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Let's make a salad with a mixture of rice (white, red, wild and brown). Wild rice salads are ideal for macrobiotic diets and these salads can harness all the nutritional and health benefits. I suggest a wild rice salad with mango, cherry tomatoes, cucumber, rocket, and a mustard vinaigrette with a little Asian twist. The Asian touch comes from a mixture of spices that can be found in supermarkets, such as Szechuan pepper, sea salt and chili. If you do not like spicy foods, you can omit the Asian spices, particularly the chili. We can also add some dried fruit, such as raisins, or nuts to this salad, and it will look and taste great. You can even try adding red onion, or whatever else you like; salads always allow for millions of possibilities! I am sure you will love the unique mix of flavour, and this very original way of preparing new salads. Love live #salading! - Boil the wild rice in a saucepan with plenty of salted water and a few drops of olive oil, at least 30 minutes or until tender. - Once cooked, drain in a colander and rinse with cold running water to stop the cooking, and set aside to cool. - Cut the cucumber, cherry and mango into cubes. - Chop the rocket in medium sized pieces. - Prepare the vinaigrette in a small bowl, mixing the mustard, oil and vinegar well, and adding some Asian spices (chili, Szechuan pepper and sea salt). If you do not have these at home, just use normal salt and pepper. Tips from the author Wild rice takes longer to cook than normal, because this black, unhulled, long grain is not rice! It is actually the seed of an aquatic plant common in North America. So given the resemblance, we commonly call it "wild rice". It is most often found mixed with white rice in most supermarkets. The problem with this is that white rice needs about 20 minutes of cooking, while wild rice requires almost twice that, so either the white rice is overcooked or the wild rice is still underdone. It is best to cook it, let it cool and then combine with everything you want to make your salad. Since it usually requires at least 30 minutes of cooking, add plenty of liquid to your saucepan (either water or vegetable broth).
Join Konrad Eek for an in-depth discussion in this video Exploring what film formats are available, part of Analog Photography: Shooting & Processing Black-and-White Film. …One of the things I'd like to establish early on in this course is that…film is a decision making process.…There's no program involved in most everything that we're going to do,…so the decisions that are made in order to gain a successful result,…are really dependent upon your knowledge base.…It's a little bit more challenging, but I'll think you will,…find it a little bit more rewarding as well.…The first decision you're faced with is what format do I want to shoot?…We use format in a different context when we're talking about film.… It's not about preparing a card to hold new images and making sure you,…you don't lose any of them, because you didn't erase everything properly.…Format refers to the size and…shape of the film we're using in order to capture our images.…First, what you may have heard referred to before, large format film,…this would start at 4 by 5 and go up.…And, we pick four by five, what are we talking about?…Well, it's four by five inches.…The film will come in boxes of sheets that are slid into a film holder.… Upon returning home, Konrad processes the film, explaining the chemicals involved and sharing insights for getting reliable results. He also describes the negative-scanning process. Finally, to whet your appetite for the other facets of film-based photography, he demonstrates the process of making a silver-gelatin enlargement and offers up some tips on building your own darkroom. - Exploring film formats, lenses, and cameras - Loading films - Shooting black-and-white film - Working with colored filters and film - Chemically processing film - Scanning and storing film - Enlarging film in a makeshift darkroom
Grant Writing Basics: Crafting your Story for Fundraising Success Learn the basics of grant writing from A to Z: from current trends, where to look for resources, reviewing criteria to determine the right match, creating a project budget, what grantors expect in an application, to writing an effective case statement and completing the proposal package. Presented by Kimberly Smith Registration will be available online through Sunday, June 12. To register after June 12, contact Kimberly Smith at 207-760-2722. MAM’s 2016 Professional Development Series is funded in part by the Maine Humanities Council as part of the Pulitzer Prize Centennial Campfires Initiative, a joint venture of the Pulitzer Prizes Board and the Federation of State Humanities Councils in celebration of the 2016 Centennial of the Prizes. The initiative seeks to illuminate the impact of the humanities on American life today, to imagine their future, and to inspire new generations to consider the values represented by the body of Pulitzer Prize winning work. For their generous support for the Campfires Initiative, we thank the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Ford Foundation, Carnegie Corporation of New York, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Pulitzer Prizes Board, and Columbia University. Maine Archives and Museums P.O. Box 784, Portland, Maine 04104 207-400-6965 email@example.com
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- Library Overview - Library User Information - Collections Overview - Library Catalog - Programs & Services - Research Resources - Collections Online - Rights & Reproductions - Donations and Support - Featured Collections - Library News & Updates - PLAN A VISIT - SUPPORT MDHS County Courthouse Photograph Collection - PP155 Collection finding aids of Photograph Collections in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Maryland Historical Society Library COUNTY COURTHOUSE PHOTOGRAPH COLLECTION Prints and Photographs Division, Maryland Historical Society 201 W. Monument St. Baltimore, MD 21201 Finding aid created by Katherine Cowan with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, January 2000 The courthouses of Maryland were built in various architectural styles: Georgian, Italianate, neo-Colonial, neo-Classical, and modern. The buildings are are frequently sited in prominent locations in public squares within the county seat. Queen Annes County has the oldest courthouse still in use in the state, in use since 1792. Gift of Judge Frederick W. Invernizzi, 1990 (003203). Scope and Contents The collection consists of 1 box with 33 photoprints made in 1954 in 2 albums which are soft-cover "King-Pak" albums from the Read Drug and Chemical Company of Baltimore ("Reads). The photographs depict 22 county courthouses in Maryland. All photographs are captioned on the verso with county or town (or both), and some in Album 1 also provide a judges name. The majority of the photographs remain in the albums, but some have become detached. All are numbered with PP catalog numbers, and are placed in numerical order. 1 Box: 2 Albums PP155.1 Carroll County, Westminster. PP155.2 Howard County, Ellicott City. PP155.3 Anne Arundel County, Annapolis. PP155.4 Anne Arundel County, side view, Annapolis. PP155.5 Court of Appeals building, Annapolis. PP155.6 Harford County, Bel Air. PP155.7 Montgomery County, Rockville. PP155.8 Frederick County, Frederick. PP155.9 Cecil County, Elkton. PP155.10 Washington County, Hagerstown. PP155.11 Allegany County, Cumberland. PP155.12 Allegany County, Cumberland, entrance detail. PP155.13-.14 Somerset County, Princess Anne. PP155.15 Dorchester County, Cambridge. PP155.16 Wicomico County (new court house addition), Salisbury. PP155.17 Wicomico County (old court house, side view), Salisbury. PP155.18 Wicomico County (old court house, front view), Salisbury. PP155.19-.20 Worcester County, Snow Hill. PP155.21 Garrett County, Oakland. PP155.22-.23 Calvert County, Prince Frederick. PP155.24 Prince Georges County, Upper Marlboro. PP155.25-.26 Talbot County, Easton. PP155.27-.28 Queen Annes County, Centreville. PP155.29 St. Marys County, Leonardtown. PP155.30 Kent County, Chestertown. PP155.31 Charles County, La Plata. PP155.32-.33 Caroline County, Denton. © 2001 Maryland Historical Society - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Internet Management - WEBNETT
About The Prize WHAT IS THE MERCURY PRIZE? The Mercury Prize for Album of the Year is the music equivalent to the Booker Prize for literature and the Turner Prize for art. The main objectives of the Mercury Prize are to provide a snapshot of the year in music, to encourage debate and discussion about music, and to help introduce new albums from a variety of musical genres to a wider audience. HOW MANY CATEGORIES ARE THERE? 2016 sees the introduction of a new finalists phase on the night of the Awards Show. The first finalist will be selected by online poll, which will enable music fans to select the first of six 2016 finalists from the 12 shortlisted albums. The five remaining finalists will be chosen by the Mercury Prize Judging Panel, which bases its decisions solely on artistic merit. WHEN DID THE MERCURY PRIZE START? WHAT DO THE ARTISTS WIN? More significantly the Prize can ignite public awareness of the winning album, and dramatically increase the profiles of all the shortlisted artists. WHO CHOOSES THE SHORTLIST? The judges’ decisions are based solely on the quality of the music on the albums. They do not take into account commercial sales, chart success, record label, live performances etc. HOW ARE THE SIX FINALISTS AND THE OVERALL WINNER SELECTED? The same judging panel meets again at the winner's announcement to choose the overall ‘Album of the Year’. This can be a long process and, as always, the judges base their decision solely on the quality of the music on the album. WHO ARE THE JUDGES? The full 2016 judging panel is: Clara Amfo – Broadcaster Jarvis Cocker - Musician and Songwriter Jamie Cullum - Musician and Broadcaster Harriet Gibsone - Music News Editor; The Guardian/TheGuardian.com Will Hodgkinson - Chief Rock & Pop Critic The Times Shahid Khan aka Naughty Boy - Musician, Songwriter and Producer Annie Mac - DJ and Broadcaster Ellie Rowsell from Wolf Alice - Musician and Songwriter Kate Tempest - Musician, Poet and Author Jessie Ware - Musician and Songwriter Jeff Smith - Head of Music, BBC 6 Music and BBC Radio 2 The judging facilitator is Simon Frith - Professor of Music, Edinburgh University. HOW IS THE INTEGRITY OF THE JUDGING PROCESS PROTECTED? The results of any voting by the judges are not published. This is to ensure that all albums are always viewed as being equal and that no ranking system is employed at any stage of the process. All of the shortlisted artists are treated as having produced an ‘Album of the Year’. None of the organisers are members of the judging panel or cast any votes. It is the discussions and votes of the judging panel that determine which albums progress within the judging process. Since the Prize began no other organisation, including sponsors or broadcasters has exerted any influence over the judging process or shortlist / winner decisions. One of the founding principles of the Mercury Prize is that all music be treated equally regardless of genre. This principle is followed at every stage of the entry and judging process. WHY DON’T I HEAR MORE ABOUT THE ORGANISATION BEHIND THE PRIZE? In order to ensure that as much media coverage as possible is concentrated on the artists and their music, it has been a policy since the Prize began that the production company behind the Prize does not engage in any publicity or PR activity other than that which directly benefits the artists that it’s promoting. The focus of the Mercury Prize is always on the music and the artists and their albums. WHERE DO THE ENTRIES COME FROM? Every year the UK music industry enters around 250 albums for the Prize ranging from well-established artists to new and emerging ones WHAT ARE THE MAIN ENTRY CRITERIA? Albums by British and Irish artists with a UK digital release date between Saturday 26 September 2015 and Friday 29 July 2016 (inclusive) are eligible for the ‘2016 Albums of the Year’ competition. Albums need to be available to buy as a digital download throughout the UK from at least one of the following retailers - 7Digital, Amazon MP3, Google Play or iTunes. HOW MUCH DOES IT COST TO ENTER? The fee to enter an album for the Prize is £190 + VAT. The fee helps cover the administrative costs associated with the process. ARE THERE ANY OTHER FEES? There are no additional fees or requests made for any other contributions or payments.
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Eight police agents in civil clothes, in a car without identification, abduct a popular video blogger. They beat him, mock him and insult him. The next day they bring him to court to fine him for disobeying and resisting the police. “No,” I hear you say; “that’s too absurd to happen in real life.” Yes it is absurd, but it is exactly what happened in Azerbaijan’s capital, Baku, to Mehman Huseynov on 9-10 January 2017. Mehman Huseynov is a well-known Azerbaijani photojournalist and blogger who has been pivotal in raising awareness of political and social problems in Azerbaijan. In his recent series of video reports for news and media company Sancaq, Hunt for Corrupt Officials, he documented corruption in the high echelons of Azerbaijan’s ruling establishment. He is a high-profile figure on Azerbaijani social media, with a large following on both Instagram and Facebook. Increasingly invested in human rights work, Mehman Huseynov recently took over the chairmanship of the country’s leading independent media rights group, the Institute for Reporters’ Freedom and Safety (IRFS). Leading IRFS is a dangerous job in Baku. Emin Huseynov, IRFS’ founder and Mehman’s brother, was forced into hiding in August 2014 to ensure his protection amid a wave of repression in Azerbaijan. He was officially charged after going into hiding, and these politically motivated criminal charges forced him to leave the country in June 2015. Whilst Emin Huseynov was hiding, journalist Rasim Aliyev was appointed chairman of IRFS – he was attacked by a group of unknown individuals and died from his injuries. Now, the attacks continue and target IRFS’ new chairman, Mehman Huseynov. The absurd, cruel and nasty nature of the abduction, detention and sentence of Mehman Huseynov is only one side of the ongoing crackdown on critical voices in Azerbaijan. In reality, the abduction of Huseynov is a reflection of the conditions in which civil society works and of the sense of impunity of those attacking journalists, lawyers and human rights defenders in the country. This is not an isolated attack. Just like Rasim Aliyev’s murder was not insulated from the unprecedented crackdown in the country since the summer of 2014 and previously left-uninvestigated murders of journalists Rafiq Tagi and Elmar Huseynov. All independent human rights institutions have highlighted the same: a worsening situation for human rights defenders, civil society, and individual freedoms in Azerbaijan. This climate is one in which authorities believe they can abduct, beat and sentence a human rights defender in order to silence him. Those in power think civil society is there to obey and report on what they wish, and not on the numerous problems plaguing society as Huseynov was doing. For the Azerbaijani authorities, there were little consequences after the arrest of Intiqam Aliyev, Anar Mammadli and Rasul Jafarov, Leyla Yunus and her husband Arif Yunus, and later also of Khadija Ismayilova. Shutting down independent civil society in the country brought only verbal condemnation, but no changes in the manner in which the international community was dealing with human rights in Azerbaijan. Since, from the top to the bottom of the authorities in Azerbaijan, a sense of impunity has grown for violence against and the targeting, criminalisation, intimidation, torture and killing of journalists, lawyers and human rights defenders. As with many others in Azerbaijan, Mehman Huseynov is released but his rights have not been fully restored. The authorities have confiscated and withheld his official documents, including his passport, since they first arrested him in 2012. This does not only restrict Mehman Huseynov’s freedom of movement and prevent him from attending international events, it also makes it impossible for him to receive medical aid in a hospital or to receive higher education. He has also been regularly interrogated by authorities since his first arrest. Furthermore, earlier this year, young activists Bayram Mammadov and Qiyas Ibrahimov were arrested after spraypainting graffiti on a monument to former president Heydar Aliyev in Baku. They were recently sentenced to 10 years in prison on spurious drug charges. We know with Azerbaijan that repression just follows repression if acts such as this attack against Mehman Huseynov are not met with the kind of answer they deserve. Azerbaijan’s human rights situation is indeed just as bad as it ever was in the country’s independent history, as the review in October 2016 at the United Nations Human Rights Committee showed. With Council of Europe blocked and divided over the future of Ukraine, we need to look to the United Nations to step up and protect civil society space in Azerbaijan. At the Human Rights Council, many States have since summer 2014 raised the human rights situation in Azerbaijan. The time has now come to put Azerbaijan under the monitoring of the Council, as the authorities remain deaf to the calls of so many international voices urging Azerbaijan to “rethink [its] punitive approach to civil society.”
Volunteers "Cut From The Team" Get Labor Department Aid In an effort to quell mounting dissatisfaction from non-exempt school employees left "off the team" of volunteer coaches and sponsors in their districts, the U.S. Department of Labor’s ("DoL") Wage and Hour Division issued a guidance letter describing when such employees may volunteer without becoming entitled to overtime pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act ("FLSA"). Two U.S. Congressmen from North Carolina asked for the DoL’s guidance, in the wake of a wave of FLSA lawsuits claiming overtime violations by dozens of school districts in the U.S. To avoid the prospect of liability, some districts have simply adopted the singularly unpopular remedy of forbidding non-exempt employees from volunteering. A less drastic alternative emerges from the DoL’s guidance letter: a case-by-case look at the volunteer, the nature of the work she performs as an employee of the District, and the nature of the volunteer service at issue. Further, a careful District will comply with FLSA’s mandate that nonexempt volunteers (1) receive only a nominal fee, if anything; (2) not be coerced into volunteering; and (3) not perform services similar to those they perform in their regular jobs for the same district. So, for example, a bus driver for the school district could not volunteer to drive the basketball team to away games, because bus driving is the very function he performs for the school district, for pay. If he drives the basketball team to away games, the activity does not qualify as "volunteer" activity under the FLSA and the employee would be entitled to pay - including overtime pay if the circumstances warranted - for transporting the team. That same employee bus driver, however, would be perfectly entitled to volunteer - without risk to the District under the FLSA - if the driver were a parent of a student on the basketball team. And, because his duties as an employee would be dissimilar to his volunteer duties, the bus driver could volunteer to be an assistant coach for the basketball team. The DoL guidance letter describes acceptable - and unacceptable - volunteer situations involving teaching assistants, secretaries, cafeteria workers and bookkeepers. Its clear message is that school districts can never require or coerce non-exempt employees to perform volunteer services; they must be cautious in accepting such services and they should examine each situation on its own merits. To discuss any questions or issues related to education law, please contact our Labor Group, Beverly Hall Burns at (313) 496-7508, email: firstname.lastname@example.org, Michael A. Alaimo at (313) 496-8447, email: email@example.com, or Christopher Trebilcock at (313) 496-7647, email: firstname.lastname@example.org. This message is for general information only and should not be used as a basis for specific action without obtaining further legal advice
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In the first of a three-part blog series, we explore how test prep solutions are creating equal opportunities for underprivileged students in India—helping them enter premier educational institutions and gain aspirational jobs. In India, entrance exams are an integral part of the selection process for top colleges and government jobs. A good performance in a single examination can open the door to new opportunities. It is here that test preparation solutions emerge as an enabler for low-income families—helping them gain access to a college education and white collar jobs. Recognizing this, the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation is committed to creating a level playing field for all students. We want to ensure that students from underprivileged backgrounds have a fair shot at getting into elite colleges and jobs of their choice. We also understand that the existing solutions are not just unaffordable, but also pedagogically unsuitable for students from government and budget private schools, hence, innovation is required in both these areas. Test prep in India: A challenge and an opportunity In 2016, 1.2 million Indian students appeared for the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE)—conducted for admission to engineering colleges across the country. Only 10,000 of them made it to the 17 Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), the country’s most sought after technical institutions. With half of India’s population under the age of 25 years, competition for entry into colleges remains fierce. Since school curriculum does not cover the syllabus for college entrance examinations, most students opt for specialized coaching, or test prep. Entrance into other professional courses, postgraduate education, government jobs, etc. is through specialized testing, and just as competitive. This has created a market for a supplementary education area industry in India—preparing school and college students to qualify for aspirational jobs through coaching. This model is well established in India, where middle-class families spend up to a third of their incomes on coaching, making it an unaffordable and unsuitable solution for students from underprivileged backgrounds. The correlation between income and success become clearer when we see that students with both parents as graduates perform almost 30 percent better in JEE than students for whom neither parent is a graduate. In this scenario, high-quality, cost-effective test prep solutions give poor students an equal chance to succeed—providing them with coaching that helps them enter India’s top colleges and gain meaningful and aspirational jobs. The solution: How our portfolio companies are creating impact Several areas related to test preparation are still underdeveloped and need our support. 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Avanti has also innovated tremendously to create bi-lingual, graded lessons to fill years of learning gaps in their student population. - Edutel provides technology-enabled distance education solutions across several business lines, catering to both government and affordable private schools. The organization’s patented solution provides an interactive, two-way classroom engagement with high-quality teachers without bandwidth constraints. It has successfully managed to bring star teachers to students at affordable prices by using a largely unutilized EDUSAT network. - Online Tyari, a mobile application, delivers customized, curated and vernacular test prep content over low internet bandwidths. The solution helps applicants prepare for entrance exams to government jobs in the railways, state service commissions, and public sector units. It relies on the extensive use of analytics to provide students with personalized learning for multiple tests. Several areas related to test preparation are still underdeveloped and need our support. For example, it is essential to ensure that test preparation solutions serve the needs of underprivileged children and also provide these students with relevant content. While Avanti and Edutel target an aspirational segment for low-income students to get into India’s top colleges, Online Tyari is a mass market solution that focuses on a broader requirement – focusing on preparing students for government jobs. However, what these companies have in common is: 1) relentless focus on creating impact and 2) innovation to achieve this impact for underprivileged students. Today, these solutions win appreciation from thousands of students every day. Avanti is present in 31 centers and has a 29 percent success rate—impacting 2500 students across 15 cities. Since its launch one- and-a-half years ago, Online Tyari’s 850,000 active users have made about 3.2 million downloads. The impact created by these solutions show how test preparation can help underprivileged kids, who have suffered through the current education system, enter good colleges and secure aspirational jobs. It is an essential tool in our intervention in the K-12 education system, and is an integral part of our effort to drive education innovation and school system transformation in India. In the next post in this series, we will share views from students on the impact of test prep and their successes because of their experiences. “JEE Main: Number of students appearing have declined, says Govt”, The Indian Express, 2016 “IIT-JEE 2012 Results Analysis”, Indian Statistical Institute, 2013
Degas Fourteen Year Old Little Dancer Ballerina with Fabric Skirt, Large 13.5H - Reproduction of Edgar Degas' most famous statue, Little Dancer of Fourteen Years. This replica is faithful to the original because it includes a cloth skirt and hair bow as had the original. - Part of the renowned museum replica collection by Parastone. - Degas signature appears on the underside of the base. Comes with a color description card. - Made from resin and fabric on a wood base. - Measures: 13.5 in H x 6 in W x 6 in D. Weight 2.3 lbs. - On the same statue, select either a Netting Fabric Skirt (DE10) or a Cotton Linen Skirt (DE12). The Fourteen-year-old Dancer (La Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans, 1881) After beginning to lose his eyesight after his fiftieth birthday, Degas became increasingly dependent on his sense of touch and so started to turn from painting to sculpting. Although during the last period of his life he hardly ever showed his work to anybody, he decided after working the The Dancer for than two years, to send his work to the impressionist exhibition in Paris After he had carefully sculpted the body, he had the clothes custom made: the bodice, the net dancing skirt and the ballet shoes. On top of the bodice he then worked again with wax, so this was to become a solid part of the figure when it was cast in bronze. He expected a sympathetic reaction from the audience, but they were at an utter loss. It was obviously too realistic. 'Mister Degas dreamed of an ideal picture of ugliness. The fortunate man! He has achieved it ...', a critic wrote. He was known as a painter and now he had designed something that seemed to laugh at all the traditional values of the art of sculpting, which was something the audience just could not understand. After this experience Degas never exhibited any of his work again. Looking back, he was clearly ahead of his time and he had developed a degree of objective realism for which his contemporaries were not in the slightest prepared. It is a lifelike sculpture, with her chin lifted into the air and her immature body, the girl is standing before us, ready to start moving whilst at the same time she seems motionless and timeless -- so characteristic of the true art which outlives its time so splendidly. EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917) The course of life of the Parisian painter had few dramatic peaks. Being the eldest son of a well-to-do family, the cynical, snobby loner was able to devote his life to the arts. Furthermore, he remained a bachelor because: 'There is love and there is work, and we only have one heart.' His classical education can be recognized in his earlier work, in particular the strict composition and line inspired by Ingres whom he greatly admired. Degas took a special position within the group of artists led by his friend Monet, who regularly got together in the Cafe Guerbois. His cynicism and sharp tongue however, made his difficult in company and many ideas from Zola, Renoir and Monet did not appeal to him. Although he referred to himself as an 'independent realist', he was very much involved in the impressionistic revolution and the themes and techniques developed the traditional and modern art of painting. In 1874, together with Monet, he organized the first exhibition of the 'independents', which was named the 'the impressionists' by a critic. A realist: 'I know nothing of inspiration, spontaneity and temperament.' He locked himself up inside his studio and used photos as a mnemonic device, whilst others went outside with the tubes of paint which had recently come onto the market. Degas considered that utter nonsense:'Painting is not a sport!', besides: 'I do not have the habit of painting when I am in the countryside.' In his fifties he began to encounter financial problems and on top of that his eyesight began to deteriorate. However, according to Renoir only then 'the real Degas' emerged through his paintings'. Degas himself said: 'Anyone can be talented when his is twenty-five, what count is to have talent when you are fifty.' We Also Recommend
This summer I worked for Earth Star, a green energy company located in Washington, D.C. Users sign up for free on Earth Star’s website (see below) and can track their energy usage for power, water, and gas. They can also earn local and national rewards based on the amount they have saved compared to past years. The company is able to do so by taking a user’s login credentials and accessing their accounts for them, and then consolidating the utility data on the website. Thus, a large responsibility that I had was to make sure that our website was asking users for the right login credentials for each utility website. As there are around 5,000 utilities in the Earth Star database, this was a significant and ongoing task. While working on the login credentials, I also had other duties as an intern. Because Earth Star is web-based, it is bound to occasionally run into computer-related problems. As such, to better service its customers, the company added a ticketing system where people could submit an online ticket if they ran into any problems. I helped to address many of these tickets. One of the more rewarding parts of my internship was going to meetings and conferences, where my superiors presented on the benefits and advantages of a company like Earth Star. One such meeting was held at HUD or the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. It was interesting to see how the process of these collaborative programs starts. Furthermore, these presentations helped me envision how my work could potentially help millions of Americans around the country save energy through these programs. I feel as if I have gained a lot from this experience. I have gained a firsthand view as to how these small energy efficiency companies operate. Also, working with such a small team allowed me to really provide input as to how things could be done differently or more efficiently. Moreover, the general feeling that I was doing something to help the environment was satisfying. I really appreciate that the Middlesex Alumni Association has helped me by providing this internship stipend. I think it is a great program that has allowed me to live and work in D.C. and gain a truly invaluable experience that I may not have otherwise had the chance to do. Joseph is attending Georgetown University and has recently provided an update to this article: “The company has actually changed their name and website to MyEnergy.com, which they feel more accurately represents their services. Once again, I really appreciate the continued support from the Alumni Association. I think this is a great program to help recent grads pursue unique opportunities.”
