the prevalence and predictors of recantation among 2- to 17-year-old child sexual abuse victims. Case files (n = 257) were randomly selected from all substantiated cases resulting in a dependency court filing in a large urban county between 1999 and 2000. Recantation (i.e., denial of abuse postdisclosure) was scored across formal and informal interviews. Cases were also coded for characteristics of the child, family, and abuse. The researchers found a 23.1% recantation rate. The study looked for but did not find evidence that these recantations resulted from potential inclusion of cases involving false allegations. Instead, multivariate analyses supported a filial dependency model of recantation, whereby abuse victims who were more vulnerable to familial adult influences (i.e., younger children, those abused by a parent figure and who lacked support from the nonoffending caregiver) were more likely to recant.
Myth 8: By using repeated interviews, therapists or police can easily implant false memories and cause false accusations among children of any age.
Although research has consistently shown that children rarely confabulate about having been abused and false allegations have been found to be rare (Everson & Boat, 1989; Jones & McGraw, 1987; Oates, et al., 2000), the potential for false allegations continues to be an area of great concern in sex abuse cases.
Whenever prominent adults are accused of abuse, we frequently hear allegations improper questioning and suggestions that the child may have invented molestation stories to please probing authority figures. We also hear concerns that inappropriate, suggestive therapies by overzealous clinicians may have shaped or implanted the allegations.
Recent research suggests that these concerns have been greatly exaggerated ( Lyons , 2001). There is now a substantial body of laboratory research which finds that children are quite reluctant to discuss embarrassing events (Lyon, 1999; 2002). Overall, laboratory research using suggestive questioning has consistently shown that negative events, especially events involving a child's genitals, are relatively difficult to implant in children's statements. In fact, research shows that children are more likely to fail to report negative experiences that actually did happen to them, than falsely remember ones that did not.
Saywitz, Goodman, Nicholas, and Moan (1991) studied the memory of 72 five and seven-year-old girls for a standardized medical checkup. Half of the children received a vaginal and anal examination as part of the checkup; while the other half of the children received a scoliosis examination of their back instead. The children's memories were later solicited through free recall, anatomically detailed doll demonstration, and direct and misleading questions. The vast majority of vaginal and anal touch went unreported in free recall and doll demonstration, and was only disclosed when children were asked direct, doll-aided questions. The children who received a scoliosis exam never falsely reported genital touch in free recall or doll demonstration; and false reports were rare in response to direct questions.
It is also important to point out that many abused children exhibit post-traumatic and behavioral symptoms. To date no laboratory or clinical research supports the notion that children can falsely remember elaborate details of sexual abuse perpetrated by a trusted teacher, corroborate each other's stories in independent interviews, and develop post-traumatic symptoms -- based solely on police interviews or suggestive therapy.
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Books for the Study of Indo-Iranian Languages
(Sanskrit, Prākrit, Pāli, Avestan)
Literatures, Religions, and Antiquities
Published by Messrs. Ginn & Company
Boston, New York, Chicago, and London
Whitney's Sanskrit Grammar. A Sanskrit Grammar, including both the classical language, and the older dialects, of Veda and Brāhmaṇa. By William Dwight Whitney, [late] Professor of Sanskrit and Comparative Philology in Yale University. Third (reprinted from the second, revised and extended) edition. 1896. 8vo. xxvi + 552 pages. Cloth: Mailing price, $3.20, Paper: $2.90.
Cappeller's Sanskrit-English Dictionary. A Sanskrit-English Dictionary. Based upon the St. Petersburg Lexicons. By Carl Cappeller, Professor at the University of Jena. Royal 8vo. Cloth. viii + 672 pages. By mail, $6.25.
Lanman's Sanskrit Reader. A Sanskrit Reader: with Vocabulary and Notes. By Charles Rockwell Lanman, Professor of Sanskrit in Harvard University. For use in colleges and for private study. Royal 8vo. Complete: Text, Notes, and Vocabulary, xxiv + 405 pages. Cloth: Mailing price, $2.00. Text alone, for use in examinations, 106 pages. Cloth: Mailing price, 85 cents. Notes alone, viii + 109 pages. Cloth: Mailing price, 85 cents.
This Reader is constructed with special reference to the needs of those who have to use it without a teacher. The text is in Oriental characters. The selections are from the Mahā-bhārata, Hitopadeça, Kathā-sarit-sāgara, Laws of Manu, the Rigveda, the Brāhmaṇas, and the Sūtras. The Sanskrit words of the Notes and Vocabulary are in English letters. The Notes render ample assistance in the interpretation of difficult passages.
Sanskrit Text in English Letters. Parts of Nala and Hitopadeça in English Letters. Prepared by Charles R. Lanman. Royal 8vo. Paper. vi + 44; pages. Mailing price, 30 cents.
The Sanskrit text of the first forty-four pages of Lanman's Reader, reprinted in English characters.
Perry's Sanskrit Primer. A Sanskrit Primer: based on the Leitfaden für den Elementarcursus des Sanskrit of Prof. Georg Bühler of Vienna. By Edward Delavan Perry, Professor of Greek in Columbia University, New York. 1885. 8vo. xii + 230 pages. Mailing price, $1.60.
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Gender and race may play a role in determining how much high school students experiment with marijuana.
A new study by Yale School of Medicine researchers has found that Caucasian female adolescents between the ages of 15 and 17 are more likely to use marijuana than African-American or Asian girls, although more African-American and Hispanic boys of the same age use marijuana than other ethnicities. The study, published in the March edition of the Journal of Addiction Medicine, also found that teenage girls transition faster from initial marijuana use to regular use than adolescent boys. The researchers said they hope that the study’s findings can help public health officials develop early intervention programs for adolescent marijuana use that takes gender into account.
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According to the report, little is known about gender differences in adolescent marijuana use before this study, which aims to present a profile of the personal characteristics that determine marijuana use during adolescence.
“I was a little surprised at how strongly tobacco and marijuana use went together,” said first author Ty Schepis, explaining that a teenager’s recent use of tobacco was a stronger indicator of previous marijuana use than any other risky behaviors, including marijuana use, binge alcohol drinking and gambling.
The study builds on research from a statewide survey of adolescent risk behavior participation at Connecticut high schools that was led by Yale faculty in 2008. A former Yale postdoctoral fellow Schepis, who led the study, said that the large survey has already led to more than five published manuscripts.
Associate research scientist at the Yale School of Medicine Dana Cavallo, who is another of the study’s authors, said some of the results were particularly surprising.
For both genders, participation in extracurricular activities is associated with a lower rate of marijuana use. But the study showed that this participation appears to be connected to reduced female marijuana use more so than that of male teenagers, with extracurriculars making girls nearly 50 percent less likely to use marijuana than those not participating, whereas boys were just over 25 percent less likely.
Though 24.5 percent of all adolescents surveyed said they had used marijuana within the last 30 days, 40 percent said they had used marijuana at least once during their lifetime. Boys consistently reported higher rates of use than their female counterparts.
But some results may be less surprising: teens that smoked cigarettes, drank alcohol or carried weapons were more likely to use marijuana. Younger students and those with better grades were also less likely to report using marijuana.
One Yale student said the study has wider reaching implications for local New Haven schools.
“We can tailor our curriculum based on the findings for active preventive strategy,” said Nicole Ivey ’14, a Community Health Educator who works on a weekly basis with New Haven school children on health issues.
The 2008 survey was conducted in conjunction with the Connecticut Council on Problem Gambling and the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services.
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Bible Verses To Help You Begin Your Faith
We hear Jesus say in John 3:16, "God so loved the world." He loves everyone.
Romans 5:8 tells us that God loved us so that "when we were in our sin Christ Jesus came to die for us." Romans 3:23 tells us that all people have sinned. We have fallen short of God's intended purpose for us. The result of sin is that we are lost... separated from God. Romans 6:23 states that the just payment for our sin is death, but God's free gift is eternal life. Jesus, God's Son, has paid the price for sin by His death on the cross. Jesus arose from the grave to conquer sin and death for all who receive Him as God's free gift. How can you receive God's free gift of love and life?
In Romans 10:9-10 it states, "that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation." A person receives God's free gift of love and life by placing faith in Jesus Christ. To believe is simply to take God at His word. With our heart (whole believing) we believe that Jesus is God's Son who died for our sin on the cross and arose from the grave to live in us as Savior and Lord.
Do you believe by faith that Jesus, God's Son, died for your sin on the cross?
Will you now confess Him as your Savior and Lord? If yes,
How You Can Know God's Love
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"StoryWalk®, an exciting initiative that combines a children’s story with a popular walking route, was developed in September, 2007 by Anne Ferguson, a volunteer with the Coalition. Ferguson selects a children’s book, separates the pages, laminates them, and attaches them to wooden stakes. She then drives the stakes into the ground at regular intervals along paths so readers can follow the story as they walk the route. Ferguson conceived of StoryWalk® as a way to inspire parents, teachers, and caregivers to take young children on a short stroll that will be fun for all. StoryWalk® helps build children’s interest in reading while encouraging healthy outdoor activity for both adults and children."
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We've constructed a tutorial, selecting articles from our FAQ area.
These are just a glimpse of the many helpful tips provided throughout Pickl-It to help you select the sizes you need, along with understanding the different parts.
If you can't find the information you're looking for, please contact us at [email protected] or phone us at (603) 722-0189 (USA, EST).
Helpful step-by-step links to get you started:
- Select your Pickl-It - Size and capacity comparisons
- Pickl-It Assembly - easy! Step-by-step instructions
- Filling Pickl-It with Food - Basic minimum & maximum guidelines
- Dunk'R Function - useful as a food "weight" and pressing out oxygen
- Create Brine - we recommend weighing, not measuring salt
- Airlocks - a few handy tips on filling
- Cover Your Pickl-It - block out UV light which neutralizes beneficial bacteria
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Did you know...
Cultured and fermented foods are still eaten around the world – sauerkraut and kefir in Europe; and Kimchi throughout Asia.
—Modern Cultured Food
Thank you to my mentor, KathleenMills, the brain behind Pickl-It. Kathleen steered me to the science behind it all and the means to provide the correct conditions. Thank you, Kathleen, for all your wisdom and patience.
—Lisa Herndon of Lisa's Counter Culture
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Historically underpinned, this study focuses especially on the period from the 1980s onward and looking forward into the new century. The authors begin their analysis with the phenomenon of the British Royal Family and their relationship with contemporary Britain through the media. This then extends into a comparative analysis of monarchy across Eurpoe, in its relation to political culture, including the republican tradition. The book also uses the concept of 'para-royals' such as the Perons, Kennedys, Clintons and now in Britain, the Blairs. It analyzes the nature of republican symbology as incorporated in media rituals and representations to try to define key differences within the category of the 'modern' in contemporary Europe.
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Kernel.org, a site that distributes Linux source kernels, has suffered a breach of security according to a leaked email by Chief Administrator John Hawley. First noticed on August 28, it's believed multiple infected servers sat undetected for 17 days.
Shortly after the leaked email went public, Kernel.org released a statement confirming intruders had gained root access to at least one server. The intruders reportedly gained access to the server with compromised user credentials, but it's unknown how they obtained root access from there.
Files belonging to SSH were modified and running live. A Trojan was also added to the start-up scripts and all user interactions were logged, possibly compromising usernames and passwords.
The infected servers have been taken offline with backups made pending further investigation and full analysis on the code in Git. All servers will have full reinstalls and the respective authorities in Europe and the United States have been notified.
One major advantage in the case of Kernel.org is that the Git version control system is used to manage the entire development lifecycle of kernel packages. Each version of every package has its own cryptographically secure SHA-1 hash calculated, which changes as the package does. This creates a development history for each package, making it impossible to introduce changes without them being noticed.
Many will consider this attack to be a serious problem, but Kernel.org moved quickly to reassure everyone that repositories remained unaffected and they are working closely with the hundreds of users of kernel.org to change passwords and SSH keys.
They are also going to audit all security policies and make improvements if required to ensure this is a onetime event. The site was keen to note that it takes security seriously and is pursuing all avenues to find the attackers and prevent future infiltrations
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kinchid kwachid bastu sadsad ba khilatmike
tasya sarbasya ya
(Chandi, Chapter 1 verse 78)
something is matter
or consciousness, it is full of Shakti
and the combination of the two is the source of Absolute Power.
Both Powers must be acquired for the destruction of the Asuric
elements of the society and thereby, we can help man move ahead
in the Path to Evolution. This is the quintessence of Shaktivada.
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Today being Friday in Kabul (the Western equivalent of Sunday), my Afghan colleague and I walked up to a hillside where dozens - maybe even 100 - kites were flying and battling in the sky. I was the only foreigner there, and I was mesmerized.
A kite, its string cut by another's, floats to earth:
Kids use these long poles to catch the kites, twirling the string around them. You can faintly see kites flying in the background:
Kites, which come in different sizes, are all handmade, from paper:
String, coated with a material that makes it sharp, for sale:
Not the bird kind of kites (as in Mississipi, Swallow-Tailed), but amazing all the same...
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The first wave brought the workers. They worked down the hill in the factories and built countless churches.
Then came the artists, who revived a neighborhood that had been written off amid industrial demise.
Then came the foodies and the yuppies who spearheaded a wave of gentrification.
Yet, the whole time there’s been that little bar at the bottom of the hill.
Since the 1940s, Pat’s in the Flats has been a bastion of saloon stability in Cleveland’s Tremont neighborhood – even as Tremont has changed.
At 6 p.m. Friday, a group of photographers will pay tribute to one of Cleveland’s underappreciated jewels with an art show at Space: ROCK gallery, 15721 Waterloo Road, in Cleveland’s Collinwood neighborhood.
“Pat’s in the Flats Roadhouse Chic: Rock & Rolling Rock at the Bottom of the Hill” will feature photos, flyers and posters chronicling the rock era of the bar – including shots of early appearances by the White Stripes taken by Jay Brown.
The show will also include stories and memories of people who played and hung out there. The Working Man’s Bar – as it has calls itself – has always been as much of a hang out as club.
These days, there aren’t as many working guys in the area. But owner Pat Hanych has always made all kinds feel at home. The décor is as old-school as you’ll find, too.
Check it out: Pat’s is located at 2233 West Third St., Cleveland. Call 216-621-8044.
The Space: Rock show runs through February. Regular gallery hours are 1-5 pm Saturday and Sunday.
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7. b) Simply base area times height.
c) Base area plus 4 times the side area.
d) Isolate h taking care of priority of operations.
e) Replace in V.
Solve for x.
You should be able to do the rest.
These problems involve advanced Algebra II problems. I am 100% clueless on all four of these problems... I am in Algebra II honors, top of the class.
I would VERY much appreciate it, if you uploaded your work via a scanner or w/e, so I can view it. If you can't do that, I need you to explain your answers.
7. If 1200 cm^2 of material is available to make a box with a square base and an open top. Find the largest possible volume of the box. Use the following steps:
a.) Draw a picture
b) Find the volume in terms of x and h
c) Find the surface area in terms of x and h. Then solve for h in terms of x.
d) Find the volume in terms of x
e) To find max, solve the following equation derived from calculus: 1200-3x^2=0
f) Find h
g) Find V
Here is the other three problems in image form:
10 : Put divide by to get Then multiply by to get
Square both sides
Put and use the formula to solve quadratic equations.
Exercice #11 is pretty much like #7. You should be able to work it out once you've understood #7.
12 : g o f = g(f(x)) and f o g = f(g(x)) Use either f(x) or g(x) as variable.
e.g. Simplify by multiplying by .
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Have you had an eggplant lately?
There is many reasons why you should include this pretty purple vegetable in your diet.
- Eggplant is a good choice because its high fiber content helps digestive function
- lowers risk of coronary heart disease
- In addition, eggplant contains potassium, Vitamin C, and protein.
- In 16th century Spain, the eggplant was believed to be an aphrodisiac 😉
- Europeans believed eggplants caused insanity, and called it the Mad Apple.
- Eggplants are best known for their purple color, but they are available in a wide variety of lavender shades-even striped!
Roasted Eggplant,Red Pepper and Yam Soup
Adapted from shabbottshabits.com
- 1 Large-sized eggplant, split lengthwise
- 1 Large red bell peppers, split lengthwise
- 3 Tomatoes, Quartered
- 2 Yams, cut into chunks
- 1 Medium yellow or white onion, peeled and cut into chunks
- 1 full head of garlic
- 1 Tbsp. Olive oil
- 4 C. vegetable broth or stock
- 1 Tbsp. Fresh thyme, finely chopped (plus more for garnish)
- 1/4 C. Coconut milk or almond milk
1. Place all of the veggies and the garlic on a baking sheet. Brush the olive oil over the vegetables, make sure that all of the vegetables are lightly coated. Position the eggplant and yams skin side up (cut side down on the tray). Roast veggies at 350ºF for 45 minutes.
2. Bring your stock to a boil in a large soup pot. Scoop the flesh of the roasted (and then cooled) eggplant and yams into the stock, leaving the skin behind. Place the remaining vegetables and garlic in the stock. Bring to a boil, then reduce to a simmer for 10 minutes.
3. Puree the soup in a blender or food processor. Return to the soup pot. Add the fresh thyme and coconut milk. Salt and Pepper to taste . Garnish with fresh thyme.
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CNC Swiss precision products were once considered niche machines, but more and more job shops are turning to them instead of the regular CNC machines.
Although there’s quite a steep learning curve to using Swiss-type machines, shops are starting to realize they can increase cost-effectiveness and productivity when they invest in Swiss lathes to be used for the right kinds of jobs.
Understanding Swiss-Type Turning: What is it for?
A Swiss-type turning machine feeds the stock through a guide bushing. This allows the OD turning tool to cut the stock very close to the guide bushing. This allows the machine to make heavy cuts, but still keep the accuracy of dimensions, notwithstanding the length of the workpiece. Because of this, Swiss precision products are deemed very effective for turning long, slender parts that are used in industries such as medical, electronic, and military.
What are the Business Benefits of Swiss-Type Turning?
Swiss machines are highly effective in producing smaller batches. Often times, they let you move on from one batch to the next simply by loading a different program. In conventional turning machines, small jobs as a problem, as well as the need for skilled operators who can set up the machines. Swiss-type lathes can continue working even without human operators. As long as the bar stock lasts, the machine can turn without human supervision.
How to Transition from Conventional to Swiss-Type Turning
Swiss machines have a sliding headstock that feeds a bar stock through the guide bushing. This is what differentiates it from conventional machines. And it is also what employees get easily confused with in the beginning. The proper training and education of personnel are important if you’re going to switch to Swiss-type lathes. Sometimes, job shops go the extra mile to hire at least one person who specializes in Swiss-type products.
If you have zero experience in Swiss-type turning, the best way to get started is to start simple. Invest in an entry-level machine that provides all the basic features to help you and your employees learn the ropes of Swiss-type machining, without getting entangled in all its complexities.
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Igneous Dike and Metamorphic Rock Lab and Field Project
Skills and concepts that students must have mastered
How the activity is situated in the course
Content/concepts goals for this activity
Higher order thinking skills goals for this activity
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Description of the activity/assignment
This project allows the students to integrate petrography of igneous and metamorphic rocks with regional field relationships and tectonics. The students really enjoy being able to pick their own samples to study and make
their own thin sections. This is done during the winter months. In the spring, we go to all the locations to study the field relationships and relate them to the regional tectonic setting both in the Precambrian and the Cretaceous.
There are four afternoon field labs and one weekend field trip to study the Mesozoic dikes and intrusives and Precambrian metamorphic rocks in New York, Vermont and Quebec.
The requirements for this project are as follows:
- Make two usable thin sections.
- Write a detailed petrographic description of each sample including a hand specimen description.
- Write a detailed field description of each outcrop visited including strike and dip (attitude) if possible. Sketches or photos are necessary.
- Research the available literature on the samples and summarize how the samples fit, in terms of petrography, structural and tectonic setting.
- Cite the references used.
- Include all of the above written descriptions in a short summary report, 2-3 pages in length.
- Present the results to the class during the final exam period.
Determining whether students have met the goals
Teaching materials and tips
- Activity Description/Assignment (Microsoft Word PRIVATE FILE 29kB Jun12 08)
- Syllabus (Microsoft Word PRIVATE FILE 35kB Jun12 08)
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Do you know what is the biggest animal in the world? This article illustrates you some of the most useful facts about the largest living animal on the planet earth. Perhaps the first thing that grabs our attention while considering the biggest animal is whether that is land animal or marine creature. Well, definitely it spends its entire life underwater and therefore ought to be placed in marine animals. The name of the animal is Blue Whale that unquestionably enjoys the reputation of being the largest living mammal on the planet earth.
What is the Biggest Animal in the World?
Blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) is unarguably the largest animal with the weight almost impossible to measure because of its mammoth size. These mammals are predominantly found in the Indian Ocean, South Pacific Ocean. These whales had lived in almost every ocean in the beginning of the 20thcentury; however, the population dramatically reduced worldwide because of excessive hunting. One of the largest concentrations was in the Antarctic Ocean where more than 300,000 individuals believed to have existed. Now the numbers have fallen down to 230,000 species only. Some of the species are also known to reside in the North Pacific Ocean and Southern Hemisphere.
These marine animals are capable to take in 5000 litres (1320 U.S. gallons) of water. It has large-sized flippers with the length measuring at 3 – 4 metres (9.8 – 13 feet). Blue whales can swim at a speed of 50 km/h (31 mph); nevertheless the average speed is about 20 km/h (12 mph). They tend to reduce their speed to only 5 km/h (3.1 mph) while feeding. Blue whales are normally regarded as the solitary mammals and biologists aren’t still sure about the exact period during which pairs stay together. There may be 50 – 60 whales in a single group. These types of mammals weigh around 150–170 metric tons (170–190 short tons) and are 27 metres (89 ft) long. The largest blue whale believed to have existed in Sub-Antarctic waters. It goes without saying that blue whale organs should also be the biggest in the animal kingdom in that the tongue weighs around 2.7 metric tons (3.0 short tons) which is capable to hold 90 metric tons (99 short tons) of food. The heart weighs around 600 kilograms (1,300 lb). These species inhabits in the waters of Alaska, Costa Rica, Kamchatka as well as Atlantic Ocean and Greenland.
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The conversation about access to college has passed through multiple incarnations, each time with a different focus, but always concerned with the fundamental question: Who gets to go to selective colleges?
Sometimes we worry about access for individuals of particular races, ethnic groups, and gender, underrepresented in selective college enrollment. Sometimes we worry that the expansion of capacity in American higher education will not accommodate the growth in the number of college prepared high school graduates.
Solutions to these problems vary, sometimes expressed through massive investments in the expansion of public higher education capacity, and in other instances demonstrated through preferential recruitment and admission of underrepresented individuals into existing selective institutions.
The new focus for this ongoing debate looks closely at the admissions practices of selective colleges and universities and finds them deficient in attracting and retaining individuals from less prosperous families. The issue, perhaps oversimplified here, targets the admissions practices of selective institutions as biased against those students with the least ability to pay and highly favoring those students from affluent or at least middle class families.
The mechanisms for this discrimination against the poor appear in many forms. The most obvious is that selective institutions have high, required fees, and their predominantly residential character almost doubles the cost of attendance. If the basic cost of selective institutions prices them out of the range of the poor family, the selection criteria also appear biased against the poor.
Most selective institutions rely heavily on standardized test scores to identify the elite offered admission, and define the merit the selective institutions seek by these scores, along with high school grades, and a portfolio of additional student achievements in sports, the arts, overseas travel, community service commitments, and other similar engagements.
These elements all appear to favor the middle class and above because only those students with families capable of paying the cost of good academic high schools, test preparation courses, extensive extracurricular activities that often require not only money but constant parent availability, and freedom from any obligation for the student to work to contribute to the family income. Taken together, the argument goes, these things all define the poor but potentially academically talented student out of the selective college admissions pool.
A simple solution, of course, is to provide full financial aid to students with talent and no family resources, and in truth, most selective institutions operate need blind admissions and package financial aid to meet anywhere from 90 to 100 percent of the federal formula that defines need. The critics, however, tell us this is not enough. The formula leaves a gap, and the financial aid package often includes a loan portion that discourages poor students from attending because they choose not to graduate with debt.
However, the critics go further and argue that the admissions selection criteria themselves, focused on a specific form of merit, discriminate against poor students with academic promise because such students can never get the benefits that translate into high SAT scores, good high school preparation, and the opportunity for extensive extracurricular portfolios.
This critique strikes at a much more fundamental issue. What do we mean by merit?
Most colleges mean many things: high SAT, high grade point average, extensive activities lists, relatives with prior connections to the institution, relationships with donors or trustees or political leaders, all these combine into the merit process that results in an offer to attend a selective college or university. Some of these are easy to criticize.
It is nonetheless hard to accept that the high scores on standardized tests, extensive work in advanced placement courses, high energy commitments to athletics and community service are somehow inappropriate preparation for college admission simply because families invested in the future of their children. Such a conclusion would appear to strike at a core value that has sustained American colleges and university for at least a generation. Parents who in their time attended college to acquire the skills for economic success may not appreciate learning that their children’s achievements will be discounted because the parents were successful.
The argument that the poor are less likely to get a good high school education and have fewer advantages in the selective college admissions process is one of those arguments that is true by design. Colleges and universities are engines of social and economic progress, and they have demonstrated their ability to help move their graduates into middle to high earning occupations. These institutions reflect the values of economic advancement and they have always rewarded those families who invest in their children. If we accept the notion that it is unfair to give an advantage to college applicants whose parents invest in their children, the remedies are several.
We can make a token adjustment by continuing to reward family investment in children but set aside a portion of our admissions pool for the academically deserving poor. This might work, but it does not clarify how we will identify the academically deserving poor when we also may recognize that standardized test scores and similar criteria significantly discriminate against those we want to help.
We can have a full conversion and reject the economically biased admission process of most selective colleges by relying only on recommendations, interviews and other qualitative mechanisms for sorting applicants, and avoid looking at standardized scores, grades and activities as reflections of family wealth rather than demonstrations of individual student merit and promise. Unfortunately, even qualitative evidence of this kind favors the wealthy whose children have superior teachers to write about their accomplishments, sports coaches to write about their commitment, hospital administrators to testify to their engagement in social and public service.
Even if we can find a socioeconomically neutral way to identify admission (by using a mathematically pure random selection), we still have to deal with the issue of the cost of selective colleges and universities. We can reallocate our financial aid so that we pay nothing in the competition for high performing students (using the economically biased test scores) and only invest in equalizing the opportunities for poor students to attend selective colleges. This would mean no wasted funds on merit-based scholarships and instead investment only in scholarships designed to meet the total need identified for students without family means to support their education and selected for admission by our neutral random number process.
All of this is heady stuff. Those of us who have to talk with parents will anticipate a less encouraging conversation.
“My daughter Kneisha was denied admission?” “Yes,” I say. Her mother responds, “But she has a 1500 on her SAT and A+ high school average, and was debate team captain and field hockey championship scorer. She worked three nights a week in the local inner city hospital children’s center for the last six years, and she won the Urban League prize for the best community service project in her city. She has superb recommendations from distinguished individuals. What was wrong with her application?”
“Well,” I say, “Kneisha’s achievements are surely admirable, but her place in the class went instead to Suzie, whose SAT scores were 1250. Our random number selection pulled up her application, and we hope she had great academic promise in spite of the fact that her parents have no money and work three jobs to feed themselves and so could not provide her with all the advantages you gave Kneisha. We all know that Kneisha excelled because you could afford to give her those opportunities so we didn’t really count all that, and instead used our fair random numbers to select the class.”
