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State-owned Enterprise Kharkiv Morozov Machine Building Design Bureau (SOE KMDB) of Ukraine has begun to series-produce computer-based simulators for BMP-2 Infantry Fighting Vehicles
Category: Defence Industry
SOE KMDB has a multi-year experience in designing, developing, and manufacturing various simulators for armoured vehicles. The specific feature of the computer-based simulators developed by the SOE KMDB is their modular design.
Use of the simulators enables the customers to solve several main problems:
The open architecture makes it possible to unite several simulators into one network and to create combined tactical training systems.
The simulators for BMP-2 infantry fighting vehicles that are now series-produced by SOE KMDB will be supplied to a foreign customer. The export contract envisages supply of not only the simulators themselves, but also a set of accompanying services including installation and adjustment in the country of the customer, guarantee and after-guarantee service, and training of the customer's service personnel.
Ukrainian Army to Purchase New Oplot MBTs
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Dear Mr. Berko: You’ve never commented on deflation, which so many people consider evil.
What do you think about inflation versus deflation, and which would you prefer? –N.L., Durham, N.C.
Dear N.L.: There’s not a darn thing wrong with deflation. In fact, deflation is playing quite well in Japan. And, contrary to the scare tactics of Japanese banks and real estate moguls, deflation was actually good for jobs and the economy, and the Japanese consumers like it.
Deflation, which causes a persistent drop in wages, consumer goods, food, services, etc., can also have a few ill effects.
Homeowners get stuck repaying high-dollar mortgages, auto loans, personal loans and other debts as their take-home pay decreases. Properties and assets decline in value. Manufacturers and retail companies are unable to raise prices, and the consumer has a smaller nest egg.
Frankly, considering flat-to-declining personal incomes in the U.S., how much longer can consumers keep our economy afloat as prices continue to rise?
However, the Japanese are embracing deflation. While the average wage in Japan has declined, retailers are devoting successful energies to providing goods and services that are less costly but still have good value.
With lower wages, price-cutting has enabled the consumer to own less-expensive TVs, PCs, furniture, clothing, autos, etc. Today, the average Japanese household owns more appliances, TVs, clothing and autos than it did 15 years ago.
In fact, McDonald’s and Kentucky Fried Chicken lowered prices on many items by 30 percent to 50 percent in the past three years while store sales and profits increased significantly, so more Japanese are employed to produce more goods and services.
Meanwhile, Japan’s retail, appliance, food and home-accessories stores are improving their revenues with less-expensive but high-quality products and making more money.
Even though Japanese consumers are earning less, they are buying more as prices decline. There’s an important message here.
The U.S. can’t continue passing on higher labor and material costs for the goods and services it sells to the rest of the world unless the wages of the rest of the world increase to our income levels, which are inexorably pushed by higher union demands.
Inflation has been pricing the U.S. out of the world markets and forcing U.S. companies to move business and production overseas. Few folks overseas can afford our cell phone service costs, our clothing, our solar panels, automobiles, motor scooters or bicycles, boat engines, carpets, furniture and other products stamped “Made in USA.”
So now, our largest export is military equipment and, fortunately, our military industrial complex works diligently and covertly to encourage dissension around the world to keep military sales flowing.
We need to reduce prices so consumers can buy more goods, products and services, rather than continue to inflate prices so folks buy fewer goods, products and services. And we need deflation to give our dollar the power, rather than inflation, which always requires more of our dollars to buy the same market basket.
Over the past 30 years, real wages adjusted for inflation have declined, while prices for goods and services have risen. However, the three reasons consumer spending has increased in those 30 years are (1) an explosion in home equity loans, (2) two working parents and (3) a generous banking system that gives credit cards to deadbeats, home loans to prison inmates and credit lines to riverboat gamblers.
Lower prices can increase our exports, improve employment, generate more tax dollars, expand consumption, make health, life and homeowners insurance more affordable, reduce college costs, etc. Inflation, however, makes those things more costly to acquire and discourages consumption.
We’ve pursued an inflation policy for decades. Perhaps it’s time to consider a deflation policy.
Please address your financial questions to Malcolm Berko, P.O. Box 8303, Largo, FL 33775 or e-mail him at email@example.com.
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This statement is subsidiary to all existing common and statutory legal procedures operating in each State and Territory.
In some cases, service agencies are State or Territory government organisations or is actually part of the Department with responsibility for managing the HACC Program. In such circumstances, consumers might be concerned that the State or Territory department would bring a vested interest to its role as mediator/arbiter. Consumers may then, if they wish, make a direct approach to the relevant State or Territory Minister, or take their complaint to an independent review structure or complaints authority, where such a mechanism exists. However, regardless of the avenue chosen, consumers should be confident that their complaints will receive attention.
Use of advocates in the complaint process
Advocacy can play a critical role in assisting consumers to pursue and seek resolution of complaints. The HACC Statement of Rights and Responsibilities makes it clear that consumers have the right to involve an advocate of their choice in their dealings with service providers and administering government departments.
The role of the advocate is not to mediate between consumer and agency or to arbitrate in a dispute, but to speak and act on behalf of the consumer. The role of mediation and arbitration, when a complaint cannot be resolved at the provider level, lies with the State or Territory Department with primary responsibility for HACC.
Other resources and organisations
Other options, which may assist service providers and consumers in resolving complaints or providing advice, include the following organisations. Please consult the white pages telephone directory or directory assistance for up-to-date phone numbers.
Health Services Commission
The Health Services Commission deals with complaints concerning any private or public health service provider, including doctors, nurses, allied health professionals and naturopaths. The aim of the Commission is to mediate and conciliate between parties.
State Government Ombudsman
The Ombudsman for the State Government deals with complaints concerning actions of government departments. The Ombudsman’s office also has jurisdiction over the administrative actions of local government officers. However, it cannot act if the complaint concerns a decision or action of an elected Council or Councillor.
Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission
The Equal Opportunity Commission will deal with complaints concerning discrimination on the grounds of disability, sex, race, age, industrial activity, marital, parental or carer status, political or religious beliefs, sexual orientation or pregnancy. The Commission will assist people to prepare statements and to lodge a complaint. The role of the Commission is to then mediate between parties to reach resolution of the complaint.
Office of the Public Advocate
The Office of the Public Advocate represents the interests of Victorian people with a disability. The office is a statutory agency, independent of government and has the power to investigate and take action in situations where people are exploited, neglected or abused. Individual advocacy can also be provided for people with a disability who are being abused or neglected, and where no other advocacy is available. Independent guardians can be provided for people with a disability when the Guardianship and Administration Board make orders.
Regulatory industry boards
These are organisations which regulate the conduct of particular professions. They also deal with complaints against professionals. Most state-based medical regulatory organisations now come under the auspice of the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA).
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- Americans' honesty/ethics ratings of police are down six points
- Nonwhites show large drop; whites' views are unchanged
- Ratings of police officers lowest since 1995
PRINCETON, N.J. -- A new Gallup poll finds that Americans are less likely now than in 2013 to view police officers as having high honesty and ethical standards after grand juries did not indict white police officers whose actions resulted in the deaths of black men. The overall drop of six percentage points in honesty and ethics ratings is the result of a sharp, 22-point drop in nonwhites' ratings of police officers; whites' views haven't changed.
Earlier this year, a white officer in Ferguson, Missouri, shot and killed an unarmed black teen, and a white officer in Staten Island, New York, held a black man in a chokehold that resulted in his death. Those incidents and, importantly, grand juries' decisions not to indict either officer, have ignited controversy over racial bias and the police's use of force to apprehend suspects.
Although those incidents involved blacks, a single standard poll of U.S. national adults does not usually include a large enough sample of blacks to provide reliable estimates of that specific group's attitudes. However, the Dec. 8-11 poll does include a sufficiently large sample of nonwhites -- consisting mainly of blacks and Hispanics -- to look at differences among this broader racial group.
Even before this year, whites have consistently held more positive views of the police than nonwhites. So the much greater likelihood of whites than nonwhites to view police officers as honest and ethical is not new.
But the data from the Dec. 8-11 poll show that whites and nonwhites are reacting very differently to the recent events -- with nonwhites' already less positive views of police eroding further, while there is little apparent impact on the way whites view the police. Consequently, the gap in white versus nonwhite ratings of the honesty and ethics of police has expanded from 13 points last year (58% to 45%) to 36 points this year (59% to 23%).
Ratings of Police Lowest in Two Decades
The six-point drop in all Americans' ratings of the honesty and ethics of police gives the profession its worst rating since 1995, a time when crime was among Americans' greatest concerns. Still, the current 48% rating of police officers is substantially higher than the all-time low of 37% measured in 1977, the first year Gallup asked the question.
The long-term trend shows two clear phases in Americans' ratings of police officers. From 1977 through 1998, their honesty and ethics scores were consistently 50% or below. From 1999 to 2013, perhaps as a result of sharply declining crime rates, the ratings were consistently above 50%. That includes a record-high 68% in 2001, likely aided by the rally in support for public institutions after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
The recent controversy over the police's use of force has thus eroded much of the increased positivity the police had built up in recent decades.
Blacks and whites, perhaps because of historical racial discrimination in the U.S. as well as their own life experiences, have largely differing views on matters that touch on race in U.S. society. Ongoing tensions between police and black citizens, commonly in urban areas, also factor into blacks' (and other nonwhites') more negative views of police.
These factors help explain why nonwhites' views of police nosedived after the Ferguson and Staten Island incidents, whereas whites' views have largely held steady. It is certainly possible that as these incidents fade from memory, nonwhites' views of the police -- as well as those of Americans more broadly -- will return to their prior levels. However, improved relations between blacks and police would also go a long way toward improving the way Americans of all racial and ethnic backgrounds view the police.
Results for this Gallup poll are based on telephone interviews conducted Dec. 8-11, 2014, with a random sample of 805 adults, aged 18 and older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. For results based on the total sample of national adults, the margin of sampling error is ±4 percentage points at the 95% confidence level.
For results based on the total sample of 606 non-Hispanic whites, the margin of sampling error is ±5 percentage points at the 95% confidence level.
For results based on the total sample of 174 nonwhites, the margin of sampling error is ±9 percentage points at the 95% confidence level.
All reported margins of sampling error include computed design effects for weighting.
Each sample of national adults includes a minimum quota of 50% cellphone respondents and 50% landline respondents, with additional minimum quotas by time zone within region. Landline and cellular telephone numbers are selected using random-digit-dial methods.
Learn more about how Gallup Poll Social Series works.
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If you are going be in the market to buy a home in the mid to upper price ranges next year, you could be in luck. Your mortgage may cost less, thanks to an increase in the price of loans that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will buy from mortgage originators.
In most areas of the nation, this means home buyers taking out mortgages priced at $424,100 or below will now avoid the higher costs and more stringent qualification standards required by most jumbo loans.
The ceiling for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgages, currently at $417,000, hasn’t increased in ten years despite rising home prices. In areas where homes are more expensive, such as greater New York City and the San Francisco Bay region, loan limits are higher. In the nation’s highest cost counties, borrowers will be able to take out mortgages worth as much as $636,150 thanks to the new loan limits.
FHA also raised its loan limit. In high-cost areas, the FHA national loan limit ceiling will increase to $636,150 from $625,500. FHA will also increase its limit in lowest cost counties to $275,665 from $271,050. Here is a complete list of new FBA loan limits and a list of FHA loan limits by county.
Higher ceilings on loans are expected to increase home sales by making mid to higher cost mortgages less expensive and more accessible to home buyers. The new limits also will make refinancing less expensive for some homeowners whose homes’ values have appreciated into higher price brackets.
Read more about recent changes in the housing market here.
Interested in refinancing or purchasing a home? Check out our rates here.
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Guest Author - M. E. Wood
"Art is the Western myth with which we both console ourselves and make ourselves."
What could be more beautiful than a family? Why, the debacles of two of course! Awarded the Orange Prize for Fiction, On Beauty follows the Belsey and the Kipps families through 443 pages of shenanigans only family can forgive.
The Belsey family is made up of Howard and Kiki who are the parents of Levi, Zora and Jerome. Howard is a white Englishman and Kiki is a voluptuous African American. They've been married thirty years and have lived the last ten years in a Boston University community where Howard has been an art history professor. Kiki, once an activist, works at the local hospital.
The Kipps, an all black family from London, includes Monty and Carlene as the heads and their children Michael and Victoria. Monty is also an art history master and Howard's arch nemesis and vice versa. Circumstances lead the Kippses to the same town and same university as the Belseys where frictions arise between the men and the siblings.
The ongoing racial and art war going on between Howard and Monty is what drives a wedge between these two families. Howard is for affirmative action and Monty is not. Their battle has been in the newspapers, on the radio, in interviews and in books. Now it's on Howard's home turf; except he hasn't been given tenure yet. Only Carlene and Kiki are willing to put past differences aside and co-exist amicably.
The characters don't stop with these two families. There's the antiquated university staff, knowledge hungry students, angry Haitian street vendors, melodramatic Hip Hop writers and both talented and untalented poets. All these relationships show a definite balance of wants and needs; and haves and have nots.
Zadie Smith's character development made me want to follow these two families through their day to day lives and interactions. Now that it is over I still want more. There are a lot of characters, main and supporting but all have a purpose, even a young child protégé who's only mentioned in a page and a half. Her perspective, given by the narrator, lends to Howard's personality.
On Beauty is rich with the emotional turmoil of love, hate, deception, redemption, politics, art, racism, acceptance and of course the draw beauty has on us.
My favourite character in the book is Kiki. I love her name, I love her body and I love her personality. Kiki is resentful for having been isolated from other black people. "Everywhere we go, I'm alone in this... this sea of white." She made me laugh, she made me cry, she made me proud. She is a large beautiful woman who carries herself well despite her husband cheating on her. She uses this heartache to locate the woman she once was and to build on the woman she has become. Her self-acceptance is inspiring and she is the character who has grown the most by the end.
I've probably made this sound like quite a serious book but it was really quite light hearted and amusing. The humour of every day life and how silly people (young and old) can be is around every corner. The storyline is intense enough to peak your sense. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
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M. E. Wood lives in Eastern Ontario, Canada. If you are going to find this eclectic reader and writer anywhere it is probably at her computer. For more information visit her official website.
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Zimbabwe could be at the dawn of a political revolution. It could also be business as usual. Amid a confusing week of political spring cleaning in the country, students working towards attaining qualifications in the tertiary sector have spoken out, painting a truly dire picture.
A few days ago BBC News described Zimbabwe as ‘cash-strapped and impoverished’. Despite this the powers that be were poised to initiate a raft of projects in honour of the recently deposed President, Robert Mugabe.
For example, it was revealed earlier this month that the country planned to upgrade its main airport at a cost of US$153 million and to rename it after the man who served as president for 37 years. The airport, currently named Harare International Airport, was to double its passenger capacity, to allow for 6.5 million passengers per year.
Another extravagant project was to include the launching a university worth US$1 billion; also to be named after Mugabe.
Are these plans likely to go ahead? Not much is certain after the military took control of the country on Wednesday 15th, when Mugabe was placed under house arrest.
The military acted after Mugabe sacked Emmerson Mnangagwa. It was Mnangagwa who they knew and trusted; as far as they were concerned he was to be Mugabe’s successor. With pressure from his second wife, however, Mugabe began preparing the way for her to succeed him as President; this was his undoing.
Reuters reported one of the delegates as saying, "He (Mugabe) has been expelled, Mnangagwa is our new leader."
The military is supposedly on a crusade to end corruption in the country. They are arresting government officials in an operation that will reportedly “weed out criminals around President Mugabe.” Incidentally, the officials who have been arrested were closely aligned to Mugabe’s wife, Grace.
The political situation has caused much uncertainty; in a country already reeling from mismanagement; 95% of those with qualifications in the country are unemployed.
And for those presently studying, a history of bad governance presents them with ongoing difficulties.
Ramifications on education and training
Students at the University of Zimbabwe are facing a fees crisis that is leading to many dropouts. Likewise, Zimbabwean distance learners, studying through global online institutions, have expressed their disdain at what has been transpiring in the country. The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has reduced (and in some cases banned) international transfers.
This has made it impossible for students to pay their monthly tuition fees. Some resourceful learners have made arrangements to continue paying.
An accounts department for an online institution mentioned that, “Some debtors are asking for financial aid from relatives out of Zimbabwe, and others travel to Musina (on the South African border) every month to pay tuition fees. They secure the forex from the black market -- really.”
Others have had to drop out.
(Interestingly the response to the flailing economy and the shortage of cash in the country has resulted in people investing in cryptocurrencies. Zimbabwe’s Golix bitcoin exchange rose by 10% on the day of the faux-coup.)
Zimbabwe has the highest adult literacy rate in Africa - approximately 92% of its population can read. Despite this extraordinary statistic, poor governance has resulted in soaring unemployment and devastating poverty.
It seems that the uncertainty in the country may persist for some time, but many do believe that there is a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel. If the new government focusses on rebuilding the country they will not be disappointed, the people of Zimbabwe will do what they can to support them.
Brand, Robert, et al. “Zimbabwe Doesn't Have Its Own Currency and Bitcoin Is Surging.” Bloomberg.com, Bloomberg, 15 Nov. 2017, www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-15/bitcoin-surges-in-zimbabwe-after-military-moves-to-seize-power.
“Is Zimbabwe's Adult Literacy Rate the Highest in Africa?” Africa Check, africacheck.org/reports/is-zimbabwes-adult-literacy-rate-the-highest-in-africa/.
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The government’s anti-terror measures have already attracted accusations that they propose a form of internment without trial, deportation to countries that use torture, and a vague new crime of “glorifying” terrorism. But they also reveal a disturbing willingness to make use of intelligence material that is simply false.
The bill being rushed through parliament includes the proscription of 15 “terrorist” organisations. One of them is the Islamic Jihad Union. This is claimed to operate in the dictatorial central Asian state of Uzbekistan, until recently a key US ally in the “war on terrorism”. But the statement made last week by Hazel Blears, the Home Office minister, included one seriously misleading explanation as to why this group was being banned, and she relayed one straightforward falsehood.
“I have been assured,” she told MPs, “that the group would cause a threat to British interests overseas … The intelligence on which the home secretary reached his decision was from our own sources, so I hope that that reassures members that the matter has been scrutinised properly.”
“There was an explosion in Uzbekistan that killed nine people who were involved in the construction of portable improvised explosive devices”, she elaborated. “Over the following three days, there was a series of shoot-outs and suicide bombings that were carried out in Tashkent, Bokhara and Uzbekistan, leaving about 25 dead and 35 wounded.”
Ms Blears was trotting out the Uzbek government version of events in March 2004. But this string of alleged suicide bombings does not appear to have been anything of the kind. As Britain’s ambassador, I visited the site of each of the bombings within a few hours – or, in one case, minutes – of the alleged explosion.
The physical evidence on the ground did not coincide with the official explanation. For example, each suicide bomber was alleged to be using explosives equivalent to 2kg of TNT. But nowhere, not even at the site of an alleged car bomb, was there a crater, or even a crack in a paving stone. In one small triangular courtyard area a bomb had allegedly killed six policemen. But windows on all sides, at between 10 and 30 metres from the alleged blast, were not damaged; nor was a tree in the middle of the yard. The body of one of the alleged suicide bombers was unmarked, save for a small burn about the size of a walnut on her stomach.
A full account of my investigations of these bombings is to appear in my forthcoming book: one reason, perhaps, why the Foreign Office will seek to block its publication. There is no more reason to believe this version of events in March 2004 than to believe the Uzbek government’s version of the Andijan massacre in May this year. What is more, as ambassador I sent back the details of my investigation to London, and the Joint Terrorism Assessment Centre (Jtac) agreed with my view that there were serious flaws in the Uzbek government account – agreeing with my view that the US was wrong to accept it. I concluded then, and still believe now, that these events were a series of extrajudicial killings covered by a highly controlled and limited agent-provocateur operation.
Why then is this Uzbek government propaganda now being uncritically relayed to the Commons by Hazel Blears? The false information she relayed to MPs is the assurance that the intelligence on the IJU is from our own sources. There was no intelligence material from UK sources on the above events. The UK has no intelligence assets in central Asia. We are dependent on information given to us by the United States’ CIA and NSA. There was information from the NSA. We had NSA communications intercepts of senior al-Qaida figures asking each other if anyone knew what was happening in Tashkent (no one did). Despite the only intelligence we had indicating plainly that al-Qaida was not involved, Colin Powell immediately went on the record in Washington to support the US’s ally, stating specifically that Uzbekistan was under attack from Islamist militant forces linked to al-Qaida. Almost certainly MI6 and MI5 happily accept this nonsense, as it suits their own agenda. But if they pretend that they have independent information, that is a lie.
I am greatly concerned that ministers are prepared to push a security service agenda so uncritically. I am sad but far from astonished that they are so seemingly cavalier with assurances to troubled MPs. There was little time for debate and no opportunity to vote individually on which organisations should be banned.
I am not, in a practical sense, concerned by the proscription of the Islamic Jihad Union. The evidence that this organisation exists at all is extremely tenuous, and if it does it is almost certainly the fruit of an Uzbek agent-provocateur operation. But I am greatly concerned by the glib repetition of propaganda by British ministers. It was the manipulation of dud intelligence for political purposes that led us into Iraq. And was that not a factor in the present wave of terrorism that we face in London?
British Ambassador: Uzbeks Tortured Into Falsely Confessing Al-Qaeda Membership
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Tuesday, January 14th, 2014
It’s scary to think of all the harsh chemicals we ingest daily during harmless activities. Until recently, I didn’t even know that the shampoos, soaps, and cosmetics I was using contained ingredients that were actually dangerous for my health. Many moms are deciding not to take their chances and are instead switching to products made with natural, organic, and easy-to-pronounce ingredients for themselves and their little ones.
Gregg Renfrew, founder of Beautycounter, is one of these moms. After noticing a lack of safe yet stylish products on the market, Renfrew created the body and skin care line, which launched last spring. Renfrew’s Beautycounter products, such as the Everyday Shampoo and Conditioner, are vegan, gluten-free, and made without harmful petrochemicals. Bonus: they come in sleek, sophisticated packaging so you can feel good about replacing some of your old favorites on your vanity.
Of course, parents and their children appreciate different styles and tastes, so with that in mind, Renfrew has decided to extend Beautycounter to create Kidscounter. The line, which launched with its Bath Collection in November, is made with the same healthy goal in mind but with a kid-friendlier approach. The first three products of the kids’ line are the colorful and fruit-scented Nice Do Shampoo, Not a Knot Conditioner, and Squeaky Clean Body Wash, retailing for $16 each.
All of the Beautycounter and Kidscounter products are available for purchase at beautycounter.com or through a local Beautycounter consultant.
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Wireless LAN Tools: Analyze This (Part 1) - Page 2
July 20, 2004
Captured traffic can be used to support real-time monitoring displays, recorded in a capture buffer, or saved to file for later use. Saved captures can be re-opened by the same analyzer or fed into other systems that understand common capture file formats.
Analyzing 802.11 traffic
Captured traffic can be processed and presented in many ways, for example:
- Summarizing AP, station, and channel activity in near-real-time;
- Decoding raw packet content into human-readable protocol fields and values;
- Using name resolution to replace numeric addresses with alphanumeric labels;
- Using display filters to extract focused subsets from previously-captured traffic;
- Reconstructing TCP sessions or application dialogs;
- Presenting tabular or graphed statistics regarding network usage, error rates, etc;
- Creating maps to visualize relationships and traffic flows between network nodes;
- Generating alarms to warn of unexpected traffic and potential problems; and
- Adding protocol-specific expert analysis to provide warnings and recommendations.
These features should be familiar to readers that have used traditional LAN analyzers. To provide these features, WLAN analyzers must have a deep understanding of 802.11 protocols, security vulnerabilities, and potential performance problems.
Many analyzers can also perform one or more functions that meet network planning and administration needs which are unique to wireless LANs:
- A few products provide spectrum analysis, looking not just at 802.11
protocols, but at the underlying radio waves. Spectrum analyzers monitor the
entire band to spot non-802.11 signals that can cause interference, like
Bluetooth and microwave emissions.
- Some programs support "stumbling"discovering wireless LANs by listening to
AP beacons only. These programs often use a GPS to record the approximate
latitude and longitude of discovered APs. Many analyzers can "stumble," but
don't confuse that with programs that only stumble (i.e., shareware that can't
analyze 802.11 data).
- Some analyzers take WLAN discovery a step further by flagging previously
unknown APs or stations (i.e., rogue detection). Handheld WLAN analyzers can
help you find a suspected rogue by providing graphic or audio indication of
signal strength as you move towards the specified device (signal source).
- Some WLAN analyzers assist during site surveys by recording signal and noise
at specified intervals as a surveyor moves through the location where APs are
deployed. Data points exported from analyzers are then fed into site survey
programs that plot coverage on a floorplan, letting you visualize coverage holes
and signal leakage.
- Some WLAN analyzers can either use or behave as "network probes" that
capture traffic in remote locations, forwarding frames to a central "intrusion
detection" system for persistent storage and further analysis. Product
architectures vary, but probes are often sold as turnkey hardware (appliances)
to simplify deployment.
- WLAN traffic can be encrypted by WEP or WPA to inhibit eavesdropping. When
WLAN analyzers capture encrypted data, analysis is limited to the unencrypted
part of the frame. But some WLAN analyzers can be configured with WEP keys or
WPA preshared secrets, letting them decrypt captured traffic to enable payload
- Trouble-shooting WLAN connections and connectivity problems can be tough if you're limited to passive observation. Some WLAN analyzers provide active tools that let them behave as stations, associating with specific APs and generating traffic to measure performance, verify reachability, or (re)play specific packets.
These are just a few of the many features offered by some WLAN analyzers, either when operating solo or when used in conjunction with paired or third-party products.
Thus far, we've given you a quick taste of what WLAN analyzers can do. Of course, WLAN analyzers vary considerably in terms of feature support, processing depth and breadth, presentation style, form factor, platform, and price. (See our List of Open Source WLAN Analyzers.)
Commercial products provide some of the same basic features, like 802.11 frame capture and protocol decoding. But these products tend to offer more sensitive/capable 802.11 drivers, fancier filtering and presentation capabilities, extensive "expert analysis" options, sophisticated trouble-shooting or what-if tools, tighter integration with SNMP managers and WIDS systems, and richer trending, alerting, and reporting features. (See our List of Commercial WLAN Analyzers.)
Reprinted from ISP Planet.
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FreeBSD libedit ".editrc" from Current Directory Vulnerability
If an ".editrc" file exists in the current directory, libedit will incorrectly read its configuration from that file. The correct behaviour is to read ".editrc" from the user's home directory.
Additionally, libedit will not check the ownership of .editrc. Therefore, by creating an .editrc file in the directory from which an application linked to libedit is run, an attacker can cause the application to execute arbitrary key rebindings and exercise terminal capabilities.
ftp(1), for example, is linked to libedit and includes the ability to escape to a shell and execute a command.
The following is believed to be a complete list of statically and dynamically linked FreeBSD system utilities which link against libedit:
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Ocoee Dam No. 1 and Parksville Reservoir
Ocoee No. 1 is the first of three TVA dams on the Ocoee River. Together they form an integral part of TVAs hydroelectric system and provide important recreation benefits.
The U.S. Forest Service operates campgrounds on Parksville Reservoir in the beautiful Cherokee National Forest, and visitors can also stay at a commercially run inn on the reservoir. A number of commercial outfitters supply equipment and organize whitewater rafting trips on the Ocoee River.
The Ocoee, one of the top 10 whitewater rivers in the country, was the whitewater venue for the 1996 Olympics . In 1993, TVA built a 300- by 30-foot model of a section of the river to guide the U.S. Forest Service in constructing the Olympic whitewater course. This model is located near Ocoee Dam No. 1.
More information on Parksville Reservoir
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A limited liability company, or LLC, is a business entity to which property can be gifted and managed. An irrevocable trust is an estate planning tool where property is held on behalf of a future beneficiary. Property placed into an irrevocable trust cannot be taken back and management control is lost. Both an LLC and an irrevocable trust can protect assets, but have different applications.
Fit your business needs with the right LLC package
Limited Liability Company
An LLC is a business entity that combines the pass-through taxation of a sole-proprietorship with the personal liability shield of a corporation. For taxation purposes, an LLC is not considered a separate entity that must pay taxes or assume losses since these matters are taken care of at the individual member level. Individual members of an LLC are not personally liable for business conducted through the LLC. Disadvantages of an LLC include the typical automatic dissolution if a member dies or when the entity files for bankruptcy protection. Also, compared to a sole-proprietorship or partnership, creating an LLC is more complicated.
An irrevocable living trust is established by a grantor, or trustor, on behalf of a beneficiary. A trustee is named to manage the trust. Property in an irrevocable trust is protected from future creditors of the grantor and the beneficiary. Additionally, after five years, when determining Medicaid eligibility, property held in a trust is not considered the asset of the grantor. The disadvantages of an irrevocable trust are that property placed in trust cannot be taken back and you lose management control over the property. An irrevocable trust does not protect against personal liability as does an LLC.
Creation of an LLC is governed by state law. This process normally includes the filing of articles of organization, which list the members of the LLC along with its legal name and address. Payment of a fee is also required. When setting up an irrevocable trust, property and assets are retitled and redeeded in the name of the trust.
Once property is placed into an irrevocable trust, the trustee has control over its management. An irrevocable trust avoids estate tax and any capital gains are erased when trust property is transferred at death. Individuals can form an LLC and gift property to it. Thus, the creator of the LLC retains complete control over property gifted to an LLC. Thus, an irrevocable trust is favored for estate planning purposes and an LLC for property management during your lifetime.
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PubMed Tutorial from The Levy Library: Using Filters: Video
Using Sidebar Filters: NLM's Two Minute Tutorial
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- Click "more..." (found at the end of some category lists) to select additional filters. Then click the filter on the search result page to apply it.
Using Filters: Be Careful
1. Many Filters eliminate the newest articles. Notice that when you applied Review or Randomized Controlled Trial filters, your search results included only citations which have been indexed for MEDLINE.
Some Filters are MeSH terms and their use limits retrieval to indexed MEDLINE records. These eliminate the newest citations: 'PubMed - as supplied by publisher' and 'Pubmed - in process'.
Instead of memorizing which filters eliminate new records, simply scan your results for "as supplied by publisher" and "in process" records before you apply filters. Notice if these newer articles are excluded from your results. If they are excluded, you may want to remove the filters later and check for unindexed citations that look important.
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The Core Clinical Journals filter limits your retrieval to articles in 119 influential clinical journals, such as JAMA, NEJM, Lancet and BMJ. The Core Clinical Journals titles do NOT include core science journals such as Nature and Science.
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All children have the right to learn how to read — no matter what language they speak or where they live.
But, too often, the resources that help kids develop reading skills aren’t available to everyone. The majority of the research on literacy best practices focuses only on alphabetic languages rather than logographic systems like Chinese. Meanwhile, many early grade reading teachers work with students who speak a different language at home than at school — and often don’t have access to training in evidence-based practices to help them understand how learning to read changes for those students.
In March, World Learning’s global education team sought to address those gaps with the launch of Teaching Struggling Readers Around the World, a free massive online open course (also known as a MOOC) created in partnership with The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
The five-week, self-paced course explored the fundamentals of learning to read from a multilingual perspective and shared teaching techniques that can be adapted to any language or cultural context. Rooted in research from around the world, the course drew on World Learning’s expertise in online teacher training as well as its global experience in helping kids learn to read through USAID-funded projects in Lebanon (Quality Instruction Towards Access and Basic Education Improvement) and Pakistan’s Gilgit-Baltistan and Azad Jammu Kashmir territories (Pakistan Reading Project).
“We’re not aware of another set of materials that’s so specifically going out of its way to show how learning to read works in different languages and how to adapt materials to those contexts,” says World Learning Senior Education Specialist Kara McBride. “That is what made it unique.”
Improving global literacy also requires a global community. Course designers — led by Chinese University of Hong Kong professor Catherine McBride, whose research on children’s literacy development and overcoming learning difficulties informed the curriculum — selected the MOOC format to reach a broader swath of teachers than a typical in-person training. They also opened the course to all interested community members, including caretakers and school administrators, to ensure that teachers and children alike have the support they need while learning new reading techniques.
“We want people along the whole value chain to understand what’s really important,” McBride says.
The course was a clear success.
Teaching Struggling Readers Around the World attracted more than 7,500 participants from 99 countries, including the United States, India, Oman, Latvia, Barbados, and the Philippines. It also attracted participants from Pakistan and Lebanon, where World Learning is currently implementing other global education projects. And nearly 40 percent of participants completed the course, which McBride explains is a rare feat among MOOCs, where completion rates tend to hover between 5 and 15 percent. “Forty percent is amazing,” she says.
Moreover, participants came away from the course better equipped to help children learn how to read. In a post-program survey, 99.8 percent of participants agreed the course was a good resource to learn about different reading skills that help identify learners’ strengths and weaknesses, while 99.5 percent of them said the course showed them fun and engaging ways to help children practice reading. Another 99.5 percent described the course as a good resource for teachers, parents, and educators alike.
“As a parent and educator, it helps me know where to start and deal with the reading problem strategically,” says Rialita A. Villarena, a participant from the Philippines. “The course provided me much needed support to grow professionally and be able to give more to my learners. To determine the problem as to where they are rooted is imperative in knowing the appropriate approaches and strategies to use. Our learners learn best in different ways and different styles.”
What set this MOOC apart from other online learning opportunities? For many participants, it was all about the accessible approach to learning. Not only did the course include short, engaging videos, but survey respondents also noted that course materials were written in a digestible way. It also offered practical tips that teachers could immediately apply in their classrooms and activities that parents could apply at home.
But another factor may have been the most important of all. “The research about what keeps people in an online course says that it mostly has to do with some kind of sense of community,” McBride explains.
To cultivate that community, the course designers included discussion boards in every learning module to encourage participants to share ideas with one another as well as with instructors. “We went out of our way to have world-class reading expert facilitators helping the discussion forums along and keeping it interesting and informative,” McBride says.
For participants like Natalie Burnett of Australia, these connections further underscored the multilingual approach to literacy. “Having a forum where people from the around the world were participating in gave me an insight into readers around the world — it was real perspectives, from real people from around the world,” she says.
Though the course has now ended, World Learning expects to offer similar courses again in the future. McBride also argues that its success proves the viability of the MOOC platform — and World Learning’s adaptable, multilingual approach — as a means to ensure that all children have the opportunity to learn how to read.
Learn more about how World Learning is working to ensure everyone has access to a high-quality education through cutting-edge global education programming.
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Who says that fuel-thrifty gasoline-electric hybrid cars have to be snub-nosed, rounded and ho-hum to look at?
Not designers at Ford Motor Co., whose 2013 Ford Fusion Hybrid is arguably the prettiest hybrid car in the U.S. market.
Most people won't recognize this new, curvaceous model as a relative of last year's Ford Fusion. Some sports car enthusiasts thought the test 2013 Fusion Hybrid had styling cues from an Aston Martin luxury sedan.
Better yet, the extensively-revised-for-2013 Fusion Hybrid is quiet inside and larger than its predecessor, has European handling and is rated at 47 miles per gallon in combined city/highway driving by the federal government.
This rating makes the five-seat, 2013 Fusion Hybrid second only to the long-running, mid-size, five-seat Toyota Prius hatchback in fuel efficiency in the U.S. market. The 2012 Prius is rated at a combined 50 mpg by the U.S. government. No 2013 Prius rating is posted yet.
Just as notable is the 2013 Fusion Hybrid's starting retail price of $27,995. This includes the latest technology lithium-ion battery that stores electricity that's generated while the car travels.
