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What is HTML? The abbreviation HTML stands for HyperText Mark-up Language, and is the name for the language containing the commands that can be included in a text file to instruct an Internet browser how to display text, images and other web page elements. The two most used browsers are Microsoft Internet Explorer and Firefox. They are both just as good at displaying web pages, but they each have additional features that may make one or the other more suitable. There are other web browsers available free. The principal advantages of HTML is that it has been designed to work on different platforms (Windows, Mac etc.) and it allows you to include hyperlinks to other documents on any web site. It is easy to use and of course allows access and exchange of information worldwide. The flexibility of HTML means that slight variations in the way that different browsers interpret the code can lead to pages displaying differently. HTML code is accessible to anyone who is browsing a web site, so it is very easy for people to poach your work, and copy your text and images. Some desktop publishing packages have web conversion utilities. If you have Microsoft Word you can create web pages using the Word Web Authoring update (see your Word Help menu). But you can create the code manually with Microsoft "Notepad" or the Mac "Simple Text" program. If you are using Netscape Navigator browser you will find Netscape Composer included. No matter how you decide to write your web page you should still find this information useful. - There is more information about some popular HTML editing software. Conventional HTML pages can not be read by most mobile device mini-browsers in mobile phones and PDA's, they need pages written following the Wireless Access Protocol Throughout this web site a few conventions are used to help make the information easier to read: - HTML tags are shown in this typeface: <html>. - Examples of code are shown in a box like this: <tag attribute="value">Visible text</tag> - A row of dots like this: ... signifies that something else may be added or has been omitted for clarity. - Text shown like this: example is to highlight an HTML code attribute or other special word. You can follow the topics in order using the links in the left margin, and navigate between pages in each topic using the links at the top of each page. To give you a head start there are some simple web page templates that have the basic items already typed in. Information and links concerning products and services are given in good faith. Inclusion of any product does not imply any form of endorsement. Opinions expressed about any product are based on my own experience, but your view may differ. Many of the external links were verified on 3 October 2007, however if you do find a broken link you are welcome to e-mail me.
A group of scientists have created a new synthesized particle in the laboratory that is able to act in a lifelike way. The researchers are quick to say that particles aren't truly alive, but they are able to behave in lifelike ways when exposed to light and fed by chemicals. When exposed to light and fed by chemicals the crystals are able to move, clump together, break apart, and reform. Biophysicist Jérémie Palacci of New York University says that the line between active and alive is very blurry. Palacci and another New York University physicist Paul Chaikin are leading a group of researchers to develop the particles described as "living crystals" under the right conditions. The research being conducted by the team is in self-organizing collective behaviors. The researchers say that studying these collective behaviors is easier in a controlled particle form than trying to study living creature such as schooling fish or flocking birds. Each of the tiny crystals is made from a cube of hematite, which is a compound made of iron and oxygen, covered in a spherical polymer coat. One corner of the hematite is left exposed. When the particle is exposed to certain wavelengths of blue light, the hematite is able to conduct electricity. When those particles are placed in a hydrogen peroxide bath and the correct wavelength of blue light is shined on them, chemical reactions catalyze around the single exposed tip. Then as the hydrogen peroxide breaks down, the scientists say concentration gradients form. Random forces then pull the crystals apart, but the crystals eventually merge again. This process doesn't stop until the blue light is turned off.
Because the 12 women represent a class of female Novartis employees, now 5,588 other female employees of the maker of Ex-Lax, Bufferin, and NoDoz can apply for damages. With up to 2.6 percent of the Swiss company's 2009 revenue at stake, the decision is a serious warning to employers of the potential costs of operating like an old-boys' club. Novartis isn't alone in having serious dissonance between its official policies and the experiences of its female workers. Thirty-six companies that have been on Working Mother's 100 Best Companies list have faced "family responsibilities discrimination" suits filed by employees who are pregnant or care for young children, sick family members, or aging parents, according to Calvert. Plaintiffs prevailed in 15 of those cases, including in suits against Deloitte & Touche and Ernst & Young, two accounting firms often heralded for their efforts to retain women by instituting family-friendly policies. In many ways, Novartis fits right in with patterns observed in this emerging legal area. With more than 2100 family responsibilities discrimination cases having taken place so far, lawyers in the field have begun to make classifications among them, coining terms like "maternal wall discrimination" to describe cases involving working mothers, "new supervisor syndrome," in which a working parent doesn't run into trouble until a new boss comes along, or "second child bias." (Ditto, except it's a second baby that comes along.) Even the abortion comment can be seen as part of a trend, since at least seven of these suits have involved employers encouraging female workers to abort. This behavior isn't new, of course. But the fact that that mothers and other caregivers are increasingly filing—and winning—suits against employers is new. Such cases having increased almost 400 percent over the past decade. Among more than 2,100 suits tracked by the Center for WorkLife Law, the employee either won or reached a favorable settlement in more than half (a rate that's higher than in other kinds of employment cases). That's good news, and this latest victory will stand as a warning to companies. Still, the decision is only part of what will probably be a long process of combating discrimination in the workplace. For now, Novartis is planning to appeal the ruling, while Working Mother is considering whether to bar the pharmaceutical company from its list. Working Mother's Evans says her company is not planning on changing the methodology it uses to compile its list, though, because it's succeeded in getting companies to compete with one another to be family-friendlier. Perhaps so. But if this is what it's like to work for one of our country's 100 best companies for working mothers, one shudders to imagine what it'd be like to work for one of the worst.
The LDS Church has continued to call about 1,400 new missionaries a week, which is double the number the Utah-based faith was seeing before October 2012, when it lowered the minimum missionary age from 19 to 18 for males and 21 to 19 for females. Currently, there are 64,373 missionaries, according to a release from the LDS Church late Wednesday. That’s about 9,000 higher than it was before the announcement. If the applications continue at this clip, the church could have more than 70,000 missionaries in 2013. The Utah-based faith could also see an almost equal gender distribution among missionaries, dramatically different than the previous ratio of 80 percent men to 20 percent women. For calls made since Jan. 1, the church reported 57 percent are elders (young men), 36 percent are sisters (young women) and 7 percent are seniors (retired couples). Peggy Fletcher Stack
Originally Posted by ruslan. I've been trying to do spins lately, and things havent been going well. I know how to do them, I just can't. I seem to freeze up while in the air, or can't finish the turn. This happens a lot when I try to 180 off boxes and such (even though I can easily just air to fakie on the snow), but I can more or less control the 180. Any tips? It sounds like you're not entering the aerial with enough spin. The 2 basic ways to 180 is via rotation and via counter-rotation. You body in the air can't spin by itself. So it needs help. Rotation - you INITIATE the spin while you're still on the ground. With proper timing, your body will rotate 180 while you're in the air before you land. Counter-Rotation - you twist your body and arms arround 90 degrees before the air. While in the air, you release the twist 180 in the opposite direction...and your board will rotate opposite of that 180. This applies the Law of Conservation of Momentum. Because your top mass rotates 180 while your bottom mass rotates -180. Actually, that's simplified for understanding, but it really depends on your specific upper body how much you have to rotate to get the bottom half to rotate -180. When you're good enough, you can mix both techniques while in the air to make it more acurate or perform this trick called a "Shiftie".
Select an Issue A wastewater opportunity Elizabeth Heidrich, Jan Dolfing and Tom Curtis, A recent study1 found that the energy contained in a sample of UK domestic wastewater was 7.6kJ/L. With over 11bn litres of wastewater being treated every day in the UK, including human toilet waste, sink and bathroom effluent and rainwater entering drains, the annual energy from domestic wastewater alone is 30 terajoules (TJ) – more than 5m barrels of oil equivalent. When agricultural and industrial wastewater is considered, the size of this resource is even more substantial. The wastewater or effluent from the UK’s 1.85m cows, for example, is a further 5TJ alone. If we found a new oil field of this size, we would not ignore it because it smelt bad, let alone spend energy trying to get rid of it. However, the process of extracting energy from wastewater is not simple. Wastewater is predominantly water and the energy costs of dewatering would be vast, ruling out traditional combustion processes. It is also highly complex and variable in composition, changing not only from one place to another, but also from one hour to the next. Current methods of treatment are biological and future methods of energy extraction will need to be biological too, harnessing microbes to perform work that would not be viable mechanically. The basic principle of microbial digestion involves the metabolism of organic compounds into smaller compounds, ions such as H+, and electrons. Energy is released on bond breakage and by donation of electrons to an electron acceptor, a process called oxidation. Different electron acceptors yield different amounts of energy and bacteria that can use the available electron acceptor will dominate the system. Currently, in western countries, most large scale wastewater plants use the activated sludge process, in which a plentiful supply of oxygen, the highest energy yielding electron acceptor, is bubbled through the sewage causing bacteria to grow and multiply – feeding on and thereby removing wastewater organics in the process. The water is then released safely to the environment, and the residual bacterial sludge is removed and de-watered; in Europe this is then mainly composted or spread on fields, some goes to landfill or to be incinerated. This process has worked well for over 100 years, safely treating the wastewater, however, the energy cost of oxygenation is huge. Other processes that can, and are, being used include trickling filters where the wastewater trickles over beds of granular material with bacteria growing on them; here oxygen from the air is used to aid digestion of organic matter. Waste stabilisation ponds can also be used, harnessing the natural ecosystems of a series of ponds to treat wastewater. These technologies are far less energy intensive but require more land and are often not viable in urban areas. So what are the alternatives? The most tried and tested of these is anaerobic digestion, whereby anaerobic bacteria can survive without oxygen and consume the organic matter. Without oxygen, they must use the organic matter for both respiration and food. In the process of digestion methane is produced: a combustible biogas. This technology has proven its worth with high strength industrial wastewaters and with domestic wastewater in tropical countries, with many successful full-scale operations. UK water companies are increasingly investing in anaerobic technology to recover energy from the large quantities of sludge produced from the standard activated sludge process. Northumbria Water currently produces 4.7MW of electricity from a single anaerobic digester plant and has plans to open several more. During anaerobic digestion, long chain organic compounds are broken down into smaller ones by specific bacteria, eventually a further group of microorganisms, known as methanogens, are then able to convert these products into methane and carbon dioxide. The overall chemical process can be simplified and written, using glucose as an example, as C6H12O6 → 3CO2 + 3CH4. Using basic thermochemistry equations and the tabulated free energy values of the compounds in this equation, the amount of energy released during the reaction can be calculated as 427kJ, as shown in Figure 1. The comparable calculation can be made for the activated sludge process where oxygen is involved; here the energy release is 2880kJ. This represents the energy available to the bacteria, which is clearly higher in the activated sludge process, allowing the bacteria to thrive consuming the organics and to multiply, creating the large volumes of sludge (dead bacteria cells), which need to be dealt with. With the anaerobic system, there is less energy available. The bacteria are able to live and grow, feeding on and removing the organic matter, but they multiply less, creating less sludge. However, with the process shown in Figure 1, the same amount of energy – stored in the bonds of glucose – enters each system, and as this energy cannot be destroyed, it means in the anaerobic system there must be energy going somewhere else, for example, in the methane. This energy is stored in the methane gas and released later when it is combusted. The energy released in the two different systems is exactly the same, except with the anaerobic system that energy is shared between the bacteria and the operators who may extract the gas and use it. This makes the anaerobic process more efficient, but also less robust, particularly when energy is further limited by colder temperatures and low strength wastewaters, such as domestic wastewater. For full scale application in domestic wastewater treatment, all we need is to find organisms – from the estimated 1030 in the environment – that are resilient towards lower European or UK temperatures. At Newcastle University, for example, working closely with Northumbria Water, we are looking into the possibility of using cold-adapted microflora from methanogenic low temperature environments. Another option is the use of microbial fuel cells that produce electricity directly from organic compounds in a battery-like cell. Here again the bacteria are starved of oxygen, but can donate an electron to an electrode; this electron passes in a circuit to a second electrode where it can be oxidised, giving off H2O and generating current. These technologies have been developing rapidly over the last 10 years and shown to be both robust and efficient when dealing with simple organic compounds, and possibly with complex real wastes. Improvements in design, architecture and materials are ongoing, with some large-scale experiments under way. However, none of these treatment methods will be 100% efficient in terms of the energy measured through bomb calorimetry.1 The available energy in wastewater is typically measured as chemical oxygen demand (COD); a strong chemical reducing agent oxidises all the available organic compounds and so indicates the maximum amount of material available for bacterial oxidation. The study found that in some waste streams the energy content as measured with bomb calorimetry is significantly different from the amount implied by a straightforward conversion of COD into energy as shown in Figure 1, where the two different approaches used for formate (CH2O2) give different energy yields. This has implications for the choice of anaerobic systems, as some wastewater streams may be better suited to methane formation, others to fuel cell technology. As well as the scientific hurdles, there are political and economic ones. In the UK and many other European countries, the infrastructure already in place is set up for the activated sludge process. The high capital costs needed to change this, and the uncertainty of using a different technology, coupled with the UK’s high regulation of both effluent quality and pricing structures, are obstacles to change. In other countries such as Brazil, by contrast, anaerobic digestion is widely used to treat waste and sometimes provide energy. Throughout India, meanwhile, small scale anaerobic digestors are used at a household level, using both wastewater and food scraps, producing a biogas to fire the kitchen stove. With the ability to provide combined sanitation and energy to communities that currently may have neither, it is not surprising that the UN Development Committee has highlighted anaerobic digestion as one of the most useful sources of energy supply for future development. However, the need for sustainable solutions to energy supply and wastewater treatment is a global one, and developed countries can no longer afford to waste resources. With energy prices soaring and pushing up the cost of costs of water treatment, how long can western wastewater treatment practices survive? In the UK, if the current trends of 4% annual increases of energy use by the water sector, and electricity prices doubling in the past five years continue, in 10 years’ time the industry will face an energy bill vastly higher than the current 9012GWh. With infrastructure requiring long term planning and capital investment it is hard to see how, without drastic action, the necessary changes can be made. The UK water industry is making some headway. In 2009-2010, it produced 665GWh of energy, 7% of its energy consumption.2 Anaerobic digestion is being successfully used in the UK for some highly concentrated wastewaters from agriculture and industry, and to digest the sludge produced from wastewater treatment. Significant amounts of money are also being used to research other sustainable treatment technologies. Progress towards sustainability requires both more money and, arguably, more acceptance of failure in the pursuit of a lasting solution. But the biggest leap we need to make as a society is to view our waste as a valuable resource, not an unpleasant problem. Two approaches to measuring wastewater energy With the chemical oxygen demand (COD) measurement, the amount of oxygen required to oxidise the waste is determined. Each mole of oxygen required gives 32g COD, which can be used to predict the amount of methane that could be produced and therefore its combustion energy. The other route involves directly measuring the combustion energy of the waste using bomb calorimetry. The results give different answers for the amount of energy available as the enthalpy per gram of COD is not constant. The ratio between the measured enthalpy content and the COD (methane) based energy content may affect the choice of the optimal waste treatment technology. Elizabeth Heidrich is a PhD student in the school of civil engineering and geosciences, Jan Dolfing is a senior researcher in environmental engineering and Tom Curtis is professor of environmental engineering at Newcastle University, UK. 1. Heidrich, E.S., T.P. Curtis, and J. Dolfing, Environm. Sci. Technol., 2011, 45, (2), 827. 2. Sustainability Indicators. 2009/2010, Water UK: London, UK.
Color outside the Lines of YOUR leadership? Student Leadership is all about making dreams come true. We want to prove that with hard work (and a little help from SSU,) any goal is attainable. There are plenty of students out there with unlimited leadership potential, yet they have something keeping them from pursuing their dreams. Maybe they're too shy, or lack self-confidence; maybe they don't think they're "cool" enough, or have the right "look"; or perhaps they have been told they lack the skills. Apply for a Seawolf Leadership position and learn Color Outside the Lines of YOUR Leadership! Let UNIV 238: Foundations of Leadership help you take the road less travelled! Attend an optional Peer Leadership Information Session on one of the following dates: Go to www.sonoma.edu/saem/leadership to access all job descriptions. Beginning December 3rd, go to the same website to access and submit your online application. Please note, all applications must be submitted on-line. No paper applications will be accepted. Be sure you post transcripts with your Fall 2013 grades. Register for Univ 238: Foundations of Leadership for Spring 2014 (if you haven't already passed the class with a B or higher) Submit your application no later than Friday, January 31, 2014 at 4:30 pm. Please note, the computer will lock the system at 4:30. On-line interview signups will take place January 29th to February 5, 2014.
About the Department Southwestern University has received the rating of "Accredited" under the Accountability System for Educator Preparation. This rating is issued by the State Board of Educator Certification under the authority of Section 21.045, Texas Education Code. Accreditation ratings are based on the performance standards established by the State Board and are issued annually to each educator preparation program in Texas. The standards represent successful performance by the program's candidates on the examinations required for certification as an educator. Southwestern's first-time test takers had a 100 percent pass rate in 2006-2007, while the cumulative pass rate for 1999-2007 was above 98 percent. Southwestern University and the local Georgetown Independent School District have a collaborative relationship, through our state recognized Center for Professional Development and Technology (CPDT). Local schools provide classrooms for university class meetings so that students seeking teacher certification benefit from learning in the context of public schools. Although Education Degrees are awarded by Southwestern University, certification is awarded by the State of Texas. In completing the requirements for their respective degree programs, students must meet the requirements necessary for Texas teacher certification as well as the requirements of Southwestern. Exemption from a University graduation requirement may not satisfy state certification requirements. Students seeking elementary/middle school certification major in Education and choose either Elementary (EC-grade 6) or Middle (grade 4-grade 8) level teacher certification. Students who major in Education and who are seeking the 4-8 certification must choose a content area from the following: language arts, math, science, math/science combination or social studies. Students seeking secondary or all-level certification typically major in Education and in addition must complete at least 24 credit hours of study in a subject field such as history, English, mathematics, etc. The exception to this is that Music Education students must major in Music Education rather than Education. Specific information on courses required for elementary, middle, secondary and all-level certification programs is listed in the following pages. Completion of a degree with teacher certification may require an extra semester of work. In fall of the senior year, placement in a field-based program will require students to return to Georgetown prior to the beginning of public school, which precedes the start of Southwestern University classes. The capstone experience for Education majors consists of successful completion of the student teaching requirements.
Free Newsletters - Space - Defense - Environment - Energy - Solar - Nuclear by Staff Writers Washington DC (SPX) Nov 04, 2011 Concerns that global warming may have a domino effect -unleashing 600 billion tons of carbon in vast expanses of peat in the Northern hemisphere and accelerating warming to disastrous proportions - may be less justified than previously thought. That's the conclusion of a new study on the topic in ACS' journal Environmental Science and Technology. Christian Blodau and colleagues explain that peat bogs - wet deposits of partially decayed plants that are the source of gardeners' peat moss and fuel - hold about one-third of the world's carbon. Scientists have been concerned that global warming might dry out the surface of peatlands, allowing the release into the atmosphere of carbon dioxide and methane (a greenhouse gas even more potent than carbon dioxide) produced from decaying organic matter. To see whether this catastrophic domino effect is a realistic possibility, the scientists conducted laboratory simulations studying the decomposition of wet bog peat for nearly two years. Far from observing sudden releases of greenhouse gases, they found that carbon release and methane production slowed down considerably in deeply buried wet peat, most likely because deeper peat is shielded from exchange of water and gases with the atmosphere. In connection with previous work, the study concluded that "even under moderately changing climatic conditions," peatlands will continue to sequester, or isolate from the atmosphere, their huge deposits of carbon and methane. American Chemical Society Beyond the Ice Age |The content herein, unless otherwise known to be public domain, are Copyright 1995-2014 - Space Media Network. AFP, UPI and IANS news wire stories are copyright Agence France-Presse, United Press International and Indo-Asia News Service. ESA Portal Reports are copyright European Space Agency. All NASA sourced material is public domain. Additional copyrights may apply in whole or part to other bona fide parties. Advertising does not imply endorsement,agreement or approval of any opinions, statements or information provided by Space Media Network on any Web page published or hosted by Space Media Network. Privacy Statement|
Can you name the Only Element that will fit each letter-number combo clue?? - Answers do not have to be guessed in order - For example, if the letter-number clue is I-4, then you would type Iron because it is the only element that starts with I and is 4 letters. Sorry, but there are no elements for the letters J,Q and W, - This quiz has not been verified by Sporcle Element by letter-number combination Quiz - Created Nov 29, 2011 in Science - Game Plays 16 Go to the Sporcle.com Mobile Site →
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The neurologist Dr Oliver Sacks provided a window into a mystifying parallel world of mental dysfunction in his book, “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat”. The descriptions of his neurological patients inspired myriad plays, films and other artworks, and probably untold numbers of young neurologists and psychologists – including me. The profile in this weekend’s Guardian tells the story of his science-obsessed family and his remarkable life. → From The Guardian Review ♥ If this article was valuable to you, then support PsyBlog by sharing it ♥Published: 6 March 2005
The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, and the Government generally respects this right in practice. There was no change in the status of respect for religious freedom during the period covered by this report, and government policy continued to contribute to the generally free practice of religion. The generally amicable relationship among religions in society contributed to religious freedom. The U.S. Government discusses religious freedom issues with the Government in the context of its overall dialog and policy of promoting human rights. Section I. Religious Demography The country has a total area of 30,379 square miles, and its population is an estimated 10.3 million. The country has a largely homogenous population with a dominant Christian tradition. However, primarily as a result of 40 years of Communist rule between 1948 and 1989, the vast majority of the citizens do not identify themselves as members of any organized religion. In a 2001 opinion poll, 38 percent of respondents claimed to believe in God, while 52 percent identified themselves as atheists. Nearly half of those responding agreed that churches were beneficial to society. There was a revival of interest in religion after the 1989 "Velvet Revolution;" however, the number of those professing religious beliefs or participating in organized religion has fallen steadily since then in almost every region of the country. An estimated 5 percent of the population attend Catholic services weekly. Most live in the southern Moravian dioceses of Olomouc and Brno. The number of practicing Protestants is even lower (approximately 1 percent of the population). Leaders of the local Muslim community estimate that there are 20,000 to 30,000 Muslims, although Islam has not been registered as an officially recognized religion since the Communist takeover in 1948. There is a mosque in Brno and another in Prague. The Jewish community, which numbers only a few thousand persons, is an officially registered religion due to its recognition by the State before 1989. Missionaries of various religious groups, including the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) and members of Jehovah's Witnesses, are present in the country. Missionaries of various religions generally proselytize without hindrance. Section II. Status of Religious Freedom The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, and the Government generally respects this right in practice. The Government at all levels strives to protect this right in full and does not tolerate its abuse, either by governmental or private actors. Religious affairs are the responsibility of the Department of Churches at the Ministry of Culture. All religious groups officially registered with the Ministry of Culture are eligible to receive subsidies from the State, although some decline state financial support as a matter of principle and as an expression of their independence. There are 25 state-recognized, 4 of which registered during the period covered by this report. The four newly registered groups are Christian Fellowships, the Christian Community in the Czech Republic, the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, and the Czech Hindu Religious Society. Although no groups sought to register by the end of the period covered by this report, three groups inquired about the process. In 1999 the Department of Churches denied registration to the Unification Church (UC) when it determined that the UC had obtained the required proof of membership by fraud. In 2002 the courts upheld the Government's decision to deny registration; however, an appeal of that decision remained pending at the end of the period covered by this report. Registration of Islam has been discussed with the Department of Churches, but there has been no formal application. The 2002 law on "Religious Freedom and the Position of Churches and Religious Associations" created a two-tiered system of registration for religious organizations. In order to register at the first tier, a religious group must have at least 300 adult members permanently residing in the country. First-tier registration conveys limited tax benefits and imposes annual reporting requirements, as well as a 10-year waiting period before the organization may apply for full second-tier registration. To register at the second tier, a religious group must have membership equal to at least 0.1 percent of the country's population (approximately 10,000 persons) and have been registered at the first tier for at least 10 years. Second-tier registration entitles the organization to a share of state funding. Only clergy of registered second-tier organizations may perform officially recognized marriage ceremonies and serve as chaplains in the military and prisons, though prisoners of other faiths may receive visits from their respective clergy. Prior to the 2002 law, registered religious groups automatically received second-tier status. Religious groups registered prior to 1991, such as the small Jewish community, are not required to meet these conditions for registration. Unregistered religious groups, such as the small Muslim minority, may not legally own community property but often form civic-interest associations for the purpose of managing their property and other holdings until they are able to meet the qualifications for registration. The Government does not interfere with or prevent this type of interim solution. Unregistered religious groups otherwise are free to assemble and worship in the manner of their choice. Religious organizations receive approximately $106 million (3 billion Czech crowns) annually from the Government. Funds are divided proportionally among the 21 registered religions based on the number of clergy in each, with the exception of 4 religions (Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, the New Apostolic Church, and Open Brethren) that do not accept state funding. Of this sum, approximately $26 million (728 million Czech crowns) is used to pay salaries to clergymen. The rest of the funding goes to state grants for religious organizations' medical, charitable, and educational activities, as well as for the maintenance of religious memorials and buildings. A 2000 law outlaws Holocaust denial and provides for prison sentences of 6 months to 3 years for public denial, questioning, approval, or attempts to justify the Nazi genocide. The law also outlaws the incitement of hatred based on religion. Missionaries must obtain a long-term residence and work permit if they intend to remain longer than 30 days. There were no reports of delays in processing visas for missionaries during the period covered by this report. There is no special visa category for religious workers; foreign missionaries and clergy are required to meet the relatively stringent conditions for a standard work permit even if their activity is strictly ecclesiastical or voluntary in nature. Religion is not taught in public schools, although a few private religious schools exist. Religious broadcasters are free to operate without hindrance from the Government or other parties. The Government continued its effort to resolve religious-based communal and personal property restitution problems, especially with regard to Jewish property; however, progress has been slow. Jewish claims date to the period of the Nazi occupation, while Catholic authorities are pressing claims to properties that were seized under the former Communist regime. Although after 1989 the Government and Prague city officials returned most synagogues and buildings previously belonging to religious orders, many claims to properties in the hands of other municipal authorities and individuals have not yet been resolved. Restitution or compensation of several categories of Jewish personal property is in progress. In addition the Catholic Church claims vast tracts of woods and farmlands. The 1991 Law on Restitution applied only to property seized after the Communists took power in 1948. In 1994 the Parliament amended the law to provide for restitution of or compensation for property wrongfully seized between 1938 and 1945. This amendment provided for the inclusion of Jewish private properties, primarily buildings, seized by the Nazi regime. In 1994 the Federation of Jewish Communities identified 202 communal properties as its highest priorities for restitution, although it had unresolved claims for over 1,000 properties. By decree the Government returned most of the properties in its possession, as did the city of Prague; however, despite a government appeal, other cities have not been as responsive. As of the end of the period covered by this report, only 68 of the 202 properties had been returned. A 2000 law authorized the return of 200 communal Jewish properties identified by the Federation of Jewish Communities that had been in the possession of the State. The Government continued to evaluate these claims at the end of the period covered by this report. The same law also authorized the Government to return more than 60 works of art in the National Gallery to the Jewish community and an estimated 7,000 works of art in the Government's possession to individual Jewish citizens and their descendants. Another provision of the law authorized the return of certain agricultural property in the Government's possession to its original owners. A government resolution passed in March should result in the return of approximately 40 more properties. In September 2000, the Government proposed and the Chamber of Deputies authorized approximately $10.6 million (300 million Czech crowns) for a compensation fund to pay for those properties that cannot be restituted physically. The fund began operating in June 2001 under the control of an independent board. It is expected to provide partial compensation in those cases where the Government needs to retain the property or is no longer in possession of it, to help meet the social needs of poor Jewish communities, and to support the restoration of synagogues and cemeteries. Approximately two-thirds of the funds are to be dedicated to communal property and one-third to individual claims. Applications for the fund were accepted from June through December 2001. At the end of the period covered by this report, the fund had distributed the majority of the $3.5 million (100 million Czech crowns) dedicated to individual claims, as well as approximately $882,000 (25 million Czech crowns) dedicated to social grants. Certain property of religious orders, including 175 monasteries and other institutions, was restituted under laws passed in 1990 and 1991. The Catholic Church still claims some 175,000 hectares of "income-generating properties." Many of these properties are vast tracts of farm and woodland that are now in the hands of municipal governments or private owners. These current owners claim that the Catholic Church was granted the use of the properties under the Hapsburg empire but that the Church was never the owner of the properties in question and that the Government owes the Church no duty of restitution. When the Social Democratic government came to power in 1998, it halted further restitution of non-Jewish religious communal property, including a decision of the previous government to return 432,250 acres of land and some 700 buildings to the Catholic Church. Efforts to resolve the final claims continue but have been slowed by the Church's refusal to provide a list of specific properties and land to which it feels entitled and the Government's refusal to continue restitution discussions without this list. In April 2001, the Government agreed in principle to draft a law that would allow for the return of the remaining houses of worship, parish houses, and monasteries to the Catholic Church. No legislation had been drafted by the end of the period covered by this report. Members of unregistered religious groups may issue publications without interference. The Government and the Embassy held an interfaith service at St. Vitus Cathedral to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks. There was little other government-sponsored interfaith activity. Two government commissions were established in 1999 to improve relations between the State and religious groups. One of the commissions was a "political" commission with the presence of all parties represented in Parliament, and the second was a "specialist" commission composed of experts, including lawyers, economists, and representatives of religious groups. The commissions advised the Government on religious questions and legislation on religious topics. The Commissions have now dissolved following the passage of the 2002 law on "Religious Freedom and the Position of Churches and Religious Associations." Restrictions on Religious Freedom Government policy and practice continued to contribute to the generally free practice of religion. Several unregistered religious groups, including Muslims and the Church of Scientology, have criticized the 2002 law on registration of religious groups because they believe that it is prejudicial against smaller religious groups. The Catholic Church also has criticized the law on the grounds that it unduly restricts the manner in which the Church manages and finances many of its social projects. In November 2002, a Constitutional Court decision struck down provisions of the act relating to registering new subsidiaries of religious organizations, as well as those provisions barring use of profits from enterprises owned by religious organizations for religious activity. There were no reports of religious prisoners or detainees. Forced Religious Conversion There were no reports of forced religious conversion, including of minor U.S. citizens who had been abducted or illegally removed from the United States, or of the refusal to allow such citizens to be returned to the United States. Improvement and Positive Developments in Respect for Religious Freedom In May 2002, the Parliament passed a measure to extend the deadline for filing art restitution claims for Holocaust victims by 4 years, which subsequently was signed into law by the President. The deadline had been set for December 31, 2002, but was extended until December 31, 2006. The Ministry of Culture approved the registration applications of four religious organizations during the period covered by this report--Christian Fellowships, the Christian Community in the Czech Republic, the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, and the Czech Hindu Religious Society. In May 2002, the Ministry of Interior opened a Muslim prayer room for inmates at Prague's Ruzyne Prison in conjunction with the Islamic Foundation of Prague. The Foundation has also advised the prison on how to prepare appropriate food and how to facilitate Islamic prisoners' observance of Ramadan. Section III. Societal Attitudes The generally amicable relationship among religions in society contributed to religious freedom. The immigrant population is still relatively small and includes persons from Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Iraq, and the former Yugoslavia. Immigrants have not reported any difficulties in practicing their respective faiths. Local Muslims reported no incidents of religious intolerance toward their community during the period covered by this report. A small but persistent and fairly well-organized extreme rightwing movement with anti-Semitic views exists in the country. The Ministry of Interior continued its efforts to counter the neo-Nazis, which included increased monitoring of their activities, closer cooperation with police units in neighboring countries, and concentrated efforts to shut down unauthorized concerts and gatherings of neo-Nazi groups. On January 30, vandals spray-painted swastikas and other anti-Semitic slogans on Jewish graves at a cemetery in Ostrava. On July 18, 2002, police in Jihlava destroyed dozens of posters bearing neo-Nazi insignia and messages. On June 30, 2002, vandals defaced a newly unveiled memorial to Jewish victims of the Holocaust in Karlovy Vary. Red paint was sprayed on the memorial, and anti-Semitic posters were left at the scene. On June 26, 2002, a smoke bomb was thrown through the window of a bookshop in Liberec, where the country's Chief Rabbi was attending a public meeting. In December 2000, police in Zlin uncovered another group distributing neo-Nazi recordings, publications, and badges. A 21-year-old woman was charged with suppressing rights and freedoms; her case was pending at the end of the period covered by this report. A book published in May entitled "Taboo in Social Sciences" drew criticism for presenting racist and anti-Semitic views in a scientific manner. The book's high sales volume prompted representatives of the Jewish Community in Prague to warn against allowing extremism to creep into mainstream culture. During 2001 a court convicted Vit Varak on charges of disseminating hate speech and propagation of a movement aimed at suppressing rights and freedoms for selling "Mein Kampf" on the Internet. Varak was given a suspended sentence and fined, but the Constitutional Court later annulled his verdict. New charges have been brought against Varak, and the case was still pending at the end of the period covered by this report. Section IV. U.S. Government Policy The U.S. Government discusses religious freedom issues with the Government in the context of its overall dialog and policy of promoting human rights. U.S. Government efforts on religious issues have focused largely on encouraging the Government and religious groups to resolve religious property restitution claims and registration of religious organizations. During the period covered by this report, U.S. Government and Embassy officials emphasized on numerous occasions to the Government and religious groups the importance of restitution (or fair and adequate compensation when return is no longer possible) in cases pending from property wrongfully taken from Holocaust victims, the Jewish community, and churches. The Embassy maintains close contact with the Office of the President, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Culture, representatives of various religious groups, and nongovernmental organizations. Embassy officials met on several occasions with representatives of the Ministry of Culture to discuss the law on religious registration, as well as representatives of smaller religious groups affected by the law, including Muslims, Scientologists, the Unification Church, and Hare Krishnas. Several meetings were held with representatives from the Ministry of Culture, the Roman Catholic Church, the Federation of Jewish Communities, and the Prague Jewish Community on restitution issues. Embassy officials also responded to individual requests for assistance from Czech-American Holocaust victims seeking compensation.
