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My Perfect Body - 2002
My Perfect Body was part of an exhibition featuring Brooklyn artists whose work seen together in contrast<|fim_middle|> installation. | arouses anticipation, fear, excitement, domination and surveillance. Guest curated by Helen Varola, AnXious opened January 19th and continued through March 10th, 2002 at the d.u.m.b.o arts center (dac).
In the future, women might be able to take a pill and wake up the next day looking like Tyra Banks or Jennifer Lopez. In the meantime they have cosmetic surgery or most, like myself, work out. While speculating about this one day in gym class, I decided to exorcise my demons and have a laugh at myself at the same time by creating an installation about our obsession with achieving the perfect body.
This is the story of Susie Spandex, Gym Bunny, Harmony Hardbody, and Ashley Abs, four mannequins who work out tirelessly at the gym because they want to be beautiful and to improve their love lives. Each wears a mask fashioned from my face. They work out in front of fun house mirrors, constructed to exaggerate that part of the body about which each mannequin is most insecure, therefore reflecting the image she has of herself.
The installation is set up like a work out class at a gym. On entering, you step into an expanded moment in time catching the mannequins in the middle of an exercise. Fitness paraphernalia is strewn about: body bars, weights, bands, and mats. A TV monitor is mounted in front of the mannequins. Each mannequin has a spotlight focused on her and a small speaker is located near her to give presence to her voice. The show begins like this:
The My Perfect Body theme music swells. The "Absolutely Perfect Butts, Breasts, Thighs, and Abs Work Out" video begins to play on the monitor. It features three beautiful young women working out with abandon. Their bodies glisten with sweat, their muscles bulge, buttocks move rhythmically, pelvises tilt up and down, legs open and close.
As the video plays, each mannequin voices her opinion about working out, love, and her fellow mannequins. As each mannequin begins to speak the video freezes on an exercise that matches her own. After each mannequin has said her piece, the video credits roll over the My Perfect Body theme song.
The show runs approximately 12 minutes and replays every 15 minutes. A computer program, developed exclusively for the installation, synchronizes the mannequin voices and video, controlling when each mannequin speaks in relation to what scene is playing on the TV monitor. The video is stored on the computer's hard drive along with audio tracks for the music and mannequin voices. The audio is separated into 5 distinct channels -- 4 mono channels for the mannequins and 1 stereo channel for the music and video sound -- and fed to each of the 6 speakers placed throughout the | 603 |
"When the day of Pentecost came it found them gathered in one place. Suddenly from up in the sky there came a noise like a strong, driving wind which was heard all through the house where they were seated. Tongues of fire appeared, which parted and came to rest on each of them. All were filled with the Holy Spirit� (Acts 2:1-4).
Confirmation is one of the three sacraments that fully initiates one into the Catholic Christian Church (along with the sacraments of Baptism and Holy Eucharist). The purpose of the sacrament of Confirmation is to strengthen the individual in the Holy Spirit, empowering him or her to act more strongly as a witness to Christ�s Gospel. During this sacrament, the Bishop (or his delegate) anoints the candidates with oil and confers upon them the Gifts of the Holy Spirit.
Preparation for Confirmation involves a three year period of reflection and deeper immersion into one�s relationship with Christ and the Church. Beginning in ninth grade, those interested in receiving the sacrament are asked to open themselves to more opportunities to explore their membership in the Church through study, Youth Ministry events, retreats, service projects, and mentoring with parents, their<|fim_middle|>. | sponsors, and their catechists and pastor. Conferring of the sacrament takes place in the eleventh grade. A minimum of two years enrollment in a Catholic School or Parish School of Religion is a prerequisite for entering preparation, and attendance in a formal religious education program must continue during the ninth through eleventh grade.
In order to be confirmed, a person must be able to renew their baptismal promises, participate regularly in the Celebration of the Eucharist, be free from serious sin, and present a reasonable indication of intention to live out the Catholic faith. Rather than a completion of tasks to "earn� the sacrament, Confirmation preparation activities and works are meant to provide the environment for one to examine their faith and lifestyle and come to the realization that receiving the sacrament of Confirmation is not an ending of a program or graduation from a course but is an experience of growth and commitment to one�s faith.
For further information, please contact Mary Godke through our church office, or by email, or by calling 225-933-0516 | 217 |
As promised, here is the post about Chinese New Year Celebrations from Langkawi. (All Photos here) and if you want to see all photos with Chinese music, click here, just to get you into the mood! The Chinese New Year started on the 23rd of January and it lasts 15 days. In this time the Island is full with tourists and all the shop prices go up whether it is for butter, beer, cooking oil or chocolate Nevertheless, we found out there was to be a performance of Chinese Dragon Dogs in the Fair Mall, one of three shopping centres on Langkawi and as we had never seen anything like it live, we went along to take a look. The Dragons (4 of them, one gold, one white,one yellow and one orange) arrived outside the Mall and acted fearfully of the firecrackers hanging from the ceiling which were set off to stop their entrance. All this was accompanied to loud drum beats. The noise and smoke was unbelievable. Once these had stopped they stormed in to take some offerings which were laid out for them on the floor, consisting of Tangerines, Lettuce and beer. They picked it up and<|fim_middle|> a fantastic performance, dancing on wooden poles, set up in the Fair Mall main hall (see 2nd video below) The whole experience really gave you an Asian feel and we are glad to have had the chance to see it. | shared it with the people around watching and covering their ears.
Fiona was one of the lucky few to have a Tangerine offered by the Golden Dragon (must be for good luck) which was quite funny, as he came up with the Fruit in his mouth looking at Fiona, but as she did not know what to do, the guy in the Dragon costume shouted:"Take it" so Fiona did. I mean, you do not just take something out of the Dragons mouth, in a culture where you do not know whether this is right or wrong. Shame it wasn`t a can of beer though :) The Dragons all proceeded into the Mall and took offerings from shops, hung up over their entrances or laid out on chairs and tables. Again it was fruit, Lettuce, beer and now envelopes containing money. Bit of bribery for good luck might help I suppose. This took about an hour and was really good. (see 1st Video below) Then there was a break before the music (loud drum rhythm) started again and two guys in a Dragon costume started | 216 |
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British Man Claims His iPhone 7 Exploded When He Answered a Call
By Mike Peterson Published: May 9th, 2017
Updated: Feb 12th, 2018
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A British man is claiming that his iPhone 7 exploded when he attempted to answer a phone call<|fim_middle|> mountain biking. Apple has investigated both of those incidents, and is likely to investigate Hayes' iPhone. It's still important to note that exploding iPhones are not a widespread or common problem thus far. But iPhones are electronic devices, and like all electronic devices, they can fail — and yes, sometimes by exploding.
The cause of such an explosion is typically the lithium-ion battery contained within so many of our devices. That was the ultimate downfall of the Galaxy Note 7, but its problems were largely tied to a design issue. So thankfully, barring bad luck or uncommon circumstances, most of us probably don't have to worry about our beloved iPhones spontaneously combusting.
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Lee Hayes, 42, a resident of Southport, England, said that his iPhone was innocuously sitting on the kitchen counter when he heard it ringing. "As soon as I touched the screen to answer it the phone exploded," Hayes told The Sun. "There was a loud bang and a sizzling noise and the force of the blast shattered the screen." Hayes, reportedly, had only owned the iPhone for three days before the unfortunate event.
In the wake of that explosion, Hayes was reportedly left with burns and shards of glass stuck in his hands, and "the phone was so hot it left a mark on my kitchen unit where it had been sitting," he added. "It filled my home with horrible fumes too." A semi-professional darts player, Hayes said that the injuries he sustained are preventing him from competing until they heal, and he is considering taking legal action against Apple. (Though Hayes himself is no stranger to legal action, CNET points out).
While Apple's iPhones don't have as fiery of a reputation as some other devices, Hayes' iPhone 7 isn't the first Apple flagship to spontaneously combust. Earlier this year, a woman named Brianna Olivas reported her own iPhone 7 Plus began emanating fumes and melting. And in August 2016, an Australian man suffered third degree burns after his iPhone exploded in his pocket while | 281 |
Today, TrueNorth's home office is proud and excited to host our company's annual State of the Union. This day marks one of the rare occasions when our companies can meet at the Cedar Rapids headquarters to reflect on the success of the past year, share our plans for the current year, and set goals for the future.
Since TrueNorth's founding in 2001, our company has continued to grow and develop. As of today, the TrueNorth team consists of over 250 professionals in 13 locations, working<|fim_middle|>, and enthusiasm continues to inspire and guide us as we cultivate our business to meet your needs.
As we continue our journey, we invite you to follow along on one or all of our social media sites. Click the following links to follow us on Facebook and LinkedIn. | daily to serve thousands of individuals and business clients nationwide. When we hold company meetings, like the State of the Union, we celebrate the relationships we've fostered, identify areas of continued growth, and orient ourselves as we move forward, all the while, anticipating the company's growth for generations to come.
Today, we would like to thank the many communities, businesses, and individuals we work with on a daily basis throughout the country. Your business, guidance | 91 |
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The Past and The Present of Kadıköy: The Pearl of the Istanbul's Asian Side
Kadıköy is one of the largest Istanbul districts with a population of over 450000 people and a surface area of 25 km2. It has the characteristics of the cultural center of the Asian side with numerous pubs, bookshops, cinemas and landmarks in it. Thanks to many different transportation options such as ferry, metro, bus and train, this district becomes a<|fim_middle|> center as the retail and service sectors begin to operate there.
Kadıköy has everything: a magnificent Bosphorus view, shops where you can find anything you are looking for from ethnic clothes to comic books, a vibrant nightlife, peaceful walking paths and parks located on the seaside... Today, it continues to shine like a pearl as one of the most valuable districts on the Asian side.
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According to the knowledge obtained from the archaeological excavations, Kadıköy was first used as a settlement in the Chalcolithic period (the Copper Age). The first name of the district, Kalkedon, is associated with the word which means copper in Ancient Greek due to the copper mines around this settlement. According to a legend, the Byzantines were very impressed by the region's beauty where they settled on the opposite side of Kadıköy. So, they said that the residents of Kalkedon must have been blind not to see the value of the opposite land which is known as Golden Horn nowadays. That is why the Kadıköy region had been known as the city of the blind for a long time. Considering the beauty of Kadıköy, it is open to debate who actually is blind.
After hosting different nations from Persians to Romans for many years, Kadıköy has been ruled by the Ottoman Empire starting from the 14th century. The district's current name means 'the village of the judge' and it comes from the fact that its administration has been given to a judge after the conquest of Istanbul. In the 18th century, Kadıköy's significance for Istanbul increased considerably due to the wide meadows such as Haydarpaşa and Moda it had at that time. The district, where mainly Turks, Greeks and Armenians live all together, turned into a place frequently visited by people from other parts of Istanbul. Wealthy families of Istanbul built mansions to spend summers in the Kadıköy region. Furthermore, the magnificent Haydarpaşa train station, one of the district's symbolic structures, was built in 1908. As a fun fact, the world-famous Turkish painter Osman Hamdi Bey, which you can remember from his famous painting The Tortoise Trainer, is one of the people who served as the mayor of Kadıköy.
After the proclamation of the Republic of Turkey, Kadıköy was separated from Üsküdar at the end of the 1920s and became a district. The settlement structure in Kadıköy, which was dominated by private houses with gardens until the 1960s, has changed since those years. With the increase in population density, Kadıköy began to transform into its current form. The district became a metropolitan city | 515 |
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Published by Rob Hope in Yo! Podcast on 28 Mar 2019
John O'Nolan (@JohnONolan) is the founder of Ghost – a profitable, not-for-profit business that gives away their code for free. How? On the one side is Ghost the open-source publishing software. On the other is the same platform run as a premium hosted SaaS business.
We rap about remote working, pricing, competition and building a future platform to help journalists monetize their craft.
Watch: John O'Nolan on Pricing SaaS Products
This is salvaged footage as the main camera on John cut out halfway and the GoPro backup (you see kick in near end) was out position.
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This was the only podcast interview recorded in my studio in Cape Town. I really pushed for it as John was currently down in South Africa working remotely.
When making John coffee, I asked if he wanted a rusk with it and he had no idea what that was! I remembered it was a South African thing:)
The plan was to film the whole interview but one of the two cameras died. This is John on Pricing SaaS Products that I salvaged from the footage:
Rob:
Yo John! Welcome to the Yo! studio.
So, I've decided I'm not gonna ask you about Ghost beginnings.
Oh, sick.
I've just done a few podcasts and no one has done it better than Courtland from Indie Hackers so I'm gonna link that. Cool, so why are you in Cape Town?
Good question. I don't know. I tend to come here a few months every summer or at least have done for the last few years. Obviously, live and work remotely. So I can be anywhere and this time of year Cape Town's one of the better places in the world, I think, where you can hang out.
And do you feel three months is a good window to actually experience a city or country you'd say?
I think let's say geographic regions are a cop out and choose somewhere in-between the two, like an area for three months. So if I go somewhere, three months is like a pretty good...that's what I aim for. If I can do three months that's pretty good.
And you sort of climatize fully by that point then?
Yeah, yeah. So, it's enough time where you can get good deals on apartments so you're not Airbnb stuck on some extortionate rate which you would be if you're just staying somewhere a week and it's not so long that kind of visas start getting problematic. So, it's just long enough where you can really kind of embed yourself in a local area, live like a local, figure out where the good food spots are, what people who actually live in a place do, not what tourists do.
You know remote working obviously is getting more popular?
Give me three obstacles you get when you start remote working that people aren't really aware of they think they need a laptop.
Let's see. Things that are probably more unexpected or I guess surprise people in particular are... A lot of people have a notion of utopia which when you say a utopian idea about anything in life, usually it's unrealistic, right? But for some reason remote work is consistently pitched as take a laptop to a beach, travel anywhere you want, live whatever lifestyle you want, and in reality, it should be obvious, but it isn't, there are tradeoffs. Some of those tradeoffs are obvious like you don't see family and friends, which you might already have. Of course, you make new friends but they tend to be more transient so you'll meet someone for a few months and never see them again which, for the most part, is kind of your new normal.
And the other thing is it doesn't solve all problems so you may be in Bali where it's lovely temperature and the sun is shining and you have your own swimming pool for a fraction of the cost of your previous life. But the rest of your problems are still there. If you're fat to start with, you're still fat, if you're depressed to start with you're probably going to still be depressed. You don't solve your internal problems just by changing your external surroundings. And I think that's a big challenge for a lot of people to overcome when they start out doing remote or nomad lifestyle or even just moving to a new place having not done it before.
Okay, so from a traveling point of view and packing gear and so on you live out of suitcase pretty much. Do you ever have undercarriage luggage?
Yeah, nowadays. First six and a half years or so I was just carry on.
I mean not to have a stab at the industry but I love it how people try and go ultraminimalist like, "I can go anywhere in the world with a backpack." But you're allowed undercarriage and it's practical. Obviously, if you bounce in Europe on cheap flights.
Well, not only that. So the first year or two I had a backpack, right? And that's what gets promoted like, "Oh, you're traveling, you need a backpack, not these heavy roll-on cases." So the first year I did that, year and a half or something and then you figure out like, "Oh, I'm not a backpacker. This is bullshit. I'm carrying this fucking bag around the whole time." And the only places I go paved streets, paved airports, and the only time I use my suitcase is like once every three months.
Yeah, use a fucking wheelie-bag.
Just get the goddamn wheels. It's so much easier and so much more comfortable and you can, I don't know, it's easier to fit in the back of taxis and stuff without worrying about it getting crushed and then, yeah, nowadays I have a check-in case as well because, in reality, if you're moving slow every two or three months it's really not a problem.
You know you've mentioned in the past that you've tried a few minor marketing efforts with Ghost, they haven't really worked out. And you know, thinking of AJ how that guy builds for 99% of the time, drops one tweet and that's his marketing gig, he's an anomaly. But when does a business actually justify taking that development fund and allocating it? Like, when do you greenlight that point?
So that's an interesting one because I think we passed that point recently so it's quite fresh in my mind. We have also historically just built stuff, shipped it, done a blog post and a tweet and essentially, all of our growth has been word of mouth. We've never done any paid marketing, we've been very light on any SEO or even content marketing. Kind of ironic for a publishing platform but we've grown completely through just the recommendations of people who already use the platform and tweeting to our existing community.
Recently, we made our first marketing hire about six months ago with an eye to probably bring on a second person towards the end of this year. And the inflection point really or the change was when product teams started shipping so much that there was no longer enough time to talk about all the things that it could do. So, for example, ship two new APIs and so you've got documentation and then you've got kind of integration and examples of integrations with an API.
And then there's all kinds of other stuff you can do like different kinds of sights or project or widget or app or thing you could build with the API, right? Makes perfect sense to do a video series talking about that or multiple tutorial blog posts explaining that or integrations with partners where you show how Ghost and Zapier have worked together to kind of deliver the functionalities different places. But who's gonna do all that?
Yeah, totally.
So if you're shipping stuff and it does lots of things but there's no one talking about it because you haven't got enough time to say all the things need to be said about, that's where it starts to become obvious like, "Oh, we've invested X amount of development hours into doing this. It would be crazy if we didn't tell people how it actually works."
It's like a wasted promotion opportunity.
Yeah. Or even beyond promotion forget finding new users. It's just how are existing users supposed to know how to use the new thing you've just shipped. So we think a lot more about marketing terms of promoting ways to use the products to new and existing users who have already discovered it rather than trying to find more users. Middle of the funnel I guess would be the marketing slang for that.
Middle of the funnel. Cool. Okay, so Ghost is the black sheep. It's a profitable not-for-profit company that releases software for free with no copyright. Do you think this business model is not utilized enough in other industries? I was trying to do my research in just like different software, for example, email support software that's often opensource and they have kinda hosted options. But you guys have done it better than them it seems. Are people not doing it right?
I don't know about better. I think we probably give off... I think every company... I've said this before somewhere I think but every company gives off the best version of itself, right? Like, every company website is like every person's Instagram feed. It's the best bits, it's the highlights and you don't see the ugly behind the scenes of what's really going on in order to make that lifestyle possible, so there's famously a dark side to everything that looks beautiful. And in our case having a very popular opensource project, profitable nonprofit organization, a remote team, and a business that appears to be working pretty well.
There's a lot that goes into that. There's a disproportionate amount of work that goes into that. The amount of work required to get to where we've gotten with the size of the team we've gotten probably at certain points has demanded unhealthy amounts of time and investment from various people and hasn't always been sustainable. If I was starting over again today I don't know how many different industries how a model can be replicated in. I think we hit a really good inflection point of timing of the market, of demand of new technologies emerging.
A couple of people around at the right time at the earliest points to get it going. And while I love open source, there are a lot of parts of it which are unrealistically difficult. So, I think it's very difficult and what we have is definitely not a silver bullet or a perfect recipe that's repeatable. I think there are parts of it that are very good and there are parts of it which could use a lot of work.
So dude, we're gonna transition into the section I like to call True, False, or Maybe. You've just got to give either of these three words here.
There's no such thing as too many tattoos.
Oh, definitely true.
A misspelled tattoo is the fault of the client, not the artist.
Can go both ways. I once heard a story of I think it was a Manchester fan and the guy wanted a Leeds tattoo, he didn't get a Leeds tattoo. I think you can go both ways.
Mauritius is the most beautiful place in the world.
No joke that starts with a Ghost, a WordPress, and a Medium walk into a bar is gonna end well.
If Automattic offered you any job role for a million dollars a year, you wouldn't take it?
So, true. Last question. You suffer from aphantasia?
Oh yeah. Yeah, which I only just discovered recently.
Tell us about that.
So, aphantasia is a condition or an affliction whereby the mind has no ability to create any sort of visual imagery what so ever. So, easy way to explain this. There's two ways. One is if I close my eyes and imagine something I don't see anything. I see nothing, I see black, I see the back of my eyelids. And so obviously I've grown up thinking that was normal my whole life but I discovered I don't know, when I was about 14, 15 that apparently other people imagine stuff and they can either kind of sort of imagine it and see it in the real world like I'm holding an imaginary cup on this table right now and they can sort of picture it literally with their eyes picture it and when they close their eyes and think of a rainforest they can see leaves and really kind of be there almost like a dream-ish state. I don't have that. It's just black.
That's wild.
Nothing, no visual anything. If I think of a song apparently a lot of people they hear a track they hear a beat.
So it goes the same with audio?
Yeah, same with audio. So, if you think of the intro to Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean".
Yeah, I can hear it.
I can't. I know what it is. I know logically the words that go with it, the rhythm of the percussion and I can hum it and I can sing it.
Oh, so when it comes to music your memory you hum it in rhythm and it's all there in your head already. So yours will have to be pure sequencing.
So mine it's like I'm looking up a database entry and I can comprehend the data but I can't pass it.
Wow. So I mean this leads pretty good into my next one. So, I try and keep things objective on the show and I must admit I think you're quite an underrated designer so we're gonna leave that one. That's the only compliment of the show. I would imagine designing would be quite difficult with this symptom.
Yeah, you would think. I don't really understand that either.
So, you envision a shape and then you'd sort of draw it. But same with color, same with music. I just feel that would be an influence.
Yeah, so I studied music. Music's a great passion but I'm not very good at music. I studied music for a long time and my greatest frustration was like any kind of creative outlet you get to a point where you have taste but you don't have skills so you can recognize something that's good but you are unable to reproduce it. And if the thing that you're doing is something you're good at then that changes and eventually, you sort of recognize through your own tastes that the work you're producing is good. And in my case with music, I never got to that point. I could never reach any point.
So it was never satisfying?
No, it was never. Immensely frustrating. With design, I could get there. I'm not the most creative designer. I think my skill in a lot of areas or the thing that I'm good at and pride myself on is taking existing ideas, concepts, designs, and reblending them, remeshing coming up with new things.
Refining them a little.
Yeah. There's a great documentary by Kirby Ferguson called "Everything is a Remix" which is kind of all about this concept of ideas being rehashed and reinvented and recombined and turned into new things over and over and over again and I enjoyed that a lot. That's what works for me. But coming up with kind of brand new blank canvas things, not so much.
How much of an influence do you think your design skills brought into Ghost influence where it is now? Because I feel that that blog post led to the kickstarter campaign you really influence that campaign with your design again. And Ghost like now it's beautiful. Obviously it's not a gamechanger for platform websites that beautiful, i.e, WordPress. I feel that Ghost is in a better place because you brought design in as a founder.
So, I think design has always been one of the things we've focused on as a differentiator for Ghost. Speed, efficiency, design, care for the product has been a differentiator particularly versus other opensource products which tend to have either no designers or so few designers or so little care for design that that's quite a big contrast. So, I think that definitely helped and it was definitely an element. But the way we approach product design now and how I've always approached product design is the visuals is maybe 20% of it or the aesthetics and the UI is maybe 20% of it but design to us has always meant a planned experience and that can be everything. We've spent I don't know how many hours designing CLI error messages and the color coding and the wording and the components and the patterns. So that, if you're installing as a developer Ghost via CLI it's a good experience. If an error happens then we have a pattern which says what happened, what the probable cause was, and what the next step is that you should do and that's a pattern that's...
It feels like it's from your system and not actually a third-party plugin error message?
Exactly. And that's kind of repeated everywhere and it's the same reason why Stripe is loved by developers because that whole experience of working with the API's designed. It's not random, it's not...
It's gorgeous.
...based on an object that's thrown together, it's been designed to be great to work with. And design in that sense means just planned, conceived, predicted, created with some intent, with empathy and care for how the person using it is going to experience it. And that's probably the single biggest thing that's filtered into from the kickstarter days to now is demonstrating that we thought of the big picture, all the details not just one particular glossy UI.
I mean is this statement fair that's saying when you arrive at a website and it's got a beautiful design you immediately think that they care about their product and they care about me as a customer?
I think so. I think that's probably less true now than it was because good design, good...
Because you can just hire good designers and...
And good aesthetic designers become a commodity with Squarespace and...
But it would influence the initial sign up?
Yeah, to some extent. Yeah.
So, you've got your hosted platform, entry-level pricing $29 a month?
Okay. So, I wanna know how did it land up there? I mean you can go as deep as you want but why is it not $9 and why is not $19?
Good question. One of my favorite subjects actually because anyone who's created anything, made anything and shipped it almost without exception has undercharged consistently always even now.
We have a friend called Mark who's launching amazing...he has launched an amazing app called Thought Train, he's about to launch Thought Train 2.
Thought Train 2.
Exactly. And he's pricing it $6 a month and I keep telling him it's too low. I keep trying to get him to raise it because... And we started $5 a month. And what you find with the lower price points is you get lower quality customers who have higher support demands. They have less invested in the product, less care, a lot less finesse about how they're gonna go about using it. It's just a throwaway. And pricing is very interesting because it's far more psychological than it is economic.
It's far more about how people feel about products than how much they can afford or what the actual value is. And so we just consistently since Ghost launch we doubled pricing just about every 18 months as a test and we'd see. We can afford for the conversion rate to go down by 50% when you double pricing and you make the same amount. And we would find usually conversion would dip by maybe 20% so the end result we would have to support fewer customers.
More quality customer.
Higher quality of customer with higher revenue. So we went from $5 to $10 to $19 to $29 and our monthly pricing is now $36. I think it's in the pretty sweet spot now. We kinda feel like it's the right balance for entry level.
But worth the try just to see how much the drop off goes?
Yeah, so we did try a minimum price of $99 and...
On the entry level?
And it converted fine. It was absolutely fine but it hit the point where that would be then three times less customers coming in than we have now and it felt like each individual customer was proportionally too much. So losing one customer was like a really big deal.
Versus losing one customer being not that much of an impact on actual recurring revenue. So, $29 with starting point feels like a better...
So, $29 for 12 months, $36 for 1 month?
Yeah. And what we find now at this point is people pay more, they spend more time trying to get to know the product, they have more faith in the product, they trust it more, they're more patient, they're more understanding, they're more respectful when they contact support. And all in all, higher priced products I would always recommend. If you're making something, double the price.
I mean that's a massive takeaway, just double the price and see what happens.
See what happens. There was a great... Oh my goodness, I'm gonna forget his name but you'll have to look this up for me later, @asmartbbear is his Twitter name. He started WP Engine.
Yeah, that's Jason Cohen.
Jason Cohen. So, there's a great Jason Cohen talk. I think it's MicroConf where he talks about the economics of SaaS pricing and he says this exact thing double your pricing and see what happens and if conversion rate doesn't change, guess what?
You're gonna double it again. And about how to reinvest marketing revenue into subscription dollars and so on and build that kind of wheel.
I mean he's done his time that guy.
Yeah, he really knows his stuff. He's got some very good talks and blog posts.
Where is WP Engine now in entry? I actually don't know.
Thirty-five I think.
Thirty-five?
Yeah, yeah. Very similar to us.
It feels like the standard's there for a quality hosted platform.
Yeah, and what's funny is you get different expectations at different markets and products, right? So there's a lot of email tools which cost $29 a month starting. All they do is send email. In fact, usually, all they do is a glorified UI on top of Mailgun or SendGrid which is what actually sends the email. And they do wildly successful. It's funny the things people are and are not happy to pay for.
But you've got interface, CDN, security...
Sure, and we still get told we're too expensive and, "I can fire up a WordPress install for $2.99 on a shared hosting account with GoDaddy or Hostgator...
And we're like, "Cool, yeah, if that's what you wanna do, you should go do that."
Do you have any users on the opensource platform moving over to the hosted platform like after six months or so?
Yeah, all the time.
That's one of our biggest areas of growth, probably.
Why do you think that is?
So, a lot of people will start out on the self-hosted opensource products. They'll get to know it, they'll get invested. They'll enjoy the products and they'll like using it. And it's validated as useful to them and something they want to continue to use. But they get tired of the maintenance and after the server goes down once or twice or we ship a lot of updates, they get tired of doing updates or they realize they didn't have a back up or their mail stops working or they have an influx from Hacker News and they didn't have caching set up and then their CPU usage goes up and they get billed crazy.
They go, "I like the products. I don't wanna deal with hosting it," because they've realized most of the time they're a developer, their time is worth X per hour and they're spending more than that on trying to keep their blog online or their publication online and it makes a lot more sense to fund the opensource project which is maintaining the products whilst at the same time, getting free hosting.
Got a question here from Riley: "Hey John, this is Riley from New York. I'm a 16 year old with many different online and offline side hustles. One of which is making websites for local businesses. I used Ghost for one of them, a local DJ, it works great, so thank you. But anyway, my question is now that Ghost is widely known and pretty well established - have you considered not open-sourcing future versions and instead dedicating 100% of the company towards bettering Ghost Pro?
That's a good question. Ghost PRO is a fairly sophisticated platform as a service. It's hosting orchestration layer that managers thousands of Ghost's instances and in some ways, it's very specific to Ghost and in other ways, it'll be a very powerful platform for hosting any kind of app. So, improving Ghost PRO by itself wouldn't necessarily result in more sales or attention for Ghost, the products, or do very much for us. I mean we can do things like add more kind of continuous integration, deployment features, backups, cycloning, stuff like WP Engine and Flywheel have got. But at that point, that's really kind of competing against on the hosting side.
It's saying, "Host with us but you could also host elsewhere." And what we're competing on his hosting and our differentiation is the hosting. Which is not necessarily where we want to be playing. The interesting place for us to kind of innervate or try and do stuff is in the product space where the choice is not whether you host Ghost on DigitalOcean or Ghost PRO, the choice is whether you go and use Squarespace or WordPress versus using Ghost. And if proportionally we have more people using Ghost and a percentage of them use Ghost PRO we still have a larger market share, we still have more customers coming in.
But what we get known for and what people talk about is Ghost versus other products and what Ghost does different to other products versus marketing within our existing user base of where to host it. So, majority of our focus is around Ghost as opposed to just the hosting service. In terms of whether we would do some closed source stuff as well, maybe. So there's an interesting model WordPress tried but were not very successful at in terms of PR which was Jetpack, right? And Jetpack is actually a really, really good idea. So for anyone who doesn't know, Jetpack is a series of services which are hosted on wordpress.com by Automattic and you connect to any WordPress site using a plugin, the plugin's called Jetpack, obviously.
And it does stuff like additional features, spam protection, backups, security. It does all kinds of really interesting stuff. It also does some very poorly considered stuff which is why it's earned a pretty bad reputation in the WordPress industry in the way Automattic manager is not ideal. So, it feels to me Jetpack has always seemed like one of the best ideas that was never made it to where it could have been. But the idea of providing kind of API-based services to decentralize Ghost sites is an interesting one that we've thought about and that by virtue would probably be in some part closed source. But at the moment, team's still small. We always have to try and keep our focus. There's a lot of things we'd love to do but we have to prioritize.
So Ghost and WordPress they aren't really competitors. WordPress is now playing in this Wix, Squarespace space. Would you say Medium is your biggest competitor right now?
Who's our biggest competitor? That's an interesting question. So there's the obvious ones. WordPress, Medium, Squarespace is kind of the... You know, what would I choose if I was gonna set up a general small website which we can fall into? They're more kind of developer side of things so there's a few platforms from kind of express.js-based things to more detailed frameworks that people build on top of which is more of a kind of developer choice for startups. So, there's a few different markets from publishers to developers to marketing teams and they all have their own sets of products that they'd prefer.
The competition we're probably most interested in is Patreon because while publishing is pretty well-established, the problem which we're most interested in is trying to solve business models for journalism and for media and what we have currently is a world in which fake news exists everywhere and the reason fake news exists is because throughout the last few decades media companies have done nothing but hemorrhage money as all of the advertising dollars in the world have slowly transitioned to Facebook and Google. At first slowly and then at a rate of knots. And now their revenue has more than halved, layoffs are never-ending and they are clawing for the last bits of revenue they can get.
And when your revenue is tied to clicks, the things that happens is click bait and click bait produces news that is not factually accurate, it is simply aimed at getting as many clicks as you can. So, fake news should be a surprise to nobody. It is entirely economically aligned with the business model of news currently, and it's the dying grasp of an ad industry that has fallen out of favor and that is trying to survive. I think there's a lot of interesting stuff happening in member-funded publications. Stratechery is a really good example in the tech space. The Correspondent's a really good example in Holland and now in the U.S. of having media organizations which are funded by the members on a subscription basis where the economic incentive is produce content which is actually value to readers because the only way you make money is if the readers feel that what they're getting is of value, not advertisers.
And so it's a really interesting idea. It's working very well in a few cases. It's growing quite fast. There's a lot of people talking about it. Patreon's doing quite well in the overall creator space and there's a few smaller sites like The Information, Stratechery, Charged by Owen which are doing well. And there's no good platform for it. There's certainly no self-hosted opensource platform that does it really well and so that's where we're kind of making our next big product leaps is trying to solve that problem.
So I mean if stood down are Medium it's a current shit show and they said, "For the Ghost foundation we'll deposit $10 million but we need John to step in for six months." Pull you out of Ghost but you can keep this funding, no strings attached, no ownership. Okay? What's the first order of business in Medium?
To fix Medium?
Wow, this is weird solve my competitor's problems. Get rid of all the popups. It's bad. It's terrible. Just cut this whole question out.
It's so staying in. So, I mean this wasn't my question before but I really like Svbtle from Dustin Curtis and I really liked when he launched that. It felt I don't wanna say ahead of its time, it's just that kind of word was needed. But he had a weird...not a weird model but it's $6 a month, no premium just a week trial. Why do you think that didn't work out?
So, Svbtle and Medium and Ghost all kind of launched around the same time, 2012, 2013 and it felt like there was this mini-renaissance of blogging of, "Hey, we need some new platforms that do publishing and here are three different ideas.
They were all with great design as well.
Yeah, which was I think also related to WordPress's design was really falling apart by that point and getting more and more bloated and cluttered which helped.
Giving users too much control.
Svbtle I think was the earliest I would argue of that little wave. Dustin is a great designer also notoriously restless. I think he got bored of Svbtle or couldn't figure out what to do with it in time for his own kind of, I don't know, creativity barrier to catch up to him. Then Medium kind of took off and overtook on that kind of centralized network-ish long-form reading experience. Svbtle's an interesting idea. I think the business model was just thrown on at the end to try and make it sustainable after it failed to kind of be the leader in the mainstream adoption.
It felt like it needed to target a niche somehow instead of trying to target everyone and then Medium came and it was free and beautiful.
So my thing is as soon as any product announces...any product or company announces a manifesto, it's dead.
if you point of differentiation is we have a manifesto and the manifesto is like, "Oh, we're never gonna shut down," then<|fim_middle|> to please everyone by just saying yes to every single feature request.
When you have handpicked your team of 13 and you all share the same sort of values and morals and you all see this future of journalism and Ghost in the same sentence, how do you prevent an echo chamber happening when you've just handpicked your whole team and everyone speaks the same?
Yeah, that's a really interesting one. So, we've got a fairly diverse team in lots of ways, diversity to me rather than being any one particular attribute a person might have it's more about background. So, probably the way in which we're the most diverse is in physical geographic location and nationality, languages spoken. So, we already have a team spread across, I don't know what it is at the moment, I think six countries, nine languages, all kinds of different backgrounds, several people who travel full time. So, by virtue of that everyone is already having different experiences in very different places, different cultures, different people they're interacting with, different stages in their life, different communities they're surrounded by. So, a remote team is already fairly more globally aware for want of a better phrase that doesn't sound terrible, than I think a team hold up in an office in San Francisco.
Yeah. They're all bringing their own cultures and history and background and not everyone's from London, just...
Exactly. And outside of that, I spend a lot of my time, a lot of what I try and focus on with my time is making sure that I'm always aware of the whole market, whole industry, and filtering that information or, at least the key parts of that information back into the team. So, we have a couple of Slack channels where I'll share mostly what the industry's doing, what's happening in journalism, what's happening in news, what's happening in the technology space which might affect us, occasionally what competitors are doing that might be relevant to us. We also publish a newsletter that actually looks at the wider industry of what's going on at the inner section.
Is that internal?
No, it's public.
That's the Publisher Weekly?
Yeah, Publisher Weekly.
Yeah, I'm enjoying it.
So, we started that with a view to finding some of the early people who might be interested in the new member subscription features that we're working on.
Smart.
And at the same time, educating ourselves about what else is happening in that same space, and that's really useful contextual information to filter back into the team to have this continuing awareness to make sure we're not in a bubble like you say.
Yeah. Is it fair to say that being a remote team that's fairly active in moving and traveling is a very healthy place to prevent an echo chamber?
I think so. Not to say it's not without problems. I always feel the need to highlight that because it's always so easy to talk about what's great about remote teams. There's also downsides like it's much easier I think in a physical office to come up with an idea, sketch something, quickly prototype something, talk to someone else, get some feedback, and iterate on it really fast. And a remote team inventing stuff is much slower, much more difficult. You're working across time zones, there's communication issues whether it's text, which has less context or video which needs more bandwidth, scheduling all these things are much harder. The range of perspective and input is probably a big benefit that comes very, very naturally. And at the same time, there's other challenges that have to be juggled to make that work.
You guys on following John already, he's @JohnONolan on Twitter.
I think your blog is john.onolan.org?
You didn't blog that much ironically.
No, I know. But that's about to restart. What's going on in my life I'm about to launch a new site.
A new blog?
It's like a new blog. It's gonna be...
On WordPress?
It's gonna be paid. It's gonna be on Ghost, it's gonna be site number one of Ghost's new members and subscription platform.
So it will be paid-only with a focus on remote work essentially, travel remote work and behind the scenes look at how I do all that and stories and insights into how all of that works. Basically, what I've been doing for the last eight and a half years.
What a perfect way to test the platform.
That's what I'm saying.
Cool, man. Thanks for being on the show.
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True story, yeah.
...you've lost.
I think it's in maintenance mode now.
Yeah, I'm not sure if it's officially maintenance mode.
I think you can still sign up, though.
Yeah, I think you can. But manifestos by in large tend to be attached t companies which don't stick around for long because if that's what you're focusing on differentiating, you're probably not focusing on the things you should be.
Okay, so this next section it's a new one, you're a test dummy. It's called No Context.
I feel like a guinea pig.
And I'm just gonna give you two words and you've gotta choose either of them.
Rock and roll or chilled lounge?
Rock and roll.
Tarantino or Spielberg?
Tarantino.
Underwater or up in the air?
Underwater.
Rage Against the Machine or Nirvana?
Rage.
React or Ruby on Rails?
React.
Mohawks or ponytails?
Mohawks.
Opensource software or recurring revenue?
Recurring revenue.
Medium or WordPress?
Kindle or hardcover?
Kindle.
Leonardo de Caprio or Brad Pitt?
Brad Pitt.
So, we've got a user question now from a Mark P. When traveling to Thailand, are you often confused with Leo from "The Beach"?
Yeah, so Mark's got a running gag that I look like Leonardo de Caprio from "The Beach". And that sounds good when you first hear it until he starts sending you the pictures of Leonardo de Caprio that he means which is like Leonardo de Caprio at his absolute fattest and the most homeless looking. "Okay, thanks. Thanks, Mark. Thanks, pal."
"Cheers, mate." So, I've seen on YouTube you started to vlog about Indo, Thailand, Seychelles, Canada, even Norway a bit. What's next on your bucket list to visit?
Quite a few. So I have a long-term dream of buying a catamaran and living on that and then circumnavigating the Earth.
That's why you're sailing now?
Yeah, so I've been doing some sailing courses currently to kind of get the official qualifications. And the dream is to get some multiple forms of internet on the back of a catamaran, sail it around the world working and scuba diving and kite surfing, wherever. So, there's some kinda...
And then just dock it?
Yeah, weigh anchor or whatever. So this bucket list kind of sail to places, South Pacific, Fiji...
...Marquesas, all those places all around there.
That's a realistic dream.
Oh yeah, I mean I'm actively working on it. It's gonna take a while but yeah.
Is it about savings or is it just the qualification and...?
No, it's mainly about saving to buy the huge expensive 45-foot boat. Yeah, I think most of my travel bucket list destinations are now all ocean-based rather than land-based.
Beautiful. So, I mean I've seen you dabble in YouTube a bit and you blog about these locations but the video with the most views you've got is an opinion on a lens.
Yeah, sad isn't it?
And I just want your general take on YouTube at the moment. You know, is it worth the return on investment? Like, you edit so good.
YouTube's a funny game. I like it. So I started making videos 2017 I think and did, I don't know, 12, 14, something like that and then burned out on the amount of time it takes on the edits which you're no stranger to. The platform I think has amazing potential. I don't think it's saturated yet. I think it's a very interesting place to be. The amount of work required is incredible. I would do between 30 and 40 hours on a 7, 8-minute video and that's every single evening and weekend for one video a week and that's reasonably proficient with doing edits.
It almost feels like you can justify those hours through preserving the memory but other than that from a business model point of view to throw onto YouTube?
Absolutely no ways?
It's crazy, yeah.
So, do you feel that I mean video consumption is still massive?
Incredible, yeah.
And it's only getting bigger.
Do you feel there's a space for video in Ghost?
Potentially. So, YouTube has had a similar set of challenges with business models. A lot of YouTubers use Patreon and so I have a feeling about some of the work we're doing around memberships and subscriptions could be interesting to YouTube creators. Particularly, there's continuous uproar around Patreon and their ethics and morals and the things they do and don't allow.
Yeah, it's been on fire at the moment.
Which is much less of an issue with opensource platforms where you own and control the technology as well as the content, you have the final say of what is allowed online and what isn't. So, I think there's interesting opportunities there for video creators potentially to have a site with their own membership areas and build their own communities which is controlled by them which they own which they can control the destiny of not just some centralized platform like Patreon who can pull the plug at any time as they quite clearly do.
Okay, dude, we're pretty warmed up. Would you agree with the statement journalists are essential for rightful democracy to happen?
And do you feel that Ghost can play an important role for the future of democracy?
Yes, that's what gets me out of bed in the morning.
I mean that's the crux of everything you do?
Yeah, that's what it's all about. And in particular kind of alluding to some of what we touched on earlier, one of the most fundamental problems in journalism right now is that it has no money, it has no funding. A lot of what previously funded real good journalism has dried up and a lot of what we're left with is the dribs and drabs to try and pay payroll each month. And good journalism starts with funding, it starts with being able to pay an investigative journalist or any kind of journalist to cover something properly, not churning out 5, 10, 15 click bait stories a day but to actually go somewhere and investigate something and figure out what news is relevant to a community. And that's what journalism is fundamentally for.
It's to educate and inform a community to be able to make better decisions about their day to day lives whether that's what to buy, who to vote for, what's happening around them and what's going on that would better inform them to be able to do anything. And a lot of journalism currently doesn't do that and I think with better business models that really connects media back to the communities they're supposed to serve on a smaller scale, more niche scale it's possible to get back to better journalism. And my hope is that creating an opensource answer to the business model problem of journalism will really help move that forward.
So, you mentioned in the past that the 10-year goal of Ghost is to have the best journalist in the world using Ghost.
Okay, so have you started headhunting them already and offering them the platform for free, even the hosted version?
Not as much as I'd like. We do outreach to people who we wanna have on the platform. We're probably still a little early in terms of having answers to some of those big problems that would attract those types of people, but it's still very much the same goal.
Okay, I've got three product ideas for Ghost. I wanna know which are rubbish.
A white level platform by Ghost when independent journalist signs up and creates a Patreon-style model for their following where subscribers get exclusive content and they get paid?
Literally working on it right now, yeah. Beautiful. You're ahead of your time.
Okay. Assuming that great journalists read a ton of articles, a Rotten Tomato-style site where the articles are aggregated by other top journalists.
Oh, I like that. There's a couple of crypto startups that have...the names are escaping me now that have a similar model. One dream I have one day is to create a decentralized probably activity pub powered version of the Medium network but without being a single centralized social network but to have multiple interconnected nodes or Ghost instances or potentially even non-Ghost instances able to create that feed, that interesting source of new stories by people you wanna follow without being all controlled by a single organization but one day.
So, then last one. Just a richer publishing platform for journalists that include some sort of fact checker in the dashboard, a story plotter. Just like a richer-y search and publishing interface?
Yeah, richer-y search and publishing interfaces...
Do they exist?
There's a couple. Vox Media, in particular, have some clever things in their platform or course. They tend to be very specific and very niche so it 's very difficult to build one which serves the majority of people. So, if you build one for a sports site which has Getty images integrations where you start typing the name of an NBA player and it automatically starts loading pictures of them in the latest match and sidebar and you can drag an image in. Super incredibly useful...
...to a media, sports media outlet. Pretty useless to everyone else. So, weighing the economics of feature development is tricky and we also have to consider how much confusion you might be adding by adding features which the majority of people will not use. So, even if that would be really useful to a minority of users, it may confuse the majority of users and that would be a net loss if the overall experience is then degraded. So, it's always a balancing act of trying to figure out which features will be the most useful to the most users.