The price for the new car is $1,575 less than the starting manufacturer's suggested retail price, including destination charge, of $29,570 for last year's Fusion Hybrid with last year's styling and older, nickel-metal hydride battery.
And, not to be missed, Ford offers a slew of standard and optional safety equipment on the new Fusion Hybrid.
There are eight standard air bags, including two knee air bags for the two front-seat passengers to keep them from "submarining" from their seats during a frontal crash. Optional safety items include a new warning system to alert a driver that an impending frontal collision is possible and attention needs to be directed to a vehicle ahead.
Say a truck just ahead slows, but the Fusion Hybrid driver's foot remains on the gas pedal without change of pressure. The warning system flashes bright red lights onto the driver-side windshield and makes an audible warning sound.
Competitors to the new Fusion Hybrid obviously include the Prius, which has been the top-selling hybrid in the United States. The 2012 Prius has a starting MSRP, including destination charge, of $24,795. No 2013 Prius pricing has been released.
Toyota's Camry Hybrid has a retail starting price of $26,785 as a 2012 model. This is $1,210 less than the stylish 2013 Fusion Hybrid. The five-seat, mid-size Camry Hybrid is rated at a combined 41 mpg.
Meantime, another stylish gas-electric hybrid - the 2012 Hyundai Sonata Hybrid - starts at $26,626, or $1,370 less than the new Fusion Hybrid.
The 2013 Fusion Hybrid is one of three Fusion offerings.
One is a plug-in model that's due later this model year, and the other is a gasoline model that provides a choice of three, four-cylinder engines: A naturally aspirated four cylinder and two turbocharged four cylinders. For 2013, there is no V-6.
All the new Fusions have a new front-wheel drive platform that's a reworked platform from the European Ford Mondeo sedan.
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Works crafted from stone elicit an aura of art as an eternal entity. ‘This is set in stone!’ It has mass and majesty, sitting mightily on the viewer with the weight of expectation and history. The perfect artistic medium, surely? However, for the contemporary artist, stone may contain too much symbolic noise to convey intention without bias. It’s just too heavy, man.
Even prior to being worked, stone suggests almost endless textures and characteristics, requiring time and study to find the complementary partner to the artist’s vision. Stone is not a singular entity and even marble, the popular choice for artists, has different properties depending on its provenance and condition. While a symbol of permanence, stone also has a transformational quality; it ages and, in its aging, matures and deepens in meaning.
Early in 2020 Stone spoke to Trebuchet about carving his social commentary into the material of busts, banks, and dead presidents.
“I really like this idea that you take a flag to stake a claim to territory, but the flag becomes made of the material of the territory itself, which in this instance is the mountain. You have this object left which evokes this presence of a mountain and the elements, with soft ripples of the wind. It could be a flag that a person has put there, but this object is heavy, and it’s an interpretation of a flag, with an identity of its own as sculpture as well. It’s not a nationalistic thing, it’s not like saying ‘I surrender’; it’s transcending that and it draws in other influences, like literary narratives and inequality around flags, and it becomes universal. It’s almost, but not quite, like a magic trick, like a fluctuating cloak, that reveals and conceals its meaning. It’s the same with its making. It’s only when you see both sides, that you feel it is as sculpture. That’s when you go ‘oh, and this is stone’. It’s that moment.
I play with space in different ways, but it’s principally based on curves. A work like tutelar is literally an architecture of figurative curves and movement.
There’s light as a component too, what it does to you; it changes everything, doesn’t it? In a very basic way, the dark of night versus the new morning and all that stuff. But there’s something about the presence of fluidity and curves and movement with light that transcends, including time.”
Main image: Richard Stone, The Rapture (After Henry Moore), 2019.
Richard Stone Artist Website
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. – Aristotle
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Are children with behavioral problems more likely to become asthmatic? This is the question researchers pondered during a study of young children with eczema or atopic dermatitis. Children who have 1 of these conditions are known to have a higher risk of developing asthma. Now, a new study, published recently in Psychosomatic Medicine, suggests that psychologic factors may play a part in the initial onset of asthma.
Using scores from a standardized Behavior Screening Questionnaire (BSQ) for 265 children with atopic dermatitis at the age of 35 to 53 months, the researchers found that 150 developed asthma by age 53 months, compared with 115 who did not. Also, children who developed asthma demonstrated more behavior problems. In the children without asthma by 35 months, a high BSQ score at that age was associated with the onset of asthma by 53 months.
The researchers said that no evidence showed that behavior was affected by asthma after it started. Therefore, behavior problems in this age group are not secondary psychologic reactions to the start of asthma. They believe that behavior problems may be a sign of stress in the child?s life.
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“It’s confronting the empire, and confronting evil. … And you end up relating to that gladiator,” Chavez said as he drove across Venezuela’s southern plains.
He said he felt a deep connection to those plains where he grew up, and that when died he hoped to be buried in the savanna.
“A man from the plains, from these great open spaces … tends to be a nomad, tends not to see barriers. You don’t see barriers from childhood on. What you see is the horizon,” Chavez said.
Chavez wasn’t shy about flaunting his government’s achievements, such as free health clinics staffed by Cuban doctors, new public housing and laptops for needy children.
But even Chavez acknowledged in 2011 that one of his government’s greatest weaknesses was a “lack of efficiency.” He called it “a big error that many times has put in danger the government’s policies.”
Running a revolution ultimately left little time for a personal life. His second marriage, to journalist Marisabel Rodriguez, deteriorated in the early years of his presidency, and they divorced in 2004. In addition to their one daughter, Rosines, Chavez had three children from his first marriage, which ended before he ran for office. His daughters Maria and Rosa often appeared at his side at official events and during his trips.
Chavez acknowledged after he was diagnosed with cancer in June 2011 that he had recklessly neglected his health. He had taken to staying up late and drinking as many as 40 cups of coffee a day. He regularly summoned his Cabinet ministers to the presidential palace late at night.
Even as he appeared with head shaved while undergoing chemotherapy, he never revealed the exact location of tumors that were removed from his pelvic region, or the exact type of cancer.
Chavez exerted himself for one final election campaign in 2012 after saying tests showed he was cancer-free, and defeated younger challenger Henrique Capriles. With another six-year term in hand, he promised to keep pressing for revolutionary changes.
But two months later, he went to Cuba for a fourth cancer-related surgery, blowing a kiss to his country as he boarded the plane.
After a 10-week absence, the government announced that Chavez had returned to Venezuela and was being treated at a military hospital in Caracas. He was never seen again in public.
In his final years, Chavez frequently said Venezuela was well on its way toward socialism, and at least in his mind, there was no turning back.
His political movement, however, was mostly a one-man phenomenon. Only three days before his final surgery, Chavez named Vice President Nicolas Maduro as his chosen successor.
Now, it will be up to Venezuelans to determine whether the Chavismo movement can survive, and how it will evolve, without the leader who inspired it.
Biographical information for this report was contributed by former Caracas bureau chief Ian James.
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Having a positive attitude is one of the easiest things that you can do to help improve your mood and confidence.
Positive affirmations are simple things that you can say out loud, or write in a journal to yourself. These are things like “I'm energetic” “I’m smart” or even “I did a great job on my report last night.” Don’t let negative thoughts cloud your brain. Instead, try to think about the positives in every situation and see if you notice a change in your mood.
When you are reflecting on a stressful situation or biting your nails while thinking about tomorrow try to erase the negativity from your mind. Give yourself a pat on the back” by telling yourself that you tried your best, even if the outcome wasn’t what you wanted. Tell yourself simple things to help boost your confidence and focus.
Ideally Affirmations should be:
2 minutes a day
Popular times are immediately after waking up and right before bed while thinking about your day
Constantly being in a negative mindset may trap you into a false sense of failure. There is a popular saying “think it into reality.” Tell yourself in the morning that you aren’t tired and are ready to get up and go.
Positive affirmations can help rewire your brain to lessen your fears and insecurities. Although there is no guarantee of success - the cost of reassuring yourself is just 3-4 seconds of thinking or journal writing.
Do not let your positive affirmation make you ignore true obstacles.
Great mindset or Journal/pen
Tony Robins (incantations)
Morning or before bed
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President of Somalia
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Federal Republic of Somalia
Madaxaweynaha Jamhuuriyadda Federaalka Soomaaliyeed
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|Inaugural holder||Aden Abdullah Osman Daar|
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The president of Somalia (Somali: Madaxaweynaha Soomaaliya) is the head of state of Somalia. The President is also commander-in-chief of the Somali Armed Forces. The president represents the Federal Republic of Somalia, and the unity of the Somali nation, as well as ensuring the implementation of the Constitution of Somalia and the organized and harmonious functioning of the organs of state. The office of President of Somalia was established with the proclamation of the Republic of Somalia on 1 July 1960. The first president of Somalia was Aden Abdullah Osman Daar. The current office-holder is the 9th president Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed ‘Farmaajo’, since 16 February 2017.
The first president of Somalia was Aden Abdullah Osman Daar, one of the leaders of the Somali Youth League (SYL), who took office on 1 July 1960, the day on which Somalia was declared a republic. Since then the office has been held by seven further people: Abdirashid Ali Shermarke, Mohamed Siyad Barre, Ali Mahdi, Abdiqasim Salad, Abdullahi Yusuf, Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, and Hassan Sheikh Mohamud. In addition, Sheikh Mukhtar acted as President between Sharmarke's assassination and the coup d'état, and Aden Madobe acted as President after Yusuf's resignation in the 2008.
Sharif Sheikh Ahmed took office on 31 January 2009, after being elected by the presidential election held on January 2009. Ahmed's term as President of Somalia officially ended In August 2012, concurrent with the conclusion of the transitional federal government's mandate and the start of the federal government of Somalia. He was succeeded in office by General Muse Hassan, who had been serving in an interim capacity.
Qualifications and election
In order to become the president of Somalia, the candidate must:
(a) Be a Somali citizen and a Muslim; (b) Be not less than forty years of age; (c) Have relevant knowledge or experience for the role; (d) Be sound of mind; and (e) Not have been convicted by a court of a major crime.
The election of the president must begin at least 30 days before the term of office of the incumbent president expires or 10 days after the presidency falls vacant, and must be completed within 30 days of the beginning of the election, Candidates must be declared to the bureau of the parliament within the first 10 days of this period, and elections must be completed within the remaining 20 days.
Formerly, the president was elected by the members of the Somali Parliament, requirements and who are eligible to become members of Parliament.
Term of office
The president is selected for a term of office of four years, with no term limits specified in the constitution. The term of office of the incumbent president continues until the president-elect takes office. On assuming office, the president takes the following oath before the parliament;
|“||I swear in the name of Allah that I will perform my duties honestly and in the best interest of the Nation, People, and Religion, and that I will abide by the Constitution and the other Laws of the Country.||”|
Duties and responsibilities
An outline of the duties are as follow:
- Appoint the prime minister,
- Serve as Commander-in-Chief of the Somali Armed Forces;
- Declare a state of emergency and war in accordance with the law,
- Appoint and dismiss the commanders of the forces at the federal government level on the recommendation by the Council of Ministers;
- Dismiss ministers, state ministers and deputy ministers on the recommendation of the prime minister;
- Sign draft laws passed by the federal Parliament in order to bring them into law;
- Open the House of the People of the Federal Parliament;
- Hold an annual session with the House of the People of the Federal Parliament;
- Appoint the chairman of the Constitutional Court, the High Court, and other judges at the federal government level in accordance with the recommendation of the Judicial Service Commission;
- Appoint senior federal government officials and the heads of the federal government institutions on the recommendation of the Council of Ministers;
- Appoint ambassadors and high commissions on the recommendation of the Council of Ministers;
- Receive foreign diplomats and consuls;
- Confer state honors on the recommendation of the Council of Ministers;
- Dissolve the House of the People of the Federal Parliament when its term expires, thereby prompting new elections;
- Pardon offenders and commute sentences on the recommendation of the Judicial Service Commission; and
- Sign international treaties proposed by the Council of Ministers and approved by the House of the People of the Federal Parliament.
List of presidents of Somalia
Living former presidents
As of June 2019[update], there are four living former presidents of Somalia, as seen below.
born 1939 (age 81)
born 1941 (age 79)
born 1964 (age 56)
born 1955 (age 64)
The most recent president to die was Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed (served 2004–2008), on 23 March 2012, at the age of 77.
- Lists of office-holders
- *Provisional Constitution (adopted August 1, 2012)
- The Illustrated Library of The World and Its Peoples: Africa, North and East, Greystone Press: 1967, p. 338
- "Office of the Somali Parliament". Office of the Somali Parliament. Retrieved 24 August 2012.
- "Somalia Federal Parliament elects Hassan Sheikh Mohamud as President". Garowe Online. 10 September 2012. Archived from the original on 13 September 2012. Retrieved 10 September 2012.
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Updated: July 5, 2013 12:04 AM EST
Calif teen rescues 11-year-old girl from oceanThe Associated Press
Christian Lozano was sitting on a Ventura beach last week when he saw a head poking up from the waves. He soon heard a cry for help and knew what he had to do.
Lozano ran into the heavy surf, grabbed the 11-year-old girl and the pair made it to shore safely after a few harrowing moments.
The 16-year-old Young Marine is being hailed a hero by Maya Harding's family who wanted to express their thanks for what he did.
"I feel a sense of obligation and a sense of gratitude ... Any way I can help him going forward in life, I would be happy to do so," the girl's grandfather Paul Harding told the Bakersfield Californian (http://bit.ly/19XR1mQ).
Lozano feared the girl was going to die if someone didn't help her. He believes his years of surfing and his training with the Young Marines, a national nonprofit education and service program that teaches leadership, teamwork and self-discipline, prepared him for the rescue.
But Lozano struggled to keep from crashing into the pilings of the Ventura Pier as he tried to make it back to land with Maya, who held onto him tightly as the waves overtook them.
"When I started feeling the current, I knew that if I wasn't going to put all my strength into it, we could (both be) dead," Lozano said.
Lozano was greeted by strangers who rushed to congratulate him when he and Maya got to the beach. Harding said his granddaughter wants to meet her rescuer in person.
John Gonzales, executive officer of Bakersfield Young Marines, said he has a letter ready to send to the program's national offices in Washington, D.C., recommending Lozano for the group's Lifesaving First Degree ribbon.
Lozano has made his family proud and the rescue affirmed his career goals to join the Marine Corps and then the U.S. Coast Guard.
"I know now that I could save someone's life," he said.
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Grantham University enable students from anywhere to study for and gain recognised accreditation that is valueble to their work and their personal development. Online education allow learners to participate from geographically isolated locations without the need to come to campus. The tuition for these courses includes a distance learning fee. In distance learning classes, the instructor and students are apart from one another for some or all of the allotted learning time. Online learning programs require that learners log in on a regular basis to accomplish education requirements and obtain feedback from the lecturer.
Student assessment can be a powerful and helpful aid in the learning process. With many online items, pre-assessments are available to decide which subjects learners are already familiar with so that they can focus on main subjects where they need help. These programs have a modular concept, that means they can be educated one step at a time, to fit in with students’ other commitments. Also, due they are performed as online learning, there is no need to come class even for a day, there are no classes, and learning can be performed out at a time, pace and place to suit the delegate.
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In the early days of the internet, people had to be concerned about whether the person they were interacting with...
online was lying about physical features or how much money they make.
But now, whether it's on Facebook, Twitter or internet dating profiles, consumers have to now question whether who they are interacting with are real people. This poses big questions for modern companies as they try to build digital trust with customers in the digital economy, said David Birch, director of innovation at Consult Hyperion.
"Right now, you don't know what's real when it's a Twitter bot, soon you won't know what's real with audio," said Birch during remarks at the KNOW Identity Conference in Washington, D.C., last week. "You can't even tell if it's a real person."
Innovations in the digital ID field were a big topic at the KNOW Identity Conference as more companies turn to tech such as biometrics and machine-learning-based authentication techniques. Questions about verifying digital ID are a big reason why companies are looking for tech-based answers, Birch said.
It's up to the industry to come up with solutions to these digital ID questions, he added, and to develop the tech-based tools and techniques to do something about it.
"Our ideas of trust don't work: We have to have new way of thinking," Birch said.
One company that is heeding the call is Airbnb, said Nick Shapiro, global head of trust and risk management at Airbnb. During his keynote at the conference, Shapiro noted that Airbnb's business model is built on digital trust -- especially since it relies on people trusting complete strangers in their homes.
Nick Shapiroglobal head of trust and risk management, Airbnb
"Our product is trust," said Shapiro, who before Airbnb was deputy chief of staff for the CIA and senior counterterrorism aid for President Obama. "That's what we're working to facilitate every day, and we're doing it in one of the most incredible times in society in terms of trust -- and that's because it seems like there isn't any."
Society in general is going through what Shapiro called a "crisis of trust" right now, where trust in main institutions -- business, media, government and even nonprofits -- is plummeting. And because unfiltered, blatantly false information can flow so quickly all over the world, it's easy to sow this distrust online.
"But at the same time, trust is a fundamental currency of the sharing economy," Shapiro said. "Why is the sharing economy thriving when it's built on trust? Technology has a big part in that."
Airbnb uses a hierarchy of needs approach built on safety, transparency and support, Shapiro said. Every Airbnb reservation incorporates machine learning, predictive analytics and behavioral analysis to instantly evaluate hundreds of different signals on the reservation to determine red flags that would prevent the reservation from being approved.
Every host and guest worldwide is checked against terrorist watch lists and financial screening lists. Scam prevention is also a priority: To take away the motivation of scammers, guests don't pay until 24 hours after check-in.
"The internet and scams are basically synonyms," Shapiro said. "But on Airbnb we've made it very easy to book safely as long as you stay on the platform."
"In addition to running workshops that outline how to keep homes safe, Airbnb also uses technology to bolster safety. The company, for example, provides apps to guests with information such as emergency contacts for the area and where fire extinguishers are in the home.
Every host and guest also has a detailed profile webpage where people can learn about each other before making a reservation. Once a reservation is booked, they can also use a private messaging app through Airbnb to discuss issues about the stay.
These aspects are part of another essential element of Airbnb's business model: to build digital trust between Airbnb customers themselves, Shapiro said. By using tech to provide customers with actionable information, Airbnb is helping build this digital trust for the company, and between their customers.
"That doesn't magically take place, it takes work," Shapiro said. "You have to facilitate that trust. You have to earn that trust. You have to build that trust. And technology plays a huge role in that."
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Celebrate West Nebraska Cattle Ranching
The history of Sandhills ranch life is on display at Arthur Bowring Ranch State Historical Park, a 7,202-acre ranch located three miles north and east of Merriman off Highway 20. Former U.S. Senator Eve Bowring managed the ranch until her death in 1985 at age 92. Her wish was to preserve the ranch as a turn-of-the-20th-century working cattle ranch and living history museum.
It’s a great opportunity to see ranch life up close. A visitor center houses artifacts and memorabilia of early ranching days. Corrals, barns, bunkhouses, and even a sod house are open to the public.
The park also boasts a collection you might not expect on a ranch. Eve Bowring was a world traveler and passionate collector of antique china, silver, and glass. Her amazing collection is displayed inside the ranch house.
Buildings and grounds are open Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The grounds are open from 9 a.m. to sunset the rest of the year. A state park permit is required. (308) 684-3428.
While in the area, don’t miss Cottonwood Lake State Recreation Area, a half-mile east of Merriman on Highway 20 and a half-mile south. Fishing, boating, and tent camping are available. A state park permit is required. (308) 684-3428
For more information about Valentine and area attractions, contact the Valentine Visitor Center at (800) 658-4024 or visit http://visitvalentine.org/
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Here’s something you don’t see every day. Airbnb, the popular room-sharing app, has made a plea to the mayors of the largest U.S. cities asking to be taxed.
The company’s head of global policy, Chris Lehane, addressed the attendees of the United States Conference of Mayors earlier this year with a proposal to work together to help cities collect tax revenue from the peer-to-peer transactions that occur on its platform.
In a world littered with stories about corporations trying to limit their tax exposure, this one definitely merits a closer look.
I first wrote about the tax issues confronting Airbnb and other peer-to-peer, sharing economy-type businesses back in 2014. At the time, the New York Attorney General Eric. T. Schneiderman had just brought a suit against the company for refusing to provide the names of its New York customers. Authorities wanted those names because they suspected that Airbnb hosts who rented their homes using the service may not have paid taxes on the income and, in some cases, violated New York housing laws.
A similar phenomenon began playing out in other cities where Airbnb had developed a cult-like following of homeowners eager to earn a buck and travelers happy to get a great price for an authentic living experience in another city.
The root of the issue is the peer-to-peer business model Airbnb uses, which allows individuals to circumvent the traditional supply chain checkpoints for taxation and regulation. In New York, for example, state law prohibits people from renting their homes for fewer than 30 days unless the occupants are also present. Why? Because these types of short-term rentals have traditionally been the domain of the hotel industry, for which the state and local municipalities – notably New York City – have set up special sales and occupancy taxes. By cutting out the hotel, travelers also cut out a valuable chunk of tax revenue for the city and state.
Recognizing that their own pace of innovation has moved faster than the pace of regulation, Airbnb has begun lobbying to change those laws so that the revenue generated through their peer-to-peer room sharing model is taxed appropriately.
The report specifically calls out New York, by far Airbnb’s largest market, as area requiring particular attention because the current tax laws in the state would need to be changed significantly before tax could be collected on their home sharing business model.
It’s a fascinating situation. Essentially Airbnb has innovated itself into a corner. To get out of it, they’re looking to municipal tax authorities to move just as quickly. Will it work?
So far, a few early adopters, including San Francisco, California; Portland, Oregon; Ontario, British Columbia; Alabama; and Brevard County, Florida have taken the lead on making deals with Airbnb and are now collecting tax revenue from the company on behalf of property owners. Several other state and municipal tax authorities, including Honolulu, Hawaii and Arizona have also introduced new legislation to make it happen.
Others have been less enthusiastic. The Santa Barbara City Council put an outright ban on Airbnb-style short-term vacation rentals and, in a closely-watched legislative battle in Virginia, in which lawmakers had introduced some of the most progressive room-sharing tax proposals in the country, legislation was postponed largely due to strong opposition from hotel groups.
It’s a complicated situation to be sure, one that will play out in cities and towns throughout the country as Airbnb rapidly becomes the poster child for a new form of business existentialism: I pay taxes, therefore I am.
This post originally appeared on Forbes.
How are multinational corporations reacting to and preparing for BEPS?
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Barry University’s Center for Community Service Initiatives Presents a Deliberative Dialogue
Environmental Sustainability: Who Will Be Left Behind?
As environmental sustainability becomes increasingly important to public health, economic growth, and quality of life, communities and demographic groups are at risk of not being protected. What practices and policies can be implemented to ensure that the benefits of environmental health are accessible to everyone?
Join us for an engaging dialogue on this important issue.
Thursday, April 10
Andreas Building, Room 111
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Miami Shores, FL 33161
Movements such as Green Urbanism, environmental stewardship, eco-technologies, environmentalism and civil rights, social ecology, race, and class will be explored in this open community discussion. Visit www.barry.edu/service for details on how you can help communities and the environment.
This event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be provided.
For more information, please contact the Center for Community Service Initiatives by emailing email@example.com or calling 305-899-3696.
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For nearly six decades, this insulation has built a solid performance record in commercial and industrial applications. It is used for spray foam roofing and insulation, also contributed to making sofa cushions, car dashboards, carpet padding, etc, and its insulating properties have made it ideal for refrigerator walls, tanks, refrigerated tractor trailers, and the home building envelope.
Recently, savvy homebuyers have become aware of the advantages, payback times, and investment value of home energy efficiency measures, especially those improving the efficiency of the building envelope. In addition, the spray foam industry has made major advances in the chemical composition and durability of the foam. Moreover, improvements in spray foam application technology have decreased installation costs, bringing this type of insulation system within the reach of the residential homeowner.
How it works:
The installer fabricates the foam on-site according to manufacturer’s instructions. He or she brings the application equipment and the foam’s chemical components to the home-building site, where framing, electrical, and plumbing are complete, and exterior siding encloses the home. A controlled reaction among a number of mixed chemicals, a blowing agent, and some other additives get proportioned, heated and pressurized. When the components leave the proportioning unit it goes through a heated hose assembly and reaches a specially designed foam gun. When the gun is triggered the foam components get mixed in a chamber within the gun and are then released as a mixed plural component foam compound. The liquid covers the surface desired and the foam expands to fill crevices and the space chosen to be insulated. The fully cured and expanded foam is then trimmed back if necessary. The exposed surfaces of the rigid foam resemble a hard tan colored shaving cream.
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Department of Mathematics
Meshless simulations of the two-dimensional fractional-time convection–diffusion–reaction equations
The aim of this work is to propose a numerical approach based on the local weak formulations and finite difference scheme to solve the two-dimensional fractional-time convection-diffusion-reaction equations. The numerical studies on sensitivity analysis to parameter and convergence analysis show that our approach is stable. Moreover, numerical demonstrations are given to show that the weak-form approach is applicable to a wide range of problems; in particular, a forced-subdiffusion-convection equation previously solved by a strong-form approach with weak convection is considered. It is shown that our approach can obtain comparable simulations not only in weak convection but also in convection dominant cases. The simulations to a subdiffusion-convection-reaction equation are also presented. © 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Fractional differential equations, Geometric time grids, Memory effect, Meshless local Petrov-Galerkin, Moving least-squares
Source Publication Title
Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements
Link to Publisher's Edition
Shirzadi, Ahmad, Leevan Ling, and Saeid Abbasbandy. "Meshless simulations of the two-dimensional fractional-time convection–diffusion–reaction equations." Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements 36.11 (2012): 1522-1527.
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THE RELIGIOUS HABIT
The habit is probably the first thing that people notice about the Brothers. It's a sign that gives rise to various questions; in particular: "Why wear a religious habit?", "Why a gray habit?"
The decision to wear a religious habit was made at the beginning of the community and responds above all to a desire for fidelity to the Church which, at the time of the Second Vatican Council, presented the religious habit once more as a "sign of their consecration" (Perfectae caritatis, 17).
The habit is a sign of belonging. It distinguishes, points out, and reminds the one who wears it that he represents his Community, and by extension, the Church.
More precisely, the religious habit bears witness to a life consecrated to the Kingdom of God. Just as the habit envelops the entire body, this consecration takes hold of our entire being. Just as the habit is worn throughout the day, this consecration is for one's whole life.
But as for the choice of a habit... a "work habit" was needed and the Brothers chose, with a few minor modifications, the work habit worn by the Cistercians at Hauterive, an abbey near Fribourg which the brothers often visited.
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The United States government revoked Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's business and tourist visa on Friday, March 18.
The US State Department also denied the Bharatiya Janata Party leader a diplomatic visa to visit the US.
Modi was scheduled to travel to the US on Saturday night to attend the Asian American Hotel Owners Association conference in Florida.
The reason given by the US embassy was that Modi's government violated the right of religious freedom in Gujarat.
The move sparked strong reactions in India and the US. While progressives and Islamic activists in America hailed the move as a victory for pluralism, the Bharatiya Janata Party said that denying a democratically elected leader a visa was an insult to the Indian Constitution.
Here is what Narendra Modi had to say on the controversy:
The US embassy in New Delhi told my officials in New Delhi, who were handling my visa papers on my behalf, that the State Department has decided against giving me a diplomatic visa as recommended by the Ministry of External Affairs in a letter dated February 28, 2005.
I had been invited by the Asian American Hotel Owners Association to preside over a conference. I also had an invitation from an American university.
The US also cancelled the ten-year visa that had been granted to me in 1998, which was still valid.
Between 1990 and 2002, I visited America several times, each time at the invitation of the US government. So when the news of the denial of my visa was communicated to me around 11am on Friday I was shocked and surprised.
I was shocked because I hold a Constitutional post and there has been no precedent of a Constitutional head being treated in this manner, and surprised because the action came from a government that claims to be a democracy and refuses to respect an elected chief minister.
The reason advanced was not only intriguing but beyond one's comprehension. The American embassy said they have denied me a visa for my religious intolerance.
I have been told what more could we have expected from the US administration which humiliated George Fernandes when he visited the country in his capacity as India's defence minister.
No, I did not expect this kind of treatment.
In 1984, after the assassination of then prime minister Indira Gandhi, thousands of Sikhs were killed in Delhi and elsewhere. But the same USA accorded her son Rajiv Gandhi a red carpet welcome six months after he took over as prime minister.
Pakistan has been sending terrorists from across the border and is responsible for forcing Kashmir Pandits to flee their homes, but the same United States accords a warm welcome to Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf.
But Narendra Modi is denied a visa on grounds of religious intolerance.
I appreciate the stand taken by the Government of India and the Ministry of External Affairs in this matter and the kind of support they have shown me. I am indebted to Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh for his bold decision.
This is not just a question of the denial of a visa to Narendra Modi. This is an issue of the right of all Indians and our swabhimaan.
Let us wait and see what response the US administration has to the protest lodged by the Indian government.
If they do not change their stand then India should be prepared to raise its pitch and make its voice heard in the international community.
How would the American government feel if the Indian government denies a visa to the US army chief because of what the US army has done in Iraq and Afghanistan?
Narendra Modi spoke to rediff.com Chief Correspondent Onkar Singh
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Today I’ve been asked to attend an event designed to provide mentoring to young people. The format of the event puts me at a table with 2-3 people for 20 minute sessions to answer questions and dish out advice.
It got me thinking… what do I wish I had known before I started my career? My first thought was… everything! But that’s not really true. Some of the fun in life is the journey. Without the ups and downs we wouldn’t be the people we are today. Still, there are a lot of things that would have been useful to know.
So, I decided to jot down a few ideas based on my own experience. Some items from this list are things I wish I had known, and some are things I wish other people would have known. By all means, I hope you’ll add to the list if you think of something I missed.
- Listening is the most important tool in the business arsenal. Before you give your opinion, ask others for their opinion first. If you’re going to agree it makes it easy. If you’re going to disagree you’ll know before they do and be able to change your delivery to “sell” your idea to others. And when you ask a question, be patient as you wait for an answer. Knowledge is power and your goal should be to get as much as you can while giving out only what is absolutely necessary.
- Patience is a prerequisite to success. Everyone is looking for the quick buck, but no one wants to earn it. Heck, I understand. I wish for the same thing too! But it just doesn’t work that way. If you’re going to be successful you are going to have to resign yourself to the fact that it’s going to take hard work, and a lot of it!
- 40 hours a week won’t make you rich. Think about it. You can’t expect to work the same hours as 95% of the population, but somehow be in the top 1% of incomes. If your main goal is financial in nature you are going to have to really work in the same general percentage of the bell curve as you want to be rewarded.
- Don’t judge a book by its cover. The only thing that matters in a business setting is how much a person contributes to the overall cause. It doesn’t matter how they look, or if they boast about how great they are. The only thing that counts at the end of the day is if they are continuing to move the business forward.
- Whoever said “I didn’t learn anything useful in school” was an idiot. It’s true, you can’t learn everything in school, some things only come with experience. But believe me, you are going to have to learn everything, so get yourself a huge head start by learning it early and you’ll leapfrog all the other people who are sitting around wondering “why do I need to know this”?
- Whiny, angry people are destined for failure. If you have a bad temper, or if you find yourself complaining a lot, you need to work on that. No one in a work environment wants to see either of those things. You have to be calm, cool and collected to solve problems, and problem solving is what business is all about. Don’t even bother pointing out problems unless you plan on being part of the solution.
- Work harder than anyone around you. Arrive earlier, take shorter lunch breaks, and leave late. Not only will you get more actual work done than your peers, the folks in charge will love you and consider you for advancement.
- Keep your personal and work life separate. You need to be friendly at work, but never, never forget it’s a competitive environment. Tell people you have problems at home and everyone will soon think, “it’s affecting your work”. Tell people things are going great and they’ll think, “its affecting your work”. You need to craft your work image carefully, and protect it like your reputation counts on it! Oh, and don’t drink. Getting drunk around people you work with is a recipe for disaster.
- Take calculated risks. Risk, generally speaking, is a bad thing. Calculated risks however, can leapfrog a career. A calculated risk is one you feel has been thoroughly investigated, has a reasonable chance of success, and most importantly leaves you with viable options in case of failure. I’ve seen too many people take huge risks and fail because they simply lack the patience to wait for the success that comes from hard work.
- Don’t be so certain you’re right. Every day I see people assert things they know to be “true” only to be proven wrong. The world is not black and white, so keep your ego in check and constantly challenge your own assumptions. Do the research to back up your opinions, but remember that the research could be flawed. Don’t be afraid to try things, but don’t be too proud to admit when it doesn’t work.
I’ve got some seriously successful folks who read this blog, so even if you’ve never left a comment, now’s a good time! Got anything to add to the list? It’s for the kids!
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ScienceDaily (July 18, 2012) — Despite the development of new bioengineering protocols, building a tooth from stem cells remains a distant goal. Demand for it exists as loss of teeth affects oral health, quality of life, as well as one’s appearance. To build a tooth, a detailed recipe to instruct cells to differentiate towards proper lineages and form dental cells is needed. However, the study of stem cells requires their isolation, and a lack of a specific marker has hindered studies so far.
Researchers in the group of Professor Irma Thesleff at the Institute of Biotechnology in Helsinki, Finland have now found a marker for dental stem cells, according to ScienceDaily. The researchers showed that the transcription factor Sox2 is specifically expressed in stem cells of the mouse incisor (front tooth). The mouse incisor grows continuously throughout life and this growth is fueled by stem cells located at the base of the tooth. These cells offer an excellent model to study dental stem cells.
The researchers developed a method to record the division, movement, and specification of these cells. By tracing the descendants of genetically labeled cells, they also showed that Sox2 positive stem cells give rise to enamel-forming ameloblasts as well as other cell lineages of the tooth.
Although human teeth don’t grow continuously, the mechanisms that control and regulate their growth are similar as in mouse teeth. Therefore, the discovery of Sox2 as a marker for dental stem cells is an important step toward developing a complete bioengineered tooth. In the future, it may be possible to grow new teeth from stem cells to replace lost ones, says researcher Emma Juuri, a co-author of the study.
Source: Reprinted from materials provided by Helsingin yliopisto (University of Helsinki), via AlphaGalileo.
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When drivers approached the Road Ranger Gas Station in Lombard, Ill., last Friday, they were surely surprised to see gasoline selling for almost $2 less than the usual price. But this sale wasn’t an act of pure generosity or a sign of any drastic economic change. Instead, it was part of a protest aimed squarely at President Obama’s energy policies, and the cost — $1.88 per gallon of regular unleaded gas — mirrored the price when Obama took office in 2009, CBS reports.
The Chicago-area station, where fuel typically starts at $3.70 a gallon, briefly participated in “Obama’s Failing Agenda Tour,” organized by an advocacy group called Americans for Prosperity. The group has traveled nationwide to offer gasoline at 2009 prices for a few hundred drivers at each stop. The tour’s director, David From, told CBS that the President is too averse to new oil drilling, particularly here at home.
From posted on the Patch News site for a nearby suburb, Grayslake, to alert residents that his tour would be stopping at seven locations in Illinois. Now, the organization has moved on to Ohio.
Customers, however, are perhaps more interested in the savings than the politics. “I am here because it’s $1.88,” one Lombard driver told CBS. “I am not against the president’s policies.”
Whether you’re a Democrat or Republican, fervently political or indifferent, one thing holds true: no one wants to pass up a good deal.
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Selecting Authoring Tools
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introduction - responsibilities - assessment - policy - software - training - development - promotion - monitoring - [outline]
After an organization makes a commitment to make its Web site accessible, it is important to plan the process for implementing accessibility. This page lists detailed considerations for the planning process. Actual implementation plans will vary from organization to organization, and optimal order of the steps below will also vary.
To return to the outline version of this page, select "outline" here or above.