Evidence independently links smoking, family history, and gender with increased risk of adenomatous polyps. Using data from the New Hampshire Colonoscopy Registry (2004–2006), we examined the relation of combined risk factors with adenoma occurrence in 5,395 individuals undergoing screening colonoscopy. Self-reported data on smoking, family history and other factors were linked to pathology reports identifying adenomatous polyps and modeled with multiple logistic regression. In adjusted models a >15 pack-year smoking history increased the likelihood of an adenoma (OR = 1.54, 95% CI 1.28–1.86), although ≤15 pack-years did not (OR = 1.07, 95% CI 0.87–1.32). Gender-stratified models showed a significantly increased risk of adenoma at lower smoking exposure even for men (OR = 1.32; 95% CI:1.00–1.76), but not for women (OR = 0.85; 95% CI:0.61–1.14). An ordered logistic regression model of adenoma occurrence showed a smoking history of ≥15 pack-years associated with 61% higher odds of adenoma at successively larger size categories (95% CI 1.34–1.93). For individuals with a family history of colorectal cancer, smoking does not further increase the risk of adenomas. Smoking duration is linked to occurrence and size of adenoma, especially for men.
In this paper, the classical theory of light scattering in homogeneous mediums leading to the Landau-Placzek equation representing the ratio of the intensity of the Brillouin component to that of Rayleigh component. Because of effect dispersion, the simple Landau-Placzek equation is modified by defining hypersonic adiabatic compressibility (β_S)^=1(ρν_)^2,where ν_ is the velocity of hypersonic sound wave which cause Brillouin scattering and obtained from the experimentally measured Brillouin Shift. Authers measure the Brillouin Shifts and the ratio of the intensities with a He-Ne laser light source, pressure-scanning Fabry-Perot interferometer and photoelectric detection anp discuss experimentally techniqes and data disposal procedure. The Rayleigh scattering (central component) is much affected by dusts in samples, so we carefully try to take off it. Predictions are evaluated for 12 liquids and compared with experimental vatues. In most cases, predictions modified with dispersion show better agreement with experimental results than the simple owes. Especially, errors are less than 5 percent for the the ratios of the intensities in acetic acid, carbon disulfide ethyl alcohol, toluene and acetone.
See the bigger picture of increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide. › Larger image These images show the global distribution of mid-tropospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) as observed by the AIRS instrument on NASA's Aqua spacecraft for July 2003, July 2005, July 2007, and July 2009. The data show the average concentration in parts per million (ppm) over an altitude range of 3 km to 13 km. The overall color of the images shift toward yellow with advancing time due to the annual increase of CO2. › AIRS Instrument › Scientific Visualization Studio Know Your Earth 2.0: Carbon Dioxide
The calendar said "October," but the temperature was closing in on 60, the water was calm, and the scenery too rich to stay off the bay. Though we had headed to California for a wedding, my wife and I carved out a free morning to head to Tomales Bay for a few hours of kayaking with Point Reyes Outdoors, an outfitter based in Point Reyes Station, a cozy, comfortable waystation just inland from the California coast. It was a morning well-spent, one we wished could have been turned into an entire weekend. With guides Jenn, a trained biologist who prefers paddling over being cooped up in an office or tied to a desk year-round, and Luce, a transplanted Brit, leading the way, we put in at Nick's Cove and headed out towards White Gulch on the thin peninsula that juts into the Pacific and holds the Tule Elk Reserve on its grassy shoulders. En route we paddled by Hog Island and its little sister, Piglet. Once the home of settlers, the tiny islands have been given over to harbor seals, cormorants (both Brandt's and double-breasted), brown pelicans and other waterfowl, which we actually smelled, thanks to the prevailing winds, before we spotted them. While the seals just gazed at us with little interest, the birds cranked up a bit of a commotion until they were satisfied we were heading elsewhere. Unlike other national park visits where we've had to share the scenery with dozens, if not hundreds, of others, we had this corner of Point Reyes National Seashore to ourselves and the wildlife. Rimmed on three sides by land, the pinched-in waters of 15-mile-long Tomales Bay were practically smooth except where our paddle blades ripped small holes in the surface as we skimmed along. Sea-kayaking is a joy unto itself. The ability to quietly course across a body of water with relatively little effort is serenity defined. Wildlife pay relatively little attention to you, figuring you're just another sea creature sharing the water. Wind was scarce this day, and any chill eaten by the calories we burned with each stroke. After passing Hog Island and its menagerie, we headed towards White Gulch, a shallow, sheltered cut in the peninsula that was favored by a band of Tule elk, a species native to the peninsula that were killed off during California's gold rush days in the mid-1800s, only to be restored to the landscape in the 1970s. Today the herd numbers roughly 400. Smaller than their Rocky Mountain cousins, and perhaps a shade lighter in color, the Tule elk in the cove glanced at us a few times as we sat on the water and returned their glances. Perhaps too arrogant to acknowledge our existence by fleeing, a brown pelican bobbed gently on the swells not 20 feet from our kayaks, wings shuttered close to his body and beak tucked into his chest. More skittish were the godwits, sandpipers and willets that were seeing what snacks they could uncover in the shallows. A great blue heron, definitely more uncomfortable with our presence, kept a close eye on us from his perch near the shore. Though the sky overhead was overcast, that actually was a bonus, as it minimized glare while our eyes searched beneath the kayaks for sea life. In the small cove at White Gulch, the bore-holes of countless ghost shrimp were easily visible, and as we slowly made our way out of the cove and north along the shore blood-red sea stars, dull-green anemones and crabs could be seen on the rocky bottom. Sunflower stars, creatures similar to sea stars but with as many as 20 arms, clung to the submerged rocks, while obstreperous belted kingfishers crisscrossed our path. It was while scanning the bay's floor that we spied, but for a short moment, a passing bat ray. Though these sea creatures, which are related to stingrays, can have wing spans of 6 feet, this one was smaller, perhaps only 3-4 feet from wingtip to wingtip. Cruising on up the coastline, we passed a snowy egret looking for lunch, as well as a hummingbird enjoying some of the season's last nectar. It was during a snack of locally-produced Havarti cheese, fruit and crusty bread on one of the peninsula's deserted beaches that Jenn brought us up to speed, a bit, on Tomales Bay. It turns out that the 6,780-acre bay happens to be California's largest unspoiled coastal estuary. Interestingly, or perhaps disconcertingly for us at the moment, the bay sits atop the San Andreas Fault. Just as disconcerting is the fact that great white sharks have, at times, been found in the bay looking for harbor seal dinners. The bay also is home to a vibrant oyster farming industry, and on our return to Nick's Cove we passed some of the oyster beds and got a close-up look at the system used for raising oysters for your plate. Had time not demanded our presence elsewhere, it would have been easy to spend the entire weekend kayaking Tomales Bay, with overnight camps on its beaches and hiking forays into the elk reserve and bluffs overlooking the Pacific.
Making a Difference: No human being alone, not even a president, can build a world where justice, peace and love reign. Such a vision needs requires all of us. The Field Hospital: Newly created All Saints Church commissioned his artwork to symbolize unity among its four merged parishes. The seven new saints were holy because of "the Lord who triumphs in them and with them," Pope Francis said. Pope Francis will create seven new saints Oct. 16: six men and one woman. The Olympic host city in Brazil and athletes competing there share the same patron saint. But why? In playing with the gender characteristics of religious icons usually depicted as feminine, artist Alma Lopez asks us to reconsider our ideas of religion, beauty and gender. My Table is Spread: For the people who have been healed by the intercession of a saint, there is no relief from portrayals of one sort of or another.
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LIFE: Clean Energy from Water Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/06/16/Ed_Moses_Clean_Fusion_Power_This_Decade Ed Moses, Director for the National Ignition Facility, describes NIF's plan to move fusion energy from the lab to the grid using the Laser Inertial Fusion Engine, or LIFE. The conceptual mechanism would harness the power of fusion to generate gigawatts of waste-free energy from heavy water. ----- Finally achieving fusion energy may be closer than everyone thinks. For decades the dream has been to employ the reaction that powers stars to generate high-volume electricity without the drawbacks of fission reactors -- no high-level waste, no weapons application, no risk of meltdown, no use of uranium, and (as with fission) no greenhouse gases. Ed Moses is director of the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore Labs. Focusing massive amounts of laser light for a billionth of a second, the NIF is expected to demonstrate ignition of a fusion reaction (more energy out than in) for the first time in the coming year, followed by the prospect of a prototype machine for generating continuous clean energy by the end of this decade. That could change everything. The NIF itself is a spectacular work of "technological sublime." - The Long Now Foundation Dr. Edward Moses is the Director for the National Ignition Facility (NIF) and the Principal Associate Director for the NIF and Photon Science organization at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in Livermore, California. Dr. Moses was responsible for completing construction and activation of the NIF, the world's largest and most energetic laser system and transforming it into an experimental platform for the broad national and international scientific user community. Experiments on NIF will access high energy density regimes with direct application to strategic security as well as applications for fusion energy research, high energy density science, and astrophysics. Dr. Moses is also the National Director of the National Ignition Campaign to achieve fusion ignition in the laboratory, the culmination of a 50-year quest. The NIF and Photon Science principal directorate is also responsible for the development of advanced diagnostics and laser technologies for homeland security, economic competitiveness, and energy needs.
Compare how Jesselton (Kota Kinabalu) looked like in different decades using this interactive slider! You’ll be amazed how much this city has changed! Any traveller visiting Kota Kinabalu or Jesselton back then will definitely go to Signal Hill to take a panoramic photo of the city. We’re lucky because many of these photos are still preserved until today for us to enjoy and appreciate how the city looked like before and after. Here’s one example below – drag the slider in the middle: The alignment may not be perfect but it still gives you a good visualisation of the city before and after. This is the comparison between 1920’s and 1979: Now this is another view of Jesselton in early 1900’s and in 1980’s If you enjoy this post, please share it!
Scientists Use Math to Build Better Stents University of Houston mathematician Sunica Canic and her colleagues build computer models to study stents; their simulations could lead to better designs and also help doctors select the right stents for specific procedures Suncica "Sunny" Canic was good at math in school, so that's what she pursued as a career. But she always liked medicine, too. When she moved to Houston, Texas, and met some cardiologists at a party, she started talking with them about what they do--and knew she could help. "I realized we could provide them with a fluid dynamics and mechanics point of view to help them make decisions ... for example, about which stent grafts they use in their procedures," she said. Stents are tiny mesh tubes made from metal alloys that hold blood vessels open after they've been clogged with disease-causing plaque. Even though stents are designed to be compatible with the human body, they sometimes cause unwanted reactions, such as blood clots and scar tissue formation. So, scientists have tried to coat stents with cells that make the tiny tubes even more compatible. But these, too, aren't yet perfect, said Canic, a professor of mathematics at the University of Houston. Blood flowing over a coated stent can still clot or tear cells away. This is, as Canic put it, "not good." Supported by a joint grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of General Medical Science (NIH/NIGMS), Cancic makes computer models to guide the search for a better stent coating. She also uses computer models to study the strengths and weaknesses of different stent structures. Her work could help manufacturers optimize stent design and help doctors choose the right stents for their patients, ultimately improving patient outcomes. Computer scientists usually model stents in three dimensions. Keeping track of about 200,000 points, or nodes, along the stent mesh, the models are massive. Together with her collaborator, Josip Tambaca of the University of Zagreb in Croatia, and her doctoral student, Mate Kosor, Canic wrote a much simpler program that approximates stents as meshes of one-dimensional rods. This program let the researchers achieve the same result using just 400 nodes. Using their simplified model, the researchers have examined the designs of several stents on the market to see which structures seem to be best for specific blood vessels or procedures. For instance, they found that stents with an "open design"--where every other horizontal rod is taken out--bend easily, which makes them good to put in curvy coronary arteries. Canic and Tambaca have also used the model to design a stent with mechanical properties specifically tailored to an experimental heart-valve replacement procedure. She found that this specialized stent works best for the procedure when it's stiff in the middle and less stiff at the ends. In addition, she has found that combining "bendiness" with radial stiffness--where you can bend the stent into a U shape, but you can't squeeze the tube shut--produces a stent with less chance of buckling than those that are currently in use. The most rewarding part of her work, said Canic, is that "we can use mathematics for something useful, connected to real-world problems." She reports that her collaborators are already putting the results of her simulations into practice. Meanwhile, her greatest challenge is serving as an ambassador of mathematics to the medical and bioengineering communities. In the beginning, she said, it was difficult to collaborate with people from different disciplines who speak different scientific languages. "But once they saw that there is a lot of information there that could be helpful, it has been much easier," she said. "Now people want to talk to us from the medical center. They come to us and ask questions, and that's good." Today, Canic is helping a team at the Texas Heart Institute study an unusual source for stent coating: ear cartilage. The team believes this easy-to-harvest tissue will make stents more biocompatible, though they don't yet know how ear cartilage cells grow or behave in environments like human blood vessels. Canic is using her computer programs, developed together with Tsorng-Whay Pan, Roland Glowinski and students, to simulate how blood interacts with the stent-coating cartilage cells and how the cells stick (or don't) to the stent surface. She plugs in different fluid thicknesses and shear forces of blood flowing over the stent to see what might encourage the cartilage on freshly coated stents to stabilize quickly. The models have helped her collaborators learn the best conditions to test in follow-up experiments as they search for ways to pre-treat stents before doctors implant them. Canic wants to keep collaborating with the medical community as she moves forward with her research. She plans to look at biodegradable stents, as well as simulating the fluid dynamics of regurgitating mitral valves (where some blood flows backwards in the pumping heart) to help doctors more accurately diagnose the condition using ultrasound. "Certainly, I am going to continue working in this area," she said. "It is very rewarding." -- Stephanie Dutchen, NIGMS/NIH, email@example.com This Behind the Scenes article was provided to LiveScience in partnership with the National Science Foundation.
Author(s): Varoni EM, Lo Faro AF, SharifiRad J, Iriti M Abstract Share this page Abstract Resveratrol is a pleiotropic phytochemical belonging to the stilbene family. Though it is only significantly present in grape products, a huge amount of preclinical studies investigated its anticancer properties in a plethora of cellular and animal models. Molecular mechanisms of resveratrol involved signaling pathways related to extracellular growth factors and receptor tyrosine kinases; formation of multiprotein complexes and cell metabolism; cell proliferation and genome instability; cytoplasmic tyrosine kinase signaling (cytokine, integrin, and developmental pathways); signal transduction by the transforming growth factor-β super-family; apoptosis and inflammation; and immune surveillance and hormone signaling. Resveratrol also showed a promising role to counteract multidrug resistance: in adjuvant therapy, associated with 5-fluoruracyl and cisplatin, resveratrol had additive and/or synergistic effects increasing the chemosensitization of cancer cells. Resveratrol, by acting on diverse mechanisms simultaneously, has been emphasized as a promising, multi-target, anticancer agent, relevant in both cancer prevention and treatment. This article was published in Front Nutr and referenced in Biology and Medicine
"Mental Health Services" About: Devon Partnership NHS Trust / Primary care mental health Devon Partnership NHS Trust Primary care mental health EX2 5AF Posted by Mamazo3 (as ), My local Depression and Anxiety service (DAS) were unable to provide help or treatment as I was too ill and my needs were too complex for their service. They referred me to the Community Mental Health Team (CMHT) for treatment. I attended an assessment where my history was taken but no real details of my current condition or how its affects on my ability to function. I was told I would most likely be referred for psycho therapy but that there was a waiting list of 6-9 months. After waiting 3 weeks I received a letter to say I didn't reach the required threshold for further treatment and was discharged. This means I'm discharged by DAS as too ill and discharged by CMHT as not ill enough. This leaves me with depression and anxiety that leaves me unable to work and barely functioning but no treatment at all. This left me feeling abandoned and isolated further.
Blackleg caused by Clostridium chauvoei,Malignant edema caused by CI. septicum,Black disease caused by CI. novyi,Gas-gangrene caused by CI. sordellii,Enterotoxemia and enteritis caused by CI. perfringens Types B. C and D,Disease caused by Histophilus somni (Haemophilus somnus) Clostridium chauvoei - Cl. septicum - Cl. novyi - Cl. sordellii - Cl. perfringens types C and D - Haemophilus somnus bacterin-toxoid (killed). Aids in the prevention of diseases caused by the clostridial agents indicated above and Histophilus somni (Haemophilus somnus). Helps prevent 7 clostridial diseases (including diseases caused by CI. perfringens types B, C and D) Helps protect calves and adult cattle against H. somni, a contributor to respiratory disease and the cause of thrombotic meningoencephalitis (TEME) and reproductive tract infection Revision date indicates the date the MSDS or SDS was last revised. MSDS / SDS are dated when they are originally issued AND when any significant change has been made to the chemical compound or research has revealed a health or physical hazard different from what was originally stated.
The impact of real estate development can be felt by a wide range of people, ranging from the next-door neighbor to a community as a whole. Every parcel of land in the city of Baltimore is governed by zoning regulations, which control both what the property can be used for and the siting of anything constructed on the property. Because of the potential impacts of development, it is important for citizens and community organizations to know what the laws provide and how to have an effective voice in the zoning process. Zoning regulates both the use of land and the physical layout of development on parcels of land. In Baltimore City, zoning maps assign a zoning category to each parcel of land in the city, and the zoning code defines the kinds of uses that are permitted within each category. When the zoning of a particular property allows the type of use and the layout the property owner desires, the property owner generally has the legal right to proceed with obtaining construction permits and building the project, even if there is neighborhood opposition; exceptions may apply, i.e. environmental permitting restrictions, historical building designations, etc.. However, when the zoning code does not allow the requested use/development, there will be a public hearing in front of the Board of Municipal and Zoning Appeals, the body that has the authority to determine whether to allow the use. Any person or organization may speak at the public hearing, and it is important for those with concerns to speak up at that time. Follow these general steps to voice your concerns most effectively at a Board of Municipal and Zoning Appeals hearing. Each situation will bring specific issues and challenges, and this outline may need to be adapted to fit the needs of the particular situation. Navigating some of these steps may require advice or assistance from an attorney. - Determine the zoning of the property. See Baltimore City Zoning Map or contact the Housing Authority's Office of the Zoning Administrator for guidance. - Read the zoning code to see whether the proposed use and site layout is permitted. - Determine what action the property owner is requesting, such as a variance (seeking a relaxation of regulations because of the physical attributes of the property) or a conditional use (to allow a special type of use on the property that can only be permitted after the owner has proven certain facts about the effect of the use). - Determine the date of any hearing on the particular type of application and the deadline for the submission of written comments. If a party is required to post notices on the property, ensure that this requirement has been satisfied. - Review the procedural rules relative to Zoning Appeals. Examine the specific items required for consideration by the Zoning Appeals Board, make a list of them, and determine what information is needed to determine whether the property owner has met those requirements. - Obtain copies of all information submitted to the Board of Municipal and Zoning Appeals, including drawings and written information. - Speak with the property owner to understand his or her goals and intentions. Raise your concerns and offer possible solutions. Request assistance from City Council members to advocate on your behalf. - If an agreement is reached, ensure that the agreement is made in writing, reviewed by an attorney, and included in the application file. - If no agreement can be made, attend the public hearing at City Hall. Consult an attorney to gain a thorough understanding of the hearing procedures and requirements. Organize a group of neighbors and community members to speak about the concerns. Be thorough but concise, and follow the procedures outlined by the Board in making your presentation. Whenever possible, bring photos and documentation of your concerns, submit a written version of your testimony for the record, and if a Council member agrees with the stated position, request that the Council memebr testify before the Board. - If the project you oppose is approved by the Board of Municipal and Zoning Appeals, you may have recourse by filing an appeal in the Circuit Court. However, certain restrictions apply, and it is important to understand those restrictions at the time of the hearing. Consult an attorney prior to the initial hearing if you believe you might appeal a decision that approves the project over your objections. Following these steps, with the help of attorneys from Community Law Center, will give communities a stronger voice in the development process.
1. Remember the Apso’s tendency to be wary of strangers. Make careful introductions; do not overwhelm the pup with too much at one time. 2. Your pup should be restricted to home until he is sufficiently vaccinated; ask your vet about safe timing. 3. A few early training exercises with your young pup include introduction to the grooming table and gentle grooming, and introduction to his collar and lead. 4. When its time for socialization, you can begin to bring your puppy to different dog-friendly places to see the sights and meet the people. 5. Also introduce your pup to his crate, your most valuable training and safety tool. Reprinted from Breeders Best: Lhasa Apso © 2004. Permission granted by Kennel Club Books, an imprint of BowTie Press.
Coherence gated negation (CGN) is a novel imaging method that uses destructive optical interference to suppress glare and allow imaging of a target that may be hidden behind a scattering medium such as fog or clouds. In contrast to conventional coherence gating methods, which “gate in” the target optical signal, CGN works by actively “gating out” the unwanted optical contributions. Destructive interference cleans up an image to make text legible. Courtesy of Edward Zhou/Caltech. Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) created the device, which selectively cancels scattered light, leaving only the light that has been reflected or bounced off the target object. The device relies on destructive interference. It splits a laser into twin parallel beams, using one beam to illuminate a target and the other to cancel out the glare. Superimposing the light from each beam results in a cleaner image on a camera sensor. “The idea that we can directly cancel glare is new,” said professor Changhuei Yang. To test the device, researchers placed a line of text behind a one-mm thick block of glass beads suspended in a gel, rendering the text completely illegible. With CGN, they were able to suppress the glare intensity by a factor of 10 times using a permutation set of size 256. They demonstrated CGN’s ability to suppress glare over optical distances as short as several μm through the use of low coherence light sources such as super-luminescent diodes. Glare suppression was demonstrated on the length scale of 2 mm—a regime that conventional time-of-flight methods are presently unable to reach. The researchers also showed that by suppressing glare and permitting all other optical signals to pass, CGN allows for the simultaneous imaging of objects at different distances. This is in contrast to conventional CG methods, which are good at imaging objects at a given distance and rejecting optical contributions before and after the chosen plane. CGN shares the same roots as acoustic noise cancellation. Using a reference optical field of the same magnitude and opposite phase to destructively interfere with the glare component of a returning optical field, it nullifies the glare and its associated noise, thereby allowing the electronic detector to measure only the optical signal from the hidden target. Experimental demonstration of CGN. (a) Experimental setup. AM, amplitude modulator; BS, beam splitter; CBS, cubic beam splitter; FP, fiber port; HWP, half-wave plate; L, lens; M, mirror; OBJ, objective lens; OS, optical shutter; P, polarizer; PM, phase modulator; PSMF, polarization-maintaining single mode fiber. (b) Image of the target without glare. (c) Image of the target with glare before CGN. (d) Image of the target after CGN. Courtesy of OSA, the Optical Society of America. Currently, the CGN method can only be used to assist the imaging of amplitude objects. While the researchers do not see a straightforward way to extend CGN to enable phase imaging, they do not preclude the possibility of such developments in the future. CGN has numerous potential uses, including for the satellite exploration of cloud-obscured planets like Venus. It also has potential biomedical applications, offering a noninvasive way to optically examine tissues under the skin. "Optically, our skin behaves very similarly to a dense fog. CGN can be used to cancel the tissue glare and allow us to see through the skin," said researcher Edward Zhou. The device may also someday help drivers navigate foggy roads, although the speed of the image resolution would need to be improved significantly. "A very nice aspect of this method is that there is a fairly straightforward approach for increasing its speed by several orders of magnitude. Wouldn't it be nicer and safer if you can see the whole San Francisco bridge as you drive across it on a foggy day?" said Yang. The research was published in Optica, a journal of OSA, the Optical Society of America (doi: 10.1364/OPTICA.3.001107).
1. The problem statement, all variables and given/known data calculate a value for B at a distance of 50cm, in ,air, from a long straight cable carrying a current of 1000A. 2. Relevant equations F=Bqv=BIl I=q\t = qv/l F=LIB 3. The attempt at a solution i have not been able to calculate an answer as there are constantly two unknowns and i am unable o fine F.
Alright we did a lab using the speed of sound we were suppose to able to calculate the temperature outside. v = 332 +0.6T So this is what we did, one person hit two blocks together twenty times at an equal pace. The timers start when the person first hits the block together and stops when the last echo is heard. The distance from the wall and back is 200m So the times we got were 23.40s, 23.28s Then I calculated the average total time and average time for each echo cycle. Which is 1.167s So Speed = Distance / Time for each cycle Right? Speed = 200m/1.167s? If I do this, I end up with a negative temperature. So then did this, Speed = Distance/ Half of the time for each cycle. Speed = 200m/0.5835s By doing this I got the right temperature. Can anyone explain to me why I needed to divide the time for each cycle by two?