So, second last question. So, you've got a team of 13, what decides the very next thing you need to work on?
So, we do six-week two-week cycles which used by quite a lot of companies these days. So, we do six weeks of product development and then two weeks of kind of bug fixing and clean up more random open-ended work. The cycles, six-week cycles usually decided or led by Hannah and I in terms of...Hannah my co-founder/CTO in terms of overall objectives what we'd like to accomplish and then what actual things get shipped. It's usually up to the team. I'd say we're pretty strongly probably 80% internally-driven in terms of we'll work on our own ideas and prioritize our own things we wanna work on and 20% filtering in suggestions and ideas from the community. There's an unlimited number of ideas and improvements and feature requests that come in constantly.
I can imagine.
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Кампинийская культура — мезолитическая археологическая культура, существовавшая около 4000 г. до н. э. Известна по находкам на холме Кампини в департаменте Приморская Сена на северо-западе Франции, где в 1885 была раскопана землянка этой культуры. Это одна из позднейших мезолитических культур Европы.
Понятие о «Кампинийской культуре» ввёл в обиход Ф. Сальмон в 1886 г.
Территория
Область распространения кампинийской культуры простирается вдоль периферии неолитических культур как Западной, так и Восточной Европы. Находки кампинийского типа отражают процесс аккультурации, происходивший в ходе продвижения с юго-востока на северо-запад древнейших земледельческих культур с юга Франции (культура Ла-Огетт) и из Центральной Европы (культура линейно-ленточной керамики) в районы проживания охотников и собирателей вдоль Атлантики и Балтики.
Быт, изделия, занятия
Жилища — круглые неглубокие полуземлянки диаметром 3—6 м. Судя по их небольшому размеру, служивших кампинийцам жилищами, их обитатели не были ещё вполне оседлыми, переходя по сезонам на охотничьи угодья или на рыболовные тони.
Макролитическая каменная индустрия с грубым каменным инвентарём состоит главным образом из каменных топоров и рубил. Типичные орудия: кам<|fim_middle|> рассматриваются либо как естественные породы, либо полуфабрикаты времён неолита.
Рацион
Находки костей лошадей, крупного рогатого скота, овец, коз и свиней ещё не свидетельствуют о наличии скотоводства, так как эти животные могли быть дичью.
Литература
L. R. Nougier: Le Campignien. In: Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française 1954, 51/8, S. 76-78.
Примечания
Ссылки
Bild eines Steinbeiles (Tranchet) des Campignien
Археологические культуры Европы
Мезолит Европы
Археологические культуры Франции | енные топор-резак и топор-мотыга. Топор-мотыга мог использоваться и для земляных работ. Судя по древнейшим слоям Кампиньи, население, оставившее эти стоянки, только ещё овладевало шлифовкой камня и умело изготавливать лишь самые примитивные глиняные сосуды.
В поздних стоянках Кампинийской культуры появиляются шлифованные и полированные топоры и рубила, грубо обработанные керамические сосуды и каменные жернова. Впервые в культуре стала изготовливаться керамика, плоско- и остродонная, из глины с примесью песка и толчёных раковин, изредка с прочерченным орнаментом.
Кампинийцы занимались охотой на оленей, диких лошадей и быков, а также рыболовством. Для них характерно было также собирательство и, в частности, употребление в пищу дикорастущих злаков в том числе ячменя, зёрна которого кампинийцы уже размельчали на зернотёрках (находки зернотёрок, отпечаток зерна ячменя на керамике).
Из домашних животных известна только собака.
Сопоставление с другими культурами
Кампинийским изделиям родственны аналогичные топоры и рубила североевропейской культуры Маглемозе. На севере Европы Кампинийской культуре соответствует культура «Кухонных куч».
На базе Кампинийской культуры сложился неолит Франции с земледелием и скотоводством, широким применением полировки камня. Топоры-резаки и топоры-мотыги характерны и для отличающихся от Кампинийской культуры рядом деталей культур раннего неолита Германии, Кухонных куч Прибалтики и т. п.
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Многочисленные находки на территории Швабского Альба, которые до 1960-х гг. обозначались как «мезолит грубых орудий», в настоящее время | 609 |
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Italian Gremolata Recipe is garnish of chopped herbs, made from parsley, lemon zest and garlic. It is traditionally used on ossobuco, which is a Milanese braised<|fim_middle|> Squash Risotto.
In small bowl, mix together parsley, zest from lemon and grated garlic. Squeeze in a teaspoon of lemon juice, if desired. Combine well and sprinkle on top of risotto.
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Gremolata is just parsley, lemon rind and minced garlic.
It's got an Italian background and is a traditional accompaniment to the Milanese braised veal shank dish ossobuco alla milanese.
It's great for topping risottos, pasta, steak, chicken, all kinds of things.
How to Make Italian Gremolata.
I prefer to use to use Eureka Lemons as they have a thick skin and it is easy to get the zest without grating off the pith.
I'm not great at mincing, so I use my Ultimate Chopper all the time.
The one in the photo is an Ultimate Chopper that I bought from TV so many years ago.
I don't even know if they are still manufactured, but the one I linked too, looks like the same thing.
I put the garlic right into the Ultimate Chopper with the parsley and tada!!!!
Nicely minced parsley and garlic. Zest the lemon into the bowl.
Because I love the taste of lemon, I do squeeze about a teaspoon right into the bowl and mix through with the parsley mixture.
Use a Eureka lemon, as Meyer lemons have a bitter skin.
Make sure not to Zest off the pith (the white stuff under the skin), as that is bitter.
A sharp Microplane is the quickest way to grate the lemon.
A Cuisinart Mini Food Chopper is perfect for small jobs.
The Gremolata is terrific atop my Pressure Cooker Butternut | 315 |
(L-R) Australian High Commission Counsellor, Public Policy and Health Security, Will Robinson and Burnet's Dr Leanne Robinson.
Partnerships and working together across borders to achieve effective malaria elimination has been one of the strong messages resounding from the 1st Malaria World Congress in Melbourne.
On Day 3 of the Congress the innovative Australia-China-Papua New Guinea Trilateral Malaria Project was highlighted as<|fim_middle|> our staff is undergoing training in Thailand to understand more around multidrug-resistance and point-of-care testing.
"We are detecting severe malaria and symptomatic malaria at our health facilities. But its what is underneath that we are more worried about, needing active surveillance and cross-sector surveillance is important. We need to fund those to find the best way to fix a problem or use other interventions.
A panel discussion "Building effective partnerships for collaboration action against malaria" included: PNG Department of Health's Leo Makita, Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research, Dr Moses Laman, China's National Institute of Parasitic Diseases Dr Junhu Chen, Burnet Institute research group head, Dr Leanne Robinson and Australian High Commission to Papua New Guinea's Will Robinson.
Image: Mr Leo Makita, Professor Brendan Crabb AC and Dr William Pomat.
Head of Papua New Guinea's National Malaria Control Program, Mr Leo Makita said: "This project is one-of-a-kind in trying to achieve some of the problems we face. We are used to bilateral and multi-national relationships but what happened with this arrangement was that it now paves the way for many of the things we would want to see being achieved in terms of the malaria program.
"We have now established relationships among our own institutions (in PNG). Those relationships were not there earlier on before this project. But with this trilateral arrangement we have come to realise that getting those institutions together makes a difference in terms of delivering what we are supposed to be delivering.
"When partnerships are built up it makes it possible to move forward to other areas, as well as malaria.
"It is so difficult to build partnerships but it is so easy to destroy them.
Burnet's Head of Vector Borne Diseases and Tropical Public Health Group, Dr Leanne Robinson offered some sage advice to the delegates in the room about achieving success working with communities such as in PNG.
"Be able to admit what you don't know and go into discussions to find out what is the best way to go about trying to implement that project in the local context," Dr Robinson said.
"If we want new tools, new strategies, new approaches to actually have relevance and become part of a stronger health system then we need to sit down at the table and ask them what is the major barrier at the moment in this area.
"Can it be addressed through the type of research expertise or technical expertise that you have? If not, at which level in the pipeline does my area of expertise best fit in.
Image: Collaborators and speakers at the special MWC2018 session on the Trilateral Malaria Project.
In 2017, scientists and researchers from the three countries provided training to 200 national laboratory staff and health workers in accurate use and quality assurance of malaria rapid diagnostic tests, microscopic analysis and highly sensitive molecular diagnostic techniques.
The Project also supported the PNG Institute of Medical Research conduct long-term malaria surveillance at four sites around the country in order to monitor trends in malaria transmission, which helps the National Department of Health ensure people have access to early diagnosis and treatment.
Nearly 95 per cent of Papua New Guinea's population live in areas of high risk for malaria transmission. More than three-quarters of the cases in the Western Pacific Region are reported in PNG. Whilst the international community is looking to a malaria-free future by 2030, the 2017 World Malaria Report states that after an unprecedented period of success in malaria control, global progress has stalled. | an example of what can be achieved working together.
The Australia-China-Papua New Guinea Trilateral Malaria Project, funded by the Australian Government, supports leading experts from PNG, China and Australia to improve malaria diagnosis and carry out research to inform malaria policy and program decision-making.
The project supports Papua New Guinea's National Malaria Control Program that is managed by the National Department of Health (NDoH), and provides an opportunity for key institutions from all three countries to share knowledge and expertise.
Image: PNGIMR Director, Dr William Pomat.
Acting Director of the Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research (PNGIMR), Dr William Pomat updated the delegates on some of the key issues, particularly focussing on the specific training needs of staff in PNG.
"Are our health workers able to change from the old ways to new ones and how scared are they?" he asked. "Many of them are older and they may find this difficult. One of | 195 |
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Are you looking for a highly reviewed and dependable roofer in your area? Look no further than Bigfoot Roofing. In 2011, this company became Northwest Florida's most reputable roofing<|fim_middle|> The Excel focus is to make sure the customer is aware of the work being done, as well as comfortable with the team of roofers. Customers are number one and their needs must be met. Everything that Excel does, is covered by a warranty, provided by Excel itself. There isn't extra to buy, just taking care of the customer and their homes. If you call them today, you'll get a free, no-obligation estimate, and roof evaluation. | company. Started by Kyle Maxwell, who is a third-generation contractor, Bigfoot opened in 2011. They are state licensed and have full workers compensation as well as general liability coverage. They also have a building contractor license, which gives them more options and a slight edge on other roofers. When you call them, you will have a roof estimator come and visit your home. They will walk you through the process and provide you with an estimate. You are guaranteed individual attention and great service. They have many different payment and financing options.
They have received many awards for service and great work provided. They will do residential or business work. Their services include: roof replacements, siding replacements, and seamless gutters. They have an A+ rating with the BBB and four complaints, mostly due to the products being faulty. They're a great company with good morals that many recommend.
Its hard being the best, but Reliant Roofing has been one of the best roofing companies for many years. They specialize in residential and commercial roofing. They provide new roofs, roof repairs, and replacements. Reliant makes sure that everyone is treated like a king or queen when they have them do their roof. They focus on high quality services and products. They are very friendly and patient with each customer they have.
They are driven to have the fairest price around. They know that sometimes, the best option is not always the highest priced option. They will tell you exactly what you need, instead of railroading you into getting a new roof when its not needed. They have full time office staff to assist you as well. They are very professional and have great reviews.
Excel Roofing are second generation roofers. Scott Sorensen is the owner and a residential and commercial licensed builder. He has been with Excel for 30 years.He and the gang at Excel believe in hands-on approaching to perform business. | 386 |
'Artists for Nepal' is an exhibition fundraiser occuring at Gallery 139, Beaumont St, Hamilton organised by Newcastle artist Ben Marcus Kenning in conjunction with Newcastle for Nepal to raise funds through the sale of donated art works from a large group of artists from Newcastle, Sydney, Melbourne and from various locations overseas. Children's artworks created in response to the earthquakes will also be sent from Nepal to be auctioned to assist in raising funds for the Mitraata Foundation. 100% of proceeds will go directly to the aid effort in Nepal.
Newcastle for Nepal will be visiting Lantang, Mustang and the Everest regions of Nepal from October this year to assist those areas which have been most affected by the earthquakes.
Newcastle for Nepal will be responding to the needs of these communities directly on the ground by empowering and supporting disadvantaged communities in Nepal to create sustainable, community led solutions that address shortages in housing, clean water, education and healthcare.
Food and wine will be provided with the local Nepalese community providing catering for the opening of the event.
Works will be sold via a silent auction.
Artworks will be sold to the highest bid on an artwork which is equal to or higher than the reserve price specified by the artist for the work.
bidding on works will close at 4pm, Tue 25th Aug.
Individuals whose bids have been successful will be notified via telephone by 4pm Wed 26Aug.
A list of artworks with the name of the successful bidder will also be made viewable on the 'Artists for Nepal" event page on facebook by the same time.
So many talented and generous artists have responded to the callout to contribute to this fundraiser. Thank you all so much!
Please pop this event in youre calendar to come and see and maybe bid on some amazing artwork from a great cross<|fim_middle|> so this is putting those two things together and helping them make a difference.
''In the end, we had so many people wanting to participate we had to turn some away.
The works, which include photography, mixed media, paintings and sculptures, will be photographed and posted on Newcastle For Nepal's Facebook and Instagram accounts.
Mr Bergholcs said viewers would be asked to post their bid under photographs of the works, similar to a silent auction.
All funds raised will be added to the $12,500 the organisation has already sent to the Mitrataa Foundation, which is empowering and educating Nepali women and children helping with the relief effort.
The foundation recently supplied materials for bamboo shelters and trained people to construct the structures and pass their skills on to others. | section of local, national and international artists to help raise funds for a really important cause.
NEPALESE women's artwork, created in the aftermath of the country's devastating earthquake, will be the centrepiece of an upcoming Hunter exhibition, which aims to raise funds to help rebuild the developing nation.
The six women's 12 works will be on display at Hamilton's Gallery 139 as part of the Artists For Nepal exhibition, which will also feature about 40 donated works from 30 artists from the Hunter, Australia and as far away as Stuttgart.
Kahibah artist Ben Kenning came up with the idea for the exhibition after attending a Newcastle For Nepal fundraising film night in June and meeting one of the organisation's founders, Justin Bergholcs.
''I'm an artist myself and know lots of artists from within the community and having those sorts of relationships I thought, this is something I can do to help raise funds,'' Mr Kenning said.
''Most artists have multiple works around and are generous sorts of people, | 213 |
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District prepares for the 1-1 transition
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BY HANNAH DEAR ('17)
After years of waiting, the middle school and high school will receive a computer for every student starting next year.
The district has applied for grants the past couple of years in order to offset costs, but was unsuccessful.
"After last year's grant fell through, Mr. Welker, our technology coordinator, set up a plan and a budget to be able to do it this year," applications coordinator Evan McCullough said.
The budget is larger, but there is not enough room for both textbooks and 1-1 computers.
"Our operating budget is about 26 million dollars and built into that are things like textbooks," superintendent Jeff Brown said.
Because the grants were not available to the district, the solution was to buy Chromebooks at a cheaper cost.
"Hopefully we can afford to do Chromebooks for every student seventh through twelfth grade at a price point of $200 a device," McCullough said.
The money is already in the school district for 1-1 computers with cost-shifting.
"If you just reallocate money to 1-<|fim_middle|>Quarantine creates challenges
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Because technology has a lifespan, most of these Chromebooks will not be cycled through the school.
"The idea ultimately is that after four years the device will reach its end of usefulness for us," McCullough said. "Students will have the option to take that device as a personal device."
The goal is that fewer textbooks can be used and more technology will be implemented.
"The initial investment will be 400,000 and that is partially some of the money we would have spent on new textbooks," Brown said.
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However, this year's students will not have this same opportunity because they will not be in high school for four more years upon receiving the laptops.
"Those devices will be taken down as the graduate to the intermediate schoolers and we will buy new devices for the seventh graders," McCullough said.
Even though every student will have their own computer starting next year, some of the desktops will stay.
"I'm certain that the media room will stay and the library ones will stay," McCullough said. "I'm pretty sure the study hall computers will be moved since every student will have a one to one and won't need those computers."
The remaining laptops in the high school and middle school will remain in the district.
"The laptops will go to the elementary and intermediate schools," McCullough said. "The teachers will still have their standard PC laptops."
The main goal is to get as many of the older devices out of the district so that the high school can have the Chromebooks.
"We have about 1,800 devices in the district. We're going to get rid of some of the older models and shift to the Chromebooks," Brown said.
These new laptops will allow more activities in the classroom and outside of it.
"The great thing about the Chromebooks is that you can have them powered on and signed in within fifteen seconds from completely off," McCullough said. "You can theoretically open it up, do something quickly in class, shut it off, and pull it out again later for a small activity."
These new Chromebooks will allow for less frustration and more teaching in classrooms.
"The goal is that every ninth grader will have a new Chromebook and after four years they will have the option to take that with them," McCullough said.
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Capitalism, why is it breaking down?
Syed Imran Ali and Usman Mushtaq
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In a 1963 address, U.S. President Kennedy said, "As they say on my own Cape Cod, a rising tide lifts all the boats".
In a 1963 address, U.S. President Kennedy said, "As they say on my own Cape Cod, a rising tide lifts all the boats".
The aphorism stuck to the public consciousness and has since been repeatedly invoked to defend capitalism, even if Kennedy never used the original phrase in that context.
The 'rising tide' argument states that capitalism, as an engine for rapid economic growth, improves material conditions for all people in an absolute manner.
That unequal growth may lead to the relative conditions between different socioeconomic classes becoming worse is not something that is typically emphasized – but this is a secondary point.
The very suggestion that capitalism raises all boats is itself questionable. Moreover, such unequal growth is antithetical to the liberal underpinnings of our society.
The tide that doesn't rise
Gene Sperling, former National Economic Adviser to Bill Clinton, suggested that the 12 years (1981-1993) of Reagan-Bush were more like a "period of rising yachts and sinking row boats".
He argues that average incomes of the top 5 percent rose 62 percent, the top quintile rose 34 percent, while the middle remained stagnant and the bottom quintile saw its real income decline by 10 percent.
The data indicates that not only are the rich becoming richer, the poor and middle class are becoming poorer.
What's more is that of all this coincides with a period of intense privatization of public services, further exacerbating the burden on the working poor.
As public services become privatized, they become inaccessible for many of the working poor forcing them to spend even more money on the most basic of necessities.
The economic tide does not rise for the vast majority of the population, and this is but one of the potential impacts of modern capitalism.
Unaccounted capitals
The opening of national economies in the so-called "Global South" over the past three decades has exposed rural agrarian economies to the global marketplace.
Myriad outcomes of this exposure, from competition with industrialized country imports to 'green revolution' technologies, have contributed to the growing redundancy of rural labour, fuelling an explosion in urban populations.
As rural people are forced to migrate to the cities – often to slums – by the rapid restructuring of the labour economy, they suffer a near total loss of the social networks and capital they previously enjoyed in the traditional socio-cultural environment that characterized their rural communities.
With the loss of this social capital, opportunities, community support, and extended social safety nets disappear leaving the poor even more vulnerable to the vicissitudes of the market economy.
While they may be better off than a subsistence farmer in strictly income terms – and this is not necessarily true – rural-urban migrants are almost certainly more vulnerable on the basic level of food, housing and water, while being exposed to plethora forms of institutional and social violence and deprived of previous social supports.
In this way as well, the expansion of global capitalism may contribute to the absolute worsening of material and immaterial conditions for large swathes of the population in the "Global South".
Besides the loss of social capital, there is also the loss of ecological capital with the degradation of common goods such as clean water and air and the extraction of natural resources. As a rising tide requires sending more natural resources to market to lift everyone up, common resources are increasingly commodified and privatized removing them from the public domain.
In this way, ecological resources that were available to all become inaccessible to most of the working poor.
Communities that had access to this capital whether in the form of mining or agricultural resources lose this capital even if they receive financial capital in exchange.
Financial capital cannot simply replace ecological capital for both environmental and social reasons.
For example, those at the bottom no longer live in environments with ecological redundancy in which they have access to multiple ecological resources. These environments often have one ecological resource on which people must depend on.
Moreover, the working poor cannot simply trade ecological resources with each other strengthening community bonds and self-sufficiency.
Instead, they must sell the resources in an unforgiving and unpredictable market for financial compensation that may not match labour value. This causes the loss of self-sufficiency both ecologically and socially. No amount of increased financial capital can compensate for that loss.
Illiberal values
What has been seen in the preceding sections is that for the majority the tide rises not, but instead falls.
A critical question that then arises is for whom does it fall?
As has been noted, it is typically the poor, the vulnerable, and the marginalized that face greater barriers in accessing the benefits of the modern capitalist system, whereas privileged groups access it readily and see their dominance reinforced.
That some individuals should suffer so that many others may flourish may be justifiable on utilitarian grounds.
However, the numbers contend that the opposite is occurring, with the deprivation of the many supporting the excess of the few.
From the perspective of liberalism, the philosophical underpinning of modern Western society, that any individual person should be deprived of the means to a life of dignity and well-being for the benefit of another is entirely unacceptable.
As Columbia law professor Jeremy Waldron puts it, "It is a cardinal principle of liberal thought that no one's interest in power, prominence, or luxury by itself justifies the coercive imposition of a restriction on others".
Modern capitalism has become antithetical to the very liberalism upon which it is ostensibly predicated. Modern capitalism seems to have adopted illiberal values.
Decrease in the quality of life
While the rising tide may raise some boats on the water, it certainly doesn't help the boats that aren't on the water.
These "landed boats" are individuals and families who are unable to tap into the labour market.
For these working-class people with weak connections to the labour market, there is no help.
These families or individuals may have weak connections to the labour market for several reasons such as: the head of the household not being able-bodied enough to work, potential hires facing racism, entry barriers such as professionalization to the labour market being too high.
Since these people<|fim_middle|>ran Ali is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Guelph and Usman Mushtaq is a M.Sc. candidate at Queen's University.
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They are permanently excluded from the rising tide. After all, you need to work to make a living especially if public programs are cut or privatized making them inaccessible.
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A glass of nutritious juice every day
Is the manual juicer at home idle? Do you know the benefits of freshly squeezed juice? Freshly squeezed fruit juice has the functions of promoting digestion, increasing appetite, whitening skin, building body and losing weight. Regularly drinking freshly squeezed fruit juice can supplement vitamins and help the toxins in the skin to be discharged. Moisturizes, whitens the skin, and acts as a light spot remover.Drinking pure fruit juice for a long time can improve immunity.
How about a glass of juice soon?
1.Cranberry
Tart and bright red, cranberry juice offers many benefits.
Cranberry juice is known for its ability to protect against urinary tract infections (UTIs). Though research on this effect has been mixed, a recent review found that drinking cranberry juice lowered the risk of getting a UTI by 32.5%.
This juice is also high in antioxidants, including anthocyanins, flavonols, procyanidins, and vitamins C and E, which may help protect your cells from damage caused by free radicals.
2.Tomato
Tomato juice is not only a key ingredient in Bloody Marys but also enjoyed on its own as a delicious and healthy drink.
While many people consider the tomato to be a vegetable due to its culinary uses, it's biologically a fruit. Still, many companies classify tomato juice as a vegetable juice due to its flavor and low sugar content.
Tomato juice is particularly high in vitamin C, a potent antioxidant that supports iron absorption and promotes skin and immune health.
It's also a good source of lycopene, a carotenoid and antioxidant that gives tomatoes their red color. In fact, 80% of dietary lycopene is reported to come from tomato juice, spaghetti sauce, or pizza sauce.
Lycopene may lower your risk of heart disease and stroke. For example, one review linked increased intake of lycopene to a 13% lower risk of heart disease.
However, tomato juice can be very high in salt, a mineral that can increase blood pressure when consumed in excess. Considering that most people consume too much salt, try to select low-sodium options when possible.
3.Beet
Beet juice has gained popularity in recent years due to its associated health benefits.
This colorful juice is made by blending beets and water.
It's relatively low in sugar, as most vegetables are naturally lower in sugar than fruits.
What's more, beets are a great source of betalains, which are pigments that give the vegetable its deep-red color. They act as potent antioxidants, potentially lowering your risk of heart disease, inflammation, and certain types of cancer.
Beet juice is also high in inorganic nitrates, which have been shown to increase athletic performance and decrease blood pressure and heart disease risk.
Still,<|fim_middle|> 2–5 times the antioxidant content of clear apple juice. | keep in mind that the inorganic nitrate content of beet juice depends on the variety and growing conditions of the vegetable, as well as the processing method.
Since the nitrate content is not listed on most labels, it's difficult to know to what extent drinking beet juice will provide nitrate-related benefits.
4.Apple
Apple juice is one of the most popular types of juice.
There are two main types-cloudy and clear. Cloudy apple juice contains pulp, while clear apple juice has had the pulp removed.
Apple juice is a moderate source of potassium, a mineral that acts as an electrolyte and is important for nerve signaling and heart health.
Although it's naturally low in vitamin C, many commercial varieties are enriched with vitamin C, providing up to 106% of the DV per cup (240 ml).
Furthermore, it's high in antioxidant compounds like flavonoids and chlorogenic acid, which help neutralize cell-damaging free radicals.
Among the different types, cloudy apple juice is the highest in antioxidants. In one study, it was found to have | 219 |
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Psycho Las Vegas Festival 2021 Day One Photos Featuring Mastodon, Cephalic Carnage, Goatwhore, and More
Ekaterina Gorbacheva August 30th, 2021 - 12:54 PM
Amidst all the uncertainty of the current world, we were lucky to still get Psycho Las Vegas<|fim_middle|> how the festival season used to be. The first day featured more than 12 hours of non-stop live music spanning from heavy classics like Cephalic Carnage, Mastodon, Goatwhore, an electronic act HEALTH and a solo set of David Eugene Edwards, from Wovenhand. It was incredibly nice, nostalgic and humbling to experience live music again after one and a half years of silence, especially in the high-energy festival format.
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Eng<|fim_middle|> one, watch this one too.
Sublime sequel with an astounding performance by Andy Serkis as Gollum.
Watched with audio commentary by the cast. Not as engaging as with "The Fellowship".
If you have 4 days to watch this series, do. It's brilliant. | aging and captivating. Just what the story needs.
The book wasn't this dark. And they didn't do the Ents justice.
Good film with a long battle in which humans, elves and nature combat against a huge army.
Frodo and Sam shine among some silly action sequences. Great film, carries LoTR well.
Saruman will forever be one of the great villains of modern cinema.
Best film trilogy of our time. Act II of an epic tale!
Great sequel. Faster paced than the first. Highly recommend to everyone.
I think it is better than the first film. Special effects are perfect. Good action.
Hands down favorite of the trilogy. So much rich story and great character development.
The stunning series continues. If you have seen the first | 153 |
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Fenghe Wang awarded for Combating COVID-19
December 07, 2020 | By NNU Student Writer Yuanyue Dong
On the morning of November 26, 2020, the Jiangsu Commendation Conference for Combating COVID-19 was grandly held in Nanjing, aiming at commending those advanced individuals and collectives who have significantly contributed to the fight against the epidemic. And Professor Fenghe Wang, the deputy dean of the School of Environment at Nanjing Normal University, was presented the Jiangsu Advanced Individual in Combating COVID-19 award.
In February, it took Professor Wang 8 hours to drive to Wuhan, the front<|fim_middle|> basic mission as a member of the CPC and a scientific researcher," said Professor Wang. Thanks to his team's 10 years' efforts, the third generation of their "mobile medical waste emergency incinerator" emerged. By turning medical waste into ashes at a high temperature of 1200 ℃, this equipment successfully prevented secondary spread of the virus. Upon Wang's arriving in Wuhan, the incinerator arrived at Huoshenshan Hospital as well. Every morning at around 8 o'clock saw Professor Wang and his partners beginning to transport medical waste from the wards to the incinerator for disposal, which was repeated for 8 to 10 hours each day and exposed them to the danger of aerosols. He said, "I should set an example for my students. What we have done in scientific research is supposed to be used for epidemic prevention and control, just like publishing a paper that benefits the whole country." | line of the fight against the epidemic. "I must contribute my own strength. This is my | 19 |
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Run by former PBS chef and cookbook author Jill Prescott, a warm and charming woman who made even me believe that cooking could be fun, the school is mostly geared toward adults (who have options ranging from one-hour wine tasting courses to five-day cooking extravaganzas). She also offers daily kids' classes, though, at $20 per person.
Prescott has a way with kids—she doesn't talk down to them and she expects them to do their share of cleaning as well as cooking and eating.
She isn't always available to work with the kids—she sometimes is immersed in those adults-only classes. When that happens, the kids' classes are taught by young women who run the children's programming using Prescott's healthy recipes.
For the non-chefs, there's plenty to do at the Osthoff. The condo-style resort offers one-, two- and three-room accommodations (parents can have their own room with a door that locks) and the Summer Pleasures programming has a host of things for kids ages 6-12, from fishing to hay rides, most for $10 per person per activity.
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Reading the American Past: Selected Historical Documents, Volume 1: To 1877
Eighth Edition| ©2020 Michael P. Johnson
With five carefully selected documents per chapter, this popular two-volume primary source reader presents a wide range of documents representing political, social, and cultural history in an accessible way. Expertly edited by Michael Johnson, co-author of The American Promise, the readings can be u...
With five carefully selected documents per chapter, this popular two-volume primary source reader presents a wide range of documents representing political, social, and cultural history in an accessible way. Expertly edited by Michael Johnson, co-author of The American Promise, the readings can be used to spark discussion in any classroom and will fit into any syllabus.
Documents in each chapter focus on themes and events related to the parent textbook. Each chapter of Reading the American Past contains five to six primary source documents focused on themes and events related to the corresponding chapter in The American Promise. Delving into unique perspectives, each source will connect the specific experiences of Americans throughout the past to the broader context of U.S. history.
A brief introduction provides just the right amount of context for each chapter. Every chapter in the reader begins with an introduction that provides context and primes students to engage productively with the sources that follow.
A headnote introduces students to each document and encourages them to draw their own conclusions. Brief introductions to each source provide the provenance of the document, orient the student to the historical context, and provide a starting place for their own interpretations. Plentiful gloss notes help students with unfamiliar vocabulary.
Questions for Reading and Discussion follow each document and encourage students to return to the source. The Questions for Reading and Discussion that follow each source are useful as in-class, essay, or study questions. They prompt students to enhance their own understanding by engaging critically with each document.
Comparative Questions concluding each chapter place documents in conversation. The Comparative Questions at the end of each chapter prompt students to consider the broader implications of individual sources on U.S. history.
New visual sources provide a window into the American past. One new visual source per chapter gives students snapshots into U.S. history and provides them with opportunities to augment their analytical skills. Complete with new Questions for Reading and Discussion, these images connect students with the people who experienced America in the past and encourage students to consider U.S. history in a new way.
Focus on science and technology New sources and updated Questions for Reading and Discussion emphasize the role of science and technology in U.S. history. From ancient American tools and colonial medicine, to the development of railroads and the growing need to protect the environment, new and updated documents trace the role of innovation in the United States.
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Michael P. Johnson
Eighth Edition| 2020
1. ANCIENT AMERICA: BEFORE 1492
1-1 Ancient American Spear Point
Chaco Spear Point
1-2 A Taino Origin Story
Ramón Pané, On Taino Religious Practices
1-3 A Penobscot Origin Narrative
Joseph Nicolar, The Life and Traditions of the Red Men, 1893
1-4 Genesis: The Christian Origin Narrative
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
2. EUROPEANS ENCOUNTER THE NEW WORLD, 1492–1600
2-1 Columbus Describes His First Encounter with "Indians"
The Diario of Christopher Columbus's First Voyage to
America, 1492–1493
2-2 A Conquistador Arrives in Mexico, 1519–1520
Bernal Díaz del Castillo, The Conquest of New Spain, 1632
2-3 A Mexican Description of the Conquest of Mexico
Mexican Accounts of Conquest from the Florentine Codex
2-4 Rebuilding Mexico City after Conquest
Il Palazzo di Città del Messico del XVI secolo
2-5 Cabeza de Vaca Describes His Captivity among Native Americans in Texas and the Southwest, 1528–1536
Cabeza de Vaca, Narrative, 1542
3. THE SOUTHERN COLONIES IN THE SEVENTEENTH
CENTURY, 1601–1700
3-1 Richard Frethorne Describes Indentured Servitude in Virginia
Letter to Father and Mother, March 20, April 2, 3, 1623
3-2 Opechancanough's 1622 Uprising in Virginia
Edward Waterhouse, Declaration, 1622
3-3 A European Tobacco Shop
Johan van Beverwijck, A Dutch Tobacco Shop
3-4 Bacon's Rebellion
Nathaniel Bacon, Declaration, 1676
3-5 Pedro Naranjo Describes Pueblo Revolt
Declaration of Pedro Naranjo of the Queres Nation,
4. THE NORTHERN COLONIES IN THE SEVENTEENTH
4-1 The Arbella Sermon
John Winthrop, A Model of Christian Charity, 1630
4-2 Puritan Lessons for Boston Babes
John Cotton, Puritan Lessons for Boston Babes, 1656
4-3 Wampanoag Grievances at the Outset of King Philip's War
John Easton, A Relation of the Indian War, 1675
4-4 A Provincial Government Enacts Legislation
The Laws of Pennsylvania, 1682
4-5 Words of the Bewitched
Cotton Mather, Testimony against Accused Witch Bridget
Bishop, 1692
5. COLONIAL AMERICA IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, 1701–1770
5-1 Elizabeth Ashbridge Becomes an Indentured Servant in New York
Some Account of the Early Part of the Life of Elizabeth
Ashbridge, Who Died in . . . 1755 (1807)
5-2 Poor Richard's Advice
Benjamin Franklin, Father Abraham's Speech from Poor
Richard's Almanac, 1757
5-3 Lenape Chiefs Who Agreed to Pennsylvania Walking Purchase
Gustavus Hesselius, Portraits of Tishcohan and Lapowinsa,
5-4 An Anglican Criticizes New Light Baptists and Presbyterians in the South Carolina Backcountry
Charles Woodmason, Sermon on the Baptists and the
Presbyterians, ca. 1768
5-5 Advertisements for Runaway Slaves
South Carolina Gazette and Virginia Gazette, 1737-1745
6. THE BRITISH EMPIRE AND THE COLONIAL CRISIS, 1754–1775
6-1 Mary Jemison Is Captured by Seneca Indians during the Seven Years' War
James E. Seaver, A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison,
6-2 British Troops Occupy Boston, 1768
Paul Revere, "A View of Part of the Town of Boston in New England and British Ships of War Landing Their Troops! 1768"
6-3 An Oration on the Second Anniversary of the Boston Massacre
Joseph Warren, Boston Massacre Oration, March 5, 1772
6-4 A Boston Shoemaker Recalls British Arrogance and the Boston Tea Party
George R. T. Hewes, Memoir, 1834
6-5 Daniel Leonard Argues for Loyalty to the British Empire
To the Inhabitants of the Province of Massachusetts-Bay,
7. THE WAR FOR AMERICA, 1775–1783
7-1 Thomas Paine Makes the Case for Independence
Common Sense, January 1776
7-2 Letters of John and Abigail Adams
Correspondence, 1776
7-3 J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur Describes the Distresses of a Frontier Farmer during the Revolution
Distresses of a Frontier Man, 1782
7-4 British Cartoon Depicts Surrender at Yorktown, 1781
James Gillray, "The American Rattle Snake," 1782
7-5 Boston King Seeks Freedom by Running Away to the British Army
Memoir, 1798
8. BUILDING A REPUBLIC, 1775–1789
8-1 Richard Allen Founds the First African Methodist Church
Life, Experience, and Gospel Labours, 1833
8-2 Thomas Jefferson on Slavery and Race
Notes on the State of Virginia, 1782
8-3 Backcountry Homestead
Carolina Home
8-4 Making the Case<|fim_middle|>igault Visits His Plantations and Former Slaves
A Narrative of a Post–Civil War Visit to Gowrie and East Hermitage Plantations, March 22, 1867
16-4 Klan Violence against Blacks
Elias Hill, Testimony before Congressional Committee Investigating the Ku Klux Klan, 1871
16-5 The Ignorant Vote and the Election of 1876
Thomas Nast, "The Ignorant Vote," 1876
Michael P. Johnson (Ph.D., Stanford University) is professor of history at Johns Hopkins University. His publications include Toward a Patriarchal Republic: The Secession of Georgia; Abraham Lincoln, Slavery, and the Civil War: Selected Speeches and Writings; and Reading the American Past: Selected Historical Documents, the documents reader for The American Promise. He has also coedited No Chariot Let Down: Charleston's Free People of Color on the Eve of the Civil War with James L. Roark.
The American Promise, Volume 1
James L. Roark; Michael P. Johnson; Francois Furstenberg; Sarah Stage; Sarah Igo | Eighth Edition | 2020 | ISBN:9781319208899
The American Promise, Value Edition, Volume 1
The American Promise: A Concise History, Volume 1 | for the Constitution
James Madison, Federalist Number 10, 1787
8-5 Mercy Otis Warren Opposes the Constitution
Observations on the New Constitution, 1788
9. THE NEW NATION TAKES FORM, 1789–1800
9-1 Alexander Hamilton on the Economy
Report on the Subject of Manufactures, 1791
9-2 Mary Dewees Moves West to Kentucky
Journal, 1788–1789
9-3 Flatboat on the Ohio River
Alfred Waud, "Flatboat on the Ohio River," 1916
9-4 Judith Sargent Murray Insists on the Equality of the Sexes
On the Equality of the Sexes, 1790
9-5 President George Washington's Parting Advice to the Nation
Farewell Address to the People of the United States, 1796
10. REPUBLICANS IN POWER, 1800–1824
10-1 President Thomas Jefferson's Private and Public Indian Policy
Letter to Governor William H. Harrison, February 27, 1803
10-2 Meriwether Lewis Describes the Shoshone
The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1805
10-3 A Slave Demands That Thomas Jefferson Abolish Slavery
A Slave to Thomas Jefferson, November 30, 1808
10-4 The British and their Indian Allies, 1812
William Charles, "A Scene on the Frontiers as Practiced by the 'Humane'
British and their 'Worthy' Allies," 1812
10-5 James Hamilton's Path to Enlistment during the War of 1812
Confession, 1818
11. THE EXPANDING REPUBLIC, 1815–1840
11-1 President Andrew Jackson's Parting Words to the Nation
Farewell Address, March 4, 1837
11-2 Famers Nooning, 1836
William Sidney Mount, "Farmers Nooning," 1836
11-3 Cherokees Debate Removal
John Ross, Answer to Inquiries from a Friend, 1836
Elias Boudinot, A Reply to John Ross, 1837
11-4 David Walker Demands Emancipation
Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World, 1829
11-5 Sarah Grimké on the Status of Women
Letters on the Equality of the Sexes, 1838
12. THE NORTH AND THE WEST, 1840–1860
12-1 Abraham Lincoln Explains the Free-Labor System
Address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, September 30, 1859
12-2 The Anxiety of Gain: Henry W. Bellows on Commerce and Morality
The Influence of the Trading Spirit upon the Social and Moral
Life of America, 1845
12-3 "The Drunkard's Progress, from the First Glass to the Grave, 1846"
"The Drunkard's Progress, from the First Glass to the Grave,
12-4 Gold Fever
Walter Colton, California Gold Rush Diary, 1849–1850
12-5 That Woman Is Man's Equal: The Seneca Falls Declaration
Declaration of Sentiments, 1848
13. THE SLAVE SOUTH, 1820–1860
13-1 Madison Hemings Recalls Life as Thomas Jefferson's Enslaved Son
Interview, 1873
13-2 "After the Sale: Slaves Going South from Richmond," 1854 Eyre Crowe, "After the Sale: Slaves Going South from Richmond," 1854
13-3 Plantation Rules
Bennet Barrow, Highland Plantation Journal, May 1, 1838
13-4 Fanny Kemble Learns about Abuses of Slave Women
Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838–1839
13-5 Nat Turner Explains Why He Became an Insurrectionist
The Confessions of Nat Turner, 1831
14. THE HOUSE DIVIDED, 1846–1861
14-1 The Kansas–Nebraska Act
Abraham Lincoln, Speech in Peoria, Illinois, October 16, 1854
14-2 "Forcing Slavery Down the Throat of a Freesoiler," 1856
John L. Magee, "Forcing Slavery Down the Throat of a Free-
Soiler," 1856
14-3 The Antislavery Constitution
Frederick Douglass, The Constitution of the United States: Is It Proslavery or Antislavery? 1860
14-4 The Proslavery Constitution
Jefferson Davis, Speech before the U.S. Senate, May 1860
14-5 Levi Coffin Describes Margaret Garner's Attempt to Escape Slavery
Reminiscences, 1880
15. THE CRUCIBLE OF WAR, 1861–1865
15-1 President Lincoln's War Aims
Letter to Horace Greeley, August 22, 1862
The Emancipation Proclamation, January 1, 1863
The Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863
15-2 A Former Slave's War Aims
Statement from an Anonymous Former Slave, New Orleans,
15-3 The New York Draft Riots
Report of the Committee of Merchants for the Relief of Colored People
Suffering from the Late Riots in the City of New York, 1863
15-4 "In Search of Freedom," 1863
Edwin Forbes, "In Search of Freedom," 1863
15-5 General William T. Sherman Explains the Hard Hand of War
16. RECONSTRUCTION, 1863–1877
16-1 Carl Schurz Reports on the Condition of the Defeated South
Report on the Condition of the South, 1865
16-2 Former Slaves Seek to Reunite Their Families
Advertisements from the Christian Recorder, 1865–1870
16-3 Planter Louis Man | 1,470 |
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A surrogate, Tara Pearce, wasn't all Sara McCarter needed to carry her twins to delivery. Without Surrogacy Together, a surrogacy advocacy group that works to promote ethical and positive surrogacy experiences, the cost could have been prohibitive.
To give surrogates and intended parents a platform to share their positive stories of surrogacy through publications.
To give the children born through surrogacy the truth of the positive way they were born rather than "sensationalized stories of surrogacy gone wrong."
To celebrate the women who step up and offer the gift of parenthood to another and to help couples or individuals become parents through surrogacy who wouldn't be able to otherwise by collaborating with other professionals to provide services pro-bono or at a big discount.
The group works with Expect Miracles, a surrogacy agency, as well as other professionals who help with the process.
Christy Anderson, co-founder of Expect<|fim_middle|>rogacies, the playing field is even. The average intended parent is Sara and Zach (McCarter) with perhaps one investment they can cash out. The average surrogate is Tara (Pearce) -- a financially stable, compassionate woman who has a desire to make a contribution to the world and views herself as a long term baby-sitter rather than in any sort of parental role to the child she carries for someone else."
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I think the cost differs for a variety of reasons. I would check out http://www.thesurrogacysource.com for more information. I hope that helps! | Miracles and Surrogacy Together, said her organization coordinates with the in vitro fertilization clinic, as well as with lawyers and psychologists who are also providing all professional services for no cost to a couple.
Anderson and her husband have gone through multiple surrogacy journeys. The first resulted in the loss of twins due to a pregnancy complication.
"We were $40,000 out of pocket and didn't even have a baby on the way," she said. "The financial toll on hopeful parents can be devastating on top of the devastation of infertility or trying to build a family through surrogacy.
"We knew we were also the lucky people that had that $40,000 to loose chasing this dream baby.
"We eventually were able to have our daughter, Austin.
"In having the agency, we consult weekly with individuals who truly will not have the funds to ever complete a surrogacy. Infertility like ours and Sara and Zach McCarter's crosses all socioeconomic boundaries. It is not an affliction of the wealthy."
Anderson said that about 13 percent of couples suffer from infertility and many of those lack the finances to overcome it.
"That statistic is heartbreaking," she said. "This community has given us support, love and has lifted us up in our darkest moments, so we felt compelled to give back. Finding a way to help others who would not otherwise be able to have a child, while celebrating the surrogate families who make sacrifices to help others were our original goals.... .
"Then enter our daughter, Austin, who deserves her story to be authentic and not tainted by media focus on unethical, poorly arranged surrogacies gone bad. That seem to be what the general population only knows of."
In the surrogacy process, Anderson said, the egg meets the sperm in a dish through the medical process of in vitro fertilization.
That egg and/or sperm could come from the parents or from a donor. The embryos are transferred to the surrogate.
About 18 weeks into gestation, the agency will file for what is commonly known as a pre-birth order -- a court order establishing parentage before birth so the birthparents will go directly onto the birth certificate and be able to make medical decisions for the child.
Each state has different laws concerning the surrogacy process. In Indiana, a surrogacy contract is "unenforceable," meaning the state is not going to make a legal decision based on the private contract. The consequence could be the contract not being followed by either party, with no grounds to enforce it.
McCarter said because their transfer happened in California, that state would have jurisdiction in the case and the state will honor surrogacy contracts.