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“Higher sugar, fat, and salt make you want to eat more,” a high-level food industry executive told me. I had already read this in the scientific literature and heard it in conversations with neuroscientists and psychologists. Now an insider was saying the same thing.
My source was a leading food consultant, a Henry Ford of mass-produced food who had agreed to part the curtain for me, at least a bit, to reveal how his industry operates. To protect his business, he did not want to be identified.
But he was remarkably candid, explaining that the food industry creates dishes to hit what he called the “three points of the compass.” Sugar, fat and salt make a food compelling, said the consultant. They make it indulgent. They make it high in hedonic value, which gives us pleasure.
“Do you design food specifically to be highly hedonic?” I asked.
“Oh, absolutely,” he replied without a moment’s hesitation. “We try to bring as much of that into the equation as possible.”
During the past two decades there has been an explosion in our ability to access and afford highly palatable foods. Restaurants—where Americans spend 50 percent of today’s food dollar—sit at the epicenter of this explosion.
Countless new foods have been introduced in restaurants, and most of them hit the three points of the compass. Sugar, fat and salt are either loaded onto a core ingredient (such as meat, vegetable, potato or bread), layered on top of it or both. Deep-fried tortilla chips are an example of loading—the fat is contained in the chip itself. When a potato is smothered in cheese, sour cream and sauce, that’s layering.
I asked the food consultant to describe the ingredients in some foods commonly found in popular restaurants today.
“Buffalo Blasts: chicken breast, cheese and our spicy buffalo sauce, all stuffed in a spiced wrapper and fried until crisp. Served with celery sticks and blue cheese dressing.”
For a moment the food consultant just laughed. “What can I say? That’s fat, sugar and salt.” Chicken breast allows us to suspend our guilt because it suggests a low-fat dish, and the celery sticks also hint at something healthy. But the cheese layer is at least 50 percent fat and carries a load of salt, and the buffalo sauce adds a layer of sugar on salt. That dough wrapper—a simple carbohydrate—is fried and so absorbent that he called it a “fat bomb.”
Just as chicken becomes the carrier for fat in the Buffalo Blasts, pizza crust can be a carrier for sugar and fat. Caesar salads are built as an excuse to carry fat and salt. We double-fry french fries, first at the manufacturing plant and then in the restaurant. Our hamburgers are layered with bacon and cheese. We add cheese to spinach, batter our fish before frying it, and slather our Mexican food with cheese. As we do, each one of these foods “becomes more compelling, more hedonic,” said the consultant.
As our conversation wound down, he walked me to the door of his office and paused, as if choosing his words carefully. Then, with the certainty of an insider, he observed that the food industry is “the manipulator of the consumers’ minds and desires.”
Reprinted from The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite, © 2009 by David A. Kessler, M.D. Permission granted by Rodale, Inc.
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Name: Lincoln Smith
Job: Tow Truck Operator and Owner, Areo Towing & Recovery
The Kaimuki High School graduate got the idea to start his own towing company in 2012 when he was working as a security guard at a location where he often had to call tow companies. “I picked up a used tow truck and practiced maneuvering my own car, friends’ cars or cars that were donated to me,” Smith recalls. “If I had questions, I would Google the answer or ask veteran tow companies.
“I do emergency response, towing, recovery, traffic and parking control, lockouts, fluid delivery, hazardous cleanup, tire changes, battery jump-starts and basic vehicle maintenance.”
What It Takes: “You have to be willing to work under pressure without supervision, have a passion to help others, but also be willing to take enforcement action if needed. You should have first-aid/CPR/AED defibrillator skills; basic knowledge of vehicles, traffic and parking control; and a basic knowledge of hazmat/chemical/fire/electrical hazards. “The job is very dangerous, so training, education and an alert mind are very important.”
Challenges: “Other drivers at times do get in the way by delaying me from getting to an emergency scene by blocking me or cutting me off on the road. Drivers sometimes never slow down or move over when I’m at a scene performing roadside assistance, even though I have detour signs out and vehicle hazard lights on. “The hardest part of the job is the enforcement side, such as ticketed vehicles, repossessions or vehicles that are trespassing, where people look at me as the bad guy – not thinking there is always a reason why I have to take action against the vehicle.”
Payment: “I was forced to change my policy by collecting money or a credit card number upfront after being stiffed a few times after a tow. However, safety is always first, so if the location is unsafe, I would take my chances in getting stiffed.”
Sleep: “I’m on call 24/7 – my phone never turns off. At times, the calls do affect my free time with family and friends, and my sleep time. This is why I make friends with other tow companies or hire workers.”
Unusual Accident: “I arrived to find this vehicle in a parking lot with a sign pole lodged into the transmission, with transmission fluid everywhere. The only way I could figure out how to remove the pole from the vehicle without causing more damage, was to pull the vehicle off the pole the opposite way it had gone on. The pole was cemented onto the ground, so I couldn’t pull it out. I still can’t figure out how that person damaged their vehicle.”
This interview has been edited for clarity and conciseness.
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Clarkson University Construction Engineering & Management Team Competes
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Late last semester, eleven Clarkson University students on the Construction Engineering & Management SPEED (Student Projects for Engineering Experience & Design) team competed in the 22nd annual Student Competition for the Associated Schools of Construction Region 1 in Morristown, N.J.
Two teams traveled to the competition -- one to compete in the Commercial Building competition, and the other to compete in the Heavy Civil competition.
The two-day competition involved planning, estimating, and presenting on a complex construction project.
The Commercial Building Team worked on the development of a multi-story adult nursing facility.
The Heavy Civil Team completed a project involving environmental improvements to a shipping lane canal in the Louisiana Bayou.
The Commercial Building Team, was comprised of senior civil engineering majors Adam Powers (captain) of Clayton, N.Y.; Chelsea Eames of Canandaigua, N.Y; Cameron Sitarek of Darien Center, N.Y.; Jessica Andrychuk of Hilton N.Y.; and Kaitlyn Murray; and junior civil engineering major Lucas Short of Plattsburgh, N.Y.
The Heavy Civil Team was comprised of senior civil engineering majors Dan Olivieri (CEM Team Captain) of Maryland, N.Y.; Tim Mills (captain) of Mannsville, N.Y.; Monique Choiniere of North Bangor, N.Y.; and Kevin Brostek of Mineola, N.Y.; and junior civil engineering major Lee Cadby of Lancaster, N.Y.
The Construction Engineering & Management Team, advised by Professor Spencer Thew, director of the Construction Engineering Management Program, and Kenneth Meding, adjunct instructor in the program, is part of the SPEED (Student Projects for Engineering Experience & Design) program, one of the Wallace H. Coulter School of Engineering hallmark initiatives, exemplifying Clarkson's “defy convention” approach to education.
SPEED promotes multidisciplinary, project-based learning opportunities for more than 350 undergraduates annually. Projects involve engineering design, analysis, and fabrication. In addition, students learn real-world business skills, such as budget management, effective teamwork, and communications skills.
Clarkson University launches leaders into the global economy. One in five alumni already leads as a CEO, VP or equivalent senior executive of a company. Located just outside the Adirondack Park in Potsdam, N.Y., Clarkson is a nationally recognized research university for undergraduates with select graduate programs in signature areas of academic excellence directed toward the world’s pressing issues. Through 50 rigorous programs of study in engineering, business, arts, sciences and health sciences, the entire learning-living community spans boundaries across disciplines, nations and cultures to build powers of observation, challenge the status quo, and connect discovery and engineering innovation with enterprise.
Photo caption: Eleven Clarkson University students on the Construction Engineering & Management SPEED team competed in the 22nd annual Student Competition for the Associated Schools of Construction Region 1. Left to right: Jessica Andrychuk, Lucas Short, Lee Cadby, Adam Powers, Cameron Sitarek, Tim Mills, Monique Choiniere, Kaitlyn Murray, Chelsea Eames, Dan Olivieri, and Kevin Brostek.
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Electing Social Impact
- by Anand Raghavan
Finally, we have enough critical mass and votes for a social impact course for the West cohort. I am proud of Class 37 for this accomplishment. This weekend we had Nien-hê Hsieh, associate professor of legal studies and business ethics, with us for three sessions of his class on Social Impact and Responsibility. The class seeks to give us an overview of how to think about social impact work being done by nonprofits, through corporate social responsibility (CSR), social entrepreneurship and impact investing. We also got quick clarifications on the different shades of gray between these different paths toward social impact.
We started off with an interesting case on SKS Microfinance. We had a vigorous conversation in class on the various aspects of this issue, and this set up an interesting normative framework to evaluate actions of entities along the gray line between exploitation and empowerment. It identifies the three core ideas of efficiency, fairness and freedom. We also briefly considered how it leaves out other values such as community, as found in Asian philosophy, and going further to value the environment. It also did not go as far as to discuss other concepts from normative ethics such as utilitarianism or Schweitzer’s Reverence for Life, but our discussion still provided a good context to evaluate businesses and their actions against the metrics of not doing any harm and respecting the choices of others.
We touched upon Theory of Change and how that is driving organizations to evaluate their existence all the way from inputs, activities and outputs to outcomes and impact. My sense of this is that, though this sounds better than the alternative of doing nothing, focusing too much on being able to quantify impact results in NPOs pivoting to implement projects that can be measured and reported on, versus projects that are decided upon through participatory discussions with their target communities
After many years of volunteering with Asha, NVIDIA Foundation, Mindful Schools and other groups, this gave me a good setting to finally take the time to look back and evaluate all the mistakes I have made in the past and see how things could be done better and what gaps I could see in where the industry is headed.
Prof. Hsieh seems to be doing some really interesting work around CSR and the day-to-day operations of corporations and assessing their footprint and making that more socially relevant. He spoke to us briefly about ongoing work (including his own) on what the obligations of transnational corporations are toward human rights.
I can’t wait for similar upcoming social impact sessions. Class 38 and those that follow, keep the light shining and vote for these classes.
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'Forgive and forget' really works!
Researchers have said that there may be some truth behind the old saying "forgive and forget."
A study from researchers at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland shows that the details of a transgression are more susceptible to forgetting when that transgression has been forgiven.
From the perspective of cognitive science, overcoming strong negative emotions toward the person who did us wrong and quashing impulses for retribution or vengeance - processes that are critical to forgiveness - may be seen as a function of executive control.
And research suggests that this executive control is also involved in our ability to forget something when we're motivated to forget it.
Saima Noreen, lead author of the study, decided to examine whether this same cognitive mechanism might form a link between forgiveness and forgetting.
The study, conducted with colleagues Malcolm MacLeod and Raynette Bierman, involved participants reading 40 scenarios that contained hypothetical wrongdoings, including infidelity, slander, and theft. They were asked to evaluate the transgression and say whether, as the victim, they would forgive the misdeed.
About 1 to 2 weeks later, they read a subset of the scenarios again, but this time each scenario was paired with a neutral cue word. After learning the scenario-cue pairings, the participants were presented with some of the cue words, written in either red or green, and were instructed to recall the related scenario when the cue word was green, and to avoid thinking about the scenario when the cue word was red.
For transgressions they had forgiven in the first session, participants showed more forgetting when they had been instructed to forget the scenario in the second session, compared to when they had been given no specific instructions.
In contrast, participants showed no forgetting for scenarios they had not forgiven, even when they had been told to forget them.
The findings have been published in the journal Psychological Science.
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Today I took a hike with my dog in the area just east of Tonto Fish Hatchery, following the Highline Trail to the Dick Williams Creek, a tributary of Tonto Creek. It was in the heart of Zane Grey Country and as I walked I knew that Grey, the Haughts, and so many other area pioneers had likely walked in the same area.
This is a great time of year to hike in Rim Country as things spring back to life. Grass is starting to grow along the creeks and buds are forming on wild raspberries. It’s picturesque, and I can only imagine how it was for folks in the old days to come across scenes like I saw today. A creek with grass along it was a chance to water the horse and let him graze. The spring gave the pioneers some of the freshest tasting water, water coming straight out of the rock. As Grey said in his book Tales of Lonely Trails:
“By and bye we reached the bottom of the thicket where we crossed a swift clear cold brook. Here the smells seemed cool, sweet, wild with spruce and pine. This stream of granite water burst from a spring under a cliff. What a roar it made! I drank until I could drink no more.”
So when you go hiking this year, don’t just hike, get to know the heritage behind the area you’re going to be in, and it’ll enrich your experience. After all, many have likely been there before you.
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Ottomar Rudolf, emeritus professor of German and a tireless ambassador for the humanistic traditions of Germany, wrote this brief memoir to explain for posterity how it could be that he once belonged to the Hitler Youth and fought for the Nazis. He began the book in 1983, the 50th anniversary of Hitler’s rise to power, but notes that a new generation of fanatics, this time the radical jihadists, has given fresh urgency to his account of a boyhood “sacrificed to an evil philosophy.”
Rudolf briskly sets the historical stage, tracing the rise of Nazism to the 1919 Treaty of Versailles, “which we schoolchildren were taught to call Versailles Diktat, the Dictate of Versailles.” With an economy in tatters, conditions were ripe for extremism, and the generals of Germany’s standing army soon swore their allegiance not to the constitution but to Adolf Hitler. By 1935, when the Nuremburg laws codified anti-Semitism, Rudolf was six. By the time he was nine, membership in the Hitler Youth would be mandatory.
Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels orchestrated every aspect of German Kultur. Songs and movies extolling Nazi “martyrs” such as Horst Wessel “were the cultural icons of our lives.” Rudolf and his friends were enthralled by Hitlerjunge Quex, the story of a working-class Berlin teenager who joins the Hitler Youth but is murdered by Communists. “The film appealed to us because the boys belonging to the Hitler Youth were clean-cut boys, living a healthy life, camping, talking about the future of Germany, while the Communists smoked, listened to hit songs, had girls, were rowdies . . . We were all influenced by it.” (Watch Hitlerjunge Quex.)
As Rudolf relates his exploits as a 16-year-old tank gunner, it’s easy to picture the young extravert who looked just like the boys in the German war posters, and who idolized Field Marshal Rommel, the Desert Fox. In 148 pages, the narrative whipsaws between the starry-eyed teenager and the cultural historian who recoils at his own memories. He is so sparing with personal details that we never even learn his family members’ names—not the eldest brother who went down with his Messerschmitt 109, not the aunt who was killed in the firebombing of his beloved Ulm. The names he chooses to share are those of the few brave Germans who risked everything to defy the Nazis.
“Ottomar’s Odyssey” [Reed, Autumn 2009].
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1.Create a any flat file with some data in it and save it as CSV
- Goto either FILE Import option OR
- Select HANA Modeler Perspective and directly click on ‘Import’ option
- Goto ‘SAP HANA CONTENT’ folder and select -> ‘Data from local file’
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4.We will get Below screen :-Select the details as mentioned below.
- Select File:- File path where the file is saved
- Header row exists :- Number header row to be ignored
- New Schema :-Schema name under which table has to be created
- Table Name :-Name of the table
- We will get two options for mapping as shown below
6.Click on Finish. If this activity is success then we can view the job logs as shown below.
7.Goto ‘Tables’ under your schema and refresh then we can see the table created
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This does what are good foods to eat with kidney stones solve the problem, but can alleviate the pain associated with passing a stone. Pyelitis, also named pyelonephritis, is typically a kidney or urinary issue caused by bacteria in the bladder. Dr Manaf Al Hashimi, a consultant urologist at Burjeel Hospital, also warned people to have a kidney stone check-up. The radiodensity of the stone was determined to be either less than, equal to, or greater than the radiodensity of the ipsilateral 12th rib.
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They used a screen to pull the stone out after they blasted it, but there were still little bits they couldn't get that had to pass. The technical term for a kidney stone is Nephrolithiasis or Renal Calculi. Lemon juice is acidic and helps with breaking down the stone and the olive oil is just supposed to help move it along. Many who have undesirably high urine oxalate at their first labs will show a marked fall with the higher calcium intake and need no further can you work with kidney stones When the concentration of calcium oxalate in the blood raises beyond threshold, it starts crystallization in kidney leading to the formation of a stone and the process is called as urolithiasis. I think they have been caused by high levels of potassium that my nephrologist has got me taking. Second, we defined temperature as minimum and maximum daily temperatures to assess whether alternative definitions of temperature exposure changed the estimated associations between temperature and kidney stone presentation. Combine parsley, apple, lemon juice and honey in a blender with 1/4 cup of water. Drinking a higher dosage will prevent patients from bloating and the effects of a blocked kidney will show in a matter of days. Addison's Disease is often misdiagnosed as kidney disease, so it may be worth testing for this disease, even if the sodium:potassium ratio is normal, especially in younger female dogs.
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If the amount of oxalate in your urine is high, you may be able to cut your risk of kidney stones by limiting your intake of high-oxalate foods. I agree that radiculopathy can sometimes mimic a stone as can many other conditions, urological and non-urological, as you well know. Heat the water to almost boiling, then turn off the heat. Even a the symptoms for kidney stones as small as 5 mm.
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White and can drinking too much iced tea cause kidney stones tea are typically lower in caffeine and also have corresponding beneficial effects. Kidney stones grow larger over time in the kidneys as more and more minerals collect. I myself would not hesitate to request everything possible for pain and anxiety except maybe general anesthetic. People with calcium-containing stones may be at greater risk of developing weak bones and osteoporosis.
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It's hard to explain this to electronic bands today but you had a very good chance of being beaten up when we started out in the late 70s. I've kept little pieces of paper from people saying things like "This isn't music" and "I'm going to kill you after the show". It wasn't a fight like feminism, but it was necessary.
The promise of electronic music was always that you could very directly articulate what you wanted to say. Synthesis at its highest level is a very direct thing: you turn this and push that and you can go where you needed to go very fluently. When we started out we all were driven to be very direct and blunt. The promise was one of purity of expression – a purity that gets this shit out of your head. We used tapes and synthesisers and machinery that had been derided and discarded. Learning how to play guitar would have been like learning a second language – although now I understand that guitars can be articulate in that way.
Bands like Sonic Youth treated guitars like a noise system they could use. It was their solution to the same problem.
When everything went digitial with CDs and DAT tapes in the mid-80s it was a real learning curve for everyone. We were sold this Platonic idea of perfection: you could make everything perfect. The engineers loved it. It took the musicans and the poets to say it's not really working. It took 10 years for everyone to realise that being digital meant you could really mess with and distort and rearrange things.
On stage now, we use iPads like we used to use tape machines – you can put the music through the tape heads and scratch it. People are nostalgic for the old technology but we constantly struggle not to be embedded in the past. The question is: what do we want? We want to grab a sound and stretch it – and what will do that best? It's the iPad. We're not interested in the artefact, we're interested in the result.
Other people get hung up on using old Moogs. But it doesn't make their music any more authentic. There's no such thing as authentic or inauthentic music. A Negro spiritual is only authentic if it's sung by the original slave.
You can disappear up your arse if you don't constantly reassess what you do. People always want us to play live and to play the old hits. They're deeply offended if you change anything. But I don't even see the need for us to be there on stage, standing there pushing things around. I don't want to be looked at. I'm not an interesting person – it's just that I'm able to create these things that are interesting. I'm the box that the toy comes in. The visuals that we create for the show support and sustain the music, and vice versa.
I'm much more interested in the computer game I've created for the Adelaide festival, Hauntology House. It's what musical albums are in 2013. There's enough vinyl in the world.
There are the blockbuster computer games like Halo, which are made by big companies, with hundreds of people involved, and then there is the independent industry, particularly in places like Japan, which is where everything that is interesting is happening. There is a whole class of indie games where it doesn't matter if you win or lose, full of bizarre ideas.
I've seen these guys start to refer to their games as albums, so why can't I as a musician make a game myself? There's a lot to explore, there's a lot of pleasure for any musician there.
It is hard. Making electronic music used to be really hard. When we started out, we'd read the NME, which would reach us in Australia by ship. We'd read about a gig that happened three months ago, and think, "I like the sound of that, I'll try and make something that sounds like it" - and we'd end up with something that sounded unique.
Making music today is much easier, thanks to programs like Ableton or FruityLoops. But you've got to get out of the mentality that says "if I just push this button, I'll get a result". You have to really bend things as hard as you can. And designing games is helpful like that. Something might take 12 months to make, not 12 minutes, and that for some people can be very valuable.
I had the idea for my game in 1994; I sketched it out in 1999; I built the prototypes in 2000-2002; then I had to do things like work out how to feed myself and get a job; and the game is only finished now.
When technology is exciting, it's exciting. When it's not, it's not. Facebook is boring. Twitter is just like CB radio. There's nothing new there. There are underlying principles of creativity that go beyond the technology that was available to you at the time. Certain things are beautiful and there are certain things that will always comfort you - and all these things will be kept over the years, whether it gets delivered by Google or Facebook or whoever. The names come and go.
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Project Cassidy is our free technology preview of a composite plate bending simulation tool that allows designers and engineers to optimize composite layups for complex-geometry plates under bending loads. Cassidy lets you import your own 3D part geometry for composite plates and simulate the responses for a specific laminate and load configuration. Project Cassidy walks you through the simulation steps required for composite materials by helping you build laminates, define material orientations of the laminate on the geometry through draping simulation, and simulate the plate under bending. Project Cassidy graphically shows you maximum displacements, failure indices, factors of safety, and material orientations of the laminate on the 3D geometry. Part weight and thickness are displayed after a composite laminate is applied to the geometry.
Doug Kenik is a Product Line Manager in our DLS (Design, Lifecycle, and Simulation) division. DLS is the team hosting Project Cassidy on Autodesk Labs. Dog made a video to help would-be Project Cassidy participants understand more about composites and the design of composite laminates. Check out this video:
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Chris Claremont came to Marvel as a young man, and was assigned a book that no one else wanted, a book on the brink of cancellation: X-Men. Over the next 17 years, his work on the title turned it into the biggest franchise in comic book history. Forty years later, his work has been adapted into 10 films, three TV series, countless video games and become a part of our cultural mythology.
User Reviews: Before I was old enought to wonder about how comics were made, two names were engraved in my subconcious by seeing them in many covers of my favourite comics: Stan Lee and Chris Claremont.
When I was a bit older I started collecting the X-men comics in order. Still, internet was still just and idea, and I couldn’t search any information about those names. I couldn’t put a face on them. But teenage me didn’t have any doubt: Claremont was a genious. He was the first writer that called my attention, before that, I felt the drawings were the "cool thing" about comics (as any kid, I guess).
This docummentary covers his career and influence, it reveals some of the company reasons why things happened the way they did, and some of the work process of many important moments in X-men history.
It’s been years since I’ve picked an X-Men comic, but this documentary is an homage for a men that shaped some of the mythology of today’s collective mind. He inspired many artists and influenced the way other people write comics and tell stories in general. He made people care about his characters as if they were not only real, but as if they were friends.
If you have read his work, you’ll enjoy this film. If not. treat yourself to 200 or 300 of his comics, become friends with the X-Men, and then go and watch this.
The world would be different today if it wasn’t for this guy. A big thanks to the people who brought us this docummentary.
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Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report
In The News
- U.N. Ebola Official Says More Ebola Preparations Needed; WHO Calls Expert Meeting
News outlets report on the U.N. response to the Ebola outbreak, including a WHO meeting set for the beginning of September.
Agence France-Presse: U.N.’s top Ebola official wants preparations for ‘flareup’
“The United Nations’ new pointman on Ebola said Friday he was preparing for a possible flareup of the epidemic in West Africa…” (8/21).
U.N. News Centre: Humane world cannot let West Africa suffer ‘on such extraordinary scale’ — U.N. health chief
“The newly appointed United Nations System Coordinator for Ebola today began his visit to countries affected by the deadly disease, as the head of the U.N. World Health Organization (WHO) appealed for ‘massive, coordinated and targeted assistance’ in the months ahead, saying ‘a humane world cannot let the people of West Africa suffer on such an extraordinary scale’…” (8/21).
RIA Novosti: World Health Organization to Convene Meeting on Ebola Treatment in Geneva on September 4-5
“The World Health Organization (WHO) will hold a meeting of experts in early September, who will discuss the possible methods of treating [the] Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the organization said in a statement…” (8/22).
Reuters: WHO says drawing up six-nine month strategy to combat Ebola
“The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday that it had drawn up a draft strategy plan to combat Ebola in West Africa over the next six to nine months, implying that it does not expect to halt the epidemic this year…” (Nebehay, 8/22).
Reuters: WHO holding talks next month on Ebola treatments
“The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday it would convene talks early next month on potential treatments and vaccines to contain the deadly Ebola outbreak in West Africa…” (8/22).
- Ebola Stressing Already Strained Health Systems In West Africa; Affected Nations Call For More Assistance
News outlets discuss how Ebola is straining already struggling health systems in West Africa and those countries’ calls for additional assistance.
Devex: More money, people and coordination needed to contain Ebola — E.U. expert
“European scientists are working round the clock at the prestigious Spallanzani National Institute for Infectious Diseases in Rome to set up a mobile laboratory soon to be deployed in Ebola-affected villages in West Africa. This will be the second such lab emerging from the EuropeAid-funded Emlab project, which seeks to establish ‘three deployable mobile laboratory units for the detection and diagnosis of infectious pathogens up to the highest risk group 4’…” (Pasquini, 8/22).
NPR: Why Ebola Is Making It Harder To Provide Good Health Care
“[Fewer malaria cases will be treated] because some health clinics have closed as a result of Ebola — out of panic, or because the virus has taken a toll on staff — and partly because families are afraid to come to clinics because they think they might catch Ebola there. But it’s also partly because community health workers — who are trained to help identify children in need of care for malaria, diarrhea, and pneumonia — are being told to back off [from drawing blood for diagnostic tests]…” (Harris, 8/21).
Reuters: More medics urgently needed to fight West Africa Ebola: experts
“Hospitals battling the Ebola outbreak in West Africa desperately need more staff, as local doctors leave their posts and foreign doctors are reluctant to come forward, medical experts said during an online debate on the disease…” (Whiting, 8/21).
Reuters: Surviving Ebola: Africa cries out for health care boost
“Surviving sickness can make you stronger. So while a western corner of Africa writhes in the deadly grip of the Ebola virus, there are signs this emergency may serve as a wake-up call to strengthen spending and investment on public health care in the world’s least developed continent…” (Stoddard/Fletcher, 8/21).
- International Community's Response To Ebola Outbreak Criticized
Reuters summarizes criticism of the global community’s response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
Reuters: Ebola response of MSF and ‘boiling frog’ WHO under scrutiny
“A decade ago, scientists would have laughed at the idea of Ebola as a public health emergency of international concern. Today, they are shocked at the glaring gaps the deadly virus has exposed in the global response to the current outbreak…” (Hussain, 8/21).
Reuters: Lack of leadership hurts Ebola fight in West Africa: MSF
“Efforts to curb the deadly Ebola epidemic that swept across four West African states are being undermined by a lack of leadership and emergency management skills, the international head of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said on Thursday…” (Nebehay, 8/21).
- American Ebola Patients Released From Hospital
News outlets report on the release of two aid workers from the Atlanta hospital where they were treated for Ebola.
ABC News: Ebola Patient Dr. Kent Brantly Says ‘God Saved My Life’
“Nancy Writebol and Dr. Kent Brantly have been cured of the Ebola virus and released from Emory Hospital in Atlanta…” (Curry, 8/21).
New York Times: Ebola Patient Revels in ‘Miraculous Day’ as He and Another Exit Hospital
“To evaluate the condition of Dr. Kent Brantly, the American aid worker who became the first person to be treated for Ebola in the United States, all anyone needed to do Thursday was notice what he was not wearing. Gone was the bulky white suit he wore when he arrived Aug. 2, amid heavy security, at Emory University Hospital here…” (Blinder/McNeil, 8/21).
NPR: ‘I Am Thrilled To Be Alive’: American Ebola Patients Released From Hospital
“The two U.S. patients who were treated for Ebola have been discharged from Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, where they had been in an isolation ward since returning from Liberia early this month. They are the first patients treated for Ebola on American soil…” (Chappell, 8/21).
Politico: 2 Americans with Ebola released from hospital
“Two Americans have been successfully treated for Ebola and discharged from a hospital in Atlanta, where officials Thursday said they were confident that they posed no threat to public health…” (Norman, 8/21).
Reuters: U.S. aid workers pose no public risk after Ebola treatment: doctor
“Two American aid workers discharged from an Atlanta hospital after being treated for Ebola pose no health risk to the public, an Emory University Hospital doctor said on Thursday…” (Bavier/Flynn, 8/21).
Reuters: U.S. aid workers who survived Ebola leave Atlanta hospital
“Appearing thin but smiling, a Texas doctor who weeks ago entered an Atlanta hospital in a full-body biohazard suit to be treated for Ebola said on Thursday he was ‘thrilled to be alive’ as doctors declared him virus-free and safe for release…” (McKay et al., 8/22).
- Ebola Focusing Spotlight On Experimental Drugs, Financial Incentives For Research Into Neglected Disease Treatments
News outlets discuss the use of experimental drugs to treat Ebola and the potential for financial incentives for additional research into treatments.
ABC News: Experimental Ebola Drug’s Role in Americans’ Recoveries Remains Unclear
“American Ebola survivor Dr. Kent Brantly credited doctors, God, and an experimental drug for his recovery today. But experts say it’s unclear whether the drug, known as ZMapp, helped or hindered his recovery…” (Moisse, 8/21).
IRIN: Ebola horror hastens use of test drugs
“Ebola’s devastation in West Africa has catapulted experimental drugs from labs to patients and shaken up vaccine development, which was hitherto patchy as outbreaks of the virus have tended to be spasmodic and geographically limited…” (8/21).
NPR: Would A Prize Help Speed Development Of Ebola Treatments?
“…What would it take to make Ebola drugs a clinical reality? Financial incentives might help. … For Ebola, there may need to be more financial help to get research started and a reward for success…” (Hensley, 8/21).
- African Nations Take Measures To Prevent Ebola's Spread Across Their Borders
News outlets report on African nations’ measures to prevent the spread of Ebola.
Agence France-Presse: Senegal closes border as U.N. warns on Ebola flare-up
“Senegal has become the latest country to seal its border with a West African neighbor to ward off the deadly Ebola virus, as the new U.N. pointman on the epidemic said preparations must be made for a possible flare-up of the disease…” (Ettaba/Dosso, 8/22).
Reuters: South Africa bans travelers entering from Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone
“South Africa said on Thursday that due to fears over the spread of the Ebola virus it was banning travelers from Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone from entering the country, apart from its own citizens…” (8/21).
Reuters: Africa tightens Ebola travel curbs as affected countries face food shortages
“African countries tightened travel curbs on Thursday in an effort to contain the Ebola outbreak, ignoring World Health Organization warnings that such measures could heighten shortages of food and basic supplies in affected areas…” (MacDougall, 8/21).
VOA News: South Sudan Steps Up Guard Against Ebola
“Health officials in Juba have stepped up efforts to ensure the deadly Ebola virus does not spread to South Sudan. Armed with thermometers and notepads, a team of health officials has set up shop in tents that have been pitched just meters away from where planes land at Juba’s busy international airport…” (Rwakaringi, 8/20).
- Liberian Government Provides Food, Water Assistance In Ebola-Quarantined Area; Boy Dies From Gunshot Wound After Violent Clashes
News outlets report on the situation in a quarantined Liberian neighborhood, where violence broke out and food shortages are expected.
Associated Press: Liberia gives food in slum sealed to stop Ebola
“Government officials handed out bags of rice and sachets of drinking water Thursday to residents of an impoverished slum in Liberia’s capital where tens of thousands of people have been barricaded in an effort to stop the spread of Ebola…” (Paye-Layleh/Larson, 8/21).
New York Times: Liberian Boy Dies After Being Shot During Clash Over Ebola Quarantine
“A teenage boy who was wounded on Wednesday during clashes at an Ebola-stricken neighborhood in Monrovia, Liberia, died of bleeding and hypothermic shock after being shot in his legs, said Dr. Mohammed Sankoh, the medical director of Redemption Hospital…” (Onishi, 8/21).
- 70 Die From Outbreak Of Hemorrhagic Illness In DRC; WHO Denies Ebola Link
Reuters: WHO says 70 die from illness in Congo, denies Ebola link
“At least 70 people have died in northern Democratic Republic of Congo from an outbreak of hemorrhagic gastroenteritis, the World Health Organization said on Thursday, denying that the illness was Ebola…” (Bakumanya/Farge, 8/21).
- Outgoing U.N. Human Rights Commissioner Says Security Council Should Do More To Address Serious Crises
VOA News: Navi Pillay Scolds U.N. Security Council for Inaction on Global Crises
“Outgoing U.N. Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay has scolded the United Nations Security Council for its lack of action on some of the world’s most serious crises, saying hundreds of thousands of lives could have been saved through greater council responsiveness…” (Besheer, 8/21).
- Uganda Will Not Achieve AIDS-Free Generation With 'Backwards' HIV Law, Activists Say
Inter Press Service: No Hope for AIDS-Free Generation in Uganda as Controversial HIV Bill is Signed into Law
“HIV/AIDS activists are adamant Uganda will not achieve an ‘AIDS-free generation’ now a ‘backwards’ HIV/AIDS bill criminalizing the ‘willful and intentional’ transmission of the disease has been signed into law…” (Fallon, 8/21).
- Politics Will Not Interfere With Health Policy, India's Health Minister Says
Business Insider: Politics Will Not Come In Way Of Health Policy: Harsh Vardhan
“[India’s] Health Minister Harsh Vardhan [Thursday] said that politics would not affect the health program and policies of the country. ‘For the health of the nation, the health of government departments needs to be improved. I will not let politics to interfere in the health of the country,’ said Vardhan while launching a music video on child health and immunization…” (8/21).
- Double Vaccine Offers Better Protection Against Polio, Study Says
News outlets report on a study’s findings that using two types of polio vaccines could give better protection and speed up efforts to fight polio.
Associated Press/The Guardian: Polio double vaccine gives better protection, study finds
“For decades, there’s been a tug-of-war between the oral and inactivated polio vaccines over which is more effective at preventing the paralyzing disease. Researchers have now resolved the dispute and say that pairing them are better than either alone…” (8/22).
BBC News: Double vaccines ‘could hasten the end of polio’
“Using both types of polio vaccine could speed up efforts to free the world of the disease, research suggests. The oral vaccine is leading the fight to eradicate polio, but trials in India show an additional injection of inactivated virus boosts immunity…” (Gallagher, 8/21).
TIME: Polio’s Two Vaccines Are More Effective When They’re Combined
“A double vaccine could help battle polio in some of the world’s most remote and conflict-torn regions as new research suggests giving a single vaccine shot to children who have already had the oral vaccine greatly boosted their immunity…” (Park, 8/21).
- 3 MDG Fund To Help Boost Myanmar's Health Care Services
Xinhua/GlobalPost: Myanmar to boost health care services with 3 MDG Fund
“Myanmar will boost its health care services with the help of Three Millennium Development Goals (3 MDG) Fund, according to the Ministry of Health Friday. By using 300 million U.S. dollars provided by the 3 MDG Fund, Myanmar will initiate public health care services in urban and rural areas, aiming to raise health awareness, provide health-related information, reduce child mortality, improve maternal health, and combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases…” (8/22).
- The Guardian Interviews U.N. Women Executive Director
The Guardian: U.N. Women’s Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka on women’s empowerment
“Longtime champion of social justice and women’s rights, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka offers her thoughts on the important role women have to play in economies…” (8/21).
Editorials and Opinions
- Editorial, Opinion Pieces Address Ongoing Ebola Outbreak
An editorial and several opinion pieces address the ongoing Ebola outbreak.