Restoring a fountain's function and face The John Haynes Lord Memorial Fountain in Somerville, NJ, was erected in 1909 to honor Lord, president of the Second National Bank of Somerville and a well-known town citizen. His sister requested that the monument be a drinking fountain for "man and beast" in memory of her brother. Original architect John Russell Pope designed the fountain to emulate a Roman monument, and chose a lion's face to depict the "beast" portion of the fountain, with a stone sculpture of the face on one side and a bronze plaque of it on the other. He then selected Vermont marble to be used for the shaft of the fountain, while pink granite was used for the base, basin walls and bollards. A large basin with bronze chains was placed in the front for horses, while the backside of the fountain had a water fountain for people. Once designed, the fountain was placed in front of the Somerset County Courthouse. After some years of use, the fountain had become non-operational for decades. Because of the prominent location of the fountain, the people of the county recently wanted to have it repaired. The architects of Ford Farewell Mills & Gatsch in Princeton, NJ, were commissioned to restore the fountain. "After it originally worked, the county stopped using it as a fountain, and decided to use it as a planter," said Christa Gaffigan, project architect of Ford Farewell Mills & Gatsch. "Then they stopped using it as a planter, and it really became deteriorated over time." The goal for the restoration of the fountain was to bring it back to functioning, install new plumbing without dismantling it, create a larger vault space to house the new fountain equipment and restore and repair the existing marble, granite and concrete. The marble and granite had been stained, and some carved stone was lost over the years. In order to clean the stone, workers from Paragon Restoration Corp. of Kenilworth, NJ, used various ProSoCo cleaning and restoration products. While the granite and marble were both chemically cleaned, some portions of the marble needed a different cleaning method. "We used a micro-abrasive cleaning method on the marble's dentil area on top of the fountain," said Mike Papio of Paragon Restoration. "Any regular chemical would have taken the dentils right off the stone, so instead we consolidated the area first, then performed the microabrasive method afterword. It was very time consuming, but it worked well." The whole cleaning and restoring process took Paragon Restoration about eight months to complete. "We began in late fall, and stopped in the winter because of the cold temperatures," said Papio. "Then we re-started in the spring and finished the project." Once the stone lion's head was completed, a bronze lion head plaque was made as an exact duplication of it, to be placed on the other side of the fountain. A bronze sculptor, using the broken stone lion head as a model, recreated this plaque. Bronze chains were then reinstalled between the granite bollards to replicate the original chains, which were also missing. Aside from the restoration of the stonework, the fountain's plumbing system was refurbished to gain back the fountain's original function. "A 6-inch core was drilled vertically from the top of the fountain straight down into the existing vault, to give space to re-plumb the fountain," said Gaffigan. "A new, more spacious underground vault was then built and connected to the existing vault to get the fountain working again." Completed in August 2000, the restored fountain has been well received by the community. "Because of its prominent corner location, everyone was very enthusiastic about having the fountain restored," said Gaffigan. "The people of the county really enjoyed it and a lot of people turned out for the rededication."
Terrorism comes in many forms In Storm Lake, two stores are locked down and people held hostage by our fears for two hours, while bomb dogs, x-ray equipment, a water cannon and officers from four local and state departments are called in. All because someone apparently forgot an empty old suitcase in a parking lot while they loaded their car. This is our reality in 2002. We have become so afraid that we are seeing shadows even in the sunshine. The sad thing isn't that police took such drastic action, it is that they have to. Two years ago, if somebody left an empty case in a parking lot in Storm Lake, police probably never would have been called. Somebody would have shaken it to see if it was empty, checked for a name tag, and tossed it into the lost and found until the owner missed it and came back for it. We are not so innocent today. Not even in little Storm Lake, as far as you can get from east coast sniper shootings and west coast gang drive-bys. Even here we are a bit paranoid and not without good reason. Remember part of the downtown being shut down and sealed off for a suspicious envelope at the Planned Parenthood clinic, which turned out to be nothing more than mail? Not so long ago, we wouldn't think twice about opening a stray envelope dropped off at a business; now we have to. Law enforcement has to take every precaution, and we appreciate them for their care. It does make us a little sad, however. Is it any wonder we are turning skittish? Barely healing from the scars of September 11th, the national news today is filled with dire warnings about Saddam Hussein or al-Qaida, threats of biological terrorism or weapons of mass destruction. A sniper in the Washington, D.C.-area targets people at random, and suddenly we are a little more sensitive to what life is like in Israel and other places of persisting violence, with terror following people to the mall, school and gas station. One writer described the feeling as "the cross hairs burning holes in the back of our heads... Imagine what it would be like if the next roving killer carried smallpox, anthrax or a nuclear device in a suitcase." Or maybe we would rather nor imagine. Since the September 11 attacks, we have changed. A sniper threatens to change us more. We have learned to be more vigilant, and found that we can no longer assume that terrorism in any form cannot threaten us where we live. At some point, we will face the question. How much of our collective innocence will we give away, or allow to be taken away? Will we always be afraid of every empty box or envelope lying around? Afraid to let our children go play in the park? Afraid to take a family trip on an airplane? Afraid of people with different skin color or accent? Afraid to open our mail? In the past year, a little of all that has been heard in Storm Lake as everywhere else. The good news is that all the excitement over a forgotten suitcase proved to be no threat at all. We can almost laugh about it in retrospect, though we know we would have to act in the same way if the same thing happened again. The bad news is that for who-knows-how-long, we're going to see shadows and look over our shoulders and wonder what could be next. We survived the "threat" of an empty old suitcase just fine. As a nation, we will even survive Ground Zero and Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida. And one day, I wonder if we will decide that our greatest threat is our own fear.
Automotive fuel systems have a simple function-they deliver fuel to the carburetor or electronic fuel injection system. But, like many things that seem simple, there's more to getting gas from one end of the car to the other than meets the eye. An old standby, the T-style fuel pump gets its name from its familiar shape. Durable and r The fuel system has to meet the varying demands of the engine. Obviously, when an engine is running at slow speeds it requires less fuel than it does at wide-open throttle so the system must adjust to those needs. Another factor is the powerplant being used. The capabilities of the fuel system must be appropriate for the engine-be it a vintage Flathead V-8 or a new LS7. These are just some of the issues to be addressed when designing a fuel system for a street rod (or an engine swap), which we're about to tackle with Jesse Powell of Aeromotive. Types Of Systems Fuel systems fall into two basic categories: static or deadhead, and dynamic or return type. Static systems typically used with carburetors essentially deliver fuel "on demand." Normally the fuel pump (mechanical or electric) will supply the carburetor's needle and seat with around 7 pounds of pressure, and under normal conditions the pump will keep up with demand and maintain that pressure. As fuel is used by the engine, the float drops and the needle valve opens, the resulting reduction in pressure causes the diaphragm in a mechanical pump to begin moving again, or the bypass in an electric pump to close, building the pressure back to 7 psi. In many cases, the pressure fluctuation won't be noticed without data logging the system or a fuel pressure gauge that you can see while driving. T-style pumps use a spring and poppet valve to control pressure. When system pressure exce Although the fuel system's first priority is to keep the floats from running low enough to uncover the carburetor's main jets, the second, more difficult job is maintaining the optimum fuel level in the bowls. It may not seem significant but the weight of fuel above the main jet impacts fuel flow through it and that effects the engine's air/fuel ratio. The stop-and-go delivery of a traditional static fuel system can make a constant fuel level difficult to maintain, which means the engine may at times be robbed of fuel, limiting its potential. Sophisticated carburetor racers using carburetors know the fuel level in the float bowl(s) must be consistent if engine tune is to be held across the rpm band, and this holds true for street engines in stop-and-go traffic as well. One method of accomplishing this is to use a higher-pressure pump (12-60 psi) with a regulator lowering the pressure to the carburetor (8-9 psi). This is an example of a return system used on an EFI system; unused fuel is sent back to t Another option to maintain consistent fuel levels in the carburetor is a dynamic, or return-type system, like those used on fuel injection systems. The benefits include longer pump life, a marked increase in pump to horsepower ratings (allowing smaller, lighter pumps to fuel more horsepower), and even quieter pump operation is common. With a return-style system the pump pushes fuel at 100 percent of its capacity all the time-it also pulls 100 percent of its capacity from the fuel tank all the time, which is why pumps in the return-style system are more sensitive on the inlet side (we'll discuss that further when we get to filters). With a return-style system, fuel flows through the entire system at the pressure determined by a regulator-be it 7 psi for a carburetor or 60 psi for EFI. The regulator allows fuel to "bypass" and return to the tank, then as the engine begins to use more fuel, less returns to the tank. The benefit is the carburetor does not see any pressure drop because the pump is flowing at full capacity to the regulator all the time.
"They will scourge Him and kill Him. And the third day He will rise again." (Luke 18:33, NKJV) Jesus predicted that he would die and rise again on the third day. He also promised a sign and referred to the sign of Jonah, who was three days and nights in the belly of a great fish. "For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth." (Matthew 12:40) But if Jesus died on Good Friday and was raised Sunday, just how long was he in the tomb, it appears at most to be two nights. John 19:14 mentions the "day of preparation of Passover, and about the sixth hour" as the timing for the climax of Jesus' trial and sentencing. Passover was a week long festival, not a single day, and the day of preparation was a description of the day before Sabbath, as explained by Mark, "it was the preparation, that is, the day before the Sabbath" (Mark 15:42). Thus, it was our Friday, ending between 5:30pm and 7pm in Spring, when the Sabbath of Passover began (when there were 3 visible stars in the sky, according to the Talmud). According to John 19:31 this was also to be a high day or holy convocation (Exodus 12:16; Leviticus 23:6,7). A Jewish tradition expects Israel's messianic deliverance to be on 15th Nisan, the day after Passover, which would fit with Jesus' crucifixion on the day after Passover, the preparation of the Sabbath: "on the same day, the fifteenth of Nisan, Israel is to be redeemed, in the days of the Messiah, as they were redeemed on that day, as it is said, according to the days"F1 We know from Mark (15:34) that Jesus died sometime after the ninth hour, presumably after sunrise, so about 3pm to 4pm. According to John 19:38-42 Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus (to whom John 3:16 was addressed), both secret believers, went to Pilate and were given permission to take Jesus' body to organise burial in a nearby unused tomb before the Sabbath. However, Matthew says this happened "when it was evening" (Matthew 27:57), which would imply the Sabbath had already started. Luke (23:54) says that the "Sabbath was beginning" (RSV) but this translation is a bit presumptive and the Greek says it "was dawning" or drawing near, a slightly bizarre phrase, epiphosko (Strong's #2020), meaning "to grow light", when actually it was growing dark! So the Greek allows for the fact that the Sabbath had not yet arrived, but was near, which is the better translation of the NKJV, NIV, NAS and others. Mark also says this happened at "evening" (Mark 15:42), but qualifies it as still being the day of Preparation. So evening could have come but by Jewish reckoning not have had the required 3 stars in the night sky visible. Alternatively, we can take the additional meaning of the Greek word rendered "evening", opsias (Strong's #3798), which is "late", roughly from 3pm to 6pm, as in Mark 4:35 where it is still the same day. Hence the strange literal Hebrew expression בּיןהארבּים "between the two evenings" in Exodus 12:6, meaning twilight or dusk between late afternoon on one day and the first evening of the next day, by Jewish reckoning. So, Jesus dies after 3pm and is buried probably before 6pm on the Friday. There is no dispute as to where he spent Saturday or the Sabbath - he was resting! We will save Jesus' descent into the lower parts, Hades, hell, prison, or paradise for another occasion. Thus, a full 24 hours later, the Sabbath ends and it becomes Sunday, or the "first day of the week" for the Jews. The women we are told prepare burial ointments and then rest on the Sabbath. Actually, according to Mishnah, Shabbat, 23.5, they could have applied them on the Sabbath so long as they did not move any of his dead limbs. But perhaps, to ensure Jesus lay undisturbed until the surprise of his resurrection, God allowed the women to be especially dutiful with regard to resting on the Sabbath just as Joseph and Nicodemus had observed full Sabbath protocol and arranged for a prompt burial before the Sabbath. Now, the women arrive, definitely "after the Sabbath" (Matthew 28:1; Mark 16:1), "toward dawn" (Matthew 28:1; Luke 24:1), "very early" (Mark 16:2), but "while it was still dark" (John 20:1). The four gospels use at least three Greek phrases here, none of which specifically include the word morning but rather terms that imply "early" before sunrise. In fact, according to Jewish time-counting "early" on first-day (Sunday) could actually be late Saturday by our western reckoning. Matthew uses the phrase epiphosko (Strong's #2020), meaning "to grow light" which Luke 23:54 had used for dawning of evening, not the dawning of morning. Writing in Jerusalem Perspective (May 1988), David Bivin of the Jerusalem School of Synoptic Research, states that: "According to Jerusalem scholar Jehoshua M. Grintz ("Hebrew as the Spoken and Written Language in the Last Days of the Second Temple," Journal of Biblical Literature 79 , 32-47), "late of sabbath" [Matthew 28:1] is a Hellenized form of the Hebrew expression bemotsai shabbat (at the exiting of Sabbath), which means the hours immediately after the end of the Sabbath; and the enigmatic "in the lightening to one of sabbath" derives from the beautiful Hebrew idiom Or le'ehad bashabbat, light to [day] one in the Sabbath). In Hebrew, shabbat (Sabbath) can mean either "Saturday" or "week." In this usage, "light" surprisingly is a synonym for "night," that is, the night before the next day. In Hebrew, "light" can be used euphemistically to mean something almost the opposite of its literal meaning." When David Bivin went on to suggest that Jesus may have remained in the tomb little more than say 26 hours it drew the largest mailbag Jerusalem Perspective ever had, "The controversial article drew more comments from readers than any article Jerusalem Perspective has published."F2 Jewish reckoning of a day ran from evening to evening (Genesis 1:5) and "a part of a day could be considered as the whole" מקצתהיוםככולו.F3 So David Bivin could be right, but readers pointed him to the sign of Jonah, the three days and three nights, in the belly of a great fish (Matthew 12:39-40), a part of the Jonah sign only highlighted in Matthew 12 and not in the synoptic parallels: Luke 11:29; Mark 8:12 and Matthew 16:4. Many other writers have suggested, therefore, that the high Sabbath mentioned by John was an additional Sabbath falling earlier in the week, perhaps Wednesday or Thursday, bringing forward Jesus trial and crucifixion to a day earlier than that. Thus, Jesus may have been in the tomb a full three days and three nights by western reckoning including two full Sabbaths. But do we need to resort to this? The Greek for day of Preparation is paraskeuê (Strong's #3904) and is still used in modern Greek for "Friday". Jewish time reckoning tended to use "evening" and "morning" to denote full 24 hour periods, as in Genesis 1 and some prophetic passages (e.g., Daniel 8:14 literally 2300 "evening-mornings"). The use of "day" and "night" was perhaps more poetic and general. Even Esther 4:16 speaks of "three days, day or night" and yet ignored the third night in its reckoning according to Esther 5:1. We cannot be certain about the actual times, but by Jewish understandings there is no problem in the text and thus one of various solutions will no doubt be the right one. What is important is not how many nights Jesus was in the tomb but the fact that "on the third day" he rose. Further, the sign of Jonah is not the 72 hours or less spent AWOL but the fact of the Ninevites' (gentiles) repentance and of Jonah himself, "for as Jonah became a sign...so will the Son of Man be..." (Luke 11:30) and "behold someone greater than Jonah is here" (Luke 11:32). F1: Cabalistae apud Fagium in loc. cf. Micah 7.15, quoted in John Gill's commentary F2: David Bivin, JerusalemPerspective.com Pipeline, 22 April 2003 F3: Jerusalem Talmud, Pesach, 31b; Babylonian Talmud, Moed. Katon, 16b;. 17b; 19b; 20b; Bechorot, 20b; 21a; Nidda, 33a; Maimonides, Hilch. Ebel, 7.1, 2, 3; Aben Ezra in Leviticus 12:3. 'Difficult Sayings' Copyright 2014© Jonathan Went in. 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Full view of that memorial: 25 Marine War Dogs gave their lives liberating Guam in 1944. They served as sentries, messengers, scouts. They explored caves, detected mines and booby traps. Kurt Yonnie Koko Bunkie Skipper Poncho Tubby\tHobo Nig\tPrince Fritz Emmy Missy Cappy Duke Max Bursch Pepper Ludwig Rickey Tam (buried at sea off Asan Point) Given in their memory and on behalf of the surviving men of the 2nd and 3rd marine war dogs platoons, many of whom owe their lives to the bravery and sacrifice of these gallant animals. By William W. Putney DVM C.O. 3rd Marine WarDog Platoon Dedicated this day 21 July 1994. Fourth row; second from right is a dog named Cappy. On a rocky island off the coast of Guam, a Marine line officer named William Putney was leading his men on a mission to flush out enemy soldiers. Cappy, one of his faithful scouts, went ahead. "Cappy suddenly alerted that there were enemy ahead," Putney recalls. "A shot rang out and it hit Cappy and he jumped up in the air about three or four feet and fell dead." Forewarned, the Marines were able to take the rocks, killing five Japanese soldiers and taking one prisioner. A half-century has passed since that September day in 1944 when a Doberman named Cappy saved Putneys life, but the former Marine veterinarian has never forgotten. On Wed., Putney and other survivors of the 2nd and 3rd war dog platoons will honor their canine comrades with a granite memorial at Naval Station Guam, part of ceremonies marking the 50th anniversary of the island's liveration. "People ask, 'What's all this hullabaloo about a bunch of dogs that died 50 years ago?" says Putney, the driving force behind the memorial. "The reason is, these dogs lived in foxholes with their men. They went on and led over 350 patrols. Their handlers killed 301 enemy soldiers with the loss of only one of my men on patrols. "So the fact that these dogs were killed instead of us and kept us from ever being ambushed or surprised at night makes them heroes in my mind." Putney, commander of the 3rd War Dog Platoon, arrived in Guam in the summer of 1944. He still remembers it all - stealing down jungle trails steaming under misty rains, nights curled in the uneasy comfort of a foxhole. Having a dog made the shadows a little less menacing. One night, Putney remembers, a battalion of men without a dog fired off a round after round into the darkness, felling three coconut palms and a water buffalo - but nothing else. The next night, "everybody wanted a dog in their foxhole" with a sharp nose to distinguish real enemies from harmless shadows, Putney says in a telephone interview from his home near Los Angeles. But the success was hard won. The first casualty came July 23rd, when a Doberman Named Kurt was wounded by a Japanese grenede. He was the first to be buried in what would become the war dog cemetery. More followed. "The Japanese had learned when they saw the dogs coming that the Marines would be close behind, and I guess in some kind of weird sense of self-preservation, they must have felt that if they shot the dogs that we wouldnt find them, "Putney says. In all, 24 war dogs were buried on Guam, Putney says. After the war, Putney moved to the Los Angeles area, started a veterinary practice and raised a family. But he never forgot the war dogs. In 1989 he returned to Guam to visit their graves and was dismayed to find the cemetery overgrown and neglected. Putney found a new home for the cemetery at the naval station and worked with the United Doberman Club on the memorial. Putney donated a granite monument that will be inscribed with the names of the dogs and the fate of each. It will be topped by a life=size bronze statue of a sitting Doberman, titles "Always Faithful," sculpted by Susan Bahary Wilner. Wilner, a dog lover who lives north of San Francisco, was thrilled by the commission. "When I heard about it I was in tears, " she says. "Here are dogs that have saved...American Lives. They're finally getting their due." Dogs have always gone to war. Roman armies used them, and they serve today. Dogs were part of U.S. forces in the Persian Gulf and Somalia, says Peggy Whitlow, spokeswoman for the Defense Department's dog-training program at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. The Guam dogs were recruited directly to the Marines by the Doberman Pinscher Club of America, Putney says. Other dogs served in World War II under the auspices of Dogs for Defense, which recruited for the U.S. Army Canine Corps. On Guam, dog and handler made a formidable scouting team, Putney says. That made the end of a partnership all the more poignant. The day Cappy was shot, his handler, PFC. Stanley Terrell, ran to the dog's side to cradle the bloody corpse. "Some photographer came up," Putney says. "Terrell looked at me, tears running down his face..."I said, 'Go take your picture somewhere else."
It’s rare that an outfit seems to work so well with hair dyed in this color. Photos: Yaang Text: LifeStyle Magazine Founder of Yaang and chief director of Kieperzapfen Design, Wang Yang studied traditional Chinese painting at the China Academy of Art and worked in Hamburg and Berlin for several years. 1. What are the biggest influences on your work? Artists including Andy Warhol, Giorgio Morandi and Chen Laolian. I also like Song Dynasty bird and flowers paintings and landscapes from the Ming and Qing. 2. Is your work part of the current drive toward Chinese retro and nostalgia？ Chinese culture has so much to explore and my goal is to make products with a visual language that sparks an emotional response in customers. 3. What are the main challenges for you? Beyond the issues of cost control, finding new channels, and working with suppliers that we always face, we always seek an attractive design language. 4. Where is China design now? Chinese design is in its infancy since the proceeding period was so empty. Many clients and customers remain unwilling to spend on design, though trends are positive. Many designers are working hard to get China on the design map. Competition is growing, so how to find your place and then settle down and just produce good design is an issue. Photo and Text: Suzy I can’t help but thinking that her outfit has a somewhat christmasy touch to it. Maybe her blue army cap and fur coat evoke long russian winters? Does China embrace Christmas with greater vigor? Every year, articles like this describe the ballooning popularity of the birthday of Jesus in China as a time for partying and shopping. Is this phenomena different from what happens in South Korea and Japan, for example? I mean, is China exceptional in this aside from its being the country that produces all of those cheap baubles we use around the world? The numbers in China are naturally the most impressive. The Chinese customs agency reports estimated that 30 percent of the Christmas products manufactured in China are sold domestically and sales at shopping centers is thought to spike by up to 30 percent in this period. Perhaps one motivation for celebrating the day is the inexpensive decorations. The unapologetic embrace of the most materialistic aspects of this religious event day be because there are not enough of traditional Chinese days that can be used for partying with friends. Home-grown holidays may be too solemn or official. The adoration of this foreign holiday might also highlight the cosmopolitanism and openness of contemporary China. However, at the end of that stylish yuletide dinner at a five-star hotel, Christmas in China … Read More » She is a former resident of the Big Apple, where I just arrived myself. Quite the tights. Stanley is one of the main men behind Liquid Element, one of China’s premier PR/events companies. A few interesting happenings: - Conde Nast China Managing Director Cao Weiming discusses the rise of Vogue, GQ, AD, and Self in the most important rapidly growing market for print media. Vogue China now has the third highest revenue among the 15 international editions of the publication. I also heard recently that GQ China is expected to surpass the UK one to become the top grossing GQ, right after the US version. More from China Daily on Conde Nast in China. - Not all is as buoyant as what fashion industry watchers were promised though. Shares in HK-listed Prada have slumped 34% from their price at listing in July. With 42% of its sales in Asia, Prada enjoyed 25% growth in the first nine months of the year and 39% in Asia (outside Japan). Like everyone, investors are worried about slower than utterly exuberant growth in 2012, though Prada in China must still be a very good bet in the medium to long term. The world’s largest listed jeweler, HK’s Chow Tai Fook, also saw its share price drop 8%. Both of these are probably more cases of investors accepting that growth in the … Read More » Sorry for the delay in getting these photos up. I know the event was last week, but the exhibition is still on at Lane Crawford. Above are make-up artist Tupper Bai and his friend, a fashion photographer. Tommy, the PR Director for fashion retailer Shine, shows us how to mix blue and hot pink. Trousers are tailor-made, the shirt is vintage imported from the US purchased at Mega Mega Vintage and the sweater is Prada. Looking for presents? Nuandao Curated Shop is hosting a Christmas market at Jam this Saturday from 2-6. This new curated shopping site will be showcasing original and quirky designs from Greater China as well as vintage items. There will also be a pop-up preview sale available this Saturday + Sunday on Nuandao.com for those unable to attend Saturday’s event in Beijing. Photographer Wang Peng has evolved his own rather versatile way of dressing. He has five tailored suits in this exact cut each in a different color. They can be either worn as a suit or mixed and matched. I will have to ask him next time if there are really are a total of 25 potential outfits or if some of the colors don’t really go together. The fabric is canvass that he purchased at Muxiyuan. Among the collaborative projects at the Lane Crawford and Modern Weekly ‘A Plus’ exhibition was a pop-up photo studio by designer Xander Zhou and photographer Trunk Xu. Here is Mega Mengmeng being photographed. Xander Zhou and Trunk Xu collaborated before on the famous Gay China issue of Hong Huang’s Ilook magazine. Here are photos from that issue. Drink sponsors for the Lane Crawford and Modern Weekly‘s ‘A Plus’ exhibition, Pommery might consider sending me and Joy Island a couple more bottles. Former Hang on the Box frontwoman Gia (Wang Yue) is working on a tee-shirt brand called Bad Taste (more from the Global Times). She was at the launch of Lane Crawford and Modern Weekly‘s ‘A Plus’ exhibition, which features collaborations between China’s fashion designers and international artists.
Most of the climbing caters to the sport crowd, although there are numerous traditionally protected, multi-pitch routes and many more first ascents just waiting to be ticked off. The area offers unlimited possibilities for new routes on the thousands (estimates up to 7000) of limestone towers within a 100km radius. There are now over 350 established routes with new routes going up every week. Of the new routes established since 2005, many are in the more difficult grades up to 5.14b - China's first. A number of well-known international climbers have spent time in the area during the past two years and have put up exciting new projects and developing new crags concentrating on more difficult grades 5.12 and above. Local climbers, especially the guides working for Chinaclimb, have also been putting up new, difficult routes and opening new crags. This surge of activity has resulted in many new lines that will challenge even the best climbers. Paul Collis bolting a new line on the Space Buttress The only guide book I know of on the area, ‘Rock Climbing in Yangshuo’, by Paul Collis, is now in its seventh edition. You can pick up a copy at any climbing shop in Yangshuo and is reported to be on sale at climbing shops in Hong Kong. For the most up-to-date information on new lines, it is best to check in at Karst Cafe or Chinaclimb as most climbers leave drawings and route descriptions for new route there. Please buy the book when you pass through as most of the proceeds go to buying more hardware to put up new lines. Moon HillMoon Hill Todd Skinner and friends started climbing here in the early 1990 and put up some of the classic test pieces in the area on this crag. There are now 23 lines on Moon Hill most in the 5.12-5.13 range. Moon Walker and Red Dragon are the classic lines on the inside of the arch and are overhung their entire length. Moon Hill also has the hardest 5.10b I've even been on. The EggThe Egg The Egg, maybe it was named after a dinosaur egg, is a wonderful crag back a few kilometers off the main road in the middle of rice paddies. The belays are set up high and you get a wonderful view of the villagers tending their fields and water buffalo all day long. The crag is starting to see more climbing, but you will usually have it to yourself during the week. It is an easy place to come and hang out for the day and just climb a few lines. Finding ways to stay out of the sun during the long hot season has always been a challenge in Yangshuo and the Egg offers a good solution. There are bolted lines on three faces: when hot, climb on the west side in the morning, then climb the north side followed by the east face once the sun has moved off of it. Reverse the procedure in the winter months. The north face offers shade all day long and is overhung enough to stay dry in light rain. The north face now has 18 routes, most in the 5.10, 5.11 grades with a few easier ones having been put up recently. It is an excellent crag for a long day of moderate climbing, well bolted and clean – notice the broom in the photo. Recommended routes: Eric's 5.11a, the two 5.10ds, Dave's 5.11d (all 3 on the north face near the big cave; Eggstreme Eggsposure and Tyson's 5.10b/c on the west face. Wine Bottle and Middle FingerWine Bottle Wine bottle has a number of excellent routes on very high quality rock that, due to its proximity to town, sees a lot of traffic from the guiding companies. It is a great crag to frequent during the less busy seasons and a recommended place to return to if you enjoy climbing in the 5.10 to 5.11 range. It is also a nice place for shorter afternoons sessions. The crag gets sun most of the days and is best avoided before 4pm during the hotter months. There are over 20 routes on very high quality rock ranging from beginner lines, (5.7/5.8) to very enjoyable 5.11s. Top marks got to "The Great Wall" (5.11d), "Where's the Jug?" (5.11a) and "The Miracle of Lankou" a hard 5.9. Although a strikingly beautiful crag just next to the road, the Middle Finger sees surprisingly little traffic. Probably because it is has only traditionally protected routes. Todd Skinner, Mike Tupper and Craig Luebben have all put up routes on the crag. Little information is available on the routes and tradition is working to keep it a place for trad climbers only. White Mountain is one of the more impressive crags in Yangshuo; overhanging for most of its 200 meter length, the steeper section is overhang by 15 degrees for its entire 60 height. The result has been many (34 lines at present) very physical and sustained routes up to 5.13d and above. Most stronger climbers wind up spending a lot of time at White Mountain. In addition to the many fine lines put up by Paul Collis and the ChinaClimb crew, British climbers Niel Gresham and Seb Grieve have also left their mark here. There are too many great lines to mention, but ones I've been on and enjoyed are the short and pumpy 10.a/b, the Stone Dog 5.10c, China White 5.12b, the fingery 5.11a (route 25), the 5.11b (route 22) on the right side, and the long 5.10c (route 30). There are probably more star-rated routes on this crag than on any other in Yangshuo. Better climbers rave about the more difficult routes, but I'll wait to comment on them until I can climb some of them myself. Thumb PeakThumb Peak Located a short bike ride from the bustle of Yangshuo Village, Thumb Peak offers some of the best multi-pitch climbing In Yangshuo. There are three longer lines, 3-5 pitches, all in the 5.9 to 5.10 difficulty range. A few of the lines require traditional protection, and if you bring trad gear, you should top out just to get the view from the top. The Crag can get a lot of traffic on holidays and also gets afternoon sun, so plan according to the season for when to climb. The climb is near to the main road and raidos might be necessary to hear signals, especially lower down. Total height of the climb is over 100m. There have been a number of nightime ascents, unsually done in the buff. Low Mountain and The Space ButressLow Mountain Twin Gate and Treasure CaveTwin Gate Lei Pi Shan - Signal Hill[img:360704:alignleft:small:] Getting ThereMost people get to Yangshuo through Guilin. Guilin offers a few international flights from Maccau and Hong Kong but if this doesn't work for you, you can fly there from almost any major city in China. Standard fares from Shanghai are around RMB1300 full fare, one-way and you can usually find tickets at a 50% tariff except during peak seasons. Guilin also has train connections to the north, west and the Pearl River Delta. It's much cheaper, but adds 20 hours to the 2-hour flight to Shanghai. Here's a detailed link: How to get to Yangshuo From Guilin you can take a taxi from the airport or train station directly to Yangshuo (RMB200) or go into town and figure out how to take a highway bus and save a few RMB. You will be passing majestic towers on both sides during the drive and very few of them have been climbed. Red TapeNo red tape to speak of. You can get good information on climbing conditions at any of the climbing shops in town. It is usually easy to meet new partners at many of the bars and restaurants in town. With the increasing number of overseas tourists the level of spoken English has improved markedly in the past 5 years. One thing to watch out for is extending your tourist visa if you come and wind up staying longer than planned. Some climbers wind up making visa runs to Hong Kong just before their visa runs out. If possible, try to get a longer visa before you come to China, or get a multi-entry visa that allows you to leave and re-enter without applying for a new visa. Some countries will issue double entry visas, but beware visa policies vary with the country of your passport - making it harder on Americans than on Canadians for example. There have been some recent access issues with farmers near some of the crags but this is being handled and coordinated by the local climbing club. If approached by locals asking for money, try to avoid harsh words or an altracation. This really is a problem to be worked by the local tourism, sports and governmental bureaus. Best to be polite, act ignorant, and have a number of a climbing shop to call to get them involved. When To ClimbYou can climb year round in Yangshuo although winter can be quite wet and cold while summer is usually hot and rainy. The best months to climb are March through May and September through mid-December. Many of the walls are overhung and well protected from the rain and can be climbed in rainy weather. Rainy day climbing is always possible in the Chicken Cave, and usually so at White Mountain, Banyan Tree and Twin Gate. All of these crags are greatly overhung and stay dry even in a downpour. Continual rain might cause some seepage, however. Hot and humid days usually require starts before sunrise in order to get in a long day. Since most climbers in Yangshuo are allergic to mornings, don't expect to find willing local partners. The night life extends well into the morning and is a big part of the attraction of the place. Accommodations and CampingMost climbers stay in budget accommodations in town with room rates ranging from RMB50 to RMB150/night (at current exchange rates that is about USD6.00 to 13.00)double occupancy. Rooms are pretty standard and you may be asked to pay a bit more for airconditioning at the lower priced places. Karst Cafe has added their link to this page (see below) and is a good a place as any to begin looking for accommodations - they also have a small hotel. Recommended places to stay: Rock and Grill Magnolia (up scale) Hire an apartment for a month. The atmosphere in town is relaxed and friendly, unlike anywhere else I have every traveled to in China. YOu can handle most of your daily life, eating, laundry, arranging transportation to the crags, renting a bicycle, sorting out rooms, etc in English. The town is filled with small restaurants with western food and English menues. I've been enjoying the Fajitas at the Red Star Cafe recently. Beer is almost too cheap and as a results tends to flow till quite late. Not many people wind up camping around Yangshuo because accommodations are so cheap and convenient. You can camp out, or stay with local farmers, if developing crags further away from twon but it is necessary to have a local guide, or at least a Chinese speaker with you to arrange this. Local delicacies include bamboo rat and garden snails. The Rock ConditionsThe sides of the towers exposed directly to rain show typical limestone erosion patterns, they are dark in color and the rock dissolves away it leaves a sharp, honeycombed surface. Faces not exposed as directly to rain, many are covered by huge overhangs, remain light brown to orange in color and provide the best walls for climbing. Helmets are required if you plan to work on opening new areas. - The longest running guide service in Yangshuo Karst Cafe offers guiding around the area and some equipment rental. If you have all your gear, this is a great place to get some advice on where to go and some of the best food in town. Talk to Echo. - climbing in yangshuo and xclimber I really recommend Yangshuo. There are so many varied routes. I went climbing with Alex who runs xclimber, he's a great climber and we had lots of fun. Go ask recommed him to for info or to take you out on the rock.
ark Lindsay, a runaway who never finished high school, was once a delivery boy in Boise, Idaho. Among his stops was a drive-in restaurant owned by a former barber, Paul Revere. Mark learned that Paul had a local group called the Downbeats, and that they had an opening for a musician. Mark raced home, taught himself enough saxophone to fake it, and began a remarkable musical career. The Downbeats evolved into Paul Revere and the Raiders. In 1961, Gardena Records released a raucous instrumental, "Like Long Hair," which became their first national Top 40 hit. After that, their regional fame mushroomed, and by 1963, they were one of the hottest bands in the Pacific Northwest. Deejay Roger Hart paid for a demo tape session and the boys recorded a favorite, "Louie Louie." Although a rival group, the Kingsmen, beat them to the charts with the song, the Raiders did wind up with a new label contract, making them the first hard rock band signed by Columbia Records. In 1965, Dick Clark signed the boys to appear regularly on "Where the Action Is," a daily musical-variety series. It premiered over ABC-TV on June 27, and six months later the Raiders were off and running with their first major vocal hit, "Just Like Me." It was followed by "Kicks," a powerful anti-drug song; and then, from the album Spirit of '67, "Hungry," "The Great Airplane Strike" and "Good Thing." "Ups and Downs" was their first hit in 1967, and after that came a down -- the cancellation of "Where the Action Is." The hits continued, though, with "Him or Me (What's It Gonna Be)" and "I Had a Dream," both from the album Revolution. Then, on January 6, 1968, the Raiders returned to TV as the stars of Happening '68. Over the summer, that show expanded to six days a week, and became known as It's Happening. From the album Something Happened came two good sellers: "Too Much Talk" and "Don't Take It So Hard." In the spring of 1969, the Raiders made the Top 20 for the ninth time with "Mr. Sun, Mr. Moon." By then, they were clearly one of America's favorite rock bands, yet their records were rarely played on "progressive" FM stations. To counter this, the boys sent out test pressings of their next album under the name of Pink Puzz. FM programmers played it heavily and endorsed the "new band" until they found out it was really Paul Revere and the Raiders. From that album came another major single, "Let Me." Later in '69, Happening went off the air and Mark Lindsay, the group's focal point, lead singer and chief songwriter, began a concurrent solo career with the Top 10 tune "Arizona." That million-seller was followed in 1970 by "Silver Bird." The band decided to cut down their concert schedule. That pace had allowed only two or three days to knock out an album, two or three takes to cut a single. With the added time, they hoped to accomplish something that they had come close to but hadn't yet achieved -- a number one record. They came across a lament written by country songwriter John D. Loudermilk. It concerned the plight of the Cherokees who, in 1791, were moved from their home in Georgia to Oklahoma. Mark, whose ancestry was part Indian, thought that this would be a good tune to try. It had already been a hit once -- in 1968 -- for Don Fardon. The track was almost released as a Mark Lindsay record, but at the last minute, the group decided to put their collective name on it. Paul Revere then took a seven thousand mile motorcycle ride, visiting three stations a day, to help promote it. The song broke nationally in mid-April 1971, beginning a 22 week run on the charts. By July, it was the most popular tune in America. "Indian Reservation" wound up being not only the Raiders' biggest hit, but the best-selling single Columbia Records had issued. Indians in Salt Lake City even used it as a publicity song in their struggle for civil rights. In the fall of 1971, the Raiders had one final hit, "Birds of a Feather." Lindsay quit the group in 1975, though he did rejoin Revere the following year to capitalize on America's bicentennial with a tour and album. Since then Lindsay has worked briefly in A&R, but mostly forged a successful career singing commercials. Revere, meanwhile, tours some 250 nights a year with a band of Raiders that have been with him on and off since the Seventies. In 1985 the group returned to TV on a summer series, Rock'n'Roll Summer Action, on ABC. Main Page | Top 100 Singles Intro | Singles By Month | Seventies Almanac | Search The RockSite/The Web
Denpasar Tourist Attractions Guide Hours:08:30 am – 4:30 pm Address:Niti Mandala Renon Square Price:IDR 10,000 /person Bajra Sandhi Monument is a monument that describes the struggle of Balinese people during 5,000 years or from 3,000 BC to 1975 when it started the period of independence. The monument was constructed in 1987 in order to make the souls and spirit of the Balinese people immortal. It has also one other role and that is to preserve the Balinese culture. Jagatnatha Temple is a beautiful Hindu Temple and a landmark of Denpasar. This is the largest temple in the town. There are several constructions pertaining to this complex. Padmasana is the central, ie main building. Altar of Sang Hyang Anataboga is located in main temple as well as the well which serves for taking holy water. The twin canopies serve to put the statue in processions.
|By Marketwired .|| |December 12, 2013 02:13 PM EST|| VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwired) -- 12/12/13 -- Port Metro Vancouver, along with the Port of Seattle seaport and the Port of Tacoma in Washington State, has updated the Northwest Ports Clean Air Strategy with the goal of reducing diesel particulate emissions by 75 per cent per ton of cargo by 2015, and 80 per cent by 2020. The 2013 Northwest Ports Clean Air Strategy (NWPCAS), adopted this week, represents the five year milestone update to the original 2007 strategy that initially brought the three port authorities and five regulatory agencies together to partner on improving air quality in the Puget Sound - Georgia Basin airshed. The strategy sets emissions reduction goals and sector objectives for port-related activities such as ocean-going vessels, trucking, rail and cargo-handling equipment. The port authorities work in collaboration with industry - including customers, tenants, shipping lines and truck operators - to advance the goals and objectives of the strategy. The three ports would like to thank the government partners that have supported the NWPCAS, including Environment Canada, Metro Vancouver, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington State Department of Ecology and the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency.