But every state, Anderson said, honors "altruistic" surrogacies, such as the kind of surrogacy arrangement McCarter has with her surrogate, Tara Pearce.
"Surrogacy is often seen widely as unethical due to an imbalance of perceived wealthy parents and impoverished, taken-advantage-of surrogates," Anderson said.
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First off let me thank you for checking out the blog. Make sure you click through the website and see what this Fort Ord : Beauty project is all about. I want to give a little background on how this project came to be, where it is at currently and where it is headed but before I do that let me introduce myself.
I was born in Grand Rapids, MI where I<|fim_middle|> levels of manipulation but instead presented an authentic expression of the uniqueness of each person photographed.
As part of this process, I did a shoot at an abandoned tank garage on the old Fort Ord Military base in Marina, CA. The building was an absolutely incredible backdrop filed with natural light from a wall of windows and covered with graffiti. The floors were littered with things left behind by the military and things brought in by others over the nearly 20 years since the base closed in 1994. The images from this session stood out to me as having a little something special that seemed to be missing in many of the other portraits I had done.
An image from that first Fort Ord Beauty shoot.
Three weeks after this first Fort Ord shoot, I was in the area and decided to drive by this fantastic building. I was shocked to find that it had been torn down. This was the moment the Fort Ord Beauty project was born. I was struck by the finiteness of this unique landscape and all of the great image opportunities it presented. I knew I had to shoot as much as I possibly could in the locations that remained.
I started with the idea that I would represent femininity by featuring models wearing soft, flowing material with light, neutral colors set against the rough backdrop of the abandoned spaces. After a few shoots following this theme I realized how limiting this stereotypical approach to femininity truly was. I was asking women to represent femininity in ways that didn't coincide with their own experience of it. I was subjecting them to a gender profile that was not representative of each of them individually.
Having come to this realization, I knew what the focus of the Fort Ord Beauty project would be; the aim is to create an exploration of femininity in all of it's variety, diversity and uniqueness. I expanded my reach to include women of all ages, sizes, ethnicity and social backgrounds. I now ask each one of the subjects to choose wardrobe options that they feel most accurately represents their own personal form of femininity, their own style. Many of the women have told me that they found this both difficult and enlightening as it forced them to consciously assess how they relate to the concept of femininity.
So where does the project stand today? As of yesterday I have photographed 38 women of the project goal 100. I have a very busy couple of months ahead of me but I am really enjoying this project. I want to thank all of the amazing women who have participated thus far. One of the most interesting parts for me has been meeting people from different backgrounds, hearing their stories and getting their perspectives on femininity.
Thank you for checking the project out. Make sure you go look at the amazing work the team at No More Tears is doing! You will be hearing more about them very soon on this blog.
Also check out Little Film Lab and all of the fantastic services they offer photographers. Without their partnership I would never be able to make this project nearly as beautiful. | lived until 2008 when I moved to Monterey, CA. Before this move my only experience with photography was the occasional snap shot at a party or family picture. As I began to spend more time hiking and exploring the beautiful coastlines around Monterey, Santa Cruz and Big Sur I decided to buy a camera so my friends and family back in Michigan could see the amazing places I was going while they endured the horrors of winter. It took very little time for me to become completely enamored with the entire photographic process. In many ways, photography became a way for me to deal with the loneliness of having moved all the way across the country to a town heavily populated by retirement age people and short on social activities. I threw myself into photography in a way that I had done with very few other things in my life. It was an escape, an inspiration to get myself up, out of the house and into the beautiful nature that surrounded me.
My early photography was almost exclusively still life and landscape work that incorporated very little, if any, human elements. As my interests progressed I began to recognize that I was drawn to human images in a way I had never recognized. In many ways I think it was my background in social science, combined with my own extremely social personality that led me to take such an interest in capturing the human form. I began looking for interesting people around me to photograph and started studying the portraiture of both historical greats and the current generation of creatives. I tried to understand what it meant to actually capture the essence of a person. I wanted to find ways to create artistic images that didn't involve heavy | 329 |
Pinnacle Ventures has launched a pharmacogenomics programme to enable genetic testing to drive personalised prescribing decisions.
The innovation arm of Pinnacle Midlands Health Network, a not-for-profit primary health care management company in New Zealand, is also working on embedding biomarker information into electronic health records and linking it to a clinical-decision support prescribing tool that can help prescribers by providing direct access to international pathways and guidelines.
Pharmacogenetics involves prescriptions being tailored to a person's genetic make-up, as people metabolise drugs in different ways, which can have a significant impact on a drug's effectiveness.
Ventures plans to do about 5,000 pharmacogenetic tests over the next 12 months, says chief executive John Macaskill-Smith.
Some will be self-funded because individuals are struggling with their medications and others will be fully funded by Ventures, targeting specific groups within the Midlands population.
Macaskill-Smith says it is a simple test that covers 65–70 per cent of medications frequently prescribed in New Zealand.
"The New Zealand health system is under strain but using testing like this you could reduce the trial and error of prescribing and prevent adverse reactions to medications," he said.
Ethnicity plays a big part in how a person metabolises drugs, but the clinical trials that prescribing information are based on very rarely involve Māori or Pasifika test subjects.
Macaskill-Smith said Ventures is partnering with key kiwi groups, Auckland University and Otago University medical schools and Callaghan Innovation to support research and develop a better understanding of how unique New Zealand populations respond to different medications.
People who have a pharmacogenetic test can choose to consent to contributing their non-identifiable demographic information to researchers.
Embedding the biomarker information into EHRs ensures a patient's results are used<|fim_middle|> PE is one of the most common causes of preventable death in hospitalized patients. PE diagnosis can be highly challenging due to its variable and non-specific presentation, making AI-driven workflow triage especially beneficial. Recent research published at ECR in Vienna further shows the accuracy and value Aidoc's solution can provide. "It is clear that AI will play a tremendous role in the future of radiology," said Daniel J. Durand, M.D., Chair of Radiology at LifeBridge Health. "Considering the complexity of vascular diagnosis, we are eager to see how Aidoc's solutions can benefit our pulmonary embolism patients and bring tomorrow's technology to LifeBridge Health, today." LifeBridge Health operates four hospitals in and around Baltimore, Maryland. The new clearance, combined with Aidoc's other proven solutions, gives Aidoc the most clearances for deep learning solutions in radiology and positions it firmly at the forefront of making AI... | for both current and future prescribing decisions, he said.
Macaskill-Smith says a lot of direct-to-consumer online genetic-testing tools involve people essentially "giving away their DNA" as there are no protections or consent processes for how the testing company might use it.
"You can lose ownership and visibility of where your DNA has gone. We are saying your DNA is yours and you should have control over it, so we are trying to promote safe and informed use of your genetic information by embedding it back into your own EHR," he said.
"Seeing an individual's health record shift away from being largely about providers recording notes around their activity to actually becoming a blueprint for an individual's health and wellness information is incredibly exciting.
"This is the real health revolution that is about to occur, and including and using your DNA is core to this."
A virtual training package to help primary care providers respond to this genetic information is also being offered.
The US Food and Drug Administration requires pharmaceutical companies to publish biomarker information in relation to how people with different genetic make-ups might respond to specific medications.
Many health providers in the US use pharmacogenomics as a key tool in treating their patients, and other places, such as Canada and the European Union, are heading in this direction.
The New Zealand government does not require this information to be published, but international curators have emerged and can be used to access individual drug information and treatment pathways to inform how doses should be altered according to people's genetic make-up.
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Aidoc, the leading provider of AI solutions for radiologists, announced today that it was granted Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance for an additional product in its expanding suite of AI-based workflow orchestration solutions. The clearance is for Aidoc's Pulmonary Embolism (PE) solution that works with radiologists to flag and triage PE cases in chest CTs. The approval comes just weeks after Aidoc closed a $27 million funding round, bringing its total funding to $40million. "In addition to the significant value provided to the department by Aidoc's ICH solution, we recently added the PE module to the workflow", says Dr. Pressman, Chair of Imaging at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. "I was impressed by the fact that the coverage continuously grows, allowing us to add this product in the workflow of more radiologists, becoming part of our daily work. I was also pleased by the ability of the software to prioritize PE studies accurately." In the United States alone, Up to 200,000 people a year die due to PE. Undetected or late-detected | 549 |
TV ReviewsGrimmSeason 3
Grimm: "Once We Were Gods"
Kevin McFarland
<|fim_middle|> a personal stake in the safety of the victim from last week—his friend from childhood—and the actual Wesen itself is far scarier with its proboscis sucking out amniotic fluid from a pregnant woman's belly. But still, it's inconsistent that an archaeologist who discovers a mummy with inexplicable physical abnormalities hidden behind a brick wall that shouldn't exist wouldn't then be scared to see a Wesen attempt to attack her. (Not to mention that she would probably go public with the findings after scanning the mummy, even if she suspected it could be a fake.)
For Wu to take the blow so hard that he gets hospitalized one week, and the next a professor waves off a similar (if less extreme) scenario as stress from work after making a major discovery that could change her career, suggests that Grimm doesn't always have the consequences of Wesen revealing themselves to humans lined up. That's my one major quibble with this week's episode, which was otherwise a finely entertaining twist on Egyptian material that incorporated Wu's recovery and Adalind's continuing journey to elude Viktor's clutches with her creepily gifted half-royal child.
I liked that Grimm used the Egyptian religious mythology in a way that revealed and examined Wesen moral standards—instead of simply raising a mummy like Buffy's "Inca Mummy Girl." Apparently there's a Wesen secret organization, the Beati Paoli, a kind of medieval proto-Cosa Nostra from Sicily—which Monroe characterizes as a "vendetta society" aimed at vehemently protecting Wesen culture. They target museums, auction houses, and private collectors if they deem that certain curious artifacts aren't properly respectful. Two such agents, canine Wesen that look like the Egyptian god Anubis, attempt to steal the newly discovered mummy in order to give it a proper burial. Of course, things go awry, a guard and one of the culprits ends up dead, and Nick and Hank get involved. I think I take for granted the number of topics that Grimm hasn't yet used, from fairy tales to ancient mythology to religious iconography. But this was a fun hour of discovery.
It's also another encounter with the Wesen Council, which has so far afforded the show an opportunity to demonstrate how Nick attempts to police his jurisdiction as a Grimm. Considering most of the Adalind plot has unfolded with Renard awkwardly trying to handle things over the phone to his associates Meisner and Sebastian, Nick dealing with Alexander, an emissary assassin from the council, is a much better way to depict Nick's progress toward interacting with the larger Wesen world. Alexander, the agent who appeared in "Stories We Tell Our Young," is back to talk to Nick about how to handle the Beati Paoli and the Wesen mummy itself.
Rosalee and Monroe have been in this position before, as uncomfortable middlemen between the powerful traditional will of the Wesen Council and Nick's progressive Grimm actions. This week they lean toward the council, feeling charged up over humans displaying Wesen remains when the history from the Magic Airstream suggests that those Wesen ancestors were tortured or drugged into going woge and then mummified in a grotesque ceremony. They feel strongly that it shouldn't be displayed, and that feeling of immoral insult is yet another complicated bit of ethical negotiation added to the list of Wesen cultural norms that Nick has learned. I do think it's a weak point that the episode chooses Egyptian antiquity and then has Swiss agents of an allegedly Sicilian secret society taking on issues of respecting Wesen heritage. Addressing this issue with a specific Wesen from a specific country probably would have added some potency to the message of respectful treatment for ancient cultures.
The issue of the professor agreeing with Nick's explanation that what she saw is simply related to work stress muddles the climax, but the way Nick interacts with Alexander is a promising recurring development. Nick has staked out his territory, and he susses out Alexander's end-around to steal the mummy while offering up the second suspect attempting to steal the mummy for Beati Paoli. The result satisfies everyone except the archaeologist: the police get their man, the Council retrieves the body, and the gang helps out with a proper burial ceremony that looks meaningful to Monrosalee, as they join Alexander in full woge next to the ceremonial pyre.
As for Sgt. Wu, he grapples a bit with his visions and recurring nightmares (he doesn't remember the first time his colleagues visited him at the end of last week's episode), but after a checkup from Juliette, who shares her previous Wesen-related traumas without revealing anything too important, Wu at least appears resolved to put the incident behind him. That progression doesn't make a lot sense, since Juliette's memories should incite more questions from Wu as to how she dealt with it, and what she talked about with Nick, but instead it's mostly swept under the rug. Perhaps in the future Wu will relapse, or maybe he's just hiding how badly he's still affected, but if this is the last the show deals with the issue of bringing Wu into the fold with the rest of the New Scoobies, that would be a shame.
Stray observations:
The opening epigraph is an adaptation of a few lines from the Egyptian Book Of The Dead.
Not much to report on the Adalind front. Sebastian is in deep trouble with Viktor, and though he provides information on where Adalind and Meiser have gone, they're still a few steps ahead thanks to Renard. The bigger development is who Adalind will turn to next for help—a major player from past episodes who will undoubtedly play a bigger role in the endgame for the season when she helps bring Adalind back onto Nick's radar.
"Is it me…or was that weird?" One-liner Monroe is my favorite Monroe. | GrimmSeason 3
Once We Were Gods
Maybe Grimm has a problem with establishing the scale of fright inflicted upon humans who see something they can't explain. Drew Wu hears stories from his grandmother in the Philippines about an Aswang, then has a deep personal connection to a case where he encounters one of the creatures, can't explain what he sees, and goes so far off the deep end he checks himself into a mental facility. But this week, an archaeology professor discovers that a mummified Anubis Wesen exists, hitting upon a professional discovery that could change her field forever, gets attacked by a living Wesen that goes woge in front of her—and Nick easily convinces her to chalk it up to stress at work.
It makes sense that the Aswang would affect Wu greater than a dog Wesen attacking a professor. Wu had | 174 |
Changes coming to Gen Ed
Colonial<|fim_middle|> in a new light, like Susanna Rinard's course on happiness or John Hamilton's course on security or Maya Jasanoff's course on ancestry.
Armchair travels with a purpose
Digital Giza Project lets scholars virtually visit sites in Egypt and beyond, and even print them in 3D
Overseeing progress
An interview with the current and future presidents of the alumni board that acts as a 'Socratic steward of the University'
This 3-inch globe, created in 1757 by Scottish astronomer James Ferguson, depicts California as a peninsula and Admiral George Anson's circumnavigation route. Its wooden case wrapped in shark skin shows the celestial hemispheres.
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Dean of Undergraduate Education Amanda Claybaugh describes Harvard College's new General Education program for undergraduates, which now offers a total of 160 courses.
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160 courses now offered, many of them new, Dean Claybaugh explains
By Aaron Goldman Harvard Correspondent
Date June 12, 2019 June 13, 2019
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This fall, Harvard College will launch a new General Education (Gen Ed) program for undergraduates. The program features 160 courses, including some that have been restructured and many new ones. Professors Suzannah Clark and Amy Wagers, co-chairs of the Standing Committee on General Education, worked to revise the program, which begins this fall under Dean of Undergraduate Education Amanda Claybaugh. The Gazette talked to Claybaugh for a preview of what the new Gen Ed will look like, and how she and her team arrived at this milestone.
Amanda Claybaugh
GAZETTE: Can you give us the elevator pitch on Gen Ed, and, in particular, why the courses cross divisions?
CLAYBAUGH: The General Education program is the cornerstone of the liberal arts at Harvard. Other colleges tend to organize the liberal arts around a set of distribution requirements or a list of great works, but Harvard offers a special set of courses that show the liberal arts in action. They pose enduring questions, they frame urgent problems, and they help students see that no one discipline can answer those questions or grapple with those problems on its own. Gen Ed courses call on students to synthesize what they're learning in their other courses and apply it to the world.
GAZETTE: What are the changes?
CLAYBAUGH: The Gen Ed program was introduced in 2008; in 2016 it was reviewed and now a renewed Gen Ed will launch this fall. In the process, the eight original Gen Ed categories were streamlined into four: Starting this fall, students will take one course each in aesthetics and culture; histories, societies, and individuals; ethics and civics; and science and technology in society. These four Gen Ed courses are now complemented by four distributional requirements. Students will also take one departmental course each in the arts and humanities, the social sciences, and the natural and applied sciences, as well as a course in quantitative reasoning with data.
Once these new requirements were in place, the Gen Ed committee had to find courses to fill them. The committee, most recently under the leadership of Suzannah [a professor of music] and Amy [co-chair of the Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology], worked tirelessly to reframe existing courses and recruit new ones. And colleagues from across the FAS — and across the University — stepped up and volunteered to do this unusually demanding kind of teaching.
We want Gen Ed to be the kind of courses faculty have always dreamed of teaching — and the kind students never forget. Because of that, we've put together an incredible team of consultants who work with faculty to ensure that each course is as good as it can possibly be. There are curators who organize museum visits, librarians who create research guides, and specialists in assignment design and academic technology.
"We want Gen Ed to be the kind of courses faculty have always dreamed of teaching — and the kind students never forget."
GAZETTE: How else has the Gen Ed program evolved over the years?
CLAYBAUGH: This isn't the first Gen Ed at Harvard; it's the second. The first was inaugurated in the aftermath of the Second World War, and it sought to educate students for a "free society." With our new Gen Ed program, we seek to prepare students for global citizenship. Individual courses grapple explicitly with the global, such as Robert Lawrence and Lawrence Summers' "The Future of Globalization" or Sunil Amrith's "Global Gandhi." We have a course on the Hebrew Bible, and another on the spiritual practices transmitted throughout the African diaspora. We have a course on Shakespeare, and another on anime.
GAZETTE: Among the changes to Gen Ed are new requirements for quantitative reasoning with data (QRD). What can you tell us about this change?
CLAYBAUGH: QRD courses teach students how to think critically about the data they'll encounter in their professions and contend with in civic debates. Nothing could be more essential for 21st-century citizenship. Students will learn the computational, mathematical, and statistical techniques they need to work with data. They'll also learn how to use those techniques in the real world, where data are imperfect and incomplete, sometimes compromised, always contingent. Finally, they'll reflect on all the questions raised by our current uses of data — questions that are social and ethical and epistemological. We've identified a number of courses in an array of departments, at all levels of difficulty, that do all these things — among them, Raj Chetty's new course in "Using Big Data to Solve Economic and Social Problems." We know students are going to learn a lot.
GAZETTE: If you were a student, what course would you take and why?
CLAYBAUGH: That's a great question! From time to time, when we were reviewing courses, someone would exclaim, "I wish I could take this course!" But it was always a different course for each of us, and that's what I'd want students to understand: There's no "best" Gen Ed courses. There are just the courses that are right for you. Students might look for courses on things they've always been curious about — music? food? the pyramids? Or they might look for courses that show a familiar topic | 1,210 |
Common name. Forget-me-nots. Family Boraginaceae.
Habit and leaf form. Herbs; without essential oils. Autotrophic. Annual to perennial. Leaves basal and cauline. Plants with a basal concentration of leaves; to 0.5 m high. Helophytic, or mesophytic, or xerophytic. Leaves small to very large; alternate; petiolate (at the base), or subsessile to sessile (above); non-sheathing; not gland-dotted; simple; epulvinate. Leaf blades dorsiventral, or isobilateral; entire; flat; linear to lanceolate; ovate, or obovate, or oblong, or elliptic; cross-venulate. Mature leaf blades adaxially glabrous, or pubescent; abaxially glabrous, or pubescent. Leaves without stipules. Leaf blade margins entire. Leaves without a persistent basal meristem. Leaf anatomy. Hairs present (without a much broadened base), or absent. Urticating hairs absent. Stem anatomy. Secondary thickening developing from a conventional cambial ring.
Reproductive type, pollination. Fertile flowers hermaphrodite. Unisexual flowers absent. Plants hermaphrodite. Floral nectaries present. Nectar secretion from basal nectary around ovary. Entomophilous.
Inflorescence and flower features. Flowers aggregated in 'infloresc<|fim_middle|>; 'gynobasic'; not becoming exserted, or becoming exserted (rarely). Stigmas 1; capitate. Placentation axile to basal. Ovules differentiated; 2 per locule (i.e. per true locule), or 1 per locule (per cell, the gynoecium separating into one-ovuled portions); horizontal to ascending; epitropous; non-arillate; anatropous, or hemianatropous.
Fruit and seed features. Fruit aerial; non-fleshy; not hairy; not spinose; a schizocarp. Mericarps 1–4; comprising nutlets; shiny (and smooth). Seeds endospermic, or non-endospermic. Cotyledons 2. Embryo straight, or curved.
Etymology. From the Greek myosotis; name used by Dioscorides and by Pliny for Asperugo procumbens and by Dioscorides also for Parietaria lusitanica; from the Greek for "mouse" and "ear", referring to the small pointed leaves. | ences'; in cymes. Inflorescences simple. The terminal inflorescence unit cymose (coiled at first). Inflorescences terminal, or terminal and axillary; of scorpioid cymes, with flowers usually at first densely arranged in 2 rows, becoming more widely spaced and pedicellate when fruiting; not pseudanthial. Flowers subsessile, or pedicellate (in fruit); bracteate, or ebracteate; bracteolate; regular; 5 merous; cyclic; tetracyclic. Free hypanthium absent. Hypogynous disk present, or absent. Perianth with distinct calyx and corolla; 10; 2 -whorled; isomerous. Calyx present; 5; 1 -whorled; gamosepalous; lobed. Calyx lobes markedly shorter than the tube to markedly longer than the tube. Calyx imbricate, or open in bud, or valvate; neither appendaged nor spurred; persistent; accrescent. Corolla present; 5; 1 -whorled; appendiculate (with a corona of 5 small scales from the throat protecting the nectar); gamopetalous; lobed. Corolla lobes markedly shorter than the tube, or about the same length as the tube. Corolla imbricate, or contorted; funnel-shaped, or tubular; regular; glabrous abaxially; glabrous adaxially; plain, or with contrasting markings; white, or yellow, or blue. Corolla lobes oblong. Fertile stamens present. Androecial members definite in number. Androecium 5. Androecial members unbranched; adnate (to the corolla); all equal; free of one another; 1 -whorled. Androecium exclusively of fertile stamens. Stamens 5. Staminal insertion in the throat of the corolla tube. Stamens all inserted at the same level; remaining included, or becoming exserted (rarely); all more or less similar in shape; isomerous with the perianth; oppositisepalous; filantherous (to subsessile), or with sessile anthers. Anthers dorsifixed to basifixed; dehiscing via longitudinal slits; introrse; tetrasporangiate; appendaged, or unappendaged. The anther appendages when present, apical. Gynoecium 2 carpelled. The pistil 4 celled. Carpels reduced in number relative to the perianth. Gynoecium syncarpous; eu-syncarpous; superior. Ovary plurilocular (4-lobed); 2 locular ('really', but rarely ostensibly so), or 4 locular (ostensibly, via false septa). Locules secondarily divided by 'false septa'. Gynoecium median; stylate. Styles 1; simple; from a depression at the top of the ovary | 664 |
Women In Retail: 2018 NRF Review + Video Feature
Last week Remodista attended the NRF (National Retail Federation) Big Show and Expo. To say we had a blast would be understating it, what's more is we gleaned critical insights on the direction retail is heading. It was also an incredible way for our founder, Kelly Stickel, to get face time with a few of our Women2Watch!
Women2Watch is a program build to help women take credit for their work. With a focus on thought leadership and rising in up the corporate ladder, in its third year it's thriving.
When Women Meet Support
Highlighted in a video shot above the showroom floor, Kelly talks to the host of Getting to Global at Javits Center, about how to Remodista has helped put women front and center of retail innovation via the Women2Watch program. Krissie Millan and Sarah Sheldon from Rebecca Minkoff were asked about the benefits of being part of Remodista's Women2Watch program and the community around it. See the whole video here:
Millan and Sheldon talk about the importance of being connected to innovators from diverse backgrounds who are united by the goal of raising one another up. The community offers insights into up and coming players, trends and next waves of technology and strategy that are key to keeping ahead of the curve. Rebecca Minkoff sees Kelly and the Remodista team as a valuable resource to help them stay ahead of the curve.
They comment that being a part of the Women2Watch program naturally lends itself to opportunities like fun events for finding vendors, and connecting with other ecommerce professionals to build a community. It's a very different environment when there aren't men in the room. Women tend to problem solve differently than men. A woman's perspective will encourage other women in a realm so usually male-dominated. Joining Women2Watch helps you create the nurturing environment you need to succeed.
Insider Trends Revealed
Krissie and Sarah even shared some upcoming trends they see in retail ecommerce with women. When your brand is known as an innovator, they're always on the lookout for tech solutions that can propel them forward. They tap into the community to get access to<|fim_middle|> into account the prevalence of mobile devices.
More NRF Coverage
Want more NRF coverage? We've got that. Kelly recaps "Retail Ethics in the Age of AI" in her article "One of the Best Panels focused on AI". See pictures and more coverage of the video feeds taken above the tradeshow floor in Kelly's "Getting Ready for Getting to Global" as well as photo coverage of the Rebecca Minkoff Women2Watch Event!
If you're interested in learning more about our Women2Watch program (to either sponsor or nominate one) visit our dedicated website. If you're interested in learning more about how you can get involved in the HALO, the community of business innovators, don't hesitate to reach out to kelly@remodista.com. | global exposure and a deeper connection to the business problem solvers. It's clear that retail has been changing over the last decade. The commerce landscape is like shifting sands, but there are some trends our insiders predict will impact the way you work this year:
Small and Nimble: They're seeing a move away from big ecommerce to more niche ways that will reach the customer in innovative ways. Those smaller outreach efforts are a great opportunity for rising women leaders to hop on-board through community connection and thought leadership.
Branding Matters: Krissie and Sarah have felt the impact of building a brand more than ever. Rebecca Minkoff is built by a female millennial founder. Who you are as a company and how you go to market matters to today's customer. Don't miss an opportunity to let your true colors show, it resonates and translates in dollars.
Women are Impacting Retail: Women are digging more deeply into typically male dominated and more technical sides of the job. Their input and perspective better represents the growing power of women in the marketplace. This is shifting the future of the online commerce space.
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Britain's Got Talent winner Richard Jones to perform in Haverhill
More than half of the tickets for the magician's show in May have already sold out
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The winner of this year's series of Britain's Got Talent is set to appear in Haverhill.
Richard Jones wowed the nation and the judges with his magic tricks this summer, beating 11 other finalists in the talent competition.
The 26-year-old magician, who has served in the Parachute Regiment and the Household Cavalry, is set to appear at the Haverhill Arts Centre on Friday, May 5.
Nick Keeble, arts and leisure manager at the arts centre, said: "It's cool - it's an opportunity we took. They were looking for areas close to military towns and we have got a few around. It's selling really well already."
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He said more than half of the tickets to see Lance Corporal Jones, who appeared at the Royal Variety Show earlier this month, had already been sold.
"Get a bit of magic into your 2017 - don't miss a trick!" said Mr Keeble.
The show is part of a<|fim_middle|>
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Music fans can see tributes to Kate Bush, Elvis and Little Mix, as well as local talent the Haverhill Silver Band.
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Theatre includes live broadcasts from London featuring such stars as Ian McKellen and Gemma Arterton, as well as productions from Haverhill's own Centre Stage Theatre Company, including January pantomime Cinderella.
Mr Keeble said a highlight for him was found in the comedy listings: "I always enjoy Barry Cryer coming here. He's a top comic, he spans the ages.
"We have tried to give a broad base of interests across the next programme."
To read the full 2017 January to May listings and book your tickets, visit haverhillartscentre.co.uk or call the box office on (01440) 714 140.
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Justia › US Law › Case Law › California Case Law › Cal. App. 2d › Volume 256 › People v. Wilson
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People v. Wilson
[Crim. No. 13166. Second Dist., Div. Four. Nov. 27, 1967.]
THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. DEWEY WILSON, Defendant and Appellant.
George R. Maury and Rob R. Schuyler for Defendant and Appellant.
Thomas C. Lynch, Attorney General, William E. James, Assistant Attorney General, and Bradley A. Stoutt, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
KINGSLEY, J.
Defendant and his niece, Charlene Peterson, were charged with unlawfully possessing heroin for sale. (Health & Saf. Code, § 11500.5.) In count II, only Charlene Peterson was charged with another violation of the same section. Defendant and the codefendant were convicted but the judgments were reversed on appeal. fn. 1 The matter was set for retrial. Pursuant to Penal Code sections 1539 and 1540, each moved to quash the search warrant which had been issued for a search of Charlene and her residence. After a hearing the motions were denied. Trial was by jury and defendant was found guilty as charged. Defendant's motion for new trial was denied, probation was denied, and defendant was sentenced to prison for the term prescribed by law. He has appealed; we affirm the judgment.
On June 8, 1963, at about 4:30 p.m., Officer James Grennan, of the Los Angeles City Police Department, accompanied by four other officers, went to the residence of Charlene Peterson. The officers had a search warrant to search her residence, her person, and her 1962 Ford automobile. The Ford was in the driveway and its path was blocked by a 1960 Chevrolet belonging to defendant. The officer placed the residence under surveillance.
About 6 p.m., Charlene left, driving the Chevrolet. Officer Grennan followed her. She looked over her shoulder, dropped her right hand from the steering wheel to the floor, then put both hands on the wheel. The officer arrested Charlene, [256 Cal. App. 2d 415] searched the car, and found two condoms of heroin under the front seat. The officer testified that Charlene's conduct in the automobile was furtive and suspicious. The officer also testified that, sometime between 4:30 and 6 p.m., prior to these events, he had conversed with "a person" who said he had ordered two ounces of heroin from Charlene "to be delivered in the hour."
The search warrant had been issued on May 31, 1963, on the basis of an affidavit of Officer Grennan. That affidavit fn. 2 alleged that there was, then (i.e., on May 31st) in the possession of Charlene, on her person, at her residence and in her Ford automobile, a quantity of heroin. As a basis for the officer's belief, the affidavit alleged information from several sources, some claimed to be tested and some not tested, that Charlene was engaged in the sale of heroin, delivered by automobile from a supply kept at her residence and that Charlene received her supply by ship from the Orient every three or four months and had just recently received such a shipment. In other testimony Officer Grennan stated that he had other information that the heroin allegedly on hand on May 31st was not yet ready for sale or distribution.
After Charlene's arrest, Officers Grennan and Hanks, and other officers, went to Charlene's residence. They knocked and, according to Officer Grennan, Mr. Wilson opened the door. Officer Hanks testified that they entered through an unlocked front door; Mr. Wilson was sitting in the living room, and the officer identified himself and exhibited a search warrant.
A search was undertaken and, in a broom closet, they found a Sears Roebuck bag containing 42 condoms of heroin. On a shelf in the closet Hanks found measuring spoons, empty balloons, condoms, and a portion of newspaper with a plastic bag and a condom containing powder. Officer Hanks, who had worked for the narcotics division for four or five years, formed the opinion that the heroin was packaged for sale. In Hanks' opinion, if the heroin recovered in the residence of Charlene Peterson was diluted to street percentage, the value would be around $1,000,000.
Dunzel Curtis, an expert forensic chemist, testified that the heroin did not come from Mexico, but that it came from Europe or the Orient<|fim_middle|>, control and exclusive possession I have described]."
Defendant argues that the wording of the case of People v. Redrick (1961) 55 Cal. 2d 282 [10 Cal. Rptr. 823, 359 P.2d 255], should have been used to formulate the instruction. "The admonition has been frequently stated that it is dangerous to frame an instruction upon isolated extracts from the opinions of the court." (Francis v. City & County of San Francisco (1955) 44 Cal. 2d 335, 341 [282 P.2d 496].)
It is unnecessary to give an instruction where the instruction is amply covered by another instruction (see People v. Goree (1966) 239 Cal. App. 2d 906, 916-917 [49 Cal.Rptr. 166]), and undue repetition in instructions is improper (see People v. Bickerstaff (1920) 46 Cal. App. 764 [190 P. 656]). In the case at bench, the instruction given fully covered the instruction requested by defendant nor can we find anything wrong with the sequence of instructions. The jury could not have been misled by being told that "every person who possesses any narcotic such as heroin for purpose of sale is guilty of a crime," where the jury was also fully instructed on the requirements of knowledge, dominion and control.
Defendant argues that there was no evidence on which to instruct on "joint possession" and therefore the instruction on joint possession was improper. In view of what we have said earlier it follows that this instruction was not error.
[12] Defendant also alleges prejudicial misconduct in the argument to the jury. It is true that the prosecutor went outside of the record by stating the value of heroin in the Orient, and he also improperly stated his personal belief as to the guilt of the defendant. However, when the defendant objected to both these errors the court sustained the objection [256 Cal. App. 2d 422] and instructed the jury to disregard the remarks of counsel. An instruction to the jury of this type cures the error. (See People v. Harrington (1957) 154 Cal. App. 2d 857, 860 [317 P.2d 161]; People v. Brice (1957) 49 Cal. 2d 434, 437 [317 P.2d 961].) At several other times defense counsel objected to other statements of the prosecutor but the objections were of the most general nature. Furthermore, defendant did not make an assignment of misconduct and seek a curative instruction as he is required to do. (People v. Hampton (1956) 47 Cal. 2d 239 [302 P.2d 300].) We do not believe the defendant was prejudiced by the remarks of the prosecutor.
The judgment is affirmed.
Files, P. J., and Jefferson, J., concurred.
"In the Municipal Court of Los Angeles Judicial District
County of Los Angeles, State of California
"State of California "Affidavit In Support of
County of Los Angeles And Petition for A Search Warrant
"Personally appeared before me this 31st day of May, 1963, James Grennan, Los Angeles Police Department who, on oath, makes complaint, and deposes and says that he has and there is just, probable and reasonable cause to believe, and that he does believe, that there is now in the possession of Charline Peterson, aka, Charline Merritt on the premises located at and described as 240 West 113th Street, Los Angeles, California, a one story white frame single family residence with a garage in rear of residence, and in a vehicle described as 1962 Ford Fairlane yellow sedan, 1963 California license No. QLH 952 and on the person(s) of Charline Peterson, aka Charline Merritt the following personal property, to wit: heroin
"Facts in support of issuance of search warrant:
"Your affiant has been a police officer for 17 years and for the past 5 years has been assigned to the Narcotics Division of the Los Angeles Police Department with a primary duty of investigating narcotics activity. In his experience, he has made and assisted in making several hundred arrests for narcotics activity. Your affiant has received formal academic and informal on the job training from the Los Angeles Police Department in narcotics and has testified as an expert in the [256 Cal. App. 2d 423] Municipal and Superior Courts of Los Angeles County regarding narcotics charges, usage and traffic several hundred times. Your affiant is the investigator in charge of this case.
"On December 26, 1962 John D. Walker who had given prior information which resulted in the recovery of heroin told your affiant that Louise Brown was selling heroin from her residence at 2033 Harcourt Street, Los Angeles, California; that said Louise Brown purchased her heroin from a female known as Charline who would deliver the heroin by automobile to the above-mentioned location; that Charline was a nurse who imported heroin by ship from the Orient every three or four months.
"On January 8, 1963 your affiant arrested said Louise Brown at the above- mentioned address and recovered heroin there; that at the time of said arrest, David Rogers was in the house; that David Rogers told your affiant that Louise Brown was buying heroin in large quantities from a girl named Charline who was a nurse; that Charline would deliver the heroin to Louise Brown by automobile to the above-mentioned location; that Charline received her heroin from a ship arriving from the Orient every three or four months; that Charline's telephone number was PL 6-0983; on January 8, 1963 said David Rogers also gave reliable information that led to the arrest of one Frank Brown on January 9, 1963 for possession of narcotics at which time narcotics were recovered.
"On March 4, 1963 an untested informant told your affiant that Louise Brown was buying heroin in large quantities from a nurse known as Charline who lived in the south part of Los Angeles and who would deliver the heroin to Louise Brown at the above-mentioned location; that Charline received her heroin by ship from the Orient every three or four months.
"On May 31, 1963 another untested informant told your affiant that this informant was buying heroin in lots of one ounce and more from Charline Peterson who would deliver the heroin by automobile; that Charline can be reached by telephone number PL 6-0983; that Charline keeps her heroin in her residence located at 240 West 113th Street, Los Angeles, California; that Charline received her heroin by ship from the Orient every three or four months and just recently received such shipment.
"Investigation by your affiant revealed that the telephone number PL 6- 0983 is registered to Charline Peterson at 240 West 113th Street, Los Angeles, California.
"Investigation by your affiant revealed that the utilities at [256 Cal. App. 2d 424] 240 West 113th Street, Los Angeles, California are registered to Charline Merritt.
"Investigation by your affiant revealed that a 1962 Ford Fairlane yellow sedan, 1963 California license No. QLH 952 is registered to Charline Peterson at 240 West 113th Street, Los Angeles, California. On several occasions, the last of which was during the latter half of May, 1963, your affiant saw the above-described car in the driveway of 240 West 113th Street, Los Angeles, California.
"That based upon the aforementioned information, facts and circumstances, your affiant has reasonable cause to believe that grounds for the issuance of a search warrant, as set forth in Section 1524 of the Penal Code, exist.
"That based upon the above facts, your affiant prays that a search warrant be issued for the seizure of said property, or any part thereof, (at any time of the day or night, good cause being shown therefor), and that the same be brought before this magistrate or retained subject to the order of this court pursuant to Section 1536 of the Penal Code.
"James Grennan
"Affiant
"Subscribed and sworn to before me
this 31st day of May, 1963.
James D. Tante
Judge of the Municipal Court
Los Angeles Judicial District"
FN 1. The judgment was reversed for failure to allow defendants to traverse the affidavit on which the warrant was issued. (People v. Peterson (1965) 233 Cal. App. 2d 481 [43 Cal. Rptr. 457].) As we point out, at the second trial the court conducted a full hearing on that issue; we review its determination in this opinion.
FN 2. The full affidavit is set forth in the appendix to this opinion.
FN 3. Consult, inter alia:people v. Pineda (1967) 253 Cal. App. 2d 443 [62 Cal. Rptr. 144]; People v. Aguilar (1966) 240 Cal. App. 2d 502 [49 Cal. Rptr. 584].
FN 4. For a discussion of the difference between conspiracy (requiring evidence of a prior agreement) and aiding and abetting, consult People v. Samarjian (1966) 240 Cal. App. 2d 13 [49 Cal. Rptr. 180]. As we there pointed out, the nature of the trade in narcotics is such that the existence of a conspiracy to sell is more easily inferred than where the parties deal in goods not necessarily "contraband."
of California Court of Appeal opinions. | , and that it could have come from certain countries which defendant visited. [256 Cal. App. 2d 416]
Defendant, as chief steward, sailed to the Far East several times a year. Defendant made five draws in salary at Okinawa, Formosa, Bangkok, and somewhere between Kobe and Yokohama. Defendant's earnings were $2,061.65, and at the end of the trip he had a total of $784.30 due him in salary. Defendant testified that, during his trip to the Orient, he purchased a tape recorder for $300, an art object for $25, and that he sent $200 home.
Defendant's boat docked in Oakland May 31, 1963. Members of the families of the crew would be given advance information as to the ship's arrival. Defendant went to Los Angeles on June 7, 1963. At about 11 p.m. he went to visit his niece. The next day, about 6 p.m., Charlene asked him to move his car out of her way, and defendant told her to use his car instead, since he was watching television.
Defendant denied ever smuggling narcotics. Defendant testified that three of Charlene's brothers were also seamen and that two of them worked for a line that went, among other places, to the Orient. Defendant did not have a copy of the cashier's check for the $200 he sent home from Okinawa. At defendant's former trial he was asked how much he drew "in any one port," and he said "it averaged $50 to maybe $200 in various ports." Defendant did not recall drawing the $300 until he heard it repeated when a witness testified. Defendant claimed he paid $300 in Yokohama for the tape recorder. At defendant's prior trial he testified that his room had been searched and at this trial he said no one searched the room. Defendant had listed the tape recorder to customs at $90, but defendant explained that the actual cost was $300. He explained that he changed his testimony at his previous trial in regard to whether there was a search because he discovered that the search which he testified to earlier was not a contraband search. At the time of his first trial he did not know what a contraband search was. Defendant said that when he testified that no search had been made of his room in the case at bar he meant no contraband search, and not another type of search.
Defendant advances numerous errors on appeal. Defendant alleged that the motion to quash the search warrant under Penal Code sections 1539 and 1540 was improperly conducted; that the evidence is insufficient to support the verdict; that the prosecution failed to state a public offense in his opening statement; that the officer forced his way into the house and exhibited no warrant; that the court erred in its instructions; [256 Cal. App. 2d 417] that there was misconduct of the prosecutor in his closing argument; and that there were numerous errors in evidence.
Defendant asserts that the 1539 - 1540 hearing was improper in that the magistrate held that the burden is on the defendant to go forward in contesting the warrant and that each side produce witnesses they wanted; defendant argues that the burden should have been put on the prosecutor. Defendant also asserts that the prosecutor had the duty of producing the informants as witnesses, and that the officer is not a "witness" under sections 1539 and 869.
[1] It has been held that the burden of establishing the invalidity of a search warrant is upon the defendant. (Williams v. Justice Court (1964) 230 Cal. App. 2d 87, 97-98 [40 Cal. Rptr. 724].)
[2] We have set forth, in the appendix, the affidavit in question. Tested by the rules laid down by the United States Supreme Court, as those rules have been interpreted by the California courts, fn. 3 the affidavit was sufficient. On appeal, the test is whether or not the magistrate could form a reasonable belief, based on the information contained in the affidavit, that the articles sought were present at the place or places to be searched. It is immaterial that the affiant (usually a police officer) does not have personal knowledge of the data included in the affidavit, so long as the affidavit discloses (a) that the officer's informant had personal knowledge of the facts related by him to the officer, and (b) that the officer's informant was a person on whose statements the magistrate was entitled to rely. Tested by those rules, the affidavit here was sufficient. We cannot say that the magistrate was in error in regarding the information given to him about the informants as enough to establish their credibility. Although some of the informants' statements concerning Charlene do appear to have been hearsay as to them, there was some information, given as the personal knowledge of at least two informants, to corroborate any hearsay from the other informant.
[3] Since we hold that the warrant was valid, it follows that the search of the Chevrolet was lawful and the narcotics thus found admissible, quite apart from any question of the right of the officer to arrest Charlene because of her "furtive" [256 Cal. App. 2d 418] conduct. The warrant authorized a search of Charlene's person. As we pointed out in People v. Aguilar, supra, 240 Cal. App. 2d 502, 505, "Since it is an obvious impossibility to search the person of an individual without first taking him into custody, the warrant impliedly authorized an arrest as a step in the authorized search." With Charlene lawfully in custody, and with knowledge of conduct on her part which suggested a recent secretion of something in the car she was driving, a search of the car as part of the procedure was clearly proper.
In addition, the information previously given to the officers, together with Charlene's conduct when she realized that she was being followed, was itself sufficient to justify her arrest and the search that followed.
[4] Defendant claims error on the theory that the officers forced their way into the apartment without exhibiting the warrant. Although, as above indicated, the two officers did not give exactly the same account of their entry, the jury could conclude that they entered with defendant's consent and that they did exhibit the warrant to him before the search began. The fact that Charlene had already been taken into custody destroyed neither the officers' rights under the warrant nor their right of entry, since they could well suspect that anyone in the apartment was likely to be involved in Charlene's operations.
[5] Defendant contends that he was erroneously refused the opportunity to cross-examine Officer Grennan concerning statements in his affidavit. The purported purpose was to show that the affidavit alleged that Charlene had already received a shipment of heroin on or before May 31st, at a time when defendant Wilson was still aboard his ship. These facts were obvious from the face of the affidavit itself and were developed during the trial; defendant suffered no prejudice from the ruling now complained of.
[6] Defendant objects that the opening statement of the district attorney failed to state a public offense. We know of no rule requiring the district attorney to state a public offense in his opening statement, nor is there any reason to have such a rule since defendant is fully apprised of the charge against him in other ways. In People v. Mihaly (1928) 95 Cal.App. [256 Cal. App. 2d 419] 563, 565 [272 P. 1103], defendant argued that the district attorney failed to state sufficient facts in his opening statement to show the commission of a crime. The court said the opening statements of counsel do not put a limitation on the right of either party to introduce evidence. In People v. Stoll (1904) 143 Cal. 689, 690 [77 P. 818], the court held that the opening statement of the district attorney is not evidence for any purpose nor conclusive as to the presentation of evidence not stated, and an instruction to the jury to find a verdict for defendant on such opening statement is void. Indeed, a prosecutor is not even required to make an opening statement. (People v. Lopez (1949) 93 Cal. App. 2d 664, 667 [209 P.2d 439].) We believe that the logical conclusion based on the reasoning of these cases is that the prosecutor need not state a public offense in his opening statement.