The £37m regeneration of Oldham’s Old Town Hall is due to complete this Friday, when it reopens as a seven-screen Odeon cinema and restaurant venue. The grade two-listed building has been vacant and derelict since 1995. In 2009 the structure was named in Britain’s ‘Top Ten most endangered buildings’ by the Victorian Society. Oldham Council appointed BDP as architect for the project in 2012. The building’s conversion into a cinema and leisure destination retains key architectural features like the existing ballroom, council chamber, committee rooms and court rooms, which have been transformed into cinema screens. A new extension, a translucent glass light-box, also creates a new façade onto what was Clegg Street. This extension provides a new entrance and foyers to the cinema areas and views of Parliament Square. Extensive restoration work has also been undertaken within the building. Since October 2013, construction firm Morgan Sindall has replaced or replicated 92 different styles of heritage tiles, made 2,282 replica replacement tiles and had craftsmen carrying out 1,250 heritage tile repairs. The development has used 550 tonnes of steel, 56 tonnes of temporary steel/bracing and propping, seen the pouring of 1,725m³ tonnes of concrete, the installation of 220 concrete piles and 864 repairs made to the external stone. On Friday 21 October the Odeon cinema and Costa Coffee within the Old Town Hall will open, while restaurant tenants Nando’s, Gourmet Burger Kitchen and Loungers will begin operating in phases over the coming weeks. Cllr Jean Stretton, Oldham Council leader, said: “We are ambitious for Oldham and this is the flagship project in a wider regeneration programme designed to transform it into a great place for residents, visitors and businesses. “We recognised the arrival of Metrolink was a once-in-a-generation opportunity to spark the town centre back into life and we have seized it. “It wasn’t good enough that we haven’t had a cinema for 30 years. It wasn’t good enough that we had no arts and heritage centre to celebrate our history or no public square for families to spend their leisure time. And it wasn’t good enough that we were struggling to attract retailers at both ends of the scale – from specialist independent traders to the likes of Marks & Spencer. “All that is changing and this development sends out the message that we’re deadly serious about delivering better for Oldham.” Click any image below to launch gallery
IBM Coding Challenge Think of an idea and build an app about it. The idea could be absolutely anything ranging from creating an app to chat with friends to an app that solves some humongous issue. Some example domains are: Education, entertainment, transport, financial markets, networking, health or anything of the participants choice. The apps can be developed in Java, Node.js, Python, Ruby etc. The only condition is that these apps must be developed & deployed on IBM's Platform as a service called IBM Bluemix. Certificates of participation from IBM will be provided to all participants who submit completed & working apps. Exciting cash prizes to be won. A series of Webinars will be conducted in the weeks running up to the contest and also during the contest. IBM experts will also be available to conduct a workshop and to help guide you during the contest itself. IBM experts will also provide mentorship on your idea, architecture and other technology nuances. Get a chance to discuss how to Go-to-Market as a StartUp and be connected with the ecosystem of Investors and Accelerators. More resources about IBM Bluemix will be sent once the participant registers for the event. Participants may formulate and plan their hack before registering in to the contest. A team can consist of minimum of 1 and a maximum of four members (Each member have to register individually). You can code in language of your choice as far as it is supported on IBM Bluemix. Apps must be developed & deployed on IBM's Platform-as-a-Service called IBM Bluemix. If any one of the rules is broken, the entire team will be disqualified. - IBM judging and decision will be final. Series of tutorial webinars that shall be organised before hackathon : Webinar 1 - Introduction & overview of Bluemix Webinar 2 - How to build a node.js based app on Bluemix Webinar 3 - How to build a Java app on Bluemix Webinar 4 - How to build a Python based app on Bluemix Webinar 5 - How to build a Ruby based app on Bluemix Webinar 6 - Brainstorming on ideas for apps Schedule for webinars : The six webinars can be clubbed into four sessions as listed above. You can interact with IBMers during the webinars. Note: After the completion of the above mentioned webinars, the respective videos for the same will be uploaded 27th and 28th, February Rs. 1250 per head
India's mostly fictitious forests took another hit, as the environment ministry cleared mining and power companies to exploit 25 percent of forest land it had previously designated a "no-go area," at the prompting of the prime minister. Don't get me wrong: I like electricity as much as the next guy. And I understand that India needs coal and power to fuel its economic growth -- and all the benefits that come along with it. But given the grim reality of the typical environmental impact assessment exposed by Business Today's Anusha Subramanian last year in "The Green Trick," and the fraudulent statistics on so-called forest cover exposed by Jay Mazoomdaar in Tehelka last week, my fears about what India may look like 10 or 20 years from now are mounting. According to the Hindustan Times, the PM intervened to open up the forest tracks on behalf of 30-50 new infrastructure projects, which are slated for environmental approval within 60 days and forest approval in six months, after meeting with a group of industrialists including Ratan Tata. But while it's all too reasonable to expect the environment ministry to clear projects in less than six years -- as the industrialists complain is the case -- it's a mistake to erase the line in the sand drawn by former minister Jairam Ramesh. The HT writes that more than 100 NGOs from across the country will meet in Delhi this weekend to discuss ways to protect India's dwindling forest cover and degrading natural resources, which is all well and good, considering that the Centre for Science and Environment has noted that clearances for new projects have exceeded the visions of the 11th and 12th five-year plans. But NGOs can only do so much when multi-billion dollar businesses and the government itself are conspiring to obscure what is happening. As Subramanian writes, EIAs are habitually manipulated to show that projects are viable. Investigator Sagar Dhara, for instance, was able to find projects that were given the green light before it was even determined where they would be located, EIA documents lifted verbatim from reports prepared for other projects (or in other countries), and more than a few that seemed made up altogether. Yet, "the routine manner in which the government clears them is also alarming," Subramanian explains. "According to government data, the MOEF cleared most of the 2,746 EIAs filed in the two-year period beginning September 14, 2006, the day a new EIA notification came into force. The data was collected by the EIA Environment Resource and Response Centre, or ERC, an initiative of the New Delhi NGO LIFE, through a Right to Information Act application." At the same time, as Jay Mazoomdaar points out, the forest department is fudging its statistics on forest cover. According to these officials, India's forests have actually thrived and even expanded during the past 60 years, even as the country's population increased by three and a half times. According to the latest State of the Forest report (concocted since 1987) India's forests have grown by 49,986 sq km (7.78 percent) in the past 25 years. Even lovely and pastoral Delhi, where "potholes are perhaps the only water bodies left," boasts 56 sq km of "dense forest." Of course, the truth is that most of those "forests" are actually wastelands or plantations, and with moves like the PM's to eliminate no-go areas, the government is actually encouraging the destruction of natural forests, while using the forest "industry" to hide their disappearance. As Mazoomdaar puts it: "Non-government researchers such as Jean- Philippe Puyravaud and Priya Davidar of Pondicherry University, and William Laurance from James Cook University, have found that plantations are expanding by 6,000-18,000 sq km per year in India. The native forests, on the other hand, are declining rapidly, at a rate higher than that of either Brazil or Malaysia."
August 16, 2013 Egyptian security forces have been authorized to use lethal force to prevent further riots ahead of a March of Anger called by the Muslim Brotherhood on Friday. Tensions are running high after Wednesday’s crackdown on protesters. The Brotherhood called for marches in towns and villages across Egypt to protest the forceful break-up of two sit-in camps by supporters of deposed President Mohamed Morsi, which left more than 500 people dead and thousands injured. “After the blows and arrests and killings that we are facing, emotions are too high to be guided by anyone,”said Muslim Brotherhood spokesman Gehad El-Haddad. In a countermove, a loose liberal and leftist coalition, the National Salvation Front, called on Egyptians to protest Friday against what it said was “obvious terrorism actions” conducted by Morsi’s supporters. Many young, liberal Egyptians were among the vocal supporters of the military ouster of Morsi’s government and clashed with the Muslim Brotherhood crowds on several occasions during the six-week standoff that followed the coup. Egyptian authorities cited the need to protect state property and ensure people’s security as the reason for authorizing the use of lethal force against protesters. “The Interior Ministry has instructed all forces to use live ammunition to counter any attacks on government buildings or forces,” the ministry said in a statement after hundreds of Morsi supporters stormed a government building in Giza and set it alight Thursday. Muslim Brotherhood supporters also targeted dozens of Coptic Christian churches and buildings across the country in a wave of retaliatory violence and arson. Following Wednesday’s clashes, a month-long state of emergency has been declared in major cities including Cairo, Alexandria and Suez, and a dusk-till-dawn curfew imposed. However, demonstrators are reportedly ignoring the curfew, and continuing to express their anger over the military crackdown. Supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood and Egypt’s ousted president Mohamed Morsi throw stones during clashes with security forces in Cairo on August 14, 2013, as security forces backed by bulldozers moved in on two huge pro-Morsi protest camps, launching a long-threatened crackdown that left dozens dead. (AFP Photo) The UN Security Council in New York condemned the bloodshed in Egypt in an emergency session Thursday, and called for an end to violence clashes in the country. “The view of council members is that it is important to end violence in Egypt and that the parties exercise maximum restraint,” Argentine UN Ambassador Maria Cristina Perceval told reporters after the Security Council met in closed session. “There was a common desire on the need to stop violence and to advance national reconciliation.” Earlier, US President Barack Obama canceled joint military exercises with Egypt in a sign of displeasure with the Cairo government’s crackdown. However, he made no moves to end or suspend annual US military aid of $1.3 billion to the country. “The United States strongly condemns the steps that have been taken by Egypt’s interim government and security forces,” Obama said. His comments prompted the Egyptian government to fire back, saying that his accusations were groundless. “The [Egyptian] presidency fears statements not based on facts may encourage violent armed groups,” the office of Egypt’s interim presidency said in a statement. “Egypt is facing terrorist acts aimed at government institutions and vital installations.” An Egyptian security forces’ armoured vehicle drives amidst the remains of a protest camp set up by supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi and members of the Muslim Brotherhood after a crackdown on August 14, 2013 near Cairo’s Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque. (AFP Photo) According to the latest figures from the Egyptian Health Ministry, at least 638 people were killed and 3,994 injured after authorities destroyed pro-Morsi protest camps on Wednesday. At least 43 of those killed were security personnel. The opposition says that at least 4,500 were killed in the violence. Activists claim that authorities are raiding mosques and pressuring the relatives of victims to say they committed suicide, and that the authorities are refusing to include bodies mutilated by fire in the official death toll. Hundreds of victims’ bodies were stored in makeshift morgues set up in mosques across Egypt after the massacre. Medics in at least one mosque also accused the Health Ministry of understating the real number of casualties. Wednesday’s violence may be a key turning point for Egypt, as the antagonisms between various factions are leading toward a profound split in society, says Ethar El Katatney, an award-winning journalist and author. “I have never seen so much hatred from Egyptians towards their fellow Egyptians,” she told RT. “And it’s not just Christian-Muslim – which is already a problem we have in Egypt. It’s Muslims talking about their fellow Muslim Egyptians in a sense that they deserve to die, that ‘we are still sad they died, but at least now we can be free from the terrorist sit-ins.’ That is one of the worst and scariest developments.” An Egyptian woman mourns at a mosque in Cairo where lines of bodies wrapped in shrouds were laid out on August 15, 2013, following a bloody crackdown on the protest camps of supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi the previous day. (AFP Photo) The sense of a looming chasm between the government and opposition is growing in the streets. The military were long viewed as a source of stability and order by many Egyptians, and the public support for the coup was largely based on the hopes that the military would change things for the better after more than two years of turmoil and sluggish economy. The bloodshed marks a point of no return, Dr. Mohammed Mahmoud, who was on duty when the first casualties started coming in on Wednesday, told RT’s Paula Slier. “Always in history the Egyptian army was [there] to defend us, not to kill us. That is why I am saying this is very bad and black chapter,” he said. This article was posted: Friday, August 16, 2013 at 4:34 am
Salt has suffered a bit of a bashing in the press over the past few years. Many an article has linked consumption of this king of condiments to a host of conditions, including high blood pressure and degenerative bone health. But let’s take a small step backwards and differentiate between ‘bad salt’ and the mineral-rich kind that is essential for our health. Yes, it’s true that processed and junk foods, as well as generic table salt, can be a recipe for disaster. These foods typically contain salt that has been stripped of most of its nutrients, leaving just the sodium chloride part of the equation. This means we are missing out on the abundance of essential minerals and elements present in naturally derived salts. Salt has always been a part of our diet, but where processed foods have taken over, this means we are consuming a lot more of the ‘empty’ kind. Ironically, this has left our diet depleted in nutrients that would naturally be present if we were just seasoning ‘real’ food with pure salt. Moreover, it is these unadulterated types of salt that provide us with crucial minerals that work in balance to support fundamental processes in the body. In short, our bodies would not work without salt. Our heart, muscles, nervous system and absorption of food depend on it and, alongside sodium and chloride, these natural salts also contain nutrients such as magnesium, calcium and many other trace elements. Some of the unrefined rock salt is said to contain up to 84 different minerals and elements. Now that’s a far cry from your ordinary white table stuff. Of course, we can overdo it even with the more nutritious versions, which now include everything from native Anglesey sea salt and pink Himalayan salt to Persian blue and even Hawaiian red volcanic. Guidelines indicate that adults should have no more than 6g per day (less for children). My advice is to get organic salt that’s most local to your geographic area, as you are likely to be ingesting elements that best support you and the surrounding environment, but it can also be fun to experiment with different flavour combinations and colours. Whether it’s a pinch of the white, pink or blue, you can enhance much more than just the flavours on your plate.
Schemes such as premature revenue recognition—in which techniques such as "bill and hold" are employed to book revenue prior to a actual shipment of goods—are rampant in some industry sectors and are often executed by individuals at a local level. Service lines are vulnerable to fraudulent practices such as collusive payoffs between a customer representative of one company and one or more salespeople. Executives at the manufacturer were aware of these risks and wanted to learn how they could reduce the company's exposure and lay a foundation for successful growth in the new region. The answer, said PwC partner Jonny Frank, is to work directly with managers in the field to understand and then mitigate their specific risks. "You need to get to a pretty granular level to figure out how people are going to steal from you," he said. To that end, PwC deployed a team to the company's emerging market location to develop tools and training designed to transform the manufacturer's frontline personnel into an effective first line of defense. The PwC team developed a multifunctional tool for the company that included a misconduct, risk, and controls register and dashboard. This tool offers employees an easily accessible desktop reference for significant risks of both internal and external misconduct and explains the controls business-unit personnel are expected to have in place. It also defines risk factors, and offers tips on when those factors are most likely to occur, and provides mechanisms to detect them. Employee training included education about the different types of fraudulent schemes, the skills of risk identification, and design and evaluation of anti-fraud controls and detection procedures. With the guidance of specially trained facilitators from PwC, participants identified risks, designed controls, practiced attacking their own controls, and created fraud risk indicators and detection procedures. Impact on client’s business "Training sessions like these are critical to engage the people on the ground," Frank said. "Local managers and staff are in the best position to detect schemes for fraud and misconduct at the business-unit level." Today, the company is more confident and prepared for doing business in emerging markets. The manufacturer also determined that the training enhanced the company's operational effectiveness—an added benefit that should be part of any company's fraud prevention strategy according to Frank. "If people can rip you off—whether it be your own employees or outsiders—usually you're not operating as efficiently and as effectively as you could be," he explained. "And someone's taking advantage of that."
What are neutrinos? Why does nature need them? What use are they?Neutrinos are perhaps the most enigmatic particles in the universe. Formed in certain radioactive decays, they pass through most matter with ease. These tiny, ghostly particles are formed in millions in the Sun and pass through us constantly. For a long time they were thought to be massless, and passing as they do like ghosts they were not regarded as significant. Now we know they have a very small mass, and there are strong indications that they are very important indeed. It is speculated thata heavy form of neutrino, that is both matter and antimatter, may have shaped the balance of matter and antimatter in the early universe. Here, Frank Close gives an account of the discovery of neutrinos and our growing understanding of their significance, also touching on some speculative ideas concerning the possible uses of neutrinos and their role in the early universe. - Publication Date: - 14 / 10 / 2010
Climbing the World's 14 Highest Mountains Reinhold Messner was the first person to climb all 14 of the world's highest mountains, and it took him 16 years to do it. Modern equipment and travel mean that it is now possible to climb several peaks in one season, but only four more names have been added to the list since Messner's completion in 1986. One of the 8,000 peaks continues to be the pinnacle of a mountaineer's career and in some cases the end - Everest. This book brings together the stories behind the conquest of every peak, plus the description of how they have been conquered since then. It is also a description of modern man's conquest of previously unscaled peaks, using advances in technology. As a description of heroic activity it has no equal. - Publication Date: - 01 / 09 / 2000 - 108 x 138mm
Before You Pucker Up, Get the Facts about Kissing Allergies Kissing is a great way to show your affection. But did you know that a greeting from someone else's lips can spark a serious reaction if you suffer from a food or medication allergy? Learn how best to protect yourself from before you pucker up. The Danger of Kissing Allergies If you're not familiar with the concept of kissing allergies, you're not alone. This isn't an allergy that affects many people. But if you have very severe allergic reactions, a danger exists when you have intimate contact with someone who has eaten food or taken medication to which you're allergic. Furthermore, according to researchers who studied kissing allergies and presented their findings at the 2010 annual meeting of the American College of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology (ACAAI), the danger of second-hand exposure exists in circumstances beyond what you might expect. The scientists believe that common allergy preventive tactics non-allergic partners may take such as brushing teeth, chewing gum, or waiting a few hours between consuming an allergen may not be enough. The reason these steps may not be effective is because the trigger can be excreted through saliva for at least several hours after ingestion. And even a peck on the forehead or cheek can be enough to trigger a reaction. This means it's ultra important to avoid intimate contact for 24 hours. Kissing Allergy Symptoms Some of the types of symptoms that can be caused by a kissing allergy include: - Swelling of lips or throat - Rash or hives What You Can Do If you're worried about the dangers kissing may pose for you, it's important to keep the situation in perspective. Only a small number of people actually have this highly sensitive reaction, although the danger of it occurring is very real. This means that if you suffer from serious food allergies, it's best to always proceed cautiously with any intimate contact. ACAAI experts say that the best way to protect yourself is to have your partner refrain from eating or drinking anything you're allergic to for 24 hours before having contact with you. It's also essential that you let your family, friends, and colleagues know about your situation, too. Alerting people to this very real risk can be lifesaving. In addition, always check first before you kiss, so you can avoid taking any unnecessary risks. If Kissing or Sex Leaves You Tingly, is it Love or Allergies? American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology. ACAAI, 14 Nov. 2010. Web. 10 Dec. 2010. "Kiss of Death? For Allergy Sufferers, Locking Lips Can Kill." CBS News Health Watch. CBSnews.com, 22 Nov. 2010. Web. 10 Dec. 2010. "When Romance and Allergies Don't Mix." HealthFinder.gov. US Department of Health and Human Services, 14 Nov. 2010. Web. 10 Dec. 2010. Sign Up for Free Newsletters Ask Your Doctor the RIGHT Questions! the most from your doctor visit. Emailed right to you! The Ask Your Doctor email series may contain sponsored content. 18+, US residents only please.
Nagaland Board HSSLC Time Table 2017, NBSE 12th Exam Routine, Nagaland 12th Class Date Sheet 2017, NBSE HSSLC Exam Scheme 2017 Nagaland Board HSSLC Time Table 2017 Nagaland Board HSSLC Time table 2017 will be released by the month of December 2016. All students who are willing to appear in NBSE Class 12th Examination 2017 need to check the official website for more information. Nagaland 12th Class Board exam 2017 will be commenced in February/ March 2017. Check NBSE Class 10th Exam routine 2017 from www.nbsenagaland.com. Students are advised that they should start their board examination preparation from now onwards. Nagaland HSSLC Exam Scheme 2017 will be soon announced by the Board officials in December month. NBSE 12th Class date Sheet 2017 (Arts/ Commerce/ Science) Nagaland Board of secondary education conduct plus two annual Examination 2017-18 soon. Students should start their Board examination preparation from Language paper. These subjects are scoring and can be prepared easily. All students from 3 streams Arts, Commerce, Science need to check NBSE 12th Exam Scheme 2017 from the above had given official link. An official link will also be uploaded here. Students can check the official link here as well. Latest Updates for NBSE 10+2 exam Schedule 2017 will be uploaded here also. With less than 3 months to go for NBSE Board Examination, start your preparation as soon as possible. Nagaland Board is also called NBSE in its shortest form. Nagaland Board of Secondary education is also famously known as NBSE. It was established on 15th November 1973. Its headquarter is in Kohima, in Nagaland state. Nagaland board is responsible for conducting HSLC Class 10th and HSSLC Class 12th Examination in the state. Nagaland Board main function is to conduct examination and then followed by the process announcing results Online. Prescribing Exam syllabus and deciding Exam pattern are also there main job for Class 10th, 11th and 12th. Nagaland 12th Examination 2017 Result or E- Marksheet will be uploaded on main website. NBSE 12th Exam Routine 2017 Most students who are looking for NBSE 12th Exam Schedule 2017 from so long need to check below information. We have uploaded a tentative Time table for NBSE Final Exam 2017. Students can get help from the below date sheet in their preparation. \|English\|\|9th February 2017\| \|Education/ psychology/ capital marks\|\|11th February 2017\| \|Geography/ Entrepreneurship/ Music\|\|13th February 2017\| \|History/ Business Studies/ Chemistry\|\|15th February 2017\| \|Alternative English/ Hindi/ Bengali/ Lotha\|\|17th February 2017\| \|Political Science/ Accountancy/ physics\|\|19th February 2017\| \|Philosophy/ mathematics\|\|22nd February 2017\| \|Economics\|\|24th February 2017\| \|Sociology/ Biology/ Business Studies\|\|26th February 2017\| \|Computer Science/ IT\|\|27th February 2017\| The above dates are just for reference. These dates are taken from the previous year Exam Scheme, students are advised not to use this as these dates as an official data.
This book seeks to unravel the issues associated with the crime of murder, providing a highly accessible account of the subject for people coming to it for the first time. It uses detailed case studies as a way of exemplifying and exploring more general questions of socio-cultural responses to murder and their explanation. It incorporates a historical perspective which both provides some fascinating examples from the past and enables readers to gain a vision of what has changed and what has remained the same within those socio-cultural responses to murder. The book also embraces questions of race and gender, in particular cultural constructions of masculinity and femininity on the one hand, and the social processes of 'forgetting and remembering' in the context of particular crimes on the other. Particular murders analysed included those of Myra Hindley, Harold Shipman and the Bulger murder. Murder examines the socio-cultural construction of murder, specifically the interpersonal murder of intimates and acquaintances, and the manners by which these constructions have changed throughout historical and contemporary contexts. The authors focus on constructions and utilize a case study approach in an effort to understand why murderers are considered to be categorically different from the rest of society. The case study method also allows one to examine how the development of a narrative story affects dimensions that are both related to and unrelated to the crime itself; how law enforcement officials construct the crime, how the prosecution and defense construct their own interpretation of the crime given the evidence, how the media determines newsworthiness and presents their own perspective of the crime, and how the public reacts to the various constructions to develop their own understanding of the crime. Murder consists of three overarching themes. Chapters one and two discuss some of the theoretical and empirical issues surrounding the study of murder. Social, cultural, and legal definitions of murder are considered and are followed by an underlying advocacy for qualitative research given the problems of existing data and the need to provide a more contextual understanding of murder. Subsequent discussion examines the social construction of murder and murderers and how such constructions are associated with notions of evil. Chapters three through six address the murder of intimates and acquaintances through an examination of perpetrators and victims. The focus is placed upon women who murder male or female intimates or acquaintances, children who murder children, men who murder intimate or domestic female partners, and men who murder their male friends or acquaintances. Each perpetrator and victim typology begins with a conceptual and theoretical overview of the existing literature and supplements the review with a case study. Chapter seven brings the discussion full-circle. Interpersonal themes that underlie murders, murderers, and victims may have some similarities and differences, but the single theme that links them all together is the continual attempt to label the offender as a social anomaly. Importantly, the authors argue that such a broad generalization must be contextualized. To develop a genuine understanding of intimate or acquaintance murder, one must consider the prevalent socio-cultural, historical, and structural mechanisms that exist within society. The strength of this book is its ability to move beyond the convention of presenting quantitative aggregates and analyses of trends that are followed by discussions of historical and contemporary theories to explain behavior. Socio-cultural constructions arguably underlie all social phenomenon and it is important to recognize and critically assess their effect on how one views the world. In terms of weaknesses, many of the major points to be taken from the book were redundantly discussed in every chapter, which may be frustrating to some readers. Additionally, the attempt to develop a gendered understanding of murder walks a fine line between actually developing the understanding and simply offering a reductionist position. That is, the explanatory focus on themes of masculinity and femininity offered in discussions of offender and victim typologies seems to suggest that gender determines behavioral tendencies. Careful reading will note, however, that gender is one dynamic in a multitude of considerations that must be made to truly understand the murder of intimates and acquaintances. Murder is an excellent follow-up to an introductory text on murder or homicide. Students, academics, or practitioners interested in the topics of murder, social constructions of violence, contextual analyses, and those interested in the relationship between criminal justice and the media will find the text particularly relevant. ERIC L. GROMMON Michigan State University 1. Cataloguing murder 2. Devils and demons: the social construction of murder and murderers 3. Murderous women 4. Murderous children 5. Murderous men: intimate and domestic killings 6. Murderous men: killing acquaintances and strangers 7. Conclusion: rendering them pathological
The progress on the combustion synthesis of Si3N4 powders during the past decades was summarized with the emphasis on the recently developed mechano-chemically activated combustion synthesis (MACS) method. The effects of processing parameters such as the addition of diluent and ammonium salts into the green mixtures, the variation of nitrogen pressure as well as the mechanical activation treatment on the degree of Si to α-Si3N4 conversion was evaluated. The combination of mechanical activation and chemical stimulation was effective in enhancing the reactivity of Si powder reactants, which was responsible for the extension of the minimum nitrogen pressure normally required for the combustion synthesis of Si3N4. This breakthrough indicates that nitriding combustion of silicon in pressurized nitrogen could be promoted by activating the solid reactants instead of by increasing the pre-exerted nitrogen pressure. The MACS process was successfully applied to the industrial production of Si3N4 powders, the regularities for the large-scale synthesis were reported, and the as-synthesized Si3N4 powder products were systematically characterized.