The Lancet: Ebola: a failure of international collective action
“…Although WHO is now leading the international response to the crisis, it was initially slow to act at the high level that was needed. … The crisis shows the importance of sufficient levels of multilateral funding for WHO — the only international agency capable of coordinating the response to a health crisis with global dimensions. There are other lessons from this outbreak, including the need for increased investment in health system strengthening. … The international community must show the collective responsibility and global solidarity absent at the start of this outbreak to bring it to an end. Its failure to do so is allowing a disaster of unprecedented proportions to unfold in West Africa” (8/21).
Huffington Post: Ebola Isn’t Unique: Women Are Significantly More Likely to Die in Disasters
Soraya Chemaly, feminist, writer, and satirist
“…The truth is that while epidemics affect genders differently, what is happening right now gender-wise in countries affected by Ebola is the norm in disasters across the globe. … Gender matters. In the case of Ebola, deeply understanding the role that its construction plays in transmission and mortality could have immediate effects. … Persistently, paternalistically, believing that men alone will find solutions to problems largely defined by their own experiences, and that everyone will benefit by benevolent extensio, is the meta-disaster that unites these events…” (8/21).
TIME: 1,400 Are Dead From Ebola and We Need Help, Says Doctors Without Borders President
Joanne Liu, international president of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
“The epidemic won’t be contained without more treatment centers, coordinated action, logistical assets, and health workers. … Slowing and then halting this outbreak requires much more than money and statements. The only way to contain the epidemic is to increase the response capacity in affected areas … Meaningful and coordinated action is needed on the ground today if we don’t want to be reduced to counting the dead for many weeks to come, whether from Ebola or other far less sinister diseases” (8/21).
The Guardian: Ebola has caused Liberia’s cauldron of dissatisfaction to boil over
Robtel Neajai Pailey, Liberian writer and researcher at the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies
“…The lack of quality health care in Liberia is not from lack of financing, as most people have argued. It is from the mismanagement of funds. Contrary to what has been reported, Liberia is not poor; it is poorly managed. … Just as armed conflicts ended in Liberia, Ebola too will be overcome. But when the war on Ebola ends, Liberia and its people, domestically and transnationally, must begin an earnest conversation about how to solve the crisis of citizenship” (8/22).
The Lancet: Ethical considerations of experimental interventions in the Ebola outbreak
Annette Rid, of King’s College London, and Ezekiel Emanuel, of the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
“…The global response to the current Ebola outbreak has initially been slow and inadequate. Now that the response is picking up, the international community needs more focus on strengthening of health systems and infrastructure and less on experimental treatments. Adoption of containment measures with a view to strengthen health systems and infrastructure is the most effective way to curb this epidemic and prevent future ones; it has positive externalities for health promotion and offers fair benefits to communities who engage in research in this outbreak. Experimental Ebola treatments or vaccines should only be deployed in clinical trials…” (8/22).
Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Global health beyond Ebola
Jeffrey Koplan, vice president of global health at Emory University, and Carlos del Rio, chair of the Hubert Department of Global Health at Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health
“…With Ebola virus at the forefront of media coverage and general discussion, it is important to note that community knowledge is a powerful deterrent to fear. Education can help dispel myths and support practical prevention tools for this and other serious communicable diseases. … Global health affects us all. Rather than reacting through panic and fear to just one current disease threat of the moment, the best approach to preventing and limiting the spread of communicable and non-communicable diseases is preparedness, research, training, and partnership…” (8/21).
Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Prescribe caution with unproven drugs
Philip Rosoff, professor of pediatrics and medicine at Duke University Medical Center
“…It may seem reasonable to bypass normal regulatory pathways to demonstrate both safety and efficacy for [Zmapp, the experimental Ebola drug], and take the chance it might work. But despite these desperate circumstances, caution should be paramount when approving the use of an unproven drug. … No matter how this is decided, insufficient time and thought have been devoted to creating a fair and equitable system to distribute the (potential and questionable) benefits of this experimental therapy…” (8/21).
- Children, Youth Must Be Focus In Post-2015 Development Agenda
Huffington Post: Put Children and Youth First in the Post-2015 Development Agenda
Lynn Croneberger, CEO of SOS Children’s Villages-USA
“…The Post-2015 Development Agenda must call on ALL countries to ensure children and families in need have access to the social and medical services necessary to overcome life’s challenges. It must also ensure all children and youth have access to quality education and vocational training, as well as to decent work and livelihood opportunities after completing their studies. Finally, governments must commit to upholding the right of all children to grow and develop in a loving family environment, safe from violence…” (8/21).
- Private Investment Needed To Improve Sanitation In India
Huffington Post: Creating Enterprises to Provide Sanitation Solutions in India
John Sauer, head of external relations for international programs at Water For People
“It’s easy to get overwhelmed when you think of the sanitation situation in India. … But there is reason for optimism if you look at the story of three entrepreneurs in Bihar — Umesh Prasad Nirala, Raghunath Prasad, and Mohan Prasad — and learn about their progress and potential to do much more with some changes to the regulatory and economic environment…” (8/21).
- USAID Investing In Science, Technology Research In Africa
USAID’s “Impact”: The Power of Scientific Research Investment in Africa
Andy Sisson, acting director of the U.S. Global Development Lab, writes, “…Building lasting partnerships with African leaders, thinkers, entrepreneurs and innovators is at the core of USAID’s approach, which seeks to end extreme poverty by investing in Africa’s greatest resource: its people. Many of our newest initiatives reflect not only our renewed commitment to science and technology, but the central importance Africans play in global affairs throughout the 21st century…” (8/21).
- Liberia Struggling To Face Unprecedented Ebola Outbreak
Two blogs address the situation in Liberia, which is facing an unprecedented Ebola outbreak.
Humanosphere: How Liberia quarantine may help spread Ebola
Tom Paulson, founder and lead journalist at Humanosphere, discusses the potential risks and benefits of using quarantine as a public health measure during infectious disease outbreaks (8/21).
PLOS’s “Speaking of Medicine”: Ebola: Liberians Destined for Extinction
Liberian medical student Gondah Lekpeh discusses the situation in Liberia, writing, “…Here in Liberia, the virus is spreading like wildfire, devouring the life of everyone along its path. Limited health resources, ignorance, stigmatization, denial, and cultural burial rites are fueling the spread of the disease…” (8/21).
- Blog Discusses Ugandan Law Criminalizing HIV Transmission
Center for Global Health Policy’s “Science Speaks”: Uganda’s HIV criminalization, mandatory testing bill signed into law against local and international cautions of harms to health, human rights
Antigone Barton, writer and editor of “Science Speaks” and senior communications officer at the Center for Global Health Policy, discusses Uganda President Yoweri Museveni’s recent approval of the HIV and AIDS Prevention and Control Act, 2014, and advocates’ concerns over the new law (8/20).
- Gender Considerations Important For Global Health Interventions
IntraHealth’s “Vital”: What Does Gender Equality Mean for Health Workers — and for Health Systems?
Caitlin Snyder, an IntraHealth-UNC fellow, discusses the importance of gender considerations in health programs and systems, and notes, “…You can explore these concepts further in the Global Health eLearning Center’s new online course, Gender and Health Systems Strengthening — a free how-to guide for promoting gender equality in global health interventions…” (8/21).
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Pregnancy week 7 is a time when baby’s organs develop rapidly and mums are like to experience pregnancy symptoms like morning sickness.
Changes for mum
- A thick layer of mucous which blocks the entrance to your womb develops this week. It’s called the cervical plug and protects your baby from foreign substances throughout the pregnancy.
- Pregnancy hormones are hard at work and most women experience pregnancy symptoms as a result of the hormonal changes.
- Morning sickness is the most common pregnancy symptom. It’s unpleasant but unless very severe it’s nothing to worry about.
- It’s also common to feel tired or emotional at this stage of pregnancy.
- You may notice your breasts changing and they may be sore or tender this week.
Changes for baby
- Baby grows rapidly this week- it doubles in length and by the end of week 7 is about as tall as the width of a paper clip.
- Baby’s internal organs, facial features and body develop rapidly this week.
- Baby’s body takes a more distinctly human form and the head grows larger to accommodate baby’s rapidly growing brain and the arms and legs begin to lengthen.
- Facial features including the eyes, ears, nose and forehead become distinct this week
- The nervous system continues to develop and muscles and nerves which regulate movement of the face and some internal organs form.
- Organs of urogenital system including the kidneys, bladder and urethra begin to take shape.
- The lungs and other organs involved in breathing continue to grow.
- Your baby has a heartbeat and the heart divides to form four separate chambers this week, whereas previously it was just a single chamber.
- The glands which produce hormones begin to grow this week. The first one to develop is called the thyroid gland and produces hormones involved in digesting food.
- The tongue, intestine and other organs for eating and digesting food begin to form or continue growing.
- The vertebrae and arm bones begin to form.
- The umbilical cord which attaches baby to your body via the placenta forms.
Doctor appointments and health information
- Antenatal care is important for a healthy pregnancy- if you have not yet seen your doctor for antenatal care, do so this week.
- If you experience morning sickness which prevents you from eating enough or keeping food down, talk to your doctor.
- Stay healthy by eating a balanced diet, exercising regularly and avoiding medicines and recreational drugs (including tobacco and alcohol) which can harm your baby.
- The doctor can tell the age of your baby on a pregnancy ultrasound by measuring it’s length.
More information about week 7 of pregnancy
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SAN FRANCISCO Voice-controlled smartwatches that track heart rates and connect to phones and tablets will debut later this year as Google Inc partners with electronics, technology and fashion companies to take consumers to the next promised frontier in computing.
Google (GOOG.O) on Tuesday unveiled plans to help develop the watches and other wearable computers based on its Android mobile operating system, which already runs more than three out of four smartphones sold worldwide.
The Android Wear project is open to software makers to create apps for the watches, putting Google at the forefront of efforts to jumpstart the nascent wearable computing market.
The news comes as speculation swirls around iPhone-maker Apple Inc's (AAPL.O) plans for wearable computers, including a smartwatch of its own. Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook has promised new "product categories" later this year.
A video posted on Google's blog on Tuesday showed people speaking into their watches to check sports scores, control music, send replies to text messages and even open their home garages.
By aligning itself with a broad spectrum of partners to develop the smartwatches, Google is hoping to replicate the success that helped make its free Android software the most popular smartphone operating system, analysts said.
LG Electronics said on Tuesday it would introduce its first Android watch, the G Watch, in the second quarter. Motorola said its Moto 360 Android watch would be available this summer. Fossil Group Inc (FOSL.O), which makes watches, handbags and other accessories, also announced that it was working with Google on Android devices.
Many believe wearable computers represent the next big shift in technology, just as smartphones evolved from personal computers, but efforts by various companies so far have had mixed results.
Samsung was among the first to sell a smartwatch for consumers, but its maiden effort, the Galaxy Gear, was widely panned by reviewers.
Google's announcement "definitely gives wearables a status that it's a market in its own right and it needs to be treated with the respect that a separate operating system branch gives it," said Carolina Milanesi, an analyst with Kantar World Panel.
Android smartwatches will connect wirelessly to a mobile phone and can be outfitted with a variety of sensors, Google said. That means that apps developed for Android watches will be able to monitor fitness and health information such as a wearer's heart rate or distance jogged.
Google released an Android Wear Developer Preview on Tuesday, saying it would allow software makers to begin creating specialized apps for the watches.
Google has also been developing Google Glass, a small stamp-sized screen attached to a pair of eyeglass frames. Google Glass can record video, access email, provide turn-by-turn driving directions and retrieve info from the Web by connecting wirelessly to a user's cell phone, but it has also raised concerns ranging from privacy intrusions to distracted driving.
Smartwatches have a better chance of catching on with the general public than Google Glass, said Ramon Llamas, an analyst with industry research firm IDC.
"It's a really cool idea, but there's something that creeps people out about it," Llamas said of Google Glass.
The success of smartwatches will depend on the device's price, battery life and the appeal of the watches' designs, he said.
Motorola said it would share more details about its forthcoming Moto 360 smartwatch when it holds a special online press conference on Wednesday. Google recently announced plans to sell its Motorola business to Chinese PC-maker Lenovo Group Ltd (0992.HK).
Juniper Research expects more than 130 million smart wearable devices will ship by 2018. Moreover, global shipments of wearable "smart glasses" alone will reach 10 million each year by 2018, compared with an estimated 87,000 in 2013, according to the research firm.
MUST HAVE OR NICE TO HAVE?
Google, whose projects range from self-driving cars to robots, likely sees smartwatches as part of the future evolution of computing, said Raymond James analyst Aaron Kessler. But he said it remained to be seen whether smartwatches will become an indispensable digital accessory or a "nice-to-have" gadget.
"At this point I would still view it as a niche product," he said.
Among the more than 10 companies that are partnering with Google on Android watches are Samsung Electronics Co (005930.KS), HTC Corp (2498.TW), Asustek Computer Inc (2357.TW), Intel Corp (INTC.O), Qualcomm Inc (QCOM.O), Broadcom Corp (BRCM.O) and Mediatek Inc (2454.TW).
Qualcomm and its manufacturing customers are working on "multiple" wearable devices based on its Snapdragon processors, spokesman Jon Carvill said. He declined to elaborate.
"We've barely scratched the surface of what's possible with mobile technology," Google said in a post on its official blog on Tuesday. "That's why we're so excited about wearables — they understand the context of the world around you, and you can interact with them simply and efficiently, with just a glance or a spoken word."
Shares of Google closed 1.6 percent higher at $1,211.22 on Tuesday. Shares of Fossil Group rose 4.6 percent to $118.04.
(Reporting by Alexei Oreskovic with additional reporting by Noel Randewich, Editing by Franklin Paul, Sofina Mirza-Reid and Richard Chang)
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Captain Max von Stephanitz | German Shepherd | Breed Profile, Origins, History, Facts
The history of the German Shepherd was about to truly begin in 1889, when the Captain Max von Stephanitz appeared on the scene. A wealthy German, von Stephanitz was born in the Kingdom of Saxony, in Dresden, to an upper-class Germany family. While von Stephanitz made his career in the Germany cavalry, his true interest was in animals; he served at the Veterinary College in Berlin, and upon his release from the captainship in 1898 began devoting himself full-time to dog breeding, influenced by similar movements going on across the Channel in England. Von Stephanitz saw the potential inherent in standardizing the German Shepherd breed across Germany, selecting for the most desirable traits in each regional group of dogs and ultimately creating an “ideal” breed that combined the best elements in each. He sought to create a dog that was as keenly intelligent as its lupine ancestor, with pricked ears that would allow it to hear the coming of intruders, a keen and refined sense of smell, and a strong work ethic, traits ironically seen in today's modern German Shepherd.
Such a dog caught von Stephanitz's eye shortly afterwards, at a dog show in the town of Karlsruhe. There he came across the embodiment of his ideal – a wolflike dog with speckled yellow and gray fur, a powerful gaze, and a strong demeanor that bore traces of the primal animal within. The dog was intelligent – easily trained in the skills necessary for a sheepherder. Von Stephanitz knew that he had found his ideal for the breed. He purchased the dog, Hektor Linksrhein, shortly thereafter, choosing to rename the creature Horand von Grafrath. Von Stephanitz then registered the dog, rendering it the first officially registered German Shepherd in the world! Von Stephanitz used this dog as his main “stud” - breeding Horand with a variety of bitches to create litters of offspring, hoping to create pups that were the model of their proud, noble father. To further his ends, Von Stephanitz founded the German Shepherd Dog Club (in German, the Verein fur Deutsche Schferhunde, also known as the SV), of which he became president, and shortly thereafter was successful in creating a standardized German shepherd breed.
Along with the Max von Stephanitz, it is also important to have a comprehensive understanding of other subject matter critical to the history of the German Shepherd breed, such as developments specific fo the Shepherd during the nineteenth century, along with Von Stephanitz' breeding traits for the ideal dog. Additionally, interested parties should also learn about the differences that were starting to develop in the breed between America and Europe, the early breeding in the United States, along with post-war breeding in Germany.
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Bendon Publishing presents a workbook designed with your child in mind!
Adventures in Learning offers a unique educational approach to teaching essential skills to your child. The full-color workbook use a delightful Disney*Pixar character on every page to motivate young children and create exciting lessons.
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E-Commerce and International Political Economics: The Legal and Political Ramifications of the Internet on World Economies
Chelsea P. Ferrette
University of Baltimore - School of Law
ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 15-37, Fall 2000
University of Baltimore School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper
This comment first defines the concept of e-comrnerce, discussing its development in the international market. The comment next examines the legal questions raised in the use of the Internet to facilitate business. Legally speaking, in order to promote efficiency in the world market this comment recommends two things: 1) no taxation on international e-commerce income and 2) that the international buyer should be more responsible in their Internet business transactions. Additionally, this comment analyzes the political issue of the "digital divide" and how international nation states have addressed these issues. This comment advocates that increase competition in the global market will lead to increased market access and a narrowing of the digital divide. Finally, this comment describes the business models that have formulated due to the use of the Internet and then it focuses on one company, Yahoo!, to see how it has handled the legal and political ramifications of the Internet in its global business.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 24
Keywords: technology, Internet, international business, world economies, electronic commerce, e-commerce, global taxation, consumer privacy, international markets, digital divide, Yahoo
JEL Classification: K19, K29, K33, K39, L84, L86Accepted Paper Series
Date posted: September 7, 2011
© 2013 Social Science Electronic Publishing, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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Carnegie Mellon Researchers Develop Electrically Controlled Smart Drug Delivery System Using AAO
A team led by Jeff Weldon, Carnegie Mellon University Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, recently reported a novel smart drug delivery system utilizing the nanostructured pores in AAO membranes. The team utilized InRedox 40nm AAO membranes and applied a thin conductive Cr layer to the membrane. The composite membrane could then be electronically gated to control the diffusion of molecules based upon charge. Such field-effect gating membranes hold potential as novel “smart” drug delivery devices where dose can be precisely tuned via the field-effect gating mechanism.
Electrically Gated Nanoporous Membranes, Sungho Kim, Ece Isenbike Ozalp, Mohamed Darwish, and Jeffrey A. Weldon, 2017 IEEE 12th International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems (NEMS), pp. 766-769, IEEE.
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The long-wave transmitter in Grimeton is designed by the Swedish engineer Ernst Alexanderson who is relatively unknown in Sweden, but a very valued and respected inventor in the United States. During his lifetime, Alexanderson had 344 patents granted in electrical engineering and electronics.
The station in Grimeton contained two identical but reverse transmitter devices that run alternately, about a month at a time. The new telegraph connection between Sweden and USA proved to be very stable and reliable, and almost all telegram traffic from Sweden to North and South America were transmitted via Grimeton. It took until 1938 before the new technology with valve for shortwave began to be used alongside the machine transmitters. World War II increased the need for foreign telegram connections via radio dramatically, and shortwave transmitter were installed briskly at the station in Grimeton. The old machine transmitters were used at times during the war to transmit diplomatic telegrams to certain European countries but also telegrams to submarines. After World War II the telegram traffic was mainly transmitted using the short wave transmitters. The old long wave transmitter became more rarley used. In 1960, one of the to long wave transmitters was scrapped in order to make more space available for short wave transmitters.
Today, the long wave transmitter in Grimeton is operated for telegram transmitting a few times each year. It results in reports from listeners in many countires. Read more about the listeners in Listening to Grimeton.
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Wanted: More Compost
Faster composting for all your lawn and garden uses.
It’s a common complaint among us gardeners this time of year, and not just this time of year: We need more compost. When you’re working it into your garden soil, side dressing the plants in your borders and the transplants in your vegetable patch, even spreading it in the lawn to insure a healthy, weed-smothering and pest resistant carpet of green, well, you can go through a lot of compost rather quickly. You don’t want to skimp. But its hard not too when you have so many places in your landscape calling out for rich, organic soil amendment and only a limited amount of production capacity.
All of us organic gardeners are well-versed in the making of compost. But how effective are we when it comes to making compost. I’ve always been something of a “let-it-happen” sort of composter, putting in a minimal amount of work monitoring, turning, and adding to my piles. Patience played a big role in my composting program. I’ve used the two-bin method, a variation of the three-bin method (PDF), because I didn’t have enough room for a third bin. Leaves — my major source of composting material — that were gathered in the fall were usually ready for composting by the next fall with the addition of spring grass clippings and other green nitrogen sources. But often, they would spend another several months in the second bin before they were finished. Coming out of winter, I seldom had enough compost left from the preceding year to meet my spring needs.
At some point, I realized that I needed to be a more efficient composter, that to make more compost I had to have a quicker turn-around time and more composting capacity. That’s when I decided to get a compost tumbler. It didn’t take long to reduce my compost making time from two years to two or so months. While the quantities weren’t great — even my relatively large tumbler turned out something less than roughly 10 cubic feet of compost a couple, three times a year — the fact that I was turning out compost more frequently served to increase compost productivity.
There was another advantage of using a tumbler. I began to pay more attention to the details of composting. To work at peak efficiency, a compost tumbler requires the perfect ratio of green and brown, nitrogen and carbon ingredients. It also requires a Goldilocks quota of moisture — not too much, not too little, but just right — and it requires frequent turning, say once a week, to keep the ingredients well-mixed and cooking. This made me start paying more attention to my compost heaps. Was I maintaining a good balance of green and brown materials? Did the piles contain enough moisture? Was I turning them as they reached peak temperature, roughly every three to five weeks during the growing season, to ensure adequate oxygen and material distribution?
Maximizing compost production requires providing ideal conditions and an adequate supply of green and brown materials. Here are some things we’ve learned from experience and have gathered from other sources that help us produce as much compost as we possible can. No doubt, our list is incomplete and overlooks some suggestions that can help immensely. That’s where you come in. Let us know how you maximize your compost production.
- Make your compost heaps large enough. The bigger the bin, the more heat producing area you’ll have. Larger piles also retain moisture better. A four-x-four foot area is a good size; smaller works but this is one case where bigger is definitely better. Of course, this creates another problem . . . can you gather enough raw material to fill a large compost heap?
- Be creative when sourcing materials for your heaps. You’ll need much more brown, carbon material than green nitrogen material (most compost guides recommend a ration of as much as 30-to-one). Shredded brown cardboard makes a great addition (we’re not so fond of composting white paper or newspaper because of the bleach and other undesireable material they might harbor; unprinted newsprint paper is fine). Securing old bales of straw is a quick way to add brown material (hay contains weed seeds and most compost piles don’t heat up enough to prevent them from germinating once the compost is spread in your garden). Shredded sticks and pruning debris are also good as long as they are shredded. They also help create air spaces (see “aereation,” below)in the pile which speeds the decomposition process (composting require oxygen).
- Consider using stable wastes, coop cleanings, and bedding material in your compost. The best compost I ever made was when I had a ready supply of urine-rich, manure-laced straw bedding from goat pens. If you’re lucky enough to have a source for stable straw, then you’re a blessed composter indeed. You should probably add more brown material to your heap to balance the nitrogen-rich manures in your stable straw, but the cleanings themselves, depending on how many animals you have and how much time has passed between cleanings, can be pretty close to balanced. Some caveats: horse manure will carry weed seeds that can survive the composting process; “hot” manures, like chicken and hog droppings, will need extra composting time so as not to burn your garden plants with too much nitrogen. Goat manure, mixed with straw, is perfect, neither too hot or loaded with viable weed seed.
- Keep your pile moist. Nothing slows down the creation of compost than a dry pile. Water the layers of ingredients as you construct the pile and keep it moist (but not too) between turnings.
- Aerate. Providing shredded sticks and other debris that creates air spaces in your pile will speed the process along. Crumpled paper and cardboard can also help. This is one of the reasons you turn your pile: to inject more air and help create spaces for it.
- Use a compost thermometer to monitor the heat of your pile. Monitoring the temperature will reveal when you’re doing everything right. It will also let you know if you’ve reached temperature hot enough to destroy weed seed (good luck!).
- Don’t be afraid to harvest compost early. Not every ingredient in your pile will decompose at the same rate. Shredded sticks and other dried material like wood chips and corn stalks will help your compost develop quickly by aiding aeration but may not decompose completely themselves. Don’t wait for them to finish. Use a screen to separate compost that’s crumbly and ready for the garden from these other materials. Then throw them back into the next heap.
Looking back over this list suggest one thought: all the suggestions require more attention and more work. Maybe you don’t need more compost. Lucky you. But if you do, remember: any effort applied to making compost more quickly and efficiently is worth it.
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The Clinical Assessment of Children and Adolescents
A Practitioner's Handbook
Edited by Steven R. Smith, Leonard Handler
Routledge – 2006 – 628 pages
This book highlights assessment techniques, issues, and procedures that appeal to practicing clinicians. Rather than a comprehensive Handbook of various tests and measures, The Clinical Assessment of Children and Adolescents is a practitioner-friendly text that provides guidance for test selection, interpretation, and application. With topics ranging from personality assessment to behavioral assessment to the assessment of depression and thought disorder, the leaders in the field of child and adolescent measurement outline selection and interpretation of measures in a manner that is most relevant to clinicians and graduate students. Each chapter makes use of extensive case material in order to highlight issues of applicability.
"Readers of this text will gain clinically practical and empirically informed knowledge on the assessment of children and adolescents as individuals and as individuals living within the family and other contexts. Rich case examples pointedly illustrate the integration of specific test information into the assessment process as a whole. I recommend this Handbook for graduate students and clinicians working day-to-day with children and adolescents experiencing emotional and behavioral difficulties."
- Daniel J. Holdwick, Jr., Clinical Psychologist
"This book provides extensive coverage of methods, settings, and issues in the psychological assessment of children and adolescents. Readers will appreciate the breadth and depth of its chapters, which offer both detailed guidelines for clinical practice and comprehensive consideration of relevant literature."
- Irving. B. Weiner, University of South Florida
"The volume is quite timely. Today's cosmopolitan world of psychological assessment is interwoven with diverse techniques for varied symptoms and problem areas and different ethnic populations. This handbook integrates its content into situational context to sensitize our understanding of assessment of children and adolescents and to extend services to various ethnic groups of younger people. Concretely put, this book is thus a pioneer in the assessment of children and adolescents in four ways: First, it is edited by two psychologists who have conducted various research projects and extensive clinical work in assessment. Second, this book covers clinical assessment in varied subcategories, such as assessment techniques, specific syndromes and problem areas, and special populations. The book's wide range of coverage indicates that clinical assessments pervade vast areas of psychology. Third, this book infuses multicultural sensitivity into psychological assessments. Fourth, this book is quite comprehensive, including no fewer than 50 contributors, all specialists in the clinical assessment of children and adolescents. About two thirds of them come from academic settings, and one third provide direct services in hospitals, private practice, or other mental health institutes. This combination of contributors from different professional backgrounds, expertise, and cultural backgrounds indicates that this handbook interweaves scientific reasoning and research with clinical practice in multicultural settings to maximize its utility in assessment of children and adolescents."
- Ruth Chao, in PsyCRITIQUES, Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books
Contents: Smith, Handler, The Clinical Practice of Child and Adolescent Assessment. Part I: Issues and Concepts in Child and Adolescent Assessment. Yalof, Abraham, Personality Assessment in Schools. Smith, Integrating Neuropsychology and Personality Assessment With Children and Adolescents. Handler, The Use of Therapeutic Assessment With Children and Adolescents. Braaten, Personality Assessment Feedback With Parents. Part II: Assessment Techniques. Russ, Pearson, Sacha, Play Assessment. Cook, The Round-Robin Family Assessment With Social Relations Model Analysis. Miller, Leffard, Behavioral Assessment. Erdberg, Rorschach With Children. Tibon, Rothchild, Rorschach Case Formulation in Adolescents: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on the Comprehensive System. Kelly, The Clinical Application of the Social Cognition and Object Relations Scale (SCORS-R) With Children and Adolescents. Cashel, Killilea, Dollinger, Interpretation of Storytelling in the Clinical Assessment of Children and Adolescents. Matto, Drawings in Clinical Assessment of Children and Adolescents. Clemence, Use of the Hand Test With Children and Adolescents. Archer, Krishnamurthy, Stredny, The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-Adolescent (MMPI-A). Tringone, Millon, Kamp, Clinical Utility of Two Child-Oriented Inventories: The Millon Pre-Adolescent Clinical Inventory™ and the Millon Adolescent Clinical Inventory™. Lachar, Personality Inventory for Children, Second Edition (PIC-2), Personality Inventory for Youth (PIY), and Student Behavior Survey (SBS). Kamphaus, Brueggemann, Barry, VanDeventer, Behavior Assessment System for Children - Second Edition (BASC-2). Achenbach, Applications of the Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment (ASEBA) to Children, Adolescents, and Their Parents. Part III: Specific Syndromes, Issues, and Problem Areas. Huebner, Gilman, Suldo, Assessing Perceived Quality of Life in Children and Youth. Reddy, De Thomas, Assessment of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder With Children. Loving, Delinquency and Aggression. Stokes, Pogge, Assessment of Thinking Problems in Children. Price, Comprehensive Assessment of Youth Exposure to Trauma and Its Myriad Consequences. Tuber, Harris, Meehan, Reynoso, Ueng-McHale, Rorschach Configurations of Children With ADHD. Kearney, Bensaheb, Assessing Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents. Semrud-Clikeman, Fine, Butcher, The Assessment of Depression in Children and Adolescents. Part IV: Special Populations. Streisand, Michaelidis, Assessment in Pediatric Health. Lincoln, Hanzel, Quirmbach, Assessing Intellectual Abilities in Persons With Autism and Related Disorders. Leong, Levy, Johnson, Gee, Clinical Assessment of Ethnic Minority Children and Adolescents. Sivec, Waehler, Masterson, Pearson, Hearing the Silent Need: Assessing Children Who Have a Parent With a Serious Mental Illness.
Steven R. Smith, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He completed his PhD in clinical psychology at the University of Arkansas before an internship and postdoctoral training at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston. In 2001, he was awarded the Walter Klopfer award from the Society for Personality Assessment for outstanding contribution to the empirical literature. SPA presented him the Anne and Samuel Beck Award for outstanding early career research in personality assessment for 2005.
Leonard Handler, PhD, ABAP, is Professor and Associate Director of the Clinical Training Program at the University of Tennessee. Over the past 40 years he has taught assessment to almost 900 graduate students and is a frequent contributor to various clinical journals. Dr. Handler is on the Editorial Board of JPA; he is co-editor of the Case Study Section of the Journal. He has been a member of two APA committees that deal with assessment, and has been the recipient of awards for his research from the University and from the Tennessee Psychological Association. He also served as Director of the University of Tennessee Psychological Clinic.
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Upcoming Workshops and Events:
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“Foods for Moods: The Importance of Balancing Your Blood Sugar for Mental and Physical Health” This one hour workshop teaches how your your food choices influence how you feel, both mentally and physically. By learning the proper way to incorporate proteins, healthy fats and the right carbohydrates, you can dramatically change how much energy you have throughout the day. Find out how to avoid being “hangry” (hungry plus angry) and gain better triglyceride and glucose levels through smarter choices when it comes to meal planning.
“The Sustainable Diet” Learn how modern health foods are actually robbing us of our health, and the health of our planet. Monocropping and concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) are a terrible choice for our food system. Learn about the history of human kind from a nutritional perspective. Beginning with the agricultural revolution, man’s health has declined. The standard American diet is full of highly processed vegetable oils, sugars and other foods which are the major cause of inflammatory disease which is plaguing our health system. Sustainably produced foods like grass-fed beef, wild-caught fish, pasture-raised eggs and locally grown vegetables are not only a better choice for the environment but are optimal for our bodies. By focusing on nutrient-dense foods, we can achieve better health and be less of a financial burden on society, at the same time supporting sustainable agriculture. Excellent choice for churches and colleges.
“Rethinking Your Diet” A complete workshop for groups looking to change their eating habits. Takes participants through all the foundations of a healthy diet, from proper hydration to “good” and “bad” carbs and how to make better choices about food on a daily basis. The focus of the presentation is to reduce your dependence on processed foods and get back to eating real, old fashioned food that nourishes the body. Excellent for an office lunch group or mother’s club. Handouts included. Excellent choice for libraries, community centers, and company “brown bag” lunches. One hour long.
“The Paleo Lifestyle: Nutrition 101” By learning what your body was biologically meant to eat, you can lose weight and balance your blood sugar. Learn the history of the Standard American Diet and how it is linked to modern disease. Find out the best choices for fats, proteins and how to safely incorporate carbohydrates into your diet. Weekly meal planning and tips for eating out included. This presentation is most popular with gyms and other wellness centers. Available in one and two hour versions.
Have some friends and want a private presentation in your home? I can bring my presentation to you for an informative ”girls night out” evening for everyone to ask questions and learn about improving their lifestyle. This is a great option for a group of teens, too!
Visit my services page on my professional site to learn more about pricing booking information.
Previous Workshops and Lectures:
The Ancestral Health Symposium – Liberation from the Industrial Food System (co-presented with Robb Wolf), and Healthy Foods that are Cruel: Social Justice and the Food System
PaleoFX, Austin Texas – Panelist and presenter for several years
New England Meat Conference – Panelist about trends and sustainability
Harvest New England – Special presentation on marketing for farmers
Community House of Hamilton-Wenham – “Rethinking Your Diet”
Gordon College, Hamilton, MA – “The Sustainable Diet”
Eternal Balance, Beverly, MA – “Rethinking Your Diet”
Core Dynamics, Water Mill, NY – “The Paleo Diet”
“Paleo Nutrition” Workshops and book signings at several CrossFit gyms including:
CrossFit Florian, Mountain Strength CrossFit, CrossFit Cape Ann, Northshore CrossFit, CrossFit Hamptons, CrossFit Florian, Cynergy CrossFit, CrossFit Woodshed, CrossFit 321, CrossFit Palo Alto, Commonwealth CrossFit and more.
I also conduct corporate lunch workshops, private group lectures, and cooking classes.
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The California Assembly is moving closer to banning gun owners from being able to carry their unloaded weapons openly in public.Over the last few months there has been an increase in the number of open carry rallies and meetings in Northern California. on Tuesday a committee moved closer to ending such practices.Several dozen protesters took to the steps of the Capitol on Monday, guns in holsters and rifles strapped to their chests. The gathering was in part a demonstration of Second Amendment rights and a protest of a bill that passed the Assembly Public Safety Committee on Tuesday. The bill would ban carrying an unloaded weapon in public and make California the fourth such state to do so.It's an effort that doesn't sit well with some local gun owners."In my opinion it's a law that's been on the books for quite some time to allow open carry, it's never been a problem," said Ken Quarnberg of Valley Gun on Chester Avenue. "A lot of these politicians who are against it probably never knew about it and now that the whole subject has been brought up, suddenly it's a problem."Open carry events at coffee shops in the Bay and Sacramento Areas made news in February, but such gatherings have also, in years past, taken place in Bakersfield, usually in parks."They're allowed to carry an unloaded firearm in public as long as they're not in a public building which is broadly defined in the Bakersfield Municipal Code," said Sgt. Allan Abney of the Bakersfield Police Dept.The department does not take positions on pending legislation, but has responded to resident's reports of such open carry events in the past. Officers will make sure citizens are complying with the law in an effort to keep the peace. Abney suggests that anyone who chooses to openly carry in the city review the law before doing so, to make sure they're complying.The open-carry ban proposal is backed by the California Police Chiefs Association, as supporters see it as a public safety issue. But opponents disagree."I'd rather have an honest citizen carrying an unloaded weapon in the public, then a criminal carrying one concealed," Quarnberg said.The proposed bill, which passed committee by a four to two vote, would not impact carry and concealed laws if it is signed by the governor into law.While the City of Bakersfield does have an ordinance regarding open carry weapons, the County of Kern does not.
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The next group How To Eat nutrition program will begin on
SUNDAY, January 7th
The How To Eat nutrition program offers you a guided and supportive course of action to improve your diet and your overall well-being. The goal of this course is to eliminate foods that commonly cause digestive ailments, disease, and detrimental eating habits and give your body (and tastebuds) a fresh start. There will be 3 levels of commitment to the program.