Kneisha’s mother paused and then said, “So if we had lost our jobs, and qualified as poor, Kneisha would have had a much better chance of admission?”
“Yes,” I said, “if her number was selected, she would be given admission but no financial aid. This is how we ensure that we do not confuse merit achieved because of parental support with potential merit denied because of economic circumstances.”
Kneisha’s mother hung up, and enrolled Kneisha in a highly selective college that valued the SAT, activities, recommendations, leadership activities, community service and sports engagement.
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The transition from dictatorship to democracy in Spain after the death of Franco in 1975 was a model of decorum, choreographed with skill. There were to be no recriminations against the old regime, which was to be consigned to the dustbin of history through silence rather than show trials. Neither the life and death of the old dictator himself nor the events of the civil war were commemorated or much mentioned after 1975. The street names, which had paid homage to the fascist and Falangist leaders, were taken down and changed in the night while we slept. The silence worked wonders; it allowed for a new constitution, great autonomy for the regions (or nations as some of them would have it), and a strong sense of democracy everywhere outside the Basque country. But strangely, in those years of easy and friendly freedoms, the silence exerted its sinister power and influence in the private realm more than in the public, and there, in families and in villages, it did a great deal of harm.
History resided then in locked memories, half-told stories, unread archives. In some families the silence was complete; the children, as they grew up in the bright new democracy, simply did not know what their parents had done in the war. Many people born in the 1950s and 1960s have unfond memories of their father growing grumpier and more silent as the war was mentioned, or having one story, which seemed to mask other more dangerous stories, told over and over, until it came to resemble a bad alibi. In other families, however, the political allegiances and prejudices of the young bore an uncanny resemblance to those of the previous generation. People who came of age in the post-Franco era seemed to know which party to join when the opportunity arose. This time, for once, history would only partly repeat itself. The sons and daughters, nieces and nephews of the old right-wing parties could join the Partido Popular knowing they would be fighting elections rather than a civil war. So, too, the heirs of the old left-wing parties could become Socialists in a time of compromise.
During these years, despite a number of important television documentaries, the standard history of the Spanish civil war, even for Spanish readers, remained Hugh Thomas’s book in translation.1 Other historians who write in English, such as Raymond Carr, have had an authoritative role in the writing of Spanish history. The standard biography of Franco remains Paul Preston’s book in translation.2 The problem for a Spanish historian was that any survey of the war, however accurate, would serve only to offer narrative to what was often chaotic, to offer shape and meaning to what varied considerably according to region and even village. A definitive single history of the war would have to emphasize strategy, the large picture, the overall result. These matters were not surrounded by silence, they were perfectly known and understood and strangely useless; the silence was in the…
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By Jana Evans Braziel, Kathleen LeBesco
Due to the fact global warfare II, while the vitamin and health industries promoted mass obsession with weight and physique form, fats has been a filthy note. within the usa, fats is obvious as repulsive, humorous, gruesome, unclean, obscene, and peculiarly as whatever to lose. our bodies Out of Bounds demanding situations those dominant perceptions by way of studying social representations of the fats physique. The individuals to this assortment convey that what counts as fats and the way it really is valued are faraway from common; the range of meanings attributed to physique measurement in different instances and locations demonstrates that perceptions of corpulence are infused with cultural, ancient, political, and fiscal biases. The really wealthy and fascinating essays amassed during this quantity query discursive buildings of fatness whereas studying the politics and gear of corpulence and addressing the absence of fats humans in media representations of the physique. The essays are broadly interdisciplinary; they discover their topic with perception, originality, and humor. The individuals study the intersections of fats with ethnicity, race, queerness, type, and minority cultures, in addition to with ancient diversifications within the signification of fats. in addition they reflect on ways that "objective" scientific and mental discourses approximately fats humans and nutrients cover higher agendas. via illustrating how fats is a malleable build that may be used to serve dominant monetary and cultural pursuits, our bodies Out of Bounds stakes new claims for these whose physique measurement doesn't adhere to society's confining criteria.
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What’s immortal, it seems to me, is the slender elegance of her neck and the mystery of that smile. I still can’t believe how perfectly her mouth resembles that of Claudia Schiffer, whose greatest charm, above the neck, abides in the gently upturned corners of her mouth that lend that face its Fat Beauty / 25 breath-stopping look of sweet or sexy amusement. Cover her face, all but her mouth, and Claudia, like Nefertiti, is instantly recognizable. Her facial resemblance to the queen of Egypt can’t obscure the difference between their bodies.
But writing in 1986, Schwartz can already feel confident about asserting as fact what has become massively evident in the meantime: diets don’t work. Never have; never will. And it is precisely that fact that makes dieting such a perfect vehicle for launching a critique of capitalism. Dieters in truth, argues Schwartz, consume not less but more. ”25 Since capitalism depends on consumers consuming, the more they diet the more they frustrate desire, Fat Beauty / 37 thereby magnifying its imperious demands.
The smaller the waist in relation to the hip, the more desirable a woman is seen to be. ” “No other primate has one. We developed it as a result of another unique feature—standing upright. ”10 A fat ass makes us human. The classical nude, both male and female, exploits the architectural and erotic possibilities of that breathtaking curve at buttocks and hips. But the Gothic nude tends to elongate the body, both male and female. In the Renaissance, the male body reasserts the classical prerogatives, only it looks thicker.
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A Freedom Budget for All Americans. By Paul LeBlanc and Michael D. Yates. New York: Monthly Review Press, 245pp, $19.95 paperback
This remarkable book brings back into view a radical vision for victory within the mainstream, armed with the kind of expectation glimpsed briefly in the 2008 election race but this time without the support of a grassroots movement long since vanished.
The Civil Rights movement, rightly called “the Freedom Movement” by participants themselves, had built up a head of steam by the 1963 March on Washington recently so much in the news again recently, for fiftieth anniversary events. But even this momentum would not likely itself have accounted for the expectation, during an extended political moment, that Democrats might boldly seek to end poverty. The impulse rested also in the surprising prestige of one very unique socialist intellectual, Michael Harrington, who with his supporters glimpsed the opportunity to apply their revolutionary visions of social transformation to the practical (or seemingly practical) prospects before them.
No political moment of the century, not even the 1930s, was quite so strange as this one. President John Kennedy, a determined Cold Warrior who created the Green Berets and promised an economic tide of profits to Wall Street dribbling down to Main Street, nevertheless proved to be a quick study in some domestic social issues. New Left leader Tom Hayden was invited to the White House (he left disappointed); the royal Kennedy couple attended a premier of Spartacus, the film purportedly breaking the Hollywood Blacklist in what we might take as a bow toward the persecuted Old Left’s cultural wing; and then there was JFK reading Harrington of The Other America, a muckraking classic about the persistence of poverty amidst plenty.
It was not all noblesse oblige. Liberal Democrats and even some Republicans were badly embarrassed at the breadth of American suffering as well as the persistence of segregation. Who knows if Jacqueline, the book reader of the family, may have been decisive here in pinpointing the author–unless it was the book’s prestige reviewer, Dwight Macdonald, at once a major recipient of intelligence agency benefits (in the global junkets of the Congress for Cultural Freedom) and simultaneously an avuncular figure urging Students for a Democratic Society, a new movement of youthful idealists, into existence.
Behind Harrington stood a remnant of the once-powerful Socialist Party, at the final moment of a sometimes glorious history. It had by this time lost its local electoral machines surviving from earlier generations, most prominently in Milwaukee, and seemed reduced to a few oversize personalities along with a youth movement. Actually, however, the SP had operatives within the veritable heart of the civil rights organizations, likewise in the Student Peace Union, in the left-leaning reform wing of the Democratic party and above all in the AFL-CIO. For a few years more, it also had Norman Thomas, “Mr. Socialism” to a generation or so of Americans. If he had no real base remaining from the almost 900,000 who cast votes for him in 1932, Thomas was likely still to be quoted in the New York Times on a variety of issues. On the labor and reform movement banquet circuit, Harrington had already been declared Thomas’s successor.
No small part of the story carefully unfolded in A Freedom Budget rests on the world of the operatives. Political specialists who specialized in filling institutional voids, a large handful of youngish socialists mainly in New York offered both energy and contacts. Stranger still, seen even from only a few years later, key figures of this circle became ferocious cold warriors on Vietnam, turning their considerable expertise into errands for George Meany and then “the Senator from Boeing,” Scoop Jackson, repudiating peaceniks, labor reformers, and anyone sympathetic to George McGovern. But we would be wrong to get ahead of the story, even knowing as we do how it turned out.
The details of the emerging Freedom Budget, developed among socialists and formally put forward by Bayard Rustin in 1967, are rich and remain inviting. There’s the speech that John Lewis intended to deliver at the March On Washington, for instance. A collective product of speechmaking by the quietly socialistic intellectuals around Rustin, the circulated draft shocked the White House. Archbishop Patrick O’Boyle threatened to pull out of events rather than giving the invocation, as he had earlier promised to do. Rustin and august labor champion A. Philip Randolph softened and shortened the speech, although what remains is remarkably radical enough for the times—and became the object of strategic FBI plans (or plots). MLK’s own insistence that the Freedom struggle was for jobs as well as racial progress also comes through at the March, if barely. So does, if only by implication, King’s later observation that he had not grasped the rage felt by young, urban black people at their situation. Time was already running out.
The successful mediation of the relationships between black “moderates” (make that business-oriented conservatives) of the Urban League and the somewhat more militant NAACP with assorted civil rights leaders on one side, the Administration and its liberal following on the other, was viewed at the time as a stroke of genius. Indeed, the March was a great moment in American history, recognized as such across the world, then and now. Significant sections of the power elite, as the authors explain, had decided that segregation in particular had become a liability, especially if not only in competition with the Russians for the sympathy of the non-white populations of the awakening Third World. Political and economic men of power had determined to support greater racial equality in some form, naturally in ways unthreatening to themselves.
Stokely Carmichael, already uneasy at the conservative side of the apparent success, pointed to the hidden cost of the coalition that made the March successful: everything hereafter would need the approval of the President’s Men. This became the set piece of much that followed in the new few years, but if we view the de facto reality with automatic disdain, we miss an important moment of Left history as well as American history at large.
To put the strategy into a nutshell: the Democratic party would be transformed when the civil rights revolution kicked in, bringing African Americans together with the labor movement, making the party so uncomfortable for Dixiecrats that they would leave of their own volition (at least this part turned out accurate). This “realignment” of the Democrats could answer the emerging reality: that the sit-ins, Freedom Rides and assorted speech-making including the March had not really changed the daily lives of ordinary African Americans in the South or North, except to make them increasingly resentful at their situation and emboldened by the Movement.
The Freedom Budget was set forth in a 1966 conference called by the recently-created A. Philip Randolph Institute, a liberal/labor think tank that never quite jelled into something larger and more significant. The 84 page document, aimed at eliminating all US poverty by 1975, was in effect a wide ranging set of proposals to update the New Deal. Drafted by socialists and academics (economist Leon Keyserling was notable). It would provide full employment, wipe out slums, provide comprehensive medical care, promote equality in all spheres and even take on air and water pollution. The AFL-CIO celebrated the declaration, the socialists’ own bi-weekly tabloid proudly headlined it “Class Struggle,” and Lyndon Johnson, true to his Texas background more New Dealish than Kennedy, seemed to moving in the same direction, albeit on a track of his own. It was the next logical step from the Civil Rights Act.
But there was no mass movement around this proclamation, and the consequent limitations became almost immediately apparent. The Budget had hardly reached the press when headlines came to center on a single word: “Vietnam.” The Freedom Budget would evidently require expenditures proportional to those planned by FDR’s “Brains Trust” advisors in the New Deal era. The money, as everyone knew by 1966, was Going to War. Only two years earlier, LBJ had run on what could be described as an peace or at least antiwar campaign against Barry Goldwater, dramatized by the famous “Daisy” commercial but also by Johnson’s vows–recalling the deep unpopularity of the Korean conflict–not to send Americans on some fruitless battlefields in Asia.
Soon, very soon, things fell steadily further apart. The AFL-CIO leadership showed itself deeply conservative in many ways, emphatically resisting, for instance, any “forced” integration of its assorted bodies (George Meany’s building trades among the most resistant to change). At its top levels, it was ever more deeply engaged in a global partnership with the CIA against Communist influences from Europe to Asia, Africa to South America. Only a few years earlier, Meany had personally upbraided Randolph for even complaining aloud against discrimination in labor’s ranks and now he made it clear: victory in Vietnam was the priority.
Many in Congress desperately wanted the administration to do something, above all to move the War off the front pages. Today, with sky high military budgets and growing poverty at home, it is still worth asking the question posed in the middle 1960s: did the money for an expanded War on Poverty really not exist, thanks to the investment in the War? Or was the failure to tackle the crisis of the poor really a failure of political will more than of available resources?
Here, the vast research done by authors LeBlanc and Yates makes a very significant contribution to what we know. The sheer wealth of detail, back by real sympathy for the words and deeds of those soon to move far rightward, restores the vividness of the moment and the motivations of the actors. The personal but also political tragedy of Bayard Rustin, for instance, here becomes more vivid than in any of the previous biographical treatments. His famed 1965 essay, “From Protest to Politics,” asserted that the civil rights movement was on the verge of bringing a new liberal coalition into existence around LBJ. Written just before the escalation in Vietnam, it appeared to bury the war issue entirely, if not actually adopt the liberals’ hawkish support of escalating war. Rustin, the famed pacifist, may have been deceiving himself more than his own antiwar friends. Challenged on this point, he insisted that the proposed Freedom Budget had to contain money for the prosecution of the Vietnam War or else it would be unrealistic, “It wasn’t that we wanted them to do it, but we had to make a sensible estimate.” His old friends, including A.J. Muste, Staughton Lynd and David McReynolds, were not persuaded.
His newer intimates, the protégés and followers of old time Trotskyist/socialist strategist and faction-fighter Max Shachtman, were meanwhile throwing their lot in with George Meany. Although the authors do not say so, the fast-rising supporters of Meany’s war views within labor, the AFT’s Albert Shanker in particular, would provide more than a few in this circle with lifetime career positions, just as their radical days ended. LeBlanc and Yates barely touch upon another source of the looming controversies: Israel, a central issue for those who viewed support for Jewish State’s actions to demand also support also for the Vietnam War, and never mind the unpopularity of the Vietnam conflict among the majority of Jewish Americans. Rustin, the once-fiercely anti-war warrior, was soon to spend the rest of his own career at Freedom House–a neoconservative operation whose intelligence agency connections were widely rumored–while sending annual contributions to the War Resisters League. A man divided badly against himself, Rustin was sinking into an undeserved obscurity, save for late-life support of Gay Liberation.
The authors turn from these political details to the analytical basis of Budget itself, and here they have a conceptual map rather different to explore and explain. The Budget keenly noted that poverty arises, above all, from a paucity of jobs. Written a decade before the shut down of American factories commenced full scale, it assumed the ongoing presence of good paying, unionized jobs, with other employment brought under a higher minimum wage legislation. Still other Americans, outside the job market, would be provided assistance—amounting, in effect, to a guaranteed income, although without the term used. New housing, built by those needing jobs, new initiatives in health, education and training, not to mention more progressive fiscal and monetary policies. These plans or visions had many of the strengths of the New Deal, and also some of the weaknesses, notably an indirect reference at best to race proper, because an outright assault on racism would presumably doom any coalition.
The authors of Freedom Budget end, following chapters dealing with the collapse of the effort and the aftermath for a sodden Left or former Left, offer a cogent critique of the problems of any such Budget for today. After the 1960s, arguably the end of the Golden Age of postwar capitalism, corporations pushed back hard, planting their ideological flag with the rightwing think tanks, finessed by ex-socialist Irving Kristol among others, but also gathered resources and allies for a generalized assault against reform movements at large. Income inequality quickly raced upward, and the new immigrant populations (coming with the changes of law in 1965) lacked even a memory of more egalitarian times. Full employment has long since become unimaginable, and with that fact, much else in the grand vision simply fell away.
Could there be a new Freedom Budget? The question is very much worth asking. Where is there a bloc of influential politicians to support such bold measures, themselves seeking to connect with and help build the constituency to make it possible? Perhaps the two recent presidential election victories of Democrats were the moments quickly lost, or just as likely, the uprising known as Occupation, never liked very much by Democrats. (Speaking for Wisconsin, Obama “called in” his support of the 2011 Uprising against the Republican offensive.) Notwithstanding Obamacare (presuming it works) and a hoped-for rise in the minimum wage, real prospects appear to be centered in the cities like New York and Boston. At the national level, reformers who privately view the Obama years as a disappointment in presidential leadership have scarce taste for a Hilary Clinton presidency near certain to see a return to the abysmal 1990s, not only in austerity but also in assorted military adventures. Guns defeated butter fifty years ago, and would surely do so again, with bipartisan support, even as spy scandals bring disgrace to the Security State at large. Of course, an economic and social collapse as great as that of 1929 may yet take place, and with it new, great schemes for a different society that might be realized–unless something much worse takes place.
Historians of American social movements will find this book hugely useful, starting with the absence of the Freedom Budget from their (I should say, our) own accounts of the 1960s heretofore. The Budget didn’t happen—to say the least—and even the idea may have been a phantom, a wisp of near-left socialistic imagination. But learning about it gives us something serious to ponder as the structures of the society near and far seem to teeter toward collapse and as dangerous figures, liberal and conservative alike, continue to look toward more and better wars so as to keep things together.
Paul Buhle is a retired Senior Lecturer at Brown University. Buhle currently edits comic art books. His latest is titled RADICAL JESUS (Herald Press).
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Op 9 en 10 februari 2018 vindt in Gent het congres plaats ‘Literatures without Frontiers? Perspectives for a Transnational Literary History of the Low Countries’
Traditional literary historiography is rooted in the 19th-century construction of national literatures based on the political desire to demarcate national states and their corresponding linguistic identities from each other. For the study of the literature that predates the 19th-century nationstate – the literature of the period that will be central in this conference (1200-1800) – the taxonomy of literary phenomena on the basis of geographical frontiers that were in most cases non-existent at the time, is a highly artificial though very common practice. In our view, the study of literature in this long period is better served by a transnational perspective, if only because of the transnational character of its functioning. On account of their limiting focus, nationally oriented literary histories of the periods in question cannot but undervalue the actual cultural processes at work both in the international ‘Republic of Letters’ as well as in the language regions that exceed the borders of the current nation states.
In the past few decades, several attempts have been made to develop new literary histories that are driven by a transnational, pluri-lingual perspective. Denis Hollier’s New History of French Literature (1989) would be an early tentative example, but there are more recent ones that develop the transnational perspective more systematically: the New History of German Literature, edited by David Wellbery, Judith Ryan and Hans-Ulrich Gumbrecht (2004); French Global. A New Approach to Literary History, edited by Christie McDonald and Susan Rubin Suleiman (2010); and Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors’ A New Literary History of America (2012). Last year, David Wallace edited Europe, A Literary History, 1348-1418, a book that is structured through 10 sequences of places that are connected through trade, pilgrimage, etc. and literary exchange. So far, the historiography of the literature produced in the Low Countries has not really profited from this new approach. While the ‘medieval’ and ‘early modern’ volumes of the recent Geschiedenis van de Nederlandse Literatuur do pay attention to the presence of non-Dutch literary writings in the geographical space under scrutiny, both the object and the methodology of research is largely defined by the same parameters that mark traditional, more ‘nationalist’ literary histories.
This conference aims to bring together a number of telling examples that advocate a transnational perspective for the construction and writing of the literary history (histories?) of the Low Countries in the period 1200-1800. Papers will address case studies (authors, texts, translations, mechanisms of textual production, motifs, tropes, genres) that on account of their ‘transnational’ character have fallen outside the scope of the current attempts of literary historiography. Other papers will focus on the literary infrastructure that enabled the cross-border reception of literary texts (like the repertoire of travelling theatre companies), or on case studies that are discussed in extant histories but whose impact and importance could be brought out differently (more interestingly, hopefully) in a transnational framework.
This academic event serves as the closing conference of the activities of the FWO-Flanders funded Scientific Research Community ‘Goliath’ – a consortium of (mainly) Flemish and Dutch literary historians from the universities of Amsterdam, Antwerp, Berlin, Ghent, Leiden, Leuven, Nijmegen and Utrecht. The conference is a joint initiative of Goliath, Ghent University (LIterary Department) and the Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature (KANTL), funded by FWO-Flanders.
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As diners become more sophisticated in their tastes and desire for flavorful, healthful foods, quick-service and fast casual operators are plating up additional items that satisfy those demands, National Restaurant Association research finds.
Consumers questioned for the NRA's 2012 Restaurant Industry Forecast ranked their top 10 food trends for the year, with several geared toward children's meals. The trends, in order, are:
- Healthful kids' meals
- Fruits and vegetable sides in kids' meals
- Gluten-free items
- Lowfat or nonfat milk and 100-percent orange juice options in kids' meals
- Locally sourced produced
- Lower-sodium items
- Spicy items
- Lower-calorie options
- Mini-desserts or dessert bites
- Low-fat foods
According to Joy Dubost, PhD., R.D., the NRA's director of nutrition and healthy living, consumers today are much more attuned to making more healthful choices and know that childhood obesity is an issue in the United States.
"There has been increasing awareness around childhood obesity and ensuring that future generations remain healthy," Dubost said. "Additionally, it's become a family affair for adults who also are looking for healthful options that meet their dietary needs. As a result, the demand for those options has grown."
Restaurant operator- and industry-focus has shifted to children's menus in recent years. In 2011, the NRA partnered with HealthyDining to launch its Kids LiveWell program. (Read also, What's on your kids' menu.)
Despite this increased interest in healthful items, however, the Forecast reported that consumers still have their perennial favorites on limited-service menus. Those items include soft drinks, French fries, iced tea and beef items.
Read more about restaurant trends and statistics.
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By: Pooja Patel
If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is probably a duck. The most recent U.S. Supreme Court decision regarding the Copyright Act employed this “duck test” when determining that Aereo, an Internet content-streaming company, violated the Copyright Act by infringing on the copyrights of television broadcast networks. The Supreme Court ruled that Aereo’s Internet streaming services resembled cable television transmissions too closely. Therefore, by streaming copyrighted programming to its subscribers without the cable compulsory license, Aereo violated the Transmit Clause of the 1976 Copyright Act. Subsequently, Aereo used this Supreme Court decision to obtain a compulsory license from the Copyright Office but was denied. Forced back into litigation, Aereo filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
This Issue Brief describes Aereo’s technology, the litigation that followed, and the related precedent, and concludes that the district court should have granted Aereo a Section 111 Statutory License in line with the Supreme Court’s “duck test.” It considers the implications of the Court’s preliminary injunction against Aereo’s “a la carte” TV technology, what this means for the future of similar technological innovation, and the effects on consumers and competition.
Cite: 14 Duke L. & Tech. Rev. 140
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NIST Revising Glossary of Infosec TermsDefined Terms Found in NIST, Defense Dept. Publications
Looking for a holiday gift for your boss who doesn't quite understand information security lingo? The National Institute of Standards and Technology has one you can give, and it's free.
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NIST has issued a draft of Interagency Report 7298 Revision 2: NIST Glossary of Key Information Security Terms.
The glossary includes most of the terms found in NIST publications. It also contains nearly all of the terms and definitions from CNSSI-4009, an information assurance glossary issued by the Defense Department's Committee on National Security Systems, a forum that helps set the federal government's information assurance policy.
The publication contains 215 pages of definitions, from "Access" - the ability to make use of any information system resource - to "Zone of Control" - a three-dimensional space surrounding equipment that processes classified and/or sensitive information within which TEMPEST exploitation is not considered practical or where legal authority to identify and remove a potential TEMPEST exploitation exists. (TEMPEST is defined as a name referring to the investigation, study and control of compromising emanations from telecommunications and automated information systems equipment.)
"As we are continuously refreshing our publication suite, terms included in the glossary come from our more recent publications," publication editor Richard Kissell writes. "The NIST publications referenced are the most recent versions of those publications. It is our intention to keep the glossary current by providing updates online. New definitions will be added to the glossary as required, and updated versions will be posted on the Computer Security Resource Center website.
NIST is seeking comments and suggestions on the revised glossary, and they should be sent by Jan. 15 to email@example.com.
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Lloyd Wright home
Jane's file: lloyd wright
Frank Lloyd Wright was supposed to design a home for William Weber in the Wilshire Park area, but his son, Lloyd Wright Jr., took over the commission so his father could complete work on the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo.
The current owner of the Prairie Craftsman style home at 3923 W. 9th St. is in the process of restoring the 1921 home originally built for William Weber, owner of the Weber Showcase Co.
The two-story house features a stucco and wood trim exterior, art glass mullions, a sleeping porch and built-in cabinetry.
Stephen Rebello, the own-er-restorer, has received approval from the Cultural Heritage Commission to have his home designated an Historic-Cultural Monument.
Supporting Rebello's request was Eric Lloyd Wright, son of the architect. He wrote, in part, "It is my father's first architectural project and is unique in the body of the work. It remains an important example of this style seldom seen in Los Angeles."
Rebello is an author of books on arts and entertainment such as "Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho." He is also a screenwriter and contributes to magazines such as Playboy and Gentleman's Quarterly.
A supporter of the Craftsman style Gamble House, Rebello has decorated the home with the arts and crafts furniture that he has been collecting for the past 20 years. His immediate plans are to restore the kitchen and bathrooms. "I am a proponent of bringing the home back to the mood reflecting the time it was built."
The house will star in a PBS documentary on political activist Emma Goldman.
Wright's first project gains cultural heritage status
THIS PRAIRIE CRAFTSMAN STYLE home was built in 1921 in Wilshire Park.
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A non-invasive detection method for the status analysis of cell culture is presented based on digital holography technology. Lensless Fourier transform digital holography (LFTDH) configuration is developed for living cell imaging without prestaining. Complex amplitude information is reconstructed by a single inverse fast Fourier transform, and the phase aberration is corrected through the two-step phase subtraction method. The image segmentation is then applied to the automatic evaluation of confluency. Finally, the cervical cancer cell TZMbl is employed for experimental validation, and the results demonstrate that LFTDH imaging with the corresponding image post-processing can provide an automatic and non-invasive approach for monitoring living cell culture.
© 2011 Chinese Optics Letters
(090.0090) Holography : Holography
(100.0100) Image processing : Image processing
(120.0120) Instrumentation, measurement, and metrology : Instrumentation, measurement, and metrology
(170.0170) Medical optics and biotechnology : Medical optics and biotechnology
Yunxin Wang, Dayong Wang, Jie Zhao, Yishu Yang, Xiangqian Xiao, and Huakun Cui, "Non-invasive monitoring of living cell culture by lensless digital holography imaging," Chin. Opt. Lett. 9, 030901- (2011)
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Rugby Calcium 600-D With Vitamin D Tablets
Calcium plays a very important role in the body. It is necessary for normal functioning of nerves, cells, muscle, and bone. If there is not enough calcium in the blood, then the body will take calcium from bones, thereby weakening bones. Vitamin D helps your body absorb calcium and phosphorus. Having the right amounts of vitamin D, calcium, and phosphorus is important for building and keeping strong bones.What is calcium and vitamin D combination?
Calcium is a mineral that is found naturally in foods. Calcium is necessary for many normal functions of your body, especially bone formation and maintenance.
Vitamin D is important for the absorption of calcium from the stomach and for the functioning of calcium in the body. Calcium and vitamin D combination is used to prevent or to treat a calcium deficiency.