Stretch marks are a part of life for many women and men. Due to rapid growth during pregnancy, puberty, or weight gain/loss, the tissue under the skin is stretched, disrupting collagen production and causing the scars you see. While it is best to prevent stretch marks before they occur, there are natural ingredients that help to minimize the appearance of these scars. Hydration and nourishment are key in preventing and diminishing the appearance of stretch marks. We use all natural Algae and Shea butter to infuse skin with the feeling of moisture and replenishment. Skin appears soft and supple, and the look of stretch marks is visibly improved. Whether you are dealing with existing stretch marks or wishing to avoid them during pregnancy, Stretch Mark Kit is a must-have addition to your daily routine. 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(Republishing, or using this info in a commercial product/website, is prohibited without permission. All other uses are permitted. If in doubt, please ask.) This wait type is when a thread is sleeping while waiting for transactions to finish rolling back after they’ve been killed because of this thread executing an ALTER DATABASE … WITH ROLLBACK IMMEDIATE or ROLLBACK AFTER… statement. The thread sleeps in a loop incurring this wait, with each wait being three seconds long. (Books Online description: “Used to wait while user processes are ended in a database that has been transitioned by using the ALTER DATABASE termination clause. For more information, see ALTER DATABASE (Transact-SQL).”) Questions/comments on this wait type? Click here to send Paul an email, especially if you have any information to add to this topic. Added in SQL Server version: Removed in SQL Server version: Extended Events wait_type value: The map_key value in sys.dm_xe_map_values is 233 in 2008 and 2008 R2, 240 in 2012, and 247 in 2014 RTM. After 2014 RTM, you must check the DMV to get the latest value as some map_key values have changed in later builds. The wait will accumulate while transactions are being rolled back, so the longer transactions take to roll back, the more accumulated wait time will accrue for this wait type. This could be because there are long-running transactions, which will naturally take a long time to roll back. It could also be because an excessive number of VLFs (i.e. VLF fragmentation, many thousands of VLFs) are in the transaction log and that is causing the rollbacks to proceed slowly. Basically, the more VLFs there are, the longer it takes to search through the log for a particular VLF containing the next log record to roll back. You can investigate VLF fragmentation and learn more in my blog post here. And it could also be because of general transaction log performance issues. See the WRITELOG wait type for more information. Known occurrences in SQL Server (list number matches call stack list): - Rolling back transactions because of an ALTER DATABASE to change a database option Abbreviated call stacks (list number matches known occurrences list):
This is an engaging argument essay your students will want to write! Includes: writing prompt, prewriting, graphic organizers, outline, peer edit, rubric, and sources! Standardized tests have been in the news lately. Some people argue for them, while others say that testing takes away from real learning. This argument essay assignment provides students with the opportunity to take a stand. Do students take too many standardized tests? This common core aligned argument essay includes everything you need from initial research on the topic to the grading rubric. This assignment is ideal for students in grades 6-12. This zipped file contains all PDF documents: - A teacher suggestion page - An argument essay - Textual evidence organizer - Thesis graphic organizer - Counterclaim graphic organizer - Two different essay outlines - Peer edit form - 100 point argument essay rubric - Fill-in-the-blank essay rubric - A sources document with different, credible sources This resource is included in a BUNDLE: Argument Essay Unit - Student Choice #2 - Four Topics Looking for more instruction and guidance for your students? Essay Writing Unit: Teach Your Students to Master the Essay Introduction to Argumentative Writing: a CCSS aligned mini-unit Argumentative and Persuasive Writing Strategies: Ethos, Pathos, Logos Understanding Logical Fallacies - CCSS aligned
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Congressional Hearing On Wikileaks Surprisingly Focuses More On Gov't Overly Secretive Actions from the good-for-them dept "Prosecuting WikiLeaks would raise the most fundamental questions about free speech, about who is a journalist and what citizens can know about their government," Conyers said. "The problem today is not too little secrecy but too much secrecy."He also noted -- in contrast to much of the hysteria we've heard -- that while the releases have been embarassing "the real-world consequences have been fairly modest." Rep. William Delahunt appeared to echo these sentiments and again noted that secrecy by the government has been the real issue: "Secrecy is the trademark of totalitarianism. In contrast, transparency and openness is why democracy is all about," Delahunt said.Rep. Bob Goodlatte also noted that expansion of government secrecy was "out of control" and "illegitimate," while Rep. Bobby Scott noted that we need to remember the 1st Amendment. Rep. Hank Johnson warned of the "chilling effects" of prosecuting Wikileaks. "There is far too much secrecy and overclassification in the executive branch, and I think it puts American democracy at risk." Many panelists appeared to make similar points as well. Thomas Blanton, the director of the National Security Archive at George Washington University, told the panel that the government always overreacts to leaks and that "more openness makes us more secure." He also urged the government to "use a little restraint" and to avoid rushing into charging Julian Assange with violating the Espionage Act. Of course, not everyone argued this way. Many of the Congressional Reps still seemed pretty bloodthirsty to charge Assange. And some of the panelists seemed to agree. Kenneth Wainstein, a lawyer from O'Melveny and Myers, warned the panel that any lawsuit against Wikileaks would raise serious First Amendment issues but then argued that the government could easily distinguish Wikileaks from the media though he did so by misstating that Wikileaks was "indiscriminately" dumping documents -- a point that has been debunked already. Gabriel Shoenfeld, who is a big supporter of government secrecy, spent a lot of time talking about how there's too much secrecy and that the government leaks info to the press all the time but ended his talk by saying that doesn't apply to Wikileaks. However, even those who seemed to think that the government should still seek to prosecute Assange, they all seemed to admit that the government is way too secretive and abuses its classification privileges.
These are not times that can be said to inspire, not least for environmentalists and clean energy enthusiasts facing a domestic oil and gas boom, a hostile political environment and a presidential candidate (Romney) who declared last night, “I like coal” but failed, as did Obama, to so much as mention climate change. But today at the second-annual SXSWeco, solar entrepreneur Jigar Shah and former Democratic U.S. Sen. Byron Dorgan gave it a shot. Not surprisingly, Shah said he found the much-ballyhooed natural gas boom rather uninspiring. Cheap gas is displacing coal but it leaves in place the status quo: an electric grid anchored by centralized power stations burning fossil fuels. People aren’t moved by that, he suggested. What’s exciting, he said, is deploying solar power and other renewables within a smart grid that lets people control their home energy use and “give the middle finger” to the big bad utility. “That is something that is cool, it’s very inspirational,” he said. Also not inspiring: Romney and Obama’s energy policies—even one of Obama’s signature environmental policies, aggressive mileage standards for new vehicles. “To me that’s not inspirational,” Shah said. “That’s just energy jargon, that’s regulatory.” Inspirational: The fact, in his view, that clean energy and energy efficiency “is the largest wealth creation opportunity on the planet.” Developing nations won’t sacrifice to save the planet; they will, however, embrace renewable energy if it can be shown to bring them prosperity, Shah said. Despite his sweeping pronouncements, or maybe because of them, I found Shah’s speech weirdly uninspiring. He has the nerdy swagger of the type of entrepreneur who’s a hit at Davos or the Aspen Ideas Festival. I don’t see his message resonating in say, Peoria, or Pearland, Texas. Even here, among the greentech faithful, some of his statements induced eye-rolling. Innovation, he declared, is impossible to accomplish without absurd amounts of money. “You can’t do anything for less than a trillion dollars,” he said to snickering. (Dorgan had a great response: The Facebook founders didn’t need a trillion dollars and neither did the protestors in Egypt.) Responding to a question from an audience member, Shah pronounced millennials brainwashed to “believe capitalism doesn’t exist… I am so sick and tired of them.” By the end, Shah was grabbing us by our lapels (or LL Bean collars) and demanding enthusiasm. “Find some goddamn inspiration and… bring the outrage,” he said. Well, since you put it that way…. Dorgan, despite his corporate-Democrat positions on subsidies for corn ethanol (he’s from North Dakota, after all) and his oblique defense of fracking as a key to “energy independence,” offered a bit more in the way of inspiration. Dorgan pointed to the Curiosity Rover, a plutonium-powered vehicle that’s currently tooling around Mars. “If we can do these things that take your breath away why can’t we do more profound and less difficult things here on Planet Earth?” he asked. Like a national renewable energy standard—a mandate for solar, wind and geothermal—that Dorgan failed to get passed during his time in the Senate. Maybe part of the problem is the branding, Dorgan pondered. “We Democrats talk like twits,” he said, laughing. “‘Renewable portfolio standard’ is a hell of a slogan.” Watching the Romney-Obama debate last night, Dorgan said he “almost fell off [his] chair” when Obama failed to push back Romney’s criticism of his spending on clean energy. What Obama should have said, Dorgan insisted: “You can’t accuse me of that, you’ve gotta credit me for that.” At the same time, Dorgan made clear that he’s a fan of increased oil and gas production, at least domestically. “We are not going to wake up some day and decide that oil doesn’t have value or that we won’t be using oil and gas,” he said. But the future—at least in the transportation sector—belongs to electric vehicles, hydrogen fuel cells, biofuels, he said. When the present will catch up to the future, Dorgan did not say.
The study, led by Gilles-Eric Seralini of the University of Caen, concluded that rats given a diet of a corn variety that is highly resistant to the weedkiller Roundup, developed more tumors and died sooner than those on a regular diet. Female rats in particular were plagued with mammary tumors and died at rate that was 70 percent higher than the control group. The French government has asked its health department to look into the findings to see if GM corn could have similar effects on humans. However, many other scientists — including those who don't work for Monsanto — have attacked the study's methodology, accusing the Caen team of going on a "statistical fishing trip." There are complaints that there isn't enough data on the rats' actual diet; that the sample size was too small; and that the rats in question are "very prone to mammary tumors particularly when food intake is not restricted." The statistical methods are called "unconventional" and "inadequate" and others suggested that the whole study was rigged because some of the rats were given Roundup in their water, instead of just eating the corn that was exposed to the pesticide. The safety of GM foods is highly controversial, particularly in Europe where Monsanto has faced heavy opposition to its engineered crops and research on both sides of the debate has been accused of being highly politicized. However, GM corn and soybeans have been a major part of the U.S. diet for more than a decade and even scientists who support more and better labeling of GM crops says this particular study is highly flawed. If this study proves only one thing, it's that this fight isn't close to being over. This article is from the archive of our partner The Wire.
For years I was under the impression that Flannery O’Connor was Irish—a Kerryman, perhaps—and without doubt a male link in the concatenation featuring Flann O’Brien and Frank O’Connor. The delusion belonged to the fog in which one’s early and unsystematic encounters with literature, and indeed the world, take place. My own fog was thickened by growing up in a Dutch town. The only sizable store of books in English was the American Book Center, a faintly indecent basement establishment mainly stocked, unless I misremember, with Mad comics and X-rated-looking publications. At the far end of the store was a wall of poetry (I now marvel, Why? Which hero was behind that?), and it was during half hours spent at that wall, wearing a figurative mackintosh, that I was blown away by Ariel without knowing that Sylvia Plath had killed herself, and fell under the spell of North clueless as to who Seamus Heaney might be. The force of such pure shocks of language—made only more blissful by the merely flickering intelligibility, to my immature self, of versified English—features significantly in the work of O’Connor, which gives us characters who are, in their empty-headedness, unusually vulnerable to the thrilling mystery of religious speech. More generally, it’s a force that highlights one’s natural ambivalence about biography and the cloud it places between the reader and the words. The mystery of the unknown is lost; distractions creep in. It is questionable, for example, that an appreciation of V. S. Naipaul’s work is much improved by knowing the particulars of his marital nastiness, or that the value of such improvement exceeds its cost—namely, a diminishment in the autonomy that an artistic text formally, if feebly, claims for itself. Fiction necessarily insists on a separation between itself and an extrinsic world that includes the possibly vile, possibly virtuous author: Why, otherwise, create a self-contained body of words? How, other-wise, can a novel generate its moral authority? The literary significance of mystery, the interrelations of fictive text and actual text-maker—these are particularly charged issues in the case of Flannery O’Connor. Her work (like that of Plath, a contemporary) is hard for a reader to approach without being dazzled by a high beam of personal myths—the reclusiveness, the lupus, the pathetically short lifespan (1925–1964). Now we have Brad Gooch’s Flannery, its subject’s first major biography and a more controlled illumination of the background to O’Connor’s two novels and two story collections. Note that nine further stories may be found in the Library of America’s exemplary O’Connor, a single, ingot-like volume that, in addition to the collected fiction, contains select essays, lectures, and letters, not to mention a penetrating chronology of the life. Therefore Flannery qualifies O’Connor, which is as it should be. Externally, Flannery O’Connor’s life was, except in the matter of her physical travails, uneventful. As she noted with satisfaction, “Lives spent between the house and the chicken yard do not make exciting copy.” After all, she was born into the Georgia bourgeoisie, a milieu rarely thought of as action-packed. The O’Connors, descended from mid-19th-century immigrants from Ireland, were unexceptional specimens of the middle class. The Clines, Flannery’s maternal line, were also Irish Catholic, but posher and more prosperous, though it is not clear from Gooch’s account precisely how their ethnic/religious identity affected their position in the local pecking order (a pity, because social nuances are important in O’Connor’s fiction). Flannery grew up—in Savannah and in Atlanta and, from 1938, in the Cline mansion in Milledgeville—with black servants floating around and a sense of herself as part of the genteel, bigoted, spottily educated stratum of landed whites. An only child, she was treated as a brilliant case almost from infancy. Though she was hopeless at math and spelling, everyone seems to have recognized that her confidence and strangeness—the young Flannery was sardonic, marginal, good at cartooning, obsessed with ducks and chickens—were the signs of giftedness. Hers was a well-nurtured, happy childhood, except that in 1941 her gentle, failed-realtor father died from lupus erythematosus, an incurable disease in which the immune system fatally attacks the sufferer’s vital organs. The following year, Flannery went off to Georgia State College for Women—went off being slightly misleading, given that the college was a block from her home. There she began to write with growing seriousness. Although O’Connor is commonly perceived as an outsider artist—the crippled, eccentric scribbler—she was in fact from the beginning very much an insider. Her career ladder, with its institutional rungs, was a prototype of the ladder young writers still seek to scramble up. Indeed, they’d kill for the résumé: 1945–48: University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, winning prizes and fellowships. Magazines begin publishing her stories. 1948–49: Lengthy residence at Yaddo, stories in Partisan Review. 1952: First novel, Wise Blood, published. 1955: A Good Man Is Hard to Find (stories). Finalist, National Book Award, and a commercial hit. 1956 and onward: Fellowships and O. Henry Awards and lecturing invitations and grants (including $8,000 from the Ford Foundation). 1960: The Violent Bear It Away (novel). Finalist, National Book Award. 1965: Everything That Rises Must Converge (stories). Finalist, National Book Award. 1971: The Complete Stories. Winner, National Book Award. 1971—: Literary immortality. Thus O’Connor never experienced professional hardship. Her belief in herself and sense of vocation were never shaken. She was famous and revered by her early 30s. (“How we did adore and envy them, the idols of our college years—Hemingway and Faulkner, Frost and Eliot, Mary McCarthy and Flannery O’Connor and Eudora Welty!” wrote John Updike. He was seven years younger than O’Connor.) She never lacked for a prestigious mentor (Robert Lowell, Philip Rahv, Robert Penn Warren) or for helpful friends. She never had to take a job. From 1951, she lived at Andalusia, the Georgia property (500 acres of fields and 1,000 acres of woods) co-owned and farmed by her mother, Regina, which turned out to be the perfect habitat for her imagination. Her personal needs were few: she seemingly never wanted, and therefore was never distracted by, children or by her lack thereof. Ditto, pretty much, lovers. Genuinely cerebral, she apparently received ample emotional gratification from her collection of exotic barnyard fowl (peacocks and swans as well as chickens), from her piety, and from her intellectual endeavors. She regularly entertained visitors and was sustained by the friendship of interesting and loyal correspondents, Elizabeth Bishop among them. In sum, she was a great writer but also a fortunate one. This bears emphasizing in light of her exceedingly unfortunate medical history. To summarize: O’Connor was diagnosed with lupus when she was 25, although she was not told the truth for more than a year. The disease caused her joint pain in the arms, hips, and shoulders; required blood transfusions and ACTH injections and bed rest; weakened her horribly. There was severe hair loss, and at 29 she needed a cane to walk. At 34, she had trouble eating because of necrosis in her jaws; thereafter her ailments became ever more painful and grotesque and immobilizing, as if her well-being had been entrusted to Samuel Beckett. But O’Connor unwell was as purposeful and witty and free of desperation as O’Connor healthy. She was given to dutifulness, religious and artistic, and this strengthened her. She put in two hours a day at the typewriter, even after receiving the sacrament of the dying. O’Connor was a fervent Roman Catholic—a “thirteenth century” Catholic, as she described herself. She read deeply into theology, with a special interest in Teilhard de Chardin. She went to Mass every day she could, invariably accompanied by her mother. Flannery and Regina’s claustrophobic, mutually dependent relationship was inevitably vexing for both women—and mortifying for the daughter when the mother revealed to visitors her own less than edified social attitudes. These domestic circumstances, in combination with Flannery’s religiosity and visibly worsening health, hardly form a propitious setup for a gentleman caller. But one did materialize. In 1953, she began to receive visits from Erik Langkjaer, a handsome, thoughtful Dane whose work as a college-textbook salesman regularly brought him to the Milledgeville area. The friendship became, Gooch writes, “at least tinged with romance.” On a drive together, they shared a fateful kiss. Langkjaer, in one of the biography’s most powerful passages, remembers this: She had no real muscle tension in her mouth, a result being that my own lips touched her teeth rather than lips, and this gave me an unhappy feeling of a sort of memento mori, and so the kissing stopped … I had a feeling of kissing a skeleton, and in that sense it was a shocking experience. It is very hard, reading this kind of thing, not to feel great sympathy for O’Connor and mix the feeling into one’s evaluation of her work. She herself would have rejected such a mixture. “My lupus has no business in literary considerations,” she maintained. This was true not only for critics but for the writer herself. O’Connor’s fiction gives few signs of her disease. Wise Blood was more or less completed before the diagnosis, and her subsequent writing obviously was cut from the same pre-lupine bolt of obsessions. Flannery O’Connor’s preoccupations are so insistent that it is probably not ideal to read her work from beginning to end in one go, as I did. Again and again, the same dynamic impresses itself: A and B and—why not?—C reveal their more or less cretinous moral natures and slide toward a bizarre, often violent crisis, the whole production unfolding under the auspices of a solar or lunar drama (“A fat yellow moon appeared in the branches of the fig tree as if it were going to roost there with the chickens”). Her settings are agrarian, static, unscientific, largely insulated from modern modes of information and movement. We are given a tragicomic world of dirt roads, pigs, girls who are “practically morons,” “trashy” whites, idiotic “niggers,” and every stripe of schemer and nitwitted chatterer. The dramatic premises are almost premodern, very easily concerned with religious visionaries or with the arrival, into an unchanging locale, of a stranger. Grassroots evangelical Protestantism and its defective adherents are objects of fascination, though the appearance of an urbane secular party is generally a cue for a particularly grievous display of stupidity and pride. The characters are not “likeable,” but my God they are alive. The writing is almost unfairly good: She lay her head back and as he watched, gradually her eyes closed and her mouth fell open to show a few long scattered teeth, some gold and some darker than her face; she began to whistle and blow like a musical skeleton. Or (upon the arrival of refugee Poles at a farm): She began to imagine a war of words, to see the Polish words and the English words coming at each other, stalking forward, not sentences, just words, gabble gabble gabble, flung out high and shrill and stalking forward and then grappling with each other. She saw the Polish words, dirty and all-knowing and unreformed, flinging mud on the clean English words until everything was equally dirty. She saw them all piled up in a room, all the dead dirty words, theirs and hers too, piled up like the naked bodies in the newsreel. God save me, she cried silently, from the stinking power of Satan! The narrating third person hovers in an almost miraculous fusion of proximity and comic distance. With O’Connor, there never seems to be space between the words and their creator’s sensibility. You almost never catch a whiff of authorial self-consciousness. About how many writers can this be said? Of course, you cannot help asking, Are we humans really so awful? Is the world really like this? O’Connor wrote several essays/lectures on these and related questions: I am always having it pointed out to me that life in Georgia is not at all the way I picture it, that escaped criminals do not roam the roads exterminating families, nor Bible salesmen prowl about looking for girls with wooden legs. But her own circumstances, in their sadness and oddness, corroborated her dark fantasies, and, as Gooch shows, many of her stories’ outlandish elements were inspired by actual events. O’Connor declared her-self a realist, albeit one pushing “toward the limits of mystery.” Mystery, in her mind, was concerned with “the ultimate reaches of reality,” which is to say, the agency of the divine in human affairs. This is where things become problematic—where the churchgoer glosses her gloriously sullen fiction. O’Connor was dismissive of any pressure, whether of religious or secular origin, for more “positive” fiction. She saw no contradiction between her faith and her art. Just the opposite: “Because I am a Catholic I cannot afford to be less than an artist.” However, she stated, the novelist with Christian concerns will find in modern life distortions which are repugnant to him, and his problem will be to make these appear as distortions to an audience which is used to seeing them as natural. This assertion, taken together with O’Connor’s assertion that the central mystery is why human existence “has, for all its horror, been found by God to be worth dying for,” constitutes the following argument: (1) from the Christian viewpoint, the modern human condition is filled with a peculiar horror; (2) therefore, to fictionally depict humans in their peculiarly horrifying aspect is necessary in order to explore the mysteries of redemption and grace. The problem with (1) is that the Christian viewpoint does not necessitate a heightened sensitivity to that which is loathsome about humans or modern times. A heightened love of humans and the lives they create for themselves could just as easily be argued. There is a further problem. The repugnancy of O’Connor’s characters is, in her portrayal, connected to their poverty and backwardness. Yet in the essays, she is anguished by, and fundamentally hostile to, the forces—ostensibly progressive—that ask us “to form our consciences in the light of statistics.” She is hostile, in other words, to the enlightened disturbance of the culture of which the poverty and backwardness are part, and in which characters repugnantly find themselves. Some readers may find that here O’Connor is herself repugnant: that they are faced with one of those people for whom the misery and injustice of human affairs is chiefly a source of egocentric intellectual gratification, and whose political and moral instincts are distorted accordingly. However, it is precisely this troubling feature that gives O’Connor’s work its strange power. One problem with O’Connor the exegesist is that she narrows the scope of her work, even for Catholic readers. To decode her fiction for its doctrinal or supernatural content is to render it dreary, even false, because whatever her private purposes, O’Connor was above all faithful to a baleful comic vision derived, surely, from an ancient, artistically wholesome tradition of misanthropy. Nonetheless, a spiritual drama is playing out. Only it is not the one put forward by the self-explaining author, in which she figures as an onlooker occupying the high ground of piety. On the contrary, Flannery O’Connor’s criticism reveals her as scarily belonging to the low world she evokes. She was touched by evil and no doubt knew it. That is what makes her so wickedly good.
The birth of a baby is usually an occasion for joy. The arrival, however, of the 7 billionth person in the next few days is being awaited with growing trepidation about the devastating impact of humans on the planet. Environmentalists are arguing in circles about who or what is to blame: the total number of people; or the amount of water, food, mineral ores or clean air each demands. Professor Paul Ehrlich, whose book The Population Bomb helped ignite this debate, likens the environmental impact to the area of a rectangle: one side is the size of population, the other their consumption. Although Ehrlich's rectangle is a neat illustration, the population "problem" for the environment is more accurately described as two rectangles, each representing the number of people on the vertical and their lifestyles on the horizontal: one tall skinny quadrant encompasses billions of people who use very little of Earth's resources; the other a much shorter, extraordinarily long one for the minority of humans who use the vast majority of natural wealth. The World Bank estimates, for example, that the richest fifth of the world has more than three-quarters of the income; the poorest fifth just 1.5%. Given that populations are barely stable and sometimes falling in most of the rich world, population policy would inevitably have to make noticeable inroads into the tall-skinny many/poor rectangle. Assuming such policies were successful – and excluding the widely unacceptable coercion of China's one child policy or India's mass sterilisations in the 1970s, persuading people to have fewer babies has proved very tricky – the overall reduction in combined environmental impact would be very small. The more troubling issue, though, is that this calculation assumes that as the tall-skinny rectangle gets shorter, it does not get wider. Experience, however, suggests that, except for extreme cases such as Zimbabwe, it will get fatter. Across time and geography, countries that have reduced birth rates have got richer and so more consumptive: rising incomes, better health and education give men and women the confidence that more of their children will survive into adulthood and help support their families; and as birthrates fall governments can spend more on each person's health, education and jobs, feeding a virtuous cycle of economic development and slowing population growth. It would be interesting to see a proper assessment of the point at which the benefit of having fewer people consuming is offset and then increasingly dwarfed by their greater consumption. There are some telling pointers. Comparison by the Guardian's James Ball of the CIA World Factbook data for countries' birthrates and average purchasing power of each person shows a pretty strong correlation between the two. Statisticians are quick to point out that because two things appear to be linked does not mean one causes the other, but on-the-ground evidence suggests rising affluence and declining fertility rates are inextricable. Time after time descriptions of countries that have successfully reduced population growth show how they have grown notably richer at the same time, even if they are not exactly well-off: Guatemala in central America, Bangladesh in south-east Asia, and the Asian tiger of South Korea. At the same time, study after study shows environmental damage rises – so far almost always perpetually – with income, and often more steeply as developing countries begin to industrialise. Most dramatically, these forces appear to have come together in China, whose one-child policy – albeit with massive state investment and rapid expansion of the market economy – has coincided with the country's rise to become the world's second biggest economy (and, incidentally, the biggest emitter of greenhouse gas pollution). Technically speaking, of course, population campaigners are right: environmental degradation can be helped by reducing the number of people and what they use. Population policies are best left to those focusing on poverty and women's rights. For environmentalists, talk of too many people is a dangerous distraction for campaigners and consumers, too many of whom will find it a convenient excuse to ignore the more pressing need for changes to what and how we spend our growing riches.