[7a] Defendant's assertion that the evidence is insufficient to support the verdict is not well taken.
[8] The elements of the crime at bench require that the defendant exercise dominion and control over the narcotic, have knowledge of the narcotic's presence, and knowledge that the material was a narcotic. (People v. Groom (1964) 60 Cal. 2d 694, 696 [36 Cal. Rptr. 327, 388 P.2d 359].) Constructive possession is all that is necessary, and this may be proved by circumstantial evidence. (People v. Luke (1965) 233 Cal. App. 2d 793, 796 [43 Cal. Rptr. 878]; People v. Flores (1957) 155 Cal. App. 2d 347 [318 P.2d 65].) [9] To show knowing possession of narcotics, the conduct of the parties, admission and contradictory statements and explanation are frequently enough. (People v. Hokuf (1966) 245 Cal. App. 2d 394 [53 Cal. Rptr. 828]; People v. Ortiz (1960) 185 Cal. App. 2d 622, 624 [8 Cal. Rptr. 494]; People v. Torres (1950) 98 Cal. App. 2d 189 [219 P.2d 480]; People v. Foster (1953) 115 Cal. App. 2d 866 [253 P.2d 50].)
[7b] Here defendant Wilson was in apparent possession of the apartment where the major part of the heroin was found, his automobile was being used to make a delivery of heroin, and he told contradictory and somewhat ingenuous stories to account for large expenditures of funds while in places where the heroin could well have been purchased. It is true that the affidavit on which the search warrant issued had claimed that Charlene possessed some heroin before Wilson's arrival, and that he had an explanation for all of the incriminating [256 Cal. App. 2d 420] facts. But the jury was not required to believe him, and it was its function, and not ours, to weigh the conflicting evidence and the inferences to be drawn therefrom. We cannot say that its verdict was without support.
[10] Since the jury was entitled to believe that Wilson had furnished his automobile for the purpose of delivery of heroin, the evidence of Charlene's arrest and the search that followed was properly admitted against him. It is immaterial whether or not the evidence would support a finding of conspiracy between Wilson and Charlene (although we think that it would). fn. 4 Even if Wilson is regarded only as guilty of aiding and abetting Charlene's possession for sale, it is a part of the People's case to prove the guilt of the common law principal. The evidence complained of did no more.
[11] Defendant alleges error in instructions to the jury. The instruction requested by the defendant and refused by the court was:
"The elements which the People must prove to establish the crime of possession of narcotics for sale are:
"1. Dewey Wilson must be shown to have had possession of the contraband, which means he must be shown to have exercised dominion and control over the contraband, and
"2. Dewey Wilson must be shown to have had knowledge both of the presence of the drug and of its narcotic character, and
"3. That Dewey Wilson had such dominion, control and knowledge for the purpose of selling the contraband."
The instructions given by the court were as follows:
"Every person who possesses any narcotic such as heroin for purpose of sale is guilty of a crime.
"To constitute the illegal possession of a narcotic, the acts of dominion and control must be accompanied by knowledge on the part of the accused of (1) the presence of the narcotic object, and (2) of its narcotic nature. Unless such knowledge exists, the crime of illegal possession of a narcotic is not committed.
"The knowledge required by law may be shown by circumstantial [256 Cal. App. 2d 421] evidence; it is manifested by the circumstances attending the possession, the manner in which it is exercised, the means used, and the sound mind and discretion of the person committing the act.
"Within the meaning of the law, a person is in possession of a narcotic when he knowingly has the narcotic under his dominion and control, and, to his knowledge, it either is carried on his person or is in his presence and custody, or, if not on his person or in his presence, the possession thereof is immediate, accessible, and exclusive to him [, provided, however, that two or more persons may have joint possession of a narcotic if jointly and knowingly they have the dominion | 2,970 |
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If a punter has a strong feeling that the favourites will win the contest in a high scoring thriller, enhanced odds might be available via this market. Likewise, a match looking like being a tight, defensive clash, could be a candidate for Under 2.5 goals and therefore bigger potential prices on both teams.
The bet is, however, essentially a 'double', so there is the risk that the winners might be called correctly, but the goal element is wrong, causing the bet to go down.
Astute bettors will always seek out and analyse these new markets. Any opportunity to extract value needs to be explored. Often, when forming an idea of how a game might go regarding the match odds market, an overall picture of the game will be laid out. On occasion, this thought process will also lead to a general opinion on the number of goals, and with the Quatro option, a bet with a superior 'fit' to simple match odds is on offer.
In the example above, Arsenal romped home against Wigan, winning 4-0, despite being away from home. Those on at 2.25 with 3 goals or more, | 273 |
Other things being equal, this year will see the end of open plan and start of a four day week
by Mark Eltringham • Features
You'll only get one prediction from me this year and that's about how all of the other workplace predictions will be cut and paste jobs from the past three decades and more. If you want to take a cynical approach to the whole thing, you'll find one from your humble servant here. Apart from that, if you only read one set of actual predictions for 2020 or even the Twenties (that'll take some getting used to), then make it this from an author also jaded and burdened by too many glib pronouncements about work and workplaces in general and the annual parade of predictable predictions in particular.
Another author worth following if you don't already is Antony Slumbers who takes a longer term view<|fim_middle|>'s workers. The news has been greeted with excitement across major news outlets and on social media.
The problem is that it's not true, according to a smaller but better informed Finnish news outlet. The mainstream media have been hastily editing their stories and issuing corrections so it will be interesting to see how this one goes, because it's still true on Twitter. Why use information, original sources and nuance when you can rely on the glib narrative of a mass of complete strangers, especially when there's money to be made? Glittering prizes and endless compromises shatter the illusion of integrity.
Talking of uninformed and over-simplified narratives, we can confidently predict that 2020 will see an ongoing obsession with 'open plan', the quotation marks indicating that we're talking about open plan in the sense of the worst thing that could ever possibly happen to anybody.
We've published our own informed refutations of this narrative and its reliance on a one-sided look at the evidence and a couple of feeble studies in particular. Indeed, the best read story on Workplace Insight last year was Tim Oldman's evisceration of it all.
Now another informed take comes from Kate Lister in this piece, which adopts the same exasperated tone in highlighting yet again that we are dealing with complex issues.
Few offices are being built as all-open these days. Large or small open areas may be part of the mix, but the majority of projects now recognize people need space for privacy, rest and rejuvenation, large and small meetings, individual and team meetings, and somewhere to sit with a cup of good coffee.
In my first year of college, my curmudgeonly economics professor continually used the phrase "all else being equal." I bravely raised my hand one day and asked why we bothered studying such concepts because, in the real world, we don't get to hold everything else equal. The 'C' I got in Econ101 that semester notwithstanding, the reality is that the world is messy and so is trying to create great workspace. What is it they say about assumptions?
Perhaps the most important contextual factor to bear in mind when it comes to assessing the impact of a workplace is the culture within which it functions. People can be happy in bland or even poor surroundings if the working culture suits them, and the reverse is also true. Culture is intrinsically nebulous and often not what senior managers think it is, a subject addressed in this piece in the Harvard Business Review which looks at how we might develop analytics to help us assess cultural workplace factors.
Finally, to return to the issue of the environment, we need to open up to the idea that the solutions to the climate crisis might also be complex and nuanced. We might assume that the digitisation of life might be better than the use of physical space and objects, but we should always check. As an example, it's reasonable to assume that using Spotify is better than buying CDs, but it may not be true.
So other things being equal, most problems have a straightforward solution. But other things are never equal.
Image: From The Sea of Time and Space by William Blake, currently on loan at the Tate's exhibition of Blake's work till February 2020 before returning to Arlington Court.
Flexible working and always on culture have a negative effect on families The changing expectations of call and contact centres | for the whole decade in this piece focusing on the implications of technology for the commercial property sector. His main argument remains consistently that what now looks like magic will soon just be normal. This piece on smartphone adoption in the past decade illustrates Antony's point.
The rule of thumb is always that in complex systems – pretty much anything that involves people – there are no easy answers. As Neil Morrison highlights in his piece linked above, this is perhaps especially true for personality tests, described in this New York Times piece as the astrology of the office but which concludes they're sort of useful if you accept them on a limited basis. You definitely shouldn't use them as the sole basis for decisions you might come to regret, such as a choice of paint.
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The big workplace story in the first week of the year, apart from the underlying onus on us all to do far more about the planet, has been Finland's decision to introduce a mandatory four day week for the nation | 204 |
The Bloop Coffee Table defies the paradox of weight and weightlessness, a concept further accentuated by the tables support placed off-centre<|fim_middle|> it a new balance point. The upward-rounded edges of both its base and top are made to appear almost soaring and flowing gracefully between its thin leg, defining Bloop as a sturdy piece with lightweight appearance.
The coffee tables are available in 6 different types of timber oak, walnut, maple, elm, cherry and pear, with various natural finishes, Danish oils and soaps.
Timbers sourced from renewable resources and environmentally friendly materials for treatment.
ARTISAN is an international award winning design and innovation manufacturer specialising in the manual production of high quality furniture made from solid timber, their insistence on manual artisan work is what sets them apart. | . It's distinctive character is embodied in sculptural fluid transitions between interconnected parts, with soft rounded edges and refined, constructive details – a design language applied consistently throughout the entire solid timber furniture collection designed by Regular Company for Artisan.
The organic joint between the leg and the table top reinforces its stability, a design that allows only one slim, vertical element, highlighting the tables sophisticated character.
Crafted from solid timber, Bloop's unconventional form was created by shifting the axis of rotation of its base, leg and top thus defining the tables proportions and giving | 110 |
Hand pressed from lithium disilicate ingots from your choice of investment materials – IPS PressVEST® and IPS PressVEST Speed® – IPS e.max® Press provides 400 MPa strengths with translucency that made it the go-to est<|fim_middle|> PFM or a zirconium, either a substructure or monolithic. | hetic restoration for many doctors for more than a decade. Available in all 16 A-D Vita® shades and four Bleach BL shades, IPS e.max press is suitable for nearly every indication. Because Keating Dental Arts offers staining, cut-back or layering, you'll receive the finish of your choice.
The innovative Multi ingots are available in selected Bleach BL and A–D shades. The material demonstrates a lifelike shade progression from the dentin to the incisal areas and therefore imparts monolithic restorations with a highly esthetic appearance. With these ingots, veneers and anterior, posterior and hybrid abutment crowns are fabricated quickly and efficiently. Ideally, these restorations only need to be glazed. If desired, however, they can be modified using the staining or cut-back technique.
The high translucency ingots (HT) are suitable for the fabrication of minimally invasive full-contour restorations, such as inlays, onlays, and veneers. The restorations are characterized by staining materials.
The MT ingots are provided in the following shades: A1, A2, A3, B1, BL2, BL3, and BL4. These medium-translucency ingots are used in cases where a brighter material than HT and a more translucent material than LT is needed. Restorations made of the MT ingots are ideal for the staining and cut-back techniques.
Full-contour partial crowns and crowns are fabricated with the low translucency ingots (LT). In the anterior region, in particular, the esthetic appearance of the restorations is maximized by employing the cut-back technique.
The medium opacity ingots (MO) are used to fabricate substructures for vital or slightly discolored teeth. They create an ideal basis for lifelike restorations completed with the layering technique.
In cases where the prepared tooth structure is discolored or titanium abutments are used, the HO ingots mask the dark background to achieve highly esthetic results.
The Impulse™ ingots are available in two different levels of brightness (Opal 1, Opal 2). The restorations produced with these ingots have exceptionally opalescent properties. Therefore, this material is ideal for producing (thin) veneers for light teeth, which require an opalescent effect.
Our next category is lithium disilicate and there's really only one on the market and that's E-Max and I think most of you are probably familiar with E-Max, again lithium disilicate. Flexural strength of this material is approximately 400 megapascals. As you can see, this is about four times stronger than the porcelain on a PFM, yet only about a third of the strength of our KDZ Bruxer. Now, our KDZ Bruxer® Aesthetic, as I mentioned, is about 650, so a little less in the strength of our KDZ Bruxer® Aesthetic, which is our anterior monolithic or aesthetics monolithic zirconia and a third of that of our monolithic KDZ Bruxer.
Where I use E-Max is veneers, anterior crowns, and that includes pre-molars, I consider a pre-molar to be an anterior too, and posterior crowns with adequate occlusal clearance and I would say a minimum of 1 mm occlusal clearance. As I mentioned earlier with the KDZ Bruxer or the KDZ Bruxer® Aesthetic, monolithic zirconia, we can go 0.5 mm. In some situations on second molars where the patient has a reduced inner arch distance, maybe a short clinical crown prep and we have minimal occlusal clearance, E-Max is contraindicated, in my opinion for that. That's where a KDZ Bruxer or a KDZ Bruxer® Aesthetic is ideal.
The other application for E-Max is anterior three-unit bridges. The pontic width, maximum, is 11 mm in the anterior, so that's single pontic, and 9 mm in the posterior. That is a pre-molar. I have no problem going a bridge from 27 to 29 or 20 to 22 with E-Max, but as soon as we go and we replace a molar where the pontic width is greater than 9 mm, we're going to switch to either | 927 |
The purpose of this project was to renovate and existing bathhouse for year round troop training use<|fim_middle|> existing chain link fence enclosing the pool and five existing light standards within the fenced enclosure were relocated for the install of the AID. | . The need for additional lap space is critical for soldier fitness and training.
Renovations included heating and ventilation, as well as site amenities (foundation, utility connections, etc) for an 'air structure'. The existing one story structure was built in 1987 and consists of 3,300 SF. The existing open air Bathhouse was enclosed from the top of CMU wall to the underside of the wood deck with a storefront glazing system. The entry into the Bathhouse from the pool area was also enclosed with a storefront glazing system. Modifications to the existing interior CMU walls allowed access to the latrines and locker areas without having to go outside of the Bathhouse to access those areas. An office was added to the interior of the Bathhouse. A new HVAC system, minimum heat in the winter and ventilation in the summer, was designed for installation into the existing Bathhouse.
The enclosure of the Bathhouse was designed to marry with an Air Inflated Dome (AID) over the pool. Cromwell provided the following design services with regard to the dome installation: concrete foundation design for the AID, concrete slab design for the equipment pads for the mechanical systems used to inflate the AID, and utility connections for the mechanical systems for the AID (electrical, gas). The | 268 |
Modash is an up and coming startup to help companies find instagram influencers easily.
Small teams usually don't spend efforts managing learnings and only realize the cost of it later when the problem hurts. But that's not the case at Modash.
We chatted with Avery, CEO at Modash, to learn more about why he thinks it is better to kick-start the knowledge management process sooner than later in his team in a fast way.
"We are building the knowledge base to scale the team faster in the future." Avery said.
Modash has been growing very fast, from 3 founders to about 10 people in 3 months. The team gains tons of new knowledge every day including new processes, feedback from customers and objections from leads.
Building a knowledge base as early as possible allows the team to scale even faster because the team can benefit from each other's learnings easily.
For example, Modash encourages teammates to really meet and talk to potential customers to learn more about the market. With an easily accessible knowledge base, even the teammates who were not present in the meetings would be able to pick up the learnings because the key meeting takeaways are all available in the team knowledge base with one search away.
"The founders can stay more focused and at the same time help the team grow by allowing the team to access our learnings. It also helps the founders stay aligned with the team's learnings." Avery emphasized. They have an aggressive goal to grow to 30+ people in 6 months and he believes that sharing knowledge among teammates is the key to achieving the goal.
Most of the Modash team members are working from the same office.<|fim_middle|>Subscribe to our blog to keep updated with the progress! | It is tempting to simply tap a teammate's shoulder and ask an easy question. But that could cause huge productivity lost if everyone does so, especially for a small team.
Maximizing the team productivity is one of the major reasons behind building a knowledge base at Modash, that teammates can avoid asking repeated questions and interrupting each other's work when they can get the answer easily from the knowledge base that integrates with their daily communication tool, Slack.
"Some of our teammates even work during evenings, a knowledge base allows them to access someone's knowledge or learnings even when they are offline." Avery said.
The next major challenge at Modash is how to onboard new hires faster without costing too much time from the existing team. There is some basic knowledge the new hires should know about the market and the product. On the other way round, the team can benefit as well if there is an effective way for the new hires to share their new perspectives and knowledge to improve the team together.
Our team is working closely with Modash to develop a smooth way to onboard new hires progressively without scaring them away with a 100-page onboarding manual, automatically via Slack.
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Mama Mayhem
Southern 80
Celebrating a lifetime of love
By Laura Briggs
Handsome couple: Joe and Annetta Basile at the time of their engagement.
Special anniversary: Tatura's Joe and Annetta Basile celebrate 60 years together.
Tatura's Joe and Annetta Basile have celebrated a mighty milestone after 60 years of marriage.
Having both moved from Italy to Tatura in the early 1950s to build a better life for themselves, the young couple met at a mutual friend's wedding.
Mr Basile, 23 at the time, was driving the car for the groomsmen on the day while Mrs Basile, 18, was a bridesmaid.
The pair met and wasted no time, exchanging vows at the Sacred Heart Church in Tatura on June 6, 1959 — about 12 months from the day they first laid eyes on one another.
The following year the young lovers purchased a farm in Dhurringile where they worked hard to earn a living through farming cows and pigs and growing tomatoes — all while raising three children.
The Basiles continued farming for 30 years before they returned to Tatura where they built the place they still call home today.
Having endured many hardships throughout the decades, including the loss of their son, Mrs Basile said times had been tough, but the couple's love for each other did not waver.
''We had our ups and downs — every family has them — but our love stayed the same.''
Mr Basile said their Catholic faith also played a part in keeping the couple strong through the difficult times.
''We've had a bit of bad luck over the years but there's still a God up there that looks after us,'' he said.
With 60 years now under their belt Mrs Basile said their marriage was not something they<|fim_middle|> do not walk out because of an argument — just stick together, do your best to get along and you'll sort it out.''
Mrs Basile said while life had been a crazy ride for them, she was blessed by the bond they shared and the close-knit community in they were delighted to be part of.
The Lead: January 25
Tonight on The Lead, we find out more about the Bowls Premier League set to be held at Moama Bowling Club next month
Riverine Herald
Give a dog a home: Stella
THIS pup could be the love of your life and the new star of your family, but you'll have to meet her to believe it. Stella is a one-year-old Bull Arab mix with a sweet yet shy nature, until you get to know her that is. She would be best suited to...
The Lead - January 23
Tonight on The Lead, we talk to Moama and Mathoura footballers about their upcoming charity clash
Delays and diversions around Service St works
Tatura commuters can expect some delays and traffic diversions around asphalt surfacing works on Service St next week, from Monday to Friday. Greater Shepparton City Council would like to advise the community that road servicing will occur from...
Spencer Fowler Steen
Tatura Library temporary closure and redevelopment
A pop-up library will replace the Tatura Library for six months, as a $2 million redevelopment gets under way. Greater Shepparton City Council unveils the pop-up on Tuesday, and said it would remain open until the end of June. No library...
Council acknowledges Tatura's rejection of fluoridated water
The Greater Shepparton City Council has acknowledged it has received the petition objecting to the fluoridation of Tatura's town water. At the Ordinary Council Meeting held on Tuesday, December 17, the petition containing 1446 signatures was marked... | took lightly and they were thrilled to have reached 60 years together.
She said patience and persistence was the key.
''I would say to any young couple just starting out in marriage to treat each other as equal and | 44 |
We can't believe that July is already over, and that means that Camp NaNo<|fim_middle|> of all shapes and sizes going on. We loved hearing about them and cheering on our friends!
What were your goals this month?
We hope everyone else had a great Camp NaNo season, and even if you didn't technically "win," don't worry -- even writing a single word or editing a single line is better progress than nothing! | is, too! This is the first year we ever participated, and we're so glad that we did, because it really helped us get a good chunk of our current stories completed!
Jessica's goal this year was to write at least 30K of her 50K novel in the month of July, and she completed it with a week to spare! So now she's feeling super empowered and motivated to finish off her story strong and polish it off so she's sure that it's ready for Pitch Wars in October!
All in all, Camp NaNo was such a great experience for us. We got to be in a cabin with all of our amazing blogger friends that we met up with at BookExpo, and we even did some virtual write-ins together that helped us boost our word counts! It was really great to be in a big group with so many different projects | 178 |
Ethex triples finance for businesses creating positive impact in past year
Online marketplace raises £18 million for projects, including renewable energy, organic farms and social property. Ethex has tripled finance for businesses creating social and environmental change in a year, thanks to growing demand for investments that make a positive impact and pay a financial return.
The award-winning positive investment platform has raised more than £12 million for values-driven enterprises in the last 12 months, taking the overall total from £6 million to £18.1 million
Lisa Ashford, Chief<|fim_middle|>curities as Global Head of Voluntary Markets to finance environmental projects in developing countries. She is also Chair of Goring and Streatley Community Energy, where she is working to get a community hydro scheme off the ground.
Jamie Hartzell, Founder and Chair of Ethex, set up the Ethical Property Company in 1988. He is active in the Fairtrade sector as Chair of both Divine Chocolate and Zaytoun, which imports olive oil and other products from Palestine.
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Centrica backs energy-focused social investment fund | Executive of Ethex, said: "We are seeing an explosion of interest from people who want to invest their money where it will earn a return and make an impact. Ethex is helping to finance a more sustainable world by providing a marketplace for businesses creating positive change and connecting them with like-minded investors."
Since its launch in January 2013 Ethex has raised finance over 40 positive businesses and has listed over 60 different investments including community-owned renewable energy projects, organic farms, micro-finance schemes, social property, fair trade and much more. Current offers include:
– Stockwood Community Benefit Society has launched a £700,000 share offer giving investors the chance to become co-owners of the farm that inspired BBC Radio 4's The Archers and earn 5% interest. The funds will allow it to add 35-acres to its biodynamic farmland near Redditch, Worcestershire, and install renewable energy at its business park.
– Mapledurham Community Energy has launched a share offer paying a 7% return to build a £2.1 million community-owned anaerobic digestion plant on the Mapledurham estate, Oxfordshire, which will generate clean energy and heat from cattle slurry and maize silage.
– Clevedon Pier and Heritage Trust is seeking £500,000 to upgrade the North Somerset Grade 1 listed pier and build a visitor centre with the goal of attracting 90,000 visitors a year. Shares pay 2% interest.
– Harborough Energy is raising £183,600 to install solar panels on a school and health centre in Leicestershire. Shares pay 5% interest and surplus funds will tackle fuel poverty.
– Thera Trust is launching a charity bond on the 19th October to raise £2 million, which will principally fund the acquisition and adaptation of freehold properties to provide much needed homes for people with a learning disability and complex needs. Return 5.5% gross per year.
Ethex was founded after social entrepreneur Jamie Hartzell realised that many investors wanted their money to make a positive impact but there was nowhere for them to easily find and compare investments that support sustainable economic development, enhance quality of life and safeguard the environment.
The not-for-profit aims to develop a mass market in positive investing and saving by making it accessible and easy to do. Ethex is an online marketplace, which offers a range of positive saving and investment opportunities, and allows people to compare their social, environmental and financial targets.
Ethex requires all businesses it lists to report against a common set of social and environmental performance indicators including social impact (local employment, procurement policies, community investment), environmental impact (waste and recycling, carbon emissions) and governance (diversity of board and staff, salary ratios).
It provides a secondary market so that investors can sell their shares and a portfolio tool allowing them to track and manage their investments
Ethex has also developed a service to support independent financial advisors and encouraging them to offer positive investments to their clients. This has unlocked almost £2 million into unlisted positive investments.
It won Investment Deal of the Year at the 2014 Social Enterprise Awards, the Finance Award at the 2014 PEA Awards, the Sustainable Finance Award at the 2015 Sustainable City Awards and, most recently, the Community Energy Funding Award in the 2015 Community Energy Awards.
Lisa Ashford, Chief Executive, Ethex, has a background in energy and environmental finance. She has worked in financial services in energy markets at OM London Exchange and Amsterdam Power Exchange before joining Ecose | 752 |
It all begins with a stressed out Full Moon on October 5. If you had a moment of insanity recently and made an investment that was quite risky, you could lose out big time. Another possibility is that one of your children has a health or educational expense that costs you a bundle. If you're in the midst of a divorce and will be having a court hearing on child support, there's a good chance you'll have to pay substantially more than you initially realized. These are only a few of many different possible scenarios, but the common theme is that this Full Moon will be an expensive one for you.
The good news is that within<|fim_middle|> have any contracts to sign, you'll negotiate favorable terms. Mentally, you'll be in a place of "yes" for quite some time. It's sure to take you far. | days, on October 14, you'll have fantastic support to help you increase your cash flow. Venus will move into your earned income sector at this time, making it easier than ever for you to cultivate your talents and market them, or to ask your boss for a raise that will be well received. Wait until after October 19, however, before you ask. On this day, a New Moon will fall in your 2nd House of Earned Income, making it even more likely that you'll find ways to make your wallet fatter.
You've had so much financial support over the last thirteen months thanks to Jupiter being in your finance sector, but on October 10, he will kiss this part of your chart goodbye and move onto new territory. Until November 8, 2018, Jupiter will move through your 3rd House of Communications, Short Trips, Siblings, and Neighbors. You may hear amazing news from a brother, sister, or neighbor during this time. Your relationships with your siblings and neighbors will also likely improve. Additionally, you might be ready to enjoy more road trips to places you love driving or taking the train to. State-to-state travel is more likely than international trips, but you will love every moment of your upcoming getaways.
Since the 3rd house rules communications of all kinds, it is very possible that you'll have an opportunity to write, teach, or learn something new. You will be quite excited about these prospects, so go ahead and let your inner nerd shine! Lastly, if you're in the sales industry, your happy money trend should continue. Earnings from sales are likely to flourish. Same goes for any speaking engagements, writing projects, or teaching jobs you get. If you | 359 |
Review: Blackberry Summer
Claire Bradford needed a wake-up call.
What she didn't need was a tragic car accident. As a single mom and the owner of a successful bead shop, Claire leads a predictable life in Hope's Crossing, Colorado<|fim_middle|>. Her characters are charming and realistic.
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Review: Dirty Little Secret | . So what if she has no time for romance? At least, that's what she tells herself, especially when her best friend's sexy younger brother comes back to town as the new chief of police.
But when the accident forces Claire to slow down and lean on others; especially Riley McKnight; she realizes, for the first time, that things need to change. And not just in her own life. The accident; and the string of robberies committed by teenagers that led up to it; is a wake-up call to the people of Hope's Crossing. The sense of community and togetherness had been lost during those tough years. But with a mysterious "Angel of Hope" working to inspire the town, Riley and Claire will find themselves opening up to love and other possibilities by the end of an extraordinary summer.
Blackberry Summer by RaeAnne Thayne is a read all Hallmark fans would love. It's a simple love story combined with mystery. In this book, readers will be transported back into a small-town where everyone pretty much gets along with each other. The town of Hope Crossing finds itself in a string of robberies gone wrong. Claire is the latest business owner being targeted. She find her shop a mess and her big time job destroyed. Calling the police lands her and the new sheriff back into each others' path.
I found the whole book sweet and entertaining. This writer kept me hooked | 285 |
It stands to reason that when people pass their driver's test and receive their driver's license, they should know how to drive.<|fim_middle|> the potential dangers in the road, which can cause you to be involved in a traffic accident.
Obey the posted speed limits: The speed limits are there for your safety. When drivers travel over the speed limits, the chances for accidents and injuries increase.
Do not tailgate: Leave the appropriate amount of room when traveling behind another car so that you have time to brake and react to potential dangers.
Do not drink and drive: When going out for the night, make sure you plan accordingly. Designate a driver or take a taxicab home instead of attempting to get behind the wheel intoxicated.
Always wear your seatbelt: Because you do not know what type of dangers you will encounter along your travels, it is best for you and everyone in your vehicle to buckle up every single time you get behind the wheel.
Merge safely: It is important to your safety and the safety of others sharing the road with you that you merge safely. This is especially true when merging in front of a tractor trailer; make sure you allow plenty of space.
If you were injured in an Atlanta auto accident due to someone else's negligence, please contact a knowledgeable Atlanta personal injury lawyer to find out your rights to recovery.
Call Kalka & Baer today to schedule a free legal consultation. | However, if we all know how to drive, then why do motor vehicle accidents in Atlanta occur? Since wrecks do happen, it indicates that all drivers need to be reminded of roadway safety tips from time to time in order to decrease their chances of being involved and injured in a Georgia crash.
Be alert for potential roadway dangers: Pay attention to the road and the other drivers around you. If you are distracted behind the wheel, you may not see | 90 |
Situated in<|fim_middle|> | the heart of Monkton's horse country, Maryland Polo Club is a diverse mix of players, supporters, volunteers, and friends. Their recent 30th anniversary marked a celebration of the Club's distinguished history, as well as the launch of their new site.
During polo season, there's always something happening at Maryland Polo Club. From upcoming tournaments to weather-related cancellations, keeping members and spectators informed is top priority. As such, we prominently featured upcoming events on the homepage (equipped with a 'cancellation' widget) and implemented a color-coded calendar system for easy reference. All easily administered by anyone on their staff.
Great venue + beautiful horses + talented athletes = amazing photos. Naturally, they must be displayed and shared. The new site houses unlimited galleries and photos, promotes local photographers, and encourages fan photo submissions.
What better way to celebrate the players than to give them their own profile on the new website? The new site highlights club officers and players with a photo and unique write-up for each. New player? No problem. MD Polo Club can easily add, edit, and remove quickly and easily at their leisure. | 228 |
The theme of this city hotel is 'If you want creative people, give them enough time to play'. This hotel brings its work and play philosophy to life through a combination of accommodating service and stylish design. It has 55 rooms in total, including 3 single rooms, 50 double/twin rooms and 2 junior suites, spread across 7 floors. Guests at the hotel enjoy the use of great business facilities in a fun, relaxing atmosphere.<|fim_middle|> and wheelchair-accessible guestrooms also are available. | There is also a complimentary DVD... Read more library, and a babysitting service is provided. Other amenities include air conditioning, a lobby, 24-hour reception and check-out service, a hotel safe, currency exchange facilities, lift access and a breakfast room. The hotel also offers WLAN Internet access, a laundry service (for a fee) and a car hire service. Complimentary snacks and beverages are available throughout the day in the lobby lounge. During most of the year, guests can relax with a cocktail on the eighth-floor rooftop lounge and enjoy the amazing view of the city. There is also on-site parking (subject to availability) and a bicycle hire service. The rooms each feature a double bed and an en suite bathroom with bath and shower. A hairdryer, cable TV, DVD player, radio, Internet access and telephones with voice mail in the main room and bathroom all come as standard. Tea and coffee making facilities, a mini fridge and a private safe also feature. Individually regulated air conditioning and heating are provided. Non-smoking and wheelchair-accessible rooms are available on request. Non-smoking guestrooms | 229 |
The House of Correction
Folkingham, Lincolnshire
This grand entrance is all that survives of a prison once intended for minor offenders. This is a noble piece of architecture, once intended to intimidate, in a beautiful and interesting place.
Bath with Shower
Beds 1 Twin, 1 Double
The idle and disorderly
The House of Correction shares the site of the once great castle that dominated the village of Folkingham in the Middle Ages. Such local prisons were originally intended for minor offenders – mostly the idle (regarded as subversive) and the disorderly. Folkingham had a house of correction by 1611, replaced in 1808 by a new one built inside the castle moat and intended to serve the whole of Kesteven. This was enlarged in 1825 and given this grand new entrance. In 1878 the prison was closed and the inner buildings converted into ten dwellings, all demolished in 1955.
This grand entrance alone survives. It was designed by Bryan Browning, an original and scholarly Lincolnshire architect also responsible for the Sessions House at Bourne. It is a bold and monumental work, borrowing from the styles of Vanbrugh, Sanmichele and Ledoux. Apart from cowing the malefactor it was intended to house the turnkey and the Governor's horses and carriage. Now it gives entrance only to a moated expanse of grass – a noble piece of architecture in a beautiful and interesting place.
Folkingham is one of those agreeable places that are less important than they used to be. It has a single very wide street, lined on each side by handsome buildings, with a large 18th-century inn across the top end. Behind the houses, to the east, lie the moat and earthworks of the medieval castle. Woolsthorpe Manor, home of Sir Isaac Newton, and Belton House are nearby.
House of Correction is set on a moated site raised above the rural peaceful land of Folkingham, Lincolnshire, an attractive village on a historic route, lined on each side by handsome buildings.
Woolsthorpe Manor was the home of Sir Isaac Newton, you can still see the famous apple tree which inspired his theories.
Regarded as the most complete country estate, with it's fantastic collections and beautiful grounds, Belton House is a wonderful day out.
Look out for events at Grimsthorpe Castle such as antique fairs and dog shows, as well as family activities, cycle hire and tours inside the castle itself.
A tour of Hansen's Chocolate House is always a treat for visitors, and you can pre-book tours.
Close by is the Grantham Museum (13.4 miles) and Woolsthorpe Manor (17.4 miles).
Take a look at our Pinterest Map for more ideas and things to do during your stay at House of Correction.
Via a short gravel drive.
Sleaford – 8 miles.
Yes – there is a parking space adjacent to the Landmark.
There are Rointe heaters and an open fire.
Unfortunately, there is currently no arrangement for the purchase and delivery of logs, however details of local sources will be provided with your order confirmation.
The kitchen is fully equipped with all plates, cutlery, fridge etc. There is also an electric cooker, a dishwasher and a microwave.
There is one bathroom with a shower over the bath.
The stairs are steep, spiral and narrow.
There is a small moated garden (unfenced).
Once the gateway to a prison
In 1982 the House of Correction was acquired by the Landmark Trust, a charity which<|fim_middle|> build a new gatehouse. Browning had clearly studied neo-classical architects such as the Frenchman Ledoux, who published designs which were full of strength and drama. He was no doubt familiar too with the work of Vanbrugh, particularly his military buildings. As this gatehouse shows, Browning had undoubtedly learned how to give power to a design by the use of mass and form in a way that must have sent the hearts of new inmates plummeting into their boots.
The regime inside was still based on the original lines of reform through hard treatment and hard labour - a short, sharp shock. Bare boards to sleep on, bread and gruel to eat and work at a treadmill or stone-breaking were standard for felons undergoing a short sentence. Women worked in the laundry or picked oakum. For all there was a daily chapel service.
The House of Correction closed in 1878. Two years later it was sold to a builder who pulled down the outer wall and turned the prison buildings into cottages. In the 1930s the gatehouse was also turned into a house, when a brick addition was made at the back. In the 1960s the cottages were declared unfit and were demolished. It was only by the intervention of the Petersens that Browning's monumental gateway did not suffer the same fate.
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Restoring the gatehouse to its original form
When the Landmark Trust took on the House of Correction it had been lived in as a house for 50 years, with a brick addition at the back which doubled it in size. The addition was Georgian in character and not unattractive but Landmark and its architect, Philip Jebb, felt that it was too much of an anticlimax when compared to the front. The proposal therefore was to take down the addition in order to restore the gatehouse to its original form. Some sort of addition was still desirable however to link the two sides of the gatehouse.
Examination of early plans of the building and a description of it in 1825 provided the answer, together with evidence found in the rear wall. It was clear that when the new gatehouse was built it backed onto the existing prison wall and Turnkey's lodge, which had one room on each side of the entrance, with a water cistern above. The new addition followed the same plan and comes as close to the original as is feasible without photographic or other visual evidence. Most importantly, it respects Bryan Browning's design whereby the rear pediment rises up over the plain brick and stone coping of the wall, as reinstated along the back.
Bricks from the demolished addition were used to form the new back wall and the stones forming the arch of the back door were also taken from the addition, as they had no doubt been taken from one of the former prison buildings in the 1930s - perhaps even the Turnkey's lodge itself. In addition to this, the roof was repaired and new windows and doors provided. On the side elevations, outer doors were fitted to the ground floor windows to recall the original use of the rooms inside as the Governor's stable and coach house.
Some rearrangement was needed inside to make the new accommodation work. With the 1930s addition had gone the only stair from ground to first floor. Therefore two new stairs were built, with one running all the way from the new kitchen to the top room via the new bathroom, the other from the sitting room to the bedroom above it. The floor levels were changed too, making the ground floor rooms slightly lower and those on the first floor taller. Over the arch the floor was raised a little to give a better view out of the window. In the sitting room an existing fireplace was opened up.
The restoration was completed in 1986. It was a long held wish of Sir John Smith, the founder of Landmark, to rebuild the first lengths of the prison wall on either side of the gatehouse, to put it back in its proper frame. This formed a separate phase of work, which was carried out in 1991. New gates and fences, based on a photograph of the old ones, were put up at the same time. Both this and the main restoration were carried out to a very high standard by E. Bowman and Sons of Stamford.
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This very clever scale model of a French c... | rescues historic buildings in distress and gives them a new life by letting them for holidays. Its previous owners were Sir Arthur and Lady Petersen, who had rescued the building from demolition in 1965. By passing it on to Landmark, they both gave it a secure future and also ensured that it would be appreciated by all those people who now stay in it. Like many buildings cared for by Landmark, the House of Correction as we see it today is a fragment of a much larger building.
This imposing structure was once the gateway to a prison capable of accommodating up to 70 wrongdoers. The inmates were not hardened criminals however. Most of them were guilty of minor felonies and misdemeanours such as petty theft, disorderly conduct or that once serious offence of idleness, which as all knew led rapidly to subversion.
There had been a House of Correction in Folkingham, serving parts of Kesteven, since 1609. This original building, now two houses in the market place, had four cells and a small yard for exercise. Here, in a system devised by the Elizabethans, the 'idle poor' were confined and put to work to teach them better ways. But while the corrective power of hard labour lay behind the original Houses of Correction (also known as Bridewells after the first to be founded in a former royal palace in London) they soon merged with ordinary gaols or lock-ups. This is what the one in Folkingham had become when it was visited by an inspector in 1774. His report was damning: as not only was it damp and cramped, but there was no pump and no sewer. When another report of 1802 told the same story, plans were made for its replacement.
Work began on a new House of Correction in 1808. It was built on the site of the great castle of the de Gaunts and the de Beaumonts, which had been abandoned since the 16th century. The moated inner ward lent itself exactly to the new strongly walled compound. The entrance seems to have been quite humble however - an opening in the brick outer wall with the Turnkey's lodge just inside. The Governor's house lay beyond that, on the far side of which was the airing yard for the prisoners, surrounded by the prison buildings themselves.
An 18th century writer declared that prisons should be depressing by reason of their function, with civil prisons expressing misery while criminal ones should evoke actual horror 'let there be deepest shade, cavernous entrances, terrifying inscriptions.' The first entrance apparently did not get the message across strongly enough. In 1825, a gifted local architect, Bryan Browning, was commissioned to | 562 |
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Peel Precinct Garden Club is a project that has been running in the heart of South Kilburn since Jan 2009. It is an arts and environment initiative set up by Avant-Gardener, Polly Brannan to encourage the local community of South Kilburn to get involved and learn about making our local environment more green! So far The Peel Precinct Garden Club has been running gardening workshops at the YELLOW CUBE on Peel Precinct, visiting local gardening enthusiasts from the local area,<|fim_middle|> with the school creating their very own gardening and arts club called the Nature Warriors Club this club uses artistic processes to think about the environment and how we can make our local areas greener!
The Nature Warriors Club has been invited to hold an exhibition of all their hard work at the Peel Precinct on the YELLOW CUBE! They have been planting their very own seedlings and bulbs in and around the outside area of the school as well as growing their very own food including tomatoes, herbs and salads! The pupils have also been creating their very own super hero characters and costumes!
Peel Precinct Garden Club invites you to the launch and celebrations of the Nature Warriors Club! | running arts workshops, helping out South Kilburn Partnership at the South Kilburn Clean up day in March, visiting other local community gardens and initiatives and also the club has been working once a week at local school St Mary's Primary! Polly has been working | 50 |
Some operators are tired of waiting for the FAA.
"We have spent a ton of money putting in advanced avionics in all of our aircraft — glass cockpits and everything — that make everything safer," said Dan Knesek, vice president of operations at Grant Aviation, an airline that serves the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, Bristol Bay and the Aleutian Islands. "We would love to be able to operate to the majority of our villages under instrument flight rules, which is a much safer and controlled environment. But we cannot."
Scott Van Valin is the co-owner and director of operations for Island Air Express, a small commuter air carrier offering scheduled service between Ketchikan and Prince of Wales Island, as well as charter service. Van Valin said Island Air Express installed its own weather station at El Capitan Lodge on Prince of Wales Island, something the FAA has approved under a program that allows operators to create their own company weather programs. It cost Island Air Express about $90,000 and Van Valin said it took about six months for the FAA to sign off on the routes his company developed to fly into and out of the city of Klawock. The route, known as an approach, was specifically tailored to their aircraft to let them fly with instruments at lower altitudes than typically allowed.
Island Air Express is currently working to build up to 18 instrument approaches across southeast Alaska; Van Valin hopes they will be finished in the next year.
The FAA acknowledges in an interim report from its new Alaska Aviation Safety Initiative that "many if not most" small commercial aircraft are not equipped to fly using instruments and that Alaska's mountainous terrain and weather "underscore the need for reliable infrastructure" that supports both instrument flight at low altitudes and flights where pilots go by what they can see out the window.
In a written statement, the FAA added that for the last two decades improving Alaska aviation safety through expanded flight tracking and increased access to real-time weather information has been one of the agency's top priorities.
Technology Can Prevent Collisions, but It's Not Always Used
Collision avoidance technology can alert pilots to the presence of other aircraft flying nearby. Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast systems, or ADS-B, and their associated ground infrastructure were hailed as a marked improvement over traditional radar systems when they launched in the 1990s.
A joint industry and FAA research project called Capstone equipped 388 aircraft in southeast Alaska and the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta in the western part of the state with ADS-B systems between 1999 and 2006. The project found crash rates in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta decreased after the planes were equipped with the technology.
That led the FAA to introduce rules in January 2020 to mandate the use of ADS-B for nearly all of the lower 48. But the rule only applies to most controlled airspace, which the agency defines<|fim_middle|> high unless the trip were part of his livelihood or to help others.
"Maybe I'm not a very good Alaskan, because I don't really like risks a whole lot, at least risk to life and limb, you know," Groothuis said. "I'm not a big hunter or mountain climber or anything like that."
Even as a self-proclaimed political conservative, Groothuis hopes for serious discussion of what possibilities exist for better aviation safety in Alaska and that elected officials will look at, if applicable, appropriate legislation.
"Alaskans have this real independent streak. And that can be good. Be self-reliant. Not want to sponge off other people. Be hardy. Live off the land. That's all terrific, but we're still part of a state and a nation," Groothuis said. "There is a place for the law to try to minimize unnecessary injury and fatalities."
Alex Mierjeski contributed reporting.
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Many planes in Alaska are not equipped with ADS-B, in part because it is only required at very high altitudes and around the Ted Stevens International Airport in Anchorage. And even for planes that are equipped, there is limited ground station coverage: under half the state at 3,000 feet above ground level is covered and even less than that at lower altitudes, although the FAA says the stations cover most popular flight paths. Ground stations provide weather and traffic information to planes; planes with the proper equipment can also see each other's location without ground stations.
"There are black holes in the state," said Knesek, of Grant Aviation. "We move aircraft around all the time between bases, and I see it all the time. I see in the Aleutian chain, when they drop below a certain altitude, we do not see them on ADS-B anymore."
Four aviation groups wrote to the FAA and Alaska's congressional delegation in October 2019 asking for additional ground stations. "Filling these gaps should also encourage more aviation businesses and aircraft owners who fly in Alaska to equip, as they will obtain the benefits in the areas they operate."
The NTSB, on the other hand, believes use of ADS-B should be mandatory in more areas. The agency investigates accidents and makes safety recommendations, although it has no authority to enact them.
In its final report on a May 2019 midair collision in Ketchikan, where six people were killed and 10 were injured, the NTSB included recommendations that ADS-B be required for all aircraft in high-traffic air tour areas, like Ketchikan.
The FAA would not say if it plans to expand the areas in Alaska where ADS-B is mandated. In a written statement, the FAA said it has worked with the Alaska aviation industry to provide enhanced coverage. For now, the agency said, it is focused on encouraging operators to voluntarily equip themselves with the technology.
Not all pilots want ADS-B in their aircraft. On pilot Facebook groups, some have raised concerns that it would function as a surveillance tool "used by big brother to watch you, and potentially violate you," according to one pilot.
Jens Hennig, vice president of operations at the General Aviation Manufacturers Association and a member of several FAA rule-making committees, said he doesn't understand why that stops people from using the technology.
"The FAA will not be conducting enforcement actions unless you're out there doing something that is questionable, illegal or against the rules," Hennig said. "And based on their resources these days you pretty much have to be out there doing something pretty egregious for the FAA to go after you."