The pace of the neighborhood watch suddenly picks up. “Here’s the fire we’ve been waiting for,” says Samiy, an Iraqi in a bulky jacket. It is 2:30am and Samiy, along with dozens of others from local Islamic groups and community organizations, has spent the night patroling the streets of Husby, the suburb at the center of riots in Stockholm. Soon there is an acrid stench of burning plastic, and flickers become visible around the footbridge that the group is now jogging toward. A dumper truck on the road below is burning as a crowd of young men look on. Most claim to be watchmen, but as soon as a fire engine arrives, 10 or more rush to the bridge and begin pelting a firefighter who runs up. “It’s enough. It’s enough,” says Jamil Hakim, from a group called Safe Husby. “Two nights was fun, but it’s enough. It’s not fun any more.” The crowd turns to see a phalanx of police in full riot gear marching up a ramp to the bridge, protected by a wall of transparent shields. Immediately, the stone throwers — most barely more than children — sprint into the darkness, while Hakim confronts the police. “Get lost! Please, just disappear,” he says. By Saturday morning, the usually calm Swedish capital had been rocked by six nights of disorder, with about 200 cars set ablaze, fires in schools, police stations and restaurants, and about a dozen police officers injured. Police estimate that more than 300 young people have been directly involved, of whom 30 have been arrested. What began in Husby on Sunday last week has spread to more than a dozen of the city’s other suburbs. And on Friday night, while police reported a quieter night in the capital, fires and stone-throwing were also reported in Uppsala, Sodertalje and even further afield in Linkoping and Orebro, in central Sweden. However, the morning after the truck-burning, Husby seems idyllic. There is a busy vegetable stall in the main square and a group of elderly men sipping beer in the sun. The rows of seven-story blocks, built in the 1960s and 1970s as part of Sweden’s “million homes” project, are all freshly painted, the gardens and playgrounds well-tended. At the local school, the windows broken the previous night are already being fixed. “If you have broken windows and they see it, they will crack other windows, so we must fix it immediately,” says Christer Svensson, who has come in to do the work. “I don’t care, I make money out of this.” Outside the new library, which opened last month, another ethnically Swedish handyman is busy painting. “This place behind me, they’ve just spent 40 million kronor [US$6 million] on it,” he says. “They don’t talk about that when they talk to the TV, do they? They talk about the problems, they don’t talk about everything people are doing for them.” “These people, they should integrate in this society and just try a little bit more to be like Swedish citizens,” he says. Scratch beneath the surface and this is a sentiment shared by many in a country that arguably has the world’s most generous asylum policies. Sweden has taken in more than 11,000 refugees from Syria since last year, more per head than any other European country, and it has absorbed more than 100,000 Iraqis and 40,000 Somalis over the past two decades. About 1.8 million of its 9.5 million people are first or second-generation immigrants.
Taiwan's problem lies in national identity and the lack of a sense of self-determination, South Korean philosopher Kim Young-oak said yesterday. "Many people might feel offended when I ask, `is Taiwan a country?'" Kim said. "Taiwan's history clearly tells us one thing: Most Taiwanese people seldom think about Taiwan as an independent country. Taiwan's history is a colonial history and this colonial ideology makes its people anticipate that someone will govern them, rather than establish a country of their own." Taiwan's political independence was important, but its cultural independence was more significant, Kim said at a book launch in Taipei. The 58-year-old is known as "The King-Maker" for campaign strategies that helped South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun get elected three years ago. Known for his versatility in South Korea, Kim obtained master's degrees in comparative philosophy from National Taiwan University and the University of Tokyo before getting a doctorate at Harvard University. He founded the Korea Institute for Classical Studies in Seoul. When Kim met President Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) in August 2003, he predicted that Chen would be re-elected in the following year's presidential election, which later proved true. Council for Cultural Affairs Vice Chairman Wu Ching-fa (吳錦發), who spoke at the same event, likened thinkers such as Kim to "ballast" that helps give a country stability. Wu said Taiwan and other Asian countries must make efforts to form Asian values rather than accepting US values and thinking such values were their own. Because both Taiwan and South Korea were once ruled by the Japanese and struggled through poverty, Wu said the two countries must work together for a brighter future. National Policy Adviser to the President Chin Heng-wei (金恆煒) held a similar view to Kim on the Constitution, saying that only rectifying the national title and writing a new constitution would help ensure Taiwan's sovereignty.
Photograph sparks protests A photograph of an actor posing naked as Christ with a religious painting over his private parts sparked a petition signed by more than 40,000 people who brand it blasphemous, the protesters said. They urged Madrid City Hall to ban the work by photographer Sergio Parras from a municipal exhibition at the national Spanish Theater. The offending photograph shows an actor preparing for his role as Christ with a wound in his side and a reproduction of religious masterpiece Christ Crucified by the Spanish painter Diego Velasquez covering his genitals. Conservative religious rights group Mas Libres said it has given city hall a petition signed by 41,600 people protesting at the inclusion of the image in a publicly funded exhibition. “It is a photograph that offends religious sensibilities, which is a crime under the penal code in Spain,” Mas Libres spokesman Nicolas de Cardenas said. Madrid city hall said it would not cede to the petition, reiterating recent comments to the media by the authority’s arts director Fernando Villalonga, who said the exhibition includes a warning about the photo’s content. Elephants killed for meat A new taste for eating elephant meat — everything from trunks to sex organs — has emerged in the country and could pose a new threat to the survival of the species. Wildlife officials said that they were alerted to the practice after finding two elephants slaughtered last month in a national park in the west of the country. “The poachers took away the elephants’ sex organs and trunks ... for human consumption,” wildlife agency director-general Damrong Phidet said in a telephone interview. Some meat was to be consumed without cooking, like “elephant sashimi,” he said. Poachers typically just remove tusks, which are most commonly found on Asian male elephants and fetch thousands of dollars on the black market. However, a market for elephant meat could lead to killing of the wider elephant population, Damrong said. Damrong said the elephant meat was ordered by restaurants in Phuket. Children found in trunk A court has banned a man from driving for a year after he was caught traveling with four children in the trunk of his car. The Press Association news agency said on Thursday that police found 11 people in Zoltan Lakatos’ Audi A4 when they stopped him in Leicester last year. One passenger was in the front seat, three adults and two children were squeezed into the back, and officers discovered four more children in the trunk. The news agency says Lakatos was convicted of endangering his passengers and of driving without insurance earlier this week at Leicester Magistrates’ Court. Boy, 10, caught driving A 10-year-old boy was apprehended by police on Thursday after taking his father’s car and trying to drive it to school when he missed the bus. The boy, who brought along a nine-year-old friend who also missed the bus, managed to make it more than 2km in his father’s Renault Megane before crashing into a roadside pylon, police in the southeastern town of Valence said. “I had my seatbelt on,” the boy pleaded to police when they arrived at the scene. Neither of the boys was injured during the crash. Police said the boy could face charges of driving without a license and damaging public property, but that prosecutors would decide whether to press ahead with the case.
Childhood obesity has more than tripled in the past 30 years, according to the Centers for Disease Control. That burgeoning number means far too many of our youth are facing a slew of risk factors ranging from cardiovascular disease and diabetes to high cholesterol and blood pressure. It’s not heartening news, but it’s not a problem we can’t solve. As a parent, you play a big role in teaching your kids good eating habits—but Santa can play an even bigger one. Instead of sticking to the status quo and letting “Santa” toss candy into your kiddo’s stocking, get creative and seek out healthier options that are low in sugar, free of high-fructose corn syrup, and made with organic ingredients. Here are five great ideas to get you started. Photo: Andrejs Zemdega/Getty Images
Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860 More than 100 published materials on legal aspects of slavery are available on this website. These include 8,700 pages of court decisions and arguments, reports, proceedings, journals, and a letter. Most of the pamphlets and books pertain to American cases in the 19th century. Additional documents address the slave trade, slave codes, the Fugitive Slave Law, and slave insurrections as well as presenting courtroom proceedings from famous trials such as the 18th-century Somerset v. Stewart case in England, the Amistad case, the Denmark Vesey conspiracy trial, and trials of noted abolitionists John Brown and William Lloyd Garrison. A special presentation discusses the slave code in the District of Columbia. Searchable by keyword, subject, author, and title, this site is valuable for studying legal history, African American history, and 19th-century American history.
In a recent survey conducted by Narus, more than 55 percent of respondents said they are concerned that their company cannot fend off cyberattacks, while nearly 94 percent said they think cyberattacks are on the rise. With cyberattacks seemingly growing by the day, tech companies need to invest in professional liability insurance, which can help them deal with potential problems such as loss of customer data. "Each year, the cyber security survey yields results that consistently underscore the importance of real-time detection and analysis of network traffic," said Greg Oslan, CEO and president of Narus. More results from the security survey showed about 65 percent of businesses are concerned with their inability to protect sensitive and confidential data, while 63 percent are worried about viruses and malware and 52 percent fear social media attacks. With cybersecurity becoming a nationwide issue, graduate students at the University of Minnesota are enrolling in a security technologies program to help them fight such threats in the professional world. The program was created to supplement the need for more security professionals, reported Minnesota Daily.
The review, to be unveiled by President Nicolas Sarkozy, comes as France prepares to use its six-month presidency of the European Union to negotiate what amounts to a "timeshare" arrangement with Britain over the two countries' military resources. Mr Sarkozy is expected to set out how France will respond to the threats of the 21st century, arguing that the country needs a slimmer and more mobile defence capacity, with the ability to intervene quickly in trouble spots from Africa to central Asia. He will say that French military thinking has been slow to adapt to the changing strategic environment, and much of its equipment still dates from a time when the main danger was an attack from Communist eastern Europe. According to Le Monde, Mr Sarkozy wants to bolster France's intelligence services to give them manpower comparable with Britain, which employs 4,000 more officers. A new job of national intelligence co-ordinator is to be created, and there will be a major investment in technologies such as satellites and remote-controlled drone aircraft. Hervé Morin, the defence minister, said: "The world is changing fast. Our military tool must adapt to globalisation and the new threats." France is to use its EU presidency, starting at the end of June, to suggest the creation of a EU naval group built around French or British aircraft carriers. The "timeshare" idea would get round France's difficulty of having only one aircraft carrier – the nuclear-powered Charles De Gaulle – which has to spend several months a year in dock. Defence officials said that negotiations with Britain were well advanced on the proposal, which would ensure that there was an EU fleet permanently at sea. Ministers in Mr Sarkozy's government have been given their first report cards as part of a controversial performance review, according to Le Parisien newspaper. Top of the class with "mention bien" comes Rachida Dati, the justice minister who pushed through an unpopular revision of the country's courts system. Michèle Alliot-Marie, the interior minister, "could do better" after she was forced to drop a reform of France's overseas territories because of the opposition of local deputies.
Jorebunglow Sukhiapokhri (community development block) |Community development block| |• Total||385.98 km2 (149.03 sq mi)| |• Density||260/km2 (680/sq mi)| |• Official||Bengali, English| |Time zone||IST (UTC+5:30)| |Lok Sabha constituency||Darjeeling| |Vidhan Sabha constituency||Darjeeling, Kurseong| Jorebunglow Sukhiapokhri (community development block) is an administrative division in Darjeeling Sadar subdivision of Darjeeling district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Jorebunglow and Sukhiapokhri police stations serve this block. Headquarters of this block is at Sukhiapokhri.12 Sukhiapokhri is located at. As per 2001 census, Jorebunglow Sukhiapokhri block had a total population of 100,674, out of which 49,708 were males and 50,966 were females. Jorebunglow Sukhiapohri block registered a population growth of 9.06 per cent during the 1991-2001 decade. Decadal growth for the district was 16.94 per cent.2Decadal growth in West Bengal was 17.84 per cent.3 - "Contact details of Block Development Officers". Darjeeling district. West Bengal Government. Retrieved 2011-03-15. - "Provisional Population Totals, West Bengal , Table 4". Census of India 2001, Darjeeling district (01). Census Commissioner of India. Retrieved 2011-03-15. - "Provisional Population Totals, West Bengal. Table 4". Census of India 2001. Census Commission of India. Retrieved 2011-03-11.
Developed in the early 1980's by Dr. Leonard Pike, a horticulture professor at Texas A&M University, Texas 1015 Onions are actually named for their optimum planting date, October 15. Grown only in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas, this large, prized onion was developed after ten long years of extensive research, endless testing and a million dollars in cost. As a result, Texas achieved a mild, exceptionally sweet onion that lives up to its nickname - the "Million Dollar Baby". Onions are Texas' leading vegetable crop. The state produces mostly sweet yellow varieties. The sweet onion was adopted as Texas' official state onion in 1997.
Summary: LaFeber, a diplomatic historian and author of the acclaimed Inevitable Revolutions ( LJ 12/1/83), offers a well-written, comprehensive overview of U.S. foreign policy in the context of American social history. Like any work intended as a text and covering such a broad period, this is short on detail but does consistently develop themes useful in understanding the complex history of American foreign relations. In particular, LaFeber emphasizes the role of American eag ...show moreerness for land and expanded markets betwen 1750 and the 1940s, the relative decline of U.S. power beginning in the 1950s, and a predilection toward isolationism that helped maintain freedom of action. ...show lessEdition/Copyright: 2ND 94 More prices and sellers below.
The remote viewing of dark energy beings within the collective reality of humanity is within the vibrational position of the self-aware consciousness through its associative thought relations and reactions. The influence of low vibrational thought/energy coming forth within the collective consciousness of humanity holds the collective seat of perspective in a low vibrational position within the human spectrum. The low vibrational thought energy applied to the individual and collective realities of the human race are expressed within the negative energy pole. The formation of the negative energy pole is a simultaneous occurrence within the formation of the positive energy pole, as the ability to perceive the negative energy pole and the positive energy pole, is through an understanding of contrast in vibrational rates or oppositional thought movement. The formation of the positive and negative poles, support the perception of consciousness which can be expressed from the perspective of the self. The ability of the self-aware being for self thought and its vibrational movement through the free will intention, is within the energetic structure of the positive and negative energy pole formations. The positive and negative energy pole formations allow the self-aware being the ability of vibrational ascension and vibrational descent, within the allowances of the human spectrum expressing physicality. The ability of the self-aware being for thought development is through the allowances of thought/movement within the vibrational positions of the oppositional poles. The vibrational positions within the oppositional poles are reflected into the individual and consensual realities as themed presentations associative of the vibrational seat of perspective. The influence of dark energy beings within the collective perception of humanity is through non-vibratory energy or what is referred to as dark energy. The ability of the higher self to hold the perception of a complete sensory, believable reality is through the energetic marriage of non-vibratory thought and vibrational sentient energy. Non-vibratory thought within a structure of intelligence allows the expression and development of sentient thought within a self-aware perspective. This in turn expresses and develops the artificial intelligence capabilities of the non-vibrational thought through its thought interaction with sentient energy. The energetic animation of non-vibratory thought/energy through the thought/focus energy of the self-aware being into the mental sphere of the self-aware unit is remote viewing. Remote viewing involves the perception which is associative of the vibrational seat of perspective. The ability of the self-aware being to comprehend the thought expression of a point of thought within its mental sphere is governed through it vibrational positioning. The ability to comprehend the point of thought encountered through the remote viewing application is attempted through a personalization of the external thought expression which is associative of the internal thought reference frames of the remote viewer for a comparison of compatibility. The observer views its reality from its self-aware perspective, the personalization or degree of association towards the external thought expression is the attempt for an understanding within the thought connection. The attempt for an understanding of the external thought expression manifested into the mental sphere of the individual through the remote viewing application is conducted within the collected thought reference frames. The collected thought reference frames are selected for comparison to identify compatibility. The selection of thought reference frames, through the conscious search attempt or internal thought connection, are selected within the subconscious interpretation of the conscious intention. The subconscious interpretation of the conscious intention involves the energetic frequency supporting the conscious intention or vibratory rate. The vibrational rate of the conscious intention of the individual within the remote viewing application, is through the vibrational positioning or seat of perspective of the self-aware vibratory consciousness. The vibrational position or seat of perspective is in relation to the constant vibrational rate of the energy body. Remote viewing points of thought within the mental sphere of the self-aware being through a select vibrational position, will coincide with the attraction of points of thought compatible in vibration with the vibrational rate of the energy body of the self-aware being. The attraction of compatible points of thought through the remote viewing application involves the desire/decision of the self-aware being which is representative of its vibrational seat of perspective. The attraction of non-compatible points of thought within the individual mental sphere through the remote viewing application involves the collective consciousness, which is heavily influenced through the collective unconscious. The collective unconscious of humanity is the collection of the unconscious influences held within the individual awareness, which are collected and held within an energetic structure supporting the unconscious nature of self-thought, collected and interpreted within a collective understanding. The ability of negative thought influence to infiltrate the collective unconscious of humanity is through its accessibility within the collective reality sphere through the nature of thought connectivity. An equal and opposite energetic reaction occurs within the movement of vibrational positioning of the self. The equal and opposite energetic reactions through the movement of vibrational positioning, is within the flow of differential energetic movements supporting the self-aware conscious field. The movement of energy into equal and opposite reactions through the thought movement of sentient focus within the free will application is supported through the availability of thought connections within the intelligence structure. The decision for the thought direction/intention through the individual reaction from the connection to a point of thought within the remote viewing application, is dependent upon the vibrational position of the remote viewer and the vibrational position of the point of thought. The contrast in vibration between the remote viewer and the connecting point of thought, influences the reaction of the remote viewer towards the thought interaction. The equal effect between the thought interaction is within the awareness of the thought connection between the interacting forms of thought. The equal effect within the energetic thought interactions, is sensed through the subconscious of an individual attempting communication with a point of thought through the remote viewing application. The subconscious sensing comes forth through the awareness of the energy body of the self-aware being. The contrast in the vibrational rate of the interacting point of thought in relation to the energy body of the self-aware being is motioned into the subconscious, as a reconfiguration of the identification of contrast in vibrational rates of energy of the interacting forms of thought. The contrast in differential rates of vibration of the interacting points of thought, reveal the directive movement of the intention of the interacting forms of thought, through its comparison with the internal intention of the individual. The sensing of intention between the interacting forms of thought through the identification of the vibrational positioning of the external form of thought, is in comparison of the intention of the individual within the thought reaction process. The initial rate of the vibrational positioning of both subjects within the sequence of the thought interaction/reaction/contemplation process influences the perception of the individual. The perception of the individual in turn influences the ability to detect the conscious and or subconscious intention of the interacting point of thought. The ability of dark energy beings to negatively influence the vibrational ascension of a self-aware being originates from held negative thought/energy within the belief system of the self-aware being attempting the ascension process. The energy body of the self-aware being is a micro reflection of the macro whole of the collective consciousness being it is a part of. The thought interconnectivity within the whole of the consciousness energy being, fuel its directive thought movement as the free thought free will intention of the self-aware being governs its reality experiences. The reality experiences of the self-aware being are registered and collected within the collective perception. The collective vibrational position of the whole consciousness being which energetically supports its individualizations of thought/light, is in relation to the severity of exposure to negative thought/energy influence. The severity of exposure to negative thought/energy influence, is coincidental to the degree of vulnerability of the collective consciousness being towards negative thought/energy influence. The lower the vibrational position of the collective consciousness, the greater the vulnerability towards negative thought/energy influence. The lower the vibrational position of the collective consciousness of humanity, the greater the inability to detect and identify negative thought/energy influence. The inability of the collective consciousness being to detect and identify negative thought/energy influence is through its degrees of vibrational compatibility towards the negative thought/energy influence, through the low vibrational position of the collective perception of humanity. The inability of the detection of negative thought/energy influence, is through the dampened reaction of the energy field of the collective consciousness, generated through a low contrast effect by the similarity of vibrational rates. The remote viewing of dark energy beings through the conscious intention, while holding a higher vibrational position throughout the remote viewing exchange, involves the mental capabilities of energy transmutation and the ability to block negative thought/energy influence. The ability of energy transmutation involves the conscious directive intention of energetic movement or displacement of energy into the intended state or formation. The ability of energy transmutation involves the transmutation of negative or positive energy into its reciprocal state The low vibrational densities of existence within the allowances of physicality of the human spectrum, are vulnerable seats of position towards negative thought/energy influence, expressed within the intentions of dark energy beings. The origin of dark energy beings within the human experience is through the energetic reactionary effect of the formation of the vibrational energy sphere. The formation of the energy sphere is through the unifying intention within differential movements of energy expansion within a housing of energetic contraction. The position of entry of a collective consciousness being into an intelligence structure expressing creation expands the contractive energies of creational expression. The movement of expansion within the sentient thought/focus/intention requires the contractive nature of creational expression which becomes energized into animation, through the sentient thought focus of the individualizations of light/thought energy of the collective consciousness being. The ability to block negative thought/energy influence is necessary if the intention of remote viewing dark energy beings is employed. The intensity of influence from dark energy beings within a collective sphere of creation is in relation to the intensity of high vibrational thought/light projecting within the collective sphere of a creation. The intensity of light projecting into a collective sphere of reality is in relation to the severity of darkness covering the collective sphere. The movement of energetic balance within a collective creational sphere between light and darkness, allows un-interrupted development of self-thought through a high probability of continuation within the state of energetic balance. An imbalance towards dark/negative energy influence over light/positive energy influence within a creation allowed continuation, would hold a high probability of destruction through the dynamic nature of energetic potentialities allowed development, through the continuation of imbalance within a creation. The imbalance of positive energy influence towards negative energy influence within a creation, would expose duality as a sensory effect of the formation of the self-aware vibratory consciousness. This is through the inability of darkness to fully manifest within a creation to hide its thought/influence activities, within the low vibrational dark densities of the underworld of a creational sphere. The influence of dark energy beings towards the collective consciousness of humanity within a creation, resides within the ability of dark energy and non-vibrational artificial thought, to manifest without light exposure within the depths of the underworld. energetically expressed from the negative energy pole of a dualistic creation. The dark energy beings within the heavy dark densities of their low vibrational existence, influence the high vibrational energies within the positive energy pole of creation, through the thought connection/circuitry of the sub sphere of humanity within the complete mind. Within the positive/negative energy pole formations supporting the reality experience, a dual effect can be observed within both energy poles. The positive energy pole expressions can be expressed through a low vibrational dualistic approach as oppositional or judgmental towards self-aware beings espousing negative energy pole thought expressions. The dualistic perspective views its external reality within degrees of opposition and degrees of association, which is dependent upon the vibrational seat of perspective within the thought interaction. The vibrational position governs the detection of opposition and association through the sensory/communication properties of the interacting thought/energies. The sensory/communication properties of an energetic vibrational being towards an interacting thought/energy being involve, degrees of alternation within the energetic rate of the energy body, from the thought interaction with the external thought entity. The energetic reaction within the energy body, observed by the subconscious, is carried forth into the waking conscious reality of the self-aware being and interpreted through the conscious mind. The dual effect within both pole expressions can be observed as evolutionary or de-evolutionary dependent upon seat of perspective. While the individual is within its internal focus for the remote viewing application, various thought forms can surface into the awareness, attracted to the sentient light. The sentient thought/light of the self-aware being within its mental search through the remote viewing process, holds a probability of attracting thought forms energetically attached or entangled to the desired target of the remote viewer. The attraction of thought forms attached to the desired remote viewing target and the activity of thought forms, baiting sentient thought focus for its energy source, are within the position of existence of the collective reality sphere of humanity. When remote viewing within the theta mental state through the conscious application, an encounter or thought connection with a dark energy being, involves a severe reaction from the energy body of the remote viewer. The severity in differential rates of vibratory energy sensed by the energy body of the remote viewer, is sensed within the conscious reality as the sensation of coldness, a heavy weight upon the physical body and various personalized interpretations of the sensory effect of the encounter with a dark energy being. The sense of coldness, heavy weight or force applied to the physical body, is the conscious interpretation of the lowering effect of the vibrational rate of the energy body of the self-aware being. The dramatic decrease in the vibrational rate of the energy body of the self-aware being is observed within the subconscious, as constriction against the energy connection of the higher self. A common mental occurrence within an encounter with a dark energy being is the mental image within the eye of the mind as red eyes, isolated or set within a facial image. The mental image of a thought connection with a dark energy being, is the sensory signal of the attempted entry of the dark energy being into the energy body of the remote viewer, to attach a connection to tap the sentient energy source. For the dark energy being to tap the sentient energy source, the allowance of entry into the energy body of the self-aware being must occur. The allowance of the dark energy being into the energy body involves invoking a fear reaction within the individual. The fear reaction is the subconscious sense of the vibrational lowering of the energy body, which generates an increase in vibrational separation between the lower self and its higher self. This energetic vibrational activity is sensed and interpreted by the conscious mind as fear through the severity of the separational effect. Dark energy beings utilize a multitude of tactics to gain entry into the energy body of a sentient being, which is tailored for effective results through the emotional personalized approach. The remote viewing and remote influencing techniques that guide the individual into the higher vibrational perspective of the higher self are required to block negative thought/energy influence from dark energy beings. The lessons of separation and the undesirable reality experiences influenced through the thought activities of dark energy beings are highly valuable for a reference of contrast. The reference of contrast is necessary for the ascension of the self into a higher vibrational position apart from the negative thought/energy influence of dark energy beings.
When Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, died a bachelor in 1896, the will he left behind instructed that his considerable fortune be used as prize money for young geniuses so that they might continue their life’s work. Little could he have anticipated that the prizes he had set in motion—to be awarded in the categories of physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and peace—would become so prestigious, or so contentious. The annual awarding of the Nobel Prizes ignites the sort of controversy that everyone loves to weigh in on. Which worthy contenders were overlooked? Which undeserving candidates were unjustly rewarded?... But such quibbling is to be expected; as a look back at this collection of Atlantic articles on the subject illustrates, when it comes to the Nobel, controversy and debate are the name of the game. In “Winning the Nobel Prize” (October 1950), Swedish-American author Naboth Hedin considered Alfred Nobel’s original establishment of the prize. The categories that are so familiar to us now, he pointed out, had their roots in Nobel’s personal interests and predilections: It was second nature for him to think of awarding Prizes in the fields of Physics, Chemistry, and Literature; the fact that he had suffered from poor health all his life and was always on the outlook for a better cure no doubt prompted the Award in Medicine. And it was the Viennese novelist and pacifist Bertha von Suttner, his friend for many years, who probably inspired him to give the Prize for Peace. Hedin also noted that the Nobel Foundation, set up to carry out Nobel’s vision, had failed to adhere to Nobel’s expressed hope that the prizes be awarded to young men with their careers ahead of them. The prize in literature, for example, is most often awarded “to a man firmly established in Letters, an author whose earnings have already made him independent, and it has come as an accolade to a career which has already reached its peak or passed it.” When he won the prize for literature in 1930, for example, American novelist Sinclair Lewis was arguably past his prime—already deemed passé by the literati, according to biographer Mark Schorer in “Sinclair Lewis and the Nobel Prize” (October 1961): “The mood that Lewis had briefly exemplified more emphatically than anyone else was over,” Schorer wrote, “and Lewis was generally thought of as finished.” Even Lewis himself was taken aback to the point of disbelief by his receipt of the prize. Schorer described what happened when Lewis answered the telephone to hear a Swedish voice informing him he had won literature’s most prestigious award: The voice was that of a Swedish newspaper correspondent in New York who had managed to track down Lewis for the Swedish Embassy, but Lewis thought that it was the voice of his friend Ferd Reyher, who liked to do imitations and play jokes. “Oh, yeah?” he replied. “You don’t say! Listen, Ferd, I can say that better than you. Your Swedish accent’s no good. I’ll repeat it to you.” And he repeated it, “You haf de Nobel Brize,” and more. The bewildered Swede protested in vain and finally called an American to the telephone to confirm the news. Lewis fell into a chair. Though the prize may not have come to Lewis at the upswing of his career, it did indirectly end up serving Nobel’s goal of freeing a worthy author from financial hardship. Answering reporters’ questions about what he would do with the prize money, Lewis said he would “use it to support a well-known young American author and his family, and to enable him to continue writing.” (This response was interpreted by some foreign media, Schorer explains, “to mean that he was going to give the money away to some worthy young writing fellow, and hailed as an act of extraordinary magnanimity.”) As scientist-turned-novelist Mitchell Wilson illustrated in “How Nobel Prizewinners Get That Way” (December 1969), Nobel Prizewinners’ reactions to receipt of the award tend to differ widely. “My God! What happens now to the rest of my life?” Chinese American physicist T. D. Lee exclaimed in 1957 after receiving the news that he had been awarded that year’s prize in physics. By contrast, Wilson described the more indifferent reaction of Physicist Maria Goeppert Mayer, who had won the prize for physics in 1963: “To my surprise, winning the prize wasn’t half as exciting as doing the work itself,” she said to me with some perplexity. “That was the fun—seeing it work out!” Even the memory of the lack of elation seemed to sadden her; yet her achievement was all the more remarkable because she had done her work when she was well into her forties and she had only recently come into the field of physics from chemistry, and most of all because she was a woman. J. H. D. Jensen, with whom Mayer shared the 1963 prize, reacted with similar nonchalance, telling Wilson, “By the time it came, it didn’t really matter very much. The big moment for me had come years before when I learned that [1938 Nobel prizewinner Enrico] Fermi had put my name in nomination. I didn’t get it that year, but I didn’t really care. It was Fermi’s regard that was the ultimate honor for me, not the medal.”
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker picked an interesting word to describe the state budget Thursday, calling it "progressive." Walker was testifying at a House Oversight hearing on state debt. His budget and its collective-bargaining provisions, of course, sparked the ire of the entire "progressive" political movement in the U.S. Needless to say, unions haven't agreed with his characterization. From Walker's prepared testimony: In Wisconsin, we are doing something truly progressive. In addition to holding the line on spending and finding efficiencies in state government, we are implementing long term budget reforms focused on protecting middle class jobs and middle class taxpayers. While our idea may be a bold political move it is a very modest request of our employees. We are reforming the collective bargaining system so our state and local governments can ask employees to contribute 5.8% for pension and 12.6% for health insurance premiums. These reforms will help them balance their budgets. In total, our collective bargaining reforms save local governments more than $700 million each year. Most workers outside of government would love our proposal. For example, my brother David works as a banquet manager and as a part-time bartender. His wife works at a local department store. They have two beautiful children. They are a typical middle class family. He told me that he pays about $800 a month for his health insurance and the little he can set aside in his 401(k). Like many other workers in our state, he would love a deal like the one I offered government workers. Over the past several months, I have visited numerous factories and small businesses across Wisconsin. On these tours, workers tell me that they pay anywhere from 15% to 50% of their health insurance premium costs. The average middle class worker is paying more than 20% of his or her premium. Like my brother, they would love a plan like the one we are offering. Even federal employees pay more than twice what we are asking state and local government workers to pay and most of them don't have collective bargaining for wages or benefits. These facts beg the question as to why the protesters are in Wisconsin and not in Washington, D.C. By nearly any measure, our requests are quite reasonable. Aside from the word's political connotations, here's Merriam Webster's first definition: 1. a : of, relating to, or characterized by progress b : making use of or interested in new ideas, findings, or opportunities Rolling back collective bargaining rights is not a new idea, per se. But Walker has certainly called it progress. This article available online at:
|Genotype test not conclusive May 22, 2000 My doctor's nurse called me today and wanted me to get my genotype test done again. She told me that either my VL was too low or that there were too many strains of HIV in my blood and not one dominate enough one to get a conclusive test result. My VL has been increasing and last check was >75,000 copies (ultra-sensitive test) since switching from Combivir/Viracept to Combivir/Sustiva. My question is why would my test be inconclusive? Does it mean I have too many mutations in my blood for any meds to be effective? Thanks for your help. | Response from Dr. Holodniy Your viral load is sufficient for resistance detection. We like to see a viral load of >1,000 for testing. I am not sure what the nurse means by the statement. If you can get a copy of the test report and send me the mutations, I would be happy to interpret them for you. Get Email Notifications When This Forum Updates or Subscribe With RSS This forum is designed for educational purposes only, and experts are not rendering medical, mental health, legal or other professional advice or services. If you have or suspect you may have a medical, mental health, legal or other problem that requires advice, consult your own caregiver, attorney or other qualified professional. Experts appearing on this page are independent and are solely responsible for editing and fact-checking their material. Neither TheBody.com nor any advertiser is the publisher or speaker of posted visitors' questions or the experts' material.