It adds a healthy supply of vitamin D for enhanced absorption.
Croscarmellose sodium, sodium lauryl sulfate, hypromellose, magnesium stearate, titanium dioxide, FD and C yellow 6, propylene glycol, triacetin, acacia gum, maltodextrin.
1 or 2 tablets daily, as a dietary supplement. Swallow tablet(s) with a full glass of water or your favorite beverage.
Ask a doctor or pharmacist about taking calcium and vitamin D if you are pregnant or breast-feeding. Your dose needs may be different during pregnancy or while you are breast-feeding a baby.
Ask a doctor or pharmacist if it is safe for you to take this medicine if you have:
- kidney disease;
- past or present kidney stones;
- heart disease;
- high levels of calcium in your blood;
- circulation problems
- a parathyroid gland disorder.
Shipping Weight : 0.50 lb
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A vigil was held Dec. 6, 2018 at SEIU Healthcare’s headquarters in Richmond Hill, Ont. in honour of the victims of the 1989 Montreal Massacre and all victims of gender-based violence.
Members and staff laid fourteen roses while the names and brief profiles were shared about each victim. SEIU Healthcare’s Secretary Treasurer, Tyler Downey, laid one white rose to symbolize the support of men in ending violence against women and girls.
Established in 1991 by the Parliament of Canada, The National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women, marked every year on Dec. 6 is a time to reflect on how violence affects women and what our communities can do to end gender-based violence.
“In Canada and around the world, violence against women and girls remains a serious challenge,” said Mina Amrith, SEIU Healthcare’s Executive Board Women’s Representative. “It impedes women’s full and equal participation in public life. It causes short- and long-term damage to women’s mental and physical health. It hurts families and all of society.”
This year, during the 16 days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, Canadian unions are calling on the government to take action to stop violence and harassment at work. Globally, unions are pushing to negotiate a new convention at the International Labour Organization. This binding convention would hold governments and employers accountable for preventing and addressing all forms of violence and harassment at work.
This 2018 campaign theme, #DoneWaiting, aims to question, call out, and speak up against acts of gender-based violence together with survivor advocates.
“Please remember that meaningful action does not end after these 16 days. It needs to be a continuous effort throughout the New Year and beyond in order to make a significant impact,” said Mina. “We must continue to advocate to end violence against women. Women are done waiting.”
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As a parent of kids with quite different palates, I like the fact that burgers are easily self assembled, cucumber for one, tomato for none, lettuce for all (says mum) etc…
When everyone is happy with dinner, it helps to make it a lovely family time and burgers are one of those meals.
The basis to a good hamburger is a really good patty (vegetarian options later),
a classic hamburger uses beef mince and there is no point paying extra for lean meat.
Lean mince will cause patties to crumble, the meat needs some fat to help hold the mince together.
While some recipes call for patties that are essentially all meat, this gives a dense and sometimes dry patty. Without overloading the patty with extras there are a few key ingredients that will enhance the flavour and texture. The addition of gently sautéed onion will give a little sweetness, 1 egg per 500g of mince will help to bind the mince and 1/2 cup of fresh breadcrumbs or chopped rolled oats (food processor) to the same quantity, will also help to bind the mixture and also retain moisture. Aside from salt and pepper, herbs and spices are optional and a personal choice. Meat patty mixture should be lightly mixed and not pummeled into shape, the more you mix the tougher it can become and the same goes for “slapping” it onto the grill.
Some swear by a drizzle of beer or cream in their patties but I have never tried either, have you?
Patties need to be cooked in a frying pan over a medium heat until browned on both sides and thoroughly cooked through. I usually have the oven on and transfer patties that are cooked on the outside to the oven to continue cooking through.
Cheese can be placed on one side of the patty once it has been turned, this will melt while the bottom half cooks.
If you have freshly minced your own meat then it is OK to eat it pink in the middle but bought mince should always be cooked through (as should meatloaf and sausages).
In most situations I would pick homemade or artisan bread over commercial, burgers are the exception. With a robust patty and other filling, the bread should be enough to support the burger but not a meal in itself. Fluffy white burger buns such as Tip Top bakery make are perfectly acceptable with the option being sesame seeds or not. Slice and butter if you like (or not) and toast until lightly golden.
A really good burger
1 onion, finely chopped
1 clove garlic, finely chopped
600g beef mince
1/2 cup loosely packed fresh bread crumbs or chopped rolled oats
2 teaspoons chopped fresh herbs (think parsley, thyme, oregano)
salt and pepper
toppings, sauce, buns
1. Mix all ingredients together in bowl until just combined.
2. Shape into 6 patties and then place on a tray lined with baking paper. Refrigerate for 1 hour (if you can).
4. Heat a film of oil in a large frying pan over a medium heat and cook patties in batches until brown on both sides and completely cooked through (Alternatively you can brown patties in the pan and then finish off cooking in the oven).
Serve on buns with your favourite toppings.
Some popular toppings include; cheddar cheese, fried onion, mushrooms, blue cheese, bacon, lettuce, rocket, tomato, cucumber, avocado, brie.
And if you are not a carnivore and want something delicious for you while the family enjoy their burgers.
Try these alternatives
Halloumi and Char-gilled Red Capsicum Burger
What are your favourite burger toppings and do you always use beef mince?
Do we still put beetroot in burgers or was that just take away shops in the 70s and 80s?
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I am having a problem with dog on dog aggression in our household. We have 4 dachshunds and a Dalmatian. The dachshunds as a group are very aggressive to the Dalmatian, who is very submissive to all of them. But if the Dalmatian walks in the room or yard, the others attack him and he runs and hides from them. The Dalmatian is a very shy dog and has never shown aggression to them.
If I stand in the room and correct the dachshunds, they will behave themselves, but the minute I lower my guard, they go right back at it. They are even aggressive to the Dalmatian through fencing. Our dominant dachshund generally initiates it, but if the other dogs are taken out of the situation, the dominant dachshund plays well with the Dalmatian. If the dominant dachshund is taken out of the situation, the other dachshunds still attack the dalmatian.
I am afraid the Dalmatian will eventually have enough of this pack attack and will snap and hurt one of the smaller dogs. For this reason we now keep them separated at all times.
This problem did not initially happen when the Dalmatian came to us as a 6 month old. It progressively got worse as our dominant dachshund male matured to the age of 2 and the Dalmatian matured past age 1.
The dominant dachshund was here first as an 8 week old puppy and is now a 3 year old male. The Dalmatian is a 1 1/2 year old male. There are two male dachshunds in the household and two female dachshunds. Their ages range from 8 years to 1 year. All dogs are neutered and spayed. All the dachshunds interact well together and with humans.
I am at the end of my rope with this situation and believe I will have to rehome my Dalmatian to keep everyone safe. Do you have any suggestions on what I can do further to alleviate this situation, or is this just a case of the dogs are not going to get along?
Multi dog households sometimes have problems of this nature but the owner/dog/dogs dynamic sort of dictates the direction and without getting to meet the dogs in the household setting I’m not going to be of much help other than in a very general way.
There are situations where the personality traits of the dog either due to nature and/or nurture make co-habitation impossible. Either because things are bad enough or are escalating where severe injury is a real possibility or simply because the dog on the receiving end is just unhappy all or much of the time because it feels “bullied”.
When I’m working with situations like this the first place I start is by straightening out the instigator(s). While I’m all for dogs working things out more often than not the instigator or instigators are only asserting themselves or are in part doing so because there’s some confusion (in the dogs’ mind) as to who’s the teacher and who’s the student when it comes to themselves and the owner. You can get away with more casual handling relationships when it’s just one dog and one owner but when there are more dogs they can get way too competitive with each other when owner/dog boundaries aren’t more clearly drawn in such a way that they understand that the house is the owners and that they just live there. It doesn’t mean there need be any less loving but you have to have less of a room mate relationship and more of a mom/child relationship. Love and respect if not a little of that fear of messing with mom thrown in.
The way I usually begin making a change is peripherally as opposed to trying to assert one’s “authority” during moments of conflict. That means that the instigator dogs have to go from sometimes to listening to when I say things like Come, Stay and Heel to doing it no matter what. I don’t think I’ve ever encountered a situation where a dog owner resolved the conflict between their dogs when the instigator dog blew them off when asked to Come, Stay or Heel whether there were distractions or not.
Sorry I couldn’t be of more help. You’ll probably find my dog training e-book will fill in a few holes if you want to “lay the law down” amongst the Dachshund Dynamos. http://store.askthedogguy.com/ebooks/
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The service provides a profile of a submitted protein sequence, describing its characteristics in relation to a list of properties established for known structures. Characteristics described include hydrophilicity/hydropathy, flexibility, antigenicity according to two measures, accessibility, and transmembranous helices. The profiles generated predict the behavior o be expected of the sample genetic structure.
API methods support submission of a protein structure detected in research results. The API returns measures of key physical and chemical properties known to be associated with such structures to form a profile of the sample.
The following is a list of how-to and tutorial content that matched your search term. ProgrammableWeb's how-to content comes from two sources; full-blown tutorials that we publish ourselves and other highly relevant tutorials that we find elsewhere on the Web. This list represents on combination of both tutorial types and if you go to ProgrammableWeb's API University, you'll not only be able to find more, they are organized based on your role (API providers or developers who consumes APIs). If you know of a tutorial that would be of interest to the ProgrammableWeb community, we'd like to know about it. Be sure to check our guidelines for making contributions to ProgrammableWeb.
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Yesterday I was reading about the Alligator Gar on Passport to Texas. The Alligator Gar is the largest freshwater fish known to Texas and, according to Passport to Texas, can grow up to ten feet long and 300 pounds. I have never seen one this big but can imagine how scary such an encounter might be. What I find most interesting is the Gar’s tendency to swim close to the surface. Apparently the Gar’s gills are poorly suited for extracting the oxygen the fish needs which forces them to “gulp” for air at the water’s surface.
It reminds me of a Brazos River trip I took some years back. It was early spring and I had invited my mom and dad on a short day trip down the river. We put in Squaw Creek at Tres Rios River Ranch in Glen Rose, TX and paddled the short four miles down to the Lake Whitney Recreation Area. The water was warm and without much flow. I remember we had to get out to drag the boats more than usual.
What was really unusual about the trip were the Gars. At every bend we found literally hundreds of Gars beaching themselves in the shallows of the river. Their backs sticking high up out of the water, sometimes 5 or 6 piled on top of each other.
I had never seen this before (or since) and wanted to check it out. In all my river trips I have found Gars to be extremely skittish, more so then most fish. But on this warm March day they couldn’t be stirred. I could paddle right up next to them and they wouldn’t move a muscle. It was so strange that I decided to test their resolve and gently lifted one out of the water with the end of my paddle. That got him to move, but only enough to re-submerge himself. I didn’t want to bother them further assuming this was some kind of mating practice.
In spite of a tremendous amount of time on Texas rivers I have yet to see Gars behave like that since. After reading about them yesterday, I can’t help but wonder if they were all just short of air?
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Record Type: RIE
Publication Date: 1995
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Invitations to Heredity: Generation to Generation. Teacher-Friendly Science Activities with Reproducible Handouts in English and Spanish. Grades 3-5. Living Things Science Series.
Camp, Carole Ann, Ed.
This booklet, one of six in the Living Things Science series, presents activities about heredity and genetics which address basic "Benchmarks" suggested by the American Association for the Advancement of Science for the Living Environment for grades 3-5. Contents include background information, vocabulary (in English and Spanish), materials, procedures, extension activities, and worksheets. The worksheets are presented in both English and Spanish versions. Suggestions for use of the activities include using student grouping, a related readings center, and journal keeping. Activity names are: "Peas in a Pod,""Inherited or Learned,""Pass It On,""Population Sampling,""Corn Genes,""Codebreaker,""Alphabet Soup,""Super Sleuth,""DNA Fingerprints," and "Chimera." An appendix contains a list of people that have contributed to the fields of genetics and heredity, and lists of fiction and non-fiction readings. (MKR)
Descriptors: Biochemistry, DNA, Elementary Education, Genetics, Population Education, Science Activities, Science Instruction, Worksheets
Ash Grove Press, Inc., 19 Elm Street, South Deerfield, MA 01373 ($5.95 single copy sold separately; $29.95 set of six, plus shipping and handling).
Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Guides - Classroom - Learner
Education Level: N/A
Audience: Teachers; Practitioners
Authoring Institution: N/A
Identifiers: American Association for Advancement of Science
Note: For other booklets in the series, see SE 057 968-972.
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You mysql.user table might be corrupted.
If you have access to it as a root user, try check table mysql.user, and
repair table mysql.user if table corruption was detected.
Alternatively, shut down mysql server, cd /var/lib/mysql/mysql (to your
$datadir/mysql directory) and run
mysqlcheck -r mysql user
On 26/12/12 18:00, Round Square wrote:
> Hi all:
> Suddenly, after a long, functioning run of the mysql server, all the non-root
> accounts went bad, with:
> Access denied for user 'non_root_user'@'localhost' (using password: YES)
> Authenticating with "non_root_user@stripped" still works ( the bind-address
> in my.cnf is mapped to server.ip.address )
> Poking around in puzzlement and comparing the current, broken state with the
> functioning state (from backup) I discovered that in the broken version there is this
> extra line in the information_schema.USER_PRIVILEGES table:
> | ''@'localhost' | NULL | USAGE
> | NO |
> (Note the null-string user prepended to "@localhost")
> Again: the functional, non-broken state does NOT have this entry. Thus, my current
> theory is that this line is the culprit. Prior to the failure I had a surge of
> experimental installations, installing third-party software that created mysql tables, and
> can't clearly retrace everything I did, at this point, to pinpoint the installation that
> may have caused it.
> Be that as it may...
> (1) Is my theory correct?
> (2) If that line should not be there...
> (a) How do I remove it, properly? I don't have debian-sys-maint privileges to
> delete the line. (Or do I?)
> (b) Are there other tables, besides USER_PRIVILEGES, that would need to be
> My version:
> mysql Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.1.41, for debian-linux-gnu (i486) using readline 6.1
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Effects of a complex contaminant mixture on thyroid hormones in breeding hooded seal mothers and their pups
Journal article, Peer reviewed
MetadataShow full item record
Original versionEnvironmental Pollution. 2018, 240 10-16. 10.1016/j.envpol.2018.04.052
There is a general lack of information on the possible effects of perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) on thyroid hormones (THs) in wildlife species. The effects of PFASs, which are known endocrine disruptors, on the TH homeostasis in hooded seals (Cystophora cristata) have yet to be investigated. Previously, correlations were found between plasma thyroid hormone (TH) concentrations in hooded seals, and organohalogen contaminants (OHCs) and hydroxyl (OH)-metabolites. Because animals are exposed to multiple contaminants simultaneously in nature, the effects of the complex contaminant mixtures that they accumulate should be assessed. Herein, we analyse relationships between plasma concentrations of multiple contaminants including protein-associated PFASs, hydroxylated metabolites of polychlorinated biphenyls (OH-PCBs) and lipid soluble OHCs and plasma concentrations of free and total THs, i.e. triiodothyronine (FT3, TT3) and thyroxine (FT4, TT4) in hooded seal mothers and their pups. The perfluoroalkyl carboxylates (PFCAs) were the most important predictors for FT3 concentrations and TT3:FT3 ratios in the mothers. The FT3 levels decreased with increasing PFCA levels, while the TT3:FT3 ratios increased. In the pups, hexachlorocyclohexanes (HCHs) were the most important predictors for TT3:FT3 ratios, increasing with increasing HCHs levels. Additionally, perfluoroalkyl sulfonates (PFSAs) and PFCAs were important predictors for FT4:FT3 ratios in hooded seal pups, and the ratio increased with increasing concentrations. The study suggests that PFASs contribute to thyroid disruption in hooded seals exposed to complex contaminant mixtures that include chlorinated and fluorinated organic compounds.
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Geocaching Web sites
Published: Sunday, December 10, 2006 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, December 8, 2006 at 4:31 p.m.
Geocaching.com -- This is the original and by far the largest geocaching Web site, with 326,000 caches listed all over the world. It's free to join to try and see if the sport is for you. Premium memberships require a small fee. It is the direct descendent of the very first internet postings about geocaching.
Terracaching.com -- While small, this website emphasizes elaborate caches and offers a rating system for members to rank caches. Membership is free but requires token sponsorship from existing members.
Navicache.com -- Another alternative cache listing service, this Web site places a little more emphasis on maps.
Letterboxing.org -- Letter-boxing technically preceded geocaching and has several key differences. A GPS unit is not required to find letterboxes. Instead of exchanging items, letterboxers use rubberstamps and sketch books to record their finds. Still, the basic idea of using clues to find a hidden object is the same, so this would be a way for people without access to a GPS unit to get an idea of what geocaching is like.
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Knee pain can be caused by an injury, a medical condition, or both.
Nowadays, our food and livings have changed, If talk about today and the last ten years, it’s a huge change. The people who cooked in the furnace, all have gas today, used different vegetables as foods, they have been advanced today.
We eat too much white rice or bread of wheat and, we eat more outdoor foods. The same condition in every house whether they are poor or rich. What’s the result? The health issues are being seen even at an early age.
Knee pain is being seen at an earlier age like 25,30,35. Ladies become very weak, giving birth to one child and they feel knee pain. They say the knee isn’t working well, they can’t stand it. Why does this happen? It’s because of the changes in our foods. We don’t get proper nutrition.
But today, I will tell you about exercises of the knee which you should do regularly. This will give you relief from knee pain, the younger generation also can do this and so the old people. Those who have got osteoarthritis can do this easily at home. And, you can get a huge relief from pain.
Let’s start, as I said, health issues are increasing due to our foods and living styles. You must be changed, change your foods. Don’t eat much wheat. Use other corns in your foods. Avoid outdoor foods, eat natural fruits and vegetables much more. Thus, that health issues which have come at a young age will be gone or become less.
Regular Exercises For Knee Pain:
Spread your legs, move your feet forward and backward. This is warm-up, when you sit for doing exercise, this should be the first simple exercise, feet go forward and backward.
Again, spread your legs, move your feet forward and backward. then, tighten your knee and hold for some seconds. Then, let the knee relax. Do this a minimum of 10 times. If you can’t spread the legs, use a towel under your legs or put your hands under your legs.
Put your hands under your knee and thigh. Straighten one leg, then again let it relax and put your legs on the ground. Again, make your knee straight. Relax after holding for a few seconds. Do the same again.
If you can’t do straight fully, no problem, do as much as you can. Hold for a while. Do 10 times with one leg. Repeat with another leg. This exercise helps to run the blood circulation in the knee properly.
Cartilage gets decreased, or alignment gets spoiled, both start healing when you do this exercise. Cartilage starts to be produced. 2nd thing is, the ligament becomes loose for several reasons like we keep standing for hours or sit bending the knee, the ligament gets loose because of that. This will improve by doing exercise. You will get help to tighten the ligament from this exercise.
Spread your legs, slowly, bring your leg close to you, with the handhold your feet. Slowly, straighten your legs fully. You may hold with both hands. If you have good flexibility, you may touch your head with your legs. No problem, if you can’t. Hold in this position.
When you can do properly with both legs, then catch the legs with the hand, lift and try to make them straight.
First, stand on the mat. Lift one leg at a 90° angle. Keep your hand on the waist. After holding for a while, touch one leg with another leg. Stay standing. Hold for a while and try to make balance. Slowly, lift the leg and put it down on the ground. Now, lift the other leg at a 90° angle.
Hold for a while as much as you can. It’s needed. Then, touch one leg with another one. Keep it balanced. Hold for a few seconds, then take the legs back. Do the same with another leg again. Inhale by the nose, exhale by mouth. Keep breathing deeply. Same with the other leg. Then back. As much as you can, do less at first, later slowly increase the time. But do this exercise for sure.
Sit on a mat, leg straight, hand behind your back, go up in the position. Inhale and exhale deeply. Hold for a minimum of 20 seconds.
Slowly get back. Again do this.
Do all the exercises for a minimum. But do each one 3 times, no matter if you do for less time.
In this one, bend your knee and sit crossed legs like this. Then, lift the leg with both hands, one hand on the knee and the other on the toe. Holding a moment, hold and then move your feet this way. Like you are making circles with the leg. Do a minimum of 10 rounds like this.
In this one, Bend your knee and sit crossed legs. Then, lift the leg with both hands, one hand on the knee and the other on the toe. Holding for a while, and then move your feet like you are making circles with the leg. Do a minimum of 10 rounds like this.
First in a direction, later opposite direction. Put hands on the knee the same way. Hold the knee but move the feet. Put the other leg on the floor, now lift the other one and do the same circles. Do less round first, like 5 or 10 but later increase the rounds and sets.
Make pair of your feet as we do with hands. Lift your hands. Lift hands inhaling, then your hand will be bending in a namaste position. Slowly, go down exhaling. But the fat people can’t go down due to a lack of flexibility.
No problem. Go as much as you can at the start. Slowly improve the posture. Like, try to go beyond every next day. Try with a brave heart, which means try to improve. Your flexibility will increase in 15 -20 days. These exercises are much effective for your knee, again this will increase your body flexibility.
These will decrease your tummy or weight if you do this regularly. In one month your tummy will lose, huge stretch comes on your hips and thighs if you do properly, and if you do for a long time, you will get a huge result.
So, how did you like this blog? I hope that this blog has proved beneficial for you. If you like this blog then don’t forget to like, comment, and share it.
If you are troubled by your obesity or have any disease like a kidney stone, thyroid, cervical, etc. To avoid these problems, you can also read the rest of my blogs on my website and if you want detailed information then you can visit my Youtube channel Health city.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do I know if my knee pain is serious?
- Are unable to fully extend or flex your knee.
- Knee swelling.
- Unable to fully extend your knee.
- Have redness, pain and swelling in your knee.
What is the most common cause of knee pain?
Knee pain can be caused by an injury, a medical condition, or both.
Is walking good for arthritis in the knee?
Yes, walking is good for arthritis in the knee. Walking is good for your joints and can help you lose weight, and that can help ease your osteoarthritis knee pain.
What exercises not to do with bad knees?
Should I exercise with knee pain?
You should exercise to reduce knee pain, but one thing you have to keep in mind is that the exercise is prescribed by your Trainer or Dietician. Doing any exercise by yourself can prove to be dangerous.
How do you get rid of knee pain fast?
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In the next few weeks, the U.S. government will issue a draft report giving its recommendations for ocean policy. The new policy will address a broad range of issues, from the stewardship of marine resources and pollution prevention to enhancing and supporting marine science, commerce and transportation.
At the 2004 AAAS Annual Meeting, leaders from both the Pew and U.S. Commissions will appear for the first time together to discuss the findings of their respective reports.
"The current situation emphasizes exploitation. It is short-term focused, myopic and has, in fact, resulted in degradation in ocean environment. Sustainable ecosystems will sustain long-term exploitation," said renowned marine scientist, Jane Lubchenco of Oregon State University.
The presentation today at the 2004 AAAS (Triple-A-S) Annual Meeting will stress the need for new ocean regulations by Ecosystem-Based Management. Andrew Rosenberg from the University of New Hampshire and a member of the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy are expected to describe ecosystem-based management as multi-sector, multi-species and across physical boundaries of the land/sea interface.
"This means trying to manage coherently the different parts of the ecosystem so you don't only manage the target species, but look at the cumulative impact. For example, you think hard about how you can fit together the management of fisheries at the same time you're trying to protect turtles," Rosenberg explained.
As Chairman of the Pew Oceans Commission, Leon Panetta will summarize the findings of the commission's report and recommendations, which are grounded in science. He will reaffirm the critical need for the implementation of the recommendations made by an esteemed board of commissioners. He also will stress their call for substantial reform of U.S. ocean policy in order to restore ocean wildlife, protect ocean ecosystems and preserve the ecological, economic, and social benefits the oceans provide.
"It has been more than 30 years since this nation reviewed the laws and policies now in place to protect the oceans," said Panetta. "With the new research and scientific evidence, we have shown that our oceans are indeed at a crisis point. It is our responsibility to now bring U.S. ocean management into the 21st century. Our oceans are a national trust."
Rosenberg will attest that American policy is at the forefront of instituting measures to preserve the oceans because of the U.S. Commission's comprehensive review of current ocean policy, and also because of advanced authorities and efforts for fisheries management.
Panelist and marine ecologist, Boris Worm of Dalhousie University agreed. He said, "The U.S. has put all the right tools in place – the two commissions funneled the scientific information and put it into a framework that the entire world is waiting for."
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is the world's largest general scientific society, and publisher of the journal, Science (www.sciencemag.org). AAAS was founded in 1848, and serves some 265 affiliated societies and academies of science, serving 10 million individuals. Science has the largest paid circulation of any peer-reviewed general science journal in the world, with an estimated total readership of one million. The non-profit AAAS (www.aaas.org) is open to all and fulfills its mission to "advance science and serve society" through initiatives in science policy; international programs; science education; and more. For the latest research news, log onto EurekAlert!, www.eurekalert.org, the premier science-news Web site, a service of AAAS.
Additional news from the AAAS Annual Meeting may be found online at www.eurekalert.org.
A news briefing on this research will take place at 12:00 p.m. Pacific Time, Saturday, 14 February, during the AAAS Annual Meeting in Seattle, in the Eliza Anderson Amphitheater, Grand Hyatt Hotel. Further, these and other speakers will take part in a symposium titled, "Oceans Renaissance: Harnessing Nature's Resilience Through Ecosystem-Based Management," at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, 14 February, in the Washington State Convention & Trade Center, Sixth Level, in Rooms 613-614.
Press registration is located in the AAAS Press Center in Leonesa I of the Grand Hyatt Hotel.
AAAS is the world's largest general scientific society, dedicated to "Advancing science · Serving society."
AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the use of any information through the EurekAlert! system.
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Threats by a Douglas High School student to massacre his classmates weren’t protected speech, a federal appeals court ruled on Thursday.
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals this week affirmed the Douglas County School Board’s decision to expel sophomore Landon Wynar for making violent threats against students and threatening violence at school.
Wynar was 16 when he was arrested on Feb. 7, 2008, after fellow students reported the comments made in instant messages. He was jailed for 31 days, and suspended for 10 days until an expulsion hearing resulted in his being removed from school.
The lawsuit against the school district was filed in October 2009 in federal court. Attorney Jeffrey Blanck claimed the school district violated Landon’s First Amendment rights, and didn’t have the right to suspend him for something that was done off school property.
According to the opinion written by Judge Margaret McKeown, Wynar “engaged in a string of increasingly violent and threatening instant messages sent from his home to his friends, bragging about his weapons, threatening to shoot specific classmates, intimidating that he would ‘take out’ other people at a school shooting on a specific date and invoking the image of the Virginia Tech massacre.”
The MySpace messages included threats against two or three specific students and disturbed friends who reported them to school officials. They included references such as “that stupid kid from vtech, he didn’t do s--- and got a record. I bet I could get 50+ people and not one bullet would be wasted.”
In his interview with two deputies, the opinion says, Wynar admitted sending messages but said they were a joke.
The district court granted summary judgment in favor of the school district, and the 9th Circuit panel agreed.
“The nature of the threats here was alarming and explosive,” the opinion states.
“The messages presented a real risk of significant disruption to school activities and interfered with the rights of other students. Under the circumstances, the school district did not violate Landon’s rights to freedom of expression or due process.”
The court ruled that in such a circumstance, the district could take disciplinary action against off-campus speech and was responsible to do so.