Another reason some pilots say they aren't interested in ADS-B is the cost, which would likely be borne by operators or plane owners. Garmin sells full ADS-B devices — which transmit a plane's location and show where other aircraft are — for $5,395; it has partial units, for $1,795, that broadcast an aircraft's location to other ADS-B systems and ground stations.
Mandating Additional Safety Plans a Priority for Some, Not for Others
The NTSB's latest Most Wanted List, which highlights the safety board's highest priority recommendations, includes two aviation-related measures. One would mandate commercial operators that carry passengers to have a formal safety management system. For example, prior to a flight, an operator might fill out a risk assessment form, recording information on such items as the weather conditions, a pilot's emotional state and the weight of the aircraft. Then, another person could review the form and determine whether it is safe to fly under those conditions.
Since 2015, the FAA has required large commercial airliners such as United, American, and Delta to use these safety systems. But the FAA does not require them for smaller commercial operators, many of which operate in Alaska. Some experts say they should be required.
A week before the NTSB declared that safety plans were a top priority, Richard McSpadden, senior vice president of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, a national nonprofit aviation group, wrote a letter to then-NTSB Chairman Robert Sumwalt opposing the effort. He wrote that when the plans are "thrust upon operations without regard to the size, and type of operation," they "can be a deceiving facade, expensive and time-consuming to develop with no real impact on operations."
The NTSB said the safety management system mandate would look very different for a large airline like Southwest than it would for a single-pilot operation. Across the board, though, it requires operators to write down what they are doing to manage risk.
Matt Atkinson, the co-owner of Northern Alaska Tour Company, Warbelow's Air Ventures and Wright Air Service, said his companies, which together have nearly 40 planes, are currently developing safety management programs, even though they are not required to do so. He said the companies, which conduct flights around Fairbanks and the North Slope, are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to get their programs up and running, with a staff member dedicated to the effort.
But Atkinson said the systems might be challenging for smaller operators, who already do many of these safety checks in their heads.
"I think that for smaller operators, the concepts that are trying to be conveyed by SMS are quite difficult to capture — at a single pilot or a very small pilot operation — because they're just so ingrained, you know," Atkinson said. For a company his size, he said, SMS does make sense in order to "capture some things that are going to make us safer and catch or capture a trend and prevent something from happening."
The FAA is expected to announce a proposed rule regarding these safety systems in September 2022, though the agency wouldn't say what it would cover.
Another top NTSB recommendation would require commercial operators to install devices on their planes to collect data about their flights, and then analyze it. Flight data monitoring programs are separate systems meant to identify anomalies in past flying. Experts say the insights from analyzing this data can help prevent accidents.
In Alaska, Atkinson says some operators already do limited flight data monitoring by paying for satellite tracking of their planes.
"There Is a Place for the Law"
To this day, Doug Groothuis, who splits his time between Colorado and Alaska, has never flown on a small plane. Recently, a friend — who is a pilot — invited him on a flight, but Groothuis declined the offer because it would have been purely for enjoyment. For him, the risk of injury or death is too | 1,353 |
Yale School of Architecture Announces First Grants for Research in Advanced Sustainability
Yale School of Architecture has selected five pioneering projects to receive the inaugural grants from the Hines<|fim_middle|> mid-rise buildings for a more sustainable urban footprint.
Sustainable Structures for Tall Buildings
Kyoung Sun Moon (P.I.)
This research investigates resource reduction for tall buildings through the development of stiffness-based design methods that optimize height to weight. The intention is to significantly reduce materials in the building structure by incorporating the latest advances in materials science with state-of-the-art computational analysis.
Thermal Sinking of Building Components
Michelle Addington (P.I.)
The researcher will apply her earlier theoretical work on heat transfer coefficients toward an analysis of large thermal components in buildings. She will explore whether reconsidering the relationship between thermal sinks and sources makes radically reducing the heating and cooling loads of building systems an achievable goal.
High-Performance Enclosure System
Hilary Sample (P.I.) with Michael Maharam and Paul Kassabian
The researchers will develop a new type of enclosure system made from high-performance textiles fabricated with natural and recycled materials. The enclosure system is intended to reduce the negative impact conventional envelope systems exert on indoor air quality while providing superior thermal and light control with a lightweight, less resource-intensive assembly.
Course Redesign: Materials for Architects
Susan Farricielli
In this academic initiative grant, the instructor will update and restructure the traditional course in methods and materials for architects by introducing the latest advancements in sustainable materials and developing hands-on learning exercises with these materials.
Dorie Baker: dorie.baker@yale.edu, 203-432-1345 | Research Fund for Advanced Sustainability in Architecture.
The $5 million endowment fund was set up in 2008 by Gerald D. Hines, founder and chairman of Hines, an international real estate firm with landmark projects worldwide.
Hines was the first Edward P. Bass Distinguished Visiting Architecture Fellow at the Yale School of Architecture. The school is a leader in the effort to fully integrate sustainable design and technology into the architectural curriculum.
The Hines Research Fund seeks to propel architectural research to a new level in which fundamental questions are grounded by the urgent need for solutions. While typical grants for architectural research focus support on finite individual projects, the Yale School of Architecture has taken a longer-term, broader approach in selecting projects for the Hines Fund grants — favoring innovative proposals that both draw on a range of academic disciplines and professional expertise and are also able to engender further research and development.
Many of the proposals combine the resources of a variety of professionals–scholars, researchers, architects, engineers and manufacturers among them—and all of the proposals are committed to expanding academic research and educational opportunities for students. Future grant cycles will build on these themes and collaborations while extending links to other university departments, as well as to large architecture firms.
"The winning proposals reflect the vision and commitment of Mr. Hines and affirm Yale's leadership role as a staging ground for new ideas and innovation," said Yale School of Architecture Dean Robert A.M. Stern.
"We are proud to be part of the pioneering and collaborative effort to develop new materials and novel techniques for building a sustainable future," Stern added.
The winning proposals fall into three thematic areas:
Constructional methods and materials, particularly in terms of reducing both embodied energy and the energy consumed by building systems
Development of climate responsive building types
Analysis/optimization of energy behaviors in buildings
The titles of the Hines Fund grant recipients, their principal investigators (P.I) and descriptions follow:
High Density, High Performance Mid-Rise Building Assembly Systems
Keith Krumwiede (P.I.) with Alan Organschi, Thomas Auer, Patrick Bellew, and Neil Thomas
The researchers will develop mass producible prototypes of lightweight, high-strength building façade and envelope systems that will be optimized for the four major climates. Besides reducing operational energy and embodied energy, the building systems are intended to enable low-cost densification of | 478 |
Now for part 2 of our whirlwind trip! (Click here if you missed part 1.) We arrived at my grandparents' house around dinner time on Saturday, and the rest of my family arrived around 10:30pm.<|fim_middle|>!
After our drive back to Philadelphia on Tuesday, we swung by Colleen's new apartment and then met our friends Kierston and Alan for dinner. We finally made it home Wednesday evening... though we only managed to sleep there one night before we had to leave again. More on that later! | I can't believe they managed a 15 hour car ride with 6 adults and a 7 week old baby! We thought our 6 hour drive was a huge accomplishment! Oliver and Mae got to meet their great grandparents for the first time.
Sunday, we introduced Mae to the swimming pool and to Lake George. She still seemed pretty unsure about the chilly water!
Sunday evening began the festivities to celebrate both my grandparents turning 90 this year. They both love Jeopardy, so my dad and his siblings prepared and hosted a game made of clues specifically for them. Gramma and Grampa both answered the final Jeopardy clue ("This is what Dorothy thought after she met Al for the first time") with the correct answer: "That's the man I am going to marry!"
The party continued Monday with barbecue, cake, and lots of games including bingo, bocce, and line dancing.
Mae played on a blanket outside during the party.
I love this photo of Oliver, Christopher, Dad, and Grampa... Four generations of my family bloodline all together.
I'm so glad we had the birthday party as an excuse to travel. Otherwise, I'm not sure we would have braved the trip, but I would have been so disappointed to miss out on the beach and Lake George this year | 268 |
Minimalism – Page 2 – A'ishah K.
Minimalism – How to Start Today?
Posted on November 26, 2018 December 22, 2018 Author A'ishah K.
This is a tiny but the most important part of my recent TEDx talk happening last Saturday.
It's a brief and practical guide to handle your clutter.
How can you start to practice minimalism in your life today?
Don't worry because minimalism doesn't start with throwing away all your stuff. It starts with your mindset.
Start with assessing your life. Know your priorities and key values. List them down if you must.
Sometimes you never realize that you still keep things that are broken and can no longer be used. Throw them away!
Things that are still good – you can sell or donate.
Also, question every item that you're planning to buy.
The fundamental questions of wanting and owning stuff – Do I really need this? Is this really me? Is this just an impulse? Will it make me happy<|fim_middle|> eager to practice it more.
Categories MinimalismTags Minimalism1 Comment on Minimalism – How to Start Today? | in the long run, or is it just the temporary adrenaline of buying new things? Am I doing this to compensate other lacking in my life? Am I doing this just to impress others or because I'm jealous of others?
Often, after questioning yourself, you will be happy to walk away.
Minimalism is to be practiced not just with material possessions but also to non-physical clutter.
Question things that you do, your commitment, your routine, question how you spend your time and who you spend time with.
The best approach is – if we can brutally eliminate other things that are not our priority. I understand that it is not that easy. Narrowing down our priorities itself is really a journey. I don't do it in one night.
But once you start to practice minimalism, you can appreciate all the benefits and | 166 |
The-Dream Released Sam Cooke Covers Album, IAMSAM
December 23rd, 2015 by KRNB
Photo by Bryan Steffy/WireImageWithout warning, The-Dream has delivered a soulful project just in time for the holidays: an album of Sam Cooke covers called IAMSAM.
The nostalgic project, which is posted on SoundCloud, was inspired by his late mother, who passed away 23 years ago. He actually recorded the material during session for Beyoncé's 4 album in 2010.
"My Mother loved a lot of Artist[s] growing up, but the one we shared the most interest in together was Sam Cooke, so Tonight I give him back to her," said<|fim_middle|> released The-Dream
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The soulful eight-song set includes covers of Cooke classics like "A Change Is Gonna Come," "Twistin' the Night Away," "Cupid," and "You Send Me."
Album Cooke covers IAMSAM | 95 |
Ecotourism sites
Please have a look at Myanmar on the world map, you can guess Myanmar has richest biodiversity in South – East Asia, favourable for Ecotourism. There are several National Parks and wild life sanctuaries that tourist can enjoy. Elephant ride, Bird watching, collecting insects and plants while trekking or hiking.
Hkakaborazi National Park (Kachin State) Allocated as ASEAN Heritage Parks, it is in the northern most part of Myanmar, at the foot of the snow-capped Mt. Hkakaborazi. It has the highest elevation of ecotourism sites in Southeast Asia. The park offers trekking and mountain climbing. Travelers can also watch the rare fauna and hundreds of species of birds.
Hkakaborazi National Park (Kachin State)
Located as ASEAN Heritage parks, it is in THE Northern most part of<|fim_middle|>land Wildlife Sanctuary More than 30 species of migratory birds hibernate every year in this wetland sanctuary and it is the habitat of thousands of birds, including more than 40 species of water fowl. Just three hours drive from Yangon, Moe Yongyi Wetland Sanctuary is the favourite place for bird watchers.
Myaing Hay Wun Elephant Camp
Located in Taikkyi Township, about 72 miles, three hours drive from Yangon. This elephant camp offers more than elephant rides. Elephants being captured and domesticated can be witnessed. Visitors also have the option of observing a variety of wildlife, including deer, wild cats, bears, peafowl and lizards.
Pho Kyar Elephant Camp
Located in Yedashe Township. Distance from Yangon to Taungoo is 175 miles (about 7 hours drive) and from Taungoo to elephant camp is 26 miles (about 1 hour drive). Pho Kyar Elephant camp has demonstrations showing how these animals are captured and domesticated. Visitors can enjoy a ride on elephants and watch working elephants in action. | Myanmar, at the foot of the snow – capped Mt. Hkakaborazi, has the highest elevation of any ecotourism site in Southeast Asia. The part offers trekking and mounting climbing. Travellers can also watch the rare fauna and hundreds of species of birds.
Alaungdaw Kathapa National Park (Sagaing Division)
One of the rim sites in Myanmar on the ASEAN Heritage Parks list. Recreation activities are trekking and elephant riding. About 100 species of butterflies, elephants, tigers, deer and a variety of rare bird species can be found in the 621 square – mile park.
Indawgyi Lake Wildlife Sanctuary (Kachin State)
The largest inland lake in Southeast Asia is surrounded with monsoon forests and wetlands. Indawgyi Lake is the natural dwelling place for jungle cats, rare butterflies, turtles and about 170 species of resident and migratory birds.
Myeik Archipelago
Located in southern most part of Myanmar, Myeik Archipelago has pristine water and beautiful coral reefs. It is a world-class dive site with 800 islands; many of the islands are uninhabited. Lampi National Park listed as an ASEAN Heritage Site is on the main island Lampi. The Salon or Moken (sea gypsies) are the only human inhabitants of the region.
Moe Yongyi Wetland Wildlife Sanctuary
Moe Yongyi Wet | 298 |
Professor Rose Scott wants to find out if some children are underestimated by standard developmental testing.
Certain aspects of children's social cognition ripple throughout their lives, including whether small children can understand that other people's minds are different than their own.
That understanding plays a critical role in relationships, cooperation with other people and even in<|fim_middle|> the three years of the grant's life to gather data. Scott will share the results with families and teachers so they can use it in their interactions with children.
UC Merced is a prime location to conduct such research, Scott said, because the Valley is so diverse, not only ethnically but socioeconomically. She also wants to recruit some participants from bilingual homes so she is including as wide a cross-section of the Valley as she can. | academic performance.
For the past 20 years, developmental psychologists have operated under the belief that children from low-income backgrounds are severely delayed in developing this skill.
Developmental psychology Professor Rose Scott, though, believes that is a false conclusion, and that the problem lies in the standardized tests that are used to discover such issues. Thanks to a large new grant from the National Science Foundation, she'll get a chance to work with hundreds of families from the San Joaquin Valley to find out if her theory is correct.
She believes other problems are not being considered when children fail the standardized test of false-belief understanding, such as whether they understand the language in the test or even that they are being tested.
She'll collaborate with quantitative psychology Professor Sarah Depaoli, who will assist with the statistical analyses of the data Scott and her students collect.
"...If they are having trouble with this skill, let's find out what that trouble is and what could be contributing to it. We want to understand the pathways from children's particular experiences to outcomes."
The three-year, $523,000 grant will allow Scott to hire undergraduate and graduate students to work on the project and to recruit more than 200 families representing the Valley's different demographics to participate.
She has designed tests to look at other ways of determining children's false-belief understanding and wants to find out if they will show differences among children from different socioeconomic backgrounds.
The study will focus on 4- and 5-year-olds and Scott said it will require two visits with each family, one to observe parent-child interaction during free-play time, and the other testing the children. The researchers will also gather information about each family and get some understanding of the stress levels in the parents' lives and their knowledge of child development.
Scott said she hopes to start testing by the end of summer and plans to take most of | 380 |
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Add a floral theme to your next look with this delightful sterling silver charm necklace! Five charm stations in varying floral shapes are interspersed along the front of the piece. The center station features a gemstone of your choice, while another station has a lovely freshwater cultured pearl. This necklace is a must for anyone who loves flowers!
Necklace Details
Labradorite, Lapis, Garnet or Dyed Black Onyx: One round 6mm cabochon
Freshwater Cultured Pearl: One round half-drilled 6mm
Setting Type: Bezel/adhesive and peg/adhesive
Drop: 1/16"L x 9/16"W x 1/8"H
Necklace: 16"L + 3" extender
Chain Type: Fancy
Country of Origin: Isreal
Please Note: Drop cannot be removed from the chain.
SterlingSilver Upto16inches Onyx Pearl Garnet LapisLazuli Labradorite
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Necklace Sizing
The length of a necklace or chain you buy depends upon a number of factors, including what you will be wearing with it and your neck size.
To measure your neck, wrap a soft, flexible tape measure around the base of your neck. This is the same measurement used for collar sizes in men's shirts. A good rule of thumb is to buy a necklace or chain a minimum of two sizes up from your neck measurement. Thus, a man with a 17" neck would want to skip the 18" size and get a 20" size to ensure a comfortable fit.
Appropriate women's necklace lengths are more dependent upon the style than neck measurement. Knowing your basic neck measurement, though, will help you decide what length will work best with your outfit and create the look you are after.
Onyx is a variety of chalcedony quartz that features a fine texture with a smooth black color. Some onyx can display white bands or ribbons against black or brown backgrounds. The bands that move through the stone run parallel and onyx is therefore sometimes known as zebra agate. Mined in Brazil, India, California and Uruguay, most onyx today is color-enhanced to increase its depth of color. It ranks a 6.5 on the Mohs Scale and is an ideal stone for carving. In fact, it is a favorite material of lapidary artists.
Onyx was very popular with the ancient Greeks and Romans. The name comes from the Greek word "onux" which means fingernail. Legend says that one day frisky Cupid cut the divine fingernails of Venus with an arrowhead while she was sleeping. He left the clippings scattered on the sand and the fates turned them into stone so that no part of her heavenly body would ever perish. In Greek times, almost all colors of chalcedony were called onyx. Later, the Romans narrowed the term to refer to only the black and dark brown colors, while the reddish brown and white onyx became known as sardonyx. Highly valued in Rome, sardonyx was especially used for seals because it was said to never stick to the wax. Roman General Publius Cornelius Scipio was famous for wearing sardonyx.
Worn during mourning in the Victorian age, onyx is now traditionally given as a 7th wedding anniversary gift. It is thought to increase happiness, self-control, courage, intuition and instincts. The stone is also believed to cool the yearnings of love and decrease sexual desire.
Pearl:
Often referred to as a gift from the sea, pearl's origin has been an object of folklore throughout history. Early Chinese myths told of pearls falling from the sky when dragons fought. Ancient Persian legend said that pearls were tears of the gods. In classical times, it was believed that pearls were formed when moonbeams lit upon shellfish, while Indian mythology suggested pearls were formed when dewdrops fell from the heavens into the sea.
In truth, pearls are lustrous gems with an organic origin. They are formed inside mollusks such as oysters, clams and mussels when an irritant such as a tiny stone, grain of sand or small parasite enters the mollusk's shell. To protect its soft inner body, the mollusk secretes a smooth, lustrous substance called nacre around the foreign object. Layer upon layer of nacre coats the irritant and hardens, ultimately forming a pearl.
This process of building a solid pearl can take up to seven or eight years. Generally, the thicker the nacre becomes, the richer the "glow" of the pearl and greater its value. While pearls that have formed on the inside of the shell (called blister pearls) are usually irregular in shape and have little commercial value, those that are formed within the tissue of the mollusk are either spherical or pear-shaped and are highly sought-after for jewelry. Most pearls on the market measure 7.0-7.5mm in diameter, but can be found as small as 1mm or as large as 20mm.
Although some pearls are found naturally in mollusks (considered the most valuable), the vast majority of pearls are grown, or cultured, on pearl farms. To instigate this culturing process, a small shell bead, or nucleus, is surgically inserted into the mantle of an oyster. Despite the fact that pearls are harvested in great quantities on pearl farms, producing a quality pearl is an extremely rare event. It is estimated that half of all nucleated oysters do not survive and, from those that do, only 20 percent create marketable pearls.
Since nacre is organic, pearls are quite "soft" and rank only a 2.5-4.5 on the Mohs Scale. The gems are very sensitive and special care should be taken when wearing and storing them.
The value of a pearl is judged by several factors and high-quality pearl strands should feature pearls well-matched in these factors: orient, the lustrous iridescence that's produced when light is reflected from the nacre, should glow with a soft brilliance; the nacre's texture should be clean and smooth, absent of spots, bumps or cracks; the shape of a pearl should be symmetrical and generally the rounder a pearl is, the higher its value; and although pearls come in many different colors (depending on the environment and species of mollusk), the most favored are those that have a rose-tinted hue.
Pearls are cultured in a variety of sizes, shapes and colors. Akoya pearls are the classic round pearls found in most pearl jewelry. They are mainly grown in the waters off Japan and are found in a range of hues, including white, cream, pink and peach. Mabe pearls are grown in Japan, Indonesia, French Polynesia and Australia. They are usually flat-backed and often called blister pearls because they form against the inside shells of oysters rather than within oysters' bodies. Tahitian pearls are grown in French Polynesia and come in a range of colors, including grey and black with green, purple or rose overtones. Because of their large size and unique dark colors, they command very high prices. Also prized for their large size, white South Sea pearls are grown in Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines and other areas of the South Pacific.
Freshwater pearls come in various colors and are grown in bays, lakes and rivers primarily in Japan, China, Europe and the United States (Mississippi River). They are often irregularly shaped and less lustrous than saltwater cultured pearls, making them substantially less expensive. Types of freshwater pearls include Biwa pearls from Lake Biwa in Japan, irregularly shaped baroque pearls and the exceptionally small seed pearls.
Pearls that develop within the soft tissue of mollusks encounter little resistance and therefore grow to be round or "regular" in shape. However, pearls that become lodged in the muscular tissue of shellfish experience resistance, so they free-form into irregular, unusual shapes. These "Baroque" pearls are asymmetrical and are world-renowned for their naturally unique beauty. Baroque pearls were especially prized by jewelers during the Renaissance.
In China, cultured pearls come mainly from freshwater rivers and ponds, whereas Japan is famous for culturing pearls along their saltwater coasts. Black pearls can be found in the Gulf of Mexico and in waters off some islands in the Pacific Ocean. In the warmer waters of the South Pacific, larger oysters produce South Sea cultured pearls and Tahitian black cultured pearls. Cultured pearl industries are also carried out in Australia and equatorial islands of the Pacific. For thousands of years, natural pearls have been harvested from the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea and the coasts of India and Sri Lanka. Natural saltwater pearls are also found in the waters off Indonesia, the Gulf of California and the Pacific coast of Mexico.
Pearls have been treasured throughout ancient folklore and history. Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love, considered pearls to be sacred. The Greeks prized the gems for their beauty and believed wearing pearls would promote marital bliss and prevent newlywed women from crying. In ancient Rome, pearls were considered the ultimate symbol of wealth and status. The ancient Egyptians were buried with them and Cleopatra favored pearls immensely. It is said that while dining with Mark Anthony, she purposely dropped a pearl into her drink to demonstrate the wealth of her rule.
Today, the pearl is a universal symbol of innocence and purity. It is the birthstone for June and is considered the traditional gift for couples celebrating their 3rd and 30th wedding anniversaries. Many believe the gem gives wisdom through experience, quickens the laws of karma and cements engagements and love relationships. It is also considered to offer the powers of wealth, protection and luck.
The largest pearl in the world is approximately 3" x 2", weighing one-third of a pound. Called the Pearl of Asia, it was a gift from India's Shah Jahan to his favorite wife, for whom he also built the Taj Mahal. Another famous pearl is called "La Peregrina," or "The Wanderer," and is considered to be the most beautiful pearl<|fim_middle|> But the new location discovery changed the world of jewelry gemstones and spessartites made their way into jewelry fashion. The most popular type of spessartite is the mandarin garnet, a gem that features a bright orange hue.
Traditionally given as 2nd wedding anniversary gifts, garnets are celebrated as January's birthstone. They are found all over the world, including Africa, Australia, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, North America, South and Central America, and Southeast Asia. The garnet ranges from 7.0-7.5 on the Mohs Scale and has been given many different names throughout the gemstone trade, including Arizona Ruby, Arizona Spinel, Montana Ruby or New Mexico Ruby. The stone features a high refraction of light that creates an amazing brilliance and luminosity. In fact, Noah used a garnet lantern to illuminate the darkness and navigate the Ark through 40 days and nights of torrential rain.
Throughout history, garnets have been widely known and prized for their rich hues and supposed mystical properties. Adored by the ancient Egyptian goddess Isis, the gem symbolized faith, truth and friendship and was a favorite of Egyptian jewelry artisans. Garnets were taken into the tombs with the dead as payment to the gods for safe passage through the nether world. It is said that King Solomon wore a large red garnet along with eleven other magical gems in his breastplate (representing the 12 steps of Jacob's Ladder) to help him win battles. Nineteenth-century Asiatic warriors even used the hard stones as bullets. In the 13th century, medieval travelers wore garnets as popular talismans and protective stones, many of which were carved with lions. The gems were thought to repel evil spirits, bad dreams and people with evil intent.
Today, garnets are thought to have protective powers and can be carried by travelers to protect against accidents. The stone is said to light up the night and protect its owner from nightmares. It is also believed to strengthen the body and mind by sparking creativity and dispelling anger. People may use the stone to increase the power of their energy fields and gather good vibes. Current superstitions say that the stone symbolizes loyalty and can be exchanged between friends to symbolize affection and ensure they meet again.
Lapis is a strong blue microcrystalline rock composed primarily of the mineral lazurite. Its value decreases with the presence of white patches called calcite, while small veins of golden pyrite inclusions are often prized. Top quality lapis lazuli comes from Afghanistan, but small quantities are also found in Siberia, Chile, the United States, Pakistan and Canada. It is one of the most valuable semi-opaque stones and is a relatively soft gem, ranking 5.0-5.5 on the Mohs Scale.
First mined in Afghanistan in 6000 B.C., lapis lazuli was used to heal eye maladies and was thought to help one acquire wisdom and serenity. The Romans believed it was a powerful aphrodisiac, while the Egyptians used lapis for cosmetic purposes and often carved it into vases and figurines. The ancient city of Ur had a thriving trade in lapis lazuli as early as the fourth millennium B.C. The name comes from the Latin word "lapis," meaning stone, and from the Arabic word "azul," meaning blue.
In the Middle Ages, lapis was thought to free the soul from error, envy and fear. Used by artists during the Renaissance , ground lapis created a beautiful blue pigment for paintings. The stone was inlaid in the columns of St. Issac's Cathedral and the panels of the Pushkin Palace, both in Petersburg. Today, lapis lazuli is traditionally given as a 9th wedding anniversary gift. It is believed to free the wearer of melancholy and strengthen total awareness, creativity and ESP.
>Labradorite
Labradorite is a beautiful mineral whose charm is not fully noticed and may be overlooked if not viewed from the proper position. Generally a gray to smoky black color, it displays a strong iridescence when cut correctly. In fact, labradorite's value increases with the skill of the lapidary and strength of the iridescence. Ranking a 6.0-6.5 on Mohs Scale, its name is derived from Labrador, Canada, which is the main source of the stone. Modern folklore says that labradorite brings forth each person's strengths, originality and ability to relate to others.
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Passage to Israel™ Sterling Silver 2" 12mm Round Drusy Rope Detailed Drop Earrings | in the world. Pear-shaped and 1-1/2" in length, it is said that 400 years ago the pearl was found by a slave in Panama, who gave it up in return for his freedom. The pearl turned up in 1969 at a New York auction house. It was purchased by actor Richard Burton for his wife, Elizabeth Taylor.
>Garnet
Garnet comes in a vast rainbow of naturally exquisite hues, occurring in every color except blue. It is the family of minerals that displays the greatest variety of colors than any other mineral. The eight major types of garnets include almandine, pyrope, demantoid, grossularite, tsavorite, hessonite, rhodolite and spessartite.
Named after the ancient gemstone city of Alabanda in Asia Minor, the most common type of garnet is almandine (also called almandite). It is a dark red to brownish red stone that is only slightly different from the chemical structure of its sister stone, called pyrope. While nature only grows pyropes in small sizes, it allows for almandine crystals to form in larger dimensions.
Pyrope is a high-quality garnet that can be purplish red, blood red, orange-red or crimson. It is often called the Bohemian garnet since its fierce and often slightly bronze color was highly popular in the 18th and 19th century when it came from the north-eastern part of the former Kingdom of Bohemia. In Europe during the Victorian times, pyrope garnets frequently decorated jewelry with many of these small stones tightly arranged along each other like the seeds of a pomegranate. In fact, the name "garnet" most likely was derived from the pomegranate, a fruit whose deep, red-purple color resembles some varieties of the gem. Many ancient pieces of garnet jewelry are also studded with the tiny red gems.
Demantoid is a rich green variety of garnet primarily found in the Ural Mountains of Russia. Russia's leading court jeweler, Carl Fabergé, loved this brilliant garnet more than any other stone and used it in many of his creations that were lavishly adorned by the Tsars of Russia. Today, demantoid is appearing more often in the gemstone market because of new finds in Namibia. However, these particular garnets from Namibia lack "horsetail-inclusions," the fine bushy-shaped inclusions that are characteristic of the sought-after Russian demantoids. The gem is quite rare and can cost several thousand dollars per carat depending on size and quality. The larger, brighter demantoid s are exceedingly scarce and have been known to show exceptional brilliance, even higher than diamonds.
Grossularite, available in pinks, browns, greens and yellows, is especially cherished because of its many in-between shades and earth colors. In the last year of the 20th century, large grossularite occurrences were discovered in Mali. Charming because of their high brilliance, the Mali garnets make even the brown color attractive and vivid.
Tsavorite is the trade name for a fine green grossularite. It ranges from vivid light green to velvety deep green and, like all other garnets, features a strikingly high brilliance. Tsavorite was discovered in 1967 by British geologist Campbell R. Bridges, and was re-named by Tiffany's in New York after its occurrence near the famous game park Tsavo-National Park. Mined in Tanzania and Kenya, this particular stone is quite rare and can cost several thousand dollars per carat depending on size and quality. Larger tsavorites are exceedingly scarce.
Hessonite is the variety name for a fine orange, cinnamon brown or pinkish variety of grossularite. It most commonly occurs in golds, oranges and browns.
Rhodolite is a pyrope-almandine garnet that features a velvety red color with a fine purple or raspberry colored undertone. One of the most popular varieties, it is mined in East Africa, India and Sri Lanka and was originally discovered in the United States.
Spessartite garnet can be red or blackish brown, but is most commonly available in golds, oranges and warmer browns. Originally named after its occurrence in the German Spessart Mountains, there was a surprising discovery of the bright orange-red stone in Nigeria and Namibia. Until then, spessartites had existed as mere collector's items or rarities and were hardly ever used for jewelry because they were so rare. | 956 |
The foamed film as the shock absorption material has attracted much attention because it is thin (100 μm ∼ 400 μm) and has a closed cell structure. However, the dynamic mechanical properties have not been reported in the foamed film. The purpose of this study is to elucidate the compressive behavior of the foamed polyethylene film at the wide strain rate range. First, the new compressive test apparatus for the dynamic strain rate, the drop-weight testing machine with opposed load cell, was developed, which can be also evaluated the dynamic stress equilibrium of the specimen. It is confirmed that the compressive flow stress increased with increasing the strain rate, regardless of the film thickness. The foamed polyethylene film has the<|fim_middle|> only occurred in the quasi-static deformation. It was clarified that the strain rate sensitivity of the foamed film depends strongly on that of the construction material, polyethylene. | high strain rate sensitivity in the quasi-static deformation. On the other hand, there is almost no change of the strain rate sensitivity in the dynamic and the impact deformation. In order to investigate the mechanism of strain rate dependence, the foamed polyethylene film was observed by X-ray computed tomography scanner before and after compressive test. The fracture of the closed cell | 72 |
Set Theory Chapter 1 Class 11 Basics Concepts
By CBSE MATHEMATICS April 22, 2020
Set Theory, Chapter1, Class-11
Basic concepts and formulas based on set theory chapter 1 cbse class 11. Useful and important points based on set theory. Revision notes of chapter 1 class 11 set theory.
Introduction Of Set Theory
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Most of the relationships between sets can be represented by means of diagrams which are known as Venn diagrams. In these diagrams universal set is denoted by rectangle and the subsets by circles. Elements of the subsets are written in their respective circles.
Union Of Sets
Let A and B are two sets. The union of A and B is the set which consists of all the elements of A and all the elements of B, the common elements being taken only once. The symbol "U" is used to denote union.
Symbolically we write 'A U B ' and is read as 'A union B'.
Definition of Union of sets:
The union of two sets A and B is the set which consists of all those elements which are either in A or in B. In symbols we can write
A U B = { x : x ∊ A or x ∊ B }
In the venn diagram shaded portion represents A U B
Properties of union of sets
i) It holds commutative law : A U B = B U A
ii) It holds Associative law (A U B) U C = A U (B U C)
iii) A U ɸ = ɸ U A = A
iv) U ⋃ A = U
Intersection of sets
The intersection of sets A and B is the set of all elements which are common to both A and B. The symbol '∩' is used to denote the intersection.
Definition of intersection of sets:
The intersection of two sets A and B is the set of all those elements which belongs to both A and B. Symbolically we write
A ∩ B = { x : x ∊ A and x ∊ B }
Properties of intersection
i) It holds commutative law : A ∩ B = B ∩ A
ii) It holds Associative law : A ∩ (B ∩ C) = (A ∩ B) ∩ C
iii) A ∩ ɸ = ɸ ∩ A = ɸ
vi) It holds the distributive law : A ∩ (B U C) = (A ∩ B) U (A ∩ C)
v) U ∩ A = A
Difference of sets:
The difference of two sets A and B in this order is the set of elements which belongs to A but not to B. Symbolically, we write A – B and read as " A minus B" Symbolically we can write
A – B = { x : x ∊A and x ∉ B}
B – A = { x : x ∊B and x ∉ A}
Disjoint sets:
Two sets A and B are said to be disjoint if their intersection is 'ɸ'. Or
If A ∩ B = ɸ, then A and B are said to be disjoint sets.
Symmetric Difference of two sets:
If A and B are two sets, then the set (A - B) U (B - A) is called symmetric difference of A and B and is denoted by A Δ B.
A Δ B = {x : (x ∊ A and x ∉ B) or (x ∊ B and x ∉ A)}
Complement of a set
Let U be a universal set and A is a subset of U. Then the complement of A is the set of all elements of U which are not the elements of A. complement of A is denoted by A' and is given by
A' = {x : x ∊ U and x ∉ A}
In the following venn diagram shaded portion denotes the complement of A (or A')
Properties of complement set
i) A U A' = U ii) A ∩ A' = ɸ iii) (A')' = A
iv) ɸ' = U v) U' = ɸ
De-Morgan's Law
i) (A U B)' = A' ∩ B' (ii) (A ∩ B)' = A' U B'
Formulas used in practical problems
i) n(A U B) = n(A) + n(B) – n(A ∩ B)
where n represents the number of element in a set.
ii) n(A U B U C) =
n(A) + n(B) + n(C) – n(A∩B) – n(B ∩ C) – n(C ∩ A) + n(A ∩ B ∩ C)
If A and B are two sets then
iii) n(A only) = n(A) – n(A ∩ B) = n(A - B)
iv) n(B only) = n(B) - n(A ∩ B) = n(B - A)
These formulas are also be useful for finding the probabilities ( Chapter 16)
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∩ (Intersection)
- (Minus)
A' (complement)
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it was very helpful | concept of sets serves as a fundamental part of the present day mathematics. Sets are used to define the concepts of relations and functions. The study of geometry sequences, probability etc. requires the knowledge of sets. The theory of sets developed by German Mathematician Georg Cantor(1845 - 1918)
Few examples of sets are given below
N : the set of all natural numbers.
W : the set of all whole numbers.
Z : the set of all integers.
Q : the set of all rational numbers.
R : the set of all real numbers.
Z+ : The set of positive integers.
Q+ : The set of positive rational numbers.
R+ : The set of positive real numbers.
Definition of set
A collection of well defined and different objects is called set.
Sets are denoted by capital letters like A, B, C,……..etc.
Elements / objects / members of a set are represented by small letters like a, b, c, …….etc.
If a is the element of set A , then we say that a ∊ A and is read as a belongs to set A. If a is not the element of A then we write a ∉ A and is read as a does not belongs to A.
The symbol "∊" is called epsilon and it means belongs to
Method of representation of sets.
There are two methods of representing a set
a) Roster form or tabular form or Enumeration form :
In roster form all the elements are listed. The elements are being separated by commas and are enclosed within the braces { }. For example the set of all vowels in English alphabet are written as A = { a, e, i, o, u}.
While writing the elements in roster form the elements are not be repeated i.e. elements are taken as distinct.
Order of the elements of the set may be different. The above set may be written as A = { o, e, a, i, u}
Note :Set of all real numbers is a set but cannot be written in the roster form.
b) Set-builder form or selector form or Rule method :
In set builder form all the elements of a set possess a single common property, which is not possessed by any element out side the set.
For example the set of all vowels in English alphabet are written as
A = {x : x is a vowel in English alphabet} and it is read as
Set A is the set of all x such that x is the vowel of English alphabet.
Symbol " : " is named as colon and is read as such that.
Different types of sets
Empty set or Null set or Void set :
A set which does not contain any element is called empty set or void set or null set. Empty set is denoted by ɸ
Finite set
A set which is empty or consists of finite number of elements is called finite set. or
If the number of elements of a set are countable then it is called finite set. or
A set is said to be finite if it has finite number of elements.
For Example: A = {1, 2, 3} is a finite set
Infinite sets
If the number of elements of a set are not countable then it is called infinite set. or
A set is said to be infinite if it has infinite number of elements.
For Example: A = {1, 2, 3, …….} is an infinite set.
Equivalent sets:
Two finite sets A and B are said to be equivalent sets if number of element of both the sets A and B are equal.
For example : A = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5} and B = {a, b, c, d, e}.
Number of elements of set A and B are equal but their elements are different . Hence these sets are equivalent sets.
Equal Sets
Two sets are said to be equal if
a) Number of elements of both the sets are equal.
b) Each element of both the sets are same.
Eg. Two sets A = {1, 3, 5} and B = { 1, 1, 3, 5, 5} are said to be equal set because set B can be written as {1, 3, 5} because in set form repeated element can be written only once.
Order or Cardinal number of a finite set :
The number of different elements of a finite set A is called the order of a set. It is denoted by n(A) or O(A).
Subsets and Power Sets
Set A is said to be a subset of set B if every element of set A is also the element of set B. It is denoted by A ⊂ B
A ⊂ B if a ∊ A ⇒ a ∊ B
Super Set of A
If A is the subset of B then B is called the super set of A and is denoted by B ⊃A
Proper Subset
A non-empty set A is said to be proper subset of B if A ⊂ B and A ≠ B
Φ and A are improper subsets of set A.
Comparable sets
Two sets A and B are said to be comparable sets if any one of them is the subset of other. If one set is not the subset of other then the sets are called non-comparable set.
Every set is the subset of itself
Empty set (ɸ) is also the subset of every set.
N ⊂ W ⊂ Z ⊂ Q ⊂ R
Power Set: The collection of all the subsets of a set A is called the power set of A. It is denoted by P(A). Every element of P(A) is a set.
Example : Let set A = {1, 2, 3}
P(A) = {ɸ, {1}, {2}, {3}, {1, 2}, {1, 3}, {2, 3}, {1, 2, 3}}
Total number of elements of P(A) = 8 = 23.
In general : If there are n elements in set A then total number of elements in the power set of A is = 2n.
Universal Set : The basic set which is the super set for all the subsets used in a particular problem is called a Universal set. It is always denoted by U.
Different Types of Intervals
Intervals are the subsets of Real number (R)
Open Interval
The set of real numbers { x: a < x < b and x ∊ R } is called an open interval and is denoted by (a, b).
All the points between a and b belongs to the open interval (a, b) but a, b themselves do not belong to this interval.
Close Interval
The interval which contains the end points also is called close interval and is denoted by [a, b], thus [a, b] = {x : a ≤ x ≤ b and x ∊ R }
We can also write intervals open at one end and close at other end.
Semi-closed(semi- open) intervals
[a, b) = {x : a ≤ x < b and x ∊ R}
(a, b] = {x : a < x ≤ b and x ∊ R }
Graphical representations of ordered pairs
On the real number line different intervals described above are | 1,524 |
Do you have the guts to look at your gadget's guts?
Ever wondered how they arrange all the pieces of your smart phone inside such a small space? What about fixing the screen on your<|fim_middle|> will look into the future of medical technology.
This week, we dive into The Future of Application Creation with David Milliron [MORE ABOUT THE SHOW] from Caspio.
We have details about a new charging station for electric vehicles planned for NYC along with a wireless way to weigh water. We'll you don't weigh water …but that sounded better than wireless monitoring. The City is installing units to help consumers understand how much water they are using. The idea is if you use N gallons of water in your shower today, you should try to use N-1 the next time you shower. It is also easier to conserve when you have metrics to follow (See also 20th Century manufacturing). Tune in this Sunday at 6pm EDT | 3pm MST to 1100 KFNX's live stream link at their site or head over to the show page to listen and download the show and get the links early next week.
We are lining up guest bloggers, guests for interviews and guests to submit 2-3 minute 'drops' on a technology, product or pain. If that is you or you know someone who fits the bill, email producer AT imitechtalk dot com or web AT imitechtalk dot com.
Tom attended the most recent CEA LineShow in NYC and brought back information on some very interesting technology products. 3D TVs, solar iPhone stations, how to dispose of your digital waste in NYC and much, much more await when you listen and check out all the links from the exhibitors we interviewed [LISTEN TO SHOW].
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Before the interview, our Week in Review will start and end with energy savings in data centers, move on through with smart traffic lights on to something else creepy about Facebook that may have slipped past you and your account settings. And while we cover telecommunications, these fiber optics for the human nervous system from SMU and DARPA | 276 |
Cathy goes to Canberra launch speech by Vice Chancellor Margaret Gardner
By Les Thomas December 1, 2020 No Comments
I'm delighted to welcome you to the official launch of Cathy goes to Canberra: Doing politics differently, by former federal independent MP and Monash alumna Cathy McGowan AO.
I'd like to begin by acknowledging the people of the Kulin Nations, and pay my respects to their Elders – past, present and emerging.
Well like many events this year, we've had to shift this book launch to an online format due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, which we're all currently experiencing.
Nonetheless, we're so pleased you could join us for this special occasion.
Cathy goes to Canberra tells the inspiring story of how a young girl from rural Victoria grew up to help pave the way for community success and real change in Australia's political history.
This book is about just that – what a politically active community can do. As Ms McGowan calls it, "the Indi way".
Raised on a dairy farm with her 12 siblings, Cathy McGowan's strong passion for the land and farming life was engrained in her from a very young age.
Her dedication to education, along with her drive and perseverance to make change, combined to lead her to run as an independent for the seat of Indi in north-east Victoria at the 2013 election.
For those who might not be familiar with the division of Indi, the seat takes in Victoria's snowfields and mountains, including eight major rivers that capture over 50 per cent of the water in the Murray-Darling Basin.
In the north are the larger urban centres of Wodonga and Wangaratta, and it runs as far south as Kinglake and Marysville – towns that were devastated by the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires.
Cathy McGowan was in her late 50s when she launched her campaign to become the next member for Indi, but by this age she was certainly no stranger to the world of politics.
Her father, Paul, was involved in the social organisations of the 1950s that led to the formation of the Democratic Labor Party, including the National Catholic Rural Movement, which promoted a vision of living the rural lifestyle and creating community in the country.
This commitment led him to become, in time, an active member of the Liberal Party, the Victorian Farmers Federation and a councillor for the local Shire of Chiltern.
Cathy, after finishing high school, completed an Arts degree at Monash University, majoring in history and economics. It wasn't a journey without its struggles, and the struggles were of different types.
The cover photo of the book shows Cathy in 1973 on her motorbike in<|fim_middle|> work as a local politician leading his community.
In 1983 she moved on, and set her sights on establishing her own consultancy business and, more importantly, working within her community.
And although Cathy doesn't describe herself as a political person – in her words, she's "political with a lowercase p" – her passion for the people in her community only became stronger over the years.
It was a phone call from her niece and nephew in 2012 that prompted the establishment of the group 'Voices for Indi', which began Cathy's journey to Canberra, and over the next six years she'd go on to break many political records – she became the first female independent to sit on the crossbench; and in 2019 when she passed Indi on to another independent, Dr Helen Haines, that was also a first in Australian political history.
During her time as a politician, Cathy worked tirelessly to develop policy around regional development, a national integrity commission, a code of conduct for politicians, as well as drought policy.
She's worked as a regional councillor for the Victorian Farmers' Federation, and she's a former President of Australian Women in Agriculture.
In 2004 she was made an Officer of the Order of Australia 'for service to the community through raising awareness of and stimulating debate about issues affecting women in regional, rural and remote areas'.
Now, there's much more in the book and I won't give too much more away – I hope you will take it upon yourself to read this lively book – as lively and interesting as its main subject.
But I do want to leave you with some of the many life lessons and observations that Cathy notes throughout her story:
Her approach to politics and life, for example, is, and I quote, to "begin with the end in mind".