LEVEL1 - TESTING THE WATERS
If you are wanting to take steps toward a healthier diet, this is the level for you. We will be focusing on eating whole, fresh, unprocessed foods and making some small changes to the processed foods and sugars in our diets.
LEVEL 2 - THE DEEP END
If you are just looking to clean up your already healthy diet or maybe you want to plunge right into a 4 week detox, this level should suit you. We must warn you that this is not for the faint of heart! For the 4 week program you will be eating whole, fresh, unprocessed foods and eliminating your not so healthy eating habits and sugar dependencies. The guides and support available will keep you on track and give you the extra push you need to reach your dietary goals.
LEVEL 3 - OPEN WATERS - FINDING SENSITIVITIES
This level is going to be tough and on some days grueling but it is also going to make the biggest changes and give you insight into how your body reacts to certain foods. For the first 2 weeks, your diet will become very restricted but with our help, you will be guided through the addition of specific foods back into your diet. We will help you to recognize symptoms of sensitivities and physical and mental reactions to foods that you may have been overlooking for years. You can do this! And we can help.
The Self Guided Program will provide you with:
- A digital guide
- Motivational emails
- Access to the How To Eat Pinterest page and Facebook group
The Self Guided Program $30*
We’ll give you the tools for a healthier, more vibrant life if you’re willing to do the dirty work!
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Thinking is Feeling 09-17-14
Published 4:13 am, Tuesday, September 16, 2014
While I was at work today, I was speaking with a woman about various topics. One of those topics was how people and things around us affect our thoughts which in turn affect our attitude.
On a daily basis, there are things that happen throughout our day which seem to either push our buttons or test our patience. It could be something as simple as being cut off in traffic or receiving poor customer service or someone stepping in front of you at the grocery store without saying “excuse me.” None of these things are a big deal, but the way they are perceived can make them one.
Let me paint a picture using examples above. Imagine you are driving to the grocery store and someone cuts you off in traffic with no warning such as a signal light to let you know they are going to change lanes. It might irk you a little, but you let it go and go on to the grocery store. While at the store, you are looking around and you see a product and are trying to decide between two different ones so you are standing there looking at the items on the shelf. All of the sudden, someone walks right in front of you, between you and whatever you were looking at, and does not say “excuse me” or “pardon me.” You stand there and look at them for a couple of seconds in disbelief because they haven’t even looked back to acknowledge that they’ve rudely walked in front of you.
OK, so you roll your eyes a little and let that “roll off of you” and move on. You continue shopping and someone’s children are running up and down the aisles asking for everything under the sun and whining when they do not get what they want. That gets under your skin a little but you think, kids are kids and you move on. When you are finally finished shopping, you pull your cart up to a cash register to check out. The cashier is not very friendly and acts annoyed that you went to his/her lane. Needless to say, the service you get is not the friendliest.
Could all of this happen to you in a day? Sure. If all of these things happened to you in a day, would it affect your attitude? Maybe, if you allow it to.
In this little scenario, there were actions that could be considered disrespectful and/or annoying. People are not always cognizant of their actions. In fact, some people go through their day on what I like to call autopilot - going through the motions with no feeling and what looks like no thought processes.
People can be on autopilot for several reasons - medication, tragedy, illness, etc. The truth is, we have no idea why some people act the way they do or treat others the way they do. They could be having a bad day, going through something very difficult or maybe they are just unhappy people.
We cannot control others’ thoughts and actions, but we can control our own. Aaron Beck, who developed Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), came up with the Cognitive Triad which basically states our thoughts, affect our emotions which affect our behavior. It’s a little more complicated than that, but for the purposes of this article I am keeping it simple. If we can control our negative thoughts about others’ actions and/or attitudes, then chances are our attitude and behavior toward the world won’t turn sour.
Remember, thinking is feeling. Your thoughts can take you where you want to be.
Take care and God bless.
JoAnn Rey is a Licensed Professional Counselor with West Texas Family Medicine.
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The ‘updtbot software’ is a virus that is installed exclusively on Android smartphones and, by reading the info listed in this article you will learn how to properly configure and secure your device against this infection.
‘Updtbot malware’ installs automatically without you even noticing and it claims to be a bot that helps Android users install updates fast and easy due to a brand new technology. This is a lie and instead of updating your phone, ‘updtbot’ will take full control over your phone’s Android functions and it will start to perform automatic voice calls, send SMS text messages to your stored contacts which tells them that there is a new update for their Android device and that a link needs to be opened. This will trigger the installation of multiple other malicious files that will eventually take over thousands of other android phone.
This virus managed to install on almost 200,000 Android devices and it registers a new command and control server that you will start making calls and send SMSs randomly to other Contacts stored in these phones. When installed, ‘updtbot virus’ stays remotely connected to its author and currently, the source for this infection remains unknown and, the only thing you can do is to properly configure your device so that this virus won’t manage to install in your phone’s command center.
Below you can find some guidelines that will help you secure your Android against the updtbot malware and prevent it from installing its malicious files that would normally help it take control over your phone.
- download applications and other files only from trusted web sites, links, sources etc.
- try to install apps only Google’s Play Store as these are usually scanned and virus-free but, make sure to read their reviews and check to see if any other Android user complained about any app containing viruses or any other form of malware.
- check every applications’ permission page to see which parts of your device will be used after the installation is completed. Click the ‘install’ button only when you’re sure that the applications is 100% safe and that it doesn’t contain malware.
- try to install antimalware applications like NQ Mobile Security, McAfee Mobile antivirus, Norton or any other trusted antivirus app from Google Play Store. Also, make sure to keep such security apps always updated to the latest version.
- do not click nor visit any links that are sent via SMS text messages or emails. Remember that the Android updates are usually sent from your network carrier and never through SMS text messages.
- protect your Gmail account balance to check for suspicious transactions. Make sure to set a PIN code to be requested every time you try to install a paid applications.
That should be all. If you have any questions or any security tips&tricks for Android, then please feel free to post them in our comments section.
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1. Assume their hands are sticky before handing them your phone.
2. The dirt pile you swept up in the kitchen. They will step in it.
3. Lego’s hurt you.
4. It’s not possible to make Lego’s look pretty in your decor no matter how hard you try.
5. Animals shed.
6. Animals walk through the dirt pile too.
7. Animals will bring fleas and ticks into your house adding to your hyper-itchy feeling you’ve had ever since you had that sixth case of poison ivy.
8. You are the only one that will constantly get poison ivy rashes, especially on your face and other parts that you can’t itch in public.
9. You will spend the bulk of your children’s young lives being itchy.
10. The van is never really going to be clean.
11. When both windows stop rolling down on the van you’ll stop apologizing to the drive-thru people about it after the fourth or fifth time.
12. There is never a good time to take the van into the repair shop. Learn to live with the windows.
13. It’s best for your mental wellness to think of the van as an extra closet, sport bag, school supply center, toy box, pantry and compost bin.
14. Never assume your child would never do THAT. Because the moment you say it to a friend, your child will do THAT. Like the time you looked across the street while chatting to your neighbor to see your toddler taking a dump in the other neighbor’s yard.
15. Your children are your best judges. Trust them for their complete honesty.
16. Children will tell you when your butt is BIG and SQUISHY. Tell them not to be so honest.
17. You must learn to speak Neanderthal in order to communicate with your teenage sons. For example if you hear him say, “Hrmph, rumph, hungry.” He needs to eat. If you hear him say, “Hrmph, Rmph, Lmph, Dmph.” You need to yell at him, “I CAN’T UNDERSTAND A WORD YOU’RE SAYING!!!”
18. In order for you teenage son to avoid having to communicate with you offer him food every time you see him. He will love you and you won’t have to figure out what he’s trying to say.
19. When buying a home the best location is next door to the grocery store. Trust me.
20. Train your daughter to love chocolate and romantic comedies as the balm of premenstrual woes, then you will always have a compassionate buddy during your monthly melt down.
21. If you love it. They will break it.
22. Furniture is for jumping and building forts.
23. Anything new in the house is fair game for your most curious child to dissect.
24. They can smell the candy and hear the wrappers no matter where you hide it and no matter where you hide to eat it.
25. If you are eating they need to be eating.
26. If you are bad at sharing, Motherhood will cure you.
27. The night before you become a parent is the last time you will have a good night’s sleep.
28. Children have an amazing way of needing to ask you a question at 2am.
29. The worst stores to take a child include; fabric stores, furniture stores, toy stores, grocery stores, clothing stores, shoe stores, and store stores.
30. If you have to go to the store, wait 20 years.
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There is a new urgency to the latest round of talks in Kampala between the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo and its foes in the M23 rebel group.
For several months the parties have been going around in circles on issues ranging from from a comprehensive political transition to the building of supermarkets in eastern Congo. However, the current talks come just before a United Nations force with a broader mandate begins operations.
The Kampala talks encompass several elements of previously failed peace processes in the region. Notably, local civil society is not participating, and the underlying causes of the conflict are not being addressed.
Moreover, the M23 is attempting to use the talks as the last available vehicle to circumvent accountability for rebellion and war crimes, and Rwanda likely wants to ensure that M23 officers stay in the Kivus. M23 may try to cut a deal to protect its top leaders, maintaining an impunity that will lead to continuing insecurity for communities in eastern Congo.
To achieve progress, the talks should include a benchmark that is already laid out in the peace framework that was signed by 11 regional states and the United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon in February. UN envoy Mary Robinson should urge nations in the region to agree on a partnership with the UN Intervention Brigade to address the fact that armed groups, such as M23 and the Rwandan rebels organized in the FDLR (Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda) , pose risks to regional security. Talks with the armed groups should be part of a strategy to address these concerns.
If the Kampala talks go forward before that mechanism is set up, they must at least meet certain accountability benchmarks if they are to have a durable impact on peace and security in eastern Congo.
In particular, two main changes must be made in the approach to the talks, and it should be up to the Ugandan and other regional governments, Robinson and key policymakers in the U.S. to make them.
First, the only way an agreement will be legitimate and sustainable is if senior M23 leaders accused of war crimes are held accountable for their actions. Previous peace accords for the eastern Congo have created loopholes for war criminals and corrupt public officials. For example, a 2009 deal made rebel leader Bosco "The Terminator" Ntaganda, whom the International Criminal Court had already indicted, a general in Congo's army.
Twelve M23 leaders are currently under indictment for war crimes by the Congolese government, and they should not be given amnesty. An M23-DR Congo accord should specify that indicted war criminals be brought to justice, not reintegrated into the army. Robinson's recent statement on guiding principles for the talks was helpful, pointing the way toward accountability.
The indicted M23 leaders would likely not receive a fair trial in Congo, given the corruption in the justice system, so a better outcome would be to have them handed over for trial to a third country where universal jurisdiction applies.
Meanwhile, rank-and-file M23 troops should be allowed back into the Congolese army but deployed outside the Kivus, since their presence there would cause further conflict. Any redeployment should go hand-in-hand with enhanced monitoring of troop movements in border areas.
Second, the talks must be coupled with fundamental reforms and wider negotiations that address the real drivers of why the war has gone on for so long.
Kinshasa and the regional governments agreed to democratization, economic and security reforms when they signed the framework agreement in February. It is now up to Robinson and the new United States envoy to the region, Russ Feingold, to help broker talks on regional economic integration and security issues - mainly between the DR Congo, Rwanda and Uganda - as well as to ensure that Kinshasa makes good on serious army and democracy reforms, such as the holding of long overdue local elections.
Robinson and her team have a difficult task ahead of them in Kampala, but it is critical that they stay on track. While she should encourage the parties to work constructively, the opportunity presented through the new UN framework calls for tactics that break the mold of past efforts. It is essential that pressure be applied through existing channels of communication with the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region and the Congolese government to ensure that the issues are addressed with transparency, accountability and inclusivity.
If the lessons of failed past peace processes are not learned now, the new diplomatic investments will have been a waste of time, and eastern Congo will sink back into turmoil and large-scale violence.
Aaron Hall is a Nairobi-based field consultant for the Enough Project in Washington, DC, where Sasha Lezhnev is senior policy analyst.
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Usually, when there's a geek event in Japan, cosplayers show up in droves. Somewhere between the folks in skimpy outfits, there are always cosplayers carrying enormous swords and guns. They're not real weapons, of course, but they can really help complete the cosplay.
Want to learn how to make those awesome custom weapons? Like, yourself? No worries, Ryo is here to help.
Ryo is a Japanese cosplayer, who's been living the life since 2003. At that time, Ryo had no clue how to make his own costumes and weapons. Now he's quit his job as a systems engineer and makes costumes for a living. And his wonderful website has walkthroughs for all sorts of awesome cosplay props. Best of all, Ryo also wrote his how-tos in English.
Let's have a look at just some of the cosplay props you, yes, you, can learn how to make:
Hatchet from Monster Hunter
Queen's Sword from Final Fantasy Type-0
"Red Scissor" from Monster Hunter
Scythe's Weapon from Final Fantasy Type-0
Rifle from Metal Gear Solid 3
Yuna's Staff from Final Fantasy X
There are even walkthroughs for armor, like this Monster Hunter outfit.
Monster Hunter and Final Fantasy might not be your thing, but you can use these walkthroughs to inspire your own creations. Ryo's site is a very generous and helpful resource. There's much more in the link below. Have a look.
Gyakuyoga [Official Site]
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Having read In the Garden of Good and Evil, SIL wanted to visit Savannah. Kongo explained to her that it was a fictional work but she wanted to see the real thing so we headed up the coast for a couple of hours to visit the “Hostess City of the South.”
Savannah is a city filled with squares, historic homes, history, statues, and fountains. Did you know that all the Confederate statues are oriented north so that they can face their enemies? Hmm. Also there are 22 squares in historic Savannah, one of the largest “historic” centers designated by the U.S. Government.
The Independent Presbyterian Church is the tallest steeple in a city full of steeples and cupolas. There’s also an impressive Baptist Cathedral and a score of other churches. It is the South after all and religion is taken seriously here.
The first picture in this blog is the beautiful fountain in Forsyth Park. It was made in New York City (a Yankee enclave) and bought in the 1850s by city fathers through a mail order catalog. Interestingly, another version of this fountain is in Cusco, Peru where Kongo visited last year. A picture of that fountain can be found here
Savannah is also a popular setting for movies. Dozens of films have been made here including, of course, the famous Forest Gump. The setting below in Chippewa Park is where Forest sat on the bench and told his story and uttered the famous lines about life being like a box of chocolates. Hollywood offered the bench to the city but Savannah, having doubts about the future success of the movie, turned it down. Go figure.
The Six Pence Pub on Bull Street was in the movie Something to Talk About. This is where Julia Roberts peered into the window and saw her husband (Dennis Quaid) with the “other woman.” There are some great lines in that movie such as when Julia stood up at the Savannah women’s club meeting and asked, “Is there anyone else in this room sleeping with my husband?”
There are a lot of other movies filmed here like Return of the Swamp Thing but Kongo couldn’t find that location.
Of course shopping was on the agenda. River Street is a great place for West Coast tourists to browse.
The architecture in Savannah is one of the major attractions and several houses were dressing up for fall and Halloween.
The founder of Savannah, James Oglethorpe, is featured in Chippewa Square overlooking the bench where Forest Gump sat. Naturally he faces south since that is where his enemy, the Spanish settlement at St. Augustine, was. These old guys always had to face danger.
We had a delightful late lunch at the Pirate’s House (thank you Toni!) which has been serving food, and sometimes shanghaiing unwary visitors, since 1753. The restaurant is on the site of the first botanical experimental garden in the Americas and new crops were tested here to determine their economic viability. The small house adjacent to the restaurant was the home of the gardener and is said to be the oldest house in Georgia.
I think that SIL Toni enjoyed Savannah but I believe her favorite pastime in Florida was shagging golf balls. Kongo’s house backs up to a green on a golf course and every day one or two balls come flying into the yard. SIL would sit on the back lanai and wait for one to roll close to the fence then sneak out, snag the ball, and then go into the house. Then she would watch from the window as the golfers went up and down searching for their out of bounds play. She has a cracked sense of humor that way but had great fun and Kongo’s stray golf ball collection increased significantly during her visit.
Travel safe. Have fun.
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The National Weather Service issued a flood watch for Warren County from 1 p.m. Wednesday to 7 a.m. Thursday due to expected heavy rains combined with melting snow.
According to the warning, small streams and creeks were to be at the greatest risk of flooding due to the potential for heavy downpours over a short duration. Main stem rivers were expected to have a slower response to the heavy rainfall but residents were advised to be aware of the possible risk of minor flooding.
Steve Lauser, Park Ranger for the Army Corps of Engineers, reported that the discharge rate for the Kinzua Dam as well as the flow downriver are holding steady at average levels for this time of year.
Times Observer photo by Brian Collins
“I’ve never seen anything like it.”
That was the reaction of Robert Auflick, who has lived along the Brokenstraw Creek for 32 years, as he looked out over the massive collection of ice forming behind his house. Brokenstraw Creek played host to ice floes that gathered and eventually crashed into each other. The resulting sounds woke Auflick up around 2 a.m. Wednesday morning.
Times Observer photo by Brian Collins
Ice jamming up Jackson Run came within inches of disrupting a decades old suspension bridge built by the previous owners of Candi Thompson’s Jackson Run Road residence. With a flood watch issued in the area, Thompson recalled the events of the 1992 flood, but remained optimistic that the waters would not reach her home.
"What we're doing right now is holding a fairly constant discharge rate," explained Lauser. "As the regional office monitors the different stream gauges, they'll make the necessary adjusments for flood control purposes."
As far as the reservoir itself, Lauser forecasted a slight elevation rise for the weekend, with levels rising from 1304 to 1310 feet above sea level. "The water we're releasing right now isn't contributing much to the flow downriver," he continued, "it is currently measuring 3400 cubic feet per second flow which is an average level for this time of year."
As of Wednesday afternoon, PennDOT Maintenance Manager Wes Hess reported he was not aware of any roadway flooding issues in the area.
"We have been out cutting ice and moving snow out of the areas that needed to be cleared so water could drain off the road," Hess explained. "We've also been clearing snow that has been accumulating in the ditches where water would normally flow, but couldn't because of the snow plugging them up."
While the roads remain clear, it is the massive ice floes accumulating in parts of Jackson Run and Brokenstraw Creek that have residents concerned that flooding may become an issue.
Candi Thompson lives along Jackson Run and first reported the accumulation of ice: "It was last night just after six when I noticed there was ice coming down the creek. (The pieces) weren't very big, but by the time I looked back out the window it had begun to jam up. You could literally hear the ice piling up, but it was hard to describe what it sounded like."
In Pittsfield, Robert Auflick heard the ice crashing down Brokenstraw Creek before he knew what was going on. "I woke up to my dogs barking this morning around 2 a.m. At first I thought it was because of a train, but then I realized it was something else. It was much louder and almost sounded like the train was crashing."
When Auflick looked out over the train tracks, he could see the water rising quickly.
"I've never seen anything like this in the entire time I've lived here," said Auflick who has been a resident along Route 27 for 32 years.
While he discounted threat of flooding as unlikely for residents along Brokenstraw Creek, Thompson was quick to recall the flood in 1992 that affected many residents and businesses along Jackson Run. According to Thompson, the previous owners of his house said the flood waters in 1992 did reach the basement but didn't make it into the living area.
"I'd be lying if I said I wasn't concerned at all, but it's not a major concern," said Thompson. "We've been here for about eight years and the water has never made it up into the house."
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By Wendy Edelstein, NewsCenter, UC Berkeley
Reusable objects deserve a second chance. That's the thinking behind a recently launched campus website that aims to decrease waste by helping Berkeley students, faculty, staff, and departments divest of unwanted items and find things they need.
The goal of the Exchange is to motivate people to give stuff away, rather than throw it into the garbage and add to the landfill.
The Exchange is modeled after the Freecycle Network, a global nonprofit compromising more than 4,800 local groups that facilitates materials exchange. Use of the Exchange is limited to members of the campus community and requires a berkeley.edu email address to register.
The website, which went live this spring, quickly became populated with the kinds of items one might expect — bookshelves, binders, back issues of magazines, desks, moving boxes, and kitchen utensils and cookware — along with objects like a bowling ball and an old upright piano.
The Exchange is the virtual face of the campus's ReUSE program, which hosts material-exchange stations in academic buildings and residential halls that student-volunteers keep stocked with office supplies and other materials. A list of the station locations is available on the ReUSE website. Program volunteers are also available to do pickups from departments.
"A lot of people think recycling is good enough, but it isn't 100 percent efficient," says Kimberly Lam, a junior majoring in environmental science in the College of Natural Resources. Lam co-manages the program with Sarah Cowan, a senior art-history major who wrote grants to secure funding for the Exchange site.
Reuse extends an item's life cycle, says Lam. By doing so, "you reduce the amount of resources, energy, and monetary costs that would go into manufacturing and creating brand new materials."
Using items passed along by friends or family used to be known as being frugal or thrifty, says Lam. "Now people are finally seeing that adopting the ethics of 'reuse' is crucial in our efforts toward building a sustainable future."
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Most people seem to think that Christians are to blame for the Crusades, they are wrong, but few are interested in a long history lesson, and even fewer would believe it if you told them the truth. It’s even been drilled into many Christians that we are to blame for them.
Here is a way based in common “knowledge” that might get them to consider the truth.
Most everyone has heard the song above, there is even an older version of the song done in swing style.
Huge numbers of people know of Constantine, they have been lead to believe that Constantine invented the Bible, they are wrong about that of course, but they are right that Constantine considered himself a Christian. Constantinople was named in honor of this Christian emperor. It is no longer named after him because the Muslims took it over, the Christians that lived there were either forced to convert, enslaved, or even killed. Thus the Christian town of 1000 years, was renamed for it’s new Muslim inhabitance.
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Olympic swimmer Ari-Pekka Liukkonen has made sports history as the first Finnish athlete to come out publicly as gay while still active in his career. Liukkonen, who competed in the 2012 Olympics in London and took a bronze medal at the European Championships the same year, says he decided to come out to raise awareness for Russia’s antigay laws ahead of the upcoming Olympics in Sochi, reports Finnish news site Yle.
“I wanted to start a broader discussion in connection with Sochi, because it’s sad that the legislation in Russia restricts the human rights of young people and others,” Liukkonen said about his decision.
Liukkonen added that he hopes his coming out will lead to a more open attitude about sexual orientation in sports and that eventually it will no longer be considered news. ”Homosexuality is the same kind of characteristic as whether a person has blue or brown eyes, or whether they are left- or right-handed,” he offered.
The swimmer came out to his family gradually over the past two years and said their response was very encouraging.
“My family has received the news positively, and everyone has supported me,” Liukkonen revealed, adding that they had already sensed that he’s gay.
“It’s a really great feeling that I can finally be myself,” he shared.
Liukkonen has suffered from mycoplasma for the past two years, but is optimistic about competing in the Rio Olympic games in 2016.
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Baby Milestone Checklist
If your baby isn't hitting these marks, or at any point seems to be losing skills, talk to your doctor. She may refer you to an expert trained in evaluating developmental delays.
By 3 months: Your baby should begin to develop a social smile, smile at the sound of your voice, watch faces intently, coo, and make other noises.
By 6 months: Your baby should recognize you and seem happy to see you, seem interested in different sights and sounds, and begin to babble.
By 9 months: He should engage in and enjoy back-and-forth interactions, smiles, and other facial expressions -- and respond to his name.
By 12 months: Your baby should point to and reach for things, wave, and say one word in addition to "mama" and "dada".
By 18 months: He should say 10 to 25 single words, point to objects that interest him, and bring things to show you.
By 24 months: Your baby should say at least 50 words and use two-word phrases ("Doll mine," "Daddy go").
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Now is the time to start freezing those fresh fruits and vegetables that will not be available in the winter. But what will you do with them when they’re thawed?
Here are a few ideas:
Strawberries: Make strawberry shortcake, syrup, muffins or a fruit smoothie.
Peaches: Add to pancakes, muffins, cobbler or syrup.
Raspberries: Make a pie, cobbler or syrup, or blend into juice.
Broccoli: Add to soups, casseroles or stews, or eat with cheese.
Mushrooms: Use in stir-fry, casseroles, stews, on pizza.
Peas: Use in soups or stews, stir-fry or eat raw.
Green beans: Make a bean salad, add to stew, mix with pasta or eat plain.
— Wisconsin Department of Health Services, Division of Public Health, WIC Program
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Join David Franz for an in-depth discussion in this video Troubleshooting, part of Pro Tools 9 Essential Training.
If at any time you come across a problem with Pro Tools, I highly recommend…visiting the Avid web site, and utilizing their Knowledgebase.…Click on Support & Services, and navigate over to the right side. Under Pro Tools…Support, click Knowledgebase.…Just type in some keywords about your issue into the search box down here, and…you'll often get an answer on the first page of the search results.…I've used this countless times for my own studio and almost everyday for…helping out my students.…
There is also a great tool to help with troubleshooting called the Tech Support folder.…It includes a tech support utility, a PC Wizard, and troubleshooting sessions.…This is probably included when you install Pro Tools on your computer,…but if not, you can download it from avid.com.…If I type it in here into the Knowledgebase and search for it, it comes up…right here.…Once you've downloaded it, you can look at what's included:…the PC Wizard, Tech Support Utility, and Troubleshooting Sessions.…
Just check out the associated PDFs to find out how these tools can help if you…
- Exploring the Pro Tools interface
- Choosing a playback engine and other settings
- Setting up Pro Tools hardware and software properly
- Importing audio
- Recording and editing audio and MIDI
- Arranging a session
- Writing and editing automation
- Mixing and mastering a session
- Using automatic delay compensation
- Bouncing down a mix as an MP3
- Importing and displaying video
- Archiving a session
Skill Level Beginner
Pro Tools: Music Editing for TV and Filmwith Skye Lewin3h 30m Intermediate
Mixing and Mastering with Pro Toolswith Brian Lee White9h 18m Intermediate
Pro Tools: Audio for Film and Videowith Scott Hirsch5h 9m Intermediate
1. Getting Set Up in Pro Tools 9
2. Learning the Interface
3. Importing into Pro Tools
4. Recording Audio
5. Editing Audio
6. Arranging a Session
7. Recording MIDI Data
8. Editing MIDI
11. Mixing and Mastering
12. Working with Video
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I recently wrote a simple compass application in AIR to demonstrate the use of ANEs (AIR Native Extensions) for accessing sensor data that we don’t have API support for yet. When I heard that iOS 5 brought orientation APIs to mobile Safari, I decided to port the application from AIR to HTML in order to see what the development experience would be like.
- The UI is dynamically drawn using Canvas with no bitmap assets at all which means it scales perfectly to any size screen (you can test this by resizing your browser window; note how the direction and degree text fields change their size and location based on screen size and orientation). I had to write the scaling code myself which I probably could have mostly gotten for free had I used SVG, so that might be my next experiment.
- Since it works on any size screen, it will also work with any orientation (although for best results, turn orientation lock on).
- Offline support. Once you’ve gone to HTMLCompass.com, the application is saved for offline use which means you can go back to the URL even if you don’t have an internet connection.
- Home screen support. If you add the application to your device’s home screen, you will get offline support, a custom icon, and start-up images on iOS (the images that display briefly while your application is loading). In fact, the experience is almost indistinguishable from that of a native application.
- Desktop testing mode. From the beginning, I architected the application so that it would be functional on the desktop as well as mobile devices. Of course, desktop machines typically don’t have a compass or a gyroscope, so you have to click on the compass dial to set north, but enabling desktop mode allowed me to do about 80% of my development on my Mac where the workflow is much smoother than the workflow between a development machine and a mobile device.
Unfortunately, HTMLCompass won’t work on all devices. Since compasses and gyroscopes are relatively new to phones and tablets, comprehensive orientation APIs aren’t widely supported by browsers yet. On iOS devices, support was just added with iOS 5, and on Android, I found I was able to reliably calculate north using the gyroscope APIs in Honeycomb (specifically Android versions 3.1 and 3.2.2). Here are all the devices I successfully tested on:
- iPhone 4 with iOS 5.
- iPad 2 with iOS 5.
- Motorola Xoom with Android 3.2.2.
- Galaxy Tab 10.1 with Android 3.1.
Below are some miscellaneous observations I jotted down during development. Let me know in the comments if you have any questions or thoughts.
- On iOS, I use the incoming orientation events as my rendering/animation loop which works really well. On Android (or at least on my Xoom), the
alphavalues of the
DeviceOrientationEventare too erratic, resulting in very choppy animation. In order to smooth it out, I created a specific rendering loop which allowed me to average the alpha values out over more time. The animation still isn’t as smooth on Android as it is on iOS, but it’s not bad.
- I built most of the application while testing almost exclusively in Safari (desktop and mobile) which was a mistake. The first time I tested in Chrome and Android, the app wasn’t even close to working. It’s inconvenient to iterate in several browsers at once, but that’s probably the way to go. When I build my next HTML app, I will test in all the target browsers as I’m developing, and where I find differences, I’ll do my best to encapsulate them right then and there. Waiting until you’re "finished" only find out you’re actually only about half finished is a big disappointment. (I have to say that I was surprised by the number or browser inconsistencies I found — even across WebKit-based browsers. I’m definitely looking forward to this gap narrowing in the future.)
- Ironically, Apple has done a lot more to enable web applications on mobile devices than Google. I expect that web application support will be more of a focus in future versions of Android, but as of right now, I find web application support to be far superior on iOS (as well as the browser itself).
- Because of the gyroscope built into MacBooks, Chrome on Mac supports the
DeviceOrientationEvent. Since MacBooks don’t have compasses, however, the z rotation cannot be tracked which means the
alphavalue is null.
I learned quite a lot about developing mobile HTML5 applications — most of it through trial and error — so I’m planning on following up this post with several tutorials and how-tos which will hopefully save others from many of the challenges I encountered.
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What to look for in an air compressor
The best way to choose an air compressor is to already have in mind the air tools you plan on using with it as different air tools place different demands on the machine. Once you have identified the equipment it will be ‘powering’, you are then in a position to identify the parameters needed on the air compressor to have those air tools work properly. The two overriding characteristics of an air compressor to pay attention to are the maximum air pressure it can produce, and the free air delivery or air flow at the outlet that it is able to sustain.
For the air pressure (and to keep things as simple as possible), you can assume that all air tools operate at either of two air pressures. They either need an air pressure of around 40 pounds per square inch (psi), such as for spray painting guns, or air tools like air nailers require a pressure of around 90 psi to operate (most air tool categories operate in the higher 90 psi range). In general, air compressors come with an air pressure regulator to regulate the air pressure at the outlet so that you can use air tools with different air pressure requirements – but check this to make sure!
Free Air Delivery (Air Flow)
Most workshop air compressors can reach the higher air pressures required to operate the majority of air tools, so arguably, a more important characteristic to concentrate on when choosing an air compressor is its ability to maintain a specific free air delivery (FAD) or air flow. This should not be confused with the free air displacement of the compressor pump which is often advertised (albeit slightly disingenuously as it is always higher then the FAD) by air compressor retailers as it does not correspond to the air flow requirements of air tools. If you are confronted with an air displacement value only, then you can assume that the free air delivery of the air compressor at the nozzle outlet will be approximately one third less than its air displacement value. The unit of measure that is commonly used for enumerating free air delivery (and displacement) is cubic feet per minute (cfm), but here in the UK, we also sometimes use litres per minute (l/min). Different types of air tools have different types of FAD requirements. Some, like air sanders, need an almost continuous flow of air while others, like air nailers, only need air in short bursts. As a result, air tool manufacturers have often had to make certain assumptions on how active their tool will be in the hands of the eventual user in order to derive a free air delivery rating for their tool. So for air nailers for instance, manufacturers usually assume an operating frequency of 30 nails discharged within the space of a minute, or for air impact wrenches, it is usually taken that they will be consuming air for only 12-15 seconds per minute. Therefore, in order to account for higher than average levels of your own air tool use, it is always best to increase the free air delivery that you need from the air compressor by 20-50% before looking for one that can produce this sort of air flow. The table below provides a guide to the typical air flow requirements of different air tools, but it is also important to determine the exact air flow required for the actual air tool you plan to use as they can vary significantly.
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One other point to note here is that an air compressor that is FAD-underrated for a particular air tool can often still produce the required air flow for that air tool to function. However, it will only be able to operate the air tool for very short bursts, sometimes so short as to make the use of the tool unrealistic. In addition, most air compressor motors are not designed to run 100% of the time, and using an air tool that requires more air flow than the air compressor was designed to sustainably provide will overwork the compressor motor causing it to fail prematurely.
Air Receiver (Air Tank) Size
This is the measure of the volume of the tank that holds the compressed air. Compressors sometimes come with more than one tank connected together but the number of tanks is actually irrelevant since the total volume is what counts. The bigger the air tank size, the less often the compressor motor will need to switch on to refill it. In addition, working away from an electrical source of power can be extended when using an air compressor with a larger air receiver.
Motor Horsepower Rating
This is the measure of the power of the compressor motor. Essentially, the higher the horsepower, the faster the compressed air tank is refilled. In general, the more horsepower, the better, but go for too high a horsepower and the compressor will need to be connected to a dedicated high amperage electrical circuit to avoid tripping circuit breakers.
Most Popular Air Compressors in the UK
|Air Compressor||Free Air Delivery|
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|Air Receiver (L)||Power (hp)||Weight (kg)|
|Wolf Air Dakota||9.4 ***||150||90||3||80|
|SIP 06242 Airmate TN3.0/50-D||9.5||130||50||3||45|
|Wolf Air Sioux||6.4 ***||116||50||2.5||35|
|Wolf Air Cheyenne||9.4 ***||150||50||3||44|
|SGS SC24H||6.4 ***||115||24||2.5||30|
SIP 06242 Airmate TN3.0/50-D (our favourite)
The SIP Airmate TN3.0/50-D compressor is a powerful machine that can generate up to 130 psi of pressure. Together with its 50L air receiver and relatively high Free Air Delivery of 9.5 cfm (air displacement of 14 cfm), it is a compressor that is capable of running the majority of air tools out there. Unlike some of its competitor products in its category and even though it has a powerful 3 hp motor, it is still able to safely operate off an normal 13A household plug. Some of that electrical efficiency comes from the twin, V-shaped pump motor design that it uses. SIP Industrial is a very reputable British company that has a history of manufacturing tools for both industrial and domestic users, and has been making air compressors of its own since the 1980’s. Today the company is involved in producing a variety of different machinery and power tools for a variety of different industries including the consumer market. So if you are a professional tradesman or just an over-active DIY-er and you have the money to spare for this quality product, then it definitely gets our vote!
Wolf Power tools
Wolf is a power tool company whose products are marketed through a number of online outlets including Amazon, the UK Home shopping network, and SportsDirect.com, to mention a few. Their range of tools also includes a range of air compressors for the home and professional user which has become very popular with both DIY enthusiasts and tradesmen alike due to their relatively high specifications at an affordable price. In addition, their range of air compressors on offer caters to a wide range of requirements. As a result, several of their air compressors are positioned in the top ranks of air compressors popular in the UK.
Wolf Air Dakota
Currently, this is our all-round favourite in this category of air compressor based on overall value. This is a large capacity machine that is more suited to the professional or semi-professional who uses air tools regularly. With a 90L air receiver (air tank), the compressor is suited to operating the majority of air tools. The one downside to having such a powerful compressor is that it requires having a dedicated high amperage circuit to operate it. If used on a normal household ring main, the compressor will risk tripping the circuit breaker each time it switches on to refill the tank which can be several times during a job. It is quite a simple job for an electrician to add a dedicated high amperage circuit addition to the common household RCB, so this is not such a deal-breaker even for the home garage or DIY user. The unit displaces 14 cfm or 397 litres/min of air, which equates to a Free Air Delivery (FAD) of between 9 and 10 cfm – a metric that is more relevant to deciding which air tools it is capable of operating, and this FAD is more than enough for the majority of air tools. The unit comes fitted with an air outlet pressure regulator and twin outlet quick release couplers although check that the connectors on your air tools are compatible as not all quick connectors are the same. Another point to consider is that the machine is pretty weighty coming in at 80 kg (for comparison, that’s close to the average weight of a man), and although the wheels do make it somewhat portable, don’t plan on lugging this around too much!