“Landon specified a date for the attack and described how he would kill two specific named classmates,” the justices wrote, adding, “Douglas County did not need to wait for an actual disruption to materialize before taking action.”
The school district, according to the opinion, followed the necessary rules before suspending Landon for 10 days, then expelling him for 90 days — the rest of the semester.
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Participatory democracy is one of the most outstanding Law areas nowadays. Its compared study has a special relevance for the better understanding of the institutions that has in each country. This paper analyses on that way the regulation, main jurisprudence and essential practice of the participatory democracy both in Colombia and Spain from the approval of their Constitutions of 1991 and 1978. The objective is to determinate the points in common, as well as the differences between both countries and to expose the reasons. It is concluded that, if Colombian regulation is notably richer than the Spanish one, however, the practice in both countries is equally limited, being the reasons similar in some cases (exigent regulation) and different in others (socio-politic situation).
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- Participatory democracy
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We are the party of government reform. At a time when the federal government has become bloated, antiquated and unresponsive to taxpayers, it is our intention not only to improve management and provide better services, but also to rethink and restructure government to bring it into the twenty-first century. Government reform requires constant vigilance and effort because government by its nature tends to expand in both size and scope. Our goal is not just less spending in Washington but something far more important for the future of our nation: protecting the constitutional rights of citizens, sustainable prosperity, and strengthening the American family.
It isn’t enough to merely downsize government, having a smaller version of the same failed systems. We must do things in a dramatically different way by reversing the undermining of federalism and the centralizing of power in Washington. We look to the example set by Republican Governors and legislators all across the nation. Their leadership in reforming and reengineering government closest to the people vindicates the role of the States as the laboratories of democracy.
Our approach, like theirs, is two-fold. We look to government – local, State, and federal – for the things government must do, but we believe those duties can be carried out more efficiently and at less cost. For all other activities, we look to the private sector; for the American people’s resourcefulness, productivity, innovation, fiscal responsibility, and citizen-leadership have always been the true foundation of our national greatness.
For much of the last century, an opposing view has dominated public policy where we have witnessed the expansion, centralization, and bureaucracy in an entitlement society. Government has lumbered on, stifling innovation, with no incentive for fundamental change, through antiquated programs begun generations ago and now ill-suited to present needs and future requirements. As a result, today’s taxpayers – and future generations – face massive indebtedness, while Congressional Democrats and the current Administration block every attempt to turn things around. This man-made log-jam – the so-called stalemate in Washington – particularly affects the government’s three largest programs, which have become central to the lives of untold millions of Americans: Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security.
Saving Medicare for Future Generations (Top)
The Republican Party is committed to saving Medicare and Medicaid. Unless the programs’ fiscal ship is righted, the individuals hurt the first and the worst will be those who depend on them the most. We will save Medicare by modernizing it, by empowering its participants, and by putting it on a secure financial footing. This will be an enormous undertaking, and it should be a non-partisan one. We welcome to the effort all who sincerely want to ensure the future for our seniors and the poor. Republicans are determined to achieve that goal with a candid and honest presentation of the problem and its solutions to the American people.
Despite the enormous differences between Medicare and Medicaid, the two programs share the same fiscal outlook: their current courses cannot be sustained. Medicare has grown from more than 20 million enrolled in 1970 to more than 47 million enrolled today, with a projected total of 80 million in 2030. Medicaid counted almost 30 million enrollees in 1990, has about 54 million now, and under Obamacare would include an additional 11 million. Medicare spent more than $520 billion in 2010 and has close to $37 trillion in unfunded obligations, while total Medicaid spending will more than double by 2019. In many States, Medicaid’s mandates and inflexible bureaucracy have become a budgetary black hole, growing faster than most other budget lines and devouring funding for many other essential governmental functions.
The problem goes beyond finances. Poor quality healthcare is the most expensive type of care because it prolongs affliction and leads to ever more complications. Even expensive prevention is preferable to more costly treatment later on. When approximately 80 percent of healthcare costs are related to lifestyle -smoking, obesity, substance abuse-far greater emphasis has to be put upon personal responsibility for health maintenance. Our goal for both Medicare and Medicaid must be to assure that every participant receives the amount of care they need at the time they need it, whether for an expectant mother and her baby or for someone in the last moments of life. Absent reforms, these two programs are headed for bankruptcy that will endanger care for seniors and the poor.
The first step is to move the two programs away from their current unsustainable defined-benefit entitlement model to a fiscally sound defined-contribution model. This is the only way to limit costs and restore consumer choice for patients and introduce competition; for in healthcare, as in any other sector of the economy, genuine competition is the best guarantee of better care at lower cost. It is also the best guard against the fraud and abuse that have plagued Medicare in its isolation from free market forces, which in turn costs the taxpayers billions of dollars every year. We can do this without making any changes for those 55 and older. While retaining the option of traditional Medicare in competition with private plans, we call for a transition to a premium-support model for Medicare, with an income-adjusted contribution toward a health plan of the enrollee’s choice. This model will include private health insurance plans that provide catastrophic protection, to ensure the continuation of doctor-patient relationships. Without disadvantaging retirees or those nearing retirement, the age eligibility for Medicare must be made more realistic in terms of today’s longer life span.
Strengthening Medicaid in the States (Top)
Medicaid, as the dominant payer in the health market in regards to long-term care, births, and individuals with mental illness, is the next frontier of welfare reform. It is simply too big and too flawed to be managed in its current condition from Washington. Republican Governors have taken the lead in proposing a host of regulatory changes that could make the program more flexible, innovative, and accountable. There should be alternatives to hospitalization for chronic health problems. Patients could be rewarded for participating in disease prevention activities. Excessive mandates on coverage should be eliminated. Patients with long-term care needs might fare better in a separately designed program.
As those and other specific proposals show, Republican Governors and State legislatures are ready to do the hard work of modernizing Medicaid for the twenty-first century. We propose to let them do all that and more by block-granting the program to the States, providing the States with the flexibility to design programs that meet the needs of their low income citizens. Such reforms could be achieved through premium supports or a refundable tax credit, allowing non-disabled adults and children to be moved into private health insurance of their choice, where their needs can be met on the same basis as those of more affluent Americans. For the aged and disabled under Medicaid, for whom monthly costs can be extremely high, States would have flexibility to improve the quality of care and to avoid the inappropriate institutional placing of patients who prefer to be cared for at home.
Security For Those Who Need It: Ensuring Retirement Security (Top)
While no changes should adversely affect any current or near-retiree, comprehensive reform should address our society’s remarkable medical advances in longevity and allow younger workers the option of creating their own personal investment accounts as supplements to the system. Younger Americans have lost all faith in the Social Security system, which is understandable when they read the non- partisan actuary’s reports about its future funding status. Born in an old industrial era beyond the memory of most Americans, it is long overdue for major change, not just another legislative stopgap that postpones a day of reckoning. To restore public trust in the system, Republicans are committed to setting it on a sound fiscal basis that will give workers control over, and a sound return on, their investments. The sooner we act, the sooner those close to retirement can be reassured of their benefits and younger workers can take responsibility for planning their own retirement decades from now.
Unlike Social Security, the problems facing private pension plans are both demographic and ethical. While pension law may be complicated, the current bottom line is that many plans are increasingly underfunded by overestimating their rates of return on investments. This in turn endangers the integrity of the Pension Guaranty Benefit Corporation, which is itself seriously underfunded. In both cases, the taxpayers will be expected to pay for a bailout. As the first step toward possible corrective action, we call for a presidential panel to review the private pension system in this country of only those private pensions that are backed by the Pension Guaranty Benefit Corporation and to make public its findings.
The situation of public pension systems demands immediate remedial action. The irresponsible promises of politicians at every level of government have come back to haunt today’s taxpayers with enormous unfunded pension liabilities. Many cities face bankruptcy because of excessive outlays for early retirement, extravagant health plans, and overly generous pension benefits. We salute the Republican Governors and State legislators who have, in the face of abuse and threats of violence, reformed their State pension systems for the benefit of both taxpayers and retirees alike.
Regulatory Reform: The Key to Economic Growth (Top)
The proper purpose of regulation is to set forth clear rules of the road for the citizens, so that business owners and workers can understand in advance what they need to do, or not do, to augment the possibilities for success within the confines of the law. Regulations must be drafted and implemented to balance legitimate public safety or consumer protection goals and job creation. Constructive regulation should be a helpful guide, not a punitive threat. Worst of all, over-regulation is a stealth tax on everyone as the costs of compliance with the whims of federal agencies are passed along to the consumers at the cost of $1.75 trillion a year. Many regulations are necessary, like those which ensure the safety of food and medicine, especially from overseas. But no peril justifies the regulatory impact of Obamacare on the practice of medicine, the Dodd-Frank Act on financial services, or the EPA’s and OSHA’s overreaching regulation agenda. A Republican Congress and President will repeal the first and second, and rein in the third. We support a sunset requirement to force reconsideration of out-of-date regulations, and we endorse pending legislation to require congressional approval for all new major and costly regulations.
The bottom line on regulations is jobs. In listening to America, one constant we have heard is the job-crippling effect of even well-intentioned regulation. That makes it all the more important for federal agencies to be judicious about the impositions they create on businesses, especially small businesses. We call for a moratorium on the development of any new major and costly regulations until a Republican Administration reviews existing rules to ensure that they have a sound basis in science and will be cost-effective.
Protecting Internet Freedom (Top)
The Internet has unleashed innovation, enabled growth, and inspired freedom more rapidly and extensively than any other technological advance in human history. Its independence is its power. The Internet offers a communications system uniquely free from government intervention. We will remove regulatory barriers that protect outdated technologies and business plans from innovation and competition, while preventing legacy regulation from interfering with new and disruptive technologies such as mobile delivery of voice video data as they become crucial components of the Internet ecosystem. We will resist any effort to shift control away from the successful multi-stakeholder approach of Internet governance and toward governance by international or other intergovernmental organizations. We will ensure that personal data receives full constitutional protection from government overreach and that individuals retain the right to control the use of their data by third parties; the only way to safeguard or improve these systems is through the private sector.
A Vision for the Twenty-First Century: Technology, Telecommunications and the Internet (Top)
The most vibrant sector of the American economy, indeed, one-sixth of it, is regulated by the federal government on precedents from the nineteenth century. Today’s technology and telecommunications industries are overseen by the Federal Communications Commission, established in 1934 and given the jurisdiction over telecommunications formerly assigned to the Interstate Commerce Commission, which had been created in 1887 to regulate the railroads. This is not a good fit. Indeed, the development of telecommunications advances so rapidly that even the Telecom Act of 1996 is woefully out of date. An industry that invested $66 billion in 2011 alone needs, and deserves, a more modern relationship with the federal government for the benefit of consumers here and worldwide.
The current Administration has been frozen in the past. It has conducted no auction of spectrum, has offered no incentives for investment, and, through the FCC’s net neutrality rule, is trying to micromanage telecom as if it were a railroad network. It inherited from the previous Republican Administration 95 percent coverage of the nation with broadband. It will leave office with no progress toward the goal of universal coverage – after spending $7.2 billion more. That hurts rural America, where farmers, ranchers, and small business manufacturers need connectivity to expand their customer base and operate in real time with the world’s producers. We encourage public-private partnerships to provide predictable support for connecting rural areas so that every American can fully participate in the global economy.
We call for an inventory of federal agency spectrum to determine the surplus that could be auctioned for the taxpayers’ benefit. With special recognition of the role university technology centers are playing in attracting private investment to the field, we will replace the administration’s Luddite approach to technological progress with a regulatory partnership that will keep this country the world leader in technology and telecommunications.
Protecting the Taxpayers: No More “Too Big to Fail” (Top)
For more than a century, the U.S. was the world leader in financial services. The visionary management of capital was the lifeblood of the entire economy. By giving responsible access to credit, it helped small businesses grow, created jobs, and made Americans the best-housed people in history. By funding innovation, financial services underwrote our future. Then came the financial collapse of 2008 and a critical reassessment of the role and condition of financial institutions – most of which, it must be said, were responsible and healthy, especially those closest to their investors and borrowers.
In cases of malfeasance or other criminal behavior, the full force of the law should be used. But in all cases, this rule must apply: No financial institution is too big to fail. The taxpayers must never again be on the hook for the losses of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The public must never again be left holding the bag for Wall Street giants, which is why we decry the current Administration’s record of over-regulation and selective intervention, which has already frozen investment and job creation and threatens to make financial institutions the coddled wards of government.
A far better approach – protecting consumers and taxpayers alike – is institutional transparency. Banks need to know that they could be at risk, and investors need clear rules that are not subject to political meddling. The same holds true for the equity market regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission. We propose reasonable federal oversight of financial institutions, practical safeguards for consumers, and – what is crucial for this country’s economic rebound – sound spending, tax, and regulatory policies that will allow those institutions to once again become the builders of the next American century. We strongly support tax reform; in the event we do not achieve this, we must preserve the mortgage interest deduction.
Judicial Activism: A Threat to the U.S. Constitution (Top)
Despite improvements as a result of Republican nominations to the judiciary, some judges in the federal courts remain far afield from their constitutional limitations. The U.S. Constitution is the law of the land. Judicial activism which includes reliance on foreign law or unratified treaties undermines American law. The sole solution, apart from impeachment, is the appointment of constitutionalist jurists, who will interpret the law as it was originally intended rather than make it. That is both a presidential responsibility, in selecting judicial candidates, and a senatorial responsibility, in confirming them. We urge Republican Senators to do all in their power to prevent the elevation of additional leftist ideologues to the courts, particularly in the waning days of the current Administration. In addition to appointing activist judges, the current Administration has included an activist and highly partisan Department of Justice. With a Republican Administration, the Department will stop suing States for exercising those powers reserved to the States, will stop abusing its preclearance authority to block photo-ID voting laws, and will fulfill its responsibility to defend all federal laws in court, including the Defense of Marriage Act.
Restructuring the U.S. Postal Service for the Twenty-First Century (Top)
The dire financial circumstances of the Postal Service require dramatic restructuring. In a world of rapidly advancing telecommunications, mail delivery from the era of the Pony Express cannot long survive. We call on Congress to restructure the Service to ensure the continuance of its essential function of delivering mail while preparing for the downsizing made inevitable by the advance of internet communication. In light of the Postal Service’s seriously underfunded pension system, Congress should explore a greater role for private enterprise in appropriate aspects of the mail-processing system.
Protecting Travelers and their Rights: Reforming the TSA for Security and Privacy (Top)
While the aftermath of the 2001 terrorist attacks brought about a greater need for homeland security, the American people have already delivered their verdict on the Transportation Security Administration: its procedures – and much of its personnel – need to be changed. It is now a massive bureaucracy of 65,000 employees who seem to be accountable to no one for the way they treat travelers. We call for the private sector to take over airport screening wherever feasible and look toward the development of security systems that can replace the personal violation of frisking.
The Rule of Law: Legal Immigration (Top)
The greatest asset of the American economy is the American worker. Just as immigrant labor helped build our country in the past, today’s legal immigrants are making vital contributions in every aspect of our national life. Their industry and commitment to American values strengthens our economy, enriches our culture, and enables us to better understand and more effectively compete with the rest of the world. Illegal immigration undermines those benefits and affects U.S. workers. In an age of terrorism, drug cartels, human trafficking, and criminal gangs, the presence of millions of unidentified persons in this country poses grave risks to the safety and the sovereignty of the United States. Our highest priority, therefore, is to secure the rule of law both at our borders and at ports of entry.
We recognize that for most of those seeking entry into this country, the lack of respect for the rule of law in their homelands has meant economic exploitation and political oppression by corrupt elites. In this country, the rule of law guarantees equal treatment to every individual, including more than one million immigrants to whom we grant permanent residence every year. That is why we oppose any form of amnesty for those who, by intentionally violating the law, disadvantage those who have obeyed it. Granting amnesty only rewards and encourages more law breaking. We support the mandatory use of the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (S.A.V.E.) program – an internet-based system that verifies the lawful presence of applicants – prior to the granting of any State or federal government entitlements or IRS refunds. We insist upon enforcement at the workplace through verification systems so that jobs can be available to all legal workers. Use of the E-verify program – an internet-based system that verifies the employment authorization and identity of employees – must be made mandatory nationwide. State enforcement efforts in the workplace must be welcomed, not attacked. When Americans need jobs, it is absolutely essential that we protect them from illegal labor in the workplace. In addition, it is why we demand tough penalties for those who practice identity theft, deal in fraudulent documents, and traffic in human beings. It is why we support Republican legislation to give the Department of Homeland Security long-term detention authority to keep dangerous but undeportable aliens off our streets, expedite expulsion of criminal aliens, and make gang membership a deportable offense.
The current Administration’s approach to immigration has undermined the rule of law at every turn. It has lessened work-site enforcement – and even allows the illegal aliens it does uncover to walk down the street to the next employer – and challenged legitimate State efforts to keep communities safe, suing them for trying to enforce the law when the federal government refuses to do so. It has created a backdoor amnesty program unrecognized in law, granting worker authorization to illegal aliens, and shown little regard for the life-and-death situations facing the men and women of the border patrol.
Perhaps worst of all, the current Administration has failed to enforce the legal means for workers or employers who want to operate within the law. In contrast, a Republican Administration and Congress will partner with local governments through cooperative enforcement agreements in Section 287g of the Immigration and Nationality Act to make communities safer for all and will consider, in light of both current needs and historic practice, the utility of a legal and reliable source of foreign labor where needed through a new guest worker program. We will create humane procedures to encourage illegal aliens to return home voluntarily, while enforcing the law against those who overstay their visas.
State efforts to reduce illegal immigration must be encouraged, not attacked. The pending Department of Justice lawsuits against Arizona, Alabama, South Carolina, and Utah must be dismissed immediately. The double-layered fencing on the border that was enacted by Congress in 2006, but never completed, must finally be built. In order to restore the rule of law, federal funding should be denied to sanctuary cities that violate federal law and endanger their own citizens, and federal funding should be denied to universities that provide in-state tuition rates to illegal aliens, in open defiance of federal law.
We are grateful to the thousands of new immigrants, many of them not yet citizens, who are serving in the Armed Forces. Their patriotism should encourage us all to embrace the newcomers legally among us, assist their journey to full citizenship, and help their communities avoid isolation from the mainstream of society. To that end, while we encourage the retention and transmission of heritage tongues, we support English as the nation’s official language, a unifying force essential for the educational and economic advancement of – not only immigrant communities – but also our nation as a whole.
Honoring Our Relationship with American Indians (Top)
Based on both treaty and other law, the federal government has a unique government-to-government relationship with and trust responsibility for Indian Tribal Governments and American Indians and Alaska Natives. These obligations have not been sufficiently honored. The social and economic problems that plague Indian country have grown worse over the last several decades; we must reverse that trend. Ineffective federal programs deprive American Indians of the services they need, and long-term failures threaten to undermine tribal sovereignty itself.
American Indians have established elected tribal governments to carry out the public policies of the tribe, administer services to its tribal member constituents, and manage relations with federal, State, and local governments. We respect the tribal governments as the voice of their communities and encourage federal, State, and local governments to heed those voices in developing programs and partnerships to improve the quality of life for American Indians and their neighbors in their communities.
Republicans believe that economic self-sufficiency is the ultimate answer to the challenges confronting Indian country. We believe that tribal governments and their communities, not Washington bureaucracies, are best situated to craft solutions that will end systemic problems that create poverty and disenfranchisement. Just as the federal government should not burden States with regulations, it should not stifle the development of resources within the reservations, which need federal assistance to advance their commerce nationally through roads and technology. Federal and State regulations that thwart job creation must be withdrawn or redrawn so that tribal governments acting on behalf of American Indians are not disadvantaged. It is especially egregious that the Democratic Party has persistently undermined tribal sovereignty in order to provide advantage to union bosses in the tribal workplace.
Republicans recognize that each tribe has the right of consultation before any new regulatory policy is implemented on tribal land. To the extent possible, such consultation should take place in Indian country with the tribal government and its members. Before promulgating and imposing any new laws or regulations affecting trust land or members, the federal government should encourage Indian tribes to develop their own policies to achieve program objectives, and should defer to tribes to develop their own standards, or standards in conjunction with State governments.
Republicans reject a one-size-fits-all approach to federal-tribal-State partnerships and will work to expand local autonomy where tribal governments seek it. Better partnerships will help us to expand economic opportunity, deliver top-flight education to future generations, modernize and improve the Indian Health Service to make it more responsive to local needs, and build essential infrastructure in Indian country in cooperation with tribal neighbors. Our approach is to empower American Indians, through tribal self-determination and self-governance policies, to develop their greatest assets, human resources and the rich natural resources on their lands, without undue federal interference.
Like all Americans, American Indians want safe communities for their families; but inadequate resources and neglect have, over time, allowed criminal activities to plague Indian country. To protect everyone – and especially the most vulnerable: children, women, and elders – the legal system in tribal communities must provide stability and protect property rights. Everyone’s due process and civil rights must be safeguarded.
We support efforts to ensure equitable participation in federal programs by American Indians, including Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians and to preserve their culture and languages that we consider to be national treasures. Lastly, we recognize that American Indians have responded to the call for military service in percentage numbers far greater than have other groups of Americans. We honor that commitment, loyalty, and sacrifice of all American Indians serving in the military today and in years past and will ensure that all veterans and their families receive the care and respect they have earned through their loyal service to America.
Preserving the District of Columbia (Top)
The nation’s capital city, a special responsibility of the federal government, belongs both to its residents and to all Americans, millions of whom visit it every year. Congressional Republicans have taken the lead in efforts to foster homeownership and open access to higher education for Washington residents. Against the opposition of the current President and leaders of the Democratic Party, they have fought to establish, and now to expand, the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program, through which thousands of low-income children have been able to attend a school of their choice and receive a quality education.
D.C.’s Republicans have been in the forefront of exposing and combating the chronic corruption among the city’s top Democratic officials. We join their call for a non-partisan elected Attorney General to clean up the city’s political culture and for congressional action to enforce the spirit of the Home Rule Act assuring minority representation on the City Council. After decades of inept one-party rule, the city’s structural deficit demands congressional attention.
As the center of our government, the District contains many potential targets for terrorist attacks. Federal security agencies should work closely with local officials and regional administrations like the Washington Area Metropolitan Transit Authority. A top priority must be ensuring that all public transportation, especially Metro rails, is functioning in the event of an emergency evacuation. Also, to ensure protection of the fundamental right to keep and bear arms, we call on the governing authority to pass laws consistent with the Supreme Court’s decisions in the District of Columbia v. Heller and McDonald v. Chicago cases, which upheld the fundamental right to keep and bear arms for self-defense.
We oppose statehood for the District of Columbia.
Modernizing the Federal Civil Service (Top)
The federal workforce bears great responsibilities and sometimes wields tremendous power, especially when Congress delegates to it the execution of complicated and far-reaching legislation. We recognize the dedication of federal workers and the difficulty of their thankless task of implementing poorly drafted or open-ended legislation.
Under the current Administration, the civil service has grown by at least 140,000 workers, while the number making at least $150,000 has doubled. At a time when the national debt has increased to over $15.9 trillion under the current Administration, this is grossly irresponsible. The American people work too hard and too long to support a bloated government. We call for a reduction, through attrition, in the federal payroll of at least 10 percent and the adjustment of pay scales and benefits to reflect those of the private sector. We must bring the 130-year old Civil Service System into the twenty-first century. The federal pay system should be sufficiently flexible to acknowledge and reward those who dare to innovate, reduce overhead, optimize processes, and expedite paperwork.
Delinquency in paying taxes and repaying student loans has been too common in some segments of the civil service. A Republican Administration will make enforcement among its own employees a priority and, unlike the current Administration, will id to public office no one who has failed to meet their financial obligations to the government and fellow taxpayers.
America’s Future in Space: Continuing this Quest (Top)
The exploration of space has been a key part of U.S. global leadership and has supported innovation and ownership of technology. Over the last half-century, in partnership with our aerospace industry, the work of NASA has helped define and strengthen our nation’s technological prowess. From building the world’s most powerful rockets to landing men on the Moon, sending robotic spacecraft throughout our solar system and beyond, building the International Space Station, and launching space-based telescopes that allow scientists to better understand our universe, NASA science and engineering have produced spectacular results. The technologies that emerged from those programs propelled our aerospace industrial base and directly benefit our national security, safety, economy, and quality of life. Through its achievements, NASA has inspired generations of Americans to study science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, leading to careers that drive our country’s technological and economic engines.
Today, America’s leadership in space is challenged by countries eager to emulate – and surpass – NASA’s accomplishments. To preserve our national security interests and foster innovation and competitiveness, we must sustain our preeminence in space, launching more science missions, guaranteeing unfettered access, and maintaining a source of high-value American jobs.
Honoring and Supporting Americans in the Territories (Top)
We honor the extraordinary sacrifices of the men and women of the territories who protect our freedom through their service in the U.S. Armed Forces. We welcome their greater participation in all aspects of the political process and affirm their right to seek the full extension of the Constitution, with all the rights and responsibilities it entails. U.S. territories face serious economic challenges as they struggle to retain existing industries and develop new ones. Development of local energy options is crucial to reduce their dependence on imported fuel and promote economic stability. The Pacific territories should have flexibility to determine the minimum wage, which has seriously restricted progress in the private sector. A stronger private sector can raise wages, reduce dependence on public sector employment, and lead toward local self-sufficiency. All unreasonable economic impediments must be removed, including unreasonable U.S. customs practices.
We support the right of the United States citizens of Puerto Rico to be admitted to the Union as a fully sovereign state if they freely so determine. We recognize that Congress has the final authority to define the constitutionally valid options for Puerto Rico to achieve a permanent non-territorial status with government by consent and full enfranchisement. As long as Puerto Rico is not a State, however, the will of its people regarding their political status should be ascertained by means of a general right of referendum or specific referenda sponsored by the U.S. government.
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Rapid Departures / Partidas Rapidás by Vincent Katz, Trans. by Regina Alfarano
(Ateliê Editorial, 2005)
Rapid Departures is a bilingual volume of poems by Vincent Katz (with facing-page Portuguese translations by Regina Alfarano), with art by Mario Cafiero. While it would be wrong to say that the poems are Brazilian-themed, it would not be wrong to say that they are to some degree embodiments of his Brazilian experiences, since they were all written in Brazil. In his endnote, Katz calls this book “an essay in poetry of the city”, and claims in that sense lineage with “Catullus, Propertius, Baudelaire, Apollinaire, and O’Hara”. “City” here must be taken in a Platonic-archetype sense, since this in fact a book of poems of several cities, and sometimes of the highways and byways between.
Katz’s inclusion of Propertius is not fortuitous, as Katz is Propertius’ translator. In his introduction to his Propertius translations, Katz writes of the Roman poet’s “highly compressed phraseology”, how “[i]t was in his character to write in a way that was half-challenge, half-insouciance”, how he had “a highly literary and subtle approach to both subject and language”, and how, “with all his literary and verbal sophistication … [he had] the ability to write lines of the most down-to-earth frankness”. He might as well be describing himself.
As Katz mentions in his endnote, when commiserating with his translator, the poems in Rapid Departures “range from the deceptively transparent to the turgidly opaque”. But isn’t that, as they say, life in the big city?
There are echoes of many poets in these poems (which isn’t to say that Katz is derivative; it’s just to say that wherever we go with senses open we can’t help but hear echoes of others who have passed by … and that novelty is an invention of modernity, and if it ain’t got that swing, well …). I hear a bit of Blackburn in the following:
In a couple of years, his girl
will look weathered, maybe bitter. Her breasts
will be sad. But tonight, while the boys play, she is perfect.