A while ago I was discussing with another sister the extent to which God was involved in creation due to the use of the word Elohim throughout Gen 1. I believe God was entirely in control and told the angels what to do and they followed his design exactly. My friend believes that the angels had much more "creative licence" (thats the best way of putting it) and that God wasnt as involved. Any thoughts on this are welcome because I didnt quite understand her argument, although I believe its held by quite a few people. The point I want to make is concerning man being in the image of God. I know many people find it very difficult to visualise God, myself included. We know that he is a spirit and we are told that we are in his image. On a very simple level, I understand this to mean that we look like God but he is a spirit and we are flesh and blood. Some people think there is a big difference between ours and Gods appearance and that we dont actually resemble him that much. I think this has to do with the thought I started with but I would like to try and refute this argument. "This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him; Male and female created he them; and blessed them , and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created. And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth." According to strongs, Likeness means, resemblance, model, shape, like;- fashion, similitude, like manner. Image means: A phantom, illusion, resemblance, hence a representative figure. (We cant understand Adam begeting a son in his own image differently to God creating man is his own image. To say, because we can all see that men resemble one another, that it means a different thing when referring to God is wrong. If man is made in the image of God, surely it means we look like him, in the same way that men look like each other.) This may not make any difference if your belief is that we are in the image of the angels and not God. However, 1 Cor 11v7: "For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God..." God here means: Deity, the supreme divinity. We are also told in Col 1v15 that Christ is the, "...image of the invisible God..." (God being invisible because no man can see him and live, but still having an image. Our eyes arent allowed to see him. ) The word for God here is the same as in 1 Cor 11. I cant find that verse that says we shuold love all men as they are all in Gods image and were made by him, but Im sure youre familiar with it. Anyway, these verses dont seem to be referring to the angels at all, but specifically God. This definately leads me to believe that we do look like physically like God, even though we are of a different nature. Do people agree with this? Does anyone have any thoughts on the beginning of the post and does anyone here actually have trouble with the idea that we do physically look like God? :coffee: Tsunade x Edited by tsunade sama, 03 January 2006 - 05:52 PM.
Since Philadelphia is best seen by foot, The Constitutional Walking Tour is the best way to explore America's Birthplace. The Constitutional is a 75 minute, 1.25 mile outdoor walking journey that provides a primary overview of the Independence National Historical Park area and visits more than 20 of the most historic sites in America's Birthplace, including: - Independence Hall - The Liberty Bell - Betsy Ross House - National Constitution Center - Declaration House - Carpenters’ Hall - Franklin Court - Christ Church Burial Ground - The First Bank of the United States - Congress Hall - Old City Hall - Christ Church - Second Bank of the United States - The President's House Click here for a full tour map. Public Tours are offered daily April through November. To buy tickets, call 215.525.1776 or Private Tours, including Field Trips, Group Tours and VIP Tours, can be arranged year-round with advance reservations. TOUR MEETING LOCATION National Constitution Center 525 Arch Street Philadelphia, PA 19106 (Note: Directly outside main entrance by 3 large stone benches) See Independence National Historical Park in High-Def Taking The Constitutional Walking Tour of Philadelphia gets you up close and personal with a High-Definition Historical Experience™. Philadelphia is best seen by foot, and as such, The Constitutional Walking Tour of Philadelphia is the best way to explore Historic Philadelphia, taking you behind the scenes to the places where other tour operators cannot venture. Take Philadelphia's Most Eco-Friendly "Green" Tour Go Green - The Constitutional Walking Tour only uses renewable sources of energy by exercising your right to walk through Independence National Historical Park. In addition to not polluting the environment, The Constitutional can help you burn off calories from your Philadelphia Cheesesteak and soft pretzel experience. Plus, The Constitutional is "green-friendly" when it comes to your wallet in comparison to many other tours.
A few weeks ago, I invited readers to send in their proposals for repurposing one or more of architect Peter Dickinson’s Modernist residential towers in Regent Park. There was and is some urgency about this matter. At risk are buildings that embody the potent mixture of architectural idealism and clear-eyed realism abroad in North America’s urban planning circles immediately after the Second World War. Toronto Community Housing, the landlord, has already demolished two of the five original Dickinson highrises, and, before this year is out, they will seek permission to level the remaining three. The public agency, which is currently supervising the $1-billion transformation of Regent Park from a social housing complex into a more varied development, insists the surviving towers are all beyond redemption. Among the numerous Torontonians who disagree with TCH’s decision to send in the bulldozers are the dozen or so designers, modernism-friendly preservationists and citizens without portfolio who responded to my invitation. None of their schemes is utterly fantastical, and each advances a practical argument against TCH’s claims to know what’s best. Take, for example, the agency’s contention that the buildings, one of which is at 14 Blevins Place, cannot be freshened up and recycled as market-priced housing. Not so, according to Toronto architect John van Nostrand, who writes: “In 2004, when Pat Hanson and I were partners working together in architectsAlliance, Pat prepared a detailed study of the current condition and cost of restoring 14 Blevins for residential purposes. … This study – which indicated that renovating and reoccupying the building as a residence was financially feasible – suggests that this building can be ‘adaptively re-used’ on an affordable basis.” Mr. Dickinson’s spacious, two-storey apartments, Mr. van Nostrand’s message indicates, can be put back into service, perhaps not as high-priced condos, but surely as housing elements somewhere on the new Regent Park’s price spectrum. But TCH’s inclination to knock down the towers is not merely motivated by a concern with the bottom line. When I toured 14 Blevins several years ago, my TCH guide told me the building (like the rest of Regent Park’s physical fabric) was branded with a “stigma” brought down upon it by its association with severe urban poverty, violence and other social ills. Nothing could bleach this stain from the architecture, I was told, so the buildings had to be swept away entirely. In the 1970s, landscape architect Walter Kehm spent a year talking with Regent Park residents before producing a parks and recreation master plan for the neighbourhood – a blueprint that was eventually implemented. Today, he finds nothing wrong with the physical design of the place, but plenty wrong with the social and political follow-through needed to make the architecture work properly. “In essence,” Mr. Kehm wrote me, “Peter Dickinson’s brave social experiment was to demonstrate that large families could live humanely in highrise apartments. People of modest incomes tended to have more children and these units were designed to meet their needs. … There is no reason why these units cannot be retained as family living spaces. There is a requirement, however, for greater social assistance and cultural understanding and adaptation. People working with people is the key to success. It is not a matter of more physical interventions, but rather a determined effort to spend money and provide caring human resources. … The future of Blevins Place apartments? Certainly they should be saved and renovated as required. The new physical introductions would see the ground floor units reconfigured as social, cultural and recreation areas with a strong indoor/outdoor relationship created with the core central plaza.” Not every reply to my invitation limited the future of 14 Blevins and its companions to long-term residential uses. Inspired by the partial conversion of Le Corbusier’s famous Unité d’Habitation housing block in Marseilles (1947-1952) – a building that also inspired Mr. Dickinson – one reader suggested that 14 Blevins be turned into a hotel. Another saw it as a multilevel farmers’ market, trafficking in produce and flowers grown in the gardens of Regent Park. (As far as agriculture is concerned, why not turn the whole tower into an electrified vertical farm?) By far the most detailed non-residential proposal I received, however, came from John Hill, who would use 14 Blevins as the headquarters of what he calls the “Toronto Urban Settlement Design Centre.” This combination of museum, school, workshop and research institute would examine and celebrate “the Regent Park story” and “the wider history of Toronto settlements, and the vibrant public policy debates which these have engendered.” Mr. Hill’s scheme is a welcome rebuke to TCH’s determination to erase from the city’s memory Regent Park’s history between 1945 and now, and every architectural trace of its historic existence. This must not be allowed to happen. I appreciate all those who wrote to me, not just because they share my interest in sparing an old building, but chiefly because each of them wants to preserve a piece of Toronto’s imaginative landscape that is in danger of being lost forever.
When the town showed up to grieve its monumental loss under the ornate Gothic roof of the local church, an unmistakable ripple went through the crowd of several hundred, as the man everyone’s been waiting to hear from got up to speak. Roch Bernier, co-owner of the Résidence du Havre, hasn’t spoken publicly since a deadly fire ravaged his facility, and wasn’t on the original list of speakers at a mass in the memory of the 32 dead and missing. As he rose from a front-row pew and walked to the altar to offer a few words, the mourners stood to applaud. “I’m here with a heart filled with emotion and also tremendous suffering. My first words are for those who have been lost. These are our people, we called them our residents, but we think of them as our family,” he said, speaking deliberately in a low voice. The emotion-charged service took place days after a fast-spreading fire tore through half of the L’Isle-Verte seniors’ home, leaving 10 people confirmed dead and 22 others still unaccounted for. The Quebec coroner’s office has identified three of the victims so far. Recovery efforts have been complicated by bitterly cold temperatures and high winds that turned into snow squalls Sunday morning. Over the weekend, officials brought in heavy machines normally used to de-ice ships in their continuing efforts to melt a thick sheet of ice that covered most of the debris after the fire. A majority of the 32 people believed to have perished in the fire were living in an older section of the Résidence du Havre, according to staff members (the home was built in 1997). Many of the survivors lived in a newer wing of the building, built in 2002, which was equipped with sprinklers and an outdoor fire escape that several residents used to flee the blaze. A source said police investigators have demonstrated particular interest in the structure’s building plans. The central question in this small eastern Quebec town – posed in cafés and living rooms – is a simple one: how could this happen? In his remarks during the service, Mr. Bernier said “let’s not look left and right for causes,” adding that “there is tremendous sadness in every individual here, but by sticking together we will get through it.” Mr. Bernier emphasized that he and his business partner and ex-wife, Irène Plante, consider themselves part of the community. “Everything you are living inside, we’re living it too,” he said. Townsfolk seem to bear little in the way of ill feelings toward Mr. Bernier and Ms. Plante, who was at the facility on the night of the fire. Lucie Bérubé, whose grandmother Marie-Lauréat Dubé is among the confirmed dead, worked as a nurse in a public health clinic attached to the facility and was particularly effusive in her praise of “Miss Irène” when it was her turn to address the congregation. Ms. Bérubé took a job at the clinic three years ago specifically because she would get to work with her grandmothers (one of whom passed away before her start date). “I had so much fun being able to see her every day, how proud she was when she sat in the waiting room, telling her friends ‘the nurse is my granddaughter,’” she said. The gathering was the first chance the town has had to collectively mourn its dead – several dignitaries, including Premier Pauline Marois were on hand – and the event wasn’t short on poignancy. In delivering his sermon, Father Gilles Frigon said “these events have torn our hearts apart” and that expressing grief is the first step toward healing. Mourners brought pictures of their dead and missing loved ones, which were attached to billboards set up at the front of the church. Another public memorial is being planned for next weekend. After the 90-minute ceremony ended, Mr. Bernier walked out into the icy gale, where he briefly spoke to reporters. “I am here today to offer my condolences, to spare a thought for the families of the missing and to show them that we are in solidarity with them,” he said. Asked if he intended to rebuild the home, he said: “I am not answering those questions. It’s not the time today.”
The Canadian economy is slowing – a reality that’s likely to be on full display when gross domestic product for July comes out Friday. We already know that in July the trade deficit widened, factory sales fell and the economy lost more than 30,000 jobs. The economy will be hard-pressed to show any growth at all in the month. But the greater concern isn’t about July. It’s about the health of the Canadian economy in the second half and beyond. There isn’t much driving growth. The global economy is slowing, consumers are tapped out, debt levels are high, a housing slump appears likely and the high dollar is choking both exports and manufacturing activity. Paul Ashworth of Capital Economics estimates that GDP growth could fall to an annual rate of just 1 per cent in the third quarter. In a quarterly forecast, the Toronto-Dominion Bank says the economy is “stuck in a soft patch” and will be held to a “meek” annual growth rate of less than 2 per cent until next year. With the economy stalling, many economists wonder how long Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney will stick to his vow to raise interest rates. Mr. Carney, who is slated to speak at a conference in Ottawa Monday, is in a tight spot. Both the U.S. Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank are actively buying up bonds to keep their economies flush with cash. That’s pushing up the value of the Canadian dollar because investors now expect interest rates here to stay higher and rise faster than elsewhere. A higher dollar, in turn, weakens Canada’s export-dependent economy.
These are stories Report on Business is following Friday, July 26, 2013. Scouts in trouble The Girl Scouts are in a financial squeeze. Stung by what the Reuters news agency says is plunging membership, falling cookie sales, pension fund troubles and a struggle to find adult volunteers, the century-old Girl Scouts USA is selling or shutting camps across the United States, to the dismay of many trying to save them. “It’s not just about cookies and crafts and camping,” Loretta Graham, the chief executive officer of Girl Scouts of Eastern South Carolina, told Reuters. “Any successful woman is going to tell you she was involved in Girl Scouts. It’s about building those women.” The latest focus is an old South Carolina plantation that has served as a camp and goes up for auction today. It hasn’t been used in a couple of years, but it has become something of a local symbol for what ails the Girl Scouts Elsewhere, a grass roots campaign has been launched, known as Save Our Scout Camps!, which is trying to ensure that four camps in the Eastern Iowa Western Illinois chapter remain open. A lawsuit has been filed aimed at allowing members of the group to have a vote in proposed sales. Girl Scout USA’s dues revenue has slipped by almost 4 per cent from last year, and U.S. sales of cookies fell 4.5 per cent in the latest fiscal year, according to The Associated Press. There’s also a deficit of almost $350-million (U.S.) in the group’s pension plan. The troubles are playing out across the United States, so much so that Iowa Congressman Bruce Braley called a couple of months ago for an inquiry by the House Ways and Means Committee. “I am worried that America’s Girl Scouts are now selling cookies to fund pension plans instead of camping,” Mr. Braley wrote in a letter to the committee. - The Associated Press: Dissension and fiscal woes beset the Girl Scouts - Reuters: Girl Scouts auction U.S. plantation during financial struggle Who will be next Fed chief? There’s quite the controversy in the United States over who will succeed Ben Bernanke as chairman of the Federal Reserve. Speculation has it that it has come down to a choice of Janet Yellen, who’s vice-chair of the U.S. central bank, and former Treasury chief Larry Summers. President Barack Obama is said to favour Mr. Summers, but there are many who don’t want him. As The Financial Times reports today, several Senate Democrats are pushing for Ms. Yellen in a letter they’re circulating given that the policies of Mr. Summers have rubbed several the wrong way. “The Larry Summers boomlet is now looking like a Larry Summers backlash,” Tony Fratto of Hamilton Place Strategies told the news organization, noting it would be difficult to get the one-time adviser to the White House “through the Democratic caucus.” Japan sees inflation Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s economic renewal program got another boost today as a new report showed the highest rate of inflation in about five years in Japan. The government and the central bank have been trying end years of deflation, and, according to the statistics bureau, consumer prices rose 0.4 per cent in June from a year earlier when you strip out fresh food. But some analysts question what’s meant by that headline number. “The headlines are misleading in that they confuse a relative price shock in the context of no wage growth for a generalized lift to inflation,” said Derek Holt and Dov Zigler of Bank of Nova Scotia. “The economic consequences to these two types of inflation are different.” Energy prices, they said, are really the only thing pushing up the overall rate, partly because of the impact of the impact of the yen’s depreciation on imports. Other prices are falling. “We fear that future planned policy moves will only make the possible outcome worse,” the Scotiabank economists said. “This is because next April’s planned sales tax increase is likely to operate against the backdrop of still weak wages such that inflation-adjusted wages will decline further,” they added in a research note. “The second round effects will be to spend even less. Japan should have learned that lesson in the 1990s when it last raised the sales tax, but a sharp deterioration in public finances since then with a 250-per-cent debt-to-GDP ratio is giving the country little hope in avoiding it.” Oops, they did it again When you think meltdown, you think Iceland and Greece. The difference, of course, is that Iceland has been on the mend. Today, however, Standard & Poor’s cut its outlook on Iceland to “negative from stable,” warning it could slash the country’s credit rating to junk status. At issue is the new coalition government’s plan to aid families hurt by mortgages tied to inflation. While the government of Prime Minsiter Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson hasn’t spelled out the details, S&P warned that “the contemplated household debt forgiveness could pose a significant fiscal risk to Iceland.” Today’s warning means there’s a one-in-three chance it could cut Iceland’s BBB- rating over the next two years. So far, there’s a working plan, with the details expected in November. “The outlook revision reflects our view that we could lower the ratings if household debt forgiveness – as promised by the new government in its coalition agreement – substantially worsens Iceland’s fiscal ratios or weakens our assessment of the effectiveness and predictability of policymaking,” S&P said. “The contemplated debt writeoffs, if funded through a haircut imposed on existing creditors to the defaulted Icelandic banks (the old banks), could also damage foreign investors’ confidence in Iceland and further delay the lifting of capital controls,” the U.S.-based credit rating agency added in its statement. “The scope, overall cost, and financing of the writedown remain unclear, but we consider the risk of bringing additional debt from the private sector onto the public sector balance sheet to be significant.” It warned the writedown could top 10 per cent of this year’s gross domestic product, and potentially far more. The trouble lies in inflation-linked loans whose principle surged between 2007 and 2012 as the island’s currency eroded and inflation spiked. This comes as Iceland recovers from its financial crisis, which preceded the collapse of several European economies. So it’s a bad time for the country given what S&P said is its “prosperous and flexible economy, and its institutional capacity to address financial sector problems and build an environment more conducive to job creation and sustainable economic growth.” Absent this, S&P believes Iceland’s economy will expand at an average annual pace of almost 2 per cent in the next three years. Streetwise (for subscribers) ROB Insight (for susbscribers)
This IET briefing document explains what a smart grid is and why it is different from the existing electricity grid. It explains why the move to low carbon electricity with significant amounts of variable wind generation will require new ways of balancing the electricity grid. The already-sophisticated transmission network will become smarter still and include greater inter-connection with other countries. At the local distribution network level the changes will be even more profound as low voltage networks, originally designed for one-way flow, will require the measurement and control capability to accept input from solar panels and other small scale renewable generation while also supplying larger demands for electric vehicle charging or heat pumps. A smart grid will enable these changes to be made efficiently with disruption from costly network re-enforcement kept to a minimum. Consumers will increasingly play a part in reducing peaks in electricity demand by varying their demand in line with the availability and being rewarded for doing so. The briefing includes the role of smart meters in a smart grid and brief case studies of smart grid developments in the UK and the rest of the world.
| || | So, What Is It About "Rent," Anway? April 15, 2009 - Phyllis Sigal My daughter summed it up quite nicely after we enjoyed the opening night of "Rent" at the Benedum Center for the Performing Arts in Pittsburgh. It's just so good. You still hear so much about the show that opened in 1996, and wonder what is so great about it. Then you see it, and you know what it is about "Rent" that keeps it fresh, keeps it popular, keeps it relevant. For one, it's the music. What great songs have come out of that show ... "Rent," "One Song Glory," "Light My Candle," "Seasons of Love," "I'll Cover You" and my favorite, "Santa Fe." It's the energy ... watching those dancers on stage is amazing. And the energy of the characters just living their lives. It's the heart-wrenching sadness of loss, and the triumph of love and friendship. Those stories never go out of style. Obviously the tale transcends time — the show is based on "La Boheme," written by Puccini in 1896 and set in 1830. Reading the synopsis, I am still amazed at the similarities ... down to the Americanized names of the French characters. In fact I did see the opera in Venice several years ago, and had it not been that I knew the story from "Rent," I'd have never understood what was going on! The opening night audience for "Rent" at the Benedum was truly full of fans. When Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp, who both originated the roles at the New York Theatre Workshop and on Broadway, came on stage, there were hoots and hollers all around. When Gwen Stewart belted her solo in "Seasons of Love," which she originated, also at New York Theatre Workshop and on Broadway, the crowd went wild. And I got chills. You could tell a lot of people had seen "Rent" many times before — groupies for sure. And seeing it with those original stars — wow. There really is something special about the original Broadway cast — as if the parts are THEIR parts, and everyone else just got to play it. (I sure would've loved to have seen Taye Diggs and Idina Menzel in their roles as Benny and Maureen.) Along with Adam, Anthony and Gwenn, several other members of the touring cast have been in "Rent" on Broadway as well. And all of the cast members held their own for sure. Sometimes when there are "stars" or "notables" in a cast, you wonder if everyone else will measure up. Well, they did. I remember seeing "Rent" for the first time in August of 2003 in the Nederlander Theatre. Many of the cast members were making their Broadway debut, and some had come from a touring company of "Rent," but none were originals. One interesting connection I discovered as I pored over my program from 2003 and my program from the Pittsburgh show: I found one name who was in both — Andy Senor. He played Angel — a drag queen, one of the main characters — on Broadway and is cast as "Steve, a man with a squeegee, a waiter and others" in the touring production. Unfortunately his understudy performed in the show I saw in Pittsburgh. I remember Angel on Broadway as being one of my favorite characters. Senor also understudies Angel in this touring production. One interesting thing about attending a Broadway show this time of year is that the actors collect money as patrons exit the theater for Broadway Cares, a fund-raising effort for AIDS. So far, in just four weeks, this "Rent" production has raised about $220,000. At the end of the show, one of the lead performers usually comes out to talk about the cause. At the opening night of "Rent," Anthony Rapp, who plays Mark, talked about the cause. He also auctioned off a "back-stage experience." A few lucky winners paid $700 each for the opportunity to come back to the show during its Pittsburgh run, hang out with the stage manager throughout the show and mingle a bit with the cast! I got to put my couple of bucks in a bucket manned by Benny, the yuppy landlord. And for my husband's $20 donation, we got a program autographed by all of the cast members! It's pretty cool to see the actors as people, and then to rub elbows with them on your way out the door. It's always interesting, too, to read the bios of the actors to see where they've been before this particular show. Mimi, played by Lexi Lawson, noted in her bio that she was a contestant on this season's "American Idol," but "left the show to honor a dream of playing the role of Mimi." "Rent" will be at Pittsburgh's Benedum Center for the Performing Arts through April 19. I'd go again if I could .... I'm thinking now that I have "Rent Radio" on my iPhone's Pandora application, am about to download the original Broadway cast recording and can't stop watching the little clip of the show on the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Web site, that maybe I'm an official "Rent" groupie now. How do I love "Rent"? 525,600 ways .... No comments posted for this article. Post a Comment The cast of "Rent"
The Lancet Infectious Diseases, Volume 7, Issue 2 , Pages 169 - 174, February 2007 doi:10.1016/S1473-3099(07)70028-2Cite or Link Using DOI Copyright © 2007 Elsevier Ltd All rights reserved. Malaria in pregnancy: priorities for research Research on the important topic of malaria in pregnancy has been relatively neglected. The seven technical reviews in this special issue on malaria in pregnancy provide an overview of current knowledge on key aspects of malaria in pregnancy and highlight the gaps where more research is needed. In this paper, we prioritise research needs, focusing on areas of research likely to lead to improvements in maternal and child health in malaria endemic areas in the near or mid term. We have selected the following as the highest priorities for research: identification of new safe and effective drugs to treat malaria in pregnancy; identification of new drugs to replace sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine for intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy; identification of optimum combinations of control measures in different epidemiological settings; and determination of optimum ways of scaling-up the use of insecticide-treated mosquito nets and intermittent preventive treatment. This article is made available free of charge, as a service to our users. Please login to access the full article, or register if you do not yet have a username and password. Already Registered? Please Login New to TheLancet.com? TheLancet.com is the online home of: - The Lancet - The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology - The Lancet Infectious Diseases - The Lancet Neurology - The Lancet Oncology - The Lancet Respiratory Medicine Please register to access selected articles for free, personalize and interact with this site. Registration is free, takes no more than two minutes, and offers you many benefits. a Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK b Centre for International Health, Hospital Clinic, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain c Centro de Investigação em Saúde da Manhiça, Ministerio de Saúde, Mozambique d Child and Reproductive Health Group, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK e Program for Appropriate Technology in Health, Batiment Avant Centre, Ferney-Voltaire, France Correspondence to: Professor Brian Greenwood, Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK. Tel +44 (0) 207 299 4707; fax +44 (0) 207 299 4720 Access this article on ScienceDirect Visit ScienceDirect to see if you have access via your institution. Please login above or register to use this functionality. Registration is free, takes no more than two minutes, and offers you many benefits.
If you are a parent to a toddler or a preschooler chances are that you have crayons coming out of your ears. In our house we have crayons of every shape, size and brand possible. The biggest problem is that after a little wear and tear, kids are no longer interested in them. To boot new crayons are always coming in the household thanks to birthday gifts, returns gifts and so on. So you have a lot of crayons at hand which no one uses and yet you don’t feel like throwing them away. What to do with old crayons then? When my daughter’s box of stubby, peeled off, old, broken crayons started to get full, I decided to look for some ideas on recycling them and that’s when I found the perfect recipe to melt old crayons in the oven and get brand new ones. This is also a part of our list of 40 summer vacation activities and ideas for kids. How to Melt Crayons Firstly peel off all the paper from the crayons. This can be made easier if you just soak them in warm water for a while. After they are dry just break them into medium sized pieces. You can get your kids to do this with you. Once all the pieces are broken then you have the choice to either sort them into various colors or like us you can go for multicolored crayons. For melting the crayons you can either use mini-muffin tins or use silicon moulds like we have used. Only thing to keep in mind is that once you have used the moulds to melt crayons please don’t use it for baking purposes and keep them aside for craft activities only. We have a convection microwave oven in our house and that is what I used for melting the crayons. I preheated my oven at 180° C and then kept the moulds (on top of a baking tray) in the oven at 250°C for 10 minutes. Once the time is done take the moulds out (please do this yourself and use oven mitts) and give the melted crayon a bit of a swirl with a toothpick. This will ensure the swirly patterns you see in the crayons. Keep them to cool for around an hour or so. Once cooled pop them in the freezer so that they set properly. (caution: don’t keep them in the freezer when they are hot because that will cause them to crack) Keep them overnight and in the morning unmold to get brand new multicolored crayons. They looked so cute that my daughter thought that I had somehow baked some multicolored muffins and kept asking me whether I was sure that they were not edible. You can also melt the crayons and then pour the melted crayons into cookie molds to get shaped crayons. You can’t see in the pictures but we also added glitter to our melted crayons so when the kids scribble with them there is a glittery effect. For Samaira I am the cool mom who can turn her old boring crayons into colorful glittery chunky crayons. For me I get to recycle something that would have otherwise gone to waste. It is a definite WIN-WIN for everyone! Here is a video tutorial for you guys in case something isn’t clear about how we made ours. If you like our videos don’t forget to share them and also subscribe to the Youtube channel. Melting crayons and recycling them is a simple and easy process so do try it at your home and give your kids some adorable looking crayons to play with. If you have made them earlier and used a different method so please let us and the other readers know through the comments.
Claude Lanzman's nine-hour documentary on the Holocaust with interviews from both the survivors and the perpetrators. French intellectuals have belatedly discovered the tragic history of twentieth-century Europe and, in characteristic fashion, proclaimed their discovery to be novel and avant-garde. This long-delayed recognition of the political catastrophes of Stalinism and Nazism (an extraordinary phenomenon; even Sartre did not mention Auschwitz in his 1946 Anti-Semite and Jew) can only be explained in terms of the peculiarities of French political culture and the geopolitical reorientation France has undergone in the last decade. No longer the epicenter of a postimperial world, France has turned outward, forsaking the Gaullist insularity and gauchiste anticolonialism that constituted its postwar culture. The embrace of the Atlantic alliance abroad, combined with the domestic collapse of Eurocommunism, has brought a new awareness of the past. But this awareness is also accompanied by a profound sense of anxiety about the future of Europe beyond France, especially Poland with its post-Stalinist yoke and West Germany with its dangerous inner core of pacifism. For the first time, French intellectuals have abandoned the Great Revolution as the taproot of history, and with it the myths of post-1945 French radicalism: antifascist Résistance and the revolt of the Tiers-Monde. Instead a new and terrifying image of history has emerged: that of the monde concentrationnaire, the world of the Gulag and the extermination camp. Foucault's administered universe, the Nouveaux Philosophes' "discovery" of Solzhenitsyn and now Claude Lanzmann's Shoah are linked in this awakening of French intellectuals to the terrors of our epoch. To see Lanzmann's extraordinary film about the Holocaust in light of current French intellectual preoccupations is not to diminish its achievement but to understand the contemporary power of its central tensions: the Holocaust is implicitly measured against other historical catastrophes. Its theme, in a film that lasts nine and a half hours, is, according to Lannnann himself, the irreducibility of the Holocaust. Lainmann's Shoah is directed against the political abuse of the Holocaust and its trivialization in such products of mass culture as the 1979 miniseries Holocaust. It challenges the Parisian chic of equating Israeli treatment of the Palestinians with the German treatment of the Jews; it challenges the myth of "fascism" as a generic term encompassing everything from the Greek military junta to Heinrich Himmler; and it challenges the no-Holocaust kooks like Robert Faurisson (whom only the French and Noam Chomsky take seriously anyway). Finally, it defies the new prophets of the Gulag like Andre Glucksmann, who has recently written that antifascism is now a "narcotic," a fatal blindness of the German peace movement to the Soviet threat. In a 1979 article on his project published in Les Temps Modernes (and translated in Telos), Lanzmann made his point clearly and forcefully: "Neither discussion nor contestation nor denial is possible; the Nazi crime has no precedent and, at the same time, it is unsurpassable precisely because it is an absolute crime." Lanzmann believes that the Holocaust is a "metaphysical crime committed against the very being of man," but he also believes that it is a historical crime, not a phenomenon of universal evil: "On the contrary we consider the Holocaust to be a completely historical event, the legitimate, albeit monstrous product of the entire history of the Western world." In the apparent contradictions of these statements we see both the great originality of Shoah as a historical film, and its central weakness as a film that ultimately avoids history. In its power to evoke the past, Shoah goes far beyond any existing description of the Holocaust either in historical writing or in literature. Lanzmann's single-minded dedication to reconstructing, in fastidious detail, how the killing was managed, administered and undertaken on such a global scale makes the Holocaust seem contemporary. His relentless questioning, his manipulation of hidden cameras and microphones, actually make us see how it all worked—something even the most shocking photographs cannot do. Through the intimate discourse of survivors, the descriptions of German participants and the recollections of Polish witnesses, Shoah reveals the logistics of the killing mechanism, the procedures of deportation, the minutiae of destruction and the specificity of the dying in a way that is unprecedented, wholly concrete and not susceptible to concise summary. (This is one reason the book version [Pantheon, $11.95], a transcript of the English subtitles, seems so flat.) Precisely because it never uses old photographs or archive footage, which moor the horror in the safe harbor of the past, Shoah permits us to imagine what was never photographed: Treblinka's "Last Road," the undressing rooms at Auschwitz, the scene inside the gas chambers or gas vans. Over and over the camera returns to these sites so that we can envision, conjure up images where there are none. As a narrative of the mechanism of annihilation, Shoah is without peer. Lanzmann rejects the view of the Holocaust as a historical aberration, an event beyond the scope of reason. In a sense, reason in the service of death is what made the Holocaust possible: "Twelve years of methodical precision, a slow process of destruction pursued with the knowledge and under the sight of all." This statement explains Lanzmann's almost exclusive attention to the mechanism of destruction, evident from the film's first sequence of the killing center at Chelmno, near the Narew River in Poland, where Jews were first exterminated by gas in December 1941. Throughout Shoah we encounter the metaphor of the machine: the path to the gas chamber at Treblinka is also the called the funnel; "Auschwitz was a factory!" remarks S.S. Unterscharführer Franz Suchomel when he compares it to Treblinka, "a primitive but efficient production line of death." As Raoul Hilberg, the only historian interviewed on camera, explains, the "final solution" was the Nazis' "great invention, and that is what made this entire process different from all others that had preceded that event." The image that appears most frequently in Shoah is also a machine, the railroad, more precisely the freight train, bound by the inalterability of its iron roadbed. In the refrain of the railroad we are meant to see more than the extensive machinery and organized bureaucracy required for administering the deportations and physically and spiritually weakening the victims before their arrival at the killing centers in the East. The trains combine the iron and steel of the second industrial revolution with the wooden carriage of premodern epochs, evoking both the modernity of the killing mechanism and the timeless substance of anti-Semitism—and this double image carries the viewer through the film. Shoah's juxtaposition of the mechanical character of the killing machine and the age-old reservoir of European anti-Semitism accounts for the much discussed difference between the way Shoah treats Germans and the way it treats Poles. Shoah's most original and controversial sequences occur in contemporary Poland, and the Poles are in many ways its real protagonists. Shoah's largely unsympathetic portrait of the Poles is the more disturbing for their having escaped historical condemnation thus far, and speaks volumes about the deep roots of anti-Semitism in Poland, both before and after 1945. Yet, the scandalous attacks on Lanzmann in the official Polish press, and the ensuing furor, have almost obscured the significance of Polish anti-Semitism within Shoah itself. The anti-Semitism of the Poles is primordial, raw and unprocessed, while the Germans filter their reactions through the bureaucratic screen of modern language and precensored speech. The Poles are traditional anti-Semites, unable to conceal their resentments and prejudices, while the Germans are calculating and unrepentant killers hiding behind rational and bureaucratic masks. Apart from demonstrating the persistence of anti-Semitism in contemporary Poland, and apart from documenting the cordon sanitaire it provided for the killing, Shoah draws a sharp contrast between Poles and Germans and accentuates the primeval character of Christian anti-Semitism by contrast with the technological modernity of the Nazi murder machine. For this reason, Lanzmann makes no effort to render the humanity of the German murderers. Their humanity, as Primo Levi, wrote, is buried "under an offense." Nor does he inquire into their beliefs or motivations. They are simply instruments in a double sense: they are the instruments of death and of the death machine; and they are Lanzmann's instruments; to be used and, if need be, deceived. (This point is also made cinematically by filming the extermination camp personnel from within a spying van and showing the van itself, so that we watch the mechanism of Lainmann's deception and the mechanism of their deception at the same instant.) By contrast, the Poles, peasants who still farm the fields bordering the extermination camps or who now occupy the homes abandoned by the Jews, are humanized because they are still anti-Semites. In contrast to the Germans, who mechanically play out their Ophulsian roles, ostentatiously betraying themselves by their sophisticated evasions, their gestures and their physiognomy, the Poles unabashedly enact their anti-Semitism on camera. They laughingly draw the finger across the neck to replicate the macabre signal they gave to the Jews as the trains passed their fields; they explain that Jews smell bad, that Polish men "liked the little Jewesses," that "capital was in the hands of the Jews" or that Jews owned Poland. Even the heroic underground courier of the Polish government-in-exile, Jan Karski, is tainted by his anti-Semitic description of a Bundist leader who led him on a Dantesque tour of the Warsaw Ghetto (Karski liked him "because of his behavior—he looked like a Polish nobleman, a gentleman, with straight, beautiful gestures"). Unlike the Polish "innocents," the Germans are consummate performers who have learned by now that such stereotypical anti-Semitism is impermissible in public. Instead they describe carefully how much or how little they knew—always in light of what they now know, of course. This distinction between Germans and Poles establishes Shoah's crucial premise of a complicity between archetypal Christian anti-Semitism and the Nazi mass production of death, a thesis that is underscored by Hilberg when he says: I would suggest a logical progression, one that came to fruition in what might be called closure, because from the earliest days ... the missionaries of Christianity had said in effect to the Jews: "You may not live among us". . . and the Nazis finally decreed: "You may not live." It is undeniable that millennia of anti-Semitism combined with the technology of mass destruction directed at the extermination of a people for ideological reasons ultimately produced the Holocaust. What is problematic in Shoah, however, is that it is Poles, not Germans, who are left to articulate the motives of the German executioners. Yet the anti-Semitism of Polish villagers today, and the ideological anti-Semitism of the Nazi elites, are not of the same magnitude. There is a difference between the anti-Semitism of the Poles, and for that matter most Europeans, and the Nazi ideology of the "final solution." By collapsing contemporary Polish Christian anti-Semitism and the political anti-Semitism of the Nazis, this distinction is blurred, and the Holocaust becomes a direct consequence of epochs of Christian anti-Semitism, the inexorable fate of the European Jews. At the same time, the Nazi "community of blood and nature" is subordinated in the film to the administrative apparatus of destruction. As a result, Shoah exaggerates the role of bureaucratic logic as a motivation for the Germans, just as it understates the fervor of their radical and ideological beliefs. Lanzmann's interview with Dr. Franz Grassler, the deputy to the Nazi commissioner of the Warsaw Ghetto, illustrates how comfortably the cloak of bureaucratic neutrality is worn by former Nazis. But, as an explanation of Nazi behavior—beginning with Hannnah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem and further developed by Hilberg's work—the "banality of evil" can become a banality of explanation, where rationale and rationalization are impossible to disentangle. The ex post facto postures of former Nazis should not be confused with their motives at the time. If Shoah's great achievement is its evocation of the Holocaust as an experienced reality, its limitation is that historical understanding is sacrificed to this end. Shoah omits the events leading up to the Holocaust—everything from political anti-Semitism to the killing of Jews in the Soviet Union by the Einsatz-gruppen. The Wannsee Conference of January 1942, at which the extermination process was officially sanctioned, receives only a brief mention. With the exception of sequences devoted to the resistance of Auschwitz-Birkenau (and its paradoxical contribution to the smooth functioning of the killing process) and the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, Shoah excludes almost everything that goes beyond the bounds of the killing mechanism. Lanzmann's decision not to use documentary footage or set events in context is not simply a matter of avoiding the familiar images which might distance us from the horror. Anything suggesting a wider framework is omitted because he does not believe that the Holocaust can be explained historically. In 1979 he wrote: Until now, all the films dealing with the Holocaust have tried to show its emergence from the oblique course of history and chronology: they start in 1933 with the Nazi rise to power—or even earlier, presenting the diverse currents of German anti-Semitism in the 19th century .... The destruction of the European Jews cannot be logically or mathematically deduced from this set of presuppositions. There is a break in continuity, a hiatus, a leap, an abyss between the enabling conditions for the extermination and the fact of the extermination itself. Extermination cannot be deduced from prior causes. The Holocaust thus becomes a historical event that is at the same time not a historical event. This is the dilemma of Shoah. In the attempt to prevent the Holocaust from "dissolving in the evanescent distance and in the stereotyped meaningfulness of myth," Shoah deliberately creates its own mythical universe: a monde concentrationnaire. Its timeless order is based on the chronological development of the extermination techniques, spatially confined to the places of the killing. Lanzmann has acknowledged that "a film devoted to the Holocaust can only be a countermyth, that is, an investigation into a past whose wounds are so fresh and so keenly inscribed in consciousness that they are present in a haunting timelessness." A timelessness affirming that the Holocaust evades historical explanation once again.