Wolf Air Cheyenne
For the user that needs the high air pressure (150 psi) but not as much air capacity as the Dakota, Wolf has produced a model with a tank that is approximately half the size of its bigger sibling. In addition, it uses a different V-shaped motor allowing the device to be more efficient. Together, this makes the Wolf Cheyenne almost half the weight of the Dakota which some might find appealing if they plan on moving the compressor around somewhat. Once again as with the Dakota, the Wolf Cheyenne also needs to be operated off a dedicated high amperage circuit and not via a regular household ring main if you don’t want to keep resetting the circuit breakers on your mains circuit board on a regular basis. As with other Wolf compressors, the Cheyenne comes with Wolf-branded Uni Hi-flow Quick Release couplers that are not universally compatible with all air tool connections, so you may need to opt for alternative fittings for compatibility.
Wolf Air Sioux
Not everybody needs the high air pressures possible with the Wolf Dakota and the Wolf Cheyenne, so to cater to those individuals with lower requirements, Wolf has a couple of compressors with lower maximum working pressures in the form of the Wolf Sioux 50 and the Wolf Sioux 25. These air compressors have a smaller 2.5 hp motor that can produce a maximum working pressure of 116 psi, and the compressed air is stored in either a 50L or 24L air tank, respectively. However, even with the lower air pressures, one is not greatly limited on which air tools can be used with the Wolf Sioux which can still produce a Free Air Delivery rating of greater than 6 cfm, well within the range of most air tool requirements. One notable advantage of a less demanding motor is that these machines can be operated from a regular household circuit without the worry of tripping the circuit breaker on the mains circuit board.
SGS Engineering – SC24H
The SGS SC24H air compressor is suited to the average consumer with more modest needs. Here, you are paying more for the quality of the machine than you are for its specification. Similar to other compressors in its category, it can deliver 116 psi of compressed air but from a relatively small 24 litre air receiver tank that can put a limit on the type of air tools and the size of the job for which the compressor can be used for. The compressor is good buy for small jobs and for air tools that don’t have high air flow requirements such as tyre inflating, finish nailing, and stapling, but it will struggle with most air impact wrenches, sanders and grinders. But for the household user, such high intensity DIY work might not be important, rather the fact that the unit can easily run off a normal household socket might be of more significant value. SGS Engineering itself is a reputable British company that makes a wide range of high-quality engineering tools, and this hand-built air compressor is no different. Once again, you are buying quality here rather then ‘quantity’, and as the company is located in the UK, you can also rest assured that spare parts, oil and oil filters are all easily available, further prolonging the life of the machine.
We all know the Hyundai corporation as the car manufacturer. But did you know they make other products as well? Well now you do. In fact they make an assortment of other machinery and tools as well as a line of air compressors targeted at the regular consumer and professionals. The HY2550 is one of their smaller ones in their product range providing a Free Air Delivery of 5.19 cfm or 147 litres / min at a working pressure of 115 psi, not dissimilar to other competitor air compressors in this category. The HY2550 has a 50L air tank which makes it capable of handling air tools with more needy air flow requirements. It also has 2 air outlets so that two air tools can be connected simultaneously.
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aluminium testing Applications
The aluminium industry is the major source of perflurocarbon (PFC) emissions to the atmosphere, which are a major contributor to global warming. PFCs have greenhouse gas effects up to 10000 times that of CO2. Emissions have been reduced over the last 20 years, but further reductions are harder to achieve as all the mechanisms for PFC production are not known. In order to better understand the production of PFC on an industrial level, laboratory studies have been carried out using a small scale cell.
By Protea Limited based in Middlewich, UNITED KINGDOM.
Regardless of whether your metal waste comes from the metal-processing industry, automotive industry, electronics industry, waste industry or commercial production, we will always offer you the right shredding system for recycling your valuable resources! Metals are important raw materials for the industry and can be repeatedly returned to the recovered resource cycle with very little loss. The recycling of metals saves valuable raw materials and energy as opposed to the new processing of ores. Our sturdy rotary shears that have been tried and tested a thousand times over, reliably and efficiently shred light metals such as aluminium, magnesium, Al-Mg alloys, copper or nickel, as well as harder metals such as iron, zirconium, titanium and sheet steel.
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- See Oni (myth) for the mythical oni, and see Oni (folder) for info on the installation of Oni on Windows/Mac.
- See Credits for a complete list of the names behind Oni as well as links to interviews with key members of the Oni team.
Work on Oni began in 1997 when Bungie decided to found a second studio, Bungie West. The concept for their first project was devised by Brent Pease and Michael Evans, whose primary influence was the animé film Ghost in the Shell. Pease and Evans had been working at Apple on game-related technology, and so their first step was to begin work on the engine, gradually hiring employees to produce concept art and author content for the game. The name "Oni" was originally intended only as a code name during development; Pease intended it to be a reference to their inspiration, believing its meaning to be "Ghost".
The designs for Konoko and Commander Griffin can be seen to resemble the characters of Motoko Kusanagi and Daisuke Aramaki. Early development even presented Konoko as a cyborg, which, together with the tech-crime-fighting setting, resembled the world of Ghost in the Shell. In August of 1999, Hardy LeBel was brought in as Design Lead, and revamped the story. The final version of Oni abandons the cyborg heroine and instead introduces original concepts such as the Daodan Chrysalis and SLDs.
Oni was originally expected to be released in the fourth quarter of 1999, but as that date approached, the release date was pushed back. This occurred repeatedly, until finally the rumored release date was as late as March 2001. Much of the uncertainty over Oni's status came from Bungie's well-known reluctance to disclose or adhere to fixed release dates. Some of the delay may have come from staff turnover and development issues; a Design Lead position was created in the summer of 1999 for newcomer Hardy LeBel, who immediately began rewriting the story. Pease left at the end of 1999 (with his Project Lead title being passed to Michael Evans) and Bungie West also lost one of their two level designers and replaced the AI programmer in the same six-month period between the summer and the end of 1999.
Possible additional factors in the delay were the introduction of a PS2 port to be released in tandem with Oni for Windows/Mac, part of a deal struck with Take-Two Interactive in August of 1999, and the acquisition of Bungie by Microsoft, which was announced in June of 2000 and which led to the acquisition of the Oni IP by Take-Two just as the game was finishing development. The details of the acquisitions are explained in the "Post-release" section below.
The earliest online hype came from the existing Bungie community, particularly Marathon fans. As the Oni project gained popularity, a dedicated online community emerged in the form of Oni Central and the Oni Central Forum.
Interviews conducted with the staff of Bungie West promised various ambitious features such as smart AI, sophisticated melee combat, realistic level architecture, complex particle dynamics, battles with a large mech (the "Iron Demon") and multiplayer abilities. Two trailers were made for Oni, one in 1998 and one in 1999, reflecting the visions for the game during its time in development. These trailers and various screenshots were analyzed eagerly for evidence of Oni's ground-breaking features.
At E3 1999, Oni received the Game Critics Award for "Best Action/Adventure Game", even though the game was still in development at that point.
Due to the delays in Oni's development, Bungie suspended the advertising of the game for a time, so as not to expend their budget before the game was even released. In the meantime, the game under development at Bungie's HQ in Chicago, which was previously known only by its code name "Blam", came to be known as Halo and slowly drew attention away from the oft-delayed Oni as images and trailers for it began to appear.
As Oni finally neared completion, Bungie resumed their advertising, now partnered with Take-Two, who were in the process of taking over the Oni IP as Bungie prepared to join Microsoft (see "Post-release" section below). Promotional artwork was produced by Lorraine Reyes McLees and a four-issue comic book was produced under Take-Two's supervision and published by Dark Horse. Take-Two's PR efforts, however, seem to have been focused mainly on the PS2 version of the game.
After a short period of beta testing (starting just before September), during which a leaked beta build of the game surfaced on the Internet, development of the Windows version was finished in November and the Mac version in December 2000. Oni was finally released, much later than originally expected, at the end of January 2001 (possibly Spring 2001 in Europe). Oni was translated into other languages, including Russian, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Chinese and Japanese. These localizations were critical to building Oni's fan base, which today is largely based outside of primarily-English-speaking countries.
Oni's storyline is fairly straightforward, although it has been called "understated". Because the story takes place over about a week and a half in the game's timeline, there is little room to develop the characters or setting, although large amounts of additional information are to be found in consoles scattered throughout the levels.
The developers achieved a unique blend of gunplay and hand-to-hand combat, with fluid controls and a camera that ensures that the action is always visible. Gunplay is fairly standard for the action genre, with some added emphasis on realism (Konoko only carries one weapon at a time, and a gun's ammo is tracked persistently whether it is being handled by the player or an enemy). The melee component of the game is particularly complex, using over 2000 unique animations, and is frequently the main element that fans point to when praising the uniqueness of the gameplay.
Oni also uses a custom graphics engine optimized for handling levels with lots of open space, and the levels were designed by actual architects, giving them a much more realistic feel than many game worlds of the time. The actual texturing in the game is minimalist, a style chosen to try to match the look of animé.
The overall consensus of the critical reviews was that the game was good, but not great; Oni has a metascore of 73/100 from critics, but an 8.6/10 from the website's voters.
Professional critics tended to dislike the ambitious melee element, complaining of counter-intuitive or unresponsive controls (if they found the game too hard), or the easily accessible basic combos (if they found the game too easy). Some reviewers were unimpressed by environment graphics that were not as rich as other games of the time (the simple look of Oni was partly due to the attempt to mimic animé backgrounds, and partly a result of the game mostly taking place in offices and other man-made, realistic structures).
Upon Oni's release, many felt cheated because the game did not deliver on all of its promises (a not uncommon issue in game development). The most notable shortcoming was the absence of LAN multiplayer, which had been demoed at hands-on booths at Macworld Expos in mid-1999 and early 2000. In May of 2000, it was announced that multiplayer was being removed from the game due to concerns over latency issues.
Some previously-hyped features were missing, such as smart gunfire dodging and alarm behavior on the part of the AI. On the Oni Central Forum, Design Lead Hardy LeBel blamed this on Oni's original AI programmer, saying "She made a lot of boastful claims about what the AI would end up being able to do that she couldn't deliver on". Interestingly, some hidden AI abilities have been found in Oni's engine, either disabled, slightly buggy, or not utilized by the game's mission scripts.
Some of the game's content was cut as well. This included at least one entire level (BGI HQ), and the highly anticipated Iron Demon, the large mech shown in-game in the 1999 trailer. Gaps in the numbering of the game files led fans to believe that at least five chapters were cut before release, but, besides the BGI HQ level that was cut from the story, this was simply due to content that was moved around or consolidated into other levels.
Finally, Bungie did not hold to their usual practice of releasing level-building tools for their games, since a professional and costly CAD program was used to produce Oni's levels. As Oni's release neared, it was pointed out by Matt Soell, Bungie's PR person, that since Bungie no longer owned the game, they were unable to release whatever supplementary tools had been developed. Early statements about releasing the file formats were probably also impossible to follow through on once ownership had transferred to Take-Two. This factor, coupled with the lack of multiplayer, meant that Oni's full potential was not obvious.
Thus, it was left to the fans to create their own modding tools, after investigating the inner workings of the game on their own.
Oni and the makers of Oni went their separate ways. First we look at the direction Bungie took, then we come back to the game.
Bungie had seemed to enjoy great success as an independent publisher ever since they released Pathways into Darkness in 1993. However, Bungie was initially a Macintosh developer, and even their domination of the Mac's small game industry meant limited success in real financial terms (but eventually, Bungie began releasing games for Windows too, starting with Marathon 2). Bungie also took advantage of their indie status to avoid the strict deadlines which are normally enforced by video game publishers, refusing to release their games until they were totally satisfied with them.
It is believed that Bungie began suffering from a shortage of cash around 1998 when the Myth II uninstaller bug was discovered and cost them at least $1 million to correct. This might have been difficult to absorb for a studio not accustomed to a disciplined release schedule. The next game to release after Myth II was to be Oni in 1999, but as Oni's release date began to slide more and more, it became clear that Bungie had underestimated the time required to finish the game by more than usual. In the meantime, Bungie was bankrolling two studios instead of one. Thus, the decision was made to partner with Take-Two Interactive; on August 13, 1999, it was announced that Take-Two would acquire 19.9% of Bungie in exchange for the publishing rights to Oni and the upcoming Halo. Take-Two also began work on a port of Oni for the upcoming PlayStation 2 console.
This deal didn't seem to change business much for Bungie, especially since Take-Two was having the PS2 port performed by another studio. But considerably more shocking news was revealed on June 19, 2000, when Bungie announced its acquisition by Microsoft. It turned out that Bungie's monetary woes had not been solved by Take-Two's influx of cash, and so MacSoft founder Peter Tamte had been hired by Bungie to find a buyer for the company. Take-Two acquired (among other things) all rights to the Oni and Myth IPs in exchange for its stake in Bungie and its publishing rights for Halo. Take-Two valued the Oni IP at $2.8 million, and the Myth IP at $1.5 million.
The acquisition of Bungie by Microsoft also meant the dissolution of Bungie West as Bungie moved their employees to Redmond, Washington. Some Oni developers stayed with Bungie and went on to contribute to the Halo series, such as LeBel, while others ended up at independent game studios, such as Giant Bite (co-founded by Chu & Evans).
In October of 2007, Bungie separated from Microsoft and moved from Redmond to the nearby city of Kirkland, and then moved to nearby Bellevue in 2010.
Clearly Take-Two expected big things from Oni (see their valuation of Oni above, as well as their promotional efforts under the "Hype" section). They had assigned Rockstar Canada (later known as Rockstar Toronto) to work on a PlayStation 2 port of Oni around the end of 1999, and released it alongside the Windows and Mac versions of Oni; however, the port has been considered to be an inferior version of the game due to technical limitations and control issues.
At first, Take-Two seemed intent on investing in Oni as a franchise. Shortly after Oni's release, a simple game billed as an Oni prequel (developed by Quantum Sheep) was released for WAP-enabled cell phones. More significantly, it was rumored that Take-Two had put Oni 2 into production; however, no sequel was ever officially announced. In 2016, an actual development build of the cancelled game was leaked. Interviews with former employees of Angel Studios revealed that the game had been in development for as long as two years without getting close to completion, and the troubled project was finally cancelled when Angel Studios was acquired by Rockstar in 2002.
The future of the property
Take-Two has sold off some dormant franchises to outside developers, although there is no evidence that Oni is one of them. Upon the separation of Bungie from Microsoft, there was fervent speculation about Bungie returning to their older franchises. In an interview, Bungie's CEO at the time, Harold Ryan, was asked specifically about Oni:
- Since we're on the subject of strong franchises: is there perhaps a chance to bring back Oni?
- Harold Ryan
- (laughs) Oni isn't currently one of those projects we're looking at, but one should never say never.
We'd be happy to work with the individuals who made Oni.
One thing is certain: the current Bungie staff has little in common with the Bungie West that produced Oni (there are only four Oni developers still working at Bungie -- Butcher, Dunn, and the McLees -- as of December 2016). There is probably little sentimental or monetary incentive for Bungie to buy the IP back and produce a sequel. Furthermore, it was announced in May 2010 that Bungie was developing a new IP, to be published by Activision under a ten-year contract.
Since Oni's release, the fan community has been working on mods and writing gameplay and modding tools for the game. Gradually, the modding abilities of the community have extended to encompass nearly every aspect of the game. The game apps in Windows and macOS are also maintained and improved through patches. Various fan projects have taken on the subject of an "Oni 2" storyline.
- Pease discusses his role as Oni's creator and GitS' influence on the game here.
- The meaning of "oni" is usually given by those familiar with Japanese myths as either "demon" or "ogre". Pease explains the origin of the code name here, and seems to still think the word means "ghost"; however, Hardy, his eventual replacement, indicates here and here that he understood "oni" to mean "demon" and had re-written the story with that in mind.
- At one time during development, the name "Mnemonic Shadow" was considered. (http://marathon.bungie.org/story/newjan-feb01.html)
- IMG interview with Hardy LeBel.
- OCF post by Matt Soell, "Re: Matt- could you address this?".
- Discussions on OCF of: a fall 1999 release date, a summer 2000 release date, a fall 2000 release date, and finally a spring 2001 release date. These "release dates" were generally rumors, ephemeral dates used by online stores for pre-orders, or vague estimates by Bungie PR, not official statements. Nevertheless, it was clear that Oni was taking longer than planned to finish, which was a cause of some concern among Bungie fans.
- Oni discussion on the Marathon Story Page. Bungie fans first started talking about the newly-announced Oni (and the E3 1998 trailer) back in May-June 1998, unaware that it would not release for another two and a half years.
- OCF thread, "New news groups?".
- OCF thread, "ONI gone GOLD".
- OCF thread, "Re: It's coming... soon", which showed that the Mac version would not reach GM until the demo came out; OCF thread, "MAC DEMO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!", marking the release of the demo.
- Oni Central News Archive, Jan. 2001.
- OCF thread, "What language is your copy of Oni in?".
- OCF post by Hardy LeBel, "Re: More questions... (mainly for chef...)".
- OCF post by Matt Soell, "Re: general questions....".
- Dean Takahashi's book "Opening the Xbox" claims on page 238 that a Bungie game never sold more than 200,000 units, but that number may be based on a misunderstanding, because the Chicago Reader article "Monsters in a Box" talks about an initial shipment of Myth II numbering 200,000 units.
- See Bungie's 20th Anniversary documentary, O Brave New World, 6 minute mark.
- SEC 10-K filing for Take-Two Interactive, 10/31/99.
- SEC 10-K filing for Take-Two Interactive, 10/31/02.
- The sale of Bungie to Microsoft has an interesting historical footnote: according to Ed Fries, who was VP of game publishing at Microsoft, Steve Jobs angrily called MS CEO Steve Ballmer immediately after the Bungie acquisition was announced; sources within Bungie have stated that Apple themselves had been close to offering to buy Bungie at the time. In order to appease Apple (a business partner of Microsoft) over the loss of a major Mac game developer, a new company was formed to port Windows games to the Mac, named Destineer, and headed up by none other than Peter Tamte of Bungie. Destineer would go on to publish a port of Halo for the Mac in 2003. (, , )
- Fastest Game News Online, "Oni Prequel Announced".
- Oni Central News Archives, Apr. 2001.
- Documented by the game preservation YouTube channel PtoPOnline here.
- 4players.de interviews Shane Kim and Harold Ryan (translated).
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Welcome to PyCharm! This short guide aims to help you get a grip on the PyCharm IDE.
Before you start…
- Make sure that at least one Python interpreter, version from 2.4 to 3.4 is properly installed on your computer.
- Mind that PyCharm is available in two editions: Community and Professional. The difference between the editions is explored in Edition Comparison Matrix.
Note that the download page contains installation instructions for the various platforms; these instructions may vary for the different operating systems.
If this is the very first time you launch your PyCharm, it will ask you several important questions:
- First, whether you already have setting you want to preserve (for example, from a previous version)
- Your license information
- And, finally, which keymap and theme you want to use:
Note that PyCharm has several pre-defined keymaps: for those who like Eclipse or Visual Studio, for the Emacs fans, GNOME, KDE and more. Explore the list of available keymaps in the Keymap page of Settings/Preferences dialog.
For the dedicated Vim users, PyCharm suggests IdeaVim plugin that helps coding in PyCharm as if in the Vim editor. For those who cannot live without real Emacs, PyCharm provides the possibility to use it as an external editor.
If later you decide that your initial choice was wrong, you can always change your settings. To learn more about configuring the IDE theme and keymap, refer to our documentation and tutorials:
Setting defaults from the Welcome screen
Again, if this is your very first start (or if you have no open project), you’ll see the Welcome screen. If you click Configure, you’ll see the page of the Welcome screen that suggests you to configure your environment, plugins, import and export settings. You have to click Configure once more - and see the Settings/Preferences dialog. If you look at this dialog, you’ll notice the header “Default Project”:
What does it mean? These settings will be used every time you create a new project. For example, you want all you newly created projects to use the same interpreter - OK, you can define such an interpreter in the Default Project settings:
The Editor settings pertain to your working environment. For example, you want your editor to always show line numbers. In the Settings/Preferences dialog, expand the node Editor, and in the Appearance page, select the check box “Show line numbers”:
Next, suppose you want to use some particular color scheme for the editor, and you are not happy with the colors suggested by default. OK, select the base scheme, create its copy, and then change colors (the schemes suggested by default are not editable).
It is also possible to set your preferred font size for the editor - this is done in the Fonts page of the Colors and Fonts settings. Again, you have to create a copy of the scheme first, if you haven’t done it already, and then specify the desired font size for the editor. This font size will apply to the current editor tabs, and all the newly opened editors. However, it does not affect the font size of the IDE components.
Note that you can always see the results of your experiments in the Preview pane:
The whole procedure is described step-by-step in the tutorial What my PyCharm looks like.
When a project is already created, you can change its settings at any moment. Configuring settings for the current project will be discussed a little bit later, in the section Customize everything for your project!.
Finally, you can show or hide actually all the UI elements: toolbar buttons, main menu, main toolbar (menu View); PyCharm also enables you to choose viewing mode. Refer to the documentation for details:
Everything you do in PyCharm, is done within the context of a project. What is most interesting about PyCharm project management, is the possibility to open multiple projects in one frame. When you create a new project (File →New Project), or open an existing one (File →Open), PyCharm suggests you to choose which way you want the project to be opened: in a new window, in the same window after closing the previously opened project, or added to the previously opened project.
You can have as many projects opened in one window as required. So doing, the first project is considered the primary project. All the symbols of the added projects are visible from the primary project.
As an exercise, create a new empty project, where you can develop some pure Python code. This case is discussed in detail in the tutorial Getting started with PyCharm - in particular, the section Creating a simple project.
Types of projects
By the way, PyCharm suggests creating projects of the various types: Django, Flask, Pyramid, web2py, etc. You can explore the available types yourself, when creating a new project - just select the new project type from the drop-down list:
As you see, PyCharm supports all the major Python-based frameworks. For each of the supported project types, PyCharm creates the corresponding file and directory structure, and all the necessary artifacts. Refer to the product documentation:
OK, your project is ready. Before you start working with it, just press Shift twice. You’ll see a pop-up window that allows finding anything and jumping everywhere:
As you see, this way one can search among the actions, settings, files, IDE components, and more. Note that it is just one of the numerous navigation features. We’ll return to the PyCharm’s search and navigation facilities a little bit later.
Customize everything for your project!
Look at the main toolbar — there is the Settings button . Clicking this button opens the Settings/Preferences dialog box, where you can change your project structure, set up version control, and tweak your working environment to make the development process a real pleasure.
Some of the settings pertain to a particular project - for example, project interpreter, version control configuration, or file colors. The others - like the Editor settings, keymaps, or live templates - pertain to your whole working environment, and thus can be configured even without an open project.
Python interpreter is vital - without it you will not be able to do anything...PyCharm will warn you, if you manage to create a project without an interpreter:
In PyCharm, you can define several Python interpreters - they just comprise the list of interpreters, available on your machine. From among them, you can choose the one to be used in your project.
You need to tell PyCharm which Python interpreter you want to use since it can use a different interpreter for each project:
PyCharm will use this information for indexing.
You can use Python interpreters of the following types:
This is the most straightforward way of using an interpreter. You download a Python interpreter, install it on your machine, and then specify the Python executable… Refer to the tutorial or product documentation.
With PyCharm, you can use interpreters located remotely, for example, on a reliable server. So doing, PyCharm makes it possible to configure remote interpreters via SSH connection, or via Vagrant box.
Refer to the tutorial Configuring interpreters with PyCharm.
Why do we need it all? Suppose, you are working on one project that makes use of, say, Django 1.6, and at the same time support another project requiring Django 1.2. In such a case, you need something that keeps your environment safe and consistent - a tool that allows creating an isolated working copy of a Python interpreter. Learn how to create a virtual environment in the documentation and tutorial.
Packages and paths
Regardless of the interpreter type, PyCharm helps install and update the necessary packages and paths. For example, when PyCharm automatically detects that some of the required packages are missing or outdated, it suggests you to install or upgrade them:
Same thing happens with the paths. If you have installed or upgraded libraries, it is a good idea to rescan the Python installation. Click the gear button located to the right of the project interpreter field, and choose More. Then, in the Project Interpreters dialog, select the interpreter you want to view the paths for, click , and then, in the Interpreter Paths dialog, refresh packages :
Find details in the product documentation.
Surely, you keep your sources under a version control, right? Git? SVN? Mercurial? With PyCharm, it's easy to set up, and again the IDE does a good job auto-detecting the VCS already used for existing projects.
But you can fine-tune — just click Version Control node in the Settings/Preferences dialog (Project Settings→Version Control). By default, you will see project root directory only, but you can break your application down into smaller chunks, and place virtually every directory under its own version control system.
In the Settings/Preferences dialog, you can also define some behaviors that are common to all version control systems: confirmation on creating or deleting files, tasks performed in the background, ignoring unversioned files and more.
Refer to the tutorials:
See also the PyCharm documentation:
Your project might contain several sites, each one with its own set of files with the same names (init.py, models.py, tests.py, views.py). When they are opened in the editor, it's rather confusing... How can one tell which site they belong to? PyCharm helps make them stand out by painting their editor tabs (Settings/Preferences→Project Settings→File Colors). Break down your project into smaller chunks - scopes (for example, a scope per site), and select a color for each one.
Refer to the page Configuring scopes and file colors for details.
IDE and Editor
Working in an IDE actually means living in it, and it is quite natural to make your haunted place pleasant for your eyes and comfortable for your fingers. That's why PyCharm makes it possible to choose look and feel of the IDE and the editor, configure your preferred set of keyboard shortcuts (keymap), fine-tune scrolling behavior, highlighting, and more.
It is recommended to familiarize yourself with the matter in the documentation:
All these settings are (again) configurable in the Settings/Preferences dialog: click on the main toolbar, and see the list of pages. Here are three of them, which might be of interest for the starter: Appearance and Keymap under Appearance and Behavior node, and the Editor node.
Remember, you’ve initially selected the look and feel for your IDE on the first start? If you are not happy with the result, now it’s time to change your mind. In the page Settings/Preferences→Appearance and Behavior→Appearance you can select "look and feel" of your PyCharm installation. Just click the Look and feel drop-down, and select the scheme you like better. You don't need to close the Settings/Preferences dialog dialog to observe the results of your experiments: click Apply, see what happens, and close the dialog when you are quite happy with what you've got.
The whole bunch of pages under the Editor node (Settings/Preferences→Editor) helps you tune every aspect of the editor's behavior. Note that PyCharm comes with the predefined color scheme, but if you want to make up something very personalized, you are welcome to do it: save the default scheme with a new name, and start changing its background, font, colors of syntactical elements, error highlighting etc., and immediately observe results in the preview pane.
The set of keyboard shortcuts you work with is one of your most intimate habits - your fingers "remember" certain combinations of keys, and changing this habit is rather painful. With this in mind, PyCharm supplies you with a wide range of pre-defined keymaps (Settings/Preferences→Appearance and Behavior→Keymap), for those who prefer Eclipse, or for those who've had long experience with Visual Studio... You can create your very own keymap on the base of an existing one.
And finally, there is a magic shortcut Ctrl + Back Quote that helps you switch between schemes (all of them - keymaps, colors, code styles, and L&F) without the Settings dialog (for Windows and Linux users only).
Though you can choose any keymap that corresponds to your preferred editor (Emacs, Vim, TextMate, etc), you might still want to open files in your preferred editor. You can easily do it by configuring an external tool. For example, you might want to open a current file in Emacs as an external tool.
Refer to the tutorial Using Emacs as an external editor for details.
Sometimes, when a long task is in progress, PyCharm shows a Progress bar. You can bring such a task to the background, but still see how it goes on. Refer to page Working with Background Tasks for details.
Write code smartly!
What makes PyCharm stand out from the numerous IDEs, is its full-featured editor. Whatever you do for developing your source code, PyCharm is always at hand, helping you create error-free applications. Here is a brief outline of the smart PyCharm's coding assistance:
- At every stage of development, use code completion (Ctrl+Space), which takes into account the current context. For example, depending on the place where you invoke code completion, you can complete keywords or code blocks, infer types, or complete methods and properties.
Refer to the tutorial Code completion and to the product documentation for details.
- Use live templates/snippets (Ctrl+J) or surround templates (Ctrl+Alt+J) to produce entire code constructs. PyCharm comes with a wide range of ready-to-use live templates, or snippets, which you can explore in the Settings/Preferences dialog ( Editor → Live templates).
If you see that you are lacking something especially important for your development goals, extend this set of snippets with your own ones. Don't also miss the possibility to surround with complete code constructs (Ctrl+Alt+T). Refer to the tutorial Creating and applying live templates (code snippets) and to the product documentation for details.
- Almost like a pair programmer, PyCharm keeps an eye on what you are currently doing, and comes up with smart suggestions, which are marked with a red or yellow light bulb sign. If you want to know exactly what is there under the light bulb, click it, or press Alt+Enter. This way you can, for example, auto-create a new method that you are already using in the code, but have not yet declared.
Refer to the tutorial Quick fixes and intention actions once more and product documentation for details.
Work with multiple files
As you might have noticed, PyCharm opens each file in a separate tab in the editor:
PyCharm provides a handy way to switch between the various tabs, allows pinning and unpinning each tab, placing editor tabs along any of the four borders of the window, splitting the editor tabs, and more.
Analyze code transparently
PyCharm gives you numerous hints and prompts to help you avoid errors, or correct them, if they occur.
First, as you type, you immediately have all syntactical errors underlined with a red wavy line. If you place the caret at an error location, you will see a brief description of the problem at the tooltip, and also in the left side of the Status bar. Besides that, you see red stripes along the validation bar, or the marker bar. If you hover your mouse pointer over such a stripe, you see the error description at the tooltip:
As you type our code, PyCharm, almost like a pair programmer, looks over your shoulder and suggests to fix your errors or just improve your code, by showing you red
or yellow light bulbs (we’ve mentioned them already in the section Write code smartly!). Learn how to use them in the tutorial and in the product documentation.
The next level is static code analysis, or code inspections: your code is analyzed without actually executing it. Actually, PyCharm inspects code in the current file on-the-fly, and shows inspection results in the marker bar as colored stripes. If you see that the right side of your IDE frame is bright with red stripes, beware — it means that your code contains serious errors. Less important things, recommendations to improve code, or warnings, are displayed as yellow stripes. Information for the current file is summarized in a colored indicator on top of the marker bar, which works as traffic lights: green means that everything is fine; at least one problem turns the indicator yellow or red.
By the way, this guy in the Status bar - Hector - keeps an eye on each file currently opened in the editor. By default, Hector never sleeps:
If you are sure of yourself, turn him off, and you will get neither warnings, nor suggestions for improvements or error messages.
However, you might want to look deeper into the code of your application. In this case, you have to inspect a whole project, or any of its parts (Code→Inspect Code), and explore results in the Inspection tool window:
PyCharm comes with a wide range of pre-defined inspections; familiarize yourself and configure them in the Inspections page of Settings/Preferences.
Refer also to the tutorial Syntax highlighting and error indication.
Create quality code
With PyCharm, it’s quite easy to create a code of high quality - the IDE is a code quality tool itself. It integrates with PEP8, stands on guard of the code integrity and reports the code style violations.
Refer to the tutorial Code Quality Assistance Tips and Tricks, or How to make your code look pretty?
PyCharm makes it possible to view existing documentation for the symbols at caret. There are several possible ways to do it:
- Quick definition
- Quick documentation
- External documentation
- Parameter info
- Error description
All these commands are available from the View menu, and by keyboard shortcuts (the shortcuts below belong to the default scheme. If you are using some other keymap scheme, these keyboard shortcuts will be different):
Find your way through
- Navigating through the source code
- Navigating between the IDE components
- Finding an action
- Navigating everywhere
Let's start with finding fragments of text. One of the most basic means of navigation and search in the source code is our good old Ctrl+F command: start typing your search string, and get immediately to its occurrences in the current file:
But PyCharm goes further, and helps you look for a certain string within a directory, or any arbitrary scope, or an entire project (Ctrl+Shift+F):
Besides that, PyCharm suggests a more sophisticated approach, namely search for usages. For example, if you want to navigate from a symbol to one of its usages within your application, press Alt+F7, or choose Find Usages on its context menu:
Actually, there are several commands that help you find out where a certain symbol is used: you can jump from one usage to another in the current file (Ctrl+F7), view usages in the current file color-coded (Ctrl+Shift+F7), or across a whole project in a popup list (Ctrl+Alt+F7).
If you want to jump from a symbol to its declaration, just middle-click its name, or press Ctrl+B.
To quickly find an element by name and open it in the editor, use navigation pop-up: press Ctrl+N (for a class), Ctrl+Shift+N (for a file), or Ctrl+Shift+Alt+N (for a symbol), and start typing the name you are looking for. The list of matching names shrinks as you type, but this is just one of the handy facilities: you can use the asterisk wildcard, all caps for CamelHumps, or spaces for snake_case names, slashes for nested folders and so on, and so forth.
Quick search is the easiest way to find a file: with any tool window having the focus, you just start typing, and see how the matching nodes are highlighted in the tree view.
Ways to navigate across the IDE are numerous, and we'll briefly outline just some of them. Let's start with the switcher: press Ctrl+Tab to show the switcher, which is a list of the PyCharm's tool windows and open files, and then, keeping the Ctrl key pressed, use Tab or arrow keys to scroll to the component you want to go to:
If you select a file in one of the IDE components, and want to view it in another one (the editor, Project view, Navigation bar, or a changelist), then use Select Target (Alt+F1):
And finally, don't forget that pressing Esc will bring you back to the editor, wherever you are!
Finding an action
You don’t need the main menu to invoke an action - you can simply invoke it by name. Press Ctrl+Shift+A, and type characters, which, to your opinion, should be present in an action name:
Note that you can search among the actions not included in the main menu - just press Ctrl+Shift+A once more.
Navigating and searching everywhere
PyCharm suggests a new way of navigation and search. Double press Shift, or click in the right end of the main toolbar, and see the Search everywhere dialog. Using this approach, you can look for any item of the source code, databases, actions, elements of the user interface, etc. in a single action.
Refactoring your source code
PyCharm provides wide range of refactorings, from mere renaming to such complicated things as changing a method signature. Note that PyCharm suggests available refactorings depending on the current context:
Run, debug and test your application
While working with PyCharm, you'll come to a moment when you need to run or debug an application, a script, or a test. In all these cases, you need a special profile, or a run/debug configuration, which defines script name, working directory, environment variables, and other vital things.
You can easily launch a Python script from its context menu, or with a handy shortcut Ctrl+Shift+F10. However, if you want to use some other run/debug configuration, you have to choose one on the main menu, and then press Shift+F10.
Note that you can launch your applications both locally and remotely: PyCharm allows using remote hosts, virtual machine and Vagrant boxes.
PyCharm also helps those who love the full control of an interactive console: on the Tools menu, you can find commands that launch the interactive Python or Django consoles. Here you can type commands and execute them immediately. Moreover, PyCharm's interactive consoles feature syntax highlighting, code completion, and allow scrolling through the history of commands (Ctrl+Up/Down).