And I hear Apollinaire in
Christ is caught up in antennae
the city is beautiful in the rain
it washes its sins away
And so on. But that doesn’t mean I don’t hear Katz. It just means that these poems are indeed highly literary.
Of course the literary can be deeply felt (I don’t know why I need to say this, it’s not as if the literary cannot be felt; but there does seem to be some sense still alive in the culture that there is a binary, “real/artifice”, and I feel myself wanting to say no no no … tho I’m guesing I don’t really need to say this to GR’s audience …):
My emotions can’t keep
pace with the beauty,
drops of water on roses
in my wife’s hands
as she stands with me
in front of the world
in a tiny, private, spot,
which passes instantly
and never goes out.
So far, I’ve made no mention of what Katz calls his “turgidly opaque.” There are several such poems, though to my ear they seem equally as urban, literary and felt, and in no way more artificial than the “deceptively transparent” poems quoted so far. “Rapid Departures”, the long poem that give the book its title, is one such poem. It begins:
Later mention is made of “incessant unkempt prattle” and how “here, our manuscript / turns to mush”, but, while normal semantic meaning may not be easy to extract and it very well may not be meant to be, there is nothing unkempt or mushy about this poem (or any of the others in this volume). Katz is in as much control of his materials as he wants to be. This, again from “Rapid Departures”, is for me the funniest moment in the book (and perhaps the most “moving” and “literary”):
to bloom, to be in one’s
prime, to foam, ferment,
be eminent, abound in,
swarm with clutched
story, this’ll be as good
a spot as any to tell
this little tale:
Once, four men entered
a carriage. It headed
over registered half
rising setters rough
And away it goes … expectation set up, expectation denied, only so something better can happen.
It occurs to me that a poem like “Rapid Dapartures” couldn’t have been written before the so-called “linguistic turn” of the latter half of the 20th century. But this is where a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. I’ve just been reading a creation myth from early First Dynasty Egypt, in which, as in Genesis, logos precedes world. Which makes me wonder: have we always been living under the sign of the linguistic turn? Have we ever set foot outside the “prison-house of language”? I’m not the person to answer this. I still don’t know, and probably never will, how language relates to consciousness, how consciousness relates to body, how body relates to world …
Katz is willing to live with it both, or more than both ways (perhaps this enables his range). Sometimes consciousness (logos?) precedes world:
any view is ultimately
your view, where
you grow up, sun
in the bathroom lands
on your significance
Sometimes world doesn’t need consciousness/logos for anything:
The shape of a palm tree
A large dead cricket
Scuttling clear crabs
Detritus of tiny shells
The beach paints itself
Before you have seen it
(I take “paints” here as a poeticism, so to speak, rather than a bit of epistomology.)
As Katz puts it at the end of “Rapid Departures”, “I think I’ve found a way of fitting it all in”, and while no-one fits it all in, what this having it every which way adds up to is a very big book (in only 40-odd English pages) indeed. I take this as a lesson in poetry and in living. As they say, when forced to choose between two good things, choose both of them. (Obviously, this “philosophy” has limited applicability (e.g. certain choices and my wife will literally – literally – kill me), but that’s a different sermon/essay, isn’t it? In any case, it’s often possible to choose and over or, and not a bad poetic strategy.)
Besides Cafiero’s accompanying illustrations (rather gentler than some of the poems yet still pleasing), there are four full-color collaborations between Katz (and Cafiero?) and a number of uncredited LP sleeve artists. Fans of e.g. Raymond Pettibon’s disjunctions between image and text (of which I am one) will get a kick out of them.
John Bloomberg-Rissman's most recent publications are World Zero and No Sounds Of My Own Making. Work of his will soon appear in The Hay(na)ku Anthology, Vol. II. He is one of four collaborators on the recent hay(na)ku sequence "Four Skin Confessions", which has served as a seed project for a number of other collaborations also to be anthologized. His current project is called Autopoiesis, of which he has completed 100+ parts and though he expected it would be time to move on to something else when he put paid to no. 100, surprise! 2008 seems to be the year of the sonnet-shaped thing.
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New Delhi: On a day when 24 filmmakers and writers – including Arundhati Roy, Saeed Mirza and Kundan Shah – announced the return of their national awards, the BJP blamed the Congress and CPI-M for “misleading the country on the issue of rising intolerance”, alleging that the entire effort was to derail Modi government’s developmental agenda.
Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah released a book titled ‘Ideological Difference’ to counter the debate on intolerance and highlight the party’s viewpoint on the current situation.
— Amit Shah (@AmitShah) November 5, 2015
“The book’s purpose is to highlight the other side of the story. Only one side of the story was highlighted so far. Now the truth is coming out. We want the general public of India to know the other view also through this book,” senior BJP leader and union minister Venkaiah Naidu told media persons here.
“Wrong information was given. Through this book, we are releasing facts of what happened earlier and (what is happening) now,” he said.
The entire effort is to derail the developmental agenda of the Narendra Modi government. We have a vested interest in peace because without peace there is no progress.
“Political intolerance is the trait of the Congress party. We have seen what respect they give to their party president. They did not allow the body of a late party president to enter the party office. Sita Ram Kesri was physically moved from the chair and removed. Under Communist Party of India-Marxist’s philosophy, intolerance towards the opponents is known to all. Why the so-called intellectuals did not raise their voices earlier and why are they doing it now,” he asked.
Naidu said that for 60 years, the Congress and its dependents were in power at the Centre and states. “They have an octopus-like presence in most academic and cultural institutions. The left intellectuals had a field day since they were the beneficiaries of the patronisation of the Congress party,” the union minister said.
“In 1969, a split in the Congress occurred and the communist party lent them a helping hand. There was a quid pro quo understanding between the two. All academic institutions in the country were handed over to the Left party. The impact of the Communist Party in the country has declined since then, but their influence over the institutions has increased,” he added.
“The political presence of the Communist Party since then has become minuscule. The entire strength of the Left political parties in India is not even four percent,” Naidu said.
“Some people have made an issue out of the unfortunate events that have happened in some states. The entire effort is to derail the developmental agenda of the Narendra Modi government. We have a vested interest in peace because without peace there is no progress. Time and again, our prime minister has said that his agenda is development,” he added.
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a disabled person of the highest incapacity, forever 'bonded' to equipment for artificial blood purification? Anyway doomed!
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Dr. Mirzakarim Sanakulovich Norbekov is the creator of a unique healing methodology which has allowed millions of people to regain the joy and vigor of returning again to living a healthy and fulfilling life.
As a 20-year-old, Norbekov was a dying man. As "a disabled person of the highest incapacity, forever 'bonded' to equipment for artificial blood purification? Anyway doomed!" - was how Dr. Norbekov describes himself. Yet using esoteric knowledge learned from his first "Mentor" Seid Mohammed Hassan - a Sufi from Uzbekistan, and contrary to the then accepted medical wisdom, he managed to turn his life around and make a full recovery.
He has set up his own system of highly acclaimed educational and practical healing tools, which allow people to take personal control in regaining their good health and finding fulfillment of their life goals. Dr. Norbekov's methods have received huge acclaim and recognition, initially in Russia and now throughout Europe, especially for its benefits in overcoming chronic conditions and illnesses.
His methods have also been very successfully applied in developing the "Success Mindset" and for powerful goal setting, which are absolutely vital attributes in achieving progression through his dynamic personal development techniques. Indeed, Dr. Norbekov's methods are positively vital for aspiring entrepreneurs, several of whom who have successfully applied his quite amazing techniques towards achieving their goals and dreams.
Dr. Norbekov's books have had over 15 million readers, mostly from behind the former "Iron Curtain" - as Winston Churchill had once described the Soviet Union. Only now are his methods being gradually released to the "West". The Soviets were well known for their research into some of the quite arcane areas of Parapsychology such as Kirlian photography and energy fields, telepathy, healing, telekinesis and suchlike.
It was generally accepted that some of these areas of esoteric research were funded by their Intelligence services to give themselves an edge in this "cat-and-mouse" arena. Therefore many highly useful results from this research were "kept under wraps" only now slowly emerging to those in the West, years later.
Some of the many valuable aspects and benefits of using Dr. Norbekov's powerful system are:
It places an emphasis on the body's natural ability of self-recovery, to self-heal without unnecessary medication or external intervention. It can help one to efficiently eliminate the underlying causes of illnesses. It helps in showing how to activate one's body's innate cleansing mechanisms. Aiding the recovery of affected organs.
Using powerful techniques for improving and rectifying problems with eyesight and for example: Restoring spinal flexibility.
Using ancient energy techniques for stimulating the recovery of the body. Strengthening the body's immune system. Enhancing biological youth of the body. Reducing and removing scars and blemishes from skin tissue. Promoting younger looking skin. Reinvigorating sexual potency thus helping one to establish harmony in intimate relationships.
Establishing the bases for personal empowerment: managing personal energy and developing the traits of a "Winner's mentality". Helping to realign one's goals, towards achievement of positive outcomes and success.
Mirzakarim Norbekov has set out his system in an easy colloquial manner in his amazing and wonderful book "The Experience of a Fool Who Had An Epiphany About How To Get Rid of His Glasses". This book is a part of Norbekov's course about how to manage our own bodies and to use the power of our own personalities to improve health and even to get rid of glasses. It is now available from Amazon.co.uk online or in a downloadable PDF eBook.
For more information or about how you can get the physical book please visit: http://norbekov.com-org.net/prw.html or readers can get the instant Downloadable PDF version at http://norbekov.com-ad.net/prw.html.
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By John Marsh
Most recreational roadies ride in large groups from time to time, in century rides, local organized rides, brevets, races, etc. While our groups don’t rival the sheer numbers riding cheek to jowl in the TdF, the challenges are the same. So, too, are the ways to avoid crashes in groups. Here are a few tips to help.
Keep Your Focus
Most crashes happen when a rider momentarily loses focus. A moment is all it takes to: not realize the wheel in front of you has slowed; catch the edge of the road when putting away your bottle; bump the rider next to you when you’ve glanced down at your computer. Keeping your focus will help you avoid the little slip-ups that we all have from time to time, but that can quickly bring us to the ground.
Hold Your Line
Steady handling and an unwavering line are expected of anyone riding in a large group. Nothing makes riders in a group of any size more edgy than a squirrelly rider in their midst. Don’t be that rider. Pay attention to what’s happening around you to avoid any pitfalls, and concentrate on not making any sudden or unexpected movements off your line.
Riding in a sizable group typically adds a level of nervousness not found in most casual rides. That’s not really a bad thing if you use that slight nervousness to help you focus. But if you ride constantly on edge, with a death grip on the bar, you’re more apt to fatigue faster, and your tense muscles can affect your bike handling. Stay relaxed, with a comfortable grip on the bar, and consciously check your neck and shoulder muscles for tension. Unshrug if you catch yourself riding with your shoulders pulled up.
Stuff happens in a group. Riders veer off line, rub shoulders, make unexpected moves, touch tires. Often, though, it’s not the initial mistake that causes a crash in a group. It’s an overreaction to the mistake, either by the rider who made it, or by a rider the mistake affected. The key is not to overreact. Making any quick, opposite reaction to whatever problem you’re facing may create a new, bigger problem — and cause a crash. I witnessed this in a race a couple weekends ago, as a rider went off the right side of the road, overcompensated in his attempt to get back on the road, and went down, falling into another rider, who very nearly fell into me.
Stay Up Front
If you’ve watched the Tour, you’ve surely heard the commentators or riders being interviewed repeatedly say how important it is to remain at the front of the group. The rationale is straightforward, and it’s most important in big groups. Most crashes happen farther back, where riders are surrounded on all sides and at the mercy of any mistakes anyone else makes. The farther front in a group, the less crowded, the more room to maneuver, and the safer it is.
Big groups tend to ride like a rubber band stretching — constantly speeding up and slowing down from front to back. Within the group, individual riders are doing the same thing. The trick is to modulate your braking and pedaling so that your relative distance to the rider in front of you remains about the same, no matter how much the rubber band stretches or contracts. Try your best not to yo-yo, braking too abruptly, and then speeding up too much so that you’re on the brakes again. This will not endear you to the riders behind you, and you may cause a crash doing it. Feather your brakes instead of clamping down, and steadily increase your pedaling instead of a sudden burst of power.
Enjoy your ride!
John Marsh is publisher of the weekly RBR Newsletter and www.RoadBikeRider.com, which provide expert advice, tips and shared knowledge to road cycling enthusiasts – from beginner to experienced rider – to help them become better cyclists and enjoy our sport even more.
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What a difference a week makes: the last time we were on the bridge, no canvas was in sight. But now the draping of the bridge has begun in earnest. Workers are installing canvas to be as part of the paint removal containment system. As Hasan Ahmed of the NYC Department of Transportation promised, "it will be lots of material." One coworker who bikes over the bridge reported this morning that the canvas is surprisingly disorienting for pedestrians. On the walkway, "you can see the sky, not the water," she said.
We were out on the bridge yesterday taking pictures--see the slideshow here.
A four-year, $508 million renovation of the Brooklyn Bridge is currently underway. But beyond some lane closures and a few construction signs, you might not have noticed much of a difference. That’s about to change.
Picture yourself on a bridge on the East River with a tangerine canvas that blocks out the skies.
Well, all right, it’s not going to be tangerine. (more)
Let’s say you’re a radio news producer who’s interested in governmental accountability. So you decide to track the money New York City is spending on the Brooklyn Bridge rehab. You’d go about it several ways: you’d call the city’s Department of Transportation for details. You’d file several Freedom of Information Law requests. And now you’d visit CheckbookNYC.com, a new website unveiled by the New York City Comptroller earlier this month. (More)
One of the main reasons WNYC decided to monitor the renovation of the Brooklyn Bridge is that we thought following this $508-million project would provide a good test case for government transparency. We would publicly mull over questions like How does the city award contracts? Where will the materials come from? Who will get the jobs? Read on, and we'll tell you how the main bridge contractor, Skanska-Koch, got a "marginal" rating for hiring women and minorities. But first...(more)
From 1996 to 2001, the New York City Department of Transportation employed about 40 bridge painters; none were female. In 2007, the United States District Attorney filed a discrimination lawsuit against the city, stating that "the DOT has never hired, extended an offer to hire, or employed a single woman as a Bridge Painter." In May a Manhattan federal judge found that the City of New York and the Department of Transportation were guilty of, in the judge’s words, “unvarnished sex discrimination...the net result was to exclude qualified and impressive women from pursuing the careers they desired with the City of New York.”
Earlier this week we wrote about Brooklyn Bridge contractor Skanska and how, at one point in the bidding process, their bid did not meet the city’s 14% disadvantaged business enterprise goal. The city expressed concern—but wound up awarding them the contract anyway.
Wednesday's official groundbreaking of the Brooklyn Bridge rehab brought out some big political names--Vice President Joe Biden, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Congressman Jerrold Nadler. What it did not bring was clarity on the job creation issue.
Vice President Biden comes to New York Wednesday to tout the success of the stimulus program. With Biden set to visit the Brooklyn Bridge, a project using $30 million in stimulus funds, we thought it would be an opportune time to recap our efforts to track "every dollar" of Brooklyn Bridge funding.
The specifications for the work done on the Brooklyn Bridge, as prepared by the New York City Department of Transportation, contain information about each item to be used in the bridge rehabilitation. We took a look at one item: $1,300 tree guards. Are they worth the cost, do they actually protect the trees--and are these trees we should be protecting in the first place?
The Brooklyn Banks (a red brick plaza under the ramps of the bridge on the Manhattan side) whose ramps, angled surfaces and staircases are catnip to skateboarders (and bikers, and practitioners of Parkour) -- is about to be taken offline. The Department of Transportation just posted a notice (pdf) that this area will be closed beginning May 15th. (More)
As the director of the East River Bridges for the New York City Department of Transportation, Hasan Ahmed is overseeing the $508,612,678 rehabilitation of the Brooklyn Bridge. WNYC’s Soterios Johnson and Karen Frillmann took a walk on the bridge with Mr. Ahmed to get more details about the work taking place on this iconic structure. (More)
A massive renovation of the Brooklyn Bridge is underway. Completing it will take at least four years, $508 million, and hundreds of workers; watching how the work progresses and the money is spent takes you. Want to get involved? Take our survey.
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GLee. GLee (GL Easy Extension library) is a free cross-platform extension loading library for OpenGL. It provides seamless support for OpenGL functions up to version 3.0 and 399 extensions. Compatibility GLee is compatible with Windows, Linux, OS-X and FreeBSD platforms. It is also likely to be compatible with other unix-like systems which use X windows. Contribute All the tools and source for generating GLee is now hosted on sourceforge. GLEW: The OpenGL Extension Wrangler Library. Simple DirectMedia Layer. Home - EaseProduction. Executive Summary. SWIG is an interface compiler that connects programs written in C and C++ with scripting languages such as Perl, Python, Ruby, and Tcl.
It works by taking the declarations found in C/C++ header files and using them to generate the wrapper code that scripting languages need to access the underlying C/C++ code. In addition, SWIG provides a variety of customization features that let you tailor the wrapping process to suit your application. John Ousterhout (creator of Tcl) has written a paper that describes the benefits of scripting languages. SWIG makes it fairly easy to connect scripting languages with C/C++ code.
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The 1950 Hawaiian Open, held in conjunction with
the 28th Maui County Fair, contributed two
milestones to the history of golf on the Valley Island.
It started the ball rolling for the reorganization
of the Maui Golf Association.
That, in turn, led to the birth of what was then
called the Maui Invitational Open Golf Tournament in
October of 1952.
Dr. Harold Kushi, one of Maui’s staunchest golf supporters, was
president of the MGA.
That summer, he called a group of golf enthusiasts
together for a discussion on plans to start a
territory-wide tournament on Maui and make it an annual
Sitting in with
Kushi were Barrett Melvin, pro-manager of the Maui Country
Club; Bill Tokunaga, pro of the Waiehu Municipal Course;
Wilson Connon Jr., Akira Tanaka, George Ito, and Richard
Tokunaga and 87 amateurs—five from the neighbor
island—participated in the inaugural classic held on
Oct. 11-12, 1952 at the Maui Country Club.
By the second year, entries swelled to 156 amateurs
and 13 pros, who competed for a $1,000 purse.
Before long, the
Maui Open came to be known as “the biggest little
tournament in the Hawaiian Islands”.
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In 1968, through
the generosity of Ben and Dorothy Kaneaiakala, the pro
purse was boosted to $2,500, which represented the largest
cash pot of any tournament in the State. With the
exception of the Hawaiian International Open.
The pro-am event that year offered an additional
$500 to the PGA golfers.
was played at the Maui Country Club, its birthplace, for
the first four years.
It extended out to the Waiehu Municipal Course in
1956, to the Royal Kaanapali Course in 1962, and to the
Wailea Course in 1972.
All play at the nine-hole Maui Country Club layout
was dropped after the 1967 tournament.
A pair of Maui
amateurs emerged tied for first place in the inaugural
Goo defeated James Tokunaga in the playoff.
Invading pros dominated the title for the next nine
years until 1962 when amateur Masa Kaya, a former Waiehu
caddy, broke the string.
CALLED HIM ‘MR. MAUI OPEN’
pro at the Kaneohe Klipper Course, held a monopoly on the
Maui Open crown for six consecutive years.
He was finally dethroned in 1959 by Guinea Kop, a
They finished in a tie after 72 holes and Kop
birdied the first hole of a sudden-death playoff to win.
regained the championship, placing second three times in
seven more tries after that, including another playoff
loss to Paul Scodeller in 1964.
Scodeller and Kaya repeated as champions, as did
Ted Makalena, Art Fujita, Morgan Fottrell, and Clyde
pro Fottrell, with his victories in 1970-71, became the
first since Ukauka to win back-to-back titles.
Kaya, then an
amateur, nosed out pro and defending champion Ted Makalena
by two strokes in 1962 to stop the professionals’
domination of the title.
Dave Bettencourt, another amateur, won in 1963 by
outlasting Scodeller by one stroke.
Greg Dikilato in
1965, Allan Yamamoto in 1974 and Frank Sanchez in 1977
were the others out of the amateur ranks to capture the
became the new attraction in 1977, hosting the first
54-hole tournament moved to Waiehu on the second day and
finished at Wailea that year.
In 1978, the
Aloha Section PGA was adamant in its demand for a minimum
purse of $3,000. Unwilling
to meet the demand, the MGA decided to go with an
all-amateur Maui Invitational Tournament, won by hometown
favorite Norman Yagi.
It happened in
1966 also when a similar request by the pros was turned
that 200 amateurs entered the tournament and Kaya emerged
king for the second time.
The Maui Open
was buried for six years from 1978 until 1984 when Charlie
Aruda, promotions director for the Maui Beach Hotel,
brought it back to life.
Amfac (Kaanapali) and Kapalua came through with
major support, as did Maui Toyota, Hawaiian Airlines and
Maui Beach Hotel.
The revival continues.
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What is the most important lesson you’ve ever learned?
I’m thankful my grandparents mentioned ‘from the inside out’ throughout my childhood years. It applies to everything
- Don’t expect a fortune to come your way. Generate your own.
- It’s not about your actions but what your motivations are.
- The most important aspect of a building is its strength. This comes from its structure, not its décor.
- You look healthy—and beautiful—if you’re healthy inside. Note: My grandmother never had the need to wear makeup.
I made this my motto in life. And since my grandmother was my ultimate hero I try to emulate her. Here are her tips for looking beautiful.
For Your Skin
I used to get the most compliments about my skin. Apparently this is a major factor in how people rate your beauty and whether you still have a youthful look.
But I love lying in the sun. I know it ages my skin. It seems what comes from the exterior is never beneficial. But I can’t resist the warmth. Over time this ruins your skin, but grandmother had a remedy for everything.
I can keep a healthy balance between with these in my diet:
- Watermelon has lycopene. This directly counters the effect of UV rays. Think of it as sunscreen generated by your body.
- You always need antioxidants to fight off aging. They counter the effects of free radicals. One of the best fruits for this is pomegranates. You even get some anthocyanin that firms up the skin with natural collagen.
- If you’re not a fruit lover you can indulge in lobster. This and other shellfish contain zinc.
- It will ensure your skin cells get renewed continuously. Oily fish will also chase away wrinkles.
We’re off to a good start. You’ve already countered the wrinkles we all hate. But don’t let other body parts give away your age.
For Your Hair
I think my grandmother had less stress to contend with. These days stress is the norm. But it caused my hair to fall out.
I got tired of marking my territory with my hair. This isn’t funny. I was shedding hair everywhere and it was embarrassing. Luckily you can get protein, iron and biotin from many general food items:
– Kidney beans
– Brown rice
I love that food helps me be healthy without me spending a lot of money!
These foods and hair regrowth pills reviewed by Andrea helped me when even the doctors’ skin treatments didn’t work.
Once again it was proven. From the inside out.
For Your Eyes
You can have beautiful skin but the overall look will be ruined with blood shot, tired looking eyes. And no, the cliché treatment of cucumber on the eyes won’t necessarily work. These days we spend hours in front of computers and TVs. They take their toll on our eyes. But you do have solutions:
- Why do you have dark circles under your eyes? It could be bad circulation that is easily fixed by adding Vitamin K and C to your diet. Green vegetables such as spinach will help.
- Bags under your eyes require less salt and more potassium. Eat some avocados.
- Red eyes can be from allergies or problems with your veins. Garlic combats both these problems.
Here’s an interesting fact: Your eyes reflect how healthy your intestines are. If you can’t clear up your eye problem, perhaps you need some fiber to help clear your gut and vitamin C to fight off inflammation.
For Your Body
If I could I would live on a diet of chocolate. But I can’t. Basic functioning requires many nutrients. You’re probably tired of hearing some of these tips, but there’s a reason you find them on every health blog:
- You need amino acids to fight off infections.Drink water to flush out all toxins.
- As mentioned above you need fiber for a healthy gut.
- It’s the only way your body will be able to absorb the nutrients it needs.
- Eat a balanced diet. If you have too much of a certain nutrient it can actually cause problems. An imbalance of some vitamins will cause your hair to stop growing.
Can you see how important balanced living is? If you don’t tend to your general health none of the remedies I share here will make a difference.
It won’t help if you’re smiling a wrinkle free smile while your teeth are stained or your lips are cracked. I forget to floss. Truthfully I actually hate doing it. But I substitute it with eating hard vegetables or fruit after every meal. The hard surfaces of carrots can actually remove some of the food particles and bacteria.
Your lips’ skin needs extra care. If you see they’re often cracked it means you need more Vitamin B. Supplements are quick solutions, or work more oats into your diet.
I have friends whose first impressions of new acquaintances are based on people’s nails. But what do you do if your nails simply don’t look good? It doesn’t mean you’re unhygienic.
This entire article is about creating a healthy environment inside your body so you can see the results on the outside. Your nails’ brittleness and discoloration mean there’s something amiss. It’s usually linked to deficiencies:
– Vitamin B7
You’ll find the solutions in your fridge:
– Lemon juice
Times have changed and I’ll admit there are some short cuts I take to get the results I want. Perhaps food items have less nutrients than a few decades ago. That’s why I’m always looking for new—natural—supplements like Niagen (Nad+) to help keep my body young from the inside out. I hope I’m making my grandmother proud
Also Reference – Niagen (Nad+) supplement
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A consumer survey says holiday spending in the United States is expected to climb five percent this year over last, despite the sluggish economy.
In November, U.S. consumer confidence plunged to its lowest level since 1993, so U.S. retailers have been bracing for a dismal holiday shopping season.
But according to Lynn Franco of the Conference Board, the New York-based business research group that carried out the 5,000 household survey - consumers appear ready to spend. "Things look a little brighter," she said. "Whereas last month we were looking at a pretty bleak holiday season, this time consumers are telling us that they intend to spend more than they did last year. Not a blockbuster season, but a little more optimistic than we were last month."
The survey indicates that families in the United States will spend an average of $483 on gifts this year, versus last year's figure of $462.
Many U.S. retailers make the better part of their yearly profits during the holiday shopping season, which traditionally begins the day after Thanksgiving. Ms. Franco says the upturn can be attributed in part to retailers themselves. Fearing the worst, they have taken steps to bring customers in including jumpstarting the season. "Discounting has already begun, the sales have already begun," said Lynn Franco. "There's some nervousness there that's driving that. But we've also seen, just over the past year or two, that consumers have become bargain hunters. You're going to see widespread discounting to lure consumers in. "
Ms. Franco also says that U.S. incomes are still rising at a rate of about three percent. This, coupled with a slight recovery in the jobless rate, also helps to prop up consumer spending.
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Wind noise inside a motorcycle helmet can reach 115 dB or more at highway speeds. Hearing loss can be caused by sounds of just 85 dB or more, so this is a huge problem. Here’s how to fix it with the 5 quietest motorcycle helmets available.
What Makes A Helmet Quiet
Aerodynamics. The easier a helmet slips through the wind, the quieter it will be. Some of the quietest helmets on the market (and the only manufacturer that lists dB figures) are made by Schuberth. They are also the only helmet manufacturer with a wind tunnel in its headquarters. Shoei is probably in second place when it comes to quiet helmets, that company is also heavily reliant on wind tunnel testing, even designing its own rig to move a helmet side-to-side and up and down in the tunnel to accurately recreate real world riding conditions.