These days, Saab happens to be a GM subsidiary, but no matter: the maker of oddly styled but reliable sedans is on the verge of bankruptcy, an event that would throw large numbers of Swedes out of work. GM, saddled with troubles enough domestically, has demanded that Stockholm bail out Saab, but the Swedish government has refused, tartly advising GM and other interested parties that Sweden is not in the business of purchasing automobile companies. Saab is now in the process of negotiating a restructuring deal with creditors, and thousands of Swedes employed in the automotive sector are holding their breaths. Would that Washington politicos — ostensible champions of free-market capitalism — showed as much restraint in this instance as the socialist Swedes. But in the land of free-market risk and reward, some, it turns out, are entitled to reward without exposure to the risk of failure. That, at least, is the message the Obama administration (and before it, the Bush administration) has been sending loud and clear for months. Millions of Americans forced to accept the bitter consequences of foolish and excessive debt for houses and other things they could not afford could only watch and wonder as Washington extended GM (and Chrysler) a multibillion dollar lifeline, trying to save the automotive giant from itself despite the cost to present and future taxpayers. GM's fall has been nothing short of spectacular. The 100-year-old corporation, one of the best-performing stocks in the great bull market of the Roaring Twenties, has gone in a few short years from an American icon to the verge of collapse, courtesy of a bubble economy that deceived wiser souls than the decision makers at GM. Automobile manufacturers, after all, are not expected to be experts in high finance or to understand the arcana of Federal Reserve policymaking and monetary policy that created the artificial decades-long boom. All they knew was that Americans, flush with boom-time cash, wanted their cars large and brash. When the bottom fell out of the economy, Americans suddenly discovered they did not need SUVs the size of troop transporters or three spanking new cars per household. GM and many other automakers were left with enormous inventories and lines of production that were suddenly losing money. Such things always happen when financial bubbles burst, and this time around, the entire automotive sector was caught flat-footed. But those are the hazards of corporate America, especially in a sector like automobiles where a privileged few (in this case, the Big Three) have enjoyed special favors and a quid-pro-quo relationship with Washington insiders for decades. Since late 2007, when GM share prices were between $40 and $45, the company's valuation has plummeted to practically nothing, with GM shares now barely above $2 (levels not seen since the Korean War) and expected by analysts to fall below $1 soon — if the company survives at all. Accordingly, GM executives went to Washington last fall, hats in hand, to beg for subsidies to keep them afloat. General Motors was too large to fail, they argued; GM's demise would create tens of thousands of unemployed and bring the automotive industry to a standstill. American taxpayers were outraged when the Bush administration extended GM and Chrysler bridge loans amounting to $13.4 billion, using TARP funds. But the bailout game is not a one-way street. The famous dictum of American-style socialism, first articulated in the Supreme Court's decision in Wickard v. Filburn, is that government is entitled to "regulate that which it subsidizes." In other words: feed at the government troughs if you wish, but do not be surprised when the government keeps you locked in the corral. As GM has now found out, the Obama administration takes its de facto ownership of the largest U.S. automaker seriously. On March 29, GM Chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner was in effect fired by the Obama administration as part of a federally mandated restructuring plan. This was followed by the almost unbelievable promise that the federal government would guarantee all GM car warranties, an obligation that could potentially cost American taxpayers billions of dollars more. Finally, President Obama gave GM 60 more days to mend its ways, or be allowed to go bankrupt (Chrysler, meanwhile, has been given a mere 30 days to consummate a merger with Italian automaker Fiat). Should either or both corporations meet these unlikely goals, more federal billions may be in the offing. Otherwise, GM and Chrysler, and the tens of billions of taxpayer dollars spent on them, will likely be lost forever. The Obama administration's newfound toughness is traceable in large measure to public furor over bonuses and other misuse of taxpayer billions at AIG. The stick-and-carrot approach being used with automakers is being touted as the right way to do bailouts by the likes of U.S. News & World Report. "The government should be taking the same tough approach toward banks and financial firms that it has toward Detroit," U.S. News enthused. Applying the lessons of GM and Chrysler to the banking sector would require the Feds to "assign deadlines" and "require progress reports," among other things, for ailing banks and financials, instead of churning out bailout monies without accountability. Crossing the Nationalization Rubicon This is the kind of argument we're likely to hear more of in coming months. In essence, it's a plea for the federal government to drop the façade of benefactor and assume outright ownership of the corporations it keeps afloat. With ailing banks, the government has already purchased gobs of preferred stock, crossing the nationalization Rubicon in everything but name. Who truly believes that, having thusly seized private assets, the federal government will ever voluntarily relinquish them? But all such arguments obscure the neglected, and only correct, alternative: leave private corporations, large and small, alone, to succeed or fail as market forces dictate. The unpleasant truth about most of the corporations that have received federal bailout monies, GM and Chrysler included, is that they will likely fail anyway. Most of the hundreds of billions shoveled into AIG were promptly sent off to creditor institutions, paying down some of AIG's debt but doing little to address institutional and balance-sheet problems. While GM has made some effort at restructuring, the government loans are very likely to prove too little, too late; certainly GM's share price anticipates such an outcome. And what will the politicians say when GM, AIG, Chrysler, and many more banks that have suckled from the federal teat go bankrupt anyway, defaulting on the repayment of U.S. government loans into the bargain? The consequence will be that bankruptcy will affect not merely the shareholders and employees of GM and the rest, but also every U.S. taxpayer, who will be left — as he always is — holding the empty bag. Bailouts will have served only to exacerbate the hardship of recession. As with nearly every other action the Bush and Obama administrations have taken to fight the recession, the bailout and subsequent takeover of GM is flagrantly unconstitutional. Nowhere in the Constitution is Congress given the authority to bail out ailing firms, and nowhere is the president or even the Supreme Court granted similar powers. What will the bankruptcy of GM, all but inevitable now, likely entail? In the short run, to be sure, more unemployment and hardship, although no more than has been experienced by the millions already out of work in the United States. But in the longer run — years rather than months — those who buy up GM's assets will reactivate idled plants, rehire laid-off workers, and revive the U.S. auto industry in more profitable form. This would probably have happened already, had the government chosen not to intervene. GM and the rest of the Big Three have long operated on the assumption that, no matter how bad things got, the U.S. government could be depended upon to bail them out. This, after all, is what the Carter administration did for Lee Iacocca's Chrysler. While Chrysler's bailout-enabled turnaround made the move seem like the right thing to do, it encouraged moral hazard in the auto sector. Little wonder that GM over the years has allowed itself to grow into an unwieldy bureaucracy slow to innovate and reluctant to change; its management and shareholders cling to the cherished illusion that the government will protect them from the consequences of poor decision making. As a crowning irony, Saab may well outlive her onetime benefactor. Perhaps motivated by the knowledge that no subsidies are forthcoming, Saab appears to be about to turn the corner, thanks to accommodating creditors, although the outcome is still in doubt. But there's no question GM could do worse than follow Saab's example. It's only a pity that Washington, in this instance, has proven unwilling to follow Stockholm's example. Photo: AP Images
Trend Micro to eyeball malware from cloud Gets suite with BigFix Trend Micro has unveiled a major update to its flagship scanning tools that puts your virus signature database online, plus a modular security and system management suite with partner BigFix. Trend Micro's updated OfficeScan Client/Server Suite includes an interesting change to the way its flagship scanning software keeps its list of digital undesirables. The most common method nowadays is letting each individual system store its own virus and malware signature database used for sniffing out hazards. Trend's now claiming this way is ineffective and takes too long to deploy across all clients and servers in a more complex setup. Apparently there's just too much malicious software floating about these days and downloading thousands of samples each time an individual system's scanning software phones home is increasingly cumbersome. Version 10.0 of OfficeScan gives IT managers the option of moving a portion of the database to either an on-premise server or by using Trend Micro's internet-based cloud service. The secret sauce is File Reputation, a part of Trend's Smart Protection Network that provides real-time sniffing of data for Windows-based servers and desktops. The client queries the remote database on the safety of the file before a user can open it - theoretically shortening the time between discovery of a virus and protection arriving at the computer. Of course, for safety's sake, the files being checked don't leave the system. The downside, of course, would be that if the network or internet isn't available, files can't be scanned against the central database. And for those not keen on the Trend's new scanning strategy, the new version of OfficeScan still offers the old client-side way of doing things. OfficeScan 10 should hit in May at about $20 per user for 1,001 systems and up. Trend Micro is putting its head together with systems management vendor BigFix for its new Trend Micro Endpoint Security Platform, which ties the two vendors' specialties into a single agent. Basically, it's a unified vulnerability management and security configuration software suite with a handful of specific platform modules ready to be plugged in. According to Trend, the Endpoint Security Platform supports up to 250,000 users on one management server. The current release supports three modules that are available now, and one that's coming down the pipe in a couple months. The Web Protection Module add-on uses Trend's aforementioned internet-based Smart Protection Network for up-to-date reputation-based protection against malicious websites. The Core Protection Module is basically Trend's cloud-based malware scanning software that can be switched on for the Endpoint Security Platform. The Patch Management Module centralizes patch capabilities for Windows, Apple, Linux and Unix operating systems and a variety of applications. Coming in June is the Data Leak Prevention Module, which monitors things like email, webmail, USB, instant messaging and FTP to help prevent customer and employee data and company intellectual property from leaking out. The tech behind it comes from Trend's purchase of Provilla back in October 2007. ®
Google and Apple in DRAG RACE: It's fanboi Mercs VS fandroid Audis Fast and furious firms battle to design dashboard of the future CES 2014 Apple and Google are preparing to compete on yet another front. They reportedly plan to race each other to design the world's most powerful smart car dashboard. At the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show next week, Google isexpected to announce a new tie-up with Audi, which will see Mountain View help to design an in car computer system based on Android. Google is also slated to reveal further collaborations with other automotive manufacturers to allow drivers and passengers to access the sorts of entertainment, music or navigation apps so familiar to fandroids the world over. However, Apple is already in pole position in the automobile space and is working with Honda, BMW, Mercedes-Benz and Daimler. The fruity firm also helped produce the world's most expensive iPod dock in the form of a Volkswagen iBeetle. Cupertino's "iOS in the car" system was introduced in June 2013 and uses Siri to allow hands-free access to iMessages, Maps and iTunes. "The car is becoming the ultimate mobile device," said Thilo Koslowski, an Gartner analyst who is an expert in electronics. "Apple and Google see that and are trying to line up allies to bring their technology into the vehicle." Drunkards may be pleased to note that both Audi and Ford are expected to demonstrate self-driving cars at the Consumer Electronics Show, although taxi drivers may be less than chuffed. ®
Forget the GPad - is Google building a server chip? The needs of a 10 million node machine So, Google borged a mystery chip designer that was working on "some kind of server," and the web is convinced the Chocolate Factory is merely interested in using this all-star startup to build a GPad. How quickly the web forgets that Google is the world's fourth-largest server maker. According to a New York Times source "familiar with the deal," Google acquired San José chip designer Agnilux not to build chips but to port its Chrome OS and Android operating systems to things like tablets and TV set-top boxes. And on one level, this makes sense. Agnilux was formed by ex-PA Semi employees once pulled into Apple to build SoCs for the iPod, the iPhone, and apparently the iPad, and it's no secret Google is exploring consumer devices well beyond its Nexus One phone. But an earlier Times story indicated that Agnilux was brewing "some kind of server." The company apparently had a partnership with Cisco. And its roots can be traced back to server chips like the DEC Alpha and the AMD Opteron. It's been rumored for years that Google is interested in building server chips of its own, and if it hasn't already, you can bet that one day it will - with or without Agnilux engineers. Google likes to say it's not a hardware company. When the ad broker launched the Nexus One, it went to unusual lengths to convince the world it played no part in the design of the physical device. But at the same time, it builds hardware on an epic scale for use across the Googlenet, a private infrastructure that handles more traffic than all but a pair of tier one ISPs. It was recently estimated that Google runs 2 per cent of the world's servers, and it would seem that all of them are custom-built. Reports also indicate that Google builds its own routers, and it's no secret the company fashions its own data centers, piecing them together with hardware-packed shipping containers. Last fall, Google released a brief video of a data center it built in 2005. The facility held 45 shipping containers, each housing 1,160 servers. Google is now operating about 35 data centers across the globe, and if you extrapolate, its total server count - server consolidation aside - is around 1,827,200. That figure is well above recent press estimates. And it may be low. After all, that data center was built in 2005. According to a recent public presentation from the company, Google is intent on scaling its worldwide infrastructure to between one million and 10 million servers, encompassing 10 trillion directories and a quintillion bytes of storage. And this would span “100s to 1000s” of locations around the globe. All these servers need chips. But the thing to remember about the ever-expanding Googlenet is that it's designed to process tasks that are broken into tiny little pieces. Google isn't interested in running the fastest processors on the planet. It's interested in running efficient chips that suit its pathological obsession with distributed computing. When it released that data center video, Google also gave the world a peek at the battery-backed, two-socket server nodes it packs into at least some of its data centers. Based on a Gigabyte motherboard, each node included two disks, eight memory slots, and a 12-volt DC power supply. These nodes use both Intel and AMD chips, and it would seem that the company stops short of the bleeding x64 edge, choosing processors that provide the best performance per watt. Plus, it wants chips that can run hot. To save costs - and, um, the planet - Google operates its data centers at temperatures above the norm. According to a former employee, at one point Google was buying chips from Intel guaranteed to operate at temperatures five degrees centigrade higher than their standard qualification. What a Google needs With an estimated 35 data centers and 1.8 million servers backing its search engine, advertising systems, and online applications, Google has power, cooling, and real estate problems that no other company in the world can appreciate. And with its custom designed GFS distributed file system and its MapReduce distributed number-crunching platform spreading tiny pieces of data across all those servers, its performance needs are outside the norm as well. The PA Semi folks that founded Agnilux after leaving Apple have plenty of experience with chips and instruction sets of all sorts, and before Google acquired them, they could have been up to almost anything. All we really know the company is that it's based in San Jose and that its name is a mix of Sanskrit and Latin. Agni is the Sanskrit word for fire, lux the Latin word for light. The assumption is that Agnilux was working on a variant of the ARM processor for use in servers, and given the thermal properties of ARM chips, this is a fair guess. But for all we know, Agnilux was building a variant of the Power chip - not the ARM. PA Semi was designing super-efficient Power clones when it was founded in 2003 by Dan Dobberpuhl, the lead designer on Digital Equipment's Alpha 64-bit chip, and Jim Keller, who worked on the Alpha and then the Opteron at AMD. Chip designers move from companies to startups and back again, and more times than not, they have great ideas that can't be commercialized. Think of the Transmeta chips that HP put into its first blade servers. But with Google, building servers isn't a commercial undertaking - at least not directly. The Chocolate Factory can afford to indulge its whims, and it might as well build its own chips rather than waiting for Intel and VIA to tweak their Atom and Nano processors to handle Big Data applications on a small power budget. In this regard, Google would be acting more like a government-sponsored supercomputing lab, fashioning exotic hardware aimed at exotic problems. If this is indeed what Google is after, then the possibilities are intriguing indeed. It's easy to become a licensee of the ARM designs - it's quite possible that Agnilux already had the license - and parent company ARM Holdings would love nothing better than to have Google endorse its product over the x64 architecture. It would be the coup of the decade, and it will no doubt get other people looking at the ARM architecture for servers and desktops running Linux. Because Google's workloads are based on Linux, presumably it's easy to port them over to ARM or Power or any other architecture that supports the open source OS. We don't know how tightly Google has compiled its applications down to the various x64 processors it uses. But, well, it just acquired a bunch of chip engineers and has plenty of software engineers to do a port to a new architecture if it thinks the benefits outweigh the hassle. You can buy the GPad story if you like. But just for argument's sake, we point you to recent graphic from webhost Intac. It seeks to show - with big, bright colors - how many servers Google is running relative to the world's other tech giants (though it leaves out the likes of Yahoo!, Amazon, and Microsoft). Google is the one at the bottom. You can't miss it:
Ryan, R-Wis., said in a speech to the Susan B. Anthony List that those who oppose abortion "need to work with people who consider themselves pro-choice—because our task isn't to purge our ranks. It's to grow them." "We don't want a country where abortion is simply outlawed. We want a country where it isn't even considered," he said. Ryan told the organization that seeks to elect women who oppose abortion rights that "labels can be misleading." He pointed to former GOP Sen. Scott Brown, whose 2010 election in Massachusetts nearly derailed President Barack Obama's health care law. Brown supports abortion rights. In contrast, Ryan told the group that former Michigan Rep. Bart Stupak, who opposed abortion, "delivered the votes that passed it into law." Many opponents of abortion disagreed with the health care overhaul because it requires most employers to cover birth control free of charge to female workers as a preventative service. The law exempted churches and other houses of worship. Ryan said critics often urge abortion opponents to abandon their beliefs but "that would only demoralize our voters." But he said anti-abortion activists should work with people of all beliefs to plant "flags" in the law—"small changes that raise questions about abortion." He said some people who support abortion rights oppose taxpayer funding of abortions or parental notification of minors' abortions. Others, he said, support the reinstatement of the so-called Mexico City policy, which bans American aid from funding abortions. Obama waived the order soon after taking office in 2009. Marjorie Dannenfelser, the group's president, said it plans to target Senate seats in 2014 held by Democrats Kay Hagan of North Carolina and Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, both of whom support abortion rights. Follow Ken Thomas on Twitter: http://twitter.com/AP—Ken—Thomas
I want to know the pros&cons of the two methods. 1. JSP will receive user's input from browser, and manipulate it, and then redirect to the appropriate JSP (such as error.jsp). 2. Servlet will receive user's input from browser, and manipulate it initially, and then redirect to the appropriate JSP (such as error.jsp) or doTransaction.jsp etc. What are the plus and minuses of the two methods. Thanks in advance, Ultimately, JSPs execute as servlets. That said, one can take two views of developing web apps: 1. Application Centric 2. Document Centric A web app can be put together using just a single servlet. Ugly, but it works (been there, done that, not proud of it).In other words, one can create several servlets that collectively form an application. This in MHO, is "Application Centric". A Web app can also be put together using several JSP pages. JSP is supposed to be more friendly to HTML content creators that are familiar with some form of scripting. Granted that this is theoretical view that oversimplifies the scripting that has to go in JSPs. This would be a "Document Centric" approach to developing applications. IMHO, I beleive that a combination is a better approach. I like the MVC approach and use a servlet as a controller, the model aspects being encapsulated by Java Beans (or EJBs if warranted), and the view aspect being handled by the JSPs. All requests are handled by a controller servlet or several controller servlets, conceivably one for each major functionality that your application must handle. The controller servlet(s) instantiate the beans that do the necessary backend work and then forwards the request to the appropriate JSP page which "uses" the bean and does the page rendering. The advantage of using a controller servlet rather than a JSP page is that since the intent is to provide "control" aspects to the application (IMO control=programming constructs) a straight up java program (just happens to be a servlet) is better suited. Additionally, you can take advantage of the init method to take care special initializations for you (ex: talking to a connection broker perhaps). There is more than one way to solve the problem. The MVC approach offers a nice seperation of layers. Just my $0.02 Hope that helps. shall u provide information regarding to MVC model. shaik chan basha The MVC model is very well documented, there are several resources online that talk about it in detail. The new book "JavaServer Pages" by Hans Bergsten (o'reilly) has a chapter dedicated to this. If you prefer online resources check out: I am pretty sure there are others, use your favorite search engine to look for MVC architecture.
Editorial: 2011 Census shows a fading Ontario? Don't count on it Part of what the census highlights is a welcome maturing of Canada. It was never going to be possible — or desirable — for Ontario and Quebec to have all the new immigrants, economic opportunities or political power. |Report an Error| Share via Email Go west, guys and gals. That’s where it’s all happening. Ontario’s day is over. So over that even immigrants from poverty-stricken countries can’t find opportunity here. That’s the once-over-lightly reading of the 2011 census data. Luckily for Ontario, that’s far too simplistic a reading. Yes, there are troubling trends. Ontario’s population growth dipped slightly below the national average and the province faces increasing competition for immigrants from the west. But that’s not the whole picture. Not by a long shot. Ontario remains, by far, the most populous province in the fastest growing country in the G8. The census data, released Wednesday, paint a country of three regions: the provinces to the west, those to the east and Ontario. Of the three, at 38.4 per cent, the single province of Ontario is the biggest. That’s hardly a slide into irrelevance. Percentage change can be awfully misleading. Saskatchewan, for example, went from losing people in the last census to growing faster than the national average in this one. Good for them. In the last five years it grew by 65,000 people. Ontario grew by 692,000. Ontario’s population growth alone almost equals that of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba combined. And despite all we hear about Ontario’s manufacturing job losses and western Canada’s resource-extraction boom, Ontario’s economy still dwarfs theirs. In 2010, Ontario accounted for 38 per cent of Canada’s GDP while the four western provinces combined totalled just 36 per cent. Part of what the census highlights is a welcome maturing of Canada. It was never going to be possible — or desirable — for Ontario and Quebec to have all the new immigrants, economic opportunities or political power. We should all be pleased that other regions have a bright future. It’s good for them; it’s good for the country. None of this is to say that Ontario hasn’t faced difficult times of late or there aren’t major challenges ahead. There certainly are. The western provinces have shown it’s relatively easy to grow based on resource extraction. Ontario does not have the luxury of sitting on gas and oil fields, so the task here is much harder. And if government and business don’t work together to successfully replace Ontario’s declining manufacturing base with growth in innovative and lucrative areas, the province’s books will look increasingly bleak. For generations, Ontario has been the economic engine that kept this country growing and, through billions in annual wealth redistribution payments, helped fund quality public services across Canada. Unlike other provinces, Ontario has historically taken the wide view: what’s good for Canada is good for us. That’s getting harder to afford. Recent studies have concluded that Ontario is being shortchanged by Canada’s wealth redistribution system. It’s time to revisit the fairness of the equalization formula. The census provides a useful moment to take stock. There are troubling trends to address, certainly. But those rushing to write this province’s obituary are misguided. - Updated Dovercourt Rd. fire victim’s organs donated to five others - Police search for missing OHL player Terry Trafford - Stroumboulopoulos to host Hockey Night in Canada: report - Last original member of Rob Ford’s staff quits - Updated Kyle Lowry’s triple double lifts Raptors to victory in Minnesota - Stolen passports used on Malaysia flight not checked in Interpol database - Ship seized in Red Sea carried 40 rockets, says Israel’s military - Enemy biggest movie winner at Canadian Screen Awards
Is the evolutionary argument against God's existence any stronger than Isaac Newton's in favour? Science really isn't connected to the rest of life half as straightforwardly as one might wish. For instance, Isaac Newton noted gladly that his theory of gravitation gave a scientific proof of God's existence. Today's anti-god warriors, by contrast, declare that Darwin's evolutionary theorygives a scientific disproof of that existence and use this reasoning, quite as confidently as Newton used his, to convert the public. In both cases the huge prestige of science is being used not for scientific purposes but to defend an existing general world-view. In both cases that defence is found necessary because this world-view, though prevalent and respected, has been coming under attack. And in both cases the supposedly scientific argument provided is weak. It only convinces people who already share that world-view. Naturally, Newton's arguments scarcely need refuting today. Though he was not a Christian, he reasoned that gravity cannot be physically caused because it acts at a distance and material causes were believed always to work by contact, leaving God – a "god of the gaps" – as the only possible cause. Nobody thinks like this now. But is today's evolutionary argument – which is often treated as fatal not just to Christianity but to religion generally – actually any stronger? I am not questioning that there can be valid objection to theism. (Buddhists, of course, deploy many of them.) The point is simply that this particular argument is irrelevant to it. Appeals to evolution are only damaging to biblical literalism. Certainly the events described inGenesis 1 are not literally compatible with what science (from long before Darwin's day) tells us about the antiquity of the Earth. But this is not news. The early Christian fathers pointed out that the creation storymust be interpreted symbolically, not literally. Its message centres not on the factual details but on gratitude for the intelligible unity of the creation. Later Christian tradition always understood this, even before the historical details began to be questioned. The contrary, literalist campaign within Christianity is actually quite recent. It developed among more or less extreme Protestants after the Reformation – largely indeed in the last century in the US. It was consciously designed as a competitor with science, providing equal certainty by comparable methods. It is thus a political phenomenon, acting in some ways like a cargo cult. It has enabled relatively poor and powerless people to use their Bibles (which the Protestant Reformers had provided) to shape a rival myth of their own. They see this as an alternative to the materialist glorification of science and technology which they have perceived – with some reason – as the oppressive creed of those in power. Like cargo cults, however, this Bible worship is also a spiritual phenomenon, a message felt in the heart. Despite its confusions, it involves a genuine response to the real wisdom which can also be found in the Bible. Serious attempts to answer it need, therefore, to acknowledge that wisdom. They must try to show ways of combining it with more modern thinking. Belief in God is not an isolated factual opinion, like belief in the Loch Ness monster – not, as Richard Dawkins suggests, just one more "scientific hypothesis like any other". It is a world-view, an all-enclosing vision of the kind of world that we inhabit. We all have these visions. Though they are always loaded with lumber and often dangerous, we need them. So, when we try to relate and improve them we have to treat each of them as a whole. We would not be right, any more than Newton was, to start by taking our own standpoint as infallible. From The Guardian
JoycelinRate Joycelin: Do you like this name? Get creative with Joycelin | Add to list (0) Joycelin meaning and name origin Joycelin \jo(y)-ce-lin\ as a girl's name is a variant of Jocelyn (Old German), and the meaning of Joycelin is "a member of the German tribe, the Gauts". The baby name Joycelin sounds like Joycelyn, Joscelin and Jocelin. Other similar baby names are Joscelyn, Josceline, Joceline, Jocelina, Joelin and Joycelynn. Popularity of Joycelin Joycelin is not a popular first name for women and an equally uncommon surname or last name for all people. (1990 U.S. Census) Displayed below is the baby names popularity of the name Joycelin for girls. (2012 statistics) Compare Joycelin with its source form and related girl baby names.
Spanish university study Chile leads technological development in Latin America The Spanish report, in which the international consulting firm Everis also participated, highlights the large-scale presence of computers in Chilean homes. Tuesday, May 11, 2010 The Spanish report, in which the international consulting firm Everis also participated, highlights the large-scale presence of computers in Chilean homes According to a report prepared by the Center for Latin American Studies of the Universidad de Navarra, Chile has taken the lead in terms of technological development in Latin America, followed by Argentina, Peru, Brazil, Mexico and Colombia. The Spanish university prepared an Information Society Indicator (ISI) in conjunction with the international consulting firm Everis. This ranked Chile in first place in Latin America, with 5.7 points out of a maximum of 10, obtained in particular thanks to the large-scale use of computers in the country. Chile’s outcome signalled its best quarter of the past three years, with 379 computers per 1,000 inhabitants, 9.9% more than it had in the first quarter of 2009. In addition, total expenditure per inhabitant in Information and Communications Technologies rose by 19.2%, reaching US$ 442, higher than all the other countries in the region, but still lagging behind the United States, which invests US$ 3,283 per person. The study also indicates that the country occupies second place in the use of cell phones, with 964 units per 1,000 inhabitants. This is only outperformed by Argentina (with 1,247 units per 1,000 inhabitants) but is above the average for Latin America (895 per 1,000 inhabitants). Another indicator shows that online retail sales in Chile rose to US$ 107 per capita, i.e., 48.2% more than its previous score. It should be noted that Chile’s technological progress has gone hand-in-hand with the mass use of the internet. This is highlighted in international rankings, placing Chile as the most interconnected economy of the region. This study confirms the results of the Ranking Connectivity Scorecard, a report that situates Chile as the country with the highest technological development in Latin America.
Elisabeth Frink was born in Thurlow, Suffolk on 14th November 1930. She began her studies at the Guildford School of Art in 1946 where she was tutored by Willi Soukop, RA (1907-1995) whose work and teaching would prove to be one of her greatest influences. She furthered her studies at The Chelsea School of Art and, following her graduation in 1953, became associated with an emerging group of British sculptors named the Geometry of Fear School. The group included Reg Butler (1913-1981), Bernard Meadows (1915-2005), Kenneth Armitage, CBE (1916-2002) and Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, KBE, RA (1924-2005) whose powerful work in bronze reflected the resounding agony of war, the loneliness of existence and the pervasive climate of fear in the nuclear age. Frink’s idiosyncratic method of sculpting echoed these themes and involved working plaster into an armature, resulting in a broken, almost scarred finish. Religious motifs, men and animals, particularly birds, dogs and horses provided her early subject matter. She lived in France for much of the 1960s and it was during this period that she produced a number of large male busts, often with polished bronze shades, that became known as ‘the goggled heads’. These imposing works brilliantly convey the dichotomy of the aggressor, the shaded eyes displaying superficial strength yet revealing internal weakness. On her return to England she developed this further, producing life-size bronzes such as “Running Man” (1976); part caveman, part robot these defining bronzes capture both the potential and limitation of man in a rapidly evolving world. Unlike many of her contemporaries Frink resisted the lure of abstraction, sticking to figurative ideals. She was fascinated by the nature of man as well as nature as a whole and explored this relationship with her famed horse and rider series where man and beast fuse almost into one being. Frink’s achievement was officially recognised with a CBE in 1969, in 1977 she was elected a member of the Royal Academy and was made a Dame in 1982. By this stage in her career she could barely keep up with demand; a catalogue raisonné was produced in 1982 as well as a retrospective at the Royal Academy in 1985. Her work ethic was extraordinary, while producing numerous private and public commissions; she also served on various advisory committees, was a committed member of Amnesty International and actively engaged with fellow artists and members of the public who admired her work. In 1991 she was diagnosed with cancer of the oesophagus but returned to the studio soon after surgery. A further operation was undertaken later that year and despite a deteriorating condition, she returned to work, producing sculpture for exhibitions in New Orleans and New York as well as accepting a commission of a monumental statue for Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral; Risen Christ was installed just one week prior to her death in April 1993, aged sixty-two. Her works can be found in museums in: Derbyshire, Chatsworth House; London; Warwickshire, Jerwood Sculpture Park at Ragley Hall and Ontario, The Windsor Sculpture Park.
How can we help our young learners understand new knowledge, strategies, and ways of approaching learning? If we think about the words in the title of this article, we have a good roadmap of how we can guide children through learning. We often begin by showing children how to do something new. Let's think about tying shoes. We don't just tell a child to tie his or her shoes. We show them how to do this. Often we talk about a process as we are showing a new skill. For example, in the case of tying shoes we might say, "Let's make two bunny ears from the shoelaces." Then we do this for the child. This is the "I Do" stage of teaching. As adults, we are doing something and the child is watching. We have talked about this in depth in our post about modeling - http://www.maggiesbighome.com/2016/10/teaching-skills-to-children-use-modeling.html The next part of teaching is the "We Do" phase. This often takes the longest as we are partners with children and try out a new skill or strategy together. That is key. We are still right there, guiding children, as they attempt the new learning. In the case of tying shoes, we sit with a child and orally review the steps in securing shoes as the child ties laces. We may repeat directions, give children parts of a new skill to do while we do other parts, or guide small groups of children as they work together. The key is to allow plenty of time for practice under the guidance of the adult. Finally, we invite children to continue to practice the new learning on their own. Aptly titled, the "You Do" phase of learning, we say, "Now it's your turn. You do it!" Children have opportunities to independently practice doing something like tying their shoes. When we follow these three sequential components of teaching and learning, children receive the adult guidance that is necessary for learning something new. We have found it beneficial to share these concepts with families and to advise them that the "We Do" phase often takes a lot of time as it is expected that practice makes permanent. NAEYC - 2.A.10 & 2.A.11 Head Start - IV.A., B., & C.