Learning to play Here Comes the Sun is a great decision if you really want to improve your fingerpicking technique, and of course, learn a song that basically everyone loves listening to. It is a great song, but it is a bit difficult, so don’t expect to be able to play it overnight. Learning it is well worth the time and effort though, because it sounds fantastic and can be played with a single acoustic guitar without needing other band members. The song is played around 130 BPM, but you don’t need to start out there. Watch the lesson, set your metronome for 70 BPM, and work your way up from there. Be patient with this song, practice it regularly, and your efforts shall be rewarded 🙂 So, let’s sum up our Here Comes the Sun guitar lesson. The song is made up of 4 major parts, the verse, chorus, an alternate chorus, and the bridge. You’ll get a chance to learn each section of the song in detail during the lesson. Now I mentioned that this song is a bit more difficult than most of the songs you’re probably playing. The reason is that it doesn’t have a fixed, repetitive plucking pattern, since you’re basically playing the melody and base line both at the same time. Watch the lesson and download the tabs, and while you’re learning the song, pay attention to how your thumb basically jumping back and forth from the respective base string to the treble strings. This is a constant base beat, which constitutes the base line in our cover of Here Comes the Sun. Concerning the capo, I think it’s best if you learn this song without the capo first, then try it in the original key of A major, by placing a capo at fret 7. You’ll find that it’s a bit harder since your fingers will be squished together, but you’ll get used to it with time. Be patient, practice it regularly, slowly at first and speeding up when you can, and you will get it perfected soon enough! The picking patterns take time to learn, so practice the different sections slowly. Once your fingers begin to remember the picking patterns then gently increase the speed. Here Comes the Sun song details Here Comes the Sun was released in 1969 by The Beatles on their album Abbey Road, and is played in the key of A major (capo at fret 7). It is one of the most popular songs of group, beaten only by Twist and Shout in popularity. The song was written by George Harrison during a difficult phase of his life (arrested, surgery, quit The Beatles). He actually wrote the song at Eric Clapton’s house while walking around in his garden, free of his everyday troubles. Interesting fact: The song is so good, that Carl Sagan, famous scientist, thought it could represent humanity, and should be launched with the Voyager spacecraft’s Voyager Golden Record to provide any entity that recovered them a representative sample of human civilization. The Beatles wanted to do it, but their publisher, EMI refused to release the rights to the song (I guess they thought little green Martians listening to Here Comes the Sun without paying would be copyright infringement). The probes were launched in 1977, but the song was not included due to EMI. Here comes the Sun was covered by tons of bands and artists including U2, Massive Attack, Coldplay, Sheryl Crow, Bon Jovi, and many many more. Download tabs for Here Comes the Sun Sorry, but you've reached a premium content area. The download of the Here Comes the Sun tablature file is only available to premium members. To download this song's tabs, please log in and revisit this page, after which the file will become available for download. Download backing track for Here Comes the Sun Sorry, the same goes for the backing track. To download the backing track to Here Comes the Sun, please log in and revisit this page.
The Handelsblatt newspaper reported on Wednesday that a Finance Ministry report showed the total debt of the states amounted to €4.2 billion at the end of September – €3.7 billion less than a year previously. Half of the country's 16 states are in the black, with Saxony leading the way – in total figures and per-capita rates. It showed a surplus of €1.4 billion, which works out as €349 per resident. Saxony is followed in the per-capita finances rankings by three other former eastern states – Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Berlin and Thuringia. The first state from the former west is Bavaria in fifth place. The figures are likely to reignite the debate about the financial transfer which still functions between western and eastern states, the Handelsblatt said. The four top states in the per-capita surplus ranking receive between them two-thirds of the €7.3 billion that is redistributed from west to east, the paper said. Berlin in particular relies on this money to keep its head above water, while of the net donor states, only Bavaria has managed to remain in surplus. Baden-Württemberg, Hamburg and Hesse are all deeply in debt, the paper said. The continuing solidarity payments was briefly a topic this March in the run-up to the North Rhine-Westphalia state election, with the mayors of several cities in the Ruhr region complaining they were raiding their budgets to help eastern colleagues who did not need it as much as they did. A veteran Bavarian politician also took aim at the fiscal transfers in a book published this summer which called for independence for the southern state – at least in part to free it from the solidarity payments to the east.
The University of Toronto moved up four spots to 24th in the world and remains the best university in Canada, that’s according to an annual report published Friday by the Academic Ranking of World Universities. It is the university’s best overall ranking since 2007 when it came in at 23rd overall. Last year was the university’s worst ranking since 2003, when the annual report was first published. “To be recognized once again as one of the world’s leading universities is a testimony to the scholarship, creativity and innovation of our faculty, staff and students,” said Cheryl Regehr, vice-president and provost at U of T in a statement Friday. “This reflects not only their academic excellence, but the impact of their research in Canada and throughout the world.” According to the report, U of T’s best program remains computer science, which landed in 10th spot among some of the best universities in the world. Surprisingly, the university’s much-acclaimed engineering program slipped 12 spots to 24th best university to earn an engineering degree. The best year-over-year improvement were the university’s economic and business programs, which moved up the ladder to 24th spot from 48th spot a year earlier. U of T remains well ahead of its national counterparts. The University of British Columbia was ranked 37th overall, while McGill University took the 67th spot. Hamilton’s McMaster University ranked 90th best university in the world. Only four Canadian universities cracked the top 100 universities this year. American universities once again dominated the top 10, with Harvard University taking the top spot for 12 years in a row. It was followed by Stanford University in California and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston. The Academic Ranking of World Universities is conducted by researchers who use indicators to rank universities: the number of alumni and staff winning Nobel Prizes and medals in their field, the number of highly cited researchers selected by Thomson Reuters, the number of articles published in the journals Nature and Science, the number of articles indexed in the Science Citation Index and per-capita performance of the university. Each indicator is weighted differently as a percentage out of 100.
When I was 10, I worshipped Sir Francis Drake: buccaneer, explorer, scourge of the Spanish Armada — a man who could dance the pavane in a ruff and a codpiece without blushing. He seemed to have it all. In the taxi in Cartagena, on the way to The Greatest Spanish Fortress in the New World, I made the mistake of mentioning Sir Francis to the driver. We almost drove into a ditch. According to Pedro, El Draque was a man of dubious parentage whose true calling was something in the septic-tank line. “I will show you a hero,” Pedro said. “I will show you Blas de Lezo. Drake wasn’t worthy to be his cabin boy.” The fortress, the 17th-century Castillo de San Felipe de Barajas,…
Minnesota Representative Carly Melin has been trying to bring medical marijuana to her state. When she set out to achieve this goal, she assumed that there would be some tough negotiations and compromises along the way. Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton has insisted that any successful medical marijuana bill would require getting law enforcement on board. Unfortunately, it appears that members of Minnesota law enforcement are unwilling to compromise in any way. “It’s like negotiating with a brick wall. All along I have said that I am willing to amend the bill. But they won’t move at all.” said Carly Melin according to Politics In Minnesota. The article went on to describe how Representative Melin met with the Minnesota Law Enforcement Coalition to discuss her proposal. The Minnesota Law Enforcement Coalition includes the Minnesota Police and Peace Officers Association, Minnesota Chiefs of Police Association, Minnesota Sheriffs Association, Minnesota County Attorneys Association, and Minnesota State Association of Narcotics Investigators. Ultimately the officers presented a 10 page bulleted outline of their absolute opposition to medical marijuana. One objection that was raised at the meeting, yet was absent in the report, was the truth – that officers are concerned about what the measure would do to police budgets which thrive due to asset forfeitures from marijuana investigations. “According to Melin, Dennis Flaherty, the executive director of the MPPOA, explicitly told her that he was worried that legalization — in any form — could lead to harmful reductions in the federal grants that are an important funding source for many police agencies.” the Politics In Minnesota article stated. This is a very common thing, and the importance of Representative Melin bringing attention to this area of public policy cannot be understated. From Minnesota to Oregon to every other state in the union, law enforcement uses the drug war to bolster their budgets. It’s an area that doesn’t get nearly enough attention because it’s not flashy, and doesn’t draw big headlines. However, if more people new about it, reform would come, and with it, positive change. If cops didn’t get a cut of what they take from marijuana arrests (cars, money, property, etc.), would they bust as many people for something that is harmless? Law enforcement groups oppose medical marijuana in Minnesota and beyond with everything they got. Patients go without the medicine they need, even though it’s a safe, effective alternative to prescription drugs. Why is that? Obviously it’s because these members of law enforcement care more about their budgets than they do suffering patients, which is a sad thing. Some facts about asset forfeiture in Minnesota: - In 2012, police in Minnesota seized approximately $8.3 million of cash and property under the state’s forfeiture law - The St. Paul Police Department netted more than $582,000 from asset seizures in 2012. It was the second-biggest haul of any police agency in the state — a fact made more notable since the proceeds were derived exclusively from controlled-substance cases. - Minnesota law enforcement agencies netted nearly $30 million between 2003 and 2010 through the use of forfeiture. - The average seizure in Minnesota is worth $1,253.
How to Make a Rain Barrel for Your Yard By: Joe Truini This homemade rain barrel to recycle rainwater for use in your lawn and garden is an easy do-it-yourself project that costs less than $50. Here’s how to go about making a rain barrel to help you conserve water in your yard. Rain Barrel Materials - Large plastic garbage can with solid bottom - Drain strainer (available in lawn & garden department for outside drains) - Brass water spigot - Brass nut to fit the threads on the spigot - 2 Flat neoprene rubber washers (available in plumbing department) Making the Rain Barrel - Drill a hole in the side of the garbage can near the bottom to fit the threaded end of the water spigot. - Put one of the rubber washers on the spigot. - Push the threaded end of the spigot through the hole in the can from the outside. - Slip the other rubber washer on the spigot threads from inside the can. - Screw the brass nut on the spigot from inside the can and tighten. - Cut a hole in the can lid with a jigsaw to fit the drain strainer. - Insert drain strainer in hole in lid. - Place lid on can and drill 1/4” diameter holes through the lid and top flange of can on each side of the can and lid. - Attach the lid to the can through the holes using cable ties to hold the lid on securely and prevent children or animals from falling in the rain barrel. - Remove the existing gutter downspout from the gutter, and set the rain barrel on concrete blocks next to the house under the downspout opening. - Modify the downspout so that it fits in the top of the barrel. - Attach a hose to the faucet and use it for watering the plants in your yard. Videos You May Like \|Homemade Rain Barrel for Your Yard\|\|Fiskars Rain Barrel\|\|Collecting Rainwater for Your Garden\|\|Use a Water Bottle to Deliver More Wat...\|
Discussion in 'Star Trek: Deep Space Nine' started by The Borg Queen, Mar 1, 2010. If Odo was to fight against a T-1000 Terminator, who do you think would win and why? Odo, just 'cause. T-1000, because he has more SFX budget money to make kewl weapons. The writers have said that they deliberately made Odo/Founders weak so they wouldn't be compared to a T-1000. I, however, think that that was a huge mistake. They should have the Founders get upgraded for the Dominion War II, and kicking butt on the frontlines with T-1000's powers and more. how would the T-1000 win? Melee weapons would not be harmful to Odo. In the season 1 episode "Vortex", Odo is knocked unconscious by falling debris while attempting to escape an unstable cavern on an asteroid. If he can be knocked out while in humanoid form, shouldn't he find being diced by bladed weapons uncomfortable, if not incapacitating, as well? Didn't Odo become a fire somehow after meeting a fellow changling? If Odo could create an extreme temperature either hot or cold he would win in a battle. The T-1000's only hope would be some sort of massive energy release or explosion, but it is generally understood that Terminators lack self-termination ability. Odo didn't know Founders could be fire, and was never shown bein' fire himself after his encounter with Laas. Odo would win because he has a brain(for lack of better word) and not limited by programming Odo would win. What happens if you chop a founder in half? Do they become two new people? ^ No, but the T-1001 could . I would think they would search the other halfs out and form back into one? but to toss a wrench into the mix would the Borg be able to assimilate either a Founder or a T-1000? As shown when Odo as a glass was broken into multiple pieces, the pieces revert to liquid & reform into one entity - Odo. As for assimilation, I'd say that a Founder can't be, since they have so much control over their own bodies, but a T-1000 could be, since they're technological. But, it wouldn't be a real drone, since there wouldn't be a biological component. Yet the idea of the T-1000 was that it was "biological enough" to pass through the time machine that only accepted organics, or things disguised as organics by adding some flesh... On the issue of Odo getting knocked unconscious, I think he was faking it in "Vortex"... A good ruse for finding out the true motivations of Croden. But perhaps he is vulnerable to impact damage when he's not prepared for it? Anyway, T-1000 would win, because it could always come back in time again, until it got it right... Honestly, it would probably be a draw until Odo remembered that he can become fire and just melt the T-1000 Think of it as being made of the "silver blood" from Voyager's episode Demon. Odo would win. All he would have to do is engulf the T-1000 within his own body and then slowly crush him. But, since you never bring a knife to a gun fight, Odo could just pick up a phaser and fry the T-1000's knife-wielding ass into vapor. That'd have to be Overseer Odo, since Constable Odo never used a phaser. Now, if there's an unshielded warp core handy, it'd be a different story... Separate names with a comma.
A knowledge of business and business processes can be useful in many different jobs including roles within the administrative and clerical job family, accountancy, banking and finance, and retail sales and customer services. It will also be useful if you are thinking about setting up your own business or being self-employed in the future. Applied and job-related learning There is a range of vocational qualifications (such as BTECs, NVQ/SVQs, and diplomas) linked to an interest in business, such as: - business administration and office skills - enterprise and entrepreneurship - information technology - travel and tourism There is a wide range of apprenticeships that link to an interest in business. These include: - personal assistant - customer service assistant - helpdesk professional - database administrator - duty manager - sales assistant - front of house manager Academic subjects — such as A levels - You can study business, applied business, business studies, business marketing, and economics. - Related subjects include law, accounting, maths, statistics, additional maths, government and politics, and psychology.
We must be doing something right, It's tough to please people on the internet :) Over 1350 beginners have given us a 4.5 star rating average! Course updated 10/04/17, UK date format Have any of these things prevented you starting on your dream of playing Piano? We remove all three of those problems and, like Sue who thinks that “I would have been playing piano for years by now if I'd realised how easy it would be...." none of these issues will stop you achieving your dream of playing piano... today... in an hour in fact..literally! I appreciate it could sound unrealistic but...read the reviews "For years I've been wanting to learn the piano, but always postponed it as it seemed so difficult. Half way through this course I was already trying all kind of things out on my piano, and was in shock that it all worked out." Gregory, One of our students. This innovative technique uses shapes and patterns as a much more intuitive way, to get people playing, rather than a reading music based approach or tedious scales that tends to only work for a few. Most of the worlds music doesn't rely on notation and you don't need to either. I certainly didn't as a professional musician touring the world - everything can be done by ear, and I can show you how. Enrol now to get playing..who doesn't want to impress people playing the piano? But why a short hour and a half course rather than a really really long one? In my academic experience (Cambridge University post grad in Education) it's pretty clear to me what actually works when explaining things to people. Long courses that offer endless hours of instruction gather metaphorical digital dust, remaining unwatched however good your intention is to finally get around to watching. What actually does work for most people are short practical courses, that scaffold knowledge. If you want people to really flourish you help learners discover for themselves the joy of playing the piano as quickly as possible. Those words joy and fun are really important in learning! This course is designed to be just long enough (1 hour and a half) to give you exactly the knowledge and confidence in themselves beginners need to play what they want to play, yet it is short enough that you can actually complete it (no filler or rote learning). Just think for a second about being able to play the songs you love on the piano after just an hours practical demonstration and just how cool that would be. Thousands of online students have discovered it really is possible, in just one hour, to learn enough to have a lifetime of fun and enjoyment actually playing. And you can do it using a completely different approach using shapes and patterns rather than notes and theory. "I'm more of a pick up and play sorta guy! This course has literally taken me from knowing a few chords (and not remembering them!) to opening up a whole new world of musical possibilities" Adam, one of our students You don't actually have to suffer the tyranny of theory or reading to enjoy getting started on the Piano - Want to be like Adam or Gerry - Enrol now "Making something that appears extremely complicated into something simple and understandable is an art. This course is the first I have ever done that had me hooked from the first minute and Simon is a superb instructor" Gerry Don't take our word for it though, check out our video where we are featured by the BBC News team and read the reviews below! Best of all we are so confident in the effectiveness of our method that there is a guaranteed 30-day refund if you're not satisfied. Doesn't work then you get your money back no questions asked - I guarantee you'll be too busy playing that song you've always wanted to be able to though Enrol now and get playing! It looks really complicated doesn’t it the keyboard. But if it’s broken down it’s actually really really simple. We’ll show you in five minutes how to work out which note is which. We will use shapes and patterns to do this so it's something you know and understand not something theoretical. That basic foundation will be vital in your journey to playing the songs you want in less than an hour. Knowing where the notes are is the key to this method - lets check what you remembered from the video. Here it is the bit you've been waiting for! In this lecture I will give you the formula or rule that will enable you to work out how to construct a chord. This is the building block on which everything else sits. Get this right and you are well on your way to playing chords on the piano and unlocking it as an instrument. here are some questions to help you consolidate what you've learnt OK we've got 7 chords down. If you listen carefully in this lecture we will show you how just by making one simple change to all those chords you have already learned you can access another seven chords - making 14 in total Theres a rule for remembering their name. Here it is Here is a pdf with the chords for a song clearly mapped out and a walkthrough of how you interpret how to translate chords written on a page to a recognisable song. I'm a specialist in music technology, a sound engineer and producer as well as educator and musician. I've lectured on this method of teaching at a number of major UK university's, including Cambridge University. I have 20 years experience as a professional touring musician. 4 record contracts, Millions of youtube hits, and appearances at major music festivals around the world. I'm currently doing a post grad in Education (Cambridge University) and I have 15 years experience of working with music and young people in very challenging circumstances - I know how to explain this stuff to people so they understand it :) Playing an instrument has so many wonderful plus points. I've helped thousands of people to realise that actually even when they thought they couldn't that they can play an instrument. It's not an impossibility and the benefits of that on peoples sense of self and wellbeing, enjoyment, confidence and identity are enormous - be a musician it's a wonderful world of fun to be a part of.
Student or Learner This is supposed to be a 250 word or more, two paragraph comparison and contrast paper. I need some input on it... because I don't think it's that good but would like some suggestions on what I should change. Quest for KnowledgeOnce I was young and ignorant; now I’m grown and knowledgeable. Ever since I started high school, all I wanted was for it to end, because I was ready to “Start a Life”. A dream I’ve had since I was kid was to fly jet planes, but that was just a dream. To my folks, as long as I had a job and helped pay the bills, my dreams would just remain dreams. I wouldn’t blame my parents for my ignorance but I could blame it on the public school system. Lucky for me, my dad stopped my school before they put me in “Special Ed” classes, just because I had a problem spelling. Although growing up, I was always slower than all the other kids in all subjects, working while all my friends went to college. How was I supposed to know an education would be better than “Just Work”? My parents never told me! After high school, if you were to tell me to go to college, I would have laughed in your face. One day, after only working four years, I became sick. I wondered how my parents had lived a life working twenty four hours a day, seven days a week (or so it felt), only to find yourself deeper and deeper in debt. Working for pennies, it seemed to me. I asked myself, is this, what I want to do for the rest of my life? This is when I began my quest for knowledge and education. Looking for a way to better myself and my family I started with what I was good at, computers. Learning everything I could until I was able to charge for my knowledge. Repairing computers was better income then any job I had ever had but that was still never ending. This was only a temporary solution to a never ending problem and of course it wasn’t enough; my yearning for knowledge only grew. This was only the start of my education, struggling as a kid, ignorance as a teen, and knowledgeable as an adult. I intend to go to college, overcome all obstacles and provide peace for my family.
BT is trialling its new Wireless-to-the-Cabinet (WTTC) broadband in North Yorkshire, as the telecoms provider continues to explore new ways of delivering superfast services to rural communities. The technology works in a similar way to regular fibre-to-the-cabinet (FTTC) services, except the fibre optic cable that runs from the telephone exchange to the local street cabinet is replaced by a point-to-point microwave wireless radio link, before then being channelled to premises. The trials are being carried out in the small village of Westow on the edge of the North Yorkshire Moors, where it would not have been viable to lay a fibre optic cable. Helen Yarrow, BT Project Manager, said surveys indicated that laying fibre cables in the ground would not have been cost-effective due to the terrain and lack of existing infrastructure between the exchange and the fibre broadband cabinet. "Laying cable would also have meant having to close off a single track road for a prolonged period, which would have caused considerable disruption for villagers, who would have had to make a lengthy diversion," she added. WTTC has previously proven successful when rolled out on the remote island of Rathlin and the Devon village of Northlew, and may prove an effective means of reaching remote areas included in the final five per cent of communities to benefit from superfast broadband.
A gentle way to dehydrate food in the current industry is the use of supercritical CO2 as an extraction agent. After extraction, the humidified supercritical CO2 stream needs to be regenerated and the supercritical CO2 needs to be separated from the water again. In the conventional process, this is done using large and heavy zeolite columns in a batch process. Membranes modules are considered to be a more sustainable alternative and will reduce investment and maintenance costs, due to their much smaller scale and their ability to be implemented in a continuous process. In this project the potential of membranes for the dehydration of supercritical CO2 is investigated. Knowledge from material science is used to examine promising membrane materials and to improve these. In addition process design and mass transfer plays an important role in the construction of a suitable membrane module and the determination of the optimal process conditions. All together we aim for an efficient alternative for the dehydration of supercritical CO2.
CAD Auto Pass/Fail™ - Automatic Pass/Fail Results VisionGauge® Digital Optical Comparators The VisionGauge® Digital Optical Comparator’s CAD Auto Pass/Fail™ tool computes and displays, in real time, the part's deviation from nominal for automatic Pass/Fail results. Automatic Pass/Fail Results with CAD Auto Pass/Fail™ The VisionGauge® Digital Optical Comparator's patented CAD Auto Pass/Fail™ tool allows you to automatically determine, very accurately and in real-time, if a part is within tolerance. The CAD Auto Pass/Fail™ tool can be either point-based or it can consider complete geometric entities. In point-based mode, the part's deviation from nominal is evaluated at precise user-specified cross-sections to verify that the part is within tolerance at all of these locations. And the geometry-based CAD Auto Pass/Fail™ tool verifies that the part is within tolerance over complete geometric entities. Note that the control-section-based and geometry-based CAD Auto Pass/Fail™ tools can be used simultaneously on the same part! The geometry-based CAD Auto Pass/Fail™ tool is especially well suited to parts with "peaks and valleys" where we don't know beforehand where the min & max deviations might be located... Also, note that there are no restrictions on the tolerance values. So tolerances can be either the standard "plus/minus" tolerances, as well as "minus/minus" or "plus/plus" tolerances. Many VisionGauge® Digital Optical Comparator users combine the CAD Auto-Align™ and CAD Auto Pass/Fail™ tools to fully automate their inspections: - The operator loads the part in the fixture and scans the barcode on the traveller. - This causes the VisionGauge® Digital Optical Comparator to load and run a part-specific program that automatically: - Reads-in the correct CAD file - Auto-Aligns the CAD file to the part - Produces an Auto Pass/Fail result that is collected in a Data Group and sent to Excel or an other external application... - In the case of parts that are larger than the system's optical field-of-view, the stage moves the part and carries out the Auto Pass/Fail inspection at however many different locations are required. This way, the whole part gets inspected without having to "shift the overlay". The CAD data tracks the part's movement! With the CAD Auto-Align™ and CAD Auto Pass/Fail™ tools, the VisionGauge® Digital Optical Comparator is truly revolutioninzing how parts are inspected, quickly and accurately, directly on the shop floor! Please contact us for more information including a detailed spec sheet, a "Frequently Asked Questions" document, pricing, etc...