Specifically, it’s turbulence that creates noise. That turbulence can be caused by an anything that disrupts the wind flow. Gap in your visor seal? Huge external vents? Air getting caught under your chin? That’s how a helmet gets noisy. It’s also how you make a helmet quiet, by starting with a shape that allows the air to smoothly reconnect behind the helmet, and eliminating those trouble spots. If you want a quiet helmet, look for a clean, smooth aerodynamic shape free of external vents and wings and which features a quality, adjustable visor seal and closes tightly around your neck.
How Do You Make A Helmet Quiet?
Earplugs. If you don’t ride with them now, start doing so. Wind noise induced hearing loss is a real thing (I suffer from it) and sitting in such a high decibel environment for extended periods exacerbates fatigue. Outdooractivityaccessories highly recommends Howard Leight Max Lite earplugs. Buy a box of 200 and stash extra pairs in all your pockets.
Going further, a chin curtain helps, as does a good visor seal. The screws which mount your visor base plate can often be adjusted to find a perfect fit and the Shoei RF1200 innovates with a novel visor location adjustment, enabling you to quickly and easily get a perfect seal. It’s also worth considering a neoprene wind-blocking sleeve which seals the gap between helmet and neck both reduces noise and keeps errant detritus out of your face.
Of all the major helmet makers, only Schuberth lists how loud its helmets are. RideApart’s own wind tunnel is beset by construction delays, so lacking any repeatable, non-variably-polluted objective test method, we’re going to have to bring you anecdotal reporting. These are the five helmets that, in decades of cumulative riding careers, the RideApart staffers report are the quietest currently available.
In designing the RF1200, Shoei set out to minimize the size of its shell, smooth its aerodynamics and ventilation and created that novel visor seal adjustment. All of that paid off in an exceptionally stable, quiet helmet. So quiet, in fact, that if you are riding with the vents closed, you can hear the increase in turbulence as you open each individual vent. That’s a good thing, they flow a ton of air. Fit the included chin curtain, ratchet the visor tight and you’re good to go for hours on end.
Arai Signet Q
Arai’s been talking up its exceptionally round external helmet shapes as a safety feature recently, but what makes much more sense is the benefit a smooth exterior has on wind noise. The sport-touring Signet Q is free of the more race-oriented models’ external ventilation, making this the quietest helmet in their range.
Schuberth C3 Pro
The quietest helmet available, full stop, transfers just 84 dB to the rider at 65 mph. That’s even better than the S2 full-face because Schuberth is able to equip the C3 Pro with a tighter-sealing neck roll thanks to the flip-front design and its greater ease of ingress and egress. “Tubulators” on the visor further reduce turbulence in what’s otherwise a traditional problem area.
HJC RPHA Max
This is the quietest helmet I’ve ridden in, something which surprised me totally as it’s made by a traditionally budget-oriented brand and comes with a price tag of just $464. Again, the flip-front design of the HJC RPHA Max allows a very tight fit under your chin and around your neck and the lack of huge external vents cuts turbulence.
The S2 shares its shape with the C3 Pro, but due to its simpler full-face design requires a slightly looser neck roll, which blocks a little less wind. At 85 dB at 65 mph, it’s still an exceptionally quiet helmet. Something that remains true at extremely high speeds — I wore one up to 202 mph, a speed at which I was still able to hear myself think.
Have you found other helmets to be exceptionally quiet? What noise reduction tricks work best for you?
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Asian financial markets took the US Federal Reserve Bank’s interest rate hike in stride, although Taiwan did end up cutting its interest rates.
The Fed on Wednesday raised US interest rates by 25 basis points, the first rate hike in almost a decade.
The nearly year-long anticipation of the rate hike had kept emerging markets on edge, especially over the past few weeks. The main fear is that investors will pulling capital out of their shaky economies and redirect it to safer US debt, now that it pays more.
Amid all the economic uncertainty in the world, most markets rallied in the wake of the hike, as anticipation of ripping off the band-aid is worse than the actual pain of removal,
“The Fed’s action brings an end to the lift-off uncertainty,” said Amando Tetangco, the governor of the Philippine central bank, which left interest rates on hold at a monetary policy meeting on Thursday, reported Reuters.
The one unexpected move came from Taiwan’s central bank, which cut its policy rate by 12.5 basis points, suggesting that worries about the region’s sluggish growth, not capital flight, are at the front of policymakers’ minds.
Hong Kong’s central bank was obliged to immediately match the Fed’s hike because of the city’s peg to the US dollar.
When the Fed first talked about cutting its bond purchases in mid 2013, Indonesia sparked a marked decline later called the “taper tantrum”, and this year its rupiah currency has been one of the region’s worst performers.
But regional currencies, including the rupiah rallied on Thursday. Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo welcomed the Fed’s decision “because there is certainty.”
Bank Indonesia kept interest rates unchanged on Thursday, as expected, but said it saw more room to lower them next year.
“The effect is positive for us–the stock index rose, the rupiah strengthened, the financial market reacted positively,” Widodo told reporters.
However, the US rate hike may pose problems for economies fueling their growth with debt.
“The Fed’s hike will stiffen the headwinds for growth in Asia,” Fred Neumann, HSBC’s chief Asia economist, told Reuters. “Rising funding costs, especially in highly indebted economies, will slow the leverage cycle on which regional demand has increasingly come to depend.”
And despite the Fed hike, most Asian central banks are getting ready to loosen monetary policy in an effort to boost growth in the region.
Barclays economist Wai Ho Leong expects monetary easing in the first half of next year to be led by India, China and probably also Indonesia and South Korea.
“No one is turning hawkish after the Fed has hiked,” he told Reuters. “Most central banks are dovish. This is to counter the effects of the trade recession, which hits Asia disproportionately harder than any other region in the world.”
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The <path> element represent the outline of a shape which can be filled, stroked, used as a clipping path, or any combination of the three.
- d (iterable) – coordinates, length and commands
- attribs (dict) – additional SVG attributes
- extra – additional SVG attributs as keyword-arguments
Push commands and coordinats onto the command stack.
Parameters: elements (iterable) – coordinates, length and commands
push_arc(target, rotation, r, large_arc=True, angle_dir='+', absolute=False)¶
Helper function for the elliptical-arc command.
see SVG-Reference: http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/paths.html#PathData
- target (2-tuple) – coordinate of the arc end point
- rotation (number) – x-axis-rotation of the ellipse in degrees
- r (number|2-tuple) – radii rx, ry when r is a 2-tuple or rx=ry=r if r is a number
- large_arc (bool) – draw the arc sweep of greater than or equal to 180 degrees (large-arc-flag)
- angle_dir –
'+'means the arc will be drawn in a “positive-angle” direction (sweep-flag)
- absolute (bool) – indicates that target coordinates are absolute else they are relative to the current point
Uppercase commands indicates absolute coordinates, lowercase commands indicates relative coordinates
horizontal-line ‘h’, ‘H’ x+
Draws a horizontal line from the current point (cpx, cpy) to (x, cpy).
vertical-line ‘v’, ‘V’ y+
Draws a vertical line from the current point (cpx, cpy) to (cpx, y).
line ‘l’, ‘L’ (x y)+
Draw a line from the current point to the given (x,y) coordinate.
moveto ‘m’, ‘M’ (x y)+
Start a new sub-path at the given (x,y) coordinate. If a moveto is followed by multiple pairs of coordinates, the subsequent pairs are treated as implicit lineto commands. Hence, implicit lineto commands will be relative if the moveto is relative, and absolute if the moveto is absolute. If a relative moveto (m) appears as the first element of the path, then it is treated as a pair of absolute coordinates. In this case, subsequent pairs of coordinates are treated as relative even though the initial moveto is interpreted as an absolute moveto.
cubic-bezier-curve ‘c’, ‘C’ (x1 y1 x2 y2 x y)+
Draws a cubic Bézier curve from the current point to (x,y) using (x1,y1) as the control point at the beginning of the curve and (x2,y2) as the control point at the end of the curve.
smooth-cubic-bezier-curve ‘s’, ‘S’ (x2 y2 x y)+
Draws a cubic Bézier curve from the current point to (x,y). The first control point is assumed to be the reflection of the second control point on the previous command relative to the current point. (If there is no previous command or if the previous command was not an C, c, S or s, assume the first control point is coincident with the current point.) (x2,y2) is the second control point (i.e., the control point at the end of the curve).
quadratic-bezier-curve ‘q’, ‘Q’ (x1 y1 x y)+
Draws a quadratic Bézier curve from the current point to (x,y) using (x1,y1) as the control point.
smooth-quadratic-bezier-curve ‘t’, ‘T’ (x y)+
Draws a quadratic Bézier curve from the current point to (x,y). The control point is assumed to be the reflection of the control point on the previous command relative to the current point. (If there is no previous command or if the previous command was not a Q, q, T or t, assume the control point is coincident with the current point.)
elliptical-arc ‘a’, ‘A’ (rx ry x-axis-rotation large-arc-flag sweep-flag x y)+
Draws an elliptical arc from the current point to (x, y). The size and orientation of the ellipse are defined by two radii (rx, ry) and an x-axis-rotation, which indicates how the ellipse as a whole is rotated relative to the current coordinate system. The center (cx, cy) of the ellipse is calculated automatically to satisfy the constraints imposed by the other parameters. large-arc-flag and sweep-flag contribute to the automatic calculations and help determine how the arc is drawn.
close current subpath
class – string
assigns one or more css-class-names to an element
style – string
allows per-element css-style rules to be specified directly on a given element
externalResourcesRequired – bool
False: if document rendering can proceed even if external resources are unavailable else: True
transform – use
pathLength – <number>
the pathLength attribute can be used to provide the author’s computation of the total length of the path so that the user agent can scale distance-along-a-path computations by the ratio of ‘pathLength’ to the user agent’s own computed value for total path length. A “moveto” operation within a ‘path’ element is defined to have zero length.
d – string
The definition of the outline of a shape, use push-method to add commands and coordinates
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Kirk Byers at SDN Central writes frequently on the topic of DevOps as it relates (and applies) to the network and recently introduced a list of seven DevOps principles that are applicable in an article entitled, "DevOps and the Chaos Monkey. " On this list is the notion of reducing variation.
This caught my eye because reducing variation is a key goal of Six Sigma and in fact its entire formula is based on measuring the impact of variation in results. The thought is that by measuring deviation from a desired outcome, you can immediately recognize whether changes to a process improve the consistency of the outcome.Quality is achieved by reducing variation, or so the methodology goes.
This stems from Six Sigma's origins in lean manufacturing, where automation and standardization are commonly used to improve the quality of products produced, usually by reducing the number of defective products produced.
This is highly applicable to DevOps and the network, where errors are commonly cited as a significant contributor to lag in application deployment timelines caused by the need to troubleshoot such errors. It is easy enough to see the relationship: defective products are not all that much different than defective services, regardless of the cause of the defect.
Number four on Kirk's list addresses this point directly:
#4: Reduce variation.
Variation can be good in some contexts, but in the network, variation introduces unexpected errors and unexpected behaviors.
Whether you manage dozens, hundreds, or thousands of network devices, how much of your configuration can be standardized? Can you standardize the OS version? Can you minimize the number of models that you use? Can you minimize the number of vendors?
Variation increases network complexity, testing complexity, and the complexity of automation tools. It also increases the knowledge that engineers must possess.
Obviously, there are cost and functional trade-offs here, but reducing variation should at least be considered.
What Kirk is saying without saying, is that standardization improves consistency in the network. That's no surprise, as standardization is a key method of reducing operational overhead. Standardization (or "reducing variation" if you prefer) achieves this by addressing network complexity that contributes heavily to operational overhead and variation in outcome (aka errors).
That's because a key contributor to network complexity is the sheer number of boxes that make up the network and complicate topology. These boxes are provisioned and managed according to their unique paradigm, and thus increase the burden on operations and network teams by requiring familiarity with a large number of CLIs, GUIs and APIs. Standardization on a common platform relieves this burden by providing a common CLI, GUI and set of APIs that can be used to provision, manage and control critical services. The shift to a modularized architecture based on a standardized platform increases flexibility and the ability to rapidly introduce new services without incurring the additional operational overhead associated with new, single service solutions. It reduces variation in provisioning, configuration and management (aka architectural debt).
On the other hand, SDN tries to standardize network components through the use of common APIs, protocols, and policies. It seeks to reduce variation in interfaces and policy definitions so components comprising the data plane can be managed as if they were standardized. That's an important distinction, though one that's best left for another day to discuss. Suffice to say that standardization at the API or model layer can leave organizations with significantly reduced capabilities as standardization almost always commoditizes functions at the lowest common set of capabilities.
That is not to say that standardization at the API or protocol layer isn't beneficial. It certainly can and does reduce variation and introduce consistency. The key is to standardize on APIs or protocols that are supportive of the network services you need.
What's important is that standardization on a common service platform can also reduce variation and introduce consistency. Applying one or more standardization efforts should then, ostensibly, net higher benefits.
Cloud Expo, Inc. has announced today that Andi Mann returns to DevOps Summit 2015 as Conference Chair. The 4th International DevOps Summit will take place on June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City. "DevOps is set to be one of the most profound disruptions to hit IT in decades," said Andi Mann. "It is a natural extension of cloud computing, and I have seen both firsthand and in independent research the fantastic results DevOps delivers. So I am excited to help the great team at Cloud Expo tell the world how they can leverage this emerging disruptive trend."
May. 24, 2015 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,862
Software is eating the world. Companies that were not previously in the technology space now find themselves competing with Google and Amazon on speed of innovation. As the innovation cycle accelerates, companies must embrace rapid and constant change to both applications and their infrastructure, and find a way to deliver speed and agility of development without sacrificing reliability or efficiency of operations. In her Day 2 Keynote DevOps Summit, Victoria Livschitz, CEO of Qubell, discussed how IT organizations can automate just-in-time assembly of application environments - each built fo...
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In a recent research, analyst firm IDC found that the average cost of a critical application failure is $500,000 to $1 million per hour and the average total cost of unplanned application downtime is $1.25 billion to $2.5 billion per year for Fortune 1000 companies. In addition to the findings on the cost of the downtime, the research also highlighted best practices for development, testing, application support, infrastructure, and operations teams.
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SYS-CON Events announced today that DragonGlass, an enterprise search platform, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 16th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. After eleven years of designing and building custom applications, OpenCrowd has launched DragonGlass, a cloud-based platform that enables the development of search-based applications. These are a new breed of applications that utilize a search index as their backbone for data retrieval. They can easily adapt to new data sets and provide access to both structured and unstruc...
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Container frameworks, such as Docker, provide a variety of benefits, including density of deployment across infrastructure, convenience for application developers to push updates with low operational hand-holding, and a fairly well-defined deployment workflow that can be orchestrated. Container frameworks also enable a DevOps approach to application development by cleanly separating concerns between operations and development teams. But running multi-container, multi-server apps with containers is very hard. You have to learn five new and different technologies and best practices (libswarm, sy...
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SYS-CON Events announced today that EnterpriseDB (EDB), the leading worldwide provider of enterprise-class Postgres products and database compatibility solutions, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 16th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. EDB is the largest provider of Postgres software and services that provides enterprise-class performance and scalability and the open source freedom to divert budget from more costly traditional solutions to more strategic data-driven initiatives. EDB’s Postgres Plus Cloud Database provides t...
May. 24, 2015 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,749
Cloud computing started a technology revolution; now DevOps is driving that revolution forward. By enabling new approaches to service delivery, cloud and DevOps together are delivering even greater speed, agility, and efficiency. No wonder leading innovators are adopting DevOps and cloud together! In his session at DevOps Summit, Andi Mann, Vice President of Strategic Solutions at CA Technologies, explored the synergies in these two approaches, with practical tips, techniques, research data, war stories, case studies, and recommendations on how to: Embrace, source, consume, and expose shared...
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Enterprises are fast realizing the importance of integrating SaaS/Cloud applications, API and on-premises data and processes, to unleash hidden value. This webinar explores how managers can use a Microservice-centric approach to aggressively tackle the unexpected new integration challenges posed by proliferation of cloud, mobile, social and big data projects. Industry analyst and SOA expert Jason Bloomberg will strip away the hype from microservices, and clearly identify their advantages and disadvantages. He will then discuss the role microservices play in cloud-enabled enterprise integrati...
May. 24, 2015 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,994
SYS-CON Events announced today that the "First Containers & Microservices Conference" will take place June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City. The “Second Containers & Microservices Conference” will take place November 3-5, 2015, at Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA. Containers and microservices have become topics of intense interest throughout the cloud developer and enterprise IT communities.
May. 24, 2015 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,254
Buzzword alert: Microservices and IoT at a DevOps conference? What could possibly go wrong? In this Power Panel at DevOps Summit, moderated by Jason Bloomberg, the leading expert on architecting agility for the enterprise and president of Intellyx, panelists will peel away the buzz and discuss the important architectural principles behind implementing IoT solutions for the enterprise. As remote IoT devices and sensors become increasingly intelligent, they become part of our distributed cloud environment, and we must architect and code accordingly. At the very least, you'll have no problem fil...
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“We are strong believers in the DevOps movement and our staff has been doing DevOps for large enterprise environments for a number of years. The solution that we build is intended to allow DevOps teams to do security at the speed of DevOps," explained Justin Lundy, Founder & CTO of Evident.io, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at DevOps Summit, held Nov 4–6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
May. 24, 2015 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 4,734
Docker is becoming very popular--we are seeing every major private and public cloud vendor racing to adopt it. It promises portability and interoperability, and is quickly becoming the currency of the Cloud. In his session at DevOps Summit, Bart Copeland, CEO of ActiveState, discussed why Docker is so important to the future of the cloud, but will also take a step back and show that Docker is actually only one piece of the puzzle. Copeland will outline the bigger picture of where Docker fits and the remaining infrastructure that is needed for large scale adoption by enterprise IT.
May. 24, 2015 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 6,202
Announced separately, New Relic is joining the Cloud Foundry Foundation to continue the support of customers and partners investing in this leading PaaS. As a member, New Relic is contributing the New Relic tile, service broker and build pack with the goal of easing the development of applications on Cloud Foundry and enabling the success of these applications without dedicated monitoring infrastructure. Supporting Quotes "The proliferation of microservices and new technologies like Docker has transformed how modern software is built and managed today," said Patrick Lightbody, vice presiden...
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You often hear the two titles of "DevOps" and "Immutable Infrastructure" used independently. In his session at DevOps Summit, John Willis, Technical Evangelist for Docker, will cover the union between the two topics and why this is important. He will cover an overview of Immutable Infrastructure then show how an Immutable Continuous Delivery pipeline can be applied as a best practice for "DevOps." He will end the session with some interesting case study examples.
May. 24, 2015 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,110
SYS-CON Media named Andi Mann editor of DevOps Journal. DevOps Journal is focused on this critical enterprise IT topic in the world of cloud computing. DevOps Journal brings valuable information to DevOps professionals who are transforming the way enterprise IT is done. Andi Mann, Vice President, Strategic Solutions, at CA Technologies, is an accomplished digital business executive with extensive global expertise as a strategist, technologist, innovator, marketer, communicator, and thought leader. For over 25 years and across five continents, he has built success with Fortune 500 corporation...
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The 5th International DevOps Summit, co-located with 17th International Cloud Expo – being held November 3-5, 2015, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA – announces that its Call for Papers is open. Born out of proven success in agile development, cloud computing, and process automation, DevOps is a macro trend you cannot afford to miss. From showcase success stories from early adopters and web-scale businesses, DevOps is expanding to organizations of all sizes, including the world's largest enterprises – and delivering real results. Among the proven benefits, DevOps is cor...
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The 17th International Cloud Expo has announced that its Call for Papers is open. 17th International Cloud Expo, to be held November 3-5, 2015, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, brings together Cloud Computing, APM, APIs, Microservices, Security, Big Data, Internet of Things, DevOps and WebRTC to one location. With cloud computing driving a higher percentage of enterprise IT budgets every year, it becomes increasingly important to plant your flag in this fast-expanding business opportunity. Submit your speaking proposal today!
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T-Mobile has been transforming the wireless industry with its “Uncarrier” initiatives. Today as T-Mobile’s IT organization works to transform itself in a like manner, technical foundations built over the last couple of years are now key to their drive for more Agile delivery practices. In his session at DevOps Summit, Martin Krienke, Sr Development Manager at T-Mobile, will discuss where they started their Continuous Delivery journey, where they are today, and where they are going in an effort to constantly bring new offerings to market.
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Security can create serious friction for DevOps processes. We've come up with an approach to alleviate the friction and provide security value to DevOps teams. In her session at DevOps Summit, Shannon Lietz, Senior Manager of DevSecOps at Intuit, will discuss how DevSecOps got started and how it has evolved. Shannon Lietz has over two decades of experience pursuing next generation security solutions. She is currently the DevSecOps Leader for Intuit where she is responsible for setting and driving the company’s cloud security strategy, roadmap and implementation in support of corporate innova...
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DevOps Summit, taking place Nov 3-5, 2015, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, is co-located with 17th Cloud Expo and will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading industry players in the world. The widespread success of cloud computing is driving the DevOps revolution in enterprise IT. Now as never before, development teams must communicate and collaborate in a dynamic, 24/7/365 environment. There is no time to wait for long development cycles that produce software that is obsolete at launch. DevOps may be disruptive, but it is essen...
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Software-driven innovation is becoming a primary approach to how businesses create and deliver new value to customers. A survey of 400 business and IT executives by the IBM Institute for Business Value showed businesses that are more effective at software delivery are also more profitable than their peers nearly 70 percent of the time (1). DevOps provides a way for businesses to remain competitive, applying lean and agile principles to software development to speed the delivery of software that meets new market requirements. IBM's new DevOps Innovation Services help address the challenge of s...
May. 24, 2015 05:45 AM EDT Reads: 6,498
“Oh, dev is dev and ops is ops, and never the twain shall meet.” With apoloies to Rudyard Kipling and all of his fans, this describes the early state of the two sides of DevOps. Yet the DevOps approach is demanded by cloud computing, as the speed, flexibility, and scalability in today's so-called “Third Platform” must not be hindered by the traditional limitations of software development and deployment. A recent report by Gartner, for example, says that 25% of Global 2000 companies will be DevOps shops by next year! “As we see more IT shops running like software companies, we’ll see mor...
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JFrog on Thursday announced that it has added Docker support to Bintray, its distribution-as-a-service (DaaS) platform. When combined with JFrog’s Artifactory binary repository management system, organizations can now manage Docker images with an end-to-end solution that supports all technologies. The new version of Bintray allows organizations to create an unlimited number of private Docker repositories, and through the use of fast Akamai content delivery networks (CDNs), it decreases the download time of large Docker repositories, speeding DevOps work significantly. Bintray’s highly availa...
May. 24, 2015 05:30 AM EDT Reads: 3,343
More organizations are embracing DevOps to realize compelling business benefits such as more frequent feature releases, increased application stability, and more productive resource utilization. However, security and compliance monitoring tools have not kept up and often represent the single largest remaining hurdle to continuous delivery. In their session at DevOps Summit, Justin Criswell, Senior Sales Engineer at Alert Logic, Ricardo Lupo, a Solution Architect with Chef, will discuss how to successfully integrate security controls in your DevOps program.
May. 24, 2015 05:15 AM EDT Reads: 3,140
Thanks to Docker, it becomes very easy to leverage containers to build, ship, and run any Linux application on any kind of infrastructure. Docker is particularly helpful for microservice architectures because their successful implementation relies on a fast, efficient deployment mechanism – which is precisely one of the features of Docker. Microservice architectures are therefore becoming more popular, and are increasingly seen as an interesting option even for smaller projects, instead of being reserved to the largest, most complex application stacks.
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The Turkish central government budget balance saw a surplus of 21.5 billion Turkish Liras ($3.6 billion) in January, the Treasury and Finance Ministry has said.
In the same month of 2019, the central budget produced a surplus of 5.09 billion.
Turkey’s budget revenues rose 26 percent to hit 122.17 billion liras ($20.6 billion) year-on-year in January, the official data showed, Anadolu Agency reported.
The country’s budget expenditure was 100.67 billion liras ($17 billion) in the month, up 9.6 percent from the same month of last year.
The U.S. dollar/Turkish lira exchange rate averaged 5.93 in January.
Excluding interest payments, the budget balance also saw a surplus of 34.25 billion liras in January, while interest expenditures totaled some 12.74 billion liras.
The central budget’s overall revenues rose 26 percent on an annual basis to 122 billion liras in the first month of the year.
The government targets collect a total of 957 billion liras in revenues this year.
Tax revenues reached 67.4 billion liras in January, posting a 21 percent rise compared with the same month of 2019.
Value-added tax on imports and revenues from the special consumption tax increased by 29.6 percent and 22.2 percent to 10.55 billion liras and 12.93 billion liras, respectively, according to the ministry data.
Non-tax revenues also showed some 34 percent increase on an annual basis to 53.38 billion.
In 2019, Turkey’s central government budget balance posted a deficit of 123.7 billion liras, with 876 billion liras of revenue and 999.5 billion liras of expenses.
The country’s economic program, announced last September, aims to keep the budget deficit to gross domestic product (GDP) ratio at 2.9 percent in 2019, 2020, and 2021.
The government projects that the budget deficit will be 138.9 billion this year. The central government budget deficit is projected to amount to 157.6 billion liras next year.
According to the estimates in the economic program, the country’s budget deficit will ease to 2.6 percent of gross domestic product (or 160.1 billion liras) in 2022.
The Turkish Statistics Institute (TÜİK) will release GDP figures for 2019 in March.
The Treasury and Finance Ministry yesterday said in a statement, accompanying the budget figures for January, that during the program period fiscal discipline will be maintained with determination.
Hurriyet Daily News
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We will answer all of your air conditioning questions and enable you discover the reason your automotive no longer blows cold out the dash. With other issues, the driver might be able to function the vehicle seemingly normally for some time, but the vehicle will want an eventual repair. One will need to have a detailed knowledge of the whole mechanism concerned in air con techniques.
In countries that do not regulate automobile air-conditioning repairs, one would typically discover many non-skilled establishing retailers providing totally different rates for their companies. Even fashionable faculties, the places that I first learned about air conditioning – are filled with HVAC electronics that a residential system would by no means have. At the beginning of 2010, Cars for Keeps welcomed a new auto technician to its team of experienced mechanics (we have been so excited that we devoted a weblog post to him). Disadvantages are that until ambient humidity is low (dry local weather) cooling is limited and the cooled air could be very humid and might really feel clammy.
In both comfort and process applications the target could also be to not only control temperature, but also humidity, air high quality and air motion from space to area. At Advanced Auto Air & Repair, we’re committed to taking excellent care of you and your vehicle. As I mentioned, the furnace fan is great for creating air movement and holding the air combined however for many who have great return air placement, the advantages of that fan are even higher. Preventative maintenance can lengthen the life of your air con system and forestall expensive repairs down the street.
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Cold War Fantasies: Film, Fiction, and Foreign Policy
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BeschreibungAs memories of the Cold War recede, it becomes more and more difficult to remember what it was about and why it evoked such feelings of intensity and fatalism. Fortunately, we have a gold mine of movies and novels to help us recall why an entire generation of Americans grew up ducking under school desks in air raid drills and stocking the family bomb shelter. Cold War Fantasies retrieves those times, based on the idea that a nation's history, self-concept, and collective anxiety are reflected in popular culture. In Cold War Fantasies, Ronnie Lipschutz combines an historical account of foreign and domestic politics from 1945 to 1995 with summaries and analyses of 30 novels and films contemporaneously published and produced.