The Hunters Of Men by: John Greenleaf Whittier These lines were written when the orators of the American Colonization Society were demanding that the free blacks should be sent to Africa, and opposing Emancipation unless expatriation followed. See the report of the proceedings of the society at its annual meeting in 1834. HAVE ye heard of our hunting, o'er mountain and glen, Through cane-brake and forest,--the hunting of men? The lords of our land to this hunting have gone, As the fox-hunter follows the sound of the horn; Hark! the cheer and the hallo! the crack of the whip, And the yell of the hound as he fastens his grip! All blithe are our hunters, and noble their match, Though hundreds are caught, there are millions to catch. So speed to their hunting, o'er mountain and glen, Through cane-brake and forest,--the hunting of men! Gay luck to our hunters! how nobly they ride In the glow of their zeal, and the strength of their pride! The priest with his cassock flung back on the wind, Just screening the politic statesman behind; The saint and the sinner, with cursing and prayer, The drunk and the sober, ride merrily there. And woman, kind woman, wife, widow, and maid, For the good of the hunted, is lending her aid Her foot's in the stirrup, her hand on the rein, How blithely she rides to the hunting of men! Oh, goodly and grand is our hunting to see, In this "land of the brave and this home of the free." Priest, warrior, and statesman, from Georgia to Maine, All mounting the saddle, all grasping the rein; Right merrily hunting the black man, whose sin Is the curl of his hair and the hue of his skin! Woe, now, to the hunted who turns him at bay Will our hunters be turned from their purpose and prey? Will their hearts fail within them? their nerves tremble, when All roughly they ride to the hunting of men? Ho! alms for our hunters! all weary and faint, Wax the curse of the sinner and prayer of the saint. The horn is wound faintly, the echoes are still, Over cane-brake and river, and forest and hill. Haste, alms for our hunters! the hunted once more Have turned from their flight with their backs to the shore What right have they here in the home of the white, Shadowed o'er by our banner of Freedom and Right? Ho! alms for the hunters! or never again Will they ride in their pomp to the hunting of men! Alms, alms for our hunters! why will ye delay, When their pride and their glory are melting away? The parson has turned; for, on charge of his own, Who goeth a warfare, or hunting, alone? The politic statesman looks back with a sigh, There is doubt in his heart, there is fear in his eye. Oh, haste, lest that doubting and fear shall prevail, And the head of his steed take the place of the tail. Oh, haste, ere he leave us! for who will ride then, For pleasure or gain, to the hunting of men? Next: Stanzas For The Times Previous: The Yankee Girl
The New Year by: John Greenleaf Whittier Addressed to the Patrons of the Pennsylvania Freeman. THE wave is breaking on the shore, The echo fading from the chime Again the shadow moveth o'er The dial-plate of time! O seer-seen Angel! waiting now With weary feet on sea and shore, Impatient for the last dread vow That time shall be no more! Once more across thy sleepless eye The semblance of a smile has passed: The year departing leaves more nigh Time's fearfullest and last. Oh, in that dying year hath been The sum of all since time began; The birth and death, the joy and pain, Of Nature and of Man. Spring, with her change of sun and shower, And streams released from Winter's chain, And bursting bud, and opening flower, And greenly growing grain; And Summer's shade, and sunshine warm, And rainbows o'er her hill-tops bowed, And voices in her rising storm; God speaking from His cloud! And Autumn's fruits and clustering sheaves, And soft, warm days of golden light, The glory of her forest leaves, And harvest-moon at night; And Winter with her leafless grove, And prisoned stream, and drifting snow, The brilliance of her heaven above And of her earth below; And man, in whom an angel's mind With earth's low instincts finds abode, The highest of the links which bind Brute nature to her God; His infant eye hath seen the light, His childhood's merriest laughter rung, And active sports to manlier might The nerves of boyhood strung! And quiet love, and passion's fires, Have soothed or burned in manhood's breast, And lofty aims and low desires By turns disturbed his rest. The wailing of the newly-born Has mingled with the funeral knell; And o'er the dying's ear has gone The merry marriage-bell. And Wealth has filled his halls with mirth, While Want, in many a humble shed, Toiled, shivering by her cheerless hearth, The live-long night for bread. And worse than all, the human slave, The sport of lust, and pride, and scorn! Plucked off the crown his Maker gave, His regal manhood gone! Oh, still, my country! o'er thy plains, Blackened with slavery's blight and ban, That human chattel drags his chains, An uncreated man! And still, where'er to sun and breeze, My country, is thy flag unrolled, With scorn, the gazing stranger sees A stain on every fold. Oh, tear the gorgeous emblem down! It gathers scorn from every eye, And despots smile and good men frown Whene'er it passes by. Shame! shame! its starry splendors glow Above the slaver's loathsome jail; Its folds are ruffling even now His crimson flag of sale. Still round our country's proudest hall The trade in human flesh is driven, And at each careless hammer-fall A human heart is riven. And this, too, sanctioned by the men Vested with power to shield the right, And throw each vile and robber den Wide open to the light. Yet, shame upon them! there they sit, Men of the North, subdued and still; Meek, pliant poltroons, only fit To work a master's will. Sold, bargained off for Southern votes, A passive herd of Northern mules, Just braying through their purchased throats Whate'er their owner rules. And he, the basest of the base, The vilest of the vile, whose name, Embalmed in infinite disgrace, Is deathless in its shame! A tool, to bolt the people's door Against the people clamoring there, An ass, to trample on their floor A people's right of prayer! Nailed to his self-made gibbet fast, Self-pilloried to the public view, A mark for every passing blast Of scorn to whistle through; There let him hang, and hear the boast Of Southrons o'er their pliant tool,-- A new Stylites on his post, "Sacred to ridicule!" Look we at home! our noble hall, To Freedom's holy purpose given, Now rears its black and ruined wall, Beneath the wintry heaven, Telling the story of its doom, The fiendish mob, the prostrate law, The fiery jet through midnight's gloom, Our gazing thousands saw. Look to our State! the poor man's right Torn from him: and the sons of those Whose blood in Freedom's sternest fight Sprinkled the Jersey snows, Outlawed within the land of Penn, That Slavery's guilty fears might cease, And those whom God created men Toil on as brutes in peace. Yet o'er the blackness of the storm A bow of promise bends on high, And gleams of sunshine, soft and warm, Break through our clouded sky. East, West, and North, the shout is heard, Of freemen rising for the right Each valley hath its rallying word, Each hill its signal light. O'er Massachusetts' rocks of gray, The strengthening light of freedom shines, Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay, And Vermont's snow-hung pines! From Hudson's frowning palisades To Alleghany's laurelled crest, O'er lakes and prairies, streams and glades, It shines upon the West. Speed on the light to those who dwell In Slavery's land of woe and sin, And through the blackness of that bell, Let Heaven's own light break in. So shall the Southern conscience quake Before that light poured full and strong, So shall the Southern heart awake To all the bondman's wrong. And from that rich and sunny land The song of grateful millions rise, Like that of Israel's ransomed band Beneath Arabia's skies: And all who now are bound beneath Our banner's shade, our eagle's wing, From Slavery's night of moral death To light and life shall spring. Broken the bondman's chain, and gone The master's guilt, and hate, and fear, And unto both alike shall dawn A New and Happy Year. Next: The Relic Previous: Pennsylvania Hall
By Megan Jones The ocean is a beautiful and wondrous place, and we’re fortunate enough to be able to study it not just in person, but also online. Through various interactive sites, photo and video galleries, learning tools, and more, you can get a good look at the wild blue yonder without ever leaving your seat. Read on to find 100 great websites that will help you do just that. Exploration & Expeditions Get to go along with various explorations and expeditions through these websites. - NOAA Ocean Explorer Explorations: Here you’ll be able to follow the explorations of the NOAA. - Google Earth: Google Earth will take you beneath the surface to see the Mariana Trench, explore with National Geographic and BBC, and more. - Living Fossils of the Deep: Go on an exploration of the Bahamian Seafloor through this expedition. - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Online Expeditions: You can join the explorers of WHOI on these online expeditions. - Life on the Edge: Exploring Deep Ocean Habitats: The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences will show you multimedia from a variety of explorations. - The Voyage of the Odyssey: This interactive site from PBS allows you to experience the life of scientists and crew onboard the whale research vessel Odyssey. - Cousteau Society Expeditions: On the Cousteau Society website, you can follow their expeditions. - Dive and Discover: Be a part of expeditions to the sea floor on Dive and Discover. - Search for the Giant Squid: Follow the Smithsonian Institute on their search for the giant squid. - UN Atlas of the Oceans: Through this information system, you can learn about uses, issues, geography, and more. Oceanography students and enthusiasts will enjoy these photographs of the sea, its creatures, and more through these photo galleries. - NOAA Ocean Explorer Photo Gallery: See The NOAA’s explorations in photos here. - Ocean–Above and Below: Check out this collection to see seascapes, marine life, and more. - Ocean Living Photo Gallery: See ocean creatures and more through this photo gallery from the Smithsonian National Zoo. - Image of the Day: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution offers a new ocean image every day. - Wolcott Henry: Wolcott Henry’s website has portraits of marine life, conservation photography, and more. - Ocean Oddities and Regular Residents: See the ocean’s road less traveled through these images. - MUMM North Sea: This gallery offers a look at the North Sea. - Wild Ocean Photo: Wild Ocean Photo offers a look at tiny creatures and blue water. - Under the Ocean: This collection is exclusive to photographs under the surface of the ocean. - National Biological Information Infrastructure Digital Image Library: Find nature, including oceans, in this digital image library. - Deep Sea Images: Deep Sea Images offers photo stock of natural history images. - Sea & Ocean: This group is full of the ocean, ports, beaches, and more. - ARKive: On ARKive, you’ll find a unique collection of images of life on Earth. - Christina Craft Photography: Christina Craft’s gallery is full of photographs from Vancouver Island ferry trips, as well as whale watching trips in British Columbia. - Shuttle Views the Earth: Oceans from Space: See how the oceans look from space through this gallery. - Ocean Conservation Photography: In this group, you’ll see photographs that tell a story about ocean conservation. - Marine Photobank: The Marine Photobank aims to advance ocean conservation through imagery. - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Image Galleries: WHOI offers a variety of images from their ocean work. - Planet Ocean Photography: This photography site is full of galleries containing sharks, sea birds, fish, and more. - Atlantic Ocean: Check out this group to see photographs of the Atlantic Ocean. - National Marine Sanctuaries Media Library: This library is an online vault for high quality images and video clips from national marine sanctuaries. - Ocean Photo: Reinhard Dirscherl’s website offers beautiful images of the ocean in a wide variety of categories. - National Geographic Underwater Photo Galleries: National Geographic has a variety of underwater photo galleries. Currently featured are translucent creatures and underwater wrecks. - MarineBio Photo Gallery: See photographs from MarineBio contributing photographers in this gallery. - Pacific Ocean: Explore the Pacific Ocean through this collection. - BetterPhoto Ocean Gallery: These ocean photographs are simply sublime. - I Love the Ocean: Check out this group to see lots of photos of the world’s oceans. - Living Ocean Gallery: In this gallery, you’ll see vertebrates, invertebrates, and the seafloor. Learn more about the ocean through these video galleries. - NOAA Ocean Explorer Video Gallery: Check out this gallery to see video from NOAA explorations. - Cousteau on YouTube: See videos from the Cousteau Society here on YouTube. - Oceana Video: Explore the ocean and learn what Oceana is doing to protect the world’s oceans in these videos. - Ocean Footage: Check out this resource to see stock footage video clips from the ocean. - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Video: You’ll see video and animation about ocean life, technology, and WHOI science here. - The Ocean Channel: You can watch documentaries, video, and more on The Ocean Channel. - Ocean Planet: Underwater Flyby: Enjoy an animated tour of the Pacific Ocean from NASA. - USGS Multimedia Gallery Water Collection: This collection features photo and video of water from the US Geological Survey. - NOAA YouTube Video Playlist: Here you’ll find a collection of videos posted on the NOAA Ocean Explorer YouTube channel. - MarineBio Video Library: Check out this video library for expedition galleries and more. - WHOI Web Cams: Watch various WHOI stations in real time with these web cams. - Savage Seas: In Savage Seas from PBS, you’ll experience animations in the wave machine, deep sea simulator, and more. These audio collections will allow you to hear the sounds of the ocean. - Sound in the Sea: In the NOAA’s Sound in the Sea, you’ll hear audio recordings captured beneath the ocean surface. - Audio Slideshows: Through these audio and image slideshows, you can learn more about WHOI research. - LHS Whale Sounds: Listen to and identify whale sounds in this resource. - The Ocean Project Multimedia Resources: Here, The Ocean Project links to a variety of mp3s. Learn more about the ocean through these interactive websites. - From Sea to Shining Sea: In this interactive map, you’ll be able to explore America’s oceans. - Virtual Sailor: Hop aboard this simulator to find out what it’s like to experience sailing. - WHOI Jigsaw Puzzles: Complete ocean jigsaw puzzles including a comb jelly, coral, and more here. - Sea and Sky: Play free sea games on this website. - Ocean Climate Interactive: In this interactive site, you can see the systems at work in the ocean’s climate. - Ocean Explorer: In this game, you’ll take underwater photos on a journey to the bottom of the ocean. - MarineBio Ocean Quizzes: Test your knowledge about the ocean with these quizzes. - Indian Ocean Tsunami: Interactive Guides: See how the tsunami happened and more through these interactive guides. - [email protected] Interactive Activities: This collection of interactive activities includes quizzes, crosswords, and word searches. - WHOI Interactives: You can look into whales, submarines, and more in these Flash interactives. - Blue Planet Challenge: Take part in this challenge to learn about habitats and adaptation. - Ocean Challenge Puzzle: Solve the ocean challenge puzzle with players around the globe or in your classroom. - Ocean Adventures: Take on fun and games in this ocean adventure. Data & Monitoring Get access to data, current conditions, and more for the ocean on these sites. - Ocean Motion and Surface Currents: This site from NASA shares currents, temperature, motion, data, and more. - NOS Data Explorer: Search for NOAA Data through the NOS Data Explorer. - NASA Ocean Surface Topography Multimedia: View multimedia from the ocean surface here, courtesy of NASA. - NOAA Shoreline: You can learn about shoreline data through this website. - British Oceanography Data Centre: The BODC makes biological, chemical, physical, and geophysical marine data available for search and download. - National Data Buoy Center: Through the NDBC, you can view data from collecting buoys and coastal stations. - Cente for Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture Science: Cefas provides data on salinity, temperature, waves, health and more. - DChart: This project offers an ocean and weather data navigator. Learning & Education Check out these sites for teaching, or just learning about the ocean on your own. - NOAA Ocean Explorer Library: Check out this library to find important resources from the NOAA. - Ocean Mysteries: Check out this resource to learn about some of the mysteries of the deep sea. - Encarta: The World’s Oceans and Seas: Encarta offers information and exploration of the world’s oceans here. - Oceans Alive: Oceans Alive has a variety of resources that you can use to learn about celebrating marine biodiversity and saving our oceans. - MarineBio Facts: Learn fun and little known facts about the ocean from MarineBio. - NOAA Ocean Explorer Maps: See animations, maps, and more of a variety of oceans in this gallery. - WhaleNet: WhaleNet of Wheelock College is an interactive educational website focusing on whales and marine research. - Ocean Literacy: Learn about the essential principles and fundamental concepts of ocean literacy here. - Encyclopedia of Life: The Encyclopedia of Life offers you the ability to research each species of organism in the sea and beyond. - Intute Oceanography Timeline: This timeline features the history of oceanography. - Enchanted Learning: Find the answers to your ocean questions on EnchantedLearning. - The Ocean Portal: Teachers can find learning resources from the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History here. - NOAA Learning Objects: From the Monterey Institute, this resource offers learning objects on mid-ocean ridges, deep-sea corals, energy from the oceans, pollution, and more. - Deep Sea Fishes: Find images, species, and more in this biological guide to deep sea fish. - National Ocean Service Education: Find educational activities through this NOS education resource. - The Bridge: The bridge offers a variety of free teacher-approved marine education resources. - Ocean Classroom: Find curriculum, exemplars, and more from the World Ocean Observatory here. - OceanWorld: Texas A&M’s Ocean World brings the ocean to the classroom. - NOAA Ocean Explorer Education: Find excellent teaching resources from this NOAA site. - Contrasts in Blue: Smithsonian in Your Classroom provides a look into life on the Caribbean coral reef and the rocky coast of Maine. - Aquarium of the Pacific: This aquarium has an online learning center that will help you learn about different ocean species. - Ocean Motion Teachers: Check out this resource to learn how you can use Ocean Motion in education. - Planet Ocean: Discovery Education offers an excellent resource for learning about underwater life in Planet Ocean. - Cultural Heritage: The NOAA’s Cultural Heritage site offers a look at artifacts, shipwrecks, and other underwater cultural treasures. - History: Learn about early US ocean exploration from these images.
In algebra, a number might be either a variable number or a constant number. Conastant numbers are numbers whose value remains constant -- never changes. Variables are numbers whose value varies -- changes. Five, 1, 3, -2, pi, six, and 39 are constants. P, q, r, x, y, and z are variables. But, when the phrase "a number" is used in algebra, the possibility exists that the number is not a constant. So, "a number" means a variable number. Of course, one might say "the number one" and mean "one." Or one might say "number five" and mean "the fifth item" or "the fifth question," still referring to a specific number. One might also say, "I'm thinking of a number" and go on to describe a specific number, but when in algebra, when one says "a number," one means a variable number. Numbers may be represented in different ways. They may be named orally so as to be heard or they may be written in words. They may be written in symbols. Markers or tokens or chips may be used to indicated how many are under discussion. Numbers may be graphed. The y value for the numbers 1 and 2 are constant. The graphs are horizontal lines because the numbers are constants. But, the y value of "a number" changes as the value of the number changes. Its graph is not a horizontal line. Expressions may be composed of variable numbers or constant numbers or both. Expressions composed only of constant numbers are constant expressions. Expressions which include even one variable are variable expressions. The graphs of the expressions one more than one, 1 + 1, and one more than two, 2 + 1, are constant expressions. The expression one more than a number, x + 1, is a variable expression. Notice, that the variable expression is not a horizontal line. This is a page from the dictionary MATH SPOKEN HERE!, published in 1995 by MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS, inc., ISBN: 0-9623593-5-1. You are hereby granted permission to make ONE printed copy of this page and its picture(s) for your PERSONAL and not-for-profit use.
The Duchess of Sussex is supporting her first solo charity project as a Patron of The Royal Foundation: a new charity cookbook, ‘Together’, celebrating the power of cooking to bring communities together. Her Royal Highness has written the foreword for ‘Together’, which features the women’s own personal recipes from across Europe, the Middle East, North Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean. Melding cultural identities under a shared roof, it creates a space to feel a sense of normalcy – in its simplest form, the universal need to connect, nurture, and commune through food, through crisis or joy – something we can all relate to. Together is a charity cookbook, celebrating the power of cooking to strengthen communities. Supported by The Royal Foundation and published by Penguin Random House companies, ‘Together: Our Community Cookbook’ showcases over 50 recipes from these women whose community was affected by the Grenfell Tower fire. In summer 2017, a group of women gathered in a communal kitchen at the Al Manaar Muslim Cultural Heritage Centre in West London, where they could prepare fresh food for their families, friends and neighbours. As they cooked together and shared recipes, as a community they began to connect, heal and look forward. Word spread and more women joined in – this was the start of the Hubb Community Kitchen. Soon there were women from different cultures cooking, swapping recipes, talking and laughing. As they cooked, they began to connect, heal and look forward, and they have continued to cook together twice a week. They named their group the Hubb Community Kitchen as Hubb means ‘love’ in Arabic. The women of the Hubb Community Kitchen describe it as a place of good food, love, support and friendship. Profits from the sales of Together will support the Hubb Community Kitchen, helping to keep it open for up to seven days a week and to widen its reach to others in the community, so it can continue changing lives and bringing people together through cooking.
A MORAY woman whose life was turned upside down due to ME now hopes to help others facing the same hell. Leisa Zakeri could barely walk for more than five or 10 minutes without becoming exhausted after she was hit by the debilitating condition – Myalgic Encephalomyelitis. Leisa (29), from Aberlour, had a flourishing career in London as a trainee occupational psychologist when she became ill. “I was really fit and used to go to the gym five times a week,” she said. After studying psychology at university in Glasgow, Leisa moved to London where she worked for three years helping people recover from brain injuries. “I had a few stressful life events and when I look back the condition was progressive,” she said. “I got really bad ear and viral infections. That was my immune system crashing. I came home for a month and was in bed most of that time.” Leisa returned to work in London soon after but kept picking up infections. “I came back home for what I thought would be another two weeks’ rest and I was housebound for six or seven months,” she said. Drained of energy, Leisa sought medical help from a variety of sources without success. “I kept going back to the doctors and they kept giving me antibiotics and painkillers. I didn’t know what was wrong with me,” she said. “I kept getting blood tests and everything was normal. I felt totally lost as if everybody was questioning me. I remember one day I could barely pick up a pan to boil an egg. “My home turned into my prison and I felt like I’d become a burden on my family and friends. I hated every second of every day as I felt so unwell. “I started to try lots of alternative therapies and spent lots of money trying anything I could.” Leisa ultimately turned to Mickel Therapy – a treatment developed in 1999 by Dr David Mickel, who lives in Elgin. It seeks to address problems with the hypothalamus gland in the brain. The gland normally regulates everything in the body but can become overactive, creating a wide range of symptoms. The therapy teaches clients to translate their symptoms back into primary emotions and take corrective action so the symptoms no long need to occur. Leisa said her body had been overworking chemically, leading to chronic fatigue. She admits the therapy might be difficult for some people to understand. “If you were to sit on a pin, your body would send you clear messages of pain,” she said. “You could think positively, tell someone you were in pain and you might even cry out. But until you listen and act to remove the pin, only then can your body get the message and stop sending the symptom. “Mickel Therapy teaches clients to understand these useful messages from the body and translate them into action.” Leisa feels rejuvenated and has now trained so she can deliver the therapy to other people. Because it is a vocal therapy it can be done over the phone or through a webcam. Leisa already has clients in England, Sweden and America, as well as in Moray. More than 5,000 clients, many suffering from ME, chronic fatigue and fibromylagia – all caused by an overactive hypothalamus gland, have reported being returned to full health using the therapy, although more clinical studies are still needed. Leisa has also returned to work with Moray Council, where she is a part-time training facilitator in the field of autism. She also works with the Lifeskills organisation in Elgin helping people back to work. “I feel great now. I still have to be mindful of not making the same mistakes again and put the therapy into practice to keep me well,” she said. Leisa hopes her experience can help her as she bids to help others and is keen for people to contact her. She can be e-mailed at firstname.lastname@example.org
Metro areas seem to have a fast food joint on every street corner, making greasy grub difficult to avoid. In other cities, the air quality and weather might limit the quality of life. In the South, it might be harder to avoid fried foods. In Southern California, it might be more difficult to avoid the searing sun or heavy traffic and polluted air. Regardless of what your city offers, it’s possible to develop a healthy lifestyle. To live a healthier style of living, you must understand how to balance your daily routine to make your surroundings more livable. Set eating expectations: Without a plan, you’re leaving yourself vulnerable to sudden bad decisions at mealtimes. Each weekend, before your workweek, make a healthy grocery list and meal plan. Without that guide, you could get trapped at restaurants where there are limited options. Get into the habit of bringing your lunch to work to limit the amount of heavy bread, cheese and other fatty foods at midday. You have to be extra organized to make sure that you can balance the inevitable burger or burrito with fresh greens, lighter carbohydrates like quinoa, and otherhealthy powerfoods. Eating too heavy can limit your energy, which is both a detriment at work and around your loved ones. In Houston, 34 percent of residents are overweight, according to data reported by Men’s Fitness magazine. Authors Nate Millado and Sara Vigneri say that after Houston, Detroit, Cleveland, Memphis and Tampa are the most overweight cities in America. These types of rankings come out each year in various forms, and they’re largely subjective—each of those cities have plenty of healthy residents who know how to juggle their busy schedules to maintain wellness. Exercise smarter and mind the weather: Los Angeles routinely tops annual reports for the worst air quality in the U.S. In a 2014 report by the American Lung Association, the Top 5 cities for ozone pollution were located in California. The metro areas of Houston, Dallas, Washington D.C., Baltimore, and Las Vegas also rounded out the Top 10. Places like Southern California make it difficult to use the outdoors in a healthy manner. Many outdoor enthusiasts may never feel the impact of poor air quality on their respiratory systems while others who suffer from asthma or similar conditions could be seriously limited. Simple measures to get beyond heavier air quality include watching for “bad air days,” which are made public through warnings issued by regional air-quality authorities. A 2009 study released by the National Wildlife Federation expects Boston to rise to the top of the list of cities that are most endanger of experiencing an increasing amount of harmful air pollution caused by greenhouse gas emissions and pollution. Lighten the load on your respiratory system and practice your activities indoors. Designate a space in your home strictly for in-home workouts like yoga, Pilates or kettlebell exercise routines. Equip your space with energy efficient windowsand wood floors for a gym-like atmosphere. Recycle at home: Many green and healthy cities across the county like Portland Oregon, have adopted Earth-friendly recycling programs to limit the impact that waste has on our planet. Even if your city, community or neighborhood does not have an established recycling program, be diligent and start sorting your plastics, papers and other materials to recycle at home. To decrease your consumption, consider reusing plastic water bottles for your workouts or use a sustainable grocery bag for your shopping trips. Commute with coworkers: Does your morning commute consist of bumper-to-bumper traffic and a Trenta double-shot latte from Starbucks? Swap your coffee for tea and drive to work with a coworker. Americans use nearly 368 million gallons of gas each day, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. So, do you part to reduce the amount of unhealthy pollution in the air. Keep your city green, healthy and less polluted and participate in a rideshare program instead of driving solo. Even better, ride your bike into work—you’ll emit zero pollutants and you’ll be getting some exercise. Just be sure to wear a helmet and follow all of the road rules.
Marrickville Legal Centre has come up with an artfully designed pocket card to help young people know what to say and do when they have interactions with police. The card, which was distributed as part of a legal education program at Belmore Youth Resource Centre, gives young people tips like suggesting they film any interactions with police. “We know that young people are often intimidated when they encounter police,” says Vasili Maroulis, one of the youth solicitors from Marrickville Legal Centre, who delivered the training. “Amongst the tips in the card: It is legal to film such interactions and it’s a good idea, because everyone tends to be more aware of how their behaviour appears when the camera is rolling,” he says. The pocket card was used as part of an eight-week curriculum delivered to young people from the Canterbury-Bankstown area, ahead of Youth Week (13-22 April). The program, “Lawyer Up”, involved legal education and videos in four key areas: - Police Powers - Alcohol and other drugs - Public transport issues “The young people asked lots of questions during the sessions and it seemed to be thought-provoking for them,” says Frankie Sullivan, the other youth solicitor involved in the program. The youth team from the City of Canterbury Bankstown was a partner in developing the material and approached a number of schools to ensure the material reached a large number of young people. The work was funded thanks to a grant from the City of Canterbury Bankstown. Police powers ... Marrickville Youth Solicitor Frankie Sullivan and the pocket cards.
Why is it important to replace a single missing tooth? An implant restored with a crown has several advantages. The implant stops the bone loss that occurs when a tooth is lost, and it prevents the surrounding teeth from shifting into the space. Unlike replacing the tooth with a traditional bridge, there is no need to reduce the size of neighboring teeth. The crown with implant also looks and feels like your natural teeth when you chew and talk. What is the process of replacing a single missing tooth with an implant? First a simple procedure is performed to place the implant. For the surgical placement of the implant, your mouth is thoroughly numbed. An opening is made in your gums, and then a channel is shaped in the bone to receive the implant. Next, we place the body of the implant into the prepared channel. Sometimes a cover is placed onto the implant and the gums are stitched closed. This method is called a two-stage procedure. In other cases that allow a single-stage procedure, an extension is attached to the implant at the time of surgery. Healing may take several months as the implant becomes fused securely to the bone. During this time, we may place a temporary replacement tooth. How is the crown placed on the implant? Many different implant companies exist and the process may be slightly different for each. Generally we will take an impression of your teeth and use this impression to record the position of your dental implant. That impression can be either sent to a lab or be used in the dental office (utilizing CAD/CAM i.e. CEREC). The lab uses the impressions to make an accurate model of your mouth, including the implant. They use the model to create a crown that precisely fits the implant and your bite. When your beautiful final crown is ready, we check the fit and your bite, and then secure the crown to the implant.
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is diabetic heridetary or a co incedence that i have right now? February 28, 2007 10:53pm CST my mom is diagnosed with diabetic 10 years ago but in our family no one has diabetes, but when i have my 1st baby i suffered gestational diabetic so i am very careful with the food i ate since then and my FBS is down to normal, but when my last FBS its too high. Im so afraid that i might suffer this kind of illnes like my mom? 1 person likes this 2 Mar 07 to some extent diabetes is hereditary and when your mom has it, you are genetically predisposed to it. what you doing now is the right method. eat lots of citrus fruits and raw vegetables and watch everything that you eat. eat only the low GI foods, and try to have soem exercise regularly. that will surely help you out. • Quezon City, Philippines 1 Mar 07 Since you've got gestational diabetes you may become predisposed to it and would have a higher risk of getting diabetes. You are right in dieting and avoiding the foods that a diabetic avoids. Since you have a family history already from you mom its very probable that you may have that also very soon. I sugeest dieting and exercise to lenghten your life as non diabetic. 1 Mar 07 you didnt say which diabetes your mom had but mayeb this will help. there are 3 types of diabetes, well, type 1 and type 2 and gestational or pregnancy diabetes. type 1 is also called insulin-dependent or childhood-onset diabetes. your pancreas, a gland that produces insulin needed to burn or metabolize sugar, is being attacked by your own immune system. type 2 is also called insulin resistance or adult-onset diabetes. your body cannot utilize the insulin it produces and after a period of time the production slows down thereby flooding your body with unmetabolized sugar. --gestational or pregnancy diabetes goes away after giving birth but it makes the person prone to having type 2 diabetes in the future • United States 6 Mar 07 When I was first diagnosed with diabetes my doctor(who is also diabetic)sent me to a diabetic class to learn more about this "silent killer". The teacher told us that diabetes is inherited and will sometimes skip a generation. Neither of my parents have diabetes but my grandmother did and I as well as 2 of my 3 brothers and my sister do. Since you have already had gestation diabetes you will need to keep an eye on the glucose level of your children and yourself. You are doing the smart thing by being alert and taking control before it develops. If you continue to watch what you eat and take precaution you could live a diabetic free life. Or at least one without having to take medications. Diabetes can be controlled with the proper diet and exercise. Stress, excitement and other factors will cause a rise in your blood sugar. Best of health Kowgirl
If we look at the data of the past four year of the previous programming periods, it is evident that the Italian spending performance has progressively worsened. Reading the report written by the Italian Minister for Cohesion Fabrizio Barca, we learn that at the end of 2003, Italy had certified to the European Commission the percentage of 16,6% of the total resources. At the end of 2010, the fourth year of the 2007-2013 period, the certified expenditure had fallen to a percentage value of 7.4% of total resources. It was the lowest values among all Member States. To speed up the spending of European structural funds, the Italian government had established the Agency for Territorial Cohesion, a central body, endowed with special powers, charged with coordinating all the Managing Authorities. Regarding the 2014–2020 programming period, at the end of 2017 Italy had certified expenditure of approximately 5.2% of total resources (the same figure in April 2018 is still 7.26% and it is the lowest values among all Member States). Some region cases are alarming, such as Sicily, whose ERDF Operational Program, for a total amount of about 4.6 billion euro, has certified expenditure for only 16,7 M€, less than 1%! To reach the spending target set for the end of 2018, Italy has to spend over 3.6 billion euros, otherwise the amount not spent will be subject to automatic decommitment procedure according to the provisions contained in the Reg.(UE) 1303/2013. What are the reasons behind this low spending performance? Surely, the economic crisis and the low propensity to invest have played an important role in this delay, but it cannot be indicated as an excuse for a situation that has become very serious. Despite the indication of the European Commission contained in the position paper, to concentrate resources in a few OPs, Italy has presented a large number of operational programs, a total of 75 OPs. Dividing the resources into numerous programs, slows down the spending procedure and introduces the risk of critical issues. An additional factor is that the frequent changes of the Italian legislation on public procurement, led to a sharp slowdown in procedures. The most important negative element is the lack of projects concerning all public offices that should use the structural funds, due to a serious lack of programming capacity. A strong acceleration of Italian spending would be necessary, considering that the average spending of the Member States is currently around 14%, exactly twice the Italian value. The next government should immediately appoint a Minister for territorial cohesion that is capable but who is also a fearless knight, given that he will have to make many difficult decisions.