She also encourages others to "never be afraid to talk to people and be willing to ask if you want to know how something works. That's not only because it's how you learn, it's how relationships are forged, and ultimately they're what count".
And something Cathy says is relevant to her story is: "if you want to create change in your community, be willing to get involved in your community's organisations".
They're all important lessons that we could all benefit from.
We're very proud to add Cathy goes to Canberra to the Monash University Publishing collection of books, and we're very pleased to now include Cathy McGowan in our list of published authors.
I'd like to take this opportunity to warmly congratulate Cathy on what is a wonderful memoir, and it's a wonderful memoir of what is a wonderful life.
Please enjoy the rest of the launch, and thank you again for joining us.
Cathy Goes to Canberra
Cathy McGowan | her leathers, which was her way of overcoming lack of public transport to Monash at Clayton – something she notes is still a challenge.
And as she notes in her book, she failed her first year, but her parents' high expectations when it came to education saw them encourage her to repeat that year, making up for the subjects she'd failed, while working in the nearby Peters ice-cream factory in Mulgrave.
So, despite the temptation to give up after that first year and return to her hometown to work on the family farm, Cathy says she's thankful for her parents' contribution to her life, because it was in that second year of university, working and studying, that she learned resilience – a resilience that she would continue to draw upon throughout her political career.
Cathy also holds a Diploma of Education from the University of Melbourne and a Master of Applied Science in agriculture and rural development from the University of Western Sydney. So that first experience didn't discourage her from tertiary education.
In 1980 at age 26, after two years of being a teacher, Cathy took her first job in a political office for the then recently-elected Liberal member for Indi, Ewen Cameron.
Despite Cathy not being a "big 'P' Party person" and never imagining she would one day have a parliamentary career of her own, she very much enjoyed the work and learnt much from Ewen Cameron and his | 286 |
Chicago Cubs Lineup: Jay Leads Off, Almora in CF, Schwarber Sits as Cubs Look to Chase Anderson
Evan AltmanSeptember 9, 2017
Jon Jay leads off in left, followed by Kris Bryant and Anthony Rizzo, with Ben Zobrist cleaning up and playing second. Pretty much par for the course so far.
But it gets a little interesting after that, as Joe Maddon has Albert Almora Jr. playing center in a rare start against a righty pitcher. The young outfielder does boast an .885 OPS in 69 plate appearances against righties at home, though, and he's facing a guy who has reverse platoon splits.
Alex Avila, Jason Heyward, and Javy Baez complete an order that is once again notably absent of Kyle Schwarber. The matchup isn't in the slugger's favor and the dearth of offense means that defense is at a premium, but it's still interesting to see that he's basically been relegated to a bench-bat role.
Mike Montgomery returned to the rotation to take Jon Lackey's place, then stayed there to give the team six starters during a stretch of 20 games in 20 days. So when Jake Arrieta went down with a hamstring strain, there wasn't much need to shift things around.
This will be Monty's fourth start since moving back from the pen and his second against Milwaukee on the season. It'll be hard not to do better than that disastrous effort on July 6 in which the lefty went only 2.1 innings and allowed 7 earned runs.
While he's been excellent overall in his last three starts, the lack of swing-and-miss in Monty's game is a little concerning. He has only struck out nine batters over 18 innings, though that's been largely mitigated by allowing only two walks and getting tons of groundball contact. He'll need to do more of the same against the Brewers this afternoon in order to find success.
Righty Chase Anderson hasn't been nearly as sharp in four starts since returning from nearly two months on the DL with an oblique injury, though he's still dangerous<|fim_middle|> #Cubs lineup.
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— Chicago Cubs (@Cubs) September 9, 2017 | . His performance Saturday may hinge upon whether he can get comfortable with the changeup, which has been his best pitch this season. For whatever reason, he's had trouble dialing that offering in and it hasn't been as big a part of his repertoire of late.
However, Anderson has been ramping the change back up after really struggling with it in his first two games back. He throws it with a circle grip and uses it primarily against lefties to generate a .538 OPS against and a nearly 15 percent swinging-strike rate. The pitch has arm-side run and will often stay up in the zone rather than tumbling, which means less groundball contact than you might otherwise expect.
The change is set off by a four-seam/cutter/sinker combo that he'll throw in the low-to-mid 90's, representing a significant jump from the offspeed offering that comes in around 83-84 mph. He's also got a pretty nasty curve that bites downward and gets a ton of grounders.
Anderson has been much less effective on the road this season and he can sometimes take a while to settle into a groove. A reverse-split pitcher, righties see him much better on the whole. To wit, he has allowed an .842 to righties away from Miller Park while lefties have posted a mere .652. It'll be paramount for Cubs hitters to attack the fastball early and wait back on the change and curve as the game goes on.
First pitch is set for 3:05 CT on CSN Chicago and MLB Network (out of market).
Here is today's | 335 |
U-M's Beilein won't say who will play vs. Nebraska
Status of Spike Albrecht, Derrick Walton Jr. uncertain as Muhammad-Ali Abdur-Rahkman could see more time at point
It's John Beilein's nature to keep his basketball and team thoughts within the locker room.
That's why it was no surprise today when the Michigan coach declined to give a public health update on his team.
"I don't want to make excuses and I don't want<|fim_middle|> the Michigan-MSU game Sunday afternoon. | to give our opponents any advantage of knowing who could play, who might not play, but we're pretty banged up right now," Beilein said this afternoon. "So we'll see what happens. So I guess everybody will have to wait until tomorrow night at 7 o'clock."
The absences are serious enough that Beilein admitted "there could be" changes to the starting lineup.
But it won't be a surprise when Michigan tips off Tuesday against Nebraska and someone is out of the lineup.
While he wasn't going into specifics — Spike Albrecht was still bothered by an upper-respiratory problem during Saturday's 69-64 overtime loss to then-No. 6 Wisconsin, playing only 8 minutes in the second half and overtime — this would not be new for the Wolverines.
"This is one of those years where I don't think we've ever had the rotation figured out," Beilein said. "There's either been an injury to someone or somebody has not really stepped up when they had opportunities and we've changed a couple times. Hopefully, we'll get to that point where those guys are ready to take their warm-up off at the 16-minute mark."
The rotation? That is tough when they can't even get the starting lineup straight.
U-M has started six lineups, nine players have started, and Beilein has played 11 players in the first half each of the past two games.
After reaching double figures in minutes once in the first 16 games, freshman guard Muhammad-Ali Abdur-Rahkman has played at least 14 in each of the past four games. Beilein said he is likely slated for more in the future.
After reaching double figures in minutes twice in the first 12 games, Aubrey Dawkins — a starter the past two games since star Caris LeVert's season-ending foot injury — has played 10 or more in all eight Big Ten games.
Beilein plans to keep playing walk-ons Andrew Dakich and Sean Lonergan, giving them a few minutes.
If Albrecht is out or limited, the rotation could feature only one upperclassman — third-string center Max Bielfeldt.
"Overall, you've just got to be ready, next man up," Bielfeldt said. "No matter who it is, guard, big man, if Spike's not shooting well that day or Ricky's not in (Doyle), Mark's got be ready to play big minutes. With guys sick, it's another whole factor. It's just hard to (simulate) it."
For Nebraska to prepare, it's a challenge.
"We're searching (for film)," Nebraska coach Tim Miles said. "They've got a lot of young kids. You just never know. Even John (Beilein) probably doesn't know what he's going to get from one game to the next out of some of the guys. That's a difficult situation to be in. They've had so many tremendous players and so much talent that the departures kind of catch up to you. We're just preparing the best we can."
Beilein said today he has lost his best player before, in 1996 at Canisius, a team that went on a conference tournament run late in the season to reach the NCAA tournament.
He doesn't need to go back that far. Last year, Mitch McGary suffered a back injury before the season and returned with little success, only to be shut down again in December for the season. Michigan won the Big Ten title without him.
The difference is that team had LeVert, Big Ten player of the year Nik Stauskas and Glenn Robinson III.
This one, which lost McGary, Stauskas and Robinson, plus transfer Jon Horford in the off-season despite eligibility remaining, might only have sophomore guard Derrick Walton Jr. — and maybe Zak Irvin at some point — as an NBA prospect on the current roster.
"This is part of basketball," Beilein said. "We're not going to complain about it, just deal with it and embrace it."
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Father accused of fatally shooting teenage daughter and her cousin
Posted 10:29 AM, December 18, 2018, by Tribune Media Wire
HENRICO COUNTY, Va. -- The mother of 18-year-old Vanessa Zaman, who was killed alongside her cousin in Henrico County last week, says the man wanted for her murder is her father, according to WTVR.
Henrico Police say that 39-year-old Abdool Z. Zaman is wanted on two warrants of second-degree murder, but that those charges will likely be upgraded once he is apprehended and interviewed. They say he should be considered armed and dangerous.
Police said Vanessa Zaman and Leona Samlall were shot as they walked near an apartment building. Investigators say Zaman got out of his car and confronted the girls before shooting them in what appeared to be a fit of rage, sources said.
Crime insider sources say Samlall was briefly on a missing persons list in 2016, but later showed up safe in the Orlando, Florida area.
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Those sources said Samlall is believed to have returned home to Henrico fleeing a rocky relationship.
Saveeda Barnes, who lives in New York, is devastated about the loss of her first born and only daughter Vanessa who she says reconnected with her father last year.
"Vanessa grew up under my love and care, until she was 18. Not too long ago, she researched and somehow found her dad. The two connected and were in contact for a while. Around late December, 2017, Vanessa and I spoke about selecting colleges. She told me that she was going to Florida. She invited her dad to her HS graduation where he turned her down," said Barnes.
"Vanessa was loved more than she knew. Even though Vanessa seemed as though she had everything in the world, she still had an empty space in her heart a space that could never be filled (her dad, Abdool Z. Zaman)," Barnes added.
Barnes said her daughter, who was an award-winning writer, graduated in the top of her class at her Long Island, New York high school.
Dr. Mary T. Kelly, Superintendent of Amityville Union Free School District, provided WTVR with the following statement:
The word of 2018 is 'Justice'
"The district is deeply saddened to learn of the tragic death of Vanessa Zaman who graduated from Amityville High School in June 2018. Vanessa was actively involved in school, loved English and was a prolific writer. She was very well-liked by students and staff. She will truly be missed.
Support services are available for students and staff as they try to cope with this devastating loss.
"Our thoughts are with her family and friends during this difficult time."
"Vanessa was also a very smart girl and had a passion for writing," said Vanessa's best friend Nyah Seiferheld. "She would stay up many nights creating stories with her wild imagination. She was so hard working and had that 'go getter' mentality. She was always thinking of a way to better her life and take it to the next level."
"Ness meant the world to me and for this to happen to her was the most devastating thing ever. She was such a sweet genuine person and always put her family and friends first," said Seiferheld.
Vanessa Zaman leaves behind a 9-year-old step-sister and a two-year-old half-brother.
"Ness was definitely a well-loved person and we all miss her<|fim_middle|>09 Toyota Carolla Matrix with Florida tags 211-1RWM.
Police noted that the suspect has a New York driver's license, but lives in Orlando, Florida.
Crime Insider sources said the FBI is involved to help with certain pieces of crucial evidence in the double murder case.
Henrico Police have not released a photo of Zaman citing the integrity of the ongoing investigation. They say they appreciate the patience of the public while they work through this case.
If you have information that could help detectives, call Henrico Police at 804-501-5000 or Metro Richmond Crime Stoppers at 804-780-1000. Citizens can also download the "P3 Tips" app to their mobile devices and submit their tip. Both Crime Stoppers methods are anonymous.
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A high school football player who killed his pregnant schoolmate has been sentenced to 65 years in prison. He says she waited too long for an abortion | greatly. I just love her much more than she would ever know. She didn't deserve what happened to her," said Seiferheld.
Officers said Zaman, who was described as 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighing 160 pounds, may be driving a silver Toyota Avalon or a gray 20 | 67 |
Okay! I have erased and re-drawn this page so many times it's driving me insane. I needed to let you all know I'm still working on it, and I lost patience with myself, so here's another rough page. Thank you all for sticking with me. I'm gonna go think real hard and try to fix this in the morning; trying a few new ideas.
Kinda explains why she's so blase about making other people stuck as girls.
Yay! Finally a new comic! I check almost every day, so I know how long it's been (besides Merlin's filler art) I follow your comic because of the interesting plots and story – don't worry so much about the art. Seriously, the plotlines are so good that you should think about becoming a writer with maybe an occasional illustration in a book. Or make your webcomic a paragraph of writing with only one drawing. For this one either the first or the last seem the strongest tie to the plot. If you are having difficulty drawing a particular panel, maybe that is because you don't have a clear vision of how you want it to be. So don't bother drawing it. Just give us the story.
While I'm the first to admit Speedball's writing is a million times<|fim_middle|>'t think his writing style would work without the art. By presenting information visually the plot moves faster and the themes can be explored from multiple directions. A page like this is the perfect example of how much more smoothly an exposition dump can be delivered in comic form as opposed to text.
The other big reason this story works better as a comic is that the world and characters look much more interesting than they sound. The atmosphere and everyone's personalities are better suited to being presented visually rather than through description. Just by seeing people's facial expressions you can tell what tone of voice they're using, so each line of dialogue feels more impactful.
Is Speed a great artist? I guess not, but he absolutely excels at art direction. No matter how simply drawn something is I know exactly what I'm looking at, where it exists in space, and how it is supposed to make me feel. That's a very special talent and shows a great deal of care goes into every single panel. The simple lines and colors actually make it easier to focus on the important parts without being distracted by unnecessary details.
So would I prefer if, say, Merlin drew this comic? She's certainly proved more proficient at penciling and coloring, but the chapters she has drawn have been my least favorite by far because they lack the elegant direction Speedball puts into EVERY SINGLE DRAWING. I've read my share of gorgeous comics, but Speed's art manages to communicate more information and emotion than even some of the best drawn comics I've ever seen.
This is a really nice comment. Thanks.
I'm going to finish this one. I just needed to get this out there.
Cray sounds like the host of a mono-maniacal spirit, a spirit that actually used to be part of a whole set of spirits dedicated to "fixing imbalance" or something similar, but the group of spirits or over-spirit got sundered, possibly in the last Breaking, and now without it's counterpart spirits its own mono-maniacal nature, which keeps it safe from corrupting influences or deviating in its sworn duties or breaking the pact it gains power from, is stuck responding with increased escalation.
The rough page is great! Just the text content alone is satisfying to my lore-bug!
Thanks for the exposition, it helps me understand Cray's motivations.
Ah yes, that road to Hell is well traveled. Good intentions and detours towards "Screw It" Town. Anger is always the easiest drug.
Hmm. so she picked the easiest way. is it just me or is she too lazy to do the right thing instead?
@ Kaos, it's not just you, and what about that whole "quested to get the power" bit she told the leader of the Hearts society?
She's creating MORE evil people by her actions and perpetuation of corrupt systems.
I'm not surprised she's insane, but this is the stupid kind of crazy. Although I guess with her abilities her refusal to proof-check her plans isn't really a problem.
'Grunchiks'… are we supposed to know what those are? I assume a gang of some sort, but also a species, maybe?
It's just the name of the gang.
No wonder the demons love Cary – she's too stupid to realize all the pain and suffering she causes HELPS them. | better than his artwork, I don | 7 |
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INTERVIEW: Halie Loren (new album From the Wild Sky, UK debut at Pizza Express Live, Holborn 31 July)
By ljazzn on 17 July 2018 • ( Leave a comment )
Halie Loren
Photo credit: Bob Williams
Alaska-born vocalist HALIE LOREN will be making her UK debut at Pizza Express High Holborn on 31 July. Whereas most of her previous albums had a strong bias towards the American Songbook, this new album, From the Wild Sky (Justin Time / Nettwerk<|fim_middle|>?
HL: I've wanted to play in London for years and it's always fallen just shy of coming to fruition until now, for whatever reason. It's felt like two ships passing in the night, London and me! It's going to be really exciting because quite a few fans of mine are located in or near London and I'm really hoping I get to meet some of them. That's one of my favourite things about social media. That you can connect with fans who are located halfway across the world and then sometimes, you get to put a face to an online profile. The fact that it's going to be under these circumstances, with this band, too, is so beyond me. I'm so excited to be able to reunite with my studio buddies! (pp)
Halie's gig at Pizza Express Holborn is on 31 July.
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INTERVIEW: Ben Cottrell (reflections on Beats & Pieces' North American tour plus new album/DVD launch at mjf) | ) consists almost entirely of her own songs. The new album was produced here in London by Troy Miller, and London guitarist Femi Temowo is also featured. Interview by Lauren Bush:
LondonJazzNews: From the Wild Sky is very different from your previous work…..
Halie Loren: This new album definitely takes a different direction. It diverges from being something that can be categorised more strictly within the jazz genre and it definitely delves more into the pop and folk influences in my music. Also, it's all original with the exception of the last track and so it's the first time that I have done an album that focuses on my original material since my very first CD that I released independently about 12 years ago. A lot of my roots are in songwriting, so I felt really called to do this as an artist for a few years now and finally the moment arrived where I felt like I really needed to do it. The whole idea of crowd-funding it is what kind of made this stuff possible in terms of the way that I did it. In every way, it's a new adventure.
LJN: How were you first guided into the world of jazz and the American Songbook after your first original album?
HL: Jazz was always a part of my path, growing up. My mom listened to a lot of jazz albums when I was growing up so I knew a lot of the American Songbook just through listening to it my whole life and singing along. I loved Nat King Cole and Etta James was one of my favourite vocalists, and Ella Fitzgerald and all that stuff is just part of my experience with being a young person interested in music. I knew and performed a lot of these songs from forever ago but when I started making albums, the first one that I embarked on was original music.
LJN: Perhaps you could tell how your songwriting process worked for some of the songs on this album?
HL: The songs I wrote for this album took shape in many different ways. For the song Well-Loved Woman, I came up for the chorus of that song while I was on a road trip and it stuck in my brain for forever. Then I wrote the rest of the song maybe a year or two later. A lot of songs come to me that way. It was also more of an a cappella writing style.
With Noah, I came up with the melody of the chorus and immediately went home and sat at the piano for hours to figure out where it was supposed to go. For me, I have to have my hands on the instrument and be simultaneous for it to connect for me. Then the melody comes through as this message that is informed by where my hands are. Then my hands listening this weird way to what my voice is doing and it's like this hide-and-seek game. It's very fun and whimsical. It's like these 2 sides of my brain are speaking different languages, trying to figure out what the other one is saying.
LJN: You've spent the last two years composing these personal songs. What was it like taking them to your producer to help you bring it all together?
HL: I've never done that before, so I didn't know how the process would work exactly, but every process and every collaboration is different. I did know, because I had specifically sought out to work with Troy Miller, that I resonated with his work. I knew that we would probably work well together. I already trusted that he would do a great job because I had heard proof of that. It was definitely a moment of vulnerability to say "here are these songs in really rough form, is there anything that you think you could uncover and polish up to a brilliant shine?"
LJN: What was it like traveling to London to work in Miller's Spark Studio?
HL: It was wonderful. We ended up spending less than two weeks together to record this album from start to finish. The first five days were actually spent doing pre-production, plotting out what we were going to do to arrange these songs, what elements we wanted to have on them, trimming sections of instrumentals or tidying up these songs. We then spent two of those days tracking the songs that didn't require the entire band to be present because the rest of the musicians were all in Brooklyn. We recorded all of the a cappella stuff and everything that Troy and I played in London and then we went to the studio in Brooklyn to record everything else.
LJN: Tell me about this stellar band …
HL: Troy Miller was a very instrumental part in assembling the cast of musicians who appear on the album. He's done a lot of work with all of these musicians I admire, including, of course, Becca Stevens. We've still never met in person, but I've long admired her artistry, and when she came through town, Troy was able to bring her in to collaborate on my song Wild Birds. These were all connections that I'd never met before, but they are all world-class musicians. Femi Temowo was a big part of the collaboration musically from start to finish. He and Troy work together a lot. The music world is so small in so many ways and there are so many connections to be made.
LJN: It must have been really exciting working with all new people?
HL: They're all so amazing. I was floored. I had a hard time not laughing, thinking: this is so delightful!
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Now I know how Vladimir Verbitsky has lasted 25 years. He is a mix of quiet charm, inner conviction and strong work ethic. He is also the protege of maestro Yevgeny Mravinsky who conducted the Leningrad Philharmonic for 50 years (!) and Verbitsky has inherited that old-school professional loyalty.
Then there is something about the instant connection he had 25 years ago with the WA Symphony Orchestra that even he can't explain.
Vladimir Verbitsky (with deep Russian throatiness): I found this orchestra special, I don't know why… a beautiful city, beautiful people in the orchestra. I felt very good with the orchestra, very comfortable. It was unforgettable, my first two or three visits to Perth. It was every time a present, something special, like a festival. Now Perth is for me a second home.
Has WASO changed over the decades?
Oh the level of the orchestra has extraordinarily changed. 25 years ago it was a very good orchestra, now it is a really fantastic orchestra, very professional. It is a professional orchestra on a world scale.
I tried to convince him to retire here with his wife Nelly, and spend more time pursuing his favourite hobby – fishing. He smiled and gave nothing away. But he promises to keep coming back.
Yes we will keep coming back! Conductor Laureate means the<|fim_middle|> here but my heart is also here.
To celebrate his anniversary with WASO Verbitsky will recreate the program he conducted with them 25 years ago. The concert is July 23rd. Click here for more details.
Listen to the all-Russian program here. | orchestra are for life. I am very happy with this orchestra. It is like some sort of family. My life is | 24 |
RD300 - The Financial Impact of Mandated Health Insurance Benefits and Providers Pursuant to Section 38.2-3419.1 of the Code of Virginia: 2012 Reporting Period
Author: State Corporation Commission
Enabling Authority: Code of Virginia - § 38.2-3419.1 (B.)
Section 38.2-3419.1 of the Code of Virginia and the State Corporation Commission's "Rules Governing the Reporting of Cost and Utilization Data Relating to Mandated Benefits and Mandated Providers" (14VAC5-190-10 et seq<|fim_middle|> claim experience for each mandated benefit, offer and provider for calendar year 2012. The following summary illustrates the average claim cost per contract or certificate and the average percentage of total claims that this cost represents for all mandated benefits, offers and providers taken collectively. Refer to Tables 5 and 6 for the average claim cost per contract or certificate, and the average percentage of total claims that this cost represents for each specific mandated benefit, offer or provider.
Average Claim Cost Per Contract: $712.13
Average Percent of Total Claims: 19.31%
Average Claim Cost Per Certificate: $980.93
On average, for an individual health insurance contract or subscription contract providing the type of coverage under which mandated benefits, offers and providers are applicable, approximately $712.00 was paid for claims attributable to mandated benefits, offers and providers in 2012. This represents approximately 19% of all claim payments made under this type of individual contract. Likewise, in the 2012 reporting period, $981.00 was paid in claim payments under a group certificate providing applicable coverage, which accounts for approximately 20% of all claim payments made under this type of group certificate.
The above numbers are useful in assessing the average claim cost of mandates relative to claim costs associated with all other benefits. However, these numbers cannot be computed by totaling or averaging the costs associated with individual mandates illustrated elsewhere in this report.
Claim information regarding the rate of utilization of the mandated benefits, offers and providers is also reported. It is anticipated that these rates may also be helpful in assessing the relative effect of new mandates, and in comparing the changes that occur among providers that render similar services from one reporting period to another. | .) require every insurer, health services plan, and health maintenance organization (HMO) from which a report is deemed necessary to report to the State Corporation Commission (Commission) cost and utilization information for each of the mandated benefits and mandated providers identified in §§ 38.2-3408 through 38.2-3419, and § 38.2-4221 of the Code of Virginia. The Commission is required to prepare a consolidation of these reports, as represented by this document, for submission to the Governor and the General Assembly. This document constitutes the Commission's report for the 2012 calendar year reporting period.
Of the 781 companies licensed to issue accident and sickness or subscription contracts in Virginia or licensed as HMOs in Virginia in 2012, only 28 companies filed credible full reports (18 insurers and 10 HMOs) for the 2012 reporting period. Of the 18 insurers, 2 issued only individual contracts, 10 issued only group certificates or subscription contracts, and 6 issued both individual contracts and group certificates or subscription contracts. This report reflects data provided by 18 insurers representing 50.29% of the Virginia accident and sickness insurance market and 562,198 units of coverage (single and family individual contracts and group certificates) subject to Virginia's mandated benefit and provider requirements. The data of 10 HMOs, representing an additional 28.69% of the Virginia accident and sickness market and 450,338 units of coverage, was also used in the preparation of this report. Because HMOs are not subject to all of the mandated benefit requirements of Title 38.2 of the Code of Virginia and are regulated by the Commission's Rules Governing Health Maintenance Organizations (14VAC5-211-10 et seq.) with regard to the services they must provide, the data reported by HMOs has been analyzed separately from data reported by insurers and health services plans.
Premium Impact
To assess the impact of mandated benefits, offers and providers on premiums applicable to individual contracts and group certificates, the Commission required companies to report the total annual premium that would be charged for what is considered to be a standard individual health insurance contract and/or group certificate in Virginia. The total annual premium is reported, per unit of coverage, for individual contracts and group certificates, including single and family coverage.
The figures displayed in this report illustrate, on average, a percentage of the annual premium attributable to each mandated benefit, offer and provider, for both individual and group business as reported by insurers and health services plans for a standard health insurance contract issued in Virginia. The information appearing in Tables 1, 2, 3, and 4 is useful in assessing that percentage of overall average premium for a standard health insurance contract or certificate that is associated with specific mandated benefits, offers and providers.
Claim Experience
In addition to premium information, companies reported their | 625 |
Laguna Cabildo är en sjö i Chile. Den ligger i regionen Región de Valparaíso, i den södra delen av landet, km väster om huvud<|fim_middle|>an är kvadratkilometer. Den ligger vid sjön Laguna La Matanza. Den högsta punkten i närheten är meter över havet, km norr om Laguna Cabildo. Den sträcker sig 0,5 kilometer i nord-sydlig riktning, och 1,0 kilometer i öst-västlig riktning.
I övrigt finns följande vid Laguna Cabildo:
Huanchal (en kulle)
Trakten runt Laguna Cabildo består till största delen av jordbruksmark. Runt Laguna Cabildo är det glesbefolkat, med invånare per kvadratkilometer. Klimatet i området är tempererat. Årsmedeltemperaturen i trakten är °C. Den varmaste månaden är januari, då medeltemperaturen är °C, och den kallaste är juni, med °C. Genomsnittlig årsnederbörd är millimeter. Den regnigaste månaden är juni, med i genomsnitt mm nederbörd, och den torraste är januari, med mm nederbörd.
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It's Grand at the Wyndham in Athens
Buzzy Gordon 4 years<|fim_middle|> a large bottle of mineral water, also complimentary.
Free WiFi extends to all guest rooms, and large flat-screen plasma TV's provide not only 49 channels in multiple languages but also weather and tourist information, plus the ability to program a wake-up call. It was actually pleasant to wake up to a male choir singing in church, rather than the ringing of a bedside telephone. (Tip: Wake-up calls must be programmed anew each night.) A panel of switches enables turning lights on and off from the comfort of reclining in bed.
When you do wake up, you are entitled to a complimentary breakfast buffet, complete with omelet and waffle station, an actual honeycomb, and coffee machines that dispense a variety hot beverages. One may dine 24/7 in the hotel, including at the rooftop lounge and restaurant that offers views of the Acropolis. Indeed, that incomparable view is available 24/7 as well, from select rooms and suites.
Make your reservation directly with the Wyndham Grand Athens or try Hotels.com.
No. of guest units: 276 (two categories of rooms, three categories of suites)
Published rates: €108 – €135 (r00ms), €152 – €863 (suites)
Text by Buzzy Gordon, who was a guest of the Attica Regional Tourism Promotion Board at the Wyndham Grand Athens. Photos by Buzzy Gordon and courtesy of the Wyndham Grand Athens.
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Over the course of a 45-year career that has spanned more than 80 countries, award-winning journalist Buzzy Gordon has been a reporter, editor, and travel writer on five continents. His work has appeared in USA Today (where he was a regular travel columnist), National Geographic Traveler, The Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post, among other leading publications. Buzzy is the author of Frommer's Jerusalem Day by Day Guide and a contributor to publications in Israel and the United States. | ago
Metaxourgeio Square may not be a familiar landmark in Athens, but together with the better known Syntagma and Omonia Squares, it is one of the Greek capital's three major downtown plazas. It is also the convenient location of the Wyndham Grand Athens Hotel, which is just a short walk from the Metaxourgeio Metro station, in an interesting neighborhood known for its contemporary art galleries.
At check-in, a pleasant surprise greeted me: a certificate granting me a 15-minute free massage in the hotel's spa as a welcome gift. This certainly changed my priorities for the afternoon.
First, however, I was anxious to check out a tip I had recently learned from the newsletter of friend and travel writing colleague Johnny Jet. He was passing along a tip from a reader alerting him to the fact that many hotels have a master combination allowing them to open all room safes in case a guest had forgotten it and could no longer retrieve the safe's contents. He suggested testing it first, and not using the safe if it were vulnerable to hacking from hotel employees. I punched in the code — 999999 — and was relieved to see an error message on the LCD display. It was now safe for me to store my valuables — including laptop — and head on down to the spa.
The hotel's spa is very small — just two treatment rooms, and one dry sauna (no steam or whirlpool) — but the massage menu is tempting, and the staff very professional. I thoroughly enjoyed my complete back massage, which was just what the doctor ordered after two international flights and eight hours of travel. There is also a fitness room with the latest cardio equipment.
Afterwards, it was back to my room for a long shower, under a huge rectangular shower head with needle spray, alongside a massaging handheld shower head, each with its own controls. The spacious marble bathrooms (some with bathtubs) boast OEM amenities, scales, hairdryers, and extra large bath towels.
The guest rooms themselves are all furnished with comfortable king-sized beds (twin beds are also available) and plenty of pillows, while the roomy closets contain terrycloth robes and slippers. Precise temperature control is easy with user-friendly digital thermostats, and windows that actually open. Each room has a fully stocked minibar, and electric kettles for making tea, an espresso machine with two complimentary capsules, and | 502 |
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The Ultimate Classic Mustang Models Guide
by Desiree Homer | More Articles: Coupes
There's just something extra special about a classic Ford Mustang. These cars exude muscle, power, and iconic legendary status. The first generation of Mustangs from the mid-60s through the early 70s represent some of the very best Mustang models ever to exist. Today, we'll spotlight some of the absolute best Mustang models from that era. Learn about the design, specs, and original pricing for the greats like the Shelby Mustang, the Mustang Mach 1, and more. You might even become inspired to go out and find a classic Mustang to buy for yourself. So, which classic Mustang is the best?
A 1965 Ford Mustang Fastback model | Bettmann via Getty Images
The 1965 Ford Mustang was the first, making its debut at the World's Fair in 1964. These "pony cars" made a huge impression, and today's enthusiasts usually refer to the first models as "1964 ½ Mustangs." You could buy one of these sweet rides in coupe or convertible form for around $2,300-$2,500, and boy did Americans buy them. Ford sold 22,000 Mustangs on the first day of availability.
The original 1965 Ford Mustang came equipped with a 170-CID straight-six, 4.3-liter V8 engine. There was also the 289-CID V8 engine version, capable of roaring at 271 horsepower. Later in the year, Ford expanded its options with a 200-CID, 3.3-liter, and a 289 with a beefy two-barrel carburetor, according to MotorTrend.
This pony came to run, and a host of performance extras were available, including a handling package with special shocks and springs, a front sway bar, and a limited-slip differential. You could get a push-button AM radio, wipers with two speeds (which was a big deal back in the day), and a remote control side-view mirror. There were even power steering and power brakes, huge industry upgrades for the time. As popular as this car was, the 1965 Mustang was just the beginning.
A couple of years into production and the Ford Mustang continued to impress. The 1967 Mustang is often revered by most collectors and enthusiasts as the best design of the 60s, by far. The semi-notchback, as Live About explains, was replaced by a fastback roof. The car itself grew in length, predominantly by the nose, and it featured a wider chassis. This car was incredibly aggressive looking, with its more prominent grille and triple tail lamps.
Inside, the cabin saw improvements, as well, including an all-new dashboard. Under the hood, you could feel the rumble of the powerful engine, a 289 high-performance V8. The average price range for the 67 Mustang back then was about $2,500-$2,700, which is the equivalent of about $21,000 in today's dollars.
The 1967 Ford Mustang Fastback was a fan-favorite for several reasons. The top engine configuration was the 390 cubic-inch 4V, a V8 in its GT form. GT badging was also available, letting everyone around you know you had the gutsiest Mustang. There was a special driveline and suspension, as well, with six-inch rims.
Inside this muscle car, other additions were prevalent in the Ford Mustang 1967 model year, including an AM/FM radio, sliding and tilting steering wheel, and the availability of a deluxe interior aluminum trim upgrade. There was even a cassette tape deck!
That year also introduced a series of special edition Mustangs and limited-availability packages, allowing Mustang owners to customize their cars. These limited production models, because of their rarity, are precious in today's market. Back in the day, you could have purchased one of these 1967 Mustang Fastback models for around $3,000 in 1967.
1967 Ford Shelby Mustang GT500
The ultimate Ford Mustang variation in the 1967 model year may be the Shelby Mustang GT500. Made famous among today's general population, the 1967 Ford Shelby Mustang GT500 became immortalized on the big screen as "Eleanor" in the Nicolas Cage movie, Gone in 60 Seconds. It may not jump a line of cars in traffic as it did in the film, but the GT500 did bring serious chops in real life.
The Ford collaboration with Carroll Shelby of then-racing fame produced two Shelby variations. The Shelby GT350 came with a 289 V8 engine. Meanwhile, under the hood of the 1967 Shelby GT500 was a massive 428 FE V8 monster, fine-tuned by Shelby himself.
The Shelby GT500 was easy to spot with its unique exterior design. There was a fiberglass front end and an aggressive grille. As Haggerty points out, there were also rear-facing and roof-mounted air scoops, along with quarter panel inserts designed to accentuate the rear spoiler.
Back then, you could buy a 1967 Ford Shelby Mustang GT500 for less than $5,000, which translates to roughly $31,000-$35,000 in today's currency. However, purchasing an "Eleanor" today will cost much more. In fact, the movie car that Nicolas Cage drove sold at auction for $1 million, according to Ford Authority.
By the time the Ford Mustang made it to 1968, only modest additions were made. According to Mustang Specs, the 302 cubic-inch V8 engine replaced the 289 V8, and, come mid-year release, a 427 cubic-inch V8 came out, capable of 390 horsepower. The most noticeable visual distinction for the 1968 Mustang includes "F-O-R-D" lettering across the hood and a new grille design. The fenders also displayed "Mustang" lettering, making the ride pretty easy to spot.
This Mustang got a little safer, too, at the guidance of federal mandates for automakers. The 1968 Ford Mustang came with three-point seat belts and side marker lights. There was also an impact-absorbing design to the steering column as standard.
Both Shelby variations returned for the 1968 production year, the GT350 and GT500. However, there was the addition of the GT500KR (King of the Road) model, too. A Cobra Jet Mustang was available with a 428 V8 engine, as well, and it only cost about $622 to add on. You could buy a base hardtop version of this<|fim_middle|>,000 to $5,000.
How much does a classic Ford Mustang cost?
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We've gone over the old costs of these classic Mustang models, but how much is a classic Mustang if you bought one today? Browsing the auction sites, it's clear the first-generation Ford Mustang models continue to be highly sought after and valuable. Buying that original 1965 Mustang back then pales in comparison to today's values. As the website Classic reports, the average cost to buy one today is $47,592. In fact, many original models have sold for even more.
The 1967 Ford Mustang Fastback on average lists for $17,000 to $45,000. A "non-Eleanor" version of the 1967 Shelby Mustang GT500 is a little higher in price today, as Hot Cars suggests the average price to be anywhere from $100,000 to $219,000.
If you want to buy a 1968 model Mustang, you'll spend between $17,000 and $82,000, depending on the nameplate, engine, and variation for that year. Buying a 1969 Ford Mustang Fastback today will likely cost you anywhere between $50,000 and $70,000, depending on the version and condition of the model.
Browsing the auction lanes today, you'll be lucky to buy one of those legendary Mustang Mach 1 models for less than $70,000. A 1970 Mustang with a 429-CID engine and 375 horsepower can sell for more than $200,000. The smaller 351-CID version, with 300 horsepower, according to ConceptCarz, has a median sale amount of $35,000.
If you have a special place in your garage reserved for a classic Mustang, these first-generation models are certainly worth your consideration. Of course, you'll pay far more in today's value for those originals. However, as the Mustang continues to evolve and be popular, it only means those classic pony cars will continue to increase in value.
Tags:classic Ford mustang | model year for $2,700 back then, which is roughly $20,000-$22,000 today.
The 1968 Mustang Fastback was also made famous at the time on the big screen. The Steve McQueen movie Bullitt showed the hero racing through the hilly streets of San Francisco in a modified GT-390 version of the Mustang. That car became so popular that a special edition Mustang was released as recently as 2001 to commemorate the legendary car.
In 1969, the Ford Mustang Fastback became a boss, literally a BOSS. The car itself grew about 3.8 inches in length and about 0.5 inches wider. Under the hood, the Mustang received a 351-CID 5.8-liter engine, capable of producing 250 horsepower or 290 horsepower. New models were introduced, including the Mach and the Boss nameplates.
The Boss 302 intended to meet the Trans-Am racing production guidelines of the time. Meanwhile, the Boss 429 brought a 7.0-liter, 375-hp, 429-CID engine to the street. The performance engines came back for another round of Shelby models for the Ford Mustang 1969 model year, too. However, this was the year that Carroll Shelby and Ford parted ways.
A Grande Luxury model was introduced in 1969, bringing a few luxury extras to the popular muscle car. The Mustang came with a vinyl-covered roof, wire wheel covers, and a much softer suspension element. As Live About points out, Ford began adopting the term "Sportsroof" to replace the former title of "Fastback." Traveling back to 1969, you could buy a Ford Mustang Boss 302 for $3,958.43, according to Car and Driver.
There is something a little special about the 1969 Mustang Mach 1. The GT option was still commendable, but the Mach 1 package added flair, including chrome exhaust and hood lock pins. There was an available handling package and a few V8 engine configurations, too. Inside, this classic Mustang felt a little more refined, as well, with its imitation wood trims.
The Ford Mustang Mach 1 came with a 5.8-liter Windsor V8 engine capable of producing 250 horsepower at 4,600 RPMs. Equally impressive was its 355 lb-ft of torque rating. The 69 Mustang could reach top speeds of 128 mph and punch a 0-60 mph time of 8 seconds.
This Mustang Mach 1 intended to challenge GM's Chevrolet Camaro at the time, as Top Speed points out in a review of this classic muscle car. Many say it's the meanest-looking Mustang ever built. Regardless, Americans swarmed it in sales so much that the GT took some time off, leaving the Mach 1 to dominate.
Consumers in 1969 could buy a Ford Mustang Mach 1 for $3,125. For an extra $26, you could increase your horsepower by 40 with a four-barrel intake upgrade. That's $.65 per horse!
When 1970 rolled around, Ford was still hot and heavy with Mustang production. You could buy a hardtop, a convertible, a fastback (now called a 'Sportsroof'), a Grande hardtop, a Boss 302, a Boss 429, and the Mach 1. However, sales were beginning to dip, with 300,000 units sold in 1969 compared to 200,000 units sold in 1970.
A few distinctions for the Ford Mustang 1970 model year from others included the "Shaker" hood scoop, available with any model featuring a 351 cubic-inch sized engine. From behind, a new flat fascia and three-bar taillights were prominent. Additionally, there were high-back bucket seats now as a standard feature for the 1970 Mustangs. Another amenity upgrade for the time was the optional rear window defrost function. Emission regulations forced a few carburetor and ignition enhancements, as well.
Unsold 1969 models were provided 1970 VINs, with a few hood stripe and front spoiler additions. Not much else changed for these various Mustang models under the hood, option-wise or even in pricing. Depending on the engine size and variation, buying one of these classic Mustangs would set you back anywhere from $3 | 979 |
Mark Yr Calendars: Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture at 50
To mark the 50th anniversary of the publication of Robert Venturi's Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture, MoMA and the University of Pennsylvania are holding a three-day symposium taking place from November 10th to 12th in New York and Philadelphia. Details on the events that are free, open to the public, and don't require advance registration are below. The event also includes a $45 bus tour on the 12th and a conversation with Denise Scott Brown on that evening, which is free but requires an RSVP; details on those can be found on MoMA's website.
From MoMA's website:
To mark the 50th anniversary of the publication of Robert Venturi's Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (1966), The Museum of Modern Art and the University of Pennsylvania have co-organized a three-day symposium bringing together international scholars and architects to discuss the significance and enduring impact of this remarkable book, published by MoMA 50 years ago.
It is generally agreed that Complexity and Contradiction, described by its author as a "gentle manifesto," has lived up to the prediction made by Vincent Scully in the book's preface: that it would be the most important architectural text written since Le Corbusier's 1923 manifesto Vers une architecture.
Thursday, November 10, 6:30pm
MoMA, Mezzanine, Education and Research Center, Theater 3
Architects' Roundtable:
David De Long, University of Pennsylvania (moderator)
Kersten Geers, Office Kersten Geers David Van Severen, Brussels
Sam Jacob, Sam Jacob Studio, London<|fim_middle|>Stephen Kieran and James Timberlake, KieranTimberlake, Philadelphia
Michael Meredith, MOS Architects, New York
Friday, November 11, 10am - 4pm
Session 1: Post Modernism:
David Brownlee, University of Pennsylvania (moderator)
Stanislaus von Moos, University of Zurich: "Complexity and Contradiction and Art"
Joan Ockman, University of Pennsylvania: "The Idea of Complexity circa 1966"
Andrew Leach, University of Sydney: "Dilemmas without Solutions"
Emmanuel Petit, Yale University: "Complexity, Figure, Architecture"
Session 2: Creative Contexts
Alice Friedman, Wellesley College (moderator)
Martino Stierli, The Museum of Modern Art: "Robert Venturi and MoMA; Institutionalist and Outsider"
Mary McLeod, Columbia University: "Venturi's Acknowledgements: The Complexities of Influence"
Pier Paolo Tamburelli, Baukuh, Milan: "Book of Pictures, Book of Books. Gentle Manifesto, Rough Manifesto."
Saturday, November 12, 10am - 12:30pm
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Van Pelt Auditorium
Session 3: Making the Book:
Kathryn Hiesinger, Philadelphia Museum of Art (moderator)
Lee Ann Custer, University of Pennsylvania: "Teaching Complexity and Contradiction: Robert Venturi's Lecture Course 'Theories of Architecture,' 1961–1965"
Christine Gorby, Pennsylvania State University: "Manuscripts into Manifesto: The Evolution of Robert Venturi's 1966 Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture"
Deborah Fausch, independent scholar: "Comparative Method in the Visual and Verbal Organization of Complexity and Contradiction"
Enrique Walker, Columbia University: "The 'Difficult Whole' [and the 'Decorated Shed']" |
Momoyo Kaijima, Atelier Bow-Wow, Tokyo
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Celebrate St. Patrick's Day Month by Going Green
March is here, which means it's also time for St. Patrick's Day—a holiday that was founded to honor the death of St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland. It has evolved into a day of worldwide celebrations related to luck and everything donning the color green!
In the spirit of "going green" this month, use this holiday as a reminder to focus on the world around us. After all, making sure our environment and the world are protected for the future is anything but<|fim_middle|> adopted a green lifestyle because they don't know the harm it causes to our world. Join an organization that is helping spread awareness about protecting our environment and world. Help distribute facts about the impact of not paying attention to the effects we have on our environment. Consider volunteering at a school to help educate the next generation.
Get Rid of the Unnecessary
Conserve water where you can. Don't buy more than you need at the grocery store. Recycling doesn't have to just be about plastic and cardboard—it can be about any type of materials or waste. Instead of throwing away clothes you no longer need, give them to a charity or organization that can help redistribute them. Think of all the ways you can take items you have and repurpose them instead of tossing them.
Switch to Digital Distribution
Paperless billing does make a difference! Technology has also allowed us to cut travel when possible to resolve matters over the phone or online instead of getting in a car to drive to a business. Use technology when you can to receive important updates via email instead of on printed paper.
Find Worthy Causes
We're lucky to be living in a world with so many worthy causes and activists. This is a reminder to find an organization you love that is working toward a greener planet. You can spend your time volunteering for community clean up, helping to call potential donors and spread awareness or even donate yourself!
Now is the time to go green! Celebrate St. Patrick's Day by truly embracing the green celebration. Together, we'll be lucky enough to help out the planet and do good in the world!