Trondheim is Norway’s third largest city. Getting here is easy and it’s a perfect base for exploring the region. Trondheim has many names. It’s a city of students, technology, culture, cycling and food. The 30,000 students, many of whom attend the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, leave their mark on the city and contribute to a high level of innovation and a vibrant cultural life. That’s also the case with the many festivals held year-round. Trondheim hosts festivals in genres including jazz, blues, chamber music, world music, rock and pop. The best known is the flagship St. Olav Festival, Norway's largest church and cultural festival. Trondheim’s intimate city centre is perfect for cyclists. Excellent cycling paths lead to and around the city centre, while the world’s first bike lift, located in the idyllic old town Bakklandet, is popular among residents and tourists alike. A short bike ride from the city centre is the outdoor recreation area Bymarka, which is wonderful for fishing and hiking. Annual food and beer festivals, a food hall, Norway’s most popular Farmers’ Market, several local breweries and many excellent restaurants focusing on local food mean Trondheim can rightly be called a food city. Trondheim, formerly called Nidaros, was Norway's capital from 1030 to 1217. The city has played a key role in Norway’s history, and the Nidaros Cathedral has been a popular pilgrimage site for nearly 1000 years. Thanks to all the students, Trondheim offers lots of concerts, plays, festivals of all categories. Events take place all year round, with a peak of large festivals and international artists in the summer. Enjoy! Regardless of whether you prefer shopping, shows, exhibitions or activities, you will find many exciting things to do in Trondheim. With countless small-scale and large-scale food producers spanning many varieties of local food, Trøndelag can rightly be called Norway’s leading food region, and Trondheim the Food City. For many, a visit to Trondheim provides an opportunity to eat local and organic food. Trondheim offers accommodation in many categories, ranging from luxury city centre hotels through to cheaper options outside the city centre. The Tourist Information Office in downtown Trondheim offers advice about activities, attractions and accommodation in Trondheim and Trøndelag. These are the top ranked activities in Trondheim, according to Trip Advisor
The Faculty of Informatics and Statistics The Faculty of Informatics and Statistics is one of six faculties at the University of Economics, Prague. Subjects taught in this Faculty include information technologies, information management, knowledge systems, and quantitative methods (statistics, econometrics, operational research and demography). These are dynamically developing fields propelled by the intense development of computer technology. The Faculty of Informatics and Statistics offers a particularly demanding course of study combining knowledge of information technologies with knowledge of economics, statistics and mathematical sciences. Students who complete their studies in the Faculty are highly valued on the labour market. Nearly 1,800 students are enrolled in this Faculty, which hosts over 100 The orientation of international relations of the Faculty is grounded on the strategy of international relations of the University, via its integration in multilateral co-operation with world-known universities and top foreign schools and research institutions. In this respect the most important fact is the integration into European network CEMS (Community of European Management Schools), worldwide network PIM (Program in International Management) and a co-operation within Socrates/Erasmus program. Most of the nine departments of the Faculty provide professional education to students. The Departments of Mathematics and Philosophy supply the main professional theoretical elements of the study programme. In addition to regular departments, the scientific-research department, the Laboratory for Intelligent System (LISP), has been established. This department focuses on research in the field of artificial intelligence. The scientific research activity of the Faculty of Informatics and Statistics corresponds to the specialisation of individual departments. Activities in this area are aimed at carrying out various department research programmes and acquiring and implementing grant projects administered by various grant agencies, including foreign ones. The Faculty also co-operates with institutions such as ÚTIA (Institute of Information Theory and Automation), ČVUT (Czech Technical University), Czech Statistical Office, as well as a number of foreign universities.
At Xerox PARC in Palo Alto, California, beginning in 1993, I worked with words in LambdaMoo, a text based social virtual reality site, created at PARC by Pavel Curtis, that runs LambdaMoo code and is publicly accessible on the Internet. Investigating the narrative variety inherent in Moos, (MUD's object oriented) I created the exploratory new media narrative, Brown House Kitchen. BROWN HOUSE KITCHEN MUDs (Multi-user Dungeons) are text-based virtual communities, traditionally (but not always) set in imaginary environments. In these people-centered places, a wide variety of public literature can be created. Originating with a multi-user "adventuring" program written in 1979 by students at the University of Essex in England and expanded by the Social Virtual Reality project at Xerox PARC, headed by Pavel Curtis -- whose theatrical and computer science background merged fortuitously in MUD/MOO environments -- LambdaMOO and similar sites based on LambdaCode are malleable code- based structures. Although general MUD usage has centered on creative social interaction, the flexible programming system that Curtis created also has the potential for complex information delivery and for an infinite variety of narrative structures. MUD's were more central to Internet recreation in the pre-Web era. However, they continue to offer the potential to create complex narratives that can be explored simultaneously by many reader players. Beginning in 1993, as part of my residency (as a writer and designer of experimental computer mediated narratives) at Xerox PARC, I worked in LambdaMOO, a MOO that uses an object oriented programming language (a cross between C++ and LISP) developed by Pavel Curtis. The term "LambdaMOO" refers both to this software and to the server Curtis ran at Xerox PARC that used this software and was open to the Internet public. LambdaMoo was already a well defined richly embroidered virtual environment when I began to work on Brown House Kitchen. A user who opened the door to the closet (the standard entry way to this environment) entered a well defined room that was based on Pavel Curtis' real-life living room at that time: "It is very bright, open, and airy here, with large plate-glass windows looking southward over the pool to the gardens beyond. On the north wall, there is a rough stonework fireplace. The east and west walls are almost completely covered with large, well-stocked bookcases." When I began working in LambdaMoo at Xerox PARC in November 1993, I had a SPARC workstation and an office in the legendary Computer Science Lab (CSL) across from the office of Rich Gold, the Director of PARC Artists in Residence. (PAIR) I also had the LambdaMOO Programmer's Manual by Pavel Curtis and an informal LambdaMOO tutorial created by yudj Anderson. Soon I was spending my days on familiar territory - the Internet. In November 1993, Pavel and I met to discuss what I would create in LambdaMOO. Also present was ethnographer Cynthia Duval who recorded and transcribed the conversation. I had envisioned the narrative as a kind of hypertext, but Pavel pointed out the three dimensional qualities of the medium and spoke about "creating a space that was itself literature in that by walking through the space and manipulating the objects that I might see there or taking different paths through the space encounter this work of literature." Pavel also suggested that objects in this space could disclose text. Additionally we discussed the public art possibilities inherent in During my residency I had been studying CSL research projects, discussing them with Rich Gold, talking with other researchers at lunch, and attending talks in the Bean Bag room. Then, in the course of a walk across the fields that bordered the PARC building, down Page Mill Road, past the Wall Street Journal, past Hewlett Packard, down to a Motel on El Camino Real (where I was staying with not much but a 286 IBM computer, a modem, a black cat, and a few items of clothing) I conceived of the basic structure for Brown House Kitchen. Influenced by the ubiquitous computing research (the creation of an environment where many invisible to the user computers are available) being undertaken in CSL, the kitchen was conceived of as a future communal eating space where interrelated devices integral to its functioning would record events in various ways. In Rashoman fashion, these devices would be capable of relating the details of things that occurred in a previous November in separate but related ways. The story began -- for the participant who enters the environment -- in this way. "An Early Ubicomp Era kitchen The sun, coming through white lace curtains that frame a small irregularly watered yard, falls invitingly on a round oak table, surrounded by chairs. In the Northeast corner, an old man sits in a bluegreen rocking chair, reading a newspaper. He looks like your grandfather. To your left, you see what appears to be a sculpture of a kitchen drawer mounted on a pedestal. Near the Northwest wall, there is a kitchen sink, decorated with blue tiles. An orange cat stands on the edge of the sink, drinking water from a slow faucet drip." At the core of the work was a series of text disclosing objects based on PARC research at the time. Players who entered Brown House Kitchen unfolded the story in various (unpredictable) ways by examining the things they found in the environment. Although the command and response language of LambdaMoo is somewhat similar to that of Interactive Fiction, (IF) Brown House Kitchen differed from traditional IF in that the objects were deeply programmed. For instance, the narranoter disclosed pseudo-randomly generated text using the UNIX date and was based on the authoring system I used to create Terminals, File III of Uncle Roger. Two of the other devices, Ralph Will Clean Up After You and GoodFood were time-based in a somewhat different manner. The information they disclosed varied according to the day of the month and the time of day that the reader entered the story. Additionally, there was a garden outside the kitchen where text was disclosed in a polyphonic way using "fork". (a feature of LambdaMOO code that allows time delays in the production of text) The group nature of the experience meant that many players could be in the same "room" at the same time, and in some cases what they were doing was visible to the other players. Thus the guessing game experience of IF was augmented in this work by readers being able to see (in real time) what other readers in the virtual environment were doing. Some of the devices I created (simulated video, simulated audio) disclosed information that was seen (when activated) by everyone in the room. Other devices (electronic book, diary) disclosed text visible only to the player who activated them. I used this strategy based on what the player would see in a real situation -- ie you would hear a radio or a TV that someone else turned on, but you probably would not see what a person in the same room was reading. In summary, the devices were a mobile, audio equipped robot, (Ralph Will Clean Up After You) a database food dispensing table, (GoodFood), a pre-narrative video device, (Barbie-Q) and two electronic books. (Sarah's Diary and the narranoter) The social nature of LambdaMoo was also incorporated into Brown House Kitchen. Players could sit at the table, order meals, and as is usual in LambdaMOO, talk with other players. In addition to five programmed text disclosing devices, the environment included hypertextual "tiny scenery". (descriptions activated by the word "look". As a whole, Brown House Kitchen, was structured with parallel intersecting data streams that were contained in and disclosed by this collection of objects. The idea of parallel data streams was one that I had worked with in Wasting Time -- a narrative data structure where the words and thoughts of three characters are treated as parallel intertwining data streams. Brown House Kitchen, a work that exists in a time warp in virtual space, is a more complex narrative. It not only challenges readers to discover less obvious streams of text but also locates them within the To structure the work, I used food as an integrating device and started by writing the menus for the 93 meals that were to be served by GoodFood over the course of a month. The chart integrated what was eaten at the meals with what the video device recorded, what the gossip Ralph disclosed, and the words written in the narranoter. As noted, Brown House Kitchen integrates narrative disclosing devices that both relate to each other and respond interactively to investigation. It is communal in that it works best when several people are in the room. In November 1994, I invited Tim Collin's and Reiko Goto's Carnegie Mellon "Art Systems" class to virtually enter the work. Sitting at separate terminals in the computer room, the students jointly explored Brown House Kitchen. Although the narrative is difficult to comprehend if only one person is exploring it in a solitary manner, as I had envisioned, the environment worked very well in this group situation. Its rich detail was apparent, and the students were enthusiastic. The work I did to create Brown House Kitchen would not have been possible without the presence of Pavel Curtis and other knowledgeable, helpful CSL researchers including Rich Gold, Ron Frederick, Berry Kercheval and David Nichols. Notes and References 1. Cynthia Duval, "The Use of Artifacts as Tools for Thinking: a Sociocultural Study of Creative Work," unpublished manuscript, 1996. 2. Mark Weisner, "Some Computer Science Issues in Ubiquitous Computing," Communications of the ACM July 1993 36:7 75-84 3. Judy Malloy, "Wasting Time, A Narrative Data Structure" In: After The Book (Perforations 3) summer, 1992.
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This gorgeous, stainless steel and bronze toy car is simply named Toy Car, which seems an appropriately stripped-down name for such a minimalist vehicle. Without a body, or even a cover over the engine, you can see exactly how the car works. It’s essentially a fancy version of the pull-back-and-go cars found in cereal boxes and kids’ fast-food “meals” everywhere. Pull the car backwards while pushing down and the motion of the turning wheels is stored as energy in a coiled spring inside the big central toothed wheel. Let go and it unwinds, propelling the machine forward. When the spring has fully sprung, a clutch disengages and lets the car roll free. I guess I like this especially because I always used to wonder as a kid what goes on inside these cars. Of course I opened a few up to see, but the cogs and springs were always too small and complex to fathom. That and the fact that the things had a habit of exploding on my, sending sprigs and cogs everywhere, somewhat limited my education. The Toy Car, by contrast, is wonderfully simple and easy to grok. It also looks like the inside of a giant watch, which adds to its appeal. You probably won’t be buying one for your kids, though. The Toy Car, by Wouter Scheublin, is sold as a limited edition art piece through the Priveekollektie gallery, and is priced in the “if you have to ask” category. It does come with a little walnut garage, though. - Boattail Racer, the $350 Wooden Toy Car - Motormouse Looks Like a Toy Car - Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Runs Toy Car - Death Race 2000: Model Hearse Toy Car
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Volume 12, Number 3—March 2006 Cutaneous Anthrax, Belgian Traveler Highlight and copy the desired format. \|EID\|\|Van den Enden E, Van Gompel A, Van Esbroeck M. Cutaneous Anthrax, Belgian Traveler. Emerg Infect Dis. 2006;12(3):523-525. https://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1203.051407\| \|AMA\|\|Van den Enden E, Van Gompel A, Van Esbroeck M. Cutaneous Anthrax, Belgian Traveler. Emerging Infectious Diseases. 2006;12(3):523-525. doi:10.3201/eid1203.051407.\| \|APA\|\|Van den Enden, E., Van Gompel, A., & Van Esbroeck, M. (2006). Cutaneous Anthrax, Belgian Traveler. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 12(3), 523-525. https://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1203.051407.\| To the Editor: Anthrax is a rare zoonotic disease among travelers. The clinical spectrum includes cutaneous lesions, respiratory anthrax, pharyngeal inflammation, gastrointestinal infection, septicemia, and meningitis. Interest in anthrax increased after the bioterrorist attacks in the United States in 2001. The following case history describes a cutaneous infection suspected to be anthrax in a tourist who had indirect contact with dead mammals in a disease-endemic area. After indirect contact with dead antelopes and a hippopotamus in Botswana, an acute necrotic lesion developed on a finger of a 31-year-old, healthy, female Belgian woman. The lesion became covered with a black crust, followed by massive swelling of the hand and arm. The clinical aspect and history strongly suggested cutaneous anthrax. This diagnosis was supported by seroconversion to protective antigen of Bacillus anthracis and the presence of antibodies against lethal factor. The bacterium itself could not be cultured or identified by polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Other members of the group with which she traveled were contacted, but no other cases were reported. The Belgian woman traveled with friends to Namibia, Botswana, and South Africa from December 12, 2004, until January 22, 2005. She visited Chobe National Park in Botswana early January 2005. On January 8, a small, painless, vesicular lesion developed on the dorsal side of her fourth left finger. This lesion increased in size quickly and developed a black aspect with a red elevated border. Small vesicles appeared in the immediate vicinity of the primary lesion. No pus was noted. Her general condition was good. She treated herself with amoxicillin-clavulanic acid 2 gm/day for 3 days. The next day, massive edema of the finger, hand, and left arm developed. When admitted to a hospital in Johannesburg, her left arm and hand were massively swollen with painful left axillary lymphadenopathy. Her temperature never exceeded 37.8°C. Wound cultures showed only the presence of viridans streptococci, bacteria that are not implicated in wound infections. The patient was treated with intravenous ciprofloxacin, gentamicin, tetracycline, flucloxacillin, and topical mupirocin. She was discharged after 6 days with oral flucloxacillin and returned to Belgium on January 22. On February 4, her general condition was excellent; the edema had diminished. A painless necrotic lesion on the left fourth finger measured 3 cm2 (Figure). She mentioned minor discomfort of her left underarm and loss of sensation at the distal radial side of the left underarm. She could not extend the terminal phalanx of the fourth left finger because the underlying tendon had been destroyed. The left axillary lymph nodes were still slightly swollen. No evidence indicated parapox viral infection or necrotic arachnidism. Upon questioning, she mentioned that in Chobe National Park, some fellow travelers had manipulated the legs of dead antelopes. One person had climbed on a dead hippo for a picture and sank into the putrefying carcass. He soon afterwards cleaned a small abrasion on the patient's finger. Some hours later, all group members washed their hands in a common small plastic basin containing water and chloroxylenol. Full blood count, erythrocyte sedimentation rate, and biochemistry were normal. Antistreptolysin O levels were within normal limits. Serologic test results for rickettsiae, orthopoxviruses, and Bartonella henselae were negative. The patient was not immunocompromised. Because cutaneous anthrax was suspected, wound crusts, swabs for bacterial cultures, and Dacron swabs used for PCR were mailed as quickly as possible to the Belgian national reference laboratory. All cultures remained sterile. PCR was negative for B. anthracis. Because of the positive clinical outcome with antimicrobial drugs for 16 days, no additional antimicrobial drugs or steroids were prescribed. Further recovery was uneventful and only a small scar remains. While waiting for serologic test results, a ProMed alert was issued (1). Members of the travel group were contacted and warned but no other cases were identified. Consecutive serum samples were analyzed for B. anthracis protective antigen antibodies (anti-PA) (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA). The serum collected on February 4 was negative. On February 16, anti-PA immunoglobulin G (IgG) was detected with a titer of 9.5 (weakly positive). On April 18, no anti-PA IgG could be detected. Paired serum samples (February 4 and 16) were also mailed to the Institut für Microbiologie der Bundeswehr in Munich, Germany. In the German laboratory, the anti-PA enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay result was negative, but specific antibodies against lethal factor of B. anthracis were detected. Anthrax is essentially a disease of grazing animals and is relatively common in persons who have contact with these animals (2–4). It is occasionally reported in travelers (5). In this case, many arguments existed for cutaneous anthrax, but the diagnosis could not be proven. Clinical symptoms (malignant edema) and history of indirect contact with carcasses of wildlife in a disease-endemic area suggested anthrax. Bacterial cultures remained negative, presumably because of previous administration of antimicrobial drugs. The clinical diagnosis was supported by seroconversion to protective antigen and the presence of antibodies against lethal factor. In cutaneous anthrax, antibodies to protective antigen develop in 68%–92% of cases (6,7). Previous cases of cutaneous anthrax in Belgium date from the 1980s, when a man became infected while unloading Indian bone meal in Antwerp Harbor. In 1986, cutaneous anthrax developed in a Turkish woman after being injured while cooking a sheep (8). In 2002, a suspected case in a Belgian farmer was reported (9). Many cases of cutaneous anthrax heal spontaneously, but a 5%–10% chance of systemic complications exists. This case illustrates 1 of the dangers of touching dead animals in nature. Travelers should be warned that even indirect contact can lead to problems. We thank Wolf Splettstösser (anthrax serology), Arno Buckendahl (anthrax serology), Hermann Meyer (Orthopoxvirus serology), Pamela Riley (anthrax serology), Mark Van Ranst (PCR anthrax), Els Keyaerts (PCR anthrax), and Patrick Butaye (biosafety level 3 laboratory, culture, and PCR anthrax) for their assistance in preparing this article. - Van den Enden E, Van Gompel A. Suspected cutaneous anthrax, Belgium ex Botswana. ProMed 7 March 2005 (available from http://www.promedmail.org/pls/promed/f?p=2400:1202:1718422751363262853: NO:F2400_P1202_CHECK_DISPLAY,F2400_P1202_PUB_MAIL_ID:X,28280) - Irmak H, Buzgan T, Karahocagil MK, Sakarya N, Akdeniz H, Caksen H, Cutaneous manifestations of anthrax in Eastern Anatolia: a review of 39 cases. Acta Med Okayama. 2003;57:235–40. - Maguina C, Flores Del Pozo J, Terashima A, Gotuzzo E, Guerra H, Vidal JE, Cutaneous anthrax in Lima, Peru: retrospective analysis of 71 cases, including four with a meningoencephalic complication. Rev Inst Med Trop Sao Paulo. 2005;47:25–30. - Tutrone WD, Scheinfeld NS, Weinberg JM. Cutaneous anthrax: a concise review. Cutis. 2002;69:27–33. - Paulet R, Caussin C, Coudray JM, Selcer D, de Rohan Chabot P. Forme viscerale de charbon humain importée d'Afrique. Presse Med. 1994;23:477–8. - Swartz MN. Recognition and management of anthrax—an update. N Engl J Med. 2001;345:1621–6. - Quinn CP, Dull PM, Semenova V, Li H, Crotty S, Taylor TH, Immune responses to Bacillus anthracis protective antigen in patients with bioterrorism-related cutaneous or inhalational anthrax. J Infect Dis. 2004;190:1228–36. - Gyssens IC, Weyns D, Kullberg BJ, Ursi JO. Een patiënte met cutane anthrax in België. Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd. 2001;145:2386–8. - Braam RL, Braam JI. Een patiënte met cutane anthrax in België. Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd. 2002;16:538–9. - Figure. Initial skin lesion with black crust and red border, suggestive of cutaneous anthrax. By the time the picture was taken, the massive edema of hand and arm had subsided. Please use the form below to submit correspondence to the authors or contact them at the following address: Erwin Van den Enden, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nationalestraat 155, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium; fax: 32-3-247-6452 Comment submitted successfully, thank you for your feedback. The conclusions, findings, and opinions expressed by authors contributing to this journal do not necessarily reflect the official position of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Public Health Service, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or the authors' affiliated institutions. 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We wrote a few month ago about blood being re-injected into the face for a younger appearance. Unfortunately, we wrote this elsewhere before we opened this site. However, now there is another way to avoid going under the knife as the world’s first stem-cell facelifts have begun being performed at the Harley Street Medical Clinic in London. Like the amino-filled blood, it always requires being injected into the patient’s face. It takes about 5 hours to do requiring a simple local anaesthetic and works by taking fat and regenerative stem cells from the flabby parts on one’s body and injecting them into the face of the patient, which ”repairs and rejuvenates skin for up to 18 months”. Stem cells, found in fat can ”recognize damaged tissue and repair it.” Its use is already being implemented to replace faulty heart tissue and restore vision in damaged eyes. Dr Aamar Khan says the stem-cell facelift differs from ‘traditional facelifts [because traditional facelifts] do not add volume to the face or change the tone of the skin. In the stem cell facelift the volume and structure of the face is restored to a younger balance.’ And patients of Dr. Khan couldn’t be more than happy as mother-in-law to Shane Richie, 58 year old Jackie Goddard, a previous bo-tax addict expressed My skin was plumper and more radiant and will carry on improving over the next six to nine months. The fine lines have disappeared but the best thing was the fat had filled out the hollows under my eyes and my sunken cheek areas. I’m delighted with the results. It’s a very natural look. There are no tell-tale scars. If you’re interested in a lesser invasive form of horror that is plastic surgery, the procedure costs a hefty £7500 (roughly $10000). For $10 000, we will KEEP our face. Thank you! Which facelift would you prefer: None, traditional facelift, blood injection or stem cell?
At the time, priests of a religion were charging money for a ritual prayer that promised to release a dead relative’s soul from hell so he could go to heaven. At one point in the prayer they struck an urn full of stones with a ritual hammer. If the urn broke, and the stones were released, it was a sign that the soul was also released, according to their teaching. Of course, the brittle clay could not withstand the blow of the heavy metal hammer. A young man, distraught over his uncle’s death, went to the Buddha, believing that the Buddha’s teaching was a newer, greater form of religion, and asked him for a ritual which would release his uncle’s soul. The Buddha told him to obtain two of the ritual urns from the priests, and fill one with butter and and one with stones. The young man, believing he was about to get a more powerful ritual, was very happy and did as the Buddha said. When he returned, the Buddha told him to place the urns carefully in the river, so that the rim of the urn was just below the surface. Then he instructed him to recite the usual prayer of the priests, and strike both urns under the water with the hammer, at the usual point in the prayer, then come back and describe what happened. The young man, very excited to be the first person to be given this wonderful new ritual, more effective than the old, did exactly as he was told. On his return, the Buddha asked him to describe what he saw. The young man replied “I saw nothing unusual. When I smashed the urns, the stones sank to the bottom of the river and the butter was washed away on the surface of the river.” The Buddha said “Then you must ask your priests to pray that the butter will sink and the stones will float to the surface. If they can do that… then they may be able to raise your Uncle out of hell.” The young man, shocked by the obvious ridiculousness of this request said “But no matter how much the priests pray, the stones will never float and the butter will not sink.” The Buddha replied, “Exactly so, it is the same with your uncle. Whatever good, loving actions he has done during his life will make him rise towards heaven, and whatever bad, selfish actions he has done will make him sink towards hell. And there is not a thing that all the prayers and rituals of the priests can do to alter even a tiny part of the results of his actions!”
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Translation Agency \| Email US \| Translation Resources \| Translation Jobs \| Translation Agencies World Languages \| Translation Tips \| Translation Services Algebra is a study of numbers, their fields, and calculation with them. To write numbers, we use the mathematical symbols created for them (numerical figures). A number can be expressed using various symbols, where each symbol identifies a certain number. If some mathematical relation is valid for some number (or amount of numbers), such as a law, a rule of computation, a formula and so on, it makes sense to write this down in a statement beforehand – to express that the relation is generally binding for a certain amount of numbers in a given set. The used mathematical symbols are variable in a defined variable number set. This must always be stated, unless it is absolutely obvious. When writing our statements, we use similar symbols as if we were writing down music. However, in this case, we do not use letters but rather numbers, which means we can use certain numbers to represent certain quantities while keeping the statement true. The variable represents a certain number. Different variables can represent either different numbers or the same number. Arithmetical Operations from the First to Third Order Certain arithmetical operations are performed in defined numerical sets. We can divide basic arithmetical operations into three categories: addition and subtraction; multiplication and division; and exponentiation, extraction of root and calculation of logarithms. Overview of Numerical Sets Natural numbers historically make up the first numerical set, have been used to count objects in our surroundings and are used above all as: The first number is the number one. The number zero indicates that none of a certain object exists. This number was considered a number only until later in history. If we consider a and b as two natural numbers, then the result of their arithmetical operation, such as adding, multiplying or exponentiation, will always generate another natural number. Therefore, these operations take place only within the set of natural numbers without extending beyond it. With other mathematical operations, such as subtraction and division, this does not need to apply. In this case, the natural numbers would have to fulfill certain conditions. If not, then the result would not be a natural number, which means that the arithmetical function has transcended the set of natural numbers. Expanding Numerical Sets If a mathematical operation based on the set of natural numbers is to be executable without restriction, the set of numbers used must be increased. This leads to an expansion of the number set, or the creation of a new and broader set. This would require the definition of new numbers so as to give the various mathematical operations a definable result. It would also be necessary to base the same mathematical operation on the new numbers which was possible with the natural numbers. Regarding this, there are two points of view which must be adhered to: In mathematics and other areas, interesting relations can be found with quantities: relations between the number of employees and a company’s turnover; between the speed of a car and consumption of gasoline; between a day’s progress and the temperature of air; between the diameter of a sphere and its volume, etc. Under certain conditions (which are often fulfilled) in mathematics, the relation between different quantities is called a function. Thanks to their theoretical and practical significance, this concept is possibly the most important in all of mathematics. Now we would like to ask ourselves under what conditions can we call relations between quantities functions (which requires us to define what a function is) while learning of some typical examples of functional relations and how they are expressed. The function f: X® Y is a formula with which the set of numbers X is converted to the set of numbers Y, where each value of X is allocated a value of Y. The set of numbers X is called the defining set, and Y is called the set value of function f. Expression of Functions Functions can be described and written in the most varied of methods, such as: It applies that (A) is possible in the entire defined set, (B) and (C) do not contain the entire set of assigned pairs f, and (D) fails with functions explaining the actual content or which were attained using abstraction. The table of values should display all observed The units on the coordinate axes are chosen according to the defined and function sets. Basic Functions / Inverse Functions Functions can be inversible if each parallel of axis X intersects at most once with the function graph. By switching the x and y of each function, we attain an inverse function which can also be explained in a graph. The inverse function of function f is labelled as f-1, which we attain by solving the function with an equation for x and after switching the values of x and y. From the function y = f(x) = 2x – 4, their inversion to the inverse function generates: y = 2x – 4 y + 4 = 2x 1/2 . (y + 4) = x the inverse function -1 (y) = ˝ (y + 4) However, because an argument is usually written like x, we get: -1 (x) = ˝ (x + 4) If some function in its defined set is strictly monotonic, then it is also inversible. An inversible function is one which has an unequivocal inverse assignment, which means that not only some definite y value can be assigned to each value of x but that some definite value of x can be assigned to each value of y. The defined set of function f is the set of values of the inverse function and the contrary. The graph of inverse f-1 functions can be attained by depicting the function f graph on a y=x coordinate. Translating Dutch Hungarian Translations Hungarian Dutch Translating Swedish Czech Translations Czech Swedish Translating Russian Translation Agency \| Email US \| Resources \| Translation Jobs Translation Agencies \| World Languages \| Translation Tips \| Translation Services Copyright © KENAX, by Karel Kosman - All Rights Reserved Worldwide.