PyCharm also makes it possible to run in console source code from the editor - just make your selection, and then press Alt+Shift+I (Execute selection in console on the context menu of the selection). This feature is explored in detail in the tutorial REPL - running an interactive console. See also the product documentation Working with consoles.
Cannot live without command line? OK, PyCharm helps with that too. Choose Tools→Open Terminal on the main menu, and enjoy:
Refer to the product documentation for details.
Oops... your application or script runs into a run-time error? To find out its origin, you will have to do some debugging. It starts with placing breakpoints (quite simple - just click the left gutter of the line where you want the breakpoint to appear), at which program execution will be suspended, so you can explore program data.
Launching the debugging session is quite as simple: either use the context menu of a specific script, or select a suitable run/debug configuration, and then press Shift+F9.
And finally, a very convenient way to select run/debug configuration and immediately launch it is Alt+Shift+F10/ Alt+Shift+F9.
It is a good idea to test your applications, and PyCharm helps doing it as simple as possible. With PyCharm, you can:
- Create test classes
- Create special testing run/debug configurations
- Run and debug tests right from the IDE
- Explore results in the test runner window
Besides the ability to use interpreters located remotely (which we have already discussed in the guide), you can also develop remotely.
First, with PyCharm, you can deploy your local applications to some remote server. To learn about deployment servers, refer to the product documentation section
Configuring Synchronization with a Web Server.
Having deployed an application, you can run, debug and test it remotely. PyCharm also helps you compare local and remote folders, and synchronize local copy with that deployed on the server.
Data sources and SQL support
As you might have noticed already, creating projects of the various types (Django, Flask, etc.) requires a data source. It is also quite possible that you inject SQL statements into your source code.
PyCharm does not enable you to create databases, but provides facilities to manage and query them. Once you are granted access to a certain database, you can configure one or more data sources within PyCharm that reflect the structure of the database and store the database access credentials. Based on this information, PyCharm establishes connection to the database and provides the ability to retrieve or change information contained therein.
Refer to the product documentation for details.
That's it, folks!
Here we have given a very concise overview of some vital PyCharm facilities, just to give you a quick start. There are numerous important features that make developer's life nice and easy, and the source code nice and clean. Try now these primary steps, and then dig deeper. Enjoy!
We realize you may still have questions. We welcome you to ask them on PyCharm Discussion Forum.
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Cleaning up Paducah's uranium enrichment plant (Part Three)
Paducah, KY – It's been 60 years since the Atomic Energy Commission announced Paducah would become the site of the Nation's second uranium enrichment plant. Today, in the third of this week's five part series, Paducah Remediation Services Communication Manager Joe Tarentino takes a brief look at the environmental laws that control the cleanup process and the agencies tasked with applying those laws.
There are a number of environmental laws that DOE must comply with, but the two major laws are called RCRA (pronounced rekra) and CERCLA (pronounced serkla).
RCRA is the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, passed in 1976. This law governs chemical hazardous waste management. The Commonwealth of KY has received authorization from EPA to regulate hazardous waste under the RCRA program.
The second law is called CERCLA, or the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act. It is more commonly known as the Superfund. It was passed by Congress in 1980 and controls how contaminated sites are cleaned up.
In 1998 DOE, EPA, and KY entered into an agreement known as the Federal Facility Agreement or the FFA. The FFA defines how the requirements of both major environmental laws will be met and also details the process that a cleanup project must follow to ensure it meets the law.
The FFA also ensures that the public is given a chance to provide input on clean up decisions as they are developed.
All of these steps are documented and available at the DOE Environmental Information Center in Paducah. The Center is located at 115 Memorial Drive, across U.S. 62 from West Kentucky Community and Technical College.
Although a complicated and often lengthy process, the goal of RCRA, CERCLA, and the Federal Facility Agreement is to ensure an environmental cleanup using accepted scientific and engineering processes that follows all applicable federal and state laws, and keeps the public informed at each step along the way.
Joe Tarentino is the Communication Manager for Paducah Remediation Services.
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Welcome to a world where glaciers fill National Parks, where the winter skies light up in an abundance of colours, where sometimes “night” does not exist – and other times day does not exist. Welcome to a world where you will find the most amazing wildlife (including the occasional polar bear if you’re lucky!) and where the people are friendly and welcoming. Where eco tours and scenic trips mix comfortably with tours “off the beaten track” and where you are guaranteed to fill your camera with perfect shots. Welcome to a world of adventure! Welcome to Alaska.
Alaska is full of an eclectic range of inhabitants that set this region apart from any other and make it so unique. It is perfectly normal to see a commercial rail road train whistle stopped in the middle of nowhere; see a lone bushman disembark and trudge into the wilderness on an adventure and not resurface again for another month. It is the land that breeds a true adventurous spirit within its’ inhabitants – people who are not afraid to live and sustain themselves deep within an unforgiving nature and create their own misadventures.
Alaska is divided into 16 boroughs and 5 regions – Inside Passage, Southcentral, Interior, Far North and Southwest. Every step of the way is teaming with sightseeing and adventure opportunities, from whale watching and glacier tours, to historical towns, wilderness adventures and winter sports. No matter where you travel, you will find the some of the best adventures and sights in the world. You can enjoy a variety of cultural experiences through visiting local centres or chatting with the locals at native villages (accessed by air); enjoy a range of accommodation options, eat like a local and get out there to explore a world of adventure like no other!
Before you go, there are a few things you should do and be aware of. Firstly, if you didn’t figure it out for yourself- Alaska can be cold. Very cold. But it can also be quite nice! It all depends on when you travel, and where. Most tourists visit between mid-May and mid-September which is when average temperatures can be anywhere from -10°C – 0°C degrees in the night, and between 10°C and 20°C degrees in the day. Summer is a great time for cruising, hiking and water sports! Winter, on the other hand, is for the brave as temperatures range anywhere from -45°C to 10°C (though the inside passage is much warmer!). But Winter is the best time to see the Northern Lights and experience the Nationally acclaimed Iditarod and Yukon Quest sled dog races – a must see!
Travelling to Alaska is easy. You can fly in from the US to Anchorage, Fairbanks and Juneau (although some of the smaller communities also have airports); you can drive along the legendary Alaska Highway (best in summer) which begins in Dawson Creek, British Columbia; or you can join one of the many tourist ocean voyages and experience the journey via cruise ship or ferry. Cruising is always popular, particularly as travel is generally all inclusive, though you can take the Alaska Marine Highway – the ferry system, with flexibility to stop and explore along the way – and also the ability to take your own vehicle or RV. The ferry system travels from the Inside Passage across the Gulf of Alaska and all the way to the Aleutian Islands.
Once you’re there, you can travel in a number of styles also. Stay on the waters and enjoy the journey by boat, passing by glaciers and visiting port communities; by RV or car, allowing you the freedom to explore at your own pace; by charter bus for a packaged deal which is likely to take you off the beaten path for an exciting experience; by plane, available in a number of cities and often the ONLY way to travel to many of the remote towns. The Alaskan Rail Road offers a fantastic way to view the inland sights of the State. Journey through spectacular gorges, Denali National Park and get off and board at any place you like the look of – even if it’s in the middle of the forest! This is one of the most spectacular rail journeys in the world/
All you have to do now – is go!
The South Central region is a land of mountain ranges, rugged coastlines, gleaming forests and rivers flowing from the glaciers. With more than half of the State’s population living in this region, you are guaranteed to find an abundance of activities, from fishing for rainbow trout and salmon, to hiking around the mountains, glaciers and lakes. Keep your eyes peeled for bears, bald eagles and whales – all of which are often sighted in the area.
It is here that you will find “Alaska’s Playground” – the Kenai Peninsula, accessible by land, air and sea; and you can view the amazing icebergs of Columbia Glacier, cruise to Meares Glacier or explore the calm waters of Prince William Sound. Visit the Matanuska-Susitna Valley or Alaska’s largest city, Anchorage, which is home to a rich Alaska Native culture, abundant wildlife, a thriving city centre and unrivalled wilderness experiences.
North America’s largest peak, Mount McKinley, towers over the Interior region of Alaska. It is in this region that vast forests of birch and spruce are warm in the summer, cold in the winter. The original home of Alaska’s Athabascan Indians, this is a great place to see the Northern Lights if you’re willing to brave the cold of winter. Fairbanks is the major city of the region and is known as the “Golden Heart City”. In Summer, the majority of visitors are cruise ship passengers “passing through”, while in Winter tourists generally arrive to experience the northern lights, ice carving and winter sports.
Small towns and Alaska Native villages are scattered through the Interior, particularly alongside the highway and river systems. Denali National Park and Preserve is six million acres of wild land, where you will find an abundance of wild animals large and small, and where you can experience a range of activities, including popular ATV tours, white water rafting and kayak tours.
For the adventure traveller, often there is no greater place to visit when touring than a National Park, and Alaska is no different. The landscape of this beautiful State is teaming with national and public parks offering a variety of adventures, stunning scenery and an abundance of wildlife!
Glacier Bay National Park is located in the Inside Passage and lies west of the capital Juneau, can only be reached by plane or boat, but it is well worth the effort! Glacier Bay has more active calving glaciers than anywhere else in the world and is part of a 25-million acre World Heritage Site – one of the world’s largest international protected areas. The park is also filled with snow-capped mountain ranges, ocean coastlines, deep fjords, and freshwater rivers and lakes.
The Glacier Bay National Park also has ranger activities, kayaking and wilderness adventures, such as hiking, camping and mountaineering. If you are looking for sea life, you will have an unforgettable experience. Search for humpback whales returning from their winter expedition to Hawaii, watch killer whales feeding, see Steller sea lions resting on rocky islands, and admire the harbour seals as they nurture their pups. There are more than 240 species of bird on the island, you might also see black bears, and if you’re looking to go fishing, you can go at the National Preserve, located just northwest of the park itself.
Denali National Park is called “The High One” by the Athabascan native people. The 6,000,000 acre park is located in Interior Alaska, centred on Denali (Mount McKinley) – the highest mountain in North America at 20,320 feet. The only higher peaks in the worlds are in the Himalayas and the Andes. The landscape in the National Park is a mix of forest, glaciers, rock and snow. The longest glacier is the Kahiltna Glacier, at 71 kilometres.
In warmer months, the park is particularly popular with mountain climbers and more than 1,000 climbers brave the elements for the chance to scale its majestic face each year. There are also plenty of scenic hiking trails and beautiful campgrounds. And in winter, visitors love to try their hand at dog sledding, cross country skiing and snow machining. There is plenty of wildlife, including large mammals such as grizzly bears, wolves, Dall sheep, and moose, and plenty of photo opportunities.
For the adventure traveller, Alaska has something for everyone and summer is a fantastic time to get in and have a blast. From rafting to kayaking, hiking or mountain biking; to fishing charters and flightseeing tours – you will experience Alaska at its finest.
Alaska’s rugged back country provides the perfect setting for the hiking fanatic. Whether you are experienced or just in it for fun, there are day excursions, week-long journeys (or longer) and guided tours to suit. Packaged adventure tours are a fantastic way to explore the kinds of activities you may not have tried before, or you might prefer to create your own itinerary.
Some of our highest recommended hikes include:
The Russian Lakes Trail is around 33 kilometres long and begins at the Russian River Campground at Mile 52 Sterling Highway. The first 5 kilometres or so are a good trail for the whole family to enjoy and will take you to the Lower Russian Lake where you might see some of the thousands of salmon migrating up the stream. The trail continues to Upper Russian Lake and Cooper Lake where there is some great trout fishing – and you could even come face to face with a brown bear.
Another popular bear country trail is Resurrection Pass, just over 55 kilometres long, from Resurrection Creek Road to the Kenai River Bridge. There are good fishing spots along the way and cabins. The Granite Tors Trail is a 25 kilometre moderate loop trail that features beautiful wild flowers, streams, ridgelines with beautiful panoramic views, and the giant granite rocks known as “Tors”. The West Mendenhall Glacier Trail is a moderate trail, about 12 kilometres return, which will take you across a glacier. The view at the top has incredible views of Mendenhall Glacier.
If you’re looking for a shorter hike, there are an abundance of options available as well. The Byron Glacier Trail is a well maintained walk that is suitable for the whole family; the Lost Lake Trail will take you through spectacular alpine country views (and gives you the option to extend the trip); the Coastal Trail resides in the Caines Head State Recreation Area of Resurrection Bay and follows the shoreline (so you need to base your trip around tide times); while the popular Harding Icefield Trail will take you through Kenai Fjords National Park. The trail is tough, with a steep ascent, but when you get to the top you will be rewarded with spectacular views of Exit Glacier, the glacier valley and the edge of the Harding Icefield.
Although a relatively new and upcoming sport in Alaska; Mountain Biking is not to be discounted. Resort towns such as Girdwood and Alyeska Resort are making monumental strides forward into bringing them into the downhill limelight. With over 60 trails dedicated downhill trails, 3 chair lifts, nearly a kilometre of vertical and a fulltime crew working to build new trails everyday – you’re sure to be entertained and find your niche!
Another great way to see the spectacular landscape of Alaska and launch your very own adventure is to do so by the Alaskan Rail Road. The Rail Road launches from Anchorage and heads straight thru the heart of Alaska to Fairbanks. Now imagine the freedom to start your adventure in the Alaskan wilds at any point you choose in those 750km of rail road and all you have to do is pull the whistle stop? That is adventure – this is Alaska!
The Alaskan Rail Road runs through some of the most beautiful scenery in the country and right through the heart of Denali National Park – home to Americas’ highest mountain.
Into the water and Alaska’s many rivers, lakes and protected coastal waters offer the chance to experience fishing, rafting, kayaking and even jet boat rides.
Alaska is every anglers dream and offers some of the world’s most amazing opportunities when it comes to ice fishing, fly fishing, saltwater and freshwater fishing! Alaska’s 65,000 kilometres of coastline provides endless recreational fishing opportunities and with more than 3 millions lakes and 3,000 rivers, you can drive along, stop by the road and throw a line in, take a boat out on the waters, float a plane, or find a tour that will take you to waters that are teaming with more than 600 species of fish with a trusted and knowledgeable guide.
If you love to feel the water beneath you as you float or paddle in a kayak, there are plenty of opportunities available which will see you exploring glaciers and the coastline. Kayaking is a great way to experience the Alaska that is hard to access by foot or transport. You might kayak along the rocky, forested coast of Prince William Sound, on the east side of the Kenai Peninsula; spot whales, sea lions and seals from the waters at Point Adolphus off Glacier Bay; or visit another popular spot called Orcas Cove, which is actually at the mouth of the Blank Inlet, off the northern end of the Nichols Channel. There are a variety of kayak tours available, ranging from a few hours or a full day, up to a week (even longer).
If you prefer a little more action, rafting is another option. The spectacular Alsek and Tatshenshini Rivers are popular and will take you past vast sprawling glaciers while you are on the lookout for the local grizzly bears and bald eagles. Keystone Canyon is a great spot for white-water rafting with the trip ranging from class 1 or 2, up to class 3, as well as Talkeetna River, Sixmile Creek and the Nenana River. Experiences vary from mild to wild, but regardless of which option you choose – the views are second to none. You can even choose multi-day options for rafting, camping out overnight and rafting and exploring by day.
For the ultimate action adventure, why not try your hand at heli surfing? Yes you read correctly. Be flown by helicopter out to a remote a remarkable surfing paradise, take in the amazing glaciers along the way and then duck into the summer waters to catch some spectacular tubes.
Winter in Alaska is an experience you will never forget and unlike the local bears, Alaskans LOVE winter activities, so there are plenty of adventure options available for the tourist. You need to be prepared with the right clothes – so be sure to pack plenty of layers, and have everything you need to suit the activities you are wanting to experience.
While December thru March are the main winter months in Alaska, you can see snow falling from around September – often right up until April and May when the snow melts. Winter brings anywhere from 6 to 13 hours of sunlight, so plan your tours or adventures around daylight hours if need be. Regardless of when you visit though, you will find plenty of activities to choose from. And you will find prices are much lower than they would be in summer.
Alaska’s most popular and most iconic winter activity would have to be dog mushing, also known as dog sledding. Dog mushing was listed as the official state sport of Alaska in 1972 and in April 2010, Alaska actually recognised the Alaskan malamute as the official state dog! In the north of Alaska, people have used dogs to pull sleds for hundreds of years and it was once a primary form of transportation in many parts of the State. Dog teams are still used by rural residents who rely on teams to hunt and travel. This tradition was what created the birth of sled dog racing and this is not only a sport for professional competition, but it’s also a fantastic activity for you to do when visiting. The one place you absolutely have to experience this is in Denali National Park. Denali Dog Sled Expeditions are the ONLY company that provide tours inside the Park. Head off with John and his team of pups for hours, days or weeks and explore one of the most beautiful places on the planet.
There is no point in spending winter in Alaska if you don’t take the time to see the infamous Northern Lights. While it’s possible to see the lights towards the end of summer, the peak season is in the dead of winter, in the middle of the night. One of the best viewing spots is at Fairbanks which is located under the “aurora oval”. At Fairbanks, the nights are longer than they are towards the south and the light show is much brighter and reliable. Certainly worth rugging up for on a cold winters night!
Adventure sports are plenty in winter – from snowboarding and skiing, to snowshoeing and snowmobiling. You just have to choose the one, or few, that are right for you. A great place to experience alpine skiing and snowboarding is Girdwood’s Alyeska Resort. Snow falls of up to 25 metres per season here are not uncommon – that’s over 10 times what our Australian ski fields receive. There are also plenty of exciting trails for snowmobiles and if you’re REALLY looking for action, heli-skiing will provide an experience like no other.
Snow machining or snow mobiling is also a popular way to get fast and have some fun in the snow. There are tours all over the state but if you want to see something spectacular, be sure to check in at Glacier City Snowmobile Tours in Girdwood where you can literally ride through ice tunnels and over glaciers.
Winter is cold, so why not get your blood pumping with some ice climbing! You can take a trip around Worthington Glacier on Thompson Pass; or head to the Delta River and try the Triangle Peak, Gunnysack Creek or Darling Creek ice climbs. In North Alaska you will find some of the most remote country in the State, and you can climb in areas around the foothills of the Brooks Range, while the Kenai Peninsula has incredible ice climbing. Some climbs drop straight into the Cook Inlet while others have some amazing ice formations that will truly test your skills.
If you’re a keen angler, there are plenty of options in the winter as well as summer, but if you’re visiting in colder months, you really have to try your hand at ice fishing! Ice fishing is pretty simple – you drill a hole in the ice with an auger, bait your hook, drop your line in the hole and wait for a bite. There are plenty of tour options available so you are with people who are experienced and who know the best places to go and if you’re lucky you might catch yourself some king salmon, silver salmon, rainbow trout, Dolly Varden or Arctic Char. The end of the winter season, in March and April, offers some of the best conditions for ice fishing, with longer days and warmer temperatures.
From Issue 40 Outer Edge Magazine.
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Yahaya Bello Papers, 1990 | University of Illinois Archives
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Description: Papers of Yahaya Bello (1944- ) include his paper, "Multicultural Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Faculty Input and Student Response," submitted March 29, 1990. Bello used information gathered from questionnaires sent to seniors in the Elementary Education program and undergraduate education faculty members to try and ascertain the effectiveness of multicultural education. This 250-page paper includes extensive statistical interpretations of the data gathered through these questionnaires, a summary of findings, discussion of findings and recommendations.
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Orange-on-seder-plate tale is flawed, feminist saysby ALEZA GOLDSMITH, Bulletin Staff
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Those Bay Area Jewish women who placed oranges on their seder plates last week probably explained the act something like this:
It all began when Susannah Heschel, a leading Jewish feminist scholar, was lecturing at a synagogue in Miami. As she spoke, an elderly rabbi stood up and declared, "A woman belongs on the bimah like an orange belongs on the seder plate."
Thus to show support for the changing role of women in American Jewish society, the tradition of placing an orange on the seder plate began, and Heschel became a household name at many Passover celebrations around the globe.
The only problem is, according to Heschel herself, the story isn't true.
"What you hear is not what actually happened," she recently told a crowd at the Marin Jewish Community Center program on "Women who Shook the Jewish World." "It's been circulating for a long time and it's become a bit of an urban legend."
Here's what actually happened:
Heschel was visiting a college in the Northeast where she learned that some of the students had started placing crusts of bread on their seder plates as a way to express the exclusion of women and homosexuals from Judaism.
Heschel thought this was great. But since it violated the Passover dietary restrictions, she decided to modify the act, placing an orange on the plate instead of the bread crust to represent both women and homosexuals.
"The first year I used a tangerine," the mother of two revealed to the packed room of mostly women and some men. "Everyone at the seder got a section of it and as we ate it we would spit out the seeds in solidarity with homosexuals -- the seeds represented homophobia."
Heschel, chair of the Jewish studies program at Dartmouth College, said she was "horrified" at first by the way the story of the orange metamorphosed.
One, "they took my idea and put it into a man's mouth." Two, "they erased the whole idea of the homophobia that needs to be spit out."
On the whole, Heschel is proud of the way women's roles have evolved within Judaism and in the Passover seder. While "American Jews always get a raw deal" because of their reputation for assimilation and intermarriage, "we also created the Jewish feminist movement and exported it to Israel, Europe -- wherever Jews exist."
But it wasn't always like this, even during Heschel's lifetime. "When I look back at what used to be," she said, "I would never have suspected what is today."
The daughter of the late Rabbi Abraham Heschel, a prominent Jewish scholar and civil rights leader, faced plenty of discrimination in her own life.
When she was 12, for instance, she wanted what most girls rarely had -- a bat mitzvah. When she asked her rabbi if she could have one, he said no and told her he'd throw her a party and bake her a chocolate cake instead.
Later when she asked another spiritual leader why women could not make an aliyah at the Torah, "He laughed and said: 'Because everyone in the congregation would look at her legs.'"
The final straw was on Simchat Torah when Heschel attended synagogue with a male friend. The other men swept him into a circle of dancing with the Torah, leaving Heschel on the side to watch.
"It was my idea to go," she said angrily. "He wanted to go to the movies!"
Heschel couldn't take it. She walked into the circle and started dancing.
Then one man scolded: "Who gave you permission?"
"And I said: 'God!'
"And he said: 'Get out of here!'"
Heschel felt this was wrong. That "as much as men wanted women behind a curtain, God didn't."
Like many women, Heschel stuck with Judaism because she loves it so much. Just as the agunot, who are not free to remarry by Jewish law, yet don't abandon the faith, she also feels "chained to the Torah, tied to Judaism in a way that's very deep and profound."
But for the longest time, "I felt so alone. So many women have stood alone. It has taken awhile for us to feel a sense of community."
And still, all isn't perfect.
"The old roles of women are maintained under the guise of liberal Judaism," she noted. "We're still marginalized even though we have supposed equality."
In fact, she said, Orthodox women are less likely than Reform women to feel like an underclass.
"They say it's not sexist but liberating for them. They feel honored and respected."
Perhaps that is because "in Orthodoxy the mechitzah [the curtain or divider separating the sexes] is recognized," while "in Reform Judaism, there is still a mechitzah," which no one talks about.
"It's an invisible mechitzah," she said. "It's a feminist's work to unmask and expose this."
Partially to blame is what she called a hierarchical image of God as a king: transcendent, all-powerful, all-knowing. A feminist God, on the other hand, would be "passionate, with feeling and emotion.
Heschel, who has edited and contributed to numerous publications on Jewish feminism as well as works on her father, said, "You can include matriarchs in prayer, you can change Jewish law, but you can't change the image of God."
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Silk has many uses and has been known for thousands of years in China and the Far East where rich merchants and rulers used the thread manufactured from silk moth cocoons to produce beautiful fabrics. The process has been exported around the world and the high class of clothing made from silk is for all who aspire to the top tier of fashion. When mixed with other fabric yarns the outcome can also be outstanding at a lesser cost.
In recent times silk threads have also been used, apart from clothing manufacture, in the biomedical industry for bandages and sutures. However the recent advances are with the use of Spider Silk which has a higher tensile strength and also more elasticity than traditional silk. Experiments taken place by Notre Dame University, the University of Wyoming and Kraig Biocraft Laboratories, Inc., have been able to genetically produce a highbred silkworm that produces a cocoon from a combination of silkworm and spider silk.
This new product not only produces a better bandage and suture for the medical industry but also can be used for artificial skin for wounds and burns cases. Due to its high tensile strength experiments are being carried out for improved air bags for safety in cars, stronger fabrics, athletic clothing and even for the production of bullet proof vests. Silk vests are currently used by Thai police using 16 layers of ordinary silk fabric as they have a huge silk industry in that country. However when large quantities of the new spider enhance fabric are available, there would not be the need for so many layers as tests have shown the spider silk vest to be twice as strong as Kevlar, the current favoured fabric.
Scientists have even genetically altered goat DNA for them to produce milk with the spider silk embedded in it. This operation will enable large quantities of the silk to be produced and we can look forwards to a greater use of this brilliant natural material, albeit ‘adjusted’ by the Human race. Many more uses will eventually be found, especially in the medical areas where reconstruction of bodies is an ever growing industry for people wishing to live longer. Already skin is being produce in large quantities that enable burn victims to lead a better and improved life.
A recent garment was put on show in London made from Golden Orb Weaver Silk and is absolutely stunning but with a price in the millions. It took the harvesters over three years to produce the quantity necessary. Amazing applications for the future these advancements hold.
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Pictures Workshop for Novices: Issues to Bear in mind
Pictures Workshop for Novices: Issues to Bear in mindIt is an artwork. This is why photographers invest time to consider pictures courses just tofind out the craft. Before you think about enrolling in a images class, find out these couple ofreminders.1. Cameras do not just take good photographs. You do. When some men and women see anice image, they request what digicam was utilized, as an alternative of who took the picture.It really is absurd. Its like asking what piano was utilised, rather of who performed the piece.A digital camera is a tool. Even with of its variety or model, it can just take equally terrible andspectacular photos - it all depends on how you use it.two. Go through the manual. Also fired up to take snaps? Do not hurry. Read the handbookthat will come with your brand name new gadget. It is critical that you read it due to the factthat is the only way you will discover about the equipment, its controls and taking picturesmodes. Those who do not study and comprehend the guide are most very likely to producenegative photos.three. Do not overlook the Vehicle method. There is a extremely good purpose companiesset Car modes on cameras, even the DSLR ones. For newbies, the Automobile mode is trulyhelpful. If you are even now at the first levels of the finding out approach, the Automobilemode is the most handy feature for you to use. It allows you make a decision what ISO, whiteequilibrium, shutter pace, and aperture to use. When in doubt, switch to the Car mode on thedial, and then begin getting your photos.4. Observe the rule of thirds. This is the most vital of all of the composition policies. Newbiesand superior photographers are not able to disregard this rule, which just states that youcant area your subject at the heart of the image. This is a fundamental rule mentioned in anypictures workshop. So when you shoot a image of youngsters, flowers or a tree, spot it in the3rd element of the graphic, either on the still left or proper.five. Know when to use the flash. The light-weight coming out of your flash unit can make orbreak an graphic. The standard suggestion is to stay away from employing flash as much asyou can. For inventive pictures, utilizing all-natural mild produces the most pleasing pictures.If you are indoors, you can open home windows to allow in mild from exterior. In dim rooms,you can use a tripod to mount your digital camera on, as you use slower shutter pace tocapture far more mild. Outdoor at daytime, you may possibly use the organic mild from thesunshine or sky. When capturing portraits in broad daylight, you can now contemplate turningon the flash to keep away from awful facial shadows.6. Bring your camera with you. Whats the use of proudly owning a very good camera if it isfrequently still left at home? Consider it with you where ever you go, so that you wont skipout on photographic possibilities. You do not know when a minute worth getting a photograph
of would arise.seven. Whats the Difference Amongst a Seminar, Workshop and Meeting?, Whats theDistinction Amongst a Seminar, Workshop and Conference?, Whats the Distinction Among aSeminar, Workshop and Convention?
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The Past Is Present
Discover the stories behind works of art and what they reveal about our lives today in our new video series. You’ll hear from world renowned artists, scholars, and surprising guests who represent the impact of art on the world.
Scholar Mary Beard explores the story of “Agrippina and Germanicus” by Sir Peter Paul Rubens. Who does the painting really depict? Is it a story about power or a tragic love affair?
How can we tell what’s fake and what’s real? What’s the difference between a forgery and a replica? Which was Giovanni da Cavino trying to make when he created his medals? Mary Beard explores the motives behind Cavino’s creations.
Celebrating the marriage of Leonello d’Este to Maria of Aragon, Pisanello playfully represents Cupid teaching Leonello, the little lion, to sing. This “currency of fame” circulated Leonello’s newfound political and social stature to the powerful Neapolitan court.
Artist Carrie Mae Weems and Carl J. Cruz, descendant of the first Black soldier to win the Medal of Honor, talk about how the story of The Massachusetts 54th Regiment connects to the struggles still going on today. The 54th was the first unit of Black soldiers to fight a major battle in the Civil War. Weems used a photograph of the memorial to the 54th in a series about the Black Americans who left the South in search of greater freedom.
- Diamonstein-Spielvogel Lecture Series
- Sydney J. Freedberg Lecture on Italian Art
- Elson Lecture Series
- A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts
- Wyeth Foundation for American Art Programs
- Conversations with Artists
- Collecting of African American Art
- Conversations with Collectors
- Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies (FAPE)
- Rajiv Vaidya Memorial Lecture
- Reflections on the Collection: The Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professors at the National Gallery of Art
- John Wilmerding Symposium on American Art
- Celebrating the East Building: 20th-Century Art
- Celebrating the Old Master Collections of the National Gallery of Art
- Teaching Critical Thinking through Art
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In the opening shots of a major new assault on the NCAA's amateurism model, an "overwhelming majority" of Northwestern football players have filed to be recognized as members of a union. Their endgame, if successful, would be college football players officially being classified as employees.
Outside The Lines has the first report of the filings, submitted yesterday to both the national and regional offices of the National Labor Relations Board. The pointman is Northwestern QB Kain Colter, and the movement is being shepherded by the advocacy group founded by former UCLA linebacker Ramogi Huma. Huma, who organized the "All Players United" silent protest in September, is also president of the College Athletes Players Association, the union that would represent the players if it receives formal recognition.
For now, CAPA's stated goals don't involve obtaining pay for players. It merely seeks better medical protections, and fully-guaranteed scholarships that cover the full cost of attending college and wouldn't be taken away if an athlete can't continue playing due to injury. It also wants to establish a fund that would pay players to continue their educations after their NCAA eligibility expires.
"It's become clear that relying on NCAA policymakers won't work, that they are never going to protect college athletes, and you can see that with their actions over the past decade," Huma said. "Look at their position on concussions. They say they have no legal obligation to protect players."
It's all about those obligations, which the NCAA has skillfully shirked over the years. The very term "student-athlete" was coined as a way to avoid having to pay worker's compensation to injured players. But if CAPA receives official recognition, its members will have to be treated as employees—with all the concomitant protections.
This filing could have huge ramifications. If CAPA gains recognition, all DI football and men's basketball players at private universities will be eligible to join. For this reason, the NCAA is expected to oppose the action.
We won't see an outcome for years. Any ruling by the Labor Board's regional office will be appealed nationally, and will almost certainly end up in federal court. That'll be the ruling that matters. Whereas O'Bannon v. NCAA is about athletes being compensated for their likenesses, CAPA's formation is about declaring that college players are employees doing a job, and deserve all the protections that this country guarantees its workers.
Kain Colter starts union movement [ESPN.com]
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CBS News asked noted figures in the arts, business and politics about their experience in today's civil rights movement, or about figures who inspired them in their activism.
Karla Mosley, actress ("The Bold and the Beautiful")
Is there something that you'd like to share about your personal connection to civil rights issues?
Several years ago I was living in Astoria, Queens, with my husband, and we were very involved in the community, loved the people that lived there. And we became very involved in the marriage equality movement to institute gay marriage -- both on a federal level, but also first on a state level in New York State.
We learned that the senator in our region was one of three Democratic senators who voted against marriage equality. And so my husband and I -- he's a lawyer very involved in civil rights law -- decided that he would be a good candidate (along with some prodding from community members) to take on this senator.
So we worked with the community and stood up against Sen. Onorato, who eventually stepped down from office and was replaced with a candidate [Michael Gianaris] who was pro-gay marriage.
And just two years later marriage equality was passed in New York State.
There's something about being of service and fighting for something that you know is right that connects people on a really primal level. It's something that my parents have instilled in me from a young age, and that I hope to instill in my own children.
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|La Divina Pastora |
By RICHARDSON DHALAI Monday, March 19 2007
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The statue of La Divina Pastora....
SHROUDED in mystery, the La Divina Pastora statue of Siparia has not only had a significant impact on rural South Trinidad, but also on wider society where her impact can be measured through contributions in the areas of history, theology and anthropology.
Veneration of the Blessed Virgin Mary, under the title of La Divina Pastora, or the Divine Shepherdess, was brought to Siparia by a group of Catholic Capuchin missionaries who chose the area because it was a traditional meeting place of the Orinoco Indians.
But the origin of the La Divina Pastora statue, which is bronze coloured, standing 100 cm in height, is carefully dressed and decorated with gold and silver jewellery, flowers and rosaries, is shrouded in mystery, with many myths surrounding how it came to be placed in Siparia.
However, according to local historian, Theresa Noel, the impact of the La Divina Pastora on local society cannot be understated since the statue is venerated by not only Catholics during the feast days, but by Hindus who also perform pilgrimages to the Church on Holy Thursday and Good Friday.
Noel presented her findings during a panel discussion titled, “La Divina Pastora, Mother of all Peoples” at the La Divina Pastora RC Church, Siparia, last Thursday.
Other presenters included theologian Fr John Theodore and anthropolgist, Alison McLetchie.
Noel, whose paper was titled “A history of devotions of La Divina Pastora,” traced the church’s intercession to the Virgin Mary to Seville, Spain, in 1703.
She said Capuchin monks took the tradition to Venezuela in 1715 and later to Trinidad with the establishment of a mission in Siparia. The Feast of La Divina Pastora took the form of a Mass, a procession through the streets of Siparia, benediction, followed by “merry-making”.
She said with the arrival of East Indian indentured labourers, another distinct celebration was started with hundreds of Hindus making a pilgrimage to the parish hall to the statue which they called “Soparee Mai” or the Mother of Siparia during the Holy Week where Hindus offer prayers, infant boys are given their first haircut and the hair, in addition to money, rice and flowers, are offered to Soparee Mai. Their celebrations became known as “Soparee Mai Ke Mela.”
Noel said Chinese immigrants also developed a devotion to La Divina Pastora in the 1850s, and actively participated during the fete days by playing San Chee and Mah Jong.
Fr Theodore, who spoke on the inter-religious dimension of the La Divina Pastora, said the church had undergone an evolution in their views of non-Christian celebrations using Christian saints and places of worship.
He said while the Church had previously viewed non-Christian traditions with condemnation, the church had now adopted a more open attitude to the non-Christian religions. He said the Catholic Church now saw non-Christian religions as another means of gaining the right position with God.
Meanwhile, McLethie, who holds a Masters degree in anthropology from Georgia University in the US, spoke on the social, historical and cultural perspective of the celebrations.
She said pilgrims to the La Divina Pastora shrine viewed themselves not as Hindu or Catholic, East Indian or African, but as Trinidadians and who believed the La Divina Pastora was for everyone.
Touching on the political divide within society, she said devotees also recognised the divisions between the political parties and “the corruption within them,” but were also fully cognizant of who their neighbours were and who they were able to depend on in times of trouble.
The La Divina Pastora procession and Mass will take place on April 29, from 10am.