InhaltsverzeichnisChapter 1 Films and Novels Discussed in this Book Chapter 2 Preface: What Did You Do in the Cold War, Daddy? Chapter 3 A Note to the Reader Chapter 4 Film, Fiction, American Politics Chapter 5 From Hot War to Cold War Chapter 6 Reds among Us? Chapter 7 Spies! Chapter 8 Nukes! Chapter 9 The Final Frontier Chapter 10 Vietnam, Over and Over Chapter 11 Renewing the Cold War Chapter 12 New Competitors, Old Enemies Chapter 13 Now What? Chapter 14 Notes Chapter 15 Resources Chapter 16 Bibliography Chapter 17 Index
PortraitRonnie D. Lipschutz is professor of politics at the University of California at Santa Cruz.
PressestimmenUseful for gathering ideas for a foreign policy and film/novel course. CHOICE Lipschutz presents an accessible, yet thoughtful account of the political activities and cultural climate of the Cold War, using discussion on films (mostly) and some fiction as pedagogical tools. Certainly this book could nicely shape a course, but self-study is as convenient as the local video store. Reference and Research Book News The historical narrative that drives the plot forward is brilliantly executed. Lipschutz's narrative is deceptively easy to read. He skillfully weaves the two texts together and packs a lot of information into a confined space without ever losing his story's momentum. Millennium Lipschutz provides an accessible pedagogical tool to enliven historical studies with film and illuminate broader political and economic issues on cinema and literature. Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal What can films like Bladerunner or Invasion of the Body Snatchers and novels such as 1984 or Rising Sun, tell us about the Cold War and U.S. foreign policy? Quite a lot, it turns out. In a delightful book suitable both for teaching and for a popular audience, Ronnie Lipschutz provides a fresh and accessible account of U.S. foreign policy since World War II. His lucid and entertaining analysis moves easily from fact to fiction, and back again, highlighting the continuities and interconnections between popular culture and state policy. -- Jutta Weldes, University of Bristol-U.K.
Untertitel: Sprache: Englisch.
Verlag: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBL GROU
Erscheinungsdatum: Oktober 2001
Seitenanzahl: 256 Seiten
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As sports-loving New Yorkers recover from the hoopla surrounding Sunday’s Super Bowl XLVIII, and prepare for the opening of the XXII Winter Olympic Games on Friday, cautionary words from 1869 are worth reviewing.
In a front page story entitled “The Abuse of Athletic Games” that appeared in the January 28, 1869 issue of the Malone Palladium, a doctor warned readers about the dangers of allowing children to overdo athletics—the “compound evil of our school system.” According to the doctor, because young bodies are “growing, unfinished and weak,” excessive athletic training will lead to one part of the body being developed at the expense of the other. He said, “either the joints, the lungs, the heart, or the spinal system suffer in the unequal struggle.”
The doctor put some of the blame for overdoing athletics in school on the “caprice” of coaches who he described as “physical sages, ignorant of physiology and hygiene.” However, he placed the major share of the blame on the “pest of our school system”—“misdirected emulation of the adult world.”
What sports were dazzling the adult world in 1869? Walking, rowing and baseball. The doctor wrote, “He who walks, must walk for a wager, he who rows, must row for a prize, he who plays baseball, must dislocate his fingers or break his nose in the false ambition to outdo his antagonist.”
The sport of long distance walking or pedestrianism became prominent in America largely because of the feats of Edward Payson Weston. He first appeared on the sports scene in 1861 when he announced that he would walk from Boston to Washington, D.C. in ten days and attend Abraham Lincoln’s presidential inauguration. Newspapers hyped Weston’s walk, cheering spectators stood along his route, and gamblers took bets hand over fist on whether Weston would make the swearing-in ceremony in time. He arrived in Washington on March 4 at 4 pm, 208 hours after he had left Boston, but a few hours too late to see Lincoln sworn in as president.
Known in the sports news as “Weston, the pedestrian,” he gained more publicity for himself and the sport by accepting numerous walking challenges. In 1867, he walked 1326 miles from Portland, ME to Chicago in 26 days. The next year, he walked 100 miles in a little over 22 hours. Soon, pedestrian events were being held throughout the nation in halls where athletes would walk around a track for hours at a time to the cheers of tens of thousands of sports fans and gamblers. Weston became a star in the U.S. and Europe and his professional walking career stretched from 1861 to 1922.
Professional rowing was the second sport that prompted the doctor’s warning about the abuse of athletic games in 1869. Rowing races first began to gain prominence in American sports circles in the late 1850’s. Joshua Ward of Newburg, NY was one of the early rowing stars who competed for money and drew thousands of spectators and gamblers to the sport. He won a championship regatta in Boston on October 24, 1859 and continued winning professional matches throughout the 1860’s.
There were two major races in 1868. On June 24, John Tyler of Boston defeated Walter Brown, a native of Madison, NY, in a two-mile race on the Hudson River that finished across from the Elysian Fields in Hoboken, NJ. Tyler won a purse worth about $17,000 in today’s money.
The second major contest of the professional rowing season was a championship four-man crew race held on October 22, 1868 on the Connecticut River across from Springfield, MA. The four Ward brothers from Newburg, NY competed in a six-mile race against a crew from St. Johns, New Brunswick, Canada for a purse worth about $50,000 in today’s money. Before a huge crowd which had surged into Springfield from all across New England, Philadelphia and New York, the Canadians easily defeated the Ward brothers by about one minute or 50 lengths.
The third adult sport that stimulated “misdirected emulation” by youngsters in 1869 according to the doctor, was baseball. The game’s popularity in New York State had mushroomed after the Civil War. It seemed as though almost every community of any size had at least one baseball team it could call its own. Some of the most well-known teams in 1868 included: the Buffalo Niagaras, Brooklyn Atlantics, Syracuse Central City Club, Lansingburgh Haymakers, Albany Nationals, and the New York Mutuals. In addition to individual games, sports fans in 1868 thronged to baseball tournaments that were held in all corners of the Empire State. Among the most publicized that year were those in Niagara Falls, Rochester, Albany, Troy, New York City and Brooklyn.
Perhaps the biggest baseball news of 1868 was a story in September that the Cincinnati Red Stockings planned to come east and would play New York State teams on their tour. A year later, according to most baseball historians, the Red Stockings would become the nation’s first fully professional baseball team when its management paid a salary to each of the ten men on the team for eight months from March 15 to November 15.
In his article about the abuse of athletics, the doctor made it clear he was not opposed to “reasonable athletic activity.” However, he warned young athletes not to make athletics “the business of life.” He urged them to cultivate both their bodies and their minds. He said, “If you overdevelop one, you will seriously dwarf the other. Intellectual culture alone will make you a nervous, unbalanced, precocious man. Physical culture alone will make you strong as a hod carrier—and as dull.”
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All museums have three tenets that bind them together:
1. Museums acquire and preserve objects ethically
2. Museums advance the knowledge of cultures through studying those objects
3. Museums share that knowledge and their objects with their public
These three tenets bind the museum community at large, and can be found within the majority of collecting institutions that keep a physical.
While museums are all connected and have a position in the greater museum community, they also have a unique and different position to the global public. As we move further into the digital age, museums have a unique opportunity to share their collections in new ways, and reach audiences around the globe. Museums are able, now, to fulfill their missions to an even greater potential, and institutions are taking this seriously. Loic Tallon, Chief Digital Officer at The Met, sums it up: “At various points over the last 20 years, cultural institutions recognized that digital was having a transformative effect on the delivery of their mission.”
However, anything worthwhile takes time, patience, and work to build. Museums across the world have created new departments, countless workflows, and collaboration procedures to get the job done. Here is a list of Gallery Systems Clients who have produced innovative and interesting digital strategy examples that we can all learn from.
The Warhol museum recognizes digital workflows as a museum-wide responsibility, and in 2015 they underwent an institution-wide digital restructuring to support that. They documented the process, culminating in a piece titled More Than a Museum: A Digital Strategy for the Warhol. In an effort to promote transparency, The Warhol published their strategy online and invited others to repurpose it to fit their own needs. While this document was published a few years ago, it’s still one of the most comprehensive digital strategy examples published online by an institution to date.
The Warhol’s strategy intertwines through every part of their organization, working to fulfill the mission and serve their audience:
Each area of focus in the museum’s digital strategy is fundamentally tied to the organization’s broader institutional goals. Between 2015 and 2017, we will be digitally-focused on strategic thrusts of experiences and engagement, Narratives and Access, Organizational Adaptation, and Financial Solvency.
-Jeffrey Inscho, Manager of Digital Engagement, The Warhol
The Warhol Digital Strategy can be viewed and downloaded on their GitHub.
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
Nara’s inaugural digital strategy dates back to 2009, when they began their first blog in order to build their community and increase transparency into their objects, records, and actions. Since then, they’ve continued to grow their digital presence and have remained innovative. But no matter what, they always stick to their mission and goals:
But whether on paper or a digital platform, the core mission of the National Archives remains unchanged. Social media now gives us more opportunities than ever before to provide access to the records of the Federal government. Through any of our social platforms, we can give people the information they need to learn from the past, to ensure their rights, to hold their government accountable, and to participate in the civic process.
-From NARA’s digital strategy
Nara has opted to post their social media and digital strategy examples on Github for their audiences to view, and contribute to. In their introduction, they ask for participation, commentary, and critique from staff, other institutions, and audiences of all kinds, and for institutions to use their digital strategy examples for their own needs.
London’s Tate museum is well known for making digital strides in the art world. From their web presence, to mobile apps and games, to social media, to personally curated digital galleries, Tate consistently produces high quality digital content for a global audience. They’ve allowed digital to permeate every aspect of their organization, and have used their digital strategy to challenge what it means to be a museum today.
Tate publishes a great deal of online content relating to their digital strategy. In addition to their 2013 – 2015 Digital Strategy, they’ve shared their materials on digital metrics, collection data, and have created a section on their website dedicated to the transparency of their digital initiatives.
The key components of Tate’s strategy— training the entire team with the ability to create content that’s engaging and on brand, saturating institutional policies with new strategies to engage audiences, and being unafraid to challenge traditional museum policies — provide a great case study for institutions looking to explore digital strategy examples while building their own plan.
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
MoMA’s commitment to modern art required the institution to engage in digital from its early stages. It’s only fitting, then, that this museum would support strong digital strategies to engage audiences. Fiona Romeo was appointed in 2014 as the museum’s first Director of Digital Content and Strategy in order to connect digital strategies throughout the museum. Since then, the institution has produced a range of digital tools, including many digital interactive platforms that pair with museum exhibitions such as Moma Learning and Gauguin Metamorphoses.
Although they haven’t published their digital strategy online, they have provided information on their initiatives, delving deep into the issues of access and engagement through the MoMA Blog. Rather than simply indicating that initiatives are being updated, the digital team at MoMA is showing how and why they’re being updated. This kind of information can help your team to make informed decisions about the initiatives you’re considering for your digital strategy.
If you’re interested learning more about digital collaboration, you can start by downloading our Digital Strategy guide.
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- punk (adj.)
- "inferior, bad," 1896, also as a noun, "something worthless," earlier "rotten wood used as tinder" (1680s), "A word in common use in New England, as well as in the other Northern States and Canada" [Bartlett]; perhaps from Delaware (Algonquian) ponk, literally "dust, powder, ashes;" but Gaelic spong "tinder" also has been suggested (compare spunk "touchwood, tinder," 1580s).
- punk (n.2)
- "worthless person" (especially a young hoodlum), 1917, probably from punk kid "criminal's apprentice," underworld slang first attested 1904 (with overtones of "catamite"). Ultimately from punk (n.1) or else from punk "prostitute, harlot, strumpet," first recorded 1590s, of unknown origin.
For sense shift from "harlot" to "homosexual," compare gay. By 1923 used generally for "young boy, inexperienced person" (originally in show business, as in punk day, circus slang from 1930, "day when children are admitted free"). The verb meaning "to back out of" is from 1920.
The "young criminal" sense is no doubt the inspiration in punk rock first attested 1971 (in a Dave Marsh article in "Creem," referring to Rudi "Question Mark" Martinez); popularized 1976.
If you looked different, people tried to intimidate you all the time. It was the same kind of crap you had to put up with as a hippie, when people started growing long hair. Only now it was the guys with the long hair yelling at you. You think they would have learned something. I had this extreme parrot red hair and I got hassled so much I carried a sign that said "FUCK YOU ASSHOLE." I got so tired of yelling it, I would just hold up the sign. [Bobby Startup, Philadelphia punk DJ, "Philadelphia Weekly," Oct. 10, 2001]
- punk (n.1)
- "Chinese incense," 1870, from punk (adj.).
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Computer system designed to manage aircraft carrier deck traffic
By Ben Coxworth
August 2, 2011
If you think working as an air traffic controller at an airport sounds stressful, imagine doing the same kind of work in the close confines of an aircraft carrier. Up to 60 aircraft can be continually taking off and landing, on a 4.5-acre (1.82-hectare) strip of deck that's also occupied by numerous people and vehicles. For decades, a deck handling system that consists of plane-shaped cut-outs and color-coded thumbtacks has been used, but it's only as reliable as the people placing those objects. An associate professor of aeronautics and astronautics from MIT has now devised a computer system, Deck operations Course of Action Planner (DCAP), that she believes could make things safer and more efficient.
Mary ("Missy") Cummings, working with students from MIT's Humans and Automation Lab, started by identifying factors that dictate flight deck traffic, such aircraft fuel levels, flight schedules, and the status of deck machinery such as launch catapults. They then designed an algorithm that takes such factors into account, and creates an optimal schedule. It is capable of changing that schedule on the fly, should the need arise.
That algorithm was paired with a computer interface, that displays an overhead view of the aircraft carrier's deck, with the current positions of all aircraft, ground crew and vehicles indicated. A panel at one side lists the type and status of aircraft that are waiting to launch and land, while a bottom panel displays the status of deck machinery, and indicates when failures have occurred.
In order for the system to work, all of the planes, people and vehicles would need to be equipped with sensors such as radio frequency tags, so their positions could be tracked.
Although DCAP provides a suggested schedule, human operators would still be making the final decisions. This could prove particularly important in situations such as dealing with inexperienced pilots, who need more time and space.
While designed for aircraft carriers, the MIT system could also find use in other applications. "It could be used in a commercial airport ... or in the trucking industry," said Cummings. "Boeing has suggested it could help them improve efficiency of their aircraft-manufacturing processing line. If we could show that this could be done in a carrier environment, then everything else would ... be a piece of cake."
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FDA Agrees to review Data for UBI
The last two decades have seen an escalation of immune-related illnesses such as fibromyalgia (FM), chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), allergic conditions and HIV/AIDS. This has led to a revival of interest among medical practitioners worldwide regarding the ability of ultraviolet blood irradiation (UBI) in the treatment of such disorders.
This procedures involves extracting 100 ml of the `patient’s blood, irradiating it with ultraviolet light, and then returning it to the patient’s body in a sterile, closed-loop system.
As a simple, non-toxic, Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved procedure, UBI is a potent immune system stimulant, and was used extensively worldwide between 1930 and 1965 for the successful treatment of a wide range of advanced viral and bacterial illnesses. Not only did it demonstrate potent antiviral and antibacterial effects, but it also had the huge advantage of producing no serious documented side-effects after being administered to more than 30,000 patients over a period of 70 years.1
The dramatic advances in antibiotics, vaccines and corticosteroids in the 1950s unfortunately put a halt to the growing interest in UBI at the time. Even though it was illogical to set aside a therapy that could treat viral diseases that were impervious to antibiotics, such as chronic hepatitis and viral pneumonia, interest in UBI only began to resurface in the ’80s and ’90s when the limitations of antibiotics and steroids in treating chronic auto-immune illnesses became obvious.
UBI presents an interesting and relatively low-cost alternative for patients willing to try this therapeutic modality, with international feedback on the response of auto-immune conditions to UBI showing great promise. Steps have been taken to arrange protocols at a few major university medical research centres in the United States. The focus will be on the treatment of HIV, hepatitis, malaria and those viruses immune to current antibiotics.2
UBI has proved to be highly effective in treating bacterial infections, including septicaemias, pneumonia, wound infections, peritonitis and typhoid. Its efficacy has also been noted in treating profound toxaemias, where it has often served as a life-saving measure.3
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How UBI works
The US Foundation for Blood Irradiation (FFBI) manual emphasizes that UBI is a non-specific therapy, as its exact mode of operation is unknown. There are repeated suggestions in many archaic articles, modern lay publications and physicians’ websites, however, of UBI acting as a powerful immune stimulant.4
Laboratory studies have demonstrated that UV light deactivates viruses and bacteria. Clinically, the general hypothesis is that UBI penetrates and destroys viral and bacterial walls (but not white and red blood cells), with the residual debris stimulating an antibody-antigen reaction, facilitating destruction of intact viruses and bacteria by macrophage (a large scavenger cell) white blood cells.
Physiologically, UBI has been shown to:
* increase blood oxygen levels5
* deactivate bacteria, viruses and fungal growth6
* cause a detoxification effect, deactivating both snake venoms and bacterial toxins7
* enhance phagocytosis (engulfing of foreign matter/debris/microbes/tumour cells) by activated macrophage cells
* cause vasodilatation and decrease edema8
* activate steroids and cortisone-like molecules (sterols) including vitamin D
* control nausea and vomiting.9
The blood that is exposed to the ultraviolet light continues to emit secondary radiation and some scientists believe that this may be the way that ultraviolet blood irradiation has cumulative effects. Each treatment also builds on and enhances the effects of previous treatments.
Gynecologist, Dr Sterna Franzsen, has a special interest in treating allergic conditions and CFS, and reports that her patients with eczema or CFS improved noticeably, either totally or in part, after receiving UBI treatment. ‘With severe eczemas, which do not respond to dietary intervention, UBI is the only viable alternative to cortisone’, she says. ‘Thus, UBI is a breakthrough therapy for many of these patients. It is certainly not infallible and there is no guarantee that UBI will work for all patients, especially those with auto-immune illnesses. But having said that, I don’t know of any medical treatment that works 100% of the time.’
Port Elizabeth-based medical practitioner, Dr Charles Wildervanck, has also noted significant improvements in patients treated with UBI therapy for severe eczemas as well as rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis and cancer.
In the case of CFS, international and local case studies demonstrate a clinical improvement in 60 – 80% of the patients treated. The response of FM patients to UBI is more encouraging with both local and international case studies showing a partial or total remission of symptoms in up to 100% of sufferers exposed to UBI therapy.
However, until definitive clinical trials are published confirming the efficacy of UBI in treating specific auto-immune illnesses such as CFS and FM, sufferers who undertake UBI treatment need to understand that they are doing so on the basis of case study results, and clinical trials conducted on other viral and bacterial infectious disorders.
The future of UBI
According to the American Foundation For Blood Irradiation (FFBI), studies are in process to evaluate the use of UBI in the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease, malaria and CFS.10
The FDA agreed recently to review data it will receive from Michigan State University on the effectiveness of UBI in treating AIDS. Johns Hopkins University and the National Cancer Institute are also researching the uses of UBI.11
A copy of the references is available from the SAJNM office, Tel 021-880 1444
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Here is a little fungus that made it big. Collected by a Field Mycology class south of Ithaca, the fungus is Cordyceps subsessilis, an exceedingly rare beetle pathogen. Back at the lab, its spores germinated to form colonies of a mold known as Tolypocladium inflatum. This kind of thing happens all the time in mycology. Many fungi are pleomorphic and can grow in astonishingly different looking forms--we're always having to figure out the connections between them.
The connection between Cordyceps subsessilis and Tolypocladium inflatum is unremarkable, except for two things: First, Tolypocladium inflatum is the source of the important immunosuppressant drug cyclosporin. Second, our discovery coincided with the founding of the Finger Lakes Land Trust's Biodiversity Preserve. This fungus acted as a catalyst in leading Schering-Plough to sponsor important fungal inventorying and bioprospecting on the Preserve. It is among the few fungi to be featured on Good Morning America and in the New York Times. All this made for an interesting year.
See: Hodge, K. T., S. B. Krasnoff, and R. A. Humber. 1996. Tolypocladium inflatum is the anamorph of Cordyceps subsessilis. Mycologia 88:715-719.
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I have seen discussions, especially at Edward Feser’s blog, that basically implied that Thomistic circles online are an elitist, snobby boys’ club that exhibits a great deal of groupthink (I won’t link to the discussion – if you were there you know what I’m talking about). Now I personally think the “groupthink” part is incredibly unfair, given that right now Thomism is ascendant but still not the raving throng that surrounds William Lane Craig, for instance. However, there is something to the charge that there is a bit of elitism involved with Thomism. I don’t really consider myself a Thomist, but I’ve made a few observations of that club that might help clarify why they give off such a snooty attitude sometimes:
1. Aristotelian-Thomistic thought is a very difficult, complete metaphysical system, with an esoteric language that differs from our everyday speech. It is also so different from the dominant metaphysics that science uses these days, that very frequently two people who are trying to discuss it talk past each other for a long, long time. One side keeps talking about efficient causes, intentionality, potency, forms, etc. and the other side has completely different definitions of these terms. What I’ve gathered from Aristotelian-Thomism is that it’s not enough to just know about act and potency, or the four causes, or matter and form. You have to know how all these different parts work together as a complete system, and how they manifest themselves in different situations (for instance, a final cause for a car is the man-given purpose of the car, and the final cause for an acorn is an oak tree, but it’s not immediately clear in what sense both of these final causes are the same). This also means that when one asks an A/T philosopher a simple question, there is not a brief and complete answer – often the philosopher has to pull back and start at the beginning.
Thus, it takes a bit of a “Gestalt switch,” in Kuhn’s words, to understand A/T philosophy. (For those of you unfamiliar with Gestalt psychology, think of an optical illusion that could be two different things if you look at it in two different ways – if you concentrate one way, it’s a rabbit, and another way, it’s a duck. However, typical humans can’t see it both ways simultaneously. The mental flip between seeing a rabbit and seeing a duck is a Gestalt switch.)
2. This complexity means that most people who really understand Thomism are philosophers or heavy-duty philosophy lovers. For the record, I am in neither camp, but I also don’t claim to really understand Thomism. Just a little bit.
3. Thomists these days feel a bit persecuted. The New Atheists present a large, popular threat to religion (whether or not this is justified), and the new Protestant philosophies presented by people like William Lane Craig (and the Intelligent Design movement) have really missed the mark, according to the Thomists. Furthermore, scandals in the Catholic Church have turned a large segment of the popular opinion against Roman Catholicism (again, whether or not this is justified I won’t say). As such, some Thomists have a chip on their shoulder.
4. The Internet is a really bad marketplace for ideas. Let’s face it, most of the people who sit around on the Internet all day are idiots. If you don’t agree, check the comments section of any YouTube video. Something about the anonymity of the Internet, the emotional volatility of the subject matter (religion, ethics, social issues, etc.), and the polarization of society creates this large mob of angry one-liner generators. Secondly, the Internet is dehumanizing, as we can’t really see the people behind the posts we read, and a lot of important emotional context and nuance is lost. That is not to say there isn’t a lot of good stuff on the Internet, too, but it’s just very hard to find.
Combine these four factors, and the result is a lot of testy, impatient, yet brilliant Thomists who give you the impression that they don’t have time to deal with your stupid questions. Unfortunately, in my opinion, some of these Thomists take this quite overboard, and actively contribute to hostile, name-calling environments. While I greatly respect Edward Feser for his arguments, just reading the first chapter of The Last Superstition left me with an icky feeling. You don’t need to call your opponents jackasses to make the point that they’re jackasses. Feser tries to justify such harsh polemical language by arguing that one, the New Atheists started it, and two, Thomism is such a great system backed up by thousands of years of good philosophy, that it has earned the right to be arrogant.
Well, I politely disagree. I don’t think that sinking to the level of a few loud-mouthed rhetoricians makes you look any better than them, and I also think that taking the high road shows not only that your philosophy is right, but also that it produces the best people (something that is important to average people like myself).
So, for you readers who are interested in Thomism but are feeling a bit repulsed/turned away/discouraged by the discourse, just stick it out, like me. There are reasons why Thomism seems like a tightly knit, esoteric club that you’re not really invited to. However, I feel like I’m almost getting there, and if I can, you can too. This is partly why I created the message board, so there can be a bit of a safer space for simpletons like me to get answers from Thomists without feeling attacked from both sides.
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Seek Help If Your Anxiety Or Related Pain Is Uncontrollable
Anxiety may be a natural reaction to threat, but when it simply doesnt go away or turns into an anxiety disorder, it impacts the well-being of our whole body.
If youre struggling with anxiety, reach out for help. Your mind and body will thank you.
Talkspace articles are written by experienced mental health-wellness contributors they are grounded in scientific research and evidence-based practices. Articles are extensively reviewed by our team of clinical experts to ensure content is accurate and on par with current industry standards.
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Anxiety Treatment At Banyan Mental Health
While you may be focused on your mental health or the immediate physical symptoms, the long-term effects of anxiety on the body should not be ignored. Without the help of a mental health partial hospitalization program like ours, your anxiety could begin to impact your physical health as well. We offer unique therapeutic methods like art and music therapy and pet therapy!
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What Anxiety Can Do To Your Body
Anxiety may affect people differently. It has a varied effect on the mind and the body because of the release of certain hormones and other chemicals in the body.
It increases a persons chances of suffering from other medical conditions, such as heart diseases, raised blood pressure, high cholesterolobesity, depression and diabetes. Anxiety may also cause sleep disturbances and poor work performance.
Anxiety may cause the following symptoms:
- Fear or uneasiness
- Pounding or thumping heartbeat
- Stomach discomfort
- Restlessness, inability to stay calm and still
- Pins and needles sensations
- Aches and pains such as headaches, backaches
- Difficulty in breathing or rapid breathing
- Changes in sex drive
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Anxiety Caused By Lifestyle Habits
Never underestimate the effect your lifestyle can have on your anxiety levels. For example, some research has shown that those that do not exercise are more prone to developing anxiety, because their body has unused energy, and because they start producing less stress-coping hormones.
Similarly, although diet does not traditionally cause significant anxiety, it can still play a role. Caffeine, for example, can exacerbate mild anxiety symptoms. Unhealthy foods can cause you to feel unhealthy, which in turn causes stress that leads to anxiety. Drug use is frequently a cause of anxiety.
This is why even with therapy and medicine, a change to lifestyle habits is often necessary.
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- Anxiety and Television
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Anxiety Isnt Only In Your Head
If you have anxiety, you might frequently feel worried, nervous, or afraid about ordinary events. These feelings can be upsetting and difficult to manage. They can also make daily life a challenge.
Anxiety can also cause physical symptoms. Think about a time when you felt anxious. Maybe your hands were sweaty or your legs were shaky. Your heart rate might have sped up. You could have felt sick to your stomach.
You might have linked these symptoms to your nervousness. But maybe you werent sure why you felt unwell.
Most people experience anxiety on occasion. Anxiety can be serious or turn into a disorder if it lasts for a long time, causes significant distress, or interferes with your life in other ways.
Types of anxiety include:
Specific types of anxiety might have additional physical symptoms.
If youre having a panic attack, you might:
- fear that youre going to die
- have trouble breathing or feel as if youre choking
- have numb or tingling sensations in parts of your body
- have chest pain
- feel lightheaded, dizzy, or as if you might pass out
- feel overheated or have chills
Anxiety, the bodys response to stress, is how your body alerts you to threats and helps you get ready to deal with them. This is called the fight-or-flight response.
Your body isnt meant to always be on alert. Being in constant fight-or-flight mode, which can happen with chronic anxiety, can have negative and serious effects on your body.