It's taken 2 wars, a financial collapse, 8 years of Bush, and a breakdown of Religious tolerance, but the hard times have finally gotten an answer from someone who can speak to the younger generations. John Legend and The Roots new album "Wake Up!" was just playing full blast in my car after making the impulse buy at Starbucks, and I almost cried with happiness as each song went by. The opening song is called "Hard Times." Perfect beginning. These are hard times. Everything we have been taught about American prosperity is being challenged by our current reality. The second track, "Compared to What" is a 60's anti-war song that can easily be applied to our current situation. The third track, the most moving and inspirational, is called "Wake Up Everybody" a remake of the tune by Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes has a verse that touches my heart especially: "Wake up all the teachers, time to teach a new way. Maybe then they'll listen to what you have to say. Cause they're the ones who are comin' up and the world is in their hands. So when you teach the children, teach them the very best you can." I won't go through the whole album, but let me just mention the 4th track, "Our Generation (The Hope of the World)" This song demands that the young people who grew up after the passing of the Civil Rights era (that means YOU Generations X, Y, and Millenials) wake up and do something about this situation we are in! As the songs says,"Our Generation, it's all left up to us. Let's straighten it out!" I just can't express how excited I am to see an empowering, world-changing album put out by a famous, relevant and current musician who young generations will listen to. Please go out and buy this album. Or burn a copy. Or listen here. Maybe this will be the chance to get another musical revolution going. Let's change the world.
Author Tags: 1900-1950, Poetry Reverend Percy Willis published a booklet of poems to raise funds for missionary work along the west coast of Vancouver Island. It was called Rambling Rhymes from the Graveyard (Port Alberni: West Coast Printers, 1933). The area known as the 'Graveyard of the Pacific' gave rise to the West Coast Trail. [BCBW 2004] "Poetry" "1900-1950"
Fears of the H1N1 virus have prompted renewed interest in companies' sick leave policies, with many saying they don't have the sick days they need should the virus, commonly known as the swine flu, strike. But a number of Americans have shared a different concern with ABCNews.com: their sick co-workers are choosing not to stay home. Instead of taking the sick days they're entitled to, they're coming in to work anyway, readers told us, and putting their fellow officemates at risk. "The people I work with could care less if they make someone sick," said Rena McVey, of Wathena, Kan., in a message to ABCNews.com. "They come to work running fevers and vomiting. Several of them think H1N1 is a joke." McVey may have good reason to be concerned. Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease specialist and and the chairman of the Department of Preventive Medicine at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, says that whether you have the flu or the common cold, you are most likely to spread the illness to others on the first two days you feel ill -- that's why, Schaffner said, you should stay home. (Those who are careful once they know they're sick can still unwittingly infect their co-workers and others: Schaffner said that cold and flu sufferers are also highly likely to spread germs on the day before their symptoms surface.) Schaffner said that, despite the risk of infection, it's common for people to come to work ill, even among hospital workers. "There's this certain macho quality -- 'I'm essential. I'm doing important things. We're tough and strong so we go to work despite all hazards,'" he said. ABCNews.com readers apparently have encountered no shortage of these "macho" types and some are going to extremes to protect themselves. Below, you'll find their stories along with insights from Schaffer on staying healthy even when your co-workers aren't. The "Sissy" Mask My husband works in a large office environment. The first case of confirmed H1N1 occurred about two weeks ago and it has been spreading at the rate of about one new case every three days. These people are coming to work while ill. (They're) not returning to work too soon -- actually coming to work while actively ill. No one in management has been stopping them; in fact, they've been condoning it. My husband was sent to work on a project with someone over the weekend. This person showed up obviously ill. My husband immediately left to get N95 masks and hand sanitizer, which the ill person refused to use (but my husband did). Later, another person showed up and also refused to use any protection. A few days later he came to work sick and exposed others. My husband has explained to these people that our whole family is at risk. I have asthma and a heart problem. My son has asthma which becomes severe when he has a respiratory infection. I have a disabled daughter in fragile health with a weak immune system. These people just don't care. (My husband) has been wearing a mask to work because the people sitting around him are sick and they make fun of him. Someone took a mask and wrote "sissy" on it. What kind of a man thinks it is "manly" to put others at risk? If I ever encounter these people, it will be a memorable experience for them, I assure you. -- Sue, town not provided. Schaffner says that there is no data showing that N95 masks -- heavy-duty surgical masks -- actually protect users in community environments. Your best bet, he said, is to keep your distance from your sick colleagues. Close, personal contact is the main way the flu virus is transmitted and just having a conversation with a sick person standing within three to four feet away from you can put you at risk, he said. Phoning In Swine Flu? What I hate is that when colleagues need to use a nearby phone and because mine happens to be convenient or right outside of the conference room, that they think nothing of coming right up to my desk and start picking up my handset. I would prefer if they think about this for a moment -- to perhaps hit the speakerphone on my phone instead of using my handset and passing on any of their germs??!!! Most of the time, it's only as simple as chasing down another colleague who forgot about a meeting in the conference room. But seriously, in this age of H1N1, I seriously have no desire to share my handset with anyone. -- Jeannette Tam, San Francisco Schaffner says that phones and other inanimate objects don't account for a substantial amount of flu transmissions. It can happen, he said, but it's "a byway of transmission, not a highway of transmission …,It's a little like asking me can you walk from New York to San Francisco. The answer is yes, but most of us take planes, busses, cars etc." Schaffner says you should consider gently urging ill co-workers to take a sick day but company leadership, he said, should also encourage sick employees to do the same. In the story below, a man explains how after his own efforts failed, a boss's orders may have been what finally led a sick colleague to go home. Ordered to Get His Temperature Taken A co-worker friend of mine, Ashley, was out on a Wednesday and didn't even call in to let the boss know he was sick. We subsequently found out that he didn't call in because he was so ill. Ashley showed up on Thursday looking like hell. I asked him how he felt, he said terrible. I asked him if he had a fever "yesterday" (and) he said yes. I asked him if he had a fever today, he said "I don't know, I didn't take it." I plead with him to go to the nurses' building and get his temp taken. We work on a campus of 500 and had been instructed not to come to work if we had a fever. I reminded Ashley (that) none of us had access to H1N1 vaccine and that I had a 9 month-old, another co-worker had kids with asthma, and another co-worker's wife was 6 months pregnant. I told him he should leave if he had a fever otherwise no one cared if he stayed. He refused to go get his temperature taken so I emailed our conversation to my manager and asked my manager to insist that he go get his temperature taken. My manager replied and said that Ashley will go get his temperature taken and if he has a fever he will be going home. Ashley never returned. Ashley is a good work friend of mine and thankfully didn't hold a grudge. -- Stacey Sproul, Rockwall, Texas Hand Sanitizer Heaven It is me, myself that is getting paranoid about flu germs and germs in general. My co-workers and myself use sanitizer constantly. We are a team of credit analysts at a leasing company in Mt. Laurel (N.J.). We all have it on our desks and we also have large bottles located all over the office and in the rest rooms. Everyone is constantly putting it on. It starts a chain effect. If one person is putting on hand sanitizer and talking to someone else, that other person starts to put it on. I myself must put it on at least 15 times a day if not more. The skin on my fingers was peeling from too much alcohol. It's made people not just cautious but almost germophobic. … I have antibacterial wipes and sanitizer in car, purse, etc. It's becoming a real job to keep "germ free." -- Ida Bove, Deptford, N.J. We have the full range. Some people who have been sneezing, coughing, not covering their mouth. Others who are not washing their hands after using the facilities. We have had one confirmed H1N1 case in the office. Since then, I am wearing a surgical mask when I have to use the men's room, and using hand sanitizer probably 8 times/day. I also wipe down my cubiclel with wipes, and spray the area with disinfectant spray at the start of each business day. -- Arthur Smith, Worcester, Mass. While, as Schaffer said, the benefits of surgical masks are unclear, both Bove and Smith are smart to use hand sanitizer. But Schaffer also warned that frequent use -- along with frequent handwashing -- can result in dry skin. Schaffer recommends using moisturizing lotion to prevent cracking. Simple lotions you can purchase at any store, especially those with lanolin, should do the trick. Blame It on the Kids Just this morning, it seems like everyone in the office came in with horror stories about their kids being sick. They can't just stop at saying they are sick, they give the details! Makes you feel sick just hearing about it. Then there are the ones that refuse to get their shots and come in sick. It's like they enjoy making everyone else miserable. -- Ellen, Jacksonville, S.C. Schaffer said the main way flu is transmitted is through children, who then spread it to others. "Children are most susceptible because of their close contact. They just interact with each other physically with much closer proximity, they're less hygenic and biologically, they actually shed more virus and they shed virus for a more prolonged period of time than adults." "As we like to joke, children have the distribution franchsie for influenza viruses," he said. "They spread it among themselves and then of course they bring it home and potentially infect parents, family members and visitors."
There's no denying it: things are looking a little better for the economy. More money is coming into the Treasury, the government is spending a little less, the unemployment rate is slowly moving down, and Wall Street is doing great. And the cherry on top: On Thursday, the once-embattled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac announced that they would return a combined $66.4 billion to the U.S. Treasury. "I think it's great news," said Moody's Analytics' chief economist Mark Zandi. "It reflects the steadily improving economy, but also the tax increases and government spending cuts that have been implemented." But good economic news is tantamount to a loosening of the proverbial noose around the necks of Washington lawmakers, potentially postponing a deadline that could force quicker action on some major issues including tax reform and entitlement reform. For their part, Republicans hope that an upcoming debt ceiling fight will force a broader conversation about tax and entitlement reform and additional spending cuts. Democrats have said that the debt ceiling should be raised no matter what, and lawmakers should discuss long-term deficit reduction separately. There's no official date yet for when the Treasury Department will run out of emergency borrowing authority, but the Bi-Partisan Policy Center predicted the added boost of the Fannie-Freddie windfall could push off another debt ceiling fight between the White House and congressional Republicans to October. On May 19, the official debt ceiling would have been reached, but the Treasury Department is expected to employ some financial jujitsu that allows it to pay the bills for some time after that date. With more time, it's almost certain that Congress will do what it has done nearly every time in the past: wait until the last minute to cut a deal. "The pressure to do more deficit reduction is reduced as a result of the better budget picture," Zandi said. "Without that Damocles' sword, it's less likely that policymakers are going to come together and come up with future spending cuts." The slightly rosier forecast stems from a complex combination of rising revenue from higher taxes after January's budget deal, a slow-but-steady economic recovery, and deep automatic spending cuts in military and discretionary spending, known as the "sequester." In a report this week, the Congressional Budget Office said that the federal budget deficit in the last seven months of 2013 is $231 billion less than it was in the same period a year ago, mostly because the government is collecting far more tax revenue after the payroll tax cut and the Bush tax cuts for high income earners were allowed to expire. For the month of April, the government actually ran a surplus of $112 billion. That's right, a surplus. All of that seems to fulfill a prediction made months ago, in January 2013, by a private research firm, Potomac Research. It predicted that economists might end up revising their economic forecasts to show the U.S. debt becoming a smaller and smaller percentage of GDP sooner than anyone thought. That doesn't mean that the country's economic problems are solved, only that the measures Congress has already taken are having some, perhaps moderate, effect. Republicans have made it clear that in exchange for a debt ceiling increase they'll ask for concessions that could jump-start deficit reduction. But with the debt ceiling deadline coming as late as this fall and the deficit getting smaller already, Republicans may hit a wall when it comes to how much they can extract from Democrats in terms of tax or entitlement reforms and spending cuts. Separating the issue of the debt ceiling from reforms, Democrats believe, works to their advantage. "The Republican strategy of holding the economy hostage and trying to push this budget conference to when we have a crisis again is absolutely the wrong approach," said Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., the fourth-highest-ranking Democrat in the Senate, at a press conference this week. "It is not sustainable. It needs to stop. We are ready to sit down, we're ready to negotiate, we're ready to make some tough decisions, we're ready to go to work and in the conference and we see no reason to wait until the next crisis."
Values education: the development and classroom use of an educational programme UNSPECIFIED. (2004) Values education: the development and classroom use of an educational programme. BRITISH EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH JOURNAL, 30 (2). pp. 245-261. ISSN 0141-1926Full text not available from this repository. Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0141192042000195263 The article is concerned with values education in schools in the light of the requirement for schools to provide for the spiritual, moral, cultural and social development of children and in the light of wider discussions regarding 'spirituality' in (post)modern society. The authors focus on Living Values, a programme developed as a way of introducing values-based education to schools as well as to the wider community. They examine both the contents of the programme and the way it reaches schools and is utilized. The authors report on their recent field research carried out in schools and evaluate textual sources. Emerging issues and perspectives, among them the provenance and sponsorship of the programme, are raised. \|Item Type:\|\|Journal Article\| \|Journal or Publication Title:\|\|BRITISH EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH JOURNAL\| \|Official Date:\|\|April 2004\| \|Number of Pages:\|\|17\| \|Page Range:\|\|pp. 245-261\| Actions (login required)
BBC World Service Since 1922, the BBC World Service has been the globe's most comprehensive source for news. No other news source has a network of international correspondents, reporters and producers to rival BBC. When news breaks — anywhere, anytime — BBC is there. BBC is far more than just breaking news, though. It offers a wide variety of information programming, including programs on arts, sports, science and business. Listeners count on BBC to provide superior news and information programming because they know they can trust BBC World Service — the world's most respected news source-- which can be heard extensively on RADIO IQ With BBC News and also on RADIO IQ. Tuesday, April 21, 2015 7:15amAn Indonesian court sentences a US man to 18 years in jail for killing the mother of his girlfriend and hiding her body in a suitcase. Tuesday, April 21, 2015 11:18amPope Francis has accepted the resignation of a Missouri bishop, Robert Finn, who pleaded guilty three years ago to not reporting child abuse by a priest. Tuesday, April 21, 2015 8:27amA judge in New York issues a writ of habeas corpus in a case brought by animal rights activists trying to free two chimpanzees. Tuesday, April 21, 2015 11:26amUS ice cream firm Blue Bell expands a recall to include all of its products owing to potentially lethal bacteria contamination. Monday, April 20, 2015 6:31pmA Utah woman who admitted killing six of her own babies and hiding their bodies in her garage is sentenced to up to life in prison.
Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category Spintronics? Not exactly a new term ’round these parts, but University of Utah physicists are applying it in a unique way that may eventually make TVs look even sharper than they do today. The entity is trumpeting a new “spintronic” organic light-emitting diode (that’s OLED, for short) that’s said to be “cheaper and more environmentally friendly than the kinds of LEDs now used in television and computer displays, lighting, traffic lights and numerous electronic devices.” Z. Valy Vardeny is even going so far as to call it a “completely different technology,” and better still, a prototype has already been made. The professor expects that the newfangled tech — which produces an orange glow today — will be able to product red, blue and white spin OLEDs within a few years. SOURCE via University of Utah Us humans have been quick to embrace digital technology for preserving our memories, but we’ve forgotten that most of our storage won’t last for more than a few decades; when a hard drive loses its magnetism or an optical disc rots, it’s useless. French nuclear waste manager ANDRA wants to make sure that at least some information can survive even if humanity itself is gone — a million or more years, to be exact. By using two fused disk platters made from sapphire with data written in a microscope-readable platinum, the agency hopes to have drives that will keep humming along short of a catastrophe. The current technology wouldn’t hold reams of data — about 80,000 minuscule pages’ worth on two platters — but it could be vital for ANDRA, which wants to warn successive generations (and species) of radioactivity that might last for eons. Even if the institution mostly has that pragmatic purpose in mind, though, it’s acutely aware of the archeological role these €25,000 ($30,598) drives could serve once leaders settle on the final languages and below-ground locations at an unspecified point in the considerably nearer future. We’re just crossing our fingers that our archived internet rants can survive when the inevitable bloody war wipes out humanity and the apes take over. SOURCE via ScienceMag We love WiFi Direct, we do, but there’s no denying the standard has failed to take the world by storm. The WiFi Alliance is going back to the drawing board and looking to streamline its system of connecting devices. A new Wi-Fi Direct Services task group was formed last month, charged with building new tools for helping apps and devices work together. The plan is to have what amounts to a complete revamp of the WiFi Direct standard within 12 to 18 months. One of the keys will be exposing the feature more directly to end users. Often it hides in the background, but the alliance is working on a way for apps to advertise their capabilities to each other and consumers. Developers have also struggled with poorly defined hooks that often lead to incompatible products. Will 2013 finally be the year that WiFi Direct takes off? Who can say. Considering the break-neck pace our technological world moves at, something better may have come along by the time the WiFi Alliance gets its act together. SOURCE via PC World We’ve seen a number of different devices that can harvest energy from various sources, but none quite like this new chip developed by a team of MIT researchers. It’s able to harvest energy from three different sources simultaneously: light, heat and vibrations. The key to that is a sophisticated control system that’s able to rapidly switch between the three sources at all times to prevent any of that energy from going to waste (and not draw too much power itself), with energy from the secondary sources stored in capacitors to be picked up later — as opposed to existing systems that simply switch between sources based on what’s most plentiful. As doctoral student Saurav Bandyopadhyay explains, efficiently managing those disparate sources could be a “big advantage since many of these sources are intermittent and unpredictable,” and it could in turn lead to the chip being used in a range of different applications where batteries or existing energy harvesting methods just aren’t enough: everything from environmental sensors in remote locations to biomedical devices. SOURCE via MIT Booming 64-track soundtrack at the cinema making you yawn? Already jaded about 4K , 3D and high frame-rates? If so, a company called CJ Group out of Korea may be able to blast you from your stupor — it’s bringing so-called 4D to nearly 200 theaters stateside. That extra ‘D’ won’t let you warp spacetime, but instead will bring your other senses into play with seats that move and thump, smells from things like flowers or gunpowder, and artificial wind, rain and lightning. All that extra stimulation could bump the freight of a seat by around eight bucks, and movie house owners will need to shell out half of the $2 million cost to retrofit each salon. But CJ Group claims it’s been hugely popular in markets like Asia and Mexico, so theaters there have quickly recouped the cost. Of course, you wouldn’t want all that strang and durm on certain films, but lots of cinematic squealers could use a good dose of extra lipstick. SOURCE via LA Times In a sign of just how backed up our patent system is, Sony was finally awarded a series of claims for a vein-reading mouse it filed back in January of 2009. The idea is to use an image of the blood vessels in your index finger as an authentication system. But, instead of unlocking a PC, the identity would be associated with a set of preferences — automatically boosting contrast and text size on a screen for the elderly. While the patented claims apply exclusively to computer mice, Sony envisions vein readers everywhere, personalizing and simplifying life for the aging… even in the bathroom. Another embodiment of the system involves scanning a person’s finger as they turn the doorknob to the lavatory. Once authenticated, data is sent to the toilet which automatically lifts the seat, then adjusts the force and angle of the bidet based on your preferences. Once again, Japan proves why its winning the race in toilet technology. SOURCE via USPTO One of the major issues with embedded medical devices is the lack of flexibility in existing electronics. Fortunately, researchers at the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University have developed a new material that can create electronic components capable of stretching to 200 percent of their original size. One of the major obstacles was how stretchable electronics with solid metal parts suffered substantial drops in conductivity but this solution involves a pliable three-dimensional structure made from polymers with ‘pores’. These are then filled with liquid metal which can adjust to substantial size and shape changes, all while maintaining strong conductivity. We’ve embedded a very brief video of the new stretchable material going up against existing solutions after the break. Tired of the year wait (or more) in between new silicon architecture offerings from Chipzilla and AMD? Well, if some Wolfpack researchers have anything to say about it, we’ll measure that wait in months thanks to a new CPU core design tool that automates part of the process. Creating a new CPU core is, on a high level, a two-step procedure. First, the architectural specification is created, which sets the core’s dimensions and arranges its components. That requires some heavy intellectual lifting, and involves teams of engineers to complete. Previously, similar manpower was needed for the second step, where the architecture spec is translated into an implementation design that can be fabricated in a factory. No longer. The aforementioned NC State boffins have come up with a tool that allows engineers to input their architecture specification, and it generates an implementation design that’s used to draw up manufacturing blueprints. The result? Considerable time and manpower savings in creating newly designed CPU cores, which means that all those leaked roadmaps we’re so fond of could be in serious need of revision sometime soon. SOURCE via IEEE Micro Stoked about the gigabit speeds your new 802.11ac WiFi router is pumping out? One group of scientists hailing from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and universities in the US, Israel and China isn’t so impressed, having generated a wireless signal clocking in at 2.56Tbps. Proof of the feat was published in Nature Photonics, which details their use of orbital angular momentum (OAM) to make the magic happen. Current wireless protocols alter the spin angular momentum (SAM) of radio waves to hold info, and by combining both methods the team was able to pack eight data steams into a single signal, resulting in the mouth-watering number noted above. The best part is, applying different levels of OAM twist to SAM-based transmissions theoretically allows an infinite number of streams per signal, meaning seriously increased bandwidth without the need for additional frequency. So far the wireless tests have only been conducted over a measly 1m, but the scientists reckon it’ll work at distances up to 1km and that the concept could also be used to boost speeds in existing fiber-optic cables. As with many scientific advances, it’s unlikely hardware capable of such speeds will be available any time soon, so 802.11ac will have to suffice… for now. SOURCE via Nature Often considered the eventual successor to flash, phase change memory has had a tough time getting to the point where it would truly take over; when it takes longer to write data than conventional RAM, there’s clearly a roadblock. The University of Cambridge has the potential cure through a constant-power trick that primes the needed hybrid of germanium, antimony and tellurium so that it crystalizes much faster, committing data to memory at an equally speedy rate. Sending a steady, weak electric field through the substance lets a write operation go through in just 500 picoseconds; that’s 10 times faster than an earlier development without the antimony or continuous power. Researchers think it could lead to permanent storage that runs at refresh rates of a gigahertz or more. In other words, the kinds of responsiveness that would make solid-state drives break out in a sweat. Any practical use is still some distance off, although avid phase change memory producers like Micron are no doubt champing at the bit for any upgrade they can get. SOURCE via Science Mag
Enhances advertising, editorial, film, video, TV, Websites, and mobile experiences. Meganebashi(眼鏡橋) or Spectacles Bridge, over the Nakashima River (中島川) was built in Nagasaki in 1634 by the Chinese monk Mozi of Kofukuji Temple. It is said to be the oldest stone arch bridgein Japan and has been designated as an Important Cultural Property. It received the nickname "Spectacles Bridge" because its two arches and their reflection in the water create the image of a pair of spectacles. On July 23, 1982, a disastrous deluge washed away six of the ten stone bridges over the Nakashima River. Meganebashi was badly damaged but fortunately almost all the original stones were retrieved and the bridge was restored to its original appearance. The eight islands of Japan sprang into existence through Divine Intervention.The first two gods who came into existence were Izanagi no Mikoto and Izanami no Mikoto, the Exalted Male and Exalted Female. It was their job to make the land for people to live on.They went to the bridge between heaven and earth and, using a jewel-encrusted halberd, Izanagi and Izanami churned up the sea into a frothy foam. As salty drips of water fell from the tip of the halberd the first island was formed. Its name was Onogoro.So far, so good. But when Izanagi and Izanami first met on their island, Izanami spoke to Isanagi without being spoken to first. Since she was the female, and this was improper, their first union created badly-formed offspring who were sent off into the sea in boats.The next time they met, Izanagi was sure to speak first, ensuring the proper rules were followed, and this time they produced eight children, which became the islands of Japan.I'm sure you did not fail to miss the significance of this myth for the establishment of Japanese formal society.At present, Japan is the financial capital of Asia. It has the second largest economy in the world and the largest metropolitan area (Tokyo.)Technically there are three thousand islands making up the Japanese archipelago. Izanagi and Izanami must have been busy little devils with their jewelled halberd...Japan's culture is highly technical and organized. Everything sparkles and swooshes on silent, miniaturized mechanisms.They're a world leader in robotics, and the Japanese have the longest life-expectancy on earth.Text by Steve Smith.