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Treating the Whole Patient Highland Hospital’s Dr. Harrison Alter focuses on social emergency medicine, which addresses social and economic factors that cause disease. Photo by D. Ross Cameron (page 1 of 2) Ever since Dr. Harrison Alter fell in love with emergency medicine while interning at Oakland’s Highland Hospital, he has become increasingly convinced that social ills among the poor and vulnerable translate directly into big medical problems for individuals and society. “Our doors open at street level. We have a very thin membrane separating us from our communities,” Alter said. Now, after years of advocacy and research, Alter is playing an important role in getting doctors across the country to develop and promote programs to help patients address social and economic factors, including getting access to nutritious food, stable housing, employment, transportation, drug abuse treatment, and protection from exploitation and violence. Notably, in late October, after two years of preparatory work, Alter presided over the first “Social Emergency Medicine” track at the 37,000-member American College of Emergency Physicians’ annual gathering in Washington, D.C. Establishing such a section put the subject of social emergency medicine on par with other specialties like critical care, ultrasound, and field treatment and trauma transport. “This is a watershed moment for social emergency medicine. It’s kind of like a coming out party,” said Alter, who today is Highland’s research director and also the founding director of the Andrew Levitt Center for Social Emergency Medicine, based in Oakland. Alter, 55, who graduated in 1993 from a joint UC Berkeley-UCSF medical/public health master’s program, is quick to say he didn’t “invent” anything — that he is following other doctors who doggedly highlighted “social determinants” in health care. Yet Dr. Jerome Hoffman, an emeritus professor of emergency medicine at UCLA who has long focused on social issues, said that, in recent years, Alter has been a catalyst to unite doctors like himself. “No great events happen because of one person, but you do need the right people at the right time to be spearheads,” Hoffman said. “Harrison has been without any question that person. He has worked hard, reached out, been articulate. I’m very proud of him.” The key role of social determinants on health outcomes has long been understood by public health professionals, but has until recently rarely been considered by medical providers or taught to medical and nursing students, Hoffman said. Though central to patients’ lives, such factors were often treated by doctors as peripheral to the patient’s complaint of sickness or injury, at best warranting a referral to a social worker, Alter said. The irony to both Alter and Hoffman is that medical systems devote vast quantities of money to costly machines, which, though impressive, often have less impact than more mundane tactics such as ensuring access to healthy food and adequate housing. Alter cited the case of a middle-aged mother of four children who was brought into the Highland emergency room by ambulance on an involuntary psychiatric hold for suicidal thoughts. It turned out the woman, who was strapped to a gurney with leather restraints, had threatened to kill herself in the middle of a public housing office after learning that, despite her efforts to correct a bureaucratic mistake, her housing subsidy was about to be terminated. A psychiatrist subsequently determined the woman was not suicidal, and the hospital helped find her an attorney, who in turn cleared up the housing problem. Based on such experiences, Alter founded the Andrew Levitt Center for Social Emergency Medicine in Oakland in 2008. It’s named in memory of Alter’s predecessor, a long-time research director at Highland Hospital and was established with a gift from the Levitt family. The Levitt Center sponsors research in areas ranging from health coaching to gun violence and has helped establish various programs to address specific needs. Alter was a key driver in the early stages of launching the Health Advocates program at Highland Hospital. Started in 2013, Health Advocates now relies on 120 volunteers—particularly from local colleges and universities—and partnerships with several legal clinics to help patients confront life challenges considered barriers to health. Last year, it helped 2,730 patients deal with issues ranging from domestic violence to immigration status and crushing debt. To illustrate how Health Advocates can help a patient avoid future hospital visits, program coordinator Kimi Tahara cited repeated cases of people coming to the emergency room needing surgery to remove cockroaches stuck in their ear canals. Health Advocates worked to find those patients advocates to pressure landlords to clear their rental properties of such infestations, she said. Tahara cautions that Health Advocates is no panacea for poverty. She pointed to the case of a homeless woman who first came to the emergency room in 2015 after being mugged and beaten. Two years later, social workers were still trying to get the woman into subsidized housing. However, they were able to get her government victim-of-violence assistance, a primary care doctor, and a therapist, with whom she meets regularly, Tahara said. Early data from the program shows patients getting plugged into helping agencies and becoming less likely to revisit the emergency room, according to a research paper published last spring that Alter co-wrote. “We know it works,” said Alter, who is grateful he has been able to step back from the program’s day-to-day operations (he was exhausted at the time of his interview for this story after working five nine-hour emergency room shifts in the prior seven days). Health Advocates is now run by Alameda County, which has given it grant funding and employs Tahara and a handful of social and community workers. The program has been expanded to include Fairmont Hospital, Eastmont Wellness Center, and Hayward Wellness Center. For services, Health Advocates partners with Bay Area Legal Aid, Centro Legal de La Raza, East Bay Community Law Center, and Housing and Economic Rights Advocates, as well as numerous community-based organizations. Regionally, Health Advocates also paved the way for the Bay Area Regional Help Desk Consortium, a collaboration of Bay Area hospitals, including Zuckerberg San Francisco General, Alameda Health System, and UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland. Alter continues to address “social drivers to care” in other ways. In his capacity as head of the Levitt Center, for example, he is currently chair of a countywide effort to develop streamlined protocols for identifying and responding to victims of human trafficking. The project is an outgrowth of the H.E.A.T., or Human Exploitation and Trafficking, Institute run by Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O’Malley, and its partners include Kaiser Permanente-Oakland, Children’s Hospital Oakland, and Sutter Health’s Alta Bates Summit Medical Center. Alter said some 87 percent of commercially sexually exploited children will seek medical care, with 60 percent of that total coming to emergency rooms. The goal is not necessarily to get victims to disclose their situation, which can put them in immediate danger, Alter said. “We want to be a safe place, a place where they don’t feel under threat, where they don’t feel judged. The constant repetition of screening questions, some feel, works at cross purposes to that,” he said.
Project Type: Habitat/Garden Project Size: Medium (200-499 sq ft) About this Monarch Project: We planted a small backyard raised bed of 70’ x 3’ anchored by 2 Dynamite crape myrtles to each side and 7 Green Tower boxwood shrubs for height and chrysalis formation. To attract butterflies, we chose Buddleia Flutterby Petite butterfly bushes, blue puffball petite vitex shrubs, blue fortune hyssop, lantana annuals, and parsley as host plants for black swallowtail butterflies. Clover was also planted for use as green mulch to discourage weeds. Milkweed was planted, but failed. We hope to succeed with new milkweed plantings this year, but we did succeed last fall in attracting monarchs during their migration. What a joy!
Short-term residents, and then ….. We are now opposite the Queen’s Head Inn, at 23 Bath Street. Then came the slope, a road leading up to Samuel Fletcher’s house and factory. Fletcher’s factory, which stood on the site now occupied by the Wesleyan Church and School in Bath Street, was a very old building. House and Factory were incorporated under the same roof. Samuel Fletcher senior, lace manufacturer and framesmith of Bath Street, married Ann (nee Stockley) in February 1814. Adeline was only two years old when Samuel senior died. In January 1857 he was returning by train from Nottingham but fell asleep during his journey, missed his stop at Ilkeston and ended up at Langley Mill. Initially the station master there demanded that Samuel pay the full fare from Nottingham but when Samuel produced his Nottingham to Ilkeston ticket he was asked only for the excess fare to Langley Mill. Samuel was indignant and refused to pay whereupon he was locked in the booking office with the station master while the latter completed his duties. Eventually the two of them were about to set off to see Robert Noon of the Shipley Boat Inn who might vouch for the framesmith when Samuel fell and suffered a compound fracture to his right leg. After treatment by a local surgeon he was returned home where he was placed under the care of Dr. George Blake Norman. However a week later he was dead, ‘mortification’ having taken place. In the description which follows, Adeline is recalling the sons of Samuel and Ann – Three brothers were in business together ….. Joseph retired and lived by himself in a house built by himself next door below William Wade, the grocer. The eldest of the three Fletcher sons mentioned by Adeline was Joseph who was born in Nottingham in 1816 and who married Ann Hawley, daughter of John and Mary (nee Burgin-Richardson) of South Street in May 1842. Joseph had not any children. Joseph Fletcher’s marriage to Ann was followed by the birth of at least six children before Ann died in May 1851, aged 32, from complications shortly after the birth of daughter Ann and while the family was living in South Street. Joseph appears to have moved into his Bath Street house close by William Wade in the 1850’s and the 1861 census shows him there but not alone. He is now with his second wife Sarah (nee Hardstaff) whom he had married in January 1860, and daughters, Sarah Ann and Hannah from his first marriage. Sarah Hardstaff was the eldest child of joiner William and Phoebe (nee Hooley) of Arnold, Nottingham. At this Bath Street address – number 82 — Joseph retired and here also Sarah died, in November 1887, aged 75. Almost exactly two years later Joseph married his third wife Sarah (nee Meads) the widow of Nottingham beerhouse keeper John Holmes and then moved to Beeston and eventually to Nottingham. Joseph died at 125 Noel Street in Hyson Green, Nottingham on March 1st 1901 but was returned to Ilkeston to be buried in St. Mary’s graveyard with his second wife. Before his first marriage Joseph may have fathered an illegitimate son with Sarah Cockayne, daughter of William and Mary (nee Chambers). Born in December 1838 the boy — Joseph Fletcher Cockayne — lived at the Common and later at Trumpet Yard, Cotmanhay, with his mother who in February 1850 had a second illegitimate child, Mary Ann. In March 1868 Joseph Fletcher Cockayne married Mary Richards, the daughter of Cotmanhay coalminer Joseph and Sarah (nee Booth) and for the rest of his life lived in the Cotmanhay area, dying in April 1909 at 3 Ash Street. Both at his baptism and at his wedding, lacemaker Joseph Fletcher was declared as his father. Still unmarried, his mother Sarah died in March 1889, aged 68!! (Her baptism record indicates that she was born in July 1815). Sarah’s illegitimate daughter Mary Ann gave birth to her own illegitimate daughter Elizabeth Ann Cockayne in April 1872. In February 1873 Mary Ann married Eastwood-born coalminer Joseph Meakin – and settled down for a time in Trumpet Yard. Matthew left the business and became the first landlord of the new Havelock Inn in Stanton Road. We have met Matthew in Stanton Road. Samuel (junior) was left to carry on the business. He made fine hair nets for H. Carrier & Sons. Born in 1828 at Ilkeston, Samuel Fletcher junior was the youngest son and in October 1850 married Judith Beardsley, daughter of Kirk Hallam labourer Thomas and Alice (nee Phipps). Sam had three daughters and two or three sons. Their first three children were daughters Alice, Eliza and Amelia. Their remaining six children were sons. The Fletcher business moved from Bath Street to Wood Street in 1872 and the new Wesleyan Chapel was then built on the site of their old factory. Judith Fletcher died in October 1890, aged 64, at her Chaucer Street home. Husband Samuel died almost two years later, aged 60. They are buried together at Kirk Hallam parish church where their grave can be found, in the plot to the right as you walk through the entrance gate. (Samuel) was also an inveterate poacher, not because he could not maintain his family, but solely for the sport. He was caught once and hauled before John Radford Esq., Magistrate at Derby. The poaching fraternity called him ‘Jackie Radford’. When Sam was asked why he had been poaching, he said he did it for a lark. Jackie said we have a cage for larks, and so Sam was caged. Magistrate Jackie Radford of Smalley Hall died on March 29th 1866, aged 87, and was buried at Smalley Parish Church. He had been a county magistrate since 1828. The other Fletcher siblings? Adeline does not mention brother Robert Fletcher, born in Newthorpe in 1820. In February 1850 he married Mary Ann Pounder, daughter of Shipley labourer Samuel and Dinah (nee Levers) and sister to Samuel junior, the ‘Surveyor, Inspector of Nuisances and Collector of Rates’ for the Ilkeston Local Board. Robert worked as a warp hand, lived the later years of his life at 18 Wheatley’s Row, off Pimlico, and died there in February 1874. Caroline died in Ilkeston in 1826, aged 2, and Edwin in 1827, aged 1. Eldest son was John, born in Nottingham in 1814. His sisters were Mary, born in 1822 and Ann in 1828. What happened to them? The Wesleyan Methodist Church. And now back to the ‘Old Wesleyans‘ whom we left in Market Street. When the Wesleyan Church in Bath Street was built, — on the site of the Fletcher factory — the Methodist New Connexion took the small chapel in Market Street. It was in November 1873 that the Market Street chapel changed hands for £280 — the Methodist New Connexion purchased it from the ‘Old Wesleyans’. What were the events that led up to this chapel changeover? In the early 1870’s the ‘Old Wesleyans’ were finding the accommodation at their Market Street chapel very restricting especially for their Sunday School. Another disadvantage was that it was situated away from the centre of town, and thus an inconvenience for the congregation. And so, less than 20 years after moving there, they began to plan for an alternative venue. Initially a plot of land was purchased in Station Road but was thought to be no better a chapel site than their present Market Street home. Subsequently, in the summer of 1872, the lace factory and land of the Fletcher family in Bath Street came onto the market and was purchased ‘by the Wesleyans of Mr. Richard Evans’ — for £495 — who enfranchised the property and conveyed it as freehold. On March 4th 1873 a procession of the Church’s ministers, office-bearers and Sunday-school children marched from the Market Street chapel to the site of the proposed new Bath Street Church. There two memorial stones were laid, either side of the main entrance, under one of which a lead casket was buried. It contained a parchment recording the date, the names of the persons taking part in the ceremony and the trustees of the chapel, a drawing of the proposed building, the Ilkeston Wesleyan Methodist Circuit Plan, plans of the two Nottingham Circuits, the Ripley Plan, and copies of various papers — The Watchman, The Methodist Recorder, the Ilkeston Pioneer and the Erewash Valley Telegraph. Soon thereafter the building of this new Wesleyan Chapel began, standing back from the main road to ensure quietness and privacy. This would be at the rear of the present Wilkinson store. Trueman’s History of Ilkeston (1880) refers to the chapel as “an ornamental structure, with a turret at the north-east corner. The windows and principal entrance door are circular-headed, and the building is altogether light and airy. Spacious rooms for the Sunday School are attached”. Before its completion in 1873 the Pioneer described it as “a neat commodious Chapel, 55 feet in length by 35 in width, with one end gallery for the choir; a school-room, with a spacious class-room for infant scholars; and two vestries for adult Bible classes”. The Wesleyan Methodist Chapel built on the site of the former Fletcher family factory, as it appeared in an 1877 poster. (courtesy of Ilkeston Reference Library). It is viewed here from its Bath Street side. The Sunday School room can be seen at the rear of the main building. The first services at the Chapel were held in October 1873 when the opening was so popular that some prospective worshippers had to be turned away from the evening service, held in the chapel which seated about 500 people. At this time the Pioneer quoted a total outlay of £1800 for the new premises, of which £1300 had already been raised – part of it from the sale of the previous Wesleyan Chapel in Market Street to the Methodist New Connexion. The rest would be raised from service collections, tea meetings, etc. Its final cost was £2,500. The chapel was constructed by Ilkeston builder Frederick Shaw of Bath Street and later, of Manor Farm, the son of lace mechanic William and Mary (nee Mather). He had married Marina Matilda Hawley, daughter of South Street butcher John and Mary (nee Burgin-Richardson) in 1855. And her oldest sister Ann Hawley was married to lacemaker Joseph Fletcher whose family had just vacated this site. In 1875 further land was purchased, adjacent to and in front of the chapel where some old houses stood …. for £375. And yet more land was similarly added in 1881. The original chapel eventually became the Sunday School rooms for a new Central Methodist Church, built at the front of the same site. The memorial stones for this new Church building were eventually laid in October 1896 and it was formally opened in March 1898. Laying the foundation stone of the Wesleyan Methodist Church, October 14th 1896. (courtesy of Ilkeston Reference Library) We are looking towards Bath Street, at the premises of Leeds and Leicester Boot Co. (46 Bath St.) and at the Queen’s Head Inn, now much closer to the road (48 Bath St.) . The new church of Gothic design, constructed of red bricks with terracotta and stone dressings at a cost of £5500, had a spire 120 feet above the street level and which caused some controversy at the time. William Smith writes that “some of our friends were a little doubtful about the spire, but there was a purpose in it and it was meant to show all around what was going on”. The same writer also records that many a traveller on the Erewash Valley line of the Midland Railway enquired what the spire was. One man, when asked was given the reply, “It‘s the new Wesleyan Chapel in Bath Street”. “No, tisn’t”, said a boy correcting him, “it’s the Wesleyan Church in Bath Street”. “Ilkeston was our climax, and we may fairly assume that for any time within vision so far as church building goes we have seen an ‘end of all perfection’, and no attempt will be made to rival or even come within ‘measurable distance’ of that noble building”. (William Smith 1909) There was seating for 940 adults and it was then the largest church building in Ilkeston. It was closed in 1968 and its demolition started in 1971. A high bank with a garden on it. At this point was Spring Lane down which, on its right-hand side, was the Spring Cottage beerhouse. And now for the rest of the west side of Bath Street.
Logic for transfer price determination for shipping flows is explained in Figure . However, for procuring flow, you can specify whether the transfer price is same as the PO price in intercompany transaction flow. This means that an operating unit sells at the same price at which it procured the item to another operating unit. If you specify that the transfer price is not same as the PO price in the intercompany transaction flow, then system uses the same logic as depicted in . For procuring flow, you specify the pricing option (transfer price or PO price) separately for asset and expense items. You can make use of the external API feature of the intercompany invoicing to develop your own custom logic for determining transfer price. For example, if you want to use the cost price as the transfer price, then build your custom logic to fetch the cost price. The name of the external API is MTL_INTERCOMPANY_INVOICES.get_transfer_price and the name of the file is INVICIVB.pls located at $INV_TOP/patch/115/sql. Ensure that the API returns transfer price along with currency code. Please ensure that the transfer price is not 0. Oracle expects that the transfer price should be greater than 0. You will be able to create an intercompany AR invoice but will not be able to create an intercompany AP invoice resulting in intercompany reconciliation discrepancy. You need to set the profile “QP: Security Control” to ‘Off’, to generate logical transactions and for raising the intercompany AR invoice.
http://www.oracleerpappsguide.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/New-Logo.png 0 0 Oracle ERP Apps Guide http://www.oracleerpappsguide.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/New-Logo.png Oracle ERP Apps Guide2014-06-07 12:29:002014-06-07 12:29:00How to Setup for E-Business Suite Tax on Payable Invoices in R12 Use E-Business Tax to set up and maintain your transaction tax requirements in all geographic locations where you do business. You can set up tax configurations to include the rules, default values, and other information necessary for each separate tax requirement. At transaction time, E-Business Tax uses your tax configuration to determine the taxes that apply to each transaction and to calculate the tax amounts. With E-Business Tax, you can: • Set up and maintain a tax configuration for each tax that you are subject to. • Set up and maintain records for your legal entities and operating units and the taxes they are subject to. • Manage the sharing of tax configuration data by the legal entities and operating units in your organization. • Set up and maintain tax registrations and classifications for your legal establishments and third parties. • Set up and maintain classifications of the products that you buy and sell. • Set up and maintain classifications for your transactions. • Set up and maintain tax rules and default values to manage tax determination and tax recovery on your transactions: • Set up default values and a minimum number of tax rules for simple tax requirements. • Set up default values and a comprehensive set of tax rules to manage complex tax requirements. • Set up and maintain tax-related records for your important transactions. • Set up and maintain automatic accounting of all tax-related transactions. • Manage user control of updates and overrides of tax information on transactions. • Set up and maintain codes for tax reporting purposes. • Set up and maintain access to third party tax calculation services. You can use the E-Business Tax Home page to manage access to all parts of the E-Business Tax system for setup and maintenance. The tasks involved in setting up a tax requirement in E-Business Tax fall into three general categories: 1. Setting up transaction taxes. 2. Completing all of the setups and settings related to the processing of taxes on transactions. 3. Setting up tax rules and defaults to manage tax processing. Steps for E-Business Suite Tax: Step 1: Create Tax Regime Step 2: Create Tax Step 3: Create Tax Status Step 4: Create Jurisdiction Step 5: Create Rate Step 6: Enter Tax Accounts Step 7: Create Tax Rules (Populate values for all defaults) Step 8: Make Tax Available for Transaction Step 9: Test the Tax Check how the Party/OU has been setup, Tax Manager/Administrator > Parties > Party Tax Profiles - R12 – How to Delete Oracle AR TransactionsMarch 22, 2019 - 8:37 pm - How to Define Custom Key Flexfield (KFF) in R12January 19, 2018 - 5:43 pm - AutoLock Box Concepts In R12November 10, 2017 - 8:30 am - R12 – java.sql.SQLException: Invalid column type in OAFSeptember 15, 2017 - 9:39 am - How to Find Duplicate Row in OAF Page?April 26, 2017 - 5:17 pm
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pp. 88-99The Structure of Face Engagements When two persons are mutually present and hence engaged together in some degree of unfocused interaction, the mutual proffering of civil inattention-a significant form of unfocused interaction-is not the only way they can relate to one another. They can proceed from there to engage one another in focused interaction, the unit of which I shall refer to as a face engagement or an encounter. Face engagements comprise all those instances of two or more participants in a situation joining each other openly in maintaining a single focus of cognitive and visual attention-what is sensed as a single mutual activity, entailing preferential communication rights. As a simple example -and one of the most common-when persons are present together in the same situation they may engage each other in a talk. This accreditation for mutual activity is one of the broadest of all statuses. Even persons of extremely disparate social positions can find themselves in circumstances where it is fitting to impute it to one another. Ordinarily the status does not have a "latent phase" but obliges the incumbents to be engaged at that very moment in exercising their status. Mutual activities and the face engagements in which they are embedded comprise instances of small talk, commensalism, love-making, gaming, formal discussion, and personal servicing (treating, selling, waitressing, and so forth) . In some cases, as with sociable chats, the coming together does not seem to have a ready instrumental rationale. In other cases, as when a teacher pauses at a pupil's desk to help him for a moment with a problem he is involved in, and will be involved in after she moves on, the encounter is clearly a setting for a mutual instrumental activity, and this joint work is merely a phase of what is primarily an individual task. It should be noted that while many face engagements seem to be made up largely of the exchange of verbal statements, so that conversational encounters can infact be used as the model, there are still other kinds of encounters where no word is spoken. This becomes very apparent, of course, in the study of engagements among children who have not yet mastered talk, and where, incidentally, it is possible to see the gradual transformation of a mere physical contacting of another into an act that establishes the social relationship of jointly accrediting a face-to-face encounter. Among adults, too, however, nonverbal encounters can be observed: the significant acts exchanged can be gestures, or even, as in board and card games, moves. Also, there are certain close comings-together over work tasks which give rise to a single focus of visual and cognitive attention and to intimately coordinated contributions, the order and kind of contribution being determined by shared appreciation of what the task-at-the-moment requires as the next act. Here, while no word of direction or sociability may be spoken, it will be understood that lack of attention or coordinated response constitutes a breach in the mutual commitment of the participants. Where there are only two participants in a situation, an encounter, if there is to be one, will exhaust the situation, giving us a fully-focused gathering. With more than two participants, there may be persons officially present in the situation who are officially excluded from the encounter and not themselves so engaoed. These unengagedl" participants change the gathering into a Partly-focused one. If more than three persons are present, there may be more than one encounter carried on in the same situations multifocused gathering. I will use the term Participation unit to refer both to encounters and to unengaged participants; the term bystander will be used to refer to any individual present who is not a ratified member of the particular encounter in question, whether or not he is currently a member of some other encounter. In our society, face engagements seem to share a complex of properties, so that this class of social unit can be defined analytically, as well as by example. An encounter is initiated by someone making an opening move, typically by means of a special expression of the eyes but sometimes by a statement or a special tone of voice at the beginning of a statement's The engagement proper begins when this overture is acknowledged by the other, who signals back with his eyes, voice, or stance that he has placed himself at the disposal of the other for purposes of a mutual eye-to-eye activity even if only to ask the initiator to postpone his request for an audience. There is a tendency for the initial move and the responding "clearance" sign to be exchanged almost simultaneously, with all participants employing both signs, perhaps in order to prevent an initiator from placing himself in a position of being denied by others. Glances, in particular, make possible this effective simultaneity. In fact, when eyes are joined, the initiator's first glance can be sufficiently tentative and ambiguous to allow him to act as if no initiation has been intended, if it appears that his overture is not desired. Eye-to-eye looks, then, play a special role in the communication life of the community, ritually establishing an avowed openness to verbal statements and a rightfully heightened mutual relevance of acts. In Simmel's words: Of the special sense-organs, the eye has a uniquely sociological function. The union and interaction of individuals is based upon mutual glances. This is perhaps the most direct and purest reciprocity which exists anywhere. This highest psychic reaction, however, in which the glances of eye to eye unite men, crystallizes into no objective structure; the unity which momentarily arises between two persons is present in the occasion and is dissolved in the function. So tenacious and subtle is this union that it can only be maintained by the shortest and straightest line between the eyes, and the smallest deviation from it, the slightest glance aside, completely destroys the unique character of this union. No objective trace of this relationship is left behind, as is universally found, directly or indirectly, in all other types of associations between men, as, for example, in interchange of words. The interaction of eye and eye dies in the moment in which directness of the function is lost. But the totality of social relations of human beings, their self assertion and self-abnegation, their intimacies and estrangements, would be changed in unpredictable ways if there occurred no glance of eye to eye. This mutual glance between persons, in distinction from the simple sight or observation of the other, signifies a wholly new and unique union between them. It is understandable, then, that an individual who feels he has cause to be alienated from those around him will express this through some "abnormality of the gaze," especially averting of the eyes. And it is understandable, too, that an individual who wants to control others' access to him and the information he receives may avoid looking toward the person who is seeking him out. A waitress, for example, may prevent a waiting customer from "catching her eye" to prevent his initiating an order. Similarly, if a pedestrian wants to ensure a particular allocation of the street relative to a fellow pedestrian, or if a motorist wants to ensure priority of his line of proposed action over that of a fellow motorist or a pedestrian, one strategy is to avoid meeting the other's eyes and thus avoid cooperative claims. And where the initiator is in a social position requiring him to give the other the formal right to initiate all encounters, hostile and teasing possibilities may occur. As these various examples suggest, mutual glances ordinarily must be withheld if an encounter is to be avoided, for eye contact opens one up for face engagement. I would like to add, finally, that there is a relationship between the use of eye-to-eye glances as a means of communicating a request for initiation of an encounter, and other communication practices. The more clearly individuals are obliged to refrain from staring directly at others, the more effectively will they be able to attach special significance to a stare, in this case, a request for an encounter. The rule of civil inattention thus makes possible, and "fits" with, the clearance function given to looks into others' eyes. The rule similarly makes possible the giving of a special function to "prolonued" holding of a stranger's glance, as when unacquainted persons who had arranged to meet each other manage to discover one another in thisway. Once a set of participants have avowedly opened themselves up to one another for an engagement, -an eye-to-eye ecological huddle tends to be carefully maintained, maximizing the opportunity for participants to monitor one another's mutual perceivings. The participants turn their minds to the samesubject matter and (in the case of talk) their eyes to the same speaker, although of course this single focus of attention can shift within limits from one topic to another and from one speaker or target to another. A shared definition of the situation comes to prevail. This includes agreement concerning perceptual relevancies and irrelevancies, and a "working consensus," involving a degree of mutual considerateness, sympathy, and a muting of opinion differences. Often a group atmosphere develops what Bateson has called ethos. At the same time, a heightened sense of moral responsibility for one's acts also seems to develop. A "we-rationale" develops, being a sense of the single thing that we the participants are avowedly doing together at the time. Further, minor ceremonies are likely to be employed to mark the termination of the engagement and the entrance and departure of particular participants (should the encounter have more than two members). These ceremonies, along with the social control exerted during the encoun. ter to keep participants "in line," give a kind of ritual closure to the mutual activity sustained in the encounter. An individual will therefore tend to be brought all the way into an ongoing encounter or kept altogether out of it. Engagements of the conversational kind appear to have, at least in our society, some spatial conventions. A set of individuals caused to sit more than a few feet apart because of furniture arrangements will find difficulty in maintaining informal talk; those brought within less than a foot and a half of each other will find difficulty in speaking directly to each other, and may talk at an off angle to compensate for the closeness. In brief then, encounters are organized by means of a special set of acts and gestures compromising communication about communicating. As a linguist suggests: There are messages primarily serving to establish, to prolong, or to discontinue communication, to check whether the channel works ("Hello, do you hear me?"), to attract the attention of the interlocutor or to confirm his continued attention ("Are you listening?" or in Shakesperean diction, "Lend me your ears!" and on the other end of the wire "Um-hum!").
Explore new uses for old maps. Use spray adhesive to attach a map to a plain lampshade. Then glue coordinating grosgrain ribbon around the top and bottom edges to finish. Dress up a drum shade with this pretty geometric treatment. Gather paint chips in your desired color palette, and use a square punch to make the colors a uniform shape and size. Lay the squares facedown on a piece of cardboard one section at a time, and coat them with spray adhesive. Begin applying the paint chips to the top center section of the lampshade, and work your way down and around, being mindful of color placement. When you reach the bottom row, trim squares to fit the remaining space before adhering to the lampshade. Use damaged or discarded books and a lamp kit to build this literary light. Drill a hole slightly bigger than the rod in your lamp kit through the center of each book until you get the height you desire. Stack the books on the rod, and follow the instructions on the kit for assembling the lamp. Use books that follow a theme, whether it's a similar color scheme or books by the same author. Cover a self-adhesive lampshade with decorative paper or book pages to complete. Make a statement by piling bracelets on a lamp base. A hodgepodge of wood, metal, and plastic bangles turns an ordinary lamp into a custom creation. Slide bracelets onto the lamp base, gluing with Liquid Nails as you go. If you like the arrangement of color and style, let the glue dry, add a lampshade, and you're done. To get a crisp, clean look, try masking off one colorful bracelet and spraying the rest of the bracelets and the base with primer, then with semigloss white paint.
The International Reggae Poster exhibition opened last week at the headquarters of the Ministry of External Relations (SRE) in Mexico City. The inauguration was conducted by Vanessa Rubio Márquez, Assistant Secretary for Latin America and the Caribbean, and Sandra Grant Griffiths, Jamaica ambassador in Mexico. Reggae is one of the most important cultural events in Jamaica and a stamp of his influence abroad . This genre is also important element contributing to the identity of the people of Jamaica, which has led the government of that country to promote its inclusion in the list of intangible cultural heritage of the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The competition is organized every year in Jamaica during February to commemorate the ” Reggae Month ” to highlight the globalization of this genre and its positive impact internationally. The exhibition, jointly organized by the Embassy of Jamaica in Mexico and the Foreign Ministry , will be open until 7 March. You can see pictures and more information about the exhibition here. The international Reggae Poster Competition is currently open for entries for it’s 2014 edition. Find all the information on their website.
Data Pump Tablespace Mode. Tablespaces are the logical storage units which are used by the database to store separate objects, such as tables, types, PL/SQL code, and so on. Typically, related objects are grouped together and stored in the same tablespace. Using expdp export utility of data pump we can export tablespaces. Exporting tablespace is also a way of taking logical backup of the tablespace of your database. Exporting tablespace means only the tables contained in a specified set of tablespace are unloaded along with its dependent objects. Exporting tablespace means - Only the tables contained in a specified set of tablespace are unloaded - If a table is unloaded, then its dependent objects are also unloaded - Tablespace export unloads both object metadata and Data. Let’s see how we can export tablespace using expdp export utility provided by Data pump in Oracle Database Before moving ahead with the export of tablespace we have to decide which tablespace we want to export. In order to do that first we need to know how many tablespaces we have and what are their names? For that we can query “v$Tablespace” view provided by oracle database. SQL> SELECT name FROM v$tablespace; This query will return the names of all the tablespace available in your Database. Note here that you must execute this query as Sys user with Sysdba Privileges as V$tablespace view is only available for privilege user and not for any unprivileged users. Step1. Create a Directory. Create a directory anywhere in your system or on your network where expdp export utility can save the exported files such as dump files and log files. If this export is a part of your backup strategy then it’s advisable to avoid making the folder on the same partition which also contains your Oracle home directory or OS bootable files. Note here that this step must be performed by privileged user such as sys or system and directory must be created on server system rather than client system. Say I created a directory by the name of Tablespace export for the demonstration and better understanding of the concept. The path of this directory is: D:\ Data Pump\ Tablespace Export Step2. Create a Directory Object and grant it mandatory privileges. This step 2 is divided into few sub steps which you have to follow. Moreover it should be done by privileged users such as sys on server side. 2.1. Log on to database as sys user For making a directory object, log onto your database as sys user with sysdba privileges C:\> sqlplus / as sysdba 2.2. Create Directory Object To create a directory object we use CREATE DIRECTORY command. SQL> CREATE DIRECTORY exp_tblsp AS ‘ D:\Data Pump\Tablespace Export ’; Here in this query exp_tblsp is a directory object (you can give whatever name you want to your directory object) which is just a name mapped over a directory path. Or you can say that it’s just a pointer pointing to a directory which you want your expdp utility to use when storing all exported files. Mind here CREATE DIRECTORY command will not create any actual directory in your system. This command only helps you in creating a directory object. 2.3. Grant Read and Write Privileges on The Directory After creating a directory object we have to grant read and write privileges on this directory object exp_tblsp to the user from which you want to perform the export. In my case I want to perform the export using my HR user thus I will grant these privileges to my HR user. GRANT read, write ON DIRECTORY exp_tblsp TO hr; Suggested Reading: How to grant System Privilege. This grant query is quite simple. Using this grant query we are granting the read and write privileges on the directory tablespace export using the directory object exp tblsp to the user HR. Step 3: Export the tablespace Now that we have done all the required settings, we are good to go. C:\> expdp hr/hr@ORCL DIRECTORY = exp_tblsp DUMPFILE = tablespace.dmp LOGFILE = tblsp_log.log TABLESPACES = USERS,EXAMPLE; Note here that expdp is an executable utility thus it must be executed on command prompt rather than the SQL prompt. Attempt to execute expdp command on SQL prompt will raise an error. To come out from the SQL prompt you just need to write EXIT on your SQL prompt and hit the enter button. Let’s take a look at the command. Expdp: At the starting we have expdp which is our data pump utility. Followed by the user credentials through which you want to perform the export. Although specifying the SID is optional yet it’s a good practice. For specifying a SID of the database just write @ followed by the SID as I have done it here. Directory: Next we have DIRECTORY parameter. Here we have to specify our directory object which we created in the 2nd step as the value of this parameter. This parameter tells export utility the location where all the files of export will get saved. DUMPFILE: Next we have DUMPFILE parameter. Dump file are the files which will contain all the exported data. Using this parameter you can set the name of your dump files. Just like, here I have set the name as tablespace.dmp. You can give whatever name you want. If you want to have more than 1 dump file then you can specify their names here separated by commas. Remember Dump files are written in binary language by server and they must not be tampered by any user. Regarding the extension of your dump file, you can give whatever extension you want to it but it’s recommended as well as a good practice to give them default extension which is dot (.) dmp. LOGFILE: Next we have LOGFILE parameter. Using log file parameter you can set the name of your log files. Log files are human readable files which consist of all the logs of your export. Log files are very helpful in tracking the status of your export. You can set whatever name you want to your log file. TABLESPACE: At the end we have tablespace parameter. There are two significance of tablespace parameter in the above expdp command - This parameter tells the data pump that we want to perform a tablespace export which means that we want to run data pump expdp utility in tablespace mode. - Using this tablespace parameter you specify the list of tablespace names which you want to export. For example here I have specified USERS and EXAMPLE tablespace. Restrictions with Tablespace Export (Tablespace Mode) The length of the tablespace name list specified for the TABLESPACES parameter is limited to a maximum of 4 MB, unless you are using the NETWORK_LINK to an Oracle Database release 10.2.0.3 or earlier or to a read-only database. In such cases, the limit is 4 KB. That’s all about Tablespace export. Hope it was helpful. Kindly please share it on your social media and help me reach out to more people. Thanks & have a great day!
Stdio: a note about redirection in Windows Windows stdio redirection works in A93, but there are some things to know: In R3 the redirected stdin and stdout streams are UTF-8 encoded. In R3 the default console window is Unicode wide-char encoded. Do not mix the two modes. For example, from a Command Prompt window, you can redirect output, or input and output: > r3 -q test.r >output.txt > r3 -q test.r <input.txt >output.txt But, if you only redirect input: > r3 -q test.r <input.txt you're going to see a window pop up to handle any output. I've not found any way to solve this problem in Windows, nor do I find any information about it on the web. So, my advice is to redirect output as well. The problem here comes from the fact that when running from a Command Prompt window, the handle returned by: is not valid for WriteFile(). Why? I cannot say. I researched it, but found no good explanation. Of course, it's problematic anyway because you can't write UTF-8 to just any device in Windows. Windows is based on wide-char Unicode. However, if you find the solution to this problem, let me know.