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What Is Stress And How Does It Affect Our Brains And Bodies
Stress is our reaction to a threatening event or stimulus. Such events and stimuli are called stressors. People perceive and react to stressors differently. Something one person would rate as highly stressful might be rated as considerably less stressful by someone else. These responses are affected by such factors as genetics and life experiences.
Stress can be classified as positive, tolerable or toxic. Toxic stress occurs when we are faced with a continuous stressor or triggered by multiple sources and can have a cumulative toll on our physical and mental health. It is an experience that overwhelms us and leaves us feeling powerless and hopeless.
Recommended Reading: How You Deal With Stress At Work
Q: How Does Stress Disrupt Sleep
Dr. Sinha: When youre continually stressed, your body constantly pulses out stress hormones, which make it harder to fall asleep and impair the deepest stages of sleep. That can lead to hyperarousal insomniaa state where your mind and body are easily woken by sounds or by your own stressful thoughts. No longer can you sleep as soundly as a baby.
The Three Parts Of Anxiety
When we feel anxious, we automatically generate a three-part response that includes thoughts physical symptoms and behaviours . All three parts have an interactive and reciprocal relationship. This simply means that each part interacts and influences the other parts. None will occur in isolation. For example, if youre anxious about giving a presentation at work you would likely have some worrisome thoughts , experience some physical sensations , and take some sort of action . If your rehearsal isnt going well you may start having more worrisome thoughts that might lead to more physical sensations which might lead to a new action .
The following diagram exemplifies this process:
What Happens To Our Body When We Are Anxious
Anxiety can cause many sensations in our bodies as it prepares for danger. These sensations are called the alarm reaction. They occur when the bodys natural alarm system is activated. These sensations occur because our bodies are getting ready to help us defend ourselves.
Recognizing Physical Symptoms of Anxiety
You can learn to identify the physical signs of anxiety by asking yourself: What happens when Im anxious? Where do I feel the anxiety in my body? For example, when you feel anxious, you may get butterflies in your stomach, sweat a lot, breathe heavily, and feel dizzy or lightheaded.
REMEMBER: If you often experience many uncomfortable physical symptoms, but doctors cannot find anything wrong with you physically, you may have problems with anxiety. You aredefinitely notgoing crazy. Although these symptoms may be uncomfortable, they are not harmful.
Anxiety Causes Panic Attacks
Panic attacks are certainly very scary experiences and can be so violent that we actually believe we are in the process of dying. Here, our breathing becomes shallow, and our bodies feel like they are rapidly shutting down, making gasping for breath extremely challenging. The intense chest pains can also cause dizziness as well as make us feel completely numb.
Can Physical Anxiety Symptoms Last For Days
When you have anxiety and are consumed by a big, sudden fear, you can sometimes get slammed with intense physical symptoms that peak within minutes and subside almost as quickly, according to the Mayo Clinic. Thats especially true if youre dealing with a panic attackyour body literally cant feel that freaked out for much longer than that. Usually, things like a racing heart, sweating, or fast breathing will ease up as you start to feel calmer.
While having persistent, lower-grade worries clouding your brain might not make you feel like you cant breathe or that youre about to have a heart attack, chronic anxiety can cause physical effects that seem like theyre always lingering in the background. Feeling fatigued or worn out might be your norm if your anxiety regularly makes it hard to get enough sleep. Or maybe it feels like youre constantly walking around with a stomach ache or tight, sore shoulders, per the Mayo Clinic.
So, in a nutshell, physical symptoms of anxiety can definitely last for days, depending on your personal stressors. But theres no one-size-fits-all description for how long anxiety-fueled symptoms will stick around. If youre noticing them on the reg and theyre interfering with your daily life, whether for a few minutes at a time or for long stretches, its worth talking with your doctor to try to figure out whats going on both physically and mentally.
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You May Develop A Social Phobia
There is such a thing as social anxiety . But being prone to anxiety attacks, by themselves, can definitely exacerbate latent, or even previously non-existent, feelings of social unease. Let’s face it: no matter how distracted you are by your distress, having an anxiety attack in public is embarrassing. So if you start to freak out in the grocery store, don’t worry: you aren’t going crazy.
As Katharina Star, PhD wrote in Very Well Mind that some remedies for this situation include taking a friend with you if you have to go out, which can help you feel less paranoid about being conspicuous. Establishing a firm itinerary can also be profoundly useful.
Finally, remember that help is always available, and that the human mind has a miraculous, and wonderful, capacity for recovery. Nothing is forever even anxiety attacks. Hang in there, you’re not alone.
Anxiety: What It Is What To Do
While anxiety symptoms vary widely, odds are good that at some point youve experienced occasional physical and emotional distress signals such as panicky breathing, your heart pounding in your chest, trouble sleeping, feelings of dread, or even loops of worry. Thats normal.
Experiencing anxiety is normal, says Dr. Gene Beresin, executive director of the Clay Center for Healthy Young Minds at Massachusetts General Hospital. A certain amount of anxiety can even be helpful. The problem is that sometimes the systems underlying our anxiety responses get dysregulated, so that we overreact or react to the wrong situations.
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Ways To Manage Stress
The easiest way to manage stress is to immerse yourself in activities that reduce anxiety-provoking thoughts and feelings.
For starters, incorporate regular exercise into your weekly routine. This can be as simple as taking a stroll around your neighborhood. Disconnecting from the world and your smartphone can do wonders for your state of mind.
Focus on activities and hobbies you enjoy. Read a book at night if youre into novels. Listen to your favorite artist while you cook if youre a fan of music. Play with your dog if animals help soothe your mood. Everyone has their own way of resetting their emotions. Find what works best for you.
You can also add positive affirmations, or positive self-talk, to your routine. Take a piece of paper and write down personal statements you can think about or say aloud several times a day. As an example, you may say Today will be a good day. I will focus on the things I can control and wont stress about the things I cant control.
The Study Found That Virtual Workouts May Lower Anxiety And Psychosocial Stress Responses When Compared To In
The findings indicated decreased anxiety levels and lower psychosocial stress response when the virtual training concluded when compared to the effects after performing actual exercise. Professor Dalila Burin, the developer of the study, explains, Psychosocial stress represents the stress experienced in frequent social situations such as social judgment, rejection, and when our performances get evaluated. Burin adds, While a moderate amount of exposure to stress might be beneficial, repeated and increased exposure can be detrimental to our health. This kind of virtual training represents a new frontier, especially in countries like Japan, where high performance demands and an aging population exist.
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You May Have A Fight Or Flight Reaction
When a person is confronted with a real, imminent danger, a reflex known as the fight or flight reaction kicks in. As as Nigel Barber, Ph.D, explained in an article he wrote for Psychology Today, this phenomenon is essential for survival, and is a “break glass in case of emergency” resource that nearly all mammals share. As Barber puts it, “the key quality of pathological anxiety is that it is out of proportion to any actual threat.”
Nevertheless, the actual symptoms, so to speak, are the same: accelerated pulse and breathing rates, sudden hyperawareness, and an urgent feeling that one needs to escape as soon as possible.
In other words, since experienced sufferers already know they’re having a panic attack, trying to intellectualize the problem is unlikely to help. Rather, some physicians recommend techniques like cognitive behavioral therapy and “relaxation training,” though the efficacy of almost any treatment is ultimately personal and subjective.
Muscle Tension And Chronic Pain
Frequent distress signals from your amygdala to your central nervous system to prepare for a stress response can cause your muscles to contract, or tighten very often. Constant muscle tension can lead to cramped, stiff or sore muscles, and aches and pains that can tend to spread throughout the body. This may result in chronic pain conditions such as joint pains, arthritis, fibromyalgia, and so on.
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There Are Effective Treatments For Anxiety
Treatment is tailored to the diagnosis. Effective options include:
- Lifestyle changes, such as skipping caffeine, exercising regularly, and avoiding medicines or substances that might cause anxiety symptoms.
- Mind-body approaches, such as deep breathing, meditation, mindfulness, and techniques to ease muscle tension and promote calm.
- Psychotherapy, such as cognitive behavioral therapy and exposure therapy. CBT teaches people to challenge and reframe distorted or unhelpful anxious thinking, because thoughts influence feelings and actions. Exposure therapy helps people tolerate and calm anxiety by gradually exposing a person to feared situations or objects under guidance from a therapist.
- Medicines, such as short-acting drugs called benzodiazepines, which are taken as needed when anxiety spikes. Low doses of some antidepressants, particularly selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors , help relieve anxiety when taken daily.
Often, a combination of approaches is best. Relieving anxiety with medicine while using CBT or exposure therapy to strengthen coping skills and help retrain the brain can do much to make anxiety manageable.
About the Author
Francesca Coltrera, Editor, Harvard Health Blog
What Causes The Physical Symptoms Of Anxiety
Whether youre experiencing occasional anxiety or a diagnosable anxiety disorder, anxiety can manifest in the body in different ways. By releasing stress hormones, anxiety can affect almost every system of the body. But what causes physical symptoms?
The bodys fight-or-flight response is responsible for the physical symptoms of anxiety. Your fight-or-flight response is supposed to help you survive an immediate threat by escaping or fighting it off. If you have anxiety, your fear and worry trigger the fight-or-flight response, activating your sympathetic nervous system, which controls involuntary breathing and heart rate. This activation leads the body to release stress hormones such as adrenaline and cortisol, contributing to anxietys physical symptoms.
Anxiety can manifest in the following ways:
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What Are The Different Types Of Anxiety Disorder
This section provides an overview of the most common types of anxiety disorders.
- Generalised anxiety disorder
- Post-traumatic stress disorder
Generalised anxiety disorder
GAD is common. The main symptom of GAD is over worrying about different activities and events. This may feel out of your control. You feel anxious a lot of the time if you have GAD. You might feel on edge and alert to your surroundings.
This can affect your day-to-day life. You might find that it affects your ability to work, travel places or leave the house. You might also get tired easily or have trouble sleeping or concentrating. You might have physical symptoms, such as muscle tension and sweating.
It is common to have other conditions such as depression or other anxiety disorders if you have GAD.
GAD can be difficult to diagnose because it does not have some of the unique symptoms of other anxiety disorders. Your doctor is likely to say you have GAD if you have felt anxious for most days over six months and it has had a bad impact on areas of your life.
You will have regular panic attacks with no particular trigger if you have panic disorder. They can happen suddenly and feel intense and frightening. You may also worry about having another panic attack.
Panic disorder symptoms can include the following.
You may also dissociate during a panic attack. Such as feeling detached from yourself.
Social anxiety disorder
Some common situations where you may experience anxiety are the following.
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Deterioration of RC structures due to chloride-induced reinforcement corrosion is a common problem in an aggressive environment. Especially for shield tunnels in coastal regions, structures undergo a complex and rapid deteriorating process under the coupling effects of multiple mechanical and environmental stressors during their life-cycle, such as high hydrostatic pressure and aggressive agents. The very few existing studies on the deterioration processes of shield tunnels, especially considering the coupling effects, were not generally oriented to accurately assess the lifetime structural performance of these tunnels. In this paper, the chloride transport process in segmental linings with the impact of hydrostatic pressure is illustrated, two transport approaches of chloride are suggested, and the time to corrosion initiation is predicted. Finally, a Monte Carlo Simulation is used in conjunction with a time-dependent failure probability estimation associated with the deteriorated structural performance due to the steel corrosion.
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Great Expectations: Earnings Estimates and Their Impact on Stock Prices
How often have you seen a stock’s price fall after the company announced increased earnings?
Or, just recently, why did the stock of investment banking firm Lehman Brothers soar after it announced that its fiscal first-quarter earnings fell 57%?
In these instances, actual earnings did not turn out as the market expected.
In fact, expectations play a key role in determining if a stock’s price “gains” or “loses” when actual earnings are reported.
The stock market is forward looking. That is, stock prices are established based on the expectations that prospective investors have for the future earnings power of the firm.
The future earnings power of any company involves the interaction of many company, industry, and economic forces. Earnings estimates embody investors’ opinions of factors such as sales growth, product demand, competitive industry environment, profit margins and cost controls. Stock prices adjust as these expectations change or are proven wrong.
Just whose expectations are we talking about?
The actual expectations embodied in a stock’s price are those of millions of investors—collectively “the market.” Needless to say, it is impossible to measure the exact expectations of all of these investors at one point in time.
The more practical proxy for the market’s expectations is analysts’ consensus earnings estimates. Many services provide consensus earnings estimates by tracking the estimates of the thousands of investment analysts who are employed by brokerage firms providing stock research for their customers. These analysts have two primary functions: to provide earnings per share estimates and to provide buy/hold/sell recommendations for the companies they track. The brokerage firm uses the research developed by their analysts to attract and retain brokerage customers and create investment banking opportunities.
Stocks with earnings estimates may have from one to as many as 40 or more analysts tracking and analyzing them. The consensus estimate refers to the average earnings per share estimate. The number of estimates provides a feel for the depth of coverage for a company.
When examining earnings estimates, the first rule to keep in mind is that the current price usually reflects the consensus earnings estimate. For investors, there is nothing to be gained by investing in a company simply because it has a high level of expected earnings growth because of the high price you must pay for those expectations. In fact, studies show that over the long run, stocks with high expected earnings growth tend to underperform stocks with low growth rates and low expectations because it is difficult to meet and exceed high expectations over an extended period of time.
The impact on stock prices comes when actual earnings differ from the consensus expectations—that is, when there are earnings “surprises” and revisions in earnings estimates.
Earnings surprises occur when a company reports actual earnings that differ from consensus earnings estimates. Listed companies are required to file quarterly reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) within 40 days of the fiscal quarter end. Most companies announce earnings within one month after the end of the quarter. The fiscal periods for most companies coincide with the calendar quarters.
Institutional investors and analysts work at a frenzied pace for about three weeks starting mid-month in January, April, July, and October as major companies report their earnings from the previous quarter. During the earnings reporting season, financial newspapers and Web sites provide daily reports on earnings announcements. Firms with significant earnings surprises are often highlighted.
Earnings surprises are either positive or negative:
Positive earnings surprises occur when actual reported earnings are significantly above the forecasted earnings per share.
- Negative earnings surprises occur when reported earnings per share are significantly below the earnings expectations.
What is the impact on stock prices?
Price changes resulting from an earnings surprise can be felt immediately. Studies indicate that the stock prices of firms with significant positive earnings surprises show above-average performance, while those with negative surprises have below-average performance.
Although the surprise has an immediate impact on the stock’s price, it may also have a long-term effect. In fact, studies indicate that the effect can persist for as long as a year after the announcement.
That means it may not be too late to buy a stock that has had a positive earnings surprise, even though you can’t act right at the time of the initial surprise. However, it also means that it does not make sense to buy a stock after the initial price decline of a negative earnings surprise, since there is a good chance that the stock will continue to underperform the market for some time.
Not surprisingly, large firms tend to adjust to surprises faster than small firms do. That’s because larger firms are tracked by more analysts and portfolio managers, who tend to act quickly.
Earnings surprises also tend to follow the “cockroach effect”—like cockroaches, you rarely see just one earnings surprise. So, firms with a significant earnings surprise in one quarter will also often have earnings surprises in subsequent quarters.
Since both positive and negative earnings surprises have lingering long-term effects, a rewarding investment tactic would be to avoid stocks you believe will have negative earnings surprises or those that have had negative earnings surprises. Similarly, selecting positive earnings surprise stocks before and even after the earnings come in may be profitable.
Revisions in earnings estimates reflect changes in expectations of future performance on the part of analysts. Perhaps the economic outlook is better than previously expected, or maybe a new product is selling better than anticipated.
Revisions to earnings estimates lead to price adjustments similar to earnings surprises:
When earnings estimates are revised significantly upward—5% or more—stocks tend to show above- average performance.
- Stock prices of firms with downward revisions show below-average performance.
Revisions are often precursors to earnings surprises. As the reporting period approaches, estimates normally converge toward the consensus. A flurry of revisions near the reporting period can indicate that analysts missed the mark and are scrambling to improve their estimates.
When examining revisions, it is helpful to focus on the number of revisions. When compared to the number of analysts making estimates, this is a confirmation of the significance of the percentage change in estimates. You can put more faith in a revision if a large percentage of the analysts tracking a firm have revised their estimates.
The number of revisions upward indicates how many analysts have revised their estimates upward in the last month. Stock prices of firms with more upward revisions than downward revisions have shown above-average returns, while those with more downward revisions tend to underperform.
Examining the range of estimates provides an indication of the consensus within the group of estimates. A wide range of estimates would point to great disagreement among analysts, indicating greater uncertainty and greater chance for an earnings surprise.
The price move can be more dramatic, however, if an earnings surprise occurs for a firm with a very tight range of earnings estimates.
Whisper numbers garnered much attention a few years ago because of the apparent weight they carried with institutional investors. Originally, whisper earnings, or whispers, were considered to be the actual earnings expectations of the analysts tracking the company—free of any company influence. These unofficial estimates were passed or whispered from analyst to analyst and to the analyst’s best customers, but not actually posted to estimate tracking services.
Some studies found that these whisper numbers appeared to better reflect the market’s expectations of earnings.
However, the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the tightened corporate reporting requirements has led to a change in the definition of whisper numbers, since the new regulations make it difficult for insiders to pass on insider earnings data.
WhisperNumber.com, one of the leading providers of “whisper” earnings estimates, defines them as: “an average of individual investors’ expectations in regard to public company earnings—used by investors to anticipate post earnings price movement and considered an alternative/comparative number to the analyst consensus estimates.” It states that its numbers are “collected from our registered user base (Influential Individual Investors) through polling and website submission.”
Other Web sites have also been established that try to gather and distribute whisper numbers.
How should an investor view whispers?
Whisper numbers tend to come from unknown and unnamed sources. They may come from company insiders, perceptive investors, or those who are attempting to manipulate a stock’s price. Sites that collect whisper estimates rarely disclose their sources.
While you may want to examine the numbers, you should not simply take the estimates at face value.
Earnings estimates are an important element for you to keep in mind when you analyze and select stocks. They are a numerical view of expectations, and changing expectations drive stock prices.
The box below summarizes the main points to keep in mind when you are examining earnings estimates.
Earnings Estimates and Their Impact on Stock Prices
Firms with high expected earnings growth tend to underperform the market because it is difficult to meet the market’s high expectations. Companies with low earnings expectations tend to do better than expected.
- Realize that the stock price already reflects the general consensus about future earnings. Be aware that if a stock is highly touted, the basis for the recommendation should be an earnings forecast significantly above the prevailing opinion.
Earnings Estimate Revisions
Stock prices of firms with significant upward revisions (5% or more) generally outperform the market. Firms with significant downward revisions usually underperform the market.
- Earnings revisions are often a precursor to earnings surprises. Stock prices react positively to upward revisions.
Stock prices of firms that significantly exceed their earnings expectations (positive earnings surprises) outperform the market, while those with negative earnings surprises underperform.
The earnings surprise effect is long lasting. The greatest impact from the surprise is felt immediately, but the effect of the earnings surprise can be seen for as long as a year. The effect of the surprise tends to be longer lasting for negative earnings surprises.
The stock prices of large firms adjust to surprises more quickly than those of small firms.
Earnings surprises often follow earlier surprises in groups—the cockroach effect.
- The chance of an earnings surprise is greater if the range of estimates for a company is wide prior to the announcement. The price move can be more dramatic, however, if an earnings surprise occurs for a firm with a very tight range of earnings estimates.
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Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura
TP is a blood disorder characterized by an abnormal decrease in the number of platelets in the blood
Immunoglobulin A (IgA) Nephropathy
IgA nephropathy is a chronic kidney disease that may progress over a period of 10 to 20 years, and can lead to end-stage renal disease.
Impotence / Erectile Dysfunction
Impotence, or erectile dysfunction, is the inability to achieve an erection, and/or dissatisfaction with the size, rigidity, and/or duration of erections. According to the National Institutes of Health, erectile dysfunction affects up to 30 million men.
Indigestion, also known as dyspepsia, is a painful or burning feeling in the upper abdomen and is usually accompanied by nausea, bloating or gas, a feeling of fullness, and, sometimes, vomiting.
Infectious arthritis is an infection in the joint (synovial) fluid and joint tissues.
Infectious mononucleosis, also known as mononucleosis, "mono," or glandular fever, is characterized by swollen lymph glands and chronic fatigue.
Infertility is defined by the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) as a disease of the reproductive system that impairs the body's ability to perform the basic function of reproduction.
Influenza (See Also : Bird flu ,H1N1 )
Influenza is a viral infection that attacks your respiratory system, including your nose, throat, bronchial tubes and lungs.
Interstitial Lung Disease (Pulmonary Fibrosis)
Interstitial lung diseases are named after the tissue between the air sacs of the lungs called the interstitium - the tissue affected by fibrosis (scarring).
The most common cause of anemia is iron deficiency. Iron is needed to form hemoglobin.
Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)
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Florida Judge Makes History
On Friday, Peggy A. Quince was sworn in as chief justice of the Florida Supreme Court, becoming the first black woman to lead that state's court system -- or any branch of government in Florida. This is not her first time making history. Fifteen years ago, she became the first black woman appointed to a Florida district court of appeal. "One of the ways you give back to your community is by being there and being visible," Quince said after her swearing in. "Young people find it's not all about whether you are a rap star or a baseball player or any of those kinds of careers. But there are also other careers available that can make a difference."
The 60-year-old jurist was raised in Virginia by her father, a longshoreman, and attended segregated schools growing up. She graduated from Howard University in 1970 and then attended law school at Catholic University. Her first legal job was in Washington, D.C., as a rent-control hearing officer. In 1977, she went into private practice in Norfolk, Va., and then moved to Florida a year later, opening an office in Bradenton. In 1980, she joined the state Attorney General's Office, handling appeals in the Criminal Division and eventually becoming Tampa bureau chief. Gov. Lawton Chiles named her to the 2nd District Court of Appeal in 1993. In 1998, Chiles and Gov.-elect Jeb Bush named her to the Supreme Court.
An editorial in the St. Petersburg Times says that Justice Quince will face difficult challenges during her two-year term as chief.
Praised for her quick mind and engaging personality during a ceremony Friday, she takes the gavel at a time when the court is on the verge of remarkable turnover and faces considerable challenges. Two of the seven justices are resigning, and two more will reach mandatory retirement age during her two-year term. The chief justice also acts as the chief administrative officer of the judicial system, and Quince takes charge in an era when the Legislature has to be constantly prodded to adequately fund the judicial branch. The work of outgoing Chief Justice R. Fred Lewis, who will remain on the court, in pressing for social services and aid for the mentally ill also will have to continue.
Already, she has created a task force to compile oral and written histories of black lawyers in Florida, says another report. In comments at her swearing in, former Florida Attorney General Bob Butterworth praised her for breaking through the dual glass ceilings of race and gender, adding, "You bring to the center chair not only wisdom and integrity but a big heart."
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Solving a Space Problem with Origami Principles
Alexandra Foley August 1, 2014
Engineers designing space-bound satellites and solar arrays face a rather ironic challenge — lack of space. In order to overcome this problem, aerospace engineers are turning to an interesting source for inspiration: origami, the ancient art of Japanese paper folding.
Origami Finds New Uses
There are a surprising number of modern-day engineering projects that take advantage of origami to solve design challenges, such as the self-deployable stent, designed by Kuribayashi et al., or the origami-inspired Eyeglass Telescope, designed by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) with help from origami artist Robert Lang. As an amateur origami aficionado, I was intrigued to learn about the various ways engineers incorporate this ancient art into their designs.
Origami model called “Spring Into Action”, designed by Jeff Beynon and made from a single rectangular piece of paper.
A bull, wet-folded from a single sheet of paper.
Using Origami to Optimize Solar Panel Packing
One such project that caught my attention is currently being conducted by scientists at NASA. The group is using origami techniques to optimize the packing and deployment of solar panels and other large objects shipped to space.
For decades, space solar power (SSP, also called spaced-based solar power, SBSP) has been the topic of many research papers and, of course, featured as the highlight of many sci-fi novels. However, it was not until recently that the potential for such a renewable energy source has become a reality. Recent advances in wireless power transmission, as well as the growing global concern for the environmental effects of greenhouses gases, has led to a renewed interest in SSP. Whereas wind farms and land-based solar arrays occupy large amounts of land, current designs for SPSs (solar power satellites) would only require a relatively small rectenna to receive and convert microwave energy into DC electricity. In addition, SPSs can collect energy without losses due to atmospheric absorption and can be active for 24 hours a day (as opposed to the 12 hours a land-based array can collect the sun’s rays for). These factors, among others, make SSP by far the largest potential energy source yet proposed.
While implementation of the first SPSs may still be a long way off, origami techniques are being used to help engineers at NASA and other organizations to figure out a way to ship the large, fragile solar arrays into space. In the paper “The Solar Umbrella: a Low-Cost Demonstration of Scalable Space Based Solar Power“, researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) explore the feasibility and cost of building and deploying a solar power wind farm in space. Shown in the image below is a depiction of the solar umbrella as it expands to its full width after being launched into orbit.
Transmitting Antenna Deployment via Thickness Accommodating Origami-Based Flasher Model. Taken from the paper “The Solar Umbrella: a Low-Cost Demonstration of Scalable Space Based Solar Power“.
Miura-Ori Used to Design a Solar Sail
When discussing the solar umbrella in a recent interview with National Public Radio (NPR), the researchers mentioned the Miura-ori (ori means fold), a famous origami fold that was invented by Japanese astrophysicist Koryo Miura in 1970 (click on the NPR link to see a video example). The fold was later used to design a solar sail that was launched into space on Japan’s Space Flier Unit.
With the Miura fold, you can take a large piece of paper and fold it into a small space and — most importantly — reopen it in one movement. For space-bound solar panels, this means that only one motor would need to be used for deployment. In the solar umbrella shown above, a variation of the Miura fold was used to create the design, allowing the 25-meter diameter solar array to be stowed in a space just 2.8 meters by 4 meters.
Space-based solar power was explored in the recent IEEE Spectrum article “How Japan Plans to Build an Orbital Solar Farm“, where you can read more about the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and their designs for an SSP farm.
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Data Access Policy
A Data Access Policy is an established control put in place to ensure that data protection requirements are followed. The GDC Data Access Policy1 ensures that personally identifiable information in data made available in the GDC is kept from unauthorized users. GDC access control policies adhere to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Genomic Data Sharing Policy (GDS) Policy2 as well as the NCI GDS Policy3. The GDC requires that users obtain authorization from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Database of Genotypes and Phenotypes (dbGaP) for accessing controlled data.
Any user accessing GDC open data must adhere to the NIH Genomic Data Sharing (GDS) Policy2 which indicates that investigators who download unrestricted-access data from NIH-designated data repositories should:
- Not attempt to identify individual human research participants from whom the data were obtained
- Acknowledge in all oral or written presentations, disclosures, or publications the specific dataset(s) or applicable accession number(s) and the NIH-designated data repositories through which the investigator accessed any data
Any user requesting access to GDC controlled data must apply for dbGaP authorization, which is granted by an NIH Data Access Committee (DAC). DACs review and approve or disapprove all requests from the research community for data access. Decisions to grant access are made based on whether the request conforms to the specifications within the NIH Genomic Data Sharing Policy and program specific requirements or procedures (if any). All uses proposed for controlled-access data must be consistent with the data use limitations for the data set as indicated by the submitting institution and identified on the public website for dbGaP. DACs also review and approve or disapprove all requests for access to dbGaP data for programmatic oversight by NIH employees.
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