Health prize for Indigenous healers Indigenous healers say governments need to do more to support traditional medicine and partnerships on Indigenous mental health need to be nurtured. Traditional healers, or Ngangkaris, work in Aboriginal communities providing care including for mental health. Ngangkari, Andy Tjilari, says healers work across a wide part of central Australia. "Often sisters and doctors in the clinics of the communities call on our services and we do our best to respond, travelling far and going, but vehicles and funding for Ngungkaris to be involved in that work together is really important for us," he said. Mr Tjilari and colleague Rupert Peters have been awarded the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists' Mark Sheldon Prize. At the College's congress in Adelaide this week, a session is considering Indigenous mental health issues in light of the national apology, the Close The Gap campaign, the emergency response intervention in the Northern Territory and the United Nations declaration on the human rights of Indigenous people.
A new study linking regular aspirin use and age-related vision loss has come under fire by some doctors, who say it jumps to conclusions. The Australian based study, published online January 21 in JAMA Internal Medicine, found one aspirin taken every week led to the development of age-related macular degeneration (AMD). The prospective population-based cohort study followed nearly 2,400 people 45 years and older, over the course of 15 years. Of the 2,400 participants surveyed in the Blue Mountains region of Australia, nearly 11 percent were identified as regular aspirin users and 24 percent developed neovascular wet AMD, the most severe type of vision loss which occurs in approximately 10 percent of all AMD cases. The findings revealed regular aspirin users had a cumulative risk of 9.3%, over 15 years, of developing wet AMD, while non-users only had a 3% risk. The study also accounted for age, sex, weight, blood-pressure, and history of smoking and heart disease. Even after adjusting for those risk factors, researchers still found a heightened risk with taking aspirin. Researchers embarked on the study as a follow-up to the findings of a 2011 European study which found seniors who took a daily aspirin were twice as likely to develop vision loss than those who did not. Some Experts Wary of the Study Findings Doctors Sanjay Kaul and George A. Diamond, co-authors of a commentary based on the Australian study also published in JAMA Internal Medicine, believe the study does not offer enough evidence to support the claim that aspirin leads to vision loss, especially considering aspirin is commonly used to prevent heart attacks and strokes. The doctors feel the study was limited and was not convincing enough to force health care professionals to alter their prescribing habits for aspirin, especially when considering its potential benefits for some patients. In spite of skepticism surrounding the findings of the new research, another recent study also found a link between regular aspirin use and an increased risk of vision problems. The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in December, found users with more than 10 years of aspirin use had a higher risk of developing the eye disease. Experts advise doctors, when deciding to prescribe aspirin or not, to weigh the benefits against the risks and consider a patients medical history before deciding. More than 100 billion aspirin tablets are consumed every year and nearly 43 million Americans use aspirin every day or every other day. Age-related macular degeneration is the leading cause of blindness in elderly people, who also use aspirin at a higher rate than those younger than 65 years of age.
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Dealing with the emotional and practical aspects of cancer can be challenging. The tools listed in this section are meant to help you address some everyday issues that may seem overwhelming. These advocacy organizations have a wealth of available information, including dictionaries, toll-free hotlines, and frequently asked questions to support the advanced breast cancer community. Organizations outside the US can be found here. Advocacy Organizations in the United States - AdvancedBC.org – Metastatic breast cancer information and support for patients, family members, and friends. - Breastcancer.org – Your lifeline to information about breast cancer. - BreastCancerTrials.org – BCT is a nonprofit service that encourages individuals affected by breast cancer to consider clinical trials as a routine option for care. - The Breast Cancer Research Foundation – BCRF is determined to achieve prevention and a cure for breast cancer in our lifetime by providing critical funding for innovative clinical and translational research at leading medical centers worldwide and increasing public awareness about good breast health. - CancerCare – CancerCare offers limited financial assistance, educational programs, publications, and online and telephone support groups without cost. - Cancer Hope Network – Cancer Hope Network provides free and confidential one-on-one support to cancer patients and/or their family members. - Cancer Support Community (CSC) – In July 2009, The Wellness Community and Gilda's Club Worldwide joined forces to become the Cancer Support Community. By helping to complete the cancer care plan, CSC optimizes patient care by providing essential, but often overlooked, services including support groups, counseling, education, and healthy lifestyle programs. Today, CSC provides the highest quality emotional and social support through a network of more than 56 local affiliates, 100 satellite locations, and online. - The IBC Network Foundation – The IBC Network Foundation was founded to encourage inflammatory breast cancer education and research. - Living Beyond Breast Cancer (LBBC) – Empowering all women affected by breast cancer to live as long as possible with the best quality of life. Educational programs and support services include lbbc.org, the LBBC Survivors' Helpline (available at 888-753-5222), the Understanding Breast Cancer guide series, national conferences, free teleconferences, quarterly newsletters, publications for medically underserved women, healthcare provider trainings, and an extensive program archive. - Men Against Breast Cancer (MABC) – Men Against Breast Cancer is the nation's first and only national 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization designed to provide targeted support services that educate and empower men to be effective caregivers when breast cancer strikes a female loved one. We help men be there for the women they love. Since our founding in 1999, MABC has mobilized men across America, including underserved populations, to be active participants in the fight against breast cancer. Our philosophy is to leverage the support of the whole family to help the patient and the family navigate the crisis of breast cancer. - Metastatic Breast Cancer Network (MBCN) – A national, patient-led organization that provides information and education to women and men living with metastatic breast cancer and their caregivers. MBCN works to end the isolation of those with metastatic disease and offers strategies for those living with the disease through information on their website (mbcn.org) and by hosting an annual National Metastatic Breast Cancer Conference. MBCN is fighting for more treatments to extend life and make metastatic breast cancer a truly chronic disease. - METAvivor Research and Support – From support groups to funding vital research, our programs sustain the power of hope. Passionately committed patients ourselves, we rally public attention to the urgent needs of the metastatic breast cancer community, help patients find strength through support and purpose, and make every dollar count as we work with researchers to regain longevity with quality of life. Regardless of where you are in your journey, we can assure you we've been there too. Reach out to us. We are here for you. - *SHARE – SHARE supports, educates, and empowers people affected by breast or ovarian cancer, with services specifically targeted to those living with metastatic disease. We help people face their feelings and fears, communicate effectively with their doctors, and make informed decisions about their health. All of SHARE's services are free of charge, confidential, and provided by people living with these diseases. - Sharsheret – Sharsheret supports Jewish women and families facing breast cancer nationwide. Sharsheret's Embrace program for women living with advanced breast cancer offers individual counseling sessions by phone, a telephone-based support group connecting women with healthcare professionals and with each other, and resources specific to women living with advanced breast cancer. - Sisters' Network – Committed to increasing local and national attention to the devastating impact that breast cancer has in the African-American community. - Susan G. Komen for the Cure © – Dedicated to saving lives and ending breast cancer forever by empowering people, ensuring quality care for all, and energizing science to find the cure. - Young Survival Coalition – Premier international, nonprofit network of breast cancer survivors and supporters dedicated to the concerns and issues that are unique to young women and breast cancer. Advocacy Organizations outside of the United States
The recent Federal Court decision on the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s attempt to block The end of round one of a nine-month heavyweight title bout over the bid by Metcash (Australia’s largest independent grocery, fresh produce and liquor wholesaler and distributor) to buy Franklins’ 80 corporate supermarkets and 10 franchised stores from Pick ‘n’ Pay last year will result in the ACCC fine-tuning its merger review process. This will likely include giving acquirers greater visibility of the evidence the ACCC is relying on when it proposes to block a deal. The ACCC jumped into the red corner when in November 2010 it announced that it would oppose the deal, as it said the deal would substantially lessen competition in the market for wholesale groceries in NSW and the ACT. Metcash, stepping into the blue corner, said that this market definition was too narrow and not supported by previous decisions of the Australian Competition Tribunal and the Federal Court which, in the context of deals involving Davids independent wholesalers and QIW, had found a wider national retail grocery market, which included wholesalers. Metcash flagged that it intended to proceed with the deal. This prompted the ACCC to come out swinging, seeking an injunction from the Federal Court to stop the deal permanently. The definition of market is important in these cases – the narrower the market, the more likely the proposed merger will have the effect of substantially lessening competition in that market. If the relevant market is broader, it is more likely that there will be a wider group of competitors and no substantial lessening of competition in that market. Another feature of the analysis in merger cases is the “counterfactual" that the ACCC puts up. This is essentially the ACCC’s view as to what the alternative outcome would be without the proposed merger. If the ACCC’s counterfactual would produce a substantially better outcome for competition than the proposed merger it is reviewing, the ACCC will block the proposed merger. When Justice Arthur Emmett rang the bell on the first round late last week the ACCC was on the canvas. His Honour decided that there is a national market for retail groceries, and rejected the ACCC’s contention that there was a separate narrow market for wholesale groceries in NSW and the ACT where the only substantial competitors were Metcash and Franklins. This meant that the proposed transaction was not seen as a merger to near monopoly. Essentially, the court found that the ACCC’s definition of the market was too narrow. It rejected the ACCC’s counterfactual by finding that it wasn’t likely that there were viable bidders, as alternatives to Metcash, which would have been acceptable to Pick ‘n’ Pay. It remains to be seen whether ACCC chairman The fallout of this result is worth following for a number of reasons, not the least of which being that decisions on a dispute over a merger review don’t often make it to court. Normally, the ACCC refusing informal merger clearance is a knockout punch to a bid, as a seller won’t (and generally can’t) wait nine months (unlike Metcash) for the ACCC and the bidder to slug out their issues. In the usual course, transactions just won’t bear that kind of delay and uncertainty and the vendor will usually take a hit on price and accept the offer from the second-highest bidder. Additionally, the court’s consideration of the grocery market as a whole indicates a willingness to take a holistic and pragmatic view of the commercial realities of a market, rather than the narrow view sometimes put up by the ACCC. No doubt there will be more than one or two interested players who will look at this decision and how it may affect any merger clearance they may have on the boil. The decision is also interesting because of what was said about the counterfactual. Transaction parties often complain that the ACCC’s counterfactuals turn on events that are divorced from commercial realities. The counterfactual in this case did not find much favour. Indeed, the court noted that there was nothing stopping Metcash from purchasing the stores one by one if the bid was blocked. The proposition that there could be a binding offer from a third party was dismissed as “pure speculation". With no alternate bidder emerging, making the counterfactual stick was always going to be a difficult job – here the counterfactual could be assessed with hindsight – as no counterbidder emerged during the lengthy period of the court case. While it is easy to get caught up in the fallout of a fight like this, it is important to keep our wits. First, this won’t blow open the Australian mergers and acquisitions market. As has been rightly pointed out, these types of issues only apply to a small number of transactions (usually, as in AGL and Loy Yang A in 2003, when there are no alternative bidders), and the outcome here won’t stop the ACCC blocking proposed mergers. Rather, it may make the ACCC conduct a more in-depth analysis of markets and the actual effect that refusing a transaction will have on a market, leading to more onerous applications and longer approval times. Second, we cannot understate the importance of trips into the ring for the ACCC. The ACCC needs to be able to test its view on the definition of markets and the bounds of its powers in the merger regulation space. This helps the ACCC to better understand which fights it can win and which to pass on. So the ACCC will chance its arm on fights like this from time to time to have the courts determine where the limits lie. In the words of Muhammad Ali: “Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even." No doubt the ACCC will look deep and see whether it can find that extra ounce. The authors are partners at Mallesons Stephen Jaques. More of their columns are available here The Australian Financial Review
The US Grains Council called on Beijing to approve a Syngenta genetically modified corn trait after China raised its barriers against the seed, at the centre of a trade storm, demanding "impossible" import Tom Sleight, chief executive of the council, which promotes US grain exports, said it was "time for China to look at and approve this trait", known as MIR 162, and is included in Syngenta's Viptera brand seed. Although MIR 162 has been approved in "all importing countries, including the European Union, for quite some time", and was cleared by the US four years ago, Beijing authorities have stalled over a decision on the trait, which is claimed to offer resistance against insect pests such as This has led to Chinese authorities rejecting a series of cargos of imported corn, and the distillers' grains (DDGs) feed ingredient derived from the grain, for fear of containing MIR 162. The curbs escalated this week with a demand by Chinese import inspection authority, AQSIQ, for certificates assuring that US cargos of distillers' grains are free of MIR 162 – a request the council has termed impossible to "China is asking for something that cannot be done. This certificate they're asking for does not exist," Mr Sleight said. "The lack of approval of MIR 162 is becoming an undue impediment on trade." Indeed, China's move is seen by many observers as representing, in effect, a ban on imports of US distillers' grains, a high protein feed ingredient, often used as an alternative to soymeal. "I don't expect to see the APHIS [trade inspection] arm of the US Department of Agriculture certifying shipments of any product, especially with a 0% tolerance," Brian Henry at Benson Quinn Commodities said. "We do not believe the USDA grain inspection service will comply," said Richard Feltes at RJ O'Brien. At Iowa-based broker Market 1, Mike Mawdsley said that US certification, "isn't going to happen, thus Chinese authorities have basically embargoed our DDGs". A halt to US distillers' grains exports on this route would be a significant threat, given that China had become the top buyer, overtaking Mexico in 2012, and accounting for 46% of America's foreign shipments last The US-based National Grain and Feed Association in April estimated at $2.9bn the loss in2013-14 to the US corn industry from the MIR 162 trade curbs, estimated to have depressed prices of the grain by $0.11 a bushel. The National Grain and Feed Association urged Syngenta to mothball seed containing the disputed trait until it had been approved by China. Michael Mack, the Syngenta chief executive, said earlier this week that the group did not have approval "in hand and I wouldn't want to say any more about when we might have it in hand". He said that "the delays coming out of China are such that people just aren't really understanding right now even what the process is". However, there was "no technical question right now waiting from the Chinese" about the trait. Mr Mack said that Syngenta sales of Viptera were "principally unchanged" despite the furore, but acknowledged that they might have fared better if Chinese approval had been gained. "Did it have an impact on our sales? I suspect it had an impact on our sales growth, yes, I do," he told investors. "But it certainly has not had an impact that a number of people had feared when this thing came into the forefront in January."
Submitted by Tom Peters on August 11, 2007 - 10:20pm The dog days of August 2007 may be remembered as that magic moment when librarianship as practiced in Second Life finally received permission to dine at the adults' table. On August 3rd the Library of Congress announced a new initiative -- Preserving Creative America. They made eight grant awards totally $2.15 million "...to address the long-term preservation of creative content in digital form." The creative content being targeted includes the usual suspects, such as digitally created motion pictures, digital music, and digital photographs, but it also includes comic strips (Doonesbury) and editorial cartoons (Pat Oliphant) -- which I assume were not born digital, but perhaps I'm just revealing my quaint, old-fashioned notions of how cartoons are drawn these days. Read More » Submitted by Jenny Levine on August 8, 2007 - 2:39pm Submitted by Michael Stephens on July 28, 2007 - 2:24am I keep my eye on many innovative libraries. These libraries are at the outer edge of our market, leading the way with new takes on service and outreach. They inspire me. They also help me do my job. I love to see what Hennepin is doing, and what Darien will do as they build their new library, as well as many other libraries across the country and around the world. And I'm also keeping a close eye on the state of South Carolina. If there ever was a state filled with library goodness, it would be there. Here are just a few reasons why: Read More » Submitted by Michelle Boule on July 24, 2007 - 11:31am The picture at the top of this post is from the game night at the Gaming, Learning, and Libraries Symposium. These librarians are playing Wii Tennis and being coached by Giz Womack. The gaming night, which happened the first night of the conference, helped define the atmosphere that made this conference different. This was a symposium about games. Games mean play and there was an atmosphere of play to everything. There were three keynotes on Sunday and every speaker talked about the transformative power of games. We spent all afternoon soaking up knowledge from people thinking big things about games and then we were set loose on the games themselves. Read More » Submitted by Tom Peters on July 23, 2007 - 8:09am On the first day of the first ever ALA TechSource Gaming, Learning, and Libraries Symposium in Chicago yesterday, Scott Nicholson from the Library Game Lab at Syracuse University released a report on The Role of Gaming in Libraries: Taking the Pulse. It's already available online as a PDF file. Games are big business. Nicholson's report cites an industry report indicating that sales of games have outpaced motion picture box office sales and should surpass music sales in the near future. Read More » Submitted by Michael Stephens on June 29, 2007 - 1:12pm Submitted by Tom Peters on June 28, 2007 - 11:48pm The ALA Annual Conference in DC, which just ended, was another energizing, informative event. In a forthcoming post I will summarize the more substantial sessions and issues that came to my attention. However, in the spirit of the adage, "Life's uncertain; eat dessert first," I would like to share with you the most fun I had at ALA in DC. Vendor receptions are a time-honored event at these conferences, and the protocol is well-established: Read More » Submitted by Karen G. Schneider on June 21, 2007 - 10:30pm (If you're at ALA Annual Conference/>/> while you're reading this, the RDA Update Forum is Saturday, June 23, 4:00-5:30 at WCC 206.) Read More »
ALICE LATIMER MOSELEY Nationally Acclaimed Folk Artist Miss Alice, as she was referred to by friends and admirers, was a self-taught idyllic folk artist, who began painting at age 60 to maintain her sanity while caring for her Alzheimer-afflicted mother. Before that, she had only dabbled in china painting during her teens. “If my Mom had not been ill, I never would’ve painted,” Miss Alice once said. “I think of it as her gift to me.” Alice Latimer Moseley was born in Birmingham, Alabama on December 21, 1909, the oldest daughter of Earl and Mildred Latimer. After graduating Ensley High School, Miss Alice attended the University of Alabama until her father’s death in 1929.Miss Alice’s love arrived thereafter – William Jones “Moses” Moseley. Soon after the married, the newlyweds moved to Mose’s hometown of Batesville, Mississippi, a place captured in several of Miss Alice’s paintings. After their son, Tim, was born, the family moved to Memphis. During this time, Miss Alice earned her teaching permit and began substitute teaching while earning her Bachelors in Education. She taught English at Whitehaven High School and then, Oakhaven High. Eventually, Miss Alice would earn her Masters at Memphis State University, now the University of Memphis. In the late 1960s is when Miss Alice’s mother came to live with them in Batesville. With determination and strength, Miss Alice continued to teach in the classroom and care for her Alzheimer-afflicted mother at night. To alleviate the depression and stress, Alice returned to painting. After her mother died, Miss Alice began taking her paintings to art shows and flea markets. As her son, Tim Moseley, an antique collector and dealer recalls… Back around 1970, I was going to the flea market in Nashville, Tennessee and talked my mom into taking her paintings. She reluctantly agreed. I rented her a stall and helped her hang the first 30 paintings that she had painted. I then resumed my search for antique bargains. When I returned an hour later, Mom was in an empty stall holding a $1,350 check. “He bought them all, he bought them all,” Mom excitedly told me. A Mr. Barr from Kentucky had indeed bought them all for $45 apiece. That was the day when Alice Moseley, retired schoolteacher, became Alice Moseley, Professional Artist. Mose also retired and they moved to Enid Lake, living in a tenant shack that once had been at graceland. Vernon Presley, who was a neighbor in Memphis, gave it to Mose, who disassembled it log by log, and reassembled it at Plum Point. Miss Alice enjoyed telling her interviewers how she knew Elvis Presley. One of her favorite conversations with him was when Elvis told her he liked to go to the school for the deaf in Jackson, Mississippi and sing and play for the kids. “But Elvis, they can’t hear you.” “Oh,” remarked Elvis. “They somehow feel the beat. Those little feet pat out the rhythm.” Around 1977, Mose showed Miss Alice’s paintings to a movie theater owner in Whitehaven. He took some of her paintings and in one evening sold them all. After this, her art began to gain in popularity and she realized “maybe I had something really going for me.” In the spring of 1978, Mose died of a heart attack but Miss Alice had her work to keep her busy. She was now traveling with other artists and earning prizes for her work. It was in 1988 that Bay St. Louis had a chance to charm Miss Alice. She had received invitations to five art shows in various cities. She couldn’t decide so she asked her assistant, Kathryn Lloyd to randomly select. Kathryn chose the Beach Front Festival in Bay St. Louis. While driving over the Bay Bridge, Miss Alice said to herself, “this is it. This is where I’ll spend the rest of my life.” She was 79 at the time of her move. She captured Bay St. Louis in several of her paintings and one gift hung in City Hall for several years. Hundreds of tourists came to her home and studio to visit a spell. On July 9, 2004, Miss Alice passed at the age of 94. Approximately 200 people attended the planned memorial service under the big oak tree on the lawn of the depot. A tree that still stands in front of the depot and her Museum today.
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The scope of these guidelines covers the provision of mental health services provided by a licensed healthcare professional when using real-time videoconferencing services transmitted via the Internet. Other certified professionals may take guidance from these guidelines, but the current version targets the practice of behavioral health by licensed healthcare professionals. The guidelines pertain to telemental health conducted between two parties, and do not address concerns related to multipoint videoconferencing. These guidelines include telemental health services when the initiating, receiving, or both sites are using a personal computer with a webcam or a mobile communications device (e.g., “smart phone”, laptop, or tablet) with two-way camera capability. These guidelines do not address communications between professionals and clients or patients via texting, e-mail, chatting, social network sites, online “coaching” or other non-mental health services. This document contains requirements, recommendations, or actions that are identified by text containing the keywords “shall,” “should,” or “may.” “Shall” indicates a required action whenever feasible and practical under local conditions. These indications are found in bold throughout the document. “Should” indicates an optimal recommended action that is particularly suitable, without mentioning or excluding others. “May” indicates additional points that may be considered to further optimize the telemental healthcare process.
The impact that an exhausted oil supply would have on our lifestyle largely depends on our ability to rely on alternative sources of energy. For example, even though solar energy is largely becoming a popular method of creating a renewable source of power, the unreliable nature of the weather and the limited amounts of electricity that solar technology can produce are setbacks that scientists face at present. As you can imagine, transportation would be the main area that would be affected through a shortage in oil, and this is because this valuable commodity is refined in order to make the petrol we use to fuel our cars. It’s also worthwhile to note the financial impact that it could have on our lifestyle. At the moment, although fuel prices are high, electricity prices are relatively modest. However, have you ever considered what an upsurge in demand for electricity would mean for the prices that are levied onto us by energy companies? From an economics perspective, if demand for electricity outstrips supply, prices will continue to rise and this could mean that we will be more selective over watching the TV, surfing the Internet or having lights on in the house. We could develop a mentality that unless we absolutely need it, electricity can be too expensive for us to use in our everyday lives. Oil supplies aren’t expected to become exhausted for years to come, so we shouldn’t worry too much at the moment. By the time that this form of non-renewable energy begins to diminish, we will have new alternatives to rely on to bring us into the future.
• Illustrates data relevance • Focuses on areas of complaints/defects • User Friendly • Clearly illustrates improvement possibilities A Pareto diagram is a bar graph in which the highest values are displayed on the left and decrease as the representations move to the right. The arrangement of the vertical bars gives a visual indication of the relative frequency of the contributing causes of the problem with each bar representing one cause (McLaughlin, pp. 117). These diagrams are most effective illustration the areas that are most vital and detect the most complaints within an organization. These charts use bars as well as line graphs to display either the positive or the negative things that are recorded so the organization can improve the problem areas. Pareto Chart/diagram, named after an economist Vilfredo Pareto, uses the concepts of “Pareto’s Law” applying the logic that the “vital few” causes account for most of the defects, while the “useful many” account for a much smaller portion of the defect (McLaughlin, pp. 117). The benefit of using a Pareto Chart, when appropriate for quality control is that is helps an organization visualize the areas that corrective action needs to be implemented to improve processes within the organization. Pareto charts allow for a visual of the difference between groups of data, clearly displaying where improvements need to be made. These charts are beneficial because of their visual simplicity and their ability to be used on a daily basis. Another reason these are so popular and user-friendly is that programs like Microsoft Excel works incredibly well to produce quality charts with the information provided. A Pareto chart can not only be used to help solve existing issues within an organization, but also to prevent future issues. electronic health record (EHR) is a digital record of a patient’s health history that is built up from multiple health visits. The EHR contains the...
View Full Version : Chocolate rabbit snail shells 08-25-2011, 06:09 PM I like chocolate rabbit snails, but I question their shell. It looks like the shells may actually be worn away, almost sandblasted, which gives them them lighter color. I've seen pics of baby chocolates with plain brown, smooth shells. Is this the case? Or do they end up getting the lighter color shells as they age? 08-25-2011, 07:54 PM The chocolate rabbit snails that you can buy as adults are wild-caught from Lake Poso, Sulawesi, Indonesia. The light color that you see on the shell is a sandy coating. It is either something they pick up from minerals in the water or something from the lake bottom. When they give birth to young, the baby snails have either a dark brown shell or a tan shell that lacks the sandy coating. After the wild-caught adults have been in your tank for a while, the sandy coating on their shells starts to wear off. It seems like they keep the coating for longer when in water with a higher pH, but I am not sure about this. Sometimes with two of these snails in the same tank, one will lose the coating quickly, while the other will keep it for a long time. I have also seen this light sandy coating on shells of other species of rabbit snails from Lake Poso. The orange rabbit snail from Lake Poso (the smaller species, not the Poso Orange) sometimes has this coating on it's shell as well. Powered by vBulletin® Version 4.2.2 Copyright © 2015 vBulletin Solutions, Inc. All rights reserved.

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