© 2023 Cause Effective | luck. It's going to take input from us all. Check out these ways you can give the month of March new meaning by going green!
You've been hearing the mantra "reduce, reuse, recycle" for a long time, but it's time to actually put it into practice. One example is to reduce the amount of plastic you use. Bring reusable bags with you to the grocery store to cut down on plastic consumption. Recycle the household items you can, and think about items you can reuse more than once instead of tossing them into the trash!
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Saint Polycarp, Heresy, and Lent
Brian Kranick
How many people today have left the Church because they deem the Bible incongruent, mythological and unscientific? This falling away is usually undergirded, whether knowingly or unknowingly, by assumptions made in critical historical and textual analysis of the Bible. Modern scholars have sought over the past couple of centuries to deconstruct the Bible by weeding out prophecies, miracles, supernatural occurrences, and other textual peculiarities from the "historical facts." This technique of Biblical criticism has been used to try to delegitimize Jesus in the New Testament and Yahweh in the Old Testament. What we are left with, so they say, is that we know little about the "historical Jesus," if he even existed, and much less about the genocidal, tribal God of the Hebrews.
This is exactly the type of heresy that St. Polycarp fought against in the 1st and 2nd centuries.
St. Polycarp, as one of the prime Apostolic Fathers, had direct contact with St. John and the other Apostles. He had one degree of separation from Jesus. Polycarp himself was a direct disciple of St. John the Apostle. St. Irenaeus, who was a student of Polycarp, wrote in Against Heresies that Polycarp "was not only instructed by the Apostles, and conversed with many who had seen the Lord, but was also appointed bishop by Apostles in Asia and in the church in Smyrna." He also wrote reminiscently about Polycarp in his letter to Florinus, "I seem to hear him now relate how he conversed with John and many others who had seen Jesus Christ, the words he had heard from their mouths."
One of the stories that Irenaeus heard from Polycarp was about a time when St. John was in Ephesus. He describes seeing St. John going to take a bath, but upon seeing Cerinthus [a Gnostic heretic] inside the building, he rushed out saying, "Let us get out of here, for fear the place falls in, now that Cerinthus, the enemy of truth, is inside!" Along these same lines, Polycarp himself ran into on one occasion a similar heretic, Marcion. Marcion said to Polycarp, "Don't you recognize me?" To which Polycarp responded, "I do indeed: I recognize the firstborn of Satan!"
Marcion was a well-known heretic of his day. He espoused a particular semi-gnostic heresy that the God of the Old Testament could not be the God of the New Testament and Jesus. There were "two gods," or so he thought, in a dualistic world. The Old Testament God was the Demiurge creator of the material universe, who sought to impose legalistic justice with harsh and severe punishments; while, the God of the New Testament<|fim_middle|> Burning Hearts—Exodus as a Paradigm of the Gospel. Brian is a freelance writer focusing on all things Catholic. He has a master's degree in Systematic Theology from Christendom College. He has spent years working as an analyst in the Intelligence Community, and currently resides with his wife and three children in the Pacific Northwest. He is the author of the blog: sacramentallife.com. | gospel was one of kindness, compassion, and mercy. As he found these two dichotomies irreconcilable, Marcion dismissed all of the Old Testament and much of the New. Marcion was, in effect, the first Bible critic.
St. Polycarp was not amused. The early Church historian, Eusebius, records Irenaeus' account of how St. Polycarp would react to the Gnostics he encountered, saying, "O good God! For what times hast thou kept me that I should endure such things!" Although Marcion did believe in the divinity of Jesus, he was a Docetist, who believed Jesus only had an imitation body. In effect, he denied the physical birth, death and resurrection of Jesus. Polycarp responded by quoting St. John, "To deny that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is to be Antichrist." Marcion distorted Paul's theology to create an all-forgiving God, and rejected the hard-sayings of the Gospels and the so-called wrathful, jealous God of the Judaism.
Many modernist critics today (i.e., atheists, agnostics, universalists, etc.) agree with Marcion's interpretation of Scripture. Marcion's influence from the 2nd century seems to have extended all the way to the 21st century. This modernist attack on the veracity of the Scriptures has certainly contributed to the "rise of the nones" (i.e., those who increasingly espouse "none" as their religious affiliation). They deny that sacred Scripture is the inspired work of the Holy Spirit, and see it rather as the work of fallible men alone. This watered-down version of the faith has even crept into some Christian circles as well. Their mantra is "Jesus is love," so how could he also be a God of justice?
Interestingly, Marcion's heresy forced the young Church to deal rather quickly with this challenge to Scripture by assembling and defining the canon, which would eventually take on the form of the modern Bible. St. Polycarp may very well have been one of those early Church leaders who helped define the canon. Polycarp's own writing "The Epistle to the Philippians" was ultimately not included in the canon of Scripture, but it gives us great insight into the mind and heart of an Apostolic Father who interacted directly with St. John the Apostle.
St. Polycarp is perhaps most well-known for his martyrdom, which happened probably on February 23, 155 A. D. This is now the day we celebrate his Feast day, or, as the account of his Martyrdom refers to it "the birthday of his martyrdom." "The Martyrdom of Polycarp" is also the first recorded martyrdom themed letter after the New Testament period. It follows a particular genre highlighting the similarities in Polycarp's death with the Passion and Crucifixion of Christ.
By this time in 155 A.D., Polycarp was an old man in the midst of a repressive pagan, anti-Christian Roman Empire. The Empire was forcing all to publicly offer incense and declare that Caesar is Lord. Those who did not were killed, and in the most barbaric ways, such as being thrown to the wild beasts in the arena. Christians were a prime target as many refused to apostatize.
Three days before his arrest, Polycarp had a vision of "flames reducing his pillow to ashes." Whereupon Polycarp turned to his companions and said, "I must be going to be burned alive." When the Romans finally seized him, he said peacefully "God's will be done." Then, they brought him to the arena with "deafening clamor" full of pagans who wanted to kill him.
It was then that "a voice from heaven" was heard. Here follows a few excerpts of his martyrdom:
"As Polycarp stepped into the arena there came a voice from heaven, 'Be strong, Polycarp, and play the man.'"
Polycarp is then brought before the proconsul for examination. He tells Polycarp: "Take the oath, and I will let you go," and "Revile your Christ."
Polycarp's response is, "Eighty six years have I served Him, and He has done me no wrong. How then can I blaspheme my King and my Savior?"
The proconsul tells him, "I have wild beasts here. Unless you change your mind, I shall have you thrown to them."
Polycarp declines again, to which the proconsul says, "If you do not recant, I will have you burnt to death, since you think so lightly of the wild beasts."
Polycarp rejoined, "The fire you threaten me with cannot go on burning for very long; after a while it goes out. But what you are unaware of are the flames of future judgment and everlasting torment which are in store for the ungodly. Why do you go on wasting your time? Bring out whatever you have a mind to."
Upon that, they bind Polycarp to a pile of wood to be burned alive "like a noble ram taken out of some great flock for sacrifice: a goodly burnt-offering all ready for God."
Polycarp proceeds to give his final prayer, offering himself up as a Eucharistic sacrifice in union with the sacrifice of Christ. In part, praying, "I bless thee for granting me this day and hour, that I may be numbered amongst the martyrs, to share the cup of thine Anointed and rise again unto life everlasting, both in body and soul, in the immortality of the Holy Spirit."
With that, the fire is lit and "a great sheet of flame blazed out." Then, another miracle occurs. The author writes, "we who were privileged to witness it saw a wondrous sight . . . the fire took on the shape of a hallow chamber, like a ship's sail when the wind fills it, and formed a wall round the martyr's figure; and there was he in the center of it, not like a human being in flames but like a loaf baking in the oven." Again, he depicts Polycarp's martyrdom in Eucharistic terms "like a loaf baking." They then smell "a delicious fragrance."
His martyrdom concludes with this:
"Finally, when they realized that his body could not be destroyed by fire, the ruffians ordered one of the dagger-men to go up and stab him with his weapon. As he did so, there flew out a dove, together with such a copious rush of blood that the flames were extinguished; and this filled all the spectators with awe, to see the greatness of the difference that separates unbelievers from the elect of God. Of these last, the wondrous martyr Polycarp was most surely one."
The account comes to a close with the author stating the martyrdom of Polycarp the Blessed is "talked of everywhere, even in heathen circles. Not only was he a famous Doctor, he was a martyr without peer."
St. Polycarp offers us an example this Lent. He was a great Apostolic Father who adhered steadfastly to orthodoxy and fought against heresy and Gnosticism. He had a simple but strong faith, and spoke in Eucharistic terms of self-sacrifice. His self-denial led him eventually to his own martyrdom. This Lent we also walk the way of the Cross, in a self-sacrificial union with Christ. We mortify our bodies in Lent with the hope to rise in our bodies with Christ in Easter.
image: Saint Polycarp, Truro Cathedral by Fr. Lawrence Lew, O.P. / Flickr
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By Brian Kranick
Brian Kranick's latest book is Burning Bush, | 1,642 |
I am going to be doing a weekly post on blogs I think every role player should<|fim_middle|>. Dungeon Mastering deals pretty much exclusively with the newest versions of D&D. But Yax still has some good general advice for the non D&D crowd like this post on NPC's. | read. I am going to try to cover at least six links a week with a small write up about the content of the blog.
For week one Here is a list of several role playing blogs that I read on an almost daily basis.
1. Gnome Stew - This blog is exclusive to gamemastering and has several great posts. If you need some good advice on how to run a game this is the place to go.
2. The RPG Bloggers network - This place is great, there are hundreds of awesome blogs that can be found here. I can spend (waste) an entire day just checking out all the sites available. At some point I will put in an application to join the network when I have a little more material on Rule of the Dice.
3. Musings of the Chatty DM - What can I say, Chatty has a bit of everything. He is one of the most prolific bloggers in the RPG community, if your looking for something RPG related chances are he's wrote about it.
4. Jeff's Gameblog - Old school gaming goodness of all types can be found here. I particularly love this post.
5. Lamentations of the Flame Princess RPG - Yet another old school game blog. Lots of awesome insight into old school gaming can be found here, and this post on adventure writing is one of the best I've ever read.
6. Dungeon Mastering - Now that I've put up a couple of old school links I figure I should balance it with some new school stuff | 310 |
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EDITORIAL: Festival of Books offers experience like no other
Published Mar 1, 2018 10:45am
Updated Mar 23, 2018 1:05pm
By The Daily Wildcat Opinions Board
By Selena Kuikahi 07/16/19 2:49am
Jen Pimentel | The Daily Wildcat Festival-goers walk around to different booths at the Tucson Festival of Books on the UA mall on March 12, 2016. The festival attracts authors and patrons from all 50 states, as well as many<|fim_middle|> you check it out and see for yourself.
Editorials are determined by the Daily Wildcat Opinions Board and are written by its members. They are Editor-in-chief Courtney Talak, Opinions Editor Andrew Paxton, Content Editor Marissa Heffernan, Engagement Editor Saul Bookman and Arts & Life Editor Pascal Albright. Follow The Daily Wildcat on Twitter. | international locations.
With literally millions of books available with the push of a button on your phone or tablet, what's the point of attending an event like the Tucson Festival of Books?
Ask any of the 100,000 plus who attend every year, and I'm sure you will hear many of the same reasons you will read below. Truth is, the festival has something for everyone, and that something can't be replicated through a screen or in a typical store.
First and foremost are the author panels, Q&As and book signings. Being able to meet a favorite author is a memorable experience for any literature fan, and at the festival, there will be hundreds of writers who will be more than happy to share their thoughts or answer your burning questions about why the protagonist betrayed his allies in the third book of your favorite series.
Many of the author readings are intimate gatherings, with anywhere from a few dozen to a few hundred spectators gathered under a tent to listen to a best-selling novelist discuss the industry with small children, students and adults of all ages.
And although some of the authors have sold millions of books, many others at the festival are just getting started and would love to have the support of new fans, whether that means spending a few bucks on their latest work or even just a few encouraging words and a follow on social media.
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Beyond the chance to interact with world-class writers, the festival offers science buffs a chance to experience some of the University of Arizona's research and technology up close and personal.
From fungi and insect exhibits to the expanses of history and the universe, at the Museum of Natural History and Flandrau Planetarium, the entire scope of time and space is available for exploration at the festival.
And if museums and planetariums aren't quite your thing, BMX riders will also be demonstrating that physics is much more than colliding particles in a lab, while a volcano eruption will blow some minds, along with the simulated magma.
This chance to get hands-on experience with real science is a great opportunity for learners of all ages, and an amazing way to show those who think science is boring how wrong they really are.
Also for those on the path to learning is the expansive kids' section at the festival. Character meetings, story readings, music performances and many other activities are the perfect way to get little ones into the reading spirit for years to come.
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Throughout the festival, performance acts like the Manhattan Dolls, Tucson Improv Movement and the Saguaro Strutters will be singing, acting and dancing across stages at various points on the UA Mall, proving once again the festival is much more than just books.
On Saturday night, the Rock Bottom Remainders will also perform a free concert for festivalgoers who want to relax and catch some tunes while thumbing through their new tomes.
Of course, no festival would be complete without a complete array of food options. Numerous vendors with all manner of tasty treats will ensure that festival attendees are fueled and ready for a long day of author talks and performances.
The Tucson Festival of Books is about so much more than purchasing the latest work from a beloved writer or adding a needed classic to a collection. It's an experience that can't be replicated online, in a big box store or, frankly, anywhere else in the world.
There's a reason why this festival has grown stronger every year for the past decade and is one of the biggest there is. Actually, there are many reasons, a few of them listed here, but many more that await when | 753 |
Let's Once Again Talk Nevada's Actual Instant Replay Rule And Clark vs Alpar Stoppage
Posted on September 20, 2020 September 20, 2020 by EMagraken
Jessica-Rose Clark defeated Sarah Alpar by TKO (Strikes, Round 3, 4:21) at UFC on ESPN+36 this weekend. Shortly prior to the official stoppage Clark struck Alpar with a knee to the head as Alpar was precariously close to being grounded.
Referee Chris Tognoni believed a foul occurred and called time out.
As Alpar was recovering Tognoni realized he was in error. During the live broadcast it was unclear if he watched instant replay or<|fim_middle|> provided pursuant to subsection 3 of NAC 467.770 after a hearing before the Commission.
2. The referee shall warn the unarmed combatants whenever they are committing fouls.
3. If an unarmed combatant commits a foul, the referee may deduct points from the unarmed combatant or disqualify him or her.
4. At the conclusion of a contest or exhibition stopped immediately because of an injury to an unarmed combatant pursuant to NAC 467.718, a referee may view a replay, if available, in order to determine whether the injury in question was caused by a legal blow or a foul. If the determination is made that the injury was the result of:
(a) A legal blow, the injured unarmed combatant must be determined to have lost the contest via technical knockout.
(b) A foul, it must be determined whether the foul was intentional or accidental. If deemed:
(1) Intentional, the outcome of the contest must be determined in accord with NAC 467.698; or
(2) Accidental, the outcome of the contest must be determined in accord with NAC 467.702 or 467.7966.
5. The referee may, at any time during a contest or exhibition, call a time-out to consult with officials of the Commission or to view replay footage
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Ed Stock says:
The ref did a great job, actually. He got in almost immediately after the knee landed and before other strikes could be landed. There was no indication that Alpar was unable to defend herself at that point. She wasn't out cold. Tognoni followed the rules in relation to the use of instant replay.
This, to me at least, contrasts with the Goddard handling of the eye poke that injured Cormier's eye in the Miocic fight recently. Goddard went so far as to say "I don't have replays" as part of his justification for his failure to investigate further during the fight. If anyone needs to learn the Nevada rule (other than the commentary team, Dana White, or Marc Ratner, that is) it's Goddard. | consulted with other officials but one way or another came to realize no foul occurred. The bout resumed and Clark went on to victory.
For reasons that remain unclear the UFC broadcast team keeps stating that instant replay can only be used following a bout ending sequences and suggested that is what occurred. The broadcast team was wrong on both fronts.
While Nevada rules do allow a referee to use instant replay after a bout ending sequence here the bout did not end. Tognoni clearly stated that he never called off the bout. There was no bout ending sequence. Instead, Tognoni used the powers under NAC 476.682 subsection 5 which clearly notes that "The referee may, at any time during a contest or exhibition, call a time-out to consult with officials of the Commission or to view replay footage".
Kevin Iole promptly obtained comment from the Nevada Athletic Commission who confirmed this is what occurred. According to Iole the NAC noted as follows:
"It was a legal strike. They paused the fight because they thought it was a knee to a grounded opponent. They went to the replay and confirmed that it was a legal strike. The fight was never officially stopped. Sarah Alpar was asked if she could continue and if she wanted to continue, and she said yes. Under NSAC rules, the bout can continue after replay since the fight was only temporarily paused and never officially stopped."
The relevant rules surrounding replay and the different circumstances in which it can be used in Nevada reads as follows:
NAC 467.682
1. A referee is responsible for enforcing the rules of the contest or exhibition. The referee shall not permit unfair practices that may cause injuries to an unarmed combatant. The referee is the sole arbitrator of a bout, and the referee's decisions in enforcing the rules of a contest or exhibition, declaring fouls or stopping a contest or exhibition may not be overturned except as otherwise | 391 |
Y'know, it's been so long that I did an article in this series that I actually had to go back and look up what number I'd got up to. But the debut performance by The Rodeo Falls on Friday night at Fibbers was incentive enough to dust off the much-neglected local music part of my blog. It's not often I write about a band who are this fresh out of the gate, though The Rodeo Falls do have one advantage in that regard – they are lead by a familiar face on the York gigging circuit, one Marck Whiley. The artist formerly known as Marbled is back, revitalised and sounding better than ever, thanks in no small part the assistance of Dave (Guitar/Vocals), Mike (Drums) and Bob (Bass/Vocals).
While a couple of songs from Marck's previous musical adventures featured in the set (you can hear an early 'Rodeo Falls' version of 'In For A Penny' above), there's also an abundance of new material on offer, and it's the new songs that really define The Rodeo Falls' country-tinged rock 'n' roll sound. But it's early days and recordings of these tracks are likely to be some time away, so you'll just have to take my word for it when I say that 'Doctor Doctor' jumpstarts<|fim_middle|>unk of 'Dyed In Wool' – I think it's the first time I can ever recall seeing him perform without a guitar. By the time set-closer 'Put On Silver' wrapped things up in raucous, barrelhouse-rocking style, it's clear to see that this is the most fun Marck has had on stage in a good while, and his bandmates are enjoying themselves just as much. There's no pretence here, just big grins, big choruses and the beginnings of an exciting new rock 'n' roll band.
If you want to see for yourselves, The Rodeo Falls are playing a free gig on Friday 3rd May at The Fenton in Leeds, supporting fellow York up-and-comers Pine For Cedars – the party kicks off at 8pm. York residents, be sure to keep an eye out too, as there'll no doubt be more gigs coming up in the summer and beyond – and trust me, you'll want to be there.
Find more information on The Rodeo Falls on Marbled's website.
Sorry Eyes may not be a familiar name on the York music scene, but you'll almost certainly be aware of Chris Marks, the man behind the project. He's probably best known for the stark, intimate acoustic tracks he records under the name Lake Michigan, and while Sorry Eyes maintains the sense of melancholy that ran though his previous output, the delivery is rather different. His forthcoming EP Something Small And Insignificant is a collection of lo-fi shoegaze instrumentals – have a listen to a track from it below, entitled 'East-ish'.
'East-ish' is built around a series of intriguing post-rock guitar lines – Marks builds them up, pauses for the briefest of moments, then brings them back with twice the urgency. The song eventually mellows out again, drifting off into the night in a dream-like fashion. Elsewhere on the EP 'Smiled' drifts by in a pleasing haze, its drawn-out notes and mesmeric loops evocative of a sleepy summer evening, while 'Swolen' [sic?] ramps up the volume a little with its swelling bursts of fuzzy noise. 'Moss St' closes out the record, bundling up its rapidly plucked guitar lines into a sort of soothing musical comfort blanket – it's the perfect evening or late night soundtrack.
The EP will be available to download on Bandcamp soon, with a limited physical release coming via Wolf Town DIY, the same label who put out the self-titled debut Lake Michigan full-length, which you can find here. For those of you in York, Chris is doing a Sorry Eyes show at The Basement on Monday 22nd April, in support of Dutch post-punks Labasheeda. Might not seem like the most obvious fit, but if Something Small And Insignificant has shown us anything, it's that Chris Marks can succeed at whatever he puts his mind to. | into glorious technicolour after a beautifully low-key beginning. Or that Marck looked surprisingly comfortable half-singing, half rapping along to the spiky blues-f | 34 |
24 he said, "You're going to run 84." Maggie is innovative and wild about the fun goal, constantly adding attractions to the 2000 acres.
Rock Course at Nemacolin Woodlands Resort is rated the number one public course in Pennsylvania. The beauty of the landscape is mesmerizing as the fairways and greens are interwoven with the fabric of streams, lakes and rock outcroppings. To navigate this course means correct positioning for any chance of pars. A few blind shots over hills and valleys have hidden slopes to the landing area. It may have been a devious Pete Dye design, but with wise decisions, can be very playable, especially with the guidance of a forecaddie. The grounds and greens are in mint condition.
Through the recession years Nemacolin "fell apart," according to Maggie but after "$250 fricking million dollars" the grand opening of Shepherd's Rock, architected by Pete Dye and Tim Liddy, represents a rebirth. A bagpipe parade led to the ribbon cutting ceremony from Horizon Point to the 9th green with flutes of champagne en route. Draped in Tartan, Val the mascot ram joined the Hardy<|fim_middle|>th hole John Daly powered balls to the fairway with his winning new Vertical Groove driver.
Maggie Hardy Magerko chose the name Shepherd's Rock to honor her life shepherd, her father and founder, Joe Hardy. She brought Mike Jones from Kapalua in Hawaii to direct operations. He and his staff are happily at your service every second. He says, "What's great is the variety of holes." Wispy grasses adorn the flowing hills below the Laurel Mountains where Maggie said we should scream in the hills. Indeed on 16 we sang, "The Hills are Alive" for the 360-degree views. The course encircles the Falling Rock boutique hotel culminating on 18 with a large lake, cascading waterfalls and a hippo sculpture. 98 whimsical sculptures are positioned around every corner, many of rams and birds. Shepherd's Rock will indubitably join its sister Mystic Rock as a top course to play for decades to come.
Lafayette where bedrooms have 3 chandeliers. Maggie said, "I'd put Nemacolin up against anybody on any continent." We agree. It is one of the most impressive resort destinations in the world. | family with celebs from Duck Dynasty and John Daly for the momentous occasion. The course vista was breathtaking as the 84 Lumber hot air balloon inhaled and exhaled proudly. An inaugural round followed with food, cigars and beverage samplings at tee boxes from the many fine restaurants throughout the resort. Never have we experienced the high quality consistency in cuisine between so many chefs and kitchens directed by Executive Chef Matt Moore. We grazed the course like happy sheep, coming 6 feet from winning the hole in one Maserati on #8. On the 9 | 115 |
\section{Introduction}
One of recent interests about the field governed by the quantum chromodynamics (QCD) may be to
understand the phase structure on the plane depicted by the temperature and the baryon chemical potential.
This research area is stimulated by the recent high energy heavy ion collision experiments, in which
it is reported that the quark-gluon phase is realized.\cite{QGP}
Further, it is reported in the astrophysical area
that there exist neutron stars with very large magnetic field which are called magnetars.\cite{magnetar}
In these extreme conditions at high density and/or at high temperature in the hadronic and/or the quark-gluon matter,
there may exist various phases such as hadron phase, quark-gluon phase, chiral symmetric or broken phase,\cite{BUBALLA}
two flavor color-superconducting phase, color-flavor locked phase\cite{cs} and so forth.
The existence of a ferromagnetic phase has been previously considered by some authors.\cite{Iwazaki,Tatsumi,add1,add2,add3,add4}
In the investigation of the phase structure, especially in the system at finite density,
various effective models of QCD are used because it is difficult to compute physical quantities at
finite density directly from QCD, for example, from the lattice QCD simulation method.
The Nambu-Jona-Lasinio (NJL) model\cite{NJL} as an effective model of QCD gives various useful informations
for the system at finite temperature and density.\cite{HK,Kl,BUBALLA}
Especially, as for the chiral symmetry breaking and restoration, the NJL model has taught various
properties until now.
Further, the existence of the color superconducting phase has also been investigated by using the NJL model.\cite{Kitazawa}
In this paper, with the extension of the original NJL model, we investigate a possibility of the spontaneous spin
polarization or magnetization
in quark matter at very high density.
Here, let us consider the NJL-type Lagrangian density which has chiral symmetry, namely, the Lagrangian density
is invariant under the $su(2)_L\times su(2)_R$-chiral transformation.
Within the four-point interaction between quarks, it is possible for a general form of the Lagrangian density with chiral symmetry to
include
scalar, vector and tensor interactions which is written as
\beq\label{1-1}
& &{\cal L}={\cal L}_{\rm kin}+{\cal L}_{S}+{\cal L}_{V}+{\cal L}_{T}\ , \nonumber\\
& &{\cal L}_{\rm kin}=i{\bar \psi}\gamma^\mu\partial_\mu\psi\ , \nonumber\\
& &{\cal L}_{S}=-G_S\left[
({\bar \psi}\psi)^2+({\bar \psi}i\gamma_5{\vec \tau}\psi)^2\right]\ , \nonumber\\
& &{\cal L}_{V}=-G_V\left[
({\bar \psi}\gamma^{\mu}{\vec \tau}\psi)^2+({\bar \psi}\gamma_5\gamma^{\mu}{\vec \tau}\psi)^2\right]\ , \nonumber\\
& &{\cal L}_{T}=-G_T\left[
({\bar \psi}\gamma^{\mu}\gamma^{\nu}{\vec \tau}\psi)^2+({\bar \psi}i\gamma_5\gamma^{\mu}\gamma^{\nu}\psi)^2\right]\ .
\eeq
Here, $\psi$ represents the quark field and ${\vec \tau}$ represents the isospin operator.
The original NJL model Lagrangian density is ${\cal L}_{\rm NJL}={\cal L}_{\rm kin}+{\cal L}_S$.
Here, ${\bar \psi}\psi$ and ${\bar \psi}i\gamma_5{\vec \tau}\psi$ correspond to the sigma
meson ($\sigma$) and the pion (${\vec \pi}$) filed,
respectively, in terms of the bosonized meson fields.
As is well known, at low energy, the chiral symmetry dynamically breaks down and the chiral condensate which is
the vacuum expectation value of ${\bar \psi}\psi$ becomes non-zero.
Similarly to the original NJL model,
the field ${\bar \psi}\gamma^{\mu}{\vec \tau}\psi$ and ${\bar \psi}\gamma_5\gamma^{\mu}{\vec \tau}\psi$ in ${\cal L}_V$
corresponds to the $\rho$ meson and $a$ meson fields, respectively, if these composite fields are treated by means of a bosonization.
However, it is known that the physical $a$ meson field is constructed from the original $a$ meson field
by mixing with ${\pi}$ and ${\rho}$ mesons due to the chiral symmetry breaking with the chiral condensate $\langle {\bar \psi}\psi\rangle$,
which results to the mass difference between $\rho$ and $a$ mesons.\cite{meissner}
In addition to the above four-point interactions, further,
from the structure of the Dirac gamma matrices, the tensor interaction part, ${\cal L}_T$, should be introduced.
Here, ${\bar \psi}\gamma^{\mu}\gamma^{\nu}{\vec \tau}\psi$ may correspond to the $a_2$ meson field.
In the nonrelativistic limit, this tensor meson exchange interaction by $a_2$ meson leads to the tensor force, the spin-orbit force,
the second spin-orbit force and so on.\cite{Tsushima}
This term may also be understood in the framework of a Fierz transformation of a standard NJL interaction.
In this paper, we consider a system at high density such as the interior of the neutron star, in which
there may exist quark matter at high density, and/or the quark star\cite{Qstar}.
At high baryon density, the chiral symmetry is restored and the dynamical quark mass is zero, namely,
the chiral condensate $\langle{\bar \psi}\psi\rangle$ is equal to zero.
In this case, the non-vanishing vacuum expectation values of ${\bar \psi}\psi$, ${\bar \psi}i\gamma_5{\vec \tau}\psi$,
${\bar \psi}\gamma^{\mu}{\vec \tau}\psi$ and ${\bar \psi}\gamma_5\gamma^{\mu}{\vec \tau}\psi$ do not appear,
that is, the condensates are zero for these composite field operators.
Especially, as for the spin polarization originated from the axial vector interaction,
it may be possible to realize the spin polarization $\langle {\bar \psi}\gamma_5\gamma^3{\vec \tau}\psi\rangle$.\cite{add2,add4}
However, at high baryon density, where the chiral symmetry is restored and the quark mass is zero, the spin
polarization does not appear.\cite{add2}
Therefore, it is regarded that these terms only cause the excitation modes around the vacuum which correspond to meson excitation modes of
$\sigma$, ${\pi}$, ${\rho}$ and $a$ mesons in the low energy vacuum with a finite chiral condensate.
Thus, we could safely discard the ${\cal L}_S$ and ${\cal L}_V$ when we only investigate the vacuum at high density
In Refs.\citen{Bohr1} and \citen<|fim_middle|> this section, we derive an effective potential with respect to the quark ferromagnetic condensate.
As is mentioned in \S 1, since we pay attention to the vacuum at high density quark matter,
the chiral condensate and the excited modes may be discarded safely.
Thus, let us start with the following Lagrangian density:
\beq\label{2-1}
{\cal L}=i{\bar \psi}\gamma^\mu\partial_\mu\psi-\frac{G}{4}({\bar \psi}\gamma^{\mu}\gamma^{\nu}{\vec \tau}\psi)
({\bar \psi}\gamma_{\mu}\gamma_{\nu}{\vec \tau}\psi)\ ,
\eeq
where we omit the second term of ${\cal L}_T$ and the coupling constant $G_T$ is redefined as $G_T=G/4$.
In the Dirac representation for the Dirac gamma matrices, we get
\beq\label{2-2}
\gamma^1\gamma^2=-i\Sigma_3=
-i\left(
\begin{array}{cc}
\sigma_3 & 0 \\
0 & \sigma_3 \\
\end{array}
\right) \ .
\eeq
Here, $\sigma_3$ is the third component of the Pauli matrix.
If the vacuum expectation value of ${\bar \psi}\gamma^1\gamma^2{\vec \tau}\psi$ has non-zero value,
the spin of quarks is aligned along the third axis which leads to the magnetization due to the quark magnetic moment.
Thus, it is enough to investigate a possibility of spin alignment along the third axis.
The generating functional of the Green function is expressed in the form of
the Feynman path integral as
\beq\label{2-3}
Z\propto \int{\cal D}{\bar \psi}{\cal D}\psi
\exp\left[i\int d^4x\left(
{\bar \psi}i\gamma^\mu\partial_\mu\psi+\frac{G}{2}
({\bar \psi}\Sigma_3\tau_k\psi)
({\bar \psi}\Sigma_3\tau_k\psi)\right)\right]\ .
\eeq
Following the standard technique of the auxiliary field method, we introduce the auxiliary field $F_k$,
which corresponds to the ferromagnetic condensate.
First, the functional Gaussian integration,
\beq\label{2-4}
1=\int{\cal D}F_k\exp\left[
-\frac{i}{2}\int d^4 x\left(
F_k+G({\bar \psi}\Sigma_3\tau_k\psi)\right)
G^{-1}\left(F_k+G({\bar \psi}\Sigma_3\tau_k\psi)\right)\right]\ ,
\eeq
is inserted in the expression of the generating functional in Eq.(\ref{2-3}).
Apart from the overall normalization factor, we obtain
\beq\label{2-5}
Z&\propto&\int{\cal D}{\bar \psi}{\cal D}\psi{\cal D}F_k
\exp\left[i\int d^4x\left(
{\bar \psi}i\gamma^{\mu}\partial_\mu\psi-\frac{1}{2G}F_k^2
-F_k({\bar \psi}\Sigma_3\tau_k\psi)\right)\right]
\nonumber\\
&=&\int{\cal D}F_k\exp\left[i\int d^4x
\left(-\frac{1}{2G}F_k^2\right)+\ln {\rm Det}[i\gamma^{\mu}\partial_{\mu}-F_k\Sigma_3\tau_k]\right]
\nonumber\\
&=&\int{\cal D}F_k\exp\Biggl[i\int d^4x
\left(-\frac{1}{2G}F_k^2\right)
\nonumber\\
& &\qquad\qquad\qquad
+\frac{1}{2}{\rm Tr}\left[\ln \left(\gamma^\mu p_\mu-F_k\Sigma_3\tau_k\right)+
\ln\left(-\gamma^\mu p_\mu-F_k\Sigma_3\tau_k\right)\right]\Biggl]
\nonumber\\
&=&\int{\cal D}F_k\exp\Biggl[i\int d^4x
\left(-\frac{1}{2G}F_k^2\right)
\nonumber\\
& &\qquad\qquad\qquad
+\frac{1}{2}{\rm Tr}\ln \left[-p^2+(F_k\tau_k)^2-F_k p_\mu\gamma^\mu\Sigma_3\tau_k
+F_k\Sigma_3p_\mu\gamma^\mu\tau_k\right]
\Biggl] . \ \ \
\eeq
Here, from the first line to the second line, we carried out the
fermionic path integral and from the second line to the third line,
the term in which the momentum $p_{\mu}$ reverses to $-p_{\mu}$ is added, which gives the same contribution of the term
with $p_{\mu}$.
Then, we divide them by factor 2.
Further, from the third line to the fourth line, we used the relation
$\gamma^\mu p_\mu\gamma^\nu p_\nu=p^2$.
From the first line, the equation for $F_k$ gives $F_k=-G\langle {\bar \psi}\Sigma_3\tau_k
\psi\rangle$.
Thus, the vacuum expectation value of $F_k$, that is the mean filed, represents the
quark spin alignment or quark ferromagnetic condensate.
The last two terms in the logarithmic function on the last line in Eq.(\ref{2-5}) except for $F_k\tau_k$
is recast into
\beq\label{2-6}
-p_\mu\gamma^\mu\Sigma_3+\Sigma_3p_\mu\gamma^\mu
=-2i(p_1\gamma^2-p_2\gamma^1)\ ,
\eeq
where we used the relation $[\sigma_i , \sigma_j]=i2\sigma_k$ for
the cyclic $(i, j, k)=(1, 2, 3)$.
Thus, the generating functional $Z$ is rewritten as
\beq\label{2-7}
Z\propto
\int{\cal D}F_k\exp\left[
i\int d^4x\left(
-\frac{F_k^2}{2G}+\frac{1}{2i}
{\rm tr}\ln\left[
-p^2+(F_k\tau_k)^2-2i(p_1\gamma^2-p_2\gamma^1)F_k\tau_k\right]\right)\right]
\ . \nonumber\\
& &
\eeq
Next, let us calculate the logarithmic term.
We can calculate it as follows:
\beq\label{2-8}
& &{\rm tr}\ln\left[
-p^2+(F_k\tau_k)^2-2i(p_1\gamma^2-p_2\gamma^1)F_k\tau_k\right]
\nonumber\\
&=&\frac{1}{2}{\rm tr}\ln(-p^2+(F_k\tau_k)^2)^2
+{\rm tr}\ln\left(\!
1-\frac{2i}{-p^2+(F_k\tau_k)^2}(p_1\gamma^2-p_2\gamma^1)F_k\tau_k\!\right) . \ \
\eeq
Here, by using the expansion of the logarithmic function
$\ln(1-x)=-x-\frac{1}{2}x^2-\frac{1}{3}x^3-\cdots$,
the second term in Eq.(\ref{2-8}) is recast into
\beq\label{2-9}
& &
{\rm tr}\ln\left(
1-\frac{2i}{-p^2+(F_k\tau_k)^2}(p_1\gamma^2-p_2\gamma^1)F_k\tau_k\right)
\nonumber\\
&=&{\rm tr}
\biggl[
-\frac{1}{2}\left(\frac{(2iF_k\tau_k)^2}{(-p^2+(F_k\tau_k)^2)^2}\right)(-(p_1^2+p_2^2))
\nonumber\\
& &\ \ \ \
-
\frac{1}{4}\left(\frac{(2iF_k\tau_k)^2}{(-p^2+(F_k\tau_k)^2)^2}\right)^2
(-(p_1^2+p_2^2))^2-\cdots\biggl]
\nonumber\\
&=&
\frac{1}{2}{\rm tr}
\ln\left[1-\left(\frac{2F_k\tau_k\sqrt{p_1^2+p_2^2}}{-p^2+(F_k\tau_k)^2}
\right)^2\right]\ ,
\eeq
where we used the relation
\beq\label{2-10}
& &(p_1\gamma^2-p_2\gamma^2)^2
=-(p_1^2+p_2^2)\ , \nonumber\\
& &{\rm tr}(p_1\gamma^2-p_2\gamma^1)=0
\eeq
with $(\gamma^1)^2=(\gamma^2)^2=-1$.
Thus, finally, we get the generating functional $Z$ from Eq.(\ref{2-7}) with (\ref{2-8})
and (\ref{2-9}) as
\beq\label{2-11}
Z&\propto&
\int{\cal D}F_k\exp\Biggl[
i\int d^4 x\biggl(-\frac{F_k^2}{2G}
+\frac{1}{4i}
{\rm tr}\ln\left(-p^2+(F_k\tau_k)^2-2F_k\tau_k\sqrt{p_1^2+p_2^2}\right)
\nonumber\\
& &\qquad\qquad\qquad\qquad
+\frac{1}{4i}
{\rm tr}\ln\left(-p^2+(F_k\tau_k)^2+2F_k\tau_k\sqrt{p_1^2+p_2^2}\right)\!\!
\biggl)\Biggl]\ .
\eeq
It should be here noted that the argument of the logarithmic function in Eq.(\ref{2-11})
can be expressed as
\beq\label{2-12}
& &-p^2+(F_k\tau_k)^2\pm2F_k\tau_k\sqrt{p_1^2+p_2^2}
=-p_0^2+\epsilon_p^{(\pm)2}\ , \nonumber\\
& &
\epsilon_p^{(\pm)}\equiv
\left({\mib p}^2+(F_k\tau_k)^2\pm 2F_k\tau_k\sqrt{p_1^2+p_2^2}
\right)^{\frac{1}{2}}
=\sqrt{\left((F_k\tau_k)\pm\sqrt{p_1^2+p_2^2}\right)^2+p_3^2}\ . \nonumber\\
& &
\eeq
Here, $\epsilon_p^{(\pm)}$ is identical with the energy eigenvalue of the
Dirac equation for $\psi$ derived from the first line of Eq.(\ref{2-5}) shown in Ref.\citen{Bohr1}.
Since the expectation values of $\langle \tau_1\rangle$ and $\langle \tau_2\rangle$ for $u$ and $d$
quark field are zero, we retain only $F_3$ which we denote as $F$ simply.
Thus, hereafter, we adopt $k=3$ and we denote $F_k\tau_k$ as $F\epsilon_\tau$ where
$\epsilon_{\tau}$ is the eigenvalue of $\tau_3$ for $u$ and $d$ quark field which gives
$\epsilon_\tau=\pm 1$ as was shown in Ref.\citen{Bohr1}.
In general, the effective action $\Gamma[F]$ is defined and introduced as
\beq\label{2-13}
Z=\exp\left(i\Gamma[F]\right)\ .
\eeq
Further, the effective potential $V[F]$ is defined and introduced here as
\beq\label{2-14}
V[F]=-\frac{\Gamma[F]}{\int d^4 x}\ .
\eeq
In our case, the effective potential $V[F]$ is already obtained in
Eq.(\ref{2-11}) in the above calculation:
\beq\label{2-15}
V[F]&=&
\frac{F^2}{2G}-
N_c\int\frac{d^4 p}{i(2\pi)^4}
\biggl[\ln\left(
-p_0^2+{\mib p}^2+(F\epsilon_\tau)^2-2F\epsilon_\tau\sqrt{p_1^2+p_2^2}\right)
\nonumber\\
& &\qquad\qquad\qquad\qquad
+\ln\left(
-p_0^2+{\mib p}^2+(F\epsilon_\tau)^2+2F\epsilon_\tau\sqrt{p_1^2+p_2^2}\right)
\biggl] . \ \
\eeq
Here, trace is taken with respect to
color and Dirac indices, which leads to
$N_c\times 4$.
As for the flavor, we fix $\epsilon_{\tau}=1$ and multiply by 2
because the same contribution is obtained for $\epsilon_{\tau}=1$ and $-1$.
Further, the part of integration is rewritten as follows:
\beq\label{2-16}
V[F]
&=&\int^F\!\! \frac{\delta V[F]}{\delta F}dF \nonumber\\
&=&
\frac{F^2}{2G}-
4N_c\int^F\!\! dF\int\!\!\frac{d^4 p}{i(2\pi)^4}
\left[\frac{F-\sqrt{p_1^2+p_2^2}}{-p_0^2+\epsilon_{p}^{(-)2}}
+\frac{F+\sqrt{p_1^2+p_2^2}}{-p_0^2+\epsilon_{p}^{(+)2}}\right]
\ .\nonumber\\
& &
\eeq
In order to extend the above treatment to a finite density case,
the quark chemical potential $\mu$ should be introduced in the
starting Lagrangian density:
\beq\label{2-17}
{\cal L}\longrightarrow {\cal L}+\mu\psi^{\dagger}\psi
={\cal L}+{\bar \psi}\mu\gamma^0\psi\ .
\eeq
Therefore, we replace $p_0$ as $p_0+\mu$.
Further, to extend to the finite temperature system,
the Matsubara formalism may be used.\cite{Matsubara}
We replace $p_0$ and $p_0$-integration into the following:
\beq\label{2-18}
\int\frac{d^4 p}{i(2\pi)^4}f(p_0,{\mib p})
\longrightarrow
T\sum_{n=-\infty}^{\infty}\int \frac{d^3 {\mib p}}{(2\pi)^3}
f(i\omega_n+\mu,{\mib p})\ ,
\eeq
where $\omega_n\equiv (2n+1)\pi T$ is the Matsubara frequency and $n$ is an integer.
Here, $T$ represents temperature and $\mu$ is a quark chemical potential.
In the finite temperature and chemical potential system,
we use the replacement (\ref{2-18}) for the above effective potential in Eq.(\ref{2-16}).
Here, the Matsubara sum is taken by the standard method\cite{KB}, which results
\beq\label{2-19}
T\sum_{n=-\infty}^{\infty}\int\frac{d^3{\mib p}}{(2\pi)^3}
\frac{F\pm\sqrt{p_1^2+p_2^2}}
{(\omega_n-i\mu)^2+\epsilon_p^{(\pm)2}}
&=&
\frac{1}{2}\int\frac{d^3 {\mib p}}{(2\pi)^3}
\frac{F\pm\sqrt{p_1^2+p_2^2}}
{2\epsilon_p^{(\pm)2}}
\left(n_-^{(\pm)}-n_+^{(\pm)}\right)\ . \nonumber\\
& &
\eeq
As a result, the effective potential at finite temperature and
chemical potential is derived as
\beq\label{2-20}
V[F]&=&\frac{F^2}{2G}
+2N_c\int^F\!\! dF
\int\!\!\frac{d^3 {\mib p}}{(2\pi)^3}
\biggl[
\frac{F-\sqrt{p_1^2+p_2^2}}
{\sqrt{{\mib p}^2+F^2-2F\sqrt{p_1^2+p_2^2}}}
\left(n_+^{(-)}-n_-^{(-)}\right)
\nonumber\\
& &\qquad\qquad\qquad\quad
+\frac{F+\sqrt{p_1^2+p_2^2}}
{\sqrt{{\mib p}^2+F^2+2F\sqrt{p_1^2+p_2^2}}}
\left(n_+^{(+)}-n_-^{(+)}\right)
\biggl]\ ,
\eeq
where $n_{\pm}^{(\pm)}$ is defined by
\beq\label{2-21}
n_{\pm}^{(\pm)}
=\frac{1}{\exp\left(\frac{\pm\epsilon_p^{(\pm)}-\mu}{T}\right)+1}\ .
\eeq
Of course, $n_{\pm}^{(\pm)}$ is identical to the Fermi distribution function.
Here, $\epsilon_p^{(\pm)}$ has been already defined
in Eq.(\ref{2-12}) and it also appears in the denominator of the above integrand.