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“The S.S. Officer’s Armchair – Uncovering the Hidden Life of a Nazi”
By Daniel Lee Published 2020 Available on Amazon
Reviewed by BERNIE BELLAN
In 2011 a British historian by the name of Daniel Lee had just completed his PhD in history “that examined the experiences of Jews in Vichy France.”
Lee is Jewish – and, as he explains during the course of his fascinating new book, “The S.S. Officer’s Armchair”, his family, originally from Poland, lost several relatives during the Holocaust.
But, simply by accident, in 2011 he was introduced to a young woman at a dinner party he was hosting in Florence, which was where he was living at the time. That chance encounter led to Lee’s going down a rabbit hole that took him all over Europe – and to the Unites\d States as well, in search of answers to a mystery that was unveiled to him at that party.
What happened is the young woman, who had heard that Lee was a historian of the Second World War, asked him whether he might be interested in examining some documents that her mother, who was living in Amsterdam, had discovered had been hidden in the cushion of an armchair that she had owned for years – ever since she herself was a young student in Prague.
The documents evidently belonged to someone by the name of Robert Griesinger who, as evidenced by all the swastikas imprinted on the documents, must have been some sort of a functionary in the Nazi regime.
Naturally, Lee was fascinated by the story he heard. He proceeded to Amsterdam to interview the woman’s mother and to examine the documents for himself. That initial journey led to Lee’s dogged pursuit of one clue after another as to the background of Robert Griesinger – and the eventual discovery that Griesinger was a member of the SS (also the Gestapo), who was very likely involved in atrocities during the war.
But, what set Griesinger apart from other Nazis whose crimes have been the subjects of lengthy investigations, however, was that he was not at all a notable member of any of the organizations to which he belonged. He was actually a lawyer by training, but as Lee shows, he wasn’t a particularly good one; in fact, his entire life can
be said to be noteworthy not because of anything exceptional he did, rather because his achievements can be described fairly as having been so mediocre.
What compelled Lee to spend years tracing the life of such an unimportant figure? As he explains early on, “The famous fanatics and murderers could not have existed without the countless enablers who kept the government running, filed the paperwork, and lived side-by-side with potential victims of the regime in whom they instilled fear and the threat of violence.”
At the same time Lee’s comprehensive investigation of Griesinger’s life adds to the body of knowledge that other historians, especially Daniel Goldhagen, in his “Hitler’s Willing Executioners”, have developed in showing not just how thoroughly aware most Germans were of the atrocities that were being committed by the Nazis, they were, if not actively supporting the Nazis, complicit in not objecting to what was so clearly happening.
It was the active and willing participation of hundreds of thousands of low-level functionaries working for the Nazi state that allowed the machinery of the regime to function. As Lee also notes, “The narrative I trace will show how low-ranking officials might have existed in between two disconnected worlds; the first filled with the regime’s well-known high functionaries, and the second that comprised the ordinary German population.”
How Lee goes about his tireless pursuit of leads that begin to fill out the mystery of those documents in the armchair forms the basis of a first-rate mystery novel, let alone a non-fiction work that relies on detailed footnoting – as one would expect from a professional historian.
Many of the individuals to whom Lee turns for information are either initially reluctant to speak with him or simply turn him down outright, but in time he is able to interview sufficient members of Griesinger’s surviving family members to arrive at a thorough knowledge of Griesinger’s life, from birth almost to death. It would be impossible to know the exact circumstances of Griesinger’s death in 1945 in Prague, as Lee explains, since following the defeat of the Nazis at the hands of the Russians, aided by Czech rebels, the tables were quickly turned on whatever Germans were living in Prague at that time and they were subjected to much the same atrocities that Nazis had perpetrated on so many Czechs for years.
But, in true mystery style, Lee does uncover some quite fascinating information about Lee’s probable death from dysentery – again, from a most unlikely source.
In researching his book Lee decided to go back as far as he could in sourcing Griesinger’s familial roots. To his surprise, he learns that Griesinger’s father was actually born in New Orleans, which is to where Griesinger’s grandfather had emigrated in the 19th century.
The American connection proves highly important to understanding not only Griesinger’s racist attitudes, also the attitudes of many other Germans, it turns out. As Lee uncovers information about German immigration to the deep south of the U.S., he learns that many Germans were involved in the slave trade – and when many Germans returned to Germany (as was the case in the 1870s when the U.S. was in the grip of a severe economic depression), they brought back those racist ideas with them.
Griesinger came from an upper class background, moreover, in which anti-Semitic attitudes, in addition to racist attitudes toward Blacks, were also typically deeply engrained. Much has already been written about how could such a sophisticated culture as was Germany’s have produced such abhorrently racist ideas, but in “The SS Officer’s Armchair,” Lee is able to probe the thinking of specific individuals in Griesinger’s family to show how relatively easy it was for Hitler’s racism to be commonly accepted within the German upper and middle upper classes.
One character in particular, Robert Griesinger’s mother, “Wally”, proves to be an invaluable source for Lee, as he comes across a detailed diary that Wally had kept from the time she was a young girl throughout her life and during the Second World War. The resentment that Wally exhibits towards those who “betrayed” Germany during the First World War, which was one of Hitler’s paramount themes in engendering support for his racist platform, helps put a clear understanding how Hitler was able to go from being a marginal figure eventually to the unquestioned ruler of the German Reich.
Griesinger’s family lived in Stuttgart, which is located in south-west Germany. Robert Griesinger’s home is now owned by Jochen Griesinger, a nephew of Robert’s who, it turns out, is not on speaking terms with either of Griesinger’s daughters, Barbara and Jutta. Jochen, however, was quite willing to talk to David Lee – and to show him around the house.
In the course of his investigation Lee discovers that two of Robert Griesinger’s next-door neighbours in Stuttgart, Helene and Fritz Rothschild, were Jewish. The Rothschilds were able to escape to Paris and survived the war. Almost all the other Jews in Stuggart were not so lucky.
Robert Griesinger was an unexceptional student. Given the German well-known propensity for record-keeping, Lee is able to find reports on Griesinger’s educational career from his earliest days at school throughout his period at Tubingen University. Remarkably Griesinger was able to obtain a doctorate in law but, disappointingly for him, the most he was able to do with that degree was teach agricultural law at a rural agricultural college.
There is no particular indication from anything that Lee is able to uncover that Griesinger was an early follower of National Socialism. But, as was the case with so many other of his peers, Griesinger saw the opportunity to career advancement by joining the party.
Eventually Griesinger became a member of both the Gestapo (secret police) and the SS (strike force). Although Lee is not able to produce any documentation to show that Griesinger was involved first hand in either the torture or murder of anyone, he is able to deduce from various records that, even if he wasn’t directly involved in any specific activities of that sort, he was at the scene where those activities took place.
In particular, while working for the Gestapo (as a lawyer), Griesinger’s place of work in Stuttgart was the Hotel Silber, which was used by the Gestapo to detain and torture individuals. Lee surmises that Griesinger, whose office was situated directly over the basement of the hotel, would have had to have heard the screams of the torture victims.
Later, during the actual war, Griesinger served for a time on the Eastern Front, in Ukraine, where he was eventually wounded and sent back to Stuttgart for rehabilitation. But, during Griesinger’s period of service in Ukraine, his Wehrmacht unit was stationed outside Kiev, and he was in service at the time 30,000 Jews were murdered at Babi Yar over a two-day period, which was the worst massacre of Jews to that date (later to be surpassed by other massacres in Odessa and Poland).
Griesinger had long wanted to be posted to Prague during the war, as Prague was seen as a haven of tranquility for Germans living there. In 1943 he got his wish and he was able to move his wife Gisela, his two daughters, and a stepson from a previous marriage of his wife, to Prague, where they were mostly spared the deprivations that ordinary Germans were suffering throughout Germany as the result of heavy Allied bombing.
While in Prague, Lee is able to piece together Griesinger’s duties, which involved the arrest and deportation of thousands of individuals, both Jews and non-Jews. His principal duty was to arrange for the shipment of Czechs to be used as slave labourers in German factories and mines. Griesinger was also responsible for the confiscation of Czech factories from their rightful owners – always done with the imprimatur of official Nazi regulations.
As Lee works his way through an ongoing series of visits to repositories of archives and interviews with anyone who might have some knowledge of Griesinger’s life, he is able to put together an amazingly detailed description of what life would have been like for Griesinger.
Considering that he was still conducting interviews as recently as 2018 the fact that he has produced such a compelling read is testament to his skill as not just a historian, but a very talented writer who was able to work quickly, as well.
Toward the end of his book Lee revisits his motivation in wanting to go to such extraordinary lengths to describe the life of a “faceless bureaucrat”: “This book shows that it is possible to trace the life of one of those ordinary Nazis whose role in war and genocide seems to have vanished from the historical record. Returning texture and agency to one such perpetrator affords Griesinger the opportunity to stand in for the thousands of anonymous ordinary Nazis whose widespread culpability wreaked havoc on so many lives and whose biographies have, until now, never seen the light of day.”
In looking at some of the reviews posted by readers on Amazon, there is a consistent theme of gratitude expressed to Lee for opening up a door to a part of history that has hitherto remained largely unknown – not because historians were disinterested in the subject; rather, they were stymied by the lack of evidence to paint the sort of detailed picture of just an “ordinary” Nazi bureaucrat that Lee has so brilliantly succeeded in doing. If it weren’t for that chance meeting at a Florence dinner party, however, this book would never have been written.
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Falling gasoline prices have been in the news of late, so for this month we will look back at one of the earlier gas stations in East Union Township. Located across from the Apple Creek Bank, we can learn many cool things about Alvin R.Derr’s Service Station from this post card mailed in 1932. Derr’s was the “New Blue Sunoco” dealer selling its gasoline for 17 ½ cents per gallon along with being the Exide Battery representative. The bottles at the one attendant’s feet (remember when they pumped your gas!) probably contain motor oil and transmission fluid for a quick refill. One of the signs in the window is advertising Lowell Thomas, the famous radio journalist with several radio stations where he could be heard (WLW Chicago, WJR Detroit, and KDKA Pittsburg) and a Coca-Cola sign can be seen behind the car being refueled. Water or air hoses can also be seen hanging down from the canopy.
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Assessment | News
LAUSD Invests $24 Million in Assessment Platform
Los Angeles Unified School District is investing heavily in a digital assessment system designed to help boost student achievement through teacher-generated formative tests.
The district signed a five-year, $24 Million contract with Core K12 Education to use its Assessment Center platform and to receive certain other services, such as onsite professional development, progress monitoring, and content customization.
Assessment Center is an electronic platform providing tools and resources for creating assessments, collecting data, and reporting on data based on a range of criteria. It contains a bank of more than 200,000 elements to help educators create tests for delivery online or on paper, and it provides methods for selecting elements based on alignment to state standards, Lexile, p-Values, and other parameters. It also offers more than 12,000 "supplemental skill resources," which include standards-aligned lesson plans, activities, and worksheets.
This isn't the first time LAUSD has worked with Core K12. According to the company, it's been involved with the district in the past on a "dynamic, periodic assessment program," said Core K12 President Kevin Howell. "We believe that assessment drives discovery, and are very excited about continuing the good work we have started with this important client and education partner."
According to information released by the company Thursday, Core K12 works with about 2.5 million students served by districts or state agencies in California, Florida, and Texas.
LAUSD itself serves about 680,000 K-12 students, 1.07 million total students (including adult education students). It operates 1,044 K-12 campuses and 208 adult, early education, and other centers.
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Jeff Cox, age 14, made history on Oct. 5, 2008, when he bagged a whitetail doe in the west St. Louis County suburb of Wildwood. It was the third day of Missouri’s urban deer hunt, the earliest portion of Missouri’s firearms deer season, and 2008 was the first year in modern times when it was legal to hunt deer with air-powered rifles. As far as anyone knows, Cox was the first Missourian to take a deer with an air rifle.
You might be scratching your head wondering how he managed to kill a deer with a BB gun. That is exactly the sort of skepticism that Cox’s father, Ken, faced when he asked the Conservation Department’s Regulations Committee to make air-powered rifles a legal method for hunting white-tailed deer.
Like many adults, Ken’s interest in air guns began early. As a teenager, he hunted rabbits and squirrels with small-caliber air guns. His interest in air guns continued into adulthood, and he occasionally wondered when someone was going to develop an air rifle powerful enough for deer hunting. Then one day an online search turned up a large-caliber air-gun maker right here in Missouri.
It took several years, but he finally got his own .458-cal. rifle made by Dennis Quackenbush, of Urbana. Ken and Jeff have taken six deer with it so far, but before they could take aim at a deer, they had to score a bull’s-eye with a task force created by the Conservation Department’s Regulations Committee to investigate the matter. Ken was confident that the idea would sell itself if Regulations Committee members could see a large-caliber air rifle in action and shoot it themselves, so he took them to the shooting range.
Once they saw what an air gun could do, they were convinced. Starting in 2008, Missouri hunters could use air guns .40 cal. or larger for deer hunting, as long as they can be charged only from an external, high-compression power source, including external hand pumps, air tanks or air compressors. These requirements ensure adequate power for producing clean, quick kills.
To see what air guns were all about, I spent an afternoon with Ken and his air gun at the St. Louis County Police Range. What impressed me most were the rifle’s light recoil and minimal noise. I am used to the kick of my .30-06 Springfield, but I can’t say I am fond of
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Ammonium toxicity: The silent killer
By Dr. Koos Bornman (General Manager: Strategic Agricultural Services)
It has become common practice to use large quantities of reduced nitrogen (urea, ammonia and ammonium), especially urea, as a pre-plant fertilizer especially when producing maize. This practice is well established in the Free State and North Western areas and is also finding its way into Mpumalanga. These products pose the risk of build-up of the nitrogen cation, ammonium, which is highly toxic to plants.
This article wishes to convey the risk of ammonium toxicity, explain its effects and suggest how it can be prevented or alleviated.
When large amounts of urea, for instance, are pre-planted at a depth of 200 mm to 300 mm in a typical sandy soil of the North Western or Free State areas, it is usually in a fairly cold, acid environment, low in organic matter. During the early season after the first rains, such soil often becomes water logged. These conditions are conductive to the accumulation of ammonium as the process of nitrification is inhibited.
Ammonium toxicity has already been described by Charles Darwin in 1882. The plant cannot store ammonium as it does nitrates. Free ammonium in the plant cell is toxic and needs to be bound in amino acid form by combining with sugars as soon as possible. It already has a toxic effect on grain crops at levels as low as 150 mg/kg in the soil, if it is the only nitrogen source. This level is already reached when 80 kg nitrogen is banded in one meter rows in a sandy soil. It causes severe plant chlorosis (often similar to a magnesium deficiency symptom, i.e. yellow striped leaves) with reduced photosynthesis, stunted plants with a low shoot to root ratio and inhibition of especially root growth (see photos). Ammonium toxicity can have a severe impact on seedling growth in particular, but also on mature plants and can lead to between 15% and 60% yield loss. Ammonium toxicity is so aggressive that it can even be used as a herbicide.
Some physiological characteristics related to ammonium toxicity are the suppression of cation uptake (calcium, magnesium and potassium) and enhancement of anion uptake (especially phosphate and chloride). Other indicators are a reduction of intra cellular pH and a drastic decline in sugars and starches in the cell.
Studies on maize in South Africa by the Agricultural Research Council has indeed proven such toxicity showing severe yield depression in maize at high nitrogen application as only urea.
Nitrification and acidification
The oxidation of ammonia is dependent on quite a few factors. Nitrification is dependent on the presence of nitrifying bacteria which are sensitive to low temperatures, pH and basic cations such as calcium. In fact, it is documented that nitrification comes to a complete halt at pH levels measured in water of 5.5. Also, nitrification is severely inhibited by the lack of oxygen and ironically high levels of ammonium. In sandy, water logged subsoils with low pH and temperature, typically associated with the soils of the Free State and North West, 50% nitrification of ammonium may take as long as 50 days. Nitrite toxicity is also often associated with delayed nitrification.
It is well known that, if a reduced nitrogen source is not efficiently intercepted by the root system, it will convert to nitric acid, causing severe soil acidification. This would then also be expected if high concentrations of urea and ammonium are used, especially when pre-planted.
Subsoil analysis trends
An analysis of the data from 5,200 subsoil samples from the Omnia soil analysis database, since 2002 in the areas of Bothaville, Viljoenskroon and Hoopstad, has confirmed the above theory and revealed the following disturbing facts:
A drop in the median pH (KCl) of more than 0,4 units to a critical level of 4.7 (40% of all the samples had a pH of less than 4.5 with the lowest measured being 3.5). A significant increase of extractable soil acidity from zero to more than 10% for more than one in five of the samples in 2011 was measured (the highest being 53%).
What is also of note is the lack of presence of cations in the subsoil. Half the samples had calcium, magnesium and potassium levels of less than 330, 60 and 70 mg per kg respectively.
The question may well be asked: what can be done to remedy the situation of the subsoil ammonium toxicity threat, especially as reduced nitrogen sources will remain popular due to its high concentration and availability?
The first suggestion is to get cations into the acidified subsoil zone by means of fertilizers containing high cation concentration and by using combinations of lime and gypsum. It has been proven that higher cation presence (especially calcium) even under low pH conditions, will enhance nitrification significantly.
The second suggestion is to simply add a fraction of nitrate to the reduced fertilizer source. Literature states that nitrogen uptake may be enhanced by 75% and growth rates of crops may be enhanced by up to 40% and even higher, using combinations of reduced nitrogen and nitrate. The ratios between ammonium and nitrate are specific to the crop produced, but in general for grains a ratio of 80% reduced nitrogen and 20% nitrate nitrogen is near the optimum.
Some physiological explanations of this enhance-ment of reduced nitrogen efficiency with nitrates is the stimulation or optimization of biochemical processes, stimulation of the synthesis of the growth hormone cytokinin, physiological alkalization of the rhizosphere (hydroxyl swop from the root for negatively charged nitrate), and preventing carbon drain from the root.
Speak to your Omnia agronomist to get the right tailor made product to manage the risk of ammonium toxicity in your crop, especially for pre-planting and with plant.
Photo 1-3: Ammonium toxicity in barley and maize. Photos from articles by Britto and Kronzucker, 2002 and from Adriaanse, 2012.
- Adriaanse, F.G., 2012. Efficacy and application of nitrogen sources. Proceedings of the Technical Symposium of the Fertilizer Society of South Africa, Pretoria, 22 August 2012. Pages 4 to 19.
- Britto, D.T. & Kronzucker, H.J. 2002. NH4 toxicity in higher plants: a critical review. J. Plant Physiol. 159. Pages 567-584.
This article was published in the NutriologyAmmonium toxicity: The silent killer Newsletter, Summer 2013
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Saudi Arabia casts wary eye on its Shiites
AL HUFUF, SAUDI ARABIA — Sadek al-Jubran says he's all too familiar with fatwas that declare him an infidel.
As a member of a religious minority in a country without religious freedom, Mr. Jubran grew up with discrimination. It's something Shiites like him have regularly faced in this conservative Sunni-ruled kingdom – in the streets and at school, in courtrooms and at the office.
Over the past decade, however, Shiites have managed to gain a larger stake in Saudi Arabian society. They've seen incremental reforms, getting elected to local councils and being allowed to observe religious holidays openly.
But now, many worry that their steady progress is being checked. With a Sunni-Shiite cold war descending on the region, Saudi Arabia appears to be hardening its sectarian battle lines. That, experts say, could mean that it once again will regard its Shiite minority, mainly clustered in eastern oases like this one, solely as enemies of the state.
Recent rumblings from clerics and politicians alike recall the days when the kingdom braced against spreading influence from Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution. Today, Saudi Arabia is on edge from the deepening civil war in Iraq and a possibly nuclear Iran.
"The plunge back into the abyss of the 1980s has been accelerated," says Toby Jones, an assistant professor at Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pa., who has written extensively about the Shiites of Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province.
"You don't see [Saudi King Abdullah] quashing any of this very, very public anti-Shiite rhetoric," says Mr. Jones. "That's a sign that he either isn't interested in doing it or that he can't."
Last month, 30 top Saudi clerics released a statement calling on Sunnis throughout the region to back the Sunni insurgents in Iraq against Shiites. This was followed by a fatwa from prominent cleric Abdul Rahman al-Barak on Dec. 29 attacking Shiites.
"The rejectionists [Shiites] in their entirety are the worst of the Islamic nation's sects. They bear all the characteristics of infidels," he said in the religious ruling, according to a translation from Reuters.
Jubran, a lawyer and rights advocate from Al Hufuf, a Shiite city, says that religious rulings like the one issued by Mr. Barak hardly exist within a vacuum. They influence the Sunni majority and provoke a militant minority. And, he adds, "The danger of a fatwa is that it's fixed and can't be changed."
Shiites make up about 10 to 15 percent of the country's roughly 16 million nationals, according to a 2005 International Crisis Group (ICG) report. Most live in the Eastern Province, where oil was first discovered and which remains the base for much of the petroleum industry. While they have been persecuted since Saudi Arabia's formation in 1932, it wasn't until their coreligionists in Iran overthrew the Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, that Shiites were emboldened to challenge the Saudi monarch.
"After the revolution, Shiites demonstrated to be able to celebrate imams' birthdays ... many were arrested," says Ali al-Marzouk, an activist from Al Qatif, another Shiite enclave. He was jailed between 1981 and 1983, he says, like hundreds of other young Shiite activists in the region, for taking to the streets to demand religious and social reforms.
The crackdown prompted Mr. Marzouk and many others to flee the country. He sought refuge in Iran. In 1993, he and others returned following a historic meeting between the region's Shiite leaders, including Jubran, and King Fahd, at which the king invited exiled Shiites to return and freed political prisoners in exchange for their allegiance. He also promised to address Shiite concerns, according to the ICG report.
"There was the welcoming back of the Shiites in the Eastern Province. It was not made a fuss about at the time to avoid offending Wahhabi sensibilities," says Robert Lacey, author of "The Kingdom: Arabia and the House of Saud," referring to the conservative Wahhabi clerics who hold sway with the monarch and have been responsible for much of the acerbic language against Shiites in mosques and in fatwas.
Until now, he says, there have been "Wahhabi sheikhs meeting with Shiite leaders ... away from the headlines. The reason it's not more publicized is for the same reason there aren't women drivers ... because there is a conservative majority."
While 1979 was a formative moment for the country's Shiites, many here say publicly that they are now committed to working within the system of local and national councils for continued change. And their greater economic foothold is evident in the new SUVs on the streets of Al Hufuf and the recently built villas of its neighborhoods.
Many Shiites say they hold better jobs than ever before in the region's oil companies. In Al Qatif, Shiites have been allowed to celebrate Ashura, the commemoration of Imam Hussein, whom they see as the third Imam and intended successor of the prophet Muhammad; Sunnis consider this view blasphemous.
"Shiites don't believe the basics [of Islam]," says Hamzah al-Tyer, imam of al-Rajhi mosque in Riyadh, where much of the vitriol against Shiites originates. He says that Sunni religious leaders address only Shiite leaders – not their followers – as "evil Muslims."
He adds that Shiites "are getting more power and we are getting less."
Dwight Bashir, a senior analyst with the US Commission on International Religious Freedom, says that "Shiites are concerned about [implications of regional issues] affecting their progress."
But the situation has changed since 1979, he says. "A lot of the Shiite population have it pretty good in the Eastern Province and they don't necessary want to rock the boat, especially if they are seeing some progress on these things. They might be holding hope."
Mr. Bashir says that a minority might embrace militant tactics if the monarch begins cracking down, threatening sectarian bloodshed. While there is evidence that King Abdullah, both as king and before taking the throne, has made some efforts to address Shiite concerns, analysts say he still must placate a very conservative Wahhabi base.
Ibrahim al-Mugaiteeb, a longtime rights advocate, runs the only independent, albeit unlicensed, rights group in the country, Human Rights First Society. "The situation is far from even close to what we want it to be," he says. But, he adds, "at least there is movement."
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Indian stainless producers are looking for ways to influence the situation with cheap imports of corrosion resistant metal from China. In particular, Jindal Stainless management of the company — one of the industry leaders in the country (accounting for about 50% of total production) — by submitting a statement to the authorities controlling this issue. Ramesh Nair — executive director of Jindal Stainless — commented on the situation: «The price of stainless steel imported to our country from China, significantly lower cost level," local «metal (approximately 20−25 percent less). It harms the industry, and we turned to the government for the introduction of anti-dumping duties on imports of products in this category. First of all we are talking about cold-rolled stainless steel — the most interesting for the domestic consumer category rolled. «
The opinion of the representatives of Jindal Stainless shares the president of the association Indian Stainless Steel Development Authority (ISSDA) Mr N. S. Mathur. He believes that the five-percent import duty on stainless serving today have become «obsolete.» And if the situation does not affect, India could become a «dumping ground for Chinese manufacturers.» Whereas, according to market experts, the country has its own excess capacity — not less than 3.5 million tons per year.
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Interdisciplinary Approaches to Archaeological Problems
This course serves as an introduction to archaeology, where students become familiar with major concepts, techniques and approaches in the subject.
Aims: A primary aim of the course is to show how different disciplines - e.g. sciences, geography, ecology, anthropology, ethnography, social theory - contribute to archaeology, both in the analyses of evidence and in theories drawn on in interpretation.
Teaching methods Practical Handling Class
Teaching is organised into a series of broad themes (time, people, space, environment, material culture), which serve as the archaeological 'problems' to be investigated. Within each theme, the application of scientific techniques is covered, alongside various ways of conceptualizing and interpreting evidence and data sets. Case studies are drawn from a wide range of geographical areas and archaeological periods.
In addition to lectures by specialist members of staff, study groups provide students the opportunity for further discussion on particular topics, as well as practical handling sessions.
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Many older people worry about becoming more forgetful. They think forgetfulness
is the first sign of Alzheimer's disease. In the past, memory loss and confusion
were considered a normal part of aging. However, scientists now know that most
people remain both alert and able as they age, although it may take them longer
to remember things.
A lot of people experience memory lapses. Some memory problems are serious,
and others are not. People who have serious changes in their memory, personality,
and behavior may suffer from a form of brain disease called dementia. Dementia
seriously affects a person's ability to carry out daily activities. Alzheimer's
disease is one of many types of dementia.
The term dementia describes a group of symptoms that are caused by changes
in brain function. Dementia symptoms may include asking the same questions
repeatedly; becoming lost in familiar places; being unable to follow directions;
getting disoriented about time, people, and places; and neglecting personal
safety, hygiene, and nutrition. People with dementia lose their abilities at
Dementia is caused by many conditions. Some conditions that cause dementia
can be reversed, and others cannot. Further, many different medical conditions
may cause symptoms that seem like Alzheimer's disease, but are not. Some of
these medical conditions may be treatable. Reversible conditions can be caused
by a high fever, dehydration, vitamin deficiency and poor nutrition, bad reactions
to medicines, problems with the thyroid gland, or a minor head injury. Medical
conditions like these can be serious and should be treated by a doctor as soon
Sometimes older people have emotional problems that can be mistaken for dementia.
Feeling sad, lonely, worried, or bored may be more common for older people
facing retirement or coping with the death of a spouse, relative, or friend.
Adapting to these changes leaves some people feeling confused or forgetful.
Emotional problems can be eased by supportive friends and family, or by professional
help from a doctor or counselor.
The two most common forms of dementia in older people are Alzheimer's disease
and multi-infarct dementia (sometimes called vascular dementia). These types
of dementia are irreversible, which means they cannot be cured. In Alzheimer's
disease, nerve cell changes in certain parts of the brain result in the death
of a large number of cells. Symptoms of Alzheimer's disease begin slowly and
become steadily worse. As the disease progresses, symptoms range from mild
forgetfulness to serious impairments in thinking, judgment, and the ability
to perform daily activities. Eventually, patients may need total care.
In multi-infarct dementia, a series of small strokes or changes in the brain's
blood supply may result in the death of brain tissue. The location in the brain
where the small strokes occur determines the seriousness of the problem and the
symptoms that arise. Symptoms that begin suddenly may be a sign of this kind
of dementia. People with multi‑infarct dementia are likely to show signs
of improvement or remain stable for long periods of time, then quickly develop
new symptoms if more strokes occur. In many people with multi-infarct dementia,
high blood pressure is to blame. One of the most important reasons for controlling
high blood pressure is to prevent strokes.
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People who are worried about memory problems should see their
doctor. If the doctor believes that the problem is serious, then
a thorough physical, neurological, and psychiatric evaluation may
be recommended. A complete medical examination for memory loss
may include gathering information about the person's medical history,
including use of prescription and over-the-counter medicines, diet,
past medical problems, and general health. Because a correct diagnosis
depends on recalling these details accurately, the doctor also
may ask a family member for information about the person.
Tests of blood and urine may be done to help the doctor find any
problems. There are also tests of mental abilities (tests of memory,
problem solving, counting, and language). A brain CT scan may assist
the doctor in ruling out a curable disorder. A scan also may show
signs of normal age-related changes in the brain. It may be necessary
to have another scan at a later date to see if there have been
further changes in the brain.
Alzheimer's disease and multi-infarct dementia can exist together,
making it hard for the doctor to diagnose either one specifically.
Scientists once thought that multi‑infarct dementia and other
types of vascular dementia caused most cases of irreversible mental
impairment. They now believe that most older people with irreversible
dementia have Alzheimer's disease.
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Even if the doctor diagnoses an irreversible form of dementia,
much still can be done to treat the patient and help the family
cope. A person with dementia should be under a doctor's care, and
may see a neurologist, psychiatrist, family doctor, internist,
or geriatrician. The doctor can treat the patient's physical and
behavioral problems and answer the many questions that the person
or family may have.
For some people in the early and middle stages of Alzheimer's
disease, the drugs tacrine (Cognex), donepezil (Aricept), rivastigmine
(Exelon), and galantamine (Reminyl) are prescribed to possibly
delay the worsening of some of the disease's symptoms. Doctors
believe it is very important for people with multi-infarct dementia
to try to prevent further strokes by controlling high blood pressure,
monitoring and treating high blood cholesterol and diabetes, and
Many people with dementia need no medication for behavioral problems.
But for some people, doctors may prescribe medications to reduce
agitation, anxiety, depression, or sleeping problems. These troublesome
behaviors are common in people with dementia. Careful use of doctor-prescribed
drugs may make some people with dementia more comfortable and make
caring for them easier.
A healthy diet is important. Although no special diets or nutritional
supplements have been found to prevent or reverse Alzheimer's disease
or multi-infarct dementia, a balanced diet helps maintain overall
good health. In cases of multi-infarct dementia, improving the
diet may play a role in preventing more strokes.
Family members and friends can assist people with dementia in
continuing their daily routines, physical activities, and social
contacts. People with dementia should be kept up-to-date about
the details of their lives, such as the time of day, where they
live, and what is happening at home or in the world. Memory aids
may help in the day-to-day living of patients in the earlier stages
of dementia. Some families find that a big calendar, a list of
daily plans, notes about simple safety measures, and written directions
describing how to use common household items are very useful aids.
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Scientists are working to develop new drugs that someday may slow,
reverse, or prevent the damage caused by Alzheimer's disease and
multi-infarct dementia. In the meantime, people who have no dementia
symptoms can try to keep their memory sharp.
Some suggestions include developing interests or hobbies and staying
involved in activities that stimulate both the mind and body. Giving
careful attention to physical fitness and exercise also may go
a long way toward keeping a healthy state of mind. Limiting the
use of alcoholic beverages is important, because heavy drinking
over time can cause permanent brain damage.
Many people find it useful to plan tasks; make "things-to-do" lists;
and use notes, calendars, and other memory aids. They also may
remember things better by mentally connecting them to other meaningful
things, such as a familiar name, song, or lines from a poem.
Stress, anxiety, or depression can make a person more forgetful.
Forgetfulness caused by these emotions usually is temporary and
goes away when the feelings fade. However, if these feelings last
for a long period of time, getting help from a professional is
important. Treatment may include counseling or medication, or a
combination of both.
Some physical and mental changes occur with age in healthy people.
However, much pain and suffering can be avoided if older people,
their families, and their doctors recognize dementia as a disease,
not part of normal aging.
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Error Concealment for Compressed Digital Audio
In digital audio, received bit streams of compressed audio data might be corrupted due to error-prone transmission channels. During decompression, errors will be propagated towards the audio output. Concealing these errors allows to minimize the resulting obtrusive deteriorations. The paper describes techniques for concealing transmission errors in ISO/MPEG-2/4 AAC digital audio signals by exploiting specific audio signal characteristics. These techniques have been successfully applied to both simulation and real-time processing.
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|The LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him."|
|And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.|
|Then the LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him."|
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God did not want Adam to be lonely, so He fashioned a helper comparable to him. This phrase indicates that this helper (or partner) would be truly fitting and fully adequate-just right. Some have thought that the term is demeaning, but it simply means "one who helps," and in fact is used to describe God when He comes to our aid (Pss. 33:20; 115:9, 10, 11). It does not refer to someone who is secondary or inferior.
: T. Nelson Publishers.Did you know?
Man needs companionship on earth. In the the most holy person, the high priest, marries (Lev. 21:13), and the Nazirite, uniquely set apart to God, is not celibate (Num. 6:1-4). Abstention from lawful marriage is never commanded in Scripture (cf. 1 Tim. 4:3), although some are given the gift of celibacy for service (1 Cor. 7:7).
Whitlock, L. G., Sproul, R. C., Waltke, B. K., & Silva, M. (1995). Reformation study Bible, the : Bringing the light of the Reformation to Scripture : New King James Version. Includes index. (Ge 2:18). : T. Nelson.
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When planning a trip, choose a destination that offers stunning scenery and interesting cultural attractions to ensure you have a memorable trip – and get plenty of great photographs to show your friends and family. Here are five countries that offer beautiful scenery and plenty of cultural sites:
The South American nation offers diverse scenery, including stark coastal deserts, lush tropical rainforests, high plains and soaring Andean peaks. Machu Picchu, Lake Titicaca and the Ballestas Islands are among the highlights, while you’ll find plenty of stunning Spanish colonial architecture, lively festivals, Inca and pre-Inca ruins, and exciting Andean cuisine.
With more than 17,500 islands, Indonesia offers no end of great scenery. From the chain of cone-shaped volcanoes running along Sumatra, Java, Bali and beyond, to the lush jungles of Kalimantan and the beaches of Lombok, there are many highlights. Add to that some interesting wildlife, including orangutans and komodo dragons. The country has a fascinating cultural mix. The city of Yogyakarta is a great centre for poetry, puppetry, batik and dramatic arts, and is close to the spectacular Prambanan ruins.
France has so much to offer, and is rightly one of the world’s most popular destinations. There’s something for everyone – sandy bea ches, Alpine peaks, stunning rocky coastlines, hilltop castles, old volcanoes, green rolling hills and steep river gorges. It’s home to world-famous museums, excellent rustic cuisine and seafood, fine wines, historic cathedrals and modern theme parks. To travel across these destinations you may choose best options for hotels in Paris at budget prices.
Turkey, where East meets West, is a beautiful, vast country with many ancient and modern attractions. Its natural highlights include the iconic Oludeniz beach, the stunning Mount Ararat, the verdant Pontic Mountains, the hot springs of Pamukkale (the so-called “cotton castle”), and the enchanting rock formations of Cappadocia. Turkey has a wealth of cultural attractions, including the ruins of Troy, Aspendos and Perge, the mosques and bazaars of Istanbul, the museums and Roman ruins of Ankara, and the old port of Antalya.
One of the largest countries in the world, and with many distinct regions, China offers no end of beautiful scenery and cultural diversity. The stark Gobi Desert, the gorges of the Yangtse, the high plateau of Tibet and the Karst landscapes of South China are among its geographical highlights. China also has more than 40 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, including the Great Wall, Forbidden City, the Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries and the Terracotta Army.
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