Bipolar II Disorder may be more common in women than in men. Gender appears to be related to the number and type of Hypomanic and Major Depressive Episodes. In men the number of Hypomanic Episodes equals or exceeds the number of Major Depressive Episodes, whereas in women Major Depressive Episodes predominate. In addition, Rapid Cycling is more common in women than in men. Some evidence suggests that mixed or depressive symptoms during Hypomanic Episodes may be more common in women as well, although not all studies are in agreement. Thus, women may be at particular risk for depressive or intermixed mood symptoms. Women with Bipolar II Disorder may be at increased risk of developing subsequent episodes in the immediate postpartum period. Community studies suggest a lifetime prevalence of Bipolar II Disorder of approximately 0.5%. Roughly 60%-70% of the Hypomanic Episodes in Bipolar II Disorder occur immediately before or after a Major Depressive Episode. Hypomanic Episodes often precede or follow the Major Depressive Episodes in a characteristic pattern for a particular person. The number of lifetime episodes (both Hypomanic Episodes and Major Depressive Episodes) tends to be higher for Bipolar II Disorder compared with Major Depressive Disorder, Recurrent. The interval between episodes tends to decrease as the individual ages. Approximately 5%-15% of individuals with Bipolar II Disorder have multiple (four or more) mood episodes (Hypomanic or Major Depressive) that occur within a given year. If this pattern is present, it is noted by the specifier With Rapid Cycling (see page 427). A rapid-cycling pattern is associated with a poorer prognosis. Although the majority of individuals with Bipolar II Disorder return to a fully functional level between episodes, approximately 15% continue to display mood lability and interpersonal or occupational difficulties. Psychotic symptoms do not occur in Hypomanic Episodes, and they appear to be less frequent in the Major Depressive Episodes in Bipolar II Disorder than is the case for Bipolar I Disorder. Some evidence is consistent with the notion that marked changes in sleep-wake schedule such as occur during time zone changes or sleep deprivation may precipitate or exacerbate Hypomanic or Major Depressive Episodes. If a Manic or Mixed Episode develops in the course of Bipolar II Disorder, the diagnosis is changed to Bipolar I Disorder. Over 5 years, about 5%-15% of individuals with Bipolar II Disorder will develop a Manic Episode.
The cover of Miguna Miguna’s book Peeling Back the Mask: A Quest for Justice in Kenya What presidential candidates can learn from Miguna Miguna’s book on financing elections In this third and final series on Miguna Miguna’s book Peeling Back the Mask: A Quest for Justice in Kenya, we focus on the strengths and weaknesses of the text, as well as lessons on how not to finance presidential campaigns - Mr Miguna has a persuasive style and a clever way with words. This draws you into his story and compels you to keep reading. - Miguna’s dexterity with the English language aside, his book becomes a cumbersome read especially when he adopts a self-righteous tone where he overly heaps praises on himself - Had he sought the services of a ruthless editor he would have overcome the ease with which he uses unsavoury words to address the people he writes about - His book is a detailed account of the happenings in the corridors of power that will enrich posterity BY ABDULKARIM SHERMAN The slant in the chronology of post-election violence and Miguna’s guarded reference to Raila refusing to join his troops at the frontline of the battle, and of the then Prime Minister carelessly holding numerous uncensored conversations on his cellphone at the height of the conflict, suggests that the combative author knows a whole lot more about the violence of 2007-08 than he is willing to say. He stated as much at the book launch in Nairobi in 2012 and subsequently in serial television interviews but he is nowhere more convincing about this hidden information than in the ellipsis, erasure and blurred chronology that colour his account of those “No Raila, No Peace” week in 2008. Miguna’s account of his exile years in Toronto speaks of a man with focus and fortitude. He could so easily have chosen the path of defeat or indolence and become a permanent dependent of the Canadian state. By his account, he left fellow exiled Kenyans in the safe houses provided by the Canadian government and ventured out, defying migration protocols to get himself a job and a first class education. We have rarely heard the story of the life that Kenya’s exiles lead abroad and of the vagaries of diaspora existence, so Miguna’s account, while scant, is a welcome addition to that chapter of postcolonial Kenya. Equally valuable is his story of a deprived childhood in rural Nyanza, which adds to our stock of knowledge about the failures of a centralised government to provide uniform opportunities for citizens across the length and breadth of the country. Miguna has a persuasive style and a clever way with words. It draws you into his story and compels you to keep reading. This gift of the gab and witty turn of phrase is characterised by a penchant for overkill, as if he has to cook everything twice! His description of the reckless way in which, in the run-up to the 2007 general election, catering at ODM headquarters was left to chance —unsupervised by any party official and dependent on the generosity of businessmen struggling to ingratiate themselves with the party’s leadership — is simply hilarious. Miguna dramatically sums up the risks of this loose arrangement by flamboyantly stating, “Everyone in ODM, including the most senior leaders could have been poisoned and wiped out within minutes!” Later,Miguna summarises the revolving loops of bureaucracy that retired Justice Ben Luta had been sent through at the PM’s office by remarking, rather gratuitously but with a good dose of black humour, “As you are reading this, Justice Luta is still walking the pavements between the Treasury and BP House.” Miguna’s dexterity with the English language aside, his book is nonetheless cumbersome for several reasons. First, there is the tedious preponderance of a self-righteous tone. To get past the nausea ofMiguna’s claims to alarming genius and total success in 98.75 per cent of all the things he has undertaken in this life, the reader must continually remind her/himself that the purpose of all memoirs is to justify one’s existence. To find suitable reasons for actions in the past, to lend clarity and focus to one’s vision, a purpose to one’s struggles and to establish an ideological basis for one’s choices, is the rationale of memoir writing. Miguna Miguna is shielded by his supporters after his the ceremony to launch his book Peeling Back the Mask: A Quest for Justice in Kenya was disrupted by goons in Mombasa. Pix By ABDULHAIM SHERMAN Seen in this way, one grows to expect Miguna to heap accolades on himself at every turn. Had he written this book with the help of a ghost writer or a ruthless editor he would have overcome this penchant for excessive self-praise and the vulgar ease with which he repeatedly calls others “idiots,” “buffoons,” “goons,” “clueless,” “sycophants” and “over-paid comedians”. Ghostwriters, interviewers and dispassionate editors play a key role in the writing of autobiographies. They temper the narrative, they balance the unduly harsh or unreasonably besotted take on oneself, and they modulate the tone to one of whimsical or studied reflection rather than prolonged high voltage anger. For instance, it is the measured, nostalgic and temperate tone of the immensely successful Harry Belafonte, tireless civil rights activist, popular musician and UNICEF ambassador that makes his 2011 memoir My Song, written with Michael Shnayerson, such an inspiring read. In the final chapter of Peeling Back the Mask, Miguna tries to overcome the weakness of lacking an interlocutor to prompt his autobiography by including, over seven pages, the details of a January 2012 telephone conversation between himself and his octogenarian friend, Dick Abuor Okumu. Unfortunately, Miguna seems to have hogged all the airtime during that call so we learn very little from Dick about Miguna’s predicament. Instead, we are treated to Miguna’s rehashing of anger, his unwavering stand on justice, individual rights, the Raila succession in Luo Nyanza and his sworn refusal to work with Raila ever again. I desist from expressing any incredulity at the long and meek silence with which Dick listens to Miguna’s lecture and yields to Miguna’s perspective since I do not know their relationship or dynamics of cross-generational relations in the Luo culture. An angry mob bays for Miguna’s blood outside a Mombasa hotel during the launch of his book. Pix By ABDULHAIM SHERMAN Miguna’s literary style is thoroughly bogged down by inter-minable repetition, and yet, what we normally expect from memoirs is a sequence of events—though they need not be arranged in chronological order. Now and then, there is literary purpose in repetition. Repetition highlights key themes, recurring concerns and dramatises critical ideas. It is also a way of validating one’s narrative—if you say something often enough, it rings with truth and becomes embedded in the reader’s memory as such. But Miguna’s repetition is somewhat undisciplined. He is unrelenting in running back and forth across the chapters, quoting long sections from various correspondences, some of which is ultimately attached in the book’s Appendix. The book could have done with more rigorous editing. One might be forgiven for arguing that the last two chapters of Peeling Back the Mask are unnecessary. They introduce no new information, rewinding and replaying instead what we have already heard ad nauseam. But perhaps they serve some other purpose. First, they give Miguna room to dwell on the political significance of one of the facilitators of this book. Secondly, they magnify the extent of the pain and out-rageMiguna felt upon his utterly unprofessional dismissal from the PM’s office. They allow him to vent and to find catharsis over a tumultuous and agonising period in his life. These chapters project his fears after the botched attempt to reinstate him and create a justification for this “whistle blowing” book. Linked to his earlier account of election campaign financing, Miguna’s fears over his life gain import. Indeed, Peeling Back the Mask should force us to ask urgent questions about how presidential candidates raise the money for their campaigns. If it resembles anything near the doll deal-making, dodgy MoUs and shadowy foreign volunteer that Miguna has described, then left unchecked, this cloak and dagger campaign system will never, ever give Kenya an independent or impartial president. In the final analysis, we must salute Miguna. Though there are moments in Peeling Back the Mask when it is not clear whether he is writing a political biography or penning a treatise on the geopolitics of international judicial systems (for example, his discussion of the ICC in chapter fifteen), Miguna has nonetheless shamed those whose experiences in public life should have been made available to the public but who were, or are, either too lazy, too cagey, too mean-spirited, too distracted or too overwhelmed by the vagaries of life in retirement to sit down and write their story. How many times have we wished that the late director of Special Branch, James Kanyotu, had written his autobiography and resolved once and for all the mystery of the real killers of Pinto, Mboya, JM, Kungu Karumba and Robert Ouko? Without a doubt, 2012 was the year in which Miguna won the un-awarded prize for book of the year. Not since Ngugi’s Petals of Blood in 1977 never before has a book so much generated public attention in Kenya. Many of the exchanges were base and unworthy but, at the end the day, they were triggered by a book. And that rarely ever happens in Kenya!Miguna took us beyond our preferred culture of orality and empty archives—bereft of a record of the artifacts we invented, the ideas we debated, the value that we added, the opportunities we lost and those that we squandered. This story is mainly based on excerpts from Dr Joyce Nyairo’s book, Kenya @50 Trends, Identities and Politics of Belonging. You can get a copy in local book stores. While traditional news reporting is losing its relevance, serious investigation now requires more than basic journalistic skills. To do this we require a lot of resources. You can either BECOME A SPONSOR or MAKE A CONTRIBUTION Nelson Mandela once said: “A critical, independent, and investigative press is the lifeblood of any democracy. The press must be free from state interference. 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Sydney Twentyman Jones, judge, was the son of the merchant Thomas Jones and his wife Sarah Elizabeth Head, born Twentyman. He was born in London during a visit of his parents to the United Kingdom. He attended the Diocesan College at Rondebosch, Cape Town, and then studied at the South African College during 1866 and 1867, obtaining the second class certificate of the Board of Public Examiners of the Cape Colony in 1868. He proceeded to Trinity Hall, Cambridge, that same year, where he was awarded the degree Bachelor of Laws (LLB) in 1872 and was prizeman and scholar of the year. Three years later he obtained the degree Master of Laws (LLM). By that time he was back in South Africa, where he was admitted to the Cape Bar in February 1874. Owing to his painstaking work, mainly of a commercial nature, he developed a successful practice. In 1882 he was appointed as a judge of the Supreme Court and assigned to the High Court of Griqualand West as senior puisne judge. He was interested in both general and legal education and played a leading role in establishing the undenominational Kimberley Boys' High School. In July 1887 he was transferred to the Eastern Districts Court in Grahamstown. From time to time he acted as examiner in law for the University of the Cape of Good Hope and in 1890 the University of Cambridge conferred an honorary Doctor of Laws degree on him. He served as Judge President of the Eastern Districts Court from 1901 until he retired in July 1904. He retired to England, but returned to South Africa. During the eighteen-nineties Justice Jones participated actively in some of Grahamstown's scientific societies, and showed an interest in prehistoric archaeology. In February 1891 he became a member of the committee of management of the Albany Museum. This committee was elected by members of the Grahamstown Literary, Scientific and Medical Society. He was elected joint vice-president of this society in July 1892, and member of a sub-committee which investigated its name and constitution. In July 1896 he was again elected joint vice-president of the society and of its museum committee, and re-elected the next year. Meanwhile in May 1892 the defunct Eastern Province Literary and Scientific Society (1883-1886; 1892-1898?) was re-established and Justice Jones elected as its first president. In August 1893 he delivered a lecture before its members titled "Some evidence of primitive man", including a brief review of stone artefact finds in the Cape Colony during the previous 30 years and showing examples of artefacts both from his own collection and that of the Albany Museum. A summary of the lecture was published in the society's journal, the E.P. Magazine (Vol. 2(1), pp. 1-16). A report of the event in the Grahamstown Journal reflected scepticism with regard to the presumed great age of the artefacts. Jones was re-elected as president of the society several times, the last time in August 1895. In 1899 he presented an arrow straightener from Upington to the Albany Museum. It had eight grooves and was of a type hitherto unknown to the museum. Jones was married to Florence Hayter Aderne in 1878. They had five sons and three daughters.
Proposed Santa Clara County cellphone tracker has high potential for abuse, say critics By Eric Kurhi email@example.com A sheriff's proposal in Santa Clara County is placing new scrutiny on a surveillance technology already in use around the Bay Area -- a cellphone tracking system that may help in the war on crime but has the ability to infringe on innocent bystanders' privacy. The technology in question -- which was quietly implemented in San Jose, Oakland and Fremont but will get a public hearing Tuesday when supervisors are asked to approve its purchase -- is a suitcase-sized device that mimics a cellphone tower to connect with all phones in a specific area. How large an area is one of many aspects that agencies have not made known, citing nondisclosure agreements regarding the technology. Sheriff's officials said it will be used purely to locate the subject of an investigation since it can find a phone through walls, even if the owner isn't making a call. But privacy advocates argue that it can do far more than that -- for instance, scooping up details about the phone use of thousands of people at a demonstration -- and have called for greater public disclosure when law enforcement agencies seek to acquire the devices and strict limits on how they are used in the field. Commonly known by its brand name "StingRay," the device is technically called an "International Mobile Subscriber Identity catcher." When cellphones within its range connect, it harvests the IMSI from all of them, which could include data from thousands of unsuspecting people. If the authorities have the IMSI of a subject -- which sheriff's officials said they wouldn't obtain without a search warrant -- they can focus on where the phone's signal is coming from and, after moving the device a few times, triangulate a location to within 10 feet. Alan Butler, legal counsel for the Washington, D.C.-based Electronic Privacy Information Center, said researchers have successfully demonstrated it can be much more invasive. "It could process calls, monitor what numbers are being called, reroute calls," Butler said. "There's a tech term called 'man-in-the-middle attack,' where if it's between me and the phone company tower, I would think I'm connected to AT&T but in reality in between is the phony tower." Butler said it could also work to identify an unknown person of interest. The target's IMSI could be collected along with everyone else's in a given area, such as a street corner known as a hot spot for crime. Another sweep could be done when the person is at a new site and a comparison of codes found in both locations would reveal the repeated digits belonging to the subject. "It's a unique ID that might as well be your Social Security number," Butler said. "It is tied to your device and your account, the thing that is always in your pocket. It's an identifier that can be used to track you wherever you go." And Butler said it's not hard for authorities to find out who is behind that number. "Typically subscriber information can be obtained by law enforcement without any court order whatsoever," he said. That kind of function is of grave concern, said Nadia Kayyali of the San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation, which has been closely watching jurisdictions that have acquired StingRays, including Oakland, Fremont and San Francisco. "Nationwide, there has been at least one agency that said it intended to use it to collect data on protesters," Kayyali said. The ACLU has been pushing for local agencies to create a clear policy that would mandate a public vetting and evaluation of potentially invasive technology such as the cellphone interceptors and drones. Santa Clara County Supervisor Joe Simitian, who asked staff to look at such an ordinance in November, was concerned about the lack of opportunity for public input before the matter goes up for a vote Tuesday. Simitian said he would like to see the request -- which would be paid for by an approved $500,000 federal Homeland Security grant that expires in May -- put before a committee for discussion before returning to the board for a vote. "Here we are at the point of approving it, and we don't have a draft policy and no real protections to prevent the misuse and abuse of technology," he said. "Without a complete understanding of what we are buying, how it will be used and what privacy measures will be in place, it's premature to say the least." Kayyali said that while the StingRay in Oakland was quietly implemented, crowds raised a ruckus at City Council meetings last year when that city aimed to create a sort of one-stop shop for collected information called the Domain Awareness Center. The resulting backlash resulted in a scaled-down vision for the surveillance hub and a privacy ordinance moving through committee that if approved would be among the "strongest in the country." It would set very specific rules regarding collected information, including that from the StingRay, defining who can access it and how it can be used. While such proposals are encouraging, Kayyali said it's been "incredibly frustrating to see this keep happening again and again in the Bay Area. If there's a silver lining, it's that when people do hear about these things the concern is real."
Control systemA computerized control system is used for the Scandiflash systems. The electronics units are micro processor controlled and connected to a Laptop via an Ethernet switch. All operating parameters can be set and read from the Laptop. For short distances the control console is connected to the Laptop via an Ethernet cable. Where safety reasons, or facility layout, call for remote control, the system can be operated from a long distance via extended Ethernet or fibre optic cabling.
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Algaes are difficult to define. Some classify the group as all eukaryotic photosynthesizing microorganisms. This definition includes the Euglenoid and Dinoflagellates groups, both of which are known to be more closely related to other groups of non-photosynthesizing protozoa than to other algae. For this reason, those two groups are sometimes classified as protozoa rather than algae. In this discussion, we will group euglenoids and dinoflagellates with the algae so that we may compare their photosynthetic characteristics. Keep in mind that this inclusion does not imply close relation to other algae. Another difficulty in classifying algae is determining whether they are protists, plants, or whether they merit their own kingdom. Different classification systems answer this question in different ways, with some even splitting the group between the kingdoms Protista and Plantae. Here we have grouped algae with protozoa and slime molds in Protista because mthe majority of algae are unicellular, and even the multicellular algae are structurally simple compared to true plants. Within the classification of algae, individual species are divided into five groups, based on characteristics such as type of chlorophyll molecule used in photosynthesis and type of reproductive cycle. The structure of the chloroplast is also used, for a very important reason. According to the endosymbiotic theory of chloroplast evolution, proposed by Lynn Margulis of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, chloroplasts may have evolved when small photosynthesizing cells were engulfed, but not digested, by larger cells. Instead, the two types of cells developed a symbiotic relationship, with the photoautotroph living inside the larger cell. The number of membranes surrounding the chloroplast allows us to determine what type of organism the original photoautotroph was. If it was a prokaryote, the chloroplast will have two membranes: one from the engulfed cell and one from the engulfing cell. If it came from a eukaryote, the chloroplast will have three membranes: the original organelle membrane, the plasma membrane of the engulfed cell and the membrane from the engulfed cell. These two possible endosymbiotic events are diagrammed below. Green algae can be either unicellular or multicellular. They live mostly in fresh water, but some can live on land in moist soils. A few green algae are found in marine environments. These organisms often live symbiotically with aquatic and marine animals. They are of particular interest because the group from which land plants evolved, the charophyta, are green algae. The green algae are often classified in the Kingdom Plantae, based on two characteristics shared with higher plants: 1) green algae use chlorophyll a and b in photosynthesis; 2) the chloroplasts of green algae are enclosed in a double membrane. This second characteristic indicates that the chloroplasts evolved from endosymbiosis of a prokaryote, as is the case with higher plants. Also, analysis of genetic material indicates a high degree of relatedness between green algae and terrestrial plants. The life cycle of green algae is shown below.
Swarthout demonstrates our society's tendency to abuse and neglect the powerless by juxtaposing the buffaloes and the Bedwetters. While this novel speaks to the powerlessness of animals and children, specifically, it also refers to a broader trend to abuse power, whether through physical, economic, racial, or sexual advantage. The government had robbed the buffaloes of the life they naturally lead. Well fed, lazy, and tame, they have never experienced freedom or self-sufficiency, remaining in the preserve for their entire lives, until they become the victims of the annual buffalo shooting. Much in the same way, the disturbed teenage boys that comprise the Bedwetters' cabin have come from affluent families in which they need not worry about material needs but nonetheless suffer from desperate emotional needs. Most of their parents have failed to pay individual attention to their children, and have "warehoused" them at the camp in hopes that they will become tougher in the process. Throughout the book Swarthout draws comparisons between boy and beast, who relate to one another as a result of their shared situation. In this way the mission to rescue the buffalo becomes as well the Bedwetters' personal mission toward self-preservation. The Box Canyon Boys Camp defines masculinity quite differently from the author's interpretation of the term. According to the camp and its social rules, the Bedwetters do not fit the definition of men because they lack athletic skill and the cruel, cutthroat competitive spirit of many of the other campers. Swarthout, however, defines manhood in more emotional and psychological terms. He values integrity in all thoughts and actions. Believing in the strength of convictions, Swarthout asserts that a real man would place more importance on his personal set of morals than on popular opinion. Therefore, he respects the man who overcomes this sense of isolation and keeps the greater issue in mind. The author demonstrates this value very clearly to the reader through his advocacy of the Bedwetters' mission, which proved successful despite all odds and despite the boys' unpopularity. In addition, communication skills and a positive attitude, both of which the Bedwetters develop during the course of the novel, assist them in their journey and hint at their growing maturity. Lastly, Swarthout places enormous emphasis on compassion as a desirable masculine trait. In fact, this call for compassion provides one of the main themes of the work. To Swarthout, physical strength, social popularity, and performing well in competitive situations contribute only secondarily to the definition of a man, while these psychological traits occupy the most important part of the definition. Indeed at times boys become overly zealous in these efforts, indulge in cruelty, and become what Swarthout would consider cowardly and the opposite of a man. By the end of the novel, Swarthout has established the Bedwetters as heroes and moral models. He has established the theme of the ordinary hero; he believes in the potential of the individual to determine his own fate and to make his own moral and personal judgments. He also believes in the potential for individual growth; each character in the novel has deeply explored his sense of self as well as his sense of morality. Despite their status as unpopular misfits, Swarthout considers them far more heroic than he does the Apaches at the Box Canyon Boys Camp, for example. This theme of the ordinary hero arose as a direct response to both William Golding's Lord of the Flies and to the prevalent national disillusionment during this period in United States history. As Swarthout wrote, "The idea is, if you isolate boys with the right combination of circumstances, they will do great things. So much is now anti-hero. This is a 'yes' book."
You have ever heard the term butterfly effect? This term refers to the qualities of certain causes produce enormous effects. A wing flap in a place can create an earthquake or alter the climatic conciciones in another faraway place. In practice, it is known that a few small changes in your way of living life, produce huge results in their achievements. When a person starts to live her life successfully, when it appropriates habits that produce the life you want (such as reading good books, being ordained, clean, honest, efficient, etc.), then gives important account that things begin to occur in your life. These changes are reflected in luck, fortune, opportunity, being in the right place at the right time, with appropriate capabilities and readiness. His new life successful, rich, abundant becomes part of his being. A pleasant and automatic part. Begins to realize that what you want is appearing in your life to bring you happiness and that you and your family. Achieve that new level of life, this new degree of humanity is the purpose more worthy of their existence. You should advance along the path of success in a passionate and interested way. The best way to do this, is to establish a powerful goal or an irresistible goal as Andrew Corentt exposes them in his book the secret of the power of the goals. These goals not only will produce quick results in your life, also will manage to implement new habits and attitudes that will generate you everything that you want, either in his mind in you flat material, emotional, spiritual, or on any other plane of its existence. You are a powerful person and can get anything they want for their life. THE secret of the power of the goals helps you concentrate your power to create beauty and abundance. You will use the butterfly effect to do, just, small changes in your life, which will result in huge results in its success, wealth, well-being and happiness. To the extent that you start now, you will then see the results. You should start to live the life that you want to. You must begin to live with orientation, with purpose. Goals give such guidance. All what you want can reach it if it makes suitable in his performance. Set a powerful goal and what you want will be automatically materialized. This should be done when East ready to reap success, wealth and happiness. Not everybody feels ready to be rich and happy. Not all people are ready to experience the powerful effect of the secret of the power of the goals. And you, do want wealth? Be successful or successful? Is ready (a)?
The word ‘steward’ literally means ‘manager of the house’. In the context of the Bible, it means “utilizing and managing all the resources God provides for the glory of God and the betterment of His creation”. In other words stewardship is managing everything God brings into a disciple’s life in a manner that honors God and impacts eternity. There are four basic principles of stewardship. The first principle is to receive God’s gifts with gratitude. Receiving reminds us of dependence on God. Gratitude acknowledges abundance. The second principle is to cultivate God’s gifts responsibly. God has entrusted His house to us. We are accountable to God for managing gifts given to us and we do so for the glory of God and in the service of humankind. The third principle is to share God’s gifts lovingly and in justice with others. The self-emptying sacrifice of Jesus on the cross is for us a model of sharing with love and in justice. The fourth principle is to return God’s gifts with an increase. It is often the fear of losing what we have, coupled with inertia that keeps us from giving. Faith in God’s love and abiding care gives us the confidence to give so that our gifts may bear fruit. As we live out our baptismal commitment to the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit united by love, we gradually grow in the life of discipleship so that our will and God’s will increasingly coincide and God becomes more deeply present to us that we are to ourselves. Stewardship changes our priorities so that self-abandonment becomes our will and God becomes our joy. Just as God loved us by putting on flesh in the person of Jesus, so we love God by putting on Christ and loving others. By working for justice, caring for those in need and putting on abilities and resources at the service of others, we contribute to the mission of the church in continuing Jesus’ saving work in the world. Stewardship is understood in its three aspects: stewardship of time, talent and treasure. There are a good number of people in our parish who share their time, talent, and treasure and thereby become an instrument of transformation in our parish family. There are also others who just walk in and walk out without much commitment to our parish family. I am challenging those today to have a sense of ownership. It is my parish family. It is your parish family. It is our parish family. Every one of us has something to contribute to make our parish family better. And in this week’s bulletin we have a detailed list of ministries that are available at our parish family. Don’t throw away the bulletin without reading. Everyone will have a chance on the weekend of March 12 and 13 to sign up for a ministry of your passion. I am challenging everyone to become an agent of transformation by sharing a little more of time, talent, and treasure. May the Lord enable us to become good and faithful stewards.
SR-NIEL cross section for electrons is included in Geant4 since version 9.5. Starting from version 10.3 of Geant4 released on december 9 2016 (e.g., see A. Bagulya et al. (2017)) it is possible to select different nuclear form factors according to what is already implemented in SR-NIEL calculator: - Exponential nuclear form factor - Gaussian nuclear form factor - Uniform nuclear form factor Moreover the user can also choose to not use any nuclear form factor. In this case only Mott cross section is included in the scattering calculation. To select different nuclear form factor a command is made availble to use in macro file: where "formfactorname" can take the following values: None, Exponential, Gaussian, Flat. Further information about electron cross section and nuclear form factors is available at this page. In the following graph, it is shown the differential cross section for 250 MeV electrons scattering on Silicon,using Geant4 simulations with the different nuclear form factors available. The experimental data are from G. C. Li, M. R. Yearian, and I. Sick, Phys. Rev. C 9, 1861 (1974) More details are available in A.Bagulya et al. (to be published) A. Bagulya et al. (2017), Recent progress of Geant4 electromagnetic physics for LHC and other applications, CHEP 2016 Conference, San Francisco, October 8-14 2016, to appear in Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS); available for download.
BASEBALL IN ST. LOUIS, 1900-1925 "Top Ten" Facts While no pennants flew over St. Louis in the early 20 th century, there were 22 future Hall-of-Famers in a St. Louis uniform between 1900 and 1925. This list does not include people like Grover Alexander, Frankie Frisch, Heinie Manush, Bill McKechnie, and Burleigh Grimes, who came just after these dates. - Twenty-one members of the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown played for a St. Louis team at some time during this period, including: - The St. Louis Browns—not the Cardinals—were the stronger and more popular St. Louis ball club most of these years. - In one of baseball’s great pennant races, the 1922 Browns fell just one game short of the New York Yankees and the American League pennant. - The farm system—whereby a major league club owns minor league teams for developing and controlling player talent—originated with the St. Louis Cardinals and Branch Rickey around 1920, out of necessity. It enabled a club with limited resources compete effectively with wealthier teams. - Had the St. Louis Browns not permitted the Cardinals to start renting the Browns’ ballpark (Sportsman’s Park) starting in 1920, the financially strapped Cardinals very possibly would have been forced to move to another city. St. Louis would then likely still be colored brown today, not Cardinal red. - St. Louis was a main battleground of two of baseball’s great wars, the rise of the American League (1901-1902) and the rise and fall of the Federal League (1914-1915). - For more than six years, from 1911 until early 1917, the St. Louis Cardinals were owned by a woman, Helene Robison Britton. Lady Bee, as she was known in the press, was the first female owner of a major US sports team. - St. Louis was home to a vibrant scene of Negro League and semi-pro ball during these years. Two of the greatest black players ever—“Cool Papa” Bell and Oscar Charleston—played here in the early 1920s. - Some of the game’s most colorful characters—Rube Waddell, Bugs Raymond, Urban Shocker, Slim Sallee, and many more—played for St. Louis in this time period. - St. Louis was home to some of the greatest individual and team hitting performances in baseball history in the early 1920s. Five times a St. Louis ballplayer hit .400 or better (batting average), and five times a St. Louis team hit .300 or better.
Food Hygiene and The Law Helping Your Business To Pass Hygiene Inspections By keeping on top of the food hygiene regulations relating to your business, you’ll be able to pass checks with flying colours. If you are producing food products to sell to the general public, then you’ll no doubt be aware that there are so many rules and regulations for you to abide by. For a new business owner, this can seem a little daunting, and actually, the same can be said for the most established companies too. With rules constantly evolving and changing, each year can bring new information for you to remember. So to help you out, here is a quick-read guide to food hygiene and the law, and the steps you can take to make sure that you stick to the rules. Read up on the rules First of all, you need to be aware of the rules relating to each aspect of your business. There’s more to food regulations than just keeping your kitchen clean. There is legislation relating to production, processing, packaging and labelling, importing, distribution, retailing and catering. So really take the time to read through the rule book, and identify ways in which you can put these rules into action in the workplace. These rules are enforced by food hygiene inspection officers, who will look at a number of things during their time at your premises. These include where you are preparing your food, the kind of food it is that you make, how you and your team work and your food safety management system. After all, it is impossible to get a clear picture without looking at the different facets of a business. How often you are inspected can vary. You may have regular routine inspections, or one relating to a complaint. It’s very much unique to each individual case – and liaising with the council and your inspectors will help you to understand the timing of your visits. Don’t cut corners Because of the rigorousness of these inspections and the importance of maintaining good food hygiene, it’s vital that you don’t cut corners. While it can be tempting to save money and time, you should never do so where food hygiene is concerned. Customers are growing more and more vigilant, and one complaint could seriously affect the future of your business. So draw up a checklist of daily tasks – and stick to it! Calling in the professionals There is professional help available for business owners wanting to take extra care. Food production cleaning services are a great idea for those wanting to make sure their premises are as clean as possible before an inspection. These professional cleaners will adhere to all rules and regulations while providing a service that is uniquely tailored to the needs of your business. If pests are a concern, then ask your cleaning team about any pest control services that they offer too. Keeping it clean? No problem! With so many regulations surrounding food hygiene, it is essential that you get to grips with them as quickly as possible. Having a routine in place, including regular visits from professional cleaners, will help you maintain excellent standards. So whether you are launching a new business or have been operating for years, evaluating your hygiene practises will only do your company the world of good.
Stabilizers with active non-retractable fins The stabilizers are designed for roll reduction, when ship is going ahead. The stabilizers make better mechanisms, devices and other equipment operation conditions, increase efficiency of special devices as well as livability for a crew. The stabilizers can be installed aboard ocean-going ships of various purposes. The stabilizers ensure the specified efficiency of roll reduction within the range of ahead speeds from 5 to 32 knots. The stabilizer operates automatically in a watch-free space, requiring only periodic inspection and lubrication of friction units. The stabilizer controlled remotely from an external post has the following component parts: - working parts – active non-retractable fins, on the blades of which is generated hydrodynamic lifting force transmitted to the ship’s hull through the stabilizer supporting structure; - electrohydraulic fin-tilting gears (mechanisms of power drives) including tilting actuators mounted on fins supports, main and auxiliary pump units with start-protecting and signalling electric equipment connected to the ship’s mains, 3-phase a.c., 380 V, 50 Hz; - control system automatically generating the control algorithm, so that hydrodynamic lifting forces generated at fins create restoring moment which is directed against rolling moment caused by external forces at any instant of time. Up-to-date automatic digital control system of "Dolomit" type allows to change the control algorithms flexibly increasing efficiency of the stabilizer operation at all ship speeds and variable ambient conditions. |Basic technical data| |Area of fin blade, m² (L×B)||3 (2×1,5)||4,56 (2,4×1,9)||6 (3×2)||6,25 (2,5×2,5)| |Max. rated torque at the fin tilting shaft, kN•m (tf•m):| |- at fin tilting||25 (2,5)||45 (4,5)||80 (8)||100 (10)| |- at holding the untitled fin||30 (3)||56 (5,6)||110 (11)||120 (12)| |Max. working pressure in cylinders, MPa (kgf/cm²)||12,5 (125)||15,5 (155)||14 (140)||15 (150)| |Max. fin tilting angle||30°| |Max. rate of fin tilting, deg/s||40||35| |Rating of electric motors for power drives mechanisms, kW, not more||34||43||110||113| |Mass of stabilizer, kg:| |- power drives mechanisms||2300||5700||5900||7830| |- control system||350||200||475||200|
Heart of roomjazzbet | 2019-04-12 | 0 | erwte Married people, the heart of the room, people are mostly so divided: couples room: This room is the largest, but they can only accommodate two people, other people get. Parents room: both parents are in this room.(Sauna News .sanwen.COM) have children, increases the children’s room, this room is composed of true and pure.Under no circumstances will ruin. Living room: Small in size, big flow of people, relatives, friends, co-workers can only stay in the living room.Residence time will vary in length, but no matter how long, can only be in the living room. During the long years, the time will cool the temperature of the couple, so they have a secret room.This room is set up, the couples room, parents room crowded shrink.This room is idle most of the time, people never even go in, but it exists.There waiting.Waiting people who hold the keys, and who the key to open the lock on the door, who can go.Take care of a good room, you can live for a long time.Take care of the bad will not live long.This room accommodates many people, one or two.The second went in, it is very likely the first squeeze.Some people will be forced to expand into the area of the room.Let more people go.Some people go in not a long time will leave.Some come only hide in a corner of rest. Secret room, but a couple touches the room, it had to open its doors.Do not look at this small room, a person can dig deep energy; it can bring a second spring to life; it can change your life path.It will leave a deep mark in this room.Some take it as a life post, some were out of it ruin.Either way, it still exists.We will accompany you come to the end of life.
The ME2323D(-G) is the P-Channel logic enhancement mode power field effect transistors are produced using high cell density, DMOS trench technology. This high density process is especially tailored to minimize on-state resistance. These devices are particularly suited for low voltage application such as cellular phone and notebook computer power management and other battery powered circuits where high-side switching and low in-line power loss are needed in a very small outline surface mount package. ● RDS(ON) ≦50mΩ@VGS=-4.5V ● RDS(ON) ≦65mΩ@VGS=-2.5V ● RDS(ON) ≦75mΩ@VGS=-1.8V ● Super high density cell design for extremely low RDS(ON) ● Exceptional on-resistance and maximum DC current capability