Finally, let us give the ``gap" equation which is derived by $\delta V[F]/\delta F=0$, that is,
\beq\label{2-22}
\frac{\delta V[F]}{\delta F}
&=&\frac{F}{G}+
2N_c\int\!\!\frac{d^3{\mib p}}{(2\pi)^3}
\biggl[
\frac{F-\sqrt{p_1^2+p_2^2}}
{\sqrt{{\mib p}^2+F^2-2F\sqrt{p_1^2+p_2^2}}}
\left(n_+^{(-)}-n_-^{(-)}\right)
\nonumber\\
& &\qquad\qquad\qquad\qquad\qquad
+\frac{F+\sqrt{p_1^2+p_2^2}}
{\sqrt{{\mib p}^2+F^2+2F\sqrt{p_1^2+p_2^2}}}
\left(n_+^{(+)}-n_-^{(+)}\right)
\biggl] \nonumber\\
&=&0\ .
\eeq
From the above gap equation, the ferromagnetic condensate $F$ is evaluated.
\section{Symmetric quark matter at finite density and zero temperature}
In this paper, we consider symmetric quark matter at finite density and zero temperature.
It should be noted that $n_-^{(\pm)}$ represents the negative energy contribution.
Here, we should replace $n_-^{(\pm)}$ into $n_-^{(\pm)}-1$ if the negative energy contribution is omitted.
It is possible to introduce the three-momentum cutoff $\Lambda$ to take into account of the negative energy contribution.
The result for the phase transition point and so on is only obtained by replacing $1/G$ into a renormalized coupling
$1/G_r=1/G-\Lambda^2/\pi^2$.
Therefore, the qualitative behavior is not changed in the later discussion, while the vacuum polarization is important
for the spin polarization due to other interactions,\cite{add1} especially axial vector interaction.
This procedure is described in Appendix B.
Under this replacement, the relation
$n_-^{(\pm)}-1=0$ is obtained at zero temperature.
Thus, at zero temperature, we can express
$n_+^{(\pm)}=\theta(\mu-\epsilon_p^{(\pm)})$ where
$\theta(x)$ is the Heaviside step function or the theta function.
In this case, the effective potential (\ref{2-20}) is written as
\beq\label{3-1}
V[F]&=&\frac{F^2}{2G}
+{2N_c}\int^F\!\! dF
\int\!\!\frac{d^3 {\mib p}}{(2\pi)^3}
\biggl[
\frac{F-\sqrt{p_1^2+p_2^2}}
{\sqrt{{\mib p}^2+F^2-2F\sqrt{p_1^2+p_2^2}}}
\theta(\mu-\epsilon_p^{(-)})
\nonumber\\
& &\qquad\qquad\qquad\qquad\qquad\quad
+\frac{F+\sqrt{p_1^2+p_2^2}}
{\sqrt{{\mib p}^2+F^2+2F\sqrt{p_1^2+p_2^2}}}
\theta(\mu-\epsilon_p^{(+)})
\biggl] \ .\nonumber\\
\eeq
Without loss of generality, $F$ is assumed to be positive since the effective potential is an even function with respect to $F$.
The role of the theta function in Eq.(\ref{3-1}) is to give the Fermi surface, in which
the condition for the allowed momentum region is presented.
For example, $p_3$ should satisfy the relation
\beq\label{3-2}
-\mu \leq p_3 \leq \mu\ .
\eeq
Also, the magnitude of the remaining momentum components, $\sqrt{p_1^2+p_2^2}$, should be satisfied:
\beq\label{3-3}
& &-\mu \leq F-\sqrt{p_1^2+p_2^2} \leq \mu\ , \quad
{\rm i.e.,}\quad
F-\mu \leq \sqrt{p_1^2+p_2^2}\leq F+\mu\qquad ({\rm for}\ \ \epsilon_p^{(-)})\ , \nonumber\\
& &-\mu \leq F+ \sqrt{p_1^2+p_2^2} \leq \mu\ , \quad
{\rm i.e.,}\quad
0 \leq \sqrt{p_1^2+p_2^2}\leq \mu-F \qquad ({\rm for}\ \ \epsilon_p^{(+)})\ .
\eeq
Here, it is understood that the Fermi surface is modified from spherical form.
Therefore, the effective potential should be calculated in the case
$F<\mu$ and $F>\mu$ separately.
\subsection{$F>\mu$}
In the case $F>\mu$, from the lower relation in Eq.(\ref{3-3}),
$\sqrt{p_1^2+p_2^2}$ is not allowed to take a finite value except for 0.
Thus, for $\epsilon_p^{(+)}$, the Fermi surface is closed.
As a result, the second term of the integrand in Eq.(\ref{3-1}) does not give any contribution to
the effective potential.
Thus, the effective potential is computed as
\beq\label{3-4}
V[F]&=&\frac{F^2}{2G}+2N_c\int_{\mu}^F dF\int\frac{d^3{\mib p}}{(2\pi)^3}
\left[\frac{F-\sqrt{p_1^2+p_2^2}}{\sqrt{{\mib p}^2+F^2-2F\sqrt{p_1^2+p_2^2}}}\theta(\mu-\epsilon_p^{(-)})\right]
\nonumber\\
&=&\frac{F^2}{2G}-\frac{N_c}{6\pi}\mu^3 F +\frac{N_c\mu^4}{6\pi}\ .
\eeq
The quark number density $\rho_q$ is similarly calculated as
\beq\label{3-5}
\rho_q&=&N_cN_f\int\frac{d^3{\mib p}}{(2\pi)^3}\theta(\mu-\epsilon_p^{(-)})
=\frac{N_c}{2\pi}F\mu^2\
\eeq
with $N_f=2$.
From the gap equation $\delta V/\delta F=0$, if there exists a potential minimum in the region with $F>\mu$, then
the solution of the gap equation, $F_{\rm min}$, is obtained as
\beq\label{3-6}
F_{\rm min}=\frac{N_cG\mu^3}{6\pi}\ .
\eeq
Then, the quark number density which gives the minimum of the effective potential is expressed in terms of
the quark chemical potential $\mu$ as
\beq\label{3-7}
\rho_q=\frac{N_c^2G}{12\pi^2}\mu^5\ .
\eeq
\subsection{$F<\mu$}
In the case $F<\mu$, the Fermi surface is open for $\epsilon_p^{(\pm)}$.
Thus, the second term of integrand in Eq.(\ref{3-1}) gives a contribution to the effective potential as well as
the first term considered in the case $F>\mu$.
Taking care of the range of integration and writing $\sqrt{p_1^2+p_2^2}=p_{\perp}$, we obtain
\beq\label{3-8}
V[F]&=&\frac{F^2}{2G}+2N_c\int_0^F dF\Biggl[
\frac{1}{2\pi^2}\int_0^{\mu+F} dp_{\perp} p_{\perp}(F-p_{\perp})\ln\left(\frac{\mu+\sqrt{\mu^2-(F-p_{\perp})^2}}{F-p_{\perp}}\right)
\nonumber\\
& &\qquad\qquad\qquad\qquad
+\frac{1}{2\pi^2}\int_0^{\mu-F} dp_{\perp} p_{\perp}(F+p_{\perp})\ln\left(\frac{\mu+\sqrt{\mu^2-(F+p_{\perp})^2}}{F+p_{\perp}}\right)
\Biggl]\nonumber\\
&=&\frac{F^2}{2G}-
\frac{N_c}{3\pi^2}\Biggl[
\frac{\sqrt{\mu^2-F^2}}{4}(3F^2\mu+2\mu^3)+F\mu^3{\rm arctan}\frac{F}{\sqrt{\mu^2-F^2}}\nonumber\\
& &\qquad\qquad\qquad
-\frac{F^4}{4}
\ln\frac{\mu+\sqrt{\mu^2-F^2}}{F}-\frac{\mu^4}{2}\Biggl]\ .
\eeq
It should be here noted that the above effective potential is normalized so as to be
equal to zero when $F=0$, namely $V[F=0]=0$, due to the lower limit of integration being 0.
The effective potential derived here with the above-mentioned normalization corresponds to calculating
$V[F]-V[F=0]$.
If it is necessary to get $V[F]$ itself, we have to add $V[F=0]$ which implies the contribution of the
free massless quark gas and diverges due to the vacuum fluctuation.\cite{HTF}
In Appendix A, $V[F]$ itself is given so as to avoid a divergence.
The quark number density is derived as
\beq\label{3-9}
\rho_q&=&
N_cN_f\int\frac{d^3{\mib p}}{(2\pi)^3}\left(\theta(\mu-\epsilon_p^{(-)})+\theta(\mu-\epsilon_p^{(+)})\right)\nonumber\\
&=&\frac{N_cN_f}{2\pi^2}\int_0^{\mu+F}\!\!dp_{\perp}p_{\perp}\sqrt{\mu^2-(F-p_{\perp})^2}
+\frac{N_cN_f}{2\pi^2}\int_0^{\mu-F}\!\!dp_{\perp}p_{\perp}\sqrt{\mu^2-(F+p_{\perp})^2}\nonumber\\
&=&\frac{N_cN_f}{6\pi^2}
\left[\sqrt{\mu^2-F^2}(F^2+2\mu^2)+3F\mu^2{\rm arctan}\frac{F}{\sqrt{\mu^2-F^2}}\right]
\eeq
The gap equation $\delta V/\delta F=0$ has always a trivial solution, $F=0$.
If there exists the potential minimum in $F<\mu$ except for $F=0$, then the gap equation is rewritten as
\beq\label{3-10}
& &F_{\rm min}=\left\{
\begin{array}{l}
0 \\
{\displaystyle
\frac{N_cG}{3\pi^2}}\Biggl[
2F_{\rm min}\mu\sqrt{\mu^2-F_{\rm min}^2}+\mu^3{\rm arctan}\frac{F_{\rm min}}{\sqrt{\mu^2-F_{\rm min}^2}}
-F_{\rm min}^3\ln\frac{\mu+\sqrt{\mu^2-F_{\rm min}^2}}{F_{\rm min}}\Biggl] \ .
\end{array}\right. \nonumber\\
& &
\eeq
Then, the quark number density which gives the minimum of the effective potential is expressed in terms of
the quark chemical potential $\mu$ as
\beq\label{3-11}
& &\rho_q=\left\{
\begin{array}{ll}
\displaystyle \frac{2N_c\mu^3}{3\pi^2} &\!\!\!\! {\rm for}\ F_{\rm min}=0 \\
{\displaystyle
\frac{N_c}{3\pi^2}}\Biggl[
(F_{\rm min}^2+2\mu^2)\sqrt{\mu^2-F_{\rm min}^2}+3F_{\rm min}\mu^2{\rm arctan}\frac{F_{\rm min}}{\sqrt{\mu^2-F_{\rm min}^2}}
\Biggl] &\!\!\!\! {\rm for}\ F=F_{\rm min} \ . \\
\end{array}\right. \nonumber\\
& &
\eeq
\section{Numerical result}
\begin{figure}[b]
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[height=5.4cm]{pot_figure_0.eps}
\caption{
The effective potential is shown as a function of $F$.
From top, $\mu=0.1$ GeV, 0.3 GeV, $\mu_{\rm cr}$, 0.45 GeV and 0.5 GeV, respectively.
}
\label{fig:4-1}
\end{center}
\end{figure}
As is well known, the NJL model is a nonrenormalizable model.
Thus, in the original NJL model, the momentum cutoff parameter $\Lambda$ and the strength of the scalar and pseudoscalar
interactions $G_S$ are necessary and is taken so as to reproduce the quark mass and pion decay constant.
Usually, three-momentum cutoff $\Lambda=0.631$ GeV and $G_S=0.214$ fm${}^2=5.514$ GeV${}^{-2}$ are adopted.\cite{HK}
In our calculation, it is not necessary to introduce the momentum cutoff explicitly because
the quark chemical potential $\mu$, which corresponds to the Fermi energy at zero temperature,
plays a role of momentum cutoff.
Thus, in this model, only one parameter is included, namely $G$, which is the strength of the
tensor interaction.
As for the parameter $G$, if the Fierz transformation\cite{CL} from the original NJL model is assumed, then
the following relation is obtained:
\beq\label{4-1}
G_S\left[({\bar \psi}\psi)^2+({\bar \psi}i\gamma_5{\vec \tau}\psi)^2\right]
=\frac{G_S}{4}\left[({\bar \psi}\psi)^2-\frac{1}{2}({\bar \psi}\gamma^{\mu}\gamma^{\nu}{\vec \tau}\psi)^2
+\cdots\right] \ .
\eeq
Then, in this case, $|G_S/G_T|=2$ is obtained.
However, in this paper, we regard $G$ as a free parameter.
As a guide to fix the parameter $G$, it is noted that $G_T\equiv G/4$ should be compared with
$G_S$.
Thus, we take $G_T=5$ GeV${}^{-2}$, namely $G=20$ GeV${}^{-2}$, which is comparable with the original NJL model parameter $G_S$.
In Fig.\ref{fig:4-1}, the effective potential in Eqs.(\ref{3-8}) and (\ref{3-4}) for $F<\mu$ and $F>\mu$, respectively,
is shown as a function of $F$ with $G=20$ GeV${}^{-2}$.
From top, $\mu=0.1$ GeV, 0.3 GeV, $\mu_{\rm cr}$, 0.45 GeV and 0.5 GeV, respectively, are shown.
In $\mu>\mu_{\rm cr}=0.406$ GeV, the ferromagnetic condensate $F$ exists with non-vanishing value.
Thus, the quark spin is aligned and the magnetic field appears spontaneously.
The critical baryon density, which corresponds to one third of the critical quark number density, is
about 3.47 times the normal nuclear density.
Here, the critical quark chemical potential $\mu_{\rm cr}$ is obtained by $\delta^2 V[F=0]/\delta F^2=0$.
Thus, the critical quark number density or baryon density is calculated by using the relation between
the quark chemical potential and quark number density given in Eq.(\ref{3-9}) or (\ref{3-5}).
The critical density is varied as the parameter $G$ is changed.
In Table \ref{table:1}, the critical baryon densities are collected.
\begin{table}[b]
\caption{The critical baryon density $\rho_{\rm cr}$ and critical quark chemical potential $\mu_{\rm cr}$.}
\label{table:1}
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{c|c|c} \hline
$G$ / GeV${}^{-2}$ & $\rho_{\rm cr}/\rho_0$ & $\mu_{\rm cr}$ / GeV\\ \hline\hline
15 & 5.34 & 0.468 \\
20 & 3.47 & 0.406 \\
25 & 2.48 & 0.363\\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\end{table}
\begin{figure}[t]
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[height=5.4cm]{magnet.eps}
\caption{
The strength of ``reduced" magnetic field is shown as a function of $\rho_B/\rho_0$.
}
\label{fig:4-2}
\end{center}
\end{figure}
As is mentioned in \S 2, non-vanishing $F$ means that there is a spin alignment of quarks,
which leads to the magnetic field due to the quark magnetic moment.
Thus, it means that there is a possibility that spontaneous magnetization occurs in the quark matter at high baryon density.
We roughly estimate the strength of the magnetic field.
The condensate $F$ has the dimension of energy.
Here, we introduce and define a ``reduced" magnetic field $B_{\rm red}$ as
\beq\label{4-2}
{\ovl \mu_q} B_{\rm red}=F\ ,
\eeq
where ${\ovl \mu_q}$ is the average quark magnetic moment in the nonrelativistic constituent quark model,
while the quark mass may be zero at this high density:
\beq\label{4-3}
{\ovl \mu_q}=\frac{\mu_u+\mu_d}{2}\ , \qquad
\mu_u=\frac{\left(\frac{2}{3}e\right)\hbar}{2m_q}\ , \quad
\mu_d=\frac{\left(-\frac{1}{3}e\right)\hbar}{2m_q}\
\eeq
with $\hbar$.
Then, we obtain
\beq\label{4-4}
{\ovl \mu_q}=\frac{1}{2}\cdot \frac{e\hbar}{2\cdot 3m_q}=\frac{1}{2}\frac{e\hbar}{2m_N}=1.576\times 10^{-17}\ {\rm GeV/T}\ ,
\eeq
where $3m_q=m_N$ is the nucleon mass.
From Eq.(\ref{4-2}), the strength of the ``reduced" magnetic field is estimated.
It may be expected that the ``reduced" magnetic field corresponds to the magnitude of ferromagnetization
which occurs spontaneously in the high density quark matter.
At high density, the order of the strength of ``reduced" magnetic field is about $10^{15}\sim 10^{16}$ T
as is shown in Fig.\ref{fig:4-2}.
\section{Summary}
Quark ferromagnetization has been reinvestigated following the study\cite{Bohr1,Bohr2}
performed by two of the present authors (J. da P. and C. P.) in the framework of
the NJL type effective model of QCD.
In this paper, the effective potential with respect to the condensate of quark spin alignment has been derived.
Actually, it has been shown that, at high density, quark spin alignment occurs which leads to the spontaneous
magnetization of the quark matter in the framework of the effective potential approach with the auxiliary field method
based on the standard field theoretical technique.
It is expected that non-vanishing condensate at high density leads to the effective field strength of spontaneous magnetization.
In this paper, assuming the quark magnetic moment as that of the nonrelativistic constituent quark model,
the strength of ``reduced" magnetic filed has been estimated where a rather large magnetization has been obtained.
In this paper, having in mind the description of the interior of compact stars, the quark matter at zero temperature has been treated.
Of course, it is interesting to investigate the system at finite temperature with the Fermi distribution function $n_+^{(\pm)}$.
In this paper, we neglect the vacuum polarization by setting $n_-^{(\pm)}$ into $n_-^{(\pm)}-1$ simply to
regularize the divergent integral.
It may be interesting to study the effect of the vacuum polarization or of the Dirac sea for the spin
polarization in quark matter at finite temperature.\cite{add1}
Further, at high density, the quark matter may reveal the color-superconducting feature.
It is also interesting to examine the coexistence or competition between color-superconductivity and
ferromagnetization\cite{add3,add4} in the framework developed in this paper.
These are future problems.
\section*{Acknowledgement}
One of the authors (Y.T.) would like to express his sincere thanks to
Professor\break
J. da Provid\^encia and Professor C. Provid\^encia, two of co-authors of this paper,
for their warm hospitality during his visit to Coimbra in spring of 2012.
Two of the authors (J.P. and C.P.) acknowledge valuable
discussions with H. Bohr and\break
P. K. Panda.
One of the authors (Y.T.)
is partially supported by the Grants-in-Aid of the Scientific Research
(No.23540311) from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and
Technology in Japan.
| {Bohr2}, by two of the present authors (J. da P. and C. P.),
a possibility of the ferromagnetic condensate in the quark matter
at high density has already been considered by means of the thermodynamical treatment of the NJL model
with tensor interaction.
In this paper, we reinvestigate the ferromagnetic condensate by a
field theoretical approach with the aim of the extension to the finite temperature system.
Namely, we derive the effective potential for the ferromagnetic condensate.
This paper is organized as follows.
In the next section, the effective potential for the quark ferromagnetic condensate
is derived by using the auxiliary field method.
In \S 3, the analytical form of the effective potential is given at zero temperature.
In \S 4, the numerical results are given and it is shown that the quark ferromagnetic condensate is really realized for
high density quark matter.
Further, the implication to the magnetars is discussed.
The last section is devoted to a summary.
In Appendix A, the effective potential is reinvestigated in terms of another normalization.
In Appendix B, the effect of the vacuum polarization is summarized briefly.
\section{Effective potential approach to symmetric quark matter with tensor-type interaction}
In | 284 |
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A novel radiative heat flux measurement technique for combustion products flowing in solid rocket motors
H. T. Martin, R. W. Houim, P. J. Ferrara, M. J. Degges, A. C. Cortopassi, J. E. Boyer, K. K. Kuo
In order to understand the behavior of internal insulators in solid rocket motors (SRMs), it is necessary to observe them under a well-characterized thermal environment. While it is most important to know the total heat flux to the insulator, it is also valuable to know what fraction of that flux is due to its separate radiative and convective components, as each mode is governed by fundamentally different physics and, thus, affects the insulator differently. Therefore, a radiometer has been developed to measure the purely radiative component of heat flux in an SRM. In this design, a Schmidt-Boeltertype heat flux sensor is isolated from the convective flow of SRM combustion products by a sapphire window, which is mounted in a recess in the wall of the SRM. Condensed-phase particles generated by the combustion of metalized solid propellant are prevented from striking and adhering to the window by two jets of cold inert gas: one injected at an oblique angle to the combustion product flow and another injected normal to the window. The radiometer was installed in a laboratory-scale SRM burning AP/Al/PBAN composite propellant for a series of test firings, the results of which demonstrated that the inert gas jets are capable of maintaining a clean window throughout a 20 s firing duration. The radiation measurements obtained from these firings exhibit good repeatability and physically reasonable temporal behavior. Therefore, it is concluded that this radiometer design is robust and capable of providing accurate measurements of thermal radiation fluxes within an SRM.
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Martin, H. T., Houim, R. W., Ferrara, P. J., Degges, M. J., Cortopassi, A. C., Boyer, J. E., & Kuo, K. K. (2013). A novel radiative heat flux measurement technique for combustion products flowing in solid rocket motors. International Journal of Energetic Materials and Chemical Propulsion, 12(3), 183-196. https://doi.org/10.1615/IntJEnergeticMaterialsChemProp.2013001451
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With Sri Aurobindo in Baroda by Dinendra Kumar Roy
With Sri Aurobindo in Baroda
This is the first English translation of Aurobindo Prasanga (literally, "About Aurobindo"), a memoir by Dinendra Kumar Roy (1869-1943). A Bengali writer who was fairly well known during the first half of the last century, Dinendra Kumar lived with Sri Aurobindo in Baroda from 1898 to 1900 or 1901. The chapters making up this work first appeared in the journal Sahitya in Bengali year 1318 (1911-1912). More than a decade later, in 1923, they were brought out as a book. Some of Dinendra Kumar's references to historical and literary figures are explained in editorial notes at the end of the translation.
Author: Dinendra Kumar Roy
I could never have imagined before the Bomb Case began that Srijut Aurobindo Ghose would become so famous, in such a short time; that throughout India the police force would keep him under constant watch; and that to prove the charge of sedition against him, the renowned barrister Mr. Norton would gulp down more easily than champagne thousands and thousands of rupees belonging<|fim_middle|>12-28 01:25:072020-12-30 10:25:45With Sri Aurobindo in Baroda by Dinendra Kumar Roy
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After Aurobindo acquired this celebrity or notoriety, many things were said about him in various English and Bengali journals. Some time back I heard that a certain Mr. Palit had written his biography in order to spread his name in India and abroad. But Aurobindo hasn't yet crossed the threshold of his youth and the time for writing the story of his life has not yet come. Besides, for various reasons, it is not quite proper to bring out the biography of a living person. But self-interest knows no rules. It is therefore difficult for some to resist the temptation of pushing someone prematurely into the public gaze and making him dance there, especially if the sale of that person's life story can bring in a little money. I know that Aurobindo does not support such a public display. But there are many who are eager to know something about him. And I am sure that all those who are born as men in Bengal will be pleased and profoundly delighted to contemplate the story of Aurobindo's life. This is the reason I have sat down after twelve long years to write about my personal contact with Aurobindo.
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Sarah-Jane Smith, the Doctor's new companion, joins in the first story of the season.
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Just about<|fim_middle|>vertime win for UMBC. | every team in the country has one or two games under its belt now that women's soccer season is underway, and the first weekend did not disappoint. Some players celebrated the new season with some jaw-dropping goals, showing off incredible footwork, power and body control. Here are some of those highlight-reel scores from the first three days of the season.
Munerlyn started her season off the right way by making a defender look silly. The Bruin plucked a lofted pass out of the air and quickly went behind the back, leaving the San Diego State player in the dust. She then quickly gathered herself and placed it perfectly over the goalkeeper and into the corner of the net.
This goal by Stevens in Friday's opener might have been only one of a ridiculous nine the Blue Devils scored, but that didn't make it any less remarkable. Stevens was the 2015 national high school player of the year, giving everyone a lot of expectations for what she can accomplish in Durham, North Carolina. Well, based on this ridiculous spinning kick out of the air, she plans to live up to those expectations and then some. The goal was the first of her college career, and she followed it up with another in her first start Sunday.
No player can do it without her teammates, and the assists on this overtime game-winner were just as impressive as the goal itself. First, No. 14 Ellie Otteson, though she didn't get any points for it because hockey assists only count in, well, hockey, did a great job of keeping her composure through some tight defense to get the ball to the middle of the field. That's where it really got good. Hallie Widner received the pass and, in one motion, dumped it behind her back to a cutting Warren, who let loose a perfect strike to end the game. Just look at Widner's reaction the instant Warren took the shot. That's poetry in motion right there.
Stein's first career goal was about as memorable as one can be, given the situation and difficulty. With eight seconds left in regulation and trailing 3-2, Stein lined up for a free kick from just in front of midfield. Like a Hail Mary in football, this kick had to be placed absolutely perfectly to stand any chance, and that's exactly what she did. She lifted it close enough to the head of her forward that the Arkansas goalie was forced to come out to try to catch it and avoid a header. That made her enter some heavy traffic and she missed it, with the ball glancing off her fingertips and into the back of the net for an incredible overtime-forcer. The Razorbacks eventually held off the Dukes in double overtime, but that didn't make this goal that got them there any less amazing.
Keeping up with the theme of first career goals, Bosak registered hers in her first game. When you watch this play, it's not surprising in the slightest that the freshman was a four-year letterwinner in basketball in high school. Those are some insane ups she showed there to go over the top of everyone and head it in. The assist by Taryn Jakubowski also deserves a ton of praise, as it was amazing that the pass ever even got to Bosak. Jakubowski had to run away from the net to retrieve the ball, quickly elude a defender, and then loft it up for Bosak between two Iowa jerseys. Just an all-around outstanding effort in the Bluejays' 5-3 win.
A lot of the goals already seen were a big reflection on the work of the scorer's teammates to set her up. This one was all Quaranta. The redshirt senior is working to make her final year a special one after a couple of injury-plagued seasons, and this is a great start. The Retrievers forward played the passing lane and took the ball, shook off a pair of defenders, and then somehow curled a shot between two red jerseys and past a diving keeper. The individual effort on this one was simply off the charts, and it opened up the scoring in what was eventually a 3-2 double-o | 844 |
In October, I travel to Europe with stops that include Rome, for a big anti-CETA event with Sujata Dey, our trade campaigner (Italy is the only country still holding out against the deal); Zurich, to take part in a public event and press conference against a planned privatization of their water services; then celebrations of three German cities becoming Blue Communities: Berlin, Augsburg and Munich. This is a huge deal for the Blue Planet Project and will get a lot of media in Germany.
Then in November, the Blue Planet Project is getting a lovely award from the city of Barcelona and Meera Karunananthan, International Water Campaigner and I will attend a ceremony honouring us along with Eau de Paris, the public water company in Paris that<|fim_middle|> of this is possible because of you. I will represent you internationally with pride.
Maude will provide regular updates of her international travels – stay tuned for more! | took back its water under public management and fiercely protects it.
In December, I have been asked to be part of the Nobel Prize week in Stockholm. Every year, when the Nobels (all but the Peace Prize) are awarded, they choose a theme. Last year, the theme centred on migrants and refugees, the year before, it was climate change. This year it is called "Water Matters" and they have invited several people from around the world – including me – to come and take part. Over 1,000 people attend and it is live-streamed. I also attend other activities, including a concert at the opera house and the actual award ceremony and dinner. A very lovely honour that reflects on our collective work over the years.
This is, of course, on top of work we are all doing here in Canada – but I want you all to know how our work is spreading around the world. In fact, as I write this, Meera is in Cape-town South Africa, working with Koni, our staff person there, to put the regional water crisis on the South African national political agenda through a series of roundtables. It's incredible work.
And of course our work here in Canada stays intense – from fighting offshore drilling off Nova Scotia, the dreadful new right wing government in Ontario, pipelines such a Line 3 and Kinder Morgan, and bad trade deals such as TPP and NAFTA to promoting democracy through our challenge on voter registration, promoting pharmacare, campaigning for a national water plan with a concentration on the First Nations water crisis, and promoting Blue Communities across the country to protect water as a public trust.
This is a crucial time in history and we are making a difference. Thank you to our dedicated chapters for their inspiring work across the country and to all of our wonderful supporters. All | 368 |
Just about every parent has heard this plaintive cry. Young children love to listen to picture book stories. They enjoy cuddling close to daddy on a comfy couch or leaning back on mommy's lap as they help to turn the dog-eared pages of a beloved book.
Why should we read picture books to young children?
We read with them for entertainment and enjoyment. Their messages can help young children deal with many of the challenges they encounter. Reading with young children engages them in the world between the pages. Children are able to relate the events in the book to their own experiences. Studies show that children who are read to at an early age are more successful in school.
Encourage the child to make some choices.
As picture book writers, we need to keep those four factors in mind. But picture books are not the only types of books for young kids. Here is a list of the different types of book formats and what you can expect to find in each.
Board books – for infants to toddlers, hard board pages usually plasticized for sturdiness, simple pictures, minimal text, these days many popular picture books have been redone as board books, but they used to be mostly concept books (numbers, colors, ABC's).
Picture books – for preschoolers to 4th grade…although ages 3-5 is considered the 'sweet spot', designed to be read to/with the child, 32 pages, balance between text and pictures, but recently more pictures than text,1000 word max…but recently 500 words or less are preferred, art tells much of the story, child or child-like hero is at center of story, fiction or non-fiction or concept book, example: Where The Wild Things Are.
Early Chapter Books – 7-11 year old, 45-60 pages, broken into chapters, each chapter is broken into 3-4 pages, illustrations are small, usually black and white and only on every few pages, 2-4 sentences per paragraph, each chapter ends so they want to turn the page, example: Ramona.
Middle Grade Novels (MG) – 8-12 year old, 100-150 pages, minimal illustrations, invites the child to bring his own imagination to the story, example: series books such as Chronicles of Narnia.
Young Adult Novels (YA) – 12 years old and up, 100-400 pages, complex plots, themes relevant to problems of teenagers today, sophisticated topics, mature vocabulary, example: Twilight Series, Hunger Games.
As writers of children's books, it will be helpful to remember these parameters.
I think that writing for children is the best job in the world! As Jorge Luis Borges said, "I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library." We hold in our hands the ability to create beautiful stories that will entertain, educate and elevate the young children of tomorrow.
Vivian Kirkfield is a<|fim_middle|> children. While I dabble in chapter books and mid grade novels, I write mostly picture books – a lot of them. I am often asked by writer friends and non writer friends how I come up with soo many different ideas for picture books and my answer is simple. Brainstorm.
1. Go to a playground or Chuck E Cheese or the play area at McDonalds and other places that children like to hang out. Go sit in the waiting area of a children's dentist or pediatrician. Go to a children's museum, an aquarium, or a planetarium. Watch how children behave, listen to what they are interested in or worried about. Just don't take pictures of anyone or they might think you are some kind of creep. Take your own kids with you or your nieces or nephews or grandchildren – watch and listen.
What if a child lost his/her tooth at a museum?
What if a child has his/her birthday party at Grandma's house?
What if a child has a play date at the beach?
What if a child lost his/her a tooth at a museum – and the tooth dropped into an exhibit?
What if a child had his/her birthday party at Grandma's house and Grandma drops the cake?
What if a child has a play date at the beach and they find a hermit crab together – who will get to bring it home?
These additions to your events and locations turn your idea into a story. Now, go weather the brainstorm and have fun coming up with ideas.
When Max and Katie decide to teach their little sister to fly, they quickly learn that telling her to flap, just isn't enough.
Page by page, the siblings get more and more inventive in an effort to help their little sister soar through the air.
Alison Hertz is a writer, illustrator, teacher, toy designer, juggler, and former summer camp director. Her picture book, FLAP, released in November of 2012 and is available in stores and online at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Indiebound, and her website. | mom, an educator and an author who is passionate about picture books, enjoys hiking and fly-fishing with her husband, loves reading, crafting and cooking with kids during school and library programs and shares tips and tactics for building self-esteem and literacy in her parenting workshops. To learn more about her mission to help every child become a reader and a lover of books.
Title: A Moose That Says Moooooooooo!
Everything starts out fine in the imagination of one young girl when she decides to create her own zoo with a moose that can moo and book reading sharks. But soon things get out of hand as everything from zoo pillow fights to an all-duck jazz band creates havoc in the afternoon. How will she corral those crazy critters and restore order once more to her back yard?
The illustrations of this book kind of remind me of Shel Silverstein's lovely drawings in THE GIVING TREE. With an ox as a short-order cook and skunks jumping rope, who WOULDN'T want to check out this zany zoo? I enjoyed turning the pages to discover the next what-if in this adorable tale of one girl's imagination gone wild on a lazy summer afternoon.
International best selling, award winning author, Donna L Martin, has been writing since she was eight years old. She is a 4th Degree Black Belt in TaeKwonDo by day and a 'ninja' writer of children's picture books, chapter books, young adult novels and inspirational essays by night. Donna is a BOOK NOOK REVIEWS host providing the latest book reviews on all genres of children's books, and the host of WRITERLY WISDOM, a resource series for writers. Donna is a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators and Children's Book Insider. She is a lover of dark chocolate, going to the beach and adding to her growing book collection. Donna's latest book, LUNADAR: Homeward Bound (a YA fantasy), ebook edition, is now available from Amazon.
One horrible monster king summons his four horrible chefs and demands they find him something new to eat. He's tired of eating only eyeballs and ketchup. They must bring him something tasty to try or he will put those horrible chefs on the menu as the main course!
Thanks to the talented Tara Lazar and Tammi Sauer, I'm on a monster kick right now so my bookshelves are quickly being filled with all kinds of cool monster books. MONSTER CHEFS starts out with an almost comfortingly familiar feel of a fairy tale with the four monster chefs going off in four different directions in search of something new for the monster king to eat. Then the story takes on a delicious twist as each chef comes across something they think would please their king. The final surprise comes when the last chef makes it back to the kingdom where the monster king can hardly wait to try something new. I love, love, LOVED the unexpected ending and thoroughly enjoyed the lovely illustrations which accompanied this delightful children's book. This book is definitely a keeper!
Picture Books: Too Sweet Or Magically Delicious?
Writing picture books is great fun and a good deal of hard work. I often suggest to my readers and TV audience to visit my Book Wisdom by Diane blog to think of choosing books like picking a cereal for your child. What do you want for your child? What's in their best long-term interest? Thank you, Donna for giving me the opportunity to share this analogy with your readers.
Where on the cereal isle do you see your most recent picture book manuscript? How does your story stack up? What makes a picture book desirable food for the young child? I am sure you have ideas about this. We know what sells. However, what does the child need?
When was the last time you walked down a cereal isle and looked at all the options? It's mind-boggling. There are the classics. Oatmeal, Original Shredded Wheat, Rice Krispies, Cheerios, and Corn Flakes have stood the test of time. Will your writing do the same?
There are the sweet treats. Life, Raisin Bran, Honey Bunches of Oats, Frosted Mini Wheats, and Honey Nut Cheerios have some sweetness but still provide basic nutrition. What level of sweetness does your story bring to a child?
The poppin' group flashes eat me from the shelf. Honey Smacks, Frosted Flakes, Captain Crunch, Froot Loops, and Lucky Charms are packaged with inviting labels and colors. They also make the top 10 list of the worst cereals for kids. Is your story all flash and color? Is it lacking something?
At the end of the isle, the small granola group is shelved, a more recent arrival providing alternatives to classics and the poppin' varieties. Granola, Kashi Strawberry Fields, Barbara's Blueberry Mini Wheats aim to provide the sustenance and kid appeal for discerning consumers. How does your story sustain?
Options and variety abound on the cereal isle and in the genre of picture books. Do you place limits on your writing based on fitting-in and selling? Do you write with the child in mind?
First of all, Donna, thank you for having me on your blog.
For those who don't know me, I write and illustrate books for | 1,088 |
Can You Sue a Business That Lets Hackers Steal Your Data?
Hackers are very much in the news these days, with the high profile attack on Sony Pictures in connection with The Interview.
While the hackers in that case targeted<|fim_middle|> allegedly by China, and the data of more than 800,000 employees was compromised.
An estimated 110 million customer records were stolen from Target in late 2013 and into 2014.
More than 145 million eBay users were affected by a data breach that involved email and postal addresses and login credentials.
A data leak at Home Depot involved 109 million consumer records, including 53 million email addresses and 56 million credit card numbers.
A data breach at 33 P.F. Chang's restaurants led to the disclosure of consumer credit and debit card information.
Data Breach Legislation
In response to all of these data breaches, federal and state governments have moved to increase protections for consumers.
As of September, 2014, 47 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Virgin Islands have passed laws requiring private or government entities to notify people of security breaches involving personally identifiable information. Alabama, New Mexico, and South Dakota currently lack such laws.
Data Breach Lawsuits
Not surprisingly, consumers who have had their personal data stolen have turned to the courts for redress.
Two former employees of Sony Pictures filed a class-action lawsuit in December charging that the company failed to properly secure sensitive employee information, such as Social Security numbers, birth dates, salary information, and medical information.
Sony reportedly kept important passwords in unencrypted Word documents with names that included the term "passwords."
Consumer lawsuits based on data breaches rarely succeed, for a variety of reasons. For example, consumers may not be able to prove that they were actually harmed, but merely that they face the potential for harm.
Whether you can maintain a lawsuit for loss of your personal information may depend in part upon where you live, as shown by two Federal Court decisions in December.
In the Northern District of Illinois, a judge granted the defendant's motion to dismiss a class action lawsuit against P.F. Chang's. The plaintiffs in that case had made the argument that they'd been harmed by "overpaying" for food and drink at P.F. Chang's because, they claimed, the cost of dining "implicitly" included a fee for protecting personal information. The judge didn't buy this argument, in part because cash customers were charged the same as those that used credit and debit cards.
In the District of Minnesota, on the other hand, a judge allowed a putative consumer class action against Target to go forward.
If Your Data Has Been Stolen
If your own personal and private data, including your financial information, has been stolen from files maintained by your employer, former employer, or a business you patronize, you may want to consult a consumer protection attorney to determine whether you may have a claim. | the movie studio's internal emails, memos, and even complete digital copies of then-unreleased movies, like Annie, most hack attacks are attempts to acquire personal information – such as credit card numbers – from individual consumers.
Notable Hacks
It seems that hardly a week goes by without news of yet another data breach. In 2014, for example, Forbes magazine reported:
40% of companies experienced a data breach.
"Backoff" malware allowed hackers to steal consumer financial information, including credit card numbers, from point-of-sale terminals.
ZDNet reported on the following major hacks of 2014:
About 80 million US households, and seven million small-to-medium-sized businesses, were affected by a data breach involving J.P. Morgan Chase.
Private photos of Hollywood celebrities, including Jennifer Lawrence, were exposed due to a "brute force" hacker attack on iCloud accounts.
The US Postal Service was attacked, | 192 |
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Hunting Polluting Gases Around Boston
By Alvin Powell, Harvard Staff Writer
Harvard students, faculty, and fellows are training new high-tech instruments on Boston's skies, searching for one well-known troublemaker and one escapee among the atmosphere's invisible gases.
The old troublemaker is carbon dioxide, the greenhouse gas released by burning fossil fuels that long has been known as the main cause of climate change [2]. The escapee is methane, an even more powerful emission that is the main component of the natural gas burned in home furnaces<|fim_middle|> handful of rooftops on campuses at Harvard and Boston University, as well as on buildings in downtown Boston, near Boston Harbor, and west of the city in Harvard Forest.
Data from the permanent sensors will be augmented by the portable instruments, spectrometers that point at the sun and analyze how its light is altered by chemicals in the atmosphere. The spectrometers will be deployed by students, who will take daylong measurements of the sky. Adding to the data haul will be a fleet of sensor-equipped cars driving the region's streets to pinpoint where the aging infrastructure is leaking.
As for carbon dioxide, Wofsy said researchers using proxies such as fuel sales already have a good idea of how much carbon dioxide is emitted from fossil fuel burning in the area, but the new research will enable them to understand when and where.
Taken together, the work will provide a picture of how levels of methane and carbon dioxide vary by place and time around the city. It will examine high-traffic areas, natural-gas infrastructure, seepage beneath city streets, and leakage by homes and businesses.
"If users turn out to be a major source of methane, then it could turn out that the smaller, more numerous sources are more significant than the larger, fewer ones," Wofsy said. "This is the kind of thing we're trying to answer in this program."
The carbon dioxide work can also provide information on impact beyond climate, such as in areas involving health and environmental justice, since carbon dioxide can be used to track particulates and other pollutants, Wofsy said.
The project is being conducted in collaboration with Hutyra and Wendy Jacobs, clinical professor of law and director of the Emmett Environmental Law and Policy Clinic [4] at Harvard Law School.
Jacobs said the interdisciplinary nature of the project is key, and the goal is not just to use science to illuminate the problem of methane and carbon dioxide emissions in the city, but to design laws and regulations to address the problem.
"Laws, regulations, and public policy will not be effective unless informed by reliable science and data. Reliable science and data can effectively be deployed to solve a problem when integrated into new technologies, laws, regulations, and public policies," Jacobs said. "The collaboration of our distinct disciplines is more powerful than either discipline alone."
Jacobs said the aim is to come up with solutions applicable to the Boston area that could be used elsewhere, and perhaps be scaled up for use by state and federal governments. The project also will evaluate emissions with an eye to whether they disproportionately affect the poor.
Students will be involved in both the environmental law clinic and in the field, with data-collection efforts coordinated by postdoctoral fellow Jonathan Franklin.
On a recent blue sky day in a Malden park, graduate student Taylor Jones was collecting data. Jones, together with John Budney, the Wofsy lab's research engineer, had arrived early to set up the mobile spectrometer that examined the air column moving over the park. By comparing that with similar measurements taken upwind — roughly the direction of Harvard's Cambridge campus — researchers would be able to measure the change in methane and carbon dioxide as the air moved across the neighborhoods in between. By shifting locations and taking many measurements over the next several years, a mosaic of emissions across the region will emerge.
Jones and Budney had other equipment as well. A different spectrometer measured composition of the air at ground level, while other instruments measured wind speed and barometric pressure. Some instruments were mounted on a large, blimp-shaped balloon that was raised and lowered to provide a cross-section of the atmosphere within 330 feet of the ground.
"There's a lot of holes in our understanding of emissions," said Jones, whose passion for building scientific instruments drew him into the research. "I'm trying to fill those holes by doing innovative types of measurements."
Over the project's first months, the challenge has been to find enough sunny days to deploy the spectrometers regularly, Jones said. Another challenge has involved understanding the wind on days in the field, since upwind and downwind measurements are key to knowing what's going on in between.
"It's all about chasing the wind," Jones said.
Find out more about Harvard's efforts to tackle climate change here [2].
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Source URL: http://environment.harvard.edu/news/faculty-news/hunting-polluting-gases-around-boston
[1] http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2016/04/hunting-polluting-gases-around-boston/
[2] http://www.harvard.edu/tackling-climate-change
[3] http://hls.harvard.edu/
[4] http://hls.harvard.edu/dept/clinical/clinics/emmett-environmental-law-and-policy-clinic/
[5] http://environment.harvard.edu/research-teaching/search?taxonomy_vocabulary_2%5B0%5D=7
[7] http://environment.harvard.edu/research-teaching/search?taxonomy_vocabulary_2%5B0%5D=10 | and in the electricity-generating power plants that are shouldering aside coal-fired plants across the country.
Though both are fossil fuels, burning natural gas is better than burning coal when it comes to the environment, because natural gas releases half as much carbon dioxide for an equal amount of energy generated. In addition, it is far cleaner than other pollutants in its burning, including in the fine particles that can cause health problems.
Methane is a far more powerful greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide and, if it escapes into the atmosphere unburned, can trap between 15 and 100 times more solar radiation than carbon dioxide can. Understanding how methane gets into the atmosphere from both natural and manmade sources has become an important focus of climate research.
Steven Wofsy, Harvard's Abbott Lawrence Rotch Professor of Atmospheric and Environmental Science, said it's pretty clear that a significant amount of unburned natural gas is escaping in the Boston region. He is leading a project to find the source of the leak or leaks and, in collaboration with faculty and students from Harvard Law School, [3] seeking to design technical, legal, or regulatory solutions to reduce the emissions.
The work, which recently received funding from the Harvard President's Climate Change Solutions Fund, builds on earlier studies by Wofsy and a former student, Boston University Associate Professor Lucy Hutyra. The pair found that some 2 percent of the natural gas shipped to the Boston area is lost before it gets burned.
While the release of a powerful greenhouse gas is a significant concern for those worried about climate change, Wofsy said it should also be a concern for anyone who pays for natural gas, since the cost of the lost gas is still reflected in their rates.
"That's a lot, and it's a mystery," Wofsy said. "We don't really know where it's all coming from."
The research, which began this winter with the deployment of new, portable sensors that examine the chemical composition of the skies above Boston, also uses a network of permanent sensors on a | 414